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Marmara Sea
Hey kids! Have you heard of the Marmara Sea? The Marmara sea is also known as the Sea of Marmara. Believe it or not, It is a very important water-body to people in Turkey. Why is it so important, you ask? Well the answer is pretty simple. Did you know that Turkey has its land in both Europe and Asia. The Marmara Sea separates the two parts of Turkey, which are the European and Asian parts. So when you stand on one side sea you are in Asia, and when you do so on another side of the sea you are in Europe. Amazing right!
Interesting Marmara Sea Facts
It's Fact Time, so why don't we take a look at important information on the Marmara Sea?
The Marmara Sea is located in Turkey and is connected to two other seas. One of them, the Black Sea is joined with the Bosphorus strait and the other, the Aegean Sea is connected to the Dardanelles strait.
With a only 280km and a width of about 80km, the Marmara Sea covers an area of 11,472 square kilometers. It is considered the smallest sea in the world.
Depth and Volume:
Even during the wet seasons, the Marmara Sea does not exceed an average depth of 250 feet. Many have done their research on the maximum sea depth and it has been decided that it is 1,360 feet. That is over 5 times the average depth.
The Marmara Sea does not freeze. It is home to a variety of water animals, most especially fish. The salinity is roughly 22 parts per thousand at the surface and 38 at the bottom section.
The unique name "Marmara" was given by a British sea captain called John Marshall who led an expedition to survey the sea in the year 1788. In Turkish, it is called the Marmara Denizi.
Formation History:
Three continents are very close to each other and they are Europe, Asia and Africa. A big earthquake must have separated these three continents of over the years and this caused many seas and oceans to be formed. Faults in the earth's crust separating these three continents caused the Marmara Sea to form.
Many people consider the Marmara Sea to be the most beautiful sea in the whole wide world. This is because of its high banks which are evenly separated. For many years, it has been a major tourist attraction and contains many bays and islands.
Islands:
The Marmara sea has many islands including Turkel, Ekinlok, Pashalimany, Princes' Island and many more. These island are fun to live in, even for a short while.
The Marmara Sea is a major tourist attraction and thousands of people visit the surrounding area every month. The most attractive tourist site in the area is Istanbul. On the coast of the sea is Erdek, one of the oldest and most popular resort.
Port Information:
The Marmara Sea has port areas in and around it but the largest has to be the Istanbul. Bordirma is known to be the second largest port in the area. The Marmara sea is also used to transport goods to the islands.
Now you have learnt many new facts about the beautiful Marmara Sea. It is time to test what you know.
Question: Who gave the Marmara Sea it's name?
Answer: John Marshall
Question (And this is a tough one): In what Country is the smallest sea in the world located?
Answer: Turkey
Question: What is the highest depth of the Marmara Sea?
Answer: : 1,360 feet deep.
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Over the last several years, refugee resettlement agencies have seen an unprecedented uptick in volunteer interest. While this increased interest has offered many opportunities, it has also challenged resettlement organizations to develop innovative ways to offer volunteers meaningful opportunities to contribute to welcoming refugees. This webinar discusses the importance of leveraging volunteer interest to build greater local welcome for refugees and showcases two promising practices that have been successful at doing so.


St Mary's Catholic Church is a new Church and Parish Complex built in December 1998, Consecrated March 1999.
Our Buildings might be fairly new, but our faith and our original St Mary's, on the same site, reminds us of the long history of our parish and of our Catholic Faith that goes back to the time of the Apostles.
The Church was Consecrated by Bishop Reagn Bishop of Wrexham on 12th March 1999.
The Catholic Community of Bridgend continues to grow; Mass is celebrated daily click for daily Mass times . We have the pastoral care of the large Filipino community, Polish community and the people of Bridgend. A monthly Mass is celebrated for the Polish and Filipino communities.


