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Users tier storage for ILM
By Michele Hope
In an earlier report on the progress of information life-cycle management (ILM) initiatives in IT organizations, a few users and analysts were quick to note one obstacle to more widespread ILM adoption: A purported lack of tools that can automate the process of migrating data to other tiers of storage (see "It's a long and winding road to ILM," InfoStor, June 2005, p. 24).
In an attempt to test the above hypothesis, we looked for users who had already established various tiers of storage in their IT infrastructure and were benefiting from automated, policy-based data movement across the tiers.
Most users we spoke with began developing different tiers of storage as a means of consolidating file-based storage. Often, their consolidation projects had begun with high-performance, high-cost NAS systems (or NAS-SAN gateways). These high-end systems comprised the first tier of storage in a multi-tiered architecture. However, time and explosive data growth had caused these systems to fill up, forcing the IT organization to choose between adding more high-end storage capacity at a fairly high cost per gigabyte, or migrating less-critical data from the primary systems onto lower-cost platforms, such as those based on Serial ATA (SATA) disks.
One such user is Matt Miller, senior systems administrator at Duke University, in Durham, NC. The university had originally acquired a pair of clustered Network Appliance F820 NAS systems a few years ago to help consolidate files from a variety of Windows NT servers. Once they consolidated their servers, Miller and his team turned their attention to ways that they could consolidate the large quantities of data remaining on user workstations. "We had lots of research in data sets that was still not being backed up on a routine basis," Miller explains, "but bringing all that data into the central facility was just not possible because of the price we were paying for the tier 1 storage."
Miller and his team began looking at ILM software in early 2003. There wasn't much to choose from back then, he recalls. But they were still able to find something that could satisfy the team's two key requirements: That the solution would not have to "front-end" any of the Network Appliance filers with another server or device, and that migrating files to other storage tiers would have no impact on end users.
They ultimately chose to implement a Network Appliance NearStore R200 array as their tier 2 storage, with 6TB of usable ATA-based capacity. To automatically migrate files from tier 1 to tier 2, they chose NuView's File Lifecycle Manager (FLM) software.
After running NuView's free FileAges utility for a few weeks to identify the access frequency of many of the files located at the university's various CIFS sharepoints, Miller said that creating an initial policy was relatively straightforward. "We realized a lot of our assumptions were true; for example, much of our data was not accessed very often," says Miller. They discovered that about 60% of their data (about 840GB) had not been written to in six months and could be migrated to the NearStore R200 with the help of FLM software.
Miller's team first instituted a policy in FLM to migrate this infrequently accessed data from tier 1 to tier 2, with a goal of keeping capacity utilization on the tier 1 filers no higher than 80%. Any files migrated via FLM appear as normal files to end users. After the actual file is moved to tier 2, FLM just leaves metadata for the file on tier 1. When a user attempts to access a file stored on tier 2, the system quickly restores the file to tier 1 for higher-performance access.
ILM and tiered storage have provided a number of benefits in this example. Extending the life of the university's primary storage is just one of the advantages, according to Miller. "We've been able to keep our filers small because of the ILM," he says. He estimates that the university could theoretically continue to use its nearly four-year-old filers for another three or four years before upgrading them. The only reason for a quicker upgrade would be to gain better performance, says Miller.
Other benefits include further reductions in backup times. Miller's team does not back up tier 2 data, as it was already backed up earlier when it existed on tier 1. The university also replicates data from tier 1 to tier 3, where tier 3 consists of Linux systems and the open rsync utility, which performs replication and backs up only changed data to disk. The university plans to retain this data on tier 3 storage for 10 years.
Matt Decker, a lead systems engineer at Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technology (FM&T), in Kansas City, also knows all too well what you can uncover when you start doing some of your own detective work regarding the types of data routinely stored and backed up in an IT organization.
As a prime contractor for the National Nuclear Securities Administration (NNSA), Honeywell FM&T's IT infrastructure consists of several terabytes of both structured and unstructured data. Wanting to get out of the trap of continuously "feeding the storage beast" by just buying more storage, Honeywell created a six-person team two years ago that would be responsible for developing a hierarchical storage management (HSM) system that could make more economical use of their storage resources. As one of the team members, Decker soon realized that HSM was really just a by-product of a proper ILM strategy. He decided his first order of business on the road to ILM would be to figure out how to manage all of the company's unstructured data, a place he thought he'd gain the biggest reward.
At first, they floundered a bit with a cruder HSM model that just allowed them to move a certain portion of files to DVD-RAM jukeboxes when the primary storage systems (from Hitachi Data Systems) reached capacity thresholds. Without a robust policy-based management capability, and many hurdles for users to access their archived files, this solution soon fell short. That's when Honeywell turned to Arkivio's auto-stor software, which provides a number of ILM-related modules. From the first day of use, Decker was able to start identifying usage profiles that allowed more granular classification of data based on its value to the organization.
Decker took advantage of auto-stor's basic reports and utilities to learn how his organization's file data was being utilized. "I found that 80% of our unstructured data had not been looked at or modified in well over a year, yet we were keeping it on our primary storage and backing it up on a daily basis when we didn't really need to," says Decker.
Another Arkivio utility identified 4.5 million duplicate files. By "dredging the data" further, Decker also found a large number of Office *.tmp files from the early 1990s currently stored on the SAN. "We were still backing up and restoring these files that had been abandoned and had now become part of our permanent data set."
Decker was even able to reclaim hundreds of gigabytes of space by setting an auto-stor policy to limit the size of users' recycle bins and automatically discard recycle bin contents when the limit was reached.
The impetus for this latest data cleanup effort came as Decker's team was preparing to implement a new EMC Centera system where much of the static, historic content will be stored. Decker also still uses Arkivio's auto-stor with the DVD-RAM disks, where a policy automatically migrates data from terminated employees onto DVD-RAM media, where the data is still available if needed.
Once the Centera system goes in, Decker plans to expand migration policies to encompass compliance rules as well, to indicate how long specific files should be retained in unalterable format on the Centera platform. Migrated files have a slightly modified icon that appears to end users, which represents a stub or link file. Clicking on the file takes them to the archived version.
Once much of the automated migration to the Centera system occurs, Decker looks forward to a number of advantages. These include a reduced footprint for primary storage, and significant reductions in backup-and-restore time. Although the compliance component may increase initial costs, Decker looks forward to the cost efficiencies he can expect in years two and three. "It will be extremely efficient and cheaper in the long run, because now we're managing the data. Before it was a free-for-all, throwing money in, feeding the storage beast. Now we'll be intelligently managing costs. Since it's policy-based, it will free up a lot of time," he says.
Decker's expectations for cost savings are not unrealistic. Strategic Research Corp. (SRC) studied 40 companies that had already implemented tiered storage. On average, these companies experienced a 40% reduction in storage operating costs. "The ones who benefited the most implemented at least three tiers-primary, secondary, and disk-based backup," says Michael Peterson, president of SRC and program director of the Storage Networking Industry Association's Data Management Forum. "For example, those with three tiers saw a $5,000 to $10,000 per terabyte per year average annual savings, depending on their total disk capacity," says Peterson.
Enabling tiered storage
Some users are being a bit more fluid in how they set up and migrate data among the different storage tiers. According to Mack Kigada, systems engineer at Providence Health Systems, in Portland, OR, multiple tiers of storage don't always have to reside on different physical disk drives. Kigada is implementing a few tiered storage models, including one disk-based backup model that takes snapshots of live data on an EMC Clariion system, stores the snapshots in another disk location on the same system, then backs up the snapshots via Veritas' NetBackup. The backups are stored in a separate archive location-possibly the same Clariion disk.
"I have the live tier and am going to have the snaps and the archive tier all on the Clariion, and they may even be on the same disk," says Kigada, noting that this type of logical tiering may be different from what many tiered storage proponents talk about; however, they can still offer tremendous management savings in terms of reduced backup time, etc. Kigada is also instituting a more-traditional tiered storage model using EMC's Celerra NAS servers with Celerra FileMover and EMC's DiskXtender policy engine, along with the Clariion device equipped with 150 ATA drives. Providence Health is also bringing in an EMC Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) platform to replace its existing optical jukeboxes.
This new architecture is part of a move to centralize data centers and consolidate direct-attached storage (DAS) from four different regions onto one centrally located NAS system. To start with, Kigada and his team will focus on porting more than 2TB of data distributed across several DAS servers. He plans to start deploying the system in a pure HSM model, automatically migrating unused files to ATA storage after 30 days. He believes this time frame may shrink to as short as a week as the company begins to learn more about user-access patterns for files.
HSM by any other name...
These case stories underscore the early HSM flavor of many current ILM implementations with unstructured data. Starting from an unmanaged environment that stores, backs up, and archives virtually everything, even straightforward HSM applications can lead to cost savings for IT organizations. According to Arun Taneja, founder of the Taneja Group consulting firm, that's a good place to start as users wait for more-mature, comprehensive ILM solutions to come to market. "For unstructured data, most companies find they can save 30% to 60% of their primary storage. That's a good start, even if it has to be done on a rudimentary basis," he says. Taneja also recommends taking advantage of more-mature ILM solutions for semi-structured and structured data, such as those currently available for e-mail systems.
In this emerging space, IT organizations are already starting to see a variety of entrants that claim to perform automated data migration across storage tiers. This list of vendors is likely to grow as emerging storage virtualization and grid technologies begin to emerge with automated tiering as an integral component.
Both Taneja and Peterson point to products from vendors such as Princeton Softech, OuterBay, and e-mail archiving vendors such as KVS as examples of solutions that currently offer application-layer support for policy-based data migration. Taneja also gives a nod to younger vendors in this space, such as StoredIQ, Kazeon, Scentric, and UK-based nJini as some of the vendors to watch in an emerging ILM-related area that Taneja calls information classification management (ICM).
In the meantime, Taneja recommends moving forward with the solutions available today. "In the absence of all elements of the ILM stack being available, even a generic HSM approach is a good start and will provide significant value."
Michele Hope is a freelance storage writer. She can be reached at mhope@thestorage writer.com.
This article was originally published on September 01, 2005

