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Central Visayas (Region VII)
Sambog
Corella § Barangays
Sambog, Municipality of Corella, Province of Bohol
9.6777, 123.9030 (9° 41' North, 123° 54' East)
70.0 meters (229.7 feet)
Sambog is a barangay in the municipality of Corella, in the province of Bohol. Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 1,896. This represented 20.00% of the total population of Corella.
The household population of Sambog in the 2015 Census was 1,498 broken down into 333 households or an average of 4.50 members per household.
Number of households in Sambog (1990‑2015)
1,212 246 4.93
According to the 2015 Census, the age group with the highest population in Sambog is 10 to 14, with 159 individuals. Conversely, the age group with the lowest population is 75 to 79, with 14 individuals.
Population of Sambog by age group (2015 census)
1,498 100.00%
The population of Sambog grew from 814 in 1990 to 1,896 in 2020, an increase of 1,082 people over the course of 30 years. The latest census figures in 2020 denote a positive growth rate of 5.08%, or an increase of 398 people, from the previous population of 1,498 in 2015.
Population of Sambog (1990‑2020)
1,212 4.65%
Sambog is situated at approximately 9.6777, 123.9030, in the island of Bohol. Elevation at these coordinates is estimated at 70.0 meters or 229.7 feet above mean sea level.
Sambog shares a common border with the following barangay(s):
Libertad, Baclayon, Bohol
Dasitam, Baclayon, Bohol
Tanday, Corella, Bohol
Poblacion, Corella, Bohol
Cabawan, Tagbilaran, Bohol
Anislag, Corella, Bohol
San Isidro, Tagbilaran, Bohol
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Not Just a Pretty Picture: Illustrating a Royal Romuléon
Miniature of Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf; from Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot, Netherlands (Bruges), 1480, Royal 19 E. v, f. 32r.
This stunning manuscript (Royal 19 E. v) was made in the Netherlands, at a workshop in Bruges. It was made, however, specifically for the king of England, Edward IV, as is triumphantly evident from the border decoration on this illuminated page. Edward IV's arms (the three lions of England quartered with the fleurs de lis of France) are carried by angels, and the white rose of the House of York features prominently. Edward greatly admired the workmanship of Flemish illuminators, and, around 1479-1480, acquired a large number of such impressively illustrated manuscripts, which remain in the British Library's Royal collection, and some of which are accessible on the Digitised Manuscripts website (see, for example, Royal 14 E. i, vols 1 and 2 and Royal 14 E. iv).
It is possible that Edward's acquisitions were inspired by his admiration for the libraries owned by some of the court surrounding Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy and a major patron of the arts in the 1460s. This manuscript would certainly fit such a model: the text is the Romuléon, a medieval Latin compendium, translated into French by one of Philip's court scholars, retelling the history of Rome from its foundation to the reign of the emperor Constantine. Depicted here, on the first page of Book I of the work, is the discovery by a shepherd of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of the city of Rome. The boys, according to the story, were the twin sons of the god Mars and a princess named Rhea Silvia, who had been forced to become a Vestal Virgin by her usurping uncle. When, despite her vowed chastity, Rhea Silvia became pregnant, she was killed, and the two brothers were cast out into the wilderness to die. They were saved from starvation by a she-wolf, who nursed Romulus and Remus, and became one of the iconic images of the Roman state.
In this illustration, Romulus and Remus are shown nursing in the foreground, being discovered by a shepherd. The picture adopts a common convention of medieval art, compressing time and combining multiple events in a single, economical image. In the background, the shepherd is shown again, now with the children in his arms, handing them over to his wife for her to raise as their own.
Miniature of an army on the march; from Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot, Netherlands (Bruges), 1480, Royal 19 E. v, f. 125r.
But how did the illuminator know what to draw? Not, in this manuscript as in many others, by actually reading the book! This is clear on several pages, where we can still see the instructions on how to proceed. At the very bottom of the page pictured above, written in letters extremely small and hurried, are the original instructions to the illustrator, left by one of the manuscript's design managers and describing what needed to be shown in the illustration. On most pages, these notes no longer remain, or are only fragmentary: they are located so near the bottom of the page because it was always intended that they would be trimmed away when the manuscript was finished and bound, so that they would no longer spoil the immaculate page. While such notes may not be visually beautiful, however, they are extremely valuable to historians, providing a sneak peek into the process of production for the manuscript.
Detail of instructions to the illustrator; from Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot, Netherlands (Bruges), 1480, Royal 19 E. v, f. 125r.
When enlarged, it is just possible to read these words, written, like the text itself, in French. They say, 'It needs a company with several armed people, both on foot and on horseback, going to war through the countryside'. Details unnecessary for the production of the illustration – like the identity of the 'armed people' – have been left out. Despite this, however, the illuminator has executed these instructions well. That the armed party, who likely represent either the Carthaginian or Roman forces during the Second Punic War, are wearing contemporary armour and march through a landscape of Gothic towers, is fully in keeping with medieval artistic conventions.
Detail of a miniature of the emperor Trajan adopting Hadrian; from Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot, Netherlands (Bruges), 1480, Royal 19 E. v, f. 367v.
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Attention, Expertise, Trust
I'm old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the digital revolution that the web enabled.
When social networking and media platforms came along, I was more open-minded. I joined LinkedIn in 2003, Facebook in 2006, and Twitter in 2008. I hosted my own WordPress blog and later posted content on Medium and Quora. I learned about social networking and media by experimenting on these platforms, and I derived significant personal benefit from them.
Nonetheless, I quit most of them a few years ago. Why? Partly because of where I'm at in my life and career: I don't get as much upside from self-promotion as I used to, which makes me more sensitive to the downsides. But part of it is disillusionment. These platforms could be so much better!
In this post, I'll reflect on three areas where I see the biggest opportunities for improvement: attention, expertise, and trust.
Herb Simon, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, said:
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Before you dismiss this observation as cliché, consider that he wrote those words in 1971. Perhaps he was far-seeing enough to imagine our digital future. But I suspect he was just reasoning from first principles. After all, he won a Nobel Prize, at least in part, for his work on bounded rationality.
Social networking and media platforms offer a wealth — or at least an overabundance — of content that exceeds our ability to consume it. Hence, their biggest problem is allocating consumer attention efficiently.
But I don't believe that any of the dominant social networking and media platforms do a great job of allocating that attention. Instead, they prioritize the ad revenue they can generate by selling that attention to advertisers.
Efficiently allocating consumers' attention to content requires learning what consumers want and like. The dominant platforms train machine learning models based on engagement. But engagement is subject to presentation bias: platforms only gather feedback for the content they present to consumers. Moreover, engagement is like junk food: it tends to prioritize urgent, limbic cravings over longer-term utility. Optimizing for engagement doesn't necessarily optimize for longer-term retention.
We can do better than following the gradient descent of engagement signals down to the nadir of human nature.
What might a better attention allocation scheme look like in practice? Perhaps one where consumers are motivated to provide explicit signals about the content they want to consume, along with simple but powerful controls to adapt their feeds to the topics and people they prefer. Maybe a middleware layer that combines powerful controls with simple interfaces. Platforms that solicit and enable this sort of personalization will not only allocate attention more efficiently, but cultivate greater consumer loyalty.
At the bare minimum, I'd love to see social networking and media platforms treat their consumers' attention as something more than a commodity to be auctioned off to the higher bidder.
The web was supposed to democratize knowledge by providing open access to information. Not all information on the web is openly accessible, but that isn't the main problem. The problem is, again, one of overabundance. Without training in a topic of interest, you have to rely on fundamental media literacy and critical thinking skills to decide what to believe. Unfortunately, those skills have not kept up with social network and media. Indeed, there's even a compelling case that media literacy has backfired.
This isn't an abstract concern. We rely on content from social network and media platforms to make decisions about our health, careers, finances, and more. What we learn on these platforms influences our views of politicians and their policies. In aggregate, this content holds enormous power.
Historically, we've delegated many decisions to people we consider experts. We trust doctors to make decisions about our health care and plumbers to make decisions about our pipes. We trust lawyers to negotiate our contracts or represent us in court. For every endeavor that requires significant training, there's a class of specialists who have trained to be experts in it.
Of course, experts don't always agree. And an expert opinion is still an opinion that you are free to ignore. Nonetheless, it's usually wise to rely on people who have studied and worked on a problem for a lot longer than you have. I trust my instincts and my friends, but I turn to experts when my life or livelihood are at stake.
Social networking and media platforms should be great ways to find and leverage experts. Platforms like LinkedIn, Quora, and Medium seem custom-built for this goal. Yet even these platforms fall short of the mark.
LinkedIn allows people to promote themselves as experts through their profiles and feeds, as well as to provide or solicit professional endorsements. Unfortunately, LinkedIn does not offer a robust mechanism to evaluate claims of expertise, let alone to find experts. At the end of the day, Linkedin hosts the world's biggest resume collection. Caveat emptor.
Quora has less of an excuse, given that its stated mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. Unfortunately, Quora's trajectory shows what happens when you prioritize for engagement. The most popular content focuses on entertainment rather than expertise. There's a lot of useful expertise on Quora, but finding it there is much like finding it on the rest of the web — you need to sift through a lot of crap and then rely on your media literacy and critical thinking skills to decide what to believe.
And Medium, which has struggled to find itself for years, has become just another publishing platform. Not that I'm complaining!
How can social networking and media platforms better promote expertise? First, they'd have to commit to this goal — no small feat, given that it would require them to embract the asymmetry it entails. Most people are not experts on most subjects, and large platforms tend to prioritize scale. Second, they'd need to establish expertise through credentials (I'm glad to see LinkedIn finally leaning into professional certifications), objective evidence, peer feedback, or some other mechanism. None of these signals is perfect, but the platforms don't need to achieve perfection. Third, and perhaps most important, the platforms need to establish incentives that motivate experts to participate and not engage in abuse. That's hard. Still, there's evidence that platforms like Reddit and Stack Overflow have achieved this to some extent, so I believe it's possible and worth trying.
As Abraham Lincoln said, "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." Seriously, if there's one thing we all agree on, it's that we're not sure what content we can trust, even if we often disagree on which content to trust and why. Trust is a fundamental challenge, especially for social networking and media platforms.
You'd think that social networking and media platforms have the advantage that you can decide what to trust based on the author. But how can you be sure of the author's identity? It's pretty easy to create a fake profile on most platforms, and verification is an expensive, manual, error-prone process.
Besides, even if you are certain of the content's authorship, you don't know the its provenance. The author may have obtained the content from a source you wouldn't ordinarily trust. The author may have undisclosed incentives to distribute the content. Or the author may have been hacked!
All of the major social networking and media platforms have faced challenges around trust. But what can the platforms do to address these challenges? Here are a few ideas:
Prominently display the creation date of the author's account. Trust comes from consistency over time, which makes time a prerequisite to establish trust. It's not that all old accounts are trustworthy and all new accounts are untrustworthy. Still, the date tells you know how much time the author has invested in accumulating a trustworthy reputation.
Slow down the propagation of viral content. Viral content isn't inherently untrustworthy. But virality can distribute content so quickly that no one has the time to examine the content critically. Slowing down the propagation of viral content gives sanity a chance to catch up.
Surface disconfirmatory evidence. It's a good idea to get a second opinion, especially when something looks too good to be true. When platforms detect content that seems anomalous, they can try to present content that supports an alternative perspective. This isn't "fact checking" so much as encouraging consumers to read more critically.
Slouching Towards Dystopia
Today's social networking and media platforms aren't great, and they seem to be getting worse. It often feels as though their creators read dystopian science fiction novels and are treating those books as how-to guides.
Much of what's wrong with these platforms comes down to how they manage attention, expertise, and trust. Some of you work on those platforms; others are building the platforms that replace them. Either way, I hope these ideas help nudge us away from dystopian path. We deserve better, and we can do better.
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Home » Drama » The Durrells unpack their bags as stay on Corfu continues October 15 on PBS
The Durrells unpack their bags as stay on Corfu continues October 15 on PBS
On: August 5, 2017, By: Bill Young
The Durrells are unpacking their bags and will stay in Corfu for a second series beginning Sunday, October 15 on PBS. The series, which premiered last Fall as part of PBS' Masterpiece series, follows the exploits of the Durrell family during their four-year stay in Corfu in the 1930s.
Based on environmentalist/author Gerald Durrell's classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs, including the much loved story 'My Family and Other Animals', filming of the second series of The Durrells in Corfu began on the Greek island of Corfu was completed last year. It's a tough job but someone had to do it, I guess.
According to ITV press reports, in the new series Larry (Josh O'Connor) continues to pursue his passion for writing despite a new romance getting in the way; Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) decides to explore his entrepreneurial spirit; Margo (Daisy Waterstone) remains boy crazy and makes a play for someone thoroughly unsuitable; and Gerry (Milo Parker) who prefers animals to people is delighted when he discovers an otter is living close to home.
Daniel Lapaine will join the cast as Hugh Jarvis, an English gentleman who sets his sight on Louisa. But after her failed attempt at marrying Sven, will Louisa be ready for a new man in her life?
Money is still tight for the Durrells and Louisa finds herself on the wrong side of their new landlady Vasilia (Errika Bigio) when she gets behind on paying the rent – it almost feels like Vasilia, who is complexly inflexible, has a personal grudge towards Louisa, but why would that be? Louisa urges the family to brainstorm ideas to make some extra cash. They decide to grow food at home to sell at market. Theo (Yorgos Karamihos) tries to teach Leslie bee-keeping so he can make honey, Margo plants seeds and Gerry milks goats. Spiros (Alexis Georgoulis) is also on hand to offer support, but can they make a success of their new business venture?
Leslie Caron will play Countess Mavrodaki once again, Ulric Von Der Esch returns as Sven, Anna Savva reprises her role as housekeeper Lugaretzia, Lucy Black is back as Florence Petrides and Alexis Conran returns as Dr Petrides.
As a reminder to those that haven't had the good fortune to see The Durrells in Corfu as of yet, this was one of the highlight series screened during our time at last years BBC Showcase in Liverpool. Starring Keeley Hawes (Spooks, Ashes to Ashes, Upstairs Downstairs, Line of Duty) and written by Men Behaving Badly creator, Simon Nye, the story focuses upon Louisa Durrell (Hawes) whose life is in meltdown. Widowed years ago and running out of money, Louise has four unruly 'children' to look after: Larry, Leslie, Margo and Gerry, all going off the rails in their own special way.
Meet the Durrells prior to October 15…
Gerald Durrell's real life adventures on Corfu instilled a passion for animals and the natural world. His love of animals and his pioneering conservation vision continues today through the organization he founded nearly 60 years ago, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
The Durrells in Corfu S2 headed to PBS beginning Sunday, October 15, 2017.
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Field hockey: 'Cats go 1-1 in Virginia Beach
Tracy Fuchs' squad continued their hot start to 2021.
By Meredith Revsine Mar 8, 2021, 11:20am CST
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Northwestern field hockey is headed home from Virginia Beach with a 3-1 record, the squad's best start through four games since 2014.
The 'Cats suffered their first loss of the season on Friday in a hard-fought contest against Penn State. After both teams came up empty in the first quarter, NU struck first, as Sabrina Solomen converted on a pass from Bente Baekers to tally her first career goal just after the 19-minute mark.
After nearly 20 more minutes, the Nittany Lions tied it up with a transition goal from Bree Bednarski, who tipped in a shot from Abby Myers and tie the game. The teams were scoreless for the remainder of regulation and would eventually send the game into the first shootout of the Big Ten season. PSU emerged victorious, 4-3 in shootouts.
NU outshot PSU 24-18 in the matchup, including nine shots from Baekers and six that were on target. Despite drawing nine penalty corners on the day, the 'Cats struggled to convert on offense. Northwestern's defense, anchored by Christen Conley and goalie Annabel Skubisz, put on another strong performance.
On Sunday, NU faced off against Maryland for the second time this season, as the Terps looked to extend their two game winning streak. Ana Medina Garcia got the 'Cats on the board first when she tipped in a shot from Lakin Barry on a penalty corner in the 24th minute.
Maryland emerged from halftime hungry to tie it up. Early in the third quarter, Bibi Donraadt did just that, scoring off a shot from the right side. Both teams struggled to convert, as it looked like NU would be headed into its second consecutive overtime contest. However, in the 54th minute of action, Bente Baekers tallied her first goal of the season after beating a defender in a one-on-one. The 'Cats held onto the lead for the rest of the game, earning their third win on the season.
Northwestern will take on Indiana in Evanston on Friday, March 12.
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Breakfast will be served at your convenience in the dining room and we also do breakfast tables for lunch and dinner on request.
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Whither tertiary education Policies, regulations and practices
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Tertiary Education is Post-Secondary School Education, which is different from Post- Secondary Education as it is after successful completion of secondary education, i.e. after GCE "A-levels" or equivalent qualifications.
Of course, Tertiary Education covers a wide area including University education and Degree awarding institutes as provided by the Universities Act and respective Acts of other Universities outside the Universities Grants Commission (UGC), Off shore Universities granting degrees, Higher Diplomas by overseas universities through private training institutes by the authority vested on them by the respective Senates and Governing Councils or equivalent bodies, Professional Courses of the Organization of Professional Associations (OPA), Higher Education Institutes of the Ministry of Higher Education, Colleges of Education of the Ministry of Education, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes under the Ministry of Skills development and Vocational Training and others as displayed in the chart.
The main purpose of this article is to indicate primarily the Tertiary and Vocational Education and Training institutes registered with the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission (TVEC), and the courses of study of such institutes which are accredited by the TVEC.
In order to legalize and enforce the above, the Tertiary and Vocational Education Act No. 20 of 1990 (as amended) has prescribed among its general objects "the maintenance of academic and training standards in institutes, agencies and all other establishments providing tertiary education and vocational education."
The current accredited courses of study and the registered institutes are illustrated in the TVET Guide 2018, on a provincial basis, in the website: info@tvec.gov.lk. For the convenience of all stakeholders, such as student trainees, parents, principals and teachers of schools, employers, those specially from the industry, this information would be available to offer their services to interact with the institutes. Most of the courses are based on the National Vocational Qualification framework (NVQ 1-7) where levels 1-4 are at certificate level, 5 & 6 are at diploma level and level 7 being a degree. At present there are 615 registered institutes (405 public & private 210) and 3715 accredited courses of study(2847 NVQ & 868 Non NVQ) conducted at the University of Vocational Technology (UNIVOTEC) in Ratmalana. technology graduates who have pursued the programmes of study as per the conditions laid down by the Sydney Accord and the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) would be eligible initially for "Affiliate Status" of the IESL.
Hope this would indicate the vast provision of tertiary and vocational education opportunities in the country. While there may be shortcomings, delays and improvements necessary, it could be assured that all these are being looked into by the authorities. If there are suggestions for improvement, constructive comments are most welcome to the email address: chairman@tvec.gov.lk
It is hoped that the above would generally present the policies on Tertiary Education, regulations which govern the establishment and continuation of tertiary and vocational education institutes as described in the TVE Act and the practices of providing tertiary and vocational education courses of study island wide.
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The Funniest Easter Jokes for Kids! Kid Approved!
A fun collection of Easter jokes for kids.
My just-turned-7 year old is a big fan of telling jokes and it so funny to hear her telling the same corny jokes I remember from my own childhood. With less than two weeks of school left before we break for the holiday, I decided to make some cards with Easter jokes to include as a bit of fun in her school lunch box.
Or you can totally print out a copy to make a fun mini Easter jokes book, which is just perfect for your early reader to use to entertain the family at your Easter gatherings!
Click here to download: Easter Jokes for Kids. Save the PDF to your computer. Open the PDF and print the pages you require. When printing, select "Fit to printable area" (or similar) to ensure the page fits with your printer type and local paper size (these have been created at A4 size). I suggest printing onto card stock or matte photo paper.
What is your favourite corny childhood joke?
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Wearing nitrile gloves, slice the stems off of the jalapeños. Core out the seeds with a small spoon. Slice each pepper into 1/8 to 1/4-inch slices.
Stir the remaining ingredients (vinegar, sugar, garlic) together in a large sauce pot. Heat over medium high heat stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes or until it comes to a frothy boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for 2 minutes.
Stir in the jalapeños, and simmer for 8 more minutes, stirring occasionally. They will start to change to a darker color.
Remove the peppers from the syrup using a slotted spoon. Spoon into two half pint glass jars.
Bring the syrup to a boil and boil 5 more minutes. Carefully pour the syrup into the jars of peppers. Allow to cool at room temperature for at least an hour, and then refrigerate.
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Oh, I certainly don't agree! Just as there's room in the world for all different kinds of music, there is room for many different kinds of art. Raphael, if the elephant YouTube video is the one I'm thinking of, that elephant has been trained by its mahout/human companion to paint in order to delight tourists. While very clever and very interesting, it's not, IMO, art. My grandmother had a parakeet that could say the Rosary, but that doesn't mean it was praying.
Keats may very well have been puzzled if he had been confronted by some of the works in a modern art museum. But, let's face it, he was a pretty clever guy, quick to catch onto things and was "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . ."
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I think I know what you mean Ravenwing. I volunteered at galleries where some "modern art" was so odd that captions were needed to explain it- people simply would have no idea what the art was supposed to be without it. Contrast this to paintings by the great artists of earlier centuries.
Also, I will argue that there was plenty of art produced in past centuries that was praised at the time of its creation, only to be criticized in later years as too sentimental, too perfect, or too something. There was, too, a lot of art that was panned when new (Think of the Impressionists.) that is now loved by the general public and celebrated by art historians.
The reaction many people have to the work of the American artist, Andy Warhol, is "Huh? You've got to be kidding!" Yet, I love most of his stuff and I'm not alone in admiring it.
The glass art of Dale Chihuly is widely and justifiably praised. Most of his works are a delight for the eyes, but there is one piece at a university in a nearby city that looks like nothing so much as a bunch of blue plastic grocery bags caught on a telephone pole. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3622/3429176587_ae4b8b8a25.jpg I chuckle to myself whenever I drive past it and enjoy the work, but probably not in the way the artist intended.
http://www.inquisition21.com/pca_1978/img/cupidpsyche.jpg I wonder how the painting was received when it was new. Most of the artist's works are very serious with this being a notable and delightful -- at least to me -- departure.
Again, the world is a big place and there is room here for all kinds of art and music.
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I'm sorry don't want to start an argument here but I do not see whatsoever the necessity of having a religion or religious education to being a poet, totally irrelevant and deeply insulting to people like myself who choose not to believe in any form of religion.
This forum is not a platform for such prejudiced views.
Saturn wrote: I'm sorry don't want to start an argument here but I do not see whatsoever the necessity of having a religion or religious education to being a poet, totally irrelevant and deeply insulting to people like myself who choose not to believe in any form of religion.
I have to agree with Saturn about the necessity of a connection between a religion and being a poet. To be brief, Keats was (most likely) a Deist but not a Christian, and in a moment of emotional fervor claimed love was his religion and that he could die for it. I'd say he's the most perfect poet ever, but I'm obsessively partial.
What about modern day poets who write about every day things like riding on a bus? They probably have never even read any religious texts- poetry is just a literary form like the novel and it can be inspired by just about any subject.
I am baffled by your response Ravenwing- some topics are nothing to do with religion whatsoever!! Please just drop the subject, it is getting a bit weird.
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Having joined Avery in 2006 as operations manager, Sharon now leads a team of operational and regional managers covering a group of nearly sixty homes nationwide.
Sharon began her career in the care sector in 1992 after studying at Teesside University. She has gained broad experience in the public, charitable, and private sectors. Passionate about quality, Sharon has driven her continuous professional development and achieved numerous quality framework accolades in her career whilst commissioning more than new 50 homes during that time.
She has been responsible for ensuring that the positive culture and standards-based approach to resident care that Avery is known for has scaled effectively during the exceptional growth of the group, particularly since 2014. In that four-year period the group has quadrupled in size and turnover, placing high demand on the robustness and scalability of the operations.
By developing and recruiting a first-class management team Sharon has delivered continuous growth without compromising quality or standards. This has been achieved in both new build developments as well as a large group of homes that were transitioned into the Avery brand from other operators; many of those acquired services did not enjoy Good CQC ratings and thus much work was required to bring those operations up to the Avery standard. Avery now enjoys one of the highest percentage of Good or Outstanding homes amongst larger care home groups.
With a key focus on resident care and life experience, Sharon has driven the implementation of internal quality frameworks within this fast-growing group to enhance well-being for both the residents and staff in the homes. She has also successfully tendered with local and national Commissioning groups to support government initiatives and financial sustainability for the group.
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Dieting seems taking the market by storm nowadays. Who can blame this trend when obesity is fast turning into an epidemic in well-developed countries? It's a good thing that people have taken into their hands the responsibility of 'weighing themselves down'. There's nobody else who can cure them of their 'disease' but their selves, after all.
So what's with dieting? A lot of people go into the crash diet courses. The ones who always give out the advertisement that says "Lose ___lbs in a week". No matter how unbelievable the advertising is, a lot of hopeful individuals still fall prey.
So what do they do in those crash diets? They starve themselves, eating no more than a few mouthfuls per day. Another way of losing pounds that a lot of people have come up with is to do heavy exercises- a lot of heavy exercises for around 3-5 times a week. This is partly right, but bear in mind that exercises should not be done for more than 2 hours each session and should be done up to a maximum of 3 times a week. Still another way of curing obesity is to eat low carbohydrate, low fat, high protein diets.
While this can help immensely, a lot of health care professionals discourage this weight loss plan. Why? Your body needs carbohydrates to be able to function optimally, and needs fat for insulation from extremes of temperature as well as give your body cells their membranes. If you cut down on these, you will really lose weight but at the same time be weak and inadequate to do certain activities for long periods of time.
One diet that is fast becoming popular though is the low calorie diet. You see, calorie is a unit of energy found in any kind of food. Your body needs calories to be able to do all the activities that you want to do.
The principle behind such diet is that when the body has too much calorie, it will be stored as fat in any body part. Having a low calorie weight loss plan is very good if you are having a sedentary lifestyle. What is a sedentary lifestyle? It is the lifestyle wherein you do not do much but eat, sleep, watch TV and go to the bathroom. This is the kind of lifestyle that many people in industrialized countries have, thus the high number of obese people. If you do not have this lifestyle and still want to use the low calorie weight loss plan, just make sure that you do not do heavy exercises for these could weaken you greatly.
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HDR TV: Everything you need to know before you shop for a new 4K television
You'll find high dynamic range at every price point now, and that's made the technology's strengths, differences, and pitfalls abundantly clear. HDR (High Dynamic Range) is the big buzzword in TVs right now, with vendors adding support for HDR content and pasting the acronym all over their packaging and advertising. But the fact is, a TV's ability to decode and render HDR content doesn't necessarily mean you'll see an improvement in image quality. The "you get what you pay for" axiom comes into play here: Poorly implemented HDR, typically caused by less-expensive TVs being outfitted with insufficient technology, can make HDR content less appealing. The way TV manufacturers implement HDR matters With HDR-10, HDR information is embedded in the material once, at the beginning of the program. With Dolby Vision, HDR information is embedded throughout the material, so that it can vary from one scene to the next. The TV is then supposed to take the information and adjust itself to produce the best picture possible, reproducing the artist's intentions to the best of its ability. Competing HDR formats: There's a war raging The problem is that Samsung TVs don't support Dolby Vision. Samsung is just about the only vendor that doesn't, but as royalties are involved, it's not that hard to guess why. The company makes very good TVs, so we sincerely hope it isn't falling victim to hubris. From our point of view, that changes a wholehearted recommendation to one with a rather complicated caveat. Royalty-free HDR-10, which Samsung does support (calling it HDR 1000 because that's the number of NITS the company's SUHD and QLED TVs can generate) looks pretty good. And there's supposedly an HDR-10 successor coming down the pike that features dynamic metadata (adjustment instructions delivered throughout the material's timeline—just like Dolby Vision) that Samsungwill support. It's unclear if current hardware can handle the new standard, but I have heard mention of backward compatibility. We'll just have to wait and see. But what if Dolby Vision does turn out to be the prevailing standard? Support can't be added with a down-the-road firmware update, so that would leave Samsung TV high and dry. The Dolby name has a powerful association with high-quality audio, both at home and in commercial theaters, and that could be easily leveraged into video. Honest HDR implementations Now that we've discussed the pitfalls and disappointments with some of the current HDR technology, we should mention a few vendors that are playing by the rules: Vizio's 55-inch-class P-Series renders Dolby Vision satisfactorily for less than $1,000. Sharp labels the Aquos N7000 quite honestly as HDR-compatible, and it didn't go crazy trying to heighten the HDR effect (which was minimal, but noticeable) by darkening everything else. The same goes for the LeEco Super4 X65. The bottom line is that you should take claims of HDR and Dolby Vision support with a healthy grain of salt. These technologies are not a panacea for all the shortcomings you'll encounter with entry-level TVs. Dolby does work with its vendor customers, and when its technology is properly implemented, the presence of Dolby Vision should improve any TV's image. A good HDR-10 implementation should do the same. As for high-end TVs, leave your wallet at home if you're prone to impulse buying. Rely on your own eyeballs, and make sure the salesperson plays some HDR material on the TV you're considering buying. That content is only just beginning to appear in earnest. Personally, I tell my friends—some of whom are becoming quite impatient—that it might behoove them to wait a year to buy a new TV. The TV industry could have settled on one HDR standard by now; instead, some manufacturers are forcing consumers who want to buy a TV today to bet on which standard will prevail. Rewarding that behavior will only prolong it. #Home #BuyingAdvice #TV
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Preserving the Good Life | Preserving, canning and knowing what you're eating. Opening our family cookbook for all to enjoy.
Preserving, canning and knowing what you're eating. Opening our family cookbook for all to enjoy.
Rarely, if ever, do folks can in half gallon jars anymore. But if you have a large family canning in this size jar will be handy. This could be a touchy subject for some because the USDA hasn't approved the canning times on anything other than Grape and Apple Juice because those are the most commonly canned products in half gallon jars.
I stumbled across this chart, verified some processing times based on what I have learned in past experiences and have kept this chart handy for future canning needs. I have found the list below helpful; it saves a lot of time in calculating proper canning times.
On this chart, BW means processed in boiling water bath and 10# means processed under 10 pounds of pressure.
Corn, kernel 10# 102 min.
I DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM THIS POST. IT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND YOU USE SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK, AS WITH ALL CANNING RECIPES.
Do you have that one recipe that you make and you just don't even think about it? For my crowd some of those recipes are homemade biscuits, gravy, slaw and deviled eggs. I often forget that people don't make things from watching Grandma or experimenting. Some of our best recipes we created from experiments!
Over Thanksgiving one of my sisters mentioned "a recipe" that she found online and used for deviled eggs. So I'm putting this one out there for Sis…. Here's how we whip up our deviled eggs.
First, we boil our eggs. We have found it's easier to peel the eggs if you get the water to a boil before you put the eggs in the water. I used a slotted spoon to carefully lower my eggs in the water. Once they have boiled 15 mins, remove the eggs and run cold water over them. Peel the eggs, slice them in half and separate the eggs and the yolks.
Mix the egg yolks with a heaping spoon full of mayonnaise, diced sweet pickles (or sweet relish), a sprinkle of salt and a sprinkle of pepper.
When you have the yolk mixture to your liking, put it inside a gallon size ziplock bag and cut the corner so you can easily squeeze the egg out of the bag.
Just in time for Santa!!!
My Mama used to makes these when I was a little girl and all of the neighborhood kids wanted to hang out at our house…..partially for the cookies. These are an all-time favorite when it comes to cookies. They're the best of the best, a hit with the Christmas Carolers and any function that involves food.
Preheat oven to 350°. Beat butter and sugars at medium speed with a mixer until creamy. Add eggs and 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla, beating until blended. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl; gradually add to butter mixture, beating just until blended. Beat in morsels just until combined. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a well greased pan or parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
Bake at 350° for 10 to 14 minutes or until they're done to your liking. Remove to wire racks, and cool completely, about 15 minutes.
Grab a glass of milk!!!
This is one of those mouth-watering recipes that can be used as a side dish at Thanksgiving, Christmas or as a dessert for any holiday occasion.
Mix together the apples, cranberries and sugar in a casserole dish. Top with 1/2 cup water.
Mix together the topping and sprinkle it over the cranberry, apple mixture.
Bake for 1 hour on 350 degrees. This is delicious as a side or as a dessert, warmed and topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!!!
Apple, apples, apples…..just one reason I love FALL! This is one thing I wish I canned more of; it never fails, we go through apple pie filling quick! I need to start making double what I think we will use. It's just too easy, grab a can of pie filling, throw it in a pie shell, bake and ta-da – Apple Pie!
In a large stock pot mix together Clear Jel, sugar, apple juice, lemon juice and spices. Stir continually until the Clear Jel begins to thicken, it will look like store bought pie filling. Once it begins to thicken, add in the apples and continue to stir. Let all of the ingredients blend well, about 10 minutes.
When it gets to your desired thickness ladle into clean sterile jars leaving a generous 1 inch head space. Canning with Clear Jel is tricky. Be sure to leave extra head space, the Clear Jel tends to expand and increase in size as it increases in temperature. Wipe rims with a sterile cloth, place lid and ring and tighten finger tight. Water bath for 35 minutes. Let it sit in the canner for a few extra minutes before taking it out to prevent siphoning.
Now you're one step closer to making the holidays and family get-togethers a little easier.
I'm always looking to try something different. This recipe got my attention and made my kitchen smell amazing!!! It reminds me of spiced apples that I had years ago….
Core and slice apples then pack them into mason jars with cinnamon sticks.
In a small pot, cook remaining ingredients over medium heat until sugar and salt dissolve.
Remove from heat and carefully ladle pickling liquid over apples, dividing spices evenly among jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Gently tap jar against the table to release any air bubbles. Apply hot lids and rings tightened fingertip tight. Water bath for 10 minutes. Let sit for 2 weeks before opening.
We just missed Hurricane Florence but so many family and friends weren't so lucky. As it was heading our way I felt the need to prepare myself just a little more than usual.
My husband thought I was crazy – but let's be real a minute. It takes just as much space to store an empty jar as it does one full of water. So why not take a few minutes to fill some jars full of water and water bath them for 20 minutes. Then in the event of an emergency that's one less thing that you have to worry about. When everyone else is running out to buy water…no worries, you're covered. And if you need the jar before you need the water, open the jar and use the water to fill the canner. After all that consideration, it seemed like a no brainer to me.
I filled sterile jars with tap "city" water leaving 1/2 in head space. You can use filtered water if you prefer. I boiled lids I had saved from previous canned goods, tightened those down with sterile rings. I then water bathed them for 20 minutes.
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Der Kanton Rioz ist ein französischer Wahlkreis im Arrondissement Vesoul im Département Haute-Saône in der Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Sein Hauptort ist Rioz.
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Der Kanton besteht aus 50 Gemeinden mit insgesamt Einwohnern (Stand: ) auf einer Gesamtfläche von km²:
Bis zur landesweiten Neuordnung der französischen Kantone im März 2015 gehörten zum Kanton Rioz die 27 Gemeinden Aulx-lès-Cromary, Boulot, Boult, Bussières, Buthiers, Chambornay-lès-Bellevaux, Chaux-la-Lotière, Cirey, Cordonnet, Cromary, Fondremand, Hyet, La Malachère, Maizières, Montarlot-lès-Rioz, Neuvelle-lès-Cromary, Pennesières, Perrouse, Quenoche, Recologne-lès-Rioz, Rioz, Sorans-lès-Breurey, Traitiéfontaine, Trésilley, Vandelans, Villers-Bouton und Voray-sur-l'Ognon. Sein Zuschnitt entsprach einer Fläche von 234,65 km2. Er besaß vor 2015 einen anderen INSEE-Code als heute, nämlich 7021.
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An error from the county clerk will result in an elevated property tax rate for the 2016 year.
County and city officials met Tuesday to discuss the error. According to Doc Kritzer, Callaway County commissioner, the county clerk entered wrong information for the city of Fulton and the Fulton School Districts assessed property valuations. Becuase of the errant numbers, there were differences in the assessed valuations of $4.3 million and about $300,000, respectively.
The assessed valuation is reached by taking a percentage of the market value of a resident's property. Both real estate and personal property are taken, and depending on the purpose of the property, a percentage is taken from the market value and deemed the assessed value.
Commercial property is assessed at 32 percent of market value, personal is assessed at 19 percent and agricultural property is assessed at 12 percent.
Fulton city officials talked about how to best fix the problem at Tuesday's council meeting. Fixing the tax statements, scheduled to be sent out later this month, would cost an estimated $15,000 dollars and an incredible amount of manpower, Kritzer said.
