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Cranes and Wetlands Conservation Project
Authored by Evans A.K. Miriti
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Human-induced wetland fragmentation threatens the sustainability of communities' livelihoods and has caused an 80 percent decline in the population of Uganda's national bird, the Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum). Using participatory approaches, the Cranes and Wetland Conservation project in the Lake Victoria basin has facilitated community participation in sustainable wetland utilisation using cranes as flagship species. Project activities are guided by the draft Grey Crowned Crane Species Action Plan which recognises the need for greater involvement of local stakeholders in integrated crane and wetland conservation.
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Improve local stakeholders' understanding of wetland ecosystem functions as well as the distribution and ecology of the Grey Crowned Crane, especially targeting schools and local communities
Initiate alternative livelihood projects that reduce pressure on wetlands and increase the stakeholder participation in the integrated conservation of Grey Crowned Cranes and wetlands
Engage local communities, traditional and county leaders to develop plans for the sustainable management of wetlands that support livelihood activities and also are used by cranes for breeding and feeding
Develop grassroots capacity to tackle direct threats to cranes and wetlands
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Nakasongola District Climate Change Pilot Project
Authored by Brad Czerniak
The Nakasongola District Climate Change Pilot Project documented and shared indigenous knowledge on climate change and contributed to the ongoing debates on how best to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the Nakasongola district in Uganda, while also informing practitioners' understanding of climate change causes, manifestations and effects at local levels. By creating awareness among local landowners and farmers on the value of indigenous tree species adapted to the harsh environment, the project decreased land clearing and persuaded farmers to preserve trees.
Learn more about Nakasongola District Climate Change Pilot Project
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Empowering Local Champions for Africa's Great Lakes
BirdLife Partners from Kenya (NatureKenya), Uganda (NatureUganda), Rwanda (Association pour la Conservation de la Nature au Rwanda) and Burundi (Association Burundaise pour la Protection des Oiseaux) are implementing a project in the Lake Victoria Basin which aims to empower local organizations so that they are better equipped to address the linked challenges of poverty and biodiversity loss. Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake, and the largest tropical lake in the world. The swamps, forests and islands in and around Lake Victoria are important for a diversity of wildlife.
Learn more about Empowering Local Champions for Africa's Great Lakes
Eco-cultural Village Approach for Yala Wetland Conservation and Improved Livelihoods
Yala wetland is a biodiversity rich and diverse ecosystem comprised of the Yala River, Yala swamp and numerous satellite lakes which serve as habitat for birds, haplochromines and cichlid fish species that long disappeared in Lake Victoria and numerous other species. The wetland faces anthropogenic threats such as reclamation of wetlands for farming, burning and over-harvesting for papyrus crafts and cooking fuel, fishing grounds, accessibility paths and sand harvesting.
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Community Based Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation for Yala Wetland, Kenya
Lake Victoria's Yala Wetland is made up of mainly papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) stands. It is an internationally recognized Important Bird Area that hosts many bird species found only in papyrus stands, some of which can only be found in Lake Victoria swamps. Two of these birds, papyrus yellow warbler (Chloroptera gracilinostris) and papyrus gonolek (Laniarius mufumbiri) are listed as globally threatened species which require urgent conservation action.1 The swamp provides social, economic and ecological benefits, values and functions to the community and its biodiversity.
Learn more about Community Based Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation for Yala Wetland, Kenya
Community Rehabilitation of Wetlands in Lake Victoria
In an effort to address the escalating pollution of Lake Victoria, the GEF Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) supported a project implemented by Environmental Women in Action for Development (EWAD) aimed at improving the ecosystems of Lake Victoria. This project restored degraded sand mining areas, promoted the use of energy efficient fish smoking kilns and introduced environmentally friendly Eco san toilet facilities in Kigungu, Entebbe Sub district.
Learn more about Community Rehabilitation of Wetlands in Lake Victoria
Integrating Livelihoods and Conservation People Partner with Nature for Sustainable Living
Dansk Ornitologisk Forening (DOF) and BirdLife partners in the South (Nature Kenya, Nature Uganda and Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN)), are running a three-year project that began in 2015. The project places a strong emphasis on promoting equality of women and their access to programme benefits and participation, addressing inclusion of indigenous and other marginalised groups, networking and strengthened influence of local civil society groups_and advocacy within the national contexts of programme partner countries.
Learn more about Integrating Livelihoods and Conservation People Partner with Nature for Sustainable Living
Musambwa Island Conservation Project
Musambwa Islands are some of the smallest islands located in Lake Victoria in the Rakai District. Despite their size, they support large populations of African breeding birds like the Grey Headed Gull, Greater Cormorant, Little Egret and the Long-tailed Cormorant. Due to their importance to birds of global significance, the islands have been recognized as an Important Bird Area. The islands are known to be the largest breeding site in Africa for Grey Headed Gulls.
Learn more about Musambwa Island Conservation Project
Nabajjuzi Wetland Ecotourism Development Project
Nabajjuzi wetland, a Ramsar site, is located in Masaka district central Uganda some 120km southwest of Kampala. Nabajjuzi wetland remains relatively intact despite a long history of resource extraction by local communities. However growing use of wetland products for commercial purposes as well as subsistence use has led to increased levels of harvesting. Some of the surrounding areas have been modified and are built up into trading centres and small towns and this has further caused an increase in demand for resources.
Learn more about Nabajjuzi Wetland Ecotourism Development Project
Improving Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in Farm Forestry Landscapes
Farm Forestry (FF) presents opportunities for the improvement of rural livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in Uganda. In a recently implemented project (Integrating FF and Biodiversity Conservation), a multiplicity of grown trees presented great potential, but also constraints when it came to sustaining FF for biodiversity conservation_projects. The constraints can present major setbacks if actual values of crops and trees components on people's farm lands do not explicitly translate into economic values.
Learn more about Improving Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in Farm Forestry Landscapes
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"Making accurate observations to reveal the anatomy of plants"
What a festive way to learn about plants!
Thank you Mrs. Dougherty for filling up the classroom with specimens of winter plants.
They inspired beautiful drawings and insightful observations about the world of plants! I can't wait to come back to continue to explore and learn more about flowers in January 2016.
Look at the drawings of these talented students!
Thank you Inger, Rachael, Barbara, Alyssa and Elizabeth from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Northwest for sharing your skills with families visiting the museum and drawing alongside young artists learning about mammals.
"Scientific Illustration" at the Family Event Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Thank you to Laura, Krister, Cyndi, and Jennifer from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Northwest who spent the day demonstrating illustration skills to visitors and encouraging young artists to join in the fun of observing and drawing birds.
And thank you to the Museum for the lovely samples of bird wings, bird skulls, and mounted specimen that illustrators could sketch and draw.
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
So much fun observing, drawing, and learning about "bugs" with visitors of all ages. What a treat to be surrounded by thousands of specimens of creepy-crawly creatures - insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.
Thank you to Alyssa, Katherine, and Terri from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Northwest who spent the day with me sharing their time, skills, and enthusiasm with curious mind from so many countries. Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Canadian, Indian, and US families stopped by the "Illustrators at Work" station to chat, color, and draw bugs.
"Deep, Deep Down in the Dark Pacific Ocean"
Horace Mann Elementary School, Redmond, WA.
Seventy four students took a virtual dive to the seafloor 7,000 feet under the surface of the Pacific Ocean to explore deep sea vents and their unusual inhabitants. The students had lots of great questions about diving, life in the dark ocean, and how to survive the extreme pressure. And they taught me a lot about viperfish, a deep-sea, bioluminescent predator that they had studied and drawn in class earlier that week.
"Exploration of Washington Geology" - French American School of Puget Sound, Mercer Island, WA.
Thirty two students and four of their instructors traveled with me over 600 miles around the state of Washington. Together we learned what geology is and what geologists do. How are mineral and natural resources managed? Why are these resources important to our society?
From the high peaks of the Cascade Mountains to the desert of the Columbia River plateau, students learned how to recognized how water carves and erodes the landscapes. They did field work including landscape analysis, mapping, and collecting samples of rocks and fossils. They sampled lava flows and learned about the formation of flows and basaltic columns.
A voyage through geological times to get an overall introduction to the geological history of Washington - deposition of sediments, formation of mountains, volcanic eruptions, giant floods and ice age glaciation that gave our state its current shape and beauty.
Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA), Everett Community College, Everett, WA.
I enjoyed a day of seagoing work with the students of ORCA Cohort 11 that I had met in January of this year. The students are now experienced sailors navigating the research vessel Phocoena, making observations of marine and land organisms, and collecting data in the waters off the coast of Everett. On their 85th monthly "State of Possession Sound" research cruise, these 1st year students measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, and pH in the water column. They also collect plankton and sediment samples in Puget Sound to monitor the state of the Salish Sea that they are learning to understand. Next year, they will present their research projects at regional conferences in our region.
INVITED SPEAKER - Issaquah High School, Issaquah, WA.
I love sharing my experience in marine geology and deep-sea exploration with students of all ages. I had the chance to address two classes of marine biology and take these students on a virtual adventure 7,000 feet under the Pacific Ocean.
Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Dino Day at the museum was an incredible success!
With other scientific illustrators from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Northwest we drew, colored, and cut out dinosaurs all day with very energetic dinosaur fans. A non-stop stream of families and their talented, burgeoning paleontologists created drawings, collages and masks of Triceratops and Edmontosaurus inspired by the museum's spectacular specimens.
Breaching orcas - Orcinus orca - greet the new research vessel "Phocoena" on its first voyage in Puget Sound - November 22, 2014.
Everett Community College, Everett, WA.
students of the Ocean Research College Academy. ORCA, this early college high school academy uses the local marine environment as the unifying theme to integrate the core academic disciplines. Located in a state of the art facility on the Everett waterfront, the school provides students an oceanographic research lab an a dedicated research vessel.
We discussed visual tools for science communication with the students of cohort 11 and the common concepts that artists and scientists use to express their ideas. These budding scientists will soon present their ocean research to colleagues at professional conferences. They are also enthusiastic about explaining to family and friends what they are studying in the Puget Sound and how their hard work contributes to a better understanding of our region, its environmental concerns and role in global issues.
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Finding Aid for the Harry B. Neilson Papers, 1890-1940
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© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Harry B. Neilson Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1890-1940
Creator: Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), b. 1861
Extent: 2 oversize boxes
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Collection consists of original drawings, watercolor paintings, manuscripts, and proofs by children's book illustrator Harry B. Neilson.
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Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), b. 1861--Archives.
Illustrators--England--Archival resources.
Paintings.
Collection of Original Drawings, Water-Color Paintings, Manuscripts, and Proofs. Cheshire County, England. ca. 1890-1940
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Creator/Collector: Neilson, Harry B.
Physical Description: (2 boxes, ca. 325 items)
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Harry B. Neilson was an illustrator of children's books. Some of his pictures are accompanied by manuscripts by other persons.