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Album Back Home Again (1991)
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Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, Rogers has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music... more
Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, Rogers has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topped the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. On September 25, 2015, Rogers announced on NBC's Today Show that he was retiring from show business after a final tour to spend more time with his wife and twin boys.
Kenny Rogers – When You Were Loving Me Lyrics
from album: Back Home Again (1991)
I stopped by the house we called our home
It was a little rundown, the grass was overgrown
Its screendoor was opening with the wind
I thought I heard you called my name again.
I wish that I could hold on to the past
Cos everything is changing way too fast
I can't help it long for how it used to be
When you were here and you were loving me.
I finally got that near to go inside
I made it to our bedroom door to cry
I always thought that we could come back home
These empty rooms just prove that I was wrong.
I wish that ...
Songwriters: BILLY KIRSCH, ZACK TURNER
When You Were Loving Me lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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·The Gambler
·Lucille
·You And I
·Lady
·Through The Years
·Coward Of The County
·Islands In The Stream
·Write Your Name (Across My Heart)
·Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer
·Just Dropped In


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The Roles of Land Tenure Reforms and Land Markets in the Context of Population Growth and Land Use Intensification in Africa
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The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders
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Sustainable food production: Facts and Figures
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BURLINGTON, VT— Frederick Edward Tardie, 75, of Burlington, died on April 28. 2019. He was born March 15, 1944, in Springfield, VT, the son of George Tardie and Anna (Begin) Tardie.
Fred grew up in Trumbull, CT. He moved to Cornwall, VT in 1970 where he lived for 19 years. During this time, Fred worked at Beckwith Motors, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Shea Motors and other local auto and body shops. He opened "Tardie's Town Line Auto" in 1981 where he worked until he moved to Burlington in 1989. He was a Boy Scout leader, Moose Lodge, and Masonic Lodge member. Fred was an avid hunter and fisherman who passed his love of the outdoors and the sport of hunting and fishing on to his children.
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KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose -college, career, and beyond-so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.
KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students and approximately three times higher than the average of students from low-income communities.
Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and their families, working tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity. In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and celebrate our differences across several characteristics that construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters. We are especially committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students because we believe the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of our families and KIPPsters.
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As co-founder of Votary, Arabella talks to us about how she created the brand from her kitchen table, which is her favourite product and what her tips are on what to wear to an important meeting. Arabella lives in the Kent countryside with her husband and 2 children.
Where did the idea for Votary come from?
I was working as a make-up artist in London and would always use cleansing oils to remove make-up and facial oils to prep the skin of my clients. It got to a stage where I knew enough about oils and was so opinionated about their varying properties that I started to blend my own at my kitchen table. I was adamant from the start that it was possible to create natural plant oil blends that were truly effective. I told an old friend and colleague, Charlotte Semler, what I was up to and we pretty much decided to set up Votary on the spot.
If someone was discovering the brand for the first time which product would you recommend?
Our original Rose Geranium Cleansing Oil, without a doubt. I firmly believe that the cleansing stage of skincare is the most important. When it goes right, it can be truly transformational. A cleansing oil can balance dry, dehydrated, sensitive, combination and even oily skin.
Your packaging is a beautiful addition to any bathroom shelf. Where did your inspiration come from?
For me, a large part of my skincare routine is about self-care and taking a moment for myself. I like great design and felt like it should be possible to create a skincare line that customers wanted to keep out on their washstands, not hide away underneath the sink. Our beautiful green glass bottles also help act as a natural preservative.
What is your best time saving tip in the morning?
Honestly, get up 5 minutes earlier so you can do what you need to do. So painful and boring, like a lot of common sense.
What do you always tend to reach for in your wardrobe when you have an important meeting?
I have a stash of smart Victoria Beckham jeans that go with everything in my wardrobe. I pop a Cefinn printed blouse on top and a blazer which makes me feel pulled together but relaxed too. It's taken me 20 years to work out that the more important the meeting, the more important it is you feel and look like yourself.
A summer's morning gardening at home, followed by friends coming round for lunch when all the kids exhaust themselves running around barefoot. Then a great box set in the evening and an early night.
The drive back to my house in Kent after a long day in London.
I finally got round to reading Anna Karenina a few years ago and don't think any book has lodged in my brain in the same way. I can still quote lines from it and my memory is, in general, pretty terrible.
A fashion designer or stylist. It never happened but it did land me in the fashion industry. I grew up in rural Shropshire and would pore over copies of Vogue, dreaming of this glamorous other existence.
I have a long, hot bath at the end of every day, even in summer. Oh, and putting my phone in a different room helps too.