The error committed by the county clerk prompted a 2.5 cent per $100 hike in the property tax charges issued to Fulton residents. The hike would result in an additional $27,500 taken from taxpayers. Owners of $100,000 worth of property can expect to pay an additional $4.46 for 2016 taxes and have the money returned the following year.
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Q: Regex Capturing groups from HTML string in .NET Looking to capture from html into groups as Header, Name and Val
The HTML can vary, but this is how it would typically look
<div>
<h5>Header 1</h5>
<strong>Name1</strong>
Value 1 <br>
<strong>Name2</strong>
Value 2 <br>
<div>
<h5>Header 2</h5>
<strong>Name1</strong>
Value 1 <br>
Value 1 continued
<strong>Name2</strong>
Value 2 <br>
<h5>Header 3</h5>
<strong>Name1</strong>
Value 1 <br>
Value 1 continued
<strong>Name2</strong>
Value 2 <br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
This what I started using, but this relies that nothing is after the <br>
string pattern = "((<h5>(?<Header>.*?)<\\/h5>)|(<strong>(?<Name>.*?)<\\/strong>)|( (?<Val>.*?)<br>))
A: Remove the concurrences of "br" tag from the input, voila. str.Replace("<br>",""), etc.
A: I Changed the pattern to
string pattern = "(((?<=<h5>)(?<Header>.*?)(?=<\\/h5>))|((?<=<strong>)(?<Name>.*?)(?=<\\/strong>))|((?<=<\\/strong>)(?<Val>.*?)((?=<h5>)|(?=<strong>)|(?=<\\/div>))))";
Seems to be working. If you have a cleaner better answer, I will set your answer as the correct one.
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Kobe Bryant killed in a helicopter crash
The basketball world is reeling after news of Bryant's untimely death and Bryant's 13-year-old daughter. He was 41.
Dalton Walker
(Photo by The Associated Press)
Updated at 6:48 pm EST.
Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star and five-time champion during his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers died suddenly in a helicopter crash on Sunday. He was 41. At first, five people were reported to have died in the crash, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter.
UPDATE: According to California authorities, nine people were aboard the helicopter, there were no survivors.
In this March 2, 2019 photo, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch the first half of an NCAA college basketball game between Connecticut and Houston in Storrs, Conn. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Gianna also died in the crash. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Bryant died in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, California, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. It was unclear if family members were on the helicopter. The crash happened around 10 a.m. near about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Just before 5 pm est Sunday, President Barack Obama tweeted: "Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day."
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said it was a Sikorsky S-76 and it was not known what caused the crash.
Colin Storm was in his living room in Calabasas when he heard "what sounded like a low-flying airplane or helicopter." "Ït was very foggy so we couldn't see anything," he said. "But then we heard some sputtering, and then a boom."
A short time later the fog cleared a bit and Storm could see smoke rising from the hillside in front of his home.
The Los Angeles Lakers Twitter account has confirmed Bryant's death.
"The entire Los Angeles Lakers family wishes to support their family and friends. RIP Kobe."
Bryant was an NBA giant and a mentor to current and former players and many wear his signature Nike shoe during games. Bryant retired from the NBA in 2016. He was to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year.
Bryant's final tweet was late Jan. 25 to congratulate LeBron James in passing him in all-time NBA scoring. James moves lass Bryant in a game at Philadelphia on Jan. 25.
"Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother
Bryant recently won an Academy Award for best animated short in 2018.
ESPN has reported that Bryant was on his way to a youth basketball event with his young daughter when the helicopter crashed. Over the past year, Bryant was spotted at NBA games along with his daughter, Gianna.
Even though Bryant had a stellar basketball career that includes multiple awards, he was accused of sexual assault in Colorado in 2003 but the case never went to trial. A connected civil suit was settled out of court.
Others with NBA connections shared their disbelief and remembrance on social media.
More tweets as the story continues
National Basketball Players Association Statement
Kobe's daughter dreamed of going into the WNBA
Tweet from the Navajo Nation President
Facebook Post with Kobe and L.A. Williams at Dine' College
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued the following statement today regarding the passing of Kobe Bryant
Vincent Schilling contributed to this report.
Dalton Walker, Red Lake Anishinaabe, is a national correspondent at Indian Country Today. Follow him on Twitter: @daltonwalker or email him at dwalker@indiancountrytoday.com
Dalton Walker, Red Lake Anishinaabe, is the managing editor at Indian Country Today. Follow him on Twitter: @daltonwalker. Walker is based in Phoenix.
Heard Museum reschedules World Championship Hoop Dance Contest to March 26 and 27, 2022
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THEY call managing England 'The Impossible Job'.
And now coach Fabio Capello has just made it impossible for himself.
How can he continue after undermining the FA by insisting John Terry is still his captain?
The 65-year-old Italian has split the FA and made the Three Lions dressing room even more uncomfortable than it was.
Who would want to captain England now if he knows the coach will still turn to his man?
Liverpool's Steven Gerrard is the favourite to wear the armband but this mess needs to be cleared up before any new captain can say yes.
Who can lead their country when the manager doesn't really want him? Capello has succeeded in creating a 'them and us' situation and last night it was him against the FA.
They are in shock at his disloyalty and disrespect. Chairman David Bernstein – the man behind the decision to strip Terry of the armband – will demand answers from Capello at a showdown meeting, probably tomorrow.
It is amazing that Capello was not called in yesterday. Instead there was no attempt to reach him, no need, they said, to treat this as a crisis.
What Bernstein should do at their meeting is says 'Thanks but no thanks Fabio' and sack him.
Put us out of our misery. If he was a winner then it might be different.
But who cares that the European Championships are only four months away?
Currently England have absolutely no chance of success in Poland and Ukraine. They are in complete disarray.
What they should realise now is that Capello doesn't care – about them or English football.
He is in this for himself, his CV, his reputation and his £6m-a-year salary.
The Italian didn't agree with the FA over Terry's sacking as captain and – instead of making his feelings known to them privately and quietly behind locked doors – he went public in his homeland.
If he felt so strongly about it why didn't he call a press conference in this country?
The answer is because he doesn't care.
Starsport reveals today that he felt let down and undermined by the FA and that is why he gave a TV interview to Italy.
His reaction was to let down his bosses, particularly chairman Bernstein. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Capello has contempt for the system and it is not the first time he has gone it alone with controversial comments with the FA unaware of his intentions.
He once said that David Beckham was too old without even bothering to talk to him first.
The FA have only themselves to blame. They should have sacked Capello after the World Cup in South Africa, the worst tournament in our history.
But they bottled it because they didn't want to pay a huge compensation bill.
They kept him on when Capello actually admitted to them that he would understand it if they axed him.
They should also have gone the whole hog with Terry. They were right to strip him of the captaincy but should have suspended him from international football until his racism case had been heard on July 9.
If the FA don't sack Capello this week he clearly has every intention of taking Terry to the Euros and that would be a recipe for disaster.
They can't let that happen.
Terry, stripped of the captaincy because his court case for allegedly racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand was put back until after the Euro Finals, had already split the dressing room.
The entire QPR team would have snubbed him before their FA Cup tie had the FA not abandoned their Respect handshake ritual.
It is understood half the Manchester United team would have refused to shake his hand on Sunday had he not been injured.
How could he possibly have continued to lead the England side? Capello standing alongside Terry means there will be a stink around the England team until this is resolved.
Capello has become a loose cannon and on Sunday he was out of control and out of order.
He is frequently protected by his bosses from the English media, but then let them down by giving an interview to Italian television.
Clearly upset with the FA, Capello made it clear that he wants no part of their stance on Terry.
At the start of the Terry issue the FA made it clear to all media that they didn't want to see headlines saying that they or Capello backed Terry, for legal reasons.
So, what does the coach do? He goes public with a massive vote of support of his captain.
What a mess. What a complete and utter embarrassment for English football.
It is why Capello has to go, now.
What other outcome can there be? It is impossible for him to continue unless he apologises and backtracks on Terry.
The FA were dealing with this mess yesterday while waiting for the outcome of Harry Redknapp's court case on charges of tax evasion.
That verdict is expected either today or tomorrow and if the verdict goes against Redknapp then the FA will not be able to turn to the man they had lined up to replace Capello.
If Redknapp is cleared he should be asked to take on dual roles this season, managing Spurs and England up to and through the Euros.
Redknapp could then take over England permanently for the start of next season.
The captain sacked, the manager still insisting he is his man and the future England manager awaiting a trial verdict.
The England team has never been in such confusion and disarray.
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An asset purchase agreement (APA) is an agreement between a buyer and a seller that finalizes terms and conditions related to the purchase and sale of a company's assets. It is important to note in an APA transaction, it is not necessary for the buyer to purchase all of the assets of the company. In fact, it is common for a buyer to exclude certain assets in an APA. Provisions of an APA may include payment of purchase price, monthly installments, liens and encumbrances on the assets, condition precedent for the closing, etc. An APA differs from a stock purchase agreement (SPA) under which company shares, title to assets, and title to liabilities are also sold. In an APA, the buyer must select specific assets and avoid redundant assets. These assets are itemized in a schedule to the APA. The buyer in a SPA is purchasing shares of the company. In this case, itemization is not necessary due to transfer of company's ownership occurs as is. The APA is the legal mechanism for executing a corporate merger or acquisition.
The oil and gas industry does not distinguish between an asset and stock purchase in naming its related purchase agreement. In this industry, whether purchasing assets or stock, the definitive agreement is referred to as the purchase and sale agreement (PSA).
Purpose
Defining and controlling behavior is a major objective of the APA. The buyer must represent its authority to purchase the asset. The seller must represent its authority to sell the asset. Additionally, the seller represents that the purchase price of the asset is equal to its value, and that the seller is not in financial or legal trouble.
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Other than having the flexibility to sell only certain assets, rather than the entire company, asset purchase agreements typically also include detailed provisions regarding the transfer of liabilities from the seller.
See also
Tender offer
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Whisky Galore! (1949)
October 29, 2019 October 29, 2019 KWadsworth
Back when I did I Know Where I'm Going!, I mentioned that I'd been expecting something different from it and been pleasantly surprised. What I was expecting was one of those low-key comedies about eccentric people and wacky hijinks in a small twee town; it's a genre that the UK and Ireland seems to do a lot, with (just off the top of my head) Waking Ned Devine, The Full Monty, Calendar Girls, Brassed Off, Kinky Boots, Saving Grace, Millions, The Matchmaker, and The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain all being more recent examples. You know the kind – it's usually set in a small town, often an economically depressed one, but one where everyone knows each other and has patience with each others' eccentricities, especially when someone comes up with a Wacky Scheme that will improve their finances. Usually there is a stuck-up resident who tuts a lot because they Do Not Approve and are determined to Put A Stop To This Sort Of Thing. Often there is a government authority of some sort who is coming to Investigate The Goings-On and the whole town conspires to keep them in the dark; or, the main character is a person from the city who's trying to settle in and Discovers Themselves. Whisky Galore is one such comedy; and it reinforced for me that I'm getting kinda sick of such comedies.
Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly inoffensive and cute. In this case the town is an island – Todday, a tiny speck of land just off the northern coast of Scotland. There is little to do on Todday except work, chat, and have a drink at the pub – so there is great consternation when wartime rationing puts an end to Todday's whisky supply. But after a few weeks, a freighter runs aground off the coast of Todday. The town rescues the crew, who mention in passing that the freighter – which they've abandoned on a sandbar – had nearly 50,000 cases of whiskey in the hold. And soon the whole town moves on from rescuing the crew to rescuing the cargo.
Of course, there are those who don't approve. Captain Waggett (Basil Radford), the stuffy English expat who's the head of Todday's Home Guard, considers raiding the freighter to be looting, and is determined to Put A Stop To It. The Ultra-Religious widow Mrs. Campbell (Jean Cadell) is also unimpressed, as she doesn't approve of drink. But Waggett and Mrs. Campbell each have their sabateurs; Mrs. Campbell's son George (Gordon Jackson), the town schoolteacher, is hoping to marry the lovely Catriona (Gabrielle Blunt), daughter of the local postmaster Mr. MacRoon (Wylie Watson). And one of Waggett's underlings, the more relaxed Sergeant Odd (Bruce Seton), has his eye on Catriona's sister Peggy (Joan Greenwood). When both come to ask Mr. MacRoon for his daughters' hands, MacRoon mentions that gee, there really should be a traditional Scottish betrothal party, and gosh, we'd really need whisky for that…
The plot is hatched, the authorities are thwarted, the hijinks commence, the women are wooed, the day is saved, yadda yadda yadda.
I know I sound like a miserable cynic there; but I've just seen so many of these kinds of comedies by now that it's starting to get stale for me. And the hell of it is that I liked them at first; I saw Waking Ned Devine in the theater, as well as Saving Grace (that one was even as a date). One of my favorite television shows is Northern Exposure, arguably an American version of this kind of story. But after having seen so many, I've learned to recognize the formula, and it just puts me off – even with one of the films that has ostensibly set the formula.
One of the elements that makes me roll my eyes, too, is when the films lean into the eccentricity. There's often a bit of point-and-laugh-at-the-kooky-country-people going on, particularly if the film is set in rural communities in Scotland or Ireland. While it's not meant as offense, it can sometimes feel a bit like mockery of cultures that are still just a tiny bit "foreign" even within the United Kingdom. It may be my Irish roots coming out, but a lot of the "kooky stuff" we're being encouraged to find eccentric is more of a legitimate cultural difference, so I can get a little cranky.
I grumbled about all this to the roommate, and when he asked, I admitted that no, the film itself hadn't done enough to overcome that with me. But when he asked if it was just plain bad, I had to admit that no, it wasn't. It was perfectly cute and pleasant. The biggest nit I can find to pick about this film concerns Cadell and Greenwood's accents – I don't know what accent the MacRoon sisters were using, but that sure as heck wasn't Scottish. Greenwood, in particular, was sounding distinctly un-Hebridean, and talked more like she was trying to do a Marilyn Monroe imitation. But everything else was perfectly charming and quaint and twee and cute, and it's possible that that's exactly why I ultimately sighed heavily and resisted.
Rashomon (1950)
October 24, 2019 KWadsworth
Another film that was new to me, but that I already knew all about by way of reputation. And I'm sure you have as well, or at least seen one of the gabillion works that it has overtly or subtly influenced over the years – any movie or show you've ever seen where you get to see two or more different versions play out for "how an event happened", that's Rashomon.
Usually the what of "what happened" is pretty clear, as it is in this film – somewhere in the woods in medieval Japan, a bandit (Toshiro Mifune) ran into a samurai (Masayuki Mori) and his wife (Machiko Kyō). The bandit ended up raping the woman, and the samurai got killed. A woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) found the body and reported the crime, and the bandit captured soon after. The woman was found a bit later in a fugue state, and brought to testify at the bandit's trial.
Those are the facts; but each witness has a different story as to how those facts manifested. The bandit says the woman gave in, and that he and the husband had a daring duel for her continued affections. But the woman says it was rape, and that her husband still rejected her; and that she killed him. The judge even calls in a medium to try to contact the ghost of the samurai for his testimony; his story is completely different from the bandit's and his wife's, including the identity of the killer. We even get the woodcutter's perspective; he saw a little more of the incident than he originally let on, but his own account varies from the others' tales.
Now, that bit I knew – that we'd get to see four different takes on a specific incident, all of which varied from each other. What I didn't know is that we wouldn't ever get to see which version was "correct". In fact, the film muddies things even further with a framing story, with the woodcutter and a monk telling the whole story to a third man, a traveler who runs into them as they wait out a thunderstorm. And towards the end, the traveler figures out a reason to suspect that the woodcutter is fudging the facts on his own story – which casts doubt on all the other stories not only because each teller may have been lying, but also because now we can't trust the second-hand reporting on their testimonies in the first place.
And ultimately, I learned that that's what this film is "about". There is no one right answer or correct version of events; we will never know, because every person telling their perspective is doing so through a skewed filter, one which may be muddied through distraction, or self-interest, or fear. The monk in the framing story frets a few times about how the whole mess has convinced him that mankind is ultimately too flawed, and the world is ultimately too corrupt; it's bad enough that the woman was raped and the samurai murdered, but with everyone telling half-truths about it, we can't even agree on why it happened. There is a small moment of goodness that redeems things for the monk towards the end, fortunately; but ultimately, this is more of a philosophical meditation on "what is real" than it is a fact-finding investigation.
In a way, I've been set up to like those kinds of questions. My father has always enjoyed playing devil's advocate in discussions, as a way to explore either the topic of discussion itself, or to examine how other people construct their own arguments. He's taken this kind of Socratic approach to discussions about the death penalty, taxation, foreign policy questions, religious dogma – I even saw him once draw my entire 20-member extended family into a spirited debate on government food purity standards during one unusually memorable Thanksgiving. Dad's ultimate point is that different people have different perspectives on the same thing whether because of their backgrounds or just where they happen to be standing, and they are usually just as valid as anyone else's. Kurosawa's film has a bit of a bleaker perspective on this paradox, but it's similar, and it lead my brain down some interesting paths.
There are those who get put off by the acting in this. Director Akira Kurosawa was heavily influenced by silent film, and encouraged his cast to go a little broad; Toshiro Mifune can come across as especially hammy, since throughout the bandit's tale he frequently stops to cackle evilly. But the four different accounts of the same incident also lead to four different chances for the actors to change up their performances, and that can be an interesting exercise in comparison. Two of the stories feature a "duel" between the bandit and the samurai, and while the bandit's version features a full-on swashbuckling showy fight, the woodcutter's version of their duel is a more panicked, inexpert scuffle, with both parties visibly terrified.
Kurosawa is a director I've wanted to examine more for a while, so I was looking forward to this as well.
On The Town (1949)
I used to write for a now-defunct theater review blog. One show I covered was part of a new-musical festival; I began my review by saying that "There are musicals, and then there are musicals. ….And then sometimes, there are MUSICALS!!!!" On The Town, quite simply, is a MUSICAL!!!! As the roommate put it, "Jazz hands…..So many jazz hands…."
Like most such shows and films, this has a paper-thin plot – three sailors have 24 hours of shore leave in the city during Fleet Week. They want to see all the sights – but more importantly, they want to pick up girls. And most of the women they meet are more than happy to be wooed- starting with Clare (Ann Miller), an armchair anthropologist they meet at the Museum of Natural History who notes that sailor Ozzie (Jules Munshin) resembles her favorite caveman statue, and falls for him instantly. Cabbie Hildy (Betty Garrett) sets her sights on Chip (Frank Sinatra), declaring herself the group's personal cabbie just so she can try to lure him away from his sightseeing and upstairs to her place. Sailor Gabey (Gene Kelly) is a little more fussy – sort of. He spots a subway ad early on declaring that the MTA has declared a young miss named Ivy (Vera-Ellen) is that month's "Miss Turnstiles", and he is determined to find her, even if it takes him all day.
And…well, it's a musical. There are cute love songs, there are comic misunderstandings, there are kooky adventures, there is singing and dancing and hijinks and a wistfully happy ending when the three sailors bid adieu to their ladies and return to their ship. The plot in such films takes a back seat to the production numbers. At least the dancing is top-notch, with Gene Kelly taking on the bulk of the dancing (he also choreographed and directed the film). This is the first time I've ever really paid attention to Kelly's work; I've heard others describe his style as "athletic," and there is something to that. He's not as suavely elegant as Fred Astaire; he's more like a lively Golden Retriever in style. Different, but still fun to watch. Similarly, we have Sinatra on hand for a couple of showier solo songs, which he delivers with aplomb.
Speaking of Sinatra – his involvement may have lead to some headaches for the producers. The studio boasted that this was one of the first movie musicals to film on location in New York City; while really it looks like most of the scenes were on a stage set, the opening number sees our sailors cavorting around various local landmarks while singing ("New York, New York, it's a wonderful town…"), and these were indeed filmed close to me (in one case, very close to me – the sailors' ship is docked in Brooklyn's Navy Yard, and I live about five blocks away). Apparently word got out that Sinatra would be filming in the city, and his fans turned up to gawk – in a scene when the three sailors are admiring the Prometheus statue in Rockefeller Center, you can see a huge crowd lined up just behind it, admiring him.
Some of the bits have not aged all that well. Ann Miller's number, "Prehistoric Man," is an ode to dating old-fashioned men – really old-fashioned ones, that is; she is looking for a big burly caveman type. And since the cast is ostensibly in the Museum of Natural History, there is much cavorting around with "primitive" artifacts – elaborate headdresses, ceremonial drums, spears, and the like. There's also a subplot with Hildy offering her nerdy roommate Lucy (Alice Pearce) as Plan-B option for Gabey when Ivy has to drop out, and she's clearly meant to be the awkward comic relief.
And yet…somewhere towards the end there are also some small lovely moments. In one scene, when the sailors are trying to grab a table at a swanky club, using Ivy's status as "Miss Turnstiles" as currency, Clare quietly steps aside and corners the manager, bribing him to get them a table and to make a fuss over Ivy. And as for Gabey and Lucy – even though she knows she's his Plan B, when Gabey sees her home, he gives her a sincere apology for not being very good company and wishes her well. It was a surprisingly sweet twist. I was also expecting there to be some kind of lengthier farewell between the sailors and the ladies; fervent promises to stay in touch, a sudden proposal, something like that. But no – the ladies just follow the sailors back to the ship and stand ashore waving goodbye, as the next round of sailors up for shore leave start flooding ashore and singing "New York, New York" again.
So despite myself, I ended up pondering my own Fleet Week memories (you can't help but have a couple after living here as long as I have). The exuberance of the opening number reminded me of a moment waiting to cross a street, with a knot of sailors beside me. And suddenly, one of them started completely freaking out and exclaiming to his companions: "Guys! Guys! It just hit me! We're in New York! I'm in New York, and you're in New York, and we are in New York!!!" The light changed then and I crossed the street, but his enthusiasm was touching and stayed with me.
Later that same week, another group of sailors stopped me to ask directions to McSorley's Ale House; at that time, it was en route for my commute home, so I suggested they simply follow me. I spent a lively ten minutes playing tour guide on the subway and then on the sidewalk, playfully bantering with six guys in dress whites – and then when we got to McSorley's, they invited me to join them. And of course I accepted. One of the sailors ended up getting especially taken with me – he insisted on walking me the rest of the way home later, with another buddy as chaperone "so you know I won't try anything", and then gave me his email address, telling me I was "a fun gal" and asking me to stay in touch. ….I considered it, but ultimately didn't, and every now and then I regret that.
The Third Man (1949)
There's so much to think about in The Third Man that it's taken me nearly 24 hours after watching to realize that we never do find out who the "third man" actually is, or if he even exists. I promise you it doesn't matter, though, and nor would you care.
The story takes place in post-war Vienna – still occupied by the four main Allied powers and still sporting plenty of ruined buildings and rubble. American Holly Martins (John Cotton), author of a series of pulpy Western novellas, has come at the invitation of an old college buddy named Harry, who says he can get Martins a job. But when Martins gets to Harry's flat, the doorman tells him Harry was killed by a passing truck just that morning. Well, darn.
Martins attends the funeral, planning to head back to the United States right after. But a conversation with a British army official, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), changes his mind – Calloway implies that Harry was a racketeer in Vienna's black market. At first the scandalized Martins intends to stick around and clear Harry's name. But further conversations with Harry's other associates – a mean-faced Austrian baron, a shady Romanian thug, a secretive doctor – suggest that not only might Calloway be right, but that Harry's death also may not have been an accident. Martins also starts getting to know Harry's girlfriend Anna (Alida Valli), a Czech actress living in Vienna with a false passport Harry forged for her. Anna was very devoted to Harry and wants to help, but has her own troubles – someone tips the Soviet Army off to her presence and she's in danger of deportation. The sympathetic Martins starts trying to help her as well.
And right when Martins is starting to think he's getting close to figuring out how Harry died – he learns there's a possibility Harry may not even be dead.
And when it comes to a discussion of the twists and turns of the plot, I am going to stop right there, because everything after what I've just told you was a surprise for me and I am going to leave you all to enjoy the the same way.
This came across as a strangely modern take on the film noir. During the opening credits, I chuckled when I saw that the entire film was being scored by a zither – an instrument I associate with my third grade school music teacher. But it works here – the music manages to be both perky and jaded simultaneously, and perfectly fits with the shabby and down-trodden daytime Vienna. And for the nighttime shots, where Martins is chasing or being chased by one or another shadowy figure through the streets, the music comes across as an ironic and worldweary counterpoint.
And what shots and what shadows! The use of light and shadow here is gorgeous – the people Martins talks to are forever stepping into and out of darkness, flitting between shadows and pools of light as he chases them hoping for illumination. Orson Welles has a smallish role in the film, and over the years some have claimed that he was an unofficial second director alongside the credited Carol Reed. But that wasn't the case (even though Welles didn't try that hard to discourage the rumor); at best, Reed had seen some of Welles' films previously and may have unconsciously been influenced. Welles did throw something in, however – during one speech, he speaks about how a country suffering from social upheaval ironically produces amazing art and music at the same time. Welles came up with an especially pithy, and often-quoted, new ending for his speech:
"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"
It's a punch line that manages to be both amusing and cynical – perfect for the world this film was creating. Nothing ends perfectly for anyone; no one ends in disaster either, actually, but still no one gets everything they want, and everyone has to settle for "good enough" with a sort of shrug. In the very last scene – when Martins tries to talk to Anna on the street, and she passes him by without a glance – Martins doesn't try to follow her, or stop her, or even call after her; he just gives up and watches her go.
The film – rightly so – went on to win an Oscar for cinematography.
October 18, 2019 November 20, 2019 KWadsworth
I have the strange feeling that comedies from Britain's Ealing Studios, like this film, are going to give me a better understanding of Monty Python. Kind Hearts and Coronets didn't have Python's absurdism, but its dark comedy and spoofing of class and upper-crust manners felt very familiar. As did one instance of drag.
The whole story is framed as a sort of last confessional memoir, written by a young nobleman, Louis D'Ascoyne, the 10th Duke of Chalfont (Dennis Price), on the eve of his execution. He's pretty matter-of-fact about his impending death – and as we soon learn, that's because he's been found guilty of murder.
Louis was the son of a disinherited member of his family; his mother had eloped with an opera singer, living with him in happy poverty until Louis' birth. But when the family fell on hard times and his mother wrote home asking for help, they turned their backs. Louis tries reaching out when his mother died, hoping to at least have her buried with the rest of her family; they refuse this too. And that is when Louis concocts his plan. As his mother told him, in their family, the bloodline also runs through the women; so whether the family wanted to admit it or not, he was a valid claimant to the Dukedom. All that stood in his way of the title were a handful of other family members with closer succession. Considering this, Louis decides to murder his way to the title.
Most of the film is a chronicle of Louis suavely befriending and then dispatching the various other D'Ascoynes – each in a slightly ridiculous fashion. A doddering priest is poisoned, a pompous general is blown up with a bomb smuggled inside some caviar. The suffragette is killed during a publicity stunt; she's commissioned a balloon to carry her over the city so she can drop leaflets, and Louis waits by his window with a bow and arrow for her to sail past. (The ensuing narration got a chuckle from me: "I shot an arrow in the air, it fell to earth in Berkley Square.") Complicating things slightly are Louis' two romances; first with Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood sweetheart who married someone else for money but then starts canoodling with Louis again, then with the Lady Edith (Valerie Hobson), the genteel widow of one of Louis' victims. Louis of course strives to keep his ambitions from them both, and also keep them from each other. Eventually he's going to have to choose one as his Duchess; and just as the Dukedom is in his grasp, Sibella threatens him with blackmail in an effort to force his hand. Is it going to blow the whole plan?
I've saved some of the best casting for last, because it really is the standout performance; or, rather, set of performances. For it is Sir Alec Guinness who plays all nine of the D'Ascoynes that Louis kills off – and manages to pull it off. To be fair, in some cases the D'Ascoyne in question only enjoys a few seconds of screentime and thus all that distinguishes them is a change of costume or wig. But his take on the playboy Ascone D'Ascoyne is distinct from the banker Lord D'Ascoyne, which is distinct from the priest, which is distinct from the photographer…and even his take on Lady Agatha, the suffragette, manages to avoid verging into camp even though he's in a frilly hat and a dress with a bustle. For someone of my generation, for whom the name "Alec Guinness" is synonymous with "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and that's it, this was a good wake-up call.
Just as Guinness in drag stays clear of camp, the tone of the whole thing also manages to stay clear of farce. This is a very dry comedy, feeling almost stereotypically what people think of as "English" – genteel, prim, and mannered, with one's standing and reputation in society being the be-all and end-all. It's exactly the kind of tone that would put me off if this were a more serious film, honestly – but in this case it's used as the filter for someone who is methodically committing fratricide and regicide in one fell swoop. That kind of disconnect between tone and action is something that the Python team did a lot – they just took it to more absurd lengths. I'm suspecting that I can see some of the Python DNA in this film, and with some more Ealing comedies ahead of me I suspect I'll see even more.
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Adam's Rib (1949)
Back when I saw Top Hat, my immediate reaction was "oh, now I get why everyone talks about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers." Similarly: on the evening of October 16th, 2019, I finally learned why people talk about Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn so glowingly.
Adam's Rib doesn't have the weightiest plot, to be honest; in its original review, the New York Times quipped that while it wasn't "solid food", the film was "meaty, juicy and comically nourishing", and I'm inclined to agree. Hepburn and Tracy star as Adam and Amanda Bonner, a pair of married New York lawyers with the city's D.A. office. They're clearly fond of each other, and enjoy a comfortable life – lavish penthouse in the city, a second home in a cozy little Connecticut farmhouse – but keep things lively with spirited debates about legal and moral issues of the day.
Like this news story that's just made the papers one morning – a jilted woman, Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) was just arrested for trailing her cheating husband to his girlfriend's and firing a pistol. We actually see the incident first thing – Doris is completely inept with a gun (she even has to consult a booklet first to see how to fire it), and it's unclear whether she was aiming at anyone. Regardless of her intent, she wounded her husband and is now charged with assault. Adam and Amanda debate the story over breakfast – he feels it's a clear-cut case from a legal standpoint. But Amanda argues that if the genders were swapped, Doris would have been treated differently, and possibly not even charged. Still, it's just an intellectual exercise for them both, just something to talk about as they head to work.
But then Adam is assigned the role of prosecuting attorney in Doris' trial. And when he tells Amanda, she marches straight to the Legal Aid society and offers her service as Doris' defense attorney. And the battle commences!
Now – anyone planning to watch this as a straight-up courtroom story may be in for some disappointment. I'm no expert – my "legal education" consists of Law and Order reruns and one copywriting temp gig at Columbia Law School's Alumni Magazine – but Amanda's legal argument feels a little…far-fetched. She could have easily made a case out of Doris' maltreatment by her husband, and from her claim that she only meant to scare her husband. There's enough cause for reasonable doubt there. But Amanda chooses to turn the whole thing into a springboard for a larger debate on women's overall equality, going so far as to bring in a small group of other women – wholly unrelated to the case – to testify about their own gender-based struggles and limitations in their chosen professions. It was an interesting scene to watch today – even though it ultimately is played for laughs – but I couldn't shake the feeling that as a legal argument, it didn't seem like it'd hold water.
Then again, watching this as a straight-up courtroom story is a mistake anyway. You're watching this to watch Hepburn and Tracy, period. We see their courtroom debates, sure – but we also watch how the ongoing trial affects their home life. And for a while, it seems like the couple find each day's debates a little…stimulating. Tracy and Hepburn have a chemistry and an ease with each other that is delicious – flirtatious, comfortable, playful, even a little erotic (we don't see anything sexual, but we do hear an offscreen smack of a kiss – and we hear an onscreen smack when Adam spanks Amanda during a massage).
The homefront playfulness fades as the stakes rise in the court, of course, and both get a little mean with each other – but you can tell this is a couple that has a history of deep love and respect, and will eventually put things right. The film even flirts with a plot twist that implies that the pair will break up, but I didn't buy it in the slightest – and not just because "this is a romantic comedy and of course they won't break up". I didn't buy it because from what I'd seen onscreen, I knew Adam and Amanda weren't going to break up. They were too in love and had been for too long. And that is entirely thanks to the performances from Tracy and Hepburn, and the chemistry they share.
Amazingly, the performances weren't nominated for any awards, it seems; the film's only Oscar nomination came for the script – a collaboration between writer Garson Kanin and his wife Ruth Gordon, herself an actress with several Broadway credits in her past and some acting Oscars in her own future (but we'll get there eventually).
The Heiress (1949)
The Crash Course syllabus is starting to edge into the 1950s, and after the last few contemporary films it feels almost like a throwback to see a costume drama. But this was contemporary; The Heiress is based on the play of the same name (itself an adaptation of Henry James' novel Washington Square), and was one of the hot Broadway tickets of 1948. Star Olivia de Havilland was one of the celebrities who caught the show, and immediately contacted director William Wyler to suggest it as a potential film.
De Havilland stars as Catherine Sloper, the shy, plain daughter of a wealthy doctor living in New York in the 1840s. Her father Dr. Austin (Ralph Richardson) was widowed when Catherine was young, and has been in mourning for his lively and delightful wife ever since; and unfortunately, he has been unconsciously comparing Catherine to her memory, and found her wanting. Not for lack of trying – he's paid for Catherine to have classes in music, cooking, elocution, and the like; but she still is awkward and antisocial, preferring to keep indoors working on her endless embroidery projects and doting on her father. All Catherine has going for her, really, is her inheritance; a sizeable one from her late mother, and another one she'll eventually get from her father.
Sloper enlists Catherine's aunt Lavinia Penniman (Miriam Hopkins) for help; Lavinia has recently been widowed and she's more outgoing, and Catherine seems to like her company. Maybe she can help get Catherine out of her shell, he thinks. And sure enough, at the first party Lavinia drags Catherine to, she meets dashing Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), who seems quite taken with Catherine. Over the next several days, Morris woos Catherine, completely sweeping her off her feet. However – Dr. Sloper has been making some discreet inquiries about Morris, and suspects that the only thing that Morris really sees in Catherine is a bank account. Even though Lavinia begs him to keep mum (who cares why Morris wants to marry Catherine, because hell, at least someone does) Dr. Sloper still confronts Morris with his suspicions, and then – uncomfortably – Catherine. Catherine is of course horrified at Dr. Sloper's mistrust, and begs Morris to elope with her. Sssssssure, Morris says, he'll just go pack and be back in just a minute….
The story goes on a little from there, of course, but that painful scene – where Catherine finally gets her eyes opened about both her sweetheart and her father – is really the heart of the film, and my hunch is it's what spurred De Havilland into opting the play. Catherine is a very, very different character at the end of the play than in the beginning, and it's a plum of a role for an actress. For any actress – I saw the 1995 revival of the play with Cherry Jones, and it's the production that deservedly made Cherry Jones a household name in the New York theater world. The screen adaptation changes very little; the original playwrights, Ruth and Augustus Goetz, were asked only to make Morris a little more sympathetic, so that the studio could better push Montgomery Clift as a romantic lead. But his character is oily and duplicitous enough still that you are never quite certain whether to really buy his excuses for his spending habits.
The film also wisely keeps a lot of the action inside the Sloper's home. There's always the temptation to throw in a bunch more sets when you're adapting a play for the screen, and the production could have gone nuts and thrown in scenes with Catherine attending church, a ladies' club, going shopping, etc., to amp up the Costume Drama Spectacle of it all. But that would have been all wrong for the shy Catherine, and things are kept largely to a few rooms and a courtyard in the Sloper's house, and that one fateful ball; and one very brief scene with Catherine sitting in the park across the street from the house. (It's a spoiler for me to elaborate on why, but it's a heck of a moment.)
I'm still personally making up my mind whether I prefer Cherry Jones or Olivia de Havilland's take on the role. But absolutely agree that de Havilland shines; the role earned de Havilland her second Oscar.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a Kansas man fatally shot at the door of his home after a hoax emergency call wants the police officer who killed him criminally charged for his death, their attorney said Tuesday.
Police have said 28-year-old Andrew Finch was shot after a prankster called 911 last Thursday with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at Finch's Wichita home. They said the hoax call was a case of "swatting," in which a person makes up a false report to get a SWAT team to descend on an address.
Finch's mother, Lisa Finch, wrote a letter Tuesday to Mayor Jeff Longwell, police Chief Gordon Ramsay and other city officials saying an unannounced visit from the police chief three days after the shooting did not ease her heart and left questions unanswered.
