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Trish Clark Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Marie Shannon, her first in Auckland since 2011, to coincide with both the 2018 Auckland Festival of Photography and her survey exhibition Rooms found only in the home currently at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. Shannon's survey exhibition was developed and presented by Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 2017 and tours to Auckland in 2019. Developed from DPAG's holdings of the artist's work and her personal archive, the exhibition brought together the history and current concerns of this important artist.
Short Stories elucidates her importance within contemporary New Zealand art history, marking a departure for Shannon in bringing together a body of moving image works developed over the past eight years, including three new short videos.
Shannon represented New Zealand in 1996 at the Asia Pacific Triennale held at Queensland Art Gallery, and also exhibited that year in Sydney at the Australian Centre for Photography. Two years later Shannon showed at the Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. In 2000 her work was included in the exhibition Fissures, shown at ACProjects, New York, curated by Connie Butler as part of the series, Five Shows, Five Curators.
Auckland-based artist Marie Shannon has been creating delicately intimate, witty and thoughtful works for over thirty years. While the domestic has remained her primary concern, her work has also addressed the artwork of others as a way to investigate the creative process. Since the death of her partner, artist Julian Dashper, in 2009, Shannon has been cataloguing his works and archive in their shared Auckland studio. From this lengthy process she has gathered the material for her text-based video works and related photographs. Her desire to use text in a visual, as well as a narrative context, stems from an interest in the conventions of text titles and credits in movies.
Working with photography as her principal medium, Shannon's practice also incorporates drawing and video. Her use of a large-format camera and her own hand-printing results in sharp, finely detailed silver gelatin prints, variously toned with sepia, selenium and gold. Shannon is interested in the narrative or poetic resonance of the single object, "using photography to display, or show something and to ask the viewer to pay particular attention to it."
Link to artist's page→
Link to review of touring survey show at Adam Art Gallery→
Link to Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn Artists in Conversation podcast→
Link to Marie Shannon in conversation with Federico Monsalve at Urbis Magazine→
Link to 'Short Stories' in 'The Unmissables: Four Exhibitions to see in July' on The Pantograph Punch→
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video still from Car Stories, 2018
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Wrapped Photograph (Bedroom at Aachen, Julian Dashper, 1995), 2012
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New Zealand's funniest art video, 1994
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"Variant" is how in conversion rate optimization one refers to any test group in an online controlled experiment. A variant usually denotes a particular treatment option being tested on a group whose members have been chosen by a randomizer.


The extraordinary National Writing Project has done it again and is offering a too-good-to-pass-up online writing opportunity to students.
NWP is getting ready to launch a new youth publishing opportunity connected to the PBS documentary American Creed (broadcast nationally February 27 and streaming free of charge starting February 28 at www.pbs.org/americancreed). Through stories set in big cities, small towns, and rural areas around the country, American Creed wrestles with key challenges facing American youth today, including creating economic opportunity and finding ways to meaningfully participate in civic life. The film encourages youth to explore questions like "What should America's national ideals be?" and "How do we close the gap between ideals and reality?" American Creed is co-produced by Citizen Film and WTTW.
You and the youth you work with are invited to add your voice to the conversation about American Creed. Bring the film to your classroom or learning center, and support young people in responding through writing, art, and media. Teens (13+) and young adults are invited to share their responses on the National Writing Project's American Creed youth publishing site (also coming February 27).


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This work is undergoing major changes from an old state which used lots of Python 2 from the [mi-instrument package](https://github.com/oceanobservatories/mi-instrument) to a new state which uses Python 3. Please check back in Nov 2018 for a cleaner and more functional repo.

To create a conda environment for this project:

`conda env create -f environment.yml -n py3-sonar`

To make an ipython kernel hook, use:

`python -m ipykernel install --user --name py3-sonar`

To activate the environment run:

`source activate py3-sonar`

To run the notebooks run:
```shell
$ cd notebooks
$ jupyter notebook
```
and navigate to the notebooks of interest.

In the notebooks you will have to change the paths to where you have downloaded the dataset.

Once you are finished, to return to the base environment:

`source deactivate`.

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Forest, during a Facebook Live he hosted on Wednesday, commended the "great job" the General Assembly has done drawing maps.
The Lieutenant Governor of NC doesn't have a lot to do under the state's Constitution. The few formal constitutional duties assigned include serving as President of the Senate and on the Council of State.
Despite this, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has been busy this year traveling the state from the mountains to the coast. He also hasn't missed opportunities to leave the state, even if they interfere with his few Constitutional duties.
Today, Dan Forest was again absent from the meeting of the Council of State. Forest had to be called in for the October meeting, but this morning, his voice was conspicuously absent from the phone.
"We are sixth in the nation for state funding for education." That's what Lt. Gov. Dan Forest told a gathering of local Republicans on Friday. It's not the first time Forest has made this debunked claim, but what's really out of touch is where he said it.
Forest lauded state education spending while speaking in Onslow County, a county that is falling behind in statewide per pupil spending.
Over the past four years, Onslow County has consistently received less money than the average from the state per pupil. In the 2015-2016 school year, the average per pupil state spending was $5724.21, but Onslow County Schools only received $5,247.34. During this same year, Onslow County ranked 110th out of 115 NC Local Education Agencies, or LEAs, in state funding per pupil.
Where in the world is Dan Forest?
North Carolina's Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has been noticeably absent from several key events in the state so far in 2017.
The NC Senate debated the budget on May 11 from about 4 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. They came back into session for the third reading at 12:05 a.m. on May 12. Forest, who's role as Lt. Gov. makes him President of the Senate, did not preside over either session. Instead Forest was presiding over an empty chamber in the Utah Senate.
He may be the first Republican to openly talk about a 2020 bid for Governor, but he won't be the last.


