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livejournal | Jeez! - I see better from a distance.
One lousy inch of snow, and the city of Fredericksburg completely shuts down! The schools were closed today, and now all church activities have been cancelled. No choir! *happy dance, squee* I shouldn't be too glad about that...but the music we're doing right now is so easy we only need a few minutes before church to practice.
And there may not be church this Sunday, either. We're going to be hit with another big snowstorm. Yuck.
Being snowed in over the weekend wasn't too bad. I made major progress on one of my cross stitching projects (update here: kirastitch.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-treats.html), and finished one book and started another. :) But I really don't want another weekend stuck indoors! | 2019-04-22T14:51:12Z | https://mollybarton.livejournal.com/452844.html | Porn | Arts | 0.670785 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on 12 December, 2012 at 9:53 am and is filed under Law, Web 2.0 & Emerging Technologies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. | 2019-04-23T20:19:45Z | https://uollibraryblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/eu-law-seminar-10-december-2012/ | Porn | Reference | 0.241717 |
wordpress | We may well add, let us also leave pretty men to women without imagination. The trouble with beautiful men isn’t that their beauty doesn’t last. The real trouble is that, like beautiful women, they are prone to manifest the Adonis Complex.
From an early age, in many circumstances, beautiful men and beautiful women fdiscover that being beautiful is enough. While people of ordinary looks bring presents to parties, all beautiful people need to bring is presence – their own beautiful presence to be admired. They bring to conversations their beautiful eyes for others to drown in. They bring to arguments their winning smile. And it works.
The beautiful lover often seems to feel that being beautiful is all that needs to be expected of him. He expects you to be grateful for even minor attention. He expects to be made love to or, at his pleasure, to take his pleasure from you. He doesn’t concern himself with your response since just looking at him is suppose to guarantee it. He doesn’t make love with you but allows you to love him.
People accustomed to being a on a pedestal are often reluctant to climb down. And in any event, for a man or a woman, a pedestal is a poor place to lie down – and there is never really enough room for two. | 2019-04-24T14:43:03Z | https://pickingalover.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/the-adonis-complex/ | Porn | Reference | 0.173432 |
moonfruit | Amelia competed at CCI2* level in 2011 on Grimley Fiendish. In 2012 she won the Open Novice at Eridge and the intermediate at Nunney with Shanaclough Haity. She is aiming for a spring CCI2* and is qualified for the British Intermediate Championship at Gatcombe in 2013 on Shanna and also has a 6yo, Fernhill Pye who ran unaffiliated last year to aim 1* and an 8yo Mr Chris straight out of training from the same trainer as Amy's horse Final Try who she evented at BE100 last summer.
Ali is competing at BE100 level on her horse Red Wizard. She now lives in Dubai with him!
Lindsay is riding Mister Jante at unaffiliated level. She was double clear in the 80 at Mattingley in 2012 on a very keen 20yo Jante! | 2019-04-23T22:11:30Z | http://www.annahiltoneventing.moonfruit.com/pupils/4545502668 | Porn | Reference | 0.169079 |
livejournal | 🍉 I managed to do some stretches in the morning, along with face and foot exercises.
🍉 I have taken up knitting again. I am thinking of knitting stripy socks. | 2019-04-24T08:07:26Z | https://kattidya.livejournal.com/1159055.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.816364 |
wordpress | Honestly, I don’t understand the negative perception of Downtown..I mean, ok there are certain areas that are ‘rougher’ than others, but on the whole I think the area is generally safe..and full of historical landmarks! The Government should really considering running a campaign aimed at restoring the area in the minds of the public (or, rather, those people who hold negative perceptions about the area)..I mean, walking through the promenade is so..nice..and peaceful. It’s a shame more people don’t take advantage of it.
In Miami, I used to spend many weekends going to outdoor art/fashion street festivals where local vendors would sell their work. The Brian Lara Promenade would be the perfect venue for such a festival. Don’t you think?
Checkers anyone? I love these types of installments that encourage people to get together,,and socialize..outside.
Close up of the Brian Lara statue.
What do you think should be done to change the negative perception of Downtown in the minds of (some) people? | 2019-04-23T04:37:59Z | https://thisistrinidad.wordpress.com/tag/downtown-pos/ | Porn | Arts | 0.521479 |
wordpress | Following on from my last post, there some things you should be doing to keep up with what’s going on in music land. Whether you’re a fan of Britney Spears or Slayer (my favourites usually lie somewhere in between) if you’re not using the internet properly, you might be missing out.
#1. Join mailing lists. A really basic one, but get on to your favourite artists websites and join the mailing lists. Depending on the musician’s generosity you may be sent anything from free mp3s and videos to presale ticket information. I’ve benefited from this quite a few times, with The Pixies, in particular. Without an emailed presale code, tickets to their Australian Doolittle anniversary tour last year were near impossible to acquire. They have also emailed out live EPs and other goodies. Don’t limit yourself to band mailing lists, also join the mailing lists for venues you like and tour promoters, sometimes they are the keepers of the all-important code.
Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips likes to hide money around his home town and tweet on its whereabouts. Good news if you live in Oklahoma City.
And sometimes it’s just nice to hear what Johnny Marr is up to.
#3. Become familiar with free mp3 sites. If you’re like me, a poor student and a music addict, you can’t afford to buy all the music that you need. I’m also quite old-fashioned. I prefer to pay for that which is tangible. I won’t pay for an album on itunes if for a couple of dollars more I can buy something I can hold in my hands. I feel the same way about ebooks. But free mp3s are a perfect way to discover new music.
For new Australian music, you can’t go past Triple J Unearthed, here you will find LOTS of new music you can stream and download. It’s well organised, which is always important to me, and the music is conveniently broken into categories. So if you’re into punk, hip hop, electro, indie rock or all of the above, you should find plenty here you can enjoy.
I also really like Stereogum, an indie music blog that posts an almost impossible to get through amount of mp3s. But what they’ve started doing lately is releasing a Monthly Mix, a sort of ‘best-of’ compilation of their recent uploads. 10-15 tracks in a zip file – perfect for those months where you’re too busy to obsess as often as you’d like to.
This entry was posted in Music, Online News and tagged Facebook, Johnny Marr, Mailing Lists, mp3s, Stereogum, The Pixies, Triple J Unearthed, Twitter, Wayne Coyne. Bookmark the permalink.
Beautiful! I like to think Jarvis was thinking on our tweets too.
You better keep writing this blog after your assignment. I can give you marks to practice my teaching skills.
I intend to, and the idea of being graded only gives me further incentive! | 2019-04-20T06:50:39Z | https://rachelpackham.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/three-things-you-should-be-doing/ | Porn | News | 0.183143 |
wordpress | voter suppression | Stop Dog Whistle Racism!
Fox News and other conservatives on the Web are pushing hard on the story that two black panthers may be intimidating voters at a polling place in north Philadelphia.
But an Obama campaign volunteer who’s been on the scene since 6:30 AM this morning tells me in a phone interview that there’s been absolutely no intimidation of voters at all today. And a Pennsylvania spokesperson for Obama said the two men aren’t in any way affiliated with the campaign.
But Jacqueline Dischell, the Obama volunteer, tells me by phone that that’s false.
“In Nevada, Barack Obama leads in the last eight polls, with a margin between 4 and 12 points.In Colorado, excluding John Zogby’s garbage internet polls, Barack Obama has lead in every single poll taken since the end of September. What’s more, the most recent PPP poll has him up a staggering 10 points.
Campaigns historically make claims of pushing towards victory on the closing weekend before an election, but the McCain-Palin campaign and the Republican National Committee have been engaged in six weeks of smears and attacks on ACORN’s record-breaking voter registration work, all part of a coordinated effort to cast doubt on the integrity of the election. Where this is headed on the flip.
Add Georgia to the list of states where Republican officials are actively engaged in voter suppression efforts.
In the midst of a record turnout for early voting in Georgia, that has led to long lines, discouraged voters and exhausted poll workers, Secretary of State Karen Handel, a Republican, has claimed federal law ties her hands, preventing her from extending early voting hours.
With just days to go to the election, Democratic politicians demanded yesterday that Handel step in and extend early voting hours — as has been done in both North Carolina and Florida.
But in an opinion piece published in the AJC on Thursday, Handel blamed her inaction on the issue on federal law which requires Justice Department approval to change voting law.
Ironically, it is Georgia’s history of discriminatory voting practices that puts it on a federal “pre-clearance” list, mentioned in Section 5 of the Voter Rights Act of 1965. | 2019-04-21T04:52:05Z | https://racecardpoliticswatch.wordpress.com/tag/voter-suppression/ | Porn | News | 0.901116 |
tripod | It is not necessary for a child to own a horse or pony, but they must have access to one when required. Programs are offered in dressage, eventing, show jumping, mounted games, tetrathlon, quiz, vaulting, foxhunting, and polocrosse.
During unmounted meetings members learn about feeding, shoeing, veterinary care, and other areas of horse management. Under adult supervision, the more experienced Pony Club members instruct and assist younger members.
Pony Club provides opportunities for instruction and competition in English riding, horse sports, and horse management for children and young adults up to 21 years of age. The term pony reflects the age of the members, rather than the size of the mount. Horses and ponies of many different breeds, shapes, and sizes are seen in Pony Club activities. However, certain mounts, such as stallions and those under the age of five, are considered unsuitable and may not be used at Pony Club competitions.
St.Johns River Pony Club is in the Sunshine Region. Our club includes Duval and St.Johns Counties.
If you have any pictures or information you would like put on the website, e-mail or call Kathleen. | 2019-04-23T12:13:19Z | http://stjohnsriverponyclub.tripod.com/index.html | Porn | Sports | 0.365131 |
wordpress | Peace Love Food. Love Activist protesters put on a food bank offering hot food to the homeless opposite RBS Bank where they were evicted by Westminster Council. London.
Love Activist protesters put on a food bank offering hot food to the homeless opposite RBS Bank where they were evicted by Westminster Council. London.
Love Activist protesters defend a soup kitchen offering hot food to the homeless opposite RBS Bank where they were evicted by Westminster Council. London.
Protestors march on Group 4 Securicor headquarters in London following a rally outside the Home Office to protest at the verdict in the Jimmy Mubenga murder trial. The three G4S staff members involved in the death of Mubenga were all found not guilty. HD Footage.
Protest over the killing of Jimmy Mubenga by G4S guards, the Home Office. International Migrants Day. Westminster. London.
Protest over the killing of Jimmy Mubenga by G4S guards, G4S HQ. International Migrants Day. Westminster. London.
Government appointed commissioners enter Tower Hamlets town hall at the start of an investigation into misconduct. The commisioners appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles were Max Caller and Sir Ken Knight. Tower Hamlets has faced two previous investigations in 2014 by the Metropolitan Police and Price Waterhouse Cooper. Both investigations found no evidence of corruption or criminality. A small protest outside the town hall by Unison members greeted the commisioners. HD Footage.
Arrival of commissioner Max Caller and John McCormick, imposed by Eric Pickles MP and central government. Mulberry Place, East London.
Hands Off Tower Hamlets protest called by Unison opposing the arrival of commissioner Max Caller imposed by Eric Pickles MP and central government. Mulberry Place, East London.
Arrival of commissioner Max Caller imposed by Eric Pickles MP and central government. Mulberry Place, East London.
West Midlands firefighters lobby MP’s ahead of House of Commons pensions debate. Westminster, London.
An unofficial picket line is held for 11 electricians made redundant or being in a union by building services contractor company Tommy Clarkes.
One of those made redundant was Unite shop steward Graham Boxall. He said: We are holding an unofficial picket here. It is an unofficial picket and T Clarkes have issued notices to all their employees who I have asked not to cross the picket that if they do not cross the picket they will be in breach of their terms and conditions. Because to cabin up and not cross the picket is viewed as taking part in unoffcial industrial action.
Unofficial picket line held for 11 electricians made redundant by building services contractor company Tommy Clarkes for being in a union. Romford. Essex.
Graeme Smith, sacked Unite shop steward watches colleagues cross an unofficial picket line after a they received a managment letter threatening them with the sack. 11 electricians were made redundant by building services contractor company Tommy Clarkes for being in a union. Romford. Essex.
Hundreds of demonstrators march on Westfield shopping center in Shepherds Bush on the We Can’t Breathe solidarity protest for Eric Garner. Garner died after New York police restrained him using a choke hold. Protestors forced there way back into Westfield after earlier being asked to leave. Inside clashes with protestors occured as police arrested 76 people. HD Footage.