Her letter also posed numerous questions, including asking when officials will return the front door, a computer, two cellphones, a video game and other items that were seized from the family's home. The family also wants information on the protocol and training for officers as it relates to "swatting" calls.
Chicago civil rights attorney Andrew M. Stroth, who is representing the family, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday that what the "swatters" did was inappropriate and tragic. However, he said, the family wants Wichita and its police to be held accountable.
"Justice for the Finch family constitutes criminal charges against the shooting officer and any other liable officers as well as damages against the city of Wichita for the policies and practices of its Police Department," Stroth said.
Police spokesman Charley Davidson said the department has not received Lisa Finch's letter and cannot comment on it. He said police have provided all the information they can at this point, and that the investigation remains active.
Police have confirmed that 25-year-old Tyler Barriss is suspected of making the call. He was arrested last week in Los Angeles, where he lives. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday that prosecutors anticipated filing a fugitive from justice warrant against Barriss on Wednesday.
"A determination of additional charges will be made by prosecutors with this office after a review of the information gathered," Bennett said.
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A. I'm 26 years old. I studied applied math at Harvard. I started PaperG right out of college, so this is my first full-time job.
Q. Tell us how you made the decision to start your own company right out of college. What was your thought process?
A. I first got really interested in the Internet in high school. I made my first commercial website when I was 13. It was a site called antistudy.com. It's a search engine for free book notes and study guides.
We were reading these books in English class. I wanted to get quick summaries on them, but all the sites out there covered different books. SparkNotes would have some books. Cliff's Notes would have different books. PinkMonkey would have other books. It was painful to figure out which one had the study guide for the book I was reading.
So I just made a search engine for those sites, where you just type in the name of the book and it links to all the study guides available for that book. I mostly just intended it for my personal use, and of course, to share with a few classmates, but before I knew it, there were people visiting the site from schools I didn't even know. Pretty soon, people were coming to the site from all over the country.
That was the first time I really realized how powerful the Internet was. That, to me, as a kid, was really awesome. The idea that someone sitting from their home computer could just make something that could have such an impact was fascinating.
It became even more fascinating when someone e-mailed me out of the blue and said, "Hey, I want to advertise on your site. I'll write you a check for $1,600 tomorrow if you let me put my banner ad on your site." Up to that point, I wasn't thinking of making money on this. I just thought it was cool that thousands of people across the country were using the site I created, but now, it sounded like someone was going to write me a check for more money than I'd ever seen in my life, no questions asked.
So then I started realizing that not only would it have an impact on so many people I didn't know, but I could even make money from it. It was like, "Wow. It's the coolest thing ever. It's awesome." There's nothing that could be better than doing something I enjoyed and having all these people derive value from it — and then making money from it too.
A couple years later, when I was a sophomore in high school, I made another website with a high school friend of mine called SubProfile.com. That ended up being even bigger than antistudy.com. It had about 3 million users. It was really amazing. Again, I was in high school at the time, so I didn't expect to be able to have that kind of impact.
That said, being in college is about exploring new things, and I was an applied math major. I did what all applied math majors at Harvard did. I did a Wall Street internship. I interned at JP Morgan to see what finance would be like and realized from that summer experience that it wasn't for me. I didn't get the same feeling of impact and it wasn't fulfilling.
Then senior year, I was like, "Finance is not for me, so that leaves what? That leaves consulting." Those are the two things people in my class did. So I interviewed and ended up getting a full-time offer at McKinsey in New York City after graduation. That was what I was considering at the time. Should I go to McKinsey after graduating? It seemed like a good business experience. I would get exposed to all these industries and strategies, the usual consulting pitch.
As it turned out, I didn't end up doing that. I ended up deciding to co-found PaperG instead. McKinsey was nice enough to let me defer my offer for a year, so that I could pursue PaperG instead. That became a no-brainer to me because I could try PaperG out, see how it was working and still go to McKinsey in a year if it didn't work out.
Of course, as it turns out, I never ended up going to McKinsey. A year later, PaperG was starting to do well and started to get off the ground. I did some soul searching and realized that tech start-ups are always what I've wanted to do, even before college, and this was certainly the right path for me.
Q. You built your first website at 13. You built a second website in high school, and it was even bigger. How did you figure out what to do – how to build, how to get users, how to grow to 3 million users, how to market, and all the other things Internet businesses normally do?
A. In terms of learning how to build, when the Internet started taking off, I became really interested in learning HTML and the basic building blocks of the Internet. I learned HTML when I was around 12.
The way that came about was, my family was going on a trip to Taiwan for three weeks over the summer to visit relatives. I was worried that I wasn't going to have anything to do for those three weeks, that I would just be sitting around my grandma's house in Taiwan. I got the idea "Hey, maybe I should buy a book on HTML and read that." So that's how I first picked that up.
In terms of marketing, that was brand new. I had not built the site with any marketing plan in mind. It was just a tool for myself and my friends. I ended up stumbling into the world of SEO – search engine optimization. When I found out that I was starting to get more traffic, going through the analytics, I realized a lot of it was coming from Google, which was a rising search engine at that time. This was in 2001.
I thought, "Hey, that's interesting. The search engine can actually send a lot of traffic my way." It turned out that for certain keywords, I was ranking pretty well. So I started to really explore that further and research it more to figure out how to get more visitors.
I read about SEO online. I visited a lot of different forums that had an SEO focus — at that time, not many people were doing it. It was certainly less popular than it is today, so I really tried to figure out what I could do to gain an edge on that and get more people to visit my website.
With SubProfile, we didn't build it with mass distribution in mind. Three million users were way more visitors than we ever expected. SubProfile.com was created in 2003. At that time, AOL Instant Messenger was very popular. That was the way everybody talked to each other. It was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook, pre-Gchat. All my friends used it.
In AIM, there was a very basic way to create a profile about yourself, where someone who was chatting with you could click on this info button. It was a small window where you could write some text in it. It was very basic, up to 1,000 characters of just plain text of what you wanted to write about yourself.
That's how SubProfile was born. It was basically a profile service where you could make a really interesting profile. You could post things like quizzes and links and you could see who had visited your profile and how many times people had viewed it. You could have people write in your guestbook, which I guess people now call the "wall" for Facebook. And basically, you could just have an interesting profile, which at the time was innovative, because again, at the time, there was no Facebook, no Friendster, no MySpace. So this was one of the earliest profile services.
Then they would click on that and sign up, and their friends would see their profile, and they would sign up, too. It was classic viral organic growth. AIM users would just see other people's subprofiles and then get their own. That's how it spread from our high school and, ultimately, across the country. We had 3 million users at our peak.
The only thing we didn't do was try to build in a "friending" mechanism inside the profiles, which would have ended up basically becoming the first social network had we done that. But at that time, it wasn't necessary because in AIM, you already had your buddy list. You already had your friends. So there was no need to have a separate mechanism to make friends through your subprofile.
In any case, it was an awesome experience. We got tons of people using it and toward the end, we were selling ads in the profile so we'd be able to monetize the tens of millions of pageviews we were getting each month. That's where I got my first real experience in online advertising, which would become relevant later with PaperG.
So two sites, antistudy.com and SubProfile, were basically made with our demographics in mind, for ourselves and our friends, with no intentions of distributing or marketing or monetizing, but we ended up stumbling upon SEO, viral marketing, and then online advertising.
Q. What was the most important thing you learned about building products through this experience?
A. One important thing and something I constantly advise other people is that distribution and user acquisition is as important, if not more important, than the product itself. In my case, I ended up stumbling upon SEO as the distribution mechanism for antistudy.com, and the viral growth of SubProfile was inherent in the product itself, and we very much built it with that in mind and how it was going to spread. We got lucky with those. But once we realized that was going to be a key driver, then we started doing a lot more of what we could to acquire more users.
So what I've learned is that the product itself is not enough. Having a good product is a prerequisite to gaining users, but you have to really think about what's going to be the hook that ends up getting users. Is it going to be SEO? Is it going to be some viral component that you build in, or do you have to acquire users through more traditional means like buying Google ads or hiring salespeople?
I think having that strategy is important for any startup or product to succeed.
Q. What is your preferred distribution mechanism?
A. If it's a consumer web product, where I would be targeting regular people instead of businesses, I really like the viral component. It's one of the most natural ways to get users, to have a product that has an inherent viral hook.
One personal product I created a couple years ago called Job Change Notifier had this viral hook in it. The product was built specifically with that user acquisition strategy in mind, where anybody who signed up for the service could refer others, and that's how it ended up getting users over time.
Q. What exactly was that product and why were users incentivized to refer other people?
A. Job Change Notifier was basically a LinkedIn service built on top of the LinkedIn API, where you could get an e-mail alert whenever any of your LinkedIn connections change their jobs. I originally built this because, at PaperG, we had a lot of business contacts that were in our LinkedIn networks, but sometimes those business contacts couldn't help us or be a customer of ours just yet.
Maybe they were not high enough in the hierarchy to make that decision or maybe they weren't at a company that was completely relevant to us. But then, once they changed jobs or if they got promoted or they ended up leaving their job for another company that suddenly became relevant to PaperG, they might end up becoming legitimate leads that could become customers.
LinkedIn didn't make it easy for you to find out when your connections changed jobs, so often it might get overlooked, like this friend of ours was suddenly promoted to VP and could end up doing a deal with us. So I created Job Change Notifier as a way to just get e-mailed whenever one of my connections changed jobs. That way, I'm always staying on top of what's going on in my network, so that if a new sales opportunity results from it, I would know right away.
Recruiters really loved using it because they could get a sense of who's moving around with jobs. If someone in their network changed jobs, that means two things: one, the old company probably has a new opening to replace the person who left, so that's great for a recruiter to know; two, the new company that hired this person is probably hiring more people so that's good to know too.
Business school students use it to just see what's going on with their contacts from business school. We have some journalists who use it to see when to get breaking news, for example, when an executive departs a company or a startup founder suddenly works at Google, maybe there was an acquisition that happened there. We ended up having a broad range of use cases.
I think that's a case where a lot of users would sign up for it. Obviously, they're getting value from the service and they want to spread the word and get other people to do so. We strongly encourage them to do that, and you get this organic growth. It's the same with a lot of social networking apps these days, where you are strongly encouraged to share with your friends and broadcast it.
Q. I understand a LinkedIn recruiter even reached out to you for a potential software engineering job.
A. Yes. When I first launched Job Change Notifier, I was trying to stay under LinkedIn's radar, because I had heard of them killing a lot of apps that were built on their API for competitive reasons or hard-to-understand reasons. Even though I thought Job Change Notifier was pretty benign, I wanted to play it safe and not broadcast it to their attention.
But as it turned out, some of the first people who heard about Job Change Notifier were people at LinkedIn, which I guess shouldn't have been too much of a surprise. It turned out they really liked the service. So I got an e-mail from a recruiter asking if I wanted to explore a job at LinkedIn. I got some other people reaching out as well. The service was profiled on TechCrunch and Mashable.
It definitely spread quickly, more quickly than I expected, even though I built it with a viral hook in mind.
Q. Tell me about your current role at PaperG. What do you do day-to-day?
A. PaperG is a local online advertising company. We're focused on helping small businesses advertise online effectively. Many advertising companies are geared toward national brands like JetBlue, American Express, eBay, etc., advertisers with huge budgets.
We really see a big opportunity to allow even small businesses, like the plumbers and dentists of the world, to have the same capabilities as national brand advertisers. Our mission at PaperG is to help all sorts of businesses and advertisers take advantage of online advertising, even if they have small budgets, even if they don't have an ad agency working for them, even if they don't have a designer, to open the playing field and allow anybody to advertise online effectively.
My role as the president is to run the business side of things and make sure the day-to-day operations run smoothly, that we're growing and we're executing on everything. Most of the business teams report to me in one way or another. I oversee the product team, sales team, account managers, support team, etc.
When we were smaller, I was doing a lot more things. In the very early days, I was doing sales and developed the products. When we started scaling and getting traction and hiring more people, my role shifted more toward managing a team and making sure the company was executing on its vision and helping to grow the company as much as possible.
We have about 30 people at PaperG right now, and that's growing pretty quickly. We're interviewing new people every day. So if you were to shadow me, I think one thing you'd see would be interviews and the hiring process and trying to recruit good talent to join the company and take it to the next level.
On a day-to-day basis, I'd say it's the hiring process and interviews. In terms of the managing aspect of things, it's meetings with various members of the team. Obviously, there are lots of e-mails, where I'm just on my computer answering e-mails either from clients or internally from people on the team, just helping to answer their questions, or giving suggestions or advice or feedback on what to do or how to approach a particular problem or task.
Of course, as a co-founder, I'm really responsible for trying to build the startup as much as possible. A lot of my time is spent with the founders, discussing strategy, what we should do next and bigger-picture items.
Q. How did you meet your co-founders and why did you decide to work together?
A. I have three amazing co-founders. Probably even more amazing is that I didn't know them prior to starting PaperG. They were actually strangers, which is very unusual. Conventional wisdom says you should be very careful about who you're starting a company with because you're going to be married to them essentially and spending long hours working together and going through challenging times.
Everbody says you should ideally pick someone you've worked well with before, that you'd complement, and that you're friends with. In my case, I lucked out because it worked out well even though I didn't know them at all.
So the story about how we started was that, in college, I was the publisher of our student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson. We didn't get any funding from the university, we were independent, so to operate we had to make money from advertising.
I sold lots of ads to local businesses and realized it was pretty easy to convince local businesses to advertise in our print newspaper, but surprisingly difficult to get them to advertise on our website. This was 2008, but it's still true today.
That was interesting to me because, talking to these businesses, it was clear they saw the opportunity and the need to have a presence online because more and more people are using the Internet. If you want to reach people wherever they are, it makes sense to do online advertising. But they were unsure of how to go about it. They weren't technically savvy. They didn't know the lingo used in online advertising. They didn't even have an online ad to use or a designer to make one for them.
So that's what got me thinking. It turns out that local online advertising is a $20 billion market, so it's a huge opportunity. But you always have businesses sitting on the sidelines that want to be taking advantage of it but don't know how. So is there anything we can do with technology to make it easier for these small businesses to take advantage of online advertising?
It turned out, at that time, a group of students from Yale were thinking about the same opportunity, so I ended up getting connected to what became one of my co-founders, Victor Wong, through his girlfriend at the time, who was from Harvard. We met each other that way and started talking about the problems we were seeing, trading notes, bouncing ideas. It turns out we had very similar thought processes and were really interested in starting a company, which was rare in 2008.
Most people coming out of college, certainly at Harvard and Yale, were thinking of going into finance or consulting. Doing a startup was a rare option at the time, so it was interesting to meet people who were as interested in it as I was. And so we ended up getting together and ultimately started PaperG.
Q. How did you and your co-founders go from conversations to actually starting a company?
There were a lot of days when we talked about products and figuring out what we were going to build. Even in the early days, as we were building, things ended up changing once we started getting customers. It was a very iterative process. We had an idea, we'd try to build it, and then get feedback on it because, as a B2B company, the products aren't good if no one's going to pay for it. So we tried to experiment and get feedback on what was going to solve the problem and deliver the most value.
One of our key insights early on was that, in order to get the company kickstarted, it wasn't going to be practical for us to sell to small businesses directly. We learned that would require hiring tons of salespeople to go knocking on doors and selling ads.
We made a conscious decision to be focused on technology. We want to be a technology company and try to make that work to our advantage and not have to worry about hiring lots of salespeople to knock on doors.
We realized the best way to do this was to build an ad platform to make it simple for local businesses to advertise online. But we actually sell that ad platform to media companies instead of local businesses directly, so the media company ends up being our direct customer. They license our ad platform and pay us a monthly fee.
We realized media companies already had tons of local salespeople who already have relationships with local businesses. They were already selling something to these businesses. It could be a newspaper ad, if they were a newspaper. It could be a TV ad. It could be a website or whatever else.
Since they already had that sales team and relationships with local businesses, it was the perfect entry point for PaperG, where we could just sell our technology to media companies and their salespeople would be able to then use our ad platform to sell online advertising to small businesses they had relationships with.
That's what became our motto in the beginning. Since then, we've broadened beyond newspapers to all sorts of media companies, like Gannett or Hearst or AOL or Time Warner Cable.
But the impetus first came from the fact that selling to these media companies was going to allow us to leverage our technology combined with their sales team to really produce the best results for local business.
But one key challenge was no media company was actually willing to pay for our product in the beginning.
Q. So how did you get them to sign with you without a track record?
A. It was really challenging. In terms of steps to starting a company, here it is: One, get your co-founders. Okay. Two, figure out the problem you are going to solve. Three, figure out what your solution is going to be and build that. And then four, find your customer. We got through one to three and now, we were trying to figure out four. How do we get our customers?
It was tough because, as recent college grads who had no work experience, we didn't know anyone at media companies or newspapers. It's not like we had worked in the industry before. We had no connections. So we had to do a lot of classic networking and cold calling, trying to call everybody whom we could find to get feedback on our product, and more importantly, try to find our first customer – so, lots of e-mails, cold calling.
So we went to that meeting. We did our pitch. We showed them the product. We tried to tell them why it was awesome and why it would really help the Boston Globe get more sales and more local businesses to advertise online.
At the end of the meeting, he liked the product and could see the fit, but ultimately decided he didn't know for sure whether it would increase revenue, and so he couldn't commit to that. It was a good idea and concept but there was no proof it was going to actually work for them, so he decided not to sign a deal.
We left that meeting pretty dejected. It was our chance and we blew it. What do we do now? We thought about it more and realized we had to prove this product actually worked. We had to somehow demonstrate this was going to actually increase sales for the Boston Globe.
Of course, we didn't have any other customers to point to, so we couldn't say, "Oh, it worked for this newspaper, so it can work for you too." So what are we going to do? We decided that instead of asking the Boston Globe to pay us money for our ad platform, we offered to pay the Boston Globe instead.
We told them, "Hey, what if we bought ad space on your site? You don't have to do anything. Just run our ad, and we'll pay you for it." Of course they said yes, because why not, right?
Once we got that in place, then we used our own ad platform to try to sell ads on the Boston Globe's website. So we, the founders, tried to eat our own dog food and actually went out and used our own ad platform and went door to door to local businesses and tried to sell advertising on the Boston Globe's website using the product we created. It worked. We got local businesses to advertise on the website.
Over time, we built a steady stream of advertisers in this ad space that we paid the Boston Globe for. The whole point of this wasn't actually to pocket the difference between what the advertisers were paying us and what we were paying the Boston Globe. The point of it was to demonstrate that if a couple college kids with no sales experience could profitably sell ad space on the Boston Globe's website using PaperG's products, then surely a well-trained sales team at the Boston Globe could do even better, so proving out the business model to them by doing it ourselves.
We made the case that, "Hey, look, we're making more money off your ad space than you were making before, and we're just kids, so think about what you can do if you give your sales team access to this amazing technology we built." That ended up working. They saw the value of what it could do, and the Boston Globe ended up becoming one of our earliest paying customers.
From there, we tried our best to make sure it succeeded, and luckily, it did. The Boston Globe was doing well. It was making new revenue. We were demonstrating that this product we had built was working.
From there, it became easier to get our second paying customer, and when that was even more successful than the Boston Globe, it was even easier for us to get a third, a fourth and a fifth customer. It snowballed from there, where it got to the point that we had these really successful cases. We ended up getting customers referring us to other customers and building up our reputation and our value from there.
Q. How long was it between signing the Boston Globe as your first customer to landing your second customer?
A. Probably six months, maybe a little bit longer. The first customer took a really long time to get. The second customer was not as difficult as the first customer, but was still hard. It was certainly a challenging process. It got easier over time, but definitely, the early days was a lot of work and required a lot of effort to make it happen.
Q. And during this time, at what point were you in school versus doing this full-time after graduation? How did you fund this when you went full-time?
A. PaperG launched in 2008, which is the year I graduated, so I started working on it while I was still in school, but ended up graduating and working on it full-time. My other co-founders also graduated or took a leave of absence from school to pursue PaperG full-time.
The shift from student to full-time was a big one because it meant we could focus all our energy on the company instead of having to worry about school and classes at the same time we were doing the startup. I'd say that was definitely a great moment when we were actually able to work on it full-time and once we did, we really started seeing things pick up a lot faster than they had before.
Actually, that was a very good experience and led me to give advice to anybody thinking of starting a startup, that it doesn't become real until you commit to it full-time. When you're still at your job or in school, you can obviously brainstorm and start working on it a little bit. In many cases, it's the safest thing to do and the most practical way to do it.
But it's when you decide to take that leave of absence or quit your job and start focusing on the startup full-time that it becomes real, that things really start to happen. We certainly saw that with PaperG.
In terms of paying the rent and everything, the nice thing about us starting a startup after school is that you have no baseline of expectations for how much you're making. We never had a job before, and so we were used to not receiving a paycheck anyway. We were pretty scrappy. We had to get by with not having the expectation or lifestyle of a regular paycheck coming in.
We did end up raising a small amount from friends and family to make sure that we could, at least, pay basic expenses. We lived on $5 burritos for a while. That's actually one of the big benefits for a lot of people when they're coming right out of college or shortly thereafter.
A lot of people wonder, "Maybe I should have some work experience first and build up some savings before I take the plunge and build a startup. A lot of classmates in my year were interested in starting a company, but they all felt it was wise to get some work experience first, work at big companies and see what that's like, get that paycheck and build some savings, then maybe a few years later, do the startup. Certainly, that's a fine approach and many have done it that way and have done great.
I did the opposite approach, where I just dove right in. Certainly it's nice to do before you have a family, kids, before your expenses start to get a lot bigger.
When you're out of college, your needs are pretty basic, so in some ways it's the best time to start a startup because you're able to be scrappy and do what it takes to get the company off the ground.
Q. What's the biggest learning you've had so far in your career?
For me, my co-founders were even strangers. I think it's not as important as people make it out to be to get everything perfectly right. The most important thing when you're starting out is just to commit to it and get started, because once it happens, so many things change anyway.
Your first idea is never going to be what the company ends up becoming. In terms of experience, you'll learn a lot along the way. And some of the background you think is relevant ends up not being as relevant as you thought, or you end up getting new experience while you're doing it.
For doing a startup, the most important part of it is just getting started. It's not going to be great right away. It's going to be a lot of struggle. A lot of learnings, trial by experience, but that's where, honestly, you learn way more than you would by trying to get that experience somewhere else or spending too much time thinking about the idea or trying too hard to find co-founders.
Smart people will figure things out and plug in the holes and weaknesses and figure out where they need to go to build a successful company.
Q. Do you feel that everybody who's interested in starting a tech startup should develop technical skills?
A. Yeah. Certainly for me, it was very helpful to be able to program. I wouldn't call myself a programmer by trade. I don't do any of it for PaperG currently, but from having made websites in the past and still keeping up with it and working on side projects, it has helped me understand a couple things.
One is what is technically possible and that really helps in terms of driving the product and laying out what the vision should be, knowing the capabilities, what obstacles there are, what challenges there are, and how you can build a really defensible product. For me, that was really important, to have that technical background.
Two is to be able to understand and be on top of changes in technology, because often the best companies come when major technological shifts are happening. Whether you end up being a programmer or not, it's important to know enough that you can understand and follow these trends, because then you can really take advantage of them in your company in a way that gives you an advantage.
For those two reasons, it's really beneficial for me to have that technical background. Certainly there are many great founders who don't have technical experience, so it's certainly possible to start a successful business without one.
The other thing I noticed is that, even in a tech startup, the innovation doesn't always have to happen in the product or the technology. For many companies, their product or technology may not even be that unique or innovative, but where some companies really succeed is innovating on the distribution, the user acquisition, the sales or the business model or the pricing model, innovating on operations.
There's a lot more to a business than just the product or technology. Sales, operations, fundraising, hiring, marketing, user acquisition, PR, etc. These are in many ways as important as the product or technology. I think that's where a founder who might not have technical abilities could still do really well, by thinking about the other things that perhaps other founders or incumbents or competitors are not thinking about.
Q. Meanwhile, with your side projects, are you generating any cash flow from them?
A. Well, antistudy.com is still actually alive and doing well 10 years after I first created it, which has been great. It generates revenue off advertising and affiliate fees by referring users to places where they can buy study guides that they might not be able to get for free. I've been able to generate revenue that way.
Other side projects are not as money-focused. For example, Job Change Notifier, that's a service which I think is valuable for me and some members of the PaperG team and I thought would be valuable to everybody else as well.
Again, what really drew me to the Internet and startups to begin with was the thought that a single person could have such an outsized impact and affect people everywhere, and in some cases that also generates money. And it's a dream job to be able to work on something that's really interesting to you, that you have passion about, that you really enjoy doing, and be able to actually make a living out of it. I think many people couldn't ask for anything better than that.
A. My plan is to be an entrepreneur and work on tech startups as long as I can make a living out of it. Right now, that's PaperG, that's what we're trying to really grow, and we hit profitability last year. It's been growing well and so, we're obviously trying to continue to make that a success and take it to the next level.
Down the road, I think there'll be another startup after that, and another startup after that, because I think starting a tech company is the most effective way I can have impact on business and on society. To me, when you think about the short time we have here on earth, what do we hope to get out of it? What are our goals? To me, it's really to make an impact and change things for the better.
If you think of it that way, what's the best way to do that? For me and for many people, it's technology.
Q. What advice do you have for folks who are inspired by your story to think about as they navigate their own career paths?
A. One, if you're thinking about starting a startup, commit yourself and take the plunge and get started on it. It's going to be scary, so definitely seek the advice of people who have done it before on how to get there and how, psychologically, they were able to make that commitment because it's certainly a big decision. Don't worry about having the perfect idea. Just dive into it. That's the best way to learn.
Second, spend your time to just be creative, make things you think are interesting, whether they could be a viable business or not. Some of the earliest websites I made were not made with a startup or fundraising or monetization in mind. Even projects I do today aren't really viable startups in themselves, but I think, in all those cases, there was a need I could address and a problem I could solve.
For me, that has really been helpful because, one, it gets me always thinking about where can I solve a need. Where can I really add value or contribute, because after all, what we're doing with a tech startup is trying to build a company that's going to be valuable to people.
Sometimes, things can be a viable business. Sometimes, they can't, but training yourself to thinking about ways you can really make things better for people and actually going out and doing that, no matter how trivial or straightforward or unmonetizable it might seem, just gets you in that habit, so that eventually, inevitably, you will stumble upon or think of an idea that ends up becoming a viable business, and that will end up being your startup company.
Great write up and interesting story !
Hope more people read it, so they can benefit from other person's experience.
Very interesting interview and good story!
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I'm very interested in the idea of free markets and whether or not capitalism is the best process for improving the world around us.
As humans, we hate to feel pain or discomfort. Any time we're not happy with something, we seek relief. It's human nature. Cultures are the same. As soon as discomfort enters the picture, someone gets to work looking for a solution.
When men lived in caves, our primary concern was finding food. Whoever killed an animal had bargaining power and could obtain other things they needed in exchange for some meat. As soon as finding food ceased to be the biggest problem, people began looking for solutions to the biggest remainingproblem. You know, Maslow and all that.
Capitalism is nothing more than a continuation of this same progression. Your biggest problem in life is that you can't get a good job, so you pay someone to teach you. Now you're educated, so that pain is behind you but you need a way to get to your new job, so you buy a car. And so forth. It's a fair exchange. You want the car more than you want to keep your money, and the car dealer wants your money more than he needs that particular car. Everyone is happy.
Is capitalism perfect? Absolutely not. But I think it's the best option we have for accomplishing social goals.
I really want to hear your thoughts on this one. What part do you disagree with?
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Today we're looking at American Newspapers Circulation which were released in the last few days. It's not a USA centric thing, it's more that the print sectors march towards digital there is evolving faster (in my opinion) than many of the countries in the world.
The Alliance for Audited Media (akin to the ABC here/UK) monitor a total of 593 newspapers across the States and they allow publishers to amalgamate both their paid copy sales and their digital unique or subscriptions so you can see the brand footprint of a title (neatly avoiding the word "newspaper"!).
The top 23 titles for March 2013 are in the table below and, without getting into data mining, I'll run through a few takeaways.
The biggest brand is the Wall Street Journal having a total circulation of 2.3m. It's biggest in the print league but second biggest in the digital table, topped for pole position by the New York Times.
USA today dropped into third position, primarily on the back of a 12% decline in its Newspaper Sales.
The NYT has the highest digital proportion of total circulation at 61% and that's behind a paywall.
Of the twenty three titles under scrutiny the average decline in print was 4% and the average increase in digital was 24% giving an average total circulation increase of 4%.
This is up from 27% when the titles were last surveyed in September 2012.
It would have to be said that the top papers are the pioneers in digital. Out of the five hundred odd titles surveyed, the average digital proportion is only 19.3% of total circulation across all titles.
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Q: Keyboard Pop up Code works but the Keypad is behind the alert box - Android Below is my code I have browsed through stack overflow and have written the below code for my popup dialog which has 2 EditText , I need to popup my SoftKeypad on alert , what it does it pops up the keypad when i touch edittext but the keypad is behind my alertbox .
So I have tried for forced keypad popup just below alert.show() which it does but in background and alert comes above it .
Please give a solution
Code :
for (int k = 0; k < mCompetitorMainList.getChildCount(); k++)
{
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) mCompetitorMainList.getChildAt(k);
Button btn = (Button) layout.getChildAt(0);
String tag = (String) btn.getTag();
LinearLayout dataDetail = (LinearLayout) layout.getChildAt(2);
if (tag.equalsIgnoreCase("yes") && btn.getText().toString().equals("OTHERS"))
{
final AlertDialog.Builder dialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getContext());
LayoutInflater inflater = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
final View dialogView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.alert_other_competitor_item_detail, null);
ImageView addImg =(ImageView)dialogView.findViewById(R.id.addCompetitorImg);
ImageView removeImg = (ImageView)dialogView.findViewById(R.id.removeCompetitorImg);
final LinearLayout competitorOtherLayout = (LinearLayout)dialogView.findViewById(R.id.competitorLayout);
addImg.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
LayoutInflater inflaterLayout = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
View dialogViewLayout = inflaterLayout.inflate(R.layout.add_other_item_layout, null);
EditText otherCompDesc = (EditText) dialogViewLayout.findViewById(R.id.otherCompetitorDescription);
EditText otherCompQty = (EditText) dialogViewLayout.findViewById(R.id.otherCompetitorQty);
otherCompDesc.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
if (hasFocus) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}
}
});
otherCompQty.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
if (hasFocus) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}
}
});
competitorOtherLayout.addView(dialogViewLayout);
}
});
removeImg.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if(competitorOtherLayout.getChildCount()!=0)
{
competitorOtherLayout.removeViewAt(competitorOtherLayout.getChildCount()-1);
}
else
{
Toast.makeText(getActivity(),"No Other Competitor Present ",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
});
dialogBuilder.setView(dialogView);
alertDialogOther = dialogBuilder.create();
alertDialogOther.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
alertDialogOther.show();
//alertDialogOther.setCancelable(false);
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Others Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
btn.setTag("no");
}
else if (tag.equalsIgnoreCase("yes"))
{
dataDetail.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
btn.setTag("no");
}
else
{
dataDetail.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}
SCREENSHOT :
A: private void openKeyboard(){
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =
(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);
}
use this instead..
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Q: Python - How to find an item exists in a list (or sublist)? For example
my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, [5, 6], [7, 8]]
I want to find if 7 is in my_list.? The answer should be True, because it is part of the last sublist. Any ideas?
A: If mylist was a list of only lists you could use itertools.chain.from_iterable()
import itertools
mylist = [[1,2,3,4],[5,6],[7,8]]
merged = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(mylist))
7 in merged
Since we have a list of ints mixed with lists, we define a custom filter. This could also be done in a single list comprehension, but I can't figure that out right now.
mylist = [1,2,3,4,[5,6],[7,8]]
merged = []
map(lambda l: merged.extend(l) if isinstance(l, list) else merged.append(l), [i for i in mylist])
7 in merged
You could also use the deprecated compiler.ast.flatten function:
from compiler.ast import flatten
merged = flatten(mylist)
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The approval of the highly anticipated Cyprus Draft Budgetary Plan for 2021
Home News The approval of the highly anticipated Cyprus Draft Budgetary Plan for 2021
On October 22th of 2020 the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus approved the Draft Budgetary Plan (DBP), a breakdown of the Cyprus economy state, the macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts, as well as the 2021 Budget Bill, presented to the Attorney Generals' Office for legal vetting.
The Cyprus Draft Budgetary Plan embraces the European Commissions' initiative to address aggressive tax planning, through the adoption of the EU Directive on Administrative Cooperation Vol. 6, as well as the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive II. Furthermore, the Cyprus Government introduces two unilateral tax measures in that direction:
i) The introduction of withholding tax (WHT) on dividends, interest and royalty payments to countries enumerated in Annex I of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions on tax matters, often referred to as the "EU Blacklist". The countries figuring on the aforementioned list are American Samoa, Anguilla, Barbados, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu and Seychelles.
ii) The establishment of a corporate tax residency test based on incorporation, in addition to the existing "management and control" test. This measure is adopted for the expansion of the definition of "Resident of the Republic", in order to include legal entities incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus, but whose management and control are operated outside the borders of the Cypriot territory, unless such a legal entity is a tax resident in another state, other than the states listed in Annex I of the EU list of non- cooperative jurisdictions on tax matters.
The two newly introduced tax measures included in the DBP derive from the Country Specific Recommendations (CSR) which have been suggested to the Republic of Cyprus by the European Commission. The first measure on Withholding Tax for payments to states listed in Annex I of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions on tax matters, complies with the EU Code of Conduct Group agreed guidance, often referred to as the "COCG agreed guidance", according to which EU Member States are expected to adopt at least one additional defensive measure through their national legislation, enumerating the "withholding tax measure" as one.
The aforementioned unilateral measures have already been presented to the Attorney Generals' Office for legal vetting and shall be submitted to the House of Representatives for voting by the end of this year. Their entry into force is expected to be effective on January 1st of 2021, as per the COCG agreed guidance to the EU Member States.
The present article is purely for informational purposes and does not, under any circumstances, constitute legal advice. For further information on the matter, please contact Arsen Theofanidis LLC and one of our legal consultants shall be glad to assist you.
N. Kalifatidou
Advocate – Legal Consultant
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Australia 2019 Presidents Cup results, ratings – are living coverage, standings …
2019 Presidents Cup results, ratings – are living coverage, standings …
For the first time in 14 years, the international workforce leads the Presidents Cup. which is a true stat, and it comes in the wake of the four-1 beating the Internationals placed on an outclassed American crew on Thursday right through Day 1 of actionat Royal Melbourne. After successful just two group fits at the 2017 variation of this experience, the world staff won the remaining 4 on Thursday and never trailed in three of them.
It used to be a butt-kicking on the us side most often reserved for Ryder Cups, but it is also put slightly jolt into this generally-blase competitors. Let's take a look at the 5 matches in the order they ended on Thursday at Royal Melbourne.
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Tiger Woods/Justin Thomas (united states of america) 43 over Marc Leishman/Joaquin Niemann (global): Tiger began birdie-birdie, and the U.S. staff never trailed. here's a dirty little secret from Day 1, too: The U.S. didn't even get so much from Thomas. Tiger was once dragging his complete workforce round Royal Melbourne and for most of the day supplied the only U.S. flag on the board. I went into the matches thinking he will have to basically focus on his responsibilities as captain, and now i'm of the opinion that the U.S. side desires him to play each fit.
Woods made 5 birdies in his first 14 holes — which is the name of the game in fourball — after which put away Niemann and Leishman on the 16th gap with a sixth birdie. Thomas makes (exams notes), uh, one. this kind of course suits Tiger's genius properly, and when he has the ball working each ways and goes excessive and low like he did on Thursday, you basically don't have any chance (and the international staff had no likelihood).
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"He performed nice," Thomas laughed all over a Golf Channel interview after their suit. "I failed to benefit from the opportunities, but that's what you will have a associate for. It was once awesome. it is nice understanding once I step up on a par 3 or par four i believe free as a result of i do know he's enjoying well."
Abraham Ancer/Louis Oosthuizen (world) 43 over Dustin Johnson and Gary Woodland (u.s.): Woodland did not make a birdie, and Johnson did not make sufficient (three) to roll with Father Abraham and King Louis. Three birdies mixed between two of the final three U.S. Open winners is not going to get it performed, especially when certainly one of them used to be a botched eagle from about 4 ft to halve a gap on the 2d half of the direction.
