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Bernardo O'Higgins
February 20, 2010 February 20, 2010 StephenBrassawe
Before we leave The Part About Amalfitano, we ought at least to mention that fascinating book O'Higgins is Araucanian by Lonko Kilapán. Why I have taken this upon myself is as much a mystery to me as Amalfitano's ruminations on the book are.
After the last appearance of the voice that we read of, Amalfitano begins to think about telepathy. That leads his thoughts to the Mapuches or Araucanians, the indigenous people whom the Spanish could never whip. For the 300 years before Chilean independence, the Mapuche lived in their own autonomous region abutting that portion controlled by Spain. His train of thought leads him to reexamine this book, which had been given to him at some time previously as a joke.
Amalfitano's ruminations on the book are framed by and interrupted twice by descriptions of episodes involving Marco Antonio Guerra.
Somehow, Amalfitano concludes that Lonko Kilapán is half Indian. Perhaps there is something in that name that gives this away. This is a "vanity book," the publication of which was financed by its author. Apparently, Amalfitano knows this because of his familiarity with the nature of the particular publisher's business in Santiago.
The book has typographical errors. In one case Amalfitano infers a typographical error by assuming that an event described by the author actually occurred in 1974 rather than 1947 as written. (1974 happens to be the year that Augusto Pinochet became President of Chile.) The footnotes are strange, in one case simply repeating information that is given in the text itself and in another case asserting that Prometheus stole the gift of writing from the gods.
The author purports to establish through 17 "proofs" that the mother of Bernardo O'Higgins, one of the founding fathers of the nation of Chile, was an Araucanian. It is historically accepted that O'Higgins was the illegitimate son of Ambrosio O'Higgins, a Viceroy of Peru, which included the region of Chile, and María Isabel Riquelme, a criolla woman of Basque descent. Marriages between peninsulars, as Ambrosio was considered to be, and criollos, people born in the new world, were prohibited without permission from the Spanish crown. For reasons unknown Ambrosio never sought that permission and never married Isabel. (I have tried to save you some time nosing around in the encyclopedia.)
The Prologue noticeably refers to the famously illegitimate O'Higgins as "legitimate" for the reason that the text itself suggests that his father actually married the Araucanian mother in a traditional Araucanian ceremony that included an "abduction ceremony" causing Amalfitano to infer abuse and rape by old Ambrosio. Page 217.
At the heart of Amalfitano's ruminations on this book, there occurs a weird but interesting passage at pages 224 to 225. This by the way is where Cortázar's "active reader" is mentioned. It is here that Amalfitano thinks that the active reader could entertain the strange proposition that Kilapán was simply a nom de plume for one of any number of Chilean politicians of all political persuasions, not just neo-fascists,
which wouldn't be so strange either, this being Chile, in fact the reverse would be stranger, in Chile military men behaved like writers, and writers, so as not to be outdone, behaved like military men, and politicians (of every stripe) behaved like writers and like military men. . . .
I have taken to regarding all this as I do Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, freely conceding that it is witty to those who find it witty without my being able to appreciate the wit because I am not familiar enough with the personalities who are being mocked. It is clear to me, though, that Bolaño is unloading some bile here regarding the Chilean literary establishment and, when one reads on, Chilean society generally.
But back to the Araucanian mother of O'Higgins. The text leads inexorably to the conclusion that not only was Bernardo O'Higgins a telepath because his real mother was Araucanian, but also Lonko Kilapán is a telepath, all of this because Araucanians were telepaths who kept the Spanish at bay through the use of this power to gather intelligence and communicated via telepathy with other Araucanians in other parts of the world. Whew!
It seemed clear to me that when all was said and done, Amalfitano had concluded that he himself was probably a telepath. Page 225. Why does that seem clear to me? I have not the faintest idea. He was startled and his hair stood on end for five seconds after he considered the similarity between his own mother's name and the name of the historically accepted mother of Bernardo O'Higgins–nothing at all to do with the alleged Araucanian mother.
I am not contending that this is the key to The Part About Amalfitano by any means. I am not sure there is any such key. But if I am wrong and if Amalfitano's hair stood on end for some other reason, what was it?
And do these passages not remind you Borges people of Borges? Does anyone else smell a sly mockery of Borges here?
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Daryl February 20, 2010 / 5:53 pm
It hadn't occurred to me that Amalfitano thought himself a telepath (I didn't get why his hair stood on end and figured maybe he just thought it was an eerie coincidence), but it doesn't seem too out there. He does hear voices, after all, so why not telepathy? I wonder if you have any thoughts about how or if the stuff about telepathy in this part of the book ties back in any way to Morini's dream of telepathy. Perhaps it's significant that Morini drops telepathy in as a substitute for evil once he realizes the woman he's turning to see in his dream is Norton. Is Amalfitano, with a well-placed sense of foreboding about his daughter's fate and feeling as if he's going off the deep end, making a similar substitution as some sort of coping mechanism?
stevebrassawe February 20, 2010 / 6:50 pm
Daryl, here is my working theory (Heh, heh. A pretentious phrase.). As you noted in your earlier post, Magnanimous Cuckold, the voice seems to be telling Amalfitano something about his daughter in a veiled way, veiled because the voice admits that it really cannot see anything—not much, anyway. The voice does pass along that ominous warning that things are coming to a head on page 210.
Later, in the last part of The Part About Fate we learn that young Rosa was into a lot of problematic things. I believe that she was into those problematic things—trying not to ruin anything for anyone who has not finished that part—during the same period of time that the voice was speaking.
My tentative conclusion is that the voice really was Amalfitano's telepathy, that he was receiving imperfect knowledge of the activities of his daughter and the danger she was in telepathically via this voice. This realization is what makes his hair stand on end.
Now, as for Morini, boy! I like to think that I understand a few things about Espinoza and Pelletier. I freely admitted elsewhere that Norton is an enigma to me. La Mexicana here contends that she understands Norton. But Morini? The waters run ever so deep there. I did appreciate your work on the dreams, but I still do not know what was going on with him. If you see some way that my theory about the telepathic voice fits in with that business about telepathy in the first part, I would be delighted of course. I cannot find it.
Jeff Anderson February 20, 2010 / 7:32 pm
Do you both see 2666 as countenancing actual telepathy, then? It's seemed to me an almost naturalist book—in lots of respects, anyway, even if it is peppered with surreal dreams presented basically without comment—so I assumed the telepathy was all bunkum (which I've just learned has a hilarious etymology), in the same way that I figured the voice Amalfitano hears is endogenous. (I'm pretty sure there's another word for this in psychology, to describe an impression that has no external source.)
Maria Bustillos February 20, 2010 / 8:59 pm
This post is so good. It's driving me crazy that everything is so scattered around, so I've spent the whole afternoon making an aggregate page of all the different places people are commenting and stuff. I'll try to have it up by the end of the day.
Maybe it's just me but I simply could not believe this book was real. Even the author's name is not to be believed. I thought at first that it must be an anagram or something, but no. There's a page up somewhere online of some guy being introduced to Kilapán in like 1993 and he goes, "he was introduced to me as a shaman." (Well I guess! naturally!)
Jeff, I think the telepathy and dreams are "real" insofar as they have a true connection to the waking world … but so far, I get the feeling that these forebodings and dreams and stuff are v. through-a-glass-darkly.
I am so sorry, folks. I keep mashing the "Post" button when I should mash the "Reply" button and vice versa. I will do better.
Jeff, I do not know whether the book countenances actual telepathy. I do know that the last Communist philosopher, Boris Yeltsin, proposes that the third leg of the human table is magic. Now, if I could only noodle out what he means by "magic," other than sex. That part I do understand.
I know that you are frustrated by commentary on the novel scatter hither and yon, Maria. Again I return to the novel for a statement in a later part, ". . .he mentions the chaos of the universe and says that only in chaos are we conceivable." p. 736.
I am going to try to add a "Borges" tag to this one in the hope of luring in one or two Borges people. Those Borges people are never around when you need them and always around when you don't.
I see what you mean about Yeltsin, but that was also in a dream, right? So whatever the character of the telepathy I'm trying to figure out, that dream probably shares it.
(Incidentally, it is impossible for me to read about the last Communist philosopher without thinking of Aleksii Antediluvianovich Prelapsarianov. Which is a funny juxtaposition with Boris Yeltsin.)
stevebrassawe February 22, 2010 / 12:44 am
I wish to pass along one other thing, Jeff. La Mexicana has now read this. While disagreeing with me only in certain particulars, she is a bit amused at how hard I had to work to get here. She contends that generally speaking, Latin American people are much more mystical than norteamericanos among whom she has also lived for extended periods. They are much more tapped into their dreams. Their dreams often speak to them later. They commonly have premonitions.
She tells me that she found Isabel Allende's portrayal of this in La casa de los espirits (The House of the Spirits) to be well done. We are both aware of Bolaño's low regard for Isabel Allende, but of course these little spats between writers mean nothing.
I have been very lucky and able to participate in activities in Mexico with Mexicans that in my previous life I would never have had any truck with, things involving shamans and such. What she says appeared self-evident to me at the time when I participated in these things even though I remained ever the peripheral American to a significant extent. I ought to have immediately brought that to bear on my reading of this part without having to jump through logical hoops first.
Maria Bustillos February 23, 2010 / 10:57 am
Steve. Yes. You'll think I'm crazy but the fact is that I never really focused all that much difference between the Latin way of being and the USA one until I started reading this book, although there was every reason to have done so. I suppose that having grown up in California and only traveled in Mexico, South America and Spain as a kid, I kind of put it out of my mind, some.
My maternal grandmother was a santera, though. Could cure your stomachache via prayer in a dark room, making a little cross of oil on your tum first. She spoke in tongues. Weird woman, seriously, I never realized how weird until I grew up. Or rather no, I think I haven't realized it completely yet.
But what I wanted to say was YES, there is a big difference between the Latin person's interface to the world and the Anglo or USA one. Bigger than we think, maybe!


