The Adventures of Sam and Caroline: Laundry – Not so easy if you don't speak Danish!
Today we had planned to do laundry. We are staying in the apartment of a couple around our age, and they were nice enough to leave us their laundry card so we could use the machines in the building here. Sounds mundane and straightforward, but it turned out to be a little more complicated than expected.
First, you have to sign up ahead of time for a time slot, similar to the laundry board at ZP actually. We signed up for 10am-1pm today, and then slept till 11:45. Oops.
We got down there and found another woman doing laundry. Apparently, there's a rule that if you don't start within 30 minutes of the time slot, then someone else can use the machines. Sensible enough, but we didn't know!
It actually worked out well, since she had the next time slot from 1-4pm and now she was almost done, so we could use her time. But here's where it gets really tricky. The laundry machine here has WAY more buttons than at home, and the sign on the wall that explains the buttons was only in Danish. Furthermore, you have to put your card into a reader and then push some additional buttons in order to pay for the laundry machines.
Needless to say, we failed miserably at all of these steps. The woman who had taken our time slot was nice enough to help out, but I imagine that she now thinks that Americans don't know how to do laundry. We decided to hang our stuff to air dry so that we don't have to wait around for the dryer – and so we don't have to figure out another machine!
Now we are off to walk around the south part of the city. We will see the canals, visit the "Free State of Christiania" (we'll explain more after we see it!) and hopefully eat a meal at one of the restaurants that someone got us as a wedding gift.
We will write and post pictures about it soon!
Pretty funny, hope that you get it figured out as it will be cheaper than having to buy new clothes!!


I grew up attending an Assembly of God Church in Maryland, then was enrolled at a Jesuit High School in Washington DC, then graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. I guess you could say I experienced everything that Christianity had to offer, but I did not give my life to Christ decide to follow Him until I was 32 years old and started to attend the Watermark Fort Worth Campus shortly after that at the suggestion of a friend.
God used my first Community Group a Watermark to help me be authentic for the first time in my adult life. I confessed sins for the first time and found healing. I also met my wife Shannon through Community. She has been one of the biggest blessings of my life. Walking in the light of truth with a Community Group helps me become a better Christian, husband, and son every day. That's why I am so passionate about living in Community and the reason that I love serving on this team.


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How did you get mixed up with a fake charity?
I've always loved Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings, so I was really excited when the movies came out. I started checking out LOTR websites, and one day, lo and behold, there was an announcement that a new charity, Bit of Earth, had formed right near my house. They wanted to build gardens for communities and name them after Tolkien characters, and they were looking for volunteers. Hoo, doggie! Gardening, Tolkien, charity work--I was all over that!
When did you first realize that something was wrong here?
That's a really hard question, because I knew things were strange from the first time I talked on the phone to these guys, but I didn't suspect anything illegal. I got a call from one of the directors, Jordan Wood, whose online name was "Mr. Frodo." Naturally, I expected this person to be a guy, but the voice on the phone sounded like a woman. So that was an "It's Pat!" moment; you know "Jordan" could be a male or female name, and an online name can be anything. It's kind of an embarassing thing to ask someone, "Hey, by the way, are you a guy or a girl?" I just kinda let it go at the time. Of course, this was only the first of many, many confusing issues that were going to come up, but by letting this one slide, I was pretty much setting the pattern for the rest to come.
Did Jordan really fool people into thinking she was a man?
When I actually met Jordan at the garden project, we shook hands and I absolutely knew this was not a man; the bones in the hand and wrist were all wrong. By then I'd talked to both directors, Jordan and Abbey, and it was clear that they both wanted to represent Jordan as a male. I figured they were lesbians, but because of whatever reason, they didn't want to be "out" in public--maybe a family thing, or they were worried that their new charity might lose donors or volunteers if word got out that it was run by lesbians...whatever. There are a lot of possible reasons for wanting to stay closeted. I thought the best thing was just to respect their decision and play along.
Most people either thought Jordan was a woman trying to pass as male, or an underage boy who was trying to pass as an adult. Some people never could tell what Jordan was; they just sort of looked on and wondered silently. The bottom line, though, was that none of us cared. We liked the kids and wanted to be a part of this neat new charity, and it didn't matter if they had this little weirdness going on. Everyone figured they'd probably hear the "real story" eventually. And no one's going to shout out that the Emperor's got no, uh, clothes, you know?
Is it possible that Abbey and Jordan really meant well but just got in over their heads?
Kinda like that time Marsha Brady promised everyone that Davey Jones would come to the Prom? You know, I wish I could believe that. I'd like that to be the case. The trouble is, once you start learning about the forged documents, the fake Social Security card, the money they raised specifically for a real charity that never got donated, the fake suicide letter that one of them sent home, to throw her parents off her trail...All that starts to add up to convince you that these guys were acting deliberately all along.
How did they flimflam celebrities into their scheme?
Their first target was Sean Astin, who played "Sam Gamgee" in Lord of the Rings. Sean sits on the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. He's well-known among his fans as a champion for reading and literacy. His character, Sam, is a devoted gardener who loves the land; something that's left out of the movie is that Sam learns to read and write so that he can help preserve the stories of the Frodo and the One Ring, and Hobbits in general.
Abbey and Jordan took all this and cooked up something that would be irresistable to Sean: Building a Children's Reading Garden. It has all the elements: volunteering, community enrichment, literacy promotion...AND it brings in his movie character very nicely with the gardening. This was in 2003, before the final movie of the LOTR trilogy, so it was an absolutely perfect PR opportunity to promote his movie role too. Then, the piece de resistance to seal the deal: they approached Sean on the first anniversary of 9/11, at the White House, just after Sean delivered a speech about volunteering as part of the Official 9/11 ceremonies. Talk about setting up for the spike! How could the guy possibly say "No" under those circumstances?
Once they got their hooks into Sean, the rest were relatively easy--all they had to do was use his name and the Suspicion Meter would drop well into the green. And of course, it worked the same way on regular people too. I always assumed that Sean's "people" must have checked this group out and decided they were legit--and Abbey and Jordan were more than happy to let everyone believe that. Even when things started to get really weird, the fact that they still had Sean's visible support was enough to convince me that their explanations and excuses must be true. Because if all the weirdness they were explaining away was REAL, why, Sean Astin's people would surely have found out, right?
Why aren't these women in jail?
Heh, I'd kinda like to know that myself. The sheriff started checking out Jordan months before any of us caught on to the scam. She had sent a suicide letter to her parents, who live on the other side of the country. She really laid it on thick, telling them she'd been caught stealing money from her friends, so they'd all abandoned her, she was selling drugs, blah blah blah. Really made it sound like she was desperate enough to kill herself. She just wanted them to stop calling her, but of course, her folks were terrified! Her dad flew out to Oregon and soon the police were treating it as a missing person case. But in the process of tracking her down, the detective discovered that she was trying to adopt a new identity--had a fake driver's license, applied for a fake Social Security card, that sort of thing.
By the time the detective tracked her down, he'd compiled a 200-page report on "Jordan," whose real name is Amy Player. He wrote her up on charges of identity theft. Then the whole charity fraud thing exploded and I was begging him to add on charges of embezzling and so forth in regard to that. But that was when we hit a major hurdle: the District Attorney didn't want to prosecute her. To this day I don't know why. I went to his office in a fury and said, "How can you let this girl off the hook?" He told me that, because she'd moved to Los Angeles by then, it wasn't worth his time and effort to put her on trial--she was Someone Else's Problem now. Let LA spend the money on putting her in jail.
Fortunately, the Attorney General's office was not quite so generous to criminals. The State of Oregon fined both Amy and Abbey for operating a fake charity and made them sign a document stating that they'd never do charity work in Oregon again, even for a real charity. That was nice. Sure, the fine was peanuts compared to what they stole, but at least they didn't get off scott free. And the criminal charges against Amy are still lurking somewhere in a file cabinet at the DA's office; he assured me that if she ever returns to Marion County and does some more crimes, he can reactivate them and tack them on to any future charges. With all that looming in the background, I doubt they'll be back to Oregon any time soon.
They moved to Los Angeles and have settled down in Hollywood, where they pose on the sidewalk in costumes and hit up tourists to take their picture for "tips." For a long time they were living at 1730 N. La Brea Avenue in Hollywood. I know this because they used my social security number on the credit check to get the place. It showed up on my credit report. I guess they've just had too many evictions to use their own identities anymore.
Have they tried any more scams?
Of course! They virtually got away with the first one, why should they stop? For a while there, Amy was dressing as Harry Potter and telling people that if they took her picture, the tip would go to charity. But fortunately, a gal who worked at Warner Brothers had been following my story online, and she went down to the Legal department and filled them in on the situation. They went out to the Chinese Theater and demanded that Amy stop dressing as their copyrighted character, so that pinched off that little scam.
I toyed with the idea for a long time. The whole unraveling of the scandal took place over the Internet. Bit of Earth was mainly a website-based organization--it had members all over the world and we communicated through the Message Board on the website. A lot of people never met Abbey or Amy, they just got involved online and did whatever they could--they helped organize events, send faxes, make travel arrangements, or of course the old standby of just sending in money. When the scam fell apart, we started discussing it on that same message board. That led to more and more people coming forward and saying "You know, they told me this..." or "I was asked to do that and could never figure out why..." These were just little tricks and sleight of hand, doled out very carefully so that no one person would have enough information to recognize the scam.
As word started spreading on the Internet of this big scandal, people began to reappear from Bit of Earth's past, with even worse stories. It turned out that Abbey and Amy watched that message board like hawks, and whenever someone posted a message that came too close to the truth, they would delete it and ban that person from leaving more messages. They'd usually make a few remarks to discredit that person too, just in case anyone got in touch with them through another means. But, Abbey and Amy were too ignorant to operate the technical aspects of their website, and when the scandal broke, their tech guru turned the tables and banned THEM from the message board. Suddenly everyone who'd been screwed by Bit of Earth could come back and share their stories.
Folks described how they'd been blamed for all sorts of failures, or discovered some incriminating bit of info, only to be banned from telling the rest of the group. Abbey and Amy also banned people who had helped Bit of Earth or really come through for them--just so they could take credit for the job well done! They had so many different ways to use people and toss them aside! And all of these people were writing lengthy, detailed messages on the website...it was just waiting for someone to come along and organize it all into a book.
When I found out about Amy dressing up as Harry Potter and asking people to take a photo "for charity," I had a fit. You have to understand, these girls were such successful liars, they managed to get two actors from the LOTR movies stranded in Los Angeles, who ended up sleeping on their floor! And now here they were, using their exact same stunts and lies on Harry Potter fans...there was no way I was going to sit by and let them hornswaggle those actors into sleeping on their floor! I mean, those are children, for Pete's sake! I learned about the Harry Potter costume in June, resolved to write the book in July, and it was in stores by October. If the Literary Police had been around, I would have got a speeding ticket. But because so much of the story was already written down, in the words of the actual victims, I was able to pull it all together.
Do you feel foolish about falling for the scam?
I did at first--I think everyone did. There's always that old "blame the victim" syndrome--and believe me, plenty of people came out of the woodwork to tell us how stupid we all were, falling for such an "obvious" scheme. Oh, Yeah, obviously we should have immediately realized that this was all a big scam. I mean, one of the most famous actors in the world was an active member of Bit of Earth, and Abbey stated publicly that they were raising money for "RIF," a very well-known national charity. Gee, it's obvious they were scammers...NOT!
What have the celebrities had to say about all this?
What are you doing with the money the book brings in?
My plan from the beginning was to use the books' proceeds to pay back the victims of the fraud. Some people lost thousands of dollars, others lost hundreds; I printed enough books that I would be able to pay off the publishing costs, reimburse everybody that got shafted. Unfortunately, I had no idea how much I'd have to pay to market the book, and I didn't know anything about the discounts you have to give to bookstores and such...as it is, I'll be lucky if I can get it to pay for itself. But if it catches on enough to warrent a second printing, I'll make sure I don't make the same mistakes!


