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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Airplane/Beach Reading & "Other"
Absolute Power by David Baldacci - I think this is the best of his novels. Though the others are also good airplane reading.
Angels & Demons & Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Very clever, reasonably well written thrillers. Despite the hype about Da Vinci Code, I thought Angels & Demons was better. Also read his earlier 2 books, Deception Point and Digital Fortress, which were ok, but not as good.
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer – One of the better airplane books I’ve read in a while. A young aide is injured during an assassination attempt on the President, and a close friend of the President’s is killed. Eight years later, the aide sees the supposedly dead friend of the President – and then (of course), he has to figure out what’s going on. It’s engaging and entertaining.
“Burglar” books by Lawrence Block – eg, Burglars Can’t be Choosers, The Burglar who Studied Spinoza, The Burglar who Liked to Quote Kipling, The Burglar in the Rye, etc. The main character is a bookseller by day, burglar by night and, of course, something always goes awry involving him in a mystery, which he solves with a whimsical, dry sense of humor.
John Dunning novels – The main character is a cop who becomes rare book dealer. The stories are mysteries related to rare books. Fun reading – and the book collecting aspect intrigued me.
The Eight by Katherine Neville - smart, entertaining book about 2 women in different centuries; story revolves around a chess set. Entertaining novel. Very clever. Her second and third novels, A Calculated Risk and The Magic Circle, were bad and worse.
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn – Ella Minnow Pea lives on the island of Nollop, named for Nevin Nollop, who came up with the pangram (a sentence containing all letters of the alphabet), “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” As the letters from this sentence fall off a building in the town, the town council decrees that those letters may no longer be used – and they disappear from the book. To regain the use of the full alphabet, the town has to come up with a pangram that’s no longer than 32 letters. It’s a creative, fun read - particularly toward the end, when you’re deciphering letters written without using most of the alphabet.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde – Hitchhikers Guide meets the Classics. This is this author’s first novel and it’s great – very clever, well-written, lots of word play, and thoroughly entertaining. Set in an altered version of London in 1985, literature is so important, there’s a division of the “police” that handles “literary crimes” (like forging Byronic verse), time-travel is common, and (some) people can move between the “real” world and the worlds in literature. The heroine is a “Literary Detective” chasing a bad guy who’s kidnapping characters out of literature. I’ve also read his second book “Lost in a Good Book”, and his third (can’t remember the title) but they weren’t as good.
Fourth Procedure by Stanley Pottinger - medical thriller with a great plot twist. excellent beach reading. This was his first book. The second one - titled something like "Slow Burning" wasn't nearly as good.
The Hanged Man's Song by John Sandford – I’ve read and enjoyed most of Sandford’s ‘Prey” series, so I bought this to read on the beach in Mexico. This is one of his series with a main character named Kidd, who’s a programmer/hacker. Kidd finds a friend brutally murdered, and his laptop (containing a lot of potentially harmful information about a lot of people) is missing, so (of course) Kidd and his wise-cracking hacker friends have to go after the murderer, find the laptop and revenge their friend’s murder. It contains some fun MacGuyver-like creativity related to hacking and breaking and entering. Overall, it’s entertaining and light… Just right for the beach.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams –I’ve started this book several times over several years, but never actually finished it until now. It’s silly, amusing, funny and sometimes very witty. I enjoyed it. (And now I know where Alta Vista’s Babel Fish got its name. Cool!)
Greg Iles – I don’t remember which of his books I read first, but I liked it, and then read all his other books. Good airplane reading.
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell – Flaky, almost 30-yr-old New Yorker with a boring, dead-end job decides to cook every recipe (524 of them) in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year. So for a year, she cooks and blogs about it. Very amusing and sometimes laugh out loud funny.
Lion’s Game by Nelson DeMille – entertaining airplane/beach book. I read all the rest of DeMille’s prior books and enjoyed them. His more recent books have been lackluster.
My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan. This one should be in its own “total trash” category, but it’s hilariously funny (particularly the first half) and extremely well-written. The soap-operatic plot twists and characters get a bit old in the second half, but it’s fun reading regardless. The author was a long-time writer for Frasier and this book is filled with that sharp, smart wit. Great summer reading.
Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag – After giving up on PG Wodehouse (see reject pile for that story), I was looking for some “good” trash to read, and this paperback was right at the door when I walked into Barnes & Noble. It’s a decent airplane book – gory murder, liberal judge who’s in danger, wise-cracking cops, and even the (completely expected) twist toward the end. It’s a quick, entertaining and completely undemanding read.
Poetry: Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins – I’m not a poetry connoisseur, but I really enoyed this collection. The poems are clever, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes humorous.
Daniel Silva novels – I read several of these and enjoyed them. Main character is a Mossad agent who’s also an art restorer. Very entertaining.
And my favorite CD of the past several months: The Soul Sessions by Joss Stone. The story is that she was about to record yet another “Britney Spears wannabe CD” when she heard some of the classics of soul and she changed direction. This CD is fantastic. It’s hard to believe this is a 16-yr old British girl.
Sphere by Michael Crighton - very engaging novel about a spherical space ship lying on the floor of the ocean. Great beach reading.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson - laugh-out-loud-funny book about hiking the Appalachian Trail. His book about Australia (In a Sunburned Country) is also good, but not as good.


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Israeli forces destroy a building in a Palestinian village of Sur Baher, east Jerusalem, July 22, 2019. Israeli work crews have begun demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighborhood. Monday's demolitions cap a years-long legal battle over the buildings, which straddle the city and the occupied West Bank. (MAHMOUD ILLEAN / AP)
SUR BAHER, West Bank - Israeli forces began demolishing Palestinian homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, in the face of protests and international criticism.
They have been evacuating people from their homes by force and they have started planting explosives in the homes they want to destroy
Hamada Hamada, Community Leader
Bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police moved in to Sur Baher, a Palestinian village on the edge of East Jerusalem in an area that Israel captured and occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.
Palestinians fear that the razing of village buildings near the fence will set a precedent for other towns along the route of the barrier, which runs for hundreds of kilometres around and through the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The demolition is the latest round of protracted wrangling over the future of Jerusalem, home to more than 500,000 Israelis and 300,000 Palestinians, and sites sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Israeli forces cut through a wire section of the barrier in Sur Baher under cover of darkness early on Monday, and began clearing residents.
Bulldozers and mechanical diggers began tearing down homes on both sides of the barrier as security forces prepared a partly constructed nine-storey building for demolition.
"They have been evacuating people from their homes by force and they have started planting explosives in the homes they want to destroy," said Hamada Hamada, a community leader.
Israel's Supreme Court ruled in June that the structures violated a construction ban. The deadline for residents to remove the affected buildings, or parts of them, was Friday.
