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You would think that with a state as big as Texas, and a community as expansive as Houston and my ability to be dual located at any one time would give me a big enough net to find the perfect job — but it doesn't. I've joined a number of listservs in and outside of Texas for both the gifted teacher and the homeschooling parent of the gifted child and have come to determine that if you have lived all your life in Texas you are quite happy with what they have to offer for your gifted child (maybe not entirely true for the profoundly gifted.) If you have experienced some of the other educational situations outside of the state, you're not. My options are still quite limited. I have my application in for a GT Specialist with an ISD nearby, have interviewed for a gifted teaching position in a different ISD, and have substituted at a small private school designed to teach the gifted population that may or may not have a teaching position open in the fall. None of these situations come close to the all day, all subjects fully supported program for 4th-6th graders team taught with another qualified gifted teacher that I had in Louisiana in a public school. Last year about this time before our move, I warned my former principal about the bad news. She and the entire staff at the school would have to move to Houston. I said this in a jokingly and complimentary way. Little did I know…..
I know all too well how hard it can be to find the right job. But we have to be patient — at least that is what everyone is telling me!
Also, my grandson was just tested and placed in gifted in New Mexico. It is much more like what you are describing in Texas than like what you did in Louisiana. He goes for an hour a day, I think. He likes it, but it could be so much more. How is it that Louisiana is ahead in terms of gifted education? How odd that it is!


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February and March Roseroots Report
These past two months have been a whirlwind of vibrant pink activity! I'm pleased to bring you the action-packed Roseroots Report for both February and March in this blog post, along with specific actions you can take to keep moving forward on our important work to end war.
Bring our War Bucks home!
Maine CODEPINK coordinator Lisa has been hard at work coordinating actions to bring the cost of war home and call for ending war funding. In February Maine activists held a Draw-a-Thon in the state capital that showcased the works of over 40 artists who depicted what the 2.5 billion spent by Maine taxpayers on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan could have bought instead. This week the Bring Our War $$ Home Campaign had a victory when the Portland, ME city council passed a resolution asking the US Congress to "END THE EXPENDITURE OF OUR CITIZENS' TAX DOLLARS FOR EXCESSIVE AND UNAFFORDABLE WAR FUNDING." Contact Lisa to find out how to pass a resolution in your city.
Throughout California CODEPINKers joined student and teacher - led rallies to protest college tuition hikes, pink slipping teachers, and education budget cuts with our message "fund education not occupation!" Many CODEPINKers also rallied for healthcare reform and moving our Pentagon bucks to health and healing.
Brown bag lunch vigils at Congressional offices took place in February and March at districts around the country. Detroit's "bbl" has doubled in size every month - the most recent vigil drew over 60 people! Way to go Joellen and the Detroit team! The next vigil is set for April 21. Find a vigil near you!
We mourned the milestone of the 1000th US death in Operation Enduring Freedom with vigils and sent letters to General McChrystal in early March. The Boston action report included a quote from CP coordinator Sarah. On the 7th anniversary of the Iraq occupation, March 18-20, CODEPINKers brought cost of war messaging to rallies and marches around the country, from Phoenix to East Central Florida. After the peace march in DC, we held an evening event with Eve Ensler, Amy Goodman, and other phenomenal women peacemakers. See photos and news coverage.
>> Inspired? Tax Day, April 15, is right around the corner. Draw attention to the cost of war taxpayers in your city are paying with a visual action outside your post office to educate last-minute tax filers about how their tax dollars are being misused or write a letter to the editor. Good resources: Tom Engelhardt's piece on "believe it or not" military spending, Dana's pie image, War Resisters League downloadable Pie Chart, National Priorities calculator. Benjamin Franklin once quipped: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Unfortunately, in the case of U.S. funding of war, the two are inextricably linked. The Teabaggers will be out with a vengeance on Tax Day. Here's our opportunity to spread the "fund healthcare not warfare" message.
Demilitarizing our communities
Barbara Harris wrote an excellent report on NYC CODEPINK's counter-recruitment efforts at the annual Parent-Teacher Night in New York City. Thirty-five volunteers participated in the action and were present at 11 high schools throughout the city. Teams included a group from the Lower East Side Girls Club, Peace Action Staten Island at two high schools, and volunteers fluent in Spanish, an asset in outreach to many parents. Their leaflet, "Options for Life after High School" went like hotcakes! And at the end of the event a new volunteer asked, "When is the next action? Please call me again."
CODEPINK registered and submitted a workshop on defunding war machines for the US Social Forum. 18 CODEPINKers signed up to join our delegation and we welcome more people to join us at this Midwest gathering where we hope to create an art installation to bury the Hummer (which just went out of business!) and demonstrate the growth of the green and peaceful economy!
Ground the Drones campaign organizer Nancy spoke on drones at the Network of Spiritual Progressives conference in SF and attended a protest of drones manufacturers in San Diego. She is co-organizing an action set for May 18-19 to protest General Atomics in San Diego. Plus, she marched as a drone in the DC anti-war march.
>> Join the action in San Diego
>> Take action to ground the drones
Medea and DC Area CODEPINK have been working hard to keep creepy military contractor Northrop Grumman out of DC… and they may have a victory, especially after we put the pressure on the DC City Council and sent them hundreds of emails from our national alert - stay tuned for details in the coming weeks ahead!
Yoo should be in jail!
Whether at book events, outside their homes, or by educating with our new card deck, CODEPINK is holding war criminals accountable! Protests outside "torture author" John Yoo's home in Berkeley, CA, continued and were covered in the SF Chronicle, along with demonstrations when Judge Jay Bybee held court in San Francisco.
The man who lied us into war in Iraq, Karl Rove, is on a national tour for his new book Courage and Consequences and we are hot on his trail wherever he goes, from Houston to Fort Worth to San Luis Obispo to San Diego, with a clear message - criminal actions must have consequences - arrest Rove! When Rove spoke in Los Angeles he was confronted by CP cofounder Jodie, Ground Truth director Patricia Foulkrod, and Dede, the aunt of Casey Sheehan, who boldly staged a citizen's arrest of Rove on stage. Now there's courage and real consequences! This action got amazing coverage in the mainstream media. See the video and get inspired to stage your own arrest. Plus you can post Fox News' Megyn Kelly going CODERED on Jodie to your facebook!
>> See if Rove is coming to your city and stage a citizen's arrest. Rae is here to help in any way.
>> Order a deck of war criminal cards and host a card playing house party!
>> Keep your eye out for other visiting war criminals
On March 8, from Tucson to San Antonio to Brooklyn, we joined with Women for Women International to march across bridges in solidarity with women survivors of war around the world. Perhaps the most moving International Women's Day report was the one that came in from the country that houses US Central Command: Bahrain. Christine Hasan reported that in Muharraq, Bahrain, Arabian Gulf, "We organized a photo shoot at our premises as we are a nursery and we could not take the children out to a bridge. We had boards in Arabic and English stating 'We are Women, Mothers and Sisters. We build bridges of peace every day. Join us in peace and understanding.' Our students decorated large cup cakes with Pink icing (for Code Pink), which teachers, mothers and students representing in all 10 nationalities gave out to ladies in the neighborhood... It was an amazing morning; filled with fun laughter, new friendships and that elusive thing, peace." Read Rae's full International Women's Day report on the PinkTank.
>> Save the date! Our next major holiday to organize on is Mother's Day weekend, May 8-9, the day we women gather to end war! Join us in DC to transform the Military Arms Fair on the Mall or coordinate a gathering in your city to sell peace pies - more info coming soon!
Gonna wash Ahava right outta these stores!
NYC CODEPINK coordinator Nancy would like to thank you for your help with our efforts to pressure retailers Nordstrom and Ricky's NY to stop carrying AHAVA products, which are made from stolen resources on occupied land. In February, we generated over 1,700 letters to Ricky's CEO Dominick Costello, and in late March 2,400 people sent messages to Nordstrom's Vice-President for Social Responsibility Linda Peffer, imploring them to live up to their socially responsible business ethics and stop carrying Ahava. Nordstrom has sent personal e-responses to some letters, stated their upset of the store action in Seattle, started following activists protesting them on Twitter (!), and the pressure continues. We know that this flood of e-mails got their attention; in fact, Dominick Costello called to discuss our campaign, although he still won't commit to dropping AHAVA.
To mark the Second Global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Day of Action, which coincided with Palestinian Land Day on March 30th, Ahava boycotters staged protest actions in Arlington, VA, Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Montreal, and Los Angeles. You can read Prerna's blog post and see some moving (and hilarious) videos of these actions and read Rae's thoughtful post about the connection between Passover, profiteers and AIPAC.
There was also excellent coverage of our Ricky's NYC protest and the Stolen Beauty campaign in The Indypendent. And from San Francisco to Sacramento to Indianapolis, boycotters delivered letters to store managers asking them to stop carrying Ahava.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held their annual conference in DC March 21-23, drawing thousands to lobby for sanctions on Iran and military aid for Israel, and CODEPINK was there to protest the occupation of Palestine, and the expansion of the settlements specifically, with street theater, inside disruptions, a spoof press release, and Congressional settlement actions!
And in Arcata, CA, CODEPINK coordinator Carilyn took proactive actions to work for peace in the Middle East: the local WILPF/CODEPINK group just awarded $500 to a campus coalition of Jewish and Arab students and their friends for a Peace in the Middle East Festival which included round table discussions, speakers, break out groups, arts, dancing and food. They also donated $500 to Partners in Health for Haiti. The group earned the funds through an annual used book sale on 4th of July and an annual quilt raffle.
And in other news…
In Bend, Oregon, CODEPINKers staged a creative protest in response to the Supreme Court's ruling that basically sold elections to corporations; their action featured "Chief Justice Robber, Injustice Allota Moola, Injustice Skullia, and Injustice Kennedy".
Arizona CODEPINK has been working hard on immigration reform and CODEPINKers in DC joined the national immigration reform march on March 21.
Over the past two months new local groups have sprouted in Montreal and London, Canada, Williams, AZ, Spokane, WA, and San Diego CODEPINK was revived! Toronto coordinator Dre started a national CODEPINK Canada group on facebook. And we'd like to welcome Prerna Lal to the central CODEPINK team - Prerna is our new online organizer and can support all your netroots neets!
At the end of March we had a lively dialogue on our listserv about where to put our energy and priorities. Maine CODEPINK coordinator Lisa wrote, "I love CP and this dialogue. You all have educated me so much… Draconian budget cuts have a way of making folks finally sit up and pay attention, and it is crucial to help shape their perception of "what's wrong with this picture?" when talk radio shows spew out bad analysis and incite violent responses as a matter of course. For this reason I am increasingly motivated to teach nonviolent methods and have a teach-in planned for April 17. Thank the goddess for the true grassroots democracy of CODEPINK! The leadership of some of the most active members around the Israel BDS movement has helped me understand events better, and I am free to respond with messages I think are the best fit for my local audience."
Here's to the rainbow of pink hues that create our CODEPINK community and color our actions for change!

