A few days ago, we saw a woman at the store who was very clearly pregnant. Her husband was with her, carrying a child who looked to be about six months old.
Yes, I was that woman four and a half years ago! It's just easy to forget what that was like now that my two-in-a-year are potty trained, can speak clearly, no longer vomit large amounts of formula all over me, etc. So easy to forget, in fact, that I clearly forgot for a moment that I "had those babies WAY too close together!" Wes called me a hypocrite, and he's totally right. This still didn't keep me from having a really good laugh at myself, because she was probably thinking the same thing when she saw the chatty sisters that I was pushing around in my cart! Ha!
My apologies, friend. This likely isn't the first time someone has thought something stupid about you, and it won't be the last. Just rest in the truth that those people who are thinking something critical have probably done the same thing and are just too tired and senile to remember.
Tis simply a symptom of having babies WAY too close together, I tell you. Ha!


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During the past weeks the scenery around us has changed quite drastically.
The trees went from green to red, orange and yellow and now, in the cold autumn winds and the brilliant sun the last are falling to the ground. The sunlight is slowly leaving us in the evenings and mornings.
This outside change marks the ending of the first block of courses within yip: global awareness.
Newsletter contents:
Governance and Activism
Planetary boundaries & Spiritual ecology
Privilege, Power & Oppression
YIP buildings for rent
Governance and Activism with Gerald Häfner & Kait Ziegler
During this week we were joined by Gerald Häfner & Kait Ziegler for a radical week studying how we can each be responsible citizens to be a part of transformative social and political development. During Kait's class we each reflected on the questions 'Where do you experience a world that is dying?'. I would like to share an extract of my response:
I experience a world that is dying everyday.
Dying meaning fading out, falling, trying to run when its joints and muscles are screeching like train wheels braking on a rusty track.
There's an old world which I carry in me that is dying. I feel it when I hurt. When I see injustice in the world and feel prevented from correcting it because of something bigger than me.
I sense it when I feel threatened. When I feel threatened as a woman and as a dreamer.
I dream of something different, something that does star jumps and swims fast, something that floats on the surface of water and feels complete, that whilst gazing at the sky, surrounded by drifting water, knows it is a part of something bigger.
Written by: Rhea Warner
Planetary boundaries & Spiritual ecology with Sarah Cornel and Patricia McCabe
As this course happened three weeks ago, much has happened since then, but the stories I was told have gained more depth as I interacted with the world. I have just discovered that in my home country, Brazil, the election that happened Sunday turned a presidential candidate who is openly homophobic and has misogynic views, who defends violence and ignorance as the main way forward, into the most voted politician in the first round of elections in the history of our young democracy. He received 46% of the votes, the equivalent of almost 50 million.
The feeling that surrounded me when I received that news was one of powerlessness, disconnection, hate and miscomprehension, resembling strongly how most of us felt after the first two days of the course in spiritual ecology. After researching on the planetary boundaries and the ecological situation of the planet, we had a feeling that was so well phrased in a fellow yippie's question: Is it the purpose of the human to destroy the planet? There was a feeling in which it seemed that all we were doing was harm in the world, when Patricia McCabe, an elder from the Dine' tribe arrived.
She told us that in her vision, in which a different form of cause and effect manifested itself, the crisis we are facing is a crisis of relationships. In her view, disease is caused by a lie, and a healer's mission is to live their life in a way they can keep the truth alive, so that when it comes the time they can present it so clearly that the person who is ill can understand, internalize and repeat it to themselves until they arrive at a vibration of truth.
In her tribe they have the concept of a trickster, an evil spirit that creates illusions as a way to gain power. And the main illusion created by such spirit was the illusion of separation. Separation between men and women, left and right, rich and poor, but also between humans and the earth, which are at the root of the wound that is still hurting humanity to this day.
She introduced us to the power that is held within the stories that maintain our society, one that was heavily influenced by her participation at the new story summit in Findhorn. The story our society tells nowadays is one that leads to death and disconnection, and what we need to do is retell our stories, so we can be able to heal our future.
Patricia called our attention to the story of scarcity, the fight for resources, and the power-over paradigm that is being fed by our society in the present. She told us a different story in which nature actually does everything in abundance, and where there is enough for everyone and everything to fulfil their purpose.
She told us how the first anthropologists that studied north American tribes described her ancestors as child-like and primitive, because music and dance played a central role in their way of living. And she told us how instead of being resentful and continuing the flow of misunderstanding, a friend of hers tried to understand why they would judge them like that. This friend discovered that these anthropologists, when they were young, used to have lessons of music and were free to dance, but were forced to stop and dedicate themselves to academic studies. That is where their hurting comes from, he told Pat, that is why they judge us. He had retold the story in a way that would allow healing to happen.
Patricia McCabe taught me so many things, most of which were already inside of me, but dormant. She taught us, holy earth surface walkers, about gratitude, joy, the sacred hoop of life, the archetypal wounding of humanity, and different ways of knowing, but what is most alive in me now is this: that we can retell our stories. She said her greatest contribution to the world is her story of coming back home, her journey from growing up in disconnection to rediscovering her place and her tribe.
And in the end, she offered a question that makes me evaluate all of my actions in these hard times; How am I serving life, light and love?
Written by: Karen Martini
Privilege, power & oppression with Didi Ntse and Mindi Olleson
As the days began to get colder and the crisp feeling of autumn's awakening began to creep its way into our days we were met with a course titled Power, Privilege and Oppression which was contributed to us by two lovely former yippies Didi and Mindy. I really appreciated the opportunity to take part in a course that was presented to us by people who have a deeper understanding and insight into the yip life having both been a part of yip themselves.
Our days were divided up into Naming, Acknowledging, Listening/Telling, Action and Personal Responsibility.