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There are close to 6,000 frogs in the National Xenopus Resource Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
The facility, funded by the National Institutes of Health, studies the freshwater African clawed frog and the western clawed frog, Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis, respectively. Shelves of plastic tanks containing the frogs line the walls. A separate room serves as a nursery for tadpoles as they develop a strong foothold toward adult life.
A number of these frogs are custom-designed.
Researchers have altered their DNA to answer specific scientific questions, such as which genes give them their green spotted coloring. Making these changes in the frog also can serve as a model for human diseases, such as kidney disease or diabetes. Scientists study these frogs to learn about the genetic causes of these diseases.
Photo: The African clawed frog Xenopus laevis.


Hello, My name is Lisa Carroll. I have over 17 years experience in the mental health field treating children, adolescents, adults and elders. I have treated a wide variety of diagnoses from mild anxiety and depression to severe psychosis. I have extensive experience in the treatment of all types of trauma including sexual abuse, natural disasters, and combat trauma. I am trained extensively in CBT but also in DBT and a wide variety of other psychotherapeutic techniques. I am certain I could work well with you to help you reach your full potential to heal and become the person you want to be. Thank you for your time!


Saab swept the board at the Universum Awards 2015. The company came eighth among MSc students when asked to rank their dream employers. In addition to this top ranking, Saab also claimed CEO of the year within Employer Branding and Employer Branding Manager of the year.
Every year, students at Swedish universities and colleges vote for their dream employer in the country's biggest survey FöretagsBarometern (the Swedish Student Survey). The research is carried out by the company Universum, who this year conducted FöretagsBarometern for the 27th time. The results were revealed late Wednesday evening with Saab happily retaining its eighth position from last year.
"What makes me happy is that Saab has it all: cutting-edge technology; we're international with plans to expand - we have these advantages - and we are a strong company with a long history of delivering results. There are plenty of opportunities at the moment within the company to grow in your position as the company develops and advances into new areas. This is giving people the chance to explore new areas and to develop."
Mia Nilsson is responsible for efforts to position Saab as an attractive employer. Her work has paid dividends in the form of the company's top ranking in FöretagsBarometern and the fact that Mia has been named this year's Employer Branding Manager by Universum.
"We have been focusing on Employer Branding for a number of years and early on we recognised the value of creating the right conditions internally in order to be an attractive employer. We have systematically and continuously created forums and the opportunity to meet future employees. I see the ranking as evidence that Saab is seen as a company that many students would like to work for in future, as well as proof that we are doing the right things. It makes me proud and I want to say a big thank you to all of my colleagues at Saab who are actually our main ambassadors and who have helped to achieve this fantastic result.
As if that was not enough, Saab's CEO Håkan Buskhe also collected the award for CEO of the year within Employer Branding during the evening ceremony. The award is thanks largely to Håkan's focus on leadership, equality and development, all of which have helped to put Saab on the map as one of Sweden's most attractive places to work.
" For a CEO today, it is crucial to nurture and develop talent. It is the foundation of a leader's task and if it is not taken seriously, it is difficult to develop a modern company", says CEO Buskhe.
For this CEO, attracting talent is critical to the company's success, and his interest and commitment has ensured that this issue has become firmly established throughout the organisation. By making employees' knowledge and commitment a top priority, this ensures that the organisation remains strong in the increasingly intense global competition. With a clear focus on leadership, equality and development, this CEO has decisively helped to put the company on the map as one of Sweden's most attractive employers.
The prize is awarded to a CEO who fully comprehends the importance of working actively to engage talent. This understanding manifests itself through a strong commitment to the issues and by providing active support to those responsible for the organisation's efforts to recruit talent.
This person has been one of the key people behind the company's efforts to build a strong employer brand. Her focus on showcasing the company's various opportunities and career paths has led to it becoming one of Sweden's most attractive employers. She has also been a driving force behind the company's efforts to increase the proportion of women in senior positions, which is essential for future success.
The Employer Branding Manager of the year prize is awarded to an Employer Branding Manager whose work puts additional emphasis on attracting and recruiting talent in an efficient and innovative way.
Each year, Swedish students rank who they believe to be the country's most attractive employers in the FöretagsBarometern student career survey. FöretagsBarometern is a comprehensive student survey focusing on careers, working life and the future. This year, 23,297 students from the country's universities and colleges took part in the survey to vote for Sweden's 100 most attractive employers.


