Easter is More than a Holiday!
This past Sunday was Resurrection Sunday, known to many as Easter Sunday. For one Sunday a year, people come out of the woodwork for church. I do not know of one church on Easter Sunday whose attendance is down. All churches seem to have great attendance on that special day. But, have you ever stopped to ask why?
As a pastor, I am always amazed at this phenomenon. In fact, we often see the same kind of attendance right around Christmas. We often say that in the church, there are "CEOs": Christmas and Easter Only attendees. But again, why? Why do people feel compelled to come to church more on those two times of the year than any others? As I have reflected on that, here are three reasons I have observed.
First, many see church as the social thing to do. For these, church is simply a social component in their life. They look at the church like they do being a part of other social clubs, and they attend at times when they feel it is more socially acceptable and popular. To attend on Christmas and Easter is simply the social thing to do, so they feel compelled to be in church on those days.
Second, many see church as the parental thing to do. For these, they show up because they feel their kids or grandkids need it. If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times, "We come because my kids need to be here." For so many, having their families in church on Christmas and Easter is driven by a compulsion to make sure their kids have some good old fashioned religion in them.
Finally, many see church as the religious thing to do. For these, church is just another box in their life, and as long as they check the box once or twice a year, they feel they are good to go. Many see going to church like they do their annual physical with their doctor, or an annual tune up for their car. They just want to come in, get out, and carry on with their lives.
However, all of these reasons, and I'm sure many others like them, are not why people should attend church. While I'm thankful for the many who attend on Christmas and Easter only, I also grieve for them, because they are missing out on so much more. Church was never designed to be a purely social, parental, or religious practice.
What was church designed to be then? According to the Bible, the church is not a building, it is a people. The Greek word for church is ekklesia, which means "the called out ones of God." In other words, the church are the people who have entered a saving relationship with Jesus Christ and gather together to worship, serve, minister, fellowship, pray, grow, and evangelize. According to the Bible, church is not a box you check, it is a way of life.
True Christians do not attend church because it is the social, parental, or religious thing to do. They attend, and attend regularly, because the church is their family and they need one another in this life. Think of it like this, the church is simply an extension of our personal relationship with God. God saves us individually, but unites us collectively. The church is a beautiful thing, because it reflects those Jesus has purchased with His blood and how He has brought us together.
Easter Sunday has come and gone, but Jesus is still alive. Until Jesus returns again, FBC Newcastle will be celebrating His Resurrection every Sunday. If you don't have a regular church you attend, come and worship each week with us. Why? Because Easter is more than a holiday.
There is HOPE because JESUS is ALIVE!
Tomorrow, April 13, my son and hero, Trey Robert Freeman, would have been 11 years old. As many of you know, he went to be with the Lord on September 1, 2013 as a seven-year old. Trey has impacted my life in ways I will never be able to fully express.
To me, Trey will always be a little boy. I will always remember him as a five or six-year old. It is strange thinking that he would be eleven this week. I can't imagine what it will feel like when his birthday rolls around and he would have been twenty, or forty, or beyond that. I, of course, hope the Lord returns before then, so we can all be together again, but until then, we remember, we grieve, and we celebrate.
When Trey passed away, a pastor friend said something very helpful to me. He said, "Jeremy, it's okay to grieve, Christians just grieve differently." That was an encouragement to me. I think sometimes Christians feel they shouldn't grieve. Some think if they grieve they are not showing faith. That could not be further from the truth. Christians grieve, but they just grieve differently.
The Bible says that Christians grieve with hope, and because of who Jesus is and what He has done, there is great hope. Romans 5:3-4 says this, "Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Hope is a wonderful gift and I am thankful that, because of Jesus Christ, there is joy in my tears and comfort in my despair. While the grief is deep, our hope is deeper and greater still.
This week, as my family remembers Trey, and thinks about his life, his impact, and all the precious memories we hold in our hearts, we grieve, but we also celebrate. I cannot wait to see him again and rejoice together in the presence of God. Yes, we would have had a birthday for Trey this week, and that would have been a fun celebration, but it pales in comparison to the eternal celebration we will enjoy one day. That is something I can hardly wait to experience. Because of Jesus, death has been swallowed up in victory, and one day, all we will know is victory, for there will be no such thing as loss.
As we approach Easter Sunday, there is hope because Jesus is alive. We do not have to fear anything because He has conquered sin, death, and hell. Every pain and sin we have, He took on Himself when He died on the Cross, but He showed His power over all things when He rose again. If you do not have a place to worship, I would like to invite you to our Good Friday service on April 14 at 7pm, and one of our three identical Easter Sunday morning worship services at 8, 9:30, or 11:00am. We hope to see you at First Baptist Church in Newcastle. Come celebrate the power of the Resurrection with us!


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Q: Interpolating point attributes I'm trying to fix broken sections in navigation data in QGIS. I have a model that cuts out broken sections of a point layer and inserts new points according to a line layer that I added earlier. The attached image shows how it looks like.
These new points have yet no attributes. Important are the attributes "_uid_" and "time". I need a consistent layer with consecutive points. My idea was to merge these point layers and then numerate through these fields ordering by x and/or y. I'm not sure however how the expression would look like as I'm still just diving into the world of expressions. For now I create an attribute which sorts the merged layer by $x, however I assume it will create problems when processing a line which runs in an opposite direction:
array_find(
array_agg($id,
order_by:=$x),
$id)
+1
The direction of movement changes from line to line, so I'm not sure how I can implement that in the expression. The information is scarse and very fragmented with bits to be found from different youtube videos or documentations. But its all only mildly related topics.
Or is there a better way available?
Further what remains unclear to me is how do I deal with the "time" attribute as it seems to be not quite easy to iterate through time. I tried following approach:
array_find(
array_agg(( array_min("time") + make_interval(seconds=0.5)),
order_by:="sort"),
$id)
+1
which, in my imagination would find the least time in the layer and then walk down the sorted attribute, adding 0.5 seconds (recording interval) to each next step.
That expression seems invalid though and I cannot make it work.

A: Having a layer points1 with attributes (white dots on the screenshot below) and points2 without attribute (red dots), use Merge vector layers, resulting in the layer allpoints containg all points - those with and those without attributes.
The task is now to create an attribute that represents the sequence of the points along a line.

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*Run Explode lines to create single lines from each segement of the initial line, resulting in the layer exploded.

*On the layer allpoints, create a new attribute sequence with this expression:
array_find ( array_sort( array_agg ( sequence)), sequence)

Now you can order the points using this attribute and use this order-sequence for the interpolation of your time- and uid-attributes.
Screenshot: original sequence of the two points layers, labeled in white and red at the under the line; new sequence created as described, labeled in red above the line:

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Hearing explores doc-payment innovations
Jessica Zigmond
Herger
As congressional leaders remain stalled on how to develop a permanent fix to the Medicare physician payment formula, other lawmakers learned about potential private-sector solutions from payers and physicians.
Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee that held the Feb. 7 hearing to examine rewarding physicians who deliver high-quality, efficient care, said he was "very encouraged" by what he heard from the panel's five witnesses, of whom four are physicians.
"We heard dramatic reductions in healthcare costs through the different policies that are being done in different areas," Herger told Modern Healthcare, adding that those models "should be encouraged—not only on the SGR fix, but just in healthcare in general."
One such testimony came from Dr. David Share, vice president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan's Value Partnerships, a group of clinical initiatives among physicians, hospitals and the Michigan Blues. Share's written testimony highlighted a host of initiatives under the Physician Group Incentive Program, which the Michigan Blues established in 2005 to change the healthcare system in partnership with physician organizations across the state. The initiatives focus on multiple performance measures that are developed with provider partners, such as emergency department use rates for primary-care sensitive conditions and high-technology and low-technology imaging rates.
"What I hope is the subcommittee recognizes there is an incredible amount of untapped potential in local and regional areas around the country responding to very unique circumstances—it's not as if the provider system is uniform and homogenous across the country," Share said after the hearing. "And that by the government collaborating actively and partnering with those local efforts, there is a tremendous potential to achieve to change both in the system of healthcare and in the outcomes in terms of cost and quality," he added.
Other panelists included Dr. Jack Lewin, the CEO of the American College of Cardiology, who talked about the important role of clinical registries, and Dr. Lewis Sandy, senior vice president for clinical advancement at UnitedHealth Group, who talked about the UnitedHealth's Premium Designation Program that evaluates physician performance on quality and efficiency across 21 different areas, including primary care and specialties.