Author Notes: This recipe is reprinted with permission from Kim Boyce's Good to the Grain.
Preheat the oven to 325° F. Generously butter a 9 x 9-inch glass or metal baking dish.
Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed pot that will hold 2 cups of oats with ample room for stirring. Adjust the flame to medium and stir the oats every minute or so for about 6 minutes. The oats need to be about two shades darker than they are raw; keep a few raw oats on the counter next to you as a reference point.
Pour the toasted oats into a large bowl. Wipe out the pot and set it aside to use again for the syrup. Add 1/2 cup of flaxseed meal and the cinnamon to the bowl.
Toss the raisins with the remaining tablespoon of flaxseed meal and chop finely. (Tossing the two together keeps the raisins from sticking to your knife.) Add them to the oat mixture.
To make the syrup, measure the honey, brown sugar, molasses, and salt into the reserved pot. Place it over a medium flame, stir to combine, and cook the syrup until evenly boiling, about 6 minutes. Resist the temptation to remove it early -- boiling the syrup gives these granola bars real chew.
Pour the syrup over the oat mixture, making sure to use a spatula to scrape every last bit out. Then use the spatula to coat every flake with syrup. This means going over and over, tossing and scraping the oats together. Scrape the granola mixture into the prepared pan.
Form the bars, butter your hands and press the oats firmly and evenly into the pan.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through. The outer edge of the granola bars should be darker than the rest and the bars should have a beautiful sheen. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Cut the contents of the pan into quarters, for a total of 16 bars. Remove the bars from the pan and let cool before eating.
The granola bars can be eaten the day they're made, or kept in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
I made these yesterday. They were a little too sweet and too salty for my taste and quite tough. They were still edible and my house members still ate it but I'm afraid I probably won't be making again. I like my granola bars a little more wholesome than dessert-like I suppose!
What's flaxseed meal? is it the same as grinder flaxseed?
Yes. It's ground up flaxseed. I purchased it already ground up from my local whole foods. I suppose you could grind it up yourself but I have never tried that.
Step 3 says to add the cinnamon but I don't see it in the ingredients list. How much should be added?
I found her recipe posted on another site and it calls for 1/2 tsp cinnamon. I made them and they were delicious!


Bring your dog, your friends, and your friends' dogs to Paws for a Cause at James Island County Park this Saturday, March 14.
Paws for a Cause is a one-mile dog walk to benefit the fight against cancer, and it's also a great way to get you and your hairy friend some exercise.
Tickets for you and your dog are $25 ($20 for students), and the walk lasts from 10 to 11 a.m.
Immediately following the walk the event continues with live music, BBQ, and fun activities from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
You can learn loads more about the event on their Web site.


I love to listen to podcasts, especially technical ones, around development and programming. Imagine how excited I was when I was asked to be a guest on a technical podcast The Cynical Developer. At first imposter syndrome kicked in, I thought why would they want to interview me? I'm not good enough to go on a podcast.
Well it turns out I was wrong, it was a great experience. I talked to James Studdart from The Cynical Developer about Umbraco. We had a great conversation, and between the show being recorded and the episode going live, I have recorded a YouTube series about how to build a site with Umbraco.
James has followed this series and has rebuilt the website for the podcast and it is now in Umbraco. I'm very pleased about that. It's great to know that not only was he interested in what I was telling him, but he went out there and learned how to use it so he could rebuild his own site.
Anyway, if you are interested in what I've got to say about Umbraco, have a listen to the podcast espisode.
Play the episode in your browser here.


Those who have attended the Rental Course will be aware of the 'Landlord's hypothec' that applies to all a Tenant's possessions whilst the lease agreement is in place. This means that an owner of a property has a legal right to these possessions which are present on the leased property in order to secure proper payment of the rent and other payments for which the Tenant is responsible.
There are more and more of these being brought to the Tribunal. Please note that the Rental Tribunal is not a debt collecting body and that it expects landlords/agents to first put in place whatever punitive measures which are in the lease agreement before lodging a case with the Tribunal. Once a tenant has been fined, put in breach and given an opportunity of rectifying a situation, if the situation is not rectified a landlord/agent may apply to the Tribunal for an attachment order to realize the amounts owing.
Recently I was most interested to read that an auctioneering service had been launched whereby rental agreements would be auctioned. Prospective tenants, whether residential or commercial, will be able to register to attend the auctions and will be provided with all details of the property and its location, the lease agreement, the period of lease, escalation, deposits etc. Once it gets going I will report further on its success.
This is hoping that your rentals are all performing well, that your lease and management agreements are all in place and that with the new policies you have instituted; your tenants are paying on time and performing as they should!
There has been such a great deal of questions around the amendment to do with the lease contract that I need to clarify what is expected. I note that a few clever legal persons believe that their strategies are enough to circumvent the amendment, but sadly the Tribunal will not accept them for these reasons. It is illegal to evade the law.
I wish you a healthy and successful 2009 and trust that the foundation you laid for your rental business during last year will be an excellent springboard from which to jump this year.
We are seeing a great deal of non payment of rental due to the general economic downturn and urge you to be extra vigilant in noting when tenants do not pay. You will have to develop a definite method of coping with this fact as the amount of defaulting tenants will increase further into the year, and remain 'fair, firm and friendly' in your strategy of persuading these tenants to move as soon as possible.


