No figure was more central to the birth of our nation, first in war, then as a Constitutional Republic, than George Washington. In 1776, with the Revolution by all accounts lost and our army in tatters, it was Washington who led a ragged band of men in history's most audacious, decisive and pivotal raids at Trenton and Princeton. It was Washington who, through 1782, kept the military together under unimaginable adversity and who, at the end of the war, stopped a military coup by his unpaid officers. It was Washington in 1783 who, unlike almost all other military leaders throughout history, laid down his sword at the end of the war and bowed to civilian control of the government.
It was Washington, called from retirement in 1787, who presided over the drafting and passage of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. It was Washington who, in 1789, was unanimously elected to serve as our President. And it was Washington who, eight years later, stepped down as President, establishing a precedent of a peaceful and orderly transfer of power. He was, as Lord Byron later wrote, the Cinncinatus of the West.
Few people in history have succeeded under the adversity Washington faced. Even fewer accomplished so much in both war and peace. None but he accomplished those in the furtherance of freedom from government. He is one of the few historical figures that was truly indispensable. And yet . . .
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Pop some champagne and kiss those Sunday scaries goodbye.
Going out for brunch each weekend is delicious and fun, but it can really put a dent in your bank account after a while. Does that mean we should give it up?
Absolutely not. Pick up these products from Walmart and start hosting bomb brunches in your own home to save some cash moneyyyy.
1. A table runner that is both affordable and perfect for gussying up your standard table for a classy brunch.
Transform your boring table into something a bit more....adult(?) by adding this chevron, knit table runner. It fits between four and eight people, which should be more than enough to hold your Sunday funday squad.
2. A 19-piece kitchen utensil and gadget set to make you smile while you're stressing out over how long to bake your breakfast casserole for.
Get it from BuzzFeed's Tasty collection at Walmart for $14.88.
3. A bamboo charcuterie platter that will let you show off your cheese-plating ~skillz~.
Ugh. Just thinking about a fancy cheese plate makes my mouth water. Make your guests have that same reaction the next time you host brunch by putting together a spectacular arrangement of snacks on this charcuterie platter. It comes with a built-in wedge to hold the cheese knives and spreaders, along with seven pieces of cutlery and a ceramic dish.
4. An electric wine bottle opener, because no one should have to wait for a glass of pinot at brunch.
Turn your basic brunch into a boozy one in a flash with a little help from this electric wine opener! It can open up to 30 bottles on a single charge and has a foil cutter in the back to easily remove seals.
Get it from Walmart for $16.49.
5. A nonstick mini muffin pan so you can treat your guests to an abundance of homemade baked goods — or mini quiches!
One of my favorite things to make in a muffin pan are bite-sized quiches, but they are forever getting stuck in the tin! I was so tired of scraping and scrubbing, so I invested in a nonstick pan. You can do the same and whip up these treats for a brunch with your friends in no time.
These stoneware plates feature a delicate lace pattern around the edges and they make me want to squeal. The set includes dinner plates, salad plates, and bowls — so you'll be more than ready to host a charming brunch!
Get it from Walmart for $34.88 (available in six colors).
7. A set of personalized slate coasters, because you deserve the finer things in life.
IMHO, brunch should be a classy affair filled with sweet treats and delightful drinks. Add a touch of personality to your kitchen decor with these personalized coasters — your guests will notice the extra effort you've made.
Get a set of four from Walmart for $25.
8. An 11-piece nonstick cookware set to replace your scratched, beat-up pots and pans.
If you've already volunteered to have everyone over for brunch, you deserve a reward! Treat yourself in the form of new pots and pans. This set comes in stylish colors that will brighten up any kitchen and includes a number of features that make it worth the purchase. The cookware has a nonstick diamond reinforced coating, heavy-gauge forged aluminum for optimum heat distribution, and silicone handles and knobs (just to name a few).
Get it from BuzzFeed's Tasty collection at Walmart for $79 (available in four colors).
9. A coffee maker that will ensure your friends are happily caffeinated while they're feasting.
If you're going to do this whole brunch thing, you might as well do it right! You can't have a morning meal without a splash of caffeine.
10. A set of elegant mugs, because if you're serving coffee it might as well be in a nice cup!
Get your caffeine fix, but make it cute. This set of stoneware coffee mugs features pretty detailing along the edges and can be tossed in the dishwasher once your guests leave.
Get it from Walmart for $9.99 (available in three colors).
11. A 5-quart Dutch oven to make brunch recipes Ina Garten would praise you for.
If you've already bought the pots and pants, you might as well add this Dutch oven to complete the set! You can easily whip up a big portion for your friends and family in this bad boy.
12. A stunning floral pie plate that will turn your basic broccoli quiche into a beautiful brunch offering.
Whether you use this pie dish for a traditional breakfast quiche or choose to serve up something sweeter, you and your guests can stop to admire the delicate floral pattern as you chow down.
13. A 3-gallon beverage dispenser, so you'll never run out of your favorite spritzer.
Mimosas? Bellinis? Bloody Marys? All the best drinks are served at brunch! Instead of paying an arm and a leg at your usual watering hole, make a big batch of your fave beverage and let your guests help themselves from this easy-to-use dispenser. It even features a separate section in the core of it to store ice and keep drinks cool without watering them down.
14. A three-tier serving tray that will make your guests feel like they're at an elegant tea party.
Have you ever been to a fancy lil' tea house where they serve bite-sized treats? I can't get enough of those dainty delights — and your guests won't be able to either. And honestly, who could resist a fancy tea cake served up on a pretty tray like this?!
Get it from Walmart for $24.88.
15. A set of glass mixing bowls, so you can bake up something sweet or whisk a ton of eggs at once.
If you don't already own mixing bowls, why are you hosting brunch!? At this point that's neither here nor there, just make sure you pick up this lovely glass set so you can get cooking! They are stackable as well as microwave, freezer, and dishwasher safe.
Get it from BuzzFeed's Tasty collection at Walmart for $17.44.
16. A nonstick loaf pan, in case you feel compelled to whip up banana bread or a chocolate chip loaf.
Get it from BuzzFeed's Tasty collection at Walmart for $10.74.
17. A set of geo design salad plates that will make your friends think you have way better style than you actually do.
Smoke and mirrors, people! Whether you have an eye for design or you're trying to fake it 'til you make it, these plates are sure to impress whoever joins you for brunch. They come in an assortment of colors and designs that will brighten any table you set.
