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Former Albion boss Dean Wilkins has been appointed as assistant manager at League One rivals Southampton.
The 47 year-old former Seagulls manager was unveiled as the first addition to new manager Alan Pardew's backroom staff today.
Wilkins was sacked as Albion boss in May 2008 after leading them to seventh in League One the previous season. He was replaced by Micky Adams and turned down a coaching role at the club.


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А́нтти Ма́ркус Су́миала (; 20 февраля 1974, Пори, Финляндия) — финский футболист, нападающий. Выступал за сборную Финляндии. За карьеру выступал за клубы из 9 разных стран.

Клубная карьера
Начал играть в клубе «ППТ» из Пори, в составе которого завоевал золотые медали первенства Финляндии в 1993 году. Несколько лет провёл в Эредивизи. По возвращении в Финляндию выиграл вместе с «Йокеритом» кубок страны. В 2005 году стал обладателем кубка Лихтенштейна.

Сборная
Дебютировал за сборную в Адане 12 февраля 1992 года в товарищеском матче с турками. В течение двенадцати лет (с перерывами) призывался в сборную Финляндии. Провёл в её составе 38 матчей и девять раз поразил ворота соперников

Достижения
 Чемпион Финляндии 1993 года.
 Лучший бомбардир чемпионата Финляндии 1993 года.
 Победитель кубка Финляндии 1999 года.
 Победитель кубка Лихтенштейна 2005 года.

Футболисты Финляндии
Игроки сборной Финляндии по футболу
Игроки ФК «Джаз»
Игроки ФК «Андерлехт»
Игроки ФК «Локерен»
Игроки ФК «Икаст»
Игроки ФК «Эммен»
Игроки ФК НЕК
Игроки ФК «Твенте»
Игроки ФК «Йокерит»
Игроки ФК «Ройтлинген»
Игроки ФК «Йимпаш Йозгатспор»
Игроки ФК «Норрчёпинг»
Игроки ФК «Себатспор»
Игроки ФК «Вадуц»
Игроки ФК «Спортинг Канзас-Сити»
Игроки ФК «Пори»

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Q: wcf client ip as ipv6 i'm using next piece of code to get client ip on wcf service :
        OperationContext context = OperationContext.Current;
        System.ServiceModel.Channels.MessageProperties prop = context.IncomingMessageProperties;
        System.ServiceModel.Channels.RemoteEndpointMessageProperty endpoint = prop[System.ServiceModel.Channels.RemoteEndpointMessageProperty.Name] as System.ServiceModel.Channels.RemoteEndpointMessageProperty;
        string ip = endpoint.Address;

while this code worked on iis6/server2003 everything were ok, endpoint.Address returned ipv4.
but after i recently updated to iis7/server2008 endpoint.Address is returning ipv6.
is it still possible to get ipv4 on iis7/server2008 ?
Thank You !

A: This is not so much of a change in WCF that is a change in networking. Your client has used its IPv6 to connect to the server and that is the address which is stored in the context of the message. If you need to get hold of IPv4, use the snippet below:
    IPAddress ipAddress = IPAddress.Parse(ipv6);
    IPHostEntry ipHostEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(ipAddress);
    foreach (IPAddress address in ipHostEntry.AddressList)
    {
           if(address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
                  Console.WriteLine(address);
    }

This will translate your IPv6 to IPv4.

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1) ابتدا دقت داشته باشید آنتی ویروس شما غیرفعال بوده و به اینترنت متصل نمی باشید.
2) فایل فشرده را اکسترکت کنید و به نصب نرم افزار بپردازید.
3) پس از اتمام نصب، از اجرای نرم افزار خودداری کنید و اگر اجرا شده است، آن را ببندید.
4) به فولدر "Patch" مراجعه کرده و فایل اجرایی "Patch.exe" را در محل نصب نرم افزار کپی کنید. حال این فایل اجرایی را به صورت Run as Administrator اجرا کنید.
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6) نرم افزار را اجرا کنید و از نسخه نهایی و کرک شده آن لذت ببرید.


Select a destination on the flight map to show all scheduled flights from Arica Airport. Find out which airlines operate a specific flight route and what their flight schedule is.
There is one alternative airport to Arica (ARI) within a range of 125 miles (200 kilometers) which is Tacna (TCQ).
Arica Airport (IATA: ARI, ICAO: SCAR), also known as Chacalluta International Airport, is a small domestic airport in Chile.
At present, there are 3 domestic flights from Arica.
The longest flight from Arica ARI is a 1,040 mile (1,673 kilometers) non stop route to Santiago SCL. This direct flight takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes and is operated by LATAM.


April Gornik, Lake Light, 2008. Oil on linen, 72 1/4 x 108 1/4 x 1 5/8 in. Both Paul G. Allen Family Collection.
Phillips fan Candace Carota Pollack saw April Gornik's Lake Light (2008), on view in Seeing Nature, in a photo the Phillips shared on Facebook and noticed a striking similarity to some pictures she took during a trip to Ireland. Candace's photos are below; I can't help but agree that the ominous clouds and blue-green color palette of Pollack's photos are echoed in Gornik's painting.
"Then it got too close and we just got in the car in time to not get soaked," says Candace of this photo.
This entry was posted in Exhibitions and tagged April Gornik, landscape masterworks, Paul Allen, paul g allen family collection, Seeing Nature, storm clouds, visitor photos. Bookmark the permalink.