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A gripping whodunnit that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
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require 'rails_helper'

describe "Pages", type: :request, vcr: true do
  it "pages" do
    get '/pages'

    expect(last_response.status).to eq(200)

    meta = json["meta"]
    expect(meta["total"]).to eq(91)
    expect(meta["tags"].size).to eq(15)
    expect(meta["tags"].first).to eq(["datacite", 20])

    expect(json["data"].size).to eq(25)
    page = json["data"].first
    expect(page["id"]).to eq("https://doi.org/10.5438/1nmy-9902")
    expect(page.dig("attributes", "title")).to eq("DOI Registrations for Software")
  end

  it "pages query" do
    get '/pages?query=orcid'

    expect(last_response.status).to eq(200)

    meta = json["meta"]
    expect(meta["total"]).to eq(9)
    expect(meta["tags"].size).to eq(8)
    expect(meta["tags"].first).to eq(["orcid", 8])

    expect(json["data"].size).to eq(9)
    page = json["data"].first
    expect(page["id"]).to eq("https://doi.org/10.5438/spfw-5q39")
    expect(page.dig("attributes", "title")).to eq("Next steps for the Organization ID Initiative: Report from the Stakeholder Meeting")
  end

  it "pages page 2" do
    get '/pages?page[number]=2'

    expect(last_response.status).to eq(200)

    meta = json["meta"]
    expect(meta["total"]).to eq(91)
    expect(meta["tags"].size).to eq(15)
    expect(meta["tags"].first).to eq(["datacite", 20])

    expect(json["data"].size).to eq(25)
    page = json["data"].first
    expect(page["id"]).to eq("https://doi.org/10.5438/0000-9g41")
    expect(page.dig("attributes", "title")).to eq("Welcoming Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to the community!")
  end

  it "pages query by tag" do
    get '/pages?tag=orcid'

    expect(last_response.status).to eq(200)

    meta = json["meta"]
    expect(meta["total"]).to eq(14)
    expect(meta["tags"].size).to eq(9)
    expect(meta["tags"].first).to eq(["orcid", 14])

    expect(json["data"].size).to eq(14)
    page = json["data"].first
    expect(page["id"]).to eq("https://doi.org/10.5438/spfw-5q39")
    expect(page.dig("attributes", "title")).to eq("Next steps for the Organization ID Initiative: Report from the Stakeholder Meeting")
  end

  it "single page" do
    get '/pages/10.5438/zwsf-4y7y'

    expect(last_response.status).to eq(200)

    page = json["data"]
    expect(page["id"]).to eq("https://doi.org/10.5438/zwsf-4y7y")
    expect(page.dig("attributes", "title")).to eq("2016 in review")
  end
end

