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Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx Nominated For Secretary of Transportation
Yesterday, President Obama announced that Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as his pick for Secretary of Transportation. Foxx would replace current Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.
Foxx was elected as mayor of Charlotte in 2009 at the age of 38, making him the youngest mayor in Charlotte's history.
Foxx focused a lot of his time and efforts on transportation. He pushed for street cars and a light rail extension. He supported widening the interstate from six to eight lanes and he supported the expansion of the international airport.
The investment Foxx and the city of Charlotte made in transportation, was an investment in the city's economy, as the projects created more jobs and revenue for the city.
In his nomination speech, President Obama said that Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx "will make him an outstanding Transportation Secretary. He's got the respect of his peers, mayors and governors all across the country," President Obama said.
"One of the things that Ray taught me in watching him do his job is that establishing personal relationships with mayors and governors and county executives makes all the difference in the world, because transportation is one of those things that — it's happening on the ground."
President Obama acknowledged LaHood's contribution to the cabinet, saying LaHood was the "best Secretary of Transportation that this nation's ever had."
"From the day that he was sworn in, Ray has fought tirelessly to rebuild America's infrastructure — creating good jobs that strengthen our economy and allow us to better compete in the global economy. Over the past four years, thanks to Ray's leadership, we've built or improved more than 350,000 miles of road — enough to circle the world more than 14 times. We've upgraded more than 6,000 miles of rail -– enough to go coast to coast and back. We've repaired or replaced more than 20,000 bridges, and helped put tens of thousands of construction workers back on the job. And that's all due in no small part to Ray LaHood's leadership," President Obama added.


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It's been three months since I made a post. So, in the interest of creating the illusion that I am maintaining the site, I will now make a post about some games that I've made. I had a class a couple years ago in which we used the program Game Maker to design and program games. I ended up making two games completely from scratch, both of them are pretty bad and I haven't fiddled with the program since then but I thought I might as well post them here just so I can say I've posted something.
I had the class around the time that the first Left 4 Dead game was released, so my interest in zombies was at an all time high. Consequently I made a game called "Zombie Survival" in which you try and survive ever increasing waves of zombies. I had some lame storyline that went along with it but I can't remember it. Basically, all you do is run around shooting zombies and they leave a bloody mess everywhere.
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The second game I made was a remake of an old calculator game I used to (and still do) play all the time in math class instead of learning math. It is called "Block Dude" and it involves moving blocks around. That is basically the whole premise. Sometimes you have to think before you move your blocks, but most of the time you'll be moving blocks thoughtlessly and accidentally win the game. This game is better than the zombie game, but it has absolutely no replay value.
The zombie game is hardly any fun, the block dude game is unoriginal and pretty much a direct copy of the calculator game. I'm pretty sure the only reason I got an A in the class was because I was good at the programming part.
Don't ask me about the score box, that was the last thing I made and I spent the least amount of time on it. I'm pretty sure this game doesn't work in IE. I've learned that in order for pet projects to be fun, I have to disregard IE.I am not going to waste my time trying to get this to work in IE. If anything, IE should be wasting their time trying to get their crappy browser to work for this game. Building a game like this is the sort of thing that's fun to do because it's easy. You get the idea that you want to play something and then you make it! Admittedly, making it was a lot more fun than playing it. Actually, making any of these games was a lot more fun than playing them.
So, as you can see the number that it starts counting down from, the number it's subtracting by, and the time it took you to hit zero all play a factor in your score. On top of that, I realize that some numbers are harder to subtract than others so I gave them a special boost in their score using a number that a psychic gave me. I also realized that how many times a number went into your starting number affected the time! So that also plays a factor in the score. All in all though, I basically just kept messing with the equation until the scores started looking good. The higher the score the better!


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Sean McDowell answers the question: Can all religions be true? In a relativistic worldview, many people, even Christians, believe all religions are just different ways of getting to the same place. In other words, all roads lead to the same place. This is very easily shown to be false and Sean does a great job of showing why they cannot all be true at the same time.
Perhaps subjective beings shouldn't try to know objective truth. "The Truth," whatever it may be, is surely more complicated than we can imagine. We are all Horatio.
In the first place its only a small leap of faith in assuming that "Jesus Christ" and "Krishna" (of Hinduism) are the same guy. Its just that Hinduism is more than four thousand years old and so the religion appears polytheistic from a western standpoint because its had more than 2000 years to develop its Angels and Saints; which have been ascribed a level of "divinity" of they're own. Hinduism also has its own trinity ("Hindu triumvirate"/"trimurti" consisting of the spirit forms; Brahman, Vishnu, Shiva) In fact I could easily make the case that Hinduism and Christianity are the same religion because in evolutionary biology we would call this symmetry "convergent evolution" which describes organisms not closely related who independently develop similar physical traits. Catholics are equally guilty of "Saint worship" so there is little difference.
Secondly Buddhism is not Atheistic rather it places emphasis on ones the awareness of ones personal behavior and spiritual path over the worship of a deity. The eastern spiritual philosophies are coming from a civilization much older than our western ones and so it makes certain underlying assumptions that we as westerners are still learning to appreciate. The point is; what does it matter if one worships the "correct G-d" if one is a terrible person who works evil against those around him? Indeed "Faith" and "belief in G-d" both count for nothing if you are a evil person.
The fact is there are #number patterns included in the Bible that unify all religions and any attempt to further separate them will be in vain. Its all been clearly laid out in J. R. R. Tolkien's the Lord Of The Rings which is an expanded version of the Revelation. As proof of this I cite: " And he said to me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues and kings." -Revelation 10:11 The lesson being meant to show that even a fictional "fairy tail" like Lord of the Rings can hold the same spiritual quality and moral validity that we revere in religious texts. Its just a different means of expressing it. As believers we are entitled to properly learn about all spiritual systems and I am grateful for each of them.
