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The guidelines for pharmaceutical marketing are typically debated all over the world, more so in India. Many issues are not clear and the drug industry interprets the rules the best it can . Cases of unethical promotion of drugs to the health care industry come up with regularity in the western world. Fortunately, no major case has been reported in the Indian media at present. But thats because many such unethical promotional activities havent come to light. There is an urgent need to inform all the concerned parties of the regulatory Dos and Donts of pharmaceutical marketing in India.
Promotion of drugs in India is governed by three major documents. THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT, 1940 is defined as An Act to regulate the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs and cosmetics in India. It has last been amended in 1995 and new amendments are overdue. The Rules 96 and 97 of THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS RULES, 1945 describe the essential information to be provided regarding labeling of drugs. The product monograph should comprise the full prescribing information necessary to enable a physician to use the drug properly. It should include description, actions, indications, dosage precaution, drug interactions, warnings and adverse reactions.
The OPPI code of conduct ( effective since 1st January 2007) sets out the guidelines to be followed for promotion of prescription drugs to the health care industry. It is based on the IFPMA code and incorporates local region ( India) specific guidelines. it sets out certain principles basic to the ethical promotion of pharmaceuticals in the country. Though it is widely followed, it is not legally binding and the final responsibility for implementation lies with the pharmaceutical marketing organizations themselves.
Below is a short presentation document outlining the Major points in marketing pharmacutical products to the health care industry.
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Women's studies (also called feminist studies) are an academic field that explores politics, society, media and history according to women's views.
The first accredited Women's Studies course was in 1969 at Cornell University. Women's studies are available at many colleges and universities.
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W.W. Grainger (GWW) Up 9.1% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Continue?
A month has gone by since the last earnings report for W.W. Grainger (GWW). Shares have added about 9.1% in that time frame, outperforming the S&P 500.
Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to its next earnings release, or is W.W. Grainger due for a pullback? Before we dive into how investors and analysts have reacted as of late, let's take a quick look at the most recent earnings report in order to get a better handle on the important catalysts.
Grainger posted fourth-quarter 2018 adjusted earnings per share of $3.96, up 35% year over year. Further, earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.60 by 10%. Higher sales, operating expense leverage and a lower tax rate drove Grainger’s fourth-quarter performance.
Including one-time items, such as restructuring and other charges, earnings came in at $3.68 in the reported quarter. The figure rallied 40% from $2.63 recorded in the year-ago quarter.
Grainger reported revenues of $2,763 million, up 5% from the prior-year quarter’s figure of $2,633 million. The upside was driven by an increase of 4 percentage point (pp) from volume growth and 1 pp increase in price, partially offset by 1 pp from holiday timing. However, revenues missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2,793 million.
In 2018, the company reported adjusted EPS of $16.70, up 46% from $11.46 in the year-ago quarter. Grainger reported revenues of $11,221 million in 2018, up around 7.6% from $10,425 million in 2017.
Adjusted cost of sales increased 6% year over year to $1,698 million. Adjusted gross profit increased 3% to $1,065 million from $1,032 million recorded in the year-earlier quarter. Gross margin shrunk 50 basis points (bps) to 39%.
Grainger’s adjusted operating income in the fourth-quarter increased 10% to $310 million from $281 million in the prior-year quarter. Adjusted operating margin expanded 50 bps to 11.2% in the quarter from 10.7% in the year-earlier quarter.
The company had cash and cash equivalents of $538 million at the end of the fiscal 2018 compared with $327 million at the end of 2017. Cash provided by operating activities fell to $314 million during the quarter, compared with $336 million reported in the prior-year quarter.
Long-term debt was $2.1 billion as of Dec 31, 2018, compared with $2.2 billion as of Dec 31, 2017. The company returned $741 million in cash to shareholders through $316 million in dividends and $425 million to buy back 1.4 million shares in 2018.
For 2019, Grainger expects net sales growth of 4% -8.5%. The company expects EPS in the band of $17.10-$18.70. Gross profit margin is estimated between 38.1% and 38.7%. The company also expects capex in the range of $300-$350 million.
At this time, W.W. Grainger has a great Growth Score of A, though it is lagging a bit on the Momentum Score front with a B. Following the exact same course, the stock was allocated a grade of B on the value side, putting it in the top 40% for this investment strategy.
W.W. Grainger has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). We expect an in-line return from the stock in the next few months.
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Today, I wanted to share a couple of images that show the majestic beauty of the places I have lived for the last few years. The first photo was taken at the UNESCO World Heritage site, Kinderdijk, near Dordrecht, Netherlands. We visited there this month on a freezing day, but I got some beautiful photos as the sun began popping through the dark clouds.
The second image is one I took at sunset one evening while wandering through the center of Paris. Sunsets in Paris are pretty remarkable, especially with the stunning silhouettes made by the architecture. I love how the sunset looks behind the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the lampposts.
Paris is full of beautiful attractions and museums and bustling restaurants to visit, but sometimes the best place to be is quietly sitting on a park bench. It’s my favorite place, anyway… Parc Monceau on the border of the 8th and 17th arrondissements holds a special place in my heart, as it was where I did my daily exercise a few years ago when I lived about 15 minutes away. It has some of the best people-watching in Paris, and is special in its design and neighborhood feel.
Perhaps you’ve heard lately that Paris is experiencing some record levels of pollution, or “un pic de pollution”. As a measure to get people to make use of public transportation instead of everyone taking his or her own car as many like to do, the government has offered several days of free transportation within Île de France. With my current little studio apartment in the 10th arrondissement, I have a lovely view of about half of the Eiffel Tower. You can imagine how odd it was a couple of days ago when I woke up in the morning and couldn’t see the Tower at all through all the smog. Without being overly dramatic about it, I must say there is a certain level of World War Z-fright from it at times. And yet, life in Paris seems to be continuing on… people are still driving (albeit circulation alternée), smokers are still lighting up, and the café seats are still full on all these sunny days.
This photo was taken last December from Place de la Concorde on a beautiful evening with an incredible sunset. I’m sure there was plenty of pollution in the air that day, but at least the burning sky hid the evidence.
Groetjes uit Amsterdam! Sunset was beautiful tonight; the sun was huge.
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Fitness and exercise routines are often quite varied and followed in a unique manner by most people. Consumers often find that trying to participate in specific kinds of programs can be more difficult to consider than imagined as they require the use of various routines along with the need to use various principles and ideas. When following a great body building Hollywood program consumers are offered the opportunity to make sure their muscle growth efforts are as readily managed as possible.
A body building program is designed to ensure significant muscle mass is built upon with the appropriate lifting and diet program. Consumers that set this goal are traditionally interested in making sure they are able to reach specific measurements for competition or personal goal setting purposes. People are encouraged to focus on specific completion efforts as part of creating the most enhanced levels of success.
Consumers in Hollywood that are focused on this particular goal have plenty of options in which to consider. Many people are overwhelmed with all that is required of them when trying to make sure they have access to as much success as possible in their goals. Concentrating on several key factors is quite useful in accomplishing this fitness goal.
Setting goals and milestones is one of the most helpful and initial facets of consideration in this effort. Goals and milestones are typically based on the amount of muscle mass that one is interested in gaining on a regular basis while making sure gains are as consistent as possible. Researching traditional gains and remaining consistent with all goals and milestones ensures that consistency is readily established.
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Concentrating on the entire body is also an integral part of this entire process. Many people lift weights and train on specific parts of their body and neglect others which create lackluster results and an uneven appearance and should be avoided. Growth and sustainable programs are only made possible when each muscle group is worked at least twice per week.
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adventurer in life | i want simplicity and sunlight. i want adventures and cameras and notebooks to document them. i want to write about everyday as if it was an adventure.
well, this is what i’m *hopefully* making this weekend. my brother-in-law is helping the mister install some gorgeous hardwood floors, so i get to play with my one-year-old niece (the happiest little girl in the world, seriously). not sure how much i will accomplish with her running around being happily adorable (and adorably happy) but hopefully most of it.
we came home to cool, midwest fall air.
sometimes i forget just how beautiful the midwest can be, especially when i’m in paradise.
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In the past 60 years, buildings have come and gone in Carrboro. New technology has been developed. The population has increased by a factor of 11.
But in that time, the town hall has stood waiting for the same change and development that occurred all around it.
Now, when the building is finally scheduled to be renovated, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen is having second thoughts.
At the February 21 Board of Alderman meeting, town leaders failed to approve a new capital improvements plan, which would fund the $6.2 million needed for renovations to the town hall.
Town leaders expressed concerns about the overall cost of the plan, which they say is significantly higher due to the addition of town infrastructure for the first time this fiscal year.
The town hall, which sits at 301 W. Main Street, has been rendered partially unusable due to a failure to meet certain property codes. Chaney said the closure of part of the building means the town staff no longer have adequate space. Chaney also said the current boardroom is too small to accommodate all the people who attend some of the town’s larger public hearings.
The town hall renovations were proposed in this year’s capital improvement plan. The plan lays out what the town needs to spend from the current fiscal year until fiscal year 2021-2022.
The plan also recommends funding an additional $14.3 million in office space above the planned southern branch of Orange County library at 203 S. Greensboro Street. Town manager David Andrews said town leaders are still deliberating about how much additional space they will need.
“(The library) can be built up to as high as five stories per the zoning so we are looking at building some office spaces on top of the library, and going up another two, or three or four floors depending on what our needs are and what we can afford,” Andrews said.
This year’s plan calls for roughly $51 million total in capital spending, $9.7 million of which have already been appropriated. Last year’s plan only requested $49.3 million.
Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said she was alarmed by the cost increase.
“With some of these numbers—well I haven’t been that scared since Trump’s last speech,” Gist said in the meeting.
Gist also expressed concern with the possibility of the town having to raise taxes on residents to fund the capital improvement plan.
Chaney believes that it is likely town residents will see tax increases in the coming years, regardless of whether the town funds the improvement projects.
“The inflationary cost is increasing at a rate that the growth of our current tax base so whether or not we move forward on the projects I’m afraid that we are going to see tax increases in the next two to three years,” Chaney said.
The projects also faced funding challenges, Chaney said, because public buildings don’t generate property taxes, so they can’t be paid for sustainably without other revenue streams.
“When you are trying to build a building you want to have somebody paying for it, through the property taxes or otherwise,” Chaney said.
In previous meetings, Alderman Randee-Haven O’Donnell also expressed concerns about a drop in funding from the state and federal governments, which could affect the town’s ability to fund projects in the capital improvement plan.
While the aldermen debate the costs, the town hall still stands on W. Main Street waiting to be fixed.
“All those projects are vital projects. Whether they could be delayed a year, or two or, three—every time we delay a project the costs increase and that’s just increasing the bottom line.” Chaney said.
Brent Green gives a presentation to the Aldermen about the condition of town infrastructure at the Feb. 28 Board of Aldermen meeting. In the presentation the roof of the town hall was given a failing grade and the basement and plumbing were rated poor. Photo by Ari Sen.
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Congrí rice is a mixture of beans and rice that is often used as accompaniment in many Cuban dishes. Depending on the region it has its variants.
1. Soak the beans the night before.
2. Cook them in a pressure cooker for 15 minutes and store 3 cups of water if cooked.
3. Put the rice to cook in a pan.
4. In a pan prepare the sofrito with oil or lard, chopped onion, garlic, strips of pepper and bacon or pork rinds.
5. Add beans, 3 cups of water to cook, salt and cumin.
6. When it begins to boil, add the cooked rice and leave it on a medium heat until it softens.
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Very beautiful. I just studied the baroque style in Art History.
That's one of my favourite eras, El Gato, and an excellent one for the LotR films, Frodo, especially.
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This may seem like a psychological game, but I'm sure if you're like most that have trouble raising their freelance designer rates or freelance content writing rates, some of it is disturbing. Many times, there are freelancers who charge very low fees and as you might expect, they feel dissatisfied by the payments they are getting for the amount of time and hard work that they put in. This leads to them feeling “guilty”. You have to think in terms of a "win-win" and this does not only mean that your client has to win, but also that you have to win. This way, both the parties will want to continue working together and making profits together.<a href="https://www.mybpcreditcard.info/">https://www.mybpcreditcard.info/</a>If you yourself do not know how much your services are worth, what your customers are getting with it, what makes it unique in the market and how it differs from the competition, you will hardly be able to sell it to your customer. I suggest this exercise: Write down in a notebook what all your customers have achieved with your services (do not latch only on a particular customer) and make a list of everything that you have achieved. Be as specific and concrete as possible. Think about the things that your customers have achieved later. Once you have a list of these accomplishments of all your clients for your services, compare it to your current rate. What do you feel? How does that sound? What do you see? If you have a long list of achievements and results and your freelance designer rates are very low, you will notice quickly. And that discomfort is the first step.There is nothing more inefficient than to have these kinds of important conversations, without any preparation. This seems basic, but you'd be surprised by the number of people who have no idea of what they are doing. First and foremost, not all customers are equal and they are likely to have different terms and conditions depending on your skills. You can then make the terrible mistake of assuming that your customer is paying in one way or another and expose him to a change that does not match the agreement that you already have made. You have to understand and accept that there are customers who will want to continue despite your fee and customers who will not. But you will be surprised by how many others will want to continue despite your rate increase. These tips will also help you to calculate freelance designer rates if you are confused about what price to put on your services.
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the Fire Station. Bring I.D, Proof of Residency and Social Security Cards.
La Monte Christian Church-every 3rd Thursday from 4-6 p.m. Bring I.D, Proof of Residency and Social Security Cards.
La Monte encourages your participation in the Parents as Teachers program.
This is a FREE program for children ages Birth to 5 years and expectant mothers. Parents as Teachers helps increase parent's confidence and improve parenting skills.
They also provide periodic screenings than can increase parents' understanding of their children's developmental process, and alert them to any possible delays.
Early intervention helps improve the chances that children enter school healthy and ready to learn!
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Thank you for the update C&W.
Do you happen to have an unpublished list regarding Tolkien’s art?
If you mean, a list of unpublished art by Tolkien, then no, we don’t have such a list.
I should have read that comment back, thank you, yes I meant a list of Tolkien’s unpublished art.
Again many thanks for the update.
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My mountaineering friend and trainer Laurie Skreslet, has agreed to keep me on track by cracking the proverbial whip when I break into childish whining and absurd justifications. I suspect he’s heard every clever excuse I have stashed up my newly adorned Patagonia sleeve.
This weekend, I recorded my first VideoBlog~Vlog, introducing the pilgrimage. As the trail is physically demanding, I’ll be filming Blogs in place of wordy postings, while walking the Camino. Be prepared for spectacular scenery, unkempt hair, child-like whimpering and preposterous rational. Not necessary in that order.
High or not, I’m feeling the love, support and encouragement from my family and friends.
Have you ever had the feeling life is on the verge of transformation?
I’m in that fuzzy place between a comfortable existence and an unquenchable thirst to walk the 780 km pilgrimage from France to Spain: The Camino de Santiago Trail.
I know what you’re thinking, “Shauna, you are not exactly the roughing it adventurous type, unless you consider a quiet afternoon at the beach….roughing it.” The Camino is 30-40 days of hiking, slugging a backpack by day and evenings spent in an Albergue. (a fancy spanish word for hostile).
Initially, I considered blaming this deranged idea on my youngest daughter. She lives in Spain and was the first to mention the trail 3 years ago. The unfortunate flaw in trying to absolve myself of any and all accountability is that when she was young, I made the mistake of repeating, “We are all responsible for our own actions”.
*Parents…be careful what you tell your kids, they remember and are waiting to use it against you when you’re older.
Lacking a scapegoat, I find myself in the annoying position of having to admit this idea is a product of my own design.
In the coming weeks, I’ll report on my progress. I eagerly await your tips on footwear, rain-gear and all recommendations of psychologists specializing in mid-life lunacy.
What are your thoughts on Spain in spring?
Four weeks in Barcelona to write, decorate, absorb a new language, and visit with my daughter & her boyfriend. There’s not a single reason to shield my eyes from the Spanish-Splendour surrounding me… then again the day is young.
Adhering to a strict schedule and not wishing to miss the spectacular sunrise, I spring from my cozy bed, slip into running gear and head for the promenade adjacent to the beach, for a 20 minute run. Afterward, I meditate for 30 minutes at waters edge.
I return to the apartment refreshed and Zen-like, sprinting the 68 steps to my daughters 4th floor apartment. The three of us sit down to a nutritious breakfast and discuss our plans for the day. I skip off to the Chiringuto (a beachside restaurant) and order, in quasi-acceptable Spanish, the first of two iced coffees and write for several inspired hours under a red umbrella warmed by the hospitable Spanish sun.
That’s how my day looks in my imagination….In reality, this is my wake-up call in Barcelona.
A near empty beach soothes me as I sit crossed legged facing the unusually calm sea. Despite the welcoming and compliant sand, I twitch and squirm as my right foot insists on falling asleep. My marginal concentration is challenged by boisterous masculine voices, as five elderly gentlemen, in undersized speedos, have chosen this exact spot, despite miles of empty beech, to suspend their walk and socialize.
Generally speaking, Europeans over a certain age, tend not to waste unnecessary material on beachwear. The particular angle of the sun catches and emphasizes an aspect of the male physique that should never, EVER, be compressed under such a thin layer of spandex.
I take a deep cleansing breath and turn my head in the opposite direction.
While focusing on the heaviest part of the flesh coloured sandbags, a shiver of realization runs through me. Those aren’t sandbags, I’m staring at exceeding low pendulous breasts. As they pass, one of the ladies furrows her brow and gives me an inquisitive look. It would seem, I’m the only person out of place on this beach!
With little appetite, I forgo breakfast and head directly to the beach restaurant for a much-needed shot of caffeine.
After butchering the Spanish language ordering espresso, I sit quietly under the red umbrella, allowing the soothing mediterranean sea to heal my scorched retinas.
My Mindful Lunch ~ I feel so healthy..
Eating mindfully, helps us to slow down which in turn makes us more conscious of what and how much we are eating. Slowing ourselves down is a process; making mealtime an opportunity to form meaningful connections with our loved ones as well as ourselves requires effort and intention.
3) Check-In- This is a key element in mindful eating. Before you put one bite into your mouth ask yourself why you are eating and how hungry are you? Rate it on a scale from 1 to 7 ( with 7 being hungriest). As you continue eating, continue to rate your hunger—stopping when it has reached a 1 or 2. Ask yourself how you are feeling emotionally and physically.
In Lorraine’s post Mindful Eating: Your Relationship with Food, Your Waistline and You… She wrote; “we are eating spiritually when we are eating mindfully. Eating spiritually or mindfully does not begin and end at the dinner table. We do this when we purchase food that supports a sustainable and eco-friendly world, when we support companies that provide safe, fair wages to their employees or when we opt to pay a little more to support organic or local family farms”.
There are plenty of websites and cookbooks that offer healthy recipes that can cater to any preference. Find a few cookbooks that are particularly appealing to you.
***I hope you enjoyed this article as much as I did. Lorraine has a passion for healthy eating and a true flare in her delivery.
***Have you incorporated mindful eating in your daily routine and if so how?
What does Celebrating Your Blessings look like to you? Spending time with family or friends? Gathering in a sacred space? Going out with friends? Enjoying the company of yourself or someone special?
How would a few minutes of Celebrating Your Blessings look to you? Would you express yourself through song, tender words written on special paper, meditation? A Grateful smile at the end of a long day?
If you knew you had a limited number of days remaining in your life, how would you Celebrate? Who would you celebrate with? What’s holding you back? Are you too busy, too poor, too exhausted, too angry, is it too soon, or too late?
Consider the next 24 hours Celebrating Blessings Day. This day does not require planning, money, reservations or invitations. You have 1440 minutes to be spontaneous with your imagination on how you choose to Celebrate the Blessings in your life. That is exactly 1440 chances to make your heart expand. If nothing else, allow yourself just one of those 1440 minutes to slow down and Celebrate the things you are Grateful for.
I’m so very pleased you took the time to stop in, how are you enjoying the 21 Days to Gratitude?
Releasing a Grievance is not making you right and the other person wrong. It has nothing to do with the measure of the perceived Grievance. It has to do with YOU no longer carrying around baggage for an event in your past. For many of us, holding a Grievance is coupled with loss and Grief. The act of holding on, is degenerative to our physical and mental health.
With this knowledge we have a smidgen of work to do, so let’s get to it…..
#1 ~ Bring to mind a person against whom you currently hold a grievance—someone other than yourself. Hold the person and the grievance in your mind. Review the situation in which the grievance arose: how it got started, what happened, the aftermath, and anything else that comes to mind. Get in touch with everything associated with this grievance, as clearly as you can. Write it down if need be.
#2 ~ How does this situation resonate within you? Underneath whatever surface feelings of triumph or satisfied self-righteousness you may have. Does holding this grievance really serve your happiness today? See if you can get in touch with the pain this grievance is causing you. Mental pain is the consequence of holding this grievance, however much you may think holding it makes you right, or justified.
#3 ~ Now imagine this Grievance as a 10 pound rock you carry with you each and every day, never having a moments rest from the weight. This rock/Grievance is controlling you, not you controlling the Grievance. Yes, it WAS hurtful, yes it was cruel, embarrassing, unnecessary, excessive, inexcusable, you choose an adjective to describe it. The key word here is “WAS”, it’s in the past and you are living it in your present day. You are giving this person, event, action all your power. The energy required by your body to generate this Grievance causes depression, high blood pressure, insomnia, anxiety and a constant state of stress. Among other things.
#4 ~ Now here’s the tough part, your overall health is desperate for you to forgive this person/event. Forgive them for YOU, forgive them for your own physical health, for your future, for your happiness. As long as you refuse to forgive this person, you are carrying that rock with their name on it. It is weighing you down. Degenerating your life. Think about that. Your life, your health, your joy is trapped under a 10 pound rock and you are holding the rock in place. Do you really want another other person to maintain that amount of power over you? Haven’t you given them enough of your energy. Wouldn’t now be a good time to break free of the past?
If you’re anything like me and require an in-depth explanation and a plan of action, I invite you to join the 30 Day Forgiveness Challenge with Demond Tutu and his daughter Mpho. Everyday you’ll receive a brief lesson to fill-in online. They provide guidelines, suggestions to assist you and encouragement. You work at your own pace and it’s not difficult, (expect the part where you have to forgive someone) Even if you sign up and don’t get around to participating until day 10, (like me) you’ll have the workbook in your inbox to absorb at your leisure.
It has been scientifically proven that your Happiness is in direct correlation to the amount of Gratitude you show. I know, I know just another study right? It seems to me you can’t go wrong on this one though. I doubt they will come back and say they were wrong, considering history has been reporting on Gratitude for thousands of years. Leaders, sages, holy men and women all agree on this one point. Gratitude WILL produce enduring Happiness. Like anything, it takes practice to build your Gratitude muscle.
Have you ever thanked another person for the influence they have had in your life? Below is a YouTube video taking a group of people through an experiment. They had test subjects write down a letter describing a person who they are most Grateful for in their life. As a surprise to the subjects, they asked them to call that person and read the letter. It’s called An Experiment In Gratitude and I personally find it a brilliant demonstration in the Power Of Gratitude.
Our lesson for today is to write down one such letter/paragraph and read it out loud to the person you wrote it about. If you can’t bring yourself to read it to the person, send it in the mail. Snail mail if possible. It doesn’t have to be a full letter, it can be one or two paragraphs. Describe how their actions improved your life. Thank them for their contribution. If they are no longer with us, read it out loud as you stand in front of a mirror. Remember to look at yourself when you are reading it.
To me this Experiment is filled with Growth. I dedicate this blog to Mary Moss a truly remarkable woman with a gift for Gratitude. Mary was the mother of a friend of mine Maddie Moss. Maddie is a woman who never lets a compliment slip by, a quality she inherited from her mother. Mary passed away in July of last year and she was a “quote machine”. She found an opportunities for Growth in most every situation. One of my favourite quotes she said to her children, when they were in the middle of a difficult life challenge was: “THERE YOU GO, GROWING AGAIN”. To me this saying takes what is perceived as a hardship and allows Growth to flourish.
For many of us this Experiment In Gratitude will be a challenge. Consider it an opportunity to Grow. Who knows, you might even enjoy it and spread your Gratitude to a multitude of friends, family, co-workers, teachers, parents, siblings, cousins…. the list is endless. Have some fun with it. Start slow if you have to, build up to the one you are most uncomfortable imagining yourself writing to. There is where the real growth resides.
Asking for and wanting a specific Person, Place or Thing is part of who we are as humans. We are set on this earth to move forward, to evolve, accomplish our goals, achieve our highest desires, to give and receive love. There is one tiny-tiny condition when asking for the very Persons, Places, or Things we believe will improve our lives. When we lose sight of the joy of our life journey, by becoming so attached to the outcome, we push those People, Places or Things further away. When we focus in so intently on the acquisition of our requests, the Persons, Places or Things senses our desperation and literally vibrate off in a new direction.
Tonight, I had a conversation with a mentor of mine. I asked him how to advise a friend, who is currently in a state of urgency over the acquisition of a large purchase. My friend is in a position of “Wanting the conclusion to arrive” more than “Enjoying the process” and she is finding the stress uncomfortable. I’ve been there many times in my life and appreciate the anxiety associated with wishing for something so intently, my perception and judgement was distorted.
The sage advice my mentor offered me was two-fold. #1 ~ A Request, Affirmation or Prayer, (choose the word which resonates with you) is “The Question”. Once you’ve asked for what you want, stop and listen for the answer. I guarantee you, the solution IS inside of you, if you are willing and open to it: For some, allowing the answer filters in through meditation, or a contemplative run or swim. Still others, a walk in nature, writing, singing, or creating. Choosing what works for you is key.
Please give me THIS _________________ OR BETTER.
I love the “OR BETTER” aspect of this. It softens the request and opens it to new possibilities we are unable to see in the moment of urgency.
# 3 ~ Show Gratitude to the People, Places and Things currently in your life. Gratitude is the shortcut to fulfilling your dreams. When you are thankful for what you have in your life, what you have expands in new and unexpected ways.
What am I Grateful for today? I’m Grateful to you…. for allowing me into your lives for these 21 Days. I am truly honoured by your dedication to this Gratitude process. I know it takes time, effort and some discomfort, in searching out new ways of thinking and thanking. I’m exceedingly proud of your efforts!
1. You’ll smile as you give gratitude for a favour done, and the doer will smile back. Laughter and smiles extend life and promote good health.
9. “Thank you’s” and gratitude enhance your vision. You’ll see other people and yourself in a new frame of reference when you take that short one second to acknowledge that it’s a beautiful world.
**Find a way to keep track of how consistently you feel grateful and how often you express it. You might keep a journal, log your grateful moments on your computer, or just pause and reflect when you’ve remembered to say thanks. A French proverb calls gratitude the memory of the heart.
What a beautiful thought as we go about our days. Doesn’t it seem worth it to tithe one second out of nearly 100,000 on any given day and create a memory in your heart?
Today I was searching YouTube for an interesting talk for you on this the half-way point on our 21 Days to Cultivating Gratitude. Something you should know about me, I have a geeky side and I just LOVE TedTalks. I’m even involved in a TedTalks bi-monthly Meetup group.
I found this TedTalk on Gratitude with Brother David Steindl-Rast. I’ve listened to David Steindl-Rast in over the years and have found him an exceptionally wise and easy to comprehend teacher. He was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. Received his MA degree from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Vienna. He emigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a Benedictine monk in 1953 at Mt. Saviour Monastery in Pine City New Your.
He Co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies. His writings include Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer, The Music of Silence, Words of Common Sense and Belonging to the Universe. He also co-founded A Network for Grateful Living, an organization dedicated to gratefulness as a transformative influence for individuals and society.
With his extensive study in the realm of Gratitude, I thought you might enjoy thisTedTalk on Gratitude by: David Steindl-Rast: Want to be Happy? Be Grateful.
Today let’s review our Gratitude List.
Consider the words you placed on the original list. Do they resonate with who you are today? Now is your chance to start again, or simply expand your reach. Every minute you live is an opportunity to make a new selection. We mistakenly believe the choices we made last year, last week, yesterday, an hour ago, are the end of the story.
Rummage around your world for people, places or things you are Grateful for. If nothing comes to mind, your focus might be too sharp, squint a little, blur the edges. Relax to the breeze that is Gratitude. It swirls around us like mist in the morning and if we have our protective layers zipped too tight around our awareness, we miss the subtle undercurrent.
What is one thing you’re grateful for about your Physical Realm? Think of a part of your body you feel grateful for. Bring that one physical trait to the forefront of your mind and be thankful for it. Praise it as you would a good friend, let it know how you appreciate the work it is doing to make your everyday life easier. For example: “I’m grateful for my eyes for allowing me to see my granddaughter take her first step this week”.
What is one response you’re grateful for in your Emotional Realm? All the emotions that you experience: Love, Kindness, Joy, Grace, Bliss, Forgiveness, Gratitude, etc. What are you most grateful for in your Emotional Realm?
What are you grateful for in your Material Realm? As you look around at all the items you surround yourself with, the possessions, the touchstones, the treasure-trove of all the material things in your life… What are you grateful for and why? For example, I’m grateful to my bed for supporting me throughout the night.
What are you grateful for in your Relationship Realm? Consider all the relationships in your life and highlight one in your mind. It may be a particular relationship, or a thread that runs through all your relationships. What relationship are you most grateful for today?
What are you grateful for in the Realm of your Belief System, your Trust in the Universe, or your Higher Power? It could be as simple as your gratitude to the sun for warming your face as you walk.
I was at my Toastmasters meeting last night and the gratitude my fellow toastmasters offered me for creating this 21 day blog, literally filled my grateful cup to overflowing. There’s a power and strength when we offer a heartfelt word of encouragement to another for contributing to our life experience. An irrepressible sense of accomplishment replenishes you when you know you’ve touched the life another human being.
Your ability to offer gratitude will be mirrored back to you in situations and circumstances you’ve never dreamed possible. Open yourself to the potential of GRATITUDE.
Those who refuse to Forgive ~ destroy the bridge they themselves must cross.
Awakening Forgiveness inside is rarely an easy task. We mistakenly believe if we forgive someone for a perceived wrong, we are telling the person it was all right in the fist place. This type of Forgiveness is a function of the ego getting in the way of Forgiveness by placing conditions on the Forgiveness. Being unwilling or unable to forgive keeps us stuck on the treadmill of blame and resentment. We punish ourselves with these negative emotions and rarely is the other person impacted by our lack of forgiveness.
There is magic in Forgiveness. It opens the soul to possibility.
1. Withholding forgiveness hurts the other person.
The truth is: Withholding forgiveness hurts yourself.
2. Forgiveness is a passive endeavor.
The truth is: Forgiveness is a very active endeavor, where you can ultimately reach out in love and compassion to the other person.
3. Forgiveness lets people off the hook, so they aren’t accountable to their actions.
The truth is: Forgiveness and accountability are not the same topic. You can have both. Forgive another by offering empathy and unity; yet still uphold the process of accountability within the social structure.
4. Forgiving someone tells that person that whatever he or she did was acceptable with you.The truth is: Accepting their actions and accepting their true nature underneath it all are two very different things. You can make that clear.
5. Forgiveness is for the other person.The truth is: Forgiving another is an act we do for ourselves, to free ourselves from the pain or bitterness.
6. When you are forgiving, you are “pardoning” someone’s bad behavior.
The truth is: There is no “pardoning,” just a clearer perception on who that other person truly is, and what they can still provide to your life, to a community and to a society.
The truth is: Forgiveness resides not only in words but also in thought, feeling and action.
8. Forgiving another person doesn’t do any good really.
The truth is: It not only uplifts you AND that person in ways unseen, but it brings that much more light to a world in need.
9. Forgiveness is only for religious people.
The truth is: It’s for all of us walking the planet.
10. It’s too hard to forgive. The truth is: It can be hard, but not too hard, not when you have the right support and perspective.
Take time today to think of one person in your life you would like/need to forgive. Go through the above listed 10 Misconceptions with him/her in mind and see if you are able to come to a resolution of how to take the first step in forgiving this person. Anger, hurt and an unwillingness to Forgive, are like holding onto the end of a rope, never allowing it to touch the ground. It takes energy to keep that rope in the air. The other person may not even be aware you are working so hard to keep your end of the rope suspended. Even if they have a firm grip on their end, imagine what it would be like if you simply dropped that rope of anger. This is an exercise to allow YOU a step closer to dropping your grip with an emotion that is not serving you. Even if you are not aware of it, the lack of Forgiveness is in control of you.
If you would like additional resource Cultivating Forgiveness, I’ve attached a link for a Workbook on Forgiveness by the author of the above: 10 Misconceptions About Forgiveness. Workbook: by Azim Khamisa. Azim is a father whose son was murdered and through this tragedy and his remarkable journey, he is now teaching workshops on Forgiveness. For additional information on his courses and his story go to www.azimkhamisa.com (Just so you know, I don’t have an association to his work or teaching, I simply like his honest way of teaching).
Have you had any experience with Forgiveness? Please share, it’s nice to know I’m not alone in needing guidance where Forgiveness is concerned.
Positivity ~ is a word that has been overused in our society. Remember when you were young and you’d repeat a word over and over again? The actual word lost all meaning and became ridiculous. It seems to me, Positivity has suffered a similar fate and I’d like to get back to the heart of what it means to be Positive, using a simple 68 second technique.
As with Gratitude, when you toss Positivity around without integrity, you dilute the impact to a state where it has little effectiveness. Have you ever heard a 5 year old apologizing to his sibling at the urging of his mother? “Joey, apologize to your sister and say it like you mean it” “I’m SOOORRRREEEEE”. It’s an exchange of words, emphasis is applied on the right vowel, however Joey’s not fooling anyone, certainly not his sister. If you only say the words and your don’t actually feel them physically, you’ve lost the impact. Your homework for today boys and girls ~ concentrate on those things in your life you feel Positive toward. (it’s easier to expand Positivity when the root strength of the actual emotion is there to start with) Write them down if it helps and work on one Positive thought at a time.
It’s important to relax and not make this feel like work, if you manage once a day, job well done. Of course in time working up to once an hour will change how you experience life. Again, Baby Steps and keep in mind, there are no wrong answers. If the only thing you can find to be positive about today is the fact your dog likes you, go with that. For 68 seconds today try to stay in the realm of pure positivity. Gently move any negative thoughts off to the side, if only for a moment or two. As you inflate the emotion of Positivity you allow yourself to vibrate at a level where you attract more of what you are concentrating on. This is a quick exercise, just over a minute of expanding your Positive thoughts. How this works is: you GET-IN to the Positive feeling, GET Positive and GET-OUT. Quick bursts of Positive Thoughts. You don’t want to spend too much time on this. Reason being is: after a minute, our mind finds negative thoughts and attaches that negative thought to the Positive one, causing us to doubt and negate the Positive feeling.
How are you doing? Are you finding this process helpful?
Good Morning Sunday….. I have to admit this Cultivating Gratitude exercise has been a surprising challenge for me. In my mind I thought writing and researching this 21 day project would be a piece of cake. Life is funny how it turns ideas into lesson. It’s difficult to delve deep into the inner recesses of the heart, take stalk of life, practice what one preaches and do the hard work of expanding. I naively thought this would be effortless. Good grief, what was I thinking?
Now that I’ve committed to 21 days of searching and growing and more importantly asking YOU to do the same, I’m finding nothing is as easy in reality as it is in theory.
For today, lets review what we are grateful for ~ Do one kind thing for another person in the next 24 hours: and last but not least ~ be grateful for the gift of experiencing another sunrise.
Selfless Acts of Kindness ALWAYS have a ripple effect. When you throw an Act of Kindness out without an expectation of reciprocation, the energy you placed into any genuine Act of Kindness is returned to you. Perhaps not from the person you originally gave it to, however it is repaid to you often in ways you never imagined.
The universe has a reimbursement system that returns to you what you give out. Love for Love ~ Honesty for Honesty ~ Kindness for Kindness.