Police clash with protestors in Westfield shopping center in Shepherds Bush on the We Can’t Breathe solidarity protest for Eric Garner. Garner died after New York police restrained him using a choke hold. Protestors forced there way back into Westfield after earlier being asked to leave. Inside clashes with protestors occured as police arrested 76 people. HD Footage.
Police arrest protestors outside Westfield shopping center in Shepherds Bush on the We Can’t Breathe solidarity protest for Eric Garner. Garner died after New York police restrained him using a choke hold. Protestors forced there way back into Westfield after earlier being asked to leave. Inside clashes with protestors occured as police arrested 76 people. HD Footage.
Hundreds of demonstrators march and perform a Die In inside Westfield shopping center in Shepherds Bush on the We Can’t Breathe solidarity protest for Eric Garner. Garner died after New York police restrained him using a choke hold. Clashes with protestors occured as police arrested 76 people. HD Footage. | 2019-04-20T22:22:57Z | https://reportdigital.wordpress.com/2014/12/ | Porn | Business | 0.432464 |
wordpress | Gave Nick’s class a brief definition of idioms and them we worked on a craft while chewing bubble gum. That’s right chewing bubble gum, blowing bubbles right in class! Oh, they were giggly. | 2019-04-25T09:51:16Z | https://anywho.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/ | Porn | Kids | 0.757553 |
femalefirst | When Hollywood Undead burst onto the rock scene back in 2009, no one could predict that the band and their debut album - the US-gold selling ‘Swans Songs’ - would be the most talked about thing in the alternative music scene. Polarising critics and audiences with their hip hop swagger mixed with brooding, hard rock aggression, ‘Swans Songs’ became one of the best-selling alternative rock albums of the year in the UK. The LA group sold-out a six-date tour across the UK, as well as opening the Download festival to a rapturous audience.
Back with a new album full of bigger and stronger tunes, Hollywood Undead will be releasing ‘American Tragedy’ on April 4th through A&M/Octone Records. The band have collaborated with producers Don Gilmore, Griffin Boice, and S*A*M and Sluggo and have tapped into a myriad of influences and styles, yielding music that's as diverse and dangerous.
American Tragedy's lead single ‘Hear Me Now’ is an anthemic catharsis of guitars and synths, blending an arena rock stomp with rap attitude, the song's a venomous and vicious strike. All six members of Hollywood Undead - Johnny 3 Tears, J-Dog, Charlie Scene, Da Kurlzz, Funny Man, and Danny - hunkered down in the rehearsal room to write ‘Hear Me Now’ together, and it brandishes the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of all their personalities.
Hollywood Undead’s new album ‘American Tragedy’ peeks at the death of the American dream from the rooftop of the hottest party in the world. At the heart of the band's second album, the six-piece rhyme and rock sharply hilarious jabs about vacuous clubs to unbridled, poignant musings on losing faith and struggling with addiction.
J-Dog exclaims, "Similar to our first record, there's something for everybody. Some of the songs have bigger hooks, while others are a lot heavier. We wanted to expand our creative palette as a band and grow. We wrote the first album years ago. Mentally, we’re not in the same place we were then. We got better at what we do lyrically and musically.
Hollywood Undead will be playing this year’s Download Festival in June. | 2019-04-19T11:09:55Z | https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/American+Tragedy+Hear+Me+Now-15297.html | Porn | Arts | 0.429563 |
wordpress | Hey all, yes I know, it’s been a while– again. Honestly I’m just almost losing my mind lately- My business is really going well and I’m working at least 12 hour days so blogging has kinda taken a back seat. I mean… I still have photos from NYC a month ago that I REALLY want to get up on the site. Anywho, all this is to say- I’ll try to blog more, but if I can’t do more than like once a week, pleeeease understand why :).
So that’s where all of the creativity in music has gone… across the pond. How have I not really put that together until today? For some reason I killed a good deal of time on YouTube today watching music videos from music chicks from across the pond. After a full day of it I have one thing to say- They have all of the talent and true fashion sense (in music anyhow).
Today I became a Lily Allen fan– like really, I listened to The Fear probably 20 times. Not to mention, Florence + The Machine are the ones who kicked off the whole idea for this blog post- if you haven’t checked out their music videos you need to ASAP! She is SO creative and has an amazing voice. She’s been performing for only about 3 years, but has definitely taken to it like a duck to water.
Lily Allen – Not Fair tell me she is not rocking this jump suit.
I forget how much I love these shoes- so comfortable! | 2019-04-23T02:17:41Z | https://meandmarisa.wordpress.com/2010/10/ | Porn | Business | 0.313668 |
bravehost | As you read through this page and look at the photographs you may wonder why I have included this monument among Irish Antiquities. It is one of the worst examples of a Round Tower that I have come across. It stands only about 4m high and for the most part it is covered with ivy. It rests on a plinth up to 39cm high. The lower courses are of large regular tufa-like blocks while the upper courses seem to be of large limestone blocks. I have included Oran Round Tower because it is important to warn would-be visitors not to expect a 30m tall building when they see the words 'Round Tower' written on the map. However Oran is important in that it is one of only two Round Towers in Co Roscommon. St Patrick is said to have founded a church on this site. He appointed his disciple, St Cethec, as the first bishop. Nothing is known of the later history of the site and the church ruins near the Round Tower are of much later date. | 2019-04-24T10:32:56Z | http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/roscommon/oran/oran.html | Porn | Reference | 0.926128 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on November 26, 2006 at 10:32 pm and is filed under BMS Groups. 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. | 2019-04-25T12:39:57Z | https://bmsceiaa.wordpress.com/2006/11/26/bms-it-memories-of-college/ | Porn | Business | 0.742504 |
wikipedia | Paul Joseph Weitz (July 25, 1932 – October 22, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first manned Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle Challenger flights.
Paul J. Weitz was born in 1932 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. He went on to complete a master's degree in engineering and was a pilot in the Navy. He went on to be an astronaut that went in to space aboard Skylab and the Space Shuttle, later serving as a NASA official.
Weitz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on July 25, 1932. He graduated from Harbor Creek High School in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania, in 1950. The high school stadium was later named after him. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1954. While attending Penn State, he was a member of the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Beta Theta Pi. Ten years later, he received a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Weitz received his commission as an Ensign through the Naval ROTC program at Penn State. He served for one year at sea aboard a destroyer before going to flight training and was awarded his aviator wings in September 1956. He served in various naval aircraft squadrons until he was selected as an astronaut in 1966. He logged more than 7,700 hours flying time — 6,400 hours in jet aircraft.
In April 1966, Weitz was one of 19 men selected by NASA for Astronaut Group 5. He served as Pilot on the crew of Skylab 2 (SL-2), which launched on May 25 and splashed down on June 22, 1973. SL-2 was the first manned Skylab mission. The mission lasted for 28 days, a record at the time. Weitz and his two crewmates, Pete Conrad and Joseph P. Kerwin, performed extensive and unprecedented repairs to serious damage that Skylab sustained during its unmanned launch, salvaging the entire Skylab mission. Weitz logged two hours and 11 minutes of EVA during the mission. If NASA followed typical crew rotations, Weitz may have been assigned as the Command Module Pilot for the canceled Apollo 20 mission.
In 1976 Weitz retired from NASA and went back the Navy, but he returned to NASA to fly the maiden spaceflight of the Challenger at over 50 years old.
Weitz was spacecraft commander on the crew of STS-6, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 4, 1983. This was the maiden voyage of the orbiter Challenger. During the mission, the crew conducted numerous experiments in materials processing, recorded lightning activities, deployed IUS/TDRS-A, conducted extravehicular activity while testing a variety of support systems and equipment in preparation for future space walks, and also carried three Getaway Specials. Mission duration was 120 hours before Challenger landed on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on April 9, 1983. With the completion of this flight, Weitz logged a total of 793 hours in space.
Weitz was Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center when he retired from NASA in May 1994.
Weitz married the former Suzanne M. Berry of Harborcreek, Pennsylvania. They had two children — Matthew, and Cynthia.
Hunting and fishing were among his hobbies.
After retiring, Weitz lived in Arizona until his death on October 22, 2017 from myelodysplastic syndrome at the age of 85.
The three Skylab astronaut crews were awarded the 1973 Robert J. Collier Trophy "For proving beyond question the value of man in future explorations of space and the production of data of benefit to all the people on Earth." Gerald Carr accepted the 1975 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy from President Ford, awarded to the Skylab astronauts. He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997.
This article incorporates public domain material from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration website https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/weitz-pj.html.
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google | A system, method, and computer program for social mapping is provided. Data about a plurality of social network members is received. A first member of the plurality of social network members is allowed to identify a second member of the plurality of social network members with whom the first member wishes to establish a relationship. The data is then sent to the second member about the first member based on the identification. Input from the second member is received in response to the data. The relationship between the first member and the second member is confirmed based on the input in order to map the first member to the second member.
The present application claims the benefit and priority of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/750,844 filed on Dec. 14, 2005 and entitled “Systems and Methods for Social Mapping,” which is herein incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates generally to social networking, and more particularly to systems and methods for social mapping.
Conventionally, people have networked with one another by joining social clubs, attending social events, meeting friends through other friends, and so forth. The Internet has made keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances more convenient for many people. For other people, the Internet provides a social forum for networking and meeting new people.
For many people, the Internet more recently represents the principal way in which people meet new friends and remain in touch with existing friends. Thus, the Internet provides a medium for a complex array of interactions between vast numbers of individuals.
In order to facilitate communications between the vast numbers of individuals, various social networking websites have developed in recent years. Social networking websites can provide organizational tools and forums for allowing these individuals to interact with one anther via the websites. However, many users are leery about providing information via the Internet. Many users prefer to limit communications to specific groups of other users, for example.
The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program for social mapping. Data about one or more social network members is received. A first social network member is allowed to identify at least one second social network member to establish a relationship. Data about the first social network member is then sent to the second social network member based on the identification. Input from the second social network member is received in response to the data. The relationship is confirmed based on the input in order to map the first social network member to the second social network member.
FIG. 5 illustrates a flow diagram of an exemplary process for social mapping.
FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an exemplary environment for social mapping. One or more users 102, such as a user A 102A, a user B 102B, and a user N 102N, are in communication via a network 104 with a social network engine 106. The social network engine 106 may comprise a social networking website, one or more servers operating the social networking website, or any other device or application capable of providing social networking services via the network 104. The users 102 can access the services provided by the social network engine 106 via the network 104. Optionally, one or more of the users 102 may be able to access the social network engine 106 directly.
The users 102 can access the social network engine 106 via a computing device, such as a laptop or desktop computer, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a set top box, and so forth. The users 102 can view data about social network members via the social network engine 106, enter data about themselves and possibly others, join social network groups, and so forth. The users 102 are typically members of a social networking website associated with the social network engine 106, for example, and thus comprise the social network members.
According to exemplary embodiments, a user 102, such as the user A 102A, identifies one or more other members associated with the social network engine 106, such as the user B 102B and the user N 102N, with which the user A 102A wants to build a relationship or establish or alter the details of an existing relationship. Via the social network engine 106, the user A 102A enters the details about the relationship. The social network engine 106 then sends the data, such as the data comprising the details from the user A 102A to the other users (i.e., user B 102B and user N 102N). The user B 102B and the user N 102N then provide input in response to the data. The response may, for example, modify the data.
The relationship with the user B 102B and the user N 102N is confirmed, based on the input, by the social network engine 106. The confirmation may include denying the existence of the relationship, according to some embodiments. Any type of confirmation and/or input may be utilized to alter and/or establish the relationship between the user A 102A and the user B 102B and the user N 102N.
The relationship may comprise any type of relationship that exists between two of the users 102. For example, the user A 102A and the user B 102B may have worked together, been classmates, be related, have dated, and so forth. More than one relationship may exist between the two users. For example, the user A 102A and the user B 102B may have both worked together and dated. Processing, accessing, utilizing, modifying, and so forth the relationship data between two or more users is discussed further in association with FIGS. 2 through 5.
Referring now to FIG. 2, a block diagram of an exemplary social network engine, such as the social network engine 106 discussed in FIG. 1, is illustrated. A communications interface 202 is provided in association with the social network engine 106 for receiving data from and sending data to the users 102. The users 102 can send any type of data to the social network engine 106 via the network 104 and vice versa.
