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Adieu, Fakir
Fakir Musafar in 2010. Photograph via Wikimedia Commons (cc)
by Eli S. Evans
Recently, I learned of the passing of Fakir Musafar, the renowned body artist whose professional and creative life (and, as far as I know, personal life, as well) consisted of the performance and documentation of various acts of masochism or "body play," as he described it, by both himself and his associates – and therein lies a story.
Many years ago, now – time flies when you're having fun and, as it turns out, when you're not – I was living in Los Angeles with a friend, a woman, with whom I shared certain professional aspirations, if you could call them that: our talents, we believed, were mutually complementary in such a fashion that we would be able to succeed in the entertainment industry as "writing partners," a common arrangement in the world of TV and film, where writing is not generally regarded as an almost definitionally solitary activity, as tends to be the case in literary circles. After finding our bearings by writing a few shorter pieces – for instance, a script for a kind of sketch comedy bit in which Osama Bin Laden appeared, accompanied by a translator, on the popular Late Show with David Letterman, and during the course of his appearance displayed a curled white hair, purportedly fallen from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed, and was ultimately presented with a canned ham by the affable host – we wrote Henry Plucker, Pregnant Man, a full length screenplay about a man who becomes pregnant in order to win the affections of his beguiling Gender Studies instructor at the local community college where he is enrolled as a part-time student. The screenplay was lewd, and probably racist in its use of a black character as a source of comic relief and unintended wisdom – a worn out Hollywood trope in its own right– but we were young enough to still believe that radically poor taste was in itself radical and I guess that was the idea of it all. My friend and writing partner, who was young and charismatic and possessed a great deal of sex appeal, took it upon herself to enlist those characteristics in the service of networking, which we believed was as essential to our future success in the entertainment industry as our talents, and it was by way of her networking efforts – though I don't quite recall the details of who knew whom and so on – that she was one evening invited to a party at a house in Hollywood Hills held by, or in honor of, Fakir Musafar. Since I was considered a social liability by both of us – awkward enough, in my interactions with people I didn't know, to be off-putting – I stayed home, but that night, from the other bed in the bedroom the two of us shared, she told me about swimming pools and the waiters and waitresses in their uniforms drifting between the guests holding silver trays atop which balanced glasses of champagne, pyramids of canapés, and so on, and of the framed, poster-sized photographs of men and women, including the aging Musafar himself, with spears through their faces, entering one cheek and exiting the other, or strung up by meat hooks attached to chains dangling from some warehouse ceiling, or with their penises tied into knots, that were displayed on the walls inside the house, both the focal point of the festivities and their raison d'être.
Most importantly, she'd met a producer of nature documentaries at the party, himself an aging fetishist, whose own relatively small production company was associated with, or perhaps even owned by, a much larger and more diversified production company, what one might call a "major" production company, and who after talking with her and finding her both crass and charming had agreed to read Henry Plucker, Pregnant Man. I don't remember how we got the screenplay to him. It might seem obvious that we sent it by email, but this was the early spring of 2002, and sending large documents via email was a more complicated proposition than it is today. It's certainly possible that we dropped a physical copy of the screenplay off for him, but I don't think so, because the first time I remember visiting his office was when we went to meet with him there, at his invitation, a couple of weeks after he'd read it.
Los Angeles is total chaos, which gives everyplace that isn't totally chaotic an oasis sort of feel, and so it was with the building in which his office was located, an architecturally ambitious structure set back from a quiet street in Santa Monica whose other occupants included a well regarded independent production company about whose CEO my writing partner and I eventually co-wrote an unpublished essay entitled "Stephen Nemeth is a Mensch" (in fact I had no idea whether he was or was not a mensch, but this was obviously beside the point). The nature documentary producer's office, meanwhile, included various antechambers which ultimately brought one to his executive suite, decked out with various of the trappings of success and managerial power: a leather sofa, a desk so wide that two people sitting on opposite sides of it would not have been able to shake hands without standing up from their chairs, and a television screen set flush into the wall behind his desk, on which footage from his various nature documentaries seemed to be playing on loop, silently. We already knew, based on what he'd told my friend by phone, that the reason he was inviting us to his office was that he'd loved Henry Plucker, Pregnant Man, and I remember the way we felt driving to the meeting from our derelict Mid-City apartment: as though balanced on the precipice of the rest of our lives. Alas, despite his small production company's association with the aforementioned "major" production company, this producer really was just a producer of nature documentaries, and since Henry Plucker, Pregnant Man hardly qualified, he did not (as we truly believed he might) offer us a production deal, but only encouragement and, for whatever it might be worth to us, his own vision for its future as an actual movie, if and when someone took it upon themselves to acquire and produce it. "Inappropriate for all audiences," was what he suggested as a possible tagline, to be more specific. Defeated already, one or the other of us asked him about sending it to the owner, or president, or whatever he was, of the major production company with which his nature documentary production company was associated, someone with whom he claimed to be old friends, but he only shrugged and explained that the individual in question lived in Hawaii and was rarely if ever personally involved in lower level business transactions, such as the acquisition of screenplays for production.