There are quite a few things that have stuck with me from that week one of them being this eye opening realisation that although I thought I had reached a destination in my being open and aware about many different important topics I still have a lot to learn. Throughout this course my head was lifted and my eyes opened to the actuality that being open and aware will always be a journey, a path where I must tread softly but with determination.
"constantly be inquisitive in order to stand in your own belief" – Didi.
By the end of the week I felt a great urge to go out and take action and I was inspired to take the opportunity that I have to educate myself to the best of my ability.
Written by: Rachael Henry
Artificial intelligence with Nicanor Perlas
As every week, I didn't know what I was expecting from this course. Was it going to inspire me, interest me, bore me, depress me… It could go every direction really. As the course started I tried to immerse myself in the content that Nicanor was bringing forth. And I managed to do that from time to time, but it was far from a smooth week. The first days we looked at and explored the relation between us and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and what it actually is. To be honest, I still don't really get what A.I. is and that is –as I now realise- okay. We touched on terms like the authentic self, the programmed self, deviants, big data, transhumanism, material vs spiritual, creativity, the system,… As the week progressed we started looking at more complex ways of approaching A.I. and I started losing track. I don't exactly know why or what led to this unclearness in my head. I guess that it was the feeling of not being able to catch up or follow with was being said, which made me feel very stupid and naive. I needed time, that's what I wrote in my notebook. So I took some time. And guess what, now, a few days after the course has finished I can look back on my experience that week and say that I have learned something. Not only about A.I. but also about what I need. What do I take with me, explore more and use? And what do I let go of?
When do I dig deeper to find out and when do I let things pass just above the surface? How can curiosity and capacity balance each other out?
At first, it was difficult for me to see how everyone had such different experiences of these days. I couldn't accept that my experience wasn't theirs. Why do they understand this and I don't? What am I lacking? I reminded myself that this was the first time I had ever talked about, or even heard about A.I. and that I shouldn't expect myself to be an expert after these few days with Nicanor.
I don't even want to be an expert. And I'm perfectly fine with that.
So what I actually want to make clear is that every course and every day is so different for each one of us. And that's completely fine. Imagine that everybody reacted in the same way to each experience, that everybody felt the same way about certain topics or that everybody had the same opinion. The world would be pretty boring, wouldn't it?
Written by: Alma Vandewalle
When the participants leave Sweden for the outpost and internships, the YIP buildings in Ytterjärna are available for rent.
They are available from 21 November 2018 until 22 March 2019
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Children's gifts redeemed 'legacy of devastation'
Japanese ambassador attends D.C. church to commemorate gift exchange with children of Hiroshima after atomic blast.
The Shizumi Kodomo Dance Troupe performs Sunday, April 5, 2009, at a special service at All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Washington, D.C., celebrating the opening of an exhibit of drawings sent by the children of Hiroshima in 1948 to the children of All Souls thanking them for the gift of school supplies. (© Gary Penn)
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On the morning of August 6, 1945, 400 students of the Honkawa Elementary School in Hiroshima, Japan, sat at desks to begin their school day. As the children settled down for their morning lessons, the American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, flew overhead and dropped an atomic bomb. The blast produced the iconic mushroom cloud over the city and incinerated the school children and 80,000 other residents instantly.
Fourteen months later in Washington, D.C., two American admirals in full regalia posed with a smiling, elegantly dressed woman about to cut into an elaborate angel-food cake. Swirls of angel-food puffs towered over the cake to create a giant mushroom-cloud pastry, the centerpiece of a celebration of the atomic-bomb task force.
The Rev. A. Powell Davies, minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Washington, D.C., saw the newspaper photo and was outraged by its insensitivity. He preached an invective that garnered publicity around the world. His sermon also inspired the children of his Washington church to reach out to the surviving children of Hiroshima. The All Souls children collected half a ton of school supplies—paper, paint, crayons, paper clips, and paste—and shipped them off to the children who had returned to the bombed-out hulk of Honkawa Elementary.
The Japanese children showed their gratitude by sending in return 48 watercolor paintings to the children of All Souls. Their inspiring and hopeful artworks have been restored by All Souls, and on April 5 they went on display at the church during the city's spring Cherry Blossom Festival.
Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, attended the church's Sunday service and ceremony and viewed the revered paintings, which will travel this summer to the UUA's General Assembly before making their first trip to Japan next year in an exhibit at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
From his pulpit at All Souls, which he served from 1944 to 1957, Davies was an outspoken critic of Communism, McCarthyism, and segregation. His sermon denouncing the mushroom cloud cake made its way into Japanese newspapers, where it was read by church member Howard Bell, an official with Gen. Douglas MacArthur's provisional government. Bell wrote to Davies, telling him of the plight of the Japanese children who had returned to Hiroshima.
Most of Honkawa Elementary's 1,200 students had been evacuated from the city before the bombing. By 1947, children had returned to the skeletal remains of the reinforced concrete school, huddling together on benches in the unheated building. But they had no school supplies to aid their efforts "to learn democracy," and Bell asked if Davies could help.
Davies presented the plight of the Japanese children in a February 1947 sermon called "In Reply to a Letter from Japan." The children organized a supply drive, collecting boxes of materials. And Davies' assistant Jane Pfeiffer found a way to ship them to Japan just before Christmas that year. The supplies were distributed to two Hiroshima elementary schools and an orphanage. "It was the first civilian package to be received at MacArthur's headquarters," recalls Pfeiffer, who worked for Davies from 1945 to 1957. At age 88, she lives in Washington with her husband Paul Pfeiffer, who helped undertake restoration work on the Hiroshima paintings.
Several months after the shipment of school supplies, a return package arrived in Washington addressed to the children of All Souls. Inside were several Japanese comic books, two rag dolls, 75 thank-you letters from the children of Fukuromachi School of Hiroshima, a thank you letter from the Ninoshima Orphanage, and a book of 48 watercolor and crayon drawings by the children of Honkawa Elementary.