Typically, the users 102 access a website associated with the social network engine 106. For example, the social network engine 106 may host a social networking website where the users 102 can visit to interact with one another. The website can display various types of data about the users 102 to one another, such as profile information, or relationships a particular user, such as the user A 102A, has with other users, such as the user B 102B and the user N 102N. The users 102 may belong to particular communities within the social networking website, such as communities categorized according to school attended, workplace, geographical location, and so forth.
A social relationship editor module 204 is provided for editing the social relationships that the users 102 have with one another. For example, the user A 102A can specify a particular relationship with the user B 102B and the user N 102N. The user B 102B and/or the user N 102N may then be asked to confirm the particular relationship specified by the user A 102A. Accordingly, each relationship established via the social networking website is verified by two or more of the users 102 in the relationship. A social relationship editor display page associated with the social relationship editor module 204 is discussed further in association with FIG. 3.
The social relationship editor module 204 can track the one or more relationships between the users 102. The social relationship editor module 204 can also generate and send communications to the users 102 to confirm the relationships identified. As discussed herein, the users 102 are typically members of the social networking website. Accordingly, the users 102 interact with one another via the social network website associated with the social network engine 106 and can identify relationships with one another in order to facilitate the interactions, or for any other reason.
A relationship storage module 206 is provided for facilitating storage of the relationships between the users 102. The relationship storage module 206 can utilize any type of storage device or medium to store the various relationships. For example, the relationship storage module 206 can store the relationships in databases, on CD ROMS, in DRAM, and so forth. Any type of storage device or storage medium for storing the relationships, profile data associated with the users 102, or any other information associated with the users 102, is within the scope of various embodiments.
A relationship display module 208 is also provided in association with the social network engine 106. The relationship display module 208 identifies the relationships between the users 102 and generates a display page that indicates profile information, relationships, and other data about the users 102. For example, the user A 102A may be able to request, via a button, portal, link, and so forth, a display page regarding people from a particular community associated with the user A 102A, such as a college community. The relationship display module 208 can then generate and display data about the users 102 belonging to the particular community associated with the user A 102A to the user A 102A. The user A 102A can then utilize the display page to access more detailed data about each of the users 102 listed on the display page. The relationship display module 208 may display any data about the users 102 associated with the social networking site.
Although FIG. 2 shows various modules associated with the social network engine 106 (e.g., the communications interface 202, the social relationship editor module 204, the relationship storage module 206, and the relationship display module 208), fewer or more modules may be associated with the social network engine 106 and still fall within the scope of various embodiments. For example, a database (not shown) may be coupled to the social network engine 106 for storing data about the users 102.
FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary social network display page 300 that may be associated with the social network engine 106. The social network display page 300 includes a pictorial/graphical representation 302 for each of the users 102. For example, the user A 102A may utilize a photo of the user A 102, while the user B 102B may utilize a cartoon character to represent the user B 102B. Any type of picture, photo, graphic, icon, symbol, and so forth may be utilized to represent the users 102 via the pictorial/graphical representation 302.
Biographical data 304 is displayed about each of the users 102 that are listed. For example, the name, status, year of graduation, field of study, and so forth may be displayed as the biographical data 304 for each of the users 102. Any type of data may comprise the biographical data 304.
A user action area 306 may be associated with the social network display page 300. For example, the user action area 306 may be displayed in association with each of the users 102. In FIG. 3, the user action area 306 is displayed to the right of the biographical data 304 for each of the users 102. However, the user action area 306 may be displayed anywhere. For example, the pictorial/graphical representation 302 may be accessed, check-marked, highlighted, and so forth in order to display the user action area 306.
The user action area 306 allows the users 102 to select one or more actions to perform in association with a particular user, such as the user A 102A, about which the biographical data 304 is being viewed. For example, the users 102 can choose to send the users 102 an email or other message via the “send message” function, or to utilize a“poke her!” function to be directed to a pop-up or similar screen, confirming that the user 102 wishes to “poke” a displayed user. An announcement may be sent to the displayed user informing the displayed user that the displayed user has been “poked” by another user 102.
The user action area 306 may also allow the users 102 to utilize a “view friends” function” in order to view the data about friends of the users 102, to utilize a “view photos” function to view photos associated with the user, and/or an “add to friends” function to request addition to a friends group of the user 102. Various other options may be accessed via the user action area 306. For example, the users 102 may be able to access stories about a particular user, such as the user B 102, via the user action area 306.
The social network display page 300 may be utilized for displaying any type of data about the users 102. The social network display page 300 shown in FIG. 3 is an exemplary display page for displaying various users belonging to a community. Display pages may also be utilized to display profile data about individual users or groups of users, to display data about the users 102 belonging to various communities, to display stories about the users 102, and so forth. The social network display page 300 in FIG. 3 may be utilized, according to exemplary embodiments, to identify and/or select the users 102 known to a particular user, such as the user A 102A with whom the user B 102B wants to establish a relationship. The social network display page 300 may be generated by the relationship display module 208 and be displayed in response to a search or filter function initiated by the user A 102A, such as a search performed. As discussed herein, the data about the users 102 for the social network display page 300 may be stored in a database, cache memory, or any other memory utilized by the relationship storage module 206 or another storage module (not shown) for storing data about the users 102.
According to some embodiments, the social network display page 300 may be utilized to display a directory of the users 102, a collection of the users 102, a directory of established relationships associated with the user A 102A, for example, and so forth. As discussed herein, any of the data associated with the users 102 may be displayed utilizing the social network display page 300 or any other display mechanism associated with the social network engine 106.
FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary social editor page associated with the social network engine 106. The social editor page 400 illustrated in FIG. 4 can be utilized to question the users 102 about the relationships with other user 102 associated with the social networking website. The social editor page 400 may be sent in response to a request from a particular user, such as the user A 102A, to form or otherwise establish a relationship with another user, such as the user B 102B, for example.
A social editor inquiry 402 may be utilized to establish the subject matter for the social editor page 400. For example, FIG. 4 illustrates the social editor page 400 for the social editor inquiry 402 “How do you know John Do?” However, the social editor inquiry 402 may comprise any inquiry, such as “Is the information provided by John Do about your relationship accurate?” Any type of social editor inquiry 402 may be provided in association with the social editor page 400.
A relationship type identifier 404 may be displayed for allowing a user 102 to select and/or identify the relationship the user 102 has with other users 102. For example, the user A 102A may select that the user A 102A lived with the user B 102B, worked with the user B 102B, and/or knows the user B 102B through a friend. One or more of the relationship identifiers 404 may be selected. As discussed herein, the users 102 may know each other via more than one means.
A relationship details identifier 406 allows the users 102 to further specify the nature of the relationship. For example, the relationship details identifier 406 may establish where the users 102 lived together, where the users 102 worked together, which friends the users 102 have in common, and so forth. Although only one relationship details identifier 406 is illustrated, more than one relationship details identifier 406 associated with each of the relationships may be provided.
A timeframe identifier 408 may also be provided in association with the social editor page 400. The timeframe identifier 408 may be utilized to establish a time or timeframe associated with the relationship identifier 402. For example, the timeframe identifier 408 can specify when the users 102 lived together, worked together, dated, and so forth.
The relationship identifier 402, the relationship type identifier 406, the relationship details identifier 406, and/or the timeframe identifier 408 may be selectable via a drop down menu, a text entry box, a check box, and/or via any other selection method or combination of selection methods. According to exemplary embodiments, the social editor inquiry 402 is pre-populated with selections when sent to the users 102 with whom confirmation of the relationship is sought. Further, the social editor page 400 can be automatically populated, partially or wholly, utilizing data already stored about the users 102 and/or the relationship the users 102 have established with one another on previous occasions.
The arrangement, presentation, display, and/or subject matter described in connection with FIGS. 3 and 4 may vary and still remain within the scope of various embodiments. For example, additional relationship questions may be utilized in association with the social relationship page 400 or additional types of the biographical data 304 may be displayed via the social network display page 300.
For example, the user A 102A can complete the social editor page 400 by selecting from the relationship identifier 402, the relationship type identifier 404, the relationship details identifier 406, the timeframe identifier 408, and/or any other identifiers that may be provided via the social editor page 400, in order to provide details about the relationship the user A 102A has with the user B 102B, for example. The user B 102B can then be sent the pre-populated social editor page 400 and asked to confirm the data provided by the user A 102A. The user B 102B can confirm the accuracy of the data on the social editor page 400, modify the data on the social editor page 400, add to the data on the social editor page 400, and/or deny the accuracy of the data on the social editor page 400.
The details about the relationship established via the social editor page 400 can be stored by the relationship storage module 206. For example, a relationship database (not shown) may be utilized to map the relationships between the users 102 associated with the social network engine 106. The map can show a network of the relationships between the users 102, in one instance.
The subject matter of the inquiries and the data associated with the social editor page 400 may include any topics, such as membership in a club, a team, a church, etc.; common courses, classes, institutions, programs of study, etc.; common travels, journeys, adventures, parties, conferences, etc.; common familial relationships, friends, acquaintances, romantic partners or interests, musical interests, restaurants, bars, pubs, etc.; whether two or more of the users 102 met randomly, accidentally, purposefully, via online activities, etc.; and/or whether two or more of the users 102 have never met, etc. Any type of data can be established via the social editor page 400, as discussed herein.
As discussed herein, a confirmation request can be sent to the users 102 in response to completion of the social editor page 400. The social relationship editor module 204 can send a communication, for example, to the user B 102B that the user A 102A selected the user B 102B as a person the user A 102A may know or with whom the user A 102A wishes to establish a relationship. The user B 102B can elect to confirm the data provided by the user A 102A, adjust or edit the data, send a message to the user A 102A regarding the relationship, deny the existence of the relationship, add data about the relationship; and so forth. If the user B 102B edits or adds to the data, the user A 102A may be asked to confirm the added or edited data, according to exemplary embodiments.
The users 102 can view the status of the relationships with other of the users 102 via a display page that indicates the status. For example, the social network display page 300 can include the status of the relationships with each of the users 102 displayed on the social network display page 300. The biographical data 304, for example, can also display whether the relationship with the user about which the biographical data 304 is displayed has accepted, denied, or is reviewing the data about the relationship or proposed relationship. The status may comprise a written description of the relationship, the time of the relationship, and/or any other details about the relationship.
Details of a social map generated based on the relationship the users 102 have with one another may also be displayed via the social network display page 300. For example, a social map that shows details about a relationship between the user B 102B and the user A 102A may be generated, displayed, and or accessed by the users 102.
The social network display page 300 can also display the users 102 in an ascending or descending order according to a chronology associated with the relationships the users 102 have with other users. For example, the user N 102N may be displayed before the user B 102B in a listing requested by the user A 102A because the user A 102A has known the user N 102N for a longer period of time than the user B 102B. The users 102 can be displayed according to common groups, association with common events, situations, or occurrences, and so forth.
Referring now to FIG. 5, a flow diagram of an exemplary process for social mapping is illustrated. At step 502, data about one or more social network members is received. The social network members may comprise the users 102 described herein, such as the user A 102A, the user B 102B, and/or the user N 102N. Any number of users may comprise the social network members. As discussed herein, the users 102 can utilize the social networking website associated with the social network engine 106 to access and/or provide data about other of the users 102.
At step 504, a first social network member is allowed to identify at least one second social network member to establish a relationship. For example, the user A 102A can select the user B 102B with whom the user A 102A wants to establish a relationship. The user A 102A can select the user B 102B from a list, such as the list displayed via the social network display page 300 discussed herein.
At step 506, the data is sent to the second social network member about the first social network member based on the identification. For example, once the user A 102A selects the user B 102B for establishing a relationship, the user A 102A may be directed to a social editor page 400 generated by the social relationship module 204. The social relationship editor module 204 can, optionally, pre-populate the social editor page 400 with data already stored by the relationship storage module 206 about the user A 102A and the relationship user A 102A may already have established or partially established with the user B 102B, for example.
At step 508, input is received from the second social network member in response to the data. For example, the user B 102B may confirm the data provided by the user A 102A utilizing the social editor page 400. The user B 102B may also deny that the data is accurate or deny the relationship generally, edit the data, add to the data, and so forth. Any action taken by the user B 102B in response to receiving the data regarding the relationship or proposed relationship from the user A 102A is within the scope of various embodiments.
At step 510, the relationship is confirmed based on the input in order to map the first social network member to the at least one second social network member. According to some embodiments, the social network engine 106 can determine whether or not to confirm the relationship before the relationship is confirmed. The social relationship editor module 204 can confirm the relationship, for example, based on the input from the user B 102B. The confirmation may comprise establishing that the relationship data is accurate, editing the relationship data, denying the relationship data, adding to the relationship data, and/or optionally requesting further confirmation from the user A 102A.