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42 Asia Pacific Defence Reporter APR 2017 according to the General is a "huge partner." Another challenge is to upgrade some of the early F-35s to current capability, which is not going as well as the General would like. So as not to be too rosy, he also highlighted that software development – especially for large complex systems – is inherently risky. However, his assessment is that great progress has been made in the last 18 months in particular and that many issues such as stability have either been resolved or reduced to a level where they are of nuisance value rather than being critical. The General also elaborated on the opportunities for Australian industry, not only in F-35 construction but especially support. He explained that the program office has assigned to Australia regional responsibility for airframe and engine support – and he added that there will be a lot of USAF, USN and USMC F-35s in this part of the world. Another briefing was given by Brigadier General Scott Pleus, Director, F-35 Integration Office, Headquarters U.S . Air Force. Having previously flown F-16s, he transitioned to the F-35A 18 months ago and gave a pilot's view of the aircraft from his perspective of being a fully qualified instructor, incidentally flying both of the RAAF's jets. He said that the simplest way of describing the jet is: " It is lethal and it is sur vivable. It is head and shoulders above any legacy 4th Generation fighter.... We now have F-35s in the hands of some of the world's most experienced fighter pilots and they have proven time and again that the F-35A is already a formidable weapon – and one that should be feared by all of our adversaries. From the state-of- the-art sensor fusion that the aircraft brings, its low observability, active and passive protection and the unbelievable level of situational awareness it provides to itself and other aircraft, F-35 pilots will tell you that it is an ama zing capability. "So far we have amassed more than 73,000 flying hours – and this jet keeps getting better and better." Asked about Red Flag he said that all of the F-35 pilots he had spoken with had nothing but praise for the aircraft. This was not only because of its ability to go into highly contested threat areas and take out enemy air defences but also because of their ability to make partnering 4th Generation aircraft much more lethal – and these included F-16, F-15E and F-15C, all of which were able to improve their kill ratios. Discussing the advantages of Northrop Grumman's revolutionary Distributed Aperture System that allows pilots to "see" through the aircraft – and which he said literally turns night into day – he said this greatly enhances situational awareness. Traditional night vision systems have a very limited field of view rather like looking down a pipe, but the DAS provides a complete sphere of coverage around the aircraft via six sensors with meshed, seamless input. He described how the ability to look down " through" the aircraft was an unprecedented level of capability. He explained that traditionally if you were being shot at by either surface-to-air missiles or anti-aircraft artillery it was difficult to tell what was taking place because the wings and fuselage blocked the view of the ground – but with DAS it is possible to watch in great detail what is happening below and behind the aircraft without any obstructions whatsoever. He described the technology as "unbelievable". The final briefing came from Lockheed Martin's F-35 program manager, Jeff Babione, who tracked through many of the production metrics. Like the other speakers, he emphasised the growing number of aircraft and the geographical expansion of the fleet, with eight countries now flying them. Also during the next five years the program will re-balance with proportionately more jets for international partners coming off the Fort Worth production line. APDR had the opportunity to ask about something that has been on the author's mind for a while – that of how profitable the program is for Lockheed Martin. All of the public discussion is about cost reduction, but presumably there is pressure from the Board of the company on behalf of its many shareholders to be as profitable as possible. Asked to explain how a balance can be reached between reducing cost but not at the expense of profit, Mr Babione explained: " It's necessary to approach this as a win-win. Obviously we want to do everything we can to reduce the price of the aircraft, because that means our customers will be able to afford more of them – and we can do things such as further reduced costs within a particular contracted production batch. Our customer understands that companies have to make a profit.... It's not as difficult as it sounds." While there are still critics of the program, they are starting to sound less rational. It is difficult to dismiss the extraordinary performance of the F-35s during Red Flag – and if the aircraft were not living up to their promise one would have expected pilots to start saying something about that, but instead the messages from the users are overwhelmingly positive. SINGAPORE F-35 A RAAF F-35A Lightning II banks during approach to Avalon for the Australian International Airshow 2017. 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EDITORIAL: Record fundraising a sad necessity
As money flows, election integrity fades
EDITORIAL: Record fundraising a sad necessity As money flows, election integrity fades Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: https://dailyre.co/2Lgku7o
Mikie Sherrill of Upper Montclair is a former Navy helicopter pilot who began running for the 11th Congressional District seat last year to oust House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-Harding. She raised $1.9 during the three months ending June 30. All told, Sherrill has raised $4.2 million, and had $2.9 million in her account at the end of the quarter. Bob Karp/File/Staff Photographer Mikie Sherrill of Upper Montclair gives her opening statement during the March for Our Lives - Morristown NJ District 11 Town Hall at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. A student panel will ask candidates running for the open seat in Congressional district 11questions related to gun safety and keeping kids safe at school. April 6, 2018. Morristown, NJ.(Photo: Bob Karp/Staff Photographer)Buy Photo
Mikie Sherrill just set a record – $1.9 million raised in three months for her campaign to claim the 11th District house seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen. That's the most money ever raised in a quarter by any New Jersey House candidate, topping the record Sherrill – a Democrat – set earlier this year with $1.1 million. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, the Democratic incumbent in the 5th District, also exceeded Sherrill's earlier record, raising $1.5 million in the three-month reporting period ending June 30
Even better news for Democrats – Assemblyman Jay Webber, Sherill's Republican challenger, so far isn't close on the financial end, with $172,000 in his account at the end of June, compared to Sherrill's nearly $3 million.
The numbers underscore a midterm campaign season that may be like nothing that has come before it. Democrats are feverishly energized by their endless disdain for President Trump, creating an even greater sense of urgency to seize at least one control lever in Washington to temper the Trump effect. Money has been pouring into Democratic war chests in dozens of House and Senate races viewed to be battleground districts, and many of those districts offer rare opportunities to flip party control. Republicans will respond in massive numbers as well.
Sherrill's record financial haul and Gottheimer's near-record, and the other fundraising windfalls across the country will lift the hearts of partisans and boost hopes for victory in November. That's understandable. They're doing what they have to do.
But hold the cheers. The rush to reach ever-higher campaign fundraising levels is, at its core, demoralizing. Necessary, but demoralizing. Supporters may be encouraged, but how long will that last? Will they feel the same way when outside, "independent" money descends upon targeted races to tip the scales? How about other races where preferred candidates are sunk by finances? A system so deeply reliant on cash to swing elections is a system that's just not working.
We can pretend it's always been this way, or that it should be this way in a nation that embraces free speech. We can spout idealistic themes about an informed electorate making intelligent decisions and not being duped by misleading information. The truth, however, is that money spreads lies, which swing votes, which create winners.
As the wealth gap widens in this nation, so too does the divide between those elected to office and the vast majority of those they govern. Maybe public financing of campaigns could turn that tide. Or strict financing limits. There would be legal obstacles and philosophical challenges to overcome. But those with the power to explore those changes won't even try, because the system's working fine for them.
So Dems and Republicans should give what they can and cheer on the money chase. Candidates can only play by the rules of the game. But keep some perspective. Elections in this country are increasingly going to the highest bidder. That's nothing to celebrate.
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Q: Mac execute bash script I'm on a Mac, and have a bash script that works very nicely.
I'd like to make it so that a double-click will run it, but I don't know the "open with" operand. Please, what am I missing?

