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The following is a selection of courses you might take as an History major.
This course examines varied aspects of world history from the beginnings of civilization to approximately A.D. 1500. 3 credits.
This course examines varied aspects of world history from approximately 1500 to the present. A student can enroll in HIS102 without taking HIS101. 3 credits.
This course presents a survey of the history of the United States from the Colonial period through the Civil War. Students will be introduced to the major social, political, cultural and economic developments that occurred within the U.S. during this period. 3 credits.
This course continues the study of United States history from the Post-Civil War Reconstruction to the present. A student can enroll in HIS104 without HIS103. 3 credits.
This course emphasizes events in the recent past that have shaped the contemporary world. Students will have the opportunity to explore significant issues and events including the Cold War, the rise of post World War II nationalism, the emergence of new nations in Africa and Asia, the Middle East, Communist China, the rise of global terrorism and the collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism in Eastern Europe. 3 credits.
Surveys those important issues that have faced the American people in the atomic age.Such issues as the Cold War, the Soviet-American rivalry, the upheavals of the 1960’s, racial equality and other fundamental changes which have taken place in American politics, the economy and society will be included in this study. 3 credits.
An examination of significant cultural groups who have shaped America through history and literature. This survey course examines the role, history, and literature of Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans in helping to shape contemporary America. 3 credits.
Acquaints the student with the theory and practice of historical study. Topics will include an analysis of the purpose of history, an explanation of procedures and methods used by historians in explaining the past, a survey of recent developments in historical study, and the mechanics of historical research. 3 credits.
Vermont is a state of mind and a state of place. This course is an examination of the topography, history, literature, and people of Vermont from its beginnings to the present. 3 credits.
An analysis of the pivotal decade of the 1960’s from Camelot to Watergate. Topics include the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the Counter Culture. 3 credits.
The purpose of this course is to provide an opportunity for supervised application of skills developed in the study of history in an approved setting under direct supervision of qualified persons in a host agency and of the college faculty. This course for juniors or seniors requires a minimum of 120 hours and frequent consultation with the faculty supervisor. Students will reach an agreement with a faculty supervisor regarding specific academic requirements of the practicum. Junior standing. 3 credits.
Survey of the Colonial and Revolutionary period of United States history from the earliest settlements through the establishment of the Constitution. 3 credits.
Focuses on the central place the Civil War occupies in the history of the United States. Emphasis will be placed on the causes and results of the conflict, the political and military leadership for the North and South, and the involvement of various elements of American society. 3 credits.
This course offers a wide-ranging examination of the Jewish Holocaust, from its roots in the evolution of anti-semitism in medieval and modern Europe through its post-World War II legacy. 3 credits.
This course will examine the rich history, culture, and varied traditions of the Islamic world from the origins of the faith to the present day. Topics will include the nature of the Islamic faith; cultural traditions and contributions including art, literature, philosophy, medicine, and science; division and conflicts within the Islamic world; and relations between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds with particular emphasis upon recent issues and problems. Satisfies a religion or social science requirement. 3 credits.
The purpose of this course is to provide an opportunity for supervised application of skills developed in the study of history in an approved setting under direct supervision of qualified persons in a host agency and of the college faculty. This course for juniors or seniors requires a minimum of 240 hours and frequent consultation with the faculty supervisor. Intern supervision fee is required. Students will reach an agreement with a faculty supervisor regarding specific academic requirements of the internship. Junior standing. 6 credits.
A capstone course for History majors designed to provide an in-depth study of the skills and techniques required for historical research. Students will be expected to produce a major research paper. Also included in the course will be an introduction to the study of historiography and the history of ideas. Students in a popular culture concentration must choose a research paper topic appropriate to that concentration, subject to approval by the instructor. Prerequisite: Senior standing. 3 credits.

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In the year that sees the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, a previously untold story has emerged of how, through a "miracle" chemical breakthrough, Spitfire and Hurricane fighters gained the edge over German fighters to win the Battle of Britain.
An American scientist and author has claimed that the famed pair of war-winning aeroplanes gained superior altitude, manoeuvrability and rate of climb by a revolutionary high-octane fuel supplied to Britain by the USA just in time for the battle.
Books, documentaries, and movies have chronicled the brilliant contribution of UK designers and engineers behind the legendary fighter planes that won the Battle of Britain, preventing invasion of the British Isles.
The courage and sacrifice of RAF pilots who flew the aeroplanes is rightly celebrated and their bravery has become an inspirational chapter of the British national story.
What has not been known until now, however, is the story of the revolutionary aviation fuel supplied to the RAF by an American company, using a process invented by a Frenchman, without which Spitfires and Hurricanes might not have achieved crucial dominance over the Luftwaffe.
The Royal Society of Chemistry read the claims about Eugene Houdry, and his process at the Sun Oil Company, in a paper written originally for the journal Invention and Technology by American science writer Tim Palucka.
The introduction to the paper by Palucka says of Houdry: "His miraculous catalyst turned nearly worthless sludge into precious high-octane gasoline and helped the Allies to win World War II."
He continued: "That process would make a crucial difference in mid-1940 when the Royal Air Force started filling its Spitfires and Hurricanes with the 100-octane gasoline imported from the United States instead of the 87-octane gasoline it had formerly used."
The RSC is inviting experts and the public to challenge the new claim and if it remains intact then the society will send the report to aviation and military historians to mark the newly-discovered contribution of chemists to victory in one of the key battles.
The 100-octane fuel that resulted from the Houdry Process increased the Spitfire's speed by 25 mph at sea level by 34 mph at 10,000 feet.
This extra speed gave the British fighters in the summer of 1940 the edge over the Luftwaffe above the English Channel and in the skies of London and south-east England.
With the balance tipped towards the British, the German invasion was abandoned and Hitler turned eastwards, allowing the UK armed forces time to regroup and to revive.
"Luftwaffe pilots couldn't believe they were facing the same planes they had fought successfully over France a few months before. The planes were the same but the fuel wasn't," said Palucka.
"It is an established fact that a difference of only 13 points in octane number made possible the defeat of the Luftwaffe by the RAF in the fall of 1940. This difference, slight as its seems, is sufficient to give a plane the vital edge in altitude, rate of climb and manoeuvrability that spells the difference between defeat and victory.

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As per Board of Education policy, the school district has a Random Drug Testing program in place for students in grades 7-12. For students in grades 9-12 the program is mandatory for students who wish to obtain on-campus parking as well as for those students participating in athletic or extra-curricular programs. All students who wish to participate in athletics, parking or extracurricular activities must submit a drug test consent form before they will be allowed to participate/practice in an activity. The consent form should be submitted to the coach/advisor. Once a student has consented to be tested they will remain in the program for one calendar year. Once the consent form is filed with the school they are free to join any activity they wish.
If your child has consented to be tested and wishes to be removed from the testing pool they may file an Opt-Out form with the coordinator of random drug testing. Once a student Opts-Out of the program they cannot rejoin the program for a full calendar year. There will be a two week grace period after the Opt-Out form is filed to allow the student to change his/her mind. Opt-Out forms are available in the main office.
Enclosed in this packet you will find a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the testing program and consent form to be returned to your child’s Coach/Advisor.
If you have any questions feel free to contact the Random Drug Testing Coordinator at 973-764-6106.