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He nailed it. The names he mentions are the only ones the media notices and they love them. I can only see a handful in the south or midwest voting for democrats for another generation. The democrat and 'progressives' love for antifa and the rest of the hate crime in this country pretty much poisoned the well.
I'd say too bad but then, I don't like them, I don't like their policy, I don't like their economic suicide plans and I just don't much care for them personally. It says just about everything about a culture when the most rabid losers all swarm into cities built by other people, take them over, run them into the ground, steal the pensions of the city workers and then leave town claiming victory and run for President.
What I like about this president as with Reagan is the glib and intelligent way they can speak candidly on a dime. I think obama went 3 or 4 years without holding a single press conference because he is about as smart as a brick. Trump wades into them, levies broadsides, strolls out of them and we have such a polluted media culture that all they can do is carp about what he didn't say.
Brig July 16, 2019 at 4:45 PM
I'm in full agreement with you.
SCOTTtheBADGER July 17, 2019 at 2:09 AM
As am I!
Alas, because of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN is lost to the Democrats.
capt fast July 17, 2019 at 2:07 PM
I had been reading some of the commentary(not their media) coming out of Norway(of all places) on how they have effectively dealt with their versions of "antifa" some years ago. quite interesting. Not that they took them down to the fjord for a swim, though many may have had the desire, but used instead existing laws and "laughing" at them. interesting reads. with our media and the proclivity of our socialist politicians and judges to "look the other way", I believe we would not be able to emulate their success.
HMS Defiant July 17, 2019 at 10:21 PM
About a week after my little sister and her family moved to Oslo, they had the thing. Anders Behring Breivik blew up some government office and then went out to where the little socialists were all learning how to be communists and steal everything and he shot an awful lot of them.
What Norwegians got was a very sudden and deadly wake up call. We got one almost exactly like it on 9/11.
You really have to keep your boot on the neck of the crazy ones.
Crazy doesn't neccessarily mean that they're wrong. You have to know history. Quite a few people are still out of sorts that MacArther didn't push the war crimes trials in Japan after the win. I think only a tiny handful remember today that we firebombed Tokyo and other places and nuked 2 cities where we basically did what the bad guys did but on a massive scale. I would have found it a little tough to sit on any Court in judgement in spite of the crimes they did.
Mike_C July 17, 2019 at 10:58 PM
I'm not sure that war crimes trials would have been the best thing to do in post-war Japan, but that said, I would not have found it tough. We did not run a Unit 731. Firebombing (or nuking for that matter) or not, we did not rape, torture, and murder civilians on a grand scale in the cities we destroyed. We did not Bataan Death March our POWs.
So although we were hardly Simon-pure, I do not see any sort of moral equivalence between the leadership of WW2-era US (much as I despise FDR) and that of Imperial Japan.
HMS Defiant July 18, 2019 at 3:59 PM
I think the differences kind of faded away. When you say we didn't rape, torture, murder this is true. Most of the guys that did that to died and most of the other ones came home to Japan to find that we'd taken care of that. We did it to Germany but we really did it to Japan.
I lost a daughter to lawfare 12 years ago. I think I kind of understand the punishment the survivors went through when they finally made it home only to find that we'd bombed and incinerated their cities. All of them.
As I read the histories, see the "film" and hear the testimony of the survivors of the Asia and pacific war, I conclude that it was very close to what we called "total war"-an eradication of an enemies base of supply of material, troops, morale, and homeland that would make the Roman treatment of Carthage look positively benign. Certain of the Japanese leadership, civil and military, did get tried for war crimes; some lower level leaders sadly were not and I am talking about Unit 731 in particular. Post WW2 political expediency is an embarrassing fact of life across many national boundaries and political divisions. I have never felt that the German People paid as high a price as the Japanese People paid and that neither Peoples paid enough of a price for following their leaders into such an abattoir of "peace through other means". I spent part of my childhood in Bavaria after WW2. The realities of war on the continent were still very visible in the land and the people. The hysteria over whether the catastrophe for the people of Europe and Russia really occurred is, for me at least overshadowed by the utterly wanton slaughter practiced by the Japanese in Asia-80,000,000 Chinese dead and only known to God how many others-by a people who in their hearts think that saying "sorry, my bad" will make it all better today. China's rulers have an institutional memory that will not go away and they would love for Japan to come to proper terms with them. China is busy isolating Japan from the rest of Asia and is working to isolate Japan from the rest of the world. but enough of that.
I just read President Trump's message about Rep. Omar going to Somalia and fixing the place and then come tell us how to do it. He never did say she should just go back where she came from. There is a thought in that. Damn shame the media missed it and concentrated on "hate Trump" in all things. But then, whats new?
Oddly enough, my older sister and I were born in Bavaria. I mentioned this at a dinner party with our hosts considerably older than me and the hostess was shocked. I had to explain that I was a child of the US Army of Occupation still in Bavaria 14 years after the war at which point we became friends again. I don't think her family made it out before the dark. My host made it as a lad to London for the Blitz with his parents but likewise, I don't think many of his family made it out either.
After writing that I am struck by what Halsey said after Pearl Harbor and I think he was sincere. When we are done Japanese will be a language only spoken in Hell. We were not left to ourselves to wage genocide, thank God. I had to stop for a second and then had a thought, what would a book written about the repopulation of Japan after the war look like? I imagine Chinese or Korean but interesting idea.
Unit 731 should have been exterminated and every person who knew about it but without trial. No need to drag all the panoply of the law into a simple matter like getting rid of them but then the undermen came and...
China is like what Egypt was a couple thousand years ago. They're willing to play the long game and from the replacement rates for Japanese women having children, in about 59 years Japan will have depopulated itself unless they get another Togo.
capt fast July 26, 2019 at 1:56 AM
what do you see a a result of the long simmering desire of the Chinese to regain Siberia? Numbers of Russian troops on the frontier is still huge. I think the Chinese are content to wait a bit until the criminals running Russia grow bored and just leave or perhaps the Chinese will just start taking very small bites. I see right now they are busy doing a bit of social engineering with the uyghurs peoples in a manner similar to Stalin.
I have heard and read that war crimes trials are never about justice; just establishing what happened for future histories. slitting throats of those who deserve throat slitting is a benefit not often applied.
speaking of throats needing slitting, I hear USDOJ is starting executions again. doing them behind a curtain is a fail. If done in the name of the people, have the courage to do it in the public eye. you don't have to watch, but you should.
HMS Defiant July 29, 2019 at 1:06 AM
I would agree with the nibble strategy but Mao tried that and it really boils down to
sneaking across the Amur. I wouldn't be surprised if every single tank Russia ever had that isn't in front line service anymore is hull down on the other side of the river with really good overhead protection although I don't the chinese have SADARM but they probably have Hellfire which they stole from us. I'd have to be an intel geek to know what kind of killer air defense the Russians have planted along the frontier but with ranges over 200 miles it should be fairly safe from most attacks and the Russians know all about ARMs so I'm sure they have reduntant radars. The problems are many but the Russians are running out of Russians and there is no shortage of Chinese. If there was a crossing I suspect it would be an all out bid to reach a phase line or objecte and then stop to 'negotiate' before Putin sends an ICBM to Shanghai. I'd say Peking but he has to be able to negotiate with someone who can sense the inevitability of nuclear war if the Chinese don't pull back.
I think the Japanese will do much the same thing come the day. Do I think the Japanese have nukes? Hell yeah!
My God, if the snowflakes are triggered into hysteria by a mural of George Washington crossing a river they'd just die in droves if somebody told them CNN is showing the executions live. Maybe we should tell them that anyway even if it isn't true..... hmmmm.
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Q: Regex matches in regexpal but not in javascript? I am trying to find a regex that will work for validating URLs.  I found this guy:
^(http|ftp|https)://[\w-]+(\.[\w-]+)+([\w.,@?^=%&:/~+#-]*[\w@?^=%&/~+#-])?$