Sungjae Im/Adam Hadwin (global) 1UP over Patrick Cantlay/Xander Schauffele (united states of america): This one went the distance, and neither aspect used to be ever more than 1UP right through the day. Im chipped in for eagle on the first gap, and the whole lot was constant until the americans gave away the 16th to go down a hole they would not get well over the final two. Im, as expected, goes to be a problem.
Adam Scott/Ben An (international) 21 over Tony Finau/Bryson DeChambeau (united states of america): Scott and An are a ball-hanging fiesta. I may not get sufficient of them! They got up early as Scott made three birdies on the front, and then they halved their manner residence to a full level. simple cash.
C.T. Pan/Hideki Matsuyama (global) 1UP over Webb Simpson/Patrick Reed (america): This one acquired wild at the finish. Reed tied it at the sixteenth hole, but Matsuyama dropped a bomb on No. 17 to place the americans away. The Reed drama by no means actually materialized, and the Reed-Simpson pairing fell a little bit bit flat in the end.
international leads usa 4-1: again, the global crew trailed each gap within the first fit and simplest two the remainder of the way in which. This wasn't a fortunate outcome; it was an annihilation. after all, it's also simply one in all four days and 5 of just 30 points, as captain (and golfer) Woods reminded everyone of on the end of the day. "we've got to go out and earn the cup," Woods told Golf Channel. "We're not carried out, we're not out of it but. it's an extended week."
bearing in mind no team has ever lost a Presidents Cup (or Ryder Cup, for that matter) when best by way of 3+ factors after the outlet session, it can be fair to assert the international group has an organization advantage over the american citizens, person who no person expected taking into consideration the U.S. entered this experience with 12 of the 24 best golfers in the world on its staff.
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» Former high school principal charged with drug possession
Former high school principal charged with drug possession
On behalf of Law Offices of Anthony B. Cantrell | May 3, 2018 | Drug Charges
On April 24, police arrested three Texas residents on drug possession charges. One of the defendants is a former high school principal.
According to media reports, officers from the Amarillo Police Department responded to a trespassing call at 18 Western Plaza Drive around 2:30 a.m. Once there, officers observed three individuals making a disturbance in and around a hotel room. They entered the room and allegedly saw a substance thought to be methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia sitting in plain sight. The three individuals were placed under arrest.
Two of the defendants, a 44-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman, were charged with manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance weighing 400 grams or more and possession of marijuana weighing more than 4 ounces but less than 5 pounds. The third defendant, a 51-year-old man, was charged with possession of a controlled substance weighing over 1 gram but less than 5 pounds. All three defendants were processed at the Potter County Detention Center. The 51-year-old is the former principal of Sunray High School. He was supposed to resign from the position on June 30, but he was suspended without pay on March 27.
Drug charges can result in lengthy prison terms and heavy fines for those who are convicted. In some cases, they can also lead to employment difficulties. However, a criminal defense attorney could review the case and work to develop a strong defense against the allegations. A lawyer could also protect a defendant's rights both before and during a trial. In some cases, an attorney may recommend negotiating a plea deal that allows a defendant to plead guilty to reduced charges, which could lead to a reduction of penalties.
Source: My High Plains, "Former Sunray High School Principal Among Three Arrested on Drug Charges in Amarillo", Judd Baker, April 24, 2018
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Yahoo Sports.com: Jay Gruden opens up about getting fired by Washington: 'I'm not bitter'
By TK, October 8, 2019 in The Stadium
https://sports.yahoo.com/jay-gruden-opens-up-about-firing-im-not-bitter-234208356.html
Former Washington coach Jay Gruden knew the writing was on the wall the minute he was invited to Dan Snyder's office. In a season full of rumors about Gruden's job security, Sunday's loss to the New England Patriots was the final straw.
Gruden was fired by Snyder at 5 a.m. on Monday. While you might expect Gruden to be upset about his dismissal, that wasn't the case, according to Les Carpenter of the Washington Post.
"I'm not bitter," he said.
The 52-year-old Gruden knew this was coming. Following the 33-7 loss to the Patriots on Sunday, Washington dropped to 0-5 on the season. Washington is one of four NFL teams that has yet to win a game this season.
Gruden knew that performance was not good enough for him to keep his job, according to Carpenter.
"This is a production-based business, and I didn't get it done," he said.
There was, however, one thing that did irk Gruden about his firing. During team president Bruce Allen's press conference Monday, Allen talked about new head coach Bill Callahan installing discipline and execution into the team. Gruden took issue with that, telling Carpenter, "I want to make sure that everybody knows that I actually did work."
In six seasons with Washington, Gruden compiled a 35-49 record. He led the team to one playoff appearance in 2015, but the team lost its first game in the postseason.
Though 2019 was a disaster, Gruden could draw interest on the open market. Kirk Cousins developed into a viable starter under Gruden's watch. While Gruden's overall record wasn't great, some owners could wonder if things would have been different had Gruden been with a more stable franchise.
Gruden may get that opportunity in the offseason. Until then, he'll continue to say he's not mad, just disappointed that Washington let him go.
He's a good guy. Probably not a great coach. But he kept his job for so long because he's such a good guy. Maybe he'd do better if he wasn't hamstrung but an infinitely inept front office but here we are.
I wouldn't be mad to be rid of this garbage can either.
Good luck Jay. Your lucky to get away from this loser of a franchise.
joeken24
3 minutes ago, Csup said:
Jay came from the Cincinnati Bengals. Its not like he came from a winning organization and got snuffed out. He was a losing coach.
I will be interested to see how Gruden does in his next head coaching job with I hope a better owner and front office, good luck to him.
3 minutes ago, joeken24 said:
They were actually decent while he was there. Better than anything this franchise has put together under Dan's ownership. That's not a compliment to the Bengals, by the way.
I'm not commenting on Jay's coaching ability. I'm saying life will be better leaving the stench of this organization behind. Lombardi would have failed If he worked for Synder.
NickyJ
The Deep Threat
18 minutes ago, TK said:
Of course he did work. Being a disc jockey at Club Jay is no cake walk lol
Seriously, though. Kudos to Gruden for not slinging dirt after he got fired, mid-season no less. I appreciate when a coach can keep his dignity and still admit that the team wasn't doing well. The FO absolutely undermined the whole situation, but he didn't point fingers. That's a plus in my book.
fwo40
I'm sorry I'm not getting on the "poor Jay no one wins here" bandwagon. Is this like a funeral? Are we afraid to say something bad about the deceased?
Of course he's not bitter about leaving - he collected a sizable check for getting out-coached almost weekly. He's been on cruise control for at least a year.
We all know he wasn't the only thing wrong with the team. But he was wrong while with the team.
1 minute ago, fwo40 said:
His coaching record speaks for itself. But what's wrong with wishing him luck?
tshile
13 minutes ago, fwo40 said:
I'm sorry I'm not getting on the "poor Jay no one wins here" bandwagon. Is this like a funeral? Are we afraid to say something bad about the deceased?
No it's just that we have such a long and well documented track record of ruining the career of everyone who walks in the doors, we say something nice when they leave; career shattered to pieces.
blame him all you want. There's one, and only one, common denominator in 20+ years of losing. And it's a guy everyone hates and everyone knows is clueless, vengeful, petulant, vindictive and just generally a nasty person.
10 hours ago, Csup said:
Lombardi would've never worked for a pathetic man like Snyder. If he did, he would've dropped him on Day 1 with a kidney punch. At this point, only the desperate and unwanted come here. It's like the Island of Misfit Toys.
I was watching the Coach's Show this weekend, and they cut to break while showing friggin' Rob Ryan's fat ass trying to coach linebackers. It was a pathetic sight. I turned from the TV with a tear in my eye like the Native American litter picker-upper guy in the old commercial.
Edited October 8, 2019 by Dissident2
Rex Tomb
4 minutes ago, Dissident2 said:
I turned from the TV with a tear in my eye like the Native American litter picker-upper guy in the old commercial.
Skins199021
He is good with QBs, which is why i am so worried about the FO pushing for the Haskins despite the cautions from the coaches
The Sisko
59 minutes ago, NickyJ said:
I'll bet he was actually relieved. "Dan, what took you so long buddy?"
glongest
6 minutes ago, Skins199021 said:
Not trying to take issue with you because everybody is entitled to their own opinion but what quarterback did he develop here? I can't think of a one.
I am left wondering what if? What if Smith doesn't break his leg when the Skins start 6-3? I'm not suggesting the 2018 Skins were Super Bowl-bound but they clearly weren't bums either. Maybe they would've finished 10-6 and win a playoff game, something good to build on going forward. Don't laugh they started 6-3 so finishing 10-6 is well within the realm of possibilities. They went 6-3 with Smith and I think they won only 1 after he went down. What if Smith stays healthy and Jay is 3-2 or 4-1 today? Smith's broken leg was horrible luck but the 2015 aftermath is all on the front office.
Another major what-if for me is the aftermath of 2015. The Skins win the division on the strength of a passing game fueled by Cousins, Garcon and Jackson. The Skins let Garcon and Jackson walk and refused to meet a modest contract extension request by Cousins opting to apply the franchise tag to him instead. What if the Skins had confidently decided to reward their performers like competent franchises do and extended all three and kept a winning unit together? Things could have been a lot different and that is on Snyder, not Gruden.
Another thing, when I think of Jay's tenure in DC I completely remove the 4-12 2014 record because Gruden wasn't allowed to select his own starter, he was forced to waste the summer reps and play Griffin. So in fairness to Gruden, I start the clock on his tenure with 2015 and the risky and correct decision to go with Cousins. it was the right decision and they won a division championship and briefly looked like a team with an exciting future and a bright young coach, until they weren't. Jay isn't responsible for losing Jackson, Garcon, and Cousins instead of having them thrive in DC. We can all thank Daniel Snyder for that institutional incompetence.
I don't know what Gruden will be able to accomplish if he gets a head coaching job with a strong front office but I won't be surprised if he is successful. Snyder is the problem. Not Gruden, not Shanahan, not Gibbs 2.0, not Marty and maybe not 1 or 2 of the others. Snyder is an organizational albatross that no management or coaching team has been able to overcome. The fact that Gruden bore up better than they others may bode well for his future, we'll see when he gets his next shot. As for the Skins, I just don't think anyone will succeed working for Snyder until Snyder finally decides to really let a smart football guy run the football operation and it just may not be in him to do that.
Edited October 8, 2019 by Veryoldschool
I think his doggedness was a lot of the reason the Redskins were able to hover around .500 despite the awful front office. He'd clearly checked out by the beginning of this season, though.
Califan007
58 minutes ago, tshile said:
No it's just that we have such a long and well documented track record of ruining the career of everyone who walks in the doors...
Yeah...Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan, and Matt Lefleur saw their careers go straight down the toilet after leaving here lol...
Yeah man you found 3 studs even we couldn't ruin.
definitely outweighs the rest of it
PartyPosse
You found 3 coaches that went to teams with great building blocks in place.
Ok, maybe not SF, but i'm not overly convinced by their early start considering their records combined is like 5-14. He was also 10-22 coming into this year.
8 minutes ago, Califan007 said:
None of which were head coaches.
But as a whole, the Skins at least attempt to fuel the narrative on the departed in negative fashion. I no longer think performing average to mediocre here is seen as a career crusher. Lasting 5 years and being near .500 here makes Jay appear an accomplished survivor.
jsharrin55
1 hour ago, fwo40 said:
I think most wanted Gruden gone and knew he was part of the problem.
Seeing he is fired and signs point to Allen remaining in place, the anger and frustration is boiling and it's polishing the turd that was his coaching since we know the full on **** storm that remains.
Or at least that's how it feels for me.
Just now, tshile said:
"everyone who walks in the doors"
And I'm trying to figure out whose careers were ruined by working here. Norv? Hardly, still went on to underperform for several other franchises as head coach. Marty? He went to the Chargers and was fired after taking them to 14-2. Spurrier? Never should have been hired to begin with...he ruined his own NFL career. Gibbs? lol...no. Zorn? Maybe, but he is similar to Spurrier in that he never should have been hired. Being a QB coach may have been his ceiling no matter where he went. Shanahan? he already had a lengthy career, hard to say it was ruined...especially considering how fluffed up he gets by the media now. Not to mention 6-10, 5-11 and 3-13 don't buy you job security, regardless of RG3. Gruden? We will have to wait and see. John Schneider? Hardly lol...building a SB winner in Seattle isn't what I'd call a ruined career. Morocco Brown? Director of College Scouting for the Colts, seems a lateral move from here. Scot M? Nope...considering he had more or less flushed his NFL front office career down the tubes with his alcohol problem before ever coming to the Redskins...we were one of I think just 2 teams willing to give him another front office position. And it looks like his drinking problem was still a problem, which is not due to anything having to do with the Redskins. He's back to doing what he did before we hired him. Marvin Lewis? Nada...went on to be the head coach of the Bengals for 16 years after leaving here.
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class << self
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return unless no_service_roles_enabled?
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# disable it by default on FIPS environments.
# Check https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7933 for details
# about KAS.
service_exclusions << 'skip_on_fips' if OpenSSL.fips_mode
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The ice brick is an arctic block that looks like a square brick made out of ice. It is found in the Architecture section of inventory. An ice brick takes up one square block of space and has full collision.
You can craft ice bricks from ice or mine them in arctic worlds from generated structures, especially those on the surface. You can also trade for ice bricks in a market world.
Like all arctic-based blocks and items, ice bricks can only be placed in arctic worlds, where they give a nice cool look to your builds. Hahaha, get it? Cool?
Ice bricks were added as part of the arctic biome update.
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2001 March 8
Bright Venus
Credit & Copyright: Thad K. V'Soske
Explanation: Have you seen a bright evening star in the western sky lately? That's no star, that's planet Venus the second "rock" from the Sun. Blazing at -4.6 magnitude, Venus, after the Sun and Moon, is the third brightest celestial body in planet Earth's sky. Venus is closer to the Sun than Earth and as Venus orbits the Sun it is seen to go through phases similar to the Moon. But unlike the Moon, as Venus waxes and wanes its distance from Earth and hence its apparent size changes drastically. This causes Venus to look brighter as it looms large in its crescent phases than when it is smaller and nearly full. Taken on January 28th, this dramatic picture finds a crescent Venus near its brightest to the right of a crescent Moon. The brilliant rivals seem poised above a satellite dish of the Scripps Satellite Oceanography Facility. Closer to the horizon, just below and to the right of the satellite dish, Mercury pierces the twilight glow.
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> MELODY RANCH > JOEL McCREA
"The Virginian"
Melody Ranch | Placerita Canyon
The main cast of "The Virginian" (Paramount 1946) poses for a black-and-white publicity photo at the Monogram Ranch (later called Melody Ranch) that has been colorized for use in this lobby card.
Locally, this production used Ernie Hickson's Placeritos Ranch (aka Monogram Ranch, later Melody Ranch) and the Andy Jauregui Ranch in Placerita Canyon. It also used the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, and a location in Kernville.
Credited cast includes Joel McCrea (above center), Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Henry O'Neill, Bill Edwards, William Frawley, Paul Guilfoyle, Marc Lawrence and Vince Barnett.
LW3153: 9600 dpi jpeg from original lobby card purchased 2017 by Leon Worden.
THE VIRGINIAN
Paramount 1946
Placerita Canyon Set
El Virginiano
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Sequels That Never Were – The Crow
By John McGuire comics, creativity, fiction, film, writing
The Crow: The Devil's Mask
Setting: Washington, D.C.
Time: The Near Future
Night. A crow soars through the city streets of Washington, D.C. In the distance there are fires burning, the results of the latest riots. While the crow continues its flight, the narrator, a woman's voice, speaks.
"Sometimes, when a person has died a horrible death their soul is too sad to cross over to the other side. Then sometimes a crow comes to guide the spirit back to right the wrongs that had been done to it."
The crow lands on a rooftop and scans the surroundings until its gaze rests upon the White House. The building is only half standing. Only a few of its flags remain waving in the night breeze, and those are dirty and tattered. The crow continues on to the White House.
Interior of the White House. A large black man sits at the head of the long hall. Beneath him is his throne, a patchwork of various pieces raided from the old seat of the Republic. Beside him, one to either side, are two women in various states of undress. Throughout the hall are an assortment of thugs and hired guns ensuring that their "King" is in no danger. Above the leader rests lays a rifle with a scope. And around the leader's neck is a Yin-Yang necklace.
The front door to the hall opens (slow motion style) and some measure of slower techno/metal song begins to play (only slow at first and then building throughout the scene. Through the entrance stalks our hero, The Crow, with his bird flying in just above him.
The music is in full swing as the Crow lays into the men. Throughout the fight we cut back to the leader who merely looks at the rifle above him as if he is trying to decide something. Eventually he takes it down, raises it, puts his eye to the scope, and sets the cross-hairs targeting the crow (the bird). The Crow (the guy) is about to pummel the last of the King's men when the gun is fired (this coincides with the stoppage of music).
Bird and man fall as the bullet impacts.
The King brings his weapon down to his side and makes his way over to the would-be hero. "Very good. One, two … nine of my men total you were able to get to. I think that is well beyond the record."
As the Crow begins to stand the King raises his weapon again and shoots the Crow's kneecap.
Screams of pain fill the room.
Over The Crow's shoulder, the two women walk up beside their leader. The one on his right holds a revolver, and the one on his left holds a red mask in her hands. The each hand their items to the Leader. He slowly places the red devil mask on.
The Crow whispers, "I'm sorry Laura."
The King cocks his head to one side and raises the gun to the mask's lips.
"No, no, no. Tell Laura that you'll be with her in a moment. Tell her that I sent you home."
At that moment a crow flies up from behind the King and lands upon his shoulder.
Wide-eyed, the Crow mutters out, "You're…"
The King merely nods and levels the revolver at the Crow.
"Tell everyone 'Hi' for me."
The chamber echoes with gun fire.
Fade to black – Narrator's voice
"And sometimes the person doesn't want to go back."
Years ago, after being disappointed in the second Crow movie (after loving the original so much), Chad wrote up a pitch for a sequel to the Crow. And like many things when you get writers to start riffing on a subject, a story appeared to me. I jotted down the notes I had for it while at work, typed it up, and sent it out that next night.
But because I'm a pack rat and never throw anything out (idea or otherwise), this is one of those bits of story I keep trying to reuse in other forms… sometimes it seems like a decent fit, and sometimes it just doesn't work and the story goes into the folder on the computer not to be looked at again…
But I was looking through that folder this evening and came across the document again, so I thought I'd share it. Not that this is all of it, just what would be in a movie right before the credits kicked in…
John McGuire is the author of the supernatural thriller The Dark That Follows, the steampunk comic The Gilded Age, and the novella There's Something About Mac through the Amazon Kindle Worlds program.
His second novel, Hollow Empire, is now complete. The first episode is now FREE!
He also has a short story in the Beyond the Gate anthology, which is free on most platforms!
And has two shorts in the Machina Obscurum – A Collection of Small Shadows anthology! Check it out!
He can also be found at www.johnrmcguire.com.
About John McGuire
Writer of comics and novels. In 2006 his first short story "The God That Failed" was published by Terminus Media in their debut comic Evolution Book 1. Since that time he has had stories published in Terminus Media's Evolution Book 2 and Evolution Special, Kenzer and Company's The Knights of the Dinner Table, and Four J Publishing's The Burner #3. Currently he is eagerly awaiting the digital publishing of his first creator-owned comic The Gilded Age #1 to be published online as well as his first novel The Dark That Follows later this year.
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Fusion Marine announces up to 12 jobs in Recruitment Drive
Leading fish farm equipment supplier Gael Force Group is currently investing in recruitment drive at Oban firm Fusion Marine.
At least 6 out of the 12 jobs are newly created as the company prepares for growth.
Gael Force Group's Fusion Marine is today announcing it is actively increasing its workforce with the recruitment of up to 12 positions as it gears up for a large programme of work and sustained period of growth.
The jobs span across a range of highly skilled roles including Technical Sales, Fabrication, Product Development and Administration. The roles are spread across Fusion's two locations which include a production facility at Barcaldine near Oban, and an administration centre at Malin House, European Business Park in Dunbeg. A small number of appointments have already been made in the past few weeks, while a range of positions remain open for applications with further jobs due to be advertised imminently.
The investment represents Fusion Marine's largest recruitment drive to date and the first major drive since the acquisition of a majority share in the business by Inverness-based Gael Force Group just four months ago. This latest initiative follows a record year for recruitment in 2017 at Gael Force Group where more than 50 new jobs were created across the Group.
Stewart Graham, Managing Director of Gael Force Group, said, "Adding highly skilled people to our already exceptional Fusion Marine team in Oban will enable us to successfully engage in the large programme of planned work we have lined up, this including the production of our newest, largest and most innovative fish farm pen design to date."
He added, "The key result of a strengthened workforce will be that we are able to meet our strategic objectives while ensuring overall that we continue to deliver value to the market in support of our long-standing key customers and in line with the growth aspirations of the Scottish aquaculture industry."
Brendan O'Hara, local MP for Argyll and Bute commented, "I am delighted to hear of this boost to the local economy and what is clearly a statement of confidence in Argyll and Bute. I have met with Fusion Marine, I was really impressed with the work they do and I greatly welcome the news of further employment opportunities with the growth of this business. I wish them all the very best for the future."
Gael Force Group's name in the fish farming community is highly regarded, with Fusion Marine's fish farm pens having an enviable, long-standing reputation for quality, strength and versatility. The acquisition of Fusion by Gael Force in April of this year was recognised by many in the industry as a sign of the strengthening of the Scottish equipment supply sector. This latest investment will most likely provide further encouragement within the industry and for the regional economy.
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LANKY BILL could well have passed muster as an undertaker; Boston Tommy as a kid show-vender of red lemonade. The former was sad to the point of extinction, deep-eyed, lantern-jawed, skinny-framed and big-footed. The latter was short, squat, square-jawed, genial and quick-witted—the very antithesis of his partner. Together they made as clever a team of crooks as operated south of the Mason and Dixon line. And at the present moment they felt a yearning to be very much farther south of that historic line.
At that, they were not close to it. They were transient residents of the city which first called the Mason and Dixon line into play. They had sought sanctuary in the sleepy confines of Charleston, South Carolina, after getting away with the sizeable bunch of lucre formerly stored in the vaults of the St. Croix bank.
It was sad news indeed; news to inspire melancholia in even so jovial an individual as Boston Tommy. For Lanky Bill and Boston Tommy desired nothing in this world quite so much as a sight of New York where they might seek real safety in their East-Side haunts.
They took warning from the News and Courier and did not attempt departure by any of the traveled routes. There were only two courses open, at that: the Union Depot on Columbus Street, where all roads enter, and the Clyde Line at the foot of Queen Street. Of course they entertained the idea of walking to Bennett's or Summerville or even to Otranto, and there boarding a freight-train by means of the rods, but at that time the railroads had developed a sudden intense antipathy to stealers of rides and there was danger that they would be caught in this petty thievery, returned to Charleston and there held just long enough for the money which was the property of the Bank of St. Croix to be discovered on their persons. After which they realized that their costumes would be the fashionable black-and-white-stripe effect so popular with the innocent and hateful to the guilty. They had no great fondness for the South Carolina penitentiary.
But get away they must. Charleston is a small town, despite the fifty-eight thousand persons accorded it by the 1910 census, and a town where strangers must give their histories—even though those strangers be paying guests at one of the East Bay sailorman lodging-houses. And to make matters somewhat worse Boston Tommy had met temptation and succumbed to it. In brief, he had played the local pool champion a series of games at five dollars a game be fore a large and enthusiastic audience, and defeated him signally. Therefore, attention had been attracted to him.
When taken to task by Lanky Bill for the lapse, Tommy mournfully pleaded guilty and promised to do better in the future; and their fear was not decreased a whit by the knowledge that one of the spectators at the game had been a plain-clothes man.
THE month was May and the day was clear and hot and calm. Leaving the odoriferous restaurant in which they had breakfasted, they turned their steps southward along East Bay, past the Terry Fish Company's wharves where the last of the mosquito fleet was putting out for the day's fishing, and thence to the news-stand adjoining the Consolidated's ferry wharf. There Lanky Bill purchased, with pleasing sang-froid a copy of the News and Courier.
With this acquisition, the comrades in evil retraced their steps to East Bay, walked northward a hundred yards and then strolled idly out on the pier which forms the north side of the Custom House wharf.
They seated themselves on the end of this wharf, swung their legs over the placid water of the river and lifted their eyes to mid-stream. Without a meeting of eyes, both sighed, and the right hand of each caressed the bulge which was formed by a package of money sewed on the shirt so it rested between that and a more personal garment. Lanky Bill broke the silence wheezily.
He gesticulated only with his eyebrows but Boston Tommy knew that he referred to the trim four-masted schooner which lay in midstream, half-way between their vantage-point and Castle Pinckney.
"The blue peter is flying," commented Tommy dully.
And again they sighed in chorus. Boston Tommy broke the oppressive silence.
"If!" grinned Tommy and Bill subsided abruptly.
They sat in silent reverie. The asthmatic Lawrence snorted out of her slip and panted laboriously across the harbor to the Mt. Pleasant shore, where her passengers disembarked for Sullivan's Island and the Isle of Palms. Then she puffed back again with much groaning of her overtaxed machinery.
The Lenape, pride of the Clyde Line fleet, steamed majestically in through the jetties for a stop-over before continuing to Jacksonville; the Apache, another ship of the same fleet, departed with much blowing of whistles for New York. The Carib, a Clyde freighter, left for Boston. Behind them, the East Bay spur of the railroad showed them a glimpse of freight-cars consigned from Pearlstine's inland. Carriers, carriers everywhere and never a one to ride.
If only they might ship on the Nesporeo! But, as Bill had stated, under what excuse might they ship? Neither knew the quarter-deck from the forecastle, and certainly they couldn't volunteer as cabin-boys.
A man, garbed in a suit of dark serge, with shirt and collar of white and cap which had once been the same color, descended the ladder of the midstream Nesporeo and entered a dinghy wherein were two dilapidated oarsmen. He sped shoreward. Boston Tommy clutched the arm of his companion in art and a hint of his old optimistic grin appeared for the briefest fraction of a second.
The dinghy purled shoreward, stopped at the stairway leading from water level to the top of the Custom House wharf, and the white-capped man crossed the street and ascended the interminable flight of stairs leading to the Custom House. The dinghy shot back toward the Nesporeo. The two malefactors rose.
Which is said with all due apologies to ultra-respectable Charleston. But facts are facts. Up to a year or so ago there was much fun of a certain sort obtainable in the City by the Sea. Market Street, leading from the Custom House to Archdale, was studded with gambling-houses, blind tigers and other types of resort not quite as savory. I am informed that conditions have changed in the past year. Be that as it may, it existed as described up to a couple of years ago and was so at the time this story occurred.
At any rate, that they might not lose track of their prey they stationed themselves on the Market Street side of the Custom House where they commanded a view of both front and rear entrances.
At length their man appeared, on the East Bay side. He strolled idly down the steps as if he had not a thing to do and was eager to do it. Boston Tommy grabbed the arm of his accomplice, shoved a cigar into his mouth, clinched its twin sister between his own teeth and hustled toward the idle captain. He paused immediately before him and grinned his most bewitching grin.
Quite as a matter of course the lanky one and the squat one accompanied him. Matches were had and cigars lighted. Boston Tommy-yawned wearily.
"It is," agreed the other feelingly.
"You're Captain Dangree of the Nesporeo ain't you?" led the lanky one ingenuously.
He paused with a grimace as Boston Tommy's foot collided forcibly with his meatless shin.
To the captain he said.
"Believe me, Xantippe—she do," assented Lanky Bill earnestly.
"Now that you mention it," joined the captain.
The eyes of the conspirators met. Three weeks at sea! In three weeks the robbery would have been forgotten by all save a few inquisitive and tenacious detectives. And even the police didn't know who had committed the crime. Thus far in their careers Lanky Bill and Boston Tommy had managed to keep their faces out of any rogues' gallery.
THEY strolled up Market Street past Meeting, and turned into a place which combined the delights of bar, roulette, faro and craps. Bill treated first and then Tommy and then the captain.
After an hour or so Bill and Tommy treated twice each to the captain's once. Then they secured a card-table and sat down to a friendly game of twenty-five-cent-limit draw. It hurt both Bill and Tommy to break pairs in order to avoid filling to good hands, but they did so nobly and succeeded in transferring some forty dollars from their pockets to those of the captain during a bibulous afternoon. By nine o'clock that night the captain was in an extremely mellow frame of mind. Tommy and Bill swore the captain was a great fellow, and the captain agreed.
Then he came back with a compliment in kind and wished that he might have them aboard with him during his three weeks at sea—so that he could play poker with them. His expressed wish was so close to their desires that they gasped and blanched. Was the golden egg to be dropped into their very hands at this eleventh hour? They had imbibed freely but not so freely that they had lost sight of the mission in hand.
The captain insisted on bucking the roulette-wheel and parted with fifteen of his forty-dollar winnings before his new-found friends steered him back to a poker-table. There they succeeded in losing sixty dollars very quickly. So quickly in fact that Boston Tommy excused himself for a minute and returned with five crisp new twenty-dollar bills, two of which he loaned to Lanky Bill. The captain drained his steenth cocktail, ordered straight whisky and shuffled.
They learned that the captain was going aboard at two a.m. The dinghy was to meet him at the Custom House wharf. And they must walk there with him; nothing else would do. They were princes—emperors—czars! The captain ran out of adjectives and stooped to endearing profanity.
At one a.m. they left the resort, and en route to the wharf had three drinks each from a bottle of the best bought by Bill. That and the warm night air finished the work for the captain. He became demonstrative. Then it was that Bill reverted to a topic of his love for sailing-ships.
The captain fell for the bait like a trout after a bluebottle fly. Nothing would do but that they go with him to Rio. They were the besht fell'rs he ever—hic—met. He cou'n't—hic—loshe shush goo' fr'en's—hic.
He walked between them and they tearfully accepted his invitation. They stopped in a cigar store and purchased a box of the finest perfectos which they pressed upon him. They couldn't think of never seeing him again. They promised him a fabulous sum for their passage-money. They were even considering remaining in Rio a while. They were men of wealth, they averred, and eager for travel; how eager they did not say.
The captain suggested that they lift their voices in song. Billy eyed a patrolman askance and quieted the vocal outburst. And finally they reached the Custom House wharf.
The night was very still, the moon very bright. In the moon path of silver they could plainly discern the silhouette of the Nesporeo as she rocked gently in midstream. They were both so happy that they hugged the captain.
THERE was a flash of steel in the moonlight and two ominous clicks. Lanky Bill and Boston Tommy leaped apart in sudden sobering terror. That is, they leaped apart for six inches, then a connecting chain held them.
They turned profanely to the captain and found him in possession of a wicked-looking little automatic which played alternately on the vitals of the one and then of the other.
"No. But I'd seen you two fellows hanging around watching that ship and I figured that you'd try to make your getaway on it, so I concocted this little scheme, and—well, it worked. Here's what I am," and he turned back his coat to disclose a shining badge.
Lanky Bill and Boston Tommy joined sighs. Tommy spoke.
And they started toward the station house. Only once did either of them speak, and that was when Lanky Bill turned.
"Say, cap—how about slippin' us one of them cigars we gave you, huh?" he requested funereally.
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Posted at asi on 23rd May 2017
Richard Marks gives a summary of the recent 2017 asi APAC Television & Video Conference in Singapore
The international version of the asi Conference over the last 26 years has tended to move around Europe each November: Budapest last year, Nice later this year. However, the first three APAC asi Conferences have kept Singapore as a base. This is partly to help establish the event before it goes on the road around the region, but is also related to the growing importance of Singapore as a media hub.
A side effect of this 'residency' is that comparisons between events are somewhat easier: you become more aware of gradual shifts – rather like noticing changes in a friend you only see once a year.
Certainly in just the two years since the first APAC asi Conference a number of themes are becoming increasingly apparent.
It is clear that online video is co-existing with broadcast and not replacing it, although with the rise of OTT it is less clear how TV and video services will be aggregated and packaged. Meanwhile, in just three APAC Conferences we have seen significant advances in cross-platform video measurement. It is still unclear though whether the same metrics we have used for TV can equally be applied to online video. If we can now measure all video, how do we report it?
Tracking data presented by PwC at the Conference questions a series of assumptions around the future of TV. Consumers are spending more time than ever on video consumption, and television (the medium) is at the heart of this. Yet the way TV is being watched is evolving – with on demand growing at the expense of linear, whilst viewing spreads across to other screens. TV isn't dead, but it is undergoing disruption and there will be winners and losers.
A panel of speakers from GfK, Nielsen, Kantar Media, BARC India, Workpoint Entertainment and Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) from Hong Kong, Thailand, India and Singapore discuss cross-platform measurement with Richard Marks.
SVoD certainly seems to be in the ascendancy at the moment, although in the haste of Netflix and Amazon Prime to gain market traction the eventual profitability of their business models remains unproven. GfK's Viewscape seems to indicate that SVoD complements rather than threatens pay-TV services, perhaps being more of a natural successor to video rental and DVD purchasing than a substitute for linear viewing. This backs up the finding of the SKO presentation which won best paper in Budapest last November.
Arguably, SVoD is contributing towards an increasing globalisation of major TV brands. Social buzz data from Parrot Analytics shows the power of global series like Sherlock, The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory, but also the strength of regional content. Social TV analysts Shareablee highlight the power of Facebook in particular in driving TV conversations. However, as a paper from the BBC World Service outlined, it can be an increasing challenge to actually get the right brand attribution for that content, particularly when it comes to news, with content spreading across platforms and being re-used and re-purposed on social media platforms.
Short-form content on YouTube can get impressive reach, but those 'billions' of views are not able to rival global programme brands, formats and sport in terms of duration of total viewing time. Eurodata Worldwide aggregated 2016 viewing data from 92 countries to show a global daily average of exactly 3 hours viewing to TV, down a mere 3 minutes from the year before. That figure is just 2 hours 8 minutes for young adults, which raises the question: will they watch more TV when they get older (although across more devices) or will they maintain their viewing to other forms of video?
Another key point of debate at the Conference: is online video content and advertising essentially an extension of television in terms of how we should measure and report them – or are they different beasts entirely? Our final session in Singapore focused specifically on metrics, but really it was a theme that was referred to throughout both days of the event. It's a question that has profound implications for the future of the industry – and also for how we actually organise sessions at the asi Conference itself!
George Mao revealed some results of Facebook's recent research into response to content on different platforms.
Facebook makes a convincing argument that advertisers need to take account of the unique characteristics of online video – which has implications for both execution and for placement, but also for measurement in a world in which every second is vital. Is all online video the same? Data from OzTAM analysed by Milton Data seems to indicate that persistence levels (minimum stream durations) have less impact on the reported viewing levels of catch-up broadcast content, presumably as people are seeking the content out as opposed to trialling it. If short-form video is a 'taster' menu, then broadcast and SVoD content may be more of a main meal.
Yahoo7 reported that 30-second ads in catch-up players perform better on ad effectiveness metrics than 15-second ads, but again that is for broadcaster services. It seems clear that advertisers cannot simply reformat ads for different platforms without taking into account the type of content it accompanies, the screen showing it and the resulting attention of the viewer. Perhaps we are looking at a Venn diagram – two overlapping circles of broadcast and online, with broadcast catch-up and VOD at the intersection, demonstrating characteristics of both. This seemed to be acknowledged in BARC India's planned 'ekam' suite of analysis tools, in which broadcast content and ads can be looked at separately from other online video or in combination.
As an industry we also face the challenge of how currency systems will sit within the planning and buying system going forward. Effectively TAM video measurement systems sit at the crossing of two roads, one leading from content to advertising and the other from planning to trading. Bas de Vos has recently moved from running a TAM service with SKO to being a supplier with GfK and posed some important existential questions resulting from the implications of automated planning and trading. It may well be that in the future the industry supplies currencies for offline media, provides planning standards for digital media and cross-media and sets the rules for trading standards. This will certainly have implications for the companies like TechEdge, which delivers the data to people's desktops each morning.
StarHub's Germaine Ng Ferguson explained how SmarTAM combines traditional and digital measurement for better audience insights.
Talking of cross-media, a number of papers – from MediaWorks in New Zealand, from Millward Brown in Singapore and Median in the Czech Republic – indicated the benefits of cross-platform reach and that multi-media strategies can make 1+1 = 3. Meanwhile, if audience data is combined with consumer data, as StarHub's SmarTAM system demonstrates, the power of TV as a medium is amplified.
