Baristanet, the queen of hyperlocal blogs, is five years old today.
I remember well the NJ.com Meetup we held back then to try to encourage locals to blog on our site. I learned an important lesson there. Debbie Galant, the original Barista, said starting a town blog was a good idea but she sure as hell wasn't going to do it for my site. She wanted to own and build her own site and value and brand.
And she did. Bariastanet is a phenomenon. It has not just survived but succeeded. It is profitable. It is expanding, adding another blog to its stable recently. It has developed a strong reputation inside Montclair and outside. Congratulations to Deb and Liz and company for that. They have inspired others to start hyperlocal blogs not only across the country but in their own backyard, as The New York Times creates The Local and AOL president Tim Armstrong funds Patch in the nabe. Five years ago, they knew they were onto something and they're being proved right.
I think the next frontier will be creating networks across blogs of geography and interest so they can reach critical mass to sell to larger advertisers and to share content and effort and perhaps cost. I believe blogs such as this will be a – not the but a – building block in the new ecosystem of news that will begin to replace in fits and starts failing newspapers. (In that ecosystem, I think there will also be newfangled news organizations that help organize the news in this diverse network.) I also hope that we'll find many new ways for the Baristanets of the world to serve local businesses and make more money so they can sustain their work.


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When it comes to shopping for the family, it's hard to push past Target. From induction cookers to games consoles, the store caters to suit every family member. Its pram and stroller range is just as versatile, with many of the products designed to be suitable from birth and last for years to come.
Some models, including the Childcare Dual Stroller and the smarTrike Delight, are exclusively sold at Target. Certain items like the Single Upright Buggy are also only available in-store. To help you navigate your way down the aisles, we've mapped out the different strollers currently on offer from Target and listed a few of their features.
Target's Safety 1st Travel System Stroller is a versatile multi-function stroller which can transform a single stroller to a double or complete travel system. It features an aluminium lightweight tri-fold frame said to provide an easy and compact fold, and includes a carry handle to help you transport your stroller wherever you go. You can also remove the wheels for a smaller fit. Other customisable features include a 3-position backrest recline and a removable T bar.
The stroller is travel system compatible and comes with infant carrier adapters. But the Safety First Infant Carrier will take you back an extra $199, which is usually the same price as the stroller itself. A large canopy with a large peek-a-boo window is similarly available so you can keep a close eye on your little one.
The Safety 1st Travel System Stroller is suitable for newborns and children under the age of 4.
If you're looking for an ideal item for traveling, the Target Trip Stroller is a lightweight option suitable for newborns and young children. This typically costs $89.
The model includes a multi-position backrest as well as a quilted and padded seat pad to make sure your child stays comfortable throughout the day. It also features a high density foam grip and front swivel wheels to help you keep control of the wheel. It similarly contains a self-lock and compact fold design for convenient storage.
The Childcare Heston Stroller from Target is a compact model made with a lightweight steel frame, featuring a 4-position fully reclining seat and 5-point safety harness. The canopy is detachable so you can customise the stroller however you need.
Available for $129, this stroller has a 20kg weight capacity and is ideal for children up to three years old.
The Childcare Dual Stroller is for those who like the Childcare Heston Stroller but need space for two. Suitable for newborns and toddlers, this model contains customisable safety features like a removable bumper bar and 5-point safety harness. Cable linked rear-brakes with a separate release pedal are also available for convenience.
If you're searching for something to give you more control, this stroller has a reversible handle as well as swivel and lockable front wheels so you can push the stroller more comfortably and smoothly.
The Childcare Dual Stroller has a weight capacity of 17kg. Similar to the Childcare Heston Stroller, this model is priced at $149.
The Single Upright Buggy is a suitable option for parents who are planning to take their child on quick errands, thanks to its lightweight and compact design. It includes a 5-point harness to keep them secure, and front swivel wheels for manoeuvrability. Valued at $25 this is least expensive stroller available from Target.
The Single Upright Buggy is ideal for children aged 6 months and older.
If you're looking for something more affordable, the smarTrike SmarTfold collection typically ranges between $49 and $199.
The SmarTfold 400 7-in-1 Folding Trike is ideal for parents who want something to support their child as they grow from baby to toddler. Featuring a unique Touch Steering technology which allows the trike to move like a stroller, this is suitable for children aged between nine and 36 months.
The model is said to help kids develop confidence, balance and motor skills as they eventually learn to pedal on their own. The smarTrike Delight and smarTrike Fun 2 in 1 are similarly available for children. These two models can switch between Touch Steering and child-ride control mode, so your little one can ride on their own or with the help of mum or dad. The smarTrike Fun 2 in 1 even comes with a basket for toys to keep your child entertained on busy days.
The smarTrike Delight is suitable for children aged between 10 and 36 months, while the smarTrike Fun 2 in 1 is ideal for kids aged between 15 months and 24 months.
Does Target hit the spot when it comes to strollers and prams?
Cruise your way into Target and find a range of compact and lightweight strollers to suit your family. From newborns to toddlers, Target's strollers contain customisable features that can adapt your stroller to as your child grows. The various strollers include the Safety 1st Travel System Stroller, Trip Stroller, Childcare Heston Stroller, Childcare Dual Stroller, Single Upright Stroller and smarTrike.
Most of the products available can be used from birth and are suitable for once they reach the age of three or four. Items like the Safety 1st Travel System Stroller, Trip Stroller and Childcare Heston Stroller feature multi-position seats which can be adjusted depending on their size. If you're a parent to twins or siblings, or planning a new addition to the family, the Childcare Dual Stroller or the Safety 1st Travel System Stroller may be suitable for you. Both can accommodate two children of different ages.
The smarTrike range is similarly made to support your kid at each stage of their development. The SmarTfold 400 7-in-1 Folding Trike is a storage-friendly trike which can help your baby develop balance and motor skills as they train to pedal they train to pedal. Once they get older, they can change their set of keys to the smarTrike Delight or the smarTrike Fun 2 in 1. These allow your toddler to continue developing confidence and skills the need to ride solo.
As most of the strollers are described as lightweight and offer a compact fold, Target's range may be suitable for families who use public transport or who may be short on space. Products like the Childcare Heston Stroller and Safety 1st Travel System Stroller may be especially useful as these allow you to remove items like the canopy or wheels to further reduce the bulk.
Shopping for the perfect stroller isn't a walk in the park. This is why you should check out the Canstar Blue website for plenty of ratings and reviews on a wide range of prams and strollers, as well as other baby essentials, to find what's best for you.