Get a set of four from Walmart for $6.99.
18. Gold-band flute glasses, so you and your gang can feel fancy while sipping champs out of these.
Pinkies up! These flutes look expensive but are actually super affordable. Encourage everyone to raise a glass in honor of your great taste and brunch-hosting skills.
Get the set of four from Walmart for $28.38.
19. A 24-piece set of Pyrex storage containers that will guarantee you'll have more than enough ways to save leftovers.
These glass containers are a blessing. They will hold all of your delicious leftovers from brunch and keep your cabinets organized! So adult. The set comes with a containers of all shapes and sizes and are both freezer- and microwave-safe.
20. And a gorgeous cake stand, because who wants to come to a gathering without cake?
Let them eat cake! Wow your guests by displaying your desserts in this elegant cake stand.
Get it from Walmart for $24.22.
All that's left to do now is sit back and relax. Cheers!


Newark, New Jersey: Another building in the City of Newark could soon be revitalized, this time in the East Ward of the city.
Newark lawyer Michael O. Bertone, P.A., of Beacon Redevelopment, LLC, is proposing to convert the building located at 118-134 Adams Street, between Lafayette and Ferry Streets, into a mixed use residential and commercial building. The building stretches to Jackson Street, the next block. According to the Newark Central Planning Board agenda, the building would include 28 apartments on the upper floors and six retail spaces on the first floor.
The building, which is known for the American flag painted on its side, most recently contained a liquor store on the first floor of the Adams Street side, and an office of Beacon Cabinet Display Corporation previously. A nail salon opened on the Jackson Street side of it within the past few years, but has since closed.
The H. E. Rainaud Company, which manufactured lamps, used the building as a factory until 1919, when it moved its operations to Connecticut. The Flexible Cork Company also operated a factory there.
During the meeting of the Newark Central Planning Board on Monday, January 11th, a hearing will be held to discuss this proposal and two other proposed East Ward projects.


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In Sitges, dozens of people without legal status are engaged in the informal sale of goods on Sant Sebastià beach and the major street known as Passeig de la Ribera. R4S was entrusted with finding out the details of the social situation of this group, made up of people engaged in informal-sector sales in the town of Sitges. The intention was to find suggestions for future municipal actions to bring such vulnerable sellers into the labour market and wider society.
R4S conducted a diagnostic with the goal of identifying the needs of this group of people and suggesting to Sitges Town Council measures for bringing them into the labour market and wider society. The recommendations were intended to increase informal-sector sellers' vocational training and establish circulation between the Office of the City Councillor for Well-being and the Family, and private companies in Sitges, in order to find them jobs more easily.
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Alphazero's real secret sauce is MCTS
Alphazero defeated Stockfish in a series of remarkable games marking, according to the common interpretation, a turning point where computer Chess will inevitably switch to deep learning based board evaluation.
The deep learning centered interpretation has some truth to it, but I think it's less than half the story. In the available games Alphazero does a notably good job of exploiting the opponent's piece mobility and king safety evaluation problems, and even given the dubious fairness of the match it's a remarkable achievement, but Alphazero changes two things: It uses a deep learning-based board evaluation function, and it uses Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) instead of alpha-beta pruning to apply that function. The available information fits a narrative of MCTS being superior to alpha-beta just as strongly, if not more so, than one where the deep learning board evaluation has achieved dominance.
To understand why this might be you first need to understand what it's like to work on one of these engines. Improving a traditional chess engine is a slow, painstaking process where you come up with ideas for possible improvements, tests them extensively, and usually find that it makes things worse, but occasionally find that it improves play ever so slightly, maybe by 1 or 2 elo if you're really lucky. Over time these improvements accumulate bit by bit until the engine is able to annihilate an older version of itself. (Viewing elo as a linear commodity seems to hold up very well, which suggests some highly controversial things about the possible genetics of IQ, but that isn't what this essay is about.)
An unfortunate effect of this iterative approach is that engine strength always feels stuck in a local maxima. One of the Komodo authors recently lamented that his engine seems to do everything better than Stockfish but it uses significantly less pruning than Stockfish and thus has to try more possibilities per move and as a result can't search nearly as deeply. It does this because that's the configuration in which its playing strength is demonstrably the strongest. For reasons no one can fathom — not the Komodo authors, not the Stockfish authors, and most definitely not me — replacing Komodo's pruning with Stockfish's makes its play worse. Somehow assumptions about how the pruning works are baked deeply into the fabric of Komodo's board evaluation function, embedded far to subtly for anyone to understand.
There are ways of trying to fix this. It would probably be a good idea to take a chess engine, throw all of its magic numbers out the window and regenerate them using genetic algorithms guided by the results of self-play, an approach which is very similar in flavor to Alphazero's. I'm a huge hypocrite here because I haven't tried this approach even for my own projects where it's totally applicable. I haven't even used the much simpler methods of optimizing magic numbers which are de rigueur in chess engine development these days. But the genetic approach would likely result in an overall stronger engine with much less painstaking work for each tweak and be able to justify much smaller changes.
But even those currently-viewed-as-extreme measures are confined to the framework of the existing engine and only able to make small modifications. To make any truly deep changes would require putting in literal years of developer time re-optimizing the entire system to see if it winds up being stronger than the old approach, and since most such experiments will turn out to be failures they're hardly ever done. At the top of the list of things which are nearly impossible to change is alpha-beta pruning. It's long seemed plausible that MCTS could outperform alpha-beta pruning under some circumstances: It's routine in engine vs. engine games for them to reach a position which they view as favorable for one side where a playout will result in a draw nearly 100% of the time, or a situation where one side has a slight advantage but it's accelerating rather than remaining the same and full playouts would quickly show that it's highly favorable. The problem is that all attempts to do MCTS for chess in the past have been clear failures, and with a million subtle variations on how, exactly, MCTS can be implemented. No one has even attempted to to the sorts of years-long experiments on trying to improve it because getting the secret sauce exactly right would likely take a few millennia of developer time.