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A Detached Joy
With extreme discipline, Nasreen Mohamedi's drawn lines seek to chart the rhythms of wind across desert sands, ocean tides, the play of shadows on outdoor stairways, or across the facades of the Islamic architecture she so admired. "Detached Joy," she wrote at the top of one of the pages of one of her many diaries. Indeed, joy and detachment conflate and fill her drawings from the 1970s, a selection of which was recently on view at the Talwar Gallery in New York.
Born into a prosperous Muslim family, in 1937, in Karachi (then still part of India), Mohamedi was raised in Bombay (now Mumbai) and later attended St. Martin's School in London from 1954 to 1957 and lived in Paris from 1961 to 1963. She returned to India well-schooled in European modernism and joined the Bhulabhai Institute for the Arts, where she eschewed the narrative painting prevalent at the time; her loosely painted figuration was at a far remove from the tightly rendered Hindu gods and goddesses painted by M.F. Husain (b. 1915), most recently reviled for painting "Mother India" in the nude, as well as the surrealist-influenced figuration of Tyeb Mehta (b. 1925), both of whom were at Bhulabhai with her. Instead, she was drawn to and mentored by V.S. Gaitonde (1924-2001) whose close-toned, meticulous Miró-and-Klee influenced paintings made him on of India's rare but highly regarded abstractionists. She initiated a dialogue with the younger Jeram Patel (b. 1930), an abstractionist given to aqueous biomorphic configuration.
Slowly Mohamedi moved toward abstraction; her art became as international as her education and wide travel (she visited Iran, Japan, the United States, and her native India). Kazimir Malevich was an influence as was the Islamic architecture she sought out in Turkey, Iran and Rajasthan. Though raised as a Muslim, she found inspiration in Zen Buddhism. She was readily attracted to the vastness of the desert; as a still photographer, she accompanied Husain to the deserts of Rajasthan as he worked on an autobiographical film. However, she was also drawn to airplane runways, cars, and modern urban architecture. She would seek an art revelatory of the underlying patterns and forces of nature as well as those of human endeavor.
Mohamedi's diaries from the late 1960s prefigured her mature drawings, recording the travel and weight of
the lines, the light of lines interspersed with written thoughts on line's possibilities, her hopes for lines,
occasionally her solitude, often her wonder. Dense accumulations of line on each page are only occasionally
interrupted by written words. On July 4, 1967, she wrote:
Where do I stand in relation to space and thought
The layers in Indian sculpture, in Arabic calligraphy
In waves—in connection with my work
No question mark accompanied this deep question; the answer was already forming. While Malevich's spare geometries influenced her, Mohamedi was not in search of his idealized purities nor did she wish to emulate the coolly depersonalized simple geometries of such artists as Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd.
With the straight and/or diagonal lines that became her sole vocabulary in the 1970s, Mohamedi distilled her experiences of those elements in the natural and man-made phenomena to which she was most strongly attracted. The Zen Buddhism she embraced fostered an emphasis on wisdom based on experience and achieved through meditation. Her lines seek to materialize. With her totally abstract means, she evoked not only rectilinear phenomena such as a skyscraper or mosque courtyard but also those natural phenomena normally only charted with curvilinearities, such as the wind's movement across water or desert sands. Close inspection of Mohamedi's drawn lines reveals the painstaking, time-consuming process of their making—tremors of intent slowly congregate in previously unseen calligraphy created solely with straight lines—perhaps heeding the ancient Muslim ban on figurative representation while, like Arabic calligraphy, resonating with the subject signified by its accumulation of written marks. Mohamedi navigated the paper planes with rulers, set squares, pencils, brushes, pens, ink, and a specially designed compass. She diluted her ink to different tonalities and applied the ink to the pen with a brush. She also alternated ink and graphite lines. Several weeks might readily be consumed by a single drawing as it became a meditation upon its making. "One creates dimensions out of solitude," states a diary entry from the "3rd of September, 1967."
The origins of Mohamedi's abstractions can often be found in the photographs she took of the desert, the Fatehpur Sikri palace complex, reflective skyscraper facades, a stone stairway, and a loom strung with vertical threads that look remarkably like one of her drawings. She never sought to exhibit these photographs. But one or another seems to have functioned as a kind of preparatory sketch or study, the tilted angle of the camera lens and close cropping into near abstraction typical of many of them are frequently translated into the drawings' language of lines, especially those where an accumulation of diagonals move into and out of the paper plane as though rendered in perspective.
Mohamedi has frequently been compared to Agnes Martin; indeed, the two were paired in Documenta 12 in 2007. While both artists depended upon a firm and rigorous-yet-gentle linearity, Martin's horizontal lines, occasionally joined by verticals to form a grid, hover in congruence with the square plane of her support, whereas Mohamedi's horizontal and diagonal lines warp the plan with what appears to be vast networks of tremors and vibrations that pass through the 18 3/4 x 18 3/4 inch or 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch paper planes. They often barely cross the threshold of perception. In one of her drawings created in the 1970s, two registers of horizontal lines enter from right and left; in the upper half, through the most delicate and precise increases in pressure on the pencil, a cone of spiraling linearity emerges together with two almost invisible reflections to the right and one to the left. The subtlest shifts in pressure turn horizontal lines into "hypnotic contrasting rhythms" to quote another diary entry. Almost empty, full of movement, no closure—one might spend a day or two trying to follow the path of each line before surrendering it to infinity or give oneself up to meditating upon this rhythmic emptiness. In another drawing, vertical and horizontal linearity meet in what might be a shimmering rendition of glass-clad skyscrapers so delicate that spiders could have spun them.
In the 1980s, arcs, ovals, circles, and triangles began to float in stillness on Mohamedi's planes. I have seen but one of these drawings and so can hold no qualified opinion of them. However, the drawings she created in the 1970s more than entitle her to the posthumous critical acclaim they have garnered. Her hand, so finely tuned to nuance and precision, would be increasingly obstructed by the Parkinson's disease she died of in 1990.
-Klaus Kortoss


