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This entry was posted on 火曜日, 2月 27th, 2018 at 3:58 PM and is filed under コンサート. 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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... And now it's Churchill again?
"No. And neither are you. Where is he?"
"This is the Royal Collection. And I'm the bloody Queen!"
"I said, off the wrist..."
"Cleopatra will see you now" ... ?
"You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe!"
"You wouldn't answer your phone!"
Oh dear. It's Stonehenge. And there's a Cyberman under it. Well, a bit of a Cyberman, anyway.
"Anyone can break in to a prison, but I want to know what I'll find there."
"You said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?"
Amy really is looking rather useless at the moment. River Song for companion?
They're desperately looking for answers... and Amy's now bothering the Doctor about Rory's ring.
"Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense." Immediately followed by a zap gun going off. Nice timing, Doctor.
... Hang on, what is Rory doing here?
"I died. And turned into a Roman. It's very distracting." Not to mention the poor bugger would have had to learn Latin in a bit of a hurry. Ouch.
That was entertaining. A whole lot of aliens faced down by a Doctor without a clue and without a plan. None of them want to be the first penguin off the iceberg.
Oops. River's left the TARDIS handbrake on as well.
Come on, Doctor, you've been calling yourself 900 years old for four or five regenerations now. What's the problem, can't even admit to yourself that you've hit the big one-oh-oh-oh yet?
"Oh, Doctor. Why do I let you out?" Poor River... you can't keep the Doctor out of where he doesn't belong.
... All right, who just turned off the Romans?
...They're going to feed the Doctor to the Pandorica?
"Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS." ... You haven't bothered telling River Song about that, have you?
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Following is the message in an email from Harry Jackendoff whom I met at the Princeton Library Author’s Day this past April. He bought a copy of my book and I asked him to tell me what he thought of it once he had read it.
I rarely read novels. I had many reasons for starting it…. which I cannot fully explain here….and did not think it would be easy to finish when I first began reading…. as the style is very “upright” and perhaps academic sounding…. not particularly story-telling or conversational….but the story grabbed me, and the Dickensian twists were planted early enough to make me want to see how you would weave the characters back in. It was a very engaging story….as you see I could not put it down. I only wish it were more accessible to readers. I mused about a CLASSIC COMICBOOK version, or a film for the young Vietnamese market back home…. there is so much that I wish we had known back in the 60′s, when you yourself were struggling with all breeds of Americans at home, like your characters had to deal with all breeds of French.
The writing style is unfortunately not what most novel readers are used to… yet the story carries it, if only the reader will give you the respect of reading a chapter or three before deciding to continue. For after the 3rd chapter or so they will want to pick it up again. What I found missing, however was some way to picture the scenes…to place myself in the landscape. perhaps some ink drawings in a calligraphic style at the chapter breaks…..giving us some sense of the lines of the horizon, rooftops, jagged shorelines, sampans on the river, the bamboo cage….. the references to flowers were often lost on me.. I know bougainvillea…. the smells and air quality, the architecture and tree-scapes, the undergrowth….the dust and dirt….. somehow I had to keep reminding myself I was in Vietnam, where the birds are no doubt different, the insect life as different as the 19th century culture… you get what I am after I am sure. You were very very careful in describing every bit of the interior landscape of each character, as if we are reading requirement specifications. I sat back and let you tell me what you had to tell me in the way you knew how, but it was often at the expense of the drama unfolding. This became an accustomed part of the flow after a while, and it was soon apparent that every fact you told us would be part of the denouement shortly …or soon thereafter.
Anyway, this was a wonderful journey, and you took me to a welcome time and place far from my own….yet very much connected.
The author of the above email has published several books, among them The Devils’ Laugh and Other Stories available on Amazon.
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Published jointly by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, the Index of Economic Freedom (2008) has painted a global portrait of economic freedom [world average economic freedom pegged at 60.3] and established a benchmark by which to gage a countrys prospects for economic success.It follows a simple tenet: Something cannot be improved if it is not measured. The Index of Economic Freedom has documented the link between economic opportunity and prosperity with research and analysis for 14 years.
The 2009 Index, covering 162 countries, shows that economic freedom worldwide continues to advance steadily, albeit at a slower rate than one might hope. In this 14th edition, most of the 20 freest countries from last year are still ranked among the freest, while others in the middle of the pack have experienced some shuffling as a result of varying efforts at reform.
Europe, Asia, and the Americas are the three freest regions. Asia has both the world’s freest economy and its least free economy. More than half of the top 20 freest countries are found in Europe, and the Americas are home to some of the richest and most dynamic countries in the world.
Annotations: So, the Philippines beat some 70 countries (about 57%) of the world. I wonder, how India fared?
Annotations: Trade freedom in the Philippines have undergone too many changes that in the 1990s the key words were economic reform and liberalization. I wonder what percent every year of the national GDP goes to the deep pockets of some "power-that-be"?
Annotations: Two [or four, depends on whose counting] versions of EDSA, and we learned nothing . . . So what’s new? Corruption is free for all! ZTE Broadband, Fertilizer, Coconut, Golden Buddha, Jueteng . . . you name it, oh! they have corrupted it! Only property rights of the rich and powerful are justifiable in this part of the world! Inflation is "fairly high" Question: Do compare the present size of the lowly pan de sal with that in the 1960s?
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Why women graduates outnumber men in the UAE ?
Today more than 70 per cent of Emiratis in federal higher education institutions are women. The large rate of dropouts among young Emirati men remains a major issue for all the community.
A survey in 2011 suggested that more than 15 per cent of Emirati boys drop out of secondary school and almost a quarter of Emirati men aged between 20 and 24 are school dropouts who will never return to education. By contrast, Emirati women are particularly efficient at school. Today more than 70 per cent of Emiratis in federal higher education institutions are women. Girls continue to perform better than boys across the region in all subjects, in international and national standardised tests. Meanwhile, boys are more likely to repeat a grade, drop out of school and are less likely to continue on to higher education. While the successes of women and girls in the region are heralded internally and externally, the poor achievement and retention of boys goes unmentioned. Girls are also far less likely to drop out of school prior to completion, with rates around 2 to 3 per cent while rates for boys are upwards of 10 per cent.
Many factors can explain this phenomenon. Firstly, the school and the culture don’t encourage boys to study very late. Culturally, the pressure on men to be the family breadwinner, to represent the family name well and to support their own families, remains a challenge, especially in rural areas. The pressure some young men feel to make money and prepare for marriage is also a factor, whereas in the other hand, the family gives young women an environment that encourages their education and offers limited distractions.
Secondly, the reasons of the gap between boys and girls’ results at school are likely to come from the education system in itself. Teachers and the quality of the courses have a huge impact on students achievements. In the UAE, girls are taught predominantly by Emirati women while boys are taught predominantly by expatriate men teachers. Without commenting on any difference of quality between women and men teachers, it can’t be denied that having shared experiences and cultural or social references make teaching and learning easier or more fluid.Moreover, studies show that schools behavior are different between boys and girls, because of different socializations and educations. Whereas boys are more confronted to discipline problems and less student involvement, girls are in general more assiduous in their studies.
Finally, the society and the work world are also major factors. Women in the UAE, despite their education levels, will face higher unemployment rates than men, so they have to study more to reach the same jobs, and sometimes also keep on studying as they are waiting for a job opportunity that takes more time to come.
All these factors combine to create a system in which young women are actively continuing their education but where young men are still failing to see the point of it. According to experts, warning about the consequences of this phenomenon, poorly educated boys are more likely to commit crimes, suffer from poor health and have a shorter lifespan. Moreover, the school dropout problem keeps Emiratisation from fully succeeding. Teachers and employers have been urged to work more closely together to prepare young Emirati men for the jobs market. Companies have a responsibility to become involved in the process of continuing education, by starting training and development programmes connected to diploma completion for example, in order to ensure adequate motivation for Emiratis to continue education and pursue higher education qualifications.
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I wonder if it was the other way around, if the country would even care that women were doing poorly in school and dropping out. I think these men are making their own poor choices while women are not taking their education for granted. The country should concentrate on putting these women in the work force. The world needs more empowered women since men have only destroyed humanity since the existence of mankind.
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Ike rolled over in his bed with tears streaming down his face. The nightmare kept repeating itself in his head. Taylor's blue eyes filled with fear falling away from him. Remembering Taylor asking him why did he let him fall. Why he couldn't get rid of the guilt confused him. It was now coming out in his dreams. He closed his eyes again hoping the nightmarish dreams wouldn't return. Suddenly he felt a hand caress his forehead and he jumped at the touch. He slowly opened his eyes and saw his father's concerned face staring down at him. He quickly wiped the tears away with the back of his hand.
"Are you alright Ike? I heard you moaning."
"Yeah... yeah I'm okay dad." Ike answered sadly.
"Ike? I want to talk to you. Please get up and come outside. Okay?" Walker asked gently.
"Please Ike I am worried about you. I want you to talk to me about it. It will be just you and me. For the last couple of days I have noticed you have been having nightmares. I keep hearing you cry at night. I want to help. Okay? Please get up."
Ike nodded his head and fear formed a knot in his stomach. How could he explain what he felt inside? He slowly got up and saw his father walk toward the door of the camper and stood waiting for him. He put on a pair of jeans that lay on the chair across from the bunk. And pulled a sweatshirt out from the closet and slipped it on. His legs shook when he approached his father. Walker put his arm around Ike's waist and led him outside too two chairs that were in the back of the camper.
Ike sat down and found it hard to look into his father's eyes. He just stared at the ground.
"Ike? Tell me what you have been dreaming about. Is it Tay?" Walker asked with concern in his voice.
"I...I just keep having dreams about...." Ike suddenly burst into tears. The sobs shook his body. Walker pulled his chair in front of his son and grabbed Ike's head gently and pulled his face up so he could look into his eyes. He noticed they were filled with pain and heartache.
"Is it Taylor son?" He asked gently again.
"Yes! I keep dreaming he is falling away from me! I try to hold on but I can't! Taylor keeps asking me why I didn't pull him up! Oh DAD! Why didn't I pull him up?" Ike sobbed gasping for air.
"Ike? Listen to me... I know you tried your best to help your brother. You did the right thing coming back for help. I hope I didn't make you feel like it was your fault when I yelled at you that night! I didn't mean it Ike! I really didn't mean it! I hope I didn't make you feel like it was all your fault that Taylor fell!" Walker rasped with tears welling up in his eyes.
"No Dad! I have been feeling like this ever since it happened. I feel like I could have done more. Everyone keeps telling me I did all I could... but I...I feel I let Tay down! He trusted me! He trusted me to pull him up! But he kept slipping from my grip and he fell. I can't get Taylor's look of fear out of my head when he fell away from me. His eyes keep haunting me!" Ike shouted angrily pounding the arms of the chair with his fists.
Walker grabbed Ike and hugged him close. Ike wrapped his arms around his father desperately. The flood of anguish and guilt flowed out in uncontrollable sobs. Walker held on tight trying to let Ike feel the love he felt toward him.
"That's okay son. Let it all out! Just let it all out!" Walker consoled rubbing his back softly.
"DAD! Dad? Will Tay love me? Does he still love me?" Ike sobbed into his father's shoulder.
"Of course he does! Taylor will always love you. You said he didn't want you to leave him. He would only say that if he loved you. He was scared and you were there for him. Please Ike don't feel guilty about what happened. I know I can't take away your feelings. I want you to know I love you. I LOVE YOU IKE! I don't blame you! It was just a terrible accident! But Taylor is okay now and soon we will see him again." Walker explained as he rocked his crying son in his arms.
Slowly Ike pulled away and wiped his tears off with the sleeve of his shirt. He sadly looked into his father's eyes.
"I keep trying to tell myself it isn't my fault. I keep trying to feel that way, but it keeps coming back! The guilt I mean! When will it go away? WHEN DAD?!" Ike yelled desperately searching in his father's eyes for an answer.
"Maybe when Taylor comes home to us, hopefully then your feelings of guilt will pass. I wish I could take it away from you."
"I'm scared! I'm almost afraid to see him. I am so scared he will be angry with me, for not... pulling him back up. I know that sounds stupid, but I...I..." Ike moaned squeezing his eyes shut and rocked his head back in agony.
"It's okay Ike. Everything will be okay. I want our family to be whole again." Walker assured him lovingly, caressing the side of Ike's face.
"I do too! I love Tay! I love him so much!" Ike exclaimed tearfully.
"Don't worry. When Taylor is returned to us I will be there for you. If you need me don't be afraid to ask. Okay?"
Ike nodded and gave his father a weak smile. The pain he felt inside was somewhat relieved by his father's concern. It felt good that his father understood. His dad didn't make him feel like his feelings were stupid.
"Dad? Dad I love you so much! Thanks for letting me get this out. I can't say I feel totally good, but I am glad to know that you are there for me." Ike rasped cracking a small smile.
The sun was coming up in the east. It cast a orange glow around them. They didn't realize how long they were talking. They sat there together watching the sunrise. Walker wondered if today Taylor would be brought back to them. It was the end of the week. He wanted the emptiness he felt inside to go away. He missed Taylor so much. He turned and looked at Ike. His son looked exhausted, but calm. He hoped that this talk they had finally took away some of the guilt Ike was feeling inside. He knew only Taylor could make Ike feel whole again.
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Let’s take a moment to think about all the problems the US is facing today. We have wildfires consuming the Pacific Northwest, Montana, and California. Hurricane Harvey is flooding Texas and Hurricane Irma nearing Florida. The whole country either needs water or it has too much, and that’s only in the US. Here in Moscow, where I live, there’s so much smoke in the air that we are now at a hazardous air quality. The world has become a gray haze outside my windows. I can’t enjoy the breeze at night or else I risk waking up in a cloud of smoke and hurting my cat’s lungs.
Group picture, was taken at East City Park during the March.
On January 21, 2017, upwards of 2,600 people from the Moscow/ Pullman area marched in solidarity with the Woman’s march in Washington DC. The march went from Moscow City Hall to East City Park where there were speeches by members of the community and from both U of I and WSU. Both schools had students in attendance. The march was for Woman’s Rights but encompassed issues such as immigration, the environment, and LGBTQ rights. The parking lot in front of City Hall was a sea of pink hats and protest signs.
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Heinrich Himmler and his family, in an undated photograph from "The Decent One."
Much of the history of human thought has revolved around our efforts to understand the nature of evil, which have never yielded anything like a satisfactory result. We are fascinated by serial killers and murderous dictators, torn between the obvious fact that they are human beings like ourselves and the conviction that in some fundamental way they must be different. Fictional embodiments of evil, like J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sauron or J.K. Rowling’s Lord Voldemort, are essentially reassuring because they are nothing except evil; both are built on the Satanic pattern, meaning they were once pure, but have left their uncorrupted selves far behind. Even the perversely noble Satan of “Paradise Lost,” after nine days of torture by fire, knows only one purpose: “immortal hate” and “eternal War irreconcileable” against the power of heaven.
Set against this conception of inhuman monstrosity we have the countervailing evidence, famously marshaled by Hannah Arendt under the controversial term “the banality of evil.” In latter days, many scholars and Holocaust survivors have contended that Arendt misapplied this term to Adolf Eichmann. (Most notably, the late Benjamin Murmelstein, who knew Eichmann well, told “Shoah” director Claude Lanzmann that Eichmann was a sadist and a zealous anti-Semite.) But the dispute over Eichmann’s personality oversimplifies the profound philosophical insight that lies behind Arendt’s phrase, which speaks to the fact that people who do terrible things, and who hold beliefs most of us find noxious and inexplicable, often appear to be entirely normal in other areas of life. Those Technicolor films of Hitler snuggling his beloved German shepherd (shot by Eva Braun) have always struck me as more disturbing than his long, ranting speeches. Der Führer looks like any other high-level functionary of the business or political realms, seeking an outlet for repressed emotion. He doesn’t look good or evil; he looks human.
That brings us, however reluctantly, to the subject of Heinrich Himmler, the focus of Vanessa Lapa’s devastating collage documentary “The Decent One,” and a highly viable candidate for the title of Worst Human Being Ever. As leader of the SS and head of the Gestapo, Himmler almost certainly knew more about the details of the Holocaust than Hitler did. As the private letters and documents that form the principal text of “The Decent One” make clear, he was a true believer in Nazi master-race ideology, who enthusiastically embraced the project of exterminating all the Jews in the Third Reich’s zone of control. Yet any attempt to describe Himmler as a monster founders on the mountain of ordinary domestic details. His letters home to his wife, Marga, are affectionate and playful, laden with the role-playing and in-jokes that are the inner substance of any marriage. Later on, of course, Himmler writes similar letters to the mistress with whom he had two illegitimate children – but old-fashioned bourgeois adultery is the deed of a man, not a monster.
While the cumulative effect of “The Decent One” is difficult to summarize, and some viewers have felt alienated by Lapa’s formal and structural choices, I found this film to be one of the most profoundly disturbing cinematic experiences in a life full of them. It has the slow-building nightmare force of one of Michael Haneke’s films, which have their roots (it hardly needs to be said) in the same 20th-century European darkness. Even those steeped in World War II and Holocaust history will learn things from “The Decent One,” and none of them are likely to make you sleep better at night. Himmler is not made less repulsive in this human-scale portrait; indeed, he seems more despicable than ever. But Lapa constantly confronts us with the fact that we cannot easily thrust him away as a psychotic aberration, not when he seems like such a recognizable type.
Himmler is the guy who more or less successfully compartmentalizes his family life and the unlovely details of a demanding professional career. He reads an adoring letter from his daughter, Gudrun (known as Püppi) – who at one point seems mystified by the fact that her science teacher caught her cheating on a test but did not punish her – and later that day or the next reads a secret memo from an underling discussing technical problems with the “death wagons,” the rolling gas chambers then being used to asphyxiate Jews and Communists along the Eastern Front. (I don’t want to tell you what the memo was about; I wish I didn’t know.) I’m not suggesting that oil-company executives, corporate lobbyists or predatory venture capitalists are guilty of crimes on anywhere near Himmler’s scale, but the psychological mechanism involved is about the same.
“The Decent One” is based on a trove of recently revealed material whose provenance is somewhat mysterious, although as far as I know its authenticity is not in question. Lapa’s film suggests that the Himmler family’s private archive was stolen by American soldiers, and then sold on the black market, after Himmler’s home in Bavaria was seized in the spring of 1945. The collection, which includes Himmler and Marga’s letters, Püppi's childhood diary, many other documents and numerous family photographs, apparently found its way to Israel and was held there for decades, until Lapa’s father purchased it privately a few years ago. There’s something more than a little unsavory about that history, as if the criminality of the papers’ former owners had leached into them somehow and infected future generations. I suppose it all fits together.
In the early stages of “The Decent One,” which sketch out a brief portrait of Himmler’s unexceptional childhood in a privileged Bavarian Catholic family, Lapa stitches together archival footage from many sources, most of which is simply meant to illustrate provincial German life early in the 20th century. Almost none of this early material directly pertains to Himmler (and she never claims it does), but some viewers may be confused about that. Throughout the film, she often adds an artificial soundtrack – gunshots, children’s cries, the roar of motorcycle engines – to original newsreel or archival footage that is almost certainly silent. I noticed this and wondered about it and then pretty much stopped thinking about it, but on balance it feels like a mistake, an attempt to add aesthetic immediacy to material that does not require it.
Like his future boss, young Heinrich Himmler was nothing like the ideal of blond, muscular Aryan masculinity. Childhood photos reveal a spindly, bespectacled kid, who was often ill and only moderately successful at school. There isn’t enough evidence to know whether he was bullied or abused, but Himmler certainly didn’t have the outdoorsy, athletic boyhood full of hearty camaraderie that he later prescribed for aspiring SS members. He was rejected for fraternity membership at the University of Munich, where Himmler’s diary reveals that the brothers once discussed “homosexuality and the Jewish question,” apparently a first reference to a topic that would dominate his adult life. It’s way too easy to sum up the Nazi leaders as vindictive little men trying to make up for a perceived deficit of masculinity, since that describes many people who don’t become mass murderers. (Or who just don’t get the chance.) At any rate, in Himmler’s case as in Hitler’s, the shoe seems to fit.
As a young man in the mid-1920s, Himmler joined the Nazi Party and also married Marga, a woman seven years older than he who at first seemed the dominant partner. This movie isn’t a history of the former relationship, or of the role Himmler played as Hitler’s most loyal devotee and lieutenant, and you’ll have to get that elsewhere. Marga professes no interest in her husband’s political leanings, at one point needling him: “Why do you go to a Hitler rally when you know what he’s going to say?” She ultimately joined the party too, but with that mixture of loyalty, willful blindness and self-delusion typical of Nazi wives, it’s not clear how much she ever understood about what her husband did, or his enormous personal responsibility for the Final Solution and its implementation. There’s some casual anti-Semitism in their early letters, including unsavory banter about a Jewish moneylender, but nothing remotely unusual for that time and place.
But the self-delusion was not Marga’s alone. Lapa’s title is drawn from an apparently preposterous remark Himmler made, after the war had turned against Germany and the end was in sight: “We can have but one desire as to what is said about us: these German officers, these German soldiers – they were decent.” At another point, he writes fervently about how German troops do not mistreat animals or inflict unnecessary suffering – adding, almost in parenthesis, that this cannot apply to Jews and other “subhumans,” who are below the status of animals. Part of the decency of German soldiers, in Himmler’s view, lay in the fact that many of them suffered psychological damage after committing war crimes. He repeatedly expressed concern about this problem, receiving a secret memo about a prominent general’s mental breakdown and urging that troops on the Eastern front be given free evenings full of drinking, music, theater and wholesome German culture.
There’s no indication that Himmler thought he was being a horrifying hypocrite when he recommended cabaret entertainment as therapy for mass murderers. Indeed, those were the worst parts of the film for me exactly because you can feel Himmler struggling with himself, just a little, and trying to find off the terrible cognitive dissonance of what he has done and what he claims to be. Whether she intends this or not, Lapa forces us to confront apparently incompatible truths: Himmler was a monstrous war criminal, one of history’s very worst, and he was also an apparently normal person who somehow screwed himself up to do these terrible things and suffered for it. I’m not saying he suffered enough, God knows, or that his suffering makes up for anything. But this realization forces us to recognize ourselves in him, just a little, and to recognize the small bad things each of us has done as the seeds of very big bad things.
”The Decent One” is now playing at Film Forum in New York, and opens Oct. 10 at the Music Hall in Los Angeles, with national release to follow.
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This happened 30 years ago; precisely on 5th September 1986. It is a hijacking event and it is making headlines today in 2016 due to a movie made on this incident. The movie is called Neerja. I am blogging about it means that it has made a significant impact in my cinematic experience. I could feel the darkness, the madness, the ruthlessness and raw animalistic emotion one side contrasted by love, compassion, humanity,sense of duty, supreme sacrifice and divine angelic emotion other side.
It was an American plane, Pan Am 73, carrying mostly Indians, Pakistanis and a few Americans which got stormed in by Palestinian terrorists supported by Libyan govt. at Karachi airport. We, typically, while reading news in newspaper or seeing footages in TV do not get to feel the rawness of being in the event unless we are presented the experience by such brilliantly crafted movie.
Neerja represented true Indian spirit of dutifulness and service while discharging her duty of being the First Flight attendant and in the absence of pilots and captains of aircraft who abandoned the plane and abdicated their responsibility. The leadership was personified when she could engage with the terrorists to do her duty. The risks were too high. When every one was cowering under fear, she mustered courage to speak the mad men and maintained a sense of normalcy, hope, expectation for grueling 17 hours.
In contrast seer lack of conscience was manifesting in the wildness of terrorist acts when a young man is shot point blank in front of her mother and thrown out; when a bruised ego propels one mad terrorist to kill the very person, a radio specialist, who was helping them to connect with the negotiators.
But the undaunted spirit of Neerja continued to inspire her colleagues, the fellow attendants who effectively hided the passports of 41 Americans and saved their lives; persuaded the madcaps to allow the stewards handle passengers for serving water, food and escorting kids for going to toilets.
When terrorism is based on being unreasonable, mad and impetuous; it could still be engaged with calm mind , courageous heart and responsible conscience. A contrast, being played even now across the world and is being repeated as history. This story brings me the memory of Nightingale and her role in world war 2.
Her intelligence and bravery could save some 365 passengers and crews out of total 385. She prompted the pilots before terrorists could go to cockpit and as a result the pilots could escape. She prompted the passengers to support her in opening the emergency door so that the terrified passengers could escape. But her sense of duty made her to stay till everyone has left and as result was shot on point blank by the terrorists when she was shielding three kids to safe escape. One of these kids has grown up to become pilot to fly international flights and has dedicated his life to the memory of Neerja and her values.
Such true events, when experienced even thru cinema, leaves us with many questions in our mind about our views of life and its challenges. It humbles us to shed useless fear and anxiety and concentrate on true purpose, the purpose to build brave , conscientious, dutiful hearts and lead from the front to serve humanity at large.
The contrast improves our understanding. But the question is when will this understanding pervade the whole human consciousness across all continents and eradicate terrorism from earth once for all.
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The Chief: Jay-Z to cover Lawrence Welk's greatest hits? John Singleton to remake "Driving Miss Daisy"? Terry McMillan - "How Stella got her White Man Back"? Double damn it! Black people all over the world are losin' their damn minds!
Q: Why does the trivia for this movie say White She devil refers to Undercover Brother as "cute in a Theo Huxtable kind of way?
"Mess with the Fro...you got to go!"
I first saw "Undercover Brother" on cable a few years ago and since then it's become one of my favorite comedies of recent years. Though it's basically a "blaxploited" version of the "Austin Powers" concept, "Undercover Brother" is funny enough to be enjoyable on its own merits.
As the film opens, we are filled in on the ongoing battle between the black community and a super secret organization known as "The Man," who works tirelessly to negate African-American influence on the world at large. Fortunately, the black community has its own underground group, known as "The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D." created to undermine The Man's plans to "Whitewash" the world.
Eddie Griffin stars as Undercover Brother, a funky '70s throwback hero with a huge Afro and platform shoes, who drives around in a pimped-out Caddy performing acts of Kung-Fu derring-do to aid the African American cause. Normally a lone wolf, he is drafted into the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. when a black war hero (Billy Dee Williams)'s plans to run for President are derailed by a mind control drug designed by The Man. Now rather than run for the White House, he runs a nationwide Fried Chicken chain instead. Ably assisted by fellow B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. agents Sistah Girl, Conspiracy Brother, Smart Brother, and "Lance" (Neil Patrick Harris in a hilarious turn as the lone white member of the group -- he got his internship through -- what else? -- affirmative action), Undercover Brother infiltrates The Man's organization to destroy the plot, though he nearly becomes a victim of their most potent weapon, the gorgeous Denise Richards, aka "White She-Devil" (whom "The Man" calls "Black Man's Kryptonite.") along the way.
I have seen a lot of discussion on IMDb about this film being "racist" towards whites, but to be honest, I found "Undercover Brother" to be an equal opportunity offender, with no stereotype about blacks OR whites going un-skewered. The cast is excellent, especially Dave Chapelle as the eternally paranoid agent "Conspiracy Brother," and the always welcome Chi McBride as the long-suffering "Chief" of The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. Denise Richards looks amazing in a white leather catsuit (her catfight scene with "Sistah Girl" is worth the price of the DVD all by itself), and oddly enough, even though I usually find Eddie Griffin and Chris Kattan (who plays The Man's flunky, "Mr. Feather") quite irritating in other films, their shtick totally works in "Undercover Brother." Fast, funny, and an utterly silly good time, "Undercover Brother" is -- in the words of its hero -- "Solid."
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Thomas Vermaelen (born November 14, 1985) is a Belgian footballer who plays for Arsenal as a defender.
Vermaelen started his career in his home country at Germinal Ekeren, which later changed its name to Germinal Beerschot after a merge. In 2004 he moved to Dutch side Ajax and made his professional debut on February 15, 2004 in a 2-0 away win over FC Volendam. It was however the only match he played during the season in which Ajax won the Eredivisie championship. He was sent on loan to RKC Waalwijk for the 2004–05 season. At RKC he was not a first team regular, but had 13 appearances in which he scored two goals.
His breakthrough came with his return to Ajax and won the KNVB Cup. This performance led him into the Belgium national football team. The Johan Cruijff Schaal and another KNVB Cup were added in the following season and in 2007 he won the Johan Cruijff Schaal for the second consecutive time.
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What number will he get then guys and gals ???
So the plot thickens …..
Will Vermaelen get number 6? Is Senderos staying?
Seems Adebayor will be staying unless Inter Milan come in for him, I don’t mind as long as he shuts up and gets working.
We’ll find out Irish – RSC has never played for a top club. I reckon if he’d been supplied with the chances we create for Ade he’d get a hatfull.
It’d be great if we can keep Kolo and Gallas – competition for places.
RSC has played for Bayern Munich, they are a top enough club.
Nikki B will be a top player for us next season, I have a feeling.
Ras. They beat us badly at Man COMS without RSC. How much worse could it be?
And now we have a shiny new CB, we will be in the box-seat. What now for JD? Someone is on their way out of THOF.
And Ernie, he pushed her aside and a rock cake caught him underneath his heart.
Raddy – that was really a low part of our season at COMS wasn’t it? at that point, I wondered if we’d even finish fourth….
Rasp – is that your gold tops…..
Was that the trees arustling or the hinges of the gate?
Rico – It is the best cut and paste job EVER!
We were pants that day, but it was the start of our winning run.
It was inevitable Aston Villa would turn pants barring a miracle.
A lot of people forget they have a tiny squad and had been playing about a month before everyone else in the UEFA Cup.
GG and Evo will wake up to some healthy abuse. A good appetiser for the Ashes.
We have a new player I see 😛 😛 😛 welcome TV whatever no you’re going to be…….
I have to go to Brent X again 😦 for the daughter who has to have a new dress to wear tonight…..
Wish I’d had a Mum like Peaches. Mine would have said, ‘here’s some money, take the bus, and don’t forget the receipt’.
Arshavin, Rosicky, Nasri, Fabregas, Walcott, Vela, Van Persie, Bendtner, Adebayor (?), Eduardo.
I do hope we don’t get the injuries of last season – that was just ridiculous.
just popping in, im quite excited that we’ve moved quite early…we normally wait until the last minute but the signs are good, lets hope he isnt the last signing we make..
i went to the mancity game…ive been to some games where we played badly but that was soooooo bad, we never got going , citeh were all over us. all the kids were terrible that day.. when me and my pal were heading home we honestly thought 5th place was the best we could hope for as diaby, song and denilson were utter crap that day..
I think next season could be good.
As long as none of our attackers leave (adebayor??) and we get a battling defender we have a good team.
We have very good attacking options and this summer AW is sorting out the defensive problems early in the window so fingers crossed.
Yippy, we have a new toy to play with.
Hi all.. I am knackered been cutting trees all day..
I did Peaches, thank you. I feel a culinary trip to Totteridge coming on in the very near future.
Hope your well, I am being called to get off the computer to take part in the non Arsenal world. Apparently there is one! Bye for now.
How’s Arsene Wengers barmy army?
Those shirts are the worst home and away kits I can remember us having..
Just watching Arsenal tv – havn’t watched it for weeks – tnite it was the FA Cup replay against Hull, affectionately known now as ‘spitgate’.
great news about the signing hey, it was the first thing i checked when i logged on this morning!
Morning Roadsters, just popped on to say hello having fed the chooks, now I am off back to bed – catch you all later..
I am sure the TV signing will be a good one,though I hope it is not as a replacement for Toure or Gallas,as to my mind that would defeat the purpose of strengthening the defence.
were in the furnace which is the PL.
To be captain of Ajax,speaks volumes and if he is one inch shorter or taller is of no signifigence.
Morning Kelsey – I hope this doesn’t answer your question…..
“MANCHESTER City will make a £12m bid for Kolo Toure, the Arsenal defender, now that the North London club have concluded the signing of Thomas Vermaelen from Ajax.
City tried to sign Toure in January, but while Arsene Wenger was loath to lose the defender in mid-season, the manager has accepted that Toure wants to leave and would rather sell now than lose him for nothing when his contract expires next summer.
With the African Cup of Nations taking place in Angola in January, Wenger is also aware that he would probably lose the Ivory Coast defender for about a month anyway.
12 million for Toure sounds mighty low….very worrying!
Can anyone confirm that TV was captain of Ajax? I hope so because if Kolo leaves we are going to need as much influential material as we can get.
Bad News if Toure goes,maybe the rift between him and Gallas hasn’t been resolved,but I can’t confirm that.
A one for one swop with Djorou and Silvestre as back up is not ideal IMO.
There is also talk of Gibbs saying he wouldn’t mind going on loan, to Burnley out of all places, I hope that isn’t true either, not many i can think of that go out on loan come back an improved player.
The papers are reporting TV as “one of the most expensive defenders AW has ever bought” I’d say he was by far the most expensive – obviously Gallas can’t be assessed because it was a player plus money deal.
Good morning people. I really love Kolo but let’s face it, since he replaced Senderos (Was it about a year and a half ago?), he hasn’t been the same player, he was even worse after the last ACN. If you remember Senderos was going great guns, finally starting to look like the player we’d all hoped, next thing he’d been dumped for Toure. That was the turning point for us, Big Phil finally lost all confidence and Kolo knowing that he’d keep his place simply by being mediocre. It is very sad but he should just go.
I have always thought that Kolo is at his best when playing next to someone more commanding who can keep him in check – the Kolo / Campbell partnership was up there with Adams / Keown at its best. He hasn’t been the same player for a couple of years you’re right. I think he is an emotional player and has trouble working beside Gallas when there is bad blood between them.
Good point Wonderboy. There is a possibility that we could see an overhaul of the defence. If Phil comes back we have far too many CB’s, WG (being a stroppy chap) will head off.
Likely scenario is the loss of both Kolo, Phil and WG by the end of next season. Which will open the way for a CB pairing of TV and JB. We have Song as cover, and some fine youngsters coming through. Nortveldt is getting good reviews from Lilleholm ( 🙂 ) so we will continue with Project Youth.
It’s a quaint idea to think that we have all the ins and outs of players pre-planned as if they were chess pieces. The harsh reality for us is that after the signing of TV, although we can show interest in a range of prospective replacements, we have to sell the personnel they are replacing first. The likes of the chavs, citeh, RM and manu (maybe pool) don’t function under the same constraints.
I agree about the shirts. The home shirt is the worst I can remember.
You are right, when Kolo was beside a big guy, he was great, scrambling about, cleaning up the loose balls. The fact that he was working beside a similar (both awesome) player wasn’t his fault, Arsene should take the blame for that, essentially messing up two players Arsenal careers. I really did think that Big Phil was the future Arsenal captain.
This is the first time that i’ve hated the home and away shirt, haven’t bought either, i’ll just wear my lovely shiny final season JVC shirt. I feel like Dennis with it on.
Good Point rasp and morning Raddy.
i will sit on the fence about Kolo.Malaria takes a long time to get out of one’s syste,plus the fact he played when injured in the ANC.i still think he has a value to us,but if City really want him and we utilise the cash for a replacement that is fine,I don’t think Big phil is coming back,as he is reported as saying he doesn’t want to.
So we think that Kolo if off then and TV is going to be paired with WG and JD and Phils not coming back…..
With the signing of Va Va Voom, we are already in a significantly stronger position than this time last year, with Mozart and Dudu back, the improvement in Song and Deni over the course of last season and the CC kids a year older.
If nothing else happens I wouldn’t be too disappointed – but what I saw of Melo the other day was mouthwatering, he may even displace Veloso on my fantasy wish list.
Am I the only person who thinks that the treatment of Michael Owen by the press and Newcastle is pretty shabby. His career may well have been extended if the press hadn’t over-hyped hm in the first place and so much pressure was put on him at a young age. I think he is a decent honest footballer who lost his ‘edge’ after the knee problems and in his position, the loss of half a yard of pace makes a huge difference.
Man u just confirmed Tevez is definataly going.. so that’s him and winks.. Now the Man U fans know how we have felt for a change..
Owen would score 20-25 goals a season if he was in front of our midfield.. especially last years..
He wanted to be Man U’s highest payed player .. so he wants money.. Man City I guess..
Is MH really the man to control all those dressing room egos.
I’m just wondering if the way Mark Hughes is going is in line with the thinking of the new owners and if he carries enough weight to be able to control the ‘high profile’ players. He’ll be out the door if they don’t win anything next season and qualify for the CL.
We are on soccerblogs now by the way if you want a look..
I have put the link up in the widgets..
rico – what have I lost you on?
I emailed them 2 months ago and only just got a reply..
But i think it maybe to do with Ernie…..
I’ve noticed that the sites that get on NN have headlines that are usually all instantly understandable as to the content of the article – does that play any part in getting them listed?
I don’t know loads about it, but I do know that they like sites that are origonal.. The problem we have is there are something like 1400 Arsenal blogs.
You just have to keep trying..
a lot depends on how we want avenell road to progress.. If we go on newsnow we probably need to do more posts and be more dedictated to the blog..
I will do a post on it perhaps and see what direction that we all would like to go in..
Some kind of rota for posts might be an idea?
I noticed you said that you were upset that Brady left. Has he gone again? I am still getting over the trauma of him moving to Italy all those years ago.
No I mean’t 1980.. “don’t go Brady” and all that..
Ave – If I promise not to copy and paste, please may I be designated a ‘post day ‘ ??
We do need to talk about when posts go on.. I have talked to peaches about it and she can now adjust the widget boxes..
So if you have a post try to get your name in first and what day otherwise we could have up to 7 people trying to put a post up on the same day..
Just tell Peaches or me if you would like to put a post on and one of us will put your name in the widget ..
It isn’t that important at the moment because the posts can last and stay current, but when the season starts we don’t need 3 match reports and it just stops people doubling up and wasting there time..
I am sure Peaches will explain better..
Rasp.. SSN say Ajax reckon it’s 8 million up front plus £2 million in add on’s ..
Oh I see ave – the report I saw quoted the Ajax website but omitted to mention the add-ons.
What is the most we have ever paid for a defender before?.. Sagna or the Gallas swap with the cashman I suppose..
message from peaches.She is just in the greenhouse and will be back on in half an hour,to sort out your widgets.
Goodnight Rico.. We shall speak tomorrow no doubt..
Wheres my glass of wine – my adorable children have left the ktchen like a bomb has hit it…….
Peaches .. what about my 7.49? you never notice me..
Yes he is a Liverpool supporter..
Was it a victory for the team …..
easy do one every day.
A thought.Thomas Vermaelen is a left footed central defensive player who can also play at left back.Gallas plays left side and Toure right side,so I find it strange that Toure is the one being linked with a move(remember he had a transfer request turned down or withdrew it in january)Gallas is over 30, let’s hope we get at least one more season out of him, and then there is Senderos,valued at 6.5 million,no one has bid for him,and he is quoted as saying he doesn’t want to return.
My hunch is that the only other acquasition will be another defender and possibly a striker, only if an offer came in for Ade which warranted selling him.
If we could only make one more signing, I would choose Melo after what I’ve seen of him. There are reports that we are about to put in a £15m offer for him – but if you look at the sources they are very suspect. A player like that would greatly enhance our defence as well as giving Cesc more freedom to play his game.
TV is our most expensive defender, though if we take into account exchange rates he may not be . Lauren cost just under £8m in 2000. At that time the £ bought about 1.65 euro. which equates to 13.2m euro. And of course, that was when money really was money not like nowadays.
I reckon if AW can off load a couple, the more chance of signing a Melo type. Whats the feeling of a swap with Chelsea of Ade for Anelka, with cash. Maybe Anelka is too old now but I thought I would pose the question anyway.
I think you are right there Kelsey. WG will leave next summer, and if all goes to plan, TV will have bedded in by then.
I am against unloading for the following reasons.
To dish ot 5 or 6 players and bring in the same,will never happen,due to our financial restraints.
There is more football than ever over the next 12 months.We have the Confederation Cup going on now(Cesc) the under 21 semis(theo and gibbs) the extra two legged CL qualifer straight after our opening league game,various group matches from September in the World cup,the ANC which could effect at least 3 of our players and a month after our season ends The World cup starts.That is a lot of football, so the emphasis should be on a bigger squad IMO.
perhaps Senderos will be paired with Vermaelen and we will have to left-sided CBs?
how are ya GG? dockers are level with the cats at 3/4 time, maybe a boil-over brewing?
are you in our age bracket just under or just over 50 or in my case a lot over.
On the Gallas leaving theory.. as far as I am aware he prefers to play right centre back, like he did when he partnered John the shoplifters son at the chavs.
He only plays left side to accomadate Toure who prefers right side too.. So Toure could still be the one outed..
im keen for a few more early off season signings!
i would prefer both gallas and toure to stay, but im ok if one goes as long as we bring in one more!
only 27 days till the Barnet kick off!
The good thing about selling Toure (which I am saddened by) is he would fetch an extra £10 million more than Gallas and really isn’t as good.
That would get us through this year and then we should be free of our financial restraints..
I agree with you Peaches. Selling either of them weakens the squad.
peaches – no, but i wish i could be there and to all games after that also….
When the goons win the PL in May, I flying over for the Islington Parade. You coming????
Kelsey just under 50 for me.
Chelsea are to off 25M for Ade ???
And I really hope Kolo goes nowhere.
Where should Michael Owen go now?
Surely going to Hull is a non-starter…….
Blimey, best I go now, looks like I have a lot of writing, or copy and pasting to do!!
If Ade goes to Chelsea I would imagine that we would become serious contenders to sign Benzema?
man scum might be in for benzema i see?
Did someone put that on or did it go on automatically?
put something on automatically on what? i cant work out the widgety thing either?
peaches, its been doing that to me for a while now, comments jumping in front etc.
Sorry evo – I sent a comment from my daughters blackberry and I didn’t know if it came on automatically or if someone had to allow it on…..
I think it is certain that manu will try and sign Benzema but I do not see it as being certain that he will want to go there.
Especially if Madrid or Barca try for him London – I know where I would rather go ..
peaches – do you have to have your own blog on wordpress to get to the appearance and widgets bit, or should we all be able to see it?
Evo… It is a admin thing.. (a pain in the arse lol).
Evo – some of us have access to the stuff behind the scenes.
ah ok that will be why i cant register for the post….
Yeah I thought I saw more comments after I looked the first time..
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Editors of the Veritas this year are left to right: Jason Golemme, arts editor, Haley Macray, web and features editor, Alexandra Pigeon and Katherine DeLorey, editors-in-chief, Cameron Stuart, sports editor.
Congratulations to five Journalism students who have been selected for leadership positions on the Veritas this year. These include three seniors: Alex Pigeon and Katie DeLorey, co-editors-in chief, and Cam Stuart, sports editor. Junior Haley Macray is our web editor and the features editor of the print edition. Sophomore Jason Golemme will anchor our arts and entertainment coverage as the arts editor.
We are hoping students, staff and community will contact the editors with information or ideas that we could use or cover for our website and print edition.
apigeon2015@rocklandschools.org, kdelorey2015@rocklandschools.org, cstuart2015@rocklandschools.org, hmacray2016@rocklandschools.org, or jgolemme2017@rocklandschools.org.
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Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.
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YAY! Kimura Takuya won the theme poll! I hate to say it but I was surprised to see how many Kimura fans there were out there. Not sure why, but I thought he was my own personal Japanese bias. But alas, I am just one of many. And for those of you who don’t know who he is, you can take this opportunity to also become one of the fangirls….
Come on in…follow us…you know you want to!
But after his clear win came the hard part–which of his arm-length long backlist should we choose from? As I was the most knowledgeable among the group of admins, I feel like I had a great responsibility. A great weight upon my shoulders if you would. To choose ones that are not only good, but show off our Kimura to his best light, but which also had some interesting things to talk about. (Like Engine, Good Luck, or that one where he makes furniture, lovely to watch, but not much to talk about.) But on the other hand there are a bunch of his that are very good but can be a little controversial or–triggery? Good on you for taking challenging roles, but I worry about turning people away. So it’s a delicate balance.
A while back, my attention was temporarily diverted from Kdrama and I was swept into the land of the Jdrama. Or I should say, pulled in by a certain actor named Kimura Takuya. After watching him in the drama Pride, I was hooked, and I vowed here to watch everything of his that I could get my hands on. Of course, with my squirrel like attention span, I didn’t quite make it. Partly because I ran out of interest (not because the shows were bad, I just don’t have staying power–it’s why I can’t watch American TV either) and partly because there are just so many of them! Here’s a list of the dramas I made it through and, briefly, my thoughts on each.
Honestly, I didn’t get much past the first episode on this one. I hated the heroine so much, and when she forced her way to live with the hero, I just couldn’t take it anymore and moved along. Sorry, not even the young Kimura Takyua and his lovely long hair could make me continue with this.
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One day I was in the forest. I walked along enjoying the beauty of nature around me. Lost in the serenity of the moment, I haphazardly walked into a small opening in the woods where a mama bear was frolicking with her three cubs. She saw me. She was not happy to see me. She reared up on her hind legs, flashed her sharp fangs and pointy claws in my direction, and roared She began to run towards me.
This is a wonderful example of STRESS – a sudden change in my outer environment (an angry bear running towards me) that, if I don’t do something, will create a major change in my inner environment (I would quickly become food for mama bear and her cubs). In order to ensure my survival, my body and mind must express the seven attributes, or Response Abilities, of health, so that I may respond appropriately to this stress.
Step One: I just perceived a sudden change in my external environment – I see and hear the bear. I passed the first test.
Step Two: I must adapt to this change. There are certain conscious and unconscious changes that must occur in order for me to retain my current level of health. On an unconscious level, several things happen: My adrenal glands start pumping adrenaline into my bloodstream giving me a sudden burst of energy. My heartbeat begins to race and my blood pressure skyrockets increasing the supply of oxygen and other nutrients to my muscles and vital organs. My digestive system turns off (possibly emptying in the process), for digestion takes a tremendous amount of energy, and at that moment I require the energy for other needs. The pupils of my eyes dilate, or get bigger, so I can see more and see farther. I start sweating and my mind starts to race and that’s where the one conscious decision comes in: Fight or Run Away!?.
I choose to run away. The bear takes chase. I climb quickly up a tree. The bear shakes the tree with her mighty paws, her teeth glaring in the sunlight. Unable to shake me loose, the mama bear soon loses interest and she and her cubs prance off into the sunset, leaving me trembling in the tree. I passed test two. My body and mind adapted to the stress I perceived, and I survived, retaining my current state of health.
For the purpose of demonstration, let us pretend that I did not pass the next step – I do not Recover from the adaptation to the stress once the bear goes away. Let us jump ahead twenty years into the future. Picture me sitting at home, forty pounds overweight, sitting on the couch eating nachos and drinking a cold beer. I am channel surfing with my eyes fixed on the television, my feet propped up on a table. Can you picture it? Sound familiar? Sound like someone you know?
My adrenals are still releasing tremendous amounts of adrenaline (anxiety), for which I “treat” with valium at night and a cup of coffee in the morning. My heart rate tends to be high, and my blood pressure is through the roof (hypertension), for which my doctor prescribed a medication to keep under control. I wear glasses to correct my vision because since the “mama bear incident,” as it is now called, I still tend to be farsighted (myopic). I have trouble eating heavy meals, because my digestion system has difficulty producing enough acid and enzymes to break it down (indigestion, irritable bowel, Crohn’s disease). What happened here? What happened was my body perceived a stress to which it appropriately adapted, but never recovered.
At this point, my body is still responding to a stress that happened twenty years ago! My body and mind are still being chased by a bear, even though the incident is twenty years in my past. This is the cause of most disease. (The remainder of which correspond to the loss of one or more of the other six attributes of health.) My body lost its adequate Response Ability, therefore each stressful experience adds to my dis-ease and reduces my ability to respond appropriately to stress. Whatever illness, disease, or condition you may “have”, if you look back at your life with honesty and open-mindedness, you will find some past physical, emotional, or chemical stress, or an accumulation of such stresses, that you have experienced, and either didn’t effectively adapt to, or you adapted to and never fully recovered from.
We will continue to explore the Cause of all Disease, the Seven Response Abilities and the “Mama Bear” incident in the next entry.
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Peter is not the only one with a spiffy new dot im domain. I’m moving the blog to my new domain, metajack.im.
I’ve moved the blog from wordpress.com to a hosted Movable Type installation. The short story is that I was tired of not being able to attach source code snippets to posts among the other limitations.
Please update your feed readers to the new feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/metajack. Note that if you read this blog via the Jabber Planet, the feed there has already been updated.
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This pyknic typology is characterized by its horizontal lines that stand out more than its vertical lines.
The oval typology must use rather narrow collars with elongated lapels that point up, because this will help to elongate your silhouette. I recommend using V-neck t-shirts they cause the same effect. You must always avoid the round shapes in the collar area.
Due to the large waist circumference, for this typology it is advisable to wear pants with slightly narrowed legs at the lower end and you must always avoid cuffes ends. Pleaded pants with vertical stripes are the most recommended, because they cause the visual effect of elongating de figure. I recommend you wear high-rice waist pants which lay over the abdomen.
The oval typology, requires being extra careful when choosing upper garments, such as shirts, jackets, coats, etc..
It is advisable that the blazers have one or two cuts on the back, this will contour your silhouette. The coats should be straight and the pockets and seams should have vertical effects, avoiding pockets with volume and all those forms that lead to roundness.
The buttoning must always be simple. Search for loose upper garments, avoiding all that is fitted. It’s better if you wear them untucked. Avoid contrasting colors in the suits.
You will always seek to give “verticality” to the accessories, such as ties, foulards, scarves, zippers, etc.. Suspenders are a practical complement for fastening pants and they provide “verticality” to your silhouette, so do not hesitate to use them and give priority to suspenders over the belt. I recommend you avoid using wide belts with large buckles and double buttoning.
Esta tipología pícnica, se caracteriza por sus líneas horizontales que destacan sobre las verticales.
La tipología ovalada, deberá utilizar cuellos con solopas alargadas, más bien estrechas y con punta hacia arriba, ya que esto ayuda a estilizar. Los cuellos recomiendo que sean de pico debido a que también estilizan. Evitarás siempre, las redondeces en las formas.
Debido a la gran circunferencia de la cintura, es aconsejable que esta tipología, lleve los pantalones con las perneras ligeramente estrechadas en los bajos, evitando siempre, las vueltas. Los pantalones con raya planchada o con rayas verticales son los más aconsejados, ya que, visualmente son los que más estilizan. Recomendaría, que la cintura se llevase por encima del abdomen.
La tipología ovalada requiere un especial cuidado a la hora de elegir las prendas superiores, como las camisas, chaquetas, abrigos, etc.
Es aconsejable que las americanas, lleven uno o dos cortes en la espalda, esto estilizará tu silueta. Los abrigos deberán ser rectos y con tapetas, bolsillos y costuras verticales, evitando los bolsillos con volumen y todas aquellas formas que tiendan a la redondez.
Las botonaduras siempre han de ser simples. Buscarás para las prendas superiores que tiendan a ser sueltas, evitando todo aquello que se ciña. Es mejor si las llevas por fuera del pantalón. Evita los contrastes de color en los trajes.
Buscarás siempre complementos que den verticalidad, como corbatas, fulares, cremalleras, etc. Los tirantes resultan un complemento práctico como sujeción del pantalón y a su vez aportan verticalidad, así que no lo dudes y da prioridad al tirante con respecto del cinturón.
Te desaconsejo que uses cinturones anchos con grandes hebillas y las botonaduras dobles.
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For years, biologist David Sloan Wilson of the State University of New York at Binghamton has conducted a futile one-man crusade to convince the world of two things. First, that group selection (or “trait-group” selection, to use his term) has been hugely important in evolution, especially in the evolution of altruism—and of human religion. Wilson is also convinced that evolutionary biologists unfairly dismiss the tremendous importance of group selection. His second hobby-horse is his insistence that we can fix society only by incorporating evolutionary principles into social reform, especially (of course) Wilson’s own views on group selection (see my review in the New York Times of his new and bizarre book, The Neighborhood Project, which is about his use of evolution and group selection to fix his own dysfunctional city).
I’ve wavered between the view that Wilson is slightly off-kilter and self-promoting about this, and the view that he’s simply such an ardent believer in his own theories that he’s forcefully trying to argue for a neglected position. After reading and reviewing his book, I decided that he’s a bit off balance, for in reality there’s simply not much biological evidence for group selection, and none for the evolution of altruism or human religiosity—which I doubt is even coded in our genes—via that process. Still, Wilson persists.
In a recent BBC radio interview, Richard Dawkins questioned the religiosity of Brits who consider themselves Christians but can’t name the first book of the New Testament. He was challenged to recall the full title of Darwin’s Origin of Species and failed, even uttering “Oh, God!” as he ransacked his memory.
Does this mean that Dawkins fails to qualify as an evolutionist? Of course not. But Dawkins might fail to qualify for other reasons. . . A person can easily qualify as an evolutionist on topic X but not topic Y. On this basis, I will state the bold hypothesis that Dawkins fails to qualify as an evolutionist on two topics for which he is well known: religion and selfish genes in relation to group selection.
In my review of The God Delusion published in Skeptic magazine, I criticized him at length for misrepresenting the nature of religion and ignoring the burgeoning literature on religion as a human construction from an evolutionary perspective. In his reply, Dawkins said that he didn’t need to base his critique on evolution any more than Assyrian woodwind instruments or the burrowing behavior of aardvarks, because he was only addressing question one and not question two. That’s bogus. Dawkins holds forth on question two all the time, and when he does he’s not functioning as an evolutionist–by his own account. Atheists can depart from factual reality in their own way, and so it is for Dawkins on the subject of religion as a human construction.
Chastising Dawkins for the failure to be interested in the same things that obsess Wilson is simply another manifestation of Wilson’s hubris—a hubris amply on display in The Neighborhood Project.
2. Dawkins’s argument against group selection, based on the concept of genes as “selfish replicators” as set forth in The Selfish Gene, is wrong.
Dawkins first achieved fame for his book The Selfish Gene (1976), which portrays genes as “replicators” that typically survive by forming individual-level “vehicles” but can also survive in other ways, such as at the expense of other genes within the same individual or by benefitting copies of themselves in other individuals. A major objective of The Selfish Gene was to argue against a theory known as group selection, whereby traits such as altruism evolve “for the good of the group”, despite being selectively disadvantageous within groups. Dawkins and others at the time regarded the replicator concept as a drop-dead argument against group selection, but it soon proved to be nothing of the sort. In a genetic group selection model, the altruistic trait has a genetic basis, just like any other trait; the genes merely require a process of between-group selection to evolve when they are selectively neutral or disadvantageous within groups. When this happens, the genes for the altruistic trait are more fit than the genes for the selfish trait, all things considered, and therefore quality as selfish at the genetic level, as Dawkins defines selfish genes. Put another way, an argument against group selection framed in terms of selfish gene theory doesn’t depend upon the status of genes as replicators (which is always the case) but upon whether groups can qualify as vehicles of selection.
This is ancient history for just about everyone except Dawkins. He’s still claiming that the replicator concept counts as an argument against group selection, as if he can do so merely by decree. See these three posts on my Evolution for Everyone blog (I,II,III) for more.
This is sheer madness—an almost incoherent rant that completely misrepresents Dawkins’s views. Yes, genes are replicators, but no, Dawkins never claimed that their status as selfish replicators somehow rules out group selection. What he claimed, in The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype, was that successful replicators must share the same vehicle if they are to be successful in the future. Usually that vehicle is the body of an individual organism, which is used by the replicators to propagate themselves. Dawkins’s argument against the efficacy of group selection was that this form of selection is usually unsuccessful because groups are vulnerable to subversion from within by those selfish replicators. That is, “cheating” replicators that are “good” for individuals but bad for the group as a whole will tend to propagate themselves. Yes, altruism may help groups propagate, but altruistic groups are susceptible to invasion by cheaters unless the “altruism” is based on kin selection or individual selection via reciprocity.
Does Wilson even understand Dawkins’s argument here? It doesn’t seem so. Replicators are replicators, and if they are to succeed then they have to increase the fitness of their “vehicle,” because that vehicle carries all the replicators. It’s much easier to envision an individual as a successful vehicle than a group as a successful vehicle, although even in individuals replicators can subvert the “group” of genes within, too (segregation distortion, in which one form of a gene kills off the other one during the formation of sperm, is one way this can happen).
The concept of genes as selfish replicators, which has held up perfectly well since The Selfish Gene was published in 1976, says nothing about the efficacy of group selection. Dawkins’s (and my) beef with group selection as a way to evolve traits that are bad for individuals but good for groups is that this form of selection is inefficient, subject to subversion within groups, and, especially, that there’s virtually no evidence that this form of selection has been important in nature.
I’m not sure why Wilson has produced such a misguided tirade, but I suppose it’s because he sees himself as someone crying in the wilderness—that his views have been neglected in favor of those of Dawkins. And that’s indeed true: Wilson is pretty much seen by evolutionists as a scientific outlier, someone who’s forcefully and unreasonably pushing a theory that lacks evidence. When he comes up with hard biological evidence that group selection has been important in the evolution of altruism, religion, or other traits, then people will start listening to him. In the meantime, his constant harping on group selection, and his persecution complex, are growing tiresome. When he claims that his second criticism of Dawkins “is ancient history for just about everyone except Dawkins,” he’s claiming support from others for his position, but that is support he doesn’t have. Who are all the others (presumably everyone but Dawkins) who agree with Wilson? I’m not among them.
Wilson’s efforts, of course, are heavily funded by the Templeton Foundation, where he’s on the Board of Advisors. It is, of course, typical of the Templeton Foundation that their advisors have received some form of Templeton funding; it’s the way they herd scientists into their posh stable. In fact, I recognize several scientists on the advisory board, and all of them that I know have received either a Templeton Prize or Templeton funding for their work.
As a side note, I recently did a podcast interview for the Evolution: This View of Life site. Had I known that the biology part of the site was run by Wilson, and is used largely to promote his own views about religion and group selection, I would not have done it.
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John Maynard Smith would roll over in his grave if he where able to hear Wilson claiming him as an advocate of group selection. Smith spent his whole life proving that group selection was a fallacy.
Where does Wilson say that Maynard Smith is an advocate of group selection?
You tell us how busy you are then spoil us with this nice full analysis, for which thanks. I hope that you do not get too upset and then set really mean questions for that exam!
Seeing as it is only March, I was puzzled about Jerry writing “a final exam”.
Jerry, did you cram a grad course into a shortened semester? Or does the U of Chicago have a quarter system with an unusually long winter quarter?
Wilson has never been deterred by the necessity for obtaining the same sorts of evidence for group selection as has been obtained routinely for genic or individual selection. He sees group selection everywhere, despite the reality that group formation and differential reproduction simply do not occur at the rates one would need to overwhelm individual selection (show me the data!). That is why group selection almost represents more of a hobby horse than a scientific hypothesis for him. Hence, for Wilson, group selection (in his formulation) has a quasi-religious feel to it, and is understandably and appropriately funded by Templeton! He seems to want to “support” the notion of group selection by fiat.
I don’t think that what DSW has to say should be read through Templeton-flavored glasses, but it’s not something I control very well. Once disclosed that he’s a Templeton advisor, I’m deeply suspicious of anything he has to say about, well, anything. How limiting for me.
I would like to draw your attention to an article in the New Scientist magazine (1 October 2011, Re-educating superbugs could save lives, by Claire Wilson). The interesting part concerns the grouping together of Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a strategy for launching an all-out attack on our immune system. The thrust of the article concentrates on the cheating bacteria which subsequently develop and subvert the group strategy but none-the-less the development of this group attack in the first instance does demonstrate that such strategies can evolve and be highly successful. It should also be noted that the group attack involves a high degree of self sacrifice within the individual bacteria, 90% mortality to be exact. The fact that cheaters become a major factor in reducing the success rate of the group strategy does not, I would suggest, take away from the fact that the strategy has evolved and demonstrated to be successful.
This is an interesting example, and something like this may have been involved in the evolution of multicellularity (our somatic cells “sacrifice” their futures for the benefit of the germ-line cells). Strassman and her colleagues have used stalk formation in “unicellular” slime molds to explore when we expect cooperation vs. cheating in a system much like this. I may be wrong, but I don’t think cooperative behavior like this (or pack hunting in unrelated carnivores to bring down a large prey) necessarily follows the group selection model proposed by Wilson.
But the individuals in the group would all be closely related. So why would a group attack behavior be evidence for group selection rather than just kin selection.
Yes, it’s necessary to once again point out that individuals cooperating as a group is NOT evidence for group selection, in itself. This sort of behaviour has been shown, time and time again, to be the result of selection at the level of the individual’s genes. In this particular example (from what you’ve described) it seems extremely likely that the cooperating bacteria would be highly closely related, if not direct clones of each other. Either scenario would strongly promote altruism on the basis of kin selection.
Genes build themselves into cells and cells into the gene hive called man in order to develop their potentialities, not man’s. The idea of man’s being able to develop was purely an anthropomorphic concept.
Rather sad that so many people attempt to make names for themselves by maligning Richard. But, that seems to be the price of whatever degree of fame one has in an ignorant, tabloid world. The attacks are about the attackers, not Richard. Good that he has a thick skin, though. Or, maybe it’s simply a civility that puts theirs to shame.
“The Selfish Gene” for those who are open minded and don’t judge books solely by their covers, and “The Cooperative Gene” for those who’s biases cause them to.
I’ve seen him comment (I don’t remember where, though) to the effect that he wishes he had added an “s” to the end of the title so that so many people wouldn’t have jumped to the conclusion that the book was about a gene for selfishness.
That was in the preface for the 30th Anniversary Edition, I believe.
I really liked “The Immortal Gene” as a title.
Accepting that the arguments against group theory are correct due to subversion from within, is there a way that religion and culture can circumvent this principle in our advanced culture? Look at Islam, for example, where peremptory death awaits the apostate and paradise promised to the martyr. The population is enslaved as surely as any worker bee or ant and subversion from within is very effectively crushed. Those citizens who do not embrace the religious delusion will not prosper and breed as effectively as the happy copulating conformists. I realise that this aspect of religion would have to be a wrought within the eons of deep evolutionary time for it to be incorporated into our genetic structure but who can tell what path we took to get to where we are?
Well yeah. In principle it’s possible that a group who adheres to a delusional belief that has the affect of out breeding other cultures, could out compete other groups, and over time other cultural practises within their belief system could have an affect on their genes as well. “In Principle”. But the question is, how often do such things happen in nature?
Much of religious behavior is surely not acquired through genetic evolution. You can become a Muslim even when your parents are Christians.
This is perhaps taking the proposition a little too literally. There obviously would not be a gene for Islam and another for Christianity. It may be as loose as a predisposition for believing what one has been told without question. This may simply derive from a tendency for believing that snakes should be avoided without necessarily obtaining firsthand proof, for example.
But if a trait is acquired consciously, would it still fall under a darwinian’s definition of evolution?
exotic behaviors occur for the benefit of groups; consider corporations, sports team, military etc.
This does not make them evolutionary, beyond the possibility that a general concept of cooperation (common in many animals and probably originally kin based) exists. Humans can however see value in complex cooperation without it being an evolutionary design.
Employees, players, and soldiers are all paid for their work.
I was planning to visit the website, since Jerry is podcasting there. But after this article, I’d rather not. Un-Dawkins are very common, and so far I’ve never enjoyed any.
True, it is sad that so many people try to be famous by maligning the truly famous ( as with Einstein, Hawkings, Dawkins).
Empirical evidence for group selection seemed to have been observed by a danish team who studied the population of atlantic cod in the St-Lawrence gulf. What is even more surprising is that it would have take only a 3 decades to operate the changes.
This is not evidence for group selection. It is evidence of plain old everyday Darwinian selection. Go check up on the what group selection is. Wikipedia is only a few key clicks away.
Sorry, but unless I’m badly misunderstanding this, there’s NOTHING in this abstract that points to group selection.
I’m very very far form being an expert in Evolution but why the change in question isn’t due to a group selection if a whole population of cod belonging to the same region is able to modify its growth rate within 30 years?
I’m also surprised to learn in Wiki that “cultural evolution” isn’t something that is widely accepted? Evolution officially can only work on a biological level?
Because the largest and fastest growing individuals are those that are selected out of the population by commercial fishing. Plus evolution always happens at the population level.
Oh, and those individuals that mature more quickly and start reproducing at a younger age are more likely to leave behind offspring before they are harvested.
If it is obvious that those who are selected by the commercial fishing have less chances to survive, how could a specie change in only 30 years its age of maturation?
If it wasn’t the norm to mature at the younger age they now mature, how could a few individuals that would be able to do it could transmit their “ability” to an entire population within 30 years?
JF: Please invest in a basic evolution textbook. This is not advanced material.
I also read that it might happen suddenly, because of some sudden changes in the environment. But the idea that an organism can develop antidote in reaction to the sudden changes seems to be very suspicious among the darwinian interpretation. From what I read, it has to be latent accidentally in the organism, it cannot be an organized response to what is felt as a threat… Yes , no?
If I read the abstract right, these people haven’t even shown rapid evolution, much less group selection. They only *speculate* about a genetic basis for the changes.
Without that, we are only talking about phenotypic plasticity, possibly as a reaction to reduced competition by larger cods, changes in resource availability or the ever-popular climate changes.
Darwinian evolution is an extremely robust theory of biological changes over time based on replication and selection of genetic material. Cultural evolution is a much less robust and fuzzy theory of change in culture over time. They are completely separate.
Group selection is a concept within biological evolution. It is not well accepted as an significant contributor to biological evolution.
Please note: the word “evolution” does not require capitalization unless it appears at the beginning of a sentence. Like “gravity”, it is not the name of a church or faith group.
So according to darwinian evolution, the homo sapiens didn’t really evolve since he appeared, despite the radical changes that he was able to create?
This is a trolling question. It expresses a level of ignorance so profound that a serious response is not required. If you were really interested in the subject you would go read basic text on the subject. In fact, you might consider the book that this web site is named after.
Sorry to not be worthy. But before I do my homework, yes or no, homo sapiens is the same now since he appeared?
Are you the same as your mother or father?
JF: I did not say you were not worthy, I said the question was a trolling question and not worthy of response. It remains unworthy of a response. You are not interested enough to learn the very basics. And I am not interested in playing a juvenile troll game.
GB, I think I understand evolution more as it is understood by most of the common mass. What is now confusing me is the more I read about evolution, the more I see different interpretations on how how it happened. You’ll understand that it is not just because the host of this blog doesn’t think that selection group is not something relevant that I’ll buy it.
When you read about group selection, you can see that it is an avenue that is highly considered and that the theory of evolution is a road that is made from several little avenues (excuse my french).
So my question maybe sound naive but it is not a trap, I’d really like to know if accordingly to the theory of evolution, I am more evolved or not than the first homo sapiens who appeared, even if he couldn’t sing, dance and read like I do?
So Ant, if I understand well the link you paste, accordingly to Dawkins and the theory of evolution, there is no significant difference between the first homo sapiens and me.
I really just want to understand. Is it possible to have a yes or no? If not, explain why please.
If it is obvious, pardon my ignorance (and my french).
JF: Your understanding may be exactly the same as the average among the common mass. That only puts you in company of a large group of ignorant people. It remains impossible to seriously discuss the subject because evolution, like gravity, are not matters that are determined by vote.
Your question remains, as before, a trolling question. I strongly suggest you purchase a decent book on evolution and learn a bit. Our host’s book is an excellent one, not technically burdensome, and easily accessible to the lay reader. There are many others that you might choose from. The Ancestors’ Tale by Richard Dawkins is also an excellent read. Go pick up one of these books. Read it. Not only will it demonstrate that you are taking your own questions seriously (which I currently doubt) but it will also provide you with material for some really interesting questions that are worth the effort to articulate.
First GB, I don’t question the truth of evolution. Secondly, I don’t really have the time to read books about evolution. Probably because it is not a passion for me. So, yes, in a sense, you can say I’m not serious enough to learn about it.
You have plenty of time. Just take a pause from posting inanities here. Bingo… time for reading.
What you are seem to be lacking is honest willingness to learn. That’s the signature of a troll.
But what about the trolling concept of cultural evolution as it is explained above by the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy?
POI: Unlike “evolution”, “Darwinian” is capitalised. As are generic names (but not specific names, an error the popular press is uncommonly fond of); and binomials are usually italicised; thus, Homo sapiens.
PS. Btw, “specie” (your comment above) means money in the form of coins; the singular of “species” is “species”. Almost the inverse of French; “en espèces” & “espèce”. English, he is so funny!
This is not group selection. The genes in organisms that produce large size and slow maturity in a population are too costly to be maintained in an organism under population stress. Reproductive fitness will be greater in those organism whose genes produce smaller size which allows them to mature and reproduce quicker. The reduced nutritional requirements of the smaller size can also bring a fitness advantage as well.
But that is always the case. Improvements are always welcome, no?
The data tells us that even if the size of the cod doesn’t change, the maturation changes.
Again, how can a species can adapt its sexual maturation within 30 years because of an external pressure accordingly to a darwinism that would exclude group selection?
Cod that mature sexually at a younger age start getting their chances to reproduce earlier. Having a chance to reproduce earlier means more chances to reproduce. More chances to reproduce means more likely offspring. More likely offspring – themselves more likely to reproduce earlier – will mean more cod reproducing earlier.
There’s that pressure among the cod each generation. _Every_ cod runs the risks of getting killed before reproducing, or reproducing much, and in this case, that pressure’s enough to offset the contrary pressures, perhaps to grow larger and have a better chance to keep reproducing over a longer period.
Evolution by natural selection just takes selective pressures and variation among heritable traits that are relevant to them. Give it one generation and there’s a little evolution. Up the pressure, get more evolution. Give it more generations under that pressure, get more evolution. Start with more heritable variation, get evolution that can go further quickly.
It takes longer when it’s a complex adaptation, when the pressure is mild or erratic, or when generations are long. None of those apply here.
Even if they did, it’s not the sort of adaptation that’s bad for individual’s reproductive chances but great for the group. Each cod’s on its own here, with genes or without them for becoming an ancestor in its environment.
It’s true, the Templeton Foundation is “oxymoronish” and supports contradictory viewpoints. Nevertheless, it is a lighthouse that warns us of nearby danger while at the same time blinds us like approaching headlights in our eyes. I am always skeptical of everything with a Templeton label.
Dawkins’s argument against the efficacy of group selection was that this form of selection is usually unsuccessful because groups are vulnerable to subversion from within by those selfish replicators. That is, “cheating” replicators that are “good” for individuals but bad for the group as a whole will tend to propagate themselves. Yes, altruism may help groups propagate, but altruistic groups are susceptible to invasion by cheaters unless the “altruism” is based on kin selection or individual selection via reciprocity.
That’s what altruism is, selection based on reciprocity, both socially and for survival of the individual. Groups are not as vulnerable as you guys say, because obviously, we wouldn’t have societies based on compassion and empathy that co-operation and trust is based on, the recognizing it in others.
Just read a study that people find altruism and compassion more attractive, all things being equal.
Altruism only has meaning on a group level. If it was so vulnerable to ruthlessness, then we wouldn’t have it, or complex societies. Sheesh, even bonobos exhibit altruist behavior, and it is most strongly manifest in high level individuals.
Individuals achieve status by being altruistic, and they attract mates. Pretty strong arguments that seem to trip people up, but this is based on a faulty assumption, that at the group level, ruthlessness is more powerful. No it isn’t, ruthlessness is a threat to everyone’s individual and genetic survival.
You are mistaking “selfish genes” with “genes for selfishness”.
For instance, “Altruism only has meaning on a group level. If it was so vulnerable to ruthlessness, then we wouldn’t have it, or complex societies.” How do you know it’s not the selfish genes that are promoting altruism?
Yes, it is the gene promoting, or coding for, altruism, and it only flourishes when individual fitness and chance for reproduction is increased. That is my point, that it takes groups for this to happen, and since a co-operative group increases the chance for each individual to reproduce, the altruism gene, or replicator, is promoting its own success.
There is absolutely no doubt that every adaptation can be seen as a purely selfish ‘success’ of a gene, that is never in dispute.
The group security is the selecting factor. Individual success is the selecting factor.
Nowadays, we put people in jail. This isn’t the best answer much of the time, but the overall intent is the protection of society.
When ruthless individuals succeed, they succeed by tricking the group into thinking the rogue is actually not trying to undermine other members of the group, or the group as a whole.
But, yes, it is easier to test empirically when , or formalize, as gene competition, but the obvious fact of the matter is that selection is done at the group level. I find it hard to believe anyone would deny this. Evolution works by adapting to the environment, and groups have been around long before humans have as an environmental condition, but it hasn’t been possible to form large groups, and larger groups with shared purposes without the altruism replicator, the altruism replicator allowing groups to form.
Wait, what did I just say!
I find it irritating that DS Wilson seems to take group selection (the kind of multilevel-selection he happens to call thus) as necessarily benign. At least that was the impression I got from a talk of his available as an internet video. He asked the audience what they associate with group selection and individual selection and got all positive associations for group and negative ones for individual selection.
Not even Wynne-Edwards, whose concept was wrong (my opinion) or naive (Wilson’s wording), thought of it like that. On the contrary Wynne-Edwards thought that group selection could ‘sentence’ individuals to death in the midst of plenty. Oh, and Hamilton by the way thought of group selection as mainly bad (war, genocide and all that).
This false good vs. bad dilemma seems to bring all the ideological dispute into the issue, which would have otherwise probably long been settled.
Even if one concede’s to DSW that religion is in some way the product of group-level selective processes I don’t see how you have reason to dislike religion any less than before.
If religions are the product of a product of group selection, they are adaptive for competing groups or societies, but can be every bit as deleterious from the point of view of the individual as a selfish meme.
Competition between societies is clearly important in human history and even the human present day. But isn’t competition between groups of the sort that some flourish at the expense of others something worth actively discouraging in this era of suicide bombings and nuclear weaponry?
Yet, there is no natural (evolutionary) process for which seeing all of humanity as a community is adaptive. There is no Darwinian process that will get us there. Individual selection won’t. Selfish gene-ism won’t. Selfish meme-ism won’t. And DSW’s hobby horse group-selection won’t (since it depends competition between groups). Dawkins is right when he says that morality is about opposing Darwinian processes, whether these are at the individual or higher level of selection.
This thread, the other recent one here, and the one over at PZ’s have convinced me once and for all that the comment sections of the blogosphere (including the websiteosphere) are exactly the wrong place to try discussing the group-selection issue. There are simply too many misunderstandings and misconstruals in the way (I readily ackowledge that some of them might be mine).
I’d welcome your comments over at mousetrap. There are tidbits on what Darwin, Wynne-Edwards, Wright, and others said that is relevant to the history of that controversy. I’m trying to develop a differentiated picture of the issue and to steer clear of the purely semantic misunderstandings.
But wouldn’t be an evolutionary goal to make the misunderstandings more understandable to dumb people like me, or like you, if you agree that some of them might be yours?
In other words, is evolution strictly a biological process?
1st question: As I understand it (onw misunderstandings possible), one party uses the term group-selection as “That what has been rejected in the late 1960s” (a scenario in which cheats can indeed undermine the system). The other party uses the same term for multilevel selection applied to a particular tier of the natural hierarchy (a scenario in which cheats cannot undermine the system, because of particular dynamics of group establishment and resolution that lead to a statistical swamping of within group benefits by between group differences). As long as the semantics are that sclerotic, this sort of debate will not go away, and that’s why most evolutionary biologists now avoid the term group-selection and speak of multilevel selection instead.
2nd question: As long as we are not talking about cultural evolution, it is a strictly biological process.
Mr. Fortier, please teach yourself some evolutionary biology before you come over hear and put more than a dozen comments on this thread.
I can’t exactly remember how I got here but it had to do with one of your colleague who was using morality as an argument against theist evolution. I found that it was a weak argument and explained why, and a lot of comments were made around the answers. I got enthusiast about your blog because you can’t usually have these kind of civil debates on these topics.
But I now realize where I am (I didn’t who you were) and that I am too novice to really follow what is going on when it comes to strict biological evolution. So I’ll temper my enthusiasm and learn more about it, which I did since the last days btw.
So thank you for that and sorry for the overspreading.
1. Please use your Google+ account, Jerry! I know that’s kind of a long shot, but I figured I’d try.
However, in discussions of the evolution of altruism (or seeming altruism) I have read (such as here, in Dawkins’ books, other blogs, forums, etc.), this kind of asymmetric, indirect “win-WIN” (maybe I should call it “lose-WIN”) effect never seems to come up.
I’m not an expert so keep that in mind.
I think you are describing everything correctly. Those who are in favor of group selection/multi-level selection (MLS2) agree that traits are determined at the genetic level. DSW is also not opposed to looking at the gene level to do the accounting. The question is where is the selecting happening? I believe his position is that since the trait would be net deleterious if there weren’t between group competition, the selecting is happening at the group level.
This suggests that the whole controversy is one of definition of terms and nothing of substance. In which case I think Wilson & Nowak and their allies are fabricating controversy by changing definitions. “Group selection”, as I understand it, implies that groups are identifiable units which reproduce more or less as units. But what I have outlined does not require delineated “groups” at all — I merely need locally varying gene frequencies.
Even with identifiable “groups”, the success of the trait depends on individual success, and the fact that non-carriers out-compete carriers within each groups has a major effect on how the trait spreads through the population as a whole, and that is certainly a gene or individual level selection effect.
Let me recommend this talk by Stuart West http://vimeo.com/8202768.
I did get something wrong though. DSW is defending multi level selection 1 (MLS1) not MLS2.
I don’t think it is just semantics that is being argued. Jerry’s post is about why he thinks group selection is wrong and it isn’t just for semantic reasons. He’s explicitly accepting the concept of multi level selection when he says things like, “Yes, altruism may help groups propagate” and “even in individuals replicators can subvert the “group” of genes within”. The latter refers to genes that “trick” the cell machinery into replicating them even though they weren’t the gene that was selected at the individual (phenotype) level.
The question is about whether or not selection at the group level can persist and be important in evolution as a whole. In other words, it is an empirical question.
It may be helpful to go back and re-read Jerry’s post with this in mind.
PS If I’ve got it all wrong I hope someone more knowledgeable will correct me.
I once tried to pin down DS Wilson on the MLS1 MLS2 distinction at his own blog (Evolution for Everyone) and got away with the impression that he does not think it is a very important distinction to draw in the first place. Maybe that’s why he thinks Wynne-Edwards needs to be rehabilitated. Only if you do draw the distinction, you can see that Wynne-Edwards tried to apply an MLS2 scenarion where actually an MLS1 would have been needed.
Yes the trend will continue to the stable distribution of zero. The trait becoming less and less frequent in the local population means it will eventually disappear. Why do you think it would stabilize before this, if your local competitors always outcompete you? Your group may do so well even to the point of eliminating all the other groups, but how would that help you?
Do the math. If the local population grows by, say 2% (a factor of 1.02) and my progeny grow by a *relative* factor of .99, then my progeny grow by an absolute factor of 1.01. Once the trait is widespread, then there are frequency dependent effects that depend on local variations in the frequency of the trait. If all neighboring local sub-populations have equal numbers of the trait, then the local or “group” advantage is no longer conferred and the trait will locally diminish. But “groups” or sub-populations near the geographic border of the expansion of the trait will still have an advantage over the groups further out where the trait does not yet exist. Furthermore, due to unrelated, effectively random effects, you will never have perfectly equal local frequencies of the trait from one group or local sub-population to the next, and the groups or local sub-populations with more members carrying the trait will expand (thus benefiting the local altruists, though not as much as the local non-altruists benefit at any given time).
Once established, in order for the trait to disappear completely would require almost perfectly uniform geographic distribution of the trait, so that no local population could gain any advantage — and the distribution would have to remain uniform until the trait was gone completely. Seems highly unlikely that you would not get clumps here and there of higher concentrations of the trait than in other places. Think of it this way: if the trait ever did reach the point of almost disappearing, you are going to have one or a few local pockets of the trait, and those pockets will then have an advantage and begin expanding again (in absolute numbers).
Whether this results in an evolutionarily stable solution, per se, or some kind of oscillating solution, or even chaotic oscillations, will depend on the exact local-variation-of-frequency-dependent effects of the trait.
But traits along the lines of what I have described could certainly maintain themselves within a population.
Very interesting – what you are describing does sound reasonable. But can this work if the local population is not composed of close relatives? That is, does the mechanism require that two members of the local population are genetically closer (on average) than locals are to members of the distant population? I’m thinking about how what you describe would get started. Let’s say I have a mutation of the sort you described, producing a trait that is a slight disadvantage to me relative to other locals but would confer a group advantage to the local population IF SOME PROPORTION OF LOCALS HAVE THE SAME TRAIT. I’m stumbling over that IF. If local versus distant populations are not differentiated genetically, then the fact that I have the trait doesn’t mean that other members of my local population will. I am no more likely to be a part of an advantaged group than not, if MY having the trait is not somehow predictive of the rest of my local population having the trait. So it seems that all I would have is my local disadvantage selecting against the trait. If, on the other hand, I am genetically closer to members of the local group than members of the distant group, then it seems like we are back in kin selection territory. Am I missing something here? I guess you would not need the genetic differential if one lone individual with the new trait could benefit the entire group by themselves. That seems implausible, though.
[in loose and simple terms] The benefit to the local group would be in terms of some competitive advantage over neighboring groups, and would depend on how many “altruists” the local group had in comparison to the neighboring groups.
Whether a group advantage could be conferred by a single individual within the group just depends on the nature of the “altruistic” behavior trait. Suppose I spend more time building a defensive structure (a wall or something) or “on lookout” against invasion by neighboring groups. Both I and my group benefit, but my “selfish” group-mates benefit more than I do. Of course there can be many such behaviors where the group advantage will fail to compensate for my personal disadvantage. But there are also plenty of behaviors where the benefit to me will more than offset. As humans, with foresight, we can easily identify such situations, but there is no reason why the “blind watchmaker” won’t stumble onto them from time to time.
Bear in mind also that like any mutation, advantage/disadvantages conferred can be quite tiny, even imperceptible, but will nonetheless be magnified exponentially over hundreds/thousands/millions of generations. It would only be the accumulation of many such tiny changes in behavior that that you arrive at behaviors that appear noticeably altruistic.
[**] I should add that the extent to which Wilson & Nowak & others want to downplay the importance of kin-selection, I think they are pretty much dead wrong.
As a non-scientist and merely a science geek I try to hear as many points of view as possible but I try to not be to judgmental. After all with my limited knowledge of science my opinion should be taken with skepticism. But the one observation that I notice from Wilson is that he makes extraordinary claims yet does not provide enough evidence to even satisfy me. I notice with other scientist such as Dawkins and Coyne they do not make claims unless they can present us with supporting evidence.
Hm… I’m not so sure. I’m studying to be a Cultural Anthropologist, and one of my three main interests is the origins and perniciousness of Ideological Fanaticism.
Part of that is attempting a robust hypothesis of the origins of religion (while granting that a fully realized theory may not be possible).
My idea (not yet really “tested”, as far as an anthropological idea can be tested, so I’m not willing to call it a hypothesis, yet… and I admit that it’s not really an original idea) is that religion started with the soul, and that idea started with the recognition of death.
At some point in our evolutionary history, we finally became cognizant enough to recognize when somebody died. This produced two reactions: grief at the loss of someone we had learned to love, and fear that it will one day happen to us (this didn’t all happen at once, of course… we had to become cognizant of the idea of attachment [what we now call “love”] and fear, first).
So how did we deal with this? Over time, we came up with the idea of the soul and an afterlife… “death” wasn’t a “goodbye forever” thing. It was more of a “see you later” thing.
At the same time, we were becoming more and more aware of our natural surroundings, so much so that we could think about them. Of course we attempted to explain the natural world and all the natural happenings, from the existence of life to earthquakes and volcanoes and tornadoes and other natural disasters.
We already had souls and the afterlife, so, taking into account our early attempts to understand the natural world, it’s really just a small step to deities and, finally, religion. And all you need is a basic understanding of memes to see how it might have spreaded so quickly.
In this sense, I actually agree with Sam Harris when he calls religion “failed science”. If you see science, as I do, as the tool we use to answer questions about the nature of reality, then religion absolutely is a failed science, at least if my idea (please note that I’m not even willing to call it a hypothesis, yet) is right.
It’s a plausible enough idea for an origin of religious thinking. (You may want to take a look at some of the offerings from Boyer, Atran, and Dennett on this score too.) The problems come when you try to penetrate those mists of time to seek to confirm the hypothesis or disconfirm rivals.
What predictions would your “souls-first” hypothesis make that would differ from those of, say, a hyperactive agency detection device hypothesis, in which early people attribute agency to natural phenomena across the board? What would disconfirm it? What trace of those early days remains now to tell the difference? Religions like Mormonism come up in a vastly different cultural milieu than that of, say, hunter-gatherer bands developing sentences for communication 200,000 years ago? (Yeah, that’s a lot of wild guesses so much as describing them. There’s the point in that.) Even the development of ideological fanaticism has to be much more recent.
It’s very interesting – it’s hopelessly interesting, and neither you nor I will likely quit speculating. But it’s an answer for which we’re likely to have to settle for vague and uncertain answers.
Unfortunately, I have no way to respond to any of your questions, which is why I’m not even willing to consider it a hypothesis. It’s really just a reasoning along the lines “it makes sense”. I think perhaps the only effective way of really studying it would be to study elephant who appear to mourn for their dead and, of course, our closest evolutionary cousin the Chimpanzee, and see what happens.
It seems to me that death would be the first natural event we would become aware of, because it’s such a pervasive event (it literally happens all the time and one never needs to go very far to find it, even in the animal kingdom) and it’s such a *personal* event. With perhaps a few very rare exceptions, *somebody* will be impacted by death in some capacity.
I can see those primitive humans inventing a primitive version of the soul and the afterlife (it would start off extremely simple, I imagine) to help deal with the recognition of death. If death is the first natural event we become aware of (and by “aware of”, I obviously mean we gain the ability to start thinking about it… we have become evolved enough that it actually affects us in some long-term capacity), then I would think that soul would be the first real supernatural invention.
Well, saying that “things make sense” is not, as you realize, any way understand what really happened.
I take an apophatic approach to the origin of religion in human society: if I don’t know anything about it, I shut up about it.
Of course. I never attempted to claim otherwise.
And I’m not claiming any kind of studied knowledge on the subject, as I’ve only *just* started on my Cultural Anthropology degree, and the origins of religion/fanaticism is not where I’m starting.
I want to start off with an ethnographic documentary about atheism in the United States. I’m in my Junior year of my Bachelor’s now, so I’m starting with a basic study. My Master’s Thesis will be the written version, and I hope to do actually make the film as my PhD project.
Then I want to do a study on a phenomenon within music culture: P2P, torrenting, bootlegs (unofficial live recordings, studio outtakes/sessions, etc); the idea that music should be free (I know plenty of people who, politically, are staunch *conservative* Libertarians… but when you ask them about music, they become the biggest socialists you will ever meet). Why are they popular? Why are they so wide-spread? Can they be used by the music industry as money-making tools?
After that is when I want to study ideological fanaticism, attempt to come up with a hypothesis about its roots, and try to understand it’s perniciousness… if there’s a biological evolutionary reason for fanaticism, or if it’s strictly a cultural phenomenon.
Now I may not do these three things in that order, but all three are my interests and are why I’m studying to be an anthropologist in the first place.
I’m in my junior year of college as a transfer student to Florida Atlantic University (now in my second semester). I started on my anthropology degree in my junior year because, unfortunately, it took me that long to realize that this is what I wanted to do.
Good luck to you, Nathan! You certainly have no lack of enthusiasm, ideas, or goals!
Regarding primate research–have you read any Robert Sapolsky?
I think it’s just name-dropping in an effort to draw attention to the writer. Memorably lampooned by Spike Milligan in his war memoirs, the first book of which was titled Adolf Hitler: My part in his Downfall.
It’s a bit sad when pseudo-atheists or pseudo-evolutionists join the Goddists in misappropriating Richard Dawkins’ name, though.
Thanks for the clarification. To make sure I understand, is this an appropriate way to re-phrase what you are saying?: A trait that is beneficial for (that is, increases the reproductive success of) an individual might be *even more* beneficial for local con-specifics that do NOT have the trait. So say the trait is sleeping less when night-time ambush is a serious survival threat. If I get the trait I get the benefit of less chance of ambush and the cost of losing sleep, but the former might outweigh the latter. Others in my group get the benefit without the cost, so it’s more of a boon to them than to me. The trait benefits the organisms that hold it, so there is a standard selection pressure promoting the spread/maintenance of the trait. The fact that it is even better for other members of the local group than the individuals that have it is why we can say it is a RELATIVE disadvantage in the local context, but natural selection doesn’t stop working just because there are free loaders. If that is the argument, I’m on board.
That’s a pretty good example of the kind of trait I am talking about.
It is just a particular case of win-win cooperation, that happens to be asymmetric.
Since when is kin not a group?
Since when did any mutation not get ‘kin selection’ to begin with?
Since when did altruism get designated to particular gene sequence, where you either have it, or don’t?
Since when did an individual have to have any benefit to a mutation that improved its fitness? What about old age? You are not more fit when you are ancient, yet the group protects you, for obvious reasons.
In fact, intelligence substitutes for physical fitness, why wouldn’t altruism substitute for usury?
We don’t even know where altruism cam from, it probably is coincidental to self awareness, but I can see it existing before that.
As a non-scientist and merely a science geek I try to hear as many points of view as possible but I try to not be to judgmental. After all with my limited knowledge of science my opinion should be taken with skepticism.
No, as a blogger, poster, expert, naive knave, commenter – all views should be taken with scepticism.
Your view, you should be taken as anecdotal evidence based on an unknown methodology that may involve all sorts of selection bias.
Personally, I try to evaluate based on logic, but any viewpoint that assumes knowledge of motivation and/or employs ad hominum and pronouncement of truth is immediately suspect, and reason to be very sceptical.
I believe that you are being unfair to Professor Wilson. I have read some of is books and listened to several of his online lectures, and I believe that he is largely correct in his perspective on Evolution. His views on “Group Selection” cannot be summarily dismissed.
Wilson’s views may not be completely correct, but they are certainly not completely wrong.
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U.S. Pat. No. 5,749,324: Apparatus and method for controlling animal behavior.
JW Note: The adventures of Pookie, the patent drawing dog. Many thanks to Jason Wilson for bringing this one to our attention!
a stimulus-generating means coupled to said actuator means, said stimulus-generating means providing a stimulus to said animal upon actuation of said actuator, said stimulus consisting of, or including, a human voice command responsive to the said specific sound vocalization.
USPTO Announces Location for Elijah J. McCoy Satellite Office in Detroit, MI.
Per a press release from the U.S. Patent Office earlier today.
WASHINGTON—The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Jan. 11, 2012 that it has concluded a five-year lease agreement through the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Great Lakes Region for a 31,000 square foot space to be located at 300 River Place Dr. in Detroit, Michigan 48207. The building, listed on the National Historic Registry, was the former home to Parke-Davis Laboratories as well as the Stroh’s Brewery Headquarters.
The agency plans to open the Elijah J. McCoy United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO-Detroit Office) no later than July 2012. The USPTO Detroit Office is expected to create more than 100 high-paying, high-skill jobs in its first year and provide a boost to the region’s innovation economy.
The USPTO will be building out the new facilities to Agency specifications during the next few months and expects to post vacancy announcements for patent examiner positions this spring. Prospective employees should email detroithiring@uspto.gov for more information.
Subject to available resources and as provided for in the America Invents Act, the USPTO intends to establish at least two more satellite offices in addition the USPTO-Detroit office in the next three years.
The USPTO has called for public comments regarding these additional satellite offices. Comments should be submitted by Jan. 30, 2012 to satelliteoffices@uspto.gov or as otherwise dictated in the USPTO’s Federal Register notice.
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Console portatili Nintendo 3DS (+ The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) - 25th Anniversary Ed.
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🌟 It took me exactly 17 months to be in the mood again to continue this series. Book 1 was very packed and it took me more than 10 days to read (I read it in finals so that’s biased). I heard this was better and so I had to wait till I was in the mood again so I can enjoy it to maximum levels.
🌟 My main problem with this series is the characters, namely Darrow the MC, he is arrogant, stupid and keeps making stupid mistakes. I know you can be tricked by people once or twice but this many times is just plain stupid. The character’s names was my biggest fear, I always find it hard to remember all the names, specially that I don’t take notes so this was very hard and confusing for me. I can’t deny they are unique and they were collected at the start of the book, but I don’t want to keep turning pages every time I read a book. Also, why keep changing the names of characters, pick one name and keep using it, that’s waaaaay better for everyone. I like Some characters specially Ragnor and Sevro!
🌟 This is not related to the story itself, but the paperback I have has a small font and it was tiring to read, the story is ~ 140K words which means 560 pages on average while my book was 444 pages!
🌟 If you are like the old reader version of me and you are looking for plot twists, then this is good and the ending that everyone was talking about was good indeed. I don’t know if the pace was slow, it didn’t feel so, but at the same time I feel it could have been a bit shorter, and it looks like the books aren’t getting any smaller!
🌟 This was certainly better than book 1, less dense, less confusing and more intriguing. I appreciate that the author got better but it still has some flows! I am going to continue Morning Star for sure -Actually my next read- and then I will decide if I am going to read the second trilogy. Final rating is 3.5 stars.
🌟 Prescription: For fans of Red Rising and other Sci-fi books.
Did you read this book? do you share my opinions on this? Are you planning to read it?
Do you think it was good to give this an extension? Share your comments below!
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And Jacob Campbell was up at six a.m. He’d been too excited to stay in bed, and had only managed a couple of hours sleep at most. Though he was getting a bit too old to believe in Santa at almost nine years of age, he could have sworn he’d heard something at about midnight last night. The whole house had shaken; could it really have been down to that famous sleigh landing on the roof of the house?
What would he get this year, he wondered. He’d been a good boy. Always was, in fact – never got into trouble like some of the other kids. He was too busy reading: usually the latest Rowling, Shan or Gaiman book, or magazines filled with pictures of fantasy TV shows and films. Either that or playing with his model figures. Jacob’s shelves were filled with toys from various horror movies, including those he was too young to see … officially (his very cool Uncle Tom often let him have sneaky peaks when he stayed with him down South). Up on the shelf, mini-Predators battled Aliens, Frankenstein was frozen in mid-punch, attacking Dracula, and Jason’s rematch with Freddy was in full swing – all while Godzilla and King Kong looked on with mild amusement.
Perhaps it would be another figure, a bigger one this time? He’d dropped more than a few hints that he’d like the creature from Cloverfield, in spite of the fact he’d never seen it. By all accounts neither had the audience much.
Read more in Monsters by Paul Kane.
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The N.C. Department of Agriculture issued the livestock mortality totals Tuesday, as major flooding is continuing after the slow-moving storm's drenching rains. Sixteen North Carolina rivers were at major flood stage Tuesday, with an additional three forecasted to peak by Thursday.
North Carolina is among the top states in the nation in producing pork and poultry, with about 9 million hogs at any given time and 819 million chickens and 34 million turkeys raised each year.
The N.C. Pork Council, an industry trade group, said the livestock losses from the storm should be taken in the context.
"Our farmers took extraordinary measures in advance of this storm, including moving thousands of animals out of harm's way as the hurricane approached," the group said in a statement issued Tuesday. "We believe deeply in our commitment to provide care for our animals amid these incredibly challenging circumstances."
The industry lost about 2,800 hogs during flooding from Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
Sanderson Farms, a major poultry producer in the state, said it lost about 1.7 million chickens after flooding at more than 60 of the independent farms that supply its poultry processing plants. The company said its facilities suffered no major damage, but supply disruptions and flooded roadways had caused shutdowns at some plants.
In addition, about 30 farms near Lumberton have been isolated by flood waters, hampering the delivery of feed to animals. The lack of food could cause additional birds to die if access isn't restored quickly, the company said.
Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, said its plants also suffered no significant damage and are operating at limited capacity. The company said it would ramp up production as roads become passable.
An environmental threat is also posed by human waste as low-lying municipal sewage plants flood. On Sunday, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority reported that more than 5 million gallons of partially treated sewage had spilled into the Cape Fear River after power failed at its treatment plant.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that 16 community water treatment facilities in North Carolina are unable to supply drinking water and that seven publicly owned sewage treatment works are non-operational due to the flooding.
Duke Energy is continuing cleanup operations Tuesday following a weekend breach at a coal ash landfill at its L.V. Sutton Power Station near Wilmington.
Duke spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said a full assessment of how much ash escaped from the waterlogged landfill is ongoing. The company initially estimated Saturday that about 2,000 cubic yards (1,530 cubic meters) of ash were displaced, enough to fill about 180 dump trucks.
The coal-fired Sutton plant was retired in 2013 and replaced with a new facility that burns natural gas. The company has been excavating millions of tons of leftover ash from old pits there and removing the waste to a new lined landfill constructed on the property. The gray ash left behind when coal is burned contains toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead and mercury.
At a different power plant near Goldsboro, three old coal ash dumps capped with soil were inundated by the Neuse River. Duke said they had no indication those dumps at the H.F. Lee Power Plant were leaking ash into the river.
In South Carolina, workers with electricity provider Santee Cooper erected a temporary dike in hopes of preventing flooding of an old coal ash dump at the demolished Grainger Generating Station near Conway. The dump is adjacent to the Waccamaw River, which is expected to crest at nearly 20 feet (6 meters) this weekend. That's nine feet above flood stage and would set a new record height.
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Events from the year 1776 in Denmark.
15 January – A Danish Nationality Act reserves state offices for Danish, Norwegian and Holstein citizens.
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Othello (/oʊˈθɛloʊ/) is a character in Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). The character's origin is traced to the tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. There, he is simply referred to as the Moor.
Othello is a Moorish prince living in Venice, as an ambassador of the Moors. After time in Venice, Othello is appointed general in the Venetian Army. His officer Iago tricks him into believing that his wife Desdemona is having an affair with his Lieutenant, Michael Cassio. Othello kills his wife out of jealousy by strangling her, only to realize that his wife was faithful after Emilia reveals the truth, at which point he commits suicide.
Othello has its source in the 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" from Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. While no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, it is probable that Shakespeare knew both the Italian original and Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation. Cinthio's tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508. It also resembles an incident described in the earlier tale of "The Three Apples", one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). Desdemona is the only named character in Cinthio's tale, his other characters being identified as the Moor, the squadron leader, the ensign, and the ensign's wife.
While Shakespeare closely followed Cinthio's tale in composing Othello, he departed from it in some details, particularly in the tale's depiction of Desdemona's death. In Cinthio, the Moor commissions his ensign to bludgeon Desdemona to death with a sand-filled stocking. In gruesome detail, Cinthio follows each blow, and, when the lady is dead, the Moor and his ensign place her lifeless body upon her bed, smash her skull, and then cause the cracked ceiling above the bed to collapse upon her, giving the impression the falling rafters caused her death. The two murderers escape detection. The Moor then misses his wife greatly, and comes to loathe the sight of his ensign. He demotes him, and refuses to have him in his company. The ensign then seeks revenge by disclosing to "the squadron leader" (the tale's Cassio counterpart), the Moor's involvement in Desdemona's death. The two men denounce the Moor to the Venetian Seignory. The Moor is arrested, transported from Cyprus to Venice, and tortured, but refuses to admit his guilt. He is condemned to exile; Desdemona's relatives eventually put him to death. The ensign escapes any prosecution in Desdemona's death but engages in other crimes and dies after being tortured.
Portrait of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, ambassador of Ahmad al-Mansur to Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, sometimes claimed as an inspiration for Othello.
There is no consensus over Othello's race. E. A. J. Honigmann, the editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition concluded that Othello's race is ambiguous. "Renaissance representations of the Moor were vague, varied, inconsistent, and contradictory. As critics have established, the term 'Moor' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as 'African', "Ethiopian' and even 'Indian' to designate a figure from Africa (or beyond). Various uses of the word 'black' (for example, "Haply for I am black") are insufficient evidence for any accurate racial classification, Honigmann argues, since 'black' could simply mean 'swarthy' to Elizabethans. In 1911, James Welton argued more evidence points to him being Sub-Saharan, though Shakespeare's intention is unknown. He cites Brabantio's description of Othello's "sooty bosom," a racial stereotype during this time, and Othello's contrast between his "begrimed" features and purity of the goddess Diana. He argues that interpretations attempting to change Othello from "black to brown" were due to racial prejudice during Reconstruction in the US and notes that Othello is described using similar language to Aaron in Titus Andronicus. Virginia Mason Vaughan suggests that the racial identity of the character of Othello fit more clearly as a man from Sub-Saharan Africa than from North Africa (Barbary) as north Africans were more easily accepted into society. She states that by 1604, accounts of Othello as deriving from farther south were not uncommon. She notes Roderigo's description of Othello having "thick lips" was a racial stereotype used by 16th century explorers for southern Africans. Modern-day readers and theatre directors lean away from a North African Moorish interpretation but Shakespeare's textual references are unclear. Iago twice uses the word "Barbary" or "Barbarian" to refer to Othello, seemingly referring to the Barbary coast inhabited by the "tawny" Moors. Roderigo calls Othello "the thicklips", which seems to refer to European conceptions of Sub-Saharan African physiognomy, but Honigmann counters that, as these comments are all intended as insults by the characters, they need not be taken literally.
Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, (Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare), assume him to be a black man, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814. Honigmann questions the view that Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in London for several months and occasioned much discussion, and thus might have inspired Shakespeare's play, written only a few years afterwards. The exact date that Othello was written is unknown, though sources indicate that it was written between 1601 and 1610, sometime after the Moorish delegation.
Othello is referred to as a "Barbary horse" (1.1.113), a "lascivious Moor" (1.1.127), and "the devil" (1.1.91). In III.III he denounces Desdemona's supposed sin as being "black as mine own face". Desdemona's physical whiteness is otherwise presented in opposition to Othello's dark skin; V.II "that whiter skin of hers than snow". Iago tells Brabantio that "an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe" (1.1.88). In Elizabethan discourse, the word "black" could suggest various concepts that extended beyond the physical colour of skin, including a wide range of negative connotations.
Ira Aldridge pioneered the prominence of black actors in the role, beginning in 1825 in London. Othello was also frequently performed as an Arab Moor during the 19th century. In the past, Othello would often have been portrayed by a white actor in blackface. Black American actor Paul Robeson played the role from 1930 to 1959. Recent actors who chose to "blacken up" include Laurence Olivier (1965) and Orson Welles. Black English actor Wil Johnson, known for his roles in Waking the Dead and Emmerdale, played Othello on stage in 2004. Since the 1960s it has become commonplace to cast a black actor in the character of Othello, although the casting of the role now can come with a political subtext. Patrick Stewart took the role in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 1997 staging of the play and Thomas Thieme, also white, played Othello in a 2007 Munich Kammerspiele staging at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre; both played without blackface, their performances critically acclaimed.
The most notable American production may be Margaret Webster's 1943 staging starring Paul Robeson as Othello and José Ferrer as Iago. This production was the first ever in America to feature a black actor playing Othello with an otherwise all-white cast (there had been all-black productions of the play before). It ran for 296 performances, almost twice as long as any other Shakespearean play ever produced on Broadway. Although it was never filmed, it was the first nearly complete performance of a Shakespeare play released on records. Robeson played Othello in three separate productions between 1930 and 1959. He first played it opposite a cast that included Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona and Ralph Richardson as Roderigo, and would return to it in 1959 at Stratford on Avon.
The American actor William Marshall performed the title role in at least six productions. His Othello was called by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing: "nobler than Tearle, more martial than Gielgud, more poetic than Valk. From his first entry, slender and magnificently tall, framed in a high Byzantine arch, clad in white samite, mystic, wonderful, a figure of Arabian romance and grace, to his last plunging of the knife into his stomach, Mr Marshall rode without faltering the play's enormous rhetoric, and at the end the house rose to him." Marshall also played Othello in a jazz musical version, Catch My Soul, with Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago, in Los Angeles in 1968. His Othello was captured on record in 1964 with Jay Robinson as Iago and on video in 1981 with Ron Moody as Iago. The 1982 Broadway staging starred James Earl Jones as Othello and Christopher Plummer as Iago.
James Earl Jones performs Othello's Act I, scene iii speech from Shakespeare Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on 12 May 2009.
When Laurence Olivier gave his acclaimed performance of Othello at the Royal National Theatre (UK) in 1964, he had developed a case of stage fright that was so profound that when he was alone onstage, Frank Finlay (who was playing Iago) would have to stand offstage where Olivier could see him to settle his nerves. This performance was recorded complete on LP, and filmed by popular demand in 1965 (according to a biography of Olivier, tickets for the stage production were notoriously hard to get). The film version still holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for acting ever given to a Shakespeare film — Olivier, Finlay, Maggie Smith (as Desdemona) and Joyce Redman (as Emilia, Iago's wife) were all nominated for Academy Awards.
Actors have alternated the roles of Iago and Othello in productions to stir audience interest since the nineteenth century. Two of the most notable examples of this role swap were William Charles Macready and Samuel Phelps at Drury Lane (1837) and Richard Burton and John Neville at the Old Vic Theatre (1955). When Edwin Booth's tour of England in 1880 was not well attended, Henry Irving invited Booth to alternate the roles of Othello and Iago with him in London. The stunt renewed interest in Booth's tour. James O'Neill also alternated the roles of Othello and Iago with Booth.
White actors have continued to take the role. These include British performers Paul Scofield at the Royal National Theatre in 1980, Anthony Hopkins in the BBC Shakespeare television production (1981), and Michael Gambon in a stage production at Scarborough directed by Alan Ayckbourn in 1990. In 1997, Patrick Stewart took the role with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) in a race-bending performance, in a "photo negative" production of a white Othello with an otherwise all-black cast. Stewart had wanted to play the title role since the age of 14, so he and director Jude Kelly inverted the play so Othello became a comment on a white man entering a black society. Two Indian adaptations of Othello has been released. In 1997, Kaliyattam the Malayalam film adaptation starred Suresh Gopi playing the Othello part in the role of Kannan Perumalayan. In 2006, Omkara, the Bollywood version of Othello, Othello née Omkara 'Omi' Shukla was played by Ajay Devgan. In 2016, baritone and actor David Serero took the role in a Moroccan adaptation in New York.
^ Virginia Mason Vaughan, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 59.
^ Tom Verde. "A Man of Two Worlds". Armaco World. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2011. January/February 2008.
^ Emily C. Bartels, Making More of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race.
^ James Welton Psychology of Education, University of California, 1911, p. 403.
^ Welton, Psychology of Education (1911), p. 404.
^ Virginia Mason Vaughan, Othello: A Contextual History, Cambridge University Press: 1996, pp. 51–52.
^ Leo Africanus, "The inhabitants are extremely black, having great noses and blabber lips." The History and Description of Africa, Robert Brown, ed. Trans. John Pory, 3 vols (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1896), p. 830.
^ E. A. J. Honigmann, ed. Othello. London: Thomas Nelson, 1997, p. 17.
^ Doris Adler, "The Rhetoric of Black and White in Othello", Shakespeare Quartertly, 25 (1974).
^ Gates, Henry Louis (31 March 2014). "Who Was the 1st Black Othello?". The Root. p. 2. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
^ Taylor, Paul (10 January 1996). "A tricky double act". The Independent. London. Retrieved 20 October 2010. Quoted in Hughes, Geoffrey (2009). Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture (The Language Library). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 231. ISBN 1-4051-5279-6.
^ a b "Othello by William Shakespeare directed by Jude Kelly". The Shakespeare Theatre Company. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
^ Michael Billington, "Black or white? Casting can be a grey area", The Guardian (Theatre blog), 5 April 2007.
^ Michael Billington, "Othello" (Theatre review), The Guardian, 28 April 2006.
^ a b Gary Jay Williams, Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors by Errol Hill (review), Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 276–278; Folger Shakespeare Library and George Washington University.
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^ "DAVID SERERO starring as OTHELLO in a Moroccan Style this June in New York", The Culture News, 3 May 2016.
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Longtime readers of this blog may remember that I posted a glowing review of Charles Yu’s debut novel, How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe some time ago. Well there’s more where that came from. Last year he released his second short story collection, Sorry Please Thank You and it blew me away. The tales range from conversations with selves in alternate universes to observations of zombies going late night shopping in mega-malls but the focus remains on the themes of loss, alienation and existential despair. Sounds grim but it’s a captivating and utterly beautiful read.
Check the full review at Mountains Of Instead.
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Susan Polgar (born 19 April 1969 as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess player.
At 15, she was the top-ranked woman player in the world. She was the Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. In October 2005 Polgar had a FIDE rating of 2577, making her the second-ranked woman in the world at the time, after her sister Judit Polgár. She has been inactive and has not played in official competition since 2004.
Polgar is head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Texas Tech University, and a chess writer and promoter. She had been on the Executive of the United States Chess Federation, but was stripped of her membership after a complicated internal struggle.
Susan was born and brought up in Budapest, Hungary, and now lives in Lubbock, Texas. She recently moved from Forest Hills, Queens in New York City, where she ran the Polgar Chess Center and the Susan Polgar Foundation, which gives chess training to children, especially girls.
Polgar and her two younger sisters, Judit and Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.
In January 1991, Polgar became the third woman to earn the Grandmaster title. Much is made, by her supporters, of the fact that Polgar had got the three GM norms and a rating over 2500. Nona Gaprindashvili was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1978 mainly as a result of winning Lone Pine International 1977, but she did not quite make the usual 24 games required at that time. Maia Chiburdanidze was awarded the GM title in 1984 for winning at New Delhi (1984), and for beating Nona Gaprindashvili and two others in matches for the Women's World Chess Championship. However, before Polgar reached the title, Chiburdanidze had more than achieved the traditional GM qualifications by her performances at Banja Luka and Bilbao.
Polgar had tended to avoid women-only tournaments, but she abandoned this when she entered the 1993 cycle for the Women's World Championship. She became the Women's World Champion at her second attempt in 1996. Two years later, her title defense against Xie Jun of China was scheduled to take place in November, 1998. However, Polgar requested a postponement because she was pregnant and also FIDE had been unable to find a satisfactory sponsor. Ultimately, in 1999, a match was arranged, but under conditions to which Polgar objected – firstly because she had recently had a child, and had not had sufficient time to recuperate, and secondly because the match was to be held entirely in China, the home country of her challenger. She also wanted a significantly larger prize fund.
When Polgar refused to play under these conditions, FIDE declared that she had forfeited the title, and instead organized a match between Xie Jun and Alisa Galliamova for the Women's World Chess Championship, which was won by Xie Jun. Polgar sued in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland for monetary damages and the restoration of her title. In March 2001, the case was settled, with Polgar withdrawing her claims and FIDE agreeing to pay Polgar's attorney's fees in the amount of $25,000. Since Xie Jun had already been crowned Women's World Champion, FIDE could not restore the title to Polgar. Polgar has not participated in subsequent Women's World Championship cycles.
Paid substantial appearance fees by the Hungarian Chess Federation,p106 the family did play together in two female-only events. The Hungarians (nicknamed 'Polgaria') won the Women's Chess Olympiads, with a team packed with Polgárs, in 1988 and 1990.p106; 156 Zsuzsa, Judit, Sofia (the least strong sister) and Ildiko Madl were the team which pushed the Soviet Union into second place for the first time.
The United States Chess Federation named Polgar "Grandmaster of the Year" in 2003, the first time a woman has won that honor. In that same year (2003), Polgar also became the first woman to win the US Open Blitz Championship, against a field which included seven grandmasters. She won that title again in 2005 and in 2006.
She helped train and played the top board for the United States women's team at the 2004 Chess Olympiad held in October in Majorca, Spain. Overall, the team won the silver medal, and Polgar won an individual gold medal. This was not her first Olympiad: she has a total of ten Olympiad Medals (five Gold, four Silver, and one Bronze). She has played 56 games in the Olympiads, never losing a single game.
In 1994, Polgar married computer consultant Jacob Shutzman, and moved to New York. They had two sons, Tom and Leeam, but later divorced. In December 2006, she married her longtime business manager and friend, Paul Truong.
Polgar is also a chess journalist, with columns in Chess Life, Chess Life for Kids, ChessCafe, Chess Horizons, Georgia Chess, Chessville, Empire Chess, School Mates, and Europe Echecs.
↑ Yaniv, Oren. "MASTERING CHESS WAS THE EASY PART. BLACK BELT CHAMP TEACHES MOVES IN FOREST HILLS" Daily News (New York), 3 April 2005. Accessed 17 June 2009.
↑ 7.0 7.1 Forbes, Cathy 1992. The Polgar sisters: training or genius? Batsford, London.
↑ Susan Polgar Blogspot confirms her marriage to Paul Truong.
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Oh yes, the time has come for this baby to go 'Friends Only'. I've been posting some more personal things lately, about the love life, about the work life and about life in general, and I don't want it posted for the world to see. Everything art-y or random that I post will be kept open, but please comment if you'd like to get tangled in the cobwebs that inhabit my brain. With giant spiders.
In general, if I know you from somewhere else and we've chatted and realize that we're soul mates because we like the same things, you'll be added. But commenting is the shiz, so I know who the hell you are when you request.
Summary: Based on a Buffy/Dean video by Dana. A look at a relationship between Buffy and Dean – two people who have hurt each other far too much.
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Summary: While out patrolling, Buffy runs into some strange guys, turning her boring night into a strange one.
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Summary: AU; Buffy and Angel are teens and from the opposite sides of the tracks with very different circumstances that come to light over a school project.
Completely and absolutely and totally will always be Beauty and the Beast. I have very close seconds but that movie is my absolutely favorite of all time.
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Let the harvest begin. Jaime discovered yesterday the plentiful pods on our lupines. We had so much fun picking them.
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To Where Have All Of The International Muslim Terrorists Gone?
I today listened to George Galloway explaining his thoughts on Israel and the attacks on Gaza. George seems to experience great difficulty in uttering the word Jew and what is more, he insists on blaming Israel for all of the crimes against humanity, which have been inflicted onto the indigenous people of Palestine, by a group of incomers.
George must surely, by now, be aware that the World Wars, in which the youth of Europe sacrificed their lives, were fought to further the aims of Jews, whether he finds it difficult to accept or not.
When the Jews stormed into Palestine at the end of World War Two, they were carrying out a plan which had been announced at the end of the Great War, long, long before there had been any talk of a holocaust, that is other than those numerous bogus claims which had been made by Jews down through the decades.
The Balfour Declaration, which had been written by Chatham House, where according to Galloway; “When you need an expert, you go to where the experts are to be found.” Well whether you will find an expert there or not, you will most certainly find the Jews who are responsible for all of the misery in Palestine.
So what exactly is the champion of the Palestinians doing in the company of The Royal Institute of International Affairs, where the program of the Jews in the City of London is coordinated?
On top of that, Dr. David Duke, the man who is speaking for all of the free thinking people of the world, is for some reason splitting hairs over the actual origins of the Khazar Jews.
He would appear to be suggesting that because Jews have been traditionally related to money, gold and usury, that it follows therefore that they must all come from the same region. My reading of this is, that he is suggesting that they are all of the same brutal mentality, so they must therefore share the same origins.
Well I am sorry to contradict your reasoning Dr. Duke but whether you understand the difference or not, it is clear that all of the top men in Israel, ever since its inception, have come from Jews of Eastern European origins, Jews who do not display the slightest similarity to the indigenous people of the Middle East and who also changed their names to give them a more regional sound.
Many of these Jews are still to be found in their “homeland” as it were. The “Chocolate King” in Ukraine, along with his Prime Minister and other members of the sham government in Ukraine, have remained in that region and are part of a group which has never been involved in any way with the claims of the right to seize Palestine. They are now however intent on taking control of the remnants of the Kingdom of Khazaristan, if it did indeed exist and was not simply a figment of the imagination of Arthur Koestler as is suggested by Dr. Duke.
Baron Rothschild has already invested a fortune in Kazakhstan, where he has seen to the construction of his brand new Capital in Astana. Kazakhstan was of course controlled by the same Jewish group which helped to bring us the Bolshevik Jew coup d’etat in Russia and is still to this day controlled by Jews.
So it becomes more and more difficult to believe anything with which we have been presented by these brutes, who cheer the murder of children in Gaza and are openly calling for an outright slaughter of them all, which will solve all of their problems. All of which has been reported without criticism by the media which is under their control, while at the same time George Galloway is hauled in by the British Police, for questioning, concerning a statement which he made calling for a boycott of Israeli products. A similar call was made in Norway, which resulted in the slaughter of dozens of youngsters at a Summer Camp, by Anders Breivik.
I was astonished when I heard on the News, that NATO would consider it to be an invasion, should Russia attempt to take food aid to the beleaguered folk in the East of Ukraine, while at the same time Obama and Cameron are being praised for doing the same thing for Iraqis, forced from their homes by Islamic State, a group which has been financed by the City of London, with printed money from the Federal Reserve, laundered through the Jewish “Royals” in Saudi Arabia.
Obama is now “bombing” Islamic State, who are busily taking control of the very regions in Iraq and Syria, which have long been nominated as part of Greater Israel. This while fellow Muslims are being massacred in Palestine, by Israel, which is wholly financed by US tax payers Dollars, without a single Islamic hand being offered in support. Egypt is maintaining the closure of the Rafah crossing at the behest of Israel. So much for Islamic solidarity.
There should now be calls for a new Nuremberg, bringing all of the living War Criminals in Israel to justice. That they have been allowed to get away with their murder and mayhem for over sixty years, while all of the other so-called “Rogue States” have been carpet bombed to dust and rubble, by the “Humanitarians” is unforgivable.
All of this being justified by an alleged event, in which none of the Jewish killers who stormed into Palestine were involved, just as were none of the Germans who were hanged at Nuremberg, whose deaths were based on the word of Jews, without a shred of evidence in support of their claims.
It is interesting to note, that not one of the main players in World War 2, Eisenhower, Churchill, De Gaulle made any mention of a genocide against the Jews. They most certainly heard all of the claims which were made by the Jews, but probably thought that they would never get away with such a fantasy. They of course reckoned without the power of Hollywood and the new gadget called Television.
What we do know for sure, is that WE are the true criminals. WE are international terrorism. WE have caused more grief and suffering in this world than have all of the other historical criminals combined.
The West is supplying the guns and bombs which are being used to kill women and children in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Gaza, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Western bombs have already contaminated the entire Middle East, which has led to the birth of thousands of genetically damaged children, created millions of refugees, who have been deliberately allowed to re-establish themselves in the middle of the people who destroyed their homelands, in order to create the recipe for civil conflict, which will lead to continued blood-letting, which one might be forgiven for believing is the only thing these “Western” filth understand.
I have become so cynical, that on reading an account of the American doctor, who we were told had contracted the Ebola virus, while working with the sick in Africa and who was inexplicably repatriated to the US, despite the risks of spreading the virus; he was explaining how even though he knew that great care should be taken not to risk taking the disease from one person to another, he spoke of holding the hands of those dying from Ebola and how he could remember a strange feeling of peace when he was found to have contracted the disease himself. Then, miraculously, when treated with a new “wonder” drug, within minutes he was on his feet and asking for a coffee or some such thing.
My cynical reaction was one of, how handy, so they had a drug just waiting for an outbreak of Ebola. A drug which was not announced until the Ebola Virus had gone viral, as you might say. How long will it be before they announce a vaccine? Or maybe the “wonder” drug will be the first drug to ever cure a virus.
This entry was posted on Aug 9, 2014 by enochered. It was filed under Comment and was tagged with Astana, Churchill, De Gaulle, Ebola, Eisenhower, Gaza, Islamic State, Jewish War Criminals, Kazakhstan, Rothschild.
Thank you Eno, The onslaught of Israeli, crime, in the past couple of weeks cannot go without some comment, About two thousand Palestinians have been murdered by forces of Israeli military, considering this violence is endorsed by Obama and Cameron, in retaliation of Palestinian rockets, which are either little more than fire works, as they make no significant damage, the Israeli’s no more than cowards that are able to get away with massacres of the innocent, I mention cowards as being backed by two powers that as a result of the proceeds of crime, are able to supply this renegade group with arms and military equipment that accounts for the devastation and genocide of the Palestinians, the rightful owners of this land.
I have suggest the Queen, Elizabeth II, before she finishes her job, has a duty to say something on the Israeli, situation of crime, if one can redeem one self at least as a graceful act, we could forgive her for all her collaborations with those who are the citadels of power and corruption, and depravity, this time as like no other is no longer able to use military, brute force and violence, as a means of resolving the problems we now are confronted with. This is in part the Western Allies, have become so confused with their lies and deceptions that they no longer know who and what they are, if we look at Syria, the West, is no longer able to say whether they should side with the so called Government or the Rebels? they are on both sides, supplying military hardware to both sides, the ploy is to get as many Arabs to kill each other.
The Romans, who have had a system of colonization, and all the trimmings of arenas for public entertainment, straight roads and the rest of similarities some two thousand years ago, what the meat works, the establishment is not understanding is two thousand years ago, it was a time when it was thought the Sun went around the Earth, what the elite, the Rothschilds, and this financial syndicate, do not understand , we have moved on, we now have different ideas, such as Newtons, gravity, Einsteins, relativity, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and so on, the Rothschilds are still in the dark ages and rule by fear, our politicians, are to fearful to be anything else other than slavish, and obedient slaves, Tony Abbott, who accused Russia of downing the domestic flight, with a rocket, this is now increasingly become a suspicious theory, their are varied accounts, such as shrapnel exploding close to the plane and was being tracked by Ukraine, Jets, opening fire on this plane, certainly some of the planes exterior, looked as if they were gun strafed, the most likely possibility, the Israeli war being a coincidence having its inauguration program of war, at the time of the plane being shot down, it is likely the plane was shot down by the Israeli’s jet fighters, to divert attention from Israeli incursion, or the same group that were involved with the 9/11, what we can expect is the future will have many other strange and unexplained incidents of a subversive nature, all part of the package deal to confuse the public and the State becomes the Father protectorate, to look after the people and make sure they pay their share of taxes to pay for war whilst the Elite, makes money, and you the public become comforted by being in a gigantic prison, without the ankle bracelet, but the phone and the plastic card all let the authorities know more about you than you know yourself.
Hello there. By the time this current round of slaughter is over there will be hardly a Muslim State left intact. After Palestine they will probably have a go at the Muslim countries scattered around Russia. Tony Abbott has just cancelled the Carbon Tax, he could not have done that without the permission of the City of London so the cold must be coming, which is what all of the real weather men have been warning us about.So Europe is going to feel the cold this winter if Russia cuts off the gas.
The waters are becoming so muddy these days, that its no longer sure that the Bankers are to blame, it seems that it could be the Nazis, The Vatican, The Jesuits, The Knights of Malta, The Masons, The Black Nobility and Uncle Tom Cobley and all and for whatever reason Israel seems to be taking a lot of flack these days, so there must be something in the air.
I linked to Spivey’s site in the hope that the mystery 91 may also go there. Chris has been the subject of repeated hacks, unlawful arrest, police and government harassment ever since he forensically deconstructed the Woolwich hoax online.
In a way his subsequent treatment validates his findings. When the govt is prepared act unlawfully to silence him then he must be on target.
Usury enables war, and those responsible for usury hide behind all major wars.
The 17th century deception into British civil war and misery is covered in an article here, just below the Titanic info.
I see you have 91 followers Eno, yet never more than the two Dons make any comment. Who or what are the remainder I wonder?
Hello Don. I’ve often wondered about that myself. In a way I’m happy that I don’t attract the quippy responses that I see on other sites but I jut don’t appear to have a style of writing that makes it easy to make a quick reply.
Most responses on WordPress are no more than a thank you for liking my post, which take you nowhere.
Anyway I’m always pleased to receive a reply from your good self and your counterpart down there in Oz.
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Whether you are heading to the beach, relaxing by the pool, or taking the kids on vacation this summer, be careful when out and about in hot weather. If you are going to be outside this summer, it is important to remember to keep yourself and your family cool, hydrated, and ultimately safe. Here are some ways to stay safe in the summer sun.
Protecting our skin from sunburn is one of the most important ways to stay safe in the sun. Having a sunburn makes it difficult for our bodies to adequately cool the affected area, which can increase the risk for heat exhaustion and heat stroke. When you first wake up in the morning, be sure to apply sunscreen before heading out to enjoy your day. Cover all exposed areas of your body with a decent amount of sunscreen, and remember to get the back of your neck, behind your ears, and the back of the legs and arms.
If you are going to stay out in the sun for a long period of time, reapply your sunscreen every two hours, and use SPF 30 or higher. By reapplying sunscreen and using SPF 30 or higher, your risk of getting a sunburn is greatly reduced.
It can become very easy to forget to drink water when you are enjoying a day out with family or friends. Sometimes you may even ignore our body’s thirst and continue playing. Dehydration can lead to deadly complications, such as nausea, vomiting, and in extreme cases, cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), seizures, and kidney failure. By drinking water, you not only protect yourself from dehydration and its potential complications, you also keep your body from overheating.
If you start to feel too hot or tired, then stop. As pushing yourself only increases your risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. It is better to stop for a while in the shade or indoors, drink some water, eat a snack, and even reapply sunscreen if necessary. Regular breaks in the shade will keep everyone happy, safe, and cool.
During the middle of the day, the sun is at its hottest and at its brightest. During this time, it is best to do something indoors for a while. If the sun cannot be avoided, then take breaks regularly, stay in the shade, reapply sunscreen, and drink plenty of water.
By following these tips, you can greatly reduce your chances of getting ill in the sun. When it gets hot outside, it is very important to remember to wear sunscreen, drink plenty of water, dress appropriately, take regular breaks, and, if possible, avoid the sun in the middle of the day.
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I read Kingshold back in September as part of Self-Published Fantasy Month here on the blog but didn’t get a chance to write up my review. It made my list of favorite reads for 2018 though and I’ve been wanting to be sure to review it even if the review came late. Given that it’s been about four months this review may not be as good and detailed as I’d prefer. That’s nobody’s fault but mine.
Alana is a servant at the palace and the unfortunate soul to draw the short straw to attend to Jyuth. Alana knows that intelligence and curiosity aren’t valued in someone of her station. But sometimes she can’t help herself. And so. she finds herself drawn into the wizard’s schemes, and worst of all, coming up with her own plans.
Let me add a few more details not mentioned in the blurb above. All this is basically laid out in the first chapter or two so these are very minor spoilers. Jyuth (ancient wizard who founded Kingshold) has killed the king and queen. He apparently does this every so many generations when the monarchs get to screwing up really, really, bad. Each time he selects a new monarch and begins a new dynasty. This time he’s had enough and has decided maybe he doesn’t make the best choices, or maybe its inevitable that monarchies go bad after the first few generations. Either way he’s now decided to institute a republic with a new Lord Protector elected from the populace. Anyone may stand for election, but to vote you have to put up 1000 gold crowns held on deposit by Jyuth until after the election. What follows is the story of how this city and nation rise up to choose their leader and fend off pressures from abroad.
I really only had two issues with Kingshold and I’m gonna talk about them first to get them out of the way.
I thoroughly enjoyed Kingshold but I have to admit it was hard to get into at first. I’m not sure exactly what it was, but the start of the book was a little slow, which seems like an odd thing to say since the opening chapter deals with the death of the city’s ruling king and queen. But yeah it took a little while to really get going. I say this in case you’re a reader who sets a book down if it doesn’t grab you quick. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it often is a good indicator the rest of a book may be no different. Kingshold on the other hand does pick up the pace and once it does things really get interesting.
The second thing that bugged me a little in Kingshold was the use of some modern anachronisms, specifically words or turns of phrase that just seemed out of place. The first time I noticed it was on page 3 with the use of “stogy” for a cigar or other item to smoke. Another was the use of “style points” to describe someone’s attempt to get away from a charging juggernaut, likening it to a dance. These are just two examples, and while the book isn’t filled with anachronisms like these they would pop up here and there and it kind of made me skip a beat.
Now, I know there’s an argument to be had that this is fantasy and you can do whatever you like with it (for the most part), and that characters in fantasy settings probably wouldn’t use half the phrases we do because they’d have their own that match what would be their unique languages, and really the idea is that what we’re reading should be thought of as more of a translation from their language to ours so the author uses our phrases to convey meaning…yeah I get that. At the same time there really are times when using what feels like a modern phrase just seems out of place. Again, the book isn’t filled with them, but they did make me pause a bit when reading.
I mean this one seems like a no-brainer, if you like a book you probably liked the plot. What I really liked about it was the idea of overthrowing a monarchy and replacing it with a republic…and all the turmoil that would inevitably ensue. I’m sure other authors have tackled this topic in fantasy but I haven’t read them. This was new and fresh for me and a welcome change to the usual “the king is dead, long live the king” manner of succession.
Woolliscroft doesn’t make the transition happen easily. I mean otherwise we wouldn’t have a story. There’s the expected political maneuvering – this is very much a political fantasy – characters immediately put their name in the hat to run for Lord Protector and begin the dirty work of attracting followers and votes. Those running for office not only have to fight for support and votes, they have to survive street brawls and assassination attempts and all the civil discord expected when the old guard is brought down and others want to step in to fill the void. Soon it isn’t just the elites, those who are accustomed to the title “Lord” who believe they should hold power. Before long the people begin to wonder what it might be like to wrest that power for themselves, with one of their own as their representative. Well then things really do begin to get interesting.
All of the political infighting in the city of Kingshold occurs within a larger though less explored narrative of the wider world. Woolliscroft gives us just enough information about the other kingdoms and empires that inhabit the world to whet our appetites for the larger story sure to come in later books. By the end some of those other realms begin to play a part in the story of Kingshold in pleasant and surprising ways. Oh…and did I mention pirates!?! Yeah…there are pirates! And one big scene devoted to them was one of my favorites in the book…a city wide pirate…with a…well…I don’t want to give anything more away.
There’s a range of great characters in this story. At first they seem a little hard to keep up with but there’s a glossary in the back to help you keep track. And really there’s only a few we follow as the story is told from their POV. Inevitably you’ll like one more than another. My favorite was Mareth, the bard. He probably has the most developed story arc and character growth. Truth be told at first he isn’t very likable. Or at least you could say you could be disinterested in him. He’s a down on his luck bard, drunk more often than not, past his prime, and living what little he can on past glories. As the story progresses his character starts to bloom into something more, but he keeps some of that rough edge he had to begin with.
Neenahwi is the mage Jyuth’s daughter. Well, adopted daughter but daughter no less. She is a mage herself though not nearly as powerful as her father. She is forced to step-up now that her father has announced he’s going into a form of retirement. She’s angry about it and makes her feelings known. But she doesn’t let that stop her from trying to help in the turmoil that’s coming to Kingshold.
Alana is a young girl who has landed a job in the palace and whether by good luck or ill is tasked as Jyuth’s servant. She’s smart, courageous, and wise beyond her years. What’s more she has a bit of pluck, all of which helps her as she soon finds herself in the midst of palace intrigue and political campaigning.
Though we get occasional glimpses of story line from other perspectives it is these three who drive most of the plot and their POV we see the narrative through. They kind of form a triumvirate of views, one from the nobility, one from the peasants, and one who sort of bridges the space between the two. That’s not an exact representation but it’s close in terms of where the characters are at in their lives.
You might think there isn’t much in the way of world building in this novel since it’s set mostly just within the city of Kingshold, but you’d be wrong. As I mentioned above, Woolliscroft does explore the larger world. There are the mountain dwarves just outside of the city, and Kingshold’s rival empire Pyrfew. These two get the majority of the additional page time not devoted to Kingshold itself, and both play a significant role in the story even if not seen at first. Both nations complicate matters for those in Kingshold and throw uncertainty into the mix of the political chaos of the election.
But where the book shines in its world building is the exploration of Kingshold itself. We get to explore the city from top to bottom, from palace to slums, and each ward in between. We encounter characters from different wards and districts each of whom has had their life shaped by the place they live. The various districts of the city introduce us to the nobility, the guilds, and the common people. It is in the way they interact (or don’t interact) that provides part of the overriding tension in the outcome of the election, who will stand for office and who will vote.
The Hollow Syndicate is a guild like no other for it is a group of murderers for hire…an assassins guild! I loved every time this group found a spot on the page. A semi-official or perhaps unofficial group that maintains the power and respect due to any legitimate guild organization. If someone takes out a contract with the Hollow Syndicate it’s considered a legal transaction. You want to murder someone and get away with it…hire the Hollow Syndicate. Any suspicious death could be due to their actions and when candidates for Lord Protector begin to die you can be sure The Hollow Syndicate is suspected. They are led by Lady Chalice (love that name btw), a female assassin nobody, not even the ruling nobility wants to cross. The Syndicate is always lurking in the background, acting in secret most of the time and then leaping onto the page in a flash to vanish into the background again. I wanted more of this guild and hope they appear in future books.
It did take me a bit to get into this novel but once I did I was hooked. With a fresh take on regime change in fantasy, characters to admire, a city brimming with districts to explore, and action enough to keep you turning the page for more, Kingshold won’t disappoint. I’m looking forward to more from Woolliscroft in this series, and I’m in luck because book 1.5 Tales of Kingshold is already out, offering a mix of novelettes and short stories adding depth to the characters and events just introduced. I expect more great things from Woolliscroft in the coming years.
I’ve had this one for awhile. Great review! makes me move it up on the list.
I’m really excited to read this one!
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Team Thomas were out this morning at 5.30am for our daily run around the fields. We love that time in the morning, it’s quiet and we don’t meet any unsuspecting dog walkers who, without fail, always balk at the sight of a small person strapped to 3 mad collie crosses scrambling across the countryside!
As we were making our way down the track on our usual route, I started to think about how, when the mornings get darker and the autumn sets in, all the running gear I need changes and the priorities for our runs change. For example I have been choosing flat, even (ish) routes for the last few weeks now and at the weekend I dug out the super bright head torch, because being able to see the ground is an absolute priority when canicrossing. I learnt that to my cost last winter.
So what makes our top three for winter canicrossing?
1. Head Torch – has to be the most important item on the list for me, good ones can be found at a great price on the internet and recommendations are always available from canicrossers in any of the many Facebook groups.
3. Grippy Trail Trainers – all the mud of winter when combined with the darker nights, mean you need to be stable on your feet. Trainers are a very personal choice but I’m currently running in Adidas Kanadia and have some Inov8 Mudclaws for when the mud returns with a vengence!
Of course there are lots of other things that make winter canicrossing easier such as lightweight, breathable gloves, (to keep hands warm and hold wet, muddy lines) a waterproof, breathable jacket and a few decent pairs of winter running socks.
For the dogs we have coloured lights to attach to their harnesses and when we run we look like a moving Christmas tree but better to be safe and be seen is my opinion! I also use dog fleeces for after our runs, the dogs dry off super quick in them and they stop at least 50% of the mud being transferred to the furniture.
With the days getting shorter, now is the time to be thinking about what you will need to keep safe and comfortable when canicrossing in the winter months, so you can enjoy your runs whatever the British winter has in store for us!
Welcome to my new dog sport blog!
Good morning everyone and welcome to my very first K9 Trail Time blog, I’ll be blogging regularly so you can get to know more about who we are, what we do and why we do it!
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Each played just one match against each of the other teams (five for men's and four for women's). A team gained two points for a win, one point for a draw and no points for a loss. The team that gained the most points was awarded the gold medal.
Japan easily won the men's event by defeating all of the other teams and gaining ten points. Kazakhstan easily won all its games until they lost the final game to Japan, garnering a total of eight points. China took third position after beating South Korea. Thailand got fifth place and Mongolia got sixth place after losing all its games.
In women's ice hockey, Kazakhstan won all its games and the gold medal, in a league system with five teams playing. Japan won the silver medal, and China the bronze. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea took fourth place and the Republic of Korea was in fifth place.
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12/25/18: My last FB boer, Cher, passed away. She was 13 yrs, 11 mo and was born here. I will miss her laid back attitude and the only white goat in my herd.
6/25/16: CH Sweetbriar Violet Nighthawk has had a good year for an 11 year old. Brought her to 5 shows this spring and she was BOB Sable in 4 of the shows! She hasn't been in the show ring in a few years and I think she enjoyed herself. Plus she earned her star this spring at a one-day milk test and had 4.4% butterfat. Good old girl.
4/17/16: I've got a great bunch of bucks. I trimmed hooves today and didn't have to chase down one buck. All came when called and were perfect gentlemen on the stand during hoof trimming & worming. Of course they all got a brushing and a cookie treat when done.
4/16/16: This was a buck year for sure! 18 babies and only 5 were does!
11/8/15: Here’s what I know about my breedings so far - seems I am having a weird year. Old Zipper couldn’t do anything when it was so hot around Labor Day (but he has since been checked and he is OK). For a clean-up buck I used the youngest buckling I have. What was I thinking! Usually there is no problem but Victory was only 5 months old and may not have settled any does! But I think I still have most of the does due in February!
7/4/14: I sold the last of my alpines this year. No more alpines! Seems strange after 29 years. I will concentrate on my sables. I did keep a couple of alpine-sable kids from this year so I guess all the alpine genetics are not gone. These little girls will be bred sable.
3/2/14: Kidding is done until June perhaps! We have 22 kids from 10 does! 8 sets of twins and 2 triplet sets. 15 were doe kids! I’ve never had such odds. All kidded without assistance. I will lose the ears on 1 kid but considering 11 were born during that super cold of below zero nights, I think those are good odds. I may have to tattoo her in the tail! Now to figure out what I did back in September to get so many girls?
2/2/13: The first kids of the year were born today. Sure glad the temperature is above freezing.
9/23/12: We attended the Kansas State Fair for the first time. What a lovely fair! We brought 7 sables and took 6 firsts, 1 2nd, Grand & Reserve Jr doe , Grand & Reserve Sr doe, BOB, Best Udder Sable, firsts in 3 group classes, Premier Sable Breeder and Premier Sable Exhibitor. I wish the sable classes were bigger but maybe next year?
8/20/12: The 2012 Missouri State Fair is over. With 5 sable milkers and 3 sable kids we took home three 1sts, 5 2nds, three 1sts in group classes, Jr Reserve Champion Sable, Sr Grand Champion Sable, Best Udder Sable, Reserve Best Udder Sable and Premier Sable Exhibitor! Had a great time.
7/4/12: A big thank you to purchasers this year - Christy Harris, Debbie Schwegler, Sandy Mullins, Rodney Friesenhahn, Patti Black, Ann Francis &Ted Coburn, Leah Pelc, Natanya Scott, Karie Cook, Brent Netemeyer and Lorie Peterson. Wishing you well with your new goats.
9/11/10: I believe I have sold down to a reasonable number of goats for the time being. Thank you to Diana Gerdis, Lesa Swartwood, Doug & Lesa Jennings, Shannon Preston, Barbara Preston, Karie Cook, Susan Knaebel and Suzy Minck for purchasing my stock and wish you well with your goats.
5/16/10: We're getting older and it's time to reduce the work load on the farm. I've decided to concentrate on the sables. The boers will be sold and many of the alpines will be sold. I will keep the old alpine girls that no one would want even though they are great brood does.
12/23/07: Regretfully we had to sell our 2 mini donkeys. I think they were just too immature to live with the goats safely. We humans did so enjoy them while they lived here. The goats and sheep do not miss them! Thank you to Marcia Holt for updating some of my goat pictures! We are not good about taking pictures.
3/4/07: The majority of the kidding is done this year. Terrible weather for babies. Much too cold and frostbite to some tender ears despite precautions. Of the 26 kids, 14 are does and 12 bucks. Certainly better than last year's odds. Lots of rain & snow and the 2 year drought is officially over!
2/1/07: Both of our standard donkeys have passed on. Madison's cancer finally took her in November and Dolly fell during the January ice storm and apparently suffered internal injuries. We did get 2 miniature mediterranean donkeys to fill the void. Chloe and Jake were born in 6/06 so they have some maturing to do.
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There is a time in everyones life when they must acknowledge the beauty of New York City, I did this as I marveled at the crystal clear day reflecting off the skyline of the city which seemed to stretch to infinity as I tried to navigate the stop and go traffic on the George Washington Bridge. The sky was clear, the breeze was cool and dry and my bike on the roof of my car was begging to be ridden.
I had to be in Brooklyn for a free Madeski Martin and Wood show in Prospect park so I drove to the tip of Manhattan and tried to find a spot, not an easy feat- since everything is for official vehicles. I found one near China Town and donned my cycling gear and took off following the east river up to 23rd street where I switched to 1st ave. Then up to Central park for a loop around the park and then down the west side bike path. Beautiful and exhilarating riding as fast as traffic on singing tires pumped to 120 – psi, there is something great to be said about riding the rides of NYC- I have been doing it for 20 years and I love it.
18.78 miles total at an average of 16.5 mph.
Thank the Lord the shock was not broke, just a little fine tuning and all is well. Its 45 degrees out and the day is waning by because I am gonna ride Ringwood (parking lot C- I was told) tonight. Its supposed to be a great place in this part of park and I am looking forward to it. Came in early for work to get out earlier.
The wind rustled through the almost bare trees, it made a louder than normal yet peaceful sound. The crunch of the golden, brown leaves could be heard as the wind jostled the leaves together, the leaves held on for dear life as they saw their brethren lifted off their ever fraying roots and strewn about the ground as they were kicked into mini-cyclones of leaves, Styrofoam cups and the mornings left over newspaper sections. Every few minutes I was stunned at the silence only to have my mind quickly understand that the light had turned red and no, it wasn’t nuclear holocaust -since that appears the only way that one would be able to derive silence and peace from the city that never shuts up. Judging by the gentle hum of the tires and the lack of horns the traffic must have been moving at 40 mph. The lack of horns might be the reason for the convincing silence though I knew the silence as well as the darkness was fictitious. My island of peace lasted for about 30 seconds each time the light halted the masses, and prevented video game like driving from occurring on this park lined byway. These cyclones of garbage and summers last grasp rumbled about as I turned my attention elsewhere.
The mild night stifled the sounds of the leaves as they blended into a firestorm of traffic, every few minutes as the wind died down and the traffic appeared to halt silence regained its foothold only to be rudely pushed aside as the light turned green, a helicopter decided to land or a garbage cyclone decided to try and disturb the peace of this calm eavning. This calm evening when the polluted, algae laden waters of the grandiose Hudson River gently lapped at the piers lining the East shore as the crashing waves reflected light off the spires of economic wealth situated neatly across creating a mini city of residences and abandoned barges that could only be seen in the day time. The light almost seemed to be a fancy light knowing that while I my aching limbs rested on this slab of marble trying to create a sense of park like conditions in this mess of concrete, noise, screaming streaks of yellow taxis, and the red brake lights of everyone else who seemed to ignore the peace that these marble and granite slabs amidst newly planted trees that was trying to block out these images in the first place. Though darkness seemed to displace the surrounding never fading lights, and madness itself, it didn’t take long for the eyes to adjust to the illusion of darkness. Not only was it not dark, but once the sweat glazing over my retinas was swiftly wiped away with a rather smelly bike glove, my eyes were greeted with the simple fact that darkness could hardly exist in a place like this. Darkness could not creep into a city that prides itself on noise, light and zero greenery besides the never slowing green lights that grace the maze of roadways that zigzag the city like a pot of uncooked pasta spilled onto the kitchen floor.
I began to notice the orange light that illuminated the walkway that I had traveled down trying to escape the light. I had noticed how deceiving these lights could appear since they were on the sides of the path creating darkness in evenly spaced intervals so just for one second the passerby was hidden in utter darkness until abruptly the symphony of darkness was ended and another lamppost appeared. The quiet could also be noticed when one was lost in their thoughts. Deep in the meditation of the constant circles made by their feet while propelling a bicycle or maybe the constant beat of their fancy sneakers on the asphalt as they steadily, under their own power ran into the night. Maybe, just maybe under these meditations of the heart beating rapidly and the sweat slowly collecting in the belly button or folds of their extra fat that was gained at last nights dinner of fried wings and micro brews, this may lead to peace. Not only inner peace, but I too admit that while my legs quickly whitening legs fading from summers tanning pumped away at my pedals, and sweat was wiped away from my brow every couple minutes, and my breaths were shortened, and my camel back bladder was slowly emptying its contents into my esophagus trying to hydrate and cool my body, I gained peace, a peace that is quite rare in the cacophony of noise and madness that greets ones eyes, ears and body anytime they set out from their shells of concrete and try to discover peace, a peace that is almost impossible, and very pricey if sought unnaturally possibly through the spa, massage parlor or luxurious restaurant.
I have been riding my road bike quite a bit lately, up to around 100 miles per week, so last week I decided to take out my mountain bike after having not ridden it for a week or so. I was on my way down to New York so I decided to stop at Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill, about 35 miles north of New York City. The trails are literally right off the highway. One would take the Welcher ave exit off of route 9 and go up the hill- Welcher ave goes straight into the park.
The park itself is full of hiking, biking and horse trails. It is fairly empty most of the time and the trails are vast. I have successfully gotten lost every single time I have come here. I usually take the trail at the end of the parking lot and follow that up the hill. All the trails are basically up and down and there are some long and steep uphills, it is not for the faint of heart.
I especially love the downhill singletrack with all the rock ledges and jump options. There are tons of steep rock faces and stuff to jump off of, with trails around the obstacles. The scenery is not bad either, with a few open fields, views of the Palisade Cliffs and small ponds and wetlands.
On the weekends it is very crowded here due to its close proximity to the city, but during the weekdays you will be most likely the only one here.
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85%80°53°Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds variable at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 55 °F (12.8 °C).Cloudy with a high of 68 °F (20.0 °C). Winds variable.
50%76°48°Rain today with a high of 76 °F (24.4 °C) and a low of 48 °F (8.9 °C). There is a 50% chance of precipitation.
55%78°61°Thunderstorms today with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C) and a low of 61 °F (16.1 °C). There is a 55% chance of precipitation.
Tonight - Mostly cloudy. Winds variable at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 55 °F (12.8 °C).
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at least i'm a cute dork. you said so yourself.
This is probably going to be among the strangest comments I've ever posted.
Someone IM'd me in the past several hours, whilst I slept, with the screen name "weave me a tale". A google search led me here, and truthfully I would have disregarded this search result had you not gone to Lake Braddock, and had you not known Jessi.
Is this you, or merely a large number of coincident events?
Anyway, hallo and good day.
Large number of coincidental events.
weave me a tale on AIM is alatyr. I've been friends with herbie for... ~14 years now, and he is how I know justjessi.
I also know people who went to St. Stevens St. Agnes once upon a time. Actually, I think she graduated in 2002. But for the life of me I can't remember her name.
Zahh! Smallsmallworld. If you think of the name, do tell. Very small school, and I definitely knew everyone in my class.
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^ David M. Kotz. Russia's Path From Gorbachev To Putin. pp. 260–264.
^ Глава 5. Коммунистическое движение Archived 2011年8月24日, at the Wayback Machine.
^ Nichols, Thomas M. The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic.
^ Solovyov, Vladimir; Klepikova, Elena (June 1995). Zhirinovsky. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. p. 17-18.
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Ислам саны бойынша Христиан дінінен кейінгі дүниедегі екінші дін. 2010 жылғы зерттеу бойынша 1.62 миллиард адам ислам дінін ұстанады, әлем жұртының 23% құрайды.
Пю зерттеу орталығының мәліметі бойынша, 27 қаңтар 2011.
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↑ Executive Summary. The Future of the Global Muslim Population. Pew Research Center. Тексерілді, 22 желтоқсан 2011.
↑ Christian Population as Percentages of Total Population by Country. Global Christianity. Pew Research Center. Тексерілді, 22 желтоқсан 2011.
↑ a b c d e Muslim Population by Country. The Future of the Global Muslim Population. Pew Research Center. Тексерілді, 22 желтоқсан 2011.
↑ Albania. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Тексерілді, 5 маусым 2010.
↑ Religious Freedom-Albania. The Religious Freedom Page. Тексерілді, 27 қаңтар 2012.
↑ a b c d e f Muslims in Europe: Country guide, BBC News (23 желтоқсан 2005).
↑ Canada. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Тексерілді, 22 маусым 2010.
↑ Islam in Estonia homepage.
↑ Kosovo. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Тексерілді, 24 шілде 2009.
↑ Netherlands. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Тексерілді, 22 маусым 2010.
↑ Gaza Strip. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Тексерілді, 5 маусым 2010.
↑ West Bank. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Тексерілді, 5 маусым 2010.
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Muslim Population-A Site with Extensive information regarding worldwide muslim Population.
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https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%8B%D0%BD%D1%88%D0%B0
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Form validation is the process of checking that a form has been filled in correctly before it is processed. For example, if your form has a box for the user to type their email address, you might want your form handler to check that they’ve filled in their address before you deal with the rest of the form.
Let’s build a simple form with a validation script. The form will include one text field called “Your Name”, and a submit button. Our validation script will ensure that the user enters their name before the form is sent to the server.
Open this page to see it in action. Try pressing the Send Details button without filling anything in the “Your Name” field.
You might like to open the source code for this form in a separate window, so that you can refer to it throughout the tutorial.
The form uses the post method to send the data off to a dummy CGI script on ELATED.com’s server that thanks the user. In reality, you would of course send the data to your own CGI script, ASP page, etc. (e.g. a form mailer).
We use this valid variable to keep track of whether our form has been filled out correctly. If one of our checks fails, we’ll set valid to false so that the form won’t be sent.
If the field is empty, the user is warned with an alert box, and the variable valid is set to false.
Let’s look at a more complex validated form with some different types of form fields.
Open this page to see it in action. Try pressing the Send Details button without filling in the form and see what happens.
Again, you might like to open the source code for this form in a separate window, so that you can refer to it as we talk you through.
Like our previous example, this page has a form called contact_form and a function called validate_form(). In addition to the previous text field, the form has radio buttons, a drop-down list and a checkbox.
The validate_form() function now has 3 extra checks, one for each of our new fields.
This code checks to see whether either of the radio buttons (“Male” or “Female”) have been clicked. If neither have been clicked (checked == false), the user is alerted and valid is set to false.
Note that the values for selectedIndex start at zero (for the first option).
Because we set our valid variable to false in any one of the above cases, if one or more of our checks fail, the form will not be sent to the server. If the user has not completed more than one field, then they will see an alert box appear for each field that is missing.
Now you know how to write a form validation script that can handle multiple form fields, including text boxes, radio buttons, drop-down lists and check boxes!
Our example script works by validating all the form fields at once. This can be a bit confusing for the user, especially if they’ve missed out more than one field, as they will get lots of alert boxes appearing and they might forget which fields they need to fill in!
As an exercise, try modifying the script to only prompt the user one field at a time. For example, if they miss out the “Name” and “Gender” fields and press “Send Details”, it will only prompt them for the “Name” field initially. Then, after they fill in the “Name” field and press “Send Details” again, it will prompt them for the “Gender” field.
As a finishing touch, try making the script move the cursor to the field that needs filling in each time (Hint: use the focus() method to do this).
Hey bulevardi, thanks for your response.
I think if you missed out the “valid” stuff – particularly “return valid;” – then the form would always submit, even if it was invalid. You need to return false if the form is invalid so that it doesn’t submit.
I want to know how can this form validations extend to check several other features such as validity of an email address, names can be only strings etc.
But I have a problem. The email validation cannot be used with other validations. If name field is empty the system says “please enter the name”, likewise all the validations are there. When this email validation code enters nothing works properly.Is there a way to handle this problem??
This my original validation code.
Please check and see how could it change?
Likewise i also want to know how can we check the validity of a name containing string characters only.
@heshan: No problem. 🙂 Feel free to ask if you have any more questions!
I have a bunch of required text fields and I could not figure out how to move the cursor to the first missed required text field in the form.
I could figure achive focusssing on the missed field that is required. But the problem now is it works fine in FF but not in IE.
When I submit the form the first time with missed required fields, it focusses on the first but the second time I miss a field it does not focus on the field.
I tried using setTimeout , but doesn’t seem to help much.
@kirand: Can you post the URL of the form with the problem please, so we can take a look?
I could make the form work.
This is something related with php as well as java script. If anyone can help me regarding this issue i would be very pleased.
In a particular form, i have 2 fields namely customer id and Account type. Since there are many account types it is stored as a jump menu.
There are seperate tables in my database to represent each of those accounts types. There is a seperate field in each table called account number which is auto incremented.
Any idea of how this could be done?
@kirand: We’ll need to see the whole form I think! Can you post its URL?
If we added data successfully to the database there is a message box displaying and saying ” Data has been added successfully to the database”.
I want to know whether the icon of the message box can be changed?
since it is a successful login……..
@heshan: It depends how you’re creating the message box.
I have a problem. Need a quick reply….I want something likes this to be done.
When i want to logged out from the system or close an account etc i want to display this message. ” Are you sure you want to logged or something like” and “Yes and ” No” buttons are there.
How this can be achieved??
@heshan: Do you mean like a confirm dialog?
@heshan: Yes the code I posted above will do that for you. However the buttons are usually called OK and Cancel, rather than Yes and No.
I have a site that aloows a visitor to upload an image. BUT hackers are uploaoding PHP files because it has no validation.
Can you tell me how I restrict the uploaded file to a giff or jpeg and disallow any other file type?
I have tried using the Function TestFileType (fileName, fileTypes) code from your forum.
//get the part AFTER the LAST period.
return ('.'+fileTypes.join(".").indexOf(fileType) != -1) ?
Very clear explanation. Thanks so much.
Will the form still remember the answers even if not all questions are filled in, or will it clear on the validation error message, so that the user has to start the form again?
I have a question. How can I get the alert box to only appear once with all of the errors on it? So it would be a multi-line error box? Thank you!
@MaryBlight: Yes, if you put it towards the start of the body element then you should be OK. The validation does not clear the form.
@laisunshine: Rather than using alert()s for each field, just concatenate the error messages together into a string (separated by e.g. “\n”), then display the final string in an alert box.
I need to create an alert box in a particular time for every week. Could anyone one please tell me how is it possible ?
As I was setting up the validation for each field, it looked like it was working as it should. When I had got down to the end, I’m thinking a character was misplaced or something, because now only the ‘approximate weight’ field is being validated. Any ideas?
It’s because you have lots of validate_form() functions in your code. You can’t have more than 1 function with the same name in a script.
Thanks for the update! It works now as intended. Great script.
Thanks for your help but I am now having another issue due to a requested change on the same form.
All the validation appears to be working as it should except for on the dropdown list items. The dialog box pops up to indicate the user about the 1st dropdown they need to select, but then the form is being auto-submitted after that. The box that is popping up is for: Originating from a Residence or Business?
Ah ok! Got it now, works great. Thanks again!
im having trouble with my student registration form..
Hi, and thanks for all of the examples. I am writing a script that validates two select menus. Could you please give me an example of how to check them one at a time and how to concatonate the errors if they exist?
@jhollender: “Validating drop-down lists” in the article shows how to check if a user has selected an option in a select menu.
errorMessage += "Please select your Age.\n"
Thanks for your codes. I am trying to validate “surname” in a form.
I need to check that it is not “empty” and if not they are alpha characters with -, space and ‘ special characters and with a limit of 30 chars.
I have not been able to find code anywhere that incorporates the 2 (That is, empty or alpha).
You’ll need to put that inside your validate_form() function.
Looking for a solution to trapping the space being entered.
In your example if one enters it does not trap it.
How would you stop just spaces being entered.
@peterfc2: Try the ‘===’ operator instead of ‘==’.
@eyefly: I’m guessing you’re using cgiemail to process your form on the server?
Thanks for the reply – It is a cgi script: It was only after deleting my browser history that a correction in my template.txt works for me. All fine thanks for the good article.
How can I show all the form validation errors together in a message box ?
@Shone: Rather than using alert()s for each field, just concatenate the error messages together into a string (separated by e.g. “\n”), then display the final string in an alert box if valid == false.
I have a problem with my form. It has three fields which I want to validate but in testing it the first incident of validation causes the alert to pop up but then when I click OK on the alert it submits the form anyway without letting me complete the field and continue to the other fields.
Need help for js validation in my school project.
Please give me the code .
Thank you for the great code! Validation is working when I test the forms but I am getting emails with 1 or -1 in fields (instead of a valid phone or email, etc.) AND I am getting 20, 40, 80 at one time.
I have tried to enter a 1 or -1 and it gives me the appropriate error message so I am not sure how I am getting these emails.
Can you give me an idea where to look / what I should do to stop these form submissions since they have gotten around the validation.
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https://www.elated.com/form-validation-with-javascript/
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This is a Phyton script plugin for Blender (the open 3D creation suite).
His main task is to import Ldraw DAT files into blender world. Ldraw is a free CAD dedicated to design 3D LEGO models.
This is only a little script and I made this mainly as a Python exercise.
If you want to check other scripts to import Ldraw file check Yann's and Plough's works.
and not forget Ldraw. In effect you only need Part library installed.
- mesh for same partnumber is reused.
Corrected bad rotation and translation of some objects due to a not good code in transposing coordinate system. Now object are imported whith original (Ldraw) axes.
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2019-04-23T16:30:39Z
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http://web.tiscali.it/ALV/blender/
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Everyone needs a hobby but things are getting a little outa hand here.
I’ve started keeping projects in baskets to make them more portable as I live through the house with the littles all day.
It started with one basket.
And just this morning, yet another basket.
There is a nearly completed mermaid tail blanket, yarn for another mermaid tail, and a cosy blanket which has been in the works for almost a year.
There is the embroidery basket which has my completed but not yet framed embroidery piece, 2 embroidery loops with fabric in them, snips of extra fabric which could be used somehow for something.
There is the one filled with wool rovings and sheets of felt. I am inspired by Sally Mavor’s stunning books and hope to make little felt fairy people too, they could make nice fundraiser pieces. Or I could use the felt to make little maryoki doll ornaments.
This one has fabric for coordinating dresses for the girls. SQUEEEEEEEE. I am still setting up the sewing corner in the basement though so for now I content myself by toting the fabric around with me. so I can pull out the huge shiny pink flower buttons on a whim to squeal and jump with wiggling happy toes. I reassure you that this sort of behavior is toooooootallllllly normal.
This is typical seasonal behavior for me. Every autumn I find myself itching to create, pacing in my mind as I dream up designs, but it has never ever bee this bad before. One year I threw myself into mail art. For a few years I made jewelry. Crochet has been a constant for the past forever.
I’ve put my finger on why this year is so extreme. It is the first Autumn I’m not moving, settling from a move, or pregnant. Amazing what a difference this makes.
The flower buttons are wonderful. I would squeal too.
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https://heathandhome.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/everyone-needs-a-hobby/
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Had crazy editing dreams all night long.
"I tend to feel a little let down at the end of a first draft, because it feels like the whole thing was waaaaay too easy.
Need to remind myself that REVISIONS bring TEARS and GRUNTS, and it's okay to be a happy first-drafter, 'cause lord knows, I suffer enough on the rewrites."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. See? I know me so well!
On this point we are not dopplegangers but chimeras. Hate first drafting. Love rewriting.
Yes, one of the Four Notorious Points of Divergence.
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https://merriehaskell.livejournal.com/577445.html?thread=3247013
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RECEIVING GOD'S FAVOR! 20.70 ACRES OF LAND!
Back in January and February of this year I lead Victory Church through a congregational fast. During this fast we were asking for one thing...GOD'S FAVOR! Well, we have received it!
Pictured are some members of our leadership team standing on 20.70 acres of land on Scott-Troy Road! As you can tell, we are very excited about this property. We are voting on this property on Thursday, 10 July and we hope to close on the land by the end of July. God is good! I will share more details with you concerning the property in the near future.
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https://pastorjon.blogs.com/victory/2008/06/receiving-gods-favor.html
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Edward Weston was born on March 24, 1886 in Illinois. He was an American Photographer; living and taking pictures in Chicago for most of his young life. At 16, he was given his first camera. Weston studied at Illinois College of Photography in Effington, Illinois and moved to California in 1906. Weston had four children with first wife Flora Chandler in 1909: Edward Chandler (1910), Theodore Brett (1911), Laurence Neil (1916) and Cole (1919) and opened a portrait studio in California. Weston was later inspired by ARMCO Steel Plant in Middletown, Ohio. In 1923, he moved to Mexico City and opened a studio with his lover Tina Modotti. Tina and Edward moved back to California in 1927, where he developed his unique photographic techniques that have made him famous. He began taking pictures of the West and Southwest United States with assistant and future wife Charis Wilson from 1936-1938. In 1946 Weston began to experience symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease and died on the first of January, 1958 in Carmel, California.
Weston was known for his work with shells, vegetables, abstract nudes, and natural rock and tree formations in California and Mexico. His portraits were generally frame filling and sharp. His photography seemed luxurious with abstract shapes and heavy contrast. He was considered a Modernist photographer. Also known for “straight photography” which was the renunciation of manipulation of the photographic process, (i.e. the use of a soft lens, special developing or printing methods). He wanted to capture a realistic depiction of life rather than take more artistic, soft-focused photos like those of Pictorialism, which was popular at the time.
I respect Weston because of his emphasis on Straight Photography and participation in Group f/64 with other photographers like Ansel Adams, Willard van Dyke and Imogen Cunningham. His photographs have definition and clarity through Weston’s use of contrast and texture. His use of a small aperture, which determines the depth of field, sharpens the background with the foreground and increases the contrast.
The article, “Photography and Photography and the New God” was written by an American photography named Paul Strand (1890-1976). He helped establish photography as an art form within the twentieth century through his modernist theory. He is comparable to photographers like Edward Weston and Alfred Steiglitz and has photographed within America, Europe and Africa.
The article itself is based on this concept of straight photography and photographic objectivity. Strand distinguishes artists before the Reformation as having been renowned for their work. However after the Reformation, the New Trinity or, “God the Machine, Materialistic Empiricism the Son, and Science the Holy Ghost,” gained the logical focus and artful expression was considered a “waster and a non-producer” (145). With the introduction of the camera, a creation of this new industrial era, some photographers found it necessary to emulate classic mediums of art (painting, oil pastels, sketches, etc.) through photography. This is an impressionist concept; a concept under much scrutiny from the modernist perspective. Strand argues that photography is an art form in itself and must be respected for what it is. The use of mechanical manipulation and deviating the development process to make a realistic image appear like a different type of medium takes away from the natural expression of the photograph. If a photograph is changed in such a way, it is no longer a photograph.
The article was a little redundant at times and the term “New God” became a bit ambiguous near the end. However, Strand’s work is a great example of modernist thought and theory when it comes to the photographic process. It goes hand in hand with the theory developed by photographers like Edward Weston, and also captures the concepts of objectivity and straight photography.
Here is my attempt at an Edward Weston Photograph. This is “Pepper, 2008”.
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https://panda3154.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/edward-weston-1886-1958/
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Since this is the season, I figured I would spread some Christmas cheer. Saturday Night Live has been having a sneaky good season this year that may lack the super star like Kristen Wiig or Will Ferrell, but is one of the most consistently funny casts in a while. In the post Digital Short age of the Lonely Island, Saturday Night Live has continued to put out on a bunch of funny, catchy songs mostly penned by Jay Pharoah and the female cast members like Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong, including “Boy Dance Party“, “(Do It On My) Twin Bed“, and “28 Reasons“. Here’s the latest unshakable tune from SNL, including a Santa that doesn’t care if you are naughty or nice, but gives cash to everyone.
Tributes to fallen artists seem to come and go almost instantly. Most of the time, there is a benefit concert, a tribute album with bands covering that artist, or just a social media mention about what an impact that person had that works as an acknowledgment of that person’s impact. While all of these things are admirable, they seem to come and go without any lasting artifact about that artist. Then there’s the tribute song, something that can stand the test of time, but when written about another artist/celebrity, rarely does. Rock history is littered with amazing tributes to friends and family, whether it’s Neil Young remembering is fallen friend and roadie Bruce Berry from the damages of heroine in “The Needle and the Damage Done” or My Morning Jacket’s haunting tribute to a friend that took his own life in “Dondante”, and those can truly move hearts and minds, but good tributes to artists are hard to find.
Of course, that’s why we hear Puff Daddy/Faith Evans “I’ll Be Missing You” (written for Notorious B.I.G.) and Elton John’s “Candle In the Wind” (written originally for Marilyn Monroe, then rededicated to different people time and time again) so often. There are a few better ones like U2’s “Angel in Harlem” written about Billie Holiday and R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon” written about Andy Kaufman, but they are few and far between, especially since they rarely have a personal relationship with the artist. When the personal relationship is missing, the song seems to be lacking something true and moving.
Strand of Oaks aka Timothy Showalter, an indie rocker hailing from Goshen, Indiana, has written an absolutely pitch-perfect tribute song for this sort of situation. “JM” is written for late fellow Midwesterner Jason Molina, best known for his work as Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs: Ohia. The Midwest indie legend died from organ failure related to alcohol abuse late last year at the tragic young age of 39. Like many tribute songs written, Showalter was not friends with Molina having only met him once, but the impact his music had on his life was indispensable. “JM” is the centerpiece of his stunning new album HEAL and serves not only as the absolute perfect tribute to Molina but also an ageless listen for any fan dealing with the loss of one of their favorite artists.
“JM” really succeeds on two fronts. First it shows the influence of Molina’s music, as it’s an epic, confessional guitar jam like Molina’s best work, one part the soaring garage rock of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse and one part the fragile honesty of Elliott Smith. It’s one thing to cover an artist, and another thing to show their essential influence with a song that is your own, but also showcases how that artist impacted you musically.
But what makes this song truly perfect and will help it stand the test of time for really a tribute to any artist is its lyrics. Like any artist/fan relationship, the artist may not have been a personal friend, but the music itself has been a friend and companion to us in times of need. Sometime a certain song is exactly what you need when you are hurting and can be balm for the soul. Showalter talks about how when he was lonely, bored, aimless, or even suicidal, he always had Molina’s music to play. So Showalter goes through all sorts of specific times in his life where he was feeling down and then follows with the refrain “I had your sweet tunes to play.” Here is the second verse for example which runs through all sorts of personal moments with enough personal detail to make it real but not too much where you couldn’t read your own story into it.
The song speaks to the power music has to be a real pick me up in times of need, and for that, I’m so grateful “JM” was written. Beyond the tribute concerts and albums that come and go (and there was a pretty good one for Jason Molina), “JM” is an enduring testament to the power of Jason Molina’s music and more importantly the perfect words for a fan trying to properly mourn and commemorate the loss of an artist who has made a personal impact on their life.
My latest obsession comes from one of my favorite producers and one of my favorite singers, but with the producer (Mark Ronson) as the main artist and singer (Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker) as the contributor.
For those unfamiliar, Mark Ronson is a retro-leaning producer that has played a huge role in a number of hits and hit musicians in the past two decades, namely being a big reason for the late Amy Winehouse’s success as well as responsible for hits by Adele, Bruno Mars, Lily Allen, Christina Aguilera, and many others. Mark Ronson also produced my favorite album from the Black Lips in Arabia Mountain, bringing some much needed pop sensibility to the Southern punks. Mark Ronson has released three of his own solo pop records, including the wonderfully fun Record Collection, released in 2010.
Kevin Parker is the voice, guitar, and brains behind my favorite psychedelic rock band, Tame Impala, who released my favorite album of 2012 in their sophomore effort Lonerism. Parker and Tame Impala have been paired with David Fridmann, the producer known for the psychedelic and wild sounds of the Flaming Lips among others, so the idea of pairing Parker’s voice with more of a hit maker producer is pretty intriguing.
Parker is set to add vocals to three songs off of Ronson’s upcoming 2015 album, Uptown Special, which also features Bruno Mars (with the instant hit “Uptown Funk”), Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt, and others. “Daffodils” is a propulsive disco track which is too catchy to deny. The four-on-the-floor disco beat and the funky guitar riff pushes Parker’s voice along through a field of psychedelic noises, both inviting and disturbing.
Considering Ronson is known for a more hit-ready production, it’s actually a bit surprising how effects-laden this song is. The leading funk riff and the falsetto vocal of Parker make this sound like it’s coming out of a jukebox in a warped dream. The song builds with synthesizer freak-outs that threaten to detour or derail the song throughout, but actually just provide another facet of this song to explore. You can enjoy this song strictly on a pop/disco level, and also on a deeper level, digging into what effects are being added, taken out, and how the song advances so wonderfully.
Mark Ronson, like you, puts on his pants one leg at a time, but like Bruce Dickinson, when his pants are on, he makes gold records! “Daffodils” is Ronson applying his pop knack to the psychelic rock world, and I can’t wait to hear more.
P.S. If you missed it, Mark Ronson is coming off a dynamite SNL performance with Bruno Mars and the long-awaited return of eccentric rapper Mystikal. See the performance of “Feel Right” below.
Satire is easy to find in visual mediums like art galleries and movie theaters, but it’s difficult to find in music. Generally we want music to be emotionally honest and expressive, and satire can certainly throw that off, but not in the case of Father John Misty. Joshua Tillman aka Father John Misty grew up in a religious, conservative family and even played in a Christian-leaning post-rock band in Saxon Shore before making a clear and defiant departure from his religious upbringing. You can hear more about Father John’s background and artistic vision on his WTF podcast appearance, but Father John certainly has something to say about the ugly underbelly of American culture.
Covering Tom Waits is a bad idea (ask Scarlett Johansson), but Carolina duo Shovels & Rope get it right. I wrote about Shovels & Rope recently, when I talked about the music of one of my favorite shows, Rectify, and have been taking in their new album Swimming Time lately, but unfortunately haven’t been able to give it enough listens in time for a review (I usually try to listen to something at least five times before discussing it). However, I wanted to cover the rising duo somehow, and having crept back into their catalog, I discovered their two-sided covers single they released for Jack White’s Third Man Records of Bruce Springsteen’s rockabilly “Johnny 99” and Tom Waits’ diabolical “Bad As Me”. While I love their relentless version of “Johnny 99”, their cover as “Bad As Me” is the 2nd best cover I have heard all year – next to the Bryan Ferry-sung cover of Robert Palmer’s “Johnny and Mary” Todd Terje put out this year – and deserving of a write-up.
Lauryn Hill has been largely irrelevant for quite some time. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge Lauryn Hill fan. Obviously, Hill was great with the Fugees, and then her one solo album was universally loved. But, can you even call what she has a career at this point? Since The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill she has only released an unplugged album, a handful of singles, and toured very sporadically (tours which ironically price out the communities she claims to support).
But in music, talent rarely just up and disappears. Whether an artist is being derailed by drugs, prison, self-imposed hiatus, etc., there always seems to be a little left in the tank which us fans pile hope upon hope will present itself. “Black Rage” is one such case to make us believe.
El-P and Killer Mike have been keeping themselves busy the past few years, that is for certain. Aside from each releasing monster solo albums individually, as well as some mix tapes, they also teamed up last year to form a supergroup duo like no other known as Run The Jewels. If you missed that album last year, I am sorry, but luckily there is this thing called the internet that can assist you in still finding a way to get your hands on it. And be sure that you do get a hold of RTJ1 ASAP just so that you can enjoy this year’s follow up, RTJ2 all the more when it gets released October 28, 2014. Last week the duo announced the new album’s release date as they dropped their killer new track like a bomb on the world of rap, “Blockbuster Night Pt. 1”, which you can and should listen to below.
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To order copies of Amoskeag (2005-present), mail your request and a check made out to “Amoskeag: The Journal of SNHU” to the address below. The current issue (2014) is available for $7, and past issues are available for $6 (to cover printing and mailing costs). Subscriptions are available at $13 for two years.
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No the RP has not closed! We're just a little slow that's all, but I will NOT let this board die. A couple players (myself included) have been having stressful times in our real life and have been inclined to posting. I promise all the players that I will not see the board die out so soon. As a mod I promise you all this!
On another note, I wanted to add in that our Skull Island thread has now been invaded with the natives. I talked with our Jimmy-mun and she suggest that we stay on the island as going back to the boat and once again back to Skull Island would be a little tedious. I agreed with her and then realized that the video game version of how they get on the island is slightly different.
Basically the story starts out with the majority of the cast and crew of Carl's film in two separate boats. For whatever reason, Jimmy is there alongside. (Though it doesn't specify why.) A mass of rocks fall into the water and cause the boat that Carl, Ann, Hayes and Jack are in to shatter and send the riders overboard. The boat that occupies Jimmy, Preston and the rest of the crew row away to find land. (In which they later show up but cannot beach because of the current in the water.) So the four of them are stranded on the island in which giant crabs begin to attack. Seeking safe haven, they rush into a cave and begin to reach the small village that inhabits the natives.
For some reason (as my memory of this part isn't too clear) Carl and Hayes separate from Ann and Jack and the two are left to fend for themselves. The natives appear and begin to attack Jack and Ann... Then, as playing Jack, you're decked and knocked out. You awaken to see Ann tied to the stand as you are tied to a post.
Would it be better if we combine both the storylines of the game and movie into our rp, and if not, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm very open for them.
Of course this is just my idea. Englehorn-mun what have you say? Do you have any suggestions? What about everyone else? Got anything to add?
Ah, another note. Jimmy-mun was over at my house looking at the Kong video game and suggest that I scan in the artwork so we could use that for reference and hopefully that'll be up soon.
What song/lyrics/melody/quote best describe your character in the Heart of Darkness RP?
Obviously, not DIRECT QUOTES of theirs, but from other movies or whatever. XD The reason for this is that lately, I've been hearing songs, and thinking of Captain Englehorn! ^.^ I have ideas, but I will not post it until other people do too! XD SO POST!
Hi all. I just want to say that although I play a big mean scary biped, does not mean I'm the same in OOC! I'm always online unless I'm at work or sleeping, so feel free to IM me.
I know I have a little while to wait for a go at RP, except for occasional roaring. Buuuut I can wait! So come, bug me!
Just making a quick announcement to let you guys know that "Skull Island" is now open!
We're changing the rules around a bit and allowing four OC's to the game while the canon's are also still avaliable. More OC's will be allowed once all canon's are taken. We just want canon firstly and not have the board overflowing with the originals as they are secondary characters.
Don't forget to Reply to this thread with your application. You don't need to join the community to post your application, just do it with your current journal. Please wait for an approval from a mod before you being to play. Once accepted, please make your journal, join both the RP and OOC communities and introduce yourself with the information you provided us.
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ASHANTI PERFORMS AT BBKINGS IN NYC!
I had SUCH a great time last night with the beau while on a date to see Ashanti perform at BBKings in NYC.
Too bad they don’t allow just anyone with a camera inside so I had to use my iPad but here are some clips for ya!
I had never seen Ashanti perform before so this was a real treat and I must add that I was very impressed with her voice. She sounds just like the record ! The girl can sing!
I hope to enjoy more nights like this as the weather slowly gets better.
Had to take a quick pic of my ExtraButter hat!
Hopefully there will be more to come and soon!
Even though I spent it at home with a small group of people, that didn’t stop me (or any of us) from taking advantage of the holiday to glam it up!
On New Year’s Day, I sat down to watch the newly purchased visual album by none other than Queen King Bey which was fantastic! I seriously cannot say anything bad about this project. She slayed every song and every video and I’m not even a crazed fan although I do love her. She ended 2013 with the ultimate bang and raised the bar for all artists right now!
This pretty much sums up the night, how was your NYE experience?
Okay so last month I chose to add some pics that I liked from the previous month (October) and I’m going to do the same this month.
I posted this pic for a previous Kanye West post I made about his concert I attended.
An adorable photo I reposted on IG that someone with vitiligo colored.
Loved that fish braid! Too bad my friend did it and not me!
Got inspired by artist Valfre to make this DIY Wall Storage Box.
So there you have it folks! Pics I liked from last month.
Let’s hope this month brings me more opportunities to take awesome pictures!
Just going to share a few shots taken from the night I went to see Yeezy perform.
I wish I’d have had brought my high quality camera with me but it was the first time I’d ever been to Barclays Center and so I feared it’d get confiscated (A rumor I kept hearing about the security measures being taken). I opted instead to bring a regular digital camera.
Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on!
Busta Rhymes makes a surprise appearance and performance during A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario”.
I came home one day to find a bunch of pumpkins on the dining table. That meant it’s pumpkin carving tiiiime! A few days later, we did exactly that.
I’d never carved a pumpkin before. The most I’ve done was paint them, which was still fun, but carving them was definitely a new experience that I’m glad I was there to have. It just isn’t October and definitely not Halloween if there aren’t carved pumpkins around.
Somebody was trying to get in on the fun too.
This was the first pumpkin and it turned out great!
We got pretty hungry after all that carving and had an amaaazing dinner courtesy of the beau’s BBQ skills. Yum!
This is random but while everyone was outside I took a beautiful shot of the moon. I can’t believe my camera zoomed in so well.
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PRESS RELEASE: Tallahassee, FL 15-July-2010 — Fiorini Chiropractic Center is pleased to announce that Tallahassee Chiropractor, Dennis Fiorini DC, has been recognized for providing effective auto accident injury care. One of the most common injuries to occur in a car accident is whiplash. This type of injury occurs because the head continues to move when the car stops or vice versa. It can affect the cervical spine and/or the soft tissues in the neck and head. Traditional medicine has only recently recognized it as a legitimate injury, and only offers pain medications and/or muscle relaxers to relieve the pain.
Dr. Fiorini takes a more general approach and works to provide relief at the point of injury. This often means chiropractic manipulation of the spine to bring it back into proper alignment coupled with massage, decompression, or other therapies. The relief felt by most patients is instantaneous and often lasts longer than that provided by medications.
Dennis G. Fiorini, Tallahassee Chiropractor has been recognized for providing effective care for those injured in automobile accidents.
There are many types of personal injury. Many people suffer an injury when they are doing simple tasks that involve bending, lifting, or sitting for prolonged periods of time. When an injury occurs, it is important to see a professional as soon as possible so that the injury does not become compounded and create further pain and discomfort. A Tallahassee chiropractor is often able to address pain before it becomes unbearable.
An effective chiropractor will perform a series of tests and an examination as soon as a person arrives in their office. There will be an in depth discussion about how the injury occurred and if there has been previous types of injuries to the same area. The medical history, and frequency of injury will be important for the doctor to develop the correct plan for care.
X-rays are taken to identify the area and injuries that may be exacerbating the pain. In many cases, a sudden impact, twist, or bend can result in a pinched nerve in the spine. When the nerves are pinched, the pain may be very severe and make it increasing difficult to have full range of motion.
Once the information received has been analyzed, the chiropractor will provide several options for care. This normally will include manual manipulation of the injured area to realign the spine or neck. In addition, the doctor may use other methods and techniques that will help to reduce inflammation in the tissue and help the body to heal more quickly.
Often pain is the result of a misaligned spine or neck. When the spine becomes misaligned, it places pressure on the surrounding nerves, resulting in pain. This condition can go on for months or years until the spine is adjusted properly by a chiropractor. A chiropractor will identify the cause of the pain and manually adjust the spine and neck to realign those areas.
Contacting a Tallahassee Chiropractor as soon as you have been injured will help to avoid the pain that can result when an injury is not addressed properly. They can get the healing process started quickly so that one is able to get maintain health and full functions.
A Tallahassee chiropractor provides solutions for pain from a personal injury or from other conditions. Learn more about a holistic and pain-free lifestyle by visiting http://www.fiorinichiropractic.com .
Those who have been in a car accident often suffer from painful injuries. Sometimes these injuries are minor and will heal quickly, but far more often even after the initial injuries are healed, a person will experience severe throbbing back, shoulder, and neck pain. There are even some instances when the pain will totally disappear, only to reoccur in a matter of weeks or months. For help in dealing with issues such as these, individuals should visit a Tallahassee chiropractor who can help them recover fast.
Accidents involve trauma both emotionally and physically. And this trauma can translate to various areas in ones body, most often the spine, joints, and tissues. When the spine is effected, this will result in pain to many areas of the body as this is where the nervous systems focal point is found.
A Tallahassee chiropractor will work to adjust the spine so that all the bones are in place and are not affecting or placing pressure on other parts of the body. When an auto accident occurs, this often results in the spine becoming misaligned.
When a chiropractor makes the proper adjustments, this will offer greatly desired pain relief and also eliminate stiffness and soreness. This are the results that anyone would desire.
When you think of it, all of the symptoms that one experiences after an auto accident involve areas that chiropractors have experience in dealing with. The sooner an individual can see one after they have been in a car accident, the sooner they can find relief from their pain and get back to a normal life.
There is no reason to keep on living with headaches, irritability, stiffness, and constant pain. After a few adjustments, you will be feeling better than new, you will be able to get back to a normal life, and your body will be better able to heal properly.
If you have sustained a personal injury though a fall, auto accident or other cause, your Tallahassee chiropractor can offer solutions to pain and discomfort. More details are available when you visit the website at http://www.fiorinichiropractic.com .
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For outstanding performance and dedication. David Camargo is a Machine. No incident can stop him, he will get up the next day and go eat pupusas. We wish him a speedy recovery, the hills are dreading his return, hes going to kill em.
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JPMORGAN, widely considered the best run of all the large banks in America, if not the world, on May 10th provided the kind of news that has become all too common in the financial industry: a $2 billion charge for errant trades. The markets responded within seconds of the opening on May 11th, sending Morgan’s share price down 9%, and its value by $14 billion. Late on May 11th, Standard & Poor’s announced it was downgrading the outlook for the company, and Fitch knocked down its ratings.
The bluntest criticism of Morgan’s failure came from the bank’s own chief executive, Jamie Dimon. He said the losses were the result of self-inflicted “sloppiness”, “poor judgment” and “stupidity”, for which “we are accountable”.
And the news this morning is that a number of the executives involved in the losses have ‘retired’. No, not in the Blade Runner sense. But in the sense that they’ll not be drawing a salary of more than a million bucks a month. Though I imagine that these people have more than a bit of savings and contractual retirement income to cushion the blow.
Yesterday’s Kindle promotion for Communion of Dreams wasn’t a huge mistake, but it also wasn’t a stunning success. A total of 1,571 copies of the book were downloaded. Chances are it wasn’t what was needed to kick us up to the next orbital level, but neither did it crash & burn.
What *was* surprising was that our care-giving memoir Her Final Year proved to be very successful, with a total of 3,112 downloads. Wow.
I find it hard to explain just how happy this makes me. As I had noted previously, I was very disappointed with the response to Her Final Year. Only recently have I come to understand that it was about more than just simple sales.
See, I have been very pleased with the response to Communion of Dreams. The sales are nice, and the income helps. The reviews and ratings are rewarding. But what really makes me happy is that the book has found an audience, a home in people’s lives, a place in their imaginations.
That Her Final Year hadn’t found such a home was what bugged me. Because I have a lot of faith in the book. Faith that it can help others, if they would just read the damned thing. But that faith had been betrayed by my inability to get any attention for the book. Or, rather, I felt like I had betrayed my faith – and the book – by my inability to promote it.
Now, just because 3,112 people downloaded the book yesterday that doesn’t mean that the book will be read. But it sure as hell is a lot more likely that it’ll be read than just having the thing sit forgotten on Amazon’s servers. We’ll just have to see.
But no longer do I feel like I have betrayed the promise of the book. That gives me a happiness, and a hope, which I haven’t felt for a long time.
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Design Mom Gabrielle Blair posed an interesting question on her blog today. She asked what was the sweetest thing I’ve ever done for a stranger.
What immediately came to mind wasn’t something I’d done, but something I saw my husband do.
In May 2009, we stood waiting in line at the Las Vegas Stratosphere McDonald’s* as a disheveled man dug through a small pile of coins looking for the change he needed to pay for his meal. It became quickly obvious that he didn’t have enough money, and a palpable tension emerged in the room. I quietly watched my husband reach into his wallet and discreetly slip a $10 bill to the man.
With that seemingly little action, I felt an enormous wave of love for Nick and pride that he was mine.
There have been many moments since then when I’ve been able to witness Nick doing something equally sweet for someone, but this will always stand out to me because it was one of the first.
*I know what you’re thinking. With all the wonderful food in Las Vegas, we chose McDonald’s! I wanted an iced coffee. Shut up!
What a sweet story. Gave me goosebumps!
Thanks, Gabrielle. It gives me goosebumps, too.
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I saw this on Read Diverse Books and loved it. He even suggests tagging yourself. I’ve been meaning to do this more and I almost thought I was going to start doing more actual blogging than reviewing, but then I started coming up on the end of the year and all the reading challenges I had yet to finish. Maybe I’ll tone it down next year….
Anywho, I feel like these are all great questions for avid readers. It should be a questionaire before joining a book club or something. It’s a long one, so buckle up.
eBooks mostly. I have a nicely stocked bookshelf in the house and it’s really hard to have a book with you in as many places as I can squeeze in a few extra pages on my phone. Having a book at my job looks like you aren’t working, but reading a few pages in the elevator or while waiting for a meeting to start on my phone tends to look like texting. It’s still “not working” but people aren’t as judgey so I can get away with it more often.
Depends on the book. If I’m in love and want to preserve it for posterity, hardback. If we’re still getting to know each other, paperback.
I feel like a bit of a bad person, but in-store for shopping and online for buying. I don’t buy as much as I’d like to, but if I do, it’s online mostly because eBook. In-store is so much better for the shopping experience though. I do buy physical books in-store for my son. He’s six and a new little reader that I hope will love it as much as I do.
Both. I love a good story and great characters. I love it when a trilogy gets the extra little novellas or short story collections that give you a little window back into the world of the characters. Or sometimes when a quartet turns into another series like with Ender’s Game. If there are some really amazing characters, I’ll read about them having coffee together for stories on end.
Both, as long as their complicated. I guess that’s not even perfectly true. I just love a tortured soul, but not in the Edward Cullen kind of way. It’s more of a Wolf from Scarlet kind of thing. People who could go either way and you’re rooting for revenge before you know it but then you hope for redemption too. Yeah, I was sucker for Hunger Games too for that very reason.
I know, I’ve gushed ad nauseum about this one already but really. It just hits a chord with me about all those things in the question before. It humanizes people we had long since labelled neatly as victims and perpetrators and makes them complicated. It shows you how even fellow victims can feel like perpetrators and how perpetrators get lost in their crimes. Then it ended with the protagonist telling this heart-wrenching story that had a strangely hopeful ending that was only hopeful because of the spin he put on it. It reminds us that it’s the little things that can make a monster or a friend.
It just takes my breath away every time I think about it and all the little pieces of the story.
In lieu of saying the same, I’ll give you the recent underrated book that I reviewed and recommended, though many of my reads are underrated.
Yep, that one. I’ve read some other novellas and a comic, but that was the last novel read.
I prefer reading library books because I’d go broke otherwise, so used. I do want to find a used book store somewhere and get physical books again one day but not while I live where I do now. All that’s going to wait for my settle down home.
I’ve loved sci-fi since I was a little girl but historical fiction and memoirs have only gotten to be recent favorites. They came with realizing that there are a lot more of both in a lot more places telling quite a few more stories than I had thought. I’d prejudged both. I thought historical fiction was mostly Victorian romances without realizing that it was an entirely separate genre and that memoirs were only famous people and politicians.
One of those long hairpins. I have to put my hair up for work, safety hazard, and so I use a ton of pins and keep a few in my pocket in case my hair starts getting crazy as the day progresses. I used those for a while before I started getting the books on my phone.
Borrow. I’d love to buy more but between space and money, I’d never get to. Having an Overdrive library on my electronics has made it possible to read so much more.
Definitely characters. If I have to choose. Of course you always want both, but if I can’t, characters. There are some characters that I’d read stories of them going out to eat because I love them so much and it’s still interesting. Like a reunion with the Finishing School girls would be interesting even if there was no mischief afoot.
Depends on the day, mood, how good the characters are, whether the plot really moves if they’re only mediocre. Long is a little misleading too. How long? I went through a King phase in high school it was nothing to read 1000 page books back then but these days, I start to get antsy if it’s longer 500. But I didn’t give myself a 150 book reading challenge when I was in high school either, so I still love a long book when I don’t feel pressed for time and I’m enjoying the world and the characters. I could stand a few hundred extra pages of A Torch Against the Night, for example.
Depends on what’s going on. Typically short, but long works in long scenes where I’d rather not have a break. Some authors do that and it drives me nuts.
Other than those mentioned above…..
Euphoria by Lily King – it’s what made me think of historical fiction up above.
The best books make you do both, right? It depends on my mood and the last thing that I was reading. It’s really nice to get into a light and easy book with a few laughs after reading a few of the Nobel Women. But still, if I’m not emotionally attached enough to a character to want to cry when their act 2 tragedy hits, then the it might be fun to read, but it won’t be memorable. Sometimes I just need a book to tear my heart of my chest and sometimes I need it to renew that feeling of life in the world.
Definitely fictional. I really enjoy experiencing the worlds that other people come up with, especially if done well like Game of Thrones or Cinder. Our world can be okay, but I’ve reached the point where an author really has to take me outside the known for it to hit anything solid. I read too much white male political suspense and action when I was a kid and now everything that I see about it feels too much like Clancy or Cussler could have done it better.
Yep. If the cover calls out to me, I’m probably going to read it, even if there are some bad reviews. I won’t dismiss a book based on the cover, but an eye catching cover increases the odds. Titles are the same for me, though. There are some that just make me want to know what’s inside no matter what. My best example of that was All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
ABSOLUTELY! I listen to them doing laundry, dishes, driving, sometimes even at work if all I’m doing is data entry or drawings on Autocad. It’s what makes those mind-numbing activities bearable. I wish I’d had better access to them as a kid, maybe I wouldn’t have gotten as much crap from the family about stealing away moments to read and not being productive enough. Nah, I still would have been relatively anti-social.
Depends on how it’s done. I think HBO is teaching us that a long book series is better off as a TV show and I’m excited about the prospect of the Vampire Chronicles going over to that medium. I like the idea of a faithful adaptations that have the time to really get it right as opposed to the way King and Clancy’s 1000 pages would get shrunk to two measly hours back when I was a kid and just lose so much.
Forrest Gump. I don’t know how they got that adorable movie from that awful book. Oh and more recently, How to Be Single by Liz Tuccillo. The adaptation wasn’t faithful at all and then the movie just made it so much better. I posted about it for the Read Harder challenge here.
Depends on the characters, but mostly series. Love a series with some characters that I’m enjoying and in a world I love but it’s nice to read a standalone sometimes and feel some good closure so quickly.
That was fun! I’m not going to tag a bunch of people, though. If you got this far, you probably want to do the tag anyway and don’t let me stop you! If you decide to do it, comment the link and I’ll read yours too!
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“Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum’s dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human… But the museum’s directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
*Note: I’ve read Relic more than once, but I had to own it because it introduced me to one of my favorite series of all time, and to one of my favorite book characters of all time – one Aloysius X. L. Pendergast!
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An evening of Syrian, Iraqi and Lebanese music with Kenan Adnawi, Syrian composer and virtuouso oud player who will perform his new compositions for oud, cello, and qanun.
For more information about this event, please click here or call (646) 732-3261. To learn more about Alwan for the Arts and upcoming events, please click here.
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TaxMasters, already the target of complaints from two state attorneys general, has filed for bankruptcy.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- TaxMasters, the Houston-based firm that advertises it can help consumers facing problems with taxes, filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday.
The firm, which had a prominent ad campaign featuring CEO Patrick Cox on numerous cable networks, has already been facing complaints from the attorneys general of Texas and Minnesota, which accused it of deceptive practices.
The complaint from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, first filed nearly two years ago, brought a slew of consumer accusations against TaxMasters (TAXS). The civil trial in that case finally got underway Monday afternoon when TaxMasters' request for a continuance was denied.
The Texas charges included unlawfully misleading customers about their service contract terms, failing to disclose its no-refunds policy, and falsely claiming that the firm's employees would immediately begin work on a case. Sometimes the fact that TaxMasters did not actually start to work on a case until customers paid in full meant that taxpayers missed significant IRS deadlines.
The complaint from Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, filed in December 2010, alleges TaxMasters got customers to pay advance fees of $2,000 to $8,000 by misstating the help it would provide people with unpaid tax bills. In some cases, the company claimed it could reduce people's tax bills by up to 90%, but then delivered little or no help, according to the complaint, pocketing the non-refundable deposits.
This complaint was settled in August of last year, with TaxMasters denying any wrongdoing but agreeing to reform its business practices in the state and pay $500,000.
In addition, the Better Business Bureau says it has received more than 1,000 complaints about TaxMasters over the course of the last three years.
The bankruptcy filing said TaxMasters owes creditors between $1 million and $10 million, and that its assets total only $50,000 or less. It did not list its creditors but it said it owes money to between 1,000 and 5,000 people and businesses.
Robert McKenzie, a tax attorney and partner with Chicago firm Arnstein & Lehr, said this is the third such tax settlement service to go bankrupt recently, following the demise of Roni Deutch and another firm, JK Harris. All three had been actively advertising their services.
"There are certainly reputable people doing this work," said McKenzie. "The problem with the ones that are failing is they've budgeted large amounts for advertising, and the intake interviews are done not by tax professionals but by sales people working on commission, and thus making unrealistic promises."
The company's most recent financial reports show it spent nearly $16 million on advertising in 2010, eating up about 37% of its revenue. Among the networks TaxMasters advertised on was CNN, one of the parents of CNNMoney.
TaxMasters recently restated results to show a $4.7 million loss in 2010, and essentially break-even results in the first quarter of 2011, the most recent quarter for which it has reported results.
McKenzie said that the Internal Revenue Service is willing to settle cases for less than the taxes owed, but that in almost all the cases they end up taking the taxpayer's home and other assets, in addition to payments out of future earnings. He said almost three-quarters of taxpayers who apply to pay less than they owe have those applications rejected by the IRS.
Calls to Taxmasters and its attorney for comments about the bankruptcy filing and complaints were not immediately returned.
The company's Web site made no mention of the bankruptcy filing Monday, even though it had signaled a bankruptcy filing was planned in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
The bankruptcy filing was made in Houston.
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Underrated THIS MOVIE IS A GEM!
I loved this movie from the start and I still love it.Fifty times no make that 100 times beter than "Parenthood" it had good actors that matched their character's personalities to me.I'm a huge fan of Mathew Modine but the two best actors were Randy Quaid and Janeane Garofalo.Both were adorable and funny.All the kids were good too and kudos to Paul Rieser for a heartwarming performance with screen daughter Eliza Dushku.One bad thing-the pairing of the best friend with his buddy's ex-wife.Bull! They didn't have to go there.I bought this movie and I can watch it everyday.Funny,sweet, and I'm sure all families of divorce wish it was as easy as the movie made it.
Amber Benson, Eliza Dushku, and Lindsay Crouse went on to star in Buffy the Vampire Slayer the TV show together as Tara, Faith and Prof. Maggie Walsh.
Donny Carlson: I ran into Marty Allen, he and Leslie are getting a divorce.
Dave Goldman: They're splitting up? Marty and Leslie?
Donny Carlson: After eleven years!
The UK cinema version was cut to receive a PG rating. The DVD is rated 12 and is uncut.
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This chapbook came out early in 2010 from PressPress and is dedicated to my friend, Elizabeth (Aunty Betty) Pike.
The poems in the book are one attempt of a non-Indigenous person to engage with place in terms of being claimed by place as both that which sustains us and that which carries the scars of colonial violence against people and country. Country is a term many Indigenous Australians use to refer to the land of their people, eg. Yorta Yorta country, Nyoongar country, Mutti Mutti country. The poems are written in response to the country on which I lived at the time, which belongs to the Wurundjeri, and country through which I travelled for various reasons, including retreats and vacations. As far as possible, I have tried to name the people to whose country the poems refer.
who thinks himself old and scarred.
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Hey, it’s always nice to hear that! Thanks!!
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Steve Shkoller spoke about dynamic interface singularities in the Euler equations. He started by reviewing previous work on the “splash singularity”, showing how the result of Coutand & Shkoller (2014) extends to 3D, using different methods, a proof of Castro, Cordoba, Fefferman, Gancedo, Gomez-Serrano (2012). The main part of the talk was devoted to the case where there are two fluids. He started by summarizing the recent result of Fefferman, Ionescu & Lie (2013) which proved that splash singularities could not occur in this case. Then Steve presented a new proof of this result using different methods. The principal tool was to derive an ODE for the tangential derivative of the tangential component of the velocity difference. This ODE could then be analyzed exactly. A preprint on this work can be found here. The talk also included a range of videos of large breaking waves, an example is the Teahupoo video. A video of the talk is available here.
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Jesus, as always, asks a very penetrating question. The “rich young ruler” had just turned and left. He was very sad. Jesus had challenged him to sell everything and give it to the poor.
Jesus turns to his disciples.
Jesus asks the question. I imagine He lets the question linger.
Will anyone answer? Silence. No one can or no one will. The disciples have heard Jesus ask lots of questions. They are never easy. Best to just listen as Jesus explains.
So … since no one answers, Jesus does. It is difficult for the rich to enter God’s kingdom He says. Not impossible but very, very difficult.
Jesus has a lot to say about poverty and wealth. The first priority is serving out King Jesus, ruler of God’s country.
Money is not the priority. It can get in the way. Jesus knows this and challenges me.
Good article, I am going to reblog this for you.
Thanks for your kindness. Blessings.
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Welcome to FLC, Sharifa Ford!
Hi FLC Team, My name is Sharifa and I am your new part-time assistant .
Originally from Brooklyn New York City, I have been in Orlando for over twelve years. I received my Associate of Arts in Organizational Communication from Rollins College in 2006. I decided to take some time off to raise my son, Jayson, who is now eight years old. In January 2013 I returned to college to set a positive example and to keep current on my academic and professional skills. I am currently a junior and look forward to graduating in May 2015. I am thrilled to be working with the staff at the Florida Literacy Coalition. I look forward to gaining new skills and being an asset to the organization. Last but not least, on my spare time I write poetry and I am a freelance writer for the Rollins college newspaper “The Sandspur”. Oh and my pet peeve: People who give bad customer service.
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"Calkin" redirects here. For other uses, see Calkin (disambiguation).
For the actor, see Macaulay Culkin.
For sealing of cracks, see Caulking.
Screw-in-calks used on a show jumper.
Calks (identified by the letter "C" on diagram consist of spur-point and a shank to form an antislipping device.
A caulkin (or caulk; US spelling "calkin" or "calk") from the Latin calx (the heel) is a blunt projection on a horseshoe or oxshoe that is often forged, welded or brazed onto the shoe. The term may also refer to traction devices screwed into the bottom of a horseshoe, also commonly called shoe studs or screw-in calks. These are usually a blunt spiked cleat, usually placed at the sides of the shoe.
Caulkins or studs improve a horse's balance and grip over uneven or slippery terrain, allowing the animal to move better and jump more confidently in poor footing. Screw in calks are most often seen in speed sports, such as eventing, polo, and show jumping, although they are sometimes used for dressage. Forged caulks of various styles are more often seen on race horses and working animals such as draft horses and some packhorses and trail horses, though in some areas they are still seen on field hunters and other riding horses that have to work in all weather and require extra traction, such as police horses.
For a horseshoe built as a concave caulk and wedge shoe, the 2 prongs differ: one prong ends with a caulkin, and the other prong ends with a wedge (with both facing downward to the ground). That caulk/wedge horseshoe is a traditional British hunting shoe, and it has been used to provide the horse with a sure-footed grip when working at a fast pace over uneven ground. The shapes of the caulkin and the wedge have been designed to provide hoof traction, meanwhile ensuring the horse's safety is not compromised. The caulk/wedge horseshoe design has been recognised by the Worshipful Company of Farriers as being an appropriate specimen horseshoe to be used for the diploma exam.
Another way caulkins are applied is for borium to be brazed onto the surface of the shoe. Usually borium is placed at the heels and toe, either in small knobs for maximum grip, or in small rough patches for extra traction and to prevent wear on the shoe.
For use of screw-in calks or studs, horseshoes are "tapped," or drilled, on either heel of the shoe, so that different studs may be applied as needed and changed according to the footing conditions and the type of work performed by the horse. Therefore, a horse may have a maximum of 8 studs (2 per foot). Studs come in several sizes and types.
Screw-in calks or studs are popular in sport competition because they can be changed to adapt to different terrain. However, the size and design of stud must be carefully selected, as the wrong stud will be useless and can damage the horse's legs. Too little traction, and the horse may slip and possibly fall. Too much, and the horse is jarred, as his feet cannot naturally slip (which is a shock-absorption mechanism). Additionally, the more stud used, the greater chance the shoe may be pulled off. Usually, if there is doubt, it is considered best to slightly understud. In general, the faster the pace, the larger the stud will be used. Therefore, small studs are used for dressage and lower-level jumping or eventing, and larger studs are used for polo and upper-level eventing. Studs with more of a point are used for hard ground, and those that have more circumference are used in "heavier" footing, such as thick mud.
A hoof pick or horseshoe nail can help remove the plug prior to insertion of a screw-in stud. A special instrument called a T-tap is used to clean out the stud holes before the stud is screwed in, or it can be used to re-tap the stud hole if the threads are damaged. Additionally, a small metal brush can be used to help clean threads which are especially dirty. A wrench is used to tighten or loosen the studs.
Left to right: grass studs, blocks, road studs.
Road studs used on hard surfaces, usually 4 or 6-sided, smaller in size and blunt. Can be used front or back, on the inside of the shoe or the outside. This type of stud is fine most of the time, unless the ground is incredibly muddy or slippery.
Blocks square in shape and best for soft, deep, muddy ground.
Bullets best for firm ground with a layer of soft ground on top. They are large and sharp.
Grass Studs narrow and sharp to dig into hard, dry ground. They should only be used on the outside of the shoe, or just on the hind feet.
Olympic studs used for extremely slippery ground, very long and sharp.
Frost nails can be used in the place of studs for a few different reasons. Originally they were created to be used in icy conditions for extra traction and stability. However, they can also be used in various equine competitions for better traction on footing such as wet and slippery conditions.
Caulkins forged into the shoe which are not removable pose an increased risk of injury to handler or horse should the horse step on or kick a person, itself, or another animal. When stabled, animals wearing caulkins need extra bedding to avoid abrasion when lying down and for protection while moving about in a confined area. When working, leg protection in the form of bell boots and splint boots or polo wraps may minimize the risk of injury.
Screw-in studs are often longer and sharper than permanent caulkins and thus are removed when the horse is not working. The hole for the stud is plugged with cotton, rubber plugs, or a stud blank so dirt does not ruin the threads of the hole. Due to risk of injury, horses are not shipped in studs or left unattended with studs screwed in.
Pointed studs, such as grass studs or pointed bullets are generally placed only on the outside of the shoe, so the horse is less likely to cut himself should his foot hit one of his legs. Road stud can be used on the inside or outside of a shoe. However, the shoe should have some stud on the inside of the shoe; without it, there will be a twisting motion on the foot, which can cause a loss of shoe, and possibly strain the legs. Most riders place smaller studs on the front feet, because the horse's hind legs are stronger and generally require more traction.
^ a b c "Know Foot Know Horse – Concave Caulk and Wedge", knowfootknowhorse.com, 2008, webpage: KnowFKH-226 Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine (see caulkin/wedge horseshoe photo on webpage).
^ "Robert Owen (1865 - 1943) - Master Blacksmith Photo Gallery by Keith O'Brien at". Pbase.com. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
Horseshoes.com , accessed August 4, 2008.
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Farrier Source , accessed August 4, 2008.
This page was last edited on 27 November 2018, at 08:02 (UTC).
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The preliminary nominations for the Open Nordic Championships in powerlifting and bench press can be found here.
The numbers listed as “first lift” is the lifters personal best!
Read all about the meet, the accomodation and service, the venue, banquet and the Reykjanes region in Iceland.
The Powerlifting Championships will take place on friday August 22nd and Bench Press on saturday August 23rd.
The timetable will be published after the preliminary nomination on June 22nd. Weigh in will most likely start at 08.00.
PLEASE OBSERVE: book your hotel room immediately!
The hotel is keeping the rooms available until the end of June and can not guaratee available rooms much longer.
It might prove very difficult and expencive to find alternative accomodation.
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Tom Dixon, the man who is pushing the shopping cart, is getting married. His mates organized a stag party that included some dangerous challenges. Kenny, his father, wanted to be pushed into the bushes and his son did him the favor.
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This is from BEA and measures the cost of labor including wage, salaries, and employer paid benefits.
Changes in prices varies significantly by city. San Francisco was -0.28%.
This is the metric from a survey taken by the Conference Board.
Hard to find fault with anything here.
While the headline is less than previous and less than the GDPNow forecasts from the Atlanta and St. Louis Federal Reserve the heart of GDP is Consumer Spending which was up.
GDP consists of Consumer Spending, business Spending, government spending and exports less imports. The trade deficit (exports minus imports) hit GDP hard.
What is important is the Consumer Spending is not slowing. The initial release has only 2 months data for everything other than Consumer Spending.
This is from the survey conducted by the University of Michigan's Consumer Survey Center. It is supposed to indicate Consumer Spending in the next 3 months.
and there were about 900,000 more people in the Armed Forces.
Because of the bouncy nature of DGO it is difficult to draw accurate conclusions from this data.
Tariffs appear to not have slowed imports.
Good grief! Positive news in the Housing Sector.
- Level 15. Previous was 29.
Growth but at a slower rate. This is a regional index.
Any positive number shows growth. This is a weighted average of 85 existing monthly indicators of national economic activity.
This is the lowest rate since November 2015. The main cause is that sellers have not adjusted to the fact that the market has become balanced and asking prices in many places are still too high. This is a breakdown of the month/month changes by region and price range.
decrease of 26,574 from the previous week.
If Leading Indicators is a sign of economic health in the next few months then in 2019 the economy should get off to a good start.
With GDP growth strong and unemployment lower than low Housing Starts should be much higher than this. A significant cause is continued restrictive land use regulations especially zoning.
These prevent building in those places where there is jobs growth. The consequences are high prices and longer commutes.
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In this section, we provide basic information on boosters, how to install them and potential wiring problem to avoid.
1) Each have their own dedicated power supply.
4) Have short circuit protection and automatic recovery.
5) Shutdown in the even of thermal overload.
The common goal behind rules #1, #2 and #3 it the goal to eliminate high current sneak paths from flowing down the given DCC control bus from the DCC command station to all boosters.
The common goal around rules #4 and #5 is to make the booster survive the real world of model railroads where short circuits are an electrical fact of life on a layout.
More and more DCC vendors are including the required power supply for the DCC system as part of the purchase.
At the time of this writing, some DCC systems are still sold without a power supply. In other words you must purchase the power supply separately. The minimum power supply requirements are found in the system manual or the booster manual. Most DCC manufactures sell a compatible power supply so you can still do one brand shopping if so desire.
In the early DCC days, the most common type of power supply was a simple AC transformer. However both cost and global green initiatives have created a shift away from the common AC transformer power supply to special high efficiency DC power supply. DCC manufacture have switched to these new high efficiency DC powers supplies which are technically known as "Switching Power Supplies". They are basically customized notebook computer AC power supply or "AC adapters" of suitable power levels for DCC.
Simply put: Don't connect any part of your DCC system directly to Earth Ground. Any term "Ground" used in regard to the DCC system DOES NOT MEAN YOU connect it to Earth Ground. This is the hazard of using the word "ground" instead of the better and more accurate word "common" as in Booster Common.
STATIC ELECTRICITY EXCEPTION: The only time one may consider connecting the DCC system to Earth Ground is when one is living with high static electricity (Electric Static Discharge or ESD) conditions. However there must be a high value resistor (anything in the range of 100,000 [100K] up to 1,000,000 [1M] ohm) wired in series with the connection to Earth Ground. NO solid wire connection.
If you decide to buy your own new power supply, your choices will be mostly limited to a Switching Power supply. If you pick one of suitable power, make sure the power supply AC input only has a 2 prong AC plug (No Earth Ground). DCC manufacture have moved to these type of Switching Power Supplies. Avoid using any power supply that requires a 3 prong plug connection. The 3rd connection is Earth Ground which is not desirable for use in a DCC system.
Earth Grounding the DCC system can lead to electrical reliability problems when a device like a computer is connected. This creates what is called a "multiple common" situation which is electrically a very bad thing to do.
Addresses the problem of preventing global layout shutdown when there is a short on the track. It is not unlike the circuit breaker function for your house. Only the local effected area losses power.
a) Power districts are created from a given booster.
b) It involves some DCC track current protection device(s) that implements a DCC circuit breaker function. There are many products out there that do this.
c) Power districts are only useful if you have more than one since the goal it to break the layout electrically into smaller areas.
d) Most useful for layout that have more than one operator or one is running multiple trains at the same time.
e) Using DCC circuit breakers avoids the use of using multiple expensive boosters. They allow you to take full advantage of the high power available of a single booster which is designed to run multiple trains simultaneously.
Only applies when there is more than one booster use to run the layout.
a) Each Booster forms its own Booster District.
b) Each Booster can have its own independent Power Districts.
c) Decision driven by power (Large Scale or lots of moving trains) or the layout is so large that it must distribute booster power to achieve consistent performance.
d) Most layouts do not need a 2nd booster which is why Booster Districts are not discussed.
e) Many people incorrectly call a given booster district a power district which leads to confusion.
f) All DCC "starter systems" have a booster inside what is commonly called a Command Station. If there are terminals on the system to connect to the track, it has a booster inside.
MULTIPLE BOOSTERS REQUIRE A BOOSTER COMMON.
This section is about the special wiring required when working with multiple boosters. This typically applies to only large layouts (Club Size) or large scale layouts.
Basically any DCC box that has track power terminals to power the track, its from a booster. This section assume you have more than one box.
If just have your whole layout running on the original DCC box you purchased, you only have 1 booster. It just built inside the command station. This section does not apply to you.
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That was my working title for the article you are about to read. It was how I referred to the article when talking with my friends.
In 1978, I was an undergraduate student in the Independent Study program at Southeastern Mass University in North Dartmouth, Mass. My major was Communications with a minor in Education. I had successfully petitioned the school to let me take on a two year, 12 credit project creating a media presentation on Mahatma Gandhi. Two semesters would be spent on research and another two semesters would be devoted to the writing and creation of the program.
During my research phase I wrote an article in a Hindi newspaper telling people of my project. I asked for any help in the way of insights or anecdotes people might be willing to share. The response was overwhelming. One day I came home from school to find 128 pieces of mail waiting for me! Over the next weeks I received books, tapes, photographs, and stories from Indians at home and abroad.
One letter I received was from a professor from the University of Bombay. He said that India's Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, was scheduled to visit the U.S. in June. He pointed out that Prime Minister Desai had known Gandhi personally. He suggested that I write the Ambassador of India and request a meeting with the Prime Minister to gather research.
Yeah, right. The leader of 15% of the world's population will simply jump at the chance to meet ME. I shrugged off the idea as absurd.
When I happened to mention the letter to my older brother, Bob, he said, "So write him and ask! So what if he says no? At least you would have tried." Skeptically, I wrote the Ambassador of India and explained my project and my desire to meet with the Prime Minister of India.
Weeks later I received his reply. Prime Minister Desai would be in Washington, D.C. with President Carter for two days and in New York for two days addressing the U.N. The bottom line was that the Ambassador would forward my request to the Prime Minister but I shouldn't hold my breath. The Prime Minister's dance card was pretty much filled.
Then, about a month later, an amazing thing happened. I got another letter from the Ambassador's office. It essentially said that the Prime Minister was interested in my project and would like to know more details. What motivated my interest in Mahatma Gandhi? What are my views of Gandhi? What do I see as the overall message of my project? After pacing frantically around my apartment, I sat down and wrote my heart out. After a few days my reply was on its way.
Then things got interesting. I received a letter from the Ambassador's office telling me that I could have seven minutes with the Prime Minister in Washington, D.C. I wrote back explaining that as a college student with as many part-time jobs as classes (I didn't mention that all I drove was a motorcycle) I couldn't afford to get to Washington. I had requested to meet the Prime Minister when he was in New York City. I could get to New York.
On June 10th I received a phonecall from the Ambassador's office. Be at the United Nations Plaza Hotel at 7:45 tomorrow morning, June 11th. I would have, not seven, but three minutes to interview the Prime Minister. I immediately called Richard St. Aubin, a photographer who worked at the school. Richard had lived in New York City for many years and had friends there that we could stay with. He would photograph the interview and was willing to make the five hour drive to New York City on a moment's notice. Richard picked me up two hours later and off we went.
When I returned from the trip, many friends encouraged me to write an article about the experience for the school and local newspapers. I wrote a short article and sent it to The Standard Times, our local paper. The editor, James Ragsdale, called and suggested we meet at his office. He asked me to tell him about my experience meeting Prime Minister Desai. I went on and on about the experience and had him laughing and clearly moved at times. Then he showed me his copy of the meager article I had submitted and asked, "Why isn't that story in here?" He said I had written my impression of a newspaper article. He suggested I go home and write the story I had just told him. That was the story he wanted to publish. So that is the story I wrote during the summer of 1978. I hope that you enjoy it.
“The Prime Minister will see you now,” said the aide. I left my seat so mechanically I almost forgot Richard was with me. When I reached the door of the suite an agent, C.I.A. perhaps, stepped in front of me. “Hold it!” he said. "Open that up!" He pointed to the cassette compartment of my tape recorder. “BWOOOOOOOOP!” Feedback echoed through the hall. My heart pounded. I had pushed the wrong button. When I finally managed to turn it off I felt like an idiot. The agent examined the tiny cassette compartment with a chrome penlight and let me pass. Underneath the bulky recorder was a utility compartment big enough to store lunch for two but, I guess he didn’t notice. He checked Richard’s cameras with a thoroughness that was, at least, consistent.
Desai eats two meals a day consisting simply of cheese, fruit and milk. When he wakes at 4:00 each morning he meditatively spins cloth, a practice made popular by Mahatma Gandhi during India’s struggle for independence from Britain. His close association with Mahatma Gandhi was what I was interested in. Desai’s opinions could enhance my research. It seemed farfetched that the Prime Minister of India would agree to meet with a twenty-four-year-old undergraduate student to talk about Gandhian philosophy but there I was. Only a week ago the date was set for June 12th. Only yesterday I was told to be at the United Nations Plaza Hotel, N.Y. at 7:45 a.m. I wondered now if one hour of sleep, a cup of coffee, and half pack of cigarettes had been enough to get me through this.
When we arrived at the 28th floor of the hotel, we met our first Consulate Aide. He was a short, middle-aged East Indian with black-framed glasses and a slightly limp turban. He rushed about like a housewife trying to coordinate a dinner for thirty.
When the last of the reporters had cleared the doorway, I entered the suite. Dozens of thick electrical and video cables covered the floor between me and the Prime Minister, who could be seen in an adjoining room. Another aide came from behind and with a wide circling motion of his arm gestured for me to cross the less-scattered cables to my left. As I did, a television cameraman began blindly gathering the cables with such speed that they squirmed and slithered around my feet like snakes. I was relieved the Prime Minister hadn’t seen me as I hopped across the room.
I recall only pieces of the conversation that followed but we talked about Gandhi some more and about great men in general. I mentioned Buddha and he mentioned Thoreau. (He felt sorry Thoreau didn’t receive the recognition he deserved during his lifetime.) He asked about the books I had read was interested in my research.
Between the twenty-five minutes of taped conversation and our conversation afterwards, we had spent, not three, but forty minutes together. Nevertheless my mind filled with questions I wished I had asked.
1. The reporters and news anchors who were leaving the Prime Minister’s suite as I was going in included John Chancellor, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. Other faces were familiar but we couldn’t put faces to names at the time. They all had come to ask Desai how India would vote regarding Nuclear Arms proliferation. Ironically, not only were they all scooted out when their time was up, he refused to reveal to them how India would vote whereas he explained his vote to me in detail.
3. Desai is credited for having healed relations between India and Pakistan. He did away with many of Indira Gandhi’s constitutional amendments which had stripped the rights of citizens and he made amendments which prevented any future government from misusing National Emergency. The Janata Party, however, was unstable and began to divide, hampering Desai’s effectiveness. Desai was too conservative for many. One journalist accused him of having secret dealings with the C.I.A.. This was never proven and Desai denied it to his death but it damaged his reputation. He resigned from office and from politics in 1979.
4. In the first draft of my article (the brief one) I left out Desai’s comment about the Jews under Hitler. James Ragsdale, the newspaper editor asked me why. I told him I left it out because I didn’t want to hurt or offend anyone. He pointed out that it was not my job to edit or censor the Prime Minister of India. My job was to report the experience. Give the reader the information and let them draw their own conclusions. Quite a teacher, that Mr. Ragsdale.
5. The most memorable aspect of Morarji Desai, which I under-appreciated at age 24, was his aura of serenity and kindness. By the beginning of our talk, I was very nervous. I was way over my head in this situation. When I looked at Desai, his entire demeanor somehow communicated that everything was fine… there was nothing to be nervous about.
Nearly thirty years later, that aura is what I remember best about meeting Morarji Desai.
6. On April 10, 1995, Morarji Desai died at the age of 99.
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When a Hard Candy wants to try its taste and value stands in front of a mirror and call CandyMan 3 times: "... Candy Man, Candy Man, Candy Man ..", some believe it is an urban myth, others believe that appears after his call to devour all the candy in his way. and it is true.
Dont play this if your hands are shaking, this is my version of a non touching walls game, a kind of the Classic Operation SKill Game, improves your skills if you like to draw.
Play as Candy Man on this funny parody, test your skills: eat all candy without touching anything else, sounds easy? is not! is it funny?, Yes!
So this was a very cool game, the backround grids of each levels was pretty good love the vibrant colors, and love the idea of the game to not get hit, so you have created a decent game here, I think you should have added more levels but other then that this was cool.
I think you should have added more levels, also ad more active dangers like moving creatures and stuff.
Can u do a parody with my ideas?
Great game. easy medals. Fice stars.
Great game. It´s pretty unusual be on the evil side, for once and it has also interesting story.
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2019-04-26T02:27:16Z
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https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/633576
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tripod
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Utrish - Russia "The Dolphin warriors"
1973 – Matriculated in Tel Aviv.
1978- Parallel to my studies, started working for the ARD German Television Middle East bureau as a camera assistant and later as a producer Based in Tel Aviv ARD covered political and cultural events in Iran Turkey Greece Cyprus Israel and Palestine. During the Iranian revolution was there as a camera assistant and producer.
1982- a photographer and cameraman for the Israeli Government Press Office during the Lebanon war. Went with Prime Minister Begin to all corners of the world on official visits.
1983- Took part in a learning program for cameraman at the WDR in Colon Then worked on a TV series “10 grad sot” a road series of 9 chapters for Franc X Gernstl and Megahertz TV Munich..
1985-1986-Worked as a Cameraman for “Film house Muenchen"
1990- Sent to Israel to be the cameraman of ARD German Television in the region.The fact that I speak fluently Hebrew Arabic German and French let me experience and do for my studio in Tel Aviv much more than just shooting. I shoot four Documentaries a year and all the news items for the ARD from the region, since.
1991- Shot and co arranged the coverage of the golf war.
1995 – Shot the documentary “The dolphin warriors” about the use of dolphins for military purpose for the company Telcast Muenchen The film was shot in Russia, USA, Israel. Germany.
1999-Co produced in Israel the film “Emillie Schindler” for the Bavaria Studios in Munich.
1990-2000- Still working for ARD in Israel, in the last year shot the following films for German TV.
Three Children 2001 45Min. About life of 3 thirteen yrs.old kids in Israel.
Weltreisen March - Nov.2002 30 min.a trip through the Negev desert .
The Dying dead see 30 min. The dead see is drying out.
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2019-04-20T12:50:04Z
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http://shubitz.tripod.com/id4.htm
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Arthur Schopenhauer (German: [ˈaʁtʊʁ ˈʃɔpənˌhaʊ̯ɐ]; 22 Februar 1788 – 21 September 1860) wis a German filosofer.
↑ "John Gray: Forget everything you know — Profiles, People". London: The Independent. 3 September 2002. Archived frae the oreeginal on 9 April 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
This page wis last eeditit on 26 Mairch 2018, at 21:24.
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https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
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Strike Force Lieutenant: [the GCPD arrive at Arkham Asylum ready to raid the building in search of Jim Gordon] No sign of Gordon. How long do you want us to wait?
Harvey Bullock: Give him ten seconds. If you don't see Jim, bust that joint open and find him.
Strike Force Lieutenant: Ready, entry team. We go on one!
So the Episode was good .yet there is this thing ,, i don't know about.. maybe bringing all of these dead people over and over again just makes the plot go a bit dull !! even though i had fun seeing Mooney back but with all the other evil ones before ,Galavan ,Barbara and they might bring back that crazy dude "Jerome Valeska" .. i mean it looks like the writers are out of ideas .. i hope not !!
The gang of Cobblepot and Butch are back which was like a deja vu but kinda different in a way .it's like you should root for them now for real.. Fish Mooney is here too with her powers that will be good for the next season if there'll be one .. also some other "monster" looks like Bruce Wayne .. and as we're on the Bruce Wayne story , he'll be after the evil counsel which runs Gotham ..
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2019-04-23T22:42:44Z
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4371272/
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I treated myself to some new books at the start of the New Year, because… well… why not!
I am so excited to read all of these!
I read one of BBC presenter Kate Humble’s other books and really enjoyed her writing style. This one is about walking (something I should do more of in 2019!). I love these types of non-fiction books and I am looking forward to reading it.
I saw Olive at abookolive talk about this book on Booktube and it sounded right up my street. It’s non-fiction to do with plantlife and a memoir – perfect!
This one was originally published in the 1980s I believe, but I have never read it. I was simply attracted to the synopsis and this beautiful new edition. It’s written from a fox’s point of view, which is something I love. What can I say, I love foxes!
I have been wanting to read this one for ages. I love Australia as a setting and this one is a mystery, historical fiction and a classic… and not very long. I am so looking forward to reading it, but it is set in summer, so I may wait till summer to read it. I love these Vintage red spine editions as well.
I read the first book in the Blackthorn & Grim series sometime last year and enjoyed it. I would like to read more by this author, but would like to finish this series first. I do love these little mass market paperbacks!
So that was my little treat of a haul 🙂 Have you read any of these? Let me know!
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2019-04-19T20:55:57Z
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https://lolaetlavie.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/first-book-haul-of-2019/
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To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.
You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
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2019-04-21T22:05:40Z
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https://vincentsartalejr.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/april-10-psalm-80/
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I spent a good chunk of this afternoon flipping through magazines in a waiting room. As I sat there looking at all of the clothes I would buy if I were very rich, I realized how many things each week I say I want to try.
Side note: am I the only one who can’t believe how young she is?
What did you try, or were you inspired to try in the future, this week?
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2019-04-20T03:35:07Z
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https://baskethouseblues.wordpress.com/category/tryday-friday-2/
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The Sustainable Self – Creating a more responsible community with YOU leading the way!
Shower Gel – Do it yourself!!
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2019-04-25T22:10:51Z
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https://thesustainableselfblog.wordpress.com/
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A user-friendly jargon equivalency enumeration.
æ/Æ – Ash. (lower and upper case) Pronounced as the <a> in cat.
Cognate – words that are cognates have the same etymological root somewhere in the deep recesses of language.
Descriptivist – Someone who observes language and describes it without judgement. This is what Linguistics aims to do.
Morpheme – put simply, the smallest bit of language that has its own meaning. The ‘un’ in unfinished – it’s not a word of its own, but it has meaning.
Old English – The language spoken in England from (mumble mumble) the fifth century until 1066 (although actually it carried on longer). A Germanic language. The slightly-archaic name for it is Anglo-Saxon.
Phatic talk – communication that serves the purpose of expressing, establishing and maintaining social relationships, rather than imparting information.
Phonotactic(s) – the permissible combinations of sounds in a language. Every language is different, and will allow (and forbid!) different clusters of vowels and consonants at different points in a word. For example, the word pterodactyl is of Greek origin, where a ‘pt’ cluster at the start of a word is acceptable. English doesn’t allow this (though we do have it at the end of a syllable, like apt or adopt), so we have to adjust the way we pronounce the word.
Plosive – in artiuclatory phonetics, a sound which is made by completely blocking off the airway in the mouth before releasing it. English examples of plosives include p, t and k sounds.
Prescriptivist – Someone who sets the rules of language and dictates right and wrong.
Received Pronunciation – hard to exactly pin down, RP is an accent of English associated with (for example) the Queen, the BBC, and ‘speaking properly’. It is a Southern variety of English often modelled as ‘correct’ or ‘proper’ and referenced in dictionaries – though in reality, very few people actually speak with an RP accent.
þ/Þ – Thorn (lower and upper case) – a runic character, pronounced ‘th’ as in ‘I really am the laziest person you’ve ever met’ or ‘th’ as in ‘just try and think of someone lazier. See? You can’t’. In Old English it is interchangeable with ð/Ð, Eth.
Sociolinguistics – the study of language in society, and how it is affected by a whole plethora of factors, such as age, class, gender, culture, etc.
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2019-04-26T06:25:00Z
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https://solongasitswords.wordpress.com/glossary/
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This year for Riverside Arts Festival in Dawson City I’ve made a musical installation and performance where you play games of chance to determine elements of a song that I write up about you on the spot. Spin the bike wheel, and where it lands tells me which instrument, (ukulele, yamaha keyboard or harmonica) to play. Throw a dart onto decorated envelopes to reveal something about yourself, like the last book you read, or your lover’s secret name for you. Roll the dice to tell me one last thing about yourself… and BAM I write a song about you, right away.
It was a great success, and the beauty of small-town life is that I knew many of the people I wrote songs about, which made it easier. And, I got to practice my new keyboard and dust off the ‘ol harmonica.
I didn’t anticipate how popular the booth would be with kids, so ‘adult’ questions, like how do you like your coffee, needed to be changed on the spot. Will plan that into piece next time.
Finally, combining carnival work, music, spontaneity and art all into one.
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2019-04-20T20:12:40Z
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https://ameliamerhar.wordpress.com/tag/spontaneous-song/
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Recycled paper – Would you consider it?
When we realize that "everything is alive, is interconnected and has meaning" (an old shamanic belief), we begin to live intentionally from a spiritual perspective. Naturally, we tend to align ourselves and our lives with the Whole trying to capture holistic balance once more. All the ways towards balance bring us back to a life in harmony with the "All that is". To me these are the most important ways to restore balance and live in harmony.
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2019-04-25T01:55:21Z
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https://holistica2be.wordpress.com/tag/eco-friendly/
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Tonight is a KSEXradio night so I hope to see you there from 9:00 - 10:0pm (PST) Tune in for "Tails of Tail" with Brooke Hunter and Don Hollywood. I have something fun for you.
If your going to be in the San Fernando Valley area on March 29th I have approx 20 seats left for audience members for the latest movie shoot for Hollywood Hunter Productions. E-mail me for details.
This will be a fun day and you get to actually watch an adult film being made. You must be over 18, Bring your ID with you and you will have to sign a model release to be on film in this movie. Trust me, this will be a Blast!!!
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2019-04-20T10:15:42Z
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http://ainews.com/Archives/Story4677.phtml
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iastate
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For many moons now, the IEM has been providing various GIS services containing GOES East / West imagery. This imagery was based on GINI-format processing. The "East" and "West" signify two satellites that are geo-stationary over the eastern US and western US respectively.
The GOES "East" satellite got recently replaced by a newly launched satellite and the format of data it produces is different, much larger, and more computationally expensive to process than the previous GINI files. So the GOES East services provided by the IEM were discontinued.
We have gotten a number of inquires about this situation and I apologize for not communicating this change well on the website. Perhaps, we can stand up some services in the future, but at this point there is no clear research need nor funding stream to support updated computer resources. Besides, there are others out there providing better services than what the IEM did.
The current suggestion is to check out the RealEarth API for similar services and much more than what was offered here.
Later this year, GOES-S will be launched and replace the current satellite at the "West" position. When this happens, we'll remove the various goes-west services.
As always, let us know of questions!
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2019-04-26T12:27:06Z
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https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/news.phtml?id=1369
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0%80°63°Partly cloudy with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds from W to S.Night - Clear. Winds variable at 3 to 7 mph (4.8 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C).
5%83°65°Mostly cloudy today with a high of 83 °F (28.3 °C) and a low of 65 °F (18.3 °C).
65%73°66°Thunderstorms today with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C) and a low of 66 °F (18.9 °C). There is a 65% chance of precipitation.
Today - Partly cloudy with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds from W to S.
Tonight - Clear. Winds variable at 3 to 7 mph (4.8 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C).
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2019-04-24T17:10:05Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/brazil/parana/lavrinha-438450
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In the wake of Tuesday's horrific attacks on the European capital of Brussels, President Obama faced fierce criticism on Twitter for his interview with ESPN while front row at the baseball game between the Cuban National team and Tampa Bay Rays.
The president, who was in Havana on a historic trip to improve relations between the two countries, defended attending the game when questioned by ESPN’s Karl Ravech.
The president looked casual in a white polo top and black sunglasses, offending some who took to Twitter to condemn the interview and brand him disrespectful.
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" tweeted a photo of the ESPN interview with the hashtag "Brussels Attacks."
As Brussels wipes up blood & body parts Obama gives an ESPN interview while sitting next to a Communist Dictator, watching a baseball game.
ESPN interviews Obama about the Brussels attacks at a baseball game. Mind numbing stupidity.
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2019-04-19T06:29:42Z
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https://www.salon.com/2016/03/23/mind_numbing_stupidity_obama_slammed_on_twitter_for_going_to_ballgame_being_interviewed_on_espn_after_brussels_attacks/
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Wow, this place looks really cool.
This entry was posted on August 4, 2006 at 9:21 am and is filed under xanga. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
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2019-04-26T10:24:22Z
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https://ardafif.wordpress.com/2006/08/04/125/
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My conversion to Australian country music came about because of the song ‘Lazy Bones’ by Beccy Cole. It was so smart and funny, and performed so well, that I couldn’t believe I hadn’t already heard it. That was before I understood how country music is so often not played on major radio stations and that, despite its large and loyal audience, it’s not considered as important to our national culture as some other forms of music. That latter element is a big part of the reason why I started writing about it – and so was ‘Lazy Bones’. That song and other country songs like it deserve to be known by as many people as possible, because the quality of this music is good. And Beccy Cole as an artist has few peers. Her live performances are legendary, her albums always a collection of songs that are heartfelt and entertaining, and sometimes just raucously good fun. There’s actually not an artist like her in the whole land. Which is why it was a huge honour to interview her recently about her new album, Lioness, which has all her fantastic hallmarks and also brings something new.
I’ve been lucky to listen to an early copy of the album, which has been a thrill because you have long been one of my favourite country music artists. Congratulations – it’s wonderful. Your fans will be very happy.
Thank you. I hope so. It’s definitely an album that I wanted to make so all I can do is hope that they like it.
This album has all women working on it, and I was really pleased to see you had a female producer working on it – there is a noticeable lack of female producers. Catherine Britt has been doing some producing but I’m really struggling to think of other producers working in country music who aren’t men. You had Julz Parker producing this – how did that come about?
I wanted it to be a 100 per cent female project. I love the sound that Julz gets for the Hussy Hicks and some other projects that she’s done, and I just think she’s awesome. She gets me. She’s got a very similar sense of humour – we always get along really well whenever we’re touring and doing shows. I get the Hussy Hicks whenever I can. They’re overseas a lot. Whenever they’re around they look up my tour dates and say, ‘Hey -can we do those six you’ve got coming up in Queensland?’ and I say, ‘Yeah!’ [laughs] But they’re just really cool to hang out with and I knew that Julz got my music and understood me. I didn’t really have any doubt. When we were choosing people to mix the album we sent away ‘Lioness’ and got about six mixes back and I had to choose which one I liked, and I said, ‘I like number three’, and Julz said, ‘That’s my mix.’ I thought, Yay!I love the fact that it’s an all-female album as far as the players on it go. There are nine girls on it.
South Australian artist Beccy Cole is one country music’s greatest performers – and one of the funniest – as well as one of Australia’s most astute songwriters. A tour through her catalogue takes you from the sharp, hilarious ‘Lazy Bones’ and ‘Sorry I Asked’ to the touching ‘Gloria’s Roses’ and the sentimental ‘Blackwood Hill’. Beccy has ten Golden Guitars (including four for Female Artist of the Year) as well as multiple ARIA Top 10 Country and Top 40 Mainstream albums, a Top 10 DVD, three gold-certified releases, and more than a dozen #1 Australian country singles. She is a country music icon – and that is entirely because of the music she produces and the way she brings it to audiences.
Beccy’s last album was Sweet Rebecca in 2015; on 24 August this year she will release Lioness, and the title single is out now. It is classic Beccy in that she tells a great story and always feels like she’s singing directly to the listener; it is new Beccy in that it’s her first release since marrying long-time partner Libby O’Donovan, and Lioness is the first album produced 100 per cent by women, from the artist to the producer to the musicians.
Any new music from Beccy Cole is an occasion, and this song is no different.
21 – Tudor Hotel Front Bar, 5.30 p.m.
23 – Qurindi RSL, 6 p m.
24 – Tudor Hotel Back Bar, 12 p.m.
21 – West Tamworth Leagues Club, 5 p.m.
21 – West Tamworth Leagues Club, 8 p.m.
21 – Tamworth Services Club, 9.30 p.m.
22 – Tamworth Services Club, 9 a.m.
23 – Tudor Hotel, upstairs, 10 p.m.
22 – TRECC, 2 p.m.
22 – The Pub, 8 p.m.
23 – The Family Hotel, 7 p.m.
23 – The Pub, 8.30 p.m.
24 – The Family Hotel, 12 p.m.
24 – North Tamworth Bowling Club, 2 p.m.
24 – Tamworth Tennis Club, 4.30 p.m.
Beccy Cole appeared on Australian Story this week and revealed something that wouldn’t have surprised many people who are involved in Australian country music circles, but would, no doubt, have surprised some of her fans. As this is a blog about Australian country music (mostly) I thought it would be remiss to not say something. And what I have to say is, ‘Good on you, Beccy!’ Beccy’s revelation took courage, because she would have known that some of her audience would have trouble adjusting to her news. But it is them who need adjusting, not her. Beccy Cole is no different now than she was five years ago or five weeks or five days ago. All she’s done is changed the information we have about her.
There are people asking why she felt the need to ‘out’ herself, and I would think there are some very good reasons, such as the many gay and lesbian teenagers who feel completely alone – often desperately so – and think there is no one who understands them. Many of them are in rural and regional communities where country music is very popular and Beccy is a person who is admired. If Beccy’s ‘outing’ helps just one of those teenagers to realise they’re not alone, she’s done a good thing. But I bet there will be a lot more than one. And I certainly hope Beccy finds the love and happiness she richly deserves. She brings light and laughter to every venue she plays – may we all offer her the same in return.
As a final note: what really stood out for me in the program was the strength of Beccy’s friendships with Kasey Chambers and Gina Jeffreys. In this country we are blessed to have such individuals of great talent and strength to be our cultural leaders (which is what they are, even if it’s only for the country music culture), and their friendships are a reminder of how strong, too, the country music community is.
Beccy Cole is, not unlike her close friend Kasey Chambers, one of our most consistent singer-songwriters, although I wouldn’t mind betting that a lot of people don’t realise she writes most of her own songs, mainly because she’s seen as a ‘performer’. Indeed, Beccy is one of our great entertainers – she consistently puts on high-quality shows that combine humour, storytelling and musical performance in a way that ensures everyone leaves smiling. She is also a songwriter of considerable accomplishment, and has been for a while – her early song ‘Lazy Bones’ is a textbook case in how to turn a phrase in a clever, funny way.
Songs & Pictures is Beccy’s latest CD and again features her own compositions, some of them written in collaboration with Kasey Chambers, Travis Collins, Luke Austen and others. It is a nostalgic, almost wistful album – there is very little of the brassiness that could be found on Feel This Free or even Little Victories. It is a ‘pretty’ album in many ways – Beccy has always produced melodically pleasing songs, but there seem to be more of them on this album. And perhaps more songs in minor keys. They are songs of reflection and contemplation, of appreciation for what she has and who she loves. It is the most personal of her albums, and the first that I can recall where there isn’t what one could call a ‘joke song’ (for lack of a better word) like ‘The Girls Out Here’ or ‘Sorry I Asked’. This is probably for the best: the joke songs may have previously obscured the fact that she is a really, really good singer, and on this new album her voice is front and centre.
It’s a strong album – the songs are solidly constructed and Beccy’s remarkable voice is in charge of them all. ‘Millionaires’ also features Kasey on vocals and it is clearly about the friendship they have have since they were teenagers – it’s a lovely song. Although I love Beccy’s joke songs, I do think this is the most consistent of her albums in terms of having an overall message and the songs all feeding into each other to create a complete portrait. It is also the album most likely to appeal to people who don’t usually like country music – so buy it for your non-country friends.
Beccy Cole is one of Australian music’s great entertainers and, as such, highly underrated – I always wonder why she isn’t better known, because she has a wonderful voice and an extraordinary stage presence (yes, the superlatives are flying thick and fast – she deserves them).
Perhaps Live at Lizotte’s will enable more people to understand this live-performance powerhouse, because (unlike some live CDs) it is representative of what a Beccy Cole gig is really like: a range of musical moods and a great deal of genuinely funny on-stage banter – even after several spins round my CD player, I was still holding my sides laughing at some of her lines. It’s also a chance for fans like me to get their hands on some new songs, including ‘Lifeboat’ and ‘Opposite Prayers’, plus some covers – Carole King’s ‘Natural Woman’, Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Say You Love Me’ and 4 Non Blondes’ ‘What’s Up’. There’s also tested Beccy favourites such as ‘Blackwood Hill’, ‘Men Don’t Dance’, the always-funny ‘Sorry I Asked’ and what I think is one the cleverest songs ever written (and she wrote it): ‘Lazy Bones’. Those who have seen Beccy live will know what she does in the coda of this song – recorded on this CD for repeat-play entertainment.
Beccy is joined by Kasey Chambers for a truly lovely rendering of ‘Those Memories of You’ , and by Gina Jefferies and Sara Storer for a cover of John Williamson’s ‘Galleries of Pink Galahs’. The latter is probably the only song that I didn’t out-and-out love but this album really is a worthwhile purchase for Beccy’s existing fans – in true country-music fan-friendly style, she has included enough old and new material to keep them happy. Live at Lizotte’s is also the best possible introduction to the Central Coast songstress for those who have heard the odd song – probably ‘Poster Girl’ – and are wondering whether the rest of her work is any good. It is. She is fabulous, and one of the best assets to the Australian music industry (not just country music). Now – where is her ARIA?
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2019-04-26T08:18:31Z
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https://jolenethecountrymusicblog.wordpress.com/category/beccy-cole/
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Sweets provide calories without beneficial nutrients.
4 How Much Sugar Is Your Body Supposed to Take in a Day?
Sweets often contain high amounts of fat and sugar. Solid fats, which are trans fats and saturated fats, and added sugars together make up approximately 35 percent of calories in the typical American diet, according to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Since these foods provide a lot of calories and few, if any, nutrients, they should be limited to no more than 15 percent of calories to make room for more nutrient-dense options.
When deciding how many sweets you should consume each day, keep in mind the recommended limits for fat and sugar. Aim to consume no more than 1 percent of calories from trans fats and no more than 7 to 10 percent of calories from saturated fats. The American Heart Association recommends that women consume no more than 6 teaspoons of added sugar per day, and men consume no more than 9 teaspoons of added sugar per day.
Consuming large amounts of sweets may increase your risk for heart disease. A study published in "Circulation" in 2011 found that participants who consumed the most added sugars had the highest low-density lipoprotein, or bad cholesterol, levels, the highest triglyceride levels and the lowest high-density lipoprotein, or good cholesterol, levels. These are all risk factors for heart disease. Eating too many sweets may also increase your risk for obesity, tooth decay and not meeting the recommended intakes of essential vitamins and minerals.
Cookies, candy, cake, chocolate, ice cream, pie, brownies and other sweet treats and desserts are all sources of added sugar, and many contain solid fats as well. However, there is also added sugar in many unexpected foods, including condiments, many processed foods and breads. Jellies, sweetened beverages and breakfast cereals usually contain sugar as well.
You don't need to limit natural sugars, found in fruits and milk, as these only make up a small part of the sugars you consume each day, and foods containing natural sugars also contain many essential nutrients. When you have a craving for something sweet, try eating a piece of fruit before reaching for sweets with added sugar.
Bruso, Jessica. "Recommended Sweets Intake." Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/recommended-sweets-intake-3337.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.
Why Isn't it Healthy to Eat Processed Food?
Saturated Fats Are Primarily Found in What Groups?
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2019-04-22T04:18:53Z
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https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/recommended-sweets-intake-3337.html
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February 1995: Best $ on Reveal TV300??
Next message: Jesus Arango: "Re: CUSEEME Problem"
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Subj. says it. What's the best price you've seen on this card?
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2019-04-23T11:52:15Z
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http://baby.indstate.edu/CU-SeeMe/devl_archives/feb_95/0738.html
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September 2018 – Have We Had Help?
“And so to Bamburgh castle, the king a new wife did bring.
And laid waste the land for seven miles around.
Margaret’s brother, but he lived far away over the sea.
And set out to rid Bamburgh of its blight.
But they were powerless ‘gainst the magical mast.
A woman asked the Devil: “Do you see that man, the tailor?” and pointed to a small deprived shop.
The devil walked towards the shop. He tried many tricks on the tailor but couldn’t convince him to dislike his wife. He came back towards the woman and confessed that he is not able to deceive each and every human.
While today is my three year blog anniversary, multiple eyes surgeries forced me on a long hiatus and limited my actual blogging time to barely one and a half years.
As my long time followers already know, I suffer from permanent blurred vision. My eyesight may be blurred, but I can clearly see that I wouldn’t be here without your wonderful support.
To celebrate (perhaps amuse is a better word) I have included the first poem I ever wrote in my life. On November 3, 2015, I penned and posted this poem (and image). It was my first crude attempt at writing poetry.
A rich man walked into a fancy restaurant and asked for the best table.
When he sat down, he saw a black woman sitting at the bar.
He didn’t like what he saw. He didn’t like to eat in a beautiful luxury restaurant and see a black woman enjoying the same place that he was. He decided to show her; where her place was and prove to her that she didn’t belong there.
The waiter brought the restaurants famous chocolate cake to every single person except the black woman.
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2019-04-26T10:46:58Z
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When I first heard the news that Estée Lauder had purchased Frédéric Malle’s Editions de Parfums my first reaction was to go outside wave a lit candle in the air followed by releasing 21 white doves into the sky each marinated in a perfume from the Editions de Parfums line.
And the sky was redolent with the fragrances of Angeliques sous la Pluie, En Passant, and Lys Mediterranee.
Portrait of a Lady by Jean-Baptiste Greuze at The Wallace Collection. I was wearing the perfume when I took this.
Frederic Malle’s Portrait of a Lady is a perfume very dear to me not only for its fragrance but also for the memories I associate with it. I remember the day I purchased it so vividly. It ended up turning into quite a special one. It was my friend Sanjay’s last day working at the studio, and of course there was the usual office whip round to send him off with a leaving gift. I think because Sanjay always seemed to bring so much happiness with him where ever he went, with his great smile and really infectious laugh, everyone was a bit more generous than they usually were in in the past, which was great news for me who was usually tasked with selecting a present for whomever was leaving. I knew I could get Sanjay something really special, and knowing he was as smitten with perfume as I was, I headed straight down to the Frederic Malle counter at Liberty.
I purchased a bottle of Geranium pour Monsieur for Sanjay which he absolutely adored, and while that was being wrapped up the sales assistant asked me if I had tried Portrait of a Lady, which was in fact inspired by Geranium pour Monsieur. I was ensorcelled by the first spray. It effected me in such a way that I felt a dreamy heaviness wash over my eyes. Never before had I had such a visceral response to a fragrance.
More than three years later I am still as in love with this perfume as I was at first sniff. I wanted to make it my first perfume review for the memories this fragrances holds for me and because I find it to be such an olfactory masterpiece.
I sat down with Dominique Ropion’s creation for Frederic Malle today to write down my initial impressions. I had never actually done this before, and to be honest I found it a very interesting exercise. I was initially struck by just how sharp the opening of the fragrance is. It then settles very quickly, and I begin to smell the spices coming through. For me the spices begin with clove, then patchouli permeates through a melange of familiar smelling, comforting spices which seem to fall sparkling on a breathtaking unfolding blossom of warm Turkish Rose. As the rose blooms more prominently into the fragrance I begin to catch glimpses of the fruity notes peaking up from under her petals.
I would say Portrait of a Lady has a rather strong sillage, and a small amount of the fragrance does indeed go a very long way. I can still smell it on me more than five hours after putting it on, and by past experience I know that I will smell it throughout the rest of the evening and on my duvet when I wake up tomorrow. It has incredible lasting power, and I catch different accords, usually alternating between the warm spices and playful fruits swirling round the constancy of the rich, sensual rose, throughout my experience wearing it.
Described as an Oriental fragrance with notes of Turkish rose absolute, blended with raspberry, cassis, clove, cinnamon, patchouli, and amber. Portrait of a Lady is available to purchase in 50ml and 100ml eau de parfum sizes for £140 and £200 respectively.
Throughout today as I have been thinking about this fragrance I began to wonder about the inspiration for the name of the fragrance. Some sources say it was in fact inspired by the Henry James novel, while others say it was not. I haven’t actually read Portrait of a Lady so cannot say for certain if I find any similarities between Isabel Archer and the perfume I am wearing.
To me this feels most appropriate. So many portraits representing so many facets found in each and every one of us and in this breathtaking fragrance evocative of so many of them.
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2019-04-26T13:38:59Z
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I got a new baby in the kitchen: a dedicated tamagoyaki pan, again bought from my favorite 100-yen store Saizen.
I tried it out last week with the 4-egg tamagoyaki recipe. I was expecting to end up with a massive tamagoyaki roll, but after using about half the egg mixture the pan refused to accept any more and spewed out the roll. I think it has something to do with the height of the pan. Anyway I ended up with two really nice and neat tamagoyaki rolls which looks a LOT better than the rolls I used to make that went into my sushi. I used up one roll to make a sandwich-and-tamagoyaki bento, which also includes a couple of fish cake skewers and some norimaki rice crackers.
The shape and the height of the roll inspired me to make a kyaraben which was perfect for Bento Summer School Homework # 7. The body of the maiden is the entire uncut tamagoyaki roll, which I placed on top of a thin bed of rice mixed with commercial furikake. I used more white rice for the head, shaped using the top of an onigiri mold. I still have no nori face-cutters so I had to cut out the eyes and mouth by hand. The maiden’s arms and the hydra’s tentacles are all made from halved vienna sausage. The maiden’s hair is made from julienned squash which I steamed and sprinkled with salt.
I shared this bento with two of my officemates last Saturday. In short notice, both the maiden and the hydra have been vanquished!
This is my entry for Bento Summer School Homework # 6. The task is to decorate your bento with cute shapes and faces. Unfortunately, I don’t have any face cutters (yet!). Instead, I concentrated on showcasing food cut into different shapes.
The top tier has two round-top onigiri mixed with commercial furikake, circle-cut fish cake with nori bunnies, a vegetable fritatta butterfly sprinkled with 7-spice, and two mini-mushipan in cute silicone cups. The bottom tier had the rest of the rice with another type of furikake and some hotdog and fish cake skewers. That furikake is supposed to come out heart shaped, but I guess cookie cutters don’t really function as furikake stencil. I used long picks for the skewers.
This is my entry to Bento Summer School Homework #5. It’s all about sandwiches! What a perfect excuse to brighten up T’s baon!
My octopus is made out of an entire chicken hotdog, while the bear is cut out of a cheese sandwich (with a cheese belt). Accessories include flower carrot cutlets, shaped mini-mushipan, and some chocolate and strawberry goldfish. The faces are made of raisins.
You’ll see I’m just using a standard Lock n’ Lock box here (one of my first!). I wanted to avoid distracting the eye with funky box colors, so I kept it simple.
I really liked the taste of this bento that I went ahead and made a similar one for today.
This is my entry for the Bento Summer School Homework # 2. The task is basically to assemble a bento filled with finger foods, or food that does not require any utensils.
This is my daughter’s school lunch yesterday. It’s basically made up of things that I just pulled out of the freezer and threw into the steamer, except for the makizushi, which I made on the spot. Clockwise from the left: there’s steamed cocktail hotdog octopii, ham sandwich with a nori strip to make it look like sushi, a mushipan, a jumbo chicken sausage cut into flowers, and a roll of cheese makizushi.
I have been told that she ate most of it, which made me really happy!
Yay! 2 exciting things in this entry: my second kyaraben, and my first recipe!
This is my entry for the Bento Summer School Homework # 1. The task is basically to adapt a non-muffin/cupcake recipe and use a muffin tin to cook it. Then, for bonus points, to pack a bento using that recipe.
1 small carrot – Grate the carrot finely.
1 shiitake mushroom – Remove the stem. Slice into half inch strips.
* Mirin, soy sauce, and sugar amounts can vary according to taste.
Break the egg into a small bowl. While pouring the dashi stock into the bowl, gently stir the dashi with the egg. (Note: Do not beat! We don’t want bubbles into our mixture.) Add the mirin, soy sauce, and sugar and stir some more. Divide the grated carrot and sliced shiitake into three small silicone cups. Gently pour the egg mixture into the three cups. Some of the carrots and shiitake mushroom might float to the top; this is perfectly fine. Steam the eggs for around 12-15 minutes.
Bento break-down: Here you’ll (barely) see that I put in a heart-shaped carrot slice in my chawanmushi, which is slightly submerged in the egg. I have a bed of carrot-rice beside the silicone cup (Carrot-rice: I put grated carrot, a bit of olive oil, and a dash of salt into the pot while cooking rice.) At the bottom is a row of steamed broccoli florets to represent grass. The flowers are actually flower cut outs off a steamed fish cake, with cheese circles in the middle.
You’ll notice that this entire bento is made using only the rice cooker. Prep time (including packing the bento) is around 35 minutes and the cooking itself is another 20 minutes.
Composition: The bottom layer is basically just a rice layer with “オハヨウ!” written in cut-out strips of nori. Ohayou is “Good morning” in Japanese. Here, I wrote it in katakana instead of hiragana mainly because it’s easier to cut out katakana because it’s more angular. There is also a slice of hardboiled egg topped with cheese with scalloped edges (no, that’s not the egg yolk), as well as a slice of flower-shaped cheese.
The top split-layer’s left compartment is a veggie section (steamed cauliflower and broccoli florets around a fresh tomato). The right side has a bed of mac, cheese, and shrimp topped with two slices of hardboiled egg (egg whites only) with nori faces.
Thoughts: This bento is not quite the one I had planned a week ago. There is very little protein, because I had to ditch my original plan of using fried fish cakes. I bought these ready-made frozen fish cakes in Landmark and tried shallow-frying a couple. It actually turned out fine (and tasted like how I imagined it to taste like) but it spread smoke all over the house. I don’t think I want a repeat of that, so I’m sticking to sauteing at the most when it comes to frying. No more shallow- nor deep-frying, so I’ll need to find alternatives to cooking protein. I had planned to just boil the fish cakes as if putting in an oden, but I forgot to overnight-defrost the fish cakes.
In addition, I find that the actual bento is smaller than what I had pictured. I was envisioning more room to put things. This is actually a good thing, helping me control the portion size and thus help me eat less. Nori is also very hard to shape. Notice that here, I made only the most basic of shaping, which is basically just cutting strips out of nori and arranging them to form things I want.
On the positive side, steaming vegetables was a great idea! The colors are preserved beautifully, and they taste fresh too. I also got to use the picks I bought earlier, here arranged as if they were the hair on the two egg-faces. Lastly, the mac and cheese was awesome!
Conclusion: I need to work on protein for bentos, as well as making better faces. I’m thinking of acquiring more food punchers and nori cutters.
What do you think is a good theme for my next kyaraben?
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2019-04-23T04:08:51Z
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2019-04-24T09:53:23Z
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