Which worked pretty well when I tested it using regexpal, but when I actually plug it into my javascript it fails to match.  Fiddle here.
I am testing against this URL:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/SomeShow/Podcasts/HouroneofWhatever234.mp3
Can anyone see why it would match in regexpal, but not when I try to use it in my javascript?

A: Use a regex literal:
/^(http|ftp|https):\/\/[\w-]+...$/

(you also have to escape the slashes to prevent the them to be interpreted as ending regex terminal symbol)
If you use a string, you have to escape every backslash, because the backslash is the escape characters in strings as well.
new RegExp("^(http|ftp|https)://[\\w-]+...$")

In your current expression, "[\w-]+" will turn to [w]+ because \w is not a valid escape sequence in strings.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions#Creating_a_Regular_Expression

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Adebola Williams, Edmund Olotu Embark On The Mavericks Challenge With Glenfiddich Nigeria
By Editor 31 December 2019 | 3:46 pm
Earlier in the year, Glenfiddich tapped media entrepreneur Adebola Williams, and Tech entrepreneur Edmund Olotu for the "Challengers Welcome" campaign. Both entrepreneurs are extremely accomplished and are considered true mavericks of their generation.
Both Adebola and Edmund showcase maverick figures who have successfully challenged the norm to drive change and have forged new paths for themselves and for others to follow.
Adebola Williams is a pioneer at the intersection of media, democracy and social change. Adebola co-founded Enough is Enough (EiE), one of Nigeria's foremost civic participation groups and a voice for young people on politics.
Adebola is one of the most recognisable young leaders on the continent carrying the message of enterprise
and leadership to inspire hope and faith from Africa to the world. He has been named by the UN as one of the 100 Most Influential People of African descent and profiled by Forbes as the man who helped three Presidents win elections consecutively in Africa.
Edmund Olotu has founded and financed several Technology companies in Nigeria and the USA. In January 2019, his company Tech Advance was included in the London Stock Exchange "100 Companies that Inspire Africa Report".
Edmund has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering with Business from Manchester University, a master's degree in Science and Technology entrepreneurship with distinction from Nottingham University Business School and a Master's degree in Management Finance and Control from Harvard University.
Adebola's challenge included a 7-day trip across Africa, travelling from the West, to the North, East and South, while experiencing the culture and embarking on various challenging activities in each of the countries he went to.
While Edmund's challenge included an intense diving experience on Bat Island, Costa Rica, fighting his fear of drowning.
As one of the leading whisky brands in the world, and the world's most awarded single malt whisky, Glenfiddich never follows where the path leads, but instead where there is no path and they leave a tail for others to follow.
William Grant the man behind Glenfiddich, created a legacy we all have the privilege of enjoying today. In the 1880s William Grant quit his job to fulfill his dream of making the best dram in the valley. Like a true Maverick, he broke norms; for over 129yrs, Glenfiddich has lived on its own terms, setting its own standards, so much so, it set a new standard in Scotch and created the FIRST SINGLE MALT CATEGORY.
The True definition of a Challenger.
Five generations later, Glenfiddich still celebrate his passion and strive to bring together all those who have or dream to Challenge and change the world.
The challengers welcome campaign encourages consumers to be true Mavericks, forge their own paths by creating their own rulebook to 'CHALLENGE' the norm.


A fun printable to help bring more joy during the Elf season! These Elf on the Shelf Mission Impossible Envelopes and Cards are super fun and a great way to help encourage service during the Holidays!
We are so excited to share these cards with you today. They are secret missions for your kids from their Elf. No Peeking Parents!
You can also download the Mission Impossible cards that fit right into the envelopes. We have both completed cards and blank cards, so you can create your own missions or use our 9 missions cards that are all ready for you.
Enjoy! They are for personal use only only. You many not sell or distribute these in any way.
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Thank you for sharing these adorable cards! I am having trouble opening them. After the zip downloads, my computer doesn't seem to know what to use to open them. Any advice?
You may need to download a unzip program. Then when you double click on the downloaded zip file it will extract the PDF's. Hope that helps! Merry Christmas!
I had a thought, could you make the cards without any writing on them so we can write things on them? For example my kids keep asking him questions and would like to answer them on the same stationary.
The download only includes the envelopes. Is there another link for the card template?
Have a question for you. I paid for the download last December. I didn't get around to saving it to my desktop. And when I went back to try downloading it on my PayPal invoice, it's invalid.
Can you please email me to help?
Hey Stephanie! I found your order using your email and I just had it resend the confirmation email with the download link! Email me at pam(@)overthebigmoon.com if you need further help! Thanks so much!
What a fun idea, I love it!!!
Great job! My elf brought mission cards this morning. They were a big hit!