A: You'll need to make the file an executable.
On the first line, before any of your code put in a shebang
#!/usr/bin/env bash

REST OF YOUR CODE HERE

Next, you'll need to change the permissions. On the terminal run:
chmod +x your_bash_file

Finally, you will need to make sure OS X opens the file using the Terminal and not the application that created the file e.g. your favourite text editor. You can accomplish this in 1 of two ways:

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*Save the file with no file extension (eg. bash_file, instead of bash_file.sh)

*Or, choose File -> Get Info and set Open with: to Terminal.app
You should now be able to click on the script to execute it!

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Before you decide purchasing some fractional ownership stakes to a certain company, it is important to understand first how it works. For starters, the stock's intrinsic value does not necessarily get tied to its current market price. And when talking about value investing, the great Warren Buffet said that determining a stock's true worth is quite significant. Hence, the discipline to value a stock can be considered an art. While there is a plethora of methods out there, they all speak of the same idea. That is, calculations done with a small amount of humility are often more realistic.
How to value a stock is answerable by a number of methods, but there are only a few of them that actually work.
It is true that a good investor does not stop from fantasizing when it comes to selling off shares for more than their worth. If your stocks hit a high number, you sell. But what if it is the other way around? You might think about not selling obviously. Well, actually, it is wrong. Even if your stocks deeply plummet to your lower number, you would still want to sell. For example, if the price rises to $40 per share or drops to $32 at close of trading day, it would still trigger a sale.
This is without a doubt the go-to metric if you really want to value a stock. It simply means price-to-earnings, which is a formula calculated by dividing the stock price by the EPS or earnings per share. Meaning, the lower the P/E ratio is the more earnings investors are purchasing in each share.
GAAP or Generally Accepted Account Principles is a standard to which any company must comply. This can be applied to earnings per share, allowing you to find a multiple going forward that pretty much hits 16.5. Most experts use the latter, as it is considered the 40-year average for equities. And by using it, you can be sure that you are not overpaying for a company's earnings.
A stock becomes a value trap if it appears to be cheap. However, when you look closely, it is not due to a deteriorating business. An epitome is a pharmaceutical company having a valuable patent that is set to expire. And if you are not careful, you would not notice it is a pitfall. At first, you would think that the shares are a steal. Hence, you will be convinced to give in. This would often lead you to losing a golden opportunity to take advantage on various discounts to stocks you could have invested on. This is definitely not the kind of strategy you want on how to value a stock.
Coined by Warrant Buffer, economic moat is a phrase refers to a company's ability to steadily have a competitive advantage over its peers. Not only is it an important thing, it is also a very powerful element. That is because it effectively keeps other businesses from getting into the sector. More importantly, it makes the stock worth more over time. A strong brand name is among the best examples when considering an economic moat. Although this is not the kind that you can nail down using a specific dollar, it is still capable of swaying you in the direction towards the worthiness of an investment in the stock.