Nearly three years into California's revamped and expanded $330 million film and television tax credit program, feature production in Los Angeles took a big hit in the early months of 2017, according to FilmLA.
Also coming off an overall 2016 that saw record levels of on-location production almost across the board, the steep decline in feature film shooting days from Q1 2016 was not the only double-digit hit.
While overall Q1 2017 production was pretty steady with the same period last year, with a mere 2.1% dip, TV Pilots got whacked down 15.5% from Q1 2016. Rubbing sandpaper on that raw wound, as you can see on these charts, those 223 shoot days also are down 17.1% on the five-year average for that category. Looking at other aspects of the TV business, Dramas stumbled 8.4% from Q1 2016 but actually were up 4.1% over the five-year average. As stage availability and location managers around town can tell you themselves, TV Comedies certainly are up, and the FilmLA stats back that up too. The category rose 9.2% in shoot days in Q1 2017 over last year and had a strong 37.2% increase over the five-year average. TV Reality was basically the same as last year with 1,162 shoot days or a 0.9% increase.
Put together, on-location TV production was virtually the same as Q1 2016 with a tiny 0.6% slip. With all that math, there is one piece of data that looks promising, especially with the recent indications that Netflix is aiming to consolidate its output in and around Tinseltown: TV production in L.A. is up 10.3% over the five-year average.
In that perspective, the next application round to the California Film Commission for tax credits for TV projects runs May 22-29, with an announcement expected around July 1 on who the lucky ones are. The latest film round recipients were revealed in February, with the new version of A Star Is Born and a Clint Eastwood-directed pic among the projects getting a piece of the $100 million on the table. Another film round will be open from June 19-27, with winners announced around July 24.


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FLASHBACK All Saints' Day debate: Should sellers bury St. Joseph statues?
This Sunday an article by Stephen J. Dubner and economist Steven D. Levitt, controversial authors of Freakonomics, was published in the New York Times and Boston Globe (which is owned by the Times) under separate headlines. The Times used the hard-hitting headline "Endangered Species" while the Globe used a softer, almost apologetic headline, "If real estate is prospering, chances are your agent isn't: Most realtors don't make much money in a boom."
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Link: Amazon.com: Ambient Findability : What We Find Changes Who We Become: Books: Peter Morville.
Link: Sprawl Kills – the book – by Joel S. Hirschhorn.


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Polycab announces strategic partnership with Redington
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With this tie-up, Polycabs telecom division, Polycab Telecom looks forward to meet its distribution-objectives and strengthen the presence of its passive networking portfolio, comprising end-to-end copper and fibre system, all across India, capitalizing on Redingtons extensive distribution-network and efficient operational expertise. The company said that Redington would provide Polycabs vast range of products including both, optical fibre cable and copper system, to the channel-partners and facilitate the companys accessibility to the value-added distributors (VADs), who would work through an integrated activation programme to collaborate well with their ecosystem of system integrators and value partners. Ashish D. Jain, executive president & COO, Telecom Division, Polycab, says, ?Were thrilled to partner with Redington India. Redingtons empowered distribution-network and vast geographic coverage in India will help us meet our distribution and channel-objectives, to fulfil the nationwide demands for end-to-end Make-in-India Passive Networking Products. We look forward to a seamless collaboration with Redington to deliver the best value to our end customers.? Sharing views on the partnership, R. Venkatesh, president, Enterprise Business Group, Redington said, ?Were absolutely delighted to come on board with Polycab. Polycab, a household name as the provider of power solutions, is uniquely positioned to provide both, end-to-end Power & Data Solutions. R. Venkatesh Further stated that as a national distributor were geared up to offer them supply-chain management facilities to meet their distribution requirements. With our strong presence and solution-centric mechanism, were confident to fast-track and augment Polycab Telecoms reach in the Indian channel-market.? Redington is a leading IT technology solution-provider across Information Technology, Mobility, Telecom, Cloud, Lifestyle and Solar verticals. It has a footprint across 38 markets, including 60 subsidiary offices. Polycab India is the largest manufacturer of Wires and Cables in India and fast growing player in the Fast Moving Electrical Goods (FMEG) space. The Group is also in the business of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects. Shares of Polycab rose 0.97% at Rs 2589.35 while Redington gained 1.59% at Rs 182.30 on the BSE. Powered by Capital Market - Live News