But Palestinian owners said their buildings lay within areas run by the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces destroy a building in a Palestinian village of Sur Baher, east Jerusalem, July 22, 2019. (MAHMOUD ILLEAN / AP)
"I built this house stone by stone. It was my dream to live in this house. Now I am losing everything," said Fadi al-Wahash, 37, his voice breaking as a bulldozer destroyed his unfinished three-floor house.
"I had a permit to build from the Palestinian Authority. I thought I was doing the right thing," he said.
Israeli Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said 700 police and 200 soldiers were involved.
"Despite an order from the military commander, the residents there are making their own law, building. There are hundreds of illegal structures," he told Israel's Army Radio.
"To my regret there is no sufficient governance there. But it is not just that there are hundreds of structures there -- several dozens of them sit almost on the route of the separation fence, endangering the security forces that operate there."
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the Palestinians would complain to the International Criminal Court about the demolitions in Sur Baher.
"The cabinet condemns this grave aggression. This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands -- a war crime and a crime against humanity," Shtayyeh said.
Sur Baher's political geography is complicated. Parts of the sprawling village lie inside the municipal boundary of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem and parts outside the barrier, in the West Bank. But some lies in between: just outside the Jerusalem line but still on the Israeli side of the barrier.
Palestinian officials said some of the threatened structures lie within their areas of control.
The Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement in the build-up to the demolition accusing the Israeli court of aiming "to set a precedent to enable the Israeli occupying forces to demolish numerous Palestinian buildings located in close proximity" to the barrier.
Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator, and other U.N. officials called on the Israeli authorities last week to halt the demolition plans. They said 17 Palestinians faced displacement from the plans to level 10 buildings, including dozens of apartments.
The European Union issued a statement saying: "The continuation of this policy undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for a lasting peace."
But the Israeli Supreme Court's three-judge panel ruled unanimously in favour of demolition. "The petitioners took the law into their own hands when they began and continued building structures without receiving a special permit from the military commander," it said.
The court said construction close to the barrier could provide cover for attackers.
Israel credits the obstacle -- projected to be 720 km long when complete -- with stemming Palestinian suicide bombings and shooting attacks. Palestinians call it a land grab designed to annex parts of the West Bank, including Israeli settlements.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague issued an advisory opinion in 2004 that building the barrier on occupied territory was "contrary to international law".
Israel dismissed the non-binding decision as politically motivated and says the barrier played a key role in drastically reducing the number of attacks.
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Improving the Theory in Density Functional Theory
- Attila Cangi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
- Eberhard K.U. Gross (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany)
- Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Application deadline has passed.
While we still consider applications, participants will only be accepted as space opens up due to cancellations.
While density functional theory (DFT) is being applied successfully in ever more areas of science , the theory behind it [2, 3, 4, 5] is rarely covered at sufficient depth at international conferences which are usually dominated by a plethora of applications in specific fields. The unique aim of this conference is provide an interactive venue for DFT developers for discussing (1) the theoretical developments rather than computational methods or specific applications and (2) the current theoretical challenges DFT is facing. The ultimate goal of this conference is to identify methods and approaches needed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the current state-of-the-art and hence make DFT systematic and reliably applicable beyond its current scope.
The balance between low computational cost and useful (but not yet chemical) accuracy has made DFT [6, 7] and its time-dependent formulation  (TDDFT) a standard technique in most branches of chemistry and materials science. DFT is useful, in fact, for a dazzling variety of electronic structure problems. Furthermore, it is increasingly applied beyond its traditional scope and validity in order to solve electronic structure problems under extreme conditions . However, DFT has many limitations: it requires too many approximations, it presents failures for fundamental gaps and strongly correlated systems, it is too slow for complex systems. In the following, we give a concise compilation of some these limitations.
Exchange-correlation (XC) functionals in DFT
Early approximations such as the local density approximation (LDA), generalized gradient approximations [10, 11, 12, 13], and hybrid functionals[14, 15] have led to a success story. However, further progress in deriving more accurate approximations for a wider scope (such as incorporating long-range van der Waals interactions or curing the self-interaction error) has proved increasingly difficult. This has led to more empiricism in functional construction and, eventually, to a plethora of available approximations. Notwithstanding recent progress in developing more sophisticated approximations such as meta-GGAs , non-local functionals for van-der-Waals interactions [17, 18], range-separated hybrids , or functionals based on the RPA, a clear route for advancing the field does not exist. A striking example of the limitations of the current theory is the metallic KS ground state of strongly correlated Mott insulators. There has been some (limited) progress in the density functional description of strongly correlated lattice models [21, 22, 23, 24, 25], but it is unclear how to turn this insight into a practical density functional scheme for strongly correlated systems. Beyond its traditional scope, DFT has recently been applied to warm dense matter (WDM) [26, 27]. DFT simulations of WDM melt properties and thermal conductivities are crucial for achieving nuclear fusion under laboratory conditions . Furthermore, DFT simulations of WDM can elucidate fundamental questions in planetary sciences, such as the formation processes of planets [29, 30] and the search for exoplanets [31, 32]. The main caveat in these simulations is the lack of XC approximations that properly account for temperature effects .
Exchange-correlation functionals in TDDFT
TDDFT has been successfully applied in predicting excitation spectra of molecules and solids in the linear response regime. Also more complex time-dependent phenomena, such as matter in strong laser fields  and optimal control of electron (spin) dynamics  are continuously being explored through TDDFT. As in static DFT, the greatest challenge is the derivation of accurate approximations to the XC kernel [36, 37, 38]. Currently the standard approach is the adiabatic LDA, where the ground-state LDA functional is evaluated on time-dependent densities [39, 40]. Present limitations and further developments are needed in charge transfer excitations , double excitations , excitons, and alternative approximations to the XC kernel from many-body theory.
Experts and junior researchers (Ph.D. students and postdocs) who currently work in methods development within DFT and related fields.
There will be two types of talks: (1) Invited lectures last for 30 min and are followed by a Q&A time of 15 min; (2) Contributed talks last for 20 min and are followed by a Q&A time of 10 min. Additionally, there will be a poster advertisement session on the first day of the conference during which poster presenters advertise their contribution in a science slam within 5 minutes. Invited talks will be given by both experts and junior scientists.
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Contextualizing North Korean foreign ministry comments on Pompeo
Pyongyang’s latest pronouncement may serve to pave the way for escalating tensions
A “newly appointed director general of the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department for Negotiations with the U.S.” issued a “press statement” on March 30, criticizing U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s remarks on North Korea sanctions after the G7 foreign ministers’ video conference on March 25.
The press statement said Pompeo’s remarks confirmed that the “excellent and solid personal relationship” between Trump and Kim Jong Un “cannot change U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK,” and reiterated North Korea’s pledge to press ahead with its own agenda.