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If you decide to make plans about funeral arrangements in advance, either for yourself or a loved one, you'll have choices of several types of dispositions and ceremonies. Unless a deceased person has indicated his or her desires, you will have to choose how the remains will be disposed of: burial, entombment, or cremation. You may wish to consult with your religious leader. The type of disposition you choose will affect the cost.
The Funeral Rule is the FTC's trade regulation rule concerning funeral industry practices and has been in effect since April 30, 1984. This rule, which is a trade regulation rule for the funeral industry, enables you to get cost and other information about funeral arrangements both over the telephone and in person. It makes it easier for you to select only those goods and services you want or need and to pay for only those you select.
The Funeral Rule requires that the funeral provider gives you a Statement of Funerals and Services Selected after you select the funeral goods and services you would like. The statement shows the prices of the individual items you are considering for purchase, as well as the total price. It also requires providers to give you the cost of individual items over the telephone or, if when you inquire in person about funeral arrangements, the funeral home will give you a written price list of the goods and services available.
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Q: OAuth with multiple youtube accounts I am writing a Windows desktop application that uploads video to youtube.  I am using the code below.
           UserCredential credential;
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      using (var stream = new FileStream("client_secrets.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
      {

            // dependent on the client_secrets.json file
        credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
            GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
            // This OAuth 2.0 access scope allows an application to upload files to the
            // authenticated user's YouTube channel, but doesn't allow other types of access.
            new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeUpload },
            "user",
            CancellationToken.None
        );
      }*/

      ClientSecrets clientSecret = new ClientSecrets();
      clientSecret.ClientId = "xxx.apps.googleusercontent.com";
      clientSecret.ClientSecret = "yyyyyy";
      credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
          clientSecret,
          new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeUpload },
          "user",
          CancellationToken.None);

What I have not been able to determine is how to switch between different youtube accounts.  I have more than one youtube account and would like to use them for different scenarios within the desktop application.
When I originally used the commented out snippet of code, it used the json file for the user credentials - but that is static information.  I then changed the code to what you see above - but intend to change the code to use different values for  ClientSecret to select the corresponding youtube account.
The first time I ran the application, it prompts me to select which google/youtube account to use - and works correctly - but I do not know how to switch to different accounts in code.  I have read through the google api on this, but cannot determine how to do this.  I have tried not providing a ClientSecret, but then get an exception that no ClientSecret was provided, which makes sense.