If all religions are equal, then they are all equally meaningless. It would logically follow that philosophical forms of Satanism and Christian theology are then identical in practice and philosophy. Such an idea is preposterous and not supported by the Gospel.
Hinduism though inclusive and seductive, is not equal to Christianity. Christ and Krishna are fundamentally not the same. The Bhagavad-Gita is a philosophical work expounding the key tenants of Vaishnavaism and Vedanta, some of the same ideas and phrases can be found in the Upanishads. It may be "revelatory" in the sense that Krishna, in the form of Vishvarupa, reveals these ideas to Arjuna, but the reality is that these concepts were already circulating among the Upanishadic and Sankyha philosophical schools. The Gospels are unique in that they are not philosophical, as in promoting a known philosophical school (such as Stoicism, Cynicism or Platonism). The Gospels are apocalyptic, revealing that that the Kingdom of God is upon us and a Day of Judgment and Resurrection will occur in the future.
Krishna says unequivocally that he is indeed God himself, and avatar of Maha-Vishnu. Who is the Saguna Brahman Jesus Christ does not ever claim that he is in fact God, but rather the Son of God and the Son of Man. It is only through the full comprehension of the Gospels, that the mystery of Jesus's relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit become apparent. Jesus is a member and expression of a triune, co-equal in substance, representation of a single transcendent God.
Vishnu nor Shiva, revealed themselves to Abraham or Moses to expound upon the secrets of Vedanta to them. Neither the Torah or the Gospels teach us about the Day and Night of Brahma, Jnana Yoga, the cyclical nature of Samsara for the Atman, or the cyclical nature of the Yugas as are taught in the Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita.
It wasn't the Vedic Vishnu who revealed himself to Moses, to set the Hebrews apart from the nations. It was not Mahadeva who gave his specific Laws to Hebrews to be followed. Further, Jesus refers only to the Hebrew scriptures and prophets as reference for his Parables and stories, he never refers to any other source. There is no trace of Vedanta in his message.
So how can we equate Krishna with Jesus? Shiva and Vishnu with YHWH? On a very practical level they are not the same in action and narrative. Such a generalized equivocation blurs the specific character of each of the entities. To say that they are each an individual expression or fragment of an entirely ineffable deity that absorbs all religions into one becomes a severe form of relativism. Nihilism is just around the corner as all meaning and purpose melt into a vortex without any attributes.
As a Christian, I take it as an obligation to differentiate my God and my faith from the many deities and philosophies that would attempt to subsume and drown out the uniqueness Christ and his Gospel.
Love the discussion! I have a Buddhist co-worker who doesn't believe in God at all. Following Christ is about a relationship with someone still living. His body is not in the grave somewhere as in other religions that follow someone they revere.
My 2 cents. Have a great day!
MOST religions claim that they teach the truth about God. But that is not possible, because religions teach very different things about who God is and how we should worship him. So, the question remains, How can we know the right way to worship God? Jehovah is the only one who can tell us how we should worship him.


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19th Century Indian Women in U.S. Medical School Part II
"It is not more difficult to prove that Asiastic women have made good as Christian physicians. In India we point to Dr. Karmarkar and Dr. Joshi…"[1]
Since my original posting on three Indian women who attended the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, I've gotten several inquiries for more information on their stories. There's plenty of information on Joshi (see my comment on the original post), so I did some more research on Gurubai Karmakar. This is only a preliminary start—I plan to eventually sketch out a fuller story of the experiences of Joshi, Karmarkar and Chatterjee.
Photo of Gurubai Karmarkar. From: Allen & Mason, A Crusade of Compassion for the Healing of the Nations (1919).
Gurubai Karmarkar attended the Women's Medical College while her husband, Rev. Sumantrao Karmarkar studied at the Hartford Theological Seminary during from 1888s onwards. Both of their studies appeared to complement with their posts as Christian missionaries. In 1893, they returned to India and Karmarkar took up a position at the American Marathi Mission in Bombay, where she would work for over thirty years.
Her position at the American Mission not only made her well known in Bombay (Mumbai), but provided her with opportunities to represent India in missionary conferences around the world. She gave lectures on the state of women in India and how medical missionaries can help elevate their social standing. An 1893 volume of Life and Light for Woman, published by the Woman's Board of Missions, mentions Karmarkar's speech at the semi-annual meeting on June 1, 1893:
"Mrs. Gurubai Karmarkar, of Bombay, a graduate of the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia, and about to return to India to engage in medical and evangelistic work, spoke impressively of the origins, the evils, and the sad results of child marriage in India, of the sufferings of the child widows, of the blessing which medical missionaries can carry with them, and the necessity of work among the women and in the homes. India would have been a Christian country by this time if it had not been for its women. Educate and convert these, and you will Christianize India."
At the meeting, Karmarkar adorned a sari and the meeting records also refer to a Mrs. Vaitse and a Mrs. Miyagawa, who also wore their national dresses.
Karmarkar attended the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) meetings in Paris (1906) and Stockholm (1914).[2] Supposedly, in 1919 she also attended the first International Conference of Women Physicians held at the YWCA headquarters in New York, which had attendees from 32 countries for 6 weeks; I haven't been able to verify Karmarkar's attendance.
She also appeared to have attended a meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in October 1917 in Columbus, Ohio. She shared her notes on the medical work being done in India for lepers and the "criminal caste." It's likely her work with lepers inspired the American physician and surgeon, Arley Isabel Munson Hare (1817-1941) who also studied at the Women's Medical College. Hare graduated in 1902 and eventually made her way to Bombay, staying with Karmarkar until she began her medical/evangelical mission working with lepers in Solapur.