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- 02Timeline: from Kim Jong Un’s reappearance to an exchange of gunfire at the DMZ
- 03North Korea in May 2020: a month in review and what’s ahead
- 04Schrödinger’s sanctions: South Korea plays down the May 24th Measures
- 05Is North Korea privatizing its housing supply? In Rason, partially, yes
- 06At North Korean military meeting, nuclear and personnel issues take precedence
- 07North Korea’s military meets: a renewed focus on nuclear command and control
- 08Fail to prepare, prepare to fail: getting ready for instability in North Korea


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Anthology of World Scriptures: Western Religions / Edition 1by Robert E. Van Voorst
Pub. Date: 03/14/2006
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Van Voorst's ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES: WESTERN RELIGIONS includes readings on Judaism under Christian persecution, Gnosticism, jihad, and the differences between Sunni and Shi'ite Islam. Included in this concise, affordable reader is coverage of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and four new religious movements: Baha'i, the Church of
Van Voorst's ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES: WESTERN RELIGIONS includes readings on Judaism under Christian persecution, Gnosticism, jihad, and the differences between Sunni and Shi'ite Islam. Included in this concise, affordable reader is coverage of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and four new religious movements: Baha'i, the Church of JesusChrist of Latter-Day Saints, Christian Science, and the Unification Church. Van Voorst's characteristic clarity and make this an easy-to-understand and dependable guide to the history, doctrines, ethical systems, structures and rituals of these major Western religions.
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Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. WESTERN SCRIPTURE AMONG THE WORLD''S RELIGIONS. A Brief History of Scripture Scholarship. The Nature and Definition of Scripture. The Uses of Western Scripture. Advantages and Disadvantages of Studying Western Religions through their Scriptures. Western Scriptures and Modern Scholarship. Western Scriptures and the World Wide Web. The Plan of This Book. Suggestions on How to Read Western Scriptures. Glossary. Questions for Study and Discussion. Suggestions for Further Reading. 2. ZOROASTRIANISM. A. Introduction. Overview of Structure. Origin and Development. Use. B. History. The Call of Zarathushtra (Yasna 29). A Hymn of Praise to Zarathushtra (Yasht 24: 87b-94). C. Teaching and Ethics. Hymn to Ahura and the Purifying Fire (Yasna 36). Hymn to Ahura Mazda the Creator (Yasna 37:1-5). The Choice between Good and Evil (Yasna 30). D. Worship and Ritual. The Place of the Gathas (Yasna 55:1-3). The Zoroastrian Confession (Yasna 12). The Four Great Prayers (From the Yasna). Disposal of the Dead (Vendidad, Fargard 6, section 5, 44-51). E. Later Developments of Scriptural Themes. Judgment of the Soul on Chinvat Bridge (Menok I Khrat 2.110-195). Glossary. Questions for Study and Discussion. Suggestions for Further Reading. 3. JUDAISM. A. Introduction. Names. Overview of Structure. Origin and Development. Use. B. History. The Call of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-9). The Call of Moses (Exodus 3:1-20). Crossing the Red Sea (Exodus 14:1-31). The Covenant with Israel (Exodus 19:1-8). A Psalm for David (Psalm 132). Ezra's Enforcement of Torah Observance (Ezra 9:1-7, 13-15; 10:1-12). C. Teaching. The Oneness of God (Deuteronomy 6:1-9). God's Creation of the World (Genesis 1:1-31; 2:1-9, 15-25). The Revolt of Humanity (Genesis 3:1-24). Prayer for Divine Deliverance (Psalm 5). The Messianic King (Isaiah 11:1-9). The Final Judgment of the World (Daniel 7:1-14). Resurrection of the Dead (Daniel 12:1-3). D. Ethics. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-14). Laws on Slaves, Violence, Property (Exodus 21:1-36; 22:15-26). Justice for All (Exodus 23:1-9). Holy War (Deuteronomy 20:1-20). Sexual Love (Song of Songs 1:1-2:17). God's Call to an Unfaithful People (Amos 4:1-13). Two Views of Wisdom (Proverbs 1:1-33; Ecclesiastes 1:1-9). The Virtuous Wife (Proverbs 31:10-31). E. Organization. The Ordination of Priests (Exodus 29:1-37). A Call to Be a Prophet (Isaiah 6:1-13). Women as Judges and Prophets (Judges 4:4-10, 14-16; II Kings 22:11-20). F. Ritual. The Establishment of Circumcision (Genesis 17:9-14, 23-27). The Establishment of the Passover (Exodus 12:1-19, 24-27). The Observance of the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-17). Offerings for the Forgiveness of Sin (Leviticus 4:275:10). The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:1-5, 11-19, 29-34). Kosher and Nonkosher Foods (Leviticus 11:1-31, 41-47). G. Later Developments of Scriptural Themes. The Chain of Rabbinic Tradition: "Sayings of the Fathers" (Mishnah, Aboth 1.1-18). The Replacement of Sacrifice by Study (Babylonian Talmud, Minahot 110a). The Duty to Marry and Have Children (Babylonian Talmud, Yebamoth 61b-63). Why Judaism Survives under Persecution (Maimonides, Letter to Yemen). Glossary. Questions for Study and Discussion. Scriptures in Film. Suggestions for Further Reading. 4. CHRISTIANITY. A. Introduction. Names. Overview of Structure. Origin and Development. Use. B. History. The Birth of Jesus the Messiah (Matthew 1:18-25). Jesus Denounces Pharisees and Lawyers (Luke 11:37-54). Jesus'' Miracles (Luke 8:26-56). The Arrest, Trial, and Death of Jesus (Mark 14:43-50, 53-65; 15:1-41). The Resurrection of Jesus (Mark 16:1-8). The Ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:6-11). The Coming of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-21). Persecution of the Apostles (Acts 5:27-42). The Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:1-21). C. Teaching. The Parables of Jesus (Mark 4:1-34). The Word Became Human (John 1:1-18). Nicodemus Visits Jesus (John 3:1-21). A Sinful Woman Forgiven (Luke 7:36-50). Results of Justification (Romans 5:1-11). The Resurrection of Christ and the Believer (I Corinthians 15:1-11, 35-58). The End of Time (Matthew 25:31-46; Revelation 20:1-21:4). D. Ethics. The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Directions Concerning Marriage (I Corinthians 7:1-16, 25-40). Love (I Corinthians 13:1-13). Ethics in the Christian Household (Ephesians 5:21-6:9). Being Subject to Authorities (Romans 13:1-10). The Fall of Rome (Revelation 17:1-18:5). E. Organization. The Twelve Apostles and Their Mission (Matthew 10:1-15). Matthew's Church Order (Matthew 18:1-10, 15-22). Peter as the Rock (Matthew 16:13-20). Qualifications of Bishops and Deacons (I Timothy 3:1-13). Women in the Early Church (Luke 10:38-42; I Corinthians 11:2-16; Galatians 3:27-28; I Timothy 2:8-15). F. Ritual. The Eucharist (Matthew 26:17-19, 26-29; John 6:22-40, 52-59). Baptism (Matthew 28:16-20; Romans 6:1-14). Confession and Anointing (James 5:13-18). G. Later Developments of Scriptural Themes. The Scripture Canon in Formation (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.27.2; Muratorian Canon). Early Non-canonical Jesus Tradition (Gospel of Thomas 1-2, 13-14, 18, 22, 29, 42, 49-50, 53, 83-84, 99, 101, 104). Gnostic Christianity and Orthodox Christianity in Conflict (Gospel of Truth 34-43; Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Preface 1.1-2, 7.1-5). Women and Gnosticism (Gospel of Mary 7:8-18). Papal Primacy Derived from Petrine Primacy (Pope Leo I, Sermons 4.2-4). Glossary. Questions for Study and Discussion. Scriptures in Film. Suggestions for Further Reading. 