Despite our disappointment, the meeting ended warmly, with a pledge to stay in touch, and for a little while we did. We met his wife, who had an air of drunkenness about her, was also a fetishist, and whose first name rhymed with his. That summer I emailed him from Madrid, not for any particular reason, and in his reply he told me he would look forward to catching up once I returned to Los Angeles, "the real center of the universe." Back in Los Angeles that fall, I withdrew into my own writing projects, which I thought of as literary and, by extension, solitary, and resisted my writing partner's efforts to engage me in the composition of a new screenplay that would showcase our radically irreverent sensibility while hewing more closely to the accepted Hollywood formulae from which Henry Plucker, Pregnant Man, which had not managed to generate any industry buzz, as the saying goes, had perhaps strayed too far. At first I did not realize that, our mutual endeavor thus suspended, she herself had begun to write a book, and then I did and before I could do anything to stop her, she finished the book and sold it to a major New York City publishing house for a sum of money that, from the present perspective seems rather paltry, but at the time exceeded by more than double the yearly salary I was earning working as an adjunct instructor at a two-year college in Orange County. One night, not long before she left Los Angeles for New York City, where she has lived continuously ever since, she presented me with a gift.
The circumstances are a bit hazy: we were at a bar, or I was at a bar, now that I think of it, with someone else, or alone, and she was meeting me at the bar, with someone else, or alone, or with more than one other person, or possibly with my sister. As it happened, there was a used bookstore next door to this bar, one that stayed open late for the drunken literati, and she and whoever she was with, possibly my sister, visited the bookstore before coming into the bar, and it was there that she acquired Spirit + Flesh, an elegantly bound hardback volume of photographs by Fakir Musafar. She stored the book in her car before entering the bar and later, when we all left together, whoever we all may have been, presented it to me as a gift, both of us a little tipsy out there on the sidewalk under the streetlights. The photographs collected in the book depicted people in the kind of situations in which she'd described them in the photographs hanging at the party where she'd met the producer of nature documentaries whose enthusiasm for Henry Plucker, Pregnant Man did not prove significant in the ways we hoped it would. In many of the images, the person depicted was Musafar himself, and since in some of the cases it would have taken much too long for him to have gotten himself into the situation depicted in the image for him to have, for instance, set his camera to a timer, I wondered, the first couple of times I flipped through the book, how he could have been the photographer; upon reflection, though, I determined that if Musafar had arranged the scene and set the zoom and chosen the angle and configured the lighting and whatever else it is that photographers do other than pushing the button on the camera, it would have been reasonable to attribute authorship of the resulting photograph to him even if someone else, someone not incapacitated by circumstances, had actually pushed said button.
Today, Spirit + Flesh resides in the stack of large format books related to the visual arts that I have piled atop the table that sits beside my sofa, a beautiful mid-century sofa that before it was mine was my grandmother's, encased in plastic, for, my God, probably fifty years at least, and repeatedly, in the days and now weeks since Musafar's death, especially early in the mornings when I am alone with my coffee and a book, I have caught myself gazing at his name, imprinted on its spine in shiny purple foil lettering, the way one might a photograph of an old friend with whom he'd been meaning to get back in touch and then suddenly the friend had died and it was too late. The book sits in the middle of the stack, underneath several others comparable to it in size and weight, because I do not want my son, who has just turned three years old, accessing it. For now, this arrangement works, but since my son will surely be strong enough to move heavy art books around, and curious enough to want to do so, long before he is emotionally prepared to see a picture of somebody's penis tied up into a knot, I know that soon enough I'll have to take it out of the pile and hide it in the sort of place where it will be long forgotten and then someday rediscovered, though probably not by me.
Essay first published at Obelus Journal. Republished with permission of the author.
Like most people his age, Eli S. Evans is a possibly former longtime somewhat regular contributor to N+1.
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The effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 (CO2e) on soil respiration were evaluated using inverse models and static chamber measurements collected over 4.5 years in a maturing loblolly pine forest. The chamber measurements of forest floor CO2 efflux showed that the flux enhancement increased progressively, reaching 1.4 after 3 years, but declined thereafter to 1.10 at the end of the study. The subsurface CO2 concentration measurements show that the difference in mean annual concentration gradient between ambient and enriched plots initially increased, and then stabilized after 2 years of enrichment. However, concomitant soil moisture increases in the enriched plots reduced the soil diffusivity, especially over the last 2 years. These two observations, in combination with inverse model calculations, suggest a decline in subsurface CO2 production over the last 2 years. Enhancement in photosynthesis has declined after 4.5 years of enrichment (remaining ∼40% higher than ambient photosynthesis), and the increase in production and respiration alone cannot account for the excess carbon uptake. Thus this modeling approach would suggest that non-gaseous carbon is accumulating belowground. However, we have not been able to measure significant changes in soil organic carbon or fine root biomass. These results, in the context of other forest floor flux studies and the carbon budget at the site, suggest a lack of closure in the carbon budget under elevated atmospheric CO2.