This is where Alphazero's deep learning comes in. Traditional chess engine board evaluation has been developed as previously described: slowly and painstakingly. The benefit has been that they're ludicrously, insanely fast. This is because the fast, dumb approach has clearly yielded the best results in all previous experiences. The actual details of how the board evaluation is done are, to use a technical term, hacky bullshit. A few years ago I commented to a chess engine developer that the methods of compensating for which side makes the last move in board evaluation seem a bit like slaughtering a chicken under a full moon, and he responded 'Chess engines slaughter millions of chickens per second'. Looking deeper ahead is clearly always better, and testing has always borne out that depth is much more important than evaluation quality.
When Alphago was first being worked on its implementation of MCTS was not very good. But Go is a game where MCTS is so clearly superior to alpha-beta pruning that even a poor implementation gave good results and provided good guidance as to what approaches were better than others. Alphazero's lead programmer says that it's now using much more principled algorithms. The approach to MCTS which Alphazero uses now is a good (or at least much better) one, intuitively justifiable with coherent arguments and empirically quite successful. (He stops short of referring to the MCTS used in the first Alphago as 'hacky bullshit' but that would probably be technically correct.) That said, there are probably a million other variations on MCTS which have just as plausible-sounding arguments for why they're the right approach as what Alphazero uses. The Deepmind team didn't have some vastly greater intuition for approaches to MCTS which they used to get it right, they had the not-so-secret weapon of deep learning board evaluation guided by self-play. With that tool, experimenting with variations on MCTS isn't a matter of years of developer time, it's just a matter of letting the computer run for a few hours. This is a truly remarkable achievement, but its real power may not be in the quality of the board evaluation function it generates, (the details of which go against everything we previously thought we knew about chess board evaluation,) but in the way it allows for fundamentally different kinds of experimentation to be done and have now resulted in the simple, actionable guidance that chess engines should be based on a very particular flavor of MCTS instead of alpha-beta pruning.
We won't actually know whether Alphazero's deep learning based board evaluation function is a red herring in its success at chess until someone does the experiment of building a chess engine using Alphazero's MCTS algorithm and a relatively traditional fast but dumb board evaluation optimized to maximize performance under those circumstances. Now that an actually good MCTS is known the experiment is worth doing, and while it has a high likelihood of being an unsatisfying failure it also has a real chance of being a dramatic success, so hopefully somebody has a real go at it (although it might be a good idea to wait a bit until improvements on MCTS itself settle down a bit).
Unfortunately this rather prosaic interpretation of the Alphazero chess results, while entirely plausible, don't make for nearly as good of a story as declaring it a huge victory for AI. The history of AI is filled with great achievements which stopped being called AI as soon as they made any real progress. Case in point being the news articles talking about how this match was an AI versus a chess engine, as if chess engines aren't artificial intelligence. Deep learning is likely the first technique which will continue to bear the AI moniker despite having proven itself useful. Better MCTS most definitely will not.
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When I moved to Rhode Island five years ago, I felt like a misplaced transplant from the Land of Diners. During my teenage years in northern New Jersey, my friends and I ended countless late nights at 24-hour diners. College in central Jersey meant more late nights and the occasional diner study session. These weren't "new retro" chains like Denny's Diners or Johnny Rockets, but family-owned restaurants, each with their own character.
The first Providence-area diner I discovered was the Modern Diner, which deserves a post of its own, but unfortunately isn't open past 3pm. I still needed a place to share milkshakes with dates and fries with friends. Imagine my excitement when I found Stanley's, a short drive away in Central Falls. While it's not open 24 hours, you can grab dinner there until 9 or 10 (and I'm no longer a teenager, so this will suffice). Stanley's is the real thing – unlike some of the new "retro" diner chains, it's actually been around since 1932.
I first heard about Stanley's when lapetiteamericaine told me they served an Americanized version of poutine. I tried these and their chili fries, which are excellent. They serve up the perfect diner-burger: flat, tender and topped with caramelized onions. Add a frothy milkshake and you have the classic diner experience.
If you're a Stanley's fan, I have great news – they're busy constructing a second location in Providence's Jewelry District. If we're lucky, maybe it'll have later hours to keep the area nightlife fed.


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JIGIS Chosen to Lead Prestigious '863' Project T he Joint Laboratory for Geoinformation Science (JLGIS) was selected by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China for initiating the '863' High-Tech research project on 'Developing a Platform for Virtual Geographic Environments'. Prof. Hui Lin, director of JLGIS, was appointed the principal investigator of this project. The team consists of scholars from the University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Nanjing Normal University. This marks the first time teaching staff from the University have assumed a leading role in an '863' project. The '863' High-Tech Research and Development Programme of China was launched in Ma r ch 1986 w i t h the aim o f enhancing China's international competitiveness through the cultivation of R&D capability in high technology. The programme covers 20 topics selected f r om eight priority areas: biotechnology, information, automation, energy, advanced materials, marine, space, and laser. The JLGIS was formed by CUHK and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997 to promote collaborative research in geoinformation science, in particular spatial information technology. One of its main purposes is to participate in high-tech research and development programmes in China in order to stimulate related research in Hong Kong. C U H K Co l l abo r a t es w i t h H a r v a r d on Me n t a l He a l t h Research T he Chinese University and Harvard Medical School have recently received a grant of US$1.33 million to conduct a series of collaborative mental health and policy research activities from 2001 to 2006. The first such activity was the Research Workshop on International Mental Health Issues in China, Hong Kong, and Indonesia, held from 21st to 23rd January 2002 at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Leading mental health experts from the US, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Indonesia discussed a range of mental health issues confronting the societies they live in, including early psychosis, gender and mental health, eating disorders, drug abuse, sexual problems, menopausal syndrome, novel intervention programmes, and mental health policy. Prof. Helen Chiu (left 1), Prof. Sing Lee (left 2), Prof. Dominic Lee (right 1) of the Department of Psychiatry, Prof. Sydney Chung (left 3), dean of medicine, Prof. Jean Woo (right 4), director of the School of Public Health, with Prof. Byron Good (left 4 ), Prof. Mary-Jo Good (right 3), and Dr. Alex Cohen (right 2) of Harvard Medical School Support for Three Research Projects T he following three research projects undertaken by staff members of the University have attracted funding support locally: ・ Development