Flutist stands in the center as vocalist, play in a band style.
Release 10 titles of original music CD by the flute.
It was decided on October 5, 2019.
Details will be available later.
I was born with my left leg handicapped.
So from childhood on I always wanted to become a musician.
Even a little, I wanted to approach the performance of the world's splendid musicians.
So I listened to lots of music, studied and imitated it.
However, one day I felt a terrible emptiness.
This was, when I noticed that I has never played my original sound and music yet.
For the first time in my life I started to meditate only on the sound that was inside myself.
I threw away all the fixed ideas that I gained. I wanted to play the flute with genuine enthusiasm.
When I closed my eyes and played the flute, the whole body was resonating, and I cried.
It was the moment that I felt "I live now" for the first time in my life.
This sensation convinced me that it was the origin from where I played my sound of music.
I decided to face my emotion and play the music that only I could play.
I hope my CD "IBUKI (Breath) " touches your heart.
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. About time too, I find each year more and more people shun you for getting excited about Christmas if it's even a week before the big day. I'm a sucker for the Christmas magic, I really am, especially now we've got the boys I think it's the perfect excuse to go that little bit over the top. We've done a Christmas Eve box for the past two years as it's a sure fire way to keep those restless souls busy for the day, it adds to excitement and it's just a super sweet idea.
Our box is aimed at the family, we don't have any main theme or really any idea what's going to go in it until we start curating the pieces over the month of December. I try to equal the items out between busy and cosy, I want the day to be fun and interesting because I know how raucous they can get if they're not occupied, but I also like the evening to be really slow and calm. I'd like to think it reflects in the box. Of course there is me and John here too and I don't forget us in all of the magic, so you'll notice a couple of grown up items in there too.
During the day, as I mentioned I really want to keep the boys busy, and when I say boys I'm really meaning Noah as Patrick is still a little too young to understand the excitement of Christmas. We're already heading out to watch Home Alone in our local independent cinema the day before, so I thought for Christmas eve some colouring and baking would be a great way to spend the day. In the morning I'm hoping we can build the gingerbread house and as it's our first year I've bought this ready to go kit, I've seen many fails of these over the years from others and I'm sure we'll have our own to add to the bunch, but it'll be fun nonetheless. The cookie mix is a tradition that John started, he loves to bake with Noah but if we're honest he isn't all that great, a mix is pretty fail safe I think.
As the evening rolls in, I'm hoping we'll all bundle up on the sofa and watch a Christmas movie. Patricks really into the Grinch and Polar Express so I'm sure it'll be one of those, to keep him interested. The boys have some sweet treats, a chocolate lolly pop each and they can share the kinder surprise, I'm sure I'll regret the decision when my new couch is full of sticky hand prints but I think I can cope with it just this once. Their light up toys will be a hit and probably what they're going to enjoy most, though at a mere £1.40 I'm hoping the batteries might run out before the end of the film (ha scrooge). Crackle baff is a new addition this year to our box, but I know they'll love it and it's something we've never tried before. Popcorn is a must during a movie, so me and John will be gnawing on this delicious salted caramel flavour.
After a long bath, they're going to slip into their brand new pyjamas and have a yummy hot coco each before bed. We'll read their stories (Noah has the Night before Christmas, which our elf on the shelf will deliver) and Patrick has his very own That's not my Santa. Me and John have our own tradition of buying each other their Christmas eve pjs and handing them over in the evening of the 24th so we'll be sporting new ones too along with the fluffy socks.
Before bed it'll be time to really lay on the magic thick. We'll be using their personalised Reindeer food sacks to sprinkle it on our lawn and not forgetting to pop Santas key under the doormat as we don't have our own chimney. When the boys are in bed me and John often finish off the last few bits of wrapping, lay out the stockings and have a nice drink on the sofa together. And that's Christmas eve done for us. I really hope this has helped to give some ideas of what to pop in your own box!


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Q: Options to update dokuwiki page contents programmatically SOers!
I am having some issues with DokuWiki in the terms of content modification automatiozation. My need is to update page programmatically, in my case the data source would be text file, that would be regex parsed and the output would be inserted into DokuWiki page.
Up to this moment, I have not found anything related to this feature, but I really doubt I am only one having need for such stuff, so invetning bycicle again is not a best way here :)
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Acces the raw wiki page contents in a Dokuwiki Render Plugin
My sub-Question is - How can I use it to do content modifications? I had mo time to go through whole dokuwiki source code, so I am hoping there are some lego blocks that I could simply attach together to make it happen w/o developing new interfaces etc.
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*modify page contents on disk direcly. all your pages are in data/pages/pagename.txt as raw text files. you will not have any revision history this way

*use the XMLRPC API to access and update your pages. See http://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:xmlrpc

*use the dwpage command line tool to checkout, then modify, then checkin your pagedata again. See http://www.dokuwiki.org/cli#dwpagephp


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I have this burning desire to get back up to Baxter for some day hiking. But I don't want to run into swarms of bugs or copious amounts of mud. I know the park is open by mid May.
But how long to wait for good hiking and trail conditions? June? July? late May?
I usually figure on arriving around the fourth of july, most years. The worst of the black flies are usually gone by then, and the worst of the mosquitoes have not arrived. Stream levels have diminished . Mud isn't totally gone, but usually the worst is over.
You will know by the spring weather. Pretty useless up there until the water drains off. You can camp, but it is gawdawful until it dries a bit. My opinion.
Can be pretty chilly but doable when it opens, but are the trails you want open. If you need reservations, Weary's timeline works.
Baxter State Park is in the heart of Maine. Hiking, climbing and other recreational activities await you in Baxter State Park.
Trails: There are 185 miles of wilderness trails including the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin, a climb of 4,000 feet. Katahdin is also the southern terminus of the International Appalachian Trail that heads 700 miles north into Canada.
Within the park there are 18 peaks over 3,000 feet in elevation.
Heads up, starting 2010, you need a reservation, $8 per day, in advance to park in the lots at the base of Mt Katahdin for day hiking. I believe thats Abol, Katahdin Stream and Roaring Brook. If its run the way it was in 2009, you would need a reservation to park in these lots, even if you are staying inside the park at one of the other campgrounds. I dont know if they have posted the new rules yet.
This gets rid of the need to line up at the park gate early in the morning in hopes that you can get a parking space to climb the mountain, but obviously make it diffucult ot do a spur of the moment hike. It also makes the day hike for an out of stater even more expensive as there still is the park access fee required on top of the $8.
Try to get a reservation at one of the campgrounds. The parking areas on trails to Baxter Peak fill up early even for those staying within the Park, but other trailheads are usually empty by comparison.
Put on your list: Hamlin Peak (right next to Baxter), The Brothers, Double-Top, The Travelers. There is a trail that goes right through the Park. Spend a week there and you still won't have done all the hikes!
Folks have trailers at Abol Camground all summer. It is a small summer community of campers. Visit them when you pass through.
Heads up, starting 2010, you need a reservation, $8 per day, in advance to park in the lots at the base of Mt Katahdin for day hiking.
You won't 'need' one, but now you can make one for $5. Maine residents have had this option for the past few years with special set aside spots and no fee.
If you want to explore the non-Katahdin areas I suggest the week before Memorial Day. Its pre-black fly, the weather is fine, and there is plenty of other trails and mountains to hike and climb.
I was told quite a few years ago that you had to call and reserve a day or wait in line and hope you got there early enough.
My personal experience with Baxter is that I didn't have to make a reservation because I entered via the AT after doing the Hundred Mile Wilderness. My son was allowed in even though he only hiked with me from Abol Bridge, but we couldn't stay at the Birches since he wasn't a "long distance" hiker. That was ok, because I liked the Katahdin Stream campground much better after seeing both.
A friend who had been in the park (not since the last century) said that I should start calling Baxter on Jan 1 if I wanted to reserve space for camping.
Residents only got the free one, one/month. This whole thing is confusing, as I have stayed at Abol and drove to other spots to avoid the gate. No mater. It is what it is.
Once this policy comes out in print maybe I can figure it out.
Just as a side note, we've had copieous amounts of water this fall. Our water table up here in the "100 mile wilderness" is soaked, flooded, water everywhere. No hard ground freeze, yet we've got and expect to receive over 2 ft. of snow with this present storm, in the mountains. (All melt runs down hill) I foresee a very wet spring which will not dry out in this area for a looonnnnggg time. I post here towards spring the weather conditons that relate to the trail. Keep watch.
Wow. What an interesting post! How do you keep coming up with such wisdom?
Same here, but less snow. C'mon gravity.
Can one park in the parking lots overnight and hike up and camp in a bunkhouse for the night? I have looked at the website, but it is not very clear about everything. I am coming from out-of-state, will pay the entry fee and then will either camp a night, or preferably, park at a parking area, walk to one of the bunkhouses, sleep there, hike and summit(s), and leave the next day. On the website, I am led to believe there is only day use parking NOT overnight. Do any of you know? I may call this week and see if I can speak with someone.
Call the Park, book a campsite. No overnight parking without a campsite reservation. No bunkhouses in the summer.
On the reservation system, I was getting information for bunkhouses showing availability (a room here or there "x" ed out). Is that a glitch in the system or do you think that is a change? By the way, I will be there in the first half of June.
Perhaps it does not matter if I have to have a campsite reservation to park overnight in the park.