According to some embodiments, the relationship data is mapped to the user B 102B once the user B 102B confirms the relationship data as accurate. In other words, if the user B 102B confirms that the user B 102B, indeed, has a relationship of some type with the user A 102A, the relationship details can be added to a profile associated with the user B 102B, for example.
The user A 102A and/or the user B 102B may also be asked if privacy settings should be modified in response to the newly established relationship. For example, the user B 102B may confirm the relationship with the user A 102A, but may only want the user A 102A to have access to the data about the user B 102B that the user B 102B allows the users 102 within a specific community or group to access. The privacy settings can be modified at any time. For example, a privacy settings module (not shown) may be associated with the social network engine 106 for specifying the privacy settings for each of the users 102 with respect to which data about the users 102 each other of the users 102 can access.
According to other embodiments, the relationship data may be presented or displayed according to the relevance of the relationship data to online or offline interactions between the users 102, to timeframes based on online or offline interactions, and so forth. For example, the social network engine 106 can suggest other of the users 102 with whom the user A 102A may want to form a relationship based on the fact that those other users 102 attended the same school, at the same time.
Predictive tools for forecasting which of the users 102 will establish relationships, analytical tools for determining the nature and influence the users 102 have on one another, and any other tools may be developed based on the relationship data. For example, the social network engine 106 can identify stories about the user B 102B that the user A 102A will find most interesting based on the relationship data.
Further, the users 102 can be grouped according to the established relationships. The groupings can be utilized to display various types of information to the users 102, suggest other of the users 102 with which relationships should be established, and so forth.
While various embodiments have been described above, it should be understood that they have been presented by way of example only, and not limitation. For example, any of the elements associated with the social network engine 106 may employ any of the desired functionality set forth hereinabove. Thus, the breadth and scope of a preferred embodiment should not be limited by any of the above-described exemplary embodiments.
displaying on a social network display page a suggestion to establish a relationship on the social network with the third member.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the details about the established relationship are input by one of the first member and the second member and the details are verified by the other of the first member and the second member before the relationship between the first member and the second member is established.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the relationship type comprises how the first member and the second member know each other.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the details further comprise at least one of a group consisting of where the first member and the second member lived together, and where the first member and the second member worked together.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a modification to the details about the established relationship between the first member and the second member from one of the first member and the second member.
7. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the details about the established relationship are input by one of the first member and the second member and the details are verified by the other of the first member and the second member before the relationship between the first member and the second member is established.
8. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the relationship type comprises how the first member and the second member know each other.
9. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the details further comprise at least one of a group consisting of where the first member and the second member lived together, and where the first member and the second member worked together.
10. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for receiving a modification to the details about the relationship between the first member and the second member from one of the first member and the second member.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying comprises displaying to at least one of the first member and the second member.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying comprises displaying to the third member of the social network.
13. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein displaying comprises displaying to at least one of the first member and the second member.
14. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein displaying comprises displaying to the third member of the social network.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying comprises displaying on a social network display page all of the members who are included in the same grouping as both of the first member and the second member.
16. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein displaying comprises displaying on a social network display page all of the members who are included in the same grouping as both of the first member and the second member.
17. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the details about the established relationship.
18. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for displaying the details about the established relationship.
19. The method of claim 1, wherein the details about the established relationship includes a status of the established relationship.
20. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the details about the established relationship includes a status of the established relationship.
21. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying on a social network display page another member, in addition to the third member, in the grouping shared by both the first member and second member of the social network.
displaying on a social network display page an additional member, in addition to the third member, in the grouping shared by both the first member and second member of the social network.
23. The method of claim 1, wherein the common characteristic is a self-declared social attribute on the members' profiles.
24. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the third member comprises identifying the third member from the subset of members defined by the grouping based on a projected measure of influence of the third member to the first member.
25. The method of claim 24, wherein the projected measure of influence of the third member to the first member is determined based on a relevance to the first member of social networking content posted by the third member accessible to the second member but is inaccessible to the first member based on access privileges for the social content.
26. The method of claim 24, wherein the projected measure of influence of the third member on the first member is determined based on a duration of time during which the second and third members were connected and a duration of time during which the first and second members were connected.
27. The method of claim 24, wherein the projected measure of influence of the third member to the first member is determined based on a strength of connectivity between the second and third members and a strength of connectivity between the first and second members.
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wordpress | Nimbus has been the one constant when it comes to Ambisonic/UHJ releases since the insertion of the system, but although the company still releases albums using UHJ they haven’t been marked as such for some time.
Nimbus are planning to add information regarding which releases are and aren’t UHJ to their website, along with information on how they record them, but in the meantime they have allowed me to pass on this information that should help those who are unsure whether they have, or are about to purchase, is UHJ or not.
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livejournal | Thoughts - keith - SuPeR K!
Lately I've been thinking a lot about maybe moving into a new apartment... I love my apartment, but I'm craving change. There are some really cool ones I'm interested in looking into- like the 2 story with bedroom loft layout in the complex Mark and Lance live in. They are a bit more expensive, but I'm still actively looking into it. Not too far from where I am now- more south, near the 22 and Grand. We'll see what happens there. I've also been thinking a lot about getting a house. I know it's not anywhere near feasible at the moment, but it's something I'd like to do in the next couple of years. It would be amazing to have my own place that's actually mine.
I've also got a list of some things I'm hoping to purchase in the next few months... 2 Pioneer CDJ-900s, some new Ikea bookshelves, a wine fridge to properly cellar my preciouses, a trash compactor, and possibly a new energy efficient freezer-on-the-bottom double-door fridge to cut back on noise and energy consumption. I also really want to get the controlled-by-your-iPhone Phillips LED bulb system. Maybe I'll end up with that first. I dunno. I've been really good about keeping up with work hours and doing side jobs in my off time, so I should be able to afford all of that stuff by spring!
I'm told that a work order has been put in to fix hose fountain, but the company our complex hired to do all our fountain maintenance has not made any moves yet. Hopefully that will get remedied soon as well.
sPiN! sPiN!'s 9 year anniversary starts on Thursday!!! We're going to have special shows every week through the end of November, details forthcoming. I've got a ton of programming work to do before then, though, so hopefully we can launch our new show interface in time. I just need to make it happen. This is my baby. I'm excited to celebrate 9 years of this marriage of things I love- music and web development. The great friendships and memories of the past 9 years through sPiN! are something I truly cherish. Looking forward to many more years of awesome!
In other news, today my cousin Jim and Amber are getting married! The wedding will be the first time my entire immediate family and step family are all at the same place at the same time. My mom is in from Georgia, my full brother Kevin and my dad will be there, as well as my stepmom, my half bro Keenan, and my stepbro Brian/Keith. It should be interesting to say the least. The wedding is also forcing all of my aunts and uncles, who all seem to have some kind of drama with each other, to man up and hang out together without excuses. I'm expecting an eventful day- hopefully in a good way! I'm excited for Jim and Amber- they are both really awesome and I'm looking forward to being able to call Amber my cousin :) Welcome to the family!!!
A house is also on my agenda. I think for me it is partly about finally finding my own space that is mine from the start and is set up my way. Cleaning my current place and reorganizing it is a step toward that. Make it mine.
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wordpress | Our Facebook page is changing! Please visit our page @DrakeAndersonGallery for the latest updates on the Gallery and our upcoming events.
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An Interview with Dr. Maura Lyons on Mies/Weese at Drake, a new exhibition opening at The Anderson Gallery, curated in collaboration with students from her Art History Capstone and Curating Class.
Anderson Gallery: What is the premise of the exhibition?
Dr. Maura Lyons: The premise of the exhibition is to highlight Drake’s campus architecture in the 60s and 70s, focusing on the work of Mies van der Rohe and Harry Weese and Associates. But from the beginning, I had the goal of having the exhibition both address the architect’s visions and designs, but also how users have interacted with and modified the buildings over time. So, thinking about the meaning of buildings as being a kind of combination of both the architect and the users… We have worked to gather stories from faculty and students, both current and former to get an idea about some of the maybe lesser known ways that people have interacted with the buildings, and [the class has tried] to bring the buildings to life in addition to being thorough in terms of what the intentions of the architects were.
APPARATUS officially closed this past weekend, and we are working to bring you another great show, Mies/Wies at Drake: Where We Live and Work. The opening is November 9th, and we hope to see you there! All of the objects have come out of the gallery, packaged up, and sent back to where they belong. During a couple of noisy days, walls have come down, pedestals have returned to the workroom, and everyone has been working to return the space to its original form in order to get the next exhibit put together.
Just like the past few weeks, there are more and more staff profiles going up on the website. Keep checking back to read about some more of our lovely gallery workers! The Anderson Gallery’s new video series is also being put into production, which will provide a look into the goings on in the gallery, art on campus, and a variety of other art & gallery related topics.
APPARATUS has been open for almost three weeks now (which if you haven’t seen yet, consider this a reminder to stop in before it closes!) , and though it may seem as our work here is done, there has been much going on behind the scenes since my last update.
In terms of literal behind the scenes work, the workroom became a bit of a disaster pre-opening, and had to be cleaned up, rearranged, and restocked.
Some business-type things have to happen as well in preparation for the upcoming deinstallation, such as receipt balancing, coordinating object returns, and scheduling for the de/installation of APPARATUS & installing our next exhibit, Mies/Weese at Drake.
Outside the gallery’s physical space, Jodie has been posting staff profiles that highlight our lovely staff, so far you can read about Katie, Katherine & yours truly! We’re also about to launch a new video series with the first being posted next week. Stay tuned for more staff profiles & those upcoming videos in the weeks to come!
“Y’all I love art”, October 5th, 2:34 pm.
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Katie is a senior in the School of Art & Design, completing a BFA in Painting, and she is originally from here in Des Moines. Katie says that she was always interested in art growing up, and this was specifically nurtured by her mother, who always encouraged Katie’s engagement with creative activities. She also received scholarships as a child to attend art classes at the Des Moines Art Center, further fostering her interest and technical skills. Despite her constant immersion and interest in the arts, she started her freshman year at Iowa State with a major in the science department. It was Katie’s roommate, an art major, who Katie credits with her realization that she wanted to study art. She says that seeing her roommate’s projects, and the opportunities and experiences she was receiving convinced her that art was what she really wanted to study. She, therefore, returned to Des Moines and enrolled in Drake’s Art & Design Department as a BFA Painting major.
Katie’s favorite part about The Anderson Gallery is her ability to participate and observe the process of putting an exhibition together, as well as learning the ins and outs of running a gallery space. After graduation, Katie plans to do some traveling for artistic inspiration, and in addition to that, she is also planning on partnering with fellow Des Moines artists on collaborative works and projects. When not working in the gallery, Katie can be found in the painting studio, working on her latest project.
Katherine is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, studying Rhetoric, Media, and Social Change, as well as Art History. She is from Johnston, Iowa, and as a child she was always very creative, constantly drawing and painting; which contributed to her continued interest in pursuing art. Katherine still has another year of undergrad, but she knows that after graduation she will be continuing her academic studies, though undecided yet between Law School, and pursuing a Master’s in Art History.
Her favorite part about working at The Anderson Gallery is that she has had the opportunity to see the inner workings of what it takes to put an exhibition together, and the ability to be hands-on and participate directly in that process. Katherine worked very hard on The Anderson’s most recent exhibition APPARATUS; helping with much of the detailing and painting work that was specifically created for the exhibit. She is very excited to continue working in the gallery this year and she looks forward to the opportunity for more hands-on and educational experiences. Katherine is also part of the Art History Curating Capstone class this Fall and will be participating in the planning and installation process of The Anderson Gallery’s next exhibit – “Mies/Weese at Drake: where we live and work” opening in November. We are very excited to see Katherine’s work and her contribution to the exhibit.
Clio is a Senior in the school of Arts & Sciences, completing a double major in Printmaking as well as Rhetoric, Media, and Social Change, with a minor in Graphic Design. She is from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and she grew up surrounded by art; attending various art camps, visiting museums, and going to art openings, as her father is a painter. Clio credits these experiences, along with the great art programs she experienced in elementary school and high school as very influential in her continued studies at Drake.
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typepad | Poet and artist Benjamin Saenz talks about living near the U.S. Mexico Border.