For many Japanese, the art of the Hibakusha, or survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is sacred. For many years, Japanese tourists have knocked on the doors of All Souls asking, "Is this the church with the Hiroshima children's drawings?"
In his April 5, 2009, sermon about the restored children's paintings, the Rev. Robert M. Hardies, senior minister at All Souls, explained that most Hibakusha art is by adults and depicts gruesome, apocalyptic images of bombed-out Japan. The children's drawings couldn't be more different. "They are vibrant, colorful depictions of life abundant," Hardies said: bright kites, children playing baseball, a classroom of smiling students, cherry trees in bloom.
For many years, the Hiroshima drawings languished in the All Souls' safe collecting dust next to the communion silver. In 2005, then-church administrator Mel Hardy formed a group to restore and frame the paintings. Paul Pfeiffer served on the committee, and had also served as chair of the A. Powell Davies Committee, which works to advance Davies's legacy.
The restoration project has cost about $15,000, and was funded by the A. Powell Davies Committee and the Beckner–All Souls Advancement Fund, according to the Rev. Louise Green, minister of social justice at All Souls. In addition to restoring the original paintings, the fund paid for the creation of enhanced reproductions, which are now on display in the church's Pierce Hall. The originals are in museum storage.
"There's no sign of violence in these paintings," said Pfeiffer, a Navy veteran who served as a communications officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. "It's loving stuff. Kid stuff. The beauty of these paintings is it was kid to kid."
After the box of paintings and thank you notes arrived, the All Souls children undertook a second collection, and sent their Japanese friends baseball bats, mitts, and balls, along with ping-pong and tennis equipment.
Documentary filmmaker Bryan Reichardt is chronicling the story of the All Souls children and the Hiroshima paintings. In Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard , he is interviewing 17 of the children who made the drawings, now in their 70s and living in Japan. And he plans to follow the exhibit when it travels to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in 2010.
Reichardt filmed the April 5 All Souls service attended by the Japanese ambassador. The service included performances by the All Souls Tulsa, Okla., Youth Choir and the Shizumi Kodomo Dance Troupe.
Along with the documentary filmmaker, Hardies will accompany the paintings to Japan. He sees a profound theological message in the story of the paintings. "After an unspeakable atrocity had taken place between two cultures, children decided to exchange crayons and drawings and restart what their parents had destroyed," he said. "It was an effort by children to redeem the legacy of devastation that we have left them."
The paintings, Hardies told his congregation, remind a new generation what Davies told his generation after World War II: "The world is now too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but brotherhood."
A. Powell Davies, preacher to the nation
Unitarian minister was 'in the forefront of every assault upon intolerance and racial discrimination and injustice.'
Warren R. Ross July/August 2002


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A new month brought old problems on the railways with delays to mainline services.
There were hold-ups of up to two hours following overhead wire problems at Wolverton in Buckinghamshire.
This meant trains were unable to run between Rugby/Northampton and Milton Keynes Central.
Buses had to run on this route instead and buses were also operating between Northampton and Wellingborough to connect with East Midlands Trains services to St Pancras station in London.
The Wolverton problem today follows serious delays last month caused by overhead line difficulties at Radlett in Hertfordshire and St Neots in Cambridgeshire.
The RMT and TSSA unions today questioned the adequacy of staffing levels following these incidents.
Speaking of "three chaotic failures in three weeks", RMT leader Bob Crow called for "cuts to staffing and to overhead line capacity to be reversed".
TSSA leader Manuel Cortes said: "This is the third week running that we have had major disruption on either the East or West Coast main lines because of problems with overhead power lines.
"We have to ask ourselves if Network Rail has cut back too far on maintenance spending in the past five years, and whether rail regulators and ministers are right to press it for further cutbacks of up to 19% over the next five years.
"These cuts are leading to a second-class railway for passengers who already pay the highest fares in Europe. They should be stopped immediately."
Thousands of train passengers are potentially facing severe delays until the end of the week due to "extensive" damage to power cables.


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Q: How does the scoring system work in Magicka challenge mode? How is the score calculated, and what actions can lead to higher scores?

A: Don't use vortex. You want damage and overkill. Clear waves faster for higher multiplier.

A: There seem to be two multipliers in challenge.
The flat bar on the left is your personal multiplier; goes up when you kill, goes down when you die. Maxes at 5x.
The smaller circle is time in the current wave; resets to 5x for each new wave, slowly decreases over time.
The larger circle is the combination of the two - personal multiplier x wave multiplier.
Based on this, you get the best multiplier when:
a) you dont die so your personal multiplier stays high, and
b) you kill big targets early in the wave, or finish the whole wave quickly so you get 25x points on everything or at least the high-value targets.
I /think/ that any damage not done by you directly (i.e. vortex/summoned dead/elementals/crash to desktop and possibly goblin bomb explosions) doesnt add to your score. I believe lightning bolt works (and often gets overkill!) but it's slow and dangerous in multiplayer.
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Trump's toll roads
Who wants more toll roads?
Part of president-elect Donald Trump's promise to create new jobs for Americans relies on a "deficit-neutral plan" to spend $1 trillion on public works projects, including hundreds of billions for roads and rail.
But the strategy could result in something many Texans aren't going to like: more toll roads.
"Unfortunately that's the way I've read it," said state Sen. Don Huffines, R-Dallas, vice chair of the Texas Senate transportation committee.
There are also fears the plan could provide few new highway projects or road improvements to the state's vast rural areas. And the lack of details in the proposal has so far made it unclear how Texas' urban transit agencies could be affected.
Trump's plan is already getting some opposition from his own party in Washington, D.C. In the Lone Star State, where residents have balked at a growing number of toll projects, state officials from both political parties are hoping the incoming president backs off reliance on the private sector.
"To be direct, it's a little scary and kind of contrary to where our current leadership in Texas has been going the last couple of years," said state Rep. Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, who chairs the Texas House transportation committee.