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SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A041): Serial number 004219 or higher or firmware 2.0 or higher
SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A032): From serial number 040912 resp. firmware 2.0
SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A025): Serial number 059178 or higher or firmware 2.0 or higher
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17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD (Model A037): From serial number 006446 or firmware 2.0
18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD (Model B028): From serial number 052673 or firmware 2.0
35-150mm F/2.8-4 Di VC OSD (Model A043): All serial numbers compatible
SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD (Model F045): All serial numbers are compatible.
SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD (Model F012): Firmware 3.0 and higher
70-210mm F/4 Di VC USD (Model A034): Firmware 2.0 and higher
100-400mm F/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD (Model A035): Firmware 3.0 and higher
SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A012): update only via Tamron Service
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SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 VC USD (Model F004): update only via Tamron Service
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SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A025): All serial numbers compatible, EOS R5 and R6 from firmware 2.0
SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 (Model A022:) Serial number 040336 or higher or firmware 2.0 or higher
SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD (Model A011): Update only via Tamron Service
SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD (Model F012): From serial number 014146 or firmware 3.0, EOS R5 and R6 from firmware 4.0
SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD (Model F013): Firmware 3.0 and later, EOS R5 and R6 from firmware 4.0
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10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II VC HLD (Model B023): From serial number 107863 or firmware 2.0
17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD (Model A037): All serial numbers compatible, EOS R5 and R6 from firmware 2.0
18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD (Model B028): From serial number 077981 Firmware 2.0
70-210mm F/4 Di VC USD (Model A034): From serial number 006922 or firmware 2.0
100-400mm F/4,5-6,3 Di VC USD (Model A035): From serial number 014551 or Firmware 3.0
24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A007): update only via Tamron Service
SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD (Model F045): All serial numbers are compatible, EOS R5 and R6 from firmware 2.0
SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A009): update only via Tamron Service
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Looks fabulous! Love the 2 light fixtures pictured and that crazy clock on the wall! The patio looks terrific, too.
Looks fabulous! I may ask for your contractor name as we have a project coming up but it's more in depth...moving furnace vents, installing plumbing...etc.
Paula, he can do that! He's got a great guy who does plumbing subcontract work, too. Our house was a total challenge for him, because it's so old, none of the angles were square and the floors are so uneven--he really had to use his HS geometry! :) Send me an email, and I'd be happy to share his info!


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Public Enemy (The) AKA Enemies of the Public (1931)
Taut, realistic time capsule of the Prohibition Era
Director: William A. Wellman
R1 America - Warner Home Video - Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters
R2 France - Warner Home Video
R2 Holland - Warner Home Video
R2 Scandinavia - Sandrew Metronome
R2 Spain - Warner Home Video
R4 Australia - Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters
Audio commentary with film historian Robert Sklar (2005)
"Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public" 2005 featurette (19:34)
2005 introduction by Leonard Maltin (3:14)
1954 Re-Release Foreword (0:43)
Warner Night at the Movies 1931 (Play All - 104:51):
- "Blonde Crazy" theatrical trailer (2:34)
- "Hearst Metrotone News: Girl Stars Train for Olympics - Fair Sex Athletes Get Busy Under Mrs. Allen, Coach, in First Work-Outs at Pasadena, Cal." 1931 newsreel (1:32)
- "The Eyes Have It" 1931 short film (9:54)
- "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" 1931 cartoon (6:56)
- Film: The Public Enemy (83:55)
Disc is also encoded R2, R3 and R4.
Also available in the Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters Collection box set, which contains: Angels With Dirty Faces, Little Caesar, The Petrified Forest, The Public Enemy, The Roaring Twenties and White Heat.
Warner Night at the Movies 1931 (Play All - 98:56):
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English HoH, Finnish, French, German, German HoH, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian HoH, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Italian Dolby Digital 1.0
Also region 4 encoded.
DVD Title: L'Ennemi Public
DVD Title: Der Offentliche Feind
DVD Title: El Enemigo Público
Also available as part of the James Cagney Signature Collection boxed set, which includes Angels With Dirty Faces, The Public Enemy, The Roaring Twenties and White Heat.
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The R1 has a "Blonde Crazy" trailer.
R1 Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters America- Warner Home Video - No cuts (83:55 NTSC)
R2 France- Warner Home Video - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
R2 Germany- Warner Home Video - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
R2 Holland- Warner Home Video - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
R2 Scandinavia- Sandrew Metronome - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
R2 Spain- Warner Home Video - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
R2 United Kingdom- Warner Home Video - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
R4 Australia- Warner Home Video - No cuts (80:34 PAL)
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17/07/10: Added Scandinavia
14/08/16: Added Germany, capsaholic.
20/11/18: Added France & Spain.
11/01/21: Tidyup.