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To get to the Acropolis, you have to climb up a long, winding sidewalk with steps every-so-often. It was not a difficult climb and there are lots of places to stop and rest under shade trees if needed. The only down side to the Acropolis is almost all of the statues and sculptures have been removed and taken to museums. Don't leave Athens without visiting this. And if you have time find a bar or restaurant with a view of it and watch as the sun goes down - outstanding!


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District 9. - Ferencváros
District IX. is known by many as Ferencváros. Students prefer the neighbourhood due to the proximity of Corvinus University of Budapest, Semmelweis University (SOTE), the National University of Public Service and the largest Szabó Ervin Library in Budapest.
You can take the metro M3 or M4 at Kalvin Square or walk along Ráday Street, a popular destination for tourists, offering many quality restaurants. Not far from here is the Great Market Hall. A cinema and other restaurants and shops are available at Lurdy House and Corvin Plaza malls. Those interested in culture can attend the plays of the National Theatre or the Palace of Arts (MÜPA) and the concerts of Budapest Park.
For sports enthusiasts, the proximity of the Groupama Arena can also be an aspect. By the way, Népliget is not only accessible by the M3 metro line, but also by coaches (Volánbusz). Because of its modern office buildings, it is also a popular area for multinational and domestic companies.
We can reach the Buda side via three Danube bridges: the Liberty Bridge, the Petőfi Bridge and the Rákóczi Bridge, where the campuses of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the ELTE Faculty of Science await us, just like Kopaszi-gát which is also a popular destination on weekends.
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Kilbourne's Nate Mitchell Commits To Ohio Northern University
By WKHS Parents Club, 05/01/19, 8:00AM EDT
Mitchell to play lacrosse at Ohio Northern and study Pharmacy
Nate Mitchell "Signing Ceremony" -- April 24, 2019
Nate Mitchell's "Signing Ceremony" -- April 24, 2019
Nate Mitchell, a senior at Worthington Kilbourne, celebrated the signing of his letter of commitment to play lacrosse at Ohio Northern University next season in an event with his family, friends, coaches and fellow teammates in the WKHS library on Wednesday (4/24) afternoon. Nate will be a 3-year letter-winner and is a 2nd year starter playing defense for the Wolves. The Ohio Northern Polar Bears are completing their fourth season of varsity men's lacrosse having risen quickly to the top in the D-III Ohio Athletic Conference.
Head Coach Mike Riffee praised Nate's passion, energy and determination when describing how he had grown from his freshman season into a starting member of one of the finest defensive units to have played at WKHS.
Mitchell credits the programs available to student athletes in the Worthington community and credits the deep history of lacrosse in Worthington for his success, noting "Worthington helped start organized lacrosse clubs in Ohio over 30 years ago and it is exciting to see how much the sport has grown in the new programs now starting around Ohio and at the collegiate level. I discovered my love for the game because of Worthington, and I sincerely appreciate the friendships and opportunities that the game of lacrosse has opened for me."
Off the field Nate has been active in the WKHS lacrosse "Man-Up" program, including "Meals on Wheels" and visiting the Dowd Center to teach lacrosse to children. In addition, Nate participated with his teammates in various regional and east coast lacrosse tournaments during the summer months, and indoor programs during the winter.
Academically, Nate was recognized for maintaining at least a 3.5 GPA for 7 semesters by earning his Gold Key during the WKHS Academic Honors night in a ceremony earlier in the year, and he plans to study pharmacy when his college journey begins in the fall. Celebrating with Nate were his parents Brian and Kim Mitchell, and sister Karissa.
Congrats to Nate & the Mitchell family...and good luck at Ohio Northern!
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Published: Oct. 3, 2011 at 07:44 p.m.
» Former vice president of officiating and Fox analyst Mike Pereira thinks the referees blew the call.
» Current VP of officiating Carl Johnson backs the zebras' ruling.
» Giants coach Tom Coughlin thinks the crew got it right.
» Eli Manning believes New York caught a break.
» All the while, Cruz himself was confused in thinking he had been touched after he voluntarily went to ground and dropped the ball when, in fact, he wasn't.
Get all that? Good. Because we have yet another insightful opinion to include from Saints coach Sean Payton, who broke it down two ways Monday on The Dan Patrick Show.
First, Payton uses a hypothetical situation to explain why the rule, being able to "declare yourself down" without being touched, makes sense.
"Let's say hypothetically there's eight seconds left on the clock," Payton said. "I want to throw the ball. I want the receiver to catch it, and then slide down so that we can call timeout. In other words, if you didn't allow that, the defense essentially could just sit there and watch them and the clock would (run out) ... a player can down himself, but clearly that wasn't the case (Sunday)."
Even though Payton agrees with the rule, he disagrees with call.
"I think it was more of an inexperienced play in not being adjusted to the NFL rules in that we are going until you are downed, and if you are not downed you are still going," Payton said. "At the end of the game the situation arises where you might have 18 seconds left, and you might want the yardage, but you may also down yourself just to kick the field goal and use a timeout. That exists, but that's different."
Thank you, Payton, for shedding this light: It's important to distinguish the rule from the call.
For those of you who don't like the rule, did any of Payton's explanation change your mind? For those of you who don't like the call, we already know there's no chance of changing your mind.


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Palazzo Ginnasi é um palácio maneirista localizado no Largo di Santa Lucia Filippini, no rione Pigna de Roma. O palácio atual é um edifício que substituiu o palácio antigo, demolido entre 1935 e 1940 para permitir o alargamento da Via delle Botteghe Oscure e do qual se conservam atualmente os dois brasões oriundos de Brescia posicionados sobre o portal com a inscrição "GINNASI".

História
O antigo Palazzo Ginnasi foi construído no final do século XVI com base num projeto de Ottaviano Mascherino por ordem do monsenhor Alessandro Ginnasi. Em 1624, o cardeal Domenico Ginnasi, nomeado pelo papa Clemente VIII, ampliou e restaurou o palácio com a ajuda de Orazio Torriani, incorporando em sua estrutura a já existente igreja de Santa Lucia, que passou a ser denominada Santa Lucia de' Ginnasi, e destinando parte do palácio ao Convento de Santa Teresa, de freiras carmelitas, e parte a um colégio, conhecido como Collegio Ginnasi, destinado a rapazes que desejavam entrar para a vida eclesiástica. Nesta ocasião, o cardeal também construiu o chamado Arco dei Ginnasi com o objetivo de ligar suas propriedades.

Entre 1807 e 1826, o palácio abrigou a Accademia dei Lincei e, entre 1826 e 1837, o Collegio Irlandese

O complexo passou por reformas nos séculos XVIII e XIX, quando foi ampliado também o Palazzeto Ginnasi, que formava um ângulo com o palácio maior. Este é o único edifício que restou das obras de alargamento da via conduzidas pelo arquiteto Giovanni Battista Milani e o único edifício remanescente do antigo complexo da família Ginnasi. Nada restou também da igreja de Santa Lucia de' Ginnasi, mas os monumentos funerários barrocos da família, que ficavam na igreja, foram levados para uma capela moderna localizada no interior do novo palácio. No local onde ficava a igreja está hoje o mosteiro dos Mestres Pios Filipinos (Maestre Pie Filippine), cujo portal de entrada, encimado por uma bela imagem da Virgem e o Menino, está hoje na Via delle Botteghe Oscure, mas ficava, no passado, no Largo di Santa Lucia dei Filippini, bem em frente ao atual Palazzo Ginnasi. Este portal era o antigo portal da igreja de Santa Lucia.

Ginnasi
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The Banū Mazyad () or Mazyadids were an Arab Shia dynasty of central Iraq. They belonged to the clan of Nāshira of the tribe of Banū Asad. They ruled an autonomous emirate in the area around Kūfa and Hīt between c. 961 and c. 1160.

Older sources sometimes mistakenly date the beginnings of Mazyadid rule to the early 11th century, but Ali ibn Mazyad's reign must be dated a half century earlier. The Banu Mazyad first acquired titles and subsidies from the Buyid emir Mu'izz al-Dawla in return for military services between 956 and 963. These included lands between Kūfa and Hīt.

In 1012, Ali founded Ḥilla which would later become their capital. Originally a mere encampment, Ḥilla merged with the earlier settlement of Jami'ayn. Under Sadaqa I (1086–1108), a wall was built around the new city and it became the capital of Mazyadid power.

The Mazyadids' chief rivals were the Uqaylids. Early in the reign of Dubays I (1017–1082), the Uqaylids supported his brother Muqallad when the latter challenged Dubays for the emirate. At the establishment of the Seljuk Empire, Dubays threw his support behind the Shia Fatimid Caliphate and the general al-Basasiri.