Education Index Romeo and Juliet- Whose Fault Was It?
(III, 1, 76), Mercutio is slain by Tybalt, and with the death of his friend on Tybalt's hands Romeo becomes infuriated with him and forgets all of his morals and only seeks vengeance. With his fury Romeo kills Tybalt, and when the Prince arrives at the scene he banishes Romeo from Verona, declaring a death sentence if he is to return.
This whole debacle which leads to Romeo's banishment puts even more distance and difficulty into the relationship between him and Juliet. The hatred between the families has grown stronger and Juliet can no longer see Romeo in Verona. All this because of Tybalt's furious nature, which could not have been helped despite Romeo's best efforts.
The Prince of Verona causes problems leading to Romeo and Juliet's death by exiling Romeo. Romeo cannot know of the Friar's and Juliet's plan, so he does not know that Juliet is really alive.
In my opinion it was unreasonable of the Prince to banish Romeo from Verona as a punishment for killing Mercutio when in actual fact it was Tybalt's fault for starting the fight and killing Mercutio in the first place.
two people are meant to be together, no time is too long" (Anonymous). Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents show the pure evils of acting extremely hastily and how it can change the outlook on the future. Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers who were taught to hate one another and who suffer deeply because of the consequences of fate. Romeo and Juliet's deaths were sure to be tragic as was hinted at early on throughout the play. Both families suffer with the….
play Romeo and Juliet has all these typical characteristics. However, the resultant conclusion of events for the characters in this tragedy is adversely affected by the hands of fate, and not solely the product of human limitations. Fate in fact has a decisive role in the events of the play; it is a series of rapid coincidental events, which lead to the final tragedy. Romeo and Juliet are described during the prologue as "a pair of star-crossed lovers" The play Romeo and Juliet was one of….


Awaiting a liver transplant, a local fixture rediscovers music.
The artwork on the CD for Bob Smith's new band Mountains is individually hand-made, down to the stain of a coffee cup. It's a symbol of the energy with which this dynamo of a drummer approaches music.
Smith has been a prolific presence in the local music scene for years, and had a hand in a number of memorable recordings like Thirsty Alley's 1995 CD American Studies, which sounds a bit like what would happen if Steely Dan played punk rock, with Stephen Malkmus' sarcastic snarl thrown in. Local music fans took note, and the band won City Weekly's North by Northwest competition in 2007.
He had taken a few years off playing music, just to take a much-needed break, but last year he felt the urge to get back behind the drum kit again. The Irish band Dunmore Lasses got him back into drumming, but a recent diagnosis of liver disease, and waiting on a transplant list, added some urgency to his muse. "My recent creativity comes from that," he says, "I don't take anything for granted. I have a re-found love for music, and I'm grateful for every gig."
As an example of his wide-ranging musical aptitude, the first time I met with him for this article, he had just played with the Salt Lake Symphony; the second was right before jamming at the traditional Irish session at the Republican. But his current focus, if you can use that word to describe this peripatetic percussionist, is the self-titled four song Mountains EP.
The band has only been a band since mid-summer, a quartet including long-time local sax phenom Phil Miller, 20-something newcomer guitarist Jacob Dahlberg, and the enigmatic Geed on bass. Mountains' CD release was last October at Fats Grill, which recently closed. It is truly fitting that the closing party for the well-loved watering hole last December featured Smith, who had played there under the flag of so many bands over the years. Smith has been including a CD of the show at Fats with the studio disc, but the live one is in limited supply. It includes covers of the Grateful Dead's "Franklin Tower," and an incandescent Phil Miller vocal on Waylon Jennings' "Not Hank's Way."
A couple other things make the release remarkable: Mountains was recorded live, without overdubs (except vocals and saxophone), at the legendary Herc's Living Room, a studio set up literally in veteran local producer Herc Ottenheimer's living room, which has given birth to a lot of great recordings over the years. The producer gave the set a wonderful warmth and flow that entices you to listen all the way through.
Also, Mountains may be an EP, but it's over 30 minutes long. The three Smith originals and Dahlberg's "Bird In Flight" work their way into your head little by little, and tend to stick. Smith's lyrics observe social foibles, and "Regrettable Past" is the most personal: "I'm living the future of a regrettable past. This is who I am," he sings. "Bird In Flight" lets Dahlberg's playing take to the wing—jazz-tinged, extraordinarily clean and articulate. Not one to be reticent, Smith says he takes a solo on every song.
If being involved in Mountains and Dunmore Lasses wasn't enough, Smith also plays with jam band Gorgeous Gourds (which includes former City Weekly photographer Fred Hayes), Juana Ghani side project Orphans Cabaret, and experimental rock group Watches, which will record soon.
Flitting from one project to the next, you might mistakenly think Smith would be a bit frantic. "This band is about taking our time," he observes, "developing the idea of what it will become." The tranquility of their playing is a great strength, concealing the energy of their collective imagination. "There's no hurry," he continues. "When we're playing it's, like, we have all day long to play this song."


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The medieval popular Bible is a term used especially in literary studies, but also in art history and other disciplines, to encompass the wide variety of presentations of biblical material in medieval culture not directly recorded in the exegetical tradition.

The "exegetical tradition" means the vast corpus of Latin writings, often biblical commentaries, sermons or preaching handbooks, diatribes against doctrinal deviancy and philosophical explorations, in which scholars of the medieval Church present the Bible according to medieval orthodoxy. Its intended readership is, in the first instance, other theologians.

In contrast to this, the "medieval popular Bible" is aimed at the ordinary population of medieval Europe, and to some extent is also created by them. It ranges from very pious vernacular writings such as the Biblical Epic to scurrilous fabliaux in which biblical figures make an appearance. It includes most religious drama, much stained glass and some wild and fanciful retellings of Bible stories.

The forbidden fruit is a standard example. The Bible itself does not say what kind of fruit it was, but in the popular retelling, as opposed to the theological schools, it became an apple.  Since the apple served well to communicate spiritual ideas, the exegetical tradition did not resist it. In the medieval understanding of biblical truth, there was no need for a modern style of debate on the accuracy of the motif.

Serious work on this area of medieval culture probably began with Beryl Smalley in the 1940s. The term "medieval popular Bible" became established in scholarship relatively recently as a result of the writings of Brian O. Murdoch, though the phrase had been used before him, usually in a less clearly defined way.

See also
 Bible moralisée
 Biblia pauperum
 Legend of the Rood
 Manuscript culture
 Mystery play

References

James H. Morey, "Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible, Speculum 68 (1993), 6-35.