The conference clearly demonstrated that significant progress is being made in cross-platform currency measurement. The new GfK SGTAM service in Singapore showed integrated data that demonstrates how greatly the online uplift on broadcast audiences varies by lifestage, with Gen Z having 13x as much audience increase as Baby Boomers. The architectural plans for the new Kantar TAM system in Hong Kong were unveiled and again involve a hybrid approach to bringing together TV and online viewing. However, it was commented that work is needed by all the measurement suppliers to better communicate to clients how these hybrid systems actually work. It is no longer as simple as a meter in the home.
OzTAM's iPanel – a separate panel used to innovate new techniques before moving them into primetime on the main panel – certainly puts them in a great position to test enhancements to traditional approaches: what measurement tasks will the general public accept and which are a step too far?
Andrew Li Cheng shared the work CSM Media Research is doing with huan.tv to design a real-time rating system in China.
This Conference was notable for an increasing geographic coverage of the region. We had delegates from 24 countries and heard for the first time from Japan, where the Nielsen partnership with Video Research was previewed. We learnt that CSM has built a live ratings system for huan.tv in China and also saw the first fruits of the new Nielsen Digital Content Ratings (DCR) in Thailand.
I am now into my fourth decade in the measurement industry and certainly left Singapore with a spring in my step and got the definite impression that delegates found the two days inspiring as well. The challenges we face are complex and in some cases not yet well defined. There is though a wealth of innovation in the APAC region. Significant progress is being made and whilst the measurement industry is far from future proof, it is certainly 'future ready' and prepared for the challenges ahead.
Thanks for a successful event are due to my fellow session chairs, David Webb, Julie Petersen and Partho Dasgupta and to our event sponsors Nielsen and GfK.
See you next year – most probably in Singapore!
The 2018 asi APAC Television & Video Conference will be held on 10th-11th May, venue to be confirmed.
The 2017 asi International Radio & Audio and Television & Video Conferences will be held on 8th-10th November in Nice, France.
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I don't really know… I mean, is ripping a layer of your skin off something one can enjoy? Who knows, but I'd like to say probably not. So, no, no I didn't.
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In a nutshell, you don't need to skin your face off like they do in the video tutorials… I don't know if that'd have the same effect though. I guess the only way to take blackheads out would be by waxing them off? Which, in essence, is what this feels like. Hairs? Gone.
For most of the Amazon reviewers, it was a NAY instead of a YAY. I second that.
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At the studio, coffee brewing in the french press, El Guincho on the stereo. Last week I felt overwhelmed, this week I just feel allergic. Literally. I have a head full of antihistamines, hope they kick in soon.
We played a card game last night at the studio. An insight I've had after reviewing the past period with my interns. To become better designers, we need to make a lot of games, this is true.2 But it also helps to play games, many games, of any kind. So we'll set apart an hour or so each week and we'll play a game that someone brings in. I kicked it off with Dominion, which is interesting for the way it has built upon trading-card-game deck-building mechanics, like Magic the Gathering. In stead of it being something that happens before a game it takes place in parallel to the game.
What else is of note? Ah yes. I attended Design by Fire 2010 on Wednesday. It is still the best conference on interaction design in the Netherlands. And I really appreciate the fact that the organizers continue to take risks with who they put on stage. Too often do I feel like being part or at least spectator of some clique at events, with all speakers knowing each other and coming from more or less the same "school of thought". Not so with Design by Fire. Highlights included David McCandless, Andrei Herasimchuk, m'colleague Ianus and of course Bill Buxton.
The latter also reminded me of some useful frames of thought for next Tuesday, when I will need to spend around half an hour talking about the future of games, from a design perspective, at an invitation-only think-tank like session organized by STT.3 The organizers asked me to set an ambition time frame, but as you may know I have a very hard time imagining any future beyond say, the next year or two. (And sometimes I also have trouble being hopeful about it.) But as Mr. Buxton points out, ideas need a gestation period of around 20 years before they are ready for primetime, so I am planning to look back some ten years, see what occupied the games world back then, and use that as a jumping off point for whatever I'll be talking about. Let's get started on that now.
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The Eagle kit has a display that is a chevron plus diamond style display. With the chevron plus diamond display, when you come in for a landing you want to fly to the blue donut (on speed for landing). Should you come in with too low of an angle of attack, the yellow chevron will light up and tell you to put your nose up. Should you come in with too high of an angle of attack, the red chevron will light up and tell you nose down.
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Instantaneous Angle of Attack indication.
Additional indication segments with added diamonds.
Three point calibration process, programmed on remote switch panel, to aircraft specific lift curve.
16 different LED brightness levels from ultra dim to very bright.
Display has an imbedded photocell for daytime/nighttime brightness settings, choice of which is programmed at the display.
Audio output, tied to existing audio input on audio panel by others.
4 different audio options to choose from which is programmed by the end user at the remote switch panel.
Audio mute switch with amber LED indicator located on remote switch panel.
12-28 VDC input draws less than 0.250 Amps at full brightness.
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Velcro Sleep In Rollers : My sleep in rollers arrived today and I can not wait to try them out tonight before going bed.
After seeing photographs of Amy Childs, Coleen Rooney, Danielle Lloyd, and many more including the cast of TOWIE in these big pink rollers, I wanted to see for myself if they really do work.
Launched just eight months ago, Sleep-In Rollers have taken the beauty and grooming industry by storm proving the originals are always the best! Realizing just how many girls were sleeping in their rollers in pain and having no time to wear them in the day, they saw a massive gap in the market for gorgeous, comfortable and practical rollers, thus Sleep-In Rollers were born. Women have been suffering for years trying to sleep whilst wearing rollers – well no more!
Sleep-In Rollers are a fashion accessory in 2012 British girls are now wearing them in public and are proud to show off their pink pre-prep hair routine. Fashionable, effective and affordable, Sleep-In Rollers are only £16.50 for 20 rollers which come inside a complimentary pink drawstring bag to carry your rollers around in style available from velcrosleeprollers.com for just£16.50 free postage and packing.
I found them pretty straight forward to put in my hair, and they flatten like a sponge when you lay down. Sleeping in them took a bit of getting used to, but well worth it when you take them out and see the results of your big and bouncy hair. I would highly recommend you go get a set for yourself.
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AI x Surreal Symbiotic Architecture
By Manas Bhatia | 26 Aug 2022
Location: California, United States of America (USA)
Institute / Firm: Manas Bhatia
AI generated symbiotic architecture that breathes and grow:
The project began as an investigation into the interactions we have all had with nature, such as appreciating a tree's shade on a hot day, reading a newspaper in a courtyard under a tree, or simply hanging out in a park to take in the changing hues of the leaves. Building on these observations, came the idea of a "utopian future" in which buildings are not machines made of steel or concrete is presented. Instead, the structure is alive and has the ability to grow and breathe. Imagine a Hyperion tree (coast redwood tree in California that is considered the world's tallest known living tree, measuring 115.92 m) that has been hollowed out, with apartments facing inward and natural light flooding in to create an enchanting bio-atrium. Magical and yet, in a natural way, so pragmatist. Is it possible to design symbiotic architecture? Can structures grow? Can the envelope in which we live breathe as creatures do instead of us dwelling in air-conditioned concrete and glass boxes we call apartments?"
The design is achieved by using AI tools like Midjourney to imagine a surreal future that has 'symbiotic' architectural apartment towers that look like giant hollow redwood trees. Inspired by the Hyperion tree, the Indian architect seeks to go beyond the realm of physical architectural design to present a series of AI-generated images, and drawings of the apartments that really makes one question the idea of such symbiotic buildings
Building on the deep relationship with nature Manas has been exploring the ideas of how patterns occur in nature, how networks are formed in the dwellings of micro creatures, and how plants behave according to the natural stimuli and such theories.
"I have always been fascinated by how small insects and creatures create their dwellings in nature. Ants for example create their dwellings with intricate networks in the soil. If humans could create buildings that grow and breathe like plants do, what an amazing world would that be to live in!", quotes Bhatia
Aiding his conceptual research imaginations Manas utilizes the AI program Midjourney, a tool that uses a series of words/phrases termed "prompt" to generate an array of images based on the prompt. For this project a combination of words like "giant","hollowed","tree","stairs","facade"and "plants" were used as the prompt. Then multiple iterations were run and the prompt was altered with the iterations to achieve the desired results. Bhatia comments, "The key aspect of such AI tools is the choice of words. Sometimes one may not achieve the expected result. However, the generated output gives way to an alternative vision that even the user may have not thought of and that is the beauty of it!"
The new age technology and tools available will aid architects and designers to create their visions with more convenience, directly translating their thoughts into drawings, renderings, and 3D models making the industry faster and more efficient. Using technology combined with the knowledge of natural systems, architects may be able to create more biologically integrated designs.
Architecture | Commercial | Infrastructure | Residential
It is fascinating how small insects and creatures create their dwellings in nature. Ants for example make their dwellings with intricate networks in the soil. If humans could create buildings that grow and breathe like plants do, what a fantastic world would that be to live in? The idea of this project was to explore the potential of combining such observations in nature with architecture using AI. How can we get inspired by nature and use the natural systems in an architectural design that is greener, sustainable, and coexists with nature?
Exterior view of a single tower with bio-receptive skin/building envelope
Surreal, arched entrance to the tower with openings to allow natural light inside the structure
Exterior view of a network of apartments interconnected in an organic fashion
Exterior view of a single housing tower with bio-receptive skin/building envelope
The central spine acts as the structural core for the tower. Organic structural support extends from the spine to support the housing tower
Symbiotic building facade
AI-generated drawings of the housing towers
Interior view of the tower with openings to bring in natural light
External view of towers in an urban setting
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{{Character |team = <span style="color:#0000FF"> Molting Eagles</span> [[File:Aiden for Rhonda.png|200px]] |gender = Male |hair = Blonde |eliminated = [[Total Drama Genesis#Chapter 10 A Crime of Fashion|A Crime of Fashion]] |place = 18th |relationship = [[Melissa]] |family = Father, Stepmother, |friends = Melissa, [[Hayden]], [[Frannie]], [[Kalino]], [[Cynthia]], The President |enemies = [[Tessa]], [[Xidorn]], [[Vance]] |fear = Figure Skaters |talent = Baseball, Camping, Mechanics}}Aiden, labeled '''The American Patriot''', is a contestant on [[Total Drama Genesis]]. He is a member of the ''Molting Eagles''. ==Biography== Aiden fits the stereotype of an all american boy to a T. His favorite sport is baseball, America's pastime, though he enjoys a good football game. He's worked as a paperboy ever since he could ride a bike, along with his current job at an auto-shop repairing cars. In The Boy Scouts, Aiden has achieved the highest rank of Eagle Scout. Aiden has lived in Washington, D.C. since he was born. He even watches all political debates…by choice! It's not too big of a surprise though; son of an army veteran and army nurse, Aiden's family has had a family member fight in almost every American war. While Aiden attends public school, during the summer he traditionally attends an exclusive military school…except now that he has graduated early with honors. Aiden plans to join the military and fight in the army like his father and stepmother. Aiden admits to being zealous but doesn't view foreigners, patriotic or otherwise, with any contempt. He also knows that America has had its problems (dude knows his country's history) and feels no country is perfect, but believes America is close. Aiden heard it was Total Drama's first season taking place exclusively in America as an American version, and he decided to apply to represent his country and be a part of one of the biggest reality's shows 'naturalization to this great nation'. ==Total Drama Genesis== Aiden arrived to the show on foot, having just visited all of Washington D.C.'s memorials beforehand. It wasn't hard for everyone to gather that Aiden was patriotic and was quick to share their pride and knowledge with his team. Aiden quickly became close with his roommate Hayden and Melissa, who had just moved to Washington a few days before and had a lot in common with. All three ended up on the Molting Eagles together and despite losing the first challenge, the three were close. However, those friendships quickly soured. Aiden reacted with shock and a little concern upon learning that Hayden was gay and Melissa was Muslim. Aiden made amends with his friends however, realizing that he still cared about the two and didn't change when learning more about them. Soon after Aiden and Melissa officially began dating and become a cute, if somewhat over the top, couple, afterwards. Things were good until the snow fort challenge, where the Eagles ended their winning streak and struggled. Aiden was blindsided as Hayden was voted off by others who weren't a fan of him being the leader. Aiden became depressed at losing his friend, feeling guilty he left and that he had hurt Hayden before. Aiden unintentionally isolated Melissa and the rest of the team because of this, even believing rumors of an inter-team alliance to explain Hayden's elimination. During the fashion show challenge, Aiden was tasked with going to a clothing store... and met the President of the United States. The President could tell he was feeling trouble. Aiden admitted that he understood why Hayden went home, but really wished he could've told Hayden he was grateful they were friends, especially after how he treated Hayden and Melissa earlier. The President told Aiden he couldn't change the past, but can the present and future. He encouraged Aiden to contiune to support Melissa and Hayden, and they would know he accepts them now. With the President's support, Aiden was renewed and even helped Cynthia and Melissa talk. Unfortunately it was too late. The Molting Eagles lost the challenge and Kalino convinced the rest of the guys to vote for Aiden. Aiden reaffirmed he loved Melissa and they'd see each other again, especially since they lived in Washington. ==Audition Tape== A young blonde teen in a Boy Scout uniform is seen, raising the American flag up a pole. He salutes it and wipes away a tear. "Hey there," he greeted. "I've heard about this Total Drama show before. I'm happy to here that our Nothern neighbors are bringing their show to the U.S.A! As the first real American season, I'd like to represent our dandy country!" The boy began jogging down the streets, Washington, D.C. clearly coming into view in the background. The cameraman wheezed. "I said I'd help you film," the camerman panted. "Not go on one of your morning jogs!" "Aww shucks John," Aiden stated. "We haven't even reached the Washington Memorial. It's just a few miles ahead!" Aiden dashed off as the camera stopped to catch his breath. "Want to know why you should put him on your show? He lives here; you don't have to pay for travel." The carmeraman ran forward, but stumbled and fall. The feed cut out. ==Trivia== [[File:Lee Greenwood- God Bless the U.S.A. lyrics|thumb|right|300px|Aiden's theme song "God Bless The U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood. Recommended by [[User:Gideoncrawle|Gideon]]]] * Aiden was the fifth member of The Molting Eagles voted off and eighth overall. He received four cups of coffee. * Originally, the story was going to have a running plot of a murder mystery, taking place in Washington to tie it into the show ''Bones''. Aiden's character and story was thought of in response to this location. The murder mystery plot was dropped in an early draft, but Aiden stayed as a character, and the story ended up staying in Washington, leading to the development of an American reboot. *I had originally planned for Aiden and Melissa's conflict to go on longer but I felt it was out of character for Aiden not to address it, and I wanted to not be as political. I was also worried readers wouldn't enjoy the story or character if it went on too long. **Similarly Aiden and Melissa weren't going to become a couples so soon. I reasoned there wasn't any reason for them not to be at that point in the story, so I officially made them a couple (and tried to lampshade how silly it is for characters not to hook up other than its too soon). *Aiden was meant to be more of a main character in early drafts, but due to the other characters developing more, his role was reduced. *Aiden was not always planned to be eliminated eighth. In early drafts he made it to the merge, ranging from 8th place to the first out at the merge. Other drafts had him being the last out before the merge, and recently he was planned to survive at least to 13th or 14th place, till it was changed for story reasons. **When Aiden was planned to be eliminated later, he was going to voulnteer for his team to vote him off after no one did horrible at the challenge and he wanted to spare his teammates. *I didn't want to eliminate Aiden so soon, as I felt I still had some things I wanted to do with him and ideas for him, but I realized he had a pretty complete story. I needed more time to develop future stories fully and saw potential for his elimination to cause new plots, so I moved up his elimination to allow room for that. *Aiden's name changed a lot through out the drafts, including Paul, Freddy, Dale, and Archie. I eventually settled on Aiden for being a rather common American name and starting with A, like America. [[Category:Total Drama Genesis]] [[Category:Rhonda's Characters]]
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Normal People by Sally Rooney
By Lynn Ford
There is a point in one's life — that can last a day or even years — in which one questions life and its purpose. The transition from high school to college is usually the particular time that one experiences this moment. Sally Rooney depicts this journey in her book Normal People from the perspective of two characters, Connell and Marianne, as they navigate the complexities of social class and relationships.
The on-off relationship between Marianne and Connell drives the plot. Marianne is introduced as an intelligent but socially awkward girl in high school who comes from a rich but abusive family. Connell, also smart, is the popular jock and meets Marianne through his mother, who works as a house cleaner for Marianne's family. Their high school relationship is kept a secret for the sake of Connell's reputation but eventually dies out because he is afraid of people's opinions. They meet again in college where their roles are reversed: Connell is finding it difficult to make friends, coming from the middle-class, while Marianne is socially adjusted and comes from an upper-class background. This is where the reader might wonder: will these two ever be together? Will they find happiness elsewhere?
I was thrown off in the very beginning of the book because of the dialogue, which lacked quotation marks. But that was easier to get used to than I thought. I read the book effortlessly and was easily able to distinguish between narration and dialogue. However, a new problem arose: I did not want to continue reading. The struggles of the characters, particularly that of Marianne, were too emotional for me.
Sally Rooney seems to address what it means to be "normal" and how painfully difficult it is to try to be "normal" or even realize what that means as one grows up. It was hard for me to read mostly because I related very personally to Marianne as she embarked on this journey. I felt as though she was me and I was her on some unhealthy level. To Connell and to others around her, she was impressive and intimidating, but reading from her perspective gave me insight that deep down she felt as though there was something wrong with her. Rooney captures this so well with the way Marianne finds partners who abuse her both physically and mentally during sex and how, toward the end, she feels oddly separated from the world around her. This is evident when Marianne narrates:
She experiences a depression so deep it is tranquilizing, she eats whatever he tells her to eat, she experiences no more ownership over her own body that if it were a piece of litter. . . . people have seemed to her like colored paper shapes, not real at all. (196-197)
Rooney's characters come to life: they have real emotions and experience real events that shape them and make them the people they become. She depicts their lives as an unknown journey, and this is what makes the book so emotional. I wanted to hate the book as soon as I began realizing Marianne is who I might be like if I were in an unhealthy state of mind. But by the end, I could not help but appreciate Normal People.
The reader takes the journey with Connell and Marianne to find out what it means to live, to be "normal," and to have someone to love and be loved by, as painfully real as it is. Each scene is carefully constructed as if to make sure the meaning of each word, every glance from a character, or the subtlest of actions are noticed. For instance, when Connell arrives at a funeral, his notice of Marianne is very descriptive:
Marianne, he said. He said this aloud without thinking about it. She looked up and saw him then. Her face was like a small white flower. . . . Marianne touched the back of Connell's head with her hand. Everyone stood there watching them, he felt that. (216)
Rooney also utilizes a good progressive development of characters – one can see the maturity in the way they act and how they see the world – one can tell they are different people from when the book started. But by the end, Rooney's resolution is satisfactory. Normal People has given me a hope that I am not the only one struggling through this journey of finding love, finding life, or finding meaning. It has touched some part of me I wanted left alone. But now I am glad I was touched. Some questions are too scary to ask, and Normal People gives the reader the opportunity to ask them.
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To have a strong online presence, you need to have a website for your furniture business. Eventually if someone wants to do business with you and your company, they will either initially or eventually want to look at your site. The problem that most home furnishing companies don't realize is how many opportunities have been missed simply because they don't have a website or that it is so poorly done that the consumer does not have confidence that the business would provide a worthy product.
What you first need is to have a well designed website that provides plenty of information for potential customers to learn about your products. The truth is that there really is no reason not to have a good looking website. So many designers around the world have developed websites that perform well and look great. All that is needed is a professional with the experience and knowledge to transform that pre-made template into your business website, just like the one you are reading right now. Yes, this was built on a template.
Some businesses on the other hand have more needs than others. Considerations such as branding, functionality and custom needs require websites to be built from scratch to fit these requirements. However, roughly 95% of the furniture business today can accomplish all that is needed by using a simple marketing website. A theme that can provide them with unlimited pages to talk about product, contact information, and various other items.
Realistically most businesses are just looking to be found by search engines and to provide information to potential customers when someone arrives at their site. Whether you are just starting out with a new business or looking to have your old website redesigned, this process is easy and will definitely be a benefit to your company for years to come.
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Publishing a variety of comics for diverse market of genres ranging from superhero and horror to sci-fi and action adventure.
The darkstorm comic book, I, FRANKENSTEIN, written and created by Kevin Grevioux, was made into a big budget film produced by Lakeshore Entertainment and starred Aaron Eckhart.
Astounding Comics is based in Los Angeles-based that publishes a variety of kid friendly comics for diverse market of genres ranging from superhero and horror to sci-fi and action adventure and much, much more.
From the creator of this fantastic cult film franchise, Kevin Grevioux, a new chapter in the Underworld saga begins here! Selene, on the run from Lycans as well as her own kind, discovers a long forgotten menage of Vampires living in the hidden mountains of the frozen north. But are they friend? Or foe?
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Long-time readers and associates know of my interest in positive organization development. What follows is a short list of organization development resources for those readers who are interested in looking at some of the research supporting positive organization development.
Research from Case Western University and the Free University of Amsterdam says, "Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good." The implications are for experiences, interactions, and events at home and work. It takes 5 good interactions over a period of time to overcome 1 bad interaction or experience. The authors discuss extensive research in the positive-negative asymmetry effect. Food for thought: What impact would be felt if people in workplaces and families did their best to eliminate the negative patterns.
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SOCIAL COHESION BOOK - A HUGE LEAP FORWARD
The first seminar on the new book on 'Social Cohesion - A Jain Perspective' published by Diverse Ethics was held at the St Ethelburgas Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Central London on 3rd Dec 2008. Mr. Simon Keyes, Director of the Centre, opened the discussion by explaining how topical he felt the subject was - "it is the number one challenge in the minds of central and local government at the moment, and one where fresh ideas and solutions are really lacking. A Jain perspective on this subject is important and adds a valuable contribution to the debate." The audience came from a cross section of organisations - from PETA to Procter & Gamble, from the Jain nuns at Jain Vishwa Bharti to Global Tolerance.
Funded by the Meghraj Foundation and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, the research was done by Dr. Aidan Rankin and Dr. Atul Shah. The book draws on Jain wisdom to show practical policies which government can implement to help build cohesion, through areas as wide ranging as environmental policy, education, health-care, business and work ethics, crime, politics and economic policy. The foreword is written by Lynne Sedgmore CBE.
The authors explained their motivations for writing the book. Dr. Aidan Rankin explained:"I was brought up in Britain in the western cultural tradition but from a young age, developed an empathy and concern for all living beings. I then came across the Jains and got inspired to research and write about this ancient wisdom and have written three books so far - 'The Jain Path', 'Social Cohesion' and a new one coming out on the subject of 'Anekant'. For Jains cohesion included unity with all living beings, not just humans." Dr Aidan Rankin described his experience of encountering Jainism from a western perspective and how he believed it could change the way we look at politics, economis and our relationship with the environment. We can benefit especially, he believes, from the Jain principle of anekant, or many-sidedness, which enables us to respect diverse viewpoints as aspects of a larger truth.""
Dr. Atul Shah explained his personal story of upbringing in Kenya where cohesion was an everyday experience, but then coming to UK, where he found himself isolated and confused. "My culture and wisdom was never mentioned or discussed at the University where I studied, yet it had such a profound vision for the future and is so relevant to the modern day." This book represented a rise in personal self-confidence about his Jain culture and the vision it can provide for a new and better Britain. It took 30 years of living and working in Britain for me to build that confidence."
In his concluding remarks, Mr. Simon Keyes who chaired the seminar noted: " I think time has come for leaders in government and different faiths to sit and just listen to the Jains as their thinking and vision is so profound and so timely for todays multiple crises. "
Posted by Dr. Atul Shah at 11:18 AM
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Mr Shah, next time you do an event at St Ethelburgas- I expect an invite!
Very interesting piece. Am yet to get back to you on the book but will do when the fires cool at work.
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ARE GLOBAL ETHICS A MYTH?
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Islington Council criticised for huge underspend
Islington Council has been lambasted for failing to spend an expected �35million of its budget for new buildings.
Figures show that only �50million of the �165million budget has been spent half way through the financial year – just 30 per cent.
By the end of the year, spending is forecast to be �35million below what it should be, with expenditure on housing alone �22million under budget.
The council has been criticised in the past for keeping a �10million reserve fund.
Cllr Terry Stacy, leader of Islington Council's Liberal Democrat group, said: "To not spend �10million in two years is incredible when Labour councillors claim there is no money and they are being forced to make cuts. Think how many services and jobs that could save in Islington.
"But the failure to spend �35 million capital funding on things like new homes beggars belief. What kind of way is this to run a council?"
Cllr Richard Greening, Islington Council's executive member for finance said: "Cllr Stacy is right to raise this, but none of this money will be lost, and most of the underspend is due to projects being held up for good reasons, like consulting leaseholders.
"The extent of the underspend is something I am concerned about and I will be raising it at the next HfI board meeting. We are determined to get on top of the situation and take action to prevent further slippage. We also need to keep some money as a contingency fund – to say we don't need reserves is ridiculous."
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The Firestorm is a killer freerace machine with a pure blooded slalom DNA. You'll easily find a perfect trim over any type of water surface to allow you being on the tip of your top speed potential at all times.
With its parallel lines in the mid/front section, smaller cut-outs and dedicated wingered/toro tail, the Firestorm results more controllable and easy to jibe than a slalom board and consequently excels with both freerace and cam race sails.
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Modern outline with parallel lines from the mid to the front section and a wide nose.
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One can see in the pictures, Naga Chaitanya along with Nidhhi Agerwal and others posing for a group pictures on the sets of Savyasachi.
Actor Akkineni Naga Chaitanya has geared up for his interesting upcoming film, Savyasachi, which is being directed by Chandoo Mondeti. Actor's last film Yuddham Sharanam didn't do well at the Box Office and so, there are a lot of expectations from his upcoming film. Well, the team has headed to New York for the shooting of final schedule of the film. The pictures from the sets are doing rounds on the social media. One can see in the pictures, Naga Chaitanya along with Nidhhi Agerwal and others posing for a group pictures on the sets of Savyasachi.
Savyasachi is touted to be a thriller and has been directed by Chandoo Mondeti. The action film is being produced by Naveen Yerneni, Y Ravi Shankar and Mohan Cherukuri under Mythri Movie Makers banner. It also stars Madhavan in a pivotal role, while Bhumika will be seen as Chaitanya's sister. Maddy will be seen alongside Naga Chaitanya. Last month, the director had revealed a leading daily that the story has multiple layers to it and will be a great experience for the fans.
"The story has multiple layers — there is Madhavan episode, Chaitanya likes his sister and her daughter; a sub plot shows the relationship between Madhavan and him. How the hero uses his ambedexterity to his advantage is interesting and how the same quality troubles him is amusing," director had revealed.
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The apartment is on the second floor of a 3-floor building. The apartment is furnished. The pullout sofa allows you extra space for guests.
The apartment building is in a quiet, residential area with close proximity to campus and in walking distance to downtown. On Saturdays, you can hear cheering from Camp Randall Stadium and watch tailgaters from your balcony. In the summer, you can watch the Iron Man racers from your balcony.
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SUMMARY: Top rank performance with tolerable noise levels.
The good guys at Coolink were nice enough to send some samples of their heatsink called the COOLINK H2Twin (H2T). Coolink is a new face on the US scene. Currently, they are mainly sold in Eastern European markets. They are looking for US distribution, so if interested, drop them a line.
This is a twin fan model with the fans blowing into the center core. The airflow is quite good and there's a fair amount of air coming off the heatsink's top. For consumers who like "fail-safe" products, a twin fan heatsink has some attraction.
The fans are Innovative Model #BS701512M – a 70 x 15mm unit rated at 33 cfm @ 4200 rpm. I found them to be slightly noisier than a single YS Tech 26 cfm – I measured their noise at 65 dBA with a Radio Shack sound meter 8″ from the fan's intake, less than a Delta 38 (about 69 dBA). It's also safe to use a motherboard fan headers.
The "H" shape aluminum base and fins are copper (inner) and nickel (outer) plated. This copper-plated surface further enhances the heat transfer efficiency.
I don't know if it makes that much difference, but it's an interesting detail.
is flat but could stand a better finish – one sample showed pit marks in the base – lapping would be a plus. The base is soldered onto the aluminum top piece. Coolink did inform me that these units are "first production run" and that the finish will be better on subsequent units.
The clip is a good one – engages all three socket lugs. The only drawback is it requires a screwdriver to mount/dismount from the socket.
In summary, an interesting twin-fan, copper base, aluminum extrusion heatsink with a very secure clip.
The COOLINK H2Twin (H2T) was first tested on the CPU Die Simulator which gives results that are unaffected by motherboard influences. I then tested it on an Iwill KK266+, modified to read AMD's on-die diode, as an example of what users might see on their systems.
Die Simulator results place the COOLINK H2Twin (H2T) in the top rank of heatsinks (Heatsink Ranking).
With a better base finish, the COOLINK H2Twin (H2T) will most likely perform better, pushing it up further in the rankings. All told, this is a nice cooling solution for the performance and fail-safe minded consumer.
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Saturday's game against Queens Park Rangers was one played in terrible conditions, but despite that, your support was as fantastic and it was superb to see, particularly in the closing stages when we were chasing a winning goal, how your backing drove the team on.
The match also marked the first time this season that we have fielded an unchanged side, only reiterating the manager's belief in his group of players.
Come full time, I think a draw was probably a fair result and a reflection of the game as a whole, but after having led for so long and the determined back-to-the-wall efforts the team put in defending our lead, we were all a little disappointed come the final whistle.
That said, if someone had said before the Sheffield Wednesday game that we would take four points from a possible six, we would have certainly taken it.
As I have previously said, this league has improved since we were here two years ago and the quality of the opposition and the players, many of which have played at Premier League level, is extremely impressive alongside the huge monies being spent by the big clubs.
The competitiveness, ups and downs and twists and turns of the league results week-in, week-out means that in my opinion, consistency is what we must aim to achieve as has been the case with Wolves this season.
With this in mind, I have made the following observations. Firstly, Cardiff have only scored one Championship goal in October, but are still second in the league.
Middlesbrough, with no wins in their last five games, are still only five points off the top six, while Sheffield Wednesday have suffered four defeats in five games.
Leeds had lost their last three games before the weekend, Reading have only had one win in seven Championship games with four defeats and for QPR, Saturday's match was their fourth draw in five games and they have not won away since February.
Finally, prior to Saturday, Hull had gone 25 away games without a win, Sunderland have taken four points from their last ten games and have no wins in 11 and Burton have endured three defeats in last four games and have gone five matches without scoring.
Every team in the Sky Bet Championship will have a bad patch this season and it just so happened that ours came at the start of the campaign.
What we now need to do is to achieve consistent performance levels and results, but we must remember that there are still 99 points to play for between now and the end of the season and l truly believe that we have a squad capable of climbing up the league between now and then.
As always, l urge everyone to come along and get behind the team to help us achieve this on a weekly basis as your support can make all the difference.
Finally, l was made aware of Queens Park Rangers' website's comments on 'Three Players To Watch' prior to the weekend's game.
l put this down to mind games however – the players certainly should take no notice of articles such as this and should perhaps even take it as a compliment, particularly as David Wheater as he arguably played one of the best games of his time at the club on Saturday.
One way or another, their claims about our players' weaknesses were left unfounded come the final whistle and that is testament to the hard work that the team put in at the training ground.
This, coupled with the superb efforts of Karl Henry alongside the return of Josh Vela and Sammy Ameobi – three players who have felt like new signings in recent weeks – has me confident that the results will continue to come as we head towards the end of the year.
Elsewhere, we expect to hear the verdict on the ACV later this week and I will update you all as and when we have news.
We also have a number of offers available for supporters including £10 free personalisation on home shirts and any tickets purchased this week for midweek performances of our upcoming pantomime costing just £10 per person.
For more information on the above, please visit Bolton Central or call 0844 871 2932.
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It's been far too long since I last posted some of my grandfather's photographs of his service in the United States' draft army and the time he spent in Manila, Philippines during the interim between World War II and the Korean War. In honor of Veteran's Day today, I think it's time to get back to sharing more of the wonderful historical photographs that my pap took during his travels. He was fortunate enough not to have to serve during war, but he still witnessed its horrific aftermath. It's amazing and heartbreaking how much damage and loss you can still see in these pictures more than a year after the city was destroyed in the month-long Battle of Manila (February 3 – March 3, 1945), the climax of Japan's three-year military occupation of the Philippines during World War II. If you'd like to find out how my pap ended up in the Philippines in the first place, I suggest first reading the biography I've written about my pap (Thomas Alexander Piotrowski, Sr.) and then checking out the photographs that I've previously posted by searching under the "maternal grandfather" tag or by clicking here before continuing with more recent posts.
Moving on, here we have yet another photograph from the city of Manila which shows the utter destruction that happened to the city when American forces came to liberate the country during World War II. Japan attacked the Philippines the same day they bombed Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941 – and took over Manila almost a month later. I've touched upon the Battle of Manila in previous posts. Many people were interned and massacred and many of the city's cultural, governmental and civic buildings were decimated by bombing and shellfire.
Part of the reason why it's taken me so long to get back to this genealogical project is I am not 100% sure of the identify of this building. The ruins below could be of what's referred to as the New Manila Police Station or they could possibly be of the Hike Shoe Factory.
What I do know, according to some of the online research I've done and some information from a source, is that both buildings were located at opposite corners at the intersection of Isaac Peral Street (now United Nations Avenue) and San Marcelino Street. During the Battle of Manila, both the new police station and the three-story shoe factory along with other nearby buildings (i.e. the Manila Club, Santa Teresita College and San Pablo Church), were part of a Japanese stronghold in that section of the the city, with the police station as the focal point of the resistance. The American forces (1st Battalion of the 129th Infantry) eventually accessed the building, demolished it with artillery and tank fire and assumed control of the ruins. It took about eight full days to clear the Japanese from these buildings.
The Hike Shoe Factory was also destroyed in this battle. Apparently the "hike shoe" was a type of shoe worn by soldiers in the United States Navy, I'm assuming this was a type of high grade, modern hiking boot. Apparently it was made by the United States Shoe Co. that had a factory in Manila.
So which building is it? Was this the new police station after it was destroyed in the Battle of Manila? My reliable source John Tewell has identified this building as such. However, another picture of what's also supposedly the new police station doesn't resemble the building my pap captured on film. According to Wikipedia, the Manila Police Department transferred their headquarters in 1949 into a new building constructed using money from the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1948, so was this building instead the destroyed shoe factory before being rebuilt for the new and current police headquarters? There appears to be another building in the background – is the the Manila Club? If so, that would suggest this is the shoe factory as the club was reportedly located just north of the factory. I have seen maps that place the police station at both the northwest and northeast corners of the intersection. I have so many questions! If anybody can help me definitively identify this building and at which corner of the intersection it sits, I would very much appreciate it!
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Football - Briarcrest elementary football teams (grades 1 - 4) play in the Crosscheck league sponsored by Grace Evangelical Church. The 1st and 2nd grade boys play flag football, while the 3rd & 4th grade boys play tackle football. The 5th grade boys play on a 5th/6th combo team with the Middle School. The 5th grade boys will also have some 5th grade only games.
Cross Country - The Cross Country team (boys & girls -grades 3 - 5) run in the Memphis Youth Athletics league. The team practices twice a week with meets on Monday. Practice starts in Mid-August and the season ends in Mid-October.
Cheerleading - Sideline Cheer is available for girls in grades 1 – 5. Sideline squads cheer at the football games for their respective teams and is a non-competitive squad. In addition, the 5th grade girls can try out for the Middle School Competitive Squad. The cheer program is designed to be a feeder to BCMS and BCHS cheerleading program. For more information on the elementary cheerleading program, please contact Melissa J. Lane @ MJLane@briarcrest.com.
Boys and Girls grades 1 – 5 are invited to become a part of the Briarcrest basketball program. Signups begin in late September to determine the number of teams in each grade. There will be eight to ten players on each team. Teams participate in the Crosscheck, ESCRA, or PAA leagues. Players will be placed on a team based on his/her developmental level after evaluations from P.E. class and scheduled "Play Day."
Boys and Girls from Kindergarten to Grade 5 are encouraged to be a part of our track program. The track program is sponsored through the Shelby Youth Sports (SYS). Meets are scheduled on Saturdays. Generally, the runners have two practices per week.
Briarcrest offers baseball for boys in grades 1-4. Signups will begin in late February with games beginning in early May and ending in mid-June. 1st and 2nd grades will play coach pitch, and 3rd and 4th grades will play kid pitch. These teams participate in the Memphis Christian Recreation Association (MCRA) league.
