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This Saturday the Lamar County Commissioners Court, in conjunction with the Texas Forestry Service and Keep Paris Beautiful Make Lamar County Shine, will be giving away a variety of FREE high quality oak tree seedlings.
Locals can stop by the south end of the Lamar County Parking lot (near the red brick) this Saturday at 9:00 a.m.
The trees are FREE and are being provided for by the Texas Forestry Service.
The trees will be distributed on a first come first served basis, so be sure to come early to get a high quality oak tree for FREE.
This is the fourth year of this program and is another great example of many people coming together to make Lamar County a better place.


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BOXED OUT BOXED IN
A group of people is huddled inside a line being drawn by one of them in the shape of a church and drawing another person outside the line.
Weird. When I drew this cartoon I really felt it.
I've experienced being excluded from a community.
Call it what you will. Excluded. Rejected. Marginalized. Fired. Kicked out. Shunned. Removed. Unfriended. Expelled.
Have you experienced this?
Maybe you've experienced this just because of who or what you are.
Here's the thing though: when the church excludes certain people, they miss out too.
Imagine if more churches were truly welcoming and affirming of LGBTQ+ people... how much richer their communities would be!
Wow. Just think of it.
So, yes, those who are boxed out miss out.
But those who are boxed in miss out too.

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Background and Interests
Henning Tien did his bachelor thesis on the topic of substance flow analysis, specially dealing with flame retardants in waste electric and electronic equipment with a focus on informal recycling techniques, supervised by Prof. Dr. Susanne Heise at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Based on his work he focusses on lifecycle-topics. After a period as an assistant in an environmental laboratory he started his master studies at Distance University Hagen in the subject of environmental sciences. He finished his master studies with his thesis concerning distribution of rare earth elements in the German technosphere and potential release points, again supervised by Prof. Dr. Susanne Heise. He finished his studies with the degree “Master of Science”.
From until Henning Tien was a PhD student in the AAT- working group of Prof. Dr. Susanne Heise, studying Rare Earth Element Ecotoxicology in a Changing Environment (REEchangE). This project is carried out in cooperation with The University of the West of Scotland.
Further Henning Tien is member of the working group 2343 of The Association of German Engineers, dealing with recycling of waste electric and electronic equipment.
- REEchangE – Rare Earth Element Ecotoxicology in a Changing Environment
- Supporting: Seitenstrukturprojekt II
Publicationen, Presentation and Poster
Tien, H., et al. (2012). Global E-waste trade impact on China. Risk-Based Management of Chemicals and Products in a Circular Economy at a Global Scale. B. Bilitewski, V. Grundmann, P. Werneret al. Dresden, Eigenverlag des Forums für Abfallwirtschaft und Altlaste e.V. Band 87, 1. Auflage.
Tien, H., et al. (2013). Tracking Global Flows of E-Waste Additives by Using Substance Flow Analysis, with a Case Study in China. Handbook of environmental Chemistry: Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives II. B. Bilitewski, R. M. Darbra and D. Barceló, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 23: 1-36.
H. Tien, Tracking E-Waste Trade to China: A Global Perspective, Final Conference RISKCYCLE, Dresden, Art´otel, 7th-19th Mai 2012
Combining Substance Flow Analysis and Multi-Media Fate Modelling to Investigate the Consequences of Global Trade and Informal Recycling of WEEE in Guiyu, China, H.Tien, S.Heise, J. Casal, X. Segui, R.M. Darbra, M. Schuhmacher, M. Nadal, J. Rovira, N. Suciu, M. Trevisan, E. Capri, SETAC World Meeting 22-24th May 2012
Application of the Multimedia Environmental Model QWASI for Evaluating Exposure Pathways in Areas of Informal E-Waste Recycling, S. Heise, H.Tien, J. Casal, X. Segui, R.M. Darbra, M. Schuhmacher, M. Nadal, J. Rovira, N. Suciu, M. Trevisan, E. Capri, Final Conference RISKCYCLE, Dresden, Art´otel, 7th-19th Mai 2012

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Gen. John William Vessey Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the last four-star combat veteran from World War II on active duty, retired in character yesterday as he bade farewell to 46 years of life as a soldier: "Thanks. Thanks, troops."
The 63-year-old Vessey, who enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard as a 17-year-old private in 1939 and received a battlefield commission while fighting on the beachhead of Anzio, Italy, in 1944, always considered himself a mud soldier. He saved his final words for those serving in that capacity.
A smiling President Reagan looked on as Vessey bade farewell in a cavernous hangar at Andrews Air Force Base filled with dignitaries, well-wishers and ceremonial troops. Before Vessey took the microphone to make his last official remarks, Reagan saluted the soldier who had served as his primary military adviser the last four years.
"Gen. Vessey will be remembered for many things," Reagan said, but one accomplishment stands above all the rest: "Jack Vessey always remembered the soldiers in the ranks. He understood those soldiers are the backbone of any army. He noticed them, spoke to them, looked out for them. Jack Vessey never forgot what it was like to be an enlisted man, to be just a G.I."
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, a World War II Army veteran, saluted Vessey's "unshakable integrity" and "wisdom with vision." But he said the general's most valued attribute in the Pentagon's bureaucratic forest was his "great common sense, the soldier's humor, the soldier's insight."
Vessey will be succeeded today by Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., former U.S. commander in the Pacific.
Shortly after Vessey was named by Reagan to the military's top job on June 18, 1982, the general called a meeting of top officers who would serve with him at the Pentagon. He told them, according to participants, that if they did not believe in miracles, one was standing in front of them -- himself. He said he never expected to end up as chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
The general went on, participants said, to lambaste the news media and warn officers to avoid friendships with reporters. He blamed the media for the firing of Maj. Gen. Jack K. Singlaub, who served as Vessey's deputy in Korea. Then-President Jimmy Carter relieved Singlaub after he ignored a warning and spoke out a second time against the administration's plan to withdraw some U.S. troops from Korea.
Vessey kept his distance from the media during most of his four years and thus had a low profile outside the military establishment. But inside the military he won praise for bringing dignity and honor to the chief's job, for pulling the four services together and for resisting attempts to make sweeping changes in the structure of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Reagan rejected advice from Vessey and the other chiefs, who warned against sending Marines into Lebanon a second time. The Marines subsequently met disaster when a terrorist drove a pickup truck full of explosives into their compound at the Beirut airport in October 1983, detonating the load and killing 241 servicemen. The Marines were withdrawn.
The other two big military operations conducted on Vessey's watch were the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Lebanon in December 1983. The Grenada operation rescued Americans on the island but brought criticism of serious miscues among the four services involved. The December bombing was also criticized for being badly flawed in timing and execution. Two bombers were lost.
Otherwise, Vessey's four years as chairman of the Joint Chiefs were tranquil compared with his nine predecessors. He had no fractious Vietnam war nor deep cuts in the budgets of the armed services. The volunteer military attracted soldiers and sailors considered more motivated and intelligent than at any time since the draft was abolished. Congress and the president also provided record amounts of money for peacetime.
Vessey, as chairman, was not formally in the military chain of command. Instead he was limited to recommending courses of action and transmitting the president's orders from the secretary of defense to theater commanders around the world. There are numerous proposals in Congress to give the chairman more power. But Vessey's view was that the organizational structure of the chiefs is not broken and therefore does not require fixing.
Vessey, in his farewell remarks, chided Congress for "dabbling too deeply" in defense matters and said the lawmakers will waste more money than they will save by trying to reform the Pentagon. "Stop dabbling," Vessey pleaded, "and judge us by broad objectives" set down for the military.
The general and his wife, Avis, left Washington shortly after the retirement ceremony for their lakefront home in Garrison, Minn., their 29th and -- as Avis Vessey has indicated -- final move.

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International Journal of Exercise Science 13(2): 501-510, 2020. Youth participating in recreational skating at community skate parks attain exercise intensities and durations that are comparable with the CDC’s exercise recommendations for cardiovascular fitness for their age group. However, it is currently unclear if adults who skateboard in the same environment also achieve the recommended intensities and durations for cardiovascular fitness. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that skateboarding would elicit heart rates and durations consistent with the CDC’s recommendations for cardiovascular fitness in adults. Fifty-five subjects between ages 18-55 were recruited from six community skateparks for this study. Subjects completed a questionnaire and were instrumented with a Polar V800 heart rate receiver on the left wrist and an H7 Bluetooth heart rate transmitter around the chest below the pectoralis major. Participants were instructed to engage in a typical skateboarding session on their own board with the duration and intensity of activity to be determined by the participant. The mean age of the participants was 27.4 ± 8.5 years, and participants reported skateboarding at a community skate park a mean of 3.1 ± 1.8 days/week. Participants had a mean heart rate of 138.2 ± 21.9 beats per minute (71.7% of age predicted maximum), skated for 65.5 ± 36.2 minutes, and traveled 4.56 ± 4.5 kilometers. Subjects spent 70% of their total duration at moderate-intensity or above and 30% within the low, and below low-intensity range. Results from this study suggest that adults participating in recreational skateboarding in community skateparks achieve the CDC’s exercise recommendations for cardiovascular fitness. These findings may have implications for community skatepark design and professional training programs for adult skateboarding athletes.
Wiles, Tyler; Kellogg, Daniel; Furr, Heather; Nessler, Jeff A.; and Newcomer, Sean C.
"Characterization of Adult Heart Rate Responses During Recreational Skateboarding at Community Skateparks,"
International Journal of Exercise Science: Vol. 13
2, Pages 501 - 510.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ijes/vol13/iss2/15

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Subject: Re: kern/6652: swapping to a sparse file fails unpredictably.
To: Jason Thorpe <firstname.lastname@example.org>
From: Marc Horowitz <email@example.com>
Date: 01/05/1999 16:53:13
Jason Thorpe <firstname.lastname@example.org> writes:
>> I would say that any attempt to swapon to a sparse file should fail
>> with EINVAL. Same goes for the vnd code.
Well, eventually, growing the file would be nice. But this is a
We discussed this on ICB a bit. The only issue here is that it would
be nice if there was a non-O(n) way to determine if a file is sparse.
I'm not sure how to do this (or if it even makes sense) in a
filesystem generic way. I think this might be possible using the
indirect block macros, but I'm not ffs-clueful enough to know the
details. If you could give me some clue, or a pointer to it, I'll try
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Cezanne (Taschen Basic Art Series)
ISBN 10: 3822889067 / 3-8228-8906-7
ISBN 13: 9783822889060
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Publication Date: 1995
Editorial Reviews for this title:
This volume discusses Cezanne's major works and his theories of painting and colour.
Editorial reviews may belong to another edition of this title.

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In a decision handed down on Thursday, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows blocked Mr Trump from appearing on the state ballot under the 14th Amendment, due to his role in inciting the January 6 Capitol riots.
Maine is now the second state to remove him from the ballot, after Colorado’s Supreme Court issued a similar ruling earlier this month.
Following the Colorado ruling, all four of Mr Trump’s rival GOP candidates put on something of a united front and spoke out to slam the move.
On Thursday, they all once again criticised the decision coming out of Maine.
Appearing on Fox News on Thursday night, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the decision “opens up Pandora’s box” – and pushed Mr Trump’s baseless claims that he is being targeted by Democrats for political reasons.
“The idea that one bureaucrat in an executive position can simply unilaterally disqualify someone from office, that turns on its head every notion of constitutional due process that this country has always abided by for over 200 years,” he said.
“It opens up Pandora’s box. Can you have a Republican secretary of state disqualify Biden from the ballot?”
The Florida governor went on to say that he believes the US Supreme Court will likely strike down the ruling – but that there will likely be mroe legal challenges to follow.
“I don’t think that this ultimately will be legally sustained by the US Supreme Court,” he said.
“But I do think that this is going to be a constant throughout the election year, where there’s going to be different parts of these legal cases that are going to be front and center,” DeSantis said.
“I think that we win when we hold Biden accountable and talk about the issues that matter to the American people. So I think the Democrats, they want the election to be about all these other issues. They do not want to face accountability for their failed policies.”
Vivek Ramaswamy – who claimed he would pull his own name off the Colorado ballot in protest at Mr Trump’s disqualification there – also put in an appearance on Fox News on Thursday night to blast the Maine decision.
“This is not an action of one person. This is the action of an entire system that has an anaphalactic reaction to one man,” he said.
“I’m concerned that they will not allow this man to get anywhere near the start line of the election, let alone the finiash line... this is not how we should want to win.”
Mr Ramaswamy once again vowed to remove himself from the ballot in Maine – echoing his stance after the Colorado ruling.
“I will voluntarily as a Republican candidate remove myself from any GOP primary ballot where one of my competitors, Donald Trump included, is forcibly removed through this unconstitutional manoeuvre,” he said.
The entrepreneur then issued a “challenge” to the other three GOP candidates to do the same.
“We then take Maine out of the GOP priamery process.... I challenge every one of my competitors to do the same thing,” he said.
Like Mr Trump, Chris Christie has also found himself struggling for a place on the primary ballot in Maine – but for different reasons.
The Maine secretary of state announced in early December that his campaign had fallen short of the threshold of votes needed in the state to qualify.
But, despite this, Mr Christie has also slammed the removal of Mr Trump.
The former New Jersey governor and one-time-ally-turned-foe of the former president said that the states removing Mr Trump from the ballot are only fuelling his message of him being a “martyr”.
“It makes him a martyr,” he told CNN.
“He’s very good at playing poor me, poor me. He’s always complaining, the poor billionaire from New Nork, who is spending everybody else’s money to pay his legal fees. Poor me.”
Mr Christie said that Mr Trump’s eligibility for the presidency should only be decided by voters.
“This should be decided by the voters of the United States. It should not be decided by courts. And the fact is, while there may be – people may think there’s a justification for doing this – it’s not good in our democracy,” he said.
“In the end, Donald Trump should be defeated by the voters at the polls and defeated by someone like me, who is willing to tell the truth about him.
“That’s the way we defeat him and we end the scourge of Donald Trump in our party and our country.”
Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley – who has faced her own reckoning this week after refusing to say that slavery caused the Civil War – echoed Mr Christie’s stance.
“Nikki will beat Trump fair and square. It should be up to voters to decide who gets elected,” her campaign said in a statement toThe New York Times.
In Maine, three challenges to Mr Trump’s nomination had been brought forward by Maine voters, citing his part in inciting an insurrection on 6 January 2021.
Ms Bellows agreed with the voters and found that Mr Trump’s 2024 candidate consent form is false because he is not qualified to hold the office of the president under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment – which finds that anyone who has “engaged in an insurrection” is barred from holding office
In the lead up to and on 6 January 2021, Mr Trump “used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power”, she wrote.
She added that Mr Trump “was aware of the likelihood for violence and at least initially supported its use given he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely action to stop it” – and that his “occasional requests that rioters be peaceful and support law enforcement do not immunize his actions”.
Ms Bellows wrote that she did not “reach this conclusion lightly”.
“I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection,” she wrote.
“The events of January 6, 2021 were unprecedented and tragic. They were an attack not only upon the Capitol and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law. The evidence here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President.
“The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and Section 336 requires me to act in response.”
The decision has been suspended until the Superior Court rules on any appeal, or the time to appeal the decision – five days – has expired.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung issued a statement slamming the decision and branding the secretary of state “a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat”.
”We will quickly file a legal objection in state court to prevent this atrocious decision in Maine from taking effect, and President Trump will never stop fighting to Make America Great Again,” he said.
Prior to the ruling in Maine, the Colorado Supreme Court struck Mr Trump from the 2024 presidential election ballot under the 14th Amendment earlier this month.
Colorado Republicans have asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in the ruling and overturn it.
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If you think in words and sentences all it means is that you are likely a verbal-aural person.
Also, if you have an articulated inner monologue, is how you write/converse similar to how you have your inner monologue, in terms of grammar, idioms, accent? Or is the way you conduct your inner monologue markedly different from the way you actually write/converse? |
I would like to know, because it will give me some ability to better relate to people, if I know that what lies beneath a person is not simply his unarticulated feelings, but also articulated speech. If I know people to conduct an inner monologue similar to how they speak, I think I can truly "understand" a person, know them inside and out, instead of knowing the outside (the conversation). Basically, if I can simply know the form of how people think, I can more easily relate to people, even if I don't know the content of their thoughts
If you think in terms of "articulated speech" then you are likely a writer of some sort, because it means that you are a verbal thinker who thinks a lot, hence you are so good at it.
Most verbal people don't actually think in terms of proper paragraphs. If you heard their thoughts it would seem haphazard and highly confusing to you.
Only verbal people who fancy themselves as/are thinkers will have a proper comprehensible inner monologue or dialogue or trialogue or whatever.
Nowadays I have a good control of my mental processes, I can switch from visual thinking to sound thinking to internal dialogue, to sensual thinking and mix and match them all as I need. Each way of thinking is useful for different things.
Ilya, PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU CAME BY THIS ABILITY, and I will forever count you among my dearest and closest.
Unless, of course, when you say you can "switch" you mean for ten minutes or so.

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'CITIZEN KANE'..75 Years!
|Filmmaker-actor Orson Welles!|
|Newspaper office scene of 'Citizen Kane'!|
The story of this film narrated principally through flashback and by the research of newsreel reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the media tycoon's dying words! As a director Orson Welles tried to create a new style of film making for it by studying various forms!
|One of the great (meaningful) scenes from 'Citizen Kane'!|
The docu-drama kind structure of this film effectively cinematographed by Gregg Toland who did experiments with lenses & used deep focus! And famous Robert Wise edited this film which had music by Bernard Herrmann!
|Orsen Welles directing film!|
Orsen Welles himself played the main role of Kane in it with artist Joseph Cotton, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, Everethy Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Paul Stewart, Erskine Sanford & William Alland!
|Orsen Wells & Ruth Warrick in 'Citizen Kane'!|
'Citizen Kane' won 'Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay' which Welles wrote with Herman Mankiewicz! It got 'New York Film Critics Circle Award' & 'National Board of Review's Best Film of 1941'! Renowned critics like Andre Bazin praised this film internationally!
- Manoj Kulkarni
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In 1965 only a miserable eight hectares of Viognier (pronounced Vee-on-yay) grape existed in its Northern Rhône homeland appellation of Condrieu.
Amazing, since some believe the grape had grown here for at least 2000 years, possibly transported to the Rhône from its birthplace in Dalmatia by the Romans.
Since 1965 the grape and its wine has increased in popularity and in its price, which has risen to 'serious drinker' level.
At first the increase in planting was gradual with only 20 hectares recorded in 1986, 40 hectares in 1990, 80 hectares in 1995, but climbing to 108 hectares in 2000. But even today this is just over half of the 200 hectares permitted for cultivation. .... click here for more

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What a cheeseball. He came home from our run with his endorphins on fire and he's singing Back for Good to me. So loudly and with feeling. Leave it to Jacob to remember the cheesiest songs I've ever loved and keep them for moments like this. You can listen to it too, but who can forget Take That? Man, they were hot.
I can admit that. Few will, you know.

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There's nothing better than waking up in the morning to a beautiful sunrise, a hot cup of coffee, and a bowl of ... Girl Scout cookies?!
That's right. Don't spill your coffee — soon you'll be able to eat your favorite Girl Scout cookies in breakfast cereal form.
First, they blessed us with Thin Mints ice cream, but now, Girl Scouts of America and General Mills are teaming up for a partnership of epic (and delicious) proportions. It seems they know that we're all still kids at heart who just want to eat dessert for breakfast.

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NBC4: Redskins Open Training Camp July 20
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Market trades in green with hopes for the maiden budget by Modi Sarkar. Nifty at record-high 7787.
Nifty, gains 16 points with 28 advances and 22 declines. Sensex, gains 75 points with 18 advances and 12 declines. IT index gains more than 1% and Bank Index loses 1%.
Its an week full of events
July 8 – Railway budget
July 9 – Economic survey by Finance Ministry
July 10 – Union Budget
July 11 – Infosys Q1 results
Kotak Mahindra bank has lost more 3%. HPCL and BPCL have also lost more than 2%.
The 42-day-long Budget Session of Parliament begins today.
Reliance Communication raises after FTSE raising the weightage on the index.

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text: 10.5 x 12.5. An amazing piece of Animation Art based on the original line image hand drawn and hand inked. On paper by the Warner Bros Animation Artist and Director. Depicting one of Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon series classic characters, Daffy Duck.The item "RUDE JESTER Hand Signed Chuck Jones. Cel Daffy Duck Looney Tunes" is in sale since Friday, September 15, 2017. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Animation Art & Characters\Animation Art\Limited Editions". The seller is "investorcollectibles" and is located in New York, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.

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Dry eye disease is a condition that affects your health, comfort, and vision. It occurs when your tears can't lubricate the eye properly.
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Our doctors can prescribe anti-inflammatory eye drops that promote tear production rather than simply moistening the eye. RESTASIS® can help increase your tear production by reducing inflammation stemming from chronic dry eye. With consistent use, it can stimulate the eyes' natural tear production. We also commonly prescribe Xiidra® eye drops to reduce dry eye signs and symptoms in as little as two weeks.
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Eighty percent of dry eye sufferers have meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). Our doctors may prescribe intense pulsed light to treat evaporative dry eye caused by MGD. IPL therapy uses light that is converted into heat to warm up the meibomian glands in the eyelids to improve their functionality. IPL also treats fine wrinkles and age spots around the eyes.
If we decide on a treatment plan that doesn't appear to be working, our doctors can make adjustments until you find relief.
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Many people who suffer from dry eye believe that their insurance prohibits them from visiting an eye doctor more than once per year, preventing them from receiving this life-changing treatment. Fortunately, your medical insurance can contribute to covering medical conditions such as dry eye disease, including paying for your treatment and office visits to our South Jordan, UT, practice.
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Flying in the face of other reviews for this book, I can honestly say I lost precious hours reading this book that I will never get back. Possibly the worst book I’ve read on Roman history; certainly the most boring.
I know, I know, Mary Beard is hailed as the best, most exciting and most praised Roman historian in living history. ‘SPQR’ was an instant bestseller. The book is reasonably(ish) easy to read which makes it welcoming to the newcomer to the Greco-Roman world. I shouldn’t be giving less than 4/5 stars at the very least, surely?
Sorry, but for me the book missed the spot. I love this period of history and I’ve taught it to pre-GCSE students many times. That doesn’t make me any kind of expert, of course, but I am, at least, reasonably informed. There was nothing new in this huge volume. No new information, no revelations, no new interpretation of old data, no new way to think of how Romans lived and worked. I’m sure there were tweaks here and there from Beard but there wasn’t a single page where I found myself thinking ‘Oh! I didn’t know that before’. Contrast with Peter Frankopan’s superb ‘Silk Roads’ history book – so many pages have turned down edges so I can come back to fascinating insights that hardly any were left undamaged! A history book should grab you and say something fresh – otherwise there’s no point writing one when the market is already saturated with the topic.
Beard doesn’t even give us a chronological version of events, despite purporting to do so. It’s all over the place! I couldn’t keep track of what time frame we were in nor who was leading Rome at the time from one section to another. The author takes a kind of ‘country lane stroll’ through Roman history; loosely making progress but regularly looking backwards and glancing further ahead so that you’re not entirely sure where on the path you’ve reached any longer. She doesn’t even kick off the book at the beginning – fairly obviously with the myths of Romulus and Remus. No, she sets off randomly (she tries to justify it but, honestly, it’s just random) in 63BCE and we have to wait more than 50 pages to get to chapter two and actually start with the founding of Rome. To say this was dissatisfying is an understatement.
While it is clear that Beard is very learned and her writing style is clear enough and not unpleasant, there just didn’t seem to be any real purpose to the book. It’s not even a complete history, ending (again, fairly arbitrarily) before we get anywhere near the Christian era. She rushes through this part in her end words instead. I really wanted to know what she thought about the death of Rome and how she interpreted that; what the battles and skirmishes which ultimately brought the Romans back out of Britain really meant to the politics and culture of the time and what was the effect on the British. There was so much I would have loved to learn here. Instead, I got an insipid regurgitation of the story ‘as known’.
In short, buy almost any other book on Roman history you like rather than this one – even the Horrible Histories ones for children! In the main because any other book is bound to be shorter and more interesting than Beard’s contribution; but also in part because you’re unlikely to find anything in her book which isn’t available elsewhere. Save yourself time and money, walk away from this one.
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6 thoughts on “Book Review: SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard”
Excellent review! I’ve not read SPQR but everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound like a bit of a cash-in offering, as you say here, nothing new. Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, by contrast, sounds more fascinating and essential every time I read about it: a genuinely new way of understanding history. I think on the strength of your endorsement here I’m going to get myself a copy, finally!
I absolutely wouldn’t hesitate to buy Frankopan’s book. The whole re-centring of world history around Asia is a superb antidote to traditional euro-centric histories. In particular, when he comes to the discovery of oil in Persia I found the whole reading of 20th Century history utterly mind-blowing. Mary Beard, by contrast, as I say, nothing new at all. Very disappointing.
entertained by your review: I think Mary Beard is worth another look and her TV work is very significant. Check my blog here on a recent lecture she gave about re-enactments. Like her books or not, her observations are valuable: https://animate-tim.com/2018/11/01/why-mary-beard-is-right/
I’m glad you were entertained – that’s more than Mary Beard’s book did for me! I think your points about her I’ve already acknowledged but that’s the crux of the problem. Such is her knowledge and expertise that I expected a book which wasn’t simply run of the mill (and that in a disordered and mangled way). It feels rather like a sell out if I’m honest. If she had nothing new to bring to the table, why write the book at all?
Yes, I actually think her platform has become the tv rather than the bookshop… which may explain the problem. I still think she is wonderful and hope for better in the future.
Yes I agree with much of that (and my Classics-loving daughter would 100% agree with you…)
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After several months of drilling and testing, some residents in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District are about to get their first glimpse at the details of Canadas first geothermal power project.
Geothermal energy has been used as a renewable energy source for almost a century but the site near Meager Creek, 70 kilometres west of Pemberton, is the first in Canada.
Drilling on the second of two test wells will be completed in February. Once the drilling is finished the wells will be tested for steam and heat, which is used to generate geothermal energy.
Depending on the results of these tests the company running the operation, Western Geopower, must decide if and when it intends to proceed with a geothermal plant.
If a geothermal plant is built then a 230 kilovolt transmission line must also be installed. This will be the focus of Western Geopowers presentations to people in Birken and Pemberton on Dec. 8 and 9.
The technical program manager at Meager Creek, Frank Baumann, said management had decided to proceed with an "alternative" plan for the powerline route to avoid the controversial Pemberton Meadows area. If this alternative route is approved then it will pass through lands belonging to two different First Nations bands, the Lilwat and Xitolacw, as it turns off the Lillooet logging road at Railroad Creek headed north of Pemberton Meadows, then back towards Highway 99 at the Birkenhead River.
The lines would then follow the river to an interconnection point with the B.C. Hydro line at Poole Creek, about 18 km north of Pemberton.
Without the transmission lines there is no project. Western Geopower might be sitting on 125 Megawatts of energy, which is enough to power 80,000 homes for a lifetime, but they still have to get the energy from the site to wear it can be used.
"The philosophy in the end is to make sure that everybody is completely informed," said Baumann.
The first meeting starts Wednesday, Dec. 8 at 5 p.m. in the Birken Fire Hall. The second meeting, in Pemberton, will start 5 p.m. Dec. 9 at Signal Hill school.


Selling for a friend.... 1989 Mazda RX7 with original 14,000 miles! Last owner bought it from an older guy that never drove it! I'd admit, body needs a lot of work. Aftermarket body kit is cracked etc. 5speed. basically a project car whoever's looking to build one. Car was recently attempted to get stolen, but they couldn't start it so it needs a new ignition. Price is $2200 for it since the mileage is so low. Pm me if you would like to check it out. Car runs and drives great! Willing to trade as well.


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Here's what the stars a doing on a Thursday night! Kanye West performed a secret show in NYC at The Box for 200 lucky industry folks!
The show was a secret until late Thursday evening, Just Jared reports, when guests were alerted about the show and prompted to call a special number to find out the location!
Kanye had a strict dress code in place in which men had to wear hard bottoms and a suit jacket and women had to wear dresses.
But at around 1:30 a.m. the guests would have been realizing it was way worth it!
Kanye performed renditions of hits like “Power," “Good Life" and a freestyle to “Say You Will.”
John Legend played a piano accompaniment and provided back-up vocals and Estelle sang an impromptu performance of "American Boy."
“Hell of a night, hell of a life,” Kanye Tweeted after the show.
Check out the performances below!


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The alpine skiing World Cup Finals scheduled for next month in Italy will take place without any fans on the slopes due to the coronavirus outbreak, an International Ski Federation (FIS) official told Swedish television on Wednesday.
The event will be held between March 18-22 in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Veneto region -- badly affected by a virus outbreak that has killed 12 people and infected 400 in Italy -- where the 2026 Winter Olympics will be hosted alongside Milan.
"As it stands Cortina is still where the competition will be held, but with no fans," FIS event director Markus Waldner told public broadcaster SVT.
"This could change in the coming days."
Italy has been hit harder than any other European country by the COVID-19 outbreak. It has also been a point of contagion with many cases in other countries involving people who returned home after travelling in infection-hit areas of northern Italy.
The country's sporting calendar has been thrown into chaos as it aims to contain the virus, with towns in the north in lockdown.
The Six Nations clash between Ireland and Italy in Dublin on March 7 was postponed on Wednesday while club matches in rugby union's Pro 14 and football's Serie A have also been shelved.
The second leg of Inter Milan's last 32 Europa League tie against Ludogorets at the San Siro will be played behind closed doors on Thursday, as will their huge match with league title rivals Juventus in Turin on Sunday.
Three other Serie A matches will have no fans in the stands this weekend, as will four second-tier Serie B fixtures.
The outbreak is also having an impact upon the global sporting calendar, with the postponement of the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix in Shanghai, which had been due to take place on April 19.
Meanwhile athletics' World Indoor Championships, scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Nanjing next month, has been postponed until 2021.
The outbreak could yet threaten the continent-wide Euro 2020 football championships starting in June and the Tokyo Olympics, due to get underway in July.


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We challenged you to join 83 of the world’s most popular YA authors and prove that you did NOT kill the evil-incarnate editor, Herman Mildew. You wrote, and voted, and now it’s time to announce the 30 finalists who will be sent to celebrity judges Adele Griffin, Jon Scieszka, and Melissa Walker.
Check out the finalists below, and wish your fellow Figs luck in the judging process!
Letter to Inspector Lawrence by Alice Cyanne Leigh
Yes. Seriously. by Catharine Levi
Non Sequitur by S. B. Linton
I’m Flattered by Moona
Even If I Tried by Lauren Smith
Read My Lips by M. A. Clark
Tonight by Christy Aleckson
Just Saving a Life by Rachel Elkin
I’d Like My Moustache Back, Please by Georgia Atkin
Could You Blame Me? by Paige Johnson
How Dare They? by Kaden A. Ross
Red Herring by Olivia Staser
Mother Knows Best by Rachel Maller
A Little Blue Car by thejokerlaughsatyou
Sunny Dayz and Peach Pie by Rel95
My(Late)Husband Herman Mildew by Manasvi Shrivastava
The Alibi of A.R.Lee by A.R.Lee
What’s My Alibi? by horsecrazy
Half-Melted Ice Cubes by X. Carroll
Creative License by OvercomingDyslexic
My fluffy bunny by Nicole Congdon
Believe Me by Karyn Leigh
Noes Goes by Tamora Locatelli
To Be a Lady by Emily B.
May I Take Your Coat? by RumbleroarRedvines
My Alibi (or, How I Saved the World) by Juliet Bravo
Tangled Web by Kira the Raven
De Jure Innocent by Melody C.
Killer by Isabel Filippone
Pastaholic by Emi B
The grand-prize winner will receive the following:
- A one-page editorial letter from literary agent Suzie Townsend (New Leaf Literary Agency) who will read up to 8,000 words of your original work. Any form of writing will be accepted: short stories, excerpt from a novel, poems, essays, etc. Both published and unpublished work will be accepted for review.
- An invitation for the winner and a parent or guardian to the SohoTeen launch party in New York City on November 29, 2012, where the winner will get a personal half-hour chat with Jon Scieszca. (If the winner cannot attend, he or she will win a half-hour phone conversation with Jon.)
Eight runners-up will each receive a copy of Who Done It?.

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text: The gold frames used here were left over from a Christmas project and the DSP is from the poor cutting I did for earlier projects. Decided to cut up 2 of the triangular shapes and fit them behind the frames. The dark piece in the background has lovely sparkly swirls on it but they don’t show on the photo. It always surprises me how the camera can pick up every error in a project, but doesn’t pick up the shine or the sparkle. The butterfly is from my stash as are the small embellishments. Sentiment is from Joy Clair. Its a much nicer card in R.L. than it looks in this photo.


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Syria was readmitted to the Arab League on Sunday. Arab foreign ministers ended the country’s 12-year suspension following the government’s crackdown on Arab Spring protests which erupted into full-scale warfare. Syria’s reinstatement cleared the way for President Bashar al-Assad to attend the May 19th Arab summit in Riyadh.
While Syria has been readmitted to the league, the 22 member states remain free to restore bilateral relations. Opponents of Syria’s return – Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Morocco – are unlikely to normalise ties soon.
Jordan has put forward a plan for Syria’s reinstatement which calls for the safe return of Syrian refugees, withdrawal from Syria of US and Turkish troops, reconciliation, provision of information on disappeared persons and an end to the billion-dollar trafficking in Captagon, an addictive stimulant popular in the Gulf.
While implementing Jordan’s plan, Arab governments could provide aid for the 90 per cent of Syrians who live below the poverty line at home and invest in reconstruction which has, so far, been blocked by the US and European Union sanctions.
Without shelter, water and electricity, Syrians at home cannot recover from war and sanctions and Syrian refugees could be unwilling to return. Families could be settled in hundreds of unfinished buildings on the outskirts of Aleppo and other Syrian cities once they are ready for occupancy.
Arab League members hosting refugees – Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq – are eager for Syrians to return home. With the most Syrians per capita, Lebanon insists that its 1.5 million refugees, including 820,000 who are receiving UN assistance, must repatriate soon. Refugees strain Lebanon’s broken economy and drain its limited resources while resentful Lebanese people struggle to survive high prices and 98 per cent currency devaluation.
Under popular pressure, Lebanon’s interior ministry has said Syrians should be registered by municipalities before they are allowed to rent property or conduct other transactions. This decree has created panic among many refugees who fear deportation once they are located.
As a large number of Syrian men fled with their families to avoid army service, the Syrian government could issue an amnesty allowing them to return without being conscripted. Some returnees have been sent straight to the army, discouraging repatriation.
The government has encouraged rural refugees to return and resume farming, but they also need to be provided with shelter, water, fuel, seed and fertiliser. Urban refugees are a problem as they could join masses of unemployed unless reconstruction begins and the economy revives, providing jobs.


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Stanford University Press
Partners of the Empireoffers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codified—and annulled. The empire became a political theater where different actors struggled, collaborated, and competed on conflicting agendas and opposing interests.
This book takes a holistic look at the era, interested not simply in central reforms or in regional developments, but in their interactions. Drawing on original archival sources, Ali Yaycioglu uncovers the patterns of political action—the making and unmaking of coalitions, forms of building and losing power, and expressions of public opinion. Countering common assumptions, he shows that the Ottoman transformation in the Age of Revolutions was not a linear transition from the old order to the new, from decentralized state to centralized, from Eastern to Western institutions, or from pre-modern to modern. Rather, it was a condensed period of transformation that counted many crossing paths, as well as dead-ends, all of which offered a rich repertoire of governing possibilities to be followed, reinterpreted, or ultimately forgotten.
Ali Yaycioglu is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His current book project, Power, Wealth and Death: The Moral Economy of State-Society in the Ottoman Empire, analyzes how people acquired wealth and power, how they sustained their wealth and power, how they lost them, and what happened when they lost their wealth, power and their lives roughly between late seventeenth to mid-ninteenth centuries.


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Lefty Brailyn Márquez has been ranked among the Cubs top prospects for a while now and he was expected to be a “pitching weapon” this season, but his absence from camp raised a lot of questions. He finally answered them when he reported Monday after having been cleared in the wake of a symptomatic case of COVID, his second bout with the virus. Márquez did not pitch in a game last year due to a combination of myocarditis from that first infection and shoulder issues that kept him from throwing at all for a good chunk of the season.
LHP Brailyn Márquez has reported to #Cubs camp. He was delayed after testing positive for COVID and was symptomatic.
Márquez, who is vaccinated, says he's feeling good.
— Meghan Montemurro (@M_Montemurro) March 21, 2022
“When the heart issue popped up, it wasn’t something that went through my mind that it was going to be career-ending,” Márquez told the Tribune’s Meghan Montemurro. “But definitely as the process kept going, I made sure to pay attention to it, that it could be something and to make sure that we took care of it.”
He says he’s feeling good now, but there’s a lot of ground to make up from the last two years. The fireballing southpaw reported to the Cubs’ alternate site in 2020 somewhat out of shape, which is understandable given the nature of the situation, and took a while to regain his form. Then you take last year’s setbacks and the prolonged time away this spring into account, and it’s not difficult to be concerned for his immediate future, let alone further down the road.
The flip side is that Márquez was going to be on an innings limit anyway and might be better served working in a relief role as he works to build his arm back up for the rigors of competitive pitching. It’s almost easy to forget about his massive potential because of the time he’s missed, but getting back on the mound this season should remind everyone pretty quickly.
“We still feel like the foundation’s there,” pitching coach Tommy Hottovy said Monday. Talking to him about what he did in the offseason and how he looks, he’s in a good place.
“There’s going to be a lot of communication over the next week or two, just to make sure that we’re doing things the right way.”


As The Doors once sang, "This is the end." Then again, they also once sang, "If you whip the horses eyes, you can make them sleep, and cry" so maybe we won't take Jim Morrison's word for it. Either way, it is indeed the final day of Going Yard.
The tents along the street in front of Rosenblatt Stadium have all packed up and gone (save for one local outfit, The Dugout, which is keeping things running at least through the end of today). The parking lot, once bustling with activity, is mostly empty. Even the seemingly perpetual line for milkshakes at Zesto's has dwindled to a few random customers.
Strange as it is for us to witness the aftermath, it's probably even stranger for the folks of Omaha, who go through this every year. One minute the city is the center of the college baseball universe, and the next it is 50 weeks away from experiencing that rush again.
As for us, it's time to go home.
This, of course, is assuming we remember where home is. It's been a long (and of course sometimes strange) trip that took us from coast to coast and everywhere from the tiniest of baseball backwoods to the biggest stage college ball has to offer.
Worst. Circus. Ever.
We managed to dodge most fast food along the way, preferring instead to somehow find every International House of Pancakes in the United States. We managed to limit our hot dog intake despite being in a different ballpark every day. We even managed to get laundry done when we needed to.
The one thing we never managed to do was get tired of being on the road.
Somehow, despite the three months away from home, we had a great time, and therefore a hard time believing it was over when the Beavers got the final out the other night.
To avoid repeating what Matt said yesterday, I'll simply say that he said it all. We're rounding third, and the coach is waving us home. Who knew Going Yard could be so much fun?
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WASHINGTON — The White House and Congress are hoping to swiftly approve billions of dollars in aid for the victims of Hurricane Harvey as Texas begins to dry out from the unprecedented rainfall that has crippled the Gulf Coast.
The Trump administration is expected to make an initial funding request to Congress of at least $5.5 billion for Harvey, two Republican congressional sources told NBC News. The request is likely to be split between $5 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Relief Fund and $500 million for a small-business loan fund.
Administration officials familiar with the request told NBC News additional money could be added and the formal funding request could be made as soon as Friday.
As Water Recedes, Focus Turns to Harvey Recovery FundingSept. 1, 201703:53
Congress returns from its five-week August recess on Tuesday having spent most of 2017 embroiled in contentious battles over health care, immigration, and spending that have resulted in little in terms of legislative accomplishments. But congressional leaders now hope the spirit of unity to help victims will give a temporary respite from the gridlock in Washington.
A quick response to the storm that garners an overwhelming majority vote would represent a marked shift in what was shaping up to be fall legislative agenda filled with more party-line votes and political fights. Last week, Trump suggested he would advocate for a government shutdown if Congress does not pass funding for his proposed wall along the country’s southern border. Now talk of letting the government partially shutter when funding ends on Sept. 30 has gone quiet.
Passing an aid bill that also includes lifting the debt ceiling until after the 2018 midterm election, as some lawmakers have suggested, would save members a brutal high-stakes battle over a potential national default.
But that might take too long for hurricane victims. Sources say FEMA is burning through the cash it has so fast that the agency might not be able to wait until late September for more help.
The Senate Appropriations Committee acted Thursday to redirect $500 million in existing FEMA funds to go towards the disaster relief effort, a GOP aide said. The committee, which is responsible for allocating federal funds, is preparing to quickly process the emergency request for additional Harvey aid.
The initial $5.5 billion will represent just a fraction of the funding that will be needed. The government approved more than $50 billion after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Coast in 2012, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the his state will need more than $125 billion from Washington.
It has put many members of the Texas delegation in the awkward position of advocating for funding after having voted against Sandy relief packages.
"The problem with that particular bill is it became a $50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told MSNBC this week. But fact checkers have largely debunked the claims being made by Cruz and other Texas Republicans who voted against Sandy funding.
“We’ll be working on a supplemental appropriation bill to benefit the victims of Hurricane Harvey,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who also voted against Sandy money, in a statement. “Most of this is done according to federal formulas that already exist. This is not just money that’s doled out for any purpose. This has to be targeted for disaster relief and recovery from Hurricane Harvey.”
And no matter what the final relief funding looks like, it alone can’t rebuild Houston and the gulf areas devastated by Harvey, former deputy administrator of FEMA Richard Serino said on MSNBC.
“This is not one event that one person can do, not one agency can do it, what one department can do. This is going to truly take the entire whole of the community to come together," Serino said.

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/PRNewswire/ -- The newly minted Agriculture for a Democratic Workplace (ADW) is calling on Congress to join the more than 40-member agricultural coalition in opposing the Employee Free Choice Act.
We are opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act because it would strip American workers, including most workers in the agricultural industry, of the right to participate in federally supervised private ballot elections and replace it with a system where their choice of whether or not to join a union is no longer private, the coalition said in an open letter to Congress last week.
"This bill is bad policy. It is bad for employers and employees," said Western Growers President and CEO and ADW Co-Chair Tom Nassif. "It would have the opposite effect of economic stimulus. Card check is a job killer at a time when American businesses are struggling to keep their doors open and avoid further reductions of the workforce."
President Barack Obama has publicly supported the EFCA, but the ADW is hopeful Mr. Obama will recognize that this legislation would hurt the development of job growth in the U.S.
Barry Bedwell, president of the California Grape and Tree Fruit League and co-chair of the ADW, added, "With the binding arbitration tenant of the EFCA and the new costs that could be levied on employers, no wonder millions of employers and workers are rallying to fight it. This bill provides no means to stimulate our economy, hinders U.S. efforts to grow business, and will undoubtedly usher in more job losses."
American agriculture stands united in opposition to the EFCA and hopes the country's elected officials will stand with them.
"Congress should oppose legislation that takes rights away from American workers -- such as the right to cast a private vote on whether to certify a union or the right to vote on a union contract at all," said California Farm Bureau Federation President and ADW Co-Chair Doug Mosebar. "If our senators and members of Congress truly want to support America's work force, they will stand with farmers and agricultural business people and oppose the EFCA."
Last month, ADW, this new coalition of national, regional and local agricultural associations covering virtually every sector of the industry launched a campaign to oppose the EFCA. ADW unveiled its Web site (www.coalitionforagriculture.org) with information and tools for coalition members to fight the battle against the introduction and passage of the EFCA.


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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Adventure Park Straza is situated on the small hill Straza in Bled. We can come to the top of the hill by footpath or we can drive with the chair lift. Park consists of five different pretentious adrenalin paths, which are named by colours. The easiest is yellow and the heaviest is the red path. During the adventure you need to be connected with the carabiner to the safety steel cable all the time. Adventure park is convenient for visits of school groups, birthday parties, family visits, team buildings and other. Here is also the summer toboggan slide. We can relax and strengthen in the Brunarica na Strazi, where they have delicious local food.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Vogel is located in Bohinj in the region Upper Carniola. To the 1537 height above sea level takes us the cable railway, which is working through all the year. At the top expects us the restaurant Vogel from where is a wonderful view to the Bohinj valley. Vogel is famous ski slope, which is in winter time very besieged. In summer time goes to the Vogel many lovers of the mountains and tourists, because there are lost of interesting footpaths. There is also a Ski Hotel Vogel.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Maribor is the second largest town in Slovenia. It lies by the River Drava. Maribor has beautiful old town centre where we can see many interesting buildings like town hall in the main square, cathedral, Maribor castle, national theatre and many other. If you like to relax, you can go to the city park, where are many paths, fountain, ponds, aquarium and other. Nice view to the city is from Piramida or Kalvarija, hills above Maribor. In summer time many concerts and other performances take place in Lent, where is also the well known old vine and house. Here are many restaurants and bars.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Kranj is the largest city in Gorenjska Region. It lies on the confluence of Rivers Kokra and Sava. The city has interesting old town centre, where we can see narrow streets, churches, tollbooth, market place, the canyon of River Kokra, small shops, cafes, restaurants and other. Kranj is especially well known because of the great Slovenian poet, France Preseren. In the old town we can see the house where he lived and his monument in front of the theatre. Kranj has many large shop centres, where lots of people likes to meet and to go to the coffee. There are two hills for recreation and to see the wonderful view to the city, Smarjetna gora and St. Jost.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Borovnica is a village, which is situated on the margin of the Ljubljana swamp. It is a starting point for wonderful trips to the Pekel gorge and to Rakitna. In past times the village was known by viaduct and railway line Dunaj - Trieste, which was the largest viaduct built of stone in Europe and technical achievement of the 19th century. Today reminds of it only the 21. column, which is situated in the middle of the village. In the year 1992 was proclaimed for the technical monument. In Borovnica are the largest plantations of the American bilberries in Slovenia. In other half of the July they organize The day of bilberries. In Borovnica is also the less famous Jelen or Dolina bridge, which was built in the year 1857. It belongs to the oldest Slovenian bridges with double track line. It is 29 metres high and 219 metres long. In the village was born Marja Borsnik, literary historian.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Koper is interesting city in the Slovenian coast. It has two official languages, which are Slovenian and Italian language. It was developed in the rocky island, which the Romans called it the Insula Capraria (goat's island). Koper had the powerful economical and cultural blossoming in the years from the 1279 to 1797, when it was under the government of the Venetian republic. Under Kingdom of Italy the city completely lost the island appearance. The town's architecture preserved the medieval appearance. Near the city developed the international cargo harbour Luka Koper. The old town centre has many cultural and historical remarkablenesses. Between them are Carpaccio square with Taverna, Saint Justine's column and fountain, fountain Da Ponte, the Muda Gate, Praetorian Palace, cathedral and defence tower, square Brolo with the park, Fontico with the heraldic decoration, Palace Tarsia, Palace Almerigogna, Palace De Belli, the Rotunda of the Assumption and other. The Muda Gate, former town's gate, were long centuries the only entrance to the city by land. They are in the renaissance style. The Praetorian Palace, town's house in the times of the Venetian Republic, is the most precious architecture memorial of the city Koper.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Krsko is a town, which is situated in the eastern part of Slovenia. The city developed on both banks of the Sava river. The new part of the city is located in Videm. Krsko is very well known by the nuclear power station. It is the only one in Slovenia and works from the year 1981. Krsko has a varied historical past, which is visible in every step, if you walk through the town's streets. You can look at the Church of the St. John Evangelist, Valvasor's Monument and house, Valvasor's Library, Church of the Holy Spirit, Capuchin monastery, Hocevar's Mausoleum, fire station tower near the City park, monument of Matija Gubec, Culture House Krsko and other. I was impressed especially by the wonderful City park and the City hotel with its interesting exterior. The hotel is situated on the Matija Gubec Square.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Smarna gora Hill is a popular hiking point for many visitors in every time of the year. It is situated in Tacen by Ljubljana. Top of the Smarna gora Hill has two peaks, which are Smarna gora Hill and Grmada. On the peak is a wonderful view to surroundings, especially Ljubljana, the main city of Slovenia. When it is the sunny weather, you can see Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia. The most known to me is the way from Tacen, where will expect you the free parking place. From here to the peak is about 30 to 40 minutes of walking. Towards to the end is the slope more steep. Here is the St. Antony's bell. Your wish will fulfil if you pull the bell, but just once. On Smarna gora Hill is the interesting late Gothic church in which are also organized weddings. Around the church are walls with defensive towers. Beside the church is the restaurant Ledinek, where they have delicious Slovenian food. The most known are the tea and salty pretzel, but I adore coffee. If you wish, you can use comfortable chairs for resting. Children can play at the playground.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Murska Sobota is the largest city in Pomurje Region. It lies in the northern part of Slovenia, not far from the border with Avstrija and Madžarska. Murska Sobota is the administrative, economical, cultural, educational and medical centre of Pomurje Region. It has varied historical past, which can be the best seen with the visit of the museum. This is situated in the wonderful renaissance Murska Sobota Castle, which stands in the place of the former manor Belmura from the 13th century. By the castle is the City Park, where you can relax and enjoy in peace. In the park are planted beech trees, oaks, ash trees and lime trees. In the city you can also see the Evangelical Church, Church of Saint Nicolas, Victory Square and other interesting things. Varied food offer is available in the restaurant and tavern called Zvezda. In Murska Sobota are through all the year organized cultural, entertaining, culinary, traditional and sport events. The surroundings of the city offers numerous possibilities for trips in Pomurje.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Izola is a wonderful seaside city, which lies between Koper and Piran. Today is known as the tourist place, but people are still very much connected with fishing and producing of oil and wine. The first tourism started to develop with discovering of the thermal springs in the year 1820. The greater interesting things worth seeing are Italian elementary school Dante Alighieri, Parenzana museum, Trg padlih za svobodo (Square), Soncno nabrezje, Manzioli Square, the Church of St. Mary of Haliaetum, the Cape Petelin, port (madrac), Municipal palace (City Hall), the Church of St. Maurus, the Besenghi degli Ughi palace, the Chapel of the Brotherhood of Flagellants, Scuola Batutti, Trg republike (Square), the pavilion and fountain in Pietro Coppo Park, the Church of Saint Rocco and others. In summer months organize in Izola different concerts, street performances and other. In the city is also the popular discotheque Ambasada Gavioli (Embassy of Gavioli). From the centre of Izola goes the promenade way to Simon's bay.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Arboretum Volcji Potok is situated near Kamnik. In spring and summer time is very popular place to visit it. It is a wonderful botanic park with six lakes, flowers and plantations of trees. In Volcji Potok is always something happenig. In April they have days of blooming tulips and spring flowers. In the park are the playground, the restaurant, the pavillion - Boljka Gallery and other. The park is also called the Souvan park, after the first owner. Arboretum Volcji Potok offers you peace and relaxation.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Tolmin river beds are the most southern entrance point to Triglav National Park, which is the only Slovenian national park. The road to gorge goes from Tolmin and one kilometre to Zatolmin. Tolmin Gorge is the most important natural remarkableness. Tourist paths were built from the year 1953 to 1958. They go along Tolminka to the thermal spring and by Zadlascica to Bear's Head. The main keeper of the road is the Tourist association Tolmin. On the entrance point visitors can buy admission ticket, receive the map of the road and all other important information. The circular trail goes to the confluence Zadlascica and Tolminka, from there to Bear's Head, by the road Zatolmin - Cadrg to the entrance into Dante's or Zadlasca Cave. The Bear's Head is called the natural bridge, a large rock. The interesting Devil's Bridge was built in the year 1907. At the beginning was wooden, but now is strong iron construction.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Krvavec is a very well known wintersport centre, which is visited by many admirers of skiing and other sport activities. It is a mountain, which is situated in Kamnik-Savinja Alps. In ski resort they have artificial snow. In winter time you can spend the night in the interesting Eskimo village. In additional offer are also ski school, competitory line Zeton, polygon for safe driving, polygon for begginers, infant's ribbon and merry go round. In Krvavec is the transmitter for radio and television Slovenia. In summer time Krvavec is a starting point for many mountain trips.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Smartinsko Lake is very popular and attractive place for local people and tourists. It is located near town Celje. The lake was made in the year 1970, when the barrier Loce was built in the brook Koprivnica. Its fundamental task is to hold back the torrential waters. Smartinsko Lake belongs to the largest artificial lakes in Slovenia. The bank of the lake measures about 10 kilometres and it is very agitated. There are available many possibilities for relaxation and recreation. You can walk around lake, go to drive with the boat, fish, run or do other activities. You can go to drink or eat by the barrier, called Lake queen or in Loce by the boathouse Muzelj. Visitors can also drive with the ship and enjoy in romantic views to the lake.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dravograd is a small town in northern part of Slovenia. It is close to Austria. The main river is a beautiful river Drava, which divides the city in two banks. Dravograd is well known by its Hydroelectric power station. The city has varied historical past. In the old town centre you can see the St. Vitus Church, which is one of the oldest in Slovenia. Also is interesting the church of St. John Evangelist. The city has two business centres. Near the city lies Lake Dravograd which is very popular in the summer time. You can enjoy enjoy in the sun, go to romantic walk or drink a coffee or beer in the restaurant.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Sneznik Castle is a romantic and wonderful castle building in Notranjska region. It is located under the mountain Sneznik near the place Kozarisce. The castle is built on a rock at the source of the Brezno Spring and the Obrh. Below the castle is the spring dammed into a large pond. In sources the Sneznik Castle was first mentioned in the year 1462. In the castle is preserved all the original fittings, mostly from the 19th century. Among the living quarters are the most interesting the room with Egyptian furniture, the dinning room and a larger hall arranged into a wedding hall. Round the castle are foothpaths and benches where you can enjoy in nature and views. Sneznik Castle is a marvellous place for an unforgettable wedding.

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Search over one million manuscript records from the Valuation Office in Ireland to find if your ancestor owned or rented property between 1824 and 1856.
In this collection you can find several different manuscript records from the Valuation Office in Ireland:
Both transcripts and images of the original records are provided. Depending on the type of record you are looking at, you may be able to discover the following information in the transcript:
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The images of the original records have also been provided and can offer additional information, particularly about the land being assessed. Some book types, such as tenure books, include notations about the property as well as notes on the cost of rent and any additional observations. House books also often include descriptions of a property and its various components, such as notations of office barn and piggery. Quarto books include observations about the tenement, sometimes including quite a wealth of details: "House unfinished, good yard, but gateway not sufficient, built on ground rent, ceiling above…"
The original records are handwritten and, as such, there may be some errors in the transcriptions due to difficulty in deciphering the original text. Checking the images will help to ensure you have the most accurate information.
Records have been provided in partnership with the National Archives of Ireland.
This collection houses several types of manuscript records from the Valuation Office in Ireland: field books, house books, quarto books, rent books, survey books, and tenure books. All of these books helped to inform the publication of Griffith’s Valuation, which was a comprehensive assessment of the rental value of Irish lands and property from the mid-1820s to the mid-1850s. The assessment of land and buildings in Ireland was intended to aid in the re-evaluating of local taxes, which were at that time unevenly applied.
These records were compiled in three waves, each with its own distinct parameters for assessment, prior to the publication of Griffith’s Valuation. These three methods for assessment produced different records. During the first valuation, house books would list the names of occupiers while field books recorded details solely related to soil quality. The nature of these two books changed slightly by the third valuation where both were including information on occupiers.
While the house and field books were by far the most prolific, other manuscript records were also compiled. Tenure books detailed the landlord and lease information, including the lessor’s name. Rent books recorded rents paid and quarto books covered towns.
As we have Griffith’s Valuation online here at Findmypast, you may be wondering what worth there is in these pre-publication records. It’s important to remember that the Griffith’s Valuation shows us Ireland in the immediate aftermath of the Great Famine—a catastrophic event with enormous impact on Ireland, its people, and its trajectory. As such, huge changes often occurred between the pre-publication manuscripts and the published valuations, which offer incredible insight into this period of time in Ireland.
As you search through these records, keep in mind that not all records have survived fro all the parishes. If you are interested in a particular area, be sure to check all the book types for that area as the classification of book types was, at times, inconsistent and you may be able to find useful information in unlikely places.
William Butler Yeats’ grandfather, William Pollexfen, can be found listed in a house book from December 1855. In the townland of Rathedmond in County Sligo, he’s recorded alongside William Middleton and the property in question is listed as coal yard and office. From the image we further see that the immediate lessor is listed as Board of Customs.
Two sons of Daniel O’Connell, known as The Emancipator of the Catholic Irish, can be found in these records. His son Daniel O’Connell, the creator of O’Connell’s Ale and former Member of Parliament (MP), is listed in the townland of Caheriveen. His brother Maurice, also a former MP, is listed on the same page, further down.
In looking at these records, please keep in mind that not all records survived for all parishes.
Additionally, the categories for book type are somewhat hazy so be sure to check all results for the area in which you are interested.


An Australian OEM has completed a major business acquisition of a specialised local oil and gas pump manufacturer, expanding its product portfolio of reliable and high-quality pumps.
Sterling Pumps acquired United Pumps Australia, effective late June 2020.
United Pumps Australia was founded in 1984, and is focused on developing and supplying a wide range of pumps for Australian and international specialised oil and gas projects, including API 610 rated centrifugal pumps and systems. The company is based in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne and will continue to be managed by current management now reporting to Sterling Pumps.
Anton Merry, Managing Director of Sterling Pumps, said the United Pumps acquisition is positive for Sterling Pumps and the group, contributing an extensive product portfolio of reliable and high-quality pumps for both the water, and oil and gas segments. United Pumps brings to the company extensive technical and manufacturing capabilities, a large pump test facility and enhanced market knowledge.
The company will continue to operate both production facilities in Pakenham and Sunshine, with each plant having comprehensive testing capabilities and industry-leading people to allow United Pumps to continue to focus on the specialised oil and gas markets, while Sterling Pumps continues its expansion into the water focused rural/irrigation, fire protection and mining markets.


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