5. ISLAM. A. Introduction. Name. Overview of Structure. Origin and Development. Use. B. History. The Call of Muhammad (Qur''an 96; 53:1-18). The Mission of Muhammad (Qur''an 11:1-16; 93). Opposition to Muhammad (Qur''an 52:30-49; 63). The Night Journey (Qur''an 17:1-2). The Flight to Medina (Qur''an 9:40). The Wives of Muhammad (Qur''an 33:28-40, 48-49). The Death of Muhammad (Qur''an 21:34-37). C. Teaching. God's Absolute Oneness (Qur''an 6:1-103; 112). God's Names and Power (Qur''an 59:22-24; 24:41-46; 6:95-99). Predestination (Qur''an 42:8-13; 7:177-182). Jinn (Qur''an 72:1-15). Creation (Qur''an 15:16-48; 16:1-17). Adam, Eve, and the Fall (Qur''an 2:28-37). The Holy Qur''an (Qur''an 42:50-53; 46:1-11; 2:81-85). On Jews, Christians and Unbelievers (Qur''an 37:82-110; 3:38-50; 9:1-7; 2:111-121, 132-137). Resurrection and Judgment (Qur''an 75:1-15; 69:14-35). Heaven and Hell (Qur''an 76:1-22; 56:1-39; 77:1-39). D. Ethics. The Conduct of Believers (Qur''an 17:23-39). Women (Qur''an 4:19-22, 34-39; 2:220-223, 227-233). Against Evil Magic (Qur''an 113; 114). Holy War (Qur''an 48:11-21; 2:190-194, 216-218). Law Codes (Qur''an 4:1-10). E. Worship and Ritual. The Opening of the Qur''an (Qur''an 1). Confession of Faith (Qur''an 57:1-7; 37:32-39). Prayer (Qur''an 2:142-149). Alms (Qur''an 107; 9:53-60). The Fast (Qur''an 2:183-186). Pilgrimage (Qur''an 2:124-130; 106; 2:196-199). The Mosque (Qur''an 24:36-38; 9:15-18). F. Later Developments of Scriptural Themes. Selections from the Hadith: On Innovations. On Ritual Washings. On Prayer. On Alms. On God. On the Power of Reading the Qur''an. On the Martyr in Holy War. A Sunni Statement of Faith (al-Ashari, Essence of Our Belief). Shi''ite Belief: The Twelve Imams (Ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, Risalutu''l -Itaqadat 140, 142, 147). Glossary. Questions for Study and Discussion. Scriptures in Film. Suggestions for Further Reading. 6. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. A. Introduction. Names. Overview of Structure. Origin and Development. Use. B. The Scripture of Baha''i. The Essence of Baha''i Teaching (Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, Preface). Baha''i, Islam and Christianity (The Bab, Qayyumu''l-Asma, 1, 61-62). Baha''i Laws (Baha''u''llah, Kitab-I-Aqdas, 1-2, 12-14, 16, 30-34, 45, 49, 56, 63-65, 149-150, 189). Baha''i Prayers (Short Obligatory Prayer, Long Obligatory Prayer, Prayer for America). C. The Scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Joseph Smith's Story (Pearl of Great Price, "Joseph SmithHistory 1" 1-22, 25-35, 40-47, 51-54, 59-62, 67-74). The First Description of the Book of Mormon (Book of Mormon, "Original Title Page"). The Coming of Jesus Christ in 34 C.E. to the New World (Book of Mormon, "3 Nephi" 11.1-41; 18:36-39). Destruction of the Nephites and Burial of the Golden Plates (Book of Mormon, "Mormon" 6:1-3, 6-11, 16-22). Preparations for the Trek to Utah (Doctrine and Covenants, 136.1-11, 17-24, 30-42). The Essence of Latter-Day Saint Teaching (Pearl of Great Price, "Articles of Faith" 1-13). Church Pronouncements on Polygamy and Men of African Descent (Doctrine and Covenants, "Official Declarations" 1, 2). D. The Scripture of Christian Science. Introduction to Christian Science Scripture and to the Work of Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Preface"). The Essence of Christian Science Teaching (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Recapitulation"). Prayer and its Role (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Prayer"). Healing Practices (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Christian Science Practice"). Interpretation of Genesis 1 (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Genesis"). Three Testimonials to Healing (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Fruitage"). E. The Scripture of the Unification Church. Dual Characteristics of the Universe and of God (Divine Principle 220.127.116.11). The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe (Divine Principle 18.104.22.168). The Spiritual and Physical Falls of Adam and Eve (Divine Principle 22.214.171.124-2). The Restoration of Humanity (Divine Principle 1.3. Introduction-1.1). Salvation through the Second Messiah, the True Parent (Divine Principle 2, Introduction). The Advent of the Second Messiah as a Korean (Divine Principle 2.6, Introduction; 126.96.36.199-3). Glossary. Questions for Study and Discussion. Scriptures in Film. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.
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Ura Violetchi (known as Ura Flowertchi (ウラふらわっち Ura Furawatchi) in Japan) is a female Tamagotchi character that debuted on the Ura Jinsei Enjoi Tamagotchi Plus in Japan and the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4.5 internationally. She is the Ura counterpart of Violetchi.
She resembles Violetchi, but with a blue Ura glow. She has blue and yellow butterfly wings with white sparkles, and she has three eyelashes on each eye. She has one red and yellow flower and one green and yellow flower. She has antennae, one red and the other yellow. Her body is pink in her Japanese artwork, and violet in her international artwork.
Ura Violetchi has a sweet smell. The golden dust from her wings is to attract boys. She loves honey.
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Ura Furawatchi is student #011. Her favorite subject is science.
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Ura Violetchi can be obtained on an even generation when an odd generation Tamagotchi marries a Tamagotchi from the UraMeme Family. If the offspring is female, she should evolve into either Ura Young Memetchi or Ura Young Violetchi when she becomes a teen. If the spiritual points are high, then the Tamagotchi will evolve into Ura Violetchi.
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3. Getting a Pound Dog (Sorta Long)
4. Getting 1 or 2 dogs from the pound
5. UPDATE: getting a pooch from the pound
6. getting a pooch from the pound
7. I'm getting a new girlie dog from Kill/pound shelter today
8. Getting an overweight cat to shed some pounds.
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Firefox is a 1982 American action film produced and directed by, and starring, Clint Eastwood. It was based on a 1977 novel with the same name written by Craig Thomas. Russian filming locations were not possible due to the Cold War, forcing Eastwood's and Fritz Manes's Malpaso Company to rely on Vienna and other locations in Austria to simulate many of the Eurasian story locations.


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Following the release of his latest single, “La Luz,” the Colombian pop-rock star, Juanes, has used social media to reveal the name and release date of his upcoming album.
English for: My feelings are translated in three words: ‘LOCO DE AMOR’ (CRAZY WITH LOVE). New album: March 11, #LocoDeAmor.
The GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY winner made the news to his 15+ million followers in a Tweet and Facebook post.
His anticipated new studio album counts with the lyrics and music written entirely by him, and produced by Steve Lillywhite.
This is the first time the English five-time GRAMMY Award winning record producer worked on a Spanish language album.
“It was fun because Steve didn’t know a word of Spanish; he asked me why I sang “corazon” in every song,” Juanes told The Hollywood Reporter.
“And even if he doesn’t know the language, he got the feeling, the mood of each song,” he said about working with Lillywhite.
“La Luz,” is the first single off “Loco De Amor.”
Juanes fans are crazy with “Loco De Amor”
— 11 MARZO #LocoDeAmor (@JuanesLLAurynES) January 31, 2014
Toda VENEZUELA apoyando #LocoDeAmor de Juanes LO NUEVO¡¡¡¡ En Marzo se viene con todo¡
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TACOMA — Luis Villalta knew he was stepping into enemy territory when he agreed to fight Edmonds native Martin O’Malley for the North American Boxing Association lightweight title.
But the largely pro-O’Malley crowd at the Emerald Queen Casino didn’t faze Villalta, who is accustomed to fighting in his opponent’s hometown.
“I just come in and do my work,” Villalta said. “That’s the best I can do.”
Villalta’s best turned out to be more than enough, as he easily won a unanimous decision over O’Malley July 19 to claim the vacant NABA championship. The victory likely gives Villalta a top 10 ranking by the World Boxing Association.
Villalta (30-4-1, 25 knockouts) won 97-91 on all three ringside judges’ cards. In the fourth round, Villalta knocked O’Malley (21-2, 14 knockouts) down twice and appeared to be in control for most of the bout.
The 33-year-old native of Peru, who now fights out of Hillsborough, N.J., was a little surprised O’Malley made it out of the fourth round.
Many of Villalta’s 25 knockouts were in the third and fourth rounds.
“This one here (O’Malley) was a little bit stronger and got up and did very well to protect himself to come out of the fourth round,” said the Spanish-speaking Villalta, who spoke through translator Jim Lopez of Pacific Northwest World Class Boxing Inc.
Villalta described O’Malley as a formidable opponent.
“He is a very good boxer,” said Villalta. “He has a lot of heart, a lot of talent.”
As part of his preparations for O’Malley, Villalta sparred with three boxers who were all heavier than 135 pounds, the cutoff point for lightweights.
The sparring partners’ weights ranged from 140 to 160 pounds, according to trainer and co-manager Lou Romano.
“We knew we were fighting out of here (Tacoma) and if he (Villalta) didn’t knock him out, he had to be strong the whole 10 rounds,” Romano said.
Villalta, however, knew very little about O’Malley coming into the bout. That’s the way he likes it. Villalta prefers to leave the scouting of his opponents to his trainer.
“I didn’t know nothing about O’Malley,” Villalta said. “I’ve never seen him. I knew nothing. I came over here to take the title and I did. I succeeded at that.
“I don’t go with reports from the Internet. I don’t believe in that. I come to fight and that’s it.”
Despite being well ahead on all of the scorecards, Villalta started the 10th round with a flurry and remained aggressive throughout the round. He was hoping to seal the victory with a strong finish.
“I felt I needed that last round because I’m in his backyard,” Villalta said. “I needed to come in strong and I won the last round. That was what made me more confident that I won the fight.”
As a result of capturing the NABA belt, Villalta is looking at arranging a major fight at the end of August, possibly on HBO or Showtime, Romano said.
“I have been looking for this title and I have been looking for this belt,” Villalta said. “The opportunity came and I took it.”

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By the time we see a Supernova, thousands of years have passed. The after glow of glory is very similar in Christian circles. Very few are there to witness the actual event, but the ramifications are far-reaching and eternal.
Many will stand in awe and wonder at the glory revealed through suffering in the birth of a new move of God. With this in mind, I have endeavored to create a composite image of spiritual space of telescopic proportions that attempts to transcend time and space, to give people a glimpse into the wonder of what God is accomplishing in our sector of the spirit-scape.
While I recognize that the synergy created by hundreds of churches across several continents is impossible to describe in 40 pages, I find great comfort in the telescope concept God gave us for this brief summary. It is designed to inspire creative thinking and global synergy so that we can spread more good news than ever, with new found courage and resources.

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As many of you know, I was born and raised in New Jersey. I’ve often said that Jersey is a great state to be from…haha!
But one thing I do miss is an authentic East Coast bagel. (Even just typing those words makes my mouth water!)
Some good friends of mine from church returned from a trip to New York City and brought back some genuine, East Coast bagels. So after church on a Wednesday night I drove straight home and ate one (Okay, I’m pretty sure I ate more than one).
It’s been a while since I’ve had an East Coast bagel, and those bagels tasted extra amazing to me.
Like I said, I love them.
That experience got me thinking. It’s funny the things we say we love…
We love sports and TV shows. We love authors and ice cream. We love name brands and songs and pizza…and we also love people and God. We use the same word to describe our feelings for our favorite foods and the most important people in our lives.
So what’s the difference?
I think we fall into this confusion because our culture looks at love like it’s a pretty weak and vulnerable emotion. But the Bible defines love as one of the most courageous things a person can do.
Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
Take a step back and let that sink in for a minute. Jesus is such a radical person! He’s defining love by pointing us to His death on the cross. That’s crazy talk by any of our normal standards!
The cross of Jesus is the greatest act of love in human history.
And here’s a nugget of truth: We can only love people the way they should be loved when we’re empowered by the Spirit.
In 1 Corinthians 13, the apostle Paul breaks love down for us again, and he repeatedly uses verbs to define love.
Love is only truly displayed in action, not as a feeling.
You’ve heard the phrase “actions speak louder than words.” And just like the cross of Jesus, our love for others is on display in our actions. Our way of life should be one of absolute and self-sacrificial love. A love that builds up others and ourselves. A love that places others before ourselves. A love that fulfills us by watching others blossom. A love that is selfless and God-glorifying. A love that is obedient, pure-hearted, and righteous.
When we talk about love and loving others, there are two very practical ways to love others. And they just so happen to be the first two characteristics that Paul uses to define love in 1 Corinthians 13: Patience and Kindness.
Love with patience.
Love suffers long because love gives people room to be in process. Love is not circumstantial, so love expresses itself even when it is undeserved. And love levels the playing field for all of us because we love others from God’s selfless supply, not because the other person is lovable.
Love with kindness.
As my bride often says, “Kindness matters.” And she is so right! Love is not rude or offensive. If you feel like that’s part of your “love language,” trust me…it’s not. Instead, love is founded in goodness, gentleness, and sweetness. Love that is kind mimics God’s love for us. And God’s love is not blind…His love sees us for who we are and loves us anyway, with a kindness and a dignity we don’t deserve.
Questions to think about:
Where in your life are you loving people with conditions attached?
What is God asking you to change in the way you apply the verse “love suffers long and is kind”?
Prayer for today:
Let’s pray that God would open our eyes to the people who need unconditional love.


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- stains on the linen - rust stains on the towels - towels support in the bathroom was poor quality and it was broken - restaurant had poor lighting conditions because it was situated at an underground level
Clean rooms and helpful staff
Table in the bedroom has faded varnish. Not rustic type actual faded
The staff could be a bit more professional especially when it comes to answering guests' questions. The check-in was very late as opposed to other hotels. This is something that could and should be improved.
The housekeepers were really good and kept the rooms tidy also the front lady helping with the breakfast every day. Worth the stay and will come again.
More facilities can be added such us massages/ beauty parlour and perhaps having a restaurant open for lunch and evening meals
Breakfast rather good but the flow of the guests at the breakfast bar is not organized at all. Everybody has to go in different directions thus bumping each other. Not enough cups and forks, we had to ask for bread and wait for clean cups. Lightning was very low.
Better organization of the breakfast bar. Better lightning.
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Toptop1 (top),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., topped, top•ping.
- the highest or loftiest point or part of anything;
- the uppermost or upper part, surface, etc., of anything.
- the higher end of anything on a slope.
- a part considered as higher: the top of the street.
- high gear of an automobile.
- the part of a plant that grows above ground, esp. of an edible root.
- one of the tender tips of the branches or shoots of plants.
- the part of anything that is first or foremost;
beginning: Let's go over it from the top again.
- the highest or leading place, position, rank, etc.: at the top of the class.
- the highest point, pitch, or degree: to talk at the top of one's voice.
- a person or thing that occupies the highest or leading position.
- the best or choicest part: the top of all creation.
- a covering or lid, as of a container or vehicle.
- the head.
- any of various outer garments for the upper body, as a blouse, shirt, or sweater: a sale on cotton tops and shorts.
- [Naut.]a platform surrounding the head of a lower mast on a ship, and serving as a foothold, a means of extending the upper rigging, etc.
- [Chem.]the part of a mixture under distillation that volatilizes first.
- the best card of a suit in a player's hand.
- (in duplicate bridge) the best score on a hand.
- a stroke that hits the ball above its center.
- the forward spin given to the ball by such a stroke.
- the first half of an inning.
- the first three batters in the batting order.
- a cluster of textile fibers, esp. tow, put on a distaff.
- a strand of the long wool fibers in sliver form, separated from noil by combing and wound into a large ball.
- a similar strand of rayon.
- [Jewelry.]crown (def. 27).
- blow one's top, [Informal.]
- to become enraged;
lose one's temper.
- to go mad;
become insane: He must have blown his top to make such a fool of himself.
- off the top of one's head, [Informal.]See head (def. 56).
- on top, successful;
dominant: to stay on top.
- on top of:
- over or upon.
- in addition to;
over and above.
- close upon;
following upon: Gale winds came on top of the floods.
- in complete control: on top of the problem.
- on top of the world:
- elated: The success made her feel on top of the world.
- over the top:
- [Mil.]over the top of the parapet before a trench, as in issuing to charge against the enemy.
- surpassing a goal, quota, or limit.
- the tops, [Informal.]the most outstanding person or thing in ability, favor, etc.: As a friend, she's the tops.
- pertaining to, situated at, or forming the top;
upper: the top shelf.
- highest in degree;
greatest: to pay top prices.
- foremost, chief, or principal: to win top honors in a competition.
- to furnish with a top;
put a top on.
- to be at or constitute the top of.
- to reach the top of.
- to rise above: The sun had topped the horizon.
- to exceed in height, amount, number, etc.
- to surpass, excel, or outdo: That tops everything.
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- to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), esp. to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully.
- to intend for a definite purpose: a scholarship designed for foreign students.
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plan: The prisoner designed an intricate escape.
- to assign in thought or intention;
purpose: He designed to be a doctor.
- [Obs.]to mark out, as by a sign;
- to make drawings, preliminary sketches, or plans.
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- an outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed.
- organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art;
- the combination of details or features of a picture, building, etc.;
the pattern or motif of artistic work: the design on a bracelet.
- the art of designing: a school of design.
- a plan or project: a design for a new process.
- a plot or intrigue, esp. an underhand, deceitful, or treacherous one: His political rivals formulated a design to unseat him.
- designs, a hostile or aggressive project or scheme having evil or selfish motives: He had designs on his partner's stock.
- adaptation of means to a preconceived end.
Dede (də; Fr. də;
Port. di),USA pronunciation prep.
of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin): Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.
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Schedl A. Renal abnormalities and their developmental origin. Nat Rev Genet. 2007;8:791-802 pubmed
..Moreover, defects in nephron formation can predispose to Wilms tumour, the most frequent solid tumour in children. To understand the basis of human renal diseases, it is essential to consider how the kidney develops. ..
Massa F, Schedl A. Awakening the Bowman: inhibition of CXCL12 signaling activates parietal epithelial cells. Kidney Int. 2018;94:1042-1044 pubmed publisher
..The data may open new therapeutic avenues for the treatment of glomerular diseases. ..
Bandiera R, Sacco S, Vidal V, Chaboissier M, Schedl A. Steroidogenic organ development and homeostasis: A WT1-centric view. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2015;408:145-55 pubmed publisher
..In addition, we will highlight some recent findings and open questions on how maintenance of steroidogenic organs is achieved in the adult organism. ..
da Silva F, Massa F, Motamedi F, Vidal V, Rocha A, Gregoire E, et al
. Myocardial-specific R-spondin3 drives proliferation of the coronary stems primarily through the Leucine Rich Repeat G Protein coupled receptor LGR4. Dev Biol. 2018;441:42-51 pubmed publisher
..These results shed new light on the role of Rspo3 in heart development and demonstrate that LGR4 is the principal R-spondin 3 receptor in the heart. ..
Neirijnck Y, Reginensi A, Renkema K, Massa F, Kozlov V, Dhib H, et al
. Sox11 gene disruption causes congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT). Kidney Int. 2018;93:1142-1153 pubmed publisher
..Taken together these data demonstrate a key role for SOX11 in normal kidney development and may suggest that variants in this gene predispose to CAKUT in humans. ..
da Silva F, Massa F, Schedl A. Identifying Direct Downstream Targets: WT1 ChIP-Seq Analysis. Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1467:177-88 pubmed publisher
..This method can be adapted for a variety of different tissues and/or cell types to help understand the role of WT1 in regulating gene expression. ..
Boutet A, Comai G, Schedl A. The WTX/AMER1 gene family: evolution, signature and function. BMC Evol Biol. 2010;10:280 pubmed publisher
..Divergent and conserved molecular functions of Wtx/Amer1, Amer2 and Amer3 are discussed. ..
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“Bon voyage,” my husband said last night as he turned out his light.
It’s something he says to me, an edict inside a valediction.
“I wish you luck,” he says, and said last night, I think.
Earlier he said, “Is it recycling night?”
“It is, isn’t it?” he said.
“Shit,” he said.
“You know how to do this,” he told our younger daughter as they sat in the kitchen at what he calls the island, though it is in fact a peninsula.
(He’s generally so careful with his words.)
“Combine your like terms,” he said to her, I remember.
He asked our dog, rhetorically, if she were hungry.
He asked me, rhetorically, how much longer we would be disinfecting boxes of frozen waffles.
He said SCUBA is an acronym, and RADAR, too.
When I found him at a window and asked him what he was looking at, he said, “A big groundhog.”
Even a quiet person says a lot in a day, almost all of which is forgotten.
Not forgotten, I suppose, but unremembered.
Some mornings I revisit a 2015 blog post titled “Words Herman Melville is Reported to have Spoken.”
The list is long, and surprisingly short.
Melville said, “I do” at his wedding, reportedly.
He asked a barmaid in Liverpool, “How much?”
“Man overboard!” he shouted in 1849 on a packet ship, the Southampton.
This morning I see that Melville nearly missed his voyage on the Southampton, having waited so long to apply for his passport.
And that seven years later he nearly missed his voyage on the Glasgow for the same reason.
(Melville’s older brother, Gansevoort, once lamented Herman’s habit of procrastination, “that disinclination to perform the special duty of the hour.”)
Curiously, Melville’s delinquent passport applications indicate that he shrunk nearly an inch and a half in seven years—
He was 5' 10 ⅛" at age thirty, but 5' 8 ¾" at age thirty-seven.
According to ships’ crew lists, he was 5' 8 ½" at age nineteen, but 5' 9 ½" at age twenty-one.
If you had less evidence, my husband said, you’d know how tall Herman Melville was.
Or if I had more, I said.
My husband says that I seem to have contracted Melville, and it’s true that some mornings we find one of my crumpled sticky notes in the sheets like a used tissue.
This blue one says, “tall and imposing,” quoting Melville’s granddaughter Frances.
And this green one, quoting Frances’s sister, says, “Many who knew him would have said he was six feet tall, whereas he was two to three inches short of that.”
Melville scholars offer commonsense explanations for the discrepancies in his recorded height—errors in measurement, exaggerations in self-reporting—but a medical doctor suggests that Melville’s apparent loss of height may have coincided with a loss of lumbar lordosis caused by ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune disease.
That doesn’t make sense, my husband said—
He said lordosis is curvature of the spine, so a loss of lordosis would have made Melville taller, not shorter.
It’s true that Melville’s acquaintances noted his erect bearing, I conceded.
That sounds right, said my husband, whose knowledge of the spine, it turns out, derives from a poster in his physical therapist’s office.
This morning I see that John J. Ross, MD, hypothesizes that Melville’s loss of lordosis was likely accompanied by compensatory hip flexion contractures, which when chronic lead to height loss.
Through my office window I see my husband reading in the backyard, and elect not to send the text I’ve written about Melville’s hip flexion.
Dr. Ross’s larger point in “The many ailments of Herman Melville (1819-91)” is that ankylosing spondylitis offers an “attractive unifying diagnosis” for Melville’s numerous maladies, which included not only loss of lordosis, but rheumatism, sciatica, arthritis, and persistent eye pain.
[T]ender as young sparrows, Melville described his eyes at age twenty-nine.
Which Charles Olson in his book Call Me Ishmael misquoted, perhaps mistranscribed, as “tender as young sperms.”
John J. Ross claims Melville described his eyes as “tender as pigeon’s eggs,” but his source provides no source.
Nor, this morning, can I find one.
[B]ut like an owl I steal abroad by twilight, Melville wrote at age thirty-one, owing to the twilight of my eyes.
Those eyes were small and blue and, according to Sophia Hawthorne, “quite undistinguished in any way,” though she found his gaze powerful.
How he could see so keenly without keen eyes she could not comprehend.
His glance, she wrote to her mother, “does not seem to penetrate through you, but to take you into himself.”
Kind of like a tractor beam, said my husband, who with his eyes attempted—unsuccessfully, I think—to take me and then the dog into himself.
Stop doing that, our daughter said.
Sophia’s impressionistic paragraph about Melville’s appearance and affect is, incidentally, “by all odds the fullest such description of Melville known to exist,” according to one biographer.
According to another, Melville is “so murky” that a recently discovered photograph of a bearded man on a Staten Island pier caused excitement among Melvilleans, “even though the photo shows little more than a featureless silhouette.”
“Melville didn’t want to be known,” according to a third, “he is one who treasures, insists on anonymity.”
He was born Herman Melvill in 1819.
And eulogized as “Hiram Melville” in the New York Times after his death in 1891.
And registered as “Norman Melville” on a transcribed crew list at age nineteen.
On his final sea voyage, at age sixty-nine, he was identified in the Bermuda Gazette as “A Melville.”
His “lifelong smoldering restlessness,” his “roving inclination.”
He sailed the Acushnet, the St. Lawrence, the Lucy Ann, the United States.
The Charles and Henry, the Cortes, the North Star, the Meteor.
He climbed riggings and mountains and trees.
Pyramids, minarets, campaniles.
He Rounded Cape Horn
He Toured the Holy Land
He Deserted Ship in the South Seas and Lived among Cannibals
Until he deserted the cannibals.
When bad weather prevented his daily walk, he paced his porch.
And Frances remembered the sound of him pacing his study—
“Sometimes I could hear him walking back and forth for a long time and I would think how much pleasanter it would be if he were walking in the park with me.”
With his son-in-law, Melville would ride the ferry “back and forth endlessly” across the Hudson River, just for the sake of it—
“[H]e never sat still in one seat for long, but moved about trying every place of vantage.”
Just as, years earlier, seated all day in his cold study, he sought every vantage of the whale:
Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale’s head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach.
And every vantage of language, history, time, civilization—
Until at an appointed hour came a knock on his door, ending his day’s work.
From one of the women—his wife, mother, unmarried sisters—with whom he lived in a farmhouse in Western Massachusetts from 1850 to 1863.
From 2004 to 2011, I lived in a farmhouse in Western Massachusetts—
Strictly speaking, more of a Cape Cod but with a view, from the kitchen windows, of a large hayfield.
The mown paths, the business of circumference—
Hayfield, I thought to call the book I planned to write.
“It is not true,” wrote Elizabeth Hardwick, “that it doesn’t matter where you live, that you are in Hartford or Dallas merely yourself.”
You, though, I might tell my husband some sleepless night, would somehow be in Hartford or Dallas merely yourself.
More likely I would tell him that Melville once made a list of grasses on the back flyleaf of his copy of A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts.
“He never loved any place more, not even the sea,” according to the author of an article I surreptitiously ripped from a magazine at the Subaru dealership way out on Beechmont, folding it in half, then in fourths.
September 4, 2019, according to the service records in my glove box.
In September 1850, “nearly without notice and absolutely without cash,” Melville purchased his farm in Pittsfield, Massachusetts—
Arrowhead, he named it.
He claimed the largest room in the crowded farmhouse for his study and, as the author of the article that I removed from the service lounge notes, installed a lock upon the door.
Or perhaps had it installed—
Many years later, when one of Melville’s daughters was asked if her father was “handy about the house,” she answered emphatically, “no!”
This morning I see that Melville possessed the only key to his large study at Arrowhead.
There’s a moment in Chapter V of his fourth book, Redburn, called HE PURCHASES HIS SEA-WARDROBE, AND ON A DISMAL RAINY DAY PICKS UP HIS BOARD AND LODGING ALONG THE WHARVES, when the eponymous narrator hangs a towel over the knob of his locked door—
so that no one could peep through the keyhole.
In the margin of her copy of Redburn, Herman Melville’s granddaughter Eleanor wrote that her mother told her that “H. M.” occasionally used a towel for just this purpose.
Eleanor’s mother, Herman Melville’s younger daughter, once consented to an interview on one condition: that her father’s name not be uttered aloud.
Her father, for example, woke her at 2 a.m. to read proof of his book-length poem Clarel.
My husband refuses clues and will never guess the longest poem in American literature—
It’s not “Song of Myself” or “Evangeline” or “That Really Long One by Hart Crane.”
Clarel, the longest poem in American literature, is eighteen thousand lines of iambic tetrameter.
Longer than the Iliad, longer by far than Paradise Lost.
And Melville’s daughter never forgave him.
His biographer did, however.
The most comprehensive of his numerous biographers, that is—
“legendary for his staggering precision and his devotion to his hero.”
His two volumes, nearly two thousand pages.
If Melville’s daughter were tired, having been awakened by her father at 2 a.m. to read proof of his epic poem, could she not, the Biographer reasoned, take a nap during the day?
And though Melville once ate a bag of oranges in front of his child, sharing none, might he not have felt himself coming down with a cold?
“This is someone who knew about scurvy from his time on ships,” explained the Biographer, someone with “a need to keep his health up.”
Someone with a renowned appetite.
Who, touring London in 1849, ate and drank so much he had to buy new pants.
And who, having received bad news from a publisher, wrote in his journal, I’m floored—appetite unimpaired however—
so down to the Edinburgh Castle & paid my compliments to a chop.
Of a baked potato feast, the subject of family legend, his granddaughter wrote, “I dare not even try to remember the number I once heard were consumed by the head of the house!”
Then again, he was known to skip meals while at work in his farmhouse study.


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Today evening start your journey From Delhi to Manali by Overnight Travel through Volvo You have to reach at pm in Delhi our Volvo point On your Own Ashram, Palika Place, Near Metro Station, New Delhi or Manju ka Tilla , new delhi
Day 2 : ARRIVE IN BHUNTER KASOL MANIKARAN SIGHTSEEING
On arrival of Bhunter Volvo stand catch the cab and Transfer you to the Kasol Hotel. Check in time Check out time is am as per Himachal hotel Policy. After fresh up in afternoon Place to Cover Manikarn Sightseeing take a bath in Natural Hot Springs of Sulphur and then visit old Ram Temple and Gurudwara.
After breakfast drive to Malana. Which is a wonderful ride in deep gorge valley by viewing some of the most beautiful scenes and waterfalls. On arrival Nirang a road head near Malana we will do a small trek to Malana Village.
Today morning after breakfast check out from hotel a quick trip to kasol will complete your experience of the part of himachal pradesh , stretching alongside the river parvati . once you have checked in to your hotel relax for while or leave your room to explore the ious cafe scattered throughout this small village .
» Payment Terms & Methods: * 20% advance to be paid for booking of the total tour package cost. » Cancellation & Refund Policy: * Upon cancellation, refund will be made after deducting the Retention Amount. * Retention Amount ies as per the number of days left before your package start date.


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ElectronicsPosted by condemned Wed, August 08, 2012 14:00:59
I'm still catching up with some posts I should have made a few weeks ago...
A few days before the most recent Oxford Raspberry Jam, I had a parcel arrive in the post from China: A nice 1.8" colour TFT screen. 128 x 160 @ 18bpp.
I ordered it to use whilst developing my XMega based Terminal emulator.
The screen uses the same display controller as Adafruit's 1.8" TFT screen, so I based my initialisation code on their arduino code - a great way of getting up and running quickly. The only changes I made was to use 'C' (rather than C++) and drop down to use the 12bpp communication mode.
Bingo. Colour Terminal.
The whole screen is redrawn from scratch each time, based on what the terminal's character cell array contains. Each cell holds the following information:
o The character to display
o The attributes (bold, inversed etc.)
o The foreground and background colour
Each row of pixels in the display is then generated, pixel-by-pixel, by looking at which character should be shown, which colours should be used, and refering to flash-based font data.
The output's really quite striking:
That's the tail of coloured 'ls' output, and some 'large text' generated by the alarmingly named utility 'toilet'.
However, to really test the parser's behaviour (and to nicely demonstrate the abilities of the terminal), I found some ANSI art files on the internet... This is a montage of four of them:
I've found that most ANSI art expects 80 columns. The screen is showing the left-hand 32 columns. 80x26 cells is pushing the 8kb of memory that I have to play with.
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