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ცრესი (იტალ. Cherso, გერმ. Kersch, ლათ. Crepsa, ბერძ. Χερσος, ჩერსოს) — ხორვატიის კუნძული ადრიატიკის ზღვაში. ის მდებარეობს კვარნერის უბის ჩრდილოეთ ნაწილში. კუნძულზე მოხვედრა შესაძლებელია ბორანით კრკიდან და ისტრიის ნახევარკუნძულიდან.
მისი ფართობია 405.78კმ2, რითიც ის უტოლდება მეზობელ კრკის, თუმცა მრავალი წლის მანძილზე კრკი მიიჩნეოდა ადრიატიკის უდიდეს კუნძულად. 2011 წლის მონაცემებით ცრესის მოსახლეობა შეადგენს 3,184 ადამიანს.
ცრესი და მისი მეზობელი ლოშინი ერთ დროს ერთ კუნძულს წარმოადგენდნენ, თუმცა ისინი გაყვეს არხით და ახლა ერთმანეთს ოსორის დასახლებასთან ხიდით უკავშირდებიან. ცრესის მტკნარი წყლის რესურსს მხოლოდ ტბა ვრანა წარმოადგენს.
Luigi Tomaz, Ossero e Cherso nei secoli prima di Venezia, Foreword by P. Antonio Bonmarco patriarch of Aquileia, Conselve 2002.
Luigi Tomaz, La Magnifica Comunità di Cherso, Foreword by Arnaldo Mauri, Conselve 2010.
↑ (June 2004). "Coastline lengths and areas of islands in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1 : 25 000" (PDF). Retrieved on 2011-01-21.
ეს გვერდი ბოლოს დარედაქტირდა: 07:19, 30 დეკემბერი 2014.
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I was a first-year student in a Quebec university. Early in the evening of December 6, 1989, I had a class in the 7 to 10 pm slot, and that was where I must have heard about the Polytechnique massacre. I don’t remember exactly how I first heard, maybe on the radio, where details were emerging in snippets of panic and disbelief. A man shot a bunch of students, then himself, in a classroom? This was years before classrooms were to become familiar but still outrageous sites of bullets and blood, and the intense shock of the Polytechnique aftermath drove my spirit into hiding, just as I suspect it did for other women students of my age. Anglophone that I was, it took me several days to even piece together that the École Polytechnique was the engineering faculty of the Université de Montréal.
When Polytechnique the movie was released in early 2009, I made a point to see it through in a movie theatre and address the residues of that shock. There were four of us sitting in the seats when it started, and only my friend and I were left by the time it was over. Harrowing, shot in black and white, and not overly graphic, Polytechnique is a sober film that deals with composite characters and documented facts. I’m glad someone had the courage to make it, if only to serve as an archival piece about what happened on December 6, 1989.
The stress, styrofoam coffee cups, typical 80s music and informal group study sessions of university exam periods felt very familiar; there were no cellphones, iPods, laptops, or PowerPoint presentations – just textbooks, course notes and acetates shown on overhead projectors. There may have been a few of those funny convex mirrors posted at blind corners, just so students could avoid head-on collisions. The photocopy machines were always busy. Knowing that this scene would soon be interrupted by multiple shooting deaths was almost unbearable.
One of the most heartbreaking moments was when one girl from the classroom group sequestered by the murderer protested his labelling them as feminists. She shouted “we are not feminists, we’re just living a normal life!” And that was when he sprayed the group with a hail of bullets, and they all fell. But it was true, they’re weren’t really feminists. Even young women engineering students of the time, a very small minority among the young men, didn’t consider themselves feminists, or trailblazers of any kind. The trail had been blazed already, you’d have been crazy to pretend you were a pioneer of women’s rights by entering any professional degree program in 1989. Anyways, we had to study hard; there was no time to learn about feminist history or gender theory. Apparently we didn’t even have time for the basics back then, we were in such a rush to fend off the competition and earn a cherished spot in a professional program or a plum internship – and unless blatant discrimination was being applied, the most serious competition was from the perfectionist drive of the other women students.
I didn’t have the same excuse, however. In the fall of 1989, I was studying literature; this was before I reoriented my study program to focus on sciences, with the goal of studying veterinary or human medicine. And in early December 1989 I was reading The Diviners, a classic novel in Canadian literature that carries a good description of what life was like for women before women’s rights were part of the landscape. One day in class we were discussing the novel, which intrigued me, but I didn’t really know what to make of it, the constant setbacks and impossibly contentious roads chosen by Morag were incomprehensible to me. My sole comment on the novel in class: “Well, she doesn’t seem very happy, does she?” I offered that up with a mix of contempt for this woman who couldn’t find her way in life, who had difficult relationships with the people closest to her, and self-satisfaction because I wasn’t a feminist, and thus rejected struggle and wilfull unhappiness.
After the class, Charles, a senior student, came straight over to where I was sitting. From his severely receded hairline and grayish temples it was obvious that Charles was older than most of us; his contributions to class discussions put the rest of ours to shame because he had the authority of personal experience to back up his opinions. He looked me square in the eyes and said “you don’t know much about the history of women, do you?” I’m not sure what I said in reply to that, perhaps I didn’t say anything at all and just looked at him with my best deer-in-the-headlights face. He gave me a very brief but pointed description of what life had been like for women in Quebec prior to the Quiet Revolution, that Canadian women had been severely limited in their personal and professional choices until something like the mid-1970s, and ended his speech by suggesting that I open my eyes and ears for the stories I wouldn’t hear from my contemporaries.
I was mildly insulted, but his words worked on me, and in the years ahead, I did pay attention to history, to what older women said when they talked about about their lives, and to the experiences of older generations. I learned about how women in Quebec had been valued for their ability to bear vast numbers of children, and that as soon as they were no longer obliged to do so, they threw off the yoke of the Church of Perpetual Childbearing and mobilised an entire society to sweeping changes – changes that were enacted while I was a child and which my generation accepted as our birthright by the time we entered university. Did we imagine that if things hadn’t always been that easy, they couldn’t have been all that different?
Last year during a symposium at the Ontario Veterinary College on women in veterinary medicine, I learned that in 1972, Title IX legislation in the United States led to a massive inpouring of women students in veterinary medicine and other professional programs. It was such a vast and sweeping change that from one year to the next somewhere in the mid-1970s, there were more graduating women veterinarians in a single year than there had been in all the years taken together since veterinary programs were first created in the late 19th century. I don’t know if Canada had to enact similar legislation, but the same sweeping changes occurred here and in other countries on the heels of that major piece of feminist-inspired legislation.
By the time I entered vet college in 1995, 75% of my classmates were girls, in a profession that had once seen women excluded on the basis that we were too delicate and sensitive to study anatomy and perform many of the tasks vets had to perform. I still have a hard time imagining which ones, because I’ve done most of them, a few times with men standing helpless at my side. I’ve seen men turn a whiter shade of pale at the sight of blood and smell of pus; sights and smells that to me signal nothing more than a problem to solve.
Animal medicine has sometimes been a disappointment to me, as I’ve seen how often we use the bodies of animals as means to our own ends, with perfect callousness – as a kind of mirror to the way women were treated for so long. On the other hand, I wake up most days excited about the knowledge and skills I was allowed to learn, and couldn’t imagine my life without them.
When Hadley Freeman wrote last week about how awful it was for her to be a vegetarian, I was puzzled. If it’s so awful for her, then the only thing keeping her from eating meat is that she finds it revolting. OK, I can sympathise with not wanting to be evangelical about it – having once been involved in evangelical religion, evangelical vegetarianism is not what I’d want to stand for either.
Now that I think about it, what puzzled me the most was when she mentioned she had “crap hair” and somehow related that to her vegetarian diet. Crap hair can be the result of many things, but plant eating? Not likely. Nutritional deficiencies can result in poor quality hair – but you can be a meat eater and still have nutritional deficiencies in vitamins, minerals, folic acid and beta-carotenes. Drug abuse will eventually give you crap hair. So will unfortunate hair genes. Also: post-pregnancy hair loss; extreme stress; crap shampoo; too many perms and colourings; excessive blowdrying. But not a plant-based diet. Hope I’ve cleared that up. I have a full head of thick, straight hair (thanks dad…) and my vegetarian diet has not made it thin out or go frizzy. Granted, I still eat eggs and cheese, because I think that dairy and egg farming are at least potentially redeemable enterprises in animal husbandry. My hens are very happy to leave eggs for me in return for the shelter and food I provide, and they are especially happy to have the run of the yard. If I could work around the logistics of keeping a cow and milking her twice a day, I’m confident we’d work out a good relationship too.
I was glad to see a response in today’s Guardian, by Seth Freedman, one of those rare vegetarians by upbringing. He wrote a straightforward response, in which he says : “the worst thing about being a vegetarian is that most people aren’t.” I’d say that’s true – there’s nothing like contemplating going out for a meal at a restaurant, and then realising you’ll probably be eating a chef’s salad and a bun, again.
There is no defence of eating meat or fish that stands up to the cold light of moral scrutiny. If there was, then people wouldn’t keep animals as pets or differentiate between which species are or aren’t fair game for slaughtering and consuming. When the Venn diagrams of friends versus food inevitably overlap (dogs being eaten in Korea, horses in France, and so on), the duplicity of the meat-eating public is plain for all to see. One man’s pot roast is another’s pet, and neither side has a leg to stand on while they refuse to take an objective view of whether there is something ethically wrong with tearing the flesh off a carcass just to sate one’s appetite.
As much as I wish it weren’t true, he has made a very important point about our relationship with animals.
Hadley’s column was in response to Paul McCartney’s promotion of Meatless Monday, an effort to encourage more people to consume less meat. A great initiative.
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2019-04-23T04:01:09Z
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For my final classmate conversation, I had the pleasure of meeting Marlon Fernandes. I previously met Marlon in one of our discussion groups but I didn’t get to talk to him the way I did this week. Marlon was born in Washington D.C. and he lived in Kuwait for SIXTEEN YEARS. He arrived in the US in 2008 and went to Artesia High School. He’s a senior here at CSULB in his 6th year. He’s majoring in Consumer Affairs, Mastering in Emergency Management . He lives in Cerritos now, right around his old high school.On his free time he likes hiking and fishing, just like me. His favorite food is sushi and he loooves the Boiling Crab. Something he also felt necessary to share is that he eats his cereal dry with a cup of lemon juice.
Chelsea Blecha is in her senior year at CSULB and she is set to graduate at the end of the spring 2016 semester. She has attended CSULB for 6 years so that she may earn her Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration. Her passion for art comes from her upbringing. Chelsea’s mother also graduated from CSULB and she also had a passion for art. Art is an escape for Chelsea. She draws inspiration from people, travel, and personality. She currently works for a catalog and does some freelance on the side. In fact, she sold the skateboard depicted below the morning this conversation took place. She never considered art as a career until high school. But now in her final days at CSULB, Chelsea has her eyes set on a job at Pixar doing concept art sketching.
Most of Chelsea’s work looks as though it has been pulled from sketchbook. It’s very detailed, yet it has no color. I’m describing the work of various structures in one frame. She mentioned that she draws a lot of inspiration from her travels and these structures–very intricate and detailed–may be something she has encountered in her travels.These works are on a small scale but the subjects of which are of the larger scale.
Chelsea is a traveler. She sketches what she sees and what she deems beautiful gets recorded in her sketches. She mentioned a few times that she spent a lot of time in San Francisco and though I have never been to San Francisco, I would image that it’s where she pulled a lot of these sketches from. Though to her, it is “mostly emotion, not just aesthetic” which would perhaps imply that wherever she sketched these is where her heart lies. Maybe she Left Her Heart in San Francisco?
I really enjoy art in which the subject is a fascinating structure. Though Chelsea’s exhibit had much more to it, my focus lied on her structural sketches. What fascinated me is the way she went about recording these places she loves. Most people take a picture and let it rest in folder until they feel like reminiscing. But people like Chelsea would sketch the beauty they encounter in their travels and try to recreate it by their own hand from their eyes and memory. That, to me, is art.
This article was certainly fascinating. Our generation of teens have become so disconnected with each other under the guise that we are actually more connected than ever. Our technology that claims it’s connecting us with friends but we hide from social situations on social media websites. And the comments made on famous Tumblr posts mainly deal with how socially awkward our generation is and the other millions of Tumblr users agree–hence the popular page, so-relatable.
But with this new generation of teens come a new form of advertising. The Web is where teens spend the majority of their time so it’s sensible for advertisers to advertise where the children go. Advertising is seamless nowadays. For example, Instagram recently introduced ads to their app and sometimes they just seem so homogenized in the familiar format. Advertisement posts blend in and look just like other posts so at first glance it seems like just another post from a friend.
We are so much more vulnerable to advertisements in our age. But the technology we use that advertisers find us on has countless possibilities. But we currently use it for such useless things. Memes. That’s the plague of the internet. The capability to communicate with people from across the globe in a blink and we are mostly concerned with Who’s not allowed in and certain bathroom. Our priorities aren’t in order.
One of my favorite activities was the Legal Graffiti. I never had the opportunity to spray on stuff because I never thought myself an artist or someone to deface a wall for art. I also enjoyed the Geocaching activity because those caches have been lying among us for years and this activity helped me unlock them. I also enjoyed Moonbase Alpha since I like to think myself a creative writer.
I didn’t like the Plaster casting since I don’t really have a lot of money so buying supplies was a lot of trouble for me. Same goes with having to spend for shipping on the Art Care Package. I also didn’t like the Photowalk because of its dependency to be done on a certain day.
Overall, the class seemed totally relevant. We were given an Introduction to Visual Arts and after the “What is Art?” Presentation, it can be argued that all of our activities were relevant. Our Discussions, artist conversations, and activities were totally relevant.
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2019-04-20T10:55:42Z
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Bought a domain. What next?
I apologize for asking stupid questions, but this is the first website I’m setting up. My site currently lives at brnfck.dreamhosters.com/drupal and I’ve bought a .kz domain name that I want to point to it. How do I do that? I’ve already pointed the domain to dreamhost DNS servers.
First of all you wil need to add the domain to dreamhost under manage domains in the panel, his may take a bit of time to be picked up if you only recently pointed the domain to dreamhost.
When you do this you may be able to just specify whatever folder the site is currently in instead of the default domain folder.
You should just then need to update settings.php.
I did that on Friday but the domain still hasn’t showed up in “manage domains”. Should I just wait a bit longer or contact the support team?
When I registered a .co.uk domain once I added it in manage domains it showed up straight away but took a while to actually become active.
Basically if you added it under manage domains it should show up straight away even if the domain isn’t with dreamhost.
If this isn’t happening then it could be a problem you would need to contact support for.
Thank you. I retried and this time it appeared. Will wait a couple of days to see if it works.
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I am Peruvian-German, Nigerian-bred, based in Scotland. I hold a Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen and am currently completing a Master in Science in Medical Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. I am the founder and director the circus studio Inverted: Circus and Pole Fitness in Aberdeen, so if you’re ever in the area you should totally check out the classes!
I’ve been writing all my life. It’s the one passion that balances me completely. I began writing this blog in December 2010 as a way to communicate my writing to the world, and I’m delightedly blessed that a beautiful community of readers has been steadily growing. Thank you!
In 2009, I began self-publishing. My first novel Qayqa is now completed and I am currently planning its German book tour. All information is published on this here blog. For more information about my books, please visit My Books. I adore works with magic realism and the powerful use of metaphors. My writing concerns the themes spiritual growth, nature, circus arts, homosexuality, Latin American cultures, and mystism. Currently, I’m experimenting with weaving Quechua, the language of the Incas, into my narrative.
I have worked on several film collaborations with puppeteer & artist Mark Klawikowski, creating “puppet-documentaries”. Please poke around our website and explore all our strange but sweet films. Mark and I offer film workshops based on our puppet-documentaries, at schools and as extra-curricular activities for children throughout Europe.
I love performing, giving workshops, reading, backpacking, and learning new languages. I wish you a lot of fun poking around my blog! Feel free to get in touch, subscribe, or like what you see!
Dear Felipe, you’re crazy. 🙂 And you’re speaking in some sort of code. Did you, per chance, mean “movie”?
Are you back in Peru?
I am Tim a friend of Heather Gatley.
Hello Tim and yes, I am actually! Are you still in Lima or whereabouts are you?
Still here in sunny Lima!
3450572 is our number, we’re on holiday so call if you fancy visiting.
Check out my twitter – christine boxers says hi!!!
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2019-04-25T06:47:05Z
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Apologies to anyone who reads this particular blog thinking it is about my classes. I need a moment. Many thoughts and issues are happening right now, and I don’t seem to be able to get out of the infinite loop. I thought maybe writing it out might help. I thought that maybe one of the two people who read it might have insight, and maybe even share it. I do promise to go back to teaching, though. Next time.
I am from a large family. By “large”, I don’t mean “many”. I mean, at more than 200 pounds, I am one of the smallest…no, check that, THE smallest…female in my family. It never bothered me, except for when I found out that being small in my family doesn’t translate into the rest of the world. That was quite eye-opening, and not in a pleasant way.
It is they way I am. I can’t change genetics.
Over last summer, some stuff went down, then school started with the new, unassisted prep, and stress happened. At least, that is what I assumed was going on. I didn’t eat much. I didn’t feel like I could eat more than a little bit of any meal. It hasn’t gone away. In fact, it has gotten worse. I eat like I had gastric bypass surgery. But I didn’t.
My doctor is checking it out. All blood tests came back normal. Multiple ultrasounds have come back normal. An abdominal CT scan is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
A. My clothes don’t fit. I feel like a slob.
B. People have been complimenting me left and right. Understandable, I guess, since I am down 25-35 pounds. But they don’t believe me when I tell them I’m not trying when they ask “what’s your secret?”.
I don’t want to tell them the whole story. From airing dirty laundry to none of their business to they aren’t going to listen anyway are why I don’t. But keeping it quiet has a new issue: I really feel like it is me against the world.
To be fair, my beautiful husband has been awesome, like a hot dog, through this whole thing. I can’t thank him enough.
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2019-04-23T04:54:27Z
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Motivated by the dynamical studies of particle motion in magnetic fields, we develop the method of Differential Algebra (DA) based 3D magnetic field computation. It can be applied whenever an analytical model of a magnet is given, which usually consist of line wire currents. Such a model exists for most of the modern superconducting magnets. It is stressed that it is the only practically possible way to extract the multipoles and its derivatives, and hence the map, analytically to high order. We also elaborate on related topics like complexity of the problem, Maxwellification of fields, importance of vanishing curl, etc., and its applications to very accurate fringe field map computations.
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*head desk* I cannot believe what an idiot I’ve been. Loeffler Randall’s Rider bag was on a ridiculous sale at Saks Off Fifth for about a week now and I found this perfect natural color that I wanted ever since I laid eyes on the style, I have no idea what the hell I was waiting for. I finally have the funds for it, all I have to do it add it to chart. The price of the bag is originally $525.00, Saks was selling it for $220!!! Now they are all sold. Last weekend I signed up on the LR’s website for a “surprise” in my inbox everyday. Today I got an e-mail saying some of their Riders are $200 off but it is not the color that I wanted. Powder Blue is not bad but it is not my first choice either. I’ve become this impulsive shopper to a undecisive one, I am not sure which is worse.
Help! Should I wait for another sale of the natural color or just settle with the blue? Will the natural be ever available at the price I wanted again? Or should I just give up and put the $$$ towards a more investment type priced bag?
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2019-04-23T22:07:56Z
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BATMAN / The caped crusader has come back. He's brawnier, but he still has brains.
To make another "Batman" movie might seem cynical, but not to anyone who sees "Batman Begins." To see "Batman Begins" is to think maybe this is the way to go: Take an artistically spent franchise, and instead of adding to the series and compromising with the mistakes of lesser filmmakers, pretend as if those other movies never existed. Start at the beginning of the saga, and tell the story again. This time do it right.
"Batman Begins" does it right, and it's the first "Batman" movie to get it right since Tim Burton's "Batman," 16 years ago. Like the first "Batman" it has a dark spirit and an intellectually viable leading man -- Christian Bale, in this case. Unlike the first "Batman," it's not a masterpiece of set design, and it doesn't have a flamboyant villain. Those elements were virtues of the original film, but they became pernicious as a prototype, when subsequent "Batman" movies tried to top the first in terms of both visuals and flouncing, raving villainy.
"Batman Begins" goes in another direction, telling the story as neither a comic book in motion nor as a wild fable, but as the true story of a man who has a series of odd, transformative experiences. Directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Insomnia") and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer, the film adopts an elegant narrative strategy, flashing back from Bruce Wayne's opening circumstances -- as an inmate in an Asian prison -- to his childhood.
We find out that as a boy, Bruce was terrified of bats. In fact, his inability to sit still for a performance of "Die Fledermaus" causes his parents to leave the opera early -- which puts them on the street at exactly the wrong time. They're murdered in a holdup, an event that sets up young Bruce (Gus Lewis) for years of anguish, rage, guilt and soul-searching.
The special effects are easy to take for granted, but they're first rate. Batman does a lot of cape gliding in this one. He relies on pulleys to shoot up the side of buildings and, in one notable case, to scoop someone off the ground for a private interview, 10 stories up. There's no doubting any of this. It's all obviously real. The action sequences are genuinely gripping. Even the chases are amusing. But best of all, there's just the pleasure of seeing something that's both fantastic to the eye and emotionally dimensional. This is how to make action movies.
Of course, now that Batman has begun, the Batman movies will never end, at least not for another 10 years. But maybe this time around they won't get so awful.
-- Advisory: This film contains gun violence and intense physical combat.
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2019-04-22T00:39:59Z
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Just a place when screaming is not enough………….
Waking after a horrid dream is never a pleasant experience but add a dash of self loathing in once you’ve read a trigger article online and you truly have a recipe for a great start to your day.
The question now, the one which I ask as I hunt down my blog (since it’s been a while) is do I commit to writing my feelings and what prompted them? Is it cathartic? Indulgent? Will it produce further destructive thoughts and self deprecation? Probably, that’s what happens along with the lack of desire to look after one’s self; no shower, no make up, no respect (I’m not saying I need those to feel self respect but I know if I don’t do these the loathing will increase throughout the day).
The dream brought several people to my thoughts; mother, brother, ex. Even in the dreamed I cried. Even in the dream I was dressed inappropriately, dressing gown, whilst amongst a crowd of inert human beings. My brother told me he was gay. Not the reason I was upset, I was reaching out to him, wanting to connect and he left, no communication except when I wanted to make the effort and then at that point he was already moving away. My mother was upset, losing her boy, and countless people were reminiscing and sharing goodbyes, goodlucks, finger food and love as he left but not with me. My presence was incidental and not remarked upon. Only my ex noted my tear stained face and not with words, but for once a kind or empathetic look, nothing more.
This all compounded after reading a news article regarding adult survivors of childhood abuse. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43927947 It made me sick to my stomach.
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2019-04-23T16:10:33Z
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One evening, when I was having a difficult time falling asleep, I surfed the web for some inspiration. I’ve been wondering if I could do anything to my film to make cool effects. It was then I discovered Film Soup.
Film Soup can be anything. It can be legitimate soup. You can throw your canister in a boiling pot of chicken noodle soup. You can put it in boiling water and detergent. You can throw your canister in just about anything- hey, go experiment!- and the results have the potential to be fascinating. I boiled water and added pure lemon juice, and these are some of the results.
I was extremely excited when these came out.It’s important to mention that I did not develop this roll myself, but I took it to my local lab and they were able to process it just fine. So no worries to those of us who don’t have the resources to develop at home. The colors are brilliant, and it always feels good when an experiment comes out nice.
Want to make your own lemon-film-soup? Here is the full tutorial. Don’t be afraid to experiment!
This particular roll I took with me on my trip to northern Michigan. Since I didn’t fill my roll on that trip (shocking, I know,) I filled it slowly over the past two weeks when I’ve done anything semi-interesting. A majority of these are double-exposed, so you can experiment with your experiment. Do it big!
I busted out the Polaroid 600 after looking through some really inspiring work on Flickr. I was especially inspired by ester.helloo!,who sewed on one of her Polaroids. I’ve been meaning to sew on a particular image of mine, and I was inspired to tweak my idea (my initial idea was to print an image on fabric.) So I snapped a Polaroid of my photo I shot a couple months ago, sewed on it, scanned it in, and tweaked the colors. The film in my Polaroid 600 is super-duper expired to the point it’s almost impossible to make out the images, so even though it felt weird to be editing film, I feel justified. Plus the result is really awesome.
I’m extremely happy with this. Do you ever have a project in mind, and you just can’t seem to get what you need for it, or the lighting isn’t working, or your model keeps cancelling, or the sky is falling or the apocalypse is four days before Christmas? This was one of those projects that just wouldn’t let me win. I would love to do more of these, but I only have 2 shots left in my Polaroid 600, and for continuity’s sake (I do love continuity) I won’t be shooting more of these on different film. So, I’ll either do two more or won’t do two more. We’ll see how I’m feeling I suppose!
That’s all for now. Keep shooting!
It’s been a while, mostly because I’ve been sick and poor. I went to Chicago at the beginning of the month, and none of my photos came out. ): Major sadness. My heart was crushed. I didn’t know how I could possibly go on… And then I got over it and figured I’ll probably be in Chicago some other time. C’est la vie.
Here are some of the results. Be sure to check out the rest in the film work tab!
I was thrifting recently and I came across a Polaroid 600 camera. Skeptical, I started doing my camera checks to see if it worked. I popped it open and went to check the shutter release and- FLASH!- out pops a lovely Polaroid of the ceiling I accidentally took… I didn’t know the camera had film in it! And, to my pleasant surprise, there were four more shots left on it. The film looks pretty expired, but given the right subject I could make it work.
I decided to surf the web and see what other people have done with their Polaroid film. I was originally looking for subject matter to inspire me, but my search eventually turned to different experiments to do to the film. From bleaching to sticking them in dishwasher. I wasn’t feeling utterly ambitious and confident in these methods (and to be honest I couldn’t find any tutorials…) so I took to burning the picture I accidentally took at the thrift store.
Now, I’m not a pyromaniac, and I’m not particularly fond of fire. With the assistance of my father, sister-in-law, and a couple sparklers, I managed to get some interesting results.
I probably breathed in some toxic chemicals that I’m going to regret 50 years down the road, but whatever. Anything for art, right?
I’ve been really itching to try double exposures on my Minolta X-700, and after a week of shooting I finished my roll. It usually doesn’t take me that long to fill a roll, but the double exposure idea I had in mind required 20 different people to photograph. I essentially “collected” people all week. I would ask my friends, family, and neighbors to pose for me.
The idea behind it was that I think we all have the desire to see marvelous things and travel and just live our lives to the fullest, but life happens and gets in the way and we don’t do the marvelous things we think about. I always hear people talking about how they would love to do x, y, or z, but they can’t because of reason 1, 2, and 3. One of my desires in life is to do these marvelous things and not let life hold me down with reasons 1, 2, 3. Are ya following me?
My first exposure was pictures of pictures of interesting travel places, like the Grand Canyon, the Great Pyramids of Giza, etc. After I filled my roll with exposures of these places, I rewound (rewinded? rewound? uh?) and shot people doing ordinary things. I got my dad making coffee, my mom getting ready for work, my sister when we were out for dinner, stuff like that.The sad thing is only 5 out of 24 really came out nicely. But hey- that’s okay, 5 is better than nothing! I love working with film and the unpredictability of it.
All five of the pictures are in my film work tab, so be sure to check it out. I’m heading to Chicago tomorrow to visit my best friend, so keep an eye out for some more updates and photos.
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MAKING BOUQUET. FLOWERS FROM PUERTO RICO.
"You gave me music with the bouquet from your hand, You gave me a living song, something I could understand..."
You gave me flowers, I'd like to give you something too.
Smell of rain and summer. Vivid, just like you.
You gave me a living song, something I could understand.
You gave me so much, I want to give you something too... ~ vivid, greg brown.
E brought home a bucket of wild daisies yesterday, he stopped his truck on the side of the road and climbed out and picked them, just to make me smile...I'm making bouquets for the reception with them this morning, but wanted to gift them to you all first.
I grabbed my garden shears this morning and cut these flowers from my garden. The lilies I took to the hospital for an elderly neighbor, the blue hydrangeas were given to my "Nana" and the gardenias grace my kitchen table.
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Marvel Comics recently started the publishing initiative, Legacy, and today I am looking at the book that kicked it off, Marvel Legacy #1.
This special is written by Jason Aaron, and drawn by a plethora of artists.
With the new era of Marvel Legacy, this issue is supposed to be ground zero for the Marvel Universe for some time to come. Now, I don’t read much Marvel, but I figured something in here would relate to stories I will read later on. In the interest of being an informed reader, I decided to pick it up.
The tale starts off with a group that is being called the Avengers of One Million B.C.
In keeping with the theme of “legacy”, this group is composed of ancient predecessors for modern-day characters. Odin, standing in for his son Thor, and analogues/ancestors for Iron Fist, Star Brand, Phoenix, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, and Ghost Rider. Surrounded by primitive man, these heroes protect the Earth. Specifically, as we find a few pages in, from a Celestial.
I’ve always like the alien look Kirby gave the Celestials and am pleased to see that carry on with newer iterations of the characters.
Next up we find current Ghost Rider, Robbie Reyes, awakening in South Africa with no idea how he got there. Apparently, Reyes has been dreaming of these prehistoric Avengers. Reyes is confronted by Star Brand who seems intent on killing him to counter a greater threat.
This is the first “whaaaaat???” I encountered while reading this issue. As far as I knew, Star Brand was just a part of the New Universe books of the ’80’s and was separate from the main Marvel universe. I am aware that Warren Ellis had a critically acclaimed run with the New Universe characters a few years ago, and am presuming something changed during that.
The story then cuts to Loki goading a group of Frost Giants to steal a container from a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. installation for him. S.H.I.E.L.D. is shutting down (???) and the military is here to collect the contents of the warehouse. While discussing the packages, they mention that one of the crates is not on any manifest and no one knows what is in it. Surprise, this is the crate that Loki has tasked the Frost Giants to retrieve!
“4 1939” is the designated code on the crate in question. I feel that this is an easter egg in the story, but I’m not exactly sure what it means. Marvel Comics started in 1939, so that’s surely part of it. However, Marvel Comic number 1 premiered in October of that year, not April, so I’m not sure what the significance of the “4” is.
Once the Frost Giants attack the base, Sam Wilson Captain America, Jane Foster Thor, and Ironheart show up to save the day. These are all the current incarnations of those particular heroes. Again, continuing with the theme of legacy, but let’s be honest, these characters days in their counterparts’ shoes are numbered.
There are some interludes during the fight. First off, is Steve Rogers chilling out in a diner, watching the news. Here we are given our first look at Chris Samnee’s Cap run with Mark Waid. This is one of the books I am looking forward to coming out of Legacy.
We then get one page cuts checking in on Deadpool, Dr. Strange and Iron Fist, and Jarvis at Avengers Mansion.
Now, back to the fight at the S.H.I.E.L.D. compound. Our heroes save the day and defeat all of the Frost Giants. Except for the one that escapes with the mysterious “4 1939” box.
Then we get a page of what is another thing I am excited about with Marvel Legacy.
Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm! Soon to be co-starring in the relaunched Marvel Two-in-One title. Presumably, they are no longer on Marvel’s blacklist and we will see a return of Marvel’s First Family shortly.
After this is a page that I’m not sure how to feel about.
Apparently they are introducing an extraterrestrial aspect to Wakanda. This could be interesting, but I don’t agree with the concept of Wakanda’s achievements being the result of anything other than the people of Wakanda. Presumably, they are suggesting that their accomplishments are the result of alien technology.
It’s my hope that like 1,000,000 B.C. Avengers, this is instead a look into the future for Wakanda. That their nation has prospered so much that they have expanded to other worlds. I think story-wise you get a lot more out of this concept.
Just please promise me that Marvel is aware enough to not suggest a “black people are from outer space” concept with this.
We get a page of an outer space monitoring station that precludes a return for some part of the Planet Hulk story.
Then we are back to the Ghost Rider/Star Brand fight. Ghost Rider obliterates Star Brand which opens up a hole into where the archaeologists were digging. Once Reyes departs, they go down into the cavern. Here the archaeologists find the Celestial from the beginning of the issue, and their final fate. On the cave wall we see drawings representing the ancient Avengers from before.
Back at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, the heroes are wrapping things up and the Frost Giant is making good his escape. That is until he is hit by a beer truck. The giant confronts the driver whose face is obscured but is wearing a familiar hat and wifebeater. This mysterious stranger also attack the Frost Giant with claws that come out of his hand!
Cut to Jean Grey looking at Wolverine’s final resting place where the adamantium he had been encased in is now split open and empty.
Here is one of the highlights of this story. The mysterious stranger, having defeated the giant, cracks open a cold one and gives us one of the most innovative uses of the Frost Giant’s abilities.
He then opens up the mcguffin of this tale, the mysterious container from S.H.I.E.L.D. On the following page we see the stranger and item revealed.
I really hope that this is not the last we see of this. Wolverine, returned from the dead, wielding an Infinity gem. While he will presumably turn it over to someone in authority, that will be booooooriing. How about instead, let Logan discover what has changed while he has been gone? Maybe there are some things he decides need to change. Possibly, this will tie into the upcoming Phoenix Resurrection story about the return of Jean Grey. Fingers crossed, they don’t let this great concept just slide away.
The story closes with Loki coming across the Celestial, a quick check-in with the heroes in this story, and another hint at the return of the Fantastic Four.
The rest of the issue contains info about Marvel Legacy books to come. Also, the return of Marvel Value Stamps. Be sure to clip them out to upset comic book collectors of the future. Let’s continue the cycle of disappointment started by our predecessors from the ’70’s. How’s that for a legacy?
At the end of the book is a checklist for Marvel Legacy titles.
A literal checklist. I can see listing the titles, but why put the boxes next to them? If they’re concerned collectors won’t want to rip out stamps, who do they think is going to check off boxes?
It reminds me of it in that there is a focus on reinstating the classic versions of the characters, and setting up stories for the foreseeable future. There is also the return of a dead, fan-favorite character. Also, I really like the issue. Not as much as I did Rebirth, but well enough that I want to look into some of these books.
That’s another thing it has in common with DC Rebirth, the problems. Where do I go from here? There’s even a checklist, but I don’t know where the stories I want to read are heading to. Surely, Loki and the Celestial is part of something bigger, but where does that go?
There’s a lot of interesting concepts being thrown around here, but will I have to scramble to get pricey back issues once it becomes clear what I want? I have been apprehensive to get into a Marvel crossover since the disappointing Age of Ultron. Hopefully Marvel doesn’t miss the opportunity of bringing in new readers.
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The goal is to stay open. Be willing to change. Discipline oneself to listen. Conversations over dinner, in gardens, while painting or farming. Take naps in the third space. Be shameless. And writing is never a solitary act.
Other important things: social justice, rural design, practice over theory, womanism and feminism, poetry.
I’m an alum of Kenyon College and Hollins University with a degree in English/Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies.
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The Orchard by Cole Wardell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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Wow….what a difference. . Look brand new….now u r ready for red, white and blue!!!
Thanks so much for sharing your experience and the great pics too!!
Glad you enjoyed. I am excited and now on the lookout for things to update and refresh!
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The office has existed since Tuvalu was granted independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1978. The current incumbent is Iakoba Italeli (as of 2015[update]).
(1936–) 19 March 2010 16 April 2010 Acting.
^ Sione stood for parliament after leaving his post.
^ The only governor-general not to accept a knighthood.
^ Latasi served as acting governor-general.
Part IV of the Constitution confirms the head of state of Tuvalu is Queen Elizabeth II as the sovereign of Tuvalu and provides for the rules for succession to the Crown. As set out in section 54 of the Constitution, the Queen’s representative is the governor-general. Section 58 of the Constitution requires the governor-general to perform the functions of the head of state when the sovereign is outside Tuvalu or otherwise incapacitated. The governor-general of Tuvalu is appointed by the monarch upon the advice of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu.
The position is largely ceremonial. However the holder has constitutional responsibilities and reserve powers in relation to the ordering parliament to convene and the appointment and dismissal of the prime minister. In 2003 the Chief Justice of the High Court of Tuvalu delivered directions as to how the governor-general should proceed to take any action he considers to be appropriate under Section 116(1) of the Constitution, acting in his own deliberate judgment, rather than as advised by the cabinet. That is, the governor-general could consider whether it was appropriate to exercise his reserve powers in calling parliament.
The governor-general Iakoba Italeli was called on to exercise the reserve powers when prime minister Willy Telavi refused to recall parliament after the Nukufetau by-election, 2013. A constitutional crisis developed when prime minister Telavi responded that, under the Constitution, he was only required to convene parliament once a year, and was thus under no obligation to summon it until December 2013. Tuvalu's opposition then requested the governor-general to intervene against the prime minister's decision. On 3 July, Italeli exercised his reserve powers in ordering parliament to convene, against the prime minister's wishes, on 30 July.