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Orchestra (Score only) Solo Voice, Chorus (SATB)
Composer : VALTA, Jan
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ATTENTION: The synthesized mp3 is provided to give an approximate impression of the title which is not yet available on CD.
Kingdom Come-Deliverance is a video game whose story is set in Bohemia in the year 1403. You play the game as Henry, the son of a blacksmith who has lost everything: his parents, his home and his honour. Throughout the adventurous story, you seek revenge, but you also try to find your place in this intricate world.
This game was developed by Warhorse Studios, founded by Daniel Vávra and Martin Klíma, legendary Czech game developers. In 2014, Daniel invited me to his team as the main composer. It was a long and exciting journey not only for Henry, but for all of us. But at the end, there was a game which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide up till now.
The game soundtrack consists of more than 6 hours of music. I am very happy to present my selection of the most important extracts. I believe it will bring back great memories to those who played the game, and I hope it will also please those who haven't.
Jan Valta
For more information about Kingdom Come: Deliverance go to www.kingdomcomerpg.com
Concert Overture
Composer: Jan Valta
Performed by: Filmova filharmonie (Filmharmonie)
Conductor: Chuhei Iwasaki
27. 1. 2019 Rudolfinum - Prague, Czech Republic
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Many people who had visited the Shenley exhibition earlier in the day said that the Parish Council meeting was much more informative. The meeting clearly opposed the HGV and the site with its 6,000 homes, displayed within a map taken from developer proposals including an employment hub at the Bell roundabout.
The meeting was put in context by Council Chairman Malcolm MacMillan, who explained that the statutory consultation would not take place until next autumn: a decision was likely to be agreed in 2021, if the site remained as a proposal.
Mary Maynard, St Albans Cabinet member for planning, said that St Albans council would express concerns about the use of green belt without meriting special circumstances. Lack of infrastructure would also be a firm objection as the M25 was not intended for local journeys. Cllr Maynard said that due to pressure from the Parish Council and SADC, a Hertsmere leaflet on the current phase was distributed in the village.
Many comments were made by residents about existing infrastructure being unable to cope with existing demands: this was addressed by Cllr Katherine Gardiner who said 'any development that take places in future must have infrastructure issues addressed at the start and built into an approved scheme, rather than at its conclusion' She stressed her opposition to HGV.


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Gregory retires from city after 21 years of overseeing city progress
Jill Dion
Community and Economic Development Director Robert Gregory oversaw an era of change in Milford.
His office was involved in one way or another in helping to turn an old sewage plant into a city marina, transforming blighted areas into now prospering, attractive parts of the city, and creating new developments, like Lowes, where Milford Jai-Alai once stood.
Gregory, the man who coined the phrase, "Milford, a small city with a big heart," which is now the city's motto, retired last week after 21 years in the Milford office.
Before taking the city job, Gregory was director of the Milford Chamber of Commerce for 19 years. That's how he had the business connections and the knowledge of Milford's economic picture that made him right for the community and economic development job when it became open.
When he stepped into the post, he discovered a part of the job that really inspired him, and that was grant writing. Gregory got a crash course in helping city residents by securing government grants, because a month after he took the job, Storm Beth hit, and he was called on to start helping the city and its residents repair from storm damage.
"The storm hit on a Friday, and Mayor Fred [Lisman} called me on a Sunday and said, 'You want to go for a little drive'?"
He, the mayor and several other officials hopped in a four-wheel drive and drove through the Point Beach area and other parts of the city hardest hit. After that drive, he got involved in a government-funded house elevation program at Point Beach.
Ironically, storms bookended his career with the city. His last piece of work, before packing up his office last week, was to process a thick government application document for a homeowner seeking to elevate a home after Tropical Storm Irene and Hurricane Sandy. Those storms were much more devastating than Beth, he noted.
Gregory's job was multi-faceted. He worked with residents facilitating these and other grants. He helped steer community block grants to parts of the city that needed repair. He also served as a liaison between the city and business owners and developers when big development questions and issues arose.
Gregory credits former Speaker of the House James Amann and former State Sen. Win Smith with securing funds over the years that paid for a lot of improvements, from the boardwalk that runs from Walnut Beach to Silver Sands, to various Devon and Walnut Beach streetscape improvements. But his office played its part, primarily in terms of fund applications and communication with government agencies.
His office also handled the processing, communicating and paperwork that landed the city funds to turn an old sewage treatment plant downtown into what is now the Head of the Harbor and the Lisman Landing marina.
He was in the mix when Kingdom Life Christian Church wanted to buy land on Old Gate Lane and use it for a church. The city balked at the idea because the huge tract of land would have come off the tax rolls. So the city bought the old jai-alai property and found a developer to construct the Lowes development that is there today.
"A variety of ideas came in, including putting a train station there, and most of them involved some type of housing," Gregory said. "But Mayor Jim [Richetelli] didn't want housing."
The city settled on Ceruzzi Properties, a development firm it had worked with successfully to transform the Ryder Mobile Park and then move the Ryder residents to a new site. Milford Probate Judge Beverly Streit-Kefalas and attorney Charles Needle were the primary movers and shakers involved in arranging a solution for the Ryder residents, Gregory said, but his office was involved "in tangential ways."
"Usually my job is like a marriage broker," Gregory said, "a matchmaker because I try to get businesses and match them with the property we have."
Over the years, the business landscape has changed as much as parts of the city. Instead of IBM and BIC dominating the business community, there are smaller companies that moved in to take their place. Subway has grown dramatically, and Smith Craft Builders, once the biggest name downtown creating housing and the Schooner Wharf Development, has broken up and sold most of its holdings.
But Smith Craft left its mark, Gregory said, pointing out that the 1992 Plan of Conservation and Development called for more housing downtown, and Smith Craft ushered that in. "And it's upscale, attractive housing," Gregory said.
Gregory said his brother is a traditionalist, and the two sometimes talk about preservation versus redevelopment. The two have different ideas, he said.
But while Gregory has helped usher in change in Milford, he said he's also been involved in seeking open space grants to help keep Milford's undeveloped land as it is.
Leaving all this is a little scary, Gregory admitted. He expects he will continue to be involved in some Milford projects as a volunteer, and may even pick up part time work. He's also looking forward to gardening, birding and going to the theater with his wife, Elinor, who retired several years ago from her job as an administrative assistant in the mayor's office.
Friends and co-workers celebrated Gregory's retirement last week at the Parsons Complex, and Mayor Ben Blake issued a proclamation in his honor. A replacement has not yet been hired, but the application period closed last week.
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Jill Dion is a 1987 graduate of Quinnipiac College, where she earned a degree in mass communications. She has written for several newspapers in New Haven and Fairfield counties since 1989, and has been covering the city of Milford since 1995. She has four children, three grandchildren and occasionally plays the saxophone.


The Fund for Public Health in New York, Inc. (FPHNY) on behalf of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and in partnership with the City of New York Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks), is seeking proposals from community-based organizations for Art in the Parks: Active Open Space, an initiative to activate neighborhood parks with health-inspired public art projects.
FPHNY anticipates awarding contracts of up to $15,000 to up to 7 community-based organizations to support a community engagement and artist selection process that culminates with the installation of works in up to 7 designated parks in Queens, the Bronx, East Harlem and Central Brooklyn. These parks are located in neighborhoods confronting significant public health challenges and are in greatest need of community venues that support physical activity. Some evidence suggests that exposure to green space may increase physical activity levels and positively affect a range of health outcomes, including blood pressure and depression. Researchers have also found that green space may moderate the effects of income inequality on disparities in mortality—in other words, high exposure to green space may help offset some of increased risk of death that is observed among low-income populations. Building on this and other active design strategies, this initiative will employ public art as way to create a walkable destination within a park and enhance the health benefits of neighborhood parks.
Contracts will be awarded to community based organizations to fund the design and installation of public art in designated NYC Parks locations. This Request for Proposals (RFP) is not asking for submissions of public art, but rather for proposals describing the processes for artist selection, community engagement and artwork development and installation. Funding for these projects will be disbursed by FPHNY to eligible organizations based on their response to this RFP. The number of awards made is dependent on the availability of funding. The funding for this award is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


In a rather unexpected move, Dutch bank ABN Amro is tackling the mobile payment space from a different angle. The financial institution will make use of WhatsApp to let users request payments. Doing so will provide a link between WhatsApp contact lists and customer mobile payments app.
Most financial institutions would rely on their own standard mobile banking app to let customers send and receive money. But ABN Amro is wired differently, albeit they have launched their new mobile app called Tikkie. What this particular solution does is allow users to select a WhatsApp contact to make a payment request.
To ensure this service can be received by non-ABN Amro customers,, the payment link will redirect to iDEAL. This is a popular form of payment in The Netherlands, as also comes in the form of a mobile application. All of the funds transferred through this payment request will be credited to the Tikkie user's bank account.
Considering how WhatsApp is quickly becoming one of the most popular social messaging platform sin the world, it makes a lot of sense for ABN Amro to hook into their API. Moreover, customers often go out shopping or have fun with friends and family, most of whom will be using WhatsApp as well. Requesting payments for split bills or other reasons becomes a lot more convenient this way.
Additionally, using this method will make it easier for ABN Amro customers to ensure they get repaid with relative ease. In the real world, it can be challenging to ask people to repay you. Since every aspect of finance is being digitized, Tikkie is an interesting solution that combines the best of both worlds. Plus, WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption, creating a secure environment to boot.
ABN Amro will continue to focus on financial services through instant messaging services. Whether that means they will focus on Telegram in the future, remains to be seen. For the time being, Telegram users can enjoy some of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency chatbots at their disposal to send money around the world with no friction.