Author Oscar Casares explains why we “must read” The Burning Plain and Other Stories, by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
Return to the Baja peninsula Joseph Wood Krutch found during his travels in the late 1950s. Although much has changed, Krutch’s “classic portrait” of Baja’s natural and human history continues to help readers see and celebrate this unique and beautiful landscape.
Lawrence Downes follows in the footsteps of Ken Kesey.
In A Visit to Don Otavio: a Traveller’s Tale from Mexico, Sybille Bedford describes her 1952 “impromptu” journey to Mexico with her friend, Esther Murphy Arthur, “arriving without itinerary, without preconceptions, and with their senses open.” Described by Bruce Chatwin as “a book of marvels,” Sybille Bedford transports readers to time and place, describing the joys and challenges of travel in this “extravagantly beautiful and brutal country.” Although much has changed since Bedford set foot in Mexico City; Cuernavaca; Guadalajara; Mazatlán; Querétaro; Puebla; Lake Chapala, the location of Don Otavio’s “hacienda”; and other places; A Visit to Don Otavio remains a fine companion when traveling to Mexico, whether in person or vicariously.
We were then each working on a book and had reached midstream, that prosperous passage between the struggle of the beginning and the obsession of the end, when the book moves with its own existence and has not yet absorbed one's own, and the daily quarrying is an anchor rather than a burden, a secret discipline at once attaching and detaching, muffling and heightening the rest of living. Within these shafts we strayed at will between two dreams, the life of our books, and the life of the Hacienda.
Mary Duenwald follows Wallace Stegner's novel, Angle of Repose, to Morelia, Mexico.
In Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Phillip Santos explores his family’s roots, embarking on an extraordinary journey into south Texas and Mexico. What began as curiosity about his grandfather’s mysterious death in 1939 expanded into a contemplation of family, especially the older generation, and their ties to places and one another. By following the threads of his own family, Santos connects with the broader history he shares with other Mexican-Americans, while also inspiring the rest of us to recall our own ancestral ties and family stories of migration.
It’s helpful to have a map nearby while reading Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation -- to visualize the roads connecting Mexico and south Texas, to follow Santos’ route into his family’s homeland of Coahuila, to retrace with him Cortes’ path of conquest through Mexico, and to imagine anthropological sites dating back to the Incas. Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation is a necessary book; it helps explain so much of a history we should already understand, especially during the ongoing debate about our borderlands.
“Little is know about the following people: David Toscana, Ignacio Padilla, Mario Bellatín and Mónica Lavín. But to followers of Mexico’s literary scene, their names serve as a guide to a growing movement led by young writers.” Monica Campbell writes about these “young authors look[ing] beyond El Boom,” the "boom" of Latin American literature during the 1960s, in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. | 2019-04-24T23:06:23Z | https://bookpaths.typepad.com/bookpaths/mexico/ | Porn | Arts | 0.502266 |
wordpress | 016/04/2012Presentation for the launching of the book Gender Issues in Incomes, Employment and Underemployment in Fiji. Ausaid Lecture Theater. Dec. 2007. | 2019-04-24T06:53:19Z | https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/category/f-2007/ | Porn | Society | 0.243342 |
wordpress | On the migration to Medina, Prophet Muhammad SAW faced a host of interminable opposition from Jews and Christians day to day. The formidable coalition formed by the Jews and the idolaters in Makkah to compass the destruction of the commonwealth of Medina had utterly failed. But the surrounding tribes of the desert, in Medina, wild and fierce, were committing depredations, acompanied with murders, on the Medinite territories: and the existence of Medina required the employment of stern measures for their repression. Several expeditions were dispatched against these marauders, but the slippery sons of the desert generally evaded the approach of the Muslims of Medina.
Their treachery and evilness was such that once the tribe of Bani Lihyan requested Prophet Muhammad SAW to send few of His disciples among them to teach the precepts of Islam. When Prophet Muhammad SAW send the missionaries to teach them, the Bani Lihyan killed some of the missionaries and sold the rest to Mekkans (Kuffar-e-Makkah). Following this event, Prophet Muhammad SAW, the same year, marched against the Bani Lihyan with the body of Muslim troops under His personal command.
The marauders of Bani Lihyan, however, receiving timely notice of the Prophet’s approach, fled into the mountains, and the Muslims returned to Medina without having accomplished their purpose.
A few days had only elapsed when a chief of the Bani-Fizara, a branch of the nomade horde of Ghatafan, (Khail-Ghatafan), suddenly fell upon the open suburbs of the city, and drove off a large herd of camels, murdering the man who had charge of them, and carrying off his wife. The Muslims were immediately on their track, and a few of the animals were recovered; but the Bedouins escaped into the desert with the larger portion of their booty.
It was about this time that the Prophet Muhammad SAW granted to the monks of the monastery of St. Catherine, near Mount Sinai, and to all Christians, a Charter, commonly named as Charter of Privilages, which has been justly designated as one of the noblest monuments of enlightened tolerance that the history of the world can produce. The marauders were awe-struck with such a demonstration of compassion and tolerance of Prophet Muhammad SAW.
This remarkable document, the Charter of Privileges, which has been faithfully preserved by the annalists of Islam, displays a marvellous breadth of view and liberality of conception. By it the Prophet Muhammad SAW secured to the Christians privileges and immunities which they did not possess even under sovereigns of their own creed; and declared that any Muslim violating and abusing what was therein ordered, should be regarded as a violator of God’s testament, a transgressor of His commandments, and a slighter of His faith.
Prophet Muhammad SAW undertook Himself, and enjoined on his followers, to protect the Christians, to defend their Churches, the residences of their priests, and to guard them from all injuries. | 2019-04-23T04:16:51Z | https://absarahmed.wordpress.com/2011/10/ | Porn | Reference | 0.386049 |
wordpress | Fun Fact: “I might come off as a quiet person but that does not stop me from fun and extreme activities. I once went parachute riding in Penang, Malaysia and I rode the Xtreme Skyflyer at Wonderland. I am also planning on doing the CN edgewalk next spring”.
Fun Fact: “After graduation, I lived and worked in Jasper National Park experiencing all the mountains had to offer”.
Education: B.E in Electrical Engineering and MSc in Sustainable Energy Planning and Management.
Education: B.A.H with Majors in Anthropology and Communication Studies, Minor in Political Science, McMaster University.
Research Interests: Poverty alleviation and livelihood, social and political development, local economic development, conflict resolution and refugee rights.
Fun fact: “I have a large collection of shot glasses from all around the world. Currently, I have 42″.
Fun fact: “I was born in Hong Kong when it was still a British colony, and moved to Canada when I was two years old!”.
Research Interests: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Natural Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction, Poverty Alleviation, Community Development, Environmental and Social Justice.
Fun fact: “I’m always hungry”.
Education: Honours BComm with a focus in Entrepreneurship and Economics, Queen’s University; Certificate in Responsible Leadership.
Research Interests: Conservation and Ecology, Sustainable Education, Conscious Consumption, Recycling, Sustainable Cities, Green Energy Initiatives.
Fun Fact: “I didn’t know that dandelions turned into those white ball/seed things that blow away in the wind until university”.
Education: B. A. H. Environmental Studies with majors in Geographic Information Systems, York University and Fleming College Combined Degree; Environmental Technician Diploma, Fleming College; General Arts and Science Certificate with a minor in Environment and Natural Resources Management, Fleming College.
Research Interests: Green energy initiatives, sustainable cities, natural heritage preservation, food security, urban and rural planning, ecology, and environmental conservation and restoration.
Education: B.Ed Elementary Education, Mount Vernon University, Ohio.
Research Interests: Quality education, early childhood development, poverty alleviation, gender equality, human rights, community development and outreach, and sustainable agriculture.
Fun Fact: “Has hiked the 5 highest mountains on the Korean peninsula”.
Research interests: Youth in agriculture, community development, rural planning and development, women empowerment through entrepreneurship.
Fun Fact: “I have lived in four different continents”.
Education: Bachelor of Economics(Honours) and Graduate Certificate in Financial Planning.
Education: Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences with Specialization in International Development and Globalization.
Research interests: Poverty alleviation, sustainable cities, food security, gender equality, water security and sanitation, environmental justice, human rights, and community development.
Fun fact: “While I was in Vietnam I almost ended up on a Survivor-like reality TV show set in the Vinh Moc Tunnels”.
Research Interests: Rural and urban development, local food systems, women empowerment, project development, green economy, minority rights, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding. | 2019-04-23T22:23:52Z | https://waterloomdp.wordpress.com/meet-our-students/ | Porn | Arts | 0.662577 |
wordpress | I’ve been under a lot of stress recently. It’s mostly the usual stuff, bills, jobs, not eating right or sleeping enough. However, my job has been increasing my stress level a lot recently.
I work in a call center. For the most part I have a pretty easy job and it’s a fairly relaxed environment. Back in March I changed positions, I went from a role dealing with general public customers to a role dealing with agents who sell the product. I was getting extremely burnt out on dealing with the customers. It was a lot of factors that lead me to look for new opportunities and openings, and I jumped at the chance to switch departments.
I was pretty happy with the change for a while, until I got asked if I wanted to take customer calls part time as part of a new cross training program. I really wanted to say no, but I have a work ethic that got drilled into me early. Also, in this current climate it’s helpful to be the guy who has multiple talents so they are less likely to downsize you. Full disclosure, I had agreed to be a part of this cross training program back before I had actually switched departments. I was burned out and wanted something new.
That’s where I am now. Taking calls that I want to take part of the day, and then halfway through my day switching and taking calls that I was trying to get away from. It’s pushing my already high stress levels through the roof. I’m now at the point where I will do almost anything to not go to work. Everyday going into work just seems to be difficult. I try to take my mind off of work as often as I can, between calls I read twitter, facebook or read a book. I can actually feel my emotions swing downwards when the phone beeps.
This is not a healthy way to live.
I really want to get out of this role I’m in, but I kind of feel trapped. While I was one of the guinea pigs for the new program, they are now pushing everyone to go through it. My former teammates on the customer side are learning about agents, and my new teammates get to learn about dealing with the customers.
For quite a while I’ve had this feeling when I go to work, that I don’t belong there. I’m used to not feeling like I belong. I’ve lived most of my life as an awkward outsider looking in. I’ve started looking for new jobs, but most of the “normal jobs” in the area are just different variations on what I’m doing now.
That brings us to the point of all this. This is one part a way for me to vent off some of my frustration and negativity that doesn’t burden my poor wife with more of my emotional baggage. At the same time I’m hoping that by putting my thoughts, feelings and wants down and sending them out, it will solidify the message and spark a response from the universe.
I’m not a religious or highly spiritual person, but I do believe that what you put out will come back to you.
I want a job more in line with my interests. I love geeky things, so getting paid to talk, write and discuss movies, comics, games and the latest geek news would be perfect. But that’s not all I enjoy.
I don’t want to be rich. What I do want is the freedom from living paycheck to paycheck. Enough money to pay my bills and have some left over.
Now, I’m not expecting the perfect job to just land in my lap. I am taking steps to help make this happen. I’m taking my writing more seriously. I’m trying to get posts up on a regular schedule over at http://www.FanboysTalking.com and I have a novel that I am going to finish.
That’s where I am now. Just getting all of this out has made me feel better already. It’s a start. | 2019-04-25T08:42:22Z | https://murray1134.wordpress.com/2014/08/ | Porn | Business | 0.931552 |
wordpress | I been thinking about the wind so much I might as well be sailing.
After a posh stay at the Pierre Indian Education Center (my own room with bed and bedding, semi-private bath), we started our fifth week headed mostly east for a change.
Winds were light, the air was cool. We hit a construction zone with a flagger. After about a 15 minute wait she let us through and we had the road to ourselves – like our own critical mass ride.
We rode a few miles before we could see why the road was a single lane in one direction. A little farther and we started facing construction traffic coming toward us in the single lane. That made things interesting.
Lunch was fish tacos featuring walleye caught by some of the riders Sunday. Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace may be facing some competition!
After lunch the wind picked up and we headed north with a tailwind – 25 mph riding with no work.
We turned east again into a crosswind that varied, sometimes hitting our right shoulder, sometimes straight across, sometimes giving us a little help. After 89 miles we pulled into Miller, SD. Midweek we will be halfway on this journey.
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wordpress | Twitter us! – British-German-Club Hameln e.V.
Connected and interconnected! The Club now has a Twitter account.