This month is a little wonky: since we're two different people, and we each want to talk about our own favorites, we're doing two books per post this month. In the future it will just be one, so don't get used to this bounty.
All links go to Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA, because we're sticking to our roots this month.
I liked to follow Eloise's circuitous stair-and-elevator journey with a purple marker.
Here's the thing about Eloise: mostly she just wants to play. As an adult I recognize that that kid is super annoying, but back then, she looked like me: just a kind of weirdly shaped kid who lived in a neighborhood without any other kids, and she wanted to play. I was talking with a friend this morning about how as a child I was obsessed with the idea of finding neighbor friends. It just seemed so wonderful to be able to go down the street and hang out and, I don't know, play kick the can or something (I have no idea what kick the can is, it's just a thing I heard on Nickelodeon).
Eloise ALSO just wanted someone to hang out with. Although I think she'd probably be more likely to play kick the bellhop, because seriously, that kid is super annoying.
Serena: Elmer and the Dragon was the first chapter book I ever read. And by "read" I mean listened to my father reading. I can't remember exactly when I learned to read—in fact, I can't remember anything about the process, really—but I'm completely confident I wasn't up for reading Elmer at age five. Didn't stop me from loving it, though. The whimsical story of a boy and his baby dragon, not to mention the simple yet perfect illustrations, stuck in my head so completely that I spent the next several months pretending I had my own dragon and shaping versions of him out of everything from modeling clay to soap suds.
I'm not quite sure why my parents chose Elmer and the Dragon (the second in the series, oddly enough) as my first chapter book. It was pretty dated even then. But whatever. The sheer charm of those books is ageless. Or at least it was for me. By five years old, I already loved books—my parent's fabulous taste in picture books had taken care of that—but Elmer and his baby dragon showed me what it was to be desperately attached to a book's characters, to care what happens to them, to want them to be a part of my real (much more boring) life.
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Friday kicked off the biggest blizzard of the year. (That would be more impressive if it weren't just the first week in January.) It was cold and windy and snowy. Wind chill in the negative digits. Our city had a parking ban. And the weatherman on TV made it clear that any child who so much as thought about sledding would immediately be stricken with frost bite.
Bottom line: We. Were. Stuck. Inside.
But before I describe how my husband and I braved the storm (by which I mean, a full day inside the house with two small children who had already spent a tremendous amount of time inside during the holiday break), let me back up for a moment. And tell you about Thursday. The day before the storm. The day to prepare. For me, this meant a frenzied last minute trip to the grocery store. As usual, it was packed. Because around here, whenever snow is forecast, people have flashbacks to the Blizzard of 1978. The Big One. The one that no one saw coming. The one that made people abandon their cars on the highway. The one that left people stranded at work or housebound for days. (The one that produced a bumper crop of "blizzard babies" nine months later.) Because of that blizzard nearly FORTY YEARS AGO, every snowflake sends the locals stampeding to the grocery store for two items: milk and bread. People buy milk and bread with abandon. Even people who are completely lactose and gluten intolerant. Seriously. At this point it's just habit. Or maybe even tradition.
Anyway, there I was in line at the grocery store behind people with carts full of bread and milk. And I had just one item: ice cream. Did this make me feel a bit uneasy? Absolutely. I couldn't help worrying about all the poor yahoos all around me who were going to wake up the next morning, shut in by the storm, without even a pint of ice cream in their freezer. Poor bastards.
Anyway, once home (with the ice cream safely snuggled in my freezer) I turned to my husband, Dan, and asked him The Question. You know the one. "Are you going to work tomorrow?" This was short hand for: "Will you be working (albeit from home) or helping me take care of our one-year-old, Emma, who is fighting a nasty head cold and our four-year-old Jacob who has been needing a bit of extra attention lately . . . ?" Well . . . ?
Dan may have a different version of what happened next. But I'm SURE you will see (by virtue of the fact that you will only read my side of the story) that I am correct.
Dan CLEARLY STATED, "I guess I'll take the day off. But I have a work call at 12:30 and 3:00pm." No problem. I can work with that. Happy to do business with you, sir.
Friday, 6:00am. Jacob was the first to wake up. We knew this because, as his parents, we are tuned in to his subtle rhythms. By which I mean that he threw back his head and let out a rebel yell ("MOOOOMMMMY!") like the bloody house was on fire. Dan sprinted down the hall to shush Jacob before he woke up the baby. I stumbled my way down soon after. Despite the urgency in Jacob's voice, he had no intention of actually getting up. (GAH.) So, Dan slipped back to our bedroom. And I sat on the edge of Jacob's bed for twenty minutes while he rolled around and luxuriated in the comfort of his blankets, pillow, and stuffed animals. Which begs the question: WHY. WAS. I. THERE??
7:00am. Everyone was downstairs eating breakfast. The snow was piling up outside.
7:20am. I went upstairs to use the exercise machine for a few minutes and then shower.
8:15am. I traded off with Dan so he could shower. Jacob got involved in an art project. Emma dug her little hands into some playdoh. Everyone was happy. For the moment.
Do you mean the work that you have CLEARLY INDICATED THAT YOU WERE NOT GOING TO DO TODAY WHILE WE BOTH TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN? Because if I knew you were going to work today, I would have . . . done stuff. Made plans. Thought of a more elaborate art project to keep Jacob occupied. Cut random stuff into shapes to glue down. On some other random stuff. Found some long forgotten toys in the basement to play with. I WOULD HAVE PREPARED FOR THIS. What about that loaf of bread you said you would bake with Jacob? And the apple chips you were going to make together? FOR THE LOVE OF G-D, MAN, YOU PROMISED HIM APPLE CHIPS.
9:01am. Dan explained that he simply couldn't have said he would take the day off because he had work to do. Ahh. Well that clears it up. I FEEL OODLES BETTER NOW THAT WE HAVE A LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR THIS MISUNDERSTANDING. He then went upstairs to work.
9:02 to 10:14am. Jacob and Emma played with or rejected every toy we own. Emma found at least three new uses for the glue stick.
10:15am. The father of a little girl that Jacob plays with called to see if we wanted to have a play date. Yes. Yes (SWEET G-D OF REDEMPTION) we do. An aside: I have noticed that natural disasters– by which I mean blizzards during which my husband is not available to help with the children– bring out my religious side. Hmm.
10:16am. The little girl and her father were at our front door. They arrived in the only vehicle on the road that was not being pulled by sled dogs.
10:20am. Everyone was playing happily. For the moment.
11:30am. Jacob and the little girl started bickering like an old married couple. Jacob was peeved that the girl was STILL looking at a book that he wanted. The book was called "Forever Friends". I talked with Jacob about the concept of waiting for his turn. Though honestly, it seemed like a far better opportunity to talk about the concept of irony. (Opportunities lost.) Meanwhile, the little girl stoked the flames of Jacob's discontent. "We don't always get what we want," she said, without looking up from the book. Jacob shrieked.
12:10pm. The playdate was over. Dan made a brief appearance downstairs for lunch.
12:30pm. Dan disappeared upstairs again to work. Jacob watched a short video. Emma started rubbing her eyes.
12:50pm. Emma was asleep in her crib. For a good solid 45 minutes. Seriously? That's it?!? I've YAWNED for longer than that. Lordy.
Hello, Afternoon with Two Tired and Cranky Kids.
Jacob (deep sigh): I don't know.
Me: Seeing all the snow outside?
Jacob. No . . . Keep guessing.
Me: Reading stories? Your friend coming over to play? Having a tuna melt for lunch?
Me: Watching people shovel snow outside.
So, there it is, folks. After all the tap dancing I did to keep Jacob from dismantling the house out of sheer boredom and/or curiosity, the highlight of my son's day was: Looking. Out. The. Window.
And then, in typical Jacob, non sequitur fashion, just before his last goodnight kiss, he asked this.
Jacob: Mommy, why do we eat chicken?
Me: Because it has protein. And it tastes pretty good.
Jacob: But Mommy, chickens are in danger!
Me: You mean endangered? I don't think so. Who said that chickens were endangered?
Jacob (eyeroll): I just did.


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'Jeopardy!' clue on Church of the Nativity sparks controversy
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
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A clue on "Jeopardy!" sparked protests from viewers about the location of a world-famous church in Bethlehem.
Host Alex Trebek read off a clue for $200 from the category "Where's that church?" that read: "Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity."
The first contestant to buzz in, Katie Needle, responded: "What is Palestine?" but Trebek rejected her answer, saying, "No."
'JEOPARDY!' HOST ALEX TREBEK IS LEADING HIS LIFE 'WITH DIGNITY' AMID CANCER TREATMENTS, SAYS ROB BELUSHI
Another contestant, Jack McGuire, buzzed in with the reply, "What is Israel?" Trebek ruled him correct.
The Church of the Nativity, where many Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, is located in Bethlehem, part of the West Bank. The region has long been the site of conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Furious viewers took to Twitter to chastize Trebek and demand an apology from the show.
Omar Baddar, the deputy director of the non-profit Arab American Institute, decried that Needle was "robbed" and called Trebek's ruling "unacceptable!"
"@Jeopardy owes an apology for endorsing Israel's universally-condemned illegal takeover of Palestinian lands," Baddar tweeted.
The grassroots group Code Pink launched a petition after Friday's episode demanding that the show apologize "for your politically dangerous inaccuracy."
Representatives for "Jeopardy!" did not immediately respond to Fox News' requests for comment.
Vandana Rambaran is a reporter covering news and politics at foxnews.com. She can be found on Twitter @vandanarambaran