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Hans Schuman
JazzReach (Founder & Artistic Director) with Metta Quintet
Brooklyn in Ruby Red Oyster
18" bass drum
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14" floor tom
5.5" X 14" snare drum
Any musician (regardless of instrument or genre) who plays with intent, conviction, intelligence, musicality, feeling, sophistication and soul.
"Quality, consistency, craftsmanship and sound. Hands down, there are no drums that sound as full, robust and resonant as Gretsch."
"Always… Always, play with intent, conviction, intelligence, musicality, feeling and soul."
Born in Lansing, Michigan, Hans Schuman began playing drums at the age of 13 while growing up in Tucson, Arizona.
A graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, Hans has performed with world renowned artists including Benny Green, Cyrus Chestnut, Eric Reed, Wynton Marsalis, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings, Antonio Hart, Christian McBride, Marcus Strickland, Stefon Harris, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Seamus Blake, Geoffrey Keezer and Joshua Redman among many others.
In 1994, he founded JazzReach Performing Arts & Education Association, Inc., a New York City-based not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to cultivating wider audiences for jazz music. Since inception, Schuman has successfully positioned JazzReach as the country's leading provider of live educational programming for young audiences. Its programs have impacted and enriched over 400,000 young people in partnership with distinguished performing arts presenters in more than 85 U.S. communities. More
All of JazzReach's artistic programming is carried out by Metta Quintet, a highly creative unit featuring some of the most acclaimed, in-demand artists on the scene today and is as dedicated to blazing new artistic territory as it is to arts education. More
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Political Behavior (Spring 08)
Kategorie: Courses
The purpose of this course is threefold:
• introduce students to behavioral political science, i.e. approaches to political science which focus on the political behavior of individuals and groups;
• convey basic empirical research skills;
• provide a venue to explore the scope of political science.
This course is an introduction to political science and its research methods, but not a statistics class. The goal is to provide students with the tools necessary to construct their own research design and understand analyses carried out by others. Think of this class as an "appetizer sampler" on a restaurant menu: it contains a little bit of most of political science's specialties, but none of the items on this syllabus are explored in enough detail for you to conduct your own research. Yet you will learn enough to design your own research project. Once you actually embark on filling the research design with life on your own, you will need to take the cues from this class and study the methods of your choice in more detail.
There are four required texts for this class. Additional readings will be posted on Moodle.
• Baglione, Lisa A. 2006. Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education.
• Leftwich, Adrian, ed. 2004. What is Politics? The Activity and its Study. Oxford: Polity.
• Shepsle, Kenneth A., and Mark S. Bonchek. 1997. Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Weber, Max (2004). The Vocation Lectures: Science As a Vocation, Politics As a Vocation. Hackett. ISBN: 0872206653.
• Final exam
• Research design
• Class participation
• Occasional problem sets
The major assignment in this course is a research design addressing a research question of your choice. This is more or less what a political science junior qualifying exam is. So this course will provide you with an opportunity to write a scaled-down qual under guidance. We will break this process into a few very manageable steps. While this is obviously most helpful for political science and ICPS majors, it is also an important skill in any other empirical (social) science.
The aim of a research design is to sketch out a research project in all its details before actually doing the research. Though it may appear to be unnecessary, this step helps tremendously in clarifying the research question, its theoretical underpinning, and the best methodological approach to addressing this question. You will develop your research design in five steps:
1. Statement, explanation, and justification of the research question (due 3/1).
Carefully select a question you want to write your research design on. Explain why it is important and why you want to study it. What do you expect to find out? What information would you need to find out the answer? Start researching it. Draft a proposal, consisting of the question, its significance, and brief overview of existing research on the topic. No more than two pages, at least three important scholarly political science sources. Submit through Moodle.
2. Annotated bibliography (due 3/9).
Start using the library resources to create an annotated bibliography to guide your literature review. Submit the bibliography by March 9. Your bibliography needs to contain at least 15 relevant items. For each entry include a short abstract (What is this piece about? Why is it relevant to your research?) and also indicate how you found it (database and search terms; bibliography of what other piece; or recommendation by whom).
3. Review of the relevant literature (not submitted individually) .
Scientific discoveries build on previous discoveries. Reviewing the existing literature in the field provides you with a better idea of what others have found out about your topic; how you may want to adapt your question in light of pre-existing scholarship; and which theoretical approaches you may choose. This can be a lengthy research process, start early! Expect to summarize your findings in up to 5 pages.
4. Discussion of the theoretical approach (due 3/30 together with literature review).
According to Popper, "theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it." They provide us with the lenses to focus on the relevant aspects of our data and help us not to get lost in the thicket of research. You need to develop the theoretical framework in which you will address your research question. You may find yourself studying even more literature in your search for the best theoretical approach. This part may also result in up to 5 pages of text.
5. Development of the methodology section (not submitted individually).
The methods section is the heart of your research design. Here you explain your methodological approach, operationalize your variables, and state your hypotheses. Depending on the methodology chosen, this section can vary considerably in length.
There is no set length requirement, but a good research design is concise and detailed at the same time. None of these sections can be dealt with in less than a page, but your complete design should also not exceed 15 pages (double-spaced, Times New Roman (12pt) font, 1" margins).
Please follow the APSA style guide for political science (see for example: http://dept.lamar.edu/polisci/DRURY/drury.html and http://www.csuchico.edu/~kcfount/guides/APSA.pdf).
Your grade will be determined primarily by the content of your paper assignments; nevertheless you are expected to submit well-written work that has been thoroughly proof-read for grammar, punctuation, and style. Sloppy or poorly written work may result in a penalty.
This syllabus is subject to change. The most recent version can be found on Moodle. When in doubt, always refer to the one on Moodle.
Please reserve Friday, February 29 for an extended "Research Boot Camp" – please do not plan anything for that day until we have finalized library instruction and research meetings. As compensation, there will be no classes the previous week while I am attending a research conference.
Semester outline
What is politics? In this session we will talk about key characteristics and concepts of politics that inform our study of the subject.
Reading: Adrian Leftwich (2004): Thinking Politically: On the politics of Politics. In: Adrian Leftwich (ed.). What is Politics? The Activity and Its Study. Cambridge: Polity (on Blackboard).
Guiding question: What is political? What is not? What is the proper definition of politics? What is politics all about?
Science as a Vocation. This is the first of two sessions in which we will take our cues from Max Weber whom many consider to be one of the founders of European political science. His vocation lectures were given at Munich University in Germany in t1917 and 1919 to educate students about the differences of conducting politics as a professional and analyzing politics as an academic. The first one deals with academic life. It is a true classic – quite dated, but nevertheless still relevant and insightful.
Reading: Weber, Science as a Vocation
Guiding question: Do you really want to go to grad school? What are the problems with academia?
Politics as a Vocation. This is Weber's second vocation lecture. The second one addressed what it means to be a professional politicians or bureaucrat. Pay also close attention to Weber's discussion of legitimacy. This classic is usually cited with reference to Weber's typology of legitimate rule.
Reading: Weber, Politics as a profession.
Guiding question: What are the characteristics of a good politician? Which qualities should we expect of a professional bureaucrat?
Analyzing Politics: What is Scientific about Political Science? Now that we have established what it means to do politics and to study it, an important question is still open: what makes the study of politics scientific?
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch 1:It Isn't Rocket Science, but …, p. 5-14.
Alan Issaak (1975): Scope and Methods of Political Science, chs. 1-2, p. 3-30 (on Moodle).
Guiding question: How can the study of society and government be scientific?
Research Design: The study of Politics, Polity, Policy.
Reading: Ellen Grigsby (2005): Analyzing Politics - An Introduction to Political Science. Belmont: Wadsworth. Chapter 2: Political Science and Scientific Methods in Studying Political Science (on Moodle).
Guiding question (again): How can the study of society and government be scientific?
Perspectives: Political Philosophy
Reading: Swift, Political Philosophy and Politics, in Leftwich, p. 153-146.
Analyzing Politics: Rationality. Rational choice is an approach imported from economics that allows us to model political processes based on the rational behavior of individuals.
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch. 2: Rationality: The Model of Choice, p. 15-35
Research Design: Finding a Good Research Question
Reading: Baglione, ch. 1-2, p. 1-30.
Laurence F. Jones and Edward C. Olson (1996): Political Science Research: A Handbook of Scope and Methods. Chapter 2: The Problem: Essence of the Research Project, p.22-29 (on Moodle).
Assignment: Pick a causal research question for your research design. Start researching it. Draft a proposal, consisting of the question, its significance, and brief overview of existing research on the topic. No more than two pages, at least three important scholarly political science sources. Due by March 1. Submit through Moodle.
Perspectives: Collective Action
Reading: Weale, Politics as Collective Choice, in Leftwich, p. 86-99.
Library research session
Research Boot-Camp: library research, literature review. A review of the existing literature is a key component of a research paper. Researching the literature shows you what has already been written on the subject and provides you with an idea of the theoretical and methodological approaches taken by other researchers.
Dena Hutto will show us how to make best use of the library's resources, including research in databases.
Reading: Baglione, ch. 3: Adressing the Scholarly Debate: The Literature Review, p.31-58
John W. Cresswell (2003): Research Design - Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, Second Edition. Chapter 2: Review of the Literature, p. 27-48 (on Moodle).
Janet Buttolph Johnson and H. T. Reynolds (2004): Political Science Research Methods, 5th Edition, CQ Press. Chapter 5. Conducting a Literature Review (on Moodle).
Assignment: Start using the library resources to create an annotated bibliography to guide your literature review. Submit the bibliography by March 9. Your bibliography needs to contain at least 15 relevant items. For each entry include a short abstract (what is this piece about, why is it relevant to your research) and also indicate how you found it (database and search terms; bibliography of what other piece; or recommendation by whom).
Analyzing Politics: Social Choice I
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch. 3-4: Group Choice, p. 39-81.
Analyzing Politics: Social Choice II
Research Design: Hypothesis, Falsification, and Theory. When we try to learn from real world observations it is very important to do so in a way that will yield reliable results. Any theory can only be as good as the methodology that leads to its establishment.
Reading: Stephen VanEvera (1997): A Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, ch. 1: Hypotheses, Laws, and Theories: A User's Guide, p. 7-48 (on Moodle).
Baglione, ch. 4: Effectively Distilling the Argument: The Thesis or the Model and Hypothesis, p. 59-75.
Optional background reading on the philosophical basis: Karl R. Popper (1968): The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Harper & Row. Chapter 1: A Survey of some Fundamental Problems (on Moodle).
Guiding questions: How are theories and observations related? What comes first – data or theory?
Analyzing Politics: Spatial Modeling
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch. 5: Spatial Modeling, p. 82-114 only.
Skim: Lalman, Oppenheimer, and Swistak (1993): Formal Rational Choice Theory: A Cumulative Science of Politics. In: Ada W. Finifter (ed.). State of the Discipline II. Washington, DC (on Moodle).
Research Design: Planning your Research
Reading: Baglione, chs. 5-6, p. 76-117
Assignment: Start your research design. Link your research question to theory and existing literature. Generate hypotheses to guide your research. Submit your literature review and theory by March 30.
Perspectives: Green Politics
Reading: Carter, Politics as if Nature Mattered, in Leftwich, p. 182-195
Analyzing Politics: Game Theory
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch. 8: Cooperation,
Methods: Analysis overview
Reading: Baglione, ch. 7: Evaluating the Argument: The Analysis and Assessment Section, p. 118-148.
Perspectives: Power
Reading: Nicholson, Politics and the Exercise of Force in Leftwich, p. 41-52.
Analyzing Politics: Collective Action
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch. 9: Collective Action, p. 220-259
Optional classic background reading: Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, ch. 1, p. 6-52 (on reserve).
Methods: Qualitative Data Analysis
Reading: David McNabb (2004): Research Methods for Political Science: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, ch. 29: Analysis Methods for Qualitative Data, p. 433-450 (on Moodle).
Perspectives: Behavior
Reading: Leftwich, The Political Approach to Human Behavior: People, Resources and Power, in Leftwich, p. 100-118.
Analyzing Politics: Tragedy of the Commons
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, ch. 10: Public Goods, Externalities, and the Commons, p. 260-296.
Hardin, Garrett. 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162 (3859):1243-8. (on Moodle)
Methods: Descriptive Statistics
Reading: Perry R. Hinton (1995): Statistics Explained - A Guide for Social Science Students. London: Routledge. Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics (on Moodle).
Guiding question: What is the purpose of descriptive statistics? What do the various measures describe?
Perspectives: Democratic Rule
Reading: Crick, Politics as a Form of Rule: Politics, Citizenship and Democracy, in Leftwich, p. 67-85.
Analyzing Politics: New Institutionalism – Part I
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, chs. 11-13, p. 299-379.
Methods: Chi-Square. This is a very user-friendly and easy to calculate measure – the perfect way to start using statistics.
Reading: Shively, W. Phillips. 2005. The Craft of Political Research. 6th edition. Upper Saddle River: Pearson. Chapter 10: Introduction to Statistics, p. 147-63.
Perspectives: Structural Approaches
Reading: Callinicos, Marxism and Politics, in Leftwich, p. 53-66.
Squires, Politics Beyond Boundaries: A Feminist Perspective, in Leftwich, p. 119-135.
Analyzing Politics: New Institutionalism – Part II
Reading:. Lichbach, Mark Irving. 1997. Social Theory and Comparative Politics. In Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, edited by M. I. Lichbach and A. S. Zuckerman. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life. American Political Science Review 78 (3):734-49.
Guiding question: What do new institutionalists study? How do they do it?
Methods: Correlation and Regression
Reading: Sally Caldwell (2007): Statistics Unplugged, ch. 12: Correlation and Regression, p. 266-310 (on Moodle).
Guiding question: How do we analyze relationships between variables? What do these measures inform us about? What not? What kind of relationships are captured by these measures?
Perspectives: Governance.
Reading: Peters, Politics is About Governing in Leftwich, p. 23-40.
Analyzing Politics: Leadership and Politics beyond the United States
Reading: Shepsle and Boncheck, chs. 14, 16, 17, p. 380-404, 432-460.
Perspectives: Non-Western Politics
Reading: Ismail, Is there an Islamic Conception of Politics? in Leftwich, p. 147-165.


