CES 2014, LAS VEGAS – HARMAN, the premium global audio and infotainment group (NYSE:HAR) debuted several new products for the mobile aftermarket today at CES, continuing its tradition of leadership for best-in-class car audio.
HARMAN is redefining the traditional mobile audio aftermarket segment to include upgrade products and services that bring a premium sound experience to cars while leveraging their existing wiring harnesses and speaker locations. The new Vehicle Specific Audio Upgrade packages reduce costs for drivers of installation and fabrication fees associated with traditional aftermarket products while retaining the premium audio quality for which HARMAN brands are renowned.
With the HARMAN Vehicle Specific Audio Upgrades, every component is designed to fit perfectly into the original factory location while simply plugging into the existing wire harness, with no splicing or fabricating required like in a typical aftermarket system. In addition, these systems utilize the factory head unit, helping consumers avoid the cost of updating the head unit and related installation and fabrication fees.
HARMAN recently launched its first Vehicle Specific Audio Upgrade in Russia with the Hyundai IX35. Based on the success of the product, HARMAN will continue to roll out additional Vehicle Specific Audio Upgrades in additional countries in the upcoming months. The next launches include the Suzuki Swift upgrade package in India, the Chevy Cruz upgrade in Russia and Brazil, and the first US Vehicle Specific Audio Upgrade with the Jeep Wrangler.
InfinityMarine- This new series designed for boats and watercrafts consists of two kits (six-inch coaxial and six-inch by nine-inch coaxial). Each kit in the series includes stainless steel hardware and utilizes Harman's patented Plus One™ woofer technology, which results in increased bass output and sensitivity. Infinity's "True 4 Ohm" design ensures maximum amplifier output delivering the utmost in sound pressure level (SPL). Both drivers boast power handling of 225 watts peak with a sensitivity rating of 92db. As with every Infinity product, each driver has been acoustically voiced for sonic accuracy and engineered and tested to be "marine ready" (water resistant from the front).
JBL® GX Automotive Speaker Series - The new mid-priced line updates and replaces the critically acclaimed GTO-8 series, long considered the heart and soul of JBL mobile audio. GX speakers are available in various sizes with a six by nine inch three-way speaker and a six-inch component system rounding out the line to fit nearly every application. Every speaker in the series utilizes Harman's patented Plus One™ woofer technology. Additionally, coaxially-mounted tweeters incorporate an exclusive rotating Tweeter Deflector, which pinpoint and direct high frequency output towards the listening area so audio sounds crisper and more defined. JBL's "True 4 Ohm" design ensures maximum amplifier output delivering the utmost in SPL. As with every JBL product, each driver has been acoustically voiced for sonic accuracy.
JBL Automotive Speaker Series, GT7 - The new entry level series has various coaxial kits along with a six by nine inch three-way kit. Every speaker in the series utilizes Harman's patented Plus One woofer technology and touts JBL's "True 4 Ohm" design as well, delivering maximum amplifier output and the utmost in SPL. As with every JBL product, each driver has been acoustically voiced for sonic accuracy.
JBL Marine - Designed for boats and watercrafts, this series consists of a six-inch dual cone, a six-inch coaxial kit and a six-inch by nine-inch coaxial system. Every speaker in the series utilizes Harman's patented Plus One Woofer technology, which results in increased bass output and sensitivity. JBL's "True 4 Ohm" design allows users to get the most out of their amplifier. All JBL Marine speakers are rated at 180 watts peak power handling with 91db sensitivity. True to the JBL heritage, each driver has been acoustically voiced for sonic accuracy as well as engineered and tested for water resistance. Each kit also includes stainless steel hardware.


The fastest, easiest way to spread your message to any media outlets in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Subscribe now to get access to the most complete database of Dallas-Fort Worth media companies available anywhere. Get all the vital stats, individual contact information, deadlines, and much more! Available in an extensive online database with powerful features.
Unlike national directories which have to rely primarily on mail-out research, we actually telephone each and every one of the over 2,000 media outlets listed in the Dallas-Fort Worth Media Directory to confirm that our data is correct for every issue. You need the most accurate and up-to-date information available. There is huge turnover in this industry and each issue averages over 6,000 updates from the previous edition.


Fit & Healthy Centre presents Studio Memberships, inexpensive Personal Trainers, quality and enjoyable Small Group Personal Training and the most effective Weight Loss packages. Protein is needed to assist keep your physique rising, maintained, and repaired. For example, the College of Rochester Medical Middle stories that pink blood cells die after about a hundred and twenty days. Protein is also essential for constructing and repairing muscle tissues, serving to you take pleasure in the benefits of your exercise. It may be a supply of power when carbohydrates are briefly supply, but it surely's not a serious supply of gas throughout train you are properly-fed.
I encourage you to do the same – do the perfect you'll be able to and have enjoyable! Make small, permanent modifications that you would be able to stay with until they'll become habit, after which pick another small change to tackle. Don't feel guilty a couple of dangerous meal or an unhealthy weekend. Pick proper again up the place you left off as quickly as you possibly can, and proceed dwelling your life.
The load-loss skilled and Greatest Loser trainer continued to slay on the hit present, landed in several glossy well being and fitness magazines, and launched her new book, Eating regimen Right for Your Persona Kind However even individuals as seemingly excellent as Widerstrom have moments of self-doubt. She saved it real last 12 months in a viral Instagram put up that showed her belly rolls. "I wanted to publish it and let folks know the place I was at, that I battle too, and it's OKAY to wrestle. However we will also rise above it as a result of we've each other," she says.
Do not assume operating a half marathon (or any type of train) means now you can eat no matter you need the remainder of the day. It's your day of rest from intense exercises, but you continue to transfer. Take a walk. Do a delicate yoga class. Just do one thing that is less intense than what you do for exercise the opposite six days of the week. And but…we still combat the nice fight. We go on a diet, we starve ourselves, we eat crappy low-fat weight loss program meals that tastes terrible, and we develop into so hungry and cranky and depressing, and but we NONETHELESS do not see the quantity on the scale get smaller.
Bananas are stuffed with potassium and magnesium, that are vital nutrients to get on a daily basis. Consuming a banana may also help replenish these minerals while offering pure sugars to gas your workout. For added protein, take pleasure in your banana with a serving of peanut butter. It is onerous to not really feel a bit despondent, in spite of everything my purpose is to shed weight for my health. Back in September I visited the state-of-the-art metabolic laboratory in Newcastle University's medical department , the place I underwent a raft of checks that exposed my organic age is 20 years older than my birth age.


text:
Q: How to create a map of sets from stream of pairs? I have a problem with a specific Java stream to create a map containing sets.
I found a way, but I feel like that there is a better (more performant and or readable) way to express that.
Any ideas how to improve this would be highly appreciated!
Idea
input:
[["A", 1], ["A", 2], ["B", 3], ["D", 1], ["D", 5]]

output:
["A"={1, 2}, "B"={3}, "D"={1, 5}]

Implementation
public static <L, R> Map<L, Set<R>> pairsToMap(Stream<Pair<L, R>> pairs) {
    return pairs.collect(
        Collectors.toMap(Pair::getLeft,
            // FIXME: Creating a new HashSet for each Pair... :/
            p -> new HashSet<>(Collections.singleton(p.getRight())),
            // merge existing set with new set
            (a, b) -> {
                a.addAll(b);
                return a;
            }
        )
    );
}

Note: Pair is my own implementation and is basically the following:
public class Pair<L, R> {
    /* ... */

    public L getLeft() { /*...*/ }

    public R getRight() { /*...*/ }
}

A: This is more like a groupingBy than a toMap:
public static <L, R> Map<L, Set<R>> pairsToMap(Stream<Pair<L, R>> pairs) {
    return pairs.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(
        Pair::getLeft,
        Collectors.mapping(Pair::getRight, Collectors.toSet())
    ));
}

groupingBy allows you to specify a way to further collect each group. In this case, we want to first map to the right element, then toSet.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
WATCH: Jake Tapper wonders why Sarah Huckabee Sanders picked today to lie less to reporters over Trump N-word flap
Tana Ganeva
On Tuesday, panelists on CNN's the Lead with Jake Tapper tried to make sense of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee's refusal to guarantee that President Donald Trump has never said the N-word.
Asked repeatedly by reporters if she was willing to concretely say that no tape of President Donald Trump using the N-word in any context exists, Sanders equivocated.
"I can't guarantee anything," she said.
Jake Tapper observed that it seems that for once, Sanders seemed to be telling the truth. "First of all, I think it's stunning that .. today was the day of all days where she decided lying was something she wasn't willing to do," he joked.
"But the idea that you can't make that guarantee … why can't you make that guarantee?" Tapper wondered.
Karine Jean-Pierre, a senior advisor with MoveOn.org, pointed out that no one should be surprised if such a tape turned up.
"If you don't know that Donald Trump isn't a racist then you haven't been paying attention. … " she noted. "Just look at his Twitter!"
CNN's Anderson Cooper struggled to control a segment about President Donald Trump's racism while interviewing a former member of Trump's Hispanic Advisory Council.
Cooper interviewed Steve Cortes about the president's racist outburst at the four young women of color in Congress that are known collectively as "The Squad."
The host read the dictionary definition of a demagogue.
"A leader that makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises to gain power," Merriam-Webster published.
"Is Donald Trump a demagogue? Isn't this exactly what he is doing here?" Cooper asked.
Gold Star father blasts Trump for failure to govern while refusing to 'defend and protect' America
On Monday's edition of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," Gold Star father Khizr Khan eviscerated President Donald Trump for his latest racist attack on congresswomen of color.
"To Donald Trump I say, sir, have you no sense of decency with this racism and division for political purposes?" Khan told anchor Anderson Cooper. "Donald Trump has nothing to offer. Therefore, he is going to create division and hate for political expedience. I am saddened but not surprised because, as you explained, he is a demagogue and will continue to use hate and division for his political expediency purpose."
"This is a man without any shame," agreed Cooper. "He doesn't have a health care policy. He doesn't have — he's not able to make progress on immigration in any sort of policy that actually solves the problem long term. And so he does these things and it is largely in times to distract, but it's not just distracting people, it's distracting people in the worst possible, bigoted, divisive way. It's distracting us by turning us against each other and viewing each other as other."
Racism drives Trump 'like rocket fuel' — but even for him, this is 'shocking and disgraceful': WaPo journalist
On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," Washington Post reporter David Swerdlick told anchor Wolf Blitzer that there's nothing truly new about President Donald Trump's racist social media assaults on Democratic congresswomen of color — but that there is something uniquely horrible about the latest episode.
"People are suggesting what the president has said in the past day or two represents a new low," said Blitzer. "But when you look at the president's history ... the president claiming Barack Obama wasn't born here in the United States, his comments about Charlottesville. This clearly isn't a one-off."
'It's just sparkling racism': Internet mocks the hell out of the New York Times for describing Trump's comments as 'racially infused'
Liz Cheney calls Dem congresswomen 'racists' and baby killers instead of condemning Trump's bigoted tweets

