CLEMSON -- Clemson coach Jack Leggett was at least grateful that Stan Widmann heard him out.
Leggett routinely meets with individual players during the fall to discuss their progress. He had a different spiel lined up for Widmann, who was still rehabilitating from surgery to remove a benign tumor from his spinal cord.
For planning purposes, Leggett wanted to know whether Widmann intended to try to play during the 2008 season. But Leggett also sought to convey that Widmann should not feel any pressure to do so, telling him the Tigers would field a team nonetheless and have an everyday shortstop regardless of his decision.
"By the time I got done, he just had a smirk on his face and said, 'Are you done? I'm playing,'" Leggett said.
Considering no one seemed certain whether he would even play again after the operation, Leggett termed Widmann's rapid recovery beyond that of a normal human.
"I'm looking forward to getting after it," Widmann said. "Getting back into it will be difficult, but this is a marathon, so I've got a little time."
Patience felt in short supply for Widmann while condemned to watching Clemson games from the dugout last year, hindered by a cumbersome neck brace.
The Hurst, Texas, native was pulled from the lineup six games into the season when team doctors were unable to pinpoint the reason for his recurring neck pain.
A visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota revealed Widmann had a non-cancerous tumor on his C-3 vertebrae. On March 27, the tumor was removed during 12 hours of surgery.
Widmann, a draft-eligible junior last season, was later granted a medical hardship by the NCAA that restored his year of eligibility. He has two remaining.
But his ability to use the first year remained in question before Widmann exceeded expectations, including his own, in the fall.
After weaning off the neck brace, he was cleared to take batting cage swings in September. In October, Widmann started throwing, running and fielding grounders in team scrimmages and was deemed six months ahead of his rehabilitation schedule. By mid-November, he was allowed to face live pitching on occasion.
"He had a lot of pride and a great desire to get back out on the field," Leggett said. "He's got one of those engines that doesn't want to slow down."
The only time Widmann has to separate from his teammates' workouts is in the weight room.
Because he has yet to regain his pre-surgery strength and muscle endurance, Widmann does variations of several over-the-head lifts in the team's regimen to avoid unnecessary pressure on his neck.
Widmann realizes all eyes will be waiting for him to have to make his first diving grab. He is counting down the days to get that out of the way, too.
"I will be soon," Widmann said, cracking a smile. "I just haven't had the opportunity."
Widmann said his risk of serious injury is almost no greater than anyone else's.
As part of his surgery, a bone graft was inserted to fuse his spine back together where the C-3 vertebrae had been located.
The graft has limited flexibility, so the vertebrae above and below it have taken on additional stresses.
Widmann's lone concern would be if those vertebrae endured excessive pressure, but he believes the chances of that happening remote.
He still has to have X-rays and CT scans taken locally and sent to the Mayo Clinic so his surgeon, Dr. Bradford Currier, can inspect them to ensure the tumor never spread to other areas in his neck. But come March, the length between checkups extends to every six months.
"The competitor in me is not going to go out there and say, if I do this, this will happen," Widmann said. "I've already made the decision I'm going to go out and give everything I can. ... When you hold back, that's really when athletes injure themselves."
Clemson will take everything Widmann can give it. His presence figures to be a boost for a lineup that lost a major portion of its veteran leadership and offensive punch.
Sophomore second baseman J.D. Burgess is the Tigers' only returning infield starter.
If they can count on Widmann at shortstop, Leggett has the flexibility to open competitions at third (freshman John Hinson and junior college transfer Matt Sanders) as well as second (Burgess and Georgia transfer Mike Freeman).
"The most important thing Stan brings is defensively," Leggett said. "We lost so many infielders last year that he is the key to solidifying that defense. The rest of the kids are going to mold around him."
Early on, Widmann's prolonged layoff figures to be most evident at the plate. He batted .409 in last year's six games and .307 as a sophomore.
Clemson opens the season Feb. 22 against Mercer, and Widmann and Leggett suggest it might take awhile for Widmann's timing to round into form.
For now, that is a trade-off both say they are willing to accept.


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"I was born in Southeast, Washington, DC and raised in PG county and have seen the gradual changes the city has undergone. So, I watched DISTRICTLAND first as that lone Black native from the DMV and second as a GW grad who suffered through the happy hours and networking meetings that many of the characters in the story did. "
--Star Johnson
During my first year in grad school at GW I remember walking to a friend's birthday party at a rowhouse on Potomac Ave. This was the first time I'd been in that area in a while and immediately I noticed something wasn't right. There were young white professionals outside on the streets milling about, walking their dogs, heading to bars. I remember thinking. "Wait, isn't this supposed to be the "bad" part of town? The part that non-natives generally avoid after hours?" This was one of the many moments where I realized that the Washington, DC I knew as a kid was changing and no one had sent me, or the rest of the predominately black community that grew up in or around the area, the memo.
I always say gentrification is a very good thing or a very bad thing - depending on who you ask. Since returning to DC after undergrad, much of the last 5 years or so have been spent both reaping the benefits of gentrification, and witnessing the damage it does to communities, thinking about it, writing my Master's thesis on it and trying to understand the many sides and angles of the issue. So when the script for DISTRICTLAND came across my desk, I was immediately intrigued.
I started OpenStage almost a year ago as a way for playwrights in DC to workshop new scripts. Cristina Bejan's was one of the first scripts I received and the DISTRICTLAND team has gone on to present several scenes at OpenStage's monthly showcases. I'd been saying for a while - someone needs to write a movie or TV or play about what is happening in the District. Not the political landscape itself, but this influx of transplants moving into DC trying desperately to assimilate to the DC culture while also shaping it. And that is what DISTRICTLAND does - it gives you a window into the lives of a group of 20 somethings trying to find their place in a city that is becoming more about where you work and what you do, than who you are.
I was born in Southeast, Washington, DC and raised in PG county and have seen the gradual changes the city has undergone. So, I watched DISTRICTLAND first as that lone Black native from the DMV and second as a GW grad who suffered through the happy hours and networking meetings that many of the characters in the story did. I applaud Bejan's way of introducing the audience to this culture of assimilation in DC but not in a preachy way, and not in a way that seemed to have all the answers to all the problems facing the District (ie. gentrification, racial and cultural tensions).The characters addressed these issues the only way each of them knew how - from their respective lens, based on their own life experiences. Some imperfect..some misguided...but always honest. And that? Is refreshing to see on stage.
The action centers around 4 roommates (Frank, Charity, Maria and Dave) who were probably once very social and valued deep connection, but are now too busy to talk to each other when they come home to their shared row-house in the transitioning neighborhood where they reside. The wonderfully diverse cast delivers and the direction (John Dellaporta) is top notch. Andrew Quilpa's Frank, the long suffering Hill intern whose boss can't remember his name, is the sort of leading man you would expect to see in a quirky yet thoughtful new Comedy Central sitcom about millennials (..cough cough...Comedy Central, get on that...) You root for him, laugh both with and at him, and hope that if anyone comes out of this alive, it is Frank. One morning he sees the effortlessly beautiful A'isha (Robin Freeman) on the metro and is instantly taken by this rare creature - an actual DC native, taking the green line and all. We later see in a fantastic juxtaposed scene, A'isha performing during a poetry night, a poem about the lack of color at a music festival two blocks from the African-American Civil War Memorial which dons here grandfather's name; while Frank shuffles through yet another happy hour with overly ambitious DC young professionals, one of which is played by the hilarious Andra Belknap who asks everyone in sight "So...what do you do?". This scene illustrates these two worlds that Frank and A'isha live in. While they both can easily cross paths in a metro station, the reality is DC is divided by young transplants who work inside the beltway and locals who are being pushed out to the outer ends of the green line - both groups trying to find their place in light of DC's changing complexion.
DISTRICTLAND doesn't try to fix the world's problems in 90 mins. Instead, in its satirical nature, it focuses on the interactions between these characters, Dave and Maria whose first conversation in weeks turns into a vicious fight, Maria and her boyfriend who is in love with another woman, and finally, in a funny and touching scene at the end of the play, Frank and Charity who share an unexpected connection. So we're left with questions: Will Frank find love with A'isha and win the respect of his boss? Will Dave and Maria make amends? Will these four roommates each find what their are looking for in their respective quests for happiness and meaning in their lives? The answer, if we're being perfectly honest: probably not. Districtland doesn't tie everything up in a neat bow. And I'm fine with that.
Really glad to see Bucharest embracing BIB as well. I'm flying in soon on a business trip, I'll make sure to check it out. I usually travel with http://bucharesttransfer.com/ I hope they will know how to get there, they have not let me down so far.
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Q: Várias linhas em um coluna Sql Server Estou com um problema onde preciso juntar o retorno de uma consulta feita em duas tabelas em uma única linha.
Pensei em usar PIVOT mas não consegui por causa do INNER JOIN.
A consulta está assim:
SET LANGUAGE us_english;
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR, ftd.DateAndTime, 113) dt,
round(ftd.Val, 2) Val, ttd.TagName
FROM FloatTableDiario ftd INNER JOIN TagTableDiario ttd
ON ttd.TagIndex = ftd.TagIndex
WHERE ftd.Marker = 'S'
AND ftd.DateAndTime BETWEEN '05-29-2018 00:00:000' AND '05-29-2018 23:59:059'
AND ttd.TagName
IN('[AGUA]FT[0].Tot_NR',
 '[AGUA]FT[0].Tot_DA',
 '[AGUA]POCO[0].IntTotPrdHou',
 '[AGUA]POCO[0].IntTotPrdMin',
 '[AGUA]POCO[0].OutEfePrdHou_DA ',
 '[AGUA]POCO[0].OutEfePrdMin_DA',
 '[AGUA]LT_MAX_DA[0]',
 '[AGUA]LT_MIN_DA[0]')
ORDER BY ftd.DateAndTime