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A recent bid protest decision by the U.S. Government Accountability Office ("GAO") is a reminder to government procurement officials and would-be government contractors of the importance of using the correct standards to identify and mitigate potential organizational conflicts of interests.
The Federal Acquisition Regulation ("FAR") requires contracting officers to avoid, neutralize, or mitigate potential significant conflicts of interest to prevent an unfair competitive advantage or the existence of conflicting roles that might impair a contractor's objectivity. The identification of conflicts of interest is a fact-specific inquiry that requires the exercise of considerable discretion. In considering whether there is an actual or potential OCI, the FAR advises contracting officers to examine the particular facts of the contracting situation and the nature of the proposed contract, and to exercise common sense, good judgment, and sound discretion in deciding whether a significant OCI exists, and in determining the appropriate means for resolving any significant OCI that has been identified. If a contracting officer fails to consider whether any potential OCIs can be avoided or mitigated, or improperly determines that it cannot be avoided or mitigated, that contracting officer violates FAR 9.504(e).
GAO has stated that the situations in which OCIs arise can be broadly categorized into three groups: (1) unequal access to information; (2) impaired objectivity; and (3) biased ground rules.
An impaired objectivity OCI arises where a firm's ability to render impartial advice to the government would be undermined by the firm's competing interests. The concern is that a firm's ability to render impartial advice to the government may be undermined by its relationship to the product or service being evaluated.
An unequal access to information OCI exists where a firm has access to nonpublic information as part of its performance of a government contract, and where that information may provide the firm an unfair competitive advantage in a later competition for a government contract.
Lastly, a biased ground rules OCI arises where a firm, as part of its performance of a government contract, has in some sense set the ground rules for the competition for another government contract and could therefore skew the second competition, whether intentionally or not, in favor of itself.
Each of these three types of OCIs requires a different type of review by the contracting officer and, potentially, different types of mitigation or avoidance, as illustrated by the recent case, Safal Partners, Inc., B- 416937 (2019). That bid protest involved an allegation of an impaired objectivity OCI in connection with a task order to provide technical assistance and disseminate best practices among U.S. Department of Education grantees. The test for impaired objectivity is whether the contractor can perform its work impartially. Safal, a disappointed offeror, alleged that WestEd, a subcontractor to the awardee, had impaired objectivity because the new contract would involve assisting Department of Education grantees' in implementing recommendations that WestEd itself would be making under a different contract it held. Safal alleged that WestEd could benefit itself financially by both recommending grantees for technical assistance under one contract and providing that assistance under the other contract.
The Department of Education's contracting officer evaluated this alleged OCI and concluded that WestEd would not have the ability to funnel work to itself. In so concluding, the CO the ignored the fact that even if a contractor cannot funnel work to itself, it still may not be able to provide impartial advice because of other contracts and relationships that it has. GAO agreed with Safal and found that the contracting officer had not asked the right question. It is well settled, said GAO, that, where a contractor is expected to offer its input to the agency--for example, advising the agency about best practices to be followed by grantees, as was the case here--the contractor may have an OCI, even where the agency is not relying solely on the contractor's input, and where the government retains the ultimate decision-making authority. GAO therefore sustained the protest and rejected the finding that there was no OCI.
Contractors don't want to waste money bidding on contracts they are not eligible for. Therefore, contractors should analyze their own potential OCIs before bidding.
The Request for Proposals may have requirements relating to avoiding and mitigating OCIs. Make sure to read and understand those requirements. Even if the RFP is silent, there may situations in which it is appropriate to proactively offer an OCI mitigation plan.
Keep abreast of competitors' contracts so that OCI concerns can be raised when appropriate. Make sure they are raised in a timely fashion.
Government contracting officers should make sure they have a full understanding of the facts so they can properly analyze, identify and mitigate potential OCIs the first time around.
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$31.7 billion—that's the total market value for organic electronics in 2018 according to the latest report from IDTechEx. And while a big part of that number ($25.5 billion) is thanks to OLED displays (largely not flexible or printed), other more exotic applications such as printed flexible sensors and displays, and conductive inks are finally starting to take off. The industry as a whole is projected to grow to $77.3 billion by 2029.
So what are organic electronics and why are they making waves in the larger consumer electronics industry? In this post we'll provide an overview of the state of organic electronics in 2018.
In contrast with conventional electronics made from inorganic materials such as silicon or metals, organic electronics are made up of carbon-based molecules and polymers. The use of organic materials gives electronics designers access to a wider range of material properties such as flexibility or high thermal stability. As manufacturing techniques improve, the inherently lower cost of carbon promises cheaper electronics in the long run. Let's take a look at some examples of organic electronics in the industry today.
No backlight. OLEDs directly transform electricity into light, eliminating the need for a backlight and resulting in thinner, lighter devices.
Pixel precision. OLEDs consist of thin films of organic compounds, they can be manufactured to be extremely small and used as individual pixels. These pixels can be individually switched off leading to tighter control.
Darker blacks. OLED displays yield better blacks, the individual pixels emit light only when electricity is present. When a pixel is switched off, it is truly black.
AMOLED. The active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) involves depositing OLED pixels onto thin-film transistor (TFT) arrays to improve response times and control over individual pixels while reducing power requirements (allowing the designer to use lower voltage). While these designs are more prone to screen burn, they are great for mobile devices which won't be left on for long periods of time.
Unsurprisingly the OLED displays are manufactured by major consumer electronics giants such as LG, Sony, and Samsung. It's not just for TVs and smartphones, other devices also make use of the display.
Samsung made news in November when they unveiled their bendable smartphone prototype. At the heart of the new technology was a polished flexible OLED display. The phone folds in half like a notebook, making it possible to fit a small tablet sized phone in your pocket. Instead of the glass of a typical display, the circuitry is embedded in a flexible polymer film.
While we've heard about flexible displays for years at trade shows across the globe, several design challenges have prevented them from going mainstream. One must not only make the display flexible, but the rest of the device from the protective screen to the backplane flexible as well. Components must be placed with the expected folding or rolling in mind so that the end user can't get carried away and damage the device.
Samsung plans to release their flexible smartphone sometime in 2019. Depending on how it fares, we may soon see other tablets, wearables, and other devices follow. FlexEnable's organic TFTs (OTFTs) allow them to take their flexibility to the next level, letting you roll their paper thin displays.
It's not just flexible displays either, printed and flexible sensors makeup $3.6 billion of the organic electronics industry. These include sensors such as glucose test strips, photodetectors, thermistors, force sensors, and capacitive sensors.
In August 2018, the University of Newcastle in Australia demonstrated the power of printed solar when five people were able to install a 200 square meter solar array on a factory roof in a single day. They used standard printing equipment to manufacture the solar modules, repurposing a machine typically used to print wine labels. Their secret: organic semiconducting polymer-based inks.
These organic semiconducting inks can be printed on standard plastic sheets to create solar panels that can quickly be rolled out to cover a large surface. It's not just solar panels, the same concept can and has been applied to a wide variety of applications including the fabrication of flexible sensors and displays.
Organic electronics are finally becoming mainstream after years of research and development. The versatility of organic materials gives designers more options when designing electronic devices. Of these technologies, OLEDs, flexibility, and printability are particularly poised to help the organic electronics industry rise to prominence within the next decade.