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The future of Agriculture is looking good with the new budget and several reforms.
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What Should I Know Before I Buy An Essay From An Online Company?
Before you go on to buy an essay from an online company, there are some things that you need to be aware of. It is always a good idea to stay informed, so that when it’s all said and done, you have what it takes to at least make sure that you are getting your paper done by a reliable and resourceful writer or a company.
Thanks to the increase in the number of people who have access to the internet, it has become easier to get immediate help from reputable companies. You too should be able to take advantage of this when you want to hire essay writer. It is not really as difficult a process as you might imagine, but if you are not too careful, you might make a mistake that will cost you everything you have been working on.
One of the first things that you are supposed to think about is making sure that you give the company or the writer that will have been assigned to you accurate instructions on what to do with your paper. It is important for you to do that, because in the long run, this makes your work easier for them to handle, other than grappling for straws to make sense of what you are looking for.
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS) develops and fields transformative, affordable technology, platforms and systems for United States National Security related customers, allies and commercial enterprises.
Employing 2900 people worldwide, Kratos specializes in unmanned systems, satellite communications, cyber security/warfare, microwave electronics, missile defense, hypersonic systems and training. Kratos is a leading provider of state-of-the-art, unmanned tactical aerial platforms and high-performance aerial target systems for U.S. and allied warfighters. Kratos satellite ground solutions, products and services support more than 85% of U.S. space missions and 75% of all commercial satellite operations. Kratos training solutions is the subject of this profile.
Today, hands-on, real world training is being supplemented with virtual, augmented and mixed reality training scenarios. Kratos’ military training mission is simple: Improve warfighter survivability and lethality with the latest in simulation and mixed reality training technologies.
To help ensure warfighters are ready for battle, resilient to evolving tactics and able to quickly recover from setbacks, Kratos integrates the latest in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technology with its state of the art simulation systems and instructional design capabilities to create immersive and semi-immersive training environments.
Mixed Reality is the result of blending the physical world with the digital world –the next evolution in human, computer, and environment interaction –and unlocks possibilities that were previously restricted to our imaginations. It is made possible by advancements in computer vision, graphical processing power, display technology, and input systems. The application of mixed reality includes environmental input, spatial sound, and location.
Advancements in sensors and processing are giving rise to a new area of computer input from environments. The interaction between computers and environments is effectively environmental understanding, or perception. Environmental input captures things like a person's position in the world (e.g., head tracking), surfaces and boundaries (e.g., spatial mapping and spatial understanding), ambient lighting, environmental sound, object recognition, and location.
The key differentiator of MR is that it enables digital content and real-world content to interact with each other in real-time, in ways beyond AR and VR. The effects of tactile, audio, and visual sensory cues on a participant's sense of presence in a virtual environment directly correlate to the success of training. Kratos’ innovative MR platform makes those sensory experiences real and intense, creating a fully immersive experience that truly mimics the combat environment. A potentially disruptive technology, Kratos’ MR platform is currently being evaluated by DoD components to appraise next generation technology and products for soldier lethality and air traffic control training.
The platform’s key advantage is that it enables MR-based training to be delivered to the point of need (PoN) – virtually anywhere. The light source panels can be configured to accommodate various sizes and shapes– from rotary aircraft cabins, to tracked vehicles or marksmanship firing ranges and to the Kratos Holodeck.
For two decades Kratos has designed and manufactured state-of-the-art air, ground and naval simulation systems for U.S. and allied forces. Kratos combines virtual and physical components with course development products to create courseware that maximizes training realism. Kratos is now integrating AR, VR and MR technologies into these systems to achieve greater immersiveness and a more realistic combat experience.
Kratos develops performance-driven learning solutions with a rigorous systematic design process that employs theories of cognition, motivation, adult learning theory and a criterion-based framework. Kratos can automate the development of the simulation based curriculum and Interactive Media Instruction (IMI) thus integrating the simulation and virtual elements for all phases of training.
The KATC aircrew simulators provide aircrew members with training equivalent to what they would have received on their own simulator or aircraft. The Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) has approved KATC’s Aerial Gunnery Trainer (AGT) Simulator to be used in crediting sorties toward some of their annual aerial gunnery training requirements: evidence that virtual reality is increasingly becoming a viable complement to live training.


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Gertrude Himmelfarb was married to the late Irving Kristol and together they formed a formidable intellectual partnership in the reassertion of conservative ideas. Himmelfarb, a historian, in this book, brings to the table the debate around poverty in Victorian England. The book was first published in 1991, but represents an important strand of thinking and, indeed, of methodology.
One of the many complexities in the polarisation of political and public discourse is that it becomes impossible to have a rational discussion or debate without being compartmentalised into one position or another. We seem to have lost the ability to debate ‘ideas’. Gertrude Himmelfarb’s intellectual history of the ideas, notions and responses to poverty in the Victorian era is broad-reaching, incisive and gripping in both scope and content. The reassertion of the history of ideas – from all parts of the spectrum – would be a great service in our public life.
The great strength of the book is in its breadth. Himmelfarb’s twenty-three chapters range from the work of the social statistician, Charles Booth, to the Salvation Army’s, William Booth, from the rather worthy Charity Organisation Society, to Toynbee Hall and the settlement movement. Himmelfarb comes into her own in dealing with the moral ideas of poverty and compassion and how the Victorian era understood these concepts and responded to them both practically and intellectually. So, her assessment of, and interpretation of, the statistics of poverty and what that meant, the literature, the personalities, religious and moralistic responses and the impact of the rise of socialism in various guises are all central features of her exposition of the idea of poverty.
Himmelfarb puts this Victorian world under a microscope. A key building block is that “the moral imagination of the late Victorians…was neither sentimental nor utopian” (page 4). This is rather startling as many might think that the very epitome of Victorian ideas was indeed sentimentality. True compassion, she argues, is actually doing good rather than feeling good. The true Victorian philanthropist was moral and humane, interested in the good, not only of the self, but of society, and was shaped by ends that were realistic rather than utopian. This principle allows Himmelfarb to appreciate the extensive variety and range of responses to poverty in Victorian England, and we should thank her for that.
The book is divided into five parts, each with a number of chapters.
Part 1, “The Arithmetic of Woe”, is a fascinating introduction to the social statistics of the age, the complexity of poverty in late Victorian London, and the particular issues of housing and employment. Conditions had unquestionably improved from the mid-Victorian period and in the discussions around the Bitter Cry of Outcast London, Himmelfarb makes the point that the debate is not whether the ‘abject poor’ had dreadful housing conditions but whether this was generally true of the working classes; indeed, as Lord Shaftesbury’s evidence to the Royal Commission of 1884 suggests, this may indeed not have been the case. Himmelfarb suggests that the Royal Commission failed because it did not deal with this distinction and hence, she argues the question of housing became a social rather than a moral problem and, hence, “a legitimate subject for state intervention” (page 67).
Part 2, “Life and Labour of the People in London” develops these themes further including consideration of the work of the social scientist, Charles Booth. In this section Himmelfarb also reflects on some the religious influences upon the debate as well as dealing with what she refers to as “special subjects”, including women and children.
Part 3, “The ‘Time-Spirit’: Charity and Philanthropy”, introduces the Charity Organisation Society and the development of benevolence into a science of charity, or at least, as the name implies, its systematic organisation. In this part we also see some of Himmelfarb’s breadth with reflections as diverse as upon the Salvation Army and Toynbee Hall. Himmelfarb argues that if “the mission of the Charity Organisation Society was to organize and professionalize philanthropy, that of Toynbee Hall was to humanize and ‘civilize’ it” (page 243). All of this reflects Himmelfarb’s neo-conservative interests in practical outcomes alongside the debate of ideas.
Parts 4 (“Social Philosophy and Social Reform”) and 5 (“’We Are All Socialists Now’”) returns us to the nature of social, economic and philosophical debate at the end of the Victorian era.
Essentially, Himmelfarb’s argument is that a proper response to poverty is to recognise that it is a moral question. By moving away from dealing with abject need to the more general situation of the working class, the question of poverty is removed from being a moral problem to a social or political issue. Consequently, the real questions are frequently not dealt with. She argues (capitals in original), that “the ‘DE-MORALIZATION’, as it were, of the problem of poverty was accompanied by a ‘relativization’ of the problem” (page 384).
The book cannot be described as an easy read but it is an engaging and wide-ranging one. Indeed, the book makes you think and I had to stop at several places to do just that, think about what I had just read and its implications. My only criticism is that she does not really deal to any extent with Evangelical Christian responses to poverty concentrating more on the development of Christian socialism, which is rather odd given that Himmelfarb was concerned with practical responses as well as theoretical ones. The Victorians are not presented as a solution to today’s problems, but on their own terms, speaking for themselves, in ways we may not have really appreciated because we read back our own presuppositions. She reminds us that poverty “is as protean and diverse as the remedies proposed for it” (page 388).
This is a fascinating book which I recommend. Our contemporary discourse would be much improved if we could debate these ideas, their breadth, diversity and their implications, across the traditional political divides, restoring the debate to its proper moral basis.
“Poverty and Compassion” by Gertrude Himmelfarb was published in 1991 by Vintage Books, New York (ISBN-13:978-0-67-974173-2). 475 pp.