The BOC Group who is the promoter of Linde India has offered to take full ownership of the firm and delist the firm from the country, owing to the merger between Linde AG and Praxair. In the merger Linde AG lost its control and voting rights to Linde Plc. The BOC Group is part of Linde Group and owns 75% of Linde Group.
As per Linde India the whole delisting offer is to attain ownership of full equity shares of the firm. The ownership will provide the BOC Group with flexibility to support business and also the financing feeds. As per the letter written by the BOC Group says that owing to SEBI regulations, 25% of the equity share capital has to be bought by a public shareholder. The BOC Group which already has can take these equity shares and have as much as 100% equity share.
As per the letter the BOC Group will have to divest the excessive equity shareholders in the secondary market within 12 months. Brackfield who is the director of the BOC Group says the delisting proposal of Linde India is the efficient and effective way to comply with the regulations.
ICICI securities has already been appointed by the Linde India board to carry out the process.
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Review: A new theology to serve a world in need of decisive action
Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. December 17, 2020
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By almost any standard, it has been a horrible year. Covid-19 has claimed over a million lives worldwide and destroyed untold livelihoods. For the United States, often immune to (and ignorant of) the plagues that others around the world routinely face, the pandemic erupted along with other crises and disasters. We have felt outrage over our history of racial injustice. The political landscape is bleak, and the U.S. West Coast seemed for months to be literally turning to cinders. The sheer totality of tragedy seems apocalyptic.
Fragmentsby David Tracy
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Filamentsby David Tracy
Into this world David Tracy has published a two-volume collection of previously published essays. For those familiar with the work of this distinguished American theologian, such a publication is itself an event. (His friends apparently urged him on.) In a year that has seen such suffering, however, it is fair to ask why we need two more volumes of learned reflections on everyone from Plotinus to Proust, from the Gospel of Mark to passages of Toni Morrison...and many, many, many others in between.
If I read Tracy correctly, he himself would positively encourage such a question. He may even ask (as many people do): What in the world do we need from theology in the first place? How does it matter to those who fight fires, nurse dying patients or barely survive in refugee camps? What can theology do for those who have been traumatized by centuries of racism? For Tracy, who has always seen theology as developing critical correlations between contemporary experience and the Christian tradition, the emergence of almost 900 pages of his essays together with the events of 2020 presents something of a stress test. They may have been written long before the pandemic or renewed calls to racial justice, but they are still read today, and each of them represents an attempt to interpret our times.
David Tracy notes that theologies representing the voices of those who have been oppressed understand human tragedy in ways others do not.
Tragedy, then, may be a timely point of entry—both to interpreting our times and reading these volumes. "All religions," Tracy notes, "begin with an unnerving sense that something is fundamentally wrong with reality." Whether it is Hindu and Buddhist doctrine on primal ignorance or Jewish and Christian teaching about sin, religious thinking of varied traditions sets forth some basic vision of good while attempting to respond to the horrors of life. Yet Tracy argues that even concepts like evil and sin do not adequately account for the sheer scope of human suffering, which results from conditions that cannot be readily controlled, much less fixed. Rather, much suffering seems determined as if by some ineluctable necessity, fate or extremely bad luck.
In several fascinating essays, therefore, Tracy urges us to retrieve an appreciation of tragedy as a category for understanding human experience in our own times. Even though some people may enjoy personal liberties and access to godlike technology, from time to time we still feel caught in thick nets like those described so richly by the ancient dramatist Aeschylus. Ancestral crimes (like chattel slavery, colonialism, the degradation of the environment or genocide) seem to have established unending cycles of suffering. As Tracy notes, theologies representing the voices of those who have been oppressed (including Martin Luther King Jr., James Cone and Cornel West) understand human tragedy in ways others do not.
Yet tragedy does not exclude hope, and Tracy wonders whether Christian self-understanding would have been enriched if early theologians had turned to Greek tragedy as a resource in addition to philosophy. Augustine, for instance, had a profoundly tragic sensibility, even if he resisted the notion of tragic fate, which was inconsistent with his understanding of God. In addition to the thick range of human cruelties, however, Augustine shows an anxious awareness of floods, earthquakes, plagues and other catastrophes that are not the fault of human beings. Tracy observes that Augustine's sense of Christian hope, his understanding of the incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection would have been strengthened if had allowed himself to think not only in terms of sin-grace but of tragedy-grace. Another of Tracy's favorite thinkers, Simone Weil, did just that, and the result was an exceptional vision that speaks to late modernity—"a deeper Christian vision of God as hidden, of Christ as incarnate and crucified, of ourselves as wretched (i.e., as great, tragic, and sinful all at once), and of creation as sparks of the Good let loose in the world."
David Tracy wonders whether Christian self-understanding would have been enriched if early theologians had turned to Greek tragedy as a resource in addition to philosophy.
'The spiritual situation of our time'
Tracy asks us to read the essays as "Fragments" and "Filaments." The latter term alludes to a poem by Walt Whitman, in which a lonely spider launches "filament, filament, filament out of itself" to bridge spheres that are otherwise detached. The creature does so "Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul." Like the patient spider (or Whitman himself), this theologian hopes to draw slender but real connections with a range of thinkers, ancient and modern, that may help souls in their own journeys.
The image of fragment, however, is the far more important construct for understanding what theology may contribute to our world. In the first chapter of these volumes, Tracy calls a world of fragments "the spiritual situation of our time." As an archaeologist unearths shards of pottery or stones from fallen buildings to understand an ancient civilization, often all we have are pieces of traditions that may provide some spiritual insight. Whereas thinkers since the Enlightenment may have had confidence in a rationality that tried to assimilate all reality into closed, centralized, totalizing systems (often associated with "Western modernity"), more and more we recognize otherness, difference and irreducible particularity. As a result, those totalities have been shattered, and we are left with fragments of former structures. That, as Tracy sees it, is not a bad thing. Not only have these systems led to economic, political and cultural oppression; they have also marginalized religious phenomena that did not conform to what counted as "rational." Fragments can still reveal so much.
The term fragments, then, operates metaphorically to suggest cultural resources that resist the totalizing impulse of so much modern thinking, especially in relation to religion. For Tracy, fragments can be portals of hope. As opposed to those whom he labels "the neoconservatives," who regard fragments nostalgically, as all we have of a formally unified culture and in contrast to others ("the postmodernists"), who just celebrate our liberation from the domesticating power of modern rationality, Tracy calls his own approach "theological-spiritual." Discover the right fragment, he says, "and you will discover an entry into the eventful, infinite character of reality itself." A Christian like Tracy would name that reality God, who is infinite love.
The usefulness of "fragments" as a heuristic device is significant. Among American Catholics, for instance, there can be significant hand-wringing at data that shows the religious disaffiliation of many young people. While that certainly merits reflection, the eclecticism, concern for diversity and resistance to institutional religion among Millennials (and whatever we will call their successor cohorts) suggests the promise of fragments. A young woman who serves as an emergency medical technician may not have any religious background, but she still wonders at the suffering she witnesses and looks for support. A young man shocked by the American history of racism may find in a Black Lives Matter protest greater moral purpose than in the Mass his grandmother has been urging him to attend. At the end of a long shift in which several people died, a transgender emergency room nurse may find great solace sitting before the Blessed Sacrament and spending weekends in activism.
Those familiar with fragments of our traditions (whether theologians, pastors, teachers or parents) need to discern which ones can be gathered to address the spiritual situations of our times in such a way that may "burst open the vision of Infinity." At a time when the American public has such little trust in institutions (religious, political or educational), fragments hold promise as "saturated and auratic bearers of infinity and sacred hope, fragmentary of genuine hope in some redemption, however undefined."
As an archaeologist unearths shards of pottery or stones from fallen buildings to understand an ancient civilization, often all we have are pieces of traditions that may provide some spiritual insight.
Infinity, Public Theology and Limit Experiences