Karmarkar was especially noted for her work with famine-struck children. An 1898 volume of Life and Light for Woman, describing the role missionaries play in the Indian famine and Karmarkar's part:
"While the height of the suffering may have passed…we must not forget the terrible scars that it has left in its train…Weakened bodies, each one an easy prey to disease, hundreds of families where the bread winner had died, leaving helpless women and children absolutely penniless, widows and orphans whose little all has gone to buy food, men and women hopeless and helpless, sitting down by the roadside without the energy and courage to take up again the struggle for existence, present a pitiful picture indeed. One instance has come to our notice of a child rescued by Mrs. Karmarkar, and adopted as their own by her husband and herself, is described as follows: "She was almost starved; the hair on her head looked like grass, and long hair had grown on her face till she looked more like a monkey than a human being. Mrs. Karmarkar oiled the face, and gently pulled out one of those long hairs after another until not a trace of them remains. She has been cared for and wisely trained, until she has grown to be an attractive, obedient, and sweet mannered child."
The Bombay mission Karmarkar worked at also played a crucial role during the plague outbreak of 1916. Many people came to the overcrowded dispensary for inoculation and Karmarkar found "wonderful door of opportunity [to improve public health] through her professional visits to the homes of all classes, from the poor women of the weaver castes to Wealthy Parsi and Mohammedan ladies, some of who is always ready to come to them when their call of distress comes to her ear."[3] After her retirement, she donated funds to open the "Dr. Gurubai Karmarkar Wing" at Lincoln House in Bombay, now the Nagpada Neighborhood House.[4]
Photo of Gurubai Karmarkar with a patient, c.1915. Congregational Library Exhibit
I leave you with Karmarkar's own words, written in the 1898 Life and Light for Woman:
Although my going to Baroda [Vadodara] was an altogether unexpected step, yet on looking back upon a year of labor, with many thrilling and instructive experiences crowding into my memory, I earnestly thank God for his manifest guidance and help. The position of physician is a secular one, yet there was nothing in my office calculated to interfere with my freely speaking on spiritual matters, and showing an example of what a Christian life means. Almost without exception the homes of the people, from the smallest to the greatest, have been pleasantly thrown open to welcome me. But amid much that gladdens and cheers one, there is a deeper and predominant feeling of keen sorrow and concern for the thousands of women victims of the present system of Indian life, and realization of the imperative need of more penetrating and thorough Christian influence, to lighten the gloom of error and superstition which hangs like a cloud over the lives of rich and poor alike. Provision has been made for a certain amount of education, but the effectiveness and the results that might be expected are largely crippled by the fact that in Baroda the purdah system is more rigidly enforced than in many other states. One night at twelve o'clock I was called to see a woman who had given birth to a child, and was suffering from high fever. Upon examination I found that there was no serious complication, and concluded that she would speedily recover. But the fever still remained, and the parents became still more frightened on account of the plague prevailing in the city. Upon further scrutiny I noticed that the people of the house had a large lamp burning night and day in the room, in addition to a couple of charcoal braziers. So I determined seriously to interfere with the existing sanitary arrangement of the sick chamber. I ordered the lamp to be removed; had the bed dragged from its dark corner to the vicinity of the window, substituting some warm clothing for charcoal fires. That very night there was a decided change for the better, and after a few days that patient was completely well. This occurred in an educated household, where custom compelled them to have dark rooms vitiated by charcoal fumes and other unsanitary measures, even, to the detriment of their own kith and kin. Roughly, I have medically treated about 11,000 women and children, a large number of whom have shown signs of deep gratitude, which must inevitably tend to remove from their minds any pre-existing prejudice against Christian workers.
[1] Belle J. Allen and Caroline Atwater Mason, A Crusade of Compassion for the Healing of the Nations: A Study of Medical Missions for Women and Children (West Medford, Mass., 1919).
[2] Frances Dyer, Looking Back over Fifty Years. Women's Board of Missions (Boston, MA, 1917).
[3] 107th annual report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1917 (p.119)
[4] V.P. Rao, "Genesis, Rise and Socio-Cultural Development of Maharashtra" (2012).
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1. Turkey and Greece to resume talks
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-and-greece-to-resume-talks
Turkey and Greece will resume talks aimed at reducing tensions between the neighbors on Jan. 25, Turkish and Greek officials announced Monday, following this summer's dispute over maritime borders and energy rights in the eastern Mediterranean...
2. Britain and EU publish Brexit trade agreement
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/britain-and-eu-publish-brexit-trade-agreement
Britain and the European Union on Saturday published the text of a narrow trade agreement just five days before the United Kingdom exits one of the world's biggest trading blocs in its most momentous global shift since the loss of empire ...
3. Turkey hopes to turn new page with US, EU in 2021, Erdogan says
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-hopes-to-turn-new-page-with-us-eu-in-2021-erdogan-says
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey hopes to "turn a new page in its ties with the United States and European Union, and that Ankara had been subjected to "double standards" by both its NATO ally Washington and the bloc....
4. Turkey's defence industry to go it alone
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-s-defence-industry-to-go-it-alone
US Senator Robert Menendez says he is not worried about retaliation from Turkey after Washington imposed sanctions on Ankara, with officials in Turkey warning further development of their domestic defence industry could speed up as a result...
5. EU leaders pull Turkey punch at last minute
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-leaders-pull-turkey-punch-at-last-minute
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over an energy exploration dispute with Greece and Cyprus, postponing any harsher steps until March as countries sparred over how to handle Ankara...
6. EU to talk Turkey after all is said and done
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-to-talk-turkey-after-all-is-said-and-done
The 'Turkey issue' is far from clear as EU leaders prepare to meet on Thursday, with Ankara accusing Athens of taking a provocative stance and Paris laying it all out before the Union could resume talks with NATO's eastern flank member...