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Q: PHP Databases PDO connections Hey guys im having a little trouble with the PDO in php as the error it is returning is an undefined index. The code for the function and query and return of result is this:
function getUserDetails($user) {
   $db = connect();
try {
    $stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT name,addr AS address,team
FROM TreasureHunt.Player LEFT OUTER JOIN TreasureHunt.MemberOf ON (name=player)
LEFT OUTER JOIN TreasureHunt.PlayerStats USING (player)
WHERE name=:user');

    $stmt->bindValue(':user', $user, PDO::PARAM_STR);

    $stmt->execute();
    $results = $stmt->fetchAll();
    $stmt->closeCursor();

} catch (PDOException $e) {
    print "Error : " . $e->getMessage();
    die();
}
return $results;
}

However when running the code for the index page i get an error that says Notice: Undefined index: name
The Code for the index is this:
try {
$details = getUserDetails($_SESSION['player']);
echo '
Name
 ',$details['name'];
echo '
Address
',$details['address'];
echo '
Current team
',$details['team'];
echo '
Hunts played
 ',$details['nhunts'];
echo '
Badges
';
foreach($details['badges'] as $badge) {
    echo '',$badge['name'],'
';
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Cannot get user details';
}

my question is why is it throwing a notice and how do i go around this problem?

A: fetchAll returns all results (potentially multiple rows) in a multidimensional array:
array(
    0 => array(/* first row */),
    1 => array(/* second row */),
    ...
)

That's why the array doesn't have a direct index 'name', it needs to be [0]['name'].
Or you shouldn't fetchAll, just fetch.

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The Metro recently covered the top ten universities in the UK, stating: "London is the only city that's home to four universities in the [world's] top 50". Based on the QS World University Rankings University College London (UCL) ranked seventh, followed by Imperial College London in eight place – both within easy reach of Aldgate Place.
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Letter: St. Patrick's Day a worthy day to honor first responders
Bob Sweeney
We can show our appreciation for their dedicated service with our applause when they are marching by in full uniform in all the various St. Patrick's Day parades or other events throughout this great country of ours.
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Since January 2007 there have been various resolutions in the House of Representatives to honor our first responders. The latest version, H.CON.RES 37, awaits the House's final passage to enact Oct. 28 for this honor. Our U.S. Senate has already passed S.CON.RES 15, which is their version.
I suggest also honoring them on March 17, St. Patrick's Day. This date has some historic relation to the early development of both services. In the 1800s the Irish joined both police and fire in large numbers and infused both with pride and professionalism to serve all in need.
This honor is for all active, retired and deceased and is long overdue.
Warwick, R.I.
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whats up all,got these B.I.M creative studio ZEIT Version RR wheels with my tezza last year.the writting is starting to peel off and there is a lil bit of kerb scuffs on them Ive been on the net for hours at this stage looking to see if yellow print on them is replaceable cause if i get em sandblasted thats the print gone!!!any sites i found were mostly in japanese and no help atall.i really want to keep the wheels,which i will if i can get sorted.Im out of ideas and think im going blind from staring at the laptop for so long . . .
Always talk to strangers...they`ve got the nicest sweets!!!
Pics didnt show up there dude?
Them wheels are serious. . . .
Have you spoke to any wheel places around that do wheel repiars.
If they refurb the wheels they might be able to do the writing back on them..
Its worth asking one of them. .
there span new in the pic,mine need some TLC to get looking their best!!!
This is my favorite wheel. Let me know if you ever want to sell it.
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La Roche-Bernard é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa da Bretanha, no departamento Morbihan. Estende-se por uma área de 0,43 km². 781 hab/km².

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RICH WILLEY BIO : trumpeter, bass trumpeter, tuba player, bandleader. As both a player and composer/arranger, Rich Willey is firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. His trumpet playing draws upon the wellspring of bebop with a contemporary freshness; brash and forceful, but also lyrical and warm. His compositions and arrangements are thoughtful and substantial, combining a solid sense of swing with an overriding concern for melody. Rich's playing took on an even broader range of colors when he became one of only a select few jazz trumpeters to add the bass trumpet — a unique instrument with the range of a trombone but the bright timbre of a trumpet — to his musical palette.
A Florida native, Rich was active on the Philadelphia and New York scenes from the mid 1980's to the early 1990's, handling a wide range of Latin and jazz gigs, most notably backing up and recording with legendary vocalist Mel Tormé. He later returned to Florida where he earned a bachelors degree in music education from the University of South Florida, founded the Gulf Coast Jazz Society in Dunedin, and performed regularly in the Greater Tampa Bay area. Rich returned to NYC in 1999, earning his masters degree in jazz performance/trumpet at the renowned Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Byron Stripling, Garry Dial, and Mike Abene. He spent the fall of 2001 on tour playing second trumpet, the challenging jazz chair, with trumpet giant Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau.
Rich has released three CDs, among them Gone With the Piggies (CAP records), a striking collection of brilliantly conceived and impeccably performed tracks, including four of his own distinctive compositions. He is the owner of Boptism Music, which offers an impressive array of his over 30 books including jazz duets, jazz etudes, jazz improv development books, trumpet and trombone method books, as well as his jazz combo and big band arrangements. He is a devoted student of the late Dr. Donald S. Reinhardt, and has put back into print many of Reinhardt's original method books.
Rich has performed with many great musicians, including Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton, Hank Mobley, Don Patterson, Buddy Morrow, Bob Haggart, Dick Hyman, Claudio Roditi, Chris Potter, Conrad Herwig, John Swana, Bob Mintzer, Kenny Drew Jr., Brad Mehldau, Mel Torme, Bobby Sanabria, Harry Allen, Bill Mobley, Dave Stahl, Jack Jones, Shirley Jones, The Inkspots, Skitch Henderson, Tommy Flanagan, Tony Randall, Andrea McCardle, Debby Boone, and many others.
Rich has been leading bands since 1986. In its present-day incarnation, The Rich Willey Jazz Bands have played at Asheville's Bele Chere, Greenville's Jazz on Main Street and Artisphere, UNC-Asheville's Concert on the Quad series, Furman University's Concerts By The Lake series, along with many other venues, private gigs and educational settings.
Rich and his wife Janet live just outside of beautiful Asheville, NC, where he now practices trumpet, bass trumpet and tuba incessantly, still writes and arranges music and performs regularly throughout the southeast as a freelance musician, bandleader and clinician.