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Northern Zombies and Heathen Worldviews
This article originally appeared in On Religion, the quarterly print magazine published in the United Kingdom.
On Religion's mission statement is "to provide in-depth, informed and impartial commentary on religion, to defend the role of religion in the public sphere, and to provide a forum to discuss the social, moral, philosophical and theological issues of the modern world."
The magazine's editors state, "Our writers consist of academics, faith leaders and opinion makers and our audience is all those with an interest – professional or lay – in religion, theology and its impact in society."
This piece was announced as the most popular On Religion article of 2015, and it is reprinted here with permission. It has been lightly edited for clarity.
On Religion Issue 9, Winter 2015
In a previous edition of On Religion, Karen Willows explored the origins of the modern zombie stories in Haitian Vodou religion and culture. But there is another ancient myth of the undead that is perhaps even less familiar to most – the Old Norse draugr.
Although the Haitian zombie may have inspired depictions of the undead in twentieth-century popular culture, the Old Norse draugr more closely resembles the zombie of the popular imagination as he bursts from his barrow and lurches through the long midwinter nights of the northern world, haunting the halls of medieval Icelandic saga.
While the ancient literature of northern Europe contains instances of necromancy, the Icelandic draugr is fundamentally distinguished from the Haitian zombie by the absence of a controlling human agent. The undead of the North are self-motivated creatures; no sorcerer is required.
The idea that the deceased claw their way out of the grave to prey on the living provides one of the primary points of contact between the Nordic conception and our own. The near-mindless, monstrous corpse that attacks during the dark nights of the Old Norse sagas would be completely comfortable in a contemporary horror production.
The word draugr (plural draugar) has a root meaning of "harmful spirit," but in the sagas of Iceland refers specifically to the deceased person who continues on in a malevolent physical afterlife after being interred in a burial mound.
Wight by David A. Trampier from Monster Manual (1977)
Draugar are most likely to leave their howes and stalk the living during the long nights of the northern winter, making Yuletide a particularly dangerous time to wander out from the warmth of the hall. As people gather inside to celebrate Yule and to make midwinter sacrifices for a fertile and peaceful year, they fear the creatures that roam the darkness outside.
Draugar were usually known to their victims, and they were often people who had been troublesome in life. In The Saga of the People of Laxardal, the unpleasant Hrapp comes back as a draugr to kill servants and torment family and neighbours. The saga author writes, with typically dry Icelandic humor, "if it had been difficult to deal with him when he was alive, he was much worse dead."
The Saga of the People of Eyri features the wicked Þórólfr Bægifótr, who dies in a fit of pique when one of his nasty plots founders. He walks abroad after death, killing oxen and cattle, riding the roof of his house until his wife dies of madness, and slaying men who thereafter join his company of evil dead. Only when his body is dug up and buried far away from the farmstead does his night-walking cease.
The draugr is sometimes known as the haugbúi ("barrow dweller"), a name which reflects ancient ideas of life continuing inside the burial mound after death. The Saga of Egil and Asmund includes a memorable scene inside a barrow that is one of the most ghoulish moments in the saga corpus. The young heroes Aran and Asmund swear an oath in blood-brotherhood
that the one who lived the longer should raise a burial mound over the one who was dead, and place in it as much money as he thought fit; and the survivor was to sit in the mound over the dead for three nights, but after that he would be free to go away.
According to the traditions of this type of fantastic saga, any vow rashly made must go horribly wrong shortly thereafter. When Aran suddenly drops dead, Asmund props him up on a chair inside his howe, surrounded by his favourite animals. On the first night Asmund spends in the mound, Aran stands up, kills the hawk and hound, then eats them. On the second, he kills the horse and eats it raw (Asmund declines the kind offer to share the bloody feast). Asmund drifts off to sleep on the third night and is rudely awakened by his undead friend ripping off his ears and eating them.
In this case, as in many other literary examples, the way to prevent the draugr or haugbúi from continuing to walk is to cut off his head and burn his body. Sometimes, for extra insurance, the decapitated head is placed on the corpse's upturned buttocks before immolation. Lest you think that this is all some invention of the saga writers to scare Icelandic children, archaeologists have unearthed mutilated bodies with their separated heads included in the burial.
Runic inscriptions containing invocations against draugar dating back as early as the year 700 have been found in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. They seek "corpse-protection" (protection from the corpse, that is), call upon the dead to "make good use of the monument" (by staying inside it), and, perhaps over-optimistically, ask the walking corpse to "rise and go away beneath the benevolent stars."
Stories and Myths
Shadows of the draugr can be found in early English literature. Grendel, the great enemy of the young Beowulf, exhibits many of the classic characteristics of the Old Norse undead. He threatens a hall of feasting men, he drinks the blood of the living, his lair is an underground place of treasure and weapons, and he is beheaded after death to insure the end of his wandering.
Illustration of Beowulf's Grendel by Lynd Ward (1933)
Although it contains French, Irish, and Welsh elements, the Middle English Arthurian romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes similar details: the mysterious green man enters a feasting-hall on New Year's Day (i.e., close to midwinter), challenges the heroes, is beheaded (admittedly at the beginning of the story, not its end), and comes from the "worn barrow" of a "Green Chapel" that sounds suspiciously like the dwelling-place of a draugr.
In the Gawain translation by J.R.R. Tolkien (who himself revived the draugr in The Lord of the Rings as the dreaded barrow-wight), the hero wonders at the "chapel":
It had a hole at the end at either side,
and with grass in green patches was grown all over,
and was all hollow within: nought but an old cavern,
or a cleft in an old crag; he could not name it aright.
"Can this be the Chapel Green,
O Lord?" said the gentle knight.
"Here the Devil might say, I ween,
his matins about midnight!"
Andy Orchard has written that, in the earliest surviving poems in Old Norse, "the term draugr is used exclusively of living pagan warriors, but this usage quickly dies out, and it may well be that after the introduction of Christianity these dead pagans in their barrows were demonized and transformed in popular myth into the dread figures who still haunt Iceland to this day." One couldn't write a better portrait of a Christian man trembling in fear beside the open burial mound of a dead pagan lord than that of poor Gawain next to the "Green Chapel."
I don't mean to create the impression that northern people of the Viking Age believed that to die was to necessarily become a terrifying creature of the night. The draugr is by no means representative of the afterlife of the average person.
In general, the idea of life continuing in the barrow seems to have been a pleasant one. For example, in The Saga of Burnt Njál, two men witness life inside the mound of the dead Gunnar:
The moon and stars were shining clear and bright, but every now and then the clouds drove over them. Then all at once they thought they saw the cairn standing open, and lo! Gunnar had turned himself in the cairn and looked at the moon. They thought they saw four lights burning in the cairn, and none of them threw a shadow. They saw that Gunnar was merry, and he wore a joyful face. He sang a song, and so loud, that it might have been heard though they had been farther off.
The contrast between this pleasant pastoral scene and the horror Gawain feels in a strikingly similar situation may tell us something of the difference between heathen and Christian attitudes toward the dead. Although frightening in extreme cases, the burial mound of the pagan was generally valued as a place where an honored ancestor lived on and watched over the living.
Despite the poetic image of the warriors' afterlife in Odin's Valhalla that looms large in the surviving Norse myths, the idea of physical life in the mound appears to have been widely held in the age of the sagas. Rudolf Simek writes that modern scholarship has found
that it is extremely unlikely, at least for the late heathen period, that the North Germanic peoples had a dualistic belief, i.e. a distinct division between the decomposing body of the dead person and the further existence of his soul. The extant sources suggest that the concept was rather of a living corpse.
Body and Soul?
Physical descriptions of draugar underscore the fact that they are not immaterial ghostly spirits, but fully material revenants. The aforementioned Þórólfr Bægifótr appears after death "as black as Hel and as huge as an ox." There is no sense of a soul returning from beyond to haunt the living; the draugr is clearly a corpse swollen and discoloured by the natural processes of post-mortem decay. The dweller in the mound appears as one would expect to find a rotting body when breaking into a barrow.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by John Howe (1995)
Of all that is covered in this overview, this idea is probably the most divergent from the dualistic ideas held by members of modern monotheistic faiths. In the United States, we have a culture in which anonymous uniformed men whisk dead family members away within hours of death in order to quickly burn them to ash in commercial crematoria or to pickle and prepare them for awkward open-casket ceremonies before diesel-powered machines dig the final resting place of wood and metal coffins. The thought of our undead bodies continuing in consciousness underground seems anathema to a culture with one eye on extending life as long as possible and the other on winning an eternal afterlife in heaven.
Perhaps this is what the draugr can tell us about the ongoing fascination with zombie fiction. Maybe the monistic view of death – the idea that this physical life is the only one we have, and that there is no soul that flies to eternal paradise – is so terrifying to modern citizens of the western world that we can only deal with it by undergoing the catharsis of virtual zombie apocalypse.
Does fascination with zombie fiction reflect nagging doubt among postmodern Christians that this truly is all there is? Or, conversely, does it suggest that the many young people self-identifying as atheists are actually struggling with the same ancient questions of life after death as the old religions?
Although the terrifying draugr of the North is darkly mirrored by the horrifying zombies of Hollywood, it is the resolutely worldly worldviews of ancient heathenry that may be more fundamentally frightening for many of us to face.
Posted by Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried at 10:05:00 AM