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En chimie, les vinylidènes sont des composés avec le groupe fonctionnel C=CH2. Un exemple est le 1,1-dichloroéthène (CCl2=CH2) communément appelé « chlorure de vinylidène ». Celui-ci et le fluorure de vinylidène sont des précurseurs de polymères commercialement utiles.

Monomères et polymères
Le chlorure et le fluorure de vinylidène peuvent être convertis en polymères linéaires chlorure de polyvinylidène (PVDC) et fluorure de polyvinylidène (PVDF). La réaction de polymérisation est :

  CH2=CX2 → (CH2-CX2).

Ces polymères de vinylidène sont isomères avec ceux produits à partir de monomères de vinylène. Ainsi du fluorure de polyvinylène est produit à partir de fluorure de vinylène (HFC=CHF).

Complexes de vinylidène

Bien que les vinylidènes ne soient que des espèces transitoires, on les trouve comme ligands en chimie organométallique. Ils surviennent généralement par la protonation d'acétylures métalliques ou par la réaction d'électrophiles métalliques avec des alcynes terminaux. Le complexe chloro(cyclopentadiényl)bis(triphénylphosphine)ruthénium forme facilement de tels complexes :

 CpRu(PPh3)2Cl + RC2H + KPF6 → [CpRu(PPh3)2(=C=C(H)Ph]PF6 + KCl.

Existence en phase gazeuse des vinylidènes
Dotés de carbone divalent, les vinylidènes sont des espèces inhabituelles en chimie organique. Ils sont instables sous forme de solides ou de liquides mais peuvent être générés sous forme de gaz dilués stables. Le membre parent de cette série est le méthylidènecarbène. De formule C=CH2, c'est un carbène.

Nomenclature IUPAC
Dans la nomenclature IUPAC, 1,1-ethenediyl décrit la connectivité >C=CH2. Les éthénylidènes apparentés ont la connectivité =C=CH2.

Voir aussi
 Groupe vinylène, -CH=CH-
 Groupe méthylène, -CH2-
 Groupe vinyle, -CH=CH2