Under the current proposal, the $1 trillion in infrastructure investment would come not from the government, but from private companies who would receive tax incentives for borrowing funds needed for construction costs, according to Trump's campaign and transition websites and a paper authored by two of his senior advisors.
The private firms who build the roads, though, would expect a revenue stream to cover principal, interest and operating costs. And the most common way to create a revenue stream on a road is to toll it.
"To suggest public-private partnerships and relying on tolls, we've already kind of maxed those out," Pickett said.
Vocal toll road opponent Terri Hall of San Antonio is the executive director of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, a group whose members are contacting Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and asking the transition team to rethink the infrastructure plan.
She said the proposal essentially privatizes the nation's roadways and opens a door to corruption.
"It reeks of cronyism, which Trump's campaign promise to 'drain the swamp' was supposed to get rid of," she said.
Others, though, worry that rural areas will be left behind under the current proposal. Geoff Anderson is the president and CEO of urban planning and development nonprofit Smart Growth America. He said that private firms aren't likely to view improving access to rural areas or rebuilding aging county roads as financially feasible or worthwhile.
"The projects that address those types of issues seldom have a revenue base," he said.
Huffines, the Senate transportation committee vice chair, echoed Anderson's concerns. He also said that toll roads in urban areas will geographically segregate people by income because only those Texans that can afford the added cost will live near such corridors.
"Those that can't are going to live in those areas where they don't have to go down toll roads," Huffines said.
You know we are living in strange times when I find myself agreeing with Don Huffines. The story notes the failure of SH130 as a reminder of what the downside of these schemes are. As for the concerns about corruption and cronyism…yeah, there's nothing I can say here that doesn't put my head at risk of exploding. I don't honestly expect much to come of this because I don't think Trump has the attention span to push for it, and I know Paul Ryan doesn't care about infrastructure. But if it gets a bunch of Republicans in Texas all upset, it will have accomplished at least one useful thing.
There's no such thing as a free road
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Flypusher says:
If we're really serious about infrastructure, we've got plenty of existing roads, dams, bridges, gas lines, water mains, etc. that need fixing or replacing. Go work on those, and use actual tax money, not financial sleights of hand, to pay for it. This is why we pay taxes- so we can have the nice things associated with civilization.
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The vast majority of road miles will remain in the public sector and reliance upon tax revenue for upkeep. As Flypusher notes, that's mostly what the infrastructure is…existing stuff, not new stuff. What happens to the tax revenue stream as more and more vehicles become electric and stop paying the gasoline tax? As for SH 130, I use it to bypass Austin and to me it's worth the toll to do so. I question the vast right-of-way and the unused toll booths, all needless expenses imho which have contributed to it not working out financially.


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WASHINGTON – Democrats and civil rights groups are stepping up demands for Congress to move on legislation that would require some Southern states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, to once again get federal approval before making election changes.
Almost 160 Democrats in Congress recently wrote House Republican leaders calling for action on the stalled bill, which they said would "restore the safeguards of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., signed the letter. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, didn't, saying the measure wouldn't include key states with a long history of discrimination, including Alabama.
"There is a lot of concern that many of those areas will not be covered with the new bill," said Thompson. "At the end of the day if the bill comes to the floor in whatever form, in all probability I'll support it. But at this point, I'm going to lobby for a better bill."
The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 proposed by Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., would revise the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has a companion bill in the Senate.
The measure was crafted after the Supreme Courtthrew out the part of the 1965VotingRights Act — Section 4 — that determined which states and other jurisdictions with a history of voter discrimination had to obtain "pre-clearance" from federal officials before making any changes to their election systems.
Those states were at the heart of the battle for voting rights during the civil rights movement.
State election officials in Mississippi and Louisiana complain the bill attempts to undo last year's Supreme Court decision.
"This bill is cobbled together to put Mississippi and three other states back in pre-clearance and not really for any other reason," said Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican.
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, also a Republican,says it "tramples states' rights to conduct elections by providing sole power to the U.S. attorney general to immediately subject states such as Louisiana to coverage based on past objections."
Under the new proposal, only states with at least five voting-rights violations in the past 15 years would be subject to pre-clearance, and one of them would have to be a statewide violation.
Thompson said it's hard to explain why some states that previously required pre-clearance would not be covered in the new bill.
"For a lot of people, that's a problem," said Thompson, noting the Supreme Court case Shelby County vs. Holder was out of Alabama. "All of a sudden a state that has a history of racial discrimination in its handling of elections is overlooked."
Schedler wrote a letter to Louisiana lawmakers urging them to oppose the bill. The bill would "resurrect pre-clearance coverage based on the old data specifically rejected by the court," he wrote. "It is a dangerous attempt to pre-empt the state's sovereign right to exercise its discretion."
Hosemann said that under the bill, small Mississippi cities that had miniscule violations would put the whole state back into pre-clearance law.
"Because we had three of them mess up somewhere in the last 15 years the whole state comes back to pre-clearance, which cost untold amounts of money," he said.
Hosemann said he's also upset the measure would penalize states for low minority voter turnout. He said many factors play into turnout, including whether it's a presidential election year.
"But to key election law into a low minority turnout doesn't make any sense to me," he said. "We don't register them (as minorities) and we don't have any control over it. It's the candidates that bring the people out. There's no barrier to casting a ballot."
Schedler said whether people decide to vote should be left to them.
"The right to vote is just that — a right," he said. "How can any state or political subdivision be held accountable for what amounts to a personal responsibility?"
The bill also would broaden the pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act to a national policy, not one that applied only to states where discrimination was most blatant in the 1960s.
But Thompson and some civil rights activists complain that controversial voter identification laws are not covered in the bill. Opponents of voter ID laws complain they could turn away voters, particularly minority and elderly voters.