We have to be careful with the advice we give our children. We all want our children to succeed in life, but we should not advise them to gain success at any cost.
One can easily spot talent in young children. While this talent should be nurtured carefully, parents should refrain from exerting pressure on young ones to follow a particular path.
In fact, they should be allowed to dream on their own about their future and destiny because the last thing they want is a controlling parent to constantly coax them into following a certain career path.
If your child says he wants to be a policeman, then you should be fine. Don't attempt to change your child's mind, just because you are convinced that he or she will excel in some other field.
Since the police force typically does not do too well, you might be tempted to want your child to become a banker. Some parents might notice their child's ability effectively persuade people. "He is good at taking money from me. Perhaps, he would be a good businessman," you may justify yourself. At the risk of sounding cynical, even fraudsters are good at swindling people out of their money. They too have the power to persuade people and embezzle them. If you think in this particular way, you are basically asking your child to only choose a career that would allow him to earn loads of money.
The advice to "seek your fortune from your talent" is not the one that I would pass on to my children. It is not only misleading, but also quite crass.
Fortune seeking should never be associated with skills or professionalism, since it has the tendency to push one towards greed.
I am not saying that people, who have made a fortune, are greedy. But one cannot choose a career with wealth as the driving force. This sort of mentality really takes the shine out of the real essence of living.
It also blunts one's abilities to communicate with forces outside the realm of their blinding ambitions. But still, many parents try to force and persuade their children into decisions because they vicariously live their children's lives.
When my cousin's son said he wanted to be a mechanic, his father looked at him with sheer disappointment.
I knew exactly what was on his mind: The unpleasant image of his son covered with grease from head to toe and reeking with oil. He had always hoped to boast to his friends that his only son would choose a 'prestigious' profession like being a doctor. To him, mechanical work was demeaning, just like carpentry.
I could not help thinking that my cousin - a store supervisor - was pressurising his son that way because he had failed to live his own dreams. Since he could not be a doctor, he wanted to make sure his son was one. He did not realise that a child's competencies are nurtured best by gentle guidance, not through external and assertive influence.
I wanted to ask him whom would he call for help if his car broke down in the middle of a busy highway? Certainly not going to be a man in a white coat, but, in fact, a greasy-faced one who would promptly fix his car so that he could make it in time for his appointment.
Of course, I did not tell him that. What he has overlooked is that his son may not make a fortune, but certainly his talents, whatever they are going to be, will be welcomed by many.