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NY Giants players will not be punished for national anthem kneeling, says Steve Tisch
Art Stapleton
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Players from the New York Giants will not be fined or suspended by the team if they choose to kneel in protest of social and racial injustice during the national anthem on game day, co-owner Steve Tisch told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week.
Tisch was also critical of President Trump, whose verbal attacks against the NFL fanned the flames of what has become a hot button issue within the league and sports in general. Giants linebacker Olivier Vernon took a knee last September in a game against the Philadelphia Eagles and did so for the remainder of the season.
Vernon said last month that he had not yet decided what he would do this season.
"We support our players," Tisch said in the interview Tuesday night at the premiere of The Equalizer 2, of which the former is a producer. "They are not going to be punished. There is not going to be any punitive action taking place against them."
The NFL and the NFLPA released a joint statement regarding the issue Thursday night, acknowledging that both sides were continuing to meet behind closed doors with the hope to come up with a solution.
That statement read, in part: "The NFL and NFLPA reflect the great values of America, which are repeatedly demonstrated by the many players doing extraordinary work in communities across our country to promote equality, fairness and justice.
"Our shared focus will remain on finding a solution to the anthem issue through mutual, good faith commitments, outside of litigation."
Early last season, the silent protests turned into a rallying cry for Trump, who took aim at the league and criticized the players, saying those who "disrespect the anthem" should be "fired" from the league.
"Hopefully he'll have much more going on that he's going have to deal with and should deal with and must deal with than worrying about what NFL players do," Tisch said of Trump. "He has no understanding of why they take a knee or why they're protesting. When the new season starts, I hope his priorities are not criticizing the NFL and telling owners what to do and what not to do."
The NFL rule that was passed by the owners in May did not allow players to sit or take a knee if they are on the field or sidelines during the anthem. The new legislation allowed them to stay in the locker room if they preferred, but teams would be subject to fines if players didn't stand during the anthem while on the field.
Teams would decide on how to punish players for their respective clubs.
That policy is currently on hold in lieu of further discussion between the NFL and the NFLPA.
Email: stapleton@northjersey.com
More NY Giants news
QUARTERBACKS: What happens if the Giants are wrong about Eli Manning?
RUNNING BACKS: Can Saquon Barkley possibly live up to the hype?
WIDE RECEIVERS/TIGHT ENDS: Will Odell Beckham Jr.'s contract hang over season?
OFFENSIVE LINE: Is counting on Ereck Flowers again a good idea?
DEFENSIVE LINE: Is Dalvin Tomlinson poised for a breakout season?
LINEBACKERS: Can Olivier Vernon take on starring role befitting his contract?
DEFENSIVE BACKS: Will Janoris Jenkins and Eli Apple rebound at cornerback?


How Can You Bridge Your Skill Gaps?
You have enough projects and people. Yet when you are matching them, the puzzle does not fit together. Worse still, you are paying people for work they are not skilled enough to do and are converting projects that you know you'll have to hire specially for. In short you have landed in a skill gap cycle.
Skill gaps may be caused due to a number of reasons. Considering how as many as 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 every day until 2030, and with that they take as many years of experience and wisdom with them, experts foresee the millennial population struggling to strike a balance with the required skills.
ASTD defines a skills gap as a 'significant gap between an organization's current capabilities and the skills it needs to achieve its goals'. One way or the other, you must have experienced skill gaps in your workforces and felt its brunt on team performances and felt the need for a resource capacity planning tool.
So let's now see how you can harness your existing workforces better.
Instead of hiring excess, organizations can benefit from retraining existing resources. While retraining is no new breakthrough, it is not given the priority it deserves. Instead of an obligatory procedure training must have an automated process that automatically both traces skill gaps and makes way for organizations to develop that skill set among its existing workforces. One sure shot way to map skill gaps with exact precision is by making note of it when you face resource competency roadblocks in the project cycle.
Experts recommend a structured programme with a predetermined syllabus for every training initiative. Try to choose trainers on basis of knowledge levels and communication skills. Also post-training assessments play a vital role to measure the level of absorption that has transpired during the training and will help you follow up accordingly. Today, intuitive resource capacity planning tools are equipped to help you track this with as much detailing as you would like it to have.
There are 53 million people who freelance in the US – 34% of the national workforce And, people who freelance contribute an estimated $715 billion in freelance earnings to the economy. Similarly, there are 1.4 million British freelancers working across all sectors. This has grown 14% in the past decade.
If the statistics above are anything to go by, moving into making workforces leaner and project-driven has significantly changed the way organizations operate. For example, other than the perks you are obligated to give full -timers, it is very cumbersome and expensive to fire them when you don't see a fit for them with the current set of projects. On the other hand, resources like freelancers, part timers and contractors, can be hired for niche skills and utilised for specific situations only, which is quite difficult to manage with permanents. Organizations can save a lot of money and time by opting to branch into hiring more than full timers on their projects.
Companies that use performance reviews to assign learning objectives see 38% higher level employee engagement levels and 61% more positions with a "ready and willing successor identified." Resource capacity planning tools can be enabled with notification alerts so that you can plan your workforce in accordance with people who are retiring in the near future. Succession Planning can directly solve the baby boomer vs. millennial skill gap that is likely to occur year after year. Besides, when a successor is identified well in time, organizations can directly invest in training him or her, thus avoiding the skill gap scenario entirely. Also, this is one of the best strategies to ensure that you spend lesser on hiring niche resources at a later stage, which can easily cost more.
All these steps can be aligned and made a part of your PMO at once with successful Resource Management. Resource Management is built around visibility, optimization, being able to get the right person to do the right job and finally tracking utilization levels. While your project process might track resource statuses, what Resource Management enables is scientific workability that puts a permanent end to speculation. The above stated resource capacity planning tool is generally aligned in a successful resource management solution. And the process gets automated, thereby making sure that all your business and organizational resource operations are plugged into the system.
Saviom is designed to cater to all this and more. Along with Gantt chart, there are a lot of advanced reports including intuitive forecasting reports that track capacity and demand, utilization of individual resources and finally lets you see who is free to be posted on which project and when. Bridge your skill gaps with a no nonsense resource capacity planning tool as opposed to facing competency gaps for which you have to pay for with project failure.


Yes, it should be, and I'll add that I don't think Mayor Guiliani is doing the best job defending President Trump in public these days, but question: How does what Guiliani says here differ in substance from what just about every postmodernist campus leftist says in virtually every journal article, book, and classroom seminar? Seems to me Guiliani has just called their bluff.
Just another day at the lab I guess.


ASG Jergens 64320 is a right angle drive kit is useful for easily restricted access locations. It easily mounts onto the nose of ASG VZ series, 1/4 inch hex drive models. Please note only one VZ accessory can be used at one time.