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Home BREAKING NEWS New "Ecodharma" Retreat Center to Open in Colorado in June
New "Ecodharma" Retreat Center to Open in Colorado in June
From rockymountainecodharmaretreatcenter.org
By Shyamal Sinha
David Robert Loy (born 1947) is an American author and authorized teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage of Japanese Zen Buddhism..
Loy's main research interest is the dialogue between Buddhism and modernity, especially the social implications of Buddhist teachings. In addition to academic lectures, he offers workshops and leads meditation retreats in the U.S. and internationally
HELENA, Montana—The well-known Buddhist author and teacher David Loy made the following announcement last week: "I'm pleased to inform everyone that the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center (RMERC) will be officially purchased early next month, and that retreats will begin later that month."
The center has raised US$215,000 of a needed US$940,000 goal to purchase the land and remodel the buildings. In a video released in April discussing the center, the founders state that one of their aims in raising these funds is to ensure that they have no debts or overheads in order to keep the cost of using the center as low as possible.
The retreat center is situated alongside the Arapaho National Forest northwest of Denver, Colorado, and 30 minutes from the Buddhist hotspot of Boulder. It has 180 acres (73 hectares) of land that have been set aside as a nature preserve, with three buildings that can house up to 30 retreatants. According to the website, the center "brings Buddhism and Dharma back into the natural world where they originated, and fosters the clarity and compassion needed to better address the ecological crisis and its related social justice issues."
The center's vision states that programs will include:
• Ecodharma workshops and retreats for activists, using the healing power of meditation in nature to ground and transform activism into a spiritual path of service to the community and to the Earth.
• Silent meditation retreats, in groups and also supported solos. All spiritual practice traditions are welcome, and local sanghas are encouraged to use the RMERC for weekends and day-longs, as well as for longer retreats.
• Retreats for underserved communities, people of color, veterans, youth, and other groups that may not be able to afford more expensive retreats.
• Low-cost retreats that are offered in the spirit of generosity, with teachers receiving only expenses and donations (Skt: dana).
Loy, the center's director and vice-president, has a long history as a writer and activist in engaged Buddhism, and was a co-editor of A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency (Wisdom Publications 2009), which featured writings from the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Bhikkhu Bodhi, and others. More recently, he authored A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World (Wisdom Publications 2015). Several other directors bring decades of their own Buddhist practice and academic and scientific expertise to the center, including Anne R. Kapuscinski, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and chair of the board of directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
At the heart of the center's mission is confronting our illusion of separateness from nature:
The ecological and social crises we face now go far beyond the ordinary personal suffering that Buddhism has usually been concerned with. Traditional Buddhist teachings help us to wake up individually and experience our non-separation from the world. Today we must ask whether those teachings also apply to group delusions of a collective self: namely a civilization that acts as if separate and above the natural processes of the Earth. Isn't our ecological predicament a larger and parallel version of the perennial individual predicament: the notion that I am a self "inside," separate from a world that is "outside"? Is our species really separate from the natural world, or an intrinsic part of it?
Loy himself will be co-teaching an ecodharma retreat there with Johann Robbins in early August.
Loy appears in the 2003 documentary Flight From Death, a film that investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences. He also appears in two documentary films by the Planetary Collective: "Overview" and "Planetary."
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Italian lifestyle and fashion: Three-part IC - CUNY (Italian Cinema - CUNY) Festival dives into the art and craft of cinema, costumes first
What happens when award-winning Italian and American costume designers get together on a university stage to discuss cinema, fashion and costume design? The audience is treated to a little slice of cinematic magic.
There's the lively repartee between masters of the craft – costume designers who have created the wardrobes for the best-known movies of our day. There are anecdotes and behind-the-scene stories you probably haven't heard before. There's the perspective you glean from designers who have seen it all and helped create film magic. And let's not forget the mash-ups of the designers' best work that trigger memories of your favorite films.
Costume Design A-Team
All of this and more was in play this past Halloween night at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center's Elebash Recital Hall when a sold-out crowd of students, academics, and actors, as well as fashion, costume and movie enthusiasts gathered to hear costume designers talk shop. On hand were legendary Oscar and Tony winner Ann Roth (The English Patient, The Nance, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Julie & Julia, The Post, Mama Mia, Midnight Cowboy), two-time Emmy winner Donna Zabowska (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and John Adams, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Iceman, Fading Gigolo, The Jesus Rolls -- John Turturro's soon to be released new film) and Emmy and David di Donatello award nominee Carlo Poggioli (The Name of the Rose, The Age of Innocence, Sparrow, Divergent, The Voice of the Moon, Federico Fellini's final film, The Young Pope, The New Pope).
Master Class Kick-Off
The October 31 event kicked off the second edition of CUNY's Academic Festival IC-CUNY (Italian Cinema – CUNY). This year the festival is presented this as a three-part series of Master Classes on the art and craft of film, with an emphasis on the interconnections – current and historical – between Italian and US cinema. IC-CUNY collaborated with The Academy of Italian Cinema David di Donatello (bestower of the David di Donatello awards -- the Italian equivalent of the Oscars) to develop the festival, marking the first partnership by the Italian organization with an American academic institution.
Eugenia Paulicelli, the founder and director of IC – CUNY, professor of Italian Studies, and a scholar of fashion and film, conceived and organized the festival, working with Massimo Mascolo, a consultant to the David di Donatello Awards and co-director for 2019 of the IC-CUNY festival.
Paulicelli framed the evening's discussion in her opening remarks, noting the fundamental importance of costume designers to the making of films and the lasting effect costumes have on the "emotional imaginary." She also pointed to the larger context of the IC-CUNY initiative – Italy's and America's long history of collaboration in film, beginning in the silent film era until today.
The parallels between the experience of the two countries are striking, what Paulicelli called a "two-way street" worked to transform the Italian identity. "Hollywood cinema launched American fashion to the world, and postwar Italian cinema launched Italian fashion during the magical time called Hollywood on the Tiber, when American actors and crews populated the streets of postwar Rome, newly christened the city of film and the city of fashion. American stars became ambassadors of Italian fashion and design."
The Bulgari Connection
Picking up the history thread, Piera Detassis, president and artistic director of the Academy of Italian Cinema David di Donatello Awards, who was on hand in New York for the Master Class, told the audience that the Academy's origins trace to a small cultural club, The Open Gate, formed by a group of Italian cinephiles in the immediate postwar period.
In 1956, the group had become the Academy of Italian Cinema and began to honor the best of each year's Italian and foreign films. The Academy commissioned Bulgari to create the first gold David di Donatello statuette, awarding it to Gina Lollobrigida in 1956 for Best Actress for La donna più bella del mondo (released in the US as Beautiful but Dangerous). The audience was treated to a surprise look at the statute. Bulgari's Monica Branetti, director of the jeweler's heritage department and historical archive, had brought it to New York, on loan from Lollobrigida. In 1959, the award went to Marilyn Monroe. Detassis screened charming black and white footage of a news reel showing Monroe accepting the award in Italy.
Moving to the Panel
Paulicelli and Detassis moderated a discussion with the three costume designers on stage – Ann Roth, Donna Zabowska and Carlo Poggioli. (The fourth costume designer on the bill, four-time Oscar winner and David di Donatello winner Milena Canonero, was unable to attend at the last moment.) The designers recounted memorable moments from films they had worked on over the years, sometimes together, and mused about new challenges facing the industry, adapting to new technologies, accelerating production schedules in a Netflix world, and dealing with a shrinking pool of highly skilled, custom tailors.
Here are a few highlights of the conversation
The topic of finding the actor's character came up in response to a question about the challenges inherent to the costume designer's role. Poggioli was quick to respond that designers need to know "how to talk" – not just how to sketch and design and cut cloth. Increasingly, they need to act as "psychologist and sometimes psychiatrist!" to understand not the director's vision or what the actor wants to accomplish with a costume or role, but also to navigate the whims of producers, who are increasingly driving decisions, including project timelines for costumes, from a budgetary standpoint.
Zakowska conceded that she" never thinks about budgets" primarily. Roth said she doesn't even "know producers' names." Zakowska said she learned to "immerse" herself in the "creative process," first and foremost, at the Yale School of Drama, which is also the alma mater of John Turturro who was in the audience that evening. When asked what he thought about working with Zabowska on costumes for the many films they've done together, Turturro quickly said his mother was a seamstress and that he had been brought up surrounded by fabrics!
"Realistically I know what (Carlo) is saying, and I have done many films [on a shoestring] but your vision [as a costume designer] has to be detached." She brings up Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief as an example of how even the simplest costume is like a "visual poem." "You have to think of the clothes as words and then the fabric follows."
Roth interjected that the key to costume design is helping actors "find" their character. Often, they are more interested in "being themselves" and have to be coaxed to "free themselves" of their own egos. "It can take hours, or it can take days." Take Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy. When Roth met Hoffman for the first time, he had just finished The Graduate. "All the girls were crazy about him, so naturally he was interested in looking pretty on screen." In Roth's eye, Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo character "fantasized" wearing a white suit like Marcello Mastroianni wore in all the billboards, but Rizzo could never afford to buy one. But eventually, Rizzo got his white suit by way of a white jacket that came out of a "garbage can on 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue," a leftover, says Roth, "from some kid who had been to a graduation where it had been spilled on or thrown up on." The pants came from "a pile of dirty pants from in front of the Port Authority where they sold stuff. When Dustin stood in the fitting room, he didn't see Dustin anymore, he was free to be someone else."
The evening concluded with "an illustrated conversation" between Paulicelli and film producer Roberto Bessi,, who talked about Annamode, the legendary cinematic and theatrical costume workshop in Italy and the launch of a new fashion brand, Annamode1946.
Next up in the series
Part II: Contemporary Italian Cinema
November 13 at the CUNY Graduate Center and November 14 at Queens College.
Two screenings
Paulicelli, Massimo Mascolo and Claudio Napoli screen their New Made in Italy series. Watch the trailer here. The first segment is on Cesare Attolini: Made in Naples.
Stolen Caravaggio (2018), dir. Roberto Ando', 2018. Discussion with the directors follows: Angelo Pasquini, screenwriter for Stolen Caravaggio, and Antonio Falduto, president of Controluce.
Part III: Panel on Costume and Fashion, Cinema and Made in Italy
December 5 at the CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Professor Deepsikha Chatterjee and Siobhan Nestor, principal women's draper at the Metropolitan Opera; a screening of The New Made in Italy Series showcasing the story behind Italian excellence in Fashion, Costume Design and Cultural Heritage by Massimo Mascolo, Claudio Napoli, and Eugenia Paulicelli.
The night will conclude with a conversation with two-time Donatello Award winner costume designer Daniela Ciancio and Costume Concept Artist Christian Cordella.
Click to register and read more about the Master Class series and bios of the presenters.
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Coming along in Kenya
Update to International Multilocation Variety Trial
An IMLVT site reaches maturity
In 2013, a box containing four plastic baggies of coffee seeds arrived from Kenya to a lab in Florida. Each bag was labelled in handwritten pen: SL28, Batian, Ruiru 11, K7. Coffee experts will recognize these as the names of some of the most important coffee varieties developed through Kenya's century-long coffee breeding program.
The seeds were Kenya's contribution to the World Coffee Research International Multilocation Variety Trial, or IMLVT, the world's largest coffee variety performance trial and seed exchange ever conducted.
To establish the trial, WCR's partners (Kenya and 10 others), provided 31 of the world's best arabica varieties. Each partner shipped seeds following strict phytosanitary controls to a sterile lab in Florida. Clones of each variety were made using in vitro tissue culture processes.
Each of the 31 varieties has been distributed to 22 participating countries—including Kenya. When plants first arrive to a participating country from the lab in Florida, they are in a tube, standing about a centimeter tall and suspended in a clear, goopy medium called agar.
Local researchers painstakingly work to get the baby plants translated into soil and acclimated to life outside a sterile test tube. These Sl6 plantlets arrived at the nursery in Ruiru, Kenya, in February 2015 and were moved into bags with soil. They spent about 6 months maturing in the nursery before being transplanted to the field.
Kenya's 4 varieties are now planted alongside 27 others in research plots in 22 countries. Researchers in each will spend the coming years evaluating how the plants perform in different environments.
The trial is executed in close collaboration with partnering research institutes. In Kenya, our partners from the Kenyan Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Coffee Research Institute (CRI) have worked hard to install, monitor, and maintain the research plots and conduct agronomic evaluations.
In addition to being a key provider of varieties for the global trial network, Kenya was one of the first countries to install its IMLVT plots. The country has plots in two locations: Ruiru in the central part of the country and Koru in the west. The site in Koru has nearly 4 times as much rainfall as the site in Ruiru. It is also, on average, 3.5 degrees hotter, with an annual average temperature of 22.5°C. These environmental differences are a key part of the trial--researchers are evaluating how varieties perform differently in different conditions, both within Kenya and across the entire global network.
A total of 29 varieties have been planted, and early evaluations of vegetative growth began in 2017. In 2018, the trial reached maturity and Kenya celebrated the first harvest from the research plots at Koru and Ruiru. Early data indicates there is significant variation in agronomic traits and rust susceptibility for the different varieties in the two Kenyan locations. The first full genetics x environment evaluations will be done in 2020.
Jane Cheserek from Coffee Research Institute Kenya and Solène Pruvot-Woehl from WCR stand in front of a coffee tree in the Ruiru trial plot.
In 2018, Kenya had it's first mature harvest of coffee cherries from IMLVT trial sites. The first quality analysis took place with expert cuppers from the Coffee Research Institute in Kenya. Kenyan coffee breeders and agronomists are watching the trial closely to determine if there are varieties that might offer advantages for Kenyan coffee farmers.
From left to right: Cecilia Kathurima (CRI), Solène Pruvot-Woehl (WCR) and Samuel Njeruh (CRI) cup so samples from the IMLVT.


