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Tidying the Plot

It’s December already, the month I took on Plot 5 almost a year ago! The weekend was gloriously sunny after frosty starts, I spent Saturday morning at the plot ticking jobs off my list before winter arrives.

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A job that really needed doing was to take the bean poles down. Leaning precariously and held in place only by old bean vines, I set to work unravelling and cutting to release the poles before they finally fell down. This is a job I always dread doing, to me it’s the final farewell to summer.

The next job was to add the wooden shelving unit I salvaged from the original shed on Plot 5, it’s perfect for storage which my tiny shed really needed, the floor was getting crowded with all my stuff dumped in every corner! Everything needed to be taken out of the shed to get the shelving unit in so I took the opportunity to give the muddy floor a sweep.

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For now the shed is tidy again and somewhere cosy to pop inside for a cup of tea during the cold winter months. Over the past few weekends I’ve managed to get most of the weeding done and almost finished mulching the pumpkin bed with well rotted manure, just a small section left that has some stubborn brambles growing through to deal with.

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The saturated ground is sticky clay in places, which makes it a very messy and slippery affair lifting roots! Still, they’re so delicious it’s worth the extra effort.

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The Sun Down Motel: Book Review

The Sun Down Motel (Pub. Date: 2/18/2020)

As soon as I read the dedication page, “For the odd girls, the nerdy girls, and the murderinos. This one is yours” , my face lit up and I just knew I was going to love this book!

The Sun Down Motel is getting A LOT of hype and pre-pub buzz. Usually I’m skeptical of over hyped books, but The Sun Down deserves all the praise it’s receiving!

The Plot: In 1982 Viv Delaney mysteriously goes missing in the middle of her night shift at The Sun Down Motel, a run down, sketchy roadside motel.

Fast Forward to present day: Viv’s neice, Carly, has always wondered about her aunt Viv. What happened to her? Why doesn’t anyone talk about it? Is she still out there somewhere? These are the questions Carly needs answers to. So she takes it upon herself to figure out what happened. Carly decides to visit the town where her aunt went missing. One thing leads to another and Carly finds herself working the same night shift as her aunt.

But things at The Sun Down start to get weird. Supernatural even.

The Characters: The book is told in alternating narratives: Viv’s and Carly’s. I absolutely LOVED Carly. She is like a long lost sister. She is nerdy, loves true crime, and is so very endearing. I loved reading about her.

The Writing: I’ve heard some criticisms about the writing of this book. I actually enjoyed the writing style. Some found the writing repetitive, I can see where those reviewers are coming from, but that wasn’t my experience of the book. I think the writing style is simple (in a good way that made the book very “readable”- if that makes sense) and not over-fluffed.

My favorite part of this book is how atmospheric it is. Through the writing, you truly get the feel of the motel and the haunting, creepy experiences that ensue.

This is definitely one I recommend you check out when it is published!

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Dam It.

Ladybower reservoir from Bamford Edge

Three dams, three reservoirs, one cycle track, sixteen miles. We’ve done about a hundred yards before rain splatters my sunglasses. Damn it! But we aren’t daunted. The forecast said 2% chance of showers and my calculations make that less than a couple of minutes so it should soon pass. Should…

The two upper dams, Howden and Derwent were built in the early 1900s, the water they hold filling the narrow valley and supplying most of Derbyshire and a large part of South Yorkshire. They played an important part in the second world war, standing in for the dams on the Ruhr in Germany’s industrial heartland to test the bouncing bombs of Barnes Wallace, which were instrumental in stymying the German war effort. (Some years ago we paused in this spot to watch a yellow vintage bi-plane flying repeatedly along the path the dambusters used. Later we discovered that Sir Peter Jackson had been in the area scouting locations for the re-make of the film he was planning.)

Derwent overflow

The third dam, Ladybower, was built in the 1940s and the reservoir behind it obliterated two villages, Ashopton and Derwent. All three reservoirs are set amongst some of the most stunning countryside in the world and are astonishingly beautiful, the backdrop of heather covered moors and pine plantations making them extremely photogenic. When the dams, especially Howden and Derwent, overflow, it is the most spectacular sight.

Howden overflow (taken February 2016, hence the winter colours!)

Full disclosure – we’re not cycling around all three reservoirs but cutting across the bottom of Ladybower, the largest of the three (we’re not cheating – it’s still sixteen miles, or 26 km). The first section, alongside that reservoir, is on a minor road and more uphill than I remember. We pass the memorial to Tip, the faithful sheepdog who stayed beside her dead master for fifteen weeks high on the moors through a harsh winter before both were found, then descend slightly to the visitor centre at Fairholmes, the top of Ladybower and snuggled under the imposing wall of Derwent.

Riding past Howden Dam

It’s a bit of a slog uphill past the dam but at least it’s stopped raining. Or has it? Whoever is in charge seems to be struggling to make up their mind. As the sun attempts to beat the clouds it’s pleasant cycling – this part of the road is beyond the main car parks and therefore we’re passed by only the occasional vehicle. It’s also mainly flat, passing beneath large pine trees and alongside the water.

There’s a monument at the site of Birchenlee, the village created to house workers on the first two dams. At the peak of work there were nearly three thousand living here; as soon as the dams were finished the village was abandoned. Nothing remains now, the land reclaimed by the forest. We climb past Howden Dam and pause, looking across an impressive feat of man’s engineering towards the even more impressive beauty and splendour of Mother Nature’s work. The sun silvers the water, the heather is in its summer pink dress, and the moors rise behind, dark and overseeing. It’s stunning.

Derwent Dam

The road around Howden becomes a little rougher, small streams of water running across it. King’s Tree marks the road end, so called because it was ‘planted’ by King Edward in 1945. A seventy-five-year-old oak but still only a small tree. Above it dark clouds are gathering again and spits of rain hit us as we pass through the gate and onto a gravel road where a sign warns of a steep descent, a cartoon image of a cyclist lurching from his bike reinforcing the warning.

‘That’s not steep!’ Neil cries from in front of me, his voice a mix of disappointment and disbelief. ‘The beginning of the Old Coach Road is steeper than that!’ We coast down the slight slope and across the ford at the bottom (another warning there, although there’s less water than we’ve splashed through on the road). I grunt my way up the other side – I don’t know if there’s a sign but this side is flipping steep!

Slippery Stones

We ride through the forest and swing around to the packhorse bridge at Slippery Stones. The bridge stood for centuries in Derwent village and, as a listed monument, was dismantled and each stone numbered, eventually to be rebuilt here where the river is not much more than a stream, but where it runs freely before being harnessed by the stone and concrete of three dams. It’s a magical place, away from the crowds and with open moorland surrounding it. Whilst Neil takes pictures I clamber down to the water’s edge and sit under the bridge, watching the raindrops create circles in a pool where the water is still and deep. I could sit here all day.

The path splits here. If we took the left we would soon be in the wildness of the moors on the Cut Gate track, an ancient crossing leading to the Strines above Bradford, near where I grew up in Stocksbridge. As it always is, the temptation to take this route is great. But it is harsh and open country, windswept and derisive of puny human effort. It is too far for me to walk, or even cycle, both ways and today I have no gear to protect me from what Mother Nature may throw at me. Our path lies another way but, as it often does in this landscape, my heart tugs against the direction I must take.

The going is easier than we remember it, large rocks that halted momentum hidden below a new, wider track that is still not completely smooth but allows for a rolling descent, faster than the old narrow track would have allowed. I’m torn between letting go of the brakes and enjoying the ride or taking it slowly and enjoying the scenery. Alongside Howden dam there’s another sign for a steep decline. Neil snorts derisively and mutters something about signs being wrong. But this is marketed as a family track and I understand the cautionary warnings.

Howden reservoir from King’s Tree

The track is an easy ride, not technical in the slightest, and much easier than anything we’ve done in New Zealand. It’s nowhere near as challenging as the family trail the OCR is marketed as and nothing compared to the Timber Trail – our ride mates from that would possibly be disappointed here. But, like that does, it takes you through some of the most marvellous countryside in the world.

Howden towards Bleaklow Moor

I’d thought the route back to the car would be easy and downhill. It is mainly so but there are a few short climbs that test my legs on a bike that is much heavier than my own Giant. Halfway back we divert to Fairholmes to the hole-in-the-wall establishment that’s been here for decades and sells wonderful home-made cakes and mugs of tea. Fortified by fruit cake (me) and flapjack (Neil) we fly down the final stretch. Or we would if we didn’t have to be careful of pedestrians who seem to have forgotten it’s a bike track and wander aimlessly across the path in front of you.

Howden towards Cut Gate

Another black cloud hoves into view and starts to release its load as we pass through the final gate. By the time we get back to the car it’s making a real effort and we quickly load the bikes and jump into the car. With no real plans for dinner and our accommodation not offering cooking facilities it just seems sensible to stop at the Ladybower Inn and have a meal there. Of course, you can’t stop in a pub and not have a pint.

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  1. Gosh, it’s so beautiful. And go you, cycling all that way.I wonder how people felt having their villages flooded for the dams, shades of the big dam on the South Island whose name escapes me. Or the ten lost villages they drowned to make the St Lawrence Seaway in Canada. There’s a wonderful novel about that, The Winter Vault, by the sublime Anne Michaels.

  2. I don’t know that but I’ll look it up. There is a book about the lost villages, Silent Valley by Vic Hallam (I think!) I have two copies, the original and a revised version from a few years ago. It has some amazing pictures of the dam construction towering over the cottages. I suspect that people had little choice in those days. Now there would be more furore. It’s sad but a growing population needs water. I don’t know the answer.

  3. Sounds wonderful. Nothing wrong with an easy ride from time to time, I say. I love the idea of riding along, enjoying the scenery and then standing the bike up at a cafe for a ‘re-fuel’ before carrying on. I enjoyed the Otago Rail Trail for that and look forward to the same in the northern hemisphere some time. Keep on keeping on up there you two!

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Women’s Success In The Business Of Wine And Spirits: A Case Study In Leadership

"For the past few weeks I’ve been interviewing about one-half of the participants who recently completed the Women in Leadership (WIL) program at Columbia Business School. The full roster of participants included women from eighteen different industries but my focus was, of course, on women who work in wine and spirits, in this case for wholesalers."

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France and the Swiss Farm

Originally posted 28 June 2010.

So! I think we left off after dinner at Pina’s Monday night. Tuesday, it was back to the farm! Jurg picked me up around 9:30 or so that morning, and we made a stop at the hardware store so he could get some stuff for the barn. Once we got home (I can feel totally secure in calling their place “home”!), Vreni gave me a huge hug and made sure I had the coveralls and work boots I needed. =) Back out to the barn! Today’s work: cutting rubber flooring for the cows to sleep on. =) The stuff was heavier and harder to cut than I expected! I was the official “oiler” so Jurg could make an easier cut. We had to fit them just right in the space we had to work with.

And then it was lunch time! We ate with Vreni’s parents, Bianca (another girl from church about my age), and two or three other neighbor’s who’d come to help Jurg with bigger stuff in the barn that afternoon. I will learn German by the time I go again… at least enough to have conversations! It’s fun just listening to them, though. 🙂

After lunch, Bianca and I went out to collect stoat traps. The stoat is like a big weasel, and it’s an invasive species for Switzerland. She’s studying them for her environmental engineering degree–pretty impressive! Basically, we found and replaced the preliminary traps around the area (we just did the last few–she had put out 100 all together!). When we came to each trap, we looked to see if there were any stoat footprints (pawprints?) or, um, droppings! She and I had a good time. We got to talk for a while, and she told me about her experiences being a Christian in Europe. She’s studied in Norway and been to New Zealand for work one summer. She’s a very interesting person! We have a lot in common, which is always a nice realization to have in a faraway place! =)

When we finished up with that, I took a much-needed shower and took a nap before supper! I think I briefly woke up to eat, then went right back to bed! I love being on vacation–I sleep a lot more and a lot better on vacation! Whew! Bianca had to take the train back to school (about 3 hours away, on the other side of Switzerland), but we became Facebook friends, so we never have to be out of touch. 😉 Haha.

And the next morning (Wednesday), I got up to do two of my favorite things: 1. Eat a Swiss breakfast of homemade bread with homemade jellys and honey and coffee; 2. Help Vreni cook! She had to cook double for Wednesday and Thursday to feed the men helping Jurg in the barn. She works in Basel on Thursdays, so she needed to cook for both days. It was so much fun! Not only did I get to help make bread, I chopped veggies and just did whatever might help. I love cooking with Vreni because we have to use so many hand motions and act things out. Her English is WAY more advanced than my German (at the moment!), but we communicated quite well actually! =) It was fun kneading the bread dough for pizza, and chopping garlic and onions was relaxing… even if I did small like garlic and onions the next few days!

That afternoon I spent time with Kathrin and her kids. She works at a library part-time, so I went with her while she did that. She cooked lasagne for supper, and her kids got to practice their English with me a little bit before Kathrin and I left for church. We picked up Vreni and Jurg and headed to Basel! The big buzz around town was that Switzerland won their match in the World Cup! Woohoo!

Once we got home from church that night (home as in the Steinhauers’ house this time!), I tried to help Mrs. Margrit get things done before she and Dan left to go see Kaleb in the States for a couple of weeks. She has a lot on her plate, but she’s so funny about it! There’s always a lot going on at the Steinhauers’ place I have learned, but I’m amazed at how it all gets done and they keep a good attitude about it all! They can laugh when things go wrong instead of get frustrated–which I firmly believe is a much better way of living! Anyway, they got everything packed and accomplished, and headed out with Chris and Ben to the Zurich airport early Thursday morning.

And that left Joyce and me at Grandma (Queen) Alice’s mercy! =) I miss them both already! Alice and I had so much fun beating up on each other. She’s stronger than she looks and more mischievious than she let’s on! She’s a fun little lady; the Steinhauers said she was never like this before she became a Christian. They said it’s a true testament to the way God can change a life. Amazing.

Moving on! Nicolas came over that day to cook lunch and dinner for Alice and Joyce–and help translate where needed! Simona and Nicki came over to pick me up and go to France for the day! It looked exactly the way I always imagine the French countryside would look! Chalets, vineyards, cute little towns, all of it! We even saw a castle on a hill! We stopped for lunch in Colmar, France, which is a super cute little town! All the towns there remind me of Old Town Alexandria. I love it! Cobblestone streets, ice cream vendors, chocolate shops, bakeries, shops, coffee places, all of it! We ate paninis at a sidewalk cafe and walked around taking pictures of everything. (Well, I was taking pictures of everything!) We also made sure to get some ice cream on our way back to the car (nugat for me! Amazing stuff!)

And then we were back on the road again. Our directions were a little confusing, so we stopped (about three times!) to ask directions. The French were quite nice to us actually! (Probably because Simona and Nicki both speak French and I let them do the talking!) It was so neat driving through French wine country and through the countryside. I love it! =)

Our last stop was Strutthoff, which is a concentration camp in what is now France. (It was Germany at the time of WWII.) Not a fun thing, especially not on an overcast day, but I felt like it was something I needed to see while I was there. It was small compared to what I had expected (I guess I think all the concentration camps are as big and complex as Auschwitz), but knowing what happened there and reading the details was sobering. Sobering is an understatement. It was sickening. It really happened, and it really happened there. And I walked around there.

We headed back to Leistal (where the Steinhauers live) and made it in time for supper! Simona and Nicki stayed to eat with us and helped with clean up, too. Everyone here is one big family. Everyone helps because it’s just what you do–not something you have to do. Nicolas is a fantastic cook, and he made sure we had PLENTY–with leftovers! Joyce and I were both pretty beat from our days, so I went to bed as soon as I could, and Joyce took some downtime for herself. =)

That’s all I have time for right now, folks! Tune in next time (hopefully today or tomorrow!) for the final installment! Love y’all.

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quintessential leader books challenging cast of charactersI’m in the middle of writing my newest Quintessential Leader book, The Challenging Cast of Characters We Have on All of Our Teams: How Quintessential Leaders Use Self-Control and Self-Discipline to Deal With Them, which I plan to have available for purchase by the end of September.

At the core of each of these cast members we will inevitably have on all the teams in life – personal, professional, educational, social, and religious – is a verbal and/or behavioral manifestation of the character trait that makes dealing with them a real challenge.

The words we speak and write reveal what we are, who we are, how we are, and what goes on behind the walls of our minds and our hearts. I never cease to be amazed at how the challenging cast of characters that we have and will have on all of our teams reveal the truth about themselves time and again through what they say and what they write.

The seeming unawareness with which they consistently reveal malevolent attitudes, motives, biases, and thinking about things and people is puzzling enough, but with the advent of social media, it seems that all filters get turned off and these cast members go full tilt into making these characteristics evident to the whole world.

One category of challenging cast members on our teams is the “Ignorant Loudmouth.”

We are all ignorant about some things because no one knows everything there is to know about anyone or anything or any group of people or group of things.

The difference between us and ignorant loudmouths is that while we are aware of our areas of ignorance and accordingly remain silent while we get unignorant – if it’s something we care about – or skip over them – if it’s something we don’t care about, ignorant loudmouths are unaware of their ignorance and open their mouths loudly and continually about these areas of ignorance anyway.

Have you ever read something on social media that was written by someone you know and it made you cringe? And almost every time the person writes something, you cringe again?

More importantly, what’s your initial response to that person? Do you get into a vicious war of words with them or do you hold your peace?

When you’re dealing with an ignorant loudmouth, a vicious war of words is exactly what they are looking for. To do battle with an ignorant person is ignorant. It is the opposite of quintessential leadership.

Quintessential leaders see ignorant loudmouths for what they are and exercise self-control and self-discipline to deal with them. They hold their peace in the public arena.

However, there is much more to using the traits of self-control and self-discipline to effectively deal with this type of challenging cast member.

Want to find out more? Read The Challenging Cast of Characters We Have on All of Our Teams: How Quintessential Leaders Use Self-Control and Self-Discipline to Deal With Them when it becomes available for purchase!


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Isla Rose’s Room Reveal…

I am so excited to show you this long awaited room reveal…Isla Rose’s bedroom! This space was one of my favorite rooms to work on with Alice Lane Interiors. We sat Isla Rose down and asked her what her favorite colors were and incorporated each color she told us into the palette. I wanted this room to fits her personality perfectly. She has such a sweet, postive and happy personality and I love that the beautiful wallpaper by Gracie Studio, accessories and color palette match who she is. She thinks that magical fairies land on the flowers at night and watch over her. So sweet.

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Laundry Room

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Ceiling: Cloud White

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Design by Alice Lane Interiors *Design and Furniture Discounted

Furniture and Lighting from Alice Lane Home Collection

Paint gifted by Benjamin Moore

xo, Rach
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  1. Isla RosE’s room is a dream. A sweet space for a one-of-a-kinD lovely lady.

    Would you be willing to share thr dress she is wearing?

    Thank you for considering – and many thanks for sharing this breath taking Space!

  2. Hi Rach, Can you please tell me where you got isla rose’s dress that she’s wearing and the dress that is hanging too? i love them soo much. thank you soooo sooo much!

  3. tHAT IS A LOVELY LOOKING ROOM. i WAS WONDERING if you would be willing to share where you got THOSE SWEET little PATENT CAP TOE SHOE/BOOTS THAT ARE SITTING on her shelf?

  4. Which WALLPAPER style is this oR Is the wallpaper custom ? It looks like the georgian pewter but more of a cream backdrop but i cant find it on the sIte to orDer.

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Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you are saying, ‘We see,’ so your sin remains.” John 9:41 Although Jesus physically heals the blind, he uses blindness versus sight as an allegory in this Sunday’s Gospel. To those who are “blind” Jesus will give sight. This blindnessContinue reading “Be Thou My Vision”

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Women gear up for historic run at Classics

Team to finish season with four consecutive one-days – Brabantse Pijl, Gent-Wevelgem, Flanders, and Roubaix

3 weeks ago by Rebecca Bland

Rally Cycling’s women team is looking ahead to an aggressive Classics campaign, with the team receiving unprecedented invites to four historic races. The quartet of one-dayers, including two monuments, will take place over the next four weeks beginning with Belgium’s Brabantse Pijl on October 7 and wrapping up with the first-ever women’s Paris-Roubaix in France on October 25.

For some riders, this will be the first opportunity to ride the Classics in their career, but the most experienced member of the team, Chloe Hosking, can’t wait to share her experience.

“It’s going to be a huge learning experience for the girls doing the races for the first time and I’m really glad, and hopeful, that I can use my experience to help them make the most of their first Flanders Classics experiences.”

Hosking on the team’s Brabantse Pijl recon ride in Overijse, Belgium.

Emma White, current World Champion in the Team Pursuit, is one such rider making her debut.

”These races are normally held in the springtime and would conflict with my work on the track, so I’m more than excited to seize this opportunity. I’ve been dreaming of these races.”

For the entire roster, this will be the most intense race block they’ve experienced in the 2020 season and Hosking can’t wait to get into it.

“So much of the cruelty and the beauty of the Classics is that the rider who wins is the rider who had the least bad luck. We have to hope we have luck on our side and we go from there. These races epitomize what one-day bike racing is all about. I’m pumped to tackle them with the ladies.”

Following the team’s smashing success at the Tour de l’Ardèche and GP Isbergues, the riders got to enjoy a nice little break in order to prepare properly for the upcoming assault on the Classics.

“We’ve had a couple of weeks since the last race and have taken that time to properly recover and recon the upcoming courses,” added White. “We’re going into it to prove that we belong and to get results. There is no excuse to hold anything back.”

White is ready for the cobbles.

The team will be looking to round out their European campaign in style by adding some further big results to the 2020 season. The chance to compete in a historic first edition of Paris-Roubaix is massive, even for a seasoned pro like Hosking.

“To finish our season off with Roubaix is a bit of a pinch-yourself moment. We had to wait a while to find out if we got it, but once we did I thought ‘I don’t know if I’m ecstatic or scared shitless’. It’s like we’re going to war. Everyone’s super ready to fight and never give up and just soak in the atmosphere that is Paris-Roubaix.”

Roster for upcoming Classics campaign: Heidi Franz, Leigh Ann Ganzar, Chloe Hosking, Sara Poidevin, Emma White, and Lily Williams.

Upcoming races at a glance

Brabantse Pijl (10/7)
Lennik > Overijse, 122km

Featuring a 122km course with no less than twenty short climbs for the riders to tackle, however, the overall profile remains relatively flat presenting sprinters with a prime opportunity to shine in the Ardennes.

Gent-Wevelgem (10/11)
Ypres > Wevelgem, 142km

The iconic race will take place over 142km and includes two dirt road sections to test the rider’s bike handling skills. Traditional Classics riders and sprinters often succeed here due to the flatter parcours of the course from Leper to Wevelgem.

Ronde van Vlaanderen (10/18)
Oudenaarde > Oudenaarde, 135km

The Tour of Flanders or the Ronde van Vlaanderen will be held on October 18 taking in a slightly reduced route of 135km. Historic climbs including the Oude Kwaremont and the Paterberg are where we expect to see the decisive race moves in this iconic monument of cycling. The course will make for an exciting race, and with a slightly shorter route compared to last year we can expect to see some aggressive racing.

Paris-Roubaix (10/25)
Denain > Roubaix, 116km

Finally! The first-ever women’s edition of Paris-Roubaix will be hosted on October 25. Riders will race a 116km route including 17 sections of cobbles totaling 29.2km overall and finish in the iconic Roubaix Velodrome. An exciting new addition to the WWT calendar that will attract the crème de la crème of Classics riders eager to win the first-ever edition of this women’s monument.


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Saturday was day 2 of “Ralphie Tonight” broadcasting live from Westwood One’s “Red Carpet Radio” at the 2014 “American Music Awards” in Los Angeles. The second day of the broadcast is always the craziest but most fun because of the amount of celebrities that are in town for the event.

It was so great to see a few familiar faces like Mary Lambert, Gavin DeGraw, and Pat Monahan of Train. Also “Mr. Worldwide” – Pitbull – sat down for an exclusive interview the night before his gig hosting The AMAs!

In my first report for OK! TV, I went backstage at Hammerstein Ballroom during soundcheck for VH1’s “You Oughta Know” concert. Mary Lambert, Aloe Blacc, and American Authors all stopped by to chat about the show and what they’ve been up to this past year.

OK! TV airs in New York weeknights at 11:30 pm on WLNY TV (channel 55 on TWC/10 on FiOS).

Mary Lambert opened 2014 with a performance for the ages at The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Joined on stage by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Madonna, the singer/songwriter belted out the hook of the anthemic “Same Love” while 33 couples, straight and gay, were married inside the Staples Center.

Lambert found herself crying in front of Madonna during rehearsals, and has since found love and a hit single to call her own in “Secrets.” The 25 year-old stopped by “Ralphie Tonight” ahead of the release of Heart On My Sleeve, due out October 14, to chat about the album and the past 10 months of her life.


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Hawks by Vladimir Soloukhin

I walk in the woods.

By fallen trees,

I cross the woodland streams.

I build myself a shelter, light a bonfire,

(Even when it’s raining,

All I need is one match

To light a good fire)

And I camp out under the rustle of rain.

Sometimes I clamber up towards the clouds,

By way of the yellow pine branches

Covered with scaling bark.

The hawks

Are beginning their run,

Swooping like Messerschmidts.

I see their taloned feet, clasped,

Ready to sink into flesh with a deadly grip;

Into grey-hen’s flesh,

Into thrush’s flesh,

Into nightingale’s flesh,

Into quail’s –

So long as it is hot,

So long as the fresh blood spurts when

These talons sink into it,

Curved, hawk’s talons.

I see again the eyes too

Of the swooping hawks.

The fire that burns indistinguishably in them,

Lighting the animal darkness,

Lends me determination.

(With one hand I grasp the branches,

Holding a stick in the other,

To protect the eyes and head.)

Even like this, I manage to reach the nest,

Seize the dark, rough twigs,

Like a righteous, irate god

(Debris and birds’ droppings pour down on me, into my eyes,

And the pine

Sways smoothly, pleasantly, to right and left)

Until I dislodge the nest.

Splintering, breaking against the branches, it bumps downwards,

Fledgelings and all,

For, strange as it may seem,

The pretty fledgelings

Grow into hawks again,

With talons tightly clasped,

Ready to sink into flesh…

That is why I climb the pine tree

Each time,

There’s a hawk nesting,

Right at the top.

By Владимир Алексеевич Солоухин

(Vladimir Alexeyevich Soloukhin)

translated by Daniel Weissbort

Additional information: Soloukhin lived from 1924 to 1997.

At the Moscow meeting of writers on October 31, 1958, he took part in the condemnation of the novel Doctor Zhivargo by Boris Pasternak. Soloukhin noted about the Nobel Prize laureate that Pasternak should become an emigrant:

“He will not be able to tell anything interesting there. And in a month he will be thrown out like an eaten egg, like a squeezed lemon. And then it will be a real execution for the betrayal that he committed ”

[Apologies for the rough translation. The original quote in Cyrillic is on Soloukhin’s Russian language Wikipedia page].

In his journalism of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writer spoke out as a Russian patriot, pointed out the need to preserve national Russian traditions, and reflect on the development of Russian art.

The main theme of Soloukhin‘s work is the Russian countryside, its present and future. His works strive to demonstrate the necessity of preserving the national traditions, and ponder the ways to further develop ethnic Russian art. Vladimir Soloukhin is considered to be a leading figure of the “village prose” group of writers. His journalistic expressions of opinion during the later years of perestroika idealized pre-revolutionary Russia.

In the early 1960s he became interested in Russian icons, became an advocate for respect and attention towards them, becoming a collector and specialist in the interpretation and technique of icon painting himself. His publications on this subject – “Letters from the Russian Museum” (1966), “Black Boards” (1968) received a wide public response.

Soloukhin‘s book “Searching for Icons in Russia” describes his hobby of collecting icons. He traveled throughout the countryside in the 1950s and 1960s searching for icons. In some instances he discovered beautiful 16th century icons underneath layers of grime and over-painting yet he also finds ancient icons chopped into bits and rotting away.

He was known for his campaign to preserve pre-revolutionary Russian art and architecture. Ilya Glazunov painted a portrait of him. Soloukhin died on 4 April 1997 in Moscow and was buried in his native village.

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Milestones upon milestones

By RAVEN / December 18, 2018 /

Donations for Beaver Lake Cree’s historic tar sands trial have exceeded our wildest expectations – not to mention our goal of $575,000 by November 30. As of this writing, December 10, RAVEN has raised $610,908 for Beaver Lake Cree’s strategic Advance Cost Motion. So why are we still fundraising? And what’s with the new goal…

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Starting November 1st, every donation will be DOUBLED thanks to a coalition of matching funds donors! This is a serious boost to this campaign that means every action you take will have twice the impact, from making a donation to fundraising online to organizing an event. In just four short weeks, people across Canada have raised…

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RAVEN’s Annual Core Funding Appeal – Goal: $70,000

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We have accomplished so much in five short years!  We have expanded – taking on more campaigns, like the current Pull Together initiative, that fit within our niche mandate to provide legal defence funds for First Nations aimed at protecting the environment for the benefit of all Canadians.  We continue to support Beaver Lake Cree…

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New Prosperity Mine EA Report Worse than 2010 Version that led to a “Scathing” Rejection

By RAVEN / November 1, 2013 /

It’s out – the CEAA Panel report on Taseko’s New Prosperity Mine.  Here are sample headlines: Canada panel says revised Taseko mine plan may harm environment – ReutersNew Prosperity mine would have ‘adverse environmental effects,’ panel finds – CBCFirst Nations declare victory against Taseko’s BC mine – CBCThe CEAA Executive Summary   And here is a Quick Selection of Panel Report Key FindingsHere’s…

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On the Tyranny and Tragedy of Government Ownership in Canada

By RAVEN / July 31, 2013 /

A guest post by Josef Kuhn, Naturalist-Ecologist-Elder (Thanks to Josef for submitting this blog, in the context of the current federal environmental review panel hearings into the fate of Teztan Biny/Fish Lake and the New Prosperity gold-copper mine proposal.) One of the principle areas of disrespect, distortion and dishonesty that I encountered when working as…

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Saving Fish Lake Fundraising Campaign – We’re Half-Way There But Time is Short!!!

By RAVEN / July 25, 2013 /

As you are no doubt aware, the federal environmental review panel hearings are under way in WIlliams Lake, British Columbia over the fate of Teztan Biny/Fish Lake. Time is short, so we’re cutting to the chase.  The experts needed to testify on behalf of the Tsilhqot’in – with evidence that will convince the independent panel…

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New Prosperity Mine application found deficient again

By RAVEN / March 28, 2013 /

Tsilhqot’in Chiefs: company should fold up their tent and move onMarch 28, 2013, Tsilhqot’in Territory: Today the Tsilhqot’in Chiefs responded to the announcement by the Federal Review Panel for Taseko Mines Ltd.’s controversial “New” Prosperity Mine proposal that the company’s application remains deficient.  The Panel has issued a second deficiency statement and once again refused…

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You have until March 16th to have your say on the Taseko mine proposal.

By RAVEN / March 5, 2013 /

Taseko Mines would do well to remember the warnings of the Ides of March.  In resubmitting its environmental impact statement for its “New Prosperity” mine plan, following the scathing comments and dozens of revisions requested by various government departments, the company appears to assume all is well and that they will once again march forward…

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The Tsilhqot’in Go to Ottawa

By RAVEN / January 25, 2013 /

What that means and why it is important to their rejection of the Prosperity mine proposalOn Thursday, January 24, Canada’s top court issued a decision granting the Tsilhqot’in First Nation permission to appeal a ruling that rejected its claim to aboriginal title over 440,000 hectares of land.  Here is a synopsis of why there was a collective…

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Secure Wireless Sensor Networks

Threats and Solutions

  • Mauro Conti

Part of the Advances in Information Security book series (ADIS, volume 65)

Table of contents

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    Pages 157-169

About this book

This book explores five fundamental mechanisms to build secure Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It presents security issues related to a single node which deals with the authentication and communication confidentiality with other nodes. It also focuses on network security, providing solutions for the node capture attack and the clone attack.

It examines a number of areas and problems to which WSNs are applied continuously, including: supporting rescue operations, building surveillance, fire prevention, battlefield monitoring and more. However, known and unknown threats still affect WSNs and in many applications of this new technology the security of the network is a fundamental issue for confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability. The last section of the book addresses security for a common WSN service. Case studies are provided throughout.

Secure Wireless Sensor Networks: Threats and Solutions targets advanced-level students and researchers in computer science and electrical engineering as a secondary text book. Professionals working in the wireless sensor networks field will also find this book useful as a reference.

Capture Attack Clone Attack Data Aggregation Key Establishment Wireless Sensor Network Security

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Quantitative Parameterization and 3D‐run‐out Modelling of Rockfalls at Steep Limestone Cliffs in the Bavarian Alps

  • Bettina Sellmeier

Part of the Springer Theses book series (Springer Theses)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
  2. Bettina Sellmeier
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  3. Bettina Sellmeier
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  4. Bettina Sellmeier
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  8. Bettina Sellmeier
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  9. Back Matter
    Pages 147-148

About this book

This pioneering work deals with the parameterization of rockfalls in the context of 3D run-out modelling at a study site in the Bavarian Alps. The main objective was to cover not only low-magnitude, high-frequency rockfalls (<10 m3) but also Mid-Magnitude events, which involve rock volumes of between 10 and 100 m3 (boulder falls) and between 100 and 10,000 m3 (block falls). As Mid-Magnitude events have been insufficiently covered in terms of rockfall modelling up to now, a geomechanical approach has been developed to characterize those events by means of a case study. For a 200 m3 limestone block a potential failure scenario was analysed by combining a deterministic failure analysis with a numerical process-based run-out model. To model potential run-out scenarios of the 200 m3 block, the beta version of the code RAMMS::Rockfall, developed by the Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), was applied. RAMMS::Rockfall makes it possible to include the block shape and thus consider the effects of varying block shapes on the run-out distance. The run-out modelling for the entire project site was performed using the scientific code Rockyfor3D (Dorren/ecorisQ). To provide quantitative information in terms of input parameters, a field recording of block sizes at the talus slope, as well as a detailed discontinuity analysis at the source area, were conducted. The book successfully demonstrates how detailed and quantitative field investigation can contribute to 3D rockfall modelling.

Rock Fall 3D-modelling Stability Analysis Mid-magnitude Field Investigation Carbonate Rocks Block Size Distribution Parameterization

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6 Ways To Practice Descriptive Writing

Wonderful post! I am now following. 🙂 So important for us newbies!

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The words don’t always flow well when we sit down to write. Sometimes we have to start off working on a creative writing prompt, take a walk, or even just sit back and sip on our coffee for a moment.

Then we hope some sort of idea will come to us sooner rather than later.

Or if we already have the idea in our hand, but we’re not entirely how to paint that picture worth 1,000 words for our readers.

6 Ways to Practice Descriptive Writing1. Practice different scenerios

Cooking dinner? Take in your sights and smells and even your taste later on. Describe what you’re cooking, the ingredients, how your counter looks, what’s in the sink, etc. Paint your whole kitchen based on that one meal. Mostly likely, not all that description will be needed, but the practice is fun.

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Foreign Correspondent: Who’s at fault for Cuba’s economic problems?

The US embargo, unsupported by any country in the world, harms the nation’s ordinary working people. Reese Erlich

January 31, 2020

HAVANA—Chef Alexis Alvarez was in panic mode. He was preparing a gourmet meal for visitors from the United States when the electricity went out. He mostly cooks with natural gas and charcoal, but those won’t power his blender full of organic kale.

So Alexis found a very Cuban solution. He slipped the blender into an old sack, walked over to the nearby hospital that had electricity, plugged in the blender, ran it for 10 seconds, and then left. Presto: a healthy and tasty iced drink.

Despite the electricity crisis and periodic water shut offs in his town of San Jose, 20 miles southeast of Havana, Alexis managed to produce a delicious meal of seafood soup, eggplant lasagna, fried fish, and roast pork.

Alexis is one of a growing number of food entrepreneurs reinventing Cuban cuisine and expanding the private sector, precisely the kind of person US policy is supposed to benefit.

But he blames the electricity shortages on the 58-year-old US embargo. Last year, for example, the Trump Administration sanctioned Cypriot and Panamanian tankers bringing oil to Cuba’s power plants, which, in turn, cause electricity blackouts.

The US embargo on Cuba, unilaterally imposed in 1962, isn’t supported by any country in the world. For the past 28 years, the U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the embargo.

Alexis also faults Cuban authorities for the periodic shortages of consumer goods, ranging from canned tomatoes to toilet paper. Trucks with enough fuel can’t seem to consistently pick up the goods and deliver them to the right stores.

“It’s bad administration,” he tells me.

But for Alexis and every other Cuban I interviewed, the ultimate villain is Donald Trump.

Cuban economic problems

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Cuba was cut off from its main trading partners and Soviet economic subsidies. From 1989-93, the Cuban GDP plunged by 35 percent. By comparison, at the nadir of the US Great Recession in 2007-09, the economy shrank by 4.2 percent.

Over the past 30 years, Cuba instituted a series of policies that try to balance socialism with market reforms. The Cuban government continues to control major industries, maintains free health care and education, and promotes high-quality, subsidized cultural events.

But it also eliminated no-show government jobs and encouraged employment at small businesses such as restaurants and bed and breakfast lodging. Today, the government provides 68 percent of jobs and the private sector 32 percent.

The Cuban economy experienced a relative boom after President Barack Obama regularized diplomatic relations in 2015. US travelers flooded into Cuba, giving a boost to hotels, restaurants, and the entire tourism industry. As recently as  2018, I saw fifty tour buses lined up in Havana to receive US cruise ship passengers.

Relaxation of the embargo also led to US-Cuba cooperation in developing pharmaceutical drugs. For example, New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital conducted successful human trials for a Cuban lung cancer vaccine.

Trump reverses progress

But by 2019, Trump reversed many of Obama’s administrative changes. He banned US residents from staying in Cuban government hotels, eating in state restaurants, or utilizing government tourism agencies.

Nevertheless, 257,000 people from the United States visited Cuba in the first four months of 2019, excluding cruise ship passengers. Travel remains legal to Cuba if visitors stay at privately owned B&Bs, eat at privately owned restaurants, and follow certain other US regulations.

But Trump continues to squeeze the Cuban economy by threatening European banks and corporations doing business with Cuba. For example, Trump has allowed Cuban Americans whose property was nationalized after they fled Cuba in the early 1960s to sue European companies now doing business in those buildings.

Break ties with Venezuela?

The Trump Administration also wants to stop Cuba’s support for the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro. Cuba provides doctors as well as military advisors to Venezuela, and Venezuela ships oil to Cuban refineries. Trump’s policies are aimed at breaking Cuba’s solidarity with Venezuela, says a US reporter based in Havana.

Such pressure “has never worked before,” the reporter tells me, “and it’s not likely to work now. The embargo hits ordinary Cubans—not the government.”

Canadians and Europeans continue to visit Cuba. But the drop in US tourism since the middle of last year means less hard currency to buy foreign goods. Sanctions against third country tankers reduced oil shipments, increased prices at the pump and led to shortages of transport to get food into the cities.

Last July, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced plans to raise state worker salaries, eliminate the dual currency system and encourage provincial self sufficiency in food production. The plans are a work in progress, and their effectiveness remains to be seen.

But one thing is for sure. The US embargo hurts ordinary Cubans while failing to change Cuban government policy.

Foreign Correspondent columnist Reese Erlich has reported from Cuba since 1968. He is author of Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba.Follow him on Twitter, @ReeseErlich; friend him on Facebook; and visit his webpage.

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  1. Yes, yes,yes. And this has been going on for decades—-and we have so much to learn from Cuba and the Cubans. A wonderful place and people. k

    Karen Melander-Magoon, D.Min. 600 Chestnut St. #410 San Francisco CA 94133 415 652 2670

    On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 11:54 AM The Official Website of Reese Erlich wrote:

    > Reese Erlich posted: “The US embargo, unsupported by any country in the > world, harms the nation’s ordinary working people. > > Reese Erlich January 31, 2020 HAVANA—Chef Alexis Alvarez” >

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dc.description.abstractMany persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been banned in many countries including Argentina after enforcing the Stockholm Convention in 2014, while other emerging semi-volatile organic contaminants (SVOCs) are considered to enter the list due to their known environmental persistence and toxicity. However, there is still very little information regarding the distribution of these chemicals in the environment in developing countries. To address this issue, we employed leaves of Ligustrum lucidum Ait. as a passive monitor to estimate urban levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, brominated flame retardants and hexachlorobenzene (PCBs, BFRs, and HCB, respectively) considering three different land use areas in Cordoba city (Argentina). We found higher PCB values in urban and industrial areas, which could be attributed to local emission sources as well as a long-range transport of lightweight compound. BFRs were more abundant in the urban areas indicating that their main emission source is the volatilization from polymeric materials. HCB, on the other hand, was equally distributed at the three sampling areas. Overall, POP and SVOC levels were similar or even lower than some other urban environments and even comparable with remote places elsewhere.
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Rigshospitalet - a part of Copenhagen University Hospital

Ophthalmic findings in linear scleroderma manifesting as facial en coup de sabre

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  1. Guide to preclinical models used to study the pathophysiology of idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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  2. Computer analysis of individual cataract surgery segments in the operating room

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  3. Optical coherence tomography in multiple sclerosis

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  4. Hydroxychloroquine and the eye: an old unsolved problem

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  1. Early postnatal hyperglycaemia is a risk factor for treatment-demanding retinopathy of prematurity

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BACKGROUND: To evaluate ophthalmic involvement in a long-term series of patients with en coup de sabre (ECS) close to the eye based on the hypothesis that this is not commonly affected, or simply under-reported.

METHODS: An observational study of ophthalmological findings in patients from Copenhagen University Dermatology Clinics. A standard eye examination further included exophthalmometry, axial length and keratometry (IOLMaster), and horizontal eye muscle thickness (B-scan ultrasonography).

RESULTS: Thirty-one consecutive patients were included from 2014 to 2015 (25 females, 6 males; median age, 33 years; range, 11-71 years). Twenty-seven patients had undergone ophthalmic evaluation more than once (observation time, 1-31 years; median, 7 years). Most eyes were normal or had currently adapted to eventual adnexal lesions and to insidious changes in eye position and/or motility. However, significant ipsilateral complications had developed related to 8 eyes, where two patients had more than one disorder. The ophthalmic pathologies were: blind eye (n = 2) due to adult age keratopathy/perforation and to Coats-like retinal detachment in childhood; restricted eye motility and diplopia (n = 2); acquired corneal astigmatism (n = 2); and dense cataract with light sense only (n = 1). Two patients had optic neuritis-like presentations, and lacrimal sac pathology occurred in one.

CONCLUSIONS: The main ophthalmic focus possibly explained the high proportion of significant lesions in this patient series (in 8 of 31). In addition to the established feature of enophthalmos, the oculometric evidence suggested smaller eye and rectus muscle involvement, interpreted as a secondary (late) negative trophic effect of the overlying skin disorder on eye structures.

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Pages (from-to)1688-1696
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2018

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M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of the emperor Antoninus Pius, in the late 130s A.D.

Fronto's extant correspondence, discovered in the early nineteenth century, consists of around two hundred letters extending over a period of more than twenty-five years, from the late 130s to the mid-160s A.D. In this period, Fronto educated Marcus and Verus in the art of Latin rhetoric, and watched with pride as his illustrious pupils matured and ascended the throne. The correspondence includes letters Fronto exchanged with Marcus and Verus, their father Antoninus Pius, leading senators, and other influential figures at court.

This collection features new English translations and commentaries on fifty-four letters from Fronto's correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they provide into the political and social history of the Roman empire in the second century A.D., with particular emphasis on court politics and intrigue, the Parthian War, and family relationships among members of the Roman elite. The letters have been arranged in approximate chronological order, enabling the reader to take a journey through Fronto's life over a quarter of a century.

The introduction discusses Fronto's life and career, Roman letter writing, the history and character of Fronto's correspondence, and the relationship between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius. It also includes brief biographies of key individuals and family trees. The translation of fifty-four letters with contextual editorial introductions and notes is divided into the following sections: Educating Caesar; Fronto and Herodes; Fronto the Consul; Family Affairs; Politics and Patronage; The Reign of Marcus and Verus; Fronto, Verus and the Parthian War; and Fronto's Grief.
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Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Number of pages225
ISBN (Print)9781780934426
Publication statusPublished - 2014
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Dialogue and the DOnatist Controversy The growing domination that Augustine of Hippo exerted over all areas of religious debate in North Africa during the early fifth century CE was a key part of Caecilianist success against its rivals. By actively seeking out opportunities for public dialogue with Donatist, Manichaean and Arian opponents then insisting upon the presence of stenographers before organising the distribution and reading out of these transcripts, Augustine effectively seized control of how these debates were presented to the wider Christian community in North Africa. For Augustine this strategy of controlled engagement would be particularly successful in forcing progress on the African church's most long-standing and seemingly intractable dispute: the Donatist controversy. A century of schism had resulted in the development of two quite distinct rival textual communities. Both Donatists and Caecilianists had their own exhaustive archive of legal documents, treatises, council records, sermons and letters which not only proved the rectitude of their respective positions in the controversy but also provided the foundation of the institutional identities which they had established for themselves. Augustine would totally reject this separatist status quo. The Donatist dossiers would be subjected to rigorous forensic scrutiny by the bishop of Hippo. By challenging the veracity and in some instances the ownership of key disputed texts, Augustine sought to undermine any notion of a legitimate Donatist community.

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Title of host publicationThe End of Dialogue in Antiquity
EditorsSimon Goldhill
Place of PublicationCambridge, UK
PublisherCambridge University Press
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9780511575464
ISBN (Print)9780521887748
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2009
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Background: While Aboriginal Australian health providers prioritise identification of local community health needs and strategies, they do not always have the opportunity to access or interpret evidence-based literature to inform health improvement innovations. Research partnerships are therefore important when designing or modifying Aboriginal Australian health improvement initiatives and their evaluation. However, there are few models that outline the pragmatic steps by which research partners negotiate to develop, implement and evaluate community-based initiatives. The objective of this paper is to provide a theoretical model of the tailoring of health improvement initiatives by Aboriginal community-based service providers and partner university researchers. It draws from the case of the Beat da Binge community-initiated youth binge drinking harm reduction project in Yarrabah.

Methods: A theoretical model was developed using the constructivist grounded theory methods of concurrent sampling, data collection and analysis. Data was obtained from the recordings of reflective Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) processes with Aboriginal community partners and young people, and university researchers. CBPR data was supplemented with interviews with theoretically sampled project participants. The transcripts of CBPR recordings and interviews were imported into NVIVO and coded to identify categories and theoretical constructs. The identified categories were then developed into higher order concepts and the relationships between concepts identified until the central purpose of those involved in the project and the core process that facilitated that purpose were identified.

Results: The tailored alcohol harm reduction project resulted in clarification of the underlying local determinants of binge drinking, and a shift in the project design from a social marketing awareness campaign (based on short-term events) to a more robust advocacy for youth mentoring into education, employment and training. The community-based process undertaken by the research partnership to tailor the design, implementation and evaluation of the project was theorised as a model incorporating four overlapping stages of negotiating knowledges and meanings to tailor a community response.

Conclusions: The theoretical model can be applied in spaces where local Aboriginal and scientific knowledges meet to support the tailored design, implementation and evaluation of other health improvement projects, particularly those that originate from Aboriginal communities themselves.

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Keywords: Indigenous population, binge drinking, adolescent, community-based participatory research, research design
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