Normally I would begin an April post by welcoming spring, but my locality hasn't committed to a consistent climate yet. One day the temperature tops 80F. A few days later, we get a hard freeze. On the positive side of this uncertainty, crappy weather does keep me inside at my computer, so things are getting done.
The last time I posted an update, I promised to release Mother of Ghosts for eBook readers. I'm happy to announce that goal has been met. The digital file is currently being shipped to all the usual retailers (as well as some unusual ones I've never heard of before) and will be showing up in their storefronts soon. In the meantime, if you'd like to get your own copy right now, just head over to Smashwords and download the version for your device for $1.99. You can even read a large preview of the book there for free.
One of the new projects I told you about last time was the audio book for City of the Gods: Forgotten. The contract has been signed and our amazing voice actor has finished recording several chapters. We are extremely excited about how vibrantly our story is coming to life and look forward to sharing some sneak peeks of the project with you as things progress. Two other projects in the City of the Gods Universe have also moved forward. The final rules edit was completed for the "Council of the Gods" card game and work will be beginning on card and component design in the near future. And, writing continues on Ambassador, the conclusion to the City of the Gods trilogy. Watch for a brand new sneak preview from the novel next month.
My part in a project I didn't even know about the last time I wrote to you has also been completed. I was thrilled to be asked to contribute to Trapsylvania, the brand new Grimtooth book being put together by City of the Gods artist/gaming genius Steve Crompton and his friends at Goodman Games. Steve had the fun concept of "getting the band back together" and including pieces in the book from everyone who has been part of Grimtooth the Troll's published history. Stay tuned for more information on the release of this devious volume.
Lastly, the card game Awkward Compliments has moved into its Beta phase and I am looking for play testers to join me online at Roll20.net to play demo games. If you are interested, please leave a comment to this post and I'll be in touch.


By default slides in Google Slides do not have "page numbers." It is easy to add them to Google Slides.
The default is "Off." Instead select On. You may not want the "1" on the first slide and instead to start with the 2 on the 2nd slide. Checkbox "Skip title slides" in this case.
Note that skipping title slides is not just the first slide. It is any slide that uses the "Title slide" layout. Any slide that has the "Title slide" layout will not have the slide number. The slide is still counted. If slide 15 is a title slide the "15" will not appear in the bottom right hand corner. However slides 16, assuming it is not a title slide, will have the "16" in the bottom right.
Notice there is a small hashtag in the bottom right of the slide layouts.
If you select the "Master" layout and change the appearance of the placeholder this will make a universal change to all layouts. Notice in the example below that I made the font on the hashtag Comic Sans, Hot Pink, font size 90 and moved it more towards the middle of the sheet.


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It's that time of year again-- college basketball is starting back up and fans are ready to see their teams.
It's been a long off-season for some, and a time to celebrate for one lucky school. Even with major roster changes, Duke celebrated the National Championship win with their 'Countdown to Craziness' last Saturday.
Pre-season number one UNC will hold its annual 'Late Night With Roy' to tip things off on Friday.
Ahead of 'Late Night,' UNC will honor former ESPN anchor and ABC11 intern Stuart Scott. A 1987 Carolina alumnus, Scott will be posthumously inducted into to the N. C. Journalism Hall of Fame, based in the UNC School of Media and Journalism.
N.C. State planned a "Tailgate Tip-Off" for October 3 before the football game against Louisville, but it was cancelled due the weather. Instead fans will have a chance to see and meet the team after their November 8 exhibition game.
Here's a look at some of the best moments in recent years from the team's opening events.
2005: Coming off a National Championship win over Illinois, the new recruits for the Tar Heels showed off. Danny Green debuted his dance moves in what would become a fan favorite.
2008: Many of the same players from 2005 busted a move on the court again, including Green and Tyler Hansbrough. This would turn out to be another National Championship team, the second for Roy Williams.
2012: Coach Williams had a heartwarming entrance when fans chanted his name during a standing ovation. Williams was coming back from a health scare - a tumor removed from his right kidney. UNC alumnus and longtime ESPN host Stuart Scott was there as well to greet him.
2010: A highlight every year for the 'Countdown to Craziness' is the dunk competition. In 2010, backup guard Andre Dawkins threw it down when he jumped over fellow teammate, Josh Hairston. Miles Plumlee performed the same dunk a year later.
2011: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in Division I men's college basketball history, but in 2011 he was still closing in. He had just a few more wins to pass his mentor, Bob Knight, and the fans kept count for him.
2014: In another dunk contest, Duke freshman guard Grayson Allen showed his moves. Allen would end up becoming a hero in the National Championship win over Wisconsin. This year he was honored with a new award handed out by Duke - the 'One Shining Moment Award' for his title game performance.
2012: One 'superfan' got the thrill of his life when he was introduced at 'Primetime With the Pack.' Jake Robinson is known for his shirtless antics and he showed off his dance moves for fans.
2013: State held 'Operation Our State' to honor military service members. Players came out in uniforms and military members were in attendance throughout the night.
2014: The theme for 2014's tip off event was 'Throwback with the Pack.' Former players took the court at Reynold's Coliseum in a scrimmage game. The historic coliseum was set for massive renovations.
They called it "Throwback with the Pack" this year.


It's been five years of Little Big. Can you believe it? Time sure flies! Writing about thrifting and family and creative living sure is fun, but I'm taking the blog in a new direction. Little Big is now a blog about my favorite animal, goats! I don't know about you, but I've definitely noticed a dearth of lifestyle blogs devoted to goats, and so I've decided to fill that void.
They love to stand in their own food!
And eat their own signs!
Or eat any sign available to them, really!
They will try to eat your husband!
And your daughter's hair! Repeatedly!
Join me on my new blog adventure!
I am just getting this in under the wire! I made a promise to post every day but then my migraine started returning and I honestly didn't know if I would be able to make good on my word. But I did it! Hooray for small victories that feel big!
Here are some vintage Valentine's Day cards that I updated just for you using one of my tweets. Print them out and give them to your friends and family and any other Mo-Fo you consider a Ho-Bro. You're welcome!


The blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has continued to grow over the years which has resulted in numerous books being written on the subject. In a market saturated with hundreds of blockchain books, it can be a daunting task to find the right books that are worth reading.
In this review, you will be introduced to the top ten best blockchain books that you can read to learn more about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The books in the list have been ranked using their GoodReads.com reader's rankings from highest to lowest.
Mastering Bitcoin is written by a computer scientist, Andreas Antonopoulos, who is a celebrated figure in the bitcoin community. The author gives a well-detailed explanation of how the blockchain works and how bitcoin functions. The book, however, is quite technical and may not be suitable to bitcoin or blockchain newbies but is a great read for techies such as programmers, system admins, technical support specialists as well as security specialists.
The book explains the technical substructure of bitcoin as well as other digital currencies, data structures, basics of cryptography, mining mechanisms and network protocols. Mastering Bitcoin can also be used as a textbook to teach courses on cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous takes a look at the historical context that has brought forth the rise of bitcoin, the economic properties that have led to its rapid growth and bitcoin's political, economic and social implications. He outlines the properties of money from a historical perspective and the evolvement of what we term money today as well as how these technologies got their monetary role, setting the stage for an economic discussion of its aftermath.
The book provides a wealth of information and is well-researched without focusing too much on the technical details of bitcoin.
Blockchain Basics by Daniel Drescher introduces readers to the world of blockchain technology in a simple yet uncomplicated way. Unlike the book Mastering Bitcoin, readers do not need prior technical knowledge in order to understand what blockchain technology is as the book does not use any code, mathematical formulas or computer science related jargon. Instead, Drescher uses pictures, metaphors, and analogies to explain terminologies within his book.
This is arguably one of the best books that a newbie interested in understanding blockchain technology can purchase as it does a great job of bridging the gap between technical blockchain books and business-focused books.
The book gives an interesting look into the original blockchain creation and the thoughts and principles that were used in creating it. The Book of Satoshi is ideal for anyone interested in learning about bitcoin's past and Satoshi Nakamoto.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain was authored by David Gerard, who is a blockchain and bitcoin skeptic. In his book, he covers the history and origins of bitcoin as well as other cryptocurrencies to date, the 2017 crypto bubble, and the ICO craze as well as the attempts to apply blockchain technology and smart contracts to business. He also covers a case study of the blockchain technology in the music industry plus challenges being faced by the digital currency sector.
With his arguments on how the sector struggles, he allows readers to be their own judge about the blockchain.
The Age of Cryptocurrency written by Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, attempts to answer the question that people who do not know a lot on digital currencies tend to ask: why should they care about bitcoin? Cryptocurrencies are expected to cause a revolution, one that is poised to reinvent both traditional and social structures while providing financial freedom for the unbanked people. However, bitcoin, one of the most well-known cryptocurrencies, is known for its instability, illicit business, and wild fluctuation.
What Vigna and Casey try to communicate in their book is that despite all the instability and fluctuation, bitcoin is here to stay and anyone that chooses to ignore it does so at their own risk. The two authors decode digital currency – its origin, function and what you should know to enable you to navigate the cryptocurrency world.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Hideki Kiyoko is a good read for those that are new to digital currencies. Cryptocurrencies are poised to change how the world operates and have a lot of growth potential. Unlike other books that just detail what cryptocurrencies are, Kiyoko takes an in-depth look at the good, the bad and the ugly side of cryptocurrencies.
By reading this book, you will be able to learn everything you need to know about digital currencies such as how to trade and invest in crypto, how to safely store your digital currencies and how to avoid scams.
This book is written for entrepreneurs and business executives who want to understand how they can benefit from blockchain technology if they add it as part of their organisational structure.
Blockchain Revolution is a book written by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott. The Tapscotts have written a well-researched book that looks at the future of the modern economy. It looks at the blockchain and how the technology is revolutionising different sectors in different ways from cryptocurrencies to the food and music sector, among others. The book details how several multinational organisations have already started researching into how the technology can be utilised for fast and secure transactions.
While the book acknowledges the numerous opportunities that this technology will bring, the authors are also keen to advise that the risks of dislocation and disruption should not be ignored.
Blockchain: Blueprint for a new Economy provides readers with an exhaustive understanding of how the blockchain works. Written by Melanie Swan, who is also the founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies, the book covers topics beyond cryptocurrencies and smart contracts.
It examines and explains how the blockchain will cause a disruption that is just as important as the one that was brought by the Internet, PCs, mobile and social networking platforms. The book explains the potential blockchain technology has and not just in the financial sector but in other sectors such as in the health, transport and government sectors.