Biblical studies
Medieval literature
Christianity in the Middle Ages

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Please check back for new pictures as they become available.
A few select photos of some of the people we met at the Martial Arts Supershow in Las Vegas, July 5-7th 2007. And a couple of photos from our day trip to the Grand Canyon, enjoy.
Victor, Jim & Angie at the Grand Canyon.
Dana White (UFC President) at opening ceremonies.
Students with photos they wish to have posted please contact Mr. Hewes, thank you.


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In libraries, do they put the bible in the fiction oder non-fiction section?
say "i" if u live in the U.S.
Why do toasters always have a setting on them which burns your toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?
what are Du thinking right....NOW?
Does a 'Marks-A-Lot' marker, mark any Mehr than a regular marker?
If mais oil is made from mais and vegetable oil is made from vegetables. What is baby oil made from?
Do schaf, schafe get static cling when they rub against one another?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why's it still #2? Also what is number 1?
what is the last thing u thought about??
Will Du vote for Barak Obama re-election?
Will Du believe me if I sagte I knew Frankenstein?
Will Du read what I have to say??
are u gay,straight,or somethin else we dont know??
Are Du afraid to shoot strangers?
Okay, do u agree human dead bodies should be used as fertilizers for agricultural purpose, instead of wasting them buried?
Which lessons do Du HATE?
Where are Du at the moment?
*confessions* whats somethinq yuhd like to confess right now?
Do Du think this is weird?
What kind of change it will bring Von shortening the oben, nach oben best Antwort Liste on the Zufällig club in your opinion?
is it weird that i watch barney with my sister?
Do Du RP? If so,where,how often,and what topic?
whats your most embarssing moment so far?
Have Du notice that a book gets all famous after they make a movie out of it?
This JUST came to mind,what if they do the same thing to care bears they did for my little pony?
I've only seen 3 animes, Soul Eater, Black Butler, and Death Note. I'm looking for a new one to watch that's in the same genre of SE and BB. What should I watch?!
Halp?! I have Pumped Up Kicks stuck in my head!
Have Du seen a little girl?
It's time to kick arsch and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum.
What Do Du Think of When U See This Album Cover?
any one wants to talk to me because I'm really bored.
whats with the purchase a gift?
Post a picture of Du pet.
Post a picture of your front door.
Does anyone know when Soul Eater Manga volume 9 comes out?
Aren't Du tired of fakes?
have Du ever been out the country before?
Do Du know anyone on Fanpop that goes to the same school as you?
When do Du get out of school?
Could someone make me a cartoon narwhhal?
Post the funniest pic Du have saved in your computer.
What do Du do . . .
Did anyone notice that there was a Death the Kid Profil rp?!?!?!?!?!
when do Du think life begins for us?
Am I the only one who wonders where they bury presidents?
Are zebras white with black stripes oder black with white stripes?
Are humans the only Tiere that can laugh?
What's a good site (with no downloads) to convert Videos to MP3?
What's a good sad song to listen to and cry to?
Can Du cry under water?
Do Du have a Fanpop bestie??
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So...how badly to Du need...?
Guess this line, and I MAY give Du a prop. Okay?
Can ye guess this song?
do u know who they r????
I'm Singen for my teacher at the end of the year. Any suggestions (besides "King of Thieves" Von Christina Grimmie) for a song?
Why is everyone stealing my questions!!?
I'm going to Mitmachen in.