of Advanced Photocatalytic Nano-coating Technologies for Environmental and Health Industries (HK$5,600,000) Sponsor: Innovation and Technology Fund Principal investigator: Prof. Jimmy Yu (Department of Chemistry) ・ Household Transmission of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Hong Kong─Incidence and Risk Factors (HK$654,240) Sponsor: Health Care and Promotion Fund Principal investigator: Prof. Elizabeth T.S. Houang (Department of Microbiology) ・ The 'Author Once, Present Anywhere' (AOPA) Software Platform (HK$5,656,000) Sponsor: Innovation and Technology Fund Principal investigator: Pr o f . Helen Meng (Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management) Co-investigator: Prof. P.C. Ching M o r e Acti v ities to C e l e b r a t e C h u n g C h i ' sgolden J u b i l e e Visit by Siu Lien Ling Wong Visiting Fellow Prof. Yau Shing-tung, alumnus of Chung Chi College, director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and professor of mathematics at Harvard University, visited Chung Chi College as the Siu Lien L i ng Wong Visiting Fellow of the college from 17th to 29th January 2002. Prof. Yau is a world famous mathematician 一 the only Chinese to have been awarded the Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics. He has also been awarded the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the United States National Medal of Science. During his visit, Prof. Yau addressed Chung Chi students and staff on various occasions, including the College Friday Assembly, College Life Luncheon, Tolo Nocturne, and the Annual Education Conference. The Chung Chi College Siu Lien Ling Wong Visiting Fellow Programme was established in 1982 to promote academic and cultural exchange on campus and to broaden the intellectual perspective of staff and students. This year's programme was one of the highlights of the college's 50th anniversary celebrations. Annual Education Conference Scholars from Hong Kong and overseas gathered at Chung Chi's Annual Education Conference 2001-2 held on 19th January 2002 at the college chapel. The theme of the conference was 'Science, Society, and the Individual 一 China in the 21st Century'. Participants of the conference included Prof. Yau Shing-tung, professor of mathematics at Harvard University, Prof. Yang Shang Fa, professor emeritus of the University of California at Davis, Prof. M i n Wei Fang, executive vice-president of Peking University, Dr. F.C. Chen, director of the CUHK Institute of Chinese Studies, and Prof. Wong Wing Shing, chairman of the CUHK Department of Information Engineering. Prof. Lai Hon Mi ng of the Department of Physics was the moderator. 50th Anniversary Musical Obsession, a musical written, composed, and performed by Chung Chi students, was premiered on 9th January at Kwai Tsing Theatre. The students also took care of all the lighting, costumes, sets, as well as ticketing and promotion for the musical about a man who wakes up after seven years in a coma. Over 130 students from different disciplines were involved in the production, w i th Prof. Victor Chan Wai-kwong f r om the Department of Music as their music adviser, and Mr. Patrick Pak Yiu-charn, a college alumnus, as drama adviser. Wi nner o f Tu r i ng Awa r d Lectures on Information Science at Shaw Col lege P rof. Andrew Yao Chi-chih, William and Edna Macaleer Professor o f Engineering and Ap p l i ed Science at Princeton University in the US, delivered a lecture entitled 'TheFascination of Information Science' on campus during his visit to Shaw College as Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar. In the lecture, which took place on 9th January in the lecture theatre of Shaw College, Prof. Yao discussed some fascinating scientific ideas underlying the science of communication and computer systems, and their relations with other physical and engineering sciences. He also addressed some challenging social and technological issues people are faced with in the age of information. Prof. Yao is also the first Chinese scientist to have received in 2000 the Turing Award, which is regarded as the Nobel Prize in computer science.


Welcome to the Dallas directory of In-Home or Residential Senior Care Providers. Residential Senior Care is when a senior lives in their home but has a care provider visit them on a periodic basis to help with daily living activities. Our search feature for Dallas uses an estimate of the typical service area for Residential Service providers so check with each organization to confirm service in your neighborhood. This directory also includes 44 option for senior care including some community resources that can be helpful in improving the standard of living for a senior who gets their main care at home. These services range from local Texas non-profits to medical supply companies.
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November is, for me, a month of great drama. It begins with the feasts of All Saints and All Souls — days when the Church celebrates God's outpouring of holiness upon his people. The month concludes with the Solemnity of Christ the King, the conclusion of the liturgical year.
The readings at Mass are often apocalyptic. They're revelatory. They pull back the veil between heaven and earth, so that we "see" ourselves standing among "all the angels and saints" when we go to Mass.
This is the kingdom. Christ is our king. As our year reaches its climax, we acknowledge these facts and we prepare to celebrate the advent of the king at Christmas.
I feel especially ready this year, as I've just received copies of my new book, Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does). It's a book to read as one year ends and another begins. It tells the story of how one era ended and a more glorious era began.
I don't want to be like those retailers who start hawking Christmas on the day after Halloween. But the truth is that, as Christians, we're always celebrating Christmas. The pivot of our faith is the fact of Jesus' coming. In the fourth century, Saint Ambrose observed that the power by which the Word took flesh is the same power by which he comes among us today in the Holy Mass. What we celebrate at Christmas, we Catholics celebrate every day.
In my book I consider Christmas as the story of a family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. And I examine their interactions with other characters in the story: shepherds and angels, magi and priests, elderly devout souls and the wicked King Herod. All these forces for good and evil converged as a perfect storm in the little town of Bethlehem.
It was history's turning point. It was the sudden intrusion of the kingdom, the critical moment long prepared by our Father God; and any king who wished to be God's rival feared that the end was at hand. God's reign of peace began with a tide of bloodshed. Herod's slaughter of the innocents was his most famous massacre, but hardly his only one. He knew, and the priests in Jerusalem knew, that something momentous was at hand.
There is epic drama to the story of Christmas. The story is complex — dark, but with sudden bursts of glory. It is a story of hope — but it takes place in violent, transitional times. It demands much more attention than it gets from us.
There is indeed drama to our days, as one Church year turns over to another, as one season turns over to another, as one era turns over to another.
I hope you find my new book helpful for living these seasons and these times. I'm grateful for all you do for me — and for the sake of evangelization — as you support the Saint Paul Center.


President Xi and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud agreed that their countries should cooperate under the "Belt and Road" development framework, especially in key sectors like energy. Saudi Arabia is currently China's largest supplier of oil, and during President Xi's visit the Saudi and Chinese major oil firms Saudi Aramco and Sinopec signed a strategic cooperation agreement worth almost 1.5 billion USD. President Xi also attended the launch of the Yasref oil refinery, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sinopec worth almost 10 billion USD.