What Happens When Young People Don't Want to Be Teachers?
Why would young people today want to become teachers? Or perhaps more importantly, why wouldn't they?
We all recognize teaching as an opportunity to change lives and remember the teachers who made a difference for us. But weigh that intrinsic satisfaction against low wages, little public respect and an ever-growing workload, and the minuses often win out. And now that a rebounding economy offers more professional options, our country faces a serious challenge to educating the next generation.
New analyses by Education Week and the ACT, presented at an Education Writers Association conference panel on April 20, detail the troubling state of affairs.
Stephen Sawchuk, an Education Week associate editor who moderated the event, analyzed enrollment in teacher preparation programs. He found declines in the key states of New York, Texas and California, where the number of teaching candidates went from 44,692 in 2009 to 26,231 in 2012. This comes amid imminent Baby Boomer retirements that will create more teaching vacancies and new state policies that make it harder to enter teaching in the name of raising standards.
There's also a mismatch in what types of teachers are prepared and what school districts need: Colleges of education prepare far too many elementary teachers, and not nearly enough candidates for special education and high school math and science. And far too few want to teach in high-poverty schools, where the work is more demanding.
Fewer students are interested in teaching. Only 5 percent of the 1.85 million U.S. high school graduates who took the ACT in 2014 said they intended to pursue a career as an educator. That's down from 7 percent in 2010.
Teaching is failing to attract top talent. Students interested in education have below-average achievement on the ACT, particularly in math and science.
Prospective educators don't reflect the diversity of American classrooms. Nearly 75 percent of those interested in teaching — and almost 95 percent of those interested in early childhood and elementary education — are female, and 71 percent are white.
Neal, who recently co-authored a book with recommendations to diversify the teaching workforce, noted the origin of the national teacher shortage: In the decade after the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation order in 1954, approximately 38,000 black teachers and administrators lost their jobs because of racism. (White parents didn't want their kids to have black teachers.) Teaching was once one of the few professional options for African-Americans, and for all the resources that segregated schools lacked, they often had excellent instructors.
Catherine Brown, vice president of education policy at the Center for American Progress, noted that the United States pays its teachers only 60 percent of what other college-educated workers earn. Her organization found that in many states, teachers who are the main breadwinners in their families earn so little they qualify for public assistance.
While compensation is a "huge" factor in determining career choice, Brown said, schools also need to be attractive places to work. Often they are not. Teachers come out of preparation programs that sometimes let almost anyone in the door. They get very little useful feedback on their instruction, and they have "virtually no opportunity to distinguish themselves for excellence" through pay increases or promotions.
"It's not the kind of job that, frankly, many millennials or high-achieving young people see themselves going into for their career," Brown said. She sees a big opportunity for schools to restructure themselves and work better with their neighboring colleges of education to prepare the right candidates well. This is local business, after all: She noted that 61 percent of teachers get jobs within 15 miles of their hometowns.
If attracting teachers is an escalating problem, retaining them is another.
Robert Floden, an associate dean of education at Michigan State University, gave perhaps the most disturbing statistic of the day. What's the most common number of years of experience among American teachers? One.
For the future of the country, the implications of that change are staggering.
What's most notable about the Chicago kindergarten class where assistant teacher Nichelle Bell is temporarily in charge is what is not happening. Teachers are not redirecting pupils, who are not off-task. Hands are not in other people's spaces. Voices—those of children and adults—are not raised.
With an eye toward reducing turnover and improving student learning, districts nationwide are experimenting with "teacher residencies." These programs, which provide intensive support to new teachers during the early years of their careers, are typically partnerships between schools of education and local districts. The idea is to better align the training with the on-the-job expectations.