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The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland's Church (Polish: Kościół pw. NMP Królowej Polski), also known as Sanctuary of Our Lady of Łukawiec (Polish: Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Łukawieciej) is a Roman Catholic church, in village Łukawiec, in the administrative district of Gmina Wielkie Oczy, within Lubaczów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It was designed by Henryk Stawicki from Cracow and built between 1980 and 1989.

History
The church is dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Poland. The Painting of Our Lady of Łukawiec (earlier: Our Lady of Tartaków) from the 17th century is displayed in the main altar.

Previously, the Łukawiec parish church was Three Wise Man Church. However, due to the arrival of more and more believers, a decision was made to build a new church, thanks to the efforts of priest Józef Kornaga. It was built in 1980-1989 according to the design of engineer Henryk Stawicki from Krakow. The church was consecrated by Bishop Marian Jaworski in 1990. The church is brick, built in a modern style. Its shape resembles a boat. In 1990, from the historic church of Epiphany, a miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Łukawiec (earlier: Our Lady of Tartaków) was moved to a new church and placed in the main altar. The church became the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Łukawiec. The altar is located in a triangular niche, narrowing towards the top, supposed to resemble rays descending from the Heaven. In the middle there is a long, rectangular stained-glass window that reaches the roof. On the left side of the altar there is a door to the sacristy, and on the right to the Chapel of St. John Paul II. On May 17, 2011, Bishop Wacław Depo dedicated the new elevation of the church and the presbytery.

In 2013, thanks to the efforts of Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki a chapel of John Paul II was made in the church.  Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki was the personal secretary of John Paul II. He made the dedication of the chapel. Thanks to him in the chapel were the relics of the Pope, in the form of a strand of hair, which was placed in a kneeler, and in specially prepared cases there were cassock, piuska, chasuble and chalice.

In 2016, on the occasion of the anniversary celebrations connected with the 25th anniversary of the coronation of the Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Łukawiec by John Paul II, a new, huge main altar was made. The miraculous Icon of the Blessed Mother was placed there on June 6, 2016 after renovation. The consecration of the new altar was made by archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki, who came from Łukawiec, during a solemn mass on June 8, 2016. The altar was designed by Bogusław Kulka and his wife. Masonry work was done by Jerzy Malarczyk, and woodwork by Józef Majerczyk. Anita Kurasińska painted a picture referring to the parish's call - Epiphany. This painting is a veil for the Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Łukawiec.

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Roman Catholic churches in Poland
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Łukawiec, Lubaczów County
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Ecufilmfestival
Monica Guala
Deadline: January 8, 2012.
The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) continues its commitment of being at the centre of discovery, promotion and projection of the very best independent filmmaking talent from around the world.
ÉCU, The European Independent Film Festival, is pleased to be hosting its sixth Much More than a Script Competition. As part of the ÉCU 2012 film festival, the script competition's focus is on independent screenplays, that is, scripts that aren't aimed at mainstream Hollywood film markets.
Writers are invited to submit their short and feature-length scripts to the competition where they compete for the best script of the festival. Scenes from the winning feature-length script are given a dramatic live reading at the film festival, which will take place in Paris March 30th to April 1st, 2012. The winners from both categories will also receive a script coverage package courtesy of ScriptShark.
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Electronic Arts have announced FIFA 20. This year's entry in the football series will launch in late September and is to introduce numerous changes, including new game modes.
A year would be wasted without a new FIFA.
The release of successive entries in the sports series from Electronic Arts has become an integral part of the player's calendar. That is why the official announcement of FIFA 20 by the American company is not surprising. The title was revealed at a recent call to investors (via FIFA U Team), during which Blake Jorgensen, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as well as Andrew Wilson, the CEO, appeared. They both assured that this year's part of the cycle will introduce a lot of novelties, including new ways to play the game. Whether it's something akin to the lighter modes introduced in FIFA 19, or something completely different, we don't know. We can certainly expect changes in FIFA Ultimate Team mode, as well as general fixes. FIFA 20 will debut on September 27, with EA Access and Origin Access subscribers being able to play a week earlier. Moreover, two weeks before the launch, the creators will release a demo version.


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Lugo () é um deus da mitologia celta. Aparentemente foi um deus muito popular, venerando em uma vasta região. São poucas as inscrições encontradas que registram seu nome, mas sua importância pode ser deduzida pela quantidade de lugares que foram denominados em sua função, e algo de seus atributos e aspecto podem ser inferidos da iconografia referente ao Mercúrio romano, com quem foi muitas vezes identificado. Sua memória também foi preservada em narrativas irlandesas e gaélicas, sob os nomes respectivos de Lugh e Lleu Llaw Gyffes.

Entre as cidades que possivelmente derivaram seu nome de Lugo estão Lião, Laon, Lugo, Leiden e Lugões.

Vindo do casal indo-europeu Dioscuri, os Gémeos Divinos, uma das figuras mais antigas do panteão indo-europeu Lug Samildanach "para as artes múltiplas", "por sua intervenção restaura a ordem e direito quando os outros deuses caíram em opressão".

Etimologia
A etimologia exata de Lugus é discutida. A raiz proto-celta do nome, *lug-, pode ser derivada da raiz indo-européia *leug-, que significa preto.  *leuǵ- «pausa», ou *leugʰ-, "faça um juramento".

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Centre For Contemporary Legend
exploring folklore and legend studies across contemporary media
Welcome to the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University!
The city of Sheffield has an international reputation as a centre for folklore and legend scholarship that can be traced back to 1964. The academic study of Contemporary Legends began at the University of Sheffield in the 1982 with a series of conferences and publications in the Perspectives on Contemporary Legend series. We want to build upon these foundations working with friends and partners to reinvigorate folklore and legend studies in the 21st century. We aim to create an institutional base that can act as a focal point for all those working in the field of folklore and legend studies.
Our main areas of interest and research inquiry are:
Story-telling: revisiting the power of the narrative
Folklore on screen (TV and film)
Hauntological media and the 'folk horror' revival
Folklore in print (photography and photographic publication)
Documenting folklore and traditions: amateur and professional; archivist and artist
Contemporary Legend collection and research
Supernatural folklore and extraordinary personal experiences
Contemporary and historic moral panics
Archives as a folklore research resource
Intangible cultural heritage*: engaging with communities to revisit concepts of English identity: individual and communal; local and national.
*UNESCO (2003) 7th general assembly 'Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage': https://ich.unesco.org/