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Understanding what happened in September and October 2008, when the repurchase and other credit markets were overcome with panic, is the “indispensable beginning” to understanding the new form that financial markets have taken in recent decades – what some call the shadow banking system – and how they might be made safer and less prone to crisis, economic journalist David Warsh said in his Economic Principals blog Sunday.
That’s not all we need to know, he said, but it’s where we have to start.
His reading of the newly released report from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and his recent viewing of American Madness, a 1932 Frank Capra movie about a banking panic, reinforced his conviction that “the really interesting thing that happened in September 2008 was the worldwide panic in the banking system – financial institutions running on each other behind the scenes,” he wrote.
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Nowadays, our society is filled with plenty of fake diplomas, making an increasing number of people start to complain. Obviously, its appearance and development disturb people's life.
As we all know, we live in the world with a great deal of challenge and competition, and this is one of the reasons which resulting to the result. Besides, if people have access to fake diplomas, it's not necessary for them to study hard, and they wouldn't waste time on study. What's more, when they graduate, they can get a desire job which many other people can't get. Naturedly, they will make a big sum of money which helps them to live a comfortable life. However, it has a terrible effect on people who struggle to get a great diploma. They feel it's not justice for them to pay their perspiration. Little by little, more and more people learn to cheat instead of accruing a degree in an honest way.
When it comes to me, I consider we should take some effective measures to prevent this phenomenon, and we must have a reasonable attitude towards the degree. For example, when someone hunts for jobs, their individual personality and practical ability should be accounted by HR as one of the most crucial factors. Only we take it seriously can we solve the problem of fake diplomas drastically.


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Analytics are moving to the Edge because that is where the data resides. The recent DoD JEDI Cloud RFP clearly demonstrates that rapidly fielding and deploying Edge Clouds is a critical requirement. Couple this with the quickly maturing multi-domain command and control operational concepts the requirement to capture, fuse and exploit data at the Edge is emerging.
However, the insights generated at the Edge must be relayed to our command and control structures as well as data insights generated from our enterprise functions must be relayed to the Edge. The sheer massive amount of data being captured daily overwhelms the current commercial cloud architectures requiring the Edge to assume a larger, more substantial role in command and control.


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The Ocoee City Commission has been aware for some time that bears and killer coyotes are roaming our city. This indeed was reportedly a topic discussed at commission meetings. Yet they did not see fit to protect the citizens by any kind of notice. As a result, a beloved pet cat was brutally killed recently on LaFayette Street. Its owner is deeply grieved.
Had there been notice, there would have been extra effort to keep this beloved pet indoors full-time. But the owner was totally unaware of the coyote danger lurking on Ocoee streets.
A bear was sighted cruising on Bluford recently, as was a coyote in Admiral Point — yet the city does nothing to warn its citizens. This is reprehensible. When faced with this same situation, the town of Windermere publicized the dangers in the paper and by posting signs. Ocoee does not see fit to do that. Different philosophies, I guess.
These critters are being driven out of their natural habitat, the beautiful stand of trees behind the RaceTrac gas station. They are being sacrificed for a proposed huge development, starting with the quickest revenue producer, 300 apartments to join the largest gas station in West Orange County. Get used to seeing the butts of four-story apartment buildings as you travel Bluford and remember the beautiful homes to wildlife which were destroyed.
Take care: Your pet or your child could be next.

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The San Diego Padres have had one of the most exciting offseasons in baseball. Their work was not finished just yet as they made one more blockbuster trade just before Opening Day.
The Padres have acquired closer Craig Kimbrel in a trade with the Atlanta Braves, who managed to get rid of outfielder Melvin Upton in the trade.
Outfielders Carlos Quentin and Cameron Maybin will be traded to the Braves along with minor leaguers Matt Wisler and Jordan Paroubeck plus the 41st overall pick in the upcoming draft.
The Padres had previously traded for outfielders Matt Kemp and Wil Myers while signing starting pitcher James Shields.
Upton will reunite with his brother, Justin, in San Diego as the Padres upgraded their bullpen. Kimbrel is the best closer in baseball and has many prime years ahead of him.
His career has gotten off to an incredible start as he has registered 185 saves with a 1.43 earned run average and 476 strikeouts in 289 innings.
In all four years as the Braves’ closer, Kimbrel made the National League All-Star team and placed in the top 10 in NL Cy Young voting while winning Rookie of the Year honors in 2011.
Upton has been another story since signing a five-year, $75.25 million contract with the Braves as he batted .198 with only 21 home runs and 61 RBIs.
This was a far cry from his 28-homer season in his final year with the Tampa Bay Rays. The Padres will have to take on the remaining $46 million of his contract.
The trade gives them an improved bullpen though as they will get Kimbrel in his prime while Joaquin Benoit can move back to his natural role as a setup man.

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Finding a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your gentle lady can sometimes be difficult. If your wife is a sophisticated and elegant woman, coming up with appropriate gift ideas can present an annual challenge. So many commercially available gifts seem tacky or tasteless, and choosing something that meets her exacting tastes can be hard work. If you need some inspiration for beautiful, timeless gifts that will never fail to impress, we bring you some creative and classic suggestions for presents that are sure to delight the special lady in your life.
No matter how many years you have been with your wife, a gift of beautiful roses will never fail to impress her. The bouquet of a dozen red blossoms is one of the most iconic images of Valentine’s Day and is a classic gift that will never disappoint, while that recognisable token of love, the single red rosebud, is another symbol that she will love to receive on February 14th. Embodying the romance and passion associated with this holiday, the beauty and fragility of these gorgeous flowers will perfectly reflect her own timeless elegance while reminding her of the devotion that you share for each other. What better way to show her how much she is cherished?
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The Season 11 finale of Dancing With the Stars opened with tension in the air, which probably stemmed more from the polarizing presence of Bristol Palin than from the actual competition.
Of course, you wouldn't know that from the smoke, dramatic music, and tear-jerker montages the producers worked up. And then there was Bristol.
Whether or not she deserved to win or deserved to be on the finale, most everyone had a strong opinion one way or another. As someone who has watched the show every season, I will say she is what the show is all about. Seeing someone like Nicole Scherzinger (winner of Season 10) dance is hot, but she is a pro.
Bristol is who this show is all about -- a non-dancer who grows.
That said, she earned her third place finish. We can all agree that she worked hard and improved, but had she won, I suspect there would have been more bullet-ridden television sets across the US.
Jennifer Grey was the winner and all is right in the world.
The show opened with a dramatic re-introduction of every star from the show (minus Michael Bolton and Audrina Patridge). David Hasselhoff, "the Hoff," gave us the most entertaining five minutes of the show and reminded me (and especially my husband) how ridiculous it was that he left the first week.
"They missed such an opportunity!" my husband said. Yes. Perhaps the most telling statement of the season.
The Situation did some bizarre futuristic dance sans shirt (and apparently juice -- were his biceps teeny or is it just me?) and Christina Aguilera performed.
Jennifer won and it was the right decision. That doesn't make it ideal. In a season that was highly unpredictable, this was the outcome almost everyone expected from the beginning.
Baby made it out of the corner, but DWTS may not. People were furious about Bristol and they will probably be equally furious that the favored contestant from Day 1 was the ultimate winner (just like last season).
It will be interesting to see how they change it up for the future.
In the meantime, congratulations to Derek and Jennifer! No matter what is said in the next day, you undoubtedly earned and deserved the Mirror Ball Trophy.
Did you think the right person won?