San Francisco—The value of new construction condominiums is up in downtown Los Angeles, San Francisco and downtown Seattle, according to The Mark Company Trend Sheets.
The Mark Company reported the value of new construction condominiums in downtown Los Angeles inched up 1 percent in February, and was 26 percent higher than a year earlier. In San Francisco, the value of newly built condos rose 4 percent over the previous month, and climbed 19 percent vis-à-vis February 2014. And in downtown Seattle, the value of new construction condos was up 6 percent over the previous month and was 13 percent higher year over year.
"Low inventory levels continue to play a major role in San Francisco, Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown Seattle, pushing prices upward as we move into the traditionally busy spring months," The Mark Company president and founding partner Alan P. Mark told MHN.
In San Francisco, despite the influx of more than 1,600 units in 2014, there remain only 708 units available in the currently selling inventory for new construction condominiums.
In Downtown Seattle, only 118 new condominiums remain for sale, with 105 of them available at Insignia. In Downtown Los Angeles, just 311 new condominiums remain, with 310 of them also within one project that is already called 90 percent reserved.
The spring season historically sees the largest increase in month-over-month comparisons in The Mark Company's Condominium Pricing Index, he added. In addition, for the first time, the average price per square foot of a new condominium in San Francisco was in excess of $1,200 per square foot.
That number is far higher than that of the last housing boom in 2006-2007.
The vast majority of West Coast condo buyers are employed in the tech, biotech, healthcare and finance industries, Mark noted.


