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This blog began from the border (la frontera) and has now traversed many borders. I am currently writing from central Mexico, where I am researching the re-integration of deported and return migrants. The migrants I meet and interview have crossed they physical, US/Mexico border many times but also exist in a space of metaphorical borders of identity, nationality, and culture. Here I share some of their stories and my reflections on this space of borders. (Note: the views and information presented are their own and do not represent the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State).
My journey across borders, and this blog, started long ago, when I took a leave of absence from Georgetown University in the fall semester of 2011 to serve recently deported migrants on the US/Mexico border with the Kino Border Initiative. Kino is a binational ministry intended to serve and accompany migrants as well as educate communities on both sides of the border. I was a few hundred yards from the border fence in Nogales, MX serving in a soup kitchen (el comedor) and a women’s and children’s shelter. But this blog was not about me. My presence in Nogales was nothing extraordinary. Instead, this blog was a place to tell the stories of the border, the incredible people whom I met and the grace of a loving God.
And the truth is that although I started writing from the border, the story for me began in the US. My story starts from having friends from immigrant families and later from working with migrant communities in the US and in particular getting involved with Casa Chirilagua, a ministry that works in an immigrant community in Alexandria, Virgina. When I am in the US, I research, study, and work in support of immigrant communities. So I have written from the US as well.
The migrants’ story also is not truly from la frontera. It is from the south. From Central America and southern Mexico. So for the summer of 2012 I wrote from southern Mexico, where I am worked in a shelter for Central American migrants taking the freight trains north. That far south, the issue was much less about the US and much more the push factors. The poverty and violence that propelled people to leave their homes and families in the search of a better life. Some migrants who arrived at the shelter thought that they had traveled extensively already, but the truth was that here the journey north is just beginning. So I wrote from southern Mexico.
Ultimately, this blog is from las fronteras. From the US/Mexico border. From the borders of wealth and marginalization in the US. From southern Mexico, which is part of a very long border for Central American migrants. From central Mexico, a place of coming and going. But even as I write this blog from many borders I hope that in the writing I never forget that we have a God that exists en cualquier lado (on whichever side). And the importance of that truth should not disappear in the midst of a focus on immigration.
Also, I understand that immigration is an incredibly complex and controversial issue. And I do, to the best of my ability, recognize the differing viewpoints on what I will post. But my stories have a perspective and show strong opinions. So please feel free to disagree. But most of all please continue to read and reflect.
Simply beautiful, Joanna, and so true. Keep reminding us.
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What is the Storehouse where the Tithes Go? Mal 3:10 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there … More What Is The Storehouse Where The Tithes Go?
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Crowdfunding websites have been around for a while, but until recently we haven’t seen their true potential in helping organizations raise funds. Even so, organizations have been slow to embrace crowdfunding technologies, maybe in part because they are unfamiliar with how crowdfunding works and can benefit their organization. Before we get into the how and … More Is Your Church Crowdfunding?
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou How do I treat people? How do you? One of my mentors, Madhu Suri Prakash, said, “Peter. I have never regretted being kind.” I can’t claim to always … More I have never regretted being kind.
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More than 70 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling Iraq.
Members of the Iraq Study Group won't say that Iraq is already lost, but neither will they say that there's any guaranteed path to achieving even the reduced goals the president now has for his war. That much we knew after reading the ISG's report. But if you want a real view of the pessimism of the ISG's leaders, check out what they had to say Thursday to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
James Baker gave what sure sounded like a lukewarm endorsement of the plan his group spent eight months putting together: "We think it's worth a try." Asked about the downsides of engaging Syria and Iran, Lee Hamilton said: "You don't have much to lose here. Things are not going in a very good direction right now, and why not take some chance here in involving these countries?"
Hamilton was asked if Iraq was at the point of no return. "We're perilously close to that point," he said.
As we noted Thursday, the ISG's assessment may be news to the White House, but it's not exactly a shocker for the American public. A new AP-Ipsos poll out this morning confirms as much. The poll was taken Monday through Wednesday -- which is to say, mostly before the ISG's assessment became public -- but it found that 63 percent of Americans no longer expect that a stable democratic government will be created in Iraq. Just 9 percent expect the war to end in some sort of "clear cut victory"; 87 percent say they expect some kind of compromise resolution.
As for how the president is handling Iraq? An incredible 71 percent of the public now disapproves, and Ohio State political scientist John Mueller tells the AP that that number isn't likely to get better, ever. Once people "drop off the bandwagon, it's unlikely they'll say 'I'm for it' again," he said.
What are they for? When it comes to the military side of the equation, they seem to favor a timeline that's a little shorter than what the ISG recommended and far different from what the White House is probably envisioning. More than 70 percent of the respondents said they want U.S. troops out of Iraq no later than sometime in 2008, and 60 percent said they want U.S. troops out within six months.
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I knew I was going to pass….did I freak out…?
I didn’t really say goodbye to my classmates, because I hate goodbyes.
I am feeling a little melancholic (i hope I’m using that word right), Everyone is posting on their Facebook how they are Seniors now- And don’t get me wrong- I am seriously happy for them, after all we are friends, but I guess I am feeling left out.
I am not a Senior.
The last day of clinical was sort of amazing.
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Next Media Animation takes a look back and the life and career of Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs, who resigned that position late on Wednesday.
the colors. Hey, that gives me an idea for a company logo.
Jobs would then found Apple with Steve Wozniak and a third guy who cashed out his shares way too early, so we didn't bother to animate him. In 1984, Jobs unveiled the Macintosh and forever revolutionized personal computing.
But the good times wouldn't last. John Sculley, the executive Jobs hired away from Pepsi, bounced Jobs from the company he founded.
Jobs would get his revenge by starting another company, Pixar. He produced 'Toy Story' and sold the animation company to Disney for a fat profit.
Jobs finally returned to Apple and defeated arch nemesis Bill Gates to become the baddest mofo in tech. Jobs was then diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and required a live-saving liver transplant.
Apple now faces a threat from Google Android. Thankfully, Jobs passed the baton to chief operating officer Tim Cook.
COMMENTARY: I must admit that I don't like Steve Jobs for personal reasons, many of which I have expressed in previous blog posts. Don't get me wrong, I have great respect for Steve Jobs because he is a brilliant entrepreneur, visionary and eminent technology icon of his era. His "1984" TV commercial for the Mac portrayed IBM as "Big Brother," and was simply brilliant. I actually rallied around Apple because I loved the Mac, but the company where I worked was deeply rooted in IBM hardware and mainframes. The iPod became the first "spoke" in the Digital Hub Strategy, which I have always considered the driving vision and master plan behind Apple. Since Steve Jobs' return to Apple in 1995, the company has become the largest and most valuable (by market value) consumer electronics company in the World. Hope you enjoyed this post.
We hear incessantly about the rise of China. So much so that it's all a bit too abstract: What does it mean that China's has become a global force? And more importantly, how have they actually accomplished that?
The quick answer? Through business dealings rather than military alliances, and a superb infographic from the Heritage Foundationoffers a rarely seen snapshot of that.
I say rarely seen because The Heritage Foundation boasts that it possesses the only database of China's global investments, and they've actually made it available for public consumption. The charts elegantly show the various sectors that China is investing in around the globe, and where they're doing it. The most obvious thing that's happening: China is using partners from around the world to secure the raw materials it needs to grow. It's investments abroad aren't in technology or industry; they're in metals and energy and power.
The more you look at this chart, the more you start seeing powerful forces at work. For one, you'll notice that majority of China's trading partners aren't in Europe or America: They're in Asia and Africa and South America. In other words, precisely those countries which have always spoken last on the world stage. China is using its economic relationships to create an alternative bloc of power, which can directly compete with the political might of the E.U. and America.
This is profoundly clever stuff. China has neutralized our power to oppose it by holding so much of our debt. And it has simultaneously drawn other countries closer to its bloc of power by offering them a taste of its rocketing economy.
COMMENTARY: I can remember as a kid reading about China's famines. The U.S. would even send them bags of rice. Look at them now. Without our humongous military might, what is the United States, really? China has eaten away at us by essentially "buying" other countries and copying everything we make. China presents a huge bloc of votes in the U.N. not just in the Security Council. We need to stop buying their junk, and bring back those jobs. But wait, how could we supply Apple evangelists with their magical devices? Forget I said that.
EVER WONDER WHERE THE WORLD'S EXILED DESPOTS AND DICTATORS FLEE WHEN THEY ARE DEPOSED?
Ever wondered where the world's deposed dictators go after they are deposed by their followers? They live everywhere.
While we are at it, let's look at some of the scumbag dictators in the Arab World. By the way, many of these Arab World countries receive foreign aid from Uncle Sam. That's right, our taxes go to prop up their regimes. How many of these scumbags have drawn up their exit plans as things heat up? Let's have a look at a few of these punkasses.
Here is one of my all-time favorites Moammar Gadhafi a.k.a. "The Leader" and dictator of Libya. A little know fact about this guy: He has all-female bodyguards known as the "Amazon Bodyguards".
NBC news correspondent Katie Couric interviewed Bashar al-Assad in 2010. Bashar is the son of former Syrian dictator Havez al-Assad. He is 46 years old, 6'2", shy and former opthalmologist. He attended the School of Opthalmology at the University of Damascas and finished his medical internship at a hospital in London, England. He speaks fluent English. You never would guess that he is a cold-blooded killer like his old man.
One February 3, 2011, Christiane Amanpour, a well respected journalsit and incredibly brave news correspondent for CNN, and now working for ABC, under great danger was able to obtain an exclusive interview with Hosni Mubarak the embattled President of Egypt. President Mubarak was finally deposed and fled to the exclusive Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh (click to view) where he will live out the rest of his life.
The Four Seasons Hotel, Sharm El Sheikh, is supposedly the new residence of former deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
WILL THE RUSH TO ELECTRIC CARS PUT AUTOMAKERS AT THE MERCY OF GREEDY LITHIUM ORE PRODUCERS AND DICTATORS?
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect we look at how mining the key ingredient in electric cars could end up enriching potential enemies of America, and force another round of innovation to build an even newer kind of battery.
One day in late 2005, after losing yet another bruising political battle to the bean counters inside General Motors, then-vice chairman “Maximum” Bob Lutz heard of a startup called Tesla Motors intending to bring an all-electric sports car to market. Enraged that a bunch of Silicon Valley gearheads could do what he couldn’t, Lutz, in his own words, “just lost it.” He rallied his fellow car guys within GM to develop the prototype of what became the Chevrolet Volt--the “moon shot” justifying the company’s survival and the first in a new wave of electric vehicles just beginning to break on dealers’ showrooms. And while the Volt uses just a tiny bit of gas, it's still powered by a material that is in short supply and controlled by some of the most hard to deal with governments in the world. Its lithium battery might just create a new geopolitical calculus that is just as problematic as the gas-based one electric cars are supposed to extricate us from.
A month before the Volt announcement, an energy analyst named William Tahil published a paper titled “The Trouble With Lithium.” There simply isn’t enough cheap lithium to go around, he argued, and 80% of the world’s accessible reserves are located in the so-called “Lithium Triangle” of the Chilean, Argentine, and Bolivian Andes (pictured above). “If the world was to exchange oil for Li-ion based battery propulsion,” Tahil wrote, “South America would become the new Middle East. Bolivia would become far more of a focus of world attention than Saudi Arabia ever was.” Even then, we would run out of lithium long before we’d finished electrifying our cars.
Tahil’s paper immediately came under fire for his overly pessimistic predictions. (And hisgeneral credibility.) Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago--a hotbed of lithium battery innovation--estimate worldwide demand will eventually top out at 8 million metric tons, total. (The Volt’s massive battery array only requires about nine pounds.) That’s well within the U.S. Geological Survey’s conservative estimate of 12 million tons of recoverable reserves. As refining improves and new deposits are discovered, that figure will only go up. And unlike oil, lithium can be recycled; once you get it out of the ground, it’s yours.
That’s easier said than done. Worldwide lithium production was 120,000 tons in 2009, roughly a quarter of which was bound for batteries. But if electric cars achieve just a 5% penetration rate by 2020, according to the British research firm Roskill, the 60,000 tons required for batteries will outstrip the available supply. The bottleneck isn’t “peak lithium,” it’s how fast and how badly we want our electric cars.
3. From Petro-Dictators To Electro-Dictators?
But Bolivia has had no shortage of supplicants. Representatives from China, France, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi and LG Chem--which supplies the Volt’s battery--have all made entreaties. What would happen if Morales gave in and went with a Chinese consortium, or picked a fight with Chile? If the Carter Doctrine was necessary to secure Middle East oil, will there someday be an Obama Doctrine for South American lithium?
“Chile is the one we can rely on," says Steve LeVine, a contributing editor to Foreign Policyand an energy security expert at Georgetown. "But I just got back from Kazakhstan, and they have a lot of lithium, and it’s cheap.” Then again, Kazakhstan is a virtual autocracy ruled for 20 years by the opposition-less President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Afghanistan may also be rich in lithium if reports of a trillion dollars in mineral wealth are accurate. But America’s relationship with president Hamid Karzai is complicated, to say the least.
After Bolivia and Chile, the nation with the largest reserves is China, which knows how to play hard ball with minerals--witness the recent fights over rare earth metal prices when China restricted their exports. While there is no OLEC looming on the horizon, the U.S. once again finds itself staking its way of life on a substance with very complicated geo-politics.
Currently, the top four companies produce 85% of the worlds lithium.
The other 15% is spread among smaller producers and junior miners.
Here is a list of most of those companies, in order, which may or may not be on your radar screen as investors in this sector, but should be.
The above lists contain the largest producers of the "electric metal" and the go getters in the junior mining sector that are charging ahead, full speed, with projects of their own, in lithium rich regions of the world, and plan on either becoming large producers, or getting swallowed in the M and A activity that will (and already has) surrounded the sector in the coming year.
As this second leg of the lithium bull market gets into full swing, it is theelectric car market that has all the cache, so to speak, as every auto maker (eg: Toyota, Honda, GM, Ford, Daimler,BYD, Hyundai, VW, Tesla) ramps up to enter the electric vehicle market with it's own version of either an EV, HEV or both.
In that light it is timely to review the other, wide and varied uses for lithium and lithium carbonate. Currently, aluminum production usurps the majority of lithium produced today, followed by batteries (every kind of battery from your cell phone and laptop, to your EV), glass and ceramic production, airconditioning, lubrications, and more.
Projected Lithium consumption will soar.
There are two alternatives to entrusting the bulk of America’s lithium supply to Chile, Bolivia, or even Afghanistan--discover new sources closer to home, or innovate our way out. In Bottled Lightning, author Seth Fletcher pays a visit to Western Lithium’s stake in the Nevada foothills where it hopes to mine lithium from clay deposits. A spin-off from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory called Simbol Mining (a company I profiled in myblog) believes it can meet nearly a fifth of the world’s needs by mining California’s (chemical-rich) Salton Sea.
The other option is to treat Li-ion batteries as a bridge technology on the way to something lighter, cheaper, and better. “We need something with the energy density of gasoline,” says LeVine. “We need the new technology--sulfur-air, zinc-air, lithium-air.” Other teams are working on a battery made of molten melts and salts.
Of course, there is always the possibility that lithium isn’t the real bottleneck at all. What keeps LeVine up at night is phosphorous, which is used in the Li-ion chemistry used by A123 Systems and Chinese battery makers. It is also vital to food production and is rapidlyrunning out. (The U.S. doesn’t have much it, either.) And then there are the rare earth metals essential to an electric car’s permanent magnets, 97% of which are found in China. In perhaps a taste of what’s to come, Chinese officials have drastically cut exports since the beginning of the year, causing prices to soar as high as 475%. If this keeps up, oil prices may start to seem like a bargain.
COMMENTARY: It's a scary thought knowing how little Lithium ore the U.S. and other industrialized and developed nations have at their disposal. A lot of that ore is produced in countries run by dictators and people not very friendly to the U.S. and West. In previous blog posts dated February 7, 2011 and May 26, 2011, I wrote about even something more sinister: the virtual monopoly that China has in the top rare earth metals and minerals.
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I know I’m not an expert in the English language, I wish I was…but I’m not. My writing strengths are in my imagination and capturing a story…but I have to work hard at the editing and grammar side of things. I have to restudy syntax and all those other grammar related words when I come across them!
I had a fantastic English teacher in High School…full of vivid enthusiasm and passion for the subject, and I loved English. I was inspired and encouraged then he left and was replaced by an eternally dull pedant who made it her place to tell me, in no uncertain terms, that my work was not as good as I thought it was. She then proceeded to mark me down every opportunity she had. For a while I felt crushed and rebellious, and perhaps my fifteen-year-old self would blame her for my rejection of sixth form.
I feel that I missed out when I see so many writers with degrees and writing qualifications, and I wish I’d chosen to study further. I truly have no idea why I didn’t. I had a place in sixth form and top marks in English and Art, but I found myself a full-time job in the Summer holidays and that was it! No one tried to change my mind and I got no opposition to work. I feel very strongly these days about my own children completing their education and I encourage them purposefully to take their A-levels, so it surprises me that my own parents didn’t protest at my decision to leave school, but leave at sixteen I did. I often wonder what direction my life would have taken if I’d done things differently. I did eventually get an A-level in English at evening classes, but I’m afraid my result wasn’t my best…I was too busy meeting my husband and falling in love!
Recently on Facebook someone posted a link and when I read it, I grinned and thought: I wish I’d been taught like this… a few simple lessons with visuals and humour…might have made it stick better!
This entry was posted in Miscellaneous and tagged apostrophe, English, grammar, humour, ie, irony, misspelling, semicolon, writing on 15th March 2012 by Lisa Shambrook.
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Born: Almaty (Kazakhstan), April 14, 1941.
Hymenoptera Aculeata, especially Sphecidae (taxonomy, biology, distribution).
1968a. Contributions to the biology of Sphex mocsaryi Kohl (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Entomol.Obozr. 47: 805-808. [In Russian] Translation: 1969. On the biology of the digger wasp Sphex mocsaryi Kohl (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Entomol. Rev. 47: 492-493.
1970c. On the biology of Ammophila (Eremochares) dives Brulle (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Entomol. Obozr. 49 (2): 292-302. [In Russian] Translation: 1971 .The biology of the fossorial wasp Ammophila (Eremochares) dives Brulle (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Entomol. Rev. 49: 172-180.
1992a. New species of digger wasps of the genus Harpactus Shuckard (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Entomol.Obozr. 71: 640-645. [In Russian] Translation: New species of Harpactus Shuckard digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Entomol.Rev. 72: 77-82.
1992b. New species of digger wasps of the genus Miscophus (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Kazakhstan. Zool. Zhurn. 71(10): 97-107. [In Russian] Translation: 1993. New species of digger wasps of the genus Miscophus (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Kazakhstan. Entomol.Rev. 72: 100-110.
1993a. New species of sphecid wasps of the genus Belomicrus A. Costa (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Kazakhstan. Entomol. Obozr. 72:186-189. [In Russian] Translation: 1993. New species of sphecid wasps of the genus Belomicrus A. Costa (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Kazakhstan. Entomol. Review 72:25-28.
Kazenas V.L., Esenbekova P.A. П.А.
Kazenas V.L., Zonstein S.L., Milko D.A.
Kazenas V.L., Mitjaev I.D., Jashenko R.V.
Janokmen K.A. - main scientist of the laborotory of entomology, doctor of bilogical sciences. Subject of research: Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) (fauna of Kazakhstan, sistematics, biology, evolution, phylogeny etc.).
Born 20.09.1938. Has about 100 papers including 1 monograph.
Kastsheev Vitaliy A. - main scientist, doct. biol. sci., professor. Subject of research: Coleoptera, Staphylinidae (faunistics, systematics, biology, ecology).
Born 20.12.1953. Published more 70 papers.
Zhdanko Alexandr B. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae and others families (faunistics, systematics,biology, ecology). Born 22.12.1953. Published more 50 papers.
Marikovskaja Tatjana P. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Hymenoptera, Apoidea (faunistics, systematics, biology).
Born 26.05. 1946. Published more 60 papers, including 1 monograph.
Ishkov Evgenij V. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Insects of desert woods (mainly Coleoptera; faunistics, ecology and biology).
Born 27.09.1944. Published about 30 papers including 1 monograph.
Childebaev Muratbek K. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Orthoptera (faunistics, systematics, ecology).
Born 11. 03. 1954. Published about 40 papers.
Jashenko Roman V. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Homoptera, Coccoidea (faunistics, systematics, ecology, biology).
Born 18. 09. 1963. Published about 40 papers.
Kadyrbekov Rustem Ch. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Homoptera, Aphidoidea (faunistics, systematics, ecology).
Born 01. 02. 1961. Published about 35 papers.
Mitjaev Ivan D. - main senior scientist, doctor of biol. sci., professor. Subject of research: Homoptera, Cicadoidea (faunistics, biology, ecology).
Born 04. 11. 1928. Published about 80 papers.
Zjuzin Alexey A. - senior scientist, kandidate of biol. sci. Subject of research: Arachnida, Araneae (faunistics, systematics, ecology).
Born 14. 02. 1951. Published about 30 papers.
Gromov Alexandr V. - junior scientist. Subject of research: Arachnida, Scorpiones, Solifugae, Araneae (faunistics, systematics, ecology).
Born 1972. Published about 20 papers.
Kabak Ilja I. - junior scientist. Subject of research: Coleoptera, Carabidae (faunistics, systematics, ecology).
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But to the discerning viewer, Greaves kept the upper hand throughout the segment. As Kelly worked herself up, he calmly made the case for a government that truly respects freedom of religion and does not try to impose a specific belief on citizens. Once again, Satanists show they are the absolute masters at trolling conservatives. Here's why.
1. Satanists play off the conservative victim complex.
If conservatives were smart, they would ignore Satanists as much as they could. But, as this Fox segment shows, the right just can’t avoid engaging. So much of conservatism is built on this silly notion that the world is out to oppress conservative Christians. The idea that real Satanists are out there just feeds that narrative that the world is out to get them, meaning they can hardly help freaking out and calling even more attention to Satanists.
Satanists turn conservative disingenuousness over on itself. As the court found, the original decision to put the Ten Commandments statue up at the Capitol was a direct attempt by conservative Christians to suggest state endorsement of Christianity, which directly contradicts the state constitution’s ban on using public money to push religion. But Kelly kept using the defeated and clearly disingenuous argument that the Ten Commandments isn’t about religion, but “historical meaning.” Greaves calmly put that down, pointing out that Baphomet also has historical meaning, and the image of the demon god has been important occult imagery since the 19th century.
This argument irritated Kelly, and it’s no wonder. Conservatives love to trot out this “historical meaning” argument, but tend to be vague about what specific meaning this kind of gesture had in history. That’s because the history being honored is a lengthy and dishonorable history of previous attacks on religious freedom from their conservative Christian forebears. It’s an attempt to rewrite history to make it seem like the theocrats of our past were more relevant than the secularists. In reality, it’s the opposite: This country has been secular from the beginning, with separation of church and state written into our Constitution. Greaves’ comment about the 19th century was funny, sure, but it was also an important reminder that secularism and plurality are hardly new ideas.
2. Satanists force conservatives to be more blunt about their theocratic intentions.
Obviously, the right does not want to let Satanists put up their own competing monuments for every Christian monument conservatives sneak onto government grounds. But, as Greaves’ appearance on Fox News shows, it’s very difficult to explain why Christian monuments are OK but Satanist ones are not if you’re sticking to the vague “historical meaning” arguments. By pressing their point, Satanists force the hands of defenders of the Christian monuments.
Case in point: On this segment of Fox News, Kelly turned from Greaves to Randy Brogdon, the former Oklahoma state senator who got the Ten Commandments monument in the first place. Unable to answer any of Greaves’ arguments, Brogdon resorted to basically admitting that the purpose of the monument was to endorse Christianity above all other religions, by arguing that Oklahoma has “different values.” In other words, since Oklahomans have elected a bunch of Christian fundamentalists to state government, it should be OK to have that government tell religious minorities that they aren’t quite as good as the religious majority. Doubtful that Brogdon would have been this blunt if Greaves hadn’t forced his hand.
3. Satanists tweak the literalism of right-wingers.
Anyone who has watched even five minutes of conservative “comedy” can tell you that right-wing ideology does not mesh well with a sense of irony, or humor generally. That’s one of the biggest reasons Satanist pranks work so well on them. Let’s be clear: most Satanists do not actually worship Satan. The entire "religion" is very tongue-in-cheek, a way to espouse humanist values while also poking fun at religion. But that’s clearly not evident to many conservatives. In this segment, Kelly can barely contain how angry Satanists make her. Brogdon tries to laugh the whole thing off, but you can also tell he thinks a Baphomet statue is only happening over his dead body.
It’s strikingly clear to outsiders that the Satanists are tweaking the noses of the conservatives. This also serves a larger purpose in exposing the self-seriousness underlying the efforts to put up Christian monuments everywhere. Conservatives really do see themselves on a mission from God to rebuild this country in their grim Bible-thumping image. The monuments are just one piece of an overall puritanical attempt to take over the culture and ruin it for everyone else. They are deadly serious about this, which means it’s a serious threat. A little Satanic humor can help show the rest of us exactly what we’re up against.
Amanda Marcotte co-writes the blog Pandagon. She is the author of "It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments."
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First of all, please allow me to say that I am not a believer in Feng Shui and that is the reason why I wanted to share my thoughts on this blog entry. We all know that Feng Shui encourages its followers to place certain articles at certain sectors of the house to avoid the “flying death start” or what not.
In my opinion, Law of Attraction is really behind this whole Feng Shui mambo jambo. I strongly believe in the verse taken from John 20:29 – “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed”. It is so difficult for humans to believe in God because God seemed to be intangible. The nearest we can get to him is through our heart – “the feeling”. The law of attraction teaches us to visualize and visualize to the fullest as if we have obtained our heart’s desire. The same theory has been mentioned by Jesus when he said, “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” in Mark 11:24.
If you haven’t already get my drift, my point lies in these words, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed”. That statement is exactly what the Law Of Attraction is asking us to do. That is to believe in something that you have not yet obtained, visualize it and believe that you have truly obtained it thus, you shall be blessed!
Now what does that have to do with Feng Shui. We all know that being humans, not all are capable or have the ability to visualize things vividly and therefore, need “tools” to help them. Placing an article at certain part of the house serves as a reminder of the ultimate objective/goal – to ward off certain undesired events and etc. These undesired events that has yet to occur could not be seen or visualize but the action of placing an item to that certain place serves as a pre-emptive measure and to replace the bad with good image.
Life can really be very simple if we train our minds to visualize better.
Time and time again, I try to make the best out of life and be positive. When I loose my focal point, it is pretty difficult to stay positive at times. For the past few weeks I feel pretty tired. Tired of trying to please the expectation that I assume. In short, I imposed expectation I thought someone else have of me. The expectation was not communicated in the first place.
So as I stop and wonder, why am I pushing myself so hard even though there isn’t any expectation mentioned?
Therefore, the title of this post. Many a times we are held by the balls. There is so much that goes on in our daily lives especially those in the corporate world. Most of the distractions are not related to our actual work at all. Politics, coping with someone else’ incompetency and having to please others are just a few things that take up our time on our own tasks.
Ever wonder what your balls are held ransom for?
We fear of losing our jobs because of the strings of commitments tied to us – children, mortgage, auto mobile instalments, credit card balances and etc. The more commitments, the bigger our balls are. So in the end, it is such a handful of balls to handle.
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I would now like to introduce your host for today's call, Geoff Grande, Senior Director of Communications at Merrimack.
Thanks, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's call to discuss our second quarter 2018 financial results and recent progress.
A press release detailing our results became available at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time today and can be found in the Investors section of our website, merrimack.com. This call is being broadcast live and will be archived on our website for 6 weeks.
Joining me on the call today are Dr. Richard Peters, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Jean Franchi, our Chief Financial Officer.
Before we begin, I need to remind you that during this call, we will be making forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These may include statements about our future expectations and plans, clinical development timelines and financial projections. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, which are described in the Risk Factors section of our most recent Form 10-Q and the other reports we filed with the SEC, which are available online at sec.gov.
While these forward-looking statements represent our views as of today, they should not be relied upon as representing our views in the future. We may update these statements in the future, but we are not taking on an obligation to do so.
Thanks, Geoff, and thank you all for joining us today. I'm happy to update you on our recent progress, including the triggering of an $18 million milestone payment from Shire.
But first, let me remind you of our corporate strategy. At Merrimack, we are committed to developing a focused pipeline of targeted novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Each of our candidates is specifically designed to match our understanding of cancer pathways and drug metabolism and is tested in biomarker-defined populations.
This biomarker-driven strategy employs smaller, shorter, more personalized trials, which lower the cost of development and accelerate the timeline to clinically meaningful data. We conduct trials like this at least in part because they allow us to quickly identify which programs may work and allocate resources accordingly.
I would like to emphasize that it was this strategy of implementing efficient trial designs, which enabled a decision to cease development of MM-141, following the CARRIE study's Phase II results in late June and allowing us to focus our resources on our other programs. The study which evaluated MM-141 in frontline metastatic pancreatic cancer patients did not meet its primary or secondary efficacy endpoints and the data were, therefore, able to provide a clear signal that MM-141 did not offer a clinical benefit to patients.
Despite our confidence in this decision, we are deeply disappointed to discontinue a potential treatment for patients facing this difficult-to-treat disease.
To that end, we remain strongly committed to the development of our broader pipeline as we await clinical readouts from MM-121 and MM-310 expected later this year. And we have strengthened our cash position with 2 non-dilutive events: The triggering of the $18 million milestone payment from Shire that we've announced today as well as the financing we secured from Hercules Capital in July. We believe that these 2 events will extend our runway into at least the first quarter of 2020. Thus in an improved financial position with key readouts upcoming and our robust discovery engine advancing towards the clinic, we remained focused on delivering targeted therapies to patients with biomarker-defined cancers and are well situated to execute on our corporate goals.
Turning now to our pipeline, let me begin with an overview of our lead clinical program MM-121. So MM-121, otherwise known as seribantumab, is our fully human monoclonal antibody targeting the HER3 receptor and it is in development for heregulin-positive cancers, which represent around 50% of solid tumors. In indications in which high expression of heregulin is prevalent, heregulin-positive patients tend to progress more rapidly, and when heregulin binds to HER3 receptors, it has been shown to drive tumor cell resistance to a broad spectrum of antitumor therapies. MM-121 is designed to block the HER3 pathway in order to reduce this effect and is currently being evaluated in 2 ongoing randomized Phase II trials.
SHERLOC is our ongoing Phase II trial evaluating MM-121 in patients with heregulin-positive adenocarcinoma of the lung, who have progressed after a platinum-based chemotherapy regimen and may also have received a prior immuno-oncology therapy. SHERLOC is an open-label randomized study assessing progression-free survival in patients who have received MM-121 in combination with docetaxel compared to docetaxel alone. We anticipate reporting top line data, including the event-based progression-free survival efficacy endpoint later this year.
As a reminder, MM-121 was also granted orphan drug designation by the FDA in November 2017 for the treatment of heregulin-positive non-small cell lung cancer. This orphan drug designation provides a well-defined path towards registration.
MM-121 is also being evaluated in the second trial, the SHERBOC study, our ongoing Phase II trial in patients with heregulin-positive, hormone receptor positive and HER2 negative postmenopausal metastatic breast cancer, who have progressed after receiving a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor-based therapy. SHERBOC is assessing progression-free survivals in patients who have received MM-121 in combination with fulvestrant compared to fulvestrant alone. Enrollment in this trial is ongoing and we plan to offer guidance on the anticipated timing of data as enrollment progresses further.
At the American Society of Clinical Oncology, also referred to as ASCO, at the annual meeting in June we presented an analysis of pharmacokinetic and safety data comparing different dosing regimens from previous Phase I and Phase II studies of MM-121. The data support the dosing regimen currently being evaluated in both the SHERLOC and the SHERBOC trials.
is an antibody-directed nanotherapeutic that [targets] the ephrin A2 receptor and contains a novel chemotherapeutic agent. The ephrin A2 receptor is overexpressed in 50% to 100% of many solid tumor types, including ovarian, bladder, gastric, pancreatic and lung cancers.
MM-310 is currently being studied in an open-label dose-escalating Phase I trial evaluating safety, pharmacology and preliminary activity in solid tumors. We expect to report safety data and the maximum tolerated dose from this study later this year, after which we intend to test the drug in tumor types associated with overexpressed ephrin A2 receptors.
I will also remind you of our discovery engine. Across the board, we are encouraged by the progress we have seen from these programs, which target 3 distinct areas of focus: Growth factor pathways, cellular proliferation and repair, and immuno-oncology. Ultimately, these programs reflect Merrimack's broader commitment to research and development and our ability to repopulate our clinical pipeline, as our current assets mature.
I'll now turn the call over to Jean Franchi, our Chief Financial Officer, for a review of our financial results.
Before reviewing our June 30 financials, I want to briefly touch on a few recent highlights.
As Richard mentioned, Shire has achieved a commercial milestone: the sale of ONIVYDE in 2 additional major European countries, which triggers an $18 million payment to Merrimack. In addition, we announced in July that Merrimack secured a debt facility with Hercules Capital. The total loan commitment is up to $25 million with $15 million received at July's closing and an aggregate of $10 million available to Merrimack in 2 equal tranches, subject to certain conditions.
Both events occurred in July, following the closing of our quarter 2 financial results and therefore are reported as subsequent events.
When combined with the $60 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at June 30, the $15 million upfront from Hercules and the $18 million milestone triggered from Shire, results in approximately $93 million in available cash before considering cash burn for the third quarter.
We would like to remind you of the milestone payments Merrimack still remains eligible to receive from Shire, which are not considered in our cash runway until achieved. First, $5 million related to the sale of ONIVYDE in the first major non-European, non-Asian country and $10 million for the first-patient dosed in a pivotal clinical trial in an indication other than pancreatic cancer. Also, pursuant to Merrimack's asset sale in 2017, Merrimack is eligible to receive up to an aggregate of $450 million in milestone payments from Ipsen, which we plan to pass to the shareholders, net of any taxes owed and subject to there being a sufficient surplus at the time.
I'll now provide a summary of our financial highlights for the second quarter, which are outlined in greater depth in today's press release and our related 10-Q filing.
Our total operating expenses for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018, were $17.2 million compared to $34.5 million for the same period last year. This represents a material expense reduction of $17.3 million. This decline in expense is primarily due to Merrimack's refocused clinical and preclinical pipeline announced last year. As a result, we believe that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $60 million as of June 30, 2018, combined with the subsequent capital events, including the $15 million from the company's non-dilutive debt financing with Hercules Capital and the $18 million milestone triggered from Shire, will be sufficient to fund our planned operations into at least the first quarter of 2020.
I'll now hand the call back to Richard for concluding remarks.
We are pleased to report on Merrimack's recent progress, as we remain focused on our prioritized pipeline and are capitalized to deliver on our anticipated clinical readouts.
To recap across the 9 wholly owned programs in our pipeline, we have 3 ongoing clinical trials, 2 of which are expected to readout later this year. We expect top line data from the randomized Phase II SHERLOC study of MM-121 in non-small cell lung cancer, and we expect to have safety data in a maximum tolerated dose from our Phase I study of MM-310 in solid tumors.
With that, I'd like to thank you all for joining today's call. And we will now open the line to any questions. Operator?
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from Marc Frahm with Cowen and Company.
I was wondering if you could just give a kind of enrollment update on SHERLOC, where you are in completing enrollment, and then what type of percent I/O experience you're kind of expecting at this point in that trial. And then finally on that point, where are your latest thoughts are on what the PFS might be within that subset, since that's an evolving area of science?
Thanks, Marc. This is Richard Peters. So in the SHERLOC trial, the trial continues to progress very nicely. As you recall, we a while back announced the sizing up of the study because the trial was occurring so fast. We were able to increase the number of patients to be enrolled in the study so that we can strengthen the statistics and do that without changing our timeline for top line results as well as without changing our budgets, so we thought it was really a win-win.
We are -- it's an event-based trial. So it's -- the primary endpoint is progression-free survival, looking at the percent of patients who are alive and without their cancer progressing. And so we have to wait for a certain number of events, and an event is defined in this study as a patient who is progressing or a patient who passes away from whatever cause. And then they -- that counts as an event. So we need to collect enough event before we're able to really analyze the data and report on it.
Based on the progress of the study, we are, again, reconfirmed today what we expect the top-level results later this year. And that's as much as we can share right now in terms of SHERLOC.
In terms of the proportion of immuno-oncology or prior immuno-oncology, patients have been exposed to prior immuno-oncology drug, I think, we were -- we had the foresight when we designed the study to realize that the landscape was going to change in lung cancer. So of course, all patients have to be exposed to a platinum-containing chemotherapy regimen; that's a required prerequisite. But we realized that the field of immuno-oncology was going to evolve in lung cancer. So we also allowed for patients who had received a prior immune checkpoint inhibitor to be eligible for the study. That has been incredibly well received by our investigators and because there is a high unmet need for patients who progress after an immuno-oncology checkpoint inhibitor. And the fact that we have the companion diagnostic measuring heregulin, fits also very nicely within the treatment pathway for oncologists. They're really measuring PD-L1 expressions so they can measure as well heregulin expression.
And so we are able to capture in this trial a sizable number of prior immuno-oncology exposure. And so it would be very interesting to look at the results both for the total population, right, as well as in the subset that would have received not only platinum-containing agent, but also immune checkpoint inhibitor.
With regard to the PFS in that subset, I think, that's we'll have to wait, right? Because this is something that is not exactly known. This is a field that's evolving. We do have the overall -- for the overall population our estimation of the progression-free survival in second and third line patients who get docetaxel, which is the control treatment -- is a median progression-free survival of 3 months. We are shooting for a doubling of the progression-free survival for the overall population.
As far as the -- in the subset of the immune checkpoint inhibitors, I think, that's something we'll have to really figure out when we get the results. So the trial would be interesting, because it will certainly provide a very clear answer on the benefit of MM-121 in heregulin-positive second line adenocarcinoma -- second and third line adenocarcinoma of the lung, but also inform the field about how the patients performs post-progression after an immune checkpoint inhibitor.
Great. And then maybe can you also give an update on kind of where you are in enrollment with SHERBOC? And do you think that data will likely be 2019? Or could it be into 2020?
Yes. So thank you, Mark, for that question. So SHERBOC, that's the breast cancer study. That trial -- we started enrollment this year. We dosed our first patient in February. So clearly, that trial is later than the SHERLOC study. SHERLOC study was already well ongoing when we started SHERBOC, the breast cancer study.
We are still activating sites. So we still early in the lifecycle of this trial. As you know, we activate multiple sites and then once the sites are activated, they start enrolling patients. We continue to enroll patients in that study.
As we're activating sites, we can get a better feel for the total accrual curves and what our run rate will be in terms of accrual patients, patients screening and prescreenings. And so once we have a little bit more visibility in terms of that performance, we'll be able to provide more guidance in terms of when we might expect the top-level results. At this stage, we're not able to predict it, but once we have a better feel for the total accrual curves, then we'll certainly provide more clarity around that.
I'd like to point out that the SHERBOC study is an interesting one, because it's in breast cancer in the HER2 negative patients. As I mentioned in my introductory remarks, in patients who have progressed on the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, and they all have to have high heregulin in their tumor cells -- in their tumor biopsies, about 50% of patients in our experience qualify with this high heregulin.
It's a high unmet medical need, what we're hearing from the oncologists -- breast oncologists is that as a patient progresses on the CDK4, CDK6 inhibitor, they're not quite sure what to do with these patients. And so having a trial that is offering an anti-hormonal -- fulvestrant -- or the anti-hormonal plus MM-121 that could really overcome potential resistance since the HER3 pathway is a well-known, described pathway that provides resistance to many therapeutic agents, that's something that oncologists are really welcoming. And of course, the fact that we have a companion diagnostic to help select patients is also something that they're very much welcoming.
(Operator Instructions) Our next question comes from Anupam Rama with JPMorgan.
This is Tessa on for Anupam this morning. Maybe one from us also on the SHERLOC study here. We know you have recently presented at ASCO some of the Phase I, II data in solid tumors. Any other physician's feedback that you have heard that provides context for what else you're looking for in efficacy and safety beyond PFS here? And in the indication -- I think, you said you'd be presenting event-free survival as well. And then one other color can you provide just generally on what will be included within the top line, and what we will have to wait for future update?
Thank you, Tessa. It's Richard Peters, again. So, again, on SHERLOC, the primary endpoint as far as the lung cancer study, the primary endpoint will be progression-free survival. We also have a number of secondary endpoints -- the typical efficacy endpoints that you measure: response rates, duration of treatment, but also overall survival. So we're capturing in that trial as well overall survival. And of course, it's not powered for overall survival, but it's still something that we are going to be looking at as well.
The trial is enrolling adenocarcinoma of the lung, which is the most common histology in non-small cell lung cancer. We wanted to have a very cohesive, well-defined patient population. Again, this is the approach that we take with our proof-of-concept trials. The idea is that you run the trials in well-defined patient populations, well-defined tumor histology, well-defined, in this case, heregulin biomarker, so that we have a more homogeneous patient population that we can get a clear signal, of course, with the active comparator, which is in this case will be docetaxel or Taxotere. So having the concurrent active comparator is also very impactful, because then we can really look at the data and ask or direct to perform on the efficacy front.
On the safety front, we have vast amount of data already, and as you mentioned, Tessa, we presented data from prior Phase I and Phase II studies at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. We have a total, I think, over 700 patient experience with MM-121. So it's a drug that has been well tested in humans. So the safety database is very robust.
We also have a lot of information on the dosing and that's what that abstract was about. It's about looking at a fixed dosing. So sometimes you can dose oncology drugs on the weight basis or you can go sometimes on the fixed dosing, which is easier actually to implement in the clinic and that abstract documented that the fixed dosing that we're implementing in our studies is very appropriate.
And so, again, we'll -- we very much eagerly await the results of this study later this year. And on the top-level results, you say what kind of top-level results we'd be sharing? Certainly the primary endpoint but any other efficacy endpoints that we can share would be made available. And of course, we're always committed to presenting the full data set to -- at an following oncology meeting -- congress.
And I'm not showing any further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Geoff Grande for any further remarks.
Great. Well, thank you all for your continued interest in Merrimack. We look forward -- and we will be presenting at the Baird Global Healthcare Conference on September 6, and we look forward to updating you on our progress in the months ahead. Have a good morning.
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Cardamom | Cupcake Villains Strike Again!
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I wanted to make some sort of green cupcake. At first I thought of a chocolate cupcake with mint green frosting…boring. Then, why not just use food coloring to dye the batter green? Uninspiring. The only green dessert I could think of was pistachio pudding! So, it became a cupcake. And I started with the source or my inspiration. Besides chopped pistachios (a must), I used a box of pistachio pudding mix for extra flavor and color. After examining the box’s contents, I knew that I had to alter my base recipe quite a bit. Pudding mix is almost all sugar, so I decreased the sugar in the batter by 1/3 of a cup and the flour by 1/4 of a cup to compensate for the added pudding. Instant pudding also has gelatin in it, so I upped the amount of baking powder so that the cake would not turn out too dense. Also, when thinking of other pistachio flavored desserts, I started to reminisce about delicious Indian rice pudding that uses cardamom and cinnamon. I sprinkled in a little of both for a nice added touch and delicious flavor! Enough background, let’s get to the recipe!
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This entry was posted in Esoterica, Reading Material, Sanity, the Book, Uncategorized and tagged Books, Media, Mystery, Power, Psychology, Reality by neovictorian23. Bookmark the permalink.
Congratulations on your progress on your novel.
In the Sad/Rabid Puppy controversy, there were many pixels illuminated decrying bad “message fiction” foisted off on us by the gatekeepers of traditional publishing. “Good fiction,” some argued, was old-fashioned action-adventure stories without left-wing political content – call it “superversive” or “pulp.” The lesson, we were told, was to avoid messages and focus on entertaining the reader.
In a sense, though, all fiction is message fiction. What is it we find entertaining about action-adventures stories? They portray efficacious heroes with the power to shape their own destinies. They show a universe of cause and effect where actions and ideas have consequences. They prompt us to examine our values and our choices and inspire us by the examples of the heroes they depict. Good action-adventure stories ARE message fiction even if they have no explicit political content. If you can add a broader social or political message on top of that, a message that engages the reader and makes them think, so much the better.
The most effective advocates for social change are story tellers. C.S. Lewis persuaded more readers through The Chronicles of Narnia than through Mere Christianity. Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead influenced more readers than Ayn Rand’s nonfiction. Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World warn readers against totalitarianism and hedonist nihilism, respectively, vividly portraying the consequences of statism. We must build upon these narratives with new stories that not only make clear the evils of our contemporary culture, but also show readers the path to a better culture and then inspire them to follow it.
Delighted to see your call to action, and I look forward to reading your novel.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment, Hans. Agree, all fiction is message fiction–the art being to get the message across so beautifully the reader isn’t even aware of it. Or is enjoying the story so much he doesn’t care.
You should consider writing a fictionalized, or perhaps autobiographical description of your days doing 16-hour shifts on a fishing boat in Alaska. That is quite a compelling detail to include as a parenthetical aside!
Rise to the next challenge: write short stories. Consider writing an anthology of short fiction following the debut of your novel? Even if not, please keep us informed with plenty of blog posts about your progress with Sanity!
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Upon the uneven, undulating wall, a human hand, imperfect man.
‘He had a broken finger’ an anthropologist intones.
passively watching the rotting bones.
What is real? the shadow cast or the light?
The physical manifestation or the dream?
God in man or the man in god?
The cave (the Freudian interpretation is clear) wet, but also warm and inviting.
but they knew no Freud, no Jung, no Christ.
Just the cave bear and the dark and the sacrifice.
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← Putting Descartes before the Cheval.
Maurice O’Sullivan Aherne at Cape launch…..again.
I have been asked as to the reason for the eponymous title. Best explained by a passage of a parable, “no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but putteth it on a stand…” The Bible didn’t mention Google’s pre-eminence.
The MOSAherne is a contraction of Maurice O’Sullivan Aherne in loving respect to both sides of my family. The moniker usefully combines the name of a remote grandfather and J. Joyce lookalike, Moss. I refer to physiognomy without the global renown.
All three of us may have had a shared interest I see…..
My good eye is always looking for beauty.
Loyal Harriet was back in Blighty making the payments, as Jimbo sits with Sylvia (Beach )and Adrienne (Monnier) at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris in 1938. Poor Nora was left with the domestic responsibilities. From author Gisèle Freund. Source. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
My personal journey patiently awaits paper, much greater focus, and time. The better amongst us shall be named and the lessers (you’re ahead of me here) shamed! Upon a night sometime past dark thirty if fickle Fate doesn’t finally terminate my subscription to this temporal sphere, I’ll settle before the blankest of pages and by force of will if nothing else consign to parchment, events that changed everything irrevocably, and for the worse.
It might require large doses of humour to make it bearable or readable but that shouldn’t be a problem.
Either way it won’t matter because for once quite ironically it’ll be for me.
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I was born in 1965 and started supporting Leeds United in 1970. They were one of the biggest clubs in the country at the time, and would go on to be a legendary one until Don Revie left to manage England in 1974. I can’t remember much about those seasons, apart from the two F.A. Cup finals.
Peter ‘Hot Shot’ Lorimer was one of the star players and best known, because he was renowned for having the best shot and scoring spectacular goals, kind of like the David Beckham or Lionel Messi of his time; before European football was televised much in Britain; or Kevin De Bruyne in the Premier League at the moment.
Uncannily, not only was Lorimer my favourite footballer, but I think he looked a bit like me too… and Eric Cantona when at Leeds!
From Lorimer to Cantona there was a decade and a half of strife. I listened to Leeds win promotion back into Division One on top of Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong in 1990. In 1991 I returned home on the Trans-Siberian from Beijing, via the Soviet Union (as it was then). I continued on the train to Prague in Czechoslovakia (before it divided), Budapest in Hungary and Berlin in Germany (recently united), before hitching back to Britain from there (taking a day to reach the port, Calais I think).
So I was back for the 1991/92 season, when Leeds won the last Division One title, with the help of controversial midfield/forward, Eric Cantona. He inspired my haircut, and I used to play with the number 2 shirt for my local team, as Cantona did, even though I was a centre forward at the time.
I also liked the fact that he tried to be an artist and philosopher, providing a bridge to the ‘counter-culture’ I also liked. My favourite rugby union player of my childhood was also a Frenchman (maybe my Jersey birthplace influence), Jean-Pierre Rives, a ferocious tackler in my favourite position of flanker. I didn’t know what happened to him after he retired from rugby until looking him up during the writing of XaW Files, and found out he was also an artist!
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Corneal implant retaining devices and their methods of use. The retaining devices can be a cap adapted to be disposed over a portion of a corneal implant insertion device.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/411,425, filed Mar. 2, 2012, which application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/692,835, filed Mar. 28, 2007, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,162,953, which is incorporated by reference herein.
This application also claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/535,819, filed Sep. 16, 2011, which is incorporated by reference herein.
This application is also related to and incorporates by reference herein the following applications: U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/535,744, filed Sep. 16, 2011; U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/550,185, filed Oct. 21, 2011; and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/606,674, filed Mar. 5, 2012.
The disclosure herein relates generally to storage and retention devices for corneal implants. During storage, or just prior to use, some corneal implants need to remain hydrated, and yet must be easily removed from storage without being damaged. Some corneal implants can be very light in mass and tacky, or sticky. When preparing the implants for use, there may be one or more components of a storage and/or shipping assembly that are removed relative to the implant delivery device to allow access to the implant. This removal step can prematurely dislodge the implant from its position before it is intended to be moved. Additionally, some implants are stored in a storage solution, such that removal of the storage component can cause the implant to be prematurely drawn out of the delivery device due to cohesive forces between fluid molecules and due to adhesion forces between the fluid and the implant.
One aspect of the disclosure is a cornea implant insertion system, comprising: a corneal implant insertion device comprising a corneal implant holding area adapted to receive a corneal implant; and a cap adapted to be disposed over at least a portion of a distal region of the insertion device, the cap and the insertion device defining a fluid space in which a fluid is maintained, wherein the cap comprises an opening in fluid communication with the fluid space.
In some embodiments the cap includes a fluid channel extending therethrough in fluid communication with the opening and the fluid space.
In some embodiments the opening is disposed at a distal end of the cap. The cap can have a distal flat face wherein the opening is disposed in the distal flat face. The cap can further include a channel extending from the opening to the fluid space.
In some embodiments the cap has a generally cylindrical configuration. The distal region of the insertion device can have a generally flat configuration.
In some embodiments the cap includes a channel extending from the opening to the fluid space. The cap can include an inner surface adapted to prevent the corneal implant from escaping the holding area. The channel can extend from the opening to the inner surface.
In some embodiments the cap completely surrounds the distal region of the insertion device.
In some embodiments the holding area is defined by a first surface and a second surface of the insertion device. The first and second surfaces can be generally flat surfaces.
In some embodiments the system further comprises a corneal implant disposed within the holding area. The system can also include a second fluid disposed within the holding area and adapted to retain the corneal implant within the holding area by capillary forces. The fluid and the second fluid can be the same type of fluid, such as saline.
In some embodiments the cap comprises an inner surface adapted to engage the distal end of the insertion device and prevent the corneal implant from escaping the holding area.
One aspect of the disclosure is a method of removing fluid from a corneal implant insertion device prior to implanting the corneal implant, comprising: providing a corneal implant insertion device and a cap disposed over at least a portion of a distal region of the insertion device, a first portion of the cap and a first portion of the distal region of the insertion device defining a fluid space in which a fluid is maintained; removing at least a portion of the fluid from the fluid space through an opening in the cap; and removing the cap from the distal region of the insertion device to provide access to a cornea implant retained by the insertion device.
In some embodiments the removing step comprises positioning an absorbent material adjacent the opening to withdraw fluid through the opening.
In some embodiments the removing step comprises aspirating the fluid from the fluid space through the opening with an aspiration device.
In some embodiments the removing step comprises removing at least a portion of the fluid from the fluid space without removing all of a fluid disposed within the insertion device.
In some embodiments the removing step comprises removing at least a portion of the fluid from the fluid space through a channel in the cap. The removing step can comprise inserting an aspiration device within the channel and aspirating the fluid from the space with the aspiration device.
In some embodiments the method further comprises removing the corneal implant from the insertion device and depositing the corneal implant onto corneal tissue.
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate an exemplary corneal implant insertion device and an exemplary cap.
FIGS. 3A-3E illustrate an exemplary corneal implant insertion device.
FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary storage container inside exemplary outer packaging.
FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary cap.
FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary cap.
FIG. 7 illustrates an exemplary device for removing fluid from a fluid space.
FIGS. 8A-8D illustrate views of an exemplary cap.
FIGS. 9-10D illustrate an alternative exemplary cap.
FIG. 11 illustrates an alternative retaining device.
FIGS. 12A-12E illustrate an exemplary embodiment of a cap.
FIGS. 13A-13B illustrate an exemplary embodiment of a cap with a feature to assist in removing the cap from the insertion device.
FIGS. 14A and 14B illustrate an alternative embodiment of a cap.
FIGS. 15A and 15B illustrate an exemplary embodiment of a cap.
The disclosure relates generally to storage and retention devices for corneal implants. The devices can be used for long term storage of a corneal implant, or can be used for short term storage, such as just prior to an implantation procedure of the corneal implant. “Corneal implants” used herein refers to any medical device positioned on or in a cornea, and includes, without limitation, corneal inlays, corneal onlays, and contact lenses.
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate an exemplary insertion system that is adapted to deliver a corneal implant, e.g., cornea inlay, in or on the cornea. The insertion system can also be used to store the corneal implant prior to its use. The insertion system includes an inserter 310 having an elongated body, which may be made of titanium, stainless steel, plastic, or other biocompatible material. The inserter 310 comprises a distal portion having generally flat top and bottom surfaces. The distal portion of the inserter 310 includes a clearance bend 104 where the inserter is bent to provide clearance between the inserter and a patient's facial features (e.g., nose, cheeks, etc.). The distal portion of the inserter 310 also includes a curved portion 303 that is contoured to follow the shape of a patient's cornea as explained further below. The curved portion 303 is concaved on the bottom surface of the inserter 310.
The inserter 310 additionally includes a holding space 301 adapted to hold a corneal implant 320 to be delivered by the inserter. A fluid such as saline, BSS, or other solution (not shown) is disposed in the holding space 301 to hold implant 320 therein due to surface tension of the fluid. The fluid stays in the holding space 301 due to capillary forces, thereby keeping the implant hydrated. The inserter also includes top inserter slot 302 and a bottom inserter slot (not shown). In addition, the top inserter slot 302 allows the surgeon to hold down the implant 320 in the holding space 301 at a desired position while the surgeon retracts the inserter 310 to release the implant 320. The surgeon may hold down the implant 320 with a surgical tool, such as a cannula, Sinskey hook or other tool that is adapted to fit through top inserter slot 302. Top inserter slot 302 extends to leading edge 311 of inserter 310 so that the tool can hold down implant 320 as the inserter 310 is retracted. Leading edge 311 of the inserter is preferably rounded to prevent damage to the cornea. Exemplary dimensions and additional exemplary features of the inserter shown in this exemplary embodiment can be found in U.S. application Ser. No. 11/692,835, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,162,953. The geometry of holding space 301 and the surface tension of the fluid in holding space 301 keep implant 320 substantially centered in inserter 310. The height of holding space 301 may be several times larger than the center thickness of implant 320 to ensure that enough saline is in holding space 301 to keep the implant sufficiently hydrated.
The inserter system additionally includes cap 300 that is adapted to be disposed over at least a portion of the distal portion of the inserter. FIG. 2 illustrates cap 300 positioned over the distal portion such that cap 300 is disposed over holding space 301 in which a corneal implant is retained.
In some embodiments, inserter cap 300 has a generally cylindrical shape and is adapted to be fitted snugly on the distal end of inserter 310 such that it engages the sides of inserter 310 as shown in FIG. 2. In some embodiments the cap is made of Teflon (PTFE).
In some embodiments, implant 320 is preloaded in inserter 310 and packaged for later use. In one embodiment, implant 320 is preloaded into holding space 301 of inserter 310 with the top surface of implant 320 orientated to face the top surface of inserter 310. Implant 320 may be preloaded by submerging both implant 320 and holding space 301 of inserter 310 in a solution, e.g., saline, and inserting implant 320 into holding space 301 while they are both submerged. After implant 320 is loaded in inserter 310, cap 300 is placed on the distal end of inserter 310. Cap 300 may be placed on inserter 310 while holding space 301 is still submerged in the solution. The preloaded inserter 310 assembled with cap 300 can then be positioned into a vial or other storage container filled with saline or other suitable solution. Cap 300 prevents implant 320 from moving out of inserter 310 when placed in the storage container filled with fluid. The storage container can then be capped and placed in an outer package, which can then be sterilized to store the insertion system until use. The assembled cap and inserter need not, however, be stored in any kind of storage container.
A full exemplary implantation procedure can be found in U.S. application Ser. No. 11/692,835, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,162,953, which is incorporated by reference herein. As a part of that procedure, the preloaded inserter 310 is first removed from a storage container filled with a storage solution. There will be a certain volume of fluid within the space between cap 300 and inserter 310 after it is removed from the storage container. The fluid within the space between cap 300 and inserter 310 is then removed by placing a sterile surgical sponge (not shown) or other absorbent material on the open distal end of cap 300. The absorbent material draws out the saline from the interior of cap 300 by capillary action in the space between the inner surface of cap 300 and inserter 310. In embodiments in which cap 300 has a generally cylindrical shape, the space is defined by inner surface of cap 300 and the flat top and bottom surfaces of inserter 310. The saline is removed from the space between cap 300 and inserter 310 while cap 300 is still on inserter 310. If the cap is removed from inserter before the fluid is removed, cap 300 may pull implant 320 out of the holding space by capillary action when cap 300 is removed from inserter 310. After the fluid is removed, cap 300 is then pulled off of inserter 310. At this point in the process, a small amount of fluid (e.g., saline or BSS) may be applied to holding space 301 of inserter 310 to keep implant 320 hydrated. The fluid stays in holding space 301 due to capillary forces, thereby keeping implant 320 hydrated during the procedure. Further, the surface tension of the fluid holds implant 320 in holding space 301 of inserter 310 so that implant 320 does not fall out of inserter 310 during the procedure. The surface tension and the geometry of holding space 301 keep implant 320 centered in inserter 310. Additionally exemplary features of inserter 310, other exemplary insertion devices, and their methods of use can be found in U.S. application Ser. No. 11/692,835, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,162,953.
FIGS. 3A-E illustrate a merely exemplary implant delivery device and a merely exemplary corneal implant disposed therein. Delivery device 10 includes distal portion 16, intermediate portion 14, and proximal portion 12. Distal portion 16 includes holding region 20 (see FIG. 3C), in which implant 26 is disposed. A fluid is also disposed within holding region 20 such that implant 26 is retained within holding area 20 by capillary forces. The fluid keeps the implant fully hydrated until it is ready to be delivered into or onto the eye. Holding region 20 is defined by upper surface 22, lower surface 24, and proximal surface 32, as shown in FIGS. 3C (side view) and 3D (top view). Distal region 16 has a generally flat configuration. Upper surface 28 is substantially flat, with surface 34 tapering slightly downwards towards the distal end of distal portion 14. Bottom surface 30 is substantially flat and extends from the bend in intermediate region 14 all the way to the distal end of distal portion 16. Additional details of this embodiment are described in U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/535,744, filed Sep. 16, 2011, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
In this embodiment holding area 20 and implant 26 are sized and shaped such that implant 26 is disposed within holding area 20 in a non-deformed, or non-stressed, configuration, and is retained therein due to capillary forces. The non-deformed configuration is substantially the same configuration that the implant is in after it is positioned in or on the subject's corneal. Any of the caps described herein can be used with the insertion device of FIGS. 3A-3E to help retain the corneal implant in the insertion device.
During storage, it is generally beneficial for an additional device to be positioned with respect to the delivery device (or other storage component) and inlay to retain the inlay within the holding space of the delivery device. Cap 300 from the embodiment in FIGS. 1 and 2 above is example of such an additional device. FIG. 4 illustrates a merely exemplary storage container 42 inside outer packaging 44. Inlay holder 46, with inlay 40 therein, is stored in storage container 42, which includes a cap and is filled with a storage fluid such as saline. To retain inlay 40 within inlay holder while stored in the fluid filled storage container, retaining element 47 is disposed over the distal end of inlay holder 46.
FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of retaining device 50, in the form of a cap, disposed over the distal portion of corneal inlay holder 52 to retain inlay 54 within the holding space in the distal portion of the inlay holder. The holding space and inlay are substantially similar to those in the embodiment described above in FIGS. 1 and 2. Retaining device 50 is in the form of a cap and includes outer element 56 and inner element 58 partially disposed within outer portion 56. Inner element 58 includes a proximal surface 62 that is in contact with the very distal end of inlay holder 52. Proximal surface 62 prevents inlay 54 from escaping from inlay holder 52. To store the inlay, retaining cap 50 is placed over the distal end of holder 52 after the inlay is positioned therein. The assembly is then placed in a storage container filled with a storage solution, such as container 42 in FIG. 4. Bores 60 (one is on the underside in FIG. 3) in outer element 56 allow fluid to pass into the space between inlay holder 52 and retaining device 50 to keep the inlay fully hydrated while stored in a storage container. In one embodiment cap is made from Teflon (PTFE). The inner and outer elements can be two components that are, for example, press fit together, or they can be a molded part. Before the implant can be implanted, the retaining device must be removed from the distal end of the inlay holder to allow access to the implant. When removing the retaining element, however, surface tension cohesive forces between fluid molecules can cause the fluid within the holding space to be pulled from the holding space. Additionally, adhesion forces between the fluid and the inlay can also draw out the inlay from the holding space as the retaining element is removed. Removing the retaining element can therefore prematurely pull the inlay from the holding space before the intended time. To prevent any of these from occurring, fluid between retaining element 50 and inlay holder 52 can be removed (also referred to herein as “aspirated” and “evacuated”) by a suitable fluid removal technique prior to removing retaining element 50. For example, the fluid can be evacuated by positioning an absorbent material such as a sponge against bore 60, such as is described in the embodiment in FIGS. 1 and 2 above. Fluid will be drawn from the enclosure and into the sponge, removing the fluid from the enclosure. Exemplary absorbent materials include Weck-cell eye spears. Alternatively, a cannula, syringe, or aspiration needle can be positioned adjacent to or within bore(s) 60 and used to aspirate the fluid through bore 60. The fluid within the holding space of the implant holder, however, needs to be retained therein to keep the implant fully hydrated until it is time for delivery into or onto the eye.
FIG. 6 illustrates an alternative embodiment of retaining device 70. Retaining device 70 includes outer tubular element 74 and inner element 76. Outer element 74 includes bores 78 (one on the underside). Inner element 76 has a channel 82 running along its length, fluidly connecting the enclosure between device 70 and inlay holder 72, and opening 80. The inner element has a proximal surface as in the embodiment in FIG. 5 that prevents the inlay from escaping the holding space of the inlay holder 72. As in the embodiment in FIG. 5, any suitable technique can be used to remove fluid from the enclosure prior to removing retaining element 70 from inlay holder 72, such as using an absorbent material, or using an aspiration device such as an aspiration needle. Fluid can be removed via opening and/or bores 78. Fluid can be removed through channel 82 out of opening 80. Fluid can also be removed from bores 78.
FIG. 7 illustrates an additional exemplary technique for removing the fluid from enclosure before removing the retaining element. Dropper bulb/vacuum pump 90 is adapted to engage an outer surface of inner element 76 of retaining device 70, as shown in FIG. 6. In use, a user first compresses the bulb to remove air from the bulb. The dropper bulb is then fitted over inner element 76 of retaining device 70. The force on the bulb is released, drawing the fluid from the enclosure into the dropper bulb. The bulb can be adapted such that only a certain amount of fluid can be removed from the inserter, which can prevent fluid from being removed from the holding space.
Inner channel 82 within inner element 76 is small enough that the corneal implant is prevented from escaping from the holding space (due to the proximal surface of the inner element with the channel opening therethrough), yet allows fluid to be removed from the enclosure when needed.
It may be better to have as short an inner channel 82 as possible, to ease the fluid removal. In some embodiments the inner element 76, and therefore channel 82, are between about 0.05 inches and about 0.25 inches in length. In some embodiment the channel is about 0.15 inches in length. Inner and outer elements 76 and 78 can be made from Teflon and are press fit together. Alternatively, they can be a single-piece molded component.
FIGS. 8A-8D illustrate retaining device 50 from FIG. 5. FIG. 8A is a perspective view showing inner and outer elements 58 and 56 respectively, and apertures, or bores, 60 through outer element 56. FIG. 8B is an end view looking though the open end of outer element 56. FIG. 8C is a sectional view, showing proximal surface 62 that abuts against or is adjacent to the distal end of the implant holder to prevent the implant from escaping the holding space. FIG. 8D is a sectional view DD along the plane shown in FIG. 8C.
FIG. 9 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a cap to be placed over the distal end of an implant holder during storage. Retaining element 90 includes cap section 92 coupled to handle 94. Cap section 92 includes a generally C-shaped cap 96 and four end elements 98. Each end element 98 has an extension 104 (see FIG. 10B) adapted to fit over the top and bottom surfaces of the implant holder 100. Cap section 92 also includes boss 102 to retain the corneal implant within the holding space in the implant holder 100. Boss 102 is generally along the centerline of cap 96. FIGS. 10A-10D illustrate views of retaining element 92, with merely exemplary dimensions shown.
When the implant is to be removed from holder 100, retaining element 90 is removed from holder 100. Any of the fluid removal techniques described herein can be used to remove fluid from between the cap/inserter tool before the cap is removed. For example, a sponge can be engaged with the C-shaped cap 96 to absorb excess fluid. In some embodiments the handle is about 1 inch or less in length. In some embodiments it is about 0.5 inches or less.
The retaining device could be further modified such that it is adapted to be rotated upwards or downwards relative to implant holder 100 for removal from holder 100. For example, C-shaped cap 96 can be adapted to rotate up and/or down with respect to end elements 98. Rotating the C-cap upward prevents inadvertent removal of the implant from the retaining device in the horizontal direction due to adhesion forces between the implant, fluid, and the C-cap.
Additionally, cap 96 need not be generally C-shaped with a single radius of curvature, but can have an aspherical and/or asymmetrical configuration.
FIG. 11 illustrates an alternative retaining mechanism. Retainer 120 includes base 122 to which are secured three retaining pins 130 and implant holder mount 125, which includes a larger diameter lower portion 124 and a smaller diameter upper pin portion 126. Implant holder 140 has a through-hole therein in the distal portion that is sized to allow upper portion 126 to fit therethrough. Implant holder 140 sits atop lower portion 124. Pins 130 secured to base 122 provide three points of contact around the distal end of implant holder 140 to trap the implant within the holding space as described above. Pin 126 is used to register the implant holder 140 relative to pins 130. Once the holder 140 is loaded onto retaining element 120, the assembly could be placed in a storage container filled with storage solution, such as the one shown in FIG. 4. Alternatively, pins 130 and 126 can be molded into the bottom of the storage container, such that the inlay holder is placed over the pins of the storage container to load implant holder 140 into the storage container. To remove holder 140 from retaining element 120, holder 140 is lifted up relative to base 122 to clear the through-hole from pin 126.
A nest or well could alternatively be used instead of pins 130 to trap the implant.
The disclosure also includes retaining elements, or caps, that are removed in a proximal direction, or away from the distal end of the holding space and towards proximal end of the implant holder. This is generally the reverse direction to that shown in some of the embodiments above, such as in FIGS. 5 and 6. This effectively pulls the implant into, or towards, the holding space as opposed to away from the holding space. Any device that retains the implant within the holding space and is removed in the proximal direction is included within this disclosure.
FIGS. 12A-12E illustrate an exemplary embodiment of a reverse motion retaining element. Reverse-pull sheath 150 includes an elongate handle attachment 160, and retaining portion 158 that covers the distal tip of implant holder 152, which has an implant held therein in a holding space at the distal end as described above. The distal end of retaining portion 158 in this embodiment has a duck bill end that keeps the implant within holder 152. Reverse-pull sheath 150 is formed such that handle portion 160 is held in place wrapped around implant holder 152 until deliberately removed. The sheath conforms to the geometry of implant holder 152. The degree of sheath conformity to the implant holder can control the amount of fluid retained in and on the implant holder and delivered to the stroma bed with the implant. In this embodiment the distal portion 158 is crimped shut, but any closure technique can be used. In this embodiment the sheath is a flexible material such as Teflon.
In use, when the inlay is to be delivered into the eye, the sheath is removed from the inlay holder 152. First, as shown in FIG. 12B, handle portion 160 is pulled back in the direction of the arrow to separate handle portion 160 from inlay holder 152. Next, the sheath is pulled in a general proximal direction away from the distal end of the inlay holder 152, as shown in FIG. 12C. Pulling the sheath in this direction ensures that the implant is retained in the holding space of holder 152. The distal portion 158 of sheath 150 is adapted to tear-away, rupture, break, etc., to allow distal portion 158 to be unwrapped from the distal end of holder 152. The sheath continues to be pulled in a general proximal direction such that distal portion 158 is removed in the proximal direction until the distal portion 158 of sheath is completely torn, as shown in FIG. 12D. To assist in the tearing, the distal portion 158 includes any suitable tearing feature, such as without limitation, one or more perforations or slits. Once the sheath has been completely removed from inlay holder 152, the sheath can be discarded, and the implant holder with implant therein is ready for use. FIGS. 13A and 13B illustrate an embodiment in which the sheath includes slit 182 in the distal portion 180 to assist in the tearing away from implant holder 184. Slit 182 can be continuous, interrupted, perforated, or take any other suitable form.
FIGS. 14A and 14B illustrate an alternative embodiment in which retainer 202 includes a pull tab 204 with a generally annular configuration, and a cap portion with cantilevered arms 206 and 208. When the arms are in the storage configuration shown in FIG. 14A, the arms make point contact with the implant to retain in the holding space, but are positioned in an open enough configuration to allow fluid to keep the implant hydrated. When tab 204 is pulled in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 14B (a general proximal direction away from the distal end of implant holder 200), the arms bend away from one another, allowing retainer 202 to be removed from implant holder 200. The implant is then ready for use.
One of the advantages of the reverse-pull embodiments in FIGS. 12A-14B is that fluid does not need to be wicked away, or removed, prior to removal of the retaining element. This can simplify the overall procedure of preparing the implant for use. It is of course understood that this step could, however, still be performed.
FIGS. 15A and 15B illustrate an exemplary embodiment of an insertion device and a cap similar to those described above with respect to FIGS. 5 and 6. The insertion device, however, is similar to that shown in FIGS. 3A-3E in that the distal region is substantially flat and does not have the additional clearance bend 303, as is found in the embodiment in FIGS. 1 and 2. Retaining device, or cap, 450 is adapted to be disposed over the distal portion of corneal implant holder 452 to retain a corneal implant (not labeled) within the holding space in the distal portion of the inlay holder. The holding space and inlay are substantially similar to those in the embodiment described above in FIGS. 5 and 6. Retaining device 450 is in the form of a cap and includes outer element 456 and inner element 458 partially disposed within outer portion 456. Inner element 458 includes a proximal surface 462 that is in contact with, or directly adjacent to, the distal end of inlay holder 452. Proximal surface 462 prevents the corneal implant from escaping from the holding space within inlay holder 452. Inner element 458 has a channel 482 running along its length, fluidly connecting opening 480 and the space between cap 450 and inlay holder 452. As in the embodiments in FIGS. 5-7, any suitable technique can be used to remove fluid from the enclosure prior to removing retaining element 450 from inlay holder 452, such as using an absorbent material, or using an aspiration device such as an aspiration needle. Fluid is removed via opening 480 and channel 482.
To store the inlay, retaining cap 450 is placed over the distal end of holder 452 after the inlay is positioned therein. The assembly is then placed in a storage container filled with a storage solution, such as container 42 in FIG. 4.
Any other features described above with respect to the caps shown in the embodiments in FIGS. 5 and 6 can be incorporated into the embodiment of the cap shown in FIGS. 15A and 15B.
A retaining element with at least one opening therein can conceivably be used to retain any type of corneal implant in an insertion or delivery device, even if the insertion or delivery device is not described herein.
Any type of corneal implant that is adapted to be received within a holding space of any of the insertion devices described herein (or any other type of insertion or delivery device) can be retained by any of the retaining elements described herein.
Exemplary corneal implants that can be incorporated into the systems described herein can be found described in any the following applications, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference: U.S. application Ser. No. 10/837,402, filed Apr. 30, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,776,086; U.S. application Ser. No. 11/106,983, filed Apr. 15, 2005; U.S. application Ser. No. 11/554,544, filed Oct. 30, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,057,541; U.S. application Ser. No. 11/738,349, filed Apr. 20, 2007; U.S. application Ser. No. 12/418,325, filed Apr. 3, 2009; and U.S. application Ser. No. 12/877,799, filed Sep. 8, 2010.
removing the cap from the distal region of the insertion device to provide access to a corneal implant retained by the insertion device.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises positioning an absorbent material adjacent the opening to withdraw fluid through the opening.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises aspirating the fluid from the fluid space through the opening with an aspiration device.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises removing at least a portion of the fluid from the fluid space without removing all of a fluid disposed within the insertion device.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises removing at least a portion of the fluid from the fluid space through a channel in the cap.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises inserting an aspiration device within the channel and aspirating the fluid from the space with the aspiration device.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising removing the corneal implant from the insertion device and depositing the corneal implant onto corneal tissue.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises positioning an absorbent material adjacent the opening to withdraw fluid through the opening.
10. The method of claim 8 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises aspirating the fluid from the fluid space through the opening with an aspiration device.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises positioning an absorbent material adjacent the opening to withdraw fluid through the opening.
13. The method of claim 11 wherein removing at least a portion of the fluid comprises aspirating the fluid from the fluid space through the opening with an aspiration device.
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My Friends: We have come to that Sunday of the Great Church Year that nearly every clergy person dreads: Holy Trinity Sunday. Having just celebrated the Feast of Pentecost at the end of the Great Fifty Days of Easter last week, with its celebration of God’s gift of the Holy Spirit to the nascent Church of Jesus Christ, we are now bidden by our liturgical calendar to contemplate and glorify that greatest of all mysteries—God’s self-revelation as a Trinity of Persons—before we cross the threshold into the season known as Ordinary Time. This movement, of course, implies that we have already been immersed in the extraordinary since the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the Great Church Year. And indeed we have, as we have celebrated every one of the great mysteries of our redemption and salvation with each passing feast day and each special season for the Spirit. Some will say that with Trinity Sunday, our liturgical calendar has saved the best for last; others might claim that the Church has given us today the “mother of all the mysteries” of our Christian Faith. I subscribe to both of these points-of-view.
Now, before I say anything about God as a unity of three distinct persons in one absolutely unique essence this morning, let me remind you of something I have mentioned in several other venues. With very good reason, the contemplative order of Benedictine monks known as “Trappists” or the “Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance” was for many centuries forbidden by its Constitution to preach on this one Sunday of the year expressly because the Holy Trinity is regarded as such a profound mystery that no one can really say anything sensible about God’s inner life. The only thing that we humans can know about God is what God has chosen to reveal to us through scripture, tradition, salvation history, and in the silence of a pure heart. This means Torah for Jews and Jesus of Nazareth for us Christians, because Jews and Christians are the two lungs of the “body” of God in the world. And while God may very well be revealing God’s self to other peoples through other of the world’s great religions, God has uniquely entered into a sacred covenant with Jews and Christians to be a sign of God’s presence in the world and partners with God in the world’s restoration and redemption in God’s ongoing work of Creation. (There is enough love in God to choose a distinct people again and again.) In the words of the Nunc dimitis drawn from Saint Luke’s gospel, Jesus Christ is “a light to enlighten the nations and the glory of your people Israel.” As covenant “People of God,” Jews and Christians both have been elected and commissioned—each in its own way—to be the visible expression of God’s “light of the world” in time and history: Jews through peoplehood, Torah, and the Land of Israel; Christians through Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I will leave it to the Jewish people to testify to their unique experience of the Holy One, blessed be he, through the three modalities of peoplehood, Torah, and the land. And I will do my best today to stammer a few words about the Christian experience of God as “one in essence, but three in energies,” according to the formal definition of the Holy Trinity in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. So, here goes!
It should be obvious by now that we are in very deep waters whenever we speak about the Holy Trinity. And this gives you an inkling of just why Christians literally killed each other for nearly a millennium over their futile efforts to explicate this holy mystery. It may be hard for us in the modern secular West to fathom it, but deadly riots broke out regularly during the fourth and fifth-centuries CE among Christian factions with competing views on the matter. How times have changed—or have they?
Saint Augustine, who wrote voluminously on the Holy Trinity, tells us that we can only speak about God by analogy; that it is much easier to say what God is not than what God is; and that, in the end, it is more important to know that God is rather than what God is. So, on the premise that “only fools rush in where the wise fear to tread,” I offer this morning just one of several distinct and traditional analogies, drawn from the Christian tradition, for entering into the mystery of the Holy Trinity in our spiritual journey.
You are probably familiar with Saint Patrick of Ireland’s famous analogy for the Holy Trinity, which he apparently used to great effect in converting the Celtic tribes of the “Emerald Isle” to the Christian faith. That, of course, was the three-leaf clover. But several centuries before Saint Patrick, St. John Chrysostom of Antioch used a more homely analogy for God as a trinity of co-equal persons: the humble candle. A candle is made of three distinct entities, each essential to its nature as a candle: wax, a wick, and a flame. If you take away any one of these three integral features of a candle, you no longer have a real and purposeful candle. A candle is only truly a candle when its flame is lit and its three distinct elements are united in expressing and fulfilling its whole meaning and purpose as a candle: the giving of heat and light. And so it is with God, according to Chrysostom: one divine “essence,” in three distinct “energies,” without which God would not be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit united in will, purpose, and love in truth.
My sisters and brothers in Christ, there is no reason to worry if you are unable to apprehend God with your rational mind alone. God is no more to be found there than in the empty tomb of Jesus Christ. It’s through a life of “suffering servanthood,” and through the prayer and worship found in the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church, that we encounter God “in the face of Jesus Christ” through the power of the Holy Spirit given to us in Holy Baptism. In the meanwhile, we have our poor words, clumsy analogies, and humble props—which must never be mistaken for the real thing—to lead us to the courts of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the throne of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, where we cry, along with the heavenly choir: “Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh”; “Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.” AMEN.
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I see that my son has followed the traditional practice of assigning preaching on Trinity Sunday to the associate.
Masterfully done, James! Todd passed it on to a most capable associate.
I invariably enjoy your homilies.
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The posting is instructive showing how the initial adaptation of an evolutionary idea into the management realm got optimized over time by being shortened (i.e. made more verbose and up to the point) and then mis-attributed to the greater authority (i.e. to Darvin as semi-divine mythical authority).
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This week I could give you a hundred of retellings I want to read, but somehow I only read a few. I guess I’ll have to make it my goal for the next year 😀 especially since I’ve already bought some of these books.
Grimm Diaries Prequels #1-6 by Cameron Jace – yes, I know there are more of these and that there’s an actual book after (It’s on my TRB list and I already have it so…), but I really enjoyed these prequels. The author manages to give these stories some twist, some fresh look and I enjoyed reading them. I can’t say I liked all the stories, but I still enjoyed the set.
I know I’m posting this late (again), but to be honest – I suffer from a strong case of autumn laziness at the moment. It’s good I’m not joining anything like NaNoWriMo because I would fail miserably ;). By the way – I hope everyone is doing great with their writing. I really envy you guys. Good luck!
Now, since I’ve missed two Sunday posts already, I’m thinking about taking a break with these posts. I will post the 10th episode next week and I’m going to stop it for a month. So December will be Grimm-free. I will find something else to write about then. I hope you won’t be mad at me, but I think it’s better to take a break rather than write something boring.
Now back to the Grimm tales – in this episode there are four rather short tales I didn’t know and one that I liked as a child.
This is basically a story about a man who found his faith. A nice tale, but with a standard depressing ending. At least from my point of view it is depressing because I don’t like people dying, no matter what awaits them after death.
This week has a mix of stories that just got into my top 10 favorite Grimm tales and the ones that made no sense.
I’m afraid I will spoil every other tale for you. The first one is very short and it’s hard to get to the point without telling too much. The third and fifth tales were one of the WTF-just-happened tales and even though I will tell you what happened, maybe you should just read them and tell me that they actually do make sense.
Let’s start with a rather peaceful tale from the “Children’s legends” section. The old lady is a story of a woman who lived for very long and had seen many of her friends and family die. When the last person she loved passed away she was very depressed. One day when she was walking through town she heard church bells calling for mass. She was surprised because it wasn’t the time for it.
Today we’ve got a tale about a certain little girl in a pretty recognizable red hood among the five chosen ones.
This episode will be a short one. I have little time to write this today and the stories I read didn’t leave me with much to tell either.
The first story this week is a really short one. Barely few sentences telling us about a man, whose wagon got stuck and Mary, who wanted to help in exchange for some wine to drink. Since the man didn’t have a glass, Mary gave him a flower to put the wine in and she drunk from that flower.
To sum it up, everyone got what they needed, everyone went on happy and a flower got a new name. At least the story says so, but I never heard of a flower called Mary’s glass.
Moral: Help others and they will help you.
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Puerto Rico, seen from beneath a perfect hat.
Mike finagled us a trip to Puerto Rico by speaking about insect mating disruption at a conference there. That subject deserves its own post because it’s really, really interesting. No kidding. Really.
I took nice clothes in case we ate at a nice restaurant. We did eat at a nice restaurant, and I wore a tee shirt with a skull on it, and my hat.
We didn’t see any surfers at Rincon, which is rumored to be a well known surfer’s paradise. The disappointment of not seeing them was mitigated by finding a heart-shaped rock on the beach.
This was my first experience of texting photos to my friends and receiving their immediate replies. Sweet. It was almost like having them there with me.
It rains in the rain forest. Copiously.
The most used accessory on a car in San Juan is the horn. However, we saw very few speeding drivers outside the city. In fact, we nearly crashed into a couple vehicles on the toll road going at least 20 mph under the speed limit. Then, there was that episode of bob & weave with the pickup truck overloaded with fruit. Death by banana is not my method of choice.
Puerto Ricans are a people who will meet your eyes; there’s no stiff avoidance. They give you a thorough looking over.
I knew intrinsically that there would be no need for me to go inside the Lo Coquette Lingerie and Booty Shop. There would be nothing inside there to fit my booty. There will be another post addressing that issue; it will involve the hat.
I now understand about the blue color of ocean water. Amazing.
Based solely on how many food vendors line the roads outside San Juan, I don’t know how there can be a) any live chickens remaining since they’re all on grills and spits and b) why anybody would cook at home.
I will not get on another airplane without some sort of earphones and music. I’m sure the gentleman from Tennessee was a lovely man, but I don’t sleep with my husband when he snores, and the prospect of a 4-hour flight beside a stranger thus engaged was dismal indeed. The flight attendant has my gratitude for re-seating me on a very full plane.
Who’s cruel joke was it to have my return flight board beside one flying to Houston? The Queen was not amused.
People will stare at someone who turns bright red from heat, though that someone is quite comfortable and unaware of her hue and is wearing a perfect hat.
I respect Puerto Rico’s pride in its rum production, and sampled my share, but I’m staunchly loyal to Tito’s Vodka, made in Austin, Texas.
Now, about those photos. . .
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Today was same as always. I finished studying Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. The I add two more songs to the Lyrics Worksheet. When I was putting them in I was listening to a program about modern day slave labor on NWPR. I didn't know this but, big companies use slave labor in third world countries. For example, Nestle is using child slave labor in the Ivory Coast to pick cocoa.
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Do you like to get suprises in the mail?
A couple of my bead (I originally typed bed here instead of bead. Really changes the context don’t you think?) buddies are offering some fun deals and subscriptions. I’d like to take this opportunity to point you in their direction.
First up is The Random over at JC Herrell Glass.
I think this is an awesome idea! And you can’t really go wrong, since all of JC’s beads are TDF! So head on over and order yourself up a random.
Second up is a monthly earring subscription from Melanie Hazen.
She has a four month subscription and a twelve month subscription. Her prices make these a fantastic deal. Let me tell you, her jewelry is just gorgeous! I know. I had the opportunity to see it in person this month and more than one piece came home with me! I came home with something very similar to this. YUM!
Head on over to check out both of my friends and while you are there, order yourself up a suprise.
My dear hubby Greg has many talents (only some of which I can discuss here…I kid, I kid!). Long ago he used to work with wood, making kaleidoscopes, pens, and even turned bowls. Now he is putting our shed to use making lighted marble stands. He’s using hardwoods, maple and walnut. But he did pick up some exotics at the hardwood shop this week, so there will be more variety to come.
A few are on ebay now.
This all started last month when we were trying to figure out how we would display a few marbles at the ISGB Gathering next month. Greg came across some lighted displays and picked them up. This led to him making marbles that will glow when being lit up. See the above picture. And of course he wasn’t happy with the ready-made light stands he bought, so he ended up making his own. We both love them and are pretty sure we will be offering hardwood marbles stands regularly.
For most online lampwork sellers (and all kinds of other sellers) the preferred method of payment is paypal and for good reason. Paypal gives both the seller and the buyer protection against the sale and purchase. As a seller, if I ship my item within seven days of payment, with delivery confirmation, I am covered if the Post Office confirms my item has been delivered (as long as I shipped to a paypal verified address). As the buyer I have 45 days from the date of payment to open a dispute if I haven’t received my item or there is something wrong with it. We have a mediator and for the most part if I follow the guidelines I am covered both as a buyer and a seller.
But what about checks and money orders? I have a handful of customers who pay by either check or money order, or on a rare occasion they send me cash in the mail. I know there are people who don’t like to do banking type stuff online and that is fine with me. But what about the scammers out there? You know, the people who knowingly write hot checks. In my nine years of doing business online I have only had one instance of a person trying to scam me via check. That was last week.
I have to admit, I was weary from the start. This particular person ordered over $200 worth of stuff out of my artfire store. The amount on this sale isn’t so unusual and I was running a sale, which brought it down closer to $160. I sent a paypal invoice, to which she replied she would be sending a check. This is where I start to wonder, as I haven’t ever done business with this person before. On Artfire, one does not have to sign up to purchase, therefore there isn’t a user name or a way to track their activity at all, unlike etsy or ebay. Then two days later, the same person ordered $400 worth of stuff from my website. I sent the revised invoice for my BOGO Half off sale, to which she replies she has already sent the money and just add more beads to make up the difference.
Warning Bells! So I goggle this person. I find nothing but a closed etsy account. My husband tells me to stop being so pessimistic. Still, I have no real reason to believe this person is trying to scam me, so when the two checks come I run them down to the bank and wait for them to clear.
Here is the tricky part. Two days later they did clear and the funds were sitting in my account. But wait! If you know anything about the banking system, you know a check can still bounce later all depending on when the two banks communicate with each other. A day after the checks cleared my account I was scheduled to be in Tennessee at Bead Camp, so I put the whole thing on hold and told myself I would deal with it later. I emailed the customer and told her I was going to be out of town and I’d ship her items when I got home.
Six days later I returned home and checked my account, to find they had indeed bounced, with a ten dollar fee to me for each one. I am now out $20. Great. The next day I received the scanned checks in the mail confirming they were written on a closed count.
I emailed the person to let them know I would not be sending the product and I am not surprised I received no response.
At least I didn’t send her any product. Thank goodness. I am just one person and $600 worth of inventory is a good week worth of production. A day later my friend pointed me to a thread on Lampwork Etc, where one of my fellow lampworkers was scammed by the same person. You can read it Here. So sellers please beware if you receive a request to pay by check from a Ms Tonya Pendley of Jasper, Alabama. I don’t know if this is a case of identity theif or not, but a person is going around the internet writing checks on a closed account in that name.
So do I still accept checks? Yes, I do. And money orders, which have their own issues. The biggest money order scam out there is when someone wants to pay by money order and over pays and asks you to send them the difference back. This is always a scam, please do not fall for it. The money orders bounce later just like bad checks when you deposit them.
While I still accept checks and money orders, I am careful to do my research on the buyer if I haven’t dealt with them before and I listen to that little voice in my head when it tells me something is amiss.
It’s a tough economy and we are working harder than ever. It’s easy to get excited about a large sale, but be patient and deligent and don’t let the scammers scam you. Good luck!
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I am back from Bead Camp and to be honest, still recovering a little bit. Our event in Tennessee had 21 attendees, all bead makers and and a few jewelry designers. We had Jennifer Geldard come in to teach half day classes and while we weren’t doing that we were torching, eating, and do a lot of laughing. There wasn’t much sleeping going on however, so it’s taken me a few days to bounce back. Having that much fun sure wears you out.
Sadly I don’t have any pictures. I am the one who never brings her camera and relies on everyone else to take the photos. I am still waiting for my peeps to post them so I can snag a couple. I did learn a few new things and have a bunch of new ideas in the hopper for new designs. I spent most of my time making focals, which is always a nice break from making sets. Here are a few I brought home from bead camp.
Most of these have made it to my ebay page, and I have a few more coming in the next few days.
I am off! Today is the day my friend Rebekah and I head north to Crossville, TN for the second (hopefully annual) Bead Camp. The event is officially for three days, but as we girls always do, we dragged it out another day. So we’ll be driving home on Monday. All orders with the exception of one (and you know who you are) are complete and shipped. All new orders and inquires will be taken care of next Tuesday.
I hope to learn something new and fabulous and I’m sure I will, but really it’s just a great excuse to get together with the girlfriends. See you Tuesday!
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Winter and the holidays are now just around the corner, and once again, the AMC resource participants have not let their readers down. Many of the participants have contributed outstanding lesson plans, recipes, crafts and more that you can use right now in your school and home classrooms. Please see to read the current 2013 issue!
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So first off, there are no such things as driving rules in Italy. “The signs and lines are only suggestions,” my dad tells me, as the taxi driver takes another sharp right…then a left…and, HEY ARE WE ON A ONE WAY STREET? I mean seriously, Italians are so impatient when it comes to driving that at one point, a vespa sped around us and was driving along the trolly path, only to hop off at the sight of an oncoming cable car…I mean really.
Today we rented a car and sped north to Firenze. Sped is an understatement; I’m pretty sure we were going at least 100 the entire time…and we were still being passed on the autostrade. Lush green fields, dappled with bursts of yellow sunflowers blurred together as we raced along Fiats, BMW’s, and the occasional “Space Van”. Olive trees sway in the wind as I gazed out my window, admiring the rustic villages nestled at the base of the surrounding mountains. We continued to weave down the highway, yelling a few Italian swear words at the tourists who have obviously never driven like a European (seriously I don’t even know why they bother putting lines on the roads).
One of my favorite memories of when we drove from Rome to Sicily summer of my Junior year was when we stopped at all the Autogrills. Autogrill is an Italian chain of gas stations scattered along autostrade from the tip to the bottom of the boot. And of course, it is like the holy land of gas stations. I mean where else can you go in an get a pretty decent cup of espresso at a gas station? Nowhere else, duh. After filling my arms with almost ever novelty I could get my hands on, we ventured back to the rental car to begin our taste test. Four words. Dark chocolate covered rice cakes. Hands down one of my newest obsessions.
Hey mom, remember that one time we went to University of South Carolina and drove in circles for two hours trying to find the campus? Yeah that was dad and I trying to find the hotel once we got to Firenze. After a brief power nap in the car, I awoke to find us driving around in circles. “I can’t find the damn hotel” Stevebro exclaims. We call the front desk, where they inform us that the address online is not the actual address and give us directions on how to ACTUALLY get there. Imagine that. We arrive 5 minutes later to a quaint, Palladio inspired boutique hotel. Floral gardens and skinny cyprus trees contrast with the white washed walls and red tile roof of our home for the next two days. Firenze, mi piace molto.
← Buon Giorno a Roma!
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I heard a joke once that went something like this: .A man was trapped in his home by rising flood waters. To escape the rising water, he climbed up onto the roof of his house. After getting up on the roof, he prayed, "O Lord, save me from these waters. I know that You will save me because I have absolute faith that You will be merciful to me, and answer my prayer." Shortly after that, a man in a rowboat floated up and said, "Get in and I'll take you to safety." The man on the roof replied, "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm waiting for the Lord to save me." The man in the rowboat left, and the waters kept rising until they were up to the man's thighs. Then, a powerboat pulled up and the man in it said, "Get in and I'll take you to safety." Again the man on the roof said, "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm waiting for the Lord to save me." So the powerboat left, and the waters continued to rise until they were up to the man's neck. Soon a helicopter came by and dropped a line down to the man. The rescuers shouted, "Grab the line and we'll take you to safety." But, as before, the man answered, "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm waiting for the Lord to save me." Well, the waters continued to rise and the man drowned. When he got to heaven, he asked to speak to the Lord. Standing before the throne he said, "Lord, I had complete faith that You would save me. Why didn't You?" The Lord replied, "I sent two boats and a helicopter! What more do you want?"
"11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice."
Once in a while, in church, I'll look around during the worship and hymns and notice how many people aren't singing. They may be holding a hymnal, but nothing is coming out of their mouths, and I can't help but wonder, "Why not?" I'm sure some of the excuses are: "I'm not a very good singer. I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!" "I'm a little shy about singing around other people." "I'm afraid someone might not like the way I sing." "I don't know this song." And I'm sure there are plenty of others as well. Then I wonder if, when these people are standing in the congregation before the throne of God, will they still be silent as the people around them sing? If asked, I'm sure they would say, "No, of course not! I'll be in front of God then! I'll be singing louder than anyone else there!" Well guess what? When you're standing silently in church listening to everyone else sing, you're standing in front of God then, too! Christ said in Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." So if you're going to sing in heaven, you might as well start here.
I know that a lot of people are uncomfortable with their singing ability (or lack of it). I'm not completely comfortable singing around other people myself. But I remind myself that I'm not singing for them or for their approval. I'm singing to the Lord. I'm singing His praises. And He's already told me, through His word, the Bible, that He doesn't care what I sound like. Consider this: the psalmist tells us to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. He doesn't say to make a joyful melody in 4/4 time and three-part harmony to the Lord. As long as you are praising Him, He doesn't care what you sound like. And if the Lord of all creation doesn't mind some loud, off-key praising, I wouldn't be too worried about what my neighbors think about it either.
Psalm 98:4, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise."
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Recently I was going through old family photographs when I stumbled upon a picture of a lady who used to help my mom, and before that, my grandmother with their housekeeping. To say she was merely a housekeeper would be completely disingenuous. When my aunt was a little girl, an African American lady named Lula Bell Wilson helped my Grandmother Russell around the house and kept my Aunt Terry until my grandparents arrived back home from work.
When I was three years old, I was by all accounts a precocious little tyke. There is a good reason why my mom waited seven years to have another child. My mom was almost a nervous wreck when my grandmother suggested strong reinforcements in the guise of Lula Bell. Mama has always told me I had a difficult time pronouncing Lula’s name and instead called her “Wuda Bell.” For the next six years, Lula kept me during the day while Mom and Dad were at work. While I’m sure that many of the values and beliefs that I cherish today were no doubt passed on to me by my parents, I have no doubt that Lula herself also had a profound impact in shaping my world.
While I sometimes have difficulty remembering what I did last week, I can recall with clarity sitting out in the back yard with bologna sandwiches Lula had made us or walks up to the ice cream shop, roughly a mile round trip from our house on Carey Drive. Mom said Lula would often pay for the ice cream cones out of her own pocket. I was after all – her little boy. I suppose it’s because of the time I spent with Lula that I’ve always had such difficulty seeing the contrast between black and white. The differences between races, between those who have and those who have not have always been blurred for me.
In 1994, I had the chance to attend the Junior Chamber International Japan Academy with students from approximately 80 countries. Over the next two years I would serve Junior Chamber International as General Legal Counsel and then Treasurer, traveling into Japan, Korea, Central America, and Eastern Europe. It was a rewarding experience sharing ideas and appreciating the diversity and customs of other cultures.
This month the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce launches the first of its Women and Minority Business Development programs. This is an opportunity to engage the diverse population that makes up our region. Our hope is to create programs that strengthen us as a region, to open doors of opportunity, and provide resources for our citizens to help them reach their potential. After all, we are at our best when we help others achieve their dreams.
This past Sunday, I traveled to Rock Hill to help my dad on the farm. On the way back to Huntersville, I drove to our old home where I grew up as a child. I parked the car and looked at the little house on Carey Drive. I stood in the drizzling rain peering into the back yard, beyond the little fence, where Lula and I would sit and eat our sandwiches. I can still hear her laughing at my many antics. She would put her hand to her face and laugh with a sparkle in her eye. To me Lula wasn’t a black woman or a white woman, she wasn’t well off or poor – she was my Lula and I was her little boy. While she has passed on now, her laughter still warms my soul. The days we spent together, four decades later, are etched in the memories of my mind and through the eyes of a young boy I remember.
This past January, an airbus 320, flown by USAir Captain Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger, ditched his plane in the waters off the Hudson River on a flight bound for Charlotte, NC. There were no serious injuries to the 155 aboard.
Now, almost forgotten is a similar flight that occurred November 22, 1968. It’s been more than forty years since Captain Kohie Asoh, the Japan Air Lines Pilot, landed his DC-8 jet with 96 passengers and 11 crew members, two and a half miles out in the San Francisco Bay but in nearly exact compass line with the runway. Captain Asoh landed the jet so gently that many of the passengers were unaware they were in the water until a sailboat appeared on the port bow. No one was hurt. No one was bruised. No one even got their feet wet when passengers were taken off in inflatable rafts. While the jet itself was not damaged. It had to be salvaged before the corrosive salt took its toil. Regardless of how competently he piloted the jet, a veteran pilot with over 10,000 hours, the fact that he landed the plane 2 ½ miles in the bay upset more than a few people.
Shortly thereafter, the National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing to determine the guilt for the deed. Attorneys and the media scrambled to San Francisco representing their clients. When Asoh took the stand, the investigator asked, “Captain Asoh, can you explain in your own words how you managed to land that DC-8 jet 2 ½ miles out in San Francisco Bay in perfect compass line with the runway?” Asoh’s reply was. “As you Americans say, Asoh screwed up!” Actually his comment was a bit more colorful, but I’m trying not to offend here.
According to the story, all that could be said was in that brief reply and the judge adjourned the hearing. Apparently Asoh was not aware of the American philosophy of never apologize…never take blame…never explain. We live in a business society which does not approve of failure. How many times have military officers been passed over for promotion because of a single blemish on their record. I’m not speaking of repeated mistakes, just an honest error or failed attempt.
Would Richard Nixon have resigned if he had appeared before the American People and fessed up to the Watergate break-in? Would the Challenger accident have occurred if the problem with the “O” rings had not been covered up? The good news is many companies, particularly small businesses are practicing “Grace – the ability to forgive an error.” Some companies are expunging records after a certain lapse of time.
The business community must provide a routine to wipe the slate clean periodically, removing adverse personnel actions from employee files. Employees should be encouraged to acknowledge mistakes, to correct them before it significantly hampers the future efficiency of the business or organization.
Captain Asoh had the courage to assume responsibility for his own actions. He didn’t blame others for his mistakes. More than four decades later we need to learn from Captain Asoh, who by the way continued to fly for Japan Airlines without further incident until his retirement. Innovation does not come from doing the same thing over and over again. Innovation will be met with mistakes, errors, and failed attempts, But it is through that process that we grow and learn. I say set your goals high and shoot for the stars. That way if you only reach the sky you’ve left the ground and cleared the treetops!
and the old man is gone.
All I know is nothing is true.
Things I can do without!
I just returned home from a regional transportation committee meeting which is about as much fun as watching a PBS documentary on the mating habits of the east Tennessee snail darter. However, given the choice between the two, Rocky Top could be home sweet home to me. I admit to being in a somewhat agitated mood as the notions of increased taxes, vehicular fees, and roundabouts do have a tendency to set me off at times.
I’m not real crazy about the roundabouts to begin with and Davidson (NC) has two of them. My 350Z always gets a little loose going around turn three and I want to automatically pull into that gas station there at exit thirty and get a wedge adjustment before I get to that next roundabout.
To compound my anxiety, I get home and heat up a plate of left over spaghetti and make a salad to find that the salad dressing in the pantry is Thousand Island Low Fat. Now given I am really the only one who does the grocery shopping around here, I have to assume I purchased said salad dressing. I can’t blame the shopping on either of my two dearly departed ex-wives. And, no, for those who don’t know my social history, the wives aren’t deceased they just departed. I know I have poor eye sight these days and I’m quite confident I wouldn’t purchase it on purpose. I absolutely abhor low fat stuff. I’ve a notion the Good Lord didn’t intend us to have low fat items or else he, or (she …who really knows) would not have made fattening items taste so good.
bother. Rutabagas! I’m not real sure what they are but I know ‘em when I smell ‘em. My mama used to cook those too back when she used salt and sugar. Hated the things. I always knew when my dad was out of town because the house smelled of rutabagas.
Enough on the food – ready for this – Democrats west of the Mississippi. Surprise! Okay, you got me. I need to throw in north of the Mason Dixon line too. There’s a few down south that I can tolerate. I particularly don’t have much use for the ones from Nevada and California. I think I’d rather be water boarded or go duck hunting with former Vice President Cheney than spend ten minutes listening to their drivel.
Northern tourists who wear knee high black socks with their sandals at Myrtle Beach. Holy cow! Who gave them their fashion sense? My great great great grandfather William Beauregard Russell spent four years of his life during the war of Northern Aggression trying to protect the beaches of South Carolina from the oppressing Yankee hordes who attempted to walk down Ocean Drive wearing the aforementioned knee high black socks with the sandals. My great great great granddaddy had two horses and three Red Cross nurses shot out from under him during that late unpleasantness trying to protect the sanctity of our beaches.
Reality shows – Somebody explain to me why anybody would want to spend an hour watching “some other dude sitting on their couch watching TV” in a reality show. America needs to get a life. And this Tweeter thing is just as bad. Listen – I don’t care what you were doing five minutes ago and I really don’t care what you’re doing now. Just let me know when you’ve changed the face of the world and done something someone else said couldn’t be done to make things better. Then tell me about it.
Fortune tellers. Don’t have much use for them either. I remember wandering into a fortune teller’s front parlor down at South Beach in Miami about five years ago. Her business was between Finnegan’s Pub and the Royal Palm Hotel. I asked one simple question: what’s the point spread gonna be in the Duke game tonight when they were in the NCAA tournament a few years back. She wanted me to pay her fifty bucks and read my palm. I can assure you, the score wasn’t on my palm and fifty bucks was far more than I was gonna win on the bet to begin with. Really have no use for fortune tellers.
I guess I need to quit whining. Maybe it all makes sense to someone else. Me, I’m gonna grab a little Debbie Oatmeal Cookie and a tall glass of whole milk and go to bed. I need the rest. There’s another transportation meeting tomorrow.
Reagan went on to tell us to “renew our commitment city by city, person by person, and day by day to make our country and the world a better place to live.” President Reagan, you have our commitment to restore this nation. To seek out those volunteers and to build that leadership – and we shall not fail in that task. It’s time Jaycees. It’s time to Wake Up the communities of Amarillo, Texas – Grand Rapids, Michigan, – and Des Moines, Iowa. It’s time to wake up chapters in Kansas City, Missouri – Berry, Vermont – and Prescott, Arizona. It’s time we wake up our communities … our chapters … and our members. It’s time we Wake Up America. It’s Time.
United States Jaycees: How does it feel to grow again as an organization? In December, I asked you to accept the challenge…to grow as an organization for the first time in two years. We set a goal of +350 people and asked thirty five states to make their goals a reality. You answered the challenge and exceeded it with 38 states and a net growth for the organization of +466. Four states achieved Century Club status with a growth of 100 or more members. For the first time in a very long time we can say that the Junior Chamber of Commerce grew as an organization. And you made that happen. It feels good doesn’t it?
However, our job is far from complete. Our organization .. this nation needs us more than ever before. America’s young people are the bread and butter of this country. Our TOYA honorees are a testament to that fact. We are the people – 21 to 39 – who are making America work. We are the car buyers, the house builders, the tax payers. We are the leaders in training. We are the down payment on the future of this country. Think for a moment what this country would not have it were not for the Junior Chamber. We would not have many of the community parks for our children to play in; we would not have many of this country’s soup kitchens.
Bush, and Bill Clinton – all of which were Jaycees. Dominos Pizza, started by former Jaycee Tom Monaghan, might not exist today. There would not have been a Flight of the Spirit of St. Louis, sponsored by Jaycee Charles Lindbergh and the St. Louis Junior Chamber of Commerce. There would not be Junior Chamber Chapters in 109 countries and we would not be honoring this weekend some of the best and brightest young people in America.
We are an important demographic of people in this country and its time young people had a voice in their future. The AARP lobbies for the rights of seniors. Now it is time young people have an organization to lobby for us in terms of health care, legal reform, education, and the environment. And that organization is the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. We’re on a roll and we’re ready to rock.
We can do whatever we choose to do. You have proven that during the past 73 years. We are coming into Junior Chamber Week across America. It is time to reflect on the past and prepare for the future. During the summer, I like many of you watched the Summer Olympics. I will never forget the 400 meters semi-final race of the Barcelona games. Britain’s Derek Redmond was in the backstretch some 200 meters from the end when he collapsed on the track with a torn right ham string.
The crowd looked on in disbelief. Injuries are, of course, common in Olympic Games where men and women are performing at their peak. What the crowd saw on this day was quite uncommon. They saw Olympic valor and raw determination. As medical attendants were approaching, Redmond fought to his feet pushing the Olympic trainers to the side. Later he would say, “It was out of animal instinct.” With tears of pain streaming down his face, he set out in a quest to finish the race he had started. When he reached the stretch, a large man in a T-shirt came out of the stands, hurled aside a security guard and ran to Redmond embracing him. This was Jim Redmond, Derek’s father.
Our Jaycee year is in the homestretch. Some us feel injured. Some of us hurt. We feel we have given everything we could but it does not matter because we can never win the race. But you can win the race – the race that is inside you. You can lie on the track and wait for someone to take you away before the next race begins – the next state officer takes over. Or you can be like the great Olympian and get up and finish the race as hard as you can. And I’ll tell you what my Jaycee career has taught me. When you start working to finish something…giving it all you have – People will cheer. And more importantly, they’ll join in.
Last month we set our goal and together, working hard we achieved it. Late one night last month I was in my office writing postcards to some of you. Thanking you for your special effort – reaching past the limits many thought possible. Everyone had long gone home. Just the picture of our founder Henry Giessenbier hanging on the wall for company.
A song came on the radio – a song that made me think of what little time we had left, but so much still left to do. The singer say’s he’s in a hurry to get things done, he rushes around till life’s no fun. He’s in a hurry and doesn’t know why. He say’s all he’s really got to do, like so many people in America “is just live and die.” But as he starts to think about it, he realizes why…you see he’s on a roll and he’s ready to rock.
There’s so much more to life than just sitting back watching people be successful around you. He starts to pick up the pace, because he’s in his race…there’s no room for second place. State presidents and officers, district and regional directors…Junior Chamber leaders we all must run as fast as we can…when your people see you, they’ll want join in.
It is time for out gutsiest performance. It’s time we realize the goals we set earlier in the year. Each of us made a commitment to leave this organization better off than when we took over and it will take real courage to make the decisions which need to made over the next few months. We cannot afford to look the other way in our challenges, we must meet them head on and overcome them. For our Jaycee Chapters to make the impact we need to make in our communities, for our members to develop and mature we must put into play an aggressive public relations campaign, getting our message across into the hands of the major television and radio markets.
Our Jaycee Magazine must be expanded and given real substance, providing information which will be beneficial to our membership. A governmental affairs area needs to be created so our voice can be heard across this country and in Washington DC. Field reps and qualified trainers must be sent out in greater numbers to train our state and local officers. A Foundation program needs to be put into place to give our chapters grants – opportunities to once again build the community parks, carry out the projects, and make the difference in our communities we once did.
Our generation of Jaycees must prepare for the future. We must have the courage to make the decisions we need to and return this organization to national prominence…and I’m asking you to be a part of that change. John F. Kennedy said, Change is the law of life and those who only look to the past or present are sure to miss the future.” Let us embrace our challenges…take advantage of our opportunities and like the great Olympian, finish the race we started.
We would settle for nothing less! Good luck Jaycees. God bless each of you and God bless the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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The largest source of spam for me is the VAST unwashed masses using email. Those people blissfully unaware that email predates the interweb. I no longer have the patience to re-educate each on BCC and email netiquette so I have finally accepted the necessity of proximate circles of trust. The more trusted the contact the better email contact information provided. My peripheral email address uses self destructing images, self destructing URLs, and disposable email aliases to send content that is likely to tempt the ignorant into mashing her FWD button.
When their respective recipients receive the email with URLs to content that is no longer available the feedback loop discourages them from forwarding my email.
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Comments Off on Has Your Business Been Blessed by the Google Fairy?
Is Facebook Headed Down the Same Path as MySpace?
Positive thinking – Is it enough to make your dreams come true?
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Eyeglasses (U.S), or spectacles (Brit.) are pieces of glass or clear plastic, called lenses, in a frame that holds them in front of someone's eyes.
Corrective lenses let some people see or read better if they have problems seeing. This is used by person who have poor eyesight. Contact lenses also help people see better.
Glasses can also protect the eyes. Goggles and safety glasses are strong and protect the eyes from flying objects. Sunglasses keep too much sunlight from getting in people's eyes. Some eyeglasses block blue light from a computer, game, smart phone and TV.
Eyeglasses have many models. So it may be worn for fashion.
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↑ Builder, Maxine. "Do Blue-Light-Blocking Glasses Actually Do Anything?". The Strategist. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
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dpkg – warning: while removing google-desktop-linux, directory `/var/cache/google/desktop’ not empty so not removed.
dpkg – warning: while removing google-desktop-linux, directory `/var/cache/google’ not empty so not removed.
Not sure what’s going there. It has been a while. What I would have done is go to the directories there, and delete the files manually. These seems to be just cache files, not too important. Linux prevent you from deleting them so the other programs can still use the cache if needed. You should check out the google forum. I have the link on my post.
restarted machine, but still no restart icon in toolbar.
Right side of toolbar has 3 icons for processor temperatures, wired network, speaker volume (when click on it part of text is off-screen), date (again, text off-screen), but missing restart icon which used to be to the right of date.
Any suggestion for what happened to restart icon.
Thanks a lot dude did really work. I think the cache files do not matter until one is really saving space.
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https://ma65p.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/uninstall-google-desktop-on-ubuntu/
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This entry was posted in Aversions, Misogyny, Phobias, Relationships and tagged equal pay, hatred, le clown, Misogyny, sexism, violence against women. Bookmark the permalink.
We’re not all Le Clown, but some of us try!
You’re right up there, Hook!
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Did so much fun cooking last week that I got overwhelmed with the amount of pictures I needed to sort and upload and neglected the blog. I’m currently cleaning up and updating my resume to apply for jobs so this may be short in words and long in pictures, but probably not.
I know chicken wings are a pretty universally loved bar food, but I’m not frequently in the mood for them. Well, last Sunday I was hungry and really wanted cold leftover chicken drumsticks, like the kind you take on a picnic at the park in a movie from the 60’s. Sadly we had no chicken leftovers in our fridge. Now, saucy wings are good if they’re spicy. There are a couple places in Vancouver where I would get their wings. Joey’s on broadway did Frank’s hot sauce wings (and I love Frank’s), and the Roxy Burger bar downtown did amazing hot sauce wings too. But dry rub meat may be my favourite kind of meat. So I found two recipes, gave Fraser the choice and ended up working on these delicious spicy dry rub hot wings and some home-made ranch sauce (which I’ll come back to).
All you do is mix the huge variety of spices together, then lightly brush each piece of chicken with olive oil and then sprinkle and rub mixture all over the wings. When I was at the grocery store they didn’t have any of the wings that had already broken up into separate pieces and they still had all the skin on. Now I couldn’t get the skin off of the first batch (not for lack of tryign) so I just rubbed them down and put them in the oven. I now had 40 minutes of waiting for them, so I re-attempted separating skin from wings, but with scissors this time. This totally changed the game and I was easily able to get most of the skin and fat off to make them a bit healthier. And these were definitely more delicious.
Now, this healthy homemade ranch. It was really delicious, that wasn’t the issue. The issue was that at some point when reading the recipe for it, my brain vacated my head and I just got to work…not reading the serving size. When I had already mixed two of the biggest ingredients together (and being yogurt and mayonnaise I couldn’t exactly press the undo button), I looked at the amount of sauce already in the bowl and then how many more ingredients I had left and went back to the top of the recipe. Well, it serves 11. I mean: why? Who needs that much ranch sauce? It’s so much easier to increase the portions of a recipe than to decrease it. We all have our ditz moments though, and this was definitely mine. At least I made Fraser laugh. And continue laughing for the next couple nights as I tried to serve ranch with every meal. Seriously. There was so much of it. Can you see the giant bowl filled with white stuff in the bottom right photo? That’s the ranch. And some of it had already been put onto our plates and mouths during the first round of chicken. Oi.
I had known what I wanted to eat Sunday night before I’d started dreaming of wings and so I’d already procured the recipe from my mom. This is one of those recipes that is frequently seen at Reimer family functions and I’m not even sure who found it initially, my mom or my Auntie Lo. My cousin’s girlfriend Danica agrees with me that it is one of the best. It’s a Quinoa and Corn salad, but it’s so much more than that. It’s quinoa, corn, onions, red pepper, jalapeño, green onion, cilantro, chives, lime and lemon juice, salt and tabasco. It’s so fresh and crunchy and with a nice bit of spice.
Moving on. My newest obsession is the pizza maker we apparently have in the house. It’s incredible and I’d never seen or heard of one before. It’s like a panini press but the top doesn’t touch the pizza, and it cooks the pizza perfectly. The bottom doesn’t burn in order for the top to get nice and cooked. It’s lovely.
The first night we did pizza I didn’t take any photos as I didn’t realize how great this would turn out. We were both just lazy and wanted somewhat healthy pizza. But the next day we did quesadillas in it and then on Friday I did pancakes in it. Then on Saturday we did pizza again. And yesterday I cooked crepes in it. I love it. And you don’t need to oil it because it’s non-stick and it only needs a soft wipe to be cleaned. HEAVEN. My mom is already looking into how to get one.
perfect quesadillas! Thank you pizza maker!
Somewhere in between these meals we had fish tacos. I’d found a recipe for fish tacos when I first got here and had saved the recipe. Well last week the mood struck and I was ready for them. They were well worth the wait. Any kind of white fish can be used. We tried Snapper the first night and Barramundi the second. The Barramundi was a lot nicer, which we think is due to it being a fattier fish. I followed the recipe exactly except for leaving out the Mexican crema. These were phenomenal. The best part about them were the onions though. You soak thinly sliced red onion in red wine vinegar. Enough that the onions are all covered. The bite and harshness you usually get from raw red onion is taken away by the soaking in vinegar and they become a bit sweeter. And you can keep them in the fridge for up to three weeks. I think they’d be great in a sandwich or with any kind of Mexican food.
Yesterday was a long day for both me and Fraser. His car has been having issues and so he was finally able to take it to the dealership in Tweed. Yesterday was also Monday, so he had class at 9am. This meant we were up at 6:30am and out the house 7:15am. Got to the dealership and dropped off his car and then went to school. I then drove the hour home. I was busy with laundry and dishes and resume stuff, Fraser was busy in class. Then I drove back to school to pick him up and then we’re back to the dealership and then grocery shopping and then finally home at 5:30pm. Cue one ‘life-is-tough’ dramatic sigh.
So we needed something easy and comforting as we were both pretty tired. We settled on chicken burgers and potato wedges. This is my second try at rosemary and olive oil potato wedges which were a staple of my moms. And they were always perfect. ALWAYS. We have a conversation scheduled for later to discuss what kind of wizardry she performed on her potatoes. Mine just do not compare. And they’re supposed to be easy! Urgggh. Last nights were definitely better than the first round, but just not up to par.
I made a modified version of the chicken burgers I did awhile ago. Making up a light marinade of cayenne, Mexican chilli powder, lime juice, cinnamon, paprika, salt, pepper and olive oil. I did the green sauce as well but more for use on the buns themselves. I ate mine wrapped in iceberg lettuce and it definitely hit the spot.
Last Friday was Fraser’s award ceremony and we had a fantastic time. We booked a hotel called Santorini by the Sea and cabbed to the school which was about ten minutes away. The ceremony was an hour long and then we went to a reception in a hall. The reception was fantastic. They had tables of food and drinks, so we had champagne and tried at least one of everything. We stayed there for an hour or so and then ended up at the bar/restaurant at the corner up the street from our hotel. They had a live band but unlike most bars in Vancouver, they’ve figured out how to have the volume be at a level where you are still able to converse with people. A shocking and novel experience. Our little mini vacation was incredibly fun and so nice to see Fraser accepting his awards! We’re going to another ceremony tomorrow night because Fraser got the highest overall gpa in his program! Can’t believe how smart and hard-working he is…not complaining about the champagne either.
the quinoa salad comes from the rebar cookbook which Penny gave me and also Mickeys dog biscuits came from their which you and dad both tried them and gave them a thumbs up before we served them to the prince. Oh the rebar is a restaurant in Victoria which is probably Pennys fav place to go.
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A reference guide to the code generated by the protocol buffer compiler from your .proto files.
Generated API documentation for the provided source code.
Note that there are APIs for several more languages in the pipeline – for details, see the other languages wiki page.
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Amazon is expanding its Prime Now service to offer quick delivery of food from local stores in Manhattan.
Amazon (AMZN) said customers can order groceries, prepared meals and baked goods from D'Agostino, Gourmet Garage and Billy's Bakery through its Prime Now app.
Two-hour delivery is free for Prime members, while one-hour delivery in "select zip codes" costs $7.99.
The ramped-up delivery service started on Thursday in "select neighborhoods" and will be spreading through Manhattan in coming weeks, Amazon said.
The service will soon include Eataly, an upscale Italian food vendor that was victimized by a security hack earlier this year, and Westside Market, a 50-year-old chain of family-run food markets.
"Once we've packed the order, the [Amazon] delivery guys arrive, they pick up the orders, and they set sail to deliver the product," said Julie Dugas, director at Billy's Bakery, which already partners with Amazon through Amazon Fresh, a competitor to Fresh Direct.
Dugas said the system is set up so that Amazon deliveries do not interfere with in-store customers shopping at Billy's Bakery. "We have a separate area where we set the Amazon bags for pickup," she said.
Prime Now is annual membership program for $99 a year that started in 2014 and includes free two-day shipping. In addition to Manhattan, Prime Now is now available in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Baltimore, Austin, Dallas and Miami.
Amazon made the announcement just days after Walmart (WMT) unveiled, as a test for certain customers, an unlimited shipping service that is half the price of Amazon Prime.
"Customers are loving the convenience of getting super-fast delivery from their favorite local stores through Prime Now," Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Cheeseman said.
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One of my favorites too,Chris!
Me too, Danny! She captures such feeling!
You dont know how much it means to me to know you love me so much. You are perfect. I wish I could live up to all you deserve.
Sunshine, you make every day special for me! I DO love you so very much!
I'm not perfect, but it's fantastic that you think so...and you surpass all of my wants and needs...how could anyone deserve more than you?!
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Yellowstone is full of wonders. There are of course the geysers, the splendor of the morning light, and the ancient forests. There is the primeval wonder of what the forest holds. Once in a while, for a short time, the life hidden in the forests reveals itself. I learned one evening of a wolf that had taken down an elk cow and decided to catch a glimpse of such life revealed.
When I arrived on the scene, a grizzly bear had chased a wolf away from its kill. Grizzlies can smell meat from over 2 miles away. The grizzly had sprinted across the meadow, stealing the female elk away. It was enjoying fruits of the wolf’s labor. The wolf was lying in the grass, waiting, hoping to retrieve its kill.
The wolf attempted to get the carcass back, but the grizzly is much too powerful. The wolf was time and again chased away.
As the bear stood over the carcass, the wolf watched.
The bear finally said, I’m going to drag the carcass over here, and bury it. That way others won’t be able to smell it. The wolf could only watch dejectedly. Finally at dusk, the wolf wandered the six miles back to its den.
The following morning a coyote wandered onto the scene.
It too was chased away when it approached too close.
The coyote was wily indeed. Many times it circled close, and was chased away. It kept circling the area in front of the kill, and finally it found a piece it could steal. The angry bear could only watch in disgust.
For some reason the grizzly wandered up the hill for several minutes. It was the coyote’s chance to get a meal. It had the carcass all to itself for a short time.
The grizzly then returned, feeding on the carcass for a second day. By the end of this day the grizzly was blissfully full. It laid on its back, on the buried carcass, paws in the air.
On the third day a younger grizzly appeared on the scene. It too was chased away. Indulging in a carcass seems to require a lot of work.
The younger grizzly wandered across the meadow, but would eventually return.
The big grizzly, having had its fill, wandered up the hill, never to return. The younger grizzly then fed on the remnants of the carcass. The cycle of life was once more complete, and the forest would soon grow dark and secret once again.
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All three books available here at Amazon!
When private detective Rick Bailey is hired by the exotically beautiful and outrageously wealthy Princess Nora, he thinks it’ll be easy money. Escaping from her rebellion-torn kingdom, the princess has lost her handmaiden, Lores: the only person who knows how to find the hidden royal jewels.
A king, a witch, an assassin, a farmer, and a backwoodsman struggle to survive in this fantasy novella about magic, power, and family.
Can Rhiannon give up everything she’s always wanted for a destiny she never asked for?
Rhiannon is facing insurmountable challenges. In addition to gaining the trust of her mighty nation to accept her as their new empress, she must also convince them to get involved in a civil war they care nothing about.
Baobh will not be dissuaded from seeking Rhiannon’s blood. Rhiannon might be cloistered within the marble walls of Màrrach, but that won’t stop her. She will end the new empress’s life and prove the prophecy false. The throne of Beaynid is hers by right and no one will take it from her!
Flath is besieged with self-doubt. The rebellion is all but wiped out and he cannot count on the Archigos aid in their war. When a long-kept family secret is finally revealed, it changes everything!
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Bang, Martin.: Inscriptiones urbis Romae latinae.. edidit Martinus Bang. Additamentorum auctarium / Partis quartae fasciculus postremus.. Berolini 1933.
Inscriptiones urbis Romae latinae.. edidit Martinus Bang. Additamentorum auctarium / Partis quartae fasciculus postremus..
p. [v]-viii, p. -4066 ; 39 cm.
Based on copy of "Deutsches Archäologisches Institut" with corrections from copy of "American Academy of Rome"
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Our good friend Angelo Spencer just released a 7” on K Records !
“My Music is My Sweat” began with a conversation between Karl Blau and Angelo Spencer about how music is similar to body odor and, like everyone’s stench, one’s music is also unique and identifiable. Angelo’s music is as raw as sweat. Recorded in one day on one take by Karl Blau, this 7” is a puddle of twitchy urgency. Generally a one man band, this recording is fleshed out with frantic drum fills and fidgety keys by L’Orchidee d’Hawaii soon after they finished a tour with Spencer. You can buy it here.
Also make sure to check out the cool documentary Frank Sorgues did about Angelo Spencer. It’s called “A French Pal Who Lives In USA” and can be watched here.
This entry was posted in Miscellaneous and tagged angelo spencer, k records, karl blau, l'orchidee d'hawaii, songwriting is not a crime. Bookmark the permalink.
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Spreading the CAFOD love on St Valentine’s Day!
Students from St Boniface’s College get into the spirit of Valentine’s day in an array of delightful costumes including Scooby Doo, a cow and a morph suit.
Students at St Boniface’s Catholic College in Manadon Park spent the day ‘playing cupid’ for St Valentine’s Day on the 14th February, 2013 in an effort to raise as much money as possible for CAFOD. Many were seen in memorable mufti outfits as the day was enjoyed by all. Teachers were spotted wearing a pink and red heart on their clothes, whilst students chilled out in onesies, morph suits and costumes during the celebrations.
A bake sale was also arranged with heart shaped biscuits, decorated with candy stars, silver balls and hearts that went down a treat.
Students proudly display their hand-decorated heart shape biscuits, which helped raise over £1,000 for CAFOD.
Over £1000 was raised by the school – and lots of fun was had by all!
This entry was posted in Education, Fundraising and tagged advocacy, aid, aid work, CAFOD, CAFOD PLYMOUTH, fund raising, Fundraising, heart shape, Plymouth, red heart, st boniface, St Boniface’s Catholic College, st valentine, valentine s day by CAFOD Plymouth. Bookmark the permalink.
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I’m accumulator of photos. I’m interested in patterns, shapes, colors, history, and it’s change throughout time. Maybe that’s why I fixate on doors (and knobs, and windows, and floors/roofs, and…).
I’ll let my photos speak.
This is my favorite. Which one’s yours?
Ok, not a door. Still love it.
Yeah, I should have posted a long time ago about Cartagena, Colombia, but life happens… So better (a little) late than much later, plus- its nice to revisit Cartagena and sift through the many photos I have.
Cartagena was a last minute plan, and for a family of parents, teens and grandparents, I was worried that it’ll get boring after a few days, but connecting my imagination along with my good friends: Tripadvisor, Lonely Planet Guide, and some googling, I built a blueprint that would work for us all.
As a general rule, I always seek to find activities that involve the local community and encourages sustainable tourism, while trying to leave a minimal environmental and social footprint.
Without further ado, here are my recommendations for Cartagena, especially during Christmas.
The best would be… by foot. Not only is it free, but losing yourself by walking in the smallest alleys, allow you to discover the old beauty of Spanish colonial old city, the crumbling walls, the wide variety of door knockers, the colorful graffitis in Getsemani, the vibrant dresses of the fruit basket ladies- Las Palenqueras, and that’s just the feast for your eyes, not to mention sounds and real tastes that you may find. Going further to other neighborhoods, use a local taxi- they are cheap and convenient. Also- read about the tours we took to really go out the beaten track.
Beautiful ladies of Cartagena, Las Palenqueras. Don’t take a photo without buying a fruit. Fruits are yummy, cheap, and you’ll be helping by paying.
Deteriorating buildings are so beautiful. Be sure to look up.
Responsible Tourism is, among other things, to be aware and have meaningful connections with local people, and a greater understanding of local cultural, social and environmental issues. That’s the kind of travel we usually try to conduct. That is why we chose to experience a few tours with these companies, which allowed us to be exposed to local traditions, away from the beaten path, while supporting locals by spending our $$. This was a win-win.
We toured with Alex Rocha of Experience the Real Cartagena in the further neighborhoods of Cartagena, learning of the zones system, that reflects the different poverty stages. Alex explained about life in Cartagena, and it’s historical aspect dating back to the afro-Colombians, brought in as slaves. We got to talk and dance with the locals (remember, it’s Christmas time, and locals are eating and dancing in the streets). We visited the colorful Bazurto Market and tasted different fruits and juices, and bought a local hat (this IS the place for cheap buys). . We ended up in Alex’s neighborhood, and were invited to his home, where we met his beautiful family, and his wife made us an amazing lunch. We enjoyed so much, that we took Alex again to the Aviary (the wonderful relaxing bird reserve) and Playa Blanca, while visiting a small fishermen village on the way.
Be aware, Playa Blanca is full of vendors trying to sell, sell, sell. I suggest you walk all the way to the far right, as you enter the beach, to get away, as much as possible from the crowds.
Two more tours were exceptionally joyful, and those were led by Lorena Salgado of Insider, who’s an ethical travel company, that gives back to the community. We took their Africa in America tour. We visited the village of San Basilio de Palenque, where we met and learned about the Palenqueros, who were the first free Africans in America. In this village, they are the only ones in the world speaking Spanish-Bantú, and they have maintained their musical traditions, mainly the Champeta. We met with music legend Rafael Cassiani, who was born in the Palanque, and started his Champeta musical career there. Of course we feasted on a traditional Palenque lunch served on banana leaves. Later that day, we visited San Jacinto, which is the small village of knitting crafters.
The other tour we took with Lorena of Insider, was the evening Salsa tour, where we hopped from one salsa club to the other. It was amazing, as we didn’t only get to watch and dance to the Salsa beats, but learn of how the Salsa came to be, it’s historical and cultural connections to present times and to the people of Cartagena. It was one of the highlights of our Cartagena visit. Highly recommended!!
Top left: statue of a man breaking free from his chains and reaching out for his motherland, West Africa. This is the statue of Benkos Bioho, San Basilio de Palenque founder. Bottom left: hair braiding goes far beyond a hairstyle- it was used by Palenque’s slaves to braide intricate maps and codes. Today it’s a social gathering- kind of a street spa.
Cafe Stepping Stones. We loved their breakfast and coffee. Also love the idea that they are partners of not-for-profit foundation, FEM, who focus on sustainable local projects.
Moshi. Though in local terms, this would be an expensive restaurant, relatively to NY it is so reasonably priced, and yet, the service, food, tastes and look of the dishes, are so attentive and delicious. They even surprised us with little dish samples that they shared with us. It is so good, we went there twice! Highly recommended.
Ganesha. Loved this little place in Getsemani, quiet with good, tasty small plates of Indian food, when you had enough of plantains and arepa 🙂 Loved having chai, or cold lassi, as well as some Indian delights.
Caffe Lunatico. Ate here twice, great ambiance, food, and selections of wines. Tasty, unique food, good professional service, in Getsemani.
For kids- Choco Museum. We left our 3 teens for the chocolate workshop, for a little over 2 hours. They had so much fun, learning and creating with chocolate. They took samples back, and we all enjoyed tasting.
For adults- El Rincon De Getsemani. As we lazily strolled in Getsemani during the evening, we heard live music emerging behind a door. We hesitantly opened the door, and peeked inside, just to warmly be invited inside. Oh wow- a band of at least 8 musicians played the salsa, and folks were dancing enthusiastically. We joined. We came back another evening (without kids), and had so much fun learning some basic salsa steps by nice locals. This is a local salsa club, didn’t see any tourists there. Get a glass of beer and enjoy trumpets and salsa.
Hotel Capellan. Beautiful rooftop, nice little chilling pools, and some nice views from the roof. Grab a beer and ceviche, and relax. Everyday they had an afternoon tea time served with cakes- complimentary. Conveniently located in Getsemani, in walkable distance from the walled city.
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You guys remember Batty, he's been in two comics before, this one and this one. He's a real guy and everything. When we play "Whose Countrymen Are More Annoying" I usually win the patriotism round and he usually wins the sports round. Apparently, getting drunk on public transportation at nine thirty in the morning is perfectly normal on game days in Germany.
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In the earliest days of Isaac's diagnosis, there would be a certain point at which the specialist would stop and say, in a tone meant to comfort us, "but, you know, he's very high-functioning."
And I'd glance at J., and he'd look off into the distance for a split-second, and in that moment a whole spectrum of feelings would flit across his face: relief, resignation, hope, fear, irritation. I knew what he was thinking: we'd won the diagnostic equivalent of a consolation prize.
What does it mean?, we'd wonder aloud to each other. We knew what it was supposed to mean: Isaac had [emerging] language. He had [some] eye contact. He didn't have an awful lot of rigidity, sensory defensiveness or stereotypical behaviors, beyond occasional hand-flapping and a lifetime membership, when excited, in The Ministry of Silly Walks. In short, we were being told, we weren't that far off Normal.
"So," we'd wonder aloud, trying to narrow things down a bit, "does that mean you think he'll be mainstreamed? have friends? live independently? be loved? What are we talking about here?"
But they could never answer.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, especially as we draw closer to the Rubicon of Kindergarten and the One-Way Trip to Real School. Where children begin to develop far more sophisticated social barometers: who's In and who's Out. Who's Cool and who's Weird. And, beyond that, there is homework, and there are expectations, and there are more and more statistical norms, and tests, and expanses of unstructured time when he will have to eat and play and figure out social cues and fend for himself.
Recently, a friend said to me that she thinks that the really high-functioning kids, the ones who are just slightly different, have the hardest time of it, because as they grow they are met with a constant barrage of expectations that they don't know how to navigate. I don't know that I agree with her, especially having seen so many children with autism who struggle simply to stay regulated from one moment to the next. It's got to be completely physically overwhelming and exhausting.
"Remember that when they attack someone you are not, they are not attacking you. They are just attacking something they think is you, an illusion in their heads."
Are those the words of someone with "low function?" Hell no. I am writing those words down now because I know that some day in the not-too-distant future, I will need them for Isaac. And for that, I thank Amanda, a thousand times over.
"Many times, when I am down or sad about Miss M's challenges, I realize that I am looking at her through my lens - what my experiences were, what made me happy - and it does not reconcile because she, blessedly, is her own person. We have to change the expectations and look at things from a new angle. And that, my friends, is her gift to me."
Drama, thanks for that. And pass the glasses.
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I like to wander, particularly when I am somewhere new and I want to learn about it. I like to immerse myself in the culture of a community, to learn how the natives live, and to blend in as much as possible. So, with that philosophy, I went about finding the places the people of Brussels frequent, the back-alley, ancient pubs people have been drinking in since before the United States existed. My scouring of these back-alleys is how I came to drink in the 400-year-old bar called Au Bon Vieux Temps (which roughly translates to ‘in the good old days’).
This place is the real deal. You don’t get more authentic than this hidden gem. To find it you have to be very lucky. First you have to be patient enough to check the myriad alleys that are around every corner and in odd places. These alleys – sometimes barely wide enough for one person to fit down – are everywhere. And, in my limited experience in Belgium, the absolute best bars are located down these alleys. All you have to do is wander down them.
Now, I know what you are thinking, is it safe? Actually, surprisingly enough, it is. The alleys are clean, well lit, and only marginally scary looking.
Au Bon Vieux Temps is nestled in the corner of one of these alleys. I almost passed it because a sign on the door mentioned something that my very poor French translated as bathrooms outside or something of that sort. I actually thought that it was a bathroom or storage room of some sort. But, being the intrepid soul I am, I pulled on the door and revealed a beer-lover’s wonderland.
The interior of this paradise is warm, rich wood paneling complimented by copper and brass coat hooks and antiques lining a shelf just below the ceiling. Above the paneling the walls are painted a mustard yellow (dark mustard, not French’s mustard) and a large wooden bar forms an “L” shape to the left. A large fireplace complete with ancient and ornate coal heater sits just past the bar. On one wall a wooden carving of a pontiff looks down upon the happy patrons and on another a wooden Madonna surveys all. But, most impressive of all, are the stained glass windows. On the wall facing out to the alley are two windows, artistic mosaics of bubbled clear glass, and colored squares. On another wall is a window depicting a knight and maiden in stunning color and artistry.
Breathtaking as the bar itself is, it is the people the make this bar so enjoyable to visit. As I sat at the bar sipping my first beer in this heaven-on-Earth – a Corsendonk Blond – a wonderfully colorful woman came over and began talking to me in French. When I said I spoke very little French she effortlessly switched to English and asked if I was American. We began a conversation which soon revealed her to be the current owner of the establishment, Marie, and an invitation to sit at her table with her and her friends. I was introduced Etiennne, a judge in Brussels, and Robert, a banker. Thus began an evening of stories, drinking, and laughter that is one of my fondest memories from Brussels. In the good old days, indeed.
Colorful local characters came and went as we sat and talked about American, Belgium, the state of the world, philosophy, and gutter humor. My hostess insisted I be treated as an honored guest and my other two companions proceeded to suggest beers for me to try. After several awe-inspiring beers, Marie asked if I had ever drunk a Westvleteren 12. She must have seen the look in my eyes because she immediately disappeared into the cellar behind the bar and emerged with a plain brown bottle. Channel, the bartender that evening opened the bottle, presented me with the cap, and poured the deep brown liquid into the appropriate glass. This beer is widely considered one of the best and rarest in the world. It is extraordinary Trappist quad-style beers treasured for its ability to age and deepen in flavor. In order to get this beer one has to travel to the Trappist monastery where it is brewed – by invitation only – and hope that they have some that they will sell you. Many people make the trek only to return empty-handed.
Marie brought the beer to me and insisted I try it right away. I sniffed the thick head that formed at the top of the glass and smelled dark fruits – figs, plums, spices, caramel, and alcohol. The first sip was an explosion of sweet maltiness, spices, and a hint of oak. This was a truly great beer, one that I can easily say well remain burnished in my mind forever.
Around 11:00 PM, Marie announced that it was a slow evening and that the pub was closing. I gathered my scarf and coat and began making my goodbyes when Etienne suggested we all go to another pub for some food and more drink. So, the night continued with my new friends. They kept ordering food and beer until the early hours of the morning. When it was finally time to leave Etienne and Robert escorted me to the Metro station, made sure I got on the correct train and told which stop to get off at. Later, as I walked through the door of my hotel, Etienne called to make sure I had made it without incident.
The people of Brussels are gracious, friendly, and generous. I felt as if I were a visiting dignitary during my visit at the Au Bon Vieux Temps. My new friends Marie, Etienne, and Robert will always occupy a place in my recollection as wonderful and kind people, people who were truly and genuinely interested in me, people who were the very epitome of perfect hosts and hostesses.
Corsendonk Blond — Full-bodied, blonde top-fermented beer, bubbly beer with a herbal bouquet and hoppy aftertaste.
Rochefort 8 – Very dark brown with yeast visibly floating in the glass after the pour. This is a very sweet, malty beer with a slightly bitter finish.
Kasteel Donker – Another dark beer, this one with a reddish tint to it. A hint of raisins and prunes on the nose reveals a sweet malty, beer with notes of the same dark fruits.
Malheur — Rich, dark colored beer, with a wonderful hoppy, floral nose and well-balanced flavors, makes it easy to drink. Nuts, honey, and rum flavors from the brown candy sugar used in brewing. The aftertaste is bitter-sweet, long and warm.
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My Christmas gift for the day is to wake up to a clean house. Granted, it was one I gave myself -- with a ton of work over the past few days, and the sore muscles to prove it -- but waking up to find the dining room and living room clean... really clean... cleaner than they've probably been since we moved in, is a nice treat.
Kitchen + bathrooms tonight, and my parents arrive tomorrow, to see our house in Boston for the first time.
Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the useful hacking you do.
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I've been writing this story for over a year, and it's dragged on but it's finally finished - woo! I've waited to post it here until it was done. It's posted on ff.net and it's far too long to transfer over to here, so it's just a link to the story below.
Warnings: cliches. So many cliches. And LOADS of fluff.
Summary: "I know that this sounds like the beginning of a really bad romantic comedy, but my sister's getting married next week and I was wondering if you'd go with me to the wedding and pretend to be my girlfriend?"
Warning: See word count above. In fact, I'm having to post this in two lots because it's so stupidly long.
You cannot understand how happy I am to have finally finished this. It's taken over my life for the past month.
Summary: An anomaly alert in Norway means that Jess has to join the soldiers in the field, something that Captain Becker is not happy about. Jess is determined to prove herself, but it's easier said than done.
A/N - This is a Holiday Exchange present for seren_ccd and is already late because I'm useless and have also been very busy over the Christmas period... but mostly useless. Proof of said uslessness is that this massive chunk of story is only half of the finished product - I'm still working on the second part and should get it posted either tomorrow night or, by the latest, Saturday morning. I'm very very sorry for the delay!!
Also, I don't know how this story got so long, I really don't. It's insane. It just keeps growing and growing and I can't stop it. So I also apologise that you have to read this behemoth!
I'm not going to post the prompt until the end of the story because it would totally give away what happens in it. This part is very much setting up the second part.
I'm going to shut up now because y'all have enough to read below as it is!!
Summary: It's New Year's Eve on Atlantis, and John's tired of being a coward. Problem is it's hard to find the words.
I can't quite believe I've written this. It's just so.... fanfiction-y. Like seriously, something I would have written when I was 14. The problem is I think of John and Teyla every single time I hear the song 'Higher Window' by Joshua Groban - every single time. And I had to do something with it... and unfortunately I don't have the time to make a video right now. But I probably will at some point because it is just the perfect song. Here's a link to it on youtube if you've never heard it.
Anyway, here's the story - enjoy. And happy new year everybody!
Summary: Set about five/ten minutes after the end of the Christmas Special, Cora is getting ready for bed when Robert bursts into her room with something to share.
Summary: Nothing is more entertaining to Matt than Becker trying to ignore his feelings for Jess... and things become a lot more entertaining when she starts spending time with a handsome young ARC recruit.
I started writing this months ago, but it’s been languishing in my Primeval folder with the (quick count...) ten other Becker/Jess stories that I’ve started and have yet to complete. I was trying to work on Just Pretend today but have really bad writer’s block, so I turned to this one instead. It’s a silly little fluff piece from Matt’s POV – I hope you like it!
Summary: When Becker calls in sick one day, Jess knows that he's hiding something. She's very surprised to find out just what it is.
Summary: Becker and Jess watch some Disney. Becker doesn't know how to shut up.
This is a birthday present for yappichick, who has just discovered Primeval and Becker/Jess, and who I know seriously loves the film Tangled... I hope you like my attempt to combine the two! I hope you're having a lovely day.
By the way, I'm not happy with the title - I just didn't know what else to call it!
Summary: Becker happens upon a 10-year-old girl who has come through an anomaly. The catch is, this little girl is going to grow up to become a certain field coordinator... that is, if he can get her home in time and in one piece.
Well, here’s part two, as promised. It’s quite long (TWSS), but I hope you likes it. It’s almost midnight now so the next part won’t be up until tomorrow. Sorry!
I’ve been writing this for a couple of weeks, and it just keep growing and growing and growing. I’m going to post it over three parts. Part two is almost done, and part three is started, so I’m hoping to get it all posted today, and if not today definitely tomorrow.
Okay, I am attempting to post this entire story through my phone - writing it out and posting through my new LJ app. I haven't quite figured it out yet so I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up posted on the wrong comm and with no tags- sorry if it does! If it needs to be drastically altered I'm really not going to be able to edit it until very late tonight, just to warn you!
Word count: no idea, I typed this straight into my phone!
Summary: The team are out for a day in the park, but Becker isn't enjoying himself, and Jess can't figure out why.
God I hope that cut worked!!
SPOILERS this is my take on what the spoilers for the end of season 3 might mean, so there are definite POTENTIAL SPOILERS within. However, it is all pure speculation on my part, so probably safe to read if you're mostly unspoiled. But you have been warned.
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2019-04-26T03:54:24Z
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I am officially graduated from college! I finished my last two courses on August 15th. It took me 4 years and one term to complete college. I think I had an okay experience. I never lived in the dorms. I moved into an apartment a month after graduating from high school. My boyfriend moved in with me as well. I didn’t join a sorority and I didn’t go to a lot of parties. I got a job a month before starting college and kept the same job throughout. I did start to struggle between work and school around my sophomore year and my grades started to decline. I decided to work fewer hours and to only work Friday-Sunday. This helped me manage my school work a lot better, but in turn, I had no social life on the weekends. I didn’t mind that much.
I do think I learned so much and am so grateful that I was able to go and get a degree in something that I am passionate about which is journalism. Right now I don’t have much experience at all and I have no job lined up. I feel very stressed because I don’t want to be in retail anymore. I have worked retail for the last four years and it has taught me a lot and I have grown from the experience, but I think it is time to try something else. I just don’t know what that something is. My boyfriend and I are moving back to the town we came from to be closer to our families but there are not many job opportunities there for my field. I hope I will be able to do some freelancing to get started and hope that it brings in more options for work.
I guess this post is just a journal entry about my life at the moment and how I am feeling.
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2019-04-22T10:09:37Z
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< One a penny, two a penny…my best hot cross buns yet…….
thank you, I love using lots of colours together like this.
Sending Bernard lots of hugs and kisses for his birthday. His rug looks wonderful. Hugs to you too.
A quick comment to check all is well with you as you haven’t blogged for a while…..hopefully it’s due to you being busy with all things fabric and yarny.
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2019-04-23T04:40:29Z
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At short notice it turns out that I will be in Warsaw in a week. Are there any pre-paid sim card plans available at kiosks that are a good value? I'm not looking for anything fancy just a low rate card to make calls within Poland and back to the U.S.
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2019-04-19T12:28:13Z
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April | 2015 | ?! &/or !?
I obey her instructional misfire, and I loose feeling apologetically, in a region that simulates the conscience, but I monitor this grip onto an idea of waiting, and I standardize purity, though I can’t disown repetitive illness, yet I track hair fondling, and I proceed with most of these culturally enforced activities, while I browse the remaining horror, and I lie to my deficit, though I journaled that prickly substance off the radar, and I value an overcast ceiling, but I go fast, in order to learn stopping habits, and I embroil dreams with ambivalence, while I treat her to more of the same, yet I will orient unknowables towards glory, and I pick up litter occasionally.
I view myself, repeating it’s prescribed aura within this befuddlement of endless cafe mannerisms, yet I hinge judgements on a lottery, and I cannot pause the avalanche of gigabyte motivated intimacy, but I imaginarily pick charcoal, to lightly render an altar getting demolished with care, by schizophrenic union workers, and I go places where she might be, while I find new gimmicky items in my cart symbol, blinking at me, from the top right, and I recycle her quickly edited film trailer of not so casual expressions, but I anchor mishaps, and I have an unsustainable liking of junkyards.
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2019-04-19T12:31:12Z
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Weave iconography, typography, color, space, and texture together to help our users successfully navigate our products.
Use motion design to help tell a product’s story, guide our users, improve usability, and make our users’ experiences responsive and fun.
Transform complex tasks into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use designs for everyone, from first-time users to experts.
Research and create understanding of what makes user experiences intuitive, accessible, and magical.
Craft natural, inspiring language to create engaging user experiences on the web, on mobile devices, and beyond.
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↑ "The Physiology of the Senses: Balance" (PDF).
↑ "The Otolith Organs: The Utricle and Sacculus". NCBI Bookshelf - Neuroscience.
↑ "Vertigo". University of Maryland Medical Center. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2015-11-13.
↑ Rossmeisl, John (2010). "Vestibular Disease in Dogs and Cats". Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice. 40 (1): 80–100. doi:10.1016/j.cvsm.2009.09.007.
↑ Straube, A.; Leigh, R. J.; Bronstein, A.; Heide, W.; Riordan-Eva, P.; Tijssen, C. C.; Dehaene, I.; Straumann, D. (2004). "EFNS task force - therapy of nystagmus and oscillopsia" (PDF). European Journal of Neurology. 11: 83–89. doi:10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00754.x. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2012-05-06.
↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 Augustine, James R. (2008). 13.13. EXAMINATION OF THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM. Human Neuroanatomy. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp. 233–234. ISBN 978-0-12-068251-5.
หน้านี้แก้ไขล่าสุดเมื่อวันที่ 9 กรกฎาคม 2561 เวลา 17:19 น.
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three different endings. contains swearing.
I enjoyed this game. It was touching, in an odd way. You said you’re not talented, but I don’t think that’s true. Keep at it.
YOU ARE NOT A TREE I AM NOT YET HA HE HA!!!
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2019-04-18T10:24:55Z
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April 15th....hopefully you've mailed off your tax returns and can turn your attention back to the important things in life....like your ART!
Welcome to the first week of the Collage LAB companion. If you don't own a copy of Collage Lab you might want to get yourself one. Collage Lab ( can be found here on Amazon or at your favorite bookseller). Otherwise what we say here might not make a lot of sense!
The intention of this blog is to be an interactive meeting place for those of you who have picked up a copy of my book and want more....more ideas, more results and more experiments to play with.
I am a teacher first and an artist second. There is more joy in my world when lighting the fuse that ignites the spark than any piece of personal work could ever bring to me. So you, dear reader, it's on you. I light the flame but it's up to you to keep it burning.
Post your comments, email me photos of your work and join our on line exchanges so that you can share your results with others walking through the pages on our journey together. EMAIL photos and links to bee.shay@hotmail.com.
Collage LAB is designed to be used over the course of a year (52 UNITS- 12 Chapters). It's also designed so that the units are interdependent on one another...they do not need to be worked in any specific order but here on the blog we will start at the beginning and work through to the end.
1) There will be monthly giveaways (and sometimes more often,time allowing) of original art from the book, cds of my favorite music and a few surprises here and there.
2) Play the game, "WHERE IN THE WORLD IS COLLAGE LAB?" - find a copy of the book at your local book store (chains or independents), library, someone reading it or yourself working with it!! Photograph it and send it along to enter in to the drawing for a collage kit of hand made papers, old documents and such lovely things to work with you can't even begin to imagine!
3) On-line exchanges that will invite you to share first hand your results using ATCs and postcards. Think of all that mail art! Much more fun than bills in your mailbox.
4) On-line classes will be offered here from time to time beginning May 15 for a small fee...stay tuned for more information!
5) Who's been blogging? I've begun to become aware that there are people out there blogging about using the book so PLEASE, if you know someone have them send me a link to post or send it to me yourself! It's fun to see just how travelled we are!
6) BUT - MOST importantly, you'll find a nuturing environment to spread your wings, test the water and learn how to play again.
So join the fun....share your successes AND the ways that you found didn't work (we never say fail here).
Tune in on every Friday morning (starting tomorrow)for the newest LAB, more information and ideas and opportunities to share with the online community.
In the meantime....for TODAY, compose a comment to be eligible for this blog's FIRST give away....a free copy of COLLAGE LAB.
Now OFF WITH YOU....go to your studio or workspace, where ever you work and MAKE SOMETHING!
ps.....I wouldl like to take this opportunity to thank each of the 20 wonderful artists who gave their talents to this book to create the chapter headers and complete the gallery. You will find links to all of their sites on the left hand side of this blog....give them a visit and a shout and let them know just how beautiful their work is. I am a very lucky woman to be in such good company.
Oh, darlin' Bee, this is going to be such FUN!
What a fantastic idea Bee! You inspire in so many ways. I already have your wonderful book -- pre-ordered. And I look forward to following along here.
Hi, Bee. Congratulations on launching the blog. What a treat! And what a wonderful gathering place this is going to be for all collage enthusiasts.
When we can shake ourselves free from our lab work (grin) Kay and I will definitely be popping in here. This is going to be great fun.
Wait, where can I get my copy!
I'm so glad you e-mailed otherwise I would not have known about this wonderful lab and your new book (I just ordered it). I'm finally beginning to dabble in the studio again. This was just what I needed and will give me a great start.
WOWZER - I love the site, Bee. You opened so many doors to me at ArtFest and for that, I am very grateful.
What a wonderful and generous idea this blog is! I look forward to doing the exercises, and would love a chance to win the book!!
VERY much looking forward to trading Art in the mail and seeing everyones creations.
So glad to see you 'got off the beach'! So great seeing you in Port Townsend - LOVE your book!!!
This is such a cool idea - to have a companion blog and projects! Very exciting and if I don't win the copy I'll definately be ordering it!
visit the blog of me. thank you!
He also leads a bulletin pilgrimage to the cemetery in Holtville, where he brings flowers and wood crosses to honor dead border crossers.
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This is such a handy product to have. I only need one actual electrical plug now and I can charge 5 devices at once, all on top of my desk. This takes up way less room than five individual chargers and is a lot better than having all these devices with no charge all at once. With more and more products coming with the USB chargers now, it only makes sense to have one of these awesome, fast charging, chargers. I have one upstairs and one downstairs and this one is amazing. I love how easy it is to now charge everything. Also, it is a lot easier than trying to use the ports on my laptop to charge everything, as I often don’t sit still with it. This charger can just sit on my desk top and do it’s thing, without interrupting me, should I decide to up and move. I haven’t found any of my devices that this charger doesn’t work with. It is great! I received this product in exchange for my honest opinion.
I really get tired of either having cold fingers (which hurts due to arthritis, more so than normal people) or having to pull off my gloves to answer a phone call or text someone. These gloves solve that problem right away. My hands are warm and cozy and I can still answer the phone when someone calls! No more missed calls and no more cold hands. These look great too, which is a plus because I have seen some that weren’t that pretty, but I got the grey and pink ones and they look wonderful! I have washed these and they wash well and come out the same as the went in, no shrinking at all! They feel really good against your skin too, the material just feels awesome. They are well made and of good quality materials too. I received this product in exchange for my honest opinion.
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2019-04-20T20:35:44Z
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WiFi – in today’s world it’s an oxygen. Many of us can stay without food and oxygen but not without WiFi.
Forgetting the meaning of living a life in peace. Recently I moved to new place due to my husband’s work profile. In the mode of settlement for the first time we were without internet connection for approximately 1.5 months.
Though had a mobile data but then it could be used in a limited manner. Though beginning was difficult without it but I somehow started liking the absence of internet. Though often in the evening when my husband returned from office used to feel restless without internet and I on the other hand wished for no internet connection.
As after long time got a chance to spend quality time with my partner, we had something to talk with each other. Played games after long time. Laughed together. Though I was missing FaceTime with my mother and WordPress.
This 1.5 months without WiFi gave me a whole new life. Freedom from the prison of addiction and saw life beyond internet.
Could hear the breeze of air, completed reading my novel. Enjoyed my favourite activity of spending time with myself.
I wish we all free ourselves from the knots of addiction and live life in peace and silence.
Truly limiting the life with internet will add beautiful years to our life. We could see a whole new world with our beautiful eyes.
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I agree with this, without internet we feel like we are having more time.
True. I mean, I recently discovered I had siblings. Imagine?!
Beautiful. I often am so busy I dont have time for internet, and i love it. I really hard to watch how much i spent on it and i have felt the benefit of being on the internet less so refreshing and i achieve more.
So true! We all need to “unplug” from the web once in a while, to re-connect with Life! Great Post!
how true this is! Once in a while we need to switch off from the virtual world. It’s an irony though that the same wifi keeps the whole world in a loop. As you said it’s a package deal. We will all eventually learn to strike a balance.
Thank you and yes very soothing and peaceful.
Yeah, especially if you are a tech geek!
It is the best time when there would be no WiFi and we can completely be to ourselves and have the time of our lives. A great inspiring and well written post, Tanvir. One needs to switch off and have our Me Time too.
Ya true Kamal. Thank you once again.
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2019-04-18T20:26:29Z
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#Microblog Mondays 2: Quiet Happy.
I have been getting up a half hour earlier every day to write in my journal – even if it’s just a word or two – for a month now. Even on the days where it feels like I have little to say, the experience of it has been so good for me.
In the years of fertility treatments, where we were hoping against all odds to have a baby, the silence of my house mocked me; a reminder of how much I longed to be a parent and how scared I was that it wouldn’t happen. I avoided it at all costs; listened to music, talked over it, moved through it too quickly.
Now, my favorite part of journaling in the early mornings is that stillness. On most days, it infuses in me a quiet happy which I can use as an antidote to the stress of the day.
I love starting out my day communing with quiet words, coffee, and the sunrise.
Thank you for all the support – it was a little scary, yesterday, to publish my idea. Because it’s so tenuous.
I’m not SURE I want to teach, but I have an IDEA I want to teach. Very hard to throw that idea out into the universe when it’s not a real formulated plan.
That said, I DO need a plan if this is something I want to pursue.
The first obstacle is schooling if I want to be licensed to teach in public education. In Massachusetts the requirements for obtaining an initial license is that I complete an “Educator Preparation Program.” There are lots of flavors of this which I have spent time researching.
I could do an immersion program – teach AND do classes at the same time, which would be incredibly hard to balance as a mother.
I could do a masters program – there are many schools in the area, which have myriad options. Full time, part time, etc. I like this option; there’s a program which would ask only a weekend a month for me for a year and a half and then a student teaching assignment.
I would like to get my license to teach in the public schools. Mostly because I don’t want to limit myself to only charter or private schools.
But it requires an investment of time and money. Which I would wholeheartedly pursue if I KNEW my vocation was a teacher – that is, if it wasn’t just an idea.
I just don’t know. I need to get into a classroom and see if I like it, or see how the education system works and whether I think I can handle the specific pressure on educators.
And so I don’t think I’m in a place to move on this right now.
The way I look at it, maybe I need to substitute teach*, or volunteer at the school, or work for a non-profit in education. Or maybe I start at a private school/charter school and go from there.
I don’t think it’s a bad idea to change careers, reinvent myself, at age 40. It WOULD be a bad idea for me to do it without really KNOWING that this is something I want to do.
Really, the bottom line is that I don’t want to waste money on a degree if it’s not going to make me happy.
All careers have pros and cons. I might not like the work I am doing now, but I make good money and it’s relatively flexible. I often cannot imagine doing this for the next 10, 20 years, but I KNOW this career.
It’s possible it might be better to stay where I am right now, too.
So I will continue to research. And when Owen starts kindergarten next week, I’ll talk to his teacher about volunteering in his class, and see if the principal would be interested in me volunteering in other classrooms, too. Maybe I’ll see what’s involved with being a substitute and whether it’s something I can commit to when I don’t have an active work project.
As much as I want to MOVE on this right now, I know I need to be practical and smart and make sure I know that this is the right choice for me.
*Because, seriously. If you are a substitute teacher, you see the worst of kids. Sometimes the best. But the worst, too. If you can survive running the substitute teacher gauntlet and STILL want to teach, maybe that’s a vocation. At least, that’s what I figure.
Owen and I took a road trip last week to visit my sister and other assorted friends and family. And, like most things, conversations turned to work and career and balancing all of it, especially as parents of young children. Even my retired aunt and uncle talked about how hard they thought balancing parenting and work is for everyone now (especially with the DC traffic – holy crap I do NOT know how people sit in that traffic day in and day out!).
In the context of these conversations, I found myself talking with everyone about the positives of my working experience. And it struck me one afternoon: I actually kind of LIKE my job.
It’s true: I don’t love being an accountant.
But I do love my current work SITUATION.
Because it’s flexible. I have one client through the rest of the year. Which means I can structure my work weeks the way I want them. I have been working 2 days a week in July, a few hours here and there from home, and therefore haven’t been stuck in the car for three hours a day, 4 days a week.
I am able to take a week off, like last week, at sort of a moment’s notice. Without needing to apply for vacation time.
I love that about my job. I love that I am in charge of when and how the day to day tasks get done.
Of course, there’s times I am needed onsite, and days where I have my work reviewed and come away shaking my head and feeling like a loser and a failure. And the mornings where I have a 9am meeting and therefore HAVE to get on the road at 7:15 at the LATEST because otherwise I’d be too late and miss it.
And then there are the days where the sheer drudgery of doing a job I don’t love makes me loathe to do anything at all. Where I spend the hour and a half drive home cycling through a list of careers and wondering if any of them might actually make me happy.
For years now, I’ve spent countless hours thinking about what kind of career might make me happy. If you added up all the time and energy I’ve spent on it, it probably adds up to weeks of my life of thinking about what my ideal career would be.
All that time spent ruminating – and I’m no closer to an answer.
I’m 37 years old and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
I’ve been trash talking being an accountant now, for, what, 10 years? I don’t love it. I don’t like talking about it with people, because they assume I’m good at math (and trust me, I’m NOT. I rely heavily on my calculator!) and am one of those “finance people” who has no personality or communication skills.
And there is always a part of me, deep inside, that wants to cry to these people who think I’m great at math and don’t have a personality or communication skills: But I love to write! And read! I was an English major and I played the clarinet and I have actually cried from the beauty of a piece of music!
The fact is, I AM an accountant. An accountant who blogs and reads and cries when she hears beautiful music.
I envy the Steve Jobs of the world; the people who knew exactly what they were meant to do and do it every day with passion. One of my best friends in college was like that: she knew from the moment she graduated high school that she was going to be a landscape architect. And damn if she doesn’t own her landscape architect business now. She loves what she does, and I often wish I had a career I could focus on with similar passion.
I don’t. But I don’t HATE my profession, either. In fact, I love it right now: Love it for the flexibility, for the freedom to work as little or as much as I want to. I love that I can work from home without having to explain myself. I love that the quality of my work is what’s judged, not the time I spend in the office. I love that it changes and moves and I have to stay on top of changes and figure stuff out on my own.
I love that I can take a week and do a road trip with my fast-maturing 5 year old in the summer before he starts school. I love that I can take him to dentist appointment and swim lessons and have family dinners ready and be able to run miles without having to worry about fitting it all in. I love that when he’s sick (or I am, since I have strep), I can adjust my schedule and not worry about long term career effects.
And you know. Maybe it’s GOOD that I don’t love my job. Because this way, I can be around for my family and run and cook and travel and do things I enjoy, instead of having a single-minded focus on my career, my passion.
And I’m now starting to wonder if my definition of “doing great work” has been too limited. Maybe doing great work, for me, means making sure that Jeff, Owen, and I have dinner together nearly every night. Maybe it means that I keep myself healthy and fit and mentally clear by running long distances. Maybe it’s about having the space and time to blog regularly, cook healthy meals, raise a happy child and have a happy marriage and life.
Maybe that’s enough, and I can stop wasting my energy on trying to figure out the career which Steve Jobs said I should find.
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When launching a new product or service, the selling organization must have the time and incentive to go slowly and learn as much about the prospects and their challenges as they do about the new offering.
Early in the cycle, not only must the salesperson provide the right product information, but customers must feel they have the right information. That involves establishing trust and demonstrating a deep understanding of the customer’s challenges. Later in the cycle, the salesperson must help the customer understand, assess, and manage the risks and the people issues associated with change. Too few companies help salespeople learn to do this.
Sales teams would be better off spending their time developing a psychological profile of the ideal customer. What traits suggest that a prospect might be willing to adopt a new way of doing business? What behavioral clues signal that he or she is serious about making a purchase rather than simply learning about a new technology? Does the prospect’s organizational culture support learning and change? For prospects who best fit the profile, the sales team should map out all the steps that will need to be taken—and all the people who will need to be met. This exercise is creative in nature, because the goal is to envision what should be new and different in the sales process.
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http://www.petticoated.com Petticoat Discipline Quarterly (which is updated monthly). A great free site for real life accounts of enforced petticoating to subjugate the male. Do not miss the past issues and archive sections listed towards the bottom of thehome page.
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Because there is such a great selection, I divided out the Wolf and Fox Neckties and Bear Neckties on their own pages.
Because there is such a great selection, I divided out the Wolf and Fox Neckties and Bear Neckties on their own page.
Moose and Bison T-shirts and Squirrel T-shirts.
There are also pens and magnets for many of these animals.
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Vagrant Story is an Action RPG released on the PlayStation that resembled the pacing and design of an adventure movie.
Vagrant Story mixes gameplay and cut-scenes together seamlessly and creates a very cinematic experience. All of this is done in real time and you are constantly engaged in the adventure. You will be hooked in by the great sense of atmosphere and suspense that the setting of Leá Monde creates and you will stay for the reward of the intricate gameplay mechanics and intriguing narrative.
The story focuses on the protagonist Ashley Riot, who is accused of a murder and portrays the events leading up to incident. The game follows Ashley’s attempt to investigate a link between a cult leader and the senior Parliament member who is later suspected to be murdered. The story has many twists and turns as each little piece of the plot is revealed to the player and the interactions between the characters are sharp and well written. It is hard not to be constantly anticipating what’s next as you play through the game.
Progress through Vagrant Story consists of traversing dungeons by jumping, interacting with the environment, solving puzzles and fighting battles. While being completely in control of movement and engaging the enemies in combat at will, when attacking the game pauses the action and the player can choose a body part to aim their attack with differing outcomes. With fast reflexes, the player can also chain attacks together by initiating another move just as the first one lands. Ashley also gains access to special techniques and magic spells as the game progresses leading to the ability to encounter enemies with a variety of strategies.
The most in-depth part of gameplay is the weapon crafting system. At workshops you can build and deconstruct weapons ranging from crossbows, maces and double handed swords. Each weapon will be more effective against different enemies and as such you will have to be constantly upgrading and creating the best equipment. These systems in Vagrant Story are dense, but ultimately a rewarding experience as you just can’t go charging into battle without the proper preparation.
The atmosphere of a majority the game’s setting is dark and isolated. Silence is just as important here as the music and Vagrant Story’s soundtrack conveys this well. None of the music will jump out and grab you but you will feel like you are exploring a ruined city with mysteries around every corner.
Vagrant Story is a complex RPG with a mysterious world to explore. If you are looking for something unique and enjoy customisable battle systems, then you should play Vagrant Story.
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Every so often I will receive one of their products in return for an honest review. I love growing all sorts of things and this really appeals to me.
Also, every now and then they will give me a challenge, such as selecting which of their products will make a nice Spring display or creating a top 5 list of their products and why I chose them. With my love of gardening this will be such a pleasure to do.
As a thank you for joining the Spalding Bloggers Club, I received 100 spring bulbs, which I planted today in an old plastic tub.
I planted the bulbs in layers, starting with the Tulips, then the Daffodils, Muscari and finally the Anemone.
I put the tub in my cold greenhouse and wrapped a bit of fleece around the tub, to give it a tiny bit of protection from the cold.
You can see the bulbs they sent to me here.
I hope mine turn out as lovely. I will let you know.
I was very pleased with it.
About three or four years ago, I arranged for Santa to email a video to my daughter.
It’s a lovely video which talks about my daughter and what she wants for christmas. Santa obviously knew her name and if she had been naughty or nice during the year.
The website below will send your friends and family a free personalised online video message from Santa, which lasts approximately four minutes. It really is lovely for small children and there is an adult version too, which is good for a giggle!
All you need to do is follow a simple step-by-step process and answer a few simple questions. If you want to, you can even upload a photo of the person you’re sending it to, (if you have a digital photo of them on your computer).
“In addition to the information you enter in the PNP registration sheet, we may collect information about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
“We may use “cookies” (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make PNP easier to use, to make our advertising better.
So ensure you clear your cache afterwards, if you’re not happy with this.
I assure you, your kids will love this!
To send the video, all you need to do is go to the ‘Portable North Pole’ here and begin.
I would love to hear if any of you use this and if your children love it as much as mine did. You can leave a comment by clicking on ‘leave a comment’ at the bottom of this post.
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Back from a 3-year contract touring Europe, Iddi Achieng performed last May in Nairobi, once again warming the hearts of music buffs with her unctuous melodies. Always full of vitality, she interprets songs in Dholuo and Kiswahili.
My music is informed by my Luo and Kenyan culture. I sing 90% in Luo to fully express myself and the other bit in our Kenyan national language [Swahili] to pass important national social messages. I speak to Kenyans about their culture through music because I am also Kenyan so I know what Kenyan culture is.
Today, we celebrate International Translation Day honouring translators and the work of translation on the feast of St Jerome, who is considered the patron saint of this profession. This event was initially promoted by the International Federation of Translators (FIT) as early as 1953 before its worldwide appeal gave rise to the 30th September as International Translation Day in 1991.
Indeed, one of the most important activities that help people of diverse ethnic origins and different political and cultural backgrounds to communicate is translation, a distinctive feature of which is the crossing of the boundaries between Self and the linguistic and cultural Other. In other words, translation, as intercultural communication, is a means of transporting the ways of life, customs, attitudes, mindsets and values of one particular culture across time and space to another culture or other cultures.
Facilitated by the major changes and shifts in the global economy, culture and information technology in the last three decades, we now have a radically altered linguistic, socio-political and cultural context for intercultural communication. If “to be or not to be … global” is hardly a question for people and nations in the contemporary era, then “to live or not to live … in translation” is no longer an option but a reality of our everyday life.
As brokers of peace and mutual understanding, FIT members will, in various ways and through different channels, celebrate International Translation Day (ITD) 2012 with the theme of “Translation as Intercultural Communication”.
This is an occasion to salute the remarkable work accomplished by translators in Africa and around the world, which too often goes unacknowledged. A series of conferences and other events have been taking place over the weekend in London, Dublin, Thessaloniki, Manila, Yaounde, Cape Town, Johannesburg…and several other cities!
35. There is no such thing as the “perfect translation”.
36. Nabokov hated translation and tried once to translate one of his own novels into English, with hilarious results (he did it word-for-word).
37. Goethe said that translation is the most noble profession.
66. There is no such thing as an ugly language.
Happy International Translation Day to everyone!
This post by Oumar Bah is a follow-up on “Kikuyu: colour spectrum and kikuyunised words” which dealt with the expression of colours in Kikuyu, a language spoken in Kenya.
In Peul language (referred to by its speakers as pulaar or fulfulde), colour is expressed by means of adjectival roots. These are placed after the substantive with which they agree in gender (or rather, in noun class) and in number. Here, Pulaar functions like most Niger-Congo languages and in particular like Bantu languages.
The basic colours are thus: black « ɓale- », white « rane- », red « woɗe- », yellow « ool- », green « haako- », grey « fur- ».
The adjective « haako- » – contrary to the other colour words above which are adjectival roots – is a secondary adjective formed from the substantive of the noun meaning leaves, canopy. (The link between the colour green and plants is present in many languages around the world).
For the ‘O class, we would have for example « boɗeejo », a light-skinned man (literally: a red person). It is worth noting that the initial consonants of certain adjectives change, for example /w/ → /mb/ or /f/→ /p/. One may also notice that the colour blue is traditionally unknown, which is the reason why Pulaar resorts to words borrowed from English or French, namely mbulu- or bule, depending on the region. As a matter of fact, many world languages do not distinguish between green and blue.
At first sight, the Pulaar colour spectrum may seem limited in comparison to European languages for instance. The perception of colours is first and foremost a cultural phenomenon. Thus, if we consider the colours of cows fur, the vocabulary of this pastoral people is enriched with nuances, many of which have no equivalent in French or English.
As a way of example, we may mention « wane » a brown cow, « lahe » a cow whose fur is completely black, « naawe » a cow with an ochre fur, « saye » a cow whose fur is completely white, « sirge » a white cow with small black spots, « terkaaye » a cow whose fur is light brown, « saaje » a cow whose fur is black with a white stripe on the belly, « doobaaye » a cow whose fur is light grey etc. Examples abound.
However, moving away from livestock terminology, the colours brown, pink and orange are assimilated to red in Pulaar. We would thus say « tuuba mboɗeha »for brown trousers (using the adjectival root « woɗe- » meaning red, see above). This confirms our above claim pertaining to the cultural dimension of colours.
Ce billet d’Oumar Bah fait suite à “Kikuyu: colour spectrum and kikuyunised words” qui portait sur l’expression des couleurs en Kikuyu, une langue parlée au Kenya.
En langue peule (appelée par ses locuteurs pulaar ou fulfulde), la couleur est exprimée par des racines adjectivales. Ces dernières se placent après le substantif et concordent avec lui en genre (ou plutôt en classe nominale) et en nombre. Le pulaar fonctionne ici comme une bonne partie des langues de la famille Niger-Congo notamment les langues bantoues.
Les couleurs de base sont donc : noir « ɓale- », blanc « rane- », rouge « woɗe- », jaune « ool- », vert « haako- », gris « fur- ».
L’adjectif « haako- » est, à l’opposé des autres ici qui sont des racines adjectivales primaires, un adjectif secondaire obtenu à partir du substantif de même nom signifiant « feuillage » (l’association entre la couleur verte et les plantes se rencontre dans beaucoup de langues du monde).
La classe O donnerait par exemple « boɗeejo » un homme au teint clair (littéralement : un rouge). À remarquer que les consonnes initiales de certains adjectifs changent, par exemple /w/ → /mb/ ou /f/→ /p/.
À noter aussi que la couleur bleue est traditionnellement inconnue, raison pour laquelle le pulaar a recours ici à des emprunts, selon la région, à l’anglais ou au français, soit : mbulu- ou bule. En fait, dans beaucoup de langues du monde, il n’y a pas de distinction entre le vert et le bleu.
Le spectre des couleurs en peul peut sembler limité à première vue, comparé par exemple aux langues européennes. La perception des couleurs est avant tout un phénomène culturel. Ainsi quand on considère les couleurs du pelage des vaches, le vocabulaire de ce peuple pasteur s’enrichit de nuances dont beaucoup n’ont pas d’équivalents en français ou en anglais. Citons, à titre d’exemples : « wane » vache au pelage brun, « lahe » vache au pelage tout noir, « naawe » vache au pelage ocre, « saye » vache au pelage tout blanc, « sirge » vache au pelage blanc avec des petites taches noires, « terkaaye » vache au pelage tout marron clair, « saaje » vache au pelage noir avec une rayure blanche sur le ventre, « doobaaye » vache au pelage tout gris clair etc. Les exemples pourraient être multipliés.
En revanche, si nous quittons le domaine de la terminologie de l’élevage, les couleurs brun, rose et orange se confondent en pulaar avec le rouge. Ainsi on dirait par exemple « tuuba mboɗeha » pantalon brun (racine adjectivale « woɗe- » rouge, voir en haut). Ce qui confirme ce qui a été dit plus haut : la dimension culturelle de la couleur.
This is the third post of a series aiming at humorously outlining the differences between the way Kenyans and Tanzanians express themselves in Swahili.
One endearing feature of Tanzanian (and, as far as I’ve seen, coastal) Kiswahili is the use of kinship terms. A waitress will be ‘dada‘ (sister), a taxi driver ‘Mjomba‘ (uncle) or ‘Baba‘ (Dad) if he is older or ‘kaka‘ (brother) if he is in the same age group as you are. An older person would address me as ‘mwanangu‘ (my child) etc.
As I was pointing out in an earlier post, establishing a connection with one’s interlocutor is one of the unspoken objectives of conversation and as such, it goes well beyond the content that one is to communicate. Being a ‘mama‘ (mother) or a ‘bwana‘ (Sir)* situates one’s position in society – with all the dignity attached to it – but also relatively to the interlocutor who directly acknowledges the bond as well as the boundaries by using appropriate kinship terms.
Going back to the initial argument, seen with Tanzanian eyes, Kenyans may seem cold and distant in the way they express themselves in Kiswahili. Similarly, Kenyans will consider the ‘formal familiarity’ peppering Tanzanian Kiswahili to be a tad overbearing and odd if not altogether a waste of time.
Let me just say this about Nairobians; they do not burden themselves with cumbersome courtesies and expressions that go along with them. Saying ‘Tafadhali‘ (Please) is already going out of one’s way to request for something. As far as orders are concerned, pretty much anything goes: on the more polite end, we would have ‘niletee‘ (Bring me…), ‘nipe’ (Give me…), ‘nisaidie na‘ (Assist me with…) all the way down to ‘leta kachumbari‘ (Bring salad! – quite rude).
The reason why Tanzanians may appear to border on the obsequious is that they take politeness very seriously. The sesame to asking for anything is ‘naomba‘ (literally, I beg or I pray) associated with the subjunctive tense: a huge contrast to Kenya, where this phrase is taken to mean that one wishes to get something for free! So if we take the previous example, after the mandatory greetings, you would go ‘naomba kachumbari‘ or ‘naomba uniletee kachumbari‘ (literally: I beg you to bring me salad). If you just walked into a restaurant bluntly ordering ‘leta…‘ you would most certainly be met with dumb-founded stares and a pout on the waiter’s mouth.
I have to say that the first time someone in Kenya asked me to come over by saying ‘Kuja‘, I was stuck between showing them my back and putting them in their place with an eloquent 5-minute speech. In the end, I did neither…See, I had learnt that the proper way to call somebody was ‘Njoo‘ while ‘Kuja‘ was quite rude and should be confined to calling your dog for instance. Apparently, not many Kenyans are aware of the nuance so I had to adjust but I have never come around to letting go of ‘njoo‘ myself.
From my observation, all these verbal niceties, essential to maintain smooth relations in Tanzania, tend to irritate Kenyans. Cultural mishaps, they said?
*It is to be noted that ‘Bwana’ or ‘Bwana mkubwa’ has colonial undertones as this is what white settlers used to be addressed as.
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1. I knit and finished a baby hat for Brother's ABA therapist. I've been having difficulty finishing projects of late. Actually, I've not had the desire to knit in a long time.
2. I went to 3 doctor's appointments this week. I've been neglecting my health since having children. I'm taking charge.
3. We had home cooked meals all week. Now, granted last night we had a potluck dinner with our homeschool group after stations of the cross, but we didn't spend any money for dinner.
What are your Small Successes? Check out more at Faith and Family Live.
1. I exercised twice this week (and twice last week). I would've tonight but we had what is number 2.
2. Stations of the Cross. Our homeschool group did a children's stations of the cross. It was nice. We even had a couple of dads.
3. Three days of school without fuss. It's been nice. Brother has even finished in a timely manner.
Check out the other small successes happening at Faith & Family Live.
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On TV, an advertisement asks viewers to take the bus to work. “Help eliminate greenhouse gases,” it says.
Online, a wildlife service blog offers insights and tips on how to preserve local endangered species.
The big blue bin outside the house says, “Recycle.” The flyer in the mail promotes a do-it-yourself composting workshop.
We encounter messages every day that encourage sustainable choices. And most of the time, the communication is going one way — information being relayed by experts that the public is supposed to consume.
NC State doctoral student Eli Typhina says those common forms of environmental communication, while important, cannot solely be responsible for motivating the public into action. They are limited, she said, in their capacity to incite long-term behavioral change.
After spending the past four years researching how to increase public engagement, Typhina believes a better solution may lie in the palms of more and more people’s hands: mobile phones.
Harnessing the power of geospatial technologies and large-scale social networking, Typhina says mobile phone applications not only have the power to encourage users to learn about urban agriculture, for example, but also to take and share photos of city farms, connect with local growers or create their own environmental messages.
Typhina published some of her findings in a 2015 paper, “Eco-apps: Design to influence environmentally friendly behavior,” in the International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications.
As part of her dissertation, Typhina created a methodology that developers can use to design environmental apps. The process, called the “actor diagramming and tracing method,” aims to transcend the simplicity of many existing eco apps by incorporating all the contributors of an environmental problem into the design phase, not just experts.
The idea is that by approaching the problem through a broader scope, the resulting app will encourage users to engage in a variety of solutions over a longer period of time, rather than simply completing a checklist.
She wrote about the method in a book chapter, “Participatory Techno-Building: Actor Diagramming and Tracing Method,” which will be published late 2017 in the edited book, Expanding the Boundaries of Communication and Public Participation (SUNY Press).
Photo illustration by Eli Typhina.
Typhina tested out her idea as part of a study on a proposed sustainable forestry app she hopes to one day develop. The app, in theory, would help family landowners better manage their forests.
For the study, which she catalogs in the book chapter, Typhina and undergraduate research intern Tarang Malaviya sought input from two groups of participants to design two apps. To learn more about Malaviya’s role in the project, click here.
The first app design, which didn’t follow Typhina’s methodology, relied heavily on input from experts with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Forestry and the American Forest Foundation. At focus group meetings, the experts identified what they considered to be the largest problem facing family forest owners: a general difficulty in documenting land changes and finding useful information.
As a solution, the experts brainstormed an app design that would function like a journal, one allowing users to record their activities in the forest, get advice on sustainable fixes and connect with educational organizations through websites, phone and email.
For the design of the second app, which did follow the methodology, Typhina sought to involve all the players that contribute to sustainable forestry. She interviewed forest professionals, shadowed and interviewed family forest owners and observed wildlife and plants while on the family land.
The participants in the second design identified a more complex, nine-pronged problem. It was summarized by the idea that forestry management is a lifelong commitment, one that requires a network of supporters and careful thought and action.
As a solution, the participants envisioned a social networking app, similar to Facebook. The design would allow users to create profiles and connect with other landowners and organizations to build relationships, glean valuable information and receive support.
Typhina said the second app design offered more resources to understand the complexity of the problem at hand. In turn, the solution was not a simplified checklist that users could cross off and be done with, but an app that encourages users to follow a path to their own informed decisions.
To say empirically that one app design is better than the other, Typhina hopes to secure funding to develop both app prototypes from the study. She could then test them on users across the state. Her ultimate goal is to figure out which design is best and create a national app for family forest owners.
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John Wendell Holmes, diplomat, administrator, educator, and writer, was born in London, Ontario, on 18 June 1910 to William Wendell Holmes and Helen Morton. He received his BA from the University of Western Ontario and his MA from the University of Toronto and thereafter pursued graduate studies at the University of London (England). From 1941 to 1943 he was national secretary of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
In 1943 Holmes joined Canada’s Department of External Affairs. While in the foreign service he was first secretary in London, England, chargé d’affaires in Moscow, acting Canadian representative to the United Nations in New York, External Affairs member of the directing staff at the National Defence College (Kingston), and assistant under-secretary of state for external affairs supervising the work of the Far Eastern, United Nations, and Commonwealth Divisions.
In 1960 he left the public service to become president (a title later changed to director general) of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA). He relinquished that position in 1973 but remained associated with the Institute as counselor until his death.
Holmes was a visiting professor of international relations at the University of Toronto (1966-1988), a professor of international relations at Glendon College, York University (1971-1982), and a visiting professor at the University of Leeds (1979, 1985).
Holmes was the author of numerous articles and book chapters as well as several books: <i>Some Aspects of Mediation </i>(1970), <i>The Better Part of Valour </i>(1970), <i>Canada: A Middle-Aged Power </i>(1976), <i>The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order 1943-1957 </i>(2 vols. 1979 & 1982), <i>Life with Uncle: the Canadian-American Relationship </i>(1981).
In 1969 Holmes was made an officer of the Order Canada. In 1977 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1986 received the society’s Tyrrell medal. He was the recipient of eleven honorary degrees, an honorary fellow of Trinity College (1983) and a member of Pickering College’s Class of 1842.
He died on 13 August 1988 in London, Ontario.
The papers were stored at Glendon College after Mr. Holme’s death and transferred to the Trinity College Archives in the autumn of 2001.
The fonds was donated by Nancy Skinner, John Holmes' niece.
The fonds consists of textual material and photographs. Much of the material relates to articles, speeches, books, book chapters, radio/television scripts, and book reviews written by JWH in the areas of Canadian foreign policy and international organization. As well, there is material relating to conferences and seminars in which he participated and organizations with which he was involved, files on his teaching at Glendon College, the University of Toronto, and Leeds University and his doctoral students, files of business and personal correspondence, material collected for his two-volume work, <i>The Shaping of Peace</i>, family and professional memorabilia.
Material was arranged by Gayle Fraser, Mr. Holmes' assistant, and by the archivist.
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0%73°44°Night - Clear. Winds NW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C).Sunny with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 6 mph (4.8 to 9.7 kph).
Tonight - Clear. Winds NW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C).
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Were has the time gone?
It’s been way too long since I posted a blog. I have been working out and staying on track with my training (well for the most part). I have slacked on writing in the blog. I’ve started to using Strava pretty heavy and that seems to be were my focus goes instead of this wordpress site. I will try and do better and post more. Reading my posts reminded me on just how nice it is to have a log of my training and more detail then what goes into Strava. Look me up if you’re on there.
So let’s see if I can recap the past couple of months.
Since the winter weather arrived and the biking season came to an end I went out and purchased an indoor trainer. I thought it would be nice to set up the bike in front of the television and get in some miles while I bench watch my shows. That worked for about a week, until I realized I would get about 30 minutes into my ride when I find myself on the couch focused on the show and not the ride. So, I tried out Zwift and I was hooked from the first mile. That is a really cool system and it lets you focus on the ride and not get bored doing it. If you haven’t looked into this I highly recommend it.
I also signed up for the shamrock marathon again this year. So I’ve been trying to run 4 nights a week. That’s not going as well as I would hope. Seems that I can’t find the time to get out there and starting to resort to the fun of cycling instead. My goal is to cycle a few miles then go out for a run thinking that this will help by body get used to switching over from the two actives.
On Wednesday I had the day off and decided to give the capital trail a try. It took about an hour drive to get there, but it was worth it. I heard about the trail on Facebook and thought it seemed like a good spot to ride on. And I was right! This has to be the best paved path for cyclist in Virginia. It starts in Jamestown and goes all the way to Richmond. Total of 52 miles. Here is the link to the official website http://virginiacapitaltrail.org/. I rode up to mile marker 30 and back. I wish I planned to go out a little earlier so I would of had time to ride the whole 52 miles.
Today the kiddies had off school so I got to stay home with them. As luck would have it my Apple watch was scheduled to arrive this afternoon. I thought this was a win for everyone. So after some yard work and cleaning up around the house I got in a quick run before lunch. I strapped the GoPro on my head to see how that would turn out. It didn’t turn out good at all. Turns out my head bounces around too much. The rest of the day was planned to play with the watch. However, it appears UPS mixed up the box this morning and it never made it on the truck. So I’ll have to wait another day to play with it. I hope it works as advertised for tracking running, swimming, and cycling. We’ll have to wait and see what tomorrow brings.
This is one of my favorite places to ride. The city blocked off 8 miles of road and turned it in a park. Cycling, running, horseback riding are all welcome. The trail runs alongside the dismal swamp canal so the scenery is beautiful. I normally park 3 miles from the entrance to a round trip ride is 22 miles.
The road debris in my area is crazy. I spend most of my time trying to avoid it all. Yesterday I ran through some glass and got a piece stuck in my tire. Other than that it was an awesome 26 mile ride. The weather was perfect and I was in the zone.
I got up early this morning to train for all three sports. So I packed everything up in the Jeep and went down to the YMCA at Mount Trashmore. I started out in the pool and did laps for 15 minutes. This is the first time I really have worked on my swimming and I realized I have a lot of work to do. I was planning to do 30 minutes in the pool, but after the first 12 minutes I was almost done. My swimming technic is bad, my breathing between strokes is horrible. I need to find time to practice swimming more. Than I moved right into cycling. Did a quick change over in the locker room and jump on the bike. I completed 6 miles fine. I could have gone longer but wanted to ensure I had enough time for running. So I switched over to the run. I left my cycling shorts on to see if they would work as running shorts as well. I didn’t have any problems with them, but not sure how they would handle on a 26 mile run. I completed 2 miles before I had to stop. I was running out of time not energy. All in all I’m glad I went out this morning. I thinking about marking this a normal Saturday retinue.
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Eso esta chido wey!… Pero no seas OGT y pasa por mi blog. Sé que nada que ver tu blog con el mio (ni hermanos parecemos)… pero ps bueno, me gusta Mario Bross y tu no me puedes decir que las chicas de la seccion “Un Chico, Una Chica” (Sobre todo Maricela, pero más bien hablo por mi) no te sean agradables a la pupila.
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Women are made to bear, Sweet Katharina!
It has always been the Woman’s prerogative to be tolerated, I guess.
But much in its wake.
This craze to just live?
Or her eggs’ monthly give?
Over the lust so borne?
An impulse put and set.
Copied as the life He let.
its light shines beyond every nose.
but must it be so damn very hot?
so it follows a dense cloud’s side.
but must it select time and might?
had served work and not leisure.
so why don’t they all stay where they are?
because it is only fair in this feat.
I thank Alyssa at http://southernwild.wordpress.com/ for nominating me for this Award. I am delighted that she included my blog when she was making her 10 nominations & I am incredibly top of her list too!
Rules of the Award will have me answer the following ten questions and nominate ten blogs of my own choice too.
1. Describe yourself in seven words?
Male, Black, Reads, Writes, Christian, African, Nigerian.
A good writer, published & very profitable!
Anger … getting angry. I do the dumbest stuffs then.
The best thing for me ought to be reading a lot of really great stuffs that ordinarily would not get published & having other people read my own work too!
Worst is not having a single viewing for a posting!
I will love to be able to eat like a Sumo wrestler & look like I run the marathon daily.
9. Slankets, yes or no? Hmmm??!!!
10. Tell us something about the person who nominated you?
I was nominated for this Award by Alyssa at http://southernwild.wordpress.com/ She is just a Southern Belle, born and bred in Arkansas, who loves Horses, and Photography!
View all posts by Alyssa.
She always has these wonderful ideas about doing stuff. She is an ingenious person with an eye for a good & easy way to get things done. Her blog is always refreshingly new!
Phew! This is usually the hard part, too many good blogs to choose from. Okay, because I must; here are those that come out of my packed full hat.
She talks about the single story being the stereotyped impression which is an offshoot of a one tracked creation. The impressionable nature of the mind is easily steered from the beginning and it there that the alterations should recommence. Not, of course in those long gone old starts, but in the new ones that are emerging all around us now and again. The beginning is always relative because those whose misfortune it is to discuss the beginning much later were never privileged to be present at its onset or privy to the nitty-gritty of its fundamentals and humble beginnings. That may be the reason why they discuss it and not disclose it.
To so many, the mystery does not seem to matter to the evolution of things, as it is subsequently revealed in their immediate present or indeed their theory of it. It is almost always shrouded in logic’s incomprehensible knowledge of basic facts and the reasons for them.
Some chanced existence and influence of luck or that of a supreme deity, does not elude simple imagination like it does appear to confuse the common sense of it.
When I was young, I thought that everyone had to start their lives in the Bay Area. I couldn’t imagine what people did in other parts of the country if they weren’t taking day trips to Jack London State Park, spending summer nights watching the boys in black and orange light up the Bay, and driving through wine country to eat lunch at Mankas Corner. These were things that I took for granted and was shocked when people didn’t know that summers in San Francisco are more like winters. I was even more surprised when they assumed that I surfed every day and knew celebrities because I’m from California.
He just sailed away with his sad thoughts, with the immediacy of his worries that will not abate any recently. His traveling thoughts had never detoxified his situation but he had somehow made it a pleasant habit. Like many times before, his mind recoiled, leaving his body still sitting there like a very lost malnourished puppy; scared, uncertain and alone.
The sandy banks of the seasonal river receded and repeatedly lost ground as the fast running water they channel eroded their loose soil right before his sad eyes, but he does not notice all this. The snobbery of his state of mind wasn’t meant to be insulting. It was only prompted by its rich abundance of worries.
His eyes see everything as they flicker their lashes in continued sight, but his sailing mind does not notice the spectacle the heavy rains had created of everything around his open choice of secluded refuge. The birds barely up in the low fruitless trees shading the water, sang cantatas in quick short bursts. Without rhythms they sang, in a sequence so irregular.
They fill the domesticated wild with their songs. He hears but does not share the pleasantness of the soothing but seemingly haphazard tunes. Their apparent mutual superlative discourse was saying much more than time could ever reveal. They were literally slandering the parallel dominion that belittles them.
He just sat there on the ridged out long stretch of sandy hill, bordering the trees and water, beside the overflowed bank, watching the dirty water race away with that contentious submissiveness it incredibly has such an expounded embellished mastery over everything else with. Water’s frailty is its strength. Its functionality makes its simplicity nature’s own most conventional dictum. He sat there in the lusterless present yet with the past that will never reply to his invitations, no matter how he might put it. He just sat there alone from the world, with his thick flood of so many unpleasant thoughts.
The first person he remembers is always his mother. She was singularly the most dominant being in his short life, so far. She had never said a thing about his father and he never asked because he trusted the fact that she will tell him when she felt she should. But he knew he should have a father, every other child in the village cruelly reminded him of it.
He loved his mother too much to worry her and he pretended he was stupid like a child should, respectfully. He let her control all their conversations. When she talked, she puts bits of platitudes in his mouth and made it sound like it was his idea. She managed their discourse with these silly bits like she would have done a well trained donkey without the slightest qualms.
When she told him he would not see her ever again, he had simply laughed. The mere thought of it was too stupid and shocking to be credible. Her indefatigable attitude of ridiculing his perception of reality and fiction had been a continuous source of humorous entertainment for both of them in the past, so he made the appropriate mockery of this statement too.
She was ill in bed when she finally thought he should know about his father. Then realized she probably didn’t know who his father really is. She was thin and couldn’t eat anymore, so he and his cat ate all her meals. Though he was so young when she later died with her noxious knowledge of what the city’s fun filled freedom does to naive adventurous village girls, he also painfully knew. And this trail of thought led him to his cat next.
He pictured its black flurried coat as it always appeared to prefer it; moist and shaggy. It spends the whole day working on its state with it tiny pink tongue. It was the smallest kitten of five, when it was given to him, painfully thin and barely able to carry its weight on its frail limbs. It took to him like it would a second mother and he gave it a quarter of everything he eats. Though the cat ate everything he gave it in those long two months he had it, it didn’t survive. His cat also died.
It is uniquely strange how days always seemed to have appeared much longer when the perceiver was younger. The swifter passage of time always seems to come with the rational assessment of the usage of time. The restful utilization of time at various ages is given so many varied conceptions to illustrate this point even more. An inactive day that is leisurely spent by an adult is perceived to be wasted by an early teenager.
As he supposedly wasted that quiet wet afternoon idly by the dirty running water, his reappraised assertion of his present situation weren’t ill conceived, but the haplessly penned up anger they reflected within him was just ill mannered. Then next on his mind was his grandfather. He remembers him easy enough because he had such a very distinguishing character that wasn’t unnecessarily nice when he didn’t feel like it.
The old man didn’t pretend. He was a scoffer that continually showed his discontent with the dishonorable circumstances that made the boy his grandson. With the most solemn rude words, he always reminded the boy that he was his mother’s father. The fact that the old man could easily break the egocentricity of his spontaneous dislike for the boy’s origin and still show him considerable favoritism, spoke volumes for the aged man’s fair personality. The boy warmed the old man’s heart and he loved the boy so much, but he always had a strange kind of difficulty in showing it when they had visitors.
The boy was scared of the old man at such times because he shouted at him and never used his pet name for him then. It almost appeared like where the boy was concerned, the old man had to rashly claim to be ready to accept the boy as a demeaning relative, when he wasn’t ready to face all the appending less prestigious societal circumstances. The impassioned plea of the honest affection he had for his wayward returning daughter had made him accept her when she suddenly returned home from the city, helplessly ill like a bad fruit and with a fatherless son.
The boy had slept with the old man because the bigger children always bullied him at night, after trampling on him physically and emotionally to their hearts’ desire all day long. The upheavals the boy experienced daily where too lopsidedly unfair to be addressed easily, as they perverted societal justice by ironically buttressing fake-ness in their cultural correctness.
The hypocrisy that kind of treatment encouraged was intensely debauchery, so much that it accordingly interposed the fabric of sincerity in the people’s tailored prejudice. Even as the old man had thunder in his throat, the boy only heard the throaty roars when the old man slept. But before the old man suddenly dozes off, like he always seems to do because he never goes to bed until he naps off while sitting, the old man always speaks of the peace that awaited him somewhere else. He always spoke his thought provoking paradoxical sentiments like he was talking to someone else and not his grandson that barely understood him.
He gave the impression he was still struggling with a problem he had since effortlessly solved. He was never uttering any improper vulgarities, even when he was not being particularly friendly. He was a freak for probity and sincerity, tradition and fairness, standard in quality; not minding contradictions woven into his principles by the time induce revolutionized thinking modernity ushers in. Then he died peacefully, like he should.
When the boy came out here, to the new city’s extensive, far from modern suburbs, the first thing that struck him was its emptiness. They had arrived around noon and there were very few people moving around at that time of day. He had a small tin box, a small rolled up mat, an old blanket and a small plastic kettle balanced up on his small head. His mother’s cantankerous brother’s friend’s cousin had brought him along. They had taken a long dusty lorry ride, which he had initially enjoyed. The rough and bumpy ride, he had found pleasurable to his young excitable mind, but it didn’t help him ignore his hunger.
He hadn’t eaten before they set off early in the gray hours of the morning, on the long their trip over a terribly bad road with its weathered remains of decades old tar top still defiantly lingering in utter disrepair. Through the bumpy journey, he had followed every eating passenger’s mouth activity with a pained salivated interest. His childish enjoyment of the rough ride didn’t help his physical state as the dominantly bolted wooden lorry structure dipped, hopped and swayed its creaking frame in and out of crater sized potholes as old as the old man noisily maneuvering the big vehicle along the pathetic apology for a federal highway.
The shrubby landscape plains they crawled pass beside the bad road, appeared more of a drivable prospect than the torture of these hard landed waves they had paid for with their fares, to be ferried on. The head and body aches the entire passengers alighted with wasn’t bearable, by any regard. It was nauseating and a physical ailment. But the excited impact of seeing the city for the first time had initially hit the young lad with its dreamy wonderment, which is so commonly reserved for all first timer sorts that endlessly wade into the city with their concoctions of plain assortments of inabilities and expectations.
That is before the many unsettling abhorrent characteristics the new visitor is unaccustomed to, descends on the whole fantastic setting with its empty recess of intangible importunity, soils it and floored him, bringing him down to dust his troubles. This ideally brought his thoughts to when he first got here and met the callous old man who is his teacher, an insatiable old man so full of calumnies. Few knew that his endless clatters of words aren’t the doctrines he made them out to be but silly platitudes.
His lack of complete knowledge of the sacred reading art had been successfully disguised by his remarkable memory of a life time endless repetitions and ceaseless renditions of the sacred text, which fooled everyone. This was the first person he had ever hated. The old teacher actually beats them for exercise.
The teacher’s whip cuts their backs again and again. The harsh memories of begging for food with a battered dirty pan, which they carry for that purpose, flashed through his mind as he watched the dirty water race pass. He remembered the cooked solid mashed dry grains doled out harden cold, painted with the traceable remain of the cheap red colored oil, but without any remote serving of soup because the supposedly generous givers had licked it up before doling it out to the singing beggar boys.
The food is always rudely given to them not out of sympathy but as a means of discarding wastage. Their hunger forces them to eat the food, as they helplessly join an age old excess food disposal system. He remembers the frustration of shouting pleas and getting nothing but insults from disrespectful over-fed children, barely his age. He remembers the chasing dogs barking at them, biting them and certainly, the ever lingering presence of hunger and then the memories of the cold.
The harsh cold harmattan weeks that stretched his misery came along like those of the wicked lashes of his much older fellow students. He relived all of the students parked into the single densely crowded room, on the cold bare floor their sparsely covered skinny bodies warmed up. They display their hardly juicy bare fleshy body parts to feed the endless living smoke of mosquitoes that noisily buzzed over the fatigued sleeping boys. And those weekly only baths in the terribly cold and dirty stream. He remembered the utter frustration and pain of it all.
His pains is constant; with his sores that never dry up and heal, with cuts on his heel and under his feet, with rashes in his full unkempt hair, with constant headaches from falls or a deliberate cruel knock, with belly aches from hunger or bad food and with steady beatings the bigger boys gave. He felt the lightness of his body, painful coughs year round. His sleepless fear of death all around still doesn’t keep him awake no matter how hard he tries to stay awake and not sleep off, and die like many of his mates.
In the like nature of the espoused human temperamental recess of every age and gender, he lost control of all his reasonable thoughts. Only death has power over reason because it defies the divided realm of unconsciousness and sanity. In the tapestry that is the turmoil of reason and emotion, his memories increasingly came in floods. Try as hard as he could to steer his thoughts aright, it defied his attempts and strayed away still.
The widely emotional feebleness of all his efforts didn’t heed the helm of reason and most certainly finally headed for the crushing finality of the rocky coast line of dejected despair. He had apparently set the course for a potentially permanent destructive doom as he repeatedly secluded himself and his thoughts, remained strayed with self pitying worry and sorrow.
His grandfather and mother came around again, vengefully. His cat and dead mates appeared as if to stake a claim. All the dead showed up together again defiantly, as if waiting for him; but not in his empty old village certainly. His village came to mind and all the other village children that still played with him, even though they said they wouldn’t. He remembered the childish meaningless games they played and all the fun they had, away from the huts, in the wild, away far from the big bullying boys. Then returned the pain he had felt since he left them to come and learn to be holy in the ungodliness of a hybrid civilization that does not recognize itself for what it had become.
It still calls itself a virgin when it is clearly an old religious whore on her wedding day. The city tastes of blood, smelt of corpses, sounded like a drowning crowd and yet looks like a prayer field on a holy day. Surely with all this hypocrisy, prayers must have a difficult time to state their pleas at the sacred courts of the Almighty. The worldly arbiters are humanly inclined to value sentiments and honorable intents but not assessable deeds. The motives are always ever portrayed in very fair light and can not be ‘unbiasedly’ accepted. And every single judge has to handle his very own case and sentence himself.
He cringed from his loneliness amidst so many others like him, in this expanse of uncivilized caricature of civility, that the abridged abstract of modernity had made this city as all others with its similar history. He tasted his hatred for this way of life and all the people who he recognizes represented it. He moans from the hunger that kept returning to stay for days after every meal. He loathe all the frustration of being unable to change a thing in the physical and emotional cocoon of pain he exists in.
He couldn’t out race his fear of the past that had vomited him and the future which promises to be akin to the permanent present, all patiently waiting for his return to their living quarters. Everything was waiting for him across the termites eaten rotten wooden bridge he had come over a moment earlier, waiting for him to take a break from his real world of abject misery and lounge in fantasies he couldn’t create. He looks at the bridge and cringed from what it suddenly signified at that instant. It represented the route to a past he dislikes but still wants him again, to consume him like it does every body else.
He pulled his thought away from where it strayed and tried to focus on something pleasant. But it lingered on nothing as it searched still, found nothing pleasant because it chose not to. So he returned to his grandfather again and the peace that the old man had said waited for him before he died. He returned to his mother again and what she said about him not seeing her again until after he dies. He returned to his cat and quite suddenly convinced himself that it is with his grandfather and his mother.
Somehow they are somewhere together in peace, waiting for him. The coward seeks to recognize danger and run away. He didn’t feel like a coward because it is the brave who ventures into the unknown and what is more unknown than death. The uncertainties that hold the void beyond death in a firm grip, is really unknown. So when one seeks it consciously and willingly, then one is indeed brave. Suicide is the bravest act of stupidity.
Killing ones self is a grossly imprudent act of desperation that is perceived to be an escape to anything rather than to something, which generally should be regarded as worse and not better. But there is something better in every summation of a situation; and indeed worse. A state of nothingness does not exist, even if it can be perceived and acknowledged by some intangible myth or by some talented concept. In man’s continuously blind search for emotionally spiritual comfort, his conscious choice of death is still a lingering choice in his limited repertoire. But as suicide is thankfully an option and as long as it is, it will be sought.
He is scared but he knows he must be brave. There were only two clear alternatives visible to physical and emotional mind, handicapped perspectives. The routes are either across the rotten wooden bridge or inside the running dirty water. It is not a capricious act, he thought it through. He stood up and jumped into the deep looking, fast running sand colored water, though he couldn’t swim. He didn’t bother to say his prayers. It would have been his last and a good thing to do, but he didn’t bother because in his hurried thoughts he forgot to remember to bother.
Their wicked greedy teacher, in his near perfect religious stern scholarly act, had told them long ago to always pray first before embarking on anything or else their wishes will not come true. Maybe this once if he didn’t say the short prayer that states in whose name he ventures, his wishes may come true. He didn’t say the short oath-like prayer and his wish didn’t come true, yet again. The deep looking water stopped at his knees. His prayers weren’t ever answered before, so it can’t be because he forgot to pray. He would have asked to live on fairly. Maybe his teacher is right after all; their prayers already forgot them here.
I will still say bye.
Rise and again fall all.
In this nature all dies.
The falsehood in thy rule does only mock.
For not one of any is yours to be found.
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Damn fine way to kick off 2019 with stellar album like that. Best believe I'll be letting everyone know about it. Thanks so much for stickin' around FlowDownStream, wouldn't be the same without ya!
Wew, that's some serious praise my man and I deeply appreciate that. I'm happy I was invited in early and could help shape it. It's an incredible show with awesome people!
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So next on the list are two games with a distinct video game theme.
ORCS MUST DIE by PETERSON GAMES: So Cthulhu Wars is one of my favorite games of all time. Orcs Must Die is a game I really enjoy. Thought this would be a home run. Instead, it takes the worst of the Zombicide randomness but leaves behind all the little things Zombicide does right (tiered levelling, etc.) to give a game that is pretty random. Sold.
BOSS MONSTER by BROTHERWISE GAMES: Another game where it had video game routes. I really thought it looked good. However, it also felt very swingy with player elimination. The game was too punishing to account for the swinginess and, once again, I felt like the game was playing me. The theme kept it around for quite a few plays but eventually, it was sold.
So they are two games where the publishers and thems got me excited. In hindsight, I should’ve just left them alone.
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DICE THRONE 2nd SEASON- I was really excited about this. But since they released the teaser for co-operative boss fights in 3rd season, I am less excited. Because I am all in for 3rd season.
HAND OF FATE ORDEALS: Really excited to try this out. I always like rule and makes stuff, although there last couple of games have left me a bit dry. They are no longer a company I get excited about but am looking forward to trying this meta-game-game.
BEASTS OF BALANCE 2nd EDITION: Mainly for the toy factor. Also looks like a pretty chill game in general.
COIN AND CROWN: A game where your currency is actually your bag-building giving incentive for smaller coins. Seems neat and minimal in its artwork so hopefully it ends up being more than just the one gimmick.
7th CONTINENT EXPANSION: An expansion for one of my top 10 games. Salivating at the thought of getting stuck into this.
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So recently the Overturn Kickstarter has blown up with allegations of scamming, etc. Quite a few things came out that are well documented (company based in Canada had prior fraud; creators actually not from Canada; and rulebook was plagiarised). 24 hours (roughly) before the final funding goal Kickstarter has suspended the project. I just thought I would type out what I think may have happened, although it is difficult to know for sure based on what has been released.
I can’t say for certain, but I think it was. They just copy-pasted a Kickstarter together. However, I think the scam went way bigger than they thought it would. When you think about it, without a rulebook released or any attempts to defend themselves, they probably would’ve gotten away with it. However, when the game blew past their expectations (maybe 60-70k) to 300k, they saw the dollar signs.
So Kickstarter got a report including a DMCA from CMoN. CMoN would obviously have allot of weight with Kickstarter. Unfortunately this came on the weekend so Kickstarter had few chances to review. I believe on Saturday (working overtime) or Friday/Monday, they investigated the matter and sent a list of queries to Foxtale Studios. With their response, they then sent a list of milestones and actions required to keep the Kickstarter going. This (being on a short time frame) may have included: Send a backer update addressing the plagiarised rulebook (done); provide the beta rulebook before the 24 hour mark; provide a manufacturing of financial plan to produce the game; etc. When they didn’t hit these milestones, they then cancelled the project.
So that is what I think happened for this.
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So another big month of Kickstarters with allot of good projects coming out. Here is my thoughts on some of them.
KUNG-FU PANDA by MODIPHUS ENTERTAINMENT: A real-time co-operative game where you are going through a board. Based on the Escape the Temple system, I am concerned with how much say the designer doesn’t have (similar to Orcs Must Die!). But I like the theme. I will have to check later to see whether the big box is worthwhile with the lack of content compared to normal. Backed for now.
HUNTERS AD 2114 by ALBRITCH: Looks like a cool game where you are hunting robots co-operatively. I really liked Exiled: Siege but hope some component and rulebook lessons are learned. Backed but will check the rulebook closely prior to deciding.
TANG GARDEN by BISI: A game that looks really pretty and promises a relaxing stroll, which sounds like Tokaido or that game where you are painting the emperor. Nothing in it really grabs me too much. It looks nice and I am on an early bird, but I predict a few people will be dropping off at the end. It does have a solo mode, which keeps me more interested. Backed (for now).
CARD CITY XL THE CRIME EXPANSION by VIARD: This seems like a cool game but it is in a crowded genre of grid tableau builder (or that is what it seems like). The original game didn’t get much buzz, but it seems allot of people came back for the expansion, which gives my more confidence. Reassess later.
SOLOMON KANE by MYTHIC GAMES: The concept looks interesting. But it seems like Unicornus Knights. Unicornus Knights does it better in my opinion, with you all having your own physical character rather than collectively just influencing the one character. I was excited but didn’t seem too interesting playing it long term for the price. Passed.
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Folklore: The Affliction (2nd Printing): This has got me interested in that there is now a review of the game up on Dice Tower. The review seemed to be quite positive and it looked interesting.
Sorcerer: A duel-type card game from the makers of Star Realms. It seems good but I already have allot of these duelling type games that I can play. So this is probably a pass for me but it seems good if you need a game like this.
Galactic Warlords Battle for Dominion: This is a relaunch. The first game cover looked unique. The relaunch… Not so much. It looks like a nice little area-control game that relies on card-interaction. It does look interesting and I backed the first launch. However, since that time I got Kemet, 1754 and a couple of other semi-area control games so I think this is a miss for this launch.
Dawn of Peacemakers: A quasi-war game with legacy and campaign elements. It has a pretty cool theme of trying to stop an animal-type war. The company seems to have done good games (Dale of Merchants 2 previously) that have been reviewed well, but the games advertising doesn’t quite pop on the Kickstarter page.
Ravine: This seems to be going well. The creator made the Space Team card game and the game looks kind-of bleak and simplistic for my tastes. I hope it goes well as it seems like a Robinson Crusoe or similar style game but much lighter.
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Multiple Gameplay Walkthroughs- Having more than 1 gameplay runthrough, with the rules split between them, makes it extremely hard to look-up rules. It also confuses people as they are trying to go through the rules to learn the game. Have all the rules in one spot in a logical order. See Portal Games for the worst examples.
Missing Significant Rules- If something is in the game, it should be defined in the rulebook. This is a problem with Kickstarters, with terms defined (oftentimes not intuitively) on cards that are just missing from the rulebook. See Endure the Stars (1st Edition).
No Player Aids or Rules Only on Summary- The summary should give you the rules that have been explained in depth elsewhere. If your game has 11 different actions (with effects that aren’t indicated anywhere) and an action only fully defined on a summary, you need a decent player aid and blind test. See In The Name of Odin.
Wall of Text- This is self-explanatory. Things should be set out with headings, examples, etc. Having just a wall of text to try to find rules and definitions is a nightmare. See Ravens of Thrh-Sahari.
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went for a short jog along hk’s water front and then hit the weight room. headed to the awesome breakfast at the regal kowloon hotel and then took the subway from TST to Mong Kok where we walked around ladies’ market on Tung Choi St. We grabbed lunch at Din Tai Fung and had soup dumplings. We also explored Harbor City shops…700 shops! dinner is at Caprice (french restaurant) located in the central district on Hong Kong. we got the reservations confused… tonight was Amber at 8p. the decor, ambiance, and food were amazing! i can easily see why this was ranked 37th in the world and #1 in Hong Kong. We walked around for a small bit around central and Wyndham St (bar area)….but it seemed very college age. We saw one poor guy in his 40s who had vomited all over himself and his nice suit. Luckily his buddy was still with him.
We met Bargitta at the hotel lobby and went to her hospital and met her chairman and had a tour of the ORs. then, we went over to Fuwai Hospital (specialty cardiac hospital) to check out the ORs. after the tours, we took the subway to henderson shopping center and had some delicious noodles for lunch. after lunch, we packed and caught our plane from beijing to hong kong (roughly a 3hr flight).
After a gorgeous morning run along the Kowloon waterfront and a yummy buffet breakfast, we met Eric up and he took us up to Victoria peak via the funicular (old cable car). We were able to take spectacular pictures of both Kowloon and hong kong. Victoria peak is the Island’s highest point – 552 meters high. I’d highly recommend getting up to Victoria peak and taking a walk around. The view is outstanding! Then, eric took us to repulse bay (nice beach and one of Jackie chan’s apts), Stanley market (beach town feel and very touristy), and Aberdeen (harbor area with junks and sampans)…all in hong kong. After a quick lunch of goose, dim sum, and veggies at the airport, we made our way to Guilin via quick flight. We arrived around 5p and were met by Sophie our guide. After checking into the hotel, we toured the downtown area, which was quite huge for such a quiet relaxing town. Sophie suggested we check out a local rice noodle shop in the downtown area and it was delicious! It’s located near the niko niko shopping center. Plus, one dinner rice noodle bowl and a coke was only $1.50!
Woke up at 6am for a pleasant 1 hr run along the Hong Kong waterfront. Along the run, we toured the Avenue of the Stars, posed with Bruce Lee, placed our hands alongside Jackie Chan‘s, and delighted in the history of the Star Ferry terminal clock tower….the previous last stop of the Orient Express. Awaiting us at the hotel was a very delicious breakfast! Waffles, noodle soup, fruit, cured meats, oh my! Filling our bellies to the brim, we headed out to the hotel lobby to meet Erik at 9a. After yesterday’s debacle, we were sure we were on time. We toured the Wong Tai Sin Temple, which appreciated 3 different Chinese religions: Taoism, Buddhism, and confucionism. The temple was ornate with tons of people coming to pray. It is one of the most famous temples in HK. After that, we headed to headed to the bird, garden, and jade markets. Tons of stalls and jade and time to wheel and deal your way to the perfect price for your Burmese jade pieces. After tours here, we headed to the Ladies’ market (fa yuen St, tung choi St, sa yeung choi St) and I picked up a very cool bag. Lunch was an amazing dai pai dong with a plate of crispy suckling pig and goose, rice, and bok choy. The pig was a lovely crunchy delicacy of flavor….but the goose was even more intricate in flavor and texture. after lunch, we continued to walk around the ladies market, walking all the way to mong kok and then back to our hotel. We crashed for a quick nap and then went for dinner at a very lovely restaurant called Hutong. After dinner, we checked out the swanky Peninsula Hotel and went upstairs to Felix’s. Now, my legs are killing me and it’s nearing midnight….so time for shut eye!
We arrived into Hong Kong at 7pm. HK is 15 hrs ahead of Cali time. Getting through customs was a breeze. We looked all over for our China Odyssey tour guide, however we weren’t able to spot him. better yet, he found us. Eric is a very hyper, sweet guide who let us know that he put in his effort to look for us for the past 2 hrs. We meet up and head to our hotel, the Regal Kowloon Hotel. We’re situated pretty close to the water front on the 15th floor. After dropping off our bags, we headed to the night market on Temple St. It was quite the hike, but after 16+ hours on a plane, we were ready for an adventure….even though the weather was quite hot and humid! We found a nice lil street vendor (dai pai dong) and ordered four season rice and beef with black bean sauce. The area was very reminiscent of Chinatown in the US (specifically Boston and NYC). After full bellies, we headed back to the hotel and crashed around 2a Sunday.
It’s 830p SD time and I’m sitting at Gate36 getting ready to board my flight from SD to Newark on the red eye. 5 hr flight should be no problem, right? Well, in my recent travels, I’ve discovered my tolerance is roughly 2.5hours on a plane. So, a cross country US flight will be interesting…and the Newark to HongKong will be even more interesting! I’m meeting a friend in Newark and we’re flying together to HK. Should be incredibly fun! We’ll actually get to HK 7pm (15hrs ahead of SD time). We’ll get ready to board and I’m really hoping that the trip goes by quickly. I came with my Guatemalan pack…2 weeks for a chick, not bad!
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Ash on the eyes, as the canopy of palms shapes my soul.
Bougainvillea speak in some ways familiar.
To this green palace, our home.
To the tune of babbling form.
Long distance calls to distant constellations.
My cells a billion gods colliding and reforming.
These sunset colours are my own.
Entwined in fiery embrace, man is the flicker in fire again.
In majestic wave forms; bread knives, sinister laughter.
All hewn and etched, no solidity found.
A melting stream, falling aimlessly to be closer.
but I never met him and it looks like he’s disowned me.
but you know sometimes, the loving just escapes me.
to breakdown, the little, that we are.
but looking at you my child, I have some doubts.
But too many questions remain unresolved?
Of another silent lesson, a way to forgive.
That your true beauty does not reflect mine.
By the river that runs bronze and fierce sometimes.
Seems to fit with one who’s passing through.
That drew me close to an endless brighter stain.
within the soft breeze of change.
Seems some things, are best left for the grave.
And fall to settle, for unspeakable demise.
Leave the door open, open wide.
But Jesus, cut yourself some slack.
And the shapes of sentiments, you held so dear.
Some kind of myth without tragedy to bind.
For out there, is the true and holy land.
Let us forget about the ways of dry land.
Way down, in the blind spot of man.
Rising in early, clear light.
The drum that beats my heart.
I am one with the trees.
And the noose of hope.
Rise fresh each dawn of glory day.
In this self in which we drown.
And play in silent arts.
And the ghosts which fuss our hearts.
Or find the word key we seek.
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This is a Ph.D.-level course in computational statistics. A link to the current iteration of this course is here.
Note: instructor permission is required to take this class for students outside of the Statistics Ph.D. program.
Professor: Liam Paninski; Office: Rm 1028, SSW (1255 Amsterdam Ave). Email: liam at stat dot columbia dot edu. Hours by appointment.
TA: Gonzalo Mena. Email: gem2131 at columbia dot edu. Hours: Tu 4:30-6:30, 10th floor lounge area of SSW.
Course goals: (partially adapted from the preface of Givens' and Hoeting's book): Computation plays a central role in modern statistics and machine learning. This course aims to cover topics needed to develop a broad working knowledge of modern computational statistics. We seek to develop a practical understanding of how and why existing methods work, enabling effective use of modern statistical methods. Achieving these goals requires familiarity with diverse topics in statistical computing, computational statistics, computer science, and numerical analysis. Our choice of topics reflects our view of what is central to this evolving field, and what will be interesting and useful. A key theme is scalability to problems of high dimensionality, which are of most interest to many recent applications.
Some important topics will be omitted because high-quality solutions are already available in most software. For example, the generation of pseudo-random numbers is a classic topic, but existing methods built in to standard software packages will suffice for our needs. On the other hand, we will spend a bit of time on some classical numerical linear algebra ideas, because choosing the right method for solving a linear equation (for example) can have a huge impact on the time it takes to solve a problem in practice, particularly if there is some special structure that we can exploit.
Audience: The course will be aimed at first- and second-year students in the Statistics Ph.D. program. Students from other departments or programs are welcome, space permitting; instructor permission required.
Background: The level of mathematics expected does not extend much beyond standard calculus and linear algebra. Breadth of mathematical training is more helpful than depth; we prefer to focus on the big picture of how algorithms work and to sweep under the rug some of the nitty-gritty numerical details. The expected level of statistics is equivalent to that obtained by a graduate student in his or her first year of study of the theory of statistics and probability. An understanding of maximum likelihood methods, Bayesian methods, elementary asymptotic theory, Markov chains, and linear models is most important.
Programming: With respect to computer programming, good students can learn as they go. We'll forgo much language-specific examples, algorithms, or coding; I won't be teaching much programming per se, but rather will focus on the overarching ideas and techniques. For the exercises and projects, I recommend you choose a high-level, interactive package that permits the flexible design of graphical displays and includes supporting statistics and probability functions, e.g., R, Python, or MATLAB.
Evaluation: Final grades will be based on class participation, a few short exercises, and a student project.
Boyd and Vandenberghe (2004), Convex Optimization.
Jan 16 Introduction; linesearch Ch. 1-2 of Givens+Hoeting See Sun and Yuan (2006) for further details on convergence analysis. Berland's notes on automatic differentiation. Mahsereci and Hennig (2016) on Bayesian linesearch. HW: derive the convergence rate of the secant method.
Jan 30, Feb 6 Conjugate gradients. Preconditioning. Toeplitz, circulant, and Kronecker matrices. Application: Gaussian processes Shewchuk (1994); see Chan and Ng (1996) on PCG for Toeplitz systems. See Rasmussen and Williams (2006) for more background on GP regression. Also notes by John Cunningham. Rahimi+Recht '07 and Fastfood on random features; Drineas + Mahoney '16 on randomized linear algebra. HW: code up a GP regression.
Apr 24 Monte Carlo. Rejection sampling; importance sampling; control variates. Metropolis-Hastings; Gibbs sampling. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo; Bouncy particle sampler. MCMC diagnostics. Rao-Blackwellization. Adaptive simulated tempering. Ch. 1-7 of Robert and Casella; Neal (2010) Background: Devroye (1986); Hoffman and Gelman (2012), Pakman and Paninski (2013), Bouchard-Cote et al (2015+), Park and Casella (2008), Neal (2003), Doucet (2010), Dellaportas and Kontoyiannis (2012), Carlson et al (2016), D. Wilkinson's blog on "exact approximate" MCMC. Also, see this nice video.
May 8 Project presentations Send me your report as a .pdf.
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On February 2, 2018 we welcomed the newest addition to our family – Eva Paiz Dastoli. We were not expecting her arrival until late February or early March, so it was all quite a surprise when I went into labor on the night of January 31. My water broke just as I was finishing up organizing her nursery closet, and 34 long hours later, she made her appearance at 5:02 a.m. weighing 5 lbs. At 4 weeks premature, she is very small, but we are so grateful that she arrived healthily and we were able to bring her home the very next day.
We were all set to have my baby shower in our backyard that very weekend, but Eva decided she had other plans for us. A couple of my closest friends had it all planned out, and James put together these invitations that were fitting for the orange tree in the yard. That, and several other things we had planned for my maternity leave before her arrival quickly went out the window, giving us our first lessons in adaptability as new parents.
Each day has brought with it a new challenge, but also a new milestone. She is the sweetest little girl, and we can’t wait to watch her grow into a wonderful person. Welcome to the world Eva, we love you so much.
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ISLAMABAD: The case of newly discovered 11 missing persons, presently being heard by the Supreme Court, is yet another reminder of how callously intelligence agencies of the country operate without showing any respect to rule of law.
The saga of missing persons seems to be getting more and more complicated with every passing day as the governments, whether federal or provincial, political parties and parliament are simply incapable or indifferent to providing the needed support to the Supreme Court to keep intelligence agencies under check and to make them behave as per the law of the land.
Illyas Siddiqui, the attorney of these 11 persons, insists that the Lahore High Court had ordered the release of these 11 persons on July 21, and on July 28, the orders of the court were received by the Adiyala Jail’s superintendent but instead of releasing them, the jail authorities handed them over to intelligence agencies on July 29, from the main gate of the jail. He also referred to a video evidence to prove his point.
Siddiqui did not precisely name as to which intelligence agency had abducted these persons, all of whom were acquitted in terrorism cases, including rocket attack on the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra, anti-aircraft shots fired at a plane carrying former President Pervez Musharraf and suicide attacks on the bus of an intelligence agency in Rawalpindi and at the main entrance of the GHQ.
A deputy attorney general told the apex court that none of the three leading intelligence agencies — ISI, MI and IB — have in their custody any of these missing persons. The Punjab government authorities also don’t admit that the acquitted persons were handed over to any of the intelligence agencies but say that all the persons were released as per the high court’s order.
The then Home Secretary, Nadeem Hasan Asif, said that after their acquittal by the court in terrorism cases, the Punjab government, on the recommendation of CID, kept them under detention, initially under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and later by invoking the Anti-Terrorism Act.
But when the LHC set aside these detention orders, Nadeem told The News, the jail authorities were asked to release all the acquitted persons. When asked, Nadeem said that none of the intelligence agencies, including ISI, MI and IB, had approached him either to keep these persons under detention or hand them over to the spy agencies.
On the files of the provincial government, all these detainees were released from the Adiyala Jail. However, when they were to be released, quite a reasonable number of their relatives were waiting outside the Adiyala Jail to receive their acquitted relatives. The superintendent and the deputy superintendent of Adiyala Jail have already been arrested from the Supreme Court following the court’s order.
No matter what the government files read, some of the provincial government authorities do believe that these 11 persons would have been in the illegal custody of the intelligence agencies.
Six out of these 11 persons are those who were acquitted in a case of attack on the ISI bus near Hamza Camp on the morning of November 24, 2007, killing 17 persons and injuring 35 others. According to media reports, the Punjab Police had held the intelligence agencies responsible for their acquittal on grounds of non-cooperation and mishandling of the case.
The report said that these six people were first picked up by intelligence agencies and were latter handed over to the Punjab Police after almost nine months of detention with not a single evidence provided to police and the spy agencies even refused to share any information gathered from the illegal detainees. These reports were carried by the national press in June this year and neither the Punjab Police nor the ISPR or any intelligence agency had rebutted the news.
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This week, I’m pleased to introduce the Martinez family. Siblings Allia Grace and Aljo Victor each received ThanksUSA scholarships for the 2009/2010 academic year for studies at the University of South Alabama. The children of CPO Alfredo Dyune Martinez, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Allia and Aljo are eager to share their academic goals and achievements with ThanksUSA supporters. Since each of our scholars deserves recognition for their individual accomplishments, I begin this week with introducing Allia Grace Martinez.
Allia began her college career at a private Christian college that did not accept outside scholarships; a policy that made it impossible for her to afford tuition. Now that she has transferred to the University of South Alabama, she is able to utilize her $3000 Military Connection/ThanksUSA Scholarship to study Biomedical Sciences. “In most cases, finances are tight for a family of five. This scholarship helped me stay in college. I am very grateful for Military Connections and ThanksUSA,” says Allia.
In addition to her volunteer Pharmacy work, Allia is very active with her church youth group. Their ministry brings Sunday Service to nursing home residents and shut-ins. For Allia, the most important part of the ministry is making sure that people feel they are not forgotten. “My grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and currently lives at a nursing home. The youth ministry is close and dear to my heart. I always think of my grandmother when we visit and meet the elderly at our local nursing home. I am confident that someone is showing the same kindness to her,” says Allia.
The disciplined structure of the military also provided Allia with focus and determination. Through her hard work and diligence, she has maintained a 4.0 GPA and is on the President’s Scholars List. She is currently enrolled in the AFROTC program and has been accepted to the Arnold Airs Honor Society. “College life helped me see and take advantage of the great opportunities available. I see how hard work is rewarded and it motivates me to keep pursuing excellence,” remarks Allia. She is also considering a military career of her own in the U.S. Air Force.
I would like to express my gratitude to Military Connections and ThanksUSA for their generosity. Its compassionate organizations like them who truly make a difference in helping people pursue their dreams of higher education. Thank you so much!
Allia, thank you for sharing with us. We hope you continue to excel at your studies while making a difference in the lives of so many. ThanksUSA is continuing our mission of “paying-it-forward” by accepting scholarship applications for the 2010/2011 academic year. Applications will be accepted online until May 15, 2010. Please visit the Scholarship News blog next week to meet Allia’s brother, Aljo Victor.
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Hey, did you know Jerry “The King” Lawler once lent his name to a wrestling-themed fast food burger restaurant in the 1970s called “Slamburger?” Did you also know that the items on the menu included items such as a “Gibroni Burger,” “Banana-Nosed Hot Dogs,” and Cherry Tarts? It’s true!
Of course the burger cost 69 cents, this is Jerry Lawler we’re talking about.
King didn’t actually own Slamburger, he only let them use his image and likeness for a cut of the profit, but now, four decades later, The King apparently wants to get back into the restaurant business. According to The Commercial Appeal, Lawler is attempting to build a wrestling-themed bar and grill on Beale Street in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
Believe it or not, there are actually several wrestling-themed restaurants out there, including The Squared Circle in Chicago, which is partially owned by Lisa Marie Varon, also known as former WWE Women’s Champion Victoria. There is also the hilariously named Abdullah the Butcher’s House of Ribs and Chinese Food in Atlanta owned by the WWE Hall of Famer himself.
This still seems like a bad idea on paper, but if anyone could make it work, it’s the King in Memphis. Just make sure no one reminds him of WWF New York.
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Terrific review that sums up both the history and the appeal of this marvelous movie. I wrote it for the Annual Blogathon myself years ago. The movie never fails to astound me with its endless inventiveness.
Thanks, Steve. I love how it can leave audiences open mouthed in awe and wonder today.
I haven’t seen SHERLOCK JR in many years, but I remember it as one of his best….and thanks for the info about Fatty Arbuckle. I hadn’t realized that he was involved with this film and continued to direct thereafter.
You’re welcome. The film really is one his best efforts, so inventive and impressive.
Sherlock Jr may be one of the most beautiful and inventive movies made by Buster Keaton. A true gem. Thank you for this beautiful review !
Agreed. I’m so glad that you enjoyed reading this.
Great post! I love this film – Buster’s most magical. I am going to see it on the big screen for the first time tomorrow night. Can’t wait!
Thank you! It is so good. I’m envious that you are going to see this on the big screen. Have fun!
I love, LOVe this film. The first time I aw, it actually gasped out loud at some of the special effects and gags.
Glad you enjoyed both the film and my review, Ruth. It is so much fun and really does leave the viewer open mouthed when watching.
If you have a source for the fact that Joe Keaton invented the suitcase trick, please let me know. Otherwise, I believe that’s incorrect — it’s just something BK picked up in his vaudeville years.
Hi there. On the audio commentary of the Blu-ray of this film in the Masters of Cinema Buster Keaton boxset, the guy doing the commentary said that Buster said that trick/illusion was his dad’s. He also says that it used to be performed on stage.
There is also mention of this trick/illusion on the wikipedia page for Sherlock Jr, where it mentions that Buster himself said that it was invented by his dad. The source on the wikipedia page for that comment is listed as being Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase by Marion Meade, page 146.
I don’t know whether Joe Keaton actually did invent it or not, but it seems that Buster said that he did, which is why I wrote that it was APPARENTLY the invention of Joe Keaton in my review.
Thank you for your thoughtful review! I think this is my favorite Buster film on so many levels. The stunts are so inventive and amazing. It’s really exhilarating to watch!
Glad you like it. I agree that it’s inventive and exhilarating.
Sherlock, Jr., has long been one of my favoritest of Buster’s films! It’s so fun, and the special effects and stunts are amazing. I also love the surrealistic mood of much of it.
Glad you like it. It is so much fun.I love the trickery and the stunts.
Terrific article Maddy! We can really feel your admiration for this film! I’m glad you told us more about the suitcase trick. This one has always fascinated me!
Thanks, Ginnie. Even though I know how that was done, it still has me sitting there completely amazed whenever I see it.
SHERLOCK JR. is such a classic. I remember discussing with Buster fans online which film would be considered his masterpiece if THE GENERAL didn’t exist. SHERLOCK won hands down!
Some of my favorite scenes are the dollar bill scene (I love how Buster asks the gal to “describe” the bill–“well, it’s rectangular, there’s an eagle on it…” 😀 ) and that brilliant billiards scene. The amount of the practice he had to do to make those shots–staggering!!
Thanks for contributing this charming post to the blogathon, Maddy!
Thanks, Lea. It’s not hard to see why this one is so loved and admired by the Buster fans. Agree with you about the billiards scene.
This is one of the few Keaton films, I’ve yet to see. It sounds amazing.
It really is. It’s so much fun and shows just what can be achieved on screen. Very inventive.
Great movie, great essay. The first time a person who didn’t know silent movies saw the motorcycle scene, he said “CGI.” I had to persuade him that they didn’t have CGI in 1923.
LOL. I think Silent films can serve as excellent gateway films to show to classic newbies, as they often get so astounded by the effects and visuals.
Nice review! I too enjoyed the “going through the wall” gag and wondered how it was made. With your description I can picture it a little easier now, though its no less magical.
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Maryland's location within the U.S.
Worcester County /ˈwʊərstər/ is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,454. Its county seat is Snow Hill. The county was named for Mary Arundell, the wife of Sir John Somerset, a son of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester. She was sister to Anne Arundell (Anne Arundel County), wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland.
Worcester County is included in the Salisbury, MD-DE Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county includes the entire length of the state's ocean and tidewater coast along the Intracoastal Waterway bordering Assawoman Bay, Isle of Wight Bay, Sinepuxent Bay, and Chincoteague Bay between the sand barrier islands of Fenwick Island and Assateague Island bordering the Atlantic Ocean coast. It is home to the popular vacation resort area of Ocean City, founded 1875, as well as wild habitats on the primitive wilderness areas on Assateague Island and in the Pocomoke River and Swamp.
Worcester County was created by the division of the formerly larger Eastern Shore's Somerset County in 1742. The county seat, which was previously located near the confluence of Dividing Creek with the Pocomoke River, was later transferred to the river port of Snow Hill, at the head of navigation of the Pocomoke, now near the center of the new county.
Both the areas of Somerset and Worcester Counties were divided into old colonial divisions of "hundreds", from south to north: Mattapony, Pocomoke, Boquetenorton, Wicomico, and Baltimore Hundreds. Later subdivisions of these hundreds added Pitts Creek, Acquango, Queponco, and Buckingham & Worcester Hundreds, all of which in turn eventually became election districts for the newly independent state following American independence. Competing territorial claims between the Proprietor family of the Calverts and the Lords Baltimore in the old Province of Maryland and the Penns of the neighboring Province of Pennsylvania to the north and of what later became the state of Delaware to the east led to the surveying of Worcester County's northern border, the "Transpeninsular Line" in 1751, though boundary disputes continued through the rest of the colonial period, not totally settled until the work of the famous Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon with their "Mason–Dixon line". In 1779, Stephen Decatur, the famous United States Navy officer and hero of the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War in the early 1800s, and leading into the War of 1812, was born at Sinepuxent, near what is today the town of Berlin.
Originally settled by European immigrants of British and Irish stock, along with slaves of mainly West African descent, Worcester County was divided during the colonial period into several Church of England parishes, though Quakers, Presbyterians, and later Methodists also set up meeting houses. Like the border states in general, Worcester County had a high proportion of free people of color for many decades before the Civil War, due in part to the influence of initially Quakerism, and later Methodism.
Worcester County was primarily an agricultural area from its inception, first planting tobacco, but when the quality produced in the area's sandy soil could not compete with that produced elsewhere, they began growing wheat, corn, and livestock. Early industrial activity included the smelting of bog iron ore in a brick blast furnace to make pig iron at Furnacetown in the first half of the 19th century. The presence of large bald cypress swamps along the Pocomoke River led to logging, the manufacture of roofing shingles, and shipbuilding along the river at Newtown (later Pocomoke City). The arrival of steam-powered water transport and then the railroad opened urban markets to another of Worcester County's principal products: seafood, particularly shellfish. Oysters, clams, and crabs were shipped to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. Soon after the Civil War (to each side of which Worcester County sent soldiers), parts of both Worcester and Somerset Counties were combined to create, in 1867, Wicomico County. Also in the later 19th century, the seaside resort of Ocean City was founded.
Truck farming and the canning industry came to the fore during the early 20th century. However, both the seafood industry and truck farming declined after mid-century, due to overfishing on the one hand, and the opening of California's Central Valley to irrigated agriculture on the other, but the advent of the large-scale poultry industry filled this gap. The expansion of Ocean City since the 1960s has turned the northern part of the county from a summer resort to an expanding year-round community.
Two major storms influenced the course of Worcester County history in the 20th Century: the hurricane of August 1933, which badly damaged Ocean City and Public Landing, but also cut the Ocean City Inlet and passageway between the inner bays west of the sandy barrier islands of Assawoman Bay, Sinepuxent Bay and Assateague Channel and Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and the later Ash Wednesday "Nor'easter" of 1962, which destroyed much of the residential development on Assateague Island and led to the creation of the National Seashore and State Park.
Worcester County was granted home rule in 1976 under a state code under the amendments to the fourth Maryland Constitution of 1867. The Circuit Court of Maryland and District Court of Maryland are located in Snow Hill with two district courthouses. The county is governed by a Board of Commissioners elected from seven districts. The current president is Diana Purnell (D). Theodore J. (Ted) Elder (R) serves as vice president. The remaining commissioners are Madison James (Jim) Bunting, Jr. (R), James C. (Bud) Church (R), Merrill Lockfaw (R), Anthony W. (Chip) Bertino, Jr. (R) and Joseph Mitrecic (R).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 695 square miles (1,800 km2), of which 468 square miles (1,210 km2) is land and 227 square miles (590 km2) (33%) is water. It is the third-largest county in Maryland by total area.
The terrain is mostly level and coastal. The lowest elevation is sea level along the Atlantic Ocean and the highest elevation is 49 ft (15 m) in the northwestern part of the county along State Route 12 just south of the Wicomico County line.
Freight trains run from Snow Hill north to Berlin and the Delaware border on the Maryland and Delaware Railroad, and the main line (formerly Pennsylvania Railroad) from Philadelphia to Cape Charles, Virginia and Norfolk runs through the southwestern corner of the county, operated by the Delmarva Central Railroad. The Ocean City Municipal Airport is located near Ocean City, but has no scheduled service. The nearest airport with commercial air service is the Salisbury–Ocean City–Wicomico Regional Airport near Salisbury.
Shore Transit provides public transportation in Worcester County, operating bus routes connecting Pocomoke City, Snow Hill, Berlin, and Ocean City with Princess Anne and Salisbury. Ocean City Transportation operates bus service branded as Beach Bus in Ocean City. DART First State's Beach Bus Route 208 connects Ocean City with the Delaware Beaches in the summer months.
As of the census of 2000, there were 46,543 people, 19,694 households, and 13,273 families residing in the county. The population density was 98 people per square mile (38/km²). There were 47,360 housing units at an average density of 100 per square mile (39/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 81.20% White, 16.66% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.61% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.37% from other races, and 0.97% from two or more races. 1.28% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 15.7% were of German, 13.3% English, 12.6% Irish, 11.1% American and 6.0% Italian ancestry.
There were 19,694 households out of which 24.50% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.20% were married couples living together, 10.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.60% were non-families. 26.30% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.79.
In the county, the population was spread out with 20.50% under the age of 18, 6.20% from 18 to 24, 26.40% from 25 to 44, 26.90% from 45 to 64, and 20.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.30 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $40,650, and the median income for a family was $47,293. Males had a median income of $31,735 versus $24,319 for females. The per capita income for the county was $22,505. About 7.20% of families and 9.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.00% of those under age 18 and 6.40% of those age 65 or over.
Of the 22,229 households, 24.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.9% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 34.3% were non-families, and 28.0% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.76. The median age was 48.1 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $55,487 and the median income for a family was $67,408. Males had a median income of $44,986 versus $37,785 for females. The per capita income for the county was $31,520. About 6.2% of families and 10.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.2% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.
In the fall of 2008 Worcester County has plans to open Worcester Technical High School to all residents of the county, to replace Worcester Career and Technology Center.
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mom) we will only review after the experience is fresh in our heads.
towns of Union City and West New York – towns with a substantial Cuban American population. Indeed, even Zagats gives la Isla a 26 food rating (defined as “extraordinary to perfection”).
On to dinner. I ordered the Stuffed Chicken Special: Chicken stuffed with spinach, mushrooms and machego cheese. Black beans and Taro root puree on the side. It was very good. The chicken was plump and juicy, and the “stuffing” gave it great flavor. The black beans were an appropriate compliment. Elana ordered the Durado: Mahi Mahi (grilled) with chick pea, bacon, potato hash. Grilled asparagus & saffron garlic aioli. To be honest it was not good. The fish was a poor cut (gray and red, not white) and it lacked flavor. Parts of it were even “fishy”. Indeed, the highlight of the dish was probably the the chick pea, beacon and patato hash – which was quite tasty, albeit a tad salty.
Leches Cake, a common Central American dessert. While it was not excellent, it was very good. Our only small complaint was that the cake could have been more drenched in condensed milk, as portions were a tad dry. For Elana – who I suspected was still hungry after the disappointment of the Durado – it was probably the highlight of the meal.
We sign the check and leave La Isla, feelings quite disappointed. I say to Elana – “I wonder if La Isla was just off tonight or if it is just average now…” Yikes, hope we just caught it on a bad day.
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It is with incredible pain and sorrow that I have to inform you that Phil Cullen, the greatest advocate for primary education our country has yet seen, passed suddenly this morning suffering a massive heart attack and his beloved Treehorn with all the memories Phil has shared with so many are now complete. His last mail came this morning at a quarter to six, as below. Edna phoned a minute ago so you are the first to know of our tragic loss. You may have enjoyed some of Phil’s jousting with the powers that have contrived to threaten the very fabric of our society through education manipulation, the horrors of NAPLAN, still so loudly applauded by those who never knew the wonders of how a child learns. Thank you for being part of the journey with Phil as I know he would have wished to say his thanks personally to you.
Let’s not play around any longer.
Our children’s health, our nation’s wealth demands action.
We are very, very nasty to our children.
Free the kids. Free education. Free the system.
AN EXAMINATION OF THE REVIEW OF THE $100MILLION+ PER YEAR FLOP.
Australia is a little world, it seems, full of Mr. Creakles – sadistic creatures who take pleasure out of scaring the daylights out of children. Creakle as headmaster of Salem House, took much more sadistic pleasure out of belting David Copperfield than he did of belting prisoners in gaols that he later supervised. Why are there so many sadists around Australia like him, belting kids with threats and punishments of a more severe [mental] kind?
” I thought that that the new century was going to teach teachers how to love and help kids to get to the top of the tree and how to pupil their learning in the best ways possible for an unknown future” said Fred the Fearless in 2008. Nope, Fred. One day.
Teaching involves nodding, smiling, praising, scolding, hinting, encouraging disapproving, playing, helping, approving but never making attacks on a child’s self-esteem nor frightening them nor labelling them with numbers as Naplan is designed to do. Teaching is real. It’s personal. It’s treating people in fair-dinkum ways, as pupils, as human beings, with teacher and pupil on the same wavelength, not as in a Creakle-robot kind of relationship that NAPLAN testing demands. What did present-day kids do to deserve this decade-long change of feelings towards them?
They were born at the wrong time. They are still caught up with the crazy notions of the Labor-Liberal politicians of the post managerial days and have spent the dawn of the new century as the victims of a deliberate political stunt. Unless we do something soon, this robotification form of schooling will continue..
The corporations’ fawns don’t care how kids feel. Children are human beings, but they ignore that. Big business prefers to kill personal initiative in children. They see it as a threat to their power. Ordinary tax-paying citizens ill have to say NO with the fervour of Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High survivors; and they must do it soon.
There is nothing honourable about NAPLAN, their tool of mass destruction. A tool, approved and sponsored by corporate managerialism, it relies on totalitarian coercion and orwellian control to get its way. For ten years now, its reliance on an authoritarian style of management, resulting from the over-exertion of hierarchical masturbation and a congenital holier-than-thou attitude.
Australian schooling, already stuck with relics of its convict-age-based test belief system, is totally under the control of one man, a lost legal eagle who has a paranoiac obsession with testing and little interest in aspects of Learnacy. Does his co-Minister for Health conduct tests by cutting people’s skin with a blunt knife; and then make judgements about the standards of surgery? Are there any other portfolios under the charge of maniacal wreckulators that spend our money in extravagant ways? Does Pyne, previous Head Testucator, now pull a plug out of his submarines once each year to see if they are leak-proof or does he trust the builders?
NAPLAN has a thoroughly stupid ideology. By testing only Literacy and Numeracy, it says that it tests all that a child needs to know. This nasty ideology then bullies our young ones to scare them into quack learning operations.
There is an enormous importance in what happens in Australia this year. When we review its effectiveness, do Australians think only ‘MODIFY NAPLAN’. It’s to be hoped that wise reviewers will think beyond this limitation and accept the real challenge. Which works best for our future? Can we stare down the big boys, get rid of it completely and introduce Learning?
When do we replace Testucation with Education? It costs well over $100million per years to run these useless tests. Teachers could use that kind of money for learning purposes.
Has anybody in authority heard about the future?
Take a look at the map of the world. Together with our Kiwi mates we are out on our own, way down under. We are South Asia, useful to the big boys ‘up over’ for their materials and resources. Our part of the galaxy is changing as it has never been changed before and it is happening faster than we thought it would. Over the next ‘n’ number of decades, each Australian and Kiwi will become a symbiotic advanced Asian person that has progressed through a chosen schooling system and learned from contact with fellow Asians. As Aussies, we have heaps of raw materials now and are easily exploitable. The more belligerent amongst us believes that we can prevent asiafication with a few submarines positioned in mangroves across the north and some weapons carriers along the old Queensland Line. Others believe that we can retain our Aussieness by using a spirited learning-to-learn-and-cope model of learning in our schools, as the symbiosis unfolds gradually.
You will have noticed many changes thus far. Which way do you prefer?
We don’t really know what to do, do we? We appreciate that our descendents will have to cope with changes that are presently beyond our imagination. If we persist with present school/testucation models that undermine learning, our children and our children’s children will be the dullards of the next century. That’s for sure……way down the bottom of any kind of comparative PISA results of the day, if you like.
If we would like the children of the future to enjoy this new world, this new Aussie-Asian world, it is imperative that we have an education system that ‘thinks’; that is based on the highest codes of LEARNACY; that believes in LEARNING to LEARN and knows what Learning is and can TEACH IT; that enjoys the high points of every school subject that they like; that can cope, can create, can innovate, can teach others; and has a genuine belief in love and happiness. Our new Australia aka South Asia will not be the simple-minded back-ward heading unit that it is now :a gigantic mine separating two oceans, with its citizens learning by rote and practice; and gradgrinding in an atmosphere of dullness and fear that is only producing mediocrity. If there is a need for something to do in 2018, it is that we must know what we are doing and do better than we are doing.
We need to talk about this. We need to EXAMINE what we are doing to our schools; and do it thoroughly.
Reviewing and modifying are for slow hack systems. We need to be bigger and do better than the ultracrepadarian sciolist presently running the show. Right?
If our system has to be run by show-offs, why not have something to show?
By the way : What does ‘ultracrepadarian’ mean? Think Simon. Think ACARA. Think Naplanners with that special kind of mentality that we can do without.
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Butlins was not what I was expecting! I knew it’d been updated radically and I hoped I’d be pleasantly surprised, but what I didn’t expect was for it to be quite so charming!
Our first day has been fab. Honestly it has. Check in was a breeze, parking was no problem, and although the numbering system on the apartments seems a bit bonkers, we found our gold accommodation with minimum fuss. Not only was the exterior of the apartments a big thumbs up, the inside was lovely too.
Gibby ran around her “little house” with glee, and took an age to decide which bed she would be sleeping in. Everything was clean, fresh, modern and in marvellously good nick.
Extra pillow. There are two each.
Basic toiletries – as you would expect in a hotel room.
Plastic cups, cutlery and plates etc are not provided for very young children so you may want to bring your own.
So after a brew and a freshen up, we head off into the unknown world of the Redcoats and our adventure begins!
Oh my goodness there is a LOT to do. I’d recommend marking the events you think you might like on the guide you get when you check in (which is super user friendly) then see how you feel and how busy they are when you’re out and about, as you may find yourselves too distracted with the play areas, interactive water fountains, giant’s beach chair, outdoor activities, beach etc.
***TOP TIP ALERT*** if you can help it, i’d try not to mention to young kids about the shows. We have kept shtum about the Scooby Doo show. She loves Scooby Doo so this may seem mean, but not half as mean as queuing for hours and then not getting a seat. (The queues can be looooooong. Especially for the “centre stage”.) Yes, they have a ‘B line’ system to ensure a good seat, but that’s expensive, and erks me a little to be honest. Not everyone’s budget can run to it, and they sell out pretty quickly anyway.
That said, we had no major trouble with over-crowding at the tots disco or the Mike The Knight show that followed it in the Skyline pavilion. It was busy, but not to the point where Gibby didn’t enjoy it. Perhaps not my cup of tea to be in the Pavillion for too much time (we ended up sending Dad for a Burger King for fear of losing a good table) but worth a visit or two for the kids as they have some lovely stuff for the little ones going on – shops, arcades, cinema etc as well as the shows.
In other words – so far so good Butlins! The forecast for day two is awful, and I have family visiting for the day, so it’ll be a real test to keep the kids happy and the grown ups stress free. . . Watch this space!
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BAFTA Award winner and the man behind Dispatches and Unreported World visited Westminster today to discuss his pursuit for truthfulness.
Eamonn Matthews, director of Quiksilver, described some of his most remarkable achievements including reporting on Newsnight on the outbreak of the Gulf War and his involvement in the remarkable ‘Terror in Mumbai’.
Eamonn told us the four main ingredients for a good documentary: Characters, secret filming, narrative and images.
Above all, a journalist has a “duty to tell the truth” and be “really interesting in humans”.
In such competitive times, we have to have brilliant ideas to impress. “Good ideas” seem to be the golden ticket, so to speak. ‘Terror In Mumbai’ offered all the four main ingredients.
The Dispatches episode, which won the BAFTA award for Current Affairs had the scoop on interrogation videos, interviews with victims and murderers, and presented a story which was relevant; terrorism.
The episode showed the 10 gunmen who were commissioned to enforce a bloody attack on innocent people in Mumbai for the sake of extremism.
We are able to see the tapes of the gunman speaking to his master, asking what to say to the press.
“Say this is just the trailer, the film is yet to come”, the voice hauntingly replied.
Eamonn revealed how the team were able to get their hands on the tapes, “we got the tapes through straight forward journalism, nothing mysterious about it”.
Whilst the job is clearly rewarding, Eamonn matter of factly described the downfalls.
“The thing that kills journalists is car crashes! They could be running for a scoop on a bumpy African road and WHAM!
“Disease… dehydration… Kidnapping’s a big problem. Journalists are a target”.
Eamonn added, “Most reporters are robust but it can get you down. It goes with the job”.
He modestly compared it with a doctor’s job, describing how much strain they go through without complaining.
“An aeroplane set off today and landed safely”, just wouldn’t make the news.
Above all, journalists shouldn’t be propagandists, “we leave that up to the Government PR department”, said Eamonn.
“Television can take you to a place and make you feel as though your there”, said Eamonn.
Eamonn said, “for television, you need to have the x ingredient. Some people have it, some people don’t'”. He most definitely has it.
His final thought for budding journalists: Whatever you do, do it brilliantly!
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Becoming CEO? Call Him First The chiefs of IBM, AT&T, CBS, Kodak, and many other companies want just one man negotiating their pay. It's Joe Bachelder--and amazingly, those companies want him too.
(FORTUNE Magazine) – There was a time, the story goes, back in the 1940s, when pretty much the entire high-level executive-search business was handled by two guys, Zip Reilly (of McKinsey) and Bill Clark, working from big leather armchairs in the mezzanine lounge of New York City's Yale Club. Different world. According to one recent study, between 1992 and 1996 outsiders claimed 80 CEO jobs at America's 1,000 largest public companies. All that turnover, the momentum building since the late 1970s, has spawned a vast army of corporate headhunters while also giving rise to a new specialist: the CEO agent. Today that profession, like headhunting half a century ago, is dominated by a handful of elite practitioners, none more sought after by CEOs on the move--and the companies that covet them--than Joe Bachelder.
It was Bachelder who negotiated Lou Gerstner's contract at RJR Nabisco when he left American Express; Bachelder again when Gerstner left RJR for IBM; and Bachelder one more time when Gerstner signed a five-year extension last fall. Bachelder went to bat for Larry Bossidy when he jumped from GE to AlliedSignal, for George Fisher when he left Motorola for Kodak, and for Michael H. Jordan, formerly of Pepsi, when he joined Westinghouse (now CBS).
Bachelder has a long, complex history with AT&T, sitting on both sides of the table. He represented former AT&T president Alex Mandl when he quit to run Teligent (for a $20 million signing bonus), and served as co-counsel (with another leading CEO agent, Chicago attorney Robert J. Stucker) for John Walter, Mandl's replacement, who stayed only nine months but left with millions (more about that later). Last fall Bachelder switched flags and advised AT&T's board after it tapped Michael Armstrong to succeed Robert Allen as chairman and CEO.
Bachelder helped invent equity compensation, which was supposed to link pay to performance once and for all but instead, by piling lucrative stock options atop an ever-rising base, ushered in the era of the low-risk, high-reward CEO megacontract. Witness Bachelder's client Fisher, whose salary, bonus, and realized option gains came to $15.2 million in 1997--a year in which Kodak's sales dropped 8% and profits, after a $1.5 billion charge, totaled merely $5 million.
Graef Crystal, editor of the Crystal Report, which tracks CEO pay, calls deals like that "golden-condom pay packages--protect the executives and screw the shareholders." (Crystal, it should be noted, designed for Disney the infamous $70 million severance given to Michael Ovitz.) "No malice, really," says Crystal. "That's what he's paid to do. He would say to me, and rightfully so, 'You should be aiming your venom at those boards of directors.' Because if they had any cojones, they would tell Bachelder to shove it."
Cozy? Absolutely. Harmful to shareholders? Sometimes. Unethical? Not according to Stephen Gillers, professor of legal ethics at the New York University School of Law. "I'm not surprised if Bachelder, having done this for a while, concludes that there is a strong overlap between the interests of applicants and the interests of boards," says Gillers. "They have to work together. And Bachelder may come to see himself as a lawyer for the situation, in Justice Brandeis' phrase, where he serves either client best by advocating for the package that will work best for the two of them as a unit."
Bachelder, 65, rose from his native Missouri through Yale and Harvard Law to Mudge Rose (Nixon's old law firm), then to McKinsey as a consultant, then back to the law, arriving in time at a 29th-floor office in midtown Manhattan, home to the six-lawyer firm that bears his name. His life took a big turn August 14, 1971, the day President Nixon froze wages and prices. A tax specialist at the time, Bachelder spent the next several months in Washington advising the government pay board--as an inflation fighter--from which he embarked on a new career as a uniquely trained compensation expert, acquiring in time an unmatched reputation for making CEOs rich beyond their wildest dreams.
At the heart of every Bachelder deal is a commitment to making the job-switcher whole. Make-whole is an absolute, never compromised. Consider the short, strange roundtrip of Sprint's Ron LeMay. It was Bachelder, advising Waste Management, who designed the lure that snagged LeMay as Waste Management's CEO last summer. Sprint had just given LeMay a one-million-share option grant, contingent on his staying put. "I said, 'If you really want to get him, don't give him any more WMX options, give him Sprint,' " Bachelder recalls. "LeMay bought it. So we gave him a million SARs"--stock appreciation rights--"on Sprint. All it did was get him to say, 'Hey, that sounds good, that's gonna keep me whole.' " Alas, it failed to bind LeMay to the fate of his new employer. Four months later, dismayed by the wreckage he found at Waste Management, LeMay tore up the contract and hustled back to Sprint. "One of my greatest successes and my greatest failures," says Bachelder.
Among Bachelder's early high-profile clients was Midland Bank, owner of Crocker National Bank, in its negotiations with Crocker's incoming chairman and CEO Frank Cahouet. Of that experience Bachelder recalls most vividly the phone booth at Caneel Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, where he spent 12 un-air-conditioned hours (his wife bringing him meals), and the language inserted at Cahouet's behest assuring that if he didn't ascend to chairman of Crocker's bank holding company on schedule, he was free to leave without forfeiting his severance. Cahouet's eventual promotion rendered the clause moot (he later moved on to Mellon Bank), but Bachelder filed it away for future reference.
Twelve years later, in 1996, Bachelder was called in by the Chicago law firm of Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz to consult on a contract for a client identified to him only as the incoming president of AT&T. "Very inadequate definition of good reason," Bachelder scribbled in the margins of the draft next to a paragraph dealing with termination contingencies. "What if AT&T fails to make him chairman and CEO by specific date?"
"So I was the bank robber!" says Bachelder, coming to the part in his story when John Walter, upon losing the support of AT&T's board last summer, quit and walked away with $25 million.
But it doesn't end there. A short time later, Bachelder got a call from Walter Elisha--chairman and CEO of Springs Industries and head of the AT&T board's search committee--requesting a meeting. Both were vacationing on Nantucket at the time, so they met at the nearby Siasconset Market and took their coffees to a park bench. The board was looking for another new CEO, Elisha explained. Would Bachelder advise AT&T this time?
Bachelder was flattered ("It was kind of nice to have AT&T wanting me to represent them"), but there were complications. As Elisha well knew, Bachelder had for a time represented Armstrong, AT&T's leading candidate, when he went to Hughes Electronics. Bachelder told Elisha he would have to check with Armstrong first.
Bachelder says now that he called Armstrong three times but didn't hear back for two months (Armstrong wouldn't comment). By then, Bachelder was already representing AT&T. Armstrong was "disappointed, but he understood," says Bachelder, who referred him to an old friend, Sam Butler, presiding partner of Cravath Swaine & Moore. In the end, Bachelder and Butler worked out a six-year pact that guarantees Armstrong $2.8 million in 1998, plus long-term equity awards with a present value of $33 million.
If you happen to be an AT&T operator, you might object to a handful of powerful white guys in suits, who all seem to know each other, working out such a nice arrangement for one of their own. Even some powerful white guys in suits object, albeit anonymously. "There is something to be said for the fact that most boards are composed of CEOs of other companies, and it is not lost on them, even though it may be only in their unconscious, that if they pay generously, maybe that will rub off on them," says a person involved in the Armstrong deal.
And yet. On the day before Armstrong's hiring was announced, AT&T closed at $45. A little over six months later, on April 30, 1998, it closed at $60. That's a 33% bump, folks--$24 billion of newfound shareholder wealth--traceable in a short, straight line to the arrival of Armstrong. If you're a shareholder, what's to cry about?
Now, sure, for every AT&T there's also a Kodak, but that's not the point. All anyone can know going in is what's at stake. "When Michael Jordan [basketball's, not broadcasting's] has a big year, he makes tens of millions for the owner of the Bulls," says Bachelder. "When a CEO like Lou Gerstner has a good year, he makes billions. That's why boards pay attention, and pay up. Their Michael Jordans are going to make billions, they hope."
Bachelder just laughs. "We obviously have not seen the limit."
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Wanted to share some of the items I picked up at Gabes the other day!
Picked up some makeupy items! The mascara is really nice I like it a lot! The eyeliner I got because I’ve only ever used pencil liner, this one is very watery so I don’t love it, but it’s good for practice. And the eyeshadow brush is a game changer, lol as someone who doesn’t wear much makeup I’ve never used any eyeshadow brush besides the little triangle ones that usually come with eyeshadow, but I love the way my eyeshadow looks when I use it!
Random check out line purchase! I really like this scent though, it’s morning herbs and must, it’s a very light scent.
A tee shirt, a tank top (wore it to work today and I like it a lot, the material is comfy, and I like the higher neckline. And OMG these shorts! I’ve been wanting and searching for a black/neutral pair of shorts with the spandex leg part, so glad I found these, and for so cheap!
Picked up these jeans, I love the ariya jeans they fit so nice! My favorite brand of jeans, I love the coverage in the back, and just everything about them, so I was pretty excited to find them because I always have a hard time finding jeans that right!
That’s all I got on this trip, kinda broke at the moment lol but I was super pleased with my finds!
Hi guys! Today I wanted to share my thoughts on the Zest Fruit Boost body wash. I saw these at walmart on night (not shopping for body wash, just happened to be in that isle) and these bad boys caught my eye! The packaging is different from most body wash, with the bottle being a tube style, which I later found tht I don’t like the style, it seemed hard to get the last if the product out, and it came out super quick, causing me to use to much. Secondly, the scent. Ahh, the scent of these sold me, there where there kinds, very berry, citrus splash, an done other that I can’t remember, and all three smelled heavenly! I almost bought all three and it took everything in me to pick just two, but now I’m glad I only got two. The scent was the main seller for these, and it doesn’t last on my skin at all! I shower at night and usually can smell my body wash while I’m falling asleep, but this I couldn’t smell after rinsing off in the shower! To too it all off, it didn’t do anything good for my skin, literally my skin just felt no different after showering. It says it lasts up to 40 showers, and I’m sure it does, I felt like no matter how much I used I just couldn’t get rid if it quick enough! Now left with a hole other bottle to use up, maybe I’ll give it to my sister in law. So altogether not a good product, I would not repurchase this, when I think of the Zest brand I think of a clean fresh smell and feel, and this just didn’t cut it.
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