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With major European leagues completed last weekend, their inaugural domestic cup finals will close the season. There are six major trophies to be decided this weekend among Europe’s most prominent footballing nations. Bar Spain and England, we cover the two Portuguese Cup Finals, the German Cup Final as well as the French showpiece, looking to guide you to the best value on offer this weekend.
The Portuguese League Cup final will kick-off on Friday night with giants Benfica coming up against Maritimo in the city of Coimbra. Benfica celebrated their 34th league crown last weekend with a resounding victory 4-1 victory over Maritimo at their Estadio da Luz. Brazilians Lima and Jonas scored two goals each for the champions, much to the delight of the 60,532 fans who watched on as Benfica were presented with the trophy post-match. The attacking duo finished behind Porto’s Jackson Martinez in the leagues goalscoring charts, as Jonas accumulated 20 goals for the season, one behind Martinez, while Lima managed 19. Maritimo’s loss at Benfica meant they had to settle for ninth spot, but they have an opportunity to end their season on a high by claiming silverware. Twenty years after last making a domestic cup final, Marítimo are again in a showpiece event thanks to a 2-1 victory over Porto in the semi-finals of the competition back in April. The Eagles earned their place in the final with a com comprehensive 3-0 whipping of Vitoria Setubal. They are the defending champions of this tournament, beating Rio Ave 2-0 in last year’s final. Benfica were dominant over Maritimo in both league meetings this season, winning 4-0 away before their 4-1 victory last weekend. Benfica are available at 7/20 for the win. Those looking for some value should back Benfica To Win Both Halves, available at a tempting 18/10.
Borussia Dortmund have a chance of ending their disappointing season with a consolation trophy as they face Wolfsburg in the cup final to be held at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. Dortmund will also be eager to give Jurgen Klopp a perfect send-off with one last piece of silverware after seven successful years as coach. They have a difficult task in beating Wolfsburg, who finished runners-up to league champions Bayern Munich. BVB ended the season in seventh place, a massive 23 points off Wolfsburg. The Wolves booked their place in the final by defeating giantkillers Arminia Bielefeld 4-0 in their semi-final. Germany U-21 striker Maximilian Arnold scored Wolfsburg's first and last goals in a clinical team display to end Bielefeld's impressive cup run. Brazil's Luiz Gustavo and Croatia's Ivan Perisic also got on the scoresheet at Bielefeld's sold-out Schuco Arena as the third division leaders were punished for defensive lapses. Dortmund had a much more difficult run to the final than their opponents did. They were pitted against Bayern in the semi’s and managed a penalty shootout victory over the Bavarians. Robert Lewandowski put Bayern in front and they appeared to be cruising until Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang leveled in the 75th minute. Dortmund failed to beat Wolfsburg in both league meetings this season, losing 2-1 away and drawing 1-1 at Signal Iduna Park. However, Dortmund come into the match as favourites and also knocked Wolfsburg out of this tournament last season, winning 2-0 in a semi-final encounter. Dortmund went on to lose the final to Bayern but Jurgen Klopp is likely not to repeat a consecutive final defeat, especially this being his last game in charge of his beloved team. The Black and Yellows are on offer at 5/4.
Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain will take on Ligue 2’s Auxerre in the Coupe de France to be held at the neutral venue of the Stade de France in Paris this weekend. A win for PSG will see them claim a domestic treble, after also winning the Coupe de la Ligue back in April. Auxerre finished ninth in Ligue 2 after failing to win once in their last seven games. PSG celebrated their third consecutive Ligue 1 title in style last Saturday, with a 3-2 win over Stade de Reims at their Parc des Princes.The result confirmed Les Parisiens’ eight-point winning margin over Lyon and keeps them in great form ahead of this final as they have won their last nine league encounters. Auxerre scraped their way to the final. They started the tournament with a 1-0 win away to fourth tier side Jura Sud, then had to win via penalty shootouts against third tier Le Poiré-sur-Vie, In the quarter-finals they faced fellow Ligue 2 team Brest and came away with another penalty shootout victory before ousting Guingamp 1-0 at home in the semi-finals. PSG had a much trickier road to the final, beating fellow Ligue 1 sides Bordeaux, Nantes, Monaco and Saint Etienne. PSG are a banker bet here, but are priced up too short. Back PSG to be the Only Team To Score at 7/10.
Sporting CP, better known as Sporting Lisbon, will go head-to-head with Sporting Braga to claim the last piece of silverware on offer in Portugal on Sunday. Lisbon are traditionally the best team behind the leagues giants, Benfica and Porto. Braga finished fourth in the league standings, 18 points off third place Lisbon. With the latter winning both league encounters between the sides this campaign. Both these sides were responsible for knocking out ‘The Big 2’, with Sporting ousting Porto 3-1 on the road and Braga getting one over Benfica, also away from home. The Grren and Whites of Lisbon are the form team coming into the final as they finished their league season unbeaten in their last 11 matches, while Braga recorded just one victory in their last six league encounters. Sporting Lisbon have won the last four matches between the sides and are tipped to lift the trophy at the National Stadium with a win in regular time.


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Can I please direct your attention to the lovely book cover in the right sidebar of this blog? Do you realize what this means?
Then I Became a Mother is officially published! Can I get a TIBAM?
Enjoy, my friends, and please spread the word!
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So exciting, Robin! I went to order it and then realized I had two birthdays, an anniversary, and Halloween costumes on the budget this paycheck, but I'm hoping to purchase it next payday!
I'm so excited for you, Robin! Great stuff. When does it become available as a print book? (I'm rubbish at reading books on Kindle, even if they don't clutter up my bookcase and windowsills....).
Why, thanks, Amy! (You have a full month, indeed!) Happy anniversary to you!
Right now, it's just on Kindle, Nook, iBook, etc. Discussion is still ongoing regarding print copies, so I'll be sure to keep everyone updated if there's any movement on that front!
Looking forward to a print version, as I don't own an eReader. Please keep us posted!
Thanks, Chesley. I'll be sure to post when the print version will be available. You'll be able to buy the hard copies via the publisher's website. I'll keep you updated!
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This makes a great gift for orchid and flower lovers! I collaborated with my mom to make this orchid pin set. One of my mom's favorite flowers is an orchid. I knew I wanted the subject, style, and color to represent my mom's taste while maintaining the simple shapes and pops of color, which is a common thread in my art pieces. This orchid pin set comes with two pins. One pin is an orchid plant while the other pin is a flower. I made this orchid into a set so you can share it with someone you love or someone who someone has an affinity for orchids!
You can attach these pins to a backpack, purse, or jacket and take your orchids along, wherever you go!
The flower is 1 inch tall.
This enamel pin set comes with a black rubber stopper.
Your enamel pins will also be packaged with a backing board and plastic bag.
There is always the possibility you could lose your pin because of the nature of the item. I recommend that you purchase locking pin keeps to secure them.