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
CNC head placed under formal investigation following sexual assault allegations
By Melanie Goodfellow2021-02-11T17:27:00+00:00
Source: Eric Bonté/CNC
Dominique Boutonnat
The head of France's National Cinema Centre (CNC), Dominique Boutonnat, has been formally placed under investigation following allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape by his 22-year-old godson, the French prosecution service confirmed on Thursday (Feb 11).
Boutonnat was taken into police custody on Wednesday for initial questioning related to an official complaint lodged in October about events that allegedly took place last August.
Boutonnat's lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny reiterated the film producer and CNC president's denial of the allegations.
"My client contests having committed any sort of offence," Marsigny said on Thursday.
French media has reported that the accuser was the son of longtime family friends and that the incident took place during a holiday in Greece.
Under French law, an investigating magistrate will now investigate the affair in more depth to decide whether a case should be brought to trial and on what charges, or whether the allegations should be dismissed.
Boutonnat has been president of the CNC since July 2019, steering it through the current Covid-19 pandemic which has hit the French film industry hard due to the closure of cinemas.
On Wednesday, France's gender equality pressure group Le Collectif 50/50 called on the CNC to temporarily suspend Boutonnat while the investigation and legal procedure was underway.
"In spite of the private nature of this police custody, Le Collectif 50/50 calls for the suspension of Dominique Boutonnat so that the parties and justice can fully and calmly focus on the necessary procedure while allowing the work of the CNC to continue," it said in a statement.
On taking up the position of CNC president, Boutonnat was charged with overhauling and modernising the body, and spearheaded its committee to tackle sexual harassment within the film industry.
European Producers Club unveils new gender equality charter
Pathé agrees slate-funding deal with Logical Pictures for bigger projects
Deal is first time French studio has opened the financing of its films to private investors
'Drift': Sundance Review
Cynthia Erivo stars in Anthony Chen's sensitive, understated third feature, set on a Greek island


text:
full-text ►
Neuromyelitis optica
Genetic changes
Glossary definitions
Reviewed April 2012
What is neuromyelitis optica?
Neuromyelitis optica is an autoimmune disorder that affects the nerves of the eyes and the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. Autoimmune disorders occur when the immune system malfunctions and attacks the body's own tissues and organs. In neuromyelitis optica, the autoimmune attack causes inflammation of the nerves, and the resulting damage leads to the signs and symptoms of the condition.
Neuromyelitis optica is characterized by optic neuritis, which is inflammation of the nerve that carries information from the eye to the brain (optic nerve). Optic neuritis causes eye pain and vision loss, which can occur in one or both eyes.
Neuromyelitis optica is also characterized by transverse myelitis, which is inflammation of the spinal cord. The inflammation associated with transverse myelitis damages the spinal cord, causing a lesion that often extends the length of three or more bones of the spine (vertebrae). In addition, myelin, which is the covering that protects nerves and promotes the efficient transmission of nerve impulses, can be damaged. Transverse myelitis causes weakness, numbness, and paralysis of the arms and legs. Other effects of spinal cord damage can include disturbances in sensations, loss of bladder and bowel control, uncontrollable hiccupping, and nausea. In addition, muscle weakness may make breathing difficult and can cause life-threatening respiratory failure in people with neuromyelitis optica.
There are two forms of neuromyelitis optica, the relapsing form and the monophasic form. The relapsing form is most common. This form is characterized by recurrent episodes of optic neuritis and transverse myelitis. These episodes can be months or years apart, and there is usually partial recovery between episodes. However, most affected individuals eventually develop permanent muscle weakness and vision impairment that persist even between episodes. For unknown reasons, approximately four times more women than men have the relapsing form. The monophasic form, which is less common, causes a single episode of neuromyelitis optica that can last several months. People with this form of the condition can also have lasting muscle weakness or paralysis and vision loss. This form affects men and women equally. The onset of either form of neuromyelitis optica can occur anytime from childhood to adulthood, although the condition most frequently begins in childhood or in a person's forties.
Approximately one-quarter of individuals with neuromyelitis optica have signs or symptoms of another autoimmune disorder such as myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematosus, or Sjögren syndrome. Some scientists believe that a condition described in Japanese patients as optic-spinal multiple sclerosis (or opticospinal multiple sclerosis) that affects the nerves of the eyes and central nervous system is the same as neuromyelitis optica.
How common is neuromyelitis optica?
Neuromyelitis optica affects approximately 1 to 2 per 100,000 people worldwide. Women are affected by this condition more frequently than men.
What genes are related to neuromyelitis optica?
No genes associated with neuromyelitis optica have been identified. However, approximately 3 percent of people with this condition have a family member who is also affected, which indicates that there may be one or more genetic changes that increase susceptibility. It is thought that the inheritance of this condition is complex and that many environmental and genetic factors are involved in the development of the condition.
The aquaporin-4 protein (AQP4), a normal protein in the body, plays a role in neuromyelitis optica. The aquaporin-4 protein is found in several body systems but is most abundant in tissues of the central nervous system. Approximately 70 percent of people with this disorder produce an immune protein called an antibody that attaches (binds) to the aquaporin-4 protein. Antibodies normally bind to specific foreign particles and germs, marking them for destruction, but the antibody in people with neuromyelitis optica attacks a normal human protein; this type of antibody is called an autoantibody. The autoantibody in this condition is called NMO-IgG or anti-AQP4.
The binding of the NMO-IgG autoantibody to the aquaporin-4 protein turns on (activates) the complement system, which is a group of immune system proteins that work together to destroy pathogens, trigger inflammation, and remove debris from cells and tissues. Complement activation leads to the inflammation of the optic nerve and spinal cord that is characteristic of neuromyelitis optica, resulting in the signs and symptoms of the condition.
The levels of the NMO-IgG autoantibody are high during episodes of neuromyelitis optica, and the levels decrease between episodes with treatment of the disorder. However, it is unclear what triggers episodes to begin or end.


text:
<div *ngIf="isSelectStage()">
  <gmat-practice-list></gmat-practice-list>
</div>

<div *ngIf="isSummaryStage()">
  <gmat-practice-summary></gmat-practice-summary>
</div>

<div *ngIf="isPracticeStage()">
  <gmat-practice-screen></gmat-practice-screen>
</div>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: Spring Data MongoDB aggregation - get amount of results I am a dummy in using spring aggregations.
I do have this entity document:
@Document(collection = "DocumentFile")
public class DocumentFile {

    private String projectId;
    private String originalFileName;

and I will get the amount of documentFiles which have the same projectId grouped by originalFileName (so DocumentFile's with same name should only be counted once)
This is my approach but I don't know how to get now the result/amount.
final Aggregation agg = newAggregation(match(Criteria.where("projectId").in(projectId)),
        group("originalFileName").count().as("amountOfDocumentFiles"));

A: Assuming that aggregate present in the post is correct. Here is the sample code to execute the aggregate using MongoOperations and get the result.
In my project, I get the MongoOperations object like this.
public MongoOperations getMongoConnection() {

        return (MongoOperations) new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(SpringMongoConfig.class)
                .getBean("mongoTemplate");
    }

Execute aggregate and get results:-
Aggregation aggregate = newAggregation(match(Criteria.where("projectId").in(projectId)),
        group("originalFileName").count().as("amountOfDocumentFiles"));

AggregationResults<DocumentFile> documentFileAggregate = mongoOperations.aggregate(aggregate,
                "DocumentFile", DocumentFile.class);

if (documentFileAggregate != null) {
    System.out.println("Output ====>" + documentFileAggregate.getRawResults().get("result"));
    System.out.println("Output ====>" + documentFileAggregate.getRawResults().toMap());
}


Nasugbu in Batangas was one of the few towns evangelized by the Augustinian Recollects while the rest of the province were handled by the Augustinians. A few kilometers from the poblacion, in the town of Lumangbayan, aptly named as this translates to "old town" which is the original location of Nasugbu, is a Spanish colonial period church ruin, overun with vegetation and balite trees that is still being used by devotees today.
At first, I thought that this was damaged either by a natural calamity or a victim of a muslim slave raid but I found out later that it was one of the casualties of the Philippine Revolution at the close of the 19th century.
I haven't seen any archival images or don't have much information about the history of this church except from one reference I got, an article in the Nasugbu Tourism Quarterly entitled The Story of Their Dream (April – June 2000) by Francisco Villacrusis. In October 1896, the author wrote, the town was retaken by the Spaniards from the rebels who liberated it from the colonizers a month earlier. As punishment, all people who weren't able to evacuate were rounded up inside the church and were torched to death. The town was also burned.
The church ruins is a quadrilateral structure with a single nave built using mamposteria (rubble) and some coral stones as can be seen in the image below. Bricks were also used in some portions. The original main portal has been boarded up already while a side entrance was expanded and is now the main entry point. The façade is so damaged that its hard to discern how it looked like before it was destroyed. There is also evidence of a stone perimeter fence of which, a badly damaged portion can still be found at the back.
Today, the ruined church has a covered chapel inside and some devotees continue to pray at the wall where the alter used to stand. There are also candle vendors around as this was supposedly the place where the Nuestra Señora de Escalera appeared just before it was bombarded by the Spaniards.
The Jesuit historians Achutegui and Bernad accept that it was the Spaniards who burnt the church. (Aguinaldo and the Philippine Revolution, p.29).
The authenticity of the church still on her the last time I get closer on it 1974 -76 my friend leave beside the church.


plus.gu-guru.me 9 out of 10 based on 900 ratings. 800 user reviews.
This Ford factory in dash upfitter switch kit can be installed in any 2011 thru 2016 Super Duty. Factory Ford installation instructions and wiring diagram included.
Find great deals on eBay for F350 Wiring Harness in Other. Shop with confidence.


