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Convention Materials on Google Docs; Readable in Browser or Download
We here at Friends of University Lutheran Chapel Minneapolis have devoted much of this blog to making available to the public the documentation related to University Lutheran Chapel and the chapel's effort to bring the sale of the campus ministry property to a vote by the Minnesota South District Convention. Along the way, we discovered that Google Drive (formerly Docs) and Google Picassa Web can be very useful in displaying documents either "in-line" or in a new browser window.
So why not do the same for the 2013 Convention Materials for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod meeting this week in Saint Louis? The "LCMS" (as it is abbreviated) already does an excellent job in making available its convention materials on its own website at http://www.lcms.org/convention/downloads and at http://www.lcms.org/convention. Why not make some of these available as readable in the browser? The documents are already publicly available, so unless we're asked to remove them, we'll put the links in this post.
As usual, there are many, many caveats, disclaimers, and various other dire warnings, consequences and cautionary tales that go with the the use of the blog and whatever you find here. See our Acceptable Use Notice (the link is displayed on the right) and read the "fine print" at the bottom of this post.
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No Secrecy or Non Disclosure Here - The Settlement Between ULC and the District
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) meets in convention on July 20th. Here at Friends of ULC we have been trying to help those involved by sharing the relevant documents concerning University Lutheran Chapel and its struggle to have the Minnesota South District Convention vote on the sale of the campus ministry property in Minneapolis. In our last post we dissected one erroneous reason why the LCMS should not vote on convention workbook memorial 1-15, and urged that this memorial go to the delegates for a vote.
In this post we dissect yet another erroneous reason why the LCMS in convention cannot - or should not - vote on memorial 1-15, "To Commend and Support Campus Ministry at University of Minnesota". That would be that the legal settlement between University Lutheran Chapel and the Minnesota South District involves some sort of secrecy or non-disclosure. We don't know if that reason has been suggested to the floor committee or others at the upcoming convention. We hope not, but we have heard and seen this speculation elsewhere, and it would not be surprising if this were offered as an excuse to decline to consider the memorial.
In the same way that some have made demonstrably false oaths, affidavits, and sworn statements exposed elsewhere on this blog, this line of argument could prove ultimately very embarrassing to the arguer. The first question to them should be, can you produce the text of the settlement and show us where it supports what you say? Even if the text of the settlement were not available, it would be a shame to make this case to any deliberative body or convention. They would want the delegates to decline to consider a memorial based on a settlement whose terms we cannot know, whose text we cannot see, and hidden from us by a non-disclosure or secrecy clause we cannot examine.
But the text of the settlement is available, just like almost every other document from the legal action. It was part of the order dismissing the eviction and litigation. And there is nothing in the settlement to prevent the synod, or any district, from acting on this memorial, or, for that matter, just about anything else they would like to address regarding the Minnesota South District or University Lutheran Chapel. The only limitation the settlement mentions is that University Lutheran Chapel and the Minnesota South District will no longer litigate against each other on the specific grounds of the legal actions dismissed by the settlement. The synod in convention can do a vast number of things (especially so in convention) just like the Minnesota South District Convention was correct in wanting to vote on the sale, but was prevented from doing so by their former district president.
But don't take my word for it. Read the text of the settlement agreement
If you find the legalese too dense, get a lawyer to explain it to you (as I've said earlier, unlike many other pastors, I know I'm not a lawyer). Some individual names and the signature and exhibit pages (giving the legal description of the property) are redacted in this digital copy (including the last 10 pages of the 23 page document), but anyone interested can ask the Minnesota South District for a full copy. If for some reason they wont give it to you (it should already be available to all their pastors and congregations as members of their corporation), ask if University Lutheran Chapel will give you a copy. Or get a copy from the 4th district court records office (that's my favorite method; it's a charming trip to the downtown Minneapolis courthouse, and the records office is part of the scenic underground parking ramp!).
Why not just let the delegates vote on the original workbook memorial 1-15? Conventions and floor committees have a lot of work to do. Spurious reasons for not allowing the delegates to vote on memorials are a distraction, and waste everyone's time. Conventions and floor committees have more than enough to do without having to sift through speculative theories which are not established by the documentary evidence.
Another Convention, Another Chance to Vote on ULC? Let's Make that Happen.
Visitors to our humble little blog are probably aware that we've been doing what we can for some years to help University Lutheran Chapel (ULC) and get the word out about the sale of the campus ministry property by the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. We don't claim any credit for any of the good things that have happened so far, but we're glad to play some small part.
It appears as if we have another chance to do some good, or, more accurately, all of you have a chance to do some good before and during (and after, if you like!) the upcoming convention of the The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod July 20 - 25 in Saint Louis. The good news is that there is an excellent memorial in the Convention Workbook on page 139 "To Commend and Support Campus Ministry at University of Minnesota":
So the convention will get to vote on this, right?
Well, maybe, maybe not. This gets a little arcane, but the process goes something like this. Memorials to a synodical convention are sent to one of several floor committees. In this case, that is floor committee #1 (also called "Witness"; I won't try to explain this beyond saying the names are apparently an attempt to designate the general topic area of the committee). So floor committee #1 should do their thing, and decide what to do with the memorial.
The process might involve taking a memorial, then fashioning it into an overture, which then may or may not become a resolution (more details later will be added to this very rough description). Floor Committee #1, however, has decided to ask the convention to decline to consider this memorial in the First Issue of Today's Business:
The reason given for their action is "Issue has already been resolved by Minnesota South Distr", which apparently means the Minnesota South District. But this is precisely what did not happen. From 2008 to the present, the district president, directors and officers of the Minnesota South District refused to let their district "resolve" in any way the question of the sale of the campus ministry property in Minneapolis, or Mankato. In fact, the district president refused to let his own convention vote on the matter by ruling a motion to do exactly that out of order. And to make matters worse, the officers and directors of the Minnesota South District continue to refuse to discuss the sale, or to respond to the process in the LCMS Handbook which specifies how to "resolve" disputed issues (dispute resolution).
More posts will follow, but please consider contacting Floor Committee #1 to have them send the original memorial 1-15 to the convention delegates to have them vote on it. If you do, make sure you are courteous, polite, respectful and follow the words of Scripture, "Speak the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15). From what I can tell, the floor committee is open to more information, and is willing to correct whatever incorrect data it has been given to date. If it helps, you can
I sent to Floor Committee #1 on 2013 June 17 or
it as a .pdf file. If you are interested in the supporting documentation, you can see the other entries on this blog, or you can see the dispute resolution letter from
the .pdf File. The dispute resolution letter from
is online here, and is also available for
Same Sex Marriage as "No Tolerance Policy" to Charities (Religious or Otherwise)
Previous posts have outlined the very bad effects of the same sex marriage legislation being considered by the Minnesota Senate today. Those posts have already pointed out that the "fig leaves" lightly pasted on the legislation - the religious exemption and the use of the term "civil marriage" - will not fix the basic problems with same sex marriage. Yet another proof of this is the history of same sex marriage in other states. A striking example is Catholic Charities of Boston, an organization which no one would describe as "conservative", and which for 100 years or more included placing children for adoption as part of its charitable work.
So how did same sex marriage affect this charity, which has never performed marriages? The effect was simple and devastating: it shut them down as an adoption agency. In 2005 the Roman Catholic Church insisted that Catholic Charities of Boston cease placing children for adoption with same sex couples (which it had done for 15 years) and follow the church's moral and religious teachings. Catholic Charities of Boston (itself a rather liberal social service agency) was caught between its church and its state. They asked the State of Massachusetts for permission to continue their work from the state in a way that did not violate their beliefs. The answer was "no". So Catholic Charities of Boston ceased the "pre-adoption" work of their agency.