Infinity as a category for thinking about God remains prominent throughout these two volumes. Tracy finds in the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus the first argument for the Infinite One as a positive reality and goes on to link the concept to the thought of Christian theologians like Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas of Cusa, William of St. Thierry and others. These figures appear throughout the essays, especially Gregory of Nyssa, who posits a relationship between divine infinity and human longing that stretches out (epektasis) in love for God and neighbor. Yet infinity also provides Tracy with a point of entry to conversation with philosophers, mathematicians and scientists, as well as other schools of thought (religious and otherwise) that linger around ideas of radical openness—whether named God or Void or the Open or the Impossible or Creativity or Being or the Good Beyond Being. In finding language that can be applied across disciplines or confessional and philosophical boundaries, Tracy remains firmly committed to public theology, which engages a range of publics in service of a better common life.
One of his essays, for instance, reflects on "Religion in the Public Realm: Three Forms of Publicness." First, Tracy makes a strong case that good theological thinking contributes to a larger "community of inquiry," which has to reflect on what counts as reasonable, sharable public assertions. Second, lest public discourse be limited to techno-economic means rather than more substantive ends, Tracy argues that religious thinkers (like artists) can contribute to visions of the common good that provide insight on matters ranging from the environment to restorative justice. Third, the prophetic and contemplative strains of religion offer resources for public discussion of reality that goes past the limits of reason. If theology can contribute in the ways Tracy suggests, it will surely edify public discourse, which is becoming increasingly mean and nasty.
Following thinkers like Tillich and Jaspers, Tracy frequently refers to boundary situations that all human beings experience—the death of a loved one, for instance, or anxiety over one's own impending death or a dread of nothingness. Together with occasions of joy, like falling in love or the birth of a child, these "limit-experiences" often call for expression that exceeds the limits of ordinary language. "Limit questions," like why one should be moral at all or why one should fight for justice, again gesture to an implicit religious dimension of our ordinary experience and encourage the deployment of different language forms (e.g., metaphor, narrative, analogy, etc.) in various traditions.
David Tracy makes a strong case that good theological thinking contributes to a larger "community of inquiry," which has to reflect on what counts as reasonable, sharable public assertions.
Theology From Here On
Although the 37 essays in these volumes were written for particular contexts, common themes and variations emerge throughout. Tracy, for instance, is especially concerned with issues of hermeneutics. Interpreting the principal texts and events of a tradition remains a key task of the theologian, whether the purpose is to retrieve with trust or to render a critique or with a certain suspicion to expose subtle, perhaps unconscious, patterns that repress, silence and harm. After all, "every document of civilization," he says, "is at the same time a document of barbarism." He also insists in multiple essays that, like ancient philosophy, the work of theology needs to be a spiritual exercise or a "way of life," lest it become a desiccated routine.
Tracy's interlocutors are many, but the circle is also limited. For instance, he names feminism in its various forms as the most powerful and influential of modern critical theories. And yet his single chapter on feminist theology is one of the shortest in the volumes (five pages). In no way does Tracy oppose contextual theologies (e.g., feminist, African-American, liberationist), but he is aware that his context is what he calls "my own male, white, academic theology." Clearly such a group is being de-centered, and one senses that Tracy, at the end of his long career, welcomes that movement.
Heavenly Bodies, from Michelangelo to Dolce & Gabbana
What Theology Is and Is Not: From June 8, 1996
Richard P. McBrien
Much of contemporary theology, he acknowledges, has shifted from questions of individual meaning (like those his mentor, Paul Tillich, posed) to problems of the interconnection of massive global suffering and oppression. He suggests the world desperately needs reflection, analysis and action. And yet from the rare, serene context of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, Tracy has given us a gift in his very depth of thought and imagination. As a Catholic, Christian theologian he exemplifies how one can engage the world from a particular tradition, which imperfectly strives toward the infinite love of God, who is Trinity and revealed in the singular person of Jesus. Tracy has for years promised a "big book" on God, and these volumes of fragments whet the appetite.
In a context, however, where there is a loss of confidence in religious language (to say nothing of religious institutions), we may presume some people are uninterested in whatever "God" may mean. In a situation where so much discourse can be ugly, cheap and reactive, we might think that public dialogue on questions of ultimate value is simply no longer possible. In a year that has truly been terrible, we might be tempted to see theology as building castles in the air. But even in our current crises, our deeper questions have not gone away. We are in great need of exemplars to model how to marshal what resources we have to address them. In Tracy we find someone who strives for a "public theology" that resists the temptation to retire complacently to "some pleasant but deceptively secure reservation of the spirit." And he does it with such care, discipline and intentionality that we should both notice and imitate.
As Tracy himself cautions, "The alternative is whistling in the dark."
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This article also appeared in print, under the headline "What in the world do we need from theology?," in the January 2021, issue.
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Dr Julian Lee: from questioning current textbook practice to writing your own
Dr Julian Lee is Associate Professor in international studies at RMIT University and a program manager for the Bachelor of International Studies. He teaches foundational units on Globalization and Global Careers.
Here are some excerpts from a conversation where Julian describes a gradual process that led him to publish "Monsters of Modernity" as an open textbook with Kismet Press. The book was written with other collaborators at RMIT, and is free online and to download as PDF or ebook format. It currently costs AU$17 to purchase a paperback version from the publisher and also can be bought from other online providers such as The Book Depository.
How did you get to the point of publishing your own open access textbook? "When I arrived in to RMIT, I taught a course in which the previous teachers had used a textbook that cost over a hundred dollars. And then as you do when you arrive in a new place with a new course a new class you often just roll over what the previous person did, which I did. But when I got to know the book and the course better, I realized I didn't really use that much of it and it was too centred on North America and so I really felt bad for all the students who paid a hundred or more dollars for that book that we didn't really utilize very well."
How did you pick your publisher? "So the open access book I published is on monsters, and I tried to look for publishers who had published on related topics and then one of them that came up was one that I hadn't heard of before but it was Kismet Press which does Open Access. Open Access aligned with some of my values and they had a series on monsters … so the fit just seemed really good. And the other thing was that from time to time, probably like yourself, I heard colleagues say things like 'oh I published my book and was really disappointed with how much the book cost in the end'. And then I'd look up their book and I thought, 'oh it's published with a publisher whose books are consistently really expensive. So yeah, of course, it's going to cost like a hundred and fifty bucks.'" Julian wanted to make sure his book would be affordable for students.
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an eudæmonist › reading
There are archives.
This is where you find out what I've been reading.
H.D. End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound . New York: New Directions, 1978 (1958). [141]
Personal, allusive – elusive.
Valeria Luiselli. Sidewalks . trans. Christina MacSweeney. Minneapolis, MN: Coffeehouse Press, 2014 (2010). [140]
A necessary tonic for my current malaise.
Faith Sullivan. Goodnight, Mr. Wodehouse . Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed, 2015. [139.d]*
I had a good adjective for this earlier, but I forgot. Adequate – reading group fodder.
Stefan Zweig. Montaigne . trans. Will Stone. London: Pushkin, 2015 (1942). [138]
Charming.
Peter Toohey. Boredom: A Lively History . New Haven: Yale UP, 2011. [137]*
See post.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Making of a Marchioness . London: Persephone, 2009 (1901, 1907). [136]*
Liked it more than I did six months ago – and seemed rather more Jamesian, too.
Julia Strachey. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding . London: Persephone, 2002 (1932). [135]*
Amusing and strange.
Edna O'Brien. A Pagan Place . New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 (1970). [134.d]*
Rather a forward momentum.
Anne Brontë. Agnes Grey . New York: Open Road Media, 2014 (1847). [133.d]*
Changing sense of the narrator.
Heidi Julavits. The Folded Clock: A Diary . New York: Doubleday, 2015. [132]*
Felt rather melancholy by the end.
Ivan Vladislavić. Double Negative . London: & Other Stories, 2013 (2010). [131.d]*
Grew stronger as it went along.
J.E. Neale. Queen Elizabeth I: A Biography . Garden City, NY: Anchor Doubleday, 1957 (1934). [130]
Quite enjoyed, see e.g.
Donald Jones. Contemporary American Poetry . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. [129]
Found some things I liked and also some things that I didn't.
Peter H. Fogtdal. The Tsar's Dwarf . trans. Tiina Nunnally. Portland, OR: Hawthorne Books, 2008 (2006). [128]
An odd, disjointed, and interesting book about outsiders and history; would be interested in comparing it to Lagerkvist's The Dwarf , and also The Tin Drum .
Evan Lavender-Smith. From Old Notebooks . Buffalo, NY: BlazVOX, 2010. [127]*
Markson manqué.
Meghan Daum. Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. [126]*
Although not the most wrench of the lot, the essay 'On Not Being a Foodie' was my favorite.
Machi Tawara. Salad Anniversary . trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter. London: Pushkin Press, 2014 (1989, 1987). [125]
Abdullah Al-Udhari and George Wightman, ed. Birds through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975. [124]
Don't really have anything to say about these. Moody.