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How I Came to Be a Translator
From right to left: Rivka Schiller, her mother, Miriam Pinkus Schiller, her maternal grandfather, Shloime (Sam) Pinkus, her maternal grandmother, Tola Pszenica Pinkus, and maternal great aunt, Lola Pszenica Jacobson (Chicago, late 1970s). (Photo credit, Dr. Harvey Schiller).
As I have already expressed in my website, I came to Yiddish somewhat organically, having grown up in a family in which Yiddish was still spoken on a regular, day-to-day basis. Indeed, the language in which I first learned to count and in which I learned my basic colors, was Yiddish. My parents have told me that until the age of three, I spoke only Yiddish, although I was actually exposed to both Yiddish and English at home. After all, growing up in an American metropolis such as Chicago sort of precluded one from living in a total linguistic bubble.
I still recall (now) amusing scenes, such as my younger sister, Nechama and I chasing each other around the living room with a hairbrush in-hand, ready to pounce, while all the while, shouting bloody murder at one another – in Yiddish, no less. What ultimately broke up this particular sisterly brawl was the arrival of a guest – a friend of my mother – who like my mother, understood Yiddish. She turned to my mother in a perplexed state and cried, "Where am I, in Chicago of the 1980s, or prewar Poland?" My sister and I were so embarrassed that we promptly shut up and stopped chasing one another around the room.
Other scenes that come to mind from my earliest years include a visit that my mother made with me to an ophthalmologist when I was around two. This was in the late 1970s, and my mother was speaking to me in Yiddish, reassuring me that I shouldn't be afraid of the doctor's menacing-looking machines. The doctor's reaction to my mother's Yiddish-language pep talk was to critically put her in her place, reprimanding her for speaking to me in Yiddish. After all, this was America, and one spoke English here; Yiddish was for the old world. Let's just say that my mother never returned with me to that doctor…
And finally, there was the time when I went grocery shopping with my mother and grandmother – something I used to like to do – as it was my job to help select the fruit. On that shopping trip, I remember my grandmother uttering to me in her Warsaw Yiddish dialect: "Rivkele, gay klob os a pur karshn" ("Rivkele, go choose a few cherries"), after which I set to work on the cherries. A few minutes later, a little old woman approached my grandmother – I was standing nearby – and asked her in the mother tongue, "Ven is dus kint ariber gekimen ofn shif?" ("When did this child come over on the ship?") To which my grandmother sharply retorted, "Dus kind iz nisht ariber gekimen of ka' shif. Zi iz du geboyern gevorn." ("This child didn't come over on any ship. She was born here.") I just remember that little old woman looking completely befuddled at the anachronistic nature of this scene. Even I, at such a young age, could appreciate why she was so confused. After all, it wasn't terribly common to find young children in the Chicago of the early 1980s (let alone, of the 2000s) who could converse in Yiddish.
Fast forward to the late 1990s/early 2000s. I had recently graduated college and both of my maternal grandparents had passed away, in rapid succession, only nine months apart. These were essentially my second parents, and the individuals from whom I most regularly heard Yiddish spoken throughout my life. I even made a point of speaking to my grandfather in the language, since his English was never as comprehensible as was his Yiddish. This loss was a major blow to me and the rest of my family. It left me with a significant void, one that I struggled for quite some time, to properly fill. So as to try and connect with my grandparents and the world from which they hailed – at least on some level – I attempted to track down relatives, using such tools as Jewishgen.org, where I registered the maiden name of my namesake, Rywka Gorlicka Pinkusiewicz, who hailed from the town of Chmielnik, Poland. Sadly, she died when my grandfather was only eleven, so little was known about that branch of the family. It was assumed, though, that all had perished, as my grandfather himself was the only one of eleven children to survive the Holocaust.
When I registered the surname "Gorlicki" (masculine for "Gorlicka") in conjunction with the town name, "Chmielnik," I was astonished to discover that there was a circle of other genealogically-minded individuals who also hailed from the Gorlicki family of Chmielnik. I figured that the odds were pretty great that we were all somehow related, since how many Gorlickis from the same small town in Poland could there possibly be in the world? It couldn't simply be a coincidence. Around that same time, I began making long distance calls to Michigan, New York, Israel – even to Australia – in my quest to try and reassemble the missing pieces of my family's history. One of the Gorlickis with whom I then spoke was an Arthur Williams, a man somewhat older than my mother, who resided in New York. His mother, Chana née Gorlicka, had been born and raised in Chmielnik. Unfortunately, though, she had passed away many years earlier, and Arthur had few people left to whom to turn for answers about that part of his family.
Interestingly, Arthur had visited Chmielnik with his wife only a few years prior, in 1998, and had even filmed much of the journey. He was very glad to send me a copy of the video (at that time, still on VHS), which he promptly did. From my end, I offered to translate excerpts from the Chmielnik yizkor (or memorial) book in which Arthur was interested. As I recall, this included articles in Yiddish and Hebrew, one of which described the main synagogue in Chmielnik. As I learned then from Arthur, the synagogue had survived the war, and could still be viewed at that time. Incidentally, since then, the synagogue was restored – only two years ago – in the spring of 2013. I myself visited Chmielnik last year, in September of 2014, and witnessed the newly restored house of worship.
Title page of the Chmielnik yizkor book from which I translated articles for Arthur Williams in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
"Sara's Children: The Destruction of Chmielnik" by Suzan E. Hagstrom, the book that Arthur Williams sent me as a sign of gratitude for the translation work I did for him.
But back to my phone chat with Arthur. At the time, we both remarked to one another that there was a good chance that we were somehow related. However, it was frustrating, because we didn't have the tools in place yet to figure out our potential relationship. In the meantime, though, I was intrigued by the Chmielnik yizkor book, an oversized tome that I was able to access at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago, where I worked at the time. I more than willingly agreed to translate those articles for Arthur. In the process, I was also excited to discover several references in the book to Gorlickis. I kept wondering to myself, "How are all of these people related to me? If only I knew…"
That was one of the very first – if not the first – "official" Yiddish or Hebrew translations I completed for somebody. In return for my labors of love, Arthur very generously mailed me a gift, the book, "Sara's Children: The Destruction of Chmielnik" by Suzan E. Hagstrom, about the Garfinkel family from Chmielnik, from which five siblings managed to survive the Holocaust. The book, which I cherish to this day, also includes references to Gorlicki family members, friends and neighbors of the Garfinkels, and a wealth of information about pre-WWII life in this small and predominantly Jewish town in Poland.
This particular translation experience was so personally gratifying to me that I began to consider doing more of it, whenever and wherever the opportunity presented itself. Not long thereafter, I went to Israel, where I lived and studied for a year. While there, I ended up translating Hebrew language articles and thesis proposals for Bar-Ilan University faculty and graduate students. I also translated Yiddish language interviews into English for a documentary film, "Mame-Loshn, Kinder-Loshn," which was being made then by Tommy Schwarcz and Avi Lehrer about the state of Yiddish in Israel. Those additional translation experiences in Israel helped to further seal the desire within me for translation, which was initially piqued in me when I translated for Arthur.
As for Arthur and me and our Gorlicki family connection? Fast forward to 2008. It was then that the circle of Gorlicki-from-Chmielnik-seekers finally got their big break. By that time, many of the archives that had previously been inaccessible back in the late 1990s/early 2000s had since become accessible. As a result of much research on the part of various Gorlicki family members, we discovered that Arthur and my mother are actually closely related to one another; they are second cousins. Arthur's mother, Chana, and my grandfather, Shloime, had been first cousins. But grievously, both of them had lived out their entire lives without ever having known of the other's existence. One had emigrated from Poland before WWII, the other, after. One came to New York, the other to Chicago. But ultimately, Arthur and I met in-person, only a few years ago at a family reunion that his son, Howard, very graciously hosted in his Manhattan apartment.
It was amazing to see the relationships that had been forged – both literally and figuratively – through the seeds that had been planted several years before by way of the Internet, a phone chat or two, and most significantly for me, some forays into Yiddish and Hebrew translation.
Left: Chmielnik's main synagogue, prior to restoration. Right: Chmielnik's main synagogue as it now appears, following restoration in 2013. Photo taken on 1-26-14. Left image source: https://goo.gl/g1Us2H, Right image source: http://goo.gl/ZTcZcH