The reign of the weak Seljuk sultan Barkiyaruq (1092–1105) corresponds to the height of Sadaqa I's power. To the First Crusaders, he was the "king of the Arabs" (rex Arabum in Latin chronicles). After Malik-Shah II succeeded Barkiyaruq, he moved against Sadaqa, who was defeated and killed in battle in 1108. His successor, Dubays II, was equally famous to the Latins and as an Arabic poet.

The later Mazyadid emirs allied with local Turkish emirs against Sultan Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'ud (1134–1152). Seljuk forces occupied Ḥilla on several occasions. Dubays II died in 1135 and was succeeded by his son, Ali II, who reigned until 1150. He was succeeded in turn by his son, Muhalhil, about whose reign nothing is known, including its length. In 1163, Ḥilla was occupied by Abbasid forces and Mazyadid rule came to an end.

The Mazyadids did not mint coin.

Mazyadid rulers
c.961–1017 : Sana al-Dawla Ali (I) ibn Mazyad al-Asadi al-Nashiri
1017–1082 : Nur al-Dawla Abu'l-A'zz Dubays (I) ibn Ali
1082–1086 : Abu Kamil Baha al-Dawla Mansur ibn Dubays
1086–1108 : Sayf al-Dawla Fakhr al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Sadaqa (I) ibn Mansur
1108–1135 : Nur al-Dawla Abu'l-A'zz Dubays (II) ibn Sadaqa
1135–1138 : Sayf al-Dawla Sadaqa (II) ibn Dubays
1138–1145 : Muhammad ibn Dubays
1145–1150 : Ali (II) ibn Dubays
1150–???? : Muhalhil ibn Ali

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 The Shia Rulers of Banu Ammar, Banu Mardas and the Mazidi

Medieval Iraq
Tribes of Arabia
Tribes of Iraq
Shia dynasties


2011 was marked by a number of highly important events for nuclear power around the globe. The most important of these was the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan on March 11 resulting in the accidents to four of the six reactors at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear power plant. This accident was the focus of world attention for most of the remaining year during the efforts to contain the consequences. It was to have important effects on various nuclear programs around the world.
The year was also an important one for Canada's nuclear industry as well. There was a very large reorganization of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) which saw the power reactor division of the company established as a separate business unit and sold to SNC Lavalin Inc and established as a new company, Candu Energy Inc.


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Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin is the abbot of Tsechen Dongag Choeling in Mundgod, South India. He studied under the late Khenchen Appey Rinpoche at Sakya College where he also taught for several years, and completed a three year retreat under the guidance of HE Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. Since 2001 Khenpo Jamyang Tenzin has been teaching philosophy and meditation at the International Buddhist Academy.
Known for his deep understanding of the teachings based on his extensive studies and meditative training, Khenpo la presents the Dharma to a modern audience in way that always both very practical and profound.


I am writing from our Rock county property this morning. I can see the sun on the water, and it is a pretty sight. I sometimes wonder why people travel far and wide to see beautiful scenery, when many times it is right outside the front door?
Last week was pretty hectic, so I'm glad for a day to take a few minutes to enjoy this place.
As we celebrated the Memorial Day holiday, I thought about those of my family, friends, and acquaintances who have died this past year. Most have been well up in years, some not so old. The holiday was originally to remember those who had fallen in battle while serving our country. It has lost some of its meaning over the years, in that many now see it as another day to head for the lake, or wherever else they get their recreation.
Last week, I was privileged to participate in a graveside service honoring a friend of my mom's. This lady was 91, and had been an army nurse during WWII. As I watched and listened to the American Legion part of the service, I was touched, and reminded once again of those many who have served, and those who continue to do so.
So they are gathering one by one. As I read this sentence, I rejoiced that Christians from all ages, be they soldiers or citizens, are being gathered one by one, as they are taken home to heaven, where we all will gather some day.
Will you be there? There is a way to know for sure. Scripture says, "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved… everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 9:10, 13).
It's time for another weekly update. I'm trying to take a little time to "smell the roses", but other important things keep popping up. I suppose I'll catch a glimpse of the roses now and then. There may be some material from the archives in this letter over the next few weeks. I'll try to keep from repeating myself too much.
Last week, I managed to get some of our noxious weeds sprayed. The wind blew hard enough to keep us from putting the boat on the lake, but we were able to get some fishing done from shore with some success. I also noticed the wood ticks are active. They keep trying to hitch a ride with me.
During those windy days at the lake, I spent a little time watching the birds fly around the place. It's a pretty common sight in most places, but how often do we think about what is going on as they sail through the sky?
It's not just the bird up there making its way in its own strength, there is an unseen force that allows that bird to fly. That force is air, or wind.
In somewhat the same way, God's Holy Spirit, although unseen, lifts up the Christian and allows him or her to rise to spiritual heights that would be impossible otherwise.
Jesus compared the work of the Holy Spirit to the wind: "The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit" (John 3:8). We read in the Bible of the Holy Spirit moving people, and guiding them. The scriptures were written by men who were inspired by the Spirit to record the very words of God.
In the book of Acts, we read of the Spirit's empowering of the apostles, allowing them to speak in other languages, in order to spread the Word among the people.
Although unseen, the Holy Spirit convicts people of their sin (John 16:8), and convinces them to seek God's forgiveness, leading them to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit controls the believer and enables him to understand the words of the Bible. Paul writes, "We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us" (1 Corinthians 2:12).
So, the next time you see an eagle or a hawk soaring above the earth, remember the invisible force that keeps them suspended in space, and may it remind you of the unseen power of the Holy Spirit, who enables Christian to "soar on wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31).
It's looking like a great spring day here. I wonder if we might be past the danger of frost? Everyone seems to be outside, getting the things done we looked forward to all winter. I'm pretty sure that by fall, we'll be ready to put away those lawn mowers and other tools for another season.
Also, congratulations to all those who graduated from high school and college these last few weekends. May you look to the Lord for his guidance, as you travel down the path of life.
Here is a thought that came to me a few days ago: After my mom's funeral service, there were several arrangement of flowers left at the church. I really do like flowers, and Milrae spent quite a bit of time taking out the wilted ones, and rearranging the rest, so they might look nice as long as possible. However, as I watched them wilt and fade, I couldn't help thinking of the words of scripture.
From Isaiah 40:8… "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever." As we try to keep these things looking nice, we know that at the end they are temporary, at best. That is why Jesus instructed his followers to store up treasure in heaven. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal" (Matthew 6:19-20).
It is good to remember that the things of this earth are temporary, but the things of heaven are eternal. Let's be about storing up treasures in heaven, while we enjoy the temporary blessings here.
It's a beautiful spring morning. As I write this from Lake George, there is a family of Canada geese outside my window. There are six goslings, and of course, their parents. I'll be here today for some personal renewal, along with some mowing and other chores. Tomorrow I'll be on the road, starting the process of finishing up Mom's affairs. Then back to Ericson to pick up the regular schedule.
Thanks to all for your prayers and support this last week. Thanks to all our church family and other friends for helping make the memorial service go smoothly. May God bless each of you in a special way.
As I sit at watching these geese, I have noticed that every now and then, one of the parents will give an alarm, and they all race toward the water and safety. The parents are teaching the young ones to flee from danger. I don't know what danger they sense, but obviously they are teaching their young the proper response to any threat to their safety.
I'm reminded by this of scriptures that warn Christians to stay away from temptation: "Flee from sexual immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:16); "Flee from idolatry" (1 Corinthians 10:14).
In regard to making the love of money rule our lives, Paul wrote this, "But you, man of God, flee from all this…" (1 Timothy 6:11). In his second letter to Timothy, Paul says, "Flee the evil desires of youth.." (2 Timothy 2:22).
As Christians, we need to be aware of our enemy, the devil. The apostle Peter describes him as a "roaring lion looking for someone to devour." What are we to do? "Be self-controlled and alert" (1 Peter 5:8).
We will be tempted. Flight is the best response. Waiting around to see if there is really any danger can be deadly.