Kay Dick. Ivy & Stevie. Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith: Conversations and Reflections . London: Duckworth, 1971. [123]*
Charming, though more amusing if one is familiar with the subjects (that is to say, I got more out of the section on Ivy C-B than the one on Stevie Smith).
Birgit Vanderbeke. The Mussel Feast . trans. Jamie Bulloch. London: Peirene, 2013 (1990). [122.d]*
Rather a creepy little book.
Meghan Daum, ed. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed . New York: Picador, 2015. [121]*
(Mostly) thoughtful essays on the choice not to have children.
Peter LaSalle. The City at 3 P.M. . Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc, 2015.[120]
Dyer-ish.
P.D. James. Children of Men . New York: Vintage, 2006. [119]*
An odd book – a bit more Barbara Pym-ish than I was expecting.
Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford . London: Everyman's Library, 1930. [118.2]
Restful.
Alejandro Zambra. My Documents . trans. Megan McDowell. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2015. [117]*
Short stories from Chile – rather like The Loss Library , but less smooth.
Lucilla Andrews. No Time for Romance . London: Harrap, 1977. [116]*
Of course I read it because of the Atonement kerfuffle.
Tammy M. Proctor. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War . New York: NYUP, 2003. [115]*
A slight book.
Maggie Nelson. Bluets . Seattle: Wave Books, 2009. [115.d]*
Expecting something slight more sentimental.
A.E. Stallings. Hapax: Poems . Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2006. [114]*
Picked it up because she had been on the ballot for Professor of Poetry; it was of the Housmanian type one expected.
Tomás González. In the Beginning Was the Sea . trans. Frank Wynne. London: Pushkin, 2014 (1983). [113]*
Unpleasant people living unpleasant lives.
Mary Lascelles. Jane Austen and Her Art . Oxford OUP, 1963 (1939). [112]
An enjoyable bit of criticism.
Gilbert Adair. The Death of the Author . Brooklyn: Melville House, 2008 (1992). [111]
Clever.
Cyprian Ekwensi. Burning Grass . London: Heinemann, 1971 (1962). [110]
One doesn't want to make comparisons with The Palm-Wine Drinkard , but that's what sprang to mind.
M.V. Hughes. A London Family Between the Wars . Oxford: OUP, 1981 (1940). [109]
Her notes on driving are amusing.
M.V. Hughes. A London Home in the 1890s . Oxford: OUP, 1983 (1937). [108]
Fiona Templeton. Delirium of Interpretation . Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003. [107]
Frances Hodgson Burnett. Emily Fox-Seton: Being 'The Making of a Marchioness' and 'The Methods of Lady Walderhurst' . Project Gutenberg, 2011 (1901). [106.d]
A silly book – rather like the Semi-Attached Couple .
Ursula K. Le Guin. Annals of the Western Shore . 3 vols. New York: Harcourt, 2004–2007. [105.d]*
A diversion.
Jacqueline Winspear. Pardonable Lies . New York: Penguin, 2006. [104]*
Silly.
Alan Jacobs. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction . Oxford: OUP, 2011. [103]*
I am not quite sure what to make of this book, as I found myself agreeing with parts, but not the whole.
Orhan Pamuk. The Naive and Sentimental Novelist . trans. Nazim Dikbaş. London: Faber & Faber, 2011. [102]
I'm not quite sure that I would say with such confidence that Anna Karenina is a perfect novel.
Maggie Nelson. The Red Parts: A Memoir . New York: Free Press, 2007. [101]*
An interesting and thoughtful memoir, but I felt – as so often with this sort of nonfiction – that Joan Didion casts rather a long shadow; this is not a matter of particular approaches, but rather of overall tone.
James H. Hodge, ed. Famous Trials 4 . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954. [100]
Really quite enjoyable – although quality varies from essay to essay.
Jacqueline Winspear. Birds of a Feather . New York: Penguin, 2005. [99]*
Doesn't quite follow through.
Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie Dobbs . New York: Penguin, 2003. [98]*
Amusing enough.
Ruth Rendell. A Dark-Adapted Eye . New York: Open Road Media, 2011. [97.d]*
Rather better than I had expected.
Jacqueline Winspear. Leaving Everything Most Loved . New York: HarperCollins, 2013. [96.d]*
Self-indulgent.
Jacqueline Winspear. Elegy for Eddie . New York: HarperCollins, 2012. [95.d]*
Improbable.
Jacqueline Winspear. A Lesson in Secrets . New York: HarperCollins, 2011. [94.d]*
Made me want to reread The Secret Service , so that's one thing in its favor, I suppose.
Jacqueline Winspear. The Mapping of Love and Death . New York: HarperCollins, 2010. [93.d]*
Amusing.
Ruth Rendell. The Monster in the Box . New York: Scribner, 2009. [92.d]*
Ruth Rendell. The Veiled One . New York: Open Road Media, 2010. [91.d]*
Ruth Rendell. An Unkindness of Ravens . New York: Open Road Media, 2010. [90.d]*
Like very late Margery Allingham in tone.
Eula Biss. On Immunity . Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf, 2014. [89]*
Thought-provoking, but doesn't quite deliver – too personal. Perhaps I wanted to read a different book.
Anne Garréta. Sphinx . trans. Emma Ramadan. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2015 (1986). [88]
Fabien Vehlmann, Marie Pommepuy & Kerascoët. Beautiful Darkness . trans. Helge Dascher. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2014 (2009). [87]*
Unsettling.
Leela Corman. Unterzakhn . New York: Schocken, 2012. [86]*
A look at the lives of two sisters in early 20th century New York.
Deborah Meadows. Thin Gloves . Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2006. [85]
I'm not quite sure what I was expecting from this collection of poetry – it had the feeling in parts of very informal, highly tinged reactions to pieces of prose (Rabelais, Melville), but in other places the control was so clear that I was unsure whether I'd misread the whether the influence was deliberate or not. Unsettling.
Harry Hodge, ed. Famous Trials 1 . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1941. [84]
Accounts of famous court cases (including Dr. Crippen) – doesn't focus on the crime qua action but rather as opportunity for argumentation.
Rebecca Solnit. The Faraway Nearby . New York: Penguin, 2013. [83]
Quite the right book to read right now.
Javier Marías. The Infatuations . trans. Margaret Jull Costa. New York: Vintage, 2015. [82]
A funny novel about stories, murder, and publishing.
Patrick Modiano. Dora Bruder . trans. Joanna Kilmartin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015 (1999, 1997). [81]
A slight excursion to track down a missing adolescent – either a girl lost in the Holocaust or the author himself.
Ingrid Winterbach. The Elusive Moth . trans. Iris Gouws with the author. Rochester, NY: Open Letter, 2014. [80]
An odd, disconcerting novel: an out-of-place, imperturbable woman, familiar from Christa Wolf or The Wall , and inexplicable, ordinary violence.
Nancy Reisman. Trompe L'Oeil . Portland: Tin House, 2015. [79]
A novel in portraits – of a family, of individuals in that family, of moments in time, of paintings in museums.
Catherine Lacey. Nobody Is Ever Missing . New York: FSG, 2014. [78]*
Perhaps I read it too quickly, but I found it a flat and not particularly engaging novel. As one reviewer commented, it is 'blessedly free of even a whiff of so-called closure', but unlike the reviewer, I don't think that is a strength for a novel. It is not a badly written book, but a badly edited one.
Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text . trans. Richard Miller. New York: Hill & Wang, 1975 (1973). [77]
Cory Doctorow. Information Doesn't Want to Be Free . San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2014. [76]
Has some good points, but I found myself longing for a few comfortable footnotes on which to rest my credulity.
Sait Faik Abasıyanık. A Useless Man: Selected Stories . trans. Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawe. New York: Archipelago, 2014. [75]
Spent almost five months reading this because I didn't really want it to end.
Justin Hocking. The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld . Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2014. [74]
An unexpectedly enjoyable Melville-tinged memoir.
Dashiell Hammett. The Thin Man . New York: Vintage, 1986 (1933). [73]
Found it at a bookstore near the beach and it was the remedy for all my reading ennui.
Machado de Assis. The Alienist . trans. William L. Grossman. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2012 (1881). [72]
An eerie and entertaining look at madness.
Chad Harbach, ed. MFA vs. NYC . New York: N+1/faber & faber, 2014. [71]
Not really an interesting debate.
Emily Eden. The Semi-attached Couple & the Semi-detached House . London: Virago. [70]
An amusing and silly business, which I somehow respected more when I thought it was written in 1910 than when I figured out it was written in 1860.
Hope Mirrless. Collected Poems . ed. Sandeep Parmar. Manchester: Carcanet, 2011. [69]
Sylvia Townsend Warner. Kingdom of Elfin . New York: Vintage, 1977. [68]*
When I was reading Virago's selection of Warner's stories, the pieces taken from this collection were among the most amusing, so I decided to read the entire collection: it did not disappoint.
Denis Johnson. Jesus' Son . New York: Picador, 1992. [67]*
An amusing and readable collection of stories, all of which felt very familiar – must have read many of them when they were published in magazines.
Corsino Fortes. Selected Poems . trans. Daniel Hahn & Sean O'Brien. New York: Archipelago, 2014. [66]
A collection of poems that could use some judicious annotation.
Janice A. Radway. A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. [65]*
M. Thomas Inge, ed. Will Eisner: Conversations . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. [64]*
An interesting collection of interviews, highlighting the very masculine world of comics production during the golden age of comics. As a side note, if I see one more book combining Chaparral and Scala Sans&8230; they're both lovely typefaces, but I'm getting a bit tired of them (especially the lowercase 'a' for Chaparral).
Sylvia Townsend Warner. Selected Stories . London: Virago, 1990 (1932–1977). [63]
An odd and amusing collection of stories; the majority are sort of a mashup of Grace Paley and Ivy Compton-Burnett, while the remainder are fantastic (in the genre-fiction sense of the word – but also very good in a general sense).
Tarpé Mills. Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays, 1944-1949 . San Diego: IDW, 2011 (1979; 1944–1949). [62]*
Bore a stronger resemblance to Dick Tracy than I would have thought. Rather silly, with plenty of lingerie on show.
Radclyffe Hall. A Saturday Life . London: Virago, 1989 (1925). [61]
A short and silly novel about a young girl who cannot commit to any form of artistic expression save for marriage – and even that commitment seems dubious. More interesting for what it implies about other characters: that the mother's friend (and probably the mother herself) are queer, that the husband is a complete nuisance of a human being, etc.