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Hala Auji is an art historian specialized in the arts of the Islamic world. She holds a PhD in art history from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, an MA in criticism and theory from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and a bachelor's degree in graphic design from AUB. Her book, Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and The American Press in Nineteenth Century Beirut, Leiden: Brill, 2016, explores how Beirut's nineteenth-century print culture, in its varied visual conventions, uses, and meanings, negotiated local views on social change, cultural heritage, political identity, and modernization reforms. She is currently a Faculty Fellow (2016-17) at AUB's Mellon Foundation funded Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH), where she is developing curricula and research related to her current project "Disseminating the nahda: al-funun and the Art of the Arabic Periodical." Her research interests also include the nineteenth century decorative arts in Europe and the Middle East, the history of Islamic manuscript practices, the politics of exhibiting and collecting Islamic Art, global art historiography, design history and theory, and the arts of the book in Asia.
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This page will soon show and describe plots of the seasonal precipitation at our stations.
For the moment we are showing monthly total rain in a polar plot with the months arranged clockwise around a circle. The seasonality of the rain fall on Vancouver Island becomes very evident when it is displayed in this way. The largest monthly fraction is written in the bottom left corner. The number of daily totals (observations) is written in the bottom right. The concentric circles, marked with grey numbers, show the fraction of the annual rainfall in percent that each month represents.
In the example from Torquay Elementary School, shown below, you can see that almost all (about 65 %) of the rain occurs in the months of October through January. This is Victoria's rainy season.
Thanks to Natasha Ridenour for developing the software to generate these plots.
Total rain for each station by month is also available.
NOTE: The figure below is not "live" and does not update. It is included by way of example for illustration purposes. Navigate to the station page for the site you are interested in to see an up-to-date figure.
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Gujarati is a language with grammatical gender. There are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
Nouns can often, but by no means always, be identified as to their gender according to their ending. These same gender-linked suffixes are used to make adjectives, verbs, and even adverbs agree with nouns in Gujarati sentences.
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701. James T. Cleland - "Saint Dad" (November 10, 1968)
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703. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Worship the God's of a Defeated Enemy" (November 17, 1968)
Wilkinson, Howard C.
704. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Worship the Gods of a Defeated Enemy?" (November 17, 1968)
705. McMurry S. Richey - "The Bias of Gratitude" (November 24, 1968)
Richey, McMurry S.
706. Frederick Herzog - "The Unimagined" (December 1, 1968)
Herzog, Frederick
708. James T. Cleland - "A Sacramental View of Money" (December 8, 1968)
709. William R. Cannon - Sermon Untitled (December 15, 1968)
Cannon, William Ragsdale, 1916-
710. Creighton Lacy - "Christmas Always Comes at Night" (December 22, 1968)
Lacy, Creighton
712. Frank Baker - "Unto You" (December 29, 1968)
Baker, Frank
714. James T. Cleland - "Religio-Ethical Reflections on Transplantation" (1969)
715. D. Moody Smith, Jr. - "The Twelfth Day of Christmas" (January 5, 1969)
Smith, D. Moody, Jr.
717. Arthur W. Kale - "Man's Continuing Glory, Shame, and Hope" (January 12, 1969)
Kale, Arthur W.
718. W. Arthur Kale - "Man's Continuing Glory, Shame, and Hope" (January 12, 1969)
Kale, W. Arthur
719. Elmer O. Hall - "Called to Freedom" (January 19, 1969)
Hall, Elmer O.
720. James T. Cleland - "Classroom and Chapel" (January 26, 1969)
722. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Are Our Sins Forgiven?" (February 2, 1969)
724. Thomas E. McCollough - "Society and the System" (February 9, 1969)
McCollough, Thomas E.
726. James T. Cleland - "A Parable with a Twist" (February 16, 1969)
728. Frank Baker - "Forty Days and Forty Nights" (February 23, 1969)
730. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Plain Talk about Our University" (March 2, 1969)
731. James T. Cleland - "Saints in Caesar's Household" (March 9, 1969)
733. Thomas A. Langford - "Affirmations for a New Community" (March 16, 1969)
Langford, Thomas A.
734. Thomas A. Langford - "Affirmations of a New Community" (March 16, 1969)
735. Wesley Aitkin - "The Dangling Conversation" (March 23, 1969)
Aitken, P. Wesley
736. Richard A. Goodling - "More Than a King?" (March 30, 1969)
Goodling, Richard A.
738. Jacquelyne J. Jackson - "The Words from the Cross" Good Friday Service (April 4, 1969)
Jackson, Jacquelyne J.
739. Jacquelyne J. Jackson - "The Words from the Cross" Good Friday Service Part 1 (April 4, 1969)
742. James T. Cleland - "Easter: God's Imprimatur" (April 6, 1969)
743. James T. Cleland - "God's Imprimatur" Easter Service (April 6, 1969)
744. Waldo Beach - "God and Morality" (April 13, 1969)
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746. Bradford S. Abernethy - "A Time for Presence" (April 20, 1969)
Abernethy, Bradford S.
747. Stuart C. Henry - "Of Madness and Man and La Mancha" (April 27, 1969)
Henry, Stuart C.
748. Howard C. Wilkinson - "The Identity Crisis of the Church" (May 4, 1969)
749. J. Reed Raper Kramer - "The Identity Crisis of the Church: A Three-War Dialogue Sermon" (May 4, 1969)
Kramer, J. Reed Raper
750. James T. Cleland - "David and Goliath: An Unfair Fight" (May 11, 1969)
752. G. Henton Davies - "The Greatest Text in the Bible" (May 18, 1969)
Davies, G. Henton
754. Culbert G. Rutenber - "The Church: Relevant or Irrelevant?" (May 25, 1969)
Rutenber, Culbert G.
755. Douglas M. Knight - "Baccalaureate Sermon" (June 1, 1969)
Knight, Douglas M.
756. Douglas M. Knight - "The Violence of Love" (June 1, 1969)
757. Howard C. Wilkinson - "An Indefensible Posture" (June 8, 1969)
758. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Questions the Court Left Unanswered" (July 6, 1969)
759. James T. Cleland - "On Getting into Heaven or Hell" (July 13, 1969)
760. David G. Mobberley - "God, Man, and Molecule" (July 20, 1969)
Mobberley, David G.
761. Robert A. Davis - "Redeem the Time" (August 3, 1969)
Davis, Robert A.
762. Samuel S. Wiley - "The Image of God" (August 10, 1969)
Wiley, Samuel S.
763. J. Rodney Fulcher - "Both Sides Now" (August 31, 1969)
Fulcher, J. Rodney
765. James T. Cleland - "An Old Sermon" (September 14, 1969)
766. James T. Cleland - "The Old Order Changeth" (September 21, 1969)
768. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Liberation Revisited" (September 28, 1969)
770. Thomas A. Langford - "A Communion Meditation" (October 5, 1969)
771. Thomas A. Langford - Communion Meditation (October 5, 1969)
772. James T. Cleland - "Machinery and Religion" (October 12, 1969)
773. Thomas A. Langford - "Viet Nam" (October 15, 1969)
774. Waldo Beach - "When He Came to Himself" (October 19, 1969)
776. Brown Barr - "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (October 26, 1969)
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777. Browne Barr - "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (October 26, 1969)
Barr, Browne
778. James T. Cleland - "A Patron Sain for Imperfect Christians" (November 2, 1969)
779. James T. Cleland - "A Patron Saint for Imperfect Christians" (November 2, 1969)
780. Dow Kirkpatrick - "Watch Your Language!" (November 9, 1969)
Kirkpatrick, Dow
782. Creighton Lacy - "No Strings?" (November 16, 1969)
784. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Why Is Everything So Different Now?" (November 23, 1969)
786. Howard C. Wilkinson - "On Casting Out Satan" (November 30, 1969)
788. James T. Cleland - "Be - Na Gliff'd" (December 7, 1969)
789. James T. Cleland - "Be-Na Gliff'd" (December 7, 1969)
790. Bishop W. McFerrin Stowe - "The Source of Hope for Tomorrow" (December 14, 1969)
Stowe, W. McFerrin
791. O. Kelly Ingram - "A Christian Sermon" (December 21, 1969)
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792. Henry B. Clark - "The Truth...Shall Make You Free?" (December 28, 1969)
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793. Henry B. Clark II - "The Truth Shall Make You Free?" (December 28, 1969)
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794. Samuel W. Williams - "Will God Succeed with Man?" (January 11, 1970)
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795. James T. Cleland - "Grace Abounding; Grace Demanding" (January 18, 1970)
797. Howard C. Wilkinson - "Christianity Simplified" (January 25, 1970)
798. Howard C. Wilkinson - "The Guilty Conscience" (February 1, 1970)
800. James T. Cleland - "On Being Joyous at Communion" Communion Meditation (February 8, 1970)


What is obsidian? It is dark, rapidly cooled, volcanic lava that is the deepest black when set. This perfectly describes the stunning portrait, set against a jet background, during a journey under cover of night. Mysterious and enigmatic, this magnificent Andalusian stallion appears to melt from the darkness, capturing shimmering highlights in their luminescent liquidity.