"51 major deals signed to boost ties and cooperation during Xi's visit." CNTV, January 25, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2016-01/25/c_135042222.htm.
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Brown, Rachel. "China Is On A Collision Course with ISIS." Council on Foreign Relations, January 13, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/01/china-collision-course-isis/125097/.
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"China never absent in contribution to peace, development in Middle East." Xinhua, January 25, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/25/c_135042621.htm.
"China supports Iran's application for full membership of SCO." Xinhua, January 23, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/23/c_135038723.htm.
"China to provide tens of thousands of scholarships, training opportunities for Arab nations: Xi." Xinhua, January 21, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135033115.htm.
"China's industrial proposal for Middle East unprecedented: expert." Xinhua, January 22, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/23/c_135037189.htm.
"Chinese president meets Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei." Xinhua, January 23, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135039034.htm.
"Chinese president starts Egypt visit to synergize development plans." Xinhua, January 21, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135031471.htm.
"Chinese technology contributes to Saudi Arabia's modernization." Xinhua, January 27, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/27/c_135049857.htm.
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Erdbrink, Thomas. "China Deepens Its Footprint in Iran After Lifting of Sanctions." New York Times, January 24, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/world/middleeast/china-deepens-its-footprint-in-iran-after-lifting-of-sanctions.html.
"Expansion of Sino-Egyptian economic zone to start soon." Xinhua, January 20, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/20/c_135028852.htm.
"Iran hints at legal action against Pakistan over delayed gas pipeline." PressTV, January 9, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/09/445098/Iran-Pakistan-Kameli-NIGEC-/.
"King Salman: We Strive to Consolidate Peace in the World With China." Asharq Al-Awsat, January 20, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://english.aawsat.com/2016/01/article55346737/king-salman-we-strive-to-promote-peace-in-the-world-with-china.
Lim, Alvin Cheng-Hin. "A New Type of International Relations: Xi Jinping's 2015 State Visits to UK, Vietnam and Singapore." Eurasia Review, November 9, 2015. Accessed January 27, 2016. https://www.eurasiareview.com/09112015-a-new-type-of-international-relations-xi-jinpings-2015-state-visits-to-uk-vietnam-and-singapore-analysis/.
Lim, Alvin Cheng-Hin. "'Iron Brothers': Sino-Pakistani Relations And The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor." Eurasia Review, May 7, 2015. Accessed January 28, 2016. https://www.eurasiareview.com/07052015-iron-brothers-sino-pakistani-relations-and-the-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-analysis/.
Lyu Chang and Hu Meidong. "China Nuclear to bring nuclear power to Saudi Arabia." China Daily, January 21, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2016-01/21/content_23175711.htm.
Rogers, David. "China, Iran agree two nuclear power stations and trade worth $600bn." Global Construction Review, January 27, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/china-iran-agree-two-nu7clear-po7wer-stat7ions/.
Takeshi Kumon. "China to finance high-speed railway in Iran." Nikkei Asian Review, January 24, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/China-to-finance-high-speed-railway-in-Iran.
"Xi: China encourages companies to participate in large-scale Egyptian projects." Xinhua, January 21, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135029327.htm.
"Xi concludes Middle East trip with promoted ties, cooperation." Xinhua, January 24, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135039203.htm.
"Xi proposes to build Egypt into pivot of Belt and Road." Xinhua, January 21, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135032693.htm.
"Xi visits historic palace, inaugurates refinery in Saudi Arabia." Xinhua, January 20, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135029206.htm.
"Xi wraps up Egypt visit as China's Middle East policy applauded." Xinhua, January 22, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/23/c_135037110.htm.
"Xi wraps up historic visit to Saudi Arabia, steps up energy cooperation." Xinhua, January 20, 2015. Accessed January 28, 2015. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135029295.htm.
"Xi's fruitful Middle East tour highlights China's commitment to building new type of int'l relations." Xinhua, January 24, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135040319.htm.
"Xi's speech at Arab League charts course for China-Arab cooperation." Xinhua, January 28, 2016. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/28/c_135052464.htm.
Zheng Yanpeng. "New rail route proposed from Urumqi to Iran." China Daily, November 21, 2015. Accessed January 28, 2016. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-11/21/content_22506412.htm.
Zhuang Pinghui. "Key facts behind China's warming ties with Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt as Xi Jinping signs mega oil deals during his Middle East tour." South China Morning Post, January 20, 2016. Accessed January 27, 2016. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1903393/key-facts-behind-chinas-warming-ties-saudi-arabia-iran.
1 "A bright, clear dawn for China's Middle East policy," Xinhua, January 25, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/25/c_135044110.htm. Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, "A New Type of International Relations: Xi Jinping's 2015 State Visits to UK, Vietnam and Singapore," Eurasia Review, November 9, 2015, accessed January 27, 2016, https://www.eurasiareview.com/09112015-a-new-type-of-international-relations-xi-jinpings-2015-state-visits-to-uk-vietnam-and-singapore-analysis/.
2 Hamid Dabashi, "The Chinese are beating the West at its own game," Al Jazeera, January 26, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/chinese-beating-west-game-160125111934523.html.
3 "Chinese wisdom for Middle East problems," Xinhua, January 24, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135040924.htm. "China never absent in contribution to peace, development in Middle East," Xinhua, January 25, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/25/c_135042621.htm.
4 "China's industrial proposal for Middle East unprecedented: expert," Xinhua, January 22, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/23/c_135037189.htm. "Xi concludes Middle East trip with promoted ties, cooperation," Xinhua, January 24, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135039203.htm. "Xi's speech at Arab League charts course for China-Arab cooperation," Xinhua, January 28, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/28/c_135052464.htm. "China to provide tens of thousands of scholarships, training opportunities for Arab nations: Xi," Xinhua, January 21, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135033115.htm.
5 "China never absent." "Xi's fruitful Middle East tour highlights China's commitment to building new type of int'l relations," Xinhua, January 24, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135040319.htm.