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In this volume the presupposition is investigated whether women in a polytheistic society had a better position than women in a monotheistic society. To this end the social and religious position of women in Ugarit according to its literary texts is compared to that of women in Israel according to the Hebrew Bible, while the wider context of the ancient Near East is also taken into consideration.
After an overview of feminist biblical exegesis, the book discusses the roles of women in the family and in society. It also provides an analysis of the roles of women as religious specialists and as worshippers. Finally, the data on the position of women in the literary texts is compared to that in non-literary texts.
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How Do You Scale Your Customer Success Team as You Grow?
Don't get me wrong. Scaling your customer success team to keep up with massive growth is a great problem to have, but a problem no less.
If you're looking at serious growth this year (and we hope you are!) without sacrificing all those "little things" your customers love so much, check out these simple tips for no-sweat scaling.
We've talked before about the importance of speed in customer service.
When you're looking at massive growth, for example going from a max. of 5 customer success pros to a team of 20, it's critical to remove bottlenecks before they arise.
Start by setting clear guidelines for exactly what your customer team can offer, and how much they can spend, in order to make a customer happy. Grant your customer success pros some pro-level autonomy. You'll not only make them feel awesomely empowered to get the job done, but you'll also keep your business moving swiftly toward profit-driving activities (instead of wasting precious time on byzantine approval processes while your customer eyes up the competition).
Whether it's giving your teams free range to send flowers like Zappos, or instantly replacing a pair of lost glasses like Warby Parker, let your customer success pros know exactly how far they can go to wow your customers, without stopping for sign-off.
A great knowledge base can do a ton of the work for you.
Take a good look at your KB entries and the traffic analytics behind them. Which pages are the most visited? Are your customers getting the answers they need? How can you make it faster and easier for them to get the info they want?
Ask your customer success team to review your KB and add step-by-step visuals like video, GIFs, screenshots and annotations to clarify any questions or instructions they're still getting asked about.
Not sure where to start? Check out these 5 Must-Have Visuals for Your Customer Knowledge Base.
You didn't think we were going to skip this one, did you?
Chatbots are taking the customer support world by storm. These friendly little human or AI-driven helpers can make it easy to handle more customers with less people by answering some of the most common customer questions for you, or taking a request when you can't be there to do it yourself.
Bots may be the latest and greatest in the wide world of automation, but companies like Zendesk have been offering smart helpdesk automation tools for years (10 years to be precise! Congrats, guys!).
Make a chatbot one of your very first new hires and make sure you automate any other oft-repeated processes. Simple things like setting up a shared searchable inbox and simple canned email replies to common questions can add up to some major time savings for your growing team.
When you've got a growing number of needy customers and a team that's stretched in every direction trying to make them happy, the temptation to dive right into hiring can be extremely hard to resist.
But hold up! Growth is about working smarter, not harder.
The last thing you want is to bring on a bunch of awesomely talented customer support gurus, only to leave them totally confused about what steps to take.
Meet with your current customer success team and get your team guidelines down in black and white. If you're super strapped for time, use video, GIFs or screenshots to help new hires visualize some of your more complex or multi-step processes. Visual onboarding beats a text-heavy (cough, cough snooze worthy) employee handbook any day.
And remember, your customer success team can drive sales for your business. Make it clear from the outset that this is a strategic role. Our friends at Basecamp let their customer reps take two hours a day for research, innovation, and creativity. Now that's working smart!
How will you make sure your customer team accelerates your growth? Share your ideas in the comments!


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What does economic risk cause?
What are the types of economic risk?
How can you determine the economic risk of a country?
What is meant by country risk?
How can economic risks be prevented?
What is risk from an economic point of view?
Why is economic risk important?
How can we prevent country risk?
What is country risk with example?
What country has the highest country risk?
What are the 3 types of risks?
How can we improve the economy?
Which is the best definition of economic risk?
How are foreign government bonds an example of economic risk?
What are the different types of financial risk?
How is economic risk mitigated in an investment?
Economic risk arises from uncertainty about economic outcomes. For example, economic risk may be the chance that macroeconomic conditions like exchange rates, government regulation, or political stability will affect an investment or a company's prospects.
Economic Risk
convertibility risk.
foreign exchange risk.
translation risk.
central bank activities (interest rate fluctuation, availability of funds)
economic indicator movement (GDP, unemployment, purchasing power, inflation, etc.)
Economic Risk in International Trade
The stability and solvency of banks.
The short-, medium- and long-term outlook for country's GDP and GNP.
Debt-to-GDP ratio.
Unemployment rate.
Overall government finances.
Monetary policy and currency stability.
Currency exchange rates.
Access to affordable capital.
Country risk refers to the uncertainty associated with investing in a particular country, and more specifically the degree to which that uncertainty could lead to losses for investors. This uncertainty can come from any number of factors including political, economic, exchange-rate, or technological influences.
Economic risk can also be mitigated by investing in insurance, covering the losses arising out of a counterparty defaulting to pay their obligation. Hedging activities against exchange rate fluctuation will prove worthwhile to mitigate the risk.
Definition: Risk implies future uncertainty about deviation from expected earnings or expected outcome. Risk measures the uncertainty that an investor is willing to take to realize a gain from an investment. Description: Risks are of different types and originate from different situations.
Economic risk refers to the possibility that changes in macroeconomic conditions will negatively impact a company or investment. For instance, political instability or exchange rate fluctuations can impact losses or gains. Investing always comes with risks, but economic risk is usually the most difficult to predict.
Here are some other ways managers can cope with these country risks:
Consider the timing of your investments.
Borrow domestically to do business domestically and avoid foreign exchange rate exposure.
Focus on the devaluation risk when choosing among countries as investment sites.
Country risk is the risk that a foreign government will default on its bonds or other financial commitments. Country risk also refers to the broader notion of the degree to which political and economic unrest affect the securities of issuers doing business in a particular country.
Rankings by country
1 Qatar 0.08%
2 Malta 0.60%
3 Saudi Arabia 1.14%
4 Barbados 1.32%
Risk and Types of Risks: Widely, risks can be classified into three types: Business Risk, Non-Business Risk, and Financial Risk.
Having more cash means companies have the resources to procure capital, improve technology, grow, and expand. All of these actions increase productivity, which grows the economy. Tax cuts and rebates, proponents argue, allow consumers to stimulate the economy themselves by imbuing it with more money.
While economic risk tends to refer to doing business or investing abroad, things can also go wrong at home – the term applies to any country, including your own. According to ft.com/lexicon, economic risk is: "The risk that a company may be disadvantaged by exchange rate movements or regulatory changes in the country in which it is operating.".
Investors who purchase and sell foreign government bonds are also exposed. Economic risk may also add opportunity for investors. Foreign bonds, for example, allow investors to participate indirectly in the foreign exchange markets and the interest rate environments of different countries.
Like economic risk, financial risk is the chance of losing money on an investment. Some common types of financial risk include liquidity risk, operational risk, and credit risk Economic risk is the chance that macroeconomic conditions will affect investments.
Like all other risks, economic risk can be mitigated by investment options like international mutual funds, which facilitate diversification by allowing investment in various products at a time. Economic risk can also be mitigated by investing in insurance, covering the losses arising out of a counterparty defaulting to pay their obligation.


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Park Moo-jong
Choi Sung-jin
Troy Stangarone
Tong Kim
Lee Seong-hyon
Donald Kirk
Kim Ji-myung
Hyon O'Brien
Deauwand Myers
Bernard Rowan
Casey Lartigue, Jr.
Stephen Costello
Semoon Chang
Andrei Lankov
Kim Jong-nam ― the failed heir
By Andrei Lankov
One of the major sensations widely discussed in the international media in the last few weeks was an interview Japanese TV journalists managed to arrange with Kim Jong-nam, the oldest son of Kim Jong-il.
The interview, which took place in Beijing, was interesting, indeed. Kim Jong-nam promised to help his brother who was recently promoted (obviously, to succeed Kim Jong-il in due time), but he also said something unusual for someone in his position.
He said that, basically, he opposed the idea of hereditary succession as such. Such a statement, coming from a member of the ruling family, attracted much attention, and people began to talk about a power struggle which is brewing inside the Kim family. It might be premature, though: Kim Jong-nam's statements might reflect his rather unusual personality and life circumstances.
So, who is Kim Jong-nam, what is known about the (rather complicated) family relations of the "Dear Leader" and why does it all matter?
Kim Jong-il's personal life was hectic, as he sired children with a number of women. To give him his due, he has shown himself to be a caring father and a good partner as well as an exemplary ex. All of his former girlfriends (it seems that he has never bothered to go through a formal marriage procedure) are taken good care of ― at the expense of the starving North Korean farmers, of course.
Kim Jong-il has three known sons and one or two daughters. The oldest son is Kim Jong-nam who was born by Song Hye-rim, a star of North Korean cinema of the 1960s. This union was never approved by Kim Il-sung, and in the mid-1970s Song was shipped to a comfortable exile to Moscow where she died in 2002. Kim Jong-nam, though, remained a darling of his father and until recently was seen as the most likely possible successor.
However, from around 2001 it became clear that he had some problems in Pyongyang. It is frequently stated that his troubles were connected with a bizarre episode in 2001 when he was arrested by Japanese immigration while trying to enter Japan with a fake Dominican passport with two women (obviously, his girlfriend and her maid) and a child. There are good reasons to doubt this, though. Kim Jung-nam visited Japan frequently before the 2001 incident, and it is not unusual for a North Korean dignitary to use a fake ID. So, the disgrace might have been related to something else ― perhaps, to Kim Jong-nam's strained relations with his father's new wife, Ko Yong-hui (she is dead now, too).
Ko Yong-hui, a Japan-born dancer, bore two sons. The eldest is Kim Jong-chol who reputably has some health conditions which make him a bad choice for a successor. The second is Kim Jong-un who was recently confirmed (well, almost confirmed) as the successor.
Since 2000 Kim Jong-nam has lived overseas, visiting his native country infrequently. His major home is the city of Macao which is not incidental: since the 1980s Macao was widely used for money transfers and money laundering by North Korean agencies. Therefore, Kim Jong-nam is often said to be a banker and the financial manager of the Kim family. This is not for sure, but he clearly enjoys the expensive lifestyle of a successful international businessman.
Another peculiarity of Kim Jong-nam is his relative openness to foreign media: once intercepted by foreign journalists, he is cheerful and handles the conversation with great skill. Such encounters, though, were never too long: the recent Asahi interview which lasted six minutes is by far the longest (and also by far the most interesting) so far.
Kim Jong-nam is often said to have special relations with Chinese authorities. It must have been the case, indeed: the present author noticed that Chinese officials and official scholars tend to talk about him with great respect. One also suspects that the Chinese have gathered much intelligence on him ― including the type of intelligence he might not be happy about.
At the same time, his experiences make him deeply suspicious to the Pyongyang elite. Kim Jong-nam has lived overseas way too long, and his connections with China are not welcome in Pyongyang where China is seen not only as a useful donor but also as a potential threat. In other words, Kim Jong-nam has little chance to succeed if he gets involved in domestic politics.
So far, it seems that he has different goals in mind. He is often seen in expensive hotels, sometimes in the company of gorgeous ladies. He enjoys a privileged lifestyle, and perhaps even understands that staying away from North Korean politics is the surest way to have an enjoyable, long life, with little stress and dying a natural death at a ripe old age.
Professor Andrei Lankov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and now teaches at Kookmin University in Seoul. He can be reached at anlankov@yahoo.com.