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FastScale Technology today announced the introduction of FastScale Composer Suite 3.0 Enterprise Edition, a platform for building, optimizing, managing and deploying Windows and Red Hat Linux server software for physical, virtual and cloud-based environments.
FastScale Composer Suite 3.0 provides logical server infrastructure that enables system administrators to ‘build once, deploy anywhere' and dynamically supports provisioning to physical, virtual and cloud-based deployments on-demand, while providing a standards-based approach to managing server software throughout its lifecycle. FastScale's logical server approach enables administrators to plan, deploy, re-deploy, scale out, and manage server builds in hybrid environments without making changes to the software stack-delivering dynamic provisioning to the best resource for the job.
Incorporating FastScale's Application Blueprinting technology that automatically identifies application and deployment-specific dependencies, the process of creating and testing software stacks prior to deployment can be significantly reduced, according to the vendor. Users have the flexibility to build lightweight environments with "just enough operating system," or traditional software environments that have been optimized to meet site- or policy-specific requirements.
"In our version 2.3 we did ‘just enough OS' which is still a big strength of ours," Jerry McLeod vice president of marketing and business development, FastScale, tells 5 Minute Briefing. "We can blueprint for a software application and give you just what you need for an OS-so a huge reduction in size which means it is inherently more secure, it is lighter weight, and less resources." However, he adds, the company realizes that organizations don't always want that for various reasons, for example, in the application development process. As a result in version 3.0, "There is now much more flexibility for different groups and how they want to use it and deploy it."
FastScale Composer Suite 3.0 Enterprise Edition includes Stack Optimization Tools, which enable lightweight server builds that are up to 95% smaller, more secure, with reduced memory, processor and disk usage. For standard server builds, visualization and stack optimization tools enable users to analyze servers by role-based OS profile and then optimize by package group, file type or directory hierarchy with dynamic size calculations that support the assessment.
Intelligent Stack Editor provides a graphical dashboard for configuration and customization of optimized logical servers, including complex multi-tiered applications; and configuration settings enable policy-based, hierarchical configuration settings to be applied to logical servers or groups of logical servers to customize network information, security policies, environment variables, application configuration files, enable shell scripts.
Fastscale's software repository centralizes version management, tracking, traceability, and reproducibility of software assets; and dynamic provisioning allows logical servers to be deployed on-demand to VMware Infrastructure, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or bare metal servers. For more information, go here.


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Dear Readers, the death of Tillie’s father has once again caused me to be unable to post a study for a while. We spent the last two weeks in PA helping to pack up the house and three garages, which were full of a lifetime of accumulation. I finally have been able to get back to our study of Isaiah.
In the last essay we studied Isaiah 13:1-23:18, though we focused on chapters 13-14. We saw that the section as a whole was a fairly lengthy series of oracles of judgment against basically all of the nations of the Near East, nearly all of which at one time or another had been an enemy of Israel [Tyre was not.]. In this essay we are studying chapters 24-25, which form a unit in which we see what John Oswalt terms “The Strong City Laid Waste.” Isaiah’s larger point here is that God is the master of the nations. Therefore, following God’s judgment on the various nations in chapters 13-23, we shall see in chapters 24-25 God’s triumph over the nations. In chapter 24 Isaiah approaches judgment not in terms of individual nations, but in terms of the earth as a whole. Isaiah pictures God as destroying the world. And the world is represented by an unnamed great city that symbolizes the human pride and arrogance of the entire earth. Then in chapter 25 we shall see the response to that destruction.
In 24:1-6 Isaiah paints a picture of worldwide destruction. Notice that everyone will be affected regardless of rank, wealth or class (v. 2). Notice also in verse three why Isaiah confidently can make this prediction. It is because “the Lord has spoken this word.” Verses 4-6 further develop the desolation of the earth. There will be catastrophic drought (v. 4). There will be major pollution (v. 5). I assume that Christian environmentalists use this verse to good advantage. Verse six tells us that Isaiah thought of this coming desolation as a curse on the earth; and he predicts a huge decrease in population because of these things.
The succeeding verses are unified by recurring references to wine and harvest (vv. 7, 8, 9, 11, 13). Indeed only a couple of the verses do not have such a reference. Traditionally the grape harvest was a time of joy and fun in celebration of the successful harvest. This took place during the lull between the grape harvest and the late fall plowing and planting. However, if the harvest was poor, that is unsuccessful, then the end of harvest was not a time of fun and play. And these verses capture the latter situation.
Verses seven tells us, “the new wine dries up.” That would be a natural result of prolonged drought. As a consequence, fun-filled celebrations are cancelled (v. 8). Whatever drinking takes place is done without gladness. And there is no singing (v. 9).
In verses 10-13 we see the image of a city representing the earth. Isaiah calls it the “city of chaos.” Oswalt and the NRSV both translate, “The city of chaos is broken down.” The NIV translates it “The ruined city lies desolate.” In any case Isaiah shifts from the partying, or lack thereof, to the city in which the partying ordinarily would take place. Instead of a happy place, it is a silent place. Instead of a place of openness, it is closed up and chaotic. An outcry for wine rises from the streets. Oswalt suggests that this may be coming from those who are alcohol dependent. At any rate, only desolation remains.
Verse 13 returns us to the worldwide nature of the judgment that we saw in verses 1-6. The whole world will be like olive trees or grape vines that already have been harvested. Only a few olives or grapes can be found.
Verses 14-16 present a serious problem for interpreters, because of the joy expressed. Oswalt suggests that the verses represent the response of those who were oppressed by the city when she is destroyed. They may be suffering like everyone else, but at least the oppressors are “getting theirs.” And that brings joy to their hearts.
Notice that the expressions of joy come from both East and West, indeed from the ends of the earth. But notice in the second half of verse 16 that the prophet cannot bring himself to join in on the celebration, because he still sees the world’s evils that have not yet been destroyed. He is especially concerned about the seemingly endless treachery on the earth.
Following the brief glance at the joy experienced over the destruction of the city of chaos in verses 14-16a, Isaiah returns to the theme of the coming judgment. Verses 17-20 point to the terrors that the earth’s inhabitants will experience and the breakdown of the earth itself. In other words, even the earth cannot be depended upon. Notice the interesting images in verse 20 that Isaiah uses to picture the earth’s brokenness. “The earth staggers like a drunkard, it sways like a hut, meaning a temporary shelter. Both images are images of instability. The earth will totter in an unstable way before its final demise.
Then in verses 21-23 Isaiah extends the judgment to the heavenly realm. All of the wicked from both heaven and earth will be imprisoned and punished (v. 22). When the Lord’s full glory is seen, even the sun and moon (the brightest lights in the heavens) will hang their heads in shame. And finally, the Lord will reign supreme on Mt. Zion (and everywhere else for that matter). From Israel’s perspective, God alone will at last be Israel’s King.
As I mentioned at the beginning, chapter 25 is a response to God’s acts of judgment, especially the destruction of the earth and its symbolic city. Verses 1-5 contain a song of thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in caring for and delivering his people. The first thing to notice here is the very personal nature of the opening verse of the song: “O Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you.” This is a good reminder that even when God is working in behalf of his people as a whole, it still is a very personal salvation to the individuals involved.
Oswalt says that these verses show a couple of things. One, they show that an appropriate response to God’s acts is an important part of the redemptive process. And two, they show that the proper response is one of love and joy.
Notice in verse one that the wonderful things God has done were “plans formed of old.” In other words they are part of the divine plan for the universe. None of this comes as a surprise to God.
The city referred to in verse two is the same city that was destroyed in chapter 24. It is the “city of chaos,” the city that represents in Oswalt’s words all of the “arrogant bastions of power that have crushed the righteous through all of time” (p. 461).
Verses 3-5 provide the results of the destruction of the city. Notice the “therefore” at the beginning of verse three. Therefore God will be glorified and feared, because he had been a refuge for the poor and needy. Isaiah uses two extremes of weather common in the Near East to illustrate: the sudden thunderstorm that can cause flash floods and searing heat. God has sheltered the poor and oppressed in a way similar to the way a cloud shelters one from the sun.
It was customary in the Near East for a new king, when he was crowned and began his reign, to give a huge feast at which he bestowed favors. That is the picture Isaiah is presenting in verse six. But in verses 7-8, he offers a picture that goes far beyond his own time. He says that the “shroud of death” would be destroyed “on this mountain,” meaning Mt. Zion. Notice that death is not merely removed. It is swallowed up “forever.” That is, it is a complete, eternal destruction.
Wow! For the Christian, that can only be a prophecy of the death and resurrection of Jesus. For it was when Jesus died on the cross that humanity’s sin and death were defeated once and for all. And notice that this is for “all peoples” (v. 7). Then “God will wipe away the tears from all faces.” That is such a tender picture. Isaiah could have simply said that God will remove the sorrow connected with death. But he pictures God tenderly wiping the tears from each face. Notice that he also will take away the “disgrace” or “reproach” of his people. Those are the results when death is conquered and we feast on eternal life. Praise the Lord!
In the last section of chapter 25, Isaiah returns to the theme of joy expressed because of God’s salvation. Notice the personal element again in verse nine: “This is our God.” Notice also that the faithful remnant had a confident expectation that is now fulfilled. And that is the source of their joy. In verses 10b-12 Isaiah gives one more word of judgment. The same divine hand that will rest on Mt. Zion in blessing will strike down the “Moabites.” By “Moabites” Isaiah meant all of the nations that will suffer God’s judgment. The picture he paints is two-fold. First, he pictures them as sinking down into a kind of “quicksand” of barnyard dirt. And second, he uses a more conventional picture of their fortifications and walls being brought down.