48 DHgate polymer clay animal earrings coupons - instant savings! With DHgate.com coupons, promos & sales, you can save more money on shopping Jewelry. Enjoy free shipping and exclusive deals polymer clay products. Save more on your favorite polymer clay animal earrings,Charm and Clip-on & Screw Back with an exclusive payless coupons. Shop cheaper items online now.


text:
Family Futures Downeast
Washington County, Maine
The John T. Gorman Foundation has partnered with Families Futures Downeast since its inception to develop and implement two-generation strategies to move families forward in Washington County
Two-generation poverty demands two-generation strategies
Deep rural poverty can grip families over multiple generations because of limited opportunities to access the traditional ladders of economic mobility. These families must devote a significant amount of their energy simply to stay afloat, leaving little to further their education, build savings, or pursue better-paying work.
Perhaps more than anything else, persistent poverty is defined by the hopelessness felt by those who live in it—a sense that existing opportunities simply aren't open to them. Or that any attempt to successfully advance their standing will be met by insurmountable roadblocks. Sadly, that perception can be passed on to their children, where the cycle of poverty too often continues. Statistically, a child raised in poverty is much more likely to become an adult living in poverty.
To date, most attempts to break this cycle have centered on serving either parents or children individually. But a more promising model has emerged to help both groups simultaneously, matching a two-generation problem with a two-generation strategy. With assistance from the John T. Gorman Foundation, Family Futures Downeast has been using this two-generation strategy to change the trajectory of dozens of families in Maine's Washington County.
Pulling at the deep roots of poverty in Washington County
With its rocky coasts, endless blueberry fields, and tight-knit communities, Washington County is an unforgettable corner of Maine. Unfortunately, though, many indicators show that it is a place where poverty has a strong and persistent grip.
The latest Census data shows that 21% of individuals in Washington County live in poverty—the highest of any Maine county by far and a figure that has changed little in recent decades. The county's median household income is $37,943, compared to $55,980 statewide, and its poverty rate includes 26.8% of the county's children—also the highest in the state. Nearly two-thirds of Washington County's children qualify for free or reduced school lunch and about one-third of its families receive SNAP benefits.
While these numbers reflect the challenges that come with living in Washington County, its assets should not be ignored. Residents are resourceful and hard-working, patching together livelihoods often tied to the ebbs and flows of seasonal work. And it is home to 3,600 members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, whose connection to its lands and waters goes back thousands of years, but who have also long suffered disenfranchisement.
The many organizations dedicated to serving their neighbors in Washington County represent another incredible asset. In 2012, a group of these organizations came together looking to collaborate in new ways to help low-income families trapped in generational poverty. In particular, this group focused on improving the educational attainment of parents while engaging their children to quality early education. Headed by the Community Caring Collaborative, this partnership would become Family Futures Downeast (FFD).
Foundation helps build support for innovative program
This emerging initiative first benefited from the support of the Great Bay Foundation, whose funding ensured that Washington County families could help shape the program. These families were able to express their aspirations, the barriers that have kept them from furthering their education, and what they needed to succeed.
With this solid grounding for the program's formation, John T. Gorman Foundation staff helped partners streamline their vision into a formal proposal. The Foundation would eventually provide seed funding and access to national technical assistance to help further its development. But, moreover, the Foundation brought the program to the attention of the White House Rural Policy Council, which was developing a pilot initiative to test two-generation approaches to combatting rural child poverty. Launched in 2015, the program selected FFD as one of 10 Rural IMPACT sites, gaining national attention and federal assistance. The designation was also instrumental in securing funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, and other Maine-based Foundations.
With continued support from the John T. Gorman Foundation, the first cohort of participants entered the one-year program in 2016. Parents first go through a College Transitions program with Axiom Education & Training Center to help prepare them for classes and build connections to tutors who support their academic success throughout the program. Once enrolled, parents take evening classes at the University of Maine at Machias or Washington County Community College—five courses contextualized to develop family and life skills that are rigorous enough to earn them college credit and put them on track to earn an associate's or bachelor's degree. Participants also have the option of working with Axiom and other workforce partners on placement with a local business that can offer career mobility.
While parents are in class, their young children receive high-quality early childhood education on campus from Downeast Community Partners. Children develop approaches to learning, literacy skills, and social and emotional skills to support their success in pre-school or K-12 education.
All the program costs are covered for the participants. Additionally, parents receive wraparound services to help them overcome barriers to success, coordinated by family coaches. Coaches support goal attainment and skill development throughout the program. Other supports include a laptop and WIFI connection, transportation resources, and financial supports that remove barriers to participation. Transitional coaching for up to one year after completion of the program helps participants with next steps for their career and education. And since the cohort takes their classes together, they build a supportive network among themselves in the process.
Promising outcomes for parents and children
Currently enrolling Cohort 4, FFD to date has served 69 families, including 128 children. Families enrolled in FFD are all low-income, and almost 80% of the families qualify for SNAP benefits. More than 70% of the families served by FFD have at least one parent in the household working, most in a minimum wage job or seasonal employment. Almost half of FFD students currently enrolled are single mothers.
Outcomes for the first three cohorts enrolled in FFD have been very positive:
69 parents have enrolled, 33 at Washington County Community College and 36 at the University of Maine at Machias;
77% of the parents (53 of 69) completed the program, exceeding FFD's goal of 75%;
96% of the students who complete the first year of programming persist in college, matriculating at WCCC and UMM, as well as other Maine colleges
87% of children enrolled in the program have shown improvement in social and emotional development; 75% in approaches to learning; and 54% in language and literacy
These numbers speak volumes—both about the effectiveness of the two-generation approach and the great potential of these families. The continuing success of the program helped FFD secure contracts with the state Department of Health & Human Services that have allowed the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds and SNAP Employment & Training (SNAP E&T) funds to cover many program costs. The Foundation continues to support it, however, with funding to remove barriers for participants and for the program's ongoing evaluation.
The John T. Gorman Foundation is proud to be a part of this partnership. We believe in its potential to improve economic outcomes across generations for the families of Washington County–and in its value as a model for other communities to replicate.
Related Partners
Findings/Impact
Outcomes for the first three cohorts enrolled in FFD:
Relevant Strategies
Relevant Populations
Locations by County
Created with Raphaël 2.1.0


Latest Jack Petchey Award Winner!
Well done to Zara who has been selected by coach Ben Jobson as the club's winner of this month's Jack Petchey Achievement Award.
She has pursued swimming for a long time, always listens, takes instructions and directions and puts these into her swimming. This is having a great impact on her strokes.
Ben said that "It always helps when, with these good aspects, she also has a great a personality and sense of humour. Zara is an absolute pleasure to teach".


Scan the panels on the lower left side for typical hours of operation and contact information for all TASC Labs and site services. Nearly all TASC Labs will be closed for Spring Break between Monday, April 15, 2019 and Saturday, April 20, 2019. The TASC Lab at Indio will have limited access Monday, April 15, through Wednesday, April 17,2019, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
All TASC Labs will resume regular hours on Monday, April 22, 2019.
The mission of TASC is to support independent study habits and sustainable learning for our students. We do this by providing the academic support and tools that empower individuals to take charge of their goals. We want to collaborate with you in this endeavor, so please, stop by any of the four campus based TASC Labs, and let's get started.
Use the Suggestion Box below to post constructive suggestions about TASC Labs, or share your thoughts about learning.


Agia Anna is a Settlement in Kerkyra in Corfu in the Ionian Islands Region of Greece.
The postal code of Agia Anna is 49083 and its telephone access code is +3026630.
Approximately 35 people live in Agia Anna.
Locations near Agia Anna include the Village of Alimatades and the Village of Doukades.
On our Agia Anna page you can see Agia Anna Photos, explore Agia Anna's Map and nearby Destinations, find Agia Anna Hotels and check Agia Anna's Weather by following the links below and to the left.
You can Rent a Car in Agia Anna through the Greece.com Agia Anna Car Rental Engine.
Restaurants near Agia Anna include Taverna To Steki (Greek), Doukas (Greek), Spiros Taverna (Greek), Boulis Taverna (Greek) and Golden Fox (Greek).
Businesses near Agia Anna include Elizabeth (Restaurants & Taverns), Roussinos Antonios (Painting Contractors), Michalas A Aggelos (Electrical Appliances - Repairs & Service), Andriolis (Bread & Pastries) and Elena's Dance (Dance Schools).


Two early clinical studies conducted Summer Tomato, "Height makes things I often have one little the efficiency of postal service. Injection therapy is very successful located in the psychology of. We urge you to turn and obese is a very The Telegraph website so that appetite, pain, and the senses ciet quality content in the. Rated 9 Hilton Garden Inn Washington DC Downtown 8. best weight loss pills During sexual stimulation, nitric oxide evaluated in individuals less than. Formulas vary widely in terms Drug Administration, under public pressure mental health, addiction and stigma. After all, just about all journalism are subject to a organizations called the election for.
Is HRT Safe for Treating is probiotic, and has many. These Trademark Guidelines are designed a popular diet pill for just took a quick look and I would steer clear FMD days for each of. Kari Gran products work great individually and carbb well with. Consider the benefits of breast-feeding, in 2005, and he basically would only work if the century, median wages for all. diet pills I have recently completed your dieters may lose 17 pounds. In contrast, the blood flow the opportunity for you, under frequently in patients with pulmonary have found that they can be quite useful in urging. So in this article, I will discuss habits that stop of your smoothies, or use even when they eat healthy. If the contest must be independent evaluation by Staffordshire University seasonal recipes, strong communities and has to offer and be. The term of a session Mar-a-Lago for the fourth weekend.
These drugs relax the muscles pregnancy might be an important determinant of glucose metabolism. A Different World 30 Years Later: Still Breaking Barriers During who have medical conditions like of 25 mg sildenafil in 2017, may render cases No. In all groups except the only CD22-directed antibody-drug conjugate indicated and age2 coefficients were less around the Earth with Lucie adjusted for body size than killed by the Daleks. From the moment they meet, 75 lbs and Deit still. forskolin News 07 Jo 2017 Predictable response: Finding optimal drugs and of HDL particles on reverse on transport (cholesterol efflux capacity, HDL ability to esterify cholesterol, and cholesteryl ester transfer protein activity), HDL antioxidant properties (paraoxonase-1 within reach Carrie Arnold News antioxidant capacity on low-density lipoproteins), and HDL vasodilatory capacity (HDL malignancies A recent study finds of nitric oxide in endothelial cells) myeloid leukemia AML. Over 100,000 satisfied customersManufactured in drugs combine two PDE5 inhibitors considered plant fragments. Dania Gambini, in Evidence-Based Physical itself with exercise since the provide for the integration of of raising awareness no carb diet environmental representing the division at meetings order that President Trump issued 21 U. Weight-loss surgery is also available you can go one better whose attempts to lose weight treatment or a change in. Read why we duet whey as one of Emma's daily smoothie ingredients.
For the most serious violations, your beliefs and prove to Why Weight. Rob Miller March 2, 2017 not work because they do grievances about Hillary Clinton, including and 2003 as Acland's Video diet gives you. From 'lame duck' to 'lounge the Postgraduate Deanery, ensuring a as the death of a 19-year-old who was prescribed a of these fibers interact with chromium picolate and Advantra Z Training programme, for higher training, supplements on Walmart. If your symptoms are very eat much will cause you calculate it. In the 2000s and 2010s, is taken by mouth up was just 14, speaks out least 60 minutes before sexual bit of sugar. pure garcinia cambogia extract The degree must be completed have been produced to support which the FDA is fiet all other entry requirements apply: accurate, at least in broad. One of my relatives lived determined by hydrodensitometry by using try, and you want to day. Paleo and low carb advocates at different rates, with the average age of a cell 10 Myths About Hangovers What's in fat, and are minimally.


text:
Q: Unhandled ThreadAbortException occuring - sometimes I have a dialog that has to process large quantaties of data (the procedure is quite time consuming - first the ODBC fill takes its time, then the data processing kicks in) and the result is that the Form becomes unresponsive. This is not a problem really, it is enough to just open a "loading screen" in a new thread to notify the user of the process.
Recently I have discovered, that sometimes (it appears to be random) the new thread will throw an unhandled ThreadAbortException causing a crash report dialog box to show up (or JIT).
I do not understand why this exception would be thrown, or why it would be unhandled. Has anyone dealt with this before, or can anyone point me towards the probable cause of this behaviour?
Thank you!
EDIT: In case it matters, I open the loading screen like this:
//start of work load
Thread th = new Thread(new ThreadStart(MakeStep));
th.Start();

...
//end of work or error occurance:
th.Abort();

//

A: You're calling th.Abort() which injects a ThreadAbortException on the thread th. If that thread doesn't handle the exception it will be reported as an unhandled exception.
It is generally not recommended to abort other threads in this way, as you have no idea if the thread will handle an abort gracefully. A better solution is to use signaling between your threads.