JrK and SrK boys and girls can participate in our t-ball program. Briarcrest t-ball is an in house league where we play other Briarcrest teams. We usually have 4 or 5 teams with about 6 games each season. Registration starts in February with games played at Briarcrest on Saturday mornings. The season runs from late March to early May.
Lacrosse is offered to Briarcrest elementary students in grades 4- 5 (girls) and 3-5 (boys). The girls play on a combined 4th/5th grade team and the boys play on a combined 3rd/4th or 5th/6th grade team. Signups will begin in January with games beginning in March and ending in late April.
Students in grades SrK – 5 may participate on our swim team through the YMCA @ Quince. It is an 8-week session beginning in mid-February and ending in mid-April. The team practices twice a week and has two meets per season.
Required Athletic Forms
Athletic forms are required once a school year for students who plan to participate in a sport during the 2018-19 school year (including pre-season activities). The on-line document management system is called PrivIT. The required athletic forms are signed on-line. In addition, we need a current sports physical dated after 4/15/18 for your student. You can take a picture of the signed physical, with your smart phone, and upload it to your PrivIT account. The first step in this process is to create an account. The instructions and link are listed under "Athletic Forms" to the right. The 2018-19 athletic forms process is complete for your student after you have set up your account, signed the forms on-line, and uploaded a current sports physical. This process must be completed before the first practice.
Please contact Stella Barry @ 765-4601 if you have any questions about the required athletic forms/process.
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Robert Donaldson
Elementary Athletic Director
RDDonaldson@briarcrest.com
Stella Barry
Administrative Asst. - Elem Athletics
sdbarry@briarcrest.com
ESCRA Game Schedules
Grace Evan News
Privit - BCS Elementary
PvivIT Instructions
Elementary Cheer Commonly Asked Questions
Basketball League Champions
Stella D Barry
Congratulations to the 4th Grade Boys for winning the Crosscheck League Championship on Saturday. The final moments of the game were very intense as the Saints won in overtime, 26 - 24. Their league record was 9 - 1. Great job boys. Go Saints!!!
3rd Grade Boys Go For The Win
Jack Speakman (3rd Grade) receives the pass and looks for the next play. Go Saints!!!
5th Grade PAA BOYS' Basketball Team Win
Congratulation to the 5th Grade PAA Boys Basketball Team.
Go Saints!
The 2017 Cheer Squads worked hard this season practicing weekly to learn new cheers. The 3rd grade cheer squad show their spirit for the 3rd grade tackle team.
Girls Elem. Cross Country Team Qualifies for State
The elementary Cross Country Team did well at their meets at Shelby Farms this year. The girls qualified for state on Saturday, October 14. Go Saints!
Football Jamboree @ Grace Evan - Grades 1 - 4
Grace Evan had their Jamboree, Saturday, August 26 to kick off the 2017 football season. All the BCS teams were in action as they showed what they had learned over the last few weeks. Parker Pounds, Trey Leigh, Charlie Spann & Jackson Hood pose for a picture after their game. Briarcrest Elementary has 4 flag and 2 tackle teams. Games start after Labor Day. Go Saints!
Fall Sports Are Underway
Welcome back everyone! We are excited to see all of you. Football, Cross Country and Sideline Cheer practices have started. The football boys (flag and tackle- grades 1 - 4) attended the Grace Evan Jamboree on Saturday, August 25. The game schedules for football are out. Football games/meets start the first week in September. GO SAINTS!!!
PAA Basketball Champs
Robby Donaldson
Congratulations to the 5th grade boys and girls PAA basketball teams.
Elementary Competitive Cheer Squad Competes in the Dixie Cheer Compionship
Melissa Jernigan
The Briarcrest elementary competitive cheerleading squad competed in the Dixie Cheer Championship in Jackson, Mississippi on Saturday, December 3. The enthusiastic cheer squad of 14 girls, grades 3 - 5, completed their 2016 season by placing third in the junior recreation division. They received a squad trophy and each girl received a metal. This has been a great season filled with hard-work, determination and teamwork! We are so proud of these girls! Go Saints!!!
Elementary Competitive Cheer Showcase
The elementary and middle school competitive cheer squads performed for their parents at the Cheer Showcase on Thursday, December 7. Kim Avant & Caron Swatley presented each student with a rose. The girls gathered in a circle as Kim prayed with them about their upcoming competition.
5th Grade Boys & Girls Win the Turkey Shoot Basketball Championship
The 5th grade girls' basketball team played in the Turkey Shoot championship game against St. Louis and won. The 5th grade boys also competed and won their division by beating St. Dominic in the championship game. Go Saints!
3rd Grade Boys Win Championship
Congratulations to the Saints' 3rd grade tackle football team for winning the Crosscheck league championship. They won the championship game over MGM on Saturday by a final score of 14-6. They finished the year with a perfect 10-0 record. They were coached by Darrick Franklin and assistants were Jerry Corless, Darryl Gresham, Darin Pounds, Chris Risner and Bobby Williams. A special thanks to the 3rd grade cheer squad who cheered them to victory each week and Teresa Bascom, cheer sponsor.
Elementary Cross Country Participants Qualify for State
The Cross Country team did a fantastic job this year. The girls' team placed 5th place overall in the West Tennessee Regional Championship and the boys placed 8th overall. The following students qualified for State:
Girls Boys
Iris Baldridge Cooper Littleton
Isabel Baldridge Anthony Mire
Elizabeth Ganier Nash Rendall
Savannah Grant Langston Sullivan
Hastings Hasseltine
Keira Russell
Taylor Sullivan
The State Meet will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, October 21 @ Victor Ashe Park.
Great Job Saints!!!
First Elem Cross Country Meet
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Football News - Jamboree - Grades 1 - 4
Grace Evan will have their 2016 elementary football jamboree Saturday, August 27. Click the Grace Evan tab from the BCS elementary athletic webpage, then documents on the top menu tab to view/print the jamboree schedule.
Four teams competed in the 2016 Crosscheck tournament over the week-end. 2 teams won the championship games and 2 teams finished as runner-up. Congratulations to all the teams for a great season.
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An example of that would be heroin. Heroin is derived from the poppy plant. Opioids are common in medical care to be used as pain-killers. They also cause a euphoric effect.
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There are no established medical uses for W-18. The fact that it is so unknown is what makes it so scary. When there's not enough information, we can't know what claims are true or what claims are false.
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Remain Episcopal in the Diocese of San Joaquin: The name of this faith community that has existed in the Central Valley since 2003 could not be more reflective of its purpose.
Formed well in anticipation of a concern that has come to pass -- the Dec. 8 vote by the local diocese to split from the Episcopal Church and become Anglican, placing itself under the authority of the South American Province of the Southern Cone -- the group has three main goals according to its Web site, remainepiscopal.org:
* To serve and protect those who wish to remain in the Episcopal Church in the San Joaquin Valley.
* To actively invite others into the "inclusive Episcopal community."
* To educate and promote "the ethos of the Episcopal Church."
"We feel very strongly that we're not starting a new church, but that we are maintaining the Episcopal Church. The other folks are leaving," said Remain Episcopal member Tim Vivian. "It's drawn us very close together because we all felt like outcasts."
Remain Episcopal's president, Cindy Smith, a Bakersfield resident, said she was disappointed with the diocesan decision to secede. Nevertheless, she said, "I have moved through my grief, and what I have now is a renewed hope for what the future holds.
"Our goal now is to continue on and to rebuild," she said, "to reconstitute the diocese and to get together as a faith community to worship" and "continue the affiliation with the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal presence within the valley."
According to Smith, the local Remain Episcopal group is made up of about 20 believers -- there could be as many as 400 throughout the entire valley, she said -- who did not feel comfortable at any one of Bakersfield's three Episcopal parishes belonging to the San Joaquin Diocese, or those who, having moved to Bakersfield, found that none of the local churches were a match for them.
"When they got with our group they said, 'Ah, this is what I remember. This is an Episcopal church,'" she said.
Locally, the group has been meeting mostly in people's homes on a rotation basis, Smith said. The gatherings are led by laypeople.
Making sense of the split
"If it wasn't for Remain Episcopal ,we would be out in the dark," said Pat Bentley, a local marriage and family therapist who has felt at home with Remain Episcopal when she has worshipped with the group. Until recently, she attended St. Paul's Episcopal Parish downtown.
Bentley, who was not in favor of separation, said she and her family "specifically joined the Episcopal Church nine years ago because it was presented to us as a very open, accepting church, and in the kind of work I do it was important to have universal acceptance of others."
She and her husband wanted to instill this sense of acceptance upon their boys, who are now 14 and 18. But she and her husband became concerned as they learned more about the conservative San Joaquin Diocese and its bishop, the Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield, and the ever-widening rift that was developing between them and the progressive Episcopal Church, which is a province within the 77 million-member Worldwide Anglican Communion.
"This diocese is really out of step," Bentley said. "When this (friction leading to a split) all began with the church, the bishop sent out a letter, and we were assured many times that this was not about gays and lesbians," she said, referring to the most publicized theological differences between Schofield and the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori.
The presiding bishop favors the ordination of women and gay priests and the blessing of same-sex unions, all opposed by Schofield.
"As a parishioner, I feel very disappointed after having read his (Schofield's) most recent letter to diocesan members because, in my eyes, it was very focused on gay and lesbian issues," she said.
Media representatives of the San Joaquin Diocese, which has begun calling itself Anglican, are away for the holidays and could not be reached for comment. The Californian was told on Monday that no one else working for the diocese, including the bishop, was available for comment.
Agreeing to disagree
Unlike the Bentleys, however, other Remain Episcopal members, as well as local parish leaders who have chosen to follow Schofield into the Anglican fold, agree that the split was not over gay issues and women priests -- but they disagree over just what precipitated it.
"I think it's a fight over how one understands the Bible and tradition of the church," said Vivian, who is an assistant professor of religious studies at Cal State Bakersfield, where he has taught since 1990. "To me, the other side is not being Anglican. They're treating it as fundamentalists do. And Anglican tradition is not fundamentalist about the Bible."
For his part, the Rev. John Riebe, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in southwest Bakersfield, told The Californian earlier this month that the separation is due to "significant differences of opinion about the divinity of the person of Jesus Christ and the role of the authority of Holy Scripture."
Vivian is an Episcopal priest "canonically resident in Los Angeles," meaning he can perform priestly duties in that diocese but not in San Joaquin until he is locally licensed. Only a bishop can license him, and Smith hopes that once one is appointed, that person will do that for Vivian.
Before that, however, a lot would have to happen.
According to the Episcopal Church's Web site, episcopalchurch.org, Jefferts Schori asked Schofield in a Dec. 14 letter to confirm that he understands himself "to have departed the Episcopal Church" and to be "no longer functioning as a member of the (Episcopal) clergy."
Barring a change of heart from Schofield, once he confirms his status to Jefferts Schori and a waiting period elapses -- allowing for several levels of checks and balances to ensure that church law is being observed -- the presiding bishop will, according to Vivian, declare the diocese "vacant" and appoint an interim bishop.
"That's my understanding of what will happen," he said, "and we would petition to form a parish, and I would be the interim priest." Smith said Bakersfield Episcopal believers have the added challenge of not having a single parish or priest to turn to, unlike believers in several cities throughout the valley -- including Lodi, Stockton, Fresno, Hanford and San Andreas -- that each have a local parish that has chosen to remain Episcopal.
The Rev. Keith Axberg has been the rector of Fresno's Holy Family Episcopal Church since June 2003. He said he has seen church growth reflected in average Sunday attendance, which was 85 when he started there and is now 130.
"At our annual parish meeting in January of 2004," Axberg said, "we affirmed our desire to remain in the Episcopal church as a parish." He said that even back then, Bishop Schofield was already working to remove the diocese from the Episcopal Church.
"We've never needed to reaffirm that we are Episcopalian because that is who we are, just like we don't need to reaffirm that Jesus is Lord because he always has been. Nothing has changed," he said.
Bentley spoke about a little-mentioned group inevitably caught up in the Episcopal/Anglican schism. "The ultimate losers are our children because I've seen such disillusionment within the church in the youth sector," she said. "They're fed up with all the arguments and the constant conflict within the church." Remain Episcopal gives her hope. "At least now we do get to remain with the national church and the doctrine that we believed in when we joined the Episcopal Church," Bentley said.
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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
Myanmar should experience feelings of "shame" after attempting to convince the world that it is willing to take back hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled an "ethnic cleansing campaign" last year, given that "not a single" one has returned officially, the United Nations human rights chief declared on Wednesday.
Addressing the Human Rights Council after giving an update on the refugee crisis that has seen more than 700,000 Rohingya people flee to Bangladesh to escape a security clampdown in Myanmar, Zeid urged the UN Security Council to refer the Member State to the International Criminal Court (ICC) immediately.
"We are not fools," he said.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights also responded to the Myanmar Government representative's comments that it was a "body committed to the defence of human rights".
This, Mr. Zeid said, "almost creates a new category of absurdity" – a first during his mandate as the UN's top human rights official.
Earlier at the Human Rights Council, Mr. Zeid said that Myanmar had "expended considerable energy" challenging allegations that its security forces carried out ethnic cleansing against the mainly Muslim Rohingya.
In January, he continued, the Government of Myanmar had signed a repatriation deal with Bangladesh, which continues to host the communities who fled their homes last August.
Despite this agreement, "not a single Rohingya refugee has returned under the formal framework agreed with Bangladesh", he said, while "many – if not all – of those who have returned … have been detained".
Citing one example, the High Commissioner said that between January and April this year, 58 Rohingya who returned were arrested and convicted on unspecified charges.
"They then received a Presidential pardon, but have simply been transferred from Buthidaung prison (in northern Rakhine province) to a so-called 'reception centre'," he explained.
All the while more Rohingya continue to seek shelter in Bangladesh, he continued, noting that as of mid-June, there have been 11,432 new arrivals there.
On the issue of ICC involvement in the issue, as he had urged, Mr. Zeid noted that the results of its fact-finding mission to Myanmar were due to be submitted "in a matter of weeks".
The UN official also repeated a call for access to northern Rakhine state on behalf of the Human Rights Council and his own office, OHCHR.
Myanmar should do this "instead of coming out with one bogus national commission after another", the High Commissioner said – a reference to the country's recent announcement that it intended to set up an "Independent Commission of Enquiry" to investigate alleged rights violations by Rohingya militants known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) last year.
While the Government claimed these attacks the cause of the current crisis, the UN rights chief explained that this was not possible since "cycles of violence" against the Rohingya "long pre-date ARSA, which was reportedly established in 2013".
Barring any special meetings called by the Council after this 38th scheduled session, Mr. Zeid's address was his last in his official capacity as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights before he steps down.
Myanmar, speaking as a concerned country, said that many of the allegations in the address by the High Commissioner were flawed, incorrect and misleading. ARSA had committed heinous and shocking atrocities, its delegatation said, adding that the root cause of the tragedy was terrorism. On the subject of repatriation, Myanmar was doing its utmost to repatriate the displaced persons as soon as possible, the delegation insisted.
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Business and civic leaders alike have reason to celebrate the Treasury Department's proposed regulations for investment in so-called "opportunity zones." Released one week ago, the regulations clarify two new sections of the tax code enacted as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, both of which aimed to spur economic investment in historically distressed or impoverished communities. The early consensus among interested professionals is optimistic, as the regulations make it easier for private equity investors to defer taxes on capital gains by funding investment in opportunity zone funds. In that way, the intent of the program — "to create a brighter tomorrow for communities that have been left behind," in the words of Sen. Tim Scott — stands a real chance of succeeding. Certainly, the benefits to real estate investors in particular are obvious and substantial. And still an important question remains to be answered: whether the flow of capital will pour predominantly into gentrifying urban neighborhoods already attractive to investors, or if small towns and rural communities also will be rejuvenated by new investment?
But first some background on the program. The tax benefits of an opportunity zone investment operate in two phases. In the first phase, any individual — including a "C" corporation, "S" corporation, REIT, or trust, to name a few — can roll over capital gain from an unrelated asset into a "qualified opportunity fund" within 180 days of the asset's sale. The individual can see a 10 percent reduction in his tax bill on the capital gain if he holds onto the investment for five years, or a 15 percent reduction if he holds on for seven years. The second phase allows the opportunity fund investor to eliminate his tax exposure on the new investment altogether. Specifically, if the individual holds onto the qualified opportunity zone investment for a period of 10 years, then any gains realized on that investment are tax-exempt. The particulars, of which there are many, are laid out in Internal Revenue Code Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2.
Real estate experts compare these new provisions to Internal Revenue Code Section 1031, commonly called the "like-kind exchange." Traditionally a boon to real estate investors who hold property for productive use or investment, 1031 states that no gain or loss is recognized on the exchange of "like kind" properties. The upshot is that both 1031 and the opportunity zone provisions allow investors to defer capital gains taxes by reinvesting proceeds.
The early data shows that real estate investment is up across the country. One source reported that 2018 sales of development sites in opportunity zones nationwide are up 80 percent compared with the first three quarters of 2017. And future projections coming from the White House are even bolder. "I think there's going to be over $100 billion dollars in private capital that will be invested in opportunity zones," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Now, of the roughly 8,700 census tracts that affect some 35 million, many (if not most) of the opportunity zones encompass areas near large population centers. Take a look at the nationwide map of opportunity zones here. But, recent reporting in my home state of Nebraska shows both small and large markets taking advantage of the program. Just last week, a $300 million neighborhood redevelopment project was announced in an historically underserved segment of Omaha's north downtown neighborhood, promising to transform previously neglected warehouses and historic buildings into housing and work spaces. The project has already attracted a homegrown tech company as its first tenant. Separately, in a nearby city of some 6,000 people, developers and city councilmembers are equally excited about a plan for redevelopment of the city's "market street" area, which includes "turning a former grain elevator into an outdoor entertainment space." Both the Omaha plan and the small-city plan are spearheaded by private investment. Both the Omaha plan and the small-city plan tackle redevelopment of areas that lie in the middle of opportunity zone districts.
Much remains to be seen about this program. For one, the draft regulations must undergo 60 days of public comment before being finalized sometime next spring. Many investors are waiting on a second round of IRS guidance to clarify ambiguities, especially about an investment fund's flexibility to buy and sell assets. However, early indications from private investors and public leaders illustrate the program's potential to spark activity in historically distressed or neglected communities.
This article was originally published on realclearmarkets.com.
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Britain's Got Talent 2019 winner is Colin Thackery
Ten acts made it through to the Grand Final
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Colin Thackery (Image: ITV)
The winners of this year's Britain's Got Talent have been revealed.
The hit ITV show, which saw Ant and Dec reunite in 2019, aired on ITV on Sunday night with millions of viewers tuning in to see if their favourite would claim the £250,000 prize and the chance to perform at the Royal Variety Performance.
From a mystic former police dog to a talented pianist, the showcase of Britain's eclectic mix of talent once again revealed the wide range of extraordinary abilities the people of the UK have up their sleeve.
The primary schoolchildren of Flakefleet Primary School, singers, magicians, a talented comedian and even an escapologist also took to the stage in front of the four judges David Walliams, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell, before the winner was chosen.
Colin Thackery, X and Ben Hart made it through to the final three contestants.
Marc Spellman took off his mask
Ben Hart came third, with X second.
But there can only be one winner and after watching the incredible talent the country has to offer perform, the viewers picked Colin Thackery as their winner.
Britain's Got Talent magician X's identity revealed as last year's star Marc Spellman
This year's top performer, as ever, was chosen by the British public before they were crowned in front of the nation.
The show aired on Sunday from 7.30pm on ITV but is available to watch again on the ITV Hub.
The finalists
Flakefleet Primary School
Flakefleet Primary School (Image: ITV)
Judges chose to take the primary schoolchildren to the final - despite an eerie performance from The Haunting.
The former Golden Buzzer winners took to the stage on Monday night and made it through to the finals.
(Image: ITV)
This group of magicians won the public vote on Tuesday night after impressing the judges with their performance.
The group left them gobsmacked when they gave each judge a task and predicted the outcome during the live show.
Siobhan Phillips
Despite a mix-up on the leaderboard on Wednesday night's show , Siobhan Phillips was still in the running.
The singer and comedian from Wakefield impressed judges with her piano rendition of a song she wrote about being a mum.
Colin Thackery
Veteran Colin paid tribute to his late wife after reaching the Britain's Got Talent final on Wednesday night.
Colin won viewers hearts with a moving performance of 'We'll Meet Again' with his fellow war veterans.
Kojo Anim
Comedian Kojo was picked as Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer when he auditioned earlier on in the series.
He has previously opened up for other comedians including Kevin Hart and Chris Rock.
Kojo was chosen over John Archer by the judges on Wednesday night.
Ben was the first act to find out their fate in Thursday night's semi-final alongside a nervous Mark McMullen and Graeme Mathews.
The magician wowed the judges with his magic trick of making cards vanish into thin air before reappearing in other places that were unexpected. He also performed an impressive trick involving a glass that left several viewers absolutely baffled.
Mark McMullan
Northern Irish singer Mark was put through to the final by the eager judges who gave him a round of applause after his rendition of You Will be Found from the musical, Dear Evan Hansen.
Magic act X won the public vote in the last semi-final on Friday night.
(Image: Publicity Picture)
Escapologist and stuntman Jonathan Goodwin was the second act to go through on Friday after coming in the top three.
Both David Walliams and Alesha Dixon opted to send him to the final, but Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell chose dance act Libby and Charlie instead.
This meant the winner was chosen by the public vote, when Jonathan came out on top.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a form of arthritis that causes pain, swelling, stiffness and loss of function in your joints. It can affect any joint but is common in the wrist and fingers.
More women than men get rheumatoid arthritis. It often starts in middle age and is most common in older people. You might have the disease for only a short time, or symptoms might come and go. The severe form can last a lifetime.
Rheumatoid arthritis is different from osteoarthritis, the common arthritis that often comes with older age. RA can affect body parts besides joints, such as your eyes, mouth and lungs. RA is an autoimmune disease, which means the arthritis results from your immune system attacking your body's own tissues.
No one knows what causes rheumatoid arthritis. Genes, environment, and hormones might contribute. Treatments include medicine, lifestyle changes, and surgery. These can slow or stop joint damage and reduce pain and swelling.
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Can a Canine Detect Polar Bear Pregnancy?
CINCINNATI – (November 4, 2013) What do a two-year-old Beagle, named "Elvis," and scientists at the Cincinnati Zoo's Center for Conservation & Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) have in common? Well, the two are working together to determine pregnancy in polar bears found in zoos throughout North America.
Worldwide, traditional methods of pregnancy detection, such as progesterone monitoring and ultrasound examination, are not effective at diagnosing pregnancy in polar bears, so scientists at CREW have gotten creative. In collaboration with professional dog trainer, Matt Skogen, owner of Iron Heart High Performance Working Dogs, and a beagle named Elvis, CREW is trying to determine if the sensitive noses of canines can distinguish a pregnant polar bear from a non-pregnant bear simply by smelling fecal samples.
"This is the first time sniffer dogs have been used in biomedical research as it relates to any wildlife species, making this project truly one-of-a-kind," said Dr. Erin Curry, a Post-Doctoral Fellow studying polar bear reproduction at CREW. Currently, Elvis is demonstrating approximately 97% accuracy in positive identification of samples from pregnant females – which is not only incredible but nearly as accurate as human pregnancy tests that are available over-the-counter.
"Collaboration is crucial in all conservation efforts, but especially when it comes to such 'out of the box' ventures as this," said Dr. Curry. "Matt and his team at IronHeart have embraced this project completely, spending countless hours training Elvis for this exceptionally unique purpose, and their contribution to CREW's research has been invaluable." For CREW's study, over 200 training samples from polar bears of known pregnancy status were chosen retrospectively and sent to Iron Heart, where Elvis is learning to identify the samples that came from pregnant females.
Beginning in January 2013, Matt began training Elvis for approximately one hour a day. During that initial training and testing period, Elvis was already working at a high accuracy level, but his real exam is occurring right now.
"When I was contacted by Dr. Curry at the Cincinnati Zoo I was honored to have the opportunity to work on such a unique project," said Matt Skogen, Professional Working Dog Trainer, at IronHeart High Performance Working Dogs. "I felt the project was a noble cause and jumped at the opportunity to provide the research and work toward a positive conclusion."
On October 28, Elvis was presented with 34 samples, two samples from each of the 17 polar bears that mated this past spring. The 17 female polar bears, including the Cincinnati Zoo's "Berit," living in 14 zoos throughout the U.S. and Canada are potentially pregnant. Over the next two weeks, Elvis will be testing and double-testing samples to come up with predictions for this cubbing season. Once Elvis' work is complete, his results will be shared with Dr. Curry and she will begin the process of reaching out to institutions, informing them on whether or not Elvis indicated that their polar bear(s) is pregnant. Those institutions should have a few weeks to further prepare for impending births since the majority of births occur from Nov. 13 to Dec. 15.
Pregnant bears that enter dens in the wild are generally undisturbed and do not eat, drink, or defecate for months. In contrast, non-pregnant bears do not spend the winter in dens. Zoos do their best to mimic wild conditions most appropriate for their bears so an accurate pregnancy test would be very helpful in guiding the management strategy throughout the winter season. Pregnant bears could be properly isolated with minimal disruption while being closely monitored by camera 24/7 in anticipation of a birth, whereas non-pregnant females would be allowed to enjoy the cool winter season swimming and socializing out on exhibit with male and/or female counterparts.
"Figuring out which component of the samples Elvis recognizes in the pregnant bears may allow us to work backwards and finally identify the polar bear pregnancy factor, once and for all," said Dr. Curry. "In addition, we are considering how sniffer dogs can continue to be trained and work in both the wild and zoos to help save some of the world's most endangered animals."
There is growing interest in the utilization of dogs for medical purposes. Trained sniffer dogs are employed in a variety of roles, including the detection of food allergens, the onset of seizures in epileptics, and alterations in blood sugar in diabetics. Some groups have even trained dogs to distinguish breath, blood, and fecal samples originating from human patients with lung, ovarian, and colon cancers from those of healthy individuals.
Polar bears depend on sea ice for everything (hunting, denning, finding mates). Global warming is causing a decrease in the amount of sea ice, which in turn has shortened the hunting season, so polar bears have less time to hunt and put on enough fat to survive the summer months. Polar bears have been listed as a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act. The number of polar bears in the wild is expected to decline primarily due to starvation and decreased reproduction. At the 2009 meeting of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, scientists reported that of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears: 8 are declining, 3 are stable, and only 1 is increasing (data not available for the other 7).
Unless we take action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming, we could lose 2/3 of the world's polar bears by mid-century and all of them by the end of the century. "Polar bears are a high profile, flagship species for conservation. Scientists are diligently trying to learn all we can about them, in both the wild and zoos, as we develop action plans for their survival," said Dr. Curry. "It is not unlikely that working with Elvis will be a critical factor in unlocking the mysteries of polar bear reproduction, contributing towards saving one of the world's most beloved animals."
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday refused to commit to "basic transparency" about Hunter Biden's alleged divestment from an investment fund controlled by Chinese state-owned entities or confirm that the first son's infamous lost laptop is authentic when pressed by The Post.
Hunter Biden's attorney said last month — less than a week after President Biden's virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — that his client had finally divested his 10 percent stake in the firm, called BHR Partners, but offered no further details on the identity of the buyer or the transaction terms.
The Post asked Psaki at Monday's White House briefing if she would "commit to basic transparency about that transaction, including the name of the buyer, the dollar amount and the timing."
"The president's son is not an employee of the federal government," Psaki shot back. "So I'd point you to his representatives."
When The Post noted that "the first son's attorney didn't give any information on the transaction," Psaki repeated herself and cut off the line of questioning.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to commit to "basic transparency" about President Biden's son Hunter divesting from a Chinese fund.
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"You can go to the representative of the person who is not an employee of the federal government," she said, without using Hunter Biden's name.
"I think we have to move on," she added before calling on a different reporter.
Hunter Biden's attorney Chris Clark has not responded to The Post's repeated requests for information on the terms of the transaction.
Psaki separately swatted down a question about Post columnist Miranda Devine's new book "The Laptop From Hell," which was released last week.
'More money than God': Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
The Post asked Psaki to "confirm that the laptop is indeed authentic, and not Russian disinformation, as you seemed to suggest on Twitter last year."
Declining to do so, Psaki said, "As it relates to the book, I've neither had the time or interest in exploring or reading the book."
BHR Partners was registered 12 days after Hunter joined his father aboard Air Force Two for a 2013 trip to Beijing.
The New York Times last month highlighted the role of BHR in a $3.8 billion deal in 2016 that transferred control of a Congolese cobalt mine from a US company to the firm China Molybdenum. Cobalt is a key component in electric car batteries.
Hunter Biden's attorney previosly claimed that he has divested from his stake in the Chinese BHR Partners
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Clark told The Times his client "no longer holds any interest, directly or indirectly, in either BHR or Skaneateles," referring to a corporation that previously owned Hunter Biden's one-tenth share of the firm.
All details regarding the divestment are shrouded in mystery. It's unclear, for example, whether Hunter Biden was paid by Chinese government-linked entities that control the company — or if he simply transferred his ownership to another person, such as a family member, without compensation.
It's also unclear if the divestment happened before or after Hunter's father held the three-and-a-half hour virtual summit with Xi.
Biden often speaks of China as an electric-car rival, despite his son's role helping the Chinese acquire cobalt. He said last month that he consulted his son about his trip to an anti-global warming conference in Glasgow, Scotland — a rare admission of the first son's influence on official policy.
The links between the elder Biden and his son's business ventures often are murky.
The then-second son was paid a reported $1 million per year to serve on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma while then-Vice President Biden controlled the Obama administration's Ukraine policy. Hunter Biden had no relevant industry experience at the time.
In October, Hunter Biden earned $375,000 from the unknown buyers of five prints of his novice artworks ahead of a West Coast art showing attended by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Three months earlier, Biden had nominated Garcetti to be ambassador to India, which meant the mayor's appearance at the show triggered new ethics questions.
Psaki declined to discuss Biden's disinvestment claiming that he is not a federal employee.
A 2017 email recovered from Hunter Biden's laptop described a 10 percent set-aside for "the big guy" as part of a prospective deal involving a Chinese energy company. Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski said Joe Biden was the "big guy."
Also, documents and photos from the laptop indicate Joe Biden attended a 2015 DC dinner with a group of his son's associates — including a trio of Kazakhs and the Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov. A Senate report released last year said a firm linked to Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from Baturina in 2014.
A photo depicts Joe Biden posing with the Kazakhstani group at the dinner. One day after the gathering, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi emailed the then-second son to thank him for the opportunity to meet his father.
BHR Partners was reportedly set up just 12 days after Hunter Biden went on a trip to China with his father in 2013 while he was the vice president.
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Photos and emails published by The Post indicate that Joe Biden in 2015 hosted his son and a group of Mexican business associates at the vice president's official residence. In 2016, Hunter Biden apparently emailed one of those associates while aboard Air Force Two for an official visit to Mexico, complaining that he hadn't received reciprocal business favors after "I have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the F'ing White House and the Vice President's house and the inauguration."
Biden said last year that members of his family would not hold any business role that conflicts with "or appears to be in conflict" with his job as president, but until his lawyer's weekend statement, the White House had repeatedly said the first son was still working to "unwind" his Chinese holdings.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) — By day's end Feb. 15, members of the U.S. Senate had rejected four immigration proposals, leaving it unclear how lawmakers will address overall immigration reform and keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in place.
Late that afternoon, Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, issued an urgent alert to Catholics in his archdiocese to raise their voices "to support the 'Dreamers'" and contact their senators and representatives to vote for a bipartisan measure to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which is set to expire March 5.
Needing 60 votes for Senate passage, a bipartisan measure that included a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million Dreamers — those eligible for DACA — and $25 billion for a border wall failed by six votes. The final vote was 54-45. A bill the Trump administration was supporting was defeated 39 to 60. Two other bills also failed.
The U.S. House was pressing on with its own bill, which by mid-day Feb. 16 was not yet up for a floor vote. Described as "hard line" by opponents, it includes keeping DACA in place, funding a border wall, ending the Diversity Immigrant Visa program, limiting family-based visas, requiring employers to verify job applicants' immigration status and withholding federal grants from so-called "sanctuary" cities.
Other Catholic leaders decried lawmakers' failure to provide protections for DACA recipients.
"While thankful for the bipartisan majority support for protecting DACA youth, it is unconscionable that nearly 800,000 will continue to live in fear and uncertainty," she said Feb. 15.
"As it has for more than 100 years, Catholic Charities will continue to stand with and advocate on behalf of migrants and others in need. Not because they are migrants but because they are children of God," she said.
Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, echoed that disappointment, saying: "These young women and men have done nothing wrong and have known life only in the United States. The Dreamers who are enrolled at Notre Dame are also poised to make lasting contributions to the United States.
Even if the legislation seems to be stalling, some like Kevin Appleby, senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York, still see hope.
Since September, when President Donald Trump announced he was ending the Obama-era program and told Congress to come up with a legislative fix, the U.S. Catholic bishops individually and as a body have been urging Congress to protect DACA.
Since 2012, DACA has allowed some individuals brought as minors to the United States by their parents without legal permission to receive a renewable two-year period of protection from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit. As of 2017, approximately 800,000 individuals had DACA status.
Since Trump rescinded the program, many immigration advocates have urged members of Congress to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, which has long been proposed. The bill is what gives DACA recipients the "Dreamer" name.
In Arizona in late January, Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger of Tucson and his predecessor, now-retired Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, urged passage of a "clean" bill, like the DREAM Act, to preserve DACA. Their commentary was posted on the diocesan Facebook page.
"While all would agree that reasonable border protection is needed and while clearly countries have a right to protect their borders, it is wrong to barter the lives of these young people by making their protection contingent on a wall or stringent border protection that is unreasonable and a waste of taxpayer's money. Congress should pass the DREAM Act as a stand-alone bill," they said.
In a Feb. 2 letter to Arkansas' senators and representatives in Congress, Bishop Anthony B. Taylor called for grass-roots bipartisan support for "a just and humane solution for the Dreamers whose fate is in your hands." He, too, urged they pass a narrowly focused bill to save DACA.
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. Literally, and finished were the heavens and the earth, the emphatic position being occupied by the verb. With the creation of man upon the sixth day the Divine Artificer's labors were brought to a termination, and his work to a completion. The two ideas of cessation and perfection are embraced in the import of calais. Not simply had Elohim paused in his activity, but the Divine idea of his universe had been realized. The finished world was a cosmos, arranged, ornamented, and filled with organized, sentient, and rational beings, with plants, animals, and man; and now the resplendent fabric shone before him a magnificent success—"lo! very good." This appears to be by no means obscurely hinted at in the appended clause, and all the host of them, which suggests the picture of a military armament arranged in marching order. Tsebaam, derived from tsaba, to go forth as a soldier (Gesenius), to join together for service (Furst), and applied to the angels ( στρατία οὐράνιος, Luke 2:13; 1 Kings 22:19; 2 Chronicles 18:18; Psalms 148:2) and to the celestial bodies ( δυ ì ναμεις τῶ ν οὐ ρανῶ ν, Matthew 24:29. Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 40:26; Daniel 8:10), here includes, by Zeugma, the material heavens and earth with the angelic and human races (cf. Nehemiah 9:6). If the primary signification of the root be splendor, glory, like tsavah, to some forth or shine out as a star (T. Lewis), then will the LXX. and the Vulgate be correct in translating πᾶ ς ὁ κο ì σμος αὐ τῶ ν and omnis ornatus eorum, the conception being that when the heavens and the earth were completed they were a brilliant army.
And on the seventh day God (Elohim) ended his work which he had made. To avert the possibility of imagining that any portion of the seventh day was consumed in working, which the English version seems to favor, the LXX; the Samaritan, and Syriac versions insert the sixth day in the text instead of the seventh. Calvin, Drusius, Le Clerc, Rosenmüller, and Kalisch translate had finished. Others understand the sense to be declared the work to be finished, while Baumgarten and Delitzsch regard the resting as included in the completion of the work, and Von Bohlen thinks "the language is not quite precise." But calah followed by min signifies to cease from prosecuting any work (Exodus 34:33; 1 Samuel 10:13; Ezekiel 43:23), and this was, negatively, the aspect of that sabbatic rest into which the Creator entered. And he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Shavath, the primary idea of which is to sit still, depicts Elohim as desisting from his creative labors, and assuming a posture of quiescent repose. The expression is a pure anthropomorphism. "He who fainteth not, neither is weary" (Isaiah 40:28), can be conceived of neither as resting nor as needing rest through either exhaustion or fatigue. Cessation from previous occupation is all that is implied in the figure, and is quite compatible with continuous activity in other directions. John 5:17 represents the Father as working from that period onward in the preservation and redemption of that world which by his preceding labors he had created and made.