Références

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Combining two sensational, tropical destinations, Sri Lanka and Maldives, you are able to indulge in the ultimate, cultural site seeing journey followed by relaxation, romance and tranquillity at a serene paradise island. In Sri Lanka, your personal chauffeur guide will enable you to enjoy a fusion of history, wildlife, culture, and scenery. Sublime experiences will capture your imagination with attractions such as the Temple of the Sacred Tooth, the vibrant colour of Kandy, intricately carved palaces and towering fortresses. Glide above exquisitely scenic terrain on a hot air balloon, get up close and personal with giant rumpled Asian elephants, and meander through Sri Lanka's Hill Country, with its lush tea plantations and cascading waterfalls. Your romantic getaway would not be complete without time spent on a pristine beach, where nature's unparalleled beauty creates a mesmerising backdrop for your sublime pleasure. Home to perhaps the best beaches in the world, the Maldives unfolds whiter-than-white powder sand and luminous cyan-blue water. This romantic, intimate setting ensures a Maldives honeymoon unlike any other.
Accommodation at the Hotels and as per the meal plans mentioned above.
All transport services using 01 Air-conditioned Car based on options provided.
All sightseeing and related entrance charges as mentioned in the itinerary.
We will be providing an English speaking Chauffeur Guide throughout the tour.
Bottle water during sightseeing tours and long drives.
All presently applicable government taxes.
Return airport transfers by a Shared Speed Boat.
Items of a personal nature such as laundry, phone calls etc.
Any hotel early check ins or late check outs unless stated otherwise.
International and domestic airfare unless stated otherwise.
Any change in tax structure resulting from the hike in published tariff.
Any other item not explicitly mentioned under included price.
Any International Airfare to Sri Lanka & from Maldives onwards.
Alcoholic Drinks & Soft drinks & Beverages at all times even during meals.
Items of personal nature like tips, laundry, phone calls etc.
Cost of any activities in Maldives.
Any meals other than those specified as above.
Any Beverages (to be charged directly based on actual consumption).
Any other item not explicitly mentioned under price includes.
Prices are subject to change as per change in Government / Hotel / Airline policy without prior notice.
All rates are inclusive of taxes, any further changes in taxes / levies will be charged extra as applicable.
Please note, the names of hotels mentioned above only indicate that our rates have been based on usage of these hotels. It is not to be construed that accommodation is confirmed at these hotels until and unless we convey the confirmations to you on receipt of your acceptance. However in the event of any of the above mentioned hotels not becoming available at the time of initiating the reservations, we shall book alternate accommodation at a similar or next best available hotel and shall pass on the difference of rates (supplement/reduction whichever is applicable) to you.
In case of any currency fluctuations or amendments in local Government taxes, or any fuel hike, we reserve the right to adjust the tour price accordingly. The due increase or decrease will be communicated accordingly.
Approximate drive times given in the itinerary are direct drive times and do not take into account any traffic situations, road repairs or stops along the way which might increase the time it takes to arrive at the destination.
Please note that in most properties, the normal check in time is 14:00 Hrs and normal check out time is 12:00 Hrs (noon). Please let us know if your flight is arriving prior to your normal hotel check in time or if your departure flight is schedule to depart later than the normal hotel check out time, so that an early or late check out facility can be arranged.
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It is recommended that all guests take out a comprehensive travel insurance covering them for personal effects, personal accident, medical and emergency travel expenses, medical evacuation, cancellation and curtailment.
In order to comply with international airline requirements, all airline tickets must clearly show the passenger's title, surname, name and initial (as indicated in their passport). As this applies to both scheduled and charter flights, we would be grateful if you could provide us with this information at the time of confirmation, should your itinerary incorporate domestic travel by air. We would request a scanned copy of your passport for this purpose.
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Where your domestic flights, train rides, balloon rides, White Water Rafting, Safaris, Whale or Dolphin Watching Charters, have been organized by us, and while we take the maximum care to ensure a safe and comfortable journey for you, &Beyond Lanka Private Ltd. is not responsible for the fitness of the operators or the safety standards of the operating company.
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Gratuities: Tipping is at your discretion. However, your Chauffeur Guide will be able to assist with guidelines.
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Head to Horathapola Estate, a plantation bungalow hidden amidst the beautiful lush landscapes of rural Sri Lanka.
Explore this fully functioning 50-acre organic coconut plantation, which dates back to the early 1900's.
This is an ideal place to start your journey and relax and unwind before you set out to explore the rest of the Island.
Stroll on a nature walk into the community to engage and interact with the friendly locals.
Sit atop a bullock cart and traverse the lush expanse, and gain insight into how this organic plantation works.
Visit the local 'pola', a bustling farmers-market selling delicious fresh produce.
Explore an organic coconut oil manufacturing plant.
If you are an avid birdwatcher, there is a diverse array of kaleidoscopic birdlife painting the sky above.
Look out for massive herds of over 250 elephants, as well as leopards, rusty spotted cats and sloth bears roaming in the scrubby forest. Other large animals found here include Jackal, Spotted Deer, Tufted Grey Langur and Toque Macaque.
Float above the picturesque countryside in a hot air balloon and uncover Sigiriya's sublime palace and fortress complex.
Early this morning engage in a glorious hot air balloon journey, featuring sweeping views of the Sri Lankan countryside.
The balloon takes off from Sigiriya, and traverses the cultural triangle where you can view the splendour of Lion Rock, the dense expanse of monsoon forests, and the stunning man-made reservoirs built in ancient times.
Take in sensational views as well as exploring this fascinating ancient creation.
Wander around the gardens of Rosyth Estate House, and observe the abundance of birdlife that inhabits leafy trees.
Visit local schools and a village, interacting with the communities that the Rosyth Estate works closely with.
An optional excursion is to visit a Tea Estate adjacent to the hotel and gain insight into how tea is grown and then transformed into a delicious brew.
Visit the Temple of the Sacred Relic Temple, the most revered site in Sri Lanka. While the tooth stays hidden within a gold casket, visitors and devotees always visit the temple during puja, the prayer session, just to glimpse the well-protected inner shrine where it is housed.
Visit the loop of 3 Temples in Pilimatalawa located in the central highlands.
Explore the vivid coral reefs on excellent snorkelling and scuba diving excursions.
The surrounding waters boast 10 to 12 different species of whales and dolphins, offering excellent viewing opportunities.
Relax with your loved one or friends and dive into an array of water sports from diving to snorkelling to sunset cruise to surfing in the tranquil surrounds of the crystal clear lagoon.
Unwind and discover a path of wellness at the spa with a range of treatments to soothe body and mind.
Heighten your cultural knowledge and interact with them, stroll along the island streets with your guide, and delight in traditional snacks at a local café.
After a leisurely delicious breakfast you will be driven to Malé Airport for your international flight onwards.
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Home Latest "Neutral" CNN announces seven-hour "Climate Crisis" Townhall, only Dems invited
"Neutral" CNN announces seven-hour "Climate Crisis" Townhall, only Dems invited
CNN wants you to know that they aren't left-wing. To prove this to you CNN has announced a seven-hour Townhall on the Climate Crisis and only invited Democrats to speak.
Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls on Wednesday, September 4, taking audience questions about their climate plans as scientists sound the alarm about global warming.
Along with the candidates, the network also announced the CNN journalists and the approximate appearance times for the presidential hopefuls during the seven-hour, live event.
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro will be interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer at 5 p.m. ET
Businessman Andrew Yang, who will also be interviewed by Blitzer, will come on at 5:40 p.m.
California Sen. Kamala Harris will be interviewed by CNN's Erin Burnett at 6:20 p.m.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who will also be interviewed by Burnett, will appear at 7 p.m.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be interviewed by CNN's Anderson Cooper at 8 p.m.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who will also be interviewed by Cooper, will be on at 8:40 p.m.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be interviewed by CNN's Chris Cuomo at 9:20 p.m.
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who will also be interviewed by Cuomo at 10 p.m.
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke will appear with CNN's Don Lemon at 10:40 p.m.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will also be interviewed by Lemon and will come on at 11:20 p.m.
This is just another example of how bias CNN is. Will CNN ever have an immigration Town Hall with just Republicans? Will CNN ever have a Gun Control Town Hall with just Republicans? There is really no debate regarding how to handle Climate Change in the Democrat Party. It is simple in their view. Fossil Fuels most go. However, the Republican Party has a lot of debate. The Republican Party has people on both sides of the Climate debate. Some want to move away towards green energy, others think the entire Climate Change narrative is a sham.
Either way, this is nothing more than pure left-wing propaganda from CNN. They don't just want the left to debate Climate Change but they want no Conservatives to push back either.
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SEGA has revealed an eerie addition to the upcoming team-based racing title, Team Sonic Racing, with the "Haunted Castle" map and music track. Check out the trailer below.
Written by renowned Sonic Mania composer, Tee Lopes, and performed by S.A.M.E featuring Tei Sena on violin, the ghoulish new track is sure to send chills down your spine as you encounter the mysterious ghosts haunting the halls of this treacherous map.
Team Sonic Racing is the ultimate arcade and fast-paced competitive style racing experience, featuring your favorite characters and environments from across the Sonic Universe. Race together and win together in online multiplayer or local co-op mode utilizing the dynamic team mechanics and vehicle customization features to dash across the finish line.
Team Sonic Racing is set to release both physically and digitally on May 21 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, with a digital-only release on PC.