7. No 'cold turkey' route as EU ministers meet
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/no-'cold-turkey-route-as-eu-ministers-meet
No big steps are expected Monday as EU foreign ministers meet to evaluate possible sanctions against Turkey, laying the groundwork for a more substantive debate between EU leaders later in the week...
8. Cat-and-mouse game with Turkey must stop, Michel says
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cat-and-mouse-game-with-turkey-must-stop-michel-says
A game of "cat-and-mouse" between the European Union and Turkey needs to come to an end, European Council President Charles Michel said on Friday, in reference to a dispute over natural gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean....
9. Anastasiades participates in prep meeting ahead of EUCO
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/anastasiades-participates-in-prep-meeting-ahead-of-euco
With the European Council coming up next Wednesday and Thursday, President Nicos Anastasiades participated in a preparatory videoconference hosted by European Council President Charles Michel to discuss issues on the agenda, which is also expected to include a discussion of the potential imposition of sectoral sanctions against Turkey....
10. Turkish exploration vessel back in port ahead of EU summit
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-exploration-vessel-back-in-port-ahead-of-eu-summit
Turkey's seismic exploration vessel Oruc Reis returned to port on Monday from disputed Mediterranean waters, less than two weeks before a European Union summit where the bloc will evaluate possible sanctions against Ankara....
11. France, EU lawmakers push for sanctions on Turkey next month
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/france-eu-lawmakers-push-for-sanctions-on-turkey-next-month
France is leading a push for European Union sanctions on Turkey next month to follow through on a threat made by the bloc in October, but has yet to win support from EU governments beyond Greece and Cyprus, officials and diplomats said. ...
12. Cyprus rationalizes sanctions against Turkey
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-rationalizes-sanctions-against-turkey
Cypriot Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides has reiterated his country's position in seeking a settlement of the Cyprus problem, adding that economic sanctions against Ankara remain on the table 'as long as Turkey continues to maintain tensions'...
13. Greece, UAE commit to mutual defense assistance
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-uae-commit-to-mutual-defense-assistance
The mutual defense assistance clause, activated in the event that one of the two countries' territorial integrity is threatened, is probably the most important part of the defense and foreign policy cooperation agreement signed by Greece and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week, according to sources with inside information....
14. Cyprus, Israel, Greece agree to boost defense cooperation
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-israel-greece-agree-to-boost-defense-cooperation
The defense ministers of Greece, Israel and Cyprus agreed Thursday to step up military cooperation which they said will keep their armed forces better prepared, help create more jobs and bolster security in a fraught region. ...
15. Mitsotakis hails Cyprus, Greece, Egypt cooperation
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mitsotakis-hails-cyprus-greece-egypt-cooperation
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the importance of the trilateral cooperation between Greece, Cyprus and Egypt for ensuring peace and stability in the region....
16. Cavusoglu signals new Cyprus game plan
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cavusoglu-signals-new-cyprus-game-plan
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has called for sovereign equality in divided Cyprus, adding that Ankara was ready for dialogue with Athens but also prepared for tension if Greece chose the latter...
17. US and Russia take liberties over Cyprus
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-and-russia-take-liberties-over-cyprus
The Republic of Cyprus was in a diplomatic pickle this week, after US officials urged the island to follow through with banning Russian naval ships, prompting Moscow's reaction...
18. Rare show of solidarity after deadly quake
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rare-show-of-solidarity-after-deadly-quake
The leaders of Turkey and Greece communicated a rare sense of solidarity to each other in the wake of a deadly earthquake in the Aegean, felt in both Athens and Istanbul...
19. Greece and Turkey take it down a notch
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-and-turkey-take-it-down-a-notch
Greece and Turkey have mutually cancelled military exercises on each other's national holiday this week, as a gesture of goodwill following a special NATO-sponsored meeting between the two defense ministers...
20. Erdogan says Turkey tested Russian S-400s, shrugs off US reaction
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/erdogan-says-turkey-tested-russian-s-400s-shrugs-off-us-reaction
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed on Friday that Turkey had been testing the S-400 air defense systems that it bought from Russia and said US objections on the issue did not matter. ...
21. Friction in East Med to be prolonged
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/friction-in-east-med-to-be-prolonged
Turkey's Oruc Reis seismic survey vessel will explore the area east of the 28th meridian for another two months, according to Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez, effectively heralding a long period of friction in the Eastern Mediterranean. ...
22. Turkey slams joint declaration by Cyprus, Greece and Egypt
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-slams-joint-declaration-by-cyprus-greece-and-egypt
Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Thursday slammed a joint statement by Greece, Cyprus and Egypt that condemns Turkish energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean and numerous "provocations" that they maintain are threatening regional peace....
23. NAVTEX wars continue in eastern Med
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/1-navtex-wars-continue-in-eastern-mediterranean
Greece has issued a counter navigational warning following NAVTEX messages from Turkey, after Ankara renewed exploratory activities in contested Mediterranean waters and further denounced Athens for treaty violations...
24. Maps, maritime zones and islands
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/maps-maritime-zones-and-islands
21/10/2020 | OPINION
Ankara's recent publication of a map that appears to split the Aegean Sea in two was yet another sign of Turkish aggressiveness. Like previous naval maneuvers, fighter jet overflights and verbal threats, the map is seen as an unacceptable and deplorable action of the sort that undermines any prospects for dialogue between the two sides....
25. Greece asks EU countries to halt military exports to Turkey
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-asks-eu-countries-to-halt-military-exports-to-turkey
Greece has asked fellow European Union countries to halt military exports to Turkey, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday, amid a deepening dispute between the two neighbors over maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean....
26. Carrot-and-stick approach to Turkey failing, EU envoys say
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/carrot-and-stick-approach-to-turkey-failing-eu-envoys-say
The European Union's latest strategy to defuse tensions with Turkey is unravelling, two weeks after it was sealed, raising the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean, diplomats, officials and experts said....