This example is instructive because it shows the effect of same sex marriage legislation on a religious organization which no one would consider conservative. In fact, the (now former) director of Catholic Charities of Boston resigned for the stated reason that the Vatican's directive contradicted their single adoption criteria, the "best interest of the children". The former director, Mr. Meade, is of course entitled to his opinion, but one obvious point would be that Christianity, Western Civilization, and the vast majority of religions around the world do not and have not considered homosexuality and same sex marriage in the "best interest of the children". This is one reason why, today, liberals, leftists and radicals are consistently mocked when they claim that their program should be carried out "for the children".
So how would a religious exemption clause from performing same sex marriage in the Minnesota legislation protect similar charities in that state which do not perform marriages? The answer would be that it cannot, which would leave the more liberal agencies (many of whose names have a Christian denomination in front of "Social Services") caught between their church and their state. But for those charities and social service organizations that take the teaching of their church seriously (or are forced to do so by their sponsoring religious group), the consequences would be much more dire. Same sex marriage law combined with other laws (like fair housing accommodation) would allow those who are intolerant of traditional morality to persecute them and put them out of business. This would include the litigious, the intolerant, and those who sympathize with them in various state, county and local agencies.
The experience with same sex marriage in other states shows us that it will not be just churches and their affiliates in the crosshairs. And charities which are not affiliated with any church or religion may fare much worse. The attacks on the Boy Scouts have already shown us what happens to those groups that are not religious and insist on a simple traditional moral code that includes a belief in God and the rejection of homosexuality.
If this legislation becomes law, expect the same here.
Why "Religious" Exemptions from "Civil" Same Sex Marriage Won't Help
The same sex marriage legislation that the Minnesota House has sent to the Senate was passed after adding two elements: a religious "exemption" from performing same sex marriages, and the addition of the term "civil", as in "Civil Marriage", apparently between two individuals of the same sex.
We already know that in states which already have same sex marriage (usually by judicial fiat, and in some cases by legislature) the first organizations that find themselves under attack by state regulators and plaintiffs lawyers are churches and church organizations. Catholic Charities of Boston after 100 years of placing children in homes for adoption was forced to close its doors after same sex marriage was allowed in Massachusetts. Because of the moral position of their church which objected to homosexuality (and therefore same sex marriage) Catholic Charities asked for a narrow exemption from placing children with same sex couples. The state's response was a resounding "no". The same thing is happening now in Illinois, which has passed legislation allowing adoption by same sex couples.
Ocean City, New Jersey, a unique association and city affiliated with the Methodist Church refused a request from a lesbian couple to be married on their property. To do so would violate Methodist Church law. The lesbian couple litigated using New Jersey's same sex marriage law combined with the legal theory of public accommodation, and succeeded in having the tax exemption of the religious association that owned Ocean City revoked. Owners of private businesses, such as the devote Roman Catholic proprietors of the Montpelier Inn in Vermont, were charged with violating Vermont's Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act. Of special interest in this instance is that the owners of the inn did not refuse a lesbian couple's request to host a civil union reception. Their "crime" was to express their religious conviction about same sex marriage in suggesting they might not be the best venue for the event.
Even in states which reject same sex marriage moral and religious objectors to the idea are subjected to persecution by proponents of the idea. After the passage of California's famous proposition 8, which enshrined traditional marriage in their constitution, Mormons were targeted by the proponents of gay marriage in retaliation for their support of the measure, along with other churches, pastors, and moral and religious individuals and organizations. In the last days of the campaign, same sex marriage supporters paid for a series of television ads accusing Mormons of having "too much wealth" which they used to "overly influence" the government. The parallels to anti-semitic propaganda used by neo-nazi and white supremacist groups is striking, and its use against a particular religious group should be a warning.
Should this legislation become law in Minnesota, the same will happen here, even with the "religious exemption" and "civil marriage" clauses. Religious organizations, such as adoption agencies, will find themselves persecuted when they follow their moral and religious precepts. Public school teachers and other government employees will face discipline or dismissal for holding to their moral or religious convictions about marriage. And an exemption based on religious conviction should terrify all individuals and citizens who hold moral convictions based on natural law, reason, history or common sense about marriage. Why would a religious association be necessary for exemption? Why is the moral objection of the individual citizen not enough? But they will have no exemption.
Please urge the Minnesota Senate to vote down this legislation. See the previous post for their contact information.
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Let the Minnesota Senate Know What You Think About The Same Sex Marriage Legislation.
The Minnesota State Senate is scheduled to consider the same sex marriage legislation passed by the Minnesota House last week. I have already written to as many state senators as I could to express my opposition to this legislation, and I would encourage you all to do the same. The contact information for the Senate is here:
http://www.senate.mn/members/
If you would like to use an email merge program, here is a .csv file with each senator's email address derived from concatenating their contact information:
Minnesota Senators, with Email, Comma Separated File (.csv)
That .csv file is crude, but the email address works for all but about 10 senators. The first link above also includes an ascii text file under the "labels" tab.
Below is the text of the email I sent. I encourage you to write your own, but if this inspires you, feel free to use what you can. Make sure you are civil, polite, decent, courteous and respectful. Short and to the point is also good, and a simple sentence or two expressing your hope that they will vote against this legislation would be just fine.
Subject: Please consider voting no on same sex marriage legislation. HF 1054, SF 925, revisions do not correct problems.
Dear Senator ____,
It is my understanding that the Senate will soon consider the same sex marriage legislation recently passed by the House. Having spent some amount of time reading and looking into HF 1054, SF 925, and the proposed revisions, amendments and impact of the legislation the Senate may produce, I would like you to consider voting against the version of this bill that reaches your chamber. You may be mistaken in believing that the narrow failure of the marriage amendment last November indicates support for such legislation, and even a majority of support by Minnesotans. I would ask you to consider this: if next election sees a proposed constitutional amendment enshrining same sex marriage as constitutional, would it in fact pass? Or would it fail by an even greater percentage than its opposite in the last election?
I also believe I understand the good intentions of those who have amended the legislation by inserting language and categories such as "civil" marriage and "Exemptions based on Religious Association". Unfortunately, these efforts do not make the bill acceptable. Because it proposes something that is unprecedented and opposed by so many Minnesotans and Americans, the need for such an exemption is troubling. Will the vast number of Minnesotans who consider same sex marriage wrong, unnatural, and destructive of family, society, state and country need to ask the state's permission under this law to continue their opposition? Would it make any difference if this opposition were not religious in nature, much less Christian? The use of the word "civil", while also well meant, does not seem to sufficiently clarify or lessen the enormous confusion, uncertainty and indecision this legislation will unleash.
The arguments I have heard for this legislation appear to be largely emotional, and based on an individual's supposed "right" to "love whomever they want". If that argument is valid as the supporters of this legislation seem to believe, then I suppose we could change "whoever" to "whatever", of any age, condition, or species, singular or plural. If you pass this, you will owe polygamists (including some Mormons, Muslims, and others) an apology for decades and centuries of criminalizing their love. Many of us love our money, and would like to be married to it, but our governor and your chamber now consider denying us the right to keep all - or at least more - of what we love. If you detect some (little) humor in that, you are right, but the point is that emotion and a supposed claim to an invented right of some kind is a terrible basis for legislation. It's also destructive of a genuinely ordered civil society where morality and reason can consider what is right and wrong as well as the consideration of good and evil, virtue and vice.
I appreciate your time. Should you, or your staff, wish to contact me, feel free to do so using the information on this email.
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Beate Hofmann (born October 15, 1963 in Bad Tölz) is a German Lutheran bishop.