Is Bill Thompson trying to bury David Paterson?
In Madison Square Park this morning, Governor David Paterson offered a qualified endorsement of Bill Thompson's campaign for mayor, saying "it is in no way a put down of Michael Bloomberg's two terms of service to this city by insisting that there be new blood in City Hall," according to Azi.
They chose an interesting time to announce the Governor's support: The Saturday papers aren't known for maximizing news value. But as Liz Benjamin points out, it's still plenty of time to kick around the Internet and the 24-hour cable channels.
With Mr. Paterson polling a meager 20-percent support, it's hard to blame Mr. Thompson for not scheduling the Governor in prime time. We suspect an endorsement from Andrew Cuomo–should it come–might command a slightly better time slot.
SEE ALSO: The Week in Interviews: What are Your Feelings, Mr. Spitzer, Towards Ashley Dupre?


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Florian Ranft
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Florian Ranft is a Policy Fellow at Das Progressive Zentrum where he works within the Programm Structural Change. His work centres on inclusive growth and the future of work. He is the former Head of Policy and International at Policy Network, and a former Senior Research Analyst at the Centre for Progressive Policy, both think tanks based in London. Previously, he was a researcher and lecturer in political sociology and international politics at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Greifswald.
[Panel] Future of Work - Do We Need a Universal Basic Income? Kraftwerk - Challenge StageTina Egolf • NiMA Asghari • Tim Bansemer • Philip Kovce • Florian Ranft


Despite extremely cold temperatures, (the University of Minnesota canceled 1.5 days of classes!), the year has gotten off to a great start. It has become a tradition to spend New Year's Day with my friend, Amy. We have brunch and this year we created vision boards while watching Crazy, Stupid, Love and Pitch Perfect.
January will always be a fun month for me because it's my birthday month and I pretend to be (or really am) a birthday princess. My co-workers helped make the day fun and we started with a sugar rush followed by a crash thanks to UDS donut delivery. The web team had lunch together at Haiku Japanese Bistro. Scott and I went to Pizza Nea for the first time and loved the food and the quite atmosphere of the restaurant. My parents were going to visit us to celebrate my birthday, my dad's birthday (February 15) and my parent's anniversary (February 5) but that has been delayed because of Scott's business travel to Georgia. He was there to experience the Snowpocalypse.
I made it to the gym 16 times! Proud of the fact that I was there more days than not.
I wore my FitBit every day and I tried to walk a minimum of 10,000 steps. Some days I even walked around the house until I hit my goal. I do blame the Polar Vortex missing the goal some days.
Scroll through the rest of the post to see the collection of photos I took for the month. I met my goal of taking a photo every day. It has been fun trying to find subjects that in one way or another capture my day.
Favorite sweater, wool roving for craft day with Allie, favorite Christmas gift from Scott and Scott with Stewie and Louie.
View of downtown Minneapolis from Mayo Memorial Building, sunny lunch spot at the Campus Club, meditation space at the University of Minnesota, and view of Coffman Union from the bus shelter.
Migraine cure, Scott and I on a winter walk near Minnehaha Creek, tea date with Lisa Lukis and the details of my OGIO bag - a gift from Emily.
Punch Pizza lunch with Danielle, Campus Club lunch with Erin, McNamara Alumni Center during a snow storm, and Burton Hall.
Morning date with Liz and Vivian and afternoon with Barney the dog, neighbor snow people, Scott drinking a beer after walking uptown, snowy walk with Stewie followed by a movie.
Squirrel Appreciation Day, my birthday, a particularly sunny day, and my bathroom tile.
Solveig and Stewie, -18 degrees, moving snow, and colorful veggies at Kowalski's.
A home in my neighborhood looking wonderfully wintery, Johnston Hall and frost on glass in shape of an eye.


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Just seven tower blocks reclad after Grenfell
Condemned cladding systems on just seven social housing tower blocks have been replaced after the Grenfell tower tragedy – four more than a month ago
Following widespread criticism about the rate of progress, housing associations and local authority owners are at last stepping up activity with remediation said to be underway on 92 of 158 social housing blocks judged to have failed large-scale system tests.
This compares with six buildings being worked on in the second week of January, which sparked a furious row amid accusations that the Government was dragging its feet in making high rise buildings safe in the wake of the tragedy.
The Government is still collecting data on remediation of private sector buildings, which will be revealed next month.
New Government figures reveal that the total number of private and public buildings over 18m with substandard cladding has risen by two to 301.
Of this total 130 are private sector residential buildings, including hotels and student accommodation and 13 are public buildings including hospitals and schools.