O retorno obviamente vem em uma linha diferente para cara valor do IN.

Preciso que todo o resultado venha em uma única linha, a cada intervalo será gerado mais de 400 dados.

A: Pode sempre tentar com um FOR XML:
SET LANGUAGE us_english

SELECT      (
                SELECT      CONVERT(VARCHAR, ftd.DateAndTime, 113)  + ';'
                            CONVERT(VARCHAR, ROUND(ftd.Val, 2))     + ';'
                            ttd.TagName
                FROM        FloatTableDiario    ftd
                INNER JOIN  TagTableDiario      ttd ON ttd.TagIndex = ftd.TagIndex
                WHERE       ftd.Marker = 'S'
                        AND ftd.DateAndTime BETWEEN '05-29-2018 00:00:000' AND '05-29-2018 23:59:059'
                        AND ttd.TagName IN  (       '[AGUA]FT[0].Tot_NR'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]FT[0].Tot_DA'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]POCO[0].IntTotPrdHou'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]POCO[0].IntTotPrdMin'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]POCO[0].OutEfePrdHou_DA'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]POCO[0].OutEfePrdMin_DA'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]LT_MAX_DA[0]'
                                                ,   '[AGUA]LT_MIN_DA[0]'
                                            )
                ORDER BY    ftd.DateAndTime
                FOR XML PATH('')
            )

Utilizei o separador ";" mas poderá construir o texto da forma que entender.

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The first difference from some of the other MWM items is that this one comes tucked away in a bag. It can't be explored nor tried on until one takes a leap of faith and purchases it.
Well, that's not entirely true. If you know how to go about it, you can feel your way through the bag to the inside of the cuff and switch the device on without opening the bag. It's probably a good idea to just that before buying one to make sure the battery hasn't been run down and to check the alignment of the MWM components. Alignment of the LED strip in the palm is sometimes pretty cockeyed and the light pipes extending into the fingers may or may not light up as you'd expect they should. We'll go into all that shortly.
The first adventure with this item was figuring out how to turn it on! The picture to the left illustrates the dilemma. Looks like they forgot to add the switch! Not really. Nothing explains the situation but poking around discovered a switch beneath the fabric - although it is surprisingly difficult to locate and manipulate. At least in my experience.
Now, to try it on. Only made it in, easily, up to the middle of my palm. With a lot more effort, I squeezed my hand all the way in. I wouldn't want to spend much of the evening wearing this. Clearly, it's designed for customers with smaller hands. Glad I intended to take it apart, instead.
With the switch buried beneath the fabric, how does one change the batteries when they run down? On the other end of the cuff there's a flap secured with velcro. Undoing the velcro gives access to the opening to coax the battery holder out of the cuff. It was a very tight fit! Probably don't really need the velcro to hold that in. Very tight fit. What comes out is simply the battery holder and that pesky on/off switch. Runs on two AAA batteries.
Using my Swiss Army 'seam ripper', I began exploring upstream of those wires connected to the battery compartment. They lead to the main circuit board buried amidst the stuffing in the palm. It resists coming out easily. As was discovered, there are a couple impediments for easy removal. First, each of the four LEDs have light pipes attached to them, running up into each of the four fingers. These are why you see the light in the palm area AND up into the fingers. How well you see the output from the light pipes depends upon how they got inserted into the fingers. There seems to be a lot of variation. That's why I suggest testing before buying - unless you simply intend to extract the moving parts.
Second, the infrared receiver is sewn into the garmet tag on the side of the device and connected by three wires to the circuit board in the palm. It's intended to stay put. You can't just pull it out. Extracting the receiver is what needs to be done first. Once that's done, the light pipes will slide out of the fingers when the main board is pulled out.
This may be the most delicate portion of the extraction. As mentioned, the receiver is sewn into the tag on the side of the glove. It needs to be extracted without messing up the connecting wires. Find that tag. Feel it to get an idea of where the board is located. Carefully cut the outer edge furthest from the seam. Peal the tag back to reveal the board and orient yourself where the wires are connected. Slowly cut the seam open until the opening is wide enough to push the board through.
Use a finger to push the receiver board through the opening and as far into the stuffing and towards the main board as possible. Now roll back the glove and stuffing until the main board is mostly exposed. Now you can grab the main board and slowly pull the light pipes out of the fingers. If you've rolled back the glove far enough, you should be able to grab the tubes, themselves and pull on them instead of straining the LED connections. If all goes well, the attached light pipes will come out without too much of a struggle and you'll be holding the whole assembly in your hot little hand.
The light pipes are a new development. The LEDs appear to be 5mm RGB, through-hole components. They are inserted into one end of a short piece of tubing and then the light pipes are poked into the other end. The thin core light conducting portion of the light pipe can be seen best in the end view of the tube on the right. The tubes are flexible, but have some conformational memory. They work pretty well. These look a lot like some retired Sparkfun products. Not a lot of info about these out there.
Looking at the photo above and to the left, the top of the tough, white plastic covering that surrounds most of the main board can be seen. Two of the LEDs poke poke through it. No seam is apparent. Could be shrink wrap of some sort. Carefully removing that covering exposes the main board components. For a closer look, click the image below.
The markings on the main processor don't show in that pic but it's the same one used in most of the other MWM devices: TI MSP430G2553. There aren't any components on the backside, just soldered battery connections, a serial number and a stamp proclaiming this to be "Glow Mitt v1.2".
The wires supplying each LED control, from left to right, the: blue, green, 3V anode (+), red LEDs.
The other MWM devices containing 4 RGB LEDs mess with the MWM right and left ear command responses. With Chernabog, right-left becomes up and down, while the World of Color sipper cup gives a diagonal response. I'm glad to report that the two LEDs closest to the IR receiver (D1 & D2) respond to codes for the right ear and the other two respond as appropriate for the left ear. Nice.
From a hacker's perspective, there's a lot to like about this product. 4 RGB LEDs - none of which are surface mounted. The IR receiver is already on a wire for easy repositioning. Right is right and left is left. Peer-2-peer capability. There have to be some great things that can be done with those light pipes - or maybe some other sort of fiber optic stuff. Attaching tubes to through-hole LEDs is trivial. Lots of possibilities.


Traditional services are held at Temple B'nai Abraham. All members in good financial standing are welcome and all others are welcome to purchase tickets.
For a nominal fee, the Sisterhood offers a break the fast meal at the Temple following Yom Kippur services.
Tashlich is held at the river in Bordentown near the RiverLine light rail station.
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Lindorm Adolf Liljefors, född 18 september i Ytterjärna 1909, Södermanland och död 20 februari 1985 i Skyttorp, Uppsala län. Han var en svensk målare, tecknare och skulptör.