27. EU FMs call for reversal of Varosha opening
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-fms-call-for-reversal-of-varosha-opening
The 27 EU foreign ministers called on Monday for a reversal of the opening of Varosha, the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said, after chairing a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council earlier in Luxembourg....
28. Turkish seismic vessels make waves again
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-seismic-vessels-make-waves-again
Turkey is once again sending research vessel Oruc Reis to explore for gas south of Greek island Kastellorizo, days after Ankara announced a new NAVTEX for its Barbaros ship in waters off Cyprus...
29. Nicosia in wait-and-see over Barbaros
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-in-wait-and-see-over-barbaros
Government officials in the Republic of Cyprus on Friday declined to comment on reports that Turkish seismic vessel Barbaros had moved away from contested waters off Cyprus, suggesting Nicosia was in a wait-and-see mode amid reports of ongoing diplomatic efforts at the European level between Greece and Turkey...
30. Greek, Turkish foreign ministers meet as tensions ease
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-turkish-foreign-ministers-meet-as-tensions-ease
The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey have met on the sidelines of a conference in Slovakia and agreed to set a date for the start of a new round of exploratory talks between the two, officials said Wednesday....
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1977 Tom Jones Concert Program Mill Run Niles IL the Spinners O'Jays Eddy Arnold
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This is an original concert program from the Mill Run Theatre in Niles, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago). This program was given out at 4 different concerts between October 31 and December 4, 1977. Tom Jones appeared there from October 31 thru Nov 6 along with Freddie Roman. Eddy Arnold with guest star Rip Taylor appeared from Nov 8 thru 13th. The Spinners appeared with guest star Dorothy Moore between Nov 22 and 27th. The O'Jays and Marlene Shaw appeared between Nov 30 and December 4th. This program would have been given out at those concerts. There is about a half page bio on each of the artists: Tom Jones, Freddie Roman, Eddy arnold, the Spinners, and the O'Jays. On the back cover there is an ad for "Ring in the New Year with Lou Rawls" who will be appearing at Mill Run from Dec 27 - 31st. The program measures 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" and has 12 pages. The Mill Run Theatre seated approx 1600 people in-the-round and was demolished in 1984. The program is in fair condition - there are a couple vertical creases in the center from the program being rolled - there is a diagonal crease in the upper right quarter - there are several other creases. A HARD-TO-FIND TOM JONES PROGRAM SINCE IT WAS ONLY AVAILABLE AT THIS VENUE - AND NOWHERE ELSE! (Unlike souvenir concert programs that were sold all over the country during his concert tour.) Postage is $3.50.
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Woodstock organizers Michael Lang and Richard Peck were optimistic but vague when speaking with reporters at a hastily announced open house for the festival held in Vernon, New York on Monday night.
The town's Vernon Downs is the most recent proposed site for the trouble festival, which has been dogged by financial and organizational problems since it was announced in January. The open house was held in advance of a town meeting that will determine whether or not the festival's permit application for the site will be approved. It has already been rejected by the town codes committee twice and been appealed by the festival's organizers; the town's planning committee is expected to render a decision tonight.
The organizers' plan features three day-long concerts — rather than one single-weekend festivals — that will see attendees bussed in from parking lots on nearby Routes 5 and 31, according to WUTR-TV. Camping is not part of the plan.
Asked when tickets might go on sale, Lang told WUTR, "If everything goes well, very soon." Asked whether any performers had pulled out, "At this point, nobody's backed out because everybody's been paid," he said. As previously reported, the performers were paid in advance, with the money being held in escrow until the festival takes place.
Asked what will happen if the festival's appeal is rejected, "If we don't get the decision we want, it's something that we will then have to consider," Lang told the Poughkeepsie Journal. "If it doesn't work this year, it doesn't work this year. We've tried everything we can. We've done our best. We'll continue to do our best until we find out one way or the other whether it's going to happen."
Asked by the paper how the festival had gotten to such a disorganized state so late in the game, Lang responded, "You pretty much know how we got here!," he said with a rueful laugh. "We unfortunately chose the wrong partner."
"We're determined to host a great, iconic festival," Peck said, adding that the considerable concerns stated by the town's codes committee are being addressed. He also said overtime costs for State Police and transportation officials will be paid by the festival.
The festival, which is scheduled to feature a blockbuster lineup including Jay-Z, Dead & Co., Miley Cyrus and many others, has been plagued by organizational and financial difficulties since it was announced: The original financial backer, Dentsu Aegis, pulled out in May; Watkins Glen International speedway, followed last month.
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Q: Romanian Mathematical Olympiad (Diophantine Equation) Solve the equation in positive integers $x,y,z$ $$\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}+\frac{1}{z}=\frac{3}{5}.$$
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I have a question regarding this solution. Answers to it will be much appreciated.

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*If $x=2,$ then $$\frac{2}{y}\geq \frac{1}{10}\Rightarrow y\leq 20.$$ But we also know that $$\frac{1}{y}< \frac{1}{10}\Rightarrow 10< y\leq 20.$$ If this logic is true then when $x=3$ we must have $15<y\leq 30$, but clearly that is not the case. Where am I going wrong?

A: This looks like a typo to me. If $x = 3$, then we have $$\frac1y+\frac1z = \frac35-\frac13 = \frac{4}{15}$$ This implies that $\frac1y+\frac1z > \frac4{16} = \frac14$, so we must have $y < 8$. At the same time, $3 = x \leq y$. Thus we have $y \in \{3, 4, 5, 6, 7\}$.

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Pantone Perfect
Hamm, Germany, 2014
In 1787, Horace Benedict de Saussure dyed paper squares every shade of blue he could distinguish between white and black using suspensions of Prussian blue. The scale of the resulting 52 different blues were assembled into a numbered colour wheel (cyanometer) that could be held up to the zenith at a standard distance from the eye: the matching of a square to the colour of the sky established the degree of blue. Later explained by the mathematics of light scattering, the original measurement of blueness/light by Saussure still rings true to our emotional relationship to the sky and the weather.