6 "Xi concludes." Zhuang Pinghui, "Key facts behind China's warming ties with Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt as Xi Jinping signs mega oil deals during his Middle East tour," South China Morning Post, January 20, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1903393/key-facts-behind-chinas-warming-ties-saudi-arabia-iran. "Chinese technology contributes to Saudi Arabia's modernization," Xinhua, January 27, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/27/c_135049857.htm. "King Salman: We Strive to Consolidate Peace in the World With China," Asharq Al-Awsat, January 20, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://english.aawsat.com/2016/01/article55346737/king-salman-we-strive-to-promote-peace-in-the-world-with-china. Lyu Chang and Hu Meidong, "China Nuclear to bring nuclear power to Saudi Arabia," China Daily, January 21, 2016, accessed January 27, 2016, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2016-01/21/content_23175711.htm. "Xi wraps up historic visit to Saudi Arabia, steps up energy cooperation," Xinhua, January 20, 2015, accessed January 28, 2015, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135029295.htm. "Xi visits historic palace, inaugurates refinery in Saudi Arabia," Xinhua, January 20, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135029206.htm.
7 Zhuang, "Key facts." "Xi concludes." "Xi proposes to build Egypt into pivot of Belt and Road," Xinhua, January 21, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135032693.htm. "Xi: China encourages companies to participate in large-scale Egyptian projects," Xinhua, January 21, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135029327.htm. "Chinese president starts Egypt visit to synergize development plans," Xinhua, January 21, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/21/c_135031471.htm. "51 major deals signed to boost ties and cooperation during Xi's visit," CNTV, January 25, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2016-01/25/c_135042222.htm. "Xi wraps up Egypt visit as China's Middle East policy applauded," Xinhua, January 22, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/23/c_135037110.htm. "Expansion of Sino-Egyptian economic zone to start soon," Xinhua, January 20, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/20/c_135028852.htm.
8 Zhuang, "Key facts." "51 major deals." "Xi concludes." "China, Iran upgrade ties to carry forward millennia-old friendship," Xinhua, January 23, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2016-01/24/c_135039635.htm. "China supports Iran's application for full membership of SCO," Xinhua, January 23, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/23/c_135038723.htm. "Chinese president meets Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei," Xinhua, January 23, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/24/c_135039034.htm. Rachel Brown, "China Is On A Collision Course with ISIS," Council on Foreign Relations, January 13, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/01/china-collision-course-isis/125097/. Thomas Erdbrink, "China Deepens Its Footprint in Iran After Lifting of Sanctions," New York Times, January 24, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/world/middleeast/china-deepens-its-footprint-in-iran-after-lifting-of-sanctions.html. Zheng Yanpeng, "New rail route proposed from Urumqi to Iran," China Daily, November 21, 2015, accessed January 28, 2016, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-11/21/content_22506412.htm. Takeshi Kumon, "China to finance high-speed railway in Iran," Nikkei Asian Review, January 24, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/China-to-finance-high-speed-railway-in-Iran.
9 David Rogers, "China, Iran agree two nuclear power stations and trade worth $600bn," Global Construction Review, January 27, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/china-iran-agree-two-nu7clear-po7wer-stat7ions/. Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, "'Iron Brothers': Sino-Pakistani Relations And The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor," Eurasia Review, May 7, 2015, accessed January 28, 2016, https://www.eurasiareview.com/07052015-iron-brothers-sino-pakistani-relations-and-the-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-analysis/. "Iran hints at legal action against Pakistan over delayed gas pipeline," PressTV, January 9, 2016, accessed January 28, 2016, http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/09/445098/Iran-Pakistan-Kameli-NIGEC-/.


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Home Best You Relationships
Book excerpt: Opening Heaven's Door
What my sister taught me about what might lie beyond
Source: Opening Heaven's Door: What the Dying May be Trying to Tell Us About Where They're Going. Copyright
My father died in his blue-striped pyjamas on a bed in a silent house. He wasn't ailing. At three or four in the morning, he gave out a sigh, loud enough to wake my mother, who sleepily assumed he was having a bad dream. A sigh, a moan, a final breath escaping. He was age 80.
In families, one's attention is directed toward crisis, and during that early spring of 2008 we were all transfixed by my sister Katharine. It was she, at age 52, not my father, who faced death. Vivacious Katharine, an uncommonly lovely woman'mother and sister and lover'now anguished by the wildfire spread of a metastatic breast cancer. We hadn't expected my father's death. That morning, we all received the call about Dad, the what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about news that my mother dialed to the family. But my sister, Katharine, 100 miles east of my parents, in Montreal, received her message differently.
'On the night of my father's death,' she would tell mourners at his memorial service some weeks later, 'I had an extraordinary spiritual experience.' My sister, please know, wasn't prone to spiritual experiences. Stress she was familiar with, as the single mother of two teenaged boys. Laughter she loved. Fitness of any kind'she was vibrantly physical. Fantastic intellect, fluent in three languages. But she hadn't been paying much attention, in essence, to God.
'It was about 4:30 a.m.,' she said, of that night, 'and I couldn't sleep, as usual, when all of a sudden I began having this amazing spiritual experience. For the next two hours I felt nothing but joy and healing. I felt hands on my head, and experienced vision after vision of a happy future.'
Katharine had described this strange and lovely pre-dawn experience to her elder son as she drove him to high school before she received the call about Dad. She also wrote about it in her diary: 'I thought, is this about people praying for me? And then I thought of Dad cocking his eyebrow, teasing me about hubris.' She hadn't known until the next day how to interpret the powerful surge of energy and joy she had felt. 'I now know that it was my father,' she told the mourners. She said this flat out, without the necessary genuflections to science and to reason, no patience for the usual caveats: Call me crazy but… None of that. 'I feel deeply, humbly, blessed and loved,' she said simply, and sat down.
We are not a family in the habit of experiencing ghosts. Yet later I would learn that this sort of experience when someone has died is startlingly common, not rare. Families shelter their knowledge, keeping it safe and beloved like a delicate heirloom, away from the careless stomping of strangers. There was much I would learn in the ensuing year about the kept-hidden world all around me, but at the time I understood this much: What a gift this was for Katharine. For the previous 12 months, waking up had meant regaining knowledge of her predicament, which was like an immersive drowning terror in the darkness.
Katharine moved to a Montreal hospice on May 14, 2008. The palliative care physician guessed that she had weeks, at the outside margin, but nobody told her that. She was left to envision a horizon distant or near, bright or dark. She didn't ask. Instead, she became a peaceful queen presiding over her court as 50 or more friends, relations and colleagues arrived for one last conversation, a final kiss. The short hallway of the hospice seemed to be streaming to and fro with weeping people carrying bottles of Veuve Cliquot. Just one more toast, another laugh.