Mike Molnar is the founding director of the Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In this capacity he is responsible for NIST extramural advanced manufacturing programs and liaison to industry and academia. Mike is also the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO), an interagency team with core staff hosted at NIST. This interagency team works to coordinate federal activities in advanced manufacturing, and is the Congressionally designated National Program Office for Manufacturing USA – the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation.
Mike joined NIST in 2011. Prior to federal service Mike had a 30-year industry career in advanced manufacturing, with leadership roles in manufacturing technology development, corporate manufacturing engineering, capital planning, metrology, quality systems, automation, computer integrated manufacturing, and industrial controls for manufacturing competitiveness. Mid-career Mike served as the manufacturing policy Fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Mike is well known in industry and academia, with over thirty years of leadership roles in manufacturing professional societies and associations – most recently as the President of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Manufacturing Engineer, and was elected Fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Mike earned an Executive MBA from the University of Notre Dame, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineers from the University of Wisconsin.


The S.H. ozone hole deepened into the mid-1990s, while the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) became more positive. Both effects have since stabilized. We investigate a possible connection with modeling experiments of a S. H. spring ozone hole, and also year-round ozone loss in both polar regions. The S.H. ozone hole results in a more positive NAM-like phase extending down to the surface. Reduced vertical stability increases S.H. tropospheric wave energy flux into the stratosphere which drives a residual circulation with relative subsidence over the Southern pole and upwelling and reduced planetary wave energy flux at Northern high latitudes. The results suggest that similar trends in the Southern Ozone hole and the NAM over the last 20 years may be more than just a coincidence, although other factors undoubtedly influence the Northern high latitude circulation.


Initially, it seemed like and April Fool's gag. Days before their long-awaited contest, the fourth time the two have been scheduled to meet, news breaks that Tony Ferguson is injured and fight against Khabib Murgmagomedov for the lightweight title has been called off. The punch line never came and UFC president Dana White announced that Tony Ferguson was indeed withdrawn from the fight due to a knee injure sustained, not during training, but during a press obligation where he tripped over an electrical cord. Ironically, Nurmagomedov has been the injury-prone fighter, notorious for knee injuries and weight cutting issues.
Going into the fight, Ferguson was the interim champ with the official absentee champion Conor McGregor M.I.A in the division. The bought between Ferguson and Nurmagomedov would, in one fell swoop strip McGregor of his title and bestow the championship laurel to the winner.
Enter featherweight champion Max Holloway, who on 6 days notice is stepping in to face Khabib for the lightweight title. It seems like a suicide mission, but if Holloway wins, he stands to be the second two-division champion in UFC history. The big question is what are Holloway's chances against Nurmagomedov? Holloway is a large featherweight, often getting as heavy as 180 pounds outside of fight camp. He struggles to make 145; at this point, making 155 will be an ordeal. In addition to the weight cut, Holloway is recovering from an ankle injury which caused him to drop out of his title fight with Frankie Edgar a few weeks ago. A fight between the two would be great if Holloway was able to get a full camp in; it would have been awesome to see this as a champion versus champion fight six months from now.
According to White, "[Holloway is] the type of guy that steps up for opportunities like this. And when you think about it, if he wins this fight, other than Conor McGregor, he will be the only guy to hold two belts at the same time."
That brings up the question of Conor McGregor. The argument could be made that since he is the official lightweight champion, it would make a lot of sense for him to step in and fight Nurmagomedov. According to White, the UFC did not hit up McGregor. "Conor is not the guy I want to throw in as a late replacement fighter. He's a guy I want to make a fight with and have the right amount of time to promote the fight." On McGregor's well-crafted ascent up the rankings, many have stepped in to face him on short notice. Fighters such as Chad Mendes and Nate Diaz were called in under similar situations to save the card; it would have been an offering of goodwill to McGregor's fans who have not seen him compete in the UFC since November of 2016.
There are some cool storylines that accompany this little drama. If Max is able to win, it sets up McGregor's rematch for the title. It's unlikely that McGregor will return to the octagon for a fight where he is not the favorite to win. If Khabib wins, McGregor is not compelled to fight him and is free to pursue "money fights" such as his rubber match with Nate Diaz.
Official prediction : Khabib Nurmagomedov wins via third round submission. It's likely that McGregor will be in attendance to support his team mate Artem Lobov who is facin Alex Cacares on the undercard. There will be a dramatic call-out of McGregor by Nurmagomedov.
The rest of the card is stacked! The co-main event is the rematch between Champion Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jedrzejczk. There is the return of Raging Al Iaquinta against Paul "Irish Dragon" Felder which should be a barn burner. Also, don't sleep on former champ Anthony Pettit versus the salty dog, Michael Chiesa.


What does snow in a dream mean?
What does dreaming about 'snow' means? In this video from TellMyMyDream.com we explain and interpret the meaning of a dream about the 'snow' psychic symbol The symbol: snow in a dream can be interpreted and explained as follows 'A dream about Snow may represent emotions which you have repressed or "put on ice".'. For more information about this dream and many other dream meanings and interpretations, visit our website at http://www.tellmemydream.com If you would like us to interpret a dream for you (Free!) please subscribe, give us a thumbs up and leave us a comment with a description of the dream that you had. Keep on Dreaming and God Bless You!
Rain and snow have similar dream meanings. Rain represents a cleansing or washing, making things new. Snow is like rain. But, snow is a much slower process. When snow symbolizes the change, it means it will be a more difficult change, and will be resisted by man. Symbols used in dreams are also symbols in life. Snow not only represents hard change in dream interpretation, it means the same in life. Examples: Valley Forge, Stalingrad, Chosin Reservoir, EuroMaidan. This is the kind of wisdom and understanding that comes from the Holy Spirit. Interpretation belongs to God. Dream interpretation belongs to God.
What does it mean when you dream about Son ? Let's take a closer look at the interpretations and symbolic meanings of Son in dreams.
What does ice in dream mean?
What does hill in dream mean?
Here's what happens during the snow shoveling.
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What does rain in a dream mean?
Playing in the Snow.. Never stop dreaming, dreams come true.
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Dream meanings and dream interpretation dictionary available at https://www.tellmemydream.com --- What does dreaming about 'bully' means? In this video from TellMyMyDream.com we explain and interpret the meaning of a dream about the 'bully' psychic symbol The symbol: bully in a dream can be interpreted and explained as follows 'May represent feeling cruel, overbearing, dominating or intimidating.'. For more information about this dream and many other dream meanings and interpretations, visit our website at http;//www.tellmemydream.com If you would like us to interpret a dream for you (Free!) please subscribe, give us a thumbs up and leave us a comment with a description of the dream that you had. Keep on Dreaming and God Bless You!