We're still reeling from the On-Snow Demo days at Copper Mountain earlier this week. So much excellent energy, sweet new gear, and of course, stoke for all things skiing and snowboarding. It was nearly impossible to just choose five of our favorite things (you'll notice we somewhat obviously snuck a few more into the following list), but here's our attempt to bring you some of the coolest stories we heard and stuff we saw at this year's demo.
If you've ever spent the day peering through a tiny hole in completely fogged up or iced over goggles, or squinting through lenses that are too bright or too dark for current conditions (or even worse some combination of both), you know that nothing kills the good vibes of a day cruising through the mountains like poorly performing eyewear. Well, with Julbo's Aerospace Goggle ($235-245) featuring Reactiv technology (photochromic lenses that adapt to light conditions and can fully change from light to dark or vice versa in a super snappy 28 seconds), and Super Flow technology (lenses pop away from the frame creating a small gap that delivers optimal ventilation), you'll never spend another minute cursing your eyewear; Whether you're touring uphill or riding lifts, Julbo swears that "one lens is all you need," and we agree wholeheartedly.
Pair these with the new super light, wallet-friendly, feature-filled Hal Helmet (the first Julbo helmet available in the US!). For only 100 bucks, you'll get a brain bucket that works seamlessly with Julbo goggles, and comes with a host of features including vents that fully open/close, magnetic chin strap, removable ear flaps, adjustable sizing to fine tune fit, removable liner that can be washed. Available in Fall '19, it comes in S/M and M/L in four colors; all black, blue and red, black and pink, white and pink. $100; julbousa.com.
Let's face it: with all the traveling, driving and gear required for skiing (even for backcountry tours), skiing doesn't always feel like the most planet friendly activity. However, it brings so much joy to so many of us, so why not do what you love, while also making a small difference where you can? One simple way is to check out Scarpa's boots; for Fall 2019 the Gea and Maestrale line, and the T2 Tele boot—all known as the top boots in the industry for performance anyway—have been updated to feature Pebax® Rnew. Ninety percent of Pebax® Rnew is made of castor plant oil, instead of petroleum, but it performs the same way as traditional Pebax (a polymer often used to build lightweight alpine-touring boots). And, the process of taking Pebax® Rnew from raw to useable material requires 29 percent less fossil fuel and puts out 32 percent fewer emissions so you can sleep a bit better after a day full of face shots; scarpa.com.
Though they've only been at it for a few years, Harvest, a grass-roots company located in Steamboat has created a line of skis that we'd love to get for Valentine's day (hint, hint). Hands down our favorite: the Root Down. These playful, snappy, all-mountain, twin tip boards move seamlessly across anything the mountain throws at you. Rip corduroy, fly down steeps, float over powder, zig and zag through trees, crush bumps; you can do it all on this killer, lightweight, super responsive set up; $789. And, new for 2019 – the Root Down 100 ($789); the same awesomeness, but wider underfoot so you're more stable hauling downhill and floatier in the pow.
And then there's the Homegrown Tour, a twist on the ski that started it all for Harvest. These innovators took the Homegrown, an agile quiver of one, which carves and tours like a champ, and added Tread Tech, a waxless patterned base, underfoot for touring. Though it won't cut it for super steep tours or replace your need for climbing skins completely, it's ideal for exploring rolling terrain. $789; harvestskis.com.
Bonus: Harvest is committed to producing quality, handcrafted skis using only premium materials in a manner that is aware of and respects the environment so you can feel good about your purchase.


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This brief is based on research that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal article.
Global concerns surrounding ecological sustainability and social justice continue to drive discussion around food sovereignty, which can be defined as "the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems." The global food sovereignty movement aims to transform food systems so that they support farmer livelihoods, decrease the environmental impact of agricultural practices, and increase universal access to healthy foods, among other objectives.
Farm to school programs can be found across North America. These are initiatives that aim to not only change the way food is provided to schools, but also foster food literacy in students, with food literacy encompassing the knowledge, skills, and practices that allow people to support their personal health and a sustainable food system. In the framework of food literacy, a sustainable food system is one which considers environmental, social, economic, cultural, and political components.
The majority of research on these initiatives has been conducted in countries with national school meal programs, such as the U.S. and Brazil. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the farm to school movement in Canada, which has no such program. Specifically, the farm to school movement in British Columbia was analyzed in order to determine its potential role in achieving the goals of food sovereignty.
The researchers interviewed and observed two sets of focus groups made up of farm to school actors in BC. One group contained participants in "Learning Labs", which were a series of activities that aimed to explore how locally-sourcing school food service could be achieved. The other group included stakeholders in the Farm to School BC Regional Hubs pilot programs, which are networks in Vancouver, Kamloops, and the Capital Area that support farm to school initiatives.
The researchers concluded that Canada's lack of a national school meal program is a major hurdle in the farm to school effort. The absence of "mediated markets", in which government interventions make it more feasible for local farms to supply food for schools, can be an economic barrier. Other infrastructural limitations for farm to school programs include the seasonal variability of produce, unsuitable school facilities, and the time and expense of organizing local food procurement.
Despite these limitations, the researchers also determined that farm to school programs are contributing to the food sovereignty goal in other ways, namely by fostering food literacy in students, teachers, and community members. For example, school gardens provide experiential learning opportunities for students and allow them to gain knowledge and skills on growing and preparing food. Students who participate in farm to school initiatives may have an increased interest in food systems throughout their lives, which may affect how they direct their consumer spending, lead them to become directly involved in food production, or lead them to support policy initiatives as adults. Therefore, the farm to school efforts currently occurring in Canada could be part of a long-term, gradual approach toward achieving food sovereignty goals, rather than an immediate and radical one.
This research was conducted in conjunction with Farm to School BC. It was supported by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm, the Public Health Association of British Columbia, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Structural limitations, such as the lack of a national school meal program, remain a challenge to achieving the goal of food sovereignty in Canada. However, farm to school programs in the country contribute toward realizing this goal by advocating for institutional change and fostering food literacy in students, which creates the potential for greater citizen involvement in food systems in the future.
This brief was downloaded from BC Food Web at https://bcfoodweb.ca/briefs/potential-food-literacy-education-supporting-food-systems-transformation.


A love story ("Like Crazy"), a caper picture ("Tower Heist"), a stoner comedy ("A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas") and an acclaimed import ("The Skin I Live In") are among the releases arriving for this first weekend of November.
"Hell and Back Again" with Sgt. Nathan Harris in an unrated documentary on the Marine during his tour of duty in Afghanistan and upon his return to civilian life with his supportive wife in North Carolina after suffering a life-threatening injury in battle. Danfung Dennis made his directing debut.
"Like Crazy," with Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones in a PG-13 drama about a young woman from England and a guy from America who fall for each other and then spend years trying to get together due to a legal problem that keeps the girl out of the country. Jennifer Lawrence co-stars in the tale of a long-distance romance. Drake Doremus ("Spooner") directed.
"Mozart's Sister," with David Moreau in an unrated European costume drama about the composer's talented older sister, who was forced to live in her brother's shadow due to the social conventions of the time. In pre-Revolutionary France, only men were allowed to be violinists, and composing was considered "beyond a woman's feeble brain." Rene Feret directed, and his 15-year-old daughter, Marie, plays Mozart's talented older sibling, Nannerl (1751-1829). The import is being shown in French with subtitles.
"The Skin I Live In," with Antonio Banderas in a bizarre R-rated suspense import about an unbalanced plastic surgeon testing extreme techniques on a woman after his wife was burned in a car crash. He has become obsessed with creating a new skin since the tragic incident and seeks a human guinea pig for his cutting-edge experiments. Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar ("Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" also with Banderas) directed.
"Tower Heist," with Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Gabourey Sidibe, Matthew Broderick and Casey Affleck in a PG-13 caper comedy about some building workers who plan a revenge scheme after a Wall Street wheeler-dealer steals their investments. Brett Ratner (the "Rush Hour" franchise) directed.
"A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas," with John Cho and Kal Penn as stoners Harold and Kumar, respectively, in an R-rated comedy in which the two buddies begin the holiday season by accidentally burning down a Christmas tree and then enduring numerous seasonal woes as they seek to find the perfect replacement. Todd Strauss-Schulson ("Private High Musical") directed.
A computer-animated cat clawed his way to the top of the charts last weekend.
"Puss in Boots," featuring the voice of Antonio Banderas, opened with an impressive $34 million and left the competition far behind.
"Paranormal Activity 3" grossed more than $18 million over the Halloween weekend for the No. 2 position.
Fans of singer Justin Timberlake didn't turn out to support him. The performer takes an action-hero approach during "In Time," but the PG-13 fantasy thriller opened with just $12 million.
Johnny Depp put his star power behind "The Rum Diary," based on the novel by his late friend, Hunter S. Thompson, but he didn't set off many sparks at the box office. The R-rated picture opened with just $5 million.