Just a quick update to announce that the winner of Carla's new book Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon is Vanessa R!
Congratulations, Vanessa! And a BIG thank you to all who entered. We're planning more great giveaways in 2019, so stay tuned. I'll be posting about the next one in February.
Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season. Our regular posts will resume Friday, January 11.
Till then, remember to Write with Joy!
This week's post is a follow up from last week. In that post, I was looking forward to the release of Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon on December 18. At last the book is officially available for purchase. Yipppeee!
TODAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018, IS THE LAST DAY TO ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF BURIED LIVES. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ENTER AT THE END OF LAST WEEK'S POST.
But behind every page are countless backstories that no one will ever know. Sometimes those stories—not meant for the pages of the book—make what is written on the page even deeper and more meaningful.
Here in this space I'm going to share a few pics and stories that are not in the book. And some of the stories I don't have photos for. But every photo and every story are sub text in the book, even though not in the words I've carefully crafted there.
Many different people at Mount Vernon have helped me in countless ways. I don't have photos of most of them. Mary V. Thompson, the historian at Mount Vernon has always shared her vast knowledge with me with unbelievable generosity that goes beyond her "job" at Mount Vernon. She has answered hundreds of questions for me along the way. Another hero of mine at Mount Vernon is Dawn Bonner, Manager of Visual Resources who shared countless images with me as I chose just the right ones. In the end she helped me find many of the stunning images you see in the book. She too answered hundreds of questions for me about images. Thank you both from the bottom of my heart.
Here are just of few photos that make up the unseen foundation of Buried Lives.
In the laboratory with Joe Downer, Archeologist and Crew Chief for Mount Vernon's dig in the cemetery of the enslaved. Thousands of pieces of history have been found at Mount Vernon especially in the areas where the enslaved lived. Lives of people become real when you touch pieces of dishes, pipes, and pottery they used day to day. Joe has helped me in a million ways throughout this project.
I had the opportunity to work with the archeologist to dig in the cemetery. Me working the soil shaker where a 5000 year old Native American arrowhead was found. Wow. I was the second person to touch this in 5000 years!
Me working a trowel to finish uncovering one of the graves of the enslaved in the cemetery. I wrote about it on pages 126-127 of the book. It was a deeply moving experience to uncover grave #67. No one will ever know who lies buried in this unmarked grave.
Brenda Parker, who portrays Caroline (one of the people highlighted in my book) and Don Francisco (plays the fife at Mount Vernon) came to the cemetery memorial on the days I was working on the dig. Brenda -who sings like an angel-sang Amazing Grace, and Don accompanied her on the fife. I cried and cried. A day I'll never forget. Thank you dear ones for all you!
One of the wonderful things about this book is adding these two wonderful people in my life as friends. Thank you Brenda Parker and Don Francisco for your sweetness.
Having dinner with the amazing Mary V. Thompson, the historian at MV. And my new friend Zunny Matema (a descendant of Caroline in my book). Zunny wrote the forward for the book. What a wonderful circle to complete as a writer. To write about Caroline, then meet her present day descendant. What an honor!
I've done all I can to make Buried Lives the best book it can be. I've researched it, written it, revised it countless times, wept over it, and prayed over it.
At last the book is available for readers.
Here's the link to the post where you can enter the giveaway.
At last it is time to do the dance of joy and celebrate. Yippeeeeee, Hallelujah! My new book Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon(Holiday House Books) will be released in a few days-on December 18, 2018.
Released December 18. New from Holiday House. STARRED review in Booklist.
Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon.
It has been five years in the making. Now that I think about it, it has been closer to five and a half years since the first idea for this book planted itself firmly in my mind--and more importantly in my heart. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, when I take on a topic for a book, I live with the people I write about for the rest of my life.
The people from Buried Lives I'll carry with me along life's bumpy road are William Lee (Washington's valet), Christopher Sheels (the young man who took over as valet), Caroline Branham (housemaid), Peter Hardiman (Caroline's husband who ran Washington's mule breeding operation), Oney Judge (Martha Washington's lady's maid), and Hercules (chief cook at President's House in Philadelphia). Along with these six people, their families join me too. For some of them, I know their mothers, their grandmothers, their aunts, their uncles, their spouse, their sons, and their daughters.
While I'm researching and writing the book, the subjects of my book are never far from my mind. I think about them as I figure out how to bring their true-life stories to readers in a way that is accurate and entertaining. I think through the details of their experiences. I ponder over them. I put myself in their shoes so to speak-at least as much as possible. The people I write about must be real to me. If they aren't real to me, they will never feel real to my readers--even though they were real people.
I want my readers to find out what happens to the six people I highlight in my book. But that's not all—I want them to feel the hoe in Christopher's hand when he was a child. I want them to feel the cold as Caroline lights the fires in the house during the winter. I want them to smell the delicious meals Hercules cooked on the hearth. I want my readers to see them as real flesh and blood people who had every emotion we have today. And I want my readers to remember that someone else owned these six people. In this case, their master was the President of the United States.
Along the way of telling about the lives of these six individuals who were enslaved at Mount Vernon, I weave in Washington's changing views of slavery through the years. By 1799, 317 enslaved people lived at Mount Vernon. Washington owned 123 of them, he rented 41, and 153 individuals were owned by Martha's dower estate. Near the end of his life, Washington wrote a will that would freed the 123 people he owned. But neither he nor Martha could free the 153 people that were part of her estate. This sets up a devastating separation of some families after the deaths of George and Martha Washington. Readers will find out which of the six were freed and which remained enslaved.
Also part of Buried Lives is the ongoing archaeological dig in the cemetery for the enslaved people of Mount Vernon. The graves, which are unmarked, are slowly being located and counted—while none of the remains are disturbed.
In a few days, Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon will leave my protection. It will be released into the world to stand on its own. It is my hope that the book I've written will allow six, specific enslaved people from Mount Vernon to step out of the fog of history and stand in the bright light of recognition. I want my readers to like them as much as I do.
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In case you have not noticed the increase of CHP cars whether visible or hiding within San Luis Obispo County and beyond, it has gotten heavy. Obviously, this is due to the state needing money: but at what cost?
I have never experienced such aggressive and dangerous behavior when these hotfooted CHP officers are scaring and posing threats with their speeds and erratic maneuvers. More often than not, these loose-cannon pursuits endanger the lives of innocent drivers and their passengers who are in their path.