Life
Hofmann studied Lutheran theology at Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel in Bielefeld, Heidelberg University, Northwestern University, University of Hamburg, and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. On October 31, 1993 she was ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Until 1996 she was a pastor at Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche in München-Großhadern.

In 1999 she was awarded a Ph.D. in practical theology by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1998 to 2003 she was theological director of studies at Diakonie Neuendettelsau, and from 2003 to 2013 a professor at Lutheran University in Nuremberg (now Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg). In 2012 she completed her habilitation at Augustana Divinity School Neuendettelsau with an empirical study on religious education for adults, and in 2013 was appointed professor for diaconal science and diaconal management at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel, where in 2017 she became the director of the Institut für Diakoniewissenschaft und Diakoniemanagement (Institute for Diaconal Studies and Diaconal Management).

In 2019 Hofmann was elected bishop of Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck.

Works by Hofmann
 . Kohlhammer Verlag, Munich 2000.  [Zugleich Dissertation, 1999].
 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013.
 , together with Cornelia Coenen-Marx, Otto Haussecker, Dörte Rasch and Beate Baberske Krohs, Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2008,Second edition 2010, (Reihe Diakonie: Bildung – Gestaltung – Organisation Bd. 2). .
 Together with Martin Büscher: . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017. .
 Together with Cornelia Coenen-Marx: . Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2017. .
 Together with Barbara Montag: , Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2018. .

External links

 Beate Hofmann at Homepage by Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel.
 NN: Beate Hofmann als neue Bischöfin von Kurhessen-Waldeck ins Amt eingeführt
 Homepage by EKKW: Bischöfin Dr. Hofmann: «Christliche Gemeinschaft ist ein Sorgenetz in Zeiten der Verunsicherung!», October 13, 2019

References

21st-century Lutheran bishops
21st-century German Lutheran bishops
1963 births
Women Lutheran bishops
21st-century German Protestant theologians
Women Christian theologians
People from Bad Tölz
Living people

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WATCH: BRPROUD Midday for January 15, 2021
Experts warn public of flammable hand sanitizers
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TYLER, Texas (KETK)- Hundreds of disinfectants have been recalled.
Some of these products could be flammable. They can contain methanol, which is typically found in fuel.
This year the Food and Drug Administration said that 17 people have died from methanol-tainted disinfectants. Currently, there are more than 200 brands that are recalled for that reason.
The CDC recommends to only use alcohol based products.
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LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- It was dark and grim Sunday night for the family of 31-year-old Christon Chaisson.
On Aug. 27, 2017, the warm summer heat filled the air and rain fell onto the street where Chaisson would live out his final moments.
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ST. MARTIN PARISH, lA. (KLFY) A Catahoula bar owner went head-to-head with the state office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control after they revoked the bar's license for not complying with coronavirus guidelines.
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The long awaited 2018-19 MLB Offseason has finally reared it's head — feelings of anticipation, excitement, and endless possibility permeate the air. Will your team sign the pieces they need to win their division, their league, or even a championship?
Today, we're taking a look at perhaps the most highly anticipated Free Agent of the entire offseason: Bryce Harper.
Bryce Aron Max Harper, a 26 year-old Nevada native, took the baseball world by storm when he entered the league at just 19 years-old on April 28 of 2012, first appearing with the Nationals, who took him first overall in the 2010 MLB Draft. Harper wasted no time in making a name for himself, slashing a solid .270/.340/.477 with 22 big flies in 139 games. He followed this success up with two more relatively consistent years which each turned out similar numbers — but then 2015 rolled around. Harper exploded in his age 22 season, slashing an incredible .330/.460/.649 while belting 42 long balls and turning in an astonishing 1.109 OPS paired with a 198 OPS+. Harper immediately asserted himself as a force to be reckoned with, flashing his proper talent for all the world to see.
So, what is it exactly that makes Bryce Harper of such high demand? Sure, his numbers have been impressive from time to time, and yes, he's young with a drive for greatness, but is that all really worth upwards of $30 Million in annual value? In short, yes, but it's not his numbers in prior years that entice teams so heavily, it's what they could be in future seasons that make teams go crazy for guys like Bryce. Harper's ceiling is, arguably, the highest of any player in all of baseball. He has all the tools, and certainly the confidence, to become one of the greatest players to ever grace the diamond, and teams know that. Therefore, you can guarantee that Harper will receive the most demand of any player on the market this winter, I'd put money on that.
Speaking of teams, who all is interested in this Superstar talent? The first two teams that come to mind are the Saint Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies, both of which have money to spend, and have maintained interest in Harper for a long, long time. Philadelphia certainly has more money, but Saint Louis has more of a winning culture to their name. Another team that will be big players for Harper are the Washington Nationals, his former ball club. According to multiple reports, the Nationals extended Harper an offer following the last game of the season that was in the ballpark of $30 Million per year over 10 years, no opt-outs. Harper, apparently, denied this offer, and the two have yet to resume talks. That being said, it certainly stands to reason that the team will come back with a restructured offer in the near future. Teams with an outside shot on the generational Harper include the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are a bit strapped for cash, the San Francisco Giants, who lack a whole lot more than just a superstar outfielder, and the Chicago White Sox, who are looking to come back from a rebuild in style.
Harper is due to set records this offseason, and it will be extremely interesting to see where his talent winds up.
My Prediction: The Philadelphia Phillies, 11 years, $363 Million.
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A change of scenery has seem to help these guys huh?