"Voter ID is a voter suppression method. There's no proof that voter ID will prevent any of the harms that have been alleged," said Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP. "Any voter suppression method like voter ID should not be a part of a compromise for political expediency."
It's been almost three months since lawmakers introduced the bill.
In the letter to House leaders last month, supporters led by Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., called for action before the August recess.
"Some of us believe the bill should be enacted in its current form, and some of us would prefer to see it amended," they wrote. "But all of us stand united in our desire for the House to consider the issue."
Civil rights groups said it was urgent that the House Judiciary Committee hold a hearing.
"Protecting voting rights is a bipartisan issue and this is bipartisan legislation," said Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president of the LeadershipConference on Civil and Human Rights. "Now is the time to move forward."
The bill, which is cosponsored by some conservative and liberal lawmakers, has seen little action since it was introduced in January. Supporters symbolically unveiled the measure just before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement Thursday he "fully supports protecting the voting rights of all Americans."
"As Congress determines whether additional steps are needed to protect those rights, I will carefully consider legislative proposals addressing the issue," he said.
The committee has not scheduled a hearing on the bill.
Thompson said the bill faces several hurdles in the Republican-controlled House and particularly noted Goodlatte's lack of support. "It will be a tough go," he said.
Thompson said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., "needs to take the leadership on getting this done in the House, which would truly be a symbol that things are changing in the House of Representatives."
Sensenbrenner also acknowledged the challenges in an opinion article published last month in USA Today.
"Proponents face an uphill battle, but the Voting Rights Amendment Act is worth the fight," he wrote. "The right to vote should be unassailable. This is not a partisan principle, but an American one."
In the Senate, Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is working to get Republican co-sponsors, his staff said. No hearing is scheduled.
Supporters of the bill had hoped to build momentum last month when Democratic and Republican lawmakers, including Cantor, joined an annual civil rights pilgrimage to Alabama. The group also stopped in Mississippi this year, in part to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer and to draw attention to the state's new voter ID law.
Opponents of voter ID laws, including the new one in Mississippi, complain they could turn away voters, particularly minority and elderly voters.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., led the trip, which could mobilize efforts against more Republican-sponsored voter ID laws, said Stephen Rozman, a political scientist at Tougaloo College.
"He may be doing that to really build up a momentum to block that and to make sure that the African-American vote is not undermined in Mississippi," Rozman said. "He's going to galvanize some of the local people. . . . Sometimes we need a shot in the behind to get moving."
Meanwhile, national civil rights groups have also ramped up efforts to get Congress to act.
Members of the Black Women's Roundtable, a national network of groups, including some from Mississippi, met with congressional lawmakers last week to urge support for the bill.
"It's very important that we weigh in," said Melanie Campbell, president of the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation.
Marc Morial, a Louisiana native and president of the National Urban League, said the bill is not perfect, but it's an effort to keep in place voting rights protections after the Supreme Court ruling, which he said "knocked a gaping hole" in the Voting Rights Act.
"What's at stake is equal access to the franchise," Morial told hundreds of black women at a luncheon in Washington last month. The Voting Rights Act "is needed now more than ever. We have work to do."


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The Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille is a scientific award by the  -  (German Geological Society-Geological Association) to an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the fields of geology and earth sciences. The award is named after the German geologist and paleontologist Gustav Steinmann.

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The medal has been awarded each year to the following scientists:

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 List of geology awards

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Awards established in 1938


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Bombs, hurricanes… and 50 years on the county's roads
UNEXPLODED bombs, hurricane-force winds and 100m-wide 'potholes' – it's all in a day's work for one of East Sussex Highways' longest-serving employees.
Bernie Gorringe, from Ninfield, has just clocked up 50 years on the county's roads, rising from crew member via highway superintendent to his current role as project manager.
Born in Eastbourne, Bernie was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when he first joined East Sussex County Council in 1969 – an era that was a world away from today's high-tech environment.
"We didn't have the kind of machinery we have today so a lot of it was done by hand," he says. "It was hard, physical work, but when you're young it's enjoyable and it keeps you fit."
Health and safety was not such a priority in Bernie's early days – like when his crew unearthed a foot-long unexploded WW2 bomb while building flint walls at Kingston, near Lewes.
"We called the police and half an hour later a PC turned up in his Ford Escort, picked up the bomb, put it in the back of the car and drove off," he says. "That was it – we never saw him again!"
Now a 66-year-old father of two and grandfather of four, Bernie was in the eye of the storm – literally – when hurricane-force winds wreaked havoc across the south east on the night of October 15, 1987.
He says: "I was on duty, and normally we'd get the odd call-out about a pothole or some flooding, but my pager started beeping at 10.30pm and it never stopped all night.
"It was absolutely horrendous – there was hardly a road without a tree across it and no-one could get anywhere, but everyone – highways, emergency services and the public – just pulled together.
"Luckily we knew we were in for a rough night so we'd told the crews to take the chainsaws home with them so they could literally cut their way into work."
Other memorable moments include the time Bernie was called out to a 'pothole' in Jevington and found 100m of road had been washed down a ravine, and dealing with the devastating floods which hit in Lewes in 2012.
Currently working on a project delivering superfast broadband to East Sussex, Bernie – who also managed to fit in a stint serving with the Territorial Royal Engineers – says he has no plans to retire.
"The best thing is the people I work with," he says. "We're all like-minded people who like looking after the public. I like working for a local organisation and I enjoy the challenge of each new job I take on."
Dale Poore, East Sussex Highways contract manager, said: "Bernie is a great guy and to dedicate half a century to one organisation shows tremendous loyalty and commitment. We're lucky to have him and hope to benefit from his vast experience and expertise for many years to come."
This entry was posted in Roads, Transport and Environment on February 22, 2019 by timf.