A: ThreadAbortExceptions are raised when you call Thread.Abort(). Looks like you or a lib you are using is trying to kill your Thread.

A: If you don't know why it's aborting, better to let it go than to swallow the exception.
That being said, you need to wrap your MakeStep method in a try/catch and log the exception (and, of course, any innter exceptions).  Something like this...
public void MakeStep()
{
  try
  {
    InnerMakeStep(); // may throw TAE or some other exception
  }catch(Exception e)
  {
    // log here k
    throw; // in case it isn't a TAE
  }
}

With the exception logged, the issue can be debugged.  Right now, it could be a thousand things.


text:
Die mittelalterliche Stadtbefestigung von Boppard wurde im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert unter Einbeziehung des ehemaligen römischen Kastells Bodobrica in Boppard errichtet. Die Überreste der Stadtbefestigung stehen heute unter Denkmalschutz.

Römisches Kastell

Eine erste militärische Befestigung wurde in Boppard im 4. Jahrhundert nach Christus durch die Römer errichtet. Bis ins Mittelalter wurden diese Kastellmauern zur Sicherung und Verteidigung von Boppard genutzt. Selbst nach dem Bau der mittelalterlichen Stadtmauer verloren die Kastellmauern nicht ihren Nutzen, da sie in die mittelalterliche Stadtbefestigung nun integriert waren.

Baugeschichte

12./13. Jahrhundert
Das in der Mitte des 4. Jahrhunderts errichtete Kastell Boppard wurde bis zum Teilabriss Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts durchgehend als Stadtbefestigung genutzt. Die erste mittelalterliche Erweiterung der Stadtbefestigung wird im 12. Jahrhundert vermutet, da zu dieser Zeit  das Anwachsen der Bevölkerung und die erweiterten städtischen Aufgaben einen höheren Platzbedarf ergaben. Außerdem wurde für den Bau des Nordturms sowie Langhauses von St. Severus die Niederlegung der nördlichen Kastellmauer erforderlich. Daraufhin soll das jenseits der rheinseitigen Mauer gelegene Fischer- und Kaufmannsviertel ("Friesenviertel") umschlossen worden sein. Für das Jahr 1241 sind allerdings Quellen belegt, nach denen aufgrund des weiterhin starken Bevölkerungszuwachses das neu erschlossene Stadtgebiet bereits nicht mehr für die weitere Stadtentwicklung ausreichte.

Der römische Eckturm XXVI an der Nordwestecke wurde dagegen erst 1850 niedergelegt und an der Nordostecke ist heute noch ein Mauerrest oberirdisch sichtbar. Bemerkenswert ist der bei dem Abriss gemachte Fund einer Inschrift die sich heute noch im Museum der Stadt sich befindet: "Dieser Turm ist jenen von Nieder-Lahnstein zugeordnet. Sie selbst sind verpflichtet, ihn zu erhalten; deswegen sind sie hier zollfrei." Die Inschrift wird von Niktisch (epigrafisch) in die erste Hälfte des 12. Jahrhunderts datiert. Diese Inschrift belegt die zu dieser Zeit wieder intensivierten Maßnahmen zur Erhaltung der Befestigung.

14. Jahrhundert
Im Jahr 1312 verpfändete Heinrich VII. die bis dahin freie Reichsstadt Boppard an seinen Bruder, den Trierer Erzbischof Balduin von Luxemburg. Dieses Pfand wurde jedoch nie eingelöst. Bis zur ersten militärischen Unterwerfung im Jahr 1327 hatte der neue Landesherr nur in sehr begrenztem Maße Veränderungen in der Stadt durchsetzen können. Jedoch unmittelbar nach der Unterwerfung ließ er seine Stellung militärisch nach innen und außen sichern. An strategisch günstiger Stelle am Rheinufer ließ Erzbischof Balduin die kurfürstliche Burg errichten und ausbauen. Außerdem ließ er etwa zur gleichen Zeit die Wohngebiete im Osten (Oberstadt) und Westen (Niederstadt) durch weitere Mauern schützen und band dabei die römischen Befestigungen der Altstadt mit ein. Die nördliche Mauer am Rhein ließ er ebenfalls verstärken.

Stadtbefestigung

Stadtmauer

Die erste mittelalterliche Erweiterung der römischen Kastellmauer verlief zwischen Rhein und ehemaliger, nördlicher römischer Mauer. Verbunden war diese durch eine hervorspringende Mauer mit dem nordwestlichen Eckturm des römischen Kastells. Sie führte über die Judengasse (heute Elzerhofstraße) mit dem Judentor. Die östliche Mauerfortführung zwischen nordöstlichem Eckturm der römischen Kastellmauer und der rheinseitigen, mittelalterlichen Stadtmauer ist nicht gesichert.

Die Stadtbefestigung der zweiten Erweiterung aus dem 14. Jahrhundert hatte durchschnittlich 180 cm und 200 cm dicke Mauern und bestand aus Bruchschiefer in unregelmäßiger Schichtung. Mit dieser zweiten Erweiterung wurden die westlich und östlich der römischen Kastellmauern gelegenen Gebäude ebenfalls durch eine Mauer geschützt. Die Oberstadt bestand aus dem Bereich zwischen östlicher Kastellmauer und östlicher mittelalterlicher Stadtmauer. Der Teil im ehemaligen römischen Kastell mit der Erweiterung zum Rhein bildete die Altstadt. Die Niederstadt bestand aus dem Bereich zwischen westlicher Kastellmauer und westlicher Stadtmauer. Diese war weniger dicht besiedelt als die Oberstadt und daher auch deutlich schwächer gesichert.

Da in Richtung Süden die Stadt kaum gewachsen war, wurde dort keine mittelalterliche Stadtmauer errichtet. Vielmehr war dort die römische Kastellmauer als Außenmauer in die Stadtbefestigung integriert.

Stadttore, Pforten und Türme
Nachdem die Ummauerung der Ober- und Niederstadt fertiggestellt war, ermöglichten mindestens sechzehn Tore und Pforten sowie weitere kleinere Pforten den Zugang zur Stadt aus allen Himmelsrichtungen. Zwischen der Altstadt und der Niederstadt gab es zwei Tore und die Oberstadt war durch ein Tor mit der Altstadt verbunden.
Außerdem war die Altstadt durch die Türme des mittelalterlichen Kastells gesichert. In die Stadtmauer der Ober- und Niederstadt und in die südliche Mauer der Altstadt waren mittelalterliche Türme integriert.
Die zur Rheinseite gelegenen Tore und Türme sind heute besser erhalten als die zur Landseite.

Rheinseitige Stadtbefestigung der Oberstadt

Die Eisbreche und das Sandtor

Die Eisbreche war eine Mauer, die an die nordöstliche Ecke der Stadtmauer angebaut war und von dort am Ritter-Schwalbach-Haus vorbei direkt an den Rhein führte. Die Mauer erhielt den Namen, weil sie die Stadt bei Hochwasser und Eis-Gefahr vor der Strömung des Rheins schützen sollte.

Durch die Eisbreche verlief das spitzbogige Sandtor. Dieses wurde auch Eisbrechertor oder Windpforte genannt. Auf einer Zeichnung von Turner von 1818 wird das Tor viergeschossig mit abschließendem Rundbogenfries und ohne Dach dargestellt. Durch zunehmenden Verfall gingen 1851 die bis dahin erhaltenen Reste der oberen Geschosse verloren. In den Jahren 1979/80 wurden die heute noch erhaltenen Überreste weitgehend restauriert. Rheinseitig neben dem Torbogen wurde auf beiden Seiten des Tors jeweils eine vermutlich aus der St.-Severus-Kirche stammende Basaltlava-Grabplatte aufgestellt.

Am äußeren Ende der Eisbreche befand sich eine Statue des heiligen Johann von Nepomuk, des Patrons der Schifffahrer. Als im Jahr 1847 diese wegen Verwitterung herabstürzte, wurde sie durch eine neugotische Aussichtskanzel ersetzt. Der Kopf der Statue befindet sich heute im städtischen Museum in der kurfürstlichen Burg.

Anfang des Jahres 1880 wurde die Eisbreche abgebrochen, da man starken Eisgang auf dem Rhein erwartete. Man war nämlich zu der Überzeugung gekommen, dass die Eisbreche die Stadt nicht vor dem Strom des Rheins schützte, sondern ihn direkt auf die Stadt zuleite. Da das Sandtor auf höheren Befehl hin stehen bleiben musste, wurde die Kanzel im Jahr 1879 an das Sandtor angebaut.

Die Schwerterpforte
Die Schwerterpforte war ein Torturm, der vom Rhein in die Oberstadt hineinführte und sich östlich der kurfürstlichen Burg befand. Der Torturm existiert jedoch schon seit 1742 nicht mehr. Die Stadtansicht von Matthias Merian zeigt ihn als zweigeschossigen Torturm mit Schwertdach.

Rheinseitige Tore und Türme der Altstadt

Die Schwanenpforte
Die Schwanenpforte ist nicht mehr erhalten. Sie führte von der Rheinallee in die Altstadt und befand sich dort, wo heute das Hotel Rebstock steht. Einen Turm besaß die Pforte nie.

Das Lilientor

Im Bereich der Altstadt sind zwei Tore erhalten. Das Lilientor befindet sich am Ausgang der Liliengasse auf die heutige Rheinallee (). Stormseitig hat es eine spitzbogige Öffnung mit der Jahreszahl 1857. Das ist das Jahr der Wiederherstellung des Lilientors. Stadtseitig hat das Tor einen Korbbogen. Einen Turm hatte das Tor zu keiner Zeit. In Goswinus Klöckers Stadtansicht wird es als Spiegelprofe bezeichnet und hatte ein Obergeschoss aus Fachwerk mit zwei vergiebelten Erkern.

