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Recently, I started reading Daring Greatly by the shame and vulnerability researcher, Brené Brown. In her book, Brown explores what it means to be vulnerable, its significance in our lives as human beings seeking connection with others, and how to overcome the shame we often feel around vulnerability.
Her insight is particularly interesting in the context of writing where our work, by nature, is a catalogue of our vulnerabilities. From the historical novelist to the comedic blogger, writing explores the vulnerability of human nature and turns it into something relatable to read.
As Brown says in her quote above, to be vulnerable is to feel. When we open ourselves up to emotion, we accept that we cannot control what happens next while choosing to honor what we feel in each moment. Often it’s an emotion that prompts the writing of a poem, a short story, or an exploration of a specific memory as a child. As we share those emotions, whether we’re writing in the first person or through a character, we expose our innermost thoughts.
To write honestly and sincerely, and to then hand our work over to the faceless crowd of the internet, can be scary. It can also be extremely rewarding, as Michelle reminded us in her “Roundtable: The Scariest Post I Ever Published”.
If there’s a post you’ve been sitting on, but are afraid to share, consider revisiting the why: why that post is important to you, and why you’re scared.
If you read a post that took considerable courage to share, or simply spoke to you on a deep, human level, reach out to the author and let them know.
When we congratulate openness in others’ writing, we create a community in which we can all share our truest stories with one another.
If you’re interested in more of Brown’s work, check out her TED Talk below.
It’s hard to write without abandon. One must throw themselves in completely or not do it all. To care what people think about you opens up a box of criticisms that’s hard to shut. My creativity is constantly stifled by this so my writing becomes watered down. Thanks for the great post!
I have watched Brene Brown’s TED talk several times in the past. I think she’s a great speaker and I found her talk inspiring. I also found your post inspiring too. You’re right. Writing makes us vulnerable but I believe that’s what makes it worth doing. Yes it’s scary but it’s exhilarating too. Thanks for this excellent and wise post.
Why do we love songs and stories that make us cry? Probably because it made the writer cry too. Great post.
Great Post! Really speaks to what being a Blogger: Pro or Otherwise – is about.
This post really spoke to me. i recently wrote about being diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which comes with a whole host of unappealing symptoms and can dramatically affect fertility. I’d started writing about it a long time ago – long before this blog! – but wasn’t able to finish anything I started. I think it’s because it’s something that I rarely let myself think about, let alone share/discuss with others?
One night a few weeks ago I decided to just sit down and pour everything out; it was a kind of stream of consciousness at the begininng. Once I crafted it into a post and pressed ‘Publish’, I just felt like a weight had been lifted! Even though I didn’t know if anyone would ever actually read it, it made me feel better that I had just made myself think about the subject and articulate my feelings. Writing should push you, breaking through fear often produces the most beautiful work.
As a performer, I have fully embraced vulnerability. I think I actually take it for granted.
not everyone can perform. Or else more people would be doing it. This goes back to exposing our own vulnerabilities in a bigger way than the average person walking down the street. Talk to people, and ask them about public speaking. How many people shy from that and why? Because they do not like that feeling of being vulnerable. I think back to college and on the days that people would have to present their final projects, and how upset people would get. And those people would far outnumber the people who were able to face it without crumbling into a quivering mass of flesh in the corner.
You should do an informal interview of 100 people and seriously ask them about public speaking, or creating a dance, or write a poem to read in front of 100 strangers.
Performing is not easy, and as stated above, not everyone can.
This is great! I’m experiencing this new sense of vulnerability right now as I just publicized my first personal blog regarding my experience with shame. I’m still scared but hoping it gets easier. Thanks!
I’ve been struggling to decide what being vulnerable means to me. I show a lot more of myself to the world through my blog; that’s probably why I haven’t openly shared my blog with friends or family — I’m scared that they won’t like it, and thus, won’t like me. But I believe it’s now time to revisit the idea of coming out to my friends about my internet life.
It was with this sentiment that I began my blog. With the hope that through sharing my experiences, however uncomfortable, some light may be shed on why we are who we are, and why we become who we become. Excellent Post.
So true – fabulous post!
Great blog about vulnerability! I just wrote a comment to a blog about being vulnerable to a narcassitic person. The writer is phenomenal.
This was a great prompt. I agree that, to some extent, writers must tap into their vulnerability in order to write honestly and sincerely. My own blogging experience has shown me that I am most proud of the pieces that hurt the most to write, regardless of the popularity of any given piece with my audience.
I recently wrote about a person from my past that I hadn’t thought of in years, my mother’s ex-boyfriend, and tapped into that vulnerability. It was incredibly therapeutic to discuss how his behavior affected our entire family. It was such a deep seated pain that I never really talk about it.
I lived with someone who led a secret double life for nearly a decade and almost no one but me knew about it. Being able to finally articulate that story has meant everything to me and I think that the piece itself really benefited from the depth of emotion that I had to tap into in order to write it.
A wonderful post on vulnerability. I, just wrote a blog quite opposite to this. Funny what you find when you look. Again, great post. Very rewarding. Check me out sometime. Thanks.
Yes, one of the best Books I have read, excluding Brene’s other books, and one of the best Ted Talks…Talk. Thank you Erica for sharing.
Thanks so much for sharing. “They believe what made them vunerable, made them beautiful.” (TED Talk) How true. I found this to be the case when I vlogged my journey through non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It was raw and real and beautiful being that open with people. But it was terrrifying too. Still I had the “courage” to tell the story of who I am with my whole whole heart. I will try to remember these lessons when I write.
This is very inspiring, i must confess that i am yet to read her boook. Truely it takes a lot of Courage to create something for the publics. This is what i have been struggling with for years . I have quiet a number of Poems ,i am at the Moment writing my girlfriends biography art-unleashed , this is encouraging for me, Thanks .
I recently attended some transnational training, which set me on my path to be a transnational life coach, one of my BIGGEST breakthroughs was the first time I was able to be vulnerable in front of a group of people. For me, the previous worldview was that vulnerability was a weakness. Until that is, I recognized the real power vulnerability first hand. When a single person can capture the attention of everyone in the room in such a way that they are moved and inspired by that persons courage to let them see that deeper, authentic self, that is POWER! This post is spot on!
Vulnerabiity is telling y9ur innermost thoughts in writing. It’s putting yourself out there.
This is brilliant! Thank you very much for sharing this fascinating thought on something I struggle with greatly.
I always believe showing vulnerability allows others to get much closer to you. It can be scary, but it also shows we’re human. Thank you for your post!
Thank you so much for this great post! I agree wholeheartedly about your post here. Thanks for being kind enough to introduce Brene Brown to me here. All the best to you Erica!
It’s such a great world we have…full of kind people. I’m keeping this in mind. Have a great weekend!
Awesome read.It is indeed essential especially to us newbies.The start is always the hardest part and so is being true to yourself.
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Oh Lord-another of those days-diary + blanket squares and good intentions. Invited Mary + Paul to dinner- Sent in some sweepstakes coupons for “Awake” and Kodak-Surely somewhere there’s some money for someone. Went shopping at Carl’s for the makings of boeuf Bourginon- Took some 4 hours to make. Peter worked on a taped sketch of a dentist today. Very funny. I had a few suggestions which went down very badly. We are at an even worse stage of communication now-or were by the time today ended-Mary called. She’s sick with the 48 hour G.I. – trots etc. Ugh. Poor thing. We had martinis before dinner-big mistake I guess. The dinner itself delicious but hardly worth the trouble-wine-then beer + another but more ghastly one of our eternal fights-this time Peter told me flatly that he doesn’t want children and I told him that after the Golden Wedding anniversary I”m going to leave him. Surely the grounds are the oldest + most obvious. The only thing that makes it all so awful is that I do love him and on the other hand-my very grounds-I’ll soon be too damn old to have children anyway. Don Schwartz called with a joint appt for us at Lee Lacy’s tomorrow at 11:05 for Roman Meal Bread. Left 3 wake up calls. Also tried to locate my old “Day in Court” film – called Jack Donaldson + Reve Barskin.
Oh dear-just couldn’t get out of bed today. Have a wretched cold that came on me out of the blue. Coughing, sneezing, runny nose etc. Took a contac, had some breakfast + went back to bed. Read a very good mystery by Martha Albrand and then started “The Magus”-kept dozing off-Slight fever-about 100°-Timmy called. Peter home around 5:30 or 6:00 – He let me sleep which was a mistake as between then + nine when I woke he drank 1/2 bottle of vodka + was fairly sloshed. I didn’t realize it at first. He went out + got us some Mexican food and then I went out like an idiot + got some beer-I hadn’t been drinking and felt like some nice alcoholic liquid. We took it upstairs + regaled poor Mary Parker. Inspite of a 2nd Contac pill I was very sneezy + decided to sleep in the apartment. Got quite a snotty special delivery note from Bill today about my reading musts-“Third Grade” – Malaparte, Celine, etc. Traver-Rambled a little but Peter got so livid that I began to see it in perspective.
Up around ten-Peter paid bills-Parker, Hayes, B.L. Orary + Lauria’s – we’re really low. I called friend of Lyle’s, Lucretia Cole + will see her on Tuesday. Don’t really know to what end but Lyle wants us to meet. I washed my hair + dressed up in a poodle-type blue dress with little blue bow in my hair + went off to VPI to read for part of a poodle. Funny call-some very nice actresses there. They ran 30 seconds of film on everyone. No telling what happened for a while but felt I was out-poodled by at least one girl. Fixed ham rolls + raw vegetables + carrots + salad + rolls + strawberries for dessert. Don arrived around 7:30-Mary Parker + Diane joined us. Pleasant evening. Good dinner + think Don was interested in Diane. Paul came in about 11:45 and I gave him some dinner and Don worked out a composite for him. I modeled my poodle outfit. Party broke up around 1:30-Paul stayed down a while + we watched Humbug + Burly play-Bed about 2:30-So tired. Humbug met one of Shana’s puppies today and was frightened silly-Mother called from Phoenix-I’d thought they left last week. Hil + Jim still there too. Nice chat although so unexpected I had nothing to say.
Up early-about 8:30 or 9-caught up on diary-did little potsy things. Called Doug’s office to get renewal on thyroid Rx. Took whole pile of books to the Vassar Book Fair to a Mrs. Kuhns in Freemont Place-wasn’t there so I left a note-Picked up Rx + some mailers and groceries for dinner. Called Lyle + found we’re going to the theatre [crossed out writing] next Thursday-not [crossed out writing] tonight. Lyle called later + read me a lovely letter from a friend of his named Lucretia Cole about my book. Told me to call her. Did but no answer so will try again tomorrow. Fixed a sort of stew type dinner. Long talk with Peter about my current state of mind which God knows + I know is rotten. Don’t know if it did any good for either of us. Mary + Paul came down for one drink with us. We drank beer til late. Percy + Jack had a hold up-$100.00 was taken. We sent our income tax today. And so it goes. Peter got a call from Steve Kay in N.Y. about possibility of more voice overs for [crossed out writing] Baer [Bayer] – Keeping fingers crossed.
Up around 10-Don Schwartz called-Is sending me up for the part of a poodle on a Winston commercial-Said he needed a Bulldog type and I suggested Bernie Fein. I called Bernie who was willing + free + thought it was a funny idea. He (Bernie) also chatted with Peter + said he’d send him a script of their next production-Enemy of the People. I called Don back to clear Bernie. I got a call back for Sunkist Orange at 4:30 this afternoon. Peter off to the club. I finished my letter to Chuck Neighbors + wrote one to Bill Welborne – got both off in the 2 o’clock mail. Letter from Colby saying I was to be responsible for the programs for Mother + Daddy’s Golden Wedding party. All a little confusing-will have to write or call her. Card from Sue Glick saying they’d seen Peter on the Andy Griffith’s show. Elizabeth called + I was so depressed I’m sure she wished she hadn’t called. Paul came down with a 3rd set of pictures-taken by Gary Young and we chose about 21 between us. Peter home at 3:45-I left at 4:00 with a Miltown under my belt. I seemed to be one of the only girls there on call back + they asked me my availability once again but I didn’t feel as good about it as yesterday. Came home via the Safeway + shopped for dinner. Had mentioned going out for dinner but it seemed suddenly very stupid. We should save it til we have something to celebrate-if ever. Hamburgers, salad, turnips + carrots. Went to the Civic playhouse-Marvin Kaplan off + his understudy on. The whole play didn’t strike me funny tonight – I know it too well + suddenly the chart business was alot too close to home. Had a beer with Martin Brooks after + came home.
Mildly hungover day. Read Lionel’s play “Far Away the Train Birds Cry”- Enjoyed it although I’m afraid it’s a little old fashioned now. But oh the pleasure in reading a drama with a happy ending. Read another mystery. Called Charlie Neighbors at his office + I liked the sound of him enormously. He’s very excited about Bill’s book and said he’d be glad to look at “The Lion is Busy.” Asked me to write him a list of places it had been sent etc. Said he’d try it out on his little girl who’s 6 1/2. If he reads it aloud to her that should be perfect. After hanging up I started to write him + then the whole appalling mess came flooding back + I took refuge in another mystery instead. We watched “Mr. Terrific” on TV. Loved John McGiven period. What an awful show. Mary Parker joined us + we all went to the Ester Robles gallery about 9:15 to the opening. All kinetic sculpture-gadgety but interesting. And very well attended. On the way home we came along Wilshire Blvd. Trying to spot Mary’s painting. And then by God it was-in a window off the Broadway at Ridgely + Wilshire. “The Hero in Downtown L.A.” It looked just great. Came home + had a cake with Mary + Paul + then went to bed-about midnight. I have a call for Sunkist Orange tomorrow at 2:20.
Dr. Ware called-had had good trip to Phoenix + nice visit with Mother + Daddy. Mary called-had come back last night which was a surprise to her as she’d thought she was coming back today. But she’d had a good time which is the only important thing. Asked her for dinner tomorrow night. Called Henry Jones to ask him too but he couldn’t make it. Albert Carrier called + we had a nice chat at the end of which is turned out he’d never gotten his book back “Door to the Future” – I went through my diary and found out it had been mailed on February 16th-Incredible + just awful as it was a gift copy with an inscription. Spoke with Don Schwartz + invited him to dinner next Friday. Got a special delivery letter from Bill Welborne that Humbug chewed the middle out of that middle contained address + phone number of Charles Neighbors-Bill’s new agent whom he thought might be interested in the Lion-Mary Parker helped piece the phone number back together so all is not lost. She + I made butterfly wings-Paul disapproving of trivia-Peter + I went to dinner at Timmy’s. Shepherd’s pie. Watched Lilies of the Field on TV. Carey came over. We came home about eleven thirty. Bought Ham at Ralph’s en route + beer. Mary Parker [crossed out writing] came down + I finished two butterflies. She’s stopped work at the moment. Paul came home + I joined them upstairs for a while. Peter who’d gone to bed came up about 3 + said he couldn’t sleep + was going out to the beach. I asked him if he wanted company + he said no. I came downstairs shortly after + worked on a third butterfly til 6am-thought to welcome Peter back but at that point was just too tired + went to bed.
Woke up [crossed out writing] in the apartment with no memory of going up there. Guess Peter must have been snoring or tossing or something. He left for the club fairly early. I called Gene Reynolds who I saw in Variety was directing a play. He’d just gotten married a month ago and was off to Europe in a while. Said he’d call when they got back. If he doesn’t I’ll try then-have them to dinner with the Middletons. Called Lionel-no answer. So called Jo who said Lionel had called Don. Lionel later called me + said he had an appt [crossed out writing] on Tuesday. Mary Parker + I worked on our large Easter eggs. Oh fiasco. Mine collapsed. But luckily Nicky’s is still there to play with. We made spackle and got everything pretty messy. Then we dyed the blown out eggs + started working on the butterfly wings. Jim Parker here most of the afternoon. Offered to help Peter polish the new car. Then they went out to look at a Rambler-possible source of a new motor-Paul fixed Mary dinner and Peter came back + got us some Mexican food. Delicious. Mary + Paul went to the movies + we watched a marvelous film “The Counterfeit Traitor” on TV. Then we went for a ride in the new car with Humbug. So luxurious. Stopped for an Orange Julius on the way home. Bed early-around one.
Reasonably busy day-Dean called at 10 with a 4:55 appt at Lee Lacey on Melrose Place-for Nabisco. Peter shopped for dinner and I made 6 stuffed rolled ham slices, prepared the carrots, and [crossed out writing] salad. Peter left the house around one with Mary + Paul who took him out to the Barkers to pick up the new car. They went on out to Venice then + Peter to the club. I lay in the sun a little + washed my hair. Sent in money for the Smith Register, Smith LA dues and $10 each to CARE and the Braille Institute. Something is better than nothing and that was as far as I could go. Got to Lee Lacy at 5:00 to discover the receptionist was none other than Jo Kranitz! Ended up inviting Peter + me to dinner on Sunday at 6 o’clock. Lionel is now working for a masters in Psychology with an eye to a doctorate and a practice-the acting side has been very slow. I saw him on the street + suggested he try Don Schwartz-told him I’d call Don on his behalf tonight-Raced home stopping for bourbon and biscuits at Von’s. Was home by 6:15. Called Don who said he’d see Lionel. Peter had set the table-Nicky Korda couldn’t come which was just as well as it later developed Vicky had left a boyfriend Bill Sakmar sitting in her apartment. Told her to call him + ask him over. Mary + Paul joined us-the ham slices a great success. Bill a nice boy. Vicky really does talk a blue streak-incredible how I ever got through Tchin-Tchin but I guess it was just so much frosting on an already delicious cake. Took the kids on the grand tour. Then opened the “Kookie Kombo” one-man orchestra + all managed to make the most horrendous dine. They left about 1 o’clock and we sat around for a little while singing hymns + then went to bed about 2:30.
Mary Parker’s “Hero in downtown L.A.” accepted-Whee!
Peter off early to the club-Spoke with Mary who presented James with his sabre this afternoon (Spoke with her before + after) + I gathered all went well. She left for Phoenix on the 7:50 tonight-Do hope she has a good time-I sewed a button on Peter’s pants, lay in the sun, and changed the sheets on our bed. The morning mail brought an acceptance for Mary of “Hero in Downtown L.A.” Her first so far. So happy for her. Later today Paul’s unemployment insurance went up to $52 from $25 so the upstairs is a happy place. I read “The Fourth of June” by David Benedictus-quite an extraordinary book I thought-terribly funny, horribly perceptive and in sports quite touching. I also slept a good deal. Brava! Peter fixed us an omelet for dinner-a superior one on all counts. We then went upstairs after for beer with Mary, Paul + Timmy. I was in a rather sour mood for unknown reasons and when Timmy had gone + Mary + Paul + Peter went out for a late snack + coffee. I repaired in such fashion to bed.
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Use white vinegar in bath water and washing machine [2 – to 9 cups] depending on the severity of the alkaline energy.
Use soaps that have a neutral pH [e.g. glycerin soap] or contain mild acid that help preserve the skin’s acid mantle [e.g. goat milk soap]. Note: Miracle II is a pH neutral soap that is available through mail-order distributors and some retail stores.
Acids and alkalines (also known as bases) neutralize each other forming salt and water. By emphasizing acids in your diet and on your skin, you will neutralize the extreme alkaline energy that is all around us [due to the presence of aliens]. I will explain more details about these concepts later in this article.
Why Does Alkalinity Cause Aging? The key to why alkalinity causes aging is in the definition of acids and bases that was developed by a scientist named Svante August Arrhenius (1859 – 1927): –An acid is a substance that increases the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+), which are carried as hydronium ions (H3O+) when dissolved in water, while bases are substance that increase the concentration of hydroxide ions (OH-). –Hydrogen ions are involved in growth (a daytime function). They’re also needed in the body to convert adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP has been called the “energy currency” of the cell. —The illustration Below shows a high concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) that are needed for growth and the production of energy used in the human body. See: “Selecting Foods That Provide Hydrogen Ions.” A substance with a high concentration of hydrogen ions would be extremely acid showing little or no hydroxide ions.–In contrast, the illustration at right shows a high concentration of hydroxide ions that are present in alkaline substances. Hydroxide ions will slow growth and thwart metabolic processes in the body because they gobble hydrogen ions to form salt and water [setting up a condition for accelerated aging].–A substance with a high concentration of hydroxide ions would be extremely alkaline showing little or no hydrogen ions.
[#1] Alkaline-forming foods are healthy [fruits and vegetables] and acid-forming foods are harmful.
The truth: Alkaline-forming foods [and energy] cause accelerated aging and promote the growth of parasites that cause disease [Note: If energy was more normal, fruits and vegetables would provide a balance].
[#2] Fat is bad and low- fat or no-fat is healthy [Note: It has become almost impossible to find whole milk products in food stores and children are being fed low-fat dairy in schools.
The truth: Half of every cell wall is made of saturated fat, the fat that we’re told not to eat. With decreased energy and not enough fat to make new cells, you can imagine the effect these two combined factors have on aging. Children need fat for brain development. In addition, fat is required to make hormones. Infertility rates are very high.
These ideas are so deeply embedded, they’re hard to dislodge. Aren’t all the sources of information providing the same information? That’s right — they are.
Selecting Foods That Provide Hydrogen Ions Selecting foods that provide hydrogen ions can be tricky because the key is to select foods leave minerals behind that the body can use to make acids.
If alkalinity reflects an abundance of hydroxide ions, this may lead to a buildup of excess water in the body. When a hydroxide ion encounters a hydrogen ion [a base meeting an acid], there is a neutralization reaction that forms salt and water. If you add the popular health advice to eat alkaline-forming foods [fruits and vegetables], and the fact that hydrogen ions [from acid-forming foods] are required for metabolism-driving energy, I believe that acid-base chemistry is the reason that many businesses are selling very large products.
Hydrochloric Acid Kills Parasite Eggs Disease-causing parasites are the most serious result of the alkalinity problem. The solution is to make the body inhospitable to parasites using food chemistry and herbs.—Chloride, the mineral that’s needed to make hydrochloric acid, provides an example of why we need to be careful when selecting the foods that we eat. You’ll notice that chloride is a mineral that is needed to make hydrochloric acid [that kills parasite eggs in the stomach]. This mineral is left behind by acid-forming foods [that we’re told not to eat]. –Parasites that cause disease lay eggs that are very small. If the eggs are present in food and if we have enough hydrochloric acid, the eggs will not mature and cause health problems.—Alkaline-forming foods create an environment in the body that is very healthy for parasites.—To neutralize alkaline energy, I drink apple cider vinegar in ice water, drink mostly black tea and I eat a lot of peanut butter. Peanut butter is also rich in nutrition [26 minerals, 14 vitamins and monounsaturated fat that’s used for energy and converted to saturated fat as needed].
Black Walnut [Green] Hull Tincture Kills adult parasites and developmental stages. This tincture contains organic iodine that is required by every cell in the body. The green hull around the nut of the black walnut has antiparasitic properties.
Wormwood (Artemesia absinthium) Wormwood works to anesthetize worms so they detach from body tissues. It is most effective against roundworms, hookworms, whipworms and pinworms.
Thyme Thyme kills hook-worms, roundworms, threadworms and skin parasites. Thyme also destroys Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus, Saprolegnia, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureas, and Escherichia coli.
Antiparasite Tea Recipe Hulda’s basic herbs are Cloves, Black Walnut Hull Tincture, and Wormwood. I make tea using the following recipe [frequently].
Use Distilled or Reverse Osmosis If you have a weak immune system, you may want to purchase Hulda’s book and learn how to sterilize food — with a freezer or sound waves. Chest freezers that can be set to -20 degrees kill parasites and microorganisms in 24 hours. — I use sound waves generated by a jewelry cleaner that Hulda renamed a “sonicator.” The Haier Jewelry Cleaner has a 25 oz. water tank (HDPE bottles of herbs are submerged to apply sound waves). Jewelry cleaners kill bugs in 20 minutes [$29.99 at Amazon.com].
A jewelry cleaner tank can accomodate two Nalgene, four-ounce, wide-mouth HDPE bottles containing loose herbs [available at camping stores such as REA or Eastern Mountain Sports].
A new study shows that low doses of Bt biopesticide CryA1b as well as the glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, kill human kidney cells. The Bt biopesticide conferring insect resistance and the glyphosate tolerance trait tied to the use of glyphosate herbicides account for almost all the GM crops grown worldwide. Bt crops already constitute 39 % of globally cultivated genetically modified (GM) crops, yet this is the first study that provides evidence on the toxicity of Bt protein in human cells. This work comes at a time when the French environment and agricultural ministers are seeking an EU-wide ban of Monsanto’s MON810 Bt corn variety that is already outlawed in Hungary, Austria, Germany, Greece, and Luxembourg[U1] . The EU commission approved this crop in 2009, concluding that it “is as safe as its conventional counterpart with respect to potential effects on human and animal health”. In response to their publication the research team raised questions about the safety assessment procedure stating that their findings were a “surprising outcome and this risk was somehow overlooked” in past assessments of such crops. . — The research team led by Gilles-Eric Séralini at the University of Caen, France, is already well-known for their investigations on the endocrine disrupting effects of glyphosate herbicides (see Glyphosate Kills Rat Testis Cells[U2] , SiS 54).The researchers tested the effects of Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac proteins as well as their combined effects with the herbicide Roundup on the human kidney cell line HEK293 . Humans are exposed to hundreds of chemicals in a day, and their combined effects need to be understood. This is particularly important when considering the new generation of ‘stacked’ genetically modified (GM) crops now on the market, which carry multiple resistance genes for Bt toxins and glyphosate tolerance together. [U3] ———Experiments were performed to assess both cell death and cell membrane integrity, as the pesticidal activity of Bt toxins results from creating pores in the membrane of cells in the insect gut. Cell death was measured using three parameters: 1) mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase enzyme activity as a general cell death marker, 2) activity of the membrane-bound enzyme adenylate kinase (AK) to assess membrane integrity as a marker of necrotic cell death and 3) caspase 3/7 activity, as a marker of apoptosis (programmed cell death). They found that Cry1Ab caused cell death at concentrations of 100 parts per million (ppm), according to mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase activity. The membrane-bound enzyme adenylate kinase (AK) goes up in activity when the membrane disintegrates and releases the enzyme into the culture medium. Cry1Ab at 100 ppm induced a 2-fold increase in AK activity. No effects were seen with Cry1Ac.
Antidiabetic potentials of Momordica charantia: multiple mechanisms behind the effects.
Green tea polyphenol antioxidant protects against bystander effects of low dose ionizing radiation that damage cells and cause numerous diseases including cancer. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho–The recent discovery of bystander effects from low levels of ionizing radiation has thrown risk assessment and radioprotection into disarray (Bystander Effects Multiply Dose and Harm from Ionizing Radiation, SiS 55). However, it has also led to the discovery of potential mitigating measures against exposure to radioactivity, especially from nuclear accidents like Chernobyl (and Fukushima), the devastation health impacts of which are still surfacing 25 years later (Chernobyl Deaths Top a Million Based on Real Evidence. SiS 55). ——Ionizing radiation has been known to produce free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS), predominantly by ionizing water, the most abundant molecules in tissues and cells (see for an explanation of ROS). ROS are responsible for oxidative damage to DNA, proteins, and lipids, initiating cell death, genomic instability and other consequences of radiation, both in cells that have been directly targeted, and in bystander cells that have not been irradiated . There is evidence that various antioxidants can protect cells against bystander radiation damages, and new findings published online in Mutation Research appear particularly promising. —-shu Tiku and Benila Richi at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Roasaheb Kale at Central University of Gujarat in India may have found the ideal antioxidant for radioprotectopm .
Non-toxic compound needed for radioprotection—–One main problem in radioprotection is to find compounds that are non-toxic or minimally so, and natural compounds fit the bill in being both non-toxic and easily available. Green tea is a rich source of polyphenols with strong antioxidant activities. Green tea extracts and its polyphenols have been shown to possess many health benfits attributed to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties (see [4, 5] Green Tea, The Elixir of Life? and Green Tea Against Cancers, SiS 33). Most of the health benefits of green tea have been credited to the major polyphenol EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) which constitutes 55 – 70 % of total polyphenols in green tea extract. Its antioxidant potential is believed to be far greater than vitamin E and vitamin C, the two main antioxidants among vitamins . The team exposed both pBR322 plasmid DNA as well as spleen cells from mice to g-radiation at different concentrations of EGCG. Preliminary experiments found that EGCG concentrations above 125 mM were toxic to the cells, so the highest concentration used was restricted to 100 mM. The effects of quercetin – another polyphenol found in fruits, vegetables, leaves and grains – and vitamin C were also investigated. The plasmid DNA and cells were incubated for 2 hours with EGCG at different concentrations or quercetin and vitamin C, both at 100 mM, before being irradiated. Afterwards, the plasmid and cells were assessed for DNA damage, and the cells for viability, lipid peroxidation, membrane fluidity, and for activities of enzymes and cofactors involved in detoxification and scavenging of ROS. Tea compound protects against DNA breaks and cell death–The intact plasmid is supercoiled in a compact form, while the cut plasmid is circular, and the two forms can be clearly distinguished and quantified by electrophoresis. The control (unexposed) sample is about 85% supercoiled. EGCG was found to protect plasmid DNA against breaks at high (50 Gy) or low (3 Gy) dose radiation: >82.5 % protection even at the lowest concentration of EGCG tested (10 mM) and complete 100 % protection at 50 mM. EGCG was better at protection against DNA breaks than quercetin or vitamin C at the same concentration of 100 mM. The viability of cells was determined with a vital dye that depends on active mitochondria. At 3 to 7 Gy of g-irradiation, cell viability was significantly decreased, and at the highest dose, to 53 % of unexposed controls; but pre-incubation with EGCG protected the cells and restored viability in a concentration dependent manner, at 100 mM, viability was restored to >96 % of control. Single cell comet assay was used to determine the extent of DNA degradation in the cells. In this assay, cells are trapped in agar gel on a microscope slide, lysed to expose their DNA for electrophoresis, and stained with a fluorescent dye. Cells with intact DNA will appear as a small compact bright spot, while cells with degraded DNA will appear as a diffuse spot with a tail, like a comet, hence the name of the assay. The bigger the tail, the greater is the extent of degradation, which can be quantified with computer software under a fluorescent microscope. Exposing the cells to 3 Gy led to substantial DNA degradation, which was reduced in a concentration dependent manner by EGCG. Quercetin and vitamin C -also protected the cells against DNA damage, though not as effectively as EGCG.
SADIYA, India – A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.–It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.—Over the next few days two people — a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy — died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town’s hospital with spider bites.–Local resident Jintu Gogoi spent a day in the hospital complaining of excruciating pain and nausea after being bitten. He said weeks later his finger was still blackened and swollen.—District authorities are also panicking — and they are considering spraying the town with the insecticide DDT.—Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive.[U5] –“It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful,” head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.–Teams of Indian arachnid experts have flocked to the town, hoping to identify the species, but so far they have drawn a blank.[U6] —They say it could be a tarantula, a black wishbone or even a funnel-web spider — or it could be a whole new species.—One thing they agree on is that it is not native to the area as there is no record of venomous spiders in Assam. The black wishbone and funnel-web are native to Australia. Researchers are also still running tests to find out the toxicity of the spiders’ venom.–Dr. Anil Phatowali, superintendent of the town’s hospital, said they had not administered antivenin as they could not be certain the spider was venomous at all.—He also pointed out other factors may have contributed to the two reported fatalities.–“All the bite patients first went to witch doctors, who cut open their wounds with razors, drained out blood and burnt it. That could have also made them sick,” Phatowali said.
Polyphenolics from various extracts/fractions of red onion (Allium cepa) peel with potent antioxidant and antimutagenic activities.
Singh BN, Singh BR, Singh RL, Prakash D, Singh DP, Sarma BK, Upadhyay G, Singh HB.
Nutraceutical Chemistry, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226 001, India.
In order to determine antioxidant activity, the five extracts/fractions of red onion peel were studied for their total content of phenolics (TPC), flavonoids (TFC), antioxidant activity (AOA), free radical scavenging activity (FRSA), assayed by DPPH radical in the terms of anti-radical power (ARP) and reducing power (RP), expressed as ascorbic acid equivalents (ASE)/ml. High TPC (384.7 +/- 5.0 mg GAE/g), TFC (165.2+/- 3.2 mg QE/g), AOA (97.4 +/- 7.6%), ARP (75.3 +/-4.5) and RP (1.6 +/-0.3 ASE/ml) were found for the ethyl acetate (EA) fraction. EA fraction had markedly higher antioxidant capacity than butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) in preventive or scavenging capacities against FeCl3-induced lipid peroxidation, protein fragmentation, hydroxyl (site-specific and non-site-specific), superoxide anion and nitric oxide radicals. EA fraction also showed dose dependent antimutagenic activity by following the inhibition of tobacco-induced mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium strains (TA102) and hydroxyl radical-induced nicking in plasmid pUC18 DNA. HPLC and MS/MS analysis showed the presence of ferulic, gallic, protocatechuic acids, quercetin and kaempferol. The large amount of polyphenols contained in EA fraction may cause its strong antioxidant and antimutagenic properties. This information shows that EA fraction of red onion peel can be used as natural antioxidant in nutraceutical preparations.
[U5]Genetically Modified Spider?—is it possible after all these years of planting a genetic disrupting compounds into the earth that we have finally made a genetically aggressive species—Was it done in a lab and now this particular area was or is being targeted!!!
[U6]A BLANK!!!!!so is it an alien specied fallen off a space ship—is it a lab made spider—is it been genetically changed due to either experimentation or careless dumping of genetic materials—and no hypothesis?? A blank—something smells bad and it ain’t socks off a sweaty feet!!
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Six thousand four hundred and fifty eight days– is that a long time? Is it a short time? I think it is a long time. Miles lived 6,458 days, but it was not nearly enough.
My great aunt lived 33,262 days. My grandfather lived for 28,566 days and my grandmother (his wife) lived 19,814 days. My great, great, great, great grandfather lived 21,284 days.
As of today, I have lived 15,967 days. I have wasted a lot of them. I have not spent them the way perhaps I should have. I made decisions years ago that have determined how I spend my days today. I have accumulated many hours and days reading or writing. I have slept perhaps one third of those days. I wonder how many days I have spent in cars or in front of the tv or playing computer games or working? Too many.
I was just a person alone in the world for 9,068 of them, first a baby and then a boy and then a man. On my 9,069th day, I became a father. I was a father to a single son for 1,583 days and on the 1,584th day, I became the father of two sons. This lasted for 4,875 days, but it will never truly end. I will always have two sons.
A single day can seem like a long time. It can pass quickly. Sometimes I wake up to see the sun rise. I try to keep track of the moon and its phases. I try to appreciate the seasons as they exert themselves on the day. I have learned to embrace the winter and its cold dark days. I no longer think of winter as a time to rush through and get over with. There is a beauty in the emptiness of the landscape when the ground is cold and the plants have died and the animals are asleep underground or living far away where it is warmer. I have learned to enjoy the days, every day as much as I can and make the best of them day after day after day until it is impossible to do so anymore. It is easy to lose track of time sometimes. It is easy to lose track of what a day can mean and how much you can in 24 hours if you really put your mind to it.
I believe this is the last picture Miles took. In all his rolls of film and all his digital archives we could recover, I believe this is the last one. It is on the road to Woodward and he took it when he was driving out for work after school at Moondoes. He must have seen something he wanted to capture with his camera.
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Better see monsters with moss!
My last trip to Rome was in mid june this year and I finally went to see the Parco dei Mostri(Bomarzo), which turned out be a very hot day too. I was little disappointed as the mysterious and the fairytale like feel logically comes with some crisp weather and lots of post rain moss on the strange sculptures. Anyone planning visiting the garden must keep in mind the season. For best summary on history of this place, Monty Don’s Italian Gradens episode: Rome on bbc, is a must watch.
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The Greening of Big Red?
In his article last week in the New York Times Magazine on the greening of geopolitics in America, Thomas Friedman brought up a very important point on the battle between “Mother Nature and Father Greed.” While the United States may shift to a greener energy policy as awareness grows and political power shifts towards a more liberal agenda, the effects may be relatively insignificant. The problem with this is that the West is more inclined to ponder the effects of global warming because it can afford to do so. Countries like China will continue growing their per capita energy usage, but will still have millions of people living on a very meager salary; the government will not spend money on systems of energy production that minimize CO2 output. As world consumption swings from the hands of the technologically advanced Western powers and into the grasp of the poorer, underdeveloped masses of the East, the West may start to see its own advances in conservation as somewhat inconsequential. This tipping in influence however, should not blind our own efforts.
In the U.S., Wal-Mart has just introduced compact fluorescent bulbs, which use ¼ the energy of regular bulbs and last 10 times as long. The company has a reach of 100 million customers; if everyone bought just one bulb, they would be indirectly cutting CO2 emissions by 45 billion pounds (not to mention saving $3 billion in the process).<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[i]<!–[endif]–> Since the company will be saving money, this is a logical move for Eastern companies who hold a similar influence in their respective countries. However, the East has even more reforms to offer.
The People’s Government decided, in 1978, to reform their economy by encouraging the privatization of businesses and fostering education. This is indisputably the reason for China’s growth, with per capita income nearly quadrupling in the past 15 years.<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[ii]<!–[endif]–> With the reforms also came the liberalization of performance quotas, where industries and companies were allowed to set there own quotas as they are the most knowledgeable on their respective products and markets. Even so, the government still maintains control over other social policies, not excluding the natural environment. Seeing the result of pollution first-hand in the levels of smog in Shanghai and Beijing, the government has recently voiced its concern.
While these figures are ahead of the U.S.’s own policies, this kind of initiative is only apparent in China’s transportation industry. In order to further steer China, India, and other developing behemoths in the right (green) direction, our own policies have to be ahead of theirs. While the world’s consumption and growth figures may be weighed down increasingly more by the East, China and India still look to Western consumption standards, practices, and desires. To this effect, Western governments have to raise the standards of their country’s companies, thereby providing a model for the rest of the world’s production objectives. So far, Europe has set the pace in the world, while the U.S. has consistently been a laggard (in this form of innovation). This is the real problem; our reforms are too slow. America has seen the lowest performance in its automotive industry this decade. While we cannot attribute this all to the lack of better federal regulations, we can certainly see that perhaps a libertarian approach to CO2 emissions is, as the world has proven, a stale idea.
<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[i]<!–[endif]–> Glenn Prickett of Conservation International, a Wal-Mart advisor, quoted in “The Power of Green,” New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2007, section 6.
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David Wallace (April 24, 1799 – September 4, 1859) was the sixth governor of the US state of Indiana. The Panic of 1837 occurred just before his election and the previous administration, which he had been part of, had taken on a large public debt. During his term the state entered a severe financial crisis that crippled the state's internal improvement projects. He advocated several measures to delay the inevitable insolvency of the state. Because of his connection to the internal improvement platform, his party refused to nominate him to run for a second term. The situation continued to deteriorate rapidly and led to state bankruptcy in his successor's term. After his term as governor, he became a congressman, then chairman of the Indiana Whig party before becoming a state judge, a position he held until his death.
David Wallace was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on April 24, 1799, the oldest of the seven children of Andrew and Eleanor Wallace. His father was a surveyor and tavern owner who became close friends with William Henry Harrison while the two served together in the War of 1812. The family benefited from Harrison's patronage. Wallace's brother, William H. Wallace, was appointed as the fourth governor of the Washington Territory and first governor of the Idaho Territory.
His family moved to Ohio and settled near Cincinnati when he was a young boy. Wallace later attended Miami College before his family again moved to Brookville, Indiana in 1817. With the help of Harrison, Wallace secured entrance into the United States Military Academy. He graduated from West Point in 1821 and served as a lieutenant of artillery and taught mathematics at the school, but resigned his commission after about a year in the service. He later served as a captain and colonel in the 7th Regiment, Indiana Militia.
When Wallace left the army he returned to his family in Brookville. There he began to study law in the office of Judge Miles C. Eggleston, and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He entered into a practice with Congressman John Test and married to his daughter, Esther French Test on November 10, 1824. They had four children together, one of whom was Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Governor of New Mexico Territory. He is also the father of Edward Wallace, who fought in the Mexican-American war and the American Civil War. In 1836, after the death of his first wife, David married Zerelda Gray Sanders, a leader in the temperance movement, and together they had six children.
In 1828, Wallace was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, where he served until 1831, when he was elected the sixth Lieutenant Governor on the Whig ticket with Noah Noble. As Lieutenant Governor he led the debate in the state senate to create the Bank of Indiana and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Wallace was an outspoken advocate of the state's internal improvement projects, and painted a rosy picture of the state's situation during his campaign for governor. His family moved to Covington during his term.
During his second term as Lieutenant Governor, the state passed the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act. Although it was at first extremely popular, it had soon become apparent to state leaders that it was leading the state to financial ruin. The problem was not fully evident when Wallace ran for governor in 1837, but was a small part of his election campaign. He was elected largely because of his prior support to the improvement act, which the public still supported, and his support from the popular governor Noah Noble.
Wallace's term as governor was marred by the Panic of 1837 and years of economic uncertainty which followed. Indiana had been enjoying a period of internal improvements of roads and canals, but nearly all such projects ended during this financial crisis. He was able to help arrange the state's finances to delay the inevitable bankruptcy of the state. The deficit only worsened, and by the end of his term, the state's income only covered 20% of its expenditures—interest on the massive state debt being over two-thirds of the budget. The last year of his term, work on all the projects was halted. Wallace delivered an address to the General Assembly to inform them that the works were almost entirely worthless in their present condition and the state's credit had been exhausted. He informed the legislature that the state would be insolvent in the following year.
The last of the Indian removals in Indiana occurred during Wallace's term, and only the few unwilling to leave voluntarily remained in the state. The Treaty of Chicago—signed in 1833 with the Potawatomi—led to their removal. Wallace ordered General and U.S. Senator John Tipton to remove the band of 859 Potawatomi from the vicinity of Plymouth, Indiana and send them to the Kansas Territory. Forty-two Potawatomi, mostly children, died from disease and the stress of the two-month march in what became known as the "Trail of Death".
During his term, Wallace set the date Indiana would observe Thanksgiving. On November 4, 1839, he issued an executive order making November 28 Thanksgiving Day. Wallace claimed to have done so at the request of representatives from different state churches.
By the end of his term, the impending financial disaster was becoming apparent to the state's residents. Seeking to break away from failing projects, the Whigs moved against projects and nominated Samuel Bigger to run for governor, denying Wallace and his pro-internal improvement position a spot on the Whig ticket. Wallace then returned to his law practice.
After his term as governor, Wallace was elected in 1841 to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Indianapolis district, defeating Nathan B. Palmer. While in Congress he supported federal spending on the development of the telegraph, for which he was ridiculed by his opponents, but was later vindicated by the success of the technology. Wallace failed in his attempt for reelection in 1843, being defeated by William J. Brown who won by 1,085 votes.
Wallace returned to Indiana where he became chairman of the state's Whig party in 1846. He served as a member of Indiana's constitutional convention in 1850–1851. His name is only mentioned nine times in the convention records and unlike the other former governors who attended, he did not play a major role in the convention. Wallace then became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Marion County from 1856 until his death.
Wallace died suddenly, without having been ill, on September 4, 1859 in Indianapolis, Indiana and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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There's a Babylon 5 episode where Sinclair and Garibaldi are stuck on a long journey by shuttle, so they kill the time by discussing how they do up their trousers in the morning. "Do you fasten and then zip, or zip and then fasten?" They both fasten then zip, as do I, and everyone I've ever spoken to about this; it just makes sense, because that way both ends are fixed, which makes it easier to join the gap (this applies whether you actually zip or have a button fly).
However, there is a related question which occurred to me today: if you also have a belt, do you fasten that before or after you do the fly? I don't normally wear a belt, and I've sometimes noticed that I'm "flying low" when I do (presumably because I've deviated from the auto-pilot of my normal routine), which is slightly embarrassing.
What sequence do you use?
Aargh, I don't know, and now I'll never be able to do my trousers up again!
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You are the best Dad in my world!
especially without the ties of the umbilical cord.
Starts with a diaper change to midnight soothing, playtime and school.
going to games, deciding right-wrong takes a toll.
countless arguments and family times seem like days of yester years.
That each woman tries finding a partner reflecting those ideal qualities as her Papa.
but the lessons you taught will never be less than gold.
I cherish you and treasure you my dad!
I find it funny some days as a kid, of you my mentor/ friend i was scared.
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Pros vs. Cons: Am I failing myself?
Here I sit, weighing a list of Pros vs. Cons in my life overall. What goals am I still focused on and what really is the big overall picture?
I know one thing…I have become an entirely different person from when this blog first began. That person truly seems like a character from a movie I once saw. That is how much transformation through suffering and joy has occurred. It is astounding to look back just a few years.
Astounding. Perhaps a bit overwhelming too. Especially given the trials and tribulations within those few years…and the things we keep bottled in – within those few years. Wow.
Hey, while you are going through those life epiphanies, throw in Masters Level courses in Pastoral Counseling. It is like God is puppeteering my classes to help me and change me in so many different ways; I am so “in awe” of its vastness…how can that not be life changing?
I survived my first year of divorce from 15 years of a good marriage (my anniversary was yesterday – Happy Halloween to you all as well). And I am successfully providing my son with a home, opportunity, life and love. (Relationships with BOTH sons are works in progress and continually ongoing in nature.) I have reached a stable point of financial function which brings relief.
Not only do I have a job, but it is truly a good job. It is a blessing.
Personally, Spiritually, internally, I am growing exponentially. It is so hard to explain. I have had open conversations with people that I would once have just bottled up and ultimately imploded over. That is exponential…for me.
I have stood up for myself.
I have put down my foot and said, “no” when I needed to.
I have faced some of my own deep-running fears.
Again, exponential in the realm of personal growth…not so much in reality. I am so emotionally overwhelmed with just BEING MYSELF that I lose track of people and events around me.
This is where the Cons are revealed. I have to drop one of my classes, which has consequences of unknown proportions right now.
I gained more than my previously confessed 18 pounds. It is more like 35 and I feel every bit of it (though I am unsure of the true number because I have yet to face the scale). I don’t have any energy…or motivation.
I cannot seem to get to work on time to save my life…to the point that I need to address it and I don’t know how. I have tried everything I know, including having sleep testing done. There are other work related issues being addressed.
It truly seems as though whenever I have the focus and drive to succeed in one goal, I turn around and realize that everything else is falling behind. Is the failure due to me? Or is there breakdown in the system or framework? Am I overthinking things? Or am I becoming self-aware?
All kinds of other things still need to be addressed….yet I feel like a part of me needs to just chill out and relax (relaxing is MUCH different than hiding).
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One of the pleasures of going to another country is to see how the wildlife varies from at home. This article https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/20-stunning-types-of-birds-youll-spot-in-provence/ for example picks out some of those you might see in Provence.
cockerel is le coq – le coq is often used as a French mascot, for example at rugby games. A well known French receipe is coq au vin.
lark is l’alouette which you might recognise from a popular French song.
and finally, one which you’ll already know is the French for chicken which is le poule.
For a full list of vocabulary of popular birds in French and English (you can register to test yourself and keep track of your progress) go to RapideFrench.com.
Are you thinking of buying a house in France or a French speaking country?
You will almost certainly be doing some decorating, and may even be employing the services of a builder! Either way, don’t leave it to chance that they speak good enough English – do your own preparation and groundwork and learn the following terms.
Listen to the first level 1 article at https://rapidefrench.com. Write it down in French – every word – and then check it against the transcript provided to see if you got all the words right, made any spelling mistakes, missed any accents (or got them the wrong way) etc. Then translate the article into English and check against the translation provided.
Did you find it easy? Then work your way up the levels until you get to the point that you are struggling to understand all the words. At this point use the speedy vocab link (or look up words in a dictionary).
You will now be accelerating your French Language Learning.
Listen to audio or watch recordings – essential if you want to go to French and understand and ultimately speak French.
Get away from straight translation from English – get familiar with phrases and responses that you know well enough to not need to translate it word by word.
Write down your own transcripts of audio or video – French learners often focus only on the gist and pick out the key words but ignore the linking words that give the meaning and context; writing it down forces you to work out every word.
Use repetition – most of us can’t learn a vocab list and then remember it 6 months later – do frequent mini-tests on what you have already learnt; you’ll also be amazed and motivated by what you do remember.
Learn the Grammar – even if you want to focus on speaking and listening you will be held back if you don’t recognise the difference between the future, the past, the present and the conditional; so ensure that basic grammar makes up at least a small part of your weekly routine.
Approach French in topics – study a topic at a time so your mind makes links between related grammar, vocabulary and ideas.
Learn the French that fits you – for example people are likely ask you what you do so learn off by heart the responses to explain why you are in France, what you do and where you are from.
Focus on which words are accented as well as pronunciation – otherwise you’ll struggle to understand or be understood – for example the negative hint ‘ne’ of ‘ne … pas’ is usually just a touch of the ‘n’ or even not heard at all.
Study little and often – 15 minutes in the morning, at lunchtime and in the evening every day on top of a weekly longer lesson or study session is perfect!
Work out what motivates you – if you’re not motivated you will give up, or at best won’t practice every day. Do you need to join a class? Do you need some conversation? Do you need to have a specific target?
From JL at https://rapideFrench.com (we can help with points 1, 3, 8 and 9 above).
Take a recording of a French speaker, translate it with the support of a word list and interactive translation tool, then compare a translation with your effort, and finally go back to the translations and understand it fully. That’s the concept in one s entence.
In this blog we’ll give you some of the supporting grammar and French language tips, and the occasional cultural interest blog. We want you to be motiviated to learn – half the battle is good learning/teaching, the other is motivation.
And we’d like to hear back from you – ideas, suggestions and things you find difficult – all welcome.
From the RapideFrench .com team. Bon chance.
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I love tattoos and think they are super cool. But, I love them from afar. You see, I’m scared out of my mind of getting one and putting something so permanent on my body. I have my ears pierced, but I can switch out the earrings every day. A tattoo is there for life.
But, I’m a bit of a prankster and there’s a crazy side of me that would love to get a tattoo just for “the joke.” You see, I love lilacs. They are my favorite flower in the world, and I always thought if I ever got a tattoo it would be a very small spray of lilacs right above my right hip. I actually have a cousin who is a freakishly talented tattoo artist and if I ever got one, I’d go to him. I once asked him if tattoos could be “scented.” He stared at me for a very long time, thought about it and finally said, “I don’t think so…” You see, if I get a tattoo of lilacs, I want it to actually smell like lilacs. So, I figure if I ever got a tattoo of lilacs, EVERY single morning I’d dab lilac essential oil on it and when people ever asked me “do you have a tattoo” I’d say “Sure, and it’s scented, too!” Then I’d raise my shirt and let them take a sniff. The joke would be that I’d never tell them that for that single solitary, momentary joke, each morning I put perfume on just that tiny spot. Yes, I’m crazy.
I thoroughly enjoyed this short love story. “The Sun and the Star” grabbed my attention right from the first page to the last. It starts off with the shocking discovery of a beautiful young teenage girl in a farmer’s field in the early 1900’s. When and how she got there is part of the mystery and allure of this well-written love story with an unpredictable twist.
This is not your everyday love story. Full of twists and turns. Great read from Central Park to outer space!!!! Elyse has a real way with words.
An October dusk settled over the hundreds of rows of withered corn stalks standing like sentries in the Kansas field. The full moon was rising and a brisk wind whistled through the dry shoots, creating a noise like paper crinkling, and drowning out the sounds of the young girl crying.
No one was working in the field that day. It was Sunday, the one day I gave my farmhands off. My own homestead was but a few trots down the road on the only hill this side of Kansas, but everyone in any direction could see we were home that evening from the smoke swirling from the chimney. I always wondered what the girl did that long cold night while my family and I slept. Wondered why she didn’t come and seek our help.
We wouldn’t find her until late the next afternoon when the workers had returned to pull the stalks and ready the field for winter. I remember exactly where I was when they found her.
“Boss, help!” The farmhand ran out from one of the rows frantically, carelessly stomping through the dead plants. If it were summer, I would have docked his pay for doing something so flagrant, but I knew this man. He was a good worker and was a family man. It must be bad.
He leaned over, his hands on his knees, wheezing and trying to catch his breath.
I stood up on the stirrups, able to peer over the stalks and saw a group of my men converging in an area about a quarter mile down the rows. Great, it was probably a cow from the McKensey farm next door that had wandered over and died in my field. It had happened before.
I yelled at my foreman to run to my house and call for my wife and then jumped off the horse and raced with Langston through the rows toward the child. Thoughts competed in my head. Why would a little girl be here? Did someone hurt her? Did an animal drag her here? Images of my own three children coursed through my brain and made me run faster, but when I pulled into the clearing the men had created, everything I expected was shattered.
This wasn’t a toddler. It was a young girl of about fifteen, curled into a ball and lying in the dirt in the middle of my cornfield. Strangely twisted and charred hunks of metal smoked in the field around her, creating a clearing. The air reeked of scorched corn and burnt oil, and as I stared at the boulder sized lumps glowing red-hot in places, they reminded me of the color of the branding irons we used on the bulls in stock.
The men squirmed nervously. “Extraterrestre,” they mumbled. You could practically smell their fear.
“Don’t be ridiculous. It’s just a child, nothing more,” I admonished, trying to convince myself as well.
I leaned down next to the girl, her long white-blonde hair covering her face. Pushing the locks away from her forehead, she turned her ice blue eyes to mine and something in her stare shook me to my very core. To this day, I couldn’t tell you exactly what it was about her, but it was something. Her face was heart-shaped, her features petite and mystically beautiful, but she was hurt. Bruises covered her forehead, cheeks and arms. Her plain white dress was filthy from ash and dirt and there were blisters forming from burns on her bare legs. The child craned her head to the sky and I could see little tattoos of stars and musical notes scattered on her neck, directly under her right ear. Her eyes bubbled with tears as she stared at the rising moon. She seemed so lost, so terribly alone. I tried to take her hand, but she clutched a strange instrument to her chest and refused to let it go. They told me later it was a musical instrument, resembling an ancient Greek lyre. To me it just looked like a small harp.
Instead, I patted her hand, surprised at how warm it was and thought she might have a fever.
“It’s okay, miss. We’ll get you out of here. Langston, have one of your men hook up the wagon.” I picked up the girl, contraption and all, and cradled her in my arms. She was but a doll, so slight. As we moved to the main road, she made the slightest of noises in her throat, but I couldn’t tell what she was saying. In fact, no one could.
We brought the girl to the local hospital but no one could identify her. She talked gibberish, crying and sobbing incessantly, humming haunting melodies and playing her instrument. But every few minutes she tried to get to the window to look out, always trying to look outside and stare at the sky. The staff was so concerned she was going to jump, they moved her to the psychiatric ward and that’s the last I ever heard of her.
As for the charred chunks of metal? By the time we got back to the field to remove them for plowing, the strange stuff had burned itself away. Except for some blackened ash, I wondered if it had been there at all.
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The International Convention Centre (ICC) is a major conference venue in Birmingham, England. The centre incorporates Symphony Hall and faces Centenary Square, with another entrance leading to the canals of Birmingham. The Westside area, which includes Brindleyplace, is opposite the building on the other side of the canal. The centre is owned and operated by the NEC Group, who are also responsible for the nearby Arena Birmingham, just to the west of the complex.
The building was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin. The foundation stone was laid by Jacques Delors as a start of another 4 years and 5 months of construction. In all, over 1,500 workers helped construct the building. Over 60,000 cubic metres of concrete were used. The site was opened on 12 June 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II. Funds of £49.7 million were provided by the European Council. The total cost of construction was £200 million.
It is on the site of the Prince of Wales Theatre and Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose-built exhibition hall, opened in 1850. Also on the site were numerous houses fronting King Edward's Place as well as a brewery and inn. On the eastern side of this was King Alfreds Place which was also fronted by houses and a hotel. A listed Victorian cast iron urinal was removed before construction began, on condition that it be re-erected. Although it was taken to Tyseley Locomotive Works, it has never been restored.
On a specified date in August, the building is used by companies, organisations and/ or individuals as part of "Discovery Day" which features events co-ordinated all over the city. In 2004, an area was used as an indoor country fair. The fair featured a Ferris wheel and small rides. In spring 2008, the hall hosted its first party political conference, for the Labour Party. The venue has since hosted party conferences for all three main political parties over successive years.
The façade of the building is covered in blue tinted windows and white stone cladding. The entrance is adorned by a neon sculpture, by Ron Hasledon, named "Birdlife" which hangs above it. The entrance is used as a small performance area and small protests are sometimes held there. The south side of the building features a link bridge to the Hyatt Regency Hotel. When the pre-fabricated connecting bridge was delivered, it was found to be too short, as the plans for the hotel had been modified, moving it away from the ICC slightly, but the bridge makers had not been informed.
Inside the building, numerous connecting bridges and walkways line the atrium overhead connecting the ten halls and ten additional meeting rooms. The ICC has a total capacity of 8,000 delegates. The largest hall, Hall 3, can hold up to 3,000 delegates when fully using its 3,050m2 space.
Within the mall there are a number of concessions, including a branch of Castle Fine Art which sells original paintings and prints, a WHSmith store, coffee shops including a Starbucks store as well as the box office for tickets for both Symphony Hall and other local theatres. Hotdesking space is also available with computers providing internet access.
Accessibility: The building is very difficult to get around in a wheelchair and on numerous occasions the main internal lift is known to break down.
^ Malcolm Miles (1997). Art, Space and the City: Public Art and Urban Futures. Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 0-415-13942-2.
^ "The Venue-Detailed Plans". The NEC Group. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009.
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I’m reading some books these days. So should you! Don’t be impressed that I am reading more than one book at a time. I get a little impatient and often start books before I finish the other book I’m reading.
“Give a hoot, read a book!” is the slogan from Krusty The Clown’s literacy campaign.
Why did Jesus come to the world? Why did he have to die? What was the point of his ministry here on earth? The answer to these questions is what we call “the gospel”, the good news. Most people in the church today would respond to these questions with “Jesus came to save us from our sins” or something to that effect. Jesus inaugurated his ministry by reading from Isaiah 61.
The “hole in our gospel” that the author, Richard Sterns, refers to in to is that the church has presented a gospel that leaves out the call to defend the cause of the oppressed. The book presents the problem in most church’s understanding of the gospel (mostly through recounting his own story of how the course of his life was altered by the gospel which led him to become the president of World Vision). Then he describes the enormity of the problem of poverty in the world. In the end, he gives some practical ideas for how to get the American church back into the battle. I give the book a thumbs up (if you can do that with books).
My colleague, Steve St Pierre, gave me the book. He has a box of them in his office that he dispenses like the balloons at Trader Joe’s.
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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2014 at 5:49 pm and is filed under Cause Marketing, nonprofit/for-profit partnerships, Profiles in Partnership. 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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The ad (and brand) gets overshadowed by the parody.
The brand gains publicity and sales from the parody.
The brand takes matters into their own hands and creates the parody themselves.
I think that the lighthearted nature of most parodies enables good press and brand promotion. Being picked up by SNL means that you have made it and have a successful ad.
Yes! A person or business has definitely made it if SNL makes a parody of them! I liked that McDonalds did their own NFL wings parody and would agree that most of the time parodies help build awareness for the brand. In CocaCola’s instance, however, where it becomes a reference to a narcotic that is not good and requires damage control.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading and researching this post.
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That which we call a city by any other name . . .
October 23-30 – the dates I was in New York, almost a year ago now. Whenever anniversaries of big life events come around, I like to revisit their time and space.
I recently re-read The Great Gatsby upon finding this hardcover edition at my favourite used bookstore in Victoria.
I also re-read it so I could compare Fitzgerald’s 1920s New York to Amor Towles’ late 1930s New York in Rules of Civility, which I was reading with my book club.
Fitzgerald’s protagonist is male; Towles’ is female. Neither book could take place in any other city in their respective times. Filled with young people and deceptive appearances, their characters climb social ladders and never cease to be invited to party after party after [really? I can’t believe what drives the plot of this novel is another] party. But then again, The Great Gatsby explores the Roaring Twenties and the disillusionment after WWI. The Rules of Civility explores the hopes and ambitions of two fiercely independent best friends still trying to make it in very much a man’s world in 1938 through whatever it takes. Towles’ book isn’t the kind I highlighted for profound or insightful phrases (the fact that it was a library book hindered this possibility anyway), but I liked it just the same.
Now it seems I am doing with New York what I do with CDs – exhaust a disc by listening to it over and over. I am exhausting New York by listening to it in song and conversation, in re-reading my own notes from New York and in reading it in others’ words.
Yet as much as I read New York, I could never exhaust it. The city gives more than it takes, and it gives something different each time.
It was nighttime, and I was disoriented. I would have been disoriented anyway. After going through an extensive security protocol that I quickly learned was normal in New York, my friend and I followed a security guard/tour guide along dark, twisting pathways through the bowels of Lower Manhattan. We weren’t really inside, but we weren’t outside either. I didn’t know where we were. Still I followed the guide along with other tourists, all of us walking solemnly, single file through this labyrinth. I wondered if I should be weaving a string through it like Theseus in case I needed to memorize the route back.
We weren’t actually underground, but it felt like it. We had been waiting in line to see the 9/11 memorial site in one area and emerged at the actual site in a completely different area, as if we had hopped on the subway and poked our heads up from underground at an arbitrary spot along the route.
16-acres with a North and South Pool surrounded by a field of white oak trees.
The New York minute slowed to a crawl. Although we were at street level again and skyscrapers stood above us, this space felt immune to the obnoxious traffic sounds of New York. It was in but not in the city. A sacred space where you don’t notice other tourists, where you don’t feel inclined to rush, where the sound of the continuously flowing water and the sight of 2800 names of men, women, and children etched into the perimeter of the fountains silences you into stillness and contemplation. I traced my fingers along the names arranged in no particular order.
Chantal. Garth. Richard. Garth – I pointed this one out to my friend standing beside me. The same name as her husband. Thousands of names. Somebody’s husband, wife, child, mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, colleague, friend.
The imprints of the two World Trade Center towers were bigger than I pictured when my mom burst through my bedroom door eleven years ago where I was sleeping to tell me of the crash. Bigger because there’s nothing to fill them. Open, deep, and visible reminders of loss. Designed by architect Michael Arad, Reflecting Absence is a suitable name for the memorial, as what do holes do? Remind us that something isn’t whole, that there is an absence that can’t be made present again.
How do you erect a monument to something that isn’t there anymore? How do you make present what is absent, without trivializing or ignoring the enormity of what was lost? Maybe you don’t. Maybe you let the absence speak for itself, which is what I think these fountains do well. Some have criticized the memorial for not offering hope, but I don’t think the holes are entirely devoid of hope. They’re filled with rushing water, a sound that never grows old, that never grows hopeless. There’s movement, there’s renewal, there’s maybe even a reflection in there as life stares back at life.
My friend and I left a different way than we entered. Out one gate and onto the street. That was it. As we crossed streets and were surrounded by soaring skyscrapers, people shouting, and taxis honking again, we looked back on the site, still unsure of how we got there. Some spaces are like this – they lose you in the best possible way.
New York, I am remembering your names today.
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After defining and revolutionising RPGs on the original PlayStation, Square went head first into the next generation by beginning work on the tenth instalment in the Final Fantasy series developed exclusively for the PlayStation 2. With much more powerful hardware, Final Fantasy X saw the introduction of voice acting, more realistic facial animations, fully 3D environments (replacing the pre-rendered ones used in Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX) and had three different composers producing the soundtrack including Nobuo Uematsu. Final Fantasy X was a huge success and was seen as a giant leap forward for the series, while still keeping the features fans enjoyed, such as an engrossing narrative, memorable characters, mini-games, turn-based battles and a gigantic world to explore.
During the early 2000s online gaming was growing in popularity and Square announced the next numbered Final Fantasy game would be a completely online experience. Final Fantasy XI allowed players to created their own online avatars and take on quests to develop their character and progress through the main storyline. Final Fantasy XI became the most profitable entry in series and is still in operation 10 years after it’s release with new developments expanding the game.
After the critical success in Japan of Vagrant Story and Hironobu Sakaguchi’s pleasure with Yasumi Matsuno’s work as a game director, Sakaguchi decided that he would entrust Matsuno with the next mainline Final Fantasy game. Co-directed by Matsuno and Hiroyuki Ito, Final Fantasy XII was a massive change in direction for an offline Final Fantasy game. It featured a seamless battle system with no random battles, free camera control, was based in the world of Ivalice from Final Fantasy Tactics and put heavy emphasis on a political storyline. Due to creating the new battle system completely from scratch, Final Fantasy XII had a very long development cycle of around 6 years and during the time Matsuno fell ill leading to his resignation from Square. Final Fantasy XII was completed after he left and was still meet with huge success.
Square had partnered with Nintendo many years earlier to create Super Mario RPG, but the world was shocked when they announced they were developing a new RPG with Disney known as Kingdom Hearts. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura made his debut as game director as Kingdom Hearts was released as an action-RPG featuring worlds and characters from Disney animated films such as Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, mixed with original and Final Fantasy characters ranging from Cloud Strife to Squall Leonheart. What seemed like an odd combination produced one of the best RPGs released on the PlayStation 2 and expanded into its own long running series.
With Square still dominating the RPG scene, Sakaguchi believed it was time to broaden the company’s horizons as he created Square Pictures and directed his first feature length movie. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was the first photorealistic computer animated feature film using the most advanced technology available at the time. Despite some positive reviews, the film didn’t earn enough money to even cover its expensive development and cost the company millions of dollars, Square Pictures was closed down and SquareSoft was in financial strife. Sakaguchi stepped down as vice president of Square and shortly left the company all together when Square merged with their once rival Enix in 2003, creating Square Enix.
This is a deeply beautiful and sad song. With only the use of piano, this melody transports you to another world and takes you through the emotions of despair, regret, loss and hope. One of Uematsu’s greatest compositions.
The main vocal piece of the soundtrack, sung in Japanese. It is a tragic, but heartfelt love song featuring a sweeping melody and nice vocals. I would also recommend listening to the English version translated for the Final Fantasy orchestral concerts.
The main battle theme of Final Fantasy X is very different to others in the series. It is more upbeat and rhythmical. It matches Tidus jumping back and forth getting ready for action. While the melody starts off calm and collected, it still includes enough energy to fit the harder battles.
An eerie and mysterious song, like you have just wandered into an enchanted forest. The melody is both comforting and intriguing. The composition features a wonderful chord progression that really makes the song stand out.
Something completely new to the series, the distorted guitar and grinding vocals came as a surprise to long time players, but the heavy metal sound was the perfect background for the final battle against Jecht as Braska’s Final Aeon.
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I am thanking You because You gave your life for me.
This entry was posted on June 14, 2009 at 11:49 am and is filed under Uncategorized. 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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We are to always be growing in relationship with Jesus, in the life of faith (Colossians 2.6,7). The construction of a building is a great metaphor for our spiritual journey. The Holy Spirit builds on a foundation of prayer as we seek the face of God. Because, when Jesus is lifted up He draws all people to Himself (John 12.32). Jesus builds on that foundation with His own grace and our cooperation with how He is leading, that is the support framing of the building. Finally the dry walling, painting, carpets, furniture and finishing touches are our working together as the body of Christ (Ephesians 2.21) as we keep our eyes on Jesus (Hebrews 12.2).
Prayer is foundational to EVERYTHING. That is why all of our community groups pray together to cover our lives, our church and our community in prayer.
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Joe McCarthy is on the left, Ted Cruz on the right.
Last week, Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s prosecutorial style of questioning Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for Defense secretary, came so close to innuendo that it raised eyebrows in Congress, even among his Republican colleagues.
The New York Times reported that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, rebuked Cruz for insinuating, without evidence, that Hagel may have collected speaking fees from North Korea.
Some Democrats went so far as to liken Cruz, who is a newcomer to the Senate, to a darkly divisive predecessor, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, whose anti-Communist crusades devolved into infamous witch hunts.
Boxer’s analogy may have been more apt than she realized.
Two-and-a-half years ago, Cruz gave a stem-winder of a speech at a Fourth of July weekend political rally in Austin, in which he accused the Harvard Law School of harboring a dozen Communists on its faculty when he studied there. Cruz attended Harvard Law School from 1992 until 1995. His spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request to discuss the speech.
Cruz made the accusation while speaking to a rapt ballroom audience during a luncheon at a conference called “Defending the American Dream,” sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a non-profit political organization founded and funded in part by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch.
“We are puzzled by the senator’s assertions, as we are unaware of any basis for them,” Robb London, a spokesman for Harvard Law School, told me.
London noted that Cruz had contributed “warm reminiscences“ of the school by video for a reunion of Latino alumni.
“We applaud the fact that he has pursued public service, as so many of our graduates have done. We are also proud of our longstanding tradition of freedom of speech and the robust range of views and debates on our campus,” London said.
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried, a Republican who served as President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general from 1985 to 1989, and who subsequently taught Cruz at the law school, suggests that his former student has his facts wrong.
“I can right offhand count four ‘out’ Republicans (including myself) and I don’t know how many closeted Republicans when Ted, who was my student and the editor on the Harvard Law Review who helped me with my Supreme Court foreword, was a student here,” Fried said.
Fried went on to say that unlike Cruz, or McCarthy — who infamously kept tallies of alleged subversives — he had never tried to count Communists.
“I have not taken a poll, but I would be surprised if there were any members of the faculty who ‘believed in the Communists overthrowing the U.S. government,’” he said.
Under the Smith Act, it is a crime to actively engage in any organization pursuing the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Fried acknowledged that “there were a certain number (12 seems to me too high) who were quite radical, but I doubt if any had allegiance or sympathy with anything called ‘the Communists,’ who at that time (unlike the 1930s and ‘40s) were in quite bad odor among radical intellectuals.” He pointed out that by the 1990s, Communist states were widely regarded as tyrannical.
It may be that Cruz was referring to a group of left-leaning law professors who supported what they called Critical Legal Studies, a method of critiquing the political impact of the American legal system.
Professor Duncan Kennedy, for instance, a leader of the faction, who declined to comment on Cruz’s accusation, counts himself as influenced by the writings of Karl Marx. But he regards himself as a social democrat, not a Communist, and has never advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government by Communists. Rather, he advocated widening admissions at the law school to under-served populations, hiring more minorities and women on the faculty, and paying all law professors equally.
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Barcelona and Brazil defender Marlon completed a move to Serie A side Sassuolo Thursday on the eve of the closure of the transfer window in Italy.
The 23-year-old underwent a medical with the side from Modena agreeing a five-year deal worth 12 million euros ($13.6 million).
Sassuolo will pay six million euros now and a further six million more if the Brazilian plays 50 games for the club with the Catalan giants retaining a buy-back option and 50 percent of any future fee.
The former Brazil Under-20 international, who spent last season on loan at Nice, could make his Serie A debut at home to Inter this Sunday.
Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina joined Napoli with Villarreal's Samu Castillejo and Genoa's Diego Laxalt completing medicals at AC Milan among a late flurry of action before the transfer deadline.
Colombian international Ospina's arrival comes amid criticism from fans at the lack of spending by new coach Carlo Ancelotti's Serie A runners-up compared to champions Juventus who splashed out 100 million euro ($117 million) to bring Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo to Turin.
Juventus top the summer spending with 235 million euros ($265 million) invested in new players -- more than double rivals AS Roma and Napoli -- as Serie A clubs have already spent more than a billion euros, second among the top five European leagues behind the big-spending English Premier League.
Ospina -- who had fallen out of favour in London after the signing of Bernd Leno from Bayer Leverkusen -- will cover for Meret, who broke his arm in training last month.
Gennaro Gattuso's AC Milan have had some late signings with Chelsea midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko, Laxalt and Castillejo arriving at the San Siro.
At city rivals Inter Milan, hopes of signing Real Madrid's Croatian international midfielder Luka Modric are fading, with Roma's Radja Nainggolan and Argentina striker Lautaro Martinez among the big summer arrivals.
"We did what we wanted, we moved quickly to have the squad straight away, then we continued to monitor the market for opportunities," explained Roma sporting director Monchi at Nzonzi's presentation at the Stadio Olimpico on Thursday.
"I'm happy, even if you can always do better.
"We are not a team that sells only, we are the club that spent the third most. I've never had a "no" from the club management for the players I wanted.
"We have the ambition and a plan to take Roma as high as possible."
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70%55°49°Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 4 to 10 mph (6.4 to 16.1 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10.0 °C).Cloudy with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds from ENE to E at 8 to 12 mph (12.9 to 19.3 kph).
Tonight - Cloudy. Winds variable at 4 to 10 mph (6.4 to 16.1 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10.0 °C).
Today - Cloudy with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds from ENE to E at 8 to 12 mph (12.9 to 19.3 kph).
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1. A virile man .
2. An attractive man , especially one who is very muscular, virile and exciting.
3. In gay parlance, a virile , non-approachable, straight male.
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Yesterday morning, Lance Armstrong filed a lawsuit and motion for a TRO in federal court in Texas against the United States Anti-Doping Agency and its CEO, seeking to halt USADA's doping investigation. The lawsuit claimed tortious interference with contract and violation of Fifth Amendment due process. The lengthy (80 pages, 261 paragraphs), rhetorically loaded complaint derides USADA's "kangaroo court" and its belief that it is "above the United States Constitution, above the law, above court review, free from supervision from any person or organization, and even above its own rules." And those are the mild parts.
Upon initial review, I questioned the Fifth Amendment claim because I doubt USADA or its CEO acts under color of federal law (assuming the concept even still exists for private entities after Minneci). It certainly is not a federal actor based on the facts contained in the pleading.
In any event, we may have to wait a few days to find out. Yesterday afternoon, District Judge Sam Sparks sua sponte dismissed the complaint without prejudice. Judge Sparks said the complaint is "far from short" and the claims not "plain," buried in "excessive" rhetoric; the court was "not inclined to indulge Armstrong's desire for publicity, self-aggrandizement, or vilification of Defendants." He noted that "[c]ontrary to Armstrong's apparent belief, pleadings filed in the United States District Courts are not press releases, internet blogs, or pieces of investigative journalism. All parties, and their lawyers, are expected to comply with the rules of this Court, and face potential sanctions if they do not." A complaint, the court said, requires facts, not a "lengthy and bitter polemic against the named defendants."
This is an extraordinary order. I have written before about pleading as press release (Elizabeth Thornburg coined the term). The district court in the Duke lacrosse lawsuits took the plaintiffs to task for ther overly long and overly overheated complaints, but that was in the course of ruling on 12(b)(6) motions and was done largely in passing and as a reminder to the lawyers going forward. I have never seen a court preemptively and unilaterally reject a complaint for overdoing the rhetoric. Especially since, while Armstrong unquestionably was speaking to the sports media and the world, I am not sure the rhetoric here is so much more excessive than in many other pleadings I have seen.
I am not a fan of this sort of over-the-top pleading, but it is becoming more common. So while I am surprised by the order, I am glad to see a judge halting these practices. Perhaps this is judicial order as press release. Judge Sparks knows the world is watching this lawsuit and he is proactively seizing control over the case and making clear to the parties and attorneys that they litigate for the court, not for the press.
One final question: Did Judge Sparks go too easy on Armstrong's lawyers? He never even hints at sanctions, although we can see this dismissal as functionally equivalent to a non-monetary sanction imposed sua sponte. But the admonitions about following the rules and not using litigation for PR purposes seemed primarily directed at Armstrong, even though his lawyers (and he is represented by Patton Boggs and Williams and Connolly) obviously wrote that paper.
I too was surprised by the attack on Armstrong himself. I am not sure I have seen that before. It suggests that he drafted the document and should understand the rules. Isn't that why the work is done by his attorneys. He strikes me as a guy who does not like to be embarrassed and may well be a bit unhappy with his representation. Perhaps that is what the judge figured as well.
Ah, I see, my mistake. I'm not sure that any particular part of Rule 11 is violated here though. Maybe 11(b)(1), but I don't think the pleading, taken as a whole, is "presented for an improper purpose," though certain parts of it might be inflammatory or harassing and the excessive length could, I suppose, needlessly increase the cost of litigation. I think those things are incidental, though, and the plaintiff's purpose in filing the complaint is not improper, likelihood of actually winning aside.
I think you're right that the "impertinent material" objection is a better grounds, as it specifically allows a court to strike impertinent, scandalous, etc. material "on its own." 12(f)(1). I get the feeling the court would not be inclined to go through the whole pleading and pick out what to strike, though.
That this is becoming increasingly common does not mean it is either right or a good thing. So I'm all for a court taking steps to put a stop to it. But it seems to me that Rule 11 would have been the more appropriate route here. First, there is explicit authority to raise sanctions sua sponte in Rule 11; a challenge to the sufficiency of the complaint is waivable by the defendant and the court less explicitly authorized to raise it on its own (although that power to control the case is inherent). Second, the defect here is that Armstrong and his lawyers were obnoxious and abusive in the complaint. But it seems pretty clear what they were alleging and the factual support is in the complaint (whether it is legally sufficient is another issue), so I am not sure this really was an 8(a)(2) defect, as opposed to a problem of having impertinent material or needing a more definite statement.
why would that be arguably more appropriate?
You state that you've never seen an order like this before; neither have I. Likewise, you indicate that over the top pleading is becoming more common. So, for a practice that is becoming more common and has, to the best of your or my knowledge, never resulted in a sua sponte dismissal, you want to also add sanctions??? Seems like that would be crazy over the top to me.
I meant sanctions for *this* pleading. The arguably more-appropriate move for the court would have been an Order to Show Cause under Rule 11 or a move directly to sanctions, not a sua sponte dismissal for failing to satisfy FRCP 8(a).
"He never even hints at sanctions..."
"Armstrong is advised, in the strongest possible terms, and on pain of Rule 11 sanctions, to omit any improper argument, rhetoric, or irrelevant material from his future pleadings."
Perhaps the proper interpretation of the dismissal is that no civil complaints are proper and all should be dismissed sua sponte. Too long and complex and a la Armstrong they run afoul of 8(a)(2). Insufficiently long and complex and they run afoul of Twiqbal. My interpretation would have the salutary effects of considerably lightening the workload of the federal courts and protecting righteous corporate defendants from all those money-grubbing plaintiffs.
Rule 12(e) doesn't seem to contemplate a sua sponte dismissal, which makes sense in the ordinary case I guess -- let the defendant make a motion if it can't figure out how to respond. But here we had a request for a TRO, so the judge has to make a determination if the claims are likely meritorious enough to justify entry of the injunction. It seems acceptable to me for a judge to make a sua sponte determination of the intelligibility of complaint in that circumstance.
If I'm the defendant, I would have been thinking 12(e) (which is primarily used to attack "prolixity" in complaints) and 12(f), striking the immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter. But courts typically don't do any of those things sua sponte.
Oops, I meant 12(e), motion for a more definite statement, not 12(d).
Interesting. I've seen courts emphasize the "short and plain" language from Rule 8(a)(2) before, but I've always thought that must be wrong -- 8(a)(2) sets a floor, not a ceiling. If it's *justified*, obviously your complaint can be long and complex -- a massive chemical contamination class action, for example. Rule 8(a)(2) if interpreted as a ceiling has no exception for justifiable prolixity, so I think the "must" has to be a minimum only. The proper dismissal route here I think has to be 12(d), that the complaint is so long and filled with apparently irrelevant stuff that it's difficult to figure out what, exactly, it is claiming.
The Rule 11 question is interesting also. Is playing to the press an "improper purpose"? Perhaps it needlessly adds to the defendant's costs, because the defendant has to answer all of the allegations put in there just for PR value.
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The latest report about Drakes Bay Oyster Company leaves a mark against the National Park Service’s science but says that adaptive management could help.
The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academies of Science, reviewed a Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS) on the potential effects of letting the oyster company stay in Drakes Estero another ten years. Its conclusions in total were not favorable for Point Reyes National Seashore’s attempt to remove the oyster company on environmental grounds.
DBOC would be given another 10 years if Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar were to issue a new Special Use Permit when the existing one expires November 30 of this year. The permit gives the oyster company a right to occupy the estero as a nonconforming use.
The Council, acting on a May 2012 request from the Park Service, had two tasks: assess the scientific analysis and conclusions in the DEIS; and evaluate whether a peer review conducted by a Park Service consulting firm, Atkins North America, was “fundamentally sound and materially sufficient.” The NRC committee of 10 specialists was chaired by Dr. Thomas Malone of the University of Maryland.
The DEIS analyzed impacts from four alternative actions. The first was No Action (Alternative A): not renewing the permit and removing all mariculture equipment.
The three other alternatives were all based on reissuing the permit for another 10 years. In Alternative B shellfish production would return to a fall 2010 level of 600,000 lbs. per year. In Alternative B production would be limited to 500,000 lbs. per year, as it was in April 2008 when the existing permit was signed.
Each alternative in the DEIS was assessed across 12 resource categories. The NRC committee reviewed data across eight of these: wetlands, eel grass, wildlife and wildlife habitat, special-status species, coastal flood zones, soundscapes, water quality, and socioeconomic resources.
They pointed to existing programs that could do the monitoring job, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System or the Ocean Observing System.
The committee noted that there is “not an extensive scientific literature” on Drakes Estero, and “research on the potential impacts of shellfish mariculture … is even sparser.” Because of these limitations, the Park Service had “little primary data” and had to reach conclusions based on research in other locations on other topics, they wrote.
More than once the committee pointed to an imbalance in the study’s framework. They wrote that the DEIS described the intensity or magnitude of adverse impacts as minor, moderate or major but did not do the same for beneficial impacts. They also noted that the DEIS did not make allowances for “negligible impact,” a category set out in the Park Service’s National Environmental Policy Act guidelines.
The Council also found that DEIS conclusions about impacts in seven of the eight resource categories had “moderate to high levels of uncertainty and, for many of these an equally reasonable alternate conclusion of a lower impact intensity” was possible.
The parameters of Alternatives B through D were found wanting for making distinctions primarily based on production and not on acreage of growing areas or levels of work effort.
Wetlands. The conclusions on impacts were reasonable.
Eel grass. The data supported the findings that Alternatives B and C “would sustain the current level of adverse impact” and D “could increase” damage if motorboat traffic increases and there are more motorboat corridors.
Harbor seals. Regarding a major point of controversy, possible impacts on harbor seals, there was enough for both proponents and opponents to take comfort.
The NRC wrote, in part: “Overall, the best available scientific information was used. … However, the studies were not designed to test specific hypotheses on the effects of disturbance (from DBOC or other activities), so confounding factors (e.g., coastal El Nino onditions, predator disturbance at other haul out sites) preclude establishment of a cause-effect relationship unique to mariculture activities.
The Council commented on a Marine Mammal Commission review of a 2011 Park Service report (Becker) on harbor seal disturbances. The Council said the MMC report “sums … up well” the relationship between DBOC activities and the seals’ habitat use.
The MMC found the Becker data and analyses were “scant and stretched to the limit” so that a cause-and-effect relationship could not be found but that there was a correlation between the two. The Commission advised Secretary Salazar to take an adaptive management approach to the estero whether or not DBOC remains after this year. The National Research Council has embraced adaptive management also.
Soundscape. The Council found high uncertainty that any of the production alternatives would cause a major adverse impact. The uncertainty derived from lack of information in the DEIS.
At the same time, the Council wrote that data “could be readily obtained” on noise frequencies and on the potential for “acoustic masking of vocalizations by many bird, mammal and amphibian species” in the DBOC area.
They explained that “there is strong evidence in the literature” to suggest that many bird species raise the pitch of their songs or sing at night if noise would mask their communications. This, the authors write, may impact the fitness of individual birds.
That section focused only on a change in shellfish production in Alternatives B through D, which is “not an accepted economic metric.” While the Park Service honored a DBOC request for confidentiality of cost and revenue information given to NPS in 2010, that was “not an insurmountable barrier” to analyzing the impact on consumers and producers (“the marketplace”) from the three action alternatives. Well-known agricultural economic formulas could have been used, the report stated.
To be a “thorough peer review,” expertise was needed in the areas of water quality, wildlife (e.g., harbor seals, fish), and terrestrial soundscapes, the Council wrote. They disagreed with the Atkins conclusion that the DEIS was “‘well-written with adequate analysis and use of available scientific information.’” They said Atkins did not have the experts in these areas to make that call.
The committee listed four areas of disagreement with Atkins regarding the noise analysis. It summarized by saying the DEIS evidence was not “robust,” as Atkins had found. The Malone committee additionally found that Atkins did not mention a study (Volpe 2011) that was available but not used in the DEIS regarding underwater acoustics.
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Could not resist posting these photo’s…..
Some photo’s of new work, as you can see otters are a key subject, we are lucky to have these wonderful creatures close by. It was the poetic writing of Gavin Maxwell that first drew me to the West Coast of the Highlands, and to seek out these elusive animals – but unlike the ill-fated Maxwell I acknowledge that it was the fairies that brought me here, and I just observe otters as they should be – wild and free.
After last weeks jam or wine dilemma (wine won…no surprise there…) it’s been simpler this week, with a savory feast of iridescent mackerel (care of our seafaring neighbour JR) home-grown tatties and courgettes (care of a packet of seed) The miracle of growth + a bit of muck and water eh!
I’ll photograph and post some of my new art work later this week – as this is supposed to be the Alba Art Studio blog after all – but I keep getting side tracked by the garden/produce, still my excuse is it will be autumn/winter soon enough when there will be no playing in the garden.
New work, the garden and goosberry jam.
We are well into July and the wagon has been open since Easter, we have had visitors from Scotland, England across Europe and New Zealand – Fantastic folk all.
I realise that I need to paint/make every day, to keep coming up with new ideas to satisfy demand and keep our offer fresh. We are also in the process of opening an etsy shop at albaartstudio.etsy.
Thanks to working from home I can spend my breaks in the garden, this has benefited me and I think the garden. We have/had a bumper crop of gooseberries, strawberries, salad leaves, potato’s and courgettes, not to mention herbs galore and the prospect of a good apple harvest.
I’ve made a stash of gooseberry and rhubarb jam and have yet to decide what to do with the rest of the glut – wine or chutney?
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I just found out that Clearsnap is now hosting a bi-monthly color challenge that they have cleverly titled the "Out of the ColorBox" challenge. :) My designer friend, Niki Meiners, is the hostess. This week's challenge is AWESOME!!
Now, I didn't have the EXACT colors but I did come up with some that were pretty close. I used Glacier Ice & Daffodil pigment inks, and Lipstick Red Fluid Chalk ink. I think that it's certainly close enough for government work, right?
In addition to the three Clearsnap Inks used, I also used Clearsnap's Glue Gloss, Ruby Slippers Glitter and Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz. All stamps are from Hampton Art Stamps. The three sets I used were: Text Borders, Graphic Borders and Memories Int. Journaling Backgrounds. Dies used were by Spellbinders: Labels Twenty-One & Butterflies 2.
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i know that you say that you could really care less about valentine's day, but i also know that deep down you care. and i know that valentine's day is just some corporate scam trying to give people excuses to spend more money, but i would like to take this day to tell you this anyway.
that if you wanna know if i love you, the answer is yes. i have always loved you and i'll always will. and if you feel that you're alone and that no one cares, you're wrong... because i have always cared for you and i will always be there for you. and when you need someone, i will be here, right next to you, telling you that, "everything will be alright."
i dont need any corporate scam to tell me that loving someone like you makes me lucky, because i already know that i am. every single day with you is a "valentine's day" to me. nor would i need any flowers or chocolates from you to feel special either because to know that i love you is enough.
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The Julia series is in the Elizabethan sonnet format. The form consists of fourteen lines structured as three quatrains and a couplet. The usual rhyme scheme is end-rhymed a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
Her lips let loose, plus! Plus! Merci! Oui!!
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Our goal is to improve outcomes and quality of life for children and adolescents with cancer and serious blood disorders in Canada.
The C17 Council is an organization composed of the institutionally appointed heads of the sixteen pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplant programs across Canada. We represent the interests of children and adolescents with cancer and blood disorders and act as an authoritative Canadian voice . The C17 Council has a strong record of accomplishment and has developed a clear strategy for continuing its mission to improve health outcomes and quality of life for children and adolescents in Canada with cancer and blood disorders.
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Please click the screenshot above for March’s “Trailer Trash”, taking a tongue-in-cheek look at forthcoming releases, for the website of The Fly, the UK’s most popular music magazine.
Please click the image above to read “Trailer Trash: The Year In Preview”, looking at the big releases of 2014 in a slightly tongue-in-cheek way, for the website of The Fly, the UK’s most popular music magazine.
Please click on the image above to read my review of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” for the website of The Fly, the UK’s most popular music magazine.
Please click the image above to read the article “When Remakes Go Right” for the website of The Fly, the UK’s most popular music magazine.
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February 20, 2013 karinshahLeave a Comment on Matri-what?
Previous Fated mates? Love ’em or hate ’em?
Next BLOOD AND KISSES FREE TODAY AND TOMORROW!
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Why do libs call Trump worthless with a four percent GDP Growth Rate BEST IN DECADES! Possible peace in Korea! ISIS, term rarely used?
Obama left foreign policy and economy a mess.
YOU CANNOT TRUST them and their job is to cause the GOVERNMENT as many problems as they can and to try to divide the nation as much as possible..
Not to mention destroying our clean air, clean water, relationships with our oldest allies to mention a few other "achievements". And don't forget sucking up to and pledging allegiance to one of our oldest, most devious enemies.
I don't call him worthless. I call him a traitor. If Mussolini had 4 percent GDP I would still call him a Fascist.
Trump has nothing to do with the ups and downs of the business cycle.
People who hate supply-side economics also hate the middle class!
He has done far more harm that good for this country and is trying to ruin things for other countries. Stop yer nonsense.
Their worst nightmare. Peace doesn't get democrats elected.
Right Now, It Looks Like Trump Will Win in 2020"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49884.htm "Amidst the backdrop of increased U.S.-Russian tensions and even talk of war, long forgotten is the time the U.S. actually invaded"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/11/natos-crisis-and-the-trans-atlantic-conflict/ "The only – only – reason, NATO exists today is the presence and nature of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact (raison d’etre, existential argument – however a little strange, perhaps, in that the Warsaw Pact was established in 1955, NATO in 1949 – but defining the world in such terms that my own profession seems utterly important is nothing new to human beings)."
Trump is an utter moron and an embarrassment to our country. The whole world is laughing at him.
Former CIA Director John Brennan: "Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump's comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???"
Why can’t people from Puerto Rico move to the mainland but they have to live in poverty?
Why has Isis not been arrested yet?
So Rachael the turd seems to be a Christian extremist as of late, why does she go against Christian extremists then?
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Dimensions: 8 7/8" x 8 7/8"
Reproduced from a window in the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo NY, Opalescent is truly a masterpiece, reflecting an iridescent light both from within and without this magnificent home. Known as Frank Lloyd Wright's most integrated complex and the quintessential Prairie House, the Martin House was built in the early years of the 20th century, in Buffalo, NY for Darwin and Isabelle Martin. Frank Lloyd Wright took personal responsibility for ensuring that every detail of the house unite in an expression of his inimitable style, including the vibrant stained glass windows of radiance and light.
This Frank Lloyd Wright Collection product is authorized by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona and has been developed with the cooperation of the Dana-Thomas House Foundation. A portion of the sales of this product supports the conservation and education programs of these institutions.
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Now that we have created identities and logos for our table teams it was time to use group work skills to complete a problem solving challenge. Using only string and an elastic band the teams had to make a tower of paper cups without using touching the cups with there hands. Lots of great group work! Well done p4b!
Just another reminder that we would like to welcome families to come and meet your child’s new teacher on Tuesday 30th August between 3:30 -4pm.
We have started off the year with lots of fun paired and group tasks. Everyone was really welcoming to our 3 new class members and it’s been great to catch up with some pupils I know very well and get to know some new ones too!
Here is a little snapshot of our first day.
The children shared some great ideas for what they would like to make their learning environment work for them.
Johannes shared his brilliant reading challenge success from the summer. Well done once again!
We worked in pairs to do a summer holiday scavenger hunt.
Lots of happy faces during our ‘Maths About Me’ activity.
We finished the afternoon by looking at the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. We talked about our rights and responsibilities in school and began to make our Class Charter.
Well done everyone for making our first day in p4b together such a good one. See you all tomorrow!
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AFSC is shining a spotlight on the excessive influence of powerful corporations through a strategic education and action project on ‘Governing Under the Influence’ (GUI). The project is starting in Iowa and New Hampshire, the two states that get the lion’s share of attention from presidential candidates.
The project focuses on the idea that we need to ask our representatives tough questions about humane alternatives to current militarized policies; alternatives that bring about shared security for all rather than selective protection of some. These questions become particularly pertinent when thinking about immigration policies and defense contracts.
See this interactive showcase based on Fusion’s investigation, which found that without a single vote in Congress, officials across three administrations created a new classification of federal prisons only for immigrants, decided that private companies would run the facilities, and filled them by changing immigration enforcement practices.
Is increasing militarization at home and abroad really furthering the security of individuals and communities- either in the US or outside? Or is it merely bolstering the security of the state apparatus – what Eisenhower presciently referred to as the Military-Industrial Complex? A recent study found that foreign intervention is 100 times more likely in oil-rich states. The research frames oil as a dominant motivating factor in conflicts, and argues that hydrocarbons heavily influenced the West’s military intervention in Libya. It also suggests that oil plays a noteworthy factor in the US-led war against Islamic State.
This entry was posted in Shared Security Roundup and tagged Demilitarize Us, foreign intervention, government under influence, immigration, libya oil, mass incarceration, militarization, military industrial complex, obama in india, shadow prisons, us immigration policy. Bookmark the permalink.
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here is a cool app that my friend showed me recently...it organizes all of the things you like to read and presents it in a clean "flippable" format...like a magazine!
let me just say that i am a big fan of handwritten cards, but this app is great for those times when you're in a pinch...very easy to use and great selection!
gps tracking app that allows you to follow someone's route...they send you a "glympse" (like a text) and then you can see their location instantly...awesome!
this app makes me jump up and down for joy.
what a wonderful way to kick off the start of Christmas!
while at the long beach flea market i wandered into 3 booths that made my heart race to the point of almost passing out...you know the feeling...don'tcha???
this linen roll you see above had me at "hello"...i was cradling it in my arms and stroking it against my cheek repeating "my precious" in the voice of gollum from lord of the rings. yeah...the people in the booth thought i had lost it.
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He chose UofT’s Commerce Program because of it offered a good mix of economics and electives, as well as a very strong faculty. His undergraduate experience was shaped by his decision in second year to move into an on-campus fraternity house. “The mix of social activities in the midst of academics was a winning one for me,” he says. A jazz musician, David played in the football marching band and also held elected positions, including president of his fraternity.
For the next four years, he worked at McKinsey where he focused on marketing and organizational strategy. However, when he accepted a job at the CBC as Assistant to the President for strategic planning, he realized that he was happiest applying his academic and early business experience in a creative milieu.
Rotman Commerce allowed me to pave my own path to success. Academically, I was able to explore various fields of interest through my courses and research assistantship. My extra-curricular involvement helped me develop leadership skills as well as long-lasting relationships with my peers. And professionally, the alumni network and career centre connected me with top industry professionals and prepared me to succeed in my internships.
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Like the bazaars of old, our shop is slowly taking form. Like a couple of sheets over a wood frame and a table full of trinkets, our humble shop displays the products of our heartfelt craft.
We enjoy the finer things in life. Sometimes what we think are the finer things are different from what others think are the finer things.
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All our mixtapes are available to listen to on online, but for those of you who like a finely crafted object we have compiled all current spoken word mixtapes into two volumes and produced them as the beautiful CDs you see above.
Created for the first Mapping Poetry event, this rather peculiar cartographic gem holds within it the work of five poets who have written on the notion of location.
The map folds up into a self-contained triangle. The fold was created and widely used by soldiers during The Great Patriotic War, a time when censorship was a major concern and letters had to be read before coming off the front line.
Green risograph print on pale yellow Evercolour paper.
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Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. It is an active volcano and its height is an altitude of 3,776 meters. In June of 2013, it was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage property, under the name of ‘sacred place and source of artistic inspiration.’ As ‘the great object of universal devotion’ and ‘a source of artistic inspiration,’ Mount Fuji has been effecting to Japanese people’s lives, and their nature and culture. Therefore, it is drawn and created to maps by people. Fujisan no zu (富士山之圖) and Dai Nihon Fujisan Zetcho no zu (大日本富士山絶頂之圖) are the example of them.
Fujisan no zu (富士山之圖) – It means a ‘Map of Mount Fuji.’ This map was created by Sawaguchi Seio in 1848, which was Edo (or Tokugawa) period. It is a flat map and its dimensions are 91.4X96.5cm. However, it is a three-dimensional map at the same time, because the middle part of the map could be folded like a cone shape. It looks like real Mount Fuji when it is folded. Moreover, middle part of the left side of the map could be flipped. When it is flipped, there is another monochrome image. Overall, the map is showing an aerial view of Mount Fuji, and many religious features, such as pilgrims, figures of Buddha and monks, are indicated on the map.
Dai Nihon Fujisan Zetcho no zu (大日本富士山絶頂之圖) – It means a ‘Map of the summit of Mount Fuji.’ This map was created by Utagawa Sadahide in 1857, which was also Edo (or Tokugawa) period. It is a flat map and its dimensions are 36.0X76.0cm. It becomes a piece of completed map when three different parts are connected. Overall, the map is showing a panoramic view of crater of Mount Fuji. There are many religious features as well, such as torii (とりい), pilgrims and fortress with figures of Buddha.
As it could be seen above, there are many similarities between the two maps. In this writing, religious background of Mount Fuji would be discussed. At the same time, similarities of the two maps, such as spot signals (paths to the summit), pilgrims and no appearance of woman, would be analyzed based on the religious background.
Mount Fuji has been considered as a sacred presence to Japanese. As the great object of universal devotion, it influenced Japanese’s outlook on nature. Japanese looked up the mountain and worshiped when it had volcanic activity. When the activity finished, the faith toward mountain and imported foreign Buddhism were combined, and the mountain became a place of asceticism. Especially people aimed to go up to the top and walk through the path with worshipping their gods. After few years, normal people who were called as believers climbed the mountain to follow the ascetics. In the middle of Edo period, after 17th century, Fujiko was appeared and spread. Fujiko was kind a lesson that taught a doctrine of Fuji religion. Many of Fujiko believers worshipped with walking the foot of the mountain and Oshi houses were reorganized to support believers who climbed the mountain. Oshi houses offered a place to sleep and some foods.
A start of Mount Fuji religion – A long time ago, people formed a community or performed religious ceremony at the foot of the mountain. Around 8-9th century, people thought the repeating volcanic activities were anger of a god of fire ‘Asamano Okami(浅間大神).’ To clam her down, people started to worship her from a distance. They looked top of the mountain and prayed, and it became a custom. Because of the custom, a place was created in order to worship from afar, like Yamamiya sengen shrine. After 800 years, Mount Fuji kept repeating great volcanic activities. To calm it down, some shrines were built again to pay people’s respects to the souls of Asamano Okami.
Fuji religion became popular – Around 12th century, Mount Fuji’s volcanic activities were calm down. Men of religion who were called as ascetics climbed the mountain to get some power from gods because they believed Mount Fuji was a land of asceticism. On the top of the mountain, a base of religion was built along the wall of craters. Around the craters, there were eight peaks and people thought they were eight floral leaves of lotus. People went on a pilgrimage to the eight peaks and it was called ‘Ohachimeguri.’ Matsudai Shonin, who was famous for climbing the mountain the most, built a temple, which was named ‘Dainichiji,’ on the top of the mountain. Moreover, he built ‘Murayama sengen’ shrine and it was a base for practice asceticism among men of religion. After 14th century, normal people could be pilgrims and climbed the mountain to follow the ascetics. From the entrance of the mountain, trails were reorganized and communities were formed for the climbers.
Prosperity of Fuji religion – In 17th century, Fujiko was created that came from ‘Hasegawa Gaku’ religion. Fujiko was a group of people who were full with faiths. They worshipped Mount Fuji as making a pilgrimage to scared places in a foot of the mountain such as Saiko, Shojiko and Oshino Hatkai. There were known as Gaku religion’s asceticism places. In 18th century, Fujiko gained explosive popularity among normal people. Therefore, the number of climbers increased and Oshi houses were developed. As living at the Oshi houses, monks led and took care the believers. In the middle of 19th century, path of pilgrimage in Mount Fuji was not the only one. It should not have to walk through by turns. It was made with many routes, which could be walk with various purposes of pilgrimage.
There are many religious features on the two maps. For example, on Fujisan no zu, there are many pilgrims, two monks and figures of Buddha. There are rooms and features of Buddha are located in the rooms. People go into the room and pray. Also, there are many writings on the map and one of them, the Waka poem that is in the middle of the map includes religious meaning. It says, “If you climb Mount Fuji, there is a scared meaning.” In addition, on Dai Nihon Fujisan Zetcho no zu, there are pilgrims who make a pilgrimage around the crater. Moreover,similar to Fujisan no zu, there are rooms and features of Buddha. People are praying to features of Buddha in fortresses. Furthermore, there are many toriis which look like a gate. They are usually located in front of shrine as a symbol of fortune. People believe that abusive things are changed to sacred through out the gate. They could be located in front of nature, then it means they worship the nature itself.
Spot signals (paths to the summit) – On the both maps, there are yellow or red spot signals and path to the summit. The spot signals indicate spots’ name or sacred places. Moreover, there are many paths to the summit at Mount Fuji, however, there are only important or popular paths are indicated on the maps.
Konohana no Sakuya hime and No admittance to woman – Mountain Fuji’s also had a mountain spirit and it was a woman. Her name was ‘Konohana no Sakuya hime (コノハナノサクヤビメ)’ and she was a god of blooming flowers. As a god of mountain Fuji, she was enshrined at Shingen shrine. However, one ironic thing is, women could not climb the mountain and they were banned even though the mountain spirit was woman. On the two maps, woman could not be found and all people on the maps are men.
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Members and leaders of opposition parties as well as protesters were extrajudicially executed. General elections took place in May against a backdrop of restrictions on civil society, the media and the political opposition, including excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators, the disruption of opposition campaigns, and the harassment of election observers from the opposition. The police and the military conducted mass arrests of protesters, journalists and opposition party members as part of a crackdown on protests in the Oromia region.
The ruling political party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, won all the seats in the Federal and Regional Parliaments in the general election.
The opposition Semayawi Party reported that the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) refused to register over half of its proposed candidates for the House of Peoples’ Representatives: of 400 candidates, only 139 were able to stand for election. The opposition Medrek coalition reported that the NEBE only approved 270 of the 303 candidates it had proposed to register.
Famine due to rainfall shortages during the main harvesting season (June to September) affected more than 8 million people in the north and east.
Police and security officers arrested Omot Agwa Okwoy, Ashinie Astin Titoyk and Jemal Oumar Hojele at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport on 15 March, on their way to a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop was organized by the NGO Bread for All with the support of the NGOs Anywaa Survival Organisation and GRAIN. The police held the three men for 161 days without bail at the Maekelawi detention centre, beyond the four months allowed by the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (ATP), under which they were charged on 7 September.
On 12 May, security officers arrested two campaigners and three supporters of the Semayawi Party who were putting up campaign posters in the capital, Addis Ababa. They were released on bail after four days in detention.
On 19 May, Bekele Gerba and other members of the Oromo Federalist Congress were campaigning in Oromia when police and local security officers beat, arrested and detained them for a couple of hours.
Over 500 members of Medrek were arrested at various polling stations in Oromia region on 24 and 25 May. Security officers beat and injured 46 people during the elections; six people sustained gunshot injuries and two were killed.
Four members and leaders of opposition parties were killed after the election.
Samuel Aweke, founder of the Semayawi Party, was found dead on 15 June in the city of Debre Markos. A few days before his death he had published an article in his party’s newspaper, Negere Ethiopia, criticizing the behaviour of local authorities, police and other security officials. The Semayawi Party claimed that Samuel Aweke had received threats from security officials after the article was published.
On 16 June, Medrek member Taddesse Abreha was accosted on his way home in the Western Tigrai zone by three unknown people who attempted to strangle him. He died shortly after reaching his home.
Medrek member Berhanu Erbu was found dead on 19 June near a river in the Hadiya zone, 24 hours after he was taken from his home by two police officers.
Asrat Haile, election observer on behalf of Medrek in the Adio Kaka unit, Ginbo Woreda district and Kefa zone, died after being repeatedly beaten by police officials on 5 July.
None of these deaths except Samuel Aweke’s was investigated. The Semayawi Party said the trial, conviction and sentencing of Samuel Aweke’s killer were a “sham”, intended to protect the real culprit.
In the run-up to the general elections, the government continued to use the ATP to suppress freedom of expression through the continued detention of journalists and protracted trials: it arrested and charged at least 17 journalists under the ATP. Many also fled the country due to intimidation, harassment and politically motivated criminal charges.
Police arrested Habtamu Minale, editor-in-chief of Kedami newspaper and reporter for YeMiliyonoch Dimts newspaper, on 9 July at his house. He was released on 26 July without charge.
The Public Prosecutor dropped the charges against two members of the Zone 9 bloggers’ group. On 16 October, the High Court acquitted five of the Zone 9 bloggers of terrorism charges, after they had spent over 500 days in pre-trial detention.
On 22 October, the High Court convicted and sentenced in his absence Gizaw Taye, Manager of Dadimos Entertainment and Press, to 18 years’ imprisonment for terrorism .
On 27 January, police used excessive force to disperse a peaceful demonstration in Addis Ababa that was organized by the Unity for Democracy and Justice opposition party. Police beat demonstrators with batons, sticks and iron rods on the head, face, hands and legs, injuring more than 20 of them.
On 22 April, the government called a rally on Meskel Square to condemn the killing in Libya of Ethiopian migrants by affiliates of the armed group Islamic State (IS). When some demonstrators shouted slogans during the rally, police used excessive force, including tear gas and beatings, to disperse the crowd, which escalated the situation to clashes between protesters and police. A journalist reported that 48 people had been injured and admitted to hospital, and that many others sustained minor injuries. Hundreds were reported to have been arrested. Woyneshet Molla, Daniel Tesfaye, Ermias Tsegaye and Betelehem Akalework were arrested on 22 April and charged with inciting violence during the rally. They were convicted and sentenced to two months in prison, and were kept in custody for more than 10 days after the completion of their prison term, although courts had ordered their release. The police released them on bail on 2 July.
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So, ’tis November. Which means NaBloPoMo. Last year was the first time I succeeded, and I would love to try again, but who knows.
That said, I didn’t want to throw in the towel the very first day, so here’s a picture of me and Keith with Keith and Chemda from Keith and the Girl. They had a live show here last weekend and it was a blast. So excited for April when we’ll go to New York for Keith(the other one)’s birthday extravaganza.
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Why does my burned DVD only play in the front monitor of the car but not the back monitor. Regular DVDs will play in both front and back🤔.?
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For thirty eight years, I always prided myself on the fact that I had never, ever been fired from a job. Ever. I was always the one who left a job. Truth be told (especially when I was in my twenties), the going would get tough, or I would get bored or worse, if I felt slighted in the tiniest bit, I would simply put in my notice. Leave. Find something new. If I got bored, I’d leave. If I got frustrated, I’d leave. If my sales sucked or if I didn’t get that promotion, I’d leave. I did this throughout my entire twenties. When I turned thirty, I gave up on J.O.B.s and started working freelance. I was my own boss and I got to choose which clients I wanted to work with. If I didn’t get a good vibe from someone, if they ticked me off, or if I simply didn’t like working with them, I would just stop returning their calls when they requested me. I held the power. I made the decisions. I ran my own life.
The thing about that type of control though, is that it can seriously affect your work ethic. If you think about it, if I’ve never been fired, then that would make me a quitter. Of course there are positions that, um yeah, you have to leave. If they are taking advantage of you, if the situation is hazardous to your well being, etc. By all means, quit. But in each of my situations, I simply quit, gave up. Looking back, I see that I was indeed a quitter.
I didn’t realize this though until I recently got fired for the very first time. Let’s be honest, I was indeed on the verge of quitting. I loved the job. I loved the company. But what they needed and what I could provide just didn’t fit together. I was feeling very frustrated that what I was providing to my boss wasn’t working for them, yet he was still paying me for producing the work that I felt was “useless”. I felt bad. I felt like he was wasting his money. That’s a feeling I really hate. And it was neither of our faults. I’m a great “key”, I’m just the wrong “key” to fit in the company’s “lock”. I was feeling guilt, frustration, and those of course led to anger and a desire to leave. But I didn’t. I kept at it. I pushed through the frustration. I came up with even more ideas, more suggestions, more content. But still, it just didn’t work. We weren’t the right match. So when I got an email from my boss asking when would be a convenient time to talk to me, I knew what he was going to say. I was getting fired.
My initial reaction was anger. WHAT?!? ME??? FIRED??? WTF!!! But after a bit, I realized that my being fired was a good thing. It was the first time ever that I was not the one to give up. I pushed through it. I kept at it. I didn’t quit like I had so many, many other times. Am I relieved though that I’m no longer employed at that company? Yes, absolutely. Like I stated, we just weren’t the right fit. I still adore the company and we have a tremendous amount of respect for each other. But I’m also very proud of myself for not giving up.
The next time you are in a tough spot where you would normally give up, try and see if you can stick it out a little longer. It doesn’t have to be forever. Because by sticking it out, you never know what you might be able to accomplish. Even if it’s just knowing that you can handle more than you ever thought you could.
The universe works in mysterious ways. I’ve struggled lately trying to figure out “what I wanted to be when I grew up”. I guess it all started in high school. I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life and so I took the ASVAB test which tests your various aptitudes and tells you what areas of work you would do well at. Unfortunately for me, the results said, “You’d do well in all subjects”. Well that sure narrowed it down.
College was the same. I decided to settle on a business degree specializing in the service industry as all industries require people who have a background in business and most require interacting with people. Still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, but at least it was a start.
I bounced around genres during my work life as well. I worked for department stores, rental car companies, staffing companies, cosmetics companies, etc. And while I was good at all of them, nothing felt quite like the right fit. Even working freelance didn’t feel like the right fit. I always felt fake, a phony, like I didn’t fit in.
Recently though, I started thinking about the things that really make me happy. The things that when I do them, they don’t feel like work. And I was able to narrow it down to two succinct things: digital communications and beauty. I know that tech and lipstick don’t always seem to go together, I love being on the computer creating things that impact peoples emotions and lives, and I also love putting makeup on women and impacting their emotions and lives in that way.
It was a hard decision to narrow down my priorities and an even harder decision cutting/limiting ties to those projects that don’t align with those.
But the universe has a very weird way of working. I had made my decision and redirected my focus, and literally the next morning I was headhunted for my dream job!
Starting Monday, I will be working for an aesthetic surgeon. I get to handle all of his digital communications-social media, web site, blog, newsletters, etc. His wife owns a skincare and cosmetics company, so while I work in the office, I still get to do makeovers on women. I get to combine both things that I love to do. I also get off of work in enough time to pick my kids up from school and then I get to finish my work day in front of my laptop at home. To top it off, turns out I had met his wife years ago through a fashion organization I belong to.
So, when you feel like your are floundering around aimlessly, take a long hard look at what makes you happy. You never know where it will lead you.
This photo was on Facebook today and it just really resonated me from a personal and professional standpoint. I seem to be so very busy lately with all sorts of projects, but which ones really speak to me? I work freelance to be able to have the control over my business and my life. The kind of freedom that people stuck in their cubicles dream of. Am I being true to that?
Are you true to yourself? That’s an interesting question. It should be the kind of question we all ask ourselves and then have the luxury to be able to live. Sadly though, many either can’t, choose not to, or even worse, don’t even know that it’s an option. I fortunately have the option and can, but am I?
The great thing though about life, is you get a choice. No one can make you do anything. The “gun to your head” scare tactic…you still have a choice. “I had no choice” is never an excuse. And I’ve decided to make some choices to help me get back to being true to myself and what my goals are in my career and my life.
They are not easy choices. Nothing really truly great in life is an easy choice, an easy decision. But you know it’s a great choice, a great decision when once you make it and act on it, you feel a release off your shoulders, a spring in your step, an excitement each morning when you awake to face the day ahead.
I have an extremely odd way of making those tough decisions. I use a Magic 8 Ball. Yes, that’s right. I ask my question, swirl the ball around and let it reveal the answer. BUT, I don’t look at what the Magic 8 Ball says for my answer, I get more philosophical than that. When I read the answer, I focus on my immediate gut reaction. Do I feel relieved? Or do I feel like I was punched in the stomach. That first, immediate reaction is sub-conscious and can’t be faked. By honing in on that, it allows me to make those decisions that I know I need to make, but I keep rationalizing both sides of it.
Regardless of the strategies to help make choices, important decisions in your life, they must be made. Waiting in limbo for too long may make your life stand still, but time is still passing, time that you can not get back. Time spent worrying, rationalizing, stagnating.
This photo had me thinking about the decisions that I’ve had to make recently that I had been stagnating on. Those choices that I need to make to get back to who I am, to be true to myself. Those choices that once made, will drastically improve my personal and professional life because when you are living and working on your purpose, you feel invigorated, alive and most importantly, happy.
Making a Postive Difference in Someone’s Life..
Years ago (heck, might even be close to a decade ago), I did a weekend seminar designed to help you find your purpose in life and then use that purpose to make your dreams come true. Hokey, I know, but I’m a self-help nut-job. 🙂 After the first full day of classes, I spent the evening really reflecting. Journaling, just letting whatever come out. From there I reviewed what I had written when it just hit me…my purpose in life, what truly makes me happy.
I think that’s why I can’t focus my efforts in work at just one genre. Lots of things that I can do make people happy. When I put makeup on someone or teach them how to make themselves beautiful, it makes them (and me) happy. Some of my most favorite customers are the ones that when I finished their look, I couldn’t get the mirror out of their hands. They were so happy with how they looked, that they actually started tearing up. I love that!
In my social media and digital communications work, I try to find fun and humor in everything. With the explosion of tech communication, we are constantly bombarded by news, horror stories, disasters, and drama. Unfortunately, the drama sells, it goes viral, it’s what clogs up your newsfeed. And it’s a major downer! I can’t stand that I scroll and see a natural disaster somewhere, another scroll and I see a man-made disaster, another scroll and children are missing and/or abused, another scroll and there’s racial, sexual, financial hatred. I can’t stand it. So I made it my mission to try to change that. I try to make my posts and articles uplifting, inspiring, and always a tiny bit (ok, some more than just a tiny bit) humorous.
Sometimes I lose track of it all, but then something happens, someone says something and then I’m reminded of the power I have over other people. A great friend of mine revealed that she can’t read my posts at work anymore. I’m serious! She said it’s because she laughs so crazy, so hysterically that she either spits out whatever she’s eating or drinking all over her charts (she’s a nurse) or she ends up having people run into the room to see if she’s ok. And I love that! She’s come to expect that from me and she knows that if she ever needs a pick-me-up, then I’m right there, at any hour of the day, on her smart phone.
I guess you could say that I’m a little bit of a therapist as well. Taking people when they are having a rough time and making them feel a little bit better, give them a little more hope. A good friend of mine just lost her job. That can be devastating in this market especially when you add into the mix that she is a single mother and her car is not working right now. Being able to help give someone hope and even make them laugh a little helps with the healing process, helps with the moving on.
Hello, my name is Jeanette and I’m an organizing freak. Yes, I admit it. I can not function in chaos. I’m a planner as well. I have to know all my steps, my master to-do list, my map so-to-speak. I have always been that way and I am finally comfortable enough and proud to say that I will always be that way. We all operate and function in different ways. Just as people learn via different methods, people can also thrive (or not thrive) in various environments.
For years, nay almost a decade, I thought that something was wrong with me, on why I couldn’t succeed in doing things, why others succeeded when I didn’t, why I consistently felt stressed out and not myself. Part of it was those people that I thought were my mentors and while they were (and still are) amazing people which I learned a lot from, they consistently told me one thing over and over again which seriously hindered me…they told me “quit planning and just do”. While that may work for most people, I am certainly not most people and it definitely did not work for me. And it wasn’t until recently that I realized that.
I was bumbling along in my career. Trying to succeed in this, trying to succeed in that, with zero luck. I was attempting the “just do”, but I didn’t feel like myself and when you don’t feel like yourself, you definitely lack self-confidence. And when you don’t have self-confidence, well…everyone can tell. I didn’t feel strong or sure of myself. I constantly second-guessed myself. I consistently let fear of the unknown get the better of me. And I think that the biggest thing for me is the fear of the unknown. Heck, I get ridiculously uncomfortable driving in new places unless I’ve reviewed the route via Google Maps at least a half dozen times. I need to know the route, the back up route and the back up route for the back up route. The same is true of my life.
I make plans and then I play devil’s advocate to come up with a few back-up plans just in case. I’m constantly joking around that if you create a back up plan, then you won’t need it, but if you don’t have a back-up plan, then that’s when you’ll need it. Yeah, I joke about it, but I really truly believe it to the core. It calms me, it soothes me. Knowing I have a plan B and a plan C, allows me to relax about plan A, not worry so much about it, have more self-confidence about it and you know what? I very rarely have to use plan B and I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to use plan C. It’s just so comforting to me knowing that they are there.
And that works for me. It gets rid of a lot of the chaos (I’ll never get rid of all of it, nor would I want to as chaos does provide that air of excitement), but most importantly it leaves me with a calmer mind that allows me to succeed in my project du jour.
Now for those naysayers who are thinking to themselves (or even out loud), “Sure, you’re a great planner, but plan all you want, nothing happens until you do something”. Here’s where I take my planning to the “doing” level. Once I have a gameplan, I set it up into teeny tiny, succinct to-do lists. I mean like ridiculously tiny and succinct (google such-and-such to brainstorm, pick top 3 ideas from google brainstorm session, create a gameplan for each top 3 ideas from google brainstorm session-yes, those have been actual to-do items for me). Then I take those to-do items and add them into my calendar task list for the appropriate day that it should be done on. If a to-do item doesn’t or can’t have a due date, then that means that I need to re-evaluate it in my overall gameplan and tweak it to where it can have a due date. Everything in my gameplans ultimately have due dates. That’s how I can take my planning self and turn it into a doing self. If it’s a project that take two weeks to complete, then I break it down into teeny, tiny bites/tasks that can each be accomplished in one day and then I add all of those to my task list.
Sure, I end up having 40-50 tasks each day to do, but you know what? Over half of those tasks take 5 minutes or less each. And I’m telling you, you definitely feel like you are having a successful day when you are constantly checking off things as completed. And lots of little baby steps can take you really far.
Creating those task lists by due date also help clear my mind in that I only worry about what is on my list for today. I don’t worry about tomorrow or the next day or next week. I don’t have to worry about forgetting something, because as soon as I think of “something that I have to make sure I don’t forget”, I add it to my calendar task list and then I’m free to forget about it until it conveniently pops up in my list on the day it’s due. It’s refreshing and limits my daily stress.
Now, one extremely important thing that I have learned and 100% respect is that not everyone operates like I do. Where I try to avoid chaos, there are others out there that thrive in it, that love it, that fuels them. There are those people who just the thought of a to-do list freaks them out. And it’s very important to know that that’s ok! We all function differently in different ways and in different environments. The key to success, especially when working in groups, is to understand that the way that you do things is not the way that others are going to want to do things. It’s ok to allow each member of a team to do things their way as long as they get to the agreed upon final product. Just as Google Maps has various ways to get somewhere, the same is true of projects.
I guess what I’m trying to say is to embrace who you are and how you work while respecting the way others work. Tolerance like in all areas of life is important. Be tolerant to others but also be tolerant to yourself. That’s the one we typically forget. Let others be themselves, but don’t forget to be yourself as well.
Lately I’ve been doing an awful lot of bartering and I’ve got to say…I almost prefer bartering to getting paid cash money!
With cash, I use it for things like buying groceries, paying the electric bill, putting gas in my car. And while I enjoy eating good food, having lights on at night and driving my kitty cat around (I own an old Jag), I don’t get to do very much fun stuff for myself. Maybe it’s the “mom” in me that I want to spend my money on “smart” things for my family, but sometimes I just want things for myself. I work hard, I deserve it. A happy mom/wife equals a happy life, right?
I’m really open to just about anything! I think that we can all get a lot farther along in our lives and careers by reintroducing the barter system. Granted we still need paying gigs to be able to pay for our electric bill, but why not barter with our friends, colleagues and neighbors for other things?
What things do you like to barter for? Got anything you’d like to barter with me for?
There is absolutely nothing UNclassier than a grumpy grumpster. Bad, negative attitude, bitchy even. It’s just so not classy. But we all get that way some days. It’s normal, it’s natural. We do so many things throughout our days that if we don’t take a little time to destress, it can drive us absolutely bonkers. Some days we just need to “check out” for a while and yesterday was most definitely one of those days for me.
I’ve been handling and running so many different projects lately (ones that I’m excited about!), but between those, a hubbie, two kids, and the not-so-fun symptoms of peri-menopause, I will admit it, I was bitchy yesterday…and the day before that…and if we’re counting, the day before that too. You get the idea. So I decided to take a much needed break last night even though my to-do list was horrendous, I was going to do no one any good unless I decompressed and took some time for myself. I decided to do a tech-free spa night.
There’s no fabulous pictures of my spa night because I went tech-free for the evening-no emails, no Facebook, no television. I had a pile of fashion magazines waiting to be read (ummmm…one of them was from last November…oops). I also had a complexion that was feeling worse for wear. So I gave myself a DIY facial. I removed my eye make-up and washed my face. Then I put on a glycolic peel mask (the one from No7) and waited a little bit longer than what they initially said, ok, a lot longer, but who’s counting? After washing it off, I put on a super hydrating mask from Nuxe (the 24hr hydrating one). After letting that sit, I rinsed it off then went to work putting on my treatments. I’m really loving the new L’Oreal Revitalift series-specifically the hyaluronic acid serum and the regular serum. I used the hyaluronic one where I needed it so basically everywhere from my nose down. The regular serum I put everywhere else. I then topped everything off with a heavy duty shea butter cream from No7 (the one with the rose top). I then plopped myself in my recliner with a cocktail, some chocolates and my fashion magazines. All, in all it made for a fabulous night!
This morning I woke up to the softest skin I’ve had in a REALLY long time and I felt motivated to start tackling my to-do list again. Sometimes we just need to step away from things for a few hours and regain ourselves back.
What do you like to do to step away and recharge?
Last weekend I got the honor of attending the 5th annual La Jolla International Film Festival with a blogger’s pass. Sooooo very excited about this!
But when you try to live your life “classy on a budget” and are going to be surrounded by people wearing Chanel, Dior and Prada as well as one-of-a-kind designer outfits, it honestly can make you a little intimidated.
But I knew I could pull it off. I just had to be a little bit creative. Ok, maybe a lot of creative. But with the compliments I received throughout the weekend, I say I rocked it.
This was opening night. I bought the jumpsuit at Ross on the Las Vegas strip for under $20. I wanted it super flowy since I was attending a summer event so I went with a size 8P even though I’m a 0/2 (also it was the only size they had it in and I loved it!) The shoes are Prabal Gurung for Target purchased on sale for about $30. The handbag and belt were also Target and purchased YEARS ago. I think I paid $20 for the belt and around the same for the purse. The jewelry is all from the swap meet here in San Diego. The ring and bracelets are just simply, inexpensive costume jewelry. The earrings though are vintage from the 1950s. I also bought them from the local swap meet but bought them from the little old lady who originally owned them. So I think total for the outfit was under $130.
Second day was seminars. This is an amazing black vintage dress given to me by a good friend. It belonged to her mom, but didn’t fit either of them anymore. My friend knew that I would give this dress new life and so she gave it to me. The shoes are from the local Goodwill store for $5.99. That’s right, FIVE BUCKS!!! That killer necklace is once again from my favorite store, Tar-jay, and I bought it on clearance for $10. The shades are from the Dollar Tree. Total cost of outfit? $17 baby!!!
Day three: seminars. And I brought my little fashionista in training with me! On me: hat-swap meet for $7, Shirt, belt, shoes, purse from Target for $20, $20, $30, $40 respectively (Prabal, Mossimo, Prabal, Mossimo respectively). Skirt is Bebe from a thrift shop in Temecula called Ritzy Rags for $25. Cost of my outfit: $142 but the belt is the same one that I wore on day one. I actually repeated accessories at the same event!!!!
Final day of the event: red carpet. The shoes which you can’t see in the photo are the same ones I wore opening night-Target for $30. The purse was a gift. The dress is Bebe from once again my trusty local Goodwill and I snagged it for a whopping $14.99. Total cost for outfit: $44.99.
So, how’d I do? Not too shabby if I do say so myself. This event really forced me to be creative and to look at my wardrobe in a completely different way. What do you have in your closet that you can get super creative with?
Just a quickie as I am on vacation. In Vegas. At the pool. With a cocktail! Bien sur!
But wanted to show how you can still look fashionabulous at a swanky pool yet not kill you pocketbook.
All it takes is a little creativity/thinking outside of the box and knowing where to shop!
One of the classiest things (and not to mention budget-friendly) is cultivating great relationships with people. It doesn’t cost you a thing and yet it can bring you so much!
I have a colleague that I met a couple years ago. I had hired her as the hair/make-up artist for a project I was doing and loved her from the get-go.
Through the years, anytime that I had a project in which I needed assistance, she was always the first person on my list. She’s super sweet, extremely reliable (something that is sadly rare in today’s age) and not to mention obscenely talented!
How talented might you ask? Check it out!
Utter fabulousity! Right!!! My boring brown hair was completely functional (it covered my grays) but seriously lacked in the form part of it. I mean, come on! I work in a creative field! Shouldn’t I have creative hair to match???
She touched-up my roots and then used the bayalage technique to handpaint in luscious caramel highlights.
Then she got to work chop-chopping away at my snooze-fest of a bob. First up was some serious texturizing all around. I wanted to keep a bunch of my length, but desperately needed a new lease on hair. She finished the cut by adding some great bangs. I don’t know why I always poo-poo bangs. I look pretty darn good in them!
Now, here’s where great relationships come in handy! We negotiated…she did my hair and I cooked her a super yummy, healthy dinner and gave her two large bags of produce fresh from my backyard in exchange for a discount on my services. If you have great relationships with people, then this sort of thing is possible. But if you have a bad reputation in business…then forget about it! Your reputation and business relationships are EVERYTHING in life. And it doesn’t cost you anything to maintain positive ones.
Always strive to do the right things, treat people the right way. It most definitely pays off. In this instance, I got not just good hair days, but GREAT hair days!
And my super cool shades…Dollar Store BABY!!!
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The Libraries broadly collect graphic arts materials including those dealing with the history of the book, printing, typography, illustration, calligraphy, paper, and allied subjects to meet the needs of graduate humanities and arts students and faculty whose research encompasses in these topics. The major part of the collection is housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library but other materials are in the Avery Library, Butler General Library, the former School of Library Service Collection which is housed in the 131st Street Annex, and the Starr East Asian Collection.
Overall, the libraries' existing collection, its current acquisitions commitment, based upon available resources, and its collecting goal for graphic arts are all at the research level.
Formats collected: We collect monographs very extensively, periodicals extensively, and manuscripts selectively. We do not actively collect any other formats. Our existing collection also includes ephemera.
Imprint Dates Collected: We collect late 19th and 20th century materials extensively and earlier imprints selectively. Our existing collection contains much earlier material.
Chronological focus: We collect materials dealing with all time periods.
Languages Collected: We collect English and Western European language materials extensively and materials in all other languages selectively.
Place of publication: We collect materials published in North America and Western Europe extensively and materials published in all other countries selectively.
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So, do we want censorship?
The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa issued a strongly worded statement last night denouncing as propaganda a travelling cultural performance that features the simulated killing of a Falun Gong supporter by Chinese police.
Update: Filthy lucre: the Globe is still fixated on placating China, making money, and knocking the Cons. Human rights, well, tail-end Charlie in the story.
The federal Conservative government has vowed to revive its stalled relationship with China, promising new money and staff to reinforce Canada’s trade offices in the world’s most populous country.
While the Tories are trying to strengthen their economic relations with China, they are showing no signs of backing down on their concerns about China’s human rights record [as if that is a stand worth raising eyebrows about: good grief – MC]. Mr. Emerson said he expects to raise human rights issues on Wednesday during a meeting with China’s foreign minister.
This is gratuitous on my part, but in 1939 Germany was the most populous country in Europe (besides the USSR). It all depends on what one thinks important.
What do you think should be top priority in Canada’s dealings with China?
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After vigorous exercise, some 3,000 genes go to work to aid recovery by boosting muscles and blood vessels, but in the presence of high doses of antihistamines almost 27 percent of the gene response is blunted, according to researchers.
Can High Intensity Training Weight Training Really replace my cardio?
Posted bymeanjean837 December 11, 2015 December 11, 2015 Posted inCardiovascular Health, Exercise Equipment, Exercise Research, flexibility, General fitness, High Intensity Training, HIT, NOLA Fitness, strength training, weight resistance trainingTags: NOLA, personal trainerLeave a comment on Can High Intensity Training Weight Training Really replace my cardio?
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We are thrilled to welcome acclaimed actress, author, playwright, and friend of the podcast Peppur Chambers, who joined us from Prague, Czech Republic this weekend, where she is preparing for the opening of her one woman stage production, Harlem’s Awakening. Peppur joined us to talk about her career, what brought her to Prague, and her memories of Shawn from their high school days. It was a great conversation and one of our favorite podcasts that we have done. We try to keep things on a classy note by rounding out the episode with our recap of Downton Abbey, S6 Ep4, all the while fighting the urge to book a Viking River Cruise.
Our thanks again to Peppur for joining us! We are excited to be able to share the podcast with you through additional outlets in the very near future, including LibSyn, Soundcloud, and the Google Play Store. More to come on that.
Cheers, and thanks for listening!
Posted on February 1, 2016, in Podcast and tagged author, Czech Republic, Downton Abbey, Harlem's Awakening, interview, novella, pepperthehotone, Peppur Chambers, Prague. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
It was our pleasure. And congratulations on a SOLD OUT opening night!
Subscribe and listen to the podcast on iTunes.
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Michael Pollan chats about his next cooking-centric book, while Harold McGee debunks some myths about sealing juices in the meat. Biergarten tweaks its days of operation, and Jonathan Kauffman reviews a newish Tenderloin spot. All that and more AM reading, right this way.
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Welcome to my TS4 Time Lord Challenge! This challenge would not be possible without THIS THREAD on the forums posted by nastyjman. Be sure to review that thread for FAQ’s, other folks taking the challenge, inspiration and fun DW gifs (among other things)!
I encourage you to visit the thread to answer any questions about objectives, regenerations, and the like. It would take up a lot of time to regurgitate it here, when nastyjman has done such a great job on the forums!
I wanted to start off with a brief introduction of my first TL.
This looks like a ton of fun! I can’t wait to see how it all plays out.
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I am a native of St. George and graduate of Pine View High School, Dixie College and Southern Utah University, where I earned my bachelor's degree in Psychology. I have been teaching in Washington County for the past 21 years. I taught at Pine View High for 13 years, before coming to Desert Hills High. I teach AP Psychology, Psychology.
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The Robsten saga continues! Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are photographed at a party in L.A.
The Twilight saga officially ended years ago, but the Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson story continues. Some really grainy new photos apparently show them hanging out again — and needless to say, Twihards have feelings about it.
The exes, who broke up in 2013 after one of the most high-profile celebrity cheating scandals, were snapped outside Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood on Friday. They were both attending Lily-Rose Depp’s 19th birthday party.
These photos aren’t as clear as the ones of Stewart kissing her married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders (the mega scandal from the summer of 2012). They’re incredibly grainy. But in one photo, you can see K-Stew standing outside as some people approach her.
Another shot shows Rob walking next to the guy wearing the denim top, black pants, and white sneakers, photographed in the first photo.
Then there is this crazy photo, which truly could be of anyone — is that my dad? Aunt Ginny, is that you? — but it purportedly shows the exes standing next to each other outside a few moments later.
Needless to say, news of this onscreen and offscreen pair being seen together again gives the internet feelings. Primarily, good ones from people excited over this development.
I am an adult. I have a career and an electric toothbrush. I make my bed in the morning. WHY ARE KRISTEN AND ROB HANGING OUT IS THAT PHOTO MANIPULATED IS THAT HIS HAND HOLDING HERS I MAY DIE.
The two met when they were cast as Bella Swan and Edward Cullen in the amazingly popular Twilight franchise. They became an item a year later after she ended a romance. Fast-forward to the summer of 2012 when she was photographed kissing Sanders, who was married to model Liberty Ross, and when she publicly admitted to cheating, issuing an apology to Rob. Just a few months later, however, they worked things out. Well, for a while — they split for good in 2013.
Since that time, Rob became engaged to FKA twigs, which the internet had a hard time digesting. The engagement was called off in October. Kristen has primarily been dating women since the split, most recently model Stella Maxwell, since last year, after romances with Alicia Cargile, Stephanie “Soko” Sokolinski, and St. Vincent.
So, if nothing else, here’s to the enduring friendship of Robsten.
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Really, this series is one of the best I've ever seen. Thank you.
Cool Movie! I Believe these are 1337 Level 4 Agents. in the 1-st Part where Only Level 1, 2 and 4. Level 3 are in ME 4. In ME 4 are and Some Level 2, But they are Rare there. And Zombies, and Grunts. Pt2 What's woth the Wall? Anyway Cool Movie.
I don't like the part when the protoganist enter the room then the morons where like panicking !!
LOL they think steve was hank friend?
See how the Eliminator is going after the gang leader in this tribute!
Splurgle is back with another gorey installment of his Madness tribute!
Here it is. The big car chase and all. 5,000 frames of goodness.
The third installment of Ace Corn's Agitation, enjoy the violence!
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International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators. The celebrations have been promoted by International Federation of Translators (FIT) ever since it was set up in 1953. In 1991 FIT launched the idea of an officially recognized International Translation Day to show solidarity of the worldwide translation community in an effort to promote the translation profession in different countries (not necessarily only in Christian ones). This is an opportunity to display pride in a profession that is becoming increasingly essential in the era of progressing globalization.
The United Nations General Assembly has passed on May 24, 2017, a resolution declaring September 30 as International Translation Day, an act to recognise the role of professional translation in connecting nations. Eleven countries – Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Paraguay, Qatar, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam – are the signatories of Draft Resolution A/71/L.68. In addition to the International Federation of Translators, several other organisations have been advocating for this resolution to be adopted: International Association of Conference Interpreters, Critical Link International, International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters, Red T, World Association of Sign Language Interpreters.
CEATL, European Council of Literary Translators' Associations. They promote the celebration throughout Europe.
^ "UN Set to Pass Draft Resolution Declaring September 30 As Translation Day". Slator.com. 22 May 2017.
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The meridian 74° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
In the United States, the meridian passes through New York City.
In Antarctica, the meridian defines the western limit of the Argentinian territorial claim, and passes through the Chilean and British claims – the three claims overlap.
The 74th meridian west forms a great circle with the 106th meridian east.
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Ever wonder just how Nintendo created the company culture that produced the Wii and DS?
Well, tough cookies. As the author of a new book called Nintendo Magic states repeatedly, Nintendo doesn't like to talk about its management philosophy. But Nikkei Business writer Osamu Inoue has enjoyed some enviable access – exclusive interviews with company president Satoru Iwata, chief creative Shigeru Miyamoto and best of all reclusive former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who speaks to the press approximately once a century.
These exclusive interviews are the strength of Nintendo Magic, a translation published in February of a 2009 Japanese book called Nintendo: Formula for Surprise. They're also its weakness, because apart from a handful of other minor sources, they're the only people that Inoue quotes and features in the book. Nintendo Magic is a puff piece through and through. But as a rare outside glimpse into the workings of the company – and as a good old college try to figure out just what goes on inside that big white cube in Kyoto – it deserves a spot on that videogame bookshelf I know you have.
Late last week, Gamasutra posted a representative sample of what's to be found in Nintendo Magic – a lot of recounting of the story of Wii and DS, peppered with quotes from Miyamoto, Iwata and Yamauchi.
The rest of the book is filled with chapters on the history of the company, elaborating on a lot of the things that David Sheff touched on in his groundbreaking Game Over – Shigeru Miyamoto's upbringing, Hiroshi Yamauchi's taking control of the family business at age 22, the creation of Game and Watch. I especially enjoyed the lengthy recounting of the development of the original Game Boy.
Since Inoue's book is laser-focused on the Japanese side of things, that means we get more detail about Yamauchi's early days, the development of the karuta playing cards that launched the company, etc. What's missing is anything that took place outside Japan. The vast majority of Wii consoles are sold overseas, and even now the console is significantly more successful in America than in its home country. But there's nothing about the people who made that happen.
Still, within its admitted limitations, Nintendo Magic is a must-read for those who follow the industry. Put it next to your copy of Blue Ocean Strategy.
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I interviewed Jonathan Gabb, winner of the WW SOLO AWARD, for Jotta. It was one of the most illuminating interviews I have ever done, as there is far more at work conceptually in Gabb’s installations than is immediately evident.
Jonathan Gabb has been announced as the winner of the WW Gallery’s inaugural SOLO award. Jonathan Gabb will receive the prize money of £1000, a three month residency in which he hopes to create site-specific works inspired by the natural light of the gallery (something he has been deprived of in his own studio), and a solo show in January 2013.
There is more to Gabb’s installations than first pleases the eye; it isn’t instantly obvious that these showers of colour take inspiration from the decorative elements of Art Nouveau or are working to achieve an effect similar to Baroque and Rococo architectural adornments. Gabb describes his work as “playing with reality”, admitting that his influences are as diverse Wayne Thiebaud’s Refrigerator Pies, where paint comes to resemble frosting on a cake, and Damien Hirst’s abstract yet arbitrary spot paintings. In a world filled with a persistent realism, Gabb’s work reminds us of the transformative power of pure materials.
You have developed a very particular method of working with paint as though it is an object, how did you begin working in this way?
I was introduced to this technique whilst on a life painting course, a PVA glue medium was mixed in with acrylic paint so that it appeared more translucent. Later on during my degree course I became interested in the act of painting and wanted to investigate the medium further. I loved how acrylic paint could maintain its plastic quality when the PVA glue was added and so I continued to experiment. I was interested in exploring how I could make reference to the act of painting in the works. By making sheets and cutting them into threads I was able to create forms which allude to drips and sweeping paint strokes.
It is not necessarily obvious what exactly you are doing with paint just by looking, are you interested in confusing the viewer?
It’s more about confounding the expectations of the viewer. With a painting, people expect paint on a canvas or pigment in liquid on a flat surface, I’m trying to do something different. I want to stretch the material value of paint in a 3D form in a way which transforms it into something else – the paint is freed from a fixed surface and can be viewed as an object.
Audiences have a greater understanding about art now and I want to show something that not only has a lot of thought put into it, but which is also enjoyable to look at. I think there is something very authoritative about the traditional method of painting, and I think that ties in with people’s expectations. With these works people engage with the material nature of the medium, more than the colour, in a way in which they usually wouldn’t with traditional painting.
What effect does working in this way achieve which most interests you?
I enjoy the optical element of the work; viewing the work becomes more of an event. The viewer can move around the work; from a side angle it might resemble a pen and ink drawing, then it merges into denser three dimensional forms at another point. The viewer is encouraged to engage physically with the work. During my residency at WW I’d like to explore how I can create work which responds to the nature of the space and how the viewer will interact with the installations as they move through the gallery.
Are there particular colours or forms which you find most effective when you are making your installations, or are other elements the driving forces behind your work?
My selection of colour in my more recent work has been consciously arbitrary. I like the idea of treating the raw material of the paint itself as a readymade, so I select the colours automatically. However I have enjoyed combining vibrant colour with the dramatic swirling forms of ‘baroque’ style compositions.
I also love the idea of celebrating the notion of abstract art as an ornament or decoration. The abstract expressionist paintings of the 1950s were meant to be the height of modernism, yet at the same time they decorated the minimalist architecture in the way an ornament would, despite being a contradiction to the ethos of the time. So these works adhere to the ceilings and walls in an unself-conscious way – like the adornments of rococo and baroque architecture.
You can also read the catalogue for the WW SOLO AWARD group show online here: http://issuu.com/wwgallery/docs/ww_solo_award_show_catalogue_final_sp This is my first foray into editing and I put all of the texts together.
The WW Gallery are delighted to present a solo show of works by Ayuko Sugiura. Working with sculpture and installation, Sugiura presents the viewer with a series of new skins, whether these are patterns projected onto a surface, layers of silicone, or tokens of identity; these illusory and visceral second skins present the viewer with an opportunity to question the invisible and intrinsic components of our cultural identity.
Examining the instinctual nature of religion in contemporary culture, Sugiura uses arches, crucifixes and icons as the basic structure for many of her sculptures. These references, estranged from their context, become as difficult to identify as the influence of Christianity in daily modern life.
The contemporary invisibility of faith; a sense of a belief in something whose shape and form we cannot identify, and who we can no longer give a name to, drives Ayuko Sugiura to search within her own lexicon as an artist for familiar textures and forms with which she can create a personal icon.
Looking through a hybridised cultural skin confused by global homogenisation, Sugiura’s explorations of traditions, practices and cultures approach the uncanny. In her surreal use of familiar symbols twisted into an unfamiliar iconography, birthday bunting made from pig’s ears, silicone cathedrals and pink elephant crucifixes are all results of the clash of cultural references. Sugiura’s works become hybrid forms, distorting our preconceptions and transforming our inherited perspectives.
Beneath the playfully surreal juxtapositions of materials and bright colours, there is also a more sinister element at work. The palpable legacy of sci-fi and psychological thriller leads the viewer to question how far the duality and multiplicity of identity, its consistently shifting form, is the realisation and revelation of a contemporary psychosis.
Last night I went to the opening of Crypta: Silent Monologue at the Crypt Gallery in Euston. It was the perfect end to a perfect day (Barbican architecture tour, finally talking with one of the participants of Tino Sehgal’s These Associations, the incredible TWEET ME UP by artist Tracey Moberly in the Tate Tanks and seeing the Tate Modern repopulated by London’s so-called subcultures).
A space as distinctive as the Crypt is a curatorial challenge, but in the case of Crypta these difficulties have been used to frame the works in a way that only highlights their strengths. Katerina Georgopoulou’s video and print has a sublime ambience, heightened by its setting in this subterranean cave. The mixing of media creates a familiar yet frustratingly distant sci-fi reality, viewing from this perspective we watch a world which is entirely inaccessible and yet so enchanting.
Kim Gladwin’s installation, complete with perfect business cards, was like something from the depth’s of Alice’s rabbit hole. A perfect white dress was hung upside down in an arch like the beginning of a fabulously magical realist story.
Tugce Karapinar’s work caught my attention for its sentimentality; old family photographs under resin and precious diamonds made from memories scattered over a mirror. The diamonds were the most effective, obscuring memories in unidentifiable scraps, bleeding colours or glittering the way nostalgia so often does.
Sandra Robinson’s Humans Born to Mice Parents reminded me of Rachel Kneebone, with more of an overt sense of surreality and less of the sweaty sexual overtones. Her mice-creatures were beautifully crafted and arranged amongst the dusty debris of the crypt.
Marta Molka’s Flight Transformation occupied an incredible space at the back of the Crypt. Here, in the tunnel of the arches with the spotlights casting perfect shadows, these origami sculptures recalled a memory of landing in London from Poland for the first time. They made a beautiful landing strip of light and shadow and told a story which can so rarely be put into words.
The exhibtiion is only on until the 29th August, so make sure that you visit http://cryptasilentmonologue.com/.
There are only four days left to see the WW Gallery Solo Award, and the winner will be announced on Saturday. The exhibition has been very inspiring; the work of 37 artists longlisted for the show has overtaken the gallery, filling every possible space.
It’s amazing to see what an open submission can bring about. The GROUP show encompasses a range of media; painting, video, print, photography, a number of challenging experiments with paint, installation and some particularly stimulating examples of sculpture.
There is such diversity, and yet the show feels very much like an exhibition. More than just a collection of interesting work, it has a unity which ties it all together. If you haven’t seen the show I can only recommend rushing down before it ends.
It began to seem like all of London’s contemporary gallery spaces had closed for the summer, as though I would have to starve myself of interviews over the hot, wet British August days. Then I got a message about Sebastiaan Schlicher’s answerphone project. I made the call, I listened in confusion.
Two recent encounters with contemporary art have made me think about how far we can define experience as ‘art’, or what kinds of experiences and reactions can still be labelled as ‘art’.
It’s a fairly big question and perhaps my meaning isn’t at first clear. This week I worked at Jeremy Deller’s bouncy castle, Sacrilege in East Ham park in Newham. The bouncy castle was incredible, literally the biggest I have ever seen, and there was a constant swarm of children, adults and young people bouncing around, giggling and play fighting.
Some people stayed for the whole day with the rare novelty of a free amusement. There were a crowd of twenty-somethings covered in knee-pads who had been following the castle around and seemed to be practising for some kind of new Olympic sport. As a social experiment/family day out I couldn’t fault Deller’s work.
I can’t deny that Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege was an incredible piece of human experience. It brought happiness, it brought a community together, it had all the Newhamites gathered in the park when usually they might have just strolled through. Everybody who came was pleased with Sacrilege.
But although the rocks of Stone Henge were very well painted (I did stop to admire the detail on these springy standing stones) I couldn’t quite figure out what it had to do with art. The children and the parents all seemed unaware, Sacrilege’s bouncy irony passed them by. They were just enjoying the freebie, something to keep the children entertained during the holidays.
I didn’t quite do things right, I was a little nervous and a little hesitant. I wanted the performers to approach me. But they hummed passed and jogged passed and I didn’t get to hear any stories. My failure to participate isn’t the point. What I wondered was if people telling an audience personal stories was art? Is the experience of confidence and confession, as isolated in the industrial Turbine Hall, art? Or perhaps it’s only the fact that an artist has organised it, that it is happening within the walls of a gallery, and that we are conscious of its afforded status as art, that means that we can define it as art? If you took away Jeremy Deller’s name from Sacrilege nobody would even be raising the question.
Art has always been deeply connected to experience; the way a painting or a sculpture makes us feel is significant and intrinsic to the value of art. Yet I don’t want every single example of human experience to be defined as art, to be swallowed up by art’s expansion, so that I can’t unconsciously experience anything just as it is.
I suspect that Jeremy Deller’s initial artistic vision, the beautiful sacrilege of children and adults bouncing on one of our oldest monuments, has been lost somewhere along the way with the novelty of free fun. But I don’t want to be a spoil sport or stuck in the mud and say outright that the art world can’t claim Sacrilege as a victory.
This month my article for the Hackney Citizen examined the real Olympic feeling outside of the official Cultural Olympiad. You can pick up a copy of this month’s issue or read the article here on my blog!
The Transition Gallery looks out over a now iconic snapshot of East London; the Regent’s Canal with its own industrial rings reflected in the water, the trendy Broadway market running a counter-current to its right, and somewhere to the left,- out of sight beyond Victoria Park- the grand Olympic stadium. Taking into account the grimy traces of an industrial past and tangible evidence of regeneration and gentrification, the view from up here is decidedly positive.
Indeed, Transition’s exhibition, The End of the Future, is the only positive vision of the Olympics I could find outside of the officially endorsed Cultural Olympiad.
Taking her inspiration from the modernist belief that architecture really could change the way we live, curator Cathy Lomax really does believe that the Olympic redevelopments have made Hackney a nicer place to live. She wears her ‘Keep Hackney Crap’ badge as an ironic dig at all those cynics and disbelievers.
Yet beneath The End of the Future’s nostalgia there is still recognition of the “unpalatable corporate aspect” which threatens us with the “broken dreams of past Utopias”.
Playing on Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi film Westworld, Scare in the Community’s exhibition at Xero Kline & Coma is an utterly dystopic exploration of the corporate consumerism of Westfield as a symbol of Olympic development.
For curators Julika Gittner and Jon Purnell, Westfield is “a ridiculous new build with its Battenberg architecture, huge buildings designed to look like a city-scape , and its own postcode, E20.” Westfield is an island estranged from the reality of the existing community which surrounds it.
The feeling of disillusionment in East London is in part motivated by a fear of the unknowable Olympic legacy. In Westworld Ben Seymour’s video, OLYMPICFIELD, envisions the Olympic stadium of the future as an overgrown high security prison where potential WMDs are being produced.
The propaganda and conspiracy verged on hysteria with the Residence Gallery’s lecture from Dr Bill Aitchison, who believes that London 2012 signals the end of the world. The One Hundred Year Gallery’s alternative opening ceremony, The Apocalympics, was similarly foreboding.
While a group of galleries were meeting for a little while to make plans together, “this eventually dissipated.” Big names like Rachel Whiteread may have succeeded in winning a public commission, but all those works which were not officially endorsed by the Olympiad, are confined to the peripheries in an exhibition of ‘Failure’ at The One Hundred Years Gallery.
It is this disregard for the existing culture of east London which justifies the vehement cynicism apparent in the tone of many Hackney galleries’ dystopian vision of the Games. East London is famous for its art scene, but the Olympics has brought in an unfamiliar, officially accredited programme of culture which masks our real identity with a public face and showcase for tourists.
The Residence Gallery’s open submission exhibition, Botany & Botulism: The Olympic Legacy Zen Garden, has found the perfect metaphor for the difficult dual nature of the Olympics. Botany represents the beauty of regrowth, and Botulism, the hidden poisons which lie beneath the surface.
Rent increases and the redevelopment of studio spaces have meant that artists have moved on, and struggling galleries and project spaces on the fringes of the Cultural Olympiad are unlikely to see the benefits of Olympic traffic.
Perhaps when all of the official events are over we will find that botulism has spread. For Transition it will be the memory, the nostalgia of a golden sporting event that remains, but for many the Stadium is already a condemned wasteland. Ingrid Z hopes that “it will be artists who ultimately save the day when loads of empty spaces emerge in Stratford,” and then the artists and galleries will reclaim Hackney.
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Norfolk, CT – Move over Austin City Limits. Connecticut Public Television and Infinity Music Hall & Bistro have joined forces to create a new live music concert television series for the 21st century. Premiering early summer 2011, INFINITY HALL LIVE is a new CPTV-produced series of music specials that offers viewers a “best seat in the house” experience celebrating the music and energy of today’s top performers in an intimate setting.
Every special will be shot at Infinity Hall, an acoustically perfect, historically renovated 19th century hall in Norfolk, Connecticut. The hall, which opened a little over two years ago, was once a venue for vaudeville stars, and since October 2008 has featured performers ranging from Judy Collins and Aimee Mann to Tower of Power and Leon Russell. Each episode of the INFINITY HALL LIVE TV series will include the “All Access/Backstage Pass,” offering a look at the artist offstage, both before and after the concert.
The sold-out performance this Wednesday, February 9th by roots rock band Rusted Root kicks off a line-up that will feature a top-notch collection of musical artists from rock, pop and folk music. Rusted Root has sold more than 3 million albums worldwide. Formed in Pittsburgh by singer/guitarist Glabicki in the early ‘90s, Rusted Root’s worldly style quickly charmed fans of roots music and world rock. After debuting in 1992 with the self released Cruel Sun, Rusted Root signed with Mercury Records and released the 1994 platinum selling breakthrough When I Woke, which featured the hit songs Send Me On My Way, Ecstasy and Martyr. Not long after, the band scored on tours with Toad the Wet Sprocket, Santana, The Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, The Allman Brothers Band, HORDE Festival and, perhaps most notably, the highly coveted support role on the landmark Jimmy Page/Robert Plant reunion tour.
The hard-touring Rusted Root returned in 1996 with Remember, which was followed by 1998’s Rusted Root. Following some time off the band re-emerged in 2002 with Welcome To My Party. After leaving Mercury/Island Def Jam Records the band’s sixth album, Rusted Root Live, was released in 2004. This double live album was the second release on the band’s Touchy Pegg label, following the re-release of the newly remastered Cruel Sun in 2003. Along the way, Rusted Root has also issued three EPs (Evil Ways, Live, and Airplane), a home video (Rusted Root Live) and miscellaneous film and TV soundtrack tracks (Twister, Mathilda, Home For the Holidays, Party of Five, Charmed, Homicide, Ice Age). And interestingly, NASA engineers chose Send Me On My Way as “wake-up” music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21.
The next performance scheduled for taping in the Infinity Hall Live series will be the March 2nd Infinity Hall date on the Open Wings Broken Strings tour, featuring three of rock and pop music’s popular lead singers. LIVE’s Ed Kowalczyk, Tonic’s Emerson Hart & Sixpence None The Richer’s Leigh Nash come together under the Open Wings Broken Strings header to feature acoustic performances of their hit songs such as “Lightning Crashes”, “I Alone” (Live); “If You Could Only See”, “Open Up Your Eyes” (Tonic) and “Kiss Me”, “There She Goes” (Sixpence None The Richer) in an intimate storyteller setting. Each artist performs an individual set and joins the stage together for a grand finale in the end.
Erin McKeown’s debut album Distillation, still holds a very special place in everyone’s heart. Released in 2000 on Signature Sounds, Distillation is truly a testament to McKeown’s song writing from the very beginning; while many years later the writing and production still stand the test of time. Erin’s career has been filled with many incredible highlights including collaborating with Ani DiFranco, appearances on Conan O’Brien and the CBS Morning Show, as well as TV placements on ShowTime’s The L Word, Dawson’s Creek, and The Gilmore Girls.
Amy Correia delivers songs with a raw power that’s both vulnerable and fierce. That musical honesty has drawn comparisons to Tom Waits and Michelle Shocked and The New York Times calls her “a singular talent”. Her fans agree, pitching in to raise more than $35K to make Correia’s third record, “You Go Your Way,” independently released last year to critical acclaim, including a best of 2010 in NYC WFUV’s Listener Poll.
A portion of performance proceeds will support the medical and dental services provided by Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires (VIM). VIM is a free clinic in Great Barrington, MA providing quality medical and dental care, mental health counseling, optometry and related services to income-qualified, uninsured/underinsured adults ages 19-64, of the Berkshire region.
In the early fall of 1973 Marshall Tucker Band was still a young and hungry group out to prove themselves every time they hit the stage. Their debut album had already spawned numerous hits. “Way Out West!”-Live from San Francisco 1973, their latest CD is a time capsule from that period. “We were a bunch of young guys who didn’t know any boundaries” says founding member and longtime lead singer Doug Gray. As it turned out, the collective talents of the Marshall Tucker Band took them very far indeed. More than three decades later this galvanizing San Francisco performance reminds us how it all began.
The New Riders of the Purple Sage, signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis, released its eponymous first album in September 1971 to widespread acclaim. In the next 11 years the band toured and released over 12 albums, selling over 4 million records. They are keeping the spirit and tunes alive by taking them to fans everywhere. The band recently teamed up with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and released it’s first CD in twenty years to rave reviews, Where I Come From (Woodstock Records).
Meet The McLovins, the jam-rock band that Rolling Stone called “a trio of Connecticut kids who have managed to harness the musical ferocity of Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool and Stewart Copeland before being able to legally drive a car.” In fact, Rolling Stone liked them so much they brought them to their offices for a visit, an interview and to video tape three of their original songs, posting one as a podcast on itunes.
In case you haven’t seen them yet, Changes In Latitudes is one of America’s premier tribute shows to singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, the master of the tropical lifestyle. They are a nine-piece band with a singular plan, to take you to Margaritaville. Each show is good clean fun, aiming to offend no one, and entertain everyone. Every set is a party, with beach balls flying, dancing conga lines, and leis galore. It’s one exciting show. Oh yes, and the music. You know more Jimmy Buffett songs than you think you do, and they’ll prove it. Let “Changes In Latitudes” bring their rolling beach party to you.
Tim Reynolds has been playing music all of his life, starting as a bass player in a gospel band in his hometown of St. Louis, to fronting his break-through band, TR3, in the ’80s, and forward to recording & touring with DMB and the Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds Acoustic Duo. Tim’s progression has continued through 8 years on the road as a solo acoustic guitar wizard playing for packed houses who have come to realize this is not just Dave’s side man, this is one of the most talented and thoughtful players on the circuit today! Now things have come full circle and TR3 is back again to rock and funk your house down. The songs will be a mix of updated Tim classics to wild covers of everything from James Brown, Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin & Prince to Tim’s newer catalogue of material.
theatrical clown, has also performed throughout the world, including the Kennedy Center in Washington and the National Theatre in London. Using physical movement and the power of suggestion to convey his madcap messages, he concentrates on idiosyncrasies known to us all. This is your chance to be amazed, laugh out loud, and meet two world-class entertainers in an intimate local setting!
Proceeds from this show will support the river protection and restoration projects of the Farmington River Watershed Association, a nonprofit citizens’ group serving over 20 Farmington Valley towns.
Ottmar Liebert is a six-time GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum selling guitarist and composer. Considered one of the most talented, creative and influential guitarists of all time, his legendary debut release, Nouveau Flamenco, is the biggest selling guitar album in history. Liebert has released over 20 albums and received more than 30 gold and platinum awards. Along with his band, Luna Negra, he thrills audiences worldwide as one of instrumental music’s most popular and compelling live performers.
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paying only the dinner fee of $20.
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Access to the CDI facility for sponsored events.
Weekly GenderCrossing dinner parties and other events.
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Join by attending one of our events and filling out a Membership Application.
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The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of Michael Ferguson:“Is it with great sadness that I learned of the death of Michael Ferguson, Auditor General of Canada.“Mr. Ferguson devoted his life to public service, both in his home province of New Brunswick and across the country. We will remember him for his tireless dedication to promote a transparent, open government that is accountable to Canadians.
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Are you a wallflower when it comes to networking?
For some managers and business owners, networking can be terrifying. Although some networkers can glide from group to group with no trouble, others freeze at the prospect of ‘working the room’ – and for some, the thought of meeting new people and having to initiate conversation sees them avoiding the event altogether.
Have you ever sat on the sidelines at a networking meeting and longed to be more confident? Do you envy those who appear to be completely at ease?
As with most things, to fail to prepare is to prepare to fail. If you’re someone who fears clamming up because you’ve nothing to say, or you’re not well-versed with approaching and engaging new contacts, thinking things over before you attend will help you feel better prepared. And if you need more intervention than my tips afford, my career coaching can help you develop and build on your confidence.
1. Most events send out a list of attendees prior to the meeting itself, which gives you an opportunity to briefly research those you’ll be networking with. Whilst some people will be of particular interest to you and your business/company, and others less so, getting a feel of all who will attend and finding something of interest will give you material for a conversation regardless of where you’re asked to sit or which group of attendees you approach.
2. Be aware of subconscious signals. Your attire, body language, your mood and choice of language can send cues to fellow networkers that may influence their impression of you. Think about the elements you’re able to control beforehand and consider how you would perceive yourself if meeting ‘you’ for the first time. First impressions cannot be replayed, so practise making good eye contact. Perfect your handshake and consider the conscious and subconscious etiquette of the group and surroundings before you go.
3. Find a way to physically ‘anchor’ yourself in the mind of the person you’re speaking to. Repeat your name as you shake hands so that it lodges in their mind. If you may have a mutual contact, mention their name so that your fellow networker can make an association; they’re much more likely to remember you again. If you’ve previously met, mention where and how. Use their name in conversation – it helps them to engage and reinforces the relationship between you.
4. Break the ice effectively. Having researched before the event, aim to find out more using open questions once you’ve been introduced and as a conversation starter. Although you may have specific topics you’d like to discuss with various attendees, consider that they may not initially know/agree that there is a common/vested interest between you. People’s titles can be quite vague – ask about their day to day duties rather than assume things about their position. Find some shared, familiar ground and expand from there.
Networking is just another skill to master, and the more prepared you are, the more confident you will feel. If you consider enough eventualities before you go to the meeting, you’re less likely to be struck dumb when placed in any group or introductory situation. With practice, networking becomes easier.
In my next blog, I’ll talk about keeping the conversation going, once these first impressions and introductions have been made. Conversation is a skill too, and keeping those you meet engaged is something else you can prepare for.
If you’d like help to become a more successful networker or if you’ve an alternative problem that executive coaching could help you address, get in touch with me at angela.sabin@executive-life-coaching.co.uk.
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In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors believed they were under government surveillance for over a decade. In this stunning documentary, Boundaoui, a journalist and filmmaker, conducts a comprehensive investigation to corroborate their worst fears. The Feeling of Being Watched is an attempt to shine a light on a secret FBI operation to surveil one American community. Unearthing tens of thousands of pages of government documents, Boundaoui connects the dots to one of the largest counter-terrorism investigations conducted in the US before 9/11. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her own community, grappling with the new knowledge of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, believes in the transformative power of art and culture. Freedom Flicks, the Center’s long-running film series, harnesses the power of film to educate, activate, and build community. Freedom Flicks engages audiences across disciplines in stories of struggle and courage that shape our world, past and present. The Center’s programming includes screenings of cutting-edge, socially engaged films followed by a short conversation with storytellers, lawyers, and activists.
One of the most jarringly original independent films of the 1990s, Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic reemerges in a gorgeous new restoration. In a neon-soaked dream vision of Las Vegas, a disaffected blackjack dealer (played by the director’s sister Tinka Menkes) drifts through a series of encounters alternately mundane, surreal, and menacing, while death and violence hover ever-present in the margins. Awash in lush, hallucinatory images, Queen of Diamonds is a haunting study of female alienation that “may become for America in the 90s what Jeanne Dielman was for Europe in the 70s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul” (Bérénice Reynaud, Chicago Reader).
Charles Lane’s brilliantly inventive silent homage to Chaplin’s The Kidstars the director as a homeless artist scraping by in New York City. When he winds up caring for an orphaned toddler, the modern-day Little Tramp is whisked along on an alternately comic and heartrending adventure. Shot on the streets of 1980s Greenwich Village, this DIY gem balances charming visual gags with an earnest social realism that doesn’t sugarcoat the struggle of life on the streets.
Little Cinema invites you to an immersive screening of Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002, 123 min.), which is based on the life of the iconic artist Frida Kahlo and celebrates the ways she lived unapologetically and fashioned a game-changing aesthetic. This special screening includes live musical performances to bring to life Kahlo’s influential look and the film’s award-winning soundtrack.
Tickets are $16 and include Museum general admission. Member tickets are $14.
This event is for senior citizens 65 and older and is not open to the general public. To reserve movie tickets please contact Community Affairs at 718.636.4122 or CommunityAffairs@BAM.org.
Chytilová’s subversive take on the 80s teen horror movie assembles a gaggle of bratty adolescents for a mysterious skiing retreat at a snowbound cabin, where they find themselves plunged into a sadistic science-fiction social experiment. A tour-de-force of visceral filmmaking, Wolf’s Hole is both a gonzo genre joyride and a blistering allegory for the psychic violence wrought by authoritarian oppression.
Brazilian cultural revolutionary Caetano Veloso has been a transformative international force since the 1960s, when he swirled bossa nova, art rock, and psychedelia into the world-shaking phenomenon known as Tropicália—a musical manifesto that wrapped anti-authoritarian political dissidence in a kaleidoscope of sound. In this special two-night engagement, the ever-evolving singer, composer, and activist is joined by his three sons—Moreno, Zeca, and Tom—for a family affair that zigzags across Veloso’s restlessly innovative body of work: from swaying samba rhythms to pop experimentation and lyrics that swerve from the hallucinogenic to the subversive to the sublime.
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I was worried about the loss-of-control thing, too, but there are several good livejournal clients that let you archive all your postings in XML form -- although not the comments, I think. But there exists that mechanism to pull your posts and recreate them on your own server, if it ever comes to that. That was a key factor (for me) in deciding to trust livejournal with so much of my writing.
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The Beaufort is a substantial GRP sailing dinghy, with round bilges (appearing similar to a carvel smooth hull, a mainsail and a jib.
It was designed by Ian Proctor c. 1965. It's a relatively stable cruising dinghy, and is equipped with a metal centreplate.
The Beaufort sail mark is a trumpet with a black square beneath and a white "B" within the black square.
^ "The West Country Cruise on the River Tamar - Sept 6/7th 2003". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-23. Besides the Wanderer fleet, Janet and Anthony Byrde in their Drascombe and Richard and Peter Goodfellow, in another Ian Proctor designed dinghy called a Beaufort, were sharing the Cruise with us.
This page was last edited on 11 September 2016, at 23:54 (UTC).
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Students must apply to the course coordinator for admission into this course. Applications must be received by the end of August for enrolment in the fall/spring semester; for enrolment in the summer semester, applications must be received by the end of April. Applications will consist of: 1) A letter of intent indicating the student's wish to enrol in CHMD90Y3; 2) A list of relevant courses successfully completed as well as any relevant courses to be taken during the current session; 3) Submission of the preferred project form indicating the top four projects of interest to the student. This form is available from the course coordinator, along with the project descriptions.
Generally, only students meeting the requirements below will be admitted to CHMD90Y3: 1) A Cumulative Grade Point Average of 2.5. Students who do not meet this requirement should consider enrolling in CHMD92H3 instead; 2) Completion of at least 15 full credits; 3) Completion of at least 1.0 full credits of C-level chemistry or biochemistry courses containing a lab component (i.e. CHMC16H3, CHMC31Y3, CHMC41H3, CHMC42H3, CHMC47H3, BIOC23H3).
Once the course coordinator (or designate) has approved enrolment to CHMD90Y3, s/he will sign the course enrolment form for submission to the registrar. Note that the course coordinator (or designate) is the only one permitted to give "permission of instructor" on this form.
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This was taken from the reboot of the fastest man alive that saw Wally West take over from Barry Allen after the Crisis, and it’s the cover of Flash #1. Dash over here for the larger version.
The late, great Joe Kubert from the days when a comic had to tell a story and pummel you with emotion.
In honour of the London Olympics!
Of course, the only problem is Speedy would feel the drugs test.
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Feathered gazelle goofball breaks and fixes airplanes - furry greetings - Furtopia | Family Friendly Furry Forum and IRC Chat!
I also doodle furry things and robots in my free time. I just happened to be gliding by this forum and wanted to say hello.
I'm a military aircraft mechanic with a few odd quirks, and interest in the furry fandom happens to be one of them. My character is a gazelle with some bird traits, such as feathers and talons. I enjoy running and exploring, so I think the character suits me well.
Gaming and drawing are my other two favorite things to do when I get time to do them.
I have yet to fully understand the furry community, but I hope it makes more sense to me as I get more involved.
Airplanes! Someone said airplanes! I heard 'airplanes'!!
Welcome!! The fandom will make more and more sense to you the more you explore. I don't think there is any 'fully understanding' the community, only figuring out what it has to offer and what to make of it for yourself.
Here's a short, heh, "Briefing" on the forums. (...ew, now I have a bad taste in my mouth from saying that word :p).
Please don't loose this, otherwise we'll all have to FOD walk for it.
So: what branch, platform, and MOS?
Air Force, C-130H, and 2A6X4, AKA Fuel Cell. I've also worked on B-52's in North Dakota. It's cool to see someone else on here that's familiar with the aircraft world.
I appreciate the warm welcomes, and I hope to get to know more about everyone here!
Welcome to furtopia Feathered Gazelle.
Welcome, welcome. Here's your free hug! ...Please get the grease off your hands before claiming that.
You and me both. We had a BUFF visit Oshkosh while I was there visiting my parents. It's a really cool, really big bird. And no longer in ND? Why not Minot ?(I already know freezin's the reason). I ended up working in fuel tanks on E8C's replacing spar chords and wing planks as a heavy structures mech. It paid pretty good as a civilian, but I don't envy you in the least bit. I'm lucky to have stayed out of tanks everywhere else.
And aren't they retiring those 'H' models?
We still have H models here in Minneapolis, but it would be nice to get the newer J's. I drove down to Little Rock AFB recently and it was cool to see the J-mods they had there. I don't miss active duty fuels too much, now that I'm an Air Reserve Tech (ART).
The Hercs are definitely better to work on than the BUFFs were for fuel work.
Welcome to Furtopia Sling! Enjoy your stay! Looks like you and Varg will be fast friends!
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The third audiological report in as many months from the ever excellent A Year in the Country imprint. As ever impeccably packaged in both dark and light editions with each featuring unique designs with various inserts, detailed liner notes and artist foot notes. Entitled ‘the quietened mechanisms’, the set maintains its distinctive eye for detail and attention to quality. As with previous editions, these as were, epitaphs or nostalgia notations, uncover in the main, forgotten histories, whether forgotten through sheer neglect, conspiracy or misremembered, these moments or passages in time are locked in our fading subconscious much like fleeting apparitions or images disappearing over time whether by design or by way of a past rewritten. ‘the quietened mechanisms’ turns its scholarly gaze on forgotten technologies and with it hosts of gathering of 17 intrepid travelers along for the journey.
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2019-04-19T06:24:57Z
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https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/the-quietened-mechanisms/
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2019-04-22T06:01:18Z
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I have a love at the moment for triangles and the colour pink, orange and grey together. I wanted to design something using all these things together and this is what I came up with. Coming soon are birds and hearts and all sorts. This is a completely new style for me I suppose to just experimenting for the time being. See how it goes down!
Print is 300x300mm Giclee Print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet Fine Art Paper.
This print can be any size you like (well within reason) and there are framing options too.
Please contact clareisaacsdesign@sky.com for more information and to purchase this print.
Cards are £4.50 each plus postage or hand delivered if in Bristol!
It’s been such a very long time since I have produced handmade cards. I have been printing them for a while now but absolutely love the process of designing a card from scratch with bits and pieces. I must admit each one takes a good half an hour to get exactly how i want it and each one is completely different from the next. What do you think?
I am selling this beauties for £4.50 each. Please contact clareisaacsdesign@sky.com for details of how to order and I also do commissions and wedding stationery.
So my Kilner Jar obsession needed somewhere else to go. I am also rather in love with lighting so what is more perfect than making a Kilner Jar in to a light!
I realised that it wasn’t going to be that easy and wanted them to look as professional as possible. This involved tools and hours of searching the net for the right bits and pieces. I wanted them to look expensive and give justice to the amount of time they take the make!!
I also think that the bulb is very important as it is the main feature of the jar. I have used Edison Bulbs. They too are rather expensive so although I am selling these lights for £65 I can totally justify this cost.
There are many different cable colours to choose from too. I have made then with black, blue and red so far.
You can either have them as a table lamp or hang round a hook from the wall. Can even been hung from a ceiling rose in groups of three or more! The possibilities are endless!!
Please email clareisaacsdesign@sky.com for more information or to purchase one of these stunning lights.
Please come along and show your support for local shops.
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2019-04-19T22:21:34Z
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https://clareisaacs.wordpress.com/
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Christine and Ewan have collaborated on several previous song-making community projects for various Scottish local authorities.
The Stoneysangs project was originated, organised, scheduled and led by Christine, who liaised with each school to agree targets and set up sequences of dates, report on progress and development of the project and monitor actions and outcomes – see ‘Comments on the project’ page for details on these..
Ewan led the Treasure Hunt sessions (see description below), created and edited the school songsheets and the website, and recorded and edited the CDs.
Christine and Ewan worked jointly to write the songs with the school class groups.
Mill O Forest was the first school worked with, and the general sequence there was also followed at Arduthie and Dunnottar.
Weeks Two and Three – Songmaking, in which a topic is agreed with the class, a traditional tune chosen, then ideas and verses are built up on the class ‘interactive smartboard’ by Christine or Ewan by eliciting relevant ideas, phrases, lines and ideas for rhymes from pupils and actively involving the class in the process of editing and polishing the developing lyric. Most of the work is done with the whole class, but sometimes a theme is agreed, topics for various verses chosen, and these verses are made by small groups with staff assistance.
Texts are typed [by a pupil, a staff member, or one of the workshop leaders) and exhibited electronically as they are created, they can be shared by email so they can be immediately incorporated in the developing website.
Week Four – Songmaking / Songs and Singing / developing arrangements & harmonies.
Week Five - finalising Songmaking / Songs and Singing / arrangements & harmonies / recording songs.
If the class teacher so decides, a part of the class’s work outwith the song-making workshops is the creation of artwork about the songs, to be exhibited in the classroom, and as appropriate lent to Ewan for scanning and inclusion on the website.
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2019-04-19T01:02:26Z
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https://stoneysangs.webs.com/process-of-the-project
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↑ "Squads for 2017/18 Premier League confirmed". Premier League. 1 September 2017. สืบค้นเมื่อ 15 December 2017.
↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia: List of players: England" (PDF). FIFA. 10 June 2018. p. 10. สืบค้นเมื่อ 10 June 2018.
↑ "Jesse Lingard says he chose Manchester United ahead of Liverpool as a youngster". Sky Sports. 17 November 2015. สืบค้นเมื่อ 18 November 2015.
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2019-04-18T23:12:41Z
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For those of you who don't live across the street from Eataly (as we do), it is a combination grocery store-restaurant, and yes, that's exactly as complicated as it sounds. Eataly is a grocery store with different little restaurant-lets inside where you can eat dessert, pizza, vegetables, meat, etc. That makes navigating it a bit of a challenge, but it's worth it to get the fresh pasta.
However! As fresh pasta does not make an excellent snack, today I recommend to you the bread. Eataly offers an entire bread counter, with at least ten different types of fresh bread every day -- and different types for different days. My favorite so far? The black olive baguettes, best eaten with Eataly's green olive tapenade.
Life won't give what you demand.
This book is a lot of fun; you should check it out!
I actually ran into a similar problem in my newest project, “Mythomania,” in which Andy, the main protagonist, receives a rejection letter from a publisher to whom he has submitted a manuscript. Immediately, one the most frequent complaints I received was the fact that no publisher mails letters anymore. But all I remember during that stage of my own life trying to break into publishing -– from which time I am drawing this story –- are rejection letters. Email existed when I was in my early twenties, but it wasn't the dominant form of communication yet. So to update the story, I made sure to include printed email rejection letters in Andy’s collection as well as letters, but that wasn’t enough to suspend the viewers’ disbelief. Just the inclusion of a single paper letter was enough to take the viewer out of the story. The world has really changed.
But there are some things that never change. Like the gnawing ravages of guilt, and the swatches of cruelty so haphazardly slapped around when we’re young. Which is what Same Difference is really about. And I hope that will be relevant whether it’s read on tree pulp between vinyl covers or having the pages streamed directed into the router in our brains a thousand years from now.
Although I have to admit –- and if you don’t mind me channeling Andy Rooney a little bit since he’s no longer around to grumble about this for me –- I feel a little bit wistful that future generations, maybe in 50 years, will never know the joy of cracking open a new book and smelling the paper. Or the thrill of opening your mailbox to a long letter from an old friend on foreign stationary or a zine from a distant admirer. Oh well, that’s a small price to pay for every single book you could ever possibly read in your lifetime and endless videos of cats playing instruments magically stored in a phone the size of a Pop Rocks packet, I suppose.
MUSH! on the Colbert Report!
Much MUSH! news to report!
Just out in stores is a new First Second gem from the pen of Glenn Eichler and the artistic wizardry of Joe Infurnari—MUSH! (Sled Dogs with Issues) looks and reads like no other comic you've ever seen. Or have you ever enjoyed a visit with a pack of sled dogs in the Alaskan wilderness, and followed the crackling dialog of their joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and longings like this? Plus, Joe Infurnari's astonishing characters and color look like nothing else out there.
And what's more, here is an endorsement from the mighty Stephen Colbert—look for it at about 20:10!
The whole story is so well known by now that I feel kind of silly rehashing it, but since you asked: I first got the idea for Mush! Sled Dogs With Issues in a dream, when a talking Weimeraner named Berkowitz appeared before me and commanded me to kill time. He suggested writing a graphic novel about dogs with interpersonal problems. It seemed like a better idea than the book I’d been planning, a romance novel about the square root of pi, so I went with it. With the help of awesome editor Tanya McKinnon I finished the manuscript and turned it in to First Second, and they got me together with even awesomer illustrator Joe Infurnari, who not only drew the book but also gave it its name. We hit a little bump in the road when some JPEGS of Joe’s initial sketches somehow found their way onto WikiLeaks; the buzz around them became so fierce that an assistant curator from the Tate Gallery broke into Joe’s loft and tried to steal them. Luckily, Joe is handy with his antique Mauser. The judge ruled it justifiable homicide.
Sensing the potential of the finished book, First Second immediately put it on their fast track to publication. In less than a decade it was in the stores. I wish they’d waited a little while longer, since I’ve always wanted to be published posthumously, but you can’t have everything.
We had the publication party in Madison Square Garden. Yankee Stadium had been suggested, but I didn’t want to be a showoff. I regret that decision now, because when it turned out the Garden couldn’t accommodate everyone who wanted to come, a bloody fistfight broke out between Doris Kearns Goodwin and Taylor Swift. Luckily the reporter from TMZ was so entranced by the live dolphin birth that he never even noticed.
You know the rest. American Book Award, Pulitzer, PENCIL/Faulkner Award (not as well known as the PEN/Faulkner Award, but it has the advantage of being erasable), Booker Prize Short Hairs List, Neurotic-Dog-A-Day Calendar, Golf Channel docudrama. I’ve now had so many people approach me to say Mush! changed their lives that I’ve had to have business cards printed up reading I’M SO FLATTERED, NOW PLEASE MOVE ALONG. That’s not to say I don’t appreciate my fans; I cherish every one of them. Now please move along.
So thank you to everyone who helped make Mush! Sled Dogs With Issues one of the bestselling books of last Tuesday afternoon between 1:15 and 1:16 (especially you, Mom). And to those who have pleaded with Joe and me to turn it into a Harry Potter-style epic series featuring a 10,000-page finale, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that’s just not my style. I can’t stand repeating myself. Besides, I’m too busy working on my next book, Meow! House Cats With Problems. I think it’s really going to make the Nobel Committee sit up and take notice.
Same Difference made a strong impression on me. It was a comic, yes, and boy howdy do I love a comic. But I'd never read one that seemed as though it had been written for me, personally. Simon and Nancy are characters that any twenty-something-year-old will find relatable, and better than that: Same Difference is not only funny, beautiful, and highly entertaining: it is literary. This is a story I could hand to my snobbiest friends and say, "See? You can do this with comics." Derek Kirk Kim raised the bar with Same Difference.
I've talked to a lot of people who had the same experience with Same Difference: a moment of profound - and profoundly satisfying - epiphany. I'm so glad First Second is bringing this beautiful story back into print...and in a gorgeous new package that raises the bar just a little bit higher.
In the end, he found he missed her.
This book! So fun. Go read it.
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2019-04-24T18:51:13Z
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https://firstsecondbooks.typepad.com/mainblog/2011/12/page/2/
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Characters: Ianto, mentions Lisa and Jack.
Written For: Challenge 441: Underground at tw100.
Spoilers: General for the first series.
Summary: Secretly, Ianto loves Torchwood Three’s base of operations.
Ianto will never say so to Jack, but he loves that Torchwood Three has a secret underground base rather than the shiny steel and glass tower that was Torchwood One’s home before the fall.
It’s not merely because the warren of tunnels and rooms that make up the Hub proved perfect for hiding Lisa, although he won’t deny they did.
Mostly it’s because his inner geek insists that despite the dampness, lack of natural light, concrete floors and metal catwalks that are impossible to keep clean, and endless flights of stairs, there’s just something about underground lairs that’s undeniably cool.
Yeah, it would have been impossible for him to work in a place that reminded him of Canary Wharf.
So, so cool. It's the Torchwood equivalent of the Batcave.
And Ianto is way sexier than Alfred!
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2019-04-20T12:41:20Z
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https://badly-knitted.livejournal.com/839380.html
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Tech EdVentures teaches engineering, coding and design to kids in grades K-8. Now in our third year of operations, we are experiencing dramatic growth.
We currently have openings for summer staff between May 31 and Aug 19. For details see our website.
We are also looking for undergraduates/grad students at UTA, UTD, DBU and SMU to help us recruit staffing for summer and year-round programs.
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2019-04-19T17:17:07Z
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https://udallascs.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/tech-edventures-is-hiring-for-the-summer/
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A newgrounds collaboration on the song "Simple and Clean"
Fun and addictive defence game with new elements: watering a flower!
You're on the highway, going in the wrong direction and THERE ARE NO BRAKES. Try to live.
Killer RPG game: lots of monsters scary stuff and more to make this a kickass halloween!
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2019-04-23T10:45:46Z
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https://eviludy.newgrounds.com/
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Part 2 of my Resources in Strategy Games post, this time Theming and Resources. If you haven’t read the first part about resources and numbers in games read it here.
My second point is that resources, and thinking about strategy in terms of numbers, leads to irresponsible/thoughtless choice about theming.
It is extremely common for strategy games (and all games really) to exploit resources for their personal gain. The genre 4X games (Civilisation, Age of wonders etc.) means eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. These last two, exploit and exterminate, have so many links to the harmful events in the real world.
In most games, like the previously mentioned StarCraft, resources exist for the player to take until there is nothing left, often themed as mining.
Our lives (including mine as a snake) revolve very closely around resources on a personal and universal level (food, shelter, money, power, land, fossil fuels, energy etc.) so I don’t think it’s very helpful to have consumption and exploitation the key to winning.
If we (as an individual or group) treated any of these resources like we often do in strategy games :for personal gain, we might have an excess but at the cost of everyone else. In the real world, if you take more than your fair share, or are irresponsible with what you do have, people will suffer. I think it’s unfortunate that we landed on this as such a common theme because of the message it communicates, whether the designers intended it or not.
There is nothing about strategy games (or any other genre) that means they have to be about killing and pillaging for personal gain.
When thinking of themes to suit your gameplay, also consider the message that will be mirrored to the real world, outside of your game.
Whilst you are designing, spend extra attention on the themes you come up with. What does your theme say to the player?
The eXplore and eXploit X’s come together from probability theory. They’re related to learning in general wherever one needs to try strategies to evaluate them.
In the context of a single round of a 4X game, the “strategies” are locations for harvesting resources. The Explore/Exploit dynamic is most relevant in a cold and mostly unpopulated game-world, where the available locations greatly outnumber the harvesters so settling on a good one is more important than competing for space.
Therefore, the Exploit X has a much milder connotation than this article implies.
Thanks for pointing this out Bucky, I hadn’t thought about it being exploiting a working strategy.
Exploit is a pretty gross word to use I still think.
I think there is a problem with theming the game as mining a 1/a million resource heavy, unpopulated planet, but I do agree that if people don’t mean exploit in this way, the way I write about it is harsh of the wrong thing therefor incorrect.
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2019-04-18T12:51:15Z
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https://happysnakeblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/resources-numbers-in-strategy-games-part-2/
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My address listed on this paper was NOT my correct address. They have 521 18th St. SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
My address was 389 15th St. SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
I do not know where they got the 521 address from. I've never lived at that address and do not even know if there is such an address.
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2019-04-23T22:49:53Z
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http://enigmasmatrix2.tripod.com/id15.html
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It doesn’t seem possible, but there’s only a month left to this semester. As every college kid knows, the last week before Thanksgiving break is one of the most stressful. Every teacher has an extremely “important” group project, paper, or hefty assignment that they have due before you leave.
For my nature and scenic class, our professor is having us turn in a portfolio of mounted prints. He offered us 12 categories and we are to fulfill at least eight different ones. Since many students aren’t able to meet those requirements yet, today’s class involved us going to Knob Noster and hiking in the state park in attempts to beef up our portfolios. The biggest issue with this is that everything is dead and brown at the moment. I didn’t get anything too spectacular as a result.
After class, I was out and about with my camera and decided that it was about time for another Stoli mini-shoot. We played in the yard and he hammed it up for me.
Lots of things have been happening since my last post. School is now out for the Summer, but I’m taking a Summer class so (hopefully,) I won’t have to take anymore Gen Eds as a senior.
I took a trip the 2nd week in May back to Iowa to see my best friend, who had just gotten back from her study-abroad in Asia. I brought Stoli with me, and of course he had a good time. His favorite part of the trip was chasing a giant kickball around the yard. He attempts to look vicious, but he’s still a marshmallow.
Stoli celebrated his first birthday on May 31st. For his big day, we got him 2 new toys, played with him in the yard, and took him to the park with our friends’ miniature schnauzer puppy. He was a happy pup. Here’s a look back to him as a puppy. The photo is what the breeder sent us, so it’s not exactly high-quality, but you get the idea of how small he used to be!
At the end of May, I finally moved out of my apartment on the corner of Overpriced and Bad Landlord. I have now got a small one-bedroom apartment owned by the University. It’s about a mile from campus, but it’s not too bad (if you don’t mind being stampeded by kidlets every time you open your door).
Stoli spends a ridiculous amount of time barking at his reflection in the window at night. For being the 10th smartest dog breed, Stoli has his moments of doubt.
I have neighbors above me and to the side of me. They have hoards of children and the walls are paper-thin. There's nothing like waking up to the sound of your neighbors screaming at their kids, threatening to beat them with a belt.
Broken Mirror. It's a good thing his mirrors fold back, otherwise it would have been toast.
Scratch and dent on the driver's door. The door doesn't open properly, which makes it difficult to get in, unless you do it NASCAR style.
Dented front panel, scratched bumper, and minor hood denting.
Well, I think that about covers life from the last month. I haven’t really done anything too earth shattering as I have been a slave to PictureME! Portrait Studios. We’re taking a trip to Wisconsin at the end of this week and then my family is heading to Atlanta for a vacation at the end of June. More photos to come.
It’s that time of year again–the temperatures are dropping, the trees are turning colors, and a little corgi is tearing around the yard eating mouthfuls of dead leaves. This is Stoli’s first Fall. He’ll be 18 weeks tomorrow. It seems his favorite new activity is to jump in piles of leaves and just go to town eating them. He loves when the wind blows and it kicks up the leaves. He chases after them and then rips them to shreds. I finally got some more recent shots of him this afternoon while we were playing outside. It was tough to get photos of him, because he’s going through his rebellious puppy stage and doesn’t want to listen on the first command. You can also see his adult teeth coming in. They seem to bee too big for his little mouth! Anyway, here are Stoli’s newest photos. Prepare yourself for the cuteness.
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2019-04-26T14:41:55Z
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https://hhildrethphoto.wordpress.com/tag/pembroke/
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I am sat in a rental car office. This is a non airport location at a weekend. This is not my normal experience of rental cars. Normally I am at an airport with a bunch of other people who regularly rent cars. Today, no one has their full drivers licences with them. People returning cars don’t get that they just need to leave the keys. It is odd.
Yesterday the airport was the same. Holiday time. People lost, the unfamiliarity of it all. Kids everywhere. Until I got on my flight. To London. London Frankfurt flights are different. Just full of suits.
It is more relaxed flying into Manchester. The flights always have excited football fans on them on the Friday.
It is a good question actually. I have been trying to find inspiration. The summer is always my quiet period in terms of travel, and now it is the build period. Eurobike is just around the corner, and I have my flight booking hat on. August should see me visit Germany three times going to a 24 hr race, and having a week at the office, then visiting ISPO Bike in Munich, before moving on to Friedrichshafen for Eurobike right at the end of the month. September then is seen in my the Eurobike show, followed for me by Madrid, Las Vegas, potentially an Italian show, an Austrian show and a show in the UK. Then I have to look at October – potentially there is The Netherlands and, all pity me now, the South of France (Nice, to be exact).
Right now I am on my way back from head office in Germany.
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2019-04-26T06:48:40Z
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https://worksrider.wordpress.com/2012/07/
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She said she had a plan. Some time ago she had watched someone draw a flower with many pedals and layers and detail. She showed me step by step how to draw that flower. We shared a pencil and took turns drawing each layer. Then we colored our flowers. She dug through all the crayons offering ones she knew I would like.
Her plan was to give her picture to her teacher. Then we started cutting out hearts, from which one would go to the little girl whose feelings she may have hurt earlier that day. I taped a few leftover hearts around the picture of us hanging on the wall.
She became sad when she didn’t have a heart or flower for me.
So I let her know, that she gave me a gift. She looked at me puzzled. I couldn’t hold it in my hands or hang it on the wall. I let her know that she taught me something, and I won’t lose it, it can’t get ruined or thrown away. I’ll have that forever.
The moments we share with people, the moments when we connect with love or laughter, intelligence, kindness, music and dancing, art. These are the gifts.
Gifts by Ciele. A beautiful post of a mother and daughter moment.
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2019-04-22T18:54:07Z
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https://ciele01.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/gifts/
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Faithful and simple right -modules are defined analogously.
Definition. A ring is called left (resp., right) primitive if there exists a left (resp., right) -module which is both faithful and simple.
Remark. We will show later that left and right primitivity are not equivalent. From now on, I will only consider left primitive rings. If a statement is true for left but not for right, I will mention that.
Example 1. If is a ring and is a left simple -module, then is a left primitive ring. This is clear because would be a faithful simple left -module.
Example 2. Every simple ring is left primitive. That’s because we can choose a maximal left ideal of and then would be a faithful simple left -module. The reason that is faithful is that is a two-sided ideal contained in and therefore because is simple. One special case of this example is the ring of matrices with entries from a division ring If is an infinite dimensional vector space over a field , then is an example of a left primitive ring which is not simple [see Example 4 and this post].
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Found this video clip on YouTube this weekend and just had to share it. Just proves all the more, every rose does have a story to tell.
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I have a ‘Peace” rose in my garden planted in memory of my mother who encouraged me as a boy to tend roses.
The story of this rose is such an incredible story. Well told in this clip….
Not on topic, but I had a Chicago Peace in a container next to a Mr. Lincoln and the next time it bloomed it was shocking pink. I moved it and it went back to cream and light pink.
Candelabra is a lovely floribunda and quite hardy.
Kaleidoscope is wonderful and I think is a floribunda. I couldn’t find it at Jackson Perkins online and I couldn’t find a photo of it. It must be under a different name.
Peace roses aren’t easy to get up here in the north. It may be because garden centers stock newer roses as well as their steady sellers. Peace must be not popular. That’s strange.
Thanks for visiting my blog. The rose ‘peace’ is still available in many homecenters and online. jackson & perkins might carry this rose from inventory, but the folks at Conard-Pyle and Star Roses is the company that actually introduced this rose in the US. Heirloom Roses carries it online http://www.heirloomroses.com/peace.html. Check it out! I have heard of Kaleidoscope and Candelabra, but have not seen them for some years. Chicago Peace is an awesome rose indeed.
The kaleidoscope was a Star rose in a gallon container.
Hi Chris, what a treat to learn of this rose’s past. A friend just lent me her book For Love of a Rose, and by-gosh, it’s the story of Peace Rose.
It’s a great story. One of the best I have read. Have you read “A Rose By Any Name” by Douglass Brenner & Stephen Scanniello? Great book about how some roses got their names….
I like how this rose looks against fence,and I love the flowers,so beautiful!
I have loved Peace for many years. I really enjoyed learning the moving story behind its name.
Thanks for sharing this, Chris. I love Peace and its Chicago Peace sport; I love the rose and its story.
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As spring arrives, the bats and gloves come out for the girls softball team. With last season’s record of 7-13, the Lady Dogs will be looking to improve, with the goal of making the tournament in mind.
Coach Sharon McGonnigal’s goals include not only making the tournament, but also winning the league.
Having graduated Brianna Starkey, a key player for the softball team in recent seasons, the team is going to need to fill her role.
Competing against the usual rivals such as East Bridgewater, Abington and Hanover, the girls are going to use their strong work ethic to their advantage in preparing for these matchups. In addition, tough non-league competition helps to prepare the team. “Those are [East Bridgewater and Abington] the teams that have been in the top tier. We’ve been in the top third. If we’re there, I’ll be happy,” said Mrs. McGonnigal.
With more girls trying out this year than in the past four years, Mrs. McGonnigal is hopeful, not only for the success of the season, but also for the development of the program as a whole.
In addition, there are fielding positions that are up for grabs.
“Everyone has an opportunity to earn their spot. No one’s position is set in stone,” Ms. McGonnigal said.
Fielding positions will be determined by other skills such as batting, softball IQ, and game preparedness.
According to Mrs. McGonnigal, the mental aspect of the game is just as important as the physical. “If we can improve that [softball IQ] then we can win the league, make the tournament and win a few games in the tournament,” said Mrs. McGonnigal.
Senior captain Angela Turner expects her team to make it to the tournament and to “be the team that other teams fear” by working hard and having excellent team chemistry. As a captain, Turner has goals to be a leader on and off the field.
“I want to be a very approachable captain that people enjoy being around who my teammates can always come to, or any other captain, if they can’t make it to our coach,” said Turner.
She personally hopes to become a more powerful hitter and to get on base more than in past seasons.
Both Turner and Mrs. McGonnigal agree that the team’s batting will need to improve in order to be successful.
One advantage for the team is having two experienced varsity pitchers, juniors Ali Sammon and Erin Buckley.“Not every team has that. For a coach, having two pitchers is a nice option,” Mrs. McGonnigal said.
Making the transition from a JV to a varsity team is going to be a welcome one for the girls lacrosse team. This being the third year Rockland has had a girls lacrosse team, they are now eligable to be a varsity team.
Coach Lauren Rizzotti expects the whole atmosphere of the team will change. “I think the bar will be higher, practices will be more competitive, and hopefully kids will be more dedicated,” said Miss Rizzotti.
Her goal for the season will be to break a .500 record. Although it is unknown exactly what the girls will have in store, Ms. Rizzotti is hopeful that based on how well they did last year, that they can be successful this year.
This year the girls will be pushed harder during practices than they have been in past seasons as a result of struggling with conditioning during games. Junior captain Emily Beatrice said their biggest problem last season was being in shape.
According to Miss Rizzotti, overall stick skills and speed are going to be the major improvements the team needs to make this season. The biggest strength of the team is the overall desire to push themselves and improve.
Beatrice’s personal goal for the new varsity team is to prove to the rest of the school that the team should be respected and can compete with any team on their schedule.
In addition, she personally aims to become stronger using both hands with her stick skills. She is also going to bring her leadership and communication skills to the team as a captain.
Beatrice said the team excels at finding a balance between working hard and having fun.
Since many players on the team have played on the JV team together for the past two years, Beatrice expects to use that chemistry and apply what they’ve learned to win varsity games.
The team will be seeking revenge on Abington this year. “We believe they will be our number one target,” said Beatrice.
In addition, North Quincy has been added back onto the schedule, and they hope to compete with them. Miss Rizzotti said that the games against Norwell, Duxbury and Cohasset will let them know how good they really are.
The goal for the girls tennis team, like every year, is to be competitive.
However, for Coach Rich MacAllister, the more important goal is to get the individuals who’ve been working hard in past seasons into tournament matches.
Mr. MacAllister also wants to see more girls compete in practice to play in matches.
This way the starters don’t become too comfortable and the non-starters have motivation to get themselves into a match.
According to Mr. MacAllister, players to watch this season will include senior Kyra Rose, who alway competes well, and doubles partners, seniors Lexi Carchedi and Caroline Kilduff.
Senior captain Sam DeMarco says she is looking to improve her overall record from last year, develop a more consistent serve, and end every game satisfied with her performance. As a senior she strives to offer positivity on and off the court. DeMarco credits her success in tennis to her positivity.
An overall strength of the girls is having passion.
“Every girl that goes out there and plays wants to win,” said Mr. MacAllister.
Before the girls’ first practice on Tuesday, March 22, Randy Grimmett, head girls track coach, said he was pleased with the pre-season sign-ups for the team. Grimmett also said the team looked “promising” and that their strength would be youth.
Despite the many young players, several veterans will be back including seniors Sarah Margolis, whose strength is in distance events, and Sam Aylward who will compete as a sprinter and high jumper.
In addition, junior Colleen McCarthy has experience as a hurdler. Sophomore Lily Matson looks to compete as a high jumper and Kelsey Willett will compete in the hurdles.
The task ahead is to get ready for their first meet against an always strong Norwell team on April 4. Despite not having a winter indoor track program as other teams do, Mr. Grimmett expects the team will work hard to be ready for a competitive season.
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The word "dictator" comes from the classical Latin language word dictātor, agent noun from dictare (dictāt-, past participial stem of dictāre dictate v. + -or -or suffix.) In Latin use, a dictator was a judge in the Roman republic temporarily invested with absolute power.
Right after the end of World War II, with a more relaxed political and social climate, several studies regarding the classification of various forms of government have been conducted. Among these, has been intensely discussed by historians and political scientists the conceptualization and definition of the dictatorship form of government. Eventually, it has been concluded that dictatorship is a form of government in which the absolute power is concentrated in the hands of a leader (commonly identified as a dictator), a "small clique", or a "government organization", and it aims the abolition of political pluralism and civilian mobilization. On the other hand, democracy, which is generally compared to the concept of dictatorship, is defined as a form of government where the supremacy belongs to the population and rulers are elected through contested elections.
A new form of government that, in the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new political era and is commonly linked to the concept of dictatorship, is known as totalitarianism. This form of government is characterized by the presence of a single political party and more specifically, by a powerful leader (a real role model) who imposes his personal and political prominence. The two fundamental aspects that contribute to the maintenance of the power are: a steadfast collaboration between the government and the police force, and a highly developed ideology. Here, the government has "total control of mass communications and social and economic organizations". According to Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is a new and extreme form of dictatorship composed of "atomized, isolated individuals". In addition, she affirmed that ideology plays a leading role in defining how the entire society should be organized. According to the political scientist Juan Linz, the distinction between an authoritarian regime and a totalitarian one is that while an authoritarian regime seeks to suffocate politics and political mobilization, totalitarianism seeks to control politics and political mobilization.
However, one of the most recent classification of dictatorships, formulated, do not identify Totalitarianism as a form of dictatorship. In Barbara Geddes's study, she focused in how elite-leader and elite-mass relations influence authoritarian politics. Geddes typology identifies the key institutions that structure elite politics in dictatorships (i.e. parties and militaries). The study is based and directly related to factors like: the simplicity of the categorizations, cross-national applicability, the emphasis on elites and leaders, and the incorporation of institutions (parties and militaries) as central to shaping politics. According to Barbara Geddes, a dictatorial government may be classified in five typologies: Military Dictatorships, Single-party Dictatorships, Personalist Dictatorships, Monarchies, Hybrid Dictatorships.
Military dictatorships are regimes in which a group of officers holds power, determines who will lead the country, and exercises influence over policy. High-level elites and a leader are the members of the military dictatorship. Military dictatorships are characterized by rule by a professionalized military as an institution. In military regimes, elites are referred to as junta members; they are typically senior officers (and often other high-level officers) in the military.
Single-party dictatorships are regimes in which one party dominates politics. In single-party dictatorships, a single party has access to political posts and control over policy. Other parties may legally exist, compete in elections, and even hold legislative seats, yet true political power lies with the dominant party. In single-party dictatorships, party elites are typically members of the ruling body of the party, sometimes called the central committee, politburo, or secretariat. These groups of individuals controls the selection of party officials and "organizes the distribution of benefits to supporters and mobilizes citizens to vote and show support for party leaders".
Personalist dictatorships are regimes in which all power lies in the hands of a single individual. Personalist dictatorships differ from other forms of dictatorships in their access to key political positions, other fruits of office, and depend much more on the discretion of the personalist dictator. Personalist dictators may be members of the military or leaders of a political party. Yet, neither the military nor the party exercises power independent from the dictator. In personalist dictatorships, the elite corps is usually made up of close friends or family members of the dictator. These individuals are all typically handpicked to serve their posts by the dictator.
Monarchic dictatorships are regimes in which "a person of royal descent has inherited the position of head of state in accordance with accepted practice or constitution". Regimes are not considered dictatorships if the monarch's role is largely ceremonial but absolute monarchies, such as Saudi Arabia can be considered hereditary dictatorships. Real political power must be exercised by the monarch for regimes to be classified as such. Elites in monarchies are typically members of the royal family.
Hybrid dictatorships are regimes that blend qualities of personalist, single-party, and military dictatorships. When regimes share characteristics of all three forms of dictatorships, they are referred to as triple threats. The most common forms of hybrid dictatorships are personalist/single-party hybrids and personalist/military hybrids.
Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 2016. Blue represents more democratic countries, while yellow and red are considered as hybrid regime and authoritarian, respectively. Most dictatorships are represented as darker shades of red.
One of the tasks in political science is to measure and classify regimes as either dictatorships or democracies. Freedom House, Polity IV and Democracy-Dictatorship Index are three of the most used data series by political scientists.
Generally, two research approaches exist: the minimalist approach, which focuses on whether a country has continued elections that are competitive, and the substantive approach, which expands the concept of democracy to include human rights, freedom of the press, and the rule of law. The Democracy-Dictatorship Index is seen as an example of the minimalist approach, whereas the Polity data series, is more substantive.
Between the two world wars, four types of dictatorships have been described: Constitutional, Communist (nominally championing the "dictatorship of the proletariat"), Counterrevolutionary and Fascist. Since World War II, a broader range of dictatorships has been recognized, including Third World dictatorships, theocratic or religious dictatorships and dynastic or family-based dictatorships.
During the Republican phase of Ancient Rome, a Roman dictator was the special magistrate who held well defined powers, normally for six months at a time, usually in combination with a consulship. Roman dictators were allocated absolute power during times of emergency. In execution, their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BC and later dictators such as Sulla and the Roman Emperors exercised power much more personally and arbitrarily. As the Roman Emperor was a king in all but name, a concept that remained anathema to traditional Roman society, the institution was not carried forward into the Roman Empire.
After the collapse of Spanish colonial rule, various dictators came to power in many liberated countries. Often leading a private army, these caudillos or self-appointed political-military leaders, attacked weak national governments once they controlled a region's political and economic powers, with examples such as Antonio López de Santa Anna in Mexico and Juan Manuel de Rosas in Argentina. Such dictators have been also referred to as "personalismos".
The wave of military dictatorships in South America in the second half of the twentieth century left a particular mark on Latin American culture. In Latin American literature, the dictator novel challenging dictatorship and caudillismo is a significant genre. There are also many films depicting Latin American military dictatorships.
Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China, Kim dynasty's North Korea and other Communist dictatorships that appeared after World War II in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, East Asia and other countries.
After World War II, dictators established themselves in the several new states of Africa and Asia, often at the expense or failure of the constitutions inherited from the colonial powers. These constitutions often failed to work without a strong middle class or work against the preexisting autocratic rule. Some elected presidents and prime ministers captured power by suppressing the opposition and installing one-party rule and others established military dictatorships through their armies. Whatever their form, these dictatorships had an adverse impact on economic growth and the quality of political institutions. Dictators who stayed in office for a long period of time found it increasingly difficult to carry out sound economic policies.
The often-cited exploitative dictatorship is the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire from 1965 to 1997, embezzling over $5 billion from his country. Pakistan is another country to have been governed by 3 military dictators for almost 32 years in 7 decades of its existence. Starting with General Muhammad Ayub Khan who ruled from 1958-1969. Next was General Zia-ul-Haq who usurped power in 1977 and held on to power the longest until he died in an air crash in 1988. Ten years after Zia, General Pervez Musharraf got control after defeat against India in the Kargil war. He remained in power for 9 years until 2008.
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier succeeded his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti after his death in 1971.
The global dynamics of democratization has been a central question for political scientists. The Third Wave Democracy was said to turn some dictatorships into democracies (see also the contrast between the two figures of the Democracy-Dictatorship Index in 1988 and 2008).
Xi Jinping's term limits were removed in 2018 by the party-controlled National People's Congress, practically entitling him as ruler for life.
One of the rationales that the Bush Administration employed periodically during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq is that deposing Saddam Hussein and installing a democratic government in Iraq would promote democracy in other Middle Eastern countries. However, according to The Huffington Post, "The 45 nations and territories with little or no democratic rule represent more than half of the roughly 80 countries now hosting U.S. bases. ... Research by political scientist Kent Calder confirms what's come to be known as the "dictatorship hypothesis": The United States tends to support dictators [and other undemocratic regimes] in nations where it enjoys basing facilities."
Mancur Olson suggests that the emergence of dictatorships can be linked to the concept of "roving bandits", individuals in an atomic system who move from place to place extracting wealth from individuals. These bandits provide a disincentive for investment and production. Olson states that a community of individuals would be better served if that bandit were to establish himself as a stationary bandit to monopolize theft in the form of taxes. Except from the community, the bandits themselves will be better served, according to Olson, by transforming themselves into "stationary bandits". By settling down and making themselves the rulers of a territory, they will be able to make more profits through taxes than they used to obtain through plunder. By maintaining order and providing protection to the community, the bandits will create a peaceful environment in which their people can maximize their surplus which means a greater taxable base. Thus a potential dictator will have a greater incentive to provide security to a given community from which he is extracting taxes and conversely, the people from whom he extracts the taxes are more likely to produce because they will be unconcerned with potential theft by other bandits. This is the rationality that bandits use in order to justify their transformation from "roving bandits" into "stationary bandits".
Look up dictatorship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Chemnitz is a city in Germany. It is in the state of Saxony. In 2006, about 245,000 people lived there.
During the partition of Germany Chemnitz was in East Germany. From 1953 to 1990 Chemnitz was called Karl-Marx-Stadt. The name was in reference to the social reformer Karl Marx. Now the city has its old name. This name is from the river that flows through it.
The first mention of the city was in 1143. The city had an important role in the Industrial Revolution. In about 1883, the city population passed 100.000 inhabitants.
Chemnitz is north of the Ore Mountains in the western part of the Bundesland Saxony. It is the 3rd biggest city in Saxony with about 245.000 inhabitants. The area is about 220 km2. There is a river that is also called Chemnitz. The average temperature is 8 °C and the amount of rain and snow every year (annual precipitation) is 700 mm.
The Karl-Marx-Monument has been an attraction of the city since 1971. The 7,10 meter high statue was created by the Russian artist Lev Kerbel. The inhabitants of Chemnitz call it "Nischel", which means head in the dialect of the area.
The Roter Turm (the red tower)is one of Chemnitz's oldest sites; it was built in the 12th or 13th century and was once part of the city wall.
The town hall of Chemnitz consists of two buildings. The old town hall was built in the 15th century. The new townhall, on the other hand, was built at the beginning of the 20th century and was designed by Richard Möbius. The new town hall was erected next to the old one.
One of the new attractions of the city is das Tietz. The former department store was constructed in 1912/1913. Today the Museum for Natural History, the public library, an adult education centre, a gallery and the Petrified Forest are here.
Chemnitz had an ICE connection for a short time, until 2006. Chemnitz is part of the railway line Dresden - Chemnitz - Hof - Nuremberg which is called 'Franken - Sachsen - Magistrale'. Today an InterRegioExpress services Dresden, Nuremberg and Leipzig. There are regional train (RegionalBahn) connections to the Ore Mountains and to Elsterwerda.
Chemnitz has got a big tram and a big bus network. There are 6 tram lines and 25 (+1 at fair days) bus lines. These networks belong to CVAG, the transport companies of Chemnitz.
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A couple of months ago we got a new neighbor. She is really great, and has a son the same age as Rat Boy (the resident 15-year old zombie killing expert), who is also homeschooling. She also has plants…LOTS of plants…a veritable explosion of plants on the tiny back porch.
I’d read that the best way to dry and store fresh herbs is to rinse in cool H2O, then lay flat to dry on a paper towel, after which refrigerate in a ziplock. So I did that with about half of the stems, until I ran out of room on the counter for the paper towels and leaves. The other half I rinsed and stood in a glass of water, like a flower arrangement. The standing basil dried in about half the time, I didn’t need to fluff or turn it. Actually it’s still sitting in the glass, looking fresh and crispy and quite decorative. The detached leaves did finally dry, and are now safely ensconced in the fridge.
I put mine on little cocktail rye slices. Hubby had his on Ritz. Either way, great nibbling without having to turn on the oven 🙂 And when you live in Texas, and the temp is holding steady at an early 100+, oven avoidance is an art to cultivate…even if you have AC!
I planted basil in a bed once out in front of a rental house. In one year it grew to be like 3 feet tall and 2 feet around. That was about 3 years ago. I’m just now this spring running out of the leaves I dried from that plant.
Basil loves to grow once you get it in the right spot. The plant I put in a pot this year died in a week though.
By the way, nice Still Life With Basil and Tomatoes.
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Kalia is also in service to perform traditional Shamanic ceremonies in person, such as Shamanic healing to the body and Shamanic cleansing ceremonies of home or person; and she is fully trained in psychopomp, terrapomp, and forest bathing. She also holds Usui Reiki certification.
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2019-04-21T10:55:39Z
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https://redwolfremarks.wordpress.com/https-www-kaliadiya-com/
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Porn
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Health
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yahoo
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What's outside of the universe?
What does the universe exist within?
I would like educated answers only with the most logical receiving best answer.
Best answer will be given.
When water touches a surface, do the water molecules touch the molecules of the surface?
Best answer will be given. Detail welcome.
Is water wet? Reasoning is necessary.?
Best answer will be given to the best logic or facts.
I need an encounter with the Devil. I was in my room last night, head down **** up, I begged the Devil to bum me, he never came. Is he even real if he won't even bum me?
Me and me wife just had a baby and the baby has defined abs, I know this isnt normal, what is it?
I want to write a short essay for someone's homework to help them, how do I find people in need of my help?
Handing in my English poem homework. Constructive criticism needed! Best answer for best input.?
-Passing of a mind- Consciousness has been drained; it’s seeped into an infinite state of emptiness. Such a precious state lost forever, cannot be returned and cannot be undone. Once sentient, now only a memory, soon to fade completely, it’s the only fate that is guaranteed. When life is lost we cry, but doesn't everyone have to die? If we knew when we’d decease, could we lastly have peace? No, because the ever looming impending doom that awaits us all calls out to us in the night, like a creature of horror it sings our name and whispers to us tremblingly “Tick Tock mother fucker” And with those hallowing words we fear for our lives as we know it’s inevitable, we are in danger. In this instance, ignorance truly is bliss. Farewell, for we all await the abyss.
Why do Americans think they're great, they are actually one of the lesser countries now.?
They have some of the worst presidential candidates in the known world. They're $19 TRILLION in debt. The US has one of the worst education systems in the developed world. America is an awful place why do mericans think it's so good?
What's the most awkward thing to have happened to you?
Best answer is at the ready.
Have you ever been invited to a party and it was TERRIBLE?
Best answer will be given. Have you ever been to a party so bad that you wish you never came? Please share your experience here for a chance to receive best answer.
Why are religious people so gullible?
Why am I experiencing my conciousness and not another?
No dumb religious answers. Logic or science only.
I bot 2 accounts on runescape should I keep botting?
I make 15 mill rs gold a day when botting divination at level 75+ should I continue revealing in the riches? Or quit my immoral act?
How do I cope with mutilating my daughter?
i was cutting my hedge rows with a chainsaw and my daughter ran up to me, I didn't know she was behind me, as i turned around I cut her arm off with the chainsaw, blood was squirting out of her limb and now she might not make it. How do I cope with mutilating my daughter?
What is more interesting than the wonders of space and all its mysteries? Best answer will be awarded?
To add to that, why don't the general public care about space and how wonderful it is?
Whats a common material that is like flesh? I need it for an art project at school.?
Caving experience found unknown creature?
I explore a lot of caves. The other day me and my girl went exploring a large cave network in Peru (relatively unexplored) We were about 200m in when we heard something scampering in the surrounding area, it sounded heavy and clearly had claws. Assuming it was a bat we pressed on until I caught a glimpse of it with my head light. It looked like a rat the size of a small dog with pale white eyes, it made a "chit chit" noise as it was alerted of our presence. I heard additional scutering and additional chittering, scared and taken by surprise we retreated out of the cave, but no one believed that any mammalian species live that deep into the cave network. How do I prove what I saw?
I was half asleep in my room when I heard a "tap tap" on my window, I went to investigate and it was a humanoid being. It communicated with my mind and materialised through the glass pane. It unbealted my trousers and began to bum me. I still feel it a little. Anyone else experienced this?
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2019-04-24T10:29:02Z
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https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=ULEHW4PSVOMX55EYQVRVX64DUM&t=g
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Porn
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Recreation
| 0.424953 |
wordpress
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Along with the latest Apple products bringing to the next level for the 5th generation iPod Touch, The new iPad and the iPhone 5, brings us to the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, that is so fun and more enjoyable to play with, making it more reliable, and with many Apple customers just willing to get their hands on, and with two hundred features to choose from, there are ten features that will just surprise customers and that it just gets even better.
Along with the new iPhone 5, being released anytime soon the new version of the next iOS mobile operating system has gone full throttle, with the new redesigned of iTunes, AppStore and the iBookstore. According to Apple officials the newly improve redesigned iTunes has better improved performance, preview while browsing, improved search results and share instantly on facebook and twitter for the latest music, movies and tv shows you like and tweet, the same redesigned software for Mac OS X mountain Lion.
With the next release of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, coming to the Apple Store near you, here are some of the ten of the two hundred features being introduced hands on as you update the latest software of iOS 6 on to the PC or Mac computer or to purchase an iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models, here’s one of the ten new features on iOS six, sources from the Apple website gives us details about just you need for the upcoming mobile software.
1. Maps: The new and updated version of Maps is so much fun and better than ever, it re-imagined how you see the whole map and the state of 50 continents, and explore cities with flyover you can search on any type of city like “Sydney, Australia”, and you can see the detail image of the building that is being seen in 3D as you zoom, pan, tilt, and rotate around the city and its landmarks. Turn by Turn directions gives you an insight look on route and a voiceover to know where you are going to, just type in your address and choose your route and follow the locations as you follow along but as you see traffic conditions coming your way, Maps offers alternative routes. Alternate side in parking effect with traffic signals you can see accidents, alerts and under construction, on your iOS device and also with standard, satellite and hybrid view as you see 3D buildings through your very eyes.
ask siri to post something on your wall or tweet something for you, that you can always listen to your ears, Siri is available for iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad (3rd generation), and iPod touch (5th generation).
3. Facebook: The world’s largest social networking platform, combine with the great iOS operating system, that allows you to share your favorite websites, like apps and songs from the appstore and iTunes, seeing contacts for people who have facebook and their birthdays coming up and other events to the calendar.
4. Shared Photo Streams: On the photos app, you can share the photos you want select the photos you want to share and name the photo of your album, as you can see the photos on Apple TV, or a Mac that is running on Mountain Lion, you can comment on other people shared photos as they get notified of someone liking their photos, and with a touch of a button you can see your photos on the iCloud website.
5. Passbook: Your boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and more are now all in one place. With Passbook, you can scan your iPhone or iPod touch to check in for a flight, get into a movie, and redeem a coupon. You can also see when your coupons expire, where your concert seats are, and the balance left on that all-important coffee bar card. Wake your iPhone or iPod touch, and passes appear on your Lock screen at the appropriate time and place — like when you reach the airport or walk into the store to redeem your gift card or coupon. And if your gate changes after you’ve checked in for your flight, Passbook will even alert you to make sure you’re not relaxing in the wrong terminal.
6. Facetime: With facetime in the palm of your hands, you can make video calls to someone like your friends, grandparents and so many others, but anyway since that facetime runs on Wi-Fi, it also runs on cellular wireless as well, so you can talk to your people anywhere around the world.
7. Phone: With some of the features, being portrait as you use iPhone, the phone app allows you to make phone calls, iOS 6 adds new calling features on the lock screen as you slide to answer there will also be a Decline and the Answer button, but there are six new options such as: Reply with Message, Remind Me Later, Can’t talk right now…, I’ll call you later, I’m on my way, What’s up, or you can custom what you want to say, you can also text messages and all the above.
8. Mail: There’s a new feature for Mail, and that is VIP you can put a star on your friends email, to see the messages your friends mail to, whether is your Mom or anybody, you can also put photos and video and send them easily and quickly, it animates the way it makes the e-mail receive new messages, and actually send them again and again.
9. Safari: The greatest enhancements on the number one iOS mobile web browsing, it’s actually the coolest web app that i’ve ever seen, with some awesome features on the safari app you can click the arrow on the right, and put the site now in full screen mode, iCloud tabs so that you can see websites coming to your Macbook Air, iPhone and many other Apple products that you’ve already open, offline reading list, and also browsing the most popular sites on the web.
10. Accessibility: iOS 6 comes with great features supports with many people who has autism, disabilities like Guided Access, Voice Over, and AssistiveTouch. Guided Access helps students with disabilities such as autism remain on task and focused on content. It allows a parent, teacher, or administrator to limit an iOS device to one app by disabling the Home button, as well as restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen. VoiceOver, the revolutionary screen reader for blind and low-vision users, is now integrated with Maps, Assistive Touch, and Zoom.
iPhone 5 will be release on Friday, iPod Touch 5th Generation will be release this fall despite all the rumors about whether the new iPod Touch (5th Generation) will be coming out, but I think that this mobile software will be so much better than iOS 5, and with a lot of competition of so many operating software, this could be one of the best mobile operating system yet all over the world.
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2019-04-26T16:20:19Z
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https://stnnews.wordpress.com/category/ios-6/
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Porn
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Recreation
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wordpress
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Today is Saturday and it is pretty rainy so that means me and my brother, Simon are chilling in our PJs using our iPads. If my dad was here (he’s traveling for work) we would probably be getting ready to go to the YMCA but since it’s just Me, My Brother, and Mom We are using iPads and she’s sleeping.
I was really Hopeful that I was going to get to go rollerblading today but since it’s wet and rainy it’s not very safe.
And tomorrow it’s supposed to snow! Me and my friends are sooooooooooooooooooooooooo exited! But I don’t know how my grandma is supposed to get here because she was supposed to come visit tomorrow. But I guess we’ll see. Also I made a new logo can you guys tell me which one you like more? Bye!
Hi I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, sorry about that 😅. Well there are a bunch of things that have happened recently.
Actually now that I think about it it’s actually quite a long list. So I’m just gonna list that stuff that is actually important.
1. First of all I now have several apps to connect through and YouTube is now one of them. You can check out my YouTube channel, Gacha Shy by clicking right here!
2. We ( as in my brother mom and dad) are moving soon!
3. I started swim team at the YMCA! I am currently in the Bronze group!
The groups are Red, Bronze, Silver, and Gold!
4. My birthday is in about 2 weeks! I will be turning 11! And I am happy to make Fanart for anybody who wants it!
I am really exited today because summer break has finally started and I don’t even know what to do first! We have a swimming pool in our apartment complex so we are probably gonna go swimming today. And yesterday we got some new floats from Target that are a lot of fun to use! Also sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I have been really lazy 😅!
I have also made an account on a app called Recolor it is a really fun coloring app where you can publish your pictures and also you can like and comment! My username on Recolor is Amberhammy!
Thank you for reading, bye!
Recently I got a new app called Duolingo. It is an app to learn languages, on it I am learning French. I have been interested in French for a while now. When I first got the app me and my friends were exploring it and we added Spanish and Korean to my course without knowing you could not delete languages from your course. So now if you go to my profile on Duolingo it will say I am learning French, Spanish, and Korean. Which is a little annoying. Something I really do like about the app is it’s game like structure, you earn gems by doing lessons and you can spend those gems on all kinds of things, for instance, you can spend them on hearts. You start out with five hearts you lose a heart every time you get a question wrong, when you lose all your hearts you either can buy more with gems, wait and they will come back or practice to earn more! Duolingo is a super fun app and I really recommend it for anybody who is learning a new language!
Yesterday we went to the Virginia Beach Aquarium and in their second building they have a bird area and in that bird area is the sweetest bird I have ever met! Her name is Russel, she is an American crow, she has arthritis in her right foot and she can talk!
She can mimic police cars and she can say what and hello. I’ve heard her make all her noises but what, when she says hello it sounds like a person!
I could not get a photo of her because the wiring they use as a barrier has large enough holes that you can see her through but you can’t really take a good photo.
VA beach aquarium is a large tourist location, I met a lady from Massachusetts who was visiting from there! They have a gift shop where I got a dolphin necklace: From my house it was about a 2hour drive to the aquarium. You should go sometime if you live close!
Me and my mom and brother just went to Target and a baby shower and at Target I got some stickers and I think they are soooooooo cute! 😍 They are both from American Greetings co. My favorite sticker of the pets one is the rainbow unicorn Pomeranian, and my favorite one from the other set is the pineapple sticker! Here is a photo of all the stickers organized!
Me and my friend Susan both collect stickers and trade them once a week so it’ll be so much fun trading them soon!
Comment and tell me which one is your favorite! Thanks for reading, bye!
LES(living earth school) is a program where kids 8+ can get outside and learn what plants are edible, how to make a fire, the names of trees etc. It’s so much fun, I have been doing it since March and this is the last class for this session and it’s an overnight and I’m so exited! We are going to be camping, playing games, storytelling, eating and more! It’s gonna be my first camping trip! Yesterday we went to REI to get a sleeping bag, spork, and pajamas. And I think I. Perfectly prepared, I Bri g to much stuff to name! Wish me luck, I’m leaving in a couple minutes!
Thanks for reading please comment and tell me what you think! Bye!
Yesterday at the Tuckahoe family YMCA it was healthy kids day! They had a big party with a petting zoo, bouncy slide, bouncy obstacle course, pot a plant, nature trail, rock wall, DJ, face paint, Kona ice, and more! At the party my favorite things were petting the animals eating my Kona ice and watching my brother on the rock wall.
A lot of people came to the party so there were pretty long lines for pretty much everything! I think the longest line was probably for face painting.
Nutzy the Flying Squirrels mascot came and played with kids and goats! While at the petting zoo Nutzy was knocked over by two adorable (tiny) goats 😂!
Hope you enjoyed reading, bye!
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2019-04-23T23:49:54Z
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https://rowanslittlenotes.wordpress.com/
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Porn
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Arts
| 0.396053 |
msu
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If there’s one thing that artists and scientists have in common, it is the ability to think creatively. During the month of April, the Art Lab studio will be (in)Process celebrating the MSU Science Festival. Experiment with different art materials and processes in this hands-on art-making experience. This special free edition of our weekly Studio (in)Process is hosted by MSU Science Festival. Children 10+ are welcome with adult supervision.
Layer, draw, and experiment to create unique prints using light! We’ve got everything you will need, but feel free to BYOS (bring your own supplies).
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2019-04-18T21:19:30Z
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https://broadmuseum.msu.edu/calendar/studio-inprocess-20190418
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Porn
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Kids
| 0.420363 |
free
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The filling process works first by determining which pixels should be filled and then tracing those pixels to produce a vectorized path. The tracing process has limited precision which can result in inaccuracies in the filled region. You can improve the filling accuracy several ways. The first way is to zoom in on the region you are filling. Zooming in increases the number of screen pixels in the filled region which results in a more accurate tracing.
The moon man was given a gray fill using the Paint Bucket Tool, while the zoom level was 25% on the left and 200% on the right.
The second way to improve the filling accuracy is to expand the fill region slightly in a process akin to “trapping” that printers use to account for small misalignments in their printing plates. This works especially well for cartoons where the fills can be put on a separate Layer beneath a Layer containing the black lines. The amount of expansion is controlled by the Grow/shrink by parameter. As the name suggests, one can both expand and reduce the fill area.
The moon man was given a gray fill using the Paint Bucket Tool, while the zoom level was 200%. On the left, no “trapping” was used. On the right the Grow/shrink by parameter was set to 1 pixel. The fill was then moved behind the line drawing. On both sides, the region around the eye has been expanded by a factor of four.
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2019-04-19T13:19:49Z
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http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Bucket-Fidelity.html
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Porn
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Games
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wordpress
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Today we’re pleased to announce that WooCommerce 3.1 is available for beta testing!
You can download WC 3.1 Beta 1 here.
You may have noticed that it’s only been a couple of months since 3.0 was launched; with our move to SemVer we’re aiming to do smaller, more rapid releases with an improved effort to maintain backwards compatibility and add new features incrementally.
Since 3.1 is a minor release, there should be no breaking changes and functionality added in a backwards-compatible manner. Updating from 3.0 therefore should be a breeze.
Here’s what’s new in 3.1.
We believe that new users should be able to move their data in and out of WooCommerce quickly and easily, so we’ve worked on a new built-in import/export solution!
Importing all core product data.
String-based custom meta data can be imported using the meta: prefix.
Merging data can be done by ID or SKU.
All product types can be imported from one CSV, including variations.
Both tools use AJAX to prevent timeouts by exporting and importing in multiple batches, and both can be started from the main Products screen.
The recent CRUD additions in WooCommerce core made building this import/export solution much simpler that it could have been using the WordPress meta approach. If you’re a developer and you’ve not yet used the new system you may want to check it out.
We look forward to hearing feedback about this new functionality!
In previous versions, defining a checkout terms page would add a mandatory checkbox to the checkout, as well as a link to the terms page.
In 3.1 we’ve enhanced this to show the terms page inline, so the user is kept on the checkout and can scroll through the content if desired.
In an effort to improve the user experience for updating extensions purchased from WooCommerce.com, the “helper” (the code responsible for validating subscriptions and checking for updates) has been merged into WooCommerce core.
Does what it says; oembeds (e.g. to show videos) were previously non-functional when used in the product short description. With 3.1 they are supported!
A small improvement to help update variations in bulk; you can now set all stock statuses at once.
We’re hoping to keep WooCommerce 3.1 in beta for the next 2 weeks.
Being fairly small in scope we’re expecting to do fixes for new features, but we’re not expecting to break extensions or backwards compatibility (since this is a minor release, not a major one). If you’re a developer you should still check extensions and themes to be safe of course!
If all goes well, Release Candidate 1 will be tagged on June 14th 2017 and will remain in RC for a further 2 weeks until June 28th which is our target launch date.
If you’d like to help us test, you can download the release from Github. We posted a nice little write-up on beta testing here which should get you started. Please read that and jump right in!
If you’re like to help translate 3.1, you’ll find it on the development branch on translate.wordpress.org.
I don’t know how to do that, so I ask for your help.
Thank you Claudiu! You are the best!
If you can replicate it properly, with only core installed, log an issue on Github.
I’m trying to import (after finding import under Extra…) my standard CSV but have some troubles mapping to fields. Maybe I was used to use mappings that do not exist anymore. That mapping stems from the early days of the CSV import plugin (originally written by Mike I think).
The settingsand mapping are not saved yet? I need the merge behaviour and have to select that option each and every time I read an CSV. Same for Advanced. I need to read the CSV from a file called merg1.csv in the webroot. Mappings are not saved; I have to set them with a new import/merge.
Please consider just one page (like the old import/merge page) with all settings.
The progress page is nice. Better that watching 8000+ lines of merged products and then scrolling all the way up again.
The CSV formats of this and the plugin are not the same.
About translation. PSE do not translate the real internal field names. I get several dutch words in the pulldown list with fields. My colum header is called “post_title” and should map to “post_title”, NOT to “Naam” the dutch translation of “Name”. There are several.
We want nice names/translated names, not unfriendly technical terms.
Please allow us to list our extensions on woocommerce.com again. The current situation is extremely unfair. (yeah, yeah, nobody said life was fair).
It is bad enough that I have begun to consider trying to buy an existing listing from its owner to replace the content on their domain with my own, or just abandon the idea of releasing my extensions at all.
I *just* bought a license for a csv import plugin on codecanyon…..
Please include the option to keep the terms & conditions as a link to a separate page (the way it is now). Putting the full terms in a text box on the order page will likely reduce conversion rates (especially for longer terms) because it’s extra “stuff” on the checkout page.
There is no extra “stuff” because it’s hidden by default?
One thought, though, on that – I always CTRL-click any links on a shopping cart since I want to be sure they open a new tab (and don’t take me away from the cart). (Though I’m pretty sure the current T&C link actually does open in a new tab already.) So if a user CTRL-clicks this new link, will the box still appear correctly on the page?
Great news about the new Product importer/exporter. Any chance this will get extended to include importing/exporting of Orders?
Wait.. no more discount on renewals for extensions? I do not see that being received well.
REALLY loving the import/export feature. Huge time saver in new projects and it will enable us to start with our own demo content more easily I suspect. Inline T&C is also nice.
Please consider doing a “WooCommerce Services EU”-edition.
Hello! will the product CSV Import/Export function support UTF-8 encoding? It is important as my online shop is in German. Thanks.
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2019-04-22T14:06:39Z
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https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/woocommerce-3-1-beta-has-landed/
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Porn
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Recreation
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wordpress
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Quantum computing will change the future. Learn about the current state of quantum computing and and how it will be relevant to app developers sooner than many think! There will be quantum cloud computing demos!
For a background check out these sources… and be sure to RSVP!
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2019-04-22T09:20:06Z
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https://approchester.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/april-3rd-quantum-computing/?shared=email&msg=fail
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Porn
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Computers
| 0.655693 |
wordpress
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Today Adrienes session was 28 minutes of relaxation( despite this there was an expectation on her part that I do the above move needless to say – big fat fail!). There was however on the plus side gentle bell music throughout the session. My littlest yogi crept upstairs ands sat beside me as I breathed slow, deep “relaxing” breaths.
“Is this the relaxing one?” she’s such a girl and retains all this information.
She popped a kiss on my cheek and scrambled onto the bed.
I continued with the movements eyes closed while everything slowed down around me. Breathing in and out, in and out…..
“YoGay” he retorted as he left the room did I mention he was 15?
The session eventually came to an end with a deep long breathing savasana. As I came too from the deep breathing session which was quiet hypnotic I noticed my little yogi had been very quiet for at least 15 minutes.
I stood up and crossed over to the bed to find the young yogi totally relaxed and fast asleep.
It appears yoga has many benefits.
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2019-04-24T10:17:34Z
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https://oldfogiyogi.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/oldfogiyogi-day-8-yoga-challenge-its-all-so-quiet-shhhh/
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Porn
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Kids
| 0.715654 |
wordpress
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Wow, it was so simple it worked. Dish detergent is pretty much a commodity. I buy the one that smells good (or I think will smell good) or is in a neat bottle. But otherwise I usually don’t think much about it.
After watching this commercial I’m buying Dawn.
Commercials make all sorts of claims all the time, we’re used to it. Unless the brand has some internal credibility, we usually slough it off or we need a third party validator. Well this ad uses a pretty powerful 3rd party validator — I mean we’ve all seen those pictures of the cute animals covered in oil and wondered if they could get cleaned up… well they can with Dawn!
Maybe as much as the validation, this Dawn ad speaks to my story of the consumer I want to be. I can buy something as mundane as dish soap, and be helping the environment? That’s me I love the environemnt.
Ok, so maybe the ad is trying a little too hard to tug at the heartstrings you know what? Next time I go to Target to buy my dish soap, I’m reaching for the Dawn.
This entry was posted on July 8, 2013 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. 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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2019-04-21T16:03:39Z
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https://adamstrasberg.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/wow-this-worked-why-dawn-dish-detergent-ad/
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Porn
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Shopping
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