On March 23, Thunder will release a brand new live set 'Stage' through earMUSIC.
'Stage' features hits from right across the band's career and includes fan-favourite classics like 'Backstreet Symphony', 'Low Life In High Places' and 'Love Walked In' and brings things right up to date with tracks from the 2017 Top 3 UK Chart Album 'Rip It Up', like the storming title track and 'She Likes The Cocaine'.
Thunder are of course a noted and globally in-demand live act. 'Stage' was captured at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena on March 24th, 2017 during the UK Tour; the band also played Europe, North America & Asia, across Germany with Alice Cooper, at Planet Rock's 'Rockstock' and are preparing to fly to Japan for some January 2018 dates. This is a band that knows how to rock a crowd!
The mammoth release will comprise of a number of formats including Blu-Ray, DVD, Live CD, Vinyl and more.
However of more interest are the 3 films documenting one night in London in 2016 in aid of Childline and the NSPCC. Combined together the three films "Thunder in London" (Documentary), 29 Minutes Later (Live at Gibson Guitars) and "Live at the 100 Club" (Live at the 100 Club, London). They tell the story of a 2 show, one night only performance by the band and we really get to see them at their raw best. The documentary tells the story of the day, from setup and soundcheck through to the actual performances at Gibson and the 100 Club and when watched together you get a real feel of how the band put together the shows and the challenges that they come across.
This is a highly recommended set of films for any Thunder fan and its various formats give you a chance to own some real Thunder magic. The band never fail to deliver in terms of their musical prowess and this is a testament to the band's longevity, they have a huge loyal fanbase and this release truly is for the fans.
Mark has had a long association with all things rock and metal. Back in the 80's and 90's he was a rock DJ in and around clubs in West Yorkshire. Since then he has taken up with his "other" passion Photography and gig going. He can now be found in the photo pit at many of the North of England's concert venues.


Those were the only details I told my mum.
I decided to play mother's day a little differently this year. Whilst traditionally, all daughters and sons buy their mum's flowers and boxes of chocolates which last five minutes; I wanted my gift to be a little different.
My mum never really has the time to sit down and think, let alone adventure around in the city we happen to live in. So, I took to Groupon and found a good enough deal for brunch and cocktails for two in a modern and airy little pub called St Barts Brewery; a two minute walk away from Barbican tube station.
The Groupon booking itself was pretty straight forward and offered us 4 different choices on the menu for brunch. Whilst I guessed my mum would pick the salmon choice, we both ended up ordering a fry up brunch. I couldn't quite face the fear of demolishing black pudding so let the old girl have it on her plate instead.
Together with the food, we had champagne and OJ cocktails which were simply DELICIOUS and most definitely the naughtiest beverage for before noon!
We then finished up with our bellies full of food and drink and had a little mooch around the area. We came across St Bartholomew's Church which was stunning and found a little back alley in which my mum shot my outfit photos for me.
My mum absolutely loves anything and everything to do with history and dinosaurs. So, what better place to take her than the Natural History Museum?! Located just outside of South Kensington tube station, the building itself is stunning to look at and truly something special.
Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored.
The Groupon booking was paid for with my own money and St Barts Brewery were unaware I was a blogger.
You're welcome, Ama. Thanks for your comment too!
Awh, thanks Lana! The food was sooo yummy!
Food looks great! Also didn't know you vlogged...looking to branch out into that world at some point myself. Just have to get over the whole "hate my own voice" complex!
Hahaha, I make the occasional video but I am so bed at regularly uploading! It does get a bit annoying listening to you voice over and over again whilst editing, ha!


Lasith Malinga, who is currently enjoying a happy return to form for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL after an injury-plagued 18 months, always causes trouble on English pitches.
Whether he's still able to bamboozle batsman as well as we've all seen him do time and again over the past decade remains to be seen. But he will spearhead the Sri Lankan attack and with Group B including three Asian teams, it would appear that if Malinga can get back to his destructive best, he could well lead Sri Lanka into the latter stages of the tournament.
Still remains one of the big-name bowlers in the world, Malinga is nine wickets away from becoming the third Sri Lankan to take 300 ODI wickets, and in vastly less number of matches than those before him (Jayasuria and Vaas).
On their day, their batting line-up is capable of posting big scores. Although the enormous shadow of the two greats of Sri Lankan cricket still looms large, the current crop of top order batsmen are starting to show that Jayawardene and Sangakkara's legacy may not have been simply leaving two giant holes seemingly impossible to fill.
With skipper Angelo Mathews, Upul Tharanga, Kusal Medis and Dinesh Chandimal all in the top five, Sri Lanka offer a workman-like rather than explosive batting outfit, and depending on the weather, toughing out some low scoring victories might be the order of the day when it comes to this tournament.
Even if Lasith Malinga can find something resembling top form, his back up bowlers look woefully ill-equipped to contain some of the big hitting batsmen in several of the teams line-ups. They will meet South Africa at the Oval on the first weekend of the tournament, and you can only imagine how much de Villiers and his band of merry bashers will relish taking apart the Sri Lankan first change bowlers on a flat track. Expect fireworks.
After collapsing to 138 all out against New Zealand in Cardiff, Sri Lanka somehow almost won the game only for the Black Caps to sneak home by one wicket.
They then went on to beat hosts England and Australia, almost entirely down to a sensational 134 not out by Kumar Sangakarra in the first match, and a brilliant 84 not out by Mahela Jayawardene in the second. As was their way back in the day. India then suffocated the life out of them at a damp Cardiff in the semi-final, where they posted only 181 in 50 overs.
Replays and mentions of Sri Lanka's 1996 world cup victory. No matter where they go or how much time has passed, there seems to be an endless archive of footage and romantic stories about how the unlikely heroes overcame the odds to win the world cup in 1996. There is surely a decent game of commentary bingo available involving phrases like: 'Jayasuria in the power play', 'de Silva century', Indian fans throwing bottles', etc., etc.


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Chung Wan: Public Censure
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Emeline Tang Wei Leng et al: Industry Bans
Prohibition Orders by the Singapore Monetary Authority regarding Emeline Tang Wei Leng, Minh Duy Nguyen, and John Zhan Loong Koh.