What are Yin and Yang in Chinese medicine?
The Yin-Yang theory is as old as China. It stems from the observation of nature: the perception that nothing exists without its opposite. Heaven and earth, sun and moon, day and night, cold and heat, men and women, up and down, etc. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period (771 to 476 BC ), some of the most important Chinese philosophers such as Laozi already mentioned Yin and Yang. The Yin-Yang theory has penetrated into all aspects of traditional Chinese culture, including religion, philosophy, the Chinese calendar, Chinese medicine, calligraphy, or architecture.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine specifically, Yin-Yang theory is fundamental. Chinese doctors base themselves on the theory to explain how the body works, how diseases invade it and to guide clinical diagnosis and treatment. It has become one of the basic theories in Chinese Medicine.
The initial meaning of Yin and Yang is very simple. It refers to both sides of a hill illuminated by the sun: the sunny side is Yang (陽) and the side under the shadow is Yin (陰). The ancient Chinese philosophers then applied the term to describe what they'd realized was a basic law of the universe.
The Yin-Yang theory holds that everything in the natural world includes two aspects of Yin and Yang that are at the same time mutually antagonistic and unified. For instance what would joy mean without sadness? Or cold without heat? They're antagonistic concepts but they cannot exist without each others. The Yin-Yang theory holds that the opposite movement of Yin and Yang is the root cause of the occurrence, development, change, and demise of everything in nature. The Huangdi Neijing, often considered as the Bible of Chinese Medicine, says: "Yin and Yang, the way of heaven and earth, is the discipline of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death." Therefore, the contradiction between Yin and Yang, the law of unity of opposites is the inherent law of everything in the natural world and the world itself is the result of Yin and Yang together.
Ancient Chinese doctors have widely applied the Yin-Yang theory to the medical field to illustrate the origin of human life, physiological phenomena, pathological changes, and to guide clinical diagnosis and prevention. The theory play a very profound role in the formation and development of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.
The theory is widely used to analyze the many complementary opposites that exist within the human body. In general, all things that are in movement, have an outward or up direction, are warm or bright are all Yang. On the other hand things that are relatively still, have an inward or down direction, are cold or dark are all Yin. For instance Water and Fire are seen as complementary and respectively Yin (because Water is cold and humid) and Yang (because Fire is hot and dry). The Yin-Yang appellation doesn't apply to everything: it must be applied to a pair of things that are related to each other. If the two things being analyzed are not related to each other, or are not two opposite aspects of the same element, one cannot use Yin and Yang to describe their mutual relations.
The Yin and Yang attributes are not absolute but relative. Again a concept like sadness has no meaning without joy. It only exists thanks to the existence of its opposite concept. This relativity means that under certain conditions, Yin and Yang can be transformed into each other. That is, Yin can be transformed into Yang, and vice versa. If we were to continue with the example of sadness and joy, let's imagine someone who only ever experiences joy. That person will describe milder joy as sadness because it feels sadder than extreme joy. Joy therefore becomes sadness.
Yin and Yang are mutually inductive to each others, which means that it is the very interaction between Yin and Yang that creates each others. Ancient Chinese philosophers believed that all things originate from this interaction between Yin and Yang. For example, the Book of Rites says: "The heavens and the earth and all things are born as the Yin and Yang are changed." The Yang of heaven falls, the Yin of the earth rises, and the Yin and Yang mutually induce each other, producing all things and forming rain, fog, lightning, rain, sunshine, or air. If there is was no mutually inducing movement of Yin and Yang, there would be no natural world and no life. Mutually inducing Yin and Yang is the basic condition of life.
The interaction between Yin and Yang is not immutable, there's a constant struggle to reach an equilibrium between both. For example in Chinese medicine daytime is Yang: physiological function are all running at full capacity. Nighttime, on the other hand, is Yin: the body is resting. From midnight to noon, Yang is believed to gradually swell and the body's physiological functions progressively turn from rest to excitement. In other words Yang is gradually gaining in importance over Yin. From midday to midnight, Yang gradually declines, and the body's physiological functions change from excitement to inhibition. Yin takes over.
The Yin-Yang theory states that the human body is an organic whole, filled with the unity of Yin and Yang. The upper part of the body is Yang and the lower part is Yin; the body surface is Yang and the inside of the body is Yin; the back is Yang and the front is Yin; the outer limbs are Yang, and the insides of the limbs are Yin. In terms of organs, the Zang organs (Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lungs, and Kidneys) are Yin because their functions are mainly static; the Fu organs (gall bladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, urinary bladder, triple burner) are Yang, because of their function are seen as dynamic. The meridians can also be divided into Yin and Yang.
Chinese medicine believes that the various activities of the human body are the result of the coordinated relationship between Yin and Yang that maintains unity of opposites. The body is made of substances that at the same time it create these very substances. If the Yin and Yang of the body cannot be interdependent and use each other, human life will cease.
Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of diseases is caused by the imbalance between Yin and Yang. These can be collectively referred to as "Yin and Yang disharmony". They can be generalized in the following four categories: Yin or Yang surplus, Yin or Yang deficiencies, Yin and Yang depletion, and Yin and Yang conversion.
Yin or Yang surplus refers to higher than normal Yin or Yang caused by an external pathogen or their own pathological hyperactivity. A Yang surplus could for instance result in symptoms of a very dry mouth and fever since Yang brings heat to the body.
Yin or Yang deficiencies refers to Yin or Yang levels below normal. A sign of a Yang deficiency, since Yang is heat, could for instance the feeling of being constantly cold.
Yin and Yang depletion refers to cases where both Yin and Yang are deficient and the fundamental relationship between both is broken.
Yin and Yang conversion refers to phenomenons where Yin and Yang are transformed into each other.
Since Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the cause of diseases is Yin-Yang disorders, any disease, no matter how complex or varied its condition, can be diagnosed using the Yin-Yang theory. A Chinese doctor's first goal always is to diagnose a patient's current balance of Yin and Yang. In determining appropriate treatments, Chinese medicine is also guided by Yin-Yang theory. For example, for a patient suffering from excessive heat due to a Yin deficiency, a Chinese doctor will prescribe Yin medicine to make up for deficiency. Or in the case of a Yin and Yang depletion, it is necessary to make up for both Yin and Yang. The Yin and Yang theory can also be used to summarize the taste of traditional Chinese medicine and to guide clinical use. In general cold medicine is Yin while hot medicine is Yang. What tastes acid, bitter, salty is Yin while ingredients that are spicy and sweet are Yang. The principles of a treatment are determined according to the Yin and Yang nature of the disease, and medications are determined based on the Yin and Yang attributes of the drugs.
Is there any scientific basis to the Yin-Yang theory? Scientific are progressively realizing that the concept is not too detached from physiological reality.
For instance Professor Earl Sutherland described the antagonistic actions of cAMP and cGMP in regulating cellular function in a fashion similar to the Yin-Yang concept, and this earned him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971.
Similarly in neuroscience, the Yin-Yang phenomenon is exemplified by the long-known antagonizing relationship between parasympathetic and sympathetic neural activities in the body. A recent psycho-physiological investigation in human subjects has revealed an association of decreased parasympathetic and sympathetic activities with deficiencies of Yin and Yang, respectively, in the body.
Lastly the laboratory of Professor Robert Ko at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology has investigated the opposing relationship between antioxidation and oxidation in the cell. They've found out that in a healthy cell, Yin and Yang activities are in balance. However when Yang activities are higher than those of Yin, cellular oxidative stress is increased. Furthermore they've proven that Yang-tonifying herbs can activate energy metabolism and increase ATP production in the cell, whereas Yin tonifying herbs can produce an immuno-modulatory action. Their conclusion is that the actions produced by Chinese Medicine herbs can help preserve mitochondrial structural and functional integrity and maintain immune competence in the body, thereby retarding the aging process.
The yin and yang of cardiac autonomic control: vagosympathetic interactions revisited. Paton JF, Boscan P, Pickering AE, Nalivaiko E. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 2005;49:555–565.
The application of yin-yang concept on heart rate variability patterns in menopausal women with insomnia. Yen-ying Kung (龔彥穎), Cheryl C. H. Yang (楊靜修), Jen-hwey Chiu (邱仁輝), Terry B. J. Kuo (郭博昭). Chin J Integr Med. 2016 Jun 29.


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Le Bon Dieu sans confession est un film français réalisé par Claude Autant-Lara, sorti en 1953. Il a été présenté dans la sélection officielle du Festival de Venise (1953).