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News Oxford students to stand for City Council elections
Oxford students to stand for City Council elections
Students have been selected as candidates for the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems
Zachary Klamann
City Council elections take place next Thursday, with most Oxford students voting in the Carfax, Holywell and North wards. Four current Oxford students are standing in these wards, with two candidates representing the Conservative Party, and the others representing the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties respectively. Many of these students have latched onto similar movements and policy proposals, with particular concern being shown for Oxford's homelessness problem and rising living costs in the city.
"I was motivated to stand for council when I saw the news that Labour had ignored petitions and protests and decided to impose a fine of up to £1,000 on homeless people", said second year Classicist and Liberal Democratic candidate for Carfax, Harry Samuels.
The other Liberal Democrat, running in Holywell, voiced similar concerns. "I got involved because I have been exceptionally frustrated by how little the council engages with students. If elected, I will fight to repeal Labour's up-to-£1,000 fine on the homeless" said Wadham graduate Andy McKay.
Hustings for the City Council elections happened at Magdalen on Wednesday evening. At various points in the hustings for the Carfax position, the debate became heated as some accused the Labour candidate and incumbent, Alex Hollingsworth, of criminalising homelessness. In response, Hollingsworth and others pointed out the Government's role in decreasing funding for the homeless.
The other issue brought up was rent across the city. Candidates from both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties criticised the current leadership for freezing student housing, which they said was driving up rents for everyone.
Among the candidates, there was concern over the motive of students running for the City Council. However, the students claim that they have no interest in a further political career. Indeed, McKay for one maintains that this is the only election that he would ever enter.
"I do think that the City Council needs more student voices on it, given how many residents of the city are students."
For the rest, their status as students is irrelevant to their goal of improving the city. "Students give so much to our community and Oxford would not be a great University, or a great City, without them. For that reason alone, I think it is only fair that some students should serve on our City Council," Walker said.
Conservative candidate and St. Catz first-year Alex Curtis claims his candidacy is about principles. "The fact that I am a student is irrelevant to my desire to correct that, though I do think that the City Council needs more student voices on it, given how many residents of the city are students."
Even non-student candidate Fiona Joines, of the Green Party, thinks it's great to have students running. "Students are obviously a real asset to the city and I want to work with them on issues that care about too such as the rise in homelessness in the city and the lack of support being offered currently to refugees", she said.
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When you stand before a class to teach, as I've done in both hockey and the school system, there's usually the expectation you'll have an answer for just about anything. Multiple options don't count much. Saying, "Gosh, I don't know" isn't exactly helpful either.
When I'm truly stumped, I share my best dumbfounded look and answer with my own questions. Yes, that's the ticket. Turn the tables and try to elicit responses from the questioner then dissect what they have to say.
Here's one for you: "Coach Richard, what do you think about kids playing different positions in atom hockey?" To which I invariably reply, "Personally I'm in favour. Next question…" But that doesn't help. Coaches want to know why. Most are in favour, too, but are at a loss to offer parents and/or kids viable rationales to sell the idea. It's especially challenging for higher level or competitive teams and practically impossible in mid-season without prior warning.
"My kid's a centre" or "my boy will not play defence on this team" are common remarks from parents. They scuttle any plans the coach had to expose kids to different positions. They also are somewhat contrary to Hockey Canada's Long Term Player Development plan where, from ages 6-10, kids are just learning to take skills from practice to game. It's the ideal opportunity to allow them to apply new-found skills to different positions.
But we as the game's leaders haven't done a great job of selling that approach. Associations may suggest kids rotate positions. However there's a difference between a suggestion and a rule. A coach could be expected to have them rotate yet not need to actually do it. It would seem we need to educate first the coaches on its benefits and then parents.
In both cases, that's a tall order once the season begins. Even at a recreational level, parents (and perhaps their children, too) will argue the child "tried out" as a defenceman and should remain there.
Meanwhile, to best meet the needs of developing kids, the association creates its teams by placing 13 on each one, regardless of position. Then they leave it up to the coach to find kids for each position, usually with assurances like, "It's only for a month." Not exactly an endorsement for the approach's worth.
Once the season starts and there's been no rotation per se, or at least a minimal one, it's difficult trying to convince a nine year old to switch to forward after three months on 'D'. Not to mention needing to find a child to switch with him. Then we're down to begging or bribing, neither of which provides a positive spin.
Next week, some reasons why we should be doing it and how to go about it.


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Antique French Gilt Bronze Clock with Portrait Plaque of Molière c.1860
This is a superb antique French gilt bronze mantel clock with Bleu Celeste porcelain panels in the Sevres manner, circa 1860...
This is a superb antique French gilt bronze mantel clock with Bleu Celeste porcelain panels in the Sevres manner, circa 1860 in date.
The case crowned with two cherubs holding laurels one holding a mask emblematic of theatre, flanking an oval Bleu Celeste porcelain panel of the playwright Molière .
The base decorated with ormolu flowers is raised on turned feet and inset with Sevres plaques decorated with cherubs.
The circular dial has Roman and Arabic numerals and the clock has an 8 day striking movement complete with count wheel strike and bell, stamped with Miroy Freres to back and is complete with original key bell and pendulum
This incredible clock is a must have for any collector of ornamental and decorative pieces.
The clock is in excellent working condition the movement having been cleaned and serviced, the ormolu case having been polished, please see photos for confirmation.
Height 1 foot, 1 inch x Width 1 foot, 8 inches x Depth 5 inches
Ormolu - Gilt Bronze (from French 'or moulu', signifying ground or pounded gold) is an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold in a mercury amalgam to an object of bronze.The mercury is driven off in a kiln leaving behind a gold-coloured veneer known as 'gilt bronze'.
The manufacture of true ormolu employs a process known as mercury-gilding or fire-gilding, in which a solution of nitrate of mercury is applied to a piece of copper, brass, or bronze, followed by the application of an amalgam of gold and mercury. The item was then exposed to extreme heat until the mercury burned off and the gold remained, adhered to the metal object.