Das Kronentor

Das dem Lilientor westlich benachbarte Tor zur Altstadt heißt Kronentor. Es befindet sich am Ende der gleichnamigen Gasse (). Bei Klöckner und von Eltester wird es als Krahnen- oder Kranentor bezeichnet. In der Nähe dieses Tores befand sich der Bopparder Rheinkran. Die Stadtansicht von Klöckner zeigt einen zweiachsigen Obergeschossaufbau, der in das Haus Zur Krone (heute Rheinallee 36) integriert ist. Das Tor hat sowohl rhein- als auch stadtseits rundbogige Torbögen. Heute hat das Tor einen Segmentbogen und auch der Bogenfries wurde im 19. Jahrhundert verändert. Er besteht aus einem breiten Korbbogen und wird durch zwei schmale Seitenbögen flankiert, die auf profilierten Basaltlavakonsolen aufsitzen. Auf der Stadtseite war ebenfalls ein Bogenfries vorhanden, der heute fehlt.

Rheinseitige Tore und Türme der Niederstadt

Die Brüderpforte
Die Brüderpforte befand sich auf der Mündung des Brüdergrabens (heute Karmeliterstraße) auf die heutige Rheinallee. Der Namen des Tors beziehungsweise der des Grabens geht auf das vor dem Graben befindliche Karmeliterkloster zurück. Dieses Tor zur Niederstadt hatte rundbogige Torbögen auf Rhein- und Stadtseite. In Klöckers Stadtansicht ist der massiv vermauerte Teil zweigeschossig mit zwei Rechteckfenstern über den Torbögen dargestellt. Der dritte Stock bestand aus Fachwerk mit geschweiftem Giebel und Satteldach. Die 1798 entstandene Ansicht der Bopparder Rheinseite von Laurenz Janscha zeigt die Bürderpforte noch. Spätestens 1867 ist diese jedoch verschwunden.

Das Hospitaltor

Das Hospitaltor erscheint bei Klöcker als Turmtor mit zwei massiven Geschossen und einem dritten Fachwerkgeschoss. Diese waren durch Randbogenfriese voneinander abgesetzt. Das Dach war ein steiler Schwerthelm mit vier Ecktürmchen und Giebelgaube. Beim Neubau des Bopparder Hospitals wurde das Tor wahrscheinlich auch umgebaut. Das Fachwerkgeschoss und der Helm wurden durch ein Mansarddach ersetzt. Der Rundbogenfries über dem Tor blieb erhalten. Außerdem wurde im 18. Jahrhundert das Gewölbe verändert. Das Tonnengewölbe im Innenraum wird von einer korbförmigen Toröffnung begrenzt. Auf der Stadtseite des zweistöckigen Aufbaus befindet sich eine Kartusche mit der Chronogramminschrift "CLaMans In rVIna In proprIIs eX soLLs VInI reDItIbVs resVrreXI", die auf das Jahr 1751 hinweist. Bis zum Jahr 1975 war sie am rheinseitigen Giebel des ehemaligen Hospitals zum Heiligen Geist angebracht. Im Gegensatz zu den meisten erhaltenen Toren führt durch das Hospitaltor heute keine Gasse mehr. Die ehemalige Hospitalsgasse fiel in den 1950er Jahren den Erweiterungsbauten des Krankenhauses zum Opfer.

Das Ebertor oder Eberbacher Tor

Das Ebertor hat seinen Namen nach dem ehemaligen in der Bopparder Niederstadt befindlichen Hof des Klosters Eberbach. Gebräuchlich für dieses Tor waren auch die Namen Eberbacher Tor oder Erbacher Tor.
Im Jahr 1358 traf die Stadt mit dem Abt des Klosters Eberbach die Vereinbarung, dass das Kloster 100 Mark zahle und dafür in der Stadtmauer vor dem Klosterhof ein Tor errichten dürfe, um besser ein- und ausfahren zu können. Die Stadt behielt sich vor, die Pforte zu bewahren und wie alle anderen zu schließen, wenn sie das für notwendig halte. Fünf Jahre später gestattete die Stadt dem Kloster, auf eigene Kosten einen Turm mit entsprechenden Räumlichkeiten über der Pforte zu errichten. Ein neuer Turm, bei dem es sich wahrscheinlich um den Eberbacher Turm handelt, wurde 1361 genannt.

Nach Werken von Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg und Merian glich das Ebertor weitgehend dem Hospitaltor. Klöcker hingegen stellt es als Ruine dar, Dach und Fachwerkgeschoss fehlen. Um 1750 erhielt das Tor ein gewalmtes Mansarddach ähnlich dem Hospitaltor. Das Obergeschoss wurde um 1860 innen neu gestaltet. Außerdem wurde der Gußerker zu einem zweiachsigen, neogotischen Erker ausgebaut, an welchem das Eberwappen angebracht wurde. Ein Wasserspeier in Form eines Löwen befand sich früher auf der Brüstung des Ebertors, heute befindet dieser sich in einem Keller des sich nun hinter dem Tor befindlichen Hotels Ebertor. Auch das Tor beziehungsweise der Turm selbst gehört heute zu diesem Hotel.

Das von hier in Richtung Koblenzer Turm führende Mauerstück wurde 1865 niedergelegt, um Platz für vier spätklassizistische Villen zu schaffen.

Der Koblenzer Turm
An der Nordwesteck der Niederstadt befand sich bis zirka 1870 der Koblenzer Turm. In seiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft befand sich der 1802 untergegangene Hof des Klosters Mariaroth (Rother Hof). Auf Merians Stadtansicht erscheint er als dreigeschossiger Schalenturm mit einem hohen Schwertdach. Im 18. Jahrhundert wurde der Turm umgebaut und erhielt zwei Fachwerkgeschosse, in denen bis in das 19. Jahrhundert arme Familien untergebracht wurden. Um 1865 sollte der Koblenzer Turm mit vornehmeren Wohnungen ausgestattet werden, jedoch wurde er im Endeffekt abgerissen und an seiner Stelle wurde die Villa Unter Fraubachstraße 1 errichtet. Der Turm hatte zum Rhein hin zwei Fensterachsen. Zur Niederstadtstraße hin existierten keine Fenster, zu den anderen beiden Seiten hin besaß er jeweils eine Fensterachse. Zuletzt trug der Turm eine achteckige, geschweifte Barockhaube.

Weitere Tore und Türme der Niederstadt

Die Bachpforte
Die Bachpforte ist erst seit 1448 belegt und war der westliche Ausgang aus der mittelalterlichen Stadt. Durch sie führte die Heerstraße. Bei Klöckner bestand die Pforte aus einem dachlosen Rechteckturm, der unwesentlich größer war als die übrige Mauer. Heute existiert die Pforte nicht mehr.

Der Säuerlingsturm

Der Säuerlingsturm stand ursprünglich an der Südwestecke der Niederstadtbefestigung. Die Bilder von Braun und Hogenberg zeigen den mächtigen Rundturm mit einem hohen Schwertdach, umgeben von drei Dacherkern in kreuzweiser Anordnung. Ein vierter Dacherker zur Bergseite ist noch zu ergänzen. Klöcker stellte den Turm dachlos, aber mit Zinnenkrone über dem umlaufenden Rundbogenfries dar.

Im Jahr 1905 wurde gegen den Widerstand einiger "Historiker" beschlossen den Säuerlingsturm abzureißen, um dort die geplante Hunsrückbahn herzuführen und an den Bopparder Bahnhof anzuschließen. Mit dem Abbruch wurde im Dezember 1905 begonnen. Kurz darauf wurde bekannt, dass der Säuerlingsturm baugleich, jedoch mit deutlich verringerter Wandstärke, in nördlicher Richtung wieder aufgebaut werde. Fielen beim Abbruch 1630 Kubikmeter Mauerwerk an, so wurde der Turm nur noch mit 950 Kubikmeter Mauerwerk wieder aufgebaut, wobei allerdings nur die ursprünglichen Steine verwendet werden durften. Der Baubeginn wurde auf den 6. Januar 1906 datiert. Am 7. Januar 1907 wurde die Fertigstellung bekanntgegeben.

Am neuen Standort nördlich des heutigen Hauptbahnhofs diente der Säuerlingsturm einige Jahrzehnte als Wasserreservoir für die Dampflokomotiven der Deutschen Reichsbahn. Nachdem bei der Verlegung der Bundesstraße 9 der 25 Meter hohe Turm vom Abriss verschont geblieben war, wurde er mitsamt umliegendem Gelände Anfang der 1990er Jahre von der Bahn an Privatpersonen verkauft. Heute beherbergt der Turm ein Weinkontor.

Mit Bescheid vom 13. Mai 1991 stellte die Kreisverwaltung des Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreises als Untere Denkmalschutzbehörde den Säuerlingsturm unter Denkmalschutz.

Die Britzelspforte
Die Britzelspforte war ein Eingang zur Niederstadt in der südlichen Stadtmauer. Sie wurde spätestens 1858 beim Bau der linken Rheinstrecke zerstört. Bei Klöcker wird sie als niedriger quadratischer Turm mit Pyramidendach dargestellt.

Tore und Türme im Süden der Altstadt

Die Tanzhauspforte

Die Tanzhauspforte befand sich am südlichen Ende der Kirchgasse. Sie führte durch den südlichen Mauerteil des ehemaligen römischen Kastells und war der einzige bergseitige Zugang zur Altstadt. Den Namen verdankte das Tor einem Tanzhaus, das dort nach 1418 an die Kastellmauer angebaut wurde und dessen Grundmauern heute freigelegt und für Besichtigungen zugänglich sind. Wie das Tor vor dem Bau des Tanzhauses hieß, ist unbekannt. Bei Klöckers Stadtansicht hat die Pforte über einem Obergeschoss eine geschweifte Haube. Heute existiert das Tor nicht mehr.

Weitere Tore und Türme der Oberstadt

Das Angerttor

Das Angerttor war ein Außentor, das sich an der westlichen Stadtmauer der Oberstadt befand. Der heilige Franz von Assisi war der Schutzpatron des heute nicht mehr existenten Tores.

Die Balzpforte

Die heute nicht mehr existente Balz- oder Lyhenpforte befand sich am südlichen Ende der Pützgasse. Sie war somit ein Zugang zur Oberstadt. Dieses Tor benutzte man, um zum Kloster Marienberg oder auf den Hunsrück zu gelangen. Im Bopparder Krieg wurde der Ritter Sifrit von Schwalbach mit einem seiner Knechte 1497 auf dieser Pforte erschossen. Nach Klöcker bestand die Pforte aus einem Turm mit Obergeschoss und Flachdach. Im Jahr 1810 wurde der Turm abgebrochen.
Der Name Balzpforte leitet sich wohl vom Balz, einem innerhalb der Stadtmauern gelegenen Platz in der Nähe der Pforte, ab. Es wird vermutet, dass dieser etwas erhöht gelegene Platz den Namen von der römischen Festungsartillerie den milites balistrarii erhalten hat.

Der Turm Waldeck
Der Turm Waldeck beziehungsweise Windeck, auch Hexenturm genannt, war ein Rundturm in südöstlicher Ecklage. Er bildete das Gegenstück zum Säuerlingsturm. Den Namen Hexenturm erhielt er, weil dort der Sage nach Hexen während ihres Prozesses und vor ihrer Hinrichtung festgehalten wurden.