Testing requires a firm understanding of the requirements and expectations from product owners and other stakeholders as well as understanding the inherit limitations of the product and its environment. For instance, knowing that an iPhone app can be interrupted by a regular voice call and that the internet connection can come and go is important when you are planning how to test a video conferencing app.
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Automating as much test-work as possible seems to be a good answer for testers, because it would mean less human error, more coverage and the ability to just automatically repeat checklists over and over. But there's a problem. Up until now, getting automation to work in real-life scenarios has been synonymous with programming.
And so, testers all over the world are forced to learn some form of programming, usually without proper guidance, formal training or even a personal interest in learning it for that matter.
I once read a book on how to get the most out of a large, commercial test product. The chapter about automation said (paraphrasing) "there are lots of great resources on the internet you can copy and paste (the programming language) examples from". That was it. Now this may be the way a lot of programmers get into the business, diving in at the deep end, but it's usually followed by years of junior work and formal education before they become truly productive developers, armed with the right patterns, practices and experience.
Testers who are tasked with automation, on the other hand, typically only have a few weeks or months to either "get on board or get fired". I heard a test director from a large financial software vendor say just that at a conference this summer -- and everyone in the audience nodded. It's a common management decision and it's usually accompanied by "don't worry, you don't have to become a great programmer, you just have to know enough to make the automation thing work."
The result is almost always poorly made automation cases that are fragile, hard to troubleshoot, hard to re-use and impossible to update when the system under test changes. Hundreds or even thousands of automation cases are created, and in the beginning, they are all green. But within a few months they start failing because the product has changed and after a few more months half of them are red. Not so much because there are so many bugs in the product, but because the automation cases no longer match the product -- and no-one knows how to make it work again. So they are not trusted, they get turned off, and a new batch of automation cases are created to replace the old. And the developers shake their heads and roll their eyes at the testers for coding such unstable tests.
It's a dysfunctional process; testers spend 2/3 of their time doing bad programming.
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The idea left me, confusingly, both encouraged and aghast.
My mother helped with Texas Hero.
Granted, there's no little irony in the fact that I'm batting out these very words on the keyboard of a MacBook Pro—let alone the fact that I rarely ever send a handwritten letter these days. But if you're a sighted person of a certain age, you're sure to hold fast in your memory a small library of familiar handwriting samples.
Off the top of my head I can think of at least a dozen people whose penmanship I'd recognize in an instant: my parents, my siblings, my daughter, a grandfather and an aunt, two ex-wives, a couple old coworkers, a few good friends. And that's not even counting more than a dozen others whose handwriting I've preserved in digital form—e.g., Abigail, Viktorie, and Marydale.
But what do you get when you open a letter in a stranger's handwriting? There's no flash of recognition at first glance at the hand-addressed envelope. No flutter in your gut as a face comes to mind. No proof that someone known and loved has reached out to you.
Envelope from my father as a young man.
It's an art project, I get it. But the encounter reminded me that no more will I see envelopes freshly addressed by certain familiar pens—that of my dear mother, for instance, not even in her jiggly, Parkinson's-induced scrawl. I can at least still revisit scores of her letters I've got in safe keeping. Although the flash of recognition lacks fresh brightness, it's the work of her hand.
Ornament from Geographica, coming soon.
Then again I'm not the only one who's neglected his penmanship lately. Some time after Heather du Plessis-Allan, a presenter with a New Zealand current affairs TV show, broke a story exposing a loophole that let her buy a gun online without a permit, police showed up with a search warrant looking for handwriting samples. In the wake of the search—which suggests whoever ordered the gun might face punishment for breaking the law—she realized she barely handwrites anything anymore.
Detail of S. F. Austin's journal.
She ended up posting a sample of her handwriting on her Facebook page.
Me, meantime? Well, I'm currently working on my first modern serif typeface ever—although it's based on historical materials. In particular, I'm consulting the maps published by eighteenth-century English engraver Thomas Jefferys, known at the time as the "Geographer for King George III." The neat lettering on Jefferys's maps inspired me to give real type design a go for once.
But never fear, because after I finish Geographica, I'll be making another old penmanship font modeled after the hand of Texas pioneer Stephen F. Austin (in his journal from a Mexican prison, circa 1834–35). And after that I've got a pretty cool modern handwriting font planned. Stay tuned!
» It seems letter-writing clubs are a thing, and the Wonder Fair Letter Writing Club looks like a good one.
» A frightening prospect: machines have been passing the Turing Test—of handwriting.
» An art exhibit called "Good Penmanship" bids penmanship adieu.
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Great suggestion from the Steam forums
Thread starter Pilluminati
Pilluminati
An example of 'clunkyness' with object interaction is the ranged based nature of it. a simple fix would be when i click and hold an object i can interact with the player should move in a straight line towards it until it is in within range... then start manipulating it.
It sounds very convenient. You could also apply it to dropping items so the character would move automatically towards the position where you want to drop the item if it's out of range and then drop it.
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Out of curiousity, is there a game out there (old or new) on which we are able to interact with game objects in a similar way to exanima?
On the topic, I am a little lost. The suggestion is for the character to move towards the object untill that it's at hand?, in that case it would be a mess I think. If not, there currently is a limit of range, moving the character towards the item to shorten the range won't make it any more realistic in my opinion.
What may work maybe is some feedback coming from the pointer. For instance, modifying the shape for a hand or something like that.
Cpt Dave
All he means is that if you try to interact with something that is too far, instead of doing nothing, your character should automatically walk towards the item/door/container until you get in range, while you hold down the left mouse button.
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Oh I see. That makes more sense. Thanks.
Downstairs Eddie
I responded to that suggestion in the Steam thread. The problem is we can do things very quickly and freely now, which would become slow and limiting if this suggestion were implemented. Think about how you can close a door in the middle of combat to separate enemies. With this suggestion, it would interrupt combat while your character walked over to the door and closed it while zombies are trying to kill you.
Vold, games that comes to mind are Penumbra and Amnesia, which also involve clicking and dragging objects, including doors and drawers etc. But those games are first person, so the "invisible hands" aren't a problem. We're accustomed to having invisible bodies in first person games. Because we can see ourselves in Exanima, some people find the disconnect weird.
But I maintain that this just doesn't matter once you've played the game for a couple of minutes.
Another game that comes to mind is the most recent Thief reboot, which is first person but showed the player's hands when you opened doors and windows, etc. I hated it, because it took control away from you while the character went through the pre-baked animation to open the door. I'd rather stay in control at all times and simply imagine that my character is interacting with objects -- which, after all, is what we've always done in first person games that have invisible bodies.
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Downstairs Eddie said:
Who said your character would walk over there without you being able to interrupt it? It would only do it while you hold the mouse button obviously. Come on, a little more imagination please.
But how do you propose getting around the problem I mentioned? Right now you can quickly slam a door in the middle of combat, for example. With this suggestion, you can't, not unless the character moves at light speed. This suggestion requires giving up player control for the sake of animations. I'm just saying I'd prefer that doesn't happen.
Evilprovolone
I think its just pure laziness to not just put a finger on the right mouse button and get closer to the object. As far as combat goes i don't see a problem, it is simply a new design at least its new to me. I know there have been other tps combat games. maybe people are expecting diablo?
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I think you are misunderstanding something. The character would only walk until it's in range for interaction. If the object is already in range the character would not walk at all. The proposal is not for the character to physically carry the object or anything fancy like that, interaction & interaction range would be exactly the same as before. It's just meant for convenience, for example when opening a door, instead of having reposition yourself and test whether you're in range (I see even experienced people doing this).
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So lets add more steps to it then because laziness is so bad? You now have to do 10 push ups before you're allowed to interact with it. I don't see any argument against it here, just "hurrdurr casualfags are lazy".
The only good argument I've seen against it is what Madoc said, the controls would become messy. They are already quite weird and this would make them even more so.
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Pilluminati said:
That's what i thought when i did read it, yet another movement possibility to the quite complex movement schema. However:
You could also apply it to dropping items so the character would move automatically towards the position where you want to drop the item if it's out of range and then drop it.
This sounds better to what we have. Currently attempting to place an item might result in that it returns to its original place. In fact it happens quite often... to me at least. This system sounds more flexible and less time consuming.
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One thing that might cause some troubles is that the mouse pointer would need to be locked while the button is pressed, because as you move, the distance between you and the mouse does not change and the distance between you and the object does.
TwoPumpWarrior
Character will have to auto-path for this to work as intended. There will certainly be instances where things are simply in your way. Having the character walk blindly towards the target will cause many trips and falls. Now at what point is it more useful to just navigate the environment? I only see it useful for clear rooms which is not the case.
Besides, I very frequently switch between WASD and RMB movement out of combat.
The usefulness of WASD is incredible and usually works great for adjusting g distance.
Just thinking it might cause issues when you are trying to setup traps while in combat. A step closer than you intend to before gently placing that chair over his head and.. voilà your throat is cut open.
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Q: The item was deleted because it was excluded by a crawl rule My search crawl is not working for my local site.
On my Crawl Log I see a warning:

Item not crawled due to one of the following reasons: Preventive crawl rule; Specified content source hops/depth exceeded; URL has query string parameter; Required protocol handler not found; Preventive robots directive. ( This item was deleted because it was excluded by a crawl rule. )

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*I just moved all my content databases to a newly installed Sharepoint on a new server

*I am running Sharepoint Server 2019 Standard

*When I change the address in the content source to full FQDN, the search works partially with many 401 warnings

*The address in question is https

*Same address with sps3 gets crawled successfully with no issues

*There is no robots.txt file in the site

I tried and checked everything I could think of, including:

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*I checked that the default access account has access to the website

*I browsed the website ( using a browser ) while being logging in using the default access account

*I made sure there are no crawl rules

*I created a new crawl rule to include the affected URL

*I did "index reset"

*I disabled loopbackCheck

*I used Fiddler to monitor the traffic, the crawler is not even accessing the site

If you have any suggestions, please advice.

A: After two days of trying and failing, I solved the issue by cleaning up the content databases from missing features.
I had to manually uninstall all missing features using:
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -id <GUID> -force

After doing that the crawler started crawling again. But I don't know which feature in particular was causing the issue.

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Q: Prevent duplicate rows in MySQL without unique index/constraint? I'm writing an application that needs to deal with millions of URLs. It also needs to do retrieval by URL.
My table currently looks like this:
CREATE TABLE Pages (
  id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
  url varchar(4096) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  url_crc int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (id),
  KEY url_crc (url_crc)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

The idea behind this structure is to do look ups by a CRC32 hash of the URL, since a b-tree index would be very inefficient on URLs which tend to have common prefixes (InnoDB doesn't support hash indexes). Duplicate results from the CRC32 are filtered by a comparison with the full URL. A sample retrieval query would look like this:
SELECT id
FROM Pages
WHERE url_crc = 2842100667
  AND url = 'example.com/page.html';

The problem I have is avoiding duplicate entries being inserted. The application will always check the database for an existing entry before inserting a new one, but it's likely in my application that multiple queries for the same new URL will be made concurrently and duplicate CRC32s and URLs will be entered.
I don't want to create a unique index on url as it will be gigantic. I also don't want to write lock the table on every insert since that will destroy concurrent insert performance. Is there an efficient way to solve this issue?
Edit: To go into a bit more detail about the usage, it's a real-time table for looking up content in response to a URL. By looking up the URL, I can find the internal id for the URL, and then use that to find content for a page. New URLs are added to the system all the time, and I have no idea what those URLs will be before hand. When new URLs are referenced, they will likely be slammed by simultaneous requests referencing the same URLs, perhaps hundreds per second, which is why I'm concerned about the race condition when adding new content. The results need to be immediate and there can't be read lag (subsecond lag is okay).
To start, new URLs will be added only a few thousand per day, but the system will need to handle many times that before we have time to move to a more scalable solution next year.
One other issue with just using a unique index on url is that the length of the URLs can exceed the maximum length of a unique index. Even if I drop the CRC32 trick, it doesn't solve the issue of preventing duplicate URLs.

A: Have you actually benchmarked and found the btree to be a problem? I sense premature optimization.
Second, if you're worried about the start of all the strings being the same, one answer is to index your URL reversed—last character first. I don't think MySQL can do that natively, but you could reverse the data in your app before storing it. Or just don't use MySQL.

A: Have you considered creating a UNIQUE INDEX (url_crc, url) ? It may be 'gigantic', but with the number of collisions you're going to get using CRC32, it will probably help the performance of your page retrieval function while also preventing duplicate urls.
Another thing to consider would be allowing duplicates to be inserted, and removing them nightly (or whenever traffic is low) with a script.

A: In addition to your Pages table, create 3 additional tables with the same columns (PagesInsertA, PagesInsertB and PagesInsertC). When inserting URLs, check against Pages for an existing entry, and if it's not there, insert the URL into PagesInsertA. You can either use a unique index on that smaller table, or include a step to remove duplicates later (discussed below). At the end of your rotation time (perhaps one minute, see discussion below for constraints), switch to inserting new URLs into PagesInsertB. Perform the following steps on PagesInsertA: remove duplicates (if you weren't using a unique index), remove any entries that duplicate entries in PagesInsertC (that table will be empty the first time around, but not the second), add the entries from PagesInsertA to Pages, empty PagesInsertC.
At the end of the second period, switch to inserting new URLs into PagesInsertC. Perform the steps discussed above on PagesInsertB (only difference is that you will remove entries also found in PagesInsertA and empty PagesInsertA at the end). Continue the rotation of the table the new URLs are inserted into (A -> B -> C -> A -> ...).
A minimum of 3 insert tables is needed because there will be a lag between switching URL insertion to a new insert table and inserting the cleaned-up rows from the previous insert table into Pages. I used 1 minute as the time between switches in this example, but you can make that time smaller as long as the insertion from PagesInsertA to Pages and emptying PagesInsertC (for example), occurs before the switch between inserting new URLs into PagesInsertB and PagesInsertC.


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Бэшило (Бешитта) — река в Эфиопии, в регионе Амхара. Левый приток реки Аббай (Голубой Нил).

Известна своим каньоном, таким же большим, как и каньон Голубого Нила. Берёт своё начало западнее Кутабера и направляется на запад, встречаясь с рекой Тергия, а затем поворачивает на юго-запад и впадает в Голубой Нил. Площадь водосбора реки — около 13 242 км², охватывает зоны Северный Гондэр, Северное Уолло, Южное Уолло. Крупнейшие притоки — , Валано и Жита.

Исторические сведения
По реке проходила административная граница между упразднёнными провинциями Бэгемдыр и Амхара. К концу XVIII века по реке прошла граница провинции Шоа, о чём свидетельствует указ императора  о вступлении в провинцию Бэшило и пересечении реки. В 1870 году Менелик II в письме Г. Р. Гудфеллоу упоминал реку, как границу Шевы.

Примечания

Притоки Голубого Нила
Реки Эфиопии


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Włodzimierz Szer (ur. 4 czerwca 1924 w Warszawie, zm. 31 sierpnia 2013 w San Diego) – polsko-amerykański biochemnik, profesor Uniwersytetu Nowojorskiego.

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Pochodził z rodziny polskich żydów. był synem Michała (Maxa) Szera, księgowego i działacza Bundu. Zgodnie z jego wolą w 1936 ukończył naukę w szkole podstawowej w języku jidysz przy ul. Krochmalnej 36 w Warszawie. Jego nauczycielem i wychowawcą był Lejb Olicki. Do 1939 uczęszczał do Gimnazjum Robotniczego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Dzieci im. Bolesława Limanowskiego na Żoliborzu, gdzie uczył go m.in. Jerzy Kreczmar. Szer w trakcie II wojny światowej kontynuował naukę w gimnazjum w Baranowiczach, Taborynie (po zesłaniu wraz z ojcem na Syberię). Następnie w Baranówce w regionie Powołża, gdzie w 1942 zdał maturę. W 1943 został powołany na kurs dla oficerów piechoty Armii Czerwonej koło Penzy. Został dowódcą w randze podporucznika plutonu moździerzy. Wziął udział w bitwie pod Leninem. Wraz ze swoją dywizją w 1945 dotarł w okolice warszawskiej Pragi, gdzie został ranny.