The hospice nurses were fascinated, they told me later, for they were more accustomed to small family groups visiting elderly patients in a quiet, off-and-on way. They watched as we cracked open Champagne and played Katharine's favourite songs while she swayed dancingly in her bed, and brought her foods for which she had a fleeting craving, and offered her lilies of the valley to bury her nose in, inhaling. Never have I seen human beings so exquisitely emotionally attuned to one another as we were when we spent those last days in May with my dying sister. When she wanted the volume of energy up, we turned it up. When she wanted it down, we brought it down.
When I kissed my sister's cheek, she would kiss me back and behold me in a manner that was so loving it startled me. Generous love, released from need. Often, we sat about wordlessly as she slept'my other two sisters, my brother and me. Sometimes we massaged her hands with cream and sang softly. Her sweetheart, Joel, played his guitar. My mother, awash in two waves of grief, read Katharine the love poetry that our father had penned for her in the early 1950s.
Katharine spoke very little in these final 10 days of her life. A few sentences here and there, more often just a word or two. Yet it was clear from everything she said that she was present, and observing. Which was why it grew remarkable to us that she seemed so content. She enjoyed our company and the music we played, and gazed admiringly at the garden beyond her window and the light playing in the curtains.
'Wow, that was strange,' she re-marked once upon waking up, her expression one of delight. 'I dreamed I was being smooshed in flowers.'
All this appeared to interest her, and to please her, as if she were engaged in a novel and agreeable adventure. She looked gorgeous, as if lit from within. Sometimes she would have happy whispered conversations with a person I couldn't see. At other times, she'd stare at the ceiling as a full panoply of expressions played across her face'puzzled, amused, skeptical, surprised, calmed'like a spectator angled back in a planetarium, watching a heavenly light show.
I watched her ardently, but she couldn't translate it for me. The sister with whom I'd shared every secret had moved beyond words. 'It's so interesting,' she began one morning, and then couldn't find the language. 'It must be so frustrating,' I said quietly, 'to not be able to say,' and she nodded. We touched foreheads.
I was left to guess, or to glimpse what she was experiencing in the accounts of others, others who'd recovered their voice. I would read later, for example, about the Swiss genealogist Albert Heim, who fell off a mountain and wrote, in 1892: 'No grief was felt, nor was there any paralyzing fright. There was no anxiety, no trace of despair or pain. But rather calm seriousness, profound acceptance and a dominant mental quickness.'
We could say, Well, she has forgotten that she's dying. But she hadn't. 'Is Mum all right?' Katharine might ask me with concern. Or, 'You guys must be falling apart faster than I am.' Indeed we were. My brain was a computer in meltdown, a car shoved into neutral, an old black and white television whose brightness had narrowed to one fizzing star. It is difficult to describe, in truth, because I was not capable intellectually of observing my own disintegration.
I was lost, but Katharine wasn't. Forty-eight hours before she died, she told us she was on her way. Literally, as in 'I am leaving.' How did she know? Hospice could have lasted two months or six months or two years. If nothing else, hope could have swayed it; she'd subsisted on hope for the first 11 months of her illness. A study conducted by Harvard researchers found that 63 percent of doctors caring for terminally ill patients wildly overestimate how much time their patients have left. The patients themselves, however, become crisply precise, sometimes nailing their departure to the hour.
Katharine woke up one morning and, looking decidedly perplexed, said to Joel, who lay in wild dishevelment on the cot beside her, 'I don't know how to leave.' As if its difficulty was akin to learning to water ski, or the trick to making bread dough rise. Clearly she didn't feel the way that we felt anymore, with our thirsting, ecstatic joy to find that she was still alive when we raced to her side each day. She teased Joel that in his hollow-eyed disarray he looked like a drug addict. She remained present, but also elsewhere. Katharine had removed herself to some new plane of consciousness where we were now unable to follow.
That afternoon she gazed through her French doors for a long time, with a look that seemed to me, sitting beside her and stroking her hand, to be slightly vexed.
'What are you looking at?' I asked. She lifted her arm languidly and pointed to the garden, remarking, 'Hapless flight attendants.'
We all laughed in surprise. Just then a hospice volunteer wheeled in a trolley of snacks. Katharine turned alertly to this new visitor and asked, 'What's the situation?'
Said the hospice volunteer with brisk cheer, 'Well, the situation is we have lemon tarts, Nanaimo bars, oatmeal cookies. All home-baked.'
My sister regarded her as if she were insane. 'I mean,' Katharine clarified, 'when do I leave?'
Joel, masterfully suppressing his raging grief at losing the love of his life after only three years, assumed a comical Indian accent (they'd met in New Delhi) and, wobbling his head, offered, 'That is for you and God to decide.'
Katharine left the next night, in silence and candlelight, while I lay with my cheek on her chest and my hand on her heart, feeling her breathing slow and subside like the receding waves of an outgoing tide. Joel sat on one side of the bed, my sister Anne on the other. The nurse came in to confirm death with a wordless nod.
My sense that the dying might open a door that leads elsewhere came first in hushed confidings. During the summer and fall of 2008, people began to tell me things. Some were friends and colleagues I'd known for years; others were people I'd met for the first time, say on a flight. If I told them what I'd witnessed with my father and sister, almost invariably, they said, 'I've never told anyone this, but…' Or, 'We've only discussed this in our family, but if you think you might do research…' Then they'd offer extraordinary stories about deathbed visions, sensed presences, sudden intimations of a loved one in danger or dying. They were all smart, skeptical people. I had had no idea that this subterranean world existed all around me.
The director of a large music company drove me home from a dinner party, and when I explained that I was thinking of investigating what my family had gone through, he told me that, as a boy, he had come down to breakfast one morning and seen his father, as always, at the kitchen table. Then his mother broke the news that his father had died in the night. He briefly wondered if she'd gone insane. 'He's sitting right there,' he'd said. It was the most baffling and unsettling moment of his life.
While researching this book I found countless stories of people who felt a presence when a loved one dies, and of people in near-death, and dying, experiences during which they feel utter joy and peace.