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Lors des funérailles de M. Dupont, plusieurs personnes suivent le convoi funèbre, chacun plongé dans ses souvenirs du défunt. Il y a sa femme Marie, ses enfants Paul et Denise, son associé Varesco et Janine Frejoul, sa maîtresse qu'il a passionnément aimée. Dès leur première rencontre, avant la guerre, Janine au visage d'ange s'est moquée de lui. Elle lui a joué la comédie de l'amour en profitant de ses largesses. Dupont, aveuglé par sa passion, la couvre de cadeaux, règle ses dettes, entretient sa propriété, rachète ses chevaux… Alors que Janine, tout en comblant Dupont de promesses, ne pense qu'à son mari, Maurice, évadé d'un Stalag, qu'elle cache pendant la guerre. Le machiavélisme de Janine ne s'arrêtera pas là. Elle sera l'instigatrice d'une sombre affaire de dénonciation menée pendant la guerre ainsi qu'à la libération mêlant Dupont contre Varesco. Manigances qui finiront par venir à bout du brave Dupont qui meurt d'une crise cardiaque. Janine, abandonnée par son mari écœuré de ses agissements, se retrouve seule derrière le cortège.

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 Titre : Le Bon Dieu sans confession
 Réalisation : Claude Autant-Lara
 Scénario : Claude Autant-Lara, Ghislaine Auboin et Roland Laudenbach d'après le roman M. Dupont est mort de Paul Vialar
 Dialogue : Ghislaine Auboin
 Décors : Max Douy
 Costumes : Germaine Lecomte et Monique Plotin
 Photographie : André Bac
 Son : Robert Biard
 Montage : Madeleine Gug
 Musique : René Cloërec
 Production : Joseph Bercholz
 Société de production : Les Films Gibé
 Distribution : Pathé
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 Langue : français
 Format : Noir et blanc - 35 mm - 1,37:1 - Son mono
 Genre : Comédie dramatique
 Durée : 105 minutes
 Date de sortie : France -

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 Danielle Darrieux : Janine Frejoul
 Henri Vilbert : François Dupont
 Myno Burney : Marie Dupont
 Claude Laydu : Roland Dupont
 Ivan Desny : Maurice Frejoul
 Grégoire Aslan : Varesco
 Julien Carette : Eugène
 Isabelle Pia : Denise Dupont
 Michel Le Royer : le fiancé de Denise Dupont
 Georges Bever : Albert, le domestique
 Claude Berri : Thierry
 Jean Dunot : Marfoisse
 Jo Dest : Weber
 Marie-Chantal Fefert : Denise
 Michel Dumur : Roland
 Madeleine Suffel : la marchande de quatre saisons
 Madeleine Damien
 Marcelle Féry : la concierge

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Cinémonde, , 21 août 1953,
 Bernard Chardère, Positif, , septembre 1953,

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 1953
Comédie dramatique française
Adaptation d'un roman français au cinéma
Film de Pathé
Film français en noir et blanc
Film réalisé par Claude Autant-Lara


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THE first of a series of workshops aimed at to exploring ways to increase offsite construction of affordable homes in Scotland was launched recently.
The Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) at Hamilton International Technology Park was the venue for the event, opened by the Scottish Government's housing minister, Kevin Stewart MSP.
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The workshops are part of a wider collaborative project to investigate increasing offsite construction in housing, particularly in the affordable sector.
The collaboration between CSIC, the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise, which commenced in October last year, aims to provide recommendations to the Government and the affordable housing sector to help influence future policy.
The project has been supported by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, Offsite Solutions Scotland, Homes for Scotland, ALACHO and COSLA via a steering panel who have provided guidance throughout the project.
Phase 1 identified the challenges, issues and barriers that the affordable housing sector faces, and assessed the ability of the offsite industry to meet these challenges.
The second phase examined the current and future capacity of the offsite industry through mapping existing companies, their capabilities and their development plans.
Phases 1 and 2 have been led by teams from Edinburgh Napier University.
The workshops form part of Phase 3, which will see stakeholders working together to co-design and test possible solutions.
Led by the Innovation School at the Glasgow School of Art, the workshops will bring together perspectives from across the affordable housing sector, from procurement to design and build and delivery.
They will explore the innovation challenge and opportunity around offsite, looking in detail at the areas of funding, procurement, culture, perceptions, design, performance, resources and skills.
Housing Minister Kevin Stewart said, "Everyone deserves a safe, warm, affordable place to call home. I believe that greater use of offsite construction could help modernise the way we deliver affordable homes. I am pleased to see people from all disciplines working together to maximise the opportunities available to the sector."
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Ieraca è considerato uno dei primi organizzatori di comunità cenobitiche in Egitto. Secondo Epifanio di Salamina (Panarion, LXVII), che è la nostra fonte principale per ricostruire la sua vita, Ieraca nacque a Leontopoli verso la fine del III secolo. Discepolo di Origene, medico di formazione e buon conoscitore del greco e del copto, Ieraca avrebbe scritto commentari in greco e copto a libri dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Asceta di severo rigore, Ieraca indicava nella continenza l'innovazione fondamentale della nuova economia di salvezza inaugurata da Gesù. Ieraca si pose a capo di una comunità urbana di uomini e donne (gli Ieraciti). Il suo movimento, refrattario al controllo istituzionale, fu condannato dall'autorità ecclesiastica e incluso fra le eresie schedate nel Panarion di Epifanio di Salamina. Ieraca sarebbe morto nella seconda metà del sec. IV.

Bibliografia

 Adolf von Harnack, in Realenzyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, VII, pp. 38-39;
 Prosper Alfaric, Les écritures manichéennes, Parigi 1918, passim;
 Franz Cumont, in Revue d'histoire et de littérature religieuses, 1910, p. 35;
 Ernesto Buonaiuti, L'ascetismo cristiano, Pinerolo 1928, pp. 167-168;
 Karl Holl, ed. di Epifanio, III, i, Berlino 1931, pp. 132-140.