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In a 250-300 word response, analyze how the use of technology has impacted organizational communication both positively and negatively. How has technology impacted the verbal and nonverbal cues used in interpreting messages? Provide examples to support your position. Use at least one resource to support your key points. Offer some additional ideas to others in this class by responding to at least two of your fellow students' posts.
As an option, students are encouraged to utilize a form of communication technology within this discussion. Consider recording video messages instead of the traditional text, both for your initial discussion posting as well as responses to other students. Go to Eyejot.com, an easy-to-use, free online software that allows you to create video and copy and paste links to share with others. Navigate to: http://www.eyejot.com/about.html, register by clicking on "Join Now" at the top of the screen, record, then copy and paste the link to your video into your discussions.
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Advice On The House
Henda Salmeron with Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
About Henda Salmeron
Henda's Mission
What Sets Henda Apart?
Henda's Resume
Refinancing At The Right Time
Appraisal Benefits
Avoiding Pitfalls Of Low Appraisals
Importance Of Title Insurance
Improvements that Pay
Planning Your Move
Choosing a Moving Company
10 Things To Do Once You Move
For My Clients
Home Inspection?
Selling One, Buying Another
20 Tips to Help Sell Your Home
DFW Metroplex
DFW Utilities Directory
Downtown Dallas
Farmer's Branch
Far North Dallas
Greenville Avenue Area
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A Good Lesson in Title Search
On February 1, 2011 February 9, 2011 By Henda SalmeronIn Uncategorized
Rebuilding New Orleans caused residents often to be challenged with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years. With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership. Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client:
You have to love this lawyer…….
A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.
(Actual reply from FHA):
"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."
Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows: (Actual response)
"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application.
I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France, in 1803 the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain. The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.
The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus's expedition…Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana. God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?"
The loan was immediately approved.
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The following room types are available at the Melini Hotel Suites:
1. Hotel Rooms, No kitchenette, Bed & Breakfast
2. Studio Suites.
3. One Bedroom Suites.
All rooms follow the the same styling quality and all suites have a Sofa bed in addition to two
comfortable twin beds.
All suites are complete with full cutlery and utensils including refrigerator, microwave, electric
induction hobs, toasters etc If there is anything you find you need please ask at reception
and the maid service will be informed of your request.
Extra fold away beds can be added to the room at request, subject to availability, but only
one per room. If this increases the amount of people booked into a room a surcharge will be
raised.
All rooms have air-conditioning that can be controlled by guests using the control panel
situated within the room. Wall mounted flat screen TVs with access to a number of different
channels in various languages are in each suite and hotel room, TV remotes are available
from reception.
All rooms have a fitted safety deposit box that is key operated and keys can be obtained
from the reception.
All rooms have either a patio area (ground floor rooms) or a balcony. Most of our rooms
face East which boast either a pool view or for the higher floors a sea view. Our rooms which
face North (6) overlook the pool from our neighbouring hotel, the rooms which face South (4)
are side facing but still offer sea views and receive the most sun throughout the day.
Unfortunately, we do have 3 rear facing rooms, which overlook our car park. Suffice to say
the rooms are all of equal standard for furnishings and fittings and whilst we understand the
view from the balcony can be the difference between a great room and an awesome room,
we will do our best to accommodate any requests you may have.
Tags accommodation, places, protaras, reservations, rooms, suites
Protaras is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction
of Paralimni Municipality in Cyprus.
Protaras has clear sky-blue waters and sandy beaches, the most well-known of which is Fig
Tree Bay less than 150 m from the Melini Hotel Suites. Building on the success of Ayia
Napa, located about 10 km southwest, it has expanded into a modern holiday resort of
considerable size with tens of high capacity hotels, hotel apartments, villas, restaurants,
pubs and associated facilities. Being quieter than Ayia Napa and having less of a club
scene, it has a reputation of catering more for family and Cypriot tourism. Cape Greco is a
10-minute drive from the center of Protaras, and is considered one of the most beautiful
places on the island.
Protaras is one of the most popular diving destinations with some of the best dive sites of
Cyprus and the East Med. Green Bay being the most popular dive site with thousands of first
timers trying scuba diving. The Blue Hole, the Chapel, the De Costa Bay, Malama bay are
other dive sites in the area. Nearby from Golden Coast fishing shelter there are two Artificial
Reefs (Wrecks) called the Liberty & The Nemesis III. Protaras's most famous dive site for
Technical Diving and Commercial Diver training is the Cyclops bay located on the border
with Ayia Napa.
Melini Hotel Suites is situated right in the heart of Protaras. We are almost central on the
"Main Protaras Strip" giving you easy access to all the Minimarkets, Gift & Souvenir shops,
Pubs, Clubs, Restaurants, Sports Bars and a 2 minute walk from the famous Fig Tree Bay
Beach boasting some awesome watersports and a beach full of rentable sunbeds and
Parasols. The bus stop is 50 m from the Hotel providing access to all surrounding areas and
bus timetables are available from reception. Taxis can also be arranged by our reception
staff which will collect you from the main entrance.
More information https://www.visitfamagusta.com.cy/en/destinations/protaras.html
Fig Tree Beach
Protaras Promenade
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Cyprus in March 2020. The released data from the Cyprus government includes cases in the British Sovereign Base Areas, but not cases in Turkish-occupied regions due to a long-running dispute.
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.
On 9 March 2020, Cyprus confirmed its first two cases: a 25-year-old man from Limassol who had
returned from Italy and a 64-year-old health professional from Nicosia who had returned from the UK.
On 11 March, Cyprus confirmed four more cases: two Greek Cypriots who returned from the UK the day before and one taxi driver from Paphos, whose grandson was also hospitalised. All three men were taken to Famagusta General Hospital. The fourth case was in self-isolation at home.