W 1945 osiadł w Łodzi, gdzie poznał swoją żonę – Felicję. Szer mieszkał przy ul. Mielczarskiego 34. Udostępniał on mieszkanie swojemu przyjacielowi, działaczowi Bundu, Feliksowi Najmanowi. Najman został zamordowany w mieszkaniu Szera, który odnalazł jego ciało. Opinia publiczna przypuszczała, że mord miał charakter antysemicki, niemniej przyczyn zbrodni nie wyjaśniono, a winnych nie odnaleziono. Szer w Łodzi pracował jako wykładowca wyszkolenia strzeleckiego w Szkole Oficerów Polityczno-Wychowawczych. Ponadto rozpoczął studia chemiczne na Wydziale Matematyczno-Przyrodniczym Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, które ukończył w 1949 pod kierunkiem prof. Anny Chrząszczewskiej. Planował doktoryzację na uniwersytecie, lecz jako wojskowy został oddelegowany jako wykładowca chemii na Kurs Oficerów Służby Technicznej (Chemicznej) w Rembertowie. Oprócz wykładów Szer organizował od podstaw Ośrodek Badawczy Sprzętu Chemicznego, którego został komendantem w randze podpułkownika. OD 1956 pracował w Instytucie Antybiotyków, gdzie opracowywał metody wydzielania tetracykliny z brzeczki fermentacyjnej oraz podejmował się syntez trudno dostępnych wówczas odczynników dla badaczy z innych laboratoriów, w tym dla Davida Shugara z Instytutu Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN, który zaproponował mu współpracę w Zakładzie Fizykochemii Biologicznej Instytutu. Jego pionierskie padania w PAN związane z polirybonukleotydami pozwoliły mu na zdobycie tytułu doktora w 1961 w Instytucie Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN w Warszawie oraz na staż podoktorski w laboratorium prof. Severo Ochoi de Albornoza w Zakładzie Biochemii Szkoły Medycznej Nowojorskiego Uniwersytetu w 1963. W 1964 po powrocie do Polski habilitował się, a następnie został docentem, kontynuując badania nad  polirybonukleotydami.

W 1967 wyemigrował do USA, gdzie otrzymał stanowisko naukowe w laboratorium prof. Ochoi na Uniwersytecie Nowojorskim, gdzie także wykładał, a w latach 1975–1979 pełnił również funkcję kierownika Zakładu Biochemii. Na Uniwersytecie Nowojorskim  badał m.in.: badania wiązanie modelowych i wirusowych informacyjnych RNA do rybosomów bakteryjnych, zaangażował się w badania nad grupą heterogenicznych jądrowych białek (hnRNP), ponadto wyizolował i scharakteryzował wiele białek. Po przejściu na emeryturę i przeprowadzce do San Diego współpracował z córką Iloną Sarą Szer, profesor Uniwersytetu Kalifornijskiego. Wspólnie m.in. wyodrębnili białko 45-DEK.

Włodzimierz Szer był autorem około 160 publikacji naukowych.

Przed śmiercią podjął się publikacji wspomnień: Do naszych dzieci (2013)  oraz Lata 60. w biologii molekularnej w PRL i w Nowym Jorku (2012).

Był członkiem Polish Art and Culture Society of San Diego.

Życie prywatne
Jego żoną była Felicja, z którą miał 2 córki.

Publikacje
 Do naszych dzieci, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warszawa 2013,
 Lata 60. w biologii molekularnej w PRL i w Nowym Jorku, "Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki" 2012.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Żydzi związani z Łodzią
Ludzie urodzeni w Warszawie
Polscy biochemicy
Amerykańscy biochemicy
Wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Nowojorskiego
Pracownicy Instytutu Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN
Polscy zesłańcy na wschodni Sybir
Uczestnicy bitwy pod Lenino (1943)
Polacy i obywatele polscy wcieleni do Armii Czerwonej 1939–1945
Ludzie związani z San Diego


Cattle Country in Berkeley, Gloucestershire is a great day out come rain or shine for children, and adults too. Best known for its indoor and outdoor play equipment, Cattle Country has a whole range of things to do and many animals to see. Whenever the park is closed to the public, private parties can be booked for exclusive use of the park.
For exact opening times please visit Cattle Country website.
10.00am - 4.00pm only some Saturdays - see website for details.
Don't forget our super value Season Tickets, prices for these can be found on the season ticket section.


First of all I'd like to thank everyone here for making Rock Band an even better game than it already was. Ever since I realized I could add customs the game has just been such a good time for me!
After about 2 years, I'm deciding to leave the community - I never had much of an impact but I was still one of the many people who would download a lot of new songs and refresh the site every day.
I'm putting my projects out here because it's possible someone here might see a song they planned on working on and I have a chunk of it done.
I've included all of my projects I have worked on, or was working on before I lost interest in the game.
Most of them just need things like EMH difficulties and animations. They're all tempo-mapped as well. Unfortunately most of the audio files are scattered around my drive, but they could all be found with a simple youtube search. Just load the youtube mp3 into reaper and it should be fine.
Intro/Last Living Souls has full band charted, but Last Living souls needs vocals.
Dub Dumb is a rare track and I wouldn't really chart it but I'm doing it for the sole purpose of testing multitracks, since that is the only song I know that has full multitracks. It has Drum, Guitar, and Bass charted. Vocals are incomplete, only humming is charted. Keys are also incomplete.
I crossed out Glitter Freeze because the song doesn't really appeal to me, and we got the power for the same reason. Plus, glitter freeze only has the tempo map, and we got the power only has the drums charted.
Charger has the tempo map too, and partially has guitar, but I gave up since it was way too difficult to chart.
Bill Murray is pretty much done, just needs phase markers and overdrive and events and cleanup and stuff like that.
The other songs are from Misc artists, I have some Tyler the Creator, Kali Uchis, MF DOOM, and Vince Staples, in there too.
You could all do what you want, rework them or complete them! I don't mind, I would love to see them done!
A mega folder with all the files could be found with this link.
We're sorry to see you go Peter. Your Gorillaz enthusiasm has always been fun and it's been awesome seeing you put out some Gorillaz tracks! Thank you for all your work and for being a fun part of the community.
Should you ever decide you want to start charting again, we'll always be here.