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Graham Harman's attempt to elevate H.P. Lovecraft to the pantheon of supreme literary artists in his book, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (Zero Books, 2012), begins with a defense of Lovecraft's work against what is probably the most famous dismissal of it, made by the critic Edmund Wilson in the 1930s. "The principal feature of Lovecraft's work," wrote Wilson, "is an elaborate concocted myth" about "a race of outlandish gods and grotesque prehistoric peoples who are always playing tricks with time and space and breaking through into the contemporary world, usually somewhere in Massachusetts." One of Lovecraft's stories, "At the Mountains of Madness," focuses on "semi-invisible polypous monsters that uttered a shrill whistling sound and blasted their enemies with terrific winds."
According to Harman, in his critique Wilson has unfairly "reduced to literal absurdity" Lovecraft's plots through an especially brutal "paraphrase," a term that Harman uses to describe any attempt to translate any "statement, artwork, or anything else" into terms other than its own. For Harman, Lovecraft is a writer whose work is especially noteworthy for its "deliberate and skillful obstruction of all attempts to paraphrase," and the burden of most of Weird Realism is to show how and why this is so. But is Wilson's paraphrase--if that's what it is--really unfair, a diminution of Lovecraft's actual achievement?
It certainly seems accurate to say that Lovecraft's work centers on the "elaborate concocted myth" of Cthulhu and other related beings (the "Old Ones"), creatures who predate the appearance of human beings on Earth, who make occasional appearances in the present (providing the horror), and who originate from somewhere else in the cosmos. Perhaps the word "concocted" has pejorative connotations, but would the sense of the phrase markedly differ if Wilson had chosen a near-synonym such as, say, "fabricated"? Is it not simply true to say that in his stories H.P. Lovecraft fabricated an "elaborate myth," meaning one of Lovecraft's own creation? Isn't it also true to say that the creatures featured in this mythos are pretty "outlandish" (so outlandish that Lovecraft's narrators have a hard time describing them) and at times "grotesque"? In the first chapter of his book Harman refers to them as "monstrous creatures," and it's hard to see why this would be considered some kind of neutral description rather than itself a "paraphrase" that could be seen as just as condescending as Wilson's if we choose to forget that it is the very nature of horror that its creations be both outlandish and monstrous.
Similarly, it seems to me literally true and in no way a paraphrase of a Lovecraft tale to note that it is likely to be "playing tricks with time and space," that the "monstrous creatures" are likely to be featured "breaking through into the contemporary world," and that this is likely to take place in Massachusetts.(Arkham, to be more precise--although Wilson is correct that it might range outside of Arkham into the countryside as well). If anything, Wilson's characterization of "At the Mountains of Madness" seems even more accurate as a literal report on the creatures in that story. In short, I can find no compelling reason to regard Wilson's account of Lovecraft's work as reducing that work to "absurdity." I would not suggest that Wilson himself was attempting a neutral description, nor that he did not mean to communicate a negative judgment of Lovecraft's fiction. Clearly that fiction was at best not the sort of thing Wilson wanted to read; at worst it was too "outlandish" for him to take seriously absent some other compensatory quality he could not find.
Harman believes that any attempt to describe a literary work is going to be insufficient in capturing the spirit of the work (and sometimes such attempts can be just flat-out incorrect), and of course he is right. However, if Edmund Wilson can be faulted in his brief discussion of H.P. Lovecraft it is not because he has reduced the stories to absurdity (Wilson was perfectly aware that the novels of a writer like Dickens were full of the "outlandish," but he still thought Dickens a great writer) but because he has limited their possible appeal to their plots. His criticism is incomplete. It seems likely that had Wilson attempted a lengthier, more developed critique of Lovecraft's fiction he would have found little to recommend it in its atmospheric effects, its style, or its philosophical implications, but he would have more fully justified his position and more adequately stated his "paraphrase." Doubtless Graham Harman would have found it equally unpersuasive. But at this point dismissing Wilson because he is paraphrasing seems close to dismissing him because he doesn't like H.P. Lovecraft, and further dismissing any negative criticism because it can't escape the confines of Harman's conception of "paraphrase" (although presumably a positive evaluation can't, either.)
I myself think somewhat more highly of Lovecraft than did Edmund Wilson. But I don't think it's much of a defense to decry otherwise accurate, if only partial, summaries because they don't make the writer seem very serious. There are indeed elements of Lovecraft's fiction that can't be taken very seriously, and Wilson wasn't wrong to point this out. Only if you think Lovecraft's stories can't survive a focus on the goofier qualities of their plots would it even seem necessary to respond to Edmund Wilson. Graham Harman doesn't think that (although he probably wouldn't accept such a characterization of them), since most of his book is dedicated to showing that Lovecraft is also a stylist and a philosopher, but it does allow him to introduce the problem of paraphrase, which he will continue to pursue throughout the book as the primary form of criticism directed at Lovecraft's work, apparently presuming critics who finally can't consider a "pulp" writer like Lovecraft worth the effort to make more focused and nuanced criticism.
Most of the book is devoted to a systematic analysis of 100 passages from Lovecraft's fiction, each more or less concluding that the passage in question illustrates a typically Lovecraftian move, producing an effect that could not be created using some other move, cumulatively showing Lovecraft to be not just a good writer, but "one of the greatest of the twentieth century." Harman presents this as a form of close reading that avoids the flaws in the conception of close reading offered by New Criticism, which from Harman's perspective is guilty of a "holism" that puts too much emphasis on the "interrelations" among individual words, images and ideas within the work so that meaning becomes too dependent on internal (as opposed to external) context. This critique of New Criticism (specifically using Cleanth Brooks as example) is predicated on the philosophical assumptions of Object-Oriented Onotolgy/Speculative Realism, the currently prominent movement in philosophy of which Harman has been one of the most prolific proponents. I do not wish to focus on the validity of these assumptions per se, but only on the way Harman applies them to both literature as represented by H.P. Lovecraft and to literary criticism as represented by Cleanth Brooks--or at least by the account of Brooks Graham Harman provides.
My problem with Harman's characterization of New Criticism as exemplified by Cleanth Brooks begins with his initial description of what would seem to be a kind of first principle for New Critics: "A poem was to be treated as an autonomous entity, working like a machine to create certain effects." Although certainly "autonomy" is an important term in the New Critics' approach to "understanding poetry," there is little reason to believe that any New Critic, Cleanth Brooks especially, would consent to the idea that they regard a poem as an "entity" in the sense Harman has in mind. Since this sort of entity is more like a "machine," such a notion seems even more inappropriate as a characterization of the New Critics' contention that a poem should be read not as the means to a "statement" that could just as easily be paraphrased but as a self-enclosed work of art that indeed needs to be considered as a whole. Brooks does invoke the "organic" quality of a poem, but if this plausibly suggests a metaphorical "entity," it hardly seems consistent with the poem as "machine."
In my opinion, Brooks did not mean his account of poems as "organic," or his analogy between Keats's poem and the urn it apostrophizes, to literally objectify the poem as Harman does. In fact, Brooks in The Well-Wrought Urn is as likely to speak of the poem as an activity or a performance as to represent it as an object. Indeed, his analysis of "Ode On a Grecian Urn" specifically uses the terminology of drama to account for the poem's effects, his discussion of the poem's famous closing lines concluding that "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' has precisely the same status, and the same justification as Shakespeare's 'Ripeness is all.' It is a speech 'in character' and supported by a dramatic context." Brooks does not claim merely that poems "create certain effects." The effects are of the sort that require a very active reader, one who does not wait for the poem to announce its "meaning" but in a sense "follows" the poem in the same way an audience member needs to follow a play.
In considering the label of "formalism" often employed to discredit Brooks and the New Critics, Harman defends Brooks but maintains that, nevertheless, Brooks "fails to acknowledge the size of the problem that results from downplaying the content of literature so severely in favor of structural irony and paradox." Here it seems to me that again Harman is not characterizing accurately the position Brooks takes on the vexed question of the relationship between "form" and "content." Brooks does not "downplay" content in favor of form because he believes that in a poem--at least in a good poem--the two cannot be separated. Brooks writes, "The structure [form] obviously is everywhere conditioned by the nature of the material [content] which goes into the poem. The nature of the material sets the problem to be solved, and the solution is the ordering of the material." In Brooks's conception of a poem, it is meaningless to abstract the content from the form because the former has been transformed by the latter in a seamless merger to become the poem itself. If we want to talk of the "content," we can find it only in the "ordering" that form has made of it, that makes the poem what it is.
This ordering is what Brooks means by "context," but more importantly it is the reader's perception of context that is the most crucial element in our appreciation of poetry, not the irony or paradox the poem itself insists on or that the poet has "intended." "Meaning" is what the reader helps to create, not what the poem communicates directly. Thus when Harman asserts that Brooks cannot be right when he claims that the meaning we take away from the final line of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" comes from "its relation to the total context of the poem" because he gives inadequate respect to "individual elements within the poem," he is effectively emptying New Criticism of its own specific content, since at its core is the principle that "the total context of the poem" is the poem. To instead attend closely to "individual elements within the poem" in their own "autonomy" is to treat the poem as something other than a poem.