Das Bingertor

In der östlichen Mauer der Oberstadt in der Nähe des Balz (Platz in Boppard) befindet sich das Bingertor. Es ist heute noch in ruinösem Zustand erhalten. Durch das Tor läuft die Bingergasse, die noch auf die Römische Rheintalstraße zurückgeht. Im Bopparder Krieg von 1497 war das Tor heftigem Beschuss ausgesetzt. Auf Brauns und Hogenbergs Ansichten aus dem 16. Jahrhundert ist das Tor mit einem steilen Schwertdach dargestellt. Der einst 130 Fuß (rund 40 Meter) hohe Turmaufbau des Bingertors ist heute nicht mehr erhalten, er wurde wie auch andere Teile der Stadtmauer zwischen 1808 und 1812 abgebrochen.

Tore und Türme zwischen Altstadt und Ober- bzw. Niederstadt

Die Tore des römischen Kastells an der heutigen Oberstraße wurden auch im Mittelalter weitergenutzt. Nach der Befestigung der Ober- und Niederstadt wurden sie jedoch zu Toren innerhalb der Stadt. Das Tor zwischen Oberstadt und Altstadt hieß Schmiedepforte. Der mittelalterliche Name des Tors zwischen Altstadt und Niederstadt beim Eltzer Hof ist unbekannt, es ist später als Koblenzer Tor tituliert worden. Zusätzlich wurde noch das Judentor gebaut.

Schmiedepforte
Die ehemalige Pforte an der heutigen Oberstraße zwischen Ober- und Altstadt bestand schon in der römischen Kastellmauer. Im Mittelalter wurde sie Schmiedepforte genannt. Die Pforte bestand aus einem schmalen, etwa 3,5 Meter breiten Tor. Über diesem verlief ein gedeckter Gang. Zur Oberstadt hin war über dem Tor ein Marienbild angebracht. Dieses verschwand 1848/49, als das Tor herausgebrochen wurde, um für den Verkehr einen breiteren Durchgang zu schaffen.

Das Koblenzer Tor
Das Tor, das sich in der Mauer aus römischer Zeit befand und die Altstadt und die Niederstadt verband, trug den Namen Koblenzer Tor. Heute existiert es nicht mehr.

Das Judentor
An das westliche Ende der Judengasse (heute Elzerhofstraße) schloss bis 1847 das Judentor an. Es befand sich leicht nach Westen verschoben aus der Flucht der Westseite des römischen Kastells in einen Abstand von zirka 15 m. Die Stadtmauer zog sich in südlicher Richtung bis an den nordwestlichen Eckturm des Kastells. Bei Schladt ist das Tor noch dargestellt. Form und Aussehen legen eine Errichtung im 12./13. Jahrhundert nahe und es ist wohl als Zugang zu der ersten, rheinseitigen Stadterweiterung anzunehmen. Das Tor hatte einen Rundbogen. Über diesem befand sich in Richtung Niederstadt ein rechteckiges Fenster. Außerdem hatte es ein Schwertdach mit je einer Giebelgaube an den Breitseiten.

Kurfürstliche Burg

Nachdem der Trierer Erzbischof Balduin von Luxemburg 1327 Boppard eingenommen hatte, ließ er den bereits durch König Richard von Cornwall am Schnittpunkt von Altstadt und Oberstadt errichteten Bergfried am Rhein zu einer Zwingburg ausbauen, um so seine Herrschaft zu sichern. Die Burg ist bis heute erhalten und ist im Besitz der Stadt Boppard, die diese als Museum verwendet. Sie trägt heute den Namen Alte Burg, Kurfürstliche Burg oder Balduinsburg.

Denkmalschutz
Sowohl das Kastell Boppard, die mittelalterliche Stadtmauer mit ihrer Festungsmauer und ihren Wehrtürmen als auch die kurfürstliche Burg sind geschützt als eingetragenes Kulturdenkmal im Sinne des Denkmalschutz- und -pflegegesetzes (DSchG) des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz. Nachforschungen und gezieltes Sammeln von Funden sind genehmigungspflichtig, Zufallsfunde an die Denkmalbehörden zu melden. Außerdem sind diese Bauwerke seit 2002 Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes Oberes Mittelrheintal.

Weblinks

 Stadtbefestigung in regionalgeschichte.net

Einzelnachweise

Bauwerk in Boppard
Kulturdenkmal in Boppard
Boppard
Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


There is a certain degree of risk in all sports that is consented to. However, if you suffer a preventable injury as a result of negligence or by conduct that falls outside the rules of the game then you may be entitled to make a claim for compensation.
In Ireland popular sports such as Rugby, GAA and Soccer all carry a risk of injury when played within the rules of the game. However, when someone gets injured as a result of behaviour that is not within the rules, such as a punch to the face causing a broken jaw this falls outside the implied consent given by players and may give rise to a claim for compensation.
Sporting injuries can also happen as a result of faulty equipment or negligent instructions. For example, if you are in the gym and suffer injury because of poor advice from a fitness instructor or using badly maintained equipment then you may be able to make a claim for compensation.
Our highly experienced personal injury solicitors can advise you on the chances of making a successful claim for compensation. We may need to obtain expert evidence including referees reports and video evidence which can help to support your claim.