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Newcastle United defender Paul Dummett reveals he considered retiring in 2020
Newcastle's Academy product Paul Dummett says he thought about quitting due to injuries
Lee RyderChief Newcastle United Writer
Paul Dummett has revealed he contemplated retirement after a nightmare 2020 with injuries.
The former Wales international has struggled with hamstring and muscle problems throughout the year and after breaking down in pre-season, then again this autumn, Dummett was left feeling downbeat about his career on Tyneside.
The 29-year-old returned to the first team stage to face Fulham in Saturday's 1-1 draw at St James' Park.
Dummett, speaking to NUFC TV, said: "It's been a long 11 months.
"I only lasted eight minutes in the last Premier League game and it's been a long, tough road for me.
"There have been a lot of ups and downs.
"There have been times when you are at home - gutted - watching the lads and you feel like you want to quit sometimes.
"I went through periods of times where I didn't feel any better and it is tough mentally.
"But this type of thing as a player makes you stronger.
"I have carried on working throughout lockdown as hard as I could so that when I eventually got my chance to play I was ready for it.
"Thankfully I got through 75 minutes and I feel all right, I was getting a bit cramped towards the end so that's why I've come off.
"Hopefully I can stay fit."
Newcastle United sources deny fresh talk of bust-up involving Allan Saint-Maximin
Steve Bruce wants his squad to lighten up ahead of cup test - but Bees unbeaten in 13 games
Dummett's return to the team sheet raised eyebrows after such a long stint out and he admitted he was serious about thoughts on quitting.
Dummett added: "Those things run through your head and as a footballer you want to be out there on the pitch.
"For 11 months I haven't been able to do that.
"During lockdown it wasn't great for anybody in the whole country but not being on the pitch makes it even worse.
"When you get little setbacks it makes it even harder because you come back from one thing it was another."
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Tutors in China > By Tutors in China > Overseas students turn away from US
Overseas students turn away from US
The number of new international students enrolling at United States universities and colleges went down by almost 7% last year, according to official data published this month.
Prof Simon Marginson of Oxford University, an expert on trends in international students, says there is "little doubt" this downturn is related to the Trump administration. He says a combination of anti-immigration messages and a tightening of the student visa system is putting off applicants.
There would have been a bigger fall, except for the relentless increase in demand from Chinese students, who are by far the biggest group of overseas students in the US.
Between 2000 and 2018, the number of Chinese students in the US rose from 60,000 to more than 360,000, mostly concentrated in subjects such as science, technology, maths and business.
But Prof Marginson, director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, said there would be "potentially catastrophic implications" for US university incomes if any diplomatic row or trade dispute stopped the flow of Chinese students.