Lindorm Liljefors var son till Bruno Liljefors. Efter läroverksstudier i Uppsala studerade han 1928–1934 vid Konstakademien där han hade Alfred Bergström och Wilhelm Smith som lärare. 1934 företog han en studieresa till Frankrike och Italien. Liljefors följde sin far både i motivval och syn på naturen. Han målade Jägare med hundar, Kråkor på isen, Grävlingfamilj, Änder vid vak, hästar i arbete, skogsinteriörer med mera. Som skulptör ägnade han sig särskilt åt framställningar av människor och djur i rörelse. Liljefors var en passionerad jägare och hundvän och skrev artiklar om djur och jakt i tidskriften Svensk jakt.

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Women wishing to make long-distance road trips in Afghanistan must now be accompanied by a male relative under new guidance issued by the Taliban.
Afghanistan's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has also told drivers not to give lifts to women not wearing headscarves. The ministry also requested people not to play music in their vehicles. It comes just weeks after the Taliban ordered the nation's television channels not to air programmes in which women were pictured without headscarves.
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Afghanistan's two election commissions and the state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs have also been dissolved by the Taliban.
The Taliban's deputy spokesman Bilal Karimi called such institutions "unnecessary institutes for the current situation in Afghanistan."
The new rule on travel for women has drawn criticism from human rights groups.
"This new order essentially moves further in the direction of making women prisoners," said Heather Barr of Human Rights Watch. "It shuts off opportunities for them to be able to move about freely, to travel to another city, to do business, to be able to flee if they are facing violence in the home."
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Shane Tysinger had a lifelong interest in medicine, but the Davidson County, N.C., high school science teacher had only dabbled in health care, holding a couple of medical assistant jobs before becoming a teacher. At his school he was the first responder for any type of medical emergency.
In 2006, looking for a full-time career in medicine, Tysinger entered the two-year physician assistant master's program at Duke University--the birthplace of the physician assistant program. Good choice. Tysinger graduated in 2008, in the middle of a recession, but says there were jobs everywhere for students in his graduating class. Today he works in an Eden, N.C. clinic that focuses on family medicine. His salary has more than tripled from his days as a teacher. "I found the career I was meant to do," says Tysinger.
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Look for more people to follow Tysinger back to school for a master's in physician assistant studies. The United States' new health care system will further exacerbate the shortage of doctors and increase the need for physician assistants who provide diagnostic and preventative health care services under the supervision of a doctor. Those job prospects--and the promise of hefty paychecks--put physician assistant degrees at the top of the heap in Forbes' first-ever look at the best master's degrees.
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Colleges will hand out 1.6 million bachelor's degrees this year, according to the U.S. Census (another 762,000 students are on track for associate degrees). Yet with unemployment sitting at 9.9% and underemployment at 17.1%, many students are considering sitting out the anemic job market and pursuing graduate degrees.
With this in mind, Forbes set out to determine which master's degrees would provide the best opportunities, based on salary and employment, over the next decade. We turned to Payscale.com, which lets users compare their salaries with those of other people in similar jobs by culling real-time salary data from its 16.5 million profiles.
Payscale looked at midcareer median pay for people possessing one of 30 common master's degrees. The typical worker for this group was 43 years old and had 15 years of work experience. Median salaries ranged from $121,000 for electrical engineering degrees to $53,500 for those with a master's in counseling. Payscale also provided the most common jobs for people who had earned any of these 30 degrees.
Next we looked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics to see how fast employment was expected to increase for these popular jobs over the next decade. We also considered the number of job openings based on replacement needs over the next 10 years. Physician assistants finished on top in both cases; 29,000 jobs should be added, a 39% increase over the next decade. And we'll need 57% more PAs when you factor in replacing those who will leave the field.
Another advantage of a physician's assistant degree: The prerequisites are not as narrow as other high-paying degrees, like engineering and physics, according to Al Lee, Payscale's director of quantitative analysis. Physician assistants can get undergrad degrees in almost any field, and only need to take a few science classes to prep for a master's program.
Compensation varies tremendously, based on career path, for many of the 30 degrees we looked at. An actuary with a master's in mathematics can hit a median midcareer pay of $157,000. But a high school teacher with the same degree may pull in a sight less robust $57,800.
Concentration within the degree makes a difference as well. M.B.A.s who focused on finance had median salaries of $124,000, while those in accounting took home only $72,500. "Not all M.B.A.s are created equal," says Payscale's Lee.
By our count, computer science is the second-best advanced degree, including for those who become IT consultants and senior software engineers. Median pay for these grads is $111,000, fourth best out of the 30 degrees in our survey. Employment opportunities for computer science degree-holders are expected to expand 27% over the next decade, fourth best among all disciplines.
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For more about graduate education, including a ranking of Best Business Schools, visit our Education section.
The worst master's degrees pit career satisfaction against financial rewards. Getting a master's in education or social work (both rank near the bottom) can be gratifying, but costly. If you are still determined to take that route--and saddle yourself with $60,000 or more in debt at a private university--don't quit your day job. Median midcareer pay for both degrees is under $60,000, and employment growth is expected to be limited.
Jean Morse, associate dean of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, makes the case for an advanced degree, whether in English literature or computer science. "A master's improves general analytical skills and improves knowledge within the field," she says. "It also improves contacts within a field, as there is a networking element."
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I am a senior editor at Forbes and focused mainly on the business of sports and our annual franchise valuations. I also spend a lot of my time digging into what athletes
I am a senior editor at Forbes and focused mainly on the business of sports and our annual franchise valuations. I also spend a lot of my time digging into what athletes earn on and off the field of play. I've profiled a bunch of athletes that go by one name: LeBron, Shaq, Danica and others. I also started our biennial B-School rankings; annual features on the Best Places for Business (metros, states and countries); and America's Best Banks. I joined Forbes in 1998 after working 3 years at Financial World magazine. Email: kbadenhausen@forbes.com.


Hohensaaten is a village and a former municipality in Brandenburg in Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the municipality Bad Freienwalde.
Hohensaaten was first mentioned in 1258. The village belonged to Barnim district. After a year-long dispute between municipal board and citizens, partly because of averse to the Barnim district, the treaty of mergeance with city of Bad Freienwalde was signed on 14 November 2008. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the municipality Bad Freienwalde, hence part of Märkisch-Oderland district.
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Ring in the New Year with an extravagant five-course New Year's Eve Dinner.
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Arts chiefs cheer #5m cash boost
THE curtain was today set to go up on a dramatic #5 million cash boost for arts and theatre companies across Birmingham.
Organisations due to receive show-saving grants from the city council range from the CBSO, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham Repertory Theatre to the Midlands Arts Centre, The Drum, and Ikon Gallery.
Coun John Alden, cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture, said: "These arts organisations are key to establishing Birmingham as a major international city.
"They also contribute to the city's rich and diverse cultural events programme which is second to none and is enjoyed by vast numbers of people."
Keith Longmore of Birmingham Royal Ballet said 2005-06 would be an " extremely creative and dynamic period" for them. "The continued financial support from Birmingham City Council helps to make all of this work possible," he added.
The Rep's team of executive director Stuart Rogers and artistic director Jonathan Church said: "We welcome the fact that the council clearly understands how important the arts are and we are grateful to them for responding so positively to the success that we have enjoyed over the last few years.
"Their generous support will help us continue to create unique and exciting theatre that Birmingham people of all ages can both enjoy and be proud of."
Repertory Theatre Birmingham