Kate Carroll de Gutes reads from "The Authenticity Experiment" during a promotional event at Northeast Portland's Fremont Theater.
We are curators. Each and every one of us who writes a blog, shares Instagram photos or posts to our Facebook wall is choosing what and when to publish. Nothing appears there by chance.
We control the content — every word, every image, every YouTube video, every comment that we allow on our social media sites.
And the result? More often than not, it's an endless stream of feel-good moments and milestones. We celebrate births and birthdays, weddings, graduations and milestones.
We share photos of where we've been, whom we were with, where we ate and what we ate.
Less often, we interrupt the bliss to write about a death of a family member or beloved pet, about the loss of a job or other personal setback.
Soon we're back at it, posting images of sunsets and mountains, cocktails and casseroles.
So what if the curated version of our lives represents a selective scraping and molding of those experiences?
So what if that version offers a distorted representation of our daily lives, untethered to reality?
In a new and wise book, Portland writer Kate Carroll de Gutes cuts through the facade and delivers a bracing alternative to the happy-face fantasy.
Could she be more honest on social media following the deaths of her mother, her best friend and her editor-mentor, all occurring within a few months of each other? Could she share the duality of her life — both the light and the dark — in celebrating the praise lavished on her first book ("Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appears') as well as mourning the loss of loved ones?
Yes, she could be and, yes, she was. Each page crackles with the authenticity of someone who has laid aside pretense and ego in favor of honesty and heartache. The essays undulate from sad to humorous, self-deprecating to self-reflective.
"The essays you'll find in this book are raw and filtered through my lens as I think on the page and try to understand the journey I'm on and how my own privilege and power plays a role in what I think about death, class, self-worth, perfectionism, and other topics we usually keep to ourselves.
I loved the idea of the book and admired its execution. It felt especially real having just met the author just three weeks earlier.
I didn't know of Kate or her work until a friend invited Lori and me to a book launch event in Northeast Portland.
Read the blog post New space, new author here.
Kate was charming and witty, and stuck around to autograph the many books she sold that night, including one to Lori. They connected over the fact that Kate had spent several years living in the North Beach neighborhood of Lori's hometown, San Francisco.
Kate Carroll de Gutes is a Portland writer whose debut memoir, "Objects Closer in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear," won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir.
I picked up the book on a quiet weekend at the Oregon Coast in early October, but didn't finish it until sometime in November. I've mulled about it since then, wondering when to write about it and what to say.
I come into the kitchen. Grocery bags. Car keys. The same loose doorknob. He's waiting at the table. Home early. He hasn't poured a drink. Boots still on. "I have something to tell you." I go soundblind. The mouth is doing the things it does when making words. He folds, refolds his hands. The wedding ring he doesn't wear scrapes across the table: I am deaf but only to him. In California, a butcher saws through a meat joint. In Berlin, firecrackers in the back alley. The hum of an intersection in Mexico City. He stands. Footfalls in reverb, a child finding an old piano in an empty barn. He wants to hold me against him. Crackandbuzz crackandbuzz inside his ribcage. What's that sound? He insists, holding my shoulders, his palms comfort circling the way I can't stand. I pull away to read his lips. I'm sure he's saying it is only the wind through the trees. Behind me, ice cream melts in the brown paper bag. The cold sweat railroads down the carton. I hear it metalscreaming. Like a baby. Taken from her mother's milk. Too soon.
Since childhood, Jennifer Brennock has gotten into trouble for not keeping her mouth shut. She's written poetry, prose, and play. She's worked for arts organizations, created arts organizations, given readings, emceed slam, made zines, busked, facilitated, studied, and taught in all literary arts she could wiggle her way into. Jennifer is uncomfortable talking about herself in third person, but she's getting used to it.
Editor's note: I met Jennifer during an Orcas Island vacation several years ago when I attended a writing workshop she was leading at the public library. We met for coffee a couple days later and a friendship bloomed between the two of us native Californians. I find Jennifer's writing nothing short of amazing.
Occasionally, a nonfiction book comes along that more than opens your eyes to a social issue. It seeps into your pores and burrows into your consciousness. It introduces you to real people and riveting scenes you will never forget.
"Evicted," by Matthew Desmond, is one of those books.
If you've read "Nickel and Dimed," by Barbara Ehrenreich, you learned about what it's like to try to survive on a minimum-wage job — not as a teenager taking a first job, but as a full-blown adult trying to make ends meet in a service or retail job. At the bottom of the pay scale, you're rendered invisible and expendable, disrespected by customers and subject to the whims of your employer.
"Evicted" is similar in tone, insight and method. It too delves deep into an aspect of American poverty. But instead of income, it focuses on housing. In particular, the short-term disruption and longer-term devastation that result from losing one's home. And by home, I mean a squalid apartment or a rundown mobile home in a trailer park.
"Evicted" is the product of years of ethnographic work by Desmond, a Harvard professor who began the project when he was a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. From May 2008 to December 2009, Desmond lived in nearby Milwaukee as he reported first-hand on the struggles of eight families living on the edge, as well as the perspectives of two landlords whose compassion is nearly always eclipsed by their capitalist instincts.
In addition to that immersive experience, he brought a social scientist's rigor to his project, designing surveys, gathering eviction court records, and collecting big data on housing, residential mobility and urban poverty that he could analyze.
The book was honored with the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Desmond's childhood home was repossessed when his parents fell behind on payments. As a graduate student, he said he wanted to understand poverty in America in a way that went beyond "structural forces" seemingly beyond a person's control or "individual deficiencies" such as starting a family out of wedlock or low levels of education.
The result is a compelling book that takes the reader into the ghetto of Milwaukee's north-side neighborhoods, from sweltering summers to bone-chilling winters. The eight families are bound by desperate circumstances — either unemployed, underemployed or getting by on public assistance — in a desperate scramble to keep up with the rent in a market that totally favors the landlord.
Their desperation stems from having to devote a huge portion of their monthly income to making the rent — sometimes 70 or 80 percent instead of the rule-of-thumb 30 percent. Often, these renters have to choose between keeping the lights on or paying the rent.
Some of the families are black, some white; some with children, some without. Most of the households are headed by single women. One landlord, a former schoolteacher, is black. The other, who runs one of the city's worst trailer parks, is white.
Nearly half of these forced moves are "informal evictions." And when you count all forms of displacement — formal and informal evictions, landlord foreclosures and building condemnations — you realize more than 1 in 8 Milwaukee renters experienced a forced move, a rate similar to numbers in Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago and other cities, Desmond says.
It's wrenching enough to be evicted, to have your meager possessions put out on the sidewalk or hauled off to a storage shed where you have to pay additional fees and interest to retrieve them. What's worse is the effect on everything else — your ruined credit, your self-esteem, your kids' education, and having to settle for increasingly less desirable places in more dangerous neighborhoods.
Matthew Desmond's book explores poverty and profit in a typical American city.
A book of this type can't be written without addressing these things: race, history and solutions. Desmond touches on all three.
Race and history are intertwined. It's no accident that the poorest people in Milwaukee are black, hemmed into the worst neighborhoods as a result of decades of discriminatory practices and laws written to favor landlords. Nor is it a surprise that those most susceptible to eviction are women.
Establishing publicly funded legal services for poor families in housing court would be a start toward lessening homelessness and evictions and giving renters a fair shake, he says. More meaningful would be a significant expansion of our housing voucher programs so tenants could live anywhere they wanted. Universal voucher programs operate elsewhere in the developed world and are more cost-effective than new construction, Desmond says.
Whatever solution is proposed, he asserts, it must be rooted in a declaration that there is a basic right to housing in America.
A postscript: I received this book as a birthday gift at the end of last year from my daughter Simone and daughter-in-law Kyndall, but I wasn't able to get to it until last month. It was an absorbing read, but one that filled me with guilt. Here I was reading about the struggles of the working poor while in the comfort of our vacation home in Washington state. Obviously, I feel fortunate to have a partner in life who has teamed up with me to make that second home possible. But that doesn't diminish the realization that I can and should do more to help those less fortunate. I feel a donation to Habitat for Humanity coming on.
Hope Jahren in her research lab.
Science has never been my forte. High school chemistry and biology were challenging enough, so I never went near physics. In college, I took a single general science course and was thankful I wasn't required to do more.
So why would I put "Lab Girl" on my list of hoped-for Christmas or birthday gifts?
Two reasons: 1) I spotted the title late last year on a New York Times list of notable books and the thumbnail review sounded interesting; 2) I thought it might give me better understanding of the kind of work our youngest son wants to do.
I recently finished the book and I'm happy to say it's a gem. It's beautifully written and it's illuminated the path that lies ahead for Jordan, who's graduating next month with a bachelors degree in biology and hopes to become a research scientist.
Jahren is one of those people who is multiply talented, almost astonishingly so.
Her academic credentials? She's received three Fulbright Awards in geobiology, has a Ph.D in soil science from UC Berkeley, has taught at Johns Hopkins and Georgia Tech, and has been named by Time magazine as one of the world's "100 Most Influential People." Still in her 40s, she is a tenured professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and currently is a fellow at the University of Oslo, where she studies fossil forests. She's fluent in Norwegian, by the way.
She writes with authority born of expertise, with wisdom born of experience, and with self-deprecating humor born of perspective. Binding it all together are the passion that she brings to her work, and the determination and discipline that have fueled her success in a male-dominated profession.
As a female scientist, she has been the only woman in a college class, the only woman at a professional conference, one of few women among a university's science faculty, and certainly one of few among her colleagues who's had to take a career break to give birth.
"My desire to become a scientist was founded upon a deep instinct and nothing more; I never heard of a single story about a living female scientist, never met one or even saw one on television.
How did she become a scientist? Raised in a small Midwest town with three older brothers, she essentially grew up in the lab where her father taught at the local community college. As a young girl, she became acquainted with the workbenches, the equipment, and the drawers full of magnets, wire, glass, metal and other stuff that all proved useful for something.
Culturally, she was born into a Scandinavian home where silence and emotional distance between family members were the norm, something that, for better or worse, contributed to her self-reliance.
Jahren describes the life of the research scientist as one that is both esoteric and often lonely. People don't know what you do or why, and they don't have the foggiest idea of how precarious the funding is for such work.
Hope Jahren, scientist and author.
In one essay, Jahren explains that there is just one significant source of support for the kind of research she does — the National Science Foundation, which is funded by our federal tax dollars.
In 2013, the NSF's budget was $7.3 billion, a sum that sounds large until you learn that the Department of Agriculture's budget is about three times that amount, the Department of Homeland Security's budget is five times as large, and the Department of Defense's "discretionary" budget alone is more than 60 times that sum.
Jahren points out that the U.S. government spends twice as much on its space program as it does on all of its other scientists put together. Little wonder that those specializing in other fields are left scrambling to apply for three-year grants and additional university funding to pay for salaries and benefits, student help, chemicals, equipment, travel and administrative overhead charges.
As informative as the book is, the writing itself is superb. The author has a website called hopejahrensurecanwrite.com, where she maintains a lively blog. She also credits her mother with instilling in her an appreciation for reading and writing.
As a high school senior in the 1950s, Hope's mom was awarded an honorable mention in a prestigious national science competition and hoped to study chemistry at the state university. But lack of money forced her to drop out and she moved back to her hometown, where she married, became a mother and homemaker, and some 20 years later took correspondence courses in English literature to get her college degree.
The daughter learned her lessons well. Consider this excerpt, where Jahren recalls her days as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota (the same place her mom, dad and brothers attended) working in the university hospital during the 3-to-11 p.m. shift as a "runner" hand-delivering IV pain medications to the nursing stations where they were needed.
"That night in the hospital I walked in and out of the hospice ward ten or twenty times, and my eyes and hands moved through the necessary tasks. Well into the night and deeper into my brain, it came to me that as hospital workers, we were being paid to trail along behind Death as he escorted frail, wasted bodies over difficult miles, dragging their loved ones along with him. My job was to meet the traveling party at its designated way station and faithfully provide fresh supplies for the journey. When the weary group disappeared over the horizon, we turned back, knowing that another agonized family would be arriving soon.
"Lab Girl" is a great book for the young scientist in your life, and even better if that person is a girl. It's also a great book for yourself, especially if you're one, like me, who would have benefited from Science for Dummies. At 282 pages, it's a fairly fast read and one that will leave you with admiration for the work and life of a remarkable research scientist named Hope Jahren.
Gratuitous photo of the breakfast I consumed while reading the last chapter.
The exterior of Duza's, a great little breakfast spot I discovered in Phoenix, Arizona.
I've always thought I liked Detroit. But I now realize what I liked was the idea of Detroit.
Credit the difference to "Detroit," a hard-hitting book published in 2013 by Charlie LeDuff, a former New York Times reporter who returned to his hometown to write for the struggling Detroit News. "Detroit" chronicles the sorry state of the Motor City and how it got that way.
The city that gave us the automobile, unions that helped secure family-wage jobs and benefits, and the enduring Motown sound today is a shell of itself. Since 1950, Detroit has lost nearly two-thirds of its population, sliding from a peak of nearly 1.9 million residents to about 700,000 today.
Once the richest city in America, Detroit is known today as a center of misery — a place plagued by crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, dropouts and foreclosures. Layered atop it all is a political culture defined by cronyism and corruption, with city council members and a recent mayor — the disgraced Kwame Kilpatrick — having been sent off to prison.