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The Budget 2018 – what effect does it have on residential property purchases?
Buyers of shared ownership properties are now able to claim First Time Buyer Stamp Duty Relief
In last Monday's budget Philip Hammond announced that First Time Buyer Relief can be claimed on shared ownership properties on the first £300,000 of any property with a purchase price of up to £500,000. Previously, first time buyers of shared ownership properties had to pay full stamp duty land tax (SDLT), even though first time buyers of non-shared ownership properties benefitted from a reduction.
Shared ownership is a scheme under which non-home owners can buy a share in a property (this is often between 25% and 75%), usually from a Housing Association or Local Authority which continues to own the remaining share of the property. The purchaser is then required to pay rent on the share that they do not own.
The SDLT relief is only open to first time buyers (somebody that hasn't owned a property before, anywhere in the world, which includes gifted and inherited properties) and not to all purchasers of shared ownership properties, who may not own a property at the time of purchase but may have owned a property previously.
If you are buying a shared ownership property and are a first time buyer, but are buying jointly with somebody who has owned property before, you will not be entitled to claim the relief.
This is a retrospective change and dates back to the last budget, which was announced on 22nd November 2017. To claim a refund you need to write to the Stamp Duty Land Tax Office (Stamp Duty Land Tax, HM Revenue and Customs, BX9 1HD). Further information on how to claim can be found here.
Philip Hammond also announced that the Help to Buy Scheme is to be extended to March 2023 with a new version being launched in March 2021 for first time buyers only, with prices capped regionally.
The caps from March 2021 will be; North East £186,100, North West £224,400, Yorkshire & the Humber £228,100, East Midlands £261,900, West Midlands £255,600, East of England £407,400, London £600,000, South East £437,600, South West £349,000.
It had previously already been agreed that the scheme would be extended to March 2021 but the 2018 budget confirmed the extension for another two years.
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The hospital system of the University of Pennsylvania was planning to build a new cancer research hospital and had purchased a site from the city of Philadelphia across the street from the main hospital campus. The demolition of the existing building on that site would be complicated technically because it was a 13,000 public auditorium with a two-acre floor. Explosives could not be used because of the sensitive equipment in the neighboring hospitals. It was also politically complicated because the building was a venerable 1929 Art-Deco hall that inspired much public nostalgia.
To partially allay the public resistance to its demolition, the University of Pennsylvania agreed to preserve artifacts from the building, among which were 2600 bronze doorknobs case with the seal of the City of Philadelphia, massive ballroom chandeliers, mosaic murals – and a 100,000 pound Möller pipe organ built in 1929.
The organ was located in a 100 x 20 foot chamber above the auditorium ceiling, 125 feet above the floor. It had two consoles, Concert and Theater, which reflected the dual personalities of the instrument. It had only eighty-nine ranks of pipes, but they included four Tuba stops, a dozen 16 ft ranks, and three 32 ft stops.
We were contracted by the University to dismantle the organ and store it in an adjacent building. Two years later the University notified us that that building would be demolished to make way for additional new construction. The organ had to go. At that same time, University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor John Schwandt, founder and director of the new American Organ Institute (AOI), contacted us looking for a monumental vintage American pipe organ to be the centerpiece of the Institute. We had just the right instrument for him, but there were only a few weeks left until demolition-day.
It was a happy coincidence that the only recording we had of that grand organ was a Medley of tunes from Oklahoma played by Tom Hazelton for a convention of the American Theatre Organ Society. We sent the recording to Schwandt and after a couple days of negotiations, the University of Pennsylvania transferred ownership of the organ to the American Organ Institute for $1.
The organ filled five semi tractor trailers!
The AOI has established an organ workshop on campus where students are engaged in the first academic organbuilding program in the United States. A portion of the Mighty Möller has been restored and is in use in Sharp Hall of the University's School of Music while funds are being raised for the restoration of the complete instrument.
Here we show two historic photos taken at the time of the organ's installation, and an unusual display of two consoles and four tuning keyboards (all ivory) - a 12-manual organ.


Edition notes: Transposed up a major third from G-dorian. For SAATTB. MusicXML source file is in compressed .mxl format.
First Published: 1598 in Sacrae symphoniae, no. 34.
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 96, vv. 1-2 .


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Phone books may be purchased at the church, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or at the Princeton Public Library during regular library hours. Proceeds benefit the First Congregational Church of Princeton.


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Q: How to ready multiple rows from json file in Jmeter I'm new in Jmeter I'm generating the random data in json file (say for n no of requests).
these are  requests in the json file
{"firstName":"Colton","lastName":"Alvarez","password":"K42mC7UQ","email":"Robert2@test.COM","orgName":"Alist","locationName":"Stillwell Avenue","address1":"Stillwell Avenue","address2":"11Stillwell Avenue","city":"San Francisco","state":"South Dakota","country":"United States","zipCode":"12901","orgEmail":"Gavin@test.COM"}
{"firstName":"Stella","lastName":"Barrera","password":"BUiVwvAw","email":"Alex3@test.COM","orgName":"Quicker Consulting","locationName":"Cove Lane","address1":"Cove Lane","address2":"8Cove Lane","city":"Miami","state":"North Carolina","country":"United States","zipCode":"26257","orgEmail":"Anthony@test.COM"}
{"firstName":"Violet","lastName":"Trujillo","password":"O5belqdN","email":"London1@test.COM","orgName":"Buapel Limited","locationName":"Ford Street","address1":"Ford Street","address2":"21Ford Street","city":"Miami","state":"California","country":"United States","zipCode":"72159","orgEmail":"Thomas@test.COM"}
{"firstName":"Aubrey","lastName":"Tyler","password":"Qj32XyDE","email":"Julian4@test.COM","orgName":"Yrsa Associates","locationName":"Summer Place","address1":"Summer Place","address2":"9Summer Place","city":"New York","state":"Maryland","country":"United States","zipCode":"19250","orgEmail":"Cooper@test.COM"}
{"firstName":"Emily","lastName":"Gilliam","password":"TNKqqqfX","email":"London5@test.COM","orgName":"Alist","locationName":"Washington Walk","address1":"Washington Walk","address2":"19Washington Walk","city":"New York","state":"Massachusetts","country":"United States","zipCode":"90694","orgEmail":"Tristan@test.COM"}
now i want jmeter to take this data as request body to hit the n no of threads
Problem is when i put the data for single request in json file it read it and give me sucess. but when multiple row data is been put in json it try to take the whole data in request.

However i want jmeter to pick data from json one by one for every request not the same.

A: Most probably it's because __FileToString() function reads the whole file into the request body, if you have a separate JSON body payload on a new line in the file you might want to use __StringFromFile() function instead which reads next line from the given file each time it's being called.
Also if the data is really "random" you can even proceed with a single test data "placeholder", for example change it to look like:
{
  "firstName": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(6),)}",
  "lastName": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(10),)}",
  "password": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric(8),)}",
  "email": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(6),)}@test.COM",
  "orgName": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(6),)}",
  "locationName": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(20),)}",
  "address1": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(20),)}",
  "address2": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(20),)}",
  "city": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(10),)}",
  "state": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(10),)}",
  "country": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(8),)}",
  "zipCode": "${__groovy(orgorg.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomNumeric(5),)}",
  "orgEmail": "${__groovy(org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(6),)}@test.COM"
}

and wrap your __FileToString() function into __eval() function like:
${__eval(${__FileToString(test.json,,)})}

