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Our 2-week Ireland road trip itinerary
Planning a holiday? Here is my list of the top things to do in Ireland.
by Jess Gray 3rd November 2017
In August, myself and Ben set off on a two week trip to Ireland. Neither of us had ever been to Ireland before but our friends and family kept telling us how amazing and beautiful it was. When it comes to planning a trip from scratch, I'm always the one doing a little pre-research. While some random person once said "spontaneity is the best kind of adventure", I kind of think some of the fun is in the planning. Plus, if you're limited in time, you'll want to plan in the best sights and activities.
We planned a two week trip to Ireland, encompassing six of its counties. While there is still a mountain of things to do in this green island, it was a really great introduction, encompassing some of the best things to do. For anyone thinking of doing a similar road trip, here's my 2-week Ireland road trip itinerary.
My Ireland Road Trip Itinerary
Day 1: Ferry from Pembroke, Wales >> Rosslare, Ireland
Living in the south west of England, the best of option for us was to get the ferry from Pembroke to Rosslare. If you're flexible on timing, a ferry can work out much cheaper than a flight and means you can drive your own car. For those in the north of England, you can also get the ferry from Holyhead in North Wales to Dublin and from Liverpool to Dublin.
We stayed over in a really nice B&B near Rosslare harbour, before setting off to the county of Galway on the next day.
Day 2: Rosslare >> Galway
The drive took around four hours, through really open landscapes. It was our first insight into Ireland and from diving through you get a real insight into how idyllic Ireland is. The land is much less built up than England, roads are less busy and you could drive several miles before you see another person. I don't think we encountered a single traffic jam until we reached the major cities. Even then, it was nothing like Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester.
Day 2 – 6: Based in Kilmaine (County Mayo)
We based ourselves in Kilmaine, just over the border from Galway in County Mayo. While some prefer to hop to different accommodations on the route, I find having a base really useful. It's easier to store and clean your gear, means you're not driving all the time and usually works out cheaper. It was an ideal location for everything we wanted to see and do in County Mayo, Galway and Clare.
Rather than describe everything in detail, here's my list of the top things to do in these counties. I've listed what we did and also added in some suggestions from locals. If you're an avid walker, or into your outdoor activities, these two counties offer some of the best landscapes and hiking routes.
Top things to do in County Mayo
Hire bikes and cycle the Mayo Greenway from Westport to Achill.
Visit Ballcroy National Park – It's achieved a Gold-Tier International Dark Sky Park status meaning it's one of the best places for stargazing.
Achill Island – Home to the mountain Slievemore (671m). The views at the top are well worth the climb and on the way up you'll come across the "Deserted Village"—a haunting reminder of times past. Keel Beach on the island is also a great spot for surfing.
Climb Croagh Patrick – Climbing the 765m holy mountain is an act of penance for thousands of pilgrims on the last Sunday of July (Reek Sunday). It's a steep climb, but accessible. There's even a church on top and on a clear day, the view over Clew Bay is incredible.
Clare Island – Lies off the Mayo coast at the entrance to Clew Bay. Its spectacular cliffs are home to large numbers of nesting seabirds and its hills, bogs and woodlands make it ideal for hill walking. You can also view the castle and burial place of the famous 'pirate queen' Grace O'Malley's. The island can be reached by ferry from Roonagh point Louisburgh in Mayo.
Louisburgh – A great place for snorkelling and other water activities like sea-kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding.
Drive part of the Wild Atlantic Way – The Wild Atlantic Way stretches from the northern headlands of Ireland to the surf coast and is famous for its sweeping coastlines, towering sea cliffs, and diverse landscapes.
Shot of Ben as we climbed up Croagh Patrick. We had a quick rain shower before the sun broke through again!
Top things to do in County Galway
Aran Islands – Step back in time and experience traditional Irish life. You can access the three islands by ferry or even a small plane and it's a perfect escape from modern day life.
Dusk kayaking tour at Menlo Pier – It's such a magical experience paddling through the water as the sun sets over the Connemara Mountains.
City of Galway – The city of Galway is well worth a visit even if just for the plethora of street musicians and performers.
Connemara National Park – Home to the Twelve Bens mountain range.
Dunguaire Castle – One of the most picturesque tower house castles in Ireland. From April to October, it hosts Medieval castle banquets in its halls.
Top things to do in County Clare
Burren National Park – An amazing place of natural beauty, unlike any other place I've been to. It's like stepping out onto the moon with its rocky limestone landscape, which stretches for miles. The view of the Wild Atlantic Way is just breathtaking from The Burren as well!
Cliffs of Moher – These revered cliffs are breathtaking. But I don't recommend going in summer as it's busy with busloads of tourists. Head here if you're going in spring/early summer to see the puffins. If not, I think you can get a much wilder experience with similar views elsewhere.
Doolin – The traditional music capital of Ireland. Filled with little unique pubs, it's also a jumping-off point for cliff cruises and ferries out to the Aran Islands.
The Pollock Holes – These three Pollock holes are located at the West-end of Kilkee. Grab your snorkel and wetsuit and discover the world under the waves. There are loads of different spices of fish and all sorts of marine life.
Look for dolphins – Around 200 wild bottlenose dolphins reside in the Shannon Estuary in County Clare. It's one of the best places to spot them.
If you're lucky, you can see the puffins who reside here spring and early summer.
Day 7 -12: Kilmaine >> Kenmare (County Kerry)
The drive down from Kilmaine to Kenmare took us around 4 – 5 hours. It was fascinating to see how the landscape changed. While still sparsely populated, we came across more towns and the landscape transformed from agriculture fields to woodlands and forests. We based ourselves in Kenmare, "The jewel in the Ring of Kerry. " An ideal location from which to explore the peninsulas of County Kerry and Cork.
Once again here's my list of the top things to do in these counties. I've listed what we did and added in suggestions after chatting with locals.
Top things to do in County Kerry
Drive the Ring of Kerry – The ring is a 179-kilometre-long (111-mile) circular route which encompasses some of the most spectacular views Ireland has to offer. You can walk/cycle part of this path on the Kerry Way, and a signposted Ring of Kerry cycling path which uses older quieter roads where possible.
Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve – Dependant on the time of year, it's the best place in the region to see the aurora, the Milky Way and meteors.
Killarney National Park – An expanse of rugged mountainous country which is home to over 50 white-tailed eagles. Sadly we didn't see any, but worth keeping your eyes peeled. Head on to Muckross Lake, which is the centrepiece of a 15km walk. The walk is relatively accessible and encompasses Muckross House and Torc Waterfall.
Skellig Michael – A UNESCO World Heritage Site home to an abandoned 6th-century monastery. Access to the island is very limited and expensive. Instead, it's possible to book a boat tour that goes around the island, where you can also look for its colonies of puffins, Manx shearwaters and storm petrels. Most recently Skellig Michael served as a filming location for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
Dingle Peninsula – In summer this peninsula is a bit of a tourist trap because of the famous dingle dolphin. The adjacent Beara Penisula is far less populated, but it's a shame to miss this one because of its views. The Conor Pass, which runs from Dingle on the southern end of the peninsula towards Brandon Bay and Castlegregory in the North, is the highest mountain pass in Ireland. Inch beach is great for beach walks and if you're OK with winding cliff roads, head down to Dunmore Head—the westernmost point of Ireland (excluding the islands).
Winding roads in the Killarney National Park.
Top things to do in County Cork
Drive down the Beara Penisula to Lambs Head – With magnificent mountains on one side and Bantry Bay on the other, the scenery is stunning in all directions. The Penisula is great for hikes, drive up the Healy Pass or a stroll along the O'Sullivan Mile. At Lambs Head you can get a cable car over to Dursey Island. The views overlooking the Ring of Kerry are simply breathtaking.
Bantry – Whiddy Island is just a short ferry crossing from Bantry town making it a popular spot for day trippers. It's a small haven of peace and tranquillity, with a rich history.
Ballyhoura Mountains – Host to the largest mountain bike trail network of its kind in Ireland. 98km of trails including forest road climbs, tight twisty singletrack with loads of ups and downs, boardwalks, tight turns and technical rocky bits! Pretty awesome.
Baltimore – Best place for seeing big whales. We headed out on a rib and saw loads of common dolphin and a minke whale. Go early spring to see humpback whales and even orcas.
Loch Hoyne – Jim Kennedy of Atlantic Sea Kayaking West Cork hosts a late-night moonlit kayaking experience. Not to be missed!
View over Dursey Island. Interesting fact: Vikings used to hold Irish prisoners here before transporting them to Scandinavia.
Walk around Lambs Head. You can see the Ring of Kerry in the distance.
During the boat tour in Baltimore. A view towards Fastnet Rock Lighthouse.
Day 12 – 14: Kenmare >> Dublin
As we were in Ireland, we thought we might as well visit Dublin. It also worked well as we got the ferry back home from Dublin to Holyhead in Wales. I didn't know what to expect from Dublin, and after two weeks in peaceful tranquillity, it was quite a shock to be back in a bustling city. While it certainly wasn't my favourite city, after two days I did start to warm to its charm.
If you're limited by time, the best thing I recommend, that we also did, is the Sandermans walking tour. The tour was engaging and packed with a lot of information and history. It actually gave great context to the history of Ireland as a whole.
For food, I'd recommend Umi Falafel. Ireland is expensive, especially Dublin. But this little gem on Dame Street offers amazing tasting Lebanese food, for a really reasonable price. We managed to order so much food, that we took it away and ate it the next day!
Day 14: Dublin >> Home
Day 14 and we returned home after a very long drive down from Holyhead. Looking back at the trip, we covered a lot but also had time to appreciate the views and chill. It was important for us not to over plan and while I've listed a lot of different things to do, I recommend picking a few and enjoying the whole experience.
Ireland is awesome and I strongly urge anyone who's thinking of going to do it. It's tranquil, unique, remote but homely and the people are incredibly welcoming. This guide was in part created after speaking with so many well-wishing locals.
I definitely hope to go back in the future and if I had more time I'd want to explore more of County Cork and the eastern counties.
Have been to Ireland and/or Northern Ireland?
What other places would you add to this Ireland road trip itinerary?
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I'm physically challenged, disabled, differently abled. Specifically, I have a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and have since I turned 27 (a long time ago). I'd had the condition for close to 10 years before finally achieving a diagnosis in the time when we were told it was all in our heads.
Now, it's getting more recognition, (thank all that is holy). Docs and scientists are doing more research on how to help us live better lives.
I read a thread on twitter today after yesterday's disabled murders in Japan, and my gods. I literally gagged at the truth in it.
The writers experience of disability and ableist thoughts from others rang so true for me.
You see, I've been through the gamut of treatments and stop gaps and therapies. From heavy medication to exercise to eating regimes to new age therapies.
The people closest to me respect and love me, they see what I deal with and how I fight, every second of every day to have some semblance of a 'normal' life. (I'm not going there on how very ableist the phrase normal is, I know it, just pointing it out to those who may not. There is no normal, there really isn't).
Yet… there is this pervasive concept EVERYWHERE, including from most of my extended family, that I don't WANT to be healed, that I don't take advantage of every option for 'healing myself'. I'm supposed to do that you know? Heal myself?
Because… if I just put the right puzzle pieces into the right slots of my mind/body machine the fibromyalgia will magically disappear and I will finally 'pull my own weight'. For anyone reading who doesn't know, fibromyalgia is considered a life-long chronic pain condition. There is no cure, there is no magic wand and the only magic bullet that cures it has the number of the gauge on the case.
The ableist privilege behind the kind of thought pattern that can believe I can heal myself, that I'm not trying or fighting… and worse if you actually SAY it to someone already suffering is phenomenal. Mind boggling.
I would never in a billion years choose to suffer this. I doubt I'd wish it on my worst enemy for more than a moment, and only then so they'd understand. If there were a magic pill or a therapy that would work or a drug that left my mind intact (some days, all I have left is my mind, I'm not willing to give that up) that would treat this, I'd do it.
I'd love to have my life back. I sincerely would. I'd love to be the kind of mom and wife I used to be able to be. Drawing attention to what I can't do with ableist thought processes vs actually helping, just don't… please. If you don't know how to help? Ask. Listen to the answer.
I'm a living, feeling, giving person. I am a gifted writer, I am creative and wonderful. I am not that behind my diagnosis, I am not that in spite of my diagnosis, I am a person. I should be treated as such, not as a burden. Not as a problem to be 'fixed'.
I shouldn't feel like I should die just to make other people's lives easier. I shouldn't feel like I'm not doing enough when I'm already fighting an exhausting gods damned battle every second of every day.
Hell… can we just get rid of all privilege while we're at it and maybe try listening to one another? Of trying on sympathy and empathy instead of hatred and isolation of those who are 'different'? I guarantee you, we're all some variety of human. We're all thinking, feeling, beautifully unique creatures who need community and acceptance.
Could we try that instead of wallowing in our privilege?