When the parliament met on 30 July, the speaker (Kamuta Latasi) refused to allow a debate on a no-confidence motion in the government of Willy Telavi. After further political maneuvers, the governor-general, Iakoba Italeli, then proceeded to exercise his reserve powers to order Telavi to stand down as prime minister and appointed Enele Sopoaga as interim prime minister. The governor-general also ordered that parliament sit on Friday 2 August to allow a vote of no-confidence in Telavi and his government. Telavi then proceeded to write to Queen Elizabeth II (as the head of state of Tuvalu) informing her that he was dismissing Italeli from his position as governor-general.
The constitutional crisis was resolved by a motion of no confidence in the government of Willy Tevali, which was held on 2 August 2013: the voting was eight for the motion, four against and one abstention. On 4 August the parliament elected Enele Sopoaga as prime minister.
Governor-General Faimalaga Luka has thus far been the only holder of this office to have declined a kighthood.
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^ "Parliament needs one yearly meeting only says defiant Tuvalu PM". Radio New Zealand International. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
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Updates on my progress after two months.
I managed to get noogleberry and have been using for a month (delivery took about 2 weeks which is considered fast).
I have also purchase another compress sleeves, size S. I shouldn’t have bought size M as I did not measure properly. Size S is a size which I will never imagine myself to purchase and to wear too.
Let’s see the progress in the photos below. There still loose skins and not much progress from week 2 even though I have been massaging and wearing compression garment daily. Just hope that it will shrink more in next few months.
Let’s do some comparison of photos with pre-op.
The bruises are gone and now left with the scars. My arms are able to stretch further now, except for some tightness in left underarm.
As for the breast, a little more volume on the top but the my right breast is still bigger than my left breast (it has been like this since young). Hope that the difference will be lessened.
After I have returned from Medan, I contacted the local distributor to purchase M size of Design Veronique Arm Compression garment. It costed me $305.. Super expensive!!!! But no wonder it is so ex… It is so much comfortable with velcro strips and it covers beyond elbow. I almost purchase L size as I was advised to purchase 1 size down before pre-op size. According to the measurement of the garment, my pre-op size is XL. One size down means L.. But I have decided to get M after measuring my post-op arms.
The following is a short update on my liposuction after two weeks.
Yusma has advised me to take pineapple juice as it aids to reduce swelling. From googling, I found out that it is because pineapple juice contains bromelain that can reduce both swelling and bruising. I have been taking pineapple since I’m back home.
My wounds have healed but some of the dead skin have yet to peel off. I’m waiting for all the dead skin to peel off before applying the bleaching cream. Bruises are gone too. There are tightness in arms and I can’t stretch backwards.
I have been massaging diligently daily on my own. However, there are hard lumps (tissue scars) and swelling in my under and inner arms, and loose skins at armpits area. Hope that it will be gone in 6 months later! It takes about 6 months to see the final results.
Let’s compare before (left) and 2 weeks after (right).
The angle is a bit different but still can see that there is some reduction in size and loose skin at the armpits area despite swelling yet to subside (Dr Arthur has warned me about it. But I think a little bit of loose skin is better than fats). Just hope that the loose skin at the armpits area can shrink back.
I will update again. Stay tune.
This is a backdated posting on my preparation on liposuction and the day of liposuction.
After some correspondences with Jennifer (Dr Arthur’s service coordinator) and sending photos of my body, Dr Arthur accepted my case and I proceeded to do my blood test. The blood test results was emailed to me within a day and everything was fine. I proceeded to book my air ticket and confirmed the surgery with Jennifer.
Prior to the blood test, Jennifer sent a detailed checklist of liposuction and fat grafting. It contains useful information such as flights, where to get compression garments and types of compression garments for different parts, all the preparation required such as taking Yunnan Baiyao prior to surgery, transportation arrangement etc.
When the day of surgery was approaching, Jennifer sent several long emails on things to take note and more instructions. You MUST read it. They are very useful and informative.
To prepare myself for liposuction, I went to Chinatown to get Yunnan Baiyao and hormone pills from doctor to delay my menstruation. I was looking for Design Veronique’s arm compression garment online but I couldn’t find it anywhere (not in amazon or ebay). So in the end, I got another brand of arm compression garment (But it was not long enough to cover beyond elbow. -.- Got ‘reprimanded’ by Dr when I was there. Haha).
I read from some blogs that we can actually bring our own medications to save some $. Jennifer was kind to provide me with the list of medications (for consumption and for application) and the costing. In the end, I decided to get from the clinic to save the hassle as this was my first time there.
I took a morning flight via Silkair to Medan. As it was my first time to Medan, I followed all the instructions in Jennifer’s email and the advice given by fellow bloggers. True enough, the custom officer asked a few questions and thankfully I printed my return ticket e-receipt/itinerary as he requested for it. The guy in front of me had a hard time with the custom officer as he was not able to produce his return ticket e-receipt/itinerary.
After clearing the custom, the driver was waiting for me outside and he drove me to Dr Arthur’s clinic.
Upon arrival of the clinic, the nurse, Yusma, gave me a number of forms to fill in and brought me to my room. I was shown around the kitchen area so that I knew where to get water. I bumped into Dr Arthur in the kitchen. He was friendly and he addressed me by my name. I was asked to take a shower and changed into their garment before consultation.
Finally, I was called down to see Dr Arthur for consultation. I think Dr Arthur was shock with my gigantic arms. He said that I’m too big for liposuction and liposuction is meant for people within normal weight range. He even asked if I had edited my photos which I have sent in. He took very long to explain to me in details on the risks of liposuction. He was very frank that I will not achieve the results which I have seen online and will have loose skins. He advised me to reconsider my decision on liposuction since I will not achieve good results. I was very determined to continue with liposuction. Beside liposuction, I have requested to do fat grafting to breasts since my breasts was very uneven and shrunk due to dieting/exercising. Dr Arthur agreed to proceed with my surgery after lunch since I was able to accept the low expectations.
After lunch, I was called down to the surgery room. Dr Arthur asked again if I want to reconsider my decision on proceeding with liposuction. I was really determined and he reminded me again on the risk of loose skins and it will not be a masterpiece. Finally, we were ready for the surgery.. But there were hiccups. Dr was unable to find my vein for to insert the cannula. He tried both left and right hands but still couldn’t find. He said that he would have to cancel the surgery if he still can’t find my vein. After a long time, finally, he managed to insert somewhere near to my left waist (normally, it should be on the hand). I was so scared that the surgery had to be cancelled. For my own good, he advised me to train more with weights to have bigger veins in case I need emergency surgeries in future.
Next, we proceeded to take videos of pre-op. As my faced was covered and maybe due to the injection, I was feeling giddy after standing for a few moments. Yusma and Dr brought me back to lie down. Dr was concerned and told me not to hold a strong front if I’m not feeling well. Thankfully, I was feeling fine after lying down for a couple of mins and we proceeded with the videos and surgery.
The pain was bearable thru-out the surgery. The most painful areas were the armpits and upper breasts, nearer to collar bone. But it was still bearable. Thru-out the surgery, Yusma was a great help to me as she held my hands at times. This was comforting. Btw, I was on LA thru-surgery (lower risk as compared to GA).
As my arms compression garment was not long enough, Yusma had to bandage the areas which was not covered. I did not experience vomiting or nausea which the other bloggers did. However, my hands were very swollen and my arms was unable to bend. This caused inconvenience and immobility to carry out daily routines such as brushing teeth, eating etc. Dr dropped by my room a couple of times in the evening to check on me, ensuring that I was fine. He was very caring and kept reminding me to drink up more due to lose of fluids.
The next morning, Yusma called me down for massage. It was painful to remove the compression garment. The massage helped to relieve some soreness and Yusma was gentle in her strokes. As my arm compression garments was not tight enough, my inner arms area was pretty swollen. Hence, Yusma applied a bandage cover the compression garment on this area too.
On the 2nd day, my arms were able to move much more. After the morning massage, we proceeded to take some videos of post-op and I managed to take a walk at Sun Plaza too. The first thing which I did at Sun Plaza is to wash my hair at a salon. I was not allowed to bath after surgery. Hence, it was important to shower before surgery and also to bring a lot of Dettol wet wipes to clean my body after surgery (Note: This tip was given by fellow bloggers. I have benefited a lot from their sharing and this made me wanna share my own experiences too). Yusma also gave me some guidance on how and where to get a cheap hair wash.
If anyone of you is interested to find out more about liposuction with Dr Arthur in Medan, please take some time to read thru the blogs which the patients shared http://www.elixirdevie.sg/blog.html. Personally, I find them very useful as it has helped me to be prepared mentally and lots of tips on the preparation (e.g. bring dettol wipes and wash etc). There are also pictures of the clinic in those blogs so that you know what to expect of. Dr Arthur has a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/arthurtjandra?feature=watch. Do spend time to watch those videos to know more about the surgery. It is important to read up and research on liposuction. After all, liposuction is a surgery and all surgeries have risks (including death, eg CEO case in Singapore). Thankfully, Dr Arthur has reduced the risks a lot by using traditional syringe and using LA instead of GA. Fyi, many videos have been removed by Youtube recently, hence you may want to read up Dr Arthur’s blog which was setup recently https://elixirdevie.com/.
Note: You will have to bring along a thumb drive or laptop if you wish to have a copy of your op videos or photos.
I used to be small size when I was a kid. In Sec school, I was only 55 kg and 164cm tall. However, within 5 years, I put on nearly 20kg. What happened?? During my poly and uni days, I had to snack to keep myself awake while in lectures and self-studying. Also, then, I was dating a guy who always made me wait around 24/7 at his deposit and I had to end up with late dinner at home (having a heavy meal before sleep is a super bad idea). Of cos I realised that I was gaining weight… Hence, I tried numerous ways to lose weight.. this is my ‘roller coaster’ weight history and types of attempts.
Weight shot up to 65kg in 2 years..
Signed up gym package and managed to down my weigh to 62kg. However, due to exams and final year projects, I did not manage to go to the gym regularly and in the end, I terminated my gym membership (there was a penalty charge)…-.- With stagnant lifestyle and late dinner, my weight shot put to 70kg within a year.
At this point, my relationship also came to an end. I was feeling rather depressed and tried to slim down. I went to a slimming centre to sign up a slimming package with them, focusing only on thigh (it was too ex for whole body). The slimming sessions consist of Cavitation on outer thighs, some electro pads on for a while and then sauna. With these, I think I managed to drop only 2kgs n not even 1 inch after spending thousands $ on a number of sessions. I did watch my diet during the treatment but I was not allowed to exercise. The consultant said that there will be muscle gain due to exercising and it will make it difficult for cavitation to burn up those fats…. But I tried to do some running though. After all those sessions, the consultant tried to hard sell me some more sessions but I didn’t take it up due to the results.
While googling about cavitation, I chanced upon liposuction procedures and I went to read up more around it. After all the reading on liposuction, I was very attracted to Dr Arthur’s liposuction procedure, the traditional way. He uses only a syringe to do liposuction!!! It was much more safer. The additional plus point was that he does 3D lipo-scuplting. He charges arms as a pair unlike many who charges per side. I wrote in to Jennifer, Dr Arthur’s service coordinator, to enquire on the charges. It was about $750-$900 per part (left & right arms are considered as 1 part). However, as I was still young then and had never sat in a plane before, I didn’t have the courage to fly to Medan on my own.
Next, I entered into new phase of study life, University. It was super hectic and competitive. My lifestyle was mainly studying, eating and sleeping. Very stagnant. My weight shot up again.. at the end of uni, I was about 72kg. After graduation, I tried to exercise and diet. But the progress was slow. Fat-freezing was introduced and I went to try out for a few sessions on my arms. It was totally useless and only caused bruises. A TOTAL WASTE OF MY MONEY. I stopped believing in any slimming products or technology from slimming centres and started swimming regularly (I hate running).
I started working in a desk-bounded job and my tummy grew bigger and bigger despite dieting and my weight climbed to 77kg (but I wasn’t exercise due to numerous OTs). I was googling again on ways of slimming down. This time, I tried acupuncture. In every session, the sinseh poked some needles on my tummy and legs (on the acupoints) and ran mild electrocurrent into the body. There was a meal plan and meal replacement powder to follow strictly too. Similarly, I was advised not to exercise (but I continued to swim) and need to follow very strictly on the meal plan (3 small meals and 2 healthy snacks in between). My weight and PBF dropped! I managed to drop to 71kg and it remained stagnant. I did not continue my package and the meal replacement ran out (I spent another thousands of dollars on this). Swam less often due to work but I watched my diet. Usually, I ate lesser than my colleagues. But my weight continued to climb back to 75kg…. Once in a while, I would add on some static exercises at home but that never last more than 2 weeks. Basically, I lack of perseverance and discipline.
From young, I always want to wear sleeveless shirt/dress but I don’t dare due to my giantic arms (FYI, I had huge arms even when I was only 55kg). All the pretty dresses are sleeveless and I will usually wear it with a cardign or jacket over it to hide my fat arms. I’m getting older and I do not want to continue like this. Hence, I started exploring and reading up more on Dr Arthur in Medan again. I am very convinced by his method (3D traditional liposuction by syringe) thru his videos and comments by bloggers. Also, thru reading blogs and reviews, I concluded that Dr Arthur is a passionate docotor too. I wrote to Jennifer again. Woah. The price has increased tremedously over the years. It is about $1260 per part. This time, I plucked up my courage and made up my mind to fly to Medan for liposuction. I’m getting old and I do not want to have regrets. Plus, the price keeps increasing.. I won’t be able to afford in future. I’m convinced that liposuction is the only way to remove fats from body. Those fats removed can be seen! Unlike fat-freezing, I can’t see where the fats gone to… I don’t want to waste any more $ on unsuccessful methods (I have already wasted more than $10k over the years and I’m not rich. These are my hard-earned money from part time jobs and savings from my current job).
For the subsquent blogs, I will be updating on my experience on liposuction with Dr Arthur in Medan. Stay tune.
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From David Eppstein’s blog I learned of a new Wikipedia article about the three-gap theorem. The who? I’d never heard of it myself, but was familiar with the general idea, having written about an application of it in a long article on scales for xenharmonic music.
In a more conventional music context, think about notes in the range from one note, say F, to the next F an octave higher. Scales, if you will. Here’s a representation of that. Ignore the black box for now and just focus on the white rectangle. That’s an octave, with our first note, F, at the left end.
(These diagrams may be rather small and hard to see; click on them to expand them.) Notes an octave apart are considered to be equivalent for our purposes, so you can think of the left end as being joined to the right.
One way to talk about the distances between musical pitches — intervals, as they’re called — is to use a unit called cents, where 1200 cents make an octave. We’re going to generate a scale based on an interval called a perfect fifth, which is cents — about 702 cents. So we’ll take our note F, shift it to the right by a distance X (see arrow below), and call that new note C.
Now go up a fifth again, starting from C. That puts you past the right end of the octave, but remember we identify the right end with the left end, so we can think of the arrow as going to the right end and then continuing from the left end to the new note, G.
G lands between F and C. It’s 2X above F, minus an octave, which works out to 204 cents, an interval called a whole tone. From G to C is 702 cents minus 204 cents or 498 cents, so G splits the perfect fifth from F to C into a whole tone (in blue) plus another perfect fourth (again in green). In this three note scale there again are two kinds of gaps.
Going up another perfect fifth gives us D, between C and F and splitting that perfect fourth into a whole tone and a major third (294 cents). Now we have a four note scale with three kinds of gaps. The major third is orange. Notice the big gap (perfect fourth) is equal to the sum of the other two.
The next perfect fifth gives us A, which splits the remaining perfect fourth into a whole tone and a major third. This five note scale is back to having two kinds of gaps.
Add a sixth note, E, and one of the major thirds gets split into a whole tone and a diatonic semitone (90 cents), shown here in purple. There are three kinds of gaps. The big one (major third this time) is again equal to the sum of the other two.
But adding a seventh note, B, splits the other major third into a whole tone and a diatonic semitone, and once again there are two kinds of gaps.
You start to see a pattern. Each scale has at most three kinds of gaps. If there are three kinds, then the largest is equal to the sum of the two smaller ones. When you add a note to such a scale, it splits one of the large gaps into one of each of the two other kinds; eventually you split all the large gaps and are left with a scale having only two kinds of gaps. But maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves? That’s the pattern so far, but does it continue?
We’ll see in part 2.
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Centrifugal acceleration of astroparticles to relativistic energies might take place in rotating astrophysical objects (see also Fermi acceleration). It is strongly believed that active galactic nuclei and pulsars have rotating magnetospheres, therefore, they potentially can drive charged particles to high and ultra-high energies. It is a proposed explanation for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and extreme-energy cosmic rays (EECRs) exceeding the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit.
is the speed of light. From this behavior it is evident that radial motion will exhibit a nontrivial character. In due course of motion the particle will reach the light cylinder surface (a hypothetical area where the linear velocity of rotation exactly equals the speed of light), leading to the increase of the poloidal component of velocity. On the other hand, the total velocity cannot exceed the speed of light, therefore, the radial component must decrease. This means that the centrifugal force changes its sign.
via inverse Compton Klein–Nishina up-scattering.
Although the direct centrifugal acceleration has limitations, as analysis shows the effects of rotation still might play an important role in the processes of acceleration of charged particles. Generally speaking, it is believed that the centrifugal relativistic effects may induce plasma waves, which under certain conditions might be unstable efficiently pumping energy from the background flow. On the second stage energy of wave-modes can be transformed into energy of plasma particles, leading to consequent acceleration.
In rotating magnetospheres the centrifugal force acts differently in different locations, leading to generation of Langmuir waves, or plasma oscillations via the parametric instability. One can show that this mechanism efficiently works in the magnetospheres of AGN and pulsars.
, so AGNs become cosmic Zevatrons.
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Chop palak and clean it. Cook for 5-7minutes in a vessel with water, covering it with a lid. Meanwhile, chop onions, garlic cloves, and a piece of ginger. Grind them together, with some water, to form a consistent paste. Strain off water from palak, and grind it to a fine paste. Take oil in a pan with medium flame, let it warm a little, then put the onion, ginger, and garlic paste and fry it till it gets brownish white (from white). Add half teaspoon garam masala, coriander powder, red chilly powder, and pinch of salt and sugar (according to your taste). Stir it as it gets brownish. Then add palak paste to it along with a little water, and stir as it cooks. Pour 2-3 tbsp of fresh curds, about 30-40ml milk, and 2 tbsp cream. Slice panner into small cubes, soak in water for couple of mitutes, and fry it in another pan to light golden brown color in oil. Then add it to palak. Stir for couple of minutes, and turn off the flame. Palak Paneer is ready!
Mix atta with water in proper proportions to form a consistent dough, and let it so for 15-20min. Meanwhile, chop the washed potatoes into big sized blocks (helps in cooking faster). Cook them in a pressure cooker for three whistles (it took about 15-20min for this). Take them out, and mash them by hand. Along with it, add a pinch of garam masala powder, salt and chilly powder. Also add finely chopped coriander leaves. Mix all of them well. You can also add finely chopped green chillies. I avoided it.
Now, roll a slice of dough to a thin circular shape. Make two of these, and oil it. Then, spread the mashed aloo on one of the unbaked bread/dough. Put another rolled dough slice over this, and roll it again. Bake it on a hot pan flipping it on either sides. Put a little butter over it, and Aloo paratha is ready!
The ingredients for Aloo paratha serves 1 person.
Time of preparation: Palak paneer and aloo paratha, together, 60-70 minutes.
Difficulty level: Moderate to difficult.
P.S.: My mom was directing me through out. She rolled the parathas for me, when i was getting restless and screwing it up.
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2019-04-20T16:22:24Z
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2. Writing: I'm done with the ARC-level (advance reading copy) edits for Immortal's Spring. Whew! Back to newer projects I can go. Writing a series, like giving birth, was the kind of uber-complicated marathon that I'm in no hurry to do again. But, also like giving birth, at the same time it's something I'm immensely proud of having accomplished. Also, how beautiful is our cover art?
How about you guys? Viewing/reading recommendations?
I'm still hooked on The Blacklist, even after 2 and a bit seasons. James Spader's monologues are just visual poetry - of course, not written by him, the delivery - oh the delivery.
Funnily enough, I've put aside fiction for the time being (namely the revisions on my own ARC) and I'm reading a visual history of Westminster Abbey. My mother in law lent me a copy after we went down a wonderful rabbit hole talking about the history of the Royal Family.
Depsite my contemporary mindset, I have to admit to a grudging affection for the British Royals - mainly because they seem to be just as crazy as my own family - and with far more interesting skeletons in their closets.
My 'Walhalla' project is on a hiatus of sorts while I try to work out just what I am going to do with it.
I like the royals too, and find the whole system weirdly interesting. I mean, growing up with that insane level of constant public scrutiny: how do they stand it? Do all the perks really make it worthwhile? Then, yeah, the history of that family is full of so much craziness. The other year I watched 'The White Queen', about the War of the Roses, and jeeeeez, talk about a "what the hell is wrong with you people?" phase of history.
Good luck on revisions and brainstorming, meanwhile!
My Dad and I watch Bones, Chicago PD, Chicago Fire, The Blacklist, Blindspot, Criminal Minds, The Flash, Agents of Shield & Gotham. I'm honestly surprised by how much I've enjoyed Chicago Fire & Gotham.
Reading: I started my 128th book of the year yesterday, Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman, it's okay, a little disjointed. I'm waiting for The Iron Warrior by Julie Kagawa to come in, either at the library or arrive at my house, whichever happens first. And I have Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass waiting on the hold shelf at the library for me. I also have 5 other books sitting on my counter waiting to be read. Once I finish the one I'm reading I'll probably wait for Friday and getting the one waiting for me, cause I really want to read it.
Ooh, many good watching ideas! Sweet.
I've been meaning to check out Kagawa's fey novels. I keep hearing good things.
It does! But I haven't been doing any fanfic writing. My RPs are all original at this point. One of them was based on one of the Gundam shows originally but this "season" (we're on like 11) we went purely original with setting and such.
They are fun. I love Puck the most. I enjoy the sequel series more than my bestie does.
Once Upon a Time!!!! Hurry up and get to this season, it's wonderful. But the journey is pretty great, too.
I'm going to watch more today! Woo! :) Eck, I just want to wipe the lipstick off her. But Emma's mascara: love that!
I think it largely stands on its own, but will also come into play later on the series you're presently watching, but also consider checking out Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
It was a fun, if short-lived, spinoff that mostly had its own separate story arc.
Oh fun, I didn't realize they'd done a spinoff! Endless supply of stories in this universe, really.
I have been watching Once upon a Time since the beginning. I really love it, especially with all the twists and turns. If you haven't seen Humans with Colin Morgan, it's really outstanding.
I just got to Belle's first episode - squee! I sense beautiful heartache ahead.
For Colin alone, I may have to track down Humans. He's just that awesome in everything he does.
Belle is wonderful all the way through.
Humans was terrific even without Colin but he was really excellent in it.
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It’s been a long time. Oops.
I have a new job and it’s literally draining me. By the time I get home, I am done for the day. I am putting on my sweats and my compression socks and chilling out.
It’s going really well so far, but like I said, D-R-A-I-N-I-N-G. I am still getting used to being on my feet for 8+ hours a day instead of sitting in front of a computer. I definitely need new, comfortable shoes. I will take any excuse to shop!
I wore this on a lunch date with the husband last weekend. This top is my favorite new Crossroads Trading find and these bell bottoms are so major!
I’ve been toying with the idea of exclusively updating and posting outfit shots on my Instagram, because it would be so much easier, but as I write this, I remember that I actually really love an old fashioned blog. How sad is it that blogs are actually becoming outdated??
I will figure out how to get my life back together and get back on here more often, Until then, be sure to follow my Instagram!
That’s so exciting!! Congratulations on moving up in the company!
And I am in LOVE with that top, such a great color and I love the shape too.
So how are you doing in the not-so-new company? Did your life change much?
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Am very honoured to have the founder of True Bio Skin, Ms Susan Foo to be the emcee of this workshop and to share her expertise with us.
Susan is a UK-trained cosmetologist with over 12 years of experience in the skincare business.
By the look of her current skin condition, no one would have believe that she used to suffer from bad acne scars. And that she also looks 10 years younger than her actual age.
Due to her past experience, she understands how it feels to be sneer against due to bad skin problem. Throughout the workshop, I can feel how sincere she was in helping us solve our skin problem, just the way she did for hers.
And as a testament to her confidence in her products, she’s willing to hire staff with bad skin because her clients are always amazed by how those staff’s complexion looked so radiant and smooth months later.
Can’t help but notice the absence of makeup on Susan and her staffs, except for lipstick, to further emphasis their disbelieve in unnatural makeup stuffs.
During the workshop, I get to find out the key ingredients and components that goes into the skin care products and and why do some products smell so heavenly whereas some have earthy scents. There was also some minor Q & A section where one gets to be rewarded with chocolate treats.
Here’s a summary of what i have learnt.
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Color deepens due to the presence of natural enzymes in plants which oxidize easily.
Rough, matte texture, with occasional tiny air pockets..
True Bio Skin Care is made from natural ingredients derived from pure, active plant essences harvested 2 hours before dawn, when concentration of beneficial enzymes, vitamins, protoplasm and collagen in the plants are at the highest.
True Bio Skin Care’s live and active plant essences penetrate deep into the dermis within 30 seconds, nourishing the skin cells for the next 10 – 12 hours. Working at the cellular level, they alleviate problems such as skin pigmentation, ageing, wrinkles, acne, freckles, skin redness and sensitivity so effectively.
Lastly, not forgetting the goodie bag and the wonderful refreshment offered to us after the workshop. The staffs also kindly shared with me the recipes for the various salads too.
Was doing some retail theraphy at Takashimaya and decided to drop by my favourite bookstore to check out for mag deals.
Kinokuniya is giving away a set of Toni & Guy Frizz Smoothing Curl Shampoo and Conditioner (75ml each) with purchase of the July issue of Citta Bella (S$5).
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"I assist clients in developing insight into patterns within their behavior and relationships that are unsuccessful for them. Since these patterns are often shaped by the clients past, this is also something we explore. This awareness, combined with learning new ways of thinking and behaving, helps clients develop more effective and satisfying reactions, relationships and life choices. Believing in an individualized therapy approach, I develop a treatment plan unique to the needs and circumstances of each person. Within a supportive, accepting therapy relationship, the client gradually discovers their authentic self in a manner that helps to resolve their initial questions and concerns."
If you're looking for couples therapists in Glendale or for a Glendale couples therapist these professionals provide couples therapy in Glendale. Couples counseling can be effective and saves many relationships, but if you're part of a couple in distress remember that the sooner you get help, the more likely couples counseling will bring about a positive result.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/couples/ca/glendale?topid=214678
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A privately held stealth mode Boston-based startup is looking to launch its first-class web and mobile web application into BETA, and is seeking to hire a part-time Software Engineer with a minimum of 2+ years of experience working with WordPress as a development platform and with extensive MongoDB database development expertise. This is a primary developer role with a focus on developing to specification a web and mobile technology solution with a heavy emphasis on performance optimization and application scaling. Experience with and knowledge of Amazon Web Services’s MongoDB APIs will be necessary for your ultimate success in this role.
Write clean, organized, and well-documented code.
Follow commonly accepted industry coding standards, project methodology, and best practices.
Author project technical specification documentation surrounding MongoDB & AWS APIs, architecture and development.
Ability to document technical architecture of MongoDB hosted on AWS.
Ability to author system scope diagrams, process flow diagrams and other UML system diagrams and technical documentation.
Ability to troubleshoot the code you develop and rectify identified issues using our Jira bug tracking software.
Work with Business team to scope and estimate project components.
Contribute to this startup’s engineering knowledge base surrounding MongoDB & AWS applications.
Occasional travel to local downtown Boston development status meetings required.
Computer Science or engineering degree or equivalent real-world experience on resume.
Minimum of 2 years working with WordPress & MongoDB.
Expert understanding of MongoDB and AWS (Amazon Web Services) APIs.
Expert understanding of modern responsive web design for mobile.
Expert understanding of WordPress plugins, optimization and security best practices.
Demonstrable contributions to MongoDB and MySQL-based websites or applications.
Well-rounded engineering experience across a variety of technologies.
Passionate about writing clean, organized code with an emphasis on performance and security.
Personal contributions to an open source project desired.
Candidate must be located in Boston, Providence, or surrounding areas.
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2019-04-20T00:38:04Z
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https://hubtechinsider.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/
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Eric Schmidt joined Google as CEO in 2001 and led the tech company for the next decade as the company grew from a start-up to a corporate behemoth, whose parent company, Alphabet, now has a market cap of over $740 billion . Very early hiring strategies largely involved hiring co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin's friends from Stanford University. "They were super smart, somewhat disorganized kinds of people," Schmidt told Tyler Cowen on the " Conversations with Tyler " podcast.
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2019-04-20T20:36:29Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/m/b962130b-a8fe-3b44-a8f5-e791f5b73957/this-is-what-google-learned.html
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interesting questions, some of them you had to answer if you'd spent any time on LJ at all. my scores are higher than they should be just cause i've been around lj for some time now.
"Known to go off without warning." Heh.
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2019-04-20T13:00:34Z
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https://inahandbasket.livejournal.com/207125.html
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Isn't the entire web social these days?
To an extent, yes. If 2008 was the year everyone -- and their grandmas -- joined a social network, then 2009 is the year those networks' social graphs spread their tentacles beyond their borders to other sites across the web. Already it's common for many sites, including major news sources and entertainment properties, to have commenting and sharing features. So we admit the social web is a pervasive concept. But there are several interesting newer developments at Twitter and Facebook, as well as in the widget space and the app world.
What's the story with Twitter?
Twitter is one of the fastest-growing social networks, but it's very different from Facebook and MySpace. The microblog essentially began as a mass text-messaging-meets-instant-messaging utility. You sign up for an account, people follow you, and you follow them. When you "tweet" a message, the folks following you see it instantly on their phones and computers.
Everyone bandies around the term "social graph." What exactly does it mean?
A social graph is a map of a person's connections, through which they communicate and share information. People often talk about social graphs in relation to social networks, such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
To read the rest of this cool article, click here.
Even though tens of millions of users were flocking to social media sites every day, most marketers stayed away. They either didn’t understand how to join the conversations—without sounding like shills—or they were frightened away by the prospect of associating their brands with questionable content.
Companies are learning how to leverage social media and tap into the rising tide of consumers participating in social network sites, blogs, wikis and Twitter.
According to the “The ROI on Social Media Marketing” report from the Aberdeen Group, sponsored by Visible Technologies, marketers have developed the tools and methodologies to drive marketing ROI by listening to and learning from customers and prospects.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Pop quiz: Who has the most popular page on Facebook? Barack Obama. Who's second? Coca-Cola. Yes, sugared water runs second only to the leader of the free world. Who was it again that said people don't want to be friends with brands?
The Coke page, which totals 3.3 million "fans," wasn't even created by Coca-Cola, but by a pair of Los Angelenos who just love Coke.
In late August 2008, aspiring actor Dusty Sorg was hunting for a Coca-Cola fan page he could join on Facebook. He didn't find one that seemed legitimate so he hunted down a high-resolution digital image of a Coke can, uploaded it to Facebook and made a page.
Ever since the DDB creative revolution in the 1960s, debate has raged about the best kind of messaging for building profitable brands. On the one hand, devotees of the "hard sell," or persuasion-based communications, argue that facts and rational arguments sell products and services best. On the other hand, devotees of the "soft sell" contend that brands that can inspire strong emotional responses in consumers and create true engagement can transform businesses, turning the tables even on bigger competitors. In recent times the tide has begun to turn in favor of emotional engagement, with some high-profile converts at Procter & Gamble, but the argument is far from over.
So when we sat down to write our book, "Brand Immortality" -- a manual on how to keep brands healthy in the long term -- we knew this would be one of the key issues to address. Our primary data source is the U.K.'s Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Effectiveness Awards, which were founded in 1980. The book's analyses are based upon the accumulated learning from 880 case studies from the U.K. national and international competition.
The cases cover two recessions and the occasional market wobble, so we can distinguish between strategies for the good times and the bad. By comparing the case studies that generated the largest business effects with those that generated less impressive effects, we have been able to explore which marketing inputs tend to promote success and which do not. We can also see how this varies during the life cycle of market categories, from birth and growth to maturity and decline.
What the data show us is that emotional campaigns are almost twice as likely to generate large profit gains than rational ones, with campaigns that use facts as well as emotions in equal measure fall somewhere between the two.
Panicky markets. Dazed consumers. Shifting distribution. Eroding margins. Disappearing budgets. An atomized media environment. Established brands used to pulling predictable business levers are likely to be in for a rude awakening in 2009, unless they substantially reinvent their marketing approaches. To survive in this new-world disorder, brands will have to dig deeper, move faster and execute perfectly the first time, every time. Just like a start-up.
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2019-04-26T10:09:17Z
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https://huxleyquayle.typepad.com/huxley_quayle_von_blog/
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This entry was posted on noviembre 19, 2010 at 11:49 am and is filed under Danza - Dance - Danse, Documental - Documentary - Documentaire, Películas - Films. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-24T18:33:23Z
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https://danseusefilms.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/flamenco-flamenco-de-saura-ayer-en-madrid-y-en-2011-en-santander-junto-a-mis-caminos-a-traves-de-la-danza/
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Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets.
A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, that gives a bot herder remote control of these computers in order to surreptitiously commandeer them without their owners' knowledge. The bot herder can send instructions to the network of computers from a command-and-control server to siphon credit card numbers and banking credentials from them or use them to launch DDoS attacks against web sites, deliver spam and other malware to victims, or conduct advertising click fraud.
Botnets came up this month in a Senate Judiciary hearing with FBI Director James Comey. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has previously likened botnets to weeds that do "evil things," asked Comey for his assessment of one of the Internet's biggest scourges, and Comey replied that there was no such thing as a "good botnet."
"Whether they're coming at you or whether they're standing still, it's bad," Comey replied. "I don't know of a good purpose for an army of zombies."
TL;DR: A botnet is a network of computers infected with the same malware, which allows a hacker to remotely control the computers and turn them into a zombie army, without their owners' knowledge. Botnets can be used to conduct attacks against other systems or to distribute spam and malware.
Botnets have been around for more than a decade and have become one of the most popular methods attackers use to hijack machines and make quick money. The security industry estimates that botnets, over time, have resulted in more than $110 billion in losses to victims globally. An estimated 500 million computers fall prey to botnet attackers annually, which comes down to about 18 victims infected per second.
The Morris worm, unleashed in 1988, is sometimes cited as the first botnet. But although that worm infected thousands of computers on the ARPAnet, the precursor to the Internet, it was not truly a botnet in the way we define such networks today. Robert Morris, Jr., who launched the worm, didn't control the infected machines and never earned a penny from his operation; instead his worm simply spread uncontrollably.
Today's botnets are well-oiled criminal enterprises often composed of millions of infected machines that can earn a bot herder or his customers millions of dollars.
Coreflood, for example, was a popular botnet that held strong for nearly a decade before law enforcement crippled it in 2011. One Coreflood control server seized by authorities commandeered more than 2 million infected machines and in a single year amassed more than 190 gigabytes of data from victim computers. The botnet allowed criminals to loot millions from victims, including $115,000 from the account of a real estate company in Michigan and $78,000 from a South Carolina law firm.
Quite often, attackers who control a botnet will not only use it for their own criminal schemes but will also rent it out to other attackers for DDoS or data-stealing operations.
The Bredolab botnet, which hijacked more than 30 million machines, is one example. Georgy Avanesov, a 27-year-old Russian citizen of Armenian descent, developed Bredolab in 2009 to siphon bank account passwords and other confidential information from infected computers. But authorities say Avenesov also earned about $125,000 a month from renting out access to compromised computers in his botnet to other criminals, who used the botnet to spread malware, distribute spam, and conduct DDoS attacks.
The SpyEye and Zeus botnets have also been extremely widespread and profitable for their commanders. Both steal banking credentials from victims and automate the process of siphoning money from accounts. The author or authors behind the Zeus botnet sold it to various criminal gangs who infected more than 13 million machines with it from 2008 on, and used it to steal more than $100 million.
In 2007, the FBI began cracking down on botnets through an operation it dubbed Bot Roast. A man named John Schiefer was charged and convicted in one of the first botnet criminal cases resulting from the operation. Though notably, he was charged under the wiretapping statute instead of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the legislation usually used to prosecute hackers. His botnet malware infected some 250,000 machines and was used to siphon the PayPal usernames and passwords of computer owners.
The bureau's methods for cracking down on botnets have not been without controversy. In 2011, for example, the FBI used a novel method to eliminate the Coreflood botnet. After the agency obtained a court order to seize control of servers used to command the botnet, the FBI sent code to the infected machines to disable the malicious software on them. A private security firm, under law enforcement supervision, did this by first hijacking communication between infected computers and the attackers' command servers so that infected computers communicated with servers the company controlled instead. After collecting the IP addresses of every infected machine that contacted their server, they sent a remote “stop” command to disable the Coreflood malware on them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the technique an "extremely sketchy" move, since it was impossible to predict if the code might have an adverse affect on the machines. No adverse affects were reported, however, and according to figures released by the Feds, the action helped disable the botnet malware on some 700,000 machines in one week.
A different operation to take down botnets didn't work so well for Microsoft. In 2014, the software giant obtained a court order to seize control of nearly two dozen domains that were being used by two different families of botnet malware known as Bladabindi (aka NJrat) and Jenxcus (aka NJw0rm). Microsoft didn't send infected machines any commands, but in the process of simply seizing the malicious domains to disable the botnets' command structure, Microsoft also seized many legitimate domains controlled by the DNS provider No-IP.com, thereby knocking the website addresses of millions of its customers offline. The software maker eventually recognized its mistake and reversed its actions to restore legitimate service to these customers, but the move highlighted how heavy-handed crackdowns on botnets can have unintended consequences.
Of all the botnets that have hit the internet over the last decade, one of the most famous remains an enduring mystery. The Conficker worm botnet infected an estimated 12 million machines beginning in 2008, and it's still infecting machines today. The worm uses a sophisticated method that was somewhat novel at the time—dynamic DNS—to prevent its command structure from being taken down. Teams of security researchers worked for months to get ahead of the infection. But ultimately, for all the work the attackers put into their attack, Conficker proved to be fairly anticlimactic, and no one has ever been able to determine its original purpose. Code in the malware indicated that the botnet would activate on April 1, 2009, though no one knew what that meant. In the days leading up to that date, many people made dire predictions about how the Conficker attackers might use their massive army of computers to take down the Internet's infrastructure. But the April 1st deadline passed without incident. In 2011, authorities in Ukraine, working in conjunction with US authorities, busted a $72 million cybercrime ring that had been using Conficker, though it's unclear if they were behind the initial spread of Conficker or had simply hijacked Conficker-infected machines to install and spread other malware that allowed them to steal banking credentials from infected machines.
Despite the handful of successful operations that have taken down botnets over the years, there's no sign of the zombie apocalypse waning. According to the industry's estimated infection rates, in the few minutes it took you to read this article, more than 3,000 new machines joined the botnet army.
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2019-04-22T08:41:37Z
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https://www.wired.com/2015/12/hacker-lexicon-botnets-the-zombie-computer-armies-that-earn-hackers-millions/
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In my twenties, I did a bit of writing, and a bit of other things. Mostly drinking.
In my thirties, I wrote more consistently, but I was raising a child alone for part of it, and working on quitting all that drinking.
I told myself that, by forty, I would be published. I didn’t tell myself I would quit writing if it didn’t happen, but that I’d likely give up trying to get published.
Then I signed my first publishing contract when I was thirty-nine. Just made it!
Pretty soon the goal became to write for a living. After a couple more books, it seemed possible, then became actual. The next goal was to write a big, best-seller by age forty-five.
It happened sooner than I thought.
Now, what constitutes a “big best-seller” is arguable. And, even by my own standards, it hasn’t *exactly* happened yet. What did happen was that several elements came together to produce “Gone”, a book which has sold over 30,000 copies in its first month.
“Gone”’s success was unexpected. It was originally titled “Ricochet,” and anticipated (at least by me) to be a book that outperformed its predecessors – just not by a thousand percent. The retitling of the book, the cover image chosen, the marketing strategy, the market climate at the time of its release – all these things came together to send it soaring into the best-seller ranks.
In terms of what “Gone” is about, no, I’m not really a conspiracy theorist. That said, I do think critically about a lot of issues, and know there’s usually more to the story then depicted in mainstream media. Plus, I have a pretty active imagination.
The basic plot of “Gone” occurred to me during the writing of another book, “Daybreak.” It’s easy to get a little paranoid when writing about government cover-ups, especially of the magnitude in Daybreak. So there was a part of me (let’s say 10%) that wondered: what if there are ramifications for this? What if a couple guys in dark suits come knocking at my door? And, a story was born.
Maybe you’ve thought about it, too. In the old days, it might be the phone ringing, and no one’s there. Today, it’s your computer glitching out or crashing and you wonder – are They watching me?
For the record, though, I believe the vast majority of people who work in law enforcement and government are good people. Sometimes the system itself can get out of control, but most of the time individual people are decent, and not getting together to defraud the public, or control the world.
I’m a recovering addict who tends to be impatient for results, frequently rushing to complete a task. Sometimes, my addict-brain just wants to offload something and be done with it, move on.
Today, my goals are set differently. The aim now is to produce a book that I feel completely good about, from stem to stern, that I don’t rush, that really pleases a lot of readers, and I’m trying not to set any time limit for this. I’m taking it one day at a time.
That said, new books are in the works, including new “North Country” books like Gone.
Thanks so much for reading, and supporting. God bless.
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2019-04-22T00:03:20Z
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https://tjbrearton.wordpress.com/on-writing-gone/
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Death by Caffeine: The Math Part 1 USA UNITS here.
The lethal dose for caffeine is about 150 milligrams per kg of body weight. While the average person’s caffeine consumption is around 200 milligrams a day, the Mayo Clinic advises against exceeding 500 to 600 milligrams per day.
This work titled Timing is Everything is by street artist ABOVE in London.
You may want this much energy but be warned, energy drinks can kill.
It would take a ridiculously huge number of ANGRY WOMBAT energy drinks to kill a 14 year old weighing, say, 48 kg. Nevertheless, some kids are more sensitive to caffeine than others and then much lower levels of consumption of energy drinks can be fatal.
Here is the work (see below) TIMING IS EVERYTHING by street artist ABOVE in London showing the timing.
The lethal dose for caffeine is about 68 milligrams per lb of body weight. Average consumption of caffeine is about 200 milligrams a day. The Mayo Clinic advises against exceeding 500 to 600 milligrams per day.
It would take a ridiculously huge number of ANGRY WOMBAT energy drinks to kill a 14 year old weighing, say, 110 lb. Nevertheless, some kids are more sensitive to caffeine than others and then much lower levels of consumption of energy drinks can be fatal.
Death by Caffeine: The Math Part 2 USA UNITS HERE.
On April 12 2017 16-year-old Davis Cripe collapsed at school in South Carolina and died later in hospital. In the span of two hours, Davis drank a cafe latte from McDonald’s and a large Mountain Dew, then “chugged” a 16-ounce energy drink when he got back to art class.
Here, assuming Davis drank large sized drinks, is the lethal caffeine consumption.
NOTE: Davis lived in the USA where standard drink volumes are slightly different to Australia & UK. The USA volumes are used here converted to litre and ml.
Death by Caffeine: The Math Part 2 METRIC HERE.
Here, assuming Davis drank the large sized drinks, is the lethal caffeine consumption.
I Can’t Sleep: Caffeine Math USA UNITS HERE.
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2019-04-21T05:06:41Z
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https://mathspig.wordpress.com/category/popular-posts/caffeine-math/
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Softmints or Extra Strong Mints?
It’s a deeply personal question, and one we tackle with our brand new work for Trebor.
...a giant Extra Strong Mint for a head.
The campaign is our first for the brand, and Trebor's first campaign in a decade, so we're very happy to see it come to life.
The TV spot is also supported through the magic of radio, with two additional minty tales.
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2019-04-25T05:55:20Z
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https://wklondon.typepad.com/welcome_to_optimism/trebor/
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1. Michael FADELY was born 1700 in Northeastern Switzerland or Southern Germany. He died 1770 in Frederick County, Virginia.
Michael married (1) 1st WIFE about 1720. 1st was born UNKNOWN. She died UNKNOWN.
Michael also married (2) ELISABETH on UNKNOWN. ELISABETH was born UNKNOWN. She died 1 29 Sep 1763 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
4 F iii Elisabeth FADELY was born 1737. She died UNKNOWN.
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2019-04-18T21:29:14Z
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http://campd.tripod.com/pafg01.htm
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and harvested some potatoes, beans and plums.
Equilibrium has been restored. I may even make another cake for the musicians.
Your plums look to be in excellent condition.
They are rather good – just a little too many!
That made me smile, we have all been a little grumpy with someone who then proves they don’t really deserve it. Mind you, a house full sounds very trying! That rose is beautiful, do you know which one it is?
The rose hips and rowanberries look a fantastic colour. Are you going to do anything with them?
just enjoy them and leave them for the birds!
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2019-04-26T01:38:51Z
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https://reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/autumn-pleasures/
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Here are named some of the leading lights of American governance, all in crucial positions.
James Sensenbrenner, of Wisconsin: Complained about scientific ‘fascism’. Called climate change science an ‘international conspiracy’.
Randy Neugebauer, of Texas: Sought to pass a resolution that Americans pray ‘to humbly seek fair weather conditions’. That was his response to violent tornadoes and extensive drought.
These men are all members of the American House of Representatives, duly elected by the people of their home districts, and they are all members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
The House Republicans, the people in charge now of the House of Representatives, have appointed to a critical committee dealing with significant issues of the Twenty-First century, in a time of critical need for intelligent, informed, and wide-ranging discussion and action on a number of issues involving science, the Republicans have appointed men from the Stone Age whose greatest ability, aside from getting the ignorant rubes back home to elect them, is to hide in the back of caves mumbling ‘Ooga booga’ while a thunderstorm rages outside.
This is America, the leader of the free world as the whole world falls down the rabbit hole of massive, global climate heating, on the way to mass extinction, all documented, all researched, all full of facts and intelligence. America, still living in the Stone Age, led by shamans and priests of Ooga Booga.
Remember the names you read here. These are the men your children will curse as they struggle to breathe in a dying world.
Spinny’s got a thing up about America’s new political hero, the man who will save us from our follies, who has a brain like a steel trap… which pretty much closed a long time ago and can’t be pried open for anything. Take a look: Spinny’s place.
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2019-04-23T09:05:07Z
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https://grumpylion.wordpress.com/category/politics/
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EcoAdapt working papers Series: adaptation to climate change for local development. This series presents the advances in EcoAdapt research as it unfolds in the project and as a first step to publication in Peer-reviewed Journals.
The finalized working papers have a PDF next to them indicating that you may read the full version of this series.
This paper presents an analysis of the existing data of the main activities in the selected territory in terms of employment, water situation and land use, at a quantitative and qualitative level, in three Model Forests in Bolivia, Argentina and Chile (Only available in Spanish).
We introduce Fuzzy Cognitive Modelling (FCM) and provide step by step guidance and tips for using iModeler (both qualitative and quantitative approaches), the use of FCM in EcoAdapt Story and Simulation (S&S) approach based on Structured Decision Making, and briefly describe the FCM models being developed in the three study sites. This version correspond to iModeler version 4 (January 2004).
The construction of shared knowledge involves the integration of different types and sources of knowledge in order to achieve the changes sought by the project. Knowledge is NOT transferred but co-constructed. This means for this particular project that traditional, technical and scientific knowledge of different disciplines is being shared in order to construct a common knowledge pool for conservation and governance of the water resources, climate change adaptation and local development. This document will not only shed light on the road traveled so far, but also on the learning processes and capacity building which lie ahead. In spite of the fact that the accumulated and reflected experience is still young, it is expected also that the outcomes of the report will feed the policy debate.
This document presents an analysis of the Lonquimay and the Curacautin landscapes as a socio-ecological system. The two commune areas constitute the Araucarias of Alto Malleco Forest Model in Chile, respective headwaters of the Bio Bio and the Cautin rivers. The first section introduces the analysis, by presenting its context, the issue addressed and the objective of analyzing socio-ecological dynamics. The second section, Material and Methods, tells how the analysis was led in Lonquimay and in Curacautin, presenting the PARDI method (Problem-Actors-Resources-Dynamics-Interactions) and describing the fieldwork for building conceptual models that allow to visualize practices of land use and water management. The third section of the document presents results. They consist in the formulation of the water security problem that the people of Lonquimay and Curacautin considered a central and shared issue; in the characterization and location of actors and resources that are involved in this problem; and in the representation of the main dynamics and interactions that link those actors and resources (Only available in Spanish).
Participatory analysis of the Zapoco watershed as a socio-ecological system.
This document presents an analysis of the Zapoco watershed as a socio-ecological system. The area represents a pilot site for the Chiquitano Forest Model within the EcoAdapt research-action project. The first section introduces the analysis, by presenting its context, the issue addressed and the objective of analyzing socio-ecological dynamics. The second section tells how the analysis was led in the Zapoco watershed. It details how several methodological approaches were articulated and how the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (OSPC) helped formulating a shared water security issue after identifying threats on the natural resources of the territory. The section on Material and Methods also describes the fieldwork for building PARDI graphs, PARDI standing for Problem-Actors-Resources-Dynamics-Interactions. Those conceptual models allow visualizing practices of land use and water management. The third section of the document presents results. They consist in the formulation of the water security problem that the people of Zapoco watershed consider as a central issue; in the characterization and location of actors and resources that are involved in this joint problem; and in the representation of the main dynamics and interactions that link those actors and resources (Only available in Spanish).
Summary of methods for estimating water consumption to the socio-economy analysis of Forest Model Landscape.
With the intention to precise the contribution of water to the socio-economy of Forest Model Landscape, several methodological proposals are revised, that allow to estimate water consumption. Three main methods are considered on the basis of their scope and implementation case: water footprint; estimation from an input-output matrix; life-cycle analysis inventories. They are presented in a synthetic way, highlighting their specificities and possible relevance in the contexts of rural territories with knowledge gaps on the water situation (Only available in Spanish).
The paper presents the methods of action research and participative observation and its initial application in the EcoAdapt Project, with the aim to help the various stakeholders to develop a critical stance in relation to their actions with communities. The text deals with various contents: general principles of action research and participant observation; the elements to define an observation scheme to respond to a given goal; analysis tables to observe and interpret the dynamics of interaction in play during participatory meetings (Only available in Spanish).
This paper provides a framework for economic evaluation: its context and the approach under development; the elements of costs and benefits that enter the analysis; and how uncertainty and irreversibility can be accounted for when using economic evaluation results. The initial panorama of the context of the economic evaluation recalls synthetically what we know about the territories and their people in terms of scales, activities and living conditions and about the extent to which they are affected by climate. Such introduction aims at facilitating the understanding of the types of actions considered for climate change adaptation. Then the economist standpoint on climate adaptation is explained and the perimeter of the evaluation is defined: 15 actions in JMF, 11 in ChMF and 9 in AAMMF.
Participatory analysis of the Perico-Manatiales watershed as a socio-ecological system.
The socio-ecological system made up by the Jujuy Model Forest is analyzed through the participatory building of conceptual models with the PARDI method (Problem, Actors, Resources, Dynamics, interactions). Two models focused on quality and availability of water respectively in two areas: the Dikes area and the Irrigation area. Socio-ecological dynamics there, are linked to diverse processes: social (population increase, immigration and urbanization), ecological (state of the upper basin and land use downstream) and economic (development models, prices and market fluctuations). Four sub-models account for: pollution, erosion, sedimentation and deforestation, highlighting the central role of these processes for water quality and availability in the future. In the long run, current dynamics can have strong impacts on public health, the tourism attractiveness of the area and its economy. Responses include: improved efficiency in the irrigation system and other hydric infrastructure, environmental awareness, alternative development models adapted to a sustainable management. With a view on future planning, decision rules are identified, which are modifying the practices of actors in the context of climate change (Only available in Spanish).
Barriers, strengths and opportunities for Ecosystem Based Adaptation. Advances in the implementation of pilot actions in the ChMF.
This paper searches for analyzing of the strengths and benefits which in the design, planning and implementing process of the pilot actions in the Chiquitano Model Forest (CHMF), contributed to a better interaction between governances systems and resources and generated changes and strengthened the current social and ecologic adaptive capacity. This paper also identifies the barriers, limiting factors and uncertainty that hinder the process and they have an effect in the strengthened capacity in the system. Finally, this paper analyses the opportunities offered by these processes to contextualize and scale up (Only available in Spanish).
Barriers, strengths and opportunities for Ecosystem Based Adaptation. Advances in the implementation of pilot actions in the AAMMF.
This paper searches for analyzing of the strengths and benefits which in the design, planning and implementing process of the pilot actions in the Araucarias del Alto Malleco Model Forests (AAMMF), contributed to a better interaction between governances systems and resources and generated changes and strengthened the current social and ecologic adaptive capacity. This paper also identifies the barriers, limiting factors and uncertainty that hinder the process and they have an effect in the strengthened capacity in the system. Finally, this paper analyses the opportunities offered by these processes to contextualize and scale up (Only available in Spanish).
Climate change and water: Analysis of the socio-institutional context in the Perico-Manantiales watershed, Argentina.
This paper analyses the socio-institutional context in the Perico-Manantiales watershed, EcoAdapt area project in the JMF in Argentina. The document stresses in three principal aspects: i) local perceptions about water resources problems; ii) actors that interact in the water resources management in the watershed; iii) the factors that constraint or help decision making for the adaptation in the water sector. This document identifies possible points of entry for dealing with the constraints through the building of existent capacities and it reflects about lessons learnt in the process of co-construction of EcoAdapt (Only available in Spanish).
The paper summarize what we learned from implementation of adaptation actions in the three project sites. Of course, the pre-implementation stages are somewhat included as implementation is strictly linked to the design and planning stages. We organized the follow up of implementation in the sites using the Institutional Analysis and Development framework developed by Ostrom (2011) and adapted it to facilitate the interaction between researchers and our civil society organization (CSO) partners in all sites while allowing to capture the most important highlights of implementation lessons.
In order to adapt to the different stakeholders and baselines, the steps for the monitoring and evaluation has been adjusted to the project information needs and the research work implemented during the first phase of EcoAdapt. This document compiles all the process for identifying the challenges of changing in each key stakeholder (public and private institutions, civil society organizations and academy). This document also determines de baseline and it gives strategies for applying them with each stakeholder and according to expected results. Finally the document presents a proposal for assess the achievements identified in the expected changes at the final of the process (Only available in Spanish).
Barriers, strengths and opportunities for Ecosystem Based Adaptation. Advances in the implementation of pilot actions in the JMF.
This paper searches for analyzing of the strengths and benefits which in the design, planning and implementing process of the pilot actions in the Jujuy Model Forests (JMF), contributed to a better interaction between governances systems and resources and generated changes and strengthened the current social and ecologic adaptive capacity. This paper also identifies the barriers, limiting factors and uncertainty that hinder the process and they have an effect in the strengthened capacity in the system. Finally, this paper analyses the opportunities offered by these processes to contextualize and scale up (Only available in Spanish).
Climate change and water: Analysis of the socio-institutional context in Lonquimay and Curacautin, Chile.
This paper analyses the socio-institutional context in the Lonquimay and Curacautin, EcoAdapt area project in the AAMMF in Chile. The document stresses in three principal aspects: i) local perceptions about water resources problems; ii) actors that interact in the water resources management in the watershed; iii) the factors that constraint or help decision making for the adaptation in the water sector. This document identifies possible points of entry for dealing with the constraints through the building of existent capacities and it reflects about lessons learnt in the process of co-construction of EcoAdapt (Only available in Spanish).
This working paper is about on the social dynamics we observed during the EcoAdapt adaptation planning activities in each Model Forest (MF) which started in the second semester of 2013. From this analysis we hope to contribute to identify interesting lessons for adaptation planning at the landscape scale. This can be especially valuable for landscape initiatives where multi-stakeholders platforms can play a key role to design alternative actions to conserve water resources in the face of a changing climate, reinforce their implementation and monitor their performance and adjust them to changing conditions.
Climate change and water: Analysis of the socio-institutional context in Chiquitano Model Forest.
This paper analyses the socio-institutional context in the Zapocó watershed, EcoAdapt area project in the CHMF in Bolivia. The document stresses in three principal aspects: i) local perceptions about water resources problems; ii) actors that interact in the water resources management in the watershed; iii) the factors that constraint or help decision making for the adaptation in the water sector. This document identifies possible points of entry for dealing with the constraints through the building of existent capacities and it reflects about lessons learnt in the process of co-construction of EcoAdapt (Only available in Spanish).
On the multiple experiences in the definition of hybrid collaborative spaces: the case of the Jujuy Model forest, Argentina.
This study contributes to the project objectives to define kinds of multi-actor debate tailored to a true co-construction of climate change adaptation strategies based on water ecosystem services. This paper tries to address participative models in the framework of EcoAdapt; and it also identifies approaches that define adapted devices to the project context. This study reveals experiences and definitions of the participation between the project actors and it also mentions the inequity in the water resource management. The findings in the document allowed to question the composition of the key actors platforms identified at the beginning for the co-construction of the adaptation strategies (Only available in French).
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https://sites.google.com/site/ecoadaptprojectenglish/scientific-publications/Working-Papers
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loved the first two books on gringa cant wait to read more. excellent!!!
Hi Eve. Would love to read Gringa Since You’ve Been Gone. Just finished the entire series and it was awesome. Tell me how I can get a copy.
Couldn’t put any of the books down. LOVE them! Can’t wait for GRINGA. when will it be out.
I have read books 1 – 3 and I am completely obsessed! I stayed up until 3am reading the book! I need to know how it ends, where/how can I find out? Absolutely amazing books!
So glad you are enjoying Gringa Sophie.
Brilliant read, couldn’t put it down; too many early mornings staying up reading ‘just one more page’, would love to read the alternative ending!.
OMG I love this story. At first I was mad at Diablo but he started to grow on you. You starred falling for him right along with Payton. It was nice to see all the layers falling away and you really got to know him as a human being and not the monster that everyone thought he was. He was rough around the edges with the threatening to kill Payet on every time she rattle his feathers, but it was very enjoyable, because she wasnot afraid of him. Sometimes you need a little rough neck to get your juices flowing. I really enjoyed this story. Please send the alternate ending please.
Hi Eve. Would love to read Gringa Since You’ve Been Gone..
I just finished All 4 of Gringa -In the Clutches of a Drug Lord..Loved,loved Diago ad Troy..
Just finished the entire Gringa series. Absolutely loved it! Show how anyone can change for love. Would love to read the original ending.
OMG!!I cnt sleep thinkng about ur book!!its so amazing..Aisst:( to bad i cnt read the final book…wish it was free..By the you,your 1st and 2nd book wre d greatst books ive ever read in smashwords.
I loved Gringa so much I have never read a book like this. You are an amazing writer and I am so glad I found you. I wantedt o know if you are writing a new book and if there ever will be more to Payton’s love story.
Thanks Sinead. Lovely to hear your appreciative comments. ❤ ❤ Please email me everabi2012@hotmail.com for the original ending Sinead.
Please email me everabi2012@hotmail.com for the original ending Sinead.
Hi Eve, I just finished reading Book 4 of Gringa. How do I get Since you’ve been gone?
Loved the read!! Obsessed and attached to the character’s.
I’ve purchased the books on amazon & reviewed.
I would really like to read the alternative, would you please send that to me.
Great writer, I’m starting ‘burns world’ now.
I have just finished reading all the Gringa series, and I loved them. Would you please send me the ‘Since you’ve been gone’ the alternate ending.
Loved it. Couldn’t stop reading. Characters were the perfect mix of loving, funny, and savagely protective.
I am trying to buy the third installment- please send me a working link?
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Our first stop in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence today, was the village of Castellane, which sits on the Route Napoléon at the entrance to France’s largest canyon, the Gorge du Verdon. Napoléon actually had lunch in Castellane on March 3, 1815, with the Chapelle Notre Dame du Roc standing watch over him from its commanding position 180 meters above the village.
Our first glimpse into the spectacular scenery of France’s Grand Canyon was from Point Sublime, where we could see how the Verdon River has cut profoundly into the rock to create the rugged landscape.
We arrived into the charming village of Moustiers-Ste-Marie about three hours and several stops after we left Antibes, heading northwest through Grasse following N85 to Castellane where we cut over to D952 into Moustiers. It was a lot hotter than we expected – much hotter here at 631 meters than it was in Antibes at sea-level. We were happy that we chose Moustiers-Ste-Marie as our base in the area, rather than Castellane, which we had also considered. Moustiers was so picturesque, nestled into the surrounding cliffs with small bridges and small waterfalls, and it was much closer to the inviting Lac Ste-Croix, with its kayaks, canoes, and paddleboats.
La Bastide de Moustiers was a perfect way to wind down at the end of the day. Their rooms were already booked up when we were doing our hotel search, but, fortunately, they had a lovely table for us on the terrace for dinner. Although, it is a very nice hotel and a Michelin-starred restaurant, it is far enough away from the village to require driving back and forth. However, it might be worth the drive, considering that there didn’t seem to be any hotels as nice within the village itself.
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2019-04-23T02:27:09Z
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The most useful course reading from this semester that I found most interesting was Turkel’s Going Digital because his work demonstrates how the medium used to practice the discipline has changed while the skills of inquiry, interpretation and analysis will still be needed. I also enjoyed Cohen’s & Rosenzwieg’s Digital History because I found their discussion on how handling digital sources were a different experience than handling analog sources. As someone who tries to use digital sources as often as possible I had not really thought about those experiences as much. While I did not find them interesting, do understand and want to mention that all of the reading on the copyright when it comes to digital collections was useful because it explained a complex and confusing subject like copyright and explaining what you can do with sources that are not as clearly defined by the laws. I also had no idea that copyright only applied to materials prior to 1912.
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https://justindotedwards.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/the-future-of-history-in-the-digital-age/
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Brilliant! Hope you don't mind but I'd like to nab that for a work blog post.
Thank-you. I used the Tumblr link.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm also a big Sandi Toksvig fan; she's been entertaining me since I watched Number 73 as a boy. I'm using GarageBand on a Mac, though in the past I've fiddled with CakeWalk/Sonar on PCs, too.
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They say you can never have a second chance to make a good first impression. A book’s cover does just that – gives a first impression. A good cover can make a reader pick up a book. A bad cover can leave the book at the very bottom of a dusty pile. Dustjackets entice the reader to enter a different world. Covers are, after all, the way the publisher ‘hooks’ the reader into choosing one book over countless others.
In this, my seventeenth installment of ‘Cover Love‘, I’d like to show you books that feature chairs on their covers.
I do love this series and so many good stories behind those covers with chairs on them!
Thanks. I value your opinion.
Wow, never thought there would be that many covers with chairs, amazing. Great job finding all of them.
Thanks Carla. I’m sure I missed lots of them – but I did my best.
Love this series! I think it’s interesting that only a few covers have comfy chairs. All the rest are hardbacks, maybe because the characters will find themselves in uncomfortable situations?
Very astute thinking! Thanks for your kind words about my Cover Love series. Many more installments to come. I’m trying to do two every month as they take a lot of time to prepare.
Lynne: some lovely covers! I have spent some time reading bits and pieces on Good Reads, and I did place some on my TBR list, too. Some of the covers are very intriguing; especially the one with sprigs of violets.
Yes it’s funny how some chair covers can be so benign, while others are downright scary!
Lynne: The minute I put Frailty on my TBR list, I had people ‘liking’ the selection; it has wonderful reviews, but it isn’t at Barnes and Nobel. I sent a pm to the author.
It is only $ 2.99 for the Amazon Kindle version of “Frailty”. I’ve seen tons of good reviews for that author.
I’ve got ‘cupped hands’ coming up very soon. I’ve got 37 covers for that installment.
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https://fictionophile.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/cover-love-part-17-chairs/
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Yogi tea green tea. Their words of wisdom always put me back on track for the day.
Fresh figs, banana, chia seeds, yoghurt and agave syrup.
fresh blueberries, raspberries, organic muesli, almond meal, chia seeds, yoghurt and fresh grated ginger.
I’ve had quite a few requests from you for my chai recipe, seeing I rave about it all the time. Here goes!
Add all the ingredients (except tea leaves) to 6 to 8 cups of water and boil in a saucepan. Turn on low heat to simmer for 10 to 15 minutes then turn off the heat and add tea leaves. Let sit for a few minutes then pour through a strainer. Sweeten with honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar or stevia and dust with cinnamon powder. Other milks you can use are almond, soy, oat, rice.
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A handbook for engineering designers (materials engineers, metallurgists, etc.) involved in the complex and continuous process of materials selection. Following an extensive glossary of metallurgical terms, general sections are devoted to selection of structural materials, physical data on the elements and alloys, and testing and inspection, while material-specific sections cover cast irons, carbon and alloy steels, tool materials, wrought stainless steels, heat- and corrosion-resistant alloys, aluminum and aluminum alloys, copper and copper alloys, magnesium and magnesium alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, powder metals, and lead, tin, and zinc. Appendices provide general engineering data and other relevant information. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Nearly a week after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, the Department of Energy reports that almost all of the island’s 1.57 million residents are still without electricity. Maria, which directly hit the island as a Category 4 hurricane in the early hours of Sept. 20, caused widespread damage to the territory’s aging power grid. By evening, most of the island was in complete darkness.
To get a sense for how devastating Puerto Rico’s power situation has become, the following three pairs of images taken by a NOAA satellite compare the before-and-after nighttime imagery of Puerto Rico to that of areas of Florida affected by Hurricane Irma and Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey. The images show that in many parts of Texas and Florida, power was either unaffected or largely restored within several days. While Irma knocked out 59% of all electricity in Florida, all but about 17% of customers saw their power restored five days after the storm. In Puerto Rico, however, almost no power has been restored to the island since Hurricane Maria.
And there’s no sign that it will get better soon. PREPA was still working on restoring power to about 60,000 residents following Hurricane Irma as Maria made landfall. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN that it could take “months” to fully restore power to the island. PREPA’s financial and political troubles further complicate recovery efforts, since it filed for bankruptcy in July.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/puerto-rico-recovering-much-more-194211895.html
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What is Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM)?
NDM is the research tradition begun in the 1980s to study how people actually make decisions — people such as firefighters, military commanders, nurses, design engineers, pilots, and petrochemical unit managers. NDM examines the kinds of decisions they make in the course of their work, and how they use their experience to cope with challenging conditions such as time pressure, uncertainty, vague goals, high stakes, organizational constraints, and team coordination requirements. The NDM approach is thus a contrast to judgment and decision paradigms that use pre-defined tasks given to naïve subjects under controlled laboratory conditions.
In the late 1980s, Judith Orasanu, working in the Basic Research group at the Army Research Institute, assembled a cadre of researchers who were investigating decision making in natural settings, using cognitive ethnographic methods. Orasanu and Gary Klein, one of these researchers, convened a small workshop in 1989 to bring this community together to share ideas. One outcome of this workshop was an edited book, Decision Making in Action (1993). Since that time, a dozen NDM conferences have been held, at roughly two-year intervals, alternating between the U.S. and Europe. Many of the conferences have generated edited volumes. In addition, the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group was established in 1995 to provide an annual opportunity for NDM researchers to exchange ideas; it quickly grew to become the largest Technical Group within the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
What has the NDM movement achieved?
Many people are excited by the NDM approach and the possibilities it opens up. But other people are skeptical about whether we can learn anything without carefully controlled experiments. The way to assess NDM research is to see what it has discovered. Here is a summary, taken from some recently published articles.
We used to believe that the only way to make good decisions was to generate several options and pick the best one. NDM studies found that experienced decision makers recognize patterns and don’t compare options. They evaluate an option by imagining how it would play out.
We used to believe that expertise depends on learning rules and procedures. NDM research demonstrated that expertise primarily depends on tacit knowledge.
We used to believe that projects had to start with a clear description of the goal. NDM researchers saw that challenging projects involve wicked problems and ill-defined goals that cannot be specified in advance. The goals become clarified while they are being pursued.
We used to believe that people make sense of events by building up from the data to information to knowledge and finally to understanding. NDM studies showed that experienced decision makers use their mental models to define what counts as data in the first place. And as discoveries are made about the nature of a situation, different aspects of the data are revealed.
We used to believe that insights arise by overcoming mental sets. NDM research discovered that insights also arise by detecting contradictions and anomalies and by noticing connections.
We used to believe that we could reduce uncertainty by gathering more information. NDM researchers found that performance seems to suffer when too much information is gathered, and that uncertainty can result from inadequate framing of data, not just the absence of data.
We used to believe that we could improve performance by fostering critical thinking practices such as listing assumptions. NDM researchers noted that the flawed assumptions are often unconscious, and thus could never get listed.
As you can see from the preceding section, NDM researchers have broadened their investigations. They are not just interested in decision making. They study other cognitive processes such as situation awareness, sensemaking, problem detection, and anticipatory thinking. They use naturalistic inquiry methods to explore a range of macrocognitive phenomena (as opposed to microcognitive phenomena studied under controlled laboratory conditions).
In addition to trying to understand more aspects of thinking in complex settings, NDM researchers are also seeking ways to improve performance: better decision making, better sensemaking, quicker and more accurate problem detection. In contrast to the behavioral decision making community which focuses on human limitations and tries to reduce biases, NDM researchers try to understand human capabilities. While it is important to cut down on mistakes, good performance is not just the absence of mistakes — it consists of discoveries and achievements. It depends on the strengths of decision makers. Unlike research approaches that seek to debunk experts, NDM practitioners are impressed by experts, whether they are expert firefighters or physicians or pilots or military commanders. And so NDM practitioners are seeking ways to bring people up to speed more quickly.
Gary Klein, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at MacroCognition LLC. His most recent book is Seeing What Others Don't: The remarkable ways we gain insights.
Searching for the basis of expert performance.
Can Our Experience Work Against Us?
Why do so many elite mountain climbers fall to their deaths?
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/seeing-what-others-dont/201602/the-naturalistic-decision-making-approach
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The Grail Roads is the third full-length poetry collection by Rob Hindle. A beautifully produced 144-page hardback, it is available from Longbarrow Press for £12.99 (+ P&P). You’ll also receive a free copy of the colour-themed pamphlet The Rose of Temperaments (featuring poems by Angelina D’Roza, A.B. Jackson, Chris Jones, Geraldine Monk, Helen Mort and Alistair Noon). You can order the book securely by clicking on the relevant PayPal button above. Click on the links at the top of this page to read and listen to poems from the book.
Click here to read ‘The Iron Harvest’, a new Longbarrow Blog post by Rob Hindle, reflecting on the development of The Grail Roads and its ‘archaeology of sources’.
Rob Hindle is the author of several collections of poetry, including Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864 (2006), Neurosurgery in Iraq (2008), The Purging of Spence Broughton, a Highwayman (2009) and Yoke and Arrows (2014). Five long poems and sequences, collectively titled Flights and Traverses, appear in the Longbarrow Press anthology The Footing (2013). The Grail Roads is his first full collection with Longbarrow Press.
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Involved in the persecution of Erik Enby have all been chairman of VoF. None of them have academic or scientific expertise to judge Erik Enbys research.
On one occasion a cancer patient consulted Enby but after a couples of weeks only continued in health care and then died by her own hand (according to the father). This led to the father first blackmailed Enby and then went to the press and finally reported him. Thus disgracing him on TV and other media with name, address and images.
The media hunt midsummer 2006 included 58 newspapers. This led in 2007 to his license to practice medicine was suspended. Someone completely destroyed his car and caused damage to his polio sick wife’s handicap vehicles.
In the radio program in 2014 alleging that Enby health declared the patient who consulted him, which led to the first train in 2006.
“Enby has never health declared the cancer patient as her father states in the program Body and Soul (1 April 2014), which moreover falls on its own absurdity, one can not absolve anyone after 13 days particularly when an operation was imminent already when she came to Enby and he saw in addition that her condition was followed up by the treating doctor at the hospital even after visits to Enby. All processing is done in conformity with the will of the patient, exactly as is statutory.
In the radio program claimed incorrectly to non-healthcare professional may not treat serious diseases. This claim has also IVO use of his notification to prosecution.
The journalists say in the radio show that non-healthcare professional may not treat serious diseases. This opinion is also untrue and especially misleading to the public who listen to the program, then they may think they can not go to their therapist if they suffer from gallstones, high cholesterol, thyroid problems, or what they now consider a “severe” disease to be. It is simply just a few medical conditions, which are regulated in the legislation, as non-registered may not treat.
The fact is that Enby does not treat diseases but blood infection that can cause these diseases.
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The Doctor (Matt Smith and Amy (Karen Gillan) visit the Delirium Archive, a museum in the distant future, where they find a rather odd exhibit – a flight recorder inscribed with old high Gallifreyan symbols. After discovering it is actually a message from Dr River Song (Alex Kingston), who is currently travelling on the spaceship Byzantium 12,000 years in the past, the Doctor uses the TARDIS to save her before the ship crash lands on the planet Alfava Metraxis.
Right from the spectacular opening scenes, where River sends the Doctor a message back through time “hello sweetie” before opening the air lock on the Byzantium, sending her hurtling through space and into the TARDIS, it’s clear that this is going to be very special adventure. The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone (2010) are the fourth and fifth episodes from Matt Smith’s first season as the 11th Doctor, written by show runner Steven Moffat, and directed by Adam Smith. These episodes from Series Five also feature the return of Steven Moffat’s most frightening creations, the Weeping Angels, from his Series Three story Blink (2007). Here they return in force in an action packed storyline that makes them seem even more terrifying than before.
While Amy gets acquainted with River Song, and her uncanny relationship with the Doctor, who still doesn’t know who she really is at this point because they both keep meeting at different points in his time stream, River tells the Doctor that the Byzantium’s cargo is a deadly Weeping Angel – a quantum locked stone creature that can only move when nobody is looking at it. As they survey the wreckage of the ship, River sends a message to a squad of military clerics in orbit, commanded by Father Octavian (Ian Glen), who beam down to help secure the Angel before the radiation leaking from the ship restores its full strength.
Alex Kingston makes a very welcome return as River Song in this story, bursting back into the Doctor’s life once more, River’s still always inexplicably able to keep one step ahead of the Time Lord, though tragically – as we would later discover in Series Six – she’s also always moving one step further way from him as well. The complex nature of their relationship is a joy to behold. They behave like an old married couple at times, teasing and trying to get the better of each other, which in hindsight all seems rather apt now. With her trademark “spoilers” and TARDIS diary, River is a brilliant character, and here we get to enjoy what I feel is perhaps Kingston’s best performance in the role. Free of the continuity of things to come, River Song is a vibrant and unpredictable character. Later that sheen would diminish a little, but here she is both gloriously mischievous and mysterious in equal measure. I also like how River gets to fly the TARDIS and quickly forms a strong bond with Amy; and the two of them delight in winding the Doctor up – although he still manages to win over River’s uses of the blue “boring” switches by simply taking in the atmosphere outside the TARDIS to identify the planet they’ve landed on.
The long journey through The Maze of the Dead takes a sinister turn when some of Father Octavian’s forces begin to go missing. As the Doctor and River talk about the ancient two headed race that built the statues, they suddenly notice how all the statues only have one head and must really be Weeping Angels! The slow, gnarled creatures begin to take shape, stalking them through the shadows, communicating with them by using the voice of the Cleric Bob (David Atkins), who they have slain. The Doctor has to help Amy after she believes her hand has been turned to stone, preventing her from moving, she is being influenced because she looked into the eyes of the Angel on the screen in the camp, so the Doctor bites her hand to convince her otherwise.
Having been forced to the highest point in the maze by the misshapen Angels, they find themselves directly below the crashed ship. The Doctor shoots the gravity globe which allows them all to jump up into the Byzantium and escape the Weeping Angels momentarily, but the Angels quickly follow as they flee to the ships oxygen factory – a forest within the ship itself. After noticing a familiar crack in the wall of the secondary control room, the same one from young Amy’s bedroom in The Eleventh Hour (2010), the Doctor suspects the Angels are trying to feed on the time energy.
Matt Smith is already settling into the role of the Doctor, bringing lots of his distinctive characteristics to the fore, which will become a mainstay for his incarnation of the Time Lord during his tenure. There is a lot of humour as well, particularly when he makes the TARDIS landing noise after River “parks” the ship. He also has to save Amy from the Angels, his fear for her is almost palpable when she is walking blindly through the forest, and his rage when trapped before he uses the gun to save them during the cliff-hanger of The Time of Angels is quietly restrained, and almost menacing in the intensity of Matt Smith’s delivery of his lines (Despite an animated banner trailing the BBC’s Over the Rainbow programme notoriously appearing on screen too early and spoiling this dramatic moment during the original UK transmission of the episode). I think this is what made Matt Smith’s 11th Doctor so good, right from the start his performance is more measured, and the way his Doctor often speaks very quietly to make his point is a marked change from his predecessors.
When it becomes clear Amy has begun counting backwards, the Doctor quickly stops her, instructing Amy to keep her eyes closed to starve the Angel that’s gotten inside her brain and prevent it from killing her. With Amy unable to move, the Doctor, River and Octavian go to find the main control room, the Doctor learns that River is actually a prisoner who has been released into Octavian’s custody, offering her help in return for a pardon. Octavian is later killed by the Weeping Angels. Meanwhile the crack in time continues to grow, swallowing up the Clerics guarding Amy in the forest. Now terrified and alone, Amy must then carefully follow the Doctor’s instructions to reach the control room. But as Amy blindly makes her way past the Weeping Angels she stumbles and falls, revealing her blindness, and they begin to turn on her. Fortunately, River is able to teleport Amy to the control room before the Angels can kill her.
This is also a great story for Karen Gillan, who really gets to earn her stripes as a resourceful companion as she literally comes face to face with the Weeping Angels. Amy manages to switch off the security footage of the Weeping Angel, but she has inadvertently looked into its eyes, and allowed the creature to imprint itself on her brain. There is horrific moment when she rubs her eye and dust pours out as they are exploring the Maze of the Dead, and later her hand seems to turn to stone. Perhaps most chilling of all though is the countdown Amy does without even noticing she’s doing it; as the Angel continues to attack her from inside her own mind. Steven Moffat has crafted these scenes perfectly, as viewers it’s almost as if we are stumbling though the forest with Amy as she blindly struggles to escape only to disturb the Angels who slowly begin to turn around and notice her.
In Series Five the crack in time on the young Amelia’s bedroom wall plays a pivotal role in the events leading up to the series finale. In Flesh and Stone the Doctor begins to realise how the rift on the Byzantium is linked to the crack in Amy’s wall, which has begun to appear throughout time and space, erasing anyone from time that it comes into contact with, and is somehow linked to a massive time explosion. Although these plot threads are left unresolved for now, while the main story arc begins to focus more on Amy and Rory, the events linking the cracks in time would eventually fall into place – particularly a conversation between Amy and the Doctor in the forest in Flesh and Stone – during the complex series finale: The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang (2010) when all of the Doctor’s enemies unite to imprison him in the Pandorica.
The Weeping Angels themselves are as fabulously unnerving and creepy as ever. From the moment we see the Angel moving on the screen towards Amy, growing ever nearer, until it begins to emerge from the screen, much like the ghostly entity in the film, The Ring, they are always lurking in the darkness and ready to strike. The statues in the Maze of the Dead begin to come to life and turn into Angels; these lumpy, misshapen things are absolutely horrific as they stalk the Doctor and his companions. When the Angels use the voice of the Cleric, Bob, to taunt the Doctor, it offers an even more gruesome aspect to the Angels powers. On the ship they become full Weeping Angels, caught in the muzzle flash of gunfire, they advance relentlessly, before cornering Amy in the forest – a chilling scene in which the unsettling concept of actually seeing the Weeping Angels moving also becomes a reality. It is only really in the closing moments, when the Angels are sent tumbling into the rift that some of the tension is lost, and it feels like they were defeated a little too easily.
Looking back at The Time of Angels & Flesh and Stone now, this exciting action-driven story by Steven Moffat is ingeniously constructed, it successfully broadens the mythology of the Weeping Angels established during their debut story, Blink, and slots perfectly into the ongoing story arc of Series Five while also remaining immensely enjoyable as a stand alone story in its own right. The special effects are also outstanding: from its exciting opening moments in space, to the brooding menace of The Maze of the Dead; through to the final showdown on the Byzantium, director Adam Smith’s work on these episodes is exceptional.
The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone are both thrilling episodes, with some terrific performances all round, together with the return of the Weeping Angels, this exciting two-part story is a real highlight of both Series Five and Matt Smith’s first year as the Doctor.
Nicely detailed review, you’re right about the subtleties of Matt Smith’s performance and his delivery of lines. Both David Tennant and Matt Smith were great Doctors and I have a feeling that series 9 is going to knock it ‘over the top’ for Peter Capaldi (judging by the trailers at least)!
Thank you. The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone is one of my favourite stories from Matt Smith’s first season as the Doctor. I also think this is one of the best adventures to feature River Song, the character works really well here. The Weeping Angels are also very scary, especially when Amy has to get past them in the forest. I’ve enjoyed watching all the new Doctor’s, I agree that series 9 looks set to be one of the best yet, and I think Peter Capaldi is brilliant as the Doctor. Glad you enjoyed the review, might cover a few more 9th, 10th, and 11th stories in the future maybe along with some more classic series reviews as well.
Excellent, I’ll look forward to those – planning to cover some classic Who somewhere down the line myself as I’m watching a lot of it of late.
Thank you. I’ve reviewed a few classic stories in the past, haven’t had much time to do any for a while, but have begun working on a few now. As much as I enjoy watching New Who, I always enjoy revisiting the classic series as well as there are so many brilliant stories!
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Cans of Sufferfest's gluten-removed beers.
Sufferfest Beer Company, a San Francisco craft brewing company known for its range of gluten-removed ales and lagers, has been acquired in full by Chico's Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
The breweries announced the sale on Monday; the price was not disclosed. It is Sierra Nevada's first acquisition.
The purchase underscores the continuing popularity and growth of the emerging category of gluten-free and gluten-removed beers. The sales of such specialty beers are expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17 percent between 2018 and 2022, highlighting the notion that drinkers are increasingly making health-wise decisions in their purchasing.
Sufferfest was founded by one such drinker, Caitlin Landesberg, in 2016. Landesberg, a Bay Area native and active trail runner, sought to make a gluten-free beer that both fit her health-conscious lifestyle and didn't sacrifice flavor in favor of utility.
"I'm not a serial entrepreneur, I didn't see a gap in the market," she says. "I was just a runner who loved beer and wanted to solve a problem for my friends. It really just grew exponentially and exceeded all my expectations."
Landesberg crossed paths with Sierra Nevada by chance last fall, when she and Sierra Nevada President and CEO Jeff White were seated at the same table before they each presented at a beverage industry conference. White recalls the revelatory impact of watching Landesberg speak about her San Francisco company's health-conscious approach to making beer.
"It was one of those smack-myself-in-the-head moments," he recalls. "It was just like, gosh I wish I thought of that. It feels so right."
Citing Sierra Nevada founder Ken Grossman's pay-it-forward ethos, White says he made himself available to Landesberg for help.
"Here was this company, really young, energetic and positive," he says. "I thought, I've seen a lot of things, maybe I can help them, give them advice, counsel, warnings."
Landesberg had already been courting offers from prospective investors and other strategic partners, but nothing had appeared an attractive enough offer — until she met White.
"I didn't think I was going to be in this scenario and certainly not this soon," Landesberg says. "I definitely believed that Sufferfest would align with a partner at some point because of the nature of this business and the economies of scale that we face ... This wouldn't have happened with any other brand. The fact that they're family-owned and have a value base and their own North Star, I felt this was the right partner."
For his part, White is excited to expand Sierra Nevada's offerings to meet a new audience.
"What we can bring to Sufferfest (is assistance) to grow and be all that they want to be, quicker," he says.
The partnership is also notable for Sierra Nevada because it's the company's first. As White explains, the Chico brewing company had fielded many opportunities in the past to acquire or invest in other breweries, but they "just never took the swing" because the right option never materialized.
But Sufferfest demonstrated shared values and was exploring "a space that's going to explode."
"This is Sufferfest's third year," he says. "This isn't someone who saw a trend and jumped on it, this is someone who was there before it was a trend. Being real innovators and pioneers aligns with our history."
Sufferfest's employees will continue to operate in their current roles, and brewing operations will at some point in the near future move from Colorado, where they currently contract brew, to Sierra Nevada's Chico brewhouse. Landesberg will now report to White, though she is excited to have more flexibility in her position now that the company has "Sierra Nevada as the wind at our backs."
As for where Sufferfest goes next, Landesberg has big aspirations.
"We serve a community of people who care about what they put in their body," she says. "For that reason I see our beer in every fridge where you are enjoying that post-sweat, earned-your-beer occasion. That's really the vision — being the go-to beer for athletes. And now we can go to every state to find the right community at the right time."
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https://www.sfgate.com/beer/article/Sierra-Nevada-Brewing-acquires-Sufferfest-San-13587975.php
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Finding links to blog posts to write about is easy. But finding links from blog posts I remember and want to link to, but can’t seem to find, is exceptionally frustrating. Have you suffered from the Agony of Link Hunting?
I’m working on an article and I want to reference how WordPress.com’s list of the top blogs and top posts on WordPress.com aren’t in sequential order by traffic numbers. Andy Skelton came up with a brilliant bit of code that changed how the posts were rated, pulling posts from different percentiles rather than sequential order. This allows blogs that wouldn’t normally make it into the top 10 list to pop in from time to time, adding a sense of fairness in the competition to be “at the top” of a list which features some of the hottest blogs on the web.
I know it was published on the WordPress.com Blog, so I head there first. Did you know there is no search form on the WordPress.com blog? ARGHH!
Unwittingly, they have decided to not include a search form, one of the most criminal web acts any website can do to themselves, in my humble opinion.
I can click through the previous posts for hours looking for the post which describes this algorithm, but I know it’s a time wasting, futile endeavor. See, I’ve done this before. So I turn to the search engines.
Using a search trick on Google, I enter in the keywords for the post, restricting the search to only the WordPress.com blog.
I end up with a list of posts from the WordPress.com blog, but also from too many other sources. I try all types of angles, hunting here and there, trying different keywords (andy skelton blog of the day, skelton popular posts ranking, and variations thereof), and finally, over 30 minutes later, I stumble on a post titled Fresh Hot Stuff.
I’ve seen it come up before, but it never felt right. The title threw me. It couldn’t be right.
That title isn’t meant to be vague. It refers to the Hot Posts and Hot Blogs lists on the front page.
Well, that’s the one and the vague post title totally threw me.
I face this problem on many blogs which arrogantly think no one must want to search their blog content, I guess. Why else would they not have a search form?
The other problem I face on my own blog, as well as other WordPress blogs, is the lousy search function.
WordPress blogs have a very simple search method. It does not recognize grouped words, searches grouped in quote marks, thus limiting your search. If you search for wordpress blogging tips it will search for all instances of wordpress, blogging, and tips, giving you a mishmash of too much information rather than restricting your search results to only those blog posts with the three terms.
WordPress also lists search results by chronological order, which isn’t helpful if what you are seeking is on page 14 of the search results. Google and other search engines list results by relevance, the most likely candidate for your search at the top.
So this makes searching WordPress blogs like mine a painful experience.
On many of my blog posts I include a list of related articles. The search for these comes from a master list I created over a year ago, and then I manually search for the posts on my blog. There is no trick nor WordPress Plugin for this. It’s manual labor all the way.
Again, the chronological order makes it incredibly frustrating since I know I published the post I’m hunting for a few months ago, but I have to page through two or three pages of search results to get to that time period. If I could use keywords in a phrase, I could narrow down that search time dramatically.
There is the Search Everything WordPress Plugin and other Plugins which improve search capabilities, but the default WordPress search, the one I’m stuck with on WordPress.com, definitely needs improving.
So I turn to Google and Google Blog Search to help me track down the posts on my own blog.
With Google, I can shrink down the search results by using grouped words and the relevancy of search terms usually brings my blog post closer to the top of the list. I don’t have to group the search terms with quote marks. I know that Google will put the web pages with the search terms closest together in proximity to each other at the top of the list. The farther down the list, the farther apart the search terms.
This usually helps me find the posts I’m hunting for, but it still means more time with more tabs in my browser and flipping around between browser tabs and my text editor where I write my blog posts before publishing.
Most WordPress Themes feature the post title in a link, even on single post page views. This is brilliant for many reasons, but most important to my link agony, it speeds up my ability to link to a post when I write my blog posts.
A Firefox Extension that has saved my life is Copy Link Text (CoLT) Firefox Extension. It adds a Right Click menu option to copy a link as a full HTML anchor link, with the link, title, and anchor text, and paste the whole thing into my post content. Wow!
Instead of using the buttons in the Rich Text Editor to copy and paste the link and then manually type in the link title and text, or manually typing out the whole HTML code, with a right click and left click on a blog post, then switch to my text editor or WordPress editor and press CTRL+V where I want the link to appear, it’s done. FAST!
It may seem redundant but saving time and my poor tired hands a few keystrokes makes me a happier blogger.
Do You Have Some Linking Agonies?
As you write your blog posts, what agonizes you? What is the most frustrating part of gathering information and resources, linking and quoting from blog posts, and trying to write and publish your blog posts?
And what has helped you to overcome your suffering?
This entry was written by Lorelle VanFossen and posted on July 20, 2007 at 3:02 am and filed under blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips with tags wordpress, WordPress Tips. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
Very true, finding the posts that you had read earlier and failed to save them somewhere, is very frustrating. I use a combination of bookmarks, Google Reader save and WordPress draft posts to save interesting links. If it is from one of the blogs I regularly read, it is still possible to retrieve it. But there are quite some of them that slip through all these and haunt later.
One of the disadvantages of using search engines like Google to search for posts is that the one that interests you might not get indexed, or might get indexed later or might not come in the top 10 or 20 results. Technorati and likes push that post further below because there are so many echo chambers.
Then you can search the wordpress.com blog. Not perfect but will do as a workaround until they realise.
Personally I want them to make a better search system in general, I appreciate how hard a task like this is but I think it would be worth spending time on.
Yeah, full agreement on WordPress default search sucking hard.
I put an “advanced search” link under my search engine that goes to a Google Custom Search engine for my site.
I had to play around with the list of excluded sites to come up with consistently good search results with it. (skip over feeds, tag pages, etc).
It broke when I changed my domain name, I should fix it.
GCSE are neat because they give you stats for search terms people use them for, and how often they are used.
Thanks for another helpful post Lorelle.
I instantly made my headlines into links, downloaded and implemented the better search plugin as well as the firefox extension. When you like making link post as I do then all that copying and pasting almost took all the fun out of it. No more! Gotta love good advice that all can be put into practice within a few minutes.
I hope SF is doing it’s best to live up to your expectations!
I vote for a better search box in WP.com, also. I finally had to add a Google site search link in the sidebar on my blogs. There seems to be a maximum number of posts the existing search box goes through (not all that many) and I have not seen pages searched.
I decided to add Google [Ads] search box after I read your post. I hope wordpress will do it better soon.
I usually use different anchor text within the content of my current post to reference to my previous posts so frankly the title of my previous posts don’t really matter. At least not in the sense that they have to EXACTLY match the text I am using my current post.
I am interested in the Copy Link Text (CoLT) Firefox Extension you wrote about here. Do you know if anything similar exists for IE users?
I don’t use IE any more so I don’t know what is available, though I did do some research on the Blog Herald for my web browser guide for bloggers. See Web Browser Guide for Power Bloggers – Add-ons and Extensions for Bloggers.
Personally I use Google Blog Search. and it has worked really well. It is incredibly accurate and resourceful, and you will usually find what you are looking for. Not to mention I enjoy the extra (a beit small,) income from the search ads.
Wow. How right you are. I was just searching your blog to see if you had any tips on importing my old Blogger blog to WP. I searched for “import” with the WP search box at the top of the page, and just couldn’t find anything.
But I did find this article and thought I’d read it through. Afterward, I searched Google for “import site:lorelle.wordpress.com” and the result I was looking for was top on the list.
I use a tool called Onfolio to capture the web pages I want to remember and organize them as well. All of the web pages are searchable, so it is easy to find things. The tool even has a built-in feed-reader that is very capable.
I am desperately looking for a plugin that automatically does CoLT when a reader copies my stuff, so that if they paste it in to their own blog I am linked as the source.
I’ve seen it done on a blog but now can’t remember which one and I can’t find a way to do this at all. Any ideas?
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https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/the-agony-of-link-hunting/
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A Muslim woman wearing a hijab, sitting on the R train, was being verbally-anti-Muslimly abused by someone standing in front of her. 4 or 5 people got up to form a wall facing the seated woman; giving their backs to the bigot. They talked quietly to her, reassuring her, ignored the ranting, and kept it up until the other woman got off the train. Some smiles. No applause. Everybody just got back to their commute. Yo. It’s just New Yorkers being New Yorkers.
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https://121contact.typepad.com/my_weblog/2016/09/index.html
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Do You Plant Balled Evergreens With the Wire Basket Attached?
Burlap around root balls is held in place by straps, twine or wire cages.
1 Do You Leave on the Wire Mesh When You Plant a Tree?
Nurseries dig up evergreens from the field with the soil around their roots. They wrap the root balls with burlap and secure it twine or wire basket so the root balls won’t fall apart. The added strength is especially important during shipping. The question of whether or not to remove the wire basket is complicated.
An evergreen with a root ball large enough that it has to be held intact with a wire cage is mature enough to plant in spring, summer or early fall. There is good reason not to plant evergreens in late fall or early winter. Because they retain their leaves year-round, their leaves also lose water all year, through transpiration, a form of evaporation through their stomata, or leaf pores. Unless you plant a balled evergreen in early fall, its roots may not get established well enough to replace the lost moisture. In that case, the foliage may dry out and die, a phenomenon called winter burn.
An evergreen root ball should be 10 to 12 times larger than the tree’s caliper, the diameter of its trunk measured 6 inches from the ground. When nurseries dig up plants, they lose as many as 95 percent of their roots. Nursery workers prune the roots, resulting in more compact and fibrous roots and then wrap them with burlap. The root ball should be solid, not loose. If the ball is broken, small roots may be broken and the plant will eventually die. Never pick the plant up by the trunk or stem. When you plant the root ball, you face the question of what to do with the twine or wire cage that holds the burlap wrapping in place.
Use wire cutters to remove the entire basket if you can do so without having the root ball fall apart. Wire around the trunk can restrict its growth. At a minimum, remove all wire from the top of the root ball and from around the trunk. Beyond that, remove as much of the wire basket as you can without letting the ball of soil fall apart. Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service notes evidence suggests wire baskets do not cause long-term damage to plants as long as the wire is well below the surface.
After you deal with the wire on the exterior of the root ball, you face the question of what to do with the burlap wrapping. Burlap is a natural material that will eventually rot in the hole. You should remove any non-biodegradable, synthetic material that might resemble burlap. Burlap will burn, while synthetic materials melt. Cut the burlap on top of the root ball, then roll it back and cover it with soil. If you leave it in place it can act as wick, removing moisture from the root ball.
Hoyt, Richard. "Do You Plant Balled Evergreens With the Wire Basket Attached?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/plant-balled-evergreens-wire-basket-attached-66571.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
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“Christ had to go through death in order to enter the new world, the world of communion with God. We have to go through death with him, both as individuals and as societies.
I thank Diana Butler Bass for this quote. Perhaps our vision of God, of Christ, of the church, and one another is just too small. Letting go of our treasured ideas is seldom easy, but if we do it together, we can then grow together. Yes, it is still the Easter season. Come wonder and grow with us.
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https://newcommunitysanjose.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/it-is-still-easter/
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1. "It's not about the moves, love."
2. "I prefer placing my energies into creating things of beauty."
3. "I mean, if you're looking for fun, there's Death, there's Glory, and sod all else, right?"
4. "You think we're dancing?"
5. "Death is on your heels baby - and, sooner or later, it's going to catch you..."
Merry Christmas. It will hurt not to see your posts in 2017. Thank you for everything.
Aww, well, there's still a week to go! (Though I'll confess the posts from the last few days onwards have all been scheduled, since it's difficult to know if any of us will be free in the evenings.) Have a great end of December!
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ປະເທດໂອຕະລິດ (ຝະລັ່ງ: Autriche, ອັງກິດ: Austria) ຫຼື ປະເທດເອີສະເຕີໄລ (ເຢຍລະມັນ: Österreich) ຫຼືຊື່ທາງການແມ່ນ ສາທາລະນະລັດໂອຕະລິດ (ເຢຍລະມັນ: Republik Österreich, ຝະລັ່ງ: République d'Autriche, ອັງກິດ: Republic of Austria) ແມ່ນປະເທດນຶ່ງທີ່ບໍ່ມີທາງອອກສູ່ທະເລ ຢູ່ໃນທະວີບເອີລົບກາງ. ມີອານາເຂດທາງເຫນືອຕິດກັບປະເທດເຢຍລະມັນແລະສາທາລະນະລັດແຊັກ ທາງຕາເວັນອອກຕິດກັບສະໂລວາກີແລະຮົງກະລີ ທາງໃຕ້ຕິດກັບສະໂລເວນີແລະອິຕາລີ ແລະທາງຕາເວັນຕົກຕິດກັບສະວິດແລະລິກເຕນສະຕາຍ. ມີການປົກຄອງແບບປະຊາທິປະໄຕແບບມີຜູ້ແທນພາຍໃຕ້ຫຼັກການຂອງລັດຖະສະພາ.
Jelavich, Barbara (1987). Modern Austria: empire and republic 1815–1986. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-31625-1.
Rathkolb, Oliver. The Paradoxical Republic: Austria, 1945–2005 (Berghahn Books; 2010, 301 pages). Translation of 2005 study of paradoxical aspects of Austria's political culture and society.
Schulze, Hagen (1996). States, nations, and nationalism: from the Middle Ages to the present. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-20933-6.
Information on Austria Sorted by regions. Choose from 5 languages.
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We’ve all been there before. Running out to pick up pizza for a school party or to keep people energized as they work long hours. I can’t begin to count the number of pizzas that I’ve purchased in my career as an educator for events like yearbook work sessions and after-school department meetings. And let’s be real. Pizza is easy. It’s cheap. No plates are needed and most people are happy to grab a slice and get back to work.
But the easy way isn’t always the best way. I recall returning to work from a conference a few years ago. There was cold, leftover pizza in the workroom refrigerator. I asked about the pizza and discovered that it was delivered to me from a business partner. Days old pizza is not so good. The partner didn’t think beyond the easy way to determine what might be a better method to show appreciation for our team.
This discussion with colleagues about pizza led to a conversation about partnerships and the importance of engaging with partners in a meaningful way. Partnerships are a two-way street, and I hope that schools as well as organizations that partner with schools will benefit from this post. Partnerships cover a wide spectrum from a classroom teacher connecting with a business partner for mentoring to a school district engaging with a partner for a variety of services including consulting, professional development, or products. With so many businesses and organizations offering services, we must be careful to engage with the right partners. We don’t have money or time for everything and can’t afford to be burned by failing initiatives.
Research – Do your background research by looking at credible sources and calling other schools that have used the product or service. Talk with people beyond those who are recommended by the potential partner. Testimonials on a website are great but they don’t tell the whole story.
Customer Success – Does the organization or business have a customer success representative who is assigned to work with you? Organizations that don’t invest in someone to make others successful are setting themselves up for failure. I recall a recent conversation when I called a customer service center about repairs needed to my home Internet access. I was very frustrated with the response time but the support person on the phone with me never once got mad. He continued to talk calmly and worked with me on a solution. If your organization is receiving services from an business and you provide feedback, they should welcome feedback and work with you on solving the problem.
Ongoing Support – The beginning of a partnership is a lot like a honeymoon. You and the partner will spend a lot of time together and you get used to this support. What happens after the honeymoon? The partner will move on to find new clients. Will they continue to check in with you and provide ongoing support? Will the cost go up over time? Ask support questions before you enter into an agreement.
Agreements – Is there a partnership agreement that clearly spells out what services or products you’ll receive? If you’re receiving a discount on a software product, what are the expectations from you in return? If a partnership fails, what are the loose ends that you’ll be left to tie up? How will the partner help you with the transition beyond the awkward breakup?
Total Cost of Ownership – Beyond financial costs, what is the cost that your school will pay for implementing a product or service? How many hours will people devote to the project and is it sustainable in the long run? Ask what it’s worth to you and always be clear with the partner about your goals for the partnership.
Outcomes – What is your vision for the partnership? Doe your definition of success align with that of the partner? Metrics and funding are important, but the bottom line is that you achieve the desired outcomes for your partnership.
Opportunities – Most important, what opportunities will be opened up for your school and the teachers and students who engage with the partner? Will the product or service benefit your organization? Will professional development and consulting services empower participants with skills and tools to improve learning?
Good partnerships are about telling each other’s stories, celebrating successes, and supporting each other when things aren’t going well. Our success as a customer means their success as a partner organization. Let’s go beyond the pizza party to form partnerships that bring value to students and teachers in our schools.
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https://dteuber.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/partnerships-beyond-the-pizza-party/
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Ok, so where were we?
Ah yes, I left you with Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine”, and I asked you to suggest what we should play next, along with your ideas as to what linked that to the previous tune, which was KT Tunstall’s “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”.
So, were I to be giving out Gold Stars, George would surely be the recipient for getting that right first.
But we’re going to pop George on the back burner for now. No offence, George.
George Jones modelling for “Avanti” at C&A in that cover shot, by the way.
Which leads me to my second choice. Yes, I’m allowed two, it’s my blog.
Simmer down George, I’m coming to yours.
You’ll let me know if I’m building this up too much, won’t you?
For which I must thank you, not just because it’s a bloody great tune, but also because the initial reason I started writing this blog was to tell the world, who I’m sure was just dieing to know, the reason I’d bought certain records through my life, and to drop some true life, often embarrassing, anecdotes as I do it. So, I’m always grateful for the occasional personal link as it reminds me what I’m supposed to be doing.
Oh, and congratulations to Sir Rodney of Glasgow/Los Angeles.
Classic George comment show-boating there.
Now, I must confess, I’d never heard of Nic Jones before, but when two fellow bloggers whose opinions I utterly respect tell me this is worth a listen, my ears prick up.
I needed a little help to track down the song in question, however (thank you, anonymous man who shall not be named!).
When I was younger, I probably would have described this as “finger-in-the-ear folk music”, but now I’m a little (ahem) older I can see this as nothing short of beautiful.
So, thank you George for bringing this into my world. Apart from the whole showing-offiness thing about writing a music blog (and no matter what anyone says, there is a certain amount of ego involved in doing this), this is exactly the reason I do this: to interact and find out about stuff I would never have otherwise encountered.
That really is a bit lovely, isn’t it?
Several Gold Stars to George for that.
I think we can agree that our suggestions are somewhat superior.
So, no real need for you to suggest what the link between “Silver Machine” and “Rock On” is, because it’s bloody obvious, but a warm welcome to your ideas as to what can follow “Rock On” please.
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Anthony Marshall was sentenced to one to three years in prison but is free while he appeals.
(CNN) -- A holdout juror says she feared for her safety when she "folded" under pressure and voted to convict Anthony Marshall of charges that he stole from his mother, wealthy philanthropist Brooke Astor.
Court documents filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court paint a dramatic picture of jury-room intrigue at the high-profile trial that painted a troubling portrait of the socialite's life as she succumbed to Alzheimer's disease in her final years. Astor died in 2007 at age 105.
Marshall, Astor's 85-year-old son, was convicted in October of conspiracy to defraud his mother, larceny and other offenses and sentenced to one to three years in prison. He is free on bail while he appeals.
The holdout juror, who favored acquittal, alleges that another juror intimidated her, cursed at her and flashed gang signs at her during the contentious third week of deliberations, according to court papers.
Yvonne Fernandez, the juror accused in court affidavits of making the gang signs, denied it when reached at home by phone. "I don't even know gang signs," she said.
Fernandez is a former technical director at In Session, which airs on CNN's sister network, TruTV.
The holdout juror, identified in court papers as Judith DeMarco, told Marshall's defense that she became fearful when neither the judge nor anyone else on the jury would back her. Her requests to leave the jury were ignored, she told Marshall's defense investigator and attorneys.
"The judge wasn't going to protect me," DeMarco told defense investigator Margaret Clemons, according to Clemons' affidavit. "At the end I'm ashamed I couldn't stand my ground. But I couldn't take it any longer. I couldn't take it. I don't want to see anyone innocent go away, but I had to do what I had to do," Clemons' affidavit quoted DeMarco as saying.
DeMarco declined to sign her own affidavit, saying she feared the publicity would disrupt her life, according to the court papers.
A fellow holdout also gave in, telling DeMarco that the defendants were wealthy enough to appeal, DeMarco told Clemons, according to the affidavit.
DeMarco said she felt awful after voting to convict Marshall and his estate lawyer, Francis X. Morrissey. She said she spent the next three days in her apartment, curled in a fetal position, according to the court papers.
Meanwhile, according to court papers, the other jurors were e-mailing one another, allegedly orchestrating how they would tell their story to the media.
Defense attorneys John Cuti, Thomas Puccio and John Cromartie are asking the court to toss out Marshall's conviction. They are requesting a March 4 hearing.
Prosecutors said they were reviewing the matter and would have no further comment.
The court papers also contained nearly 60 e-mail messages the defense alleges were exchanged by the other jurors. The jurors discussed how they should publicly portray their deliberations and put up a "united front."
The defense says the judge at the trial failed to properly question jurors after receiving a note that a member of the jury felt threatened.
The confrontation between DeMarco and Fernandez, who had become friends during the trial, occurred as the panel struggled with the most serious charge against Marshall: whether he stole by giving himself a $1 million raise for managing his mother's financial affairs, according to the legal papers.
Fernandez acknowledged to CNN that she raised her voice at DeMarco, but only after DeMarco said the judge's instructions "didn't do it for her."
The e-mails showed that following an interview with Vanity Fair, the jury forewoman said she "followed the script" that jurors had agreed upon and portrayed the confrontation as "a flare-up."
The jurors also discussed whether to appear on the television show "20/20." One juror described the holdout, DeMarco, as "a drama queen" in an e-mail dated November 3. Another called her "a crazy old coot."
CNN's Stephanie Chen contributed to this report.
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Especially, orthographic ambiguity in vocabulary, notation, and syntax.
How can LTAs help with…? How can LTAs NOT help with…? Integrating Safety, Caring, and Ambiguity?
Quick help for people trying to “get thru” these courses or course requirements: Students, Faculty, and Those who support them.
Chemistry “101” – notation, …?
What could be done to enable most of the likely beneficiaries to find and use these improvements within one year?
To publish feedback to influence further use?
Minimum goal for each “quick help” we identify: it would be a good thing if it “went viral”? How decide if something has actually gone “beneficially viral”?
Which improvements in teaching/learning that take advantage of technology have reached beyond 15% within …. 3 years? 10 years? 6 months? Almost none!???
WHICH LTPCIs Programmatic Course Improvements First?
“Straw man” Proposal for First of Series: April 12, 2019 ?
I really like the professional baseball analogy. Each spring they make minor adjustments to the fundamentals of the game to get ready for the new season. This is like a teacher making adjustments to their courses as they start a new school year. These minor adjustments can result in major improvements.
For example, is there a way to learn more about your incoming students, maybe through a survey? If students tend to be fearful about the subject matter or just fearful about returning to school, are there adjustments you could make to create a feeling of safety, a place where mistakes are welcome. Maybe scaffold learning activities in a slightly different way to help students build the foundation they need to succeed.
Maybe your course involves a lot of new vocabulary. I have been studying to be a sommelier for the past 3 years and found myself needing to become familiar with all kinds of dense knowledge about grape varietals, terroir, viticulture, etc. I used flashcards to help me work with these new terms and this new content. This study skill was so valuable.
Small adjustments can lead to big improvements in student learning.
Quick Help to Get Thru Killer Gateway Courses?
For students, faculty, and those who support them who are currently trying to “get thru” these courses or course requirements….
Gateway vs. Gatekeeper? [Stumbling blocks, *barriers*, deterrent ….
Exclude: Non-Credit; General Education (Gen Ed); Adult Basic; Remedial/Developmental; Pre-College; Significant curricular changes (outside of the course); Prerequisites usually included in high school courses; ….
Integrated First Year Course: include “prereq” content within “101” course vs.
Pre-Req Requirements: Students to must complete pre-req developmental course (e.g., high school algebra) or demonstrate equivalent competencies BEFORE taking “101” Gateway Courses Accounting, Math, etc.
Are faculty who teach the gateway course REQUIRED/ENCOURAGED to address “remedial/pre-requisite” skills? e.g., For Math 101 assessment of basic pre-req skills required to be successful in that course; for Chem 101 – include algebra I WITHIN the course?
WHICH “Killer” Gateway Courses First?
Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, History, Math, Psychology, Writing.
“Math 101” (NOT Gen Ed)- _pre-algebra_, algebra, not statistics,…?
“English 101” “Writing 101” (NOT Gen Ed; NOT literature; NOT “reading”) – composition, writing, editing, “effective reading skills”, literature…?
2-10 minute introduction is adequate to enable students and faculty to reject or commit/use.
Technology used is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and incrementally low-cost in time, money, and stress.
Benefits are easily observable right away (students do better in a Gateway Course within 2 days to 2 weeks).
Commit to prepare to launch for the next academic term or year.
Benefits to most students are apparent and well-documented.
Structural changes that are incrementally low-cost in time, money, and stress .
How focus, structure every(?) FridayLive! session in series?
Include one (or two or …) of each of the following?
One (or two, or, …) bottleneck-widening online LTA?
Requests from participants for additional specific bottleneck-widening LTAs?
SMALL selection of useful resources? People? Organizations? Events? Publications?
“Straw man” Proposal for First of Series: April 5, 2019 ?
It is often useful to extend the definition of LTA to include Apps, Applications, Activities, Resources, Web Sites, … LTA’s need not depend on any specific information technology.
What was most useful today?
What was not clear enough?
What would be a useful follow-up?
How might you contribute to the follow-up?
At least one strategy, online tool, etc.
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In love one tends to want to feel loved so much that we forget to love ourselves. Love is the most special place to be when it is in it purest form, it is euphoric.
We burden ourselves with the thought of the things or people we love. We self sabotage our existence. Love is enduring, long after it is gone, there is an imprint that imprisons us. Scars bestowed upon us when love comes to an end. Warriors become hardened from the hurt, and as each relationship unfolds, hearts are broken; we are never the same again.
We fall victim to the thought of loneliness, but we are never alone. A higher Power is always present. Once we realize the true greater power of love; we are not in love we are Love. The chains that bind our hearts and minds become detached.
Be in love with every ounce of yourself, you were created with, for and by love. Love is food to the soul. Feed yourself well and others will want to eat at your table. Taking care of yourself first, then Creator. Once you have mastered this only then can you love others.
No matter how much of a warrior you are or how many battles you have won, there will be some that you lose. You don’t have to be a soldier to have to go to war. Sometimes that war is within.
It’s easy to fight for something you want, its not so easy to keep it. There are outside influences that can disrupt your whole being. These are losing battles. No matter how much you try to win, the loss or sacrifice is always greater.
Some people or things are not worth fighting for, you have to recognise this otherwise you will be constantly at war with them and with yourself.
When you truly live in a state of self love it is difficult to allow people to bring negativity into your being. Self love requires discipline. Discipline to not accept anyone or anything that doesn’t bring joy to your life. This can leave you with the feeling that this is a losing battle, because you may really want to be a good person to everyone, but sometimes its just not worth the effort.
In order to be great you have to do great things. Leave the rest that jeopardizes your greatness. When you are in your greatness people will gravitate towards you, simply because that is what they want for themselves. Its a beautiful place to be when you surround yourself with greatness and great people. This space is so inspiring and you should be grateful to have such comfort in you life.
I am not saying to cut everyone out of your life that doesn’t bring you peace, just know how to pick and choose your battles. Sometimes it is necessary for you to battle for people who are not strong yet, and need your strength to get them to the next level. Although, helping others may feel like a loosing battle, these are the wars worth fighting for. Stepping back and pushing someone from behind to move forward is not a losing battle, its a win! You are wining and they are winning…. We are both wining; everyone gains!
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Have you just been promoted to Finance Director?
Or perhaps this is your career ambition for the future?
If you’ve made it, then congratulations for completing your studies, and your training, and for landing your great new role. If you’re not there yet, then keep at it and you will make the grade in no time at all!
Do you need to impress and deliver – fast – but you’re not yet sure how the place ticks?
What about your team? Do you know the personalities and how they fit together? Or maybe you need a new team?
Are all eyes on you? Perhaps some of those eyes are waiting for you to trip up?
I too have worked my way up through the ranks having originally passed my professional accountancy exams back in 1997. It was a lot of number crunching back then and the environment was much different to the rarefied atmosphere of an FD. As my career progressed I found that I was spending less time working with other finance professionals and more with people from different walks of life. However, there was always that security of working within a finance team. There was always The Boss to turn to for advice, guidance and support.
Then came my first day as a Finance Director: I didn’t realise that the step change would be so significant. Although the technical demands of the role were no more demanding than before the environment was totally different. None of my peer group had any finance experience, everyone was looking to me for leadership and there was no Boss to provide support.
I confess that it was tough. I enjoy being out of my comfort zone, as it is a great way to grow, but having a support network would have helped me to grow even faster.
I know and understand the challenges. This is where the fun and the pressure, and the rewards really start. I know that you want to do your very best.
Get it right and you’ll be rewarded well. Possibly with share options or a decent pension or more.
Get it wrong and you risk slower progression, stress and missed opportunities. Worse case scenario: You fail your probationary period and leave with a damaged CV.
So what are the options for success?
Of course, you could just wing it. But do you want to take your stress home with you each night? Agreed; the worse-case-scenario probably won’t happen – but do you want to take the risk?
Or you could discuss your issues internally with your colleagues. I know that worked for me in the past, but only before I was an F.D. Do you really want to discuss your finance issues with the head of marketing or share your personal concerns with the CEO?
OK, so there are other professionals out there. When I first googled ‘coach’ and ‘mentor’ I got thousands of results. And, to be frank, I found it quite off-putting. The market seemed to be dominated websites about rainbows and tree hugging. To be honest, it isn’t any wonder that professionals such as you are cynical. I was too.
I know that you want to quickly understand what makes a great FD – from another FD – and you want to put that understanding into practice. You want a source of confidential advice and guidance that will unlock your potential and give you the inside track to success.
Here is what you need to.
Or, if you’re already committed to working with a professional Finance Director to give your career a boost, then get in touch and ask for meeting to explore your options – free of charge.
In contrast to this (and putting aside the giants such as unilever) the business landscape on the supplier side has been moving towards ever smaller firms. With barriers to entry falling, more and more budding entrepreneurs are starting their own product companies in order to turn their pipe dream into a revenue stream.
These start-ups quickly find that working with retail can be a logistical and financial challenge as the retailer’s methods are designed to extract the maximum profit for themselves, whilst passing all the risk back to their suppliers. In terms of working capital, the game is so one-sided that some retailers have become banks yet the suppliers have to resort to accounts receivable factoring.
However, help is at hand. With the right knowledge and processes it is perfectly possible to profitably sell to stores that dominate the high street. If you know how retail works then improving your cash flow can be easy. As always, success for business relies on understanding the rules of the game and constructing the business processes to match.
This special report is designed to give an insight into how the relationship works, and give some useful tips on how to make it work for you, the supplier.
Click the link and get your copy.
Nobody told each and every one of these blades of grass to grow so tall and green – they just did it – and what a great job they have done too! So why is it so difficult for a human being to take the actions required to be as successful as a blade of grass?
The answer is that the blade of grass doesn’t know any different. It is 100% committed to being the best blade of grass it can be. There are no questions, no doubts, and no alternatives.
I’ve just been all over the lawn and sliced the top off each and every one of those blades of grass but it will do nothing to dampen their resolve. They will keep growing. Even the snow and cold temperatures of this winter have made no difference. I’ve even tried covering the lawn in weed barrier, concrete, pebbles and decking. Whatever I do, a blade of grass will find a way through to reach for the sun.
The only reason that each one of us is not as successful as we can be is because we have not yet got that unshakable 100% commitment to reach our full potential. All it takes is that unconquerable believe that we can be a success and nothing will stand in our way. Like the blade of grass we may find ourselves cut down but we just get up and keep growing – because we know of no other option.
Everything will fall into place if we just learn to be that blade of grass.
The accountant, more often than not, will have to explain that there isn’t a quick an easy answer. That there are so many conflicting valuation methods, each of which gives a different result. Of course, none of these will satisfy the frustrated owner who will quote the story of his nephew who made a fortune selling his six-month-old dot-com.
So why is it so hard to value a business?
Net Asset Value: This simply takes an open market or replacement valuation of what assets the business owns, less any liabilities. Basically, it represents what could you get for the factory, or the shop, or those old vans outside. Not very exciting but easy enough to work out. Even then, it can be misleading. A potential purchaser may look at your inventory and conclude that you’ve got too much of the wrong stuff, for example.
Discounted Cash Flow: This is a lovely one for the spreadsheet jockeys. Take the future ongoing cash flows that the business will generate and discount them to a net present value. It is a “return on investment” calculation.
Dividend Basis: I’ll skip this as it is irrelevant to an SME – and almost irrelevant elsewhere as it ignores the value of undistributed profits retained in the business.
Price/Earnings multiple: This is the fun one and the most popular. Take the profit of the company, adjust for any one-off issues, and multiply by a PE (price to earnings) ratio.
Now, PE ratios can vary enormously. Smaller businesses often have PE ratios of around 3 to 5. Larger businesses can have PE ratios of maybe 12. Ratios also vary by sector and by country. There are huge teams of people in The City calculating and analysing these ratios in order to figure out how to value a business – and they have been arguing about it for years.
So, the most popular method of valuing a business is to take the profit and multiply it by a huge poorly defined fiddle factor. Why is that?
The reason lies in the fact that valuation methods start with accounting measures based on an internalised, introvert perspective. The classic accounting mistake of knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing leads to the need for a huge self-defined multiplier.
Buying Talent: You’ve got a great team – and great connections with outside suppliers – but, because your business doesn’t have enough funding, they are not achieving what they could.
Buying lack of Talent: You may have potentially a great business but you’re doing a bad job of running it. Someone may think they can do a much better job than you.
Supplier security: Your business may be a key part of the route-to-market for one of your suppliers. They may buy you in order to secure that chain.
Customer security: As above but the buyer is the other side of you in the chain.
Complementary product: Another company may be envious of your undersold product. They may be able to push your product through their existing distribution network and customer base. You may be selling 10k units a year in the UK but the market in the USA may be for 100k units.
Complementary channel. Another company may be envious of your underutilised distribution network, customer base and relationships. They may be able to push their existing products through this route to market. Your special relationships may be bringing in £50 net profit for each of your customers. However, another company may be able to use this channel and make £500 per customer.
Intellectual property: Do you have IP that can be applied to other products and markets? This could be your most valuable asset.
Growth potential of your marketplace: Take two markets. The first is expected to grow at 10% per annum for five years. The second will shrink by 10%. The 5-year NPV of the first market is 40% higher than the second. The PE ratio of businesses in those different markets will vary by the same proportion.
This second group of four are the real gems. They indicate that you have a scalable business.
The first and third are interrelated – you will have to have protected any IP in your product for someone to prefer buying you rather than just copying you. The second and fourth are also interrelated as they are the key drivers behind ultra-high PE ratios on dot-com and social media businesses. Your sleepy little business may be just what someone is looking for.
Rival – buying market share. Although, in effect it is a special case of the complementary scenarios.
Rival – preventing a third party. A rival may buy you simply to prevent a third party from carrying out the four strategies listed above.
So, the lesson for you entrepreneurs is that there is a methodology for maximising your potential PE ratio: Focus strategically on building a strong customer network, protect your IP, and operate in a growth market. Do that well and you can create massive value that can be unlocked when you sell.
Well, yes there is. There are factors that can reduce a PE ratio which you need to watch out for. Of them all, the biggest factor that can depress the PE ratio of your business is you.
Are you entwined with the business?
Are you the brains behind it?
Can nobody else make a decision without your input or approval?
Would the place just collapse if you didn’t turn up?
So what is the issue with Barclays’ tax bill?
Barclays is an international company. All international companies operate via local subsidiaries, each of which makes corporation tax payments to the government of the country where they reside. International companies also have a head office located in the country of incorporation, or residence. Invariably this large head office function, which guides and administers the group as a whole, has no revenues of its own – so makes a loss. The group as a whole will report the sum total (consolidated results in accounting terms) of all its worldwide entities including the taxation paid by each subsidiary. It will also pay its own local taxation on any profits made in the local country.
Barclays is no different from any other international company. It operates in fifty countries and territories around the world, and it is liable for corporation tax in each of those countries. It also has a large UK-based head office function that costs about £750M to run. Making a comparison of the UK-only corporation tax figure to the worldwide profit figure is complete nonsense. The worldwide corporation tax figure is £1.5 billion and represents 25% of the worldwide profit.
The single-figure percentage quoted by the press is a deliberately misleading, headline grabbing, distortion designed to simply gain attention.
All around us are businesses that are globally owned but have local operations. For example, EDF Energy, Ford and Microsoft to name but three. Each one of these organisations pays local corporation tax on the local profits. Ford, for example is US-owned but will have to pay corporation tax to the UK government for any profits made in the UK.
If you think Barclays should pay all it’s £1.5Billion international tax bill to the UK government then you have to accept that Ford, GSK, Vauxhall, IBM etc. should pay all their UK tax to the US government instead.
However, EDF Energy, Ford and Microsoft etc. are not being hauled across the coals when some of them are much better at avoiding tax than Barclays. For example, why isn’t anyone making a big issue about how Microsoft, Dell etc all operate their UK businesses out of Ireland in order to avoid paying UK taxation?
The issue for the banks is that the press, the politicians and the pressure groups are massively more advanced in their communication skills. Each time I see a banker on TV or read a city press release I squirm at the naivety of it all. This current fiasco is just another example of the banking community’s total incompetence at the art of communication and managing the message. Barclay’s response to this storm-in-a-teacup has been a poorly worded and inaccurate press release along with a financial results document with the real tax figure buried on page 82 – and it is a very boring, technical document.
The banks still don’t understand that there came a point in late 2008 when they became public property – both literally and metaphorically. What they needed to do was wake up to the looming 21st century, understand that the game has changed, embrace their obligations to society, and learn how to engage. What they did instead was hide. Staff were told to remove all reference to their employer from any social media and not tell the public where they worked. They shut themselves away in their glass towers and hoped that it would all blow over. Even now, they still look surprised each time they come up for scrutiny. They struggle to convince us that “they are local and they care” but the imagery is so last century – who really wears neck scalves?
Imagine instead a world were each local bank had a local facebook page that engaged with and commented on local issues. That “liked” other local businesses and made a made a real contribution to society through open communication.
If they could do that, get their head around the 21st century social media world, take command of the message rather than being it’s victim, then they might start to get some better press.
On the 9th February, the banks and the government signed a lending and bonus deal. Under Project Merlin, banks will lend about £190bn to businesses this year – including £76bn to small firms. There has been a lot of talk has been as to why it took so long to broker the deal.
To answer that, we have to go back in time to late 2008.
The phrases in the news are “Credit Crunch” and “Toxic Debt”. The banking system is in serious trouble. They’ve been taking too much risk, making loans that they should not have made, and now the bad debts are pushing them towards bankruptcy.
The chairman of the treasury committee, John McFall, in its second report on the crisis, said it had been caused largely by the banks’ own reckless behaviour.
Following the Halifax merger, salesmanship predominated and executives were incentivised to expand the loan book without, it now seems, the normal checks and balances. The merged banks risk management and credit checking processes struggled to keep pace with its rapid growth.
Some of the worst excesses seem to have occurred in the area of impaired and high-risk assets, bad debts and provisioning.
“The bank had an ad hoc approach to this whole area,” said one ex-relationship manager.
For example, Bank of Scotland Corporate, HBOS’s corporate lending arm, had a policy of continuing to lend to companies which other banks would have recognised as insolvent and put into administration.
On some occasions, it is claimed the bank was told by appointed advisers that a corporate customer was technically bankrupt and should have been put into administration with the bad debt taken as a loss on the bank’s bottom line. But the bank still kept the businesses afloat.
Now let us roll the clock forward – two key changes have taken place.
The banks have changed their attitude to risk. They take a more prudent approach to lending and are less reckless in their behaviour. I cannot find a single blog or news report that says that this is a move in the wrong direction.
The economy has slowed, raw material prices have increased, and consumer spending is down. The risks to businesses, and the likelihood of company failures, have increased.
Either one of these changes would mean that a business venture that had an element of risk may not get a loan that, in the bad old days, it might otherwise have secured. Together they multiply and mean that bank lending has to decrease in order to satisfy the government and society’s desire for less reckless lending. Yet it seems that every week there is another report criticising the banks for not lending enough.
So, the banks have spent the last few years getting a double whammy of being continuously told to both reduce their lending (they’ve taken too much risk in the past) and increase their lending (businesses need to borrow to get out of recession).
To help small firms, the FSB is calling on the government to carry out a number of measures, including forcing the banks in which it had to bail out (RBS and Lloyds) to return to 2007 lending levels.
It is this contradiction, this illogical paradox, this strange idea that you can force someone to lend you money, that has caused the delay to Merlin.
Is it rational to sign an agreement that forces you to increase lending when every instruction and indicator says that you’ve no option but to do the opposite?
Now, here is the bit that everyone forgets: Banks love lending money. There is nothing that they would rather do than lend money. It is their core activity and the way that they make a profit. I’ve met more than my fair share of and bank personnel and every single one of them wanted to support the business using whatever they could: Loans, overdrafts, invoice factoring etc. They will happily talk about any and every method of lending money – but they need to take account of the risks.
However, I am sure that anyone reading this could use google to find a sob story of a small business that got turned down for finance. Well, I can assure you that the bank would have loved to have made that loan – if the business model was sound, the plan stacked up and the cash flow positive. If you cannot – or will not – produce this then the bank will correctly view you as a risk they cannot take.
If you come up with a sound proposition, pitch it with passion and authority, you will get the funding. The attitude of the FSB is misdirected. The answer is not to play the victim to the nasty banks but to educate and coach businesses into producing decent business proposals.
Instead of talking of forcing banks to increase lending the FSB should be talking of forcing businesses to come up with better business plans.
You could try sitting there in your jeans and telling the bank that the business is near bankruptcy, has run out of funds, and then ask the bank to increase its line of credit. Your chances of success are very remote but, if you can pitch a convincing business plan in a professional and authoritative manner, it can be done.
Planning just ties you down – these days you need to be quick to react and adaptable.
Accountants plan – I’m an entrepreneur, I make things happen.
Budgets are a waste of time, who can predict where we will be in a year.
The last two, in particular, were aimed at me. I can understand their reasons for being sceptical as we do live in an ever-changing world. How many people can say that the last five years of their lives have gone exactly to plan? Did you think five years ago that you’d be reading this blog, which was brought to your attention by the power of social media?
Although attributed to a number of great leaders, this phrase was the creation of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder who was the chief of staff of the Prussian Army for some thirty years. He is widely regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of the modern method of directing armies in the field. Unlike many entrepreneurs of today, von Moltke was not advocating the futility of planning. He believed in the need for a process that defines how to react in the face of changing events. He believed in the art of deep delegation whilst remaining true to the goal. His theories have evolved over the years into the concept of Mission Command.
The two core demands of mission command are to establish a high level of alignment by being very clear about the ‘what’ and the ‘why,’ and to grant a high measure of decision-making authority to relatively low levels of the organisation who are dealing with the question of ‘how.’ Rather than following detailed orders, an officer’s responsibility is to understand his commander’s intention and to take whatever action he deems necessary to fulfil it. If the situation changes – as it is expected to – the guide to decision making is the original intent.
This can be understood as a form of what we would today call ‘empowerment.’ It involves creating space for decision making by giving power to those who need it, and not allowing it to be withheld by those who do not. Decision levels should be set as low as possible. This also reduces the need for all but essential information to be passed up and down the chain of command, ensuring that decisions are taken by the competent individual with the most up-to-date information.
The combination of aligning everyone about ‘what’ and ‘why’ and pushing down decision-making results in an organization that can adapt rapidly in the face of uncertainty while retaining cohesion.
The owner of a business says to the office junior “Go to the stationers and get me a pack of six dark blue A4 folders like these” at which point he waves last month’s board pack in the air.
In both of these versions the “Why” and the “What” take priority leaving the office junior in a position to decide on the “How”.
The other half of the answer is about review processes.
Plan: Identifying and analysing the problem.
Check: Measuring how effective the test solution was, and analysing whether it could be improved in any way.
What I always recommend is that this simple process is embedded at all levels of the business. By doing so, the organisation remains flexible and adaptive whilst keeping decision making at the lowest level.
What happens if you don’t follow these two rules?
Good delegation and review processes are essential yet, so often, they are something that the entrepreneur fails to achieve. The business grows yet all the decision-making remains at the highest level. The increasing quantity and complexity of those decisions results in a business that becomes slow to react and a founder with increasing levels of stress. The owner then reaches the point where they try to exit the business but find they cannot do so as they have become intertwined and inseparable.
Some of the blame for the understandable dislike of planning must rest with the accountant’s obsession with the annual budgeting process as, in the real world, a twelve month cycle is far too long. A modern business must adopt a process of creating rolling fifteen-month financial plans that are reviewed and updated every quarter. However, you will be pleased to hear that my thoughts on that subject will have to wait for another blog post.
It is very appropriate that the final of Michel Roux’s Service should be followed by National Apprentice Week. Although it is a bit of an overused phrased, we need to remember that the young people of today are the wealth creators of tomorrow.
“The last two years have seen a dramatic shift in the way Government has viewed apprenticeships. For too long now, this country channelled our brightest and best down the degree route, suggesting it was the only option. University become the gold standard for school leavers at the expense of our skills sector. Today, the situation has changed and a degree is no longer the guarantor of a job in the way it was 20 years ago. In the meantime, the skilled sector – for example manufacturing and engineering – is crying out for new blood and can provide life-long, engaging careers for students”.
Forgive me Mr Cable, but what good is urging and hoping?
OK, the article continues by saying “As part of that commitment the government is to make £1.4bn available for apprenticeships in 2011-12.” What isn’t mentioned is that this isn’t new funding but a £200M increase on the existing funding levels. Nor is there any detail on the where, the when and the how?
So, what positive action is the government taking to resolve these issues?
Level 2 (GCSE level equivalent) apprenticeships will now be known as Intermediate Level Apprenticeships. Level 3 (A level equivalent) will become Advanced Level Apprenticeships and Higher Apprenticeships will remain unchanged. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills is also working with Sector Skills Councils to develop more Higher Apprenticeships (Level 4) frameworks.
I’m not sure that helps much, Mr Hayes.
The last words of the BBC article from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey were particularly poignant. I could hear the echo of the of the Finniston Report of some thirty years ago that was so influencial on my own education and career choices.
The thing is engineering – with all its facets from construction through manufacturing to software – is the most fascinating, fulfilling and enjoyable place to work. Just stop for a second and look around you. Take in the buildings around you. Think about your iPhone or Blackberry for a moment. Ask yourself what skill, passion and professionalism got those airplanes into the air.
From the Pyramids to the iPod – it is all engineering. The most creative and exciting way that man can stretch the limits of endeavour is through ‘making things’. Some argue that the enduring mark of human civilization is in the art we have created. I argue that it is in the unstoppable march of the technology around us. Any young person who dismisses engineering is missing out on what I am convinced would be a fabulously fulfilling career choice.
So, Mr Cable and Mr Hayes, it is time to stop all this renaming, urging and hoping. Take some real action to light a burning passion in the hearts of tomorrow’s wealth creators.
What can I say, but what a fabulous close to such an excellent series? I am referring of course to the wonderful Michel Roux’s Service. Which came to a close last night with a little twist at the end of the tale: Michel didn’t hand out the two apprenticeships as he promised. He produced three!
Danielle Meenagh – who is just 19 – won the sommelier scholarship with the Hotel du Vin group in Winchester.
James Marvin – 24 – is now under Fred’s wing at Galvin at Windows.
Ashley Flay – now 21 – is working front of house at The Hyatt Regency in Mayfair.
Personally, I thought that Brooke was going to be one of the winners so I was very pleased to hear Fred offer her a place at his restaurant. Her choice words of acceptance were brilliant – but if you missed them you’ll have to wait for the repeats or go to iPlayer to find out what she said.
It was clear from the noise on the internet that Ashley was a very popular choice. Ashley, who left school at 14 with no qualifications save for an anti-social behaviour order, was initially ill at ease and out of his depth. However, you could see during a scene at the country hotel in Dartmoor that this guy was a winner: Michel Roux was left speechless and could only nod in agreement as Ashley gave a passionate speech to Nikkita imploring that she needed to change her limiting beliefs.
The thing is, up and down this country there are thousands of guys like Ashley. We just need to get to them, coach them, train them, and unlock their true potential.
Ashley has epitomized exactly what this training is all about. He has proved to me and to everybody that it is possible.
So, where do we go from here? Well, I know Fred has some interesting plans up his sleeve so follow him on Twitter (he is @fredsirieix1) to find out more.
Finally – Fred, I promise I’ll book a table very soon!
Many years ago I went to work at an organisation as a factory accountant (I love factories) for a technology company. Part of the role involved the cross comparison of large tables of data to find discrepancies between the factory systems and the financial systems – Yawn! My predecessor used to spend hours diligently working through the data. She was very happy to do so as she believed that, as an accountant, it was right & proper to spend ages on boring work.
Not me. There was no way I was going to do that. It took hours!
I searched through all the functions in excel and found the answer – pivot tables. A little bit of work with the data and a pivot table would tell me the answers I needed in minutes rather than hours. The application of Proactive Positive Laziness saved me, and the business, quite a few valuable hours each month-end. This, in turn, gave me more time to spend on the factory floor (I love factories) adding value to the business.
Interestingly, my approach didn’t sit easily with my predecessor as it went against her values and beliefs – working late on labourious tasks and missing deadlines was a virtue as it showed how committed you were.
All I’d done was let loose my drive to find the shortcuts. I’m not a rocket scientist but I get bored by repetitive tasks. I’ve taught myself to think of numbers in terms of shape and size, and I’ll use every trick I can find to save myself the effort.
So, do you have an accountant or an accounts team that leave you feeling frustrated by missed deadlines? Do the end results fail to deliver value and only deliver masses of figures that give you intellectual indigestion?
Maybe they don’t need to work harder but quite the opposite? Maybe they need some training, mentoring and coaching to understand Pareto, learn a few tricks and change their values & beliefs about numbers?
If so, then get in touch – I’d love to help.
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Federico Fabian Peña (born March 15, 1947) was United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997 and United States Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 1998, during the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Born in Laredo, Texas, Peña earned a B.A. (1969) and a J.D. (1972) from the University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas School of Law. Moving to Colorado, where he became an attorney, Peña was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1979, where he became the Minority Leader. In 1983, Peña became the first Hispanic Mayor of Denver, and he was re-elected in 1987.
Peña advised Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton on transportation issues during Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign, and Clinton chose Peña to head the United States Department of Transportation. Although he was going to leave Clinton's cabinet after Clinton's first term, Peña also served as Secretary of Energy for one year, from 1997 to 1998. In 1995 the Justice Department began a preliminary investigation into a California transit agency's awarding of a pension management contract to Peña's former investment management firm. However, Peña had cut all connections to his former company both before the contract and before becoming Transportation Secretary. On March 17, 1995 Janet Reno ended the investigation.
When Peña left the Clinton administration, he returned to Denver and joined investment firm Vestar Capital Partners in August 1998, as Senior Advisor. On January 18, 2000, Vestar announced that Peña had become one of the firm's Managing Directors.
Peña is the father of three children: Nelia, Cristina, and Ryan Peña. The divorce of Federico Peña and his first wife, Ellen Hart Peña, became final on September 10, 2001. Federico Peña married Cindy Velasquez on September 2, 2006. Cindy Velasquez is a former broadcast executive for Channel 7, KMGH-TV, and Channel 9, KUSA-TV, in Denver, Colorado.
On September 7, 2007, Peña announced that he would support Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, and also serve as Obama's National Campaign Co-chair. The move was important in that Peña did not support Sen. Hillary Clinton, the wife of the president under whom he served. On November 5, 2008, he was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
Peña Boulevard, a freeway in Denver connecting Denver International Airport to Interstate 70, is named for him. As mayor of Denver, Peña led the effort to build the airport.
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I’m back from my latest visit to the Western Front. Yet again I’m left with a sense of awe at the immaculate cemeteries and memorials to the missing. For this, all tribute to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), who organise the maintenance of the final resting places of our war dead and memorials to those with no known grave, ‘in perpetuity’. They, and by extension those working on their behalf around the world, do a wonderful job: one which we often take for granted.
maintain the records of the dead.
One of its fundamental principles is that the headstones and memorials should be permenant. However, over the years, a number of individual graves and sites have been declared unmaintainable and consequently abandoned. This could be due to their physical setting, or a change in the political situation of the country in which they were located. In these cases the CWGC discharge their responsibility by providing an alternative commemoration elsewhere.
Money also comes from agency funds used for the care of military graves from other periods and memorials, and grant income. Taking this into account, the total CWGC income for 2015/16 was £60.9 million, up from £59.9 million in 2014/15. In addition, in 2015/16, the Chancellor awarded a one-off award of £2 million to renovate and tend approximately 6,000 non world war graves predominantly in the UK.
An interesting, and possibly overlooked, fact are the numbers of World War 1 and 2 Commonwealth dead whose burials are located in the UK – over 300,000 in around 13,000 locations. We mostly associate the Commision’s work with those cemeteries and memorials overseas.
Our group discussed what exactly ‘in perpetuity’ means, and it raised some interesting points. Hopefully “in perpetuity” means what most people, including me, generally understand by the words – that is forever. However there are some question marks about this in terms of English legal definition, i.e. 100 years. We may also need to consider the definitions applicable to the countries in which our dead are honoured. The potential implication is it may be a question of political will, both by our government and those governments in whose countries the memorials and cemeteries stand.
Yes, political instability and conflict across the world has an understandable impact – look to Iraq. However now we are coming up to the end of the centenary commemorations maybe, heaven forbid, there may be a push to save money or reclaim land. There have been suggestions that this was indeed discussed under previous administrations. For example the attached link contains correspondence from the early days of the Thatcher government.
Surely it would be too politically sensitive to cut funding and abandon cemeteries as a consequence? Yes, we are coming to the end of the First World War centenary commemorations, but then there are still surviving veterans from World War 2; and beyond we will be looking towards the anniversary commemorations for that conflict. But will it always be the case? What about the small, isolated battlefield cemeteries?
One final thought: How many of us visit these cemeteries and memorials, look at the headstones and inscriptions then move on. What evidence is there of our visits? Theoretically the visitors register should record footfall. But how many of us sign the books? And if we do is it just one person from the visiting group? Do the government, in times of so-called ‘austerity’ see the CWGC as a potential easy target for cuts sometime in the future? Will they use these registers as a proxy for value for money? For this reason I’m now taking a pen with me and signing the visitor registers – and as a result I’m noticing how few others do.
Footnote: The title of this post is the inscription on the grave of Pte George Thomas Palmer of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment who died on 28 April 1917 and is buried at Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais.
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I fell apart. Every piece of me crumbled to the ground. Like chards of glass, some edges were dull, some sharp, some half broken.
I was never the same after that fall. Then someone helped pick up and hold my broken pieces as I reassembled me. Not the old me. Those pieces are gone.
Then something happened and I fell apart again. Every piece of me crumbled to the ground. Like chards of glass, some edges were dull, some sharp, some half broken. Not the same pieces as when I fell apart before. These were new shapes of broken.
And again, I was never the same after that fall. Then that same someone helped pick up and hold my broken pieces as I reassembled me. Not the newer old me. Those pieces are gone.
For you see, when we fall apart, we are never the same from the previous time. We have changed. We might fall apart for the same reason, but the shapes of the pieces are not. And someone will hold the pieces as we re-assemble our depleted self.
We are given our Dharma at birth.
It is not a gift it is our vocation, our purpose , our calling. We cannot hear it but we can feel it. We can reject it and move on another path. But in some way we will be drawn to it if we allow our Self to be open. Removed of the boundaries of what we think we should be doing. Or what we Want to do.
Have you ever looked at another being a felt the call the need to be their light.
It won’t be easy. It won’t be monetarily rewarding. But no great being ever set out to be great !
They became great beings in our eyes not their own.
Give it Send it. Don’t expect anything in return. Yet what does come your way use in service to turn it around back into the universe.
As I was sitting in church yesterday I was looking out a window at dead leaves blowing on mostly barren trees. The morning was chilly with a breeze. The sun was casting shadows about. The leaves were pale brown, as they are during the winter. Even with unseasonable warm weather, the buds on older trees in Chapel Hill, NC were not visible.
I have messaged in the past of dead leaves holding on to the branch even though the majority have let go and fallen to the ground. Yet there were several bunches of leaves determined to remain on these tree. What did they fear? Falling, being separated from the branch that once fed them, unable to move beyond? Or just waiting for the new buds to come, so that where they are connected to the branch will not be empty; their attachment place.
Now the breeze would pick up and the leaves would move but I could only see this. I could not hear the leaves touching to make the “rustling” sound I am familiar with. If I had closed my eyes to listen, I would not have heard. For what the eyes see, I cannot hear, and what I hear, I cannot see.
It is a real struggle at times to let go and listen to the heart Attachment creates suffering.
Holding on to that which is no longer giving life, joy, freedom, but becoming incapable of letting go because of the fear of falling, becoming separated, or unable to move beyond.
I realized that I was observing the trees and leaves I was able to become aware of the clear cloudless blue sky beyond the trees. What a most beautiful sky. Because i was fixated on the struggle of the leaves, I was unable to see the backdrop of the sky. Then I heard the priest talking of the 2011 French movie “The Artist”.
The majority of the movie is silent other than music. But when the main character hears a glass as he places it on the dressing table, it is the first sound in the movie. Yet he cannot hear himself. He then finds sound to be an extreme annoyance rather than a means of discovery.
Maybe this is why we can see but unable to listen. To hear but unable to listen.
Light enters the prism from one angle, one color, one shape. Inside the prism, the light bends, explores, then emerges into hues of color and new light.
Such is our time with each other. We allow people into our prism of life, their good light. When we bend the light with honor and love it becomes our healing light.. When it emerges from us, our space, the hues of color, of life, explode into of kindness, love, compassion, caring, oneness. We then share this light with another.
A double rainbow is hard to find. When we together bend the light, our rainbows, side by side with each other, unite with the Divine.
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For other uses, see Ghalib (name) and Mirza Ghalib (disambiguation).
Ghalib (Urdu: غاؔلِب), born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: مِرزااسَدُاللہ بیگ خان), 27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869), was a prominent Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib (Urdu: غالِب, ġhālib means "dominant") and Asad (Urdu: اسَد, Asad means "lion"). His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime the already declining Mughal empire was eclipsed and displaced by the Colonial British Raj and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, events that he described. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. Ghalib, the last great poet of the Mughal Era, is considered to be one of the most famous and influential poet of the Urdu and Persian languages. Today Ghalib remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.
A special commemorative cover of Ghalib released in India.
Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig, was a Seljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). He worked at Lahore, Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu (Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. He had four sons and three daughters. Mirza Abdullah Baig and Mirza Nasrullah Baig were two of his sons.
Mirza Abdullah Baig (Ghalib's father) married Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, an ethnic Kashmiri, and then lived at the house of his father-in-law. He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan). Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan.
There are conflicting reports regarding his relationship with his wife. She was considered to be pious, conservative and God-fearing.
He died in Delhi on 15 February 1869. The house where he lived in Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, in Old Delhi known as the Ghalib ki Haveli has now been turned into 'Ghalib Memorial' and houses a permanent Ghalib exhibition.
In 1850, Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II bestowed upon Mirza Ghalib the title of "Dabir-ul-Mulk". The Emperor also added to it the additional title of "Najm-ud-daula". The conferment of these titles was symbolic of Mirza Ghalib's incorporation into the nobility of Delhi. He also received the title of 'Mirza Nosha' from the Emperor, thus adding Mirza as his first name. He was also an important courtier of the royal court of the Emperor. As the Emperor was himself a poet, Mirza Ghalib was appointed as his poet tutor in 1854. He was also appointed as tutor of Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, eldest son of Bahadur Shah II,(d. 10 July 1856). He was also appointed by the Emperor as the royal historian of Mughal Court.
Being a member of declining Mughal nobility and old landed aristocracy, he never worked for a livelihood, lived on either royal patronage of Mughal Emperors, credit or the generosity of his friends. His fame came to him posthumously. He had himself remarked during his lifetime that he would be recognized by later generations. After the decline of the Mughal Empire and the rise of the British Raj, despite his many attempts, Ghalib could never get the full pension restored.
Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. He received an education in Persian and Arabic at a young age. During Ghalib's period, the words "Hindi" and Urdu" were synonyms (see Hindi–Urdu controversy). Ghalib wrote in Perso-Arabic script which is used to write modern Urdu, but often called his language "Hindi"; one of his works was titled Ode-e-Hindi ("Perfume of Hindi").
When Ghalib was in his early teens,[timeframe?] a newly converted Muslim tourist from Iran (Abdus Samad, originally named Hormuzd, a Zoroastrian) came to Agra.[according to whom?] He stayed at Ghalib's home for two years and taught him Persian, Arabic, philosophy, and logic.
In keeping with the conventions of the classical ghazal, in most of Ghalib's verses, the identity and the gender of the beloved is indeterminate. The critic/poet/writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqui explains that the convention of having the "idea" of a lover or beloved instead of an actual lover/beloved freed the poet-protagonist-lover from the demands of realism. Love poetry in Urdu from the last quarter of the seventeenth century onwards consists mostly of "poems about love" and not "love poems" in the Western sense of the term.
The first complete English translation of Ghalib's ghazals was Love Sonnets of Ghalib, written by Sarfaraz K. Niazi and published by Rupa & Co in India and Ferozsons in Pakistan. It contains complete Roman transliteration, explication and an extensive lexicon.
Mirza Ghalib was a gifted letter writer. Not only Urdu poetry but prose is indebted to Mirza Ghalib. His letters gave foundation to easy and popular Urdu. Before Ghalib, letter writing in Urdu was highly ornamental. He made his letters "talk" by using words and sentences as if he were conversing with the reader. According to him Sau kos se ba-zaban-e-qalam baatein kiya karo aur hijr mein visaal ke maze liya karo (from a hundred of miles talk with the tongue of the pen and enjoy the joy of meeting even when you are separated). His letters were very informal; sometimes he would just write the name of the person and start the letter. He was very humorous and wrote very interesting letters. In one letter he wrote, "Main koshish karta hoon ke koi aisi baat likhoon jo padhe khush ho jaaye'" (I want to write lines such that whoever reads them would enjoy them). Some scholars say that Ghalib would have the same place in Urdu literature on the basis of his letters only. They have been translated into English by Ralph Russell in The Oxford Ghalib.
What more remains for me to see."
1855, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan finished his scholarly, well researched and illustrated edition of Abul Fazl's Ai’n-e Akbari. Having finished the work to his satisfaction, and believing that Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was a person who would appreciate his labours, Syed Ahmad approached the great Ghalib to write a taqriz (in the convention of the times, a laudatory foreword) for it. Ghalib obliged, but what he produced was a short Persian poem castigating the Ai’n-e Akbari and, by implication, the imperial, sumptuous, literate and learned Mughal culture of which it was a product. The least that could be said against it was that the book had little value even as an antique document. Ghalib practically reprimanded Syed Ahmad Khan for wasting his talents and time on dead things. Worse, he highly praised the "sahibs of England" who at that time held all the keys to all the a’ins in this world.
The poem was unexpected, but it came at a time when Syed Ahmad Khan's thought and feelings were already inclining toward change. Ghalib seemed to be acutely aware of a European[English]-sponsored change in world polity, especially Indian polity. Syed Ahmad might well have been piqued at Ghalib's admonitions, but he would also have realized that Ghalib's reading of the situation, though not nuanced enough, was basically accurate. Syed Ahmad Khan may also have felt that he, being better informed about the English and the outside world, should have himself seen the change that now seemed to be just around the corner. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan never again wrote a word in praise of the Ai’n-e Akbari and in fact gave up taking active interest in history and archaeology, and became a social reformer.
A large part of Ghalib's poetry focuses on the praise and veneration of Muhammad, which shows that Ghalib was a devout Muslim. Ghalib wrote his Abr-i gauharbar (The Jewel-carrying Cloud) in honor of Muhammad. Ghalib also wrote a qasida of 101 verses in dedication to Muhammad. Ghalib described himself as a sinner who should be silent before Muhammad as he was not worthy of addressing Muhammad, who, according to him, was praised by God.
In his poem "Chiragh-i-Dair" (The Lamp of Temple) which was composed during his trip to Benares during the spring of 1827, Ghalib mused about the land of Hindustan (the Indian subcontinent) and how Qiyamah (Doomsday) has failed to arrive, in spite of the numerous conflicts plaguing it.
Who holds the reins of the Final Catastrophe?'.
" Kulliyat-e-Ghalib Farsi", an anthology of Persian poetry of well-known Urdu poet Mirza Asadullal Khan Ghalib first released at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) and later released at Tehran by Ambassadors of India and Pakistan jointly at a function sponsored by Iranian Ministry of Arts and Culture in Tehran on 20 September 2010.This rare collection contains 11,337 verses of Ghalib, was compiled by Dr. Syed Taqi Abedi. Speaking at the occasion, Dr. Abidi said that study of Ghalib would be incomplete without his Persian poetry. "Although Ghalib had earned his reputation in Urdu literature, the poet of Mughal era was more inclined towards Persian and produced high-order poetry in that language. At the literary "ru-ba-ru session" (Face to Face Sitting) organized by the Haryana Urdu Academy, where Dr. Taqi offered analytical study of the works of legendary poet Mirza Ghalib, both in Persian as well as Urdu.He informs that Ghalib wrote 1,792 couplets in Urdu by the year 1865 as against the 11,340 in Persian. He also opined that Ghalib was a visionary, a poet of humanism whose works are popular even after three centuries.
Ghalib's closest rival was poet Zauq, tutor of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the then emperor of India with his seat in Delhi. There are some amusing anecdotes of the competition between Ghalib and Zauq and exchange of jibes between them. However, there was mutual respect for each other's talent. Both also admired and acknowledged the supremacy of Meer Taqi Meer, a towering figure of 18th century Urdu Poetry. Another poet Momin, whose ghazals had a distinctly lyrical flavour, was also a famous contemporary of Ghalib. One of the towering figures in Urdu literature Altaf Hussain Hali was a disciple of Ghalib. Hali has also written a biography of Ghalib titled Yaadgaar-e-Ghalib.
In prose Ghalib brought a revolution in Urdu literature by developing an easy, simple and beautiful way of writing. Before Ghalib Urdu was a complex language, Ghalib introduced a simple style of prose in Urdu which is like a conversation.
Ghalib was buried in Hazrat Nizamuddin near the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya. The side view of Mazar-e-Ghalib is shown in the image.
siwaa-e-KHoon-e-jigar, so jigar meiN KHaak naheeN"
Indian cinema has paid a tribute to the legendary poet through a film (in sepia/black and white) named Mirza Ghalib (1954) in which Bharat Bhushan plays Ghalib and Suraiya plays his courtesan lover, Chaudvin. The musical score of the film was composed by Ghulam Mohammed and his compositions of Ghalib's famous ghazals are likely to remain everlasting favorites.
Pakistani cinema also paid tribute to the legendary poet, through another film also named Mirza Ghalib (1961). The film was directed and produced by M.M. Billoo Mehra for S.K. Pictures. The music was composed by Tassaduq Hussain. The film starred Pakistani film superstar Sudhir playing Ghalib and Madam Noor Jehan playing his courtesan lover, Chaudvin. The film was released on 24 November 1961 and reached average status at the box-office, however, the music remains memorable in Pakistan to this day.
Gulzar produced a TV serial, Mirza Ghalib (1988), telecast on DD National that was immensely successful in India. Naseeruddin Shah played the role of Ghalib in the serial, and it featured ghazals sung and composed by Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh. The serial's music has since been recognised as Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh's magnum opus, enjoying a cult following in the Indian subcontinent.
Ghalib's life is the subject of hundreds of plays regularly performed in Northern India and Pakistan. These plays are based on his life and his personal and professional relationships.
The late Sheila Bhatia began this trend on productions about Ghalib, in Delhi.
Ghazal maestros like Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hassan, Abida Parveen, Farida Khanum, Tina Sani, Madam Noor Jehan, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Begum Akhtar, Ghulam Ali, Lata Mangeshkar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan have sung his ghazals. Many singers from all over South Asia have sung many of his ghazals.
The 2015 film Masaan contains various examples of poetry and shaayari by Ghalib, along with works by Akbar Allahabadi, Basheer Badr, Chakbast, Mirza Ghalib and Dushyant Kumar. Explaining this as a conscious tribute, the film's lyrics writer Varun Grover explained that he wanted to show the character of Shaalu (played by Shweta Tripathi) as a person whose hobby is to read Hindi poetry and shaayari, as this is a common hobby of millenial and generation x youngsters in Northern India, especially when in love, but this aspect is rarely shown in Hindi films.
Ghalib was commemorated on his 220th birth anniversary by Search Engine Google which showed a special doodle on its Indian home page for him on 27 December 2017.
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^ The word a’in can mean all or any of the following: character, convention, temperament, habit, rule, path, law (ecclesiastical or secular), creed, praxis, quality, intention, organization, management, system, decoration, beauty. (Lughat Nama-e Dehkhoda). There are about eighty meanings in all, which seem to have developed over the centuries. Most were available to Abul Fazl; all were available to Ghalib.
^ He did edit another two historical texts over the next few years, but neither of them was anything like the Ai’n-e Akbari.
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A few years ago in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, I got a chance to walk down Paton Street and Bell Street at Kangaroo Point. Both streets are short walks running parallel to each other off River Terrace, which provides a fantastic view of the city centre across the River Brisbane. My interest in the area lay in the fact that the two streets were named after emigrant members of my family in the 19th century.
Helen Paton was my four times great aunt (born 2 JAN 1813 Perth, Perthshire), the sister of my three times great grandfather William Paton. She married David Bell in Perth on 15 APR 1836, and in 1849 the couple emigrated to Australia on board the Chasely, a Presbyterian migrant ship (along with the Lima and the Fortitude), organised by the Reverend John Dunmore Lang, who as it happens, was from here in Largs.
From contemporary Queensland newspapers I have discovered that having worked for a Captain Robert Towns for several years after his arrival (managing punts between Brisbane and Ipswich), David had built a store in Stanley Street in 1863, going into partnership with Harry Clifford Love, the husband of his daughter Anne. The partners were fined in May 1868 for breaching the Publicans’ Act, by selling spirits in measures less than two gallons, and three months later they dissolved their partnership. A Brisbane Courier article from July 1870 shows that David had by then expanded his business to three stores. The first was the city’s largest general store, the second concerned farm produce, whilst the third showed that David had been able to get in on the cotton act, with a gin-house built to bale and pack cotton grown in the area.
David’s standing in the community was certainly high. In 1868 the Duke of Edinburgh visited Brisbane, and David was one of the fully costumed Brisbane Highlanders to personally greet him at Queen’s Park. An article from May 1871 showed that as part of his Highland outfit, David had commissioned a local Brisbane craftsman to make him an expensive ornamented dirk, to promote the talents of the settlement’s skilled silversmiths. But had he become a councillor? I trawled the papers and found letters in the Brisbane Courier of February 4th 1874, asking David to accept the nomination to stand for election, which he did. He contested the town’s South Ward with a publican called John Nolan, but lost.
Over the next few years things took a turn for the worse, when on April 19th 1876, David was suddenly declared bankrupt. An examination of his accounts at a court hearing in May 1877 showed that there had been an unaccounted £650 shortfall in his books, forcing his bankruptcy, which was not discharged until 1879. In reading his obituary in May 1891 the real reason for his failure became clearer. With the construction of the Victoria Bridge and the advent of trams and buses, trade had simply bypassed him, and he had been unable to compete.
There were no further reports of David standing for election, and other than announcements of the children marrying, the family made little further appearance in the papers, though ironically, David’s and Helen’s son John was also to try his hand as a merchant before also being driven to bankruptcy in 1879.
It’s nice to know that in years to come, somewhere on the planet there is a wee corner named after my family which will continue to exist long after I’m gone. It’s not a long street, an important street, or even a particularly beautiful looking street. But that doesn’t matter – it’s Paton Street – and therefore the genealogical equivalent, as far as I am concerned, of a flag planted on the moon!
There was a subsequent follow up to this discovery back here in Largs. The connections to this North Ayrshire town and the Australian city of Brisbane are very deep – Brisbane itself was named after the local Brisbane family here, with Thomas Makdougall Brisbane the first governor of the colony (and later city) that still bears his name. Sir Thomas was later buried in a vault of Largs Old Kirk beside the museum, after being recalled to Scotland in 1825, just four years into the job. The Reverend John Dunmore Lang was also a local man, born near Greenock in 1799, just up the road, but raised in Largs as a child. A memorial to him is still to be found in the town today.
But imagine my surprise when travelling along the A78 from Greenock recently, when I discovered that there is a small enclosure on the outskirts of Largs named after the vessel that carried my four times great aunt down under. Chaseley Gardens is not a large place by any means – but it is another hidden link to a story that most Largs folk today will have little knowledge of.
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In 1998, I began sewing. In 2011, my sewing productivity began to drop. I had a good run. I made hundreds of garments and a few curtains, pillows, and bags along the way. Some projects turned out, some didn’t (if I was lucky, I could tell the difference). I loved sewing so much I have a needle and thread tattoo. I’m also a former owner of a sewing blog and spender of thousands of dollars in fabric and other sewing supplies.
First off, my body changed. It’s much easier to fit a flat piece of fabric onto a flat body. Why do you think models are that skinny? It’s not to taunt the rest of us; it’s to make the designers’ jobs easier. When I started sewing, I was maybe 100 pounds. Then I had my daughter in 2004 and decided to keep the weight because I’ve always wanted to be curvy. Clothes got much harder to fit.
Second, I got busier. This led to less sewing time and less energy. Spending 5 hours sewing a garment that may or may not fit and/or flatter became a costlier investment. I decided to spend my more limited leisure time on other hobbies.
And then I got more ready-to-wear shopping options. I live 10 minutes from an outlet mall. Then there’s Ebay and Thredup and 6pm.com and Amazon Prime. I find it easier to just go buy something instead of trying to sew it. And with sites like those I mentioned, I can usually buy a garment for the same cost as making it myself.
I’ve tried pattern alterations. I’ve even tried figuring out which alterations I’m supposed to make. Neither venture succeeded. My brain just doesn’t work that way. I’ve read Fit for Real People, Fast Fit, Pattern Fitting with Confidence, and I’ve bought Sure-Fit Systems. I’ve posted unflattering photos of myself on sewing forums wearing mock-up dresses hoping the advice I got would somehow make sense in my mind. It didn’t.
Aside from the occasional sweatpants, maxi skirt or loose-fitting tunic, I think I’m done making clothes for myself. I have a few pieces of fabric I plan to sew into a garment that may be presentable, and then that’s it. I’ll miss buying all those patterns on sale at the chain fabric stores, but then I’ll have money to buy clothes I can actually wear.
The above sentiment is often heard from patrons at craft shows and occasionally impolite folks commenting on a crafter or artist’s social media page. A local garden artist recently had this happen to her on her Facebook page. Mary of Garden Whimsies by Mary makes garden art, known as whimsies, using upcycled dishes, vases, knick knacks, and the like. While the majority of the comments on her creations are very complimentary, she also receives occasional requests to share the type of adhesive she uses, and some even are so bold as to tell her that they could easily make whimsies too. Some were actually pretty rude about it.
And these are only the factors I am aware of as a person who has never made such an item. I am sure there are many other factors involved in making a piece like this.
As a seller of handmade goods and an avid crafter myself, this topic is not new to me. I often see items for sale that I could easily make myself. However, the key is politeness. I know that it is extremely rude to say such a statement in front of the maker. And even if I can make the item myself, I may buy it anyway. Why?
For the same reason many of us eat at restaurants. While we can cook a meal, we just don’t want to at that time. We would prefer to pay for the convenience of having another person make the meal (or other item) for us. We might also appreciate the unique style that maker brings to the item that we might not have. We are not just buying a meal or a product; we are buying convenience.
Just like Mary, I am very transparent about how my products are made. My specialty is korker ribbon hair accessories. I learned to make them by finding tutorials via my friend Google. Obviously, anyone can use Google and learn to make the same item, and that’s OK with me. My customers are those who prefer not to make their own and prefer to purchase them from me. In fact, since I purchase ribbon in bulk, the cost of my bows isn’t much more than what it would cost the average person to purchase the materials at their local craft store.
So, stating dismissively that you could make an item that someone put a lot of effort and love into is really oversimplifying it. And it’s also very rude to say to that person.
I recently ended a 7-year journey as an adoption social worker in the child welfare field. I was involved in almost 200 adoptions, and I was ecstatic for every single one. So, when it came time to adopt my 2 stepdaughters, I was dumbfounded as to why I didn’t feel that same excitement and joy. Some may even pass judgment on me for it. These feelings even upset me until I figured them out.
In a child welfare adoption, that day in front of the judge has been highly anticipated by many of the parties involved for many months or years. A child who’s spent years in the system being repeatedly abandoned and rejected, a couple who experienced infertility now has children who call them Mom and Dad, a relative caregiver or foster parent who cared for a child throughout an unpredictable and slowly-progressing dependency case. All of these scenarios involved uncertainty, and most of them involved a conclusion that had been hoped for.
A stepparent adoption doesn’t necessarily work that way. I will only comment on my own experience which may or may not be typical. When I met these girls almost 3 years ago, I never envisioned becoming their mother. In fact, I only had one birth child because that’s all I wanted and thought I could handle. I did not mind being a stepmother (crazy behaviors aside), and I encouraged the girls’ relationship with their birth mother. I even tried to help her, but her lifestyle choices were not compatible with parenting. (I am not sharing the details here in the event that the girls someday find this blog; I don’t want them to learn about the circumstances this way.) About 2 1/2 years into my relationship with my now-husband, she decided to surrender her parental rights with the knowledge that I would adopt them.
Telling 2 young girls (ages 6 and 8) that they may never see their birth mother again, even with a therapist present, is about as horrible as you may have guessed it is. I did not expect the blow to be softened by the news that I would adopt them, and I doubt it was.
About 5 months later, we were all in a courtroom finalizing the adoption. Like the weeks leading up to the occasion, I did not have any of the feelings I did at the adoptions I’d been a party to professionally. In fact, everyone was quite blase about it. Nothing felt different. The younger girl had been calling me “Mommy” since I’d broken the news to her (I told them they could call me whatever they felt comfortable with, and they could change their mind anytime). The excitement surfaced when we pulled up to Yogurt Mountain for a post-adoption treat.
So, why the lack of excitement? I couldn’t muster up any excitement for what I feel is a monumental loss for them. The only reason we were in that courtroom is because of their birth mother’s inability to care for them. How could I feel joyful about that? Of course, adoption means a lifelong commitment, but I’d already made that commitment when I married their father. So, they didn’t gain anything; rather, they lost a parent. The adoption made it official.
I suspect that I will see future adoptions I attend a little differently now. It reminded me of the time my supervisor told me, “adoption is sad.” I had no idea what she was talking about. I understood that an adoption was preceded by a loss, but I never believed that the loss could overshadow the joy of adoption. Now I understand.
On my last post, I talked about all the ways my husband and I saved money on our wedding. I promised more details in future posts, and though life has been unsurprisingly busy since then, I want to keep my word and share!
For most brides, picking out a dress is a very big deal and involves trying on dozens of dresses, lots of opinions from family or friends, and budget-busting misery. There is just something, well, wrong with spending 3 or 4 figures on a dress that will be worn once when many of those same brides don’t even break the hundred-dollar mark on garments they wear all the time.
As the sole wage earner in my family until my husband finishes college, buying an expensive wedding dress was not an option. However, buying a sundress off the rack would’ve been disappointing to me. After all, it was my WEDDING, after all! I ended up with a dress I love so much I would’ve chosen it no matter how big my budget was.
The first thing I did was think about what was and was not important to me. I have always loved ball gown style dresses, so that went on the list. I also wanted a white gown. It did not matter to me if the dress was brand new or not. I didn’t find many local options for pre-owned dresses, so I looked online.
The site I ended up buying from was www.preownedweddingdresses.com. It’s a site similar to eBay in that individual sellers post and sell their dresses and accessories. Since I was buying online and therefore couldn’t try it on, I looked for a strapless style with lacing in the back. This eliminated having to worry about it not fitting in the arm and shoulder area, which is where I have the most problems. The corset-style lacing allows the dress to fit a range of sizes. The ball gown skirt is also very full and loose fitting and therefore easy to fit as well. The dress I bought was a sample from a bridal shop. It’s a beautiful Maggie Sotero with a beaded bodice and pick-up skirt. I paid $220 shipped! The only way one could tell it wasn’t brand new was if they looked on the inside. Since bridal shops don’t want you ordering direct from a manufacturer or shopping around, they remove labels from the dress and instead write a number inside the bodice for identification. The ribbon hangers were also cut out. No big deal. When my dress arrived, all I had to do was hem it with some Steam-a-Seam and I was ready for my wedding!
I felt so beautiful in that dress, and no one could believe I only paid $220 for it! I always thought I’d be one to give away or sell my wedding dress, but it’s so beautiful that it’s still hanging in my closet almost 4 months later! I see it every morning when I get dressed, and it still makes me smile.
Weddings, as you already know, are ridiculously expensive. An average wedding in the US costs $27,000. How does an average couple (or their parents) afford that?!? My husband and I got married last weekend, and being on a budget like most of us are these days, we needed to keep costs to a minimum. We managed to have a lovely wedding on a super small budget of $638.75. I’ll tell you how!
We held the wedding at our house. This eliminated venue fees completely. All we had to do was clean our house and rearrange our living room. My husband spruced up our backyard including pressure washing our fence. We rented chairs and decorated the yard ourselves. My husband bought wood posts, painted them white, and I draped lengths of tulle between each, securing with a thumbtack.
We kept the guest list short. We only invited very close family and friends who’ve been supportive of us and our family. We did not invite acquaintances, coworkers, or family we’re not close to. Also, most of my family lives out of state, so they were unable to attend. This resulted in about 20 guests, about half of whom were children.
The entire wedding, including reception, was 3 hours long. We saw no need for an all-day affair. Of course, this meant skipping lots of the traditional wedding festivities, but we preferred that anyway. In addition, this was much easier for our guests as it didn’t take up an entire Saturday for them.
We did not serve a meal. Getting married does not obligate you to buy dinner for dozens of people. It’s not that we didn’t want to; we could not afford to. We held our wedding from 2-5pm so it was not during mealtime, and instead we served some simple snacks, drinks (no alcohol), and a wedding cake baked by my mom.
We did not have a traditional reception with dancing, a DJ, and alcohol, i.e. no drunk white people dancing. While that is certainly entertaining, it is also expensive as it requires a paid venue, DJ, alcohol, and bartenders. We also had a family friendly wedding as we have 3 children between us, and our guests had children as well. A bunch of drunks grinding on the dance floor and falling all over the place is not great for kids to watch. Instead, we all hung out and chatted like a regular party, and I set up a craft table for the kids.
We skipped the flowers. I just could not see myself spending 4 figures on flowers. It is such a waste of money, in my opinion. I am also quite unusual in that I do not even like flowers. Even my bouquet was flower-less. I used feather butterflies instead (more on that in a future post). And I doubt our guests even noticed the lack of flowers.
We did not hire a photographer. This was a difficult one, as I really appreciate well done, professional photos. However, we could not afford it. Fortunately, we had 2 of our guests who brought great cameras and happily took pictures for us. And after seeing the results, I no longer regret not having a pro do them. Additionally, with the availability of free, easy to use photo editing programs, great photos are possible for even the novices among us.
I bought a pre-owned dress online. I know, how could I have skipped the joys of going to bridal shops and having my friends gasp as I walk out in wedding dress after wedding dress? And how could I get THE perfect dress for $200 online, and have it fit without professional alterations? Well, first, I am not as picky as some. I knew I wanted a strapless ballgown in white with a detailed skirt. Luckily, that is a very popular style. Also, in order to avoid expensive alterations, I chose a corseted style which laces in the back. All I had to do was hem it with Steam-a-Seam. I found a gorgeous Maggie Sotero gown on http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/. It was a floor sample from a bridal shop, which didn’t bother me in the least. The only difference is that the tags are removed, and a style number was written on the bodice lining. Big deal! It is the most beautiful dress I could’ve gotten no matter what budget I had. I got so many compliments on it, and people were surprised to find out how little I paid for it.
I skipped the veil. I cannot believe how much brides are willing to pay for a $1 length of tulle sewn to a hair comb! Also, veils, in my opinion, are a little dated. I was going to make a fascinator with birdcage veil, but after trying it on, I decided it looked silly on me. So, I did not wear any kind of headpiece at all.
A family member did my hair and makeup. I’m sure most of us have at least one friend or relative with a talent for hair and makeup. I am not that person, but luckily, my husband’s aunt is. She happily came over early to make me pretty for my wedding day.
I did not purchase any special accessories or shoes. The length of my dress made my shoe choice completely inconsequential, so I wore a favorite pair of flats. I found a pair of butterfly earrings in my jewelry box which fit perfectly with my bouquet and the sugar butterflies on the cake. I wore a necklace from my sister that I wear every day, and my husband and I kept the rings we’ve been wearing since our engagement. And my husband’s aunt gave me a pretty jeweled butterfly for my hair.
My husband skipped the tuxedo. We decided that since it was a casual spring wedding in Florida, it would be just fine if he wore a shirt and tie instead of a formal tux. His only expenditure was a new tie.
Our flower girls’ ensembles were not from a bridal shop. It seems as though attaching the words “wedding” or “bridal” to something doubles the price. This is where Ebay came in handy. I’m a big fan of Gymboree clothing, and while it is spendy at their stores, you can buy their clothes pretty inexpensively used. I took several hours browsing dresses on Ebay until I decided on a cotton shift style. And since it is a popular brand, I had no trouble finding one in each girl’s size. I paid $14, $15, and $20 for the dresses, which originally retailed for $34.75. And since it is a casual style, they can wear them many more times. Each girl wore a pair of pink sandals and a hair bow I made to match the dresses (having my online accessory shop, Orange Blossom Accessories, made that simple). Their baskets were from Ross and were spray-painted white (they were orange) with a ribbon handle added (more on that in a future post).
I made the programs and favors. I’ll do a separate post on these, but in a nutshell, the programs were printed on cardstock at home for pennies. The favors for the adults were magnets with a fun Dr. Seuss poem with our names and wedding date (i.e. something our guests may actually use and appreciate). For the girls, they got hair bows similar to those worn by our daughters, and the boys got bottle cap zipper pulls that I also made.
We did not do printed invitations. I considered them, but decided against it because they’d just be thrown out anyway. Who keeps old wedding invitations? We invited people via Facebook event instead. And for those who couldn’t attend, we hooked up our webcam so they could watch it on You Tube (I’ll write a separate post on this later).
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In a child’s imagination, there’s a fine line between hope and superstition. For Marion Blumenthal, a nine-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned with her family in the notorious concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, hope meant psychological survival in dire conditions, where death was a near certainty. Holding four pebbles in her hand, the young girl tells her older brother, Albert: “Look closely. I have these three pebbles, exactly matching. Today I will find the fourth. I suppose you think I’m silly’” (Four Perfect Pebbles co-written by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan, New York: Scholastic, 1996, 7). Although Albert humors his emotional and imaginative sister, for Marion finding the fourth pebble represents the survival of each one of her family members: her mother, her father, herself and her brother. The memoir Four Perfect Pebbles tells the story of the Blumenthal family’s survival against all odds. Of German origin, the Blumenthals flee the increasingly anti-Semitic measures adopted by the Nazis in Germany. They believe that they have escaped to relative safety in Holland. As the Nazi empire expands to Holland, however, in 1944 they arrange to be part of a group immigrating to Palestine (in exchange for release of German POW’s). However, to their misfortune, their ship is delayed by three months. Instead of finding their way to Israel, the Blumenthals are sent off first to the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork and later to the “Family Camp” in Bergen-Belsen.
Four Perfect Pebbles offers invaluable historical information about the Holocaust, targeting a young adult audience and written for their level. It also describes an exceptional story of survival in one of the most lethal concentration camps: the same one, in fact, where Anne and Marion Frank perished. Initially intended as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943 Bergen-Belsen became a full-fledged Nazi concentration camp. Located in Northern Germany, it operated between 1940 and 1945. In June 1943, Bergen-Belsen was designated a “holding camp” for Jews that were supposed to be exchanged for German prisoners in other countries. The SS divided the camp into several sections, including the “Hungarian camp”, the “Special camp” for Polish Jews and the “Star camp” for Dutch Jews, where Marion Blumenthal and her family were interned.
Aside from being deprived of sufficient food, water, adequate medical treatment and basic hygiene facilities, the inmates of Bergen-Belsen were forced to work all day long. Approximately 50,000 people perished there. Bergen-Belsen imprisoned Jews, Poles, Russians, Dutch, Czech, German and Austrian inmates. In August 1944, the Nazis created a new section, called the “Women’s camp”, which held about 9,000 women and girls at any given time. In general, the concentration camp became dangerously overcrowded, as over 80,000 people were brought there in cattle trains from camps in Poland and other areas overtaken by the Soviet army.
Unlike Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen had no gas chambers. Yet as death surrounded her and dozens of corpses were laid out on top of one another outside her barracks each day, young Marion lived in constant fear of extermination: “’Even though we had been told,’ Marion said, ‘that there were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen, how could we ever be sure? … The soap that the prisoners at Bergen-Belsen were given before entering the showers did not guarantee their harmlessness. For it was common practice at Auschwitz to provide soap—and also the promise of hot coffee or warm soup afterward—in order to maintain calm and to deceive those about to be gassed” (66-67).
Conditions at Bergen-Belsen were notoriously bad. They deteriorated rapidly towards the end of the war, even by concentration camp standards. Marion Blumenthal recalls, “By early 1945 the food at Bergen-Belsen consisted mainly of cabbage-flavored water and moldy bread. This ration was far less than the six hundred calories a day per inmate that the camp had formerly provided… The death toll was now mounting rapidly as the result of exposure, hunger, severe diarrhea, and fevers” (70). Anne and Marion Frank perished here from typhus in March 1945, only weeks before the camp’s liberation by the Allies.
When the British and Canadians entered the camp on April 15, 1945, they found thousands of corpses and 60,000 half-starved and dangerous ill prisoners, themselves very close to death. But Marion and her family were not among them. After having been starved, forced into slave labor, attacked by fleas and allowed to languish sick from typhus, the Nazis forced them to march for miles as they were fleeing the Allies. Soon, however, they were finally freed by the Soviets and ended up in a refugee camp in Tröbitz. As she had grasped her four perfect pebbles, Marion continued to hold on to the hope of her family’s survival. Unfortunately, her father didn’t make it. He succumbed to typhus in May 1945. His death came as a blow to their tight-knit nuclear family. As Marion notes, “We had come so far, through flight, imprisonment, evacuation, the Nazis’ final attempt to destroy us, liberation at last, and now this—freedom and sorrow” (99). Her memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles, keeps his memory—and that of countless other Holocaust victims–alive. This book is not only an important historical document, but also a moving testimony of the paradoxical “freedom and sorrow” of being liberated after having suffered so much trauma and the inconsolable loss of loved ones that perished in the Holocaust.
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Lynne Malcolm: In relation to the research centre you talk about how you might introduce interventions to increase compassion, to allow people to be more compassionate. How do you do that in a scientific way?
James Doty: Well the preliminary science shows a couple of things. One is that with even an intervention which is a compassion meditation practice as short as two weeks, it can have a significant effect on the levels of stress hormones and also on your immune system.
– ABC Radio National, All in the Mind: The Science of Compassion, Sunday 9th December 2012.
A desk in a noisy room, repetitive conversations, untidy rooms, deadlines, the click-click-click of social media, waiting for approvals, underlying worry about people I love. I know these things contribute to stress, and I know that when stressed I find the shortening pause between an action and my (often frustrated) reaction signals a lack of compassion.
Can meditation aid compassion? The quote above from the interview I listened to yesterday, as well as this clear and visual TED talk by Andy Puddicombe makes it clear that meditation can reduce stresses and help us to observe more clearly our reactions before we act.
Puddicombe’s talk was featured by TED this morning, accompanied by a blog post also describing recent the scientific support for meditation benefits. I’ve always struggled to set up an effective mediation practice, first taking a course in Transcendental Meditation in Year 11, only to set it as one of my New Year’s Resolutions again and again and have it evaporate by February. But 10 minutes of doing nothing each day? Perhaps that’s achievable?
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Unable to find a genre that fit them in the dropdown menus of online music networking sites, Wes Davidson and Liz Wu of Acarya decided to create their own. This power duo of acoustic guitar, percussion and vocals melds intricate harmonies and pulsating rhythms into an intense, energetic and mesmeric experience they have dubbed Tribal Rock.
This entry was posted on November 8, 2013 at 3:45 pm and is filed under News. Tagged: Acarya, The Drinkery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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A short, very short story.
Renia, the white Somali, sweet looking but fierce when it comes to defend its preys.
and Solero, the brown Bengali who reigns over our area and whose descendants are numerous and beautiful.
The garden they live in is just beginning to bloom and it is a real pleasure to look at it. What a gift to stroll through its alleys after the long Winter ! Its gardener, my friend Germaine, so loved by both cats, spends hours tending to it.
This is how Germaine’s garden looks through the eye of my needle.
A round ochre terrace surrounded by colourful bush, neat narrow alleys and a kitchen garden where flowers have nested too. In a secluded corner lies a small pond amongst pink flowers, home to golden fish and frogs.
An air of Japan, stones, big flower pots, small plants and cactus.
Flowerbeds glimpsed at through Germaine’s kitchen window. Nature and beauty are all around.
“Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all”.
Oh Isa, at last you are here! I was waiting for you .
I lost that favourite bone of mine 😦 You know the one, don’t you ?
I searched everywhere for it, inside and outside.
Please Isa, can you help ??
Slowly but surely, home looks more and more “Christmassy”. Quilts, stars, crown, pine cones, baubles were all sewed along the years. They add a colourful touch inside the house whereas outside trees are bare and bent by a strong and freezing Northern wind.
I just started decorating the Christmas Tree too, one I bought in the village. Every year the funds of this sale will help children go to a ski-camp for one week. This year I fixed decorations in the upper part of the tree only. And of course, no candles nor small chocolate figurines !
But “why” ? would you ask. “Her Christmas tree looks so minimaliste” ! Just wait till you see the next pictures. They are quite self-explanatory….
Ninio is a great acrobat, there is no obstacle for his stubborness. And his curiosity for novelty is… boundless !
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This is in response to Darren’s post over at Common Sense Gamer. My opinion: in a word, yes.
They are press in the same way that the pamphleteers of the American Revolution were press. They are press in the same way as the National Journal, New York Times, National Enquirer, and the Onion are all press.
Being “press” is not necessarily about just reporting facts or giving a blow-by-blow of an event, after all. That’s one part of it, but it’s also part of stenography. Being part of the press is also the act of putting those facts and events into some sort of context, and bringing together information from multiple sources, that otherwise might not be connected by a reader/listener, and giving those individuals yet another perspective.
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MPI is cautiously optimistic the disease can be eradicated which would be the first time any country has achieved such an outcome. However there is still plenty of water to flow under the bridge before anyone can say with confidence that the hitherto impossible has been achieved. 2019 will almost certainly be the year we know for certain, one way or the other.
Brexit continues to provide enormous speculation about what will happen to the UK’s future relationship with the EU. This saga has now dragged on for well over two and a half years, with slightly more than three months before the official exit date of 29th March. At that point it looks increasingly unlikely the British Parliament will have approved Theresa May’s agonisingly negotiated exit agreement in spite of all the EU states having voted in favour of it. The Irish backstop which would see Northern Ireland remaining as part of the EU customs union until, or unless, the UK successfully negotiates all other terms is the spanner in the works.
The current alternatives are: Parliament votes for May’s agreement (likely to fail by a wide margin), EU comes up with some palatable concessions to satisfy MPs (almost no chance), Britain crashes out of the EU without an agreement or gains an extension to attempt to renegotiate (either is possible), Britain decides to stay in the EU in spite of the referendum result (unlikely and constitutionally unacceptable) or conducts a second referendum (hoped for by some but constitutionally unacceptable).
On balance, I sense that Britain will ask for an extension, while it tries to find a solution which is satisfactory to both EU states and a majority of British MPs. Even if that is the outcome, there is almost no chance a satisfactory solution will be found because the EU is fed up with Britain and the Conservatives can’t agree among themselves let alone with Labour. 2019 may not see a solution.
A third issue is the world trade and economic situation which poses potentially the biggest risk in the immediate future. The world is undoubtedly in the later stages of the economic cycle which has seen positive growth for nearly 10 years since the GFC. The largest global economies have used quantitative easing or issuing debt to recover from the worst effects of the last global downturn while reducing interest rates close to zero to stimulate economic activity. Unfortunately, if activity stagnates there are no further rate reductions available.
USA, EU and China have large amounts of debt sloshing around without little hope it will be repaid any time soon. In particular, Italy is very vulnerable to any economic downturn and has no chance of being able to borrow more debt, nor within the Eurozone can it take the traditional move of devaluation because it is tied to the central currency.
The trade war between USA and China is causing a state of nervousness round the rest of the world with all other economies subject to fallout. New Zealand has a large and increasing proportion of its agricultural trade with these two countries, while the EU and UK, although diminishing, are still very important as key export destinations.
One major positive is the CPTPP which New Zealand signed up to as one of the first six signatories with the agreement coming into force in 2019. This will have a positive impact on trade with Japan, putting NZ on equal terms with Australia which stole a march by signing its FTA in 2015.
The G20 has reconfirmed its commitment to the WTO which had appeared to be under threat because of the USA’s tendency to drag the chain on appointing appellate judges. The WTO is enormously important to a small country like New Zealand which is dependent on free trade, so hopefully the organisation will reassert its authority in 2019.
Another critical issue which came to the fore in 2018 was the growth of alternative or plant based proteins which attracted a lot of investment funding, supported by a growing segment of society throughout the richest parts of the world wishing to reduce the impact of livestock production on the planet. This trend will undoubtedly continue to exert an impact on traditional farming methods and, I believe, gain an ever increasing share of global protein consumption.
The impact of farming, particularly livestock production, on the environment is a closely linked issue which gained huge traction during this year and 2019 will be no different. This will affect New Zealand as well as our trading partners, but it is almost certain that the deliberations of the Tax Working Group will result in the application of the Emission Trading Scheme to agriculture. This is likely to happen in 2019.
In summary this year has been a year of unexpected developments and a number of uncertainties. In an increasingly volatile age, whether politically, economically, financially or climatically, 2019 is likely to be even more uncertain.
This entry was posted on December 19, 2018 at 9:15 am and is filed under Agribusiness, Agricultural and Pastoral Shows, Biosecurity, China exports, Consumer demand, Dairy, Economy, Environment, European agriculture, Export trade, Food safety, Free trade, International trade, Livestock, Meat, Meat industry, Politics, Protein based meat, Red Meat marketing, Stock and Station. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Palestine has received membership in the UN’s education, science and culture body after 107 of the 173 attending member states voted for it, with 14 against. The US objected to the move and threatened to curb its donations to the organization.
حصلت فلسطين على العضوية الكاملة في منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلوم والثقافة بعد تصويت 107 دولة لصالحها, فيما صوتت 14 دولة منها الولايات المتحدة وألمانيا وكندا ضد منح العضوية لفلسطين واختارت 52 دولة الامتناع عن التصويت.
The Algiers Declaration of 1988 claimed a sovereign Palestinian state. But the recognition of Kosovo, which declared its independence in 2009 has brought the long-forgotten proposal of Palestinian independence back into play. watch this 44:00 min movie to know about the Palestinian case.
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← When religious values colide.
Sometimes doctors can be so stupid! Everybody knows that medical prayers can take up to three months to kick in.
This is a news report of a man who asked doctors to postpone the amputation of a limb (thereby endangering the life of his wife) because the doctors haven’t given the prayers of friends and family time to work.
Maybe I’m going soft, but once again I can’t find it in myself to tag this item as “funny”.
This entry was posted in Video and tagged Absurd, Christian, Divine Intervention, Fail, Faith, Prayer, Tragic, Video. Bookmark the permalink.
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We’ve looked at a whole bunch of online seed exchange methods and come up with what we think is the easiest and most swapper-friendly method for trading seed online. You’ll see a new tab above marked “swap here!” that will get you to the online swap page (or, lazybones, just click here). Please restrict comments on that post to swap offers and seed requests.
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Auch am 27.3.2018 erfolgte die routinemäßige Verlärmung von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und dem nördlichen Teil Brandenburgs durch Kampfflugzeuge der Bundeswehr. Mit Frühlingsbeginn wird der Luftkriegsbetrieb über Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Brandenburg offenbar wieder in die Nachtstunden hineinverlegt und ausgeweitet. Kampfjetgedröhne zum Feierabend.
On March 27th 2018, several rounds of the usual bunch of military aircraft, with Bundeswehr Eurofighter-Typhoon or Tornado warplanes leading the packs, drenched the formerly quiet holiday region of the Mecklenburg – West Pommerania and Brandenburg Lakes with thorough and agonizing military air noise. Fighter jets do multiple rounds of low-, mid- and high altitude attack, interception and „rescue“ exercises a day. Fighter jets are frequently seen and heard scrambling over head by residents and tourists to the region, leaving residents and visitors terrorized in their wake. Military air training has been steadily and secretly increased, ever since the secretive activation of Europe´s most extreme military air training zone, ED-R 401 MVPA (stretching above most of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-West Pommerania and the northern part of the state Brandenburg).
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After a full month that started with Neobarok’s release and was followed by two updates, my limited Qt commercial license has expired (Qt is the environment in which Neobarok is being developed).
Since no updates can be posted online without a commercial license, I will now focus on the upcoming crowdfunding campaign aimed at purchasing a perpetual Qt license.
But things don’t stop here: in the meantime you can still freely download and use the beta version, new tutorials will be posted online, while I continue to work on Neobarok’s next release and show its progress !
The Linux and Mac native builds will have to wait, I will get back with information on how to run the Windows version on emulation under these OS.
In a few days I will post some in-depth tutorials on getting started and using Neobarok!
You are currently browsing the Release category at neobarok.
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(CNN) - Sen. John Kerry will voluntarily pay $500,000 in taxes to the state of Massachusetts - a move that forestalls a potential investigation into whether the Bay State's senior senator attempted to evade the hefty levy by docking his $7 million yacht in Rhode Island.
"We've reached out to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and made clear that, whether owed or not, we intend to pay the equivalent taxes as if the boat's home port were currently in Massachusetts," Kerry said in statement. "That payment is being made promptly."
The decision came after Kerry faced a series of questions over why the Massachusetts Democrat decided to dock his new multi-million dollar sloop in neighboring Rhode Island even though it had been reportedly spotted in Massachusetts waters and Kerry maintains residences in Boston and Nantucket.
Rhode Island has been known as a tax-haven for boaters after the state repealed its sales and use tax on boats in the early 1990's. Kerry, who recently purchased the 76-foot yacht in Rhode Island, therefore avoided close to a half-million in taxes.
But the Massachusetts Department of Revenue has long been on the lookout for Bay Staters who dock their boats in Rhode Island and use them in Massachusetts. The Department mandates such boaters file a form with the state so use and excise taxes can be levied. If no form is filed, Massachusetts can take possession of boats it determines use its waters a sufficient number of times, the Boston Globe reports.
The Department of Revenue said Tuesday it had not launched an investigation into the matter.
The senator's office has said Kerry was not seeking to avoid taxes but instead docked the yacht in a Newport, Rhode Island boatyard for "maintenance, upkeep, and charter purposes."
So THIS is how the DemocRATS have "drained the swamp"??!!!
Just ANOTHER stinking DemocRAT tax cheat and evader! They just LOVE to TAX everybody else and spend like drunken fools. Rangel, now Kerry. I think every member of Congress needs to be thoroughly audited and the cheats driven from office. Where's the "zero tolerance" for this type of BS.
THROW THE TAX CHEATIN' BUMS OUT!!!
PAY YOUR FREAKING TAXES, WASHINGTON!!!!
So who could blame him? IMHO, this is not like avoiding your income tax (Geithner), hiding money offshore (all those rich people in the Bahamas or Switzerland) or paying illegal help off the books, rather it's like making a choice between stores in some ways. Shop at Target versus shopping at Macy's. If he docks in Rhode Island it will more of an inconvenience and that is a choice he's making to save money, right?
Funny. He 'reached out' after he was caught, and ONLY because he was caught. Join the Rangel club of tax cheats.
And still the Nutwork Nations who read this article found a way to blame the Republicans, Bush and Cheney for this. That dope inspired crazy streak is why they are going down so bad in the November elections.
Just like Geithner, Daschle, Rangle and now Kerry, Democrats want YOU to pay more taxes while they try to get around paying taxes themselves.
Thank you Senator Kerry for giving us another reason throw all of the Democrats out of Congress in November.
Who is in touch with the people?
Caught with his hand in the cookie jar......he had little choice, now did he?
Yes–guilty until proven innocent! That seems to be the way of things lately. As if everyone responding here has been 100% truthful on their tax return??
If this were a Republican, the media would be going to town on them. There would be calls for their resignation and probably a bill before congress condemning them. The double standard is old. I am sick and tired of BOTH sides of the isle.
Is Charels Rangals being given the same options .
Seems as though some political hack in Massachusetts sought to try to embarass a MA Senator that might have found a less expensive place to dock his boat.
Instead, Kerry capitulates to the extortion because he doesn't need a tabloid exploitation of something he has EVERY RIGHT TO Do.
MASSACHUSETTS EXTORTS A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
Where is the other senator ... Tea Party darling ... Scott Brown ... come down on this tax issue?
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Of course I welcome his victory but it may well be a pyrrhic one, already the corporate media is predicting JC’s end with a survey showing, allegedly, that only one fifth of something or other will vote for him in the next election. For more on this, see Our feral, lying, good for nothing media by Richard Seymour who deals very effectively with today’s front page story in the Independent which alleges that “Corbyn ‘loses fifth of Labour voters’”. So what else is new? Clearly those who voted for Corbyn could care less what the corporate/state media say about him. In fact I suspect many voted for him just because the corporate/state media did such an evil hatchet-job on him, especially so given how blatant the ad hominem attacks have been and continue to be.
As to a ‘solution’, well clearly it has to be extra-parliamentary which means not only organising but developing a coherent alternative to offer. Not an especially difficult objective I would have thought. In the meantime, we could do well to start to reestablish our relationship with the world, not as Masters of the Universe but as part of a common humanity that capitalism has degraded and commodified, alienating us from Nature, from the world and could possibly end up exterminating our species through its greed. Is this too vague? Well maybe….
This entry was posted in All Posts News Politics and-or Videos, Capitalism, Elections, England-UK-Britain, Politics, Reform, Revolution, Socialism and tagged Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, William Bowles. Bookmark the permalink.
very well, since you do not know the strategic solution, and honestly say so, I shall tell you.
1. The madness is not capitalism, it is Free Enterprise. A state-market system may not be the ultimate solution, but in China it works good enough, and has led over a half BILLION people out of crushing poverty. When the state leads the capitalist system, it has to serve the interests of the people to stay in power, alt least for a historical while, not the interests of the capitalist oligarchy. When the oligarchy has bought the state, as it has in the USA and West, the entire state power system serves capitalist power.
It is capitalist POWER that is the chief problem, not the market system.
2. The major struggle to solve the problem is not between the capitalist vs the working class but more generally, between the people and anti-people power. The capitalist oligarchy has sponsored and subsidized a professional truth Elite, embedded in the media, schools, universities, churches and other truth institutions that has deranged the consciousness of the people. The Conservative truthers are more piggish and lie more, but the major problem is the mainstream Progressive truthers, who restrict and formulate the truth to serve the power oligarchy that sponsors and subsidizes them. It is what the Progressive truthers DO NOT SAY that is the major problem in deranging the consciousness of the people.
3. The consciousness of the people has been ideologically deranged by the way power has developed historically on our small planet. Our ideological world-views have been diseased by the religious, political, economic, and scientific ideologies that legitimate anti-people power.
We are living at a time in history when we can transform this ideological state of affairs, and begin a truth revolution in social science conceptually similar to the scientific revolutions in the history of the natural sciences, but much more ideological transgressive. This will conceptually invert our conceptions of political and social reality, which legitimates anti-people power, and transform the way we think about and perceive people.
It is necessary to generalize the notion of socialism, fixated too rigidly on economics, to ‘culturalism’ which will include an emphasis on racial oppression, which is historically severe than class oppression. The truth revolution will transcend our national boundaries, which has nationalized socialism, to tell us the simple truth about relations among the past, present, and future persons of the earth.
This will create an earthperson world-view, as I shall refer to it, which would give the earth’s people a minimum common conceptual context. which over historical time will create the cultural context for an eventual earthperson governance. As culturalism replaces socialism, the earth’s people can unite more effectively to oppose anti-people power, which extends beyond capitalist power.
So that is the historical strategic solution, to revolutionize our political culture. This is both politically and conceptually feasible in the 21st century.
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POVERTY. There is no misery in this world as terrible as poverty.
Which is the highest blessing?
Communion with saints. No blessing is as great as communion with saints. Because they make you realise God.
How to distinguish saints from evil minded?
The saints undergo sufferings in the interests of others, while wretches torment others for their pleasure.
Which is the highest religious merit?
Non violence. A vow of non violence is the highest religious merit .
Which is the terrible sin?.
Speaking ill of others. There is no sin as worst as speaking ill of others.
What are the diseases of mind?
Lust, greed and anger, hypocrisy, deceit, arrogance and pride, violence, jealousy and thoughtlessness and many more.
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Summary: In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with the gift for magic. She’s resigned to her un-magical life, until a traveling magician passes through her village, and Coco learns what what everybody “knows” might not be the truth.
My Thoughts: Witch Hat Atelier Volume 1 is a captivating manga debut and easily one of my new favorite series! The beautiful art, alongside the enchanting story, powerful messages, & fantastic characters all come together so perfectly! The first volume of Witch Hat Atelier shows that there’s a powerful magic inside each of us!
Witch Hat Atelier is a manga I’ve waited almost a year for at this point! I’d first heard about it at AX last year and knew I just had to add it to my TBR!!
The story follows Coco who lives in a world where magic is all around her, but not everyone (including herself) know how to use it. Only witches can, however in this world witches are only born–not made!
The daughter of a seamstress, both Coco and her mother live in a small village living their everyday lives. But, one day a magical carriage comes into town with wealthy women from another town.
Not long after, a traveler by the name of Qifrey stops by quickly to get a cloth from their shop. However, after the Pegasus Carriage gets damaged Qifrey reveals he has the ability to fix it–because he’s a magician.
Coco shares with Qifrey that her love of magic came when she was little! Both she & her mother went to a castle festival, where Coco encountered a masked magician that offered her a special book and a pen that she’s kept alongside her ever since!
Magic in the world of Witch Hat Atelier is not only beautiful, but explored in such a unique way! Knowing magic long ago used to be a part of everyday life, but with the world being in a constant state of war, a new order was set up so few (with good intentions) would keep magic alive. But in turn, everyone else had to forget magic.
What also brought such a unique take on the exploration of magic, was how its cast! The secret that must be kept behind closed doors, is that the magic of this world isn’t through words, but drawn!
If your looking for a deeply complex, elaborate, but whimsical magic system, Witch Hat Atelier delivers! The fulidity of magic and how its explored through Coco’s past and present allow the reader to really feel a sense of wonder in this captivating world!
The events of the day inspire Coco to examine the journal one more time, but her spells go wrong! Now she must join Qifrey on a quest to understand more about this intriguing world of magic and save her mother.
I don’t want to give away too much of the plot, because the way it unfolds was so brilliant and I highly recommend experiencing this wonderful tale for yourself!
But I will say, as Coco’s journey begins she’s brought to Qifrey’s Atelier where she meets other young girls like herself who are also magicians-in-training: Tetia, Richeh, & Agott!
A very present message throughout this whole volume which I adored was this idea that although magic is rare in this world, its something grounded in a reality that was so relatable to me in a way I hope I can explain?
Basically, because we follow a main character who sees the possibilities of magic (though she can’t wield it) we get this sense of hope, wonder, and the wonder of what-ifs! So, the world feels far vaster than we can imagine, but never hollow–which show’s the incredible depth to the world-building and how its rooted in the powerful messages of the story!
The plot has mystery, hope, moments both happy and sad, humorous and they all complement each other in this fantastic introduction to the series of Witch Hat Atelier so perfectly! The pacing never falters for a moment and the story is captivating from the opening page!
The art style is just breathtaking! Shirahama’s details to the background, character designs, attention to details among each and every panel are true works of art!
Its stories like Witch Hat Atelier that I find can appeal to readers of all ages, because it connects to this inner wonder we have about the magic in the world around us, that endless hope of finding magic where we know there may not be, and its beautiful! Its about believing in yourself and following your heart to see that magic appear in its own way!
If your looking for your newest manga obsession, Witch Hat Atelier is a must!! I can’t recommend it enough, please add this captivating series to your to-read list, you will not be disappointed, I can promise you that!
Witch Hat Atelier Volume 1 is a truly incredible start to a magical manga series I can’t wait to continue! Everything from the story, characters, world, themes, and artwork are utterly phenomenal! Magic thrives through each page of Witch Hat Atelier and will leave you in awe, eager to read the next volume right away!
The Tiger At Midnight is the first book in a trilogy, set to be released April 23, 2019!
Q1: For those who haven’t heard of The Tiger At Midnight can you tell us what it’s all about?
Swati: Of course! THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT is the first book in a young adult trilogy inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mythology. It follows the story of Kunal, a dutiful soldier, and Esha, a legendary rebel spy. When their paths cross one night and Esha is accused of the murder of Kunal’s General, a dangerous cat and mouse game starts between them, one which throws everything they’ve known into question.
Q2: How did you come up with the idea for The Tiger At Midnight & has your original idea stayed the same? If not, what has changed?
Swati:I first got the idea for The Tiger at Midnight when I was traveling and visiting an old Fort. It was the first spark of an idea of what would become The Tiger at Midnight and the first time I heard the voice of Kunal, one of the two main characters. I looked out from one of the old window openings and wondered what would be the most odd or startling thing a soldier of old might have seen. A girl. And that’s the opening page of THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT.
That initial image and my two main characters, Kunal and Esha, have stayed the same, but so much else has changed! Or not changed, but deepened. I always knew this story was going to be about two people on opposing sides of a conflict and how they find their way to reconciling their loyalties and their burgeoning relationship. And that hasn’t changed.
Q3: What books inspire you as a writer? Or any other writing inspirations?
Swati:I’ve always loved mythology and history, since I was a child, and they’re both huge inspirations to me as a writer. As for books, I loved everything Tamora Pierce wrote as a kid and started to read a lot of adult fantasy at a young age–everything from Mercedes Lackey to Jacqueline Carey and Terry Brooks.
Q4: What is it you’re most excited for readers to see in The Tiger At Midnight?
Swati: I wanted to write a story that celebrated my Indian heritage and tackled the issue of finding your own path, even when there’s familial or community pressure, something that I think is really common for second-generation immigrant kids in America. That’s a huge part of what both Kunal and Esha deal with during this book—their duty to themselves vs. others. Esha and Kunal both struggle with this idea in very different ways. I hope that readers are able to read this book and understand that better.
Q5: The Tiger At Midnight also draws inspiration from ancient Indian History & Hindu Mythology! What elements did you find yourself most drawn to while creating your world?
Swati: I always loved the epic battles and delicate political maneuverings in both Hindu mythology and ancient Indian history and I incorporated a lot of those elements into the larger story for the trilogy (and for The Tiger at Midnight!). I also drew from specific stories I grew up with, like how the river Ganga was brought down to the earth, to craft the lore and magic of the world.
Q6: Between the two main characters Esha & Kunal, what part of their journeys did you enjoy writing the most & why?
Swati: I loved it all! But if I had to pick one part, it would be the discoveries they make about each other and how it affects how they view the world and their lives.
I’m so excited! It’s funny, on average, a book releases about 2 years after the deal is done, so I’ve been sitting on this news and this book for awhile! It’s definitely scary to have it be out in the world, but I’m so excited to share this story and I really hope people love Kunal and Esha.
Q8: Is there a particular quote from The Tiger At Midnight you enjoyed writing & why?
This line is the basis for a lot of the story between Kunal and Esha and the relationship between them and it hints at the larger, magical world around them that they’re trying to save. It kind of came to me and I knew instantly how important it would be to the book.
Q9: What element of your world within The Tiger At Midnight did you enjoy developing the most?
Swati: I’m a huge history nerd so I really enjoyed creating the history of the world, a lot of which is revealed more throughout the rest of the trilogy.
Q10: Which character are you most excited for readers to meet in The Tiger At Midnight?
4.Most anticipated 2019 YA Release? So many! Spin The Dawn by Elizabeth Lim, Wicked Fox by Kat Cho, and There Will Be A Darkness by Katy Pool!
9.If characters from TTAM could meet any other YA characters who would they be & why? I think Kunal and Elias Veturius would have a lot to talk and brood about. As for Esha, she’d probably kill to meet Zoya Nazyalensky (literally haha).
And you can pre-order TTAM (library requests as well!) to receive Preorder goodies, more info on the bookish swag you can receive Here! There’s also a book trailer for The Tiger At Midnight!
Thanks again to Swati for this wonderful interview!
Summary: Told through the lens of a guy in love with the cosmos (and maybe two girls), The Universal Laws of Marco explores the complicated histories that bring us together and tear us apart.
My Thoughts: The Universal Laws Of Marco is a YA Contemporary that follows Marco Suarez in his senior year of high school, who has everything planned out! But, he wasn’t expecting his best friend Sally to return so suddenly, after disappearing before freshman year! With this complicating the plan he’s set for himself, we also delve into the past to unravel what happened between Sally & Marco! Carmen Rodrigues crafts a character-driven and thought-provoking story you don’t want to miss!
Carmen Rodrigues’s The Universal Laws Of Marco is probably one of the most underhyped YA Contemporary books I’ve seen & read so far this year! If your looking for a contemporary story that’s real, moving, impactful, while also having a focus on friendship, love, & family, then this is the book to pick up! It’s really good!
Marco Suarez has everything planned his senior year, his scholarship is set for Wayne University in the fall, he’s working a job at a local supermarket with his best friend Diego & has a girlfriend, Erika!
But his life gets a bit more complicated when his first love & genius track star, Sally Blake returns suddenly, after leaving right before the start of 9th grade and never keeping in-touch.
So with Sally’s return, Marco still can’t ignore that first spark! Sally and Marco have been best friends since they were little and nothing kept them apart. Things change during summer before 8th Grade when Sally & Marco kiss. But throughout that last year of middle school, there are moments that cause Sally and Marco to drift apart, up until Sally leaves.
I know I mentioned this already, but this is easily one of the most underrated YA Contemporary releases I’ve read so far this year!! Its not just a story about reminiscing on first-love, its about change, growth, family, friendship, choices, life, and the moments in life that shape who we are.
Because I spent weeks reading The Universal Laws Of Marco, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad when I reached the end because I’d become so attached to the characters, connect with themes of the story, & overall just really fell in love with the book as a whole!
Rodrigues delivers such an immersive and especially character-driven story as we jump between Marco’s past/middle school years with Sally, up until her disappearance. Through this POV, we unravel that mystery as to what led Sally to leave not only Marco, but their entire friend group: Sookie, Jade, & Diego!
While in the present, we follow not only Marco’s school life, but also his family: mother, little brothers, and father, who hasn’t been quite himself since an accident that happened during Marco’s last year of middle school (which gets explored throughout the story).
Another mysterious plot point that gets unraveled throughout the story, was the injury that left Marco’s dad not entirely himself for the past few years. It was heart-breaking to read about and how it changed the Suarez family so much (also with Marco having to take up even more responsibility to help the family through financially tough times).
I loved that although the rest of the friend group was unsure whether to let Sally back in, Marco was still trying to reconnect with her even after they drifted apart. Though this novel is really Marco’s story, it’s also Sally’s story too! Because we learn so much about her through Marco’s eyes and how he was such an important part in her life, that when we see that Sally again, we notice that she really is still recovering from those years after she left and above all, just doesn’t want to be alone.
It broke my heart because, although Marco was with Erika, he obviously never forgot Sally, but was just so unsure of how to approach her again. He struggles throughout the story trying to reconnect with her because she too also feels guilty about leaving them behind and returning when so much has changed.
While Marco was with Erika, I felt both sad & happy for him at the same time! After learning Erika’s backstory and how she impacted Sally’s dynamic with Marco in the past, you also don’t feel upset with her either because she was there for Marco during his dad’s recovery. This was during a time when Marco was feeling lost and alone not only about his dad & how it impacted the family, but also with Sally no longer there.
The use of alternate past/present POV was so well done! I never felt lost jumping back between the two timelines and the way Rodrigues plotted them both out was brilliantly explored, because it kept me guessing as to what led Sally to leave, how Marco would try to reconnect with her again, and still remembering how close they used to be!
Although the summary puts a focus on the romance, that’s not really what this story is about! Its about so much more than that, I can’t really put it into words. There’s definitely an uncertainty if Sally and Marco will ever fully reconnect again and Rodrigues did such a phenomenal job at really leaving the reader guessing where their relationship would be headed.
There’s also such a big focus on friendship that you wouldn’t really know just based on the summary! Marco & Diego’s friendship is also one of the highlights of this book! It has its ups/downs, moments of humor, but it also explores trust, communication, and the support of friends that’s incredibly important during complicated moments in life! Its explored mainly through a sub-plot where Marco & Diego are unknowingly after the same job of manager, when Marco decides not to tell Diego out of fear it would ruin their friendship.
The writing itself is fantastic! I never once felt out of the story and was immediately brought back into the plot through Marco’s POV! With Marco’s love of physics, I also loved how terms/concepts really weaved their way into the story to make it incredibly thought-provoking and realistic!
As for diversity, this novel centers around a Cuban-American family (Marco’s), Diego, Marco’s best friend whose Dominican, & Sookie another one of Marco’s friends, whose Korean, Jewish and adopted.
Overall, everything about this book from the writing, characters, character-development, themes, dynamics, and pacing made this book feel so incredibly real and relatable in ways I can’t really explain.
My only minor issue was that pacing was a bit slow in parts, but aside from that, this was a phenomenal YA Contemporary and I recommend everyone read it if their looking for a real and thought-provoking story!
The Universal Laws Of Marco is a remarkable YA Contemporary with so much depth and one deserves a lot more love! It explores a variety of themes from family to friendship, while also being a relatable contemporary story which stresses the moments in life and people within it, that change our lives! The Universal Laws Of Marco by Carmen Rodrigues is more than just contemporary romance and is a YA novel well worth reading!!
My Thoughts: The Promised Neverland Volume 1 is a promising start to an intriguing manga series! Following a unique cast of characters set in the Grace Field House Orphanage, things are not quite as they seem for Emma, Norman & Ray! With intrigue, mystery, & with both a great cast of characters & equally unique story, this first volume will have you turning the page, wondering what’ll happen next!
So after finishing The Promised Neverland, I was feeling so accomplished because this is the first book I’ve finished in a little over a week (which felt like so much longer, if I’m being honest 😭💔💔). I’m also happy that this delightful manga is getting me out of my reading slump!
I’ve also really been wanting to start this series because I’d heard so many positive and great things about it! After turning the last page of this first volume, I really can’t wait to see where the story is headed!
The Promised Neverland Volume 1 introduces the reader to the Grace Field House Orphanage where the main character Emma lives! She’s the oldest (11 years old) alongside Norman, Ray & a few others who are also her age! She lives a pretty normal and happy life with the other younger kids and “Mom”, their loving caretaker.
But, things take a surprising turn when a mystery begins unraveling after Conny, a girl at the orphanage who’s getting ready to see her new family, leaves her toy behind and Emma alongside Norman, try to get it to her. Though, leaving the orphanage at night is forbidden.
I don’t want to spoil too much about this volume because the way the story unravels, its best to go in without knowing too much! Though for me personally, that’s why I’m leaning more towards a 4-star rating! From my own personal expectations I was expecting a more quiet contemporary story (with light fantasy elements), but those were just my personal expectations & Promised Neverland really takes a different turn!
I will say that my favorite parts about this manga, aside from the phenomenal characters, intriguing story, & world-building, is the themes that are interwoven throughout this volume.
If you’ve read this series, I highly recommend checking out Jeannette Ng’s wonderful thread which delves into important themes & core elements of what makes Promised Neverland filled with “defiant hope.” Her thread also inspired a lot of the themes I found while reading it and want to further explain!
Intrigue and intellect are explored heavily throughout this first volume & mainly through the older orphans like Emma, Ray, & Norman. There’s moments where they find themselves tested and facing situations where you really see the depth of their character & to the point where its clear these characters are really thinking about what’s best for everyone instead of just themselves.
Their trying to formulate plans all while gathering intel, with the perfect amount of intrigue that keeps you guessing! I never knew where the story was headed and was worried for them when their plan became a little more complicated.
No matter what conflict Emma is faced with, even if it changes how she sees the world, there’s this thread of hope & positivity that is present throughout this first volume and its inspiring!
I loved the friendship between Emma and Norman! They complement each other really well and we see that through their conflicting personalities, where Emma is energetic and confident, Norman is strategic, quiet, & resourceful.
Alongside that, I just love seeing the dynamic between Emma, Ray & Norman when they all begin working together.
Each member of the trio is unique in their own way and you see that they each have their own abilities which seems to foreshadow a bit of what strength they’ll lend to the group as their plan continues to develop. Emma is not only energetic but incredibly athletic, Norman is brilliant & strategic, and Ray is quiet, very knowledgeable and observant.
Overall I found myself connecting to each character and found each one, no matter when they were introduced, to have quite a bit of depth and feel very well developed.
The setting itself was not what I was expecting: it mixes dystopia, a bit of sci-fi, but in a whimsical sort of way that I really enjoyed & was hoping for.
As for the art-style it was wonderfully detailed. The backgrounds, character designs, and pacing/development all flowed so well!
The Promised Neverland Vol. 1 is the start to a manga series both intriguing and mysterious! There’s a mix of sci-fi, dystopia, and mystery! The page-turning plot, dynamic cast of characters, and great artwork all come together in such a unique way! This manga series balances dark and hopeful, while also having intrigue, mystery, and so much more!
Summary: At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class.
My Thoughts: We Set The Dark On Fire is not a debut to miss! Mixing together Fantasy with Dystopia, Tehlor Kay Mejia delivers a wonderfully explored plot, commentary on a variety of themes relevant today, and a great cast of characters! We Set The Dark On Fire is a book you need on to add to your TBR if it you haven’t already!
Mejia’s debut is one I’d been looking forward to for 2 years, ever since I’d heard about the books announcement! It mean’t so much to me as a Latinx YA reader anticipating this intriguing fantasy debut that would also discuss many timely and complex issues from immigration, privilege, resistance, etc. and just knowing a new Latinx YA Fantasy was on the horizon!
We Set The Dark On Fire is set on the island nation of Medio. However, this fictional setting is filled with parallels to our world that Tehlor explores alongside deeply explored social commentary!
Daniela Vargas is getting ready to graduate from the Medio School For Girls and has studied for years to become a Primera, the first wife to a husband. In this world, Medio’s School prepares women to be one of two wives by graduation, the Primera or Seguanda.
What really set the stage for the entire book for me was the introduction which shared the story of the Salt & Sun gods and how their story built the society of Medio into what it is today and introduced us to the complex world.
Primeras and Seguandas complement each other and in turn, must work in harmony. I loved exploring all the parallels and contrasts to each role throughout the novel and how through Dani’s journey we see how this legend of the gods was taking a different turn in the present day of Medio.
Dani grew up on the outer islands of Medio (Polvo) where they aren’t treated well and knows all too well that the husband she’s with can change her & her family’s life for the better. Which is why she has to keep her past a secret to avoid suspicion and do what she can to prove herself in this world.
She quickly gets herself tangled up in becoming a spy for resistance group, La Voz, whose goal is to change the poor treatment of those on the outer islands. She quickly meets Sota, resistance group member! He’s clever and very mysterious! Sota pressures Dani into joining so she can find intel on her soon-to-be husband Mateo. With her position, he tells her that they can use the info she finds to change Medio for the better. But if she doesn’t, the secrets of her past may no longer be as well kept as she thought.
Dani was such a complex and wonderful main character I loved following throughout this book! Knowing what those in outer-Medio go through she feels obligated to help, but knowing she’s risking her entire life that she’s built to create for herself, she’s conflicted. The inner conflict she undergoes was so well developed and brought many fascinating questions to the surface when it comes to helping those who can’t help themselves, whether one person can really make change, whether we should feel responsible for others who can’t fight for themselves, etc.
We Set The Dark On Fire is a book that just leaves you inspired by the messages woven throughout the entire story.
When Dani finds herself in the house of Mateo Garcia, son to a prominent politician, she’s caught in the politics, intrigue, and mystery of the Garcias. So, as she presents herself as the prefect Primera, she’s also a spy with doubts as to who she can trust and whether she can even trust herself.
With Dani’s training as a Primera she uses her skills to keep up a variety of roles to continue finding out more secrets. What I loved was that although there are characters you shouldn’t find yourself loving, Tehlor really developed them all in a way where I could really understand them & their motivations. From Mateo, Jose, the Garcia’s, Sota, Alex, and many more!
Though as Dani continues to spy for La Voz, she begins to question whether she can keep up this charade when a classmate from her past gets involved. She’s trying to avoid the questioning glances from Mateo’s father’s Primera+Segunda, Mateo , and the mysterious Carmen.
Mateo is secretive, mysterious, cold, but he was definitely a very interesting character to learn about. Dani wants to prove her skills as a Primera, but Mateo prefers she stay on the side. As Dani defies him we see his true nature appear throughout the novel.
His privilege is something that isn’t ignored by Mejia throughout this book and it was deeply explored and commented on a lot in We Set The Dark On Fire.
What I found to be such an inspiring element to this novel was seeing how Dani, Carmen, & the other Primeras/Segundas although are seen to be the power behind their husbands, they essentially are the ones that have all the power.
Their strength lies among different paths, but WSTDOF showed that the strength we have is not so easily seen and that doesn’t mean it should be ignored. Strength can be hidden in a variety of ways, but we must remember its always there.
Surprisingly, Dani’s Segunda is none other than Carmen Santos, her former friend when she first got the Medio’s School. Ever since they drifted apart, Carmen finds any opportunity she can to taunt Dani about where she grew up. But now that both are Mateo’s wives, we see their dynamic begin to change.
Dani and Carmen soon break their rivalry into an unlikely friendship and relationship! The steady development between them, seeing them both change, all while also acknowledging their past together was so well explored and I loved reading them form this relationship.
We Set The Dark On Fire brilliantly weaves together messages of resistance, discussion/commentary on immigration and privilege, all while binding it together with this underlying theme of hope and inspiration for change.
The story had so many twists, turns, intrigue, themes of family, and resistance that made this book such a fascinating fantasy/dystopia novel.
Also it just made me so happy to read a Latinx YA Fantasy! Being an aspiring YA Fantasy and Latinx writer, allowed me to really take in & appreciate all the elements I could relate to so much.
From the messages/theme of family, characters, food descriptions, atmosphere, etc. honestly made reading this book so incredibly special and I’m hoping other Latinx readers felt the same way too!
My only minor critique was that because the 3rd person writing was very character and theme-driven, I did find I wanted more from the writing to build the setting and world of Medio.
Overall though, Mejia’s debut is a fantastic YA debut that delivers so many important messages and commentary done in a way I’ve never read before!
We Set The Dark On Fire weaves together fantasy and dystopia in a brilliant way! This YA debut brilliantly explores complex themes and contemporary topics, is filled with intrigue, politics, and is a tale of resistance! We Set The Dark On Fire is filled with a great cast of characters, fantastic writing, twists/turns, and a story that will leave you wondering where Dani’s journey is headed next!
Adriana is such a wonderful book blogger who continuously boosts upcoming Latinx books! In her review I love how she delves deep into the themes and how they are explored through the characters and setting. This was also one of her most anticipated reads too, so you can definitely see all the enthusiasm and excitement throughout her review!
Overall I love how she expands on the important topics explored in this novel and much more! If you need any more convincing to read this lovely debut, go check out Adriana’s review of We Set The Dark On Fire!
Summary: A strong-willed high school girl and a hot, young scion of a business empire can’t help trying to outwit each other every chance they get… But could these opposites be conning themselves out of the perfect match?!
After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But what happens when Hana meets Takane is an unexpected pairing of utter opposites!
The meeting between Takane and Hana ends in an explosive manner, and Hana is convinced that she’ll never have to see that awful Takane again. But Takane actually seems interested in Hana! Exasperated by Takane’s immature attitude, yet amused and intrigued despite herself, Hana embarks on a hilarious journey with Takane that just might lead to love!
My Thoughts: Takane & Hana is an incredibly comedic manga series that follows high school student Hana Nonomura, who stands in for her sister as part of an arranged marriage to business heir to the Takaba Group, Takane Saibara and the comedic banter/ rivalry that develops between the two!
I originally learned about Takane & Hana through Goodreads as I was scrolling the new released manga and this one caught my eye! From the summary, it seemed like there’d be enemies to lovers and a lot of funny/comedic moments and I was not wrong!
If I was to sum up this manga in one word it would be: Entertaining!
Being on the verge of a reading slump isn’t fun, but this manga series was one I’m incredibly glad I picked up because its light, filled with humor, incredibly entertaining & absolutely hilarious!
Though I never know what to expect going into a new manga series, I’ve been incredibly lucky to have found yet another series that’s impressed me from page 1 and that I’m happy to say is a new favorite series!
With every page I was laughing at Takane & Hana’s non-stop enemies streak/rivalry they had going on and just seeing how these 2 dynamic main characters continuously interacted with each other!
The story starts with us learning that Hana’s older sister Yukari was originally going to be involved in the arranged marriage to Takane, but she had other plans (aka another date). So, in order to save her father’s position at the company, Hana decided to take her place!
When they first meet, things do not go as planned and we learn Takane is a bit of a jerk–& Hana is not putting up with it!
Takane, through his very brash personality, tells Hana he’s interested in her! Though they can’t really stand each other, sparks are definitely there.
Both Takane & Hana are characters with such strong & conflicting, but also similar personalities and that’s what makes their chemistry together so good!
Takane and Hana Vol. 1 chronicles their meeting, hangouts together as their “relationship” continues, among various other plot threads–mainly involving Hana & the people in her life, like her father & sister Yukari (briefly) and her best friends/school life!
What makes this series so funny is Hana & Takane obviously are trying to out-wit one another, avoid each other as much as possible, and have the upper-hand when it comes to their banter, but something keeps them coming back to each other!
I love how them being in different economic classes made for a lot of the comedic moments in this story and how in general, its a relevant and present discussion to their relationship.
As the story progresses we begin to see Takane isn’t exactly the heartless person he appears to be. It was great seeing the little moments throughout their hangouts (*like the bowling date) when Hana would notice Takane’s strides to make more of an effort to be a nicer person and be willing to try new things!
Takane & Hana made me realize just how much I love the “can’t stand one another, but secretly love each other” Trope! Every scene they have together, even if their just thinking about each other just showed how much chemistry they had & I loved seeing their interactions so much.
We also see that even though they despise each other, Shiwasu just brings such a comedic and interesting dynamic to the both of them where I never know how they’ll react to each other next!
All the supporting characters are all really well developed and bring even more humor & heart to this story! From Hana’s friends Hikaruko & Mizuki, her sister Yukari, Takane’s grandfather, & one of Hana’s classmates who seems to be like a more important character in future volumes!
The art is so expressive and detailed! It reminded me a lot of Monthly Girls-Nozaki with the expressive faces and detail to the characters! I also love how detailed the backgrounds were.
Though it is a contemporary, I found the setting and atmosphere to be very present within this volume and seeing how it explored Japan through Takane & Hana’s different backgrounds.
Regardless though, this was a hilarious manga & I can’t wait to see whats next with Takane & Hana’s interesting dynamic!
Takane & Hana Vol. 1 is a brilliantly character-driven, entertaining manga that will keep you laughing! The wonderfully developed characters, dynamic between the 2 leads, and immersive plot are just some of the many elements that keeps you turning the page! This is a romantic-comedy manga series worth checking out!
Summary: Aurelia Isendare is a princess of a small kingdom in the North, raised in privilege but shielded from politics as her brother prepares to step up to the throne. Halfway around the world, Athan Dakar, the youngest son of a ruthless general, is a fighter pilot longing for a life away from the front lines. When Athan’s mother is shot and killed, his father is convinced it’s the work of his old rival, the Queen of Etania—Aurelia’s mother. Determined to avenge his wife’s murder, he devises a plot to overthrow the Queen, a plot which sends Athan undercover to Etania to gain intel from her children.
My Thoughts: Dark Of The West is a historical fantasy-esque tale, weaved together with WW-infused elements! This novel is filled with geopolitics, intrigue, and an incredibly complex cast of characters! Hathaway’s debut is a slow-building, but wholly immersive novel that will keep you thinking with each and every page!
You know those books that just have such a layered and complex world, that you can picture yourself hopping on a plane & heading to that fictional setting?
Dark Of The West was one of those books! The way Hathaway built the history, evolving politics, atmosphere, and beliefs of differing countries such as Etania, Savient, and the South, made the setting come to life on the page, all while allowing me to truly immerse myself in the complex world!
The 20th-Century style setting with planes, castles, electricity, emerging technology, we’re just some of the fascinating elements that also lent itself to this wholly unique setting.
Princess Aurelia and pilot/general’s son Athan are both eager to carve their own paths for themselves! But family feuds going back generations force them to try and uphold their parent’s values that they aren’t entirely sure they understand.
According to her bio & author interviews I’ve read, Hathaway adores history! Throughout Dark Of The West you can see where her inspiration builds and heightens the complex elements to her world.
Dark Of The West was a book I was waiting months for because the summary just hooked me and it sounded like my kind of book–star-crossed love, pilots, politics, etc.! I was bummed when this book was pushed from 2018 to 2019, but now that I’ve finally read this gem of a novel, I was left emotionally devastated and I’m not even sure how I can wait for book 2!
What I love about Dark Of The West so much was the characters–wow these characters! Athan, Aurelia, Cyar, Reni, Violet, even cunning and deceptive characters like the General, Arrin, & Havis–I found myself understanding all of the different layers to them and they truly came to life throughout this entire book!
Athan is eager to follow his own destiny away from the Academy, his ruthless father the General, and all the expectations he’s been born into! At the start of the novel, we see that he is continuously hiding his brilliance in order to trick his father and avoid getting tangled even further into the schemes and brewing war!
You can sense the tension and anxiety that Athan feels because he knows he’ll never be like his cold, older brothers Arrin & Kalt and doesn’t want to take part in his father’s plans to rule over more of their world. The cunning dynamic between Arrin & Athan was probably one of my favorite sibling dynamics throughout this book!
What Hathaway did so brilliantly is portraying these opposing mirrors to Athan and Aurelia as characters! They have a foil or mirror that in our minds–if led on some other path, could have easily become, but through Hathaway’s complex politics and layered sides to Athan + Aurelia, we see that there’s many different sides to the entire cast that we can only uncover through the each distinct POV as the novel develops.
First person lends itself to not only seeing all the characters from a different angle, but also the multi-layered world and politics that build throughout Dark Of The West! The writing is beautiful and poetic! Writing itself, in my opinion, is also an important element to world-building, especially through 1st person & Hathaway’s vivid and elegant writing style not only captured that heart, but also played a huge role in how I viewed the story!
Aurelia finds comfort in journeys through the forest, but also loves to paint! We learn that with the loss of her father, she continues to carry on the beauty of painting with her. I loved how this also contrasted with Athan’s love of sketching!
I loved Aurelia, she was such a brave and brilliant heroine who inspired me, while also reminded me of my own strength that often goes unseen & I adored that so much!
Aurelia and Athan find themselves crossing paths when the General hatches a plan to go to Etania & visit the queen, Aurelia’s mother, with a political meeting in mind alongside revenge against his long-time rival. However, in reality he knows politics are tough for the queen and wants to find a way to seize her throne, all while using his son Athan to keep him close and uncover more through the princess.
What surprised me was how Aurelia never really found out who he was, even when things get intense near the last 1/4 of the book! I’m scared for what’ll happen when she does find out who he really is & what it’ll mean for their dynamic going forward in future Glass Alliance books!
Family and friendship, alongside trust and loyalty were big themes present throughout Dark Of The West which I found were developed so incredibly well! There’s Athan & Cyar’s friendship–their dynamic was so beautiful to read about because there’s not that many books I can recall that have such a strong guy friendship or having it done in such an in-depth way like in this book!
We also can’t forget Violet & Aurelia’s friendship–which is cemented with the support they have for one another.
Family of course is also a very integral part to this story that you sense with every page! From Athan & Aurelia’s expectations, their older siblings, parents, and all the political scheming + underlying intrigue that goes on with them throughout the book hidden to both Athan & Aurelia!
There’s many secrets that are hidden between both families and I loved how Hathaway weaved them into the story and exploring why family and history play such huge roles in the main conflict of this novel! It was brilliantly cemented into the story.
Another underlying element to this book that I found fascinating was how it explored this internal war between the Dakar’s & Isendare’s without there having actually been a war throughout the book-through the scheming & politics sparked by the death of Athan’s mother.
The politics are multi-layered and full expanded on throughout the novel, that builds its way into many different pieces of the story.
I suppose my only minor critique which did not take away from my complete adoration for this book, is that the pacing is a bit slow at times. This is very much a politically-driven novel with intrigue and court politics, so its very much a story to be experienced that you really absorb through Aurelia & Cyar, which is why it is at 4.5!
Dark Of The West is haunting, but beautifully crafted novel that will leave you captivated! The fascinating characters, immersive setting, brilliantly explored politics, and layered storytelling make Hathaway’s novel a must read! This debut is a historical-inspired fantasy that has so much depth and heart, leaving you eager for the sequel right away!
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Hunt or don’t hunt? Since deer season opened a couple weeks ago, the wind has been really inconsistent every day that I have had a chance to hunt. Seems like every magazine article I read or television show I see is talking about which stand to hunt based on wind direction. Some say only hunt a certain stand during a certain wind, or don’t go into an area if the wind is wrong. I think there can be a lot of truth to this, but what about the hunter who doesn’t have the option of waiting on a certain wind? Some of us have to hunt when we have the opportunity whether bad wind direction, rain or uncomfortable temperatures.
When these conditions occur there are a few things I do that seem to be a little more successful no matter what the conditions. I am really obsessed when it comes to controlling my scent. I start before I ever leave the house with the clothes I plan on hunting in. I wash them and store them separately from any of my other clothes. I prefer to wash my hunting clothes with Code Blue’s laundry detergent with fresh earth scent. I don’t think it is any better than the unscented version, but it is the one I have always used and I have a lot of confidence in it. I store my hunting clothes in a really large Tupperware-type container with a sealable lid.
I also use like to use scent eliminator sprays. Whether I’m checking my cameras, filling a feeder or hunting, I always spray down before entering my hunting area. Field wipes have been a great asset for these hot September afternoons also. No matter how hard I try to take my time getting into the stand, I cannot help but work up a sweat. I use these wipes to wipe off my face head and neck. In addition to getting rid of the perspiration, it also feels really nice and helps cool me off.
I am not saying that I don’t pay any attention to the wind and if you take these precautions you will never get winded by a deer again. If the wind isn’t right for the stand, you want to hunt try to find a stand site that is a little more favorable for that wind direction. When you have the opportunity to get in the wood go for it, whether the wind is in your favor or not you have a better chance of being successful in the woods than you do sitting at home on the couch.
I learned a great trick from an old timer about 15 years ago. I take all my gear and vacuum seal it in with a pine branch. I hunt mostly pine/hardwooods and this covers smells amazingly so.
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History tells us that it is too much to expect every government to finish up its term with a profound public policy that improves social and economic circumstances of its citizens.
This 19th Day of Independence on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 will be a wet one judging from the current weather conditions and the forecasts for the next few days. And it is said to be a good omen as the rain will wash away all the dirt and bad things on the land.
Koror State voters, once again, are going to the ballot box on November 12 to elect their governor and members of the 17-seat legislature.
Kelulau refers to important secret or sensitive political matters.
The legend of kelulau er Belau is an unusual one. It tells how the Kelulau of Palau was obtained from the snake of Angaur (Bersoech er Ngeaur). This legend is an illustration of how the kelulau came to be; it is not an explanation of its actual nature and function. The legendary derivation of the kelulau of Palau from a snake is because a snake is long and has but one head and one tail. By comparison, the kelulau of Palau is well maintained and systemized from its head down to its tail in each beluu of Palau. Kelulau arranged and established the kebekuul and teleuechel titles, made them sacred, and empowered then as well. Kelulau installed them as klobaks of the various beluu of Palau and entrusted with aspects of kelulau to enable them to preserve Palau.
Anyone, who was ever alive in previous years, knows that budget battles have long taken center stage in our daily conversations. It assumed the form of our national pastime. The talk of baseball, fishing, and other popular Palauan happenings became boring subjects.
Are the state governments still relevant? This question comes to mind when one is reviewing the number of earmarks contained in the House version of the FY 2014 budget request.
Toward of the end of this August, the Mechesil Belau will be holding their 20th anniversary. This is by far, the longest running continuous conference held in Palau.
The reason that criminal offenders are incarcerated is to remove them from doing more harm to the people and the community. But in recent weeks, the confidence of the public of living in a safe and secured neighborhood is waning thin.
A “Public Forum on Communities Against Crime and Violence” is being held today at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center.
The purpose of this symposium will be to hear from the elected and appointed leaders of our community and to identify real solutions to the alarming incidences of crime within our communities.
Nine films were nominated for the top prize as the “Best Picture” of the year at the 85th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Oscar Award for the Best Picture was awarded to “Argo” last February 24, 2013, a 2012 historical drama adapted from U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operative in rescuing several U.S diplomats in Iran in the 1979 hostage crisis.
I have been writing about Palau’s annual national budget for many years in various news articles, editorials, or blog posts. In fact, I started reviewing and writing about the budget toward the second-half of the second term of the Remengesau administration.
There is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate that seeks to exempt traditional leaders from the Code of Ethics requirements.
The debates on the anniversary of the Constitution as to whether it is 33 years or 34 year we celebrated on July 9, 2013 has become a topic in many gatherings. It should be 34 years as the Constitution was duly ratified on July 9, 1979 under the observation of the United Nation. Thus, it is legally sanctioned by the United Nations an official referendum. Ambassador Rosenblatt strenuously objected to the Constitution of Palau as he had his own version of Palau Constitution. In collaboration with Speaker Sadang Silmai and several members of the Sixth Palau Legislature to invalidate Palau Constitution and to prevent the people of Palau from voting on it, Bill No. 1140 was introduced to repeal PL 6-5S-1 that established Palau Constitutional Convention; Palau Constitution and July 9, 1979 referendum.
Thirty four years ago thirty seven men and one woman convened at the Old Olbiil Era Kelulau Building at Medalaii, Koror on January 28 to April 2, 1979 to draft the Constitution of Palau. It was ratified by 92% voters of Palau on July 9, 1979.
Lawmakers recently participated in a national tobacco tax workshop where convincing evidence was presented to show that raising tobacco taxes is a proven way to both save lives and raise revenues. However, the taxes must be raised to an effective level to have this effect. To do anything less is not only discriminating against the poor and the youth, it also feeds directly into the hands of the tobacco industry that has everything to gain from our people’s continued addiction to this deadly drug.
“It’s conceptually shocking, but economically stimulating,” said Del. Lee after the conclusion of the 2-and-half day tobacco taxation workshop that ended yesterday.
There are 28 total of regional and international organization that Palau participates in.
RPPL No. 9-1: To amend 30 PNC §125 to increase the minimum wage in the Republic of Palau, to modify the exemption to the minimum wage law, and for other related purposes.
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This entry was posted in Environment, Health, poetry, Writing and tagged cyclone, Cyclone Yasi, resilience, Tully by owen59. Bookmark the permalink.
Thanks Owen for this review of After Yasi.
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Breaching Deaths: Plausible Denial, Reckless Indifference or just plain old fashioned incompetence?
The Australian Crime Commission won’t investigate alleged political corruption.
Compliance is a two way street: Part 1 of 5 parts.
Compliance is a two way street:- Part 4 of 5 parts.
Compliance is a two way street:- part 5 of 5 parts.
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C.A.R.E. for Dodge County, Inc.
Brenda has several family members who struggle with Substance Use Disorder and has learned firsthand that families need to recover together. She is also the coordinator for the Dodge County WI CAN support meetings.
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A few years ago, I wrote an article on homemade PCB which is useful to quickly prototype a PCB and produce them at low cost. However, things can get a bit more challenging once you need to produce a bigger dimension PCB or in high quantity or even making it double sided. It is not a mission impossible, but it requires extra effort. Recently, I wanted to play with a RGB LED matrix, which requires some kind of driver to light it up. To prototype it, I can do them on breadboard, but that will be troublesome with all the jumpers going around. So, I decided that this is also a good opportunity for me to try something different, which is to design and manufacture a PCB for the RGB LED Matrix driver.
With some research for PCB manufacturer online, JLCPCB has caught my attention. Simply search “JLCPCB” on Youtube, you can find a lot of reviews from various channels. But the most catchy point of JLCPCB is that you can actually make you own PCB for $2 dollars. In this article, I will share some of my experience on getting a manufactured PCB, hopefully it will benefit and encourage you to try manufacture your first PCB.
To manufacture your PCB, first you need to design your own PCB layout. In this case, I am using the KiCad to design. This is also my first time using the KiCad tools as oppose to the Eagle. But I will not go into details regarding the design tools. Anyway, the layout looks as the figure below.
While you are excited to design your layout, do not forget to check the capabilities of your PCB manufacturer. Each manufacturer has different capabilities that they can achieve. Some of the things that you want to look for such as the minimum trace width, spacing, dimension, layer, drill hole size and etc. Checking this before your design and use them in your design rules to make sure you do not violate any of them. If you noticed that violate any of these rules at the late stage of design, it might requires you to redesign your layout, which can be time consuming and troublesome.
Once the layout is complete, you need to send the design files to the PCB manufacturer. There are various design tools available, each might have different output files. Instead of having the PCB manufacturer to have all the tools to open the files, Gerber file is used. A quick search on Wiki, a Gerber is the standard used to describe the printed circuit boards such as the copper layers, solder mask, and etc.
Since this was my first time, I wasn’t too sure about generating the required gerber files for manufacturing. Luckily, there is a guide provided by JLCPCB at the end of the home page. On the most left side image below, there are several guides, which are useful for reference. Since I am using the KiCad, I would refer to the “KiCad PCB to gerber files“. If you are using other tools (eg. Eagle, Altium) guide is also available. From there, steps-by-steps guide is provided to show you how to generate the necessary Gerber and Drill files.
Silkscreen layer: Contains all the silkscreen printings which could be the ref des of components and etc.
Solder mask layer: Describe which area should be covered by solder mask (usually green) and mask away the pads which required for soldering.
Edge cut: Describe the edge of the PCB (eg. what shape and how big it is).
Once the design file is ready, head over to the JLCPCB website, and go for a fast quote. In this page, there are various options that you can choose with, such as the PCB quantity, dimension, PCB solder mask colour and etc. For your info, even without a design files, you can still play around with the options and get an instant quote to estimate how much does your board costs. This is also useful if you are trying to compare among various vendors.
The board dimension must not exceed 100mm x 100mm. Anything less than that is eligible for the offer.
Board order quantity at maximum 10 pieces. The $2 dollar is valid for 5 and 10 pieces, but anything above will cost a lot more extra charge.
Use the default options such as the PCB colour, surface finish and etc.
Although there are some constraints, but for simple DIY project, I think this is sufficient and the best offer you can get to prototype your PCB. To make your order, upload the .zip files you created. Once the file is uploaded, the dimension will be automatically updated to reflect your actual design. When you are satisfied, save to cart and make the payment, it is that easy. It seems that for first time purchase, JLCPCB is generous enough to provide a free DHL shipping which shortens the time to receive the PCB. I am suspecting the first time free, as when I tried for the second time, they are no longer free.
[Update 02-Jan] It is confirmed that free shipping for your first order with JLCPCB. However, it will not available these few days due to maintenance. Mostly will be available on next few days.
After the payment is made, it took a few days for them to process and manufacture the PCB. I made my order during the weekend, and checked the status everyday after that. They do not work during the weekend, but once the working week starts, the processing speed was fast. By the end of Wednesday when I checked, the board has completed and shipped. Since the shipping uses DHL delivery, I received my PCB on the next day. From the ordering until receiving the PCB, it took less than a week, I am impressed.
The package came with a box with the label JLCPCB. Opening the box, there is another yellow envelope that contains a wall of bubble wrap.
And finally, the PCB are well protected in the envelope with extra layer of vacuum sealed bubble wrap. There are three layers of protection to the PCB, to make sure boards are received in good condition.
And here is what it looks like from behind.
I ordered ten PCBs, and from visual inspection they looks good to me.
A closer look at the bottom side of PCB. There is no issue with all the traces and pads. The silkscreen also looks clear. For the signal trace, I am using trace width of 0.25mm, whereas power and GND trace uses 1mm trace width. So far they look good, but will test them out once everything is soldered in.
A few more photos to share.
Noticed that on the top of white rectangle (included by intentional), there is a small line of numbering added by JLCPCB. It is probably used for referencing in the production.
In the meantime, I am still waiting for my components to arrive before I can complete the PCB and test it. Once they are done, I will cover more about the function of this board in the coming article.
Happy new year to you and have a great year ahead!
Thanks, John 🙂 Good luck in making one, can’t wait to hear from you.
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I did something new again this weekend, when I braved the torrential Melbourne rain and reported in to Prahran Market for my first ever market tour.
Matt and I used to shop at markets all the time, especially Prahran Market and South Melbourne Market and we loved it. There was nothing quite like the freshness, the discovery and the Saturday afternoon bargains. But I have to admit, since moving suburbs and having children,we’ve become a little out of practice when it comes to finding our way around the produce hall.
I’ve missed it, and I didn’t realise quite how much until Giovanna showed me what I’d been missing.
Led expertly by our tour guide Giovanna, a small band of eager market-goers and myself undertook to get to know Victoria’s oldest market just a little bit better. We were promised information, yummy tastings and an hour and half of enjoyment. We set off.
The Hidden Gems Tour included a wonderful mixture of the old and the new, of history and practical tips for shopping the market; Donnally’s for pinatas, Market Lane for the coffee purist, Oliver and Co for gourmet olive oil and devine flavoured vinegars.
My favourites stops on the tour; MJ Mow Gourmet Potatoes…every variety of potato you can think of, and all the accessories – spices, garlics and fresh wasabi. We had a chat with Michael, who gave me some great ideas for my next dinner party. I’ll admit, as interested as I was in what Michael was saying, I couldn’t help but be distracted by his red-brown dirt-stained hands, they reminded me so much of growing up on Tasmanian farms. In fact, the whole potatoey stall made me quite nostalgic. Next favourite; Damian Pike Wild Mushroom Specialist…I know, an unlikely favourite perhaps, but I love mushrooms and as Giovanna says: “Anything Damian doesn’t know about mushrooms, isn’t worth knowing” I bought the most interesting bag of mixed mushrooms and was absolutely smitten by the baby cauliflowers that Damian showed off proudly.
Lastly, a real highlight of the tour for me, and the source of the delicious smoked trout that I’ve now got in my fridge for later in the week, is Put Victoria on Your Table. Jason shared his passion for all things Victorian, top-shelf produce from around the state. The stall itself is supported by the Victorian Government, and gives regional Victorian food producers a helping hand to bring their goods to the attention of a wider group of fans and businesses. So worth a look, it’s worth a trip to Prahran for it’s own sake.
A new market can some times seem a little bit daunting – typically they’re busy, sometimes noisy and the variety seems at times overwhelming. It takes a while to get to know your way around, and to really discover the goodies that are available at each stall. The Prahran Market’s Hidden Gems Tour is a great way to get to know the market, to talk to the stall owners and to track down those tricky-to-find items like Black Apple Butter, organic coffee or Ostrich Eggs.
I would highly recommend that you take a tour, maybe over the summer break, as both a fun afternoon out and as a way of making your future experience of the market more rewarding.
To find out more about Prahran Market Tours, visit their website. Here you’ll find details, times and vouchers.
I’m really excited to be able to offer one of you lucky ducks the chance to win two Hidden Gem vouchers (valued at $50).
…and tell us what would be the first thing you would buy on a trip to the market.
The winner of this month’s competition (selected at random) will receive two Hidden Gem vouchers.
Entries close Wednesday, 30 November 2011. The winner will have four days to claim their prize, or a redraw will be held.
This month’s give-away is made possible by Prahran Market. For full details about the market, stalls and tours, visit their website here.
I would buy lots of dips and sausage and cheese..all the yummy things to snack on!
It is such a pleasurable place to be, even on a Saturday! Yum! Yum! Yum!! I also love that the market gives away so much food so those less fortunate can benefit rather than throwing it away!!
They talked about that too on the tour, it’s a fantastic initiative – all food suppliers should do it I think!
I ♥ The Prahran Market. Went earlier this year when they had the petting zoo for the kidlets. It reminds me so much of Europe. I love all the tastes and smells and hearing all different languages.
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A crystallized, stable histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct intermolecular-bonded at 1:1 ratio is provided.
The present invention relates to a novel and stable hydrogen peroxide adduct and a process for preparing same. Particularly, the present invention is concerned with a crystallized, stable histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct and a process for preparing same.
One method for crystallizing hydrogen peroxide which is liquid is to make hydrogen peroxide into an adduct. Adducts of hydrogen peroxide are broadly classified into the following two according to liquid properties of aqueous solutions thereof. The two are those whose aqueous solutions exhibit alkalinity such as sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate and those whose aqueous solutions exhibit acidity such as urea peroxide.
Sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate are used widely as oxygen type bleaches, pipe detergents, etc.
Urea peroxide is used as a decoloring agent for the treatment of hair before hair dyeing or as an oxidizing agent for dyes.
They are each prepared by contacting an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate, sodium metaborate, or urea, with hydrogen peroxide to crystallize sodium percarbonate, sodium perborate or urea peroxide.
However, these conventional hydrogen peroxide adducts involve the following problems.
(1) Since aqueous solution of sodium parcarbonate and sodium perborate are alkaline, hydrogen peroxide is apt to decompose and so they are unstable.
(2) Aqueous solutions of sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate erode proteinaceous materials such as silk and wool because of their strong alkalinity, so they are not only unsuitable for the bleaching of those materials but also involve the danger of injuring the human body.
(3) As to urea peroxide, an aqueous solution thereof exhibits acidity.
(4) It is difficult to preserve sodium percarbonate, sodium perborate and urea peroxide over a long period under high temperature and high humidity conditions because they are easily decomposed by the moisture contained in air.
(5) Since urea peroxide is easily decomposed rapidly by shock or heat, it is necessary to handle it carefully.
It is the object of the present invention to provide a novel hydrogen peroxide adduct free of the above-mentioned problems.
Having made extensive studies for overcoming the above-mentioned problems, the present inventor found a 1:1 inter-molecular-bounded adduct of histidine and hydrogen peroxide affords stable crystals and is superior in the preservation stability of the crystals and that an aqueous solution thereof is substantially neutral, superior in stability, etc. and useful as various agents in which hydrogen peroxide and peroxides are generally utilized such as a bleaching agent for fibers and pulps, an oxidizing or reducing agent in the organic or inorganic chemical industry, and a sterilizer for foods, packages, etc. In this way the present inventor accomplished the present invention.
The histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct of the present invention is prepared by contacting histidine with hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous medium.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a molecular structure based on X-ray analysis of the histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct of the present invention.
Preperably, the adduct of the present invention is prepared by mixing water and histidine to form a slurry, adding hydrogen peroxide to the slurry in an amount of usually 1 to 1.5 equivalents, followed by stirring. Room temperature or thereabout is sufficient as the reaction temperature.
As a result of X-ray analysis the crystalline histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct thus prepared proved to have such a chemical structure through hydrogen bonds as shown by the general formula (I).
The crystalline histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct provided according to the present invention is stable even when allowed to stand for half a year in air, high in thermal stability, and is also highly stable under high temperature and high humidity conditions, and an aqueous solution thereof is substantially neutral, capable of overcoming all of the problems encountered in the prior art.
Application of the histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct thus prepared to various uses of solid hydrogen peroxide can be expected, such as, for example, a household bleach, an oxygen source for medical use, and a sterilizer. Also as to decomposition products thereof, there are produced only histidine and water, so it is not necessary to consider secondary pollutions.
The present invention will be described below in terms of a working examples thereof, but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto.
21 g of histidine and 189 g of water were placed in a 300 ml conical beaker. To the resultant slurry was added 11.5 g of 60% aqueous hydrogen peroxide little by little under stirring. After 20 minutes of stirring, the slurry was filtered off and the resultant crystals were washed with cold methanol, then dried to afford 2.08 g (82%) of a histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct. The decomposition temperature of the adduct was found to be 146.8° C.
This product was subjected to X-ray analysis for structural analysis. The results are as shown in FIG. 1, which is an explanatory view of a molecular structure of the compound produced.
2. A process for preparing the histidine-hydrogen peroxide adduct of claim 1, comprising contacting histidine with hydrogen peroxide by gradually adding an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution to an aqueous solution of histidine at a temperature and for a period of time effective for the formation of said adduct.
3. The process of claim 2 wherein the ratio of hydrogen peroxide to histidine is 1.0 to 1.5 equivalents to 1.0 equivalent.
4. The process of claim 2 further comprising passing the mixture of solutions through a filter to recover the adduct.
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Is it science fiction? Well, it’s prophetic. It describes itself, paradoxically, as a vision of “a future that had already taken place, and was now exhausted.” Shouldn’t that mean that its particular dystopic vision is now passé?
Not quite. This is a novel that juxtaposes the shallow surface of modern life with its lower depths, inviting all kinds of obvious Freudian and Marxist interpretations. The abyss, however, abides, which is why we continue to see so much of ourselves in the residents of the high-rise. Their need for comfort and security, for example, and their selfishness and narcissism are drives no less important than their unleashed libidos. Wilder’s camera would be a cellphone now, but otherwise it seems very familiar.
As a vision of the end of the world High-Rise is as resonant now as ever. This may well be the way the world ends: locked inside our dirty apartments, drowning in our own filth, and each of us (even, or especially, those of us with families) entirely alone. If not happy, at least content.
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You are part of a search and rescue for lost Catholics.
We are less than 2 days away from prophetic history : the completion of the 2300 day cleansing period of Daniel 8:14. When Jesus said to me, “Give in now, John, until it comes time to fulfill all justice”, He referenced that point in time between “this age” and “the age to come”, that point in time between December 29th and 30th, 2018 A.D. There is no changing this by human means.
Knowing for certainty of the exact dates of both the 1,335th day of Daniel 12:12, and the 2,300th day of Daniel 8:14, provides the basis for the most crucial examination of events this week.
This is not just another Christmas Season, then again, it never is.
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https://edwardpalamar.wordpress.com/
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No one can argue that having a top-notch IDE, like Visual Studio, which allows for code management, formatting, context-aware tools (e.g., Intellisense) and debugging is a significant productivity improvement for developing great code. So when I started developing for embedded platforms, like the BeagleBone Black (BBB), and especially using node.js as the application core, I often wished I had the development tool set that is available for desktop and server programmers.
Obviously, we’ll need to download and install the NTVS tool set. You’ll like want to first make sure that you have Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 installed, but once you do, then install NTVS 1.1.
To debug a remote Node application, we need to add RemoteDebug.js to our project. This file is a part of the NTVS tool set and acts as the remote debugging proxy interface to Visual Studio. While this file is mentioned in the Advanced Debugging section of the NTVS documentation, it wasn’t obvious where to find it. The easiest way to find it is from Visual Studio’s menu system – use Tools / Node.js Tools / Remote Debugging Proxy / Open Containing Folder.
While I’ve shown this for a BeagleBone Black, it’s absolutely conceivable that the very same process could be used for debugging remote Windows IoT embedded targets – I may explore this idea in a subsequent post.
Additionally, there are some manual steps I took to transfer files to our target using WinSCP or a common git repo, but I am investigating how we might publish edits and launch debugging directly from Visual Studio, saving us from dropping out of the IDE.
This entry was posted in Embedded Node Development and tagged BBB, BeagleBone Black, Embedded, Node.js, Remote debugging, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2015 on December 4, 2015 by bitstobrowser.
What is the Azure IoT Suite?
The Azure IoT Suite includes a host of services, which combined allow for the large-scale collection of data from IoT devices (Microsoft marketing speak: “Cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from website, apps and devices”). Other services allow for the (a) analysis of the incoming data, (b) out-going control messaging to the devices and (c) presentation of the data in real-time.
Perhaps more important for developers is understanding how the data flows from devices through the gateway to the presentation layer. In our example, we’ll be using an IP-capable device which will send messages directly to the Azure IoT Hub (“Cloud Gateway”) and we’ll view the information in the presentation layer.
An Azure IoT SDK toolset which will allow us to quickly integrate the device’s connection to Azure. While there is support for multiple languages and platforms, we’ll use the node.js tool set.
Azure offers a set of predefined presentation views which are based on the type of usage they intend to provide. The presentation view is an auto-generated website in the azurewebsites.net domain based on the selected name of the IoT Hub.
The first step that you have to go through is to create an Azure account. I started the process at the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite page’s ‘Try Now’ button. There is a 30-day free trial option, but you still need to give a credit card. The overall procedure is pretty quick and takes about 5 minutes from the time you start to the time you are connected to your Azure portal manager.
This next step of the two step procedure creates a presentation website based on the type of business model that best represents your enterprise. At the time of this blog entry, the only option was ‘Remote Monitoring’ though ‘Predictive Maintenance’ is planned for the future.
Once the Azure account is set up, I recommend using the newer management portal, called Azure Preview Portal, to view and manage the Azure iOT services. I favorited the ‘IoT Hub’ to allow me to easily access the various services available as part of the Azure IoT Suite.
With our IoT suite set up, we are ready to code. While I plan to use an embedded Linux device which will be running a node, I decided to use Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition as my IDE in this project. By default, node.js project templates aren’t included in VS2015, so you need to install them.
I’ll be connecting my device based on the sample code provided in the remote-monitoring.js file. Looking in this source, we’ll see that we need some key pieces of information from our Azure IoT Suite, specifically information on the deviceID, deviceKey, hubName and hubSuffix.
To get this information, we’ll need to create a device using the presentation view – at the bottom of the page, select the Add Device icon and follow the wizard to generate the necessary device identification parameters.
After I updated the remote-monitoring.js file, I used WinSCP to move it to my target device.
We’ll then SSH into our target, use npm to install the ‘azure-iot-device’ dependency and then start the node application. Within 5 seconds you should see telemetry data coming in from our device. The sample code auto-generates temperature values and we can see them being updated every second.
So it took me a couple of hours from the time I started to seeing data being reported live on my Azure presentation layer. The fact that I can quickly add disparate IP devices to such a power back end is pretty remarkable. In a future post I’ll investigate more things that we can do now that we’re ingesting data.
This entry was posted in Windows IoT and tagged Azure, Azure IoT, Node.js on October 24, 2015 by bitstobrowser.
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Page Kennedy (born November 23, 1976) is an American actor, comedian and rapper. He is best known for portraying Radon Randell in the Spike sports comedy series, Blue Mountain State, and U-Turn in the Showtime series, Weeds. Kennedy has also starred in film, including roles in S.W.A.T. and The Meg. Page Kennedy was an active and popular Viner. On March 10, 2017 Kennedy released his first full length rap album titled "Torn Pages" Featuring Royce Da 5'9, Crooked I, Trick Trick and more.
Kennedy was born Felton Eugene Kennedy II in Detroit, Michigan but grew up in Los Angeles with his mother until he was six years of age. He then moved back to Detroit to reunite with his father, who died after ten years.
Kennedy attended Western Michigan University (WMU), before transferring to the University of Delaware (UD), and majored in theatre and acting. Kennedy's father was a doctor and encouraged his son to study medicine, but Kennedy gained a passion for acting after being introduced to the works of William Shakespeare at WMU. Kennedy subsequently chose to attend UD after performing with high distinction at Western Michigan.
Kennedy soon moved to Los Angeles and began to guest star on several shows including Six Feet Under, Blind Justice, Barbershop, Love, Inc., NYPD Blue, The Shield, Weeds and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In 2005, Kennedy won a recurring role on the popular ABC primetime soap, Desperate Housewives where he played Caleb Applewhite, a fugitive who was being held captive in his mother's (Alfre Woodard) basement. However shortly after in November 2005, Kennedy was fired from Desperate Housewives as the result of an internal investigation by the studio; Kennedy himself claimed that Touchstone Television, the producers of the show, wanted to take a new direction with the character and bought out his contract. He was replaced by NaShawn Kearse.
Kennedy played Radon Randell, a quarterback starting over the main character, Alex Moran, in the Spike television series Blue Mountain State. Because Alex Moran does not want to start, he must keep Radon happy during the whole second season (the only season Radon was in). Radon's season ends in the championship game of his lone season when he aggravates a previous shoulder injury. Kennedy reprised his role in the 2016 feature-length film follow-up to the series.
Kennedy had a guest appearance whereas he played a burglar in the new 2013 TV series Legit. He also made an appearance in an episode of Robot Chicken as Kirby and Cal Zapata. Kennedy played a gay inmate and gang leader in My Name is Earl and a married inmate and ex-con in Raising the Bar.In 2016 he starred in the YouTube Red original show Rhett and Link's Buddy System.
Kennedy played Gerald, the cousin of main character James Carter, on the CBS show Rush Hour. He appeared in all episodes of the show before its cancellation in 2016. In 2018 he had a prominent role in the blockbuster film The Meg, alongside Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, and Rainn Wilson.
Kennedy resides in Los Angeles, California where he lives with his girlfriend Christina Penland. He has a three sons, a daughter, and one grandchild.
Kennedy is well known for both his YouTube and Vine channels, where he posts short comedy videos. He coined the term "That's So Drake", referring to moments where male entertainers act flamboyantly without intending to. He discusses these moments on his YouTube Channel.
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^ Joana Casas (1990–2012). "Biography for Page Kennedy". imdb.com. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ Martinez, Luis (8 November 2005). "'Desperate Housewives' actor Page Kennedy fired". USA Today. Gannett Co. Inc. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
^ McGee, Tiffany; Chorney, Saryn (17 November 2005). "Fired Housewives Actor: I Did No Wrong". People.com. Meredith Corporation. Archived from the original on 20 February 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
^ Chitwood, Adam (October 13, 2016). "Meg: Filming Begins on Giant Shark Movie with Jason Statham". Collider. Complex Media. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
^ ""@RayWJ he looks like my son. @_Timothykennedy". Twitter. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Kennedy
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