Yes, there is pain in loss. And in our culture, there is further pain in the silence born from fear of being dismissed or ridiculed when that loss entails something unexpectedly wondrous. Tell someone your sister felt a presence in her bedroom on the night your father died and, at once, the explanations come. Hallucination. Wishful thinking. Coincidence.
After my father and sister died, I wanted to understand what we know about these controversial modes of awareness. It wasn't enough for me, as a journalist, to accept the officially received wisdom. So I tried to pursue these questions. Why had my sister had a powerful spiritual experience in the hour of my father's unexpected death? How did she sense a presence and feel hands cupping her head? Why did she enter into her own dying afraid, only to become increasingly joyful? What was she seeing and learning, what would she have told me if she could have?
What I learned in the ensuing few years has been far richer and more mysterious than I ever imagined.
Excerpted from Opening Heaven's Door: What the Dying May be Trying to Tell Us About Where They're Going. Copyright © 2014 by Patricia Pearson. Published by Random House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd., a Penguin Random House company. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved. randomhouse.ca
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Australian Parents for Climate Action have proposed an initiative called Solar our Schools and published open letter to Prime Minister Morrison calling for large-scale federal investment in solar and energy storage for every school and early childhood centre as part of Covid-19 recovery.
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Aussie parents are calling on the federal government to pull their heads in and start behaving themselves, which is to say, to stop lollygagging around and make large-scale investment in solar and energy storage across all schools and early childhood centres as part of a renewably led Covid-19 economic recovery.
The Australian Parents for Climate Action (AP4CA), which has over 6,000 members across every state and territory, has proposed this initiative, Solar our Schools (SOS), alongside an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison in which the parental organisation calls for full funding for solar and batteries across all public and non-profit schools, kindergartens, child care centres and even means-tested grants for all private educational institutions.
AP4CA have said that its call comes off the back of research published by think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) as part of its Million Jobs Report. BZE, perhaps most notable for its prescience regarding the renewable energy potential of the Northern Territory, published a green scaffold on which it believes Australia's economy can rebuild and create 1.8 million new jobs through renewables and low emissions projects over the next five years. The plan already has strong support, including Mike Cannon-Brookes, Ross Garnaut, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin McCann, and Christiana Figueres.
"Australia needs a clean-energy-driven Covid-19 economic recovery that improves our schools and communities, creates thousands of clean jobs and cuts our greenhouse emissions," says Suzie Brown, National Director and Founder, AP4CA.
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AP4CA sprung into action when the findings of BZE's research in the writing of its Million Jobs Report showed that installing solar panels and batteries at an additional 4,000 Australian schools would save $114,000 in annual energy bills at a large school and $12,700 at a small school. As it stands, approximately 42% of the 9503 schools (both public and private) in Australia don't have solar and/or batteries, or have insufficient solar capabilities.
Moreover, the large-scale task of installing said solar panels and batteries would create 6,870 jobs in the renewable energy industry, and save 395,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year. Of course, with such a large-scale rollout of energy storage systems, they can all be connected into a Virtual PowerPlant (VPP). Some may remember Labor's pledge in the 2019 election to connect 4,000 schools into VPPs through a $1 billion solar program financed through the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). VPPs enable networks of energy storage devices to deliver energy back into the grid – helping to drive down electricity bills for households and businesses.
AP4CA points to schools like Fyans Park Primary School in Geelong, Victoria, which installed a 94kW solar array in 2019 with the help of a Victorian state government grant of $150,000. Additionally, Fyns Park Primary also installed two Tesla Powerwall batteries, the combination allowing the school to save $10,000 – $15,000 annually on electricity bills that can be put directly back into school resources.
In a story that is all too common across the energy and green energy spectrum, it is the states and territories that have to make up for logical deficiencies at the federal level.
The Northern Territory has a solar panel rollout to schools currently underway, although only 25 schools are to receive the benefits. However, the Victorian Government is looking to follow suit with the opening of applications for its Greener Government School Buildings Program.
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And, of course, some will remember Katoomba High School student Estelle Dee in New South Wales, collecting signatures to petition NSW Energy and Environment Minister, Matt Kean, for the installation of solar panels at every NSW public school within the next three years. The precocious Dee, who chaired a panel at the National Energy Summit in 2019, cites a Government-funded report from the School Energy Productive Program, which found that not only is NSW spending way too much money on energy, the report estimated it could be saving $45 million annually.
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AP4CA sees the SOS initiative as the bridge for the gaps of the solar grant programs currently run by states and territories. "Current grant programs do not provide for enough schools and early childhood centres and private schools are generally not included," said Brown.
"Schools struggle with the administrative burden of applying for grants and fundraising enough funds for solar," said Brown finally, "we're calling on the federal government to remove these burdens and make solar and batteries possible for all schools and centres.
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Q: feed multivariate timeseries data with tf.data.Dataset for data bigger than memory I us my custom block of code to format my multivariate data to fit LSTM model.
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Beginning in early 2022, Cypress County will be working with Colton Mckee Photography to promote many of the municipality's tourist attractions.
"In 2020, Cypress County produced an economic video—it's a short video—it's only under two-and-a-half minutes and it basically showcases different businesses to try and promote Cypress County and economic development," said Jeffrey Dowling, the county's director of municipal services.
"So, we decided to do a tourism video in 2021. But the problem, of course, was that with COVID and everything, a lot of the attractions and destinations and a lot of the events were put on hold because of COVID for obvious reasons. So, we kind of postponed and delayed the production of this video, hoping that COVID would subside and we could actually get a film crew and showcase all the different things Cypress County has to offer."
The film will highlight destinations, attractions and various events that are hosted by private organizations.
"I think Cypress County has enough things to showcase," he said.
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Q: Show Phone Calls in SiteMap If you link Phone calls in sitemap in CRM (nav_phonecalls), what it will link is to Activities view of phone calls (it will not have an fields specific to phone call itself and will show only generic Activity fields).
The proper Phone Call views are available if you drill down from Activities drop down above the grid, select Phone Call and one of phone call views.
Is it possible to link in sitemap so that by default it will show one of the views defined on Phone Call entity?

A: Putting the Phone Call Entity on the site map as below will cause Phone Call views to display (not the activity views):
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I justed tested this and confirmed that this shows the phone call views, not the activity views.  If you want to default to a specific phone call view, that would be done at the entity level


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