Countries and parents suffer the effects of war intensely, but so do. Children are one of the sectors of the population who suffer most in wars as there are deaths, malnutrition, disease and psychological trauma by being forced into continuous displacement. For our parents it was a cultural mutilation, added to the pain of having left two so young daughters so far away and. For the Basques, the Spanish Civil War and then World War II tore from Euskadi a large number of its most prominent and prestigious intellectuals.
Lequerica went to France as ambassador in 1939, and later was ambassador to the Vichy regime allied with Nazi Germany. As Ambassador he was noted for his relentless persecution of the exiles from the war in Spain. He got arrested Lluis Companys and other Republican leaders, who handed over to the Francoist authorities, as well Julian Zugazagoitia and Joan Peiro who were also shot. He was a staunch enemy of Basque nationalism.
Across the border Uncle Ino and Aunt Lola waited for us. Aunt Juli decided to stay and to live in beautiful San Sebastian and opened a tailoring shop here. She stayed with Begoña and they took me to Las Arenas, about 120 miles away to live with uncles and my grandfather. They separated the two sisters without thought of the terrible loss we had already suffered.
Our maternal grandfather had lost his apartment and belongings from the "Casa Grande" and went to live in a modest apartment in the district of Santa Ana, a first-floor apartment at #24 Gobelas Street in Las Arenas. The house was sunny and open as all the rooms opened onto the outside. It had three bedrooms, large living and dining rooms, huge bathroom and a kitchen with wood and coal stoves and a large crisper in the window. Grandpa lived with his eldest daughter, Lola, and his only son Ino. Ino managed the shares of stock that he and his sisters still owned in their father's factory, and he was also Vice President of the "Talleres Erandio" corporation. His other daughter Mari had gone to France and later to Caracas, Venezuela, with her husband Luis and his daughter Maria Luisa. She was a piano teacher and she made her way in Venezuela teaching. On the fourth floor lived our Aunt Elvira, his niece.
I had a large room with a large balcony overlooking the back garden with orchards of about 22 square meters per family. There they raised chickens or grew vegetables. In front of the house was a large yard surrounded by a fence. My room was large and sunny and I shared it with Aunt Lola. The room contained a king bed, and over the head a newly acquired painting of the Guardian Angel protecting two children crossing a dangerous bridge. Aunt Lola and I prayed every night that I might be protected at night and during the day too. This would be her principal worry. Above the night table were many pictures, all protected by glass. A favorite of mine was of ama who wore a necklace of glass beads, which Aunt Lola had kept let me have. I looked at it through the sunshine that bathed my room, trying to imagine some unknown landscape. The necklace was emerald green. Also in my room there was a large closet, and small toy chest to keep the clothes of my doll Nicole, an armchair and a small shelf where I kept a collection of books of the German brothers Grimm with the reading of which I nourished myself intellectually during the seven years I lived in Las Arenas.
We arrived at Las Arenas. In one trip I had lost my parents, sister, and the aunt with whom I had lived since birth. My grandfather was very happy to have me in his home and he called me Merceditas, perhaps because I reminded him of his distant daughter. In Las Arenas I had two aunts to take care of me. Aunt Lola, who said that I brought the sun into the home, nicknamed me "Solete." (Sunshine) She was in charge of my religious life. She took me to Mass with her and we visited all the churches around Easter. In the school she was highly regarded by the nuns. She was a frequent visitor to check on my "academic" progress. She also took me to visit the Shrine of Arrate.
Arrate, which means "stones" in Basque, is a mountain near the city of Eibar (Guipuzcoa) with a height of 556 meters. Along the top, crowned by a large stone cross, is a recreational area surrounding the Shrine of Our Lady of Arrate. Inside is a venerated image of the Virgin from the fourteenth century.
We played a lot in the woods of pine and beech, picking blackberries, sometimes with Begoña and always with the children of Aunt Andresa, the brother of Uncle Pedro. In winter in the snow we saw my uncle hunting wolves that lived in the region and we attend the classes that Uncle Pedro taught to children from neighboring villages.
The chaplain of the Shrine of Arrate was Don Pedro Gorostidi (1915-2001) a great photographer and a first-rate electronics expert who founded the first radio station in Euskara in Eibar, "Arrate Irratia," in late December 1959. The painter Ignacio Zuloaga, born in Eibar, probably the most important Basque painter of the late nineteenth century, donated some of his works to the sanctuary including the painting of Our Lady of Arrate that were exhibited in the small enclosure of the altar. Aunt Lola and Aunt Elvira liked to help their cousin, Uncle Pedro, especially in the special festival on September 8 for Our Lady of Arrate. We visited very often in winter or summer. We went by train from Las Arenas to Eibar and from there we climbed the narrow, winding road to the summit of Mount Arrate. Begoña and I were carried in baskets on the backs of donkeys. They gave us chocolate bars and some comics, cartoons aimed at children such as "Tiny Anita", a blond with braids who faced many dangers and enemies like horrible witches I guess to keep us quiet, while the aunts were talking behind us. In addition to religious ceremonies in which I participated in the procession, there were dance competitions, Basque rural sports, Basque dance contest Basque and bertsolaris (improvising Basque poets and singers).
Aunt Elvira loved children, and she lied without reservation to cover my antics and she spoiled me by bringing goodies almost daily. She was in charge of my social life. She took me on Sunday afternoons to visit my grandmother and my cousins in Algorta. We also went to Bilbao to visit old friends of my parents who had two girls my age or to the famous and largest covered market in Europe"Mercado de La Ribera" according to the Guiness Book. Or we would go to Portugalete on the ferry to have hot chocolate with churros or attend fairs in town. I saw my sister Begoña when there was a family event or during the Christmas holidays.
We were often visited by a niece of my grandfather, Aunt Antonia, tall and thin and she used a cane, she always dressed in black as I remember. When we had a telephone installed in the house, maybe because it was black, she did not want to use it to talk to her sister who lived in Madrid because he believed that this device was an invention of the devil.
Less than a year after I arrived from France I started school at "La Divina Pastora." Today it is called "Mother of the Divine Shepherd" and is across the street from the home of my grandfather. I was three and a half years old. I liked the theater and in my first performance I said a verse of twenty words to the Mother Superior that I still have. It seems that everyone clapped and I did too with enthusiasm. Meanwhile my grandfather and I were creating many problems. We understood each other very well, and no one could cope with our mischief.
Our parents were kept informed of what Begoña and I were up to. Aunt Lola wrote letters and eagerly described my latest deeds and my bad behavior, but she added that my friendliness avercame any punishment. (I still have that letter.) And Aunt Juli wrote about Begoña's progress. She was less trouble than I was.
On 24 September, the festival of the Virgen de Las Mercedes, the town of Las Arenas was decorated for their festival, with gigantes (giant paper mache figures carried by people inside them) and cabezudos (huge paper mache heads on people's shoulders), toros de fuego, and cooking contests. With that in mind my friends and I held snail races. In the garden there were a lot of them and we put them to climb up the wall of the house, and we spent hours deciding the championship. We also played marbles, one of the oldest games, or jacks (our jacks were made from the knee of the hind legs of lambs) known from classical antiquity and one of our most popular games around that era. We played hide-and-seek a lot, and we went all around the center of town and we hid in the gardens of the vacant summer houses. One house across from the train station was our favorite; the owners of these villas only came in summer. Spinning a top was another of our favorite pastimes. The neighborhood ice cream vendor kept his cart in the small garage in our garden, and if we were out playing when he came home in the evening he handed out to us the ice cream that he had left.
On December 28 we celebrated with great pomp our grandfather's birthday. Days before relatives had come from towns and villages nearby to help prepare the sumptuous dinner. Earlier in the kitchen all the women around a huge bowl killed and plucked chickens and until cooking time they left them hanging on the balcony to keep them fresh. One time I had the idea to grab one and throw it to the dog Txiki that belonged to our downstairs neighbors. I sure he was licking his chops when he smelled that chicken. I do not remember what happened when it came time to cook it and they realized they were missing a chicken, but surely Aunt Elvira bailed me out with one of her famous tricks.
With the arrival of two txistularis (txistu players) from Algorta, the party began. The txistu is a kind of fipple flute with three holes. At dessert a family friend, Maria Basañez, played the piano and everyone under the dierection of Uncle Ino sang Boga-Boga (a traditional Basque sailors' song) solemnly. The house was full of people, many had come days before to help the aunts prepare the big dinner in honor of our grandfather. My sister and I continued the fun by jumping on the bed in my room as I remember. The dinner lasted until the wee hours of the morning. There were special toasts for the absent family members. Ama wistfully wrote about it and wished she could return. My aunts answered "it will be soon."
Meanwhile my parents had arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ama wrote often and my aunts and uncle kept them up to date about both of us constantly. They announced to us the arrival of a new sister, Arantzazu, who was born on January 21, 1943, and said we would soon be able to play with her. They were convinced that their return was imminent.
My grandfather suffered from arteriosclerosis and used a wheelchair in his final months. His death was sudden at 79 years of age. I was told that he was sleeping and during his wake and burial I stayed with family friends upstairs and saw the funeral procession along Gobelas Street, the priest, the acolytes with their candles and people behind on their way to the church, but I do not think I realized what was happening. I was five. He died without our mother's being able to say her last goodbye.