When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years...but it's all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she's been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she may find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers. Her journey takes her from the safe suburban world she knows to a seedy town she's never heard of, where a terrible truth from her past lies hidden-a truth she can't quite remember yet can't completely forget.
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Statin is an established treatment for secondary prevention after ischemic stroke. However, the effects of statin intensity and adherence on the long-term prognosis after acute stroke are not well known. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study using a nationwide health insurance claim data in South Korea included patients admitted with acute ischemic stroke between 2002 and 2012. Statin adherence and intensity were determined from the prescription data for a period of 1 year after the index stroke. The primary outcome was a composite of recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, and all-cause mortality. We performed multivariate Cox proportional regression analyses. RESULTS: We included 8001 patients with acute ischemic stroke. During the mean follow-up period of 4.69±2.72 years, 2284 patients developed a primary outcome. Compared with patients with no statin, adjusted hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) were 0.74 (0.64-0.84) for good adherence, 0.93 (0.79-1.09) for intermediate adherence, and 1.07 (0.95-1.20) for poor adherence to statin. Among the 1712 patients with good adherence, risk of adverse events was lower in patients with high-intensity statin (adjusted hazard ratio [95% confidence interval], 0.48 [0.24-0.96]) compared with those with low-intensity statin. Neither good adherence nor high intensity of statin was associated with an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke. CONCLUSIONS: After acute ischemic stroke, high-intensity statin therapy with good adherence was significantly associated with a lower risk of adverse events.


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How old is Khalid?
Khalid was born on 11 February 1998.
Khalid is 23 years old.
How old is Khalid in days now?
Khalid is 23 years 11 months 8 days old.
When is the next birthday of Khalid?
Khalid's next birthday is in 23 days.
What is the zodiac sign of Khalid?
Zodiac sign of Khalid is Aquarius.
Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) is a young American hip hop singer and rapper, songwriter and musician. He was born in 1998 in the US but spent a part of his childhood in Germany, Europe, because his mom was employed in the military field. She loved music very much and dedicated herself to making her son study music and musical theater in his high school times. Khalid started writing songs and developing as a musician since he was 13, and he managed to earn some popularity by posting his songs at SoundCloud. His very first singles, "Reason", "Hopeless","Let's Go", and finally "Location" was released in 2016, and the latter raised to Billboard Charts up to No 20. The song became really popular and Khalid started being invited to perform it in different places and venues. In 2017, the young singer received MTV Video Music Award as the young singer. His first album titled American Teen was released in 2017 too and reached No 4 in American, as well as No 1 in Canadian and Australian charts.


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Q: Ajax events in jQuery - firing an event on form submission using Rails I have a page with multiple forms on it. These forms are using a data attribute data-remote="true
 so that the Rails jquery-ui-rails.js automatically adds events to submit these forms via javascript.
When a user submits any of these forms I would like to add a class so I can style it as needed.  As Rails is automatically adding the ajax handlers to submit the form I can't just add this class at the point the handlers are added - I need to manually add code for this myself (I think).
The following code was my first attempt - this attaches okay, but as ajaxStart is a global event it triggers it simultaneously for every form on the page.
$('form').ajaxStart(function(e) {
  console.log("element is " + ($(e).attr('id')));
  return $(e).addClass('submitting');
})

I have also tried beforeSend as according to http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax_Events this is a local event and seems to be the only relevant one:
$('form').beforeSend(function(e) {
  console.log("element is " + ($(e).attr('id')));
  return $(e).addClass('submitting');
})

However, this raises the error:
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'beforeSend'

How can I attach this event to all of the forms on my page so that it fires once per ajax submission, and only for the current form that is being submitted?