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Eid, Kashmir
01/10/2008 Shivam Vij 5 Comments
This photo from "Etalaat" was taken by Abrar Ali. Plastic guns on sale in Srinagar's Lal Chowk on the even of Eid
"Eid-ul-fitr celebrated with fervour in Jammu and Kashmir," says PTI.
"Eid in Srinagar lack fervour," says NDTV's Nazir Masoodi.
Eid mubarak?
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What to say? I remember meeting a jawan from Kerala newly posted in Kashmir during a train journey. I'll never forget what he told me: that a Kashmiri, to him, was as unfamiliar as a European. I'll also never forget the thinly-veiled fear in his eyes — the cringing fear of the unfamiliar , the anger against 'higher-ups' who don't have to face the music that, I trembled to think, would soon leap out as violence against Kashmiris. The same man, who'd gladly eat a hearty Eid dinner at the house of Muslim friends back home…
I know what you mean. But I also read your comment as pointing us to yet another instance of why we now need to be able to think of these issues in a post-national framework, conceptually. The trouble of course is that the nation produces equivalences where there are none, and ruptures affinities where they do exist, and the tragedies of this simultaneous sleight of hand of "sameness" and "difference" are playing out everyday.
For the average man on the street in the Valley the army gun is anonymous. It is the army gun, and the gun does not give him scope to read complexities such as the one you point out, Devika. If I were the army man you met on the train, I would refuse to be the coloniser's soldier. So the bit about Kashmir being Europe to him can be read in another way too :)
Yes, indeed, I can only read from this meeting the violence and mutual separation built into Indian nationalism. How can one even think that a people so subjected to such heinous state crime would see the army gun as wielded by anyone but the anonymous Oppressor? The exodus into the army from Kerala is as old as the 1940s, driven by near-famine conditions and interestingly, once outside Kerala these people hardly challenge the state or majoritarianism in civil society. I have a feeling that this has to do with Malayali educated-economic refugee status. There was a distinctly trapped look in the eyes of the man I talked with — and I was sure that he'd turn that cornered feeling into violence against people in Kashmir, in fact even more than what the higher ups would order him to do. That isn't a surprise, I suppose. The post independence formation of Indian States was precisely tuned to producing competition between and self-seeking in societies and not understanding.
If the people of Kerala would be more aware that the agony of these far-off people also produced agony in their midst, then public debate here wouldn't have been so indifferent to Kashmir… But the soldier is busy earning so that his siblings can earn skills that fetch a price in the global job market…
K says:
There is no scope to read further than the oppression, but let me point to a further trait in us Kashmiris: we do not try to decipher anything that is farther than the eye sees. It is true for the oppressor, in which case, the reality of his presence abounds and it is true in case of our self-styled leaders, who we should dissect a further more, but we refuse to, perhaps the Hope that makes us survive each day, will kill us eventually.
It is also essential that such complexities be seen by Indians and not a lot do so. Why? I fail to understand. I can well recall a post I wrote once on how an Indian found the presence of the Security Forces thrilling in Kashmir!
http://kashmir.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/subjugation-and-torture-that-thrills-and-excites/
Devika,
The oppressor is not anonymous, it is just that he has one name: India.