One year after the death of our grandfather Aunt Lola decided to go to Caracas, Venezuela to be with her sister Mari who was very ill at the time, and now left my life another person who had been important to me. At home I was under the tutelage of Uncle Ino and my new Aunt Carmen. I loved my uncle, and Aunt Carmen was very good to me. When I was not in school I went shopping at the plaza with her as I had done with Aunt Lola. I carried my little basket, and almost always came home with some homemade things that they gave me at the plaza. When we returned from shopping the food was almost done, and smelled delicious as it had been simmering on the coal stove and soon my uncle came to eat with us. My aunt and uncle often took me for a ride to Bilbao. What I remember most is going to Arenal de Bilbao in Semana Grande (Big Week, a local festival) and riding on the carousels.
My uncle liked to tell of the time when the Arenas Club (the local soccer team) was champion of Spain in 1919 and runner-up in 1925 and 1927, and when Arenas beat Barcelona by 5 to 2 in the Racing Field in Madrid. . And together we sang the song about the game: "... Alirón, Alirón the Arenas Champion". He played soccer on the Arenas Club and had a large photo in the living room with the signatures of the team. The photo showed the players and I remember a few of those successful times: Peña, Careaga, Monache and Robus the first three of whom I met. The Arenas Club was formed in 1912. They first played on a soccer field in Lamiako, but soon they left for the sports club in Neguri, Jolaseta. Ama told us of his season of glory because once our uncle had scored a goal. When our uncle playing the whole family attended, and urged him to score a goal or Aunt Lola would not pay him his allowance.
My uncle also liked to take me to the balcony at dusk to watch the fiery lights of the blast furnaces, the huge ovens where iron was smelted, but he told me it was the place where they sent those who were naughty. Once he took me to see the launching of a ship in the Rio Nervion. It was a moment of great excitement when the ship dropped from the top of the dike to the surface of the river. We watched with horror as the ship shook until it finally rested quietly in the water.
In those days, I had a small accident which could have been serious. I was playing in the house of my friend Miguel Angel, and we decided to create our own railway line. We put chairs in a row and then 'traveled' under them, perhaps because the train station was so close to home and we could hear constant whistles. One of the chairs had a nail sticking out underneath that cut me badly on my forehead. It was bleeding and it hurt a lot and my friend's terrified mother carried me down the stairs from where they lived on the third floor, while I cried inconsolably and called for ama. I was almost 6 years. It was a difficult time for Aunt Carmen. They cleaned up the wound, and a centimeter scar was visible on my forehead, but is invisible today.
When our parents learned that they had separated Begoña and me, they did not like it at all because we were not growing up like sisters. But living so far from us, it was hard for them to evaluate the circumstances and they were very grateful that everyone treated us well. Shortly after Aunt Lola left, Aunt Juli invited me to spend some time in San Sebastian, and I decided to try it only for the three summer months, since I went to school. I boarded the train "El Correo" in Bilbao's Atxuri station, and five hours later we entered Amara station in San Sebastian. Begoña was waiting for me accompanied by Contxesi. She was a Basque-speaking peasant woman from Guipuzcoa, a first-rate cook who loved my sister Begoña and the right hand of my aunt. She and Contxesi understood each other very well and they spoke in Euskera. I knew a few words I learned from my grandfather; to him Erdera (the Basque word for the Spanish language) was his second language. My sister was happy to see me, and so was I to see her.
San Sebastian was once a fortified town and fishing village. Now was the Bella Easo. Aunt Juli lived in an apartment at #15 General Echagüe Street. The house had two floors. In the basement were the kitchen, bathroom, Contxesi's room and two large rooms that held the sewing workshop where a dozen seamstresses worked. The upstairs was elegantly decorated highlighting the colors maroon and sky blue. The entrance had a beautiful mahogany cabinet where the phone was, with an upholstered chair, and it had a maroon carpet. There was an elegant dining room with a large fireplace made of wood and tiles, and a burgundy carpet and leather armchairs. It was also the bedroom because a cabinet during the day became a bed at night. The dining room was connected by sliding doors to a room dedicated to fashion shows. The carpet and sofas wore light blue and the very dim lighting antorchas embedded in the walls gave a warm and elegant appearance. This was followed by a waiting room in the same style and finally a fitting room and a large bathroom as big as the dining room. Every room had huge windows overlooking the River Urumea. The house was located on the corner of General Echagüe and Paseo Salamanca. The place was beautiful, and I remember falling asleep to the sound of waves hitting the rocks on the banks of river. The large five-story stone building was built in the nineteenth century, and it had high ceilings. Aunt Juli was a true artist in design and sewing and she had her fashion design business in her apartment.. It was more a home than a business. She traveled a lot during the week, but when she was at home she was working in the workshop or fitting a customer, and often we only saw her during lunch. Sundays she took us to Mass at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd and sometimes watched boat races in the bay before coming home for lunch. We were always beautifully dressed. But for me the best of this city was playing with my sister and we got along very well even though we were living different experiences. She lived in this elegant, secure but lonely environment, and I was in a more modest, but more free and had more friends. In this beautiful city of San Sebastian, we hadn't the freedom to go out alone because the house was facing the highly trafficked Paseo Salamanca.
A few months after the birth of our little sister in Buenos Aires, our parents went to live in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Basque president José Antonio Aguirre at that time was living in New York and he commissioned aita to be in charge of the Basque Cultural Week of 1943 in Uruguay. Uruguay at that time had a democratic regime, and was a close friend of democracy, while in Argentina occurred on 4 June of that year a military coup that had a positive attitude towards Franco. Aita accepted the new responsibility of organizing the Basque Week which started on 30 October and was delayed until November 13, 1943. One of his main tasks was to develop honorary committees composed entirely of prominent members of the public and intellectual life of Uruguayan society. His job was made easier because he was a distant relative of the then-President of the Republic, Juan Jose Amezaga. Their grandfathers had been brothers. For that Basque Week our father worked hard to have the participation of poets, painters, writers, sculptors, musicians, and dancers. Aguirre also decided to continue with the Basque Delegation (with the functions of an embassy representing the interests of the Basque Government-in-Exile) in Montevideo. In the spring of 1943, Aguirre asked his old friend Vicente to take over as Director of the Basque Delegation in Montevideo, which was equivalent to be ambassador to Uruguay, but of course it was only an honorary title. After two visits to study the situation, aita agreed and moved the family to Montevideo in September, 1943. They seemed happy. Aita's very big task was to raise awareness of Basque culture in this city where it was not widely known, and ama was concerned with social work. Throughout these times, however, our mother, as she used to say, the shadow of our absence pained her heart constantly.
In me there continually vibrated a concern that my sister did not share, and it was the desire to be close to our mother and meet our parents wherever it might be, but still we were at war, it was not safe to cross the ocean and there was nobody to take responsibility for our care. So it was not much could be done. Our uncle and aunts always say "next year you'll be all together", but months and years passed without it happening.
Now that I knew how to write, I could tell them all this and about my life and I wrote to our parents often. We received their news frequently. Our brother Joseba Bingen was born on April 18, 1945, and the war was almost over. Our parents started to talk about reuniting Begoña and me with them. They wanted us to make the trip together, to which Aunt Juli told them that the journey by ship from Bilbao to Montevideo, Uruguay, was very long, in those times about one month, and she suggested it would be better for one to make the journey and then the other. That was a long trip for two and more if we were going by ourselves. Our parents were not happy about this but they agreed. I immediately started making plans for what until then had been only a dream, first trying to convince Begoña that we should go together. I think if we had lived together at the time it would have been happen like that.
I arrived back in Las Arenas in time to start school. I missed my sister, but my return brought happiness back to my uncle and aunt. They could not have children and it seems I filled their lives very well, and I was happy to go to school and see my friends.
One day in October of 1945 my paternal grandmother, Maria, who lived in Algorta was going to daily Mass at the Church of the Trinity when tripped on the steps of the door fell and broke her hip. She had surgery, but died shortly afterwards of pneumonia at age 83 without her youngest child nearby. I still remember her funeral. I was seven years old. After her death I had occasionally went to visit Algorta and see my uncles and cousins with whom I played very well. Her death re-opened the wound of separation in our parents who could not give a last goodbye to their parents.
As the Basque Delegate in Montevideo, aita also became leader of a spy network of a dozen Basque men who gathered intelligence about fascist agents in Uruguay. They sent this information to the Basques in New York who then sent it to Washington. The money earned from this service was a vital part of family income in the early and mid 1940's. In early 1947 the U.S. made a shift of 180 degrees from their concerns with fascists to the onset of the Cold War. Communism became the enemy and Spain became an ally in this struggle. Now the State Department and the CIA withdrew their financial support from the Basque government, a step that subjected the exiles to a financial crisis which they never recovered. So now the family home was going through financial hard times.
We were in the year 1947. Ama wrote that for my birthday I would have a new brother and they want for me to be the godmother. I was happy, but they changed their minds about the godmother. Maybe I was too young; I was going to be only nine years old. At school the nuns began to prepare me for First Communion.