A: I think you can use ajax:beforeSend.rails and ajax:complete.rails events:
https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/blob/8b147fb023f0d13deebea750e7e9827b6d3bc8ba/src/rails.js#L405

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Richmond, IL Jennifer L. "Jenny" Golz Jennifer L. Golz, 35, of McHenry, formerly Richmond, passed away Friday, May 3, 2013 at her residence. Jenny was full of life, laughter and spirit - a life ended too soon. Jenny was born in Woodstock, on November 16, 1977, a daughter of Gregory and Dawn (Copeland) Golz. She attended McHenry West High School. Jennifer is survived by a son Corey R. Golz of McHenry, her father Gregory (Stephany) Golz of Richmond, her mother Dawn (David) Siebrasse of Belvidere, her maternal grandmothers Janet Gillespie and Mary Jane Drenning, both of McHenry; maternal grandfathers Arnold Copeland of AL, and Robert Drenning of Warrenville; a sister Jene' (Billy) Anderson of Richmond; two brothers Gregory (Jami) Golz of Lake Geneva, WI and Michael Golz of Richmond; aunts and uncles Rebecca (Robert) Otis, Craig Drenning, Lori Golz, Holly Mueller; uncles Steve (Angie) Copeland and Karl Golz; nieces Harmony, Mataline, Charlotte, Riley and nephew Brody. She was preceded by a sister Catherine Hasenbuhler, a brother Matthew Golz, maternal grandfather Richard Gillespie, paternal grandparents Irving and Elaine Golz and aunt Sheryl Copeland, Visitation will be from 11:00 am to 1 p.m. Wednesday May 8, 2013 at Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home. 10011 Main St Richmond. Interment will be in Richmond Cemetery in Richmond, IL. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family would be appreciated. For information please call 815 678-7311 or visit www.ehornadams.com.
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9. I'm also a non-smoker. But I'm addicted to coffee (the stronger the better — Cuban is my favorite).
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Vice admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to lieutenant general and air marshal. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral. In many navies,[1] vice admiral is a three-star rank with a NATO code of OF-8, although in some navies like the French Navy it is an OF-7 rank, the OF-8 code corresponding to the four-star rank of squadron vice-admiral.
The rank insignia for a vice admiral often involves three stars, but this is not always the case. In the navy of Iraq, vice admiral insignia involves one star.[2] In the navies of Azerbaijan,[3] Bangladesh,[4] China,[5] Cuba,[6] Iran,[7] Mexico,[8] North Korea,[9] and Russia, vice admiral insignia involves two stars, and in the navy of Turkey, vice admiral insignia involves four stars.[10]
Royal Australian Navy shoulder board
Bangladesh Navy
Croatian Navy
Egyptian shoulder board
Vizeadmiral (German Navy)
Indonesian Navy shoulder board (command)
Imperial Iranian Navy
Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
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Vice-Admiraal (Royal Netherlands Navy)
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Romanian tunic shoulder board of a viceamiral
Russian Navy (and formerly Soviet Navy)
Vicealmirante of the Spanish Navy
Swedish Navy sleeve insignia
Royal Thai Navy
Sleeve insignia:
Royal Navy (United Kingdom),
Royal Canadian Navy,
Royal Australian Navy,
Royal New Zealand Navy,
Bangladesh Navy,
Indian Navy and
Royal Norwegian Navy
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Ukrainian Navy (before 2016)
Ukrainian Navy (after 2016)
Vietnam People's Navy
In the Royal Australian Navy, the rank of vice admiral is held by the Chief of Navy and, when the positions are held by navy officers, by the Vice Chief of the Defence Force, the Chief of Joint Operations, and/or the Chief of Capability Development Group.
Vice admiral is the equivalent of air marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force and lieutenant general in the Australian Army.
Vice admiral is a three-star admiral rank of the Bangladesh Navy.
In the Royal Canadian Navy, the rank of vice-admiral (VAdm) (vice-amiral or Vam in French) is equivalent to lieutenant-general of the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force. A vice-admiral is a flag officer, the naval equivalent of a general officer. A vice-admiral is senior to a rear-admiral and major general, and junior to an admiral and general.
The rank insignia of a Canadian vice-admiral is as follows:
On the navy blue mess dress jacket and the navy blue service dress tunic: the cuff insignia is one wide gold braid below two standard size gold braids, the superior one includes the executive curl.
On tropical white mess dress and tropical white service dress tunic: three silver maple leaves, beneath silver crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by a St. Edward's Crown located on gold shoulder boards.
Two rows of gold oak leaves are located on the black visor of the white service cap. From 1968 to June 2010, the navy blue service dress tunic featured only a wide gold braid around the cuff with three gold maple leaves, beneath crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by a St. Edward's Crown located on cloth shoulder straps.
Vice-admirals are addressed by rank and name; thereafter by subordinates as "Sir" or "Ma'am". Vice-admirals are normally entitled to a staff car; the car will normally bear a flag, dark blue with three gold maple leaves arranged one over two.
A vice-admiral generally holds only the most senior command or administrative appointments, barring only Chief of Defence Staff, which is held by a full admiral or general. Appointments held by vice-admirals may include:
Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (VCDS);
Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (DCDS);
Commander of an operational command (such as Canadian Joint Operations Command);
Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy;
Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Defence in various capacities;
Commander of, or representative to, a multinational force, alliance, or treaty organization.
Charles, Prince of Wales holds the honorary rank of vice admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.[11]
In France, vice-amiral is the most senior of the ranks in the French Navy; higher ranks, vice-amiral d'escadre and amiral, are permanent functions, style and position (in French rang et appellation) given to a vice-amiral-ranking officer. The vice-amiral rank used to be an OF-8 rank in NATO charts, but nowadays, it is more an OF-7 rank.
The rank of vice-amiral d'escadre (literally, "squadron vice-admiral", with more precision, "fleet vice-admiral") equals a NATO OF-8 rank.
In the ancien régime Navy, between 1669 and 1791. The office of "Vice-Admiral of France" (Vice-amiral de France) was the highest rank, the supreme office of "Admiral of France" being purely ceremonial.
Distinct offices were :
1669-1791 Vice-admiral of the West (Atlantic Ocean).
1669-1791 Vice-admiral of the East (Mediterranean Sea).
1778-1791 Vice-admiral of the Asian and American Seas (American shores).
1784-1788 Vice-admiral of the Indian Seas (Indian Ocean).
Pennant of a German Vizeadmiral
Vizeadmiral is an OF-8 three-star rank equivalent to the German Heer and Luftwaffe rank of Generalleutnant.
In India, vice admiral is a three-star admiral rank of the Indian Navy.
In Italy, the equivalent to vice admiral is the ammiraglio di squadra or squadron admiral.
In the Philippines, the rank vice admiral is the highest-ranking official of the Philippine Navy. He is recognized as the flag officer in-command of the navy, an equivalent post to the Chief of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy.
Before World War II, the vice admiral was the highest rank in the Polish Navy. Jozef Unrug was one of the only two officers to achieve the rank. The other was Jerzy ?wirski. Poland had only one sovereign sea port, Port of Gdynia, and was slowly building a small modern navy that was to be ready by 1950. The navy was not a priority for obvious reasons. At present, it is a "two-star" rank. The stars are not used; however, the stars were used in between 1952 and 1956 and are still used in the vice admiral's pennant.
In Sweden, vice admiral is a three-star admiral rank of the Swedish Navy.
In the Royal Navy the rank of vice-admiral should be distinguished from the office of "Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom", which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired "full" admiral, and that of "Vice-Admiral of the Coast", a now obsolete office dealing with naval administration in each of the maritime counties.
In Vietnam, the equivalent to vice admiral is the phó ?ô c which is a 2-star rank. It is below the admiral (3 stars) and above rear admiral (1 star).
^ a b Vice admiral is a three-star rank in the navies of NATO and Commonwealth countries, including (since 2001) the Royal Navy. (Refer UK DCI (Joint Service) 125/2001)
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^ "Navy of Azerbaijan - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of Bangladesh - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of China - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of Cuba - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of Iran - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of Mexico - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of North Korea - Vice Admiral".
^ "Navy of Turkey - Vice Admiral".
^ Deachman, Bruce; McCulloch, Sandra (9 November 2009), "Royals arrive in Ottawa in final leg of cross-Canada tour", Ottawa Citizen, retrieved 2009
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Q: Updating field in Firebase on click in AngularJS I have a table which pulls data from Firebase. Each row within the table has actions which can be clicked to perform a specific function. One of the actions is to simply set the row as completed. There's a field in my firebase database which holds a key of true or false for a read value. I need to be able to click on the icon (a checkmark) and have the value in firebase updated based on the action.
I have the following so far:
var myProducts = new Firebase('https://url-to-firebase-db/products');
$scope.products = $firebaseArray(myProducts);