We will be offering an Email-Newsletter Service in the near future. | 2019-04-24T10:37:42Z | https://britishgermanclubhameln.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/twitter-us/ | Porn | News | 0.606885 |
columbia | Students and scholars coming to the Harriman Institute have at their disposal one of the finest collections of materials on Russia and the post-Soviet nations in the West. Columbia's holdings are accessible through Columbia's online catalog, CLIO http://clio.cul.columbia.edu.
Russian, East European and Eurasian vernacular language holdings are estimated to consist of over one million monographic titles, adding approximately 14,000 titles each year. This includes the historic, and growing Post-Soviet Nationalities Collection of more than 20,000 titles in 59 languages of the Russian Federation, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The Libraries subscribe to all significant sources of electronic information from and about the region, including bibliographic databases and full-text repositories of current newspapers, government documents, and scholarly journals.
Through an innovative partnership with the Cornell University Library, Columbia’s collections are developed in coordination with those in Ithaca, dramatically reducing duplication while creating a more expansive research resource. This work is coordinated by the Columbia Librarian for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Through the efficient BorrowDirect Network, students and faculty have borrowing privileges at all of the Ivy League institutions, plus M.I.T.
For more information contact Robert Davis at (212) 854-4701; rhd2106@columbia.edu.
Established in 1951, the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture, the second largest repository of Russian émigré materials in the United States, contains approximately 1.3 million items in 1000 collections. These collections, made up of letters, diaries, memoirs, tapes, photographs, original manuscripts, and other documentary materials, cover the period from the 17th century to the present. The papers of well-known political personages such as Ferenc Nagy, Zoltan Pfeiffer, Imre Kovacs, and Jaromir Smutny are of particular importance to historians and political scientists interested in the modern history of East Central Europe. The Bakhmeteff Archive is located on the 6th Floor, east of Butler Library.
For further information, contact Curator Tanya Chebotarev: (212) 854-3986, tc241@columbia.edu. For more information, visit the Bakhmeteff Archive website.
In addition to Columbia's libraries, scholars at the Harriman Institute can draw on the famed Slavic and Baltic resources of the New York Public Library (located at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue) are only a short subway ride away. Together, the collections of Columbia and the New York Public Library comprise one of the largest concentrations of Slavic and East European language materials in the country.
Through a partnership with NYPL and NYU, advanced graduate students and registered faculty may apply for borrowing privileges at the NYPL.
Visit the NYPL website for hours and more information on the collection: www.nypl.org.
Harriman Institute faculty, fellows and students may also request access to the archives of the Columbia Central for Oral History, which include the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, former director Robert Legvold, the Radio Liberty Project, and many others.
801 Butler Library, 212 854-7083; Website: http://oralhistoryportal.cul.columbia.edu/. | 2019-04-19T11:08:17Z | https://harriman.columbia.edu/resources/library-resources | Porn | Society | 0.233345 |
wordpress | Suicide and the Great Recession: Will we heed the tragic warnings?
In this era of the Great Recession, suicide has become a leading cause of death in America, especially among the middle-aged, and it is to our shame as a society that this reality is not an ongoing, dominant focus of our attention.
From 1999 to 2010, the age-adjusted suicide rate for adults aged 35–64 years in the United States increased significantly by 28.4%, from 13.7 per 100,000 population to 17.6 . . . . The suicide rate for men aged 35–64 years increased 27.3%, from 21.5 to 27.3, and the rate for women increased 31.5%, from 6.2 to 8.1 . . . . Among men, the greatest increases were among those aged 50–54 years and 55–59 years, (49.4%, from 20.6 to 30.7, and 47.8%, from 20.3 to 30.0, respectively). Among women, suicide rates increased with age, and the largest percentage increase in suicide rate was observed among women aged 60–64 years (59.7%, from 4.4 to 7.0).
The report prompted a lot of media coverage upon its release, but now it has faded into the shadows of the news cycle.
Arias further observed that the spike in suicide rates could be a reflection of a combination of stressors specific to baby boomers. As the sandwich generation, many of us, while fighting our own financial battles, are also taking caring of aging parents, many with dementia, and providing economic and emotional support to our adult children, who are having difficulties launching their own independent lives.
Thomas H. Maugh II, in a 2011 piece for the Los Angeles Times, reported on an earlier CDC study indicating that among working people ages 25-54, suicides increase during bad economic times and decline during more prosperous times.
Everyone is familiar with stories of businessmen jumping to their deaths from window ledges during the Great Depression. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that those stories, sometimes viewed as apocryphal, have a strong basis in fact: The rate of suicides rises during times of economic hardship and declines in periods of prosperity.
Overall, the study — which did not distinguish between men and women — found that the suicide rate was 18 per 100,000 adults in 1928, the earliest year for which data are available, and climbed to 22.1 per 100,000 in 1932, the last full year of the Great Depression. That 22.8% jump over a four-year period is the largest in history.
Since then, the suicide rate has been dropping, with much smaller increases at the end of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal (1937-38), the oil crisis (1973-75) and the double-dip recession (1980-82).
The emotional costs of unemployment are vividly evident in a disturbing and important 2012 documentary, “Set for Life,” which tells the stories of Baby Boomers who have lost their jobs and who are trying to find work in the midst of our recessionary economy.
“Set for Life” is the work of journalist and producer Susan Sipprelle, assisted by filmmaker Samuel Newman (bios here). It centers on the ongoing sagas of three fiftysomething individuals searching for work, supplemented by interviews with experts and information that put their stories in context.
While the three main characters in Set for Life search for work in today’s daunting job market for older workers, they suffer financial woes, self-doubt, and health concerns. Thrust by the recession into a quest they never expected to face late in life, they ponder deeper questions that are relevant to everyone: What defines my self-worth? What is my definition of happiness? Can I reinvent myself? Can I prepare for and accept change?
Ghilarducci’s comments appeared last year in The Week, a weekly news magazine, as part of an informative piece spotlighting a largely neglected Boomer retirement savings crisis. Unfortunately, most workers have not built 401(k) accounts sufficient to fund a comfortable retirement; the average 401(k) balance “is just over $60,000,” according to The Week. Even worse, “(m)ore than half of U.S. workers have no retirement plan at all.” Social Security payments “averaging $14,780 a year for individuals and $22,000 for couples” won’t bridge the gaps.
Suicide is the dark side of the student lending crisis and, despite all the media attention to the issue of student loans, it’s been severely under-reported. I can’t ignore it though, because I’m an advocate for people who are struggling to pay their student loans, and I’ve been receiving suicidal comments for over two years and occasionally hearing reports of actual suicides.
Student loan levels have skyrocketed over the past three decades, and now the labor market is not producing enough good entry-level jobs to absorb heavily-indebted graduates, many of whom owe $100,000 or more in principal alone.
If we need more evidence of this deeply human crisis, the meltdown of the European economy has been linked to rising suicide rates of workers who see no escape from their plight.
Nadeau began her piece with three stories of three Italian workers who committed suicide due to their personal financial struggles. I suggest checking it out if you want a clearer sense of the human costs of the recession.
It was an easy way of dismissing the widespread despair and fear caused by an inhumane system that contributed to the world’s second highest suicide rate. East Germany, of course, was under a communist rule that sucked freedom and enterprise out of everyday society. When life under that oppressive regime caused people to sink into hopelessness, the government decided it was time to blame the victims.
To some, this historical factoid might justify touting unbridled capitalism as a panacea to heavy-handed government. However, while I have little use for communist systems, America’s suicide statistics remind us that extreme despair transcends economic and political ideologies.
We have to create jobs, while maintaining programs for those in need.
When America faced the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government enacted the New Deal legislation that created a stronger social safety net, including the minimum wage, Social Security, and public insurance for our bank accounts. It also created massive public works programs, funding everything from construction projects to artistic works. Ironically, it was this influx of government spending, followed by the huge increase in public expenditures necessary to fight the Second World War, that saved capitalism and put America on path for its greatest era of prosperity.
Today, many large corporations are sitting on piles of cash, and the stock market has fully recovered from the massive hit it took during the meltdown. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate improves in tiny, incremental steps at best.
It’s not as if we’ve run out of important, meaningful work that needs to be done. If corporate America and Wall Street won’t create jobs despite their abundant earnings, then let’s tax their wealth and use the proceeds to put people back to work, fixing our bridges and roads, building connective public transportation systems, educating our children, providing affordable health care, safeguarding our communities, and caring for our elderly.
Whether it’s biochemical or situational, the net result is the same: People are stressed to the max, financially struggling, pessimistic about their prospects and don’t have the traditional means of support previous generations relied on to get them through wars, epidemics and economic downturns.
In the past, people had family and community to turn to for support and strength and hope. Today we’re a fractured society, with families strewn around the country or globe, and our ancestors’ belief that “family is glue” all but eroded. Even people who didn’t have close family had strong religious convictions or a network of neighbors. We’re a Velcro society, and we all know what a weak substitute that is.
Suicide is a scary, intimidating, and complicated topic, and it makes many of us uneasy. But a nation’s suicide rates should be among the prime indicators of its collective health and well-being. We need to “own” these statistics, understand what’s behind them, and do our best to respond to them. This will enhance our lives a lot more than obsessing over stock market reports and enabling corporations whose leaders don’t give a hoot about the rest of us.
This blog posts builds upon, draws from, and integrates a good half dozen pieces written over the past two years. It is a sad testament to the state of things that the ties between mental health, suicide, and the economy continue to be so relevant.
Sometimes there is warning, other times disaster strikes unexpectedly. What are best practices on an issue like this? The following stories from the Workforce archives as well as several related Forum Discussion posts offer perspective on how to cope when a disaster hits.
I wish it wasn’t so necessary to do contingency planning for disaster. But as the Marathon bombings in Boston last month and the powerfully destructive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma remind us, being prepared can save lives.
Saying he wants the University of Massachusetts to do better, Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has launched a campaign to address workplace bullying.
In a memo sent to faculty and staff Thursday, Subbaswamy wrote that the university will be taking steps to deal with the bullying at UMass that came to light in a survey released in September.
“While the numbers were consistent with those found at workplaces of all types throughout the country, this is clearly an area in which UMass Amherst aspires to be something much better than average,” Subbaswamy wrote.
A week ago, labor-rights group Working America launched FixMyJob.com. . . . The website is yet another attempt by the country’s once-powerful union movement to connect to workers in an increasingly hostile national workplace.
The site, which is being rolled out slowly and in stages, is meant to give workers the resources they need to organize themselves and demand changes—regardless of whether or not an actual union comes together.
American workers are under assault, and this will continue so long as they believe that rugged individualism, supported by benevolent employers and the HR office, will provide them with good, secure jobs and decent working conditions.
Splitting is the tendency of those with [borderline and narcissistic personality] disorders to view others as all-good or all-bad. It’s an intensely emotional and defensive dynamic – and it can become highly contagious in the workplace, whether the person is a customer, employee, supervisor or even business owner.
Eddy describes splitting in work settings as a personal and hostile process that promotes extreme, all-or-nothing positions and “often involves projection,” i.e., tagging “others as being divisive and inappropriate in the ways that they are actually being divisive and inappropriate themselves.
All-good vs. all-bad thinking is hardly the province of those with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders, and I’m guessing that most of us have fallen prey to it on occasion.
But when this mode of thinking morphs into targeted and virulent action, the results can be destructive. They can range from defining entire occupational cultures — witness the malignant political discourse of Washington D.C. — to individual campaigns of workplace bullying designed to ostracize someone and drive her out of an organization and/or profession. In the latter category, they often include what I’ve called “puppet master” bullying and mobbing behaviors that attempt to turn the many against the targets and sometimes succeed.
It’s pretty much a given that top-down workplace bullying can diminish morale and productivity. But a study of Brazilian workers presented at the just-concluded “Work, Stress and Health” conference in Los Angeles suggests that abusive bosses may reap what they sow.
Dr. Kenneth Harris of Indiana University-Southwest (with Drs. Ranida Harris and Ana Rossi) presented a study on the effects of sustained abusive supervision on work outcomes, using a sample of Brazilian workers. One of their key findings is that many targets engaged in “upward undermining” as a response to the abuse.
In other words, bullied workers did what they could to make their bosses look bad.
Interestingly, as the bullying got worse, some targets increased work efforts on their own behalf, which Harris suggested may reflect attempts to keep their jobs despite the onslaught of mistreatment.
It makes sense, especially with bosses who have a kiss up, kick down mentality: They so underestimate the importance of subordinates that they have no idea about the little ways in which targets of their abuse can withhold support or even quietly sabotage their work and reputation.