While Cleanth Brooks certainly wants to correct what he thinks are misconceptions about what makes a poem a poem, ultimately The Well-Wrought Urn is more about what a poem requires of the reader than what it requires of the poet, less about getting the meaning right by attending to "total context" than about allowing a poem to afford the reader the most expansive reading experience possible, although no one such experience will be expansive enough to exhaust the poem's potential effects or implications. "Irony and paradox" are only elements that contribute to this expansiveness, not those that somehow prescribe what features poetry must exhibit to be poetry. Thus when Harman asserts that Brooks overlooks the fact that "philosophy and science display as much irony and paradox as literature," he is arguably correct, but only in the sense that the subjects of philosophy and science can be paradoxical, not because they aspire to incorporate irony and paradox as discursive modes that help to deflect "meaning" and thus discourage coming to conclusions.
Harman's critique of the unjustified holism of New Criticism is finally his own justification for the approach to Lovecraft's work he takes in his extended analyses of passages (sometimes single sentences) from Lovecraft's best-known stories. Here he both grants the autonomy to the "individual elements" within a literary work he believes Cleanth Brooks denied and uses these passages to discuss Lovecraft's fiction more broadly. This exercise seems designed most urgently to defend Lovecraft against the charge that as a prose stylist he leaves something to be desired, a task Harman performs through a tactic he calls "ruination," which is the effort to determine whether in "discovering how a given passage might be made worse," we might also "find an indirect method of appreciating its virtues." Not so surprisingly, we discover that very few of Lovecraft's sentences can be ruined in this way, as most attempts to do so fall woefully short of approximating in a suitably reductive form anything like the stylistically impeccable, philosophically charged effects Lovecraft's prose achieves. Although Harman does also cogently explicate some of the recurring features of Lovecraft's body of work along the way, it is difficult to take the relentless demonstrations of the difficulty of ruining Lovecraft's signature strategies as anything less than a prolonged rebuke of Edmund Wilson for his condescending "paraphrase" of Lovecraft, condescension that has continued to shadow Lovecraft's work ever since.
Certainly Harman's defense is vigorous: "Far from being a bad stylist, Lovecraft often makes innovations that feel like technical breakthroughs of the sort Vasari finds in various Italian artists." He does not hesitate to use words like "brilliant" and "masterful," to the point that ultimately even sympathetic readers might wonder whether Harman is protesting just a little too much. It is entirely possible to find Lovecraft's stories (some of them) to be imaginatively conceived and full of effectively creepy creatures and also to find them full of wooden prose and stilted dialogue. It might even be the case that these stories do indeed have interesting philosophical implications, even that they illustrate the particular insights of Speculative Realism/OOO, but why in order to concede these possibilities we must accept that H.P. Lovecraft is also a supreme craftsman and stylist is not at all apparent. The impression left by Harman's readings of Lovecraft is partly of a philosophically-informed literary critic making perceptive comments about the writer and work at hand, and partly of an ardent fan of H.P. Lovecraft so convinced of his genius that no kind of praise could possibly seem excessive: "The idea that Lovecraft is outclassed as a stylist by the likes of Proust or Joyce. . .is not an idea to which I can assent. The opposite claims seems closer to the truth."
To his credit, Harman does pick out passages that are certainly vulnerable to criticism by readers who share Wilson's judgment. Thus he quotes this sentence from "The Call of Cthulhu":
He talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion; making me see with terrible vividness the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone --whose geometry, he oddly said, was all wrong. . .
The emptiness of phrasing--"strangely poetic," "terrible vividness, "oddly said"--is particularly concentrated here, but this sort of writing is quite common in Lovecraft's stories. Harman plausibly appeals to the importance of considering that the source of such writing is in a first-person narrative by noting that in this case the phrase "strangely poetic" registers the narrator's "hesitation at endorsing" this account, but the persistence with which Lovecraft's narrators resort to formulations like this could also as easily be taken as a sign Lovecraft thinks they are appropriately evocative. Even if we grant the narrator's right to his flat phrasing, however, "terrible vividness" seems especially bland, and while Harman asserts this "empty signifier" actually "functions more effectively than any concrete list of terribly vivid things could ever do," he thus neglects to consider that to achieve the verbally "concrete" does not necessarily entail a "list." Likewise Harman claims that "oddly said" signifies that "the net result remains problematic for the narrator" without noticing that it does so in a particularly colorless way.
Harman's most substantive claim on behalf of Lovecraft as a stylist is that Lovecraft's fiction achieves what Harman calls "literary cubism." He cites this passage among others:
If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing—but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.
Rather than presenting a concrete, unified image of this creature, according to Harman Lovecraft instead "splits the usual relation between an accessible sensual thing and its accessible sensual qualities," presenting "such a multitude of surfaces that it can no longer be identified with any mere summation of them," in the manner of Picasso or Braque. Perhaps it is true that Lovecraft's favored way of conveying the sheer otherness of his benighted world is to splice together such separate images, simultaneously affirming and asserting their essential incompatibility, but this begs the question of whether any particular such stacking of images actually works very well. In this instance, I must say I cannot myself find the blurring of octopus, dragon and "human caricature" (whatever that might be) to be particularly effective. Not only does there seem to be no discernible reason why these things (rather than three other things) should be yoked together, but the breathless way in which they are invoked strikes me as rather silly. The narrator obviously regards this composite thing as terrifying; I just can't. (It doesn't help that the creature is not merely "shocking" or "frightful" but "shockingly frightful," a yoking together of equally vague words such that their "summation" merely blends them in a haze of cliché.)
Although the premises of Lovecraft's stories are frequently intriguing (within the confines Lovecraft's more general vision of the lurking, ancient horrors lying behind our ordinary reality allows), and the best of the stories create a legitimately ominous atmosphere and are well-paced enough to make their revelations effective, they are also consistently marred by this kind of writing. Too often we come upon descriptions such as this:
The Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten foot high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast ten-foot bases.
I have no idea what a "rugose" cone would look like, and unfortunately the rest of the description doesn't make it any more vivid. "Other organs" seems just lazy, nor do "distensible limbs" emerging from the "apexes" (of the creatures?) make me see the creature any better. This is not the result of Lovecraft trying to merely "suggest" otherwise incomprehensible entities, but of bad writing. And again I am simply not able to take seriously the image of this "great race" clicking and scraping its paws in order to communicate. By the time we see them in locomotion through "the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast ten-foot bases," I can no longer suppress my laughter. (And why is ten feet so "vast"?) A writer who not infrequently produces prose that is unintentionally funny cannot, in my view, be a supreme prose stylist surpassing Proust and Joyce.
It seems to me that in putatively attending to Lovecraft's "style," Harman is not actually concerned with Lovecraft's style at all. While not all of Lovecraft's descriptions are as clunky as this one (his descriptions of actually existing terrestrial nature can sometimes be quite nice), they occur often enough that according to any definition of "style" consistent with its proper application to works of fiction—as a measure of the writer's care and facility with language considered as an artistic medium—Lovecraft's style is perfunctory at best, at worst indifferent to "art." What Harman is really responding to in Lovecraft's work is its fanciful ideas: the notion that the geometry is "all wrong," that an entity might be three-things-in-one. That Lovecraft's fiction is full of these ideas is undeniable, and if they lead Graham Harman to think these ideas are remarkably congruent with his own, that the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft provides an apposite literary illustration of the philosophical tenets of Object-Oriented Ontology, I offer no objection. However, in most cases, when Harman claims to be examining Lovecraft's style, he is at best instead highlighting the articulation of these ideas—"simultaneous pictures of a an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature." There is very little in this sort of articulation that could meaningfully be identified as "style" in the first place.
A city "whose geometry was all wrong" is a productively vague notion, and of course Harman argues that its vagueness is precisely the point. Lovecraft is depicting an alternate reality so utterly unlike our own that our usual terms and concepts can't possibly make sense of it except to declare that from the human perspective it is "all wrong." And indeed in the climactic episode of "The Call of Cthulhu," in which we finally get a view of the "Cyclopean city," it is presented as geometrically weird, "all wrong" according to ordinary human experience. Yet even here, the description remains vague and colorless, as when the city appears "loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours," full of "crazily elusive angles." Lovecraft does at least provide some more concrete illustration of these crazy angles and other loathsome features: "In this phantasy of prismatic distortion [the door] moved anomalously in a diagonal way, so the all the rules of matter and perspective seemed upset." In fairness, there are other moments in this account when Lovecraft offers some real writing: "The aperture was black with a darkness almost material. That tenebrousness was indeed a positive quality, for it obscured such parts of the inner walls as ought to be revealed, and actually burst forth like smoke from its aeon-long imprisonment, visibly darkening the sun as it slunk away into the shrunken and gibbous sky on flapping membraneous wings."
However, this passage still reveals Lovecraft's fundamental limitations as a prose stylist. The recourse to abstract, pompous vocabulary ("tenebrousness," "gibbous," "membraneous") and the melodramatic effect created through reflexive italicizing and emphatic phrasing ("aeon-long imprisonment"), added to the work Lovecraft wants those adverbially modified adjectives ("loathsomely redolent") to do, substituting for more generous description, gives me, at least, the impression of a writer trying to avoid style more than cultivate it. You can say that this prosaic, deliberately stiff and doggedly bland kind of writing is Lovecraft's chosen style—but that doesn't mean it's very good.