Chester Gould. The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy . vol. 6. San Diego: IDW, 2008 (1939–1941). [60]*
Much better than I thought it would be; the transitions between stories was amusing – a moment of heightened tension as though they were worried whether the new story would 'take', but then once the new plot was fully entered, all was devil-may-care even to the utmost absurdity.
Antonio Tabucchi. Time Ages in a Hurry . trans. Martha Cooley & Antonio Romani. New York: Archipelago, 2015 (2009). [59]
Short stories of aging men.
Jules Feiffer. The Great Comic Book Heroes . Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2003 (1965). [58]*
Amusing short essays about comic books.
Fabien Vehlmann & Jason. Isle of 100,000 Graves . trans. Kim Thompson. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2011. [57]
Same tone as Black is the Color , but with a significantly more gripping storyline.
Roxane Gay. Bad Feminist: Essays . New York: HarperPerennial, 2014. [56]*
Put this on hold at the library before it came out last summer and only just received it. A solidly thought-provoking collection of essays, some of them a bit too bound in the moment of their composition to work well in a collection, but interesting. Worth the wait.
Lynda Barry. One Hundred Demons . Seattle: Sasquatch, 2002. [55]
I thought I'd read this before, but it turns out that although I've read parts of it, I hadn't read it all.
M.V. Hughes. A London Girl of the 1880s . Oxford: OUP, 1977 (1936). [54]
Interesting look at women's education in late nineteenth century Britain.
Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee. Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose . San Francisco: Peachpit, 2014. [53.d]
A charming introduction to writing professionally for the web, aimed at the anxious novice but could be useful to anyone looking to rebrand and refresh their site's voice.
Mina Loy. The Lost Lunar Baedeker . New York: FSG, 1997 (1914–1949). [52]
Much better than I had expected, compulsively readable modernist poetry, despite the poor printing quality.
Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth & Bryan Talbot. Sally Heathcote, Suffragette . Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse, 2014. [51]*
Cute, with good use of color, but the narrative was oddly structured.
Will Eisner. Invisible People . New York: W.W. Norton, 2007 (1992). [50]
Not quite as good as The Building .
M.V. Hughes. A London Child of the 1870s . Oxford: OUP, 1977 (1934). [49]
A sweet, if oddly constructed, childhood memoir.
Will Eisner. The Building . New York: W.W. Norton, 2006 (1987). [48]*
Another ghost story comic book. Got me a little teared up at the end.
Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, et al. All Star Superman . New York: DC Comics, 2011. [47]*
Meh. Presumes too much.
Emma Rendel. The Vicar Woman . New York: Random House, 2012. [46]*
Interesting look at the way ghosts and tragedy and selfishness can overwhelm a community.
Josephine Tey. The Franchise Affair . New York: Scribner, 1998 (1948). [45.d]*
Very sweet tempered, with perhaps a too sentimental belief in the invigorating power of love.
Josephine Tey. A Shilling for Candles . New York: Scribner, 1998 (1936). [44.d]*
Also a bit too tidy.
Josephine Tey. The Man in the Queue . New York: Scribner, 1995 (1929). [43.d]*
A bit too tidy.
Patricia Wentworth. The Alington Inheritance . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1958). [42.d]*
Pleasant enough, but a bit tired.
Patricia Wentworth. The Fingerprint . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1956). [41.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. Poison in the Pen . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1955). [40.d]*
Also satisfying.
Patricia Wentworth. The Listening Eye . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1955). [39.d]*
Satisfying.
Patricia Wentworth. The Summerhouse . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1956). [38.d]*
The small miseries of housing developments.
Patricia Wentworth. The Benevent Treasure . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1953). [37.d]*
Rather liked this one.
Patricia Wentworth. The Silent Pool . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1954). [36.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. Out of the Past . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1953). [35.d]*
Reminds one of unpleasant seaside vacations.
Patricia Wentworth. Ladies' Bane . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1952). [34.d]*
Improbable (well, more so than usual).
Patricia Wentworth. The Watersplash . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1951). [33.d]*
Ambivalent.
Patricia Wentworth. Death at Deep End . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1951). [32.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. Through the Wall, . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1950). [31.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. The Ivory Dagger . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1951). [30.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. Mr. Brading's Collection . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1950). [29.d]*
Like an Anna Katherine Green mechanical mystery.
Patricia Wentworth. Miss Silver Comes to Stay . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1949). [28.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. The Catherine Wheel . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1949). [27.d]*
More like an Allingham book.
Patricia Wentworth. The Eternity Ring . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1948). [26.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. The Case of William Smith . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1948). [25.d]*
Curious to watch the minor relationships develop in the course of the series, and reworking earlier plot motifs (amnesia, etc.).
Patricia Wentworth. Wicked Uncle . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1947). [24.d]*
Getting a bit feeble.
Rebecca West. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon . London: Penguin, 2007 (1943). [23.d]
Wins the prize for longest reading time of any book I've read (including Proust).
Eimear McBride. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing . Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2013. [22]*
One of the blurbers called it 'harrowing' and I really think that is the best description of it. Like 'Breaking the Waves' in a codex.
Patricia Wentworth. Latter End . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1947). [21.d]*
The forceful lady novelist was amusing, as was the insight into the post war economy of Britain – in much the same was as Allingham's later Campion books reveal a Britain utterly changed.
Matt Madden. 99 Ways to Tell a Story . New York: Chamberlain, 2005. [20]*
Based on Queneau's Exercises in Style , and amusing enough, but not quite so clever as the original.
Isabel Greenberg. The Encyclopedia of Early Earth . New York: Little, Brown, 2013. [19]*
Quite amusing, captures the feeling of myth and those odd encyclopedias for children; rather like the Gnomes book in places but with a narrative.
Paul Auster, Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli. City of Glass . New York: Picador, 2004 (1994, 1985). [18]*
Can't say I cared for the prose version, but the comics version was a pleasant way to beguile an evening. A bit overthought, though – just like the original.
Patricia Wentworth. Pilgrim's Rest . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1946). [17.d]*
Quite creepy, and glad that the criminal 'got away' (though of course with the police on their tail).
Tim Winton. Minimum of Two . New York: Atheneum, 1988. [16.d]*
Perfectly acceptable short stories, artfully crafted but nothing out of the common way.
Patricia Wentworth. She Came Back . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1945). [15.d]*
So deeply improbable and borders so nearly on propaganda.
Patricia Wentworth. The Key . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1944). [14.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. The Clock Strikes Twelve . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1944). [13.d]*
Closed room.
Patricia Wentworth. Miss Silver Deals with Death . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1943). [12.d]*
Apartment building as closed society.
Patricia Wentworth. The Chinese Shawl . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1943). [11.d]*
Unnerving.
Patricia Wentworth. In the Balance . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1941). [10.d]*
Very Rebecca-ish. Also like that Ross McDonald novel.
Patricia Wentworth. Lonesome Road . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1939). [9.d]*
Patricia Wentworth. The Case is Closed . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1937). [8.d]*
Quite enjoyable.
Patricia Wentworth. Grey Mask . New York: Open Road Media, 2011 (1928). [7.d]*
Just as the first Campion mystery doesn't feature Campion as the primary protagonist, the first Miss Silver mystery is quite light on Miss Silver – who is more similar to Anna Katharine Green's Amelia Butterworth (in, e.g., That Affair Next Door ) than to Miss Marple. Grey Mask is amusing, if a bit creaky.
Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics . Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink, 1993. [6.2]
A formalist look at how to read comics.
Ursula K. Le Guin. Orsinian Tales . New York: HarperPerennial, 2005 (1976). [5]*
A momentary thaw in the cold war.
Joesphine Tey. Miss Pym Disposes . New York: Touchstone, 2012 (1946). [4.d]*
Schoolgirl mystery – more about social structure of schools and personal insecurities than about the mystery as such.
Georgette Heyer. Footsteps in the Dark . Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2010 (1932). [3.d]*
A silly gothic mystery, reminds me of Allingham's Traitor's Purse , but not quite as complex.
Stefan Zweig. Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman . trans. Anthea Bell. London: Pushkin, 2003 (1925). [2]*
The importunate confidences of a woman of a certain age; the fragility and insecurity of such confidences – lack of confidence.
Stefan Zweig. Burning Secret . trans. Anthea Bell. London: Pushkin, 2008 (1913). [1]*
A silly story about the damper children place on extramarital affairs. Deeply unpleasant characters.
* Asterisk denotes library or other subscription book service.
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Coryphellina hamanni est une espèce de nudibranches de la famille des Flabellinidés. Ce petit mollusque orange ou rose translucide aux cérates de coloration similaire vit dans la mer des Caraïbes. Hermaphodite comme tous les nudibranches, il dépose un cordon en spirale composé de milliers d'œufs blancs desquels éclosent des larves véligères.