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"Scoob!" Movie (2020)
"Scoob!" Movie 2020: Trailer, Plot, Cast, Release date. Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs, Gina Rodriguez.
March 5, 2020 Upd: May 19, 2021
"Scoob!" is a 2020 American computer-animated mystery comedy film directed by Tony Cervone.
The starring cast includes Will Forte as Shaggy Rogers, Mark Wahlberg as Brian Crown, Jason Isaacs as Dick Dastardly, Gina Rodriguez as Velma Dinkley, Zac Efron as Fred Jones, Amanda Seyfried as Daphne Blake, Kiersey Clemons as Dee Dee Skyes, Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and the vocal effects of the pterodactyls, Ken Jeong as Dynomutt the Dog Wonder, Tracy Morgan as Captain Caveman and others.
Here are "Scoob!" movie trailer, plot summary, full cast and characters, release date, streaming services and everything we know so far.
Is there a trailer for Scoob! movie?
Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday, March 05, 2020 released the trailer for "Scoob!" you can watch here:
SCOOB! Final Trailer.
SCOOB! Final Trailer | March 05, 2020
SCOOB! - Official Teaser Trailer | November 11, 2019
What is Scoob! movie plot?
Here is a short review of "Scoob!" movie plot summary.
Ten years ago, a young, lonely Shaggy Rogers (Will Forte) befriends and adopts a talking stray Great Dane pup, whom he names Scooby-Doo. On Halloween night, Scooby and Shaggy meet three young detectives named, Fred Jones (Zac Efron), Daphne Blake (Amanda Seyfried), and Velma Dinkley (Gina Rodriguez), before venturing into a haunted house. Inside, the kids encounter a ghost, whom they capture and unmask as costumed thief Mr. Rigby. Inspired by the experience, they decide to form a group, Mystery Inc., to solve mysteries together.
In the present day, Mystery Inc., having solved numerous mysteries, goes into business with entrepreneur Simon Cowell as their investor, but Cowell refuses to do business with Scooby and Shaggy involved. Later that night, Shaggy and Scooby are terrorized at a bowling alley by shape-shifting scorpion robots called Rottens. The pair are rescued by Dee Dee Skyes (Kiersey Clemons), Dynomutt, and Brian (Mark Wahlberg), the son of the masked superhero, Blue Falcon, who has recently retired and passed the mantle to Brian. The Rottens are then revealed to belong to supercriminal Dick Dastardly (Jason Isaacs) who wants to capture Scooby as part of a plan involving the Great Dane's mysterious connection to the supernatural mystery behind Cerberus' three skulls.
Meanwhile, Fred, Daphne, and Velma head off to Dastardly Demolition and investigate what Dick Dastardly wants with Scooby and Shaggy, as they reminisce about the good times they had with Shaggy and Scooby before discovering that the pair are investigating the mystery behind Scooby himself (Simon Cowell) with The Falcon Force, with Dastardly imprisoning the trio. Escaping with help from one of the Rottens, they make contact with Dee Dee, via Dynomutt. Velma explains that she and the others are being taken to Messick Mountain, where the last skull is located. The group then finds out that Dastardly's plan is to open the gates to the Underworld, in order to rescue his dog, Muttley, who was trapped during an attempt to steal the Underworld's riches. Dick Dastardly needs Scooby to unlock the gates, since he is the last remaining descendant of Alexander the Great's favorite dog, Peritas.
Who plays who in the Scoob! movie cast?
Here is the full cast and characters of "Scoob!" movie. Actors and actresses are sorted mostly in credits order.
Will Forte as Shaggy Rogers
Mark Wahlberg as Brian Crown / Blue Falcon the son of and the successor to Shaggy's lifelong idol, the original Blue Falcon (Radley Crown)
Jason Isaacs as Dick Dastardly a criminal mastermind plotting to obtain treasure from the Greek underworld and rescue his dog Muttley
Gina Rodriguez as Velma Dinkley
Zac Efron as Fred Jones
Amanda Seyfried as Daphne Blake
Kiersey Clemons as Dee Dee Skyes the aide of Blue Falcon
Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and the vocal effects of the pterodactyls
Ken Jeong as Dynomutt the Dog Wonder the robot dog sidekick of Blue Falcon and the lifelong idol of Scooby-Doo
Tracy Morgan as Captain Caveman a fur-covered caveman superhero
Iain Armitage as young Shaggy Rogers
Ariana Greenblatt as young Velma Dinkley
Pierce Gagnon as young Fred Jones
Mckenna Grace as young Daphne Blake
Simon Cowell as himself Mystery Inc.'s first investor
Henry Winkler as Keith the offscreen servant of Blue Falcon
Christina Hendricks as Officer Jaffe a police officer that Dick Dastardly poses as
Kevin Heffernan as Officer Gary a police officer that pursues a younger Scooby-Doo
Maya Erskine as Judy Takamoto the proprietor of Takamoto Bowling
Henry Kaufman as Chad and Chet the two kids
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Cape Town - Despite receiving a major investment from a Chinese consortium, Manchester City has a lot of catching up to do if hopes to compete with Premier League rivals Manchester United and Arsenal for popularity in the world's most populous nation.
Manchester City announced this week a consortium led by China Media Capital and investment company Citic Capital paid around $400m for a 13%stake in the team's parent company City Football Group, owned by Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyana.
CFG also owns the New York City and Melbourne City soccer teams and has a 20% stake in Japanese club Yokohama F. Marinos.
Big-spending City has won two English titles in the past four seasons, but lacks the European success and support around the world commanded by some other to Premier League sides.
Gu Xin, an analyst at Beijing sports marketing company Yutang Sports, says a recent report in China indicates the team has plenty of ground to make up.
"It showed 31.98% of English Premier League fans in China support Manchester United and 22.65% of them back Arsenal, with Chelsea having a similar share," Gu told The Associated Press.
"However, Manchester City supporters in China only make up 5.47% of China's Premier League fans.
"If City aims to become the most popular European football team, they will need to contest against not only those English teams but also other European football giants like FC Barcelona, Real Madrid or even Bayern Munich," he added. "But overall it all depends on what the club does."
European clubs have struggled to achieve success in China and Simon Chadwick, professor of Sports Enterprise at England's Salford University, puts it down to aggressive sales-driven tactics.
"These types of approach only disaffect and antagonize some Chinese people," Chadwick said. "Hence, City's approach is rather more considered and strategic and could succeed where others have failed. I think working in partnership with the Chinese is the way to break into China."
City has some advantages in this respect.
Former Chinese international Sun Jihai played for the Manchester City from 2002 to 2008 and in November was made an official ambassador for the club.
"For an overseas football club, which is keen for more presence in China, Chinese factors are really good marketing," Gu said. "For City, there are a couple of high-profile Chinese factors."
One of those factors is Sun The other is the fact that Chinese President Xi Jinping, when on a state visit to the United Kingdom in November, also visited Manchester City.
"I am sure this was the point at which the deal was signed and sealed," Chadwick said.
"The Chinese president doesn't normally attend such events unless they are of the utmost importance. The fact that he visited City tends to suggest just how important this deal is for China and its football ambitions."
In China, the reaction to the deal has centered on its possible consequences for the domestic game. With just one appearance at the World Cup in 2002, the Chinese national team has not come close to qualification since and is struggling to reach Russia 2018.
There has been an improvement in the domestic league thanks to investment in clubs by various businessmen and Chinese companies. Guangzhou Evergrande, co-owned by a property developer and Jack Ma, the CEO of Internet giant Alibaba, has spent over $150m on players and coaches since 2010. In November the club won a second Asian Champions League in three years.
"This time last year, China announced a plan to create a domestic sport economy worth $850 billion by 2025," Chadwick said.
"An important part of this vision is China's desire to bid for, host and win the World Cup. Buying City is a way of acquiring competence, intelligence and insights into football."
There has been speculation in China that a Chinese club could be the next addition to the CFG international stable with Beijing Guoan seen as the most likely candidate.
Buying a Chinese club is the next logical step according to Christopher Atkins, a Guangzhou-based player representative with RWMG Sports, but just the beginning.
"There is no reason why the Chinese Super League cannot establish itself as the best non-European league," Atkins said.
"The addition of the knowledge that a company like CFG can bring would surely only help. I expect CFG to look into the prospect of an academy in China in the fairly short-term future. If they can produce China's first superstar, their status in the market would be elevated yet further."
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El municipio de West Finley (en inglés: West Finley Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Washington en el estado estadounidense de Pensilvania. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 951 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 9 personas por km².

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El municipio de West Finley se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas .

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Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $38,333 y los ingresos medios por familia eran $41,204. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $32,262 frente a los $19,722 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $14,888. Alrededor del 12,3% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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It's always a little dangerous to allude in a sermon to anything from TV or cinema occurring much before the early 90's because in a fast changing culture with increasingly diminished memory span, it's the quickest way to date oneself as irrelevant. So let me explain that one of the oddities about growing up in New Zealand was that because we didn't get TV until 1960 I grew up on a diet of American TV shows that by the 60's and early 70's were often at least 10 or more years old. I mention this to account for the fact it's not that I am so old, but that I share the same TV memories as a generation of Americans much older than me. So with that qualifying explanation out of the way, some of you may remember Joe Friday, the hero of the long running detective series Dragnet. In what to us now seems an astonishing display of sexism, Friday implored his female witnesses to: give me the facts, Ma'am, just the facts. So here are some facts.
After the death of Solomon the Kingdom of Israel, which his father David had welded together out of the 12 tribes of Israel, split in two, with a northern kingdom of Israel with its capital at Samaria and a southern kingdom of Judah with Jerusalem as its capital. In 721 BCE, the Assyrian army captured the Israelite capital at Samaria and deported the king, nobility, and priesthood of the northern kingdom into captivity. This left only the poorest of the peasantry, who over time intermarried with the foreign peoples around them producing the racially mixed Samaritans we know about from Jesus' day.
The virtual destruction of Israel left the southern kingdom, Judah, to fend for itself in the whirlwind of warring Near Eastern kingdoms. At the time of Samaria's fall, there existed two kings in Judah — Ahaz and his son Hezekiah — who ruled as co-regents. Judah existed as a vassal to Assyria during this time and was forced to pay an annual tribute to the powerful empire.
In 715 BCE, following the death of Ahaz, Hezekiah became the sole regent of Judah and initiated widespread religious reforms, including the breaking of religious idols. He re-captured Philistine-occupied lands in the Negev-dessert, formed alliances with Ashkelon and Egypt, and made a stand against Assyria by refusing to pay tribute. In response, Sennacherib attacked Judah, laying siege to Jerusalem.
It's in this political context that the prophet Isaiah proclaims his extraordinary vision of a future time when out of the ruined and burned stump of the once mighty Davidic kingdom there will spring a new shoot. The new shoot is a metaphorical allusion to the Messiah, the promised one. He will rise up to restore the fortunes of Israel. Last week we heard that when he comes swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. In the midst of impending crisis and destruction, Isaiah dreams of improbable things.
What seems to me to be the most startling thing, another of the facts, as Joe Friday would say, is that Isaiah's picture is of the Messiah coming not as a mighty warrior, but as a little child. It is not surprising that the early Christians understood this prophecy as a direct reference to Jesus' birth and therefore, a powerful corroboration of their claim that Jesus was the promised one, the Messiah.
Last week, I noted that the season of Advent invites us to bold expectation, diligent preparation, and courageous and patient waiting. I return to my reference to the great theologian Paul Tillich who said: …if we wait in hope and patience, the power of that for which we wait is already effective within us. Those who wait in an ultimate sense are not that far from that for which they wait.
Tillich's is such an important message for us, for we are a people who no longer believe that we should wait for anything; so powerful is our need for immediate gratification. Consequently, our dreams are too small being too conditioned by so-called reality. In my view one of the characteristics of our current period is that we have lost the courage to dream, seeming to prefer the accommodation with a culture that is increasingly fearful.
So if we only expect the familiar, what we already know, then we are in real risk of bringing about a future that is simply a projection of our past. Expectation by its very nature must be of things that seem to us from our present vantage point improbable if not impossible. Advent reminds us that we must try to live life with more than an expectation of the future as a projection only of what we assume to be possible. To do otherwise is to remain firmly within the limitation of past experience. In other words expectation is dreaming beyond Joe Friday's, just the facts Ma'am.
Christianity gives us a trans-generational vision, which is the dream of the coming of the Kingdom of God. It's a vision that in each generation remains as authentic, valid and true, as it has ever been. Yet, we cannot accept a previous generation's interpretation of that vision. We must engage with the Christian vision in order to unlock its truth for the particularity of our own time and place. Our Christian vision emerges out of the story of Jesus as Messiah. This story sets the agenda for our present-time where we must work tirelessly in the service of the Kingdom. The significance of the Kingdom of God is that it is both now, and yet to come.
Our Christian vision has a past stretching a long way back through the prophecies of Isaiah and the other great prophets of Israel into the primal Genesis narratives of creation. This long, trans-generational vision becomes our Christian vision when it finds its anchor point in the Incarnation and Resurrection of Jesus as Messiah. In Christ, God came to dwell within the conditions of the creation. In Christ God has acted once and for all. Yet, once and for all is clearly not realized all in one fell swoop. The meaning of one fell swoop, is to accomplish everything that needs to be done at the same time and in the same moment. The Kingdom is here, and yet, its full meaning only unfolds over time.
Our expectations, if they are Kingdom shaped, will seem to us to be improbable, even impossible because only a Kingdom vision provides the courage and motivation to move beyond the limitations of imaginations conditioned by the familiarity of the past. There is a 21st century chapter in the story of the unfolding of the Kingdom within which we have our crucial role to play.
The prophet Isaiah dreamed of a time when under the leadership of the most vulnerable and fragile of all God's creatures – a nursing human child – the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea. John the Baptist understood that the Kingdom comes with a fierce urgency, with no time to waste. We dream our way forward guided by the expectations of the Kingdom unfolding through our welcoming it. To welcome the Kingdom means turning away from our half-heartedness and complicity with injustice, finding a new pathway to God's peaceable kingdom, one step and one breath at a time (Epperly).
Paul Tillich reminds us if we wait in hope and patience, the power of that for which we wait is already effective within us. Those who wait in an ultimate sense are not that far from that for which they wait. Alice Miller, one of the great psychologists of the 20th century echoes Tillich when she says we are who we have been waiting for. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot: that which we hope and long for is made real only in the waiting (T.S.Eliot in East Coker). Expecting, preparing, waiting is our work in the season of Advent.


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Why Ihumātao Truly is a Piece of New Zealand's Soul
"In a city that has destroyed or forgotten most of its past, fragments of Auckland's deep histories still survive at Ihumātao," history curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira Lucy Mackintosh writes in an opinion piece for The Guardian.
"Until recently, Ihumātao was a quiet, rural area on the edge of Auckland that few people had heard of," Mackintosh writes. "Situated on a small peninsula on the west coast of New Zealand's biggest city, Ihumātao is next to Auckland airport, but locals, tourists and historians alike have tended to focus on the city's urban areas and its northern coastline. Despite, or perhaps because of, its long, complex and difficult history, Ihumātao has remained outside the consciousness of most New Zealanders.
"In July however, Ihumātao hit national and international headlines when a group known as Soul (Save Our Unique Landscapes), which had been occupying land at Ihumātao for several years to protest against a planned major housing development, was served an eviction notice. The situation escalated quickly as police arrived to enforce the eviction, and thousands of people from around the country converged to support Soul. Many saw the stand-off as part of a global movement to assert Indigenous rights that includes protests at Mauna Kea in Hawaii, North Dakota and the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
"Soul, which comprises mana whenua (Māori with historic and territorial rights to the land) and members of the wider community, argues the development is not appropriate because of the historical and cultural significance of Ihumātao. Some tribal leaders, however, supported the development, having negotiated with developers to ensure they returned a portion of the land to mana whenua and set aside some of the planned houses for local Māori to purchase.
"As Auckland continues to expand, its new roads, runways, factories and houses threaten some of the oldest and richest histories in the land. These histories are alive and present for mana whenua at Ihumātao, but they should also be known by all New Zealanders. The recent decision to make New Zealand history compulsory in secondary schools is one step in the right direction. Ihumātao is not a remote site of marginal importance, but a place that should be central to all of us, if we are to understand different perspectives on our history; even those that don't fit comfortably or easily into the overriding European narratives that have been crafted about our nation's past."
Original article by Lucy Mackintosh, The Guardian, September 24, 2019.
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