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KILLARNEY CYCLING ROUTES
Muckross
Ross Castle & Knockreer
Gap of Dunloe
Cycle the Ring of Kerry
Kerry's classic tour. Take the traditional route or add extra days to enjoy the many off-the-beaten-track roads along the way.
The Ring of Kerry traditionally starts in Killarney town, heading in an anti-clockwise direction towards the first town on the route, Killorglin. Built on the river Laune, this lively town is famous for one of Ireland's oldest festivals, Puck Fair which takes place every August.
From here, the route travels west toward the village of Glenbeigh. This village comes to life in the summer as it has been luring visitors since the 1850's. Take time to travel a very short distance off the route to visit the 8km long Rossbeigh beach, stretching out into Dingle Bay.
Please note: We have a 3-day minimum bike rental period for the Ring of Kerry. We do not rent bikes for one day cycling events.
Onwards along some magnificent mountain and coastal scenery and, 27km from Glenbeigh, our next stop is the market town of Cahersiveen. Described by poet Sigerson Clifford as "The town that climbs the mountain and looks upon the sea". Experience the local history of the town and surrounding areas at the Old Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks. Built in 1875, it is now an Interpretive Centre and will provide you with a rich insight into the history and traditions of the region. Close to the town, other sites slightly off the main route are the 15th Century Ballycarbery Castle and the iron age Leacanabuaile fort and Cahergal fort.
Just outside of Cahersiveen is the Renard-Valentia Island ferry, a great time saver to get onto the beautiful island, and directly to the village of Knightstown. This off-shoot of the ring of Kerry is well worth the visit, and you won't be disappointed! If you prefer the longer route, cycling further along the main Ring of Kerry from Cahersiveen, a right turn will take to in the direction of Portmagee village, from where a bridge will take you across to Valentia Island.
Portmagee is a charming little fishing village and departure point for many boat trips to the Skellig Islands. Hardly in need of an introduction, Skellig Michael, a UNESCO World Heritage site has early Chrstian monastic ruins dating back to 600AD. 670 steps take you to the top of the island, and an experience you'll never forget. The Great Skellig is also home to a wealth of birdlfe, most noteworthy being the puffin. The neighbouring Little Skellig is home to the second largest gannet colony in the world with 26,000 pairs.
We had great cycles yesterday and today, particularly on the high road along the coast, great climbs and the awesome view. It was simply the best ride we've ever done – the ring of Kerry route.
Alyssa & Mike
Back to Valentia Island, where and a wealth of signtseeing and history await. Visit Cromwell Point lighthouse, the footprints laid down between 350 and 370 million years ago by the Tetrapod, the Valentia slate quarry, which provided slate for the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and the Paris Opera House, to mention a few. Cycle up to Geokaun Point for the finest 360 degree view, and back to Portmagee by Bray Head.
If time is on your side, continue along the Skellig Ring route, through Ballinskelligs and back onto the Ring of Kerry, before reaching the town of Waterville. Famously visited by Charlie Chaplin, Waterville looks out onto Ballinskelligs Bay and is backed by the beautiful Lough Currane. A haven for anglers, the fishing season opens on January 17th and closes on September 30th. Pleases of interest are Church Island on Lough Currane, Loher fort, dating back to the 9th Century, and of course, Waterville famous links Golf Course.
Leaving Waterville, cycle up and over Coomakista Pass, another stop along with way with stunning coastal views. Next, its downhill to the little village of Caherdaniel, close to the former residence of the 'Liberator', Daniel O'Connell. Derrynane House is situated on the shores of Derrynane Bay and is well worth a visit. Derrynane Beach, a short stroll from Derrynane House is a spectacular little beach, located alongside Abbey Island, home to 6th century ruins and accessible on foot from the beach.
From here its onto Sneem, a picturesque little village which won Ireland's National Tidy Towns Award in 1987 and the National Landscape Award in 1997. Sneem is home to a sculpture park featuring works by a variety of artists.
Continuing from Sneem, pass by Parknasilla, over Blackwater Bridge, through Templenoe and into the heritage town of Kenmare. Located at the head of Kenmare Bay the town dates back to 1678 and is known for its gourmet food and cosy bars. Twice winner of the National Tidy Towns Award in 2000 and 2008, the town's original Irish name was 'Neidín' meaning 'little nest', due to its location nestled among the surrounding mountains and Kenmare Bay.
10km outside of Kenmare, ascend to Molls Gap with its view down into the Black Valley and the 25,000 acre Killarney National Park. Next comes a stunning downhill route passing the famous viewing point 'Ladies View', Derrycunnihy Church and past Killarney's Upper and Middle Lakes before coming to Muckross, home of the famous Muckross House, Gardens and Traditional Farms. Only a short spin from here, pass Killarney Bike Rental and into Killarney town.
Handy distance table
Killarney to Killorglin 22km
Killorglin to Glenbeigh 13km
Glenbeigh to Cahersiveen 27km
Cahersiveen to Waterville 16.5km
Waterville to Caherdaniel 14km
Caherdaniel to Sneem 21km
Sneem to Kenmare 26.5km
Kenmare to Killarney 33km
Cahersiveen to Portmagee 15.5km
Portmagee to Ballinskelligs 16km
Quick Ring of Kerry Facts
It is 1400 years since monks first settled on Skellig Michael.
It is 5060 years since first evidence of farming on Valentia Island.
It is 1160 years since Vikings lived on Beginish Island, Valentia Harbour.
Please note: We charge a fee of 10% for cancellations to cover processing fees, subject to us receiving your request for cancellation at least 24 hours prior to the booked start time. If the booking has been made within 24 hours prior to start time, there is no entitlement to refund due to cancellation or reschedule. We may allow you choose another date and time. If you need to cancel, please email info@killarneybikerental.com
Route Photos
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The Nutcracker is a magical performance that allows ballet dancers a beautiful opportunity to perform for family, friends, and schoolchildren. SYB's Nutcracker performance is unlike most others and is produced to be a special treat for children and the "young at heart". Each year The Nutcracker is performed for 2,000 schoolchildren free of charge. The cast of over 120 dancers, special guest artists, and our own PMD Faculty did an exceptional job and performed for four full houses!
Public Performances – Saturday, December 1st and Sunday, December 2nd at 2:00 p.m.
Seating is reserved. Tickets will be available for purchase online in October.


Step Aunt Lauren's Secret Visit PART 2 FULL VID Lauren Phillips & Lady Fyre.
Her step daughter fucked her boyfriend and she entered the room. They were not ashamed of her, and so was she. Step mother joined them and the guy fucked her and her daughter.


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Home/Business/I can write selling copy that brings results, says bike coach
Cycling coach Dave Smith - he of Kjerag.com - has created a new website promoting one of his latest sidelines, sales copy-writing. Bettercopy.co.uk describes how setting Smith loose on company literature can lead to an uplift in sales. The bike trade is particularly bad at selling itself in words, said Smith
I can write selling copy that brings results, says bike coach
"Some of the marketing material from the bike trade is dire," Smith told bikebiz.co.uk.
"Many businesses in the cycle industry are relying on 'someone in the office' to write their PR and marketing copy. It lacks the direct, clear, concise and effective touches that translate into actual leads and sales.
"I know of one major player in the UK market who has their brochures written by a guy in the technical department – yet technical details don't sell products."
Smith started producing sales copy when a marketing agency director ran out of staff and approached Smith to do a one-off direct mail package. This was Smith's first taste of such campaigns but he knocked up some winning copy and his work – produced for a multi-national agricultural chemical company – generated a response of over 20 percent in the first two days of the promotion. A two percent response is what's normally considered a success.
Smith was given further copywriting briefs and this subsequently led to the launch of bettercopy.co.uk – a freelance copywriting service aimed at SMEs who may not have their own marketing departments or personnel. The site itself is tiny – just a page, really – but the self-promoting sales copy on bettercopy.co.uk is seeking one result: contact Dave Smith. Now.
"The right words, written in the right way, can make a massive difference to the effectiveness of a sales letter, press release or even webpage – people don't read web pages like they would a brochure, yet many company websites are simply brochures on screen," said Smith.
Smith won't be giving up the day-job, though. He is to remain a cycling coach. His main 'customer' is Scott Beaumont of Kona, aiming for his best season to date.
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In 2015 the University of Oxford will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of computer visionary Ada Lovelace. The centrepiece of the celebrations will be a display at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library (13 October – 18 December 2015) and a Symposium (9 and 10 December 2015), presenting Lovelace's life and work, and contemporary thinking on computing and artificial intelligence.
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Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852), is best known for a remarkable article about Charles Babbage's unbuilt computer, the Analytical Engine. This presented the first documented computer program, to calculate the Bernoulli numbers, and explained the ideas underlying Babbage's machine – and every one of the billions of computers and computer programs in use today. Going beyond Babbage's ideas of computers as manipulating numbers, Lovelace also wrote about their creative possibilities and limits: her contribution was highlighted in one of Alan Turing's most famous papers 'Can a machine think?' Lovelace had wide scientific and intellectual interests and studied with scientist Mary Somerville, and with Augustus De Morgan, a leading mathematician and pioneer in logic and algebra.
The display, in the Bodleian's new Weston Library, will offer a chance to see Lovelace's correspondence with Babbage, De Morgan, Somerville and others, and her childhood exercises and mathematical notes. The Symposium, on 9th and 10th December 2015, is aimed at a broad audience interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting current scholarship on Lovelace's life and work, and linking her ideas to contemporary thinking about computing, artificial intelligence and the brain. Confirmed speakers so far include Lovelace's direct descendant the Earl of Lytton, Lovelace biographer Betty Toole, computer historian Doron Swade, historian Richard Holmes, computer scientist Moshe Vardi and graphic novelist Sydney Padua. Other activities will include a workshop for early career researchers, a "Music and Machines" event, and a dinner in Balliol College on 9th December, the eve of Lovelace's 200th birthday.
Oxford's celebration is led by the Bodleian Libraries and the University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science, working with colleagues in the Mathematics Institute, Oxford e-Research Centre, Balliol College, Somerville College, the Department of English and TORCH. External sponsors include ACM, AdaCore, BCS, BCSwomen, Clay Mathematics Institute, google, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and the London Mathematical Society.
Oxford has a remarkable history of programming research, with two winners of the ACM A M Turing Award, the Nobel Prize for Computer Science, and the unique breadth and depth of Oxford's expertise brings a variety of perspectives to understanding Lovelace and the remarkable intellectual community around her, whose ideas underpin modern computing.
Professor Ursula Martin CBE
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Humanities Division - University of Oxford
Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, U.K.
TORCH Oxford
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Blackpool FC is pleased to announce popular cider brand Kingstone Press as the club's official cider partner this season.
Part of Aston Manor Cider, the largest independent cider maker in the UK, the agreement will see Kingstone Press cider available to purchase at Bloomfield Road, with Kingstone Press branding adorning the dugouts and vomitories at Bloomfield Road.
"The club has had a fantastic relationship with Aston Manor Cider due to their involvement in rugby league and I'm pleased to welcome them on board for the new season," Business Development Manager John Woodman said.
Glen Friel, Sales & Marketing Director at Aston Manor Cider, added: "After a successful partnership at the recent summer bash we're excited to be part of the drinks line-up at Blackpool FC going forward."