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Participants will run from Titusville to Tarpon Springs via Florida's growing coast to coast connector project
VERO BEACH, FL, May 07, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ — Genesis Adventures is pleased to announce the inaugural Florida Coast 2 Coast Relay that will take place on May 11-12. Teams of 6 or 12 runners will start on Friday, May 11th at Sand Point Park in Titusville, FL and make their way across the state to the finish at Fred Howard Park in Tarpon Springs, FL on Saturday, May 12th. The route will primarily follow the Florida Coast to Coast Trail.
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Home/Film/DVD Review: Star Trek – Motion Picture Trilogy
Worth owning, but not double-dipping.
DVD Review: Star Trek – Motion Picture Trilogy
Gordon S. Miller May 22, 2009	1 Comment 46 Views
Tying in with the release of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Paramount is offering a number of home-video Trek products. One of them is the Motion Picture Trilogy DVD collection that offers Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in digitally remastered editions with all-new special features.
The Wrath of Khan, directed by Nicholas Meyer, who also performed an uncredited rewrite of the script, is a sequel to the original series episode "Space Seed," which ended with Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) and his people being marooned on Ceti Alpha V. They escape the planet by commandeering a science expedition looking for an uninhabited planet to test the terraforming Genesis Device, and Khan strives to exact revenge against his former rival Kirk (William Shatner), an obsession that mirrors Captain Ahab's obsession with the whale Moby Dick.
Wrath remains the best film of the Trek franchise to date. Not only is the story filled with intrigue, humor, and emotion, but it also takes into account the hero Kirk has aged, making his character more human, more believable, and in turn more heroic. The effects and execution of the space battles are exciting. James Horner's score is also evocative and masterful.
The Search for Spock finds the Enterprise crew returning to the newly formed Genesis planet, against Starfleet Command's orders, to reunite Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) body and katra (essence) and return them to Vulcan at the request of Spock's father, Sarek (Mark Lenard). However, the presumed lifeless body won't be as they expect it because the properties of the Genesis Device have caused Spock to be reborn and age at an accelerated rate. Another complication arises as Klingon Commander Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) learns of the Genesis Device and wants to use it as a weapon.
Directed by Nimoy, Search is a fun adventure that continues the franchise, which had to be expected with the success of Wrath. However, it unfortunately diminishes the value of Spock's sacrifice in the previous film, which was allegedly the reason Nimoy returned to the role. However, in part due to Nimoy enjoying the filming experience and wanting to continue it and because of test-audience reactions to the character's death, Spock placed his katra within Dr. McCoy before dying.
While the stories of Wrath and Search mesh together, The Voyage Home, also directed by Nimoy, only creates a trilogy in a marketing sense because its story isn't dependent on the two previous films. That's not to say the film, which plays like a comedy, isn't enjoyable in its own right.
The fugitive Enterprise crew decides to leave Vulcan to face the consequences of Starfleet. Meanwhile, a large alien object has taken orbit around Earth. It sends out an unidentifiable signal and begins to disrupt the planet. As the Enterprise crew approaches, Spock is able to identify the signal as a whale song, but the species has gone extinct years ago. A plan is devised to go back in time to the late 20th century and retrieve a whale. They make it to 1986, the year the film was released, but matters are complicated because the engines no longer have enough power to return them to the future.
Each DVD annoyingly starts with the new Star Trek trailer before the menu. Although each film has already been previously released in two-disc collector's editions, they are now being re-released on a single disc with new features.
Each has a new commentary track. Director Meyer and Enterprise executive producer Manny Coto discuss Wrath. An odd decision finds the commentaries on the other discs given by people associated with the Trek franchise, but not the films they are watching. Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor, who worked together on Deep Space Nine and Voyager, talk about Search while writers of the new movie, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, comment on Voyage.
Some features cover the original series Trek film franchise. Search has "Industrial Light & Magic: The Visual Effects" which covers how the effects for a number of the films were created, and "Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame" has producer/writer Harve Bennett talking about his role in the franchise. Voyage has "The Three-Picture Saga" explaining how the trilogy evolved.
Complete wastes of time are the "Starfleet Academy Scisec Briefs." They run a few minutes and purport to be video briefings about items encountered in the films. Can't see why anyone would have thought they were a good idea. Another pointless feature is "Collecting Movie Relics" on Wrath that looks at props throughout the movies in the collection of a few collectors and at a museum.
Other features are specific to the films they are matched with. On Wrath, "James Horner: Composing Genesis" is an interview that talks about his work. "A Tribute to Ricardo Montaban" has Meyer reflecting about the late actor. On Search, "Spock: The Early Years" showcases actor Stephen Manley who played Spock at 17. He talks about the film and doing conventions (and attendees) since 2005. On Voyage "Pavel Chekov's Screen Moments" has actor Walter Koenig talking about his role in the movie. "Star Trek for a Cause" shows Greenpeace representatives talking about whaling.
Star Trek – Motion Picture Trilogy is a good addition to a film library. Although for those who already own them, the extras aren't near enough to warrant replacements of the previous Collector's Editions.
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Great Britain Won Home Most Inspiration Coin Category at 2021 COTY Awards
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The Royal Mint of Great Britain won the Most Inspirational Coin category at the 2021 Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards. The winning coin, "Innovation in Science: Stephen Hawking," is the first in a series celebrating innovators in science.
The first coin in the series, dated 2019, honors renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. He is one of only three people commemorated on a British coin within a year of dying, joined by Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. As described by the Royal Mint:
A brilliant physicist, Stephen Hawking had a gift for making the complex relatable. Thanks to his keen mind and infectious enthusiasm, a whole new audience grappled with the fundamentals of time and space. As we start an exciting new series celebrating innovators in science, it's only fitting that the first coin features the most famous British scientist of modern times.
According to designer Edwina Ellis, the black hole design featured on the reverse was inspired by a lecture Hawking gave in Chile in 2008. "Hawking, at his playful best, invites the audience to contemplate peering into a black hole before diving in," Ellis explained. "I wanted to fit a big black hole on the tiny coin and wish he was still here chortling at the thought. I am sure he would have thought of ways to harness the shiny table of the coin too. You feel he cared about all of us understanding."
In addition to the stylized black hole, the reverse also includes the inscription "Stephen Hawking" and the Bekenstein-Hawking formula, which describes the thermodynamic entropy of a black hole.
The obverse of the coin features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, as designed by Jody Clark. It includes the lettering ELIZABETH II·D·G·REG·F·D, as well as the year (2019) and denomination (50 Pence).
The brilliant uncirculated coin weighs 8.0 grams and measures 27.30mm in diameter
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