Molten cheese makes for the ultimate Christmas comfort food, whether for a special Christmas Eve feast or on those lazy days between Boxing day and New Year. Here, Laura Vickers tries, tests and perfects six unbelievably delicious recipes for you to try.
Christmas is the perfect excuse to consume all your favourite cheeses in scandalously large quantities, and indulgent cheese dishes are certainly a resounding hit at parties, especially so when the cheese is gooey, bubbly and melted.
From warm cheesy canapés to decadent dishes to serve on the big day and cheese-stuffed ways to use up Christmas leftovers, here are six of our ultimate festive melted cheese recipes.
Even sprout-haters love this rich, cheesy Brussels sprout side dish on their Christmas dinner plate – and you can also adapt this to use up leftover roasted veg. Just skip step one and chuck in any other leftovers like carrots and parsnips for a tasty Boxing Day supper.
Halve the sprouts and put in a roasting dish with a drizzle of olive oil and plenty of seasoning. Roast on 200/180 Fan/Gas Mark 6 for 20-25 minutes.
Panfry the pancetta and almonds for three to five minutes, until the pancetta is cooked and the almonds golden brown and coated in fat from the meat.
Mix together the crème fraîche, mustard and milk, and season well.
Take the sprouts out of the oven and mix through the pancetta and almonds, pour over the crème fraîche mixture and stir to combine.
Sprinkle the grated cheese on top and pop it back in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until the cheese is melted, golden and bubbly.
What's better than bacon-wrapped sausages? Cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped sausages! The blue cheese goes really well with most other elements on the Christmas dinner plate, but if you're not a fan you can substitute it for Cheddar, Parmesan or basically any cheese you fancy.
Preheat oven to 200/180 Fan/Gas Mark 6. Cook the chipolatas in the oven for 15 minutes (turning over once, halfway through), remove from the oven and allow to cool.
When cool enough to handle, carefully cut a slit into each one lengthways, being careful not to split the sausage in two.
Gently push the soft blue cheese into the slit, (with a light coat of the cranberry sauce if you're using it) and wrap the sausage firmly in the bacon to secure. Try your best to make sure the bacon covers the cheese entirely to minimise leakage.
Pop it back in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until the bacon and sausages are cooked through and the cheese is melted. Serve with Christmas dinner.
Few dishes are as indulgent as this French dish from the Savoy region in the French Alps. Potatoes, bacon, soft cheese and cream combine with heavenly results, but once you've had tartiflette with cranberry sauce you'll never have it without again.
Traditionally, this is served with reblochon cheese, and this would work fine in this recipe too – but the brie is just more Christmassy (and another way to use up leftovers from the Christmas cheeseboard).
Preheat the oven to 200 / 180 fan / Gas Mark 6. Cook the potatoes slices in boiling water for five minutes, then drain and set aside.
Fry up the onion and leek for a few minutes until soft, add the garlic and fry for one more minute, then add the white wine and allow it to bubble for a couple of minutes until reduced slightly.
Meanwhile, fry up the bacon and chestnuts separately until the bacon is cooked, and add them to the leek and onion mix.
Layer the potatoes and onion-and-bacon mix in an oven-proof dish (two or three layers is fine, and it doesn't have to be neat!), then dollop on the cranberry sauce and roughly swirl it through the mixture.
Pour on the cream and lay the Brie slices on top. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until the Brie is gooey. Serve with bread to mop the sauce.
The grilled cheese sandwich is one of life's simple pleasures, but in recent years it's become quite the trendy comfort food. If you're looking for tasty, unfussy nibbles for a Christmas party, these are crowd-pleasers (served whole it's also a very moreish lunch for those post-Christmas days when you're lounging around catching up on the festive telly.) The bacon jam, available in most supermarkets, is optional but adds an extra dimension of deliciousness.
Spread a layer of chorizo on two of the sourdough slices.
Top with sliced mozzarella and Emmental, then the sliced sweet peppers.
Take the other two slices of sourdough and (if using) spread some chilli jam on one side. Then press, jam-side down, on top of the cheese and chorizo stacked slices.
Mix together 3 tbsp mayonnaise with 3 tsp bacon jam. Spread it thickly on the outsides of both slices of each sandwich.
Heat the oil in a pan, and fry the sandwiches for two to three minutes on each side, until the bread is crispy and golden and the cheese stringy and melted.
Carefully slice into mini bites and arrange on a plate or wooden board (with some extra chilli jam or bacon mayonnaise for dipping, if you want).
Simple to make, pretty to look at and utterly delicious, these are perfect Christmas party food bites. It's advisable to make an extra batch because one is never enough.
Preheat the oven to 220 /200 fan / Gas Mark 7. Cut out 16 circles of puff pastry using a cutter around the size of a jam jar lid (we actually used the rim of a wine glass).
Make a firm indentation with a slightly smaller cutter/glass (around 2cm from the edge of the pastry circle). Transfer to an oiled or baking parchment-lined baking tray.
Prick the centre with a fork and brush the pastry with beaten egg.
Spoon about half to one teaspoon of fig jam onto the inner circle of pastry.
Sprinkle on the walnut pieces and top with a disc of cheese.
Sprinkle over the thyme and some black pepper.
Bake in the oven for around 15 minutes, until the pastry is golden and the cheese is melted.
Serve on a slab/board sprinkled with more thyme leaves and drizzled with some runny honey.
Our recipe for this classic winter dish is sourced from two Society staff-members with direct experience of living in Switzerland – it doesn't get more authentic than that!
Halve the garlic cloves and rub around the fondue pan. Pour the wine into the pot, add the cornflour, and slowly warm on a low heat over the hob.
Once hot, add the cheese in batches until melted, stirring constantly.
Crush the garlic and add to the pot along with the chopped shallots.
Add the Kirsch and stir through. Season with pepper, paprika and nutmeg.
"I was interested in your 6 festive melted cheese recipes for Christmas especially the Christmas Tartiflette, but why why why do you not show the wine to go with these dishes. What wine am I to serve with my Christmas Tartiflette ?"
"Mr Bruce, Thank you for your comments, I'm glad you enjoyed the recipes. Please see our Food & Wine Matcher which is an invaluable tool to use for advice on pairing wines with a host of different foods - and cheese: https://www.thewinesociety.com/Shop/FoodMatching.aspx. Crisp Swiss whites would be the traditional match but a good Loire Sauvignon Blanc would also work well, or if you are feeling adventurous the Etoile Vin Jaune Domaine de... Read more > Montbourgeau would be excellent."


What a lucky girl! They are so pretty in the package, I'd be afraid to use them.
Must be code talk for quilters. lol But anyway, hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!
Lovely gift and they will make a wonderful bright and happy quilt.
I bet you are excited!! Have fun!!
What a wonderful Christmas gift. The fabrics are sooo cute.


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Georges Castel, Pierre Tallet
Les inscriptions d'El-Harra, oasis de Bahareya.
In 1973, a posthumous article appeared, written by A. Fakhry, where he speaks of three inscriptions of the Middle Kingdom which he had discovered at El-Harra, at the oasis of Bahareya, and which he thought had a connection with the presence of ancient miners. In 2001, this site was once again visited within the framework of a mission led by the IFAO to the oasis. Seven inscriptions near the entrance to the underground galleries were found there. Three of them referred to a local governor named Hebi, two others being offering stelae in the name of royal servants, mentioning the name of a divinity Opet. An examination of the area seems to eliminate the hypothesis of a mining development: the galleries found there are most certainly of a natural origin. On the other hand, the very presence of these caves could have given the place a remarkable aspect in ancient times. The place itself, situated on a knoll at the approach to the oasis takes on an undeniable strategic interest, as it allows surveillance of the roads coming from the Nile valley. If the inscriptions found at El-Harra are modest, they are, for the moment, the only written sources of the Middle Kingdom found at the oasis of Bahareya. Some of them could date from the beginning of XIIth dynasty, and constitute, for this reason, an important milestone in the hystory of this region.
Georges Castel ( : 026771314)
Architecte de fouilles et archéologue à l'IFAO, Georges Castel a dirigé ou codirigé de nombreux programmes de fouilles en Égypte, dont la mission d'Ayn Soukhna de 2001 à 2016.
Pierre Tallet ( : 07926817X)
Ancien élève de l'École normale supérieure (Ulm), agrégé d'histoire et ancien adjoint aux publications de l'IFAO, Pierre Tallet est actuellement titulaire de la chaire d'égyptologie de la Sorbonne. Depuis 2001, dans le cadre d'un programme consacré aux expéditions minières égyptiennes en mer Rouge, il a dirigé ou co-dirigé les missions archéologiques d'Ayn Soukhna et du ouadi el-Jarf – deux ports pharaoniques récemment identifiés sur la côte du golfe de Suez – et mené une prospection au sud de la péninsule du Sinaï.