On 12 March, four new cases were confirmed: a person who had travelled to the UK and contacted the authorities after developing symptoms, a person who had returned from Italy, a person with symptoms after returning from Greece, and an individual returning from Germany with no symptoms.
On 13 March, 11 new cases were confirmed. President Nicos Anastasiades, in a special appearance, announced the closing of all borders except for nationals for 15 days from 15 March. This was the start of the lockdown for the island to prevent further cases entering the country.
On 23 March, further restrictions were enforced onto the population including a sms system requiring permission to leave permanent residency. Legitimate reasons were to visit a doctor, essential shopping, visit pharmacy to collect medicines and to exercise. Only one trip per person a day was allowed.
Because of the strict regime imposed by the Cypriot Government, new Covid-19 cases declined and the first day that no new cases were reported was on 23 May.
In early May, repatriation flights for Cypriots and legal Cypriot residents in the UK began; upon arrival, all those coming back into the country are required to spend at least two weeks in quarantine at certain hotels which have been designated and funded by the government.
On 21 May, the lockdown ended and repatriation flights continued, although those coming back to the country no longer have to be quarantined for two weeks. The government also announced that airports will reopen on 9 June, though flights from countries heavily affected by the virus—most notably the UK and Russia, from where Cyprus' two biggest tourist groups come but will not be permitted until further notice.
Over the last few weeks restrictions have been lifted in phases and the Island has started to return to some sort of normal. There are still restrictions and some new rules but these have been put into place to try and restrict a new spread of the virus but also allow visitors back onto the island.
We are at a stage now where most things have returned to "The New Normal", which means most things are open with new rules regarding social distancing, total numbers allowed to attend and the main difference is what the workers have to wear to help protect you, the general public. What does that mean for you as a visitor to our beautiful Island? Once you have arrived at the hotel, you will be met at reception by one of our fantastic reception staff, who will inform you of any new or recent changes to any of the rules and regulations in place. Unfortunately, this could be through a transparent partition, similar to that of a bank which will allow our reception staff to be able to communicate clearly with you without wearing a mask. As usual we will need to check you in, so whilst waiting in reception we will need to ask you to social distance by 2m until we can get you through the check in process as quickly as possible, then its off to your rooms to settle in and get ready to enjoy your stay with us.
At the time this went to print, the following rules and regulations are to be implemented. All staff and workers are to wear face mask and gloves with a regular hand cleansing process. All umbrellas are to be positioned 4m apart allowing for 2m distance between sunbeds under different umbrellas. Distance between tables are to be 2m apart but if a single-family use different rooms, tables can be put together in that instance. So, as you can see, we are not implementing anything different to what you should be used to by the time you arrive here.
As the rules and regulations change, we will inform you all via the website as well as our social media pages, if you have not already been to our Face book page please join/like one of our many pages
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Grave Thoughts and Memories
Maybe it's a Southern thing, but I've always enjoyed visiting cemeteries. When I was a child visiting my grandparents at their farm, every fall we'd have a "Homecoming" or "Dinner on the Ground" at their small church, specifically to clean up the graveyard and tombs. It wasn't unusual for us kids, after church, to play hide and seek, to roam the graveyard looking at the gravestones and trying to find the oldest one. Even now, when I go to the farm, I always stop off at the church and visit the graveyard where my parents and brothers, grandparents, great-grandparents, great aunts and uncles, uncles, and many cousins are buried. I don't stay long, just long enough to check that no one has vandalized anything.
And if you grew up in South Louisiana, as I did, you're also used to grand cemetery monuments. In part, the above-ground tombs were necessary because if the area were below sea-level, flooding could produce startling and disturbing effects. Though now improvements in vaults mean fewer above-ground vaults, the problem of flooding still exists.
I haven't wandered through St. Louis Cemetery in New Orleans lately, but this summer I visited a cemetery in Athens, Greece, that has always reminded me of the beautiful sculptures and tomb architecture of New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana (and in Galveston, I might add).
The cemetery is Πρώτο Νεκροταφείο Αθηνών (the First Cemetery of Athens). Opened in 1837, it holds the tombs of many famous Greek individuals and families. If you're in Central Athens, it's almost impossible to miss it. It lies near the Panathinaiko Stadium (the 1896 Stadium where the Olympic torch is always seen prior to the Olympics) and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Filled with pine and cedar trees, it's bracketed between Markou Moussouro, Immitou, and Anapafseos Street (Eternal Rest Street). The main entrance is from Anapafseos Street. Though not a park, it is a green, peaceful site — about 500 square meters
Three churches are in the cemetery — the Church of St. Theodore, the Church of St. Lazarus, and a Catholic church. Within the cemetery are separate areas for Protestants and Jews. Many famous Greeks are buried here — heroes of the Greek War of Independence, politicians, actors, poets. It's so large, with so many areas and paths, that it's impossible to simply "find" a grave unless you've a) been there before (and even that can be near-impossible) or b) have managed to finagle the site number/area from the managers. There is no map, which is a shame. Otherwise, it's easy to miss some of the tombs for well-known figures, as well as some of the most spectacular tombs.
I'd wandered through the cemetery before. This time, though, I was with the group of people in my poetry workshop. We were on the hunt for specific tombs — of some of the most important poets of modern Greece. Alicia (our teacher) had managed to get those precious site identifications, and slowly we managed to find them. It was a really hot day, though, and by the end we were flagging. It would be easy to get lost. Paths crisscross and even create small roads.
Green cypress trees and pines and flowering oleanders and other bushes make it a calm in the middle of a very busy part of central Athens.
Yet it was well worth the effort and the sweat.
The first tomb we found was that of Kostis Palamas (1859-1943). Palamas was a central figure in the literary scene of the 1880s, and co-founded the New Athenian School. Using the composition by Spiridon Samaras, he wrote the lyrics to the Olympic Hymn that was first performed in 1896; this was named the official Olympic Anthem in 1958. When Palamas died in 1943, during the German occupation of Greece, his funeral was became a major event. Angelos Sikelianos wrote a poem for it. Culminating in a demonstration of about 100,000 mourners, his funeral became a central event in the Greek resistance.