After around 1830 because legislation had outlawed the use of mercury other techniques were used instead. Electroplating is the most common modern technique. Ormolu techniques are essentially the same as those used on silver, to produce silver-gilt..
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name French: 15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673), was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Bourgeois Gentleman.
Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy.
Through the patronage of aristocrats including Philippe I, Duke of Orléans—the brother of Louis XIV—Molière procured a command performance before the King at the Louvre. Performing a classic play by Pierre Corneille and a farce of his own, The Doctor in Love, Molière was granted the use of salle du Petit-Bourbon near the Louvre, a spacious room appointed for theatrical performances. Later, Molière was granted the use of the theatre in the Palais-Royal. In both locations he found success among Parisians with plays such as The Affected Ladies, The School for Husbands and The School for Wives. This royal favour brought a royal pension to his troupe and the title Troupe du Roi ("The King's Troupe"). Molière continued as the official author of court entertainments.
Though he received the adulation of the court and Parisians, Molière's satires attracted criticism from moralists and the Catholic Church. Tartuffe and its attack on perceived religious hypocrisy roundly received condemnations from the Church, while Don Juan was banned from performance. Molière's hard work in so many theatrical capacities took its toll on his health and, by 1667, he was forced to take a break from the stage. In 1673, during a production of his final play, The Imaginary Invalid, Molière, who suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, was seized by a coughing fit and a haemorrhage while playing the hypochondriac Argan. He finished the performance but collapsed again and died a few hours later.
Molière was born in Paris, the son of Jean Poquelin and Marie Cressé, the daughter of a prosperous bourgeois family. He lost his mother when he was ten and he did not seem to have been particularly close to his father. After his mother's death, he lived with his father above the Pavillon des Singes on the rue Saint-Honoré, an affluent area of Paris. It is like that his education commenced with studies in a Parisian elementary school; this was followed with his enrollment in the prestigious Jesuit Collège de Clermont, where he completed his studies in a strict academic environment and got a first taste of life on the stage.
In 1631, Jean Poquelin purchased from the court of Louis XIII the posts of "valet de chambre ordinaire et tapissier du Roi" ("valet of the King's chamber and keeper of carpets and upholstery"). His son assumed the same posts in 1641. The title required only three months' work and an initial cost of 1,200 livres; the title paid 300 livres a year and provided a number of lucrative contracts. Poquelin also studied as a provincial lawyer sometime around 1642, probably in Orléans, but it is not documented that he ever qualified. So far he had followed his father's plans, which had served him well; he had mingled with nobility at the Collège de Clermont and seemed destined for a career in office.
In June 1643, when Molière was 21, he decided to abandon his social class and pursue a career on the stage. Taking leave of his father, he joined the actress Madeleine Béjart, with whom he had crossed paths before, and founded the Illustre Thé tre with 630 livres. They were later joined by Madeleine's brother and sister.
Illustration after Pierre Brissart for the printed text of 'L'Étourdi, ou le Contretemps
The new theatre troupe went bankrupt in 1645. Molière had become head of the troupe, due in part, perhaps, to his acting prowess and his legal training. However, the troupe had acquired large debts, mostly for the rent of the theatre (a court for jeu de paume), for which they owed 2000 livres. Historians differ as to whether his father or the lover of a member of his troupe paid his debts; either way, after a 24-hour stint in prison he returned to the acting circuit. It was at this time that he began to use the pseudonym Molière, possibly inspired by a small village of the same name in the Midi near Le Vigan. It was also likely that he changed his name to spare his father the shame of having an actor in the family (actors, although no longer vilified by the state under Louis XIV, were still not allowed to be buried in sacred ground).
After his imprisonment, he and Madeleine began a theatrical circuit of the provinces with a new theatre troupe; this life was to last about twelve years, during which he initially played in the company of Charles Dufresne, and subsequently created a company of his own, which had sufficient success and obtained the patronage of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Few plays survive from this period. The most noteworthy are L'Étourdi, ou le Contretemps (The Bungler) and Le Docteur Amoureux (The Doctor in Love); with these two plays, Molière moved away from the heavy influence of the Italian improvisational Commedia dell'arte, and displayed his talent for mockery. In the course of his travels he met Armand, Prince of Conti, the governor of Languedoc, who became his patron, and named his company after him. This friendship later ended when Conti, having contracted syphilis from a courtesan, turned towards religion and joined Molière's enemies in the Parti des Dévots and the Compagnie de Saint Sacrement.
In Lyon, Mademoiselle Du Parc, known as Marquise, joined the company. Marquise was courted, in vain, by Pierre Corneille and later became the lover of Jean Racine. Racine offered Molière his tragedy Théagène et Chariclée (one of the first works he wrote after he had abandoned his theology studies), but Molière would not perform it, though he encouraged Racine to pursue his artistic career. It is said that soon thereafter Molière became angry with Racine when he was told that he had secretly presented his tragedy to the company of the Hôtel de Bourgogne as well.
Molière was forced to reach Paris in stages, staying outside for a few weeks in order to promote himself with society gentlemen and allow his reputation to feed in to Paris. Molière reached Paris in 1658 and performed in front of the King at the Louvre (then for rent as a theatre) in Corneille's tragedy Nicomède and in the farce Le Docteur Amoureux with some success. He was awarded the title of Troupe de Monsieur (Monsieur being the honorific for the king's brother Philippe I, Duke of Orléans). With the help of Monsieur, his company was allowed to share the theatre in the large hall of the Petit-Bourbon with the famous Italian Commedia dell'arte company of Tiberio Fiorillo, famous for his character of Scaramouche. (The two companies performed in the theatre on different nights.) The premiere of Molière's Les Précieuses Ridicules (The Affected Young Ladies) took place at the Petit-Bourbon on 18 November 1659.