And God blessed the seventh day. The blessing (cf. Genesis 1:22, Genesis 1:28) of the seventh day implied—
1. That it was thereby declared to be the special object of the Divine favor.
2. That it was thenceforth to be a day or epoch of blessing for his creation. And—
3. That it was to be invested with a permanence which did not belong to the other six days—every one of which passed away and gave place to a successor. And sanctified it. Literally, declared it holy, or set it apart for holy purposes. As afterwards Mount Sinai was sanctified (Exodus 19:23), or, for the time being, invested with a sacred character as the residence of God; and Aaron and his sons were sanctified, or consecrated to the priestly office (Exodus 29:44); and the year of Jubilee was sanctified, or devoted to the purposes of religion (Le Genesis 25:10), so here was the seventh day sanctified, or instituted in the interests of holiness, and as such proclaimed to be a holy day. Because that in it he had rested from all his work which God had created and made. Literally, created to make, the exact import of which has been variously explained. The " ω}n h!rcato o( qeo&j poih=sai" of the LXX. is obviously incorrect. Calvin, Ainsworth, Bush, et alii take the second verb emphatice, as intensifying the action of the first, and conveying the idea of a perfect creation. Kalisch, Alford, and others explain the second as epexegetic of the first, as in the similar phrases, "spoke, saying, literally, spoke to speak" (Exodus 6:10), and "labored to do" (Ecclesiastes 2:11). Onkelos, the Vulgate (quod Dens creavit ut faceret), Calvin, Tayler Lewis, &c. understand the infinitive in a relic sense, as expressive of the purpose for which the heavens and the earth were at first created, viz; that by the six days' work they might be fashioned into a cosmos. It has been observed that the usual concluding formula is not appended to the record of the seventh day, and the reason has perhaps been declared by Augustine: "Dies autem septimus sine vespera eat, nee habet occasum, quia sanctificasti eum ad permansionem sempiternam" ('Confess.,' 13:36). But now what was this seventh day which received Elohim's benediction? On the principle of interpretation applied to the creative days, this must be regarded as a period of indefinite duration, compounding to the human era of both Scripture and geology. But other Scriptures (Exodus 20:8; Exodus 23:12; Deuteronomy 5:12, &c.) show that the Hebrews were enjoined by God to observe a seventh day rest in imitation of himself. There are also indications that sabbatic observance was not unknown to the patriarchs (Genesis 29:27, Genesis 29:28), to the antediluvians (Genesis 8:6-12), and to Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:3). Profane history likewise vouches for the veracity of the statement of Josephus, that "there is not any city of the Grecians, nor any of the barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever, whither our custom of resting on the seventh day hath not come" ('Contra Apionem,' 2.40). The ancient Persians, Indians, and Germans esteemed the number seven as sacred. By the Greeks and Phoenicians a sacred character was ascribed to the seventh day. The Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and other nations of antiquity were acquainted with the hebdomadal division of time. Travelers have detected traces of it among the African and American aborigines. To account for its existence among nations so widely apart, both chronologically and geographically, recourse has been had to some violent hypotheses; as, e.g; to the number of the primary planets known to the ancients (Humboldt), the division of a lunar month into four nearly equal periods of seven days (Ideler, Baden Powell, &c.), Jewish example (Josephus). Its true genesis, however, must be sought for in the primitive observance of a seventh day rest in accordance with Divine appointment. Precisely as we reason that the early and widespread prevalence of sacrifice can only be explained by an authoritative revelation to the first parents of the human family of such a mode of worship, so do we conclude that a seventh day sabbath must have been prescribed to man in Eden. The question then arises, Is this sabbath also referred to in the Mosaic record of the seventh day? The popular Belief is that the institution of the weekly sabbath alone is the subject spoken of in the opening verses of the present chapter; and the language of Exodus 20:11 may at first sight appear to warrant this conclusion. A more careful consideration of the phraseology employed by Moses, how ever, shows that in the mind of the Hebrew lawgiver there existed a distinction between God's seventh day and man's sabbath, and that, instead of identifying the two, he meant to teach that the first was the reason of the second; as thus—"In six days God made …. and rested on the seventh day; where fore God blessed the (weekly) sabbath day, and hallowed it." Here it is commonly assumed that the words are exactly parallel to those in Genesis 2:3, and that the sabbath in Exodus corresponds to the seventh day of Genesis. But this is open to debate. The seventh day which God blessed in Eden was the first day of human life, and not the seventh day; and it is certain that God did not rest from his labors on man's seventh day, but on man's first. We feel inclined then to hold with Luther that in Genesis 2:3 Moses says nothing about man's day, and that the seventh day which received the Divine benediction was God's own great aeonian period of sabbatic rest. At the same time, for the reasons above specified, believing that a weekly sabbath was pre scribed to man from the beginning, we have no difficulty in assenting to the words of Tayler Lewis: "'And God blessed the seventh day.' Which seventh day, the greater or the less, the Divine or the human, the aeonian or the astronomical? Both, is the easy answer; both, as commencing at the same time, so far as the one connects with astronomical time; both, as the greater including the less; both, as being (the one as represented, the other as typically representing) the same essence and idea." It does not appear necessary to refute the idea that the weekly sabbath had no existence till the giving of the law, and that it is only here proleptically referred to by Moses. In addition to the above-mentioned historical testimonies to the antiquity of the Sabbath, the Fifth Tablet in the Chaldean Creation Series, after referring to the fourth day's work, proceeds:—
"On the seventh day he appointed a holy day,
And to cease from all business he commanded.
Then arose the sun in the horizon of heaven in (glory)."
thus apparently affirming that, in the opinion of the early Babylonians, the institution of the sabbath was coeval with the creation.
The two sabbaths: the Divine and the human.
I. THE SABBATH OF GOD. A period of—
1. Cessation from toil, or discontinuance of those world-making operations which had occupied the six preceding days (Hebrews 4:4). Never since the close of the creative week has God interfered to fundamentally rearrange the material structure of the globe. The Deluge produced no alteration on the constitution of nature. Nor is there evidence that any new species have been added to its living creatures.
2. Holy delight. On the seventh day Elohim rested and was" refreshed" (Exodus 31:17); which refreshment consisted partly in the satisfaction he experienced in beholding the cosmos—a satisfaction prefigured and anticipated by the solemn pauses intervening at the end of each creative day, accompanied by the "good," "lo! very good," of Divine approbation; and partly in the pleasure with which he contemplated the peculiar work of blessing his creation which lay before him, a work which also had its foreshadowings in the benedictions pronounced on the living creatures of the fifth day, and on man on the sixth.
3. Beneficent activity. Even man, unless where his intellectual and moral faculties are dormant, finds it difficult to rest in indolence and inactivity. Absence of motion, with complete negation of effort, may constitute the refreshment of the physical system. The mind seeks its rest in change of occupation. Still less can the supreme Intelligence, who is pure Spirit, rest in absolute inaction; only the Divine energy is now directed towards the happiness of his creatures (Psalms 145:9). Having finished his creative labors, what else could Elohim do but outpour his own blessedness upon his creatures, in proportion to their capacities to receive it? His nature as God necessitated such communication of good to his creatures (Psalms 34:8; James 1:5, James 1:17). The capacities of his creatures for such blessing required it. Hence God's rest may be said to have been man's birthright. He was created in that rest, as the sphere of his existence.
4. Continuous duration. That which secures its perpetuity is the Divine resolution to bless it, i.e. constitute it an era of blessing for man, and in particular to sanctify it, or devote it to the interests of holiness. And in this Divine determination lies the pledge of man's salvation. Without it God's rest might have been broken into by man's sin, and the era of blessing ended. But, because of it, man's sin could not change the character of God's seventh day, so as to prevent it from dropping down gifts and exercising holy influences on the creature for whose sake it was appointed. The security of the world as a cosmos may also be said to be involved in the permanence of God's sabbath. So long as it continues nothing shall occur to resolve the present goodly framework of this globe into another lightless, formless, lifeless chaos, at least until the Divine purpose with the human race has been fulfilled.
II. THE SABBATH OF MAN.
1. Of Divine institution (Exodus 20:8; Le 19:30; Psalms 118:24). That God had a right to enact a weekly sabbath for man is implied in his relation to man as Creator and Lawgiver. For man, therefore, to withhold the seventh portion of his time is to be guilty of disobedience against God as a moral Governor, ingratitude towards God as Creator and Preserver, robbery of God as the original Proprietor of both man's powers and time's days. As an institution of God's appointing, the sabbath deserves our honor and esteem. To neglect to render this God counts a sin (Isaiah 58:13).
2. Of sacred character. Among the Israelites its sanctity was to be recognized by abstinence from bodily labor (Exodus 20:10; Exodus 34:21, &c.) and holy convocations (Le Genesis 23:3). That this was the manner of its observance prior to the giving of the law may be judged from the regulations concerning the manna (Exodus 16:22). That from the beginning it was a day of rest and religious worship may be reasonably inferred. That it was so used by Christ and his apostles the Gospels attest (Luke 4:16). That the same character was held to attach to the first day of the week after Christ's resurrection may be deduced from the practice of the apostolic Church (Acts 20:7). The sanctity of the sabbath may be profaned, positively, by prosecuting one's ordinary labors in its hours (Isaiah 58:13; Jeremiah 17:24); negatively, by neglecting to devote them to Divine worship and spiritual improvement (Ezekiel 44:24). Christianity has not obliterated the distinction between the sabbath and the other days of the week; not even by elevating them to the position of holy days. An attempt to equalize the seven days always results in the degradation of the seventh, never in the elevation of the other six.
3. Of beneficent design (Mark 2:27). The sabbath is adapted to the wants of man physically, intellectually, socially, politically. Innumerable facts and testimonies establish the beneficial influence of a seventh day's rest from toil upon the manual laborer, the professional thinker, the social fabric, the body politic, in respect of health, wealth, strength, happiness. It is, however, chiefly man's elevation as a religious being at which it aims. In the paradisiacal state it was designed to hedge him round and, if possible, prevent his fall; since the tragedy in Eden it has been seeking his reinstatement in that purity from which he fell.
4. Of permanent obligation. Implied in the terms of its institution, its permanence would not be affected by the abolition of the Decalogue. The Decalogue presupposed its previous appointment. Christianity takes it up, just as Judaism took it up, as one of God's existing ordinances for the good of man, and seeks through it to bring its higher influences to bear on man, just as Judaism sought, through it, to operate with its inferior agency. Till it merges in the rest of which it is a shadow by the accomplishment of its grand design, it must abide.
III. THE CONNECTION OF THE TWO. God's rest is—
1. The reason of man's sabbath. The Almighty could have no higher reason for enjoining a seventh day's rest upon his creature than that by so resting that creature would be like himself.
2. The pattern of man's sabbath. As God worked through six of his days and rested on the seventh, so should man toil through six of his days and rest on the seventh. As God did all his work in the six creative days, so should all man's labor be performed in the six days of the week. As God employs his rest in contemplation of his finished work and in blessing his creature man, so should man devote his sabbath to pious meditation on his past life and to a believing reception of God's gifts of grace and salvation.
3. The life of man's sabbath. Whatever blessing comes to man on his weekly day of rest has its primal fountain in the rest of God. As man himself is God's image, so is man's sabbath the image of God's rest; and as man lives and moves and has his being in God, so does man's sabbath live and move and have its being in God's rest.
4. The end of man's sabbath. The reinstatement of man in God's rest is the purpose at which man's sabbath aims, the goal towards which it is tending. God's rest remains on high (Hebrews 4:9), drawing men towards it. Man's weekly sabbath will ultimately lose itself m God's eternal rest.
HOMILIES BY R.A. REDFORD
Rest and Light.
The finished heavens and earth and their host prepare the day of rest. God ended his work as an interchange of darkness and light.
I. THE REST OF THE SABBATH IS NOT INACTION, BUT THE CESSATION FROM THE LOWER ORDER OF WORK FOE THE HIGHER. The idea of the first proclamation seems to be that creation was perfectly adjusted through the six days into a settled harmony which puts heaven and earth in their abiding relation to one another.
II. Then THERE IS NO MORE SAID OF EVENING AND MORNING. The seventh day is only light. God's rest is complacency in his works. The blessing on the seventh day which hallowed it is the blessing on that which the day represents—perfect peace between heaven and earth, God satisfied in his creation, and inviting his intelligent creatures to "enter into his rest" by communion with him. It seems quite unnecessary to vindicate such a sanctification of the seventh day from the insinuations of critics that it was a late addition made by the Jewish legislator to support the fourth commandment. In that case the whole cosmogony must be renounced. Such an observance of a day of rest seems a natural antecedent to the patriarchal as well as the Mosaic economy. We have already intimated that the whole account of creation is placed at the commencement of revelation because it has a bearing upon the positive ordinances of religion. It is not either a scientific or poetic sketch of the universe; it is the broad, fundamental outline of a System of religious truth connected with a body of Divine commandments. The sabbath is thus described in its original breadth. The sanctification of it is—
1. Negative. It is separation from the lower conditions of work, which in the case of man are the characteristics of days which are sinful days—days of toil and conflict, of darkness and light mingled.
2. Positive. It is the restful enjoyment of a higher life, a life which is not laboring after emancipation from bondage, but perfect with a glorious liberty; the true day, "sacred, high, eternal noon," God and man rejoicing m one another, the creature reflecting the glory of the Creator.—R.
§ 2. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (Gen. 2:4-4:26).
THE subject handled in the present section is the primeval history of man in his paradisiacal state of innocence, his temptation and fall, and his subsequent development, in two diverging lines, of faith and unbelief, holiness and sin. On the ground of certain obvious, well-defined, and readily-explained characteristics which distinguish this from the preceding portion of the narrative, it is usual with the higher criticism to allege diversity of authorship; and, indeed, these same characteristics, magnified by misapplied ingenuity into insoluble contradictions, are the chief buttress of the documentary hypothesis of Astrue, Hupfeld, Tuch, Ewald, and others. Now the hypothesis that Moses, in the composition of the Pentateuch, and of this Book of Origins in particular, made use of existing documents that may have descended from a remote antiquity is, a prioir, neither incredible nor impossible; but, on the contrary, is extremely probable, and may be held as admitted; only the alleged peculiarities of the different portions of the narrative do not justify the reckless confidence with which it has been resolved by Stahelin, Bleek, De Wette, Knobel, Ewald, and Davidson into its so-called original fragments; and, in the case of Ewald, primordial atoms. The occurrence of the name Jehovah Elohim, instead of simply Elohim, as in the preceding section, is the chief peculiarity of the present portion of the narrative, so far as style and language are concerned; its angered irreconcilable differences in subject-matter are skillfully and succinctly put by Kalisch. "In the first cosmogony vegetation is immediately produced by the will of God; in the second its existence is made dependent on rain and mists and the agricultural labors: in the first the earth emerges from the waters, and is, therefore, saturated with moisture; in the second it appears dry, sterile, and sandy: in the first man and his wife are created together; in the second the wife is formed later, and from a part of man: in the former man bears the image of God, and is made ruler of the whole earth; in the latter his earth-formed body is only animated by the breath of life, and he is placed in Eden to cultivate and to guard it: in the former the birds and beasts are created before man; in the latter man before birds and beasts." For a reply to these "insoluble contradictions," which, though "too obvious to be overlooked or denied," are mostly, if not solely, due to a false exegesis and a misapprehension of the guiding purpose of the writer, see the Exposition following, which attempts no "artificial solution" such as Kalisch deprecates, and proposes no ingenious reconciliation of essentially opposing statements, but simply shows that, when naturally and literally interpreted, the narrative is free from those internal antagonisms which a 'microscopic criticism imagines it has detected in it. The internal unity of the present writing, or second document, as it is called, is apparent. The internecine struggle between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, which the fratricidal act of Cain inaugurated (Genesis 4:1-26.), is the legitimate and necessary outcome of the sin and the grace revealed in Eden (Genesis 3:1-24.), while the melancholy story of the temptation and the fall presupposes the paradisiacal innocence of the first pair (Genesis 2:1-25.). Thus homogeneous in itself, it likewise connects with, the preceding section through Genesis 2:1-25; which, as a monograph on man, supplies a more detailed account of his creation than is given in the narrative of the six days' work, and, by depicting man's settlement in Eden as a place of trial, prepares the way for the subsequent recital of his seduction and sin, and of his consequent expulsion from the garden.
These are the generations is the usual heading for the different sections into which the Book of Genesis is divided (vial. Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 10:1; Genesis 11:10, Genesis 11:27; Genesis 25:12, Genesis 25:19; Genesis 36:1; Genesis 37:2). Misled by the LXX; who render toldoth by ἡ βιμβλος γενεμσεως, Ranks, Title, Havernick, Tuch, Ewald, and Stahelin disconnect the entire verse from the second section, which says nothing about the origination of the heavens and the earth, and append it to the preceding, in which their creation is described. Ilgen improves on their suggestion by transferring it to the commencement of Genesis 1:1-31, as an appropriate superscription. Dreschler, Vaihingel Bohlen, Oehler, Macdonald, et alii divide the verse into two clauses, and annex the former to what precedes, commencing the ensuing narrative with the latter. All of these proposals are, however, rendered unnecessary by simply observing that toldoth (from yaladh, to bear, to beget; hence begettings, procreations, evolutions, developments) does not describe the antecedents, but the consequents, of either thing or Person (Rosen; Keil, Kalisch). The toldoth of Noah are not the genealogical list of the patriarch's ancestry, but the tabulated register of his posterity; and so the generations of the heavens and the earth refer not to their original production (Gesenius), but to their onward movements from creation downwards (Keil). Hence with no incongruity, but with singular propriety, the first half of the present verse, ending with the words when they were created, literally, in their creation, stands at the commencement of the section in which the forward progression of the universe is traced. The point of departure in this subsequent evolution of the material heavens and earth is further specified as being in the day that the Lord God (Jehovah Elohim) made the earth and the heavens; not the heavens and the earth, which would have signified the universe (cf. on Genesis 1:1), and carried hack the writer's thought to the initial act of creation; but the earth and the atmospheric firmament, which indicates the period embracing the second and (possibly) the third creative days as the terminus a quo of the generations to be forthwith recorded. Then it was that the heavens and the earth in their development took a clear and decided step forward in the direction of man and the human family (was it in the appearance of vegetation?); and in this thought perhaps will be found the key to the significance of the new name for the Divine Being which is used exclusively throughout the present section—Jehovah Elohim. From the frequency of its use, and the circumstance that it never has the article, Jehovah may be regarded as the proper Personal name of God. Either falsely interpreting Exodus 20:7 and Le Exodus 24:11, or following some ancient superstition (mysterious names of deities were used generally in the East; the Egyptian Hermes had a name which (Cic. 'de Natura Deorum,' 8, 16) durst not be uttered: Furst), the later Hebrews invested this nomen tetra. grammaton with such sanctity that it might not bepronounced. Accordingly, it was their custom to write it in the sacred text with the vowel points of Adonai, or, if that preceded, Elohim. Hence considerable doubt now exists as to its correct pronunciation. Etymologically viewed it is a future form of havah, an old form of hayah; uncertainty as to what future has occasioned many different suggestions as to what constituted its primitive vocalization. According to the evidence which scholars have collected, the choice lies between
Perhaps the preponderance of authority inclines to the first; but the common punctuation is not so indefensible as some writers allege. Gesenius admits that it more satisfactorily accounts for the abbreviated syllables יִהוֹ and יוֹ than the pronunciation which he himself favors. Murphy thinks that the substitution of Adonai for Jehovah was facilitated by the agreement of their vowel points. The locus classicus for its signification is Exodus 3:14, in which God defines himself as "I am that I am," and commands Moses to tell the children of Israel that Ehyeh had sent him. Hengstenberg and Keil conclude that absolute self-existence is the essential idea represented by the name (cf. Exodus 3:14; ὁ ὠ ì ν, LXX.; Revelation 1:4, Revelation 1:8; ὁ ὥν καὶ ὁ ἠν καὶ ὁ ἐρχομμενος, vd. Furst, 'Lex. sub nora.'). Baumgarten and Delitzsch, laying stress on its future form, regard it as = the Becoming One, with reference to the revelation, rather than the essence, of the Divine nature. Macdonald, from the circumstance that it was not used till after the fall, discovers a pointing forward to Jehovah as ὁ ἑρχομμενος in connection with redemption. Others, deriving from a hiphil future, take it as denoting "he who causes to be, the Fulfiller," and find in this an explanation of Exodus 6:3 (Exell). May not all these ideas be more or less involved in the fullness of the Divine name? As distinguished from Elohim, Deus omnipotens, the mighty One, Jehovah is the absolute, self-existent One, who manifests himself to man, and, in particular, enters into distinct covenant engagements for his redemption, which he in due time fulfils. In the present section the names are conjoined partly to identify Jehovah with Elohim, and partly because the subject of which it treats is the history of man.
And every plant of the field before it was (literally, not yet) in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew (literally, had not yet sprouted). Following the LXX; the English Version suggests an intention on the writer's part to emphasize the fact that the vegetation of the globe—here comprehended under the general terms, shiah, shrub, and eseb, herb—was not a natural production, but, equally with the great earth and heavens, was the creation of Jehovah Elohim—a rendering which has the sanction of Taylor Lewis; whereas the writer's object clearly is to depict the appearance of the earth at the time when the man-ward development of the heavens and the earth began. Then not a single plant was in the ground, not a green blade was visible. The land, newly sprung from the waters, was one desolate region of bleak, bare lava-hills and extensive mud-fiats. Up to that point the absence of vegetation is accounted for by the circumstance that the presently existing atmospheric conditions of the globe had not then been established, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and the ordinary agricultural operations on which its production was afterwards to depend had not then been begun, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The dry land having been separated from the waters, and the atmospheric ocean uplifted above them both, vaporous exhalations began to ascend to the aerial regions, and to return again in the shape of rain upon the ground. Jehovah thus caused it to rain upon the ground, and so prepared it for the vegetation which, in obedience to the Almighty fiat, sprung up at the close of the third day, although the writer does not mention its appearance, but leaves it to be inferred from the preceding section. That soon after its emergence from the waters the land should be "dry, sterile, and sandy" will not be thought remarkable if we remember the highly igneous condition of our planet at the time when the dry land was upheaved and the waters gathered into the subsiding valleys. Nothing would more naturally follow that event than the steaming up of vapors to float in the aerial sea. In fact, the rapidity with which evaporation would be carried on would very speedily leave the newly-formed land hard and dry, baked and caked into a crust, till the atmosphere, becoming overcharged with aqueous vapor, returned it in the shape of rain. To talk of insuperable difficulty and manifest dissonance where everything is clear, natural, and harmonious is to speak at random, and betrays an anxiety to create contradictions rather than to solve them.
And the Lord God (Jehovah Elohim) formed man of the dust of the ground. Literally, dust from the ground. Here, again, Bleek, Kalisch, and the theologians of their school discover contrariety between this account of man's creation and that which has been given in the preceding chapter. In that man is represented as having been created by the Divine word, in the Divine image, and male and female simultaneously; whereas in this his creation is exhibited as a painful process of elaboration from the clay by the hand of God, who works it like a potter (asah; LXX; πλαμσσω), and, after having first constructed man, by a subsequent operation forms woman. But the first account does not assert that Adam and Eve were created together, and gives no details of the formation of either. These are supplied by the present narrative, which, beginning with the construction of his body from the fine dust of the ground, designedly represents it as an evolution or development of the material universe, and ends by setting it before us as animated by the breath of God, reserving for later treatment the mode of Eve's production, when the circumstances that led to it have been described. And (the Lord God) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Literally, the breath of lives. "The formation of man from the dust and the breathing of the breath of life must not be understood in a mechanical sense, as if God first of all constructed a human figure from the dust" (still less does it admit of the idea that man's physical nature was evolved from the lower animals), "and then, by breathing his breath of life into the clod of earth which he had shaped into the form of a man, made it into a living being. The words are to be understood θεοπρεπῶ ς. By an act of Divine omnipotence man arose from the dust; and in the same moment in which the dust, by virtue of creative omnipotence, shaped itself into a human form, it was pervaded by the Divine breath of life, and created a living being, so that we cannot say the body was earlier than the soul" (Delitzsch). And man became a living soul. Nephesh chayyah, in Genesis 1:21, 80, is employed to designate the lower animals. Describing a being animated by a ψυχηì or life principle, it does not necessarily imply that the basis of the life principle in man and the inferior animals is the same. The distinction between the two appears from the difference in the mode of their creations. The beasts arose at the almighty fiat completed beings, every one a nephesh chayyah. "The origin of their soul was coincident with that of their corporeality, and their life was merely the individualization of the universal life with which all matter was filled at the beginning by the Spirit of God" (Delitzsch). Man received his life from a distinct act of Divine inbreathing; certainly not an in-breathing of atmospheric air, but an inflatus from the Ruach Elohim, or Spirit of God, a communication from the whole personality of the Godhead. In effect man was thereby constituted a nephesh chayyah, like the lower animals; but in him the life principle conferred a personality which was wanting in them. Thus there is no real contradiction, scarcely even an "apparent dissonance," between the two accounts of man's creation. The second exhibits the foundation of that likeness to God and world-dominion ascribed to him in the first.
The first man.
I. MADE FROM THE DUST. This does not imply that in the composition of humanity there is nothing but particles of dust, or "molecules of matter." Simply it designs to state that the point of departure in man's creation was the soil out of which all other living creatures were produced; that, so to speak, man was constructed from beneath upwards, the Divine Artificer proceeding with his creation in the same ascending scale of activity that had been observed in the production of the rest of the universe—first the material body, and then the immaterial soul; and that, so far as the former is concerned, man is wholly and solely of the earth, earthy,—an assertion which the researches of chemistry and physiology abundantly confirm,—the elements of organized bodies being the same as those which constitute the inorganic world, viz; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, lime, iron, sulfur, and phosphorus. The statement is fitted to impress man with thoughts—
1. Of his lowly origin. While the Scripture in general labors to imbue his mind with correct ideas of his obscure nativity, comparing him to a wind, to a vapor, to a flower, to the beasts, to a worm, the sentiment of Moses takes him lower yet for his birthplace—to the dust of the ground, above which the wind blows, from which the vapors rise, on which the flowers bloom, across which the beasts roam, out of which the worm creeps.
2. Of his essential frailty. Being composed of little particles of dust, held together by what science calls "organization," but Holy Writ designates the power of God, it requires but the loosening of God's hand, as it were, for the framework of his body, so wondrously fashioned, so delicately carved, so finely articulated, so firmly knit, to resolve itself into a heap of dust.
3. Of his final destiny. Every mundane thing returns to the place whence it proceeded (Ecclesiastes 1:5, Ecclesiastes 1:7). The vapors climb into the sky, but descend again upon the hills, and seek the plains. The flowers bloom, but, after dispensing their fragrance, shed their leaves upon the earth. The young lions, that, as it were, are sprung from the soil, find a grave at last within their forest dens. As it is with the flowers and the beasts, so is it also with man. "All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again" (Ecclesiastes 3:18, Ecclesiastes 3:20; Job 10:9; Psalms 103:14).
1. Humility of spirit (Job 4:19; Psalms 144:3, Psalms 144:4; Isaiah If. 1). "Holy living" (Taylor, § Genesis 4:9).
2. Care for the body—protecting its frailty from injury (Le Genesis 19:28) and its materiality from mastery (Romans 12:1; 1 Corinthians 6:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:4).
3. Preparation for death (Psalms 39:4; Psalms 90:12).
II. FASHIONED BY THE HAND OF GOD. Made from the dust, the first man neither sprung from the slime of matter, according to naturalism ( οἱ αὐ τοì χθονες), nor was evolved from the το Ì πᾶ ν of pantheism, but was specifically formed by Divine creative power. This marked the first degree of man's superiority over other living creatures. Deriving existence, equally with man, from the creative power of God, it is not said of them that they were "formed" by God. Let this remind man—
1. Of the Divine origin of the body. If the physical structures of the lower organisms display such admirable proportions and striking adaptations as to evince the action of Divine intelligence, much more may a Creator's hand be recognized in the form and symmetry, proportion and adjustment of the human body. An examination of the hand, eye, or brain, of the muscular or nervous systems, instinctively awakens the devout feelings of the Psalmist: "I will praise Thee, O Lord; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalms 139:14).
2. Of the Divine estimate of the body. Shown by the personal care and attention which God devoted to its construction, since he designed it to be the noblest of his works, the shrine of an immortal spirit, a prophecy and type of the body of his Son, in the fullness of the times to be prepared by another special act of creation (Psalms 40:6; Hebrews 10:8). This estimate he has in many ways confirmed: by abundantly and generously sustaining it, although a partner in the spirit's sin (Genesis 1:29; Genesis 9:3); guarding its life with the strictest and severest penalties (Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6); taking it into union with himself, in the person of his Son (Hebrews 2:6); redeeming it, as well as the soul it enshrines, through his Son's blood (Romans 8:21, Romans 8:28); and constituting it, as well as the immaterial spirit, a partaker of resurrection glory (1 Corinthians 15:42).
1. The true nobility of man's descent, and the duty of walking worthy of it.
2. The high value of the body, and the consequent obligation of neither dishonoring nor abusing it.
III. ANIMATED BY THE BREATH OF LIFE. The second degree of man's superiority to the lower animals. Like them, a living soul, his life is different from theirs—
1. In its nature. Theirs was a portion of that common life principle which God has been pleased to communicate to matter; his a direct afflatus from the personality of God.
2. In its impartation. Theirs was bestowed directly and immediately by the fiat of omnipotence; his conveyed into his material framework by a special Divine operation.
3. In its effect. Theirs constituted them "living souls;" his conferred on him personality. Theirs made them creatures having life; his caused him to become a spirit having life. Theirs left them wholly mortal; his transformed him into an immortal (Ecclesiastes 3:21).
Let man consider—
1. That his body is a temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 6:19).
2. That his spirit is the creation and the gift of God (Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 57:16; Zechariah 12:1).
3. That with both it becomes him to glorify his Divine Creator (1 Corinthians 6:20).
Man the living soul.
1. Life is a Divine bestowment.
2. Dust which is Divinely inspired is no longer mere dust; the true life is neither groveling on the earth, nor so much away from the earth as to be no longer the life of a living soul.
3. The creature who is last formed, and for whom all other things wait and are prepared, is made to be the interpreter of all, and the glory of God in them.—R.
In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition, the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place of rest, now reverts to a point of time in the six days antecedent to man's appearance on the earth. In anticipation of his arrival, it was needful that a suitable abode should be prepared for his reception. Accordingly, having already mentioned the creation of plants, trees, and flowers, the narrative proceeds to describe the construction of Adam's early home. And the Lord God (Jehovah Elohim) planted—i.e. specially prepared—a garden (gan, a place protected by a fence, from ganan, to cover; hence a garden: cf. Deuteronomy 2:10; 1 Kings 21:2; Isaiah 51:3; LXX; παραì δεισος; Vulgate, paradisus; whence English, paradise, Luke 23:43) eastward (mekedem, literally, from the front quarter, not from the beginning,— ἀ πο ἀ ρχῆ ς, Aquila; ἐ ν πρῶ τοις, Theodotion; a principio, Vulgate,—but in the region lying towards the east of Palestine—LXX; κατ ἀνατολὰς) in (not of, as Murphy, who renders "in the east of Eden") Eden (delight; Greek, ἡ δονηì: cf. Hedenesh, or Heden, the birthplace of Zoroaster—Kalisch). The word is not merely descriptive of the beauty and fertility of the garden (paradisus voluptatis, Vulg; of. παραì δεισος της τρυφης, LXX. (Joel 2:3). On the ground of possessing similar qualities, other districts and places were subsequently termed Edens: cf. 2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 27:23; Amos 1:5), but likewise indicates its locality, which is afterwards more exactly defined (Amos 1:10, Amos 1:14). In the mean time it is simply noted that, this enchanting paradise having been specially prepared by Jehovah, there he put the man (Adam) whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord God (Jehovah Elohim) to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight—literally, lovely to see; i.e. beautiful in form and color—and good for food. In the preparation of man's pristine abode respect was had to ornamentation as well as utility. Every species of vegetation that could minister to his corporeal necessities was provided. Flowers, trees, and shrubs regaled his senses with their fragrance, pleased his eye with their exquisite forms and enchanting colors, and gratified his palate with their luscious fruits. Hence the garden of the Lord became the highest ideal of earthly excellence (Isaiah 51:3). In particular it was distinguished by the presence of two trees, which occupied a central position among its multifarious productions. The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That these were not two separate trees, but only one tree distinguished by different names, has been maintained, though with no weightier reason than the statement of Eve in Genesis 3:3. The opinion of Witsius, Luther, Kennicott, and Hengstenberg, that classes of trees, and not individual trees, are meant by the phrases "tree of life" and "tree of knowledge," is precluded by the language of Jehovah Elohim in Genesis 2:17 and Genesis 3:24. As regards their significance, consistency requires that they should both be explained on the same principle. This, accordingly, disposes of the idea that the tree of life (literally, the tree of the lives: of. ξυ ì λον τῆ ς ζωῆ ς, Revelation 2:7; Revelation 20:1-15 :19) is simply a Hebraism for a living tree, as by no sort of ingenuity can the tree of knowledge be transformed into a knowing tree. It likewise militates against the notion that the two trees were styled from the peculiar effects of their fruits, the one conferring physical immortality on Adam's body (Scotus, Aquinas, Fairbairn, Kalisch, Luther), and the other imparting moral and intellectual intuitions to his soul (Josephus, Kalisch). But even if the life-giving properties of the one tree could be demonstrated from Genesis 3:24, proof would still be required with regard to the other, that the mere physical processes of manducation and digestion could be followed by results so immaterial as those of "rousing the slumbering intellect, teaching reason to reflect, and enabling the judgment to distinguish between moral good and moral evil" (Kalisch). Besides, if this was the immediate effect of eating the forbidden fruit, it is difficult to perceive either why it should have been prohibited to our first parents at all, it being "for their good to have their wits sharpened" (Willet); or in what respect they suffered loss through listening to the tempter, and did not rather gain (Rabbi Moses); or wherein, being destitute of both intellectual and moral discernment, they could be regarded as either guilty of transgression or responsible for obedience. Incapacity to know good and evil may be a characteristic of unconscious childhood and unreflecting youth (Deuteronomy 1:39; Isaiah 7:15; Jonah 4:11), or of debilitated age (2 Samuel 19:36), but is not conceivable in the case of one who was created in God's image, invested with world-dominion, and himself constituted the subject of moral government. Unless, therefore, with ancient Gnostics and modem Hegelians, we view the entire story of the probation as an allegorical representation of the necessary intellectual and ethical development of human nature, we must believe that Adam was acquainted with the idea of moral distinctions from the first. Hence the conclusion seems to force itself upon our minds that the first man was possessed of both immortality and knowledge irrespective altogether of the trees, and that the tree character which belonged to these trees was symbolical or sacramental, suggestive of the conditions under which he was placed in Eden. "Arbori autem vitae nomen indidit, non quod vitam homini conferrer, qua jam ante praeditus erat; sod ut symbolum ac memoriale esset vitae divinitus acceptae" (Calvin). For a further exposition of the exact significance of these trees see below on Genesis 3:16, Genesis 3:17.
The precise locality of Eden is indicated by its relation to the great watercourses of the region. And a river (literally, a flowing water, applicable to large oceanic floods—Job 22:16; Psalms 24:2; Psalms 46:5; Jonah 2:4—as well as to narrow streams) went out (literally, going out) of Eden to water the garden. To conclude from this that the river had its source within the limits of the garden is to infer more than the premises will warrant. Nothing more is implied in the language than that a great watercourse proceeded through the district of Eden, and served to irrigate the soil. Probably it intersected the garden, thus occasioning its remarkable fecundity and beauty. And from thence (i.e. either on emerging from which, or, taking מן in its secondary sense, outside of, or at a distance from which) it was parted (literally, divided itself), and became into four heads. Roshim, from rosh, that which is highest; either principal waters, arms or branches (Taylor Lewis, Alford), or beginnings of rivers, indicating the sources of the streams (Gesenius, Keil, Macdonald, Murphy). If the second of these interpretations be adopted, Eden must be looked for in a spot where some great flowing water is subdivided into four separate streams; if the former be regarded as the proper exegesis, then any great river which is first formed by the junction of two streams, and afterwards disperses its waters in two different directions, will meet the requirements of the case.