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Danish brand Dynaudio's Evidence speakers represent the design flagship of the company. No longer prepared only to provide OEM drive units to the likes of Meadowlark, the Dynaudio folks are doing it for themselves - with style and no sense of compromise.
But there's a substantial ticket attached to these boxes; their cost could add an extension to your home. A total of £51,000 on a set of left and right speakers, or a new conservatory with built-in spa tub? Replace the family car with a decent second-hand luxo-barge for £12,500 or simply get the centre speaker to match the massive left and right set?
Lastly, in order to create a fivechannel surround array, you will need to get a pair of the slightly smaller rears for a snip-like £22,000. Meet the Master Evidence, the Evidence Centre and the Evidence Temptations.
The basic design of the Evidence system is actually modular and quite simple. First off, all the central zones of the three models are identical and begin with a massive 40mm billet of aluminium which is CNC precision-cut to house two fabric dome tweeters and two smaller 150mm mid-range drivers.
Dynaudio creates every part of each driver. From machining yoke pieces out of steel to winding aluminium wire voice coils and assembling all the drive units, everything is done in-house, with no sourcing of parts from subcontractors.
Starting at the enormous thick baffle, the tweeters are in vertical pairs and look like they should be doing the same thing as each other. However, and despite my describing each of these designs as a three-way speaker in the spec box, it's possible, according to a source, that the HF units are doing slightly different passbands to each other so as to make each driver work less hard and sound better.
So, oddly enough, where you would expect three different models of loudspeaker with the same paired 28mm neodymium magnet and ferrofluid loaded tweeters, to all reach the same upwards frequency extension, they do not. The Master Evidence's passband goes up to 26,000Hz, while the smaller rear-use Evidence Temptations reach up to 25,000Hz and the Evidence Centre only manages 23,000Hz.
Above and below the paired tweeters are the 150mm mid-range drivers. Again, you expect them to be playing the same passband as each other but they may not be. This central section is common to all three.
The difference is that while the Centre and the Temptations have one single WBT set of speaker connection points each at one end, the Master Evidences are built to be made from three enclosures - top, middle and base.
The single speaker connection is low on the body but as the top and middle sections need their watts, a set of WBTs take the speaker power from the bottom up to the middle where it splits and is sent to the top and lower bass enclosures. This results in a mass of WBT connections and some meaty jumper leads (provided) that make the central front-to-back dimension read a few millimetres more than the others.
Each speaker gets a low frequency section. In the centre this is performed by two 170mm drivers, one per side of the high/mid array. In the Temptations, two 170mm drivers are used in each upper and lower enclosure - still a separate box despite being shipped as a single whole unit, while the three-box and bolt-together Master Evidences get two bigger 200mm drivers per bass enclosure.
These small sized drivers are housed in enclosures that reach back, so just how far down they can play with total, utter grip and control is therefore seriously impressive.
So how does an £85,000 speaker system sound? In a word: astonishing.
Playing familiar movies on this system is like playing them again for the first time. I heard stuff on very old soundtracks I had never heard before. How about the sound of kids playing under the voice over at the very beginning of T2? Just before the metal foot crushes the skull. It is at least 30dB into the background and was clear as a bell through these.
The football the monster gets in the face in Monsters. Inc's opening scene hits so hard and with such a vinyl-esque 'ping!' you feel like it hit you in the face. And the barracuda's, 'Snap!' at the start of Finding Nemo simply terrifies.
However, despite my awed reaction to a set of speakers so posh, I did think that for the almost limitless cost, there should be some information or throb going on down to a decently low, 20Hz minimum. I gather from the factory that three of its biggest active woofers per side would match the system I listened to. Certainly, the sound was uncoloured. The speakers were as transparent and exhilarating as a summer's day.
Every so often, you encounter products which transcend the norm. These hideously priced Dynaudio's are such a product. They combine utterly delicious resolution and astonishing power with total lack of compression. The result is imaging and staging divorced from enclosures.
These are statement products. To say that I want them for my own so bad it hurts, is obvious. To say that I want to be able to financially aspire to think about owning them at all, even more so. But for all you Posh & Becks out there, my message is simple: buy 'em - you won't be sorry.


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For Kelly Preston and John Travolta, "our kids are the center of our universe," the Old Dogs actress said on Lifetime's The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet Thursday.
Preston added: "I'm so different, too. Now I don't drink anymore. I don't smoke anymore. I don't do drugs anymore. All of those come with an 'anymore.' I used to do everything and a lot of everything."
For Preston, the decision to get sober wasn't difficult. "With drinking, I just decided that I wasn't always at my best. There were times where I drank too much, for sure."
The actress — married to Travolta since 1991 — also disliked "not being myself with my kids, or just with my life 100 percent of the time. And when I didn't drink, I felt amazing, and I woke up feeling amazing every single day."
Said Preston: "For me, I find that our kids came in half the time to teach me about myself and to help me with others, and they have helped me so extraordinarily."
Preston's interview was conducted months before Travolta was accused of sexual battery by two male masseurs. The Saturday Night Fever actor's lawyer, Marty Singer, has denied the allegations.