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«Атле́тико Паранаэнсе» () — бразильский футбольный клуб из города Куритиба, штат Парана. Клуб является одним из двух грандов своего штата (наряду с «Коритибой»), присоединившимся членом Клуба Тринадцати, организации самых популярных и титулованных клубов Бразилии.

История

«Атлетико Паранаэнсе» был основан в результате слияния 21 марта 1924 года двух старых команд города — «Интернасьонала» (Куритиба) и «Америки» (Куритиба). «Интернасьонал» стал первым чемпионом штата в 1915 году, а «Америка» была чемпионом штата в 1917 году. После объединения их чемпионства можно записать в реестр чемпионств «Атлетико».

Сразу же после основания «Атлетико» стал одним из традиционных клубов штата вместе с «Коритибой». Практически до конца 1980-х годов в штате параллельно происходили различные слияния команд, становившихся в разное время чемпионами штата, что вылилось в образование в 1989 году клуба «Парана», суммировавшего в себе порядка 20 чемпионских титулов, обгоняя по этому показателю «Атлетико». Однако официально считаются чемпионства только непосредственно трёх клубов — «Коритибы» (38), «Атлетико» (25, а не 27) и «Параны» (6, а не 27).

Отсюда следует, что на внутренней арене штата Парана «Атлетико» занимает в иерархии клубов только второе место после «Коритибы». Однако, на общебразильской арене в начале XXI века «Атлетико» заметно превзошёл своих старых конкурентов. Став в 2001 году чемпионом Бразилии, «атлеты» догнали по этому показателю «Коритибу», бывшую чемпионом в 1985. В 2004 году «Атлетико» стал вице-чемпионом страны, вслед за «Сантосом», а в 2005 году добился наивысшего успеха в своей истории, дойдя первым из клубов своего штата до финала главного южноамериканского клубного турнира — Кубка Либертадорес. В 2018 году команда завоевала свой первый международный трофей — Южноамериканский кубок.

Незадолго до триумфа на континентальной арене в 2018 году руководство клуба объявило о ребрендинге. Помимо смены логотипа, выполненного в минималистическом стиле (четыре восходящие полосы и аббревиатура CAP), было изменено и название в португальской транскрипции — была добавлена буква h в слове Athletico. Такое название, в старой дореформенной транскрипции, использовалось в момент основания клуба в 1924 году.

В 2019 году «Атлетико Паранаэнсе» впервые в истории завоевал Кубок Бразилии, обыграв в финале «Интернасьонал». В том же году команда выиграла ещё два трофея — чемпионат штата и Кубок обладателей Кубка Джей-лиги и Южноамериканского кубка (бывший Кубок банка Суруга).

В 2021 году команда во второй раз стала обладателем Южноамериканского кубка, обыграв в финале турнира соотечественников из «Ред Булл Брагантино» — 1:0. Единственный гол забил лучший игрок матча Никан.

Согласно данным двух исследовательских институтов (Ibope и Datafolha), опубликовавших результаты своих исследований в 2004 и 2006 годах соответственно, «Атлетико Паранаэнсе» — наиболее популярный клуб в своём штате, немного опережая по количеству болельщиков «Коритибу».

Символы

Стадион
Команда выступает на ультрасовременном стадионе «Арена Байшада», до апреля 2008 года именовавшемся в честь спонсора «Kyocera Arena». Стадион был открыт в 1999 году и выделяется своим необычным, уютным архитектурным стилем. Так как арена вмещает меньше 50 тысяч зрителей, домашний матч финала Кубка Либертадорес 2005 года против соотечественников из Сан-Паулу (это был первый в истории турнира финал, в котором играли представители одной страны) «Атлетико» провёл на стадионе Интернасьонала «Бейра-Рио».

Форма
 Основная форма команды: футболки в чёрно-красную полоску, чёрные (либо белые) трусы и чёрные (либо белые) гетры.
 Запасная форма: белые футболки (с чёрным рукавом), трусы и гетры.

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 Главный тренер —  Луис Фелипе Сколари (1948)