The original Saussure cyanometer is in the collection of the Musée d'histoire des sciences de Genèves, Switzerland. For the 2014 Urban Light Ruhr, with the assistance of the museum, we recorded the exact Pantone value of each of the original 52 hues, and faithfully reproduced them in dry colour pigments. Each hour, for twelve hours, throughout the duration of the festival, we followed Saussure's rigorous but ultimately futile attempt to precisely capture and reproduce the blueness of the sky.
Using specially designed software, the blueness of the sky was measured. Once identified, the matching dry colour pigment was loaded in a customised projectile, then fired with a high-power air cannon against the wall of a WW2 bunker, in the heart of the city of Hamm, Germany. The projectiles were carefully designed to produce a cloud of smoke and leave a clear mark on the wall, creating a spectacle and celebration of the light and colour at that moment, and a lasting record of the colour of the sky throughout the day.
Urbane Künste Ruhr
Musée d'histoire des sciences de Genève, Switzerland
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picture by Thorsten Arendt


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Poll: Trump Disapproval Hits All-Time High And He Trails Biden By 8
Just 40% of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing and 58% disapprove, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
After weeks of protests against police brutality and racism, and amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, .
Trump's approval rating sits at just 40% overall, while a record 58% disapprove.
What's more, a whopping 49% of voters "strongly disapprove" of the job Trump is doing. That kind of intensity of disapproval is a record never before seen for this president or any past one.
In the general election matchup, former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by 8 percentage points, 52% to 44%. That's a considerable margin, and it's especially important that Biden is above — not just reaching — 50%.
But it's not as wide a lead for Biden as other surveys have found recently. And it's not dissimilar to what the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found earlier this month. Then, Biden led 50% to Trump's 43%.
In the latest poll, conducted Monday through Wednesday this week, Biden has sizable leads with Black voters, people who live in big cities, women, white women with college degrees, young voters and suburban voters.
Trump's strongest support comes from white evangelical Christians, white men without college degrees and people who live in rural areas.
But Biden leads or is eating into Trump's margins with groups Trump won in 2016, including independents, whites, white men with college degrees and voters 65 and older.
Trump, for example, won white men with college degrees in 2016 by 53% to 39%. In this poll, Biden leads 54% to 42%. And for all the dissatisfaction about Biden voiced by young voters in the Democratic primary, 63% of voters ages 18 to 29 choose Biden over Trump. That's a higher percentage than the 55% Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
The one group Biden continues to underperform with slightly is Latinos — 59% of Latinos said they'd vote for Biden over Trump, but Clinton won 66% of their votes in 2016.
A major shift in American politics appears to be solidifying in America's suburbs. In 2016, Trump won the suburbs 49% to 45%. In this poll, like in other polls, however, Biden is ahead in the suburbs, 60% to 35%. That is a major shift, one that was seen in the 2018 midterms and that handed Democrats control of the House of Representatives.
The high level of disapproval and Biden's lead also coincide with two-thirds of Americans saying earlier this month in the poll that Trump has mostly increased tensions since George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
The bad news for the president also comes on the heels of an underwhelming rally in Tulsa, Okla. His campaign had promised an overflow crowd and outdoor festivities and speeches, which never came to fruition.
These are all eyebrow-raising numbers, and Trump's handling of race and the coronavirus may have done irreparable damage to him, but his core voters are still enthusiastic for him — 90% of Republicans approve of the job he's doing and 91% say they would choose him over Biden.
And Democratic strategists believe this is a low-water mark for Trump and expect a tightening of the race as the election gets closer.
The survey of 1,515registered voters was conducted from June 22 through June 25, with live telephone callers via cellphone and landline by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.
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Stegner, Wallace; Adler, Kurt Herbert (General Director); Tchakalian, Sam (Artist - poster)
Angle of Repose: Opera Program (signed by Wallace Stegner), [with] San Francisco Opera Poster
San Francisco: San Francisco Opera, 1976. Casey, Lawrence. Wraps. Program: octavo size, [24] pp., signed by Wallace Stegner. Poster: 25" high. Fine. Item #13041045
In order to help celebrate the 200th anniversaries of both the nation and the City of San Francisco (which took place on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away), the San Francisco Opera adapted Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Angle of Repose" into an opera.
Offered are two items from the World Premiere which took place in November of 1976: the program, which is signed by Stegner underneath his printed name on page [15], along with the opera company poster for the same. The program includes pieces by the composer, the librettist, the conductor, and Stegner, with the signature of Wallace Stegner (N.B., not recorded in Colberg). The poster has an illustration of "Fia" (1965) by Sam Tchakalian, San Francisco artist and teacher admired for his forceful abstract paintings.
___DESCRIPTION: Program: original rose wrappers printed in brown with title and the names of the performers, tan paper printed in brown ink, illustrated; octavo size (9" by 5.5"), unpaginated [24] pp., signed by Wallace Stegner on p. [15]. Poster: reproduction of the abstract painting "Fia", banners above and below with black lettering on white containing the details of the production; the poster measures 25" by 17.5", with the reproduction of the Tchakalian abstract being 15.5" by 17.25".
___CONDITION: Program: fine, like new. Poster: Very good, some foxing to the white areas and overall shallow creasing, free of tears or sharp folds, free of markings.
___POSTAGE: Please note that if you wish the poster shipped flat additional postage will apply (our standard is to ship rolled in a cylinder); please inquire for details.
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July 2, 2013 by pamela1740
Brave in Heart: A Contradiction Too Great for One Man to Bear?