Genesis 2:11, Genesis 2:12
The name of the first (river is) Pishon, or "the full-flowing." This is the first of those marks by which the river, when discovered, must be identified. It was palpably a broad-bosomed stream. A second is derived from the region through which it flows. That is it which compasseth (not necessarily surrounding, but skirting in a circular or circuitous fashion—Numbers 21:4; 11:8) the whole land of Havilah. Havilah itself is described by three of its productions. Where there is gold. I.e. it is a gold-producing country. And the gold of that land is good. Of the purest quality and largest quantity. There also is bdellium. Literally bedolach, which the manna was declared to resemble (Exodus 17:14; Numbers 11:7). The LXX; supposing it to be a precious stone, translate it by ἄνθραξ in the present passage, and by κρυσταì λλος in Numbers 11:7—a view supported by the Jewish Rabbis and Gesenius. The majority of modern interpreters espouse the opinion of Josephus, that it was an odorous and costly gum indigenous to India, Arabia, Babylonia, and Bactriana. The third production is the onyx (shoham, from a root signifying to be pale or delicate in color, like the finger-nails), variously conjectured to be the beryl, onyx, sardonyx, sardius, or emerald. From this description it appears that Havilah must be sought for among the gold-producing countries of Asia. Now among the sons of Joktan or primitive Arabs (Genesis 10:29)—"whose dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest, unto Sephar, a mount of the east"—are Ophir and Havilah, whence Gesenius concludes that India, including Arabia, is meant. Other countries have their advocates, such as Arabia Felix, Susiana, Colchis, &c.; and other rivers, such as the Ganges (Josephus, Eusebius), the Phasis (Reland, Jahn, Rosenmüller, Winer), the Indus (Schulthess, Kalisch).
And the name of the second is the Gihon, or "the bursting," from גֵּיחַ, to break forth. "Deep-flowing," T. Lewis renders it, connecting it with ὡ κεανοì ς, and identifying it with Homer's βαθυῤῥόος ὠκεανός. The same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia (Cush). Under the impression that the African Cush was meant, the Alexandrine Jews discovered the Gihon in the Nile—an opinion in which they have been followed by Schulthess, Gesenius, Furst, Bertheau, Kalisch, and others. But Cush, it is now known, describes the entire region between Arabia and the Nile, and in particular the southern district of the former lying between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Hence Tayler Lewis finds the Gihon in the ocean water sweeping round the south coast of Arabia. Murphy detects the name Kush in the words Caucasus and Caspian, and, looking for the site of Eden about the sources of the Euphrates and the Tigris in Armenia, thinks the Gihon may have been the leading stream flowing into the Caspian. Delitzsch advocates the claim of the Araxis to be this river.
And the name of the third river is the, Hiddekel, or "the darting," from חַד and דֶּקֶל, a sharp and swift arrow, referring to its rapidity. It is unanimously agreed that this must be identified with the Tigris; in the present language of the Persians designated tir, which signifies an arrow. It is styled in Aramaic diglath or diglah. That is it which goeth towards the east of Assyria. Its identity is thus placed beyond a question. And the fourth river is Euphrates, or "the sweet,' from an unused root, parath, signifying to be sweet, referring to the sweet and pleasant taste of its waters (Jeremiah 2:18). Further description of this great water was unnecessary, being universally known to the Hebrews as "the great river" (Deuteronomy 1:7; Daniel 10:4), and "the river" par excellence (Exodus 23:31; Isaiah 7:20). The river still bears its early name. In the cuneiform inscriptions deciphered by Rawlinson it is called "Ufrata." Recurring now to the site of Eden, it must be admitted that, notwithstanding this description, the whole question is involved in uncertainty. The two solutions of the problem that hive the greatest claim on our attention are,
Having prepared the garden for man's reception, the Lord God took the man. "Not physically lifting him up and putting him down in the garden, but simply exerting an influence upon him which induced him, in the exercise of his free agency, to go. He went in consequence of a secret impulse or an open command of his Maker" (Bush). And put him into the garden; literally, caused him to rest in it as an abode of happiness and peace. To dress it. I.e. to till, cultivate, and work it. This would almost seem to hint that the aurea aetas of classical poetry was but a dream—a reminiscence of Eden, perhaps, but idealized. Even the plants, flowers, and trees of Eden stood in need of cultivation from the hand of man, and would speedily have degenerated without his attention. And to keep it. Neither were the animals all so peaceful and domesticated that Adam did not need to fence his garden against their depredations. Doubtless there is here too an ominous hint of the existence of that greater adversary against whom he was appointed to watch.
And Jehovah Elohim commanded the man (Adam), saying. Whether or not these were the first words listened to by man (Murphy), they clearly presuppose the person to whom they were addressed to have had the power of understanding language, i.e. of interpreting vocal sounds, and representing to his own mind the conceptions or ideas of which they were the signs, a degree of intellectual development altogether incompatible with modern evolution theories. They likewise assume the pre-existence of a moral nature which could recognize the distinction between "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not." Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; literally, eating, thou shalt eat. Adam, it thus appears, was permitted to partake of the tree of life; not, however, as a means of either conferring or preserving immortality, which was already his by Divine gift, and the only method of conserving which recognized by the narrative was abstaining from the tree of knowledge; but as a symbol and guarantee of that immortality with which he had been endowed, and which would continue to be his so long as he maintained his personal integrity. This, of course, by the very terms of his existence, he was under obligation to do, apart altogether from any specific enactment which God might enjoin. As a moral being, he had the law written on his conscience. But, as if to give a visible embodiment to that law, and at the same time to test his allegiance to his Maker's will, which is the kernel of all true obedience, an injunction was laid upon him of a positive description—But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. Speculations as to what kind of tree it was, whether a vine, a fig, or an apple tree, are more curious than profitable. There is no reason to suppose that any noxious or lethiferous properties resided in its fruit. The death that was to follow on transgression was to spring from the eating, and not from the fruit; from the sinful act, and not from the creature, which in itself was good. The prohibition laid on Adam was for the time being a summary of the Divine law. Hence the tree was a sign and symbol of what that law required. And in this, doubtless, lies the explanation of its name. It was a concrete representation of that fundamental distinction between right and wrong, duty and sin, which lies at the basis of all responsibility. It interpreted for the first pair those great moral intuitions which had been implanted in their natures, and by which it was intended they should regulate their lives. Thus it was for them a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It brought out that knowledge which they already possessed into the clear light of definite conviction and precept, connecting it at the same time with the Divine will as its source and with themselves as its end. Further, it was an intelligible declaration of the duty which that knowledge of good and evil imposed upon them. Through its penalty it likewise indicated both the good which would be reaped by obedience and the evil which would follow on transgression. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die; literally, dying, thou shalt die. That this involved death physical, or the dissolution of the body, is indicated by the sentence pronounced on Adam after he had fallen (Genesis 3:19). That the sentence was hot immediately executed does not disprove its reality. It only suggests that its suspension may have been due to some Divine interposition. Yet universal experience attests that permanent escape from its execution is impossible. In the case of Adam it was thus far put in force on the instant, that henceforth he ceased to be immortal. As prior to his fall his immortality was sure, being authenticated for him by the tree of life, so now, subsequent to that catastrophe, his mortality was certain. This, more than immediateness, is what the language implies. For the complete theological significance of this penalty see Genesis 3:19.
The garden of Eden.
I. A SCENE OF BEAUTY. Whether situated in Armenia or Babylonia (see Exposition), it was a fair spot in a sunny region of delights (Eden). This beauty was—
1. Luxuriant. Milton has lavished all the wealth of his creative genius in an attempt to depict "the happy rural seat of the first pair" ('Par. Lost,' bk. 4.). Yet it is questionable if even he has succeeded in reproducing the gorgeous spectacle, the endlessly diversified assortment of lovely forms and radiant colors that seemed to compress "in narrow room nature's whole wealth," entitling Eden to be characterized as "a heaven on earth."
2. Divinely prepared. Jehovah Elohim caused it to spring up and bloom before the wondering eye of man. All the world's beauty is of God. The flowers and the herbs and the trees have all their symmetry and loveliness from him. God clothes the lilies of the field; the raiment, outshining the glory of royal Solomon, in which they are decked is of his making. If nature be the loom in which it is woven, he is the all-wise ὑφάντης or Weaver by whom its wondrous mechanism is guided and energized. Let us rejoice in the earth's beauty, and thank God for it.
3. Exceptional. We are scarcely warranted, even by Genesis 3:17, to suppose that, prior to the fall, the whole world was a paradise. Rather, geologic revelations give us reason to believe that from the first the earth was prepared for the reception of a sinful race, death and deformity having been in the world anterior to man's arrival upon the scene (cf. Bushnell, 'Nat. and Super.,' Genesis 7:1-24.), and that the Edenic home was what the Bible says it was—a fair spot, specially planted and fenced about, for the temporary residence of the innocent pair, who were ultimately, as transgressors, to be driven forth to dwell upon a soil which was cursed because of sin. Let it humble us to think that the earth is not a paradise solely because of human sin.
4. Prophetic. Besides being a picture of what the world would have been, had it been prepared for a sinless race, it was also a foreshadowing of the renovated earth when sin shall be no more, when "this land that was desolate shall have become like the garden of Eden." Let it stimulate our hope and assist our faith to anticipate the palingenesia of the future, when this sterile and disordered world shall be refitted with bloom and beauty.
II. A SPHERE OF WORK. Adam's work was—
1. God-assigned. So in a very real sense is every man's life occupation appointed by God. "To every man his work" is the law of God's world as well as of Christ's kingdom. This thought should dignify "the trivial round, the common task," and enable us, "whether we eat or drink, or whatsoever we do, to do all to the glory of God."
2. Pleasant. And so should all work be, whether arduous or easy, especially to a Christian. To be sure, Adam's work was light and easy in comparison with that which afterwards became his lot, and that which now constitutes ours. But even these would be joyous and exhilarating if performed by the free spirit of love, instead of, as they often are, by the unwilling hands of bondmen.
3. Necessary. Even in a state of innocence it was impossible that man could he suffered to live in indolence; his endowments and capacities were fitted for activity. His happiness and safety (against temptation) required him to be employed. And if God who made him was ever working, why should he be idle? The same arguments forbid idleness today. Christianity with emphasis condemns it. "If a man will not work, neither shall he eat."
III. AN ABODE OF INNOCENCE. This abode was—
1. Suitable. It was not suitable for sinners, just as the world outside would not have been adapted for a pair who were sinless; but it was peculiarly appropriate for their innocence. He who appointeth to all men the bounds of their habitation always locates men in spheres that are exactly suited to their natures and needs.
2. Provisional. Their possession of it was contingent on their remaining sinless. If their souls continued pure, their homes would continue fair. It is man's own sin that defaces the beauty and mars the happiness of man's home. When men find themselves in positions that are not compatible with their happiness and usefulness, it is sin that has placed them there.
3. Quickly lost. How long they continued innocent is useless to conjecture, though probably it was not long. More important is it to observe that not much was required to deprive them of their lovely home—one act of disobedience! See the danger of even one sin.
4. Ultimately recoverable. This truth was taught by the stationing of the cherubim at its gate (q.v.). Revelation 22:1 tells us it has been regained for us by Christ, and will in the end be bestowed on us.
IV. A HOME OF HAPPINESS.
1. Everything was absent that might mar man's felicity. No sin, no error, no sorrow.
2. Everything was present that could minister to his enjoyment. There was ample gratification for all the different parts of his complex nature.
(a) communion with a gracious God;
(b) the felicity of a loving and a pious home;
(c) the joy of life—physical, intellectual, moral.
V. A PLACE OF PROBATION. This probation was—
1. Necessary. Virtue that stands only because it has never been assaulted is, to say the least of it, not of the highest kind. Unless man had been subjected to trial it might have remained dubious whether he obeyed of free choice or from mechanical necessity.
2. Easy. The specific commandment which Adam was required to observe was not severe in its terms. The limitations it prescribed were of the smallest possible description—abstinence from only one tree.
3. Gracious. Instead of periling the immortality of Adam and his posterity upon every single act of their lives, he suspended it upon the observance, doubtless for only a short space of time, of one easily-obeyed precept, which he had the strongest possible inducement to obey. If he maintained his integrity, not only would his own holiness and happiness be confirmed, but those of his descendants would be secured; while if he failed, he would involve not himself alone, but all succeeding generations in the sweep of a terrific penalty. The clearness with which that penalty was made known, the certainty of its execution, and the severity of its inflictions, were proofs of the grace of God towards his creature man.
Man's first dwelling-place.
The description of Eden commences an entirely new stage in the record. We are now entering upon the history of humanity as such.
I. The first fact in that history is a state of "PLEASANTNESS." The garden is planted by God. The trees are adapted to human life, to support it, to gratify it; and in the midst of the garden the two trees which represent the two most important facts with which revelation is about to deal, viz; immortality and sin.
II. OUTSPREAD BLESSING. The RIVER breaks into four fountains, whose description carries us over enormous regions of the world. It is the river which went out of Eden to water the garden; so that the conception before us is that of an abode of man specially prepared of God, not identical with Eden in extent, but in character; and the picture is carried out, as it were, by the channels of the outflowing streams, which bear the Eden life with them over the surface of the earth, so that the general effect of the whole is a prophecy of blessing. Eden-like beauty, and pleasantness, over the whole extent of the world.
III. THE PREPARED GARDEN WAITED FOR ITS INHABITANT. "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden" (literally, made him to rest in the garden) "to dress it and to keep it." Perhaps the simplest view of these words is the most significant. Man is led into a life of pleasantness, with only such demands upon him as it will be no burden to meet; and in that life of pure happiness and free activity he is made conscious, not of mere dependence upon his Creator for existence, not of laws hanging over him like threatening swords, but of a Divine commandment which at once gave liberty and restrained it, which surrounded the one tree of knowledge of good and evil with its circle of prohibition, not as an arbitrary test of obedience, bat as a Divine proclamation of eternal righteousness. "Evil is death." "Thou shalt not eat of it," for this reason, that "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." It is not a subjection of a new-made creature to a test. It would be a harsh demand to make of Adam, unless he understood that it was founded on the nature of things.
IV. THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF DEATH STAND TOGETHER in the midst of the garden. They hold the same position still in every sphere of human existence. But the book of Divine grace, as it teaches us how the sin-stricken, dying world is restored to a paradise of Divine blessedness, reveals at the last, in the vision of the Christian seer, only the tree of life beside the water of life; the evil cast out, and the death which it brought with it, and the new-made inhabitants "taking freely" of "the pleasures which are forevermore."—R.
HOMILIES BY J.F. MONTGOMERY
Genesis 2:9, Genesis 2:10
The tree of life and the water of life.
These two features of Eden claim special attention.
I. THEIR RECURRRNCE IN SCRIPTURE. They link the paradise of unfallen man to that of redeemed man. Actual channels of life and blessing, they were also figures of that salvation which the history of the world was gradually to unfold. But sin came, and death; present possession was lost. What remained was the promise of a Savior. We pass over much of preparation for his coming: the selection of a people; the care of God for his vineyard; the ordinances and services foreshadowing the gospel. Then a time of trouble: Jerusalem a desolation; the people in captivity; the temple destroyed; the ark gone; sacrifices at an end. "Where is now thy God?" Where thy hope? Such the state of the world when a vision given to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 47:1-12), reproducing the imagery of Eden, but adapted to the need of fallen man. Again we have the stream; now specially to heal. Its source the mercy-seat (comp. Ezekiel 43:1-7; Ezekiel 47:1; Revelation 22:1). And the trees; not different from the tree of life (Ezekiel 47:12 : "It shall bring forth new fruit"); varied manifestations of grace; for food and for medicine. But observe, the vision is of a coming dispensation. Again a space. Our Savior's earthly ministry over. The Church is struggling on. The work committed to weak hands; the treasure in earthen vessels. But before the volume of revelation closed, the same symbols are shown in vision to St. John (Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:2). The "river of water of life" (cf. "living water," John 4:10), and the tree whose fruit and leaves are for food and healing. Meanwhile our Lord had said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness." A link to connect this with Genesis 2:1-25. is Revelation 2:7 (cf. also Revelation 12:11). And again, the word used for "tree" in all these passages is that used for the cross in Galatians 3:13 and 1 Peter 2:24.
II. THEIR SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE. The tree with its fruit and leaves are the manifestation of Christ to the soul—to sinners pardon, to the weak support and guidance, to saints communion. And the stream is the gospel (the four-parted river in Eden has been likened to the four Gospels), spreading throughout the world, bringing healing, light, and life; enabling men to rejoice in hope. But mark, the drops of which that stream is composed are living men. The gospel spreads from heart to heart, and from lip to lip (cf. John 7:38). Forming part of that healing flood are preachers of the gospel in every place and way; and thinkers contending for the faith; and men mighty in prayer; and those whose loving, useful lives set forth Christ; and the sick silently preaching patience; and the child in his little ministry. There is helping work for all. The Lord hath need of all. To each one the question comes, Art thou part of that stream? Hast thou realized the stream of mercy, the gift of salvation for thine own need? And cans, thou look at the many still unhealed and be content to do nothing? Thou couldst not cause the stream to flow; but it is thine to press the "living water" upon others, to help to save others Art thou doing this? Is there not within the circle of thy daily life some one in grief whom Christian sympathy may help, some anxious one whom a word of faith may strengthen, some undecided one who may be influenced? There is thy work. Let the reality of Christ's gift and his charge to thee so fill thy heart that real longing may lead to earnest prayer; then a way will be opened.—M.
In anticipation of the ensuing narrative of the temptation and the fall, the historian, having depicted man's settlement in Eden, advances to complete his dramatis personae by the introduction upon the scene of the animals and woman. In the preliminary creation record (Genesis 1:7-27) it is simply stated that God created man, male and female; there is a complete absence of details as to the Divine modus operandi in the execution of these, his last and greatest works. It is one object, among others, of the second portion of the history to supply those details. With regard to man (Adam), an account of his formation, at once minute and exhaustive, has been given in the preceding verses (Genesis 2:7-17); now, with like attention to antecedent and concomitant circumstances and events, the sacred penman adds a description of the time, reason, manner, and result of the formation of woman. And the Lord God said, It is not good for man to be alone. While the animals were produced either in swarms (as the fishes) or in pairs (as the birds and beasts), man was created as an individual; his partner, by a subsequent operation of creative power, being produced from himself. With the wild phantasies and gross speculations of some theosophists, as to whether, prior to the creation of Eve, Adam was androgynic (Bohme), or simply vir in potentia, out of which state he passed the moment the woman stood by his side (Ziegler), a devout exegesis is not required to intermeddle. Neither is it needful to wonder how God should pronounce that to be not good which he had previously (Genesis 1:31) affirmed was good. The Divine judgment of which the preceding chapter speaks was expressed at the completion of man's creation; this, while that creation was in progress. For the new-made man to have been left without a partner would, in the estimation of Jehovah Elohim, have been for him a condition of being which, if not necessarily bad in itself, yet, considering his intellectual and social nature, "would eventually have passed over from the negative not good, or a manifest want, into the positive not good, or a hurtful impropriety"' (Lange). "It was not good for man to be alone; not, as certain foolish Rabbis conceited, lest he should imagine himself to be the lord of the world, or as though no man could live without a woman, which is contrary to Scripture; but in respect of
Accordingly, Jehovah Elohim, for whom (seeing that his nature is to dispense happiness to his creatures) no more than for Adam would it have been good that man, being what he was, should remain alone, said, I will provide a help meet for him; literally, an helper, as over against him, i.e. corresponding to him, βοηθο Ì ν κατ αὐ τοì ν; Genesis 2:20, ὁ ì μοιος αὐ τῷ, LXX. The expression indicates that the forthcoming helper was to be of similar nature to the man himself, corresponding by way of supplement to the incompleteness of his lonely being, and in every way adapted to be his co-partner and companion. All that Adam's nature demanded for its completion, physically, intellectually, socially, was to be included in this altera ego who was soon to stand by his side. Thus in man's need, and woman's power to satisfy that need, is laid the foundation for the Divine institution of marriage, which was afterwards prescribed not for the first pair alone, but for all their posterity.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air. To allege that the Creator's purpose to provide a helpmeet for Adam seeks realization through the production of the animals (Kalisch, Alford) proceeds upon a misapprehension of the proper nexus which binds the thoughts of the historian, and a want of attention to the peculiar structure of Hebrew composition, besides exhibiting Jehovah Elohim in the character of an empiric who only tentatively discovers the sort of partner that is suitable for man. It is not the time, but simply the fact, of the creation of the animals that the historian records. The Vav. consec. does not necessarily involve time-succession, but is frequently employed to indicate thought-sequence (cf. Genesis 2:8; 1 Kings 2:13, &c.). The verb (pret.) may also quite legitimately be rendered "had formed (Bush). "Our modern style of expressing the Semitic writer's thought would be this—'And God brought to Adam the beasts which he had formed (Delitzsch). It is thus unnecessary to defend the record from a charge of inconsistency with the previous section, by supposing this to be the account of a second creation of animals in the district of Eden. Another so-called contradiction, that the present narrative takes no account of the creation of aquatic animals, is disposed of by observing that the writer only notices that those animals which were brought to Adam had been previously formed by God from the ground, and were thus in the line of the onward evolutions of the heavens and the earth which led up to mare As to why the fishes were not brought into the garden, if other reason is required besides that of physical impossibility, the ingenuity of Keil suggests that these were not so nearly related to Adam as the fowls and the beasts, which, besides, were the animals specially ordained for his service. And brought them (literally, brought; not necessarily all the animals in Eden, but specimens of them) unto Adam. We agree with Willet in believing that "neither did Adam gather together the cattle as a shepherd doth his sheep, nor did the angels muster them, nor the animals come themselves, and, passing by, while he sat on some elevation, bow their heads at his resplendent appearance; nor were Adam's eyes so illuminate that he beheld them all in their places—all which," says he, "are but men's conceits; but that through the secret influence of God upon their natures they were assembled round the inmate of paradise, as afterwards they were collected in the ark. The reasons for this particular action on the part of God were manifold; one of them being stated in the words which follow—to see what he would call them; literally, to them. Already man had received from God his first lesson in the exercise of speech, in the naming of the trees and the imposition of the prohibition. This was his second—the opportunity afforded him of using for himself that gift of language and reason with which he had been endowed. In this it is implied that man was created with the faculty of speech, the distinct gift of articulate and rational utterance, and the capacity of attaching words to ideas, though it also seems to infer that the evolution of a language was for him, as it is for the individual yet, a matter of gradual development. Another reason was to manifest his sovereignty or lordship over the inferior creation. And whatsoever Adam (literally, the man) called every living creature (i.e. that was brought to him), that was the name thereof. That is to say, it not only met the Divine approbation as exactly suitable to the nature of the creature, and thus was a striking attestation of the intelligence and wisdom of the first man, but it likewise adhered to the creature as a name which had been assigned by its master.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. The portrait here delineated of the first man is something widely different from that of an infantile savage slowly groping his way towards the possession of articulate speech and intelligible language by imitation of the sounds of animals. Speech and language both spring full-formed, though not completely matured, from the primus homo of the Bible. As to the names that Adam gave the animals, with Calvin we need not doubt that they were founded on the best of reasons, though what they were it is impossible to discover, as it is not absolutely certain that Adam spoke in Hebrew. But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. This was the chief reason for assembling the creatures. It was meant to reveal his loneliness. The longing for a partner was already deeply seated in his nature, and the survey of the animals, coming to him probably in pairs, could not fail to intensify that secret hunger of his soul, and perhaps evoke it into conscious operation.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. This was clearly not a sleep of weariness or fatigue, in consequence of arduous labors undergone, but a supernatural slumber, which, however, may have been superinduced upon the natural condition of repose. Lightfoot, following the LXX. who translate tardemah (deep sleep) by ecstasy, ἐ ì κστασις, imagines that the whole scene of Eve's creation was presented to Adam's imagination in a Divinely-inspired dream, which has at least the countenance of Job 4:13 Such a supposition, however, is not required to account for Adam's recognition of his bride. There is more of aptness in the observation of Lange, that in the deep sleep of Adam we have an echo of the area-tire evenings that preceded the Divine activity. "Everything out of which some new thing is to come sinks down before the event into such a deep sleep, is the farseeing and comprehensive remark of Ziegler. And he took one of his ribs (tsela = something bent, from tesala, to incline; hence a rib), and closed up the flesh (literally, flesh) instead thereof. Whether Adam was created with a superfluous rib, or his body was mutilated by the abstraction of a rib, is a question for the curious. In the first, Calvin finds nothing "which is not in accordance with Divine providence," while he favors the latter conjecture, and thinks that Adam got a rich compensation—"quum se integrum vidit in uxore, qui prius tantum dimidius erat." Luther inclines to think that Adam's language in verse 23 implies that not the bare rib, but the rib with the accompanying flesh, was extracted.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he (literally, builded into; aedificavit, Vulgate; ὠ κοδοì μησεν, LXX.) a woman. The peculiar phraseology employed to describe the formation of Adam's partner has been understood as referring to the physical configuration of woman's body, which is broadest towards the middle (Lyra); to the incompleteness of Adam's being, which was like an unfinished building until Eve was formed (Calvin); to the part of the female in building up the family (Delitzsch, Macdonald), to the building up of the Church, of which she was designed to be a type (Bonar);—yet it may be doubted if there is not as much truth in the remark that "by the many words used in the generation of mankind, as creating (Genesis 1:27), making (Genesis 1:26), forming and inspiring (Genesis 2:7), and now building, Moses would set forth this wondrous workmanship for which the Psalmist so laudeth God," Psalms 139:14 (Ainsworth). And brought her unto the man. I.e. led, conducted, and presented her to Adam. "The word implies the solemn bestowment of her in the bonds of the marriage covenant, which is hence called the covenant of God (Proverbs 2:17); implying that he is the Author of this sacred institution" (Bush). On awaking from his slumber Adam at once recognized the Divine intention, and joyfully welcomed his bride.
And Adam said. Either as being possessed, while in a sinless state, of a power of intuitive perception which has been lost through the fall, or as speaking under Divine inspiration (vide Matthew 19:4-6). This now. Literally, this tread, step, or stroke, meaning either this time, looking back to the previous review of the animal creation, as if he wished to say, At last one has come who is suitable to be my partner (Calvin); or, less probably, looking forward to the ordinary mode of woman's production, this time she is supernaturally formed (Bush). "The thrice repeated this is characteristic. It vividly points to the woman on whom, in joyful astonishment, the man's eye now rests with the full power of first love" (Delitzsch). Instinctively he recognizes her relation to himself. Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. The language is expressive at once of woman's derivation from man ( γυνη Ì ἐ ξ ἀ νδροì ς, 1 Corinthians 11:8, 1 Corinthians 11:12) and likeness to man. The first of these implies her subordination or subjection to man, or man's headship over woman (1 Corinthians 11:3), which Adam immediately proceeds to assert by assigning to her a name; the second is embodied in the name which she receives. She (literally, to this) shall be called Woman (isha, i.e. maness, from ish, man. Cf. Greek, ἀ νδριì ς (Symmachus), from ἀ νηì ρ; Latin, virago, virae (old Latin), from vir; English, woman (womb-man, Anglo-Saxon), from man; German, manninn, from mann; Sanscrit, hart, from nara; Ethiopic, beesith, from beesi), because she (this) was taken from Man. Ish, the name given by Adam to himself in contradistinction to his spouse, is interpreted as significant of man's authority (Gesenius), or of his social nature (Meier); but its exact etymology is involved in obscurity. Its relation to Adham is the same as that of vir to homo and ἀ νηì ρ to ἀ ì νθρωπος.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. There is nothing in the use of such terms as father and mother, or in the fact that the sentiment is prophetic, to prevent the words from being regarded as a continuation of Adam's speech, although, on the other hand, the statement of Christ (Matthew 19:5) does not preclude the possibility of Moses being their author; but whether uttered by the first husband (Delitzsch, Macdonald) or by the historian (Calvin, Murphy), they must be viewed as an inspired declaration of the law of marriage. Its basis (fundamental reason and predisposing cause) they affirm to be
Its nature they explain to be
And they were both naked. Not partially (Pye Smith), but completely destitute of clothing. Diodorus Siculus and Plato both mention nakedness as a feature of the golden age and a characteristic of the first men (vide Rosenmüller, Scholia in love), The man and his wife. The first pair of human beings are henceforth recognized in their relationship to one another as husband and wife. And they were not ashamed. Not because they were wholly uncultivated and their moral insight undeveloped (Knobel, Kalisch); but because their souls were arrayed in purity, and "their bodies were made holy through the spirit which animated them" (Keil). "They were naked, but yet they were not so. Their bodies were the clothing of their internal glory; and their internal glory was the clothing of their nakedness" (Delitzsch). It is not surprising that the primeval history of mankind should have left its impress upon the current of tradition. The Assyrian tablets that relate to man are so fragmentary and mutilated that they can scarcely be rendered intelligible. So far as they have been deciphered, the first appears on its obverse side "to give the speech of the Deity to the newly-created pair (man and woman), instructing them in their duties," in which can be detected a reference' to something which is eaten by the stomach, to the duty of daily invocation of the Deity, to the danger of leaving God's fear, in which alone they can be holy, and to the propriety of trusting only a friend; and on its reverse what resembles a discourse to the first woman on her duties, in which occur the words, "With the lord of thy beauty thou shalt be faithful: to do evil thou shalt not approach him". The Persian legend describes Meschia and Meschiane, the first parents of our race, as living in purity and innocence, and in the enjoyment of happiness which Ormuzd promised to render perpetual if they persevered in virtue. But Ahriman, an evil demon (Dev), suddenly appeared in the form of a serpent, and gave them of the fruit of a wonderful tree. The literature of the Hin-does distinguishes four ages of the world, in the first of which Justice, in the form of a bull, kept herself firm on her four feet; when Virtue reigned, no good which the mortals possessed was mixed with baseness, and man, free from disease, saw all his wishes accomplished, and attained an age of 400 years. The Chinese also have their age of happy men, living in abundance of food, and surrounded by the peaceful beasts. In the Zendavesta, Yima, the first Iranic king, lives in a secluded spot, where he and his people enjoy uninterrupted happiness, in a region free from sin, folly, violence, poverty, deformity. The Teutonic Eddas have a glimpse of the same truth in their magnificent drinking halls, glittering with burnished gold, where the primeval race enjoyed a life of perpetual festivity. Traces of a similar belief are found among the Thibetans, Mongolians, Cingalese, and others. The Western traditions are familiar to scholars in the pages of Hesiod, who speaks of the golden age when men were like the gods, free from labors, troubles, cares, and all evils in general; when the earth yielded her fruits spontaneously, and when men were beloved by the gods, with whom they held uninterrupted communion (Hesiod, 'Opera et Dies,' 90). And of Ovid, who adds to this picture the element of moral goodness as a characteristic of the aurea aetas ('Metam.,' 1.89). Macrobius ('Somn. Scipionis,' 2.10) also depicts this period as one in which reigned simplicitas mali nescia et adhuc astutiae inexperta. "These coincidences affect the originality of the Hebrew writings as little as the frequent resemblance of Mosaic and heathen laws. They teach us that all such narratives have a common source; that they are reminiscences of primeval traditions modified by the different nations in accordance with their individual culture" (Kalisch)
The first marriage.
I. THE LONELY MAN.
1. Nobly born. Sprung from the soil, yet descended from above. Fashioned of the dust, yet inspired by a celestial breath. Allied to the beasts, yet the offspring of God.
2. Comfortably placed. His native country a sunny region of delights (Eden, Genesis 2:8); his home a beautiful and fertile garden (Genesis 3:5); his supplies of the amplest possible description (Genesis 1:30; Genesis 2:16); his occupation light and pleasant (Genesis 2:15); his restrictions slight and trivial (Genesis 2:17); his privileges large (Genesis 2:16).
3. Richly endowed. With immortality (Genesis 2:17), intelligence (Genesis 2:19), social capacities and instincts (Genesis 2:18), the faculty of speech (Genesis 2:20).
4. Highly exalted. As God's offspring, he was invested with world-dominion (Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8:6), symbolized in his naming of the creatures (Genesis 2:20). Yet—
5. Essentially alone. Not as entirely bereft of companionship, having on the one hand the society of Jehovah Elohim, and on the other the presence of the animals; but in neither the Creator nor the creatures could he find his other self—his counterpart and complement, his consort and companion. On the one hand Jehovah Elohim was too high, while on the other the creatures were too low, for such partnership as Adam's nature craved. And so Adam dwelt in solitude apart from both. "But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him."
II. THE PROVIDED PARTNER.
1. Divinely fashioned (Genesis 2:22).
"Under his forming hands a creature grew,
Man like, but different sex; so lovely fair,
That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now
Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained,
And in her looks; ….
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love"
(Milton, 'Par. Lost,' Bin 8:469).
2. Divinely presented (Genesis 2:22). "The Lord brought her unto the man." "Wherein we have exemplified the three great causes of marriage.
III. THE WEDDED PAIR.
1. Married by God. "God is the best maker of marriages" (Shakespeare). Nay, unless God unites there is no real marriage, but only an unhallowed connection, legitimized by man's laws, it may be, but not sanctioned by God's. As this wedding was of God's arranging, so likewise was it of his celebrating. What celestial benedictions were outbreathed upon the young and innocent pair, as they stood there before their Maker, radiant in beauty, tremulous with joy, full of adoration, we are left to imagine. Happy they whose nuptials are first sanctioned and then celebrated by the living God!
2. United in love. This first marriage was certainly something more than a social or a civil contract; something other than a union of convenience or a diplomatic alliance; something vastly different from a legalized coenobium. It was the realization of what our Laureate pictures as the ideal marriage:—
"Each fulfils
Defect in each, and always thought in thought,
Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow,
The single, pure, and perfect animal;
The two-cell d heart beating, with one full stroke,
Life"
('Princess,' 7.).
3. Clothed in innocence. Never had bridal pair so beautiful and radiant apparel. The unclothed bodies of our first parents we can imagine were enswathed in ethereal and transfiguring light; in their case the outshining of their holy souls, which, as yet, were the undimmed and unmarred image of their Maker, capable of receiving and reflecting his glory. Alas, never bridal pair has stood in robes so fair! The beauty of holiness, the luster of innocence, the radiance of purity have departed from the souls of men. Never till we stand in the celestial Eden, where they neither marry nor are given in marriage, will garments of such incomparable splendor be ours. Meantime, let us thank God there is a spotless raiment in which our guilty souls may be arrayed, and in which it were well that every bridal pair were decked. Happy they who, when they enter into married life, can say, "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with jewels."
4. Housed in paradise. United by the hand of God, they began their married life in Eden.
"And there these twain upon the skirts of time
Sat side by side, full summ'd in all their powers,
Dispensing harvest, sowing the to-be.
Self-reverent each, and reverencing each;
Distinct in individualities,
But like each other, ev'n as those who love"
(Tennyson's 'Princess,' 7.).
And so may any wedded pair be housed in Eden who, putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, fill their home, however humble, with the light of love.
The true life of man.
The commencement of human society. First we see man surrounded by cattle, fowl, and beast of the field, which were brought to him by God as to their lord and ruler, that he might name them as from himself. "What he called every living creature was the name thereof." Nothing could better represent the organization of the earthly life upon the basis of man's supremacy. But there is no helpmeet for man ("as before him," the reflection of himself) in all the lower creation.
I. HUMAN SOCIETY MUST SPRING OUT OF SOMETHING HIGHER THAN ANIMAL LIFE AND MAN'S MERE EARTHLY POSITION. The deep sleep, the Divine manipulation of maws fleshly frame, the formation of the new creature, not out of the ground, but out of man, the exclamation of Adam, This is another self, my bone and my flesh, therefore she shall be called woman, because so closely akin to man—all this, whatever physical interpretation we give to it, represents the fact that companionship, family life, mail's intercourse with his fellow, all the relations which spring from the fleshly unity of the race, are of the most sacred character. As they are from God, and specially of God's appointment, so they should be for God.
II. There, in home life, torn off, as it were, from the larger sphere, that it may be THE NEW BEGINNING OF THE NEW WORLD TO US, should be the special recognition of God, the family altar, the house of man a house of God.
III. The Divine beginning of human life is the foundation on which we build up society. THE RELATIONS OF THE SEXES WILL BE PUREST AND NOBLEST the more the heart of man unfolds itself in the element of the heavenly love.—R.
Exell, Joseph S; Spence-Jones, Henry Donald Maurice. "Commentary on Genesis 2". The Pulpit Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/tpc/genesis-2.html. 1897.
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