this way you will get random values on each and every request

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Writer recalls her leap from minister-in-training to Mormon-in-motion.
Courtesy photo Writer Jana Riess, who converted to Mormonism while studying to be a Presbyterian minister, says her "faith is in flux" as she strives to follow Christ. Courtesy photo Writer Jana Riess, who converted to Mormonism while studying to be a Presbyterian minister, says her "faith is in flux" as she strives to follow Christ. Courtesy photo Jana Riess, Mormon convert, with her husband, Phil Smith, who attends an Episcopal Church. Smith says his wife "always had respect for people of all faiths."
As a child, Jana Riess could not have imagined herself as any kind of saint, let alone a latter-day one.
She was reared in a purely secular Illinois home by a nonreligious mom and an angry atheist dad.
But step by inexorable step, God beckoned her, Riess says, toward belief in Jesus Christ, degrees in religious studies, a possible career in the ministry and, ultimately, Mormonism.
Like a flowing tributary, Riess said in a 2007 speech at the annual Sunstone Symposium, "my faith is in flux … usually moving forward, spilling over such obstacles as it may encounter in its wake. It contributes to the river that is the LDS Church — also constantly in motion — which in turn has something to offer to the wide and salty sea that is the worldwide body of Christ."
Today, Riess is the author or editor of nine books, including What Would Buffy Do: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide, The Spiritual Traveler: Boston and New England and Mormonism for Dummies. She worked for nearly a decade as a religion editor at Publishers Weekly and now is an acquisitions editor at a Midwest Christian publishing house and a frequently quoted blogger at beliefnet.com.
She has just published a book, Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray and Still Loving My Neighbor, about her attempt to follow a dozen religious practices.
Riess' spiritual quest began, she explains in a phone interview from her Cincinnati home, when her mom sporadically took 9-year-old Jana and her older brother to a Quaker meeting.
"It was my first exposure to organized religion," she says. "I have wonderful memories of it and people who were sincere about living out their witness of peace."
At 14, Riess joined the Presbyterian Church, partly so she could attend a weekend spiritual retreat. During that outing, she says, she felt strongly pulled by God and became a Christian.
"For the first time, I had that sense of total humility that God cared for me, that God knew who I was," she says. "I felt I had experienced God's love in a real way."
At Wellesley College outside Boston, Riess read the Bible seriously for the first time, studied religion and made her first real Mormon friend, Tona Hangen, who was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Nobody could meet Tona and not be impressed by her intellect and warmth," Riess says. "She was clearly living her Mormon standards, yet very tolerant and open-minded."
Riess wrote her senior thesis on Mormonism and American politics and found herself drawn into a scholarly study of the Utah-based faith. But she resisted thinking there was anything personal in it for her.
That is, until she spent the summer after college in Vermont, near the birthplace of Mormon founder Joseph Smith.
Upon visiting that site, an elderly "sister missionary" challenged Riess when she said that she had read a bit of the Book of Mormon but wasn't impressed.
"You have no right to judge our religion until you've read the whole book," Riess remembers the Mormon missionary saying somewhat belligerently.
And, Riess thought, she's right.
So Riess embarked on a focused reading of Mormonism's signature scripture and, she says, the experience was transforming.
"The Book of Mormon spoke to me in a very deep way," she recalls. "I felt I was encountering God in its pages in a very personal way."
She attended a Sunstone Symposium in Washington, D.C., where she met Mormons who were educated, thoughtful and engaged in serious discussions of religious issues of patriarchy, feminism, poverty and how best to follow Christ in contemporary society.
Soon, she married Phil Smith, an MIT student, and enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary to pursue a career as a Presbyterian minister.
While there, she says, "I kept finding excuses to do all my papers on Mormonism."
She finally had to concede a real conversion had begun. She came to believe, she said at Sunstone, that Joseph Smith was a "prophet of God — not in the cheap and triumphant manner of [an LDS] Church video, but in a hard-won, Old Testament way, where a frustrated God chooses one who is willing to serve despite personality flaws and limited understanding."
Having lived with alcoholism and drug use in her family, Riess came to embrace the LDS Church's health code, which eschews alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. She liked Mormon theology's balance of faith in Christ with ethical behavior. And she found LDS teachings about Adam and Eve deeply satisfying.
"I felt damaged by the Catholic and Protestant misunderstanding of Eve as a temptress and the sole source of human ruination," she said. "In the Mormon story, Eve is a courageous inductor of humanity."
This newfound religion was appealing, Riess says, spiritually, emotionally, intellectually.
It had to be, says Phyllis Tickle, a Christian author and lecturer in Tennessee. "The Almighty knew if Jana was going into [a particular faith], it had to go through her brain."
Tickle, Riess' boss at Publishers Weekly, believes it was "the power of the Mormon narrative" that proved so persuasive.
In September 1993, during her last year of seminary, Riess went down into the waters of Mormon baptism.
That same month, the LDS Church disciplined six high-profile Mormon feminists and writers, which deeply troubled the fresh convert.
"I was joining a church that seemed to be excommunicating people just like me," she says. "It was quite a leap of faith for me."
No matter, Riess says, such a jump was the right move.
Her friend's move stunned Hangen.
"It was astounding in an amazing, joyful way," Hangen says. "I considered her as part of my religiously diverse community of friends. To join me on my side was a real strength to me."
Riess worried that her mother, a strong advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment, would object to her new faith, noting LDS involvement in blocking the amendment. But her mother, who has joined a Lutheran church, has come to appreciate Mormonism's strengths and what the community has given her daughter.
But what about her marriage?
Within two years of their wedding in a Presbyterian church, Riess had joined this new faith.
Husband Phil Smith knew little about Mormonism beyond what he had heard in Protestant circles — that it was strange, cultlike and monolithic. But as he met more members through Riess, he grew comfortable with her involvement.
Because of her background," Smith, an engineer who attends an Episcopal church, says, "she's always had respect for people of all faiths, Christian and non."
It wasn't, he says with tenderness, "a challenge for us."
Still, his wife is a risk taker, Smith says, and her Mormon conversion was "a brave act."
It took her down a decidedly different path than the one on which she initially embarked. Yet, in the 18 years since Riess became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she has continually tapped into those skills she learned at the seminary.
"Jana has been well-received as a teacher and speaker," Smith says. "She has more pastoral background than most [Mormon] bishops or lay leaders."
Riess also has offered her wide-ranging scholarship, closely observed religious insights and wry sense of humor to any and all within the LDS world and beyond.
"Her ecumenism is amazing," Tickle says. "She's a true Abrahamic, to say the least, who can move comfortably within Mormonism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam without offending and yet be true to her voice."
Riess has contributed to the communal life of local Latter-day Saints, the global church and the national conversation about Mormonism. She has addressed Brigham Young University's annual Women's Conference and helped explain the church to questioning journalists.
She would have made "an amazing pastor," Hangen says. "But she has found a pastoral calling within Mormonism in a way very few others have been able to, speaking authentically and authoritatively on an array of topics."
Given her background, Riess also can speak "non-Mormon."
Her faith journey did not end with her baptism, Riess says. "It is ongoing."
She hopes, she said at Sunstone, that her tributary of faith will contribute something to the river of Mormonism and to the sea of Christianity.
Many would say those ripples already have.
Jana Riess' book, Flunking Sainthood, began as a lighthearted attempt to read spiritual classics and experiment with faith-related practices such as fasting, sabbath keeping, chanting and the "Jesus Prayer" by trying them herself.
After all, the Jesus Prayer — "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" — is 12 words long and takes only seconds to recite.
From the start, there were a few sainthood observances she refused to try — such as living at the top of a pole as St. Simeon Stylites did for 37 years, being devoured by lions like the Christian martyr Felicitas, or plucking out her eyes for God.
Beyond that, Riess was open to almost any practice of what she calls "radical spirituality."
For 12 months, she writes, her life would be about "walking with God and taking a leap with spiritual experiments."
By year's end, though, Riess reports that she failed at every exercise. And thus the experience evolved into an exploration of what it means to fail.
Falling short offered the overachiever a lesson in humility, she writes, and a chance for serious introspection.
"I may have spent a year flunking sainthood, but along the way I've had unexpected epiphanies and wild glimpses of the holy I would never have experienced without these crazy practices," she writes. "I claim that s-word [saint] for myself even with all my letdowns."
The book ends with an unexpected call from her father, who had abandoned the family 26 years earlier and emptied the bank account. Now he was dying.
Riess goes to his bedside and discovers that even her less-then-perfect spiritual disciplines had helped her develop a crucial skill: the ability to forgive.
"I found the book mind-boggling," says Phyllis Tickle, former religion editor of Publishers Weekly. "It has such honesty and candor."
Riess, Tickle says, is a dedicated Mormon, but she has the education and disposition to be a universalist, finding truths in every faith and tradition.