Taxinomie et étymologie
L'holotype a été collecté sur le littoral de Grand Bahama, île des Bahamas. C'est le naturaliste Jeff Hamann qui est à l'origine de cette découverte, l'épithète spécifique lui a donc été dédié

Répartition et habitat
L'espèce Coryphellina hamanni est répertoriée depuis les Bahamas jusqu'au Venezuela. Les différents individus ont été observés de 3 jusqu'à  de profondeur.

Description
Ce nudibranche mesure entre 1 et environ  à l'âge adulte. Le corps est translucide, de coloration rose à orange ; les tentacules buccaux, les rhinophores ainsi que les tentacules du pied sont de couleur similaire mais leur extrémité est marquée d'une tache opaque jaune crémeux qui est précédée d'un anneau violet ou rougeâtre. Les cérates possèdent également une extrémité d'un jaune équivalent ainsi qu'un anneau violet qui est nettement plus fin ; cependant, sous cet anneau les cérates sont blanc opaque quasiment jusqu'à leur base, où le blanc devient peu à peu translucide. Les cérates sont plus étroits à leur base qu'à leur sommet. Les rhinophores sont allongés et arrondis à leur extrémité, leur surface postérieure est couverte de papilles.

Liens externes

  Photographie de l'espèce sur medslugs.de

Notes et références

Flabellinidae

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Q: Each recursive approximating sequence for Kolmogorov complexity is not uniform Denote the plain Kolmogorov complexity by $C(x)$.

Let $\phi(t,x)$ be a recursive function and $\lim_{t\to\infty} \phi(t,x) = C(x)$ for all $x$. For each $t$ define $\psi_t(x) := \phi(t,x)$ for all $x$. Then $C$ is the limit of the sequence of functions $\psi_1, \psi_2, \ldots$. Show that for each error $\epsilon$ and all $t$ there are infinitely many $x$ such that $\psi_t(x) - C(x) > \epsilon$.

As $C(x)$ is not recursive, we could not have for example for $\epsilon = \frac{1}{4}$ that $| \phi_t(x) - C(x) | < \varepsilon$ for all $x$, because then $\phi_t(x) = C(x)$ as the functions just attain integer values, but this is not possible if $\phi_t(x)$ is recursive. The above says a bit more, it says that there exists infinitely many such $x$ and that $\psi_t(x)$ is infinitely often by an $\epsilon$ larger then $C(x)$.
Do you have any ideas how to prove this?