$scope.products = $firebaseArray(ref);
$scope.markCompleted = function markCompleted(product) {
    product.read = !product.read;
    $scope.products.$save(product);
};

On the UI end:

    {{ product.category}}
    {{ product.task}}

    {{ product.status }}
    {{ product.due | date:'MMMM dd' }}
    {{ product.notes }}
    {{ product.read }}

I'm not sure how to trigger the action to update the field in Firebase though.

A: Try creating a method that takes in a product, and specify it in your template:

      <button class="fa fa-check" ng-click="markCompleted(product)" >
      </button>

Then in your controller you can change the product.read value, and save it using a $firebaseArray:
$scope.products = $firebaseArray(ref);
$scope.markCompleted = function markCompleted(product) {
  product.read = !product.read;
  $scope.products.$save(product);
};


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Cocoa Beach--a popular location for Labor Day--is bare as city preps for Hurricane Dorian
Residents in Cocoa Beach prepare for Hurricane Dorian
By: Chris Stewart
Cocoa Beach is usually packed on Labor Day weekend.
"Oh, it's umbrella city; just an absolute zoo," says resident Tom Burns. "That's why we don't come here on Labor Day."
However, that's not the scene this year.
There isn't much for Burns and his wife, Melissa, to do but prepare and wait to see how Hurricane Dorian will impact them.
"You just get prepared and hope for the best," he says. "It's like a drop on a roller coaster; you know the drop is coming and you go with it."
The Burns pretty much had the water to themselves Sunday, while much of the beach town is boarded up. Many of those who haven't left are making sure Cocoa Beach is ready.
"We're going to expect some damage, but if we're going to try to mitigate [and] control some of the damage," says resident Cindy Gentile.
Gentile is helping board up a friend's house that's located just blocks from the beach.
"This is a sitting duck right here," she says. "It's a bullseye right here."
Gentile isn't leaving for the storm.
"Obviously preparing for the worst and hoping for the best," she says.
It's the kind of preparation Floridians like Sharon Smith have done before.
"Our house is fully hurricane proof, and it did about 120 (mph) a couple of years ago," she explains.
Speaking of houses, Tom and Melissa Burns closed on their new home in Cocoa Beach just three days ago.
"Buying a house is stressful enough, but once we got done with that, they forecasted it and now it was like a whole new chapter of stress," Tom Burns says.
They, too, have been played the hurricane waiting game before.
"Just hunker down and enjoy our new house and hope it's still there after the storm," he says.
At this point, with boards and shutters up, and much of this area shut down, that's all residents say they can do until Hurricane Dorian has passed.