Достижения
  Чемпион штата Парана (26): 1925, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
  Чемпион штата Парана — «Интернасьонал» (1): 1915
  Чемпион штата Парана — «Америка» (1): 1917
  Чемпион Бразилии (1): 2001
  Вице-чемпион Бразилии (1): 2004
  Чемпион бразильской Серии B (1): 1995
  Чемпион Кубка Бразилии (1): 2019
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150729-nighttime-thunderstorms-severe-weather-atmosphere-science.html
Chasing Nighttime Thunderstorms, Trying to Crack Their Mysteries
These nocturnal storms are different from their daytime brethren and we still don't understand how and why they form.
Follow scientists as they hunt down nighttime thunderstorms with mobile radar trucks and weather balloons.
By Jane J. Lee,
Nighttime thunderstorms can be more unpredictable than hurricanes. And they can be just as fierce, unleashing flash floods, violent winds, and thousands of lightning flashes within minutes.
The storms often stretch across entire states and have caused billions of dollars in damage and killed hundreds of people in the United States in recent decades. They've wreaked similar havoc in southeast Asia, northern Australia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
And yet how nighttime thunderstorms form remains a mystery. Unlike daytime thunderstorms, which are fairly well understood, forecasters still struggle to predict when a nighttime thunderstorm will spawn severe weather. Meteorologists know where the storms will form but not, for the most part, how bad they'll get.
Clear blue skies can give way to a nighttime thunderstorm cluster that's producing widespread heavy rainfall and high winds in a matter of hours, says David Imy, a forecaster with the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.
But these storms aren't all bad. They provide life-giving rain for ecosystems and for the American breadbasket, delivering between 30 to 70 percent of the U.S. Great Plains' rainfall in the warm months.
The ability to predict a nighttime storm could help residents in a particular locale prepare for the worst—and help farmers gauge whether or not their crops will get enough water.
An evening thunderstorm rolls over the horizon in the central United States. These nighttime storms are responsible for up to 70 percent of the rainfall in the region during the summer.
Photograph by NOAA
So Imy and about 200 other scientists, graduate students, and undergrads have descended on this sleepy central Kansas town for six and a half weeks to start decoding the storms' secrets. They are part of the Plains Elevated Convection at Night project, a $13.5-million effort that's financed by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The scientists hope that taking detailed observations of atmospheric conditions before and during nighttime thunderstorms will help meteorologists better predict where high winds will form and where heavy rains will fall.
But about halfway through the study, near the end of June, Kansas sits baking at 99°F (37°C) under nearly cloud-free skies.
Six-wheeled flatbed trucks modified to carry Doppler radars sit idling in parking lots, their dishes staring blankly at a blue sky while weather balloons stay packed inside of cases. Pilots tasked with collecting data from inside these storms—spiraling in and out of thunderclouds—instead get yet another night to watch movies on their tablets.
In addition to being unpredictable, it turns out that nighttime thunderstorms can be pretty elusive.
"The joke in our field is that if there's some weather phenomena that you want to suppress, just plan a field project to go study [it]," says Russ Schumacher, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and one of the Kansas project's leaders.
Seeking Illumination
One big reason nighttime thunderstorms remain an enigma is because all the action happens in a layer of the atmosphere that we can't easily observe.
Daytime thunderstorms are driven by sunlight that heats the Earth's surface. Warm, moist air rises through the atmosphere and encounters colder air. The warm air cools, water condenses to form rainclouds, and the cold air sinks towards the ground.
This sets off an up-and-down cycling of air that, if it goes on long enough, becomes a thunderstorm. There's so much energy built up in these storms that some of it lashes out as lightning and thunder. (See 13 striking pictures of extreme weather.)
The basic ingredients of a nighttime thunderstorm are the same as a daytime storm. But where and how those ingredients mix is very different.
At night, the layer of air next to the ground is relatively cool and stable. So nighttime thunderstorms form in an active region above this stable layer, roughly 1,640 to 3,300 feet (500 to 1,000 meters) off the ground—about two to three times the height of the Eiffel Tower.
Since nighttime thunderstorms can't get their fuel from warm, moist air rising from the Earth's surface, they require a river of air called a low-level jet to bring heat up from the Gulf of Mexico. Atmospheric ripples called bores likely play a role in maintaining these storms once they get going, although scientists are still trying to understand just how that happens.
These complex air currents somehow come together to herd smaller thunderstorms into a huge cluster that acts like one giant system—the nighttime thunderstorm, or what scientists call a mesoscale convective system.
These clusters sometimes form out of thin air, says Tammy Weckwerth, an atmospheric scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. And even minor changes in atmospheric temperature can make the difference between the initiation of a big storm or the continuation of an uneventful night.
Coming Prepared
Because all these changes occur above the atmospheric layer that's regularly sampled by weather stations, scientists have had to get creative about how to study them.
So they've come to Kansas with an arsenal of instruments. It includes two stationary and seven mobile radar arrays—Doppler radar dishes welded to the backs of heavy-duty trucks. Scientists can move the dishes to wherever they need to catch a nighttime thunderstorm.
The teams also have a handful of mobile weather stations: Minivans and pickup trucks outfitted with sensors that record air temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
Weather balloons help researchers to study nighttime thunderstorms, reaching a part in the atmosphere that isn't regularly studied by weather stations.
The scientists even have three aircraft at their disposal: A twin turboprop King Air, a DC-8 jetliner, and a WP-3D Orion "Hurricane Hunter."
Of course, all this equipment is useless without a nighttime thunderstorm to study.
Which is why, after several days of clear skies, forecasters like the National Severe Storms Laboratory's Imy start looking further and further away from Hays for the telltale angry red splotches blooming on their Doppler radar screens.
Finally, on the fourth Tuesday in June, it looks like nighttime thunderstorms are sprouting over Nebraska and Iowa.
The storms are outside the boundaries outlined by project leaders—a circle roughly 373 miles (600 kilometers) across that cuts through Hays. But at around 3:30 p.m. central standard time, scientists in a conference room at Fort Hays State University decide to dispatch three weather balloon teams, two mobile weather stations, and several mobile radar trucks.
Crews scramble to pack long pants, rain jackets, and toiletries—plus their equipment—in 20 minutes before shooting out of a university parking lot. They have four hours of driving past fields and over dirt roads before they can set up their instruments.
Stacey Hitchcock, an atmospheric sciences graduate student at Colorado State University, forgets to pack long pants. But her team remembers a hand-held vacuum cleaner to suck up the hummingbird-sized mosquitoes that invade their minivan every time someone opens a door.
They will need to stay out until 2 or 3 in the morning, after driving for hours and crossing into Nebraska, to get an accurate picture of the atmosphere before it spawns a nighttime thunderstorm.
Hitchcock and her teammates end up on the same tan dirt road between two farm fields as the crew of a "Doppler on Wheels," or DOW, from the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder.
Their mission: Collect atmospheric data before the formation of a nighttime thunderstorm. With the DOW's generator chugging in the background—and hundreds of fireflies blinking nearby—Hitchcock and her teammates prepare to send up a weather balloon into a deep-purple evening sky.
A mobile weather observing station (truck in the foreground) parks on the side of the road near Crawfordsville, Indiana, while two cloud-to-ground lightning strikes rip through the atmosphere.
Photograph by Jacob DeFlitch
It's a calm night, so only one person needs to hold the helium-filled white balloon while a second person readies the instruments it will carry aloft. But during a nighttime thunderstorm, the wind can be blowing so hard that "you'll see launches where five or six people are holding the balloon," Hitchcock says.
On this night, no thunderstorm materializes. But the next night, ground teams drive into Iowa and catch their quarry. The wind gusts so hard that the weather balloon Hitchcock and her team hold before launch is blowing sideways.
The project picked back up after that night: In early July, scientists and students scrambled to squeeze in 11 missions in 13 days. "It's exhausting, being on the road for hours and then staying up all night," Hitchcock says.
But she thinks it's worth it. "I got into meteorology because I'm afraid of storms," she says. "I wanted to make myself less scared by studying them."
It worked, but she still gets antsy if there's a lot of lightning.
Follow Jane J. Lee on Twitter.


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François Desharnais, né en août 1966, est un peintre québécois de la région des Bois-Francs. Il est notamment le créateur de plusieurs œuvres picturales relatant les événements de 1837-39 au Bas-Canada.

Biographie
François Desharnais vit à Québec. Après avoir étudié en arts visuels à l'Université Laval et complété un certificat en enseignement des arts, il peint plusieurs séries dont Dieppe, Canadiens-français en guerre ; Canadiens-français en paix et 175 anniversaire des Patriotes.