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Consumed by his own brilliance
Literary biography is a genre which has generally been quite foreign to me, except in relation to my graduate work. For the most part, I don't feel the need to learn much about the authors I enjoy; however, I've found Yukio Mishima's novels and short fiction so simultaneously brilliant and insane that I decided I wanted to know more about what made him tick. His work was truly unique, in my experience.
My research into the matter indicated that John Nathan's Mishima: A Biography, written only 4 years after Mishima's sensational and lurid public suicide, is considered the definitive biography on the man. After months of searching, I finally received it on order from This Ain't the Rosedale Library.
Well, my desire to find out more about Mishima was fulfilled but honestly, I wish that it hadn't been. This was not an enjoyable book. The writing was just fine but in no way notable and Nathan's constant harping on Mishima's "latent homosexuality" as the cause of pretty much everything in the novelist's life was irritating; in fact, it made me wonder if the self-identified straight Nathan was somehow either threatened or overwhelmed by Mishima's intense sexuality (as many people seem to have been, men and women alike). The point is, Nathan's reliance on "template criticism" (i.e., come up with a thesis and make everything fit into it, comfortably or not) made me wonder if I could completely trust anything he wrote about the deceased author.
If, however, what Nathan revealed about Mishima's character was either true or close enough to true, then I think I might not be able to enjoy his fiction as much in the future as I have in the past. Based on this portrait, it seems as though Mishima was not only a self-obsessed egomaniac with zero self-esteem but was also given to coldly "researching" his work, no matter what that meant (short of killing people): apparently, the horrifying kitten-killing scene in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea was so detailed because Mishima did something similar himself - his explanation being he couldn't describe something he hadn't experienced.
The most gratifying parts of this book were the points at which Nathan quoted parts of Mishima novels that haven't so far been translated into English. I still found myself being drawn into Mishima's beautiful madness but with more and more resistance as Nathan continued to unfold the extent of Mishima's destructive and unlikable self-involvement.
In spite of my dislike both of Nathan's approach and what he said about Mishima, I'll still read the novels I haven't yet gotten to. I'll also read the Henry Scott Stokes' biography of Mishima I picked up a couple of months ago, if only to get some perspective on Nathan's biases about the man. Nonetheless, I think the love affair (purely platonic; Mishima was no David Mitchell) is probably over.
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Actually, a vegetarian friend of mine first introduced me to the concoction when I went vegan. His recipe was a little different. Then, VegNews published the recipe a couple of issues ago. Theirs was better and so that's the one I use. I add way more garlic, less vegenaise, and less salt. It's so yummy!
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Victorian Literature Project
1. Charles Dickens (1812-70): The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
2. Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
3. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): Mary Barton (1848)
4. W.M. Thackeray (1811-63): Vanity Fair (1848)
5. Dickens: Dombey and Son (1848)
6. Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
7. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55): Villette (1853)
8. Dickens: Bleak House (1853)
9. Gaskell: North and South (1855)
10. Anthony Trollope (1815-82): The Warden (1855)
11. Robert Browning (1812-89): Men and Women (1855)
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61): Aurora Leigh (1856)
13. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92): Idylls of the King (1859)
14. Ellen Wood (1814-87): East Lynne (1861)
15. Christina Rosetti (1830-94): Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
16. Wilkie Collins (1824-89): No Name (1862)
17. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915): Aurora Floyd (1863)
18. Charles Kingsley (1819-75): The Water Babies (1863)
19. Sheridan le Fanu (1814-73): Uncle Silas (1864)
20. Gaskell: Wives and Daughter (1865)
21. Collins: Armadale (1866)
22. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): Miss Marjoribanks (1866)
23. Trollope: The Claverings (1867)
24. Matthew Arnold (1822-88): The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (random placement)
25. Browning: The Ring and the Book (1869)
26. le Fanu: The Wyvern Mystery (1869)
27. Trollope: He Knew He Was Right (1869)
28. George Eliot (1819-80): Middlemarch (1872)
29. le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly (1872)
30. Samuel Butler (1835-1902): Erewhon (1872)
31. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
32. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89): The Major Works (random placement)
33. Trollope: Phineas Redux (1874)
34. Collins: The Law and the Lady (1875)
35. Trollope: The Way We Live Now (1875)
36. Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876)
37. Trollope: The Prime Minister (1876)
38. Hardy: The Return of the Native (1878)
39. Eliot: Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)
40. George Meredith (1828-1909): The Egoist (1879)
41. Trollope: The Duke's Children (1880)
42. Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909): A Century of Roundels (1883)
43. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94): Kidnapped (1886)
44. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): A Study in Scarlet (1887)
45. Stevenson: The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
46. George Gissing (1857-1903): New Grub Street (1891)
47. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Decay of Lying and Other Essays (1891)
48. Gissing: The Odd Women (1893)
49. George du Maurier (1834-96): Trilby (1894)
50. Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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chasing bawa
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Coilhouse
Dimming the Lights and Locking Up at Coilhouse
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French literature project - shelved. But here are the links.
Song of Roland (1098-1100)
Chretien de Troyes (fl. late 12th century), Arthurian Romances
Marie de France (late 12th century), Lais
The Death of King Arthur (1230-25)
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549), The Heptameron
Abbe Prevost (1697-1763), Manon Lescaut
Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803), Dangerous Liaisons
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), Adolphe
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), A Sentimental Education
Emile Zola (1840-1902), La Bete Humaine
Gaston Leroux (1868-1927), The Phantom of the Opera
Andre Gide (1869-1951), The Immoralist
Irene Nemirovsky (1903-42), Suite Francaise
Marguerite Duras (1914-96), The War: A Memoir
Michel Houellebecq (1958-present), The Possibility of an Island
Muriel Barbery (1969-present), The Elegance of the Hedgehog


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Šalara (; ) is a settlement on the outskirts of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Old Šalara is a dispersed settlement in the hills south of Koper, while the new settlement of Šalara is part of the town itself.

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Šalara on Geopedia

Populated places in the City Municipality of Koper


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Eine (the girl, archer) and Kleine (the boy, bomber) decided to set off for a trip having to look for better luck in distant lands. Witness their adventures along the way!
Use WASD or Arrow keys to move (double tap to double jump); C, Ctrl or Space bar for action; B or Z to throw a bomb (if you have any); P to pause the game.


Natalie is the General Manager – Passenger & Industry Programs at the Australasian Railway Association (ARA). Natalie's responsibilities include advocacy and activities relating to passenger rail, including heavy and light rail operations. Her work focuses on rail workforce development and diversity, customer service, revenue protection, disability policy, and the rail industry worker program.
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Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha says she is pleased with the initiative to include more diverse body types at New York Fashion Week.
She remains unsatisfied, however, with how models continue to be labeled by their measurements.
The 25-year-old beauty, who won Model of the Year at the 2014 Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards earlier this month, is an outspoken advocate for models' rights, and one of the few models who has spoken out against the pervasiveness of eating disorders in the fashion industry.
In addition to advocating more diversity on the runway, Coco, who started modelling at 15, has worked with former model and Model Alliance founder Sara Ziff to help protect young girls in the industry. The two were able to help instate a landmark law to protect models under the age of 18 so that they are treated like any other child in the workforce (Think: not having to work on school nights).


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MRM News: Busting Into New Jersey–Dave & Buster's Enters New Frontier
3 Min Watch	 11.16.2017	 By Barbara Castiglia and Kevin Freibott
Thanks to the passage of legislation ending a 56-year ban on games-based establishments selling liquor, New Jersey's very first Dave & Buster's location opened in Woodbridge. The 34,000-square-foot "eatertainment" destination features a state-of-the-art sports bar with a massive wall of HDTVs, chef-crafted menu items, one-of-a-kind cocktails in addition to more than 150 of the latest arcade games including InJustice, World's Largest PAC-MAN, and Space Invaders Frenzy. The special event room capacity from 25 – 100 people. Additionally, the D&B Sports Lounge can be rented for exclusive events (up to 150 guests) or the entire venue for up to 1,900 guests.
Dave & Buster's also brings more than 240 new jobs to the state. Headquartered in Dallas, the brand operates 100 large-venue, high-volume restaurant/entertainment complexes throughout North America
MRM News spoke with Regional Operations Manager Bruce Crane about building the brand in a new location.


Baptism is the Sacrament in which we celebrate God's gift of eternal life to our children. In this Sacrament we, the Christian community, welcome them with great joy. We promise to help them by word and example to live the faith which we share with them. That is why, gathered around the baptismal font, we renew the promises that were made on our behalf when we were Baptised, and which we made for ourselves when we were confirmed.
The Sacrament of Baptism will generally be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church 12.30 pm on the second and fourth Saturdays of the Month.