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Benjamin L. Corey is a cultural anthropologist and public theologian with a passion for dissecting the overlap between faith and culture, and exploring the mission of the Church. He received his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. His research centred upon the development of a personal theology of shalom in the context of human trafficking aftercare to enable those in treatment for trauma to achieve a higher degree of personal wholeness and flourishing.
Di Rayson lectures in both theological studies and epistemologies in humanities at the University of Newcastle. As well as a doctorate in Theology, Di holds a Master of Public Health and has worked in public policy and community development in PNG, the Northern Territory, and NSW. Her research interests surround Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s potential to influence eco-theological and eco-ethical thinking in the current era.
Mark Harris lectures in theology and ministry formation at St John’s Theological College, Auckland. He is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church, and holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Cambridge. Mark loves translating theological concepts into language that everyone can engage with, and deeply believes that prayer and theology go hand in hand and should overflow into a life of love and service.
Geoff Troughton is a senior lecturer in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University. His research focuses on religion in New Zealand society and history, and more broadly on the history of Christianity, addressing a wide range of topics and traditions within these general areas. Recent writing has included work on peacemaking, missions, religion and welfare, alcohol, secularisation, politics, and childhood. His current research explores the peace dimension in early missionary Christianity in New Zealand.
Courtney Menary (Ngati Toa Rangatira, Te Ati Awa, Niue) has been a member of Urban Vision for six years, living at Ngatiawa River Monastery for the past five. After completing an MA in English Literature from Victoria University, she began pursuing a DMin through Adelaide College of Divinity. Her current research focuses on contextual theology and indigenous/Māori theological reflection. She has served for four years as a Kai Karakia at Rangiātea Church in Ōtaki.


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“The devil’s music.” That’s how the blues has long been characterized. So what was I doing siting in a church listening to the blues last Sunday afternoon? Well, I’ll get to that in a minute but first it’s interesting to reflect on why the blues acquired this reputation.
One of the main reasons, however, is the well-known myth surrounding blues great Robert Johnson who died in 1938 at the age of 27. One of the first blues artists to be recorded, he was a major influence on musicians such as Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan. It’s said that his extraordinary talent, with no formal training, was a result of a meeting with the devil at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he sold his soul in exchange for guitar-playing prowess.
As a big fan of the blues and a Christian, I naturally don’t subscribe to the idea that it’s the “devil’s music.” This is why I was delighted that the Hingham Congregational Church recently held a concert featuring 82-year-old Mississippi bluesman Leo “Bud” Welch. His is a remarkable story: Born in Sabougla, Mississippi, in 1932 he first picked picked up a guitar in 1945 — his older cousin’s instrument that he was expressly forbidden to touch. Eventually he was caught but his cousin was impressed by his ability and let him continue to play.
By the age of 15 Bud was playing publicly but for most of his life he made his living as a logger, hauling a chain saw up and down the hills of North Mississippi. He remained an undiscovered talent for years until recording his first album, Sabougla Voices, this January, two month’s shy of his 82nd birthday.
As I sat enthralled listening to Bud Welch’s playing and singing, I started thinking about the season of Lent. We’re in the midst of the Church’s 40-day season of penitence and self-examination that serves as preparation for Easter. Lent is based on Jesus’ experience in the wilderness that followed his baptism in the Jordan River and preceded the start of his public ministry. During this time, we read in Scripture, he was tempted by the devil yet did not sin. So perhaps listening to the blues in a church is particularly poignant during Lent. Jesus can relate to us and understand our own struggles because he knew them first-hand. And even when we give in to temptation, as we inevitably do, Jesus still loves us despite our weakness.
Bud Welch doesn’t think of the blues as the devil’s music but rather as “a way of expressing the highs and lows of one’s life through song.” I couldn’t agree more and this is precisely why I’m so drawn to the music. I don’t think of the blues as depressing — indeed there are moments of joy and triumph in the genre along with heartache and pain. In a word, the blues is life. Our lives are full of hills and valleys leading to a rich topography of experience. If you aren’t familiar with the blues, I encourage you to give them a listen. Reflecting on the tough times and temptations of our own lives always makes the resurrection on Easter Day that much more powerful.
The emotions surrounding the anniversary of a loved one’s death are…unpredictable. We may be gripped by barely controllable feelings — especially when the grief is raw. Yet in some years the day may slip past with barely a whisper of awareness. In both cases, I find solace and joy in reaching out to those whose lives are connected to my own through the person we’ve lost.
While I keep the anniversary of my father’s death on my calendar — as if I could ever forget February 19, 1992 — there’s something about keeping a date with grief that feels peculiar. I’m often moved at times I don’t expect and in ways I least suspect. Perhaps I glimpse someone at a ballgame who shares a physical feature with my dad — his smile or the tenor of his voice. Or I encounter an object in the far recesses of my closest that serves as a talisman to a particularly vivid memory. Maybe it’s a smell that evokes time spent together in a way that is forever lost.
I was surprised at the degree to which the anniversary of my father’s death affected me today. Twenty-two years isn’t a particularly memorable number. Yet I woke up very aware that I’ve now lived more of my life without his physical presence than with it. This day is always tinged with regret as the seminal events in my life — the ones he missed — dance through my head. He never met my wife Bryna or sons Ben and Zack. He never knew of my calling to the priesthood or how my life has unfolded as an adult. And yet he continues to have a major impact on me every single day — in my faith, my parenting, my approach to married life, my vocational passion, my personality, my values.
Sure, his musical talent (he was a symphony orchestra conductor) wasn’t as hereditary as I might have hoped, but none of us are exact replicas of our parents. [Here’s the obituary from the Baltimore Sun if you’re interested — I just reread it for the first time in years and it still breaks my heart].
Of course “keeping a date with grief” is precisely what we do when we commemorate saints in the Church. We remember these men and women who have come before us in the faith on the anniversaries of their deaths rather than their birthdays. Why? Because we celebrate their lives in the context of Jesus’ resurrection and we see their deaths as glorious moments of reunion with the risen Christ.
The Good News of the Christian faith is that death is not the end — it is merely a temporary farewell. That’s the glory of the Easter message and it’s why, while the pain of loss endures, hope always transcends grief.
If you’re part of a faith community, I encourage you to share these special anniversaries with one another. There’s no reason we must bear them in isolation. To be human is to know grief and we are called to share one another’s burdens. Make an appointment to speak with a member of the clergy on an upcoming anniversary in your own life or call a friend for a coffee date. Shared experience and empathy are two of the great spiritual gifts we can offer our fellow pilgrims on this journey of life and faith.