Parcours

Expositions

 1984 : Coll. Art actuel Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures (Québec)
 1997 : Solo : Ouverture de l'École des Sourds, Québec (Québec)
 2000 : Solo : Ouverture de l'Année Internationale de la Culture de la paix pour l'UNESCO, Québec (Québec)
 2000 : Solo Canadiens français en guerre ; Canadiens français en paix : Citadelle de Québec, 22e Régiment, Québec (Québec)
 2001 : Solo Mankind : Grand Théâtre de Québec, Québec (Québec)
 2002 : Coll. : Galerie Art & Miss, Paris, France
 2002 : Solo : Malatesta Gallery, San Francisco, Californie
 2007 : Solo : Oh La La Gallery, Town Square, Las Vegas, Nevada
 2009 : Solo : Hommage à Michel Donato Largo Resto-Club, Québec (Québec)
 2010 : Coll. : Galerie Art & Miss, Kiev, Ukraine
 2010 : Solo : Festival de Jazz 2010, Québec (Québec)
 2011 : Solo : Festival de Jazz 2011, Québec (Québec)
 2012 : Solo : 175e anniversaire des Patriotes Grand Théâtre, Québec (Québec)
 2012 : Solo : 175e anniversaire des Patriotes Centre d'exposition La prison des Patriotes, Montréal (Québec)
 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 : Coll. Courtepeintres, Bibliothèque Roger-Lemelin, Québec (Québec)
 2014 : Solo La République des Patriotes Musée de St-Eustache et de ses Patriotes, Saint-Eustache, Québec (Québec)
 2014 : Parution En 2014-2015, la revue Études françaises célèbre le cinquantième anniversaire de sa fondation. « Volume jubilaire » (vol. 50, no 3, 2014, 128 p., illustré par François Desharnais).
 2017 : Coll. Rencontre artistes Japon/Québec Domaine Maizeret, Québec (Québec)
 2017 : Solo Pluie noire Québec (Québec)
 2018 : Coll. Nakano-ku, Tokyo IMS Create Tokyo 19 au 27 juin (peintres présents)
 2019 : Coll. Courtepeintres Bibliothèque Roger-Lemelin, Québec (Québec) 15 mars au 14 avril
 2019 : Coll. Les Voûtes de la Maison Chevalier, Québec (Québec) 26 avril
 2019 : Coll. Exposition amitié Japon Québec Domaine Maizerets, Québec (Québec) 9 au 12 novembre
 2020 : Coll. Exposition Nakano-Ku, Tokyo
 2021 : Solo USA 2 juillet au 5 août

Notes et références

Annexes

Documentation
 Club des collectionneurs de Québec : «François Desharnais expose», 19 décembre 2017
 Le Soleil, «Une toile d'un peintre de Québec censurée à Montréal», 4 juin 2012
 L'Éveil, «Une nouvelle exposition ; La République des Patriotes», 30 octobre 2014
 Parution : Études françaises, Université de Montréal, Volume jubilaire, Vol. 50,3
 Le Soleil, D12, «Drôle de guerre», 2 octobre 1999

Liens externes

Naissance en août 1966
Étudiant de l'Université Laval
Peintre québécois
Peintre d'histoire


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NDoM, Mass Atrocities and IDEAS, Episode 77 (29/5/20)
June 3, 2020	IDEAS MODERATOR2 Podcast, Transcript 0 Comments
NDoM, Mass Atrocities and IDEAS
Aghogho Oboh: Shaku maku everybody … beautiful weather we're having this season as we go into the second half of the year. And I'm Aghogho Oboh on the Public Square where we're looking at all the big political and development stories happening around us. Remember you can join the conversation on social media any time, @PublicSquareNG, @Ideasradiong, @RotimiSankore and @aghoghooboh.
We're going to open the Public Square as usual with Ayo Obe, and we're looking at yesterday's big event which was marked by a number of civil societies: the National Day of Mourning, several thousand people killed in just a couple of months, and that's something that has IDEAS components in it. And then when we're through with IDEAS, we do a beeline to the centre of the Public Square, Rotimi Sankore and I will be joined by the Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi, on this new election policy guideline in pandemic, the Corona virus. It will be interesting to see how that conversation goes there. Remember that the fourth quarter of this year we're going to be having elections in Ondo and Edo states. But we're ready for the Public Square, and we're ready to kick off with Ayo Obe.
Hello Ayo! … Hello Ayo? … we'll try and fix that and get Ayo Obe shortly on, but just give me a second, and then we will look at the National Day of Mourning. Remember, that yesterday I said, Nigeria observed this National Day of Mourning, and … and majorly by civil societies … a civil society initiative to mark the fact that over the years thousands of Nigerians have died as a result of mass atrocities, and in IDEAS, Ayo will be discussing the link between these deaths and the concepts of Integrity, Democracy, Ethics and Accountability. Just give me a couple of seconds and we're going to connect with Ayo Obe to help open the Public Square.
AgO: Ok, I think we have Ayo Obe … ok, still trying to do the connection … And so we finally have Ayo Obe in the Public Square. Hello Ayo.
Ayo Obe: Hi Aghogho, how are you?
AgO: I'm brilliant, and how are you?
AO: I'm fine.
AgO: Alright, everyone readjusting and realigning to life in the times of the Corona virus pandemic and finding new ways of getting on with life.
AO: Indeed. But I'm still looking forward to being back in the studio!
AgO: Absolutely, and we're looking forward to welcoming you back with open arms. A number of listeners asking: When is Ayo going to be in the studio? And I said: She's here already! You're just not looking in the right places!
Ok, Ayo just before you connected, I was just letting the listeners know about what happened yesterday which was observed as the National Day of Mourning. It's a civil society initiative to mark the fact that over the years, thousands of Nigerians have died as a result of these atrocities. And we're looking at the link between these deaths and the concepts of Integrity, Democracy, Ethics and Accountability, which is the long form of IDEAS. So Ayo, the first question which is of course, the obvious which we have dealt with over and over again when we've had discussions every Friday, has been to understand the IDEAS component, for example, of mass atrocities, and why we are soberly looking at this National Day of Mourning in 2020.
AO: Well, Aghogho, the first thing is to remind ourselves as you said, that some of the context … the … the components of IDEAS are Integrity and Accountability, and certainly, obviously if there are atrocities perpetrated by our own government's security agencies, definitely they have to … there has to be Accountability for that; it's not a matter of the Police or the Army being accused of atrocities such as killings or torture and so on, and then nobody is held to account. But I think also that most of the atrocities that we also have to look at, are also those perpetrated by criminals, and you know, they could be bandits, they could be insurgents, they could be terrorists or they could even be mobs. … rioting for one thing or the other, or setting on one group or the other.
AgO: Absolutely.
AO: And I think that the point about Accountability here is that the government owes the citizens of Nigeria security, it's the first requirement … it's the first reason why people come together as government … under a government. And so if these atrocities are being perpetrated, and the criminals or the terrorists or the mobs are able to get away with it, then it becomes a question: What is the point of the security agencies? Are they guaranteeing our security? So they are also … even though they are not necessarily the direct perpetrators, the security agencies are still accountable for the … for the atrocities, bringing the people to justice and of course, finding out who was responsible and bringing people to justice and of course, making the victims whole, as far as is possible.
AgO: Absolutely, and those are questions around Accountability and what it means for us. Do you …there's something we … well, it's unfortunate, most times in the news, it's like the biggest secret, every time you have to report on killings, the question is: How many people have died? And that way it becomes a topic of conversation … in the news reportage and all of that, but it's a question I think people often want to know, whether we talk about atrocities only when people have been killed?
AO: Well, no, definitely we cannot talk about atrocities only when people have been killed, and in fact it's our failure to understand the link between the atrocities where people don't get killed and the ones where they do, that probably actually allows the matter to escalate. Because it certainly covers issues like abuse of human rights and the duty to respect human rights whether we are in government or not, and that actually includes not just the actions by our police and security agencies, but also actions by criminals and terrorists. When the Chibok Girls were kidnapped in 2015 … 2014, it was not done by government, but the … but it was still an abuse of the human rights of the kidnap victims, and we are still saying that the government is accountable for bringing … for not only for rescuing the kidnap victims, but also for bringing the perpetrators to book. You'll also remember also that we had a report by the National Human Rights Commission recently which related the human rights abuses that were suffered by Nigerians at the hands of security agencies who were acting under guise of enforcing the anti-COVID19 lockdown. Certainly there were deaths, but there were also abuses and forms of inhuman treatment. So I think that we need to understand that the victims of atrocities are not just those who die or are injured, but they are also people whose rights are abused.
AgO: And the numbers often times, have formed debate topics about whether those numbers are accurate or not … when those killings have happened, which of course explains why we have thousands rather than hundreds in the way the killings have happened and the way they have also been reported. But do mass atrocities raise any Integrity or Ethics issues?
AO: Well yes, I think they do, particularly when it comes to the disputes about figures, or the alleged concealment of atrocities. For example, in its statement on the National Day of Mourning yesterday, the Civil Society Joint Nigeria Crisis Action Committee said (and I'm quoting them now):
"… the country continues to experience an exponentially rise in violence, perpetrated by organized criminal groups with a monumental loss of lives, livelihoods, and property. For the most part, the destruction associated with this spiralling crisis of violence and mass killings has been grossly under-reported. Even with the suppression of information on these killings, it is quite clear that the toll of killings has risen dramatically."
And then they go on to say that at least seven thousand nine hundred Nigerians were victims of violent killings between 2018 and now, and that in this first quarter of 2020, there were almost one and a half thousand deaths and this is not just in the north east where we have an insurgency, but across the country, from – as they say: "From Akwa-Ibom to Zamfara, Nigerians wake up daily to fresh news of mass atrocities which are barely acknowledged by the government and a vast majority of fellow citizens."
But I want to say Aghogho, that in a way, disputes about numbers can be a bit of a red herring. And … if we are going to do something about these mass atrocities, does a dispute over the numbers help us make practical progress? Or do they obscure the issues? In fact I'm reminded of the old question: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Because for my money, if a group says 12 people were massacred and official sources say 6, then we take them at their 6 and we say: Who are the 6, and what has been done in respect of those who killed, or abducted, or tortured the 6?
AgO: Or even, prevent it from re-occurring?
AO: From there, we move on and say: Ok, we understand what's being done about A, B, C, D, E and F, but we also draw attention to G, H, I, J, K and L. What's being done about them? And I think that's why it's important that the victims of mass atrocities should be identified and named, so that we don't create this expectation that once the numbers are big, we can call those who say: "Look, every affected victim has to be accounted for" … you know, we tend to say: "Ah, they're being unreasonable. Ṣebi they have tried, they've done something." … I mean, quite frankly Aghogho, I was looking at an article that I wrote in 2015 about … on the 500th anniversary of the kidnapping of the Chibok Girls, and I talked about the fact that there's a call for a National Register of Missing Persons because it's an attempt to shed light on this area of ignorance… "And that ignorance goes beyond this wilful refusal to count ourselves properly, or to register our births or deaths." I had been listening to an inquest into the deaths of the 96 people who died in the British Hillsborough disaster at a football match in April 1989.
AgO: '84, '84.
AO: And each individual victim had a … an inquest. You know, you contrast that, you remember when the Synagogue Church of All Nations guest house collapsed, and people were saying: "Why should we have an inquest into the deaths of 116 people?" So we have to … we have to identify each victim.
AgO: Mmm. Absolutely. So, in case you've just joined the conversation on 99.3 Nigeria Info, Public Square, Ayo Obe is looking at the National Day of Mourning, the IDEAS component of the discussion is what we're looking at. Remember, you can join via WhatsApp if you have any questions for Ayo, 08095975805, or you want to contribute in your comments around the killings that have happened, horrendously, several thousands in the last year. … So Ayo, how do we move from counting and mourning (or rather, counting and not even counting) like you've shown that sometimes we've … the government and the authorities have been lax in responsibilities here, in the Accountability section when it comes to mass atrocities?
AO: Well Aghogho, I'm afraid that I'm going to sound a bit like a broken record here, because I've said this before, but we have to get to the place where there is accountability for criminal acts, no matter the identity – and by identity, I'm meaning things like class, religion, ethnicity, race, gender, or profession – of either the victims, or of the perpetrators. You know, this thing where we say: the wife was killed by the husband: "Well, you know, domestic violence", or we say: "Oh, it's those people killing themselves over there, or we say "It's cultists who have been killing themselves and fighting", and so on and so forth. Obviously it applies to the security agencies, particularly the Nigeria Police, but I think it also applies to the rest of us. We also have to accept that … we have to have the imagination to put ourselves in the shoes of the victims, so that we don't say: "Oh, well, that's those people, that's their culture, we don't have to …" or whatever, "Oh, if they decided to go into cult activities …" We have to … Where there's crime, there must be accountability … And I would say also that we need to address the training, the rules of engagement of security agencies, and to end impunity not just for the members of the government, or the security agencies that act in the name of the government, but also for the criminals and terrorists. I mean, the JN-CAC spoke of (quote and unquote) "vast swathes of ungoverned territory have been taken over by rustlers, bandits and vigilantes whose preferred currency is blood." And they said that:
"We have to end the spiral of the conflict in the regions by ordering … full investigations into the killings to fish out and bring the perpetrators of the crisis to justice;
Ensure that there's humanitarian aid and assistance to communities displaced by the crisis, and also take measures to combat the proliferation of small arms"
… and so on. Now I want to say that the JN-CAC also said that "the government has shown itself unwilling or unable to confront the killings". I'm not going to necessarily agree that that government has been unwilling to confront the killings, the fact is that we have seen numerous reports of engagements between not only the armed forces and terrorists and bandits, but also between the police and other types of criminal. And the truth is that many of our security agencies have lost their lives in such encounters. So I don't think that we should downplay their sacrifice by a "nothing is being done" type of narrative. I think that we've moved on from the situation where the government felt that they could just commiserate briefly with those affected, and then move on, because they were relying on some kind of national "Well, it's not us" mindset, to avoid being held for account. And in fact, I think that the National Day of Mourning is about telling government that we are not ready to "briefly commiserate and move on". Now, we also have to recognise however, that Boko Haram, ISWAP, climate change, the fallout from Libya which has disseminated small arms and terrorist methodologies throughout the West African region; those mean that the scale and intensity of the violence we confront are increasing. We also know that we can't expect to know all the steps being taken by security agencies to confront these, because intelligence activities aren't conducted in the open! And quite frankly, for all we know, it may be that unknown to us, the government is pushing a huge boulder of response to all the violence uphill and is nearing the crest of that hill … But the fact is that we ordinary citizens, we can only go by results. So we have to keep on pushing, just in case government is falling into that mindset of: "They've forgotten, we can … we can move on".
AgO: Mmm, you know, bring the conversation to a close Ayo … just like you've said, and a lot of things I've also read from the report by the civil society group, saying that it proposes a rash … a raft of actions to be taken, whether it's long term or short term, which are second … which are primary solutions to primary problems, like you mentioned, some of these things can be traced to the economic problems with environmental issues, for example Lake Chad has made those places now become huge swathes of land and unoccupied but by people of questionable character. Would you say that we … the authorities head off straight and start to deal with the short term approaches to resolve the problems rather than look at the long term, which in some cases, require huge capital investment in terms of infrastructure and human capital development?
AO: You've absolutely hit the nail on the head Aghogho. There have to be some short term responses because people are being killed and they are being displaced … we have a huge population of Internally Displaced Persons as well as refugees in other countries, so we have to have an immediate response. But definitely the long term response has to be investment in our people and investment in government, so … governance I should say. So it's … we have to multi-task! I'm sorry, Government cannot say: Let me do one, and then the other. It has to be able to do both. Or all, I should say.
AgO: Absolutely, absolutely. Thank you very much Ayo Obe for opening the Public Square today.
AO: Thank you Aghogho.
AgO: And I do hope that if by next year we have to look at this again on the National Day of Mourning, we can do a comparison, and see whether the picture is better this year compared to the next year.
AO: Maybe that boulder will have reached the top of the hill and it will be downhill all the way!
AgO: Absolutely. Thank you very much Ayo.
AO: You're welcome. Bye bye.