The biennial “Work, Stress and Health” conference is co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP).
I’ve been asked twice in the past few days about bullying in the voluntary sector. This appears to be largely unexplored territory, deserving of greater attention. I searched “bullying of volunteers” and found only a smattering of relevant hits, and nothing in terms of a full-blown examination of the topic.
1. Why not? — There’s no reason why bullying-type behaviors should be uncommon among and between volunteers as compared to people in other settings with frequent human interaction. Most organizations have tensions, conflicts, and rivalries. Why should it be any different with those heavily staffed by volunteers?
2. Emotional stakes — In fact, in some cases the emotional stakes may be even greater among pure volunteers than among paid staff.
For example, in hyper-charged, cause-type situations, emotions can run especially high and play host to all sorts of negative behaviors, running the gamut from conflict to incivility to bullying. If the volunteers are working on behalf of a cause in which they have an important personal stake, the emotional ante is ratcheted up and buttons may be easily pushed, especially with “underdog” issues where people already feel marginalized.
Conversely, if the volunteer activity is associated with high levels of community prestige or power, there may be a lot of competition and posturing that create their own drama and give rise to the possibility of bullying behaviors. Ambition and recognition are not limited to paid employment, after all!
And even if social change or prestige isn’t at stake, community connections may well be. For many, volunteer activities such as coaching youth sports or organizing a church choir may be lifelines to their communities, and being cut out or pushed out of them may be painfully isolating.
3. Institutional status — The bullying of volunteers raises all sorts of institutional status questions. Are we talking about rank-and-file volunteers who are doing the on-the-ground grunt work? Or maybe this is about bullying within non-profit boards? Are there differences between all-volunteer groups and those that have a mix of staff and volunteers? And what if bullying behaviors cross certain groups within these organizations, involving staff, volunteers, and board members?
4. Behaviors — The bullying of volunteers also raises questions of specific behaviors: Do they lean toward direct or indirect? Do the emotional elements of some volunteer-driven causes plant the seeds for mobbing-type mistreatment? Given the increasing role of the Internet in linking volunteers, is online bullying more common than in, say, brick & mortar work settings?
We may not know a lot about bullying in the voluntary sector, but we should be taking the experiences of volunteers more seriously.
Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds, religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools. If it is proposed to inculcate some truth or to foster some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form a society. Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association.
In other words, voluntary associations are a societal cornerstone, and a lot of folks devote time to them. Their experiences as volunteers not only impact them personally, but also have a ripple effect on our communities in general. It follows that we should understand the significance of when and how working relationships among volunteers become dysfunctional and even abusive.
In January, I wrote up a list of research ideas about workplace bullying and related topics for scholars and graduate students, drawn from past blog posts. I definitely would add bullying of volunteers to the list.
As I explained in that earlier blog post, I’m not a social science researcher. But I’d bet that many of the quantitative and qualitative research approaches used to study workplace bullying would apply easily to examining the bullying of volunteers.
Labor attorney and law professor Mitchell Rubinstein’s 2006 law review article, “Our Nation’s Forgotten Workers: The Unprotected Volunteers,” explains the precarious legal status of volunteers in terms of workplace protections.
I’m spending an extended weekend in Los Angeles, attending and participating in the biennial “Work, Stress and Health” conference co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Society for Occupational Health Psychology. This year’s conference theme is “Protecting and Promoting Total Worker Health,” and the agenda packs in four solid days of speeches, panel discussions, symposia, workshops, and poster presentations.
Despite its serious sounding title (anything with “stress” in the name tells us something, yes?), Work, Stress and Health is my favorite larger-scale conference. It’s where I learn the most from fellow participants, and it’s where I’ve had opportunities to present my work to knowledgeable, savvy colleagues.
First, it’s multidisciplinary. Although the fields of industrial/organizational psychology and occupational health psychology frame the overall conference, it draws presenters and attendees from many occupations related to employee relations. Tackling the challenges of making our workplaces healthy and productive requires input from many different perspectives, and this conference does a very good job of bringing many of them together.
Second, it’s relevant to both research and practice. Academics and graduate students form the largest cadre at the conference, but the programs typically carry significance for scholars and practitioners alike. Equally important, most people drawn to this conference bring a genuine respect for both research and practice.
Third, it’s friendly. Frequent conference goers understand the significance of that statement. Too many such gatherings are cold, stuffy, uptight assemblages, and I greet them with dread. Work, Stress and Health manages to avoid that look and feel. I actually look forward to being a part of it.
Fourth, it’s a great place to learn. Here, too, conference devotees get what I mean. Frankly, at some conferences, all you really care about is not saying something really stupid during your own presentation. The rest of the conference holds scant interest to you. By contrast, at Work, Stress and Health, there’s a lot of compelling stuff being presented, and not infrequently one has to make a choice among two or three appealing programs during the same time slot.
Finally, it connects and reconnects me with good people. This conference enables me to reconnect with valued associates and make new ones. Indeed, last night I joined long-time friends Gary & Ruth Namie (Workplace Bullying Institute), Kathy Rospenda (University of Illinois-Chicago), and Stale Einarsen (University of Bergen, Norway) for an excellent dinner and lots of story swapping at Mio Babbo’s Ristorante in Westwood Village. These folks are among the pioneers in helping us to understand workplace bullying, and I always enjoy their company.
I look forward to sharing several future posts summarizing and commenting on information and research presented at the conference.
Let’s say you’ve got a cause you care deeply about, and you want to move it forward. It may be an initiative at work, a political issue, a community concern, or something else that matters. You may be at the beginning, in the middle, or tantalizingly close to success.
1. Be responsibly bold — I’ve been using this phrase a lot in talking about social change. Real change is neither reckless nor timid.
2. Take a next step — If you’re stuck, take a next step. It doesn’t have to be the next step, but it should be an affirmative one. It may lead you to something significant.
3. Put it on paper — Writing out your ideas pushes you to think logically about your passion. Let your right brain inspire your left brain, and vice versa.
4. Persevere — Sounds obvious, right? Well, if you’ve ever seen the resume of a very smart, able individual whose work record is a long list of short gigs, you know what I mean. Or maybe it’s someone who cares deeply about a cause but keeps addressing it in stops and starts or by constantly switching gears. Chances are they’ve never stuck with something long enough to make a deeper impact.
5. Learn — Change agents are lifelong learners. Pick up a book, talk to people (and listen!), dig into that website, read that journal article, scan the paper, watch a documentary, just keeping learning. A key to your initiative may be in the next study you read.
7. Take a break — Burnout is real. Sometimes the best step forward is to step out for a bit.
8. Plan, do, evaluate, repeat — A good mantra to follow.
9. Celebrate victories, then get back to work — If you celebrate too long, you risk deluding yourself that the task is over. If you don’t celebrate at all, you’ll be pretty glum and miss a chance to recharge your spirit. So, take occasional bows, and then ask what comes next.
10. When despairing, dig deep — Changing some small part of the world for the better can be challenging, frustrating, and difficult work. Setbacks are almost inevitable. When they occur, dig deep . . . perhaps into your devotion to the cause, your faith or spirituality, or your connection with others who share your commitment. | 2019-04-18T13:28:05Z | https://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2013/05/ | Porn | News | 0.502573 |
seznam | Part two of the Post-war coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Sadie Jones. A young man returns home from prison determined to make amends for his past.
Suited and Booted. It's Josh's birthday, so Kate and Owen decide to organise him a fancy-dress party. Josh is not keen, but he relents in the hope that it might give him a chance with Lucy.
Massage and Royal Visit. Alan breaks radio broadcasting history by having a massage live on air. He is also forced to take control and become main commentator on a royal visit - after the live link to the reporter goes down.
Muž, který chtěl umět létat!
Záhadné objevy nad Evropou! Někdy racionálně vysvětlitelné, jindy rozumem jen těžko pochopitelné. Šokující příběhy a neuvěřitelné výpovědi očitých svědků neidentifikovatelných létajících objektů!
Felicity Ward. Multi-award-winning Australian stand-up comedian Felicity Ward dissects everything from insomnia and anxiety to UK toilet attendants and falling in love.
Behind Every Bush There Is Not Necessarily A Howard. Hobbo enlists the services of his 'team' to help Toby win back the affections of his ex-wife, while Glenda decides to find Morton a woman.
Neuvěřitelné příběhy pilotů, kteří riskují své životy během testovacích letů! Děsivé zážitky a šokující výpovědi!
Bringing his hilarious tour to the legendary Hammersmith Apollo, Dara Ó Briain leads the audience on a rip-roaring journey through expertly crafted routines, cracking one-liners and spontaneous gag-making.
Dorothy, the twisted housekeeper of Hunderby, has her sights set on becoming Lady of the Manor. But Brother Edmund's appetites lay elsewhere, and when he is further encouraged to stray, Dorothy must invent myriad ways to snare her man.
Dane Baptiste. Dane Baptiste reveals the daily struggles of being a non-cyclist and also touches on the downside of having an evil twin sister. | 2019-04-24T22:20:42Z | https://tv.seznam.cz/stanice/zpravodajske/2018/12/22 | Porn | Arts | 0.276801 |
wordpress | Thanks for this. It is quite good fun to have to solve a problem sometimes.
Brilliant solution to covering the fabric description. Lovely work.
Thanks for commenting. I am going to put up some posts about the garden around my new studio. I was going to ask you about fail safe plants as I am not much of a gardener, but I suspect we live in very different climates!
A great solution to the label problem. However experienced we are we all make “mistakes”. I’ve just put the binding on a small quilt only to realise that I hadn’t finished the machine quilting – and I’ve been quilting for ever! Now I need good solution too.
You really can never have too much quilting on something, can you? I try and stint sometimes and it always looks awful. Good luck and I hope you don’t have to unpick the binding. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Thanks, that’s really kind. In the end having to make him so massive actually helped the scale of the piece, so that’s good. | 2019-04-21T06:16:21Z | https://annjrippin.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/further-adventures-in-wreath-making/ | Porn | Reference | 0.174635 |
wikipedia | Rabbi Yeruchem Halevi Levovitz (Hebrew: ירוחם ליבוביץ; ca. 1873-1936), also known by his hundreds of students simply as The Mashgiach, was a famous mashgiach ruchani and baal mussar (Jewish Ethics) at the Mir yeshiva in Belarus.
He was born in 1873 (5633 in the Jewish calendar) in Lyuban, Minsk Voblast, Belarus (near Slutsk) to Avraham and Chasya Levovitz. He received his education in the yeshivas of Slobodka and Kelm.
He was a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv of Kelm.
He was the spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus until his death in 1936. His disciples were said to have followed his every word, never doing anything that they "felt" he would not want them to do. Most of the leaders of the yeshivas of inter-war Poland were Rabbi Yeruchom's disciples. They would come on occasion to visit him and seek his advice.
After World War II, much of orthodox Jewry in Europe was wiped out, along with their many yeshivas (Jewish schools of higher learning). One of the only yeshivas to survive as a whole body was the Mir Yeshiva, which managed to escape miraculously to Shanghai, China, and then on to America.
Some of his better known disciples include Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin, Rabbi Dovid Povarsky, Rabbi Abba Berman, Rabbi Zelik Epstein and Rabbi Shimon Schwab.
His many discourses and lectures are preserved for posterity in the following sefarim: "Daas Torah," "Daas Chochma U'Mussar," "Shvivai Daas," and "Sifsai Daas on Pirkei Avos" which are a staple of many yeshiva libraries today, as well as many Orthodox Jewish households.
He died on the 18th of Sivan in the year 1936 at the age of sixty-three. He is buried in the town of Mir, Belarus. His grave site (recently rebuilt by his family) is a common destination for the many Jewish tourists who visit the decimated cities of pre-war eastern Europe.
Most of his family escaped the Nazis and made it to America where they were pioneers of the rebuilding of Orthodox Jewry in the United States. His son, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz, was the founder of a yeshiva in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and was responsible for publishing the writings of his father, as well as publishing the writings of Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv. His son in law Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Kaplan, former rosh yeshiva in Brisk, Lithuania, came to America and served as rosh yeshiva in Beth Medrash Elyon in Monsey, NY. Reb Yeruchom Levovitz's grandson then went on to open the famous Beth Hatalmud yeshiva. Reb Leib Maalin served as the rosh yeshiva until his passing, when the leadership of the yeshiva was passed to Rabbi Chaim Visokier. After Rabbi Visokier's passing, Reb Naftali Kaplan became the rosh yeshiva along with Rabbis Sholom Menashe Gotlieb, Binyomin Zeilberger and Yisroel Perkowsky. | 2019-04-22T22:56:16Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeruchom_Levovitz | Porn | Reference | 0.238036 |
wordpress | THE deliberations of a multi-party climate change committee will be kept secret until an agreement is reached because they are economically sensitive.