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You can choose to work for just one semester (12 weeks), or a full academic year (36 weeks).
Our program can be a great alternative to Au Pair programs, as you will have complete independence and your duties are limited to teaching. In other words, you'll have your very own apartment, so you don't have to live in your employer's home or do their housework for them!
You'll attend training sessions to learn more effective methods of teaching, developed in partnership with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), as well as be invited to frequent social events. And the best part is, you'll have loads of free time during the school holidays to travel in France and around Europe.
Well, first off, it's paid work, with an average monthly income of 500-600 Euros. You'll learn French for 15 hours a week with a small group of others just like you, and you can practice it with the French family that you'll be living with.
We have carefully selected host families in central Paris and nearby suburbs to give you the best experience possible of French culture. All bedrooms are private and fully furnished, with a shared or private bathroom. Linen and towels are provided and you will have access to all the house utilities-- TV, Internet, washing machine etc. Breakfast is included. In addition, you will receive assistance with banking (under BNP Paribas) and your visa.
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Legal Issues That A High School May Face
I interviewed the High School Vice Principal. The subject of the interview was to find five issues that provide our school with the most legal issues. I followed this inquiry by asking how our school attempts to minimize its legal exposure. He was more than generous with lending his time and knowledge. He began by suggesting that the first and most important legal issue that the school faces is centered on special education. He stressed that it is difficult to meet the needs of all special education students. With that being said, legally it is the school district's responsibility to make sure these students are receiving the proper and most effective forms of education. Our school district has child study teams designated to elementary, middle, and high schools. Students are evaluated and re-evaluated on an annual basis. These evaluations are in place to properly determine a child's disability(s) and educational needs. Students may be sent out of district if our school district is unable to meet a particular student's needs. This becomes extremely costly to our school district. The second legal issue discussed was our students' first amendment rights specifically in regards to social media. He discussed that there is a fine line to walk when trying to monitor student and school safety while still adhering to the first amendment rights of students. Cyber bullying has become a large issue and our school district lost one of its eighth graders to suicide due
Lawyers : Legal Issues And Disputes
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First Generation Immigrants and Education
that acculturation and assimilation have wide-ranging effects on the groups involved, but mostly on the immigrants' lives. There are positive and negative attributes. Attributes that are due to the issues associated with integrating cultures, and broadly related to the greater issue of immigration. The issues and discrimination towards first generation immigrants cause them to have limitations throughout their lifetime, in the country that they have moved to. Furthermore, the Hispanic and Latino community
The Legal Profession Of England And Wales
the largest issues in developing a career in the legal profession is diversity as there is a perceived image of the legal sector being a traditionally "white, male, middle class" profession. Harold Patrick and Vincent Kuman argue, "the concept of diversity includes acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique and recognizing our individual differences" . This essay will examine the social class, educational and gender barriers underrepresented groups face in developing
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Essay on Underage Drinkers Face Repercussion
Today there seems to be an increasing number of underage drinkers. Teens seem to be drinking their way through high school and college because it's the trend of the century. They go out to party and there is no party, if there is no alcohol. They begin to believe there is no fun in partying without the use of alcohol. According to, the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, "40% of high school students drank some amount of alcohol, 24% binge drank, and 10% drove after drinking and 28% rode with a driver
Discovering The Relationship Between the Law and Your School Essay
Abstract Today schools are changing to integrate the 21st century. Therefore, it is imperative that educational administrators are aware of the legal framework facing the issues in schools. There are many issues the administrators will face and they must know the constitutional rights of individuals and the school. The Constitution contains the laws of the United States. Discovering the Relationship between the Law and Your School There are no references to education in the Constitution
Undocumented Youth and The Dream Act
Every year, about 65,000 American high school graduates are undocumented youths. Even though most of them have worked hard in school and seek further education or a high paying job, as any American would, their legal status, or lack thereof, makes it nearly impossible to achieve those dreams. Also, they live in fear of deportation, never to draw attention to themselves. Since 2001, Congress has been exposed to many attempts at a final solution for this issue. But is there really a solution for undocumented
Cyber Bullying Is More Common Than People
As young people progress through their adolescent years they often hear, "sticks and stones may break my bones but, words will never hurt me." As we have moved into an era that revolves around technology, younger generations become more involved online. People are now connected and exposed in more ways than ever as social media platforms make personal information more accessible. This mantra of sticks and stones hardly applies to the virtual world as cyber bullying rates increase. Due to the increasing
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New! Entered: 2015-12-18 I love of this story showcases how Wolfrider memory works - the wolfriders are still elves, after all, and while calling up old memories is tricky that doesn't mean they're gone forever. Also, I love that you pointed out the fact that every pregnancy is different and that pregnancy does bring along a lot of bodily changes other than the obvious (i.e. the baby-bump). This moment in Kestrel's life was so affectionante and it was great to see her as a cub contrasted to her as an elder and expecting mother! The sing was great, I could all but hear it being sung out loud!
New! Entered: 2015-03-30 I've said before that it's always great to see Kestrel as a youngster -- contrasting with the calm and wise elder we know, but inviting us to see the hints of her future self in the child. What I especially liked here was the several ways that Stormdancer showed how young SHE still was, as well. She still had the brashness of youth, but clearly was learning how to deal with her own child. The way she made an effort, and accepted that she couldn't coax Chestnut out of her fear just by encouraging her to be daring, was really touching, and showed her own development as a mother.
New! Entered: 2015-02-09 What a sweet and comforting story! I was especially touched that Chestnut/Kestrel could tell her mother was feeling awkward about the holding yet Chestnut did not react poorly and pull away like some might have. Especially since she was already fearful of the storm and nervous about what her mother thought.
New! Entered: 2015-01-23 Such a sweet, lovely tale and so full of emotion! I love the way you contrasted the relationship between Chestnut and her father versus Chestnut and her mother. It's always that way, isn't it? We view each parent as a separate creature from the other one. And what a brave, solemn little cub! You can easily see this little darling grow into the strong Kestrel.
New! Entered: 2015-01-16 This was so touching ... I loved seeing Kestrel as a little child, I don't think there are much stories about that time. And framing it with the current events worked great, tying it together so it didn't feel distant. I felt with her so much - it was a hard time for everyone but she was the only one who had to face it all on her own, too!
I could emphasize so well with little Chestnut here, too, her trying to be brave and so ashamed of her fears. That's something that felt very "real" to me. And I felt she really looked up to her mother, in a very different, more distant way than she did to her father, and that's why it was especially hard for her to show her fear to her. That Stormdancer, after the first tries to make her see things her way, reacted so tenderly when it wasn't expected at all was a real treat. And the lullaby is just so, so sweet! Bringing it back to the present, it made the ending feel hopeful despite everything, and I'm glad Kestrel found something to give her strength!
New! Entered: 2015-01-12 How sweet! I'm glad that Stormdancer's response was not what either Kestral (or I) was expecting and that she was able to be so patient and caring to her daughter. Nice that this memory would come to Kestral when she needed it.
New! Entered: 2015-01-12 This was a lovely tale. I like the mood you managed to capture here. In the first part you can really empathize with Kestrel's exhaustion an the weight of responsibility she must be feeling. I can identify so well with her way to reason as well.
And the part with Kestrel as a kid. You really got me there. The depiction of a child who's afraid but feels she shouldn't be. The train of thoughts, all the "I must" and I shouldn't" ... I like the interaction between her and Stormdancer and the hints at how different Kestrel's relationship to her father was. You do get the sense that Stormdancer is young and inexperienced with kids. I like how she tries at first to make Kestrel do it her way and being a little pushy but reconsiders.
The lullaby ... just wonderful. I wish I could hear a tune for it in my head. It's a lovely and comforting one and it makes the ending all the sweeter. Thanks for this look into Kestrel's mind as a kid and an adult going through so much and how she finds comfort. It's a very touching story.


Proteasome activity determines pupation timing through the degradation speed of timer molecule Blimp-1.
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Autocrine regulation of ecdysone synthesis by ß3-octopamine receptor in the prothoracic gland is essential for Drosophila metamorphosis.
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The binding of multiple nuclear receptors to a single regulatory region is important for the proper expression of EDG84A in Drosophila melanogaster.
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