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The 2003 Iraq war has spawned much punditry. Journalists, think-tank scholars, and academics compete to publish articles or offer television commentary. But their analysis falls short, particularly as few of them have spent time in Iraq, much less speak its languages. Happily, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq, a collection of short essays by scholars at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and compiled by Knights, a British scholar and defense journalist, offers real substance and quality.
Michael Eisenstadt, director of security studies at The Washington Institute, highlights lessons learned from Britain's post-World War I occupation of Iraq. Written before the U.S. occupation commenced, Eisenstadt's analysis proves remarkably prescient. Knights and former Defense Intelligence Agency official Jeffrey White contribute a number of short essays analyzing the military component of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The detailed essay showing how basing restrictions shaped the conduct of war will be highly useful to military historians and tacticians. The section on postwar coalition security policy is more relevant to the general reader. It provides useful analysis of the new Iraqi army, the alphabet soup of Iraq's other reconstructed security forces, and the multinational divisions. Of particular interest is the synopsis of a speech by General David Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne, on lessons of the Iraq war.
In a section analyzing the Sunni insurgency, White becomes a bit mired in the weeds, but Jonathan Schanzer brings useful field research to his analysis of the Ansar al-Sunna terrorist group, foreign jihadists, and other Sunni organizations. The section on the Shi'ite opposition is perhaps the weakest in an otherwise strong collection, for there is no mention of Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi and minimal mention of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the faction-ridden Da'wa party, all of which play key roles. The synopsis of a presentation by Yitzhak Nakash about the Shi'ite in Iraq's future is valuable but too brief to fill the gap.
A section on the post-Saddam economy and politics contributes valuable nuggets. Barham Salih, who became deputy prime minister in the interim government, discusses how Iraqi Kurdistan fits into the rest of the country while Soner Cagaptay provides good insight into the oft-forgotten Iraqi Turkmen community. More discussion of Kurdish politics and the question of federalism would have been helpful, though.
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Q: Django ModelForm Ajax Upload I'm using an Ajax code for uploading files. Django takes good care of file uploads on ModelForms. Just writing form.save() would upload any file data in the header, manage creating the folders if needed and even rename the file if a duplicate already exists. Take this ModelForm which only has one filed named file for example:
class UploadFileForm(ModelForm):
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Since I'm using Ajax the only information I have in my view is request.FILES['file']. This is what I tried in my view:
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 if form.is_valid():
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But it returns an invalid form (file is required). I can do this using pure Python but with the power of Django where's the point in that?

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Fågeln förekommer från sydöstra Colombia till södra Venezuela, samt till östra Peru och västcentrala brasilianska delen av Amazonområdet. Den placeras som enda art i släktet Megastictus och behandlas som monotypisk, det vill säga att den inte delas in i några underarter.