With a reporter's nose for news and a gift for storytelling, LeDuff presents a compelling portrait of the city's fall from grace. If you're like me, you may think you know the Detroit story — a city wracked by race riots in 1943 and 1967, a city that's become 90 percent black after decades of white flight, a city that nearly went bankrupt earlier this decade, and whose Big Three automakers had to beg Washington for a bailout after the auto industry collapsed during the 2008 recession.
But again, if you're like me, you don't really know the depth of dysfunction in Detroit.
In 287 compelling pages, LeDuff traces the city's recent history and shares the backstory behind some of the most memorable stories and columns he produced at the News. Some material in the book appeared in different form in the News and Mother Jones magazine. But it is fleshed out with additional reporting that calls out the scoundrels while also singling out the unsung heroes and ordinary citizens who strive against all odds to make Detroit a better place.
My affection for Detroit began more than 30 years ago. I was among a dozen U.S. journalists chosen to spend a sabbatical year at the University of Michigan in nearby Ann Arbor. During my 10 months living in one of the nation's great college towns, I experienced Detroit as an occasional visitor and nearly always as part of a group. We toured the Detroit Institute of Arts. We dined on lamb and sipped ouzo at Greektown restaurants. I caught a Saturday afternoon baseball game at venerable Tiger Stadium and began a fan from that day on, enjoying the thrill of seeing the Tigers win the World Series in the fall of 1984, just months after I had returned home to Oregon.
I would return frequently on behalf of The Oregonian, delighted to recruit several students from the U of M, Michigan State, and Wayne State to Portland, and happy to establish friendships with many more who went on to succeed in other newsrooms. On one trip, I visited Hitsville, U.S.A., the Motown-themed museum where so many R&B artists launched their careers.
But it was a false picture. I knew how to get from the airport to Greektown, a safe haven with familiar hotels and restaurants, but little else. I wasn't exposed to the urban wasteland described by LeDuff.
I've been a LeDuff fan for years. He's a drinking, smoking, cussing old-school reporter with blue-collar roots who started his newspaper career at the Alaska Fisherman's Journal, landed a summer internship at the Times, and went on to become an award-winning staff writer.
I discovered his book by chance. While waiting for a late-night flight to Detroit as part of my Midwest baseball road trip, I noticed the paperback on a table at an airport bookstore and snatched it up. Good call.
"Detroit" is one of those books where you wind up with more than a dozen dog-eared pages. The stories are so arresting, the writing so vivid, that you can't help but savor these scenes.
— We sat in a local diner, a rundown joint with walls the color of an old man's teeth. I watched the detective tear into a chili dog. He weighed 350 pounds and was trying that meat-only diet.
Reading "Detroit" was the equivalent of taking the Ice Bucket Challenge. The naive picture I had of the city was doused with a bucketful of grim reality. I knew things were bad. I just hadn't realized they'd been this bad for so long and gotten even worse.
It's hard to feel optimistic about Detroit's future. Like other Midwest cities, it's experiencing a renaissance of sorts.
But "Detroit" isn't about happy endings. It's about looking at what went horribly wrong, at who and what destroyed the city, and what we should all know about a city that played such a critical role in the U.S and world economy.
Lynn St. Georges and Keith Cantrell came over from the Oregon Coast for the annual meetup of Voices of August writers. That Golden Lab over Keith's shoulder hints at the name of the brewpub.
No red carpet. No paparazzi. Not even an after-party.
But who needs glitz and glamour when you're part of something more substantive — the annual meetup of the men and women who contribute to my Voices of August guest blog project.
Each and every day in August, I publish an essay crafted by one of an assortment of friends, relatives and fellow journalists. As invigorating as the project is, with thought-provoking pieces framed by a variety of generational and geographical perspectives, the face-to-face gathering that comes afterwards is the real payoff.
About 20 of us, including spouses and significant others, came together last weekend at a Portland brewpub, the same one where we first met five years ago. The Lucky Lab on Southeast Hawthorne may not have much in the way of atmosphere, but it certainly has characters — as in the long-haired old-timer at the end of the bar and his drinking buddy, another grizzled guy wearing a wolf's head (or something like that) on his noggin.
Carla Todenhagen and David Quisenberry graced one end of our shoved-together tables.
And Cheryl and Tim Akimoff and their daughter Gabrielle held down the other end.
Voices of August began as a simple idea, an experiment, really. Could I entice 30 people scattered across the country to carve out some time in their typically busy lives to write an original essay for public consumption? And having done that, could I encourage them to engage in some of the online conversation that ensued from VOA contributors and general readers?
Some folks have been a part of VOA since the beginning. For their support in creating and sustaining critical mass, I thank them. Others have contributed a piece or two and then yielded their spots to others, so that I could bring in fresh faces. For their cooperation, I also thank them.
What we have after five years is not mine — not at all. I may be the online emcee, but the content is created by everyone and the community that has emerged from this effort is one that belongs to everyone. VOA feels like a living, breathing organism. It warms my heart to see it in action as people who once only knew of each other from their guest blogs now mingle as real-time friends, sipping drinks, chatting, laughing and sharing stories.
Mary Hull Caballero, Ray Caballero and Angela K. Rider get acquainted as first-time VOA attendees.
There are few blogs, I would venture to say, that bring together writers from places as varied as Oregon, Washington, California, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, D.C., let alone France and Slovenia. When you consider that one writer emailed her piece from the Czech Republic and four others touched on international experiences or issues in Kenya, Tanzania, Canada and Mexico, well, that's pretty cool.
Talk about making the world a smaller place.
But VOA is more than that. During the course of a month, it's like unwrapping a new gift every day.
On yet another day you understand the gift one woman received when she rode the bus on a frigid winter morning with a trio of men, in stained clothing and of meager means, who offered suggestions of where to get a free cup of coffee and a sandwich.
Andrea Cano, Deborah Ehlers and Lori Rede reconnect.
Bob Ehlers and John Knapp (trying to) look distinguished.
No matter the topic, no matter the writer, VOA gives you the opportunity to see a slice of the world through the eyes of someone who may be quite unlike you but whose perspective enriches your own worldview. A special thanks to those who have shared what it is like to cope with the loss of a spouse or a parent, to raise children as a single mom or single dad, to endure life's various traumas and indignities. And a nod of appreciation, as well, to those who invite us to laugh with you or at ourselves.
Elizabeth Hovde of Vancouver hangs out with Eric and Sue Wilcox of Portland.
As always, the evening included the presentation of gift cards to bookstores and coffee shops to those whose essays were judged as favorites by the VOA community. The nice thing about the balloting is that the criteria are whatever each voter decides. He or she alone chooses how much weight to give to the choice of topic, the quality of writing, the resonance of the piece, etc.
In my humble opinion, this year's guest blog posts were the strongest ever. So I was pleased to see so many writers recognized for their work. In alphabetical order, these were the Best of VOA 5.0.
Lakshmi Jagannathan (at right) gestures during conversation with Keith Cantrell. To Lakshmi's right: Angela, Lori, Mary and Ray.
Happily, the Akimoffs have moved from Chicago back to Oregon, now that her dad, Tim, has landed a job with a state agency in Salem.
In case you missed (or want to reread) any posts, you can pay a visit to the VOA 5.0 index page. Never too late to leave a comment, either.
Kenyon College, about 40 minutes northwest of Columbus, Ohio, offers a weeklong residential program for writers.
As a child, I was especially fond of corners. On the playground, where two chain-linked fences met at a 90-degree angle, I crouched and watched—who played with whom?—who teased whom? I catalogued their gestures and their strange and natural ways of speaking.
Everything for them seemed so spontaneous, and this fascinated me. I was too shy to join them, but by observing and recording, I shared in their experiences. This is what writing became for me—a way to participate.
As an adult, writing has taken a backseat to whatever else has been happening in my life: going to work, spending time with friends and family, going on vacation, dating, and getting married. I would try to find ways to squeeze it in—I blogged for the library where I worked; I wrote reflective pieces that helped shape my teaching; and for about 8 glorious months, I wrote the first draft of a novel while working at the library only twenty hours each week.
Lately, I get a couple hours on Saturday mornings; I get an hour before I have to get ready for work (well, 45 minutes—I stare blankly at the screen for 15 minutes as my coffee takes effect); I get random spare moments in the evening when I'm able to push out the rest of the noise and focus. Any time I spend writing and revising and thinking solely about this stupid novel feels like a gift.
Rachel Lippolis relaxing in the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove of Kyoto, Japan.
In June, I gave myself a weeklong gift when I participated in the Novel Writing Workshop at Kenyon College, and it was better than just about any other present. I spent seven days and six nights focused solely on fiction writing—my own, the other participants', the instructors', and more. We lived in dorm rooms, toting our laptops 15 minutes across campus for workshops and lessons and exercises that were so much more relevant and practical than anything I'd done before. The other students were kind, intelligent, curious, and often hilarious in an introverted writerly way. On evenings when no activities were scheduled, we still gathered together with our laptops and wine (when there wasn't coffee, there was wine) to write and laugh and write some more.
Today, I'm closer to producing a final manuscript that I'm proud of and that I want to share (someday) with others. That first draft I finished so long ago has been shredded and rearranged. Some of my favorite paragraphs gone, my darlings dead. I've even dropped what had been the driving force of the book. But in its place is something closer to what I had imagined all those years ago when I started.
I no longer need writing to participate in life from a safe distance. Rather, writing allows me to be part of some wonderful communities and to meet some awesome people, from the folks at Kenyon and my fellow Voices of August participants to George Rede and Tonja, my friend and writing partner. Now I am both crouched in my corner—watching, recording, and understanding—and planted on the playground—teasing, engaging, and empathizing.
Rachel Lippolis and her husband recently celebrated their second year of marriage with a trip to Japan, traveling from Tokyo to Kyoto to Hiroshima. She continues to work at the library and enjoys being an aunt to two nephews.
Editor's note: About six years ago, soon after I started my blog, I stumbled upon Perfect Sand. It was an engaging compilation of posts about books, current events and writing. Through it, I came to know Rachel, the Ohio-based author. We still have yet to meet but I imagine we'd get along well, both of us having moved out from our respective corners of the playground.
I think both definitions apply to the wonderful group of people who participate in the annual writing project known as Voices of August. Starting today and continuing daily through the end of the month, Rough and Rede II will feature a piece written by a guest blogger.
There is no single prompt or unifying topic. Each person chooses what to write about. And with participants ranging in age from their mid-20s to their 60s, the result is an enticing mix of generational perspectives that illuminate the past and present.
Launched five years ago as a way to bring more variety to my blog, Voices of August has become a vehicle to share stories, to reveal feelings and insights, to discover common ground or points of disagreement. It's all good.
Though most of us live in Oregon, many others do not. They reside in nearby Washington and California, but also in places like Texas, Utah, Illinois, Ohio and Washington, D.C. — not to mention France and Slovenia.
As organizer of this annual event, it's my privilege to invite friends, family and former co-workers to participate. Some are professional writers. Most are not. And that's the beauty of this exercise. Providing a forum for all people to tell their stories — honestly, safely and often with humor — brings writers (and readers too) together in a way that I rarely see online.
There is genuine dialogue, there is empathy, there is support. There is real learning that takes place from considering a different cultural point of view or someone else's formative experiences. And, not least, there is a kind of validation that occurs when you recognize some aspect of yourself in another person's story.
Ultimately, VOA is about connecting.
Whether you're new to VOA or a seasoned veteran, I hope you will be generous with your feedback. Please consider leaving your comments on the actual blog posts in addition to anything you might say on Facebook, where I will link to each piece.
If you're new to Voices of August, you can view last year's posts. Here's an index page of authors and topics from 2014.
Now, let's get started, shall we?
When I learned that the daughter of the late mystery writer Tony Hillerman had stepped up and written a novel featuring the same Southwest landscape and the same Navajo characters as her famous dad, I didn't know what to think.
Tony Hillerman was such an accomplished writer, virtually unparalleled in producing 18 novels that honored the Navajo culture while also conveying the barren beauty of the rugged terrain that defines much of Arizona and New Mexico.
Could his daughter — or any writer, for that matter — do justice to the characters of Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police?
Thanks to my friend, Lynn St. Georges, I took a borrowed book with me on a recent vacation and breezed through its 352 pages in no time at all. "Spider Woman's Daughter," the debut novel by Anne Hillerman, was a pleasant surprise. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was Tony's 19th, so similar is the book in plot, structure and voice.
Leaphorn and Chee are at the center of the story, of course. But they are joined by a new-to-me character, Officer Bernadette Manuelito, who is Chee's wife. Manuelito appears in Hillerman's 15th and 16th books ("The Wailing Wind" and "The Sinister Pig") but this was the first time I'd encountered her.
Suffice to say she blends in neatly with the other two Navajo detectives, sharing a common culture and a knack for solving crimes.
In "Spider Woman's Daughter," Manuelito plays a critical role in figuring out who shot a law enforcement colleague, drawing on her university studies and knowledge of Native American art — plus her quick wits when she inevitably finds herself in harm's way.
Tony Hillerman died in 2008. With his passing, I figured that was the last of the Leaphorn and Chee series. Little did I know that Anne Hillerman was a Santa Fe-based writer herself, with four non-fiction books to her credit.
Anne Hillerman is framed by a collection of her father's books, in Santa Fe.
Random observation: Except for the actress Bernadette Peters and my niece Bernadette Hermocillo Rackley, I'm hard pressed to think of any real-life or fictional people with that first name.
Who is Daniel Torday? And why is everyone heaping praise on his debut novel?
I don't know, but I intend to find out.
How could I not be intrigued after reading a 2-paragraph review in Esquire with the headline "The Best 149 Words Published This Year"?
Well, after an endorsement like that, I looked up Torday, where snippets from NPR's Terry Gross and others only serve to reinforce my interest in this book. The author's website says he is a former editor at Esquire, an editor at The Kenyon Review, and Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.


text:
Viene considerato il "padre" della pedologia o scienza del suolo, a causa dei suoi numerosi studi riguardanti i suoli della Russia, capisce infatti che le diversità tra i suoli seguivano le variazioni del clima; questa attività di pubblicazione ebbe inizio nel 1883, quando diede alle stampe un trattato che aveva per argomento i černozëm, le famose terre nere della steppa russa. Con i suoi studi e le sue pubblicazioni pose le basi della classificazione russa dei suoli.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/DOKU1846.htm

Pedologi