"This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God" (John 5:18).
In seeking to kill Jesus, the Jews felt they were doing something right.
In their eyes, Jesus was a lawbreaker, a man who had no respect for God's day of rest, an ordinary man who insulted God by daring to say God is His Father, thereby implying that He (Jesus) is God.
The problem of the Jews was a real Christological problem; it was a problem of reconciling how someone could be both fully human and fully God at the same time. No matter how many miracles and signs Jesus worked, the Jews were never able to be convinced and they ended up fulfilling all the Messianic promises about Jesus by killing Him.
It is quite an irony that those who killed the Son of God were deeply convinced in their heart that they were doing service to God.
They were so sure they were doing what was right, meting out the right punishment to a man who dishonoured the Sabbath and claimed to be God. What lesson does this teach us?
Don't be too quick to destroy or bring people down simply because you don't agree with them. Ask yourself, "what if I am wrong?" The truth is that you cannot always be right. There is always going to be something you can learn from those who hold different opinions with you. The key thing is humility.
Today's first reading contains what I call the Great Assurance.
God speaking through the prophet Isaiah says to us: "In a time of favor I have answered you, in a day of salvation I have helped you… Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you" (Isaiah 49:8,15).
Whenever life seems rough and things not moving as expected, come back to these verses and be rest assured that God still hears prayers. We may not see immediate results, but God will never forget you.
Don't give up on prayers.
Let us Pray: Lord Jesus, your coming as man was just too good to be true, your killers did not believe. Give me faith even now not to take your presence for granted for I know you are here even when things are rough, Amen!
Be Happy. Live Positive. Have Faith. It is well with you. God bless you. (Wednesday of the 4th week of Lent. Bible Study: Isaiah 49:8-15, Psalm 145 and John 5:17-30).


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In the field of regional development, Ukraine fulfills the tasks set for 2018 and specified in the Agreement on EU Financing of Sector Policy Support Programme – Support to Ukraine's Regional Policy, as informed today by Vyacheslav Nehoda, First Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services, during the meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group on "Implementation of the Agreement on Financing of the Sector Policy Support Program – Support to Ukraine's Regional Policy (Sector Reform Contract) of 27 November 2014".
"The purpose of the Agreement is the support of social, economic and territorial cohesion of Ukraine and increase of citizens' welfare throughout the country by our international partners. I believe that in the field of regional development and local self-government development we have done a lot over 2014-2018. We can show the effectiveness of this work not only on paper. Changes are visible in each region, each amalgamated hromada," said Vyacheslav Nehoda.
According to him, if in 2014-2015 the legal basis for the regional development and local self-government reform was being created, in 2016-2018 real changes are already taking place in the regions and capable hromadas: local budgets are growing, infrastructure is developing, the level of services is being increased, conditions for running business are being created, etc.
"All these changes indicate that Ukraine is capable of implementing an effective regional policy, as well as directing international support at the development of its potential," noted Vyacheslav Nehoda.
Agreement on Financing of the Sector Policy Support Programme – Support to Ukraine's Regional Policy implies allocation of EUR 55 million of irreversible financial assistance to Ukraine in order to support the implementation of the state regional policy.
Granting of separate financial support tranches by the European Union depends on the Ukraine's fulfillment of certain conditions, formulated in the Agreement in the form of specified indicators of effectiveness of reforms' implementation in Ukraine, performance indicators.
To execute the Financing Agreement, MinRegion has prepared a Reform Progress Report in this sector.
Thus, in 2016, the first tranche of EUR 23 million or UAH 651.316 million was received, of which UAH 616.1 million were earmarked for regional development projects, selected on a competitive basis within the framework of five regional development programmes.
Within the framework of the competitive selection of regional development projects that can be implemented at the expense of the state budget funds received from the European Union, 70 winning projects were selected in the amount of UAH 616 116.645 thousand.
In addition, at the end of 2017, Ukraine received funds of the second tranche of EUR 5.5 million or UAH 172.5 million, which will also be directed at implementation of the projects this year.
The participants of the meeting discussed the performance indicators of execution of the Agreement, progress in their implementation, and prerequisites for the payment of the last third tranche of EUR 12.5 million.
Thus, in order to achieve all performance indicators by 08 September 2018, the Action Plan for 2018-2020 on the implementation of the State Strategy for Regional Development of Ukraine for the period up to 2020, which is currently developed by MinRegion and will be submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers for approval, should be adopted.
The meeting was attended by the representatives of MinRegion, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Statistics Service, the U-LEAD with Europe Programme, all-Ukrainian associations of local self-government bodies.


1592 Henry. Henry VI PartTwo, act 2, sc.3, l.24-5.
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.
Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars.
I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.
Nahoko Uehashi (2014). "Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit", p.116, Scholastic Inc.
It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.
I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?