Les Précieuses Ridicules was the first of Molière's many attempts to satirize certain societal mannerisms and affectations then common in France. It is widely accepted that the plot was based on Samuel Chappuzeau's Le Cercle des Femmes of 1656. He primarily mocks the Académie Française, a group created by Richelieu under a royal patent to establish the rules of the fledgling French theater. The Académie preached unity of time, action, and styles of verse. Molière is often associated with the claim that comedy castigat ridendo mores or "criticises customs through humour" (a phrase in fact coined by his contemporary Jean de Santeuil and sometimes mistaken for a classical Latin proverb).
Despite his own preference for tragedy, which he had tried to further with the Illustre Thé tre, Molière became famous for his farces, which were generally in one act and performed after the tragedy. Some of these farces were only partly written, and were played in the style of Commedia dell'arte with improvisation over a canovaccio (a vague plot outline). He also wrote two comedies in verse, but these were less successful and are generally considered less significant. Later in life Molière concentrated on writing musical comedies, in which the drama is interrupted by songs and/or dances.
Les Précieuses Ridicules won Molière the attention and the criticism of many, but it was not a popular success. He then asked Fiorillo to teach him the techniques of Commedia dell'arte. His 1660 play Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire (The Imaginary Cuckold) seems to be a tribute both to Commedia dell'arte and to his teacher. Its theme of marital relationships dramatizes Molière's pessimistic views on the falsity inherent in human relationships. This view is also evident in his later works, and was a source of inspiration for many later authors, including (in a different field and with different effect) Luigi Pirandello. It describes a kind of round dance where two couples believe that each of their partners has been betrayed by the other's and is the first in Molière's 'Jealousy series' which includes Dom Garcie de Navarre, L'École des maris and L'École des femmes.
First volume of a 1739 translation into English of all of Molière's plays, printed by John Watts.
In 1660 the Petit-Bourbon was demolished to make way for the eastern expansion of the Louvre, but Molière's company was allowed to move into the abandoned theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal. After a period of refurbishment they opened there on 20 January 1661. In order to please his patron, Monsieur, who was so enthralled with entertainment and art that he was soon excluded from state affairs, Molière wrote and played Dom Garcie de Navarre ou Le Prince jaloux (The Jealous Prince, 4 February 1661), a heroic comedy derived from a work of Cicognini's. Two other comedies of the same year were the successful L'École des maris (The School for Husbands) and Les F cheux, subtitled Comédie faite pour les divertissements du Roi (a comedy for the King's amusements) because it was performed during a series of parties that Nicolas Fouquet gave in honor of the sovereign. These entertainments led Jean-Baptiste Colbert to demand the arrest of Fouquet for wasting public money, and he was condemned to life imprisonment.
On 20 February 1662 Molière married Armande Béjart, whom he believed to be the sister of Madeleine. (She may instead have been her illegitimate daughter with the Duke of Modena.) The same year he premiered L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), subsequently regarded as a masterpiece. It poked fun at the limited education that was given to daughters of rich families, and reflected Molière's own marriage. Both this work and his marriage attracted much criticism. The play sparked the protest called the "Quarrel of L'École des femmes". On the artistic side he responded
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German 3.Liga – What's it all about?
September 6, 2011 by Connor O'Neil
The German Third Division or 3.Liga as its known is by no means the most glamorous or most reported on league in the world. It contains two reserve teams in Stuttgart II and Werder Bremen II, imagine Chelsea and Everton's reserve teams playing in League 1 and your there.
Last season Bayern Munich II were also in the league but were relegated meaning for the first time they hadn't been in the German third tier since 1973, not only a spell of dominance in the first division for Bayern Munich.
The 3rd Liga is a very young league indeed, it was created in July 2008 to create a more competitive third tier league as before it was split into two leagues, North and South 'Regionalliga' which is now the basis of the fourth tier which itself is overseeing a change in 2012. The clubs, at first, were against the idea due to new laws regarding the stadium, as all stadiums have to accommodate 10,000 supporters with at least 2000 seats. This was fine for FC Saarbrücken who already had a stadium capable of holding 35000 supporters or Rostock or Braunschweig both with stadiums above 25000.
However for teams like Heidenheim and Unterhaching average attendances at most clubs were below 10,000, Unterhaching only achieved an average attendance of 2,365 yet still had to make changes to their stadium t0 accommodate non-existing fans.
In 3rd Liga you have to obtain a licence from the German football federation. This license is granted if the club can prove that they are financially sound, that their stadium conforms to the security regulations, and that they have a working youth section although reserve teams don't have to conform to these regulations.
This came to Werder Bremen II's rescue who came third bottom last season but were saved from relegation due to the fact Koblenz could not provide a sufficient budget for the current season, the season before they were relegated from the second division, came 11th in the third and still ended up being relegated.
There are 20 teams and at the current point, the league is 7 games in with an early start on the 22nd of July. Regensburg and Heidenheim both sit top with 15 points with Tobias Schweinsteiger having already scored 6 goals. Werder Bremen II may finally be destined for the drop, they sit in bottom with 2 points having conceded 11 goals already.
For Middlesbrough and Millwall fans of the mid-nineties curious as to where Uwe Fuchs has got to as I know you are desperate to know, he now manages Osnabruck having had two spells at Wuppertaler Borussia and a short spell at Lubeck.
The German 3.Liga has produced a fair amount of talent that now represent at a higher level already. Holger Badstuber and Thomas Müller proved themselves at a lower level in the Bayern Munich reserve team. More recently Alex Esswein made a move from Dynamo Dresden to Bundesliga outfit Nurnberg and Chris Löwe moved from Chemnitzer was sold to Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund for 200k.
So the 3.Liga has a promising future for rising stars of Germany but the price of playing in the league can disadvantage clubs due to the money needed to upgrade infrastructure let alone improve the squad.
Posted in European Football, Featured, German Football, Tactics & AnalysisTagged 3.Liga, Germany
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