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Featured Stories, National Lutheran News
A home for Lutheran scholarship
Lutheran Quarterly celebrates 25 years of publishing
Bob Hulteen / July 2, 2011
Lutheran Quarterly and its predecessor publications go back to 1849, according to Mark Granquist, professor of church history at Luther Seminary, St. Paul. But the earlier iterations did have some differences. Usually these journals were operated as a joint publication of several Lutheran seminaries. Under this polity, the publication ran out of steam in the mid-1970s, and eventually died.
But a handful of Lutheran scholars had a vision for resurrecting an independent Lutheran scholarly journal, and in 1986, as competing visions for what the Lutheran church should look like, and two years before the merger of the American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Quarterly once again saw ink.
The logo of Lutheran Quarterly
"The reason for a scholarly Lutheran publication is that Lutherans as a people take their theology and history very seriously."
"Lutheran Quarterly is old-fashioned," explained Paul Rorem, editor and professor of church history at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. "It is published four times per year in a traditional scholarly format." He added that Lutheran Quarterly has a unique niche. While many publications have to adapt to busy pastors and well-meaning but under-prepared lay leaders, this journal has doctrinal depth and historical detail. "We don't shy away from the footnotes," he said.
Normally Lutheran Quarterly includes a potpourri of articles; the material does not normally revolve around a central theme.
The editorial staff is more concerned about quality than addressing a cultural fad. "I remember founding editor Oliver Olson once told us, 'When we do an article right, it should be the definitive treatment [of that issue] for that time.'"
Across the boundaries that are Lutheranism
Like Metro Lutheran, Lutheran Quarterly is intentionally a pan-Lutheran organization, and always has been. "Originally we bridged borders between the ALC, the LCA, and Missouri," explained Rorem. "Now we include the ELCA, LCMS, and even some of the new church expressions."
"We try to cover topics from a number of different sides," said Granquist, who is also Lutheran Quarterly's director of circulation and development. "We include both Europeans and Americans, people from Missouri and the ELCA," as well as "picking up some of the smaller Lutheran bodies too.
"The reason for a scholarly Lutheran publication is that Lutherans as a people take their theology and history very seriously," Granquist said. "It doesn't just inform their past, but also their present and future. We look back to documents that are 500 years old to help us with present issues."
And the future is important to those behind the publication. To that end, they have established the Gerhard Forde Endowment Fund, named after the Luther Seminary professor whom many credit with defining the core perspective of Lutheran Quarterly. His article "Radical Lutheranism" was definitional in this respect, and is still available on the publication's website: www.lutheranquarterly.com. The endowment was established to cultivate the historical and theological understanding of the Lutheran tradition articulated by Forde over the course of his service to the church, according to Granquist.
"Many people are contributing to the endowment for the 25th anniversary," Granquist continued. For further information about the endowment, or to make a contribution, contact Bud Thompson, Department of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane, Washington 99258.
In commemoration of its 25th year of publication, Lutheran Quarterly is sponsoring a speaking tour by frequent contributor Oswald Bayer, a German systematic theologian. Bayer will be in the Twin Cities in March 2012 for an event at Luther Seminary. For further information, watch upcoming issues of Metro Lutheran.
The publication's logo (see above) "VDMA" is an abbreviation for Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum or "the Word of the Lord remains forever." Martin Luther used this in the 16th century as a slogan for his movement; it was printed on coins and banners. Granquist believes this same slogan positions Lutheran Quarterly well in another age of shifting Lutheran landscape. "It's important to have a place where Lutheran identity and theology can be discussed," he said. "And a publication without editorial purpose is a pretty dull publication."
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Co Armagh stately home sells at auction for a cool £1.73 million!
New owner a 'local businessman with agri interests'
A Co Armagh stately home has been sold – for a cool £1.73 million.
Dartan Hall, located just past Killylea on the road to Tynan, was built in the 1850s.
It now looks set to be given a new lease of life after being snapped up at auction.
Best Property Services managing director Garry Best oversaw the sale.
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The period home is framed with expansive lawns, mature woodland, boasts significant agricultural lands coupled with a large courtyard, gate lodge, outbuildings and private driveway extending to 115 acres.
The Victorian property has magnificent views of the surrounding Co Armagh countryside and the new owner is described as a "local businessman with agri interests".
With Offers Around £1.75m invited, the auction of Dartan Hall last week attracted three bidders.
Auction bids reached £1.7 million in the room and £1.73 million was later negotiated with the highest bidder as the deal was agreed.
Built in the 1850s by the Cross Family who had settled in Armagh from Lancashire, the property was extensively refurbished 30 years ago in 1987.
Dartan Hall itself is a two storey home over a basement – extending to 6,975 sq ft – and encompasses ground floor kitchen, drawing room, living room and dining room, while upstairs houses four bedrooms, including a master ensuite and a main bathroom.
The sale includes the courtyard and extensive farmyard and outbuildings as well as vacant gatelodge described as being in need of refurbishment.
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Museum workers strike over pay
Striking staff outside the National Railway Museum. Photograph: Richard McDougall
Fri 30 Aug, 2019 @ 11.57 am News YorkMix
Workers at Railway Museum are staging a 24-hour strike today (30 August) in a dispute over pay.
The Prospect union said its members at the Science Museum Group (SMG) are taking action in protest at an imposed wage rise of 1.5% for most staff.
The union said it was not the intention of members to close the museums as a result of the action, rather to highlight their concerns.
Prospect general secretary Mike Clancy said: "The Science Museum Group has some of the highest profile museums in the country and, as beacons of human progress, it is ludicrous that they don't pay all their workers enough to live on.
"Our members in SMG love their jobs but they cannot carry on with year after year of real-terms pay cuts and that is why they felt they had no option but to strike.
"I'm sure that most of the million or so people visiting SMG museums this summer will be astounded at how poorly its staff are paid, especially when they see that the director's pay has increased by a third in just four years and his bonus alone last year was more than some workers earn in total.
"It is clear from the accounts that SMG can afford to pay a reasonable wage. It's time for management to sort this out so our members can get on with the jobs they love."
The dispute involves workers at the National Railway Museum, Science Museum in London, the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Blythe House in London, and the National Collections Centre in Wroughton, Wiltshire.
A museums spokesman said: "Our pay offer included a 6.9% increase for the lowest-paid employees as part of a settlement that saw all employees receive an increase of at least 1.5%.
"Overall the settlement represents a 2.7% increase in salary costs which we believe was a reasonable offer, given the challenging overall financial picture."
He added: "We firmly expect all our museums to open on the day of the strike and our priority will be to ensure our visitors have an enjoyable day.
"The overall pay settlement represents a 2.7% increase in salary costs, which we believe was a reasonable offer, given the challenging overall financial picture.
"All colleagues received an increase of at least 1.5% and we offered up to 6.9% for those on the lowest salaries."
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Why are most people looking for that "achievement"?
It appears that no matter what we DO, no matter what we achieve, there is something "lacking" and precisely that is what we believe could give us happiness.
Are you wealthy? Are you healthy? Are you vital? Are you beautiful? Are you famous? Are you intelligent? Are you confident? Are you wise? Are you attractive? Are you in a fulfilling relationship?
That is what "I need" to be happy. That is what I desire.
Isn't happiness the absence of desires? That is an inaccurate definition!
I wish you to be happy! That is my desire. Would that desire make me unhappy?
We try to define happiness, research it and hold it with our own bare hands although it is a shadow of intellectual illusions.
We dream about a constant state that we haven't experienced. Life changes. Why can't we? We believe that to prolong a moment of joy, is happiness. Belief upon belief we live in the anxiety of "achieving" a dream, just to keep on dreaming. When are we going to wake up?
A donkey is looking to grab a flying carrot. It looks so flawless, so tasty! That is our pursuit of happiness.
Awareness dictates that carrots exist, but they don't fly.
A happy person does not have thoughts about being happy or unhappy. That is why he IS happy.
Every experience in Life is necessary just as it is, no matter how we label them.
you are the star… among the stars!
is always sweeter with love.
Understanding "consequence" rather than desire.
Ego is that we separates everything. Ego isolates. Ego labels. Ego thinks. Ego makes sense out of things.
The understanding of the Drama gives us the tool to see that everything flows and has a completion by itself. There is no need to "make effort."
If there is Ego, there is Effort. So, as long as we are driven by Ego, we will need to make "effort."
Soul consciousness is natural to us. Baba has said so. We are souls. Point #1 in any Raja Yoga course, then for heavens sake, why is it so difficult to recognize something which is so NATURAL?
Because there is ego. Ego wants to survive. The mind wants to think and make plans out of nothing, making an important "something" with a disturbing meaning.
Something to "do." Something to think about.
As long as there is a desire to be something even if that something is to become a Deity, we will be experiencing Ego.
Desires work in future tense. Desires are goals to pursue, in that pursuing something, we forget about "being" about living "now."
If we "do" ego-lessness, we automatically receive a consequence. There is no need to desire to be that. Any desire is ego.
Ego-lessness is our journey. It takes just a second to realize it but…. many karmic accounts to burn, before we get there… this is the price, the consequence; of our previous deeds. The Drama is about natural consequences, not about desires.
Everything is automatic, it works like a clock, when we flow in the stream of easiness and "being-ness." The minute we "desire" to do something about it, to be faster, to be "more successful" or to be something which we are not…to desire… that is the moment the magic is gone. Everything has a consequence and that consequence works based on what we "are." Doing is merely a consequence of being. Please see this.
How can we become ego-less? Paradoxically, by not desiring to be egoless, but by being aware, accepting of that what is right now. To recognize it, to observe it as a "detached observer." That could be a good first step. Recognizing something that "is," means to see the potential to be what "is" not.
That is to embrace change without desire. To be natural.


Extracts from the late Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's address - "Experiencing God's liberating power" - given at a religious education conference in Los Angeles prior to his death in 2002.
Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan was invited by Pope John Paul II to give the introductory words.
Shortly before his death, the president of the pontifical council, Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận, expressed the wish that this text be made more widely available throughout the world.


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