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Taylor Mac Wins 2020 International Ibsen Award, Announces Holiday Album and Live-Streamed Performance
Taylor Mac, Niegel Smith, and More Launch $10 Monthly Subscription Service to Help Artists Below the Poverty Line During COVID-19
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Encores! News Watch Taylor Mac Sing Michael Friedman's 'Lost Horizon' From Encores! Off-Center's Gone Missing The fifth week of videos, part of the venue's series featuring highlights from New York City Center's Encores!, spotlights songs of yearning.
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New York City Center, which is currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, is posting daily highlights from former Encores! and Gala productions.
This week's offerings, curated by Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori, the creative advisor for the Encores! Off-Center series, have the theme "Somewhere … Songs of Yearning for Another Place."
The first selection is Taylor Mac singing "Lost Horizon" from the 2018 Encores! Off-Center production of Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman's Gone Missing.
Watch the performance below:
: Taylor Mac "Lost Horizon"
Encores! Off-Center Gone Missing 2018
In the words of Jeanine Tesori, "The Off-Center production of Gone Missing, Anne Kauffman's first season as Artistic Director, was produced after Michael Friedman's death. pic.twitter.com/Rkj7hjIXRM
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Says Fun Home's Tesori, "As I sit in my new 'office' (a corner of my bedroom), I am looking out onto the newly-emptied streets of Manhattan, counting blessings but also cans of beans. I haven't been able to quite, I don't know, take this all in. I have often joked to my friends that I haven't had a true feeling since 1989, perhaps the result of getting slightly hard-boiled by a life in music, the constancy of parenting, of trying to plan for the future but aspiring to live in the moment. Trying to be of service in a country that underserves so many.
"So, when I approached this offering for the City Center community, I was surprised to finally find some tears rolling down my cheeks listening to Kate Baldwin sing 'How Are Things in Glocca Morra?' I have never really thought about Finian's Rainbow, nor that song, as applying to me, and certainly not as a much-needed release this weekend. But listening to Kate's voice, that celestial voice, I was able to hear this, and all these songs in a new way. In anything found, there is something lost, and in loss, there are things we find. This week's songs all have this in common; a yearning to be in another place or time, new feelings of nostalgia, and the acceptance that life, like theatre, is a transient and beautiful affair."
Susan Blackwell, John Belmann, and More in Gone Missing at City Center Encores!
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Susan Blackwell and David Ryan Smith
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Aysan Celik, Susan Blackwell, and Deborah S. Craig
Susan Blackwell
John Behlmann
Taylor Mac
The famed Manhattan venue launched the series March 22, Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday, with a week of videos from Sondheim musicals. You can watch a playlist of all of the performances on City Center's YouTube page.
Michael Friedman


Whichever the route a traveler takes for getting into the heart of Lapland, most likely he'll go by Sodankylä, where all the roads meet. Same those who go to the popular Nordkapp, or those aiming the unforgettable Inari, or the ones driving towards lovely Vadso or heading to hostile Murmansk, and also he who just wants to get lost in the deep forests of the large natural parks, they all have to meet here, in Sodankylä, gate to the Great North.
Being the main crossroads in the Finnish arctic circle, all kind of travelers converge here, before retaking each their own particular course. Therefore, it is no wonder that –with barely nine thousand inhabitants– this town abounds in bars, lodgings, kahvilas, shops and restaurants; goes without saying, there are also important services like petrol stations and workshops. Sodankylä is alive, lively and busy; but at the same time feels cozy and close, endearing, strangely warm.
I have arrived here taking the long route from Salla, passing very close to the Russian border, then towards Savukoski and yet west, joining the E63, the highway that comes all the way from Jyväskylä, more than eight hundred kilometres to the south. Every of my readers knows that I like quiet byroads. By the way, in Savukoski I stopped for a coffee in a kahvila where I have met a German family, father, mother and child, who come from Stuttgart riding a motorcycle with a custom sidecar. I spotted them on their biker suits, sitting at the terrace, and I sat nearby for some conversation, along which they told me they were going to Nordkapp. Then, before parting, they talk about sleeping tonight in Sodankylä. Hopefully we'll meet again there, or somewhere else, farther on to the north.
The sun strikes heavy as we're putting our gear on: jacket, gloves, helmet, sunglasses–this little routine that makes me feel like a rider. We jump on our motorcycles and start the engines, almost in unison; then we part with a farewell wave, and we take different roads. Funny enough, ninety kiometres later we arrive to Sodankylä right at the same time: when I'm waiting at the STOP sign in the main junction, I see them crossing. We nod at each other, and that's the last I see of them today.
Acommodation in Sodankylä is almost fully booked. Only hotel Karhu has rooms, but that is out of my budget; so, I finally stay in the campsite, called Nilimella, one kilometre from downtown, across the Kitinen river. I am lucky: I get the last available hut. It is a very likeable place, very green and tidy with its lawn closely mowed. My cabin is by the boundary trees. Inside, it feels like a sauna because it has been hit by the sun all day long; and that's a lot of hours in the arctic summer days. It is basically furnished, but comfy and pleasant. After bringing in the side cases I go for a shower to the common baths, leaving the cabin's door opened. I trust people here. This country gives me a feeling of safety that I appreciate a lot; so different from our countries in Central or Southern Europe.
On the campground's lawn I see people from all countries. There is a Spanish couple with a separatist sticker from Catalonia on their bike's plate, though they're not speaking in Catalan, probably thinking they're not understood here. There is also a group of Italian bikers and some Dutch motorhomes. And a car with French plates and another from Germany. Later on, while exploring the town, I overhear a young couple from the USA and I spot some bikers' groups from other countries. Apparently, many of those people aim Cape North, which seems to be a major tourist attraction. I would have never imagined.
As I'm feeling like some refreshment for the body, I go for a plunge in the river. There is a small beach on the eastern shore where some kids are playing a ball, some gals are suntanning and a few boys are enjoying themselves laughing loud on the small jetty. However, there is hardly anyone in the water. Soon I find out why: it is quite cold; much colder than the last time I tried, about two weeks ago, down there in Sahalahti: that lake was like a soup. But this here is a river, and I'm now much more to the north; maybe that's why.
After my short dive, I lay down on the towel and doze for a few minutes. The sun now has lost azimut, and warms me up just enough for giving me back the heat I've left in the water, but not more. I'm even feeling a bit cold, so I grab the towel and go back to the camp. On passing along the pub, near the beach, I read a sign anouncing LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT. Good idea!
As I still have plenty of time, I go exploring downtown, and finding some place for dinner. There are many, all of them looking fine. I made up my mind for Pälvin Kammari, a restaurant on Jäämerentie with a sunny wooden terrace. For the first time this trip I can properly eat a good reindeer dish, which comes served with cranberry jam and garnished with potatoes and vegetables. Simply delicious; tasty and tender like no other. For a drink, Lapin Kulta of course, Lapland's beer.
It's such a pleasant moment! I'm enjoying myself a lot; it feels really good here: sitting at this table, relishing the delightful dish, drinking a good beer and warmed up just enough by a sun that can't make up its mind about setting. I don't even know if I miss some company. I guess I do, but I'm not sure.
After supper, I go back to the pub by the beach. The performance is about to begin. Neither crowded nor empty, the terrace has about the right atmosphere. They are two musicians, one guitar and vocal, the other on the keyboard, who play popular songs with arrangements of their own. Sounds quite personal and fine. This event is so Finnish, so familiar and close! One hour later, after a break of the band, everybody moves inside: the mosquitoes have kicked us out. That is the main problem for the Finnish summer. Some of the espectators have actually left, overwhelmed by the annoying bugs.
By the time the musicians hung the microphones and start packing, it is past eleven p.m.; yet, the sky is not dark; actually it won't get dark for the whole night. On the high clouds one can read a coming change of the weather, probably tomorrow. Hopefully this stifling summer, too warm for this country, will finally come to an end.
Back in the campground people have gone to bed; the lawn is very still and the grass is covered with dew. It's got rather cold, and now I am glad to feel the warmth kept by the hut's logs. Tonight there will be no need to leave the door ajar, like the previous days.
It is about two or three in the morning when I wake up for a pee. Outside, the cold makes me shiver. I look up at the sky: it's already dawning.
Dan ganas de conocer Sodankylä y el agradable camping a sus afueras. Por cierto, se hecha de menos un mapa de la ruta en los posts.
Sin duda uno de los mejores pueblos del viaje.
Lo de un mapa, sí, estoy considerándolo.