Acts of Kindness grow in volume and intensity. They have the ability to expand in ways you could never imagine. For example, after months of avoiding your grumpy neighbour, you smile and ask him how he’s doing. After your encounter, he is so grateful to be acknowledged for the first time in a year, he secretly buys the coffee of an old woman standing behind him in line at the local coffee shop. She in turn is so grateful to know that chivalry is alive and well, she takes the time to talk to the young teenage runaway who just needs someone to accept him for who he is, tattoos and all.
This ripple effect goes on indefinitely. The strength of one small Act of Kindness has the power to multiply. Imagine the positive energy created by one act of giving to a stranger. You literally have thousands of moments like this in a week to practice even one Act of Kindness to those you love, the ones you dislike or the individuals you’ve never even notice that surround you in any given day.
Cultivating Gratitude can be tricky business. Two crucial things to know about increasing your gratitude: it requires persistence and absolute integrity. Your mind has miraculous abilities: It knows when you’re not being sincere.
There are a few strategies you can adopt to gain access to the authenticity required to move forward in Cultivating Gratitude. Your mind has a way of breaking down its resistance to forming a new habit when you fill it with constant & positive reinforcement.
Writing down what you are grateful for is a good place to start. Once you have a list of the top 10 – 20 things you feel gratitude toward, keep them where you will be most likely to read them during the day. Post them in your home, at the office or better yet, carry them with you in your purse or pocket. If you own a smart-phone with a calendar, add it to your to-do list. Take a few minutes during your day to read it through.
If you find yourself too busy for this practice during the day, keep the list next to your bed and read it over at night and/or when you wake in the morning. The repetition has a way of reinforcing your belief in what you are grateful for. Keep in mind if you don’t believe it in your heart, this exercise won’t be as effective. Search deep within to find what you are truly grateful for, not what you believe you are suppose to be grateful for. This is a process, take baby steps if you need to, be genuine, be truthful and be yourself. There are no wrong answers here.
#1 ~ Take Stock of your blessing: Make a list of what you are grateful for today. Keep it with you and add to it through out the day. Consider blessings in your family, your friends, business, people who help you in your day-to-day life.
#2 ~ Practicing Acts of Kindness: How can you add value to the life of those you know as well as a person you don’t know. A smile, a gesture, a kind word offered to a stranger ~ thank a clerk for a job well done, acknowledge a receptionist with genuine appreciation, say good-morning to someone you pass on the street.
#3 ~ Practicing Positivity in all your words, thought and actions: Try offering one kind word or action to turn a negative into a positive. Instead of criticizing a situation, consider how a positive word or action would improve your day as well as the other person involved.
#4 ~ Awaking Forgiveness: Allow forgiveness to unfold from you. Forgiveness does not mean you believe the other person was right, only human. When you are willing to offer forgiveness, you open a door to the possibility of lowering resistance to the pain and suffering that blame causes, not only to those around you, but to you as well.
#5 ~ Celebrate Blessing: Savour life’s joys and allow them to grow through simple appreciation. Imagine receiving a Thank You for a simple smile. Imagine having the opportunity to thank the one person who encouraged you during your darkest day. Imagine celebrating those around you, even if only for today.
*These 5 Steps to Cultivating Gratitude were inspired by a guided meditation by Davidji.
Last night I gave a speech for a group of open-hearted men and women I called Cultivating Gratitude. What came of this speech was an idea for Italian Living.
21 Days To Cultivating Gratitude….
For me, every lesson that has gifted my life, has encouraged me to look for gratitude in my thoughts, feelings and actions. Usually the “lesson” is painful and causes swelling and a bruise. Then I have to dig deep and search out the positive.
For most of us simply dabbling in a good idea like Gratitude isn’t likely to transform our lives. Dabbling allows you to dip your toes in the stream without completely changing your course. You feel the current, you’re aware of the cool water and gentle flow, however a river, like gratitude, has a depth and character that can only be appreciated from within its all encompassing embrace.
We can stand on the banks for hours, gazing at the river as it flows past. Not until we allow ourselves to wade in, stand on the uneven rocks and feel the strength of the river do we truly EXPERIENCE it for ourselves. Gratitude is like the river, you have to get a little wet before you can embrace what being grateful has to offer you.
Creating this blog has been a celebration in gratitude for me. When you message me or respond to my posts, I experience an incredible warmth for the remainder of my day. Simply knowing there are people out there who read my words offers me joy and for this I thank you for dropping in.
With the arrival of spring, I’ve decided to post a daily blog on Cultivating Gratitude. For 21 days starting tomorrow May 1, 2014: I will offer suggestions as to how we can grow and cultivate finding joy in our lives through a daily practice of germinating gratitude. Like a seed we plant in the soil, it requires light, nutrition, water and opportunity. It takes approximately 21 days to form a new habit. Seems remarkable when you think how quickly we fall into negative patterns. The law of growth is the same for negative habits as for positive.
This 21 day practice will be an opportunity to replace those weed seeds with seeds of a joyful nature.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and how these 21 Days Of Cultivating Gratitude have changed the way you experience life.
A lovely earth-angel withdrew from life as I knew it this past winter. Her name was Beatrice Angeli. Yes, her last name was Angel… She was my landlady the second time I stayed at Residenza del Palmerino.
She wore many hats in her lifetime, however when I met her she was managing her family home, the land and the four rooms she rented to travellers such as myself in search of a quiet, comfortable, stunningly beautiful experience in the heart of Tuscany.
My time in her care was angelic to say the very least. She was a woman of strong character, with an idyllic fascination toward humanity. Every year she would travel to India, living in an Ashram to reconnect herself and further her spiritual studies. When she returned home to Italy, she devoted her time to restoring famous paintings, caring for her animals, the lush gardens on the property as well as nurturing the close bond she shared with family and friends.
In her spare time she prepared delicious homemade jams for sale. All donations raised from the funds collected went to help the kids of India. I’m at a loss for adequate words to describe the succulent flavours I savoured, over the years, in jar after jar of the various jams I slathered on thick Italian bread.
Lovely homemade Jam to raise money for the children of India .
My personal mouth-watering favourite was fichi (figs). I will miss the joy on her face as she prepared her special jellies and shared them with those she loved. My thighs are adjusting to life without her succulent and addictive nectar. I swear she added some mysterious dependency forming ingredient when I wasn’t looking. Or perhaps it was simply the Tuscan sun and her loving touch.
Me with HALF a loaf of Italian Bread. Behind me the Wall outside the entrance to her home.
In September of 2013, I had the pleasure of assisting her in the slicing of ripe figs for what would be her final collection of jams. Knowing my love of figs, she offered me the perfect ones to nibble over the 3 hours I worked side by side with her on that glorious afternoon, I walked away with a belly ache and had to cancel my dinner plans. Ohhhh who am I kidding, I’ve never cancelled a chance to enjoy Italian food…. not EVER!
You couldn’t help but adore Beatrice, she was filled with a unique joy and appreciation for every form of life. Her overindulgence of animals was well known to everyone who entered her home. The picture below of her cat napping, in a box on her table, was classic Beatrice. She would do anything for her four-legged friends. As I soon discovered, she expressed her love of friends in a similar fashion, allowing gifts and compliments to flow freely in her home. In addition she shared her disapproval equally generously. One night I had a few appetizers and wine in my apartment. I attempted to serve what I knew to be fried-polenta. Her response to me was, “this my dear is NOT polenta, it’s corn and it’s yellow, but it is defiantly not polenta. You come to my kitchen next week and I will show you how.” I’m sorry to say I never took her up on the offer to teach me her authentic recipe.
Beatrice loved animals of all types. Cats topped the list of the over indulged..
Having the honour of spending time with my lovely friend Beatrice Angeli was one of the blessings I was afforded while living in Tuscany.
Below I’ve added a link to the story I wrote about my time in her home surrounded by her loving care and uniqueness of spirit.
When one has an out-of-body experience with a master it produces a lasting effect. I had one such moment with an artist here in Florence. His name – Fabio Velotti – a seriously perfect name wouldn’t you agree? I booked an appointment as my hair was in need of a little TLC. I actually love my hair when I’m in Europe. Contrary to the dry climate of Calgary, the limited wave I fabricate for myself back home is forced with more products and hand-held devices than Vidal Sassoon owns himself. What can be best described as a swish instead of an actual wave or curl, is sparse and tends to look a little like I forgot to comb my hair in the morning.
A RECENT PICTURE OF ME: when I force my hair to go curly and forget to wax my upper lip.
In the dewy air that surrounds the hills of Tuscany my tresses behave with a gentle flow and manageable frizz. I need only scrunch the ends with a splash of water and I’m set for the day.
ME, LAST MONTH IN TUSCANY: It’s true, I look just like this in the morning. Minus the flawless skin, full makeup, seductive clothing and gorgeous face. The split ends and pillow are exactly the same.
With the aim of releasing an inch or two, I book an appointment with Donatella’s hairdresser. Fabio Velotti owner of Rasoi Hair Jazz.
My beautiful friend Donatella (you know the stunning Italian one) has arguably the loveliest hair I’ve ever seen. She wakes each morning and it looks like she’s just had it styled. I understand that’s “her” hair, however, who best to go to for hair advice than a woman who understands the benefits of a Jazzy haircut. She has nothing but praise for Fabio, says he has Jazz Hands. I have no idea what Jazz Hands are, however after reading his profile on his website, I decide to take the plunge.
If it’s a disaster no worries it’ll grow back. I’m feeling particularly generous with my hair at the moment. I’ll let you in on a little secret, I’m lazy when it comes to getting my hair done. It’s like I’m not really a girl in this area of my life. I rarely go and when I do it’s last minute and not particularly well planned. I could quiet possibly regret todays decision.
Throwing caution to the wind I enlist Donatella to join me on my hair-adventure. She reminds me that he’s “creative” and “artistic” in his approach. If he chooses to create a masterpiece with the canvas sprouting from my cranium, she doesn’t want to be held responsible. Having said that, I’d never let him go as far as the disaster that many of us experienced with 80s hair.
Not exactly my hair but you get the idea.
Upon arrival at his studio he begins our session with a series of questions: how short? layers? no layers? hair idols? pictures? As he speaks he runs his fingers through my hair and studies the structure of my face. After a skillful washing that includes tactical scrutiny of the length, previous cut and condition of my hair, he walks me to his chair and for the third time, reviews in detail, the texture of my hair as he partially dries it. As he works he continues to examining the angles of my face. Once my hair is partially dry, he leaves my side to peruse his selection of music. He choses an appropriate inspirational CD from his sizeable collection.
Now the Jazz in Rasoi Hair Jazz, makes sense, he’s actually cutting my hair to Jazz. Can you imagine? Up until I hear the music, I hadn’t quiet grasped the artistry he possessed. It seems I’m in good hands with Maestro-Fabio.
The cutting begins in a flurry of motion. His hands move in directions contrary to the natural flow of nature. Segments of hair find themselves airborne momentarily before descending around me, joining the other fallen solders littering the floor within a 4 foot radius of where I’m sitting. I’m mesmerized by his movements that I liken to Edward Sizzorhands, combined with his facial communication giving way to either pride or discontent. Snip after snip he smiles or winces until he is satisfied. With each cut he runs his fingertips from root to end, twirling and massaging each tendril until he’s achieved the perfect textural reaction. With the rise and fall of the tempo in his chosen music, his scissors keep perfect time.
My eyes dance between his face and his hands, I can’t decide where to look: his facial expressions are animated and intense, his hands are mystical and fluid. Much like those of a painter engulfed in a masterpiece. Glints of light reflect off forged steel as his razor-sharp tools clip repeatedly, creating a halo of activity engulfing my tingling scalp. I find myself intoxicated by his graceful movements, as if hypnotized under a magicians spell.
This photo might possibly be a slight exaggeration of how I feel… You decide!
Having some fun. Fabio brings out one of his musical instruments.
Spectacular (Huge) New Winery Built Deep in a Tuscan Hillside. (Link to story on the history of the winery).
I had the great pleasure of visiting the above Winery this week with a few friends from Florence.
Donatella and her handsome Italian bookends.
My design-side was captivated by the construction and how they achieved it in this tightly controlled country.
Keep in mind the Italian powers-that-be tend to frown upon anything new. I agree with maintaining the integrity of Italy, her hills, her history, however nothing is ever achieved without reaching forward.
Clean and professionally attended. All natural products used in construction.
My wine-side was grateful to the Antinori Family for their dedication to maintain the high standard of wine and olive oil production this family is known for. I love the fact 3 sisters run this wine empire.
These are the vats they used to store each families olive oil. In the back you can see how it’s stored now.
I was willing to sacrifice myself, in the form of a massive headache, in order to sample ALL their wine in stock. This however was not an option, they did however offer three lovely tastings for the group of twelve gathered for the last wine tour of the day.
I’d highly recommend a visit if you are in the area anytime soon. It’s an amazing building and operation. They won’t be harvesting grapes from this location for several years, however it is their head office as they outgrew their previous location in the heart of Florence, Italy.
The new grapes planted this spring. Entire operation is built underground.
It’s Saturday morning, I sit at a café drinking my second café longue (espresso with a little water). As the sun peeks down the street warming my face, the city wakes to a flawless weekend in Paris. There’s a street-market on Wednesday & Saturday mornings on the sidewalk outside Gyorgyis’ apartment. A hint of fall trickles forth this week as the clothing worn by Parisians changes from flowing summer silks to lightly layered cashmere.
In most communities you’ll find the street-market is a staple of life in Paris. The dedicated patrons roll hand carts for their weekly food transport. Why carry excess bags on your arm when you can ferry them effortlessly with practicality and style?
I’ve found the children, generally speaking, to be well-behaved, they seem accustomed to the weekly routine of shopping at open air markets. The vendors share tasty nibbles with the budding Parisians exchanging open smiles and obvious familiarity.
The people working the various stands are friendly and attentive, acknowledging shoppers and passers-by with “bonjour” (hello) followed up with “avoir une bonne jour née” (goodbye-enjoy your day).
The fish lady recognizes us walking by and greets us with an affectionate smile. The exchange between Gyorgyi and her sounds something like “how was your week, are you well?” She fillets our fish and after inquiring if we require anything else she sends us warmly off with; “avoir une bonne jour née” before greeting her next customer waiting patiently for their turn.
The market is unhurried as customers understand their turn will come, the ritual of market day is one of patience and community.
Gyorgyi is a blossom enthusiast, she buys at least one bouquet a week. Even though she’s only lived in this location ten days, the flower man greets her like a lifelong customer.
He is passionate about his craft. I must admit it is delightful watching someone so enthused with their work. He moves comfortably amid the colourful blooms all the while greeting his customers with charm and respect.
Cheese, oh the cheese in this country is an art unto itself.
From the silky texture of a creamy Brie to the complexity of Roquefort… You could spend months exploring every cheese available in the this country. The French adore their cheese with a passion that borders on obsession.
The croissant is as iconic as the Eiffel Tower. You have the buttery, the flakey, the dry, the melt in your mouth freshness of them. I can’t say I’ve had one that I’d toss out, however if you sample enough you do find your favourites. One for every hour of the day if you like, unfortunately my waist line would not survive that kind of dedication to the beloved French tradition.
The vegetable stand is a carnival of colour and texture. The meticulousness of their presentation will have you dreaming of a fresh salad with olive oil and lemon.
Enchantment abounds in Paris. I highly recommend a visit if only for a day. A week is a delight, a month spent here you’ll find your heart and in a year you’ll be changed forever.
Moving day in Paris and Gyorgyi mentions to a friend that I can drive a car, a truck, a carg0-van. She adds, its most likely this crazy Canadian can even drive a spaceship. With that in mind, she christens our moving shuttle “The Spaceship”.
After years living in large European cities with convenient and reliable underground transportation. Gyorgyi finds it a task driving a car let alone the Death Star-2.
Gyorgyi’s old apartment is fully packed devoid of personal ornamentation. The perimeter walls seemingly inching us out with the boxes and overstuffed storage bags used to transfer ones life between addresses.
Our brawny crew members in the cross Paris move are Philipe a colleague/friend of Gyorgyi and the spry Jonathan, a friend of a friend. As luck would have it Philipe is an experience Spaceship driver and I willingly hand over my command post.
As Captain of the Starship Enterprise, Philipe navigates the intricate streets of Paris in our dwarf galaxy with 2 count’em 2 First-Mates. Our Parisian captains english is excellent however his delivery of one word in particular has us doubled over in laughter on the complex highway orbiting Paris know as le Périphérique. The word in question – FOCUS. As we approach a crucial interchange, Gyorgyi and I, who are in possession of the GPS, are not paying attention to the road and fail to alert Philipe of an upcoming, quiet significant off-ramp. On our second rotation around what seems like planet earth, Philipe reminds us as responsible co-pilots we must “FOCKHAS ladies FOCKHAS”.
I’m sure you can imagine the entertaining tendrils his pronunciation of FOCKHAS produce within the fatigued minds of two easily amused friends. The remaining move through Paris changes from FOCKHASED to hilarious for the balance of the afternoon. By the time we break for lunch I’m sure Philipe is reevaluating his kind offer of helping Miss Gyorgyi and her one woman comedy crew with the move.
Hours later as our hectic day winds down we watch the evening sky as it dances with hues of rose & violet. As if on cue the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur is illuminated for nighttime viewing. Our exhausted limbs ignore the remaining unpacked boxes scattered throughout the apartment. Victory is ours, Gyorgyi’s Paris move is accomplished…..
Our final mission: to stop giggling over the day and FOCKHAS on sleep.
My friend Gyorgyi is changing apartments in Paris and I’ve arrived on my design horse to help with the move. She leaves the 15th arrondissement (neighbourhood) relocating to the 18th, Montmartre district, with a peek-a-boo view of Basilica of the Sacré Cœur.
Today we are meeting with the proprietor to take a second look at the apartment. Benjamin a well-mannered and sweet young man of 25ish walks us through the four rooms. We inquire as to the operation of appliances, placement of extra bookcases and the general business of how-tos prior to taking possession of a new apartment.
As Gyorgyi and Ben discuss the particulars in the Parisian white living room, I drift from room to room mentally moving furniture, hanging pictures and reflecting on the lives of the previous inhabitants who’ve long since moved on.
Newly painted plaster soothes away years of indentations and cracks, whitewashing fingerprints and hushing shadows behind a glossy white facade. Living in a centuries old city you understand you are only passing through, your imprint on your surroundings reduced to a layer in time.
In north America we design state-of-the-art imaginative homes uncluttered by history other than that of the trees used to build the structure.
Don’t get me wrong, I love designing a new home, the freshness of it, the endless possibilities. However in inner-city Paris NEW is not an option. Recycled is a necessity and appreciated for its inventiveness in preservation.
As I walk through the apartment I’m mindful of the history imbedded within these walls. The families that have grown together. The conversations conveyed or problems solved. How many sunny Christmas mornings filled with excited children waking at dawn, or love songs sung accompanied by champagne and spring strawberries?
My philosopher friend takes possession of a slice of history in the recognizable district housing the Moulin Rouge and the numerous artsy squares in Montmartre. How will she fill her corner of time in this apartment? What history will she leave watermarked on the plaster walls of her apartment?
Have you ever returned to a place you once lived? Had it changed from when you lived there?
My dear friend Monica, who happens to hold a PhD in Art History, has invited me to join her for Jazz at Le Murate (The Walled). Le Murate was originally built in 1424 as a convent for Benedictine nuns. In 1807-14, it briefly housed Napoleons finance department, in 1845 it was converted into a prison and finally in 1998 Italian architect Renzo Piano reinvented its use into the main centre of art and contemporary music in Florence. I highly recommend bringing an Art Historian to your next event in Italy!!
Arriving as the sun is setting over Florence. We rest on the concrete benches in the courtyard prior to the doors opening and study the divergent crowd gathered for tonight’s performance.
The historical impact of countless nuns, solders, and prisoners who would have rested on this very spot in the centuries prior, stirs our fertile imaginations. The infinite life stories infused into this stone edifice produces a rush of respect for the generations of voices hushed by the irreverent progress of time.
Taking our places near the back of the room, we find ourselves entertained not only by the musicians on stage we are captivated by the spectators gathered around us. Neither performance disappoints.
Humans are interesting creatures viewed outside their natural habitat. Living in a foreign country is similar to a scientist observing subjects in an uncontrolled lab experiment. Leaving the comfort of our homes we open ourselves up to the sights, sounds and experiences our world expresses. It’s up to us how we respond those interactions. Do we savour the experience or do we judge with critical eyes and ears? Tonight my Jazzy Monica and I are saturated by the richness of the evening, grateful for this time together and the lyrical freshness of our combined laughter and the pleasing sounds suffused by the characters gathered in this ancient room.
If you had one night of entertainment at your disposal, who would you share it with and where would you go?
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New Clients Kevin and Greg booked me for a day’s fishing trip on Don Pedro on July the 10th. We headed out to the fishing grounds and I set four rods at various depths and the started out instantly. I had told the guys that they could catch and release the ones and the ones they didn’t want, and so they did. At about 12:30 they ended the day with their ten rainbows from the waters of Don Pedro. A great day with a couple of great guys. Thanks again you two.
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In our book, Boomernomics, we argued that globalization was likely to be a powerful economic force in the 21st century. We noted that innovative forms of information and communications technologies were dramatically lowering the cost of doing business globally. Companies such as General Electric, Dell, General Motors, and others could produce as efficiently, and sometimes more efficiently, out of India or China as they could in Indiana or Colorado. As globalization increased, we argued, so too would the level of wealth and living standards around the world.
Since the publication of our book in 1998, globalization has received a lot of bad press. Apparently, many folks feel that globalization is the root cause of increasing poverty, a widening gap between rich and poor, injustice, and terrorism. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan noted last year that anti-globalization protestors were, as he put it, “wrong headed.” Greenspan’s view on globalization is supported by a recent, comprehensive study on global income inequality by Columbia University professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin.
In his study, Professor Sala-i-Martin notes that the “dramatic” and “disturbing rise” in income inequality during the globalization period that is often discussed in the media is nowhere to be seen. On the contrary, he notes, income disparities during the last two decades have declined substantially. The reduction in global income inequality can be fully accounted for by the decline in across-income inequalities. A substantial part of the story—although not the entire story—has been the important growth rates experienced by the incomes of 1.2 billion Chinese individuals (economic reforms in China, which involve dismantling communist-based policies, appear to be paying dividends).
According to Professor Sala-i-Martin, a careful and close examination of the data on incomes around the world over the past thirty years shows the emergence of what he calls “a new world middle class.” This middle class is comprised of around 2.5 billion people in the developing world whose standard of living are approaching those of more developed countries in the West.
Sala-i-Martin points out that poverty rates and poverty headcounts have both declined dramatically in the world over the past couple of decades. The one-dollar-a-day poverty rate fell from 20 percent in 1970 to 5 percent in 1998. The two-dollar rate fell from 44 percent to 8 percent. Meanwhile, poverty headcounts have declined substantially: There were close to 400 million less poor in 1998 than there were in the 1970s.
The truth is, globalization is not a zero sum game--it’s a positive sum game. Globalization is the tide that has the potential to lift all boats. Professor Sala-I-Martin’s study supports this statement. To drive the point home, consider this: The fastest route to global poverty and economic depression is through policies that shut down world trade and reverse globalization. That was the lesson of the 1930s (if you need a refresher course on this lesson, we recommend picking up a copy of Charles Kindleberger’s excellent book “The World In Depression”).
Why policy makers would want to risk reliving those awful, war-plagued, depression years by turning back the clock on globalization is beyond our comprehension.
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Yahweh is watching you Ben.
This is very much related with the epic embezzlement of the South Korean budget next year. President Lee must be out of the office at all cost.
For all the truth-seekers out there, please note the plight of the South Korean political world.
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Time to end my summer-break with a review that just wants to be written. Especially if you look at my last post. Lets indulge in some dieselpunk goodness with Destiny’s Wing!
Jet Jack and Kai, with the Dragonbone blade and Destiny’s Wing.
While I am not really interested and the Ninjago TV series, or know much about it beyond the basics, and the media buzz around film not leaving much an impression on me either, I find the sets quite often really appealing. They are amongst the most creative of the current Lego themes. Without the constraints of licensed-IPs – and often with a charming mix of styles!
This year’s sub-theme, running under the title Free The Dragons is no different. The Ninjago-typical far eastern base recipe (including dragons of course!) gets some post-apocalyptic flavours thrown in, with with a healthy dose of retro-futurism, like the 2016 Skybound-had, mixed in for good measure.
This style-cocktail works very well and since I like the steampunk Air Pirate-theme of Skybound dearly, I am quite happy we get more from that general direction. And indeed, Destiny’s Wing could have been just as well a set from that theme as well. The namesake main build, an airplane in the flying-wing-style, some quite obvious design-features with Flintlocke’s Sky Shark, like the grey barrel jet engines on the rear and the hot-rod-style exhaust pipes. Destiny’s Wing is the more stylish of the two though. A bolder, more unconventional design, that immediately drew my attention to it when the first pictures of the set appeared a couple months ago. And what can I say: it just works!
Destiny’s Wing is also the slightly more robust build, partly because its overall more compact with no pieces that are just clipped-on (and Sky Shark had plenty of that!), partly because of its more conventional armament. Instead of the pirate treasure-chest bomb bays, which are opened by a sliding mechanism (a bit of a funky construction, but quite nicely working, if a bit flimsy), Destiny’s Wing features the good old spring-loaded missile and stud shooter-combination. Probably the most simple approach you can get, but also a very effective and reliable one.
If you are a regular reader you might also know my dislike of stickers. I much prefer prints or even brick-build ornamentation instead. I am therefore glad to say that the sticker-situation in this set is on the acceptable side, with two identical 2×2-sized stickers on each of the tail fins. Ok, the positioning might be a bit tricky to get right, but they are of a decent size and really help its look. Btw. The cockpit-controls consist of a 1×2 wedge tile. Printed. As it should be.
…and jet propulsion. But as long as it works, I don’t complain!
Destiny’s Wing has decently-sized cockpit with a quite elaborate pilot’s seat.
I especially like the headrest, which is a nice detail.
Additional to the main build, we also get a little shrine holding a Dragonbone Blade. A cute little build that looks like it could have jumped right out of Skyrim. Very nice. Same applies to the sword itself. Both hilt and blade are very well sculpted, and the dual moulding on the blade gives it an appropriate, semi-organic-look. Very nice and a welcome departure from the at the same time overbuilt and too simplistic Djinn Blades. If they were just 50% bit smaller! Once again the Minifigures get dwarfed by these giant sword designs. It might work well for an Orc army or trolls (certainly better than the old-style swords), but it always gives me a hard time to see these swords worn by a normal Minifigure.
Please meet Jet Jack, Dragonbone Blade and Kai.
Speaking of those, Destiny’s Wing features Kai in a really nicely printed medieval-stye outfit with scale armor and two-piece headdress and two katanas and Jet Jack, probably one of the most edgy female Minifigures Lego has ever done: with her mohawk and warpaint she is really a show. Very post-apocalyptic. She could really be the sister of Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road. She is armed with a spear with a Ninja-Dagger (aka sai) as tip. Nicely done. She also has a little brick-build jet pack (probably to justify her name). Not a revolutionary build, but quite neat.
All in all, Destiny’s Wing is an excellent little set. The builds are great, the Minifigures well designed and detailed and the new Dragon Bone Blade pieces are simply beautiful with a lot of potential for further use.
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Please click on the title of the books to read my reviews!
What a lovely blog – and with so many books I can’t believe I haven’t read any of these. I like your ‘giveaway’ enticement – do publishers send you these or do you give away the arc?
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I made them with Canola oil rather than butter, which is healthier but made for a crumblier cookie. I think I might add an egg white next time. And I didn't bother with the chocolate coating, which looked far too fiddly and messy.
I proclaim these to be Oat Shortbread. And tasty. I'll be making these again.
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FINAL EXAMS 5th & 6th Period!
FINAL EXAMS 3rd & 4th Period!
FINAL EXAMS 1st & 2nd Period!
Last day of regular classes! Finals start tomorrow – 1st and 2nd period!
We are in the homestretch!
REMINDER: Decades Newscast Presentations on MON!
REMINDER: Extra Credit is due TOMORROW!
REMINDER: Exam in THURS @ 7:30 in Room 6213; Stop by my room before the test for a light breakfast!
REMINDER: Extra Credit due on Friday!; Be working on your Final Exam Study Guide!
REMINDER: Extra Credit due TODAY; AP Exam on THURS!
REMINDER: Extra Credit due on Fri!
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This artifact is a Weapon, It looks like a dragon, it has green rust and scales. The main color is a light brown. There are 3 holes. one after the head as it turns back to the body, one is a loop from the tail. This tail makes the largest hole. The last hole is intended to be a talon. It was used to show class and wealth. Most people couldn’t afford accessories on guns. This was meaningful to the owner because it was handmade. My Artifact has many archaeological themes, Defense / Protection because it was mounted to the side of a gun. Socio-economics / Class because not everyone could afford accessories on guns. Globalization / Trade because the Asian dragon design was given to the blacksmith at Fort Vancouver. Cultural Expression / Art / Music because this was a very artsy artifact.
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Bow before my Garage-sale fu!
Sears finally sent my rebate check from the freezer purchase....so, since the living room was *empty* (Yes, I moved the sewing table and machines last night. Don't yell - I didn't hurt myself too much! It *had* to be done, right then. Honest!),and I now had $55, I decided I needed to hit the thrift stores and pick up a loveseat or another chair.
We hit 3 stores...none of them had anything remotely suitable. *sigh* So, on the way back to G'ma's house (she has a truck; I don't) I saw a Garage Sale sign. Do I feel lucky? Why, Yes, yes I do!
Paydirt! He had 2 sofas: a brown one with attached recliner, and a blue Early-Americanish one that needed a leg. The brown one was.....$7.50, the blue one $5.00. What to do, what to do??
We decided that the brown one would be too hard to manuever into the house. (It was Big and Heavy looking). I ran to the grocery store to use the ATM, then we picked up Mom's truck, and back we went.
The sofa is now in the living room. Looks good - my chair doesn't really fit where I have it now, but....it'll work. I need to replace the legs on the couch (it only has 3), but the local hardware store doesn't have any, nor does the local furniture store (a 1 pint can of paint works perfectly!) I've hit it with Odo-ban, and it looks nice. I'll hit Ebay next to get it and the chair matching slipcovers.
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I go on my 6:00 am to 2:30 pm shift next week. Well, for two days I do and then I'm on vacation the rest of the week.
Yesterday I got to pick where I will be moving. I have to share a desk with a 3 pm to 11 pm shift person. The desk I chose has someone I like and he keeps a really organized desk, so I think we'll get along.
Today I get some training on the new email and support package we go two weeks ago, since I will be doing more email support on the new shift.
I hope everyone has a great day and a wonderful weekend!
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( Bantul, August 3, 2011) – Timor Leste national football team have shown a great performance and they are able to draw with Persiba Bantul. Emmanuel Nonny unshackle his team from lossing; he scored a goal at 74 minutes, at 10 minutes earlier he substituted for Sidonio Augusto De Jesus. Timor Leste selecao have surprised their opponent when they score early goal. Charles da Costa, a Bullen Lions of Australia’s striker manage breaking Persiba’s defense and contribute scoring early goal at 9 minutes. The table was turn when Udo Fortune score at 36 minutes; at the end of the first half of the match Persiba and Timor Leste was drawn. The second was resume. At 51 minutes another attack goal from Persiba had Timor Leste defense unsecured. Choirul Anam of Persiba Bantul who score a goal at 1 minutes. When the match end, Both teams was drawn, Persiba Bantul 2-2 Timor Leste. 500 crowds at the stadium were not expected that Persiba would draw with Timor Leste and they were very amazed at Timor Leste’s overall performance. ” That a great start for Timor Leste seleccao. I hope we could do better next times at Bandung when play against Indonesia U-21 at Timor- Indonesia Rivalry Cup, which is next week at August 8. ” said Antonio Carlos Vieira.
You are currently browsing the Andy1890's Blog blog archives for August, 2011.
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Rob Sutherland waded into very dangerous territory with the definition of cherry picking, in his Letter to the Editor in the Lethbridge Herald of March 3, 2011, when he wrote: “Cherry picking involves knowing your conclusion first, sifting through a mass of information that shows you are wrong, to come up with something that you can use as support.” He was referring to those who oppose artificial drinking water fluoridation, but he forgot to mention that the substance used is the highly toxic waste product from the phosphate fertilizer industry called Hydrofluorosilicic Acid Specifications.
Isn’t it strange that this is exactly what the pushers of fluoridation have done since the practice began over 60 years ago. Then they found some poor saps to promote it by their false, misleading and intimidating tactics to insure compliance.
The original research that was used to justify fluoridation is suspect at best and was actually manipulated to show positive results when in fact, the totality of the original data were inconclusive at best. So the researchers, at the behest of their sponsors, cherry picked the data that fit the desired conclusion, leaving out all contrary data and presto, fluoridation became a panacea. However, Harold Hodge and his work in cooking the data have been entirely debunked and discredited for having cherry picked and “doctored” the original data.
Follow the money. Christopher Bryson, a brilliant investigative journalist Sutherland should imitate, clearly showed the skulduggery and deceit that preceded the deconstruction of the truth about fluoride substances. Then followed the implementation of witch hunts against anyone who disagreed with the establishment of a new orthodoxy about fluoride substances, especially in the use of hydrofluorosilicic acid for water fluoridation with callous disregard for the possibility of harm to public health.
Absence of data does not mean absence of harm. If you don’t look, you wont find. All fluoridating governments refuse to do any original, credible research to verify the mounting massive amount of anecdotal data on the deleterious health effect of fluoride. By putting together self-serving government reviews that whitewash the practice, governments are guilty of a massive cover-up that needs to be made right by real, credible research, not cherry picked studies and misrepresented research.
Access the following charts to look at the data that irrefutably prove that fluoridation is ineffective at best, and causes at least the most unsightly looking teeth ever seen in children, called dental fluorosis. If you don’t look, you won’t see. There are other more health effects, but too many too mention and go into at this time.
In the chart accessible below, fluoride is shown as a little more toxic than lead and a little less than arsenic, yet it is allowed to be consumed in parts per million while the other two are allowed in parts per billion. Where’s the logic in that? Fluoride vs Lead and Arsenic Toxicity.
In this next chart, tooth decay rates are unequivocally shown to decline equally well in fluoridated countries as in non fluoridated countries. WHO Tooth Decay Trends.
The type of results above apply equally well to Canada when one compares provinces that do and do not fluoridate as can be seen in the next graph. Cavity Rates compared Between Ontario and Québec.
Dental fluorosis is now endemic in most of the United States. Canadian Dentists report an equally disturbing amount of dental fluorosis that needs their intervention to repair and cover up. Is it not surprising that they would support water fluoridation since it can bring them such substantial income as tooth decay rates have declined over time. Prevalence of Dental Fluorosis.
See them altogether on this web page with a bit more commentary.
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Readers weigh in on the demise of Iraq's intellectual class. Plus: Has the U.S. government failed the Lost Boys of Sudan?
How wonderful to hear from Phillip Robertson again -- and how tragic is his subject matter. His voice joins the voice of [blogger] Riverbend and others who are in Iraq now -- telling the true story of the chaos we have unleashed. In America, the only question about Iraq is, "Should we stay or go?"
Bluntly put, what most people of all political persuasions don't realize is how badly we have fucked things up for exactly those people in Iraq who constitute the middle class -- and who are Iraq's best hope for a peaceful and prosperous future. The incompetent and self-centered Bush administration has helped Islamic fundamentalists gain power while Iraq's most capable and intelligent citizens cower in fear.
If we do not figure out a way to help correct these blunders, a peaceful and prosperous Iraq will never emerge. I fear that America is incurring a karmic deficit even bigger than our budgetary one, and there will quite literally be hell to pay.
Phillip Robertson's piece on Al Mutanabbi Street is excellent. He lets real people, and events, speak for themselves and makes no judgment.
It's heartbreaking to read of Iraqis who are afraid even to meet in a cafe, men who would, under other circumstances, be writing and reading the Iraqi equivalent of Salon. Robertson makes it clear how difficult things were under Saddam, and how difficult they are now, and shows that, although Saddam was clearly a tyrant, we have bungled the war to such an extent that men who survived his prisons may yet be gunned down in the street for selling ice.
The woes of the Lost Boys are not unknown to me. For over a year now I have been dating a lost boy in Kansas City. I met him in biology class, where he needed help with missed assignments. He had arrived late that semester after spending the summer on a fishing boat in Alaska. He never drinks or smokes. He generally gets good grades and is a leader in his community.
I have often wondered if he suffers some sort of mental illness as a result of his trauma. I also wonder if, no matter how responsible or logical he is, he might be incapable of having a real connection with another human, especially a woman. In Kenya, the younger boys constantly looked to him for help. He honestly is not comfortable receiving help, or asking for it.
He is 25 years old and considers himself independent and self-reliant. But it has taken him five years to get an associate of arts because he often has to quit school to work. He too has been the victim of hit-and-run car accidents, theft, and generally being misled by lawyers and even all-out scam artists. I wish there was a way to help him, and all of the Lost Boys, for that matter. I think it is irresponsible and shortsighted to bring refugees to this country promising them the land of opportunity, but not giving them adequate help and support -- especially when really this is a land of high crime rates, violence, endless paperwork, and all kinds of other problems large and small. It is hard enough to put up with the complexities and bureaucracy of the USA when one is born here.
Perhaps the cultural differences are just too strong, or perhaps there just isn't enough money to go around for this cause. But in my opinion, if the U.S. government cannot, or will not, help provide a significantly better life for refugees, then they shouldn't bring them here at all. A cruddy apartment full of used furniture and no money or knowledge of how to get along is no golden opportunity.
Americans like life-affirming stories. Heck, I like life-affirming stories. Who doesn't like to hear about people triumphing over terrible adversity and overcoming an awful past? It sounds to me as if our appetite for the positive human interest story has trumped common sense, however, to the disservice of the Lost Boys.
No one would expect Nazi or Bosnian holocaust survivors, Rwandan refugees, or any children who'd come of age in war, to be anything but "struggling," in one way or another: struggling with nightmares, struggling with feelings, struggling to survive. That is not to say that they couldn't also be great successes and shining examples of resiliency, but let's get serious here: If any of us heard of a friend or relative who'd lived through what these Lost Boys endured, we'd expect that no matter how fine they seemed, they weren't 100 percent fine. What human being wouldn't be changed by years of, as it says in the article, "life-or-death experiences," including losing family and seeing the most horrendous violence and destruction all around?
I really hope articles like this one alert more people to the many un-addressed needs that still affect this population of mostly young -- and, yes, heroic -- people.
Leigh Flayton did cite some exceptions to the general phenomenon she describes in her article about the difficulties many of the Lost Boys have had in adjusting to life in their new country, but I want to direct your attention and hers to another -- that of my friend, Lost Boy Salva Dut.
Salva is notable for having founded a small but growing NGO called Water for Sudan. Its very direct goal is to drill water pumps in Sudan. They have already succeeded in digging and installing five pumps this year.
While it may be true that the Gates Foundation's support for the Discovery Institute is limited to the Cascadia Project, it nonetheless creates a problem for the foundation. The Discovery's work on so-called intelligent design is as much about methodology as it is about metaphysics. Acceptance of the principles of "intelligent design" requires rejection of the scientific method. Cascadia is subordinate to the Discovery Institute. Does the Discovery Institute suborn violation of sound study methodology by Cascadia? Does the Gates Foundation really want to support a group that is run by people who believe that complicated natural reality can be accomplished only by supernatural intervention?
Personally, if I had money to give to support the reality-based study of anything, I'd want to know that the results were based on sound scientific principle, without the need to invoke divine, oops, I mean intelligent intervention.
On the other hand, it would be very convenient if one could count on an intelligent actor with superpowers to step in when physics won't allow for a solution. I've always wanted a flying antimatter-powered car that could go a gazillion miles an hour.
Here are my thoughts. Rather than expunging tens of millions of dollars to argue, print, reprint, and reargue the same topic over and over, why don't we just drop it?
When our students can't pass basic literacy exams, and have problems grappling with fractions, why are we spending so much time on biology, and teaching theories of the origin of man? Yes, I am a Darwin supporter. But I don't think that this is what needs to be taught in schools. For me, I think that one class on the basic theories on intelligent design, Darwin, and God should be enough. Move on to other things like basic anatomy, the scientific kingdoms, etc. Stop wasting weeks explaining the origins of theories and who came up with them.
We should be directing money into the pockets of the greatest teachers, bumping up our core curriculum, and working to build the most intelligent society. Only by doing this can we ensure a strong society, fluent in science, technology, math, and the arts. When a society is well-educated, our leaders will be well-educated, and our country as a whole will bloom into a glorious place, with science leading the way.
This is my stance -- ditch the teaching of theory all together. Mention it briefly, and stick to the basics.
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Come celebrate the new year with us! We will be counting down to midnight with music and the traditional white elephant gift exchange. The Tyras of Castle Chaos will once again be hosting. There will be a holiday potluck, so bring a favorite dish to share. We will begin at 7pm with the feast, then do our white elephant gift exchange.
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Artist's impression of the Kepler-452 and Kepler-186 systems compared to the inner Solar System, with their respective habitable zones shown.
Prior to Kepler observation, Kepler-452 had the 2MASS catalogue number 2MASS 19440088+4416392. In the Kepler Input Catalog, it has the designation of KIC 8311864 When it was found to have a transiting planet candidate, it was given the Kepler object of interest number of KOI-7016.
Planetary candidates were detected around the star by NASA's Kepler Mission, a mission tasked with discovering planets in transit around their stars. The transit method that Kepler uses involves detecting dips in brightness of stars. These dips in brightness can be interpreted as planets whose orbits pass in front of their stars from the perspective of Earth, although other phenomena can also be responsible which is why the term "planetary candidate" is used.
Following the acceptance of the discovery paper, the Kepler team referred to the star as Kepler-452, which is the normal procedure for naming exoplanets discovered by the spacecraft. Hence, this is the name usually used by the public to refer to the star and its planet.
Candidate planets that are associated with stars studied by the Kepler Mission are assigned the designations ".01", ".02", and so on, after the star's name, in the order of discovery. If planet candidates are detected simultaneously, then the ordering follows the order of orbital periods from shortest to longest. Following these rules, there was only one candidate planet detected, with an orbital period of 384.843 days. The name Kepler-452 derives directly from the fact that the star is the catalogued 452nd star discovered by Kepler to have confirmed planets.
The designation b, derives from the order of discovery. The designation of b is given to the first planet orbiting a given star, followed by the other lowercase letters of the alphabet. In the case of Kepler-452, there was only one planet, so only the letter b is used.
Kepler-452 is a G-type star that is approximately 104% the mass of and 111% the radius of the Sun. It has a temperature of 5757 K and is roughly 6 billion years old. In comparison, the Sun is about 4.6 billion years old and has a temperature of 5778 K.
The star is metal-rich, with a metallicity (Fe/H]) of about 0.21, or about 162% of the amount of iron and other heavier metals found in the Sun. The star's luminosity is somewhat normal for a star like Kepler-452, with a luminosity of around 120% of that of the solar luminosity.
The star's apparent magnitude, or how bright it appears from Earth's perspective, is 13.426. Therefore, it is too dim to be seen with the naked eye.
The star hosts one confirmed exoplanet, Kepler-452b, discovered in July 2015 by the Kepler spacecraft. This planet is mostly known for its characteristics similar to Earth, most notably its size, orbit and stellar flux. It is the first potentially rocky super-Earth planet discovered orbiting within the habitable zone and the abiogenesis zone of a star very similar to the Sun. It may even have a surface temperature similar to that of Earth (the planet has an equilibrium temperature of approximately 265 K (−8 °C; 17 °F) (Earth's equilibrium temperature is only 10 K cooler than this). However, its star is 6 billion years old (roughly 1.5 billion years older than the Sun). Due to this, Kepler-452b is receiving roughly 10% more stellar radiation than the Earth does today. If Kepler-452b is a rocky planet, it may be subject to a runaway greenhouse effect. However, because of its mass (estimated to be about 5 M⊕), it may be able to prevent succumbing to the runaway greenhouse for a limited amount of time (at most about 500 million years). Nevertheless, the planet is one of the most Earth-like planets discovered so far by the Kepler team.
This table compares the Sun to Kepler-452.
^ An exact solar twin would be a G2V star with a 7003577800000000000♠5778 K temperature, be 4.6 billion years old, with the correct metallicity and a 0.1% solar luminosity variation.
^ a b c "Kepler Input Catalog search result". Space Telescope Science Institute. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
^ Witze, Alexandra (23 July 2015). "NASA spies Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting Sun-like star". Nature. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
^ a b Chou, Felicia; Johnson, Michelle (23 July 2015). "NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth" (Press release). NASA. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
^ Rincon, Paul (23 July 2015). "'Earth 2.0' found in Nasa Kepler telescope haul". BBC. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
^ a b c Jenkins, Jon M.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Batalha, Natalie M.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Cochran, William D.; Endl, Michael; et al. (2015). "Discovery and validation of Kepler-452b: A 1.6 R⨁ super Earth exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G2 star". The Astronomical Journal. Institute of Physics. 105 (2): 56. arXiv:1507.06723. Bibcode:2015AJ....150...56J. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/56.
^ "Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate - NASA Science". Retrieved 8 January 2013.
^ a b Williams, David R. (2004). "Sun Fact Sheet". NASA. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
^ Morton, Timothy; Johnson, John (23 August 2011). "On the Low False Positive Probabilities of Kepler Planet Candidates". The Astrophysical Journal. 738 (2): 170. arXiv:1101.5630. Bibcode:2011ApJ...738..170M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/738/2/170. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^ NASA (27 January 2014). "Kepler – Discoveries – Summary Table". NASA. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
^ Hessman, Frederic V.; Dhillon, Vikram S.; Winget, Donald E.; Schreiber, Matthias R.; Horne, Keith; Marsh, Thomas R.; Guenther, Eike W.; Schwope, Axel D.; Heber, Ulrich (2010). "On the naming convention used for multiple star systems and extrasolar planets". arXiv:1012.0707 [astro-ph.SR].
^ Williams, Matt (9 May 2016). "Life Cycle of the Sun". Universe Today. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
^ Cain, Fraser (23 December 2015). "What Color is the Sun?". Universe Today. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
^ "Super-earth 'most likely' candidate for hosting alien life". Sky News. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
^ "NASA Exoplanet Archive – Confirmed Planet Overview – Kepler-452b". NASA Exoplanet Archive. 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
^ "NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
^ Kepler-452 at SIMBAD - Ids - Bibliography - Image.
^ "Planet Kepler-452 b (sic)". Retrieved 6 July 2016.
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All of the games I’ve ever played (probably in my entire life) have been taught to me. Someone else older, more experienced, or just more apt for reading had done the dirty work of learning the game and taught me the game in the few minutes the board was being set-up to play. This can often lead to problems. Perhaps the one teaching the game doesn’t know all the rules correctly. Or maybe what they think are actual rules are a variant or house rules for the game. For example: Free Parking does not entitle you to loads of money in Monopoly. (Look it up.) You also tend to get advice from whoever is teaching you the game – picking up their strategy instead of learning to develop your own. A friend and I decided to change all this and learn a new game on our own. No coaching from anyone. No reading of strategies. Just read the rules and play. We selected another Margin of Victory favorite: Twilight Struggle.
I think this is the obvious first step in learning any game (if you don’t count “Open the Box”). Give the rules a read through once or twice. Also read any additional materials provided with text: cards, player aids, etc. Note anything that doesn’t make sense – sometimes you need to consult an FAQ.
I looked at the rulebook for Twilight Struggle. 28 pages thick, but, only 8 pages of actual rules. Nice! We read through them and it seems pretty simple. I read through them again and still haven’t seen anything that doesn’t make sense. I also take a quick look at the cards. As I read through the cards I realize that there may be some confusion on how they are played. I download an FAQ to have nearby. Step 1: Check.
Make sure you have all the pieces and set up the board according to the rules. Check to see if there are any differences in 2 player vs 3 player vs more. Also be sure to set up the board/card decks according to which scenario you are using. And make sure you’ll have enough space.
Twilight Struggle board set-up is also mostly straight forward. We pick our sides: I’ll represent the US. We place some initial influence in the right countries, but here’s the first decision. Where to put the extra influence in Europe? Having never played we have no idea what the best countries are. OK, we each decide to control a couple more countries. The Military Operations, Space Race, VP and Turn markers are placed. The Early War cards are shuffled. We’re ready to go.
For a first play through allow plenty of time, but don’t worry if you make a mistake. If you realize you’ve been playing incorrectly you can rewind (if it is easy to do so) or just start playing correctly at that point. Agree on a ruling and move forward. Remember: the goal is to have fun!
We deal the cards and read through each one. I find Defectors in my hand, an obvious Headline event, and select it right away. USSR takes a bit longer, but eventually picks one. Headline phase over – that was easy. We go back and forth in the actions rounds and play is going smoothly – until the first scoring card comes out. He thinks he’s scored 8 VP – I count 3 VP. He checks the rules and realizes his mistake on what a battleground country is. He shouldn’t have been putting that much influence in Finland – lesson learned.
The action rounds start to go by quickly and I have been racking up VP. In the middle of turn 3, I go up to 19 VP. One point away from a US victory. I realize I may have been accruing Victory Points by playing the events, but at the cost of him being a few influence away from controlling Europe (another way to win). And I’m holding Europe Scoring. Uh oh… I end turn three at only 5 VP.
The mid-war begins and we’ve started to settle in. The cards are played a bit faster and we seem to know what we’re doing. Or so we thought, we realize we’ve been playing a couple things wrong. The DEFCON was 3 and we made realignment and coup attempts in Europe and Asia. We also split up Operation Points for placing influence and realignment rolls*. It’s too late to rewind. We were both guilty so we just move on with the correction. Before the end of the mid-war another minor mistake is quickly rewinded: it is obvious he didn’t want to end the game but couping a battleground country while DEFCON is 2.
We make it to end-war, only 3 more turns. At this point we are playing fast and no longer making any mistakes. Turn 8 goes by. Then 9. At this point it is all going to come down to Final Scoring. The final deal comes and is good for me. I’ll get to play 8 cards this round (due to North Sea Oil) and I’m up by 6 VP. The play slows down as each card play is calculated. I do some careful number crunching with my final two card plays. I hold the China Card, but realize I need to play it to dominate Asia and get the required military operations for the turn. My last play gets me presence in the Middle East.
Before final scoring I have a 3 VP lead. He adds up the score. I add up the score. There’s a slight discrepancy. I’ve counted wrong and we go over it again. We agree: USSR scores 3 points. We check the rules for a tie-breaker. None exists. A tie.
Learning a new game on our own was great. And we both agreed that Twilight Struggle is a great game that creates an intense atmosphere – even with our errors and rewinds. We didn’t worry about coaching or letting the new guy win so he’ll play it again. We were free to try anything. We made a lot of mistakes but we learned from them. We discussed the strategies we were trying and learned from each other. With the Holidays approaching I’m looking forward to learning some other newly acquired games with friends.
* Yes, there is a designer variant that allows this. However, at the start of the game we agreed to use the standard rules as written.
Last Sunday three sets of brother sat down for a friendly game of Here I Stand (read the twitter feed for some play-by-play commentary). I was really looking forward to the game for many reasons. One, the sibling rivalry aspect – I would play the French and my brother (Russ) the Protestants. We shouldn’t tangle too much, but we’re brothers, anything can happen. Two, this would be my fourth game of Here I Stand so I was feeling really good about the play and rules aspect of the game. And three, I analyzed all the possible plays, cards, etc. to get the VP necessary to win as the French. I was ready!
The deal was bad: I got 5 cards for a total of 10 CP, well below the 2.7 CP/card average. I would need some help. I allied with the Hapsburg in exchange for Besancon. Not too important, but I was really just looking to keep the Haps off my back. I knew I was going to war with the English. The English would DoW Scotland with their home card and I would vacate it. In exchange, I would get a card draw the next turn. Sounded like a good deal and if anything changed, I could just hold Scotland.
The action phase progressed as expected. I took Milan and the English DoWed Scotland. However, after the English rolled a 6 on the pregnancy chart and got a healthy Edward and 5 VP, I wasn’t going to give him another easy 2 VP. So I held Scotland and sent an explorer who went off to discover the Amazon! 7 VP in one turn! Things were looking up.
Going into this turn, I knew the English would try to press me. I got decent cards and decided on a pure defensive strategy. I was near the lead and didn’t want to draw any attention. My hand was decent: Potosi Silver Mines and Plantations should net me cards for Turn 6 and I could use Auld Alliance to defend Scotland. I was also able to get a Franco-Ottoman alliance this turn. He would play Swiss Mercenaries on my behalf and I would loan him a fleet. I would build my forces and gain the cards necessary for a turn 6 win.
The English player went for Metz and Bordeaux (with the crafty play of Charles Bourbon and moving out some fleets). He forced the use of my home card for CP, but my defensive plays and his bad dice roll on the assault in Metz forced him into an odd position on his final play of the turn. With his 1 CP card should he assualt Bordeaux or Metz? I still held one card in my hand and no one knew what it could be – Mercenaries Bribed had already been played. I put on my best poker face. He finally chose to assualt Metz and I played my combat card: Mercenaries Grow Restless! The renegade leader and his ragtag bunch of mercenaries were wiped out! After that huge success I was riding high and hoping for great things in the new world. Then Lady Luck left me. I had invested big in the New World and got nothing. No extra cards.
We dealt out the cards and and I got a decent CP hand, but no good events. The negotiations were intense. The Hapsburg player (Joe) was in the lead and had 11 cards in his hand. Having won the previous two games, he already had a huge target on his back – this just made it bigger. The Ottoman, Papacy and Protestant powers wanted either the English or the French to go to war with him to block his win. With the promise of a card play and a couple of mercs I could easily stop the Hapsburg player. However, I would also need an alliance with the English to also give myself a chance at the win. The English player knew this and refused. My next best bet was to go to the Hapsburg. I would give up a card draw for an alliance as well as the transfer of Navarre to the French. He was interested in the deal but also spoke to the English. During the announcements, my hopes of winning were crushed. The Hapsburgs took the English deal instead and I was on my own. My only chance at victory now was to go to war with the Hapsburgs and the English.
The action phase began. I took Navarre right away and then turned to defending against the English onslaught. The English player took Metz and then stormed on to Lyon. I did the best I could with my few remaining CP, but it was of no use. The English took Lyon. I could only build Chateau for 1 more VP and finished at 20. Good enough for fourth place. The English player made all the right moves and with luck in the new world, rolled himself to a great victory.
The Turn 6 diplomacy was the win or lose moment of the game. All 6 powers had legitimate shots at winning the game going into the final turn. The Ottoman player could win with Vienna and Piracy. The Hapsburg player was in the lead and held 11 cards – I still can’t believe the luck in the new world! The Pope was doing well against Luther, but the religious game can swing so dramatically it is hard to tell. The English and French had made big moves and only needed another key or two.
And this is why that diplomacy phase lasted way too long and was way too intense. Everyone had a huge stake and wanted someone else to stop the Hapsburgs. But no one wanted to give up much to allow that and throw away their own chances of winning. Having Russ at the table and knowing how to push his temper didn’t help matters either. I couldn’t blame him for throwing his hands up and leaving the table for a few minutes at one point. This was supposed to be fun?! It gave me a headache and I wanted to stop.
A few days later I composed my thoughts for this blog. I thought this was the best I’ve played a game of Here I Stand. I knew all the right things to do and made good moves during the negotiations. I think 2 extra cards from my colonies would have won it for me. The atmosphere was intense; every power had a shot at victory; good diplomacy can give you the power to win. This left me thinking: when’s the next game?
In today’s game of Here I Stand, I had an interesting dilemma.
If you agree to a card play in diplomacy, do you play it knowing that if you don’t you are guaranteed to win? At what point is winning the current game worth undermining your integrity with friends and in future games? Winning is great, but do you screw a friend out of a chance of winning just to lock up victory for yourself? Or is the breaking of deals just so common in Here I Stand that I’m just being silly? Probably. In one hand, victory and betrayal. In the other, a dice fest in which I had about a 50/50 chance of winning. What if you know you will be playing with the same group again? Is integrity worth more then? I know I remember who can be trusted . . .
I chose to keep the deal, but it wasn’t an easy choice. The play of Book of Common Prayer ended up winning the game for England after the Protestant player succeeded in rolling him to two additional VP’s. Then in the New World, he scored 1 VP on an explorer, putting him up on me by 1 VP. Granted, without England’s help, France may have won the game (England took a French key). I’m just curious if anyone else has a similar horror story. What deals have you made that ended up putting you in a similar spot? What did you do? Would you do it again?
Here I Stand Game being live-tweeted today!
Conquest of Paradise: Despite some slight negative feeling towards this game, it really intrigues me. I learned how to play this from the designer at the 2009 World Boardgaming Championships (WBC), and there’s a lot of neat mechanics at work like “blind” exploration, hidden fleet movement, etc. It seems to suffer a bit from too little playtesting, but I think with a few house-rules, it could really be excellent. Plus, GMT is selling it quite cheaply!
Endeavor: This Euro-ish game of exploration, colonization, and conquest has been getting a lot of good press recently. Players compete to grab resources in the New World, and use them to grow in power back in Europe. I read a review in which the author described it as “the post gateway game,” which is sort of a weak point in my game collection right now.
Pacific Typhoon: A card game about the Pacific theater in World War II. This is GMT’s sequel to Atlantic Storm by Avalon Hill. I had never really heard of this game until I noticed the number of people playing it in random corners around the WBC. This looks like a good cross-over war game.
Small World Expansions: At $10 apiece, Grand Dames and Cursed! look like cheap ways to spice up the base game for those of us who have been playing like fiends since it came out.
War of the Ring: Although I am a huge Lord of the Rings nut, I’ve never sat down to play this game. I know it won’t get to the table much due to its playtime, but I can’t pass up the chance to marshal the forces of good against evil, or vice versa.
Wits & Wagers Expansion: From what I saw at the 2009 WBC Wits & Wagers game show, these questions are most obscure than ever–perfect!
That Mystery Game I don’t know the name to yet: I’m putting a call out for suggestions. My brother is getting married soon, which means when we meet over at Mom and Dad’s house for Sunday dinner, there will be six of us (Mom, Dad, brother, his wife, Sara, and me). I’m looking for a light game that can be played in 60-90 minutes for a group of six people that like to play Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan. Any titles come to mind?
As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts about my wishlist or have you share your own.
“Dude, it’s your turn.” Rick is staring at me from across the table.
Huh? My brain freezes. Where are we? I was munching on a cookie and thinking about whether or not I had remembered to close the garage door after leaving the house earlier in the evening. Oh…right. Power Grid. I run my hands across my face, blink a few times, and glance at the power plant market. It takes a few seconds before I can fully re-focus on the game and concentrate on playing. These moments happen to the best of gamers–fatigue, stress, or distractions can pull our minds away from the game in front of us. But sometimes the blame for the momentary lapse in concentration lies not with us, but the game we’re playing. I call them low-interaction games.
Power Grid is perhaps the worst offender in my collection. An average game runs 90-180 minutes without much direct interaction between players with the exception of power plant auctions. There’s also a lot of mental math, which kills table talk as each player tries to figure out how he or she can spend money in the wisest fashion. There are many things I like about the game, but if I want to interact with people, it’s strictly through off-topic conversation, which lengthens the playing time. I sometimes find myself glancing at the board and thinking, Are we still playing this? Shouldn’t it be over by now?
Another low-interaction game is Ticket to Ride, which is not so much a communal game as several solitaire games. I’m trying to fill in my tickets, you’re filling in yours on another end of the map, and there’s terrible excitement if a player (heaven forbid!) snatches up a key section of a route before someone else. However, this game plays more quickly than Power Grid, so it’s not as bad.
A third game that comes to mind is Carcassonne, which I’ve been playing a lot recently. Gameplay is very intuitive, though there’s not much direct interaction. People are usually only directly competing if they are trying to out-do each other with farmers, or trying to connect up two cities. However, the “beer and pretzels” nature of the game is such that we can hold a conversation while playing. The game is so simple it can take a backseat while we talk about anything under the sun. And the 30-45 minute playing time means I’m never staring at the table wondering, When is this going to be over?
Since really getting into board games two years ago, I’ve learned that low-interaction games aren’t exciting for me unless they are simple and short. Conquest of Paradise is an example of a game that, while interesting in its theme, drove me up a wall. The game ends just as you are ready to interact with othe1r players (i.e., raid their villages, burn down their huts, and take their freaking yams–mwahaha!). I prefer to be playing games where the auctioning/trading/fighting is fast and furious, and people are engaged most or all of the time in what’s going on in the game (or if they’re not, they can carry on a conversation because the simplicity of the game allows for it).
This realization makes me wish Board Game Geek would include an “interaction rating” in each game profile. We’re in a recession, every dollar is precious, and I don’t want to waste my hard-earned cash purchasing games that don’t have lots of player to player wheeling and dealing or pillaging and looting. If I wanted a low-interaction game, I’d fire up FreeCell on my computer.
Are there games that you love/hate because of the low or high level of interaction? Leave a comment; I’d love to hear about them.
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Nicholas Groombridge is co-chair of the patent litigation and counseling practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Over the past 17 years, Groombridge has been extensively involved in all aspects of patent litigation, including trials (both bench and jury). He has been lead counsel in numerous patent infringement actions in federal district courts, and has successfully argued cases in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Groombridge has litigated patents in a wide variety of technical areas with particular focus on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. In particular, he has handled numerous litigation and other matters involving assays, biologics, bioinformatics, diagnostics, drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter), drug delivery systems, and research tools for such clients as Applied BioSystems, Bausch & Lomb, Celera, GlaxoSmithKline, Monsanto, Novartis, Pfizer, Schering, Takeda and Yeda Research & Development.
Most recently, he was named one of the Lawdragon’s 500 U.S. leading litigators as well as a “New York Super Lawyer” in the intellectual property field.
Groombridge received his J.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1981.
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https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/nicholas-groombridge
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Good: behaviour that provides positive outcomes for all people involved . . . or as many possible. Stuff done in the spirit of kind thoughts for those around you.
Evil: Unenlightened-Self-Interest. Exploitation of a situation to certain ends knowing it will cause harm to other parties involved. Forcing people to act against their own best interests. Profiting off the discomfort of others.
As a civilization, we theoretically stress the values of Good over those of Evil. In practice . . . Evil behaviour is a necessary tool in how the modern world works, especially in business.
We tend to teach children behaviours that can be categorized as “Good” in school. But are we really doing them a service? Perhaps we need to look at the requirements of real-world life and revise what we’re handing down.
The Standard: Bullying is bad. All schools teach that bullying is a problem that must be nipped in the bud, that a bully is someone who is in need of help just as much as the victims. We have bullying help lines, anti-bullying songs, books called “I was a Bully,” yadda yadda.
The Adult World: The skills that bullying develops – intimidation, leadership, coordination, project management, coercion, psychology – are very useful skills in the areas of sales, politics, office life, interpersonal relationships, and law enforcement.
Conclusion: Crass and unskilled bullying should be punished as usual. Skilled manipulations and coordinated campaigns against one or more individuals show a lot of promise in many lines of work in the child’s future. This should be rewarded. Efforts to curry favour with principals and other higher authorities to reduce the impact of bullying behaviour is also a laudable skill, and should be positively recognized.
The Standard: Children are taught we need to be nice to each other. Old people need to be visited and helped across streets, the handicapped assisted, younger kids offered support, people in difficulties accorded sympathy and leeway.
The Adult World: People who don’t look like me are using up resources I could be using. I’m all for helping people out, but those lazy welfare recipients, unemployed people and old people are eating up all the taxes that get sucked out of me. And the freakin’ Immigrants! Don’t get me started. What’s in it for me? My political candidates and news sources of choice tell me this, too – it’s us against them and them and them, so why am I helping them out?
The Standard: Schools have emphasized for decades now the importance of being aware of the earth’s needs. Schools have been adorned with poster-painted images of the globe in green and blue, with rainbow-lettered slogans about loving the earth as long as I can remember. Don’t litter, recycle, go with your class on spring cleaning trips through the neighbourhood, yahoo!
The Adult World: While environmentalism has become a massive and popular fad, it’s still only truly given any time when it’s convenient or politically expedient. I’ll be nice to the earth as long as I don’t have to give up my next smart phone upgrade, can still buy a terrible plastic water bottle at the corner store when I forget to bring a reusable one, or give up my first-world consumer habits. Likewise, windmill farms and hydrogen fuel cells sound great! But, given the prices and all, don’t we have all sorts of coal power and oil infrastructure lying around? Shame to waste it.
Conclusion: That’s very nice you’re making sleeping mats for poor people in Africa out of old pop bottles, kids, but to really make a difference you’d also have to stop asking for new video game consoles, trips to Disneyland, over-packaged fast food, and new clothes every new school year. Don’t wanna do that? That’s OK – the third world will suffer the negative impacts of environmental degradation first, due to the fact it’s the place we’re making all the crap before we do, thereby functioning as an early-warning system. Focus your later educational efforts on engineering and bureaucracy or law enforcement so you can benefit from all the jobs building giant domes over cities and riot control.
The Standard: Honesty is the best policy. Even if you’ve done something bad, it’s better to fess up and avoid further consequences derived from the fact you lied, too. Keep your promises, tell the truth.
The Adult World: Modification of truth, leaving out key details, or liberally interpreting questions and thoughts of others are tried-and-true tools for getting stuff done. Promises are great in theory.
Conclusion: Kids should be given lessons in complicating/variegating the facts of a situation to help them develop important life skills. Really good modification-of-truth efforts should be applauded.
Our eight-year-old wanted to stay up after his bed time. I made a deal: he could stay up an extra half hour if he promised not to make a fuss when the time came. “OK,” he said.
When a half hour was up, I escorted him to his bed. He immediately started to complain and sass. I reminded him of our deal.
It sounds childish, but it’s the model being repeated by so many adults in the world. The truly wealthy only achieve that state by exploiting the infrastructure of the society they live in. “Oilmen” get there because of the millions of people who drive cars, the corporations that turn oil into stuff for the millions, etc. Having achieved wealthy status, many such people are claiming that societal considerations like government and social safety nets are useless, and they’d like to see them gone – in fact, such individuals use their money-derived influence to see this come into being, and often enter politics just to make the world more perfect for their own concerns.
The behaviour is similar in the treatment of the Earth – It has provided a living through being exploited, and nothing bad has come of exploiting it – Clearly, we’re off the hook as far as reciprocating goes.
It’s easy to forget or disregard something that gets to be taken for granted. This tendency has been the downfall of many previous human civilizations. Such things need to be looked at, checked for health now and then.
Should the rich be taxed at a higher rate? of course, until there is some sort of limit placed on personal wealth. There is merit in working hard and pursuing risks, but there must also be homage paid to the means these people used to get there.
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2019-04-19T15:15:59Z
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https://balloonhed.wordpress.com/tag/environmentalism/
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oops..copyright lawsuit against you might be on its way.stupid google returns hell lot of postings for this shayari.i dont think this guy is behind these lines.or may be,who knows.
Nihar dont take it personaly please..but great find.
agar aapne iss shayari ke jariye kisi ko kuch kehane ki koshish ( you know what i mean )ki hai to..i am with you on that table with lots of beers..
Hello Mr. Anonymous/Washington/Puyallup from Comcast Cable….
Even i know that may be this shaayari is not written by Nihar.
But my website is not known for its original shaayari )as i have written in about section right from the start) but is a collective effort by myself and ofcourse with all who read this and want to contribute on this blog.
The name which is written below the poem is a contributers name for my blog,it may be his original collection ,may be not…….
Just enjoy the shaayari buddy!!!!!!
and thank Nihar that wherever he has brought the shaayari from is indeed a good one + whoever the original writer is….
i already said that its a great find and i love u fo r that and we are going to have beers togather..its deal between us.ok.
—> you dont have to do all this. looks like you dont like anonymous commenting.I will disapear now. no more anon coments from me.keep writing.
I do like Anonymous comments and will be more happy 2 c the comment with your name!!!
it is rite that i m not a shayar or na hi mene kisi ko personally khush karne ki koshish ki hai.it is world of good poems and shayari to me bhi iska hissa banna chahta hu bas.
Chill buddy!! koi bahas nahi ho rahi hai..
apne apne point of views hote hai sabke which v shud always respect….
Jab jab bhi hamaara naam hua hai..
Jaane kis baat se khafaa hai ye duniyaa humse..
Naa jaane humse kiskaa katle-aam huaa hai….
Ab is dil ko humne ye keh ke behlaa hi liyaa..
Badnaam hi sahi…Naam to huaa hai….
These are freely available lines dude no copyirghts required for this . nobody will pay for $$$$ for this 4 lines .i am using cont on my 22 sites from all over the internet of course i mention source from wherever i copy ;). its called social sharing in our SEM(search engine marketing) language.
n ye pls keep posting comments here annon hi sahi yaar.
na ha nuts those stats are not always accurate .ull see my location will be delhi but i am posting from hyd india.
hmm..well i agree with you that stats are not always correct.
its 99% correct.even for you its shows all the details!!!!!!
Hum to SHAYAR na they kabhi…..
SHAYARI to unki YAADON ne sikha di hume !!
Hum to ASHIQ na they kabhi…..
ASHIQUI to unki BAATON ne sikha di hume !!
DEEWANGI to unke PYAR ne sikha di hume !!
Hum to ROTE na they kabhi….
RONA to unki TANHAIYO ne sikha diya hume !!
SHABDO KO PYAR BHARE ALFAZO mein bolne wale to hum na they….
IS TARAH bolna unki MOHABBAT ne sikha diya hume !!
APNE PYAR KA ISHAAR karne wale to hum na they….
lekin unke IKRAAR ne ISHAAR karna bhi sikha diya hume !!
Nihar– ab to tum khud kaa ek website banaa lo!!!
Himanshu– aapne aapka email id hi nahi diyaa..for me to reply back.Thanks for your compliments,keep visiting…and complimenting!!!!!
hey Nihar ur last one was tooo good!!!
JISE DIL ME BASA RAKHA HAI.
tumhe na ho yakin ye aur bat hai….
Apko bhul jaye wo nazar kaha se laye….
Kisi aur ko chah Le who jigar kaha se laye….
Nahi reh sakte app ke bina….
Uff bhi na nikle wo Zeher kaha se laye……..
Tere hotho ki hasi banane ka khawab hai…..
Teri agos mein simat jane ka khawab hai..
Ajmaish u to achi nahi hoti ishq ki….
Tu chahe to teri takdir banane ka khawab hai….
Woh maut bhi laut jaye tere darwaje pe ake..
Tuj ko aisi jandgi dene ka khawab hai..
Ji bhi lenge agar jina pade tere bina….
Hi nuts hw r u?
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2019-04-20T16:58:27Z
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https://nuts.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/tumhara-saath/
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Porn
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Arts
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This is the last post in my series on metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of web site content. Over the last five weeks I’ve presented five metrics that you can use to benchmark site performance basaed on content and navigation effectiveness. Today's metric, Task Completion ROI, is built on the first metric I presented: Task Completion Effectiveness (TCE). It is actually pretty easy to calculate, and it is a great way to introduce concepts of value to content in organizations where this connection isn't seen clearly, such as government, healthcare, non-profits or corporate intranets.
Task Completion ROI: Measures ROI in Web site operations, content, applications, and labor relative to the budget spent on these initiatives.
Calculation of Task-Completion ROI: Number of task completions multiplied by a dollar value given to each task-completion type compared with the total spent on creating the task application or with the avoided-cost alternative to offline.
Calculation Note: Total expenditures will need to be determined based on budget allocation, set-aside funds, hourly labor rates, etc. Dollar values for completion of tasks will need to be assigned based on the calculated cost of completing the task offline. Find out the costs for developing the application, the marketing program, the event, the video development, and then estimate a value for the completed task based on a time and materials calculation if the task had to be completed offline. Then add a “goodwill” value.
Goodwill, according to the Merriam-Webster definition is “the favor or advantage that a business has acquired especially through its brands and its good reputation; the value of projected earnings increases of a business especially as part of its purchase price; the excess of the purchase price of a company over its book value which represents the value of goodwill as an intangible asset for accounting purposes.” So, you’re adding in “goodwill” over the costs. Sound like a stretch? Maybe a bit…think of this as a conversation starter or straw man for valuing content that may not have a clear dollar value. Even better, find out from the sponsors of the application what their business and revenue goals are before it ends up on the web site.
Example: There were 130 submissions of grant applications during the month. Each submission is valued at $200. This amount is based on the time saved by having the applicant enter the data directly into the database, rather than having staff transcribe the data from printed forms. This results in avoided cost or savings of $26,000.
Another Example: Calculate and compare the cost and success rates associated with promoting research studies and grants in the offline channels and the online channels to determine which one was most effective at attracting qualified applicants.
So, that about does it for this series. If you come up with other metrics for evaluating content sites, let me know. I think this is an area that could use some additional development.
And lastly, hope to see you at eMetrics Toronto at Analytics in Real Life on Wed, 3/20 with Anuschka Van Dijke from KPMG and Nancy Duley, from American Society of Clinical Oncologists.
The Content Distribution Index (CDI) is another engagement measurement that you can use for benchmarking. The CDI gives you a sense whether visitors believe content is valuable and interesting enough to share through Facebook, Twitter, email and other sharing links that you have on your site, such as AddThis.This is an easy to calculate metric and one that can help you rate overall relevancy of your site.
Content Distribution Index: Measures whether content holds value and relevance based on visitor opinion.
Calculation: Content shares based on total number of sharing links usage divided by page views. A higher percentage of content shares indicates that content was distributed more successfully.
Calculation Note: Sharing events will need to be captured by tagging the article sharing links. As with the other metrics in this series, you’ll have more accurate results if you do not include navigation, search and index pages.
Example: During the month, there were 200,000 total page views and 12,000 article shares. This equals a content-distribution score of 6%. Here’s how a report looked for one of our clients.
Taking a look at the results, you need to account for the number and type of articles that are incorporating the share function. A further analysis is needed to understand whether the article content is relevant and whether the position and presentation of the share link is clear to the visitors. Conduct this with a visitor/visit segment and you’ll be able to see which of your audiences is really engaging with content and which ones aren’t.
In this series on metrics for assessing your site’s overall content health and content strategy, I’ve so far focused on focusing on valuable content as defined by Task Completion and Mission Critical Content Engagement. These metrics help you determine whether visitors are using the most important content in your site.
Today, let’s take a look at the other side of the coin…understanding content that appears to have little value; content that you would consider removing prior to a site redesign or a content migration. Let’s say you want to create a metric that will give you the opportunity to do a before and after comparison. To accomplish this, I want to introduce you to the Content Engagement Score (CES). Think of this as your site’s Body Mass Index (BMI). Once you have the CES, you can do more detailed analysis on why certain content may lead to more engagement.
We’re currently working with a client that is planning a redesign and consolidation of dozens of sites into one. They selected 3 current sites that were representative of all of the sites. Using the cut-off of at least one page view over the course of 10 months, we focused on specific site sections. After doing this analysis, we found that some sections had a Content Engagement Score as high as 100% and as low as 33%.
Calculation: Percentage of all content pages on the site or site section receiving at least a pre-determined page view compared to percentage of all pages receiving less than the pre-determined number of page views.
Example: There are 25,000 content pages on a site; 20,000 have received at least 20 page views during the last quarter. This results in a CES of 80%.
Do an analysis of the 80% that are receiving higher than the minimum page views to understand what is driving visitors to that content and how this content influences Task Completion.
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2019-04-21T07:13:49Z
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https://wam.typepad.com/wam/2013/02/index.html
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Anyone with a smart phone can, for better or worse, surf the internet from behind the wheel. But that isn't keeping automakers from scrambling to bring wireless connectivity to cars, a development that could make our vehicles – and us – more efficient.
If there is this much benefit in a country the size of California, what could something like this mean to the United States as automakers like BMW, Chrysler and, most recently, Mercedes-Benz, bring us Wi-Fi on wheels?
The Japanese have had in-car connectivity since Toyota rolled out its Monet internet service in 1997. Monet was overhauled in 2002 when it was combined with Gazoo Media Services to form G-BOOK. In addition to a laundry list of vehicle targeted services, G-BOOK received a faster data link and Helpnet, Toyota's emergency rescue service.
Honda and Nissan, not wanting to be left out, created InterNavi Club Premium and CARWINGS, while Subaru, Mazda, Daihatsu and Mitsubishi licensed G-BOOK from Toyota. The subsequent explosion of internet-enabled vehicles benefited from an advanced cellular network and a society enthralled with gadgetry.
As European and American automakers dip their toes into in-vehicle internet, the big question is what features they'll offer and how they'll handle getting data to the vehicle.
Mercedes recently announced it has successfully tested in-vehicle internet applications – including web browsing, vehicle software updates and VOIP – on a prototype 4G network. It follows BMW's internet-connected iDrive system and Chrysler's Uconnect Web in-vehicle mobile hotspot. Most of the automakers, along with Microsoft, are following them into the pool. There's a push to introduce hardware standards.
We can take a hint from the Japanese to see what kind of apps we'll see. The most obvious are web-surfing, e-mail and text messaging. Beyond those is the ability to download or stream music and talk radio, stream current satellite imagery and 3-D models to your navigation system and get up-to-the-minute gas prices. Other helpful apps will provide real-time traffic data, tell you where to find a parking spot and check out geo-blogs (blog postings tied to points of interest).
But the goal is about more than tweeting from the road or downloading the latest hits on iTunes. Connected cars are key to the Intelligent Transportation System. The long-promised and so far elusive idea is to have cars communicate with each other and with the road to increase safety, relieve congestion and manage traffic. Such a system would, among other things, allow cars to track everything around them and respond accordingly to avoid collisions.
As for the hardware we'll need to make all this happen, take a look at OnStar, Uconnect and the Pro edition of Toyota's Japan-only G-BOOK for clues. They use cellular modems with associated data accounts, and customers pay as much as $30 a month. Other systems like Ford's Sync and Toyota's entry-level G-BOOK use Bluetooth to share the user's personal cellphone account. Audi's MMI (multimedia interface) web-connected nav system takes another approach, using Bluetooth to "borrow" the SIM profile of the user's cellphone. It doesn't require a separate fee, but it does require the customer to have a data plan and a phone on a SIM chip.
The arrival of in-car Internet access and car-to-car connectivity is inevitable. It's the application and potential scope that's really compelling.
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2019-04-24T09:00:17Z
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https://www.wired.com/2009/10/in-car-internet/
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“Indeed it has been said,” Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in November 1947, “that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Churchill might not have paid democracy such high praise in today’s climate.
A wave of populism has swept over many quarters of the world. Disenfranchised publics, on both the right and left, who believe that they’ve been handed a rotten deal are asserting influence. Those who’ve missed out on the benefits of globalization seek to improve their economic prospects. Others are motivated to replace prevailing social norms with ones that better reflect their personal value systems. Their common enemy—to be blamed when high expectations are disappointed—is the reviled “deep state,” that amorphous cadre of public servants and gatekeepers who execute the nation’s business.
After promising to reform both France and the European Union, President Emmanuel Macron is now struggling to reclaim the public’s confidence and prove that he is not the „President of the Rich.“ By pursuing a business-friendly reform agenda, Macron has fallen into a trap that center-left reformers everywhere seem incapable of avoiding.
WASHINGTON, DC – Popular uprisings across France are threatening to shatter the hope that so many had placed in French President Emmanuel Macron after his election in May 2017. With his party, La République En Marche !, having secured an absolute parliamentary majority, Macron promised to pursue difficult reforms not just in France, but also within the European Union. But now he is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency.
The last two years have seen an outbreak of self-abnegation among former advocates of globalization, who wonder if their cosmopolitan views on migration and free trade might have helped deliver the White House to U.S. President Donald Trump. In turn, longtime critics of globalization on the left have crowed at this apparent admission of defeat. Both camps have suggested that the backlash Trump represents is understandable and that internationalists should do more to accommodate an electorate that has turned against global engagement.
Yet both camps misunderstand Trump’s electoral success. The voters who were won over by his antiglobalist message were not legitimate victims of globalization. Many, if not most, were and are older white supporters of patriarchy who resent people with dark skin, especially those from other countries. Although it might be inexpedient to call this group deplorable, a program of appeasement toward their views is wrong—economically, politically, and morally. Globalization has been an overwhelmingly positive force for the United States and the rest of the world. Instead of apologizing for themselves, it is time for internationalists to take the fight to an aging minority of nativists and wall builders.
Other members of this chorus are liberals and left-wingers who have long been critical of free trade and who see Trump’s election as a vindication. In a March article for The American Prospect, the liberal journalist Robert Kuttner claimed that “elites of both parties won the policy debates on trade, but lost the people.” According to Kuttner, “the more that bien pensants double down on globalization, the more defections they invite and the more leaders like Trump we get.” The author John Judis took to The New York Times to criticize the left for ignoring the emotional appeal of nationalism, arguing that low-skilled immigration and China’s unfair trading practices had hurt American workers, helping to “create a new class of angry ‘left-behinds’” who were susceptible to Trump’s message.
These arguments are misguided. They severely overstate both the number of Americans hurt by globalization and the depth of the popular backlash to it. Regarding immigration, it is very hard to find evidence of a single demographic or regional grouping of U.S. citizens that has been harmed. In a 2015 paper, the economists Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri looked at 30 years of data on labor market outcomes in the United States and concluded that increases in immigrant labor, both in aggregate and by skill group, either increase native wages and employment or are simply uncorrelated with them. Conversely, Trump’s plan to end work permits for the spouses of H1-B visa holders could cost the U.S. economy $2.1 billion per year, according to the economists Ayoung Kim, Brigitte S. Waldorf, and Natasha T. Duncan.
On trade, there is reasonable analysis suggesting that increased competition arising from imports, for all of its overall benefits, can hurt employment in particular communities and sectors. In an influential series of papers, the economists David H. Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson argued that China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 had a negative impact on local U.S. labor markets exposed to Chinese competition. For at least a full decade after the “China trade shock,” they claimed, these labor markets—many of which had depended on manufacturing—saw higher unemployment, lower wages, and depressed labor force participation rates.
But critics of the studies point out that their conclusions fail to account for a few important facts. First, increased trade with China allowed U.S. firms to import cheaper materials, lowering their own costs and enabling them to expand production; and second, China’s accession to the WTO increased U.S. exports to China, as well as other countries. Looking beyond just China, research by the economists Robert C. Feenstra and Akira Sasahara suggests that between 1995 and 2011, growth in U.S. exports worldwide led to 6.6 million new U.S. jobs, including 1.9 million jobs in manufacturing—more than the jobs lost owing to global import competition. And although an estimated two million U.S. jobs were lost because of competition from Chinese imports over those 15 years, the U.S. economy saw about 1.9 million layoffs and discharges each month during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Manufacturing job losses to China are in the headlines not because they are a major source of terminations but because they make a good story for those who oppose global engagement.
Furthermore, looking only at the production side of the economy ignores the considerable benefits that consumers—particularly poor consumers—derive from cheaper goods. According to a study by Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Amit K. Khandelwal of the National Bureau of Economic Research, poor people spend more of their income on goods, while the rich spend more on services, which are less tradable; for this reason, if the United States moved to end imports, the poorest ten percent of American consumers would see their buying power decline by 82 percent, compared with a decline of only 50 percent for the median consumer.
Most Americans recognize the economic benefits of trade and migration to the country. Contrary to the backlash thesis, globalization is more popular now than ever before. Since 1992, Gallup has asked if trade is primarily an opportunity for economic growth or a threat to the economy. For 23 years, the proportion suggesting it was primarily an opportunity never rose above 56 percent; in 2017 and 2018, it exceeded 70 percent. And since 1965, Gallup has asked Americans if immigration should be increased, decreased, or kept at the present level. The proportion favoring an increase or sustained rate, at 68 percent, has never been higher, nor has the proportion calling for a decrease (29 percent) ever been lower.
But if the economic benefits of globalization are widely understood, a minority sees it as a cultural threat. This is what explains the supposed backlash. Public opinion surveys from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) suggest that 34 percent of all Americans feel that the growing number of immigrants threatens traditional American values and customs. But only 19 percent of those aged 18 to 29 feel that way, compared with 44 percent of those over the age of 65 and 53 percent of white evangelical Protestants of all ages. Similarly, the political scientists Diana C. Mutz, Edward D. Mansfield, and Eunji Kim found that whites are consistently less supportive of trade deals than are members of other racial groups. They attribute this imbalance to whites’ “heightened sense of national superiority” and ethnocentrism. If markers of economic hardship—such as low education, skills, or wages—determined opinions on trade (or migration), minorities would be the ones opposed. In fact, the reverse is true.
Some evidence does suggest that migration and trade flows may influence communities to vote Republican. Autor, Dorn, and Hanson argue that between 2000 and 2016, areas in which employment was concentrated in the industries that faced the most competition from Chinese imports tended to shift toward the Republicans. And the economists Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri, and Walter Steingress analyzed county-level data, finding that between 1990 and 2010, high-skilled immigration to a county decreased the overall share of the Republican vote while low-skilled immigration increased it.
What is considerably harder to see is how such factors could explain Trump’s increased vote share relative to the Republicans’ 2012 presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. Survey evidence suggests the American electorate recognized that the 2016 presidential candidates, Trump and Hillary Clinton, presented them with a clearer choice on trade and migration policy than had Barack Obama and Romney four years earlier. But voters’ exposure to globalization was not related to the size of their swing toward the Republican candidate between 2012 and 2016. Cultural factors were.
The Gallup economists Jonathan T. Rothwell and Pablo Diego-Rosell, for instance, found “no link whatsoever” between greater exposure to trade competition or immigrant workers and greater support for Trump. They did find a particularly large swing to Trump in counties with a high share of old white residents with only a high school education. And Diana Mutz found that people who felt that “the American way of life is threatened,” or who believed whites and men were more oppressed than women or minorities, were significantly more likely to switch to Trump than those who did not. In short, the voters who bought Trump’s rhetoric on trade and migration were those who were culturally attuned to his message.
Indeed, a significant proportion of Republican partisans have decided that white Christian men are the new oppressed. A PRRI survey in February 2017 found that 43 percent of Republicans felt there was a lot of discrimination against whites, and 48 percent thought there was a lot of discrimination against Christians, compared with only 27 percent who thought there was a lot of discrimination against blacks. Given the gap between black and white families in terms of both median income and median wealth, such thinking is delusional. But many whites, Mutz notes, fear that they will soon become a minority within the United States and feel that the country as a whole is losing its global dominance. This sense of lost national status and persecution fueled support for Trump.
When regretful internationalists talk about pausing globalization to save it, the group they cater to is not the “left-behind” but older, bigoted whites who are unreconciled to the cultural changes of recent decades. It would be both ethically repugnant and politically and economically unwise to pander to them.
Politically unwise because theirs is a minority view that is dying; economically suicidal because for all that old white men are delusional about facing discrimination at home, they are absolutely correct regarding the United States’ slipping status as a superpower. That is why it is particularly urgent for the country to lock in fair global regimes while it still has the leverage to do so. This means playing by the rules of the WTO and taking those immigrants who still want to come to the United States. Ironically, immigration is particularly important for aging whites themselves: although non-Hispanic whites will become a minority of the overall population within the next three decades, they will still make up 60 percent of people over the age of 65 in 2050. They will need young immigrant workers to keep Social Security and Medicare solvent. Add to these political and economic motives an ethical one: globalization has been the most powerful force ever for lifting humanity out of destitution.
Globalization has been imperfectly managed, and a new push for fairer global engagement should involve reforms, including better regulation of capital markets, limits on intellectual monopolies such as patents and copyrights, and cooperation on tax havens to ensure that corporations and rich individuals pay their share for public services. Strong international agreements are urgently needed on issues such as climate change and data privacy. And a raft of domestic measures could increase both equality and productivity in the United States: tightening lax controls on market concentration, slashing limits to affordable housing in job-rich areas, reducing the barrier to entry that unnecessary licensing imposes on small businesses, reforming a banking system that bails out irresponsible institutional investors, and doing more to help Americans who lose their jobs, for whatever reason.
But one thing that won’t help is for liberals to legitimize the backlash to globalization. Those who do so are useful patsies for Trump, allowing him to channel racial resentment into tax cuts for the rich. Responding to a group of people who think that white male Christians are discriminated against, or that the rest of the world getting richer is something for Americans to fear rather than celebrate, is admittedly hard. But whatever the reaction to the nativist rage of old white men, it cannot be appeasement.
In his novel “The Year 3000: A Dream”, from 1897, the Italian writer Paolo Mantegazza proved a deft oracle. Citizens of his imagined future enjoy air-conditioning, clean energy, credit cards and virtual-reality entertainment. A giant war in Europe has been followed by peace, the continent’s integration and a single currency. Yet here the author’s imagination overshoots today’s reality. His United States of Europe is a paragon of democratic federalism. Power and consent flow smoothly from “cosmopolitical” citizens to the level of government where they are most appropriately exercised. Subsidiarity reigns. “How easy and straightforward it is to govern”, comments the narrator, “when men, families and communes are self-governing.” The capital of Mantegazza’s united Europe is Rome. And nowhere quite sums up the gap between these lofty ideals and today’s fractured continent as well as Rome does.
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2019-04-26T03:41:27Z
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https://fbkfinanzwirtschaft.wordpress.com/tag/globalization/
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NJMET is an electronic component testing firm located in Clifton, NJ.
I strongly feel that the National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Obama was a monumental step in combating the counterfeit electronics epidemic. A more powerful objective would be to establish government standards defining clear and concise testing requirements for different electronics component types focusing on proper functional and parametric (DC/AC) electrical testing. The basic level contact testing which is used by some companies today does not instill a high level of confidence in the electronic components tested. The government should establish the higher standard for all electronic components testing.
For more information about NJMET’s Mission Imposter® Counterfeit Component Detection Program, see the Mission Imposter Page at the NJMET website or call Joseph Federico at NJMET’s Clifton, NJ headquarters at 973 546-5393.
The Senate recently approved a Counterfeit Parts Amendment in an effort to reduce the number of counterfeit electronic components in the Armed Forces supply chain. The amendment was introduced by senators Carl Levin, D-Mich. And John McCain, R-Ariz., the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The amendment was to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.
The amendment includes several important steps towards reducing the amount of counterfeit electronic components in the armed forces supply chain.
• It requires DOD officials and DOD contractors who become aware of counterfeit parts in the supply chain to provide written notification to the DOD Inspector General, the contracting officer, and the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) or similar program designated by the Secretary of Defense.
• It requires large DOD contractors to establish systems for detecting and avoiding counterfeit parts in their supply chains and authorizes reduction of contract payments to contractors that fail to develop adequate systems.
• It authorizes the suspension of contractors who repeatedly fail to detect and avoid counterfeit parts or otherwise fail to exercise due diligence in the detection and avoidance of counterfeit parts.
• Finally, the amendment requires DOD to define the term “counterfeit part” – a critical and long overdue step toward getting a handle on this problem.
For a more detailed list of provisions, see: http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/senate-approves-amendment-to-strengthen-protections-against-counterfeit-electronic-parts-in-defense-supply-system.
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Compilled by Marc Levesque "Time2watch"
2 new GMT pictures by Christopher Moy!
Click on the above pictures to visit the galleries!
Please keep in mind that, like my LINKS page, this is a work in progress and many more pictures will be added on a regular basis.
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I love my job. Working as a paediatric palliative care practitioner over the last 13 years I have had to have some really difficult conversations with both children and their parents. So in the last few years it makes sense that I have been invited to teach final year medical students communication skills.
Believe it or not, it is really quite fun.
I feel really privileged to have time with these young ‘doctors to be’ at this point in their careers; they have seen enough disease, human drama and tragedy to be fully sensitised to reality, but are not yet jaded by their own fatigue and weight of responsibility.
What they have seen though, is numerous senior colleagues that are burnt out or who have developed a protective shell so hard they come across as arrogant and dismissive of both patient and student. It is fascinating to listen to them discussing these issues in a safe place and my hope for a future generation of empathetic doctors that are humble, respectful and good at communication soars.
But I am not naive or optimistic enough to think that this future ideal is a reality. On the contrary – our doctors train in an impossible environment; resources are scarce, language barriers and subtle racism are ever present; hierarchy overwhelms any possibility of a nurturing environment which is actually required to ignite compassion. And compassion begets compassion – seriously lacking in our health care system. Getting further in your career requires proving yourself to our colleagues, not to our patients.
I am sure many reading this will assume I am referring to the public sector. However all doctors start in the public sector and very often when moving into the private sector find themselves alone, battling the balance between patient expectation and the ever powerful medical aid schemes.
And on the other hand, patients have a lot to answer for. They stand for it. Too often patients are still scared of the doctor. I think of the times that I have received substandard care or poor communication at the hands of some very well acclaimed professional and let it slide. It is easier to complain to friends and family after the fact. The last time I stood up for patient rights in a personal capacity, the physician accused me of wanting to kill or euthanase my own father!
But perhaps our health care system needs something different. Litigation or suing rude and offensive doctors is not the solution to improving health care. If we are all too busy practicing defensive medicine, where patient and doctor are enemy, there is less investment in improvement in care.
I believe it is time for system change, where complaints can be handled in a constructive manner that results in a ‘win:win’ situation. This requires a paradigm shift where patients feel empowered to complain to have their problems resolved, and can be guaranteed that the complaint or concern will be dealt with in a compassionate manner. Doctors would in turn be able to handle complaints effectively – doctors are human; mistakes will happen – they should be brave enough to acknowledge this without fear of prosecution and punitive measures unless of course they were purposefully negligent.
This seems like a pipe dream but perhaps one day the rights of doctors and patients will merge so that a truly equal health care system based on mutual respect can emerge.
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Great news Initiates, INSURGENT tickets go on sale on February 25th. The time has not be stated yet but it will most likely be 12pm ET. Stay tuned for the official time.
Will you be seeing Insurgent in 2D, 3D or IMAX 3D?
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2019-04-18T10:37:46Z
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Click the following Details on the junior golf program with free membership to The Highlands upon graduation.
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I’m getting quite the collection of flowers! I think I have enough to put together at least one generous flower crown. This one is SUPER simple, just a circle folded in halves and stitched.
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https://thingadayforever.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/day-15-red-ranunculus/
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ARM is A Revolutionary Manifesto for collapsing the world economy, as the only viable, doable, solution to this continued runaway climate breakdown emergency all humans, indeed all multicellular life now is faced with.
Upside Down or inside out?
Our existential crisis has all the earmarks of a spiritual disconnect from All That There IS.
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2019-04-25T04:02:31Z
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https://johnotvos.wordpress.com/category/spirituality/
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This is part 1 of a 3-part series on nature names that aren’t plants. It seems like tree and flower names dominate the nature category, but there are lots of non-botanical nature names that I think deserve a little more recognition. In my research for this post, I noticed that Abby at Appellation Mountain had done an excellent (and very thorough) bird name post in 2015. Her post focused on girl’s names, so this one is primarily masculine and unisex names.
Robin- The OG bird name (and a form of Robert), Robin was fairly common for both boys and girls in the mid-20th century. But it’s fallen out of favor- it doesn’t rank in the top 1000 for either gender, though it did manage to squeeze into #973 on the boy’s list in 2015.
Wren- This no-frills bird name is really catching on for girls. It rose over 500 places in 5 years, an astounding trajectory seemingly not fueled by any celebrity or pop culture reference. Wren is definitely one to watch.
Hawk- Because Hawks are birds of prey, they have a more macho image than most other bird names. It can be a nickname for Hawking or Hawthorne for those who prefer a more surname-y spin.
Talon- Like Hawk, Talon seems macho, even aggressive. As a noun, talon is the sharp claw of birds of prey or the remainder of a deck of cards after it’s dealt. As a name, it sounds like a lot of popular choices. Two syllable -n ending names dominate the boy’s popularity charts (think Ethan, Owen, Jackson, Aiden & company) and L is a trendy letter for both genders. That appealing sound has propelled Talon into the top 1000- it ranked #651 last year.
Phoenix- Phoenix has a lot going for it, like the very cool x at the end, the evergreen “nic” sound, and the unusual Ph- beginning. The imagery is undeniably poetic: a beautiful, immortal creature bursts into flame and rises from its own ashes. It’s no wonder the name is rising; last year, it ranked #443 for girls #292 for boys.
Sparrow- Nicole Richie and Joel Madden brought this name into the realm of possibility when they bestowed it on their son. Sparrow James Midnight Madden joined sister Harlow Winter Kate in 2009. His name has an interesting image; Sparrows are small, gentle birds, but the sound is a somewhat harsh at the beginning with the usually masculine -o ending.
Pavo- Pavo is both a form of Paul and the scientific name for the genus that includes peacocks. It could be a creative, avian way to honor an ancestral Paul.
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https://namenculture.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/nature-names-that-arent-plants-i-birds/
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Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire) - A great week for one of our ten to watch in 2011. In a tight match with Durham, his 115 (only one other player from either side passed 50 in the 1st innings) set up a win for the reigning champions - much to the delight of Lancashire supporters. A good week for Hales was capped off with a call-up to the England T20 squad for next week's match with India.
Rob Newton (Northamptonshire) - The young opener struck a composed century against title rivals Middlesex at Wantage Road.
Vikram Solanki (Worcestershire) - On a treacherous Rose Bowl surface where only one other batsman scored a fifty, Solanki's patient 79 not out looked to have given his side a decisive advantage in the basement battle until the rain gods and some suspect covers cruelly intervened on the final day.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Warwickshire) - Memories of his lacklustre debut against Hampshire the week before were quickly forgotten as a typically epic seven hour and twenty minute 193 set up the title challengers for an emphatic win over Yorkshire.
Dawid Malan (Middlesex) - Stroked a brilliant ton to put Middlesex in control of the top of the table clash with Northamptonshire - alas rain washed out the final day.
Steve Davies (Surrey) - England's forgotten man opened the batting and helped Surrey to a comfortable win at Grace Road with a 1st innings 121.
Keith Barker (Warwickshire) - Put in a fine all-round performance with four wickets in each innings and 85 with the bat to ensure that even with the absence of Woakes, Clarke and Rankin Warwickshire's title charge continued.
Andre Adams (Nottinghamshire) - Another to enjoy success with bat and ball as three wickets in each innings and a characteristically agressive second innings fifty helped derail Durham's title hopes at Trent Bridge.
Tim Linley (Surrey) - Excellent season continued with career best match figures of nine for 79 to help Surrey storm back into contention for promotion from Division 2.
Imran Tahir (Hampshire) - The pitch at the Rose Bowl may have offered him considerable assistance but there was no doubting Tahir's quality as he ripped through Worcestershire with five for 29.
Chris Wright (Warwickshire) - He can't get a game with Essex in Division 2, but the on-loan seamer starred for Warwickshire to take seven wickets against Yorkshire including a second innings five for 31.
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‘I do not look at the color of passports, I look at the blood, for our blood is the same’.
From ‘you are one of us because of your blood’ to ‘you are not one of us because of your blood’ is a step almost imperceptible, and taken all-too-lightly.
‘Staatsbürger kann nur sein, wer Volksgenosse ist. Volksgenosse kann nur sein, wer deutschen Blutes ist’ (Only those with German blood can be German citizens) was one of the paroles of the Nazis, and one carried through quite determinedly, from the 25-point-program of 1920, to the demeaning laws of 1935, to the murderous trains of 1942.
The news media in August 2015 did not pick up on the cricket stadium speech in Dubai — and, given the kind of intense scrutiny heads of governments in vibrant democracies are subject to, the only plausible explanation is that they do not consider it ‘newsworthy’. For them, the right honorable Prime Minister, when he uttered those words, said nothing new, nothing alarming. The use of racial ideas to sway people has apparently become banal.
Samuel Huntingdon suggested in 1996 that, ‘To the Chinese government, people of Chinese descent, even if citizens of another country, are members of the Chinese community and hence in some measure subject to the authority of the Chinese government. Chinese identity comes to be defined in racial terms’.
It seems to be an emerging pattern, in India, China, much of emerging European politics, the middle-east, the US — many appear to favor the dismantling of freedoms, the raising of border controls, a decrease in tolerance, and the promotion of narrow racial, religious and national interests.
If we stay silent, if we do not reject these thoughts now, they will become laws tomorrow, as has happened in the past, and we know that such societies are doomed, and their death throes are terrible. Much worse than living according to their laws — we might become them tomorrow: intolerant, quick to punish, insisting on uniformity, derisive of those who love freedom.
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But the best ones are those you make up yourself.
I aspire to be what I call the Servant Queen, expressing the complementary duality of being infinitely selfless and infinitely selfish at the same time. For me, this is the true heroine, the real goddess, the most authentic person I can be.
Today is my birthday, and as I enter this new year of my life, I will strive ever more to be who I am: a multifaceted soul and a servant queen.
Spirit and energy are, in my view, the same concept: the verb to be. They are pure existence, which is an action and not an object, and thus neither can be observed directly. However, they can be observed and known by their effects.
To be is what all things do, even if they do little else. Thus all things are spirit-infused.
When we ourselves do nothing but notice that we are being, we are spending time with spirit. It is as easy as that. When we add gratitude and awe, we are giving spirit our worship and devotion. To simply be is itself a prayer when we know the true wonder of being.
So the time has come for me to detox from a particularly nasty psychiatric drug with a vow to never take it again. I stopped cold turkey, and the withdrawal has been just short of excruciating. Anxiety, stomach trouble, depression, the lot. It’s been 4 days already, getting worse and only now maybe getting a bit better.
I will conquer this and come back stronger. Wolf spirit is with me. I am singing and drumming; just last week red-tailed Hawk gifted me with a feather and it now adorns my drum.
I owe a LOT of people emails. If you are one of them, please be patient and I will get back to you soon. I do care about all of you and want to give you my best!
Yesterday was my wife’s birthday and she bought me a present to celebrate. I now have the native drum I have been dreaming about. It has a beautiful, rich sound and I’m absolutely in love with it. I’ll be making my own drum beater in the next couple of days.
The question of spiritual qualifications is often debated. I submit that spiritual training itself is not the issue: rather, the issue is with taking on a label that carries expectations one does not fulfill. Ultimately, it comes down to our general resentment towards people who overstate their own importance and make false claims in the process.
It seems to me that spiritual training is only a concern when one is claiming to offer some very specific spiritual service for which standardized training has been developed and become expected. If you call your practice Reiki, then you ought to fulfill the definition of a Reiki practitioner. If the standards themselves are a little fuzzy, then you ought to fulfill the definition of your practice according to what is reasonably expected by most people seeking your help.
However, if you don’t make claims to offer any specific service — if, for instance, you do not adhere to any particular spiritual label — I submit that you are free from all expectation. Furthermore, I believe that standardized spiritual training is impossible in most cases, and that reputation alone is the far better indicator for those who need proof of efficacy.
There is an argument that spiritual services of any sort are powerful enough to be dangerous in the wrong hands. Therefore, one ought not offer help without training. One ought not even offer advice without learning proper counseling techniques, no matter how opinion-based and even arbitrary they may be. This boils down to the idea that no one should extend aid to someone else without being absolutely certain that one knows what one is doing.
I don’t buy that. I don’t believe there is any such thing as certainty, let alone “absolute” certainty, with regard to helping people in any way. It is really far more dangerous to believe that one does know with certainty how to help. That kind of thinking is arrogance and leads to disaster. Proper humility, meaning accepting that one may make mistakes, leads to healthy caution and healthy respect for everyone involved.
I really don’t mean to be dismissive of standardized spiritual training. What I dismiss is the idea that we should sit back and do nothing without it. First of all, workshops and classes are not the only ways to learn one’s practice. I’m not even sure they are the best ways, but that’s just an opinion. I think that spiritual skills by nature beg for unconventional training, which therefore cannot be standardized, and thus one cannot be expected to have followed any specific path to attain them.
Ultimately, I think one ought to be clear about what service one is offering and fulfill the definition of that service with integrity. It is both our birthright and our purpose to help others — let’s not discourage it or make it more difficult than it needs to be.
Imagine reaching a place in your spiritual growth when everything becomes easy. You’ve achieved peaceful enlightenment!
Or, not. Chances are these “highs” have been terrible times in your life. Times when you felt bored, passionless, lethargic and desperate for a spiritual fix. This is what happens when the your spiritual path becomes too easy, too familiar.
If you were playing a video game, would you appreciate it if the final 5 levels were as easy as the first? Or would it seem like a let down, too boring, not worth your time?
Every time you hit a spiritual high, the satisfaction peaks for a while — and then drops. You probably think you fell off your path. You didn’t. You didn’t even plateau. You just got used to the incline.
Your life’s purpose isn’t a goal you can reach. It’s not a state you can maintain. It’s the constant call to keep challenging yourself.
Ultimately, if you’re following a path, that means you’re not creating it. You can’t do much to challenge yourself here but wait or take a detour to different ground.
However, if you’re creating your path, rejoice in these seemingly passionless times. They are true victories. They are those moments when everything becomes easy. Now you know you can create an even more challenging journey.
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Well, considering Jet Airways allowed me 50 minutes of lay over between my flight from Newark transferring in Belgium for Milan, I was highly skeptical as to whether I would make the flight. And when we were at least an hour late in take off, I thought it was damn near impossible. However, I was assured by my flight attendant that there were many people on board the flight making the transfer for MXP so not to worry, the plane would wait for us. After undergoing the most tedious airline process ever, my fellow transferers and I missed out flight by a mere ten minutes. Pretty impressive but now I’m stuck waiting for the following flight out of Brussels that is due to board within the hour. I went through airport security TWICE, had my bags searched once, at which point I wanted to say, “Look lady, I just did this in your jabroni airport” but I held my tongue as her searching goon produced no “jelly” substance that my bag was supposed to contain and shrugged. I think she was talking about my face cream. Oh well, take that Brussels International Airport.
December 1, 2009. Tags: American, Belgium, Bollywood, Brussels, Brussels International Airport, Jet Airways, Logan Miller, Malpensa International Airport, Milan, New York, Pearl Harbor, Switzerland, Tess Uriza Holthe, The five forty five to cannes, Valkyrie, World War II, Zurich. Books, Movies, Travel. Leave a comment.
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2019-04-18T14:28:55Z
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ADVICE: Client refusing to get in contact - "Artists Beware"
Back in November I opened for fursuit commissions. Client got a spot, paid the 30% non-refundable downpayment and replied promptly to my emails for three days (11/25 to 11/28). I have not heard back from my client since November 28th, 2017.
Since then, they have sent payments via PayPal for the suit in December and January, effectively and fully paying for the fursuit commission. In the last PayPal payment they put in the notes section that some things came up and they apologized for the lack of communication, yet paid on time.
As of November 28th I have sent them 6 emails, the newest being a few minutes ago, with progress photos and asking them to reply to my emails. Currently the fursuit is halfway done.
In my form I ask people put down their social media in the off chance they do disappear so I can contact them somewhere else; the client put down their FA. I left them a shout 4 days ago asking them to reply to my emails and saw that they had favorited something hours beforehand, when I checked a few minutes ago to see when I had posted the shout their account shows they were active 3 hours ago.
I have an abandon clause in my Terms of Service that states that, if a client is to halt communications, I reserve the right to alter the fursuit and re-sell it so a full refund can be given. As this is an artistic liberty piece designed by me no alterations need to be made but, as stated, it is paid for in full.
Any advice on what to do at this point would be appreciated, I'm very lost and have never had this happen before. Thanks!
Your plan to finish the commission and ship to the address on the invoice is honestly your best bet. You can try and send an email to confirm the address, just to be safe and cover your bases.
The client may still live there, and tbh PayPal expects the seller to ship items to the address that the buyer has provided (aka the one linked to their account when they made the purchase), and if you provide tracking / proof of delivery etc, you're following the expectations PayPal places on sellers.
Like others have said, the buyer still retains the rights to the receipt of their item as long as the 180 day rule is in effect. Hopefully they do respond to you soon!
They commissioned art after commissioning me (not of the character I made, their own OCs) and just judging from afar they're the kind of client who doesn't favorite the art, just reposts after receiving it. So I guess they think that fursuits work the same way, in this case pay for it, supply an address and then go do something else until it's done. I dunno, if I paid someone over $1,000 to make me something I'd want to know how it's going!
I'm definitely email them about the address once I send final photos, I'll give it a few days to make sure it all checks out and then mail it out, even if they continue to give me radio silence.
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Tags: sleep, sleepy, sleepy kitty, The Parliament York, Three Things Thursday, York Pa.
No. 1: I am sleepy. Often.
I really just need to take a day and take a break, but that is NOT going to happen for a while.
No. 2: I get some crazy ideas sometimes, and sometimes they follow through. This is why I am not sleeping.
No. 3: Jamieson got to showcase his work at The Parliament York! I am so very proud of him and happy he got the opportunity.
If your life is like mine right now, you barely remember to eat dinner after getting home from work.
We go from unearthing fall and winter clothes during an Indian summer day to everything orange, yellow and red and Halloween costumes and decorations.
Then, in a blink of an eye, we are finagling road trips for Thanksgiving feasts and/or stocking the pantry for the big day.
Then, we will be bundling under large jackets, furiously shopping for holiday gifts, and grumbling about how cold it is and we can’t wait for summer.
I’ve learned a new trick to help out my limited budget and schedule: freezer meals. I recently found two, new-to-me blogs: Budget Bytes and Vegan in the Freezer. These gave me a ton of inspiration for what I can do when I get a few hours, in order to free up the time between getting home and my head hitting the pillow. I can even get my significant other to cook it in the oven, so dinner is hot and ready as soon as I step in the door.
This recipe was actually inspired by a Food.com blogger Christine who make a creamy chickpea and tahini casserole. I substituted a few ingredients for what I had on hand: pasta, fresh tomatoes and Gardein meatballs (on sale at Target!), and eliminated a few spices I did not have.
This is such a versatile dish that you can create a variety of sauces and mix and match grains, protein and veggies. Let me know what inspiration you get from this recipe.
Boil a large pot of water, and follow directions to cook pasta until al dente. Drain and cool.
Heat up meatballs in a microwave-proof bowl until able to mush the balls. Break up until consistency of ground beef.
Mix tahini, water and spices until well mixed. Set aside.
Spray 9×13 pan with olive oil.
Dump all ingredients into pan, first placing some noodles in the pan, adding tomatoes and meatballs and then half of the tahini mixture. Add remaining noodles and sauce.
Stir until all the noodles are coated.
Let the pan completely cool, then place lid on and put it in the freezer.
When ready to cook, place pan in the refrigerator for about 7 to 8 hours. An hour before cooking, take it out and place on the counter.
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Take off lid and place foil over pan. Cook for about 45 to 50 minutes or until center is warm.
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2019-04-20T06:46:01Z
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We have a new and hopefully final home. It has been a very big and complicated job moving climateaudit.org with its nearly 2000 threads, over 200,000 comments, plus images, data, scripts to wordpress.com, which has large enough facilities to prevent the chronic server problems that plagued climateaudit as a standalone server operated on the budget that I was prepared to afford.
What substantially complicated the move was our desire to preserve the very large number of links to existing climateaudit images and threads (which I’m told create a subterranean draw and which we didn’t want to disconnect.) Anthony, Mr Pete and John A all contributed to the move, which was accomplished during a period when I was otherwise occupied so to speak. I’m very grateful to them. WordPress.com went several extra yards to accommodate the move and I’m very grateful to their staff as well. We think the old addresses are all pointing to the new addresses – let us know if you have any problems.
An excellent analysis of whether the CRU zipfile was “hacked” or “leaked” here, arguing for a combination of a dossier prepared by the university in relation to potential FOI responsibilities (though not necessarily FOI requests in hand) and discovery of the dossier by someone at the university who released it to the outside world – very much along the lines hypothesized by Charles the Moderator of WUWT, but substantially fleshed out.
This is a detailed analysis, unlike IPCC allegations of attacks by the Russian secret service (their version of “A miracle occurred”).
Michael Schlesinger, apparently oblivious to the adverse public reaction to behavior of CRU scientists, threatened Andy Revkin of the New York Times with the “Big Cutoff”. Schlesinger’s email expressed particular annoyance that this was the second time in a week that he had had to give directions to Revkin, an earlier email having instructed Revkin not to give space in his blog to the Pielkes.
First, the bad news. I lost in the final of the Canadian “Century” doubles squash championships today. I played a good semi-final yesterday and not so well today.
I’ve agreed to appear on Campbell Brown, CNN tomorrow. Normally they don’t take an interest in doubles squash, but these are unusual times, I guess. I presume that they’re interested in my take on the squash matches over the weekend. Also, the respective merits of three-wall nicks versus reverse corners.
Also, I was taped last week by Fox News for a documentary which (I think) will be on this week. They interviewed me for a couple of hours. This was before the weekend squash tournament and they were interested in climate rather than squash. They were in Toronto for the Munk Debates and also interviewed George Monbiot (who I had a very pleasant cup of coffee with off both our records) and others. They were very well prepared – far more than anyone else. They knew (and asked) about such esoterica as the Starbucks Hypothesis. I’m not experienced in this type of interview and I’m sure that my answers were invariably too dull. We’ll see.
Obviously, there’s been lots of coverage on Climategate. Jon Stewart’s commentary on the Daily Show neatly rebutted spin by Gavin Schmidt on the “trick”, on the availability of “value added” data and closing with a sensible moral: don’t cut corners. It’s too bad that he wasn’t on the case with Upside Down Mann, where, at a certain point, the only reasonable discussion was satire.
There are many other interesting commentaries, but Jon Stewart’s is on point for Climate Audit issues.
James Delingpole is one of the first to observe the Climategate phenomenon as “uber-viral” – a story where there is much larger internet exposure than MSM exposure.
Citing Richard North, he compares the number of Google hits to the number of Google News hits for phrases of interest, comparing, for example, “Climategate”, a word that did not exist 14 days ago, to “Tiger Woods”, who has been adding to his celebrity in unexpected ways.
Updating the comparisons, “Climategate” has 32,000,000 google hits as compared to 4,080 news stories (Google), while “Tiger Woods” has 29,500,000 google hits with 54,018 news stories (Google). Although Tiger has over 10 times as many news stories, Climategate (remarkably) has more google hits than Tiger Woods (and many other famous search items e.g. Britney Spears, NFL, NBA or for that matter “climate”).
“IPCC” has 1,320,000 Google hits and 7,839 news stories (Google). If nothing else, the numbers show an extraordinarily intense interest in this story in the blogosphere, with increasing news media interest.
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The nights have gone cool, and who can complain at this point in the year? While I confess that the climate in mid-Maryland often leaves something to be desired, a nice fall here really can’t be beat. Our nights are cool, and days are dry with clear blue skies. Perfect time to get the last few harvests of summer veggies.
I’ve gotten the last of the tomatoes, the cukes are dwindling, my butternut squash are hanging on the vine getting a nice protective skin, and I thought the zucchini were done. Then I lifted a few of those gigantic leaves. What I had assumed was the wooden border of the garden was actually a huge and very dark zucchini. I mean HUGE. And two days later – another on a plant that I thought had given up earlier in the summer, but was growing in secret behind another plant. So now I have these enormous zukes.
My favorite trick with zucchini is to shred it and freeze it. I tend to do it by weight, put it in a bag, write the weight on the bag and pop in the freezer. Why by weight? Because my favorite zucchini bread recipe calls for zucchini by weight. So as we move into the cold months, I have my key ingredient already shredded and measured, ready to go. My favorite zucchini bread recipe is based on one I used for years from The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. America’s Test Kitchen publications, such as The America’s Test Kitchen New Family Cookbook (this is the new version of the book I have which is no longer in print), are fantastic. If you are trying to improve your cooking skills, there are few more comprehensive resources. The recipes are not intended for restrictive diets, but they are full of real food and I’ve successfully adapted many of them as my own dietary preferences have changed. And what I’ve learned from the authors has been priceless. This zucchini bread is lightly spiced, sweet but not cloying, and deeply satisfying with a cup of coffee, or a mug of tea, or whatever you want to drink.
Preheat oven to 375 with rack set in middle of oven. Coat a small loaf pan (mine was 8 x 4, standard is fine, but your loaf will be shorter). Shred zucchini on large holes (I used a food processor)l Place zucchini in strainer. Sprinkle with a little salt and stir to distribute the salt. The salt will pull the liquid out of the veg. Let drain for at least 15 minutes. Wrap a tea towel (or paper if that’s all ya got) around the zucchini and squeeze the remaining water out. Be astonished by the amount of water in that veg. No, you can’t skip that step. Whisk coconut milk, maple syrup, applesauce, coconut oil, flax eggs and lemon juice together in a bowl. Whisk dry ingredients in a large bowl. Fold the zucchini and the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over mix (yeah, I don’t know why either).
Scrape batter into loaf pan. Bake until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean – or until it feels right to you (that’s my test, a little press in the middle with my finger), should be about an hour. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Continue cooling on wire rack for at least an hour, being sure to have a taste while it’s still warm. Super yum.
The season of birthdays has begun here in Mid-Maryland. For whatever reason a good portion of my family was born in the spring and summer and once the parade of birthdays begins, it doesn’t slow down until September. Friends, that’s a lot cake.
I do love to celebrate and Mr. Little Sis LOVES cake, so despite my lack of enthusiasm for it (more of a pie gal honestly) I decided to honor his birthday with his favorite variety, a serious chocolate cake. While I’ve baked a lot, I don’t consider myself an authority on dairy free baking, particularly when it’s not for bite sized bits for lunch boxes. I decided to turn to a friend with more experience, and as usual the search for assistance bore delicious fruit.
Big Sis introduced you to our friend Somer (if you didn’t already know her, that is) with her Cheddar Cheesy Cashew Spread and I turned back to that same fabulous vegan cook for a little cake help. Somer delivered with her Insane Chocolate Layer Cake, a low fat, whole grain decidedly chocolate cake.
I made just a couple of changes to make it work better for my family and it was a lovely and actually quite sane chocolate treat. I swapped maple syrup for Somer’s agave and cut it to 3/4 c. Readers who are not accustomed to less sweet treats or who are new to healthier baking should use the full cup. I also cut the apple cider vinegar to 2 T. because I cut the sweet I thought it was important to cut the sour zip to maintain balance. I also used only a little raw cacao and mostly used regular cocoa powder. I find that if I use too much raw cacao, nobody around here sleeps, and I’ll just admit it that one of the reasons I am the sane Mom that I am is that at the end of the day, people go to sleep. The cake baked up just as Somer indicated that it would, although when I make it again, I will use 8 inch pans rather than 9 inch. It rose, but the layers were not as lofty as I wanted them to be visually.
For layering and topping our cake I used a cashew cream and a chocolate ganache. Concensus at the table, particularly amongst the younger crowd, was that I should have used less nut cream and more chocolate. It is important to note that my crew would pretty much always call for more chocolate.
Place all ingredients in food processor and blend until creamy. Yes, that’s it.
Place chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler (or stacked pots) with water in the bottom heat on medium high. Keep an eye on the chips as they melt, stirring occasionally. They hold their shape even when they are essentially melted. When the chips are melty enough to stir, remove from heat and stir in the coconut cream. What you do at this point depends on how you want to use the gananche/frosting. If you want to frost the cake in a more conventional way, you should chill it for at least 20 minutes. If you wish to drizzle, as I have, drizzle away immediately and then place the cake in the refrigerator so the chocolate can set up a bit. Wow that’s chocolate-y. And oh so very delish. Happy Birthday Mr. Little Sis.
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Home » event marketing » Did you Learn about Trade Show Marketing in College?
I can’t tell you how many times I have cited the CLC (Convention Liaison Council) study, conducted by Deloitte & Touche in 1995, which calculated the size of the Convention & Meeting industry to be $83 billion, ranked #22 in contribution to the GDP in the USA, yet few have gone to school for direct training to work in this industry! Most of us in this business have fumbled into it in one way or another and grew to like it. We then became experts through on-the-job training and by trial and error. I suspect the industry total now represents over $100 billion in revenue. Today, there are many more training avenues for trade show marketing available than in the past, but the average university marketing department hardly mentions trade show marketing and its place within the overall marketing mix. I am not saying that we need to establish college degrees in trade show marketing, but we can start by reaching out to our alma maters and favorite university business/marketing departments to share our knowledge and grow awareness about the power of trade show marketing and its place within the marketing mix.
The old rule of thumb was that 5% of a company’s revenue should be earmarked for marketing. This total budget then is divided among the different marketing channels to create a marketing plan that integrates each of the components to work together to reach a target. No one component is more important than the other, although some will cost much more to do. Using the budget wisely is the key.
In September of last year, I was introduced to the marketing department at NEIU (Northeastern Illinois University) in Chicago. I made a presentation that focused on how trade show marketing fits in the overall marketing mix. In this case, establishing awareness that trade show/event marketing even existed!
The class I presented to was a marketing class that focused on ‘how to write a marketing plan’. The professor then divided the students into small groups and they were asked to come up with a new product or service and then prepare a marketing plan to bring it to market. The student groups were then required to present their final plans in the form of a trade show to present and sell their ‘companies’ and product/services. The students needed to create graphics for their displays and present their plan conclusions. On December 5th, the classes presented their findings to a group of local marketing experts who served as judges. Each class group presented their marketing plans and were judged on the effectiveness of their conclusions. Bravo to NEIU for creating such a class! I found this class to be an excellent way to introduce and experience the power of trade show marketing, and how it integrates within each of the other components in the marketing mix. I sure wish that I would have taken a class like this before I started in the business!
“The benefits realized from this single class offered our students three experiences to take with them to their working careers after college: 1. how to write a Marketing Plan, 2. the components of a marketing mix, and 3. working as a team and presenting your ideas face-to-face in a trade show environment,” said Professor Shabnam Zanjani of NEIU.
“Our NEIU student body is one of the most diverse in the USA. The majority of our business and marketing students live, and will continue to work, in the Chicagoland area. Preparing our students to be of value, with business and marketing skills, to work for local companies is our goal. With McCormick Place and major corporations in our backyard, we surely want our students to be fully aware of all marketing methods and tactics, including trade show marketing” said Michael Bedell, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Business and Management at NEIU.
So, my request to all exhibit industry experts in the USA who have discovered a passion for the trade show/event industry and are still having fun, please reach out to your local universities and share your knowledge about trade show marketing with a local college’s Business and Marketing Departments. Trade show marketing awareness begins with small steps to establish its value within the overall marketing mix. The schools that do so become a step ahead when they develop useful training that all companies seek when hiring business and marketing talent.
Larry Kulchawik, head of Larry Kulchawik Consulting, is author of Trade Shows from One Country to the Next. Larry can be contacted via email: larrykulchawik@gmail.com.
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As Born of God Christians, Do We Need Theology and Theologians – Part 4 – The ‘Church Fathers’ | Is The Father Calling YOU to His Son, Yashua Messiah?
By way of what one might call a postscript I thought it would be wise to complete this series of articles with some historical evidence to prove that the first century Assembly of God was hijacked by assorted philosophers, theologians and Bible intellectuals after, if not before, 100 AD.
This is what Paul calls “The Mystery of Iniquity” in 2 Thess 2:7 so we know the Devil and his followers – the men of the Cainite-Judeo-Christian Religion, were already at work in first century undermining the True Gospel message of the coming Kingdom of God.
In 1 Thess 5:21 The Holy Scriptures say “To prove all things”: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Matt 23:9 (KJV) And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Yet what do the illegitimates do? They call men their ‘father’? So, straight away, having read this Scripture we should know that the title ‘church fathers’ is a bogus title. It also tells us everything we need to know about a bogus organisation that commands its followers to call its priests ‘father’. We can plainly see, too, that all this evidence flies in the face of what Yashua Messiah commanded; “Call no man your father upon the earth”. Now which parts or part of this statement do these blaspheming wretches and liars not understand!!?? Please note, this command of Yashua Messiah’s has nothing to do with our calling our biological father, father – our physical father is our father, but he is not our Spiritual father. In this situation it is our calling men our spiritual father that is the wicked blasphemy.
Plainly, from the above, we can see already that there is enough proof to discredit 90% + of Christendom with their priests being called ‘father’ – the opposite of what Yashua Messiah commanded. This article, though, is about a special group of men who are revered as ‘church fathers’ by those who are, in general, Biblically ignorant and Spiritually blind i.e. theologians, Bible intellectuals and even the lay membership duped lemmings of the Roman Cult. This state of affairs can be summed up as the Spiritually blind i.e. the ‘church fathers’, leading the Spiritually blind – the lay membership. These men, whom I listed earlier in this series, are looked up to by theologians and Bible intellectuals to such a degree that they are put on a par with the Apostles, no less. Now should they do this and, more important, why do they do this?
The answer to the first question is no and I will be explaining in more detail the reasons why the answer is no, later. The answer to the second question is very straight forward and the reason why they revere these so called ‘church fathers’ in such a way is because the Holy Scriptures and/or Yashua Messiah is not enough for them. The Holy Scriptures and simple trusting belief in same does not meet with their requirements, it is insufficient for them. Why is that? It is like that because the Gospel message of The Kingdom is too simple for them; it doesn’t allow them to show off their puffed up intellectual acumen.
You see the “Simplicity that is in Christ” is designed for people of all IQ levels. We don’t have to be university professors in order to understand the coming Kingdom, Faith, Salvation and Grace; these concepts are very easy to grasp and understand by all people, even those who have had no education at all.
We must also understand that these intellectual Bible ‘experts’ are Spiritually dead and they therefore rely wholly on a combination of supposed hard historical text book facts and an unhelpful dollop of carnal human logic and reasoning (man’s wretched fallen condition) in order to maintain their quasi-beliefs. The true fact that they believe in a lie or lies is by the by – delusion is delusion and you cannot be partly deluded any more than a woman can be partly pregnant. In reality most of them don’t even believe in Yashua Messiah (the Lord Jesus Christ) at all.
OK, that’s enough of these silly 21st century egotistic people, so we’ll now move on to even sillier egotistic people of the first, second and third centuries AD – the so called ‘church fathers’. I listed some of their names in part two, so let’s investigate, now, some of the things that they said and wrote in order to prove whether or not they were the real thing or just a bunch of counterfeiters posing as Christians?
Philp 4:3 (KJV) And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Leaning on their own understanding is exactly what theologians and Bible intellectuals do and, like this Clement, is one of the easiest ways to find them out! When it comes to these ‘church fathers’ it’s “Errors R Us” folks and non-stop.
Psalm 7:11 God is angry every day.
Romans 1:18 (KJV) The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.
The first ‘church father’ found out and disqualified from the writings of his own hand!!
Polycarp is reputed to have lived from 65-155 AD and of all the so called church fathers he is probably the most well known and much esteemed or held in high regard by many theologians of the Cainite-Judeo-Christian Religion.
Notice here the warning from Peter to escape from them while you can, so what are you waiting for!?
Acts 20:28 (KJV) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost (Spirit) hath made you overseers, to feed the Church (Assembly or Ekklesia) of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
What a protection racket, I wonder if the Mafia nicked the idea; everyone’s a winner – sound familiar?
1 Cor 13:3 (KJV) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Again, nowhere in the Holy Scriptures does it say that giving alms or gifts of money will deliver a man or woman from death, especially if the gift is not accompanied with Godly love (agape). There is only one thing that delivers us from death – the free undeserved gifts Grace and Faith and with those gifts, Salvation.
“By grace ye are saved, not of works” and then in complete contradiction in Chapter 4 he states “and let us teach, first of all, ourselves to walk in the commandments of the Lord”.
Hello, excuse me? I thought it was Yashua Messiah who teaches us through His Holy Spirit, just when did salvation become a do-it-yourself programme or a self-help teach yourself programme?
Here we can plainly see we’re taught by Yashua Messiah through His Spirit – we don’t teach ourselves.
“If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, “we shall also reign together with Him,” provided only we believe”.
Here he contradicts himself again within the same sentence and makes salvation conditional: If we please Yashua Messiah we shall inherit the Kingdom of God. This is not Grace this is salvation by works. I’ll tell you straight, too, that if it was up to how pleasing a man is, I would have no chance of salvation. Then, he says, if we live worthily of Him we shall reign with Him – yet more conditions and finally he then adds his own contradiction “provided we only believe.” Now which is it, as it seems Mr Polycarp doesn’t know. Are we saved because we believe and keep on believing no matter what or is it based upon how we perform in being pleasing or our behaving worthily!? What kind of a ‘church father’ is it that doesn’t even understand the basics of the undeserved i.e. the free gift that is Salvation? Yet another counterfeiter is exposed by his own hand.
I will be continuing my exposé of these so called church fathers in my next article in this series – part 5.
“You see the “Simplicity that is in Christ” is designed for people of all IQ levels” – applause !
However, this sounds too complicate for me ! “Yashua Messiah was the Creator of the universe, not The Father:”, could you shed some more light on it ?
When John says “all the things were made by Him” does he relates to The Father or The Son or The Godhead ? The verses John 1:1-3 always sounded “mysterious” to me so I never really bothered trying to catch the deeper meaning.
Gen 3:8 (KJV) And they heard the voice of The LORD God walking in The Garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of The LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
This means that The God of the Old Testament is Yashua Messiah, not The Father.
All things were made by The Word and The Word was God and The Word is Yashua Messiah. Here are some of Yashua Messiah’s other titles The I AM, The Light, The Way, The Truth, Melchesedec, The King of Righteousness, The King of Salem (Peace) and of course The Word.
I completely missed this verse John 5:37, maybe because in my Bible which is translation from the German (Luther I think) Bible, it says “… and you never seen his face” (not shape).
“And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” ?
Also, do you have some article about the Book Of Revelation ? It would be interesting to know your thoughts about it.
Ha ha your first test. Notice how easy it is to create contradictions. Not that you’re doing that, but the trap is there if you see what I mean.
John 5:37 are The Words of Yashua Messiah Himself saying that no one has ever heard or seen The Father so there can be no argument against what He said. We must always take the strong stand point on these issues and John 5:37 is the strong stand point on this.
This means when we come to what LOOKS LIKE a contradiction we have to eliminate that contradiction from the strong stand point.
Matthew 3:17 (KJV) And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Yes and notice ‘A’ voice, but not The Father’s voice, so most likely an archangel or one of the 24 elders speaking on The Father’s behalf.
No, I have not done anything in depth on Revelation and that’s because it still remains a mystery to me, to large extent. I think that’s because we are actually living in the last days of the last days and Revelation is going to unravel in front of our very eyes soon and we will be witnesses to those events. It’s just a matter of watching and praying.
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It was the winter of 2004 when I made so many trips across the island on the DRL bus. It was just after I had undergone surgery to remove a large tumor, and I still hadn’t completely healed from the surgery. My right eye still wasn’t blinking properly, and staring at anything for any length of time hurt like hell. From the date of my surgery (Dec 12, 2004) until Dec 12 2010, I traveled across the island (by bus) eleven times for MRI tests and doctor visits.
Lucky for me, I brought along my trusty Ipod Classic. The little gadget had 80gb of storage, and I was fortunate that I loaded on several audiobooks prior to my trip. My brother told me about this fantastic book he had read about two Afghanistan kids, so I decided to start with this one. The book was entitled ‘The Kite Runner’, and the audio was actually read by the author himself. I don’t believe anyone can present the material as well as the person who actually writes it, and this proved it.
While on my trip, I was totally captivated with the story. I never noticed the bus leaving, or even stopping.
The other passengers on the bus must have considered me to be rude, as I never spoke to anyone, just sat there listening to Khaled tell me the story. One lady who was sitting next to me asked if I were a deaf mute. Talk about the nerve; and even if I were a ‘deaf’ ‘mute’, I wouldn’t be able to hear her question or relate my answer.
A few of the people I shared a seat with poked me with their elbows and received a dirty glare, which usually works. The worst thing about traveling long distances on the bus are the people who sit next to you. Some of those people are downright annoying and I always seem to get the worst ones.
On this trip I was unlucky enough to be sitting next to an old lady who tried to convert me to Jehovah’s Witness. I think I turned the volume up even louder than I had it before. Eventually she got tired of shoving pamphlets in my face and went on to bother someone else in the next aisle. Poor guy. I bet he wished that he had Khaled read to him as well.
One guy asked what the little gadget was. When I took a small break from the story I explained to him that I had a guy in the little box and that he was reading a book to me. I know, cynical, but hey, gotta have some fun.
At the end of the 13 hour bus trip (We got caught in the middle of one of the worst winter storms in the past five years and had to stay put numerous times and wait for the driver to be able to see at least three feet in front of him), everyone else was at their wits end, while I stepped off the bus relaxed and satisfied with the trip. I thanked the bus driver (While everyone else cursed him) and went on my way. If you haven’t listened to a book before, give it a try. Very relaxing to say the least.
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TIME-SAVER – FOOD IS LIFE!
Karina’s Father’s Day Chicken Pizza’s!
These pizza’s are the ultimate time-saver, are super-easy and reduces food waste!
Today was Father’s day in Australia. My family stuck with tradition and had a nice Father’s Day Lunch: BBQ style! We had BBQ chicken breast, BBQ chicken kebabs, low-fat chicken sausages, low-fat beef sausages and a massive greek salad.
N.B. you can use other types of leftover meat, to create your own unique pizzas….this is the fun part!
Pre-heat your pizza stone and your oven at 180°C. If you don’t have a pizza stone, pre-heat your oven tray. While these are preheating, prep your leftover BBQ meat and salad ingredients, by chopping the BBQ meat and straining the salad dressing from your greek salad.
Arrange on a plate and enjoy, served with your favourite healthy drink.
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If you are considering taking a martial arts class to learn self-defense techniques, this is a great idea. In today’s increasingly violent world, it is important to know how to protect yourself. One of the most popular and effective ways to protect yourself is through the practice of Kung Fu.
Even if you have never stepped into a Kung Fu studio, chances are you know more about the discipline than you might think. In fact, many of the most basic self-defense moves have their roots in Kung Fu. That’s just one of the many ways you can be sure that if you want to learn how to defend yourself, there is no better way to do that than by practicing the art of Kung Fu.
So, what are the go-to Kung Fu moves that police and other self-defense experts use? Read on to learn about the four most popular ones. Chances are, you have heard of them or seen them in action yourself!
Melon Eye-Gouge. Ever picked up a melon in the grocery aisle to check for ripeness? Then you have the basics moves down to stick your thumbs in a would-be attacker’s eyes.
Push-Up Chest Strike. Push-ups are a great training ground for a chest strike. And when put into action with the melon eye-gouge above, you pack a one-two punch. If an attacker grabs you by the front of your shirt, use the eye-gouge technique. That will cause your attacker to grab his face while you do a push-up on his chest. The strength of your push-up blow will knock that attacker several feet while you run to safety.
Seat Belt Elbow. You know how you reach across your body to grab your seat belt. That’s the same as throwing a right elbow. The key is to do it as quickly as possible. The faster you throw an elbow, the more force that blow will pack. Want to train your left elbow? Mimic the seat belt fastening move you make when you are riding in the passenger seat.
Stair-Climb Groin Kick. Simply lifting your left as you would to climb a set of stairs and then knee your would-be attacker in the groin.
You may be surprised how ingrained these movements already are in your mind and your muscles. But it really shouldn’t come as any surprise at all since you do most of these actions on a regular basis without even noticing. Who knew they could help protect yourself, as well?
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Ronald Beesley (1903-1979) was a healer, clairvoyant , philosopher, writer and teacher. He gained international fame with his “Distant Colour Healing”, and the books “Yoga of the Inward Path”, and “Visions of the Aquarian Age”.
In Kent (near Tunbridge Wells, Kent in England) , he founded “White Lodge”, now “Centre of New Directions“.
Visions of the Aquarian Age.
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Associazione di volontariato per la tutela dell’ambiente e la diffusione della cultura scientifica per il progresso umano nel rispetto della natura.
Report on heat production during preliminary tests on the Rossi “Ni-H” reactor.
In this first and preliminary document are reported the heat production measures done during two short tests done on December 16 2010 [Test 1] and January 14 2011 [Test 2].
On December, 16 2010 I had the opportunity to test, for the first time, a prototype of the Rossi “Ni-H” reactor. A photograph of the apparatus used in both tests is shown in fig.1 and a scheme is shown in fig. 2.
The Rossi Reactor prototype has a main horizontal cylindrical body ending with a vertical pipe. The H2 inlet was connected to a Hydrogen bottle through no return valves. There was no H2 outlet apart from a small purge valve that was closed. Cables where connected to a control box with 5 digital plc that where “controlling the power sent to the resistors inside the reactor”. Prudentially I have lifted the control box in search for any other eventually hidden cable and found none. The weight of the control box was of few Kg. Two water pipes where connected to the system. Temperature was measured and logged by two NTC sensors. Another sensor, in the logger, was measuring the ambient temperature. Power from the 220V line was monitor and logged by a “WATTUP?” Pro Es power meter.
Before igniting the reactor the water flux was set and measured by collecting, , and then weighting, an amount of water in a container in a given time.
The measured flux was of 168 +/- 2 g in 45 +/- 0.1 s.
Then the power was turned on an temperatures started to rise. In Fig 3 is show a plot of the temperatures as appeared on the monitor during the test taken from the start to just after the end of the test.
As it can be seen the system was turned on just around 16.55. After approx 30 minutes a kink can be observed in the (Y). Because input power ( 1120W also checked via and clamp amperometer ) was not modified (see fig.5 later) this change of slope testify that the reactor was ignited. After a startup period approx 20 minutes long a second where the reactor power was almost constant taking the water to ≈75 °C a second kink is found when the reactor fully ignites rising the measured temperature at 101.6 +/-0.1 °C and transforming the water in to steam.
At this point we can try a simple calculus in order to evaluate the power produced. In order to raise the temperature of 168 g of water by 1 °C , ≈ 168*4.185 = 703 J are needed. The water inlet temperature was 15 °C so the ΔT was 85 °C. We have 703*85=59755 J. At this energy one must add the evaporation heat ≈2272 J/g * 168=381696 J. Total energy in 45 sec is 59755+381696=441451 J, and power is 441451/45=9810 W.
Statistical experimental errors in power estimation, due mainly to flux measurements, can be conservatively estimated in about 1.5%. In this case we have +/- 150 W.
This result is only a lower limit of the energy produced because the system was not completely isolated and we have not taken into account any heat loss. From the calculation of the “produced power” when the water was at 75 °C which give a result that is less than the electrical input power is easy to understand that this systematic under estimation surely exceeds the statistical errors .
Before ending [Test1] all the power was reduced and then switched off from the resistors and also the hydrogen supply was closed. No pressure decrease was noted in the H2 bottle. Even in this conditions the system kept running self sustaining, for about 15 minutes until it was decided to manually stop the reaction by cooling the reactor using a large water flux (note the decrease of the water input temperature).
The main origin of possible errors in [Test1] measure was that the steam was not checked to be completely dry. During [Test2 ] this measure was done by Dr. Galantini a senior chemist who has used an “air quality monitor” instrument HD37AB1347 from Delta Ohm with a HP474AC probe . Also in [Test2] a high precision scale (0.1g) was used to weight the Hydrogen bottle (13 Kg) before 13666.7 +/- 0.1 g and after 13668.3 +/- 0.1 g the experiment. The cause of this unexpected rise was traced to be the remnant of piece of adhesive tape used to fix the bottle during the experiment. After careful examination of the tape the weight loss was evaluated to be <1g. This is far less the expected weight loss due to chemical burning. In fact 1g of H can produce (max) 285 Kj. In [Test2] the power measured was 12686 +/- 211 W for about 40 min with a water flux 146.4g +/- 0.1 per 30 +/- 0.5 s. This means that 12686 * 40 * 60 = 30446400 J where produced. Dividing this number by 280KJ a weight of 107g is obtained two order of magnitude larger than the H consumption observed.
As a prudential check the reactor was lifted to seek any eventually hidden power cord. None was found.
During the test the main resistor, used to ignite the reaction, failed due to defective welding. Even in that condition the reactor successfully started operation using the other resistors but the duration of the experiment in full power (≈40 min) was “to short” to observe a self sustaining reaction.
The temperatures recorded in [Test 2] are shown in fig 4. Unfortunately the original data has been lost but the different evolution is evident.
Fig. 5 Power adsorbed during tests in W. The time abscissa has 15min tics from counted from the first record. Spikes in [Test 1] are due to line voltage spikes. The anomalous behavior in [Test 2] is clear.
The average power adsorbed during [Test 2] is ≈1022W.
The amount of power and energy produced during both tests is indeed impressive and, together with the self sustaining state reached during [Test 1] could be an indication that the system is working as a new type of energy source. The short duration of the tests suggests that is important to make more long and complete experiments. An appropriate scientific program will be draw.
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MAY 8. What a beautiful day! I have spent all the morning lying in the grass in front of my house, under the enormous plantain tree which covers it, and shades and shelters the whole of it. I like this part of the country and I am fond of living here because I am attached to it by deep roots, profound and delicate roots which attach a man to the soil on which his ancestors were born and died, which attach him to what people think and what they eat, to the usages as well as to the food, local expressions, the peculiar language of the peasants, to the smell of the soil, of the villages and of the atmosphere itself.
I love my house in which I grew up. From my windows I can see the Seine which flows by the side of my garden, on the other side of the road, almost through my grounds, the great wide Seine, which goes to Rouen and Havre, and which is covered with boats passing to and fro.
On the left, down yonder, lies Rouen, that large town with its blue roofs, under its pointed, Gothic towers. They are innumerable, delicate or broad, dominated by the spire of the cathedral, and full of bells which sound through the blue air on fine mornings, sending their sweet and distant iron clang, to me; their metallic sound which the breeze wafts in my direction, now stronger and now weaker, according as the wind is stronger or lighter.
About eleven o’clock, a long line of boats drawn by a steam-tug, as big as a fly, and which scarcely puffed while emitting its thick smoke, passed my gate.
After two English schooners, whose red flag fluttered towards the sky, there came a magnificent Brazilian three-master; it was perfectly white and wonderfully clean and shining. I saluted it, I hardly know why, except that the sight of the vessel gave me great pleasure.
May 12. I have had a slight feverish attack for the last few days, and I feel ill, or rather I feel low- spirited.
Whence do these mysterious influences come, which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence? One might almost say that the air, the invisible air, is full of unknowable Forces, whose mysterious presence we have to endure. I wake up in the best spirits, with an inclination to sing in my throat. Why? I go down by the side of the water, and suddenly, after walking a short distance, I return home, wretched, as if some misfortune were a waiting me there. Why? Is it a cold shiver which, passing over my skin, has upset my nerves and given me low spirits? Is it the form of the clouds, or the color of the sky, or the color of the surrounding objects which is so changeable, which have troubled my thoughts as they passed before my eyes? Who can tell? Everything that surrounds us, everything that we see without looking at it, everything that we touch without knowing it, everything that we handle without feeling it, all that we meet without clearly distinguishing it, has a rapid, surprising and inexplicable effect upon us and upon our organs, and through them on our ideas and on our heart itself.
How profound that mystery of the Invisible is! We cannot fathom it with our miserable senses, with our eyes which are unable to perceive what is either too small or too great, too near to, or too far from us; neither the inhabitants of a star nor of a drop of water . . .with our ears that deceive us, for they transmit to us the vibrations of the air in sonorous notes. They are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature musical with our sense of smell which is smaller than that of a dog . . .with our sense of taste which can scarcely distinguish the age of a wine!
Oh! If we only had other organs which would work other miracles in our favor, what a number of fresh things we might discover around us!
May 16. I am ill, decidedly! I was so well last month! I am feverish, horribly feverish, or rather I am in a state of feverish enervation, which makes my mind suffer as much as my body. I have without ceasing that horrible sensation of some danger threatening me, that apprehension of some coming misfortune or of approaching death, that presentiment which is, no doubt, an attack of some illness which is still unknown, which germinates in the flesh and in the blood.
May 18. I have just come from consulting my medical man, for I could no longer get any sleep. He found that my pulse was high, my eyes dilated, my nerves highly strung, but no alarming symptoms. I must have a course of shower baths and of bromide of potassium.
May 25. No change! My state is really very peculiar. As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace towards me. I dine quickly, and then try to read, but I do not understand the words, and can scarcely distinguish the letters. Then I walk up and down my drawing-room, Oppressed by a feeling of confused and irresistible fear, the fear of sleep and fear of my bed.
About ten o’clock I go up to my room. As soon as I have got in I double lock, and bolt it: I am frightened . . . of what? Up till the present time I have been frightened of nothing . . . I open my cupboards, and look under my bed; I listen . . . I listen . . . to what? How strange it is that a simple feeling of discomfort, impeded or heightened circulation, perhaps the irritation of a nervous thread, a slight congestion, a small disturbance in the imperfect and delicate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, and make a coward of the bravest? Then, I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as one would throw oneself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown oneself. I do not feel as I used to do formerly, this perfidious sleep which is close to me and, watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me, coming over me.
I sleep–a long time–two or three hours perhaps then a dream–no–a nightmare lays hold on me. I feel that I am in bed and asleep . . . I feel it and I know it . . . and I feel also that somebody is coming close to me, is looking at me, touching me, is getting on to my bed, is kneeling on my chest, is taking my neck between his hands and squeezing it . . . squeezing it with all his might in order to strangle me.
I struggle, bound by that terrible powerlessness which paralyzes us in our dreams; I try to cry out–but I cannot; I want to move–I cannot; I try, with the most violent efforts and out of breath, to turn over and throw off this being which is crushing and suffocating me–I cannot!
And then suddenly, I wake up, shaken and bathed in perspiration; I light a candle and find that I am alone, and after that crisis, which occurs every night, I at length fall asleep and slumber tranquilly till morning.
June 2. My state has grown worse. What is the matter with me? The bromide does me no good, and the shower baths have no effect whatever. Sometimes, in order to tire myself out, though I am fatigued enough already, I go for a walk in the forest of Roumare. I used to think at first that the fresh light and soft air, impregnated with the odor of herbs and leaves, would instill new blood into my veins and impart fresh energy to my heart. I turned into a broad ride in the wood, and then I turned towards La Bouille, through a narrow path, between two rows of exceedingly tall trees, which placed a thick, green, almost black roof between the sky and me.
A sudden shiver ran through me, not a cold shiver, but a shiver of agony, and so I hastened my steps, uneasy at being alone in the wood, frightened stupidly and without reason, at the profound solitude. Suddenly it seemed to me as if I were being followed, that somebody was walking at my heels, close, quite close to me, near enough to touch me.
I turned round suddenly, but I was alone. I saw nothing behind me except the straight, broad ride, empty and bordered by high trees, horribly empty; on the other side it also extended until it was lost in the distance, and looked just the same, terrible.
I closed my eyes. Why? And then I began to turn round on one heel very quickly, just like a top. I nearly fell down, and opened my eyes; the trees were dancing round me and the earth heaved; I was obliged to sit down. Then, ah! I no longer remembered how I had come! What a strange idea I What a strange, strange idea! I did not the least know. I started off to the right, and got back into the avenue which had led me into the middle of the forest.
July 2. I have come back, quite cured, and have had a most delightful trip into the bargain. I have been to Mount Saint-Michel, which I had not seen before.
What a sight, when one arrives as I did, at Avranches towards the end of the day! The town stands on a hill, and I was taken into the public garden at the extremity of the town. I uttered a cry of astonishment. An extraordinarily large bay lay extended before me, as far as my eyes could reach, between two hills which were lost to sight in the mist; and in the middle of this immense yellow bay, under a clear, golden sky, a peculiar hill rose up, somber and pointed in the midst of the sand. The sun had just disappeared, and under the still flaming sky the outline of that fantastic rock stood out, which bears on its summit a fantastic monument.
At daybreak I went to it. The tide was low as it had been the night before, and I saw that wonderful abbey rise up before me as I approached it. After several hours walking, I reached the enormous mass of rocks which supports the little town, dominated by the great church. Having climbed the steep and narrow street, I entered the most wonderful Gothic building that has ever been built to God on earth, as large as a town, full of low rooms which seem buried beneath vaulted roofs, and lofty galleries supported by delicate columns.
I entered this gigantic granite jewel which is as light as a bit of lace, covered with towers, with slender belfries to which spiral staircases ascend, and which raise their strange heads that bristle with chimeras, with devils, with fantastic animals, with monstrous flowers, and which are joined together by finely carved arches, to the blue sky by day, and to the black sky by night.
When I had reached the summit, I said to the monk who accompanied me: “Father, how happy you must be here!” And he replied: “It is very windy, Monsieur;” and so we began to talk while watching the rising tide, which ran over the sand and covered it with a steel cuirass.
And then the monk told me stories, all the old stories belonging to the place, legends, nothing but legends.
One of them struck me forcibly. The country people, those belonging to the Mornet, declare that at night one can hear talking going on in the sand, and then that one hears two goats bleat, one with a strong, the other with a weak voice. Incredulous people declare that it is nothing but the cry of the sea birds, which occasionally resembles bleatings, and occasionally human lamentations; but belated fishermen swear that they have met an old shepherd, whose head, which is covered by his cloak, they can never see, wandering on the downs, between two tides, round the little town placed so far out of the world, and who is guiding and walking before them, a he-goat with a man’s face, and a she- goat with a woman’s face, and both of them with white hair; and talking incessantly, quarreling in a strange language, and then suddenly ceasing to talk in order to bleat with all their might.
I was silent before this simple reasoning. That man was a philosopher, or perhaps a fool; I could not say which exactly, so I held my tongue. What he had said, had often been in my own thoughts.
July 4. I am decidedly taken again; for my old nightmares have returned. Last night I felt somebody leaning on me who was sucking my life from between my lips with his mouth. Yes, he was sucking it out of my neck, like a leech would have done. Then he got up, satiated, and I woke up, so beaten, crushed and annihilated that I could not move. If this continues for a few days, I shall certainly go away again.
July 5. Have I lost my reason? What has happened, what I saw last night is so strange, that my head wanders when I think of it!
As I do now every evening, I had locked my door, and then, being thirsty, I drank half a glass of water, and I accidentally noticed that the water-bottle was full up to the cut-glass stopper.
Picture to yourself a sleeping man who is being murdered and who wakes up with a knife in his chest, and who is rattling in his throat, covered with blood, and who can no longer breathe and is going to die and does not understand anything at all about it–there it is.
Having recovered my senses, I was thirsty again, so I lit a candle and went to the table on which my water-bottle was. I lifted it up and tilted it over my glass, but nothing came out. It was empty! It was completely empty! At first I could not understand it at all, and then suddenly I was seized by such a terrible feeling that I had to sit down, or rather I fell into a chair! Then I sprang up with a bound to look about me, and then I sat down again, overcome by astonishment and fear, in front of the transparent crystal bottle! I looked at it with fixed eyes, trying to conjecture, and my hands trembled! Somebody had drunk the water, but who? I? I without any doubt. It could surely only be I? In that case I was a somnambulist. I lived, without knowing it, that double mysterious life which makes us doubt whether there are not two beings in us, or whether a strange, unknowable and invisible being does not at such moments, when our soul is in a state of torpor, animate our captive body which obeys this other being, as it does us ourselves, and more than it does ourselves.
Oh! Who will understand my horrible agony? Who will understand the emotion of a man who is sound in mind, wide awake, full of sound sense, and who looks in horror at the remains of a little water that has disappeared while he was asleep, through the glass of a water-bottle! And I remained there until it was daylight, without venturing to go to bed again.
July 6. I am going mad. Again all the contents of my water-bottle have been drunk during the night; or rather, I have drunk it! But is it I? Is it I? Who could it be? Who? Oh! God! Am I going mad? Who will save me?
July 10. I have just been through some surprising ordeals. Decidedly I am mad! And yet! . . .
On July 6, before going to bed, I put some wine, milk, water, bread and strawberries on my table. Somebody drank–I drank–all the water and a little of the milk, but neither the wine, bread nor the strawberries were touched.
On the seventh of July I renewed the same experiment, with the same results, and on July 8, I left out the water and the milk and nothing was touched.
Lastly, on July 9 I put only water and milk on my table, taking care to wrap up the bottles in white muslin and to tie down the stoppers. Then I rubbed my lips, my beard and my hands with pencil lead, and went to bed.
Irresistible sleep seized me, which was soon followed by a terrible awakening. I had not moved, and my sheets were not marked. I rushed to the table. The muslin round the bottles remained intact; I undid the string, trembling with fear. All the water had been drunk, and so had the milk! Ah! Great God! . . .
July 12. Paris. I must have lost my head during the last few days! I must be the plaything of my enervated imagination, unless I am really a somnambulist, or that I have been brought under the power of one of those influences which have been proved to exist, but which have hitherto been inexplicable, which are called suggestions. In any case, my mental state bordered on madness, and twenty-four hours of Paris sufficed to restore me to my equilibrium.
Yesterday after doing some business and paying some visits which instilled fresh and invigorating mental air into me, I wound up my evening at the Théâtre-Français. A play by Alexandre Dumas the Younger was being acted, and his active and powerful mind completed my cure. Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require men who can think and can talk, around us. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms.
I returned along the boulevards to my hotel in excellent spirits. Amid the jostling of the crowd I thought, not without irony, of my terrors and surmises of the previous week, because I believed, yes, I believed, that an invisible being lived beneath my roof. How weak our head is, and how quickly it is terrified and goes astray, as soon as we are struck by a small, incomprehensible fact.
Instead of concluding with these simple words: “I do not understand because the cause escapes me,” we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.
July 14. Fête of the Republic. I walked through the streets, and the crackers and flags amused me like a child. Still it is very foolish to be merry on a fixed date, by a Government decree. The populace, an imbecile flock of sheep, now steadily patient, and now in ferocious revolt. Say to it: “Amuse yourself,” and it amuses itself. Say to it: “Go and fight with your neighbor,” and it goes and fights. Say to it: “Vote for the Emperor,” and it votes for the Emperor, and then say to it: “Vote for the Republic,” and it votes for the Republic.
Those who direct it are also stupid; but instead of obeying men, they obey principles, which can only be stupid, sterile and false, for the very reason that they are principles, that is to say, ideas which are considered as certain and unchangeable, in ‘ this world where one is certain of nothing, since light is an illusion and noise is an illusion.
I was dining with my cousin Madame Sablé, whose husband is colonel of the 76th Chasseurs at Limoges. There were two young women there, one of whom had married a medical man, Dr. Parent, who devotes himself a great deal to nervous diseases and the extraordinary manifestations to which at this moment experiments in hypnotism and suggestion give rise. He related to us at some length the remarkable results obtained by English scientists and the doctors of the medical school at Nancy, and the facts which he adduced, appeared to me so strange, that I declared that I was altogether incredulous.
She sat down in an easy-chair, and he began to look at her fixedly, so as to fascinate her. I suddenly felt myself somewhat uncomfortable, with a beating heart and a choking feeling in my throat. I saw that Madame Sablé’s eyes were growing heavy, her mouth twitched and her bosom heaved, and at the end of ten minutes she was asleep.
That was true, and that photograph had been given me that same evening at the hotel.
So she saw on that card, on that piece of white pasteboard, as if she had seen it in a looking-glass.
On returning to my hotel, I thought over this curious séance and I was assailed by doubts, not as to my cousin’s absolute and undoubted good faith, for I had known her as well as if she had been my own sister ever since she was a child, but as to a possible trick on the doctor’s part. Had not he, perhaps, kept a glass hidden in his hand, which he showed to the young woman in her sleep, at the same time as he did the card? Professional conjurors do things which are just as singular.
So I went home and to bed, and this morning, at about half past eight, I was awakened by my footman, who said to me: “Madame Sablé has asked to see you immediately, Monsieur,” so I dressed hastily and went to her.
I was so stupefied that I stammered out my answers. I asked myself whether she had not really been making fun of me with Doctor Parent, if it were not merely a very well-acted farce which had been got up beforehand. On looking at her attentively, however, my doubts disappeared. She was trembling with grief, so painful was this step to her, and I was sure that her throat was full of sobs.
She got excited and clasped her hands as if she were praying to me! I heard her voice change its tone; she wept and stammered, harassed and dominated by the irresistible order that she had received.
Then he woke her up, and I took out a pocketbook and said: “Here is what you asked me for this morning, my dear cousin.” But she was so surprised, that I did not venture to persist; nevertheless, I tried to recall the circumstance to her, but she denied it vigorously, thought that I was making fun of her, and in the end, very nearly lost her temper.
July 19. Many people to whom I have told the adventure, have laughed at me. I no longer know what to think. The wise man says: Perhaps?
July 21. I dined at Bougival, and then I spent the evening at a boatmen’s ball. Decidedly everything depends on place and surroundings. It would be the height of folly to believe in the supernatural on the île de la Grenouillière (1) . . . but on the top of Mont Saint-Michel? . . . and in India? We are terribly under the influence of our surroundings. I shall return home next week.
August 2. Nothing new. It is splendid weather, and I spent my days in watching the Seine flow past.
August 4. Quarrels among my servants. They declare that the glasses are broken in the cupboards at night. The footman accuses the cook, who accuses the needle woman, who accuses the other two. Who is the culprit? A clever person, to be able to tell.
August 6. This time, I am not mad. I have seen . . . I have seen . . . I have seen! . . . I can doubt no longer . . . I have seen it!
I was walking at two o’clock among my rose trees, in the full sunlight . . . in the walk bordered by autumn roses which are beginning to fall. As I stopped to look at a Géant de Bataille, which had three splendid blooms, I distinctly saw the stalk of one of the roses bend, close to me, as if an invisible hand had bent it, and then break, as if that hand had picked it! Then the flower raised itself, following the curve which a hand would have described in carrying it towards a mouth, and it remained suspended in the transparent air, all alone and motionless, a terrible red spot, three yards from my eyes. In desperation I rushed at it to take it! I found nothing; it had disappeared. Then I was seized with furious rage against myself, for it is not allowable for a reasonable and serious man to have such hallucinations.
But was it a hallucination? I turned round to look for the stalk, and I found it immediately under the bush, freshly broken, between two other roses which remained on the branch, and I returned home then, with a much disturbed mind; for I am certain now, as certain as I am of the alternation of day and night, that there exists close to me an invisible being that lives on milk and on water, which can touch objects, take them and change their places; which is, consequently, endowed with a material nature, although it is imperceptible to our senses, and which lives as I do, under my roof. . . .
I ask myself whether I am mad. As I was walking just now in the sun by the river side, doubts as to my own sanity arose in me; not vague doubts such as I have had hitherto, but precise and absolute doubts. I have seen mad people, and I have known some who have been quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They spoke clearly, readily, profoundly on everything, when suddenly their thoughts struck upon the breakers of their madness and broke to pieces there, and were dispersed and foundered in that furious and terrible sea, full of bounding waves, fogs and squalls, which is called madness.
I certainly should think that I was mad, absolutely mad, if I were not conscious, did not perfectly know my state, if I did not fathom it by analyzing it with the most complete lucidity. I should, in fact, be a reasonable man who was laboring under a hallucination. Some unknown disturbance must have been excited in my brain, one of those disturbances which physiologists of the present day try to note and to fix precisely, and that disturbance must have caused a profound gulf in my mind and in the order and logic of my ideas. Similar phenomena occur in the dreams which lead us through the most unlikely phantasmagoria, without causing us any surprise, because our verifying apparatus and our sense of control has gone to sleep, while our imaginative faculty wakes and works. Is it not possible that one of the imperceptible keys of the cerebral finger- board has been paralyzed in me? Some men lose the recollection of proper names, or of verbs or of numbers or merely of dates, in consequence of an accident. The localization of all the particles of thought has been proved nowadays; what then would there be surprising in the fact that my faculty of controlling the unreality of certain hallucinations should be destroyed for the time being!
I thought of all this as I walked by the side of the water. The sun was shining brightly on the river and made earth delightful, while it filled my looks with love for life, for the swallows, whose agility is always delightful in my eyes, for the plants by the riverside, whose rustling is a pleasure to my ears. By degrees, however, an inexplicable feeling of discomfort seized me. It seemed to me as if some unknown force were numbing and stopping me, were preventing me from going further and were calling me back. I felt that painful wish to return which oppresses you when you have left a beloved invalid at home, and when you are seized by a presentiment that he is worse.
I, therefore, returned in spite of myself, feeling certain that I should find some bad news awaiting me, a letter or a telegram. There was nothing however and I was more surprised and uneasy than if I had had another fantastic vision.
August 8. I spent a terrible evening, yesterday. He does not show himself any more, but I feel that he is near me, watching me, looking at me, penetrating me, dominating me and more redoubtable when he hides himself thus, than if he were to manifest his constant and invisible presence by supernatural phenomena. However, I slept.
August 10. Nothing; what will happen to-morrow?
August 11. Still nothing; I cannot stop at home with this fear hanging over me and these thoughts in my mind; I shall go away.
August 12. Ten o’clock at night. All day long I have been trying to get away, and have not been able. I wished to accomplish this simple and easy act of liberty–go out–get into my carriage in order to go to Rouen–and What is the reason? I have not been able to do it.
August 13. When one is attacked by certain maladies, all the springs of our physical being appear to be broken, all our energies destroyed, all our muscles relaxed, our bones to have become as soft as our flesh, and our blood as liquid as water. I am experiencing that condition in my moral being in a strange and distressing manner. I have no longer any strength, any courage, any self-control, nor even any power to set my own will in motion. I have no power left to will anything, but some one does it for me and I obey.
August 14. I am lost! Somebody possesses my soul and governs it! Somebody orders all my acts, all my movements, all my thoughts. I am no longer anything in myself, nothing except an enslaved and terrified spectator of all the things which I do. I wish to go out; I cannot. He does not wish to, and so I remain, trembling and distracted in the armchair in which he keeps me sitting. I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself: I cannot! I am riveted to my chair, and my chair adheres to the ground in such a manner that no force could move us.
Then suddenly, I must, I must go to the bottom of my garden to pick some strawberries and eat them, and I go there. I pick the strawberries and I eat them! Oh! my God! my God! Is there a God? If there be one, deliver me! save me! succor me! Pardon! Pity! Mercy! Save me! Oh! what sufferings! what torture! what horror!
August 15. Certainly this is the way in which my poor cousin was possessed and swayed, when she came to borrow five thousand francs of me. She was under the power of a strange will which had entered into her, like another soul, like another parasitic and ruling soul. Is the world coming to an end?
But who is he, this invisible being that rules me. This unknowable being, this rover of a supernatural race?
Invisible beings exist, then I How is it then that since the beginning of the world they have never manifested themselves in such a manner precisely as they do to me? I have never read anything which resembles what goes on in my house. Oh I If I could only leave it, if I could only go away and flee, so as never to return. I should be saved, but I cannot.
I made him pull up before the library, and I begged them to lend me Dr. Herrmann Herestauss’s treatise on the unknown inhabitants of the ancient and modern world.
Then, as I was getting into my carriage, I intended to say: “To the railway station!” but instead of this I shouted,–I did not say, but I shouted–in such a loud voice that all the passers-by turned round: “Home!” and I fell back onto the cushion of my carriage, overcome by mental agony. He had found me out and regained possession of me.
August 17. Oh I What a night! what a night I And yet it seems to me that I ought to rejoice. I read until one o’clock in the morning! Herestauss, Doctor of Philosophy and Theogony, wrote the history and the manifestations of all those invisible beings which hover around man, or of whom he dreams. He describes their origin, their domains, their power; but none of them resembles the one which haunts me. One might say that man, ever since he has thought, has had a foreboding of, and feared a new being, stronger than himself, his successor in this world, and that, feeling him near, and not being able to foretell the nature of that master, he has, in his terror, created the whole race of hidden beings, of vague phantoms born of fear.
Having, therefore, read until one o’clock in the morning, I went and sat down at the open window, in order to cool my forehead and my thoughts, in the calm night air. It was very pleasant and warm! How I should have enjoyed such a night formerly!
There was no moon, but the stars darted out their rays in the dark heavens. Who inhabits those worlds? What forms, what living beings, what animals are there yonder? What do those who are thinkers in those distant worlds, know more than we do? What can they do more than we can? What do they see which we do not know? Will not one of them, some day or other, traversing space, appear on our earth to conquer it, just as the Norsemen formerly crossed the sea in order to subjugate nations more feeble than themselves?
We are so weak, so unarmed, so ignorant, so small, we who live on this particle of mud which turns round in a drop of water.
I fell asleep, dreaming thus in the cool night air, and then, having slept for about three quarters of an hour, I opened my eyes without moving, awakened by I know not what confused and strange sensation.–At first I saw nothing, and then suddenly it appeared to me as if a page of a book which had remained open on my table, turned over of its own accord. Not a breath of air had come in at my window, and I was surprised and waited. In about four minutes, I saw, I saw, yes I saw with my own eyes another page lift itself up and fall down on the others, as if a finger had turned it over. My armchair was empty, appeared empty, but I knew that he was there, he, and sitting in my place, and that he was reading. With a furious bound, the bound of an enraged wild beast that wishes to disembowel its tamer, I crossed my room to seize him, to strangle him, to kill him! . . . But before I could reach it, my chair fell over as if somebody had ran away from me . . . my table rocked, my lamp fell and went out, and my window closed as if some thief had been surprised and had fled out into the night, shutting it behind him.
So he had run away: he had been afraid: he, afraid of me!
So . . . so . . . to-morrow . . . or later . . . some day or other . . . I should be able to hold him in my clutches and crush him against the ground! Do not dogs occasionally bite and strangle their masters?
August 18. I have been thinking the whole day long. Oh! yes, I will obey him, follow his impulses, fulfill all his wishes, show myself humble, submissive, a coward. He is the stronger; but an hour will come. . .
August 19. I know. . . . I know . . . I know all! I have just read the following in the Revue du Monde Scientifique: “A curious piece of news comes to us from Rio de Janeiro. Madness, an epidemic of madness, which may be compared to that contagious madness which attacked the people of Europe in the Middle Ages, is at this moment raging in the Province of San-Paulo. The frightened inhabitants are leaving their houses, deserting their villages, abandoning their land, saying that they are pursued, possessed, governed like human cattle by invisible, though tangible beings, a species of vampire, which feed on their life while they are asleep, and who, besides, drink water and milk without appearing to touch any other nourishment.
Ah! Ah! I remember now that fine Brazilian three-master which passed in front of my windows as it was going up the Seine, on the 8th of last May! I thought it looked so pretty, so white and bright! That Being was on board of her, coming from there, where its race sprang from. And it saw me! It saw my house which was also white, and he sprang from the ship onto the land. Oh! Good heavens!
Now I know, I can divine. The reign of man is over, and he has come. He whom disquieted priests exorcised, whom sorcerers evoked on dark nights, without yet seeing him appear, to whom the presentiments of the transient masters of the world lent all the monstrous or graceful forms of gnomes, spirits, genii, fairies and familiar spirits. After the coarse conceptions of primitive fear, more clear-sighted men foresaw it more clearly. Mesmer divined him, and ten years ago physicians accurately discovered the nature of his power, even before he exercised it himself. They played with that weapon of their new Lord, the sway of a mysterious will over the human soul, which had become enslaved. They called it magnetism, hypnotism, suggestion . . . . . . what do I know? I have seen them amusing themselves like impudent children with this horrible power! Woe to us! Woe to man! He has come, the . . . the . . . what does he call himself . . . the . . . I fancy that he is shouting out his name to me and I do not hear him . . . the . . . yes . . . he is shouting it out . . . I am listening . . . I cannot . . . repeat . . . it . . . Horla . . . I have heard . . . the Horla, . . . it is he . . . the Horla . . . he has come!
Ah! the vulture has eaten the pigeon, the wolf has eaten the lamb; the lion has devoured the buffalo with sharp horns; man has killed the lion with an arrow, with a sword, with gunpowder; but the Horla will make of man what we have made of the horse and of the ox: his chattel, his slave and his food, by the mere power of his will. Woe to us!
But, nevertheless, the animal sometimes revolts and kills the man who has subjugated it . . . . I should also like . . . but I must know him, touch him, see him! Learned men say that beasts’ eyes, as they differ from ours, do not distinguish like ours do . . . And my eye cannot distinguish this newcomer who is oppressing me.
And I went on thinking: my eyes are so weak, so imperfect, that they do not even distinguish hard bodies, if they are as transparent as glass! . . . If a glass without tinfoil behind it were to bar my way, I should run into it, just like a bird which has flown into a room breaks its head against the windowpanes. A thousand things, moreover, deceive him and lead him astray. How should it then be surprising that he cannot perceive a fresh body which is traversed by the light.
A new being! Why not? It was assuredly bound to come! Why should we be the last? We do not distinguish it, like all the others created before us? The reason is, that its nature is more ‘perfect, its body finer and more finished than ours, that ours is so weak, so awkwardly conceived, encumbered with organs that are always tired, always on the strain like locks that are too complicated, which lives like a plant and like a beast, nourishing itself with difficulty on air, herbs and flesh, an animal machine, which is a prey to maladies, to malformations, to decay; broken-winded, badly regulated, simple and eccentric, ingeniously badly made, a coarse and a delicate work, the outline of a being which might become intelligent and grand.
We are only a few, so few in this world, from the oyster up to man. Why should there not be one more, when once that period is accomplished which separates the successive apparitions from all the different species?
Why not one more? Why not, also, other trees with immense, splendid flowers, perfuming whole regions? Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four, only four, those nursing fathers of various beings! What a pity! Why are they not forty, four hundred, four thousand! How poor everything is, how mean and wretched! grudgingly given, dryly invented, clumsily made! Ah! the elephant and the hippopotamus, what grace! And the camel, what elegance!
But, the butterfly you will say, a flying flower! I dream of one that should be as large as a hundred worlds, with wings whose shape, beauty, colors and motion I cannot even express. But I see it . . . it flutters from star to star, refreshing them and perfuming them with the light and harmonious breath of its flight! . . . And the people up there look at it as it passes in an ecstacy of delight! . . .
What is the matter with me? It is he, the Horla, who haunts me, and who makes me think of these foolish things! He is within me, he is becoming my soul; I shall kill him!
August 19. I shall kill him. I have seen him! Yesterday I sat down at my table and pretended to write very assiduously. I knew quite well that he would come prowling round me, quite close to me, so close that I might perhaps be able to touch him, to seize him. And then! . . . then I should have the strength of desperation; I should have my hands, my knees, my chest, my forehead, my teeth to strangle him, to crush him, to bite him, to tear him to pieces. And I watched for him with all my overexcited organs.
I had lighted my two lamps and the eight wax candles on my mantelpiece, as if, by this light, I could have discovered him.
My bed, my old oak bed with its columns was opposite to me; on my right was the fireplace; on my left the door, which was carefully closed, after I had left it open for some time, in order to attract him; behind me was a very high wardrobe with a looking-glass in it, which served me to dress by every day, and in which I was in the habit of looking at myself from head to foot every time I passed it.
So I pretended to be writing in order to deceive him, for he also was watching me, and suddenly I felt, I was certain that he was reading over my shoulder, that he was there, almost touching my ear.
I got up so quickly, with my hands extended, that I almost fell. Eh! well? . . . It was as bright as at midday, but I did not see myself in the glass! . . . It was empty,.clear, profound, full of light! But my figure was not reflected in it . . . and I, I was opposite to it! I saw the large, clear glass from top to bottom, and I looked at it with unsteady eyes; and I did not dare to advance; I did not venture to make a movement, nevertheless feeling perfectly that he was there, but that he would escape me again, he whose imperceptible body had absorbed my reflection.
How frightened I was! And then suddenly I began to see myself through a mist in the depths of the looking-glass, in a mist as it were through a sheet of water; and it seemed to me as if this water were flowing slowly from left to right, and making my figure clearer every moment. It was like the end of an eclipse. Whatever it was that hid me, did not appear to possess any clearly defined outlines, but a sort of opaque transparency, which gradually grew clearer.
I had seen it! And the horror of it remained with me, and makes me shudder even now.
August 20. How could I kill it, as I could not get hold of it? Poison? But it would see me mix it with the water; and then, would our poisons have any effect on its impalpable body? No . . . no . . . no doubt about the matter . . . Then? . . . then? . . .
August 21. I sent for a blacksmith from Rouen, and ordered iron shutters of him for my room, such as some private hotels in Paris have on the ground floor, for fear of thieves, and he is going to make me a similar door as well. I have made myself out as a coward, but I do not care about that I . . .
September 10. Rouen, Hotel Continental. It is done; . . . it is done. . . . But is he dead? My mind is thoroughly upset by what I have seen.
Well, then, yesterday, the locksmith having put on the iron shutters and door, I left everything open until midnight, although it was getting cold.
Suddenly I felt that he was there, and joy, mad joy took possession of me. I got up softly, and I walked to the right and left for sometime, so that he might not guess anything; then I took off my boots and put on my slippers carelessly; then I fastened the iron shutters and going back to the door quickly I double-locked it with a padlock, putting the key into my pocket.
Suddenly I noticed that he was moving restlessly round me, that in his turn he was frightened and was ordering me to let him out. I nearly yielded, though I did not yet, but putting my back to the door, I half opened, just enough to allow me to go out backwards, and as I am very tall, my head touched the lintel. I was sure that he had not been able to escape, and I shut him up quite alone, quite alone. What happiness! I had him fast. Then I ran downstairs; in the drawing-room, which was under my bed-room, I took the two lamps and I poured all the oil onto the carpet, the furniture, everywhere; then I set the fire to it and made my escape, after having carefully double-locked the door.
I looked at my house and waited. How long it was! I already began to think that the fire had gone out of its own accord, or that he had extinguished it, when one of the lower windows gave way under the violence of the flames, and a long, soft, caressing sheet of red flame mounted up the white wall, and kissed it as high as the roof. The light fell onto the trees, the branches, and the leaves, and a shiver of fear pervaded them also! The birds awoke; a dog began to howl, and it seemed to me as if the day were breaking! Almost immediately two other windows flew into fragments, and I saw that the whole of the lower part of my house was nothing but a terrible furnace. But a cry, a horrible, shrill, heart-rending cry, a woman’s cry, sounded through the night, and two garret windows were opened! I had forgotten the servants! I saw the terror-struck faces, and their frantically waving arms! . . .
Then, overwhelmed with horror, I set off to run to the village, shouting: “Help! help! fire! fire! I met some people who were already coming onto the scene, and I went back with them to see!
By this time the house was nothing but a horrible and a magnificent funeral pile, a monstrous funeral pile which lit up the whole country, a funeral pile where men were burning, and where he was burning also, He, He, my prisoner, that new Being, the new master, the Horla! Suddenly the whole roof fell in between the walls, and a volcano of flames darted up to the sky. Through all the windows which opened onto that furnace, I saw the flames darting, and I thought that he was there, in that kiln, dead.
Dead? perhaps? . . . His body? Was not his body, which was transparent, indestructible by such means as would kill ours?
If he was not dead? . . . Perhaps time alone has power over that Invisible and Redoubtable Being. Why this transparent, unrecognizable body, this body belonging to a spirit, if it also had to fear ills, infirmities and premature destruction?
Premature destruction? All human terror springs from that! After man the Horla. After him who can die every day, at any hour, at any moment, by any accident, he came who was only to die at his own proper hour and minute, because he had touched the limits of his existence!
No . . . no . . . without any doubt . . . he is not dead. . . . Then . . . then . . . I suppose I must kill myself! . . .
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> than any other type of design/consulting agreement?
Well, yes, actually. With my clients I concentrate on the fact that in many cases, there are many sources for content being provided to be transformed, which the designer needs a license and indemnity to "operate on," as well as many types of things the designer will custom-create. Some, like web objects or Java applets or HTML templates, should be part of the designer's standard web tool box and should therefore be licensed to the client rather than transferred. Other items, the ownership may or may not be transferred. If this spaghetti is not separated out in a responsible manner it could end up being one big huge mess. And I use a big huge "you never really know quite how this thing will interact with browsers or other stuff over the Internet" disclaimer clause. So it's typically more complicated than what I use for traditional graphic design or straightforward custom programming consulting agreements.
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On January 12-13, I was fortunate to be able to attend Microsoft-sponsored training in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). As a self-professed process geek, whether it’s the PMBOK, client-specific process analysis, or any flavor of capabilities maturity model, I enjoy thinking about how people go about their jobs and create common vocabularies, and this training was no different.
The MSF is Microsoft’s standard framework designed to help lend structure to application development and implementation projects, and it’s a framework that we at KMA will be employing more aggressively in the days to come.
In addition to the overview of roles, risk analysis, phases, deliverables, and milestones prescribed by the MSF, a phrase our instructor used in describing project participants’ state at project initiation stuck with me: “lucid ignorance.” Lucid ignorance is used to describe our state during the “envisioning” phase of the project: we have formed a clear scope and vision for the project, but we have yet to test that vision the way we need to in the planning phase: by establishing technical feasibility, lining up resource requirements and risks within organizational constraints, performing high-level design activities, etc. In other words, we're smart, and we know what we know, but we don't yet know what we don't know.
The concept of lucid ignorance underscores the need to “re-baseline” the project during a rigorous planning phase. The activities of the envisioning phase are sufficient to develop initial, order-of-magnitude estimates and an understanding of the “shape” of the project, but without planning and testing of our initial assumptions, we are still mired among “unknown unknowns.” It’s imperative that we re-assess initial estimates of cost, timing, and scope in light of things we discover during a more detailed planning process, and leave room to do this properly right from project outset.
If both scope and cost are locked in at the outset of the project, especially an application development project, proceed with caution! Don’t lose track of the fact that, at that point in the project, all project stakeholders are lucidly ignorant. The cure for lucid ignorance is another process-geek term (shocker!): “progressive elaboration,” where the degree of uncertainty gets narrower and narrower as the project progresses.
I found this following quick post from a PMI newsletter to be a succinct summary of something I think about a lot, and try (with varying degrees of success) to articulate often: how can an organization develop rigor in its operations without stifling creativity and responsiveness?
As our firm's SharePoint practice area continues development, documentation, and refinement of our methodology, I look forward to thoroughly and continually assessing the balance between rigidity and responsiveness to determine how to best serve our customers. I also look forward to thinking and writing more about this ongoing challenge, one that I've seen in every professional services firm I've ever worked with.
I read today a terrific post on ZDNet blogs by Michael Krigsman referencing a recent study about IT project success rates by The Standish Group, and a subsequent academic study that (to a degree) refutes it.
If you're responsible for IT projects, you may find some of the conclusions and recommendations in here worth reviewing, and you may have some of your preconceptions about the ingredients for a successful IT project challenged.
However, my browsings led me to an article entitled "Why Does Software Work Take So Long?" that, while not of recent vintage, held great interest. About a year and a half ago, I joined a technology consulting organization that is much more developer-centric than my previous employer, where I worked most closely with the more application-focused and business-focused people. I have worked hard to study the culture and work habits of developers as we work together to sell, scope, and deliver projects.
I attended a meeting of the PMI Mass Bay Chapter last night, and was wowed by the presentation by Al Goff, PMP, Program Manager for Systems for the Greenbush Commuter Rail Project.
Additionally, the demands of over 3,000 abutters had to be managed, and towns such as Hingham had to be accommodated with underpasses through historic districts at enormous costs in time and money (over $40 million for the underpass through Hingham Square alone).
Task sequencing: "Make sure you acquire major land parcels FIRST. Revise your standards/specs for design/build, not design/bid/build."
Lesson: Identify critical path tasks and nail them early. Find ways to iterate faster.
Stakeholder management: "Unknown stakeholders came out of the woodwork, such as those who walked their dogs on the railroad right-of-way for 35 years."
Lesson: Know your stakeholders, and plan for contingencies.
Quality: "Is 99% reliability enough for a signal at a grade crossing?"
Lesson: Understand quality, and how your stakeholders define it.
Human resources management: "Are processes in place to support you, or are you destined to fail? How will this project affect YOUR quality of life as a PM? Will it allow you to move between the technical career ladder and the management career ladder?"
Lesson: Don't forget about YOUR key stakeholders: yourself and your family. If you don't look out for them, don't expect anyone else to.
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Do you know we’ve moved on a new address. There will be no new articles on this blog anymore. If you still want to keep in touch with us, follow us @ Code Mamba!You can read the same article on our new domain by clicking here!
ABC Notifier for Chrome is a browser extension for Google Chrome, that checks for unread messages and displays their number on an icon in your browser.
That way you are aware of what is happening in your ABC Mail.
The extension is for http://www.abv.bg/ – The biggest mail in Bulgaria.
An easy way to save a set of opened tabs. The tab set will be saved with a name alias, and you will be able to open the same set of tabs with a single click.
When you hit enter the results appear in new tab.
With this plugin you can fake the headers sent to the web pages. The pages will think that your browser is internet explorer.
When you click on the icon, the page is opened in IETab. This way you can open some pages that require internet explorer only.
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5 Foot Way is a street food and catering company based in Somerset. Michelle set up the company with her husband Steve. She is a self-taught British Malaysian Chinese cook, and is proud to introduce the food of Malaysia, her birth country, to the West Country. Due to intercultural influences over centuries the quality and variety of food in Malaysia has led to a food culture which is one of the most complex and varied in the world. We have a passion for trying all kinds of cuisines and ingredients, and after moving to the UK Michelle taught herself to recreate the food from home. We are always experimenting and learning new methods and recipes, enjoying the rich variety of world cuisines that have appeared in the UK over the last twenty years.
5 Foot Way’s speciality is Malaysian food but we have a broad repertoire of Chinese, Indian and other South East Asian cuisines.
We hold supper clubs, cater for private events and run cooking demonstrations and classes; volunteer and raise money / provide food for charity events; we can be found as a pop-up at festivals and markets; and collaborate with other passionate food entrepreneurs.
A “Five Foot Way” or “Kaki Lima” is a covered walkway found in front of traditional colonial two storey shophouses in South East Asia. These arcades provide shelter from the beating hot sun and monsoon rains. Small businesses set up shop in these walkways selling all manner of tasty snacks and spices to household paraphernalia and souvenirs. Street food stalls thrive in these compact spaces with vendors selling their families’ dishes, inherited from generation to generation, feeding locals who have their favourite noodle stall here or satay stall there, and claim to know where the ‘best’ fried chicken can be found. Food is not just a passion but a way of life for most South East Asians.
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First poster & the revealed mask for David Gordon Green's Halloween.
Super Troopers 2 was released in the U.S yesterday and early reviews sound very good. No firm news on a UK release date yet.
About ten years ago, on late night TV, they used to re-run the original series of Monkey Magic!.
I use to occasionally watch it just out of curiosity/for a laugh, and I can clearly remember thinking to myself "Why don't they ever re-make this?".
Well, here we are ten years later and they've actually gone and did it!
Can I just say that has a child I very vaguely remember this when it used to be on.
What I remember most vividly was the beginning-the huge egg breaks free, rolls down the mountain and he jumps out of it.
The reason why I remember that at the time was simply because has a child it use to scare the hell out of me!
1980's horror/drama three parter The Mad Death is being released on dvd in May.
I found the reboot disappointing. I use to watch the original with my kids and the modern show has none of the charm or petulant humour of the old one.
Lately I hear rumours of a police procedural called The Watch and based on Ankh-Morpork's Watch. Please lord, let it be true.
Trailer for the next Tomb Raider game. As an early release it gives you zero idea of gameplay and probably means wait three years till you can buy it.
BBC Studios are working on a 6 part series.
Yeah, that was my source too....but I'll really believe it when I sitting down to watch the first episode.
Trailer for Shane Black's The Predator is finally here.
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A smart watch without a touchscreen? Yes, that might actually be the thing.
A couple of weeks ago I was pondering if the smart watch might be having a comeback, considering the releases of several new ones in spite of recent years of dropping sales. And proof of that just keeps getting stronger. Just recently a new smart watch, that differs from most others, saw the light of day. The new collection from New York Standard Watch hasn’t just kept the traditional wristwatch look with the round watch face and the leather straps, but has actually skipped the whole touch screen altogether. Yes, no touch screen! How does that even work, you ask.
Well, they offer all the traditional notification and fitness tracking functions such as steps and calorie count, but display them on an analogue dashboard instead. It is actually kind of genius when you think about it.
Me and many others have long argued that a piece of wearable tech simply must be aesthetically pleasing for us to even consider putting it on. But being easy on the eye might actually not be enough to succeed. It might also need that hands on, analogue, three dimensional feel to really make it. That perfect merge between tradition and innovation, the just right mix of old and new.
I’m not saying NYSW has the final solution to this, but theirs is certainly an interesting step in that direction.
Are smart watches having a comeback moment?
Wearables in general and smart watches in particular were hotter than hot in 2015. Just shy of two years later though, the situation had changed. By the end of 2016, smart watch sales dropped dramatically. And so many other things had emerged in the fashion tech area that seemed so much more interesting; the development of retail tech for instance. The age of the smart watch seemed to be over. Something that belonged to the infancy of this ever emerging innovation area. But you should never say never apparently.
Only in the past few weeks, at least two new smart watch models have emerged: This week Marc Jacobs released his Riley Hybrid watch with basic functions such as step counting, and just days before saw the launch of Tory Burch’s Tory track Hybrid, with activity and sleep tracking. And on top of that, Swedish watch brand Triwa recently got financing to build contactless payment services into watch straps.
What is going on??! Are we suddenly moving back in time?
No, more likely is that the broader market is finally ready for this product. While the early adopters have moved on to other things, people in general may have started to notice these little gadgets and the way they differentiate themselves from the more commonly used, sporty looking, fitness trackers. Style may actually have won an important victory here.
Ok, nu tror jag inte att jag sattes på denna jord för att bara skriva om smartklockor, men okej okej, en till då! För den här från Shammane var inte så tokig den heller. Det franska startupföretaget håller som bäst på att crowdfunda ihop pengar till denna lilla skönhet som ska konkurrera med Apple Watch och de andra giganterna. Shammane är främst tänkt att vara en diskret – och snygg – länk mellan bäraren och dess smartphone, med få funktioner och men desto mer ögongodis. Man har valt den stilrena vägen med minimalistisk urtavla och spännen i aluminium och utbytbara armband i kalvskinn och/eller jersey. Funktionerna då? Den är kompatibel med både android och Iphone och innehåller de basala notifieringsfunktionerna samt förstås möjligheten att sms:a och ringa samtal. Tror det kan bli något av detta jag.
Antar att jag hejar på the underdog.
Ok, I don’t think I was put on this earth solely to write about smart watches, but ok then, just this one! Because this one from Shammane is not bad at all. The french startup is currently seeking funding on Indiegogo for this little beauty that’s planning to compete with Apple Watch and the other giants. Shammane is supposed to be a discreet – but handsome – link between the wearer and its smartphone, with few functions and a lot more eye candy. They chose the classic look with a minimalistic watch face and locks in aluminum and bracelets in calf skin and/or jersey. I think they’re on to something.
Guess I’m just rooting for the underdog.
Måste ändå säga att Pebbles nya smartklocka Pebble Time Round ser mycket lovande ut. Det är nog den smäckraste jag har sett hittills faktiskt. Urtavlan är tunn och armbanden likaså. Batteritiden ska tydligen vara lite sämre än på den föregående modellen, men står det mellan en klumpig tjockklocka och en stilren snygging vet i alla fall jag vad jag väljer. Mesta dräggelfaktorn jus nu: Urtavlan i roséguld till vitt läderarmband.
Pebbles nya smartklocka Pebble Time Round.
I’ve got to say though, Pebble’s new smart watch is looking very promising indeed. This one is actually the slimmest one I’ve seen so far. The watch face is really thin and the bracelets as well. I’ve heard the battery time isn’t as good as on earlier models but if it’s between a bulky square thing and a slim classic look I know what I would choose. Highest drool factor at the moment: the rose gold watch face with the white leather band.
Huawei har lanserat en ny smart klocka. I samband av lanseringen av den nya smartklockan lät man framtidsforskaren och mode- och teknologiprofesssorn Sabine Seymor berätta om sin bild av framtidens mode. Med den lanseringen är det uppenbart att Huawei har fattat vad det handlar om: klockans design måste vara klassisk, dyr och traditionell, men värdena som omgärdar klockan, dess image, måste ta sikte mot framtiden. Det är heller ingen slump att man har valt supermodellen Karlie Kloss att fronta kampanjen. Karlie Kloss har skapat sig lite av en tech-profil och lanserade i våras ett stipendium för tjejer som vill lära sig koda, något jag då skrev om här.
Så hur ser då Sabine Seymors framtidsvision ut? Den handlade mycket om den intuitiva garderoben, där plaggen kan anpassa sig i längd och form och utseende efter bärarens önskemål. Hon ser också en framtid där vi går från uppkopplade ting, till uppkopplade människor och platser. Och där våra plagg, som precis som smartphones reagerar på beröring och gester, fungerar som mellanled.
Huawei just launched a new smart watch. In connection with the launch they invited futurologist and Fashion- och Technology professor Sabine Seymor to share her vision of future fashion. With such a launch it’s obvious that Huawei has grasped what it’s all about: the design of the watch has to be classic, expensive and traditional, but the values that we associate with the watch need to look straight to the future. And it’s no coincidence that they chose super model Karlie Kloss to front the campaign. Kloss has made a name for herself not only as a model but as a bit of a tech buff and in the spring she launched a scholarship for girls who want to learn coding, as I then wrote about here.
So, what about Sabine Seymor’s vision of future fashion? Well, it was a lot about the intuitive wardrobe where clothes can adapt in length, size and form according to the wearer’s wishes. She also sees a future where it’s less about connected devices, but connected people and spaces. And that’s where our clothes come in as the middle hand, as they will be connected, touch- and gesture sensitive.
Apple fortsätter sin uppvaktning av modevärlden. Senaste nytt är att anrika modehuset Hermès har designat armbanden till nya Apple Watch, enligt kvällens Apple-event. Ja, hela tre armband och tre nya urtavlor närmare bestämt, och alltihop för lansering i oktober. Ett av armbanden blir en dubbelmodell som går två varv runt handleden; de övriga två blir mer klassiska. Men smakar det så kostar det. Enkelarmbandet går loss på 100 dollar och dubbelarmbandet för 1250 dollar.
Screenshots av nya Apple Watch Hermès.
Apple continues to woo the fashion world. The latest news is that renowned Fashion house Hermès has designed the new bands for the new Apple Watch, as revealed at tonight’s Apple event. Well, three new bands and three watch faces to be precise, and all of them for launch in October. One of the bands will be a double model that wraps around the wrist twice; the other two more classical. But if you want them, it’s time to dig deep into your wallet. The ”Single tour” bracelet will cost you 1100 dollars, while the ”Double Tour” is an additional 150 bucks, 1250 dollars.
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Suddenly this might feel like a kind of promotion. The Jejung in the movie “Heaven’s Postman” and the Jejung in the drama “Sunao ni Narenakute” are very different. Please enjoy both sides and understand his chaSuddenly this might feel like a kind of promotion. The Jejung in the movie “Heaven’s Postman” and the Jejung in the drama “Sunao ni Narenakute” are very different. Please enjoy both sides and understand his charm. Please do so. In the movie he’s an ikemen-kun and a natural-chan in the drama.
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Posted by 2030arch in Uncategorized.
Posted by 2030arch in Events.
We are reaching out to you because the Governor has 10 days to sign a State Capitol Greening bill, AB 2670.
AB 2670 establishes a State Capitol Sustainability Task Force to further the sustainability practices at the State Capitol Building grounds. As one of the state’s most historic and visible structures, the State Capitol presents a unique opportunity to showcase sustainable practices, demonstrate environmental leadership, and provide educational opportunities to its nearly 800,000 annual visitors.
Please send the Governor a letter urging him to sign AB 2670 and support State Capitol greening measures.
Ron Rael and Virginia San Fratello need a little help gathering signs for a project they are building in NYC made of homeless signs as the primary building material.
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The design of educational facilities serves as a major focus for architects and the communities in which they live and work. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that there were 95,726 public schools in the United States in 2005, nearly 10,000 more than in 1995. And even in the current economic downturn, the American Institute of Architects indicates that the design and construction of schools represents the driving force of designs fees for architecture firms in the United States.While population growth is projected to level off in the next few years, schools will continue to serve as the center for education in the community. School districts in the US will need to start building schools that address the needs of their users, needs that reach far beyond the color of paint in the classroom. And these large buildings will also need to start using technology and building systems to help reduce their economic and environmental impact.Elementary schools in particular have generally simple programmatic requirements and allow for tremendous creativity within the design solution. The challenge comes in making a building that functions in the simplest way possible for the young minds of children, provides a modern workplace for the teachers and staff and promotes the spirit of its community.Kawneer and AIAS give students achance to meet these challenges in the 2010 Schools of Tomorrow Design Competition….
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All 3 initials of my name begin with R, hence the title of my blog (I’m better known as Rhia). Some things I enjoy are eating, watching shows on Netflix, box subscriptions, and hanging out with friends. I also have my occasional geek tendencies, love traveling, and enjoy trying out new things at least once, especially if it has anything to do with food.
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Thank you, it’s nice to meet you as well. That’s my friend’s dog and his name is Cali. I’ve been watching/re-watching a few anime series lately (Soul Eater and Samurai Champloo, definitely a fan of anime), and I like being able to catch up with the TV shows that are currently in their lineup. There’s lots of them in my queue. Hopefully I can get around to at least half before they take them out. Thanks for visiting!
Thanks very much for the nomination! I’ll check it out soon.
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I do have a few favorites. Thanks for the tag!
Ooh, this is definitely a challenge! Thanks for the nomination.
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I have to admit your 30 day Disney challenge is fantastic! It immediately drew me into checking your blog out further and I absolutely love it. It would be a crime not to follow such a fantastic blog =). Keep up the grand work and cant wait to see more of your posts.
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This has become my new affirmation, thanks to a flier I received in the mail from LensCrafters that has this line as their come-on (focus = get new glasses, get it?). So will I do it?
This morning I am off to a good start. Awoke at 6:00 a.m. and actually got up. Chanted as the sun came up, then meditated. Now I’m at a local coffeehouse before doing a few errands in my neighborhood. Tonight I go to the local Siddha Yoga Meditation Center for satsang.
This week the fall session of Women Writing for (a) Change began. It was good to be back in a class! Being in a small group each week with listeners for my writing pieces really helps with the discipline I need to write regularly. Following class, there was a Women Writing New Media Circle meeting. There are six of us now as we create, organize, host, and record podcasts. It’s always a good sign if there is laughter at a meeting. (We blame it partly on the chocolate)!
Fall is my favorite season. I am glad, and grateful, to be able to go outside when I want. Thirty years of full-time work inside a building took its toll. My dogs are happy they are getting more walks. I am happy I can watch the leaves turn colors, then go out and crunch them under my feet any time of day.
My time is opening up since I quit going to hatha yoga classes. Although I would try for three classes a week, usually I made it to two. Having two mornings open up is a goddess-send. I enjoyed the classes and like the teacher but . . . I now feel free, as a retiree should. I have been too quick to say yes to the Universe, I fear. Now I must prioritize — focus on what I love.
Today I got it right. I took my time drinking coffee and waking up. I awoke with a clear decision about some financial matters and felt good about that. My body felt stiff, as usual, and I thought: time for ‘yoga’ !
So I took my mat out on the deck and saluted the sun. My body automatically went into prostrations. These are the kind I used to do when I was with the Kwan Um School of Zen. I decided 27 bows since I knew I wasn’t up to 108. I plan to work my way up to that!
You see, I will be quitting the Y and only taking the yoga class. While the weather is nice, I can do hatha yoga, walk at Farbach Werner park and on my road. The money I save this way will go toward food (yes, let’s keep it basic!).
While stretching and doing yoga on my deck, I played a compilation of songs and chants to Kuan Yin. My friend Eileen had given this to me awhile back. It was the perfect choice. At some point, I felt so great — the Universe was good and so was my life. I was in the right place at the right time. I was One and not separate. Everything will be okay. Yes, more mornings like this is my intention.
This morning I took my cup of organic decaf to my deck to begin my day. It was early so there were no edgers or mowers shrieking in the neighborhood. The only sounds were birds and the occasional bark of a dog.
Rereading this sutra, twelve hours later, I feel bliss. I feel so fortunate that I can sometimes be open enough to have these experiences (but then, ‘to have’ denotes being separate).
I’d say I wished I’d thought up that phrase.
Instead, I breathe it in and sigh.
I haven’t written much about yoga lately. For a few weeks I actually made it to yoga twice a week (found out about a Saturday morning class in Northside to supplement the night at the Y). Now, though, I may be teaching an online class Saturday mornings which would make the second one not possible.
Tonight I went to the one at the Y. I can do most asanas halfway decent except those that require arms going behind your back. My arms are just too stiff! Is it being old, an Aquarius (fixed sign), or what? I suspect it’s an aging thing. Well, I’m happy with getting myself to class at all tonight; the weather was gorgeous/I wanted to stay home on my deck.
stretching of limbs and settling of mind.
The fact that I feel pain means the ego won again.
It may be rainy, gray, & cold outside but I choose not to let it spoil my day. For today is a good day already, I know this. I have chosen two activities which will fill me with warmth and who knows how much more?
I am picking up my dear friend Eileen. She has been mostly housebound after foot surgery. We will have lunch at one of our favorite places, Melt, a mostly vegetarian restaurant in my former neighborhood of Northside. It reminds me of Mullanes, a great & funky restaurant downtown whose closing saddened many people. So, for me, Melt is my new Mullanes. I love to support Northside and I love all the choices I get at Melt.
Then, tonight is yoga class with Melissa. I claim she has near magical powers since she helped me like yoga after dismissing it for literally decades. Now I love it, probably mostly because it quiets the ego and allows me to surrender to the asana. Although I often begin with stiffness, I almost always find flexibility by the end of class. This is a good thing!
We stretch ourselves with our noontime questions.
gently release themselves during evening yoga.
I realize I was born “perfect. Beautiful.” How many times must I be reminded before I really believe it? How often do I truly believe in my inner divinity? I know Melissa meant it that my downward dog was lookin’ good, still, it is perfectly beautiful if I take it in on a deeper level as well.
This morning when I was stretching I thought of her: I really like the person Melissa seems to be. She says she thinks of herself not as our teacher as much as our facilitator. Such humility. I appreciate the atmosphere she sets for our class: surrender instead of struggle, and commit to self-care through yoga. How synchronistic that I selected self-care as my New Year’s Resolution!
After class, I wanted to tell her I ‘get’ downward dog because I live with two dogs, do ya think? But another student paused to ask her something so I walked up the stairs of the Y and floated out into the mist toward my car.
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This coming weekend, the Madison Symphony Orchestra (below) offers one of the best must-hear programs of the season – or so thinks The Ear.
Pianist Stephen Hough (below, in a photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke) returns for his fourth appearance with the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), led by music director and conductor John DeMain.
The concert will open with Samuel Barber’s Second Essay, a dramatic piece written in the midst of World War II, followed by a performance of the exotic Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Egyptian”) featuring soloist Stephen Hough, who won major awards for his recordings of the complete works for piano and orchestra by Saint-Saëns. The concert will close with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s emotional Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”).
Samuel Barber (below) was one of the new generation of mid-20th century American composers with contemporaries Howard Hanson, Aaron Copland, David Diamond and, later, Leonard Bernstein.
His Second Essay was written in 1942, in the middle of the Second World War. Barber once wrote: “Although it has no program, one perhaps hears that it was written in a war-time.” This will be the first time this piece is performed by the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
The Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Egyptian”) by Camille Saint-Saëns (below) was composed while he was on a winter vacation in the Egyptian temple city of Luxor, in 1895-96. The location of this piece is important because it helped give the piece its nickname, and also influenced the sound of the score. This will be the first time this piece is performed by the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (below) wrote his final piece between February and August 1893. The Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) was then performed in Oct. 1893 and was conducted by Tchaikovsky himself. Nine days later he was dead.
Tchaikovsky’s late symphonies are autobiographical, and the sixth being “the best, and certainly the most open-hearted,” according to Tchaikovsky himself. Seeing that he was a troubled man, dealing with a dark depression, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) is filled with poignancy and deep sorrow, as you can hear in the finale in the YouTube video at the bottom.
One hour before each performance, Randal Swiggum (below), artistic director of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director and the newly appointed Interim Music Director of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras, will lead a 30-minute Prelude Discussion in Overture Hall to enhance concertgoers’ understanding and listening experience.
Single Tickets are $16 to $87 each, and are available at madisonsymphony.org/hough and through the Overture Center Box Office at 201 State Street or by calling the Box Office at (608) 258-4141.
Major funding for the February concerts is provided by: Irving and Dorothy Levy Family Foundation, Inc., Stephen Morton, and BMO Wealth Management. Additional funding is provided by: Boardman & Clark LLP, Forte Research Systems & Nimblify, James and Joan Johnston, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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다른 뜻에 대해서는 레이다 문서를 참조하십시오.
"Radar"는 미국의 가수 브리트니 스피어스의 노래이다.블러드샤이& 아방트 그리고 클러치에 의해 2006년 11월달에 만들어졌지만, 브리트니의 사적 문제로 인해 2009년 6월 23일 발매되었다.또한 "Radar"는 제 2의 "Toxic"으로도 불렸지만 빌보드 핫 100 차트에서는 88위, 영국 싱글 차트에서는 46위를 기록하며 매우 저조한 성적을 보였다.
↑ “Radar in the world charts”. 《Ultratop 50》. australian-charts.com. 2009년 11월 24일에 확인함.
↑ “Radar France chart”. 《Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique》. lescharts.com. 2009년 8월 15일. 2009년 11월 24일에 확인함.
"Born to Make You Happy"
"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart"
"Oops!... I Did It Again"
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know"
"I'm a Slave 4 U"
"I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman"
"Anticipating" / "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"
"My Only Wish (This Year)"
"I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)"
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is aggressively pushing the Bank of Japan to ease monetary policy in a bid to boost growth.
Japan's economy performed better in the fourth quarter than previously thought, according to revised data released Friday that could embolden the government in its drive to stimulate growth and end deflation.
The data showed that Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 0.2% in the final three months of 2012 -- much better than the negative 0.4% rate initially reported by Japan's Cabinet Office. On a quarterly basis, Japan's gross domestic product was unchanged compared with previous data showing a fall of 0.1%.
The upward revision was not exactly a surprise, as other economic indicators have pointed to stronger activity in recent weeks.
But the report could provide a boost to consumer sentiment. Japan's economy had been in a shallow recession, and the more positive data should bolster hopes that the country's economic outlook is brightening.
The report also provides some political cover for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is pursuing an aggressive set of policy changes in a bid to boost growth.
Abe has argued forcefully that the central bank is not moving quickly enough to stimulate Japan's flagging economy. He favors aggressive monetary easing, and made that the centerpiece of his election campaign.
The idea is that further easing, combined with fiscal stimulus, could end years of deflation and coax the world's third largest economy out of stagnation.
The strategy got a boost last week as Abe nominated Haruhiko Kuroda to succeed Masaaki Shirakawa as Japan's top central banker.
The yen has weakened significantly, falling more than 20% against the U.S. dollar since the beginning of October. The Nikkei has been on a tear, adding more than 40% since the middle of November.
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Kohl’s surprised us with an early release. Get it here now!
Watch out Target, Kohl’s is stepping up its designer collab game with DesigNation, and Narciso Rodriguez is first up to bat! DesigNation sends designers we know and love off to foreign lands to gain inspiration for limited edition collections at more affordable prices.
Narcisco Rodriguez gained his inspiration from Istanbul and produced a collection that easily transitions from work to play. Launching November 7th @ 7am, the line ranges from $30-$150, and will only be available until the racks are empty.
I personally get really excited when these designer collaborations come around because being obsessed with limited edition stuff doesn’t come cheap.
Entire lookbook and prices here.
p.s. Derek Lam is second up to bat in Spring 2013!
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Due to demand, we are pleased to inform that we have added yet another new class to our schedule.
Starting Sunday, April 15th we will begin our ‘Little Warriors’ class.
Classes will cater for 5-7 year-olds and will take place every Sunday between 3 and 4pm. Spaces will be limited.
Our Little Warrior class will run alongside our Junior class (7-14 year-old).
For availability for all classes, please contact us through our contact page. or via email at knutsfordjujitsu@gmail.com.
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Law can often be an arena that predates a career in politics. Think Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and many, many more. Thus is kinda, sorta the journey for Diane Neal, the actor who played the crusading ADA Casey Novak on the long-running crime series "Law & Order: SVU" from 2001 to 2012.
Neal announced Tuesday morning that she is running for Congress via Twitter.
Neal, 41, is a registered Democrat and New York resident, and plans to run for the 19th Congressional District seat as an independent (presuming she earns the 3,500 signatures needed to obtain a spot on the November ballot).
Neal said the campaign is still in its early stages — she has no staff, donations or party affiliation as of yet. Neal notes that this reality means she will be "beholden to no one but US and to integrity & to the best version envisioned by imperfect, but wise, men centuries ago."
Neal told the Daily Freeman "I’m a little Libertarian, I’m a lot liberal, mostly progressive, but I have this amazing ability to be able to take really complicated policy and break it down into edible sound bites, which is something most progressive liberals cannot do."
"I love this country," she added. "The majority of my family, most are active service at the moment. Even my grandmother, who escaped the Holocaust, she came to New York, she joined the Navy."
Neal also has experience with President Donald Trump. She told the Daily Freeman that she met Trump as a judge on his TV show "The Apprentice". During one afterparty, Neal said she was determined to find out if his hair was real.
"Donald and I are roughly the same height," she said. "After talking with him for a while, he stood in front of me [with his back turned], and I slipped a chopstick right in that thing because I wanted to see what it was made out of, how it was attached."
"I started getting a nice amount of loft," she continued. "I’m sure that someone has a tape of this somewhere . . . and I swear to God it was like I was about to see the singularity. It was like all time and space was ending. Then he walked away and he took the chopstick with him, and for the last 15 years, I’ve wondered, where did it fall out?"
Neal seems genuine in her bid and her Trump story is amazing, but even the most well-meaning celebrities aren't likely to be the answer those against Trump are looking for in 2018 elections (or indeed a solution for this country's many ills). After all, we already have a celebrity politician in the highest office in the land. Weren't we going to try to do better this year?
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2019-04-25T08:40:26Z
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https://www.salon.com/2018/02/06/actor-diane-neal-of-law-and-order-svu-is-running-for-congress/
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This campaign is for updated materials and expansions for the cooperative miniatures game Myth. So far I have managed to restrain myself and am only pledging at the $6 level to get the revised rules and cards.
This is a cooperative fantasy card game. If it had launched any other month, I probably would have backed it. However, I have spent an absurd amount of money on crowdfunding this month, and I can't justify the expense.
Are you getting the special version of Between Two Cities with the extra buildings? Or just the normal version?
Just curious: what all have you crowdfunded this month?
Are you getting the special version of Between Two Cities with the extra buildings?
Yes, I'm getting all the extra buildings. I figure it's good to have options.
Wow, I'm amazed at how overfunded Flow is. (And really happy for the inventor.) With that level of demand, there may be significant delay in getting the hive. Have they said anything about their production schedule?
Have they said anything about their production schedule?
I haven't received any updates, though I noticed that they increased the total number of full hives available (it used to be 1800). If they're increasing the number they think they can make, I assume they have a plan for fulfilling all of them.
I won't be too worried if there's a delay, though. I don't even know that I will be prepared to start a hive by next spring, what with all the adjustments I'll have to make to get ready to adopt Benny next year.
I'm excited for you and also hoping I won't be scared of your yard now.
I have a lot of flowers, so my yard already has a ton of wild bees. With a hive, it just means I'll get something out of it. I plan to put it all the way in the back corner of the yard, so it shouldn't be near where any people go.
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2019-04-22T08:04:25Z
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https://spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com/392399.html
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I saw Solo: A Star Wars Story this past weekend. As is now a recurring theme, it was a Sunday matinee on opening weekend, except this time, in May. It feels weird to have a new Star Wars film release in the spring, but that is, after all, how they used to come. Until very recently, I had just about no interest in seeing Solo; compared to my limited hype for Rogue One two years ago, this was absolutely negligible. I watched the first few trailers and thought it was okay looking, if potentially problematic, and then I kinda just forgot about it. My skepticism was naturally rooted in the fact that they’ve effectively recast the iconic character of Han Solo with someone I’ve never seen act before and who is not Harrison Ford. However, I was always intrigued by the announced supporting cast — I don’t know how you can go wrong with such players as Thandie Newton and Donald freakin’ Glover by your side. Emilia Clarke and Woody Harrelson aren’t bad either, though I have seen them in some pretty bad movies. Well, Solo is… something. I liked this movie way more than I thought, but it’s not really that good. There are, let’s just say, a lot of issues.
In what has now become an annual tradition, I found myself once again taking in the spectacle of a new Star Wars film on a Sunday in mid-December. The first time I did this was a bit unique in that I then hopped a plane to Peru that evening, the memories of the film dancing through my mind during a trip through the jungle. Last year’s experience had little of the build-up, nor the memory; Rogue One is a fine movie, it just doesn’t really make an impression on its own given that it’s solely in service to a greater film. Now, The Last Jedi is a film I’d been trying to temper my expectations for since the moment I walked out of that theater in 2015. The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite film of all time, so this new middle chapter had quite a challenge facing it and a bit of sequel-driven history to live up to. Let’s just say, it’s complicated. As I walked home from the screening, I was somewhat torn. There’s a lot of really awesome things that happen in The Last Jedi. There are also an excessive amount of minor things that really shouldn’t be in the film at all, or at the very least, odd decisions that should be toned down a smidge for the sake of tonal continuity. But most importantly of all, in direct response to the main criticisms of The Force Awakens, it doesn’t clone a previous film, but rather attempts to subvert its spiritual predecessor at every turn. Does it work? Let’s walk through it together and find out.
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2019-04-22T16:18:06Z
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https://boredbyhappiness.wordpress.com/tag/pretending-to-be-a-critic/
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How To Get Your Business, Blogpost And Web Contents Rank Higher In Search Engines. | Digital Marketing Blog!
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2019-04-23T22:32:07Z
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https://maradcopy.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/214/
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That moment of silence for my iPhone was not mourning. I was just stunned. The sobbing, that was mourning.
For three years now, since the first iPhones came out, Apple’s mobile meth has been at the heart of my innovation pitch.
At the first Newspaper Next symposium in February 2006, Harvard scholar Clayton Christensen used phones as an example in explaining disruptive innovation. I understood instantly. At an intellectual level, I understood Christensen’s story of how Alexander Graham Bell’s original telephone disrupted Western Union and the telegraph business. At a personal level, I understood deeply Christensen’s story of how the original mobile phones – though barely good enough by such standard measures as reliability, audio quality, battery endurance and size – changed communication forever because they offered mobility.
I flashed to my first story dictated on a brick-sized cell phone and the instant realization that reporting would never be the same (and I really had no idea). I knew I hadn’t bothered to get a landline when I moved to the Washington area in 2005. I was quite sure my youngest two sons had never had a home landline since they moved out of our house. I noted in N2 presentations that my Motorola Razr phone had become my alarm clock and my camera, in addition to my phone. I made mobile phones a central part of my innovation presentations for journalists and media executives.
And then I got my first iPhone. It was summer of 2007, when the first models came out. I wasn’t wild about the AT&T coverage (that “good enough” standard still applied), but the touch screen and applications and email and browsing capabilities thrilled me. I had a better prop, not to mention a deeper passion, for my innovation presentations.
Then I learned about Twitter and how easily the combination of mobile device and short-message platform helped me communicate with hundreds and even thousands of people instantly and effortlessly.
When my first phone’s screen shattered on the bathroom floor, I quickly got another (the “genius” at the Apple store had to admit a phone ought to hold up to an 18-inch drop, so Apple replaced it). And when Apple came out with its 3G iPhone, Mimi knew what to get me the Christmas of 2008. By the fall of 2009, I was advocating a mobile-first strategy for news organizations. By January of 2010, I was co-teaching a class in developing an iPhone application. By February, I bailed out on the class to make the biggest career jump of my life, joining TBD to plan and execute a community engagement strategy that made heavy use of mobile opportunities.
So of course I took my iPhone to the beach with me Saturday when Mimi and I visited Rehoboth Beach, Del. I had taken pictures on previous coastal visits to Monterey, Calif.; Tofino, B.C.; Pescadero and Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Miami; Key Largo; Biloxi, Miss.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and lots of other places without beaches. Where I go, my iPhone goes. It’s not like I was going to be swimming in the ocean.
Clearly on some level, I knew I should untether from my phone for the weekend (is this enough foreshadowing for you?). But sometimes I don’t listen to myself.
As we walked Rehoboth Beach, I took a picture of the crowd on the beach and posted it to Twitpic. I didn’t have a really good opportunity to take a photo of Mimi. I thought I might do that in the evening or the next morning (I’ve taken some nice pre-iPhone sunrise photos over the Atlantic).
After strolling along the edge of the water for a while, enjoying the waves splashing across our feet, we decided to sit down on our towels. That crowd I had photographed had grown a bit more and the only spot we could find to sit was about 8-10 feet past where the waves were splashing. Somehow as we sat down and relaxed, I set the phone down next to me on the towel.
That’s when the tsunami hit. Well, OK, it was just a big wave. But it was a disaster for my iPhone.
And, well, it went on at least twice that long, but you get the idea.
Elaine Clisham (@eclisham above and a former colleague at the American Press Institute who was deeply jealous when I got my first iPhone and is still waiting until she can get one without AT&T service) calls me an Apple fanboy. This might be the place to say I have a love-hate relationship with Apple. I work with a bunch of Mac fanboys and fangirls and live with another, but I have never seen the attraction. I hate my current Mac (my third) as much as I hated the HP computer that preceded it and a Dell and a Gateway back in my computer past. Like every computer I have owned or been issued, the Mac taunts me daily with its (or my) inadequacies. For every Mac feature that I like, I curse at least one feature. And I really hate that it doesn’t play well with others.
But the iPhone is a different matter. It changed my idle time in a big way. There’s the restroom (as long as I don’t drop it). Walking to a bus stop or a meeting is no longer merely walking. I’m checking email or tweets or tweeting (OK, occasionally bumping into someone or something, too). Waiting became a time to check and answer emails or surf the web. If a meeting starts late, I’m no longer annoyed; I’m catching up. If a flight leaves late, I’m annoyed, but I can tweet about it.
In my previous job, I had both an iPhone and BlackBerry for a while because I couldn’t get my work email on the iPhone. It was no contest. As soon as our IT staff got my work email coming in on the iPhone, I jettisoned the BlackBerry.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the Verizon commercials making fun of AT&T’s crappy coverage (and it is bad; I felt out of touch when I drove in rural Iowa). I love when people mock the sanctimonious Steve Jobs. I laughed at the Hitler mashup making fun of the iPad (I still don’t have one of those, though it may be coming; and sorry that I can’t include the Hitler link; it’s been removed from YouTube). I laughed at the antenna problems of the 4G and figured I’d wait a while to get one of those.
I tweeted (from my laptop) last weekend about the scene in “Field of Dreams” where Shoeless Joe Jackson talks about men who scratch at missing legs that “have been dust for years.” That was me without my iPhone, reaching into my pocket again and again to check in to a restaurant or tweet an observation.
Right now I’m hating Apple again while I wait to get my next iPhone (it’s been ordered). A company that cared about customers would have an adequate supply of phones in stock. But Apple cares more about the appearance of demand than about meeting demand.
So I wait. Did you know that waterproof phones are popular in Japan? I wonder if the iPhone 4G comes in waterproof. I may find out soon.
I’m assuming that once you get a new phone there will be a 21 tweet salute.
Won’t take long to hit 21.
I once watched a (bombed) woman fetch her drowned phone out of a porta-potty at a concert. Sad, sad moment.
Would be interesting to know if her phone fared any better than mine.
Pardon this geek moment, but a colleague of mine has reported that, following an unsuccessful fishing trip made even worse by a fall off a dock at the end of the day, becoming doused and, as misfortune would have it, taking his HTC Fuse (running Windows Mobile 6) with him, he was able to resurrect it.
He told me that, by removing the battery, carefully removing parts of the back cover that were accessible, and drying all components with a hair dryer, the device was brought back to life, working just as well as it ever had.
After he finished his tale, I offered that I would have left the Fuse in the water and would have replaced it with an iPhone.
Thanks for the shout-out, Steve. I hope to never live through the pain of losing a phone to a natural body of water. Well, I speak too soon – I once ran into the Red Sea with a rental phone in my board short’s pocket. That didn’t turn out so well for the phone, or the rental company.
Try the AT&T store. I was on the Apple waiting list and thought I would check out the AT&T store while visiting the mall a couple of weeks back. Sure, they had them. iPhone 4 and out the door in about 10 minutes.
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2019-04-21T20:27:59Z
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https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/mourning-my-drowned-iphone/
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A child’s creativity gone – where to find it again?
When I think of creativity, I am reminded of a childhood full of it. If you knew me today (and only in the present), you might be stunned to know the child version of myself. I was the child that dreamed about alternate worlds of existence and then made up my own stories to tell if I thought my dreams weren’t interesting enough. I created elaborate stories about flying princesses and dragons that walked upside down – often to the point of my parents telling me not to lie about it being a dream and just tell it as a story. At one point, I pretended I had a make-believe friend because I wanted to test out this “trend” existing among my friends. But I was determined to be unlike my friends, so the friend I created was a 6 ft. tall hamster named Harry. In my world, all the toys talked in it, all my house pets were exotic animals, and every walk to the creek was an exciting expedition. I wrote endless stories with the intent of everything becoming more unbelievably not-of-this-world, and I once created a magical place in my mind where an open field near my house would turn into a tropical oasis full of the freshest fruit, the most exotic animals, and the clearest stream – but only when I arrived. Sometimes my imagination was so real that I almost believed at any point those fruit trees would really appear and come to life.
Enter my life now. I am a researcher. I enjoy data analysis, designing research experiments, teaching, and all of the hobbies that lie therein. I am terribly afraid of costume parties, role playing, and anything in which clearly defined social roles are not intact. However, I also love traveling, exotic foods, new experiences in new cultures I know little or nothing about. Surprises are a favorite of mine. My perhaps most woeful regret is that I am not more artistic. Would you call me creative now? Would you call the childhood version of me creative?
In some ways, I think the answer to the former question is “yes,” but that creativity is often hidden if not crushed by the way the “system” works. A recent article in Newsweek entitled The Creativity Crisis gives an interesting and somewhat disheartening spin on the current state of creativity. According to the article, creativity is on the decline (unlike IQ) and our educational system may be to blame for it. We are so obsessed with cramming facts and numbers into students’ heads and teachers are often overloaded with too many students or classes that the students may be suffering from it. By not engaging them in “out-of-the-box” thinking and problem solving, we are doing our children a disservice. By not allowing them to ask endless questions and explore, we may be preventing them from exploring their own creativity. Interestingly enough, childhood creativity as measured by Torrance’s assessment tool (see the Newsweek article) is one of the biggest predictors of future success as measured by patents, software programs, buildings designed, etc.
Another thing I like about this article is that they debunk the myth that the only domain creativity plays out in is the arts. Hello engineers and scientists! As a scientist myself, I comprehend the important role creativity plays in my job. Without innovative thinking, I cannot come up with new theories to test or experiments to run. The most brilliant social psychologists in my field design the kind of experiments that make you go – that’s brilliant! Like using hot sauce allocation (click her for original research article) as a way to measure aggression towards others. Lieberman and his colleagues designed a new measure of aggression as the amount of hot sauce administered to a participant known to dislike spicy foods. Love it. I want to be that creative.
And so I sit here, missing the creative child within. And when I wonder why I often forget the creative component of myself, I am once again reminded of the system. The system tells me I should be in my office 8-5 or 8-6 each day plugging away at my desk. But what if that doesn’t always foster creativity? What if sometimes I need to do other things to stretch my mind and get outside of the box? For fun, I did that yesterday. I just didn’t go to the office but instead engaged my mind in other creative ways – brainstorming, moving around my workspace (home, coffee shop, etc.). The result – I have two more publications to write up now. I’m not saying it’s fool proof, but I have to wonder – where has all my creativity gone and am I allowing the system to drain it out of me? More importantly, how can I as an educator make sure my students’ creativity is fully engaged?
This entry was posted on Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 8:46 pm and posted in Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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2019-04-25T08:16:06Z
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https://megsnogginbloggin.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/a-childs-creativity-gone-where-to-find-it-again/
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Children’s marriage – a life goal?
When I was in college doing my Engineering and later on my MBA, my sister was engaged in doing her MBBS. One of the hot topics of discussion that my parents were often subjected to was when they were planning to get my sister married. This was despite the fact that she was doing a professional course in Medicine which would not be over till she was about 24 years old. My parents and I were asked about my marriage about a few years later, after I had done my MBA and worked for 3 years or so.
I was reminded about the above as I was recently having a discussion with my friend about the life goals I had and he pointed out that my children’s marriages did not seem to figure in them. When I told him that it was not really one of my life goals, we went into a rather long debate about whether it should or should not be a goal in life. I am happy to say that by the end I was able to bring around my friend to my viewpoint.
Now do not get me wrong – I am quite clear that marriage is an important step in the lives of my children and they should definitely have it as one of their goals in life. I will be happy to offer my opinion on it and even organize stuff for the marriage, financially or otherwise. However, I do not see it as my responsibility to decide when they should get married and who they should get married to. They are already adults, taking many important decisions on their own, and I hope they will be able to take the right decision at the right time in this issue too. I will be more than happy to be a guide to them, as I have always been, but I am quite certain that I have been able to bring them up in a manner which will enable them to take this responsibility and do it well.
Most Indian parents, unfortunately, take it on themselves to decide who their children should marry, when it should happen and how the marriage should be conducted. In fact, a lot of our social evils stem from this as the expectations from both sides are set at an absurdly high level and, more often than not, lead to disillusionment and problems. Marriage today has become an occasion for both the groom’s and the bride’s side to show off their actual or perceived status and a display of consumerism, sometimes in a vulgar way. A lot of the associated social evils are a direct consequence of this.
Another issue that comes out clearly is how we still differentiate between out sons and daughters even in this day and age. When I explain my views on children’s marriage the most common reaction is – ” well that is ok for your son but surely you need to need to think of getting your daughter married?”. My answer to this is simply that unlike most others, I genuinely do not differentiate between my son and daughter. I have brought them up in exactly the same manner and have the same expectations from both of them. My life goal for them is to help them grow up into well educated and capable individuals who will be able to do well in life for themselves and others. Fortunately, both my children are well on their way to achieving this and once they do my goals will be achieved. Of course, I want them to marry, have a family, do really well in their careers etc. But, these are their life goals and not mine.
At the end of the day, if I have not been able to inculcate the right values and attitude in them, then I have failed as a parent. Whatever they choose, as long as they live happily with their choice I am quite happy with it too. Even in the unfortunate situation that they are not happy, it is something that they will be responsible for. As parents we can always offer our opinions and guidance, but it should be in a neutral manner, not to be taken as an imposition. My daughter will probably get married in 5 years time and my son in 8-10 years time. I feel quite confident that by them they will be completely capable of a good decision in terms of their life partner.
To complete the story of me and my sister – she got married after completing her MBBS and internship, to a fellow student of another Medical college in Kolkata. Though my brother-in-law is not a Bengali, we were very happy at the marriage and it has really turned out well for them. They currently live in UK. My marriage to Lipi was made somewhat complex by the fact that she was from a different caste, but all ended well and has remained so for the last 22 years and more.
So is children’s marriage a life goal for me? No way, though I do hope they are as happy, or possibly even happier, than my sister and I.
I have been engaged in an overall financial audit for myself since the last month. While auditing my investment portfolio is a major part of it, one of the significant expenditure areas which I am trying to get a fix on is my son’s Graduation expenses. I wanted to share some of the data as many readers may be benefited by a real life example.
To give some background, for the people who are unaware, my son Ranajoy is presently doing a 5 year dual degree course, comprising Msc Maths and BE Computer Science from BITS Goa. He is presently in the second year, so we have paid his fees till the 4th semester. As the increase of fees in BITS is quite regular and predictable, it is possible o estimate the total cost of the course and also what is the amount we will still need to pay over the next 3 years. Note that I am only talking about expenses paid to BITS directly here.
Admission expenses and PS1 expenses were in the range of 80,000.
Total projected expenses for the course are therefore in the range of 16.1 lacs. If I add about 1 lac a year for his other expenses, inclusive of travel etc then the total expenditure comes to about 21 lacs. Of this I have only paid about 7 lacs so far, therefore a long way to go yet.
How do I plan to manage the payments now and in the future? I have taken a simple approach here – kept some FD in his account for the next 2 semesters and will keep doing this as time progresses. Essentially, I do not look upon this money as part of my cash flow, it is like a separate account maintained for my son. Even for his own expenses, I transfer some money periodically, as and when the account dips to below 10,000.
Apart from the convenience and peace of mind that I get from it, my son is also becoming more responsible about money by handling his own account. He knows how much money comes in, how he is spending it and how much fees are being paid to BITS.
With BITS increasing fees by 12 % and more every year a 4 year course will be 40 lacs in 6 years, 80 lacs in 12 years and 1.6 crores in 18 years. This may sound rather fantastic but is quite likely to happen so it is better to be prepared.
I for one am glad that my daughter has finished her college now and my son is well into it!!
As the regular readers of my blog will know by now, my daughter Sharodiya ( Rinki ) has got admission offers from both XLRI and IIM Kozhikode for their MBA program. She may also get into IIM Lucknow when they come up with their latter lists in the next 2 weeks or so. However, as of now, we have got her admitted to XLRI for their BM program.
Rinki was home for the weekend from Bangalore, where she is doing an internship, to get all the papers etc in order and in between the catching up and celebrations we had some serious discussions too about funding the course. Based on what I have always advised my children, they are quite comfortable about taking an Education loan for funding their PG education. So, her first reaction was that we will take a loan from SBI or some equivalent bank, I could pay the interest till she graduates and she will start paying the EMI after she gets a job. While that was my earlier idea as well, this time I took a closer look at all the data and the different options of funding the course.
The course fees for XLRI are at 21.04 lacs for the duration of 2 years.
These will need to be paid in 6 installments. The first one was for 5.42 lacs which I have paid out of my resources. The remaining amount is therefore 15.62 lacs.
Rinki is very keen to pay off the loan quickly. At current rate of interest at 9.55% the EMI for the entire amount loan will be nearly 33,000 per month, if the payment period is 5 years.
The above should be a breeze as the median salaries at XLRI are around 20 lacs and I certainly expect her to be there if not at a significantly better position.
SBI does have an option of paying back the first installment amount but as of now we are not considering that.
Assuming an EMI of 33,000, total interest paid by her will be nearly 4.38 lacs.
There is pre-payment penalty of 2% applicable in the current rules, after MCLR based lending norms have been in place.
The interest for the pre-EMI period will be around 1.4 lacs.
One of the issues I could see with the loan is that, while it is definitely convenient, it does not come cheap in any way. Even with paying it off in 5 years, the overall interest comes to nearly 6 lacs. If we do not pay the interest in the pre-EMI period this goes more obviously. Of course, this is a boon for people who are not able to fund the education otherwise.
For me the question boils down to this essentially – if I take the loan for all installments and start paying the interest today, am I likely to earn more than 9.55% on my money? In the present circumstances of the markets this will be a little optimistic at least in the next year or so. Also, will it be easier to pay a couple of installments more, reduce the loan to about 11 lacs and ask my daughter to pay me back if and when I need the money in future?
Take a loan provision of about 17 lacs from SBI.
Try and pay the next 2 installments, due in August and November this year, out of my own resources. These will amount to 5.02 lacs.
For the remaining 11.6 lacs the EMI will be 24,391 for a 5 year paying period and interest paid will be 3,03,460.
Interest to be paid before the EMI starts is 81000.
In other words by paying the 5 lacs now, I am reducing the total interest outgo by about 2 lacs overall.
I have always held that no loan is really a good loan, while some of them are necessary. Education loans availability is a great thing for many people who would not be able to afford the expensive quality education otherwise. However, it does come at a price and the students need to build themselves up to ensure that they are able to pay it back without getting into any real problems.
For colleges like the top 6 IIM’s , XLRI, FMS and a few others in the second tier this is not really an issue as most students will get pretty decent jobs and should be able to pay off the loan in 5 years. Caution is to be exhibited in good measure for other colleges.
With the rate reduction in PPF scheme and the knowledge that it is likely to be aligned to market rates every quarter from now on, is it still a good idea to have it in my portfolio? In my audit of investments for this FY that was the main question I was faced with regarding my PPF investments.
My present maturity is in 2019 April and current balance is about 20 % of our total debt portfolio.
My wife’s account will mature in 2028 and currently is about 3.5 % of our debt portfolio.
Contribution of 1.5 lacs is made every year in the first week of April to both accounts.
Given the tax treatment of PPF at EEE, I see no reason to stop my investments in it even though the interest rates have reduced to 8.1% currently. I think the returns on PPF will go down further to about 7.5% or so, but even that is not a bad rate for an EEE instrument. In the coming years the interest rate cycle is very likely to turn around and at that point in time, PPF will immediately get benefited as the rates are market linked now.
With the investment decision taken, the next issue is how to use the money in the account. So far I have not withdrawn any money out of my account since 1994 and do not plan to do so till the current maturity in April 2019. The same goes for my wife’s account. Her first PPF maturity amount had helped us greatly to boost the down payment that we were able to make for our apartment in Chennai.
Continue my account after 2019 for another 5 years while being open to withdrawals for any emergency post 2019.
Assuming that my daughter gets married in the period beyond 2019, such withdrawals can fund her marriage expenses to the extent needed. Even though I have investments in equity for it, a hedge against market crashes is prudent.
Withdrawals can also be used for discretionary purposes such as replacement of white goods, vacations outside India etc.
As I will normally not need the PPF account withdrawals for my regular expenditure at least till 2024 or so, in the absence of any of the above the money will simply grow.
As far as my wife’s PPF account goes it will grow to 40 lacs plus by 2028. At this point if the returns are decent we will continue it. Note that we can withdraw 24 lacs in the subsequent 5 years from her account.
Assuming that I can withdraw about twice that amount from my account in 5 years, the total withdrawn amount in 5 years will be 72 lacs. This can be used for a variety of purposes as explained earlier.
How will I fund the 3 lacs per year? As of now, I am doing it from my Consultancy income and hope to do so for the next 6-8 years. Beyond that or in case the income is insufficient in a year, I have plans to fund it through the redemption of debt funds such as FMP etc that keep happening every year.
In the end what does the PPF investment mean to me? Well, it is something from which I can withdraw any time I have an exceptional expense whether due to an emergency or due to an indulgence that we need to do. It also gives me the cushion of not having to redeem my equity investments for fulfilling a goal, when the markets are in a bad situation.
In short it contributes a great deal to my peace of mind.
Summer has indeed started early for India this year and Hyderabad has been badly affected by it. The temperatures soared in March itself, forcing us to switch on the AC more often than not, which was quite unprecedented. April started in a worse note and we really needed a break. A long vacation in North India was out of the question as our daughter Rinki was waiting for her B School admission results. We therefore needed a quick getaway in southern or western India and Matheran was an appropriate choice.
Though I had never been to Matheran, Lipi and I had always wanted to visit it. The basic premise of an ecologically protected forest area where vehicles were not allowed had it’s own share of romanticism and excitement in equal measure. However, the planning proved to be a little difficult as one has to travel to Neral from Pune and then onward to Matheran. As an experienced traveler, I found out the best mode possible, in the absence of confirmed bookings in trains. We first booked a return journey from Karjat on the day when tickets were available in 2nd AC by Hyderabad express. The going part was easier as Shatabdi from Hyderabad to Pune is usually not full. The Westend hotel in Matheran seemed good for a 3 day package inclusive of food which we booked.
To cut a long story short on the travel – we went by Shatabdi express to Pune, spent the night in the retiring rooms there, took Sahaydri express early morning to reach Neral and then took a taxi to Dasturi Naka as the toy train ticket line was daunting. Once at Dasturi Naka, the choices were to ride a horse, go by a hand carted rickshaw or walking. We chose the latter option and it was quite rewarding , both for the views that we could watch in a leisurely manner as well as the interesting trek along the railway line. One surprising thing about Matheran is that one should really not call it a hill station.It is only at an elevation of 800 meters and the day time temperatures were in the mid thirties for all the days we were there. But then Matheran is unique in many ways as we found out to our delight, during our stay of 4 days there.
In simple terms Matheran is a small settlement with a main street having pretty much everything from the Railway station, markets, hotels, travel arrangements etc. Apart from this you have several treks which lead to the ubiquitous viewpoints here. From reliable sources you have about 38 of these points and you should definitely see the better known ones, which are probably a dozen in number. Your mode of transport can be horses that will take you quite close to the points, hand carted rickshaws with one person pulling and the other pushing or restraining it on a downhill slope or walking. I recommend you try all 3 when you are there but my favorite mode was walking.
Before that though, a word about the hotel where we stayed. Westend hotel is a very nice one with well appointed rooms, a small swimming pool, pretty good housekeeping and great food options by the pool side. The dining area also happens to overlook the surrounding forest area and the fenced off sylvan background adds to the general ambiance of the place. The day we arrived was a Sunday and there was a fair bit of crowd, I suppose mainly from Mumbai. For the other days though, we pretty much had the hotel to ourselves and it was a very peaceful feeling. The hotel was a tad expensive but it was money well spent.
Peace is something you will find in abundance when you are in Matheran. The absence of vehicles make a huge difference and you are suddenly transported to an era 100 years back when there were no motorized vehicles. As a reminder of that age, you will see an abundance of horses here. They come in all shapes and colors and are generally quite healthy – I suppose the vigorous exercise that they have regularly is the secret. The railway station is one of the major activity hubs here, there are trains to Neral taking about 2 hours and also a shorter ride to Aman Lodge which is close to Dasturi Naka. As we did not have the chance to take the train on our arrival, Lipi and I took a ride to Aman lodge and back on one of the days. It is a great feeling as the train chugs along fairly deep woods, the longer ride may be well worth it some other time.
Matheran is the ideal place to relax as even when you are seeing the points you are not rushed. The walking or riding a horse are done at a leisurely pace and the rickshaw, though a somewhat more hectic mode as compared to the other two, only travels for short distances before letting you get off and see things at your pace. Though the day time temperatures are high, the dense woods with the taller trees forming some sort of a canopy ensures that you are shielded from the effects of the direct rays of the sun as you walk. The chirping of the birds in the early morning or late afternoon is a constant reminder as to how different the place is compared to where we usually reside. The views of the hills and the valleys are downright spectacular and quite unique in our country. The hill sides are normally having rocks that have multiple colors, I have not witnessed so many shades of brown and black in my life before. Almost any point is worth seeing but some of the ones definitely not be missed are Sunset point, Alexander point, Louisa point, Monkey point, Charlotte lake and Celia point.
The best thing about Matheran though is you really do not need to do much. While the points are worth viewing, it is really how you can relax there that makes it unique. There are a whole lot of places where you can get a good drink and the flavors are simply mind boggling. Sipping one of those drinks and watching the views from a point, can make you forget that you have to get back to normal life soon. It is a place where you can be quite alone with your thoughts and combine it with long walks in the woods. Robert Frost had said, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”, and he might well have been speaking of Matheran. I am very regular with my morning walk and have done it in many places in India and outside. However, Matheran is easily the best place in my book for a morning walk, or for that matter a walk at any point of time during the day.
As it typically happens in a great holiday, the return from it was quite abrupt. We were soon waiting for Hyderabad express in Karjat station, where it was very hot. Fortunately once we were in the train the AC worked well. We also reached Hyderabad early morning and learnt that there have been some rains of late, hopefully that will bring down the temperature by next week.
To sum up, Lipi and I had a great holiday in Matheran – it had everything from nature walks, good accommodation, unique transport modes, delectable food and the luxury of doing things at our own pace. As I said before, Matheran is really not a hill station, but it is definitely a place with a fair bit of magic. You will find it enchanting and want to come back for more in future. We definitely want to do so in the coming years.
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The silver torch cactus (Cleistocactus strausii), also called a wooly torch cactus, is a columnar cactus that reaches up to 10 feet tall. The name silver or wooly torch comes from the wooly white appearance given by the fine needles and bristles that cover the stem. Mature plants have red flowers that bloom at the tops of the stems in spring or summer. The cactus grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11.
Choose a location that gets full sun and has well-draining soil.
Water the cactus during the spring and summer when the top inch of soil dries out. During the fall, reduce watering to every five weeks if the ground dries out. In winter, keep the cactus dry or the moist ground combined with the cool temperatures and dormancy may cause the roots to rot.
Fertilize the silver torch with a low-nitrogen fertilizer during the active growth period. A slow-release fertilizer applied in the spring will be sufficient for the whole year. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for rates and application methods.
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Use newspaper as a wrapping to protect your hands from the spines when handling the cactus.
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The Golden State Warriors are exploring trade opportunities for All-Star forward David Lee and the three years, $44 million left on his contract, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Lee, 30, is a popular and well-respected player within the Golden State franchise but his contract is considerable, and moving him for a star – or a player on a shorter deal – makes financial sense.
Golden State offered Lee in a package for Toronto's Andrea Bargnani, sources said, but the Raptors made a deal with the New York Knicks to shed the final two years, $22.5 million on Bargnani's contract.
The Warriors tried to pry Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge as part of an offer that included Brandon Rush, league sources said. Portland has been engaging trade talks for Aldridge, but has pursued more robust offers than Golden State's proposal, sources said.
Lee had one of his best NBA seasons, averaging 18.5 points and 11.2 rebounds and making the Western Conference All-Star team. He suffered a torn hip flexor on April 20 in the playoffs and eventually had surgery to repair it on May 30.
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An Attitude Of Bitterness Is No Excuse. | The Seed, The Melanin, The Saviour!
So here I am again, with a quick thought taken from my general reading through the book of Ezekiel. Have I ever mentioned that I love the books of Jeremiah & Ezekiel?
Do I understand everything from them? No…..but the more you read, the more God opens your heart to his Word.
Now bare in mind, Ezekiel had lived through some of the rebellious years of Judah, & grew up during the reign of King Josiah to Jehoiachin, so he had legitimate reason to be upset with his people for how they had disobeyed God.
So Ezekiel was aggrieved & bitter in his spirit towards the people, but the Spirit of God was still strong on him as he took him to the captives. Showing that Ezekiel had a heart of obedience, even though he himself did not particularly like the task at hand, nevertheless he obeyed God.
Ezekiel, once he had been amongst the remnant, no doubt seeing the state in which the people were in, his heart softened to the cause. This reminds me of Christ’s surmisings & compassion he had for the people in Matthew 9:36 that they were scattered like sheep with no shepherd.
Ezekiel would go on for 48 huge chapters obeying God, sometimes undertaking some of the most difficult tasks God had ever given to man, solidifying himself as a great prophet of God & a giant of the faith, but that was not how he started.
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Recently I heard about a new cafe and bakery in Kingston the Healthy cook co selling gluten free, dairy free, egg free and no refined sugar cakes muffins and other baked goods. I was delighted when I saw it was very close to Bruschetta restaurant.
the Healthy cook company has very clear signage and looked very cosy and inviting, but smaller than I was expecting. As I entered the cosy little cafe my eyes were drawn to a large array of cakes scones and brownies. If only I hadn’t eaten so much for lunch!
Unfortunately being early afternoon all the bread had sold out, but fortunately for me there was a brown bag of gluten free soda bread mix for me to make at home.
Then came the exciting bit, choosing cakes. I chose a Courgette cupcake, Carrot and raison cake and a yummy looking Chocolate cake, also a sultana scone.
While I was there I was fortunate enough to meet the owner and talented Baker Trisha Kelly. A lovely lady who I’m sure I will get to know very well when I hopefully return often for my gluten free, unrefined sugar free goodies.
The cafe had a good selection of fairtrade teas and coffees and herbal drinks. There was salads and homemade soup on offer and Trisha explained that very soon there would be quiches etc available too.
The first cake i tried at home was the Courgette cupcake, soft and sweet and so pretty a very moist cake with glints of bright green, Perfect in fact! wish i bought more.
The sultana scone was very good, I expected it to be dry and crumbly but far from it. Very moist and delicious perfect with butter and jam. Nice size not to big.
Next I tried the carrot and raisin cake. Just a perfect size for a treat. beautifully wrapped and unsurprisingly winner of a gold star at the 2011 Great taste Awards. I kindly shared this with my husband who pronounced it the best gluten free cake he had ever tasted. The lightness of Trishas cakes are amazing. Moist and very moreish.
Lastly the delicious looking iced chocolate cake, hard to believe these cakes are gluten free. Again light and delicious. All 10/10 cakes!
Think we can safely say I wil be back very soon!
Certainly worth searching out. Goodies also available to order online too, so no need to miss out.
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Ah, do you remember this. Scouts, Guides, Cubs and the like knocking on your door and asking if you had any jobs that you would be willing to let a ham-fisted youth do for a bob (1 Shilling or 5p in todays money). I was a fairly unenthusiastic bobber-jobber but I cleaned cars, washed windows, dug gardens, mowed lawns and all for a bob for charity! It was enjoyable in a sort of “do I have to this” kind of way.
Well, The Sagas of Noggin the Nog, is off to the Edinburgh Festival. We are trying to raise money to enable Noggin to perform in front of new audiences, venue bookers, producers, theatre professionals and so on, at the biggest festival for performance in the world, as a means to achieve more with this “entrancing” family show next year; we want Noggin to be seen by many more people. So … and this is where our campaign differs from Bob a Job week … we are having a Bob-A-Nog week … where we ask you for money and in return (instead of us coming round and cleaning your lawn or mowing your car) we give you a warm feeling inside … and (oh, yes, there’s more) there are certain rewards that can be claimed … all you have to do is click on the link below which will take you through the ether to a new place. This new place is called Kickstarter … its a bit like Narnia only much more commercial and yet strangely heart warming … in this land of Kickstarter there is a campaign … and in this campaign there is a place where you can pledge anything from £1 to … the sky is always the limit in Kickstarter Land … for The Sagas of Noggin the Nog and … you can see what wonderful rewards there are.
If you have clicked on the link, then you probably won’t be reading this paragraph because you will be in Kickstarter Land. If you haven’t clicked and you’re thinking should I do it, then the answer is yes … if you are STILL reading then you still haven’t clicked on it … you’re with me for the long haul. And it is a long haul!
Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin created Noggin the Nog back in 1959. I remember sitting and watching it on British television when I was nought but a mewling and milk puking sprog … it was in Black and White and was somewhat eerie … the music, the visuals and Oliver Postgate’s clipped accent making it feel somewhat other-worldly. Looking at it now it still has that strange, eccentric Englishness about it that intrigues and welcomes you in … it is gentle, humorous and quite different to todays wham-bam TV; the story-telling is compelling and simple but you want to know what is going to happen next. It was quite brave children’s television … the King, who you imagine might be one of the main characters, dies in the first few moments of the first episode and we are then introduced to Noggin, the King’s son … it is his tale we are about to follow. In order to be king, Noggin has to marry within six weeks, or the crown will go to his wicked Uncle, Nogbad the Bad. The stage (screen) is set for the tale to unfold. I won’t tell you what happens as that will spoil the story, though … in the second series, King Noggin, oops! … travels to the Hot Water Valley to help the little people who live there with a Dragon problem.
It is the first two series of Noggin the Nog that our play centres on. There are silly Vikings, live music, puppets and live projection taken from the original films. It is a family show. Children love it and adults love it, together they love it even more … last week we performed at Theatre Royal Margate. In the afternoon we had a large audience of school children who shouted quite loudly at Nogbad the Bad, in the evening we had more of a family audience … who booed and shouted very nicely at Nogbad the Bad and cheered when Noggin was successful. Both shows seemed to be enjoyed by all … perfect.
This is us chatting to the audience after the show at Theatre Royal Margate!
Anyway … if you are still here … why? Why aren’t you clicking on the link!
I will attempt to update the blog regularly over the next five or six weeks … almost like an Edinburgh Festival Diary. We’ll see how I get on!
The Theatre Royal Margate Performances!
On Friday 11th July we performed our new Edinburgh version of Noggin at the Theatre Royal Margate. In fact, we performed it twice: once for three hundred children in the afternoon and once to the general public in the evening! I am pleased and excited to tell you … it works and people love it! Phew!
At the end of the performances we sat and chatted to the audience; to ask if they enjoyed it, could we improve it, what bits didn’t they like and what bits they did … fortunately there were no “it was awful” quotes … in fact all that spoke seemed to have a good time and they wished us luck for its future!
So, what is the future for The Sagas of Noggin the Nog? Well, first of all we have to get the play to Edinburgh; the Edinburgh Festival is the biggest shop window for performance in the world. And then we have to make sure that bookers, venue directors, producers and the like see the show. And then, next year, we will tour the play to venues in the UK and hopefully, abroad!
In order to do all of that we have saved up our pennies for a long time but … and it is a big but … we are still quite a few pennies short of the carefully calculated budget. This is where you come in. If we ask you really nicely would you click on the “Support Us” link in the Blogroll, up a bit and to the right. This link will take you to our Kickstarter page where you can pledge any amount small or larger to enable us to take the play further. We know that money is really tight but if you have a bit of spare change we would be most appreciative.
And see you next year at a venue near you!
We are well into the second week of rehearsal now and fun has been had by all (and a lot of hard work, obviously). We’re almost ready! Honest! Just a few bits and pieces left to do, that’s all. We’ve cut almost twenty-five minutes from the show and brought the second half of the play more in line with the first half and it feels really great. We’re very excited about it. The proof, of course, is in the “performing it in front of nearly three hundred children on Friday”.
Apart from rewriting sections of the play, re-assigning some of the lines (which makes them quite tricky to remember, I can tell you), changing the emphasis of some of the sections and generally rehearsing the whole lot, there were quite a lot of other jobs to be done. Some more surprising than others.
For instance: poor old King Knut had a leg problem; in fact, two leg problems … they dropped off. A similar plight afflicted the Brave and Mighty ThorNogson. They have now been re-legged, phew!
Tony has spent many “happy” hours re-editing and re-aligning all of the video projections … gosh, he enjoyed that!
Max spent a good hour or so polishing his helmet … well, all of the helmets, actually, with wet and dry … and a shield.
Nick clickety-clacked away on the laptop putting all the re-writes into a new document so that we could all sing off the same hymn sheet.
I’ve repaired Ronf’s sword and both of his arms … much glue, gaffer tape and a few choice words. And this evening Tony and I enjoyed remaking and repainting a major part of the set.
… two men dangle a barrel in the sea. Barrels dry out unless they have fluid inside them and this one has neither a top nor a bottom … it is very dry. It fell apart. We came up with this idea! Why not soak it in the sea! It worked, though it is very sandy and we did amuse a a couple of fishermen. All in a days work!
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Some days your heart is so completely full that you want to burst into tears because it’s so overwhelming. Nothing extraordinary has happened. I have been sick this past week and, for others reasons, it has not the been the best week. Today, I woke with a blinding migraine. I had no choice but to sleep it off. I am feeling much better now after having some soup.
Still, I am so overwhelmingly thankful today. Things still aren’t perfect. I’m still unemployed. Like I mentioned above, I’ve been sick and in bed for days, but I’m just so grateful for this life I have been given. My brothers’ lives are moving in the right direction. I’ve met people that have restored my faith in humanity a bit. I’ve reconnected with some old friends. I have a bestfriend that I could tell anything in the world and she would still accept me. To top it all off, I’ve met this wonderful man that just warms my heart.
Seeing other people full of love and kindness and with happy hearts, makes me happy. I wish everyone would strive to be better and do better. Sure, there are bad people in this world and people that will take advantage of you. You have to continue to find the beautiful in the ugly, though. You have to not give up. It’s so very, very easy to give up. All the bad days seem worth it when you have those good days and days of understanding, though.
Always try to make room in your heart for compassion for others. I’ve had people tell me that one person can’t change the world. Darling, I beg to differ. All it takes is one person brave enough to make a stand and one person to believe in that person. It’s a domino effect of one persons and, before you know it, you’re changing the world together for the better.
I challenge you to be the one person bettering this world. Try it. Let your kindness catch like wildfire. It’s something this world can never have too much of.
p.s. this is completely random, but if you use a ‘hot toddy’ or ‘grandpa’s cough medicine’ recipe and wouldn’t mind sharing it with me, I would be ever so grateful. Mine was an epic fail and totally gag-worthy.
Today has been a really good day. It was rainy and dreary out, but there were breaks in the weather. My middle brother and I went to the park and swung. It was so much fun. I haven’t done that in years. There was no one there because of the weather. So, we had the place to ourselves. I haven’t spent “real” time with my brother in years. We’ve been around each other, but this was different. It was just he and I laughing and talking. It brought me back to my childhood and it was really nice. He has been “gone” for a really long time and now he’s trying to better himself. I truly hope he’s able to. I miss him, the real him. Change is hard and trying to change bad habits in a not so healthy environment is even harder. I hope he perseveres. My Mom and I are staying the night at my youngest brother’s house tonight. We’re going to watch my niece while he works and his fiancée attends to her plans tomorrow. Speaking of my sweet, little adorable niece. She said my name for the first time today! I was so super excited. I don’t get to see her often so it totally made my day. I played with her a lot and took some videos and pictures of her being cute. She is one of the sweetest kids. She’s happy almost all the time. She eats like a champ and usually goes to bed without any fuss. She is growing like a weed!
I was looking at her tonight and thinking how pure and honest she is, how all children are like that. (She’s one and a half, by the way.) They just want to be loved. They don’t see hate or discriminate. They are love. I wish more people were like that in the world. There would be no judgement. Children really are such precious little things.
On a different note, I’m really proud of myself today. For one, I’ve been able to appreciate my day in the moment and keep my thoughts positive. Two, I’ve kept myself out of drama. There were a couple moments today where I could have stuck my nose in a place that didn’t concern me, and I almost did, but I thought before I spoke and kept my mouth closed. Not every battle is mine. There was also a moment where I could have “gossiped” pointless information just to talk. It was completely unimportant and not necessary for the other party to know. It’s so easy to want to mindlessly share negative information, and today I stopped myself and didn’t. These may seem like minor things, but they are huge to me.
I was reading about forgiveness today and how even a single unforgiven person in your life can be the cause of your destruction and unhappiness. In order to be truly settled, you have to forgive EVERY single person in your life. In a way, forgiveness is really a “selfish” act. You don’t have to condone what the other person has done to you, but you can forgive them for yourself. By not forgiving them, you give them control over you every single time you are revisited by how they hurt you. Take that control back by letting them go and letting the pain they caused you go.
The book I was reading also talked about how you should forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for everything you’ve done. You can’t move forward with your life if you continue to visit all the reasons why you aren’t worthy of having a successful / happy life. It was quite insightful to say the least. If you’re having problems with forgiveness in your life and you want to overcome them, then please let me know. I am no expert, by any means, but I can point you to a resource that is really helping me. Plus, I don’t mind being an extra set of ears if you need some. Don’t let the people that hurt or wronged you for whatever reason continue to have control over your life. If you’re like me, don’t stand in your own way of success either. I don’t mean to preach. I just wanted to share some things that really stuck with me from my reading.
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2019-04-20T13:26:17Z
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https://pennedinlove.wordpress.com/tag/good-days/
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carleton
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Over-reliance on automated navigation systems may cause users to be "mindless" of the environment and not develop the spatial knowledge that maybe required when automation fails. This research focused on the potential degradation in spatial knowledge acquisition due to the reliance on automatic wayfinding systems. In addition, the impact of "keeping the user in the loop" strategies on spatial knowledge was examined. Participants performed wayfindings tasks in a virtual building with continuous or by-request position indication, in addition to responding to occasional orientation quizzes. Findings indicate that having position indication by request and orientation quizzes resulted in better acquired spatial knowledge. The findings are discussed in terms of keeping the user actively investing mental effort in the wayfinding task as a strategy to reduce the possible negative impact of automated navigation systems.
Parush, A, Ahuvia, S. (Shir), & Erev, I. (Ido). (2007). Degradation in spatial knowledge acquisition when using automatic navigation systems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
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2019-04-25T04:10:09Z
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https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/20325
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