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Lafferty Update
Well, he's still a great writer — and certainly his chances of Heaven are still high — but apparently R.A. Lafferty's chances of canonization are the classic Slim, Fat, and No. Sandra Miesel commented in email:
I knew Lafferty and wrote some critical articles about him which he liked. In fact he wrote a limerick about me and once sat on my lap. He was indeed a VERY Catholic writer, to the degree that it made his work less accessible to his non-Catholic readers. His most religious books being PAST MASTER, FOURTH MANSIONS, and THE FLAME IS GREEN. But unfortunately, the old gentleman was a long-time heavy drinker who died senile. Not a good candidate… I can vouch for his drinking by personal observation. Over at least 11 years of conventions I never saw him remotely sober nor did anyone I know.
Poor guy. But that is pretty indicative. Miesel further commented, on the saint topic:
Check out my article on Tolkien's Universe in the current issue of CRISIS.
Some years ago I was going to write an article for Catholic FAITH & FAMILY on possible future saints but the Legionaries scrubbed it lest they be appearing to tell the Congregation of Saints what to do. Some of my chouices were: Rose Hawthorne, Cornelia Connelly, Caritas Pirkheimer, Anne Dacre, Mary Ward, Mother McCauley, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary's husband Louis.
Yes, you may put the above comments on your blog.
I didn't know Tony Boucher but he was much loved in the SF world.
Some of Lafferty's papers are at the University of Iowa, but there's not much of them. One linear foot is one banker box, folks. The balance of his papers must be the ones at the University of Tulsa.
A Lafferty bibliography, a short summary of his novels and another of his works. A biography in French and German, and a page biographical information. An obituary by Michael Cassutt and the guy at Snarkout, twice. Interesting musings by Michael Swanwick and a fan: scroll down to read them. "A counter-surrealist". I like that. Reviews of Past Master by Bill McClain and The Devil Is Dead by Steve Hooley.
As Snarkout noted, Lafferty's books are in print, from the invaluable Wildside Press. Go forth and buy them.
Who the Heck Is Mother McCauley?
A thorough Googling didn't reveal who the heck Mother McCauley is, except that there's a big old girl's school named that in Chicago. Googling for Bishop Ford of Bishop Ford Hall (used as the old cafeteria at my school) produced a couple pages, including these memories of the man and this sermon inspired by the article. There's also the splendid tribute of a cheat essay one must pay to download, and this other cheat essay, which is at least free. Amusingly, that free cheat essay can also be purchased from the aptly named Cheathouse. No honor among thieves. And yes, I'm sure Bishop Ford was martyred so some lazybones can Google herself a good grade. Fortunately, teachers can Google too.
Another Story about Virginia Kettering
How Virginia Kettering once got robbed of her groceries, and she advised the robber on how to make the food last longer.
Deepest Sleeper in My Family
Still not me. My brothers have both fallen asleep standing up in the shower. My younger brother, though, once answered the phone while asleep, told me he was awake and dressed and was on his way out to the airport, and that I should get off the phone so he could go. Needless to say, he missed that flight.
Worst Apartment Disaster in My Family
Also not me. My older brother's apartment in Alexandria got flooded with snowmelt this week. Lo, I am a piker.
SWAT Team in My Apartment Building Update
Look! It's my building! Somewhat inaccurate story, though. And isn't it creepy how so many news stories prove inaccurate, whenever you know something about the story? That looks like the ambulance there, but it came later in the day. The one outside my window this morning was an orange truck, and shaped very differently.
It was the nutty guy downstairs. He was about to get evicted this week, and that process has just gotten a lot easier. He's always been prone to run around banging doors and yelling (which is why my poor body ignored all that pounding on doors this morning by the police), and he started doing it this morning at 3:30 or so, continuing till 4 or 4:30. I, like most people in the building, turned over and went to sleep as much as his noise allowed. Then the police came and he retreated to his apartment (as he always does). He got relatively quiet; I got to get some real sleep. However, this time when the police stood outside talking to him, he added a new line to his usual ones of "You don't have a warrant!", various obscenities, threats to call a senator, and "I'm not coming out!"). He announced that he had a gun on his hip. He later elaborated this to say that it was a .357 Magnum, that he also had a rifle, that anyone who came through the door was going to the morgue, and that he would then kill himself.
Understandably, the police took the guy's threats seriously; they couldn't afford not to, with him as loopy as he is and on drugs, too. So the SWAT team arrived around 6:30 AM (I'm not sure when he made the gun threat, but it wasn't long after that) and pounded on everybody's doors, including mine. However, I was dead to the world, as you'd expect if you went to bed after midnight and was awakened again at 4 in the morning. I wasn't the only one who slept through it all, either — one woman who lived on his floor managed it, too. The awakened people were shooed off to the office side of the building, out of danger, or allowed to leave and go to work early. Then the SWAT team took over the apartment across the hall from me as a command post, and used the apartment next to mine to practice entries. I remained dead to the world.
I woke up at 7:15, got ready for work as normal, and then dragged myself out, only to see a whole SWAT team entering my next door neighbor's apartment, with him looking on and his dog barking away inside. What's a bit scary is that I managed to stand there gaping for a couple minutes before the SWAT guys even noticed I was there! But then, they knew the place was locked down. We looked at each other with some startlement, one of the officers quietly explained to me what was going on, and I was sent on my way to work down the stair. The guy guarding the stairwell looked out for me to see it was safe for me to pass the nutty guy's floor, and then I went on my way.
The guy finally surrendered about 10 AM. He had no gun, luckily. The building people were afraid he might have gotten himself shot by having a toy gun or something, but he wasn't that nutty. He's being charged with inducing panic. Hopefully he will get some help.
February 25, 2003 · 10:41 am
They're gone and everything's over, according to the local school. What happened I don't know yet; I'm going to have to go home for lunch and find out. Presumably nothing too serious, since you'd think that if anybody got hurt it'd be a crime scene or have lots of people there doing paperwork.
Maybe I'll take a half day to go home and sleep. I am so tired I can't even get scared-in-retrospect.
Best Excuse for Not Blogging This Morning
There's a SWAT team in my apartment building and some poor guy threatening to kill himself or somebody else. Please pray for all of them. You might also pray that none of the trouble strays away from my building, as we're a block away from an elementary school.
Poorest Excuse for Observational Skills
You might also pray for me, since my "Don't Notice Me" field kept them from knocking on my door and warning me the way they did everybody else at four this morning, and my sleepiness just had me thinking we had an unusually belligerent group of drunks roaming around at that hour, especially for a weeknight. And my eyesight's bad enough that when I finally got up, looked out and saw an orange SWAT van, I couldn't read what it said and assumed it was repairmen who actually came to work at seven….
Five People Who Should Be Made Saints
1. J.R.R. Tolkien. You can make his wife and his mom saints, too. And probably his son the priest who just died. A family package!
2. Blessed Vilmos Apor, baron and Bishop of Gyor. Made bishop in 1941, he did his best to defend not only his own flock but all Gyor's people from Nazi laws. When the town was bombed, he went out to succor the wounded. When people were left homeless, he gave them his episcopal palace to live in. When the Soviets invaded in turn, he spoke out for his townspeople once more. And when a bunch of Russian soldiers came to his palace and demanded women, he told them to get out. They gut-shot him, then ran away in fright. The bishop died on Easter Monday, 1945.
3. G.K. Chesterton, of course! Give him a really wide holy card!
4. Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. Because she was a quiet person who nevertheless would not be cowed in following God's will. (And it's Gah-deh-lee Deh-gah-quee-tah.)
5. R.A. Lafferty and "Anthony Boucher" (William White). Saintly science fiction writer and saintly founding editor of the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy/gourmet cook/Opera News reviewer. Again, think of the opportunity for holy card illustrations! Here's Lafferty's haunting story "Land of the Great Horses" and another one best described by its title, "Nine Hundred Grandmothers". Here is a page of obituaries, in which John Clute said, "….his Roman Catholicism governed not only the surface of his work, but its deep structure as well." Anthony Boucher isn't represented as well online, but here's "They Bite".
UPDATE: Yeah, I admit that Lafferty's life and death were iffy. But probably he put in enough time in Purgatory on Earth, towards the end, that he's likely to have made it to Heaven. Boucher's cause might not work and going through his writings would take forever; but researching his life would definitely be fun!
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The True Identity of St. Blog
Those who read St. Blog's Confidential by The Curt Jester may have noticed a post claiming that St. Blog was in reality a St. Blagoje. While I hesitate to argue with Shawn O'Neal, I'm surprised to see that he doesn't realize that St. Blog is an Irishwoman.
St. Blath of Kildare (January 29) was the laysister who cooked for the community of St. Brigid of Kildare. Her name means "flower". It is pronounced "blah". The usual form of this name in Ireland, however, is "Blathnat" or "little flower" (other forms: Blathnet, Blaithnait, Blaithnaid, Blathnaid, Blanaid, Blanid, etc.), and she is called by this name in a tale of St. Brigid collected by Lady Gregory:
The Seven Bishops came to her in a place she had in the north of Kildare, and she asked her cook Blathnet had she any food, and she said she had not. And Brigit was ashamed, being as she was without food before those holy men, and she prayed hard to the Lord. Then angels came and bade her to milk the cows for the third time that day. So she milked them herself, and they filled the pails with the milk, and the whole of Leinster. And the milk overflowed the vessels till it made a lake that is called the Lake of Milk to this day.
The city of Kildare became known as a place of learning (since St. Brigid attracted scholars), poetry and music (since Brigid had many poets and bards as followers), and great craftsmanship (there was a school of metalwork, teaching craftsmen to adorn the books made in the scriptorium). But because of St. Brigid's generosity and St. Blath's cookery, Kildare also had a tradition of "plentiful diversity of banquets". (From the end of the section from a source of 1625).
Anyway, St. Blath's fame, like Brigid's, must have spread across the sea to Wales. The Welsh version (Cymricization?) of Blathnat would be "Blaguryn", blossom. The barbarous English surely cut off the end and simply called her St. Blog. Meanwhile, in Wales, many devout laypeople began following the example of St. Blaguryn. They called themselves "blagur" (the plural form of "blaguryn"). English devotees of course anglicized the term and called themselves "blagurs" or "bloggers". (Her French followers called her "Ste. Blague", of course….)
All parishioners of St. Blog should keep their patroness in mind at all times. I recommend using the ancient form "Blath, Blath, Blath, pray for us."
Meme Warning