A Civil War Romance in Which we find Many Intriguing Contradictions
The Hero: Theo Ward, dutiful son and attorney-at-law; justice-seeker on the side of right, abolitionist but not activist; mildly henpecked, professionally and emotionally stalled until a second chance at his failed romance galvanizes his enlistment as a Union officer.
Falls For: Margaret Hampton, principled and devoted teacher, pragmatist and secret romantic.
Brought To You By: Emma Barry, in Brave in Heart (July 2013 e-release from Crimson)
From the publisher, courtesy of Goodreads: Theodore Ward is a man of deep passions and strong principles—none of which he acts on. So Margaret Hampton ends their engagement, breaking both of their hearts in the process.
Years after their estrangement, ardent but frozen Theo attempts to reconnect with Margaret. She is no longer trusting of the idea of romantic love, having become pragmatic and wary during decades alone. But with the drumbeat of the early days of the Civil War in the background, how can she refuse?
The courtship that results is hasty, reckless, and intense, fueled by contradictions between Theo's willingness finally to change and Margaret's fears about the future. Two smart, stubborn, fiery people will need to overcome the hesitancies of their hearts and the perils of battle if they're ever to find happiness.
The Setting: Middletown, Connecticut, at the start of the U.S. Civil War, 1861 through 1863. The setting alone is going to get this book noticed within the histrom community, and Emma Barry has been eloquent in framing her enterprise in the long shadow of Margaret Mitchell, in spite of the fact that GWTW is not a romance, and Brave in Heart is not set in the South.
It's a bold move to set a romance in a decidedly unglamorous wartime, and especially so when there is no plot device to put the couple together at the front (eg. working as spies, battlefield hospital, etc). In historical romance these days, when war is a major theme, it's nearly always Napoleonic and it's usually in the hero's past, not his present. The history here is well-researched and authentic and the details of their lives as lawyer and teacher and members of the educated and privileged class of Connecticut society are skillfully rendered.
GWTW regimental ball scene, replica lobby card, via posterplace.com
Barry's evocation of a Northern community on the brink of what we (but not they) know to be the massive and protracted trauma of the Civil War is moving and poignant without ever patronizing. I truly loved the opening sequence set during a ball in honor of departing Union regiments, with its heightened emotion and feverish sense of enthusiasm staving off grim realities and dread of what's to come. The writing itself has an old-fashioned density and dignity that enhances the Victorian-era atmosphere, without making use of overt dialects or overwhelming the narrative.
The Tropes: Second Chance at Love, War Bride, Mother in Law Issues, Love Letters, Ordinary Heroes
Brave but not Badass: "Ardent but frozen" is a great tagline for Theo, asserting a hero who is by definition contradictory. I couldn't really figure him out and as a result I'm finding this a challenging book to review as a romance. Let's start with ardent: I badly wanted to connect with Theo as a man driven by strong emotion, but reluctantly concluded that, for me, this was a case of telling not showing. He's described as impassioned. I just couldn't feel it, except maybe in his letters. He's frustrated, with himself and with his life; he has strong political principles and inner yearnings to be an actor on a larger stage. I'm not sure these frustrations make him come across as passionate, though ardent is an interesting word choice because it suggests someone more youthful (even adolescent?) than a man in his late 30's.
And how about frozen? We see him freeze up — and give up — in the Prologue when Margaret breaks off the original engagement, but WHY is he frozen? I couldn't get past the fact that he's 39 years old and the broken engagement happened two years prior – he would have been 37. What happened during almost two decades of adulthood to make him so passive and deferential to his mother? We do learn early on that the death of his father has caused his mother to rely on him and keep him close, but he seems to have almost no discernible personality beyond his politics, his love and admiration for Margaret, and his frustration with his own lack of backbone. I kept wishing that the Prologue had been long enough to help me understand what makes Theo tick, and why he has chosen to live such a narrow life for so many years. I just needed more back story to understand his pressures and priorities.
Arrested Development? Perhaps if Margaret and Theo had been written as younger characters — in their early 20's, say — the romance might have made more sense to me. Theo in particular comes across as a much younger person, flailing around trying to figure out how to match his actions with his dreams and fantasies. There are several references to the years he has suffered since the broken engagement, so it might have made more sense if they had been estranged for 10 or 12 years, rather than 2, which doesn't really seem all that long if you are nearly 40. Because the wartime separation is part of the novel's main story arc, I don't think it's a spoiler to note that Theo suddenly enlists in the Union army immediately following an unsatisfying encounter with Margaret in which she gives him a reprise of her original rejection and dressing down. At this point his thought process more resembles that of an "I'll show her!" adolescent than a seasoned lawyer of 39 years. It also doesn't come off as the bold, ruthless action of a man in control of his destiny — it feels reactive and hectic, rather than badass. Also, I know authors have little or no control over cover images, but this one, which uses sepia tones beautifully to convey the period, really misleads with its photo image of a young woman who looks decades younger than Margaret's 37 years.
An Unusual Romance Hero: I'm very sympathetic to arguments for getting rid of rigid alpha/beta hero classifications, and Theo makes a strong case for the inadequacy of these definitions. He's one of the most passive heroes I've ever encountered in romance. As I mentioned, I'm finding it challenging to sum up my response to Theo — on the one hand I appreciate the intellectual challenge of encountering and enjoying an unusual hero who's not an up-in-your-face alpha. I also like Barry's willingness to construct a hero who is hard to love, but not in the usual bad boy ways, and I do think Theo works quite well as a portrait of a young man riven by inner conflict, still seeking to live an authentic life in accordance with his beliefs as well as with his family's (his domineering mama!) needs and expectations.
If I'm being honest, though, Theo's To Be or Not To Be angst just irritated me for much of the novel, and, like Margaret, I kept wanting him to man up. Here's how Margaret describes her man to a younger friend, during the wonderful ballroom scene where she re-encounters him for the first time since breaking the engagement:
He is a passionate man, but he submits, I think, too much to the desires of others. He…doesn't achieve moderation. I grew weary of his inner intemperateness and his outward capitulation. It's a contradiction too great for one man to bear.