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The "Intense Chocolate Brownies" were as the name implies, intense with the flavor of chocolate! Of course they can't be bad for you because the recipe uses unsalted butter, unbleached flour (please don't buy bleached flour – it really is not good for you), 70% cacao bittersweet chocolate, just the right amount of sugar. Since these brownies are homemade they contain no preservatives or artificial ingredients, just lots of love.
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If you have any leftovers after making some, just make sure to store in an air tight container.
Finished product – Cooling and waiting to be devoured!
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Hope you will try your hand at making homemade treats. If you like chocolate, Fat Witch has some free recipes available on their website, or if you live in New York City, you can stop by the shop and buy some freshly made goodies.


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La Congregació de Clergues Regulars de Sant Pau () és un orde religiós de clergues regulars fundat per Sant Antoni Maria Zaccaria, el Venerable Bartolomeo Ferrari i el Venerable Giacomo Antonio Morigia, i aprovat per Climent VII al breu Vota per quae vos de 1533. El nom popular de l'orde, barnabites, deriva del nom de l'església on es va constituir: la de Sant Bernabé de Milà. Els seus membres posposen al nom la sigla B.

N'hi ha tres branques: els sacerdots (l'orde de Clergues Regulars de Sant Pau), les monges (Germanes Angèliques de Sant Pau) i els laics (Laics de Sant Pau).

Història
Nasqué poc abans del Concili de Trento, en el marc dels moviments de reforma de la vida cristiana. Cap al 1532, Antonio Maria Zaccaria, da Bartolomeo Ferrari i Jacopo Antonio Morigia van entrar en contacte amb l'Oratori de l'Eterna Saviesa i, en adonar-se que estava en una situació crítica, el transformarem en la Companyia dels Fillets i Filletes de Pau Sant o Congregació de Sant Pau, nova formació on havia d'haver-hi tres grups: de sacerdots, de religioses i de laics.

La congregació masculina fou aprovada, fins i tot abans que els membres n'iniciessin la vida en comú i tinguessin una regla, el 18 de febrer de 1533, amb el breu Vota per quae de Climent VII. El 15 de gener de 1535 Pau III autoritzà la congregació femenina amb la butlla Debitum pastoralis: es constituí com a monestir posat sota la Regla de Sant Agustí i prengueren el nom de Germanes Angèliques de Sant Pau. El mateix any, el 25 de juliol, Pau III aprovà amb la butlla Dudum felicis recordationis, l'orde masculí com a orde de clergues regulars. Al final de l'any, Zaccaria promogué la formació del col·legi de laics, que foren anomenats Conjugats o Maridats de Sant Pau.

L'orde va tenir impacte per la seva manera de viure i predicar, i de pràctiques com l'exposició solemne de l'Eucaristia, per torns, a les esglésies de Milà (les Quaranta Hores), o picar les campanes a les tres de la tarda dels divendres, en record de la mort de Crist. Foren acusats, pel seu zel, de pelagianisme, de seguir l'heretge Battista da Crema, de valdesisme i d'altres de similars. En els processos de 1534 i 1537 foren plenament absolts.

El 29 de novembre de 1543, la butlla Pastoralis officii cura, de Pau III els eximí de la jurisdicció dels bisbes; Juli III, en les butlles Rationi congruit i Ad hoc nos Deus praetulit (22 de febrer i 11 d'agost de 1550), confirmaren i augmentaren els privilegis de l'institut: així, la congregació es convertí oficialment en orde religiós, tot i que es mantingué el nom de congregació.

Expansió
Foren expulsats en 1551 de la República de Venècia; per contra, a Milà, l'arquebisbe Carlo Borromeo en veié el potencial per a la reforma eclesiàstica i els afavorí. Es promulgaren llavors, en 1579, les constitucions de l'orde. Després, el bisbe de Ginebra Francesc de Sales se'n serví per a contrarestar la difusió del calvinisme a la seva diòcesi. Gregori XIII envià barnabites a Malta en 1582 i a Berna en 1610, d'on anaren a París i altres llocs de França.

En 1605 els barnabites obriren la primera escola, com a tipus particular d'apostolat; amb el temps, l'ensenyament esdevingué l'activitat principal de l'orde, juntament amb el ministeri pastoral i la predicació. En 1627 s'establiren també a Àustria, per lluitar contra el protestantisme, i on tingueren la parròquia de Maria-Hilf de Viena, des de 1683. El  fou el període més brillant de l'orde, mercès als favors rebuts de papes com Benet XIV i de reis.

En 1718 Climent XI n'envià cinc a la Xina, i s'establiren a Pequín i Cantó. Passaren a Birmània, on l'orde mantingué una missió fins al 1832. Els membres de l'orde destacaren com a erudits i científics i quan fou suprimida la Companyia de Jesús s'encarregaren de la direcció d'algunes de les seves institucions.

Declivi i actualitat
La invasió napoleònica comportà la supressió dels ordes religiosos a Itàlia, i el 1810 ho foren els barnabites. En 1814 la congregació fou reformada a Roma i en 1825 a Milà, però amb molt pocs recursos. Es dedicaren llavors, sobretot, a l'ensenyament en escoles.

A l'inici del , l'orde començà a créixer i a difondre's novament, obrint comunitats al Brasil (1903), Afganistan (1931), Xile (1946), Argentina (1947), Estats Units (1948), República Democràtica del Congo (1949), Canadà (1961), Espanya (1964), Polònia i Filipines (1989) i Albània (1996).

Activitat i difusió
Els barnabites fan apostolat (en parròquies o missions), predicant l'evangeli a cristians i pagans i mitjançant l'ensenyament i la catequesi a escoles, retirs i parròquies. A més, treballen per la reforma de l'Església i la societat, fent que cadascú reformi la seva vida interior.

El 1996 hi havia 400 barnabites, 250 religioses angèliques i 100 laics. En acabar el 2005 l'orde tenia 64 cases i 381 membres, 291 dels quals eren sacerdots.

Referències

Ordes de clergues regulars
Comunitats i instituts de perfecció catòlics fundats a Llombardia
Comunitats i instituts de perfecció catòlics fundats al segle XVI
Comunitats i instituts de perfecció dedicats a l'apostolat
Comunitats i instituts de perfecció dedicats a l'ensenyament
Família zaccariana