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Amongst the Diptera, aquatic larvae are typical of many Nematocera, with over 10,000 aquatic species in several families, including the speciose Chironomidae (non-biting midges), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Culicidae (mosquitoes; Fig. 10.2), and Simuliidae (black flies) (see vignette for this chapter). Dipterans are holometabolous, and the adults are terrestrial and aerial (diagnosed in Box 15.5). The larvae are commonly vermiform (as illustrated here for the third-instar larvae of (from top to bottom) Chironomus, Chaoborus, a ceratopogonid, and Dixa, after Lane & Crosskey 1993), diagnostically with unsegmented prolegs, variably distributed on the body. Primitively the larvae have a sclerotized head and horizontally operating mandibles, whereas in more derived groups the head is progressively reduced, ultimately (in the maggot) with the head and mouthparts atrophied to a cephalopharyngeal skeleton. The larval tracheal system is open (amphi- or meta-, rarely propneustic) or closed, with cuticular gaseous exchange through spiracular gills or a terminal, elongate respiratory siphon with a spiracular connection to the atmosphere. There are usually three or four (in black flies up to 10) larval instars (Fig. 6.1). Pupation predominantly occurs underwater: the pupa is non-mandibulate, with appendages fused to the body; a puparium is formed in derived groups (few of which are aquatic) from the tanned retained third-instar larval cuticle. Emergence at the water surface may involve use of the cast exuviae as a platform (Chironomidae and Culicidae), or through the adult rising to the surface in a bubble of air secreted within the pupa (Simuliidae).
Development time varies from 10 days to over one year, with many multivoltine species; adults may be ephemeral to long-lived. At least some dipteran species occur in virtually every aquatic habitat, from the marine coast, salt lagoons, and sulfurous springs to fresh and stagnant waterbodies, and from temporary containers to rivers and lakes. Temperatures tolerated range from 0°C for some species up to 55°C for a few species that inhabit thermal pools (section 6.6.2). The environmental tolerance to pollution shown by certain taxa is of value in biological indication of water quality.
The larvae show diverse feeding habits, ranging from filter feeding (as shown in Fig. 2.16 and the vignette of this chapter), through algal grazing and saprophagy to micropredation.
Figures 6.1. Schematic drawing of the life cycle of a non-biting midge (Diptera: Chironomidae, Chironomus) showing the various events and stages of insect development.
Figures 2.16. The mouthparts and feeding currents of a mosquito larva of Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Diptera: Culicidae).


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Jewish professor describes being beaten by a Palestinian and German police
Two German police officers shown July 11, 2018. (Andreas Gebert/Getty Images)
(JTA) — A Jewish professor visiting Germany described being assaulted in a Bonn park — first by a Palestinian who said "I f*** Jews," then by police who slammed him to the ground and punched him in the face.
Yitzhak Melamed, who teaches philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in a lengthy Facebook post published Friday accused the police of brutality, then of whitewashing their conduct and falsely blaming him for provoking the assault. Police subsequently apprehended the assailant.
The incident on Wednesday is the latest in a string of anti-Semitic assaults in Germany.
According to Melamed, he was wearing a kippah when a self-identified Palestinian man asked if he was Jewish and then proceeded to follow him, shouting things like "I f*** Jews. I f*** Jews" and "No Jews in Germany."
He then threw Melamed's kippah to the ground three times and pushed him three times. In response, Melamed said he tried to kick the man in the groin twice but missed both times.
The attacker fled after hearing a police siren. Melamed wrote that two police officers ran past the attacker and tackled him instead, then two or three other policemen helped pin him to the ground and handcuffed him. He said police punched him in the face several dozen times, bloodying him and breaking his glasses.
Yitzhak Melamed teaches philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. (Screenshot from YouTube)
"I didn't have much time to wonder, as almost immediately four or five policemen with heavy guard jumped over me (two from the front, and two or three from the back)," Melamed wrote. "They pushed my head into the ground, and then while I was totally incapacitated and barely able to breath[e] not to mention move a finger, they started punching my face. After a few dozen punches, I started shouting in English that I was the wrong person."
A police officer then suggested that Melamed provoked the beating, Melamed wrote. He responded by describing his ancestors' deaths in the Holocaust.
"Then the same policemen shouted at me in a didactic tone (in English): 'Don't get in trouble with the German Police!'" Melamed wrote. "This was more than enough. I told the policeman sardonically, 'I am no longer afraid of the German police. The German police murdered my grandfather. They murdered my grandmother. They murdered my uncle, and they murdered my aunt. All in one day in September 1942. So, alas, I am not afraid of them anymore.'"
After being taken to the police station, Melamed wrote that police did not tend to his wounds and repeatedly tried to dissuade him from filing a complaint against them — including by suggesting that he attacked the police first, and by threatening to accuse him of resisting arrest. Eventually he was taken to another office, where he filed a complaint.
The next morning, Melamed wrote, Bonn's police chief came to his hotel to apologize. But Melamed said the police department's statement on the incident, published later that day, falsely blamed him for resisting them. According to a police statement on PressePortal, a German press release platform, police said Melamed "failed to comply with several requests from the officials to stop" and "fought against the measures" of the police.
"Try (if you can) resisting arrest either when you are not in any bodily contact with the police, or, alternatively, when 5 policemen are on your back and you are barely able to breath[e]," he wrote.
Herbert Reul, a local German government minister, also apologized to Melamed, and said, "We will not allow Jews to be persecuted once again in Germany," according to Deutsche Welle.
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Czech Country Folk Puppeteers
In the second half of the 18th century theatre practitioners of the most varying types were still touring the Czech lands, and a still plentiful number of puppeteers among them. Their paths took two main routes: One led from Saxony through Teplice to Prague on to Moravia and from there to Hungary or Transylvania, the other went from Italy and Austria to Bratislava or straight through Moravia to Bohemia or Poland. Czech names are however beginning to appear in the official applications for permits to perform puppet productions, and despite an insufficiency or historical evidence we can assume that from the 70s of that century the first Czech performing puppeteers appeared in this country. We may consider the oldest known Czech puppeteers to be he predecessors of Jan Václav Bitter from Melník and Matej Vavrouš from Habry na Cáslavsku, whose fathers, according to the statement in their permit application, made a living from puppet theatre. The oldest recorded Czech puppeteer is Jan Brát (or Brath, Prath, Bráda) from Náchod. The news of them comes from Memoirs of The Holy Parish of Studnicná. According to him the son of the local carpenter carved puppets, built himself a stage, practiced playing with the puppets in the local pub and then went his puppets into the world. We have documents from Litomerice, Teplice, Bílina, Tábor, Jind?ich?v Hradec and Brno, which record his puppeteering activities in the years 1775-1802. In the 80s of the 18th century the first puppeteers of the later famous puppeteer dynasties appeared: The Miessners (also Maizner) Kockas, Finks, Maleceks, Dubskýs, Kludskýs, Vída etc. We first encounter the name of Jan Kopecký in 1779. He was the founder of one of the most famous of the puppeteering lines, whose direct descendants are engaged in puppet theatre even today. The puppeteer`s most prized possessions were his puppets. Most of them were carved from lime wood, were constructed simply (head and knees attached by joints, arms loosely fastened), they were on average 70cm tall (later even more), suspended on wires and controlled by a simple beam. They were created in the majority of cases by professional wood-carvers - often the authors of sacral church statues and this is where the majority of the older puppets acquired the expressive features of baroque carving. The greatest attention was paid to the head and the face of the puppet. The carvers tried to achieve a convincing characterization and delineation of separate types. At the same time they took pains for the expression to be neutral: the majority of the puppets had a serious concentrated expression - it was the puppeteer´s job as an actor to make them express emotional states. In the 19th century a number of wood achieved a remarkable level of creativity and quality. Two of the most significant from the beginning of the 19th century were Mikuláš Sychrovský (1802-81) from the southern Czech town of Mirotice and Antonín Sucharda (1812-86) from Nová Paka. Outstanding personalities from the second half of the 19th century were particularly the carvers Antonín Sucharda Jr., Josef Alessi, Vojtech Šedivý, Johann Flachs, Jindrich Adámek, and Josef Chochol. Author: Alice Dubská, Czech Puppet Theatre Over the Centuries
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