It's that time of the year when many of us begin to think about holiday giving. And MUMM is no different.
As we travel during the summer, we meet kids whose families are strapped trying to make ends meet. Often that means food is scarce, not to mention clothes, books, toiletries and so many things the rest of us take for granted.
So this time of year, we check back with the churches we partnered with for Vacation Bible School to see if they have families they need help providing for during the holidays. Last year, we put together stockings, gifts and household supplies for eight families to make sure they had a Christmas.
You can be part of this effort by making a donation to MUMM. Simply send a donation to Advance Special 311 at the Conference.
And don't forget, MUMM is here to serve you and your congregation. Just contact me at (712) 370-5068, or e-mail me at cminer5068@gmail.com if we can present a program or help you develop new outreach ministries.


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LIVERPOOL UNBEATEN RUN ENDED AT WATFORD
ballerchats	Premier League 2019/20	 March 1, 2020 3 Minutes
Watford do the unexpected
Woww!!! Of all the teams to end the run, Watford were the last team on my mind. It's absolutely incredible, I am actually gobsmacked at the result. So you mean to tell me that after an impressive unbeaten run of 44 premier league games, this is how it ends. Credit to Watford for doing what they did. I'm sure they'll be many Arsenal fans out there full of gratitude as their team still remain the only side in premier league history to go the whole season unbeaten.
Liverpool supporters don't need to despair because your team can still lose another 5 games and be crowned champions come May. Just take it as a small blemish on what has been an incredible season for the Reds as they edge closer to ending the 30 year wait for a league trophy (I think you'll agree that this is a lot more important).
Personally I think Liverpool could have lost league games ages ago but have been quite fortuitous in some matches by having results go their way. I guess it was only a of matter of time before they registered their first lost. I really believed they would go the whole season unbeaten but nevertheless their achievements and records set along the journey is plenty for the team to be proud about.
Watford opened the scoring through Sarr after tapping the ball into the net from close range on the 54th minute. He made it a double when captain Deeney played him through on goal before Sarr neatly lifted the ball above the Liverpool keeper in the 60th minute. Lallana almost pulled one back for the visitors but was unlucky to see his effort hit the upright of the post. Deeney wrapped things up for Watford when Sarr broke free on goal and cut the ball back for Deeney to coolly finish in the 72nd minute (not a bad day in the office for the captain and Sarr).
There were a couple of games postponed due to match clashes, however, Tottenham's game against Wolves definitely caught the eye. I have mentioned before that Spurs will struggle to win games and find goals without the injured Son and Kane (their biggest attacking threats). Today though, it was their defence that let them down. Spurs went ahead through Bergwijn in the 13th minute before Doherty equalised for Wolves in the 27th minute.
The game between these two sides will always provide a lot of entertainment for fans due to their attacking nature. The action was non stop and both attacked end to end. Spurs were granted a goal in the 45th minute when Aurier struck the ball beautifully past the Wolves goal keeper. All Tottenham had to do in the second half was defend well and not concede. As we know with Spurs, things don't always go according to plan and this game was no different. Jota leveled for Wolves in the 57th minute before Jimenez scored the winner in the 73rd minute. Spurs are now 7th in the league with 10 games remaining (hopes of that champions league spot may start to evaporate).
West Ham beat Southampton 3-1 in their quest for survival as the result now puts them in 16th position in the league. Their only concern now is that there are three other clubs with the same points tally and any one of those clubs could easily overtake West Ham. I'm pretty sure that when West Ham moved into their new home at the London Stadium, playing championship football wasn't part of the imagination or something that was envisaged by stakeholders…..I'm just saying, football is a funny old sport.
Manchester City win first silverware of 2020 after beating Aston Villa 2-1 in the Carabao Cup final!!!!
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Steve Green's birthday today. Happy Birthday to you etc etc.
Yup, happy birthday Steve old bean.
It's Steve Green's birthday again today. Have a good one etc.
happy birthday steve. sorry this is late!
Steve's birthday again today. Happy Birthday to Steve.
Its that day again. Happy Birthday Steve!


Should the Safety Factor (10) be exceeded for any f the races there will be a ballot.
Thanks to "Treehouse Sporting Colours" for their kind sponsorship of the Rosettes and the prizes for the first race.
In addition, thanks goes to Dunraven Stud (www.dunravenstud.com) for its sponsorship of the Novice Riders Series also.
For riders who have not won any race with the exception of a Pony Club Novice or Intermediate race run at an official Pony Club Raceday and a 2018 qualifying Treehouse Sporting Colours race and for those who have never taken part in the Summer Racecourse Series.


With nearly 130 years of service to the community, Clarity Child Guidance Center has gained a considerable understanding of children's mental health. We also understand the difficulties encountered by families and professionals when it comes to the dire shortage of mental health professionals, services, and resources in our community. We hear the stories, can feel the frustration, and see the pain etched on those who are affected.
Jonathan's story isn't unique. Over 1,300 children and adolescents each year are admitted to a local ER needing psychiatric care, only to discover it's not available at that facility. Why has this happened? To understand, it's important to learn the history. Pete Earley, a Pulitzer prize finalist, researched the history of mental health care and came to a profound discovery in his book, Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness. The public backlash against the inhumane treatment experienced in psychiatric facilities deemed "insane asylums" resulted in public policy that required states to invest in upgrading them. Unfortunately, for a period of 50 years, rather than investing in them, asylums were closed. The promise made by our legislators was to create community mental health facilities to provide proactive care so that asylums would not be needed. This promise was never fulfilled. Instead, we invested in expanding prisons, where many of the mentally ill now reside.
Clarity Child Guidance Center is intimately aware of the shortage of "acute services" in our community. In one 30-day period, 100 families contacted Clarity for care, yet every single bed in our 52-bed hospital was full. Finding resources within our community is difficult at best, and often impossible. Clarity Child Guidance Center is the only nonprofit in South Texas to provide this level of care to children as young as three.
However, encouraging news is on the horizon. One promising initiative is the Behavioral Health Learning Collaborative for Region 6 of the 1115 Waiver, or RHP6 Learning Collaborative. This group is made up of agencies, hospitals, and others invested in mental health services throughout central Texas. Most are receiving federal funding to increase capacity and services for mental health care. Under the leadership of the University Health System, this group is tasked with increasing access to care. The goals of RHP6 are to reduce ER admissions for patients struggling with mental illness, redirect them to appropriate care, and to contribute to documenting the system of care so that families and professionals have tools to navigate the system.
Local mental health agencies are also investing in capacity. The Center for Healthcare Services recently opened sixteen crisis and respite beds, and expanded their existing crisis line with an app available to download to a mobile device. Clarity Child Guidance Center is adding 20 more acute care beds. Six of these beds will provide a psychiatric emergency service for the South Texas region. Instead of children being boarded at ERs, where care is not readily available for psychiatric conditions, Clarity Child Guidance Center will be equipped to provide emergency service care.
Advances are being made and gaps are being addressed, but all of us need to continue to advocate in order to maintain and advance care. As a society, we sat idly by as mental health facilities closed, and are still closing – most recently in Alabama. Meanwhile, untreated children with mental illness are suffering the consequences – dropping out of high school, addiction, incarceration, and homelessness. More frightening, left untreated, people suffering from mental illness die on average 29 years earlier than their healthier counterparts. We are potentially faced with a generation of children whose futures are compromised. Our children deserve better. They deserve our care, and need us to advocate on their behalf. It's not enough to read this editorial. Share it on social media. Talk about what you learned. Lend a helping hand and heart to those in need. Donate. Volunteer. Do something to counter years of abject neglect, because doing nothing has created what will one day be looked upon as one of America's greatest failures.
Frederick W. Hines is president and CEO of Clarity Child Guidance Center, the only nonprofit treatment center in San Antonio and South Texas that specializes in children 3 to 17 who suffer from serious mental health problems.