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Lali Khalid
The Sun Will Go Down, 2017
15" H x 21" W
Image Notes
mounted, signed on front
2432-2D.16
Born1980
BirthplaceRawalpindi, Pakistan
CitizenshipUnited States, Pakistani
Cultural HeritageSouth Asian
Light Work RelationshipLight Work Hallway Gallery, 2019 (Light Work Grant Exhibition)
Light Work Grant, 2019
Lali Khalid is a visual artist living in Ithaca, NY. She holds a B.F.A. in printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore (2003) and an M.F.A. in Photography from Pratt Institute (2009) where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Lali was born in Pakistan and immigrated to U.S. in 2011. Khalid uses her work as a tool to explore themes of diaspora, identity, family, and home in her own life and the lives of people she photographs. Her images depict and document cultural and private conflicts, as well as emotive effects of natural light, through quiet, narrative allusions. She has shown her work in many galleries throughout Europe, Pakistan, and the US. Khalid is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Ithaca College.
The 45th Annual Light Work Grant recipients are Trevor Clement, Lali Khalid, and Reka Reisinger. Begun in 1975 and given each spring, the Light Work Grant is one of the oldest such fellowships in the US and spotlights our support and encouragement of Central New York photographers. Besides getting a $3,000 stipend, each winner appears in the fall season's opening exhibition and in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. The 2019 judges were Kimberly Drew (writer, curator, founder of Black Contemporary Art), Eve Lyons (photo editor, The New York Times), and David Oresick (executive director, Silver Eye Center for Photography).
Trevor Clement is a visual artist, musician, and performance artist in Syracuse. He combines photography with book art, installation, and sound. Clement's sometimes gritty "aesthetic of no taboos" lets him remain open-minded in the face of orthodox photographic conventions of cleanliness, simplicity, and rigidity. He does see himself in dialog with three traditions: Japanese photography (Daido Moriyama, Masahisa Fukase), Western photography (Richard Billingham, William Klein, Nan Goldin), and more than forty years of hardcore punk and noise. He describes the untitled installation and individual images that comprise his grant project, DOUBLE HELL, as "how notes may combine to make a song or scenes in a movie." Clement's music projects include FAITH VOID, HUNTED DOWN, and WHITE GUILT, and he was a manager of the underground Syracuse music/art space, BADLANDS. He has exhibited locally at Spark Contemporary Art and across New York State, as well as at the Fotofanziner Fotobokfestival in Oslo (Norway), the NoFound Photo Festival in Paris, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. Clement also received a Light Work Grant in 2014.
"A lot of people like to make art about art," said Clement. "I'd rather be taken on a journey outside of that world. I would be much happier with keeping the focus directly on the social, political, or aesthetic connotations of how my work is presented. This can still be oppositional, but I would prefer keeping the focus on what I do, rather than what I do not." www.trevorclement.com
Lali Khalid is a visual artist living in Ithaca in the Finger Lakes. She holds a BFA in printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore (2003) and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute (2009), where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Khalid immigrated from Pakistan in 2011. Her work spans landscape, abstraction, and documentary photography, but centers on portraiture. She explores diaspora, identity, family, and home in her own life and in the lives of people she photographs. Her images depict cultural and private conflicts in the emotive effects of natural light. She has shown work in galleries across Europe, Pakistan, the US, and recently in Italy. Her photo essays have appeared in publications such as Art Now, Artnowpakistan, ArtAsiaPacific, F-STOP Magazine, Chasmjournal, and Saatchi Online. Khalid is an assistant professor of photography in Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies at Ithaca College.
"This work is about following. I follow myself with a camera and frame where I am," she has said. "Through pictures of my family, personal journals, travels, and self-portraits, I document my personal experiences. The last couple of years have made me fathom and somewhat accept the difference others see. I have been in America since 2007, but somehow, I am still on the periphery, looking in. I am an outsider. Fighting the US legal system and recognizing what it means to be 'the other' has changed my approach to image-making." www.lalikhalid.com
Reka Reisinger is a visual and historical archivist living in the Finger Lakes village of Burdett near Seneca Lake. She graduated from Bard College (2004) and holds an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art (2007). A native of Budapest, Hungary, she still returns often to photograph her homeland. Reisinger uses a 4x5 camera to photograph her subjects in the midst of daily activities. She seeks to evoke a cultural atmosphere she experienced during childhood visits in the post-Communist era. In the serious, urgent, and "seemingly impossible task of documenting a moment recently passed," Reisinger still finds humorous juxtapositions informed by her deep affection for Hungary. National and international group exhibitions include The Camera Club of New York, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Lisa Ruyter Gallery in Vienna (Austria), the Midlands Art Center in Birmingham (UK), SculptureCenter in Long Island City, and the Swiss Institute in Manhattan, and a solo show at Real Artways in Hartford, CT.
"I had the opportunity to experience Hungary at a pivotal time in its history subsequent to its opening up to the West," Reisinger says. "It was a unique period when antiquated traditions still persisted in the context of an increasingly modern world. I witnessed firsthand an era when women in my grandmother's village still wore the traditional costume, a time before telephones and extensive highway systems, a time before shopping malls and mass media. Simultaneously, I observed the influx of Western culture and the Hungarian people's varied reception and at times unusual interpretations of a lifestyle that was already familiar to me." www.rekareisinger.com
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Cjala Surratt is communications coordinator at Light Work.


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Q: Ajax modal popup loads behind the activex control In a page there is an activex control as well as a button whose onclick opens an ajax modal popup. The problem i face is that whenever the button is clicked the ajax pop up loads  behind the activex control and thus it is hidden.So I am not able to use that control at all.
I have not found a proper solution to this. I tried a solution where a browser check condition was removed from the ajaxtoolkit code. but no luck. Am using Ajax toolkit version 3.0.30512.1.let me know if there are any solutions to resolve this problem.

A: Any effort to bring a DIV or any HTML element on top of an ActiveX has no effect. An ActiveX stays always on top even if it has higher z-index than an HTML element. The reason is the way the Explorer renders its content. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;177378.
There are two types of controls: Windowed and Windowless elements, and they are rendered on separate planes. All windowed elements paint themselves on top of all windowless elements, despite the wishes of their container. However, windowed elements do follow the z-index attribute with respect to each other, just as windowless elements follow the z-index attribute with respect to each other.
All windowless elements are rendered on the same MSHTML plane, and windowed elements draw on a separate MSHTML plane. You can use z-index to manipulate elements on the same plane, but not mix and match with elements in different planes. You can rearrange the z-indexing of the elements on each plane, but the windowed plane always draws on the top of the windowless plane.
The  tag is, in most cases, windowed. That is why it always stays on top.

A: I don't have any experience of ActiveX, but this could be a simple CSS Z-Index positioning issue. Have you ensured that the Z-Index of your control is lower than that of the modal popup?
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_z-index.asp

A: I'm not sure but I think the problem is the ActiveX, which is always displayed at topmost.
You could try to hide the ActiveX when displaying the popup:
document.getElementById('activex').style.visibility = 'hidden';

and then when you close the popup show the ActiveX again:
document.getElementById('activex').style.visibility = 'visible';

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Hazel Hobbs
Associate Fellow
Hazel.Hobbs@said.oxford.edu
Saïd Business School
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Hazel was previously Director of Strategy at the Government Digital Service and brings over 20 years' experience of working closely with Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, No. 10 and Non-Executive Boards in policy, operational and corporate civil service roles. She is a passionate advocate for bring together the latest academic insight with practitioner experience.
Hazel operates a portfolio of advisory and executive coaching work, via her own company (Hazel Bees Consulting Limited), as an Associate with Edgecumbe Consulting Group and for Deloitte. She is a regular reviewer of the highest risk Government major projects for the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and has led two in-depth Reviews of the remit and effectiveness of Arms'-Length Bodies published on GOV.UK. She is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Building Digital UK and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee, overseeing a UK taxpayer investment of up to £5bn in full fibre gigabit and broader telecommunications infrastructure projects.
In addition to being an alumna of the Major Project Leadership Academy, Hazel graduated from the London School of Economics Executive master's in public policy and holds a post-graduate Executive Coaching Certificate from Henley Business School.
Current teaching and coaching roles at Oxford Saïd include:
Lead Facilitator and practitioner case study on the Major Projects Leadership Academy .
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Frederik Henrik Vilhelm, hertug af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Glücksborg (15. marts 1747 – 13. marts 1779) var den sidste hertug af den ældre glücksborgske linje.

Biografi
Han var søn af hertug Frederik af Glücksborg og født 15. marts 1747. Efter faderens eksempel trådte han i dansk krigstjeneste, blev 1767 kaptajn, 1768 oberst i Kavaleriet og 1776 generalmajor. Han tiltrådte som hertug ved faderens død 10. november 1766 – han skal have proklameret sin tiltrædelse fra en tønde i stalden –, men døde selv uden arvinger 13. marts 1779. Ved hans død hjemfaldt lenet efter den med de efterlevende sønderborgske hertuger trufne overenskomst til den danske krone.

Ægteskab
Han ægtede 1769 Anna Caroline af Nassau-Saarbrücken (f. 31. december 1751), som efter hans død ægtede Frederik Carl Ferdinand af Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Bevern, dansk general (d. 1809 på Glücksborg Slot), og døde på Glücksborg Slot 12. april 1824. Efter hendes død tildeltes titlen Glücksborg hertug Vilhelm af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Glücksborg.

Kilder
 A.D. Jørgensen, "Frederik Henrik Vilhelm, hertug af Glücksborg", i: C.F. Bricka (red.), Dansk Biografisk Lexikon, København: Gyldendal 1887-1905.
 C.F. Gude, Bericht von Sundewitt.

Eksterne links
 Hans den Yngres efterkommere

Sønderborgske fyrstelige
Hertuger af Glücksborg
Generalmajorer fra Danmark
Danskere i 1700-tallet
Riddere af Dannebrog (1671-1808)
Personer i Dansk Biografisk Leksikon


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