Some Kind of Star Trek: A Pivotal "Unification"?
Spock: In your own way you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew.
I remember the first time I saw "Unification" was rented from a local Ritz video shop of the TV movie version during a school summer holiday in 1992.
At the time I found it boring, drawn out and a little confusing; but then I hadn't seen much of the fourth season and it wasn't the most action-packed installment I had seen. I managed to watch it all the way through and in conclusion it was OK; nothing particularly special considering this was the seminal 25th Anniversary moment where The Next Generation finally shook hands with its predecessor and acknowledged its past openly.
The second time I saw it was in two-part format over two weeks on BBC 2 probably a few years later after it had been rerun on SKY One and I'd missed it. Still I didn't see anything special but now, as I relive the seven seasons of TNG in order I have found a new understanding of the story and would argue that now "Unification" is probably one of the most important moments in Star Trek history.
I'm not a big fan of plot summarising as there are plenty of sites and books out there that do it brilliantly but here it is in a nutshell for those of you who might need a refresh. Starfleet believes that Ambassador Spock has defected to Romulus and get Picard and Data to go undercover on the Romulan homeworld to investigate. They make contact and discover that Spock is actually looking to work on reunifying the Vulcan and Romulan peoples after many centuries of separation. Meanwhile Riker and the Enterprise are following a lead on some debris that leads them to a Federation salvage yard and a missing Vulcan ship. Ultimately it becomes apparent that the two incidents are linked and with the reappearance of Commander Sela we learn that it's all to do with the Romulans using Spock's reunification plan to cover up an invasion attempt. Needless to say it's foiled by Picard, Data and Spock and all is well in the universe once more.
So why has my opinion of this story changed in the 22 years since it aired? I think "Unification" is a cornerstone firstly because of the arrival of Leonard Nimoy as Spock. While we had a fleeting meeting with McCoy in the pilot and Sarek in the eponymous third season episode, this marked the true acknowledgement of the original series and their part in the history of the franchise. Of course this came at the time around the promotion of Star Trek VI and the story references Spock's part in the Khitomer Conference on several occasions which acts as a nice tie-in to "historical" Star Trek events.
Symbolically "Unification" is a torch-passing moment not only for this appearance but also because it was dedicated to the Great Bird of the Galaxy, Gene Roddenberry, who passed away shortly before it aired. His influence on the series would be no more and his legacy would be firmly in the hands of those he had worked with since the first thoughts of Trek's return in the 80's. As within the episode we lose the father-figure role of Sarek to his long-term debilitating illness so the man who had brought the series to light back in the 1960's also took his final bow.
What I do think is fitting here is that we have almost every major race up to this point in Trek history making an appearance (except the Borg of course) - the Klingons help deliver Picard and Data to Romulus, the Vulcans are here (which is not a common occurrence;the Romulans play host of course; we have a Ferengi mercenary who rubs Riker up the wrong way and there's even a Zakdorn thrown in for good measure. The Klingons even manage to get one of their older K'Tinga class cruisers a cameo part at the salvage yard if you keep your eyes peeled. Oh yes - while we're mentioning links to TOS, the name of that Vulcan transport that Riker and the Enterprise are so keen to find? The T'Pau - a freighter and also the name of a certain priestess who presided over proceedings during the TOS second season classic, "Amok Time".
Unless I'm mistaken the next time we would get major races together in one episode would be "The Chase" in season six however the Cardassians would taken the place of the Vulcans. In Trek terms that's probably more in line with the way the series was progressing and the franchise would develop particularly with note to Deep Space Nine.
In fact, "Unification" is very much about pulling the two series of TOS and TNG together through Spock's addition but there are also a couple of other notable guest stars here with at least one getting majorly overlooked. which draw on Trek history even more closely than you may appreciate.
Commander Sela makes her second and final appearance in TNG and returns Denise Crosby for the third of her four post-death roles (the next is "All Good Things...") ensuring that all of the original crew from TNG are represented in some form but it is Spock's Romulan friend, Senator Pardek who intrigues me the most here. Played by Malachi Throne, Pardek turns out to be in league with Sela and part of the conspiracy to invade Vulcan but Throne's history with Trek is just as interesting and he has crossed paths with Spock before providing the two-parter with another link to its acclaimed past. Throne's voice was used for the lead Talosian in the original pilot "The Cage" and then he featured as Commodore Mendez in the reworking of that very episode, "The Menagerie" which was, of course, the only two part installment of the classic Star Trek series. Rather fitting then that he should be here, in a two part TNG story with Spock!
"Unification" also acts as something of a precursor to the events of Deep Space Nine and Nemesis in the way that there is hope of the Romulans being accepted as an ally rather than an enemy which they have been since "Balance of Terror" in Kirk's era. The very possibility that there is hope here may turn out to be a ruse but the seed is planted for future developments; the twist eventually being that they have to join with the Federation to defeat the Dominion and then in the final Prime Universe film the concept of peace initially would be a ruse to tempt Picard to cross the Neutral Zone. For years we have seen the Romulans as hostile and indeed that is how they were introduced back in Season One's "The Neutral Zone" but here we get the hint that not all Romulans are the same and there are some that would welcome a more peaceful future. Lest we also forget that this is the first time since Trek records began that we have seen Romulus AND get to set foot on it too.
Spock: Fascinating. You have an efficient intellect, superior physical skills, no emotional impediments. There are Vulcans who aspire all their lives to achieve what you have been given by design.
Data: Yet you have chosen a Vulcan way of life?
Data: In effect, you have abandoned what I have sought all my life.
It's the realisation that while they are both exploring the human condition they are hitting it from quite opposing angles and coming to massively different conclusions. Logic has dictated both their paths yet they are truly unique characters who allowed us to see humanity for the flawed species we are!
In essence this is TNG saying that while it recognised it's history it was very much its own series with its own views, direction and beliefs. This truly is an occasion where the new generation is finally at ease with its past. Indeed it's well known that the writers had to fight to get a reference to Spock into the script of "Sarek". McCoy was unnamed in "Encounter at Farpoint" and "The Naked Now" retrod ground perhaps a little too familiar too early. Here we are in the presence of celebration and acknowledgement for the 25th Anniversary as was.
So 22 years has made a lot of difference. Once an episode that I had little love for is now one I would treasure to watch again. "Unification" is a moment captured and an occasion for TNG to be proud of and at such a maturing stage of its life. While it's not the most action-packed Trek of all time I do think it can hold its head high as one of the best installments in it's lengthy history if only for its unifying factor not only potentially between Romulans and Vulcans but also Star Trek generations.


A House is a Machine for Additions. The Additions Theorem of 1+x=1 postulates that a singular work of architecture, in this case a house, can continually be added onto by any number of additional architectural forms (x) such that it will produce a singular work of architecture. While architecture is always trying to be a formally singular object, the Additions Theorem posits that architecture can be a singular object composed of a wide array of diverse of architectural forms. This continual accumulation of forms in extreme proximity produces a new totality.


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Любо́вь Исаа́ковна Емеля́х (9 апреля 1924, Ленинград, СССР — 6 мая 1992, Ленинград, СССР) — советский историк, историк религии, архивист, музейный работник, пропагандист атеизма. Автор работ по истории православия, истории русского крестьянства и истории антиклерикальных движений в России. Доктор исторических наук. Одна из авторов «Атеистического словаря».

Биография
Родилась 9 апреля 1924 года в Ленинграде.

22 июня 1941 года окончила среднюю школу Ленинграда.

До мая 1942 года находилась блокадном Ленинграде, где работала пионервожатой, а затем в госпитале санитаркой.

С мая 1942 года по апрель 1945 года проходила службу в действующей Красной армии. Награждена боевыми орденами и медалями, включая медаль «За боевые заслуги».

В 1950 году с отличием окончила исторический факультет Ленинградского государственного университета имени А. А. Жданова.