Kostis Palamas
Angelos Sikelianos ((1884-1951) was one of the leading 20th century Greek lyric poets. Sikelianos and his first wife, Eva Palmer, instituted the Delphi Festival in 1927, hoping to foster spiritual independence and a way of communication between people — through the principles of the ancient Greek civilization. He was the first Greek poet nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, though he did not win. A prolific poet, he is not as well-known in Western countries as some of his fellow Greek poets.
Angelos Sikelianos
Another grave that we sought out was that of George Seferis (1900-1971), a great poet whose poetry often speaks of exile and longing. Seferis was the pen name he chose; his name was Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης, George Seferiadis. A career diplomat, Seferis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. In 1969, two years into the military junta that ruled Greece, Seferis made a strong public statement denouncing the Colonel's Regime. Though he did not live to see the fall of the junta in 1974, he had become a popular hero for his stand against the regime. When he died, thousands followed his coffin through the streets to the First Cemetery, singing Mikis Theodorakis's setting of Seferis's poem "Denial."
Yet another major poet of the 20th century was Odysseus Elytis (born Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης, Odysseus Alepoudellis, 1911-1996). Elystis, a romantic modernist, came to prominence in the 1930s. Elytis, like Seferis, opposed the military junta of 1967-1974. During the junta, he exiled himself to Paris. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
Odysseus Elytis
Besides seeking out these graves, we wandered for a long time. In that time, I found several other notable graves.
Heinrich Schliemann, the famous German amateur archaeologist who excavated Mycenae and other sites, has a monumental tomb for himself, his Greek wife, and her family.
Schleimann's Tomb
Melina Mercouri, the actress and politician, is buried here also.
Near Mercouri's tomb is that of Andreas Papandreou, the founder of the Socialist party (PASOK) and twice Prime Minister of Greece.
Andreas Papandreou
Perhaps the most striking bronze piece is dedicated to Greece, the mother, who starved for her children during World War II.
Η Μανα Τησ Κατοχηισ
This is one of the most famous sculptures in the cemetery; by Giannoulis Chalepas,it depicts Sofia Afentaki, a girl who died at the age of eighteen from tuberculosis. Her family commissioned this for her grave. I've seen it several times, and it never fails to move me.
One monument stood out this summer — I'd not seen it before. It's hard to miss though — it's a ship:
Though it was hot, there were shady areas beneath trees. Occasionally breezes cooled us off. Water, of course, helped a lot. And mostly the cemetery was quiet, the quiet broken at times with birdsong,
While we were standing near the grave of Palamas, there was a man standing reverently, waiting for us to finish. He was, he told us in English, visiting there from New York and was there to clean the grave of a relative. That is not something that can be done without official permission, apparently, nor without paying a fee. Many people, he told us, in these difficult economic times, cannot afford to pay someone to keep graves neat and tidy, nor can they themselves pay to do that. As a result, many graves fall into disrepair and are overgrown or broken. However, he also wanted us to know just how important Palamas was, even now. "A very great man," he said several times. Greeks revere their poets, even those long dead, like Palamas.
There are many places that tourists seek out in Athens. The First Cemetery is probably not one. Even without a guide or map of the many noteworthy graves, it's well worth a visit. One of the great Greek poets, Constantine Cavafay, is not buried here, but I'll leave you with one of his poems, which I think suits my blog and its inspiration.
Ideal and dearly beloved voices
of those who are dead
or of those who are lost to us like the dead.
Sometimes they speak to us in our dreams;
sometimes in thought the mind hears them.
And for a moment with their echo
other echoes return from the first poetry of our lives —
like poetry that extinguishes the far off night.
As I close the blog tonight, it's raining (again). I've gathered several books of Greek poetry and think I'll spend some time with them tonight.
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Paul and Norma Sims' children, Mike, Keith and Paula — all engineers, endowed a scholarship in honor of the parents. Paul was a 1953 mechanical engineering alumnus.
Paul and Norma Sims' children agree that their parents placed more value on experiences and spending time together than they did material goods. The siblings' fondness for their parents spilled out as they talked about them just like, as son Keith said, their engineer father's humility and integrity spilled out into their lives.
Paul, who earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from MU in 1953, died in 2001, and his children, Mike, Keith, Paula and Larry Sims, recently endowed an MU College of Engineering scholarship in their parents' honor. The Sims Engineering Scholarship will support engineering students with financial need.
Before retiring in 1993, Paul spent most of his career at General Electric in Evendale, Ohio, and Lynn, Mass., eventually rising to the position of general manager for military divisions within the company.
Paul hailed from Pollock, Mo., and attended a one-room school in Hartsburg before his family moved to Columbia.
"His first job was trapping fur-bearing animals at age 8 and his second, at age 12, was driving a bread truck," said Mike.
Paul attended both Jefferson Junior High and Hickman High School before enrolling in MU through the Air Force ROTC program. While attending Hickman High School, he met Norma Jean Branham, an Independence, Mo., transplant, and the two were married in 1952. After Paul graduated from MU, the couple moved to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., where Paul, a second lieutenant, attended communications school. He was eventually assigned to the Wethersfield Royal Air Force base where he and Norma lived until his tour of duty was completed.
Calling their parents an incredible team, the siblings said their mother and father provided not just a great home environment, but also reached out generously into the communities where they lived.
Three of Paul and Norma's children became engineers: Mike, a mechanical engineer, works for GE Aviation as general manager; Keith, a computer engineer, works for Barnes Group, Inc., as global business systems manager; and Paula, an industrial manufacturing engineer, works as a consultant and a professor at University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.
The idea to set up the Sims scholarship at MU seemed like a natural and befitting way for the sibling to pay homage to their parents.
"We talked about doing this a couple of years ago, and decided it was the right time while mom can still appreciate it," said Mike.
Norma is living in Chapel Hill, N.C.
In addition to the initial funds the Sims family has contributed toward the scholarship, including a one-to-one match gift by the GE Foundation Corporate Matching Gifts Program, the family expects the endowment will grow through continued giving by friends and family.