Ardent but frozen? Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis as Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer in the 1993 film adaptation of The Age of Innocence, via moviemail.com
I need to pause here to savor this language, with its old-fashioned restraint and cadence masking the ruthlessness of the judgment rendered. Barry's gift for replicating the tone and flavor of period dialogue and prose is unique and tremendous.
Back to Theo — his quest for love, identity, and authenticity put me in mind of another 19th-century passive hero — the tragically trapped Newland Archer of Edith Wharton's masterful The Age of Innocence. So I am intrigued by all this, but not immersed in the romance. Neither hero nor heroine captured my heart in the way that larger-than-life characters do when I am reading a captivating romance in which the principle focus of my experience as a reader is the anticipation of their every interaction, and the ultimate HEA.
The fact that Brave in Heart, as a work of genre/romance fiction, ends with an HEA, is satisfying on one level, but doesn't match my experience of these characters or this couple. It just wasn't a good sign when the hero refers to the heroine as a nag within the first chapters of the book — and not in a jokingly affectionate way. This may be authentic, and how real people think, but it felt jarring and caused me to repeatedly question whether Theo and Margaret really liked each other. She thinks he's a mama's boy; he thinks she's demanding and impulsive. In a romance, I'm not sure I want to spend much time thinking about how the couple will probably drive each other crazy once they start actually having to live together.
A Successful Contradiction of Expectations: What this unusual book did achieve quite brilliantly was to evoke the experience of reading an authentic 19th-century story, and this in itself is quite captivating. Theo survives the great battle of Fredericksburg (again, I'm asserting this is not a spoiler since we know the book will have an HEA), but most of what we hear about his experience of the front is about surviving and enduring. I haven't said much about Margaret as the heroine, but she, too, is a figure of stoicism and yearning, and I didn't see her as impulsive or demanding. Her one truly impulsive act was breaking off an engagement with someone she appeared to love but not like very much. But what's so interesting about this kind of protagonist — whether hero or heroine — is that it suggests the ordinary heroism to be found in endurance, perseverance, and constancy. The ability to love someone in spite of their fears and unredeemed flaws can also be an act of heroism.
In some ways this trope in particular reminds me more of mainstream fiction, or a 19th century novel. It's almost as if Theo and Margaret are literary characters from a period piece who have been given Romance H/h roles to play, and they do so somewhat awkwardly. In historical romance there is a strange alchemy that happens when the sexy times take us inside the bedroom for steamy sizzle without breaking into anachronism or allowing the characters to become ahistorical. I can't figure out why the love scenes felt uncomfortable, since there is indeed heat along with a sense of intimate discovery, and both characters remain fully authentic. For some reason I just felt like I would have been OK with letting this hesitant couple have their privacy! These contradictions kept taking me out of the romance itself, but may have served to enhance this novel as a work of nuanced historical fiction.
Bring Back the Epistolary Novel! Finally, the most distinctive feature of Brave in Heart as a romance in the style of a 19th century novel is its reliance on a long separation and correspondence between hero and heroine. The epistolary sections of the book are fiercely and beautifully written, and these passages where we hear the characters narrating in first person were the most effective in pulling me in and allowing me to connect with the genuine romance between Theo and Margaret. I am delighted to be reminded of how affecting an epistolary novel can be, and also how difficult to write an entire novel within the constraints of this format. But if anyone has a chance at reviving this old-fashioned and challenging literary form with authenticity and verve, I'd venture to say it's Ms. Barry, and I hope she may indeed consider it.
Brave in Heart is available today from Crimson Romance, and is available in the usual formats and places. I received a generous e-ARC of this novel from the author, for an honest review.
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6 thoughts on "Brave in Heart: A Contradiction Too Great for One Man to Bear?"
JessieRM says:
While this doesn't sound like a novel about Gettysburg, I like that you chose a Civil War historical romance for this particular day. There are re-enactments going on this very moment around Gettysburg in honor of the 150th anniversary.
Do you think Theo is based on any particular historical figure? Do you think he's meant to symbolize some latent passivity among Northerners who were slow to champion the war?
Oh, I love that idea! I hadn't thought of it that way, because I was reading him through the romance hero filter, but it's another way this book is more like a VIctorian novel than a romance novel. At one point the characters have a discussion about Sydney Carton's act of self sacrifice in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (reminded me of Melanie reading aloud from David Copperfield in GWTW!) — and now I want to go back and read it to see if I am remembering correctly. But I think we hear them disagreeing about whether the heroic sacrifice makes sense. Which would make a nice reinforcement for this idea of Theo representing Northern lip service to the Union cause while Margaret could represent idealism and action. At one point she angrily points out that she is prevented from acting on her ideals because of her gender, but it's not too much of a stretch to imagine her taking action if she had been in a position to. What's sort of curious is that when Theo does enlist, she spends much of their final week together acting sullen and put out — it could just be her naked fear of losing him, but it was odd that she seemed so unsupportive after basically goading him into it. All in all, a very interesting and unusual novel!
And thanks for reminding me about the Gettysburg tie-in. Some of the photos I've seen from this week's events there are incredibly beautiful. I've never been much of a Civil War history buff, aside from my fascination with GWTW as a 13-year-old, but recently I have become much more captivated, probably due to reading some of Drew Faust's book, combined with watching badass tv dramas like Hell on Wheels and Copper!
Terrific, well-written, and thorough review! This sounds pretty wonderful to Miss Bates, who makes a point of reading novels with governess, or schoolmarm protagonists. Also, Victorian Era novels were one of her great loves in … shudder … grad school. And epistolary … her reader cup runneth over. So glad I visited "badass" today!
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