Our parents wanted to be present for such a great day and they were saddened that I would do it far from them. But I would soon be nine years and the school didn't know how much longer they could wait. We went to the photographer Cañada to take photos to send to them. My lovely organdy gown was made in the sewing shop of Aunt Juli. The celebrant was Uncle Pedro; the date was May 7, my birthday. The place was the school chapel in a private ceremony. The small church was decorated with beautiful flowers in May. In front of the altar were three sets of red velvet couches that would be occupied by my Uncle Ino and Aunt Carmen and in between was mine, wrapped in white tulle. The chapel was full of lights and flowers. It was a very good day except for the absence of our parents, which it was the only shadow. When I knelt at my pew fervently prayed to God that I would meet our parents very soon. Seven months later I was on a ship to Montevideo, Uruguay. Four days after I made my First Communion, May 11, 1947, our brother, Xabier Iñaki, was born.
The captain of the ship Monte Amboto, Captain Gastiarena, a friend of my uncle, told him they were going to South America with stops in Montevideo, Uruguay, next December and he would be responsible for both of us; but Begoña was unwilling to leave. It was a long journey and I would have to go alone, without my sister or anyone I knew. Her refusal did not diminish my strong desire to meet our parents. So I began my trip preparation. The months went by quickly. I do not remember what was going through my mind when I was about to leave everything that was so familiar and friendly to me to embark alone to a distant place to go to meet my parents and three younger siblings. But I don't think I had doubts about the step that I was going to take, but though I did not know it, it would completely change my life and that of my parents and siblings.
In another trip to San Sebastian, again I proposed to Begoña to accompany me on the journey to America. I could not believe that she did not feel as I did about something I wanted so badly. It was midsummer and we were both on the Paseo Nuevo skating and I put emphasis that on this trip we needed to go together. This time I said it very seriously and I remember exactly her words, "I'm afraid to travel by boat going so far and I don't like very much the idea of living with younger siblings." I remember that day because while we were discussing our future, we looked at some of the people sitting on the benches of the Paseo Nuevo reading the newspaper with a headline that read "Manolete Dead". But while the news did not matter to us a lot, when we got home the seamstresses were talking about the event, saying that the greatest and most legendary bullfighter in history was killed by a deep goring deep (the bull's horn severed his femoral vein and this event turned him into a myth of post-war Spain) and that was on August 29, 1947. Years later in Montevideo when I did an oral presentation covering the culture of the Iberian Peninsula, I would explain to the class about this event with as much eloquence as if I had been present at that event.
I left San Sebastian to go to Bilbao. My uncle went to meet me at the train station in Bilbao. We drove to Las Arenas in the car in silence. After a long pause he said, "You know you do not have to go if you do not want to." I nodded, but I had already made the decision and no one could convince me otherwise.
Days before I left my aunt and uncle gave me a beautiful gold bracelet with four precious amethyst stones, light purple hue, called "Rose of France". They told me that whenever I put it on I should remember them. And I wore it during the journey and today I still have it and I keep it as a small treasure. I learned that this rock is soothing and invigorating in case of stress, nervousness, fear and anxiety and is one of the world's most important crystals. And according to Greek mythology, Dionysus, god of wine and debauchery, sought a maiden named Amethyst, who wished to remain chaste. The goddess Artemis heard her prayers, and transformed the woman into a white rock. Dionisio, humiliated, poured wine on the rock by way of apology, staining its purple crystals. Christianity adopted the amethyst as a symbol of renunciation of worldly goods and chastity, and even today many cardinals and bishops where it in the form of rings. The amethyst symbolizes divine wisdom.
December 17, 1947, arrived and we all went to port of Bilbao for me to board the ship. The captain was waiting. He had no beard or pipe as I had imagined. Very friendly he took us to the bridge, where ship is steered, and showed us his binoculars and the wheel. My aunt and uncle inspected my cabin. My bed was above to the right of the window (porthole). They hugged me and kissed me with tears. I was so emotional that they thought I had changed my mind about leaving, they told me later. Shortly after, the ship with its loud horn announced its implacable departure. Begoña was not with me. I was alone on deck watching them on the pier. My aunt and uncle continued to drive along the banks of the river from the boat docks, marinas, boatyards, the blast furnaces, factories, houses and the Euskalduna ship yards, where my Uncle Churchill was waving a large handkerchief. I remember him shouting "Do not forget your inheritance." Uncle Churchill and Aunt Cris were the aunt and uncle of Aunt Carmen and we went to visit them from time to time to Bilbao. They lived in the neighborhood Basurto, on the 5th floor. From the kitchen window it could be seen the San Mames stadium. It had the best box seat in the neighborhood. While they were chatting in front of the window, I listened to music on their RCA record player, and apparently I liked it so much that he promised to leave it to me as my inheritance. At the hanging bridge (the Puente de Vizcaya) my aunt and uncle took out their handkerchiefs to give me a final goodbye and I kept looking until they became the horizon. In front of me very soon would be the sea and more sea.
After a month of crossing many time zones, the perception that I had left behind something that I loved grew stronger as I came nearer to my destination. I changed the time on my gold watch that our parents had given me as a gift for my First Communion.
We stopped at Vigo, Lisbon, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and Montevideo. Four ports on a month-long trip, many days sailing across the vast Atlantic where anywhere I looked I saw only the horizon, which made my stay on board more calm. To pass the time I remember playing my favorite game, labyrinth, coloring and reading. There were no children of my age to play with. Torino, who was a waiter from Las Arenas, took me around the ship and on Sundays we went down to the kitchen where there were large pots of chocolate and there gave me extra donuts and churros. I remember celebrating Christmas and Reyes (Wise men), and I received gifts from the captain.
In Vigo we stopped long enough for the captain to take me to the circus. We sailed to the Canary Islands and stopped at the port of Tenerife for several hours before hitting the Atlantic Ocean. In the middle of the ocean we faced a pretty big storm; it was cold, the wind blew relentlessly and the sea was violent. It shook us up a bit and I got a little scared at the fury of the sea. The captain came and tried to me calm telling me that the Amboto was prepared for these storms, and he told me the story of the voyage of the Kon-Tiki, an adventurer who a few months earlier, crossed another sea larger than "ours" and all he had was a raft made of reeds, which are similar to the reeds that surround the banks of the river Gobelas. It seems calm returned to my mind because I ran to tell Torino to "not be frightened."
Almost arriving, my anxiety grew about my new and unknown world of my new family and country. We reached the coast of Brazil, but I did not pay much attention to anything because my anxiety grew as we came to Rio. Now the temperature was warmer. We had left Bilbao in winter and we arrived in summer to Montevideo. Finally the day came; I chose to wear a summer dress. I think the only one I had. Slowly the ship was entering the Río de la Plata, and soon was in the port of Montevideo, which was almost across from us. The date was January 15, 1948, exactly seven years since our parents had left Europe.
Amboto Mendi ship was launched on September 5, 1928, at the shipyards Euskalduna for the shipping company Sota and Aznar. It was a tramp steamer, for general cargo, with a continuous deck and four holds. Since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, it had sailed under the republican flag republican and was controlled by the Basque Government until August 24, 1937, when the crew went over to the national side. So it flew the flag of the Government of Burgos (the Franco Government) until the end of armed conflict. It would then be delivered to Naviera Aznar, renamed the Monte Amboto.
It was intended to sail in large coastal traffic as a ship tramp. The characteristic of this mode of transport is its high load capacity and adaptability to transport all kinds of products, volumes and values. Subsequently, the vessel underwent a transformation, becoming mixed vessel with a capacity to accommodate 72 passengers, sailing from that time and for many years, on a regular Northern Spain-South America run, with stops in Bilbao, Vigo, Lisbon, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. It also sailed on the Mar del Plata-Mediterranean run. It was scrapped at Santander on March 3, 1977.
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UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) instructor Dr. Renae Mitchell was honored as a Fellow at the 39th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference Feb. 7-10 in Albuquerque.
The SWPACA, or SouthWest Popular and American Culture Association, is an annual academic conference held in Albuquerque, focused on various aspects of literary, film, pedagogical, and other scholarly topics.
Mitchell was awarded the Michael K. Schoenecke Leadership Institute Fellowship in 2017, which has allowed her to learn the process of organizing an academic conference, as well as giving her the opportunity to meet scholars from around the country. Mitchell earned the Fellowship based on her work as a young scholar.
Mitchell completed her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in Comparative Literature in 2013, and previously published on topics such as Mexican film studies and poet/playwright Derek Walcott, but she has expanded her research to involve her love of speculative fiction. While teaching a class in post-apocalyptic fiction in the fall of 2016, she became interested in how women, particularly mothers, are represented in such stories.
Beginning Feb. 26, Mitchell will be teaching AMST 185: Intro to Race, Class and Ethnicity. This hybrid course will meet noon to 1:45 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, with additional online components, studying the complex ways race and ethnicity have operated in American culture.
UNM–Los Alamos is an innovative, rigorous, and affordable comprehensive branch community college that provides foundations for transfer, leading-edge career programs, and lifelong learning opportunities. Learn more at http://losalamos.unm.edu.