The need for letting agents to keep strict tabs on health and safety legislation and on their landlords, has been made clear by a recent Shelter survey. This showed that 10% of landlords are unable to confirm even that their tenants are living in a gas safe home.
Results from the research which was carried out on behalf of the homelessness charity and British Gas, also show that 14% of landlords apparently didn't know that they had a legal obligation to have their properties checked for gas safety every year!
However, slightly better news is that when asked whether their properties had an active gas safety certificate (CP12) and had the boiler serviced every year, 90% of landlords said that they did, while 7% thought that they did and 3% couldn't say whether their tenants were protected from carbon monoxide poisoning.
By law, an annual gas safety check and certificate is required for rented properties, and this is the responsibility of the landlord. Those who fail to meet gas safety regulations in the homes they rent out can face fines and even imprisonment.
What's more, Shelter says that it is also campaigning for tenants to look out for signs of staining, soot or discolouration on, or around, their gas boiler, fire or water heater, as these can be signs of carbon monoxide escaping.
At Walton & Allen we take our legal obligations to health and safety, and gas safety very seriously, as we know that tenants' lives could potentially be at risk. We keep a strict eye on all of our landlords and make sure that their annual gas safety checks and certificates are always carried out and kept up to date.


Ahem...sorry about that... I am entering this card for Simon Says Stamp shabby chic challenge this week, the camera doesn't pick it up that well but the paper is distressed - honest!!
Nikki this is fantastic he will love it!
I love the balloon orange and coloured to perfection too!
Thanks for the link to that tutorial I learnt sooooo much!!
What a fabulous fun card ! Just love the image you have used and those fabby papers.
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced that it will hold a meeting of its Standing Advisory Group on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 15-16, 2012.
Auditor's Reporting Model: A potential approach to the auditor's reporting model that could increase its transparency and relevance to financial statement users.
Fraud: Consideration of engaging in outreach and research regarding the auditor's approach to detecting fraud.
The meeting will be held at 1201 15th Street N.W., Washington, D.C., and will be open to the public on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. It also will be available via webcast on the PCAOB website.
The Board established the SAG in 2003 to advise the PCAOB on the development of auditing and related professional practice standards. The SAG includes auditors, investors, public company executives, and others. The group is chaired by PCAOB Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards Martin F. Baumann. More information is available on the Standing Advisory Group page on the PCAOB website.


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Q: How can I delete an existing Docker Volume (Data Volume) in Amazon Elastic Container Service - ECS? I currently have an Nginx Docker image in Amazon ECS. I need to re-issue the SSL certificates via certbot, and I need to delete the old ones. How can I delete the volume? I'm currently going to use new volumes instead of the old ones (appending a "v2" suffix).
Here's part of my task definition (As stated above, I had to rebrand them as v2):
"mountPoints": [
                {
                    "sourceVolume": "nginx-certbot-v2",
                    "containerPath": "/etc/letsencrypt",
                    "readOnly": false
                },
                {
                    "sourceVolume": "nginx-acme-webroot-v2",
                    "containerPath": "/var/acme-webroot",
                    "readOnly": false
                },
                {
                    "sourceVolume": "nginx-dhparam-v2",
                    "containerPath": "/etc/nginx/dhparam",
                    "readOnly": false
                }
            ],

Here's the volume definition:
"volumes": [
      {
          "name": "nginx-certbot-v2",
          "dockerVolumeConfiguration": {
              "scope": "shared",
              "autoprovision": true,
              "driver": "local"
          }
      },
      {
          "name": "nginx-acme-webroot-v2",
          "dockerVolumeConfiguration": {
              "scope": "shared",
              "autoprovision": true,
              "driver": "local"
          }
      },
      {
          "name": "nginx-dhparam-v2",
          "dockerVolumeConfiguration": {
              "scope": "shared",
              "autoprovision": true,
              "driver": "local"
          }
      }
  ]

Are there any possibilities for me to get back the volumes without the "v2"?

A: Define the scope of your docker volume as task instead of shared it will be removed automatically after the task is stopped.
"volumes": [
{
    "name": "scratch",
    "dockerVolumeConfiguration" : {
        "scope": "task",
        "autoprovision": true,
        "driver": "local",
        "labels": {
            "scratch": "space"
        }
    }
}

]
refer to this link for more information
ECS docker volume reference


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Parson announces 10 appointments to various boards, commissions, and county office vacancies
Published on August 15, 2018 by Press Release
Governor Mike Parson announced 10 appointments to various boards, commissions, and county office vacancies on August 14.
Tim Brinker, of Washington, was appointed as the Franklin County Presiding Commissioner.
Brinker is the owner of Brinker Promotions in Washington. He previously served as Franklin County First District Commissioner and is a former member of the Washington City Council. Brinker is involved with the Elks, the Knights of Columbus, and the County Commissioners Association of Missouri.
Jennifer Dixon, of St. Joseph, was appointed to the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors.
Dixon is the Branch Manager of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Missouri Western State University. Dixon serves on the Missouri Western State University Foundation Board of Directors, and she previously served on the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority. She has also been involved with the Family Guidance Center, the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, and United Way of Greater St. Joseph.
Cindy Duckworth, of Bloomfield, was appointed as the Stoddard County Public Administrator.
Duckworth previously served as the Deputy Public Administrator for Stoddard County. She has worked in the Public Administrator's office since 2010 and has more than 25 years of banking experience.
Lisa Elmore, of Fair Grove, was appointed to the Missouri Board of Examiners for Hearing Instrument Specialists.
Elmore is a board-certified hearing instrument specialist, licensed in the state of Missouri. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Hearing Instrument Science program at Ozark Technical Community College. Elmore received an associate's degree in hearing instrument science from Ozarks Technical Community College. She is a member of the International Hearing Society and the Missouri Hearing Society.
William Hopfinger, of Sunset Hills, was reappointed to the Advisory Commission for Physical Therapists.
Hopfinger has served on the Advisory Commission for Physical Therapists since 2006. He is the owner/president of St. Louis Home Health, Inc. Hopfinger holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physical therapy from St. Louis University.
Alyssa Mayer, of Kansas City, was appointed to the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners.
Mayer is an associate attorney at Husch Blackwell LLP. She holds a B.A. in political science from Truman State University and a J.D. from Washington University School of law. She is a member of the Missouri Bar Association and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
Cindy Robinson-Steen, of Glenwood, was appointed as the Schuyler County Circuit Clerk.
Robinson-Steen previously served as the Deputy Circuit Clerk for Schuyler County. She received a paralegal certificate from Moberly Area Community College and is a graduate of Scotland County R-1 High School. Robinson-Steen is involved with the Law Enforcement Restitution Fund, Lancaster Methodist Church, and the Schuyler County Community Center.
Jim Ruse, of Gallatin, was appointed as the Daviess County Presiding Commissioner.
Ruse retired as the Assistant Superintendent of the Chillicothe R-2 School District. He previously served as the Superintendent of the Gallatin R-V School District for 20 years. Ruse holds an Education Specialist degree, a Master of Science degree, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwest Missouri State University.
Sharon Turner Buie, of Kansas City, was appointed to the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners.
Turner Buie retired as the Director of the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners in 2007. She holds a master's degree in management from Baker University and a bachelor's degree in social psychology from Park University. Turner Buie also received a Chancellor's Certificate in public administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Melissa Vigen, of Kahoka, was appointed as the Clark County Public Administrator.
Vigen is a funeral director at Vigen Memorial Home. She holds an Associate of Applied Science degree in funeral directing and embalming from Carl Sandburg Community College and an Associate of Arts degree from Southeastern Community College. Vigen is involved with the Missouri Funeral Directors Association and the Kahoka/Clark County Chamber of Commerce.
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