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Not so much "tech" as "moral" support. Presumably.
So last summer we bought an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax, the HP LaserJet 3390. It worked fine for months, but for some reason decided to stop scanning while I was out of town. There's nothing wrong with it mechanically it still faxes just fine using the same apparatus but when I ask it to scan, it lies about there being no paper in the document feeder, and pretends not to remember that it can just scan the glass anyway.
So I try their email support first, because frequent interruptions don't really matter with that. I get a reply a couple of days later with some things to try. None of them make any difference. I email back to tell them this. No response to that. A few days later, I email again. Still no response. So I call for support by phone.
I've had this thing less than nine months (even now, let alone when the problem first started three weeks ago), but they tell me it's already "out of warranty" and that if I want support by phone (or by live online chat, as it turns out), I have to pay for it. I feel like I'm being fleeced. So I said I'd just wait for the email response. Still waiting.
Shoulda gone with a different brand. I believe I'll avoid HP in the future.
i've had no problems with hp in the past, myself. that said, i've never had to deal with customer service and, um, right now my current printer is, i think, a canon. so... yah.
personally, i'm just wary of all-in-one devices like printer/scanner/fax machines in general. i've always been under the impression that they're prone to falter in some fashion and, because it's an all-in-one, taking down the other functionalities with them.
Yeah, I remember ages ago when I had a Mac Performa, the monitor was the first thing to break, and I had to just replace the whole thing. I hobbled along with it broken for a long time first, though.
Come to think of it, I probably got some extra warranty thingamabob from Office Depot when I bought the thing. Time to dig that up.
Product-wise, I've never had an issue with HP, always been happy. Still, I could see where this would turn you off.
Sounds like it took a power surge or something.
By the way, when we get a chance, I need to chat about the next comic page - work just turned insane, but I have my page mostly drawn, just not scanned and stuff. I'd like to tell you what I'm doing so you can work on yours and not be stuck waiting for me.
I'm all ears about the comic jam page. I'm dbrycegh an various IM services, or you can reach me at my bryceland.com email (the first part of which is something unsurprising that starts with B).
I don't know, my mom had an HP scanner/fax/printer thing for 7 years before it stopped wanting to print and copy (but it still scanned).
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I’m preparing an application to the Arts Council. It’s been on my mind for months, shaping the inner narrative in my mind, but still I’ve struggled until now to get the ideas down on paper.
In the end I had to scale down the vision, I’ve secured some residencies in January so no longer could afford the 3 month turn around needed for a more substantial bid, so just been hard at it here for a few weeks, at my desk, accompanied by an old dusty church candle, aged from years in an old ice cream tub under the stairs, lit now beside me – the warm glow of support has helped.
I asked a very special person who’s been supporting me, whether better to include a document as supporting material or a link. I could only include one or the other. She said the blog, ‘shows I am a reflective artist’.
I had forgotten about the blog.
It’s true I rarely use it for myself and yet, it would help, be a holding place for thoughts and anxieties, the latter has been increasing somehow, it might be my age.
I made a little while ago, a corner at the end of the bed. Sandwiched between a wall of books and the bed, facing a wall. On a wooden box my mum had given me are candles and a wooden African sculpture with twisted body parts that don’t quite fit, merged with the ebony, I think it must be ebony, that I used to look at and then stopped looking at and now I look at it again.
Having a space to kneel and be, holding a precious stone I bought in Norwich outdoor market some years ago, I try and still myself. It doesn’t last very long but at least I have made a space to be, for me.
From time to time I never know if I can keep this up. It’s not melodramatic really, it’s a product of on-going reflection, that I’m required to do, but also acknowledgement of the reality of things. I haven’t had proper paid work since June, it’s now October (apart from 400 pounds in July). This is unusual. It’s given me time to think, time to prepare writing, time to be a better parent, more present and available, it also provides space to doubt more, to feel even less sure, and anxiety is no doubt more present with the time alone figuring out ‘what next’.
I went to see several live events. A work in some underground caves, by Katie Green, in Torquay, a wonderful way to be poised underground, to be carried by the performers, to hear song and sound and watch the shadows by candlelight.
I saw Gecko’s new show, The Wedding. Remembering many years ago when I was performing in one of the Greenwich Dance Cabarets and did a short cameo part for them, and now, how that confident, physically luxuriant, lithe agility of dancing, how I can’t do it anymore. I watched with pleasure though. I don’t need the work to work on every level, I’m a generous witness when I see things, genuinely interested in the endeavour, the character of the work. Here the strong choreographic punctuation, relatively few bodies making the stage seem more populated, movement darting and charging in-between each other.
It was the Lost Weekend festival in Exeter last weekend. I saw Mike Bell’s Cardboard Arcade. Given I’m not a gaming person I discovered something quite extraordinary really, people playing together, helping each other and talking opening to each other. I understood something I’d not before. Helped by my son, it was lovely to see children so involved and so present.
There’s been more shows, I’ve seen a lot really and there was an interesting talk by Alex Legere from his years as a Blue Peter producer in the pub, in my town, a fundraiser for the new scout hut.
But away from things to see and experience.
I’ve another proposal to write, the Bonnie Bird Choreographic award. I was shortlisted in 2013 and 2015 but this year, it feels not ‘more urgent’, I feel even less likely to get it really, but that the job is to try, to move my thinking on, to be dignified about it. Maybe the holding out for things, the demonstrating of need, isn’t to be held on to too tight. It makes it worse. Creates a kind of temporary dependency, one that doesn’t strengthen me inside. Without the need, the applications probably don’t register as urgent; but expressing the urgency makes me even more vulnerable.
In France over the summer I made dances on the children. I couldn’t help it. I noticed how different I felt about the environment when I imagined making portraits of the elder village folk dancing in their gardens/driveways. I could see it. I felt alive just imagining it. I should do it.
The answer must be just to do things anyway, just to do them!
There has to be a way – a new way!
I just have to sit quietly to find it.
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Aside from the joys and travails of attempting to potty-train my animal kid and my human kids (go figure!) I had this wonderful surprise in my comment thread last week from Lindsey Cotman of Coffee Stained that made a miserably rainy, drenched day with a kid who refused to leave the splash pad (despite the downpour!) a bit brighter.
Nominated by: Coffee Stained. Thank you!
• I spent over a decade studying art: attended a special arts school, went to college for art, did an absolute ton of art classes and bought tons of stuff (including these really cool erasable color pencils) assuming all I wanted to do in life was become an animator and draw Disney films, when instead what I actually wanted to do all along was write them!
• I like to sing (not just in the bathroom), I LOVE music and I also follow Miss Universe (ever since India won both Miss World and Miss Universe in 1994!). More randomly, I am also a huge Harry Potter fan.
• Even though I am not as much of a gamer now as I used to be, my favorite video game ever is Kingdom Hearts! Have been waiting for the third game for years!
• Coffee-stained blog: Always love fairytales, and the fact that she loves Disney and video games – amongst my most favorite things.
• LA screenwriter: The posts are always brief and contain a ton, all that can be read in less than five minutes, both informative and educational. Really enjoy this blog.
• Maximum Z: Enjoy all the screenwriting wisdom as well as anecdotes. Also like how he involves his readers and enjoy his sense of humor!
• Matt on not-word press: Like his photos, won me over with his keyboard shoe.
• Screenwriting-from-Iowa : Love that he blogs everyday and there is always something I can learn as well as always finding something interesting about big shots and their success stories. His posts are always a great read about the film and writing business!
• AJ Brooks: Enjoy his screenwriting how to’s. Always informative and inspirational.
• Ryan James Burt: I think his daughter and his devotion to her is adorable and out-of-this-world!
Congrats to all the nominees! More posts from the novice screenwriter later this week!
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Certain theatres carry with them certain expectations. The National Theatre, to me, will always have the childhood thrill which is the due of the scene of some my earliest theatre-going days (The Wind in the Willows, and the excitement of a revolving stage) and due to ever-fresh joy of walking over the Hungerford Bridge to the Southbank. And obviously the National Theatre carries a weight with it in terms of prestige of performance – you should be able to go there in confidence that the show you see will be pretty damn good. As You Like It was pretty damn good. More than that – it was fresh and it was very very funny.
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The Son of God, who created Adam for sonship, communion and immortality, does not abandon His loving purposes for humanity, but in order to redeem humanity Himself becomes man, that He might fulfill for us in His own person God’s purposes of love and obedience and worship.
Worship is not so much something that WE do, but what CHRIST IS DOING and in which we are given to participate through the Spirit. He is the One mediator of all communion between God and man, who unites us with Himself in His communion with the Father as we sing our psalms and offer our prayer and praise and meet at the Table “in the name of Christ.” The great strength of the Church of Rome…is that she preserves the sense of mystery and objectivity in worship by the profound belief that Christ is exercising His Priestly ministry in the Mass. [Protestant] worship today is often far more Pelagian than anything in Rome, by its all too exclusive emphases on what WE DO.
I have long thought and taught that the right road into Christian theology is taken by reflecting on Christian worship in the light of the Bible. The Bible is supremely a manual of worship, but too often it has been treated, particularly in Protestantism, as a manual of ethics, of moral values, of religious ideas, or even of sound doctrine. When we see that the worship and mission of the church are the gift of participating through the Holy Spirit in the incarnate Son’s communion with the Father and the Son’s mission from the Father to the world, that the unique center of the Bible is Jesus Christ, “the apostle and high priest whom we confess” (Heb. 3:1), the doctrines all unfold from that center.
At the centre of the New Testament stands, not our religious experience, but a unique relationship between Jesus and the Father. No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him (Matt. 11.27; John 1.18, 17.25-26). This unique relationship is vividly described as one of mutual love, mutual self-giving, mutual testifying, mutual glorifying. Indeed, there is a oneness of mind between the Father and the Son, revealed supremely in the Cross, ‘to bring many sons to glory’ (Heb. 2.10), ‘that we might receive the adoption of sons’ (Gal. 4.5ff)—that we might be drawn by the Spirit into that unique life of shared communion.
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I thought it would be an easy challenge to just pick few a few beads that have been sitting too long and make something. Boy was I ever naive. There is a reason I haven’t used these beads. They aren’t ready. They haven’t spoken to me yet.
Ok time to get to work. I looked at a strand of Blond Onyx that I purchased from an Afghan vendor. He always has the most beautiful stones, not to mention that I covet his Roman Glass but that is a story for another time.
These stones are so smooth and beautiful. The more you handle them the smoother they become. They remind me of river rocks. i paired them with some beautiful sea green agates and copper.
I made a bracelet and a pair of earrings as well. The necklace is a bit heavy so accessories are not need when wearing it. I hope you like it. I call it Sand and Surf Crop Circles.
My heartfelt thanks go out to the Hostess of this Blog Hop..Lori McDaniel Anderson. She continues to amaze me. Thank you so much Lori.Please visit her on Face Book at https://www.facebook.com/LoriAndersonDesigns .
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What a pretty set of jewellery! I really like the colour combo you chose. Very wearable pieces and they would certainly perk up any outfit.
I enjoy wearing it. Someone called it my Flintstone’s necklace. lol.
I love the colour combination. Absolutely gorgeous!
You are so kind. Thanks. I love the Blond Onyx.
love those beads, they have a real tactile quality. Love both the designs they capture the quality of the beads perfectly.
Very nice!! Love the colors, and would also love the tactile quality. I’d spend my whole time wearing them….feeling them LOL.
So pretty, I just love the colors.
Flintstones or not, that is one gorgeous set, and the color combination is so fresh and refreshing.
Marlene you are so kind. Thank you.
Oh yummy! I love your description of it. . .of how it feels. It makes me want to touch this set. You have a way with words, and with design. Lovely!
They really do feel good. Wish I could add moss to them. :0 Thank You.
Gorgeous set, love the colors.
So lovely ! Those colors would have driven me to madness, I think.
These are awesome, Susan… organic and elegant at the same time!
Sand and Surf Crop Circles, what a great name, so well chosen 🙂 I would wear them with black! ♥♥♥ it!!!
Dini, Thanks. I wear them with jeans too!!
Just lovely! The color combination is gorgeous–I think you did a fantastic job!
I love how river rock feels in your hands 🙂 These must feel glorious!
Dana, They really do feel good to the touch.
Good job using some of your hoarded beads in your jewelry set. I like the colors you chose.
Beautiful colours and sooooo very touchable.
Love that necklace! The colors are great. Nice work!
Beautiful pieces, love the beads and the way you put them together..
Thank you so much. I had a great time making them.
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I saw this on Instagram and oh, how relevant. I really struggle with water restriction as well as food restriction so it’s hard for me to get any water in at all, and I never get enough in. I was awake all night with insomnia, and I ate green beans at 4am, which I promptly purged. I’m a wreck. And I wonder why I have a migraine that won’t go away.
I’ve reached the point of restriction where I become very calm. I don’t think it’s because my demons have gone away, rather I think it’s because I have too little energy to be anything other than calm, flat, emotionless, zen. I have hardly moved today. I sat on my sofa and took a final exam, then I sat on my sofa and watched Christmas movies. I haven’t even used the bathroom today because I’m severely dehydrated. I don’t think I’ve left my couch since I got up this morning. I just don’t have the energy. I frankly, I just don’t care. I don’t anticipate moving until I go to bed. I look forward to sleeping. It seems so welcoming. When I’m eating well, I hate sleeping because I have too much I want to do, too much to get done to sleep. Now, I just have Christmas movies and sleep because I have no energy for anything else. I’m ok with this. Like I said, I have reached my zen.
I was looking at my Christmas tree earlier. It has candy canes on it. I wanted to taste a candy cane. Not eat it, just taste it. But I didn’t have the energy to cross the room to get one, and I’m too afraid the sugar will digest in my mouth and I’ll consume calories by licking it. I like being completely calorie-less. Maybe I won’t go back to treatment. They want me to eat there. I don’t want to ever eat again.
I’m in treatment, but I’m struggling. I haven’t been eating outside of treatment meals, which is dinner and HS snack Monday-Thursday. Before I started treatment, I was binging and purging all day long and I went back to the EIOP to help get that under control. Well, I have for the most part. And for a week or two, I mostly followed my meal plan. But as I’ve explained to dietitians in the past, following a meal plan feels like restricting, which triggers me to restrict more and more. And that’s exactly what has happened. To the point where I’m just not eating at all outside of program.
I dream about food every time I sleep. I’ve taken to watching Food Network. Right now, they’re playing Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives back-to-back. The food looks amazing. And I know my body is hungry, but I can’t bring myself to eat. Nor do I actually feel hungry. Or maybe I do and I’m ignoring it hard enough. I’m not sure. I’m definitely not focusing on my finals the way I should be. Today I took a nap because I just kept thinking about eating but I knew I couldn’t let myself eat, so I took a nap to take up a couple hours of time where I wouldn’t have to think about it, or feel weak and in pain. I dreamed I ate all kinds of things. Luckily, I didn’t actually eat any of those things.
I can’t get warm. It’s 36 degrees outside, but I have the heat on. Even with the heat, a jacket, slippers, and gloves, I’m still cold. I’m listless. I can’t concentrate on anything. I’m so bored. Nothing sounds interesting. I just watch the food on the tv and long for what I won’t let myself have. What I can’t have. What I don’t deserve. I want it all. All at one time. And that scares me. And now I’m just rambling.
I’ve noticed an unfortunate trend in myself the last several days. I’ve been thinking to myself, I have 3 more weeks of program, then I can stop following the meal plan. Or. I have 3 more weeks of program, then I can go back to restricting, but I won’t binge and purge anymore. And I’m perfectly ok with thinking these thoughts. I justify them. I tell myself how much better I’m doing now than I was 7 weeks ago and that this means it’s ok to “restrict a little” when I finish the program. After all, I mostly wanted to stop the constant binging and purging, and I’ve gone 2 whole weeks without doing that. I could probably go the rest of my lifetime, right? I will never again slip up, even if I stop following my meal plan, even if I go back to restricting, I’m sure I can keep those behaviors at bay now.
Also, the last couple of days, I have been contemplating halving my meal plan. If it says 3 proteins, I’ll eat 1 and a half. If it says 2 starches, I’ll eat 1. I haven’t done it, but I’m justifying in my head why it would be ok. And I have a feeling the longer I continue to justify it, the more likely I will be to actually do it, even while still in the program. Besides, it’s not like they care if I restrict. I’m fat, so it’s not a problem for me. This is the vibe I get from my therapist. Just like I can’t have a problem with exercise. She knows I workout at least twice a day, and she commended me for it. Thanks. She didn’t bother to ask what my motivation for working out is, whether it’s compulsive, whether it’s increased since I stopped purging, I can’t have problems with exercise or restriction because I don’t fit into a certain mold. Well, fine, my eating disorder loves that, and uses that to justify all sorts of things.
So yes, I am having a problem with justifying. I know it’s going to get me into trouble. The problem is, I sort of want that.
My psychiatrist wants me to start keeping an art journal of my eating disorder behavior urges. Today I’ve been wanting to restrict, so I tried to put it into a picture. On the left side is a body surrounded by spiky red and black lines. The red line is a deep self-hatred for my body that entirely encompasses me. The black like is the oppressive feeling the self-hatred gives me. The black arrows signify how the lines feel like they’re closing in on me. The dotted arrow shows that these feelings lead me to the thought of restriction and that I shouldn’t eat. I want my body to go away and the only way I know to make that happen is to stop eating.
Last night I bought some spiced apple cider last night. Today is day 4, so I am having 300 calories today. Theoretically.
The cider is 130 calories for a cup. I can have 2 cups for 260 calories, or I can have one cup for 130 calories and a 170 calorie salad. I’m not sure yet which I’ll do.
Yesterday I went to the library! I’d never been to this library before. I didn’t even know it existed until late Friday night. They’re only open until 5pm on Saturdays and I normally get up between 1-3pm, so that doesn’t leave a lot of time to walk to the library and back, so I set my alarm for an “early” noon.
Yesterday afternoon, I got up, dawdled a little on my 3DS and phone, took a shower, and left.
I had already planned on yesterday being a fasting day before I knew about the library, and I didn’t alter that plan when I decided to go to the library. I also didn’t have any water before I left, and ended up walking during the hottest part of the day. Yeah, I’m brilliant.
The walk there didn’t actually phase me. I had planned to look around, maybe sit and read for a little bit, and then walk home. However, come to find out, this library was tiny. On top of that, it was FULL. With no place to sit down and feeling sort of out of place, I grabbed 2 books randomly from their very small fantasy collection, and the only Star Wars novel I could find.
I checked out, grabbed a drink from the water fountain, and left.
I only made it about a third of the way home (the walk is about an hour) before I was having difficulty breathing and was feeling like I was going to pass out. I found a shaded hill and sat down for a couple minutes.
For the rest of the walk, I felt extremely weak and dizzy, constantly on the brink of passing out. However, I don’t have phone service anymore, so I couldn’t even call anyone. I had to sit down again when I was about 15 minutes from home. I almost fell into the street just trying to sit.
Getting up that second time, I got tangled in my ankle-length dress trying to stand. As soon as I was upright, I had to lean against that wall next to the sidewalk so as not to fall. That last leg was brutal. I am sure I looked drunk, I was swaying and just struggling to stay upright.
Finally, I reached my street. Just one more hill (luckily down hill) and I was home.
As I crossed the street to my block, a police office pulled up to the intersection. I was seriously tempted to ask him to drive me the half block to my house.
Once inside, I kicked off my shoes and collapsed on my dad’s bed (it’s closer than mine, and underneath the air conditioning unit) and lay there for about 20 minutes until I could see properly again.
On the plus side, my legs were fine. Despite the fact that I haven’t taken a 2 hour walk in quite some time, all my biking has paid off. However, my body really does not appreciate the not eating, not drinking water, etc.
Too bad. It’d better get used to it. I’m determined to go back to restricting. I’m sick and tired of bulimia.
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Seeking SEP share in Gloucester/ Kemble area.
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There's a 1/6 PA28 Archer II share available at Cardiff £6K, £130/month, £95 hour.
I'm also thinking of selling a 1/3 share in my lovely Pioneer300 hangared at Abergavenny, £20K, £50/month, £30 hour approx.
Contact me by PM if interested in either.
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« Trust boots – homeopathy and voodoo on the highstreet?
People are complaining about a work of fiction since they believe that some people take it seriously. Some have suggested that it should even carry a health warning since they think that people won’t be able to separate reality from fiction.
This is what a large number of us have been saying about the Bible for years but this isn’t what the news article is about. It’s Christians complaining about the Da Vinci Code film. Some are demanding a ban, others wanting blasphemous scenes cut.
It’s like Star Trek fans protesting against the new Star Wars films on the basis that it’s going to make people doubt the truth of Star Trek.
A man in India is on hunger strike to try to stop the film. I haven’t yet quite seen a good explanation for why God is too bloody lazy to come and make his wishes known. Instead he replies on self-appointed delusional people to threaten suicide in order to get his way.
Here’s something odd I noticed. The story has been updated. A group taking the lead in the hunger strikes and calling on others to starve themselves to death is the Catholic Secular Forum. Joseph Dias is their general secretary and so seems to be leading this little stunt. From looking at the announcements it would look like he’s been on hunger strike since around the 10th of May. He was recently quoted as saying I will continue my fast until they ban the film. India seem unlikely to ban the film. This means that within the next 60 days or so one of two things will happen. Mr Diaz will prove himself a liar and find an excuse for breaking his word and end his hunger strike or he will kill himself all because a film upset him. Bloody hell, priorities people!!
I’m wondering what on earth the Catholic Secular Forum is? Wouldn’t this be like forming the “Vegan Meat Eaters Forum”? Presumably they focus on non-religious topics. Going on a hunger strike because a flim offends your religious sensibilities doesn’t sound very secular to me. Telling people to risk permanent damage to thier health or even death for such a cause doesn’t sound terrible secular either. Based on these protests and the rather religious tone of their slightly loopy leader, I can’t see how these people are secular in any way at all. They seem to be good old fashioned conservatives/fundamentalists.
On a slightly more optimistic note it seems that Islam isn’t going to stand alone when it comes to issuing death threats and offering rewards to the faithful assassin who can execute blasphemers. Already Dan Brown has a number of rewards on his head. Hindus have also been getting in on the fatwa game.
As always, it’s not God issuing these rewards. It seems to be self-appointed guardians of the faith.
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The Forward Wind Energy Center is a wind farm in Dodge and Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin near Brownsville, Wisconsin. The farm is planned to consist of 86 General Electric 1.5sle Wind turbines. There was significant controversy in selection of the location and delays in construction due to its proximity to Horicon National Wildlife Refuge just to the west of the site and an Air Route Surveillance Radar to the south as well as other issues. "Forward" is also the motto of the State of Wisconsin.
Centennial Wind Farm and Beech Ridge Wind Farm, also Invenergy LLC facilities.
^ Fond du Lac Reporter. Wind Energy: Flagship of renewable resources or a pipe dream. January 14, 2008.
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The Munich Symphony Orchestra (Münchner Symphoniker) is a German orchestra based in Munich but active statewide in Bavaria. It gives subscription concerts at the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater and, to a lesser degree, at the Philharmonie am Gasteig.
Kurt Graunke founded the ensemble as the “Graunke Symphony Orchestra” in 1945 and led its first concert on September 25 of that year as a benefit for the Bavarian Red Cross. Regular subscription concerts began four years later.
In 1990 the orchestra adopted its current name. The chief conductor since 2014 has been Kevin John Edusei, whose contract was extended in 2016 through the 2021-2022 season. Philippe Entremont holds the title of Ehrendirigent, or honorary conductor, and since 2011 the principal guest conductor has been Ken-David Masur.
The Münchner Symphoniker has recorded music for more than 500 films, including George Bruns' adaptation of Tchaikovsky's ballet score for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty, El Cid by Miklos Rozsa, Jerry Goldsmith's score for The Wind and the Lion, Christopher Young's music for Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Victor Young's score for The Brave One and Howard Shore's score for The Silence of the Lambs. It also performed the soundtrack to 1990s episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.
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Disclaimers: This story depicts a loving relationship between two women. It falls into the Uber category because the character dynamic is based upon Xena & Gabrielle who belong to Renaissance Pictures/Universal-MCA. However, all the characters herein are mine. There is a mention of sexual violence, but only a mention, nothing graphic.
“Captain! Ship, three points off the starboard bow!” Came the cry from the crow’s nest.
Alex stepped away from the stern rail, pulling her glass from her pocket as she moved to the bow of the trim galley. Long legs sheathed in thigh high boots of black leather covered the distance with sure, smooth strides. Piercing eyes the color of the Caribbean scanned the horizon coming to rest on the dark speck the sailor was pointing too.
The first mate was at her side now and she handed him the glass without looking. He was almost as tall as she, his long dark hair braided and pulled back from his face with a leather tie. A kerchief was tied about his head to keep the sun off.
The men of her ship were instantly in motion, moving with precision as they did just that.
Alex moved to her cabin and laid out her pistols, loading each one with quick efficient movements until all four were shoved into her belt, primed and ready. Her cutlass hung low on her left hip, a dagger at her right as she stepped from the cabin to join the waiting sailors on the deck.
Mr. Davis manned the small cannon mounted on the bow. It was light but in the hands of the skilled gunner it was deadly in its accuracy.
Alex took up a position at the bow, once again scanning the decks of the Helios with her glass. The men were up and about now, preparing for battle, their movements sluggish and clumsy.
As soon as the Helios was within range Mr. Davis began firing, the wheel house of the other ship went up in splinters followed by the mainmast rigging.
“Hard to starboard,” Alex shouted and as the ship came about, “Fire!” and the deck of the Helios was pummeled with cannonballs.
The Draco hove to and begin bearing down on the Helios again. They pulled alongside and began the process of grappling on as the crack of muskets and pistols filled the air, smoke billowing across the decks of both ships. With a ululating cry Alex grabbed a rope and swung across to the Helios, her cutlass spinning as she was met with resistance from the now desperate men. Her men lay about themselves shouting her name as a chant, quickly overpowering the demoralized men of the Helios. The battle was over in a matter of minutes, the surviving members of the crew stood roped together on the deck of the listing Helios.
Alex eyed her captives coldly from the poop deck, standing before them like a dark goddess of vengeance. The wind whipped her hair forward as the ice that was her eyes took in the sorry lot that had surrendered to the pirate’s superior force.
Alex caught a glimpse of flashing green eyes as the small form slumped finally in defeat. In one fluid movement she vaulted the railing and landed lightly in front of her first mate. With a critical eye she took in the captive, noting the soft features, and beardless face. Loose fitting clothes gave away nothing as green eyes stared defiantly into hers. Alex reached forward slowly and ran a lazy finger up the captive’s torso from belt buckle to chin, not pausing as she felt the cloth band beneath the shirt. The green eyes widened with alarm as a gasp sprang unbidden from soft lips. The defiance was now replaced with fear and a tiny crack appeared in the ice that was Alex’s heart. Why this one? What makes you so sure you have to keep her safe?
Once the girl realized that her death was not one of the options at this point she looked upon the compelling figure before her. She saw cool aloofness and an aura of power which the pirate wore like a second skin, and as she found herself drowning in eyes as blue as the summer sky a flood of warmth washed over her.
“I’ll take my chances with you,” the girl decided, her voice firm and low as she straightened her shoulders, drawing her chin up in a determined gesture that didn’t quite make it as her head slammed back against Mr. Davis’ chest.
“Put him in my cabin,” she instructed the first mate and as he started to protest she stopped him with a raised brow. “I believe we’ll have no more trouble from this one.” With that she turned the querying look to the girl and received a nod of affirmation.
“Take what you will men, and be quick. This ship is sinking fast.” Alex called out before turning on her heel and striding back to her own ship.
She stood on the rail, leaning against the ropes of the mainsail watching the progress of the pirates as they stripped the ship of everything worth taking, piling it on the maindeck of the Draco. When all her men were back aboard and the grappling lines were cut loose Alex pulled a dagger from her belt and sent it flying into the deck of the Helios, between the feet of the bound captives.
Once they were well away from the Helios, Alex oversaw the division of the spoils, quickly and ruthlessly settling any disputes that arose. Alex claimed the ‘little one’ as part of her captain’s share. When questioned about the cabin boy Alex assured them she would see personally to the ‘boy’s’ education and indoctrinization into the way’s of the crew of the Draco.
Casks of rum were broken out and the men proceeded to celebrate as a blood red sun sank below the horizon, painting the sea with its ghastly color.
“Have dinner brought to my cabin, Mr. Davis.” Alex instructed as she finally headed in that direction after sharing a few mugs with her men.
“Captain, I know that your new cabin boy is no boy. How long do you think you can fool the men?” Mr. Davis whispered against her ear.
“Long enough to get her to Port Royale and out of rough hands.” Alex stated, and strode away, closing the matter.
Alex ducked into the gloom of her cabin, lighting the lantern that swung from the center of the room. The sight that greeted her widened the crack in her heart as the girl lay on the bed, curled up around a book, fast asleep. Alex studied the small figure and wondered at the age. Red gold hair was tied back in a pony tail, a kerchief covering her head. One softly rounded hip was discernible as she lay on her side, but the visible forearms were corded with wiry muscle.
With a sigh Alex hung her sword belt on its peg and dropped her empty pistols to the desk. The noise woke the girl and she looked around sleepily, her eyes settling immediately on Alex.
“I... I’m sorry,” the girl muttered, sliding off the bed and holding out the book towards Alex.
“It’s okay, someone should get some use out of them,” Alex shrugged, dropping to her chair and proceeding to clean her pistols.
“What’s your name?” the pirate questioned without raising her eyes from her task.
“Gen, um, Genevieve Dubois. Shouldn’t I be doing that?” Genevieve pointed to the pistols.
“Do you know how?” Blue eyes met green and Genevieve nodded in ascent.
“Then you can help,” Alex pointed to another chair by the desk and the girl moved to it. She took up one of the pistols and removed the spent cap from beneath the hammer, dropping it into the bowl on the desk before retrieving a piece of the soft rag Alex was using. She wet it carefully from the bottle of cleaning fluid and proceeded to thread it through the cleaning rod, carefully swabbing out the barrel.
At that moment a knock sounded at the door and at Alex’s curt “Enter” Mr. Davis entered, placing a tray of meat and fruit on the desk.
“As soon as the men are up and about enough head for Port Royale. We’ve had some good hauls this past month. They’re in need of some shore time to spend their loot and bed some whores.” Alex instructed coldly.
“Looks like you might need a whore yourself, Captain,” Mr. Davis shot her a lascivious grin and wiggled his eyebrows at her.
“Aye, Captain,” he threw her a mocking salute and left.
Green eyes narrowed before a smile curved soft lips. “I guess I should’ve remembered the stories.” Genevieve grinned.
It was Alex’s turn to let her jaw hang open in shock as she studied the girl with new eyes.
“From the sailors aboard the Helios. Some of them sounded like they were hoping to run into you. I kind of expected you to be “bigger” and “bigger”,” Genevieve raised her hands above her head, then out from her chest to illustrate her point.
Alex burst out laughing, a hearty belly laugh that left her sides hurting and tears streaming from her eyes.
Genevieve dug into the food with a relish reserved for the half starved and Alex looked on as she munched quietly on an orange.
“Cabin boys always get what’s left and there was never much left,” Genevieve shrugged apologetically around a mouthful of mango.
A tear slid from the corner of Genevieve’s eye and she wiped it away impatiently with the back of her hand. She sat back in the chair, her appetite gone now. With a sigh she reached for the pistol she had been cleaning and picked up where she’d left off.
Alex watched the emotions play across the girl’s face in silence remembering a father who had left her mother with two small children to raise, going off to seek his fortune elsewhere. She wondered what it was like to have a father who risked his life to deliver his child into safe hands. Alex’s mind refused to wrap around the concept so she pushed it to the back of her mind to be examined at a later time. She poured out two mugs of port placing one in front of Genevieve before reaching for a pistol, joining Genevieve in her task.
For a while the only sounds were that of the men’s revelry as they celebrated their victory, both women lost in their struggle with their own personal demons. As the level of Genevieve’s port lowered, so did her inhibitions and she began to tell Alex a story, an ancient Greek myth about a lost mariner, cursed to sail the seas for eternity. Alex listened enraptured as the girl unfolded the story and spoke with such eloquence that the pirate could picture the events in her head.
The storytelling was thirsty work and Alex kept Genevieve’s mug filled. Barely into the second tale Genevieve’s speech began to slur as she now stood in the center of the room, animated gestures punctuating certain points of the story. Alex continued to watch and listen as she wrapped the now cleaned and oiled pistols in oil rags and put them away.
As the motion of the ship and the amount of port she’d consumed took their toll Genevieve stumbled in her pacing only to find Alex beside her, catching her and preventing a fall to the deck. Genevieve looked up at Alex with narrowed eyes.
“I’m not surprised,” Alex smiled, attempting to steer her back towards the chair when the girl turned in the pirate’s arms, grasping her upper arms and staring deeply into eyes of cerulean blue.
“By the gods, you are beautiful!” Genevieve exclaimed and Alex pulled her head back in surprise at the girl’s outburst.
“Uh huh, and you are drunk,” Alex replied with a wry grimace, continuing to move the girl towards the chair, pushing her into it gently.
The girl’s hands were tangled now in the ties of Alex’s shirt and the pirate found herself unable to pull away without ripping it, her face mere inches from the girl’s.
The pirate’s eyes opened wide in shock as Genevieve suddenly pressed her lips to Alex’s in a tentative kiss. A low groan rumbled deep in her chest as desire knifed through her gut. With a concerted effort, Alex pulled away. So now your crimes include child molesting? Alex berated herself.
“What do you think you’re doing?” Alex’s face became a cool mask as she slammed the lid on her passion.
“I thought it was obvious, I was trying to seduce you.” Genevieve looked up, her eyes clouded with desire and Alex took a step backwards. This was not the look of a child.
“You’re just a child.” Alex said as much to herself as to Genevieve.
“I’m eighteen, well old enough to know what my body’s feeling.” With that Genevieve moved forward pulling the pirate’s head down to hers, pressing her lips once more to the softness of Alex’s. A low moan escaped Genevieve’s throat as Alex’s lips parted beneath hers. The pirate’s tongue gently explored the warm softness.
Alex was brought abruptly back to earth as an incessant pounding at the door broke into her consciousness. With a concerted effort of will Alex pulled herself away, carefully disentangling Genevieve’s fingers from the laces of her shirt.
My god, what was I thinking? the pirate cursed herself as Genevieve stared at her in wide eyed wonder. She’s drunk, she doesn’t know what she’s doing.
“Captain! There’s a storm coming in!” the voice of Mr. Davis called to her through the closed door and she hurried to open it.
“Are the men in any shape to handle it?” she questioned, forcing him to back up as she exited the cabin and closed the door behind her.
“Probably not,” he indicated the prone figures strewn about the deck.
Alex looked at the night sky critically. The moon was still unobscured by clouds but she could see the darkness brewing off to the east and smelled the scent of rain on the wind as it blew in from that direction.
Alex dragged him back into her cabin and laid out the chart, pointing to a small ring of islands.
She needn’t have added the last as Mr. Davis sprinted to his task barking out the orders. Alex moved forward, lending her hand where she could. At one point she saw Genevieve poke her head out of the cabin but Alex was quickly in front of her, prepared to push her back inside. Genevieve tried to stand firm but the increased swaying of the ship caused her to clutch at her stomach. With a firm but gentle hand Alex led her back inside and handed her a bucket.
“You see what you can do about securing things in here.” Alex swept a hand around the cabin and left.
They reached the shelter of the cove just as the storm hit with full force and Alex breathed a sigh of relief. Rain fell in sheets but the islands blocked most of the fury of the wind and waves. Chains rattled loudly as the anchor dropped into the calmer waters.
When everything was secure and the men bedded down to wait out the storm Alex finally headed back to her cabin but was stopped as Mr. Davis laid a hand on her arm. She was soaked to the skin and impatient to be out of the rain and she glared at him, an eyebrow raised in silent query.
“I saw the look on her face in there, I thought you wanted to keep her out of rough hands,” he spoke quietly.
“It’s none of your business,” she lashed out at him, the guilt she was feeling finding release in her angered outburst.
“I have no heart, Mr. Davis. The men say so themselves. How could it ever interfere with my head?” She spoke grimly, pulling away from him to continue on to her cabin.
Genevieve was sprawled across the bed, her head hanging over the side above the bucket. Alex inhaled the sharp stench of vomit but it seemed the girl had been careful in her illness. There were no traces anywhere else in the cabin and for that Alex was grateful. Everything that might’ve moved around in the cabin was stowed away or tied down. Genevieve seemed to be sleeping peacefully now and Alex picked up the bucket, opening the window and dumping it’s contents into the water. She tied a rope to the bucket and lowered it into the water, letting it fill only a little before hauling it up, rinsing it before setting it beside the bed again.
Alex stripped out of her wet clothes laying them across a chair to dry before donning a loose fitting tunic that reached to mid-thigh and crawling into bed. Genevieve was oblivious as Alex turned her the right way in the bed so she could stretch her long frame out comfortably then fell immediately into an exhausted sleep.
Alex awakened to sunlight streaming through the aft windows, and tried to ease her cramped muscles but found herself pinned to the bed by the weight of one small figure twined around her like an octopus. Alex reveled in the softness of Genevieve’s body pressing against hers, letting her mind wander to the interrupted kiss of the previous night. You’ve been at sea too long, Alexis. You’ve come down to seducing innocents. You’re losing it. Get away now while you still have a chance.... Just then Genevieve moved, her thigh suddenly pressing against Alex’s center and she groaned, her body coming alive with the contact.
She reached out to touch the rich softness of the girl’s hair and paused, looking at her hand as if seeing it for the first time. She turned it over and saw the callus pattern on her palm, calluses built from wielding a cutlass. It looked normal enough, strong, long fingered and yet, how many lives had been cut short by that hand? How many men had fallen, fighting to hold on to what was rightfully theirs?
You should’ve run when you had the chance, Genevieve Dubois. Do you know what kind of monster you’ve chosen to sail with?
“Hey, get off of me,” she muttered, unsuccessfully trying to release herself from the death grip Genevieve had on Alex’s shirt.
“Oh, sorry,” the girl murmured pulling away and rolling off the bed, regretting the motion instantly as a dull throb erupted in her head. With a moan of pain she sat back down, clutching her head in her hands.
Suddenly the sounds of angry voices were heard on the deck followed by the sounds of swords clashing. With a muttered curse Alex yanked on her clothes and boots, strapping on her cutlass before striding out the door and into the bright sunlight, Genevieve following close behind.
The source of the noise was obvious as two burly sailors stood nose to nose, cutlasses locked above their heads.
“Aye, Captain,” both men spoke in unison.
“What are her rules?” Genevieve questioned of Mr. Davis, whom she found standing beside her.
“But that’s not fair,” Genevieve exclaimed, keeping her voice low, but Alex turned and faced her, the pirate’s face set in a hard mask.
Alex retrieved a whip from her cabin and calmly handed it to Mr. Davis. All the men lined the rails of the ship as the punishment was carried out. The captain took Genevieve’s arm and led her to the railing overlooking the main deck.
“I would spare you this if I could but all the men are required to watch,” Alex spoke to Genevieve in a low voice, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder.
Genevieve had seen a whipping carried out on the Helios, the experience had been sickening. The other sailors had stood around jeering, further humiliating the subject of the first mate’s cat-o’-nine. Bets were placed as to how many lashes the man would take before he passed out. The man had been whipped until his back was a bloody mass and he hung unconscious from the ropes binding his wrists. Genevieve had spent the rest of the afternoon clinging to the aft railing, pouring the contents of her stomach into the sea.
Now Genevieve noted that on this ship the usual cat-o’-nine had been replaced with a long whip and the men watching were silent, almost reverent. Unlike the captain of the Helios who had fled to his cabin, Alex was not only in attendance but stood at a careful parade rest, hands clasped behind her back, eyes on the bare backs of the two men bound to the mast. Her face was an unreadable mask as Mr. Davis looked up to her, silently requesting permission to begin the punishment.
At Alex’s silent nod Mr. Davis shook out the whip, swinging it carefully around his body a few times and then began abruptly. In a smooth rhythmic motion he opened lines of blood across the backs of the men, alternating from one to the other with each stroke, their screams of pain began almost immediately and Genevieve saw no jeering faces among the men gathered at the rails, only solemn silence.
Genevieve flinched as each blow landed, her knuckles on the rail were white and splinters of wood dug into her palms. A concerted effort of will kept her from falling to her knees as the men’s screams of pain echoed in the calm waters of the atoll’s lagoon. It was over quickly, the men were still conscious as they were eased from their bindings and led into the hold.
Face streaming with silent tears Genevieve looked up at Alex, catching a glimpse of something that looked shockingly like pain before it quickly disappeared behind a dispassionate facade as the pirate turned on her heel and strode down the stairs to stand beside her first mate.
He looked at her and the look on his face shot through to Genevieve’s core. His eyes spoke of forgiveness, and the blonde woman frowned in puzzlement.
“Aye, Captain,” Mr. Davis strode forward as Alex made her way back up to the wheel house to get a better view of the islands surrounding them.
The pounding in Genevieve’s head was lessening somewhat and she turned to stare up at the pirate who was so different from the woman she had spent the evening with. Gone was the lighthearted banter and gentle demeanor, replaced with a cold ruthlessness that spoke of command.
With a careful tread Genevieve made her way to stand beside Alex, waiting until the pirate acknowledged her with a raised brow.
“What are my duties, Captain?” Genevieve questioned, her eyes downcast to show the respect that was her station.
“To serve me, you have no other duties other than your obligation to be at my side. It will make it easier for you to continue to hide your identity,” Alex spoke in a barely audible whisper.
“Come, I feel the need for a bath and I know just the place.” Alex’s voice was louder now, shaking off the pall that had settled on the ship.
They landed the boat a short way from Mr. Davis’ and Alex headed off in the opposite direction from the supply detail. Genevieve followed behind carrying a duffel which Alex had packed for their expedition. The pirate spoke little as she cut her way through an overgrown path leading away from the beach.
Genevieve drew her breath in on a gasp as they suddenly emerged from the jungle into a small clearing at the base of a waterfall. The surrounding area was a riot of color against the gray background of a cliff which rose straight up from the edge of a small clear pool.
Alex took the duffel from Genevieve and tossed it down on a large flat rock at the water’s edge. Her clothes soon followed and she stood on the edge of the rock a moment before diving into the pool.
Genevieve was still standing, frozen to the spot, stunned by the vision of Alex’s naked form.
The pirate’s head emerged from the water a short time later and she turned to look questioningly at the girl.
“Um,...” Genevieve shook herself mentally and moved forward, stripping off her own clothes self-consciously, aware of the dark haired woman’s eyes following her every move.
She breathed a sigh of relief as she unwrapped the cloth band that covered her breasts and Alex’s eyes widened in surprise. ‘How’d she keep all that hidden?’ the pirate wondered.
Genevieve followed Alex’s lead and dove into the water, coming up immediately sucking air into her lungs as the icy chill of the water hit her.
“Holy Mother of God!” Genevieve’s lips were blue as she shivered, heading immediately for shore.
“Not if it kills me first,” Genevieve returned through chattering teeth but she could already feel her body adjusting to the temperature.
Alex moved to the edge of the pool and began pulling things out of the duffel. Finally finding what she was looking for, Alex handed a sliver of soap and a cloth to Genevieve and took one for herself.
Both women were silent as they scrubbed the sweat and grime from their bodies until Genevieve moved behind Alex and began scrubbing her back. The pirate relaxed into the gentle pressure of the girl’s attentions, allowing herself to close her eyes and give in to the sensation of the small hands on her skin.
Genevieve felt the pirate suddenly stiffen under her fingers, her whole body coiled like a spring as her eyes searched the surrounding jungle. A figure suddenly stepped forward from the undergrowth and the blonde felt the tension just as suddenly leave Alex as Mr. Davis waved to them and came up to the water’s edge and squatted down. Dipping his hand into the clear water of the pool he brought it to his lips, drinking deeply before addressing the two women.
“The men are off hunting, mind if I join you two for a bath?” he grinned.
Genevieve gasped in shock, trying to keep Alex’s body between herself and the first mate, fingers digging into the pirate’s shoulders.
“Relax, Genevieve, he knows,” Alex spoke quietly over her shoulder, gently loosening the death grip the blonde had on her.
Genevieve felt a tingle crawl up her spine as her name rolled off the pirate’s tongue for the first time but the small thrill was replaced by another gasp of shock as she looked up to see the first mate’s back as he stripped off his shirt in preparation for his bath. His back was a mass of whip scars, they spread across all of his back and disappeared into the waist band of his trousers.
Alex turned slightly to catch sight of Genevieve’s face and followed her eyes to see what had caused the sudden outburst. The cold mask dropped back over her face as she moved away from the blonde woman and took the soap from limp fingers. As a splash heralded Mr. Davis’ entry into the pool she turned and waited patiently for him to surface, he did so on a gasp.
“Whoa, I think I have two knots in my throat,” he grinned and Alex laughed out loud, tossing the soap to him and then the cloth.
It took Genevieve a moment to puzzle out that remark and as the answer came she flushed furiously, and ducked under the water to hide her embarrassment.
“I think your friend is not so worldly as you, Captain,” Mr. Davis commented, indicating Genevieve with a nod of his head.
Genevieve turned at that comment, a mischievous grin coloring her features as she sent a hand across the water catching Alex full in the face with a generous splash. A look of horror crossed her features as Alex rose menacingly from the water and faced the blonde. Genevieve swallowed convulsively but stood her ground.
“Of course you know, this means war,” Alex spoke in a low growl and lunged for the blonde, catching her about the waist she suddenly heaved the smaller woman out of the water, and threw her into a deeper part of the pool accompanied by a howl of outrage from Genevieve.
When the blonde didn’t immediately surface Alex’s frowned in consternation and headed for the spot where Genevieve had gone into the water. Suddenly her legs were caught in a fierce hold and she took in a lungfull of air just before she went under. Just as quickly she was released and she surfaced just after the blonde.
“Congratulations, DuBois, you’re the first one to count coupe’ on the captain,” Mr. Davis was laughing heartily as he continued to scrub himself.
Genevieve and Alex looked at each other, an unspoken agreement lit both their faces in a menacing grin and they moved forward towards the oblivious first mate. He gave a shout of surprise as he was suddenly deluged with a shower of water as both women sent wave after wave of water his way. Their laughter rang through the area as Mr. Davis retaliated in kind until they all collapsed onto the rocks in the shallower part of the pool.
A loud rumble from Genevieve’s stomach finally broke the companionable silence and Mr. Davis reached for the bag he’d tucked into the cool shade of a rock before entering the pool. A quick search produced a bunch of bananas and a few of mangos. Genevieve tucked into the food with the same relish she’d exhibited the night before causing a look of disbelief on the first mate’s face as he reached into his bag this time bringing out a small packet of salted meat.
“Where does she put it?” he questioned of the captain.
“I think they were starving her aboard the Helios,” she spoke with a frown glancing at the blonde who looked at them both, realizing she was the object of their conversation.
That got a raised brow from Alex and a guffaw of laughter from Mr. Davis.
“A woman after me own heart,” he responded, handing across a chunk of meat for Genevieve.
It was late afternoon before they headed back to the beach, Alex maintaining a careful distance from the smaller woman once they cleared the trees. Genevieve once again carried the duffel with their now clean clothes, her assets concealed beneath the binding cloth.
A large fire pit had been dug in the sand, well up from the water’s edge and a large pig was roasting over a makeshift spit, tended by a pudgy sailor.
“Mr. Jones, I see we’ll have the pleasure of your cooking tonight,” Alex grinned, moving forward to examine his project more closely.
“Aye, Captain, Mr. Davis gave me free rein,” he smiled broadly, wiping his hands on a large piece of linen which was slung over one shoulder.
“I’ll be heading back to the ship now. I’ll send someone out later with some rum if there’s any left after last night,” Alex turned on her heel, heading towards the boat with Genevieve close on her heels.
She felt the eyes which followed from the cover of the trees, but refrained from glancing over her shoulder until they were both settled in the boat and pulling away from shore. At that point Mr. Davis’ shadowy figure was standing next to Jones’ by the fire pit. He gave her a casual wave but the look on his face was brooding. A sudden sense of foreboding settled over Alex’s shoulders like a cloak.
Once back in her cabin Alex sat back with her blades and a whetstone, proceeding to hone the weapons as Genevieve opened the windows to air out the cabin and the bedding. As she did so she began another story, a tale of the twelve labors of Hercules. The doorway to the main deck was open and Alex watched curiously as a few of the men found mending or rope braiding to do that would keep them close to her door. With a bemused smile the pirate realized that they were listening carefully to the story as Genevieve spun it out, reeling her audience in as the little blonde became aware of them.
On impulse, Alex gently pushed Genevieve out onto the main deck and indicated she should continue as the captain took up a seat on a convenient cask and continued her task. Taking their cue from the captain, the men continued their tasks trying to make as little noise as possible while still getting the work done.
As her tale came to a close with a flourish the men burst into applause and Genevieve’s face flushed with color at the unexpected tribute. She moved to stand beside Alex as the men continued with their tasks enthusiastically, the noise level returning to normal as ropes thumped to the deck and the men began their usual banter as they worked together to repair worn ropes and mend the sails that the previous nights storm had ripped.
“When I was aboard the Helios, I wasn’t allowed to tell stories except to the captain once he found out about my penchant for them. He always demanded tales of blood thirsty pirates being bested by the king’s soldiers or wily merchantman captains or bawdy tales.” Genevieve spoke quietly, searching the inscrutable features of the pirate captain before her.
“The Helios was owned by Lord Connelly, one of the biggest slave holders in Jamaica.” Genevieve suddenly made the connection.
“Aye,” the captain nodded. “But the sailors aboard his ships are innocent victims, that pay for their loyalty with their lives.” Alex set aside her cutlass, looking down at her hands and flexing them once before moving abruptly, taking her weapons and disappearing back into her cabin.
That one gesture spoke more than any words could and Genevieve’s eyes followed the stiff back of the pirate captain a new understanding coloring her features.
She was brought from her reverie by the sound of the long boat returning.
“Dubois, tell the captain the feast will be ready in about an hour,” Mr. Davis called as he bound over the rail and onto the deck. He quickly turned to the other men and began directing them in preparation for getting all the men to the island, and securing the casks of rum in the long boat.
“Aye, sir,” Genevieve acknowledged and headed for Alex’s cabin. She knocked first and at the captain’s gruff “Come!” she entered to find the dark haired woman seated at the desk, the log book open before her and a quill in her hand.
She passed on Mr. Davis’ message which received a nod in acknowledgment. Genevieve stared at the impassive face a moment her heart lurching at the darkly beautiful woman before her. A vague flash of memory whispered through her mind from the previous night, she didn’t remember much but that flash was enough to color her features with a pink flush as she remembered staring into those blue eyes at very close range. A warmth spread through her body as more flashes of memory asserted themselves. A burning question burst from her lips before she could stop it.
“Why did you turn me down when I offered myself to you last night?” It was out, she couldn’t take it back so she faced the pirate squarely, waiting for the brush off she expected.
“I didn’t turn you down, we were interrupted. I must remember to thank Mr. Davis for his timely intervention,” Alex looked up into Genevieve’s startled face and grimaced. “You were drunk, I shouldn’t have taken advantage of that.�94"
‘One more weight to add to that pile of guilt she carries on her shoulders,’ Genevieve realized and moved forward until she was leaning on the desk staring the dark haired pirate in the eye.
“Don’t you dare diminish my part in this. Yes, I was drunk but I distinctly remember making the first move,” she shot back, temper flaring at the cool aloofness on the pirate’s face.
“Captain, it’s time!” Mr. Davis called from the door, pausing as he caught sight of the women poised across the desk from each other, looking like two lioness’ engaged in a battle of wills. He felt a pang of sympathy for Alex, the little blonde looked like she was holding her own. He made a mental note to have a chat with the “cabin boy” later.
The women turned away from each other simultaneously, the tension broken by the first mate’s entrance.
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There’s a lot of flexibility and personal freedom associated with self-employment that can be a great benefit to your lifestyle and your pocketbook. However, because of the somewhat unpredictable nature of self-employment, it can make acquiring a mortgage a little more difficult. If you’ve recently become self-employed or have been in the game for a while, here are some things you may want to consider before submitting your mortgage application.
20% is often considered the magic number when it comes to the down payment because this will allow you to avoid homeowner’s insurance. However, if you’re self-employed, you may want to consider putting even more money down as this will be an even stronger signifier to lenders that you’re prepared for homeownership and in control of your finances. While your down payment will provide you with equity instantly, a higher payment will also lower your monthly cost and make your finances even more secure from month to month.
The amount of debt a potential homeowner has can adversely affect any mortgage application, but in the event you’re self-employed, a high debt load means even more money is being paid out of a salary that is not necessarily predictable. By paying off the debts you can before applying for your mortgage, you’ll be able to invest that much more of your hard-earned money into your monthly payment without breaking the bank and cutting monthly expenditures.
Being self-employed means you’ll have more to prove to your lender, but if you have a spotty self-employment history and long periods without bringing in any income, this will make it even harder. Instead of jumping into the mortgage market soon after becoming self-employed, try and have at least two years of successful self-employment behind you. By being able to prove this, the lender will see that you’re a solid financial bet and an experienced professional who will be able to find work when it’s required.
The nature of being self-employed and the fluctuations in income that can come along with it can make a mortgage lender nervous. However, by having a solid history of self-employment behind you and minimizing your debt load, you’ll be able to prove to the lender that you’re serious about home ownership. If you’re currently perusing the market for a home, contact one of our mortgage professionals for more information.
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2019-04-20T06:31:57Z
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https://randallsmortgageblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/self-employed-heres-what-youll-need-to-get-a-mortgage-approval/
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This media file needs to be cleaned up, because: Insufficient contrast between the two colours used..
English: A map displaying today's Unitary states and federations.
2013年2月27號 (三) 19:46 940 × 477（1.66 MB） Murrinator Map is very wrong. Brazil, USA, and Russia are federal.
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Thanks for the help last time. I would like to make the font in my site identity tagline much larger, but keep the font on my home page and posts smaller. But the two are linked. Is there code that would allow me to increase the size of “Perspectives on Politics, Theology, and the Environment from Rural America” in my site identity tagline (to, perhaps “Huge”) but to allow my post fonts, my menu font, etc. to stay “normal”? My site is: https://ruralenvironment.net/ . Thanks in advance for your help.
The blog I need help with is ruralenvironment.net.
The topic ‘Unlinking site identity tagline font size from menu buttons, post text, etc.’ is closed to new replies.
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https://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unlinking-site-identity-tagline-font-size-from-menu-buttons-post-text-etc/
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Why I joined Made To Crave OBS: God is calling me.
For several years now, Romans 12:1 & 2 has eaten at me.
I so desire to offer my body as a living sacrifice, to be obedient to my Lord and Savior. Yet I continue to fight with my weight and emotional eating habits.
Last year, I ran into an article Lysa TerKeurst wrote, The Verse That Made Me Cringe, back in the spring of 2011.
who is in (me), whom (I) have received from God?
20 (I was) bought at a price.
Therefore honor God with (my) body.
I love and admire so many beautiful women in my life. But. I could not think of one woman I know that I would want to change places with for any amount of time. We are all human and fallible, each with our own issues.
And then she came to me!
I would love to be with Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus. To bask in His very presence. To soak in His healing words. So I started seeking Bible study after Bible study. Although I have been reading through the Bible annually, I hadn’t really studied it for myself. A few months ago, I started to do just that. I just can not get enough!
I was Made To Crave!
Romans 12:2 was the very first verse that kept coming to me over and over. Took me a long time to figure out just what that verse looked like in my life. Awesome post and so glad to be on the made to crave journey with you!! Thanks for sharing.
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2019-04-18T17:21:02Z
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https://icrhino2014.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/you-are-invited/
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This is Kristofer Hivju and Kristoffer Metcalfe’s show, the series that actor Hivju, “Game of Thrones” Wildlings leader Tormund Giantsbane, and Metcalfe “Cupid’s Balls”), developed together for near 15 years.
But Hivju is nowhere to be seen in the lovely opening scene where two late teens, identical twins, drive a battered caravan over a hill, whose dramatic back granite cliffs suddenly give way to a bay, with a sandy beach, the sea boiling with white water.
The joy haunts them for the rest of their life, and their pride at founding a local surfing community, which puts the icy cold water bay on the surfing map.
15 years later, the twins, Erik and Adam, are struggling to remain local heroes. Erik still lives in the even-more battered trailer, still parked on the beach, a classic surfing bum and semi figure-of-fun going on 40 but behaving as if he’s 15, as Adam puts it.
Adam has moved down the coast, to an extraordinary, but highly bourgeois, fjord island of Sakrisøy, become an entrepreneur, tempting tourists to experience traditional Norwegian living, bungalows and fishing, with mark-ups for mod cons. But he’s a stranger to his own family of doting wife Ingrid and two kids.
Then tragedy strikes. Eric loses everything he has, driving the trailer off a cliff into the sea. He reaches out to Adam, who totally rejects him. A quarrel breaks out; Erik and Ingrid, Adam’s wife, accidentally kill Adam. When Adam’s body is discovered, his corpse is taken to be Erik’s. To cover the crime, and to save his brother’s family, Erik takes on Adam’s identity, and has the chance to come of age himself, not as Adam but an ultimately more happy Erik.
This is an upbeat second-chance thriller in which the authors ask whether identity can be far more fluid, shaped by the individual not role models, in a far more fluid world. Variety talked to Metcalfe on the eve of Series Mania, where “Twin” screens in competition.
“Twin” looks from its early stretches like an identity thriller, about how men try to be local heroes, become trapped in cliché: Erik, the surfing wild man, Adam, the entrepreneur pillar of the local establishment. Ingrid, likewise, is trapped, trying to be the perfect mother/wife….
Well, back in the days, the idea for “Twin” was even to have a Western, the twin brothers as a criminal and a priest, and the criminal taking the priest’s gown when he was killed. But in time it got more interesting to use this identity-switch story to tell something about my own life as a father and family man. I could explore more universal existential storylines by using it in simpler, identifiable human everyday conflicts.
The biggest challenge for the characters is getting away with murder, but they are also challenged by the more relatable question of how far we are willing to go to preserve a sense of normality in our lives.
In line with much top recent European drama,“Twin” mixes a trinity of a thriller narrative, character-driven drama and broader social themes. How did you keep all those balls in the air when writing?
With all writing you need clear guidelines with kind of roadmaps and rules for yourself. For “Twin” it’s been important to always ask ourselves: Could this scene or sequence work in any other family-drama – even without having the identity switch? And if so, then ask: How can we twist and push these familiar situations beyond what we normally would? It’s also been important to never play along with the absurdity in some of the situations we end up with, but rather focus on portraying and emphasizing the naturalism, however hard it often proved.
“Twin” doesn’t invite any obvious directorial style, so what were your guidelines when directing.
My directorial vision for “Twin” was to not allow the feel of assertion or to let the storytelling be in front. We were never allowed to “show off”. For instance, when the photographers wanted to use nice camera movements, I would ask: ‘How do you know how the camera would react in this situation, when the characters don’t?’ The same with working with the actors – I encouraged impulsiveness; they were never allowed be ahead of the situation – and never jump to conclusions.
This is a passion project, yours and Kristoffer Hivju’s. How did you and Hivju develop the figure of Erik and how did you direct Kristofer on a series he’s been so involved in over 15 years?
The scenery is to die for. How much is digital? How much does it cost to say at a hotel on Adam’s island?
I know, and I really hope Lofoten will work in an emotional way for the audience, helping it to feel the dramatic inner life of the characters. For me the mountains and the weather constantly create a feeling of imprisonment. And, no, nothing is digital, it’s just the way it looks up there. And it’s not as expensive to stay at Sakrisøy, as Adam would like you to believe.
The production is backed by some of the key big players on the Nordic production scene: NRK, which has produced “Occupied,” “State of Happiness,” now “Atlantic Crossing”; Nordisk, which produces and also sells; the Nordisk Film & TV Fund. These players help shape Nordisk drama. What kind of notes did they give you?
The support from NRK and Nordisk Film has been priceless throughout development and production. They have given me a trust and confidence I feel honored by. I believe we are benefitting from the Nordic players’ sense of self-esteem these past few years. They have believed in a story and a vision not easily contained in safe boxes. I also need to emphasize the collaboration with NRK producer and Emmy winner Vegard Stenberg-Eriksen, the way he has challenged me and my crew to go further, where we believed we never could, has made the series as unique as I hope it will be perceived.
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2019-04-24T05:53:51Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/norway-kristoffer-metcalfe-talks-twin-114940686.html
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My boyfriend T om *loves* cricket. He keeps wicket for Temple Grafton Cricket Club who are raising money to build snazzy new changing rooms. To this end, they’re holding a Race Night at Binton Social Club on Friday 26th February. Last year it was a really good night out (even if I did miss half of it owing to travelling up from London…) and this year they’ve got some excellent prizes including a batting lesson and dinner with none other than Andrew Strauss. If you’re in the area, pop on over.
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2019-04-26T11:40:05Z
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https://lisaamartin.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/temple-grafton-cricket-club-race-night/
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Rat Boy was in a tizzy this week. I made the awesome yet tiny chocolate chip cookies twice.
Once for Hubby’s work buddies.
Once for Hubby’s poker party.
This explains how my week has been.
Good to know…no matter how big the kat, inside they’re still weird kittens.
This could be Kitchen Kat. If he wasn’t already neutered.
And now, because it’s Caturday, and because Hubby’s motorcycle has to go back to the mechanic in the morning (again), I’m going to go play some WoW.
Oh yeah, and I did post yesterday. The Word Press server must be in Greenland, because it was only 10:45 last night here, and it was already today on the post.
Guess I’d better make sure to get on it earlier from now on!
I look forward to Caturday!
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https://groovynoms.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/caturday-its-that-time-again/
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A child’s definition of art: first I think, then I draw a line around my think!
Crafters are not complicated. How hard is it to say “You’re a genius” and give us chocolate?
Given enough glue sticks, I could rule the world.
I can make anything with a hook and yarn. What’s your superpower?
I don’t know why my husband says I’m hard to shop for. Surely he knows where Hobby Lobby is.
I like to take slow, romantic walks down the craft aisles at Michaels.
I’m a craftaholic on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m on the road to the craft store.
I might look like I’m listening to you but in my head I’m sewing.
I’m in a good place right now. Not Emotionally. I’m just at the craft store.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce…? The cuckoo clock.
It all starts with one little bead.
I’ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
Keeping house is like stringing beads with no knot at the end of the thread.
My Husband Said If I Buy More Crafting Stuff He Will Leave Me… I’ll Miss Him!
Of course I talk to myself when I craft. Sometimes I need expert advice.
Scrapbooking is all fun and games until someone loses an eyelet.
Some call it empty nest. I call it new craft room.
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
There is no wrong way to knit. … We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.
Whoever said Disney was the happiest place on earth has clearly never been to Michael’s.
Whoever said handmade is cheap obviously never purchased craft supplies.
Why buy it for $7 when you can make it yourself for $92 of craft supplies.
You might be an artist if you chose to buy that new Russian Sable Number Six Round Brush instead of a Big Mac, a large fry, a milkshake, dessert, and five gallons of gas.
LOLOL This is an awesome post!
I thought you would appreciate it – you being a creative, crafty person!
Up until a few months ago I wouldn’t have appreciated the humour in this post. Now I have the Michaels bug. omg … this made me laugh out loud!
I know what you mean. We have a new Michaels store in the city near us – in the same strip mall as London Drugs. That pretty much covers all my shopping needs!
But what colour of grimy!?
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https://gogreygirl.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/arts-crafts-quotations/
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^ "Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy". Center for History and New Media. George Mason University.
^ "Avalon Project - Statement of Purpose". Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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UN Approached ????????????? What for???? they have been committing this type of atrocities for 65 years and the worlds applauds them. By supporting the UN, people all they are saying is "more atrocities, please!!!"
UN is the union (partnership) of the most bellicose, warmongering countries in the world, with USA as the No.1 member of their permanent Security Council (which I call "Insecurity Council"), a country rewarded with such distinguished position and power for being the only country in the history of our planet who used atomic bombs.
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2019-04-18T19:24:43Z
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https://portugheis.livejournal.com/273189.html
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The popular local liqueur genepi is distilled from the same wormwood plants as absinthe, so consume with caution.
I couldn't help but be a little awed. Sitting in a French ski chalet, toasting with a warm glass of spiced wine, I gazed over a snow-covered mountain landscape of small farms, one of which had produced the cheese bubbling in the dish in front of me. For years I've skied North American resorts designed to give one the feel of vacationing at an Alpine village.
The French Alps along the Italy and Switzerland borders are home to Portes du Soleil and Paradiski, two of the largest ski resort areas in the world. For a week, I rolled like a wheel of cheese down the hills and through the villages around these two resorts, dissolving exhausted like a melted mass of fondue at the end of each day.
But my challenge, in this era of package tours and homogenized vacations, was to discover if traveling through the French Alps, on and off the hills, still delivers a distinctive enough experience to merit the long trip, even late in the ski season.
Powered by a French-flag-colored combination of blue skies, white snow and red wine, I joined a local guide to see how many of France's Porte du Soleil ski resorts I could cover in a day.
For hours I swung around ridges, hitting bumps, bowls and powder stashes, slaloming through the trees, soaring to the mountaintops in high speed chairlifts. I continued my mountain traverse without repeating a run for so long that it seemed like I must be in another country.
I was. Switzerland. So I stopped for some cheese.
Portes du Soleil isn't so much a ski resort as an entire section of the Alps accessible via a single lift ticket. The Portes du Soleil mega-mountain chain covers 12 different connected resort areas serviced by a staggering 196 lifts (more than all of Lake Tahoe combined). Two resorts are on the Swiss side of the ridge (but lack formal border control, which makes the traverse a good route for athletic smugglers).
It seemed as though every turn revealed another postcard-worthy chalet awaiting skiers' arrival with local wines and cheeses, part of an array of some 90 slope-side restaurants offering fuel for the journey.
About a two-hour, winding drive south of Portes du Soleil is the Paradiski ski-plex with the Les Arcs and La Plagne resorts, which are in themselves a huge assembly of ski areas and villages.
Paradiski is at least three times the size of the largest North American resorts, boasting 96 lifts covering 260 miles of slopes leading to 20 separate ski villages with space for nearly 100,000 overnight guests. For good measure, the gondola connecting Les Arcs and La Plagne is the largest in the world, able to carry 200 passengers.
Even more impressive than the scale of these resorts was the price of a lift ticket: The most expensive daily pass at Portes du Soleil this season is $65 - which compares quite favorably to the $119 charged for a daily lift ticket at a single Tahoe resort, even without taking the cheese selection into account.
A good deal on a weeklong package tour, including hotel, lift tickets, rentals and two meals a day, can be found for under $1,000 - surprisingly reasonable for an area often considered to be solely the domain of lavish jet-setters.
The huge resorts and packaged vacations imply a mass-produced version of recreation, and indeed large tours from across Europe descend upon the areas during holiday time, complete with British lager-louts mooning French ski bunnies from the lifts, fur-clad Russians stumbling in high heels on the cobblestones, and what seems like half the population of France on their school breaks.
The ski village of Arc 1950 was prefabricated by the North American firm Intrawest, prompting the metaphysical question of whether an imitation Alpine town becomes, by definition, genuine by virtue of its location in the Alps.
While some modern lodges blend seamlessly into the tree-lined landscape, others built during a socialist-styled ski period of the 1970s aren't quite as subtle. The largest among many high-rise hotels around La Plagne is nicknamed "Le Titanic" due to its monstrous bulk jammed awkwardly into a mountain-sized "iceberg."
To get a proper feel of the comedy inherent in a couple hundred thousand skiers gathered in the hills for a holiday, be sure to rent the oft-quoted 1979 French movie classic "Les Bronzes Font Du Ski," sort of a Euro-ski version of the movie "Caddyshack."
The resorts' slopes do have the capacity to handle the load of skiers, a combination of their expansive terrain and high-speed network of lifts - so much so that one often feels alone. During my visit on a January week between the New Year's and school holidays, I didn't have a single minute wait at any of the lifts.
In fact, as I sat in the 100-year-old wooden mid-mountain chalet restaurant Le Sauget, I felt like a neighbor who had skied by for some homemade treats. The restaurant was full, but probably because everyone was lingering over a two-hour lunch, chatting with the staff and each other, rather than because of an ongoing crush of patrons.
Everyone can find his own space to play on, off and above the mountains. Paragliders soar through the skies over the slopes. Bobsledders rattle down the long, icy track maintained since the 1992 Olympics.
Sledders, cross-country skiers, snowshoers and even horse-pulled skijoring skiers slide through quiet side valleys among the hills. As spring approaches, the resorts are still enjoying some heavy snowfall, promising to continue offering good skiing until their official closing dates at the end of April.
As the weather warms and wildflowers bloom, golfers, bikers and hikers flock to the area, even as skiers still plunge down frigid mountaintop glaciers.
It's a good thing skiing takes a lot of energy, because traveling through the French Alps is a little like strolling along a 200-mile cheese buffet. The Savoie and Haute-Savoie regions in which the resorts reside are known for their local cheeses, fondues and meals heavy on the potatoes and sausage. Breakfast, lunch and dinner featured characteristic cheese appellations like Reblochon and Abondance that are actually illegal to import into the U.S.
So it was with an air of tasting a forbidden apple that I gorged on these "fruits of the mountains" at every stop, in every form - melted in hotpots for dipping, glazed over potatoes, cut with thin-sliced ham for breakfast or blended into crisp pizzas.
One dinner featured an après-meal cheese table with 20 regional varieties, an expanse of fromage equal to that of the mountains surrounding it.
Walking the streets of Morzine, a village at the base of Portes du Soleil, is to experience something both typical of any ski resort and uniquely local. A glaring neon penguin statue (mascot of the local professional hockey team) guards the town square, which contains an old-school carousel and communal ice rink. Cheesy T-shirt shops share the streets with family-owned cheese shops, some of which have been in the area for generations.
Along with wheels and wheels of regional cheeses, artisanal stores stock locally made sausages, honeys and bottles of the headache-inducing genepi liqueur, a distillation from Alpine herbs with questionable medicinal properties. And you can continue your journey of cheese almost all the way back to a cow's udder, as local producers provide tours of their facilities, complete with bilingual videos, educational diagrams and of course the tastings.
It was this local taste that defined the trip. Whether it's the taste of a stinky, squishy cheese, or the taste of adrenaline on a freestyle night-luging adventure, so long as you're willing to get off the beginner tourism runs and try something a little more advanced, the French Alps are better than the imitations - and worth the trip.
The vast scope of the resorts becomes a lot more personal when you stop at a family-run ski chalet to taste the grandmother's recently blended jam in a huge tureen on a communal dinner table, or if you meet the rancher who matches her horses by temperament to a visitor's nationality, or perhaps if you chat with a third-generation cheesemaker who not only is able to explain recipes for every varietal in the area, but also can recite the name of each of his dairy cows.
Flights: SFO-Geneva flights take about 14 hours (connecting through Paris) and are running about $1,100 on Air France ( www.airfrance.com). Ground: Geneva to Porte du Soleil is about 50 miles, a $54 mini bus ride; Paradiski about 120 miles, about a $112 shuttle ride. You also can reach Paradiski direct from Paris via the TGV high-speed train. A cable car connects the train station to Les Arcs resort. It's pretty easy to get around all the ski towns on free shuttle buses.
La Bergerie: 103 Route du Téléphérique, 74110 Morzine (+33) 4-5079-1369 www.hotel-bergerie.com. Friendly, family-run, sheep-themed chalet in central Morzine with small sauna, heated pool and fat house cats. About $300 per night for double room with kitchenette and breakfast.
Hotel Carlina: 73210 Macot La Plagne, Belle Plagne. (+33)-4-7909-7846. www.carlina-belleplagne.com. Slope-side lodge at La Plagne resort with spa, good restaurant and cheese table. About $500 for two adults, including breakfast and dinner.
Paradiski: Central booking, (+33) 4-7909-7979 for Les Arcs; (+33) 4-7907-8986 for La Plagne. www.paradiski.com. Second-largest connected ski area in the world, it consists of La Plagne and Les Arcs and Peisey-Vallandry resorts. Lifts open through summer for hiking, biking.
Portes du Soleil: (33) 4-5079-7222 for Les Gets; (+33) 4-5079-0038 for Morzine. www.portesdusoleil.com. Twelve connected ski resorts across France and Switzerland, the largest being Les Gets and Morzine. Lifts open through summer for hiking, biking.
Skijoring: (33) 6-0818-7854. www.skijoering-lesgets.com. Ranch du Lac's horse-powered skiing in the hills above Les Gets. About $68 for an hour getting dragged over trails through the countryside.
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2019-04-25T08:47:19Z
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Summaries and discussion below the break. If I didn't know the questioner, I didn't guess. If you asked a question and I missed you, feel free to identify yourself in the comments.
Offering a descriptive taxonomy about how state of mind is used in copyright law.
State of mind re: copyright liability - it is often said that copyright infringement strict liability. This differs from criminal law, where mens rea (criminal intent) typically matters.
If we look beyond liability, state of mind figures prominently in many different copyright doctrine. For example, authorship, including intent to be joint authors (both objective indicia and subjective intent). We haven't considered the intent of the lawsuit - are we protecting copyright or privacy, for example, but Judge McKeown on the Ninth Circuit recently argued we should. For ISPs, we have the red flag cases which have both subjective and objective elements.
Dave Fagundes: Property also deals with intent. Adverse possession and first possession have a whole mess of intent-related doctrines. Perhaps the ownership intent doctrines might help conceptualize these issues.
Pam Samuelson: Think about remedies as well. Innocent infringement, as well as willful infringement. It can play out also in relation to injunctive relief. Plaintiff's state of mind might matter with regard to obtaining injunctive relief. See also the new Kirtsaeng attorneys' fee case.
Ed Lee: Perhaps I should also look at the Supreme Court's patent cases.
Matthew Sag: If there is a universal theory about what state of mind should be for any of these doctrines, is there a logic that connects us to why we have copyright in the first place?
Ed Lee: I'm skeptical of a uniform theory. See, for instance, DMCA which is a negotiation between stakeholders.
Dmitry Karshtedt: My understanding is that civil liability more objective than subjective, while for criminal liability, intent is more subjective. and should we see the same play out in copyright?
We have an immodest goal of reforming remedies in copyright, more systematically including culpability in the analysis. Under the reformed regime, we would treat inadvertent infringement (where the infringer was unaware and couldn't reasonable become aware) and willful infringement (blatant disregard of copyright law) different from standard infringements (with a reasonable risk assumption).
The close cases are in the middle category of standard infringement. The default is standard infringement. Compensatory damages should be awarded in every case. Injunctions would be rare and no restitution for lost profits awarded in the inadvertent cases. We are trying to preserve statutory damages only for cases where it is difficult to prove actual damages. So the defendant in the standard infringement case could argue that statutory damages exceed actual damages.
Why bring it in? 1) Information forcing - incentivize owners of copyright to clarify ownership and terms of licenses. 2) Avoid overdeterrence of follow-on creation. 3) Increase fairness.
Ted Sichelman: In the patent context, we worry about transaction / licensing costs. It may matter for copyright as well. For example, if the work is an orphan work, why should I face huge potential liability?
Abraham: The inquiry should account for the difficulty of finding the copyright owner.
Ian Ayres: Does any kind of negligence go to willfulness because there is no reasonable basis for non-infringement?
Abraham: It's not clear how we would calculate such a thing: What is a reasonable risk, re: evaluation of risk of law. We're treating standard as a residual category. But we are still arguing about this point.
Pam Samuelson: Have you been thinking about remedies re: secondary liability? The framework appears to deal with direct liability, but secondary liability cases may be the more complicated cases, where we wonder how culpable is the platform? The statute tries to grapple with through 512.
Abraham: We didn't think about secondary liability until we talked with Lisa Ramsey last week.
Pam: Secondary liability is the area that needs the most reform!
Abraham: We'll have to bracket this right now. Secondary seems to follow primary, and we don't have a better model right now.
Shyam Balganesh: How much of your proposal unravels other parts of the system? Are you accounting for systemic effects? For example, if information forcing matters, why not deal with that through a heightened notice requirement? Do you think infringement is independently problematic, or is it the best place for achieving information forcing goals?
Abraham: Unlike information forcing, overdeterrence is harder to fix with levers in other places. This isn't the only way to accomplish these goals, and we don't claim that, or that it's the best way.
Jerry Liu: Is it necessary, from an overdeterrence standpoint, to distinguish between willful and standard infringement? Google Books was arguably willful infringement, but it was also efficient infringement.
Abraham: I think Google probably was a standard infringer, from a culpability standpoint. They took a fair use gamble, and they won.
Jerry: How about the MP3.com case?
Abraham: You can make an argument that format change / transferring medium is fair use, so standard.
Recent projects have looked at disputes between Chuck Berry and his piano player, and Orson Welles and a script-writer. In both cases, questions of audience appeal have been nagging at me, and I want to explore that further.
Can we better use audience appeal in the infringement context than the authorship context?
Audience appeal, from the Aalmuhammed v. Lee case (9th Cir 2000), is an important factor. Audience appeal turns on both contributions, (by potential coauthors), but "the share of each in the success cannot be appraised," citing Learned Hand. If that's right, and we can't evaluate audience appeal in the authorship context, is it a junk factor? If we can, how do we do it? And if we can, should we?
What do courts do with audience appeal? Mentioned in 21 cases, but 9 ignored it in reaching the decision. 9 found it weighed in favor of joint authorship, and 3 found it weighed against joint authorship?
How do we appraise it? If we find evidence of audience appeal from both contributions, at what point is the smaller contribution too small? 60/40?
Might audience appeal help with questions of infringement, for example in the Taurus / Led Zepellin case? Might we consider the appeal of Stairway to Heaven v. the appeal of Spirit's Taurus as a reason for public interest to weigh against injunctive relief? See Abend v. MCA (9th Cir. 1998).
Jake Linford: Perhaps talk to Paul Heald about his research on how musicians copy from each other. There is some potential danger in using audience appeal to decide infringement, injunctive relief, or damages, because that leads to a copyright regime where the party who is best-placed to take advantage of the works gets to use and make money with it, even if that party doesn't pay.
Peter DiCola: You are right to challenge Learned Hand. Audience appeal can be appraised. The question is whether it can be appraised convincingly. The part about in general where does audience appeal matter may be too general, and may not be at the heart of your paper.
Pam Samuelson: Some works have audience appeal, some don't, and it might not be relevant for unconventional expressive works For example, the internal design of computer programs are not appealing. You may need to unpack works where appeal matters and where it doesn't.
Jani McCutcheon: Watch where trademark and copyright protection overlap on this issue.
This paper is inspired by two recent controversies surrounding Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird: the appearance of Go Set a Watchmen, and the decision by her estate to pull the student-priced paperback from the marketplace. Both of these stories are murky. Lee may not have been in her right mind when Go Set a Watchmen was released, and the announcement from Hachette about the student-priced paperback suggest both the estate and Lee wanted the low-priced version discontinued.
Should motivations of the author or the heir matter for copyright decisions? Eva argues that it should. The law should be tougher on post-death copyright successors. We should treat them more like stewards, and require some duties on their part. If copyright ownership limits post-mordem access, heirs should be encouraged to take care.
What might stewardship mean? It has its origins in theology, traditionally applied to land. It's taken on a secular cast today. Stewardship suggests that the owner has duties as well as rights. Stewardship has something in common with commons advocates - copyright should be forward looking, and concerned about future generations. Bobbi Kwall has argued that authors are stewards, and I think it should be applied to heirs as well. Unlike authors, publishers, and distributors who did work with the work, stewardships step in as recipients of a gift, and perhaps they should step into some duties.
Brad Greenberg: A potential disconnect between assignments and statutory heirs of termination rights. What if the author's assignee is a good steward, and the children are poor heirs, from a stewardship standpoint? Is Stewart v. Abend's analysis of the renewal right a problem for your analysis? Should we also apply stewardship duties to non-author copyright owners?
Eva: To my mind, a post-death successor gains enhanced prominence in managing the copyright after death, and I'm trying to say something specific to that group of copyright owners.
Dave Fagundes: I like the idea of stewardship, but it's still inchoate, and I can't tell to whom is the steward responsible? The work? The public? The author's intent? What if authors wanted their families to be taken care of?
Ed Lee: Perhaps the moral rights of integrity literature could also be helpful, which is more about legacy than children.
Giancarlo Frosio: French case 2007 might be helpful. See also Kant.
Scholars seem to distrust claims by estates and heirs, but the tend to succeed in advocating for statutory change, and winning cases before the courts. But I found some recent claims that sound in mourning and grief that perhaps we shouldn't discount in copyright and right of publicity cases.
1) Anti-exploitation. Randy California was badgered for years to sue Jimmy Page, but his heirs stepped in to claim some recognition for him.
3) Purity narratives. Limit downstream uses, especially those that raise potential sexual purity.
4) Inheritance. It's all that the author left to the family.
5) Custody (like child custody). Children as caretakers of the work.
Copyright scholarship tends to ignore these types of claims, but we see them invoked successfully in cases like family businesses, bodily disposition, organs and genetic information, digital assets, like email, and succession laws dealing with omitted family members.
What would happen if IP took these interests seriously? Perhaps there is a desire for shared mourning and grief, both by authors' heir and fans. Fans circulate and disseminate broadly as part of public mourning, but mourning families look inward, seek silence, achieve some semblance of privacy. These interests might not be as irrational as we might think.
One solution might be to bring issues of estate planning more to the fore. Marvin Gaye and Frank Sinatra created a family business when they secured copyright, whether they meant to or not.
Rebecca Curtin: You've made a very sympathetic case, and you've repeatedly spoken about family. Do you mean family, or could you include designated heirs, like the Ray Charles foundation? What might that mean?
Andrew: We may need to think differently about those who inherit intestate and those who don't.
Brad Greenberg: The incentive theory of inheritance suggests that authors will create in part to benefit children. But there could be a labor theory of inheritance: this was the authors, like the children, and it goes to the children. In addition, is this really about IP, or just copyright?
Andrew: Copyright and right of publicity. My take is more of the labor than the incentive theory.
Q: Why does the right publicity survive death?
Andrew: Jennifer Rothman has a very good paper on this. Right of publicity is labelled as property, and property descends, so in some states it descends.
Peter DiCola: I enjoy the presentation, and I ask not to upset the applecart, but what might the First Amendment tell us about these arguments about importance of controlling meaning?
Andrew: I don't think these insights should change fair use outcomes, but my concern is that heirs' motivations are okay, especially in light of how they work in other cases. The emotional appeals are not inherently problematic. (Although I have some problems with the purity rationale).
Jake Linford: Is this project normative as well as descriptive?
Andrew: It started more descriptive, but normatively, I see no problem. Prescriptively, perhaps we could ask authors to be more clear about how their intent at registration / protection, for example.
Giancarlo: Is there space for a moral rights style argument here?
Andrew: Perhaps attribution is the best moral rights claim.
Giancarlo: Is there a mechanism is the composers of Blurred Lines had said no? Can you make the heirs grant a license?
Andrew: Blurred Lines is a declaratory judgment action - the derivative authors brought the case to foreclose liability.
Tim: The estate's emotional appeal in the Taurus complaint may have been somewhat strategic, trying to deal with the perception of greedy, rent-seeking heirs by promising to give money to sick children.
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2019-04-23T12:52:02Z
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Category Archives: It’s The Law!!!
Why is it, The Law?!?
Or, is it more of a guideline, than a rule? Here’s what I know, and not necessarily, when I knew it. The Law of Unintended Consequences exists in all endeavors, simply because you can’t plan for the unknown. The reason should be obvious, however, for the Amish among you, if you could plan for it, it would be known, and of course, not unknown.
What this means is, nobody knows anything. All we have are facts. The facts may lead you to a conclusion, however, your conclusion may be erroneous. Simply because some outside factor that you can’t possibly plan for because you don’t know that it exists, will take place, and then you’re hosed. Or screwed. Or, scrod in the future pluperfect tense.
I realize that I’ve buried the lead, but I can do that, as this isn’t news, it’s an opinion column, that is mine, as I do have one, but thusly, The Law of Unintended Consequences states that no matter what precautions you take, something unexpected will take place, and you’ll be at a point where maybe, things have gone horribly wrong. At which point, you may have to start over, accept the unintended consequences, or bail altogether.
For instance, you’re reading this after the election in the US, and I’m writing it beforehand. Therefore, you know who’s won, and I don’t. The media thinks they know, but they may be wrong. Hey, it could happen. According to those in the know, it already has, but I digress….
So, what this means is, you know more than I do by the time you read this. But I don’t know what you know. I may think I know, but I don’t. Because of the aforementioned law, which may only be a rule, or a guideline. If we are to define insanity, as some would, by doing the same thing and expecting to achieve different results, it follows that a definition of sanity would be the obverse, or, doing different things to achieve the same result.
The problem is, due to The Law, we don’t know what that result actually is. And, it may not be what you were originally going for. Sure, when walking forward, you may reasonably assume that at some point, you may get to where you’re going. However, to travel from here to there, you first have to take half the distance to get from there back to here. And, you must repeat the process ad nauseam, until you almost get to where you’re going.
Almost anything can happen during the time you’re traversing half the distance. Or to put more succinctly, you have a choice to make. If you make either one of two or possibly three choices as we’ve previously discussed, you can feel confident in the fact that you’ve made a choice, but not that you know how that choice is going to turn out.
For instance, when you come to a fork in the road, as we’ve previously discussed, and for sake of illustration, you can go either left or right. Now, you would think you have two possible outcomes with the choice you’re making, however, there’s actually four, as you must accept the fact that you didn’t make the other choice. How does this make you feel? You can’t know, because, It’s the LAW!!!
Disclaimer: As described above, I wrote this before the 2008 elections, and it was published after we knew who won. I’ve left it intact, as the same rule applies to the repost. I haven’t added any links, and I’d like to hope I’m 4 years wiser.
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2019-04-19T12:16:26Z
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https://matchesmalone.wordpress.com/category/its-the-law/
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Congratulations to our Battle of the Books Team!
On Thursday, April 14, our intrepid Battle of the Books Team for 2011 traveled to the County Schools Auditorium to do battle with students from all over Santa Barbara County in the 10th Annual Battle of the Books. Our fabulous team this year were Junia, Kailea, Perry, and Oakleigh. Since January, they have been reading and practicing weekly at lunch in the Library. It was a great day with beautiful weather for our picnic lunch and special dessert. It’s so wonderful to have a program like this that honors and encourages students who love to read!
Kindergarten–Oliver is a typical cat….doesn’t want to come in at night. His owner, Mrs. Bundy, finally gives up, turns out the porch light, and Oliver thinks he’s won. At first the dark moonlit garden is full of adventure but it soon becomes overwhelming with screeching owls, big possums, and finally rain. Oliver begs to be let in. (Of course he wasn’t really scared….it’s just that Mrs. Bundy would be lonely without him.) This is the story in Night Cat, a delightful book by Margaret Beams. What really make this book special and engaging are the fantastic illustrations and we had a good discussion about the role of the illustrations in a picture book.
First Grade–We read another “Henry” book this week. This time Henry, the Siamese cat stows away on the family sailboat against The Man’s wishes. But when The Man falls overboard and The Kid must save him, Henry is the hero and The Man decides Henry is a welcome stowaway. Mary Calhoun’s Henry the Sailor Cat is always a hit with first graders and we talked about how the author builds suspense in the story with both the words and the illustrations.
Second Grade–It’s a mystery. Grandpa’s false teeth are missing. Everyone is a suspect. In Rod Clement’s hilarious book, Grandpa’s Teeth, the town finally solves the problem by chipping in and buying Grandpa a new set. And it’s not until the very last page, in a great little twist, that the thief is revealed. This book is a great way to introduce the mystery genre and how much fun it is to try and solve the mystery before the end of the book.
Third Grade–The sequel to Saving Sweetness is Raising Sweetness by Diane Stanley and charmingly illustrated again by G. Brian Karas. Third graders loved hearing what happened to “all them little orphans” as the sheriff takes care of them in his own bungling way. To the rescue once again, Sweetness learns her letters and sends one of her own to his long lost love, Lucy Locket, asking her to “Kum Kwick” and rescue them from the sheriff’s well meaning but crazy ways. The ending is delightful and this book is so much fun to read aloud with all the dialect.
Fourth Graders–This week we talked about plot and how there can be many variations on a well known one. After graphically illustrating plot on the white board I read them Lily and the Wooden Bowl by Alan Schroeder. This beautiful book was mesmerizing and after they heard it they identifed all the plot elements as well as coming up with 5 other fairy tales with a similar plot.
Fifth Graders–I was at a librarian’s symposium this week so Mrs. Wooten’s class missed library and Mrs. Weill’s class played Jeopardy.
Sixth Graders–To review reference books, I set the most common ones against the whiteboard with labels and students faced the challenge of “acting out” a book for the rest of us to guess. They were very creative and we covered encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases, and almanacs. Then they did a worksheet called “Name That Book” in which I had written down different “scenarios” and they had to write the name of the book where they could find the information. We had an interesting discussion about the fact that most of these resources are now available online and wondered about the future of these printed volumes.
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Without doubt, a person may feel comfort, satisfaction and security through the material things they nestle around themselves; or delight in beholding beauty. But, these feelings aren’t happiness. And unequivocally, nothing is more precious than health. You may be able to drape yourself with jewels or own an array of the finest gadgets to play with, but if you are not at your best, mentally and physically, there’s no comparison. When you are healthy and fit, with an abundance of energy, strength and endurance, you more likely have the emotional strength to conquer just about anything. Once this is marred, a person may have to struggle to balance all other aspects of their existence. Yet, a person’s physical state of being doesn’t deliver happiness. There are those with excellent health who don’t realize the value of this treasure, until something goes wrong. A little discomfort or injury can quickly draw one’s attention to it, zapping energy and concentration. And there are others who have been afflicted with tremendous physical impairments, who yet move through their hurdles, to enjoy their lives. I think of my friend’s brother, who was paralyzed from the waste down in a ski accident. Less than 10 years later, he drives a van, chauffeuring people to the local ski area, goes skiing himself all day on specially made skis built to accommodate people who otherwise ride in wheel chairs, and then drives home, transporting other people, in a vehicle custom made in which the hands operate all of the controls. There are many other examples of people who survive and thrive. Certainly, none of these people are letting their disabilities devour their spirits. This is where the concept of ‘happiness’ comes in. Happiness has much more to do with our perception of a situation, than the situation itself.
In the Western world, we share in this culture of illusion. There’s a rift in the messages; coming from opposing worlds. One-upping your neighbor is a message delivered clearly from the perspective of advertisers in the commercial world. It’s all about what “I” can do, groomed through competition. And the old-world, pre-capitalistic point of view is coated with a spiritual identification with the “we” and ‘the brotherhood of man’. These religiously-dressed, pious messages are about ‘doing what is best for all’ and ‘giving back to society’. Yet, there’s a soaring gap between the ideal of ‘love thy neighbor’ and the road-rage resentment of what your neighbor ‘has’. These are confusing messages for anyone to decipher; ego driven vs. losing one’s ego. Is the ideal of joy to be derived through sharing and cooperation, or through the pride and gain in competition? It’s a bit schizophrenic.
Maybe happiness isn’t so complicated, as mentioned in one of my earlier blogs on the subject. According to the giggling guru and his ‘laughter yoga’, the process of smiling and laughing can in itself, actually affect the body; and fool a person into feeling better! https://digesthis.wordpress.com/category/happiness-2/ Through my process, I’ve learned that happiness, like many things, is not something a person is born with, but an attitude. It’s a point of view, which can be practiced and rehearsed. Like the option of, “looking at the glass as half full or half empty”. It’s a choice, you decide! We can all make the conscious commitment to think and act in ways that will boost our own feeling of well being. And since human beings as Homosapiens in the animal kingdom tend to be creatures of habit, we can learn new ways of perceiving things and reshape the ways that our brains process information, by rehearsing new ways of interpreting things.
The point is, we can all flow forward to a healthier and more balanced place through making the right choices and listening to messages that can pop up everywhere to guide us, if you’re open and willing to move in the direction of understanding and growth. I’ll be mentioning this process, synchrodestiny in my other blog on http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/synchronicity-experiences-within-delight-of-deepak-chopras-seven-principles-of-synchrodestiny/ coming shortly.
I therefore can say from experience, happiness will NOT arrive if you remain in a job or relationship – with a boss, among colleagues, a partner, spouse, friends – if the repeated message from the other is negative and clearly in no way resonates with your own sense of what you know is right, supportive, in line with your understanding of events, awareness and sensibility. Listen to your own voice; trust your intuition, understanding and perceptions of what you know is true. Leave any situation, in which another person is not able or willing to recognize how they participate in the situation or acknowledge what they do. Don’t hang out with people who are not willing to take responsibility for their own behavior and who are not accountable for their actions. Don’t play with them, don’t have them as friends, don’t work for them and don’t vote for them!! 😉 Easier said than done!
Ultimately, happiness may be pretty simple. One aspect of it is to really make a point of appreciating the many things around you that are quite simple joys. Really, many of the things that we all worry about or get annoyed with, are quite relative. Having a broader grasp of the world, and of the hardships that many people suffer, is another thing. But to realize that life is so precious, and the fact that we are living creatures hurling around in space on a spinning ball with all sorts of fantastic life forms and creatures and beauty surrounding us, is really quite miraculous. There are so many very simple things to be dazzled with; whether involving the joy of motion, learning about something, listening to sound or observing light or life forms. Many of our perceived notions of not having some material thing, are way out of proportion. I personally find that a great deal of satisfaction and joy comes from the delight of observing little things, and from accomplishing little things. Learning a new task, practicing it and developing it, can be very satisfying. You will be surprised at the amount of delight and pride you will feel as you begin to see your own headway.
In fact, that’s the other half of my prescription 😉 the fact that happiness is not passive; not derived through being passively entertained or distracting yourself with something, but actually through engaging your mind and body in something that you are doing. It is in the process of this motion, as opposed to static, that causes the neurons of engaged interaction to start firing. Delight through immersion in the process, instead of the outcome. It is also through interacting with another person; in which their smile in response to yours, makes the experience that much more special. It’s in the process of actively participating in something intellectually, physically, emotionally or spiritually challenging, which renders the result that much more sweet.
What spawned me to write about this topic in the first place, was an article about how much dogs can influence people with joy and incite happy feelings. Dogs effectively cause people to calm down, feel more content and in fact feel happier. http://www.usaweekend.com/article/20120120/HOME05/301200007/How-dogs-spread-happiness Hanging out with dogs can trigger oxytocins, a mammalian hormone which is a neuromodulator in the brain. Oxytocin in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin is referred to as the ‘love hormone’… “the inability to secrete oxytocin and feel empathy is linked to sociopathy, psychopathy, narcissism and general manipulativeness”. This chemical substance is released in our brains as we relate to dogs. Dogs raise peoples’ spirits. In the last years, there’s been a lot of talk and publicity about how the presence of dogs lower stress levels and induce faster rates of recovery for chronically ill patients of all ages. Basically, dogs lower blood pressure, are great companions, and because of the joy of their company, actually can induce healing and assuage discomfort. The wag of the tail is connected to a dog’s heart, and indirectly to peoples’ hearts – since it’s joy that is felt when people are engaging with dogs. Not to mention, people walking their dogs tend to interact more and engage with other people, thus eliciting more contact – a win-win!
With love and joy to you all and hope that I’ve inspired some happiness!
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A glossary of bridge terms may be found at http://www.bridgeworld.com.
I recommend you join the ACBL. Their bridge magazine is worth more than the membership fee. If you are interested, I’ll get the application. You may also join online at acbl.org.
–or print them on your printer. Access the articles at bridgedepot.net. There are also a series of Beginner lesson plans and 2/1 articles.
A valuable convention called the Negative Double allows you to double to show a 4-card heart suit; therefore bidding 2H shows a 5-card heart suit.
Reading that the 2H response shows a 5-card suit. It should also be supported by 10 or more HCP or total points?
10 HCP would be nice, but responder should also consider other aspects of the hand including values in partner’s bid suit and shortness or well placed honors in the opponent’s bid suit.
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2019-04-20T20:14:57Z
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https://bridgetips.wordpress.com/beginner-weblog/
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I won’t say much about this as the best thing you can do is download it and take a look. Basically an ultra cool RSS reader/podcast listener with discovery functionality, all wrapped up in WPF goodness.
OK so it was naive to think the RTM of .NET 3.0 would magically fix our issues with HD video playback in WPF. The 1080p sample clip (which is representative of our final HD file specification) currently runs at around 1fps which probably isn’t ideal for screening content to television buyers.
Playing the content in a blank window hosting a MediaElement works OK, although even then it requires some fairly beefy video hardware but admittedly this is to be expected with HD content. The issue arises when playing the content in the context of our application.
To provide some background: the app loads all screens upon startup and transitions between them as-and-when necessary. Since all the application screens are running concurrently there is a moderate overhead for each screen, but surprisingly even when a screen isn’t the foremost/visible.
But not without a cost. Thanks to this, the application when sitting idle (although not strictly idle as we have timers running performing minor CPU-bound stuff) is using up about %30 CPU… Not major I hear you say but when we transition in the full screen video playback the CPU is pretty much pegged at 90%+ when playing our HD content, which then drops frames and induces headaches/nausea for anyone watching.
To correctly include intellisense for WPF elements when using VS2005 and ReSharper right click your project and click the show all files icon, when the “obj” folder appears right click this and choose “Include In Project”.
Ok well due to lack of WiFi in the hotel I was staying in and other commitments my blogging took a slight nosedive during the WPF developments! Anyway, I’ve posted some screen grabs of the finished proof-of-concept product. I’ll post an explanation of what exactly it is within the next day or so!
So day 3 is over. I’ve spent most of the day creating a custom WPF control to display and let the user chose a selection of events they wish to attend. Throughout the day i’ve been looking at several WPF concepts: control templates, styles, data-binding and triggers. It amazes me how powerful and flexible these concepts are.
Work is split among the other developers, both BBC Worldwide (of which there is one: Darren) and the other three to five Microsoft guys depending on who is there at the time. Everyone seems to be making great progress so far and some of the more complex controls are really coming together (thanks to the Microsoft guys!). Added to this our designer (BBCWW web designer) is producing some really fantastic looking mock-ups for the visual styles.
I spent some of the day trying to draw up some specs for adequate PC’s and monitors to be used in the kiosks. We’re sourcing our hardware from one of Microsoft’s chosen hardware partners Hewlett Packard. I have been looking at small form factor base units, needed to fit in the cabs designed for the kiosks. The machines obviously need some horse power in the graphics department and we’ve specified a preference for DX9 compliant cards with 256MB memory.
The kiosks will initially run Windows XP SP2, it is envisaged that at some point in the future the app will run on Vista units, however, in the app’s current guise the user has no desktop interaction so the benefits of this will only run to deployment of hardware and increased control of machine lockdown via group policy (which has been increased in Vista so i’m told).
So I’ve been at Microsoft now for two days with a few of their guys at the MTC working on the proof-of-concept I’d previously mentioned. I’m not sure how much I can talk about the actual purpose of the application right now, however, it’s being designed as a kiosk type app using WPF and the rest of the .NET 3.0/WinFX stack.
The whole engagement with Microsoft has been an excellent experience so far. The proof-of-concept development is precluded by an ADS session where stakeholders, developers or pretty much anyone else representing your business with an interest in the output of the POC gets the opportunity table their vision for the application. During the three day ADS we pretty much covered all the nice-to-haves and proof points for the application and defined a pretty clear scope for development.
Following the ADS, two UX consultants from the MTC spent three days at BBC Worldwide with representatives of our significant business areas and myself covering off the actual UI design and scenarios to take through the application. Between us we thought up some really compelling concepts for the UI and a set of clear deliverables by way of actual screens and controls which would need to be developed to facilitate our requirements.
Bringing you back up to date — we’ve split a good portion of whats required between us and are all badgering away at the individual controls. I’m hugely impressed with WPF so far, it has a fairly small learning curve and most things kind-of work as you’d expect them to which I consider a sign of good API design.
I think WPF will ultimately live or die by the tool support and thankfully the Expression packages are looking very promising. It seems as though we will finally knock down that notional wall between development & design.
Anyway I’ve had a long day 😉 I’ll report back tomorrow evening with the days events!
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A number of awards for poetry and essay-writing are awarded annually to undergraduate students. The poetry awards involve open competitions in which students are invited to submit their work. The winners of the essay contests are chosen from among a pool of exceptional essays submitted by instructors in the Department of English at the end of each academic year.
This Award is offered annually for the best unpublished poem of 50 lines or less by an undergraduate student currently enrolled at Carleton. The donor is the late Mrs. Lilian. I. Found, who endowed the Award in 1950, and was the convener of the Ottawa Poetry Group and Canadian Poetry Contest in the 1940s. Details may be obtained from the Creative Writing Hub.
Three prizes are awarded annually for the best unpublished poem (up to 5 poems may be submitted, not to exceed 250 lines) submitted by full or part-time students currently enrolled at Carleton. The late George Johnston, was a distinguished Canadian poet, professor, and founding member of the English Department at Carleton. His colleagues originally established this prize in his honour in 1992. An independent judge from Ottawa’s poetry community selects all award winners annually. Details may be obtained from the Creative Writing Hub.
This book prize is awarded to a Carleton University undergraduate who has shown excellence in essay-writing. The Wilgar was established 1951, in memory of the late W.P. Wilgar, Assistant Professor of English at Carleton University, 1948-50.
The Charles Haines Memorial Prize is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of English, to the student writing the best essay on drama or theatre criticism. It was endowed in 1998 by friends, colleagues and former students to honour Professor Haines.
The Hartman Prize is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of English, to the undergraduate student submitting the best essay that either demonstrates a flair for humorous or satirical writing, or is a study of a writer whose work is satirical or humorous. Established by Mrs. Betty Hartman in 2006, the purpose of the competition is to encourage interest in writing of this nature, and to honour the lifelong contributions of Thomas Henry Hartman to work that makes people laugh.
Established in 1995, this award is given annually in the Spring, at the discretion of the Chair, to students in first and second year courses who, in the professional opinion of their instructor, have demonstrated consistent growth in oral and written work for that course and who intend to pursue an English major, minor, and/or a departmental concentration.
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She would continue to issue creative and smooth pop singles until the early 1980s, many of which would reach the lower reaches of the BILLBOARD MAGAZINE Pop Singles Chart.
“Vanilla O’Lay” was representative of her music at the time. Released during the late spring of 1972, it was a creative pop song than deserved better that its peak at number 76.
Jackie DeShannon scored two top ten hits during the 1960s, “What The World Needs Now is Love” (#7) and “Put A Little Love In Your Heart” (#4). She would continue to releases singles for the next several decades but only one would reach the top 40.
“Brighton Hill” was the type of smooth pop she would continue to issue the rest of her career. It first reached the BILLBOARD MAGAZINE Pop Singles Chart, March 7, 1970, but would stall at number 82.
DeShannon would go on to gain fame as a songwriter. While she never had a number one song herself, her Bette Davis Eyes, as recorded by Kim Carnes, became one of the biggest single hits of all time by remaining on top of the charts for nine weeks. That probably equaled a whole lot of royalty checks.
Jackie DeShannon is one of the better, if under-appreciated, singer/songwriters in all of American music. Her career now extends back 50 years and has produced dozens of hit songs and albums. She was an opening act on The Beatles first North American tour and was recently inducted into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame.
Her songbook has been waiting for interpretation, and what better person to re-record these songs than DeShannon herself? When You Walk In The Room (scheduled for release on September 27) finds her revisiting 11 of her best-known songs.
DeShannon has one of those unique voices that is instantly recognizable. And here she wisely strips the music to its basics as an acoustic guitar and bass provide the major instrumental backing. Throw in some judiciously placed strings and electric guitar and you have the definitive re-interpretation of her work. She takes this material in a gentle direction and while the songs can be considered straight pop, many times her approach moves over into folk territory. Her voice sounds better than in the past as she is able to adapt the material to suit her current capabilities.
“When You Walk In The Room” is the lead track and sets the table for what will follow. She recorded the song with a different tempo that renders it into something much simpler focuses on the lyrics. The acoustic guitar playing is mixed just right as each note is crystal clear.
DeShannon recorded “Bette Davis Eyes” in 1974 and released it on the album, New Arrangement,but the song will always be most associated with Kim Carnes, whose 1981 version topped the Billboard Pop Singles Chart for nine weeks and was the second-ranked single of the decade. DeShannon, as the co-writer of the track, won the 1982 Grammy for Song of The Year. Here she strips the song down with only an acoustic guitar and some subtle bass lines in support. Her relaxed, smooth vocal is the exact opposite of the one Carnes delivered with such intensity.
While she wrote or co-wrote nine of these 11 tracks, one DeShannon did not pen was “Needles and Pins,” which originally was an obscure single for her in 1963. The Searchers scored a pop hit with an uptempo version of this Jack Nitzsche/Sonny Bono composition about a year later. Here, DeShannon renders it as a creative ballad.
Her two biggest hits, “What The World Needs Now Is Love” and “Put A Little Love In Your Heart,” are present but the big surprise of the album is “Bad Water.” She gets a little bluesy with the vocal, which recalls her approach in the past. Overall When You Walk In The Room is a wonderful journey through Jackie DeShannon’s past with a modern twist. By presenting many of her best songs at their simplest, she proves they were indeed worth revisiting.
Article first published as Music Review: Jackie DeShannon – When You Walk In The Room on Blogcritics.
Everybody’s career has to begin somewhere. She released “I Wanna Go Home” on the old Edison International Label during 1960. Today it is a very difficult single to locate and is highly collectable.
It wasn’t a hit, but it was a start.
During the 1960s, I never could decide who was better looking, Marianne Faithful or Jackie DeShannon?
Marianne Faithful was best known for her relationship with Mick Jagger, which almost cost her life because of heavy drug use. By the end of the decade her singing career had virtually ended and it would be ten years before her BROKEN ENGLISH album would begin her comback. Her voice was far from the clear soprano of the 1960s as hard living had given it a rough, harsh edge.
She released her cover of The Rolling Stones song, “As Tears Go By,” November 28, 1964. It would become one of her four top forty singles in The United States and her highest charting at number 22.
Her angelic looks and voice belied her image and actual lifestyle. She was one of the more interesting puzzles of the 1960s.
I turned the big six zero on December 30th and I have no idea how that happened. I am a quintessential baby boomer, a part of the Woodstock generation, flower power, and The Vietnam War. I saw Hendrix and the original Who live and bought Sgt. Peppers and the Pet Sounds album off the shelf at my local record store. My children and now my grandchildren find my record collecting obsession to be both odd and a little amusing but no one wants the collection after I’m gone. I find it a little depressing that musicians who have been a part of my life for decades are now passing away not from addictions or accidents but from natural causes.
I bought and paid for my first record album in 1964. I have been trying to think of which albums have spent the most time on my turntable or in my disc machine but that has proven to be an impossible task, so I have settled for the twelve that have received regular play during the past several years and are currently essential for me at sixty.
1) All Summer Long by The Beach Boys. This may actually be the album I have played the most during my lifetime. It was the sixth studio album by the Beach Boys and can be considered Brian Wilson’s first full sophisticated production epic. It is a concept album and a grand ode to summer. “I Get Around,” “All Summer Long,” “Little Honda,” “Girls On The Beach,” “Drive In” and “Don’t Back Down” are a part of the idyllic and endless summer of my youth and at sixty that’s not a bad place to visit every once in awhile.
2) Beatles 65 by The Beatles. I respect such Beatles releases as Sgt. Peppers, Rubber Soul, and Revolver but lately I have actually been listening to this album. Maybe simple is better. I am still enthralled every time I hear George Harrison’s guitar sound that opens “I Feel Fine.” The rest is smooth rock ‘n’ roll at its best. “I’m A Loser,” “I’ll Follow The Sun,” “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby,” “Baby’s In Black,” and “Honey Don’t” may not be the most creative music The Beatles ever produced but it is among the most listenable.
3) Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan. Dylan had gone electric and the resulting sound, textures, depth, and lyrics of this album have fascinated me for years. “Like A Rolling Stone” alone makes it a keeper. Rolling Stone Magazine would rank it as the greatest song of all time. When you add “Desolation Row,” “Queen Jane Approximately,” “Ballad Of A Thin Man,” “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry,” and more it all adds up to years of thoughtful listening.
4) Scarecrow by John Cougar Mellencamp. Music from the American heartland. “R.O.C.K. In The USA” is catchy and was a huge hit but it is songs such as “Small Town,” “Rumbleseat,” and especially “Rain On The Scarecrow” which keep drawing me back. It is one of the few albums where I really think the artist is both passionate and sincere.
5) Greatest Hits by Pat Benatar. What can I say? I thought she was hot in my thirties, I thought she was hot in my forties, and well you get the idea. I also enjoy her brand of hard rock and while her studio albums may be a little uneven in places, when you gather her best material in one place it is excellent. “Hell Is For Children,” “Promises In The Dark,” “Love Is A Battlefield,” “Shadows Of The Night,” and a host of others all contain lyrics that walk on the dark side of life and that has an odd appeal as well.
6) Get It by Dave Edmunds. Just accessible pop at its very best. His version of “I Knew The Bride” makes the list of my favorite songs and “Get Out Of Denver” plus “Here Comes The Weekend” are not far behind. Why he has not been a bigger star in The United States is beyond me.
7) Party Doll And Other Favorites by Mary Chapin Carpenter. From the enthusiasm and joy of “Passionate Kisses” and “Down At The Twist and Shout “ to the thoughtfulness and challenge of “Stones In The Road” to just the good music of “Shut Up And Kiss Me” and “Quittin’ Time,” Mary Chapin Carpenter has put together a country/rock catalogue that is second to none.
9) Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix. I saw Hendrix live for the first time when I was in high school and how I convinced my parents to let me travel into New York City for the performance I have no idea. His debut album still knocks me out forty plus years later. “Purple Haze,” “Fire,” “Foxy Lady,” “The Wind Cries Mary,” and “Third Stone From The Sun” continue to amaze me on a regular basis.
10) Cricklewood Green by Ten Years After. I played this album to death when I was in college and continue to listen to it today. Ten Years After had terrible production on a number of their early albums but here they got it just right as “Sugar The Road,” “Love Like A Man,” and “Year 3000 Blues” are creative fusions of rock and blues.
11) Winter Carols by Blackmore’s Night. Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow fame met background singer Candice Night in the early nineties and by 1997 had formed a rock/renaissance group that has one of the most unique and joyful sounds I have heard. Their Christmas album receives a lot of play in my home during the holiday season. It is a combination of traditional carols and lesser known tracks. Their “Lord Of The Dance/Simple Gifts” medley is the holiday season at its best.
12) Gettysburg Soundtrack: Music by Randy Edelman. I am a Civil War buff which led me to the Gettysburg film which in turn led me to the soundtrack by Randy Edelman. The music is grand, poignant, and soaring and it lets my mind wander along with it. Not bad from an old folk/pop, singer/songwriter like Edelman. This album is a constant companion in my car and its amazing how many times I pop it into the CD player while on the road. Edelman has also been married to Jackie DeShannon for over thirty years but that is another story.
That’s my dozen essential albums at sixty. They may change in the next year or so but that’s the beauty of music, there are always new surprises to be enjoyed no matter what the age but dang I’m getting old.
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Sea glass and beach glass are pieces of glass worn smooth by waves. Technically, "Sea glass" is glass found on beaches along bodies of salt water. As the glass reaches the shoreline pounding waves and rocks break it into smaller pieces. The sharp edges are worn smooth. Salt water erodes the glass and gives it a frosted appearance. "Beach glass" comes from fresh water. It is found mainly along coastlines and the shores of large lakes. However many feel sea glass and beach glass are the same thing.
White, emerald green and brown are the most common colors. They came from jars, plain bottles and beer bottles thrown into the water. Olive green, cobalt blue, aqua and amber are harder to find. They came from medicine bottles, soda bottles and cosmetic jars. The rarest colors are red, orange and yellow. They were originally items such as fine china, streetlamps and even ship lanterns. Many colors are unique to certain periods of history. Small bubbles in the glass help to identify the original glass item.
Collectors walk beaches to find sea glass. After plastic became popular for containers it became harder to find sea glass. Sea glass can take from 7 to 10 years to get a frosted appearance. In many places winter seems to be the best time to find sea glass. Experienced sea glass hunters look for periods of low tide to start looking. Beaches that are cleaned of debris regularly won't produce much sea glass. Hunters look for "dirty beaches" that are left alone and have litter.
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Interestingly, when it came to the issue of collective bargaining, Americans were split: forty-five percent said they supported limits on employees’ negotiating rights while 42 percent said they were against bargaining restrictions.
On Friday, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Christine M. Flowers (who is for the record one of my favorite local writers) weighed-in on the issue of unions by commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 immigrant seamstresses. Flowers went on to write that these women died because they had no bargaining power or workplace protections. In essence, there was no one to tell their bosses that it was illegal to lock the exit doors during the work day.
“. . . While unions did good things for their members and improved working conditions in blue-collar industries (the ones that built, fed and clothed the nation), the tactics used to obtain fair deals for the seamstresses and steel workers have now been manipulated by others with a more partisan agenda.
In many cases, those ‘others’ work in the public sector, and their ‘collective bargaining’ has been turned into a form of public bribery. By taking their members’ dues and contributing big sums to the political campaigns of officials who – when elected – can sweeten their contracts, public-sector unions have gone from puppet to puppet master.
Flowers’ quip about tenure is clearly a jab at schoolteachers, but I won’t hold this against her. Her views are normally right on point, and I have the utmost respect for her as a writer and thinker.
But regardless of Flowers’ sweeping generalization about schoolteachers, there is another issue at the root of unions and collective bargaining that is rarely analyzed or discussed. Buried beneath health benefits, pensions and salary is the issue of free speech, a right that has been denied schoolteachers by the courts in recent years.
“In 2001, high school English teacher Shirley Evans-Marshall gave her class a copy of the American Library Association’s ‘100 Most Frequently Challenged Books.’ She asked her students to choose a book on the list and explain why it was controversial.
But the assignment itself was too controversial for Evans-Marshall’s Ohio school district, which declined to renew her contract.
Evans-Marshall sued, claiming a violation of her First Amendment rights. And last year, a federal appeals court ruled that she didn’t have any – at least not in her own classroom.
‘The right to free speech … does not extend to the in-class curricular speech of teachers in primary and secondary schools,’ the court declared.
That’s why teachers still need collective bargaining, which lies at the heart of this winter’s bitter battles over public-employee unions. . . .
Zimmerman’s point is well taken. For those who think teachers’ unions and their collective bargaining power is simply a tool to win underserved benefits and cushy pensions, think again.
Collective bargaining is at the heart of a teacher’s right to shape curriculum—or put another way, their right to use their expertise as an educator to determine how they will deliver instruction. It is also at the heart of their right to make their voices and opinions heard, as was the case (at least in part) with Philadelphia School District teacher Hope Moffett; without the collective power of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Hope would have been terminated for protesting the reconstitution of Audenried High School where she currently teaches English.
As a public servant and a dues-paying member of a union, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for workers to contribute more for their health insurance and pensions in light of the current economy. However, America’s recession and the financial woes of many states should not be used as an excuse to cripple unions and take away the First Amendment rights of public workers.
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Yes, it's been a long, long time.
I do miss my little blog, but my brick and mortar shop, home and family take up all my time, so as the expression goes "something's gotta give", and that something is this blog.
Someday I hope to return and spend more time here and make it into the kind of blog I always envisioned, but for now I spend most of my time on my Facebook Page, which is so easy and convenient to update. I do hope you visit me there!
I love my brick and mortar shop, and in April I had the opportunity to move it to a new and beautiful location!
So please come and visit me on my Facebook Page to keep on top of the day's happenings...until the time when I can devote more time once again to my little blog.
Just a heads up, my Happy Homestead Pillow Collection is in the shop today.
The collection is inspired by dreams of my great grandfather's farm. Although not owned by my family any longer, I was privileged a few years ago to visit the house and farm once owned by my great grandfather where my dad spent all of his summers growing up…and I got to take my dad there once more before he passed away. It was an amazing experience and I was in awe at how much I felt at home and at peace there.
As of late, my creative heart has been divided into two parts. This is one part...so the next collection of pillows will be inspired by the second part....coming soon!
It has been much too long since I posted my last Vintage Handwritten Recipe, and I aim to change that.
Since summer still has a bit of oomph left in it (temps in the high 80's coming this week), something quick, easy and NOT hot will fill the bill.
Oh boy - these are yummy. Be prepared.
Melt peanut butter and chocolate chips in a double boiler. Stir until completely melted and blended. Mix in nuts until completely coated. Drop onto cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Chill.
BLONDIE NOTES: I used dark chocolate chips. If you are a fan of dark chocolate, you'll like that extra richness! I also used lightly salted peanuts. When you spoon this out onto the cookie sheet, be prepared for it to spread a bit, so leave room in between each cluster. After they have completely chilled, you can break them into smaller pieces, as I did, before serving - like a brittle.
These were a big hit and disappeared very fast, so you might want to make a double batch.
One of the things I love best about, well, pretty much anything vintage is because it has a soul. Each item has a story, a past, a history. And one of my favorite things to do is to imagine that past. Oh the tales I weave! Vintage tablecloths, cookware and teacups tell me stories of the families gathered around the table savoring a wonderful meal cooked with love – perhaps a birthday or a Sunday afternoon dinner. Embroidered linens evoke pictures of young brides working hard on their needlecraft so they can fill their new homes with beauty. And clothing – oh clothing! The images they create in my mind… first dates and dances; holidays and parties; walks in the park and church on Sundays, followed by a large family meal. Furniture can also tell its story, as I try to picture where it once lived and how the rest of the room was decorated. How fun it is and deeply satisfying to give all these things a new life and to appreciate them once again.
And that is exactly what I loved about Astor Place Vintage, a novel by Stephanie Lehmann. Not only does she show you that vintage items do indeed have a past, but she brings you there! When I was asked to review this book by Simon and Schuster, it didn’t take me more than a second to say “yes”. I couldn’t wait!
The story starts in more present time, 2007 to be exact, where you meet Amanda, the owner of a vintage clothing shop in New York City named, appropriately, Astor Place Vintage. She is appraising an elderly wealthy woman’s clothing for possible purchase for her shop when she discovers a journal from 1907 sewed into the lining of an antique fur muff. The journal’s author, Olive Wescott, lived in Manhattan 100 years earlier, and as you travel back and forth in time from Amanda’s world to Olive’s world, you will find yourself not only intrigued, but genuinely liking both of these women and identifying with them in different ways. As the story unfolds, you find that their lives intersect and they are connected to one another in a magical way.
I found myself not only caring about these women, but by the end of the book I wished for more of them. Stephanie Lehman brings you perfectly back in time to turn of the century New York City and makes it real. I love her references to actual places and events and I found myself more than once Googling some of that information to learn more about it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this lovely book and am hoping for a possible sequel to see what happens next in the lives of Amanda and Olive.
I hope you will consider this book…and enjoy it!
All in the shop today.
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Quad Restaurant demonstrating how not to.
Not barista friendly ugly plastic reusable coffee cups, one of the worst examples of reusable coffee cups I have come across.
No surprise, low take up.
The Quad is the privately run renamed former County Restaurant, the staff restaurant of Lincolnshire County Council.
Early last year, it was the norm to see staff sitting at table drinking tea or coffee out of a takeaway cup when ceramic cups available.
This has at least improved, more are using ceramic or compostable cups. But where are the compostable cups deposited? This will be general waste stream unless special bins provided. A tiny step in the right direction but still a fair way to go.
Plastic cups are still being used for water. These should be glass.
Plastic is being used for their own yogurts. And why low fat yogurt with additives which is very unhealthy?
Only one person observed using a Quad Restaurant reusable cup everyone else using ceramic or Vegware compostable cups.
The reusable cups need to be removed, or if compostable cups for people to take back to their office, bins for compostable cups.
Lincolnshire County Council should be setting standards, not lagging behind best practice of indie coffee shops.
The County Council needs to do a deal with KeepCup, ecoffee or POLŪ to bulk buy branded cups, which are sold at cost to staff, given away at conferences, to get the message out.
There should be a latte levy of 25p on takeaway cups. The money goes into a separate pot, once a month, staff choose, funds raised go to a local environmental group.
Should aim at 80% minimum of replacement of takeaway cups with reusable cups.
But also recognise compostable cups, reusable cups, are addressing symptoms of a grab it and go takeaway culture. Should encourage relax with coffee served in ceramic.
The Quad should have a target date for plastic free, zero waste.
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Well, it is a week before finals, and I have pharm to learn and dishes to wash. But instead I’m going to pound out a book review. My stats have been dismal at best as of late, and only I am to blame with my lack of reading and new reviews. Thanks to those who haven’t abandoned browsing my site, even though the reviews are so few and far between.
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff puts two stories of polygamy side by side, one modern and one from its inception, to show the reader the impact it has had on its women, children, and on history itself. This beefy book follows Brigham Young’s 19th wife, Ann Eliza, and her expulsion from the Mormon church due to her strong convictions against polygamy. We witness her as a child, as she sees the toll her father’s multiple marriages takes on her mother. And later we see her forced into a plural marriage with the Prophet Young in order to save her brother’s reputation and family. Later she escapes, and takes on the political cause that ultimately results in law against plural marriages.
All the while we follow Jordan Scott, a young man banished from the Firsts, a fanatical offshoot of the Latter-Day Saints, who still practice polygamy. Jordan is supposedly banished for holding hands with his half-sister, but the true reason is that there cannot be too many young men in the community or the old men wont be able to marry as many beautiful girls. His attention is forced back into the world he has left behind him when his mother is accused and arrested for murdering his father. He returns to try and solve the murder mystery, and understand why his mother would love this life of oppression, subservience, and abuse.
I was enraptured by Ann Eliza’s story. I loved the passages describing the westward movement of the Mormons to Utah, the harshness of their lives as settlers, and their strength in building a community out of desolate desert. Her story was powerful and multi-faceted. No characters were all good or all bad. You could sympathize with the men, torn between the love for their first wives and the church’s command to take more women into their homes. And the plight of the women was especially poignant; sharing their husband with multiple woman and slowly becoming phased out of their families as they became older and less desirable.
I felt the modern story was a little weaker. I liked Jordan, but I was not as drawn into his story. It often felt too forced to me, but perhaps that was because it was paralleled with Ann Eliza’s remarkable story. There are also many narrators in the novel. We have Ann Eliza, members of her family, Brigham Young, Mormon scholars, Eliza’s children, and Jordan all telling their parts of the story. While I first found this distracting, I eventually enjoyed the unique perspective each provided, and how all their stories intertwined. This novel approaches many big themes: faith, family obligation, and freedom of religion. While The 19th Wife definitely takes some sides on the issue, it does do an excellent job at getting the reader to think of the other perspectives. I also recommend Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer for those interested in this topic.
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Some of us are still reading! We all have times in our lives when we are just too busy to blog regularly, it’s totally normal.
If you like reading about this topic, I highly recommend Escape by Carolyn Jessop. It’s a memoir about her experiences leaving the FLDS with her eight children, when she was married to one of the most influential men in the community. An amazing read.
Thanks Heather for still reading! I am going to look up Escape. Thanks for recommending it!
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Parma Consensus Statement on Metabolic Disruptors, Heindel et al. Environmental Health. 2015 Jun 20;14:54.
Uppsala Consensus Statement on Environmental Contaminants and the Global Obesity Epidemic, Lind et al. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2016 May 1;124(5):A81-3.
The Parma Statement was based on a workshop held in Parma, Italy, in May 2014, and the Uppsala Statement was based on a workshop held in Uppsala, Sweden, in October 2015.
Both focus on guiding future scientific research in the field, but also contain recommendations for policy makers, health care providers, and other professionals. Both call for reducing environmental chemical exposures, especially in early life, to help prevent the development of metabolic problems later in life.
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This is a simple chiasmus. A and A’ are statements about honoring the ‘secular’ world. A asks us to honor all men, while A’ asks us to honor the king (for us today, the authorities). Honor is used in both A and A’. In the center we find B/B’. These statements are about the ‘christian’ world. We are to love our fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord (B), and we are to fear God (B’). The ‘christian’ world is in the center of the chiasmus – the place of honor in a chiasmus. The higher position.
There’s also a 1/2 and 1/2 structure here (sometimes chiasmus have a 1/2 and 1/2 structure, or a shift in the center). In the first half we have the masses: all men, and the brotherhood. In the second half we have individuals: God, and king.
You can tell this is a chiasmus because of the odd order of these 4 sayings. Normally you would expect a list like this to either ascend or descend in order of importance. In other words, you would either expect the order to be something like: all men, the brotherhood, king, God (ascending) – or God, king, brotherhood, all men (descending). You would expect God, the greatest of the four, to either head the list, with the list descending from there, or you would expect the list to ascend to God in the final position. But that doesn’t happen here. God for some odd reason is 3rd, with the king being 4th. … Wierd.
But not wierd if this is a chiasmus. If it’s a chiasmus, God is placed in the center, and in fact, the final position (on the right) in the center! Cool.
Seeing something as a chiasmus – and knowing how chiasmi can work – can make all the difference in our understanding of a text. Even a short one like this.
Going further, I really like this little chiasmus. One reason chiasmi were used was that it made it easier to remember something – which was helpful in an oral society. By placing these items in a chiasmus, the items simply became more memorable.
And it was a good thing to remember. Here we have a nice little short-hand way of remembering how we are to treat other people – and God. Honor those outside the faith (all people and the authorities), love those within the faith, fear God.
It shows the good nature of Christianity. Christianity desires to get along with others. We are a loving people. A peaceful people.
… A nice little chiasmus.
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So glad to have internet hooked up! I was using my phone to keep in touch with people, but it’s so much better having a larger screen and a keyboard at my disposal. The last week has been insane! We had way more stuff than we thought and barely got it packed up in time (we left Saturday at noon, were still packing in the morning). That Friday and Saturday were two of the most stressful days in memory and I’m so glad they’re over. If it wasn’t for Tim’s awesome uni friends, we might not have gotten down here at all!
I’m just about finished unpacking everywhere but the second bedroom, which is quite literally full of boxes right now. My kitchen table will have to do as a work space for the moment. Thankfully, with the long weekend approaching, Tim will be around to help me clean out that room and make it usable.
When the weather is nice I’ll be doing some updates from my new deck, for sure! Having the trees in our windows is so peaceful.
We bought some paint for the living room last night and began covered the walls. I’ll post pics when it’s done, hopefully by tomorrow. I have lots of ideas for our other rooms as well… so much to do!
Real post tomorrow, take care for now!
My last day of work at my day job was yesterday! I feel so utterly content and relaxed this morning, knowing that I’ve taken a really big step towards accomplishing my dreams. Though I’ve learned a lot in the past six years doing technical support, it’s time for me to give art a bigger place in my life. A lot less of my time will be spent in front of a computer, and much more of it will be spent in front of books or an easel. Whether it’s learning art history, or sketching, or sculpting or whatever else NSCAD has to offer, I’ll be learning about art for the next four years of my life starting in September. I wish I could start Monday!
Last night I was able to finish off a commission I’d been working on for the past week and a half and Tim took some photos of me working. It felt really good to paint and know that it’s more than a hobby now, it’s a way of life. I am so happy and so excited to get into school and do this all day!
Painting isn’t always pretty work, especially in the summer. When working with acrylics I really can’t have a fan on because the paint already dries so quickly. It’s sweaty, messy, and I usually end up with paint on me without knowing how it got there. It doesn’t really matter though. I’m not paying attention to all that stuff because I’m too busy enjoying the process.
Over the next week w’ll have to pack our apartment away, but since I’m home I should be able to squirrel out some time to do proper entries. Thanks for your patience, everyone! Have a great weekend!
What a whirlwind of adventure I’ve had over the past two weeks! Where to begin? The roadtrip I took with my husband was pretty well all-encompassing, with visits to outdoors-y places as well as concrete jungles. We started out by driving down through the White Mountains of NH where we stayed at a quaint small cabin for a few days. Seeing the white-capped mountains for the first time was so surreal. Most of the mountains I’ve seen are green or brown; these were out of a fairy tale.
It was one of the most relaxing parts of the trip; the fresh air, the beautiful scenery and the crisp weather was rejuvenating and prepared us for the bustling that would take place over the next week. We did tons of hiking, taking in lots of nature and the many waterfalls scattered throughout the area (we hiked to half a dozen or so). The weather was prefect for hiking; lots of sun to guide our way and a nice refreshing cold breeze to keep us on our toes. After unwinding in the mountains, it was onto Boston, with one stop at the Currier Art Museum in Massachusetts.
Our visit to this gallery was very pleasant; it’s just the right size that you’re able to explore the entire gallery in an afternoon without feeling overwhelmed. Since we were there during the day, it wasn’t overly crowded. The cafe offered more-than-reasonably-priced meals and absolutely stunning mosaics to behold while we relaxed. There were a few pieces from Monet and several other well-known artists, with some modern art to enjoy as well. I highly recommend going if you’re in the area.
Getting into the first of our “Big Cities” was a bit stressful, but in the end we found our Sommerville B&B. It was cold and rainy the entire day we spent in Boston, but we donned our raincoats and ventured out into the wet anyway. Despite the rain, Tim managed to get some lovely photos of the city and we really enjoyed walking around, taking in all the parks and sights.
We found our way to Newbury Street, which according to my research was supposed to be a really nice shopping spot. It turned out to be better than that, with lovely cafes, designer fashion spots and tons of independent galleries! The modern art on display in these galleries was truly inspiring and I plan to dedicate a handful of future entries to the artists we discovered while there. This street was one of the highlights of the trip for me. It had so much to behold and so many exciting opporitunities.
After walking all over Boston and ducking into the mall for a bit to escape the rain, we enjoyed a delicious supper in Little Italy and treated ourselves to some goodies at Mike’s Pastry (chocolate cheesecake, we ate it too fast for photos). Then it was back to the room to prepare for our journey to NYC.
It’s worth noting that we stopped in Plymouth on the way to New York; it was a lovely spot to stretch your legs, especially if you enjoy sea food! It had a very nice downtown area with cafes that made delicious Mochas. I wish we’d had the chance spent more time there, but it already set us back a few hours and we had to get going to make it to Newark before dark… which we didn’t end up doing. D’oh!
As I expected it to be, New York was a blur of lights and sound. Skyscrapers filled every horizon. People hustled and bustled and traffic was insane for most of the day. Thank goodness for public transit! It felt similar to Toronto, but taken to a whole new level of busy. It wasn’t hard to navigate the city but there was so much to see that it became a bit overwhelming. We got to MoMA and spent a few hours pouring over paintings from the masters including Gough, Dali, Monet, Picasso and Warhol among MANY others, but since there was so much there, we didn’t get to see it all.
Though I enjoyed seeing all the prestigious paintings, the biggest surprise for me in MoMA was Monet’s work; I had no idea they were so large (Water Lillies in particular)! Seeing his paintings fill an entire wall was incredible! I tried to grasp how you’d paint something so large and how much “stepping back” you’d have to do. It made me rethink how’d he paint, what tools and techniques he’d use.
One of the great things about visiting larger cities was the book stores! I was able to pick up two art books I’d been pining over that weren’t available in Canada (or were priced outrageously here, the dollar is at par, guys): 1000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists, Hunt & Gather: Discovering New Art. I could’ve spent hours in the book stores alone as the art sections were so huge, but eventually we had to move on. I was expecting to fine some awesome or rare art supply stores in Boston and NYC, but we didn’t have much luck. We did trek a pretty long way in NYC to check out the Central Art Supply store but despite the size of the place, they didn’t have much of a different selection compared to what we have here in NB.
As much as I loved and was inspired by the Big Cities, I don’t think I could live there long term. The entire time I was there, I had this feeling in the back of my mind telling me to watch my back, mind my purse, etc. There weren’t any areas that I felt really unsafe in, but I still felt a bit apprehensive for most of the time. Pretty well everyone we interacted with was very nice, though! There was very little of the rudeness that I’ve heard so much about.
The first week of our trip was a great taste of the States: a mix of nature and city, both extremes. Given the choice, I’d go back to Boston first just to continue down Newbury Street to explore more of their galleries. Though NYC had a lot to offer, I felt that Boston was a trendier place to be.
Since this is getting a bit lengthy, I’ll keep the Canadian part of our trip to the next entry. See you then, starting at Niagara Falls!
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Starting next month, Xbox Live Gold is going to cost UK gamers a little bit more.
Nintendo & Microsoft Are Playing Nice: What Could this Mean for Gamers?
Marble It Up: Marble Blast Ultra Finally Has a Successor!
Microsoft: No Xbox Live SDK On Switch "For Now", But "Expect More Xbox Live-Enabled Games Like Cuphead To Come To Switch Over The Next Year"
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Would greater equality in gender representation change the perception of women business leaders and make it easier for women to follow in their path?
The percentage of women in the top ranks of US corps has barely moved in the last 2 decades.
In 2008, women accounted for less than 3% of CEO’s of US firms, an increase of 2% since 1992.
Given this slow progress, is it time for bolder remedies?
While there is no direct method of predicting the economic consequences of imposing gender quotas on US corporate boards; Duflo’s study of the far reaching shift carried out in India’s system of village government offers unexpected insights about the effects of quotas on a population.
In 1992, India passed a constitutional amendment to assign 1/3 of the village council seats to women as well as 1/3 of the councils would have a female council leader, or pradhan.
More than 100 countries have adopted some form of mandatory quotas to accelerate women’s representation in government.
The only way that the # of women in politics worldwide has increased is through the adoption of some form of quota policy.
1. Women villagers were more likely to speak when there was a female leader in charge.
2. The presence of a female leader encouraged more participation by both men & women.
3. Women leaders were found to take less bribes than their male counterparts.
4. The second generation of female leadership of villages, proved to be more effective (since the compounding effect of the women’s efforts to invest in public works infrastructure was now taking effect).
5. In villages that had experienced 2 cycles of women leaders, girls were more likely to say they wanted a career, and that they wanted to serve as a pradhan.
Quota policies can be very powerful in changing attitudes, though the effect might be less than desired: men might not admire women leaders any more than they used to, but there is an increase in respect.
Avoiding half the population is a waste of talent and potential. It is also a question of social justice-of giving all people the opportunity to lead their societies” noted Bruce Kogut, the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School.
I am so happy to have uncovered this study and I am eager to hear from you if you are equally struck by its findings on how these quotas can make the needed shift in perception, attitude and visioning that is critical in order to embrace this long overdue societal shift.
This entry was posted on Monday, September 24th, 2012 at 9:40 am and is filed under Leadership/Management. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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I came across the above saying by Mahatma Gandhi yesterday and it’s been on my mind since.
I decided to do a post on forgiveness because I realised last night that I have been holding onto a lot of anger towards people, and its only hurting me. So this post is more for me, for MY healing.
Forgiveness is hard and goes against ones human nature to get justification from who has wronged us. So to ensure this post doesnt turn out to be an act of ‘getting my own back, I will start off with the word of God; “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:13 (NIV) and use this as my foundation.
Now, I am the sort of person who, when someone does something that I feel has wronged or hurt me, I tend to keep that feeling inside, letting it build, and like and overblown ballon, I burst. This storage of resentment turns to anger and when you hold anger, how can there be room for God’s love?
As Christians, whether we like it or not, we are ambassadors for Christ, Christ is the president and has appointed us as His proxy. Our job description? LOVE. Now the devil on the other hand specialises in stealing, killing and destroying; taking that love and replacing it with resentment, anger, hurt, etc.
“But it’s not fair!” I have said this phrase many times in my life. Why should someone get away with doing something to me, treating me a certain way, get away with spreading lies about me or taking advantage of my kindness?
Well, I don’t actually know. All I know is that “If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.” – Luke 6:29 (NIV). Let me point out, if someone slaps me, im for sure going to want to slap them back.
Why does Jesus tell us to turn the other cheek? Well because “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.” Luke 6: 32. We are ambassadors remember? And God always rewards, He loves rewarding us.
So, this is me letting go of every thing, big and small. I forgive you and pray that you can forgive me to.
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Prices depend upon complexity, but as a rough guide maps start from £60 for black and white and £80 for colour.
My children’s names are £20 each unframed, plus postage and packaging.
I’m open to suggestions for any drawing or design, just get in touch!
Each design is of course unique and therefore these prices are for guidance only.
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Every so often I play a little game called “try to understand America”. Not so much a game as my attempt to put headline American issues into perspective. The “game” demands I remain undaunted by logical dead ends. Rookie game play led to bouts of snippy remarks, indignant preaching and knee jerk tirades. Age has mellowed this opinionated Canadian – thankfully allowing objectivity be heard – even for the briefest of moments. Reaching a point where temperance dictates a “I understand why it’s like that” rather than ” are you out of your freakin’ mind” – a game move I hope leads to higher levels of understanding.
Take Obamacare for example. I can’t possibly know all the ins and outs – I’m Canadian. My understanding is limited to these observations – Hospitals and insurance is “for profit” in America – “big medicine” likes things just the way they are. Big medicine, big insurance, big pharmaceutical companies have big money at stake. The Koch brothers backed Americans for Prosperity has spent upwards of 30 million dollars on anti Obamacare ads. In July of last year Kantar Media reported ad campaigns for and against were on track to reach a billion dollars by 2015. No surprise is lop-sided distribution at five to one spending by “anti” medicare interests.
America has a deep seated fear of Communism – any idea deemed remotely socialist sends propaganda mills into overdrive. Ad campaigns worthy of cold war hysteria warn of “socialized” government run health care. Perish the thought – a nation where each and every citizen received equal treatment! The horror unleashed if medical care was available to all, regardless of income – followed by laughable comparison to the Veteran’s Administration – Americans asked if they wanted to be treated like the soldiers fighting for their country. Holy crap.
Media stories warn of social medicine catastrophes in Canada and the UK. Dire tales of government bureaucrats dictating when and where citizens receive treatment, long waiting times for scare or limited treatment – absolute hogwash. Sure, we might have to wait a while for non life threatening surgery. That said, cancer treatments, chemotherapy, heart specialist – no problem. Canadians can even register on line to receive results from blood or urine lab tests at the same time as your doctor. Socialized medicine isn’t perfect, nor is it a detriment to anyone other than profit driven egg heads – there’s a reason why busloads of Americans cross the border to fill prescriptions – costs are controlled.
Attempting to understand health care in America is depressing – money spent on advertising, lobbying and mud slinging alone could finance a small nation. Fear mongering plays directly to the heart of American psyche – I get it. I get it and understand “profit” is king. The Obama administration never stood a chance, the American political structure binds the hands of change as fear, spin doctoring and misinformation muddy the waters.
This Canadian understands. This Canadian is proud to list Tommy Douglas – the founder of Canadian social medicine as one of her heroes. Douglas, a Baptist minister who left the church over their troubling obsession with “life after death”, in favor of politics – a place where he could help people before death.
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It is so easy to get overwhelmed and stressed as an HSP with information overload in our daily experiences of traffic jams, large crowds, TV commercials and the pressures to overwork ourselves.
Self-Care is so very important to our ability to stay resilient when we are faced with so many daily challenges.
1.) Hang colorful nature pictures around you’re work cubicle.
2.) Utilize a computer program that plays relaxing nature sounds, for example, Vector Media’s Atmosphere Deluxe that also has beautiful nature slide shows to go with the sounds.
4.) Find an activity that takes your mind off of all your worries, such as playing a musical instrument or taking up a new hobby, such as knitting, crafts, or writing in a journal.
5.) Try to find time every day for walking and or exercising.
6.) Drink a hot cup of tea or take a bath after a long day.
7.) Try to give yourself breaks away from your computers and cell phones every day, especially during family time, so you can enjoy quality time without distractions.
If we don’t take time to take care of ourselves it will be much harder to take care of others.
Let me know what has worked for you in your self care routines. Looking forward to hearing you experiences and ideas.
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Empty calories from alcohol can add up fast; a happy hour with friends or a boozy brunch can easily tack on a few hundred liquid calories if you're not careful. And while alcohol itself has extra calories with no nutritional benefit, the other culprits, such as mixers, fancy cocktails, and full-bodied beers, are all packed with more than a day's worth of sugar and lots of empty carbs.
So if you're trying to lose weight, you probably think you need to give up alcohol entirely, right? Not exactly. While completely cutting out the booze will help you reach your goals faster, there's nothing wrong with enjoying a couple drinks with friends - it won't totally derail your progress. POPSUGAR tapped some dietitians to get the expert input on how to drink alcohol and still lose weight.
© Getty Motion of beer pouring from bottle into glass on bokeh light night background "You don't have to completely give up on enjoying drinks with friends while working on losing weight," Elora Bazanele, RD, LD, dietitian and founder of Love Food B Fit told POPSUGAR. "However, keep in mind that drinking alcohol contributes to our total daily calorie intake while providing minimal nutrients such as protein, vitamins, minerals, and fibre that our bodies need to stay healthy."
And it's not just the extra calories you need to worry about; registered dietitian Julie Upton MS, of Appetite For Health said that drinking also stimulates your appetite and chips away at your willpower. "Ever wonder why Taco Bell or pizza seem like a good idea at 1 a.m. after you've been out drinking?" she said.
So while yes, you can still meet your weight-loss goals and enjoy alcohol, be mindful of your choices. Liquid calories are still calories that factor into your daily calorie intake. You shouldn't skip meals to make up for your alcohol calories, but be mindful of the other choices you make throughout the day. You should also stick to lower-calorie beverages such as a dry wine or a shot of liquor with a no-calorie mixer, such as seltzer water.
How Many Drinks Should You Have a Week If You Want to Lose Weight?
© Getty And while the calories in each drink are important, it's also important to monitor how much you are drinking in any given week. "Having a glass of wine a few times a week shouldn't be a problem, but if you have two or three glasses each night, those calories can make a big difference in your weight loss efforts," sports dietitian Cindy Dallow, PhD, RD, told POPSUGAR.
Bazanele added that since everyone has unique calorie needs, this number will vary from person to person. The Mediterranean Diet, which is proven to aid in weight loss and help heart health, allows women to have one five-ounce glass of red wine a night, which adds up to five drinks a week. Upton's recommendations are a little less at just two to three drinks a week.
Of course, you don't need to drink this much if you don't want to; Bazanele said that if you have a history of alcohol abuse or have trouble limiting your intake, you may want to refrain from drinking altogether and seek help from a medical professional.
What Drinks Should You Avoid?
© Getty Photo Taken In Bangkok, Thailand Navigating the drinks list at your local bar can be like a minefield of added sugars and empty carbs. While there is no inherently "bad" beverage and you should enjoy everything in moderation, if you're trying to lose weight, you may want to be mindful of how many calories are in each drink.
Upton said to watch out for fancy cocktails since they can have up to 500 calories a pop; even traditional cocktails like white Russians and margaritas can be made with tons of sugar syrups or heavy cream. Some craft beer, which can be high in alcohol per serving, can also contain hundreds of calories. In general, Dr. Dallow said to focus on drinking less often than what exactly you're drinking each time you have an alcoholic beverage.
"Having one high-calorie drink on the weekend will not destroy all of your weight-loss efforts, and you shouldn't feel guilty or off-track if you choose to drink one," Bazanele said. "Keeping a mindful relationship when it comes to alcohol consumption is vital in keeping both the mind and body healthy."
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What is it about sparkly things that captures our attention?
I don’t think I’ve ever described anything sparkly in my writing. As much as I pause, mesmerised, by a window display full of colorful jewelry or an aisle of beads and baubles, I’ve never written them into a story.
While I was at work today at a different location than my usual, a coworker got a box of beading supplies out for someone. I was helping to paw through it to find something for her to use and I found amber-golden beads smaller than popcorn kernels, tropical-ocean-blue beads the size of apple seeds, and chunky oblong purple-grey things nearly an inch long. The potential that sizzled in that box, all the things those bits and colors could end up being, was a heady and magnetic thing.
I felt greedy, covetous. I wanted those beads–not to make anything, or to have the result (although I wouldn’t have said no if someone handed me a necklace made from some of them)–but just because I wanted to hold onto the possibilities. I wanted those futures to be mine.
I also feel that covetousness when I come across what seems to be a treasure trove of first and last names: cemeteries, old school email forwards with three million people’s names on it (especially the kind where they add their names to the very long list), a junk mail folder full of random real-sounding names.
Bold, vibrant old or arty pictures bring it out of me as well: the kind of photo where you feel like you could sink into the world that’s being depicted, or the kind that seems larger than life. Like the person in it has a story which is practically telling itself through the photo.
I wonder, what is this drive in me that wants to possess potentials? I don’t seem to care about capturing the information attached. I just want to have, to own, to control, something that shimmers with its own, un-stealable, distinct flavour of possibility.
This entry was posted in Musing and tagged Inspiration, Things to Write About Some Day by Rommie. Bookmark the permalink.
My mum used to hang prisms in the windows. I think we sparkle-lovers are in good company!
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Wash beets and leaves. Peel and slice beets. In large pot, cover beet, beet leaves, beans, carrots and dill weed with water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer covered for 30 minutes to an hour. Add the rest of the vegetables, lemon juice and salt. Cook for 30 minutes longer or until beets are tender. Place 1 Tbsp. of sour cream on each serving.
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This is the new place for our gaming logs! Since Obsidian cost 40 bucks a year, and people doesn’t seem to visit the place, I’ve decided to stop using it.
Over time, I will migrate our old stuff here.
Documents, as usual, are in the shared Dropbox folder.
I will make a page for each campaign, with specific info, but game logs will be in the main blog, tagged with the campaign and game system as categories.
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The following is taken from notes I jotted down at the event.
Last Sunday evening I attended a packed event at Toppings bookshop in Bath where Sally Rooney gave readings from her latest novel, the Booker longlisted Normal People, and discussed how she approached her writing. She was introduced by Matt, one of the booksellers and an obviously ardent fan. Sally then read from the opening pages of her book.
She told us that she wished to tell the stories of the protagonists, Marianne and Connell, from each of their perspectives. She first started writing about these characters in short stories, set when they were in their twenties. Her first attempt placed them at a political protest but that story didn’t work out. She then wrote a second story about them which was published in The White Review. As the characters kept turning up in her writing she decided to allow them to stay and to develop them further.
At this stage Sally didn’t have a publishing contract. The jumps in time in the novel occurred because she was writing about the stages in the characters’ lives that she was interested in. Normal People was written over a two year period but Marianne and Connell had been with Sally for a year longer than this.
Matt asked about the genesis of her first novel, Conversations With Friends.
Sally was studying at Trinity College Dublin for her Masters. She had a scholarship that covered fees and was working part time in a restaurant. She had no real idea what she would do next. The book was her first attempt at a full length novel. It turned into a long long novel. Once finished she set it aside and wrote the short stories about Marianne and Connell. She worked on both these manuscripts, back and forth, for her own amusement. She knew she wanted to be a writer but with no contract felt under no pressure, enjoying the freedom to write what she wanted. She suspects that there will be pressure with whatever she writes next, that she will feel a need to create something new and different.
Matt asked what it is about the novels that resonates so with readers.
Sally has no idea. When writing she considered her subjects niche and of limited appeal. They are culturally specific, about the life she was living (although not autobiographical). She is grateful that people like her books but has no idea why certain novels work. She now wonders why she thought such specificity would not be liked as many of her favourite novels involve characters that are nothing like her.
Matt asked how she got an agent.
An essay Sally wrote was published in the Dublin Review. This was spotted by an agent who contacted her asking if she had a novel, giving her the motivation to tidy up what became Conversations With Friends.
Sally talked about how strange it feels to see her novels as a product in a bookshop, to see a fixed version of the text. If she wants to she can still go to her laptop, pull up the word document and change it!
She loves writing and feels grateful that she can do this now. It feels incredibly rewarding having this imaginative existence. The pleasure of writing is completely separate from the experience of publishing a book.
Matt asked about the idea of masculinity. He said it blew his mind reading about Connell’s recognition of how he should behave alongside the reality of his behaviour.
Sally explained that during the process of writing she isn’t aware of broader ideas. She writes how characters are and how they act. Later she will think about issues covered more, asking if she is doing the character justice or making him a puppet to express her ideas.
Ideas of gender are a series of cultural texts. Children grow up being exposed to what is regarded as appropriate for a boy and a girl. They absorb this. Navigating expectations as a young person can be difficult and complex.
Sally wishes to be able to sympathise with her protagonists. She wishes to remain optimistic about the possibility of redemption.
The second reading was taken from the chapter in Normal People where Connell has just started at university and attends a party. Sally’s reading brought out the ironic humour of the text.
Photo taken from my seat at the back of a packed bookshop. Sally is there in the distance!
Questions were invited from the audience.
A reader asked about the endings of both novels as she felt they stopped rather abruptly.
The ending was the part of the stories that Sally struggled with most. When writing Conversations With Friends she regarded it as a tapestry in which every loose thread must be tied. She then realised that she could actually just end it if she wanted. This was liberating. She chose to leave the ending open. With Normal People she got to around the tenth draft and saw similarities with a book she was reading, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. The overlaps may be a byproduct of her total immersion in the text but it helped her understand how her book should end. She believes in ambivalence, inconclusiveness.
Sally was asked what books and authors inspire her.
As well as Daniel Deronda she named Emma by Jane Austin which also has echoes in her writing. Emma is another twenty-something year old woman, with similar problems despite living two hundred years ago. Sally enjoys eighteenth and nineteenth century bourgeoisie novels, the intimate lives of those who have a lot of free time. The Irish experience is, of course, culturally and politically different due to historic land ownership.
She also enjoys reading contemporary short story writers. For better or worse she is influenced by texts and tweets.
Sally was asked about how she handles class, why Connell’s working class background is so integral.
Reading has informed an image of society. It is hard to write without observing the texture of how class structures interactions. Sally came from the West of Ireland to attend Trinity and felt alienated. A much larger proportion of Trinity students than is normal in Irish society come from elite families. She was determined to prove that she could be as good as them.
She feels invested in and wants to be sensitive to class issues.
Sally was asked what sparked Marianne’s submissiveness and power, if she researched these issues.
No, she didn’t research. She doesn’t wish to create a commentary on such issues. She writes about the characters she creates, how they carry past experiences. They will be influenced by trauma but also every other thing – layers of experience. She is not trying to write as an expert. She wants to be politically sensitive but also true to the weirdness of individuals.
In Normal People she was telling one story – the relationship between Marianne and Connell. It was not necessary to include every other detail of their lives.
The third reading concluded the evening. This was a section where Connell attends a literary event. He is suffering depression which perhaps feeds the cynicism expressed. It was amusing, given the venue and audience, that Sally chose this to read.
As staff cleared away the many seats two queues formed: to buy books and have them signed. Despite the length of the queues it was good to see that the author found time to chat to each reader.
It was getting late so I decided against waiting and headed back out into the rain to make my way home. Sally came across as genuine and interesting. I was glad to have attended this event.
Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath hosts a number of reading groups, one of which is called The Paperback Ramblers. As the name suggests this involves getting readers together and going for a walk to discuss a chosen book. When I noticed that they had selected Landfill by Tim Dee, and that the author was to join the group for the event, I knew I had to attend.
On the day it rained heavily all morning. Emails were sent to ensure the walk would go ahead. Reassured that the forty mile round trip would be worthwhile I packed my full set of walking waterproofs and set out. The rain eased as I reached the bookshop and had stopped by the time our diminished group set out (such a shame that the wet weather put so many who had signed up off).
I should add that while waiting in Mr B’s I was offered a most welcome cup of tea. Independent bookshops know how to look after their customers.
Sam from the bookshop had organised the event and decided on the best route given the weather. I did not need the level of gear I was wearing. We wound our way up to the Royal Crescent and then through the park. The gulls which we had brought our binoculars to observe on our urban nature hike were staying away.
I had a lovely chat with Tim about his book as we walked. He told me about his interest in gulls, how the methods of classification have changed, and of his wish to capture a moment in birding history that was passing. I was glad that I had recently read Landfill as I had little prior knowledge of the subject. Yet our conversation was wider than that. Tim writes as much about human life as about the birds that have interested him since he was a teenager. The personal touch makes his subject a story.
We stopped in the park where Tim gave the group an overview of the book and its background. We stopped again at a pond where a few gulls competed with the many ducks for the bread that Tim had brought to feed them. A group of children were also feeding the birds – being Bath they had brought brioche. The birds were equally happy to eat Tim’s sliced pan.
We walked on and I chatted to some other members of the group. Several were regulars. A lady who had also read Landfill in preparation agreed with me that her interest had been piqued in a subject she had previously known nothing about. Tim’s writing is accessible for all.
I also chatted to Sam who expressed interest in where I published my writing. He had heard of Bookmunch but struggled to understand what I was saying when I named my blog (and there was me thinking I had lost my regional accent – I hadn’t thought to slip some business cards into the pocket of my walking jacket). I did try to persuade him to get Mr B’s to stock more books from small independent publishers. I do that with every bookseller I meet.
Given the subject of the Tim’s book, Sam next led us to one of Bath’s recycling centres. Being a Sunday it was closed which, as is explained in Landfill, meant little gull activity. We did see a few birds flying overhead. More appeared as Tim gave a reading. Hopefully they were appreciative of his sympathetic stance to creatures many regard as a nuisance – behaviours caused by man’s actions.
We made our way along the river and back to Mr B’s. From there it was decided that there was time for a quick pint at a local hostelry. Settled with our drinks Tim told me about the book he is currently working on in which he will follow Spring as it moves north at walking pace. He has become aware of the process of aging, and of capturing what moments are still available. I suspect it will be another fine read.
On Thursday of last week I travelled to Bath to hear author Edward Carey talk about his latest novel, Little. This fabulous tale tells the fictionalised life story of a young woman named Anne Marie Grosholtz who would one day become known as Madame Tussaud. Edward had travelled all the way from America to promote the UK release and, having read the book, I had been happy to discover that one of the stops on his tour was the always delightful Mr B’s Emporium, less than an hour’s drive from my home.
As I sipped on a well chilled glass of wine prior to the event I got into conversation with another attendee. She told me that she went to university with Edward, who she had known as John, and that she was expecting a number of their former student friends to join her for the evening. She hadn’t yet read the book which I was happy to recommend.
We were soon ushered upstairs to the bibliotherapy room, taking our seats in the intimate space to listen to Edward in discussion with a member of staff on how he came to write this particular story.
Edward told us that the book took around fifteen years to create. A number of years ago he worked in Madame Tussauds in London where his job was to ensure that the noble wax figures were protected from a disrespectful public. He was intrigued by the original models on display, especially that of an elderly Marie Tussaud which she had made.
Research for the novel included temporarily living in Paris and getting a feel for the city and its history. There were so many famous characters to learn about whose wax models Marie created. Eventually Edward stepped back from the research to write the story. He realised that this was a tale of survival, that Marie was a witness to an incredible period of history – the years leading up to and including the French Revolution.
Although a rather dry memoir was written in Victorian times, by three different men, Marie’s life remained largely undocumented. What she left behind were her wax models of the famous. Edward aimed to present a story that joined them together. There were many to incorporate. Despite being an orphan and penniless servant, Marie became part of these people’s history. She met them in life or death. She enabled those who came after to attain a feel for them as individuals.
There were details that Edward wished to share, such as that King Louis never wished to be king and was fairly hopeless in the role making many poor decisions. Louis would have preferred to be a locksmith – the Palace of Versaille still contains locks he fitted. It is known that he would go out onto the roof of the palace and shoot at the feral cats his father had introduced – in the story Marie meets him here, unaware of who he is. Whether or not Marie lived in a cupboard in the palace cannot be known but Edward was writing fiction so felt free to embellish.
Edward spoke of Marie’s encounters with Benjamin Franklin (through his hair) and Voltaire (after he died). He wished to find a new way to tell these people’s stories. To create a wax model a cast needed to be created, a process that required the subject to sit silent and still. Edward liked to imagine the tiny Marie being in charge, for a short time at least, of the likes of Napolean.
Doctor Curtius, Marie’s mentor, was a talented wax anatomist. It was he who instilled in Marie the fascination and obsession with physiology. When, as a lowly servant, she was denied access to the wax models, she would draw instead. The book’s wonderful illustrations are the author’s way of presenting how Marie dealt with the challenges and triumphs of her life. Shut away from other people these are her means of connecting with the noise and activity of the tumultuous events that surrounded her.
Edward read the passage from the book where Marie first meets Curtius. He brought the doctor to life.
All writers find ways of not writing. Edward draws, a process that enables him to physically understand his characters. He also sculpted Curtius in wax to better understand the modelling process, that he could write on the subject with some sort of authority.
Marie understands people from their notable features. Her nose and chin, from her mother and father, were her inheritance – proof that she was once loved.
Her greatest mistake was to marry Tussaud – a useless man – but she was strong and survived. She packed up the French Revolution in crates and took her figures to London, telling Tussaud she would return. In this way she gained autonomy at a time when such freedom were made difficult for any woman to achieve.
Edward has visited Times Square where an enormous gold hand holds a sign for the Madame Tussauds there. He believes this would have pleased Marie, although she would not have been so happy that her family sold the business.
Curtius and Marie were not the first to display wax models for public entertainment but they became the most famous. They recognised that people wished to see royalty, celebrities and murderers.
The French royal family would allow observers into their palace once a week to watch them eat. Marie drew this scene and wax models were made of the spectacle which the public could then touch for a fee. This removed social barriers – the whiff of somewhat scandalous behaviour generating publicity.
Over time Marie became a savvy businesswoman. By casting the famous in wax, those who believed they too were famous wished to be included and came to her.
Edward spoke with passion and vivacity, answering questions and sharing his enthusiasm for his determined little protagonist. When he moved into the adjacent room to sign books a queue quickly formed. It was good to see that he was happy to chat to each purchaser as they proffered their books.
It is always a pleasure to visit Mr B’s. This truly special bookshop is currently crowdfunding to enable them to expand. You may check out the rewards available to supporters here.
Little is published in the UK by Gallic Books. You may read my review here.
Last Thursday evening I travelled to Bath Spa for a book launch at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. Author Anna Vaught was celebrating the publication of her second novel, The Life of Almost, and her supporters packed the bookshop out. It was a friendly and fun event involving books, chat, readings, wine and delicious snacks. This is my sort of party.
Anna talked about her two published books (her first was the autobiographical Killing Hapless Ally) and her writing inspirations. For The Life of Almost these were: her family; her love of Pembrokeshire; Welsh myths; Dickens’s Great Expectations.
She and two of her friends then gave readings from the book before Anna’s husband, Ned, spoke of his wife’s prolific writing and his pride in her achievements. Anna does not have a dedicated space for her craft. She writes at her kitchen table surrounded by family life. The time for this must be squeezed in around her many other commitments.
Questions were invited from the floor and Anna spoke of her next books. Saving Lucia will be published by Bluemoose Books in 2020. A fourth novel is currently out to submission and she has started writing a fifth.
In talking of her characters Anna explained that many are based on wider family members and the stories they have shared with her. She wished to capture these before they were lost. Her family do not read her books so she has few concerns about their reaction to her representations.
Anna then offered to sign books and there were a flurry of purchases before a queue formed. As it was getting late I had to slip away.
The Life of Almost is published by Patrician Press. Signed copies are currently available to buy at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath.
Anna’s launch party was just one of the many enticing events in Mr B’s Autumn schedule.
Saturday 8th October is 2016’s Bookshop Day in the British Isles. I plan on visiting my local Waterstones and hope to pick up the specially designed Books Are My Bag Winnie-the-Pooh tote, and to fill it with some new books of course.
In previous years I have travelled to Bath, the closest city to where I live. I wrote this piece for the blog on their official online tourist information site, Visit Bath back in 2015.
Book lovers love Bath, and with good reason. Want to buy books? Find them in the impressive range of bookshops. Want to meet the authors? Order a ticket for one of the many events which happen throughout the year.
The Bath Literature Festival runs for ten days in early spring and offers audiences a chance to listen to and interact with many of the big names in books, as well as lesser known and local talent.
The Bath Kids Literature Festival, also a ten day event, runs in early autumn and offers a wide and eclectic range of lively book themed events to keep all ages entertained.
These annual extravaganzas generate a buzz which is fun to be a part of, but literary events are happening in Bath all year round. Thanks to the efforts of two of the city’s fabulous independent bookshops there are a variety of both small gatherings and larger fixtures to appeal to all interests.
Topping and Company Booksellers (pictured above) offer the quintessential bookshop experience, with shelves and tables overflowing with tempting choices, and friendly, knowledgeable staff always available to help guide customers to their next great read.
Regular events offer access to a range of authors, with the cost of tickets refundable against the cost of the book being discussed. Some of these are intimate affairs are held within the shop, while others are staged in larger venues nearby.
Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights (pictured below) offers not just a range of carefully chosen books in their three floored warren of a shop, but also the option to buy someone you love the gift of a Reading Spa or a Year of Books. These include a consultation with a bibliotherapist to ensure that each recommendation will delight the recipient.
Where better to find a bath full of books than in a Bath bookshop? Meander through their various rooms and look out for the quirky displays: a customer toilet that has been decorated by the Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell; a stairway papered with Tintin comics; a ceiling decorated with book themed tote bags. The shop is a relaxing haven for booklovers. Take a comfy chair by the fire, pour yourself a complimentary cup of coffee, and check out that book you know you want to buy.
Mr B’s events are often intimate gatherings, enabling the audience to enter into discussions and interact with the author; some of them are even free to attend. They are held in various locations, including the shop’s own bibliotherapy room, with larger gatherings scheduled at alternative venues.
All of these events may be booked online. If you are planning a trip to the city then check out what is going on while you are here. You may just be tempted to make this the primary reason for your visit.
Jackie Law is a wife, mother, hen keeper and writer who lives in a small village east of Bath. She is an avid reader and publishes book reviews and other related posts on her blog. She is easily distracted, especially by Twitter, where you can follow her: @followthehens.
When I wrote this piece I had yet to discover the delights of Waterstones which I now know is another beautifully laid out bookshop that hosts excellent author events. It has friendly, welcoming staff and a coffee shop with free wifi.
The central shopping area in Bath is compact for a city, giving visitors the chance to easily explore all three of these booklover’s oases.
Which bookshops will you be visiting this weekend?
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Coach Peckmore (Coach K) is the High School Girls Basketball Coach.
Coach K is also the 9th grade Health and PE 1 Coach.
This is Coach K's 2nd year in education, and 2nd year at DTSMA.
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I don’t care what you say but the cost of smoking on the Australian Public is too much.
I welcome the latest call from Cancer Council of Queensland who are pushing a ban on smoking in the workplace.
A report published in THE BMJ found that smokers could cost the economy a massive $388 billion over the course of the working lives of the current population.
Cancer Council Queensland CEO Chris McMillan stated, “Having a smoke-free workplace not only improves productivity and protect employees from being exposed to second-hand smoke”.
Further research by Monash University found that smokers tend to have a higher number of sick days on average compared to nonsmokers, but that they also have more unproductive hours while at work.
I believe that a push towards banning smoking at work will do wonders.
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Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U.S. 275 (2001), was a US Supreme Court decision that a regulation enacted under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not include a private right of action to allow private lawsuits based on evidence of disparate impact.
Sandoval v. Hagan, 7 F. Supp. 2d 1234 (M.D. Ala. 1998), aff'd, 197 F.3d 484 (11th Cir. 1999), cert. granted, 530 U.S. 1305 (2000).
268 F.3d 1065 (11th Cir. 2001).
There is no private right of action to enforce disparate-impact regulations promulgated under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In 1990, Alabama added an amendment to its state constitution to make English the state's official language. Thereafter, James Alexander, Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, ordered that the test for Alabama driver's license test to be given only in English.
Plaintiff Martha Sandoval sued Alexander and other defendants in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and claimed that the English-only test policy was discriminatory.
Sandoval sued under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Two sections of Title VI would prove important to her lawsuit. The first was section 601, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of "race, color, or national origin" by programs or agencies that receive federal funding, such as the Alabama Department of Public Safety. The other was section 602, which authorizes federal agencies "to effectuate the provisions of [section 601]... by issuing rules, regulations or orders of general applicability."
In her lawsuit, Sandoval invoked a regulation that the US Department of Justice had promulgated under section 602. The regulation prohibited agencies and programs receiving federal funding from taking actions that had a disparate impact on persons of a certain race, color, or nationality. She sought to enjoin Alabama's policy of giving the tests for driver's licenses in English only. She argued that the policy had a disparate impact on those born outside the United States because it denied non-English-speakers, who are disproportionately born outside the US, the opportunity to obtain driver's licenses.
The state defendants, however, argued that the regulation under which Sandoval was suing them did not include what is called an "implied private right of action," a cause of action not expressly created by a statute or regulation but one that a court has interpreted the statute or regulation to create implicitly.
The district court agreed with Sandoval that she had a private right of action and agreed that Alabama's policy was discriminatory under Title VI. The court therefore enjoined the policy.
The state defendants then appealed to United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. It first held that the regulation under which Sandoval sued allowed a private litigant to enforce its provisions and then affirmed the district court's ruling on the merits. The Supreme Court granted certiorari on "only the question [of] whether there [was] a private cause of action to enforce the regulation."
The Court's opinion, written by Justice Scalia, began by describing the assumptions under which the Court would decide the case.
First of all, "it is clear" that section 601 of title VI contained an implied private right of action. The Court held that Cannon v. University of Chicago was controlling. Cannon held that Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is identical to Title VI but applies to gender-based discrimination, contained an implied private right of action. Under Cannon, section 601 of Title VI also contained a private right of action.
Then, the Court noted that "it is beyond dispute" and that "no party disagrees" that section 601 prohibits only intentional discrimination but does not prohibit activities with a disparate impact on certain races, colors, or nationalities.
Finally, the Court said it would assume for purposes of deciding the case that regulations promulgated under section 602 of Title VI may validly prohibit actions that have a disparate impact on certain races, colors, or national origins.
The Court then turned to the question that was at issue in the case: whether the disparate-impact regulation that Sandoval invoked created an implied private right of action. The Court rejected the argument, put forward both by Sandoval and by Justice Stevens's dissenting opinion, that because Cannon involved disparate impact, Cannon held that Title IX and, by extension Title VI, create a private right of action to enjoin policies that create a disparate impact. Both Sandoval and Justice Stevens relied on a footnote in Cannon, which stated that the effect of the policies that the Cannon plaintiff challenged was "to exclude women from consideration." The Court responded that Cannon was decided on the assumption that the University of Chicago had engaged in intentional discrimination, and hence the holding of case applied only to intentional discrimination. The Court asserted that "this Court is bound by holdings, not language." Therefore, from the majority's point of view, the holding of Cannon did not include the footnote.
The Court also rejected the argument that Guardians Association v. Civil Service Commission, a case the Court decided in 1983, dictated the outcome of Sandoval. The Court noted that although five Justices in Guardians had agreed that disparate-impact regulations promulgated under Title VI were valid, a majority of the Justices had not decided that those regulations were enforceable by private plaintiffs.
The Court then examined section 602, the section of Title VI under which the disparate-impact regulation was promulgated, to determine whether it created an implied private right of action. It began by noting that certain "rights-creating" language that was present in section 601 and Cannon relied on for its holding, was absent from section 602. The Court pointed out that section 602, by specifying that the federal government could cut off funding to a program which violated regulations, expressly provided for "one method of enforcing" those regulations. It concluded that this "express provision of one method" of enforcement "suggests that Congress intended to preclude others," such as a private right of action. It, therefore, held that Sandoval had no private right of action under the disparate-impact regulation.
In providing a shorthand description of her claim in the text of the opinion, we ambiguously stated that she had alleged that she was denied admission "because she is a woman," but we appended a lengthy footnote setting forth the details of her disparate impact claim. Other than the shorthand description of her claim, there is not a word in the text of the opinion even suggesting that she had made the improbable allegation that the University of Chicago and Northwestern University had intentionally discriminated against women. In the context of the entire opinion (including both its analysis and its uncontested description of the facts of the case), that single ambiguous phrase provides no basis for limiting the case’s holding to incidents of intentional discrimination. If anything, the fact that the phrase "because she is a woman" encompasses both intentional and disparate impact claims should have made it clear that the reasoning in the opinion was equally applicable to both types of claims. In any event, the holding of the case certainly applied to the disparate impact claim that was described in detail in footnote 1 of the opinion.
Beyond its flawed structural analysis of Title VI and an evident antipathy toward implied rights of action, the majority offers little affirmative support for its conclusion that Congress did not intend to create a private remedy for violations of the Title VI regulations. The Court offers essentially two reasons for its position. First, it attaches significance to the fact that the "rights-creating" language in § 601 that defines the classes protected by the statute is not repeated in § 602. But, of course, there was no reason to put that language in § 602 because it is perfectly obvious that the regulations authorized by § 602 must be designed to protect precisely the same people protected by § 601. Moreover, it is self-evident that, linguistic niceties notwithstanding, any statutory provision whose stated purpose is to “effectuate” the eradication of racial and ethnic discrimination has as its "focus" those individuals who, absent such legislation, would be subject to discrimination. Second, the Court repeats the argument advanced and rejected in Cannon that the express provision of a fund cut-off remedy "suggests that Congress intended to preclude others."
^ Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U.S. 275 (2001).
^ 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000-d to 2000d-7.
^ 42 U.S.C. § 2000d.
^ 42 U.S.C. § 2000d-1.
^ 28 C.F.R. § 42.104(b)(2) (2000).
^ See Sandoval v. Hagan , 197 F.3d 484 (11th Cir. 1999).
^ a b Alexander, 532 U.S. at 279.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 280 ("The reasoning of [Cannon] embraced the existence of a private right to enforce Title VI as well [as Title IX].").
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 280.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 281.
According to her complaints, petitioner was qualified to attend both of the respondent medical schools based on both objective (i.e., grade-point average and test scores) and subjective criteria. In fact, both schools admitted some persons to the classes to which she applied despite the fact that those persons had less impressive objective qualifications than she did.
Both medical schools receive federal aid, and both have policies against admitting applicants who are more than 30 years old (petitioner was 39 years old at the time she applied), at least if they do not have advanced degrees.... Because the incidence of interrupted higher education is higher among women than among men, it is further claimed, the age and advanced-degree criteria operate to exclude women from consideration even though the criteria are not valid predictors of success in medical schools or in medical practice.
441 U.S. at 680 n.2.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 282.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 283.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 288-89.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 289-90.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 290.
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 298 (Stevens, J., dissenting).
^ Alexander, 532 U.S. at 315-16 (Stevens, J., dissenting).
Soltero, Carlos R. (2006). "Alexander v. Sandoval (2001), title VI, and the court's refusal to consider the validity of English-only laws or rules". Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. pp. 185–194. ISBN 0-292-71411-4.
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Great news – i hit some big money!
Hi out there … since weeks i wanted to update my blog, but poker was so uneventful and my life so busy that I just postponed – and finally just did not write anything.
I really wanted to write this weekend, and since friday night I know that this post will turn into a brag post!
I played the 50k guaranteed on Stars and managed to finish it in 5th position.
I have been playing really good poker for some weeks now, but in the end I just could not turn it into money. All my great calls got sucked out and I really got frustrated – but last night everything was different. I played very well and when i made mistakes luck was on my side. Unfortunately I lost concentration on the Final Table – I was very tired and my decisions were just bad – but I won´t complain, as this is the third best result in my career.
My bankroll was around 1 Grand until last night – now I shipped some money to my bank account and am playing with a 3 Grand roll!!!
All the best to all my friends – may the flop be with you!
After a long time without updates I decided to get back to by my blog again.
After my break from Poker I played some games already, but without too much determination and without really caring about my Bankroll or my rules. I want to change that again and will start to play more serious games again.
I have decided to concentrate on two rooms, but will have some others in the mix, for interesting games or if I get bored with the same layout day in day out.
My number one room at the moment is pkr. What can I tell you about that room – I am about 45% in the money in the tournaments there, and the cash game is really soft. My main losses come from losing patience or bluffing people who are too dumbed to be bluffed. A+ for softness and thats all I need. One day the limits will get to low, but that´s not todays business.
Number 2 will be Stars. I am planning something special there – I am going to play 100 $11+1 180 players SitnGos there and will update on this blog regullary. I need to win twice to get the starting money in, but this could be fun.
My other rooms will be Full Tilt – great room, but I just can´t win there at the moment. Poker Heaven – Rakeback is a nice thing, and its soft, too. IntertopsPoker – I do play the headhunter league event from time to time.
I might reload on Everest one day – but not yet.
My Bankroll is in the 700s at the moment, but I will put it to exactly $1000 in the next days and then I´ll update you again on my current roll.
Enjoy 2008 and get rich playing poker – thats my wish to all of you!
I did not update my blog for quite a time as I was very busy at work and in the last week I was sick and sleeping most of the time. Moreover nothing really exciting happened – I am on some sort of a rollercoaster ride (in poker and workwise), which is mentally exhausting, but nothing to really blog about, as I would have to start from the scratch and simply have not got enough time and enthusiasm at the moment.
Pokerwise I had a lot of up and mainly downswings: I got terrible outdrawn at some points and started to tilt very easy again. I had not had this problem for some time, so this is really disturbing me. I am at around 1,2k but I am so fed up with poker at the moment, that I have to do a lot of paperwork to actually update my statisitics and I can´t be bothered.
So, here is what I am going to do … I will withdraw my funds by Dezember 1st and have a break until Christmas holidays. Then I will reload my important rooms again (PKR, Full Tilt and Poker Stars) and start from scratch. I plan to do this with around $750 ($300 at Stars and Full Tilt, and 150 at PKR) and use the remaining $500 for Christmas expenses or as a back up.
As long as I was looking for a job I had the enthusiasm for the grind, but when you make decent money working and are all stressed there already it´s hard to keep your motivation and performance at a top-level.
I love poker and this is the reason for making this step – I guess I have to make a step back and concentrate on some other things (I am still pretty fresh at my job) and give my private life some more room, before I come back hungry and sharp again.
So good luck with your play – I´ll still visit the poker forums and all the great blogs out there, but at the time being I am just due to some break.
Sorry for lack of updates, but I did not play too much the last days, as I was busy at work and visited some parties, too.
At the moment I am going down a lot again (dropped over $700) – the $60 SitnGos really hurt if you bubble them and I guess I´ll return to the $36 ones. What is really annoying is that I lose my internet connection for some seconds over and over again, which puts me on Tilt and makes it difficult to concentrate on my game. I played a $55 mtt on Star yesterday where I was top 10 for most time, before going out to a terrible call close to the bubble.
So – not running too good at the moment, butI am still confident as I do well in most game, Variance is just not on my side at the moment.
… but I am still disappointed! Just went out 81st in Stars 50k guaranteed, but I was on top of the field for a long time, before my good calls, which brought me there, turned against me, when the villains started to hit their draws.
Just finished a ultra-short session in which I played 3 $60 Sitngos on Full Tilt – I managed to win one and get third in another one, which allowed me to pass the 2k mark for the first time. Looks like my good MTT results gave me the confidence needed in the late stage of SitnGos, when you have to prove your iron nerves and put your “life” on risk a lot of times.
I´ll stop playing for today – I do not want to risk my nice numbers today and I have to give all my concentration to the Formula 1 Final now!
I wish you all a very “prosperous” Sunday – take down the biggies!
JJ lost to a rivered straight (villain had 55) – but I was lucky before, so no bitterness here. Was pretty tired at the end, but I could not avoid to go out here. Almost hit the 2k mark … so live is good!
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Hi,I am Miku and my group is HINODE.fansub and I wonder if I can have your permission to re-translate this manga into spanish?
Hi Miku, KCG Fansub has already asked for permission to retranslate this manga to Spanish so I can’t give you permission. I’m really sorry.
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Kiku Japanese Bistro | Oh No! Not Another NYC Food Blog!
Sushi & other fare in Park Slope.
good quality fish on the sushi, and the tuna boat looking piece had nice little crunchies for a change of pace. The roll was simple but good with sesame seeds for an extra pop.
As always, we had to get dumplings. Pork Gyoza was the dumpling of choice – The gyoza had vice seasoning, with a melt in your mouth wrapper and just a touch of crunch.
Somehow, we also ended up with vanilla ice cream and oranges at the end if the meal. Fabulous, and a welcome treat we didn’t even know we wanted.
Clean, modern, and low lit.
A nice little sushi spot and a great option for dinner in the neighborhood.
4.5 out of 5 for solid sushi and a pleasant atmosphere (minus the smooth jazz. They almost lost a quarter of a point for that).
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Academics are increasingly called upon to apply their skills and knowledge to public problems and issues. In New Zealand as elsewhere we’ve witnessed a growing public and political appetite for universities to make knowledge accessible. We’re increasingly expected to work in more temporally immediate ways to address contemporary social challenges. The status quo model of knowledge dissemination, of publishing an article two years or more after conducting research in a journal hidden beyond a pay-wall that only a few scholars will read, is under fire within and outside of the Academy.
In Cultural Anthropology at Victoria both academic staff and students are increasingly focusing on how to enact this commitment to public scholarship. Blogs such as this one are now commonplace online, and speaking to the media is increasingly part of our everyday work. Yet the public anthropology we do is not always this publicly visible. To our students we might appear to be spending too much of our days hauled up in the (Murphy) Ivory Tower, but the anthropology staff are often quietly participating in small, everyday forms of public engagement. To illustrate, let me describe some of the projects I’ve had the privilege to be part of in the last year.
Last year I was invited to give a keynote at a symposium on veterans’ health. High-ranked members of the New Zealand Defence force were present, as well as senior figures from the Ministry of Veterans Affairs. Using ethnographic stories I described the frustrating bureaucratic labyrinths that veterans found themselves navigating in applying for pensions, and the sense of injustice and powerlessness that ensued. I learned a couple of lessons here. First, ethnography is an effective tool for breaking through policy speak, medical language, and governmental priorities, forcing those in power to imagine the experiential consequences of their policies. Secondly, critique is not enough; you have to suggest solutions, or at least point in the direction of possible actions. A senior figure from the Ministry of Veterans Affairs felt I had underplayed the things they get right, and how they might capitalise on the positives of the current system. It was a fair point. I had not mentioned the praise veterans heaped on particular practices and people in the veteran pension system. Anthropologists often complain that public anthropology work requires simplifying things down too much, but we already have our own disciplinary ways of bracketing out the messy nature of issues. This is particularly true when we want to spotlight suffering or support our participants.
As a medical anthropologist, I get invited to be part of projects outside of my direct area of research. Recently, I became a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Increasing Organ Donation. Along with bioethicists, clinicians, health advocates, and ministerial figures, we sought to identify effective ways to increase organ donation rates in New Zealand. I grappled with and learned much about how to raise questions about cultural differences and social inequalities in ways that were pithy, solution-oriented, yet not reliant on cheap stereotypes.
Sometimes public anthropology takes me into the heart of unfamiliar communities and subcultures. I recently spent the day on an Army base acting as a cultural advisor. I was asked to observe the officer recruitment process and to comment on how the process benefited or disadvantaged different cultural groups. I was impressed by the openness of the NZ Army to questions of inclusivity and to critiques from outsiders, and was fascinated by the complex enculturation process that I witnessed officers undergoing to become ‘service ready’.
Not too long ago, a lawyer acting on behalf of Māori nuclear test veterans and their children asked me to act as expert witness before the Waitangi Tribunal. I’ll need to prepare a detailed report and be questioned at a Tribunal hearing. I’m both excited and nervous: nervous that I can translate my research effectively within an unfamiliar legal landscape, nervous that I do justice to my participants’ trust in me to act skilfully on their behalf. Luckily, my colleague Jeff Sissons has experience in this role, and has much useful advice to offer. This is a crucial and often hidden ‘backstory’ to public anthropology work. As faculty members we’re always discussing these projects with each other, talking through the anxieties of possibly getting stuff wrong, trouble shooting likely problems, encouraging each other on, and joking about the imposter syndrome we might feel as ‘public experts’.
Public anthropology stretches you. It forces you to learn to be at ease with feeling uncomfortable. It requires you to think laterally about your work, and to distill anthropological ideas down into legible nuggets of wisdom that can immediately apply to a range of different scenarios. It also exposes you to other forms of expert knowledge outside of academia that are just as complex and nuanced. This has both tempered my own anthropology-centric vision of the world and made me want to work more collaboratively outside of my field. Ultimately, public anthropology changes you as much as it allows you to be involved in enacting social change.
Catherine Trundle is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests include medical anthropology; charity and humanitarianism; militarism; the ethics of responsibility, compassion, care and detachment; contested illness and environmental health; and political anthropology. She is a co-founder and secretary of SOMAA – the Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa.
Vicanthropology is a group blog from staff and students in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. This is a forum for sharing research experiences, interesting discoveries, and thoughts on contemporary issues from across the spectrum of socio-cultural anthropology.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have Green Light.
Last week was an important presentation for the course of the project: the green light presentation. In this meeting, everything we have until now is evaluated by our supervisors to decide how much longer I need to successfully graduate. Green light means six more weeks, orange is eight weeks and red means.. well.. let’s not think about that.. Because we got bright green!
After an enthusiastic presentation with lots of film in between, our project was found good enough to finish in 6 weeks. Supervisors were impressed and gave useful tips for the final stage. Also a reporter from the Wageningen University magazine Resource was present. She will write an article on our journey, which is expected to be published this week. Stay posted for that one, because it will off course be featured here on this website.
So, for the last weeks it is mostly working very long hours to make everything perfect, doing the layout of the report and arranging everything for an awesome final presentation on February 16th and film premiere on Februari 18th! Be there!
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Many have asked why this particular lifestyle worked for me when so many other attempts to lose weight did not.
I think the simple answer is that I took time to prepare for my success. In all the time I was dieting I never thought about cooking ahead and having meals ready. What inevitably would happen is I would be stuck in a situation and not prepared and good intentions were thrown to the wind.
At 6:30 the other morning I got a call that a nurse was needed to work in a school and I was asked if I could be there in one hour. I own a nursing agency that deals with nursing services for schools. There I was not showered and had just woken up. The school was a thirty minute drive so that gave me a half hour to eat breakfast, shower, and gather up the food I would need for the day. Fortunately I was prepared having spent the day before cooking and prepackaging my meals. I was able to go to the refrigerator and get what I needed and have it packed to go within three mins. If I hadn't had it prepared I would not have had time to cook chicken veggies and rice and make it to work on time, never mind finding an on plan morning snack and afternoon snack.
I can't stress enough how important having food ready to go has been to my success. It is well worth setting aside a couple of hours on a weekend day just for this task.
I am prepared are you?
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Beinn Ime is a mountain and is located Cairndow, Argyll and Bute Scotland. The estimate terrain above sea level is 859 metres. River Kinglas Water running through.
I took this photo at R.H.S. Wisley, in the glass house.
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I will confess. I have heard of Phlebitis. My Mum suffers from it and my Grandmother did as well as I recall. But I have not got a scooby doo about what it actually is. Just as well I am learning along with you guys this month! Let’s see what my book of choice is saying about Phlebitis then, shall we?
If you have a bruise on your leg and you cannot remember bumping into anything, you need to take a close look. One of your veins might be bright red and appear hard to the touch. Chances then are pretty high that the vein has become inflamed due to a mini blood clot and that has caused blood to back up. This inflammation is phlebitis. Usually it occurs in your legs as gravity lets your blood pool there, but you can get them in your arms as well. If the inflammation is on the surface, then we can treat it with home remedies. If the inflammation is deeper, then please seek attention from a medical professional as it can be very dangerous.
So what can you do? When you are sitting down, elevate the legs. My Mum has a natty tilting chair, but you can use a pouffe, or put your legs up on the sofa as well. Ideally you should elevate the legs to above your heart, so you might need to monopolise the cushions as well as the sofa.
I am afraid it is not very pretty, but adding support hose to your wardrobe will really help matters as well. It takes some getting used to, I understand, but once you are, it isn’t really that bad. Your doctor can prescribe which sort of pressure stockings are right for you and major pharmacy chains have some choice as well.
You might want to take an aspirin every day, and if the inflammation is mild, then some ibuprofen might help with the discomfort as well. And obviously, if you are overweight, then lightening some of that load will help with the blood pooling in the legs. Drinking a glass of red wine with dinner every day can help, and anything which improves your circulation has got to be a good thing.
Some other things you can do to improve your circulation include eating some hot chillies – they improve blood flow all around the place (you know, that hot sweaty feeling when you have just eaten a hot, hot chilli?) and application in an embrocation externally might help as well. You might also like to look into taking a ginseng supplement. It has been used for hundreds of years as a circulation tonic in Eastern herbalism, and should not be overlooked as a potential help. Start with a low dose ideally.
If you don’t have phlebitis, but want to prevent it. the get walking, fast, swinging your arms as you do so. A daily stroll which increases your heart rate will also make sure your circulation is in tip top shape.
This entry was posted in Health Topics, Herbal Remedies, Herbs, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo and tagged blood pressure, bruising, circulation, elevate legs, ginseng, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo, phlebitis on November 20, 2014 by viridianherbalist.
For the long time readers of this blog, you will know that I struggle with my weight. I have always struggled with my weight and I suspect it is something I will ALWAYS have to have an eye on, for the rest of my days. However, in the last 3 weeks, I have decided that I am back on the dietary wagon, and I am bound and determined to get the excess weight off this time. I have given myself targets, I have decided on the treats I am going to give myself when I reach those targets, I have even given myself time scales in which to do it (though I am going to be flexible on those!).
There is nothing that irritates me more though, then people telling me that “losing weight is simple. Just eat less and move more.” What a pile of horse hocky. If it were that simple, don’t you think that we all would be stick thin and no one would be overweight at all? For some people, maybe it is that easy, but for others? No, it is more complicated than that.
And who decides who is overweight anyway? Well, in most western countries, the medical profession relies on an Index called the Body Mass Index. It is a conjunction of your weight and your height. Depending on where you come on the matrix you are classified as being overweight, clinically obese or morbidly obese. What they fail to tell you though, is how that Index was dreamed up. You might think it was the greatest medical minds of their generation putting their heads together and coming up with something that truly reflects the health of the citizenry and that it is a number and a score with a lot of research behind it. Ummm… no actually.
The BMI was dreamt up by some doctor who had been given the job of proving that the Soliders in WW1 trenches were being given enough food and weren’t poorly nourished. Patently, they were poorly nourished, and patently it caused all sorts of health problems, but the index was put together as “proof” that Private Joe Bloggs, this tall and this weight, was actually the right weight for his height, even though he really, really wasn’t.
So, the tool which I have been judged against for most of my life is actually a tool of 100 year old war propaganda? Great. Just great.
Please do not mistake me. I am fully aware that I carry too much weight. This is partly because of appallingly bad choices I have made in the past, and partly due to genetics,and even partly due to a desire to squash feelings down by using poor food choices (and no, that really doesn’t work and is not a very positive way of doing things.) But I am done with feeling guilty about this. I know what needs to be changed, and I am doing something about it.
Recently, I rejoined a slimming class. In two weeks I have dropped 8 pounds, and altogether, I have lost 12 since I started on my health kick, way back in May. I feel a lot better for it, and I know what to do in order to eat healthy meals, feel full and happy and have the energy to do what I need to do. And that is what I am going to do.
So, if you feel like you want to be healthier, or carry less weight, then the best thing to do? Go and see a Nutritionist. Take their advice and do what you know is healthy in order to get to your healthy weight. And do not let some stupid position on an outdated and scientifically dubious index tell you whether you are healthy and happy. Let your own body do the talking.
This entry was posted in Diet and Nutrition, Health Topics, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo, Personal Management, Stuff about me and tagged BMI, diets, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo, overweight, targets, weight loss on November 19, 2014 by viridianherbalist.
That quote comes from Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The Danish Prince thought that sleeping sounded a great idea. It was the dreaming that caused problems. Mind you, the guy was under some stress at the time, and that probably contributed to his nightmares.
You may be relieved to know, that having nightmares is very normal. Everyone gets them once in a while, but if they happen often and you wake up in a sweat, or worse, screaming, then it may be a reflection of something a bit worse at work. Nightmares can be symptomatic of a psychiatric illness or distress of some kind and are often experienced by people who have sufffered some trauma, such as abuse, war or a natural disaster of some kind. In Hamlet’s case, seeing your Dad assassinated probably fits into two out of those three categories.
Apparently nightmares are most common in children. Specialists think it is because they find it difficult to process things cognitively, so if they have a sudden shock or see something they can’t make sense of, then nightmares can be the way that they process the information. Nightmares, and other dreams, happen during periods of rapid eye movement sleep, so the scariness of the dream can jolt you awake and make you feel very disoriented.
So how can you help prevent nightmares for the young or old? Facing the cause of the nightmare is a good way of doing it. If it is difficult to work out what is causing the nightmare, then try and work out what situations in your life are causing some stress and try and work out those situations in a positive way.
Another good piece of advice is to remove the scares. If you do not like zombie movies and have nightmares after watching them, then… ummm… don’t watch them. If you are like me, i.e. a complete wuss, then your range of pre-bedtime viewing is quite limited. But I don’t like having nightmares either, so I would rather limit the viewing then freak out and leave my imagination to work it all out.
Apparently having a bedtime ritual is a good idea for limiting nightmares. Do the same things every night at the same time. If your child seems to have a nightmare at the same time every night, then waking them up slightly before the nightmare and then settling them down to sleep again is a great way of breaking the dreaming pattern and hopefully stop the regular problem.
If you are an adult and get regular nightmares, look at your food and drink intake just before bed. Do not drink alcohol at night, and do not eat before bed either. It is not good for your dreams, and it isn’t good for the diet either.
This entry was posted in Health Topics, Mental Health, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo, Personal Management and tagged alcohol, facing, fears, Hamlet, mental health, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo, nightmares, ritual, routine, Stress, trauma on November 18, 2014 by viridianherbalist.
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An ergonomic mouse has an upright freestanding body that is designed to be gripped by a user's fingers in a writing position and manipulated like a writing implement. The mouse has a body shaped like a pen. The pen is coupled to a weighted base so the mouse remains freestanding and does not need to be picked up before each use. The mouse has a primary switch that is activated by the weight of the user's hand bearing down upon the pen. A secondary switch is located on the pen. Alternatively, the ergonomic mouse has a small body that can be gripped in the fingers much like a pen. The small-bodied mouse has switches on its base surface that are activated by the weight of the user's hand bearing down upon the mouse body.
The invention is directed towards the field of electronic circuitry, and more specifically, towards ergonomic input devices such as a computer mouse.
Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) are a modern-day hazard in the computer-using workforce, and are a leading cause of occupational injuries in the United States today. Computer mouse usage is blamed for many of these injuries. A mouse is typically used as an input device that controls the movement of a cursor or other display element on a display screen. The conventional and most commonly used mouse resembles a bar of soap in shape and size. This “soap bar” mouse is designed such that a user's palm and fingers rest on the mouse body when moving the mouse or activating its buttons. Unfortunately, this design requires the user's fingers to be splayed out over the mouse body and buttons, instead of being slightly curled in as is natural when the hand is relaxed. Furthermore, the hand is completely pronated (rotated so that the palm faces down, parallel to the desk top) while working the mouse. This unnatural position strains the tendons in the hand, and can be harmful especially when maintained for an extended period of time. A more natural and ergonomic position for the hand is one where the palm and wrist are 45° to 90° less twisted. Finally, the primary switch on a conventional mouse is designed to be activated by a tap of the forefinger. However, this requires the forefinger to be flexed repeatedly while the hand is pronated. This motion can strain the finger tendons.
Many computer pointing devices have ergonomic features that strive to minimize user discomfort. For instance, a joystick mouse is gripped like a vertical bicycle handle, which keeps the palm perpendicular to the desktop and the fingers curled in. However, it is difficult to control a joystick with the high degree of accuracy required by many Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools, since a joystick is manipulated with hand and arm muscles that are better suited to gross motor movement than to fine motions.
A tablet and stylus combination, such as the ones made by Wacom Technology Co., offers the user more control, precision, and accuracy. The stylus is held like a pen, and the dexterous finger muscles have great control over the stylus. Additionally, the hand remains in a natural and relaxed position. Unfortunately, the stylus must be used with a special surface such as the tablet—it will not work when used on a desktop. Also, the primary switch mechanism usually involves tapping the stylus against the surface of the tablet—again, this will not work on an ordinary desktop. Furthermore, the pen must be picked up each time it is to be used, which is a repetitive inconvenience.
Finally, in U.S. Pat. No. 6,151,015 to Badyal et al (assigned to Agilent Technologies) a pen-like computer pointing device is disclosed that uses an optical sensor to scan a work surface. Although the pointing device is an ergonomic, working solution, it must be picked up with each use. Furthermore, the pointing device is sensitive to the angle at which it is held, since the optical sensor contained within requires the pointing device to be held at a certain angle. If the pointing device is tilted beyond the narrow range of the optical sensor, the pointing device stops functioning. Also, the optical sensor within the pointing device must be oriented in the same direction during use, requiring the user to rotate the pointing device to the correct orientation before each use. Finally, the primary switch mechanism employed by the pointing device is a button on the body of the device, which still requires a tap of the forefinger and can strain the finger tendons if used repetitively.
Consequently, there remains a need for an ergonomic computer pointing device that does not need to be picked up before each use, has accurate positioning capability and an improved switch mechanism, while allowing a user's hand to remain in a natural, relaxed position.
The general idea for the present invention was partially derived by observing the writing process. Writers use an inherently ergonomic hand position, hereinafter referred to as the writing position: the fingers remain curled, not splayed out; the hand is angled between 45 degrees and 90 degrees to the work surface, never completely pronated. Additionally, the number of RSI cases associated with writing is relatively low, compared to the number of computer-related RSI cases. Therefore, it is logical and reasonable for an ergonomic mouse to recreate the hand positions and motions used in writing.
In accordance with an illustrated preferred embodiment of the present invention, an ergonomic mouse-pen is designed to be held in the writing position and manipulated like a writing implement. The mouse-pen is in communication with a computer or other instrument having a display screen. The mouse-pen has an elongated, cylindrical rod that is grasped in the fingers like a pen, enabling fine motor control for accuracy in placement of the mouse. The cylindrical rod is flexibly coupled to a weighted base so the mouse-pen remains upright and freestanding and does not need to be picked up before each use. The cylindrical rod can be shaped to have facets along its body for the user's fingers to rest upon. This helps the user to automatically and effortlessly make any slight orientation corrections each time the user grasps the mouse-pen.
A relative motion sensor is installed in the base of the mouse-pen. The relative motion sensor senses movement of the mouse-pen and translates the movement into corresponding movement of a pointer, cursor, displayed element, or other object on the display screen. The relative motion sensor can be an optical sensor, although a mechanical ball bearing mechanism (such as the kind used in conventional mice) may be used if the ball bearing mechanism is small enough. If the relative motion sensor used is an optical sensor, the base keeps the optical sensor at a constant angle to the work surface and prevents undesirable tilting.
A primary switch is located at the juncture between the body and the base. The primary switch is activated by a downward motion on the body, as if the user were pressing a ball-point pen harder into a sheet paper. The entire weight of the hand is used in bearing down to actuate the primary switch, avoiding the painful motion of flexing just the forefinger alone. One or more optional secondary switches can be located in the body of the mouse-pen. The switches are typically activated to make a selection of an object or group of objects on the display screen, or to bring up a new menu.
In an alternate embodiment of the present invention, an ergonomic mini-mouse has a small body designed to be gripped between the thumb and the first two or three fingers of the hand. This allows the hand and fingers to remain in the natural and relaxed writing position. The small size of the mini-mouse serves primarily to facilitate dexterous use and control by the fingers, the same way one uses a pencil. Since deft finger muscles control the mini-mouse, it is possible to position the mini-mouse very accurately. Furthermore, the small size of the mini-mouse is well suited to the limited amount of space associated with laptop computers.
The mini-mouse is also inherently freestanding by design—there is no need to pick up the mini-mouse before each use. Switches are installed on the bottom of the mini-mouse, to be activated by a downward press against the work surface. For example, bearing down on the mini-mouse body towards the left actuates a left-sided switch; bearing down to the right actuates a right-sided switch. The entire weight of the hand is used to bear down on the mini-mouse to actuate these switches.
Further features and advantages of the present invention, as well as the structure and operation of preferred embodiments of the present invention, are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying exemplary drawings. In the drawings, like reference numbers indicate identical or functionally similar elements.
FIG. 1A shows a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an ergonomic mouse-pen constructed in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 1B shows a bottom view of the base of the ergonomic mouse-pen of FIG. 1A.
FIG. 1C shows a cross-sectional diagrammatic view of the ergonomic mouse-pen, taken along the line C-C′ in FIG. 1A, showing the location of a primary switch. For ease of illustration, the pen body is not shown, and the primary switch is not shown in cross-sectional view.
FIG. 2A shows a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an ergonomic mini-mouse, constructed in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2B is a sketch of how a user should grasp the ergonomic mini-mouse of FIG. 1A.
FIG. 2C shows a bottom view of the ergonomic mini-mouse.
FIG. 2D shows a side view of the ergonomic mini-mouse.
FIG. 2E shows a bottom view of an alternate embodiment of the ergonomic mini-mouse.
FIG. 1A shows a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an ergonomic mouse-pen 101, constructed in accordance with the present invention. Although not explicitly depicted in the figure, mouse-pen 101 is resting on a work surface, such as a desktop. The mouse-pen 101 controls the movement of a pointer, cursor, displayed element, or other object on the display screen of a computer or other instrument. As the mouse-pen 101 traverses the work surface, the movement of the mouse-pen 101 on the work surface corresponds with the movement of an object on the display screen. The mouse-pen 101 is shown in FIG. 1A to be attached to the computer by a cord 103, but the mouse-pen 101 can also communicate with the computer via a wireless link. In a wireless mouse, the pen body of the mouse-pen 101 makes a particularly good location for an internal antenna.
The mouse-pen 101 has a cylindrical rod 105 connected to a base 107 by a flexible coupling 109. The flexible coupling 109 can be a bendable piece of plastic or elastomer that returns to a set shape. The cylindrical rod 105 has sufficient length to be gripped by the fingers in the writing position, in the same manner as any writing implement. For illustrative purposes only, an exemplary size for the cylindrical rod 105 is fifteen centimeters in length. The flexible coupling 109 is flexible enough to allow the angle between the cylindrical rod 105 and the work surface to change as the user manipulates the mouse-pen 101. At the same time, the flexible coupling 109 remains rigid enough to maintain the cylindrical rod 105 at a convenient angle when the mouse-pen 101 is not in use. This convenient angle can be between 40° and 90° to the work surface, and is preferably between 50° and 80°. In a preferred embodiment, the angle is set at 60° to the work surface, the angle at which many people feel comfortable holding a pen. The angle can conceivably be less than 40°, which still allows the mouse-pen 101 to be picked up more easily than if it were lying flat on the work surface. The user can then adjust the cylindrical rod 105 to a more comfortable angle as desired. Alternatively, the cylindrical rod 105 can be attached to the base 107 with a rigid material that maintains a fixed angle between the cylindrical rod 105 and the work surface. This is a less desirable embodiment since the mouse-pen 101 becomes more difficult to manipulate.
FIG. 1B shows a bottom view of the base 107 of the mouse-pen 101. The base 107 has low friction glide pads 108 on its bottom surface that make sliding across the work surface easier. Low friction glide pads 108 are optional and can be left off of the base 107. The base 107 is sufficiently weighted to keep the mouse-pen 101 upright when not in use. The base 107 is preferably small, less than 4 centimeters in width, so that it does not interfere with the finger grip on the cylindrical rod 105. For illustrative purposes only, an exemplary size for the base 107 is three centimeters in diameter. Although the base 107 as drawn in FIG. 1B is round, the base 107 is not limited to round shapes. The cylindrical rod 105 is shown attached to the center of the base 107, but the cylindrical rod 105 can be attached to other locations on the base 107 as well. For example, the base 107 may be positioned forward of the cylindrical rod 105, which offers two advantages. By being forward, the base 107 will not interfere with the fingers. Additionally, the center of gravity of the base 107 will offset the rearward center of gravity of the cylindrical rod 105, thus making the mouse-pen 101 more stable and less likely to tilt over when not being held.
Aperture 111 represents the general location of a relative motion sensor installed in the base 107. The relative motion sensor can be an optical sensor, although a mechanical ball bearing mechanism (such as the kind as used in conventional mice) may be used if the ball bearing mechanism is small enough to fit into the base 107.
FIG. 1C shows a cross-sectional diagrammatic view of the mouse-pen 101, taken along the line C-C′ in FIG. 1A. A primary switch 113 is located within the base 107 and flexible coupling 109. The base 107 and flexible coupling 109 are shown as two disparate parts, but may be one integrated piece. For ease of illustration, the cylindrical rod 105 is not shown, and the primary switch 113 is not shown in cross-sectional view. The primary switch 113 can be an axial pressure switch. The primary switch 113 is activated by a downward motion of the cylindrical rod 105 (not shown), as if the user were pressing a ballpoint pen harder into a sheet of paper. The entire weight of the hand bears down upon the cylindrical rod 105 to activate the primary switch 113. This motion occurs without appreciable movement, and is an improvement over previous mechanisms requiring single finger taps that can strain the finger tendons.
Returning now to FIG. 1A, at least one optional secondary switch 115 can be located in the cylindrical rod 105 of the mouse-pen 101. The secondary switch 115 shown in FIG. 1A is positioned for activation by the thumb, but the secondary switch 115 can be located elsewhere along the cylindrical rod 105 so as to be more conveniently activated by a user's first, second, or third finger. The secondary switch 115 can also be a scroll wheel button. The cylindrical rod 105 can optionally have flat facets 116 to make finger placement easier, and to facilitate alignment and orientation of the mouse-pen 101.
The mouse-pen 101 is designed to be held and moved like a writing implement. There are two primary motion mechanisms used when manipulating the mouse-pen 101: a gross motion and a fine motion. The gross motion is used when relatively large distances are to be traveled by the pointer on the corresponding display screen. The user grasps the mouse-pen 101 in the fingers, and then slides the hypothenar (the fleshy region of the palm under the little finger) along the work surface, exerting primarily just the arm muscles. Writers make similar gross motions when they reorient the hand between one word and the next, or between the end of one line and the beginning of the next.
The fine motion is used when smaller distances need to be covered on the corresponding display screen, or when more precision and accuracy is desired from the mouse-pen 101. First, the hypothenar is anchored in place to stabilize the hand. Then, using the dexterous finger muscles, the user can control the tip of the mouse-pen 101 with great accuracy to pinpoint a desired location on the corresponding display screen. The corresponding writing analogy is the motion of forming and connecting the letters within a word.
FIG. 2A shows a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an ergonomic mini-mouse 201, constructed in accordance with the present invention. Although not explicitly depicted in the figure, mini-mouse 201 is resting on a work surface, such as a desktop. The mini-mouse 201 controls the movement of a pointer, cursor, displayed element, or other object on the display screen of a computer or other instrument. As the mini-mouse 201 traverses a work surface, the movement of the mini-mouse 201 on the work surface corresponds with the movement of an object on the display screen. The mini-mouse 201 as shown in FIG. 2A is attached to the computer by a cord 203, but the mini-mouse 201 can also communicate with the computer via a wireless link. The mini-mouse 201 is inherently upright and freestanding by design there is no need to pick up the mini-mouse 201 before each use.
FIG. 2B is a sketch of how a user's hand 204 should grasp the mini-mouse 201. The mini-mouse 201 is very small, typically less than one cubic inch in volume. The small size of the mini-mouse 201 allows it to be gripped between just the thumb and the first two or three fingers of the hand. The hand and fingers remain in the natural and relaxed writing position, and move the mini-mouse 201 like a writing implement. The width of the mini-mouse 201 is preferably less than four centimeters, to avoid spreading the thumb and fingers unduly. For illustrative purposes only, an exemplary width for the mini-mouse 201 is approximately 2.5 centimeters. Like the mouse-pen 101, the mini-mouse 201 is manipulated using the two primary motion mechanisms described above. Gross motions are made by sliding the hypothenar across the work surface. Fine motions are made by first anchoring the hypothenar, and then using the fine motor control of the fingers to pinpoint the placement of the mini-mouse 201.
FIG. 2C shows a bottom view of the mini-mouse 201. Switches 205 are located on the bottom of the mini-mouse 201. An aperture 207 represents the general location of a relative motion sensor in the bottom of the mini-mouse 201. The relative motion sensor can be an optical sensor, although a mechanical ball bearing mechanism may be used if the ball bearing mechanism is small enough to fit into the mini-mouse 201.
FIG. 2D shows a side view of the mini-mouse 201, resting on a work surface 209. Only a single switch 205 can be seen in the side view, but both switches 205 are in contact with the work surface 209. To work a switch, the user simply bears down on the mini-mouse 201 towards the switch that is to be activated. For instance, to actuate a switch on the left side of the mini-mouse 201, the user should bear down to the left; to actuate a right-sided switch, the user should bear down to the right. The switches 205 should be stiff enough to prevent inadvertent activation when the user is only moving the mini-mouse 201.
FIG. 2E shows a bottom view of an alternative embodiment of the mini-mouse 201. The aperture 207 still represents the general location of a relative motion sensor. Although more switches 205 are included in this embodiment than in the previous embodiment of FIG. 2D, the activation mechanism for the switches 205 remains the same. To actuate a switch on the left side of the mini-mouse 201, the user should bear down to the left; to actuate a right-sided switch, the user should bear down to the right. To actuate a switch at the front of the mini-mouse 201, the user should bear down to the front; to actuate a switch at the rear, the user should bear down to the rear.
Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to particular preferred embodiments, persons possessing ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains will appreciate that various modifications and enhancements may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims that follow.
at least one primary switch connected to the freestanding body, adapted for activation by the weight of the user's hand bearing down onto the freestanding body such that activation of the primary switch corresponds to a selection on the display screen.
2. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 1, wherein the freestanding body is less than 1 cube inch in volume.
3. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 2, wherein the freestanding body is less than four centimeters wide.
4. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 3, wherein the freestanding body is approximately 2.5 centimeters wide.
5. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 3, wherein the relative motion sensor is an optical sensor.
6. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 5, wherein the primary switch is in contact with the work surface.
7. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 6, wherein the ergonomic mouse communicates with the computer via a wireless link.
at least one switch in the weighted base, actuated by the weight of the user's hand bearing down onto the cylindrical rod.
at least one primary switch in the weighted base, adapted for activation by the weight of the user's hand bearing down onto the cylindrical rod such that the activation of the primary switch corresponds to a selection on the display screen.
10. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 9, wherein the coupling between the cylindrical rod and the weighted base is flexible.
a cylindrical rod having sufficient length to be held in the user's fingers like a writing implement, the cylindrical rod being coupled to the weighted base such that the cylindrical rod is elevated at an angle between 40° and 90° to the work surface.
11. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 10, wherein the relative motion sensor is an optical sensor.
12. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 11, wherein the weighted base is no wider than four centimeters.
13. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 12, wherein the cylindrical rod has facets to facilitate placement of the user's fingers and orientation of the mouse.
14. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 13, further comprising a secondary switch in the cylindrical rod.
15. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 14, wherein the secondary switch is also a scrolling wheel.
16. An ergonomic mouse as in claim 15, wherein the ergonomic mouse communicates with the computer via a wireless link.
Hewlett-Packard Installation and Setup Guide for Omnibook-1993.
Hewlett-Packard Installation and Setup Guide for Omnibook—1993.
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Searching for beauty, peace, love, equality and acceptance.
This is how I found my way to love my body, I hope it can help to those who are also on their journey finding beauty in themselves.
There were a lot of things that were needed to make me able to feel really good in my body. First, I think I needed to reach a certain age, self-acceptance takes time.
I think for me it was also important to experience a healthy, positive relationship with someone. Experiencing what it feels like to love someone else’s body and someone else loving my body set me up on the journey of accepting myself.
The biggest change happened in the last few years when I started to live on my own and spend time by myself. For the first time in my life I was on my own, I wasn’t somebody’s daughter, sister, friend or girlfriend. It was just me. And for the first time in my life I saw myself as I am and not as a comparison to something or someone.
I saw what actually was there, a body with joyful eyes, full lips, yes, gigantic feet, a weirdly nice-looking nose, natural, wavy smooth hair, long arms and legs, curvy hips and belly, uneven ears, and so many other things. Just a body where it feels good to be in and experiencing life is fun. It’s beautiful because it is a living thing just like any other living thing, not because it looks or doesn’t look a certain way. It is beautiful and amazing because it makes me able to draw and sing and dance and listen to music and hug my friends and do everything I like to do.
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2019-04-23T23:49:23Z
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https://hoolen.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/how-i-started-to-love-my-body/
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The Big Broadcast is a 1932 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams. Based on the play Wild Waves by William Ford Manley, the film is about a radio-singer who becomes a popular hit with audiences, but takes a casual approach to his career. A casual affair leads to his dismissal, but his career is saved by the station manager who buys the station and gives him his job back. The film co-stars George Burns and Gracie Allen in supporting roles. The Big Broadcast was produced by Paramount Pictures and was the first picture in a series of four Big Broadcast movies.
Crazy People and Heebie Jeebies. McAfee (Boswell Sisters Discography) reports that the two songs were filmed in Queens, New York, on the same day for The Big Broadcast, but only “Crazy People” appears in the film.
Heebie Jeebies (Boyd Atkins) – First recorded by the sisters in 1931 (see Boswell Sisters: selected recordings of 1931). Additional words and music by Connee Boswell.
Dinah (m. Harry Akst, w. Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) and Please (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – Bing sings and scats his way through a few bars of Dinah, then the camera cuts to another scene where he sings a portion of the song Please with guitar accompaniment by Eddie Lang.
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2019-04-22T07:17:29Z
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https://songbook1.wordpress.com/fx/excerpts-from-the-big-broadcast-1932/
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Nice to see something like this being done.
I love your Vlog! That was so sweetie of you do that while my old days doesnt have great technology except video cam only for school not for everyone to see vlog like this. I would love to share with my students like that.. If that is okay? You looks so great! Miss you guys when I used to be work for MSD Middle School. Many good luck in your ahead in the future! Have a great summer!
Next Next post: 2010 in review and Happy 2011!
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2019-04-26T08:23:36Z
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https://jehanne.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/fifteen-by-taylor-swift-in-asl/
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Dress up your spuds healthfully.
4 What Is Good on a Hummus Sandwich?
A baked potato with a dash of salt and pepper can make a healthy side dish, but if you want to really amp up the nutrition, consider toppings that contribute protein, healthy fats and fiber. Forget the cheese, sour cream and butter and go for more nutrient-dense additions for your baked potato. To further boost the nutrition, try these ideas on a vitamin A-rich baked sweet potato.
Packed with fiber and protein, vegetarian chili on a baked potato can make for a satisfying meal. Make your own from fresh ingredients rather than using canned chili for the healthiest result. Much healthier than beef, 1 cup of kidney beans provides over 13 grams of protein as well as over 13 grams of fiber. The tomato, pepper and onions, and any other veggies you decide to add, will supply abundant phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals for minimal calories.
Black beans, salsa and guacamole are delicious as well as nutritious toppings for a baked potato. Black beans are loaded with antioxidants, fiber and protein. Salsa is low in calories and high in antioxidants. Guacamole supplies heart-healthy fats along with fiber, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin and beta-carotene. Consuming high-fiber foods may help reduce your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Antioxidants help prevent free radical damage that can lead to cancer and other diseases.
Try blending up a nut-based cheese sauce if you are craving the taste of a creamy cheese-topped baked potato but want to keep it healthy. Rich in heart-healthy fats, fiber, minerals and protein, cashews and macadamias make a nutritious sauce base. Look at recipes for ideas on tasty additional ingredients like nutritional yeast, herbs and spices. To make it a complete meal, serve with steamed broccoli or cauliflower.
Not just for dipping carrots and crackers, hummus can make a flavorful dressing for a baked potato. You can quickly and easily make hummus in a food processor with chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and spices, or you can purchase it pre-made at the store -- but look out for extra fat and sodium in store-bought hummus. Chickpeas are an excellent source of protein and fiber, while the tahini -- sesame seed paste -- offers healthful fats. Spoon a few dollops on your potato in place of sour cream.
Goff, Corinne. "The Healthiest Way to Dress a Baked Potato." Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/healthiest-way-dress-baked-potato-2674.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.
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2019-04-22T16:16:04Z
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https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/healthiest-way-dress-baked-potato-2674.html
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The LHC was big news just before it came online, but mostly for the wrong reason: unfounded fears about the Earth being destroyed in a black hole created by the LHC. The news reports should have been about the many profound things the LHC could tell us about how reality is constructed at the fundamental level. The flashy news leads should have focused on how greatly our lives benefit every time we explore the unknown.
One of the first people to set up a homemade particle smasher was Earnest Rutherford, in the first years of the 20th century. He discovered the atomic nucleus, found an explanation for radioactivity, learned how to transmute elements, gave geologists the power to know the age of the Earth, and predicted the neutron. All this, in a wooden university lab without air conditioning.
The LHC is like that, except instead of a pre-WWI college lab, the LHC is more like the most advanced and monumental technological accomplishment in human history, by several metrics (largest machine ever, most combined computing power, most ever Swiss guys carving our Moria-sized vaults beneath the Alps, etc…). The LHC employs several hundred people who are just as smart – and smarter – than Rutherford. All things considered, we’re likely to get some good loot out of all that toiling away of the world’s best physicists, in the functional equivalent of several dozen Baxter Buildings.
I was pleased to hear at least one brilliant discussion of what the LHC can do, and why we should care, on Bloggingheads.tv. Their September 20th ‘Science Saturday’ vodcast teamed up CalTech physicist Sean Carroll with science journalist Jennifer Ouellette to talk about the LHC. In the process they had some very interesting things to say about how scientists and journalists don’t communicate well, and why. Sean Carroll gave what I thought was a spectacularly cogent explanation of spacetime, branes, fields and particles. It’s a great discussion, and a great introduction to what the LHC is all about.
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2019-04-21T22:56:01Z
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https://planetologist.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/the-lhc-explained-on-bloggingheadstv/
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After a long period of not being especially creative, on account of overloading on administrative assignments, I burst out, burst forth.
This new collection sees the addition of a new material to my repetoire of upcycled jewellery – the material – coconut shell (from my home country).
As I am still be-dazzled by prisms, rough-cut diamond shapes, facets, I designed some jewellery and had the shapes cut by a local craftsman. I took the coconut shell pieces back to Denmark, and almost immediately set about making the pieces I had in my head, but as I played with the pieces, other designs presented themselves. Some of these shapes gave way to pieces I designed in acrylic.
Much of the inspiration has come from V-shapes around me.
The collection mainly has stripes/ chevron pieces that stand alone, some in two’s and others in three’s. Assembled like the stripes in the army – corporal, sargent, general, etc.
The stars (shapes cut from a production of wedding favors I did for my daughter’s wedding) (this was the only shape I could get cut out from the hourglass sides).
As usual, contrasts – warm coconut with cooler silver chain.
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2019-04-18T20:25:39Z
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https://accentcph.wordpress.com/tag/stripes/
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3235 R.Bougainville, Rabaul (presumed) 1905 Morning px.
3245 R.Gulf, Kerema Little QRM but strong signal.
3305 R.Western, Daru 2000 Morning px, talk with Island mx.
7380 V.O.Biafra int. Meyerton 2102 Classical mx followed by ID.
4965 R.Christian Voice, Lusaka 2120 Religious pop mx, Clear ID.
6612 Zimbabwe BC Gweru 2129 Talk by woman 2200 NA and signed off.
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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ms8n-tkn/swlog/2005log/200511.htm
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This article is about the German title. For other uses, see Führer (disambiguation).
Führer (German pronunciation: [ˈfyːʁɐ], spelled Fuehrer when the umlaut is not available) is a German word meaning "leader" or "guide". As a political title it is associated with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Nazi Germany cultivated the Führerprinzip ("leader principle"), and Hitler was generally known as just der Führer ("the Leader").
Führer was the title demanded by Adolf Hitler to denote his function as the head of the Nazi Party; he received it in 1921 when, infuriated over party founder Anton Drexler's plan to merge with another antisemitic far-right nationalist party, he resigned from the party. Drexler and the party's Executive Committee then acquiesced to Hitler's demand to be made the chairman of the party with "dictatorial powers" as the condition for his return. It was common at the time to refer to leaders of all sorts, including those of political parties, as Führer. Hitler's adoption of the title was partly inspired by its earlier use by the Austrian Georg von Schönerer, a major exponent of pan-Germanism and German nationalism in Austria, whose followers commonly referred to him as the Führer, and who also used the Roman salute – where the right arm and hand are held rigidly outstretched – which they called the "German greeting". According to historian Richard J. Evans, this use of "Führer" by Schönerer's Pan-German Association, probably introduced the term to the German far right, but its specific adoption by the Nazis may have been influenced by the use in Italy of "Duce", also meaning "leader", as an informal title for Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Prime Minister, and later dictator, of that country.
After Hitler's appointment as Reichskanzler (Chancellor of the Reich) the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act which allowed Hitler's cabinet to promulgate laws by decree.
One day before the death of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler and his cabinet decreed a law that merged the office of the president with that of Chancellor, so that Hitler became Führer and Reichskanzler – although eventually Reichskanzler was quietly dropped. Hitler therefore assumed the President's powers without assuming the office itself – ostensibly out of respect for Hindenburg's achievements as a heroic figure in World War I. Though this law was in breach of the Enabling Act, which specifically precluded any laws concerning the Presidential office, it was approved by a referendum on 19 August.
Hitler saw himself as the sole source of power in Germany, similar to the Roman emperors and German medieval leaders. He used the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor), highlighting the positions he already held in party and government, though in popular reception, the element Führer was increasingly understood not just in reference to the Nazi Party, but also in reference to the German people and the German state. Soldiers had to swear allegiance to Hitler as "Führer des deutschen Reiches und Volkes" (Leader of the German Reich and People). The title was changed on 28 July 1942 to "Führer des Großdeutschen Reiches" (Leader of the Greater German Reich). In his political testament, Hitler also referred to himself as Führer der Nation (Leader of the Nation).
One of the Nazis' most-repeated political slogans was Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer – "One People, One Empire, One Leader". Bendersky says the slogan "left an indelible mark on the minds of most Germans who lived through the Nazi years. It appeared on countless posters and in publications; it was heard constantly in radio broadcasts and speeches." The slogan emphasized the absolute control of the party over practically every sector of German society and culture – with the churches being the most notable exception. Hitler's word was absolute, but he had a narrow range of interest – mostly involving diplomacy and the military – and so his subordinates interpreted his will to fit their own interests.
According to the Constitution of Weimar, the President was Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Unlike "President", Hitler did take this title (Oberbefehlshaber) for himself. When conscription was reintroduced in 1935, Hitler created the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, a post held by the Minister for War. He retained the title of Supreme Commander for himself. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, then the Minister of War and one of those who created the Hitler oath, or the personal oath of loyalty of the military to Hitler, became the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces while Hitler remained Supreme Commander. Following the Blomberg–Fritsch Affair in 1938, Hitler assumed the commander-in-chief's post as well and took personal command of the armed forces. However, he continued using the older formally higher title of Supreme Commander, which was thus filled with a somewhat new meaning. Combining it with "Führer", he used the style Führer und Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Leader and Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht), yet a simple "Führer" since May 1942.
An additional title was adopted by Hitler on 23 June 1941 when he declared himself the "Germanic Führer" (Germanischer Führer), in addition to his duties as Führer of the German state and people. This was done to emphasize Hitler's professed leadership of what the Nazis described as the "Nordic-Germanic master race", which was considered to include peoples such as the Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Dutch, and others in addition to the Germans, and the intent to annex these countries to the German Reich in 1933. Waffen-SS formations from these countries had to declare obedience to Hitler by addressing him in this fashion. On 12 December 1941 the Dutch fascist Anton Mussert also addressed him as such when he proclaimed his allegiance to Hitler during a visit to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. He had wanted to address Hitler as Führer aller Germanen ("Führer of all Germanics"), but Hitler personally decreed the former style. Historian Loe de Jong speculates on the difference between the two: Führer aller Germanen implied a position separate from Hitler's role as Führer und Reichskanzler des Grossdeutschen Reiches ("Führer and Reich Chancellor of the Greater German Empire"), while germanischer Führer served more as an attribute of that main function. As late as 1944, however, occasional propaganda publications continued to refer to him by this unofficial title.
Führer has been used as a military title (compare Latin Dux) in Germany since at least the 18th century. The usage of the term "Führer" in the context of a company-sized military subunit in the German Army referred to a commander lacking the qualifications for permanent command. For example, the commanding officer of a company was (and is) titled "Kompaniechef" (literally, Company Chief), but if he did not have the requisite rank or experience, or was only temporarily assigned to command, he was officially titled "Kompanieführer". Thus operational commands of various military echelons were typically referred to by their formation title followed by the title Führer, in connection with mission-type tactics used by the German military forces. The term Führer was also used at lower levels, regardless of experience or rank; for example, a Gruppenführer was the leader of a squad of infantry (9 or 10 men).
Under the Nazis, the title Führer was also used in paramilitary titles (see Freikorps). Almost every Nazi paramilitary organization, in particular the SS and SA, had Nazi party paramilitary ranks incorporating the title of Führer. The SS including the Waffen-SS, like all paramilitary Nazi organisations, called all their members of any degree except the lowest Führer of something; thus confusingly, Gruppenführer was also an official rank title for a specific grade of general. The word Truppenführer was also a generic word referring to any commander or leader of troops, and could be applied to NCOs or officers at many different levels of command.
The word Führerstand translates to a "driver's cab"
In Germany, the isolated word "Führer" is usually avoided in political contexts, due to its intimate connection with Nazi institutions and with Hitler personally. However, the term -führer is used in many compound words. Examples include Bergführer (mountain guide), Fremdenführer (tourist guide), Geschäftsführer (CEO or EO), Führerschein (driver's license), Führerstand or Führerhaus (driver's cab), Lok(omotiv)führer (train driver), Reiseführer (travel guide book), and Spielführer (team captain — also referred to as Mannschaftskapitän).
The use of alternative terms like "Chef" (a borrowing from the French, as is the English "chief", e.g. Chef des Bundeskanzleramtes) or Leiter (often in compound words like Amtsleiter, Projektleiter or Referatsleiter) is usually not the result of replacing of the word "Führer", but rather using terminology that existed before the Nazis. The use of Führer to refer to a political party leader is rare today and Vorsitzender (chairman) is the more common term. However, the word Oppositionsführer ("leader of the (parliamentary) opposition") is more commonly used.
^ "Means Used by the Nazi Conspiractors in Gaining Control of the German State (Part 4 of 55)".
^ Evans, Richard J. (2003) The Coming of the Third Reich. New York; Penguin. pp.43, 184. ISBN 0-14-303469-3. Schönerer also invented the "pseudo-medieval" greeting "Heil", meaning "Hail".
"§ 1 The office of the Reichspräsident is merged with that of the Reichskanzler. Therefore the previous rights of the Reichspräsident pass over to the Führer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler. He names his deputy."
^ Shirer, William L. (1960). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 226–27. ISBN 978-0-671-62420-0.
^ Thamer, Hans-Ulrich (2003). "Beginn der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft (Teil 2)". Nationalsozialismus I (in German). Bonn: Federal Agency for Civic Education. Archived from the original on February 8, 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
^ Winkler, Heinrich August. "The German Catastrophe 1933–1945". Germany: The Long Road West vol. 2: 1933–1990. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-19-926598-5. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
^ "NS-Archiv : Dokumente zum Nationalsozialismus : Adolf Hitler, Politisches Testament".
^ Joseph W. Bendersky (2007). A Concise History of Nazi Germany: 1919–1945. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 105–6.
^ De Jong, Louis (1974) (in Dutch). Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de tweede wereldoorlog: Maart '41 – Juli '42, p. 181. M. Nijhoff.
^ Bramstedt, E. K. (2003). Dictatorship and Political Police: the Technique of Control by Fear, pp. 92–93. Routledge.
^ a b c De Jong 1974, pp. 199–200.
^ Adolf Hitler: Führer aller Germanen. Storm, 1944.
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Just completed the first weekend of exhibiting at this year’s Open Studios event in York.
Here’s some of the work on show ~ some of my favourite shots of urban art taken over the past few years.
The primary aim is to record these pieces ~ as they are so often so short-lived ~ but beyond that I attempt to add my own photographic interpretation to the work and try to create a complimentary image that is sympathetic to the artist’s vision and the relationship to the environment in which the piece resides.
The exhibition that myself and two friends have been working on opened this Monday night in York’s Theatre Royal and continues until April 28th.
It is always good to see a project come off ~ especially when you can remember how small a seed it grew from and how much it changed and evolved along the way. The fact that it came from a passion and was such a joy to work on is a real bonus.
We made it to some fascinating places and saw some fantastic art. By the nature of its location the artwork is fragile and quite often doesn’t last long so timing plays an important role in capturing these ephemeral pieces.
Sadly many of the works that form ‘Urban Canvas’ are now gone forever.
Was fortunate to gain access to this commissioned piece by Phlegm in Doncaster. The place is being demolished and the piece was part of an event that took place in November.
The work is on a grand scale and all the more impressive for this. The relatively confined dimensions of its courtyard location made for some creative use of ‘stitching’ exposures together so as to fit the whole piece in frame.
There is a wealth of fine detail with great tonal range. So much preparation and execution for so little time in existence. The piece looks like it was well appreciated by those who were present at ‘The Telling’ event.
As part of Sheffield’s Tramlines festival this year the arts collective ‘South Yorks’ premiered Kid Acne’s Zebra Face animated shorts ~ which are currently to be seen on Channel 4.
The venue was a much frequented ‘urbex’ location decorated by the city’s finest urban artists. It was odd seeing the usually quiet and deserted place vibrantly alive with bands and djs playing sets for the wonderfully diverse audience.
Kid Acne gave a short introduction to the Zebra Face animations and outlined the history of the character and all the various people who have contributed along the way, such as Jarvis Cocker who voices the ‘Sun’ character.
It was a brilliant sunny day in the city with the free festival attracting a large crowd to the many stages. I took in a couple of bands and then caught up with some urban art I hadn’t seen before. The shot above is another of Kid Acne’s works.
This is an early-ish Phlegm piece near the Moors shopping centre.
This piece is entitled ‘Art Fag’ and is a collaboration between Phlegm & Kid Acne.
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Have I got everything? Charity shop trousers, charity shop shirts (just for field work, honest) everything various shades of green, brown and beige to best hide the accumulated dirt. Where the hell did I leave the European plug adapter? Passport, still in data *phew* imodium (crickets wait for no man, or his bowels…).
Travel? EasyJet of course, no chance this PhD student gets to travel any other way. Travel in Spain; ah sod it I’ll work it out when I get there. Trains in Spain go mainly to the plain, right?
Food? Chorizo all day every day=happy days. Hopefully the crickets won’t mind the breath. Hmm, guess I will need to “lose” some stuff while I’m there to make room for extra chorizo in the luggage. Worth it.
Drink? Turns out I get out of Cornwall and I still can’t escape the bloody cider, it’s a speciality where I’m going as well.
Accommodation? Random house share with some Spanish students, could either be amazing (picturing gorgeous English language students) or terrible (surely awkward silences when they don’t speak English is ok?). Not that I have any say in what or where it is, I will be just using it for sleeping after all.
Nearly 7 weeks outside of the UK, how will I cope? How will I deal with daily sun, cured meat, fiestas…..Hang on, are my plane tickets flexible?
OH CRAP one thing I forgot to do, learn any Spanish at all.
¿dónde está el prado con grillos y las cámaras?
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Never heard of Stitcher's, but the little I read about it just now makes it sound like it could be interesting. And Allison Scagliotti, so of course I'll check it out.
So it was her! I wasn't sure because the scenes went by so fast. Such a great casting setup, I swear. I'm hoping that it does good. I really need more good scifi programming in my life.
I hope it does good, too. It has to. It looks and sounds too good not to.
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Lyapis Trubetskoy live at Docker Pub in Kiev, Ukraine, on 23 August 2008.
Lyapis Trubetskoy (Russian: Ляпис Трубецкой, Belarusian: Ляпіс Трубяцкі) was a Belarusian rock band. It was named after comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used pseudonym Trubetskoy.
Received various awards from RAMP, «Рок-коронация», «Чартова дюжина», «Степной волк», ZD Awards, Ultra-Music Awards.
On 17 March 2014 frontman Siarhei Mikhalok announced that the band will be dissolved, on 31 August the band ceased to exist and broke up in two ensembles: Brutto and Trubetskoy.
In January 2009 their album Manifest became "the best album of the year 2008" according to the West Records top-list and The Lenta music review. In August 2009 they played as headliners at the “Be Free” festival organized by the European Radio for Belarus in Chernihiv (Ukraine) together with Vopli Vidopliassova, Hair Peace Salon, and more Belarusian and Ukrainian rock bands. Lyapis Trubetskoy was one of the bands that performed (in December 2013) for Euromaidan-protesters in Kiev, Ukraine.
Frontman Siarhei Mikhalok announced mid-March 2014 that the group would ceased to exist the next 1 September. The groups farewell concert was given in the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine on 26 August. Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko was present at this concert.
Former band members led by Pavel Bulatnikaw formed a new band Trubetskoy Minsk. Siarhei Mikhalok founded the band Brutto.
They won sixteen awards between 1996 and 2009 in Belarus and Russia.
^ "БелаПАН. Наибольшее количество зрителей на фестивале Be Free в Чернигове собрала группа "Ляпис Трубецкой"". BelaPAN (in Russian). 24 August 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ "Беларусский фестиваль Be Free в Чернигове". vk.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
^ "«Воплі Відоплясова» выступали под бело-красно-белым флагом (Фото)". charter97.org. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
^ "«Воплі". library.by (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-11-16.
^ Яр, Маша; Киянко, Кастусь; Витальев, Юрась (23 August 2009). "Вопли Видоплясова на Be Free учили белорусский язык (Фоторепортаж)".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lyapis Trubetskoy.
Lyapis Trubetskoy's Music Video for "Ogon'ki (The Lights)"
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President Rodrigo Duterte announced the possibility of Jordan donating another helicopter to the Philippines.
The President made the announcement at the PDP-LABAN campaign rally in Bukidnon last Saturday night.
This is aside from the two Cobra attack helicopters that are scheduled to be delivered to the Philippines in July, as part of the what Jordan leadership has committed to President Duterte in his last visit to the country in 2018.
“Adto pa gyud ko sa Jordan, didto sa desert. Gipatan-aw ko sa helicopter nga ilang ihatag. Gi-exhibition ngadto. Tagaan ta nila’g duha. Amigo man mi ni King sa Jordan. Ingon siya nga basin himuon niyang tulo. [And then I went to Jordan. In the desert. They showed me the helicopter that they donated. It was shown in an exhibit there. They gave us two. I’m friends with the king of Jordan. He said he might give us a third],” Duterte said.
The President reiterated, however, that he doesn’t want these attack helicopters to be used in attacking even the members of the NPA as they are still Filipinos.
The post Jordan might give Phl another attack helicopter — Duterte appeared first on UNTV News.
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Here are some papers published in 2015 and 2016.
Alvarado, C.S. (2016). Classic Text No. 107: ‘Report of the Committee on Mediumistic Phenomena,’ by William James (1886). History of Psychiatry, 27, 85-100.
Alvarado, C.S. (2016). On psychic forces and doubles: The case of Albert de Rochas. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 30, 63-84.
Alvarado, C.S. (2015). Telepathic emissions: Edwin J. Houston on “Cerebral Radiation.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, 29, 467-490.
Alvarado, C.S., & Zingrone, N.L. (2015). Note on the reception of Théodore Flournoy’s Des Indes à le Planète Mars. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 79, 156-164.
Gauld, A. (2014). Two cases from the lost years of Mrs. Piper. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 78, 65-84.
This paper presents two hitherto unpublished cases from what may be called the ‘lost years’ of Mrs. Piper, the period between 1897 and 1905 from which only a very limited amount has been published. The cases illustrate different aspects of the Piper phenomenon, and while not among the strongest are not without evidential interest. They are used as the basis for a discussion of various standard tactics for denying that there is any paranormal element in such cases.
King, C.S. (2015). Given a bad rap: The women of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism. Women’s History in the Digital World. Paper 5.
Le Maléfan, P., & Sommer, A. (2015). Léon Marillier and the veridical hallucination in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century French psychology and psychopathology. History of Psychiatry, 26, 418-432.
Maraldi, E. O., Alvarado, C.S., Zangari, W., & Machado, F. R. (2016). Dissociação, crença e criatividade: Uma introdução ao pensamento de Théodore Flournoy [Dissociation, belief and creativity: An introduction to Théodore Flournoy’s thought]. Memorandum: Memória e História em Psicologia, No. 30, 12-37. Online journal.
This article is about the history and the main contributions of the Swiss psychologist Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920), notably his work on dissociation, religious belief, fantasy and creativity. Flournoy is a neglected author in the history of psychology and is little known in Brazil. He devoted himself to the study of issues considered controversial, such as mediumship and other alleged paranormal experiences. His approach, however, was strictly psychological and his contributions about the function of dreams and imagination were an alternative to the theory of Freud in the early twentieth century, which emphasized the more creative and constructive aspects of the unconscious, having preceded hypotheses developed later by Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). The article discusses some of the possible historical factors involved in the omission of the work of Flournoy, as well as its role in the controversies surrounding the consideration of parapsychological phenomena as objects of scientific psychology from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century.
Miranda, P. (2016) Taking possession of a heritage: Psychologies of the subliminal and their pioneers. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 8, 28-45.
This essay explores some of the theoretical repercussions of the debate concerning the growth-oriented dimension of the personality that took place in the late nineteenth-century psychologies of transcendence.1 The French–Swiss–English–American psychotherapeutic axis, a ‘loose-knit alliance’ of cutting-edge scientists, investigated occult and paranormal phenomena ranging from somnambulism, hypnotic trance states, double consciousness, and multiple personalities to mediumship and pathological schizophrenic fantasies. Their insights into the complex phenomena of psychic dissociation posited a subliminal region that was not only a reservoir of trauma, but also source of a potentiality beyond normal consciousness, a notion which was continued and developed in Jung’s psychology.
Natale, S. (2015) “Spreading the Spirit Word: Print Media, Storytelling, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism. communication +1: Vol. 4, Article 12.
Spiritualists in the nineteenth century gave much emphasis to the collection of evidences of scientific meaning. During séances, they used instruments similar to those employed in scientific practice to substantiate their claims. However, these were not the only source of legitimization offered in support of the spiritualist claims. In fact, writers who aimed to provide beliefs in spiritualism with a reliable support relied very often on the testimonies of eyewitness that were reported in a narrative fashion. This article interrogates the role of such anecdotal testimonies in nineteenth-century spiritualism. It argues that they played a twofold role: on one side, they offered a form of evidentiary proof that was complementary to the collection of mechanical-based evidences; on the other side, they circulated in spiritualist publications, creating opportunities to reach a wide public of readers that was made available by the emergence of a mass market for print media. Able to convince, but also to entertain the reader, anecdotal testimonies were perfectly suited for publications in spiritualist books and periodicals. The proliferation of anecdotal testimonies in spiritualist texts, in this regard, hints at the relevance of storytelling in the diffusion of beliefs about religious matters as well as scientific issues within the public sphere. By reporting and disseminating narrative testimonies, print media acted as a channel through which spiritualism’s religious and scientific endeavors entered the field of a burgeoning popular culture.
Schuettpelz, E., & Voss, E. (2015) Fragile balance: Human mediums and technical media in Oliver Lodge’s Presidential Address of 1891. communication +1: Vol. 4, Article 4.
In this paper we discuss the work of the Victorian physicist and radio pioneer Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) in the context of what we call the mediumistic trial of the long 19th century. We are focusing on a short moment in the early 1890s when Lodge’s radio experiments were part of a common expansion into physical and psychical research. By rigorously applying David Bloor’s heuristic “principle of symmetry”, we demonstrate how Oliver Lodge lived in a world of systems-building and Empire-building that enabled him to categorize human mediums, electromagnetic entities and technical media as parts of an indeterminate but unified field of experimental settings. Though this historical moment was to become a unique tipping point in the initial convergence and later divergence of physical and psychical research, it reveals some general aspects of the mediumistic trial in the long 19th century, namely the existence of a common interface between religious and secularist positions and aspirations.
Shamdasani, S. (2015). ‘S.W.’ and C.G. Jung: mediumship, psychiatry and serial exemplarity. History of Psychiatry, 26, 288-302.
On the basis of unpublished materials, this essay reconstructs Jung’s seances with his cousin, Helene Preiswerk, which formed the basis of his 1902 medical dissertation, The Psychology and Pathology of so-called Occult Phenomena. It separates out Jung’s contemporaneous approach to the mediumistic phenomena she exhibited from his subsequent sceptical psychological reworking of the case. It traces the reception of the work and its significance for his own self-experimentation from 1913 onwards. Finally, it reconstructs the manner in which Jung continually returned to his first model and reframed it as an exemplar of his developing theories.
Sommer, A. (2016). Are you afraid of the dark? Notes on the psychology of belief in histories of science and the occult. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 18, 105-122.
The popular view of the inherent conflict between science and the occult has been rendered obsolete by recent advances in the history of science. Yet, these historiographical revisions have gone unnoticed in the public understanding of science and public education at large. Particularly, reconstructions of the formation of modern psychology and its links to psychical research can show that the standard view of the latter as motivated by metaphysical bias fails to stand up to scrutiny. After highlighting certain basic methodological maxims shared by psychotherapists and historians, I will try to counterbalance simplistic claims of a ‘need to believe’ as a precondition of scientific open-mindedness regarding the occurrence of parapsychological phenomena by discussing instances revealing a presumably widespread ‘will to disbelieve’ in the occult. I shall argue that generalized psychological explanations are only helpful in our understanding of history if we apply them in a symmetrical manner.
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I started entering competitions just over two years ago when my heart was playing up, simply because it took my mind off it. I really didn’t expect to win anything, but after six weeks of entering, I won a lovely lingerie set and from then I was hooked.
Don’t expect to win. Just enter and forget about it. See the ‘entering’ part as rewarding and fun.
Use various entry methods. I’ve been equally successful with Facebook, Twitter and online. Not at all successful with postal so I don’t do it any more and just one win on Pinterest. I never text or pay to enter. I never do daily or click to win comps. I do some rafflecopters but some have so many entry methods I get bored and don’t do them all.
Use one source for your competitions so you can track what you’ve entered. I use Money Saving Expert.
Give back. If I find a new competition I haven’t seen on MSE, I add it so that others can have a go too.
Don’t think ‘I’ll never win a holiday’. Just have a go. You have to be in it to win it.
I have no ‘system’. I just randomly enter competitions when I feel like it. Just be aware you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet a prince. So enter lots!
I cherry pick things I’d love to win and generally ignore things like TVs, DVDs, computers etc. as they don’t float my boat. I enjoy entering comps for beauty products, books, theatre tickets, holidays, clothes and garden things.
My dream prize would be a duck egg blue camper van for me to act out my hippie fantasy life!
I accept that my inbox will be full of marketing emails Some I read, some I don’t.
I’ve made some great friends through comping and done things I would never have dreamed of. I never know what will pop into my inbox or what the postie will bring, so life is never dull! Thanks Angela for introducing me to this fun hobby.
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Being at art college in the early 80s, it was de rigeuer to be in a band, and I was no exception. The only slight problem to my impending rock stardom was my musical inability. That didn’t stop me trying, mind.
A group of mates, and I, got together to do a benefit gig for the El Salvador Solidarity Campaign. (The clichés just keep on coming, don’t they.) Anyways, we were doing covers above a pub in Leeds and, as I was petrified of being on stage, I didn’t move a muscle. Well, apart from the ones in my hands to play the bass.
When we got round to playing New Dawn Fades, I started to relax, a little. I loved the song and I could play it pretty well, so I began to go for a little wander around the stage. Unfortunately, I wandered a little too far stage right, and promptly fell off the stage.
I can still see the contorted faces of the audience twisted in fits of hysterics. So much for my dream of being a rock star.
If you didn’t know, lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980 just as they were becoming famous. He suffered from depression and epilepsy and, if we’re to believe the excellent biopic, Control, they link his depression to his epilepsy meds.
Ian Curtis with his daughter, Natalie.
They’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but have a listen if you want to hear a truly original voice that is unfortunately lost to us.
I think I’ll save my anecdote about playing New Dawn Fades, with a band I stumbled upon practicing in an upstairs warehouse in the Italian naval port of Livorno, for another day.
Ian Curtis is survived by his wife, Deborah Curtis, and their daughter, Natalie Curtis.
Maybe you like him, maybe you don’t. Or, maybe you’re just ambivalent.
To me, he’s a living legend and formed a huge part of my adolescence.
Not just a writer, composer, musician and an actor – but a performance artist.
It is an absolute privilege to be able to view Toulouse-Lautrec’s work up close. Not just for his energetic painting style, capturing the seedier side of Parisian nightlife, but also for his art direction and typography.
Over the years, there have been many articles about whether advertising can be art, and I’m pretty sure that it can’t be whilst it is selling something. I think it can transcend into art after it has served its purpose and becomes era defining.
In Lautrec’s case, I’ll make an exception, as he was already well known for being an artist when he was commissioned to create posters for various clubs and salons.
Any art director or designer worth their salt should be aware of the influence of art in layout and design purely from a composition point of view.
Obviously, Lautrec wasn’t a 19th century ‘ad man’. He was a brilliant artist and spent much of his time in Montmartre hanging out with philosophers, writers, artists and the like. Then popping off to brothels to draw/paint the staff and clientele. He was a reportage photographer before they’d even been invented. That, coupled with the eye of a poet, lead to some breathtakingly intimate works.
So, for inspiring a 17-year-old art student, Mr. Toulouse-Lautrec, I am very grateful.
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Choices…consequences. If I eat too much chocolate, then I get fat(ter). If I pull the car into the garage too fast like my husband has repeatedly warned me against, then I rip off the mirror, busting the window into a gazillion shards of glass, costing us hundreds of dollars, and having to call my husband to tell him that I pulled the car into the garage too fast…again. You know, things like that.
We live and breathe if/then’s. Of course, we’re in good company–even our stone age ancestors had to learn that fire was good in some ways…and not so good in others.
What do I sustain myself, my very heart and soul with? Okay, money is always a good indicator about where our hearts are, and I’m in total agreement that no matter how little one has, some of it has to be given away to help someone else. But how about the other things “with which I sustain myself”?
A big one for me is time. Is my life so full of chores and projects and responsibilities that I don’t have time to pause and listen to a friend in need? Or is a child’s hug somehow an interruption?
Another one is talent and personal skill set. Can you make music? Sing? Build a wall (or a new drum “cage”, as the case may be in our church)? Can you make people laugh? Cook? Okay, maybe these aren’t the things with which you bring home the bacon, but not everything of true value is recognized on Wall Street.
I think it was St. Augustine that said “men’s souls hang on your gifts”. Jesus, Himself, warns us not to bury what He has given us, but to invest it wisely. IF we pour out (not dribble, by the way) these things to help those in need–not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually, relationally–THEN our own personal clouds begin to dissipate as well. Interesting paradox, this whole “losing my life to find it” thing.
If I get up at 3:30AM to write this post, then I’ll probably need to sleep in. Good thing it’s Saturday….
Having just referred to St. Aug’s comment re: “men’s souls hang on your gifts” and quoting the prophet Isaiah about pouring out “that with which you sustain your own life to feed the hungry and to satisfy the need of the afflicted”, Jesus’ somewhat uncomplimentary metaphor warning us to “not cast your pearls before swine” seems, at first glance, a bit harsh to our 21st century sensibilities. No doubt, it was to 1st century ears also, particularly considering the religious and social context of the day.
A short take: Everyone has influence, period. Everyone has a “hidden congregation” that’s watching and learning. They need what you have to give, which makes each of us responsible for finding out just what that is, and start giving it, even if we don’t know who “they” are yet. However, pearls take many years to form, and are an organic result of an irritation inside the shell. Therefore, they are more fragile than, say, a diamond. Which means you have gifts (sometimes born of inconvenience, irritation, or downright pain) that you might not even be aware of yet, experiences that others need, talents gained, hardships overcome. Jesus considers these things precious when placed under His care, and He knows who needs them.
Secondly, since they are precious (and admittedly, sometimes fragile), these gifts must be respected and treated with care. This is where heavenly wisdom is sorely needed. I see young teenagers giving their hearts and bodies away before they can barely read and write coherently. I see parents wasting their children’s childhood on drugs and alcohol, or on too many meetings at work (or church!) In these ways and more, pearls are crushed under muddy hooves.
… they serve to help us walk on the water more confidently with Him who holds our hands.
There’s a small(er) town near here with water that, um…smells. Water isn’t really supposed to taste, much less smell, at least in my thinking. I would go on record by warning anyone who visits this place to definitely not buy a fountain drink in town. I am told that our town used to have water-plus also. Sometime in the semi-recent past, the town fathers decided to go with something called “third-stage water treatment”. I don’t know what that means, and although I still like to have bottled water in the house when we have guests, I’m definitely okay with drinking our H2O for myself, especially after visiting our little neighbor a few miles away. Water of course, even the odiferous kind, is life-sustaining. Perspective, I guess.
Lest I think Isaiah’s encouragement is giving me carte blanche for making my big splash in the world, a cautionary note is in order. It can be quite tempting, after identifying what seems to be a special talent or personal “pearl”, to allow (or even worse, promote) myself as the focus in the situation. I love the account of Peter and John after Jesus had risen, hung out for a few days and then returned home. These two newly renewed men were walking into the temple when they saw a beggar, lame and sitting by the building asking for money. Now lots of us grew up with the Sunday school song that was Peter’s reply, “silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” And the end result was pretty cool.
After which, he proceeded with the other words (although I doubt that he sang them….) My point is this—the reason for any attention being on me is not about me, at all. I may have the best tasting, thirst quenching water ever created, but the water itself belongs to the One who created it; in fact, to put it succinctly, Jesus calls Himself the “living water.” Now, I am to allow myself to be “seen”, which speaks to a certain level of vulnerability of course, but this personal visibility is to be immediately reflected upon God, who alone knows how to utilize the gifts He so wisely puts within us.
Author dawnlizjonesPosted on January 20, 2015 March 21, 2015 Categories Mom for HireTags advice, God, Jesus, living water, Peter, vulnerability, waterLeave a comment on Still pouring….
Whose #camels are you watering?
The book of Genesis is so fun. Challenging, but very human. I recently read the part when Abraham sends his trusted servant bride-hunting back to their home town for the heir to the throne, Isaac. Camels were the pack animals of the day, and water was a premium, so when he pulled into town, it was important to park at the local well, not only for himself but also for his livestock.
Per custom, the women were coming over to gather water for their needs. So how was this guy supposed to pick out a bride? Where does he even start? Wisely, he started with a prayer. Smart move.
A little research tells us that the water pots these women generally used held about three gallons. One gallon of water weighs about seven pounds (plus the weight of the heavy pitcher). One tired and thirsty camel can drink up to 30-gallons. And since the servant was shopping for a bride for what was effectively a “prince” whose father was exceptionally wealthy, it’s not a far stretch to consider that Abraham had sent his servant with several camels loaded with gifts for the prospective bride’s family, ten to be exact. You can do the math. Rebekah’s offer wasn’t just generous; by our standards, it was extravagant.
From one act of unselfish servitude and kindness to unexpected elevation; from watering the camels to riding them as a soon-to-be-princess—we just never know what a little hard work mixed with a good dose of mercy will produce. Now that’s powerful chemistry!
So, whose camels are you watering?
Author dawnlizjonesPosted on January 24, 2015 March 21, 2015 Categories Mom for HireTags bride, camel, generous, hard work, kindness, Rebekah, servantLeave a comment on Whose #camels are you watering?
No pain/no gain–where’d THAT come from??
The famous Missouri KATY Trail!
Just had my long-awaited and summarily needed doctor’s appointment for a couple of whining and complaining knees. This had begun to make itself known years ago, along with several other things; it’s like I turned 31 and the warranty on my body expired. I honestly don’t care too much about doing any more 5-K’s—I hated running when even when I was in high school sports,(which wasn’t much back in the 70’s compared to today’s competitive environment.) I would, however, like to walk without a limp, and pursue terrain hiking and off-road biking a little more than I have so far.
Similarly, we tend to think that being with God has to be hard. I’m not knocking those that do the 40-day fasting kind of thing, but it’s probably not a good place for most of us to start. It’s easy to think that if I can’t be proficient in something immediately, then why bother? Starting and “failing” (however you define that) and starting again; it’s just too discouraging.
What we tend to miss in this line of reasoning is that, when it comes to getting to know our true Father, failure is only defined as not starting at all, and or once started, being persistent even the “small” things. There are lots of other strategies for this divine relationship that I would like to explore in this format….later. But suffice it to say for now, that just getting started in a way that seems far too easy is the first step, with surprising results.
Author dawnlizjonesPosted on January 27, 2015 March 26, 2015 Categories Mom for Hire, UncategorizedTags 40-day fast, divine, God, persistent, relationship, small things, startegiesLeave a comment on No pain/no gain–where’d THAT come from??
I reside in farming country and I love it. I mean… I LOVE it. Our little house is in the middle of town, and I can ride my bike less than ten minutes to be with the cows. Here where I live, men wear hats for a reason, not necessarily for style. A John Deere cap isn’t something meant to be pretty, but sweaty and dirty, because it’s been on the farmer’s head in 90+degree heat with equal humidity for 12-16 hours getting the corn or milo out. Of course, they’re not the only ones that wear hats for practical reasons. The surgeon’s cap can get somewhat wet about halfway through heart surgery…on a child. The constructor worker’s hardhat has a definite purpose also, as does my bicycle helmet (also sweaty at times), as does the military helmet of the 20-year-old defending my country overseas. The point is that, foremost, a hat is meant to be functional . It speaks of what we DO. We talk about someone who “wears a lot of different hats”, who does lots of things in various areas of utility. Not only are hats for getting dirty in the line of work, we can change hats (functions and jobs, even throughout the day) without really changing ourselves.
Now a badge, on the other hand, speaks of who we ARE. A badge is meant to identify us to others. The badge I wear at work has not only my name written on it, but my position (nurse) and which buildings I am allowed to be in at my school system. There is authority that goes with it, I might add. Same with my American passport, and the sheriff’s badge even more so. The challenge with badges is that they need to be kept clean, or polished, or otherwise protected. Same with our identity. Once it gets stolen, lost, or trashed, we’re in a world of hurt.
It’s not a perfect analogy, but the truth of the matter remains: I’d better make sure my identity is secure in something (Someone) that can’t get trashed or lost or stolen from me. What I can pour out to others of myself may change as time marches relentlessly onward, but with my true identity in my Creator, I can be secure while He’s busy rearranging my hat collection for me.
Author dawnlizjonesPosted on January 29, 2015 March 26, 2015 Categories Mom for HireTags badge, Creator, farming, God, hat, identity, pour out, wearing different hatsLeave a comment on #Hat or #Badge?
I love recycled things. Most of my clothing is secondhand in some way. Of course, when you have an inseam of 35”, it’s a little tough to find things at the mall like “normal” people do anyway. That, plus the fact that frugality of budget is something I grew up with, so I turn to others’ castoffs to find my own brand of style.
Here is my secondhand dog. His name is Buckley, the Mighty Wonder Buck for short. We found him at the local pound not long after he had been picked up and deposited there by the police. He has nosed his way into our home and hearts.
This is a project from the Hobby Club that I’m a part of. Living in a small town, I do not have easy access to some of the different “ingredients” for the projects, so—that’s right. Let’s find what I have and make it work! (Or at least try it…!) My NYC artist daughter made this cup as one of her first pottery projects in college. Its newly recycled life is as a scented candle.
I also have enjoyed making old-fashioned grandma booties. Every scrap of yarn is recycled in some way. Sometimes the yarn is “just leftovers”, sometimes it is unraveled from other projects that have been deemed damaged goods, excess baggage, or just no longer useful. But they’re warm and fuzzy, like a nice hug for your feet.
It’s all just a reminder that this is exactly what Jesus does for us—taking what is otherwise damaged and despised, and turning it into something fabulous and functional. So next time you feel your life is unraveling, trust it to the Master’s capable and creative hands!
And you might just get your socks blessed off!
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James L. Gibson is an intellectual giant in the field of judicial politics, and Electing Judges may be his most important contribution to date. This is a first-rate piece of scholarship that speaks directly to the central arguments in a highly contentious ongoing debate. For all interested in the judicial selection process, Gibson’s evidence is powerful and simply cannot be ignored.
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In Saint Petersburg more than 300 people participated in the "rainbow column" of the Democratic March on May, 1st. "Love takes over war", "Ukraine! God in on your side", "All rights or just driving license?", "Rights are not given, rights are fought for!", "Peter the I was looking at Holland. That’s a tradition. Keep it?" - these and many more slogans were flying at the March together with flags of European Union, Russia, Ukrain and LGBT movement.
Some were wearing Ukrainian wreaths with multicolor ribbons. The March proceeded peacefully. LGBT part was protected by about 50 police officers, and was headed by a figure of "Queen of gas station", a reference to a famous Ukrainian movie of the 60s, who this time had resemblance simultaneously with two political leaders - one of Germany’s first half of 20th century’s and the other of modern Russia.
The doll was a landmark of the rainbow column, just as the last year’s dummy of Milonov, the homophobic orthodox deputy of the State Duma. This idea had been brought about by the civil activist Pyotr Voskresenskiy.
However, the media and the participants report of several provocation attempts and threats from religious bigots and orthodox extremists. These latter ones are custom to attacking activists leaving after the March accessories have been dismantled. This time though a different approach was employed - several minors joined the LGBT column, while the organizers recieved accusations on the basis of "Mizulina law", threatening with millions rubles of fines. March organizers were quick to stop the provocation. Some participants would argue that several police officers were insisting on removing the LGBT symbolics, albeit not too actively. Indeed, to accomplish this it would have taken to detain all the participants of the March.
Attempts to disrupt the column were later performed at the meeting at the Mars field. They were stopped by the police. The footage is available from Nevex.TV, who call themselves "the last independent media in the country".
In Moscow the March with participation of LGBT activists, that started after 3 pm, was accompanied with unprecedented number of attacks and provocations. All of them were organized by so called "orthodox activists", according to social media coverage, and those have been known for their attempts to disrupt the cultural and social LGBT events, and cases of embroilment in Moscow theaters and on other public platforms.
Provocators holding christian icons were breaking into the columns and were attacking participants with rainbow symbolics. According to the project SQueer, there have been a dozen of attacks. "They push participants on the ground. Have sprayed some yuck gas. I feel dry mouth, I cough..." - says the rights activist Andrey Nasonov in his blog (link in Russian >>). Shortly before he witnessed a "provocator (a bearded short man) attacked the LGBT column and the police. Literally smashed officer’s face. Was arrested."
"Labor rights for all", "LGBT activism - for freedom for you and for us!", "Stop homophobia" - these and other slogans were flying in the LGBT column in Moscow, together with rainbow flags and umbrellas.
Not too popular (around 10 people) but still noticeable was the participation of Murmansk LGBT team "Maximum". Flashy LGBT banners were put aside, still one of the slogans - "Heterosexualism is not by choice" speaks for itself. The local media stresses both these slogans and the fact that the action was approved by the authorities ("... in the same column as the anarchists, United Russia members and labor unions").
After the "Leftist March" ended on Samotyochnaya Str., three participants were detained and put into police station OVD Meschanskoye. Among the detained is the leader of the "Rainbow association" Dmitriy Svetliy. Next were Reyda Lynn and Niks Nemeni, who inquired why Svetliy had been detained. OVD Meschanskoye charged all of three with article 19.3 of Administrative Code (up to 15 days of arrest). ...By 19 hours in the evening all detainees are told to have been released.
OVD Info website reports (automated translation >>) after an LGBT column participant that during the March they were attacked by provocateurs, among them activists from the "God’s will" movement, who threw eggs, paint and self-made explosives, punched activists in the head, sprayed pepper gas and tore symbolics off their hands. Activists of "God’s will" were detained by the police. "Rainbow association" representatives have plans to legally charge their attacks.
News on the celebration of May, 1st are still coming from the Russian regions.
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What is a leader? “The Army defines leadership as influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization” (AR 600-100, p1). With over 200 years of experience, you would think the Army would know what leadership is. What is not said is just as important as what is said. In the Army, you are influencing people to risk their very lives to accomplish a mission.
Leadership means influence – by definition! Please! I don’t want to read another article about how influencing is “part of” leadership, or how “leadership” and “influencing” are both skills, or how influencing is a “sign of” leadership!
Leadership without influence is like a cake without flour. It doesn’t exist.
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Oliver McCarthy celebrates his 32nd birthday in the quiet of their home. They are both exhausted with all the wedding planning, and intend to do all their celebrating at their wedding instead. Brooklyn is fine with that, currently four months pregnant, and she’s finding herself exhausted between teaching her high school students and planning the wedding.
Avery and Eden Fink celebrate their respective birthdays of 34 and 15 with some Chinese delivery. Being a single Mom isn’t intuitive to Avery, but she’s doing her best. In a few years, Eden will be the age she was, and she really hopes that she doesn’t go out, partying, and sleeping with strangers. Eden is the best thing in her life, but she could do without the deadbeat donor that helped create her.
We celebrated our tenth anniversary this month; we went down to the small cafe in Millwood and kept it simple. It’s hard enough these days to get time at home together, let alone an evening out. As it happened, it was a Wednesday evening, and we had the place to ourselves.
Isaac Gavigan turns 29 this February, and after a hard night of partying, feels lucky that he gets to carry his very drunk wife home. Lauren is going to feel it in the morning, and Isaac thinks that brunch is in order. He’s really hoping that this year will go slower than the last few have; he feels ill-prepared to turn thirty.
Isaiah got married just over a year ago, and Maeve has been trying to get pregnant ever since. I’m grateful that the bathroom separates our rooms, but they are fans of the sofa and will attempt there if they don’t expect me home.
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Mordecai Bartley (December 16, 1783 – October 10, 1870) was a Whig politician from Ohio. He served as the 18th Governor of Ohio. Bartley succeeded his son, Thomas W. Bartley as governor, one of only a few instances of this happening in the United States in high offices.
Bartley was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After attending the local school in Virginia, he married Elizabeth Welles in 1804 and moved to Jefferson County, Ohio.
Bartley served as a captain, and then an adjutant during the War of 1812. Following his service under General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812, Bartley moved to Richland County, Ohio, near Mansfield. Engaged as a farmer, he served in the Ohio State Senate from 1816 to 1818. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1822, Bartley served four terms before declining to be renominated in 1830.
Bartley was an Ohio Whig Party Presidential elector in 1836 for William Henry Harrison.
He ran for governor in 1844 as a Whig after the candidate whom the Whigs had originally nominated, David Spangler, declined the nomination. Bartley served a single term from 1844 to 1846 before retiring once again. While he was Governor, Ohio raised forty companies and 7,000 men for the Mexican–American War.
^ "Mordecai Bartley". Ohio History Central. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
^ "Ohio Governor Mordecai Bartley". National Governors Association. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
^ Fess, Simeon D., ed. (1937). Ohio, A four volume reference library on the History of a Great State. 4. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. p. 91. OCLC 418516.
United States Congress. "Mordecai Bartley (id: B000210)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
"Bartley, Mordecai" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... 1. State of Ohio. p. 193.
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Think about what job you want to have, which you had previously.
The bigger mind or subconscious mind is recording every experience, every emotion.
In the course of time, we forget our own experience and we find it difficult to retrieve what we have achieved.
A person might have been employed before.
If you are doing it for somebody, write their name in the empty circle. Looking at the picture, chant the switch words.
When you want to change [reform] a person to a good one, look at the symbol and chant the switch words, “TOGETHER CHANGE HOLD DIVINE”.
Write the name of the person in the blank circle.
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Eternal Hail to the heroes of the Red Army who fell in battle against the German fascist invaders for the freedom and Independence of the peoples of Europe.
The Soviet War Memorial in Vienna, more formally known as the Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee (English: Heroes' Monument of the Red Army) is located at Vienna's Schwarzenbergplatz. The semi-circular white marble colonnade partially enclosing a twelve-metre figure of a Red Army Soldier was unveiled in 1945. The Heroes' Monument of the Red Army in Vienna was built to commemorate 17,000 Soviet soldiers who were killed in action during the Vienna Offensive in World War II.
Near the end of World War II, Soviet forces of the 3rd Ukrainian Front were ordered by Joseph Stalin to capture Vienna, both for strategic military purposes and for use as a post-war bargaining chip with the Allies. After intense urban fighting, Vienna was captured by the Soviet Forces on 14 April 1945.
The creation of an Allied Commission for Austria was envisaged by Allied leaders at the various sessions of the European Advisory Commission and established by the Agreement on control machinery in Austria in London on July 4, 1945. The agreement mandated the creation of four occupation zones (American, British, French and Soviet) in Vienna, similar to Berlin. Perhaps not coincidentally, although several sites were considered for the Soviet memorial, ultimately a prominent location in the 3rd district near the Palais Schwarzenberg was chosen, imposingly within sight of the location used by the four allies to govern Vienna. German prisoners of war and Austrian construction workers were used to build the 3,000-square-foot (280 m2) site.
The memorial includes a triumphal arch and is dominated by the figure of a soldier with a PPSh-41 submachine gun on his chest. The soldier wears a golden helmet and holds a Soviet flag and a golden Soviet coat of arms. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the memorial in 2007 to lay flowers and specifically give thanks to Austria for maintaining it. The city paid to refurbish the memorial, despite objections from certain members of the local press.
The monument has been attacked by acts of politically inspired vandalism increasingly in the 21st Century.
In April 2012 red paint was thrown over a part of the memorial.
In May 2014 it was daubed with the colours of the Ukrainian flag during the onset of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
In February 2015 black paint was poured over an order on the monument from Joseph Stalin congratulating Soviet Forces on their victory in the Vienna Offensive in 1945.
In January 2017 the memorial was attacked with red paint being thrown across the inscription of its central column.
^ (in German) Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee, www.nachkriegsjustiz.ag, Retrieved April 3, 2011.
^ a b Chernov, Sergey, "Austrian Capital Preserves Imperial Ambience", The St. Petersburg Times, January 26, 2010, Retrieved April 3, 2011.
^ a b Glantz, David, The Soviet-German War 1941-1945 Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine Clemson University, October 11, 2001. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
^ Czeike, Felix, Historisches Lexikon Wien, Band 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7, page 311.
^ (in German) Putin verabschiedet sich, DiePresse.com, May 24, 2007, Retrieved April 3, 2011.
^ (in German) 3D-Vermessung des Heldendenkmals der Roten Armee, www.netzundplan.at, (refurbishment contractor), Retrieved April 3, 2011.
^ (in German) Mädchenmord und Attentate,Öffentliche Sicherheit, January–February 2006, Retrieved April 3, 2011.
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been a really long day. most of the people surrounding me have been pretty dumb, most complaining about trivial things like coming home a little late from yesterdays spartans football game and having one homework assignment to do over the ENTIRE weekened. ive spent so much time at DSST one homework assignment isnt anything. im used to 3x that much homework in a single night. they act like its torture to have the homework asignment though it was given to us on thursday and we have until monday to complete it. i guess i’ll have to live with people complaining about such a miniscule amount of homework. i know i have a lot more chill time than a lot of the other people i know from other schools.
times keep changeing for me. i still have a lot to deal with coming to my new religion and with some of the same anti-gay jokes that i havent heard in quite a long while. there are a lot of my teachers, my one in civics in perticular, who dont allow the comments in the classroom and students get in trouble when the word is said within earshot. my civics teacher does tend to crack me up, though. whenever one of the students in my civics class decides to used “thats so gay” or “your so gay” or any of the “so gay” espressions that seem to be so popular nowadays he automatically (and often sarcastically) blurts out “you mean colorful and joyus?”. it makes me crack up almost every time i hear it so far which is almost every day. he uses sarcasum a lot and sometimes it can be a little hard to tell when he’s serious or not. in fact, with all the younger teachers it can be a little hard sometimes, not to mention all of my classes are a breeze and it seems to be impossible for me to fail anything unless i so absolutely nothing in the class which is so far impossible for me to do.
spoke to the gay-straight alliance teacher a week ago and she claimed it would be starting next week since jamaican jam was this week. i havent heard an announcement in the mournings yet so im not sure if shes really going to make the announcement about it. im thinking i’ll have to go annoy that one tutor again to get her name so i can go speak with her again. i really hate to be a pest but making friends has never been an easy thing for me to do and GSA is the easiest way for me to do it for right now. not to mention my friend, her sister, and her sisters friends always use exel time for something now and i need something to fill my time now too instead of sitting around doing nothing for a half an hour every wednesday.
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Also known as Gazellehound, Persian Greyhound or Gazehound the Saluki's origins are rooted in the Middle East, approx. 3,000 BC. Categorized as a Sighthound the breeds purpose was to hunt and course fast game.
The fact that the Saluki originated in a foreign world so long ago does not make it better or more interesting than another canine. The environment that molded its form and development, the expanse of time during which the saluki has remained virtually unchanged and the high esteem which was bestowed upon him are what Saluki lovers and owners alike are emphatic about, not to mention their purpose and appearance. These are unique hounds that personify elegance and beauty and were appreciated and thus honoured by some of history's most important figures. Explore the the Saluki!
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Nothing groundbreaking, but the bracketing was fun. I even broke out the tripod!
Are your lampposts constructed from painted sheet-metal? Most of ours are, too, but they’re starting to replace ’em with what appears to be fiberglass. (They paint it later… whenever they get around to it.) It’s pretty when it’s unpainted.
Rain on a leaf! So exciting. Not really.
I love this phenomenon. I didn’t capture it very well, but I love it.
Flower photos make me feel shamefully dirty. EVERYONE takes photos of flowers, and they’re really not unique to Monmouth County. And… they’re kind of cheating.
And this, in particular, is a blatant Georgia O’Keefe ripoff.
I have no idea what kind of flower it is, though. It’s part of a snapdragon-y bush.
Maple whirligigs vertically stuck in a crack in the sidewalk.
P.S. As a favor- could ya’ll please check out my newly-coded OTDP thumbnail archive and tell me if there are any glaring flaws in it? Html is not my strong suit, and layout issues are not unknown to me.
…and holy cow, I’m on the Photoblogs.org hotlist, number 22 as I’m writing this. WOW. THAT was unexpected.
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Is your dovetail bit going to have a bearing on it? If so, what size is the O/D of the bearing? Is the bit going to be sold separately? I was hoping to use it with my Katie Jig.
Rob , its tough , foreign competition with super low wage labor , is hard to compete with , but we shall hold on to trying to keep it home grown..
I don’t understand. The only DT jig I ever used was the Katie and the supplied bit. So the bits are matched to the forks some how?
How about using those new bits of yours with any other type of jigs out there?
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2019-04-26T09:05:38Z
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We’re licensed and insured home boarders and dog walkers based within Cannock Chase. We opened our doors to customers in August 2017 and since then have only grown.
With Cannock Chase right on our doorstep, we can cater walks for dogs of all sizes and abilities. Our walk slots are for half an hour or an hour and we walk right from your door so your dogs get as much exercise as they can.
We cater for multidog boarding in a home environment. We don’t use any kennels or crates and all of our Howlers live in our house as members of our family (yes they can go on sofas and beds too if they’re allowed at home).
We also provide cat visits, puppy visits, feeding and horse visits within a 3-mile radius.
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2019-04-25T00:03:39Z
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A seventh straight Passaic County Tournament championship for DePaul is keyed by Ricky Cabanillas, Nicky Cabanillas, Connor O’Neil, Luke McFadden and Eddie Bierals; Spartans now looking to another state championship and eventual trip to Boardwalk Hall | Mike Lamberti, From Margate To Cleveland, And Back !
Bonus points were key for DePaul, as the Spartans captured a seventh straight Passaic County Tournament championship, winning by 34 points over second place Wayne Valley, in a field of 13, on Jan. 26, at West Milford High.
Coach Keith Karsen’s team was scheduled to close out the regular season with a match against Watchung Hills, on Feb. 2. DePaul was then scheduled to face Bishop Ahr in the semifinals of the North Non-Public B sectional tournament, on Feb. 6, at home. A win there would move the team into the finals, most likely at defending champion Pope John, on Feb. 8.
If DePaul wins the North B crown, it would travel to Toms River, on Feb. 10, for the Non-Public B state championship, against the South B winner. Camden Catholic is the top seed in the south. DePaul had won eight straight North B titles and four consecutive Non-Public B state crowns before losing to Pope John last season.
Karsen was pleased with his team’s effort at the counties.
The Spartans took control with a dominant effort in the quarterfinals.
With 11 Spartans heading to the semifinals, DePaul ended the tournament with five champions, along with two finalists and one third place finisher.
State champion Ricky Cabanillas won the 145-pound title while twin brother Nicky Cabanillas captured gold at 126. Connor O’Neil continued his dominant season with a 160-pound crown, Luke McFadden repeated as a champion at 152 pounds and heavyweight Eddie Bierals also won his weight class.
Finishing second for DePaul was Nick Bottazzi at 113 pounds and Stephen Barone at 170.
“I felt our kids would do well, with the kind of competition they’ve faced all season long,” said Karsen. ‘I wasn’t worried so much about individual records. Derek Russell ended up defeating the top seed at 120 pounds and our 220 pounder, David Drouet, defeated the second seed, in the quarterfinals. We were without our 138 pounder, David Ferrandiz, and Michael Esposito, at 132, had an injury default in the counties. We’re hoping to be healthy heading into the sectional tournament.
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2019-04-21T00:11:57Z
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Congratz on refining them–persisting to the end!
very exciting. Quickdraw is also a free feat in the Henshin tree but costs 11 AP to get. Sting of Ninja scales 100% with melee power so that should really get some nice purple numbers. Exciting stuff.
Good to hear from you. It’s a lot to digest. I’ll give a detailed take on how it impacts the characters I have very shortly.
Great article on builds, thank you.
Always room for improvement, true. By “final” I mean that all the major trials to verify how things work are done. I’m sure to bring them up in conversation again, especially if the Monk pass improves/butchers their abilities.
So I’ve opened a light monk tank in Lammania to test the concept. My gear was less then stellar, but I’d like to think that I got a good combination considering that I didn’t have any lootgen stuff to fill nitches. So far, I’ve encountered 2 problems. Other that build mistakes, that is.
1: without a devotion item I only heal for about 300 with light finisher. It’s nice and all, but I’ve seen much bigger numbers with a spell power item on. Maybe I’ll fit it into the red slot on my wraps… A little less dps bit the survivability is worth it.
Oh, right. I forgot about the goggles from the archon’s raid. They also have wis, so that’s another thing covered. Unfortunately, that loot can’t be found in the item room in lammania… Can’t really test how well it will work.
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2019-04-22T00:18:13Z
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https://orderofsyncletica.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/a-final-review-of-my-builds/
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Had a great idea for a short story the other night while walking Sam under a shrouded and obscured moon.
It will involve a Scarecrow who suddenly becomes conscious of himself three nights before Halloween. He is unsure of who or what he is, he knows only that his name is Teleman (the “distant man” or “man from a distance”). On the first night he is “pinned to his post” and can only observe what happens around him.
At nightfall of the second night he is able to “come off his post,” and wander around where he eventually encounters a beggared demon looking for someone to inhabit, a bull so fierce that it will allow no approach, a ghost whose voice and appearance hypnotize and terrorize, a man-eating bear, a monster made of shifting plagues, a pack of hungry and relentless wolves, witches bent on producing a “changeling”, an occultic warlock who plots to become a king, and three evil men (murderers working as a team). But these things are not necessarily encountered in that order.
Sometimes an encounter leads to Teleman’s near destruction, sometimes to his “hammering, burning, and folding,” and sometimes to his strengthening. Each encounter changes Teleman and eventually transforms him into something else.
Eventually, on midnight of Halloween he “returns to his post” a totally transformed thing.
So ultimately Teleman becomes both entirely different from a scarecrow and something to be entirely feared in his own right.
The story will be a metaphor of two separate but related things: the pathetic cowardice of modern man and how he can be transformed into something courageous and something once again to be feared, and the smithing and transformation and constant reworking of base raw materials into a useful weapon, a sword.
This will be my Halloween short story for this year. I will begin writing it next week and hopefully it will be be completed just before Halloween. I will write it as I’m finishing up The Vengeance of Tôl Karuţha.
Actually that was the line that initially inspired the entire story and plot as Sam and I walked in the woods at midnight.
I am thinking I will include some verse in the body of the short story.
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2019-04-25T09:52:44Z
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https://wyrdwend.wordpress.com/tag/horror/
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