В 1950—1991 годах работала в Музее истории религии АН СССР в должностях экскурсовода, младший научный сотрудник, старший научный сотрудник, заведующая Рукописным отделом. После преобразования Музея в Государственный музей истории религии и атеизма Министерства культуры СССР стала заведующей отделом «История русского православия и атеизма в СССР», заведующей сектором «Атеизм и православие в СССР», и. о. директора Музея. Руководила и принимала непосредственном участии в создании всех экспозиций Музея по истории православия в России.

В 1962 году в Ленинградском отделении Институте истории АН СССР защитила диссертацию на соискание учёной степени кандидата исторических наук по теме «Антиклерикальные движения крестьян в революции 1905—1907 гг.».

В 1978 году в ЛГПИ имени А. И. Герцена защитила диссертацию на соискание учёной степени доктора исторических наук по теме «Антиклерикальное движение крестьян накануне Великого Октября».

Автор более 70 научных работ.

Семья

 Муж — Михаил Иосифович Шахнович, философ.
 Дочь — Марианна Михайловна Шахнович, религиовед.

Работы
 Старинные рукописные книги Музея истории религии и атеизма Академии Наук СССР // Труды Отдела древнерусской литературы АН СССР. Т. XII, 1957;
 Антиклерикальные движения крестьян в первой русской революции. — М.-Л., 1965;
 Происхождение христианского культа. — Л., 1971;
 Исторические предпосылки преодоления религии в советской деревне. // Секуляризация деревни накануне Великого Октября. — Л., 1975;
 Крестьяне и церковь накануне Великого Октября. — Л.: Наука, 1976 (Научно-атеистическая серия);
 Происхождение христианских таинств. — М., 1978;
 Христианские таинства. — Л., 1977;
 Христианизация Руси // Религии мира. — 1986.
 Советская историческая наука о крещении Руси. — Л.: Ленингр. орг. о-ва «Знание» РСФСР. — 1986. — 32 с. (соавтор: Кожурин Я. Я.)
 Переписка В. Д. Бонч-Бруевича и Л. И. Емелях о рукописном отделении (отделе) Музея истории религии АН СССР (1951—1955) / Предисловие, примечания и публикация М. М. Шахнович // Труды Государственного музея истории религии. — Вып. 15. — СПб: 2015. — С. 163—238.

Примечания

Историки СССР
Религиоведы СССР
Выпускники исторического факультета Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета
Директора музеев СССР
Женщины-религиоведы
Женщины-историки
Персоналии:Блокада Ленинграда


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Composer in Residence 2018/2019
George Benjamin
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During the 2018/2019 season the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation will place a major focus on the English composer and conductor George Benjamin, covering the full artistic spectrum of his works for the first time in Berlin. Seven concerts will be devoted to operatic, piano, chamber and orchestral works by the composer, three of which will be presented in collaboration with the Musikfest Berlin.
Composer and conductor
George Benjamin, a student of Olivier Messiaen and Alexander Goehr, felt a calling to music at a very early age. He began composing when he was seven and as a twelve-year-old already had only one goal: to write operas. His success as a composer began with an instrumental work in 1980, however: Ringed by the Flat Horizon, which he dedicated to his teacher, Olivier Messiaen. His studies with Messiaen made a deep impression on him: the humanity of his teacher, his boundless passion for music, his feeling for harmonies and his novel ideas on rhythm were an inspiration to George Benjamin, although – as he points out – he has since diverged considerably from the aesthetic standpoint of his teacher. George Benjamin combines two passions which are completely different in his opinion: conducting and composing. "Conducting is very sociable and almost a physical activity," he explains. "Composing, on the other hand, is purely in the head. It has to be very quiet, and you need unending patience for it. But I love both!" During the coming season the Berlin concert public will be able to experience Benjamin in these two very different roles.
Superimposed musical layers
Benjamin made his debut conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker with Ringed by the Flat Horizon in 2006, an occasion he recalls with pleasure. "I still remember the exceptional quality of the orchestra's sound, the resonance and depth of sound from the bass! It is extraordinary." Together with the Philharmoniker Benjamin will present his two-part orchestral work Palimpsests, in which he creates a fascinating soundscape of superimposed musical layers. When one considers George Benjamin's oeuvre in its entirety it is obvious that each of his works tends to differ significantly in character from the previous work. According to the English musicologist and composer David Wright, "His characteristically slow method of working is connected to a detailed analysis of the material created and his understanding of the consequences it has for the compositional process and the musical result of each individual work." Moreover, Benjamin has a keen instinct for surprising, often ingenious combinations of instruments.
Brilliant fusion of music and language
He was not able to fulfil his heart's desire to compose operas until relatively late. The decisive moment for him was his meeting with the English playwright Martin Crimp, who supplied him with the ideal librettos. Benjamin's chamber opera Into the Little Hill, based on the myth of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, was premiered in 2006. It was followed in 2012 by the opera Written on Skin, which was drawn from a medieval legend and tells a moving story of love, power and cruelty. Although both works are set in the distant past, the subject matter is incredibly current. "The way Martin Crimp combines the very modern with the very old has a magical charm for me." What distinguishes the two stage works, which will be heard in Berlin for the first time, is their brilliant fusion of music and language. Written on Skin was composed for the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, whose transparent sound and marvellous articulation Benjamin had in mind while composing the work. The Mahler Chamber Orchestra will present both operas in the Philharmonie, with George Benjamin conducting.
During the Philharmonic chamber concert series the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin will perform his Octet, and the Musikfest Berlin will devote a matinee to Benjamin featuring pianist Florent Boffard. The Education Programme of the Berliner Philharmoniker will also contribute to the focus on Benjamin and is developing a creative project based on Into the Little Hill.
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Met behulp van de haloformreactie is het mogelijk de haloformen te maken op basis van ketonen met de keto-groep op de 2-plaats. De reactieomstandigheden vragen een basisch milieu en de aanwezigheid van een halogeen. Als tweede product ontstaat een carbonzuur met één koolstofatoom minder dan het uitgangsketon.

De haloformen zijn:
 Fluoroform (trifluormethaan)
 Chloroform (trichloormethaan)
 Bromoform (tribroommethaan)
 Jodoform (tri-joodmethaan)

Voorbeeld
Een voorbeeld van de haloformreactie is de vorming van jodoform uit butanon en di-jood:

Toepassing
Voordat de instrumentele technieken (massaspectrometrie, NMR) geïntroduceerd werden was deze reactie belangrijk bij het vaststellen of een verbinding een 2-keton was. De onbekende verbinding werd geroerd met een basische jood-oplossing (een oplossing van di-jood en natriumhydroxide). Het ontstaan van het vaste en slecht in water oplosbare (en dus goed waarneembare) jodoform was het bewijs voor dit structuurelement.

Synthese van haloformen
Als (industriële) productiemethode van de haloformen is deze reactie niet belangrijk. Het gemak waarmee de verbindingen uit methaan (aardgas) gemaakt kunnen worden en het als bijproduct ontstane carboxylaat zijn daar debet aan.

Reactiemechanisme
Opvallend is dat in dit geval het waterstofatoom steeds onttrokken wordt aan het koolstofatoom met het halogeen. Dit in tegenstelling de Favorski-omlegging, waar het waterstofatoom juist onttrokken wordt aan het koolstofatoom dat geen halogeen draagt.

Organische redoxreactie


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It makes sense that 1970 was one of the more significant years of that period–the end of the '60s, the end of the aforementioned rock groups, etc. I'm not sure if the next few years of the '70s were as noteworthy, at least in the music world.
Whether it was another year in the 70s or a year in the 60s, 80s or 90s, it would seem to me that others could write similar books. Of course, I wouldn't be the one to write it…I didn't know all this was going on in 1970!


I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. So I asked her, "If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed.