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wordpress | The 2004 to 2005 Sixmile Village site content, now hosted here.
Melodramatic mourning and dusty furniture.
I’m posting to a dead site in the night time. It makes me want to cry.
Nobody has written on this site since 2005. Once Six Mile Village was a popular site with hundreds of hits per day. People would write poetry and stories. Rodney would complain about any and every thing he came across (but allowed the content to be posted on the site as an administrator). Steph would show up bi-annually. People I respect wrote opinions. The site was doing great without me.
Now it’s really dead. This old content sits here and occasionally attracts a hit from random search engines.
I thought that once we got the site up again some people would come back. But somehow the glue is gone. Maybe it’s the format. Because this is a blogging website. Maybe. Yet it’s just as easy to write here, and you don’t have to wait for approval. It’s up. Maybe it’s me. Maybe the old site was Rodney’s and when it died and he didn’t come back nobody else did either. And I’m not exactly provocative when I write. I’m too main-stream.
So now it’s a site that has about 2 writers, 6 readers, and 5 or 6 search engine hits per day.
And so I go off and mourn melodramatically to a site that feels as empty as an old warehouse. And the only people who will read this are the hopelessly addicted websurfer, and the person who unwittingly signed up for this site’s RSS feed and haven’t got anything from it in months.
And if you do read this, and you do get to the end, and you feel like writing something that would fit on this page, or the new one, please write. I’ll be happy to add you as an author on this page. I don’t care who you are. I almost don’t even care what you write.
Anyway, this is my late night rant against abandoned electronic real estate.
I miss this site, too. And wow, I was one jaded chica! I’ve mellowed quite a bit since then. I will admit that I kind of miss the old, snarky me. Don’t worry, though, she still comes out to play from time to time. | 2019-04-24T16:00:54Z | https://theoldvillage.wordpress.com/2006/09/30/melodramatic-mourning-and-dusty-furniture/ | Porn | Reference | 0.215114 |
wordpress | So I’m watching the most recent episode of my favorite current TV show, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” a few days ago with my wife, and we were viewing the segment Oliver did on how, even though it seems we’ve come so far on gay rights in America, there are still areas of blatant discrimination, and we shouldn’t forget that.
And I got to thinking about progress. Progress is sometimes easy to spot on social issues; we no longer have “white-only” bathrooms in public places, and there are ramps for handicapped people in millions of public buildings.
We’re making progress on so many significant issues in the U.S.: Awareness of global warming, the environment, race relations, scientific breakthroughs about disease, and too many other areas to mention.
But as once again was made painfully clear last week, we are making zero progress on the issue of gun violence. Like, literally, NONE.
We heard from Alison Parker’s father, who wants to be the “John Walsh” of gun control, referring to the “America’s Most Wanted” host who, after his son was murdered, became a tireless advocate for changing laws.
We will hear hand-wringing from politicians, and hear political strategist flap their lips (one GOP operative said on “Meet the Press” Sunday that for anything to change in our gun control laws, it’ll have to be Republican legislators who move the needle, since Democrats have fought all they can and gotten nothing done. Sadly, he’s probably right.), and then … pffft. Nothing will happen.
Progress is disgustingly unattainable in this area, and I’m damn tired of it. I’m going to stop asking what it will take, or how many more have to die, because after a while you just get tired of spitting in the wind.
Progress seems so promising in so many areas. But here? We couldn’t find progress with a damn GPS.
**Next up today, I honestly don’t know if you will find this next thing funny, or offensive and slightly racist. I found it really funny.
My cousin Rob and I have both, independently, recently discovered the awesomeness of a website called Fiverr.com, where basically people offer their services and expertise for five bucks. Somebody offers to make you a ringtone of anything, or will update your resume for you, or any one of a thousand tasks.
One guy advertised on there that he’s an English teacher in India, and for $5 he will teach his Indian students to say in English whatever you want them to say.
So Rob, being a creative soul, decided to use $5 to have a bunch of little kids trash-talk the other members of his fantasy football league.
I mean, the kids are learning English from this, right?
**Finally today, this fantastic story by Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times was really moving. It’s about a California man named Juan Romero, who was a 17-year-old busboy working at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, the night Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
In this famous photograph, it’s Romero who is cradling Kennedy’s head for a few moments. Minutes earlier Romero had shaken Kennedy’s hand, and now he watched the presidential candidate die.
The events of that day, understandably, haunted Romero for decades, and despite what anyone said or did, he felt incredible guilt and remorse about what happened.
Until finally, a complete stranger from Germany named Claudia Zwiener heard about Romero and reached out to help.
This is really a tremendous story by Lopez, whose work I try to highlight here as often as I remember to. It sometimes takes decades for wounds to heal, and for a person troubled by one moment of their past to let go.
I’m not sure if HBO planned it this way (it’d have been very smart if it did), but in the past three weeks the channel premiered two brand-new and extremely good documentaries on men called “Ted” who both are inextricably linked with New England.
I watched both movies this weekend, and thought both were terrific. You wouldn’t think there would be that much in common between them other than Massachusetts: Teddy Ballgame was a San Diego kid who grew up and could do something better than anyone else in the world: hit a baseball between two fielders.
And Teddy Kennedy, well, he’s an indestructible force of nature, for good and bad, who’s been a part of the American political scene longer than anyone else.
**Both of them gave people plenty of reason to dislike them, yet have ended up being mostly beloved. Williams was a jerk to a lot of people: teammates, the media, his own family, sometimes.
**They both had difficult childhoods, though for very different reasons. Williams was neglected by his parents and forced to grow up fast, while Kennedy suffered tragedy after tragedy. Two siblings died before he was even 15 years old, which I don’t think most people remember about him.
** You want your flawed heroes, here are two very flawed men. Williams was a jerk a lot of the time, an absent father to his kids, and he seemed to resent how much Joe Dimaggio won, and yet “The Splendid Splinter” could get to only one World Series.
And as for Kennedy, well, where do you start with his flaws? He was a heavy drinker for most of his adult life, an accidental murderer of a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne on the island of Chappaquiddick 40 years ago, and an egotist who commanded the spotlight everywhere he went.
But both men were so human, with their foibles so out in the open, that I think perhaps they became larger than life when they succeeded.
** I knew Williams had a love-hate relationship with Red Sox fans, but I was honestly shocked to learn that as early as 1940, after his amazing rookie season, he was getting booed at Fenway. The guy had just hit .327, drove in 145 runs, and finished fourth in the MVP voting, and he’s getting yelled at by his home fans? Crazy.
**His temper was legendary, but I thought the best example in the movie was the anecdote told by one of his former wives, who said he once ripped the phone out of the wall in their house, then demanded she call the phone company to have them come fix it. Funny if it wasn’t so scary.
**Robert Redford chose No. 9 for the Roy Hobbs character in “The Natural” because he idolized Ted Williams. Didn’t know that.
** I know the “Ted Kennedy has endured so much tragedy” angle is as cliched as it gets, but when you see it all put together at once, it’s still breathtaking in its sadness. Brother Joe and sister Kathleen die early in his life. Brother John murdered while President. Then Teddy nearly dies in a plane crash. Four years later, other brother Robert shot while running for President. Then Ted’s son gets bone cancer and has to have leg amputated. It’s just staggering.
** I find it sad that Chappaquiddick has almost become an afterthought in the Kennedy legacy. A woman died. Kennedy drove off a bridge, escaped, tried to save her, then went back to his room and never reported that she was down there. Truly horrible, despicable behavior. I like so much of what Kennedy has done as a senator, but it’s really hard to respect him as a man after what happened in July of 1969.
**Also found it interesting that during the 1970s busing crisis in Boston, Kennedy was a pariah. He was booed and pelted with debris because he actually supported interracial school busing.
I came away with more admiration and respect for both 20th century giants after seeing this. Check them out if you have the chance.
P.S. The link on the Ted Williams reference above is to an Esquire story by Richard Ben Cramer, and it’s one of the single greatest pieces of sportswriting ever. If you have 20 minutes, it’s definitely worth your time. | 2019-04-18T18:53:54Z | https://michaeljlewis.wordpress.com/tag/robert-f-kennedy/ | Porn | Business | 0.391154 |
cnn | ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Kelley Mulfinger thought she would be making a six-figure salary in marketing by her second year out of school. Instead, the University of Virginia alum is teaching a classroom of first-graders how to spell words like "care."
Kelley Mulfinger says teaching has provided her with job security and a strong sense of purpose.
Mulfinger is one of many recent graduates who are turning to lower paying jobs with the help of national service organizations such as Teach for America as the conventional job market shrinks.
The 24-year-old signed on to become a teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, two years ago when she couldn't find a job that excited her.
Now, faced with even bleaker job prospects, she just renewed her contract.
Mulfinger says being a teacher means more to her than just having security.
Teach for America received a record number of more than 35,000 applications in 2009, up 42 percent from last year, spokeswoman Rhonda Stewart said.
Smaller nonprofits also appear to be benefiting from the sudden availability of skilled labor.
Jonathan Olinger, founder of Discover the Journey, a nonprofit that uses film to draw awareness to children living in crisis, said the economic downturn has proved to be an "odd but effective motivator" for people to turn to volunteerism.
"Highly skilled people who had been laid off from their jobs in the for-profit sector have been volunteering for us in their new-found time," he said. "[It's a] validating excuse to finally follow their passion, live a life of purpose and step into something larger than themselves through serving."
AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that places adults in jobs with local and national nonprofit groups, also says it has seen a 400 percent increase in applications in the past four months.
Supporters of AmeriCorps say the experience provides job seekers with benefits including health care and money to help pay off student loans while they give back to their communities.
"National service is a cost-effective, empowering way for citizens to build an America they can be proud of," said former AmeriCorps volunteer Matt Wilhelm, who parlayed his stint as a volunteer into a full-time job with Calling All Crows, a nonprofit that uses the live musicians to promote human rights.
President Obama's call to service has buoyed nonprofits and service organizations, whose operating budgets have also suffered the effects of the shrinking economy.
Such organizations also stand to benefit significantly from legislation passed in the Senate and House to expand funding and incentives for national service programs.
The legislation will affect national service programs administered by the federal agency of the Corporation for National and Community Service, more than tripling the number of positions in the AmeriCorps program from 75,000 to 250,000, for one.
The legislation will also develop new positions in the areas of education, clean energy, health care and veteran affairs and create more financial incentives for potential applicants.
The bill -- recently renamed The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act -- passed the House by a vote of 275-149 on Tuesday.
It is awaiting approval from Obama, who has vowed to sign it.
Democrats supported it almost unanimously; a strong majority of Republicans were opposed. Critics contend the bill is fiscally irresponsible in light of the current economic downturn. They also argue that the concept of volunteerism is undermined by providing financial compensation for community service.
"With the enactment of the landmark Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act legislation, millions of Americans of all ages will be able to serve to address their local community's most pressing needs," said Michelle Nunn, CEO of the Points of Light Institute and co-founder of the HandsOn Network, an organization that connects people with volunteer and paid opportunities in community service nationwide.
"The Volunteer Generation Fund provision of this new law will open pathways for organizations like HandsOn Network to apply for funds to train, equip and mobilize our greatest national resource -- our volunteers." | 2019-04-21T23:20:54Z | http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/national.service/index.html | Porn | Business | 0.257445 |
wordpress | Coming just weeks after the dreadful loss of Wales manager Gary Speed, the interview has again focused attention on the mental health of sports stars. Professional athletes undoubtedly face unique problems, but it would be a mistake to think this is just football’s problem. One out of every 5,700 men will kill themselves in any given year. The rate is between three and four times higher for men than for women, and highest among men under 35. In recent years, suicide has become the single largest cause of death for young men, overtaking even road traffic accidents. In the UK, more people die from suicide every decade than have ever died from HIV/Aids.
While politicians and health services could certainly do more, surely we have a wider responsibility as a society to examine how we implant and enforce the damagingly rigid, insular stoicism that underpins our understanding of what it means to be a man. Most of us recognise that women’s sexual continence has been traditionally policed by prevailing social attitudes, but it’s less often observed that men’s emotional continence is policed in a very similar way.
As I’ve written before, attempts by men to address their own gender-specific issues are often greeted with hostility and disdain. Last year, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, revealed that he sometimes shed a tear listening to a moving piece of music, and that he took personal attacks to heart. The response from some journalists, such as Christina Odone in the Telegraph, was vicious attacks on a “blubbing big boy”. Jane Powell of the brilliant charity Calm, who knows more about this issue than most, responded: “Telling men that they should at least pretend to be invincible, shouldn’t show feelings, should be strong and silent if they want to be a ‘real man’, is destructive, selfish and plain nasty.” Even the Guardian is not immune. Recently one professional attempted to bring a successful Australian scheme to the UK, which uses the imaginative hook of garden sheds to get men discussing and addressing their own mental health and wellbeing. The response was an article mocking the very idea that men might need help, and demanding to know why it wasn’t being offered to women instead.
The number of suicides and prevalence of suicidal tendencies is rising faster among older men than in any other age group, according to research released in the week the government postponed its suicide prevention strategy.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that the number of suicides among men aged over 55 has risen by 12% over the past decade, while suicides by men aged under 34 dropped by 30%. The mental health charity Calm said men aged 45 to 54 were still most likely to seriously consider taking their own life.
Charities and mental health experts are concerned that across all age ranges there are far more male than female suicides.
Jane Powell, the Calm chief executive, speculated that the recession might be having more of an impact on older men.
“If you are middle-aged just now and your job and life prospects are diminishing then this is tough,” she said. “There is work to show that the impact of unemployment hits men harder, and later on in life; that it’s easier for women whose lives are not necessarily defined by work and for whom part-time or temporary work isn’t by definition bad.
Official statistics show that 4,517 people in England and Wales killed themselves in 2010, of whom 75% were men.
Powell said there were two reasons for the discrepancy. “First, because men are by default supposed to be in control, in charge at all times and so therefore needing help is by definition unmanly.
Calm, which began as a Department of Health initiative in 1997 and became a charity in 2006, has traditionally focused on reducing suicide among young men. Now it is changing its remit to include the older generation.
According to a YouGov survey carried for Calm of adults who had considered taking their own lives, a key driver was relationship status. The number of children in a household was also a factor with 18% of men with one child expressing suicidal thoughts, compared with 27% with three or more children. The government planned to launch its suicide prevention strategy last week but postponed the initiative until September.
Catherine Johnstone, chief executive of Samaritans, said: “There is strong evidence to show that interventions to support people at risk of suicide make a difference. However, it is often the case that services are failing to reach and engage men, which is why Samaritans launched a campaign in late 2010 to target working-class men who are the most at risk.
Last week it emerged that people in Manchester were more likely to kill themselves than in any other city. At a public meeting called by Manchester Users Network, a group for people with mental health issues, participants criticised cuts to services, in particular community centres, which act as lifelines to people with depression. | 2019-04-26T04:19:07Z | https://a1000shadesofhurt.wordpress.com/category/suicide-2/ | Porn | Sports | 0.583689 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on December 14, 2010 at 10:21 and is filed under Jawaban Kuis Pupuyaya. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-23T21:51:59Z | https://pupuyaya.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/jawaban-kuis-sudoku-pupuyaya-1/ | Porn | Reference | 0.278791 |
fc2 | Leo is doing very well lately thanks to the chiropractic care. It is so different from two month ago.
It looks no change superficially, but we can tell the difference as we care and assist him everyday.
For example, he has more energy and moves around at a park. He was just laying on the ground with not much strength in his body before.
His arms did not have much tone, but now the arms and grips have a lot more strength and better tone.
He could not even raise his arms and grab a bar before, but now, look at him below!
I can feel about 40% of his weight is supported by his arms.
The same is true for his legs. No muscle tone before, but now looks better.
He could not sit stable in the swing before because he could not grab things. But now he can firmly grab it and enjoys the swing for the first time in his life, I think.
Sena, on the other hand, is like a monkey, just enjoying everything at the park.
Leo's condition is getting better little by little.
A real improvement for the first time since two years ago when he was normal.
But we can now see a thin line of light and it is getting thicker slowly.
to make it bright enough to kick the darkness completely out. | 2019-04-25T10:29:20Z | http://leosena.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-83.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.786488 |
typepad | This post is an entry for Thanktober, a Blog Celebration of Gratitude hosted by the Vagabond Studios. You may still join the festivities!
Here is my gratitude celebration for November 3, 2012.
I am grateful, so grateful, for the new connections and deepening friendships I have had for the past couple years.
I used to be so lonely here in Bakersfield, I thought there was no one here like me.
Now I feel surrounded by people “like me” and though we are not in the majority by any means, it is so awesome to not feel so darned lonely and just weird all the time. I love seeing how my daughters are so much more free to be themselves and how their friends are proudly who they are in every way.
I remember when I was a teen and was so afraid of being called a nerd or a geek or a “weird kid.” My children take it as a sign of recognition of being smart and creative.
I thought the only way anyone could be was to be athletic or in student government or both or be sought out by “those” people.
I always wonder when people are intimidated by me why the heck they are intimidated by me. I am completely unintimidating! Seriously. One of my now friends said she had been afraid to talk to me… this is a phenomenon I don’t understand.
I was never a cool kid though I would’ve liked to have been one.
Now I am just glad I am exactly how I am doing exactly what I do and have a crew of people who enjoy doing those things alongside me.
Today I did yoga for the first time in forever at a cool spot called The Hub. This yoga is different: it is not fitness center style aerobic style yoga, it was mindful “energy following thought” yoga. I worked my muscles, believe me, and now I have a whole set of tools to practice that don’t include doing downward facing dogs a bajillion times which I can’t do because of my facial surgery.
This is one simple example, but I could go on and on and on and on.
I am grateful to have people like me and people not like me in my circle of friends.
I am grateful to be missed when I don’t show up.
I am grateful people “keep up with what’s going on” with me on facebook.
And I am grateful to be able to laugh when people say inadvertently rude things to me and I am then able to turn it into a part of a performance.
I am grateful for you, reading this.
I sort of miswrote to the ABC Challenge prompt. I focused on what I wanted to remember from where I was and for whatever reason, I dipped into a memory from childhood that wouldn't let go. So it isn't September 11 or John Lennon's death or the start of Desert Storm.
It was when a stormy period of my life happened, long before I had a grip on my place here in life.
I remember when I was dumped by my friends when I was in the seventh grade. For unknown reasons to me, the majority of my closest friends started to shun me. They didn’t walk to school with me, they ignored me, they acted as if I was a social pariah.
This happened once before, when we started fifth grade and middle school, all my best friends from fourth grade dumped me.
Both times I had no idea what I did wrong, so I figured the dumping was core deep: something was inherently wrong and unlikeable about me.
How many of us go through this at some time or another?
How many times does this happen, when we seem to vaporize from the memory of those we once believed were our closest friends?
The years between fifth and eighth grade were by far the most difficult for me. There was a time in eighth grade when I hid in my closet for four days straight in order to miss school. My parents didn’t know I wasn’t going to school until the attendance office called to check on me.
I got a talking to and I remember Mom visited the school psychologist. She was scared for me.
I remember when my daughter Katherine was dumped in fourth grade as well. I was horrified for her and grateful when in fifth grade she was suddenly, inexplicably popular again. Emma had so many problems socially it made her sick to attend school. I talked to the principle about her anxiety, to see if the school culture could be, somehow, improved.
She gave me nothing except, “Take her to the shrink”. She does go to group therapy now and loves it and she is in high school now and whenever I visit her, kids are all over here with greetings. “Hi Emma!” or “EMMA!” or “Hey, Emma….” Or whatever expression they might have.
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wordpress | Shadow Man (studio demo, 1971).
“Shadow Man” was demoed in an early session for a Hunky Dory sequel LP. As Bowie had yet to develop the Ziggy Stardust concept, the new record began as a random collection of songs, including some Arnold Corns leftovers, remakes of “Holy Holy” and “The Supermen,” Biff Rose, Chuck Berry and Jacques Brel covers, and a couple new pieces (which include “It’s Gonna Rain Again” and “Only One Paper Left,” tracks the bootleggers still haven’t unearthed).
Bowie soon shelved the Neil Young-influenced “Shadow Man” once the Ziggy concept took hold and never attempted a full studio version. While its messiah-superhero title figure seems like a rough draft of the Ziggy character, “Shadow Man” comes off a bit stale, hobbled by the dreary earnestness of its lyric and its plodding tempo. | 2019-04-21T12:29:22Z | https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/shadow-man/ | Porn | Reference | 0.471687 |
wordpress | Light is the first word that God speaks in the Bible, the word that marks the beginning of creation (Gen 1, 3). And since “God saw that the light was good” (Gen 1:4), man no longer stopped loving her, searching for her, while he fears and flees from darkness. Darkness draws death, and man wants to get out from it.
Whoever is born comes to light, whoever dies moves towards the land of darkness (Job 10, 21). “God” – Job says – “reveals the deepest things of darkness and transforms darkness into light” (Job 12:22). In the biblical view, darkness is but a temporary state of light. It is destined to become light.
God is light and permeates every creature with light: the dew becomes a dew of light in the poetic image of Isaiah (Is. 26, 19), even the dark and menacing clouds are heavy with the light that suddenly shines when the lightning flashes (Job 37, 15).
We celebrate the Christmas liturgy during the night to symbolically reproduce the darkness won over by the word of the Creator, the darkness of our human condition illuminated by the coming of the Savior. | 2019-04-24T20:36:14Z | https://sundaycommentaries.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.872458 |
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El Oualidia…Sun, sand and sea !
So I have decided to escape the stressful life of Casablanca and take the road of El Oualidia, a beautifully quiet city on the moroccan atlantic coast. It’s maybe one of the rare cities where an astonishing calm lagoon meets the atlantic’s powerful waves.
I personnally appreciated this fisher’s town simplicity of life, its infinite fine sand beach, the view of fishing barks on the shore, the amazing sunset even if the weather was a little foggy and the richness of El Oualidia’s birdlife…feeling all this beauty while beeing in good company, you can say that you’ve just spent some great holidays !
So, here are some photos taken during the trip…You know, when you are facing the beauty of nature, you don’t need to be a great photographer, neither having a good reflex camera or some photoshop skills ! Juste immortalize the moment !!
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wordpress | A collection of my verses and poems trying to unravel and expose this attack on humanity.
First they came for ….
If I were you …. | 2019-04-21T04:58:08Z | https://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/verses/ | Porn | Arts | 0.970084 |
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wordpress | Those in Dundee and Angus may be interested in this.
A van is leaving Carnoustie next Wednesday (9th) heading for the refugee camp in Calais.
SHELTER – Sleeping bags, tents, blankets, pallets, canvas sheets, tarps.
CLOTHING – Belts, rucksacks, bags, shoes, socks, underwear, hoodies, waterproofs, jackets, hats, scarfs, gloves, bags, towles, trousers, jeans, t-shirts, jumpers, babys and childrens clothes.
HYGIENE – Toilet bags, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, tissues, sanitary products, tissues, toilet roll, mouthwash, razors, shaving foam, brushes, combs, bobbles, shower gel, shampoo and conditioner, deodrant, wet wipes.
FOOD – Tinned food, rice, pasta, oil, sauces, sugar, flour, packet food, longlife milk, tea, coffee, juice, water, baby milk and food.
ADDITIONAL – Candles, torches batteries, pots, pans, lighters, cups, baby bottles, anything which will help.
Marianne Scott (who I don’t personally know) is organising this and doing the drive. She’s unemployed and using her savings for the petrol and ferry ticket, so financial donations also help. There’s a bank account set up, but probably safest to get details from her rather than for me to post it here.
We are perhaps seduced into believing that the UK is moving into the Harry Potter economy, in which so-called ‘creative’ industries, such as film production, television and publishing drive wealth creation and employment. Indeed, some years ago it was suggested that boy bands contributed more to the GDP than the aerospace sector. While I’ve never been able to fully examine the veracity of this claim, the day after One Direction called it a day, I paid a visit to the Tayside firm of Scott & Fyfe. The broad product portfolio of this textiles manufacturer includes composites that stitch bond together glass, carbon, aramid and other high performance fibres in products that are used in a range of sectors, including aerospace. While this company’s turnover may not quite be up there with the world’s top grossing music act, they represent a sector that is vital to the UK economy. The textiles industry in Scotland has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, contributing over £1 billion to the economy, and generating considerable export earnings. There are currently around 570 companies Scottish textiles manufacturers directly employing around 9,000 people. In Scotland we still make things. But we make them, and create them very differently, and Scott & Fyfe shows us a unique way of doing things.
The company has a 150 year history as a manufacturer of technical textiles, from its base in the small coastal town of Tayport in the north east corner of Fife. What it weaves and knits are the textiles that are used to create motorcycle helmets, rubber underlay backing, irrigation piping systems, bus interiors, yacht hulls, water slides, truck wind deflectors and much else. This company, which has a global reach in highly competitive markets, is a hidden gem of Scottish innovation. For me, its significance and inspiration comes from its unique fusion of design and democracy that creates an aspirational, highly creative firm that values and fully uses the skills and insights of its employees.
The global economic crash of the late 2000’s coincided with a crisis in the company’s fortunes. But its slide towards crisis was caused less by recession and more by its long-term failure to innovate and develop new products.
“Ours is a business of failure”, said Michaela Millar, the hugely impressive Business Development Officer who had invited me to the company. Michaela’s background is in textiles design from DJCAD, but it is evident that her responsibilities go far beyond a design brief. She explained to me that the company’s varied markets demanded constant innovation and bringing new products to the market. Most of these products will fail, so the task is to learn from failure, build on success and move on.
In our risk averse culture, this attitude is refreshing and places Scott & Fyfe in a rare group of organisations which have succeeded in finding strategies that innovate through encouraging creativity.
Talking to me in one of the innovation pods in a huge open area adjoining the factory, painted in primary colours and floored in astroturf, Michaela told me how two key developments pulled this ailing family-run firm back from the brink. In 2010 the company began to work with Glasgow School of Art’s Design Innovation Studio, to explore how creative thinking and innovation could infuse its culture and operations. This resulted in a range of tools and methods being explored and applied in the company. This opened them up to new perspectives and – crucially – new thinking tools that could be applied to new product development.
Joined by Business Manager, Michelle Quadrelli, the two spoke to me with obvious passion and enthusiasm how this design-led strategy was quickly accompanied by a move towards employee ownership. In December 2012 Scott & Fyfe evolved from a fourth generation family owned firm to a fully employee owned enterprise. The workforce is fully informed and briefed on what the firm is doing, and above all is valued in terms of their knowledge and skills. The tools provided by GSA are one means of harnessing this vital expertise, and turning it into new successful products.
This appears to be a vital element in the company’s success – and all too rare in the UK. Unlike Germany and the Scandinavian countries, industrial democracy has been notably absent from Britain’s industrial landscape. Perhaps predictably, it is on the agenda of none of our political parties, and it should be.
Scott & Fyffe shows another way ahead for our manufacturers – based on design and democracy. It embraces creativity – the creativity of ALL of its workforce. Far from pillorying failure, which is seemingly our national pastime, it uses failure as a useful source of learning. As Michaela said to me “we fail fast, and we fail often, and that way we do things better.” It uses methods of innovation and design thinking that I last saw being applied in California’s Silicon Valley. It trusts and it values its people. And yes, they are “people” not “human resources”.
Giving relatively untested employees like Michaela trust and responsibility is refreshing. Hers has been a steep learning curve, but the scope to explore new markets and possibilities has brought the very best out of this highly talented young woman. But that is my enduring impression of Scott & Fyfe – an enterprise that knows that its employees are its most valuable asset. Respect and value them, give them a stake in success, support them and give them tools and space to creative, design and take risks – and you will succeed.
With design and democracy, Scotland’s enterprise can be world class.
The event we held in Dundee on 24 June to promote a pop up retail culture in the city was a great success, attracting a large and committed audience who listened to some great speakers and participated in four diverse workshops. We have put together this Storify on the event which captures its atmosphere, and details some of the key points made by speakers.
So what is the outcome of this event?
First, people are invited to put themselves on a register of interest. Simply download and return this enquiry_form. If you are proposing a food and/or drink pop up then additionally download and return the PopUpDundee_EnvironmentalHealthForms.
Second, a number of pop up market opportunities are being provided. These include a two day pop up market on November 20 and 21. Prior to this event there will be smaller events to help test and refine the concept and the offer to shoppers. Those on the register of interest will be contacted to advise them of the opportunities.
Third, the City Council is working with property companies and developers to help open up access to suitable buildings and other spaces in the city.
Pop Up Dundee never has been about “the council” making pop ups happen. The City Council certainly can play a catalytic role in opening up opportunities, bringing people together and encouraging enterprise, but ultimately this is about providing space for creative enterprise to flourish and lead a renewal of the city.
City Centres are in trouble – and not just ‘post-industrial’ cities. Recent visits to affluent cities in the south east of England reveal the exact same problems that we face in Dundee – vacant shops, growing urban decay and a general tiredness and lack of vitality. Put simply, the economic model that in the past sustained urban centres no longer works. We shop differently, and expect different things of our city centres. We need to reinvent them.
Pop up enterprises have proven their worth as low cost ways of testing new business ideas and encouraging entrepreneurship. They add hugely to the life and vibrancy of towns and cities, and explore creative new ways of using spaces and places. How about throwing in a local currency?
Brixton and Bristol are among those places that have their own currency. Research suggests that use of a local currency raises cash flow within the independent business sector and boosts local employment. Not only does this contribute to a more sustainable local economy, but it provides strong social bonds within communities.
Now is the time for bold creative ideas and above all actions that can make new things happen in our city. If you want to help make change happen in Dundee, then get in touch.
Meanwhile, here’s some useful information!
Be a New Designers social media ninja!
In 2014 the week one Dundee (DJCAD) crew had more social media coverage than the rest of New Designers put together! Don’t believe me? Well check out this Storify from last year’s coverage. And what did that achieve? It contributed to a record increase in conventional media coverage, greatly increased visitor numbers to the stands, increased the opportunities for job offers, internships and exhibitions, and overall raised the attention and profile of all of our students.
Social media is not an optional add-on at an event like New Designers. It is totally essential. And it has to be considered strategically. Our graduates worked as a team to maximise coverage and to co-ordinate their efforts. Right from the start of their courses at DJCAD, we make sure that our students are effective and professional users of social media.
All students from every institution should make use of social media at New Designers to maximise the opportunities of the event. It isn’t rocket science, it’s actually quite straight forward. But from our experience in 2014, nobody else was doing this strategically.
So, this is what you do. Just make sure that you do it.
Step One. Work on your profiles for twitter and linkedin especially.
This is the profile for Rebecca Black, who in 2015 is in the One Year On show. She was our perfect Social Media Ninja! Rebecca realised that the profile you use is vital! Take out any reference to you being a student, and especially reference to your age. You are not a student. At New Designers you are a professional. Ensure that your social media profiles express this. Consider carefully how you will describe yourself and brand yourself. Ensure that you social media profiles have links to any website. Use your best quality images in these profiles.
Beth Spowart was another of our stars from last year, presenting a professional, expertly designed and informative profile for her twitter page. These things really matter. In fact they are vital if we want to be treated seriously and professionally. This has to be all in place before the next step.
Between now and the opening of the show follow everyone you can who is relevant to your aspirations. This is on the assumption that 30% of the people you follow will follow you back. So look at who people just a few years down the line in your field are following. If you’re not following people like @TheDesignTrust or @coadg then you clearly are not serious about your future! Find out who they follow. Ideally you want to follow people who are likely to visit New Designers, because that’s the trick here!
Put yourself in the shoes of a busy retail buyer, gallery owner, or design manager who has 90 minutes scheduled in their diary to DO New Designers. As they walk up Upper Street, they check the twitter feed on their feed. What’s trending on #ND15? Last year it was Dundee. So they made a point of seeing us.
You need to do some detective work on figuring out who to follow. But in an hour you could usefully double your followers IF you focus on key leaders in your field and trust your instinct.
What tweets do you really notice and read? The ones with images. If I want to be noticed then I’ll use an image to ensure that my reader lingers on my tweet in their feed. Load your phone with at least 10 (or 20) of your most compelling photos of your work. You can use these to drive your twitter posts in the first day or so. But bear in mind that most twitter readers on phones show an image that is 1 high by 2 wide. It crops whatever you post. Use this to your advantage. Think killer images! And put text into them. If you don’t have space in the tweet to put the stand number or other details then simply put this into the image. If you don’t know how to do this then I’m not sure you should really be at New Designers.
Then ensure that in every tweet you use the correct New Designers hashtag, you refer to your institution twitter handle ( in our case it’s @DJCAD ) because then they will retweet (assuming they get social media) and you use the stand number. Make sure you find out what the hashtag is for the event this year. I think it’s #ND15. If you don’t put the stand number, how will they find you?
DJCAD Dundee students win more prizes at New Designers that those of any institution. We generally win a prize every year. Two last year. That is because our students are really very good indeed! Above is Rebecca McGill from 2014 having just won the John Lewis prize.
Now, when a person in your team wins a prize EVERYONE benefits, if you pitch it right. There is an immediate increase in footfall to see what amazing institution the student is from. But we can help lift this even further.
Every time a person wins something, or gets a job or anything, tweet it! But always remember image, hashtag, institution twitter name, stand number. Last year within 35 minutes of me tweeting Rebecca McGill’s prize, the story was being run by STV back in Scotland. The more traction you get on twitter, the more it will be picked up at the event itself and rebroadcast. Following journalists back home, and asking them to follow you can really help here.
If a prominent visitor polls up, take their photo, name check them and broadcast, as we did here when the UK’s most prominent design blogger visited us. If a TV crew turns up then do likewise. You want to broadcast and share all evidence that your stand is the best show in town and that you know how to tell a good story. But ALWAYS remember hashtag, institution twitter handle, stand number.
Retweet what other people in your team is posting. You almost certainly have different followers, and in most cases modest numbers of followers, so you have to punch above your weight. You do this by working as a team and reposting or retweeting what your colleagues have posted.
One person should be tasked with collating a Storify of the week. Apart from anything else it gives you a great account of the week that you can look back on. But if you update it every day you can see how the strategy is working, and what things are getting attention.
New Designers is an amazing experience and a great platform for launching your career. But the chances you get from it are not down to luck. They are a consequence of your strategic approach. Have fun. Be strategic. Focus on your objectives.
The Office for National Statistics published figures this week showing that Dundee has the fourth lowest employment rate in the UK with around 40% of local people not having a job last year. That’s the worst rate in Scotland, and in the UK only Liverpool, the London Borough of Newham and Middlesbrough perform worse.
Something is very seriously not working in the city – and not just too many of its citizens. This is the City of Design, the first UK city to secure this enviable UNESCO status. This is the city that has a bold cultural future ahead of it, thanks to the V&A Dundee project, that promises a steady stream of visitors to its blockbuster exhibitions.
Just yesterday the Business Editor of the city’s Courier newspaper wrote a challenging piece – Talent pool is huge – use it – that began with these words: “Last week I had the thoroughly depressing task of writing about yet another local company that has gone down the swanny…” It continued to describe the remarkable talents on display at the DJCAD degree show: “there was enough on show, from beautifully detailed animation works to silversmithing, graphic design to high-end fashion, to convince me the future of the city and the wider region is in good hands.” Graham Huband’s key message is that business needs to recognise and make use of the amazing creative talents of its design and art students.
I agree. I’ve been saying this (in a variety of cities) for 25 years and, to be honest, only rarely do local businesses show any more than a passing interest in creative talent. Dundee holds its fourth economic summit next week. I am sure the so-called creative industries will be mentioned. They were at last year’s summit. And do you know what will happen? Nothing. Because design is not regarded as a core capability in a city’s economy. When design was referred to at last year’s summit we saw some photos of fashion and jewellery. I love fashion and jewellery as much as the next person – but that is only a very small part of what design is and what it can contribute.
I am writing these words waiting for a plane at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport. I am one of two design people going to Kuwait, along with a party from our School of Medicine to provide an innovative training and education programme for diabetes clinicians. Colleagues at Ninewells have been quick to see the benefits of service design in taking on some acute health challenges. And now health professionals in Kuwait want part of its benefits too.
Increasingly design is seen as key to transforming healthcare in the UK and internationally. But we still have a job on our hands to persuade business to really embrace design. This is one of our key challenges.
We need to demonstrate how design can make jobs, create opportunities, and transform the prospects for our citizens. Design does not reside in ‘design schools’. It is not just something you see at degree shows. It is a way of looking at the world, of framing and solving problems, of thinking about new opportunities, and exploiting the creative potential of ALL the people – not just the arty ones!
So what are the priorities? What do we need to do to design and make a better future for our city? Here is my six point design plan for Dundee.
This is something that Catriona Macaulay and her colleagues at Scottish Government are active in doing, and we can expect some positive moves in this direction very soon. Imagine creating spaces where people can come together and prototype new services, create visualisations of how they want their neighbourhoods to be developed, move beyond talking shops and ‘committee culture’ and give people the tools to make their own future. Representative democracy has perhaps reached its limits and we should now create tools for participative democracy.
Throughout the world design has been used as a tool to develop policy in both local and national government. Design labs are one of the initiatives that is transforming how government bodies open themselves up to a broader range of influences, ideas and – most importantly – citizen actions. If you need evidence on the efficacy of this, then read the national research report Valuing Design, co-authored by Hazel White of the Dundee-based Open Change consultancy.
I have made the case earlier that design is a vital tool to make us think differently about urban spaces and in particular to think about how we bring new life, culture and enterprise into our tired city centres. We need to design a pop-up revolution – not just in Dundee, but in all of our cities – to open up the boarded up stores for use by designers, makers, and enterprising would-be retailers, restauranteurs and others. As I wrote: “The City Council should work to strip back regulation, work with other bodies in the City Centre to identify and make available properties and locations, and invite the people of Dundee to literally reclaim their streets for vibrant enterprises and cultural activities.” And I’m very pleased to say that since those words were written just months ago, we have made considerable progress.
Again, throughout the world there is a growing realisation that design is key to dealing with the acute health challenges facing us – design better and more effective health services, using technology more appropriately, understanding the needs of patients and communities. Dundee has some great examples of this already – but clearly we have much further to go. This is a city with some hugely challenging health outcomes, and so there is scope for great improvement. We need to be embedding designers in health teams and encouraging innovative initiatives that target the more acute problems.
As the Dundee Partnership has argued before: “The current financial crisis and resulting joblessness and decrease in spending power across our communities will undoubtedly have a knock-on effect on people’s health and well being.” We can have all the innovation for health in the world, but unless the local economy picks up, it is unlikely to have much positive impact. We need to embed design within a local strategy for employment growth, that necessarily looks at how we support and sustain new enterprise development. As I have argued elsewhere, there is a policy gap in Scotland around self-employment and business startups, which we must address with some urgency. Self-employment and enterprise are not the enemies of a more inclusive, healthier community – they are absolutely fundamental to its development.
We’re not short of ideas, creative talent, or enthusiasm.
We could design and make a better Dundee.
If the will is there.
Designers and artists have a massive potential to breathe new life into our cities, to build new enterprises, and to offer people completely new products, services and experiences. In Dundee this is our vision, and this week an event will take place that will move us closer towards our goal of a vibrant creative city centre.
POPDUNDEE is a week-long pop-up shop that will be held in the Overgate shopping centre between 11 – 15 May. It is part of the 15 Good Deeds event run by the Overgate to celebrate its 15th birthday. During the week between 9am – 5pm, students from DJCAD will be showcasing and selling their work, ranging from art prints to jewellery to handcrafted gifts. This is a wonderful opportunity for emerging artists to showcase their talent and for the public to see what is being created right here in Dundee. POPDUNDEE also lays the ground for the DJCAD degree show, which opens on the 22nd May.
Jamie Mowat, Ashling Larkin and Vicky Stephen are the three design students from our animation course who are organising and running the event. The initiative arose from their participation in the pioneering DJCAD design module Design Enterprise that aims to connect design enterprise with the city of Dundee. Jamie Shankland of Marble Boy Clothing helped to broker the connection between the DJCAD Design Enterprise team and the Overgate.
POPDUNDEE is very much a product of Dundee’s status as UNESCO City of Design. Jamie, Ashland and Vicky attended Dundee’s first Pop Up Design Cafe organised by Creative Dundee back in January to celebrate this new status. POPDUNDEE shows how the City of Dundee is creating a powerful design vision, inspired by Creative Dundee, supported by creative enterprises, and made real by hugely talented and enterprising young designers.
The forthcoming General Election demands us to be critical of all parties and interrogate their manifestos for the issues and policies that we believe to be most vital.
There are three issues that I expect parties to address – creative education (in its broadest sense), the embedding of design methods in both policy making and the development of public services and the nurturing of the creative industries. I have a professional interest in all three of these.
Creative education is not only fundamental to civilised values, but empowers citizens to contribute creatively to their communities and there is evidence that it enhances wellbeing. Indeed that was why Aneurin Bevan argued equally for the NHS and an arts policy in his ground breaking book In Place of Fear. Placing design within government and the public sector is demonstrably a good and progressive idea. You can pledge all the money you like to the NHS, but unless you address the issue of service design, then such pledges become meaningless. And creative industries exploit the talents of the UK’s filmmakers, craftmakers, designers, artists, writers and others to create wealth and employment.
If these were the only issues that matter (and clearly they are not) then only Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party are in the running.
The Labour manifesto refers to design nine times in the context of the redesign of public services and the introduction of co-design principles. To be honest here I was very surprised at this emphasis. Labour also assert “We will guarantee a universal entitlement to a creative education”. The Greens have a similar policy and further claim “We will set creative government free”. Their manifesto has considerable reference to design, including the design of safer cities and communities. So, some fine words and general principles, from both parties, but not a huge amount of detail.
But it is the Liberal Democrats who win the design prize – 19 references to design, including three explicit references to “design against crime” (thanks Nick, all our research on this issue clearly made an impact). They also win the prize for creativity for their section “Pride in Creativity” which has clear policies for education and more detail on support for the creative industries.
Rodney Fitch once said that no other British Prime Minister had ever banged the drum of design quite as hard as Margaret Thatcher. And with the possible exception of Sir Robert Peel, he was probably right. So how do the Tories stack up in 2015?
Design is actually mentioned, between “theatre” and “film”. So, a very 1980s notion of what design is – which is curious given that the Cabinet Office actually has recently done some very fine work at embedding design in government. There is reference to support for creative industries, but mainly centred on tax breaks for the film industry and anti-piracy measures. The emphasis in education is on STEM rather than any reference to creative education. So the message is very much: we like the money the creative industries earn for us, we want people to have access to culture and arts, but how people are empowered to create that culture is not something we think is important enough to mention.
But when we move on to the SNP, a rather curious and frankly disturbing black hole opens up. Just a simple word search results in: creativity: not found; design: not found; arts: not found; culture: mentioned twice in terms of business (culture of innovation) & twice in terms of agriculture and aquaculture; creative mentioned twice, both in the context of the BBC. There are a couple of very passing references to creative industries (less than two short paragraphs saying little), and one whole page about fishing. In Scotland the fishing industry employs 4,000 people and the creative industries employ 85,000. No mention of creative education at all.
I am told that this is because all of these issues are devolved. Excuse me? Creativity and design are devolved? How does that work? Education is very definitely devolved but there is considerable reference to it in the SNP manifesto. There are five references to the devolved policy of “free” university education in Scotland. Five. Just in case you miss four of the references. Curiously there is no mention of the 1,000 further education jobs that have been cut and the 12% reduction in FE budgets resulting in a 48% reduction of part-time places, many of which are in creative disciplines.
There is an interesting and telling use of language and reference to ideas in the SNP manifesto that is very conventional in its political rhetoric and simply does not refer at all to those ideas and methods that are transforming the public sector across Europe, which some other manifestos on the “progressive” side do.
However, the SNPs wins the prize for repetition. In addition to the five references to “free” university education, the term “more progressive” was used eight times. Neither the Liberal Democrats nor the Labour Party mention “progressive” at all. The Greens refer to “progressive” seven times, but in terms of taxation and energy tariffs rather than the assertion of a political mantra.
But don’t take my word for it, read these manifestos with an open mind and make your own decision. Whatever we think of political parties and their manifestos, they are the best guide we have to assess how seriously parties take the issues that are important to us.
I’m voting for the party that helps us to design a better future.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot. UKIP.
Creative: not found; creativity: not found. So no surprises there. The references to design are twofold. ”Design and print by…” a reference to the printers of the manifesto. And “The EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was designed from the beginning to steal our fish”.
So long, Nigel, and thanks for all the fish. | 2019-04-24T08:44:51Z | https://mikepress.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Porn | Business | 0.911153 |
google | Criticism is no longer going to be practiced in the search for formal structures with universal value, but rather as an historical investigation into the events that have led us to constitute ourselves and to recognize ourselves as subjects of what we are doing, thinking, saying. In that sense, this criticism is not transcendental…. Its is genealogical in its design and archaeological in its method.
Professor Foucault was influenced by the writings of Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. He attempted to integrate knowing, willing, and judging, the different aspects of reason, into the unity of praxis. He emphasized the Greek concept of care for self, particularly in its carnal aspects and in the mentoring of Greek male youth; hence, was highly andocentric in his world view. He was much concerned that the Enlightenment ideal of progress He thought that modernity isolated the individual and subjugated him to the oppression of reason in its institutional and cultural forms. By aestheticizing the self, he gave priority of feelings and its intensification over reason. He believed in the ideal of beauty that gave rise to the sublime that could not be put into words.
Foucault was concerned with the problematique of the universal abstract versus the particularity of lived content, giving epistemological preference to the latter since it could be directly apprehended. The universal encompassed reason and hence was too abstract to be other than visionary and even oppressive in favoring the status quo. Reason partook of Auschwitz in which reason finds its ultimate home in technology and the mass manufacture of death (genocide) in the authentic mode of a Heidegger. Society was carceral and disciplined its citizens to severe constraints that led to repression of life’s basic instincts. To discipline was to punish. He believed in S and M practices, sexually, to develop an ethics of danger. For him that was parrhesia to live your truth. He was also the prophet of destiny in which you had a lifestyle to which you should adhere; even it put you beyond the law. He believed that philosophers should be sages who embodies wisdom and could serve as moral exemplars in the heroic mode to youth. As for academia, he though of professors as practitioners of techne and hence they really did not have a calling any more noble than that of a plumber. His model really went back to Virgil and the poets, emphasizing the spoken word rather than the written word that reifies reality.
The attitude of care led to horizontal emancipation in society where there could be a semblance of equality, as opposed to the vertical integration of a modern society that atomized people into a pseudo equality in which they were powerless and administered to by punitive agencies of the bureaucracies of state and society. He equated madness and civilization, advocating strategic communicate action to overcome it. Ethos and Eros became vehicles for personal expression and freedom.
The writer is to engage in permanent critique as a form of praxis. He thought of the beauty fashion complex as having given rise to feminism to fight the subjugation of women who were the victims of strategic oppression, much like homosexuals. His view was that of counterdiscourse in which there would be a resituating of life worlds by marginalized groups in society to create new foci of power to resist oppression. He felt that discourse in society was male dominated. . He had an emancipatory antiestablishment view of countering strategic power with moral reason through an ethics of care. Practical reason would be mediated by a dialectics of reason in which there would be ages of successive overcomings of instruments and agencies of oppression with no guarantee of any ultimate victory or finality in form by a historicized freedom. The ethics was in doing battle to the death.
Michel Foucault denigrated dialogical ethics and the whole Enlightenment project of Reason. He thought that art and feelings, expressed through sexuality, embodied the highest feelings of man. He resembles Nietzsche in this respect. Reason had been captivated by the institutions of modern society and was instrumental in disciplining the body to augment the power of the society and state in order to colonize its various domains. Hence, modern society was oppressive. He disagreed with the universal claims of reason; he saw human interest only in their particularities; truth could only be partial.
His ideological antagonist was Habermas who believed that humans were perfectible and knowledge infinite. Foucault rejected such claims of a dialogical ethics in a counterdiscourse. Foucault thought that power had to be deconstructed to show how human interests had a power motivation, even with the universities. He thought that professors served the interests of the powers that be and not truth for its own sake. Habermas had no such idea. He thought that the unforced force of the better ideas prevails in an open market place of competing paradigms of knowledge. Habermas was all inclusive in his speech acts—open to the world. Foucault thought that was idealistic and not useful, in other words utopian. Habermas admired the classical natural rights advocated by Kant and his emphasis on both pure and practical reason in tandem with the the civic republicanism of Rousseau. Ultimately, Habermas thought that there could be a democratic state of a global nature. Foucault contrarily believed that there could be only islets of liberation, in the individual body, even accentuated by the infliction of pain to intensify the experience of living. Sexual minority groups too found a champion in Foucault. In other words, Foucault championed the wretched of the earth by political praxis. Habermas distances himself from political engagement as the incarnation of the German Mandarin philosopher. Nonetheless, his encyclopedic knowledge has no equal in the moral and social sciences. The study of morals cold be empirical but not in the way of studying the natural sciences. Foucault thought of morality as a slave mentality in which the masters lorded over the slaves, the strong over the weak. Habermas thought there had to be an emancipatory thrust to science if the Enlightenment ideals were to be obtained. That entailed a philosophical scheme free of grand theory. He worked with limited hypotheses to achieve small gains on which to build a more human and tolerant future society. Habermas wanted a complete makeover of man, in contrast.
Nietzschean in nature is the theme of Foucault who thought that reason degenerated human beings by denying the needs of the natural man, as opposed to the socialized man who has to conform to the monetarization and bureaucratization of society, as Habermas put it. The latter said evil is the commodity to commodity relationship between human beings. Foucault found evil in reason in that it attached itself to totalitarian goals such as the communist man of the former Soviet Union and the homo oeconomicus of American consumer society, where false status accrues by spending moneys that you do not have through credit cards in the often false expectation that your earnings in the future will be much greater. Pure reason enunciates prophetic hopes that seldom can be achieved, especially in its totalizing sense. The flip side of reason is false consciousness, in which a person entertains a delusional representation of reality that cannot be realized. It is the equivalent of neurosis in the sense of Freud, and madness for Foucault. If you lose your job, then you are no longer considered a man in our society that measures worth by current productivity. Foucault lived by the deed rather than by the prescriptions of a civilized capitalist economy, which necessarily itself had to be barbaric in its consequences of systematizing and structuring society to serve the profit motive.
He wrote several key books on the above topics. | 2019-04-22T12:28:19Z | https://sites.google.com/view/drronschindlerlecturenotes/drronschindler-lecture-notes-and-outlines-of-philosophy/contemporary-problems/foucault-habermas | Porn | Arts | 0.41837 |
wordpress | Its that time of the month again, where we take a long at the Humble Monthly Monthly Bundle and see what gaming goodies it has in store. Let’s just dive in!
Its a new year and new bundle. Historically, I’ve not always been great with playing the games that I receive in the monthly bundles, which I hope to change this year. This year, I’m looking to play at least one game in each bundle. I would like to add that this isn’t a challenge, like the one I’m doing with Khinjarsi at Upon Completion but something I want to do, to make the most of my bundle each month.. With that said, let’s see what potential game I’ll be playing this month!
We have finally reached the last Humble Monthly Bundle of 2018, let’s dive in and see what gifts Humble Bundle has this year!
November Humble Monthly Bundle… Unboxing?!
Its the penultimate Humble Monthly bundle of the year, let’s see what surprises it has!
October Humble Monthly Bundle… Unboxing?!
Its that time of the month again, when I dive into another pile of games. Fingers crossed, that there aren’t too many horror games for the month of Hallowe’en!
September Humble Monthly Bundle… Unboxing?!
Summer may be over but that doesn’t mean that the fun is over! The latest bundle of games have been released by Humble Bundle, so let’s not waste any more time and dive in! | 2019-04-24T04:16:15Z | https://thero159.wordpress.com/category/unboxings/ | Porn | Games | 0.664968 |
typepad | As we've written previously, yesterday was a special event in the Reverse Sweep household with the birth of our second child. This means that the posts for the next few days will be looking back rather than commentating on what is happening today and now in the cricket world.
This post looks back at 2009 - a year of change for cricket. This was certainly true for England as the year ended with the team in a much better position than they were on New Years Day 2009 with the spat between KP and Peter Moores just about to culminate in both men being sacked.
2009 was also a momentous year. England lost to the Netherlands but regained the Ashes. The Aussies fell back into the pack in test cricket but continued to lead the way in the 50 over game. Pakistanwon the World T20 and unveiled yet two more outstanding teenagers. And Bangladesh finally won a series abroad against the West Indies Cricket Board XI.
Anyway without further ado here are The Reverse Sweep’s ten most memorable and poignant cricket memories of 2009, appropriately in reverse order.
I must admit that I was dubious. For me T20 is more ‘hit and giggle’ than ‘proper cricket’, but I accidentally tuned into the coverage of the inaugural competition on Eurosport and was captivated by the brilliance of T&T. Excellently led by Daren Ganga, the minnows made it all the way to the final against New South Wales; a team full of test players who they had already beaten earlier in the competition thanks to a whirlwind innings from Kieron Pollard. Unfortunately, they lost the final but they were the true winners and their success will hopefully spark the West Indies to a much needed revival.
First there was the press release from the Pakistan Cricket Board explaining that Shoaib was not able to play in the World T20 due to genital warts. And if that wasn’t enough the portly fast bowler was then ruled out for another three months because he had had liposuction. Thanks for the laughs Shoaib.
It seemed inevitable that the Aussies were going to go one-up until the dogged Collingwood dropped anchor in a marathon 344 minute innings. And when he was ninth out with over 11 overs to spare, Monty and Anderson took over and became the unlikely heroes. The Durhambattler then repeated the trick at Centurion in tandem with Onions (and Newlands with Ian Bell) and as at Lord’s, England responded by winning the next test at Durban.
Now we knew Englandwere bad at limited overs cricket but this really took the biscuit. An absolutely shambolic performance by the home side meant that the World T20 began with a bang. Things actually got worse with the 6-1 ODI reverse to the Aussies. Then an unlikely renaissance with an improved performance in the Champions Trophy followed up by a surprise series win in South Africa. But on that day in June England were well and truly clogged.
Australia had just declared on 520/7 but that didn’t bother Mr Cool as he smashed a weakened Aussie attack all over the WACA in compiling a devastating 70 ball hundred (the fifth fastest in test history). He hit six huge sixes, four off a shell-shocked Hauritz, including a monstrous shot that landed on the roof of the towering Lillee-Marsh Stand.
Englandhadn’t beaten the Aussies at HQ since 1934 and despite setting them a massive 522 run, an excellent partnership between Clarke and Haddin had the nerves jangling. Step forward Flintoff who blew the Aussies away on a tense Monday morning to take the plaudits ahead of the perhaps more deserving Strauss, who had set up the victory with a first innings 161.
The most devastating batsman in the World reached a new high with this phenomenal innings. Sri Lankahad been bowled out on the second morning for 393 and Sehwag wasted no time as he smashed seven sixes and forty fours in a 254 ball innings. By the end of the second day Indiawere 443/1 off only 79 overs and Murali had been obliterated. Sehwag was out early the next morning so just failed to become the first batsmen to hit three test triple centuries but that should not detract one iota from a truly spectacular knock.
Despite calls for former players such as Trescothick and Ramprakash – even W.G Grace was mentioned at one point – the selectors bravely opted for the South African born Trott. And boy did he repay their faith in spades with a brilliant and determined century in the second innings to help set Australiaan unachievable target. Broad, Swann and Harmison did the rest and the Ashes were on their way home.
Before the start of 2009, Dilshan was known more for his brilliant fielding than his inconsistent batting. Then he had a go at opening and by the end of 2009 was rivallingSehwag as the most exciting and destructive batsman in the world. His stats as an opener are truly impressive: in Tests he averaged 66 and scored three hundreds in only five tests, in ODI it was 56 and four hundreds in 19 matches, and in T20 he averaged 43 and invented the Dilscoop. Arguably, Dilshan was the player of the year; how it has changed in 2010.
The most poignant event of 2009 happened on 3 March when the Sri Lankan team bus was attacked in Lahoreen route to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third days play. Thankfully, although five players were injured, none were killed but eight other people were and Pakistan is now a no-go destination for all international cricket sides.
Appropriately, the same two sides contested the World T20 final in June and Thilan Samaraweera, who was shot in the leg, recovered to become the leading test runscorer of the year with 1,234 runs at 72. World cricket needs Pakistan, its most flamboyant side along with the West Indies, and it is to be hoped that the situation will improve to enable international cricket to be played in Pakistan again as soon as possible.
We were excited to hear the news that Shoaib Akhtar is potentially going to be touring England with Pakistan this summer. He last played international cricket in May 2009 and his last Test for Pakistan was way back in December 2007.
Since then he has only been in the news for comical reasons. When explaining his absence from the Pakistan World T20 squad for last year's tournament in England, the PCB advised that Shoaib could not be picked as he was being treated for genital warts. Then towards the end of the year there were reports that he was not considered for the tours to New Zealand and Australia because he had preferred to have liposuction.
But Shoaib is nothing if not resilient. He has bounced back on numerous occasions from a list of misdemeanours that would make Jesse James blush in admiration. These include ball tampering, court battles with the PCB and fisticuffs with his own team-mates.
It's easy to forget that Shoaib is actually a very good bowler. Fearsomely quick at his best, he has managed 178 wickets in 46 matches at a good average of 25.69 and an excellent strike rate of a wicket every 45.7 balls. As England fans, we certainly remember his brilliant bowling in the series immediately following the 2005 Ashes triumph, which saw England slip to a two tests to nil defeat.
Shoaib has already made more comebacks than Elvis or Sinatra, and like both Shoaib is definitely one for a song. Whether at the age of 34 he can rediscover past glories or perhaps even more unlikely stay fit is another thing, but it could be quite some summer if he makes the tour given that the excitable Shahid Afridi has already been named as Pakistan captain for the trip.
We expect that we were not the only ones who saw Shahid Afridi's announcement that he was ready to play test cricket again as a not so subtle bid to be appointed as Pakistan's captain in all formats of the game.
And lo and behold, only a few days after Afridi's announcement, he has been duly named as captain for the forthcoming Asia Cup and tour of England, where Pakistan will play tests against Australia as well as England. With the last three captains either 'retired' (Mohammad Yousuf), indefinitely banned (Younis Khan) or suspended (Shoaib Malik), then Afridi seemed to be the most logical choice as captain; if indeed logic and Afridi can be used in the same sentence. Unexpectedly, the announcement of Afridi as captain was coupled with Younis and Malik both being named in the 35 man list of probables, subject to their appeals (which presumably will be upheld now) and also a return to the fold for Shoaib Akhtar.
Afridi is prone to the odd brainstorm such as pirouetting on pitches or munching on cricket balls, but at least he seems to really care about doing his best for his country, which isn't necessarily the same for some of his erstwhile team mates if certain videos are anything to go by. Yes, Rana Naved, we are talking about you. It is understood that Afridi insisted on the inclusion of Younis, Malik and Akhtar, which suggests previously unseen maturity and that he holds strong sway with the PCB.
With all the furore currently surrounding Pakistan cricket, maybe the best thing it needs is the excitable Afridi as captain. Don't expect much in the way of tactical astuteness, but there will be plenty of endeavour and no-one will dare take their eyes off the action with Afridi pulling the strings on the field; Afridi doesn't do boring or understatement. Five day cricket represents unfinished business as well for Afridi. He hasn't played a test match since 2006, and now he has an opportunity to prove his abundant talent in the most challenging format of the game.
Whatever happens it is likely to be a memorable summer: Afridi as captain, Younis and Malik sharing a dressing room and even the unexpected icing on the cake of Shoaib Akhtar potentially making another comeback. Akhtar has now made more comebacks than Sinatra and will be hoping to put all the stories of genital warts and liposuction behind him as he eyes up some unsuspecting English and Australian batsmen in his sights.
Afridi is Pakistan's fourth captain since the start of 2009. He will be hoping that his reign is longer, less controversial and more successful than those of his three predecessors - the aforementioned Yousuf, Younis and Malik. Judging from Afridi's comment that "I don't think we should have too many expectations for Test cricket right now but I will try to get our ranking up to where it should be", he doesn't seem to be too confident. The Reverse Sweep wishes him all the luck in the World. He will certainly need it.
It seems that Shoaib Akhtar is more interested in making us laugh nowadays than hurling cricket balls at 100 miles per hour.
First there was the revelation from the PCB that Shoaib would miss the World T20 in England last year due to genital warts.
Then came the story that he had undergone a liposuction operation and would miss cricket for three months, ruling him out of the tours to New Zealand and Australia.
Now he has been quoted as saying that he wants to be the Pakistan captain, which is as preposterous as it is hilarious.
Pakistan may be desperate with the cricket ball eating Afridi, the 'I need a break' Younis and the squabbling toddlers Yousuf and Malik to choose from. But surely they are not THAT desperate?
Just keep the laughs coming Shoaib. | 2019-04-25T15:54:24Z | https://thereversesweep.typepad.com/blog/shoaib-akhtar/ | Porn | Sports | 0.313964 |
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Wow your brave. I really had to bundle up for my walk at 6:30 but at least I wasn’t heading up into the snow.
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wordpress | There was some give and take that seemed a bit testy, almost reminiscent of Dan Rather’s questioning of Nixon many years ago. A number of media outlets used the term contentious, some called it challenging or combative. I wonder about the timing unless the idea was to reach a large audience and gamble that the President would get his message out on his terms. Not sure that he accomplished that.
For one, he made another, shall we say, misstatement, akin to the 3,000% decrease in health insurance premiums statement , made in Ohio a day or so ago.(Press Secretary Gibbs called it a misstatement, saying the President meant $3,000, which HHS Secretary Sebelius also used,I doubt that figure also) Baier asked about some of the “deals” that were made to entice wavering Senators to vote yes. One was to Senator Landrieu and had become known as the Louisiana Purchase. In responding, Obama referenced Katrina and all the difficulties that ensued for Louisiana. Then inexplicably, he compared it to the earthquake that affected Hawaii. Unbelievable, partly because he lived there . Fortunately, Hawaii has not been impacted by an earthquake in many years. A minor pont, sure, but it replicated his earlier error in Ohio and did not help his case.
One other thing from the interview that bugged me a bit. Baier referenced some 18,000 e-mails that he had received and began to read from one of them. The President quickly responded that he receives some 40,000 emails and letters daily. Sounded like he was playing a numbers game. ” I get more mail than you,” ha! Not a presidential statement. How about one more. “Whatever they end up voting on…it is going to be a vote for or against my health care proposal.” That sums it up rather well, don’t you think?
Lot of stuff going on at Fox News these days and not just the hiring of Sarah Palin as a commentator, although that should be interesting.The real thing that interests me is the emergence of CAIR spokesmen on the network. For the uninitiated, it is the Council for American Islamic Relations. Betcha there is no counterpart to it in your favorite Middle Eastern country.
Anyway, one of the CAIR spokesmen was on Bill O’Reilly the other day, his second appearance in a month. Ibrahim Hooper was discussing profiling of Muslims following the recent Christmas Day bombing attempt. Prior to his appearance, CAIR’s top guy Nihad Awad, among others, had appeared on FOX to refute any the notion that the Fort Hood shooter had any Islamic ties. Oh, almost forgot. After Hooper’s latest appearance O’Reilly called him a ” stand-up guy.” Somehow, he failed to make mention of the organization’s terror connections. Our government has it as an un-indicted terrorist co-conspirator as well as investigating it through the FBI.
So, is there any reason, logical or otherwise, as to why these guys should get deferential treatment from the FOX guys? Could be. As Rush is wont to say, one should always follow the money. For our purposes, the money comes from a Saudi Arabian source and goes to both CAIR and to FOX. The financial guy is a Saudi prince named al-Walid bin Talal, who at present owns a 5.5% voting share in the FOX parent company News Corp, run by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. That fact is no secret, as it is readily admitted by News Corp. But, our friend bin-Talal also helps bankroll CAIR as do other Saudis, a fact that is blatantly denied by their leadership, but has been confirmed through State Department and other sources.
So CAIR, who is not a legitimate source for Islamic interests continues to portray itself as such’ when in reality it is much closer to those who advocate violent behavior. Seems that with FOX, they are getting their own bully pulpit to influence American public opinion in a manner not consistent with the usual perception of FOX as one who tilts to the right. Maybe Palin can look into this. Or better yet, what about it Mr Beck? Is there a story here?
So said Sonny and Cher way back in their 1967 song. Doubtless it did not refer to the ongoing battle, skirmish, tete-a-tete between the Obama Administration and those dastardly villains at Fox News. You know, the channel the administration loves to hate, doesn’t want to visit and probably wishes would just go away. Funny how Nixonian all this sounds. At least they are out in the open about their enemies list. Gotta get style points for that.
I made the mistake of watching part of a CNN roundtable program yesterday. The only panel members I knew were Bill Bennet and Donna Brazile. Bennett was his usual calm, reasoned self. Now, Ms Brazile, while outwardly calm, relied on words such as lies and smears etc when describing Fox’s “news coverage”.
Brief timeout, just 2 weeks ago, White House guru David Axelrod and Fox news boss Roger Ailes met in New York for a chat. Talked about the weather no doubt. Shortly after that, Anita Dunn went on offense. Rather confusing is it not?
But then yesterday, Axelrod reversed his field and described Fox as not really a news organization and that further, their programming was “geared to make money.” Now that is a shocker. Who knows, maybe he and Ailes did just talk about the weather.
Gotta know that this jousting will continue.
It seems that the battle has ben joined, so to speak. On one side, we have the Fox News Channel and on the other, the Obama White House. There is an interesting cast of characters as well as several interesting observers.
Ms Dunn is the point person for the White House and went on rival CNN on Sunday to launch a few broadsides. She told CNN’S Howard Kurtz that ” let’s not pretend that Fox is a News Network the way CNN is.” That’s a good line to start the assault. But there was more. She said that the way we( presumably the Administration) view Fox is as a wing of the Republican Party . What was almost hysterically funny is a promo that ran during her interview. It was publicizing Anderson Cooper 360 and here is what it said. A woman’s voice says , “I’m a lifelong Democrat and that’s why I watch Anderson Cooper.” The promo continued that Cooper is a person that can be counted on to hold “right-wing” conservatives accountable. Interesting slant on objectivity, is it not?
Ms Dunn serves officially as White House Communications Director and unofficially as the head of the Call ‘Em Out Patrol, aiming to counter what the White House considers wrong or erroneous reporting.
Outside observers from both political persuasions say that the battle the White House has enjoined is not necessarily a wise one. David Gergen, who worked in the Clinton Administration said it is a risky strategy and can easily backfire. Tony Blankley, a former press secretary for Newt Gingrich, agreed, saying that it was his experience that going after a new organization is always a losing proposition. A non partisan observer from Politico, Nia Malika Henderson opined that the administration’s approach would tend to only benefit Fox.
Even the president himself engages in the battle. On September 20, he appeared on five new shows, declining to appear on Fox’s Chris Wallace show. On Sunday, Dunn admitted tat it was a sort of payback. Just last week, Press Secretary Gibbs said Obama would not be on Fox until some time in 2010. Just a few months ago the President told CNBC’S John Harwood that there was one television station entirely devoted to attacking the administration. Bet it wasn’t ESPN to which he was referring.
This all brings to mind a couple of things. One is a quote by Bill Clinton, “Never pick a fight with people who by ink by the barrel.” And what Republican president had a paranoia with the press? Does the name Richard Nixon sound familiar? He would recognize the Obama approach and probably advise even stronger tactics.
One word to Anita Dunn and her folks, check out the ratings for any Fox News show-O’Reilly, Beck, etc and compare to Cooper, Olbermann, etc. The results may be worth your review. | 2019-04-21T02:23:22Z | https://tarheeltalker.wordpress.com/tag/fox-news-channel/ | Porn | News | 0.435125 |
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wordpress | I’ve not had a chance to get down to any real work today as I have just done a 12 hour stint of babysitting…but I have had a few quiet moments. I have found that making these silver braids is something that you can easily put down and pick up again so I thought I would do one today. I do have a tiara to make and so I thought this would come in handy and I may be able to finish it off later this month.
It is a technique that I explained on my blog when I first learned how to do it and I’m afraid I am just too tired to explain it all again here!! So if you are interestedplease click on this link!
For those of you who have been kind enough to keep popping back to my blog – even though I seem to have abandoned it for so long…thank you so much!! I thought my stats would have flatlined but they have kept gently bobbing along so thank you again! Hopefully I am back now…and in almost full working order!
I caught something during the first week of September which really laid me low…perhaps it was the dreaded Swine Flu – I don’t know – but I have rarely in my life felt quite so rotten. It seemed to affect my balance long term and made me feel really woozy and shaky. I started to feel a bit more able by the end of September – and just as I started to get going again I caught a cold! Not a particularly bad one, as colds go, but it has gone straight to my sinuses and has got me reeling and shaking again! I very rarely resort to pills – but I have gone through a packet of decongestants now! I’m still not right but I’m beginning to see the end of the tunnel now…fingers crossed!!
Anyway – by way of therapy – (as I daren’t trust myself with a flaming torch at the moment!!) I’ve been having a go at wire weaving and I am really pleased with the results.
I have been posting my efforts on the UK forum run by http://www.cooksongold.com and thought using my blog would be a good way of showing them all what I am doing as I can post lots of photos on here – and everyone else can have a peek too!!
And here is how I did it (but using 4 groups of 2 wires this time).
I started by cutting my wires and taping the ends together – making sure they were all tight and parallel (1).. and then I clamped this taped bundle into a ring clamp to hold it firm. I then pushed 2 wires alternately to the back and front of the clamp making sure the working section was kept straight and parallel at all times (2).
The wires on the right are lifted up and then bent over the other sets of wires – keeping the wires flat and parallel (3). Then the wires that are laying against the clamp are lifted up and over this set of wires (4).
The wires that are now sticking out to the left of the clamp are carefully bent upwards – keeping them flat and side by side. I do this by bending them against my fingernail to get a nice tight bend close to the woven wires (5). The clamp is then opened and the work pressed downwards so that the weave you have just created is now clamped inside the ring clamp. The set of wires to the left are now very carefully laid into a weaving position (6) and a new set of wires to the right of the work are lifted up before being bent over the other sets of wires as in picture 3 above …and then the process repeats over and over!! It is as easy as that!!
As the work progresses you will begin to see that the taped end is slowly working its way out of the right side of the clamp. This is just as it should be as the weave is added to in a diagonal fashion.
And this is what is going on inside the clamp!
I really do love things that are so simple and yet effective!!
Obviously this technique could be used with any number of wires, with 2, 3, 4 or more wires in each group and as many groups as you want – and any length of wire! But PLEASE remember to wear safety glasses though as we don’t want any eyeballs jiggling about on the end of the wires…!!! The only thing to remember is that you need to have an equal number of wires to the back and the front of the work.
There is so much scope with this technique and since I have only just found out how to do it I have a lot of experimenting to do!! ….starting this week-end…. ‘cos I’m fit for anything now!!! (fingers crossed!!). | 2019-04-19T14:19:28Z | https://solunarsilverstudio.wordpress.com/tag/weaving-wire/ | Porn | Reference | 0.163079 |
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Saint Dominic is one of the most important Saints of the late medieval era.
The medieval era, or “middle ages”, lasted roughly from the 600’s through the 1200’s, followed by “the” Renaissance beginning in the 1300’s. I write “the” renaissance because many regions underwent various renewals of learning, literature, literacy, arts, culture, and religious fervor throughout the Middle Ages, finally culminating in a widespread movement across Europe formally known as The Renaissance. In a sense, then, the renaissance era is not particularly distinct from the medieval era, but is the culmination and logical result of the other. Popular imagination classes the medieval period as a “dark age,” which is itself the judgment of darkened minds unaware of the great movements and progress in medieval history. The renaissance was not a long-overdue escape from medievalism, but the final product of the medieval period.
Medieval church history, specifically, has quite an ebb and flow of focus from one area of church life and learning to another. A specific example, which is common to all periods of church history, is the swinging of attention between “technical” theological matters and “practical” spiritual matters.
Saint Dominic comes into this story somewhere in between the pendulum shifts. Born in 1170 and joining a monastic order in 1194, Dominic was a contemporary of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) and a couple generations before Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Francis is well known for founding the Franciscan Order, who take on a monastic rule of life but, instead of living in a community, live primarily in urban areas to serve the poor. Francis is often considered the epitome of practical ministry. Thomas Aquinas, born shortly after Dominic and Francis died, was perhaps the epitome of academic theology, his Summa Theologica standing as a giant of scholarly theology to this very day.
In between them stood Dominic. Like Francis, he saw a need for new ways to serve the needs of the people, especially in the growing urban centers of southern Europe. Like Thomas Aquinas, he saw a need for clearer teaching and preaching. So Dominic, in 1215, began a community of men who lived under the Rule of Saint Benedict but instead of living in a cloister would focus on preaching throughout the cities and towns of the region, with the permission of the local bishops. A couple years later Pope Honorius III authorized him to charter the Order of Preachers, which to this day is one of the largest religious orders in Western Christianity. After their founder, members of the Order of Preachers are often called Dominicans.
Saint Dominic died at the age of 51 on August 6th, in 1221, after a full adulthood of traveling and preaching. His Order still has over 6,000 members today, his Rosary is prayed regularly by millions of Catholics the world over, and his zeal for preaching was taken up by the Reformers, remaining a major feature of Anglican and Protestant ministry and worship to this day. His feast day is August 8th.
This entry was posted in Devotional, Theological and tagged hagiography, history, Jesus, Mariology, prayer, preaching. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T16:20:19Z | https://leorningcniht.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/saint-dominic/ | Porn | Reference | 0.274768 |
wordpress | Every now and then I like to go semi-off topic and discuss sports other than baseball in Atlantic Canada. In honour the NBA season starting next week, today I will discuss the connections our region has to the NBA.
It is worth noting the Raptors held their 2012 and 2013 trainning camps in Halifax. Both concluded with inter squad games at the Metro Centre.
Only one athlete ever from an AUS school ever played an NBA game. That player is Brian Heaney (native of Rockaway Beach, New York) who was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets in 1969, after playing for the Acadia Axemen. He played for the Axemen from 1964-69. He would play 14 games for the Bullets in 1969-70, his only NBA season.
Mickey Fox (1975 – Detroit Pistons and 1979 – Portland Trailblazers) was a Saint Mary’s product who was drafted into the NBA, but did not play a single game. William Njoku (1994 – Indiana Pacers) was another Saint Mary’s alum who was drafted but did not play. Fox was a native New Yorker and Njoku was born in Ghana (raised in Canada).
The NBA is the lone “Big Four” league where no athletes from our region have played. The closest anybody from Atlantic Canada ever made it to the NBA was St. John’s native (raised in Patrick’s Cove, NL) Carl English who attended training camps of the Indiana Pacers (2003) and Seattle Supersonics (2004). He went undrafted after declaring for the 2003 draft (as a Junior) from the University of Hawaii. English is still playing professionally in Europe, where he has spent all his professional career (save for two years in the NBDL).
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On October 22 1990 Indiana Pacers played Washington at Halifax forum.
Thanks Ryan, I added this game to the list. I was able to find the result via Google.
I wondered why this game was at the Forum and not the Metro Centre. In a few minutes I learned that the Citadels were in New Haven that same day and Kiss was scheduled to play a concert at the Metro Centre the following night. The concert was cancelled after Paul Stanley broke his ribs at a show a couple weeks earlier in Johnstown, PA. | 2019-04-23T08:21:26Z | https://maritimebaseball.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/atlantic-canadian-connections-to-the-nba/ | Porn | Sports | 0.650688 |
wordpress | Elevation Partners invested $325 million on Palm back in June 2007, when it was dire need for capital just to even maintain operation. The Centro ($100 at launch) has brought them some success in the budget smartphone market, but their Treo Pro has not cracked the upper market, dominated by Apple, Nokia and Research In Motion. Recently, Roger McNamee, co-founder and chief financier of Elevation Partners, publicly said the mystery phone is unlike “anything on the market”. Now they’re claiming they’ve got the “Palm new-ness we’ve been waiting for” [for years, Ed Colligan!] at CES 2009. We know Palm is bringing a new smartphone for CES, but could they have more tucked under their sleeves? New OS (Linux Nova, anyone?) possibly, away from Microsoft Windows Mobile? Or will Palm disappoint once again? One thing for sure – Palm stole Jon Rubinstein, former head of iPhone engineering from Apple and we will see whether his leadership will save Palm. Considering Palm’s books are running low again, they need a shot in the arm fast. Real fast.
Not much other details, but let’s just hope Sony will bring an appetising user interface along.
Thanks to a reader’s tip, we just spotted Peek’s own [ahem!] crazy large scale Christmas giveaway. Called “12 Days of Peekmas“. Basically, the folks at Peek are handing out free gadgets for the next 12 days. The first day will have 1 winner, second day – 2 winners, third day – 3 winners… etc.. That’s a lot of gadgets going out of Peek’s doors. They’re giving out an Amazon Kindle right now. Pretty sweet thing they’re doing for all gadget lovers. | 2019-04-21T13:02:18Z | https://admiralh.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Computers | 0.455552 |
livejournal | A New Collection Brings New Wants!
Hey, everyone! I've decided to start a new collection that happens to have a small link to Pokemon! That new collection is foreign coins! I'm sure that it won't be as extensive as my Pokemon collection, but foreign coins are so interesting, so I'd like to have a small stash of them. I'm telling you this because my first wants for my coin collection are Pokemon related! The island country of Niue made some $1 Pokemon coins in the year 2001, and I'd like to get my hands on some of them. They don't have to be mint or anywhere near mint (I'm not that OCD about the collection...yet), as I'm mainly concerned with affordability. I'd prefer to trade right now, but I can buy them from you. Here's an article about these beautiful coins and here's a picture! Aren't they adorable?
But what I personally find most exciting... Pokemon Mate figures announced!!!
Same lineup as the usual goods have been!! Man, I am excited! They are due to be released in January, and they are blind packaged, made by a company called Karakore.
I am heading to Germany this half term and I was wondering if there are any places to buy pokemon plushes in Berlin and hamburg? I would really appreciate the help.
Oh yes and before I forget, does anybody have a Marill pokedoll for sale? It doesn't have to be MWT or anything, I am just looking for an adorable little travel buddy, to look cute in pictures and not have people questioning my sanity. I am slightly more focused on the price at the moment, and I think I will be until I get a job of my own so I am looking to pay 20-30 dollars for this little guy, or less, you know, happy with less!
Anyways terribly sorry for the boring post, and happy Pokemon collecting!
Now other thing I want to bring up today! I have gotten this cute Eevee plush last week, and to be honest, I have never really seen it on this community through the time I have been here. So how rare is it?
All I know from PPP that it's a mascot plush along with Pichu, Pachirisu, etc from 2010, and they have these little flowers attached to them, but otherwise, no information..
Otherwise, I really wanted to ask this for those who are allergic to their own collections. I am allergic to dust, therefore dust gets very easily on both plush and figures, or any other merchandise. How do you display your merch? I know that glass wardrobes are the best solution, however, I have only one small one, where not even my whole Charmander collection fits in (no wonder, it's really huge, you can look at the bottom photo), and my room is really small. If there is no real solution to that, should I just add into the wardrobe what I love the most from my collections, or just leave it at that? What would you do? Also, how do you get dust off your plush? I tried to just "beat" the dust off of one, but when looking at it, the dust doesn't even "show up", because you could clearly see there is on one. So far, my entire collections are stored in boxes and bags (room feels kinda empty). Any help on this would be appreciated!
Huge Plush Sale! Need it all gone!
I bought this Zorua in 2010 if I remember well, but at that time I didn't know about fake pokemon stuff so now after trowing away the ones I knew they where fake, I am questioning myself about this Zorua. I have no clue if it's from China/Hong Kong plus I can't remember if it was coming with a tag since I would cut them at that time. I only know about pokedolls and I know nothing about other kind of pokemon plush like this one which is a Banpresto if I believe it's tush tag.
Reserve your Pokemon Time Plushies now!
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST BEFORE COMMENTING AND ASKING QUESTIONS!
★Comment to ask for your plush. You may ask for multiples of any plush.
★You can ask for plush anytime up until October 11th!
★Do not ask for a plush if you aren't going to pay! GRRR! Big trouble!!
★Payment for PLUSH ONLY will be due October 12th!
★Shipping will be collected as a SECOND PAYMENT on October 27th!
~~Talking Eevee plush by Tomy!
★Shipping cost will be determined later, estimated 7-12$ a plush. We estimate 6-10 inches tall but have NO way of knowing for sure until they come out. Plush will not be shipped until the end of October due to a trip. Payments are being split up and taken since purchase and shipping will be happening weeks apart.
One last reminder for dot sprite charms! THEY LOOK AMAZING! Click below to reserve!
I am not dead! ^^ I've just been lurking! I don't have much money so I don't wander around as much but I am still here checking out fellow collector's posts and fun stuff!!! But I came across an auction today that has a Marill item I need, so I would like to propose a small GA if you are interested!!!
hurrah for new marill items!
Looking for Pika Pair Merch!
Right now i'm wondering if anyone has any of the pika pair merch for sale! I have the big plush and keychain plush, but am looking for things like the keychains, charms, pins, tail charms, picture frame, etc. So pretty much anything from the promotion that you have for sale i will take a look at ^^ I especially am looking for the picture frame and tail charms.
Thanks for reading, I really hope that i can find some of the items from the promotion!
payment totals #1 - practical use item (pheonixxfoxx) ga!
Hey everyone, so we didn't raise the amount for the eBay auction, but pheonixxfoxx graciously decided to accept the amount we raised instead! We cut even, so it means no discounts :( But hey, we won! Click the cut for Payment details and instructions please.
Just got a giant box of pokemon this week (images coming soon) and I had a quick question about some freebie figured thrown in. Does anyone know what a tiny figure, polly pocket sized, with a magnet at the bottom would be from? There was a jirachi, pikachu, and absol. Any ideas where they're from?
Hi, fellow collectors. Today I bring you guys six well-made Pokemon pose-able figures made by TAKARA TOMY in 2004. They have been well kept and on display only in my hand. However, they do have little paint lost, especially for Blastoise, which has a widened seam on the right side of his belly (see comment below); but this not affect the overall assembling and posing for the figure. One more note: Suicune was manufactured in 2010 so she is as new as you can see.
EDIT: I ADDED A VIDEO OF HIM TALKING BEHIND THE CUT. SORRY ITS SO QUITE MY IPHONE IS ON ITS LAST LEGS AND MY DOG TRIED TO GET IN ON THE ATTENTION.
monster sales update! zukan & rare figures auctions!!
Oh right, and a Vulpix zukan. No big deal.
Yes! They're the PokéBox Eeveelution Charms! The thing is... they were sold out of Espeon... so that's my tiny want ^-^ If someone has it (of course, MIP) please let me know your price!
Also, don't forget to check out my SALES! Pokédolls, Canvas plushes, Mini Pokédoll figures, Kids figures, Soap figures and so on! Click on the word "SALES" to go!
New gets, finds and stuff.
It's been quite a few months since I last posted a collection update, so I figured now would be a good time to post one! | 2019-04-23T09:55:15Z | https://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/2012/09/21/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.802637 |
wordpress | Thursday, March 26 — “Remember the Ladies”: Belinda Womack, Marian Mage, Valerie Gillespie, Patricia Dean, Janna Jones, The Palladium (Side Door), 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 28 — G. Love & Special Sauce/Matt Costa, Jannus Live, St. Petersburg, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 29 — Larry Garner, Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, March 31 — John Ginty Band, Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 3 — Selwyn Birchwood Band and Savants of Soul, Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa, 8 p.m.
Thursday-Friday, April 9-10 — Diana Krall, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 10 — Tower of Power, Rod Piazza, John Nemeth, Denise LaSalle, Brandon Santini, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg, 12:30 to 10 p.m.
Saturday, April 11 — Tampa Bay Blues Fest: Boz Scaggs, Ronnie Earl, Tab Benoit, Carolyn Wonderland, Bernard Allison, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg, 12:30 to 10 p.m.
Sunday, April 12 — Tampa Bay Blues Fest: Southern Hospitality, The Lee Boys, Bryan Lee, Albert Castiglia, Betty Fox, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg, 1 to 10 p.m.
Wednesday, April 15 — Chris Botti, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 19 — Al Downing TBJA: Fred Johnson & Whitney James with Michael Ross, LaRue Nickelson and John Jenkins, American Stage Theatre/Raymond James Theatre, St. Petersburg, 3 p.m.
Sunday., April 19 — Tampa Jazz Club: James Suggs with Sharon Preston-Folta: Tribute to Louis Armstrong, HCC/Ybor Mainstage Theatre, Tampa, 3 p.m.
Thursday, April 23 — Rene Marie, The Palladium (Side Door), St Petersburg, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 28 — Robert Cray & Shemekia Copeland, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 14 — John Mayall, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 30 — Mark Knopfler, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, 8 p.m.
As fellow musicians, other friends, and readers know by now, I have a complicated relationship with the Clearwater Jazz Holiday.
I’ve covered the festival for many years, for both daily newspapers in the Tampa Bay area, and also for national music magazines. During the period when jazz advocate (and humanities prof) Frank Spena programmed the fest, and for several years later, the Jazz Holiday was home to the creme de la creme of jazz talent — established artists as well as a long list of rising stars who now figure prominently in various critics and readers polls conducted by DownBeat, JazzTimes, and the Jazz Journalists Association.
Let’s not forget: The festival, launched in 1980, played host to such greats as Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie (left), Herbie Mann, and Dave Brubeck during its first five years. Then came Count Basie (85), Stan Getz (86), Tito Puente and Phil Woods (87), McCoy Tyner (88), and Sonny Rollins (89). Ask anyone who cares about jazz: All of these musicians fall into the category of “major” jazz artists, who have played a significant role in jazz history.
Since then, there have been some great performances by some very good musicians. But only a handful of major, poll-winning jazz artists have played.
By way of newspaper columns and reviews, and blog posts, I’ve consistently pushed the fest to focus on high-quality jazz, of the straight-ahead variety. I’ve begged the fest to ditch the bland, generic (and sometimes pricey) “smooth” jazz acts who apparently are so beloved by the most influential members of the festival’s music committee.
Truth be told, I’ve also urged organizers to bring in the kind of jazz that artfully incorporates other elements, including funk, rock, jamband, and experimental edges; that kind of music could serve to bring in a more youthful group of music aficionados. My old jam-oriented band, Ghetto Love Sugar, even played the fest in 2002 (kudos to the Jazz Holiday for continuing to include performances by strong local talent). And I’d like to think that my encouragement to bill artists in that vein played at least some role in the decision to book John Scofield (2001) and Medeski Martin and Wood (2007). Two impressive artists in a somewhat similar vein, New Orleans brass man Trombone Shorty (below) and one-time James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker, are on this year’s bill — good stuff.
I’m rewinding all this history as a reminder: I have nothing but good wishes for the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, and many fond memories of great shows at the fest. I want to see the festival fulfill its mission, and again become a gem on the Tampa Bay area’s arts calendar.
That’s why I’m surprised by those fest organizers, public officials, and even some in the media who take offense at even mild criticism of the lineup; some observers, who may or may not know the difference between Lady Day and Lady Gaga, have derided as “purists” those jazz fans who hope to see the Jazz Holiday upgrade its programming.
Take, for example, Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard. In a recent post post on the Holiday, I praised the inclusion of such artists as omnipresent bassist Christian McBride (below), veteran singer Dianne Reeves, and rising-star pianist Gerald Clayton, while also noting the utter absence of major, legendary jazz artists in headlining positions.
So, then, because it’s free, jazz fans should lower their expectations regarding the quality of the music presented?
And what, exactly, does he mean regarding the fest’s “sad state”? Is it on shaky financial footing (I presume so)? If so, just what is the state of the fest? Why not reveal the details, so that supporters can have a greater opportunity to perhaps spread the word and help get the fest in better shape, financially?
I’ve heard this kind of commentary from other sources, and it makes sense. If Jazz Holiday organizers and the City of Clearwater do want to again see the Jazz Holiday become a major jazz festival, the kind that draws jazz fans from all over the Southeast (and beyond), then why not go all-out in that direction?
As I’ve pointed out in the past, the money isn’t really the obstacle. Such smooth-jazz acts as The Rippingtons and Boney James, with their considerable production requirements, charge at least as much as anyone who fits in the category of legendary jazz artist. Alternatively, if the fest desires to become merely another nice event in the park, with a few jazzy artists, then why not revise the mission statement and change its name to something like Clearwater Music Festival? Not that there’s anything wrong that: There’s no law stating that Tampa or St. Petersburg can’t take over the task of putting on a major jazz festival.
Again, my hope is that the Jazz Holiday will pledge to take its mission seriously, and renew its efforts to present a program of world-class jazz. Other large metropolitan areas can do it, and have done it — and, yes, without charging admission. Why not us?
For the record, schedule permitting I hope to catch this year’s performances by Trombone Shorty, and former “Tonight Show” guitarist Kevin Eubanks (10/13), the Gerald Clayton Trio, and saxophonist Valerie Gillespie (10/14); and Dianne Reeves, and Christian McBride (10/16). I have my own gig on 10/15, but if I were to get to the park I’d make a point of seeing Maceo Parker, master Latin percussionist Sammy Figueroa, guitarist and USF teacher (and friend) LaRue Nickelson (left), and rising-star singer Whitney James (right).
Hibbard’s comments, and my response, are below. What do you think?
People like you never cease to amaze me, Always Complaining !
I guess you get what you pay for, and when last I checked the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, and your VIP ticket, is still FREE !
We all know the sad state the Clearwater Jazz Holiday is in, and year after year many of us jazz fans are disappointed with their Jazz-less lineups.
But again its FREE !
If you don’t like the artists selected, I suggest instead of constantly complaining about the lack of Sonny Rollins, you find other ways to contribute to improve the artists selection process, or better yet, Just Don’t Attend The Event !
“There you go again, Mayor Hibbard (if that’s really you).
So you’re saying that because the festival is free — FREE! — then it should lower its standards when it comes to presenting quality jazz? Or that it shouldn’t adhere to its stated mission? Have you read the mission statement?
There are other cities, larger (Chicago) and smaller than Clearwater, that manage to put on free-admission jazz festivals featuring world-class talent. Again, FREE!
In regards to complaining “about the lack of Sonny Rollins”: Most readers are aware that I was just using Sonny as an example as the kind of artist – undeniably a legendary jazz artist – who ought to have a home on a festival that wants to offer world-class jazz.
As far as supporting the festival, I’m probably one of the most loyal longtime boosters of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, having written multiple cover stories on the fest (positive stories, promoting the event) for both daily newspapers in our area, and being the first person to provide coverage of the fest – again, positive – in major national music magazines.
Yes, I’ve been critical of the lineup in recent years, but you’ll have to believe me when I tell you that it’s tough love. On the fest’s best nights, when good jazz is on the bill and a cool breeze is blowing, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere except at Coachman Park during the Clearwater Jazz Holiday. If I didn’t care about the festival, and about jazz, why would I spend time writing about it?
Your best suggestion for those who disagree with the festival’s programming is to “Don’t Attend the Event!”? Really? Is that the advice you give to folks who disagree with you on City of Clearwater matters? “Just Move Out of Clearwater”? Pardon me for saying so, but that’s a very skewed approach to civic leadership.
Just so you know (since, apparently you don’t): The fest’s music committee for many years has closed itself off to outside influence – except for one year when they asked several knowledgeable jazz people to come in and have a discussion about the lineup. So the only way for us to contribute now is through public forums, like this blog.
Acclaimed young pianist Gerald Clayton (left), Latin jazz master percussionist Sammy Figueroa, former “Tonight Show” guitarist Kevin Eubanks, and jazz-funk saxophonist Maceo Parker have been added to the Clearwater Jazz Holiday lineup, as officially unveiled yesterday.
As already announced here and elsewhere, the fest’s other notables include singer Dianne Reeves, young-ish bass master Christian McBride, and smooth jazz pianist Brian Culbertson.
The national acts, this year: All in all, a mixed bag – – no genuine jazz legends, but several worth seeing.
The strong contingent of top-shelf locally based talent is led by singer Whitney James, guitarist LaRue Nickelson, and saxophonist Valerie Gillespie.
The complete lineup is below. Admission is free. For more info, go to the fest’s home page.
The great Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira came to USF in Tampa this week for a workshop, a talk, and, last night, an exuberant show in the intimate setting of Theatre 2 (portrait courtesy of Joseph Gamble).
Airto, who was an essential ingredient of Miles’ early ’70s jazz-funk-fusion projects and went on to play with the original versions of both Weather Report and Return to Forever, alternated between drumset and a table full of percussion toys during the concert. He was accompanied by his son-in-law, Krishna Booker, also a percussionist (and son of late, great bassist Walter Booker, Airto’s connection to many jazz greats in the late ’60s ).
For the first part of the show, the two joined the USF faculty jazz group, for a set of Airto’s compositions — some incorporating bossa grooves, one in 6/4 (or 3/2), one in 7/4. Several pieces had tenor saxophonist Jack Wilkins, head of jazz studies at USF, and trombonist Tom Brantley joining for unison lines, with Airto occasionally contributing wordless vocals. Brantley, with and without a mute, Wilkins, and LaRue Nickelson, whose guitar sometimes sported a fusion-style overdriven burr, turned in several of the evening’s most inspired solos. The group also included Mark Neuenschwander on acoustic and electric bass, pianist Chris Rottmeyer and drummer Ian Goodman.
Airto, for his solo piece, pounded out complex, driving rhythms on a large tambourine, sang along in Portuguese, used his voice (sans electronics) to create some harmonic overtones, and at the end added a whistle to create the feeling of a street parade at a Carnaval celebration in his home country. Booker turned in a brief “beatbox” solo – mouth sounds recreating hip-hop rhythms.
The show closed with a short set nicely contrasting with what came before. Brantley directed USF Jazz Ensemble 1 in performances of Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia” and “La Fiesta,” written by Chick Corea. Airto reminded listeners that he appeared on the original version of the latter tune, on the debut Return to Forever album, recorded in 1972 but not released in the U.S. until 1975. | 2019-04-21T08:47:24Z | https://jazzlands.wordpress.com/tag/larue-nickelson/ | Porn | Arts | 0.873149 |
wordpress | It’s mind-blowing that it’s already been three years since Bill, Emily and I started the adventure of pursuing our PhDs in Biomimicry. Time has flown by. It definitely has been a challenge being part of the first cohort, but it has also been very rewarding and exciting seeing the program development first hand.
Having seven new PhD students starting this year, doubling our team, is one of those very exciting achievements! We can’t wait to collaborate with everyone, grow our knowledge by learning from the diverse backgrounds of the new students, and have interesting Biomimicry discussions and trips together.
Another rewarding accomplishment is that we are being invited more and more to give talks about our Biomimicry adventure. There is a growing interest in NEOhio to learn more about Biomimicry and be part of this movement.
In June, I was honored to share the stage with René Polin, President and Founder of Balance Inc, a design firm in Cleveland, to share our “Untold” experience at TEDxCLE. In our talk, “From Spiders to Elevators: Leveraging Biomimicry in the Design studio”, we share what it was like for a Biologist to work with a Design firm from both perspectives.
To stay on the topic of TEDx Talks, Emily will be giving one on September 29th, at TEDxUniversityofAkron. She will be sharing her Biomimicry insights and how it is to be “Breaking the Mold”.
Finally, Kelly has been selected to present her work on Biomimicry curriculum development at the 8th annual Biomimicry Education Summit in Austin, TX, on October 4th, which is held just prior to the SXSW Eco Conference.
Keep posted for more exciting news, and please share with other Biomimicry enthusiasts.
We’ve had a lot of posts on what’s happening globally with research, neat sustainability ideas, etc., but for this week, I thought I’d highlight something a bit closer to home – biomimicry education in Northeast Ohio.
Officially, I’m the first Biomimicry Education Fellow in the PhD program – hosted at Lake Ridge Academy, and serving the greater Lorain County Public Schools, thanks to a generous Nord Family Foundation grant. I’ve been on board for six months now, and have been amazed at how many schools in the region are taking it upon themselves to integrate biomimicry in some capacity at a more grassroots level. This past week, with the help of Key Bank, Great Lakes Biomimicry hosted a regional “Education Showcase,” which brought teachers of various schools together to highlight how they’ve been incorporating biomimicry into their classrooms.
As wide and varied were the schools, so were the approaches to biomimicry integration. One school, Tallmadge Public High School, was very bottom-up in its approach. The students came to the biology teacher to start a biomimicry club and although the teacher had no idea what biomimicry was, she was keen to get on board, resulting in two remarkable outcomes in two short years. A biomimicry science fair team made it to the state competition, and by the end of the second year, the club had grown threefold to over 60 students.
Another school – The Inventor’s Hall of Fame STEM School – has a “Biomimicry in Every Classroom” approach, utilizing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) across curricula, while integrating biomimicry throughout the subjects. Yet another school’s (Hawken) biology and art teachers worked together to get the kids to use biomimicry to solve an everyday issue they encounter, then represent the outcome in a fine arts piece, while having the high school entrepreneurship classes come in to help teach the students about making business pitches. This culminated in an awesome trifecta of disciplines coming together around biomimicry, and a showcase where projects were presented to parents.
In yet another interesting approach, MC2 STEM School did a nine-week biomimicry PBL focused approach, collaborating with business partners on a regional real-world issue, which resulted in prototypes designed by the students.
The enthusiasm was palpable in the room, not only for biomimicry, but coming together to learn from each other and see what else is going on in the region. Each approach was underpinned by a common thread, and that was devoted teachers putting in time, effort, and many times, their own funds, to teach kids about biomimicry. There are a ton of really exciting things happening in Northeast Ohio when it comes to biomimicry education, but for my next post, I’m already looking forward to discussing an amazing workshop I’m currently attending – a Biomimicry for Educators Workshop at the Omega Institute, put on by Biomimicry NYC and sponsored by NYSERDA that brings together educators from a range of disciplines and grade levels. It’s awesome!
Northeast Ohio has proven ripe with opportunity for environmentalists. A week doesn’t pass without a nature-appreciation or sustainability themed event coming onto our radar. Every event I’ve attended has had an impressive turnout. Today was no different. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History hosted an estimated 250 guests for its 10th annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. The festival featured 13 films (program available here) varying in length from four minutes to 44 minutes. One of the films was particularly moving. “Chasing Water” is a 2011 film directed by photographer Pete McBride, and runs 18 minutes. McBride’s family owns a ranch in Colorado which runs on an irrigation system fed by the Colorado River. The film documents McBride’s journey, born of pure curiosity, to trace the water that sustains his family’s livelihood down river to the sea. He follows the flow for 1500 miles at which point it abruptly ends in a disparaging landscape of stagnant pools laden with plastic waste and other garbage. The realization is astonishing…“For 6 million years water from the Colorado river emptied into the ocean, since 1998 it has not.” The film’s imagery is stunning and it’s message powerful. Without a visual aid like this short film, it’s difficult to truly appreciate the stresses the human population is placing on clean water resources. The global problem manifests itself right in our backyard. Plenty of cities in Texas have resorted to importing water from hundreds of miles away!
Biomimetic solutions to water access and management keep me hopeful! The 2012-2013 Biomimicry Student Design Challenge solicited solutions to this very issue. You can read about the first round winners of this Biomimicry 3.8 competition here.
Today the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) hosted a public symposium titled Building with Nature: A Symposium to Explore the Frontiers of Green Building, Biomimicry and Architecture. The purpose of the event was to brainstorm ideas for the redevelopment of CMNH’s campus in University Circle. The museum is hoping to develop a blueprint for a new building that responds to visitor needs and restores Earth’s natural systems. In our opinion, this is a very respectable endeavor, and we hope CMNH paves the way for other educational facilities to reimagine their architecture.
Incredible! Only one month into our 5-year Biomimicry PhD within the Integrated Biosciences program at UAkron and the three of us have already had the honor of meeting our idol, Janine Benyus, author of the best-selling book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. The 1997 book spurred the development of biomimicry as a widely recognized term and research paradigm. In response to overwhelming interest in the subject following the book’s publication, Benyus and her business partners founded the Biomimicry Guild, a consulting company, and the Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit which promotes biomimicry education. In 2010, the two organizations were integrated into a hybrid social enterprise branded Biomimicry 3.8. The CEO of Biomimicry 3.8, Chris Allen, joined Janine Benyus on her University of Akron visit.
Today we attended the award ceremony for the Inamori Ethics Prize at Case Western Reserve University. We were accompanied by Tom Tyrell, the CEO of the Great Lakes Biomimicry Collaborative (GLBio). GLBio is an organization that brings together individuals and organizations in Northeast Ohio committed to building a regional (and one day global) biomimicry network. Leaders at GLBio first envisioned a Biomimicry PhD opportunity and partnered with UAkron and the Cleveland Institute of Art to make it a reality.
David Suzuki was this year’s Inamori Ethic prize recipient, and he gave a phenomenal acceptance speech encouraging a reevaluation of economic values. He asked the audience, how can we achieve ecological sustainability when we’ve created an economy in which we are ever-striving for the unattainable “goal”: growth?
Suzuki’s talk led to some very thought-provoking class discussions about sustainability. What is it? What scale is appropriate for measuring sustainability? Can we achieve economic sustainability if growth is the goal? If not, how could we reshape the economic system? | 2019-04-21T23:05:05Z | https://germinature.wordpress.com/category/northeast-ohio-events/ | Porn | Home | 0.24577 |
wordpress | Yesterday was St. George’s Day, of course, so we followed our usual family tradition of a wonderful mutton dinner followed by watching the film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, in honor of Shakespeare having been born on St. George’s Day. This year, Susan chose “Henry IV Part 1” (the 1979 BBC version with Jon Finch), though we had to reassure the kids that we weren’t skipping the first three Henry plays and that Henry IV really was the first one. When Sir William Lucy described the honors and titles given to the heroic Lord Talbot in the Hundred Years’ War, one of the titles was “knight of the noble order of St. George,” quite an appropriate coincidence for the day. | 2019-04-18T10:19:55Z | https://zanyvicar.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/henry-iv-for-st-georges-day/ | Porn | Kids | 0.565974 |
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wordpress | I can’t believe my luck. A colleague of mine on contract who is replacing someone on parental leave is from Colombia, and…wait for it…her dad worked in the coffee industry there. AND he knows Juan Valdez. That’s right, THE Juan Valdez. (Okay, the actor who portrayed Juan Valdez…still counts!) Her family knows coffee!
The best coffee in Colombia is actually exported out of the country to places like North America.
A lot of Colombians drink INSTANT COFFEE. Yep, they do.
That second one almost melted my brains. Really?? Why when they are surrounded by coffee, would they rather drink awful instant coffee?
Well, folks, the secret is in the type of instant coffee. My colleague says I need to look out for 100% freeze-dried instant coffee, not the average crystalized instant coffee like Folgers or Maxwell House that is predominant in the grocery store ’round here. She brought to me a jar of instant coffee straight from Colombia to “show and smell”. Turns out there are differences: the freeze-dried coffee appears lighter in colour, and more granular or chunkier than what I am used to seeing. Also, the aroma of freeze-dried is different – less acrid, more like coffee. She explained freeze dried is of much better quality than your average instant because of how it’s been processed.
Back in 2016, I wrote about my hatred for instant coffee in general. I even developed a hack to make it taste better! There wasn’t much of a choice around where I live with what was available. I had to deal with the instant coffee crystals of Folgers or Maxwell House.
Which brings me to this week’s food run…It was my usual night of grocery shopping that lead me down the coffee aisle for anything new. This is where I was delighted to find Van Houtte Colombian Light 100% freeze-dried instant coffee. The coffee is sold in a glass jar, and I immediately recognized the chunky look of the granules. Van Houtte is a Montreal, Quebec company and from experience, I know Van Houtte to make a pretty good cup of brewed coffee. To find freeze-dried instant coffee in the aisles without begging my colleague to bring me back a jar of Colombian the next time she’s home was great, but seeing the Van Houtte name was even better! I immediately put the jar into my cart.
Yesterday afternoon, I cracked open that jar and did the sniff test, comparing it to the Folgers we had stuck in the back of the pantry – of course, the freeze-dried smelled better! The Folgers smelled like someone needed to take a bath (to put it mildly). In the spectrum of instant coffee smells, the 100% freeze-dried is more like ground coffee, and definitely less acrid than coffee crystals. I made myself and the hubs a cup of Van Houtte following the directions on the jar (add boiling water or milk to granules). The results were pretty palatable. The hubs commented how smooth-tasting it was. I couldn’t help but notice the coffee smelled like COFFEE in the cup for once instead of some weird drink. After I finished my coffee, the thought crossed my mind that keeping some of this on-hand in my office would be a lot better than the Folgers I have sitting there collecting dust.
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wikipedia | West Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,263 at the 2010 census.
West Hills is located at 40°49′28″N 79°32′34″W / 40.82444°N 79.54278°W / 40.82444; -79.54278 (40.824475, -79.542873).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2), of which, 3.3 square miles (8.5 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (5.97%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,229 people, 501 households, and 390 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 371.8 people per square mile (143.4/km²). There were 517 housing units at an average density of 156.4/sq mi (60.3/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.27% White, 0.08% Native American, 0.08% Pacific Islander, and 0.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population.
There were 501 households, out of which 28.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.7% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.0% were non-families. 19.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.79.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 21.0% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 31.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $33,398, and the median income for a family was $47,685. Males had a median income of $34,792 versus $22,647 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,132. About 6.8% of families and 8.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.5% of those under age 18 and 11.6% of those age 65 or over.
Map of the Pittsburgh Tri-State with green counties in the metropolitan area and yellow counties in the combined area.
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wordpress | One day, the Queen of England is taking her corgis for their usual afternoon walk at the Palace, and they rush past her toward a small trailer just outside the gate, yapping and barking. When she goes in to retrieve them, she discovers that she’s entered the City of Westminster travelling library. Out of politeness, she borrows a book, almost completely at random: a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. The following week, she goes back to return it, and takes out another: The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford. And with that inspired choice, from then on, readers of The Uncommon Reader, this charming, sharp, subversive, witty novella by Alan Bennett, get to see Queen Elizabeth fall in love with reading.
The novella follows the Queen as she becomes addicted to reading, going through the stages most of us are so familiar with: the daunting sense of how much there is to read, and how little time; the irritation that everyday life gets in the way of reading; the desire to talk about your reading with other people (even those who may be hostile to it); the sense that literature is a muscle you develop, so that books that didn’t make sense to you at one stage of your life may be perfect for you when you have more experience. In this sense, the Queen is a very common reader, just like the rest of us. For me, half the pleasure of the book was getting to see someone else learn to love to read.
But she is also an uncommon reader. She has lived through decades of history as a major player. She has met authors, artists, politicians, prime ministers, kings, and bishops — every notable the world has to offer. She has travelled to every country and received greetings in every tongue. And as Bennett presents it, she finally defines herself, not as a spectator, but as a doer. Reading is witnessing life in all its glorious multiplicity. Writing is the doing of it.
Most of the reviews I’ve read of The Uncommon Reader, including the blurbs on the back of the book itself, emphasize how funny this novella is. And it is funny, or rather witty — I laughed out loud several times. But to my mind, the overwhelming sense of it was not comic. The Queen has a strong sense of regret, and of the passing of time, that gives it a tinge of melancholy, and there is also a definite sense that other people do not always understand the love of reading, and that it can be isolating. The conclusion is strong and subversive. It will make you think, and nod assent, but it won’t make you laugh.
My understanding is that the Queen herself read this book, and loved it. So did I. And I predict that you, a reader (common or un-) will love it, too.
You make a very good point. Despite the several funny moments, the story really has a more melancholy side.
I had heard mixed things about this one, so wasn’t sure what to make of it. None of the other reviews I read had touched on the melancholic edge to the book, which definitely intrigues me. I’ll have to borrow this one from the library, I think.
This book reminds me of The Remains of the Day (regret and nostalgia must be an English thing). The premise of the story bespeaks a comic orchestration, but the truth is one of soberness. The Queen can only discern, through a plethora of reading, what she has missed out in life because she has to take up the throne.
Nymeth — I often wonder about books that are advertised as being funny and (to my mind at least) are much more melancholy. Does comedy sell better? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was another of these, that was billed as being laugh out loud funny and to me was quite sad.
Steph — I would recommend it to anyone! It’s a fast read, only about 120 pages, and very wise and lovely about the power of reading.
Matthew — I would never have thought to compare it to The Remains of the Day (servant/Queen!) but I see what you mean and I like the idea.
there is a melancholy side to the novella, but I still enjoyed the wit and twist at the end. I really think this is one of the best novella’s I’ve read!
I loved this, and would advise Steph to give it a go regardless of mixed reviews. The last line was the perfect way to end it, I smile even now when I think about it.
It sounds wonderful. I like that you found something in it besides the comic element. Great review.
Serena and devotedreader — I agree that the twist at the end was perfect. Although I am not sure that Bennett’s arc from reader to writer is as universal as he suggests (this is not the twist, for anyone reading!), I loved the way he presented it with the Queen.
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wordpress | It is the only tournament to have all nineteen courts sown with rye grass.
Wimbledon is the oldest tournament that continues to be played since 1877 and is therefore steeped in history and tradition.
It is the only grand slam that still requires players to wear all-white attire for the match.
Rewards the champion of each division with a larger sum of prize money than any other grand slam.
Hello and welcome, fellow Australians to another spectacular day at the Wimbledon tennis Championships. The weather is looking very fine indeed with lots of sunshine leading up to today’s exciting agenda. In today’s singles third round draw we will see lots of Aussies in action throughout the day, with matches featuring Nick Kyrgios, Bernard Tomic and Sam Groth in the gentlemen’s singles; and our very own Sam Stosur and Casey Dellacqua in the ladies singles.
The gates of the All England Tennis Club have just opened, and from up here in our commentary box we can see thousands of tennis enthusiasts streaming across walkways, in an uninterrupted flow of bright white shirts, sunglasses, straw hats and umbrellas. For today’s agenda of matches, my colleague Chris will be posting up a live blog on the ladies singles rounds, while I will be analysing the gentlemen’s singles rounds, informing you about our amazing male Aussies in action today.
Today’s first gentlemen’s singles match will feature our very own Aussie tennis sensation Nick Kyrgios against Canada’s rising star, Milos Raonic. This match will surely have Australians all over the country glued to the television screen.
Let’s recap the history of both these extraordinary tennis players, to see how their skills have developed over previous tournaments and how these experiences may favour them in today’s match.
Nick Kyrgios, only twenty years of age came into the sporting limelight after his shocking 2014 Wimbledon performance. Kyrgios, who is said to be the next Australian tennis ace, was ranked 144th on the ATP rankings chart this time last year. However, his incredible performance taking him to the Wimbledon quarter finals in 2014 saw him flying through the ranks at world number 29; with a seeded rank of 26 for this year’s Wimbledon.
Nick’s 2014 fourth round match-up saw him up against one of the world’s greatest tennis icons, Rafael Nadal from Spain; who at the time was ranked number one on the ATP listings. Kyrgios was thought to have little hope in winning a set, let alone the match against Nadal; but he seemed to prove TAB betting guidelines and the rest of the world wrong when he defeated the Spaniard in four sets: 7-6 (5), 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3. In fact, Kyrgios is the first player outside the top one hundred to have beaten the world number one since the Andrei Olhovsky versus Jim Courier match in 1992.
This victory then lead Kyrgios into a quarter final match up with Canada’s Milos Raonic. The match ended with Raonic taking the victory after a four set win: 6-7 6-2 6-4 7-6. Therefore, today’s match acts as a rematch to last year’ quarter final and will show if and how Kyrgios has successfully developed his skill and technique over this time. It will also show Raonic’s potential for the future being a number seven seed at the tournament this year and youngest tennis player in the men’s top ten rankings.
Today’s match will certainly be one of interest as both these players are known for their big service game. Raonic should be targeting Kyrgios’ weaknesses by getting close up to the net, something which Kyrgios rarely seems to do, and varying his serve to try and fit in as many aces as possible. As for Kyrgios, he should try and counteract the above strategy by making an appearance at the net more often and playing his groundstrokes strategically. He should also attempt to target Raonic’s backhand as he appears to have less control and power in that particular groundstroke.
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When I was 19, my sister Janet—a world top-20 tennis player—told me she had a book I needed to read. That book was Atlas Shrugged.
3) What most interested you or hit you with an “Ah hah!” about Rand’s thinking?
4) How does her work inspire you today?
She’s a great champion of creators. Rand’s work is a reminder that it’s the creation that matters the most, not superficial things. That is inspiring.
5) Rand wanted us to aspire to a world as it can be and should be. Can you tell us something optimistic you see in the world today or in the future?
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wired | With so much of our lives lived online, people have often assumed that the pictures, financial documents, and other sensitive information we store on our password-protected phones and computers are kept private. But every day, it seems there’s a new data breach, or another story about our information being passed around in ways we couldn’t imagine.
Molly Davis is a policy analyst at Libertas Institute, a policy think tank in Utah. She's a writer for Young Voices, and her work has previously appeared in The Hill, the Washington Examiner, and the Salt Lake Tribune.
As a result, there’s been an emerging public distrust in the platforms that hold so much of this information, and increased interest by federal and state legislators on how to protect the public’s privacy. So far, government focus has primarily been on protecting consumer information from intrusive collection by private companies. California passed sweeping legislation in 2018 to protect consumer privacy. That same year, the Vermont legislature passed a law to regulate data brokers. Both Washington and Massachusetts are considering consumer data privacy bills.
While these measures are certainly important, protecting private information from law enforcement invasion—not just private industry—also merits urgency. And with pressure from Libertas Institute and the ACLU of Utah, the Utah Legislature is taking steps toward that very thing. On March 12, Utah legislators voted unanimously to pass landmark legislation in support of a new privacy law that will protect private electronic data stored with third parties like Google or Facebook from free-range government access. The bill stipulates that law enforcement will be required to obtain a warrant before accessing “certain electronic information or data.” (Unlike consumer privacy laws, the bill does not give individuals the ability to see the information that companies collect on them, and doesn’t regulate how personal data is used internally.) The bipartisan bill is expected to go to Governor Gary Herbert’s desk for final approval next week. If he signs the bill, Utah will be the first state in the nation to lawfully protect the electronic information that individuals entrust to third parties.
On the federal level, and in every state aside from Utah, law enforcement can access your information through third-party channels, with no real standard of accountability. This is because of the "third party doctrine" which is a legal theory created when the Supreme Court held that individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy when they share their data with a third party. This means the government can access anything from innocent photographs to important medical or financial documents one might store on an app. They can access a person’s information so long as the company is willing to share—a loose practice that could easily be abused.
In the courts, third-party data protections have made some progress. Last summer, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled in Carpenter v United States to uphold third-party data privacy. The five-to-four decision said that law enforcement could no longer access a person’s cell phone location data from a third-party phone provider like Verizon or AT&T without first obtaining a warrant. This ruling was significant, but it didn’t do much beyond protecting location data. Banking information, texts, emails, and all other phone data is still up for grabs. That’s why Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the majority opinion, encouraged state legislatures to pass their own legal protections. In his words, “legislation is much preferable to the development of an entirely new body of Fourth Amendment case law.” Utah took his advice and did just that.
And they did it right, too.
Rather than wait for court action, Utah legislators passed this latest privacy law, which requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant with probable cause in order to access any electronic data held by a third party, at least in most cases. There are legal exceptions to the warrant requirement in the bill—emergency situations or data which appear to be involved with committing a felony or a misdemeanors involving physical violence, sexual abuse, or dishonesty. Even with these potentially problematic exceptions, the bill is certainly better than no protections at all.
Prosecutors and law enforcement may argue they need the power of data collection to protect the public from potential criminals. But individual liberty protections are far more important than perceived safety risks. If there is a legitimate safety concern requiring access to a person's data, law enforcement will still be able to obtain a warrant. Without that warrant requirement in place, private data is left vulnerable to fishing expeditions that are rife for abuse.
Unfortunately, the rest of America is lagging behind Utah’s progress. Without specific laws to address new technology, courts are left to make loose constitutional interpretations. But as Chief Justice Roberts implied in Carpenter, we can’t wait for the courts to decide the fate of our rights. Because privacy laws pertaining to third-party data don’t yet exist outside of Utah, this new legislation should encourage other states to take action, and stop government from prying into the private lives of their people. | 2019-04-24T16:31:44Z | https://www.wired.com/story/utah-digital-privacy-legislation/?utm_source=mosaicsecurity | Porn | Computers | 0.357067 |
wordpress | Cespedes is still a free agent…thanks to the CBA.
The current MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement was put into place in 2011 and expires on December 1st of 2016. With the expiration, it is likely that players will find a way or work towards eliminating the current draft pick compensation. While the qualifying offer protects small-market teams and allows them to receive compensation for losing a player, it also comes with driving the price of free agents down. For that reason, players who receive qualifying offers need to truly be elite, or they pay the price in the open market.
From 2012 to 2014, all 34 players who received qualifying offers rejected them; however, after the 2015 season, a whopping 20 players received offers, with three players – Matt Wieters, Colby Rasmus, and Brett Anderson – accepting the one-year, $15.8 million deals (the average annual value of the top 125 salaries in baseball), while a fourth, Marco Estrada, agreed to a two-year deal with Toronto. Unfortunately, there are several others who are still seeking roster asylum.
Gallardo is still homeless due to draft pick compensation.
Cliff Lee, Mark Buehrle, Tim Lincecum, Doug Fister, Kyle Lohse, Jimmy Rollins, Howie Kendrick, Alex Rios, Greg Holland (Tommy John surgery), Marlon Byrd, David Freese, Pedro Alvarez, Mike Minor (coming off of shoulder surgery), Alfredo Simon, Matt Joyce, Ike Davis, Bronson Arroyo (Tommy John surgery), Juan Uribe, and superstar slugger Yoenis Cespedes.
Interestingly enough, the players above do not require draft pick compensation; however, many clubs now value the cost effective, team control mantra that comes with youth movements, while refraining from the over-inflated, under-performing, declining veteran deals, which causes the shelf period for players in free agency to continue to lengthen.
It certainly makes sense for clubs to give young players additional opportunities, especially if they have very little chance to succeed in a given year. Many teams will likely attempt to match the Houston Astros complete, disgraceful collapse and eventual successful rebuild, rather than giving $8 million to a 38-year-old infielder. The perfect example of this would be my hometown Cincinnati Reds plugging last year’s shortstop, Eugenio Suarez (who gives way at short after Zack Cozart‘s return from a knee injury), in at third base instead of signing David Freese or Juan Uribe to give mediocre production at a much greater cost.
Giancarlo Stanton is guaranteed $318.5 million by the end of the 2027 season – if he doesn’t opt-out after 2020.
Free agency for the elite players continues to be lucrative. Free agency for large market clubs continues to be a bountiful way to reload a roster quickly. However, free agency for small-market clubs and lesser players continues to be a battle of patience, as offers are slow to develop until desperation sinks in.
All of this goes back to ways that clubs and owners are able to manipulate the market. Qualifying offers and compensation picks protect clubs, but there is still no true protection for the players – outside of that whole guaranteed contract thing. There is so much money in baseball. Though some people complain about how much players are paid, they certainly are due their fair share of the pot. That isn’t happening right now. If players continue to sit out deep into the offseason, it is fair to cry collusion among the owners. Billionaires battling millionaires. You have to love first world problems.
When the Cleveland Indians dealt Nick Swisher and Michael Bourn to the Atlanta Braves in August, with cash, they were able to dump quite a bit of salary in the process. Swisher is set to make $15 million and Bourn is set to make $14 million, and the Braves are desperately seeking a deal of Swisher in their rebuilding process, which seems to be taking on horrible contracts and dealing their existing talent for prospects, as they did with Shelby Miller in their recent deal with Arizona. Regardless of the deal, the Indians are now in a very interesting spot. Their current roster, after arbitration projections from MLBTradeRumors, will earn roughly $64.9 million in 2016. After acquiring Collin Cowgill from the Angels, the Indians CAN’T be finished, right?
Cleveland’s pitching staff is deep and loaded. Can they survive a deal?
After finishing 14 games back of the World Series championship-winning Kansas City Royals, the Indians should look to improve on their 669 runs, which ranked 18th in MLB. It would be easy to say that the Tribe should deal from their strength – their pitching, and it is certainly easy to agree with that saying, as the team has 2014 AL Cy Young winner RHP Corey Kluber, RHP Carlos Carrasco, RHP Danny Salazar, and RHP Trevor Bauer, while mixing in LHP T.J. House, RHP Josh Tomlin, and RHP Cody Anderson.
Of that group, Carrasco and Salazar seem to be longed for most by other clubs.
Carrasco, 29, is guaranteed $19,662,500 over the next three seasons, while the two club options for 2019 and 2020 ($9 million and $9.5 million) are well below market value. When you consider that RHP Jeff Samardzija just received a five-year, $90 million deal from the San Francisco Giants after posting a 4.96 ERA and leading the majors in hits and earned runs allowed, the five years and $38 million owed to Carrasco, who had a career-high 10.2 K:9 and a 2.84 FIP in 2015, seems like a very wise investment.
Salazar, 26, isn’t eligible for arbitration until after the 2016 season, and he is under team control, thanks to the arbitration process, through the 2020 season. The young right-hander won 14 games and struck out 195 batters over 185 innings and 30 starts in 2015.
Sources: #Cubs talked with #Indians about trading for Carrasco or Salazar, with package to Cleveland including Soler; no momentum now.
While Fox Sports’ Jon Morosi has stated that the momentum for a deal with the Chicago Cubs is pretty dead, it shouldn’t be.
The Cubs could really use some additional rotation depth in their pursuit of a title. With RHP Jake Arrieta, RHP John Lackey, and LHP Jon Lester at the top of the rotation, Carrasco or Salazar would slide right in as upgrades over RHP Adam Warren, RHP Jason Hammel, LHP Travis Wood, RHP Trevor Cahill, or RHP Kyle Hendricks. Not only that, but the Cubs, who recently signed OF Jason Heyward, could deal OF Jorge Soler, opening up a spot for INF Javier Baez, who could move to the outfield due to the recently signed 2B/OF Ben Zobrist, while postseason masher Kyle Schwarber takes over in the other corner.
The deal makes perfect sense for the Indians, who ranked 22nd in home runs in 2015 and have Cowgill and Lonnie Chisenhall listed as their current starting corner outfielders. Soler, who is under team control through 2021, could be a massive haul for the club offensively. While the soon-to-be 24-year-old has struggled to stay healthy, he certainly has the potential to be an asset for Cleveland.
Soler shouldn’t be enough to acquire either Carrasco or Salazar, but the Cubs have a gluttony of talented young players. Could the Indians get Chicago to add in SS Gleyber Torres, OF Billy McKinney, OF Albert Almora, or OF Ian Happ with Soler? If so, this becomes as necessary for the Indians as laughing at the Browns has become for rest of us.
The Indians can survive this type of deal. They would still have Salazar or Carrasco, whoever isn’t traded, to pair with Kluber at the top of the rotation, while the club could see gains from Bauer and healthy seasons from House or Tomlin to smooth over the rest of the rotation. This is a deal that Cleveland can’t pass up, especially with the trade market that has been set by Arizona’s deal for Miller and the Houston Astros’ acquisition of RHP Ken Giles from Philadelphia.
Is It Time for Expansion in MLB?
It has been 16 years since a new team was added to MLB.
It was 1998 when the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks joined Major League Baseball. Five years prior to that, 1993, MLB welcomed the Florida (Miami) Marlins and the Colorado Rockies, 16 years after the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners were added. Now, over 16 years after adding the Rays and Diamondbacks, is it time for Major League Baseball to add the 31st and 32nd clubs, and how would that change the league?
Because of scheduling, there would have to be two teams added, allowing 16 games to be played each night. Currently, with six divisions – three in each league – there are opportunities for five teams to appear in the playoffs, with the three division champions being joined by the winner of a one-game Wild Card play-in. How would this change going forward? Would the top two teams in each eight-team division within a league be the playoff teams, or would MLB want to keep the five participants (with the two weakest records among the top five qualifiers playing each other) or expand the playoffs to eight teams – which seems like going overboard, though there are financial pluses for the league and teams in expanding the playoffs, but playing games in cold cities in November would be horrific.
Is beautiful Portland, Oregon the next location for a MLB team?
Further down the list – San Antonio, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and Birmingham.
Some could argue the vicinity of teams like the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians to Columbus and Indianapolis would make those cities more likely to only have minor league teams, which they both currently do (Indianapolis Indians are the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Columbus Clippers are the Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians), than the addition of another club. The Reds, in particular, thrive on fans coming from Dayton, Columbus, Lexington, and Louisville to watch Major League quality play, even though minor league clubs are present in each city. The population doesn’t support an additional Ohio team, especially when the Reds and Indians can’t fill their current stadiums on a nightly basis.
That’s why it is so interesting when Brooklyn gets brought up as an expansion city still today. We all know that the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1957, but could New York carry a third team if ownership doesn’t price out their fans the way that the New York Yankees and Mets have appeared to do within their new stadiums and the expensive, luxury “values” that they are providing now?
Could Charlotte represent the south in MLB?
It is worrisome to have so many teams packed into one area, and the east coast is littered with teams, specifically the northeast. However, the addition of a team in Charlotte could be really intriguing for MLB. The south has always been ruled by the Atlanta Braves, and Braves Nation is huge due to the existence of TBS and the games being nationally televised for so many years. I grew up watching some pretty terrible, Dale Murphy-led Braves’ teams. Charlotte opens baseball in the south for the National League, as it could create a new rivalry with Atlanta, while focusing on the markets of Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Greensville, and Spartanburg could allow for some lucrative corporate and television endorsement agreements for the club, while expanding baseball in a southeastern region that is heavily populated and not so heavily represented in MLB today.
Additionally, Las Vegas is mentioned often due to its booming population when baseball expansion is discussed. It isn’t even a top 40 TV market, and if it were to earn a team, would the team thrive with so much of the population busy working the casinos and other tourist attractions, while those tourists are busy stuffing themselves with free buffets, drinks, and Celine Dion shows? Can it really support a club when the main economy factor will always be tourists? We’ve seen attendance become an issue in Tampa and Miami in the past due to the tourist ways of Florida populations, so would MLB want another potential revenue draining club?
Portland, Oregon, much like Charlotte, would fit into the Pacific Northwest nicely, creating a natural rivalry with the Seattle Mariners in the American League. There would be some issues with the stadium, as a roof would be necessary, in addition to the fact that Portland has limitations on land due to a pretty strict environmental protection agreement in the area, preventing nature around the city from being destroyed to maintain the area for hikers, tourists, and other green philosophies. Portland is ranked 22nd among all TV markets in the United States, while potentially raking in money from surrounding universities and Nike, among others, in sponsorship and development of the franchise.
It has been a pretty busy month of baseball to this point. There are also plenty of pitchers who may have a leg up on the competition in the month of May. Several standouts in May have presented an interesting question.
Pitching is a tricky part of the game. With so many injuries, it is fair to wonder what the wear and tear of long-term success has on a player’s future, and we may be seeing that now with Verlander, specifically. However, for all of the mediocrity that comes with the 85.8 mph average fastball that Bronson Arroyo is throwing this season, perhaps plus-plus velocity continues to be overrated. In fact, as it heats up in May, it is fair to look at pitchers like Hughes (92.1 mph), Hudson (89.0 mph), Vogelsong (90.2 mph), Peralta (95.3 mph), Keuchel (89.3 mph), and Leake (90.8 mph) and wonder if the fastball is really all that important.
Consider the top 20 fastball velocities in baseball since the start of the 2010 season. The numbers range from 95.7 to 93.2 and how many of them have had elbow issues in their careers – 11.
Andrew Cashner (5/2014), Stephen Strasburg (9/2010 and 10/2013), David Price (4/2008), Chris Sale (4/2014), Josh Johnson (7/2007, 10/2013, and 4/2014), Alfredo Simon (5/2009), Jordan Zimmermann (8/2009), Matt Garza (4/2008 and 7/2012), Matt Moore (7/2013 and 4/2014), Edinson Volquez (8/2009), and Luke Hochevar (3/2014), have each spent time on the disabled list due to elbow issues, with Strasburg, Johnson, Simon, Zimmermann, Moore, Volquez, and Hochevar undergoing Tommy John surgeries.
While there are names, like Peralta and Hughes, who are thriving still with 92 to 95 mph fastballs, could it just be another inning before the elbow snaps?
Bronson Arroyo has tossed 2,339.1 innings in his career without a single stint on the disabled list. Greg Maddux tossed over 5,000 innings in his 23-year career with one disabled list stint, missing 10 games in 2002 due to a nerve issue, while changing speeds and utilizing movement to become a four-time Cy Young winner. Mark Buehrle is up to 2,956 innings and 195 wins without a stint on the disabled list without an electric fastball. Yordano Ventura and his 96 mph average fastball lasted all of 72.2 innings before injuring his elbow.
For all of the stuff and electricity that is added to the ballpark experience due to an incredible, triple-digit fastball, the torque and force on the elbow will continue to be a single pitch away from snapping the ulnar collateral ligament. There certainly are some impressive names on the list for top 20 velocities since 2010, but when half of them lose time due to injury, is it really worth it? Scouting speed seems ok with Billy Hamilton or Micah Johnson, but the vulnerability of pitchers due to the focus on fastball velocity is risky business these days in baseball.
On Tuesday night, the Atlanta Braves celebrated the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron‘s 715th home run, which catapulted him past Babe Ruth for Major League Baseball’s all-time record for career home runs. Aaron’s career was finished following the 1976 season, and, while Barry Bonds and his asterisk-filled resume was able to pass him on the home run list, Aaron still holds the major league record for RBI (2,297) and total bases (6,856).
4,256. Pete Rose – career hits.
714. Babe Ruth – career home runs.
2,632. Cal Ripken, Jr. – consecutive games played.
511. Cy Young – career pitching wins.
61. Roger Maris – home runs in 1961.
755 is also one of those numbers that is burned into the minds of baseball fans; however, it was replaced by a new record for career home runs, established on August 7, 2007, when Bonds’ 756th bomb left AT&T Park in San Francisco. Bonds would be blackballed from baseball after the 2007 season, leaving the game with 762 career home runs and a legacy tarnished by perjury charges and his link to performance-enhancing drug use.
This morning in my drive home from dropping off my daughter at school, Mike and Mike, the morning ESPN Radio show, were discussing the importance of Aaron’s numbers and what they mean to baseball today. Mike Golic made an excellent point – why can’t baseball throw away the performance-enhancing drug numbers the way that track and field does? When an athlete sets a record, wins a medal, or any other significant merits that are later tarnished by allegations and proof of cheating, those awards and records are stripped, as if they never happened. If baseball wants to keep their records clean, they, led by commissioner Bud Selig, had and have the opportunities to do such a thing. Considering the MLB Player’s Association’s unwillingness to support Barry Bonds when he was unable to find a job after the 2007 season, it would appear that the removal of records would be something that could be easily accomplished by MLB leadership.
The integrity of the game and its records have been tarnished by the use of performance-enhancing drugs. I have long felt that Major League Baseball has had plenty of celebrated miscreants within the game, including racists, womanizers, and cheaters (Ty Cobb, Ruth, and Gaylord Perry fit those descriptions perfectly), while drugs, including “greenies” and cocaine, ran rampant throughout the game for many years undetected and overlooked. After the 1994 player’s strike, the league seemed to be perfectly happy with the home run numbers increasing and the turnstiles producing record numbers, huge revenue, and new stadiums for the good ol’ boy network of owners. Suddenly, those same home runs weren’t as attractive, and the league went after Sammy Sosa, Bonds, and Mark McGwire, instead of acknowledging that they helped to save the game. So, now that the league has moved on from the men who helped to bring it back from the dead and they’re bringing in billions of dollars in revenue through Major League Baseball Advanced Media and lucrative television contracts, they can continue to turn their back on their one-time heroes like Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, Bonds, Sosa, and McGwire, while allowing the Hall of Fame to become a mockery of a museum thanks in large part to the attention-starved writers who now make up the voting oligarchy of Cooperstown.
So, while Hank Aaron was and continues to be a living legend and icon in the sport, is it really fair for his number, 755, to continue to be the measuring stick of power in baseball when that number has been surpassed? No…but it doesn’t mean that it has to go away and that 762 is the only number that needs to be remembered. The 714 home runs that Babe Ruth hit are still an important number in baseball, as are the 660 that Willie Mays hit.
There isn’t an asterisk needed for Barry Bonds because there wasn’t one needed for Ruth’s number to be important. Regardless of the drugs that helped Bonds produce into his 40’s, baseball remains a numbers game. We don’t put asterisks on the numbers that players put up prior to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. Wouldn’t baseball have been more competitive, as it is today, with the world’s best players on one stage, and not just the top white players?
Hank Aaron’s 755 will live on and his legacy of powerful longevity within Major League Baseball will last well beyond his lifetime. His number will remain meaningful as long as his story does, just as others have heard about and learned to love players from well before their lifetimes. There aren’t many who look back at the production that Ruth put up in his career without being awestruck, and the same will remain true for future baseball fans who won’t even see a game until the year 2214. Why? Because baseball remains meaningful, the players remain meaningful, and the numbers remain meaningful to those who love and are passionate about the game.
One Pitcher…One Game…Who Do You Pick?
All over the internet this week, different analysts have raised the question: “If you could choose any pitcher to pitch an elimination game, who would you choose?” It seems like a pretty easy question, but the answers have been all over the place. Obviously, the concept needs to be narrowed down. Is it right now? Is it in the history of the game? What kind of team is the pitcher facing?
A recent article at FanGraphs actually posed the question to 12 different players. Not surprisingly, Los Angeles Dodgers left-handed starter Clayton Kershaw came out on top, receiving six votes, but it was relatively surprising that he only received six of the 12 votes. David Price ranked second with two votes, while soon-to-be free agent right-hander Roy Halladay, New York Mets’ right-hander Matt Harvey, Philadelphia Phillies left-hander Cliff Lee, and St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright each received one vote. With Andy Pettitte, the all-time leader in postseason wins (19), Cole Hamels (7-4 with a 3.09 ERA in 13 postseason starts), and Chris Carpenter (10-4 with a 3.00 ERA in 18 postseason starts) still around, is it fair to wonder what Baltimore Orioles’ first baseman Chris Davis was thinking when he said the zero postseason start Matt Harvey?
Certainly, the nastiness of the stuff has to be taken into account when you are answering a question like this, and Harvey is undeniably one of the nastiest pitchers in Major League Baseball…when healthy. If that is the case, should Miami Marlins’ right-hander Jose Fernandez be someone to consider? What about Justin Verlander – the guy has won seven of 14 starts, including a complete ownage of Oakland in the postseason, having posted a 0.29 ERA and a 43:7 K:BB in 31 innings (four starts)? Tim Lincecum has five wins and a 2.47 ERA over 54.2 postseason innings, why not him?
As great as Kershaw has been, he has just one win in five postseason starts. Certainly, it isn’t just about wins, as the win is a strange, outdated statistic; however, after watching Kershaw get rocked in the 2009 NLCS against the Phillies (albeit at the age of 21), is he the best option? How can a pitcher have a career 2.60 ERA, including a 2.21 ERA over his last 99 starts, and only win about 42-percent of his starts (63-percent of his decisions)?
It isn’t Kershaw’s fault. That’s why it doesn’t matter.
Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California.
Milwaukee Braves versus San Francisco Giants.
Warren Spahn versus Juan Marichal.
Kershaw isn’t going to pitch 16 innings anytime soon, he is just as unlikely to pitch on three days rest several times in a series to accumulate dominant postseason statistics considering he has never started a game on three days rest in his career.
The question “who would you start in a game that means everything” means very little. The pitcher means a lot to the outcome of the game, but what happens when that dominant pitcher has Miguel Cabrera playing third base with sore legs and Jhonny Peralta at short? What happens when Joe Kelly or some other non-elite pitcher somehow matches zeroes with the dynamic ace? What happens when Don Larson, who posted a career 81-91 record, 3.78 ERA, and 1.40 WHIP, throws the lone perfect game in World Series history?
Wins don’t matter and dominant pitching is only a luxury when it is happening while the offense is scoring runs. A pitcher is only as good as those playing behind him are on a given night. Even Kerry Wood and Roger Clemens, who struck out 20 in a single game, had to have a run behind them in case someone managed to score in between the seven non-strikeout outs.
Shouldn’t the real question be “if you could have one hitter and one pitcher on your team for a means-everything game, who would they be”? | 2019-04-24T02:21:45Z | https://thebaseballhaven.wordpress.com/tag/major-league-baseball/ | Porn | Sports | 0.826594 |
wikipedia | The Green Bible front cover.
The Green Bible is an English version of the New Revised Standard Version Bible with a focus on environmental issues and teachings. It was originally published by Harper Bibles on October 7, 2008. It is a study Bible featuring a foreword by Desmond Tutu and essays by Matthew Sleeth, Calvin B. DeWitt, Pope John Paul II, Brian McLaren, Ellen Bernstein, Ellen F. Davis, James Jones (bishop), N.T. Wright, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Gordon Aeschliman.
The Green Bible is meant to “equip and encourage [readers] to see God's vision for creation and help [them] engage in the work of healing and sustaining it”. Emphasizing what the publishers see as the Bible’s message on the environment, all passages mentioning the environment are printed in green ink to draw the reader’s attention.
Mark Tauber, senior vice-president of HarperOne, has stated that the Green Bible was developed with the intention of being “the first ever specialty bible that takes the issues of sustainability, stewardship of the earth, what many in the religious community call ‘creation care’ very seriously”. He went further, exposing on the Green Bible’s purpose: “That the Bible has a profound message of sustainability—some might argue, the original message—is not all that surprising. What is surprising is that it is not one of the first things that comes to mind when most folks think about the Bible and its message... this Bible seeks to change that fact. We believe that the unique and specially added features by some of today's most important thinkers, writers and leaders, across the ecumenical spectrum make it a must-have for those who already find motivation, comfort and inspiration in it and for the many more who might see it freshly as a critical resource in their journey to sustain our planet”.
HarperOne also claims the Bible contains more references to the environment than it does about love or most other subjects.
The Green Bible is meant to be a study bible, and features a “green trail study guide” of the Bible, directing readers to specific verses on the environment and stewardship . Additionally, it features a topical index for finding verses pertaining to specific subjects. Before the biblical text, the Green Bible provides an introduction from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and essays from Brian McLaren, Cal DeWitt, Barbara Brown Taylor, Pope John Paul II, Ellen F. Davis, N. T. Wright, Ellen Bernstein, Matthew Sleeth, James Jones, and Gordon Aeschliman. Verses involving the environment or the earth are highlighted in green to draw reader’s attention.
Notable theologians including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and conservative N.T. Wright contributed material to the edition’s supplemental reading. To further support the green cause, HarperCollins printed the Green Bible on recycled paper, used soy-based ink, and made the cover from renewable cotton linen.
The Sierra Club, The Humane Society, and the Eco-Justice Program have all officially endorsed the Green Bible. Reaction to the Green Bible among Christian leaders has been mixed. Some leaders have praised the concept of the Green Bible, but have raised issues with how some content is presented, stating that the environmental message deemphasizes the Bible’s central message of the Gospels. Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission said about the edition: “Sure it's important, but when they asked Jesus what was most important, he said, 'Love your God, and love your neighbor as yourself.' He didn't say anything about creation”.
Evangelist Matthew Sleeth stated that the Green Bible may help bridge the gap between liberal and conservative Christians.
Reception to the Green Bible has also been differed among political leaders. Larry Schweiger, President of the National Wildlife Federation praised the Green Bible for giving “solid context” for environmentalism. In contrast, some conservatives, like talk show host Pat Gray, accused the Green Bible of merely being a marketing gimmick and money-making scheme for HarperCollins.
^ a b "Bible Goes Green: A Publishing First". The Green Blog. Sundance Channel. 15 September 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ The Green Bible. New York City: HarperOne. 2008.
^ Marrapodi, Eric (24 December 2008). "Repackaging the Bible". CNN. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ a b c "Get Involved". The Green Bible. HarperOne. 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ Walker, Andrea (14 July 2008). "The Green Gospel". The New Yorker. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ Scheinin, Richard (19 December 2008). "The Bible: So many to choose from". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ a b c Livingston, Layron (30 December 2008). "The Bible has gone green". KLTV. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ Biema, David Van (18 September 2008). "The Bible Goes Green for the Prius Age". Time Magazine. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ Derakhshani, Tirdad (23 December 2008). "Updates aim to put the Bible in vogue". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on December 25, 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
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wikipedia | The 1970–71 NHL season was the 54th season of the National Hockey League (NHL). Fourteen teams each played 78 games. The Montreal Canadiens were the Stanley Cup winners as they swept the Chicago Black Hawks in seven games in the final series. The Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks made their NHL debuts this season. | 2019-04-20T04:50:56Z | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_NHL_season | Porn | Sports | 0.886295 |
wordpress | On December 1st, Julie ‘Book Madam‘ Wilson and myself, will unveil our new collaborative project, The Advent Book Blog: Great Books Recommended by Great People.
The idea behind it is simple: authors, publishing professionals, bloggers, and booksellers will write short enthusiastic recommendations of their favorite books that have been published in the last year. We’ll publish a few of these every day, including pics and links for the books. We’ll also publish short bios and photos of everyone who contributes.
It’s what we’re calling the Digital Handsell 3.0. Just in time for the Holiday Season.
We’ve asked our participants to respond to the following imaginary scenario: You’re working in your favorite bookstore and a customer walks into the store and tells you that he/she needs a good book. A gift for a curious, open-minded and adventurous reader. The customer is someone that you’ve helped many times before and they trust your taste implicitly, but they’re in a hurry.
In 25 words or less (or more, depending on your sense of restraint) what book do you recommend? What book, regardless of genre, format, relative bestsellerness, colour or shape, gets your unequivocal stamp of awesomeness?
Tune in on December 1st to find out!
Me and the Book Madam: We’re Cookin’ Somethin’ Up!
Some of my most dedicated readers know that I’m good in the kitchen. I’m always workin’ with the heat and mixin’ the ingredients and layin’ surprise concoctions of extreme tantalization upon your tongues!
Well… this Holiday Season I’m stepping away from the charcoal broiler, the freshly oiled cedar planks and the dwarf-sized oak peppermill and I’m stepping back into the ring of Bookseller.
A kind of Bookselling 3.0 Digital Handsell / Best Books of the Holiday Season by the People Who Should Know – the Writers, Booksellers, Editors, Designers, Publicists and other Creators who help bring great books into the world.
The irrepressible Julie Wilson aka the Book Madam (and the artist formerly known as the Seen Reading lady, who may or may not be making a surprise reappearance of her own in a certain iconic American digital periodical) is joining me in largest non alcohol related herding of book publishing professionals in Canadian History.
Julie and I are working to gather some of the best people that we know in books – from the booksellers to the writers to all points on the publishing compass – to bring you their selections for the best books for gift giving this holiday season.
We’ll be publishing 3+ book reviews a day on out TBA Blog. Each review will be written in 25 words or less!
That’s right. Maximum enthusiasm, minimum space.
Micro-reviews of the best books available to make your shopping easier.
If you’re in publishing and we haven’t contacted you yet and you’re sure that we would because, seriously, what are we, crazy? Then drop me a line sean[at]booksontheradio[dot]ca.
It all starts on December 1. | 2019-04-18T22:27:59Z | https://booksontheradio.wordpress.com/tag/books/ | Porn | Business | 0.366553 |
wordpress | Rovinj was our first stop in Croatia after two weeks in Italy. It felt like forever getting there. Altogether, an almost 5-hour journey from our hotel in Venice, combining vaporetto, trains and bus, and two border crossings into Slovenia and Croatia. Needless to say, we were anxious to arrive.
Rovinj is on the coast in the Istrian region of Croatia, facing the Adriatic Sea. It has a rich history, occupied by first the Romans, then Venetians, Austrians, Italians. With the rest of Croatia, it became part of Yugoslavia before Croatia gained its independence. The old town has many narrow cobblestone streets, which lead to its most famous site, the Basilica of St. Euphemia. Many fishing and sightseeing boats dot the harbor. If you love seafood, this is where to splurge. Simple, yet fresh and delicious dishes.
On our third evening, we joined a sunset sailboat ride and enjoyed the view from the sea. We were tickled by the breeze, which cooled us from the day’s high temperatures and humidity. The reflection of lights on the water from the road, restaurants and bars was a stunning sight. The church had a soothing and serene glow. Restaurants at the waterfront had special tables teetering on the rocks. Very romantic, yet one wrong move and you and your spaghetti vongole would make an unplanned dip into the Adriatic. My husband and I had a drink at Valentino Bar, where we drank our mojitos on colorful cushions, inches from the sea.
Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet, will forever immortalize the words, “in fair Verona”. The town where these two lovers met is not just for the romantic, but also for the history and opera aficionado. I am not an expert in either subject, but was determined that my family would take part in this town’s summer tradition — an evening of opera in a 2,000-year old Roman amphitheater. I really didn’t care which opera we were seeing, but was relieved that it was Carmen, since I would at least recognize some of the music.
The scene was breathtaking. Close your eyes and imagine. Sitting where Roman spectators gathered as early as AD 30; as the sun dips behind the theater, lighting each other’s tiny candle (thousands) to welcome the opening act; gazing at the twinkly stars; listening to beautiful voices magnified naturally by the theater’s outstanding acoustics; and oohing at the colorful pageantry of costumes and stage sets. I still get goosebumps whenever I remember this enchanted evening.
My family was in Venice for just 2 nights, so I squeezed in one island to visit just to get away from the crowds. I decided on Burano because I wanted to see the multi-colored houses I had seen in so many travel magazines. And, I knew that the farther away it was from Venice, the fewer the tourists.
We took a 45-minute vaporetto ride from Fondamenta Nove station in Venice and arrived at about 6:30 in the evening. What a treat! Burano definitely has character and charm. By the time we got there, tourists had come and gone earlier in the day, so it was very quiet. We walked up and down the streets, which were lined with brightly painted houses. The people are certainly not timid about their colors. Each house color contrasting perfectly to the next. Every street was like this. Certainly a feast for the eyes. No cars, but motor boats lining the canals. We caught glimpses of the lagoon from so many different spots. Senior residents pulled chairs out of their houses to sit outdoors and enjoy the refreshing breeze and evening conversation. The quaint piazza centrale has a small church and no more than a dozen restaurants and stores.
The vaporetto ride back to Venice at night could have been romantic, if my husband and I were not traveling with our three kids. Nonetheless, it was wonderful seeing the lagoon lit up by lamps, and the glow of Venice.
At the end of our one-month summer vacation through Europe, we had had enough of the heat and crowds of touristy cities. We longed for open space and fresh air. After an overnight stay at a nearby pension, my family and I finally arrived early morning at this long-awaited, breathtaking wonder of nature.
The photos on the travel websites were real! The lakes are a stunning palette of emerald, turquoise and azure blue. Crystal clear waters show off the abundance of trout. The waterfalls, of varying heights, surprise you around the bend, and flow nonstop as if the turn-off valve had broken. Close your eyes and hear the gurgling. Butterflies with velvet blue wings flutter by. Ducks float quietly over the trout. Limestone provides a nice contrast in color and texture to moss and algae.
We easily explored the connection of lakes by shuttle bus, ferry and boardwalks. These walkways allowed us to traverse the lakes, while in other areas, protect plants from foot traffic. Plitvice Lakes National Park, the largest in Croatia, has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. Though it has attracted many tourists over the years, it is excellently maintained — no trash lying around, swimming and fishing are forbidden, no cars allowed inside.
We have been back in California for a few weeks now. Of the 8,000 photos we took on our trip, only one has been framed and sits in a prominent spot in our living room. With a glimpse of the blue-green water, I smile at the memory.
While still in California and planning for the Cinque Terre (five villages) hike, I must say there was an overwhelming amount of online reviews and advice on how to tackle this popular hike. From everything I’d read and photos I’d seen, I deduced it was a beautiful hike along the coast, but you had to be prepared and forewarned. Total hike time ranged from 5 hours to 8 hours, depending on physical ability and how much time you spent touring the villages. Everyone agreed to start from the southernmost town of Riomaggiore and work northwards to end up in Monterosso. If you got tired, one reviewer suggested taking the train or ferry to the next town. I decided to get one more person’s advice — the hotel (Hotel Villa Anita) owner, Sandro. Since he had given us such great advice and directions for the hike to San Fruttuoso, I knew we could rely on him again. After a hearty breakfast, we filled up our water bottles (a must!) and set out for our excursion.
1. 1-hour train ride south from Santa Margherita Ligure to Riommagiore, walk around the town for a few minutes, start the hike at the coast and walk the “Lover’s Path”. Yes, we can now understand why it’s called this. The view is beautiful and romantic. We were charmed by something else. To express a couple’s love for each other, the path over the years has been decorated with locks. Attached to rails and fences, these locks come in a splendid array of various sizes and metal finishes, etched with initials and hearts.
2. After a 30-minute walk through Lover’s Path, arrive in Manarola and visit the town for a few minutes.The seaside is quite stunning. Gigantic rocks used as diving platforms for the young and daring. Small, colorful boats anchored waiting for their passengers. Waves splashing onto shore.
3. Take a short train ride to Vernazza, skipping Corniglia because the trail was still closed from the mudslides in 2011. (Or, you could take the ferry.) While walking around the town, affects of the mudslide were visible, though much of the town was in great shape. We saw some building basements full of dirt and debris, with workers repairing broken walls. The water at the beach was a murky green from excess mud. We decided to take a gelato break, and I snacked on calamari wrapped in a small newspaper cone. Reminds me of chips doused with salt and vinegar wrapped the English way.
4. Continue the hike on the coast to Monterosso. Have a snack and cold drink, enjoy a swim. The hike from Vernazza to Monterosso was spectacular, but arduous. Steep inclines, dramatic descents, shady in areas, and full-sun in others. Always a welcoming view of the sea. The hills are terraced with vineyards, though no grapes at this time of year. Once in awhile we would see a grape-picking contraption — since I don’t know the name, that’s the best way I can describe it. It is a small buggy, gripping a very narrow metal track, with a seat for the driver, and a metal container to fill up with grapes. The track winds itself around and up the steep incline of the mountain. Brave driver, picking grapes and not afraid that the buggy might slip and fall into the sea!
5. Finally, take the train back to Santa Margherita Ligure. We were tired, but satisfied from a full-day’s adventure and memories.
Portofino was just a pit stop for us on our hike fom Santa Margherita to San Fruttuoso Abbey. I can describe it in three words: small, crowded and yachts. Very picturesque, though, with colorful buildings fronting a very narrow harbor, and flanked by villa-studded hills. I suppose this view is what gives Portofino its charm. Our first order of business was to find a gelato shop to cool us from the heat. Licking our gelatos, we walked along the harbor gawking at the fancy yachts, peaking inside as if we would see anyone famous! One set of lounge chairs was done up in leopard print! We didn’t linger. After 30 minutes of soaking in the scene, we continued our trek to the abbey. | 2019-04-22T18:59:04Z | https://planyourtrips.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Porn | Arts | 0.814756 |
typepad | Want another reason to learn Photoshop? One click later and this photo went from normal to fun.
It's also of a photo taken nearly 14 years ago. Back in the days when we all used film cameras.
~In his brand new outfit.
~His brother had an identical outfit.
~The same brother that helped fling mud.
~The outfits that were purchased for Grandpa's big retirement shin-dig that was yet to be when this shot was snapped.
With a large creek bordering our property, not to mention all the new construction happening in our subdivision with access to all kinds of building materials, piles of builder's dirt, half-full paint cans, and dumpsters filled with treasures, every day was full of surprises back in those days!
What I am also finding as I scan in old photos is the ability to improve the images in PSE. Sometimes just converting them to black and white or sepia tones also seems to give them a little boost in the quality department. Adding a subtle texture can also step them up a notch. As well as playing with the levels, etc.
I just noticed that Kim Klassen has another section of her online class Photoshop-The Essentials beginning June 21st. Kim is such a great teacher! Come on...you know you've been wanting to learn Photoshop.
Oh, and by the way, just in case you wondered, after a few days of soaking the shirt in Biz, I did manage to win against the flung mud disaster! The little outfit was worn at Grandpa's retirement party! | 2019-04-18T14:31:47Z | https://myartsdesire.typepad.com/my_weblog/humor/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.788735 |
wordpress | Someone’s gotta pay! the public demands.
And it is usually ends up being the least able to defend themselves in any well thought-out scam.
Franchisees become convenient fall-guys which allow “the criminal masterminds”, extremely powerful corporations and governments off the hook.
…there appeared to have been a “double-edged fraud“, a fraud on the mortgagee (who provides the funds) and fraud on the “little old ladies” who have mortgaged their houses.
No mortagee in their right mind would lend a 90-year-old lady $300,000 when she has no income. Somewhere in the middle, in the paper-flow to get the mortgage approved, some fibs have been told. Some middle men have made a lot of money,” the source said.
…the agents [more precisely, the Blue Chip franchisees] who had persuaded people like the North Shore couple to sign had “misled them in various ways”.
the finance companies had a statutory duty to refrain from predatory lending practices and exercise adequate lender’s due diligence.
Yes franchisees were overly trusting in Blue Chip and they deserve some criticism.
The banking professionals should shoulder the vast majority of the liability for failing to do their duty. Not only is lending a credence good (imbalance of information and bargaining power) but they have been clearly identified for decades as having an undue influence on governments (ie. regulatory capture).
This entry was posted on Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pm and is filed under Bankers, Credence good Cheaters, Duty, Predatory franchise lending. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-26T05:50:09Z | https://lesstewart.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/franchiseesagents-post-fraud-scapegoats/ | Porn | Business | 0.810976 |
sfgate | 1 Is Oat Bran Good for You?
3 What Are the Health Benefits of Almonds, Pecans & Walnuts?
When you eat rolled oats, you're getting the entire oat groat, albeit in a squashed form. Oat bran, on the other hand, is made up of only the outer shells of the seeds. Although oat bran on its own isn't likely to win many taste-test contests, both options have similar nutrition profiles and can provide you with an excellent hot breakfast.
A typical serving of rolled oats is 1/2 cup of dry oats, which cooks up to a full cup when you add liquid. That cup of cooked oats contains 166 calories, about 6g of protein, 3.6g of fats, 28g of carbohydrates, 4g of fiber and just 0.63g of sugar – assuming you don't add any extra sweeteners.
A cup-size serving of oat bran, on the other hand, contains fewer calories (88), more protein (7g), fewer fats (1.9g), almost as many carbohydrates (25g) and much more fiber (5.7g).
A full cup of oat bran is a lot on its own. Depending on how much you love it, a 1/2 cup serving may be more realistic, in which case you can look forward to 44 calories, 3.5g protein, 1g fat, 12.5g carbohydrates and 2.8g fiber.
Comparing 1-cup servings of rolled oats and oat bran, both have about 20mg calcium and 2mg iron. But from there onward, their paths diverge, with the oat bran packing more magnesium, phosphorus and potassium – 88mg, 261mg and 201mg, respectively. Rolled oats contain 63mg magnesium, 180mg phosphorus and 164mg potassium. The one mineral that rolled oats contain more of than oat bran is zinc; the whole grain has 2.3mg, while the bran has only 1.2mg.
If you're not up to a full cup of oat bran, a 1/2 serving would contain 10mg calcium, 1mg iron, 44mg magnesium, 130mg phosphorus, 100mg potassium and 0.6mg zinc.
Both rolled oats and oat bran have traces of B vitamins. In some cases, the whole-grain version (rolled oats) has twice the amount of vitamins, but they remain trace amounts. The rolled oats also have measurable amounts of vitamin E and vitamin K, which aren't present in oat bran.
Regardless of which form of oats you choose as your breakfast cereal, a few healthy additions can liven them up. Consider adding chopped fruit like bananas, berries or apples, and healthy sweeteners like maple syrup.
Can't get behind oat bran as a standalone cereal? Don't worry – you're far from alone. But you might find that you enjoy it as a staple ingredient in baked goods like muffins.
Maloney, Lisa. "Oat Bran Vs. Rolled Oats." Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/oat-bran-vs-rolled-oats-1761.html. 06 December 2018. | 2019-04-20T14:46:52Z | https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/oat-bran-vs-rolled-oats-1761.html | Porn | Health | 0.337036 |
wordpress | How do I love thee? Let me quantify the ways.
And I jumped to an excited state.
But thou has made me more stable.
I loved thy reaction when a jewel (joule?) I shocked thee with.
We bonded and are now at equilibrium in the combined state.
Thou makest me feel almost noble.
Who daily prove the second law of thermodynamics.
Which incidentally is Jimmy Hoffa’s birthday.
That our love may never be reduced. | 2019-04-19T10:17:15Z | https://collectingreality.wordpress.com/tag/sonnet/ | Porn | Science | 0.978523 |
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wordpress | Bram Souffreau, a stadium audience (photographed in 2007). Wikimedia Commons.
An earlier version of this post appeared on the University of Sheffield’s History Matters.
In my last post, just before I left on a short journey, I mentioned the financial support many regions in the UK receive from the EU. Unfortunately, on 23 June many of those same regions voted to leave the EU. One of them is the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. 51% of its voters wanted to leave the EU.
These leaflets have acquired a tragic note since 23 June. The blue flag with the yellow stars is ubiquitous, indicating support from everything from the European Fund for Rural Development to the European Fisheries Fund, and of course the Fund for Regional Development.
As I was turning the leaflet carousel, I imagined the shock that must have been felt in Wales on Friday the 24th with those people who spent sweat and tears to make these places happen. Which of them will we still be able to visit in three years’ time? | 2019-04-22T02:51:16Z | https://historianatlarge.wordpress.com/2016/07/ | Porn | Reference | 0.448874 |
wordpress | A textbook for Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi.
This is textbook for a BBA course at Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune.
Some people instinctively know which career they want to go into. For many, the decision is not always so simple. Choosing a right career is not an easy job as many of you may think it to be. Many people think they know the right way to go about selecting an occupation, but they often wind choosing a career that is unsatisfying. When deciding which career you want to take up, it is important to take the time to think about what appeals to you, and decide which jobs fit in with your talents and strengths. Since you will be spending a major portion of you day at work, try to choose a career that will keep you stimulated and interested in the long term.
The book tries to demystify the misconception most of you may have about careers. It does not tell you how to look out for a career, instead it will help you do a self-introspection, make career assessment, and decide what is right for you. How? Check it out!
The book aims to teach and enforce the basic rules of writing emails. Students are used to writing very informal emails following no punctuation or capitalization rules. They carry this habit to the organizations when they join and end up writing an email that doesn`t convey the message it is supposed to.
This book contains suggestions and guidelines about writing effective emails which will help you avoid any potential embarrassment at work. It also tells you what to do and what not to do when writing emails. Concentrating at small details, you may never have thought about, can do a lot of wonders. How? Check it out!
Great interview skills are not developed overnight. They improve with time and correct application. People who consistently succeed at interviews are those who take the time to prepare their own answers rather than simply using answers they have read or heard elsewhere. Those answers should only act as a guideline and be a point of reference. It is important for you to know that the more you think about your answers and the more you practice them, the better you will become in answering the interview questions.
Whether you have recently passed out from college or you are an experienced professional, this book will show you how to prepare highly effective answers and how to deliver them in a confident manner while establishing a good rapport with interviewers. The book aims to make you aware of the realities of the interview process and help you in improving your interview skills. It discusses the myths regarding interview, common interview mistakes, different interviewing techniques and lots more.
This book contains suggestion and guidelines about attending and facing interviews. It also tells you what to do and what not to do during an interview. In addition to teaching you how to respond to popular interview questions, this book also tells you the need to establish rapport and trust during the course of the interview. How? Check it out!
There are many perceptions about writing resumes. Though there is no dearth of books on this subject, there is definitely a lack of good reference books written by people with industry experience those who actually review the resumes, conduct interviews, and select candidates. After interviewing and recruiting technical writers for many years, I have come to recognize quickly what impresses me and what does not, what makes me consider a candidate, what makes me call a candidate for an interview, and what immediately closes the door on the candidate. The information presented here is base on my experiences with resumes.
Chapter 1. Resume-What is it?
The purpose of the resume.
What it is and what it is not.
The commonly made errors while creating resumes.
The myths and the misconceptions associated with the resumes.
Some tips on creating usable, focussed, and impressive resumes.
How to create an impressive resume.
The importance of using action words.
It will make you think out of the box and will help you make a well thought about the decision before you start writing a resume. Once you understand the skills and characteristics that most employers seek, you can tailor your job search communication your resume, cover letter, and interview language to showcase how well your background aligns with their requirements.
There are many books in the market about managing documentation teams, but unfortunately, none of them cater to the needs of the Indian managers or the remote management who plan to set up documentation teams in India. When discussing the documentation management in a wider perspective, we have to consider the differences in the work culture in India and the western/European countries.
This book has been written keeping in mind the business mindset in India, the work culture that is practiced here, the basic skills and experiences of the technical writers, and their educational background. This book tries to focuses specifically on a number of requirements that are crucial for virtual teams that operate because of business requirements across the boundaries of time, space, and culture, without the benefits of real-time and face-to-face interaction.
It also tries to provide a framework of key principles that addresses some of the common challenges faced by such teams and the management who work remotely/virtually and help them work and collaborate successfully across boundaries.
The Indian managers, who are responsible for recruiting technical writer(s) for a startup team. If you are responsible for setting up a documentation group, this book will give you a basic idea about the skill sets and the other details you may not be aware of to help you in recruiting the right candidate to work in a global setup.
– Working with the managers and teams in remote locations.
– Are planning to set up documentation teams in India.
– Are planning to outsource or off-shore work to India.
– Work in coordination with the team located in India.
– Other tips for successfully managing the remote team.
– Working with the managers and teams in distant locations.
Work culture, remote working, and other work-related topics.
Hiring, training, and motivating the writers. | 2019-04-21T12:42:17Z | https://sajithajayaprakash.wordpress.com/category/my-books-published/ | Porn | Business | 0.848312 |
livejournal | sga comment fic for flambeau - Anna S.
My sole nonwork effort for the day probably. For flambeau, aka torch, the famed, the adorable, the enduring. :) Happy unbirthday!
John nodded in greeting when Rodney sat down. With Rodney everything was a big gesture, as if he were a recent drama school graduate with a lot to prove, so the act of sitting was performed with a bounce and a banged tray, after which Rodney tucked into the special du jour with enthusiasm. Ignorance was bliss in this case; John unfortunately had seen the animals before they were baked in their own gravy, and couldn't forget their pitiful bleating noises and the way they'd butted their friendly heads against his thighs. If only they hadn't named them. He had a feeling he was eating Tinkerbell. A man should never be able to say that.
He eyed Rodney across the table, observing that gender apparently had no effect on appetite. "I hear you've been terrorizing the science department with your breasts."
"I only flashed them once." Rodney slowed his chewing and tipped his temporarily feminine head. "Okay, twice. Kavanaugh literally fled before me, averting his eyes."
"Pure comedy gold," John said, grinning.
"If only I could get them to do that all the time. The longer these yo-yos are here, the more comfortable they get--they know we can't give them the boot into the next galaxy any old time we want. I almost wish they'd given me grad students. They're much easier to intimidate. More malleable."
"Speaking of breasts..." John cleared his throat and made a vague, encompassing gesture while Rodney stopped chewing to stare at him. "How's it...going? The whole shebang." He might have said more, but Elizabeth and Radek had come up and were taking seats. They'd obviously caught his question. Radek gave Rodney a squirrelly once-over and sat as if bracing for more breasts.
"Not as badly as I'd expected," Rodney said, unperturbed. "We've relinked the device to the mainframe--a masterful bit of work from Radek here." He bestowed an approving smile on Radek, who grimaced weakly in return. "Now we merely need to find a way to regulate the field fluctuations between the plates."
"Riiiight." John nodded, projecting his deep knowingness of what the hell that meant.
"For your sakes," Rodney went on breezily, "I just hope that we can reverse the process before PMS hits. Ha!"
Rodney was preening at his own joke, but Radek stood up abruptly enough that his chair clattered to the floor. He looked pale, and his hair had grown wilder in a single moment, as if lifted by a spike of frantic energy. "Excuse me--I must--" He ran from the room.
"Hmm," Rodney said, frowning and sniffing his forkful of diresh. "I hope this meat's not off. I really can't afford to get sick right now."
John exchanged a glance with Elizabeth. "Maybe he had a sudden epiphany." An epiphany of fear, he thought.
An epiphany of fear, he thought.
Oh, the horror of Rodney with PMS!
Heeee! Flee before PMS Rodney, oh cute little Czech man. Flee for your life!
Okay, see, I want to read the novel that grows from this tiny acorn. Bwah!
BWAH. Oh, man, oh, Rodney. the GLEE on him.
Heh. Zelenka’s found that a vivid imagination is as curse, hasn’t he?
Gah! So funny! Rodney terrorizing Zalenka with his breasts! You're so wonderful.
That's wonderful. Zelenka has the right idea, I think.
I love how Rodney isn't even fazed, he's making his new femaleness work to his advantage!
And one of the best phrases in the English language is now: An epiphany of fear!
And, oh, may I post a link over at [info]gate_bitextual?
That is literally the sound I just made. Because I have a wierd laugh. And this was funny.
Torch is lucky. I want comment fic too!!!
Cheerily and sadisitically female McKay. You know, in a way, it fits. He's a person who lives mostly in his mind anyway - it isn't like that would change. Well, except for the PMS. | 2019-04-25T04:32:30Z | https://eliade.livejournal.com/438067.html | Porn | Science | 0.315669 |
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wordpress | This entry was posted on March 3, 2016 at 9:10 pm and is filed under 1. Useful tips for travellers to Bulgaria. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Just want to add that the Sofia Airport offers free wifi unlike most of the European airporst. And a very decent one too. I think this is really cool since I’ve struggled to get wifi at other airports.
Also it is good to know that most of the cafes and reastaurants in Sofia and the big cities have free wifi for their customers. Just remember to ask about the network name and password. | 2019-04-21T20:02:49Z | https://truebulgaria.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/5-essential-tricks-to-finding-public-wifi-in-bulgaria/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.867693 |
wordpress | Last weekend I ran a workshop on ‘Writing Illustrated Books’. It was great fun and, as always, attendees came ready-prepared with some fantastic pitches. One of the first issues I addressed with regards to the pitches was one of targeting. What, exactly, have you written? Is it a picture book for 0 – 5 year olds and, if so, which end of that market is it for – younger or older? Or is it young fiction for 5 – 8 year olds? And, again, same question, which end of that market is it for?
Usually, at so me point during our discussions on targeting, at least one person will state that their book is for ‘all ages’. My book, they will say, can be read by anyone from the age of 0 – 100! And I will answer back – very, very firmly – that such a book doesn’t exist. Or not at submission stage anyway.
My father is in a care home and can no longer see to read for himself. He is 86 years old and my mother visits him twice a day, to feed him, to talk to him, to comfort him and, sometimes, to read to him. Although, these days, very little interests him. The other day I dropped off a copy of our book Geronimo, The Dog Who Thinks He’s a Cat.
My mother hadn’t seen it and I thought she might like to give it to one of her friends with young grandchildren. That evening I received an enthusiastic call from her to say she had hugely enjoyed reading it to my father and describing the pictures to him. He’s a big dog-lover so I suppose it was no surprise that the story amused him.
So is Geronimo truly that rare thing – a book for all ages? Of course not! It’s a delightful book for the 4/5 plus age range and it just so happened that it amused my elderly father for an hour or two one afternoon. I still believe that accurate targeting is incredibly important when writing for children. But I also believe – more than ever – that the best children’s books can reach out to us all, no matter what age we are. | 2019-04-22T18:15:43Z | https://wackybeebooks.wordpress.com/2015/07/ | Porn | Kids | 0.845291 |
livejournal | 1. You often post photo challenges in your LJ. What images do you enjoy capturing the most?
A variety of things, really. It depends upon the opportunities that present themselves and what strikes me at the moment. Sometimes it's odd things, sometimes it's more documentation – like pictures that I take at SCA events. I used to be a fairly good portrait taker, but that's not as realistic to do with my little digital camera. Maybe I should get my hardware out again – it would fit with the thought that I might take a photography class at CU this summer or fall. I continue in my quest to take the perfect picture of the Flatirons for every season.
2. What movie would you say, best describes your life, your way of living?
Oooh – that's a tough one. These days perhaps it is 'A Year of Living Dangerously'. *smile* Perhaps not completely appropriate, but there have been struggles and some dangerous times and lots of deep thought. A *fabulous* movie at any rate – I highly recommend it.
3. You obviously enjoy the SCA. Do you think you would have liked to live during some part of the Middle Ages or Renaissance? If so, which part and where?
The Middle Ages - yes and no. I think (know!) I would have made a wonderful early period Irish scribe. The thought of the simplicity appeals as well – sometimes I think we just have too much going on it today's society. It's too busy, too fast paced, too overwhelming. But I could certainly do without the disease, starvation, subsistence living, and the concept of women as chattel.
The Renaissance – yes! It was an age of wondrous learning and scientific advancement. An age of reason, of discovery, of intellectualism, of art, of literature. To have been a prosperous woman in Italy during the Renaissance would have been very enlightening. I would have wanted to study art, literature, and philosophy.
4. What teacher, in all your life, had the most lasting effect upon you? How?
My old show jumper Guv. Strange thing to pick a horse, I know. But true. In those years we spent together I internalized a lot of life lessons that I already 'knew' in my head. I was very good at what I did and could be successful. I should have confidence in myself, I could help other people. Responsibility – I had always been a responsible child, but it was the difference between just being responsible for myself and *really* being responsible for another. I could adapt and work intimately, in concert, with another. And that I was important, someone looked forward to seeing me every day. Not to judge a book by it's cover. He surely wasn't the prettiest of hunters out there, but he was very talented and we made a great team. That me being a tiny slip of a thing shouldn’t be a barrier to accomplishing what I wanted. We made an odd pair – I was still of a size that I should still have been riding ponies, but there I was, all 4' 10"' and 70 lbs of me, on my 16.2 jumper. He taught me not to fear, and always be willing to tackle the bigger obstacles.
5. What does polyamory mean to you, personally?
In a single word – Respect.
Of course that single word encompasses at least a couple of hours of explanation and discussion *grin* But I think that respect for others and respect for yourself is the basic tenant. Without that, it's just not going to work at all.
Certainly there is more to what poly means to me. That caring for one person is not diminished by caring for another. More room in my life for people, not less. The ability to express more than one side of myself.
What does poly require other than respect? A bit of empathy, the ability to communicate well, to be a giver instead of a taker, the ability to see and really understand other people's points of view, time management skills, commitment, and all of the other things that go into day-to-day relationships.
I actually share several communities with you, as far as I can tell, but don't have you on my friends' list.
*smile* I think it will be fun to interview you.
1. What is your favorite single spot in Colorado to go hang out? Not a bar or some place like that, but a natural place?
2. What do you do when you're overwhelmed to find some peace from it all?
3. What would you change about your childhood?
4. Think of the most interesting (to you) word that you know. Why is it interesting?
5. What hobbies or interests give you the most enjoyment?
OK, sounds interesting. All my friends are doing it, so I'll jump on the bandwagon. Interview me, if you like.
you know, you're one of my favorite journals to read...and I guess I just missed some details of your life because I found these answers very interesting and informative.
No way! You are *so* sweet. It's just my rambling and ranting place. Sometimes a bit of self examination happens here as well.
and I guess I just missed some details of your life because I found these answers very interesting and informative.
What did you 'miss' before? So, what do you know now?
2. Think of the most interesting (to you) word that you know. Why is it interesting?
3. What's the one thing that gives you the most hope for the future of the human race?
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wordpress | This entry was posted on Sunday, February 20th, 2011 at 12:00 am and is filed under AndyLand. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-21T22:09:47Z | https://andy2boyz.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/andy2boyz-tweets-on-2011-02-20/ | Porn | News | 0.234485 |
wordpress | A handmade junk journal with a New Zealand theme that would make a fun travel journal with plenty of pockets and clips to store tickets, brochures, photos etc., a unique reminder of home for kiwis overseas, or just a lovely art object for a kiwi home.
It is a mix of vintage ephemera, upcycled book pages, maps, real photographs, writing paper, and coffee-dyed paper, with 70+ pages.
There is space for journalling, in addition to plenty of pockets and “tuck spots”.
The cover is a recycled hardcover book, measuring approx. 20x14cm (5.5″×8″), covered in handmade green paper, with a glittery sheen. It is adorned with a jandal made from Mother of Pearl.
This journal is totally one of a kind, and comes with a little bag of goodies and a hand-written letter from the journal to make it extra special. | 2019-04-25T04:53:13Z | https://lifeinanalogue355130937.wordpress.com/portfolio/zealandia-handmade-junk-journal/ | Porn | Arts | 0.443719 |
wordpress | This below is lifted from the pdf available on the one nine elms web site. As it happens it’s the only thing currently available on their website. And it’s only available as a pdf. Obviously the cost cutting has begun early. Anyway, I have hacked it about a bit to make it as readable as possible.
I am writing to you on behalf of the new owners of the One Nine Elms development (on the site previously known as Market Towers). In October 2012 planning consent was granted to Green Property Ltd, the previous owners, to demolish the existing buildings and replace them with two new towers containing a mix of residential apartments, office space, retail and a hotel. In November 2013, Dalian Wanda, one of China’s leading commercial development companies, completed the purchase of the site from Green Property with the intention of building the One Nine Elms scheme. In order to develop the scheme, we have submitted an application to London Borough of Wandsworth to make a few amendments to the consented proposal. Most important of these are improvements to the proposed hotel element of the building which will enable Dalian Wanda to open one of its luxury brand 5-star hotels – the first of its kind in Europe. Core elements of the consented building such as the height of the two towers are not being changed as part of this application. The details of the proposed amendments are listed overleaf and can also be viewed on our website.We have appointed a demolition contractor, McGee Group Ltd, who have recently begun preparatory works on the Market Towers buildings. Details of the demolition programme are included in this newsletter. Dalian Wanda is very excited to be part of the Nine Elms regeneration project and is keen to begin work as soon as we are able. We want to foster a close working relationship with the community and will remain in contact with regards to our progress.
Preparatory works for the demolition of the Market Towers building began in February, the demolition process is expected to be completed by the end of the year. We have included details for our demolition contractors, McGee, as well as working hours and details for contacting us during the demolition process. Once demolition is complete, subject to receiving consent for our amendments to the plans, we hope to begin construction in January 2015. The building is expected to be completed in 2018. The site forms part of the wider Nine Elms on the South Bank regeneration area and we will put in place a detailed construction management plan to deal with important issues such as working hours and lorry movements. McGee Group Limited (MGL) has been appointed as the contractor for the soft strip, and the full demolition of the property. The site project manager for McGee will be Paul Busby and Mark Byrne is neighbourhood liaison contact for the project. Every effort will be taken during the works to keep noise, dust and vibration to a minimum and this will be monitored by the site team during the works. Acoustic sound blankets will be used to reduce noise levels from the demolition machinery. Hydraulic munchers will be used in place of breakers where possible to minimise the noise as much as possible.
Our noisy operational hours on site will continue in accordance with Industry best practice. These are 08.00 to 10.00, 12.00 to 14.00 and 16.00 to 18.00.
It’s open. Or at least a bit of it is – the bit behind St George’s Tower has finally opened, without any ribbons, fanfare or Boris. They must have done it when he was abroad trying to sell off the bits of London still up for grabs. But it’s nice, even if it is tiny.
We have an ambitious vision to recreate Vauxhall as the living town centre it once was. Instead of a congested traffic gyratory system, the area will be transformed by the creation of a recognisable ‘heart of Vauxhall’ with new walkways lined with shops, more jobs, a variety and choice of new homes and places for people to enjoy.
As recently as the 19th century this thriving neighbourhood boasted homes, businesses, shops, schools and a railway station alongside the river and a mere 10 minutes walk from the Houses of Parliament.
Once again Vauxhall will become a gateway to the city and a modern, characterful district centre noted for high quality buildings, exemplary streets and spaces and convenient and well managed public transport.
The restoration of a High Street and proposals for a Civic Town Square as a potential venue for community and cultural events are at its heart. This will be an area of mixed uses, both within the streets and within the buildings themselves where distinctive retail businesses will reflect a strong sense of established and emerging local character.
The historic neighbourhoods of Old Paradise Street, Black Prince Road and Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens are interesting distinctive destinations to visit. The area’s beautiful green spaces including Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Pedlar’s Park and Vauxhall Park provide a network of open spaces linking through to the new Nine Elms linear park and Battersea Park beyond.
The railway arches, so long a barrier, will be brought to life to provide space for new business, community and cultural uses, as well as being opened up to allow for footpaths and cycleways.
High density, tall buildings of high quality will form a cluster around Vauxhall Cross, with particular attention paid to design at ground level to ensure they contribute to creating a memorable and attractive place.
The new infrastructure will be of an excellent standard adding to a renewed sense of place and pride. A new underground station, a refurbished rail station at Vauxhall and a new two form entry primary school as well as health facilities will be provided.
Transport and the management of Vauxhall Cross as an effective interchange remains essential, but the bus station will be replaced with a series of relocated bus stops, facilitating efficient bus routes to and through the area. Improvements will result in a much more pedestrian-friendly environment and better access throughout the entire area.
Our vision for Vauxhall builds on its heritage but is also about providing exemplary modern and sustainable facilities. Once again Vauxhall will be a gateway to the city and a modern, characterful district centre. The railway arches, the river, the historic neighbourhoods and green spaces, along with existing communities, will all play their part in the re-emergence of Vauxhall as a central London destination.
Find out more on Lambeth Council’s website. | 2019-04-23T02:07:46Z | https://theacademyvauxhall.wordpress.com/tag/development/page/2/ | Porn | Business | 0.851431 |
wordpress | Had a great time last month in Orlando at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 27. This was my second HHN. Never gets old. Riding the rides in the dark is a blast. Thanks to Universal for having us. Thanks to Steve Austin and Jeff Lewis back in Tampa in the studio, Chuck Schafer for producing, and Bob and Jason from the radio broadcast center for all their help on site. We had a blast and it was super cool to see my show added to the radio wall. | 2019-04-19T11:18:15Z | https://genogenocom.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/2017-halloween-horror-nights-live-broadcast-at-universal-studios-radio-broadcast-center/ | Porn | News | 0.529586 |
wordpress | emily sevin photography is the work of Emily Sevin, a San Francisco Bay Area freelance photographer inspired by all things worldly and emitting energy. Specific photographic interests involve musician and band portraits in the San Francisco Bay and Greater Nashville areas.
Love you Emily. Great pictures!! | 2019-04-25T19:44:50Z | https://emilysevinphotography.wordpress.com/about-2/ | Porn | Arts | 0.976431 |
wordpress | Join us for two hours of science fiction and fantasy reading at Cafe Racer on Wednesday, April 24th.
Mitchell Shanklin lives in Seattle and enjoys writing stories with either magic or made-up science or both. He also writes code for companies (and sometimes for himself). In his free time he plays video, board and mind games, reads, runs, and has rambling philosophical arguments. (No, not all at the same time. Yet).
He is a proud member of Team Arsenic, the bisexual community, the “very, very casual” branch of the Green Bay Packer fan community and the Dreamcrashers. His fiction has been published in Unidentified Funny Objects.
Shiv Ramdas is an Indian speculative fiction writer. He has written short stories, radio scripts and plays, advertisements,numerous resignation letters and in between all of these, a science fiction novel, Domechild (Penguin-Random House, 2013). His short fiction has appeared in Fireside and Giganotosaurus. He is a graduate of the 2016 Clarion West Writers Workshop.
Join us for our new event, “Two Hour Transport – Works in Progress.” We are experimenting with adding a second night of readings per month with a more informal feel and slightly different format. At this open-mic reading we provide optional individual feedback along with a post-reading discussion.
We’d love to hear what you’re working on now, works that are partially completed, or newly finished. What direction are you going in now? That said, we won’t limit our new event to just-new work, feel free to bring anything you’d like to share with our audience.
Our post-reading facilitated discussion session will focus on craft. Character, voice, tone, plot, beginnings and endings, use of language, and other craft elements will be discussed as illustrated through the works read. For those who are interested in individual feedback, we will also provide a method for receiving comments on your work. A note about length: plan on about 5-10 minutes of reading time, depending on number of participants. That would be about 2-5 pages of standard double-space 12-point font text. Feel free to bring a few printouts of your work to facilitate individual feedback, if desired.
Join us for two hours of science fiction and fantasy reading at Cafe Racer on Wednesday, March 27th.
Eva L. Elasigue combines an honor-awarded imagination with scientific & empirical backgrounds to create the fantasy space opera trilogy Bones of Starlight, which continues in recent novel release, Book 2: Abyss Surrounding. Eva L. Elasigue has spoken on topics, won awards, and introduced innovative events to cultural communities worldwide. She has also produced short story, stage work, and poetry. Backgrounds in plant science, commercial journalism, small farming, natural building, and community arts. A mixed-media artist and renaissance woman, she loves music and the wilderness, and lives with her dog Spirit on San Juan Island, WA. Filipina-Irish-American, Queer, Cascadian.
Patrick Hurley attended the Taos Toolbox Writers Workshop in 2017. In 2018 he was one of the finalists for the Baen Fantasy Award. Patrick has had fiction published in Galaxy’s Edge, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, Flame Tree Publishing, Mad Scientist Journal, Abyss & Apex, Stupefying Stories, and The Drabblecast. He is a member of SFWA, STEW, Codex, and the Dreamcrashers.
Join us for two hours of science fiction and fantasy reading at Cafe Racer on Wednesday, February 27th.
Tegan Moore is a speculative fiction writer, professional dog trainer and Clarion West graduate. Some of her proudest accomplishments include serving a very nice risotto made with mushrooms she found in the woods and not killing anyone with it, teaching her dog to recycle, and being called “very weird” by Eileen Gunn. In addition to previous publications, her work is forthcoming in Asimov’s, Tor.com and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Nicole Bade crawled out of a page, one day, to find themselves in a bustling city. They have been trying to make sense of their situation ever since. When they’re not trying to read and write their way home, they make sporadic attempts at publishing and lead writing workshops for visual artists. Nicole has an MFAW from Goddard College.
Theresa J. Barker has always longed to live in other worlds, which she accomplishes through her writing. Theresa completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2015. In her “other life,” Theresa has a Ph.D. in Engineering, and she enjoys solving mathematical puzzles for fun. Theresa writes literary and science fiction.
Join us for two hours of science fiction and fantasy reading at Cafe Racer on Wednesday, January 30th.
Oscar McNary’s work has appeared in Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam: Gay City Anthology V, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and Discovery: QSF’s Second Annual Flash Fiction Contest. He has written three poetry chapbooks, and he has a story forthcoming in Two Hour Transport’s very own anthology.
We are proud and excited to announce our new event, “Two Hour Transport – Works in Progress”! This event is an extension of our long-time open mic and featured reader event Two Hour Transport. We have been welcomed by our venue, Café Racer, and encouraged to add a second night of readings per month. In January we will be experimenting with a new event that features all open-mic reading with a post-reading discussion.
There will also be a post-reading facilitated discussion session. We’re planning on the focus of the discussion to be on “lessons learned.” So, thinking about the works that are read, what are some of the themes, what stood out for you, what inspired you in their reading, what might you have learned about technique or content or approach or method from other authors’ works. For those who are interested in individual feedback, we will also experiment with a method for providing audience response to specific pieces. A note about length: plan on about 5-10 minutes of reading time, depending on number of participants. That would be about 2-5 pages of standard double-space 12-point font text.
Join us for two hours of science fiction and fantasy reading at Cafe Racer on Wednesday, December 26th.
“It was just for one night, but it was Christmas, after all . . .
You don’t need to use any of the prompts for your story, they’re just there to get your mind turning!
Join us for two hours of science fiction and fantasy reading at Cafe Racer on Wednesday, November 28th.
“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” (Oscar Wilde) Write about a family that does unforgivable things . . . or that never forgives . . . or that exacts a specific cost for forgiveness . . . in space?
Two Hour Transport Reading on Wednesday, April 24th, 2019, 7-9 pm.
Our venue is Café Racer. Join us!
Our next reading will be Wednesday, July 26th, at Cafe Racer: 5828 Roosevelt Way NE.
Open mic will begin at 7:30 pm with five-minute reading slots. Invited Readers Genevieve Williams and Ophir Ronen will read at 8:45 pm. | 2019-04-24T12:30:59Z | https://twohourtransport.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Arts | 0.493285 |
utoronto | My research program centres on the genetics of complex trait evolution. Complex traits (e.g. lifespan, body size, disease resistance, and behaviour) are unified by two common characteristics: i) they are the product of multiple genes, and ii) their phenotype is often significantly influenced by changes in the environment1. Understanding the ontogeny, manifestation, and evolution of complex traits is a central focus in evolutionary genetics. My work focuses on behaviour, because behavioural traits have enormous potential to contribute to our knowledge of complex trait evolution. Behaviour is intriguing since abilities: i) require precise coordination of proteins, enzymes, neurons, and muscles, ii) are affected by constant input and processing of information from the environment, and iii) are extremely labile and can be modified at each expression.
A detailed understanding of the evolution and ecology of behaviour can be gained by investigating the underlying genes. Studies of genes are important because they can integrate both mechanistic and evolutionary insights (Boake et al. 2002, Robinson 1999) and they can allow for precise manipulation and measurement of behaviours in the lab and in the wild.
Given the extensive conservation of gene function across diverse evolutionary lineages, it is now becoming possible to explore particular genes in a wide variety of organisms (e.g. a candidate gene approach).
I focus primarily on the rover/sitter foraging polymorphism found in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster and discovered by Marla Sokolowski in the early 1980s. Rovers eat less but move more than sitters during foraging (Kaun et al. 2007a) and they are more likely to explore new food patches than sitters (Sokolowski et al. 1984). These behavioural differences arise mainly from allelic variation in foraging (for), which encodes a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) (Osborne et al. 1997). Rovers (forR) have higher RNA transcript levels and PKG activity levels than sitters (fors). This polymorphism has now become a classic model system in behaviour genetics.
My research explores: i) the evolutionary link between foraging behaviour and cGMP-dependent protein kinase (Fitzpatrick & Sokolowski 2004), ii) identifying additional genes that influence foraging behaviour (Fitzpatrick et al., in prep), and iii) the maintenance of the rover/sitter polymorphism by frequency-dependent selection (Fitzpatrick et al.,2007).
I have broad interests in behavioural ecology, evolutionary genetics, quantitative genetics, phylogenetics, and genomics. Although my lab will primarily utilize the Drosophila model system, we will also continue to dabble in other organisms such as crickets. Topics of particular interest include foraging behaviour, sexual selection, and aggression. For example, some peripheral interests include how pleiotropic effects can influence the evolution of genes affecting sexual selection (Fitzpatrick 2004) and whether mating influences aggression in field crickets. | 2019-04-25T04:44:02Z | https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/biosci/node/15 | Porn | Science | 0.911719 |
wordpress | Are you like me, when you try to explain something complicated (or exciting) to others, you quickly grab pen and paper and draw some weird picture or graph that makes absolute sense to you, helps you structure your thoughts and maybe (or not) helps the other person understand what you are trying to say?
The other day I realized that Net-Map is often just that, but taken to a higher level of general understanding and inviting others to co-doodle with you. By providing some basic steps to the doodling: first actors, then links, then motivations, then influence, Net-Map helps keeping the complex story on track and allows everyone to chip in and add their contribution.
As a facilitator some of my favorite Net-Map experiences (both with groups and individuals) were when the people I worked with just told their story like they would to a friend and I visualized this flow by writing the names they mentioned in the unfolding narrative on actor cards, sketching out the relations as they told me what happened. I think this is one of the reasons I enjoy Net-Mapping so much, because it can feel like you are just two people having a conversation – and not like being an interviewer who interviews someone or a person with a method which dominates the interaction (e.g. a closed ended questionnaire, where, every time the interview partner wants to tell you their view or experience, you have to say: “please just rate it on a scale from 1-5”. Or “possible answers are yes, no, don’t know”).
I guess that has something to do with respect: If I ask you to take some time out of your busy day to answer my questions, I want to show you I am really interested in your (own) answers and want to learn something I didn’t know before. I know that for a lot of quantitative analysis you need standardized questions and answers and it is great to be able to say something statistically significant about things… but I personally just prefer a situation where I can really connect with the other person and listen to what they have to say. | 2019-04-26T09:36:32Z | https://netmap.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/do-you-doodle/ | Porn | Reference | 0.184522 |
cnn | President Trump is one step closer to getting a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.
But he has many, many more steps to go.
Trump's trade team published a list of objectives Monday that outline the administration's goals for renegotiating NAFTA, the three-nation trade pact that went into effect in 1994.
A new NAFTA will probably take more than a year to enact, and possibly longer, depending on negotiations and political forces in the three countries.
1. Official talks can begin 30 days after the list of objectives is published, which means bilateral negotiations will start August 16. They're expected to last until about January, but it could go longer.
2. The Trump administration must consult with the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee.
3. 180 days before signing the deal, Trump's team must submit a report to the congressional committees on the potential changes to U.S. trade law.
4. 90 days before inking it, Trump must notify all of Congress about his intent to sign the deal. On the same day he must give the details of the agreement to the U.S. International Trade Committee, an independent panel of judges.
5. 60 days before signing the deal, Trump's team must publish the text on the website of the U.S. Trade Representative.
6. President Trump can sign the deal.
7. 60 days after entering the agreement, the administration must provide a public description of the changes to U.S. laws in order to bring the U.S. into compliance with the deal.
8. 105 days after Trump signs it, the ITC publishes a report assessing the economic impacts of the revised deal.
9. 30 days before submitting the bill to Congress, Trump must send a statement which includes the final legal texts of the deal.
10. Before introducing the bill to Congress, the administration is required to submit a review of the deal's impact on employment and the environment, and a plan for implementing and enforcing the agreement.
11. 45 days after submission, the House Ways and Means Committee must report the bill, meaning it needs a majority vote in the committee to go to a full House vote. The committee could also suggest amendments or other tweaks to the trade deal.
12. 15 days after that, the full House of Representatives must vote on the bill.
13. 15 days after that, Senate Finance Committee must report the bill.
14. 15 days after that, the full Senate votes on the trade deal.
15. 30 days before officially entering into the agreement, Trump must send a letter to Congress saying he's determined that the United States has taken measures necessary to comply with the agreement.
Take a breath, because even that timeline comes with caveats.
All those days Congress has to consider the new NAFTA are legislative days -- not real, calendar days. In total, Congress gets 90 legislative days, which could in reality stretch over several months.
There's more. The governments of Mexico and Canada must also ratify the agreement while this is going on. If they don't ratify it, there's no new deal.
That's important to remember because Mexico holds presidential elections in 12 months, and the leading candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a Trump critic, has threatened to get tough on U.S. trade. It's unclear what he plans to do, but if he gets elected, the official U.S. timeline for renegotiating NAFTA would likely get wrapped up in Lopez Obrador's presidency. | 2019-04-20T12:55:23Z | https://money.cnn.com/2017/07/19/news/economy/trump-nafta-timeline/index.html | Porn | Business | 0.262757 |
google | The Cloud Storage XML API supports several standard HTTP request methods. Each method can use numerous request headers and response headers. The XML API documentation describes all of the supported HTTP methods as well as the most frequently used headers for each method.
Some methods are used to get or put data or get or put metadata. For example, you can use one PUT Bucket request to create a bucket followed by a second PUT Bucket request to configure logging for the bucket.
The following list shows which XML API method you use to accomplish bucket and object tasks.
The Authorization header is represented as <authentication string>. If you are using the XML API to migrate from another storage provider, then the Authorization has the format discussed in Authentication in a Simple Migration Scenario. Otherwise, the Authorization header has the format discussed in OAuth 2.0 Authentication.
If you do not provide authorization information when required to perform a request, the Cloud Storage issues a 401 unauthorized error. For more information, see Status Codes.
where the bucket name is specified as part of the hostname. In all operations except GET service, you can also specify the bucket as part of the URL path. For more information, see Request Endpoints. | 2019-04-23T14:55:04Z | https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/xml-api/reference-methods | Porn | Reference | 0.916414 |
wordpress | Keith grew up in Greencastle, Indiana. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Purdue University. After graduation Keith spent seven years overseas working and traveling. While in Guam and Saipan Keith taught sports at an all-inclusive resort during the day and put on singing and dancing shows at night in the local theater. After a few months in Saipan he was offered a large promotion to another sister resort in Laguna Phuket, Thailand. There he was head of the Sports, Entertainment, & Activities Department for a 5 star resort. From there he moved to Australia and was a project manager for a construction company in Sydney. After two years in Sydney Keith spent some time with his family in Indiana before taking a job teaching computer classes on a cruiseship in the Caribbean. Keith visited Colorado for a short vacation in 1999 and enjoyed the beautiful country and range of activities so much that within weeks he packed his car and moved here.
Shortly after getting settled in Boulder, Keith enrolled in school to study computer technology in Denver. He worked as a consultant in the Customer Relationship Management field designing, building and deploying automated marketing systems for large corporations. In 2002, he decided to transition into Real Estate. Keith’s experience in project management, marketing, technology and negotiating has given him a solid base from which to build a career in Real Estate.
From the beginning of his career as a Realtor, Keith has continually developed and refined a step-by-step system for buying and selling real estate. Every step of each transaction is documented to ensure that all of his clients receive positive and consistent results and that they are fully satisfied. Keith works with buyers, sellers and investors in the Boulder/Denver markets, and is committed to integrity, hard work and getting positive results.
Keith enjoys many outdoor activities including golf, softball, adventure racing, sailing, scuba diving and traveling. He is also the President and Executive Director of Developing Hands, a non-profit organization committed to building a school and home for the street children of Nepal. Keith is also a youth mentor for high risk teens and volunteers for Meals on Wheels, Eco Cycle and other local events and organizations.
Please call or email Keith for more information about his unique approach to real estate including his performance guarantee. | 2019-04-22T19:05:33Z | https://keithrobinsonrealestate.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Business | 0.433149 |
wordpress | Here is a real treat for readers of the Darvish blog, the text of one of Mevlana Rumi’s actual sermons, as recorded in the Majales-e sab’e (The Seven Sermons). We do not know if it dates from before or after his meeting with Shams al-Din of Tabriz. Rumi delivered the opening benediction and the Hadith in Arabic, the liturgical language, then switched to Persian. Only seven sermons are so far known to exist in manuscript form. We are indebted to Franklin D. Lewis and his brilliant, monumental scholarly study, Rumi, Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi, for the translation.
Praise be God, who is sacrosanct above compare and contrast, sanctified from all peer and likeness, exalted above death and decomposition; the Ancient of Days, who exists eternally, the transformer of hearts, the motive force behind fate and events, He who brings about revolutions in our circumstances, of whom it cannot be asked when or how long, for the imputation of such concepts to the Ancient of Days is impossible! He began the world without exemplar or precedent, created Adam and his progeny from clods of clay (Qur’an 55:14, etc.), some of them destined for bliss, some for hellfire, some for remoteness, some for reunion. Among them some are given to drink of defeat while others are clothed with the raiment of acceptance. Should any tongue object, it is dumbfounded by this saying of the Almighty: “He shall not be asked of his doing, but they will be questioned.” (Qur’an 21:23). Exalted is out Lord above contention and disputation! Where does creation derive the right to question and contend? It was non-existent, then came into being and will decompose once again, going as the mountains go: “You see the mountains and suppose them firm, but they will pass away as clouds do. Such is God’s handiwork, who brings all things to perfection” (Qur’an 27:88).”There is no God but Him” (Qur’an 2:163), “the Great, the Exalted” (Qur’an 13:9).
He raised up our Prophet, Mohammad (God’s peace and blessings upon him) when ignorance appeared and blasphemy and waywardness reigned, and he counseled his community through words and deeds, making clear to them which paths were forbidden and which were permissible. He exerted himself in the path of God under all conditions until the sea of negation evaporated like a mirage and the Truth was established straight and tall by his effort.
God’s peace and blessings upon him and his family – the best of families – and upon his companions: upon Abu Bakr, the righteous, who liberally supported him with his wealth; upon Omar, distinguisher of truth from error, whose obedience to him intensified even in terrifying floods of tribulation; upon Osman, possessor of the twin lights, who held fast to recitation of the Remembrance (i.e. the Qur’an) every morn and every eve; and upon Ali b. Abu Taleb, the smasher of idols and slayer of champions. So long as the gazelle cubs graze in the meadows and the darkness is lit up and wicks blaze, our fervent and humble supplications (for them) will not cease.
O Lord, O God, O Sustainer! Wrap us in the light with which you envelop your chosen servants, that we may meet the Friend. Nurture us not in the pastures of lust where you nurture the enemies, where the cows and stable goats are nurtured for their meat and pelts. Nurture the birds of our senses with the grains of knowledge and wisdom that we may fly in the heavens, and not with the seeds of lust, that our throats may be slit.
The fickle firmament brings forth its little dramas, just as shadow players manipulate imaginary stars and planetary puppets from behind a screen. We crowd around awhile engrossed by this spectacle, whirling away our night of life. In the morning death will arrive and this throng from the firmaments shadow play will grow cold and the nights of our life will have blown by us.
O Lord, before the morn of death dawns, make our hearts cold to this play so that we might escape from the throng in time and not fall behind those who travel through the night. When the morning dawns, let it find us in the precincts of your approval.
The water of life is such a thing that whoever drinks from it will never die. Any tree branch turned green by it will never yellow and wither; any flower blossoming by virtue of that water of life will never wilt. But this is not the water of vitality, this is the water of mortality. He who drinks deepest from this mortal water of life will dies soonest. Do you not see how the princes and kings have a shorter span of life than their servants? The branch will soaks up this water most will yellow soonest. See this rose – the one most saturated with this water now blossoming most fully – it will of necessity wilt before all the other brides of the garden.
Rare is the body whose ear hears this cry and counsel, and rarer still the somebody who leaves this murky water to the nobodies. O God! O Monarch! Make us one of those somebodies and grant us deliverance from this black and brackish water, that we may not die like those others with swollen face and bloated belly at the fount of this spring and may not be held back from the quest for the water of life.
So Abu Dharr said: This great one (Mohammad) emerged one day from the Sacred Mosque and the place of prayer from which he called his Lord. He said, “Supplication after the obligatory are always answered.” He mounted the throne of “I am the chief of the sons of Adam but take no pride in this.” He spread the carpet of “Poverty is my pride,” and set out the cushions of “Adam and the other prophets are under my banner,” reclining upon the support of “the first thing God created was my light.” Those who accompanied him from Mecca and those who supported him in Medina and all those “who seek forgiveness at dawn” (Qur’an 3:17), those who in gratitude “stay up through the night and fast during the day,” drew around him a circle. There was the righteous Abu Bakr, who like a jeweler, set forth pearly words of divine mystery in fine array. There was the Discriminating Omar, divining the distinction between truth and falsehood. There was Osman of the Twin Lights, preparing light for the darkness of the tomb. There was Ali the Acquiescent, forging bonds of contentment. There was Belal, singing like a bulbul. “Rejoice us with the call to prayer), O Belal!” Sohayb was there, quaffing the chalice of the wine of faithfulness. Salman was there pacing in the path of peace.
And I, Abu Dharr, was there, reduced to a mote of dust before his majesty. I brazenly opened my mouth and asked our great leader (in Arabic), “What is in the scroll of Moses?” (Meaning in Persian) What is in the scroll of Moses, that consolation of the soul of lovers and the confidant of yearning hearts?
Our leader, at the command of the One Who lives and never dies, removed the seal of silence from the treasure chest of truth, and said: (Arabic) “I am amazed.” (meaning in Persian) I am amazed by the servant of God who has set foot in the field of faith, has believed in Hades and all the levels of hell, has heard the call of King and His aides; how can he, in this thicket of calamity and prison of catastrophe, laugh lightheartedly?
No, no, my brother! Try to escape from this prison, set foot on the path of repentance so that you may have both the here and hereafter in this world. But what good is this? Rather you should set your sights even higher and spur on the steed of religion even faster until you pass beyond all regard for the world and even close yours eyes to the next world. In this way you will see the beauty of the mysterium tremendum.
Sweep all away with the broom of “No!” Every king or prince has a herald for every ceremony. The herald which sweeps aside both worlds from before the face of the Courtiers and Kings of Holiness is the phrase: THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD.
Look on nothing but God’s beauty, hear nothing but God’s word, that you may be among the closest confidants of the King.
My idol, seeing this, reproved: For shame!
Here is my cheek and you look there at the rose?
And God is the All-Knowing.
The Night of Power will be, inshAllah, on August 15th this year for those countries that started fasting on July 20th, and August 14th for those countries that started Ramadan on July 19th.
In the last ten day of Ramadan, I have been contemplating the seal ring of the blessed Prophet (saw). The inscription reads “Muhammad Rasul Allah,” meaning literally: “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” This is the inscription on the original seal that was used by the Prophet, may Allah bless him and give him peace, to sign the letters he sent to various rulers.
The Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was illiterate, so he had the ring made as his signature seal. And indeed, The Prophet (saw) had the ring cast in silver, but being so filled with love and reverence for Allah almighty, did not want to place his name above the name of Allah. Contrary to the normal way of reading from top to bottom, he had the inscription written upwards, “Muhammed Rasul Allah” as can be seen in the photo above.
The original ring, however, was lost down the well of Aris during the reign of hadhrat Uthmaan. The Seal that is in the Topkapi palace was made thereafter, and is not an exact replica of the orignal, which was never recovered, according to this hadith.
Nonetheless, may Allah hear our prayers and bless us these last days of Ramadan with the love and humility of the Prophet (saw). Amin.
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wordpress | From the publishers’ website: “Lauren Sheehan’s career in medicine came to a halt after a chain of violent events abroad. Now she’s back in the safest place she knows-St. Helens, Wisconsin-cut off from career, friendship, and romance.
Ben Hanson’s aimless young life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but a surprising offer from his father draws him home for what looks like his final second chance. In Wisconsin, he finds his family fractured, still unable to face the truth behind his troubled cousin’s death a decade earlier.
I had a mixed reading experience with this book. Sometimes I found the story compelling and I wanted to read on, while at other times I was bored.
I enjoyed reading about Ben arriving in his childhood town, getting to know the place (again) and the people. But there were memories that I didn’t care about intermixed with this story. Later on in the book, it becomes a thriller for a while, which was all rather exciting.
As the book is told by both Ben and Lauren, the perspective shifts every so often, which I like. I love reading events and situations from different perspectives or, like in this case, the story often continued through the alternating narrators.
I didn’t particularly like Ben. There wasn’t really any good reason why he should hook up with Lauren but he did. You know, in many books you get the idea that two people are meant to be together. In this book not. That is maybe because they were portrayed in a more realistic way, but on the other hand, I didn’t really care whether they’d be together or not. And while this was not a romance novel (nor I a romance reader), it would have given the story a bit of tension that it lacked in places.
Still, it was clear from the moment Lauren joined the narrative, that she would be involved with Ben in some way or another. At first, their lives were very much separate and when they did meet, Lauren showed no interest in Ben whatsoever. So the foreshadowing made me curious to see how they would end up in the same story line.
Sometimes the story was a bit vague, I wouldn’t know what to do with the information on the page. For instance, there were thoughts that at that point in the book didn’t seem to relate to the ongoing story. I was left a bit confused at times.
But most loose ends are tight up at the end of the story and overall, I enjoyed it. There are some skeletons in Ben and Lauren’s cupboards, and not just in theirs, and when the past becomes current, the book certainly gains pace and becomes quite compelling.
Sheila, in this book I didn’t mind so much not liking the characters, but I think the story would have worked better for me if I had.
I like stories told from multiple perspectives too!
Trisha, I especially love it when the people have completely different interpretations of an event. For instance, one person thinks someone did something because of A and getting all upset, and then the other person tells us they did it for no particular reason (or a different reason altogether).
I hated giving THIS BRIGHT RIVER by Patrick Sommerville less than five stars because the last part of it rates that. I almost gave it three stars because the first half of it wanders here, then there, then there, then to the past, than to past that, then back to the present for a minute, etc. It’s very difficult to know where you are and who is who.
On top of that, regardless of where or when, it rambles, particularly when Ben is thinking, which is often. His thoughts go on and on in huge, rambling paragraphs. Once, when Ben’s cousin was drunk and high, he rambled in one four-page paragraph.
It seemed that Sommerville needed to master the art of plot. That first half (or so) is all over the place and plotless. But he writes so well, I stuck with him, and you’ll want to, too.
Although Ben’s thoughts continue to ramble in long paragraphs in the second half of the book, there is a story. As a matter of fact, there are two stories. And they are magnificent. | 2019-04-22T09:05:40Z | https://leeswammes.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/book-review-this-bright-river-by-patrick-somerville/ | Porn | Home | 0.128278 |
wordpress | As part of this recent series on transformative learning and #STEM, this #throwbackthursday post revisits two articles that inspired me when undertaking my thesis (all those years ago!), while thinking about what they mean for transformative learning in 2018.
As I re-read my, somewhat battered, copy of a 1998 paper by James Bradburne, Dinosaurs and White Elephants: the Science Centre in the 21st Century, was reminded of how far we have come, yet also how so little has changed. Bradburne’s premise in this paper was that science museums need to fundamentally shift from being ‘fonts of scientific knowledge’ to showing visitors how to inquire. He identified a key number of trends impacting on science centres (and museums) and suggested that these institutions need to become a hybrid, or new learning platforms where users are considered as the starting point for effective learning. One measure of success suggested was that visitors leave “… not saying ‘I know’ but rather ‘I know how to know’” (p.119, emphasis in original).
Bradburne concluded by stating that the key to institutional survival is “… having the flexibility to respond to the needs of a wide variety of users” (p.133), and taking a leading role in informal learning by drawing on knowledge gained via research.
This led me to another paper, Perspectives on Learning Through Research on Critical Issues-Based Science Centre Exhibitions, by Erminia Pedretti (2004). In this the author talks about the new directions in science centres that go beyond ‘science as wonder’ and ‘objects as curiosities’ to an “emphasis on involvement, activity and ideas … [that include] social responsibility and the raising of social consciousness” (p.S35).
Pedretti concluded that critical exhibitions challenge visitors in different ways, appealing to a person’s intellect and emotions (sensibilities), enhancing learning by “… personalising subject matter, evoking emotion, stimulating dialogue and debate, and promoting reflectivity” (p.S45).
However, we know that visitors enjoy experiential exhibits, are naturally curious, like to learn (from simple facts to deep change), as well as engaging with exhibitions that make them think, so using the best elements from all three of these approaches may be the best way to develop and deliver transformative learning experiences.
Bradburne, J. (1998). Dinosaurs and White Elephants: the Science Centre in the 21st Century. Museum Management and Curatorship. 17(2), 119-137.
Pedretti, E. (2004). Perspectives on Learning Through Research on Critical Issues-Based Science Centre Exhibitions. Science Education. 88(1), S34-S47.
No worries and thanks for your comment! | 2019-04-25T14:53:22Z | https://musdigi.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/beyond-facts-and-phenomena-teaching-and-learning-about-science-tbt/ | Porn | Science | 0.874648 |
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wordpress | In seeking to keep older Americans healthy and well, the AARP regularly posts information and suggestions for each of us to consider. Here is a recent article about Thyroid Cancer.
Originally posted by Cheryl Bond-Nelms, on AARP, July 5, 2017.
As with all articles expressing facts and/or opinions about health and wellness: nothing in the sharing of this article is meant to be medical advice. Please consult your own healthcare provider as you monitor and/or research your own health needs.
Although the death rate from cancer in America is down 25 percent since 1991, there is one type of cancer rapidly increasing in the U.S. According to the American Cancer Society, the chance of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer has tripled over the last three decades, making it the fastest-growing cancer.The thyroid is a gland located in the front of the neck, shaped like a butterfly. It produces hormones that enter the bloodstream and affect the metabolism, heart, brain, muscles and liver, and keep the body functioning properly and effectively.The estimates for cases of thyroid cancer in America for 2017 have increased, and rates are higher in women than men, according to these figures published on cancer.org. | 2019-04-21T06:48:41Z | https://windintheidyllwildpines.wordpress.com/tag/aarp/ | Porn | Health | 0.682871 |
wordpress | One from my book is the another set of Post which I’m going to include in my blogging Journey from today. Somewhat from my awesome books I took a dive in.Hope you guys like them as well like my other posts.
THE DESIRE FOR MORE POSITIVE EXPERIENCE IS ITSELF A NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE. AND, PARADOXICALLY, THE ACCEPTANCE OF ONE’S NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE ITSELF A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE.
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wordpress | Jerry Lewis, 91, passes away. RIP.
His movies were mostly slapstick and almost always had the same formula, but as kids we loved watching his goofball comedy movies on TV in Pakistan.
What movies of his do you remember and enjoyed the most?
His best role came later in life with charity work. | 2019-04-19T12:15:09Z | https://imrananwar.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/farewell-jerry-lewis-imran/ | Porn | Arts | 0.918798 |
wordpress | Imagine a world where you can be free and do whatever you want to do, and you be as happy as possible. How would that world be different from the real world?
I believe I’m falling in love slowly.
I cannot deny what I want. I want everything. I want many things. I want to own things. Yes, I want to be materialistic. What is wrong with that? Why can’t I own things? Does that not also define us? Our material possessions? Some say no. That is an easy answer. Intellectual arrogance a mon avis.
its funny what they say about reality, because my reality is the exact opposite of theirs.
is publishing articles about what you want to be true versus what is true.
Our duty as Americans is to understand the source of our national problems in order to improve our image as a nation and to improve relations with other nations. Our job is not to eradicate evil, but to weaken it, to stifle it, and to secure Justice. All pessimists are just unambitious lazy people who have nothing better to do than be pretentious. God bless America, save Palestine, and free the world from the ignorance of injustice.
There is no reason to be good, or kind, other than for the sake of its existence. | 2019-04-22T00:01:17Z | https://dannykrikorian.wordpress.com/2012/12/ | Porn | Society | 0.277121 |
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wordpress | What if I told you that flexibility has little to do with muscle length, and everything to do with your nervous system’s protective holding patterns?
How would that change your practice?
Often, muscle tightness, and what is experienced as inflexibility, is the result of deep neurological habits. That is, the nervous system is doing its job of protecting you by tightening the muscles when they give certain feedback. When we push beyond that natural response in order to find a deeper stretch, or to willfully encourage the muscles to lengthen, that initial resistance is only met with greater resistance! Your nervous system intelligently signals the muscles to tighten more when that comfort zone is pushed.
This means that in our efforts to gain flexibility, or to stretch more (especially if we’re already “tight”), we may actually be training ourselves to tighten up even more!
So how, then, do we gain flexibility if stretching is potentially making us tighter?
The answer is not to just stop stretching altogether, but to be much more intelligent about how, how far, and how often to stretch.
Even before looking at your stretching program, it’s helpful to first look at stabilizing your nervous system. Stabilizing the nervous system can be tricky, as we are not usually accustomed to recognizing and listening to its signals. However, finding and creating nervous system stability is not so complicated — at least in theory.
The basic principle of finding stability in your nervous system is creating a feeling of safety. Here is where it can get tricky, because everyone’s conditions for safety are different, and often our ideas of safety are not always congruent with what our nervous system needs to understand that it is, in fact, keeping you safe and alive. In other words what feels safe at the conscious level may not actually be registered as safety by your nervous system. We often learn to find safety, or comfort, in conditions where the nervous system is unstable, and in doing so we may become even more estranged form our nervous system’s signals.
In short, when you are comfortable and stable, the nervous system relaxes. It lets go of the signal to protect and the armoring tension that results in muscle tightness and inflexibility decrease. This happens gradually and in layers. While your nervous system is extremely fast in reacting to protect, it has a much slower timeline when it comes to registering safety — the nervous system is often just beginning to settle at the same time that you feel bored or that you’re no longer getting anything out of the pose.
This is the most difficult part: our sensations are relayed to us via the nervous system, and when it is quiet, we think nothing’s happening because, well, there’s no signal… no sensation of stretch or pain or all of the other sensations we normally associate with “progress.” As soon as we feel a sensation of stretch, especially when we are particularly tight, this is often interpreted by the nervous system as a threat — a threat that the nervous system tries to protect you from by tightening the very place you are trying to stretch!
The nervous system also operates on habit, on recurrence. Once you’ve developed a protective habit against any particular movement or range of motion, anything you do to challenge that range of motion reinforces the habit. While behaviorally, we can often sometimes replace one habit by simply cultivating another, protective habits don’t necessarily respond to replacement and need to be slowly unraveled as stability is cultivated in more productive, conscious ways.
So what to do? How can you settle the nervous system and stretch, how can you settle and stabilize your nervous system in order to become more flexible?
The first step is to take away any perceived threat to the nervous system. This means only moving in ranges of motion where there is absolutely no resistance or restriction — so if you feel a stretch, you’ve already gone too far from a nervous perspective (you *may* still get some muscular and circulatory benefits, but not when working specifically with settling the nervous system).
For instance, in Supta Padangusthasana (lying down hamstring stretch), we often go to the point where we feel a pleasant stretch sensation at the back of the leg. What one person feels as “pleasant,” however, may be “intense” for someone else; and some only find pleasant when sensation is intense. If the nervous system is the restriction (and this may be the case even if you are very flexible and only feel sensation near your end-range), you’ll need to back off of the pose considerably and stay in it for much longer than you are used to.
That will often mean that instead of extending both legs, bringing the raised leg 90º toward your torso or closer, you will bend the bottom leg and rest the raised leg on a support much further away from you: the wall, a chair, or sometimes even a block. The pose won’t look or feel like a stretch at all, *but* it gives the nervous system a chance to adjust to a mild form of the range, making it feel safe and stable. In turn, when that range is revisited, it’s no longer interpreted as a threatening range of motion, but a safe one instead, and the range more naturally increases.
It’s also important in this strategy to support the limbs, so in the Supta Padangusthasana example above, support not only the heel of the raised leg, but if possible support the back of the entire leg. The contact from this support will help stabilize the nervous system, but it will also protect the leg from hyperextending and prevent your hip flexor and quadricep muscles from engaging to carry the weight of your leg. Again, these engagements will aggravate the nervous system rather than soothe it because there is still a degree of fight or struggle — no longer in the hamstrings, but in the opposing muscles.
Another aspect of working with the nervous system if that is the cause of your tightness, is that often tight muscles become weak over time. There is sometimes a misunderstanding that because a muscle is tight and firm, it is also strong. That’s not really true, it’s only habitually contracted in a shortened position — it doesn’t have the full power afforded by a full range of motion. Think of when a soccer player kicks the ball: if they can bring their leg more fully back in hip extension and knee flexion, and continue through to hip flexion and knee extension, the kick has much more power to it than if the knee can only flex 50% and extend 75%, and if the hip can only extend a few degrees back and flex only a few degrees forward. In this example, much of that power is gained through the momentum of the range of motion, not just pure muscular strength.
When we remove momentum as a factor, muscles are still able to exert more force when their range of motion is free — within reason. We are usually weaker at the ends of our ranges of motion, and that’s one reason why we get inflexible, especially if our work or training requires more strength than flexibility.
Then, when there’s weakness, this is also interpreted as instability by the nervous system, and a common tactic to regain stability is to tighten. Again, though, this is a state of struggle, of threat, and though it may lead to a sense of temporary stability and a habit of holding rigidly, it will not lead to greater flexibility. Instead, it feeds the loop of tightening more whenever a threat (stretch sensation) is present.
So the second aspect of addressing flexibility through the nervous system branches from the first: once the nervous system settles in mild, supported ranges of motion, more active stability can be created by resisting against the support temporarily and then releasing — but without changing the degree that you’re resting in the pose. The release phase after activation is just as important, if not *more* important, as once again, the nervous system needs time after resistance to understand that the threat is gone, there is additional stability, and adapt to that.
After resisting into the support (so away from the range of motion), you can further stabilize by resisting in other directions: first, resist toward the range of motion, without actually moving into it. In our Supta Padangusthasana example, if you were resting your heel on a wall, keep the heel on the wall, but engage the legs as if you were to lift the heel away from the wall. Hold this engagement for a few breaths, rest, and engage a second and third time. Again, resting in the supported, reduced range is essential for retraining the nervous system to not interpret that range of motion — or the associated engagements — as a threat.
Without lifting the leg, engage as though lifting away from the wall.
You can also, without changing the leg position, resist the leg toward and away from the midline.
To both develop a new habit of releasing, and give the nervous system time to adapt, hold these mild positions (I won’t even call them “stretches” because there is no stretch sensation) for anywhere from 5-20 minutes provided they are adequately supported. Repeat them for 7 or more consecutive days before changing the degree. Each day, you will likely feel less and less, and that is *good*!
After the 7th consecutive day, take a day or two to rest completely, and then repeat the cycle in a very slightly deeper range of motion — but again, well before any sensation of stretch.
After 6 weeks of this pattern, notice the differences in your flexibility when you do, finally, move into ranges where stretch sensation is felt.
Practice well, and use this time to develop patience and sensitivity to more subtle sensations. Observe how your body creates a multitude of small adjustments as nervous tension unravels. Deepen your practice by penetrating consciousness through the layers that normally run unconsciously, rather than by finding deeper, more intense sensations.
Your nervous system will thank you. | 2019-04-26T08:43:30Z | https://sensasana.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/to-gain-flexibility-first-become-more-stable/ | Porn | Reference | 0.231085 |
wordpress | My love for Julia Child goes back to watching The French Chef as a little girl with my Dad. We learned and laughed together. Dad is not one to strictly follow recipes (or directions-just ask my Mom) but rather I watched him gather ideas from this and other cooking shows and make them his own. It is the way I cook today. Mostly I look to cookbooks for ideas or techniques and Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking is a lifetime companion for me in the kitchen.
With the celebration this week of what would have been Ms. Child’s one hundredth birthday, there are so many people posting dishes and meals they are creating from or inspired by her works. While the elaborate, multi-step recipes are the ones getting the most attention (and I have made my share of those), it is the simple recipes that I like the best. Galettes Au Fromage from Volume One of the Art of French Cooking is simple enough to prepare with children for a fun snack but can also be served elegant nibble for your next cocktail party. Julia even notes that this recipe is a good way to use of leftover cheese and since I often freeze little bits of cheese that is a bonus.
I made my Galettes Au Fromage with a mix of cheddar, swiss, and parmesan and shaped then into little hearts instead of the round shapes detailed in the recipe. (Tuck this idea away for Valentines Day!) I served them with some homemade fig, apple, cranberry spread which matched well with the salt and crunch of the biscuits. Bon Appetit!
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I’d forgotten this one – thanks for the reminder and the nudge to make them for my next gathering. | 2019-04-21T06:59:28Z | https://dovesandfigs.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/to-julia-child-homage-avec-fromage/ | Porn | Kids | 0.820792 |
wordpress | This is the oldest recipe notebook of my grandmother’s that I have.
It has been wrapped in more recent years, maybe the 1990s, with recycled giftwrap.
This is the actual cover. Can you make out the faded logo? It says ‘Federal Stationery 250’.
Here are some of the first few pages. Note the date: Dec 22nd, 1957.
9/3/08 update : I’ve just come across a page on Rose Syrup dated 24 October 1955! So it appears that this notebook was not started in December 1957 as I noted above. Grandmother did not fill in the pages sequentially, so the front page dated 22 December 1957 simply indicates that she had added in that information at that point.
In some of the entries on this blog, I’ve made some observations about changing perceptions of food in the decades that these cooking notes were made. Came across this British Nutrition Foundation page which points out some of the changes between 1952 and 1992.
I’m sorry, I don’t know and there’s nothing in my grandmother’s recipe notebooks either.
If you haven’t already seen this book, you may want to refer to “The Chinese Pregnancy and Confinement Cookbook” by Ng Siong Mui (Singapore: Landmark Books, 1990) which is available at many branches of the National Library in Singapore.
Good luck finding an appropriate recipe!
Hi, you might be interested in this recipe – I am a Hakka chinese woman married to an Portugese Eurasian hubby.
I used to drink a glass of my mum’s rice wine every Chinese New Year since I am a little girl.
30 斤 glutinous rice, soak overnight and steam till cook.
Transfer to a ceramic pot (the type that soak the salted veg in the market) or any glass/clay pot that you have.
Sprinkle with 红漕, put a muslin cloth around the pot and cover with a lid. Have to put a stone or something solid on top to sit on it. On the 9th day, use your fist and press the centre of the glutinous rice to turn it over. Keep it cover for another 21 days. U can squeeze the wine out using the muslin cloth. This recipe makes about 20/30 bottles.
Remember, do not bring any food near the pot as the smell will over-right the wine. Chinese saying 小气!
Sorry, there is a mistake on the wine recipe. After checking with my mum, she said it should be 1 to 1 ratio and that is for every amount of glutinous rice is to one wine biscuit.
The rest of the steps are correct.
1 斤 glutinous rice = 1 pc of wine biscuits.
Thank you for sharing your family recipe, Carly.
I have an old YWCA Cookery Book of Malaya edited by Mrs A.E. LLewellyn, 8th Edition published by YWCA reprinted in 1958.
I believed there are some other editions printed earlier and those recipes hand written matched to those printed in this book.
Thank the Granny who painstaking wrote those recipes in her handwriting in her note book.
Should there be any recipes written in her note book which may not be clear to decipher and should it be inside this book, I would be delighted to scan them if you need them.
I believe not all the recipes are in this 8th edition.
Most likely the YWCA of Malaya/Singapore may have kept a file of their printings.
By the way, this book was kept by my late mother who passed away some years ago.
Thank you so much for offering to share. You are lucky to have inherited a culinary heritage from your mother. There are copies of the YWCA cookery book in the Singapore National Library as well. I have not checked if my grandmother’s handwritten notes are exactly the same as the published ones. I think she collected the recipes from friends in YWCA or directly in the cooking classes. | 2019-04-18T18:31:29Z | https://nicerecipes.wordpress.com/recipe-book-1957/ | Porn | Reference | 0.121465 |
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wordpress | Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah assured Saturday that there are between 35 and 40 resistance axes around the world and their common trait is sympathy with the oppressed people and readiness to sacrifice for their sake.
In a speech he delivered during a ceremony commemorating the “martyred leaders”, Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that Sheikh Ragheb Harb refused to shake hands with the Israeli insisting that the occupation will soon end at a time when everyone considered that the occupation has become an imposed fact that they have to live with.
As he denied claims about having any brigades in Venezuela or Latin America, he expressed solidarity with Venezuela against the US aggression and reassured that Hezbollah did not have any brigade outside Lebanon and has previously asked his foreign supporters to work separate from Hezbollah so that they wouldn’t be harmed from this relation.
Sayyed Nasrallah reiterated that Israel is aware of Hezbollah’s power and this enough deters it from any attack, indicating that the Israeli entity is aware, according to its own officials, that the Israeli army, specifically its ground force, is incapable of engaging in a war now.
“They don’t trust their army, but we trust our resistance. They are certain that the resistance can enter the Galilee but they are uncertain that their army is capable of entering Lebanon, and this is a great transformation. The concern today is in the Israeli settlements not in the south. This is the deterrence equation and it is of great importance,” he said.
“Warsaw Summit does not scare us, just like Sharm Sheikh conference did not scare us in the past even though our situation was harder back then. This Summit is weak, and its target is the Palestinian cause which was completely absent while the topic raised was fighting terrorism and keeping stability in the region, knowing that Israel is the head of terrorism in the region. The real propose out of it was normalization and bringing out the secret Gulf ties with Israel to Public.
Hezbollah secretary general further noted that the second target of the summit was Iran which is much stronger today to be threatened with any war.
Sayyed Nasrallah reassured that the resistance axis is the one that defeated ISIS in the region not the “US hypocrite who came at the end to play the role of the triumphant”.
Internally, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed the importance of dialogue for solving all the issues and files. | 2019-04-25T06:37:06Z | https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/sayyed-nasrallah-trump-biggest-hypocrite-internal-battle-against-financial-corruption-began/ | Porn | News | 0.469078 |
wordpress | President Obama called Kanye West a jackass. I saw it on Twitter so it must be true. And Politico reported on it here. Considering what he did to Taylor Swift on Sunday night, I agree with the president: Kanye West is a jackass. But that’s not why we’re here today.
What Terry Moran of ABC News did is inexcusable. He, or one of his staff with access to his Twitter account, sent an off the record comment across the web at light speed as casually as one might lean in to the person next to them and whisper “Psst. The president just called Kanye West a jackass.” To call this an ethical lapse is an understatement.
This is not the same as the many “open mic” incidents that have occurred over the years with politicians, celebrities and pundits unknowingly giving us a glimpse into their true feelings. Off the record comments are commonplace and credibility is the lifeblood of any journalist. Moran broke a trust with the president and his credibility deserves to suffer for it.
There are still too many people who fail to understand the power of the internet. Who can’t grasp the simple concept that once you’ve sent a message it is A) no longer yours and B) cannot be retrieved. You can usually tell these people by the photos of last weekend’s party posted they posted on Facebook.
If we are going to be trusted to use the tools Web 2.0 has placed at our fingertips, our mindsets and how we think about ourselves in the grand scheme must evolve. With so many people having access to vast amounts of information, it’s human nature to take the occasional “scoop” and run with it before thinking about the consequences. Recent history is replete with examples of news organizations that ran with stories that were ultimately proven to be false. Granted, Moran’s tweet is not false, but it was off the record and it’s not like he revealed it to his mother during a friendly chat. No, he was talking to his 1,066,522 followers. Talk about the power of distribution.
You’ve heard of the Chaos Theory – aka Butterfly Effect? The Internet takes the theory and multiplies the effect by a factor of infinity. There’s a lot of power in those characters, all 140 of them, and Moran, or one of his colleagues, misused it.
Do any of you read Justin Kownacki? You should.
Social media is still locked in the hands of the technophiles and the marketers, who focus on mechanical and business applications. They’re either unwilling or incapable of creating true cultural change, seeking instead to find practical ways to use these tools for financial profit. And that’s functional, but it’s not the kind of sociological earthquake that’s going to define a generation — unless we become defined as the generation who’d rather consume than create.
I understand what Justin is getting at. The internet is the most powerful distribution engine ever created. Like radio and TV before it, but with copious amounts of digital steroids injected, the WWW has opened up a new world of sharing news, information and opinion and has shattered the barriers to entry. Any garage band with aspirations for greatness can find an audience without the aid of a manager or recording contract. Any writer can satisfy their passion through blogging. Any budding director can film – old school I know – edit and distribute their work and not have to deal with the politics of Hollywood.
Although Woodstock is considered the defining event of the Baby Boom Generation, the phenomenon of 500,000 people spending three days stoned in the mud listening to great music did not change the culture. It was, however, one of several pieces that came together to make a dramatic and lasting impact on the cultural make up of the USofA. In fact, the cultural change Justin is seeking might have already taken place.
Like the cultural shifts of the 1960’s and 1980’s, the ingredients for a movement were in place in 2008, but a catalyst was needed to turn the potential into the kinetic. In the 60’s it was Vietnam, in the 80’s it was Reagan and in 2008 it was President Obama.
Last November, Barack Obama rode a wave into the White House. It was a wave built using social media to distribute, and make viral the candidate’s message and the messages of his supporters. Where Kennedy used television, Obama mastered the Internet to build a coalition of supporters that would assure his victory.
Only history will tell if his election was a defining moment of a generation, or one ingredient in a larger dish of cultural change. Either way, change is not an item on a menu to be ordered when one is in the mood and, more often than not, we can only recognize it and its impact through the lens of history.
There’s a dust up is in the works between The Drudge Report and the Obama Administration. It stems from a Breitbart.tv report – picked up by Drudge – that shows a pre-presidential Obama advocating government funded universal health care.
If you watch the video you’ll come to the same conclusion as I; it’s nothing more than typical opposition politics being played out in the new arena of the Internet. What’s not typical, but is becoming so under Obama, is the Administration’s response as reported by Politico’s Mike Allen.
Linda Douglass – who’s managing health care communications for POTUS – provided a video response admonishing us to not believe everything we see. After all video can be edited and, therefore, deceiving.
True enough, but what Douglass doesn’t do is provide a rebuttal. Other than showing two clips of President Obama promising we will be able to keep 0ur private insurance, there is nothing to prove the earlier statements Breitbart exposed are inaccurate or doctored. There’s not even an attempt to claim that Obama’s views on the subject of universal medicine have changed over time.
Adding to the problem, Douglass blames the video on people with too much time on their hands. It’s reminiscent of Dan Rather portrayal of Memogate bloggers as sitting in their basements in their pajamas. Being dismissive and condescending towards ones critics, not taking them seriously, is a tactical mistake.
One of the first rules of social media is transparency; being open and honest. If you’re going to call your critics misleading, you’d better set the record straight. The Administration’s response in this case is a complete failure.
Social media played a major role in putting Obama in the Oval Office and they’ve continued to use the tools Web 2.o has to offer, but this is a very weak attempt to bat back the opposition. This may only be a stumble, even the best do so occasionally, but it might be an illustration of how difficult is to govern using the same tactics that put you in office.
Just released by Zogby and Gallup are two polls that show this see saw race is still that. McCain has regained the lead in both – within the margin of error as almost all polls have been. As the polls are released and the ebb and flo continues, I asked myself, again, why isn’t Obama up by 10 points?
This time, I think I have an answer.
Obama has the star power, the charisma, the rhetorical skills (when giving a prepared speech). He has an opponent who’s old enough to have been drawing full Social Security benefits for 5 years and the bad luck of having an Albatross called George W. Bush hanging around his neck. If all that isn’t enough, we have an economy in turmoil and a sub-prime mortgage crisis that threatens shut down numerous banks.
All of this, and more, should have Obama cruising toward an electoral landslide, but that aint happening. And here’s why.
The events of yesterday, which I posted about here, got me hearkening back to a few weeks ago when Russia invaded Georgia and the dramatically different ways the candidates reacted.
McCain took to the microphone and gave a strong statment condemning Russia’s actions. In no uncertain terms he placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of Medvedev and Putin calling on them to “immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces” from Georgia.
Strong and forceful, it was the statement of a leader.
He doesn’t condemn Russia’s invasion, rather he condemns the violence and urges and “end to armed conflict.” He asks both sides to show restraint – forget about Georgia’s right to defend its self. And he wants talks. Talks that include the UN Security Council where Russia would certainly use its veto power. He doesn’t demand Russia withdraw from Georgia. He doesn’t even suggest it.
Fast forward to yesterday and his I’ll-be-there-if-you-need-me reaction to McCain’s decision to leave the campaign trail and go back to DC to figure a way out of this mess.
I do believe Obama’s fundamental problem, the reason he’s not ahead by 10 points, is that he suffers from an acute case of can’t-make-a-decision-itis.
The man who voted “present” around 130 times in the Illinois State Senate assumes a deer in the headlights pose when he has to make a big decision. Especially when it needs to be made quickly.
People want a leader who makes decision, tough or easy, quickly and with conviction. Obama, in the two biggest opportunities he’s had during this campaign, has failed both times.
I think Obama is suffering from a lack of confidence and people see that. People who might otherwise vote for him are taking a second look and wondering if they can count on him to, when necessary, make a snap decision, especially when the safety of the nation is in the balance. They may not always agree with McCain, but his decisiveness is something they admire and want in a leader. | 2019-04-18T17:02:28Z | https://wonderingoutloud.wordpress.com/tag/obama/ | Porn | News | 0.436976 |
wordpress | I usually don’t read historical fiction, but this book is worth reading even if you aren’t a fan of this genre. Lovely, awesome book, with an amazing story. If you liked Downtown Abbey you are in for a delightful treat.
The start of an awesome series, which I was quite happy to read until book eight quite fast. Fun, page-turning, with very interesting characters and world.
I found this book quite helpful, it’s about story structure in a summarized and easy to understand way. Great if you want an overview of Story Structure before you go into too many details. For me, this was helpful because I usually want to have a look at the whole subject before I look at each element in detail. So, if you are having difficulties to understand story structure read this short and concise book, you’ll get it in no time.
This book is very entertaining and it’s page-turner reading. I read this book in three days because I didn’t manage to put it down. I liked the main character, a fiery-tempered dragoness and all the witty dialogues and funny situations with the other dragons. I’ll be reading the next book in the Duology to see how this adventure ends.
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wordpress | 52 Weeks of Giving – Weeks 24 – Donate Books to "Books For Africa"
“…We believe that education is the great equalizer in the world, and books are at the foundation of a strong educational system. For many children in Africa, the gift of books truly is a gift of hope.
“Access to an education is one of the only opportunities young people have to end the cycle of poverty and attain a better quality of life than previous generations. Books For Africa works to help children who otherwise would not attend school by supplying educational materials to reduce or eliminate education costs.
“Wars, economic crises, poverty, malnutrition, and illiteracy plague many areas of Africa. According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 40 percent of school-age children in Africa do not attend school. Forty-six million African children have never set foot in a classroom.
“Most African children who attend school have never owned a book of their own. In many classrooms, 10-20 students share one textbook. Many people in the United States take these educational necessities for granted, but children in Africa cherish books.
After learning about Books For Africa, the girls picked out some books that they wanted to send the children.
they want to donate to Books For Africa.
they were copyrighted more than 15 years ago.
have such wonderful stories and lessons.
•15 years old or newer popular fiction and nonfiction reading books (soft and hard cover).
•1995 or newer publish date primary, secondary, and college textbooks (soft and hard cover).
•1995 or newer reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries.
•1995 or newer publish date medical, nursing, IT, and law books.
•Bibles are sent when requested by African recipients.
•School/office supplies—paper, pencils, pens, wall charts, maps, etc.
Acceptable books are gently used and relevant to an African reader.
•Magazines or journals or any kind.
•Home decorating, wedding, or cookbooks.
•Ethnocentric books, such as the biography of Abraham Lincoln or the history of Ohio.
•Foreign language books except for French books. French novels and dictionaries are welcome.
The girls put the books in a box and did not include any packing materials such as newspaper, plastic wrap, and peanuts (as requested by Books For Africa).
There also is an address in Georgia that accepts books. People can drop off books in person if they don’t want to mail them.
There are more details about shipping or dropping off books at their website. | 2019-04-18T17:11:06Z | https://harvestmoonbyhand.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/52-weeks-of-giving-weeks-24-donate-books-to-books-for-africa/ | Porn | Reference | 0.590159 |
wordpress | it’s not all about me.
is what I’m good at.
I’ll miss you. Everything about you. How wonderfully beautiful you are with your deep dark brown eyes. You are talented, loving and rich beyond anything resembling money.
It’s time I moved on. I’ve reached a point where I don’t think we can offer each other the best part of ourselves any more. I think I hold you back from your true potential.
less aloof and less distracted.
When I met you, you were larger than life, full of happiness, generosity, love. You were loyal to me.
I’m distressed. I’m trying to preserve the last of my sanity in order, to survive.
I have no intention of ruining you.
I’m not like my ex because I love you – he never did.
to run again this time. | 2019-04-22T15:02:56Z | https://poetryoutwest.wordpress.com/tag/self-preservation/ | Porn | Reference | 0.26647 |
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wordpress | This is a story in its entirety, and the beauty of its short form is the depth of interpretation the reader can both glean and fill in with her imagination. This kind of work may or may not be a novel, but it certainly can be a complete piece of art.
So can short forms of social media, such as Twitter, be considered art as well? Or is Twitter more akin to quotes, little pieces of people taken out of context?
Twitter was created as a form of social media in which users could only post 140-character posts at a time to update their followers. In a sense, this seems similar to the six word story; there is a specific and limited form of writing, encouraging the writer to work creatively within the form. On the other hand, Twitter is usually simply seen as people saying what they think, expressing a quote about themselves or their lives to the world. Yet technically, they have the ability to edit and craft as any writer does, and people have certainly used Twitter creatively, as seen in the #TwitterFiction festival.
I suppose social media is simply a tool, as was the printing press. You can use it to write a to-do list, or you can use it to create literature. But what if you write literature in the form of a list, like this? I love that there is no concrete line defining literature, allowing creativity in form to continue to expand. I love that there is a novel written entirely in footnotes. Maybe I’ll write a novel in quotes one day.
Do you think Twitter can be literature?
Creative, imaginative people can turn just about anything into an art form, albeit some with more success than others. I would have a hard time calling it literature (or perhaps it just requires the passage of time), but as with six word stories, I would definitely appreciate the creativity required to produce a “story” in 140 characters or less. The short form has so much potential to be thought-provoking. I love the photo of the Peabody Library. | 2019-04-25T20:55:00Z | https://morestoryblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/can-twitter-be-literature/ | Porn | Arts | 0.763003 |
wordpress | The feature of SQL Server 2008 that seems to get the most attention from DBA’s is the Resource Governor. It basically does what it says on the tin; for example you may want to reserve a portion of CPU or other resource for a user, process etc.
Notice that you can use any rule you like to create an association with a workload group e.g. users or the application.
Changes can be applied to the Resource Governor at will and take effect immediately. The function can be changed to move objects in to different workload groups as required and all of this will affect processes already running. | 2019-04-24T09:50:26Z | https://tomerl.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/resource-governor/ | Porn | Reference | 0.227362 |
faqs | Teen drinking is not a new phenomenon in the United States, but the practice has received particular attention since the 1970s.
Alcoholic beverages such as cider were a standard part of the diet of American colonists, even for children and sometimes for babies. Taverns welcomed teen boys, whose fathers brought them there as a RITE OF PASSAGE. Local ordinances occasionally limited the drinking of alcohol in public establishments for youths under sixteen years old, but these cases were uncommon and did not affect drinking at home. Alcohol consumption remained high in the early Republic, with adults over fifteen drinking the equivalent of six to seven gallons of absolute alcohol per year. College students, with whom alcohol was always popular, contributed to the high levels of drinking.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, child-saving reformers expressed concern at the availability of alcohol to young people in taverns. In 1877, the SOCIETYFOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TOHILDREN helped to enact a law that excluded children from saloons and dance halls; however children selling newspapers and peddling other items frequently gathered outside saloons to hawk their wares, and others hauled buckets of beer from saloons to factories at lunchtime for workingmen. Furthermore, some boys drank in saloons courtesy of bartenders who hoped that those they treated would become loyal customers in adulthood.
Also at this time, members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League spread the message of "scientific temperance" to children through public schools, Sunday schools, and youth temperance clubs, but they did not focus much attention on the drinking habits of youths. Some laws during this period restricted the use of alcohol by young people, but parents could allow them to drink alcohol at home or even in commercial establishments, and sellers of alcohol, not young drinkers themselves, were responsible for violations.
The onset of Prohibition in January 1920 failed to put an end to drinking in the United States. College students, particularly men in fraternities, flouted university regulations and further popularized the drinking of alcohol; many adults worried that high-school fraternities, too, promoted drinking. In 1930, about two-thirds of college students were drinkers, and many adults bemoaned the increase in drinking by young women. Foes of Prohibition argued that the restriction on alcohol would result in increasing automobile accidents as young people sought out places to drink, while supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment claimed that youth drinking was decreasing.
With the end of Prohibition in April 1933, individual states began setting the drinking age, often at twenty-one, though sometimes at eighteen for the purchase of beer. Anti-alcohol education remained standard in the public schools. Nevertheless, young people continued drinking alcohol. A study of drinking habits among college students published through the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies in 1953 found that 79 percent of male drinkers and 65 percent of female drinkers had had their first drink before starting college, and many had already begun drinking regularly. Furthermore, 45 percent of men and 40 percent of women reported having tasted alcohol before they were eleven years old. Studies such as this one failed to raise concerns about teen drinking.
Members of the BABY BOOM GENERATION lobbied for the right to drink alcohol (and to vote) at the age of eighteen rather than twenty-one; by 1975 twenty-eight states had lowered the legal drinking age, most to eighteen. However this new freedom was short-lived, as reports of increased rates of alcohol-related accidents and adolescent alcohol abuse gained publicity, and states quickly raised the drinking age to twenty-one again. A 1984 law made this trend universal by giving federal highway funds only to states that had, by 1986, adopted a legal drinking age of twenty-one.
The drinking age of twenty-one persists in the United States, but people under twenty-one drink between 11 and 25 percent of all alcoholic beverages in the United States. Furthermore, a study by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse found that 36 percent of the class of 1999 began drinking by eighth grade, compared to 27 percent of the high school class of 1975. It also appears that young males and females begin drinking at about the same time. Opponents of current laws argue that youths in countries with lower minimum drinking ages learn how to handle alcohol and tend not to abuse it. On the other hand, recent studies in the United States show a connection between teen drinking and sexual activity, high rates of fatalities in drunk driving accidents, possible neurological damage from binge drinking, and increased rates of alcoholism in later life.
Legal drinking ages in Europe vary by country, ranging from sixteen in Spain and the Netherlands, to eighteen in the United Kingdom and Poland, to twenty in Iceland. However, in western Europe, most teens begin drinking at age fifteen or sixteen, often in peer groups, with boys drinking more than girls. Approximately 90 percent of residents of the United Kingdom are drinkers by age seventeen.
See also: Adolescence and Youth; ; Law, Children and the; .
Mendelson, Jack H., and Nancy K. Mello. 1985. Alcohol, Use and Abuse in America. Boston: Little, Brown.
Mosher, James F. 1980. "The History of Youthful-Drinking Laws: Implications for Current Policy." In Minimum-Drinking-Age Laws: An Evaluation, ed. Henry Wechsler. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. 1998. Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870–1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. 1993. Teen Tipplers: America's Underage Drinking Epidemic. New York: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
Straus, Robert, Selden Daskam Bacon, and Yale Center of Alcohol Studies. 1953. Drinking in College. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Torr, James D. 2002. Teens and Alcohol. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. | 2019-04-18T18:23:32Z | http://www.faqs.org/childhood/So-Th/Teen-Drinking.html | Porn | Kids | 0.367232 |
columbia | Nellie Hermann, who is the Creative Director of Columbia University’s Program in Narrative Medicine, is a graduate of Brown University and the MFA program at Columbia University. Professor Hermann, who is a recipient of a 2016 NEA literature fellowship, is a co-author of Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her first novel, The Cure for Grief (Scribner, 2008), received national acclaim and was chosen as a Target “Breakout” book. Her short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Five Fingers Review, and Blunderbuss, and her nonfiction has appeared in an anthology about siblings, Freud’s Blind Spot (Free Press, 2010), The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Academic Medicine. Her second novel, The Season of Migration, about the early life of Vincent van Gogh (FSG: 2015), was a New York Times editor’s choice. | 2019-04-20T00:31:34Z | http://sps.columbia.edu/narrative-medicine/faculty/nellie-hermann | Porn | Arts | 0.962634 |
wordpress | This is music too; this is a long time youtube video favorite of mine.
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I absolutely loved the film Passengers; I remember it transported me away on every level in that theater, one of the reasons being it’s gorgeously written soundtrack. Watching the credits, I literally cried out loud, “Ahhhh that’s why I love it so much! That’s why it sounds like the Finding Nemo soundtrack!” which I also love to pieces. It was written by Thomas Newman. I absolutely love Newman’s musical work, so this soundtrack was an immediate favorite. I love the mixture of electronic elements with traditional instruments. It’s just SO atmospheric!
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This is becoming a long time favorite of mine. Its one of those few songs were the drop is actually satisfying to me and getting to it doesn’t slay me from being too long. I love the drop at 2:30. All the notes and elements work just right for me. Even as a writer, its given me some great inspiration for several different scenes and how they play. That’s always fantastic!
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Wow.I just flipping love it; the rhythm and beat and lyrics and dancing and instruments and emotion are just all too perfect for me. I love it.
The extra level eeiry-ness is incredible too, considering in many ways this feels like aa tribute to the Orlando shooting. So, just wow.
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I’m head over heels IN LOVE with Selena’s latest album from last year. I love so many songs, so many are full of encouraging messages too (I’ll be sharing more of my favorites in the future!) But today I wanna share the first that I heard and loved, “Good for You.” This is one of those songs that I madly wrote one of my novels to all last summer; sensual, airy, warm, the hip-hop/electro vibe is incredibly up my alley. I also just recently clicked with even the lyrics, so I love this song a lot!
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wordpress | The image above is another from my trip to the beach last month. It is my favorite of the whole trip, and I recently made a print of it. I thought I’d tell you how this particular image went from just an idea to a final print. However, if you want to skip all the details, and just see what the original RAW image looked like, you can just compare the final processed version above with the unprocessed RAW image below.
Prevision: It was near sunset and the tide was low. I had wanted a sunset shot with tide pools in the foreground, but that idea was out because of the fog bank I described in my earlier post . Instead I thought about an image with tide pools and the incoming waves mist-like on the shore. Because it was so gray out, for color I needed starfish (which are naturally purple and orange on this part of the coast) and green sea anemones. I wanted the starfish and selected tide pool to be the focus, with the rest of the image dark and misty (from the waves).
Camera Work: I found a several promising tide pools, some of which I showed in the earlier post. I spent a lot of time at this one, I thought the composition looked good, with the tide pool opening to the right rear and the big cluster of starfish. To blur the incoming waves into a mist, I knew I needed a long exposure, which forced me into using a small aperture. The final image was taken at ISO 100 and f/22 for 8 seconds. Obviously I used a tripod. I needed to be close to the tide pool, requiring a wide-angle lens to capture the entire scene. I put on my 10-22mm zoom and set it to 22mm. Finally, I wanted the center of interest to be the starfish on the far side of the pool. This was actually close to the darkest part of the scene. To help I used a flash to light up the far side of the tide pool. The original RAW capture, with just Lightroom defaults, is shown below.
Lightroom Processing: As you can see, even with the fill flash, the rock with the starfish was very dark. I knew it would take some dodging and burning work to bring it out to my original vision for the image. However, first things first. I always do global adjustments (those affecting the whole image) first before targeted ones. Usually my first step is to level the horizon and use LR’s lens correction feature. I typically use a bubble level on my hot shoe to help keep the horizon level when I shoot, but with the flash, that wasn’t possible. With the wide-angle zoom, there is a lot of distortion and chromatic aberration, both easily fixed in LR.
Next I adjusted the white balance. I slid LR’s blue-yellow slider to the right (yellow) to add warmth to the image.
Added some warmth by adjusting the white balance.
The image needed a bit more contrast, so I then set the white and black points by using the Whites and Blacks sliders. In this case, I moved the sliders to broaden the histogram and add just a little clipping of both blacks and whites.
Set the white and black points; adds contrast.
I knew I wanted to essentially invert the luminosity of the image, making most of the image darker and lightening up the back wall (which is dark in the original capture). To most effectively do this, I darkened the whole image by significantly moving the Exposure slider to the left (about 3/4 a stop), then recovered that much in the dark areas with the Shadows slider, moving it to the right.
Adjusting to darken everywhere by the shadows using the Exposure and Shadows sliders.
This was generally it for global adjustments, at least initially. Now it was time to work on problem areas to bring out my vision. First, the sky and water was still too light. So I added a Graduated Filter in LR. I used a relatively soft edge, and set the center of the gradient about 1/4 the way down from the top, reducing the exposure by another 1/3 stop. Then to add a bit more contrast to the background rocks and water, I adjusted the Contrast slider on the filter to the right.
My first targeted adjustment, darkening and adding contrast to sky, water and background rocks with a Graduated Filter.
Next I knew I needed a lot of painting with the Adjustment Brush. First I needed to lighten up the main area of interest – the tide pool and nearby rocks. The following shows where I added the brush and the effect. I added about 1/2 stop with the Exposure slider and even more with the Highlights slider to bring out the highlights.
It was still to dark in my primary subject area, so I painted a second time in the area shown below. This time I added another 1/2 stop in exposure, with lighted up the shadows more, added some “crispness” with the Clarity slider, and bumped up the color with the Saturation slider. (Normally, I do not use the Saturation sliders much in LR. I more typically use the Vibrance slider as a global adjustment. Here, to really emphasis the back wall of the tide pool, I didn’t use the Vibrance slider at all, and only used the Saturation slider with targeted adjustments).
Effect of second brush – emphasize back wall above tide pool by lighten overall, lighten shadows, and adding clarity and saturation.
Now it was time to work on the water in the tide pool. I wanted the highlights in the water to show better, and for there to be more contrast between the light and dark portions of the water. So I added a little exposure and bumped up the Highlights and Contrast sliders. I also upped the saturation slightly.
Lightening highlights and adding contrast to the tide pool water.
That helped with the water, but I wanted the white areas of the water in the tide pool to be more pronounced, so I painted those areas with another adjustment brush to lighten them up.
I wanted to add a bit more color and lightness to the starfish and anemones (on the rock and in the water) in the foreground. So I added another adjustment brush, upping the exposure slightly and adding some saturation.
At this point, I liked the luminosity of the areas I had used the adjustment brushes on, but thought the rest of the image was too bright for my original vision. So I decreased the exposure slider by another 1/2 stop to darken the whole image.
Another overall exposure adjustment to increase the darkness of areas away from the tide pool.
Then I restored the exposure values to each of the previous adjustment brushes, adding back the 1/2 stop of exposure only in the brushed areas.
Then to further focus the eye to the center of the image, I added a vignette with the Post-Crop Vignette slider.
Vignette added to help keep center of image the focus of the viewer’s eye.
With that done, some of the rocks on the left still seemed a bit too bright. So with another adjustment brush, I made them slightly darker.
Effect of sixth adjustment brush, slightly darkening rocks on left of the tide pool.
And, the white water at the mouth of the tide pool still looked a bit dark to me, so I added a seventh adjustment brush to brighten up this area a bit.
Area of seventh brush, prior to partial deletion of brush.
Effect of the seventh adjustment brush.
At this point, I was close to the final, pre-Photoshop image. However, with all the adjustment brush work, the image had lost contrast (mainly by darkening the highlights). I needed to re-establish the white clipping point to gain back the lost contrast. So I adjusted the whites slider upward and also fine-tuned the color temperature (cooling the image slightly).
After all the brush work, the image had lost contrast. So I re-adjusted the white point upward and fine-tuned the color temperature.
But with that adjustment, some of the white water at the mouth of the tide pool was too bright, so I deleted part of the seventh adjustment brush.
With a portion of the seventh adjustment brush deleted, the white water at the mouth of the tide pool looked better.
Now it was time for some touch-up work with the spot removal tool to remove sensor dust spots (I’m bad, I don’t clean my sensor nearly often enough). The dust spots were very visible because of the small aperture used on the image. I was able to fix all of them except one straddling the surf line near the upper center of the image; I knew I’d need the cloning tool from Photoshop to fix that one.
At this point, I was done processing the RAW image in Lightroom. Though it looks close to my vision, I thought I could improve it a bit further in Photoshop (in addition to fixing the final dust spot). Before sending it to Photoshop, I applied some noise reduction.
Photoshop Processing: The first step in Photoshop was to adjust the global contrast again, this time using Curves, giving it a slight “S” adjustment, and giving the image some more pop.
Result of a Curves adjustment in Photoshop, slightly increasing the contrast.
I occasionally use a luminosity masking technique, known as the Triple Play, created by Tony Kuyper to improve the shadows and highlights when in Photoshop. I tried it out, and in this case, the Triple Play lead to a slight improvement in both the shadows and highlights.
I cloned out the final dust spot that I couldn’t fix in Lightroom. And then refined my previous Lightroom brushwork painting on a dodging/burning layer.
Final touch-up with cloning one dust spot I didn’t get with Lightroom and a bit of refining with dodging/burning.
The final step was to apply a bit of sharpening and the image was complete. I use an adjustable sharpening action based on the book Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2 by Bruce Fraser. The sharpening applied here is intended to sharpen to remove the slight blur caused by the camera. With that, the image was complete and my vision was realized. Easy right?
After the processing was done, the only thing left to do was make a print (I do additional sharpening prior to printing after resizing the image). I made 10×15-inch print, matted it, and it is now hanging at the gallery in Gig Harbor where one of my photo clubs (Sound Exposure) hangs their work.
You might be asking, “how long did all this processing take?” Though I didn’t time myself, it took much less time to do than to write this blog post. I’d guess the complete processing, from RAW to the final photo below (not including printing) took about 30 to 40 minutes. I don’t spend that much time on every shot; but in this case, I think it was well worth it.
The final image after source sharpening in Photoshop. This image is the same as the one at the top of the post and was used to make my final print. | 2019-04-24T20:52:12Z | https://joebeckerphoto.wordpress.com/tag/pacific-ocean/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.307883 |
wordpress | The perks of being an artist in Hong Kong.
The importance of writing a diary.
I used to keep a diary.
As an (angry) teenager, it was my own private confessor. I also thought that keeping a diary was a good way to preserve memories for posterity, and perhaps some day I would surely have entertained someone, or myself, with the events, people, and facts I wrote about. I use to write on my diary religiously, regardless of whether something interesting happened or not. I had so much drama in my life that for a reason or another my pages were always filled up and they were never empty. Now that I look back, I think I kinda liked it that way, as it was surely entertaining (not sure whether this was a good thing, but it’s too late to regret it now).
I wrote several diaries all throughout my teenage, my years at university and much after that.When blogging became a trend, before social medias, I create one of my own and I used my blog as my personal therapist (keeping it slightly filtered as I could not publicly insult certain people- even though I very much wished to do so). I kept writing on the same blog after leaving university whilst in other countries like Australia first and then Hong Kong. I am not exactly sure what happened, but I simply stopped keeping a journal. I highly regret that now.
Two weeks ago I went home back to Italy. My room has remained exactly as I left it as my mother utterly refused to change anything in there; it became a sort of shrine for her.
Pictures with my long-haired friends from high school are still hanging all over the walls (those friends are still in the picture. Their long, voluptuous hair are not), together with the posters of Nirvana, the theatre memorabilia that I collected in my acting days (those days still exist but it was different back then) and few of my knick-knacks as a grunge/punk rock/alternative girl.
The drawer that contained pictures, letters and diaries is still there and it’s still full of memories from the past. I look at them from time to time as they have the power to take me back to certain days.
As the days went by in this sunny and expectation-free holiday, I spent my time chilling by the beach and riding my bike as I used to, as well as seeing old friends.
As we started talking and chatting of present and past events we inevitably ended up listing those people we used to hang out with when we were PRs for a local rock club. Believe it or not, Italy is a massive rock nation and our youth was spent listening to music, playing it and hanging out at the local record store. Our conversations evolved about songs, records or forming a band. Sometimes we chatted about boys we fancied and every single one of them was part of a rock band.
Our group of PRs for this club was one big (at times incestuous) family where we all believed what we worked on and we tried to make the place successful. After all, we were paid to be there.
After chatting with my friends for several evenings about how these people evolved in the past decade, I realized I did not have a very clear picture of those long gone days, and that the best thing I could do to picture those years was taking out one of my diaries and clear my mind.
The diary I’m talking about is dated 1999. A while back.
Reading a diary after so long is like being on acid, except that you are high on your own story. It felt like flying back on a DeLorean after being hibernated for years. The things that I, back in those days, have written in that diary, came as faint memories; I felt I was discovering things for the first time with the exception that I wrote all those stuff.
From the music we listened to and made, the friends I spent time with, the things we said and did, to the guy I fancied at that time.
He populated a big part of those pages with what he said or did. Despite the fact he was no Eddie Redmayne I found something special about him, something that very few people could see. I considered myself lucky for being able to see such side of him.
Our “relationship” was rather tumultuous as my behavior, back in the days, was not quite smooth; it was more rock’n’roll to tell people to F off, so I just followed that pattern of behavior. One moment I was kissing him, the other moment I was telling him to get lost. It is fair to say that the guy in question, despite charming, was quite full of himself, but I deep down wished I wasn’t so damn insecure and that I could handle the whole thing better.
My diary made me think a lot about me, how I grew throughout the years and how much I lost touch with myself; I could not remember how insecure I was, how many people took advantage of that insecurity, my inability to recognize genuine friends from the fake ones. I cannot help but wish I could jump on the teenage version of myself and inject the confidence that I have now. I would slap the younger version of myself and tell her to get a f……. grip.
The discovery of my diary was the highlight of my Italian holiday. I felt like shifting between two worlds.
In the event of memory loss, I would have a backup all written down. The experience was highly entertaining for my friends too, as I have shared my memories with those people who were involved with me in 1999. It was a blast from the past for them too and I felt like we shared a great moment together that brought us close again. Do yourself a favour and keep a diary, a real one. And no, your diary on FB won’t do.
Is Hong Kong a cultural desert? | 2019-04-19T09:21:29Z | https://nicolegarbelliniblog.wordpress.com/tag/crush-on-the-wrong-boy/ | Porn | Home | 0.491681 |
wordpress | Here, in six parts, is that evening, one I won’t ever forget for swing, elegance, humor, feeling, and the joy of being alive, the joy of playing music. And here is what I posted about the evening as prelude — don’t miss Flip’s beautiful words about Bill.
I hope some person or organization, seeing these videos, says, “Let’s have Bill and Flip spend an evening with us!” You know — for sure — that they have more music to offer and certainly more stories. And their rich musical intimacy is wondrous. To learn more about Bill, visit www.billcrowbass.com/. To find out about booking the duo, contact Flip at flippeters@gmail.com or call him at 973-809-7149. I hope to be able to attend the duo’s next recital: watch the videos and you will know why, quickly.
Bill Crow is one of the finest jazz string bassists ever. But don’t take my word for it — hear his recordings with Marian McPartland, Jo Jones, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Haig, Jimmy Raney, Hank Jones, Jimmy McPartland, Manny Albam, Art Farmer, Annie Ross, Jimmy Cleveland, Mose Allison, Benny Goodman, Cliff Leeman, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Morello, Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Jackie and Roy, Bob Wilber, Ruby Braff, Eddie Bert, Joe Cohn, Mark Shane, Jay McShann, Al Grey, Barbara Lea, Claude Williamson, Spike Robinson, and two dozen others.
And if you notice that many of the names on that list are no longer active, don’t make Bill out to be a museum piece. I’ve heard him swing out lyrically with Marty Napoleon and Ray Mosca; I’ve heard him lift the room when he sat in with the EarRegulars, and he plays just as beautifully on JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE as he does on a more intricate modern piece.
And did I mention that Bill recently turned 88?
Thurs. – Jan. 28, 2016 – 8:00pm – 9:30 pm. – The DiMenna Center for Classical Music – NYC – Bill Crow Project 142 Concert with Flip Peters – 450 West 37th St. (between 9th & 10th Aves.) – Benzaquen Hall (elevator to 1st Floor) – Doors open @ 7:30p. – $15.00 Concert Charge @ door.
I first became aware of Bill Crow in the early 1960s when as a young jazz fan I heard him with Gerry Mulligan. I remember around that time reading a quip in Down Beat about bass players with bird names, Bill Crow, Gary Peacock, and Steve Swallow.
In the early 1980s, I began to read Bill’s column, “The Band Room,” in the Local 802 paper, Allegro. That column is a highlight and I turn to it first each month when I get that paper. I received a copy of his Jazz Anecdotes as a Christmas present a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I first played gigs with Bill in 2014. The first one we played on together was a Gatsby-themed party with Marti Sweet’s Sweet Music (www.sweetmusic.us). On that gig Bill doubled on bass and tuba and I was struck by his mastery of the tuba. After that we played private party gigs and some Dixieland gigs with trumpeter Tom Keegan. Then in 2015, I played on gigs with Bill in Rio Clemente’s band (www.rioclemente.com). On one of those gigs, Bill asked me to join him at Shanghai Jazz where he had been hired to speak and play for the Jersey Jazz Society. After that gig I decided that it would be a good idea to present this to a wider audience. Anyone who loves jazz would be fascinated to hear Bill recount some of his many stories, and of course to hear him play.
I am honored and thrilled to play music with Bill. He is a rare person and musician. Not only is he a virtuoso on his instruments but he is a true gentleman. When you are in his presence you can’t help but feel comfortable. When he relates his experiences, everyone present feels as though they are sharing those moments with him. And he continues to play at an extremely high level. He has truly stayed at the top of his game for many years. He maintains a busy playing schedule and plays with the energy of a young musician who possesses the experience of an elder statesman.
You can find out more about Bill at his website but I politely urge you to put the phone down, back away from the computer, and join us on Thursday night to hear Bill and Flip, in music and story. Evenings like this are rare.
In a world where we are asked to pretend that the hologram is human, pianist / composer Roberta Piket’s music is so refreshing for its integrity and honesty. I feel that she approaches her music with that most winning openness: “Let me see what can come of it,” and the results are elating. She has power but she isn’t angry at the keyboard or at us. Rather, hers is a singular balance between toughness and gentleness: her music peers into the darkness without getting downtrodden and brings back light from surprising angles.
Her playing is original without being self-consciously “innovative,” and it isn’t a catalogue of familiar gestures, audience-pleasing bobs and weaves . . . there is nothing formulaic in her art. Honoring her and our Ancestors, she pays them the best tribute, which is to sound like herself.
Her art — deep and subtle — is wonderfully on display on her new solo CD, which is (happily for us) her second solo exploration, EMANATION.
Roberta’s chosen repertoire is for the most part recognizable — not an ego-display of one “original” after another) but she isn’t trapped by the Past. Her evocations of Monk, Romberg, Gillespie, Arthur Schwartz, Kern, McPartland, and Hancock are both reassuring and playfully lit from within. One could play this CD for someone who “doesn’t like jazz” without causing trauma, but it is galaxies away from Easy Listening Piano For People Who Aren’t Listening.
Her two originals, the wistful SAYING GOODBYE and the sweetly curious EMANATION, are full of feeling — novellas of sound. The CD closes with her variations on a Chopin theme . . . both a loving bow to the source and a gentle statement of her own identities. The CD — beautifully recorded, with wonderful notes by the eminent Richie Beirach — is a fifty-minute journey into other worlds, both nearby and tantalizingly far-off.
Visit here for sound samples and ordering information and here to learn more about Roberta, her music, and upcoming gigs.
Because I know my audience is honest and trustworthy, I offer a boon for those who check out the CD and Roberta’s site (I’ll know!): music from a divine duo concert by Roberta and Lena Bloch, from February of this year, at The Drawing Room — here. Gorgeous searching music from two modern masters. (Learn more about Lena here. Music and musicians like Roberta and Lena give me hope.
I did not get to see the film THE GIRLS IN THE BAND when it had a New York screening in April 2013, but thanks to the Beloved, we saw it last night on the other coast. It is a superb film, with much to say to everyone: you don’t have to be a jazz scholar or a student of women’s history to be pleased by the music, enlightened and heartened by the courageous and insightful women portrayed in the film, and appalled by the world in which they struggled for equality and visibility.
The music known as jazz — however you choose to define it — has cherished its reputation as free-wheeling, radical in its approach to established texts. It has presented itself as music played by courageous innovators for people who were willing to go beyond what was immediately accessible, aimed at the widest audience. Much of that remains true. So it is an unpleasant irony that some people associated with jazz — including the musicians themselves — have excluded and derided artists who didn’t fit their narrow criteria for acceptance. The wrong color? Ethnicity? Sexual preference? Gender? We have made some progress in believing that you need not be an African-American from New Orleans to be “authentic,” but jazz has long been the self-declared playground of men.
Women have been accepted on the bandstand for more than the last century — as singers whose job was to sound pretty and look prettier.
But women instrumentalists and improvisers have only recently begun to gain anything but a grudging acceptance from their male peers. Lovie Austin, Dolly Jones, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland, Mary Osborne, Marjorie Hyams, Melba Liston, and Vi Redd come to mind as twentieth-century pioneers, facing discrimination and rejection. “Can she play?” should have been the only question, but it often was never asked. And “all-women” bands, no matter how compelling their music, were often seen as freakish, the improvising equivalent of Dr. Johnson’s lady preacher. Sherrie Maricle and others might tell us that the situation is improving . . . but some barriers still remain.
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND, directed by Judy Chaikin and produced by Nancy Kissock, is a concise yet powerful documentary — eighty minutes of music, reportage, and vivid film memoir taken from over three hundred hours of material. It isn’t a history as such, tied to chronology, nor is it pure polemic. It is human and humane: we hear the stories of women who, early on, were intoxicated by the music and the desire to create it, then made their way into public performance — overcoming the obstacles put in their way by everyone who had a stake in keeping things the way they were: male musicians, critics, record producers, clubowners, concert promoters, and more.
I have to say that I am a very reluctant movie-goer. I get restless quickly; I am impatient with films that are too simple or too elusive; when a film is concerned with a subject I know well, the slightest error turns me chilly. I thoroughly admired and enjoyed THE GIRLS IN THE BAND and encourage JAZZ LIVES readers to seek it out. The pioneering women, candid and self-aware yet unassuming, telling their stories, will stick with you long after the final credits have rolled.
The Beloved was appalled at the women’s history she had not known and entranced by the sound of Melba Liston’s trombone on a ballad. I made a commitment of my own: I bought a THE GIRLS IN THE BAND t-shirt and will add it to my fashion repertoire. Here is the film’s Facebook page.
And in the discussion that ensued, this point was made — I offer it in my own way. When we read in the popular press that a restaurant chain does not serve or employ people of a certain ethnicity or sexual orientation or religious belief, we are outraged and we do not eat there anymore. “There are laws against such things,” we say proudly.
But when there is evidence of gender bigotry in jazz, many of us do not even see it, nor do we protest. I would not insist that a band in a club be comprised as if by census, but we should notice when the faculty at jazz studies programs is uniformly male. When a jazz camp has no women as instructors, is it because there are no competent women players? Where are the women in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra? The list is longer than I could write here.
The late Carline Ray, a shining light of the film, reminds us that if we heard a man or a woman playing from behind a curtain, we could not correctly identify the player’s gender. Where are the “blind auditions” now common practice in symphony orchestras?
One of the ways to learn more about this chapter of history — not just women’s history — is to see THE GIRLS IN THE BAND and to encourage others to do so. And, just incidentally, you will have witnessed a real accomplishment in film-making. | 2019-04-24T23:51:20Z | https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/tag/marian-mcpartland/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.451995 |
cnn | Someone at the agency did NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK, and as a native who has tried to adopt NATIVE, it is WRONG! There has to be an effort to adopt a NATIVE child to a NATIVE family. And as a NATIVE, being CHEROKEE is a JOKE! But NOT as much of a JOKE as a SOCIAL WORKER doing the RIGHT THING, and obeying the LAW, and choosing what is RIGHT for the CHILD!!!
What this article fails to mention is that the biological father has been fighting for legal custody since Veronica was a baby, that the adoption never offically was completed by the Copabiancas, that the biological father has had custody of Veronica for the past 2 years and the Cobabiancas have had no contact with her for 2 years except for a single phone call. She was taken away from the Cobabiancas when she was barely two and given back to her real father. She doesn't even know who the Copabiancas are!
@JWmAdams I highly doubt that. A natural father rarely ever makes any money off of living with their child. The fact that an adoptive couple has priority over a natural father is very, very disturbing.
Do you realize how crazy this sounds? He didn't want to pay child support so he has fought for custody and had her the last two years. Taken care of her this whole time. When a military person goes over seas they sign custody to the other parent. THATS what they had him believe he was signing.
I don't know why articles forget to mention something very important – this child is only 1% native...1%, I am willing to bet there are people commenting on here that are much more native than this child that means she is only 3/256th native...she is more Asian, Hispanic and white than native...that is important to note.
Blood quantum is enforced by tribes.
I don't see how that's logical. With just 46 chromosomes, it becomes statistically likely that a person with 1% heritage has no native DNA whatsoever. This is discrete math - without some unusual factors, you can't inherit half or quarter of a chromosome. Going back 8 generations to 256 ancestors, more than 200 will not be represented at all in the child's DNA.
I believe the father signed away his rights prior to the child's birth assuming the biological mother would raise her. Although he was unaware of the adoption, he was not unaware of the child, and had already declined to be responsible for her.
For everyone crying for an appeal, it isn't going to happen. Read the flipping story before you spout off. This was a ruling from the supreme court, thus, there is nowhere to appeal it too.
Alito is NJ White Trash. The Child is of Indian decent, yet White Trash Alito would lie and obstruct justice concerning Federal laws that apply to Indian Children who were not to be placed by state social welfare people who tried to hide the child's American Indian heritage and all that goes with it, that was dine for a fee.
Finally, some real common sense from Alito. | 2019-04-19T07:07:48Z | http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/26/justices-rule-for-adoptive-couple-in-native-american-custody-dispute/ | Porn | Society | 0.258916 |
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