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Bots, Emojis and Open Source Maintainers Oh My!
Open source maintainers have a different set of challenges today. To name just a few, bots help manage overload and emojis are as predominant in open source groups as they are in twenty somethings' social circles. Meanwhile, maintainers are deeply involved in governance issues like never before. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, and VMware guests Dawn Foster, director of open source community strategy, Nikhita Raghunath, senior member of technical staff, and Michael Klishin, senior principal software engineer discuss what it is like to be an open source maintainer, to build a community and to be a leader.
Open source maintainers have a different set of challenges today. To name just a few, bots help manage overload and emojis are as predominant in open source groups as they are in twenty somethings' social circles. Meanwhile, maintainers are deeply involved in governance issues like never before.
In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, and VMware guests Dawn Foster, director of open source community strategy, Nikhita Raghunath, senior member of technical staff, and Michael Klishin, senior principal software engineer discuss what it is like to be an open source maintainer, to build a community and to be a leader.


After battering Cuba and several Caribbean islands for most of a week as it crept slowly northwestward, Hurricane Irma turned north into Florida on September 10, 2017. Heavy rain and hurricane-force winds battered both the east and west coasts of southern Florida, even though the eye of the monstrous storm made landfall in the southwestern part of the state. Seas were rising with storm surges as far north as Charleston, South Carolina.
Hurricane Irma made its first U.S. landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida, about 30 miles east of Key West, around 9 a.m. on September 10. The storm was rated as a category 4, with sustained winds of 130 miles per hour at the time. It made its second landfall at Marco Island around 3:30 p.m. with similarly potent winds.
At 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the National Hurricane Center reported that Irma was over Naples, Florida, bringing sustained winds of 110 miles (180 kilometer) per hour, with gusts to 140 miles per hour. Hurricane-force winds extended 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the center of the storm; tropical storm winds stretched at least 220 miles (350 kilometers), wider than the state from west to east. The storm was moving north at 14 miles (22 kilometers) per hour. It was expected to hug the west coast of Florida through Monday morning.
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 (GOES-13) acquired data for the composite image above at 8:15 a.m. on September 10 as the storm was passing over the Florida Keys. Infrared data (band 4) is overlaid on a MODIS blue marble. The satellite is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), while NASA helps develop and launch the GOES series of satellites.
The second, natural-color image was acquired at 10:50 a.m. local time by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.
Though much popular interest focuses on the winds and rain of a hurricane, storm surges are often the most deadly part of such an event. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters warned of dangerous storm surges from the Florida Keys to Tampa Bay. Forecasters predicted waters as high as 10 feet (3 meters) above normal in places. The western shore is known for its relatively shallow coastal waters, and many neighborhoods are carved into lagoons and canals near the shore. "This is a life-threatening situation," NWS declared.
Irma has been churning at hurricane force since August 31, and it has been a major hurricane—category 3 or above—for nearly all of that time.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the NASA-NOAA GOES project and LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Story by Mike Carlowicz.
The storm moved toward the west coast of the peninsula, though effects were being felt along both coasts and across the interior.
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season continued, as Irma formed in the eastern Atlantic and strengthened east of the Caribbean.


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12 celebrities to try and spot in Toronto this June
Alison Pudsey
May 30 2019, 5:19 pm
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Is there anything better than a celebrity sighting?! The hustle and bustle, fans screaming their name, trying to sneak a quick pic, or if you're lucky enough maybe even an autograph.
With plenty of movies and TV shows currently in production in Toronto, you just never know when you might spot your favourite actor or actress off-set, roaming the streets of our city.
Here are 12 celebrity faces to try and spot in Toronto this June.
What to watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crave, and CBC Gem in June
This Toronto Kawhi mural has turned into a full-on Raptors tribute
Sarah Rafferty
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Sarah Rafferty will be in Toronto through this month for her role in the ninth and final season of Suits. Rafferty has made small appearances in shows like Law & Order, Bones, and Numb3rs before going on to star in Suits as Donna Roberta Paulsen.
Gabriel Macht
Also joining Rafferty on the set of Suits is Gabriel Macht, who plays lead character Harvey Specter in the series. Rumour has it that these two Suits stars have been best friends for over 25 years after they met at a film festival!
Minka Kelly
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Minka Kelly will be in Toronto for her role in the second season of the series Titans. Kelly got her first major role as Lyla on the hit television series Friday Night Lights, and then went on to star in feature films like The Roommate, 500 days of Summer, and Just Go With It.
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If your lucky enough, the hilarious Eugene Levy may be spotted in Toronto this June. Levy is currently filming for the sixth and final season of the hit show Schitt's Creek alongside his son Daniel Levy, who also plays Levy's child in the show. From Hamilton, Ontario, Levy is best known for starring in all eight of the American Pie films and his groundbreaking work as part of Second City.
Catherine O'Hara
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Joining Levy on the set of Schitt's Creek is actress, writer, and comedian Catherine O'Hara. O'Hara has starred in many movies from Heartburn alongside Meryl Streep, to the voice of Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas, or maybe you remember her best as Kevin McCallister's mom in the Home Alone films.
Best known for his portrayal of Nate Archibald on The CW's Gossip Girl series, Chace Crawford may be spotted in Toronto this June for his latest role in the superhero drama series The Boys which is filming for its second season.
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Also joining Crawford on the set of The Boys is New Zealand actor Karl Urban. You may remember him as Leonard McCoy in the Star Trek reboot film series, or as Éomer from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Brendan Fraser may be spotted in town this month filming for the second season of Condor. Fraser is typically recognized for his early roles in movies like The Mummy trilogy, and George of the Jungle, along with most recently starring in TV series like Trust and DC Universe's Doom Patrol.
Maddie Hasson
Maddie Hasson may be spotted in Toronto filming for her role in season two of Impulse. Best known for playing Willa Monday from the Fox series The Finder, Hasson has also starred in the ABC series Twisted, before going on to snag the lead role in Impulse.
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key may be spotted in Toronto this month filming for the second season of Impulse. Key started out on the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele, and has made appearances in several films like Let's Be Cops, Why Him?, Tomorrowland, and Pitch Perfect 2, among others.
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Also joining these two on the set of Impulse is Missi Pyle. You may remember seeing her make appearances in blockbuster movies like 50 First Dates, Gone Girl, Dodgeball, and Big Fish among others.
Lauren Lee Smith
Canadian actress Lauren Lee Smith will be in Toronto this June filming for the third season of the Frankie Drake Mysteries in which she holds the lead role. Smith has starred in TV shows like CTV's The Listener and as Riley Adams in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation