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This is the second of a series of posts about this year’s ASGPP conference.
This is the first of a series of posts about my experiences at, and thoughts about, the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama annual conference this past weekend.
After a day in airport purgatory we made it home from the ASGPP conference shortly after midnight this morning. The conference was exceptional. It was also eye-opening.
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To come across a farm in the midst of the city is akin to panning for gold with cracked lips and discovering a tin of vaseline amongst the wet pebbles. You’re not looking for it, but when it comes to you, you realise it is just what you need. And hindsight makes the experience even more beautiful; what is it doing there???
Just off Hackney Road, nestles just the rural treat. Whilst Hackney City Farm is pretty small (I think I counted two goats, five chickens, a pig, some geese, two calves, a donkey named Larry, three sheep and a cat, although it could have been a stray), there is much wholesome fun to be had!
With pigs hanging around in the sun and unbalanced looking ducks (it looks like they don’t have any arms!) dashing about, a three legged cat and a beautiful garden, Hackney City Farm is glorious and makes you forget the big smoke. Don’t go on a Monday as it is closed (even animals need days off) and after hanging with the herd pop into the cafe for a bacon or sausage sandwich (I think it’s made from their pigs – don’t think of Babe) and an ice cream.
Perfect if you have youngsters to entertain, want to convince your latest squeeze that you’re a wholesome gentleman, or if you just crave some quality time with the animals, like the middle aged man I caught having a conversation with a goose.
Posted in english literature, Lifestyle, london, review, Uncategorized and tagged amelia murray, donkey, family, hackney city farm, hackney road, london, london attraction. Bookmark the permalink.
Whilst there is nothing new about room installations, there’s no doubt that the prospect of a room not made out of the usual mortar and carpet gives us something to write home about. The 2010 Milan Furniture Fair went paper crazy with the “Paperboard Innovation”; a room made out of cardboard including elaborate artwork, lamps, shag rugs, clocks and a dog, made out of the humble material whilst the Lainio Snow Village in Finland allows guests to stay in a room made of ice complete with illuminated frozen art and snow walls.
But how about a room made entirely out of wool? Knitted out (ha geddit!) with the latest mod cons, the life sized replica includes a TV, an armchair, a cat and a piano made from hundreds of balls of donated wool which 25 volunteers spent three months putting together.
Designed to raise money and the profile of homeless charity, Emmaus, the people from Goodwill Co-op donated their time and efforts to the Brighton project. Emmaus, a charity that offers homeless people work, a home and a chance to rebuild their lives in a supportive environment, relies on donations of furniture and household goods to sell in their shops across the UK. And rather then make a tea cosy or blanket to sell, the volunteers from decided to really pick up their needles and raise their game by stitching together a fabricated living room.
Monica Crowe, an Emmaus volunteer told the Argus “It kept growing and growing as we thought of more stuff to fit into a living room”. The frames of the knitted furniture were collected from skips and with reduction of landfill being the name of the game, the woolly living room is a novel way to do so as well as raising awareness of Emmaus.
If you fancy hanging out in the knitted living room, stroking the knitted cat and playing knitted table football, the room will be on show at the Emmaus Brighton Community Centre from 7th-29th May, as part of the 2011 Brighton Fringe Festival before touring various arts venues and Emmaus communities.
And keep an eye out for future projects – a knitted kitchen or bathroom!
For more on Emmaus and their projects, see the Emmaus Website.
Posted in english literature, Lifestyle, poetry, Uncategorized and tagged amelia murray, brighton, brighton fringe festival, charity, community, emmaus, finland, goodwill, homeless charity, lainio snow village, milan furniture fair, paperboard innovation. Bookmark the permalink.
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They are not the only people wondering about Shumi’s health – my BIL once mentioned that Shumi might have a polyp in his nose, and that the vet must have made a mistake with the diagnosis, even though we had a x-ray taken which showed a definite tumour that was eating into the bone next to it, and even though that vet took a biopsy that revealed cancerous cells. People are looking for other explanations as to why Shumi is still looking so good.
He jogs with me every morning, and I must say he is fitter than I am. We often have to stop because I’m tired, but never due to Shumi being tired. He eats well, more than ever, he has lots of energy, plays with KT a lot, and the only problem is his snotty and blocked nose.
The first site I visited said the following: “How common are nasal cavity tumours in dogs?
What is the prognosis for dogs with nasal cavity tumours?
So I learnt that it’s mostly older, male dogs, of the medium to large breeds that get it, but Shumi is not that old. Only 5 years when the symptoms started. I also learnt that it is not a common cancer, even though our vet said it was, and that the boxer breed is not one of those that get it easily. Also it is rare to get a tumour that is benign.
We were told that radiation would not be an option, because of the site of the tumour, so we never tried it. These sites do recommend it as a treatment, but I’m not upset that we did not try it. My MIL knows a lady who had a Labrador that was also diagnosed with the same cancer around the same time as Shumi and they were going to go for radiation, if they ever did I don’t know, but their dog passed away 2 weeks after being diagnosed.
The most important information to me though is the prognosis – according to all the sites I looked at the prognosis is poor to very bad. They give life expectancies of 88 days to 5-6 months at the most for dogs that get no treatment at all. The prognosis is worse for the dogs that have nose bleeds and that was Shumi’s first symptom! It’s almost a year since Shumi’s symptoms started and almost 8 months since final diagnosis.
Now I call Shumi’s situation a miracle from God! Shumi might not look completely healed, but he is definitely doing better than all these sites say he must be doing! All the glory must go to God! Praise the Lord! It’s a supernatural healing miracle! Before we know it Shumi will be completely healed, I just know it!
God works in mysterious ways my friend. He is in control of Shumi’s road to health – the author and the finisher of all.
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Teen life on Katherine Street. Ray, Bryan, Michael, Patty, Chris, the Butlers.
The pool photos were taken at the McKelvey's, right behind Mom's house.
Click on the thumbnails to see a bigger photo.
Remember to click on ORIGINAL to see the full size photo.
Bryan watching Chris Slack jump on our homemade ramps.
You probably don't remember me, my name is John Peraino and I lived behind the kruse's on Mildred st right next to the Kathrine elementary school. Toby was a good friend of mine and I'm trying to track him down. Anyone know his whereabouts?
dont know you guys , but you brought back some serious memories of growing up in Simi Thanks !!
Hi Roy, I found your website while looking for Marty, Randy, Toby and Robbie Kruse. Since I have forwarded your site to all the Guzmans (the rest of the family). I remember your brother jerry from band and you too, didn't you work at Thrifty for a while before Gemco? And I remember your sister from High school, I cant remember her name but I recognize her from the pictures. I didn't know you guys were from Holland, very interesting story. Do you know where the Kruse brothers are? Or the Hernandez family and Salazar family? Also from Katherine St. I Congratulate you for the fine job you have done on your website, your action bike photos are treasures to say the least. Thank you again and best wishes.. Dave Guzman "Class of 80"
Teddy, I don't have any of you or Mott.
HOOPER, WHERE'S PICS OF MOTT AND TEDDY K ??
these are some serious pictures.. i really dont remember many of these young mem, except of course my brother ed.. do you have a last name on ray? good good times.
The pictures you have posted as Gene are actually his little brother.
Gene and Brian live in upstate New York. I just found Gene and talk to him every couple of weeks.
Oh my Gosh Roy, these are neat to see, I remember the street was our playground, played baseball and I remember those jumps. I wonder where Gene and Brian Butler are these days. If you have any recent pics of the guys (Chris, Marty, Ray and Bryan) you should post them. Thanks for the memories!
Roy, What a great group of photos. You guys really had fun hanging out with each other, didn't you? Let me know if you reconnect with any of them!
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While it may not be the .com bubble of the 90’s, telehealth and virtual healthcare initiatives are gaining popularity amidst investment communities across the globe. While some challenges still remain; individual state medical licensing reform, digital medical record keeping and some regional short-falls in technology infrastructure, a recent Wall Street Journal report on private equity firms investing in the health-care sector indicate increased investor interest in earlier stage opportunities. With the rising cost of healthcare, anticipated physician shortages and an increased demand for healthcare, virtual medical care is a way to solve the access and cost issues. Nirad Jain, a Bain partner and a co-author of Bain’s latest report on global health-care private equity, said “Health care is such an important part of the economy in the U.S. and globally, it impacts society in such a fundamental way that it is hard for a private equity firm of scale not to have some part of its portfolio in health care.” Private equity last year reached a three year high of $29.6 billion globally, nearly double the level recorded for 2013.
Telemedicine has been around for several decades but advances in digital infrastructure, software and the popularity of mobile devices by consumers is creating a tipping point for a budding virtual health industry. “Telemedicine is moving like lightning. We’re able to do so much more than before,” said Andrew Watson, Chief Medical Director of Telemedicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Researchers at Mercom Capital Group estimated a 300% increase in funding flowing toward established and startup virtual-visit firms in 2014, and StartUp Health, a New York-based accelerator, and Rock Health, a San Francisco-based accelerator and seed fund, have independently reported that funding for new digital health ventures in the United States doubled last year. Rock Health estimates that $4.1 billion of new capital was invested in digital health in 2014, up from less than $1 billion in 2011.
Whether or not virtual medicine and telehealth initiatives become the Facebook and Twitter of this decade remains to be seen. As investment dollars continue to rise, the future of telemedicine looks promising.
For more than 20 years, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual International Meeting & Trade Show has been the premier forum for healthcare professionals and entrepreneurs in the telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth space. The event held at the Las Angeles Convention Center brought together 5000 attendees. With nearly a dozen keynote speakers and 13 educational tracks, it was a great opportunity for like-minded professionals to connect at the largest telemedicine trade show in the world.
With a focus on interactive learning, the ATA 2015 program offered a unique opportunity to learn and engage with leaders in healthcare technology. Attendees were able to take advantage of a myriad of educational and networking opportunities, interactive experiences, informal receptions and even digital networking sessions conducted through the ATA Meetings Mobile App.
The four day event promoted conversation centered on the challenges of advancing communication technologies and the implementation of potentially new provider service models. AcuteCare Telemedicine (ACT), the leading practice-based provider of Telemedicine services for hospitals seeking around-the-clock stroke and other urgent neurological care, took the opportunity to strengthen relationships with leaders in the industry. ACT’s expert team of neurologists is setting a new standard for excellence in telestroke and urgent teleneurology care.
Established in 1993 as a non-profit organization, the ATA is the leading international resource and advocate promoting the use of advanced remote medical technologies. Its diverse membership works to fully integrate telemedicine into transformed healthcare systems to improve quality, equity and affordability of healthcare throughout the world. AcuteCare Telemedicine is looking forward to next year’s meeting which is scheduled for May 14 through May 17, 2016 in Minneapolis MN.
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December | 2009 | Promotional Incentives, Inc.
United Way of Lee, Hendry & Glades kicked off their annual campaign with a “Day of Action” on December 12, 2009. The goal seemed lofty but achievable: gather enough food and volunteers and prepare 100,000 meals in 2 (two) 4-hour shifts.
That’s right – one hundred thousand meals in the equivalent of one working day. That requires ACTION and TEAMWORK!
Promotional Incentives is pleased to have provided the “Live United T-shirts” for the campaign.
As you watch the video, take notice of the variety and number of imprinted T-shirts being worn by volunteers. This illustrates an important PR benefit of logoed apparel – visual reinforcement of your brand. Event/Campaign T-shirts also build a sense of teamwork as volunteers from different businesses joined together to accomplish the goal or mission.
Branding reminder: When company execs employees, or volunteers are photographed or videotaped, always wear company shirts!
I enjoyed a unique experience this week – outstanding customer service from the U.S. Post Office. That’s right, the post office.
Earlier this week I arrived at the Page Field Main Office in Fort Myers at 4:55 p.m. (thinking they closed at 5:00), with 131 packages to mail first class. (Can you picture the looks of scorn from those in line behind me?) The first sigh of relief came when I found out they were open until 5:30, and the second was being called to an open window pretty quickly.
As I lay my bins up on the counter, credit card in hand, thinking that I could just swipe the card, pay the first class postage, and be out of there. The sweet elderly lady Marti informed me that they did not have time to run that many individual metered stickers and that I would have to put 3 individual stamps on each one, I sighed in a different way.
The dilemma: stay at the office and apply almost 400 stamps before they closed or buy the stamps and do it that night or the next day, delaying the mailing a day (any of you who do “bulk mailings” know how much work it takes to get to this point and I was resolved to get these in the mail the date of the letter).
It was then my postal savior Fran arrived to say she would help me. And help me she did, by opening an office and sitting at a table with me helping me apply the stamps to each package.
We chatted about business, the post office, the economy, difficulties bulk mailing (which is what led us to mail fewer calendars via first class this year)…and we finished at 5:29 both feeling like we had just run a race. I offered to carry the heavy bins, which she declined, and off Fran went to the back room to get my packages in the mail. The next day there were already five positive emails to our calendar mailing.
The USPS is usually in the news in a not-so-favorable light, so I thought it important to give a positive shout out, and to publicize the notion that sometimes, good old-fashioned customer service exists, even from our government workers at the USPS.
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1946– Blue Mountain Ballads [Heavenly Grass, Lonesome Man, Cabin, Sugar in the Cane ], words by Tennessee Williams, music by Paul Bowles.
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Watch the video of how classrooms should be as we are now in the 21st century with tablets and VR tech, etc.
Medical School and Classrooms of the Future – The Doctor Weighs In | The Doctor Weighs In.
Using big data to prioritize treatments.
A Database of All Medical Knowledge: Why Not? – David A. Shaywitz – The Atlantic.
6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012 | TechCrunch.
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Mayu Fujikata’s My Darling! Miss Bancho (CMX) immediately reminds me of other funny, well-done comics about a girl thrust into an all-boy milieu, titles like Ai Morinaga’s My Heavenly Hockey Club (Del Rey) and Bisco Hatori’s Ouran High School Host Club (Viz). When her parents get divorced, Souka transfers to a technical school so she can start working as soon as possible and help support her mother. The school is such a strife-ridden place that all of the other girls have transferred out, leaving Souka swimming alone in a sea of testosterone and goofy gang violence. Just as she starts adapting, circumstances push her into the role of the school’s bancho, leader of all of its warring forces.
Goofy as this sounds, Fujikata plays fair with the details of the plot. Souka isn’t aggressive, but she’ll stand up for herself and her friends, so her ascent in the school’s power structure is silly but not implausible. It doesn’t stretch suspension of belief to the breaking point any more than the general premise itself does. The characters are generally charming, from sweetly feisty Souka to her love interest, the formidable, strangely maternal Yuuji Katou. Fujikata gives her characters the right kind of quirks that allow them to interact in fresh, funny ways, and she comes up with sturdy, comedic scenarios to showcase them, just as Morinaga and Hatori do in their titles.
It’s a likeable, well-executed variation on a very common theme, and its clear-headed freshness keeps it from seeming derivative to the point of superfluous. Fujikata also gives good author’s notes in which she expresses pixilated amusement that her editor keeps letting her get away with this stuff.
Similarities to Yellow Tanabe’s splendid Kekkaishi (Viz) abound in Mika Kawamura’s Panic x Panic (Del Rey). Both follow the adventures of squabbling neighbor kids who also happen to be able to exorcise demons. One is reluctant and relies on intuition, and the other is more diligent and by-the-book. There’s a long-standing rivalry between their families, though you suspect they kind of like each other underneath the sniping. The key difference between the two books is that Tanabe’s Kekkaishi is really good and feels fresh, and Kawamura’s Panic x Panic isn’t and doesn’t.
I think it’s the relentless overlay of cuteness that Kawamura slathers on her pages. I’ve got no problem with cute in general, but there’s a certain kind of sugary adorability that I find completely resistible. Kawamura erects her very familiar framework with a style that’s (for me) too reminiscent of some of the work of Arina Tanemura – tons of bouncy hair, sheets of screen tone, hug-me-now character designs, and enough hair ribbon to fashion a sturdy noose. There’s never quite enough that’s interesting or specific to Panic x Panic to distract me from thoughts of other, better versions of the same story.
You are currently browsing the The Manga Curmudgeon blog archives for the day Thursday, March 4th, 2010.
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← AT WHAT TIME ONE SHOULD POST ON FACEBOOK?
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10 Responses to WHY Tumblr IS SO IGNORE?
Wow, Tumblr is bigger than many people think, I will explore it more now, thanks.
Thanks intended for furnishing like well put together information.
Hola! Puedes entrar cuando tu quieras, estoy preparando algunos contenidos que me gustaria compartir con todos mis visitantes. Gracias por venir y sigue viniendo. Eres bienvenida siempre!
of work? I’ve virtually no expertise in programming however I had been hoping to staart my own blog soon.
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Virtually all of the Horatio Alger, Jr. books have the same theme—they tell how poor boys became rich. The theme inspired three generations of Americans. Alas! The reading of the Alger books did not instill in me the ambition to become a rich businessman. No, the books inspired me to become a writer, to write books like those of Horatio Alger, Jr.
I had “tomato soup” at the Automat on Broadway at least once a day. The Automat restaurants, which are peculiar to the East, are just what the name implies. You get a flock of nickels from the cashier, then go down the battery of little cubicles, inside of which repose the articles of food that appeal to you…So this is how the famous Automat tomato soup came into being. You got a bowl intended for soup, went over to the hot water nozzle and filled up your own. You sidled along to where you got the soup and picked up a couple of glassine bags of crackers (free), supposedly to go with the soup. You now went to one of the tables, sat down and crumbled the crackers into the hot water. Every table had a bottle of ketchup. You emptied about half of the ketchup into the hot water and cracker mixture. Presto—tomato soup!
Gruber continued: “Cost? Nothing. I sometimes had tomato soup four or five times a day.” And he admitted elsewhere that there were stretches when he ate nothing else for three days at a time.
In the heat of the discussion I made the statement that all pseudoscience writers were weirdies [sic]. I was roundly denounced by both Mort and Julius and in the ensuing melee I came out with the flat declaration that I could pick out a pseudoscience writer in a roomful of people. Mort promptly challenged me. J. Hamilton Edwards was in New York from his home upstate and would be at the American Fiction Guild. Mort had ten dollars that said I could not pick J. Hamilton Edwards out of the crowd on sight.
Gruber concluded: “The writer blew his stack. I will say this, his extremely vivid imagination earned him a fortune, some years later. He wrote one book that directly and indirectly earned him around half a million dollars in a single year.” It was called Dianetics.
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There is nothing more potently destructive than a stupidity whose time has come. The Americans saw it in Vietnam when their stupidity backfired and the Soviets saw it in Afghanistan when it almost destroyed them. Biggest of empires have been brought to dust at the hands of foolest of notions. Even in India we are no strangers to stupidities at the highest level – be it 1948 Nehru’s handling of the Kashmir issue or 1950s handling of Chinese.
But perhaps in what he (if he is still interested and can read this small font article from above) can still console in is the fact that he was not alone in being a victim of stupidity in contemporary India. Even the mighty British Raj owed its downfall to one of the same kinds – The Drain of Wealth. This doctrine propounded by the early nationalists after ‘careful research’ pointed fingers at the Englishmen (something our culture is so adapt in doing even today) that they were draining India’s wealth out to England. Strictly speaking the drain of wealth refers to the excess of a country’s exports over its imports for which it gets no corresponding returns. In other words, India exported more to British and imported less and didn’t get anything for the difference. This drain was pegged by some to be as high as 6% of Indian GDP at that time. But the real beauty of the theory lay in its appeal. It didn’t exactly require a rocket scientist in a peasant to get a feeling of it for he saw after every harvest the white man coming with his goons in uniform and taking away all his produce. The artisans could see their jobs being taken away by the Manchester machines. Here was a potent tool in the hands of the frustrated Indian middle class of educated and the industrialists with which they could mobilize the peasants and the laborers to fight for their cause. The tigers of emotions had been unleashed.
Well the idea here is not to deny that Britishers exploited India. They may have or may not have, this article doesn’t really want to concern the reader with that. It merely wants to expose a long held myth that drain of wealth is negative for a nation. I can swear that if those Englishmen of the Raj were to descend down from heavens (or hell, whatever) and see the curremcy regimes followed by the free governments of their erstwhile diminions like China, India etc.they would surely beat themselves to death again.
In the name of making exports more competitive countries like India and China have followed a deliberate policy of keeping their foreign exchange rates artificially low. The rationale is simple. Lets say something costs Rs. 50 in India. If the Indian Rupee is at 50 to a dollar, that article would be cheaper ($1) in US compared to say if the Rupee were to be at 25 to a dollar ($2 cost in that case). Cheaper exports mean more exports mean more industrial production means more jobs mean more prosperity means everyone is happy. But wait, isn’t this a form of Drain of Wealth – only more disguised this time? Thats because for its exports India is now getting lower ‘value’ than the fair value and for its imports, it has to pay a higher ‘value’. And think about it, where is the compensation for this ‘excess of exports over imports’? If this is not drain of wealth then what on earth could be drain of wealth?
But wait, isn’t this a contradiction? I mean drain of wealth was bad! (The gentlemen from the Raj will tell that now.) But here lies the distinction – drain of wealth is not bad in itself.
Drain of wealth can be seen as a sacrifice which the present generation makes in order to bring greater benefit to the future generations. Its like your parents cutting down their current expenditures to ensure better education and health for you. And it is exactly the oppposite of running a fiscal deficit economy where we finance our current expenditures from the earnings of our future generations as eventually a fiscal deficit has to be met by additional taxes on the future generation.
But does this mean that Englishmen of the Raj were really innocent victims of a stupid and populist theory? Not quite. It is true that drain of wealth is not bad in itself. The early nationalists also rightly criticized the English practices of implementing the drain of wealth policy. The drain becomes bad when the present value of the perceived future benefits becomes less than the value of the present sacrifices the society is making. This can happen in two ways. First, if the cost of present sacrifices is made so high that the society simply isn’t able to survive to see that “prosperous” future or second, if the value of the future benefits is diminished seriously. Though the English failed in both aspects the more visible and serious failure was in making the current sacrifices unbearable. (And I hope I don’t have to give a proof of that here.) Had it not been for the high sacrifice levels imposed on the contemporary Indians, the rhetoric of the nationalists would have fallen on deaf ears.
my tigers of emotions have been unleashed after reading this..
Amit ji, thanks for leaving your comments here. I appreciate your gesture but if I may express my views fully and independently here, you have always been a man of unstable emotions and frivolous mind. No wonder you could never keep them under check and always managed to land yourself in troubles. Had it not been for some good friends of yours, you would have been rotting in tottenham by now.
this is a dead question. rupee is one of the fundamentally weakest currencies and the recent depreciation serves well as a lesson to the complacent babus in our corporates who like to take on risk without knowing what they are getting into.
ahraaz bhai, sorry, what you are referring to is merely unfavorable terms of trade. it is not drain of wealth in any sense. in fact, if you had paid attention to international finance classes and understood the theory of comparative advantage, you would have learnt that such a kind of trading pattern is in fact kinda inevitable and works the best for both countries in a real world. problems arise when the element of coercion creeps in.
Gauji, You have missed one important thing . “Health is wealth “. So forget about wealth think of health :) .
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I noticed that some Hotels had launched two Fan Pages on Facebook, one French and one in English which obviously is not very practical in the management of communities.
Althought there is a feature quite interesting and little known for creating status and distributing it according to the language or country.
Well, your wall can be adapted in English and French as the language of the user.
What do you think about this unknown Facebook feature ?
Posted on 2011, October 8, in English Posts, Facebook, Fan Page, Hotel, Tips and Tricks, Tips of the Week, Tools, Tutorials and tagged Best Tools, Community Manager, English language, Facebook, Facebook features, French, French language, Hotel, How To', language, Languages, Manage Multi Languages, Social network, Social Networking, Tips and Tricks, tutorial. Bookmark the permalink. Comments Off on How to Manage Multi Languages on Facebook ?.
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One of things that always springs to mind when I hear the word “hope” is the acronym “H.O.P.E.” which, in this case, stands for “Hold On Pain Ends.” While I do hope for my pain to come to an eventual end, it is not the only hope I have.
I have spent a lot of time feeling cheated by migraines. It sometimes feels as though they have stolen more than a decade of my life. I was robbed of early adulthood, most of which I spent in bed, doctors’ offices, and emergency rooms. The rest of the time I felt like it was spent trying to make up for lost time, to catch up on what I had missed. I expended a great deal of energy on apologizing for things that weren’t my fault and explaining or defending my illness. It was, in truth, not a great way to live. I was constantly rushing to catch up with everyone else and, in the process, I missed out on the days that I was well enough to enjoy because I wasn’t mentally or emotionally present in the moment. I had a plan for my life and, in my mind, I had to go back and check off each item on my list before I could move forward. Thus, I basically moved backwards most of the time, occasionally staying in the same place, but never really progressing. I couldn’t accept what had happened to me and didn’t know how to cope with it. To me, my life was “supposed” to follow a certain script and, in the absence of that ultimately arbitrary script, I was lost. I had no blueprint or map. No crystal ball. I barely even felt like I had a compass. I didn’t know in which direction I was “supposed” to head, what “should” happen next.
That brings me to my greatest hope for this journey, a hope equally as important to me as the eradication of migraine and other headache disorders: I hope that I am able to learn how to stop “should”-ing all over myself. I hope that I am able to spend time enjoying the present and looking forward to the future instead of obsessing over a past that I cannot change. I hope I can learn to let go of how I believe things “should” go and allow myself to accept and even celebrate how things actually are. I hope that I can learn to find joy in each and every day, regardless of how much pain that day may also contain.
I hope to turn my struggle into something positive. I hope to educate others and to advocate for myself and my fellow migraineurs. I hope to go back to school, go back to work, get married, and have children. I hope that I can be an inspiration for those who come after me. I hope to be a part of the movement that ultimately de-stigmatizes migraine and other headache disorders and eventually finds not only a cure but a way to prevent them from occurring in the first place. I hope that my children and grandchildren won’t have to suffer as I have.
Most of all, I hope that this journey has made me stronger and more compassionate, with a greater sense of humor and empathy.
Hi. I have had sporadic migraines with auras since I was 12 or 13, and Im 34. I’ve got dealing with it down to a science at this point 😉 but it is still an incredible anxiety for me. I try to never let the fear stop me from doing something, but the fear it is going to happen and I will be somewhere where I can’t deal with it is ALWAYS at the back of my mind.
This week I took a position at a kids camp, and I woke up every day with knots in my stomach that one would happen 😦 I went anyway, and loved being there when I was distracted enough to overpower the worrying!
It occurred to me that one of the reasons I never became a teacher (I am applying for school right now) is because I didnt think I could… Not with such an unpredictable problem. And that’s how I found you! I cries while I rwad about the construction paper window ordeal.
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This entry was posted in Photography, Photos and tagged colorful birds, hummers, hummingbirds, photography, photos by Huffygirl. Bookmark the permalink.
They are such evocative little creatures, no? Nice to hear from you, Huffy Girl. Hope all is well in your world.
Yes they are. I’ve been enjoying watching them all summer and will certainly miss them when they leave for the winter. Still waiting for the photo that has eluded me – catching them in mid-flight at a flower. Good to hear from you Suzanne, I’m doing well now.
Awesome Donna, I love hummingbirds. Thanks for sharing.
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Another beautiful app by WINKtoLEARN capturing stunning videos of iconic Australian animals like kangaroo and cassowary. It is designed to help a child to acquire knowledge using the documentary videos, fun facts and picture galleries. Updated for OS X Yosemite.
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M&S Advent Calendar 2017: Day Twenty Three!
Morning guys! No more work until after Christmas, hurrah! Today will probably be spent buying the last couple of bits for Christmas and making sure the house is spanking clean. But before I do all that, let’s see what we have in our calendar today: Formula Absolute Ultimate Sleep Cream 15ml Look like you have… Continue reading M&S Advent Calendar 2017: Day Twenty Three!
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So I wrote about my affection for depressing television shows and/or movies awhile back. And, needless to say I’m still drawn to downright dreary programing. I’m not alone in my obsession with the bleak so here is my newest list of the heartbreaking, tear jerking, sap that’s been on my screen lately.
Added bonus: I always feel the urge to clean after watching this show.
Not only does this doc include old people (one of the key elements of depressing TV), we also have soldiers, veterans, and cancer! This show follows around a group of greeters at a Maine airport. It’s their jobs to welcome home US troops who have returned from (or are headed off to) war in the MIddle East. Sheesh, I was barely into this gem before the tears started flowing.
A good child death movie is exactly what I should not have watched on a trans-Atlantic flight home from a nice, long European vacation. But, ya know when you have seven hours on a plane .. your mind gets a little loopy.
Abigail Breslin plays a kid who was genetically engineered by her parents who also have an older daughter (not genetically engineered) with leukemia. Abigail was “made” so she could donate bone marrow for her big sis. But, come to find out, she’s sick of being poked and prodded and tries to earn medical emancipation from her parents.
Cameron Diaz is the mom in the movie by the way. Really? are we getting old enough for There’s Something About Mary to start playing dramatic old women with dying kids? I guess so.
Anywho, this movie is super sad. Leukemia girl meets a boyfriend (also sick) and tries to live life to the fullest before (you know what’s going to happen here) she dies.
I was sobbing like a little baby during this in-flight pity party.
Added Bonus: Alec Baldwin plays an epileptic lawyer with a service dog.
Entry filed under: tv. Tags: children, Depressing TV, hoarders, movies, old people, sad, tv.
You’ve got to stop watching this stuff or I’m going to get worried.
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If you’ve hung around this blog for any length of time, you have probably figured out that I enjoy short-form anime, or anime shorts, or sometimes I just call them shorts. While I’ve seen some people create additional categories, I’d consider an anime short to be any show which has an episode runtime noticeably less than the regular 20-25 minute runtime of regular series. This can be anything from under 2 minutes up to about 15 minutes.
Anime shorts are a relatively new thing to become available to English-speaking anime viewers. Back when anime was either fan-subbed or received a DVD release some time after it had finished airing in Japan, the focus was mainly on things which a wide number of viewers would be interested in. Most shorts tend to be a bit niche and quirky, and often don’t have the overarching plot and impressive 2D visuals which draw many people to anime, so they rarely got any attention. With the increase of legal online anime streaming, English subtitled shorts are far more readily available. I think this is a great thing!
The first shorts I can remember watching were the Haruhi spinoff shorts, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan, and Nyoron Churuya-chan. I was mainly interested in these because I enjoyed the Haruhi franchise so much, but I did find myself taken with the cute sketchy style and the fast-paced comedy. The first anime I remember picking out with a short runtime that wasn’t through franchise recognition was Tonari no Seki-kun, a series about a student named Seki and the ridiculous things he does to pass time in the classroom. The 7 minute episode length seemed to be just perfect for setting up the jokes and the reactions of this series, I don’t think it would have worked over a full-length episode unless each episode was split into multiple segments. This made me appreciate that there may be some shows out there which work well with a short runtime, and started my dark descent down the path of shorts appreciation. While I still love a good story, I now love rapid-paced gags and a short time-format just as much.
Shorts hold appeal to me because it’s really interesting to see what can be done with a short runtime. You don’t have as much chance for character development or introspection, but have to try and tell a story or otherwise entertain your viewers in chunks of a few minutes. It presents a unique challenge, and I love seeing all the unique responses to the short runtime (especially shows with very short runtime of under 5 minutes, although longer shorts are fine too). I think that I also like them because they’re a low time-investment and can be a nice break between series to change up the pace of what I’m watching a little. Plus even if a show isn’t very enjoyable, if it only has a 4 minute episode runtime, a whole season of 12-13 episodes is done in under an hour (this could perhaps be rationalised as me preferring quantity over quality, but I’d prefer to think of it as a constant curiosity about new things. It may be both).
Things can actually get weirdly extreme when it comes to boiling things down to work within a short runtime such as the comedy ‘anime’ Kochinpa, which is a series of 15 second episodes advertising pachinko machines. I’m astounded that they even managed to fit a single joke into this timeframe for each episode, but somehow the series makes it work. Is Kochinpa good? It’s definitely difficult to become invested in a show which only runs for 15 seconds per episode, but it is weirdly fascinating that this show exists. It is perhaps the most short of shorts. Just don’t start calculating how many episodes of Kochinpa you could have been watching instead of other series, it can rapidly become frightening.
I think another appeal to me is the fact that the genres which work best in short form are those which I am most fond of, comedy and slice-of-life. While there are certainly other kinds of shorts out there (such as the infamously bad horror short Pupa that I have no intention of watching), having a few minutes available seems to lend itself really well to both telling jokes and narrating everyday events. It’s rather like having my favourite genres condensed down into their simplest forms! Many of the comedy series also deliver their jokes at a truly manic pace, which I find to be very engaging.
When it comes to anime visuals, or visuals in general in media, my only concern is ‘do they add to the storytelling, or detract from the storytelling?’. So while shorts often have very simple animation with limited movement, a sketchy style, or are even sometimes downright unattractive CG, it doesn’t bother me unless I find it immersion-breaking for some reason. In fact, seeing what can be done using tools such as MMD and Flash animation can be fascinating in its own right.
I think that there may be a gap between the type of person who would be attracted to anime in general, especially considering the things which a lot of people have as starter series, and the type of person who would enjoy shorts. Obviously this is not universal, but I do think it’s a shame that this leads to not a lot of information about a lot of these series. It’s not even especially easy to find if a show has a shorter than average runtime with many anime tracking databases without getting into the details page (I hunt for shorts mostly based on their visual style in thumbnail images or the fact that they are right down the bottom of Crunchyroll titles sorted by popularity). With the diversity of series under the shorts banner, there’s something out there for a lot of people to enjoy, and one of the things I’ve been doing, and plan to continue doing is watching short series (for my own enjoyment) and putting together reviews of the series (for the information of others). I’m really just scratching the surface of the available shorts at the moment, and I’m looking forward to trying more!
Do you like shorts? Are there short series which you’ve tried and enjoyed, or tried and hated? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Also, if you know of a shorts series that you’re curious about, I’d probably be agreeable to watching it and reviewing it, so I am open to suggestions!
This entry was posted in Reflections and tagged Anime, gdgd fairies, Haruhi Suzumiya-chan, I like shorts they're comfy and easy to watch, Kochinpa!, Nyoron Churuya-chan, Shorts, Tonari no Seki-kun. Bookmark the permalink.
Of course you would use that joke. You are too good at using them.
I’ve only watched a small amount of shorts last year and I’ve liked them. Are there any worth watching this season that I’ve missed out on?
I love puns and wordplay, probably a little too much for my own good.
This season, I think the especially enjoyable shorts I’m watching are Piacevole (which I’m covering on my blog), a shoujo-styled short about Italian cooking (there’s food if you like watching shows about food and some fun reaction faces), and Nyanko Days, shorts about a girl and her anthropomorphic cats (it’s cute and relaxing). Enjoyable or not is super subject to personal taste though, so I’m not sure whether you’d be into the same things as I am.
Sound interesting. Might give them a look anyway.
“I can’t understand what my husband is saying” is a very good short… At least season 1 was, season 2 was much rougher. I’ve sometimes said that “Husband” packs as much character building into an hour’s total runtime as some normal shows pack into an entire cour.
Those are two of my favourites! I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying holds some personal significance for me because the husband reminds me a bit of my husband (except in our relationship, we’re both massive nerds, just into slightly different things).
I totally agree with you, shorts are great. As you said they can have niche appeal which means the shorts that appeal to you will hit all the right notes (and there are so many being produced these days that you’re bound to find something). I’m really enjoying what I’ve seen of Nobunaga no Shinobi right now for it’s fast-paced, cute historical humor.
I also think shorts in general are one of anime’s strong suits as a medium. A lot of great concepts just don’t fit into a longer format. Variable length is great and something other episodic mediums could use to experiment with.
I think you’re right that variable length really makes some shows shine. While it’s used a bit in children’s entertainment, you don’t see it much in other media and sometimes a concept is perfectly suited to chunks of 10 minutes or less but wouldn’t necessarily work in longer episodes. It’s great to see these sorts of ideas come to life.
I’ve also been enjoying Nobunaga no Shinobi. I really don’t have much background knowledge of the Sengoku era, but the show’s humour stands alone as some fast-paced and quirky fun!
I agree that shorts are underappreciated yet fascinating. It’s too bad they often fly under the radar.
I remember being really sad that I finished Aiura. It squarely falls within our favorite genre and is very comforting. Check it out if you have time.
I haven’t heard of Aiura! I’ll definitely have to check it out when I get the chance (I assume it’s full of cute girls and fluffiness which is definitely one of my things).
I’m glad to see other people who like shorts! More often than not I find I’m the only one who really enjoys them but I find they make great breaks between serious episodes of anime. Sekko Boys did this well for me. One of my personal favorites is Miss Monochrome. I’m not sure why but I’m a huge fan and wish we could get a DVD release because I know I’d buy it.
I also rather enjoyed Sekko Boys, in spite of having not seen any idol anime to have a feel for what the series was parodying!
I haven’t seen Miss Monochrome though, I’ll have to check it out! Thanks for sharing!
The only one I’ve seen is Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan and I enjoyed it very much. Lately, I’ve been thinking of watching I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying because I feel like I’m seeing its title everywhere. Tonari no Seki-kun has been on my plan to watch list for a long time now, but I still haven’t seen it yet, either.
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I enjoyed 50 Unofficial Minecraft Books in 1 very much and I liked that i was 50 Minecraft books in one. The many different stories added a variety to my perspective on Minecraft and the time era. This all in one book gave me a ton of new building ideas to use in my worlds.
I like the characters in these books. They are so much like me in many ways. For example, I like building awesome structures in Minecraft and Steve likes it too. The storyline was a little confusing for me to understand at times, but it was still a great story that makes for good gaming.
I would like to give 50 Unofficial Minecraft Books in 1 4.5 stars!
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Hi Tessa. There’s so much in your post to comment on. I like you wit and humour. Going to the village kicking and screaming is a classic.
I love the anatomy of a bookworm. Describes me too.
Describes me perfectly, I think I’m in the three per cent, ha ha ha.
And I love the phrase ‘I’m willing to dream again’.
Can’t comment on your blog though, you should find out why.
Hi Tessa. I’m curious to know why you can’t comment on my blog.
My dear, no dreams, no accomplishment. For me, my dreams make me see what’s possible. And that God doesn’t see impossibilities. His suggestions can be hysterical but the power to do is in the obedience.
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Everyone who knows me, knows I am obsessed with Dogs! ALL dogs. Whenever I see a dog going down the road with it’s head hanging out the window of his human’s car, I smile. Whenever I am out and see a dog and their owner, I have to ask if I can pet the pup (and take a picture). If I attend an event and I am photographing, I come home with more images of dogs than people. That’s normal right??
Well, I was in DOG heaven! On Sunday, August 26th we supported Splashpaw’s 4th Annual Red Carpet event at http://CabarrusBrewing.com. The Bark and Brew event was so much fun! It included vendors, boutiques, silent auction items, swag bags full of goodies, door prizes, beer, friends and lots of dogs!!!
If you are not familiar with http://www.thesplashpawfoundation.org/, let me tell you about them! They are a local foundation founded by my friend Ginger Moore. The foundation is in memory of Ginger’s dog loving mom!
Established in 2013, The Splashpaw Foundation, Inc.™ was founded to assist and improve the research, treatment and care of pets in our community. Each case benefited by Splashpaw is veterinarian referred to ensure that your money goes to help a good candidate with a good prognosis, thus ensuring the donation is spent wisely. Without the Splashpaw Foundation, these pets would have an uncertain future due to the families’ inability to afford the unexpected vet bills. We really believe in what Ginger and her foundation do to help our furry friends in our community!
Our friend Michael Robinson at http://cabarrusanimalhospital.com/ was the emcee for the event. Keep in mind, Dr. Robinson has been the official emcee each year and CAH have been great supporters since the beginning of Ginger’s foundation. Needless to say, we love us some Dr. Mike!
The real heroes were the four legged models walking the red carpet with their humans. While our eyes were on the sweet four legged models walking the red carpet, their moms and dads were adorned in beautiful outfits from local boutiques. Thank you to all the boutiques that supported this amazing event!
Thank you so much to http://www.mainstreampets.com for donating and putting together three hundred awesome swag bags and giving away a live auction item of a years’ worth of dog food!!!
Thank you to all the human models that walked the red carpet with their four legged children.
There are lots of people that volunteered their time and money. Thank you to the hard working, dog loving people that made this event possible. Thank you Ginger for letting us be apart of this amazing fundraiser.
http://www.thesplashpawfoundation.org/ and click Donate Now!
It’s over this year and we are already excited about next year! Mark you calendar for next year August 25th. See you there!
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Games borrow ceaselessly from the past to constitute themselves. This locates the medium at the heart of our contemporary obsession with how to engage the past and the “real.” In tethering digital hyperreality to the horizon of history, myth, and ritual, games generate a disavowed and subjunctive engagement with a sense of “real enough.” They thus resemble Victor Turner’s liminoids: autotelic, bounded experiences of leisure that cultivate accepting yet playful attitudes against the “real enough” on offer. This commercialized bricolage is not dismissible as inauthentic simulacrum. Rather, such games demonstrate the ways in which new media are recalibrating our modes of engagement with the real. This article analyzes three key aspects of liminoid games: (1) techniques of reappropriation during production, (2) rules and expectations of engagement with the past and the “real” that games offer, and (3) emergent ways in which player communities, discourses, and productions recalibrate those politics of engagement.
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Laura Manolache (b. 1959, Bucharest) graduated the National Music University of Bucharest, the department of Musicology (1982) and Composition (2002). She was awarded a music doctorate for her dissertation with the title Twilight of the tonal era. At present she is teaching at the N.M.U.B. Since 1984 she has been member of the Romanian Composers’ Association and since 1991 she has also been a member of the Romanian branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
She has been awarded several important prizes for compositions, including the second prize in the N.M.U.B. Competition for chamber music (String Quartet – 1998) and The Grand Prix of the International Composition Competition “Aperto” (the Trio “Looks” for violin, clarinet and piano –1999).
Her oeuvre contains different instrumental – chamber opuses and also three recent symphonic works. Most of these have been recorded by the Romanian Society of Broadcasting, performed in concerts and festivals in Romania and numerous other European countries, as well as in the USA and Japan, printed by Editura Muzicală – Bucharest (Hommage – 1999, Trio”Looks” – 2000) and Müller & Schade Verlag – Berna (Ikone 2003).
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Need to convert your ringtone? Check out this new tool created by Unwiredtec, Inc. There’s no software to download; it’s a completely online tool. The converter does limit the ringtone to 20 seconds though.
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Well I have to now start to quilt some of my quilt tops. I have never done this before, so I went and checked out some websites. I discovered one called The Inbox Jaunt which is all about free motioning quilting. It is Lori Kennedy’s blog and gives examples of free motioning quilting and examples. It really inspired me so I decided I would give it a try. I brought a free motion foot for my sewing machine – most sewing machines tend to have this attachment available. I fitted mine and this is the result of my work.
I used the pattern called squiggles which is just free motion of the quilt. You move the quilt what ever the way you want creating a doddle like pattern which looks very nice. There’s a couple mistakes in it but I’m happy with it. I found the hard bit moving the fabric so it would glide across the machine. I don’t know if I should have put the dog feet down or just leave them up. I changed the stitch size thinking that it would help but I put it back to the default stitching length. I just need to play with this a little bit to improve my technique but overall I am happy with what I have done.
The top of the quilt is a jelly roll which was I used in a jelly roll race. The rows in it made it easy to use them to as a guide for the free hand designs. Hopefully my son will like the finished results of this quilt.
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A pantry is a room where food and other household goods may be stored for a while.
Some food, such as butter, eggs, milk, and such need to be kept cool. Before modern refrigeration was available, there was the pantry. The pantry was a room or large cupboard made to keep cooler than the temperature in the kitchen. Built on the north side of the house close to the kitchen, it had no windows, but had air ventilation. The walls were brick or wood. As the air in the pantry warmed, it rose, escaping through the upper vent. This in turn drew cooler air in from the lower vent, providing constant circulation of cooler air.
In the summertime, the temperatures in the pantry would be several degrees lower than the ambient temperature in the house. In wintertime, the temperature in the cold pantry would be considerably lower than that in the kitchen.
A pantry was the place to keep foodstocks that did not need to be kept refrigerated. Remember, food was bought regularly in those days, and not stored for long. Breads, butter, cheesecakes, eggs, pastries, and pies were kept in a cold. Vegetables could be brought up from the cellar in smaller amounts and stored in the cold pantry until ready to use. The pantry was a place to store fresh berries and fruit, cheese, butter and such.
↑ dlginstructables (11 December 2009). "Resurrecting the California Cooler". Instructables.com. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
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This synopsis is by Sally Dye.
In 1418 Cortona, Italy, the demon Moloch asks one of his followers if he loves him. When the follower says he does, Moloch snaps his neck, killing him. Elsewhere, a group of monks chant a spell to bind Moloch. They place his essence within the pages of a book. They close the book and bury it in a box, hoping that it will never be opened again.
In 20th century Sunnydale, Buffy opens a box and extracts the same book. The school's computer teacher, Ms. Calendar, is scanning some of the books into a computer. Willow and some of the other computer students are helping. Giles is suspicious and disparaging of this new-fangled way of preserving the knowledge in books. He says he needs to clean up some of the shelves and that he will be back in the Middle Ages. Ms. Calendar: "Did you ever leave?" As Willow scans the pages of the Moloch book, the writing disappears in the book itself, but Willow doesn't notice. When she turns to get ready to leave, "Where am I?" appears on the computer screen.
At school a week or so later, Buffy wants to know why Willow's line was busy all the night before. Willow smiles and says she was talking. Buffy says secrets are not allowed. Willow says she met someone last week after they did the scanning. His name is Malcolm, and he's very nice. Buffy wants more details. Willow says he's smart and romantic, but Buffy wants to know what he looks like. Willow says she doesn't know.
Later Willow explains that she met Malcolm online. She shows Buffy some of his e-mails. Buffy cautions Willow that she shouldn't rush into this kind of relationship. Within the computer, the video camera focuses on Buffy and runs a scan of the student database until it finds her. It sends the info to another computer student, Fritz, and tells him to watch her.
Buffy and Xander discuss their concerns about Willow and Malcolm. They realize that Malcolm could be anyone. Buffy hopes they are overreacting. But the next day, Willow is very late to school, and when Buffy tries to warn her again, Willow says that Malcolm said she wouldn't understand. Buffy: "Malcolm was right."
Buffy talks to another computer student, Dave. She asks how she could trace an e-mail. When she mentions Willow, Dave says to leave Willow alone and brushes her off.
Buffy goes to Giles and tells him about Dave. Giles suggests she follow him. When she does, Dave leads her to a supposedly deserted factory, where quite a lot of activity is going on. Security cameras spot Buffy peering through the fence, and Fritz asks the computer what he should do. The typed reply is "Kill her."
Buffy tells Giles that her spider sense is tingling. Giles is puzzled by the pop culture reference. Buffy and Xander decide to break into the factory after dark. Ms. Calendar comes in to check Giles' computer and marvels that Buffy and Xander spend so much time in the library. Xander: "To read makes our speaking English good." Buffy sighs at this lame statement, and she and Xander take the opportunity to exit.
Willow and Malcolm are typing messages to each other. When Willow mentions Buffy, Malcolm says she's a trouble-maker -- that's why she got kicked out of her last school. Willow wonders how he knew that. Malcolm says it is in her permanent file. Willow is disturbed by this exchange and signs off.
Giles and Ms. Calendar argue over the advantages of the computer age. Ms. Calendar casually looks into the Moloch book, which is now completely blank. When Giles sees the cover, he realizes what it is and rushes Ms. Calendar out of the library.
Dave tells Buffy that Willow is looking for her in the girls' locker room. When Buffy goes there, it seems deserted. Fritz is hidden in the shower and turns it on, so Buffy comes that way. When she goes in to turn off the shower, the water touches an exposed electric wire. Dave shouts a warning to Buffy, who leaps clear of the water just in time, though the soles of her shoes are singed and smoking.
Dave goes to the computer room and says he's not going to do it. The computer replies that he promised -- the project is almost complete. Dave says it's wrong. The computer starts typing a suicide note, signed Dave. Dave turns around, and Fritz is standing behind him.
Buffy says she doesn't understand why Dave would have tried to kill her. (She is mainly concerned about how her hair looks after almost being electrocuted, but Xander and Giles reassure her that it's fine.) Giles shows her the book and explains that in the Dark Ages, demons were sometimes trapped in books and could only be freed if the book were read aloud. He knows this book had to do with Moloch the Corrupter, a very deadly demon who preyed on impressionable minds. Xander: "And Moloch is inside the book?" Giles: "Not anymore." He shows them the empty pages. Buffy realizes it is one of the books that were scanned. They all turn to look at the computer. Buffy: "He's gone binary on us." Giles suggests they try to delete the file. When they try, an image of Moloch fills the screen and tells them to stay away from Willow. Buffy: "So that's what Malcolm looks like."
Buffy, Xander and Giles start theorizing on all the dangerous things Moloch could do if he controls all the computers which are connected over modems. Buffy says the first thing they need to do is find Willow. Buffy goes to check the computer lab and finds Dave's body hanging with the suicide note pinned to his shirt.
Buffy and Xander head for Willow's house, telling Giles to work on a way to get Moloch out of the computer.
Willow comes home and goes to her room. Her computer says she has mail. It's from Malcolm, who says he has to see her. She turns off her computer, but it comes back on by itself. The doorbell rings and when she answers it, Fritz grabs her and chloroforms her.
Ms. Calendar comes to the library. Giles says he needs her help and that he's going to tell her something she might not understand. He finally just says, "There's a demon on the internet." Ms. Calendar: "I know." Giles is stunned.
Buffy and Xander get to Willow's house and find the door ajar and Willow gone. They find the e-mail message and head for the factory.
Ms. Calendar says there were many signs of demon involvement with the computers. She had thought it might be a mischief demon of some sort. Giles: "It's Moloch." Ms. Calendar recognizes the name, startling Giles yet again. He hopes she can help him bind Moloch. She contacts a group of internet users to form a sacred (albeit online) circle and Giles begins the chant.
Willow wakes up in the factory. A computer generated voice says, "Welcome, my love," and a robot-like Moloch steps into view. Moloch says it's great being able to walk, and touch, and (snapping Fritz's neck) kill. Moloch says Willow is really the one who created him, even though the people he brought to the factory gave him his physical form. Willow says he lied to her.
Buffy and Xander get into the factory, but Moloch releases a gas into the hallways to slow them down.
Moloch is about to kill Willow when Giles' chanting gets control of him. Buffy makes it into the room where they are and gets Willow.
Sparks fly from Ms. Calendar's computer and they realize that Moloch is out of the 'net. Giles looks at the book, but it's still blank. Ms. Calendar: "Where is he?"
Moloch crashes through a wall and confronts Buffy, Willow and Xander. He knocks Xander down and throws Buffy into a wall. Willow calls out to him as he's about to kill Buffy: "I think it's time we break up!" She starts hitting him with a fire extinguisher, but he tosses her aside. Buffy sees an electrical panel behind her and tells Moloch to take his best shot. When he punches, she ducks, and his fist goes into the panel. The electricity fries him, and he explodes.
Giles comes to the computer lab. Ms. Calendar: "Welcome to my world. You scared?" Giles: "I'm remaining calm, thank you." He returns her earring that was in the library. He says he's even less anxious now to be around computers than before. She says it was a book that started all the trouble. He defends books, and she says he's old-fashioned. Giles: "Well, I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear." Ms. Calendar: "That's not where I dangle it."
Buffy and Xander urge Willow to come to the Bronze with them. Willow is depressed because her boyfriend turned out to be a demon robot. Buffy reminds her that the one boy she's liked is a vampire, and Xander says the teacher he had a crush on -- giant praying mantis. Willow agrees and perks up a little. Buffy: "Let's face it -- none of us are going to have a happy, normal relationship." They all agree laughingly, and then grow somber as they ponder that statement.
There seems to be a picture of Willow and Rupert in Willow's hall locker at the beginning of the show. Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) does not appear in this episode, even though she is credited in the opening titles.
In the scene with Giles listening to the radio, the newscaster's voice is none other than Joss Whedon himself, creator of the show we know and love.
On the computer, Buffy's school profile reads: that her birthdate is 05-06-79, GPA is 2,8, with only one absence for the slayer which we must believe is from the two-part series premiere when Joyce asks Buffy about missing school that day.
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Lunge (exercise) | It's Time To Turn This Mush Into Muscle!!!!
Yesterday I did the second workout of week 3. I was going to do it right after I got home from church, but I had to get some MarioKart on the Wii in first. I am pretty awesome at the game!
This workout is more along the lines of the workouts I did the first two weeks. Sadly my left foot injury flared up again. I was able to do Mountain Climbers without any issues, but the High Knees were too much. I guess since more body weight is on my feet when doing High Knees compared to Mountian Climbers is why that exercise bothered me. I only did the routine two times, and overall I feel good today. The foot is still tight but I can walk on it. I am going to use a tennis ball to roll it out and massage it off and on today.
It stinks that the foot injury flared up again, but that all falls on me. However, compared to the past I will handle this situation differently. I am not going to get down on myself or take extra days off to let it heal. Simply I will look at the situation and see what I should have done differently. Moving forward I will use what I learned. I may not be taking days off, but I will be smart by not repeating exercises that could cause my foot to get extra tight again. It is all a learning process. I have goals I still want to achieve, and cannot let one minor thing get in my way. I’ve done that in the past, but will not do it this time.
Today is a rest day, and I may take another tomorrow. Every week I get one set of back to back days off.
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The Irvington location you have been waiting for! Walk to train, village, schools, parks and aqueduct from this charming in town home. Features 3 bedrooms plus au pair suite/playroom and office, sun drenched living room, formal dining room and large eat-in kitchen with butler pantry. Private, level yard buffered by aqueduct with stone patio and plenty of room for outdoor fun. Japanese maple trees and beautiful, lush landscaping adorn the front and rear yards. A sweet Irvington gem. Stop by the open house or call now to schedule showing, won’t last!
This home offered privacy and phenomenal views.Tucked into a private cul-de-sac and sitting on 14th hole of prestigious Ardsley Country Club’s golf course with over 5000 sq ft. of living space.Spectacular sweeping views of golf course on all 3 levels.The new buyers will enjoy all amenities of this luxurious lifestyle on over half acre of private property. A dream home!
Please welcome the new buyers of this beautiful home nestled at the end of cul de sac. Hand crafted, colonial beckons you to laze under covered front porch or stroll nearby lakes. Perfectly appointed, this young home features custom cabinetry, generously proportioned rooms, fireplaces, finished basement, first floor guest suite. Ideal location whether for quiet enjoyment or large family gatherings, you will be proud to call this home your own. Special features include: guest suite on first floor, beautiful finished lower level with fireplace (not included in square footage), high end finishes throughout, hardwood floors, high ceilings, gourmet kitchen, generous master suite. Private yet convenient Tarrytown location. For more information contact Cindy.
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my life as a foodie | Pushing the envelope of good taste, one bite at a time.
episode 66 :: that’s italian!
If you ask any Italian, there are two kinds of people – Italians, and those who wish they were Italian. I’m here to debunk that theory. I grew up Sicilian-American, and I’ll be the first to tell you it was no bloody picnic. Sure, it feels warm and the food is fantastic. But you have get the knife out of your back before you can eat.
It’s not all bad, though. There are the constant questions about whether or not members of your family were in the mafia, and whether your Grandparents were actually from Italy, or the other part of the boot – Sicily. Should it be the latter, then may God be with you . . . and me, for that matter.
• Eat My Blog, December 4th – Be there!
Music in this episode by Saliva. Buy their music from their web site or from the iTunes Store.
Anytime we try something new in the kitchen the most often asked question, even to ourselves, is “Is it worth your time and money?” And that’s a valid question, as many of our initial forays end in failure or, at the very least, sub-standard results. By the end of it, you’re left to question yourself about whether or not it would be favorable to just buy the product at the market the next time.
But that’s not what cooking is about. It’s about the experience, the journey, and the fundamental root of why we cook. So it might cost twice as much, take twice as long, and taste half as good as what you might buy elsewhere. But you made it with your hands, and that is all that matters.
I purchased a mozzarella cheesemaking kit well over a year ago, and I knew the time had come for me to simply take a slot of time on a Saturday morning and get this experience behind me. The directions seemed straightforward, and a Google search on the subject of making mozzarella at home certainly made the process look simple enough. You add citric acid to a small amount of water, add your milk, heat it up to 88ºF, add a small amount of rennet, stir and let it sit until it curdles. Separate the curds from the whey, and start heating and stretching the curds until it forms a slick ball of cheese.
There are a few details about making your own mozzarella at home. The most important detail is in the primary component – milk. In Italy, mozzarella is traditionally made with the milk from a water buffalo, hence “buffalo mozzarella.” For those of you who thought that was actually mozzarella made by some Goombas in New York, I’m sorry to let you down.
Since buffalo milk isn’t something easily found in stores, milk from a cow will do. You want to use whole milk if at all possible, as fresh as you can possibly get it. Most of us don’t live near dairy farms, but if you do then you’re on your way to making far better cheese than the rest of us. The milk should be pasteurized, but not ultra-pasteurized. Should you use ultra-pasteurized milk, you will end up making ricotta instead of mozzarella no matter how hard you try.
If you use ultra-pasteurized milk to make mozzarella, what you’ll end up with is a dry granular mass, with most of the moisture released with very little manipulation. The result is a dry, crumbly mess. Standard milk results in a binding curd which stretches nicely and retains all of its moisture.
For the rest of your ingredients, I highly suggest purchasing Ricki’s Cheesemaking Kit which contains everything else you’ll need to start making your own mozzarella or ricotta at home.
The first thing I did was crush a quartered rennet tablet and add it to 1/4 cup of cool, chlorine free water. Stir this until the tablet is dissolved, then set it aside.
In a large pot, I poured 1/2 cup of cool water and stirred in 1 1/2 teaspoons of citric acid until it dissolved. I then poured 1 gallon of whole milk into the pot and turned up the heat to medium. I placed a thermometer in the pot and stirred the entire time until the milk reached a temperature of 88ºF. When it did, I took the pot off of the heat, then added the rennet solution and stirred for another minute.
I poured myself a cup of coffee, went to catch up on some college football scores then came back to the pot about 10 minutes later. Can I just say how refreshing it is to see my Cornhuskers back in the spotlight of National prominence?
When I returned, the pot of milk looked like it had been sitting out in the open for a few weeks. I looked at it and thought “This is certainly not making me hungry.” These are the times when you stop and wonder who thought this was going to be a good idea the first time they tried it. Our ancestors were brave, I swear.
The curds literally start separating themselves from the whey. This makes it easy to strain the solids from the liquids. I grabbed a small mesh hand ladle and began ladling the curds into a glass bowl until all that was left in the pot was mostly liquid. I then began pressing the curds with my hands to release whatever remaining moisture was in them, then pouring off that liquid until all I was left with was dry curds.
Following the instructions that came with the kit, I placed the bowl of curds in the microwave, and microwaved them on high for 1 minute. When I took it out of the microwave, I drained off the excess whey, kneaded it with my hands, flattening it, and rolling it into a ball, then flattening it again and again.
Back into the microwave it went for another 35 seconds, draining and kneading again until it formed a ball. This step was repeated several times until the internal temperature of the ball of cheese reached 135ºF. At this point, the cheese was way too hot to handle with my bare hands, so I put on a pair of rubber gloves so I could knead and stretch this ball of cheese as much as necessary without getting third-degree burns all over my hands.
Once the ball was shiny and stretched like warm gum stuck to a shoe, I knew my mozzarella was done. It was at this point that I decided to cut and roll my big mozzarella ball into many small balls of Ciliegine. I love making what I call “caprese on a stick” and these are perfect for it. I simmer several cherry tomatoes in salted water until the skins of the tomatoes start to loosen. I then strain the tomatoes, gently remove their skins, and thread the skinless tomatoes on a toothpick, followed by a ball of Ciliegine, and top with a drizzle of pesto.
After all of this work, that nagging question came to mind. Was it worth the trouble? I have to say yes, because the mozzarella was very good, and the experience was fascinating. What attracted me to molecular gastronomy was witnessing the chemical changes in food compounds, turning something liquid into something solid. But this is something Italians have been perfecting for hundreds of years, and it is a prime example of how deep the rabbit hole goes when dealing with the science of food.
It gave me a new appreciation for how hard cheesemakers work. And for as simple as this was, the art of aging cheese, working with food-safe bacteria, and manipulating flavors by using milk from animals raised a specific way just makes me appreciate it more.
I may never become a master cheesemaker, but I certainly made some delicious cheese at home. And should you ever decide to try this yourself, I’d love to hear your experience.
This annual Halloween episode of My Life as a Foodie has been possessed by a demon by the name of Pazuzu, and is now under his control. As is the tradition every year around this time, there is a contest involved. But knowing exactly what you’re looking for may prove more difficult than before, due to Pazuzu’s decision to cleverly scramble a few things.
Listen carefully, pay attention to the details, and good luck. The winner will receive a DVD copy of “Skin Walkers” courtesy of Lionsgate Films, as well as your own pet Ghost that you can grow yourself. Details of the contest are contained in the episode. Best of luck.
• May I interest you in some turkey nuts?
• Ghost Hunters – real, or complete wackos?
• Could there really be a ghost following me?
• So, Cat Cora’s been a lesbian all this time? That’s a secret ingredient I can get into.
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, and become a fan of the show on Facebook.
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Zhang Xian Bing bribes Wu Dong Chong to be able to deliver the medicine to Bai Cao Immortal in hopes of being accepted as a pupil.
Bai Cao Immortal accepts Zhang Xian Bing as his disciple.
The medicine is done and Zhuge Yu Wo, the head of Zu Mountain, has decised to descend and help distribute the medicine.
Ding Yin is practicing with Gongsun Wu Wo when he looses control. Monk Miao Yi intercedes to calm him.
Ding Da Li/Ding Yin (played by William Chan) – Son of the Six Stars and protector of the Scarlet Soul Stone, first male disciple of Qi Xia Peak.
Xiao Ru Zhen Ren (played by Wu Li) – Head of Qi Xia Peak branch, and all female part of Mt. Zu.
Yu Wu Xin attempts to enter Mt. Zu and gets injured, Ding Yin begs Monk Miao Yi to treat her.
Zhou Qing Yun brings Bai Cao Immortal to meet Su Yin. He recognizes that the items in the house belongs to her. Su Yin spots them in her house and hides.
While showing Yu Wu Xin the wonders of Evil Subdue Valley Ding Yin finds a silver box with a manual in it.
Tu Ba (played by Zhang Tian Lin) – Leader of the Western Region before Jing Wo.
Dan Chen Zi whispers a phrase to Tu Mei! Is he the Man on the Mountain?
Dan Chen Zi admits to being Man on the Mountain, tells Zhuge Zi Ying that she is annoying and that she will never be his wife, then appears to kill her.
Yu Wu Xin says she can’t stay at Mt. Zu with everyone accusing her and comparing her to Ding Yin’s dead wife. She is leaving and wants Ding Yin to accompany her.
Ding Yin and Monk Miao Yi have a long conversation about girls.
Monk Miao Yi says he will open the sword technique for two hours on the following day for Yu Wu Xin to leave.
Zhang Xian Bing overhears He Qing gather students for a possible attack on Subdued Evil Region. He rushes to tell Ding Yin then tricks him into opening knock out powder. Stating that he won’t let him fall into depravity even if he hates him afterwards.
He Qing with a bunch of disciples of Zu attempt to capture Yu Wu Xin, duging the fight He Qing notices Monk Miao Yi’s seal on her inner power and wonders how she knows the teacher.
Dan Chen Zi attacks Yu Wu Xin during her fight with Zu Disciples, the fight continues and a drop of her blood hits the Nan Ming Li Huo Sword which is the same sword her mother, Su Yin, used to free her father, Jing Wo, from Western Evil Region. With the help of the sword she is no match for them.
Gongsun Wu Wo signals for all remaining Zu members to assist. A light flashes in the sky. Monk Miao Yi is about to respond to the summons when Jiu Du Shen Jun and Wu Gui Tian Wang attacks. Jiu Du Shen Jun attacks Monk Miao Yi while Wu Gui Tian Wang goes after Yu Wu Xin.
Ding Yin finds out she is Shangguan Jing Wo’s daughter tells her he can’t trust her more fighting breaks out and Ding Yin is forced to attack her to save Mt. Zu members.
Nan Ming Li Huo Sword flies after Yu Wu Xin.
After the battle Monk Miao Yi & Ding Yin are brought before the heads of Mt. Zu for punishment. Dan Chen Zi places more blame on Ding Yin and request severe punishment, Gongsun Wu Wo seconds the request.
Zhuge Zi Ying comes back out of nowhere and attacks Dan Chen Zi, they fight for a bit and he kisses her. He tells her he stabbed her and threw her off a cliff to save her (how kind). That there is an informant on Mt. Zu but it isn’t him. He says he found out about he informant and bluffed Tu Mei.
Dan Chen Zi says he slipped Zhou Qing Yun a note to give to the leaders of Zu explaining what happened. That is how the Qi Xia Peak branch was able to locate her.
Gongsun Wu Wo tells Monk Miao Yi that Ding Yin is to be imprisoned for life and Monk Miao Yi is to guard the demon in isolation.
Zhou Qing Yun visits Ding Yin before she leaves and confesses her feelings for him. However when the camera shows the front it is not Ding Yin but a dummy with his clothes on it.
Dan Chen Zi asks Zhuge Zi Ying not to act rash! LOL HAHAHA! Yeah right!
Zhuge Yu Wo (Mt. Zu Sect Leader) comes out behind a rock once the four have gone some ways from Mt. Zu. He greats them all and tells them he has come to see them off and he has brought them something useful. Ding Yin comes out from behind the same rock.
He is to accompany the group in search for the magic swords.
Wu Gui Tian Wang ( Flower Picking Demon) proposes to Yu Wu Xin who violently refuses.
Jing Wo learns that Ding Yin is no longer on the mountain. So the Man on the Mountain must be one of the four students with Ding Yin.
Zhang Xian Bing mentions they are looking for “Tao Ran Ju” so they stop in Yu Shui Town for information.
Blind Liu grabs Ding Yin’s hand and calls him Tian Sha Gu Xing. Ding Yin is fated to spend his life alone and anyone associated with him will suffer.
Lin Tian Yi tells Zhuge Zi Ying & Zhou Qing Yun that if they are patient for a few days he will definitely let them go.
Su Yang (played by Xing Luo Dan) – Disciple of Dian Cang Peak, Gongsun Wu Wo is his master.
*Ma Yuan Long (played by ???) Leader of the Sky Dragon Stronghold Bandits.
Yu Wu Xin lets Xiao Nan and Ah Kun leave Western Evil Clan.
Monk Miao Yi asks his wife Xiao Ru Zhen Ren to retrieve Jing Wu amd Su Yin’s letters and keep them safe for Yu Wu Xin.
Ma Yuan Long possesses the Scarlet Star Numerously Refined Pearl, when he activates the Pearl it aggravates Ding Yin’s Scarlet Soul Stone.
Hui’er knows where Ma Yuan Long’s hideout is. They confront him, Ding Yin kills him.
Ma Yuan Long (played by ???) Leader of the Sky Dragon Stronghold Bandits.
After the battle the group finds Ding Yin’s body washed up on the banks, Zhou Qing Yun gives him the Kiss of Life (well it certainly wasn’t CPR) and he is revived.
Jing Wo finds the sword that the Scarlet Star Numerously Refined Pearl came from, The Blood Consuming Blade. The sword leads him to the Pearl and Jing Wo retrieves it.
Zhuge Yu Wo goes to talk to Tu Mei but finds Xiao Ru Zhen Ren in her place.
They must pass a martial test in pairs to be able to enter. Dan Chen Zi and Zhuge Zi Ying try first and fail followed by Ding Yin and Zhou Qing Yun who pass the first part but are then captured.
After escaping the brothers Fan Bo & Fan Zhong they encounter Madam Fan who calls Zhou Qing Yun, “Xiao Xi” she then uses a paralysis technique on the pair of them.
Once Zhou Qing Yun wakes up, Madam Fan shows her a jade pendant, which Zhou Qing Yun has the other half. She is apparently Xiao Xi, Madam Fan’s daughter.
Zhou Qing Yun knows the Double Unyielding Snow Sword which she learned on her own and was told by Xiao Ru Zhen Ren that it was her parents legacy.
Flashback to Xiao Xi’s father being killed and Monk Miao Yi saving her at the last moment and her father handing the Monk the Jade pendant and a manual.
Madam Fan explains her past and how she became separated from her husband and daughter.
Zhang Xian Bing breaks the wall to the cell where Ding Yin, Dan Chen Zi, and Zhuge Zi Ying are being held.
Madam Fan and her brothers enter the cell, and apologize.
Madam Fan wants to marry off Zhou Qing Yun/Xiao Xi, but she doesn’t want to get married.
The Fan brothers are trying to set up Zhou Qing Yun with either Dan Chen Zi or Ding Ying. They capture the pair and dress them in wedding clothes.
Madam Fan wants them both to marry Zhou Qing Yun.
A member of the Eight Devils of the Big Desolate tries to break into the Book Pavilion.
Madam Fan tells the Zu disciples about Zhou Ao Ran and how he killed 5 of the 8 Devils. Zhou Ao Ran stole the Wu Xian Jiu Tian pellet from them. An item of terrible power allowing the one who ate it direct demonic power.
The remaining Devils kidnap all the suitors who arrived in Ep. 25 for Zhou Qing Yun/Xiao Xi’s hand in marriage. They will exchange the young men for the Pellet and Yun Zhong Lei.
Madam Fan gives them the Pellet and releases Yun Zhong Lei. The Wu Xian Jiu Tian pellet is portected by a blood seal of the Zhou Ao Ran bloodline (meaning they need Zhou Qing Yun/Xiao Xi’s blood).
Ding Yin and Zhou Qing Yun use Double Unyielding Snow Sword to defeat the insect. Dan Chen Zi and Zhuge Zi Ying despose of the final two Devils.
Before dying Yun Zhong Xue attacks and injures Madam Fan.
Madam Fan tells her daughter that because of her father she has a blood curse. If she doesn’t marry the person she loves by the age of 21, she will die.
Madam Fan tells them the location of the Purple Ying Sword and the Divine Wood Sword. The swords are originally a pair and could be put together are apart. The swords are hidden in the Wu Dang Mountains, in Emerald Screen Peak Mountain. An ominous sword called Dark appeared in the past. Her ancestors used the power of the Big Dipper to seal the Dark in the summit of Mt. Cang.
Tu Ba shows up in Western Evil. Jing Wo tells him that Tu Mei and his daughter (Yu Wu Xin) along with Nan Ming Li Huo Sword are after the Scarlet Soul Stone. Jing Wo allows Tu Ba to thing that the daughter is Jing Wo & Tu Mei’s and that Yu Wu Xin is still working with him.
Yu Wu Xin and Wu Gui Tian Wang are spying on Ding Yin when someone dressed all in black at night tries to sneak into his rooms.
Just before the sneak sticks poison in Ding Yin’s room Yu Wu Xin attacks chasing them off. Her and Wu Gui Tian Wang go after him and accidentally kill him. Yu Wu Xin drops a Jade piece on the ground when they drag the body away.
Zuo Jing Wu Dang Sect Leader will lend them the Green Isolated Sword, but they will have to wait a few days until they are done using it for a formation.
Jin Wo confronts Tu Ba who is trapped in the Blood Pool. But Jiu Du Shen Jun (Nine Poison, Protector) hits Jin Wo in the back. It appears Jiu Du Shen Jun was working for Tu Ba first.
Tu Ba reveals the real Blood Butterfly and uses it to torture Jin Wo.
Zhuge Zi Ying visits Ding Yin in the middle of the night, flirts with him, says mean things about her father. Then tells Ding Yin to steal the Green Isolated Sword.
Zuo Jing Zhang Men (the fake leader) has Dan Chen Zi captive. He said he will let Dan Chen Zi go if Ding Yin becomes his hostage.
Zhou Qing Yun tricks Zuo Jing Zhang Men reveling him to actually be Tu Mei.
Ding Yin then falls into a trap set by the evil Monk.
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On a nice and bright Sunday morning (23-Jul-2017), in the run-up to the Bricsys 2017 conference in Paris, we traveled to this quaint little town nick-named "Paris of the East" and show-cased BricsCAD to the citizens of this former French colony, now part of the Indian Republic as a Union Territory.
It was an event organized by the Pondicherry Civil Engineers Association (PONCEA) for its members under its TEQUIP scheme.
TEQUIP is an initiative by PONCEA to impart skills to their members to stay relevant in this rapid transformational and disruptive business practices age.
The event was sponsored by RAP Technologies, Pondicherry with technical support from DesignSense, Bengaluru.
Kicking off at 10 AM at Hotel Annamalai, the PONCEA Secretary, Eng. V R Ajitchandran addressed the gathering which comprised of a wide cross section of professionals from the civil engineering industry. The central message of his speech was that learning is a never-ending process and is all the more important today then ever. It is important for engineers today to be abreast of latest technologies & trends, not just in their field but also in allied fields that supply them with the tools of the trade - like Information technology, the cloud and CAD-BIM design. This was followed by a brief felicitation of office bearers and key individuals.
It was a pleasure to watch and interact with the varied audience. We had entrepreneurs running their own businesses: from design to building materials and testing, young engineers at the start of their careers, people from academic institutions & engineering colleges, students and so on.
The technical sessions started at around 11am with an address by Mr. NM Pakutharivu, Managing Director of RAP Technologies. RAP Technologies has made a mark for itself since 2002 as a leading provider of out-sourced application development and design services for the global market. With wide experience in CAD software development and design, the company has progressed into training and software sales as well. Today, RAP Technologies is one of our leading resellers with a focus on solution delivery as much as in sales, marketing and brand building for BricsCAD in India.
Next up on stage was the BricsCAD presentation. Delivered by me, this was an hour-long presentation of BricsCAD as a comprehensive design environment, that covers everything from 2D drafting to 3D design and BIM as well. This was capped with a brief introduction of our CADPower software that enables CAD users to quickly extract bill of quantities and 350 other productivity tools for CAD.
The final session was that of Ayoga, delivered by our Managing Director, Mr. Nainar Ramaswamy. This product runs on the cloud as a SaaS and is a game-changer. The most ready-made RERA-compliant software, Ayoga takes project collaboration to a new level, while making it possible for users to monitor their projects on their cell phones and computers without buying any new software like MS Project etc.
Trial versions of BricsCAD and CADPower were made available to all the attendees.
We would like to thank Er. N. J. L. Ramesh of Ashhirwaad Analytical Laboratory for his special help and support to us.
Team Bricsys India, led by RAP Technologies and DesignSense thank PONCEA for this opportunity.
We are pleased to announce that Pondicherry-based Bricsys India reseller and CAD consulting company RAP Technologies, along with Pondicherry Civil Engineers Association is organizing a BricsCAD + Ayoga software presentation on July 23rd, 2017.
This event is organized as part of PONCEA’s TEQUIP (Technical Improvement Program) program.
BricsCAD is a .dwg compatible CAD and BIM platform for general engineering design, and Ayoga is a indigineously developed-in-India cloud based collaboration platform from DesignSense Software, Bengaluru.
Trial versions of the software will be provided for the attendees.
A very special PONCEA price is available for on-the-spot confirmation of BricsCAD purchases by members attending the event.
A nominal registration fee of INR 150 per person is required before 20th July 2017 to confirm your participation.
As part of Bricsys India-DesignSense-RAP Technologies BricsCAD Education outreach program, yet another Bricsys orientation and presentation was conducted at the the Sri Aravindar Engineering College, 10 km from Pondicherry.
Team Bricsys India, represented by RAP Technologies BricsCAD guru Kural Arasan and his team were in full force at the college on July 12th, 2017 to introduce the BricsCAD platform to the budding engineering students of the college.
A wee bit less attendance due the the first day of the academic session, the presentation was well received by both the students as well as the faculty of the college. A big thanks to Mr. Thennarasu, Vice-Principal of the college and the chairman, Mr. S. Nityanandan for facilitating this and making this a huge success.
What did we cover at the session?
And, finally, a 1-year student license for all the attendees is on offer. Just login here and register for your free academic license.
Yet another successfully completed training by ace BricsCAD trainer and support specialist Kural Arasan from RAP Technologies, our BricsCAD Sales Point for Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
A big congratulations to the RAP Technologies team, led by Mr. N.M. Pakutharivu for promoting BricsCAD in Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry.
Bricsys India, represented by RAP Technologies Pvt. Ltd, reached out yet again with BricsCAD, to a tertiary educational institution, the Annai Velankanni Polytechnic college in Panruti. This polytechnic was started in the year 1986 by the Annai Velankanni Educational and Social Society. It is recognized by the board of technical education in Chennai.
This College is located at Anguchettypalayam, 3 kilometers away from Panruti town on the Chitoor-Cuddalore highway.
Annai Velankanni Polytechnic College, Panruti, offers 3-year Diploma programs approved by the ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION (AICTE) in various disciplines of Engineering at Post secondary and post higher secondary levels to candidates following the state prescribed norms and guide lines, curriculum and evaluation system by the Directorate of Technical Education to meet the needs of industry.
and development of Technical Education in the Region.
As part of the BricsCAD educational reach-out by Bricsys India, a BricsCAD V17 Presentation was made for the Civil and Electronic-Electrical Engineering department students at Annai Velankanni Polytechnic College Panruti. The total number of participants were 250+ including the staff.
The Real Estate Regulation Act 2016 is one among the various acts and processes the Narendra Modi government has put in place to propel India to the new generation economy.
Since assuming power in 2014, the government is in the process of initiating structural changes, often disruptive: Make-In-India, push towards digital India, demonetization, GST and so on. With demonetization, the immediate and ostensible objective was to root out black money. The other objective, although a collateral one was to give a real hard push to the use of digital money which, in my opinion, would not have had the same success without demonetization. Like we all know, this was done with a much grander and bigger objective in mind: to push India towards a new generation economy that would adopt the best practices of the current genre.
Is this all too much for small and medium businesses to handle today? The answer is yes! An SME in the construction industry is already grappling with a number of challenges: demand slowdown, unsold inventory, demonetization woes, GST and now... RERA. The last one is perhaps the most significant as it impacts significant parts of the workflow on which real estate companies operate. But, it is an opportunity as well, to differentiate, to separate the men from the boys.
We spoke to a number of players in the real estate space and the common thread is of lack-of-clarity on how it would impact them. RERA affects your entire workflow. The many real estate companies we talked about in the SME space are confused and scared, while some are in denial mode.
Don't lose your peace, time & productivity over RERA. WE can help you!
Our Ayoga software offers a perfect solution for the SME segment (and big builders too) to become RERA-compliant within the comforts of their own computers, mobile and tablet devices, without having to install new software. There are two components of RERA: one from the buyers perspective and another from the builder's. The various checks and balances of RERA ensures that there is a clear process and a disciplined way of functioning in the business. Every significant action of the real estate company is now recorded and tracked, in a reliable medium.
For a complete list of processes that Ayoga can handle and RERA-enable you, read this post.
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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- At least 75 people were killed and 53 injured when rising floodwaters reportedly swept two crowded buses away Friday in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to Indian media and authorities.
In the first incident, in Tanjavure district, official Veera Shanmugha Moni said Saturday that 49 bodies had been recovered and 36 people were injured.
In the second incident, in Ramnathapuram, officials told CNN 27 people were dead and 17 people had been taken to hospitals. At least 73 people were believed to be on board, authorities said, and many are unaccounted for.
Heavy rains have plagued Tamil Nadu for days, according to media reports.
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[Update: 09/2017]: I demonstrate this from A to Z in my online course on Channel9 https://channel9.msdn.com/niners/stephaneey , feel free to watch episode 5 demonstrating this using Azure Cognitive Services.
could be mapped to a LUIS intent named “FindDocumentation” and “OneDrive”, “SharePoint” would be entities of type “Software” while “FAQ” and “Manual” would be entities of type “TypeOfDocument”.
As you probably already understood, these documents could be uploaded in SharePoint with the corresponding managed properties, where we’d have the SharePoint manual being tagged the following way: Topic:SharePoint DocumentType:Manual.
The remaining of the work would consist in translating the original sentence into a SharePoint search query such as:Topic:SharePoint TypeOfDocument:FAQ isDocument:1.
This auto-generated very specific SharePoint query will return very accurate results. If no results are returned, one could decide to let the BOT perform another query against SharePoint using the original text, so as to return at least something, even less accurate.
Ok, I hope you got the point here, so let’s see how to build such a boiler plate BOT and LUIS model to get started.
Note that I’m not going to explain what is LUIS, what is Azure AD (as you’ll need the user token to gain access to SharePoint) nor what is the BOT framework but I wrote some specific blog posts about user authentication with a BOT. I’ll just enumarate what needs to be done to reach the objective.
So, as you can see, the user is looking for two different types of documents and the BOT performs the SharePoint search on his behalf and comes back with accurate results.
Go to https://www.luis.ai/ and sign in with a Microsoft Account. Create a new application, give it a name, chose BOT as usage scenario, select one or more categories and terminate by specifying the application culture (English for this example).
Where is the SharePoint FAQ?
How to get the Azure manual?
By default, the words SharePoint and Manual won’t be highlighted. By clicking on the words, you have to tell LUIS about their respective type of entities. Make sure the right intent is shown in the dropdown and click on submit. Enter the other phrases and do the same job. Of course, the more phrases you specify, the more accurate will LUIS be, but we won’t go too far for this post. Beware that LUIS also provides an Active Learning engine that lets you adjust the model later on once the users have sent queries. There is no need to be exhaustive from the start.
note that the URL contains the app id and the secret you’ll have to use later on in your BOT.
Take any SharePoint Site collection where you can afford to manipulate the search schema and create term stores (local or global as you wish).
where Main Topics (multi-valued) and Doc Type respectively point to the Topics and Type of document term stores.
Now, we can associate this content type to a document library, upload some documents into it and create our managed properties.
From the above test, I know for sure that I can rely on the kbDocType managed property. Note that if you want to be more generic, you can also use the generic Tags and/or the enterprise keywords.
This is probably the hardest part of the work but I’m not gonna explain all the bits and bytes. You should first read the official documentation and then read my own blog posts on how to authenticate the end users (one possible technique).
That said, before developing the BOT, you need to register one. For that, just go to the registration page, follow the instructions and make sure to store the BOT id and password for further use.
To develop the boiler plate of the BOT and being able to authenticate the user, I’d recommend you reading my other blog post and even maybe restart from the GitHub project I created as most of the work is already done there.
Now, I’m going to focus only on the code that is bound to our Bot/Luis/SharePoint talk.
I’m getting an AccessToken for the SharePoint resource (https://eyskens.sharepoint.com/) and I save it into the BotState using the user identifier as a key. I’m then getting the content of the actual webchat control, passing in the secret and the userid parameters. That is fully explain in my other blog post.
I start by binding my LUIS Dialog class to my model using the LuisModel attribute. I then declare some constants and a dictionary containing the mappings between the LUIS entity types and the SharePoint managed properties. This will serve me later on when generating the SharePoint query after having “understood” the user query.
I then declare a variable of type PartialMessage as I want to perform a second SharePoint query in case the first one (with the managed properties) doesn’t bring any result. I’m overriding the the MessageReceived method in order store the SharePoint AccessToken that was issued by my webchat controller, into the UserData propertybag. I also recuperate the original text entered by the user and save it into my message variable.
The method decorated with the LuisIntent attribute and FindDocumentation intent is triggered whenever a user sends a message that corresponds to this intent. In that method, I’m checking whether LUIS was able to extract entities and I’m generating the SharePoint query based on these. If no entity was extracted, I use the original text as the target query.
I then perform the SharePoint query using CSOM and the user’s AccessToken. If no result is returned, I perform a second query with the original text. Last but not least, the BuildReply method deals with the UI elements of the Bot Framework to display the results. I’m only handling Office & PDF documents here.
In this blog post, I focused only on a simple scenario and a very limited set of entities/intents, I leave the rest to your imagination here. However, by leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, some additional features such as keyphrase extraction, concept extraction, etc. could also be handled by such a BOT. AI has never been so easy to manipulate.
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There are several ways to achieve this. One is to setup Azure AD Proxy app that will allow both remote connections & authentication from online to on-prem worlds. Another way is to simply have a site to site VPN between your online env & your onprem one but this will not solve identity related problems except if you can afford to work with a service account. There are also service bus relays, etc. Plenty of ways to interconnect online & onprem worlds.
Thumbs up!Is there any way possible to build such a solution for a closed network of Sharepoint 2013 on premises with high-security level needed? aka no online or cloud.
Yes you can do that but you’ll have some extra efforts. The bot’s message endpoint must be internet facing. That could be hosted in DMZ and then, from that DMZ servers, you could allow traffic to your internal SharePoint servers.
Any advice what might be the problem when ClaimsPrincipal.Current contains only 5 Claims? Claimtypes are: ServiceUrl, nbf, exp, iss, aud, AppPassword.
So I can’t get the ObjectID nor the NameIdentifier from Microsoft Teams.
The solution looks great! Can the bot perform content search of the documents? Finding specific key words from a document or just the name of the document.
Great article! I was wondering if this can be done, but for custom list items instead of documents?
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The Soviet USSR has foreign roots and it did not come from Russia itself. The Bolsheviks damaged great peaceful harmony and many adorable gentle qualities of the Russians but it could not destroy them. Bolshevism and its perverted Communism succeeded in defaming and portray its ugly aggressive image upon Russia all over the World to majority of unaware persons. Bolshevik communist USSR does not resemble the Russian characters in many obvious ways. It is simply not Russian at all.
The so-called “Russian Revolution” of 1917 was designed and financed and managed by foreigners who hate Russia and its great history and heritage to destroy patriotism, create crises and steal wealth.
People can only either love Russia or not dislike Stalin and what he represents as Bolshevik communist USSR, but to admire both of them impossible is not only for Russian but also for people from all around the World.
“What is the essential difference between (Oliver) Cromwell and (Joseph) Stalin? Can you tell me? No difference…(Cromwell’s) monument is standing, (and) no one is going to remove it. The essence is not in these symbols, but in the need to treat with respect every period of our history.” In the words of Russian President and leader Vladimir Putin. These words imply that the USSR was a shame but it is still part of the Russian history.
The collapse of USSR was a natural normal consequence of faulty foundation and leadership. Peter the Great (1672–1725); Catherine the Great (1762–1796); and the Romanovs are all extremely tall compared to Stalin. This is the real hero of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, in the uniform of a Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet, c. 1909.
In the last Orthodox Russian monarch and members of his family we see people who sincerely strove to incarnate in their lives the commands of the Gospel. In the suffering borne by the Royal Family in prison with humility, patience, and meekness, and in their martyr deaths in Yekaterinburg in the night of 17 July 1918 was revealed the light of the faith of Christ that conquers evil.
Stalin’s birth name in Georgian was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili He was born an ethnic Georgian – Ioseb’s father slid into alcoholism, which made him abusive to his family and caused his business to fail. He was a voracious reader and became a Georgian cultural nationalist. Out of school, Jughashvili briefly worked as a part-time clerk in a meteorological office, but after a state crackdown on revolutionaries, he went underground and became a full-time revolutionary, living off donations. Among other activities, he wrote and distributed propaganda, organized strikes, and raised funds through bank robberies, kidnappings, extortion, and assassinations. Jughashvili was arrested and exiled to Siberia numerous times, but often escaped. His skill, charm, and street-smarts won him the respect of Lenin, and he rose rapidly through the ranks of the Bolsheviks. Just like Hitler, Stalin was picked up from nowhere and polished and he was errected by foreign financiers, without any merits other than brutality and street-smarts.
Tsar Nicholas II, along with his wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their 14-year-old son, Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters. They were cut down in a hail of gunfire in a room of the house in Ekaterinburg, a city in the Ural mountain region, where they were being held prisoner.
The daughters were finished off with bayonets. To prevent a cult for the dead Tsar, the bodies were carted away to the countryside and hastily buried in a secret grave. Bolshevik authorities at first reported that the Romanov emperor had been shot after the discovery of a plot to liberate him.
For some time the deaths of the Empress and the children were kept secret. Soviet historians claimed for many years that local Bolsheviks had acted on their own in carrying out the killings, and that Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, had nothing to do with the crime.
In 1990, Moscow playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky announced the result of his detailed investigation into the murders. He unearthed the reminiscences of Lenin’s bodyguard, Alexei Akimov, who recounted how he personally delivered Lenin’s execution order to the telegraph office. The telegram was also signed by Soviet government Chief Yakov Sverdlov. Akimov had saved the original telegraph tape as a record of the secret order.
Radzinsky’s research confirmed what earlier evidence had already indicated. Leon Trotsky — one of Lenin’s closest colleagues — had revealed years earlier that Lenin and Sverdlov had together made the decision to put the Tsar and his family to death.
In recent years, Jews around the world have been voicing anxious concern over the specter of anti-Semitism in the lands of the former Soviet Union. In this new and uncertain era, we are told, suppressed feelings of hatred and rage against Jews are once again being expressed. According to one public opinion survey conducted in 1991, for example, most Russians wanted all Jews to leave the country. But precisely why is anti-Jewish sentiment so widespread among the peoples of the former Soviet Union? Why do so many Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and others blame “the Jews” for so much misfortune?
Although officially Jews have never made up more than five percent of the country’s total population,5 they played a highly disproportionate and probably decisive role in the infant Bolshevik regime, effectively dominating the Soviet government during its early years. Soviet historians, along with most of their colleagues in the West, for decades preferred to ignore this subject. The facts, though, cannot be denied.
With the notable exception of Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), most of the leading Communists who took control of Russia in 1917-20 were Jews. Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign affairs. Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party’s executive secretary and — as chairman of the Central Executive Committee — head of the Soviet government. Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in foreign countries. Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek (Sobelsohn), foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach), Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Moisei Uritsky.
Lenin himself was of mostly Russian and Kalmuck ancestry, but he was also one-quarter Jewish. His maternal grandfather, Israel (Alexander) Blank, was a Ukrainian Jew who was later baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.
In the Communist seizure of power in Russia, the Jewish role was probably critical.
Two weeks prior to the Bolshevik “October Revolution” of 1917, Lenin convened a top secret meeting in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) at which the key leaders of the Bolshevik party’s Central Committee made the fateful decision to seize power in a violent takeover. Of the twelve persons who took part in this decisive gathering, there were four Russians (including Lenin), one Georgian (Stalin), one Pole (Dzerzhinsky), and six Jews.
To direct the takeover, a seven-man “Political Bureau” was chosen. It consisted of two Russians (Lenin and Bubnov), one Georgian (Stalin), and four Jews (Trotsky, Sokolnikov, Zinoviev, and Kamenev). Meanwhile, the Petersburg (Petrograd) Soviet — whose chairman was Trotsky — established an 18-member “Military Revolutionary Committee” to actually carry out the seizure of power. It included eight (or nine) Russians, one Ukrainian, one Pole, one Caucasian, and six Jews. Finally, to supervise the organization of the uprising, the Bolshevik Central Committee established a five-man “Revolutionary Military Center” as the Party’s operations command. It consisted of one Russian (Bubnov), one Georgian (Stalin), one Pole (Dzerzhinsky), and two Jews (Sverdlov and Uritsky).
Well-informed observers, both inside and outside of Russia, took note at the time of the crucial Jewish role in Bolshevism. Winston Churchill, for one, warned in an article published in the February 8, 1920, issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald that Bolshevism is a “worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality.” The eminent British political leader and historian went on to write.
The Bolsheviks also received assistance from Armand Hammer, who still commutes back and forward between New York and Moscow to take care of his business interests in both communities. Hammer’s Occidental Oil Company is at the moment building a 1600 mile chemicals pipeline in southern Russia. He is also on such good terms with the Soviets that he personally arranges for Soviet art galleries to lend paintings to America.
Another American-based businessman to help out the Soviet economy is Michael Fribourg, who owns the massive Continental Grain Company. Together with the Louis Dreyfus Corporation, these Jewish speculators were able to buy up vast quantities of cheap American grain in 1972, sell it to the Soviets at a vast profit, and collect an export subsidy from the U.S. taxpayer.
In Germany, the Jews also tried to take over there in the chaos that followed the First World War. Aided by funds from the Soviet Ambassador Joffe, Rosa Luxemburg’s Spartacus Bund attempted to overthrow the government. The revolt was quelled and its leaders Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht executed.
In Poland too, Jews occupied virtually every position of authority in the post-war Communist regime. Prominent among these were Minc, Skryesewski, Modzelewski and Berman. Jacob Berman gradually eclipsed the others until he became supreme dictator by himself. Also, Gomulka’s wife was a Jewess.
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As someone who occasionally shirks swatching before casting on to knit a pair of socks (TSA was complicit in this little misadventure, as one of their agents, trying to be helpful while searching my bag, mangled my swatch), I really appreciate the ability to try on top down socks while knitting them. This pair is for my daughter, and so far, they are a perfect fit.
The pattern is Zigzagular and the yarn is Elliebelly's Juliet Sock.
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Dogs are not just man’s best friends! They are amazing more than you realized. Here are some interesting and weird facts about a dog and the benefits of having a dog. Here are a few quirky and mind-blowing facts that you probably don’t know related to our beloved pups.
To see the complete list, please refer to this link from BuzzFeed.
From what you read, what amazes you the most?
Feel free to comment here if you want to.
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Rash Behari Bose ( pronunciation (help·info); Bengali: রাসবিহারী বসু Rashbihari Boshu; 25 May 1886 – 21 January 1945) was an Indian revolutionary leader against the British Raj and was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny and later the Indian National Army. Rash Behari Bose handed over Indian National Army to Subhas Chandra Bose.
Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha, Purba Bardhaman district, in West Bengal. His father's name was Binod Behari Bose. Bhubaneswari Devi was his mother. Tinkori Dasi was Rashbehari Bose's foster mother. The major part of the childhood of Rashbehari Bose and Sushila Sarkar was spent in the village Subaldaha. They lived in this village at the house of madam Bidhumukhi. Bidhumukhi was a widow from her early life. Bidhumukhi was the sister in law of Kalicharan Bose. His early education was completed under the supervision of his grandfather Kalicharan Bose at village Pathsala (Presently Subaldaha Rashbehari Bose F.P School) at his birthplace. Rash Behari Bose got an education of Lathi Khela in his child at Subaldaha. He got inspiration of revolutionary movement hearing stories from his grandfather at his birthplace Subaldaha. He was the cynosure of all villagers. His nickname was Rasu. He was stubborn and the villagers loved him very much. It is heard from villagers that he was at Subaldaha till he was 12 or 14 years old. His father, Binod Behari Bose, was stationed in Hooghly district for few years. . Bose studied in Dupleix College with his friend Shrish Chandra Ghosh. The principal Charu Chandra Roy inspired them into revolutionary politics. Later he joined "Morton school" in Kolkata. Bose later earned degrees in the medical sciences as well as in Engineering from France and Germany.
He was interested in revolutionary activities from early on in his life, he left Bengal to shun the Alipore bomb case trials of (1908). At Dehradun he worked as a head clerk at the Forest Research Institute. There, through Amarendra Chatterjee of the Jugantar led by Jatin Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin), he secretly got involved with the revolutionaries of Bengal and he came across eminent revolutionary members of the Arya Samaj in the United Provinces (currently Uttar Pradesh) and the Punjab. Originally Rash Behari Bose stay few years in Hooghly district, West Bengal.
Following the attempt to assassinate Lord Hardinge, Rash Behari was forced to go into hiding. The attempt was made on 23 December 1912 in Delhi when Lord Hardinge was in a ceremonial procession transferring the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi. He was attacked near the Red Fort by Basanta Kumar Biswas a disciple of Amrendar Chattarjee, but missed the target and failed. The bomb was made by Manindra Nath Nayak. Bose was hunted by the colonial police due to his active participation in the failed assassination attempt (actually Bose's aim was to prove to the world that Indians do not accept the subjection of his country to foreign rule by consent, but by force of military power, which was successful. Otherwise, he had no personal enmity with Lord Hardinge) directed at the Governor General and Viceroy Lord Charles Hardinge in Delhi. He returned to Dehra Dun by the night train and joined the office the next day as though nothing had happened. Further, he organized a meeting of loyal citizens of Dehradun to condemn the dastardly attack on the Viceroy.
Lord Hardinge, in his My Indian Years, described the whole incident in an interesting way. During the flood relief work in Bengal in 1913, he came in contact with Jatin Mukherjee in whom he "discovered a real leader of men," who "added a new impulse" to Rash Behari's failing zeal. Thus during World War I he became extensively involved as one of the leading figures of the Gadar Revolution that attempted to trigger a mutiny in India in February 1915. Trusted and tried Ghadrites were sent to several cantonments to infiltrate into the army. The idea of the Gadar leaders was that with the war raging in Europe most of the soldiers had gone out of India and the rest could be easily won over. The revolution failed and most of the revolutionaries were arrested. But Rash Behari managed to escape British intelligence and reached Japan in 1915.
Bose fled to Japan in 1915, under the alias of Priyanath Tagore, a relative of Rabindranath Tagore. There, Bose found shelter with various Pan-Asian groups. From 1915–1918, he changed residences and identities numerous times, as the British kept pressing the Japanese government for his extradition. He married the daughter of Aizō Sōma and Kokkō Sōma, the owners of Nakamuraya bakery in Tokyo and noted Pan-Asian supporters in 1918, and became a Japanese citizen in 1923, living as a journalist and writer. It is also significant that he was instrumental in introducing Indian-style curry in Japan. Though more expensive than the usual "British-style" curry, it became quite popular, with Rash Bihari becoming known as "Bose of Nakamuraya".
Bose along with A M Nair was instrumental in persuading the Japanese authorities to stand by the Indian patriots and ultimately to officially actively support the Indian independence struggle abroad. Bose convened a conference in Tokyo on 28–30 March 1942, which decided to establish the Indian Independence League. At the conference, he moved a motion to raise an army for Indian independence. He convened the second conference of the League at Bangkok on 22 June 1942. It was at this conference that a resolution was adopted to invite Subhas Chandra Bose to join the League and take its command as its president.
The Indian prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Malaya and Burma fronts were encouraged to join the Indian Independence League and become the soldiers of the Indian National Army (INA), formed on 1 September 1942 as the military wing of Bose's Indian National League. He selected the flag for the Azad Hind movement and handed over the flag to Subhas Chandra Bose. But although he handed over the power, his organizational structure remained, and it was on the organizational spadework of Rash Behari Bose. Rash Behari Bose built the Indian National Army (also called 'Azad Hind Fauj'). Prior to his death caused by tuberculosis, the Japanese Government honored him with the Order of the Rising Sun (2nd grade).
Bose met Toshiko Soma when he was hiding at her house in Shinjuku City. She was the daughter of Aizō Sōma and Kokkō Sōma, the owners of Nakamuraya bakery(ja:中村屋) in Tokyo and noted Pan-Asian supporters in 1918. At that time, Bose was a fugitive with the British searching for him. Their initial contact was during those intense moments of hiding though without any interactions. In 1916, when Bose was a fugitive no more, he invited the Soma family to his house as a gesture of gratitude. That was the first instance of their interaction in a social context.
However, Bose stuck out like a sore thumb in Japan. People would consider them with suspicion. Mitsuru Toyama, as a solution proposed to the Soma's a marriage between Toshiko and Rashbehari. He thought that marriage with a Japanese citizen would make it easy for Bose to apply for citizenship. Despite their initial reservations, the Soma's agreed to the match. When, they asked for Toshiko's consent, she took three weeks to decide.
They had a happy marriage that lasted for eight years. Bose taught Toshiko Bengali and how to wear a sari. Bose got Japanese citizenship in 1923. Toshiko's health declined soon after and it claimed her life in 1924. After her death, he never remarried. They were buried together after Bose's death.
They had two children together. Masahide Bose (Bharatchandra) was born in 1920. He died in World War II aged 24. Their daughter Tetsuko was born in 1922.
A dinner party given to Bose in his honour by his close Japanese friends, including Mitsuru Tōyama, a right-wing nationalist and Pan-Asianism leader (centre, behind the table), and Tsuyoshi Inukai, future Japanese prime minister (to the right of Tōyama). Behind Tōyama is Bose. 1915.
^ Uma Mukherjee (1966). Two great Indian revolutionaries: Rash Behari Bose & Jyotindra Nath Mukherjee. Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay. p. 101.
^ Uma Mukherjee (1966). Two great Indian revolutionaries: Rash Behari Bose & Jyotindra Nath Mukherjee. Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay. p. 119.
^ a b c d বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, পারিজাত. "বাংলা থেকে রান্না-শাড়ি পরা, জাপানি বউকে শিখিয়েছিলেন রাসবিহারী বসু". anandabazar.com. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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I was twenty-two when I entered my first classroom. It was Economics and my students were twelfth graders who were only four or five years younger than me. I remember the sense of excitement and anxiety I felt the moment the bell rang to begin the class. At that moment I realized the task before me. I was about to begin a journey fulfilling a very small, but significant, part in my community.
Since that day, I have worked hard to be prepared for the difficult tasks of motivating and strengthening young minds. I have worked hard because of the realization that those whom I engage will, one day, serve as our future innovators and leaders. I attended every conference, ready to apply what I learned. I bought and read every book recommended to me and tried any method someone, with greater experience, testified would make me a better educator.
During my twenty-year journey, the greatest lesson I have learned is that the capacity of the human mind, combined with the desire to discover and the freedom to explore, results in an unforgettable experience. As a teacher and administrator, I have enjoyed working to create environments that nurture the development of this combination. I have matriculated through public, private, and independent schools, seeking to impact lives. I cherish environments that are efficient education systems that do not limit opportunities for learning. One of the keys to these environments is the realization that there is a difference between education and learning.
Education is a system of standards and processes outlined by a society’s leaders, to accomplish specific objectives. These include the socialization of members to common norms, as well as the preparation of those members for the labor force, the entrepreneurial arena, and for civic leadership. Once an individual has been socialized and prepared for society, their actions help build and maintain that society, through their participation in the economy and their conformity to social norms. This participation is the lifeblood of the society.
A society develops a method for managing its resources in such a way that it can produce a product or service at less economic cost than others, creating comparative advantage. To keep this comparative advantage, the society creates an education system that prepares a specialized labor force.
The students I engage will one day contribute to the strength of this labor force, because of their education or they would detract from it because of the lack thereof. A strong education system is critical to the success of a local economy. It is a designed and controlled mechanism, focused on the development of a specific set of skills needed by industries to maintain comparative advantage. However, we are living in a world where comparative advantage is being replaced by innovative advantage. In this emerging world, sole focus on education, or a strict set of standards, may not fuel the innovation needed to maintain a prolific economy. However, an effective educational system that does not limit learning produces those who change the world.
Learning is the acquisition of applicable knowledge and skills, through a transformative experience. Education is an experience, but it may not be transformative. Learning can come as a result of education, but it may also come as the result of some other catalyst. I create transformative environments that have academic standards, yet also provide continuous opportunities to explore the world in ways I may not have planned.
The key to preparation for the labor force is not merely the content one knows; but, what one can do with that content to shape the world. Innovation consists of the novel and creative ways one employs to bring new products, services, ideas, or processes to the world. Frequently, people go beyond societal frameworks and structures to accomplish this. Understanding this, I wanted to go beyond traditional methods and find a way to inspire and fuel innovation, as my students applied what they learned in the classroom to the solutions of problems in the world.
Much of the developed world has evolved through an agrarian-based economic system; a manufacturing-based one, during the Industrial Age; a post-industrial and mass production economy; and a knowledge economy. The challenge facing educational systems is that their present structures still resemble that of education systems during the agrarian and industrial ages. This is true even though we know we need a paradigm and structural shift.
The paradigm under which social systems previously operated prepared students for the labor force of a region according to that region’s comparative advantage. The combination of a knowledge economy and globalization is changing this reality. According to Tony Waggoner, in his book The Global Achievement Gap, the paradigm that views local labor markets as marginalized and specialized is obsolete. The idea that mastering just one skill in an era where technological advances shift how and where people produce goods and services is just as obsolete.
Comparative advantage is becoming less relevant than innovative advantage. Innovative advantage is based on the idea that making more productive and global use of inputs requires continual innovation. STEAM-focused careers that lend themselves to innovation will see greater demand in the future. Economic clusters that link people of different technological skills will be vital to a thriving global economy. At one time economic clusters were geographically-based. In this highly technological age of Internet of Things, Blockchain technology, and high speed travel networks, economic clusters can be linked electronically through diverse regions and countries. Cultural, regional, and national boundaries are disappearing. The skills a person develops can now be exported with ease. One who lives abroad can now compete for many jobs locally, without ever migrating.
Knowledge capitalism, the drive to generate new ideas and turn them into desired commercial products and services, forms the foundation of a capitalist economy and the key to the future. The challenge of today’s educational system is to develop methods to restructure their pedagogies, processes, and curriculums to effectively and efficiently prepare students for this present age. Education can no longer be limited to well-framed boxes designed for current industries. We are now preparing children for jobs and even industries that don’t exist yet. Education systems can no longer hinder the power of learning. This belief forms the basis for my approach to when I enter a classroom.
For those of you who are interested, I would like to explore this approach with you. I would love to hear your thoughts as I apply what I do to the programs I create for schools, governments, and communities.
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Hello everyone! 🙂 This is one list that I’ve been mentally putting together every time I’ve found a product that I absolutely loved or thought lived up to the hype. I’ve spent a fair share of my late teens and early twenties figuring out what kind of skin I had and trying and testing different … More August Beauty Favourites!
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I love rereading them too. It is like visiting a comfortable friend.
Books allow my mind to escape for a short while. I need to find a good book to read.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve added anything to this blog, but I thought I’d fill those of you whom are interested in. I ended up passing 500 models finally, and to celebrate I’m going to be doing a special set coming up, probably in Dec. I’m also toying with the idea of making this a freebie, however I’m not sure how I’m going to do this and keep bandwidth down, but I’m working on it… Anyways, I’ll come up with something and shoot it soon, after all the new round of shoots are finished in Nov. There’s a bunch of new BA and BD shoots in Nov.
So here’s the current model list of all 500+ models. Also, I’m going to be sending some of the “removed” model sets to Aceman to post on Cast Kingdom in addition to the one’s I’ve already sent him and he has posted now. Just like with the pay pics, please don’t repost them people… Enjoy them, save them, spank to them, but don’t repost them. Thanks….
Thanks so much for all you’ve put out there, you’re one of the best in the biz.
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Made the Top 5 of the day! Thanks for those that voted and enjoyed this and for the front page feature!
Pretty much the bane of my existence the last month or two. I originally wrote this last year but only got the time to finish it this year. A massive thanks to those that helped me with this (see left of page). Follow them, they deserve it!
Hey man thanks! Have a good Christmas!
Wonder if it's the lights or the music that Frank doesn't like. :P Simple; feelgood Christmas animation. Nice work!
He's more of a halloween type individual.
Of all the previous drafts, my fave was this final one. : ) Well done! And good teamwork everybody!!
Anjidu AND Songbird? SOMEBODY has an ear for talent! Lucky us. I was kinda hoping for a harsh, raw scene-cut to Franky ripping their limbs apart as they scream through the gargle of their own blood in horror, but I guess I'm a dreamer. Cute, sweet little toon.
Nintendo's newcomer for Smash Bros 4!.. They so would..
Strawberry Clock talks about Hookworms.
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Our little man is 2 and already the most frequent words in any given day are currently ‘more Star Wars’ or ‘more Vader’ quickly followed by a reasonably tuneful rendition of the imperial march!
The combination of epic music and lightsabers seems to hold his attention more than most kids cartoons and he absolute LOVES it!
Perhaps not the best toddler viewing (we do fast forward some bits, especially during The Force Awakens!) so we are currently watching the Star Wars Rebels animations which are going down equally well!
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This is to provide you with the current status of the process by which the General Services Administration (GSA) is obtaining space for the Denver Regional Office. In response to your memorandum dated January 23, 2003, we are also talking this opportunity to seek your collaborative support and involvement as the next phases of this effort begin.
We expect to hear from the GSA in the very near future as to the selection of a property. Once the selection has been confirmed, we would like to have you participate in the preparation of a joint Management-AFGE announcement to the staff. As soon as possible following this announcement, we would like to arrange a joint meeting with GSA officials and building management including, if feasible, a preliminary tour of the new space.
To reiterate what I said in my memorandum to you dated January 9, 2003, you have our commitment that Local 3792 will be integrally involved as we move forward into design development activities. I will contact you as soon as we receive notification from the GSA confirming that a selection has been made.
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Looking at the art we liked, I tried to break down the creation process of the artist: graphic flat colours as shapes, blended strokes, line, no line and level of abstraction.
The biggest element of Campion’s work that we could learn from is the ability to simplify. Campion uses quite a high level of abstraction to symbolise form but you can understand the story in his work straight away from composition of light and values. Sorcha also learned from his blog that he has done a lot of work for engagement advertisements which is very relevant to our own story/subject matter.
Jeremy Mann is a painter who Kerry showed me last year. I really love the idea of walking through one of these paintings! Similar to Pascal Campion, I like how impressionistic Mann’s style is.
On the other side of this, we like the importance of line in Moebius’ work. In some areas the line seems to give texture to the surface of the form. We discussed the possibility of how well these styles could mix e.g. if the characters had line and the backgrounds did not or vice-versa. We especially considered the possibility of keeping the characters flat and graphic with lne and the backgrounds loose and impressionistic so that the characters would stand out.
Josan’s work is another example of the line detail which we like in Moebius’ work. Josan also has some simple parallax of planes and movement of objects which help to bring his concepts to life.
When we were discussing Mann’s work, Sorcha remembered The Approximate Present (2014), an animated short by Filippo Baraccani which Kerry also happened to show us last year. We were disucssing how we could bring Mann’s and Campion’s abstract and impressionistic forms into 3D animated space. The Approximate Present (2014) has an example of this which we liked where the cars are represented as rectangles coming towards the camera on a road. We figured that even in 3D space we can arrange simple shapes/planes of colour in ways to represent forms such as city lights. We could experiment with the texture and arrangement of these shapes the way that Jeremy Mann does also.
As a team, I wonder how we could have experimented more with these styles a lot sooner into the project. We spent a lot of time researching but being able to jump on one particular style and make a unified team vision was very challenging. I think that personally I sometimes spend too much time thinking and not enough time expressing. I need to be more proactive in helping the team visualise. I spent a lot of time blocking out layouts in Maya for painting over and for animatics and didn’t put enough time into developing the style for these. In saying that, I think that I could at least approach this method a little faster now that I’ve tried it before.
Watching paintovers/critiques can be really helpful! This one goes over the usual composition, value and colour adjustments. What I found most useful though is the perspective it gave me on putting together a portfolio. He hightlighted the advantage in having diverse subject matter, camera angles and light sources to show your capabilities. I thought that this would be good to keep in mind when I’m planning my 4 concept art pieces.
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So, you want to know where you stand and how you can get that cool little icon like I have on my blog?
Well, just go to this site and take the quiz. I would put no opinion if you are not sure about something.
Please post your results, and you get BIG TIME BONUS POINTS for reasonableness if you score Moderate, Conservative or Liberal! I “hope” I have constructed a place where divergent views are allowed and where we gain from seeing each other’s perspective. I also hope that sometimes someone will say, I see your point, or something like that.
So often politics are too personal, so maybe this would at least bring back agreeable discussion and dissent to the forefront.
I’m posting this on all topics to hopefully get maximum participation.
IF you wish to take the quiz it is here.
PBS reports, “an agreement between the United States and Brazil, signed Friday, would promote alternative fuel technology in an effort to expand international production of ethanol and reduce reliance on oil imports.
This would seem to be good news, but as soon as it was announced radicals from both the Left and the Right start to decry this move. Some organizations are concerned that the reliance on sugar cane, which is what Brazil uses to produce ethanol, will result in larger deforestation of the Amazon rain forest. In the US concerns have been rising over the cost of corn for food and its unintended impact upon the cost in raising cattle. Currently, the US and Brazil supply 70% of the world’s ethanol.
In my mind I just can’t help but seeing a sheik and the prototypical oil tycoon thrashing away at a keyboard to FAX these disturbing “unintended consequences” to a public who are ruled by fear and have a knee jerk reaction of “Oh, my God” to any news other than things are A-Okay. On the other side of the divider is a leftover relic from the 1960’s with a tie dyed tee shirt and a bong under his desk with his wild eyed fanatic lover (not gay lover, just 60’s freak, permanently mind deranged by LSD type “lover”) chanting the mantra of the extreme green left, while they say a prayer to the spirits of dolphins, pandas and all the animals without the fortitude to change breeding habits so they can survive through the millenia.
Now, ethanol, which is a relatively new technology is not a panacea, and has its drawbacks, one of which being a relatively low bang for the amount of fuel which needs to be burned. However, this technology is in its infancy, and improvements can be expected in the performance of this alternate form. Others castigate the low performance of alternate forms of energy such as solar, geo-thermal, oceanic-current, and of course many are understandably frightened by the alternate form with the most bang, no pun intended, nuclear energy.
However, all of these forms of energy, despite concentrated offensives levelled by current energy providers, what a surprise, and often being blocked by legislatures who get nice big kickbacks, errr, lobbying efforts from these same conglomerates. They are also condemned, sadly by the ideologues of the Hard Right. If you want to view a thread, that shows the ignorance of ideologues, where I even had to use my worst epithet of “Stay in your ignorance”, check out this thread.
Wind farming increased by 27% in 2006, and is expected to grow another 26% in 2007. That is an amazing statistic. A recent study in Minnesota found that 25% of this energy can readily be incorporated into an Electric Power System.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rated GHP’s as among the most efficient of heating and cooling technologies.
Thousands more megawatts of power than are currently being produced could be developed from already-identified hydrothermal resources. This is being investigated by many industrialized nations through scientific studies that add water to create more steam and increase output. The US is not among these nations.
The ocean currents are driven by wind and solar heating of the waters near the equator, though some ocean currents result from density and salinity variations of water. These currents are relatively constant and flow in one direction only.
Water is more than 800 times denser than air, so for the same surface area, water moving 12 miles per hour exerts about the same amount of force as a constant 110 mph wind. Ocean currents thus contain an enormous amount of energy that can be captured and converted to a usable form. It has been estimated that taking just 1/1000th the available energy from the Gulf Stream would supply Florida with 35% of its electrical needs.
The United States and other countries are pursuing ocean current energy, including Japan, China, and some European Union countries; however, marine current energy is at an early stage of development. There are no commercial grid-connected turbines currently operating; to date, only a small number of prototypes and demonstration units have been tested.
Here is a link done by the nefarious liberal organization, the US Department of the Interior which gives much more information than I do here.
I’m avoiding the elephant in the room, and am not going to address nuclear energy, or the horrific practices by us. Yes, we American citizens and the everyday DUMB things we do which result not only in bad stewardship of the resources we posses, but also make energy issues worse.
While this has of course become a political football for both the extreme left and right, I think most Americans are reasonable. At least I pray they are. Now, what we need to remember that the cure for America is more democracy. Let your state house and Congress know what the people think.
I apologize in advance for this momentary lapse of reason.
So, I confess, in some areas I’m an out and out Lib. Shocks you eh? My wife finds that part of me…well she digs it. She likes that I can get all mushy when I read a report or a case study about some issues in the inner city. She likes that part of me much more than the John Wayne side. However, she’s from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, so what do you expect. However, this is not totally honest of me, because one of the politicians I admire the most is Robert Kennedy. I find his last speech truly an inspiration, and many times draw strength from his words.
If you get a wee bit emotional about these words, trust me, you’re a lib.
The heck with that, I’m a Conservative Darn Nabbit. I love Alexander Hamilton, and feel that his view of America is superior to that girly man Thomas Jefferson. I want to go to sleep reading “The Conscience of a Conservative” and sleep in that idyllic world where people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps without help from the government. Where one person makes his mark and changes things, and goes from rags to riches on the merits of his own efforts and ideas. Then I want to watch Armageddon. Because, I’m going to get misty now, as I do when I watch that movie, sniff, and Bruce Willis, sniff, sniff, decides to go back to that asteroid, near hysteria here, and won’t let his future son in law, running for more Kleenex, stay behind and blow up the asteroid with the nuclear device. Then, wailing and pulling out my hair by this time, he says goodbye to his daughter. And boom….bright lights….oh no…such a sacrifice. Chicks and Libs, especially lib chicks, like my wife, “just don’t get that movie”. And if you like that movie, you’re a red blooded American Conservative.
So, where does this pulling forces, the Kennedyesque side (talk about delusions of grandeur) and the John Wayne/Bruce Willis/Alexander Hamilton – hmm more Conservative sides to me, I guess I am a bit more Conservative than I thought, but I digress, make me lie on the political issue spectrum. Usually flat in the middle, getting sideswiped by Conservative nimrods in their gas guzzling SUV’s, and I really DON’T like SUV’s or their drivers, but that will wait until another momentary lapse of reason, or Barbara Streisand shreiking banshees in their oversized minivan’s, and ladies you drive like your lunatics, and when I see you talking on your cell phone, or that obsequious, “My Child is an Honor’s Student at Liberal Middle School” I want to see your minivan flip over and blow up in a ball of flame. All of this while I drive my girlie man Hyundai Accent, and trust me if you’ve ever seen a 6′ and…husky guy in a little Hyundai Accent, it is a funny sight indeed, but at least I care about getting good gas mileage (liberal sniff included) and besides, if the fan belt breaks I can use a rubber band. Where was I?
Now, you may wonder where the heck is this myopic diatribe – that hopefully some of you will read and comment upon – going, and it will get there in my good time – a big smile, a pause, a few lithium pills – when I’m ready to sum up.
Centrism comes about by dealing with divergent views and filtering out the garbage from both sides of the heated rhetoric. It is something that is as simple and profound as the Hegellian Dialect that thesis and anti-thesis need to go through that prism called the mind and become synthesis. In many ways, this is the process that Democracy goes through. Americans don’t like ideologues too much, and democracy is the politics of the half loaf. It is inefficient, takes too long to bring about meaningful change, and is the most wonderful blessing that the Almighty has bestowed upon man, the concept of self-government, and an understanding that the State rests upon the authority of the people. Ideologues just don’t get that, much like my wife and Armageddon. However, the extreme voices are needed. They add to the dialogue and push the envelop either way toward the left or towards the right. After adjustment a new Centrist position is formed, and just when I get comfortable in drving in that center lane another inconsiderate pig in an SUV or a mindless twit on her cellphone in a mini van is going to make my little Hyundai nearly change lanes without me even touching the steering wheel.
Thus ends this momentary lapse of reason. We will return to our regularly schedule blogposts of rational ideas. Normally, I edit my posts. I’m not changing one word of this one.
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I’m all for setting goals and making long-term plans for myself. But my academic career kicked off when I started to break the promises I’d made to myself.
-Promise number one: I will decide on a major before entering college and never change it.
After a lot of indecision and self-induced pressure to pick a major in high school, I settled for English education. I reached that decision because I knew that I liked editing and talking about books, and I figured it was a pretty good bet since an inordinate number of my relatives are teachers.
After taking two semesters of education classes, it was time to officially apply to the department. The application included a 12-page essay about why I wanted to be a teacher, how I would motivate students and a number of ethical topics. As I began to write I realized I was lying to myself. I didn’t have the patience, the energy or drive to do anything I was writing about.
Thus began my quarter-life crisis. I knew I couldn’t let go of my English degree but worried about its stigma as an impractical field. Salvation came in the form of a panel of English major alumni. As they talked about their careers, I realized that almost all of them had my dream jobs–some combination of reading, writing and editing–which I never knew had existed. And almost all of them had tacked a mass communications degree on with their English major.
I dropped my education major and added mass communications a few days later.
-Promise number two: I will not join the mass communications department.
In the midst of those education classes freshman year, I also took an introduction to media course because all along I was vaguely interested in the idea of writing for media. The professor and I, to put it nicely, just did not get along. He quizzed over information that was not in the book or lectures, constantly rambled about unrelated topics and graded according to some mystery system which no one in the class could figure out. He was one of those professors.
I knew that I never wanted to risk having this professor again and had concluded from his dull lectures that the field was unworthy of my time. After an episode of particularly unfair grading of the final exams, I declared to all my friends that I would never under any circumstances join the mass communications department.
Breaking promise number one led me to breaking promise number two. I’ve since abandoned the field I pretended so adamantly to be passionate about and joined one I once claimed to hate. Now, I’m not only in the mass communications department, but taking on one of the biggest and most time-consuming leadership roles it offers.
Oops. Too bad I love it.
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I hear these phrases and others with almost every phone call. Most folks that I speak with are under the impression that hurricane protection is unsightly, bulky, inconvenient, unreliable or just plain expensive and a way to spend money on something that they may never need or use. The fact of the matter is that these people are, for the most part, correct.
Most aftermarket hurricane protection requires storage space when not in use. Fabrics are rolled up and tucked into a cabinet or up into your rafters when not in use andcorrugated panels are either assigned a dedicated space in the garage or backyard shed Some even have to have a small outdoor shed constructed next to your house to store them in.
When the call goes out for a hurricane warning, the mad scramble begins to move masses of lawn equipment, tools and other items out of the way to gain access to the panels, fabrics or what-have-you. Then the process of laying them out, matching up labels to openings and locating all of the nuts, bolts and washers takes place. If you have studs mounted into your walls from when the house was built, make sure that the threads aren’t rusted and ready to strip when the nut is applied. If so, they will have to be replaced.
If you have roll-downs or accordions it’s a bit less dramatic as long as you’ve done your seasonal maintenance. If not you’ll have to clear the mud dauber nests from the rails and channels. wheels or rollers to test and lubricate, hornet nests to knock down, remembering where you last saw the crank handles, back-up batteries to test and gearboxes to check for broken gears. If your rolldowns are electric, don’t forget to check your circuit breakers, your battery backup for when your power goes out and check for bad electrical connections or seized motors, too.
With Bahamas style shutters, it’s pretty simple as long as you can reach everything from the ground. If not, you will have to call in the ladder brigade to batten everything down that can’t be reached from the ground. You’re still confronted with angry hornets, but that’s never a problem when you’re on a 20 ft. extension ladder, right? Hopefully, all of the hardware threads are in good shape to tighten the shutters down. If low quality anchors were installed, the threads are most likely all rusted and all of the studs will need replaced just like your neighbor who has the rusted panel studs.
You see, the “impact” part of “impact window” is a bit misleading. The rule to always remember is this: “If it’s made from glass, it’s gonna’ break!” What the “impact window” title really means is that when your window gets broken (and it WILL break), it won’t fall out of the frame during hurricane winds. “Yes”, you’ll still have to buy a new window and “yes”, you will still have a mess to clean up and “yes”, you will have to sop up any water that leaks in whnn it rains hard between now and when the new one gets installed and “no”, you won’t be able to see squat through it until then.
Evolution Hurricane Shutters simply don’t fit in the mold with these other hurricane products. They don’t have any of the problems associated with the other forms of protection and they actually look good on your home. More importantly they are the strongest form of clear protection that you can put on your home. But maybe the best part of these shutters doesn’t have anything to do with hurricane protection. You see unlike other hurricane shutters, once these shutters are mounted over your windows they begin working for you to save you money by lowering your insurance premiums (like many other products do), and by also helping to insulate your home and save you money on your heating and cooling costs every day that they are up – all 365 of them!
Installing our shutters over your existing windows creates an insulating air space that does two important things; it lowers the amount of heating and cooling that would normally be lost through your windows AND it also keeps the sounds that are outside your home from coming in. Your home is now quieter and more energy efficient, your money spent isn’t sitting in your garage or shed and your home is safer because it is now resistant to smash-and-grab break-ins. How is this possible, you ask?
The answer is simply this. The polycarbonate that is used to construct our hurricane shutters is a result of the Space Age. This flat, crystal clear, astonishing material is 250 time stronger than window glass! As a matter of fact, our shutter is so strong that you can beat on it with a hammer, baseball bat or even a steel pipe and you won’t even crack it. Worried about vandalism, stones from your lawnmower or your athletic gear from your kids’ wayward sports activities? Put your mind at ease because you can shoot BBs or pellets, throw stones and rocks – even hurl concrete blocks at these shutters and guess what?…….they all will simply bounce off and your protection is still in place and working for you – still protecting against hurricanes and still keeping your home comfortable and quiet!
When you couple this space age material with a heavy-duty yet lightweight aluminum frame you end up with a product so strong that you can beat on it with a hammer yet so clear that you can read the newspaper through it. If you live on a golf course and like to watch what’s going on outside but are sick of replacing your broken windows, our shutters are just what you need because no matter who hits the ball – Tiger Woods, John Daly, Phil Mickelson or Rory McIlroy – it’s just gonna’ bounce off, harmlessly.
· ….protect you from hurricane force winds year round.
· ….save you energy on your electric bill 365 days a year.
· ….quiet your home 365 days a year.
· ….add security to your home 365 days a year.
· ….protect your home and property whether you’re home to deploy them, at work or on vacation.
· ….actually look good and don’t noticeably change the appearance of your home.
· ….provide protection from repeated impacts, storm after storm, year after year.
· …..increase your home’s market value the most.
. …..have no moving parts to test, maintain, replace or lubricate.
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I love the the way that passion, compassion and righteous indignation flow together in the outworking of Jesus’ life and ministry. This article explores some of these aspects of the Lord’s heart, with a view to enabling our own world view, prayers, giving and actions to be the more closely aligned to His.
When we find our spirits sinking as we read distressing headlines from around the world, let’s take time to explore the ache within the Lord’s own heart for His fallen creation. It was His concern and compassion that bought and brought us our redemption. Acting always in the conviction of His love as fully man and fully God and led by the Spirit, He not only instructed His hearers and set an example to future generations, but experienced the full accompanying range of human and divine emotions.
Whilst John guides us in his gospel to mystical heights concerning the eternal nature of the Lord Jesus, Luke summarises Jesus’ ministry by saying that He ‘went around doing good and healing all that were oppressed.’ (Acts 10:38) It is this oppression, in all its varied and ugly forms, that our Lord is angry with and opposes.
Mark’s gospel is the most seemingly ‘functionally focused’ of them all, portraying Jesus as a man committed to His ministry and to serving God – but even here we find a handful of precious and important extra incidents, subtle strokes of the Artist’s brush. It is only here, for example, that we see Jesus taking children into His arms to bless them.
Most versions of the Bible translate Mark 1:41 along the lines of, ‘Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the leper who had asked for healing.’ We know from elsewhere in the gospels that whenever Jesus feels the depths of such heart-stirringly deep compassion, He moves immediately in power to bring about some mighty miracle. There is nothing blandly sentimental about such compassion, despite what might be suggested by certain religious images along the lines of ‘gentle Jesus, meek and mild.’ This is the Lord addressing people’s deepest needs – the same Lord whom we see in Revelation 1 in His mighty glorified state.
Mark’s gospel also hints at His truest feelings in ways and places it would be easy to pass over. The Lexham (Literal) Bible and the current version of the NIV are intriguing in this respect: Instead of saying, ‘moved with compassion’, Lexham translates the phrase as, ‘Becoming angry . . .’ The latest version of the NIV has it that ‘Jesus was indignant.’ There is indeed some limited manuscript evidence to support this reference to Jesus’ anger and indignation as being the more accurate rendering, even though we most would find the idea of compassion more ‘attractive’.
What was it, then, that Jesus was indignant about? Discounting as unlikely that this was due to the leper’s uncertainty as to whether Jesus was willing to heal him, it seems far more likely that Jesus was deeply stirred, even to the point of anger, at the damage done to this man by his illness, which had led to long years of isolation and lack of human touch.
In the face of all the disease, death, decay and destruction that the Fall has brought in its train Jesus responds in righteous anger and profound compassion, reaching out to touch the leper – something which the Law of Moses stipulates that only a priest has the right and responsibility to do in order to pronounce them clean.
There are other occasions when we see the sting of death provoking Jesus to deep, deep anger. Even though He knew full well that He was about to raise His friend from the dead, Jesus was profoundly stirred as He made His way to Lazarus’ tomb. The Greek phrase commonly translated ‘deeply moved’, can literally be rendered, ‘snorted like a horse (with indignation)’ (Jn. 11:38). Jesus is so profoundly provoked by the loss that it stirs Him into action. Can you think of times when you have been similarly stirred in spirit to both pray and act?
When Jesus becomes highly indignant . . .
Embracing childlikeness is entirely different from settling for, or relapsing into, self-indulgent childishness. The more childlike trusting and accepting we are, the easier He finds it to reach our hearts. Such childlikeness is something to cultivate rather than to grow out of. It is worth stressing here, however, that it is was not the desire to achieve that Jesus was decrying – but rather His hatred of all that stains and hinders children from becoming all they can be in Him.
It is also significant how Jesus mightily countered the menial status of the least and last in the way He respected women. He included them in those He called His own, and elevated them for all time by making a woman the very first witness to His resurrection.
Embracing childlikeness is entirely different from settling for, or relapsing into, self-indulgent childishness. The more childlike trusting and accepting we are, the easier He finds it to reach our hearts. Such childlikeness is something to cultivate, therefore, rather than to grow out of.
It is worth stressing here, however, that it is was not the desire to achieve that Jesus was decrying – but rather His hatred of all that stains and hinders children from becoming all they can be in Him.
We know that Jesus’ was roused most strongly to ire when He encountered the self-righteousness and judgmental attitudes of the Pharisees and Sadducees, who looked down on everyone except themselves, and denounced them as ‘sinners’. Jesus’ strongest charges were reserved for those He discerned to be hypocrites, denouncing them as a ‘brood of vipers:’ ‘blind guides’, ‘fools’ and ‘whitewashed tombs’– ‘children of the devil’ even.
Since this is the Son of God, the Lord of Love, who is speaking, we must take His words deeply to heart. He was never afraid to call a spade, a spade, or to denounce those who were hindering people from entering His Father’s Kingdom. When He looks around the world today, what does He see? What does He say about those who are putting their own interests, even national ones, ahead of His own?
In what ways am I a hypocrite Lord?
Sometimes, we will find ourselves being tested to the hilt when we come up against people who are forever setting us the equivalent of chess conundrums. We may well experience righteous anger then over the mess and tangles we see them snaring and embroiling people in. Discovering how to respond to such barbed manipulation is a major topic in its own right. We learn, often by painful trial and experiment, trying first this approach and then trying another – and above all by asking the Lord to show us how He would have us respond. Increasingly we become familiar with patterns for control and manipulation operate, and learn to adapt and adjust our response accordingly.
So far from being driven to impulsive overreaction by His own needs and hurts, or allowing Himself to become distracted by the many people of ill will He came up against, Jesus’ own responses are a true reflection of His Father’s heart, revealing both a profound trust in his Father’s justice and ability, and an unshakable concern to pursue the work of the Kingdom Himself.
Have you known times when you have experienced real and forceful godly anger, fuelled by powerful compassion? Has it stirred you into prayer and action? Although our response will vary according to makeup and callings, it is good to know that it is safe to feel such emotions!
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb. 13:8) If He was stirred and angry at the damage done by leprosy, or by the death of His friend Lazarus and the abuse of children, we can be sure He is deeply grieved by the oppression of people in countries such as Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Myanmar and in so many other places too.
He who is Truth as well as Justice hates a lying tongue. (Prov. 6:16-17) Sadly, our post truth generation has only too many of them. He is indignant when He sees rulers deliberately twisting truth for their own political purposes and economic gain.
We are accustomed to the stream of propaganda that Russian government sources pour forth in their multi-faceted attempts to destabilise the West. It comes as no surprise to find Russia staunchly defending the present President of Venezuela; it must be equally as outrageous to Jesus to see misinformation and disinformation being wielded as a weapon right at the heart of the White House.
Lord, we welcome You and Your Word into the depths of our being, allowing Your perspectives to shape our response into a more perfect reflection of Jesus’ own. May we move beyond the purely human anger, for that can never bring about Your fullest purposes (James 1:19-21), and experience more of Your righteous indignation against all that opposes the work of Your Kingdom – as well as more compassion for those traumatised by events beyond their control or suffering under the yoke of tyrannical demands and regimes.
https://biblehub.com/greek/1690.htm The NLT actually says that He was ‘angry’. The KJV and the ISV both prefer ‘groaning deeply’.
Steve Walton points out in Guidelines December 2018 BRF notes: “It was common in the Greek and Roman worlds for unwanted babies (especially girls) to be ‘exposed’ – left on the street to die unless someone picked them up.” Children are so often the first to suffer when human life is devalued. Perhaps some of the children brought to Jesus were ‘nobody’s children’ – street urchins?
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Mobile gaming giant Rovio has launched its latest title on Android and iOS today. Anry Birds Go is a free “kart” racer based in the Angry Birds universe, featuring feathered friends from the popular artillery shooter. If you’ve played Mario Kart or any similar titles you’ll know what to expect here — fast-paced 3D racing with a focus on power-ups and weapons, featuring familiar characters (birds and pigs, in this case.) There’s a variety of game modes to choose from besides a straight-up race to the finish, including Time Boom, Fruit Splat, Champion Chase and Mega Match.
Naturally you can also upgrade your vehicles by earning points in-game or buying them through in-app purchases — and you can add more characters to the game by capturing Rovio “Telepod” toys with your devie’s camera. The base game itself, however, is completely free, and it’s available now at the Google Play link above.
Angry Birds Go! has been confirmed to feature the first 3D world in the Angry Birds universe, so players will now be able to see the birds and pigs from every angle. Android, iOS and BlackBerry fans of the franchise will be able to race as Red, Chuck, Terence, Stella, King Pig, Moustache Pic and many other famous characters in the game. The game includes several modes meant to offer more variety, such as Race, Time Boom, Fruit Splat, Champion Chase and Mega Match.
TELEPODS support is included as well, so players can teleport their favorite character into the race by simply placing their Angry Birds Go! figurine on the device’s camera. “With one million Angry Birds Star Wars TELEPODS figures sold within a month of becoming available, the TELEPODS line is one of the hottest toys for the holidays and Hasbro continues to deliver a seamless physical to digital play experience with the new Angry Birds Go! TELEPODS line.
“Rovio has developed a fantastic new property with Angry Birds Go! and we look forward to fans enjoying the new TELEPODS line as well as the Angry Birds Go! JENGA games,” said John Frascotti, chief marketing officer, Hasbro, Inc.
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2019-04-22T09:57:24Z
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https://lewebutile.wordpress.com/angry-birds-go-launches-today-get-soon/
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Yesterday in Colorado my daughter Nikki, her boyfriend Pro and their friends held a memorial service for a young man named Nolus. She wrote: “Nolus went missing several days ago during a dirt biking trip in the desert. His body was found this evening atop a mountain he’d dragged his broken leg up, under a tree, with his tee shirt rolled underneath his head and his hand on his heart.” Not much more to say, other than to offer a prayer. Here’s what I wrote a couple of hours ago. It’s raw and unedited. I welcome suggestions. Optional phrases and lines for customizing the prayer appear in [brackets]. Gender selections are identified with a slash (“his/her”).
[Without warning / after a battle with deadly disease / after a tragic accident].
Postscript: Here’s a related prayer “At the Hand of Violence,” which I wrote after my daughter Dana faced the murder of a friend. Here are links to two additional prayers: “For Bereaved Children” and “After Shiva,” as well as a link to more yizkor and memorial prayers.
I am a huge fan of you’re prayers and meditations. Every time I lead our lay led Minyan for Shabbat services, I always use at least 3-4.
I am also the chair of the book selection committee for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair. As such, I would like to include your book. Please let me know the ISBN as well as the publisher and the date of publication.
“A living blessing in our midst.” That’s beautiful. I think every person who has lost a loved one would pray to have that dear one remembered as a living blessing in our midst.
Rebecca, I agree, that is a beautiful line. Many of my memorial prayers end with this: “May his/her soul be bound up in the bond of life, a living blessing in our midst.” It is the translation of the Hebrew ending for the Yizkor (memorial) prayers found in the High Holiday Prayer Book, the Prayer Book Press of Media Judaica, 1978.
So beautiful. May he/they all rest in peace. Blessings.
Peace for all families and loved ones who grieve.
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2019-04-20T00:49:36Z
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https://tobendlight.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/for-those-who-die-young/
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What exactly is it you ask? Well he had no idea and neither did I. There’s a little metal compartment in there which could honestly have been used for anything.
After doing some googling, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s an old wooden ice box! I could be wrong but I found a couple similar images and that’s what they were labeled as. Whatever it is, I’m super excited about it and can’t wait to figure out what to do to it! It already has such a cool vintage look I almost don’t want to paint it. Perhaps I’ll just redo the inside. AH decisions, decisions.
Have you ever seen one of these? Am I totally wrong in saying that it’s an ice box?! I want to know everything I can about this little gem so please let me know!
This entry was tagged antique ice box, brepurposed, ice box, old vintage ice box, red table, table with metal compartment. Bookmark the permalink.
I’ve seen these out & about and have always been told they were humidors…for storing cigars. The inside is sometimes copper or sheet metal…whatever it is it’s adorable! and so glad it was rescued!
great save!! i think i would just clean/fix it up and then leave it as is. I like the Old red look, but hey that’s me.please post what you end up doing with it!!
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2019-04-24T23:05:55Z
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https://brepurposed.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/ice-ice-baby/
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At a time when consulting firms felt the brunt of the crisis – with profits under pressure and external consultant spending slashed – Projective continued expanding internationally with an office in London. With London being one of the world’s leading financial centres, it was a logical step to expand into the UK market, given that Projective specializes in delivering project and program management services to the financial services industry only. Projective entered the UK market in 2011. In 2015, the London staff grew from 12 to 25 full-time employees. The UK activity started as an extension of the work in Belgium, but it immediately became clear that the large market and the well-conceived Projective brand created more opportunities. We currently provide services to many tier 1 global banks and global insurers in the UK. We have proven to have a sustainable business model in a very difficult market and want to further grow this in the future. Projective has the ambition to further expand in the UK to cope with the increasing client demand, so attracting top quality resources remains key.
We want to attract more resources to better serve clients and guarantee a 100% match with the client demand. The strategy to do that is twofold: Job site and CSR. Projective has been working on a job site for the last months. This career site is one for all Projective offices, and special attention has been given to a ‘UK touch’. On the career site, extra focus has been paid to diversity, a major cultural difference between the UK and the continent. This is a key element in attracting the right profiles and working on your employer brand.
Corporate social responsibility through actual business practices, ‘extracurricular’ activities such as charitable donations, or staff volunteering projects, is much more important in the UK. In Belgium, Projective set up a partnership with ‘Plan België’, an independent child NGO. Instead of just transferring money, Projective assisted Plan België with their finance transparency charter, which enabled them to raise more funds. For the general brand awareness, Projective is looking for similar projects in the UK.
Projective is a niche player providing top quality services. On average, our project managers can draw on more than ten years of experience. This provides us with the confidence to address the challenges and demands of the marketplace regardless of complexity or scale. We are not a ‘traditional consulting company’. We remain entirely neutral and independent, while delivering the client’s agenda by working seamlessly with multi-disciplinary, multi-vendor, mixed resource teams.
Our flat organisational structure encourages all employees to build and grow themselves and Projective as a company, by getting involved in areas such as marketing, HR, finance or IT support. This means that the team is continuously stimulated and highly motivated, and this certainly contributes to the company’s success. We have a team-based approach where we share our experiences and collaborate to address our client’s challenges.
Projective has grown substantially in the UK over the past 4 years. The UK market is now the second most important market for our company. For our staff, the award would be an acknowledgement of the hard work that they have put into growing the company in the UK and for our clients, proof of their trust and confidence in Projective.
The Golden Bridge Awards will provide recognition of our success in the UK and enables us to enhance our image in both Belgium and the UK.
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2019-04-19T18:42:56Z
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https://britishchamber.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/last-look-at-2015s-golden-bridge-finalists-projective/
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Please contact Max with any questions regarding any upcoming events. She’d love to hear from you.
The mind/body benefits of spending time doing physical activity in natural environments.
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https://torahtrailblazers.wordpress.com/contact/
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I recently decided to support Thunderbird 2 (specifically 2.0.0.14 and above), but only had basic sync support (only the original attributes were synced) until figuring out a few bugs today. As of now, the extension fully supports Thunderbird 2, 3, and 3 with the patch for Bug 413260 applied. The only catch is that the extra attributes added by the extension (like Third and FourthEmail, different types of screennames, etc.) are only editable after the card has been created. You cannot make a new card and set those attributes right away due to how the address book works before the refactoring in Bug 413260 is applied. It detects the version and whether 413260 is applied when it starts, so the same extension will work with whatever version you have installed between 2.0.0.14 and 3.0a2.
Over the next week I plan on testing the features of the extension and fixing any bugs that appear. When this is done, I will hopefully be able to release an alpha version for public use. If you do decide to use it, I strongly suggest backing up all of your Google Contacts and your entire Thunderbird profile. You can find info on backing up your Google Contacts here and info on backing up your profile here.
Edit: There is another problem without the patch from Bug 413260 applied. Copying a card will not copy over the added attributes.
As of 2 minutes ago, my extension now appears to work in Thunderbird 2 after some fun with nsIEnumerator and nsISupportsArray. The array documentation didn’t show the AppendElement method which, combined with [notxpcom] and [noscript] caused me a headache until I tried it. It also works in Thunderbird 3 with or without the patch from Bug 413260 applied.
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https://pi3141.wordpress.com/tag/thunderbird-2/
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A referendum ratifying the constitution of the French consulate was held in February 1800. 53.74% of voters abstained. The official results, as announced by Lucien Bonaparte, Minister of the Interior and brother of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, were 99.9% in favor of the new constitution. However, academics have claimed that Lucien massaged the votes in favour of the constitution, alleging that only 1,550,000 Frenchmen voted for the change.
^ a b c d Alexander, Robert (6 February 2017). Napoleon. London: Arnold. p. 22. ISBN 0-340-71916-8.
^ a b Ellis, Geoffrey (6 February 2017). Napoleon. London: Longman. p. 43. ISBN 0-582-02547-8.
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2019-04-18T16:48:37Z
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_constitutional_referendum,_1800
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Quantum technology is the next frontier of science, and the world is in a technological race to develop quantum computers and technologies. Advancing this technology requires developing new understandings of the rules of quantum mechanics that govern the smallest particles and applying those discoveries to new types of devices, materials, and computing techniques.
Join Hartmut Neven, founder and manager of Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab, and David Awschalom, Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, to hear more about the progress and promise of quantum technology, and the role that Chicago can play in ensuring the US leadership in this critical area of research. The event is moderated by Martin Giles, the San Francisco bureau chief of MIT Technology Review.
This event is part of the inaugural Chicago Quantum Summit, multi-day program of presentations and discussion exploring the future of quantum computing and information science.
Hartmut Neven is an Engineering Director at Google. He is the founder and manager of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab. The objective of the lab is to fabricate quantum processors and develop novel quantum algorithms to dramatically accelerate computational tasks for machine intelligence. Previously, Hartmut was head of the Visual Search team. His team developed the visual search service which today is used by a large number of Google products including Image Search, Google Photos, YouTube, Street View and Google Goggles. His teams won a number of competitions designed to establish the best visual recognition software for faces, objects and text. Hartmut was also a co-founder of project Glass and led the team that built the first prototype. Prior to joining Google, Hartmut started two computer vision companies, the second one was acquired by Google in 2006. Hartmut obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 with a thesis on "Dynamics for vision-guided autonomous mobile robots." Then he became a research professor for computer science and theoretical neuroscience at the University of Southern California.
David Awschalom is the Liew Family Professor at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering. David is one of the world’s leading scientists in spintronics and quantum information engineering. His research involves understanding and controlling the spins of electrons, ions, and nuclei for fundamental studies of quantum systems, as well as potential applications in computing, imaging and encryption. His group explores optical and magnetic interactions in semiconductor quantum structures, spin dynamics and coherence in condensed matter systems, macroscopic quantum phenomena in nanometer-scale magnets, and implementations of quantum information processing in the solid state. David is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the European Academy of Sciences.
Martin Giles is the San Francisco bureau chief of MIT Technology Review, where he covers the future of computing and the people shaping it. Before joining the publication, he led research and publishing at a venture capital firm focused on business-technology investing. Prior to that, he worked for The Economist Newspaper for many years as both a reporter and editor, most recently as the paper’s Silicon Valley correspondent. Giles is a graduate of the University of Oxford and holds an executive MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Doors will open 30 minutes before the event begins. Please arrive early to claim your seat. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket order on Eventbrite so others may register.
Please contact the Chicago Quantum Exchange at quantum@uchicago.edu or (773) 834-8054 with any questions or accommodation requests.
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https://alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/events/2018/quantum-engineering-next-technological-space-race
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I have ten minutes before I have to leave the facility I am writing you from.
If you do not hear from me again, save yourselves.
I’ve reinstalled Facebook on my phone…for what it’s worth.
Would someone please tell Zuckerberg and ask him nicely to stop the attack on my house!?
*The local public library has a safer hot spot than my house does.
**I thought head lice was bad, but this is a bug I cannot comb out or kill with pesticides.
We’re doomed, doomed I tell you!
Someone somewhere is stock piling wifi for the zombie apocalypse.
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https://kirisalazar.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/you-may-not-be-safe/
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 7:37 pm and is filed under ancient greece, ancient history, ancient rome, ancient turkey, Classics, Livius.Org, medieval history, military history, travel. 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.
The joy was warranted because they had beaten Inter in their home stadium in Milano!
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https://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/trapezus-trabzon/
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1. What are Oracle Alerts?
Oracle Alerts are used to monitor unusual or critical activity within a designated database. The flexibility of ALERTS allows a database administrator the ability to monitor activities from tablespace sizing to activities associated with particular applications (i.e. AP, GL, FA). Alerts can be created to monitor a process in the database and to notify a specific individual of the status of the process.
2. What types of Oracle Alerts are there?
a) EVENT ALERTS are triggered when an event or change is made to a table in the database.
b) PERIODIC ALERTS are activated on a scheduled basis to monitor database activities or changes.
3. What types of actions can be generated when an Alert is triggered?
When an alert is triggered or the event is true, the alert can Email, send or print a message. Alerts also have the ability to execute a SQL script to perform an action. Using Response Processing, Oracle Alerts can solicit a response from a specific individual and perform an action based on the response that it receives.
4. Can I build an Alert to run with my custom applications or tables?
Event or Periodic Alerts can work with any custom application, as long as the application is properly registered within the Oracle Applications package.
5. Which Email packages work with Alerts?
Oracle Alert is designed to work with Oracle Office, Oracle Interoffice, UNIX Sendmail, and VMS Mail.
6. Can Alerts be triggered by other Tools?
Oracle Alerts can only be triggered from an application that has been registered in Oracle Applications. Alerts cannot be triggered via SQL updates or deletes to an Alert activated trigger.
7. What is Response Processing?
Response processing is a component of Alerts which allows the recipients of an alert to reply with a message and have the applications take some action based on the response. Response Processing only works with Oracle Mail products.
8. Do I need Oracle Applications to use Alerts?
Yes. Oracle Applications is required to create and run Alerts.
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A one suburbanbatherson has been putting together tons of videos for all kindsa great songs using odds and ends from British TV’s past and posting them on Youtube. The results are great and there are tons of stuff i’ve never heard of too, which is always exciting. So check out his full list of videos here and you are welcome for giving you yet another source of life sucking internet entertainment. May we all enjoy our eyes being burned out of our heads in the next few years.
A pretty bizarre oddity from the impossibly prolific Billy B. Childish Esq. that certainly isn’t rare, but pretty obscure. Being buried in a career of living in the thee garage, this album sees our favorite boy child hop and skip his way into the bedroom for some late night musings and ramblings with an old poet pal Sexton Ming creating what i think is the most unique recordings of his career (or what percentage of it i’ve heard!). This is no Wray/Hendrix/Sutch/Diddley worship we all love and expect from Billy, in fact the only instruments heard are a tiny chord organ and some kind of string instrument that sounds some where between a ukulele and standard six string acoustic guitar. The songs themselves are often not songs at all, one in particular is just a reading about different bird species and their attributes. This album is weird, whimsical, nonsensical, indulgent, grating and in the end one of the best things this guy has ever done.
This album of collected EPs and singles by one of New Zealand’s finest, and yet another standout of the Flying Nun roster, The Verlaines has been one of my most listened to records of the past year. Great sound, stellar songs and no fancy gimmicks to get in the way. I’m a big fan ( 6′ 1 and a half” ). Watch the videos and find out for yourself.
There you have it, and after re-reading the insert i have from the LP it turns out the second guitar player was the bozo who bailed right before recording of what was supposed to be a single, but turned into the album. Lucas said that his guitar playing was in part trying to compensate for the loss and to keep up the ace rhythm section. So there you have it. Thanks Sean!!!!
Did i just say (in so many words) i like this better than The Saints? I don’t know if i really mean that.
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Liliane Lima, was born in 1966, proud Mother of two kids, an Brazilian living in the USA. She is graduated in Journalism. She worked as a Reporter on TV , Entrepreneur ,(creator and owner) of an Tourism Agency , for this reason she had her name published in many Countries. Untill the day that she got her her maiden name back , then, Liliane Silva, decided turn the page of her life and became a Housecleaning and Nanny ” O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave” (Anthem).
the greater power shows up.
even when the eyes already need help.
Liliane Lima, nasceu em 1966, Mae de dois filhos, Brasileira , vive atualmente em USA. Jornalista, trabalhou como Reporter de TV, foi Empresaria,proprietaria de uma Agencia no ramo de Turismo que virou noticia publicada na midia de varios Paises. Ate o dia em que recuperou seu nome de solteira , Liliane Silva entao,decidiu virar a pagina da vida e trabalha hoje, como Housecleaning e Nanny “na terra da liberdade e lar da coragem” (Anthem).
” Quando parece que nada sobrou,alguma coisa renasce;quando parece que a forca acabou,uma forca ainda maior aparece.E, entao, surge o equilibrio. A maturidade, a sabedoria,A forca da delicadeza,A firmeza da serenidade.Na experiencia acumulada, a capacidade de ver mais longe,mesmo quando os olhos ja precisam de auxilio.
amiga vc é dez,amigas p/ todas as horas.
te adoro,vc sabe q tô aqui.
Mto legal seu Blog Lili!!
Mtas saudades de vc e do Biel!
dei minha passadinha por aqui, mas não ahei a opção português.
Que bom saber de você, tenho saudades grandes….
Thanks for this. It’s really good stuff.
I really like to read pageturned.wordpress.com.
Awesome blog! Subscribed on rss. Regular will read it. Good job.
Nice blog! Very interesting themes. I will often read it. Also subsribed on rss.
Nice blog! Very interesting aspects. I will often read it. Also e-mailed on rss.
You’re beautiful, inside and out!
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2019-04-20T04:54:26Z
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I came across an interesting article on the www the other day, and I wanted to make a point of this topic. It relates to homeopathic practice, and I recommend you read the article if you have the time!
The article title already gives it away, one issue that we all, as practitioners, have or have had sometime in our career. I mean, how often have you given an advice or a recommendation for a prescription to a friend or acquaintance? Be honest! I confess, I did, frequently! I figured for a long time that sharing such ‘tiny tips’ would demonstrate to the other person my competence, my willingness to help, and would as a consequence potentially yield me with a future client. It never did! But, I was often told “Gosh, how can you give your gained knowledge and experience away like this, for free?”. Good question?
I have worked hard to acquire my knowledge, it was a costly time of study, why should I give my information away for free? Especially if there is no gain from it …There is a fundamental problem with this… Agreed?
In todays time, with the flooding of the market with cheap goods, and cheap copies of quality products, imported via the Asian economies, our society has changed. We have become ‘stingy’, … but did this pay off? OK, hands up, who has not fallen for the super duper bargain in the ‘cheap-deal’ shops or the ‘SALE’ stores? I have, but in all honesty, I never really made a bargain. Frequently the object purchased at such stores, had only a very narrow life-span, and was of a bad quality. In the end I paid more, to buy a new one, of a better quality. Am I the only one with this experience?… What has this taught us? That what is cheap, is often of a lesser quality, requires earlier replacement, and as a consequence costs us more. Coined to our homeopathic practice, giving advice for free or cheaply, reduces the perceived value and quality of what we do, subconsciously. People expect a lesser quality if the payment for a service is cheap or at no charge. The service we offer is not appreciated as much, and its value not recognized.
Why can we & must we charge our price?
Because we are worth it! Our education was costly, we practice continued professional development, we spend a lot of time in the therapeutic relationship with our patients, therefore our services can be paid for appropriately! But what about those small tips and recommendations to friends? Charge friends? I would say, keep the distance, don’t treat friends, and that for various reasons. This strategy is difficult to maintain, I know, I’ve been there! For the same reasons that clients cannot be our friends. There is a boundary issue! Friends know so much more about us than we should ever be inclined to share with our clients. This is not what you want in the therapeutic relationship! Patients come and see us for their health troubles, they want to share their pains, ills, vulnerabilities. We are the ‘healthy’ practitioner that can ‘handle’ their issues! We do not have these ‘weaknesses’, and if we do, they do not want to know about it! On the other hand, if friends do know, how does it fit in if they ask us, “why did this not work for you?”, or “Great advice, why are you not keeping to it?”. There is also less of a distance between us and our patient within which we, as the practitioner, can be empathic, unprejudiced and nonjudgmental!
Even if it feels awkward to charge friends, we should do so if we cannot decline treating them. Yet, what about a discount? Friends may expect to be treated, at least, at a discount? And for other clients, should we not offer incentives, such as discounts, to attract new clients? From my experience with a different professional hat on, in the tourism industry, I would say: Do never give a discount! Have your pricing scheme and stick to it! Giving a discount makes people think you desperately need their money, and this changes the dynamic. People start disrespecting boundaries, because they think you need them and their money. Giving a discount signals that you want to keep the client, this equates for many, that you are ‘needing‘ them as client. It’s very simple: We are offering a service for which we should get paid our fixed prices. Full-stop!.
Finally, what should we do when bumping into a patient on the school run, or at the grocers, and they start talking ‘case’? We gave this patient an appointment and they received their treatment, we got paid. We are not indebted to this patient… just because they paid once. Keep those boundaries! Tell them to call during working hours, or, if need be, to schedule an appointment… and… charge for it!; … maybe not if the question is minor, like “what time to best take the remedy” or another ‘generalized’ question, but certainly for questions that require you to get your notes and consult the books!
‘Boundaries’ is also why I am not too keen to be working in my home! That environment is not neutral. I have in the past found this to disturb the patient/practitioner dynamic. The patients see how I live, question things they may see, and ‘know’ things about my environment and consequently about me. At one time, before my homeopathic career, a person being round to the house had seen a foreign bank-note pinned to a board in the entrance. I had at the time received this for a friends currency collector son, from a far travelled friend. Not worth more than a few pennies… but the ‘talk across town‘, by the next morning, was that I must be rich as ****, because in my place the walls were ‘wallpapered’ with bank-notes. What shall I say… I’d like to avoid situations that potentially could arouse misunderstandings with patients, and definitely such misapprehensions that have nothing to do with my work!
I agree with the above mentioned article Why friends don’t pay and clients can’t be “friends” We are service providers! There is a distance, has to be a distance, between us and our clients! I know that in practice this is at times very difficult to exercise. Maintaining a distance while being in a therapeutic relationship is not easy, and boundaries can occasionally get blurred. Yet, cases need to be managed, and patients need to get managed! Successful management keeps us and our practice healthy! Mutual respect and boundaries are key elements, and the maintenance of a payment scheme, and sticking to it, can help build a clientele, and a striving homeopathic practice! It is our quality that attracts clients, not the discount! Stick to it!
I CRINGED at your story about your patients spreading rumors about your house being wallpapered with foreign currency. We have a lot of beauty practitioners who consider home salons, and I wrote a long article about why they need to separate their home from their salon with a permanent wall, and never allow clients into their homes for the same reason. People are so unbelievable sometimes!
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https://cleverhomeopathy.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/because-we-are-worth-it/
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Reacting to someone else’s loss.
So there will come a time in everyone’s life where a friend, or partner will lose someone close to them – this article doesn’t just relate to people passing away, it’s possible to grieve for the loss of someone who’s still alive, just not a part of our lives anymore.
Whether that’s a parent, sibling, other half, close friend, grandparent, anyone.
This became one of the most pinnacle things to be said to me in that time.
During the organising of the funeral, all the usual bits and pieces that happen after someone’s passed away, you are in this odd limbo where you don’t really know how to be. But then there are so many processes and things to organise – death certificates, funeral proceedings, the wake, notifying people etc etc that you don’t really have time to feel.
This is when people make their primary mistake, they are there for you almost too much in this time and then forget that you will need them for a long time after this, not just for the hectic initial reaction.
This may not be the case with some, so my disclaimer here is that this is based on my experience.
I recently gave advice to someone on how to cope with being there for someone else going through a loss.
We are rarely told quite how difficult this will be. Because there’s that awful time where you need to balance being caring and supportive, but also still treating that person as the same person they were before. Hanging on to some form of stability and normalisation is what keeps people going here.
Another pinnacle phrase said to me was that no one will truly grieve properly until 2 years after a passing. I personally have found this to be true, it’s not that I didn’t deal with anything, but in the most cliché way possible – it all takes time. It’s been three and a half years now since my Daddy passed away and I feel oddly okay about it. I still miss him, but unfortunately he is no longer a part of my life now – he will always be there in my thoughts and my heart but I have learnt to live life again.
That’s something you never think you will do, but I promise, it’s possible.
Anyway, the reason I’m writing this is because I have seen this happen time and time again, and until it’s pointed out, people don’t really know how to deal with it.
What thing am I talking about?
The fact that after the funeral, and everything (excuse the pun) dies down, the world expects you to get back to reality again.
It’s hard. It’s nigh on impossible, because life will never be the same again.
This article isn’t to highlight that to people grieving because they already know it, however like I’ve stated, it’s about awareness for those supporting you through it.
The time when people need you the most, isn’t the initial aftermath, it’s the first birthdays without them, the first Christmas’.
It’s that first time you go to call them because you’ve forgotten they aren’t here anymore and you had something cool to tell them.
It’s that time you scroll through your phone and still see their number, you know it probably belongs to someone else now, but you don’t want to delete it.
It’s wondering what they would have been like with your children.
Not knowing their proud face when you graduate.
And most of all for me, it’s not having him there to walk me down the aisle at my wedding.
All of these points might seem obvious, but society, and sometimes my own pressures, makes me feel like I should just “get over it” and get on.
The hardest part of loss is seeing the world slip back to it’s routine, seeing everyone else go back to their families, their jobs, their social lives. And when they may have had a sad time with you initially, the situation you personally are in impacts you 1000000 times more than anyone else.
You find yourself feeling bored of talking to people about it, desperate for some comfort, but not wanting to ask for it.
So the point of this is, if you are in a position where you are there for a friend, other half, family member etc, don’t stop being there.
You don’t have to do anything in particular, just make sure you aren’t absent from listening, even 2-3 years later. Keep listening, keep talking about them and keeping their name alive.
Most people find it hard to say they aren’t coping well with something that may have happened to them three years prior.
Some days I’ll find myself to be painfully sad, and even I won’t want to tell people it’s because I’m sad about my Dad. It wouldn’t be wrong, but there’s so much of me that wants to be able to cope and wants to be okay. And like I said, I am generally okay now, but there will always be a minute, and hour, a day here and there – anniversaries, birthdays, significant moments.
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https://elspethsays.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/reacting-to-someone-elses-loss/
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Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi (Persian: سید ابراهیم نبوی; born 1958 in Astara, Iran) is a prolific Iranian satirist, writer, diarist, and researcher of Azerbaijani ancestry. He currently writes in the news website Gooya and the online newspaper Rooz, and has a satirical program for the website and broadcasts on the Amsterdam based Radio Zamaneh.
Nabavi started his political career working for the Iranian dalahoo in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the Ministry of Interior (personally invited by Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri), and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (personally invited by Mohammad Hashemi). His posts include the Manager of the Political Office of the Ministry of Interior in 1361–1364 AP (ca. 1982–1985 CE). According to himself, he was chosen because of his wide political knowledge about the Iranian political issues, because of his past activities with the Office for Strengthening Unity and the Organization of Muslim Students of Shiraz University, where he had worked with Ata'ollah Mohajerani, Jamileh Kadivar, and Mostafa Moeen.
Nabavi started his satire career in the Soroush magazine in serial articles on cinema titled "andar hekāyat-e rešte va sar-r derāz va …" and continued it in the Gozaresh-e Film magazine (which he co-founded and worked as the magazine's first editor) with "rāport-hā" (reports). After leaving Gozaresh-e Film, Nabavi helped Kioumars Saberi Foumani start the Gol-Agha magazine, where he later wrote for.
While working at Gol-Agha, Nabavi started writing also for the Hamshahri monthly magazine, where he suggested establishing the Hamshahri daily newspaper, which later became very popular. Nabavi left the Hamshahri Institute three months after the resignation of Ahmad Sattari, the daily newspaper's then editor. After leaving Hamshahri, Nabavi found tried various random jobs, including designing crossword puzzles.
Nabavi later "escaped" to Isfahan in 1996, as a reason for which he has mentioned the tighter restrictions on media imposed during the ministership of Ali Larijani and Mostafa Mirsalim in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. In Isfahan he later became active in the presidential campaign for Mohammad Khatami, after his election he moved back to Tehran. He later moved into self-imposed exile, settling in Belgium sometime in 2003 or 2004.
Nabavi became famous after starting his daily column sotūn-e panjom (Fifth column) in the newspaper Jame'eh, which he continued in several newspapers (under different variations of the title) after the newspapers were banned one after another. He also helped Fa'ezeh Hashemi in the founding of the newspaper Zan. In August 2009 he released the video "The Confession: Ebrahim Nabavi", where "dressed in striped pajamas and wearing bandages," he "confesses to meeting with a C.I.A. agent, importing green velvet, and having affairs with celebrities ranging from Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren to Carla Bruni and Scarlett Johansson" in a parody of defendant confessions at the 2009 election protesters show trial in Tehran. The video had over 120,000 viewings as of 10 February 2010.
He has also written several books of satire, interviews, prison diaries, and research on the history of Iranian satire. By 2006 he was writing for the online newspaper Rooz and the BBC News in Persian.
Nabavi has been arrested and jailed on two occasions for his political satire. During one of these periods of detention he wrote sālon-e šomāre-ye šeš (سالن شماره ۶; Corridor No 6), translated into French as Couloir n° 6 : Carnets de prison (ISBN 2-7427-5161-0).
^ Esfandiari, Golnaz (13 May 2009). "A Vanishing Breed, Iranian Satirist Pokes Fun From Exile". Radio Free Europe. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
^ "The Confession: Ebrahim Nabavi :: Mohammad Ali Abtahi". YouTube. 7 July 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
^ Secor, Laura. "The Iran Show by Laura Secor. August 31, 2009". Newyorker.com. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ebrahim Nabavi.
This page was last edited on 31 May 2018, at 18:58 (UTC).
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The proof of the pudding is in the staying eaten.
There may have been some custard involved.
I think it was trying to be chocolate, but it was very nasty.
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Subscription Drills just went out. If you subscribed, prior to today, and did not receive it, please let me know and I will correct as quickly as possible.
Second, as I announced on Facebook yesterday, Pastor Joe Fox of Viking Preparedness did a review of The Reluctant Partisan books recently. That resulted in an unusually high number of orders. We are NOT backordered, despite what the store says, but we ARE playing catch up on shipping orders. Please be patient. We are still on track for having books in people’s hands within 3 weeks of ordering, per the tab above about Warhammer Six Press Books. HH6 is freaking out a little, we have so many cases of books filling our living room. They are going out though.
As soon as I am caught up on that, I have a few articles to get up.
I did not receive the prior email.
I’m pleased to hear that Pastor Fox’s thoughtful and flattering words have had good effect on your book’s distribution. Your word work is deserving of it.
I am a new subscriber and did not receive anything entitled subscription drill.
I, just by happy accident, placed my order a week or two before PJF’s video was posted. So, I beat the PJF rush and already have mine delivered.
Having lots of orders to catch up on sounds like a good problem to have.
Did not receive todayâs drill. Last delivered 15 Apr. Order AB-1108 from 01 Mar. john@athayde.com delivery address.
I did subscribe and NO I did not receive… Thank you for your work.
MTG, why don`t you wear a seatbelt?
Hi John, I do not believe I received a subscription drill, though I’m not certain how to identify it.
Your work is invaluable, thank you so much for making it available to folks like me.
Did not receive. Thanks for your consideration!
Hey there, Didn’t receive the latest drill, I checked my junk folder as well, I received the last two. Thanks for doing this.
JM – I’ve been watching Pastor Fox. Do you think he’s the real deal? That he’s walked the walk that he now talks about?
And as to this site and your writings; thank you. It’s helped this guy and his family work towards more resiliency.
1) Yes. I’ve met him. I also know people in the SF Community who knew him.
2) Thanks! Glad it is helping.
I did not receive my subscription drill for May 2018.
I can’t find the link to the review.
I did not receive the Subscription Drills.
But when I sent an e-mail this morning it bounced back.
I have not receive this months drills.
Not trying to bug you, but saw your Facebook post and no I haven’t received anything. Secret FB group would work. Didn’t post on Facebook because trying to keep a low profile, but I do follow you on there.
I learned about you and your books from listening to Pastor Joe Fox. I am excited to start reading your books when they arrive.
I unfortunately did not beat the pastor Fox rush, and yet, my order is on its way with only the slightest delay. Given his glowing review and your work, it will be worth every minute waited and dollar spent, no doubt. Thank you for your work getting them published and shipped!
I got a few of these back prior to this note so I thought I was on track. Haven’t received anything since. Maybe check my account.
If you need to redo something please send future installments to blackswan6@protonmail.com If you just need to flip a switch this email is OK.
Many thanks. I liked the ones I got.
Thru first book. Imperial government with media , education and all facets of our society in control of taxpayers and families.
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This week, we welcome guest judges, David Watson and Dario Ciriello. David and Dario will be helping us judge the Campfire Stories.
Dario Ciriello is a professional author and the founder of Panverse Publishing.
His first novel, Sutherland’s Rules, a crime thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic, was published in 2013. Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario’s Science Fiction shorts, was released in June 2014.
Dario’s latest novel, a horror/suspense novel titled Black Easter, pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island. He is currently at work on a new thriller set in 2018 Los Angeles. Dario’s nonfiction book, Aegean Dream, the bittersweet memoir of a year spent on the small Greek island of Skópelos (the real Mamma Mia! island), was a UK travel bestseller in 2012. In addition to writing, Dario, who lives in the Los Angeles Area, offers professional editing, copyediting, and coaching services to indie authors. Look him up on Facebook, Amazon, or on his blog at http://www.dariospeaks.wordpress.com.
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https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/nghw-guest-judges-david-watson-dario-ciriello/
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Gary glanced up from his massive paperwork pile to the ancient beast of a computer sitting on his desk. The familiar pinging sound of his email he would have gladly ignored had it not been for the headache he was getting from hours of reading.
Reading and turning up nothing.
He successfully eliminated over half of stack of folders he had pulled in his search. Yet none so far, say for maybe two, even looked like the ‘Lauren’ living at the parsonage home. Others had no pictures or were far too ancient to be this young woman—unless of course she were say…a vampire or had discovered the fountain of youth.
Since neither of those options seemed viable, Gary continued his search.
With a flick of the mouse Gary scrolled through his mail—apparently neglected throughout the day.
“Hmmm,” he muttered clicking the first.
“One Last Thought has a new entry,” read the headline.
Curiosity spurned him to open the link.
He, like the majority of the blog’s current subscribers, had only recently decided to follow in hopes of some juicy gossip or tale tale story about the missing artist. However the blog had remained silent, refusing to give up it author’s secrets.
In less than a second the entry was up on screen.
“More reading…great,” Gray mumbled. Maybe I’ll get somewhere this time, he thought.
“Well it’s been quite a while since I last checked in. Sorry for the wait folks. It has been a terrible few weeks.
I’m sure you’ve heard by now about my missing sister. I’m also sure you’re pretty sick of hearing about it as well—for some of you at least.
Gary smirked. She was right.
“I can say I have no more clues to offer you than I have already to offered up to the police.
Even her last painting is a mystery to me.
It looks so rushed, and not like her time consuming methods of pouring over a canvas for days—even weeks.
There is only one thing I do get.
That until I see her body, I refuse to believe that Gwenivere Baxter is dead.
They have been looking for her ‘body’ for a couple of weeks already…but still.
I cannot simply believe that my sister is dead because a search says so, or that statistics show if a missing person has not been found for such and such amount of time, then the possibility of ever finding them alive is slim to none.
Perhaps she may even be hiding for her own safety.
That’s what everyone keeps telling me anyway.
Still, I will cling to the hope of finding my sister even if I have to do it myself!
You may think I’m crazy or just downright desperate and perhaps I am—but she will be found.
The image of a man…who had taken his coat and draped around the shoulders of beaten woman at the park.
She was cold and hurt…even fearful, but he took her with him in the most gentle manner.
They disappeared shortly after getting on a waiting bus, but the sight still brings me hope—hope that my sister is cared for and safe.
The words struck a cord for the reporter.
He was sure the article would start quiet the buzz. Everyone would be jumping on it in the next few hours. It wouldn’t be long before everyone was reading it.
Could she be…? No..she wouldn’t, he thought. That would be putting herself in possible danger. But then again the police would likely turn a blind eye to the writing.
There was a tugging at the doorstep of Gary’s heart.
His eyes glanced between the papers strewn across his desk and again to the glazing screen of his monitor.
Without so much as a word the reporter grabbed his coat and bolted for the door.
~ by The FaithBook on August 14, 2012.
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2019-04-24T23:01:07Z
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https://theartistfromdarktolight.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/chapter-20-the-one-big-clue/
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Musical improvisation involves extremely complex cognitive processes—with performers engaging in rapid, in-the-moment decision-making coupled with focussed motor attention, all-the-while maintaining awareness of the other musicians and the music. It’s no wonder that it captivates the interest of Dr Freya Bailes, a music researcher at the University of Leeds, who presented a talk on the cognitive mechanisms involved in improvisation at Goldsmiths College on the 1st of February 2018.
One aspect of improvisation that may not automatically spring to mind is leadership. Traditionally, within certain types of improvisation such as jazz music, leadership may arise from a conductor or more likely, the lead-player within the ensemble. These individuals show where the music is going (rhythmically, harmonically, and dynamically) through subtle changes in their playing and (often fantastically cryptic!) gestures and visual cues. But how does leadership occur for two people improvising freely?
This was one of the core focuses for Bailes and Dean in a recent study investigating cognitive processes in improvisation. The researchers paired professional pianists, instructing them to perform six, three-minute improvisations. However, there was a catch! The performers had to play back-to-back at separate MIDI pianos, rendering them unable to use visual cues while improvising—Bailes wanted exchange of auditory information only.
Limited directions for the format of the six improvisations were given. Two of the improvisations were labelled as completely free, one had a dynamic structure (quiet, loud, quiet), one was to be centred around a pulse, one was instructed to be led by Performer 1, and the last was to be led by Performer 2. The researchers were interested in how responses to each other’s playing would influence the development of leadership roles between the two performers. In addition, they were curious to discover the performers’ perceived leadership roles, i.e. who each performer believed was leading the improvisation at different points in the piece. Thirty minutes after performing, the performers listened back to their improvisations and rated who they felt influenced the music most in each section. They found that aural cues alone were sufficient for performers to identify who was taking the lead.
Bailes and Dean aimed to probe both conscious and unconscious measures of the performers’ experiences. Therefore, in addition to the conscious measure (leadership rating), they employed an unconscious measure by recording the physiological arousal of performers while improvising. Arousal is considered a component of the emotional response triggered by listening to music (Khalfa et al. 2002; Rickard, 2004). They measured arousal by recording changes in skin conductance (SC)—a type of electrodermal activity caused by variations in the sweat glands, controlled unconsciously by the sympathetic nervous system (Khalfa, Isabelle, Jean-Pierre, & Manon, 2002).
SC is often measured on the fingertips—a bit problematic for pianists! Instead, Bailes and Dean measured SC on the pianist’s left ankle, as the performers were able to keep that part of their body still (the right ankle was left free for pedalling). Interestingly, it was previously hypothesised that SC might increase more during transitions in the improvisations, as those points in the music require increased attention and effort to develop a new pattern in the music (Dean & Bailes, 2016). An analysis of a case study for one duo found that SC typically did increase during transitions, e.g. when a new dynamic section began. One player’s SC matched the musical structure of the improvisations, while the other player had an overall greater variability in SC but did not always follow the shape of the music. In general, improvisation could intensify a performer’s arousal state by focussing attention on the moment-by-moment decision making, and awareness and reaction to the other performers’ actions. That’s a lot to think about at once!
How about you, the audience?
In addition to obtaining leadership perception from the performers, Bailes also investigated listeners’ (specifically non-musicians) perceptions on the leadership roles during the improvisation. It seems that Bailes enjoys tackling difficult topics as she herself described ‘perception of leadership in improvisation’ as an impossible task for non-musicians! It was the researchers’ turn to improvise, as they devised an alternative approach—to ask an open question to the non-musician listeners: “Indicate where any significant changes in sound occur within the improvised piece of music”. The piece they listened to was taken directly from the recordings of the professional musicians used for their study on leadership roles (Dean & Bailes, 2016). The questions asked were left deliberately open to interpretation as they didn’t want to bias any perceptions. Participants were asked to listen to the piece at a computer and move the mouse to indicate change. Large changes in music were to be indicated by faster mouse movements, and smaller changes by slower movements.
In addition to this, non-musicians were asked to report the level of perceived arousal expressed during the piece of music. By moving the mouse along a scale (moving up the scale = higher arousal), participants mapped out the level of arousal over the time-course of the music. Here, the team were interested in whether outside-listeners were sensitive to the physiological arousal of the performers. By comparing the outside-listeners’ perceived arousal with the SC of the performers over the time course of the music, Bailes and Dean were able to analyse the data for any correlations that may support their hypotheses.
Bailes and Dean developed a couple of interesting hypotheses concerning outside-listeners. Firstly, they predicted the perceptions of the outside-listeners would align with the performers’ perceptions of changed leadership, however, this was not the case. Instead, the case study analysis of one duo revealed that the listeners’ perception of changes in sound aligned with the computational segmentation of each pianist’s performed key velocity. Their second hypothesis was that the outside-listeners’ perception of arousal would align with the performers’ level of physiological arousal, as measured by their SC level, over the time-course of the music. Interestingly, a mixed result was found regarding their second hypothesis. In the same case study, Performer 2’s skin conductance correlated with the listeners perceptions of arousal, and yet in the same piece of music, performer one’s skin conductance did not align with the listeners perceptions. Bailes suggests that perhaps individual differences in SC (Performer 1 was more prone to sweating!) may have weakened the link between perceptions and physiological measures of arousal.
The research presented by Bailes and Dean display some interesting details. Their research looked at a range of intriguing questions regarding improvisation, from leadership roles to arousal and the interactions between performers’ perception and physiological changes and non-musician’s perceptions. Bailes and Dean’s research suggests that when two performers are playing together, aural cues alone are enough to allow performers to agree on who was leading the music at any given point. However, their case study also found no evidence to support some of the hypotheses proposed, potentially highlighting the intricacy of investigating such concepts. It seems that when you’re fascinated by researching impossible tasks, you can’t always expect straightforward results—but that’s all part of the fun.
Dean, R. T., & Bailes, F. (2016). Relationships between generated musical structure, performers’ physiological arousal and listener perceptions in solo piano improvisation. Journal of New Music Research, 45(4), 361-374.
Khalfa, S., Isabelle, P., Jean-Pierre, B., & Manon, R. (2002). Event-related skin conductance responses to musical emotions in humans. Neuroscience letters, 328(2), 145-149.
Rickard, N. S. (2004). Intense emotional responses to music: a test of the physiological arousal hypothesis. Psychology of music, 32(4), 371-388.
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Corriere della Sera, the largest Italian daily newspaper, dedicated a great article to the book presentations.
Bovino is an enchanting village of the Daunia Mountains, officially elected as one of the “Most Beautiful Villages in Italy” (Foggia, Apulia). #weareinpuglia #puglia.
What you see in this photogallery are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on a big outdoor billboard, on the road (its sizes: 5,5 meters x 3,5). They are the result of various and different overlaps – which took place over weeks and months – of advertising publicity posters with different contents.
I was lucky enough to catch them and to take pictures for my “Lacer/actions” Project and Archive which now counts around 100,000 abstract images I collected so far around the world.
On ACS Gallery Artsy page you can see 15 artworks by Roberto: 13 abstract photos on canvases and 2 collages. All the works are part of “Lacer/actions” Project and research.
Roberto Alborghetti is an Italian journalist, author and visual artist. He loves abstract photography. He collected so far around 100.000 pics about decomposition of matters (publicity posters, natural cracks, scratches, corrosions).His photos are reproduced in unique copies on different media. He exhibited in Italy (Aldobrandesca Fortress in Piancastagnaio, Tuscany; Romanesque Temple in Lenno, on Lake Como) in London and Nottingham (The Ghost Bus Project).
ACS Gallery is housed in one of the most distinguished locations in the Zhou B Art Center/Museum. The ACS Gallery offers a wide range of works from emerging and established contemporary artists. Renée LaVerné Rose is founder, agent & curator presenting gallery exhibitions for represented artists and offers the works of non-gallery national and international artists by online curated exhibitions. ACS Gallery ensures personalized service for its clientele to invest in fine art collections. Arts & Cultural Strategies, Inc. (ACS) is enriching people’s lives through arts and cultural exchange projects, promoting a blend of internationally known to local emerging artists, amplify international cultural exchange projects, and nurture artists’ communities.
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South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp defended former assistant D.J. Durkin and criticized ESPN for a “lack of journalistic integrity” in its report on the “toxic coaching culture” under Durkin at Maryland.
Durkin, entering his third season with the Terrapins, has come under scrutiny after offensive lineman Jordan McNair collapsed during a conditioning workout and eventually died. ESPN’s report, released Friday, roughly two months after McNair’s death, detailed horrific and demeaning treatment of players by members of Durkin’s staff.
Muschamp, who employed Durkin as a position coach and defensive coordinator for four years at Florida, questioned the credibility of the report at a news conference on Saturday.
A former staff member recalled a time when one player was in a team meeting with food on a plate because he was rushing from a meal to get to the meeting, and [strength and conditioning coach Rick] Court smacked the plate of food out of the player’s hands, yelling at him.
Of course, there are reasons sources are granted anonymity. Namely, because they fear retribution and are unwilling to expose wrongdoing without anonymity. ESPN likely did extensive fact-checking to ensure the allegations weren’t fabricated. Muschamp, on the other hand, is likely just sticking up for a friend, and attacking the reporting because he doesn’t like what was reported, not because there are actually reasons to believe it’s untrue.
Muschamp said he talked to Durkin Saturday morning, and concluded his answer with another defense of his pal.
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BPL ThinkTank was Brooklyn Public Library’s first staff unconference. More information.
HealthCampNYC: Using Collective Knowledge to Improve Health Literacy and Community Health was a regional health unconference. More information.
We provided assistance with facilitation on the day of a library staff unconference.
We provided advice on unconference organizing and facilitating for a community health unconference in Washington, DC.
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Oh, Chris Isaak, I don’t have any specific memories of this one when I first heard it on the radio other than that I thought it was amazing. But I do have a more recent memory of it from a few years back. While I have always appreciated your voice and your sense of humor, my wife is the real fan. So when I saw that the local radio station here in Austin was giving out tickets to your concert at the ACL theater, I figured what the hell. I’m not a concert-goer, what with my anxiety and all, but I thought it would be a nice surprise for my wife. Plus, I didn’t think there was any chance I’d win, so no pressure.
But what do you know, I won! And so my wife and I attended your concert. We were in the very, very last row at the very top of balcony, but they ended up being great seats. And the concert was amazing. I’ve only been to maybe five concerts in my life, and this was the second best one (the best one was when I went to see Garth Brooks, but that’s a story for another time). Had it not been for Garth Brooks, this would definitely have been my favorite. You played for like 3 hours or something because you loved the theater so much. You’re just a fantastic performer, Chris Isaak, and thanks to my radio stations, I got to listen to you as a kid AND see you live with my wonderful wife. And of course you played this one at the concert and it was as hauntingly beautiful two decades later as it was when I first recorded it off the radio.
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While I was browsing eMakers forum I can upon a post of somewhere to buy cheaper filament. I ordered some from Reprapkit.com at £49.90 for 2.3Kg. That price has now gone up – £62.37 – as they are out of pre-order – that said the listing is confusing stating they have stock but still on pre-order! Anyway back to the filament.
The filament is very good – it feeds well and the finish is shiny. There have been no problems with it stringing etc.
However – as I have said – there are a negatives. The main one being that there seems to be a lot of moisture in the filament. This leads to some popping and spitting at lower print speeds – mainly on the first layer as it is printed slower. This leads onto any print that has a low feed speed – mainly those of a lower layer height – however I suppose you could simply increase the print speed.
Considering this costs 6.5p per meter its faults so far are easy to put to one side. It sticks well, looks good and is cheap. It may have a little to much moisture for slower prints – which reduces its ability to work with thin layers – but its cheap making it great for test prints or prints requiring large amounts of plastic.
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Do you want to develop better relationships with your shareholders?
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Please browse through the sections of this website to get more insight on the book so that you see how it can revolutionize your IR Practices.
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Reading a post from the Red Letter Christians today and you would assume the name Red Letter would mean Jesus’ words alone, but you would be quite wrong if you did.
The article was on a protester that protested the Trump Chicago rally because in their mind Trump is a racist. Why, because Trump in the past has called people names and wants to build a boarder.
Now mind you I’m not a Trump supporter, I have a different candidate that I am supporting but this is not the point.
Tony Campolo and his Red Letters don’t see the hypocrisy in all this as a matter of fact they publish the hypocrisy.
What is the hypocrisy, it is that one can protest a candidate because they don’t like them. Let’s call him a racist because he shoots his mouth off now and again but nothing about why Biblically one needs to disrupt presidential rally.
Never mind the candidate supports abortion, has no clue of what it means to be a true Christian, has no intentions and will not repent of any violations of God moral code even though he believes to be a Christian and this from a group that insist they follow the words of Jesus.
The second hypocrisy is the protester makes it plain that Trump is the target based on he called people names making him a racist. Let’s forget that two candidates Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton have promised abortion on demand be the main stay law of the land if elected. There will be no protection for the unborn with a democratic candidate with both candidates in clear violation of the 6th and 8th commandments but I guess red letters don’t agree those are worth protesting.
Amazing how progressive Christians won’t see truth because it clouds their agenda. True sin in the mind of a liberal Christian is negative emotions; it is symbolism over substance something well defined in the Red Letter Christian.
The small topic of the week has been Christians and the tolerance of torture so I would like to throw my two cents in to the topic as well because I believe there is more to this than what we want to admit.
This all started last week when my Senator from California Dianne Feinstein in my opinion committed treason and published the CIA reports on our interrogation practices used on war criminals from the 911 attack of 2001.
When Feinstein brought those interrogation tactics out into the public she not only put every American in this country at risk she put every American dignitary and every service men and women in the armed forces that serve around the world at risk as well not to mention the free world.
Feinstein should be impeached, arrested tried and sent to prison for treason for putting Americans at risk.
Now with that off my chest let us proceed, I believe this whole situation of torture to get much needed information to find Osama Bin Laden is very involved and cannot be just looked over as a bunch of CIA agents torturing prisoners of war because president George W Bush said it was fine.
The debate should Christian’s condone torture is a no brainer no they should not but we need to look at what got us to this time in our lives that we had to use torture to keep our country safe and exact revenge on the over 2500 people killed in the September 11th 2001 attack.
First we will look at the political side of how we got to torture and what could have been done to avoid it. It started back in the 1980’s when Senator Charlie Wilson from Texas saw how the people of Afghanistan where getting slandered by the Russians.
Wilson convinced president Reagan and with the help of some other military geniuses acquired stinger missiles in the hands of Afghan rebels to fight against the invading communist Russians.
This was a win win kill for America, our stinger missiles helped the Afghan rebels defeat the Russians and forced them to retreat from Afghanistan. This also helped the Americans win the cold war by causing Russia to spend more money on a losing battle ultimately killing the Russian government and loosing the cold war.
When president Regans term ended George H Bush won the 1988 presidency. When the cold war ended Bush 41 stopped funding the Afghans allowing for the extreme Islam to make their move in the region.
In 1992 President Bill Clinton won the presidency and in 1993 the first attack on the world trade center was tried killing 6 people and injuring 1000. In 2000 the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen killing 17 service men.
The 1993 attack was a declaration of war, the 2000 USS Cole attack was a declaration of war and yet President Clinton stood by and did nothing. What should have been the beginning of trying to stop radical Islamic terrorist in 1993 became the killing of 17 service men with the attack on the USS Cole.
In 2000 President George W Bush was elected president and 8 months in to his first term September 11th 2001 20977 people died when radical Islamic terrorist flew American planes into the twin towers, the pentagon and the attempt of what might have been the US White House.
This should have been stopped back in 1993; Bush 41 and Clinton should have never stopped supplying the Afghan rebels with missiles they were friends of the U.S. and were keeping extreme Islam from growing in the region. But because our Presidents forgot our Middle Eastern allies and did not declare war on radical Islam in 1993 or 2000, September 11 attacks happened and the US military went to war.
Bush 43 sent our soldiers to war but did not ask the American People to invest themselves in this war, we were told to go shopping and live our lives and because of this in my opinion is why we forgot we were attacked.
When prisoners of war were captured they were not interrogated in the battlefield and they were not tried and sentenced to death in the battlefield. They were shipped to American soil and that put all Americans at danger with this action, those prisoners were interrogated on American soil and I believe that was a mistake.
In 2011 Seal team 6 attacked and killed Osama Bin Laden and President Obama who like President Clinton did nothing took full credit for the killing of Bin Laden.
It was the tactics employed by the CIA years before President Obama was elected that killed Bin Laden not the expert foreign policy of President Obama or Hilary Clinton or lack there of.
As you can see politically this all may have been avoided way back in the early 1990’s but it didn’t happen. We had defunded the Afghan rebels with Bush 41, We had a week president in Clinton and we had and president that refused to let the American people invest themselves in the Iraq and Afghan war and for that we are here in a place where we had to tolerate torture in order to keep our country safe and try and win a war that Americans had forgotten.
In 2008 we elected a president that is undoing everything that we went to war for in 2001 and now Christians in the Middle East are dying, children are having their heads cut off for believing in Jesus this is where we are so where will we go from here.
Now the Christian view, in my opinion no Christian tolerates or condones torture. For a long time now America has been pulling away from God, sometimes a lot and sometimes not at all but for the most part America has slowly pulled away from God but God has not turned his back on us.
We legalized the killing of unborn children and our country condones biblical immorality. The world is starting to no longer live in a black and white world and our country is mimicking this by excusing bad behavior. Doing wrong is no longer necessarily bad and our feelings are more important than following God’s moral law.
As Christians we too are attacked and are blind to God’s moral law and his ethical behavior. We make excuses for bad behavior and we do in the name of God’s love.
Christians are being attacked not always physically but mentally and socially and it’s wearing down on some. God’s love does not include condoning immorality, it does not condone putting other God’s before him.
There is a time when Christians have to stand up for what it right, what is moral and what is ethical the 10 commandment are not the 10 suggestions.
The more Christians give into changing God’s natural law, his moral law and ethical behavior the more division we create amongst ourselves. Satan is convincing Christians that we should not judge sin. Since we all sin we should just accept one another as we are and sin equally. The 10 commandment are just rules to live by.
This division Lucifer has created is causing Christians to lose common ground with each other. If we lose common ground with each other we are no longer practice Christianity but only practice religion and there will be no ground to stand together on.
As our country pulls away from God, his moral law and ethical behavior we then lose our faith in our country and in each other. It’s a division between the people and the government and if we demand our government to be secular and not follow God’s moral law and ethical behavior then why should we expect anything less than torture.
Our country was once strong in God, our military was week but we continued to grow none the less. Our country is now strong in government and week in God in my opinion will continue to get weaker as long as we continue to walk away from God.
Bottom line is as a Christian you can be upset and mad about what this country has done to try and protect not only you but over 300 million people that live in America but the fault does not lie with one person it lies with all of us. We are all to blame for this and if we don’t stop walking from God but instead to God we can expect more of this kind of behavior to come.
We vote today folks so let’s make it count shall we; the title of this blog came to me last night on my way home from work. I was listening to Glen Beck on the radio and he predicted the GOP would win the house and the Senate and that may be a bad thing. My drive is only an hour so I never got to listen to what he meant by that but I have a thought on what it means.
My thought is this the current leadership of the GOP is piss poor to say the least, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are a joke for the GOP they may as well be moderate democrats. They show no real leadership in a party that once had both houses and lost it and now are on the verge of reclaiming the power again. I guess that is the word “Power” those two see this as the same as the democrats it’s nothing but power and what they can do to rule the concept of their democracy. Well GOP senators and congressmen and this is where you don’t get it. You don’t do your job for money and power and insider trading you does this to represent your state and your country. You work for the people of your state and you make and break your country with the decisions you make or lack thereof.
The lack of leadership is what got us president Obama and Harry Reid and I fear the lack of leadership again by Boehner and McConnell will yield us President Hillary Clinton in 2016. Problem is people vote big on their pocket book and they are easily bought into by lies and deceit something the Democratic Party is good at and something moderate republicans use to keep their own hope alive. We have to stop this voters, the GOP needs to win the house the senate and the presidency to keep America from slipping in to economic and moral ruin.
Yes the GOP leadership is crap I know but so is the democratic party, it’s more than crap is just right down immoral right now and if you opted out on voting today or yesterday if you absent “T” then you voted for Harry Reid and or any other slug running for office on the democratic ticket. Voters have to be strong and vote out these democrats officials that go along with socialized health care, allowing illegal’s to run amock while we the people split the bill. In 2016 no matter how week Boehner and McConnell are no matter how stupid your GOP congressman and senator is we have to vote for who the next Republican presidential nominee is because no matter how moderate they are they still will be better than Clinton or Biden or any other democrat communist that comes along.
Stand strong and keep the GOP together and after the 2016 election then we get rid of Boehner and McConnell, you vote out your lukewarm moderate senator and congressman that plagues your state and vote in a conservative American that will work for you the people and not their own power and pocket book. Stand strong America and be patient, we will have the chance to take our country back but we have to do it right. We can’t do it for ourselves we have to do it for our future, our parents, our kids and our way of life. Please today do the right thing, Vote and let us get this country back on its feet.
Yes I do feel this way our only ally in the Middle East, the country that takes the brunt of terrorism and the country that has tested all our military might in real time battles is respected my most of America but not our president and his administration.
I think one main reason why Israel is our ally is due to location, they are really the only Free State in what is plethora of dictators, and police states that practice lawless and Stone Age leadership. The west puts up with the Arabic States behavior mainly due to both need each other. The west needs oil so to speak and the east needs leadership and technology. Since the Israel became a nation in 1948 America has supported this small country based on my first reason. Israel is the only real democracy in the region. Whether it’s been a democrat or a republican our government has supported this diamond in a region of terror and hate.
It’s my contention that this current president does not want to support Israel but was forced into the support based on Israel is our ally. Although we cannot know what is in our presidents heart it’s safe to say President Obama is an Islamic, borderline radical Muslim sympathizer who I feel would leave Israel to its own support if the polling data would let him.
While most Americans support a free Israel and believe they have a right to defend their country I feel our president would like to see Israel gone forever. What our president lacks in knowledge is if Israel is lost to the radical Islam terror groups so will the rest of the world. The biggest thorn to Israel has been Islam and the biggest thorn to Islam has been Israel. Presidents that know and understand this use this to the advantage of peace with these Arabic states because when you already have a guard at the gates it gives you a bigger ability to monitor the inmates.
I do not believe our president and secretary of State knows and understands this, nor did the Clinton administration when they tried to monkey with the Israeli elections to broker a peace with Israel and Palestine. It failed because of pure hatred of the Islamic community towards Israel and another reason why Clinton 2016 for president needs not to happen, Israel will again pay the price for a Hillary presidency.
President Obama states he is Christian, yes once a practicing Muslim he was converted by Jeremiah Wright a pastor who’s sermons of hatred for America and Isreal converts a peace loving Muslim Barack Obama to a Christian. Obama’s own religious advisor Joel Hunter lacks faith in God himself. His idea of God’s beloved creation of man could destroy his creation of the earth is pathetic at best.
It’s very sad to see our current administration trying it’s best to turn its back on Israel our first line of defense of the Middle East. What we need to do is to pray that God will continue to guide good decisions on the behalf of Israel, America and the European west. Pray our representatives will make the right decisions and stand up with Israel and continue the support that I believe America has with this small but great force in a region of hatred because if Israel falls radical Islam will come for us next.
That word Impeachment is out again, I’ve been hearing it for some time now but in the last few days it’s been ringing very loud “We need to impeach the president” but do you know what you are saying.
We need to impeach president Obama yes we do, he has clearly broke law of the president along with his administration so with that I say yes our representatives need to bring impeachment proceedings down on the president and his administration.
Be clear and understand this does not mean he is booted out of office in fact nothing may happen to him. Mind you he is on his last term he has little to lose and when his term is over the next person ready to take his place under the liberal progressive regime will campaign as I’m not him I’m a different person if you had voted for me back in 2008 none of this would had happened.
I think people seem to feel if you’re impeached your booted out of office because Nixon was impeached and he was booted out of office. Not true, Nixon was not impeached. Most likely Nixon would have been impeached but they would have had to prove what he was accused of first before they could impeach him.
Nixon had respect for the office of the Presidency and thus felt if he stayed on and fought these possible charges against him and his administration it would tear the country apart so he resigned the office of the presidency and stepped down.
Fast forward 20 year later when Clinton, Bill that is not Hillary was accused of conduct under the oath of the presidency. Clinton was found guilty of perjury before a grand jury, he was later censured and I believe he ended up being disbarred. He was never removed from office he later served out his term and Clinton’s to this day still have enormous amount of political power in the Democratic Party.
Yes president Obama needs impeachment proceedings to take place for himself and his administration but be aware this will not rid him of office. Like I said before he’s on his last term. In 2016 the next group of hungry democrats that are buying for power are just going to say I’m not Obama if you had voted for me in 2008 I would never had done that so be for warned.
Best thing we as people can do, yes ask our representatives for impeachment proceeding against this administration but most of all we need to vote. We need to kick out these bums that say they will represent us and don’t. I say give your Congressman, Senator and state representatives two terms to start making things right otherwise vote them out. This keeps them from getting corrupt with power. If they can’t prove they are there to represent you then they need to leave.
In closing understand what it means when you say impeachment, if you want the president out well it’s not going to happen but we can make his life hell by voting correct this year 2014 and voting correct in 2016.
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All are welcome – that’s the idea anyway.
Imagine that you are invited to a great banquet, a sumptuous feast, a life changing event that you never imagined that you would attend. Maybe you wanted to attend, maybe you swore you would never go to such a thing, but whatever the case, you find yourself getting ready to enter. As you approach, someone greets you, but you notice they are looking you up and down in a way that makes you deeply uncomfortable. You were told that the host of the vent welcomed all people, yet now you are not so sure.
As you proceed, another person stops you and asks for your credentials. Suddenly you loose your emotional footing – you wonder what’s going on. You have your invitation, and it appears to express that you are welcome at any time, so you’re not sure what might be wrong.
This being Thursday means #tbt in social media world. If you are unfamiliar, that hashtag stands for “Throwback Thursday.” Last Thursday included a #tbt, so maybe I will do this for all of Lent, but no promises. It is not just the lazyblogging of reposting old content, but a means to connect the past and the present at the blog, meaning the papal installation and the papal visit to Mexico.
Almost three years ago, on March 19, 2013, Pope Francis was installed to the Chair of Peter. What did we know back then? I don’t know about you, but I was already onto the fact that this was a most dangerous man – and I was very happy about it. I still am. At the same time, and here is our Lenten challenge, I remain deeply uncomfortable and divided.
Uncomfortable? Divided? Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy! I’m uncomfortable and divided because cheering him on from my suburban corner of the world reminds me that I am too comfortable and afflicted. Cheering Pope Francis on is one thing. Living the Gospel? That’s another. How I love to think about it, how rarely I actually live it.
During Pope Francis’ journey to Mexico this week, he had the chance to dive deep into issues that divide our nation and our world. I’ve used the word divided more than once, and I will point out that my own image of Satan is that of “diabolos” or divider. Immigration, economic justice, forgiveness and transformation of prisoners, and the slavery of consumerism are all part of the pope’s message. Which is because this is Jesus’ message. All very tasty from the pew or from your sofa, not so much when any of us look at our lives.
And for our #tbt, the text of my 2013 post, “A Dangerous Man, Part Two.” If we thought the pope was going to be a game changer back then, we couldn’t have imagined what we’ve seen today. I’m pretty certain that Jesus would be way more challenging!
That is certainly an understatement! And how the Spirit is alive in our new pope, who clearly has not followed any pre-existing script. As a result, I continue to find him someone who is potentially dangerous. And I love that. As Jesus Christ showed us a long time ago, and as Jesus Christ continues to show us today, nothing is more dangerous than… love.
Now before you go off shaking your head, considering this a seemingly insipid thought, please bear with me as I say few more things. Any of us who are Catholic, or any other kind of Christian, cannot really profess our faith without the knowledge. Can we?
Δεν μπορούσα να το πιστέψω, το Ευαγγέλιο ψαλλόταν στα ελληνικά! Χάρη στον Θεό!
I mean, the Gospel was chanted in Greek! Thanks be to God! (Greek was the language of most of the New Testament Scriptures in their original form, not Latin.) It also seems noteworthy to me, that a woman proclaimed the Epistle; I’m not sure that has happened before at a papal mass, but I could be wrong. And the liturgy of the day, St. Joseph’s Day, was celebrated, which I think is great. Joseph was also importantly highlighted in the homily. All of this is so exciting to me, and I find myself turning to many Scriptures as these moments and days go by.
My love for the Gospel is great, and I could point to many stories and parables that touch my heart deeply, but for today, I will focus on two stories that point to how dangerous Jesus was, and how Pope Francis follows suit.
The other story is possibly my most favorite; the woman at the well, from John 4:4. Perhaps one of my favorite moments in this story is when the Samaritan woman admonishes Jesus for asking her for something to drink.
That piece of Scripture flashed into my mind as I watched this potentially dangerous scene unfold on the news yesterday. What is so dangerous about this? I am being a bit tongue-in-cheek as I say what I do, but I do have several thoughts about it all.
First of all, Cardinal Bergoglio and President Kirchner have a history together; one that is not necessarily a smooth one. Yet, he welcomed her, and they literally shared an Argentine tradition, una yerba mate.
Drinking yerba mate is very ritualistic and it involves everyone sharing from the same cup. Perhaps you see where I am headed. This is good eucharistic theology, if you ask me. And thus, the pope, like Jesus before him, becomes a very dangerous man, by doing this so publicly, so openly, so freely, and so early in his pontificate.
Me… I really like it. That Pope Francis did this. Mate? I love the ritual, but I can’t stand the drink itself! Now, there is a statement that could use a little theological unpacking, but I won’t go there today!
It makes me think of how fussy we can be, especially when at mass, not taking the cup, the Blood of Christ, which is equal in value and meaning, to the host, the Body of Christ. We are afraid of germs. What about the mate drinkers? They share germs. Are we afraid of germs? Are we afraid of one another? Are we afraid of Christ?
I think that this new pope may have some lessons for us along all of these lines. Lessons from a dangerous man, about someone who was really dangerous to many, but who is the savior of us all – Jesus Christ, our Lord.
With that, I leave you to ponder the dangerous power of love at work in the world.
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I’ve been a little behind this month because of my new job. This month’s also shorter than my previous posts. Just not as much to say about this issue. It trods along, but as usual, the issues seem shorter than I’d like, or atleast not as dense as I’d like. If the Authority was wide-screen action film, then The Wild Storm is like an adult TV show like those from HBO/Showtime/Netflix, etc in it’s pacing with the exception that it’s not an hour long worth of material, I’m not sure it’s even 1/2 hour’s length, but I still enjoy it. I just want more!!!! What do you guys think?
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Still reeling from the carb overload last night. We ate out as the kitchen is being attacked by builders and we have a mission to support local restaurants. This new fish n chips place is restaurant first and take away after. Lovely feel to the place with large tables for groups to sit round, waitresses in gallic blue stripey tee shirts and free flowing wine. Or was that just us?
As a non fish eater my selection for mains was limited to veggie burger, but the others had ludicrous amounts of calamari and whitebait to start then pollock, cod or hake with chips. Fish comes battered, crumbed or grilled and the sides did have salad listed but none of us went healthy. It was chips, mushy peas, coleslaw and the biggest onion rings the world has ever seen. Plus I had white sliced bread and butter to make my butty. Oh joy. Crispy batter, proper chips, great mushy peas. And those onion rings. What’s not to love? I’d thought I’d have an ice cream too as it looked really nice, but I just couldn’t move. Still can’t 12 hours later.
Definitely worth going – even on a Monday evening it was busy and buzzy, but share your dishes. The speedy service means you can easily order more if it’s not enough.
Huge fan of GBK the first few times I went. Tastiest burgers made of great beef, nice rolls, great chips. The last couple of times I’ve been though, they have been a bit of a disappointment. I couldn’t decide if it was that I expected too much – overhyped them somehow. But now, on this third time of finding them not as good as they used to be, I think I’m leaving them and going elsewhere.
Don’t get me wrong. They are still good. Just not great any more. Could it be that now they are completely owned by Nandos’ that quality has been sacrificed? Three of the four of us were underwhelmed – a lamb burger, a beef satay (had to be sent back as cold) and mine a ‘Don’. The one of us who opted for the TaxiDriver was well chuffed.
Chips were crisp and dips packed a punch. Pinot grigio was a bit acidic, but daughter’s elderflower and mint fizz was surprisingly refreshing.
Service was easy and pleasnt, if a little over eager to clear the plates. But it’s not cheap. So it’s going to be a Byron’s next time. Or maybe a return to Kerbisher and Malt….
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Peter came third in the inaugural Terence Rattigan New Play Award in September 2017 with Wrong Move.
Peter's newest play The Boot played for four nights at the Camden Fringe in August, 2017. It was described by Reviewsgate as a 'corkscrew of a thriller'.
Peter's play Manifesto was short-listed for the Sussex Playwright's Club 80th Anniversary Competition.
Peter was a joint winner of the International Playwriting Festival 2014 for Man With No Ties.
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LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - He taught them how to type and how to run the fast break. He smiled easily and always saw the good in life. To his young grandson, he gave the best bedtime snacks.
In the end, William ``Dave'' Sanders gave it all, sacrificing his life while trying to save students during the massacre at Columbine High School last week.
It took the sanctuary and two overflow rooms at the Trinity Christian Center to hold the 2,500 people - students, teachers, residents - who bid goodbye to the 47-year-old, bearded and bespectacled Sanders. He died of gunshot wounds in the rampage that also killed 12 students. The two gunmen committed suicide.
``He was and always will be a hero in my heart,'' said his niece, Kim Smith, one of many people offering testimonials.
The ceremony for Sanders was one of four funerals Monday, the other three for students.
Mourners remembered Cassie Bernall, the 17-year-old girl who professed her love of God just before she was shot, and Lauren Townsend, an 18-year-old honor student and captain of the girls' varsity volleyball team. A funeral was held later Monday for Daniel Rohrbough, the 15-year-old boy shot while holding an exit door open for fleeing students.
At the funeral for Sanders, students past and present walked to the front of the chapel and stood over his dark blue casket, which was covered in a large flower arrangement, to remember him as a teacher, coach, friend and hero.
As gunfire echoed through the school cafeteria during the attack, Sanders shouted out to students and herded them to safety.
Sanders spent 24 years at Columbine, his first and only teaching job. He taught business and substituted in the science department. He also coached track and girls' basketball and girls' softball.
As mourners listened to the testimonials, they clutched hands and wiped tears. Students gathered in small groups, embracing each other. Most in the crowd wore the now-familiar ribbons in blue and silver, the school's colors.
- At the West Bowles Community Church, about 2,000 people remembered the strong Christian faith of Miss Bernall. Other students had said after the rampage that when one of the gunmen asked her if she believed in God, she answered that she did. The gunman then killed her.
- About 1,200 people packed into the standing-room-only worship area of Foothills Bible Church to mourn Miss Townsend. The Rev. Bill Shelby asked the audience to use the tragedy to become the best they can be and love all types of people as Lauren did.
Her freckled, smiling face beamed down on the crowd from two large screens in the church. Friends and family recalled a motivated, somewhat shy senior who wanted to become a biologist like her brother Matt.
Miss Townsend was a volleyball player, member of the National Honor Society and candidate for valedictorian.
``She was really a remarkable girl,'' her uncle, Harvey Gates, said before the service, wiping away a tear.
Friends and family wrote their farewells in blue and black marker on Miss Townsend's white coffin. ``I miss you,'' said one.
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Pancakes are hard to screw up, and they’re even harder to set apart from the rest of the pack. Locally famous for good reason, our top three take the classic batter on a pan to a whole new level, selling like hotcakes, and tasting as good as regular cake.
Six locations, one in the city and five in the suburbs, makes Elly’s a convenience of deliciousness no matter where you find yourself, and as the name suggests, the pancakes are on point. Choose from their many old-fashioned pancake varieties, or go for the famous oven-baked pancakes, a taste and texture of excellence like you’ve never experienced.
Pancakes and berries go together better than pretty much any other two things, and Wildberry’s warm, inviting environment is only furthered by the specialty pancakes. We’re talking such varieties as banana cream pie, caramel apple pecan, and our favorite, the “Signature Berry Bliss.” Blissful you will be.
Points right off the bat for the awesomely classic name, then points off the charts for the pancakes and hotcakes. The unique varieties, like the citrus and ginger snap and the Oreo and praline, are exquisite, and we especially recommend the lethal brunch cocktails.
Sledding in the Windy City isn’t like sledding on the hill behind your neighbor’s house in your small town. You’re more than likely going to have to share, but don’t let that get you down, because no one can frown while blasting down a snow-covered hill like a young Charles Foster Kane.
Like something that would be a side feature at a ski lodge, Caldwell Woods’ sledding hill in Oak Park isn’t anything but a sledding hill. Walk up the gated side, which will have a bit of a line if you don’t come during the off-hours, and slide down the steep but smooth bank in gleeful wintery cheer.
The sledding hill at Dan Ryan Woods is tailored for the family outing. We’re talking ample parking, no crowds, and a 200 foot hill that’s not very steep, perfect for children while still being tolerably tame for the big’uns.
When they renovated the field, they added a sledding hill, and boy is it impressive. 220 feet of chilly thrills, and if there’s one downside to sledding, it’s lugging the sled back up the hill. Soldier Field’s sledding hill is rocking a T-Bar lift. Can’t beat that.
Spring, summer, and fall leave winter in the dust when it comes to the number of options for festivals, but January boasts some exceptional options that are sure to become annual traditions. Brave the cold, they’re worth it.
A local staple of the Chicago comedy scene, Stage 773 has been hosting the country’s largest and premier sketch fest, with almost 200 shows. When you consistently deliver for over ten years, you know we’ll be in attendance at least one of the ten nights ready to laugh.
At the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, a tribute to Martin Luther King on his day of memory features eclectic entertainment, from song and dance to poetry and music, as well as a reception with mingling, snacks, and refreshments.
Lincoln Square, also known as Germantown, houses DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, and they have two back-to-back nights of fun. The first is a dance party and burlesque show, and the second is Winter Beer Fest, and you drink and eat delicious German beer and food at both.
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Lori Lust has been invited to one of the hardest pinup and glamour models events of California to get into - The Model Invitational autograph show February 26th, San Pedro, CA.
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Lori Lust said she will be wearing her smallest bikinis and have all new selection of 8x10s and videos. She is also giving away free stuff to any member of her website LoriLustXXX.com.
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To study as an inbound exchange student at the University of Toronto, you must first be nominated by one of our partner institutions. You cannot apply to us directly. Please contact the exchange office at your home institution for details about application procedures and deadlines.
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If your home university is not one of our partners, you will not be eligible for exchange. However, there are a few other visiting opportunities that may allow you to study at U of T for a short duration of time.
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Follow the instruction for Inbound Guidelines below to ensure you have submitted all of the required documents according to the faculty to which you are applying. Your home institution is instructed to upload your official academic transcript on your behalf, as well as TOEFL/IELTS scores (if required), letters of reference (if applicable), and any other official university documents (if applicable).
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Choose one of the four questions below to answer. Prepare a written response (between 250 and 500 words).
Describe a problem that you solved; intellectual, ethical, or otherwise important to you.
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NOTE: Students applying for performance courses must be on exchange for both academic terms (September-April), as all performance courses run for the full academic year.
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Please ensure all required documents are uploaded by the application deadlines listed below. If documents are missing, your application is considered incomplete.
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University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus including the International Research Opportunity Program (iROP).
Once nominated, students are required to apply for exchange via our online student application portal.
The online application opens on January 21, 2019 for the upcoming 2019-2020 academic year (September – April). If you have been nominated by your home institution, apply for exchange through our Student Portal.
Carefully follow the instructions on Student Application Instructions (PDF) to ensure you have submitted a complete application.
NOTE: We only have one nomination & application period for the full upcoming academic year (fall & winter semesters). In most cases, the new schedule of course offerings for your desired Academic Faculty will not be published by the exchange application deadline. When you are applying for an exchange, you will be asked to select a few courses based on the current year’s calendar and timetable. We use this information only to ensure you have been nominated to the most appropriate faculty. You will receive instructions on requesting your U of T courses after you have been admitted.
NOTE: Even if you are beginning your exchange in January (Winter term), you should still be choosing your courses in the summer. Course registration in May/June is for the full academic year (Winter & Fall terms).
After you are admitted, work with your home department to determine when/how you will enroll in courses – each graduate department manages this process individually.
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In the last quarter-century, scores of new urban centers have sprouted up across US. Joel Garreau visits some of them - three generations into the future.
Over the last 25 years, Americans have witnessed the biggest city-building boom in history. We have erected 181 new urban cores, each of which today is larger than the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
Almost nobody saw it coming. The people we pay to be urban planners never imagined a future in which ordinary people pick up and move their city functions as close as possible to their suburban homes. They never envisioned that we would be constructing enormous office buildings in areas like Silicon Valley, and filling them with the bulk of our information-age jobs.
Nonetheless, these places I call edge cities - places like Tysons Corner, Virginia; Schaumburg, Illinois; and Irvine, California - have become vastly larger than many of the 45 remaining major downtowns in the United States. In fact, edge cities have become the standard for the world's urban environments.
The hallmarks of edge cities are not the sidewalks of New York, for usually there are few sidewalks. Look, rather, for jogging trails. Nor are these new cities tied together by locomotives and subways. Instead, they are united by jet ways, freeways, and satellite dishes 10 meters across. You won't find a horse-mounted hero as the characteristic monument of an edge city. Instead you will find high, atrium-shielding trees perpetually in leaf at the cores of corporate headquarters, fitness centers, and shopping plazas. In this new kind of city, you will find few of the penthouses of the old urban rich or the tenements of the old urban poor. Instead, the landmark dwelling is the celebrated single-family detached home - the three-bedroom, two-bath unit with grass all around - that made America the best-housed civilization the world has ever known.
Since edge cities are so new - only 30 years ago, most of them were cow pasture - it's hard to project their future.
But humans have been building cities for 58,000 years now, and patterns have developed. All cities, for example, appear chaotic in their early stages. In 1848, Charles Dickens saw his first industrial-age city. Used to tiny agrarian towns, he wrote of London, "There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the earth, moldering in the water, and unintelligible as in any dream."
That's not a bad description of the strip malls in most edge cities today.
But just as London turned out to be a model of urban life after six or seven generations of tearing it down, rebuilding, re-envisioning, and planting ivy, there's hope for our new edge cities.
After all, Paris looks swell today because you can't see all the mistakes. The Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, for one, flattened quite a few of them when he redesigned the Champs Elysées.
Modern Venice is venerated as a shrine to livability. But "people forget that Venice was built by hook or by crook," says Dennis Romano, a social historian of the early Renaissance. "Venice was just as mercantilist" as our modern world. "It was full of land speculators and developers. The merchants' primary concern was the flow of goods, of traffic. Those who romanticize Venice today collapse 1,000 years of history. The architectural harmony of the Piazza San Marco was an accident. It was built over centuries by people who were constantly worried about whether they had enough money."
There's no reason Americans - who over four centuries have demonstrably handled chaos and change and invented the future with more dexterity than any civilization in history - can't aim as high.
One of the reasons edge cities haven't attracted many artists and bohemians is that so much of it is brand-new and therefore expensive. That will change. Somebody had to be the first to look at an abandoned New England textile mill and realize it would make a great condominium. Somebody had to be the first to look at an old SoHo sweatshop and realize it would make a great artists loft.
16-foot ceilings and killer HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Then he or she realizes you can get them for nothing from the Resolution Trust Corporation - and the first edge-city bohemian district is born.
First the artists break the space into lavish 5,000-square-foot sculptors studios. Then they punch skylights into the roof to let natural light into the interior. Then they do the sensible thing and start living there illegally.
They place sculptures and anything else they can think of on the roof, although the windmills quickly become cliché. When all the really great space in the Kmart is full, other people start filling the former drugstores and dry cleaners of the abandoned shopping center with funky bars, savory restaurants, computer-arts master printers, and the shady dens of CD-ROM pressers. The exteriors of the buildings are painted in intriguing ways. Think Berkeley, California - or better yet, its neighbor, Emeryville.
There are still a lot of parking spaces in the near-term future. This place will never resemble an old village because it was originally shaped by the automobile. Individual transportation is unquestionably here to stay. Artists are individualists, and they cherish the freedom that four tires and a steering column afford them - especially as vehicles become zero-emission and are easily modified with hand tools because so much of their makeup is plastic and fiberglass.
This edge-city bohemian district is unquestionably a working environment. Art is being made, and artists need their trucks to bring in materials and supplies. There are trendy industrial overtones to this place. An arc-welding unit on the back loading dock is quite the status symbol, as is a used hologram duplicator.
Nonetheless, this new use attracts much less traffic than did the old Kmart. So, on the land no longer needed for parking, the artists muse over why that parking lot is so ugly, and they do something about it - thus solving the most difficult aesthetic problem in the edge city. In the parking lot they plant trees and vegetable gardens and erect sculptures, paintings, band shells, tot lots, playgrounds, volleyball courts with imported sand, and farmers markets. Whenever a pothole emerges, it is seen as an opportunity to create a garden.
Inexpensive but attractive structures such as elaborate vendor stalls are built parallel to the façade of the old shopping center, creating a walkable alley with places for adults to sit and kids play.
The artists go to the great trouble of digging up the old drainage-system pipes. Now storm water flows on the surface, in the form of streams and marshes.
Of course, these neo-Ecotopians put in a lot of little dams and channels so the water doesn't rush off after a rain the way the drainage system designed it to do.
Flash to the far-term future.
All this has changed. The trees and plantings have grown to a stately, British-gardenlike splendor. As always happens, the artist rehabilitation has led to yuppie gentrification. This place is now completely residential, abundantly high-end, and is called The Estates at Place K.
Two waves of change have occurred. First, extremely expensive but subtle and tasteful upgrades have been installed. There are French doors where the plate-glass windows used to be. There are Palladian windows over the entrance to what used to be the pizza parlor. All the fixtures of the former Baskin-Robbins are now brass. One of the most highly valued luxuries is that people have the space to carefully house - indoors - their antique collections. Thus, what used to be the drugstore now is a showplace for such beauties as the extremely rare 1996 Ford Windstar minivan.
Second, there has been an impeccably authentic restoration of the original structure, in the fashion of today's rehabilitated stables.
The paint on the Kmart has been sandblasted down to the original beige, after consultation with architectural historians who painstakingly chipped off 27 layers of paint and grime to discover what the first designers intended. The motorized clothing rack of the old dry cleaners has been lovingly restored to operation; some of the replacement parts had to be hand-forged. It is in constant motion during cocktail parties. A hot market in authentic acoustical ceiling tile has sprung up.
In the final touch, a complete Mack semi has been parked out front, in the fashion of the old, rusting horse-drawn mowing and plowing implements that grace the lawns of estates today.
The finest sculptures of the turn-of-the-21st-century bohos have been preserved. The storm water systems that they once brought to the surface have now become streams lovingly edged with slate and Japanese lanterns, and filled with koi.
The freight containers and vendor stalls have been upgraded to guest cottages.
When the first big, regional, enclosed malls start to become obsolete, the historic preservationists stampede to their rescue. Like the old movie houses of the 1930s, these malls of the '70s and '80s are incredible palaces, built when price was no object. The layers of marble and gilt, the Amazon-like gardens and three-story computerized fountains and waterfalls, the amazingly sophisticated lighting systems designed to create different moods for every hour of the day.... They will never be seen again. They have to be saved!
University officials realize these structures would make great campuses. The anchors, where Macy's and Nordstrom and Sears used to sell goods, become excellent lecture halls seating thousands of students. The smaller shops are turned into more conventional classrooms. The three-story-high promenades in the center make fine places for students to flirt.
The most elaborate of these regional malls are known as gallerias. They are originally marked by office high-rises poking through the middle and hotels bolted onto the sides of the mall. The office towers, of course, become the administration buildings - quaintly called Old Main - and the hotels make swanky dorms.
Outside, goal posts rise from the acreage originally cleared for development that was never built. Nearby office buildings no longer prestigious enough for their intended purpose are turned into rollicking group houses with the skull of the Grateful Dead, that antiquated symbol of defiance, at the top of the tower.
Inside the old mall, the ice rink at the bottom and the tennis courts on the roof are reserved for faculty and distinguished guests only.
The old food court is forever jammed.
These structures are expensive to maintain, however, and soon tax-cutting politicians ask why students have to be surrounded by all this granite grandeur.
That's when, much later, the most ambitious churches begin to bid on these superb old buildings. The Mormons, particularly, grasp the significance of million-square-foot palaces at the precise center of the most accessible locations in America.
But the Muslim congregations are those with which they can never compete. The Grand Mosque at Tysons Corner Center in Northern Virginia becomes second only to the work of Süleyman the Magnificent in Turkey. The minarets, exactly 1 meter shorter than the Washington Monument, are 13 miles away from the old US Capitol. Beneath the oculus - the circular "eye" at the top of the mosque's dome - tourists tiptoe through the large, cool, central prayer hall in their socks. The tubs around the rushing water of the elaborate old fountains are planted with pomegranate and date palm. Victoria's Secret is completely encased in a hexagonal Casablanca mosaic of cobalt blue and sea green. No expense is spared on this, the largest mosque in the West, by its patron, the Emir of Riyadh, Prince Salman Ibn Abdulaziz al Saud.
Soon, this holiest of sites is walled off to infidels, and the only way to see the old places where the crossed tusks of Banana Republic once reigned is to look at them in old books cataloguing the glories of the golden age of 20th-century mercantilism.
In the last days of the 20th century, there was a profession of people who, ironically enough, called themselves "planners." Even at that time, their numbers were dwindling.
In part, this was because they came out of a 19th-century mechanistic tradition in which the universe was seen as a vast piece of clockwork and chaos was feared. So the planners tried to create a world where nothing was left to chance. "Disney is the ultimate example of this sort of world," noted urban designer Patricia L. Faux. "It is an egomaniac's version of what a community would do to itself if it had the time. It's spooky. It's false. It is predictable, not real. It is not what a community builds. There are no little mom-and-pop stores. Parks are used as buffers. Their function has been changed. They are not places for people to congregate; they are places to keep people at bay."
The largest master-planned urban environment was Irvine, in Orange County, California, 35 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It was the center of a development of staggering proportions. Originally a Spanish land-grant ranch, it covered 160 square miles, ranging from the Pacific Ocean to 20 miles inland. Some of those acres sold in the 1980s for US$1 million apiece. It was so big that its tentacles entangled an entire university campus, two Marine bases, and three edge cities - one called the Irvine Business Complex, another Newport Center, and a third Irvine Spectrum.
In the medium future, history seems to be going Irvine's way. The market for its walled burbclaves - featuring homes painted only in variations on the color of Caucasian skin - booms. So what if the $400,000 Spanish townhouses with their tiled roofs are so indistinguishable that the easiest way to find yours is to hold down the button of the garage-door remote until it makes a panel open?
So what if the neighborhood shadow-government, which rules with an iron fist in the innocuous name of community association, can control the color you choose for your front door or your living-room curtains? So what if it can prohibit washing your car in your own driveway or regulate what size dog you own?
This seems like a small price to pay in a period when uncertainty swirls and security - physical, financial, and moral - is at a premium.
In fact, in the medium future, Irvine markets itself as the Singapore of the Americas. It brags about the Victorian rigidity of its régimes - the safety of the office towers in which a central computer has to recognize you before you are so much as allowed into the ladies room. More corporate enclaves sprout, like the home of the construction industry's Fluor Corporation. They seem to be mirror-finished moon bases visiting this realm. And in a way, they are. The streets are spotless, the SAT scores extraordinary. Everything gleams. The golf courses gleam. The endless gold fixtures in the bathrooms gleam. The robot monorails, the curved geometry of the BMWs and Mercedeses, the uniform trim on the shoulders of the gardener fishing minute cigarette specks out of the water features - they all gleam.
How then, does Irvine come to ruin? Why do vines climb the elevator shafts and plywood sheath the windows?
Irvine tries to prevent it. But over the course of a raucous century, Irvine goes downhill. First, the comptrollers of corporate America can't stand to alter their corporate palaces in Irvine. Put in a fireplace to make an office more homey? Retrofit a building with windows that open? Forget accomplishing that kind of radical change quickly in Irvine. If it's not in the plan, it's anarchy.
People interested in getting on with their everyday lives, meanwhile, find it simpler to live and work in less authoritarian edge cities. It's not that people don't love the safety and security of the walls that surround them in Irvine. It's just that as their lives change - as they marry, have children, retire, or become empty nesters - they have to move on because the plan for Irvine will not. People find it simpler to move than to fight, and the resistance movement that arises briefly is crushed by fines and foreclosures.
With the benefit of hindsight, people in the far-term future now view it as obvious that cities are not clockwork, but living organisms following the rules of biology. To thrive, cities must be able to evolve ingeniously. They must be able to adapt quickly to a changing environment.
This must happen on at least two levels. Cities must have a leadership with vision to build the new airport, fund the new university, forever save the treasured seashore. But the most successful edge cities - the ones that thrive and prosper - are the ones most able to change the details quickly. Each of these changes brought about by people using hand tools is insignificant, but in the hundreds of millions, they create the places we most want to call home.
Irvine, on the other hand, violates the spirit of the great William Levitt, the genius who built his original Levittowns in the 1950s with the full expectation that returning GIs would add to his original cheap designs the gables, dormers, wings, second stories, fireplaces, porches, decks, and bathrooms they both needed and could afford.
Old man Levitt was so smart that today, when you go to a Levittown, you have to be an architectural historian to know you're in one. None of the homes is alike. They're all attractive, upscale, diverse American properties. When the preservationists finally found one that had not been adapted, they put a brass plaque on it. That was the only way it could finally be set in amber. It was a historical singularity.
So Irvine's holdings are sold to ever less demanding users. Ultimately, the city becomes an extension of the barrio of nearby Anaheim. Mexican and Central-American immigrants love the new homes the Anglos have inexplicably left. It is as amazing a windfall to them as were the beautiful homes of the old downtown districts whites hysterically abandoned to blacks back East in the 1960s.
But the spiral continues because the office buildings are no longer near the homes of the overclass who flee to Coeur d'Alene and Santa Fe (and even Manhattan!), where the rigidity is not as stifling as in Irvine. The city's sanitized vision turns to vapor and still less scrupulous dwellers take over again.
Yet Irvine is an exception. Most edge cities thrive - the ones that are adaptive and open-minded; the ones that constantly rebuild themselves and embrace the heretical and the young.
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2019-04-23T04:32:15Z
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https://www.wired.com/1995/12/edgier-cities/
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Moderated by Leo Panitch. Presentations by Joan Sangster and Meg Luxton: “Feminism, co-optation and the problems of amnesia: a response to Nancy Fraser.” Recorded in Toronto 31 January 2013.
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Occupiers and union activists should build class organizations that challenge for power.
At almost $1 trillion, and counting, the Wall Street bailout will cost taxpayers as much as the Iraq war. Barack Obama squandered the chance to lead with an alternative plan to the Wall Street bailout. Instead both Obama and McCain pushed for a plan that’s not only deeply unpopular but potentially as costly as a new Iraq war.
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2019-04-21T14:42:45Z
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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/tag/leo-panitch/
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CoStar Group, Inc. (CSGP) will announce financial results for the first quarter 2019 following the market close on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Management will conduct a conference call to discuss the first quarter results, as well as the Company’s outlook at 5:00 PM EDT that same day. To participate in the conference call, please dial (800) 230-1096 (from the United States and Canada) or (612) 332-0107 (from all other countries) and refer to conference code 466402.
CoStar Group, Inc. (CSGP), the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, and Buxton, the industry leader in customer and real estate site selection analytics have entered into a strategic relationship. The two companies will be working together at the International Council of Shopping Centers Real Estate Convention (ICSC RECon) to officially kick off the collaborative effort.
CoStar Group, the data/analytics leader of the $17 trillion commercial real estate industry, is pleased to announce the hire of Jacques-Yves Bouchard to serve as the Research Director in Canada.
CoStar Group, Inc., the data/analytics leader of the commercial real estate industry, today announced this year’s Power Broker Award recipients, recognizing professionals and firms who closed the highest transaction volume in commercial real estate deals and leads in their respective markets.
CoStar Group, Inc. , the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, announced today that revenue for the year ended December 31, 2018, was $1.2 billion, an increase of 23% over revenue of $965 million for the full year of 2017.
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2019-04-18T23:03:09Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/csgp?ltr=1
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Writing, Critique Groups and Playing the Publisher’s Game, Oh My!
Last night was my second time attending a SCBWI (Society of Children Books Writers & Illustrator’s) writer’s critique group. We meet monthly. The first time I met them, I was a bubble of nerves.
“Will they like me? Will I belong? Will they believe I have any talent or ability at all to pursue this career or will they look at my blood, sweat, and tears, pat me on the back and say, “That was a cute attempt…don’t quit your day job kid”?
Of course, I was NOT reading anything from my manuscript the first time around. I wanted to get a feel for them first. I heard others read on my first day and yes, became intimidated. Most in the group are already published authors, and unlike other groups in my city, I do appreciate my group for taking in newbies like me.
A month past and I received the email.
I told myself to just rip off the band aid off, get it over with and read the dang chapter already. I’m only 12-15 chapters away from finishing my first draft, so might as well get this critique, editing process started. No time like the present, they say, right?
It’s interesting because, after I read my chapter out loud, they all doodled their thoughts on their copies and verbally critiqued, they gave me interesting advice about the Publishing world.
First, let me just say, they were very kind. *chuckles* I’m sure, they could have been more brutally honest. There were valid points they made about my first chapter. It must always be hard to have your story one way, being it’s your baby, you hold it dear, and then be given valid advice that requires you to change completely your first chapter, leading to more editing of the rest that follow.
I now understand how 2nd, 3rd, and etc drafts are made. I knew this day would come, but I wasn’t expecting it this soon.
So the Publishing world: Apparently there are “rules.” There’s a set look, feel and formula they desire. They will pretty much bypass anything else. They know what’s marketable. They’re business people who need to sell. I was told, you need to learn the rules, follow them, then in time, once you’ve proven marketable, then maybe you can break the rules.
Now, I grew up pursuing the entertainment industry through many outlets. (Music, Acting, Dance, Beauty, etc) I’m well aware of the game within the Entertainment Industry that you must play and sometimes, it can make your skin crawl. Now I’m realizing that all Creative industries, run the same way. It’s about knowing who’s who, playing by the rules to even get your foot in to be seen for a millisecond and then...chance. You fight, you kick, you bleed your arse off and then…the rest is up to chance.
Encountering this light bulb last night, thanks to these writers who have been in the industry, some for over 30 years; made my pursuing Writing become very real all of a sudden. I knew this journey would be long. I knew this journey would be hard. I knew…in theory. I got a dose of understanding and reality last night.
I called the bestie and verbally processed last night. I’m almost done with my first draft but am now feeling conflicted about just focusing on finishing the last few chapters first or start a new version of the manuscript-2nd Draft-and start hacking at it.
First drafts, especially when it’s your first official one, I’m sure; are such a big vulnerable part of you. The thought of it not working as is, and needing to take it, deconstruct it and make it work now, can feel daunting. My mind wouldn’t shut up last night. Dozing off, my every last thought, as much as I attempted shutting it up, dealt with reworking my novel in my head.
I almost tackled my “homework” late last night, as my eyes were closing. The bestie talked me into putting everything away, going to sleep and starting fresh in the morning.
Yeah, it was a good idea. I was mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted.
So today, I am going to look like a mad woman, with books spread all throughout the floor,reading chapter ones, and jotting down notes. I’ll probably be mumbling to myself as well. Don’t act like you’ve never done it!
There are certain things I believe, one should still fight for. There may be aspects to the “rules” that are highly discouraged for beginners, but hey! What if it works out in the end? Many authors were told their story, concepts, etc wouldn’t work. They were rejected countless times and in the end, became published and some of them are now the big, well-known books out there today.
Apparently, a big “No-No” for beginners is tackling two POV’s. (Point of View’s). You are not expected, unless you’re an experienced author, to do this well, because they said it is very difficult to do, and do it with consistency that aids the flow of the story.
I will have to say (and thanks to my bestie’s encouragement last night. She knows the entire story-manuscript), this may be the one point I feel strong about fighting for, at this present time. My story would be incomplete without both perspectives. There would be an emotional lacking. My main character’s developing relationship rides on misunderstandings and misguided first impressions. I need both of their views. I will continue to do so and wait and see. Hoping and wishing, it all works out in the end.
Off I go to research, full on mad woman style. Thanks for hearing the ramble.
Good luck writers! Happy Reading!
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2019-04-18T20:35:16Z
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https://missdreamymarie.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/writing-critique-groups-playing-publishers-game/
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What Did Marx Get Wrong?
Criticism: Marx has a teleological stagist view of history.
My view: No he doesn’t.
Criticism: Marx’s labour theory of value is untenable.
My view: Marx doesn’t hold the labour theory of value.
Criticism: Marx’s humanist philosophical anthropology paints too rosy a view of human nature.
My view: Marx doesn’t have a humanist philosophical anthropology.
Criticism: Marx’s narrow economism has no space for agency.
My view: Marx is not narrowly economistic.
Criticism: Marx is too optimistic about the possibilities of technology.
My view: Marx is right to be optimistic about the possibilities of technology.
Criticism: Marx is too optimistic about the possibilities of central planning.
My view: I agree with this criticism.
Criticism: Marx’s attempt to provide blueprints for future institutions is dogmatic and utopian.
My view: Marx doesn’t provide such blueprints.
Criticism: Marx ought to provide blueprints for future institutions.
All that is by way of saying, I see two central flaws in Marx’s work. First – he is too optimistic about the possibilities of central planning. His position is – as always – more nuanced than a quick summary suggests, but at base Marx thinks that bringing the uncoordinated and indirectly coordinated actions of the complex system of capitalism under some kind of centrally planned control is the way to eliminate the irrational and coercive aspects of that system. Marx is far too incautious about the concentrations of power that accompany such central planning – he doesn’t give nearly enough attention to the abuses of power and the exploitative dynamics that are likely to result from such massive concentration of political and economic power.
That said, Marx doesn’t spend much time writing about the shape of the more centrally planned society he’d like to see because, second: Marx is of the view that the shape of future society will basically be worked out ‘in practice’ – that it is not the job of intellectuals or political activists to provide ‘recipes for the cook-shops of the future’. I disagree with this too. Institutional change comes about because people change those institutions, and they change institutions by thinking about what institutions they’d like better. I believe there’s no reason why such thought can’t take place ahead of time – and I believe it’s better that a lot of such thought take place ahead of time, so that people aren’t having to do that thinking at short notice in incredibly stressful circumstances with catastrophic consequences of poor judgement calls.
So – those are the main areas where I disagree with Marx.
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2019-04-24T20:27:03Z
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https://duncanlaw.wordpress.com/2015/01/
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Why are you installing MS DOS in 2006?
I tried with MS DOS because it’s an OS from Microsoft and I thought if DOS wouldn’t support harddisk nothing will.
I tried with Linux and Freedos as well, but none of them support this harddisk. Do you have any idea what can I install on a laptop with 3 MB RAM and 60 MB harddisk and 24 Mhz processor. Laptop was made in 1992.
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2019-04-26T12:21:26Z
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https://mabus.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/laptop/
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Turkey’s currency surged after the country’s central bank aggressively hiked key interest rates, a move that revived confidence in other battered emerging-market assets.
Within minutes of the announcement, the Turkish lira strengthened 3% against the dollar—a big move in foreign-exchange markets. That brings gains in the lira to almost 10% since the currency hit a record low Monday. In recent trade in New York, one dollar bought 2.1867 lira, compared with 2.2522 late Monday, according to data provider CQG.
After an emergency policy meeting Tuesday night, Turkey’s central bank said it is raising its overnight lending rate to 12% from 7.75%.
Fethullah Gulen has been called Turkey’s second most powerful man. He is also a recluse, who lives in self-imposed exile in the US.
An apparent power struggle between his followers and those around the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has reached a new pitch of intensity and loathing.
Since arriving in the US in the late 1990s, Mr Gulen, 74, has not given a single broadcast interview. What rare communication there has been with the media has almost exclusively been conducted via email.
But now, the BBC has had exclusive access to the Muslim cleric. I travelled with Guney Yildiz from the BBC Turkish Service to a remote part of Pennsylvania to meet the man.
On Oct. 23rd, 2012, I posted (“Turks subvert Iran sanctions”) an excerpt from a Reuters exclusive report on the gold trade between Turkey and Iran, through Dubai.
On Feb. 15th, 2013, Reuters published another exclusive, revealing Halkbank’s role in the movement of the aforementioned gold, and explaining the “gold-for-gas” trade. The pressure on Halkbank had already begun.
On Oct. 4th, 2013, The New York Times ran a feature on Iranian business tycoon Babak Zanjani titled “To This Tycoon, Iran Sanctions Were Like Gold.” Now Zanjani was under pressure for his role in subverting U.S. sanctions on Iranian energy.
In early November, 2013, the U.S.-Iran détente picked up speed and bargaining began.
On Dec. 17th, 2013, the Turkish “graft probe” began and Halkbank CEO Süleyman Aslan was implicated.
On Dec. 21st, Aslan and Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Azeri businessman accused of moving much of the gold, were arrested.
A week ago, Babak Zanjani was arrested “on alleged corruption charges.” His transgressions were, of course, simply the Iranian equivalent of the Halkbank scandal. The charges themselves are obviously contrived.
Apparently, one of the topics of debate in the ongoing “nuclear talks” between the U.S. and Iran is how to make the message perfectly clear: Gold is not a currency, and trading in gold is subversive. Those who do so will be punished. This has, after all, been a theme of the past two years in U.S.-Iran relations, so it should come as no surprise. Nor should it come as a surprise if Iranian energy exports, in one way or another, end up denominated in dollars in the near future.
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2019-04-18T17:04:41Z
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https://28east.wordpress.com/tag/yolsuzluk/
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Hello! Welcome back to the Bright Side! This is season 2, episode 13! In this episode we continue to play a word game, answering questions that we wrote for each other and discuss a wide variety of topics!
Getting Curious with Jonathan van Ness – Who Are You Tan France?
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2019-04-24T20:38:40Z
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https://thebrightsidepodcast.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/2-13-word-game-part-2/
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A group of latin Americans artists are having an exhibition in Madrid.The event will only last 3 days and will finish sunday 10th of Oct.If you like painting,photography,graphic,sculpture do go because is free and you also have the opportunity to talk to the artists.The tube is Atocha and the place is the Botanic Garden in Madrid.
Good morning savvy4u,how you doing?Thank you very much for your comment,i will try to returne the comment once i see your blog,at the moment i’m very busy with work.
thank you for your comment.Can i view your blog in english?
← The future of latin America…….
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2019-04-21T02:14:54Z
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https://biniamghezaiphotographer.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/latin-american-modern-art/
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Taking control of Ashby Avenue from the state would cost Berkeley too much money and saddle the city with too many maintenance problems, according to a report by the city's staff.
The opinion of City Manager James Keene and the public works staff goes against a city policy in place since the 1970s that has favored taking jurisdiction of the busy east-west thoroughfare away from the state Department of Transportation.
In November, the City Council proposed the idea again as part of a package of traffic measures to improve pedestrian safety along Ashby Avenue and Tunnel Road. The action followed the death of a woman who was struck by a car while crossing the street in her motorized wheelchair.
But the staff report said it is in Berkeley's best interests to leave state Highway 13 in the hands of Caltrans because of the roadway's continuing problems with sewers, sidewalks, storm drains, retaining walls and guard rails, particularly along Tunnel Road.
Repaving the 4-mile stretch of Ashby Avenue between Interstate Highway 80 and Highway 24 every 20 years would cost the city $5 million, the staff said.
But perhaps the biggest stumbling block would be gaining the approval of the city of Oakland, which would have to take responsibility for the upper reaches of Tunnel Road. Berkeley and Oakland officials have been unable to reach agreement on how the plan would work.
Berkeley City Council member Polly Armstrong, who along with longtime residents of Ashby Avenue has been pushing for local control of the roadway, said she will continue to seek the support of Oakland officials.
"Oakland is very skeptical of Berkeley," said Armstrong. "They're afraid we're going to make it a toll road or something. I've worked long and hard to prove to them we can do something sensible."
Armstrong said she will continue pressing Berkeley to install blinking lights at the intersection where 55- year-old Sharon Spencer was killed last year and at other potentially dangerous intersections along Ashby Avenue. Caltrans has refused to install the so-called "Santa Rosa light" because state officials say they are experimental.
While less expensive than standard traffic signals, the city staff said the lights embedded in the street could cause more traffic jams on Ashby Avenue during peak commute hours.
The staff report also shot down a recommendation by the City Council that 200 wheelchair and pedestrian warning signs be installed at hazardous crossings because it said Berkeley streets are already cluttered with too many signs that "do not command drivers' attention and respect."
Education and increased police enforcement of traffic laws may be better ways to improve pedestrian safety, according to the staff report. The City Council is considering the report.
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2019-04-20T14:40:27Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ashby-Avenue-Upkeep-Called-Too-High-for-Berkeley-2792240.php
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