I don't want to get killed by Heather Rose Jones for spreading false medieval onomastic information. Sooooo…everything I said about "St. Blaguryn" being celebrated in Wales and so forth is a big fat lie. Although "blagur" is the plural form of "blaguryn". Also, there's apparently an Advent program for kids in Wales called "Blaguryn o Gyff Jesse", which is the Welsh translation of the English title, "A Shoot from the Stem of Jesse". It's not a very literal translation, apparently, since it seems to refer to the second part of that verse of Isaiah: "and from Jesse's root a bud shall blossom". But this may be more misinformation, since I don't speak Welsh and just go by the dictionaries, and I can't find "root" anywhere.
Solas Bhride
Here's a page on Kildare as it was before the English and the Reformation. This next page is a pagan site but it has information about some nuns who've set up a convent in Kildare and are trying to revive some of the old traditions of St. Brigid's foundation. (There's also a nice picture at the top of the page of the foundations of the house where the fire was once kept — on the grounds of the cathedral — which I've never seen before.) This other pagan page has a nice picture of part of the nuns' garden, if you scroll down. Here's a Brigidine page about Solas Bhride, which paradoxically is less informative! It looks like the nuns are trying to draw pagans and New Age folks back to the Church as well as doing more normal stuff. Here's a short report on their activities, and here's a long interview with Sr. Mary Minehan. She seems to be doing a pretty good job of promoting Celtic spirituality without straying into what is not Catholic. I also found a prayer the nuns have been circulating that popped up on several pagan sites! (Sometimes with Catholic stuff hacked out and pagan stuff stuck in, alas. But not always, which is a start.) Those nuns must be working hard. Here's the prayer:
Brigid, you were a woman of peace.
You brought harmony where there was conflict. You brought light into the darkness. You brought hope to the downcast.
May the mantle of your peace cover those who are troubled and anxious,
and may peace be firmly rooted in our hearts and in our world.
Inspire us to act justly and reverence all God has made.
Brigid, you were a voice for the wounded and the weary.
Strengthen what is weak within us. Calm us into a quietness that heals and listens.
May we grow each day into greater wholeness in mind, body and spirit.
Incidentally, here's a history of the Brigidine sisters.
The Other Blathnat
St. Blath/Blathnat the cook should not be confused with Blathnat, the daughter of Midhir and sister of Angus Og. She either helped Cu Chulainn of Ulster and Cu Roi of Munster rob her father's mound, or was carried off against her will. Cu Roi (who was both a great warrior and had magic powers) disliked Cu Chulainn's division of the spoils and ran off with Blathnat, forcing her to become his wife. Cu Chulainn showed up at Caherconree to get revenge; Blathnat helped by tying Cu Roi to his bed by the hair, stealing Cu Roi's sword (the only thing that could kill him), and then signaling Cu Roi's helplessness by pouring milk into a stream, turning it white for a while. Then Cu Roi's bard avenged his master by throwing himself at Blathnat as she stood on the wall of the fortress. They both fell into the river and drowned. (Personally, I'm suspicious. If you were a fairy woman who'd had that much trouble, wouldn't you fake your death, turn into a salmon and swim away?) Here's another version of the story.
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Fire in Rhode Island Nightclub
You can read the story and updates at the local newspaper, The Providence Journal (registration required) or WLNE, Rhode Island (many stories, including phone numbers to call for information about missing loved ones). This is such a terrible thing. My condolences to the families who lost loved ones, and my best wishes for the recovery of those with burns or smoke inhalation. My prayers are with everyone involved today.
I was never a fan of Great White, but…I could have been. Those people going to see an old eighties band were my age, and their grieving parents are my parents' age. *sigh* But I still can't believe people were stupid enough to run a nightclub so far out of code (it burned up in two minutes? I can't get campfires to burn that fast!) or to run fireworks on stage with only yea-much room between them and the ceiling. The guitarist for the band is still missing. What a terrible way to pay for your mistakes…but fire is unforgiving.
I found this prayer on catholic.org, and it seems appropriate. It's by St. Augustine.
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep.
Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ.
Rest Your weary ones.
Bless Your dying ones.
Soothe Your suffering ones.
Pity Your afflicted ones.
Shield Your joyous ones, and all for Your love's sake. Amen.
My First Gray Hair
And my second, too.
I'm not really sad. Just…finding it a bit odd, since I'm only 32 and a half. I knew this album project was worrying me, but I didn't know it was turning my hair white!
Blue Mass
This year was the first time I'd ever heard of the Red Mass for lawyers, judges and politicians. Tonight's news said there was a Blue Mass tonight in Englewood. Apparently the Knights of Columbus sponsor a memorial Mass every year for police, firefighters and emergency personnel who die in the line of duty. So I Googled around. In Newark, they apparently also have a "White Mass" for hospital and medical personnel. I think that's really nice, don't you?
Boy, you learn something every day. Even when you're an old lady like me. 😉
Death of a Great Lady
Yesterday Virginia Kettering passed away, right over the hill from me at Kettering Hospital. It was the end of an era. She was the last steward of the turn-of-the-century Dayton rich, who made their money from inventions and spent it on their community, and taught their children to do the same. When her husband Eugene Kettering died, she became the major heir of "Boss Ket", the man who invented the automobile's self-starter. But she made her own name as a philanthropist, a leader, and an art collector. She was a woman who could have done nothing with her life, but instead made herself into an executive who was both tough and good, and led others to do likewise.
Here she is in life: a gallery of photos of her.
News coverage included "Virginia Kettering dead at 95",
"Dayton lucky to have had Mrs. Kettering", a timeline of her life, elegies, and a list of Kettering family contributions to the area All this is from the Dayton Daily News, which headlined the story of her death on the front page.
I've said she was a great art collector, and I'll say it again. But she wanted other people to see what she collected. When you go to Kettering Memorial Hospital's waiting room, there's a priceless Chinese screen up on the wall behind the seating area. It's covered in glass and has all the thermostat protection you could ask for, but there it is, perfect serenity an inch away from screaming toddlers and worried relatives. She bought enough textiles from different countries that the Dayton Art Institute has to run an endlessly rotating exhibit to get any kind of use out of them all. She bought and gave, bought and gave. That was her way.
Here are a couple of things she gave to the DAI. (You can't search the search engine by donor, so this is what I found quickly.): a Koryo dynasty wine bottle from Korea and a menuki of the Rabbit in the moon.
Here are links to a few of the things she helped fund:The US Air Force Museum, Wright State University, The Dayton Art Institute, Kettering Tower (another picture), Dayton Holiday Festival, SunWatch Indian Village (interpretation center), Victoria Theatre (restoration), Carillon Park, The University of Dayton, and Kettering Memorial Hospital and its sister hospitals.
She will be laid to rest beside her husband in Dayton's Woodlawn Cemetery, where rest the Wright Brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar and many other of Dayton's greatest children. She will have a gravestone there, no doubt.
But if you seek her monument, go to Dayton and look around you.
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The Hazards of Going Out to Eat
Eat at a restaurant, have your credit card information stolen. Bear in mind while reading this story that we don't even have Bloomingdale's or Macy's around here. I think the moral of the story is "Only use your credit card on the Internet".
Don't Say the Star Wars Defense Program Never Gave You Anything
Adaptive optics, created to see through clouds for astronomers and developed in the Star Wars program, will now be used in eye operations to let surgeons see what's up with the retina underneath all the rest of the goo in the eye.
Because It's WRONG!
Glenn Reynolds said this story made him ashamed to be from Tennessee. Heck, this story makes me feel ashamed to be human. And these people dare call themselves Christians?
It's not often that I hope somebody will make a lot of money off a lawsuit. This is an exception.
India Tracy came to expect being sent to the principal's office even
though she was a well-behaved, straight-A student.
But the Union County youngster knew she'd probably be the only
student with "no" written on the permission slip to attend a tent revival
during school hours. When she declined to portray Mary in a
Christmas play, she also was sent to the principal's office.
India and her parents, Greg and Sarajane Tracy, allege other students
taunted her, beat her and ridiculed her religion for years. Fed up with
the treatment, her parents filed a federal lawsuit on her behalf
Thursday.
"And whatever you do to the least of my brothers…."
Justified and Not So Ancient
This has been the kind of day that seems to justify my existence. I started a bit slow — I was still asleep at 7:15 this morning when my boss called to tell me that we weren't supposed to come into work until 10 AM. But sleeping in did me good. I woke up a bit slowly (my apartment's temperature was down to 62 or less), but I finally rolled out. I traversed the nearly-trackless wastes behind my apartment building and the unplowed parking lots. I stood aside to let a truck pass along one of the office complex's lanes, only to see the gentleman getting out at Goodyear. He told me he would've given me a lift if he'd known we were going to the same place! But I went on and further on, only to find a truck stalled (and facing backwards) at the bottom of the hill right before work. So I helped push, as did a black gentleman, and finally we got the guy dug out. That's how we get through winter around here.
We're going through something colder than winter, right now, with more malevolent foes than snow. But working together will get us through that, too.
So I got a lot done at work, came home, and found the apartment temperature was 64 degrees. Now it's up to 67, so I guess those repairmen really did come today. I went to the store on the corner and picked up some milk, orange juice, and tissues. (I didn't have tissues all weekend, and it was driving me crazy. Especially since the store on the corner was closed due to the storm.) I watched Mass on EWTN, which made me feel a bit better. (Wish I'd thought of that yesterday.) I got asked to join a prayer list for a friend (of course I said yes; I was praying for the lady already). I caught up a bit on my website, ate a good dinner, and generally feel pretty good for a Monday. Tomorrow I'll wake up and get to play in the snow some more!
My Single Qualm about Latin Masses
About that EWTN Mass…I did find the sudden discursions into Latin a bit surprising, especially since they weren't just the catchphrases I know. Nothing like trying to translate chanted Latin in your head in real time when you don't know all the vocabulary, even. (Caesar was not talking about the same stuff the Mass does.) Spanish Mass is a lot easier to follow, believe me. But it is still the same Mass, so even if I don't know what they're saying exactly I do know what they should be saying at that point. So I probably shouldn't stress so much about it.
BUT I DO! I WENT THROUGH TWO YEARS OF LATIN AND NINE YEARS OF RELIGION CLASS AND CCD! SO WHY DO ALL THESE OLD PEOPLE KNOW THIS STUFF BY HEART AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S BEING SAID!??!
*pant pant pant*
And why don't they at least run Latin subtitles at the bottom of the screen? I can translate stuff I see a lot faster…. Well, okay, that is a bit visually tacky. But it's not like they make Missals anymore…or at least, I've never seen a new one that had Latin stuff in it.


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Grace Hazard Conkling
MacDowell fellowships: 1925, 1928
Born in New York City, poet and musician Grace Hazard (1878-1958) earned a bachelor's degree at Smith College and taught at the Graham School in New York before moving to Europe to continue her musical studies. In France, she studied the organ with Charles-Marie Widor before illness caused her to return to the United States. In 1905 she married Roscoe Platt Conkling, and the couple moved to a ranch in Mexico. After their separation in 1914, she joined the Smith College faculty, teaching there until her retirement in 1947. During her lifetime, Conkling published numerous collections of poetry, including Afternoons of April (1915), Wilderness Songs (1920), Ships Log and Other Poems (1924), Flying Fish: A Book of Songs and Sonnets (1926), and Witch and Other Poems (1928). In addition to poetry, Conkling also wrote essays, including the monograph Imagination and Children's Reading (1921). She also transcribed her daughter Hilda's early childhood poems, which were published as the collection Poems by a Little Girl (1920).
Smith College awards a poetry residency in her name, and a selection of her papers is housed in the archives of their library.
Grace Hazard Conkling worked in the Star studio.


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What makes sales teams sizzle? Better leaders.
Leadership can be critical in sales, an area where research shows that managers are the no. 1 driver of revenues.
By the billions of dollars, companies work hard to build and polish truly effective sales forces. But it may not be the sales staff's fault if they're not closing enough deals. Blame the managers—or at least the way they were picked.
According to a new report by Korn Ferry Hay Group, in their rush to find leaders to manage their sales forces, too many companies reflexively focus on top sales performers. It may make sense on paper, but it's a fundamental talent error that undercuts salespeople's effectiveness. The qualities that make effective salespeople are not the same as those that make great sales leaders.
Korn Ferry Hay Group research, conducted over decades and involving many different companies and dozens of interviews, has found that: Excellent salespeople are driven by the need for individual achievement. They are personally competitive, enjoy being accountable for their own performance, and they thrive on immediate, and objective feedback.
The best sales leaders, the research shows, are a different breed: They may sell well, but are less competitive. They get greater satisfaction from helping and supporting others, and are motivated by relationship concerns. They like to coach, develop, and manage others.
Certainly, this is no small issue. Korn Ferry Hay Group found that the climate a sales manager produces is the No. 1 driver of sales revenue—even more important than the competency of individual salespeople. And decades of decades of research the company shows that the right climate can increase bottom-line sales performance by up to 30%.
"Leadership absolutely matters for sales teams," said Signe Spencer, a senior consultant with the firm who has researched and published extensively on the topic. "Companies can't keep making the same mistake in promoting their top performing salespeople and expecting them to build great teams and drive results."
According to Korn Ferry Hay Group, companies can find their prospective sales leaders by studying their salesforce, and learning which salespeople already are respected for helping colleagues, building teams, and undertaking outside roles as coaches of kids' sports teams or part-time college teachers.
While top salespeople relish hitting their numbers and reaping the rewards of doing so, talented sales leaders face different challenges. That includes creating an environment that inspires individual performance, teamwork, and mutual support, as well as assisting in developing selling skills, and fostering cooperation and support among group members. They also need to design compensation that drives their team members, especially their high performers.
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Hindu country, secular Constitution
April 22, 2016 20:54 IST
Why not agree that, yes, India is a Hindu country though not all Indians are Hindus?
And that for those who are not, our Constitution is sturdily secular and always will be, says Karti Sandilya.
Is India a Hindu nation?
In most other countries, a question of this nature would be straightforward enough. If some 85 per cent of the population of a country is classified as Hindu, then surely it would be a Hindu country.
Yet, in India, things are never so simple. Here, the question elicits impassioned (violent?) -- and diametrically opposite -- responses.
For many in the Westernised elite, the question itself is an affront to their vision of a tolerant and secular country, home to many faiths and hospitable to many more.
For many Indians, however, their country is the cradle of Hindu civilisation and culture and all who call it home are heirs to this heritage, whatever be their religious beliefs.
This clash of opposing views of India is not recent; it has bedevilled political discourse ever since the country became independent. This was, perhaps, to be expected in the aftermath of a bloody partition, predicated on the conviction of many -- though not all -- Muslims that they could not co-exist with Hindus in one country. Since 1947, then, India has been wrestling with this existential issue.
In the first few decades, the dominant ideology favoured the view that India was essentially a secular country, with little thought given to the absurdity of such a proposition. (If you doubt that last statement, name me another country that perceives itself thus).
But the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party, on the back of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, from two seats in the Lok Sabha in 1984 to leadership of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, put paid to that pretence (for that is all it ever was). Now that the BJP is once again the party of government, the question was bound to be debated afresh.
It has not taken long for the controversy to be revived. Within months of the 2014 Lok Sabha election, elements of the Sangh Parivar made statements to the effect that all Indians are Hindus. Predictably, this drew horrified rejoinders from newspaper columnists and op-ed writers, who -- disingenuously or otherwise -- take such statements literally.
Since then, debate has engaged the lunatic fringe at one extreme of the political spectrum and the liberal chattering classes at the other. Each sees one part of the picture, yet misses the whole. For surely, the reality is clear enough: India is not a secular country; it is, instead, a Hindu country with a secular Constitution.
Each of its citizens is free to practise his or her faith (or non-belief), yet each is also heir to the predominantly Hindu culture and ethos of this land. Its distinguishing feature is syncretism, the open-minded belief that no opposing school of thought is entirely without merit. Better, therefore, to identify the kernel of truth in a rival belief system than to reject it altogether.
Hindu culture, thus, borrowed from all the invaders who came to the subcontinent and stayed (or left). Yet who can doubt that its bedrock remains quintessentially Hindu? And that all Indians -- be they Hindu or not -- bear the stamp (or should) of this uniquely tolerant outlook and way of life.
India's secular Constitution -- itself a manifestation of its Hindu character -- ensures, nay guarantees, that every citizen can profess whatever faith or non-faith he or she chooses. The government shall have no interest in a citizen's religious choices nor shall it seek to promote any religion.
But that does not mean that we should be shy of acknowledging that India is a Hindu country, in the sense described here. Indeed, we should affirm this without restraint, since the culture of a country can be quite distinct from its majority religion.
Just take a look at Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country that has a statue of Krishna and Arjuna in an important square in Jakarta and which recently installed a statue of Saraswati in front of its embassy in Washington, DC.
When the world's largest Muslim-majority country can do this as the most natural thing in the world, yet the world's largest Hindu one cannot, there is surely something fundamentally wrong.
Or, nearer home, consider Bangladesh, whose national anthem was composed by Rabindranath Tagore and is proud of its Bengali culture. (In passing, I recall that when I lived in Argentina, Indians were -- and may be still are -- called Hindues, not Indios. The latter word referred to the original inhabitants of South America, most of whom did not survive the coming of the Europeans.)
So, it's past time to lower the political temperature on this needlessly emotive question of Indian identity. Why not agree that, yes, India is a Hindu country though not all Indians are Hindus? And that for those who are not, our Constitution is sturdily secular and always will be.
With that out of the way, can we concentrate on the very real task of enabling all Indians to aspire to decent lives?
IMAGE: The evening arti on the banks of the Ganga. Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters
Karti Sandilya is a former Indian Foreign Service officer.
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It's that time of year that you start considering colleges to attend. What better way to start than with a visit to a college table at a fair! Check out the lists below of college fairs throughout the nation. This will most likely be one of two installments I post to my blog regarding college fairs listed. As a college recruiter, I tend to conduct extensive research on all college fairs available. So, here I am providing them to you!
The National Association for College Admissions and Counseling (NACAC) publishes a list of college fairs throughout the nation, including a list of college fairs specifically for performing and visual arts interested students. Stay tuned as I search for more college fairs. but if you know of a college fair in your area, send me a message so I can post it!
There are so many college fairs that occur in the fall season. The prime time for seniors to talk to different colleges, and apply.
Take note to visiting guidance offices, public libraries, local websites, high school libraries/career centers/student services centers, etc to search for upcoming college fairs. Most of the time these fairs are held by community, or county depending on the area. If it's a big city, you might find several college fairs, or an area that has a large public school system. They might have individual high schools or community colleges sponsoring college fairs. It's not like you have to attend a college fair, but it does give you a chance to talk with several different colleges and make some pretty good choices based on those visits.
Again, if you know of any national, statewide or local college fairs, let me know and I'll be sure to post it. I love to share!


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Wirral Hospitals School pupils are preparing for Enterprise week 2015. The event will run from Monday 9th November to Friday 13th November. The event will take place every morning, with student attending their regular lesson in the afternoon.
Enterprise week will be a chance for students to develop a range of skills such as leadership, communication, financial literacy and problem solving.
The week will also include a charity element with students raising money for 'Children in Need'. All groups will be challenged to "Fundraise for a Fiver" with profits going to 'Children in Need'.
The enterprise activities will be delivered by a combination of school staff and outside visitors from local business, colleges and universities. A timetable of activities is available to download at the bottom of this page.
Parents/Carers are invited to celebrate the week and visit the students "Market Place" on Friday 13th November from 1.40pm in the school hall. This will be a chance for students to show how they went about "Fundraising for a Fiver" and give them the opportunity to sell any products they have created.


CCG Stormbound is now available on Steam and Kongregate, and in it, players are pitted against each other in tactical battles. Using positional tactics and deck strategies, play powerful units on the board to progress towards the enemy base and seize victory! With four kingdoms and more than a hundred cards with unique abilities, there's so many decisions and ways to play to turn the tide of war. With the recently added Dragons and Friend Matches, the world of Stormbound keeps expanding. This new release brings the deep strategy game to PC, both as a Steam download and right from your browser on Kongregate.com. You can now play anywhere – at your desk, on the road, on your couch – with the same account and against people on any platform.


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Black Femininity through the Dance of Dara Meredith
Delaware Art Museum announces new performance The Bridge of Our Roots by choreographer Dara Meredith.
WHAT: Premiere Dance Performance, The Bridge of Our Roots
WHO: Dara Meredith, Dancer in Residence at Delaware Art Museum
WHERE: On-site and Virtual Event
WHEN: Thursday, July 1 at 8 pm
On Thursday, July 1 at 8 pm, Dara Meredith's virtual dance residency at the Delaware Art Museum will culminate with the premiere of The Bridge of Our Roots. The commissioned dance is inspired by the painting Southern Souvenir No. II created by African American modern artist Eldzier Cortor in 1948. Cortor's painting depicts the disembodied figures of Black women, torn apart physically and stripped of their identities. Meredith's dance residency has focused on Cortor's artwork, on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation and on display at the Delaware Art Museum through July.
"The work will delve into the idea that Black bodies, and Black women specifically, have been ostracized, dismantled, separated, and abused; all the while being the backbone and the foundation of continuity for American culture," said Meredith, describing the dance. "The work showcases the complexity of what Black women in the south have experienced while having to hold the nation on its breast so that it may live and live on."
The pre-recorded performance will be filmed in Fusco Hall at night with the painting in the background while six dancers, including Meredith, distill the themes and emotional energy of Cortor's artwork into choreography.
"They will show in movement what you see and feel through the piece," said Jonathan Whitney of Flux Creative Consulting, which is producing the event. "Meredith's performance speaks to the experiences of people of color, especially in the wake of police shootings of unarmed Black women. So it only makes sense to elevate this Black female choreographer to respond to artwork that is about Black female bodies."
Tickets are now available for the dance premiere, which can be viewed on-site or virtually. A limited number of tickets are available to view the pre-recorded 50-minute performance on-site at the Museum with Dara Meredith, at 8 p.m. on July 1. On-site ticketholders will have access to a special gallery talk in front of Southern Souvenir No. II beforehand, and a live discussion with the choreographer following the performance premiere. Alternatively, virtual tickets may be purchased for watching at home via an exclusive link. All ticketholders will have unlimited virtual access to the recorded performance through July 10.
Prior to the performance, Meredith will host an outdoor dance workshop on Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 2 pm in the Museum's Copeland Sculpture Garden.Meredith will teach an excerpt of the commissioned dance she is creating for the Museum. All levels welcome; dancers will wear masks and maintain social distancing.
Sponsors: Support provided by Art Bridges. This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.
About the Delaware Art Museum
For over 100 years, the Museum has served as a primary arts and cultural institution in Delaware. It is alive with experiences, discoveries, and activities to connect people with art and with each other. Originally created in 1912 to honor the renowned illustrator and Wilmington-native, Howard Pyle, the Museum's collection has grown to over 12,000 works of art in our building and sculpture garden. Also recognized for British Pre-Raphaelite art, the Museum is home to the most comprehensive Pre-Raphaelite collection on display outside of the United Kingdom, and a growing collection of significant contemporary art.
Under the leadership of our Board of Trustees, the Delaware Art Museum is implementing a comprehensive approach to community and civic engagement. This exciting new strategic direction requires that we increase our value and relevance to all audiences. Visit delart.org to for the latest exhibitions, programs, and performances or connect with us via social media.


The crossing of the Kattegat Strait went really smoothly. On board M/s Stena Danica, I arrived in Goteborg, Sweden at 17:30 hrs. New country = new money, so first task before leaving town was finding an atm to collect some of it.
Whilst cycling through and out of town, I got a real positive impression of the city. A lot of green, many nice historical buildings and the people seemed very relaxed.
Last km's in Denmark, looking out over the Kattegat.
Sweden has a few National Cycling Routes, known as 'Sverigeleden'. I followed nbr 28 out of Göteborg which was terrific. My first 30 km or so were on an old railway line. I camped my first night out in a field 35 km north of the city.
The 2nd day I found a really nice camping spot along Göta Älv, a river/canal connecting Swedens' biggest lake with the sea. From my tent side, I even saw some small coasters working their way up.
I arrived in Vänersborg, at the bottom of Lake Vänern completely wet and frozen. I tried warming up a bit in the train station, but that was a cold place so after I did my shopping, I lingered a bit near the entrance of the supermarket, wait for better weather.
That's where Nisse & Annette picked me up and invited me for a nice dinner at their home, not far away. It turned out that was exactly what I needed at that moment so with a few hours delay, but much better spirits I left the town in the afternoon. Thanks a lot !
So, Sweden has 2 big lakes in the South, lake Vänern & lake Vättern.
I wanted to cycle north going up between the Norwegian border and Lake Vänern (the western one of the two). To give you an idea of the size of this lake; it's 5.648 km2, exactly twice the size of the province of Antwerp.
The Sverigeleden cycle route seemed to go via a bit too busy roads for my liking here, so I went a bit further west, following some gravel roads. Steep (12 upto 14%) gradients, but much nicer scenery.
Some people call this the boring Swedish landscape. I love it.
Since the second day after leaving home, I am suffering from deep cracks in my thumb, index- and middle finger. A painfull problem I always have when starting a tour, especially when the weather isn't too good. On top of that, I got a deep cut in the palm of my right hand from one of these sharp Hilleberg tent pegs. Looks like the hand of Christ after crucifying. Not ideal, cause you're leaning on that the whole time during cycling.
After Viborg and Fredrikshavn in Denmark, also the 2 outdoor stores I visited in Karlstad (at the top of Lake Vänern) did not have the spare part I needed for my camping stove (problem at the connection between stove & fuel bottle). But it still works.
From Karlstad, you can again follow for 90 km another old paved railway track to Hagfors along Swedens longest river, Klaralven. After Hagfors, there's another section of 120 km over paved and gravel roads along the same river.
I passed the 60th parrallel near Hagfors, which is apparently the same latitude as St. Petersburg, or the southern tip of Greenland or Seward (Alaska).
Days are becoming quiet long already here mid May. The sun sets around 22:00 hrs (but it doesn't get really dark until long after that) and rises again just after 4 am.
Kläralvsleden, a network of mostly gravel roads along Sweden's longest river.
Keep up the good work m8, looking great there.
Juist 6 dagen regen op m'n dak gekregen.
Hoi Koen, ik heb eerst deel 2 gelezen en nu deel 1, de regen is opgehouden en je bent nog verder in de schoonheid van de natuur. Jij kiest echt wel de mooie paden uit. Prachtig zeg! Doe je dat met GPS?
Fijn dat mensen je uitgenodigd hebben. Alsof ze zien dat je dat nodig hadden. Hoe gaat het met je hand en vingers?
Goed… ik hoop ook over zoveel mogelijk gravelroads te gaan straks. Aftellen is begonnen!
De weggetjes zelf zoek ik met behulp van een kaart. Daar krijg je toch een duidelijker beeld dan via het schermpje op je gps, of via 'Basecamp' op je computer.
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Chinese-Brazilian Earth observation satellite launched
An Earth-watching satellite developed by China and Brazil lifted off on a Long March 4B rocket Saturday, replacing an environmental craft lost in a launch mishap last year.
Super Typhoon Hagupit
Super Typhoon Hagupit is pictured in this satellite image from EUMETSAT, acquired on 04 December 2014 as the storm approached the Philippines.
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Sentinel-3 fully formed
For more than 18 months, engineers have been carefully piecing together the many components that make up ESA's Sentinel-3A satellite. Now hosting an array of instruments to provide a wealth of information about Earth's oceans and land, the satellite is complete, standing proud for testing.
NASA analyses Super Typhoon Hagupit's rains and wind on Philippine approach
NASA/JAXA's TRMM satellite and the RapidScat instrument provided rainfall and wind data of Super Typhoon Hagupit on approach to the Philippines, while NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of the storm. In the Philippines, Hagupit is known locally as "Typhoon Ruby."
Could microsatellites be the future of civil Earth observations?
Over the last two years, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy has made gathering visible and invisible information about the Earth a priority. Now, the office is looking for a way to capture that data from the sky for less.
Airbus sells in-orbit SPOT 7 imaging satellite to Azerbaijan
Airbus Defence and Space has agreed to sell its SPOT 7 medium-resolution optical Earth observation satellite, which just finished in-orbit checkout, to Azerbaijan's Azercosmos space agency as part of a long-term partnership in commercial remote sensing, Airbus and Azercosmos announced 2 December.
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Rex Ryan Proves he Still Doesn't Get it Ahead of Jets vs. Bills Showdown
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Rex Ryan was fired ahead of the 2014 season by the Jets, an brings his Bills into the Meadownlands this week.
When Rex Ryan arrived in New York in 2009, he was seemingly, exactly what the organization needed.
When he proclaimed that he "wasn't here to kiss [Bill Belichick's] rings" , he ushered in a new era of Jets football that wasn't playing second fiddle to New England, and little brother to the Giants.
The team even played its home games in Giants Stadium, a constant reminder of who was the premier team in New York.
But Ryan didn't accept that fate and his teams found initial success with a pair of AFC Championship Game appearances.
However, as the losses piled up in subsequent seasons, his Jets consistently found themselves not only second fiddle to the Patriots and little brother to the Giants, but the laughingstock of the league.
Unfairly? Of course.
There were worse teams, there were immature players on other teams, there were embarrassing losses, but the target was on the backs of the 53 members of the New York Jets.
Because Rex Ryan placed the target on their backs.
Even though Ryan attempted to deflect pressure from his players, all the bravado, the flair, the showmanship, made every Jets' story national news, and motivated other teams take their best shot at New York.
And with Rex's latest decision to make IK Enemkpali, the man who sucker punched Geno Smith in training camp, one of Buffalo's team captain ahead of his Bills' massive division game showdown with the Jets on Thursday; he placed the target squarely on his team again. But this time, it is the Buffalo Bills bearing the pressure.
Any chance the Jets would overlook this game, or come out as flat as they did against Oakland 2 weeks ago is now pretty much out the window.
Don't be surprised to hear players on New York talking about a "little extra motivation" postgame should the Jets take down the Bills on Thursday.
Jayson is a Staff Writer for DoubleGSports.com
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