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The post-Cold War era has seen an increase in peace keeping missions, and so called multilateral peace building initiatives. The same period has witnessed a significant increase in the number and size of humanitarian operations in conflict affected areas, as well as the number of organisations that deem themselves as humanitarian. However, this growth has not been accompanied by improvements or the necessary changes in approaches.
Peace-building, and peace keeping which often precedes it and forms a component of it, in the past focused on the role of a neutral and often multilateral force made up of soldiers from countries with no discernible stake in the outcome. This force would be tasked with observing and monitoring an existing ceasefire, with limited military means that could be applied in self-defence. Yet recently, peace keeping and peace building have taken on a more partisan role and functioned specially in conflicts characterised as ‘asymmetrical’ or in conflicts characterised as counterinsurgency or civil conflicts. In addition, the mandates have been extended to include strong focus on protection of civilians, as part of contemporary peacekeeping and peace-building.
In the same vein, the face and practice of humanitarian operations and humanitarianism have also changed. Humanitarianism and humanitarian aid, have grown into a massive system made up of a myriad of different international, national and local organisations. In 2015 the monetary value of humanitarian response amounted to $24.5B. The changes in the scope of humanitarian operations have occurred in parallel with shifts in practices and a much more broadened interpretation of the core principles and functions of humanitarian aid. As donors started to fund humanitarian aid in combination with development aid, the landscape, conduct and actions of humanitarian aid, has become entangled with inherently political intentions and agenda, euphemistically referred to as ‘State building’, ‘peace building’, ‘resilience’, ‘bridging the gap’, and ‘addressing root causes of conflict’.
There are three problems with these changes in humanitarian aid and how these have unfolded. Firstly, the intentions that inform the notion and desire of building peace and the s Wolrdtate, stems from a narrative of liberal democracy, sponsored by Western donors with a clear ideological and political objective. When humanitarian organisations finds themselves as part of a process whose ultimate aim and objective is an ideological endeavour and end point, pure humanitarian objectives cannot possibly take centre stage. Secondly, regardless of the ideological background that informs the agenda, when humanitarian action and agencies become the proponents of a process that aims to support a process favouring one particular party to a conflict, be that a State, community or individual in the name of building peace, a side has been chosen. Third is the trajectory that humanitarianism will now take, or in some cases has taken already. This trajectory diluting the principles by expanding the role and scope, seems increasingly irreversible.
The imperative of humanitarian action is to save lives and alleviate suffering, and the principles informing this action are those of impartiality, independence and neutrality. Impartiality is instantly undermined when humanitarian aid is given as part of a larger political process and no longer according to needs. The principle of independence is rendered null and void, when ‘he who pays the piper, picks the tune’, i.e. those in command of the funds in fact have the control to determine where means are allocated, or as more often seen, where they are not allocated. It is when humanitarian aid is given in the name of peace building, and no longer based on needs, that the aid becomes political and no longer strictly humanitarian.
In other words, the very essence of humanitarianism is hijacked. Neutrality becomes pertinent, especially as the majority of conflicts in Africa today are increasingly intra-state conflicts, as opposed to international conflicts of state on state. So when humanitarian aid and international donors firmly positions themselves on the side of the State, the final principle of neutrality, is well lost in the process of well-meaning objectives. All of which will do more to damage principled humanitarian aid, than actually building peace.
A recent report from the Overseas Development Institute, a proponent of many of the above mergers of humanitarian action and political processes, has in the same vein suggested that humanitarian organisations should in fact work closer with development partners; and that purely principled humanitarian action would be better left to a limited number of contexts and organisations.
While development practitioners and scholars are imploring the notion of ‘ we can’t do one without the other’ on humanitarian aid, peace building encroaches on the realm of humanitarian aid, thus blurring the lines between all three distinct concepts under the hubris of collaboration, coordination, remaking humanitarian actions and peace building. Ultimately, this simply dilutes humanitarian action into everything and essentially nothing. Consequently, this undermines what humanitarianism seeks to achieve: the rights of the individual to receive assistance, medical care or food, purely based on the needs of the individual or the specific group.
The notion of the humanitarian imperative and the good intentions of saving lives, is an alluring one. Hence we have seen a high demand for the humanitarian ‘service’ and the obvious need for co-option of the term humanitarian operation. In the past, this have been illustrated both in the aim of political, military and developmental objectives. ‘Humanitarian interventions’ have been carried out, in the name of humanitarian imperatives of saving lives, yet with aim of regime change in Libya, Iraq and Yugoslavia’; ‘humanitarian operations’ have been part of the strategy of winning hearts and minds of civilian populations within an area seized through military operations and deemed safe and eligible of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, DRC and Mali.
There is nothing wrong per se, with either peace- or state-building. It is with the underlying intentions and motives in mind that the nexus of peace building and humanitarianism, must be closely examined.
Scrutiny is needed of the particular context or conflict environment in which humanitarian agencies operate and what motivates donors, international agencies, peace-making actors and militaries, when they invoke humanitarian imperatives and operations. The growing call for humanitarian agencies to be conflict sensitive, and take into account local, communal, national and regional dynamics, requires a deeper interrogation of what lies behind the services that are provided, as part of peace building, and what interests inform such actions. Most often these are not strictly related to the core objectives of humanitarianism, nor to the basic principles that such operations should require.
Nonetheless, the two phenomena are not mutually exclusive. However, it can only be a coexistence based on a thorough understanding of the roles, responsibilities and limitations of each in a given conflict environment. In fact, a respect of the boundaries will be what is best that everyone can contribute to one another and to those that they strive to assist. Humanitarian aid cannot build peace and peace building cannot save lives in an impartial manner during moments of emergency and conflict.
In his report ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit to be held in Istanbul this year, the Secretary General of the UN indicates that the practices of donors in terms of funding for development and humanitarian aid, may lead to fragmentation and develop incentives for these to work in isolation. In the words of the Secretary General, it requires different ways of working, in order to meet the need of 120 million people who are experiencing insufficient dividends of development and peace-building. Greater investments are needed to ensure that growing humanitarian needs are addressed and the vulnerability of people in the medium and long term are reduced, including greater attention to early warning, conflict prevention and peace-building.
Yet as we have witnessed in South Sudan when the country broke into conflict in late 2013, the results of merging and lumping everything and everyone into a nexus of shared responsibility, comes at the detriment of the people who suffer the consequences of lack of development and poor peace-building.  It is possible to invest in the future, which would entail development and peace-building, looking forward hoping for a return; but it is not permissible to ignore responding acutely when people’s lives are at stake, which is what humanitarian aid is about. It is deplorable to plan ahead for people in need, when not being able to assist them when their needs may be greatest.
By Jens Pedersen. Photo by Nicolas Postal © MSF, 2007.
This post originally appeared on the Life & Peace Institute website.


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Cloud computing is the future, we're told: you get to access your data from anywhere, and the big companies involved will look after it for you.
And there's some truth in that, too, but what if your account gets hacked? Or deleted? The online service could go down for a day or two, lose some data, perhaps even close down, leaving you out in the cold.
The reality is it's still a good idea to back up your data, even from the cloud. And fortunately there are plenty of free and easy ways to help you do exactly that. Here are 15 ways to back up your cloud data.
Some webmail services include simple ways to back up your data. Windows Live Hotmail, for instance, comes with export options (Tools > Accounts > (select an account ) > Export) to save your contacts and messages.
And in Gmail, enabling forwarding (Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP) lets you copy incoming mail to the address of your choice. Or selecting "Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)" allows you to import your current inbox from any PC-based email client.
If that's not quite enough then there are third-party tools that can help. Gmail Backup is simple: just enter your login details and it'll back up the Inbox for you. Gmail Keeper has more features, including a scheduler that will backups automatically, but the trial version only backs up one profile and a maximum of 300 emails. Upgrading costs a chunky $29.95.
If you're looking to back up your social networking profiles then Teasker looks hard to beat. Just sign up for free, add your login details and it will automatically run a weekly backup of your Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, Friendster and Bebo accounts, and can restore then if anything goes wrong.
It's a very new service, though, and we've seen very mixed reports on Teasker's reliability. So if you'd rather not take any risks then you may SocialSafe, a more professional tool costing a mere $2.99 that will back up your photos, profiles and list of friends (though sadly not your inbox, groups, apps or wall).
Tweet Scan Backup can grab your tweets, replies, friends, followers and more, creating an archive that's easy to view offline in your web browser.
Meanwhile BackupMyTweets will proactively back up new tweets every day, then make them downloadable in HTML, XML, or JSON formats.
Twistory adds your tweets to a calendar app for easy browsing, and Twinbox lets you receive tweets in Outlook, so you can organise and back them up in the same way that you manage your email.
Alternatively, you could simply record your tweet feed with an RSS reader like FeedDemon. The latest version comes optimised for Twitter feed reading with features like automatic hyperlinks and a short uRL expansion view.


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As part of World Book Day, all the children in Year 6 wrote short stories as part of a competition.
The children selected some of these stories and made them into podcasts.
Please listen to a few of these stories.


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