Labor and independent MPs broke into applause as the hotly-contested bills passed the Lower House by 74 votes to 72 after weeks of debate.
Amid the celebrations, there was a show of public solidarity as Mr Rudd planted a kiss on the cheek of Ms Gillard, the person who took his job and, by some reports, the person whose job he wants back.
So the long-running soap opera called Australian Climate Politics has reached its surprising end.
The Australian government has announced that it will abandon its plans to transition its newly implemented carbon tax into an Australian emissions trading system, and sign on the the European ETS.
There is no other way to read the Australian government’s decision other than that Prime Minister Gillard crying “uncle” and punting the issue far into the future.
Visit Roger Pielke, Jr.’s blog page for a good assessment.
The political challenges thus far facing passage of emissions reduction legislation in Australia, and its almost certain destiny to fail to achieve emissions reduction targets of the magnitude described here, should serve as an important lesson to climate policy makers around the world.
The Australian soap opera provides some clear lessons on efforts to price carbon at a high level to drive behavioral change.
The federal government plans to bolster its sagging budget bottom line by a near tripling of the auction of carbon emissions permits in 2013-14.
The government announced last Tuesday that it would remove a $15 floor price on carbon from 2015 and link to the European Union emissions trading scheme.
… they will also make it harder for a Coalition government to repeal the scheme and cancel companies’ permits.
Aust. CSIRO Snow/Ski report: 9 years on. Fail.
A 2003 CSIRO report, part-funded by the ski industry, found that the resorts could lose a quarter of their snow in 15 years, and half by 2050.
The worst case was a 96 per cent loss of snow by mid-century.
“Climate change is happening,” says Fairley.
“It is a live issue, not something that may happen in 10 or 20 or 100 years.
It is with us now, as we stand in the lift queue.
Modelling for 2020 and 2050 shows that the resort with the most remaining snow will be Perisher, in NSW, followed in order by Falls Creek, Mount Hotham, Thredbo and Mount Buller.
So, nine years on in 2012, how are the snow field resorts?
THE Victorian Alps are crowned with fresh snow and ski resorts are gearing up for the best spring in eight years.
Heavy snowfalls this month have left Hotham with 186 centimetres of natural snow, the best coverage since 2004.
It is only the fourth time in 20 years there has been so much snow this late in August.
2012 looks set to go down as one of the best in Australia for snowfall for a while.
It meant that the resort passed the 2m snow depth mark for the first time since winter 2004.
And after another 38cm of snow last weekend, Mt Hotham in Victoria reported its natural snow depth had reached 1.91m – not far off the 2m mark, a level not reached there since 2004 either.
The Australian ski season goes from June to October but be aware that Australian snow falls are highly variable, as illustrated in the first graph.
The good news is that, averaged over several years, the snow falls do not seem to be getting worse and a very good dump seems to occur every few years.
* Picking, in advance, which years are “good” seems impossible.
However, just like going to the horse races, it pays to know the “odds” that a particular week of the year will be good – that’s what this site is about – averaging the conditions over many years.
Author Mark MPosted on August 29, 2012 June 30, 2014 Categories climate fraud, climate or weather?
Climate Frauds UN-IPCC exposed quoting fraudulently adjusted temperature data in court.
At a stroke this case may affirm that up to one quarter of our planet’s climate records have been fraudulently audited.
New Zealand skeptics of man-made global warming score historic legal victory as discredited government climate scientists perform U-turn and refuse to allow a third party peer-review report of official temperature adjustments to be shown in court.
New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) are reeling after what may prove a fatally embarrassing admission that it is breaking a solemn undertaking given to parliament.
As such, this would bring a swift victory for skeptics with profound legal ramifications around the world.
In the sparsely-measured southern hemisphere the New Zealand climate data is critical to claims about a verified global temperature record.
Justice Venning says Dunleavy “has no applicable qualifications” and “his interest in the area does not sufficiently qualify him as an expert”.
He also questioned the credentials of Bob Dedekind, a computer modelling and statistical analyst whose “general expertise in basic statistical techniques does not extend to any particular specialised experience of qualifications in the specific field of applying statistical techniques in the field of climate science”.
The NZ court case of skeptics versus NIWA has come down against the skeptics.
Niwa’s chief scientist David Wratt just hopes they’ll go away now.
A judge has thrown out a legal challenge by climate change sceptics, which accused Government scientists of manipulating data.
Wratt is a senior member of the IPCC, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, and is in agreement with the majority of the world’s climate scientists who say human-induced climate change is happening all around us and that the warming of the Earth and acidification of the oceans is reaching a critical stage.
Wratt’s frustration is not just at the sceptics but also at the attention they receive, given they are the minority.
The New Zealand Climate and Health Council, which says it has 150 medical professionals as members, said groups like the Climate Science Coalition were “still peddling lies that kill, they are delaying action essential to protect human health”. | 2019-04-24T22:14:25Z | https://climatefraudsters.wordpress.com/2012/08/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.742208 |
wordpress | I recently ran a poll on my Twit-stream in connection with #NationalPopcornDay asking for votes for which recipe people would like to see from a selection of three. Each of the recipes used popcorn in an alternative way. Not that there’s anything wrong with just munching on a bag in front of a good movie! But you know me and how I like to mix it up a bit!
Think of this, if you will, as a “deconstructed” cheesecake. Literally flipping everything your familiar with about cheesecake on it’s head. “Salty taste in a cheesecake?”, you say, “That’s a bit unusual”. “The crumb layer is ON TOP!?!…well that’s just crazy!” Welcome to my world.
In a stand mixer bowl, beat the feta cheese until smooth.
Add in the cream cheese, half of the whipped cream and the salt, and mix until combined.
Add in the remainder of the whipped cream and mix again until fully combined.
In a large saucepan, heat the sugar over a moderate heat. Continue to heat until the sugar turns a deep amber color. DO NOT STIR! If needed you can swirl the pan.
When the deep amber color has been reached add in the butter and stir until melted.
Once the butter has melted, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the cream. Take extra care here as adding the cream will cause the mixture to foam up and steam. Continue to whisk until the foaming subsides and the sauce is smooth.
Leave to cool fully before proceeding.
Over a medium heat melt the unsalted butter in a frying pan.
Add in the biscuit crumb and crushed popcorn. Toss to coat in the melted butter.
Mix in the brown sugar and stir to evenly coat.
Continue to stir until the crumb mixture gently browns and caramelises.
Remove the crumb mixture from the pan and allow to cool on a plate or bowl until needed.
In an oblong pie dish, spoon the cheesecake mixture and smooth.
Pour over the caramel sauce and spread to smooth.
Liberally sprinkle over the crumb mixture and lightly press down.
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wordpress | What is Christmas—or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa—without candles flickering in the night? Light is, after all, the midwinter wish of mankind. Those of us who celebrate Advent begin with candles as a symbol of hope. Candles in the window to welcome weary travelers are my own favorite holiday decoration. Menorahs light many homes for eight nights. Recent years have brought us the scented candle, filling our houses with cinnamon and cloves without the effort of baking or pine without the mess of dragging in the real thing. I recently finished writing the story of a candle maker, eking out his business in Bath in 1815, so of course I had to research this most gentle and beloved of holiday items.
The history of candles is a long one! Examples have been found dated to 3000 BC. The Old Testament makes numerous references to candle holders in worship. Though the words probably weren’t written down until the 7th or 8th century BC they testify to the long history of candles for lighting and religious practice.
By the end of the 18th century England had four sources of lighting in homes. The most basic were rush lights, which consisted in the dried inner core of rush plants soaked in grease or oil. They were smoky but did the job.
The poorer families also used tallow candles, made with fat from slaughtered cows or sheep. The same fat might be used for those rush lights, but tallow candles had a wick and burned more slowly. They also smoked and smelled, and were, by most accounts, horrid. They used very thick wicks to produce sufficient light and had to be trimmed often while in use. They could be made at home, as rush lights certainly were, or bought from a chandler.
Folks in the growing middle class and urban areas in the 19th century would have bought their candles. A candle-works in any town could make a prosperous living supplying local demand. Tallow candles could be hand dipped one by one, a rather laborious process since they had to be dipped and dried repeatedly to build up to a useable size, but machines that enabled the dipping of dozens at once made candle production commercially viable. They could also be mass-produced by pouring fat or wax into molds.
Beeswax candles burned more cleanly, smelled delightful, and lasted longer. They also employed a daintier wick that did not need to be trimmed. However, beeswax candles cost much more; only the wealthiest families could afford them. Up until the first quarter of the 1800s it was extremely difficult to extract wax from bees without destroying the hive. Straw skeps and even wooden hives were of the burned or crushed to extract the honey and retrieve the wax. The invention of the moveable frame in 1814 ultimately led to the process employed today in which beekeepers uncap honeycomb and extract the honey by centrifugal force, enabling the comb to be cleanly removed or reused by the bees. Beeswax would never be an abundant commodity.
Even the wealthy probably used candles sparingly given the price. A spectacular example of affluence, however, was the lighting for the Assembly Rooms in Bath. A purpose-built facility for entertainment, the building housed a card room, a ballroom, a tea room, and the Octagon Room for cards, music, or other entertainments. The rooms were lit by a set of nine chandeliers. Eight of them required forty candles each. The ninth, in the Octagon room, required forty-eight. That is a total of 368 candles. These brightly lit entertainments attracted the cream of society (although by the Regency period, Bath was no longer a first tier destination for the highest of society). Nevertheless, the Assembly Rooms required the best. Since w A 12 inch beeswax taper burns about twelve hours, and at best they would have to be replaced every other night, the cost of lighting the chandeliers with beeswax must have been astronomical.
Oil lamps also existed, of course, and oil lighting was particularly important in North America as the whaling industry grew. By the mid 1700s, another option came into common use for candles. The oil from the head of sperm whales turned out to be superior other forms of whale oil and could be processed into a wax called spermaceti. It was easily formed into candles, burned clean, produced no odor, and gave off a bright light. Abundantly available due to the exploding United States whaling industry, it also cost significantly less than beeswax. Spermaceti or “whale’s candles” quickly became the standard for candles.
Candles competed with oil lamps, and, as the 19th century progressed, they competed with gas lamps as well. Ultimately electricity became the primary source of ordinary lighting. Still, there’s something about candlelight as any romantic knows, and they remain a significant part of midwinter holiday celebrations of all kinds.
Your history of candles reminded me of when I was very young, in the 1960s and 70s and my mother used to clean the local church. My job, when I helped, was to scrape off the old wax from the candle stands and boxes, and add it to the candle stumps, the whole of which was sent off to a woman who melted them down to make new ones. I recall my mother’s sober announcement that the candles were no longer being made this way and they would be bought in future, but we knew not from whom. I’ve attempted to make candles many times since then and it isn’t easy!
Not it is not! Churches used to be entirely lit with beeswax but now the rules are just “don’t by cheap ones that smoke and smell funny.” I’ve had a couple of candles inside glass burn down and break the glass when the wick goes sideways.
I, too, love putting candles in the window to welcome home weary travelers. Your rundown of the candle-making industry was fascinating.
Thanks you for saying so.
What a lovely post for this Advent season! I love candles of all kinds, even the battery operated ones whose “flames” are now pretty realistic in appearance.
I like the battery operated ones that go on at set time, stay on for 8 hours, go off for 16 and come back on at the same time the next night. They make my windows bright.
Something I came upon relatively recently is that Regency balls were measured in time according to the length of the candles – because of course all the candles had to be in place before it began and would not be replaced during the ball! so the length of ball had to be known as to whether you bought 6-hour candles or 8-hour candles. I should think that allowing for an hour of lighting them all beforehand during the last minute rushing about getting prepared, and the first guests arriving, you can knock an hour off each of those – and the last half hour they must have been guttering. So if you planned to dance until 4am, you;d want those 8-hour candles for early arrivals ….
Great bit of Regency trivia Sarah! Thanks so much.
it was one of those ‘D’OH’ moments when I suddenly realised that hey, you can’t replace a guttering candle in the middle of a ball; obvious when you think about it. | 2019-04-22T11:12:54Z | https://historyimagined.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/candles-light-up-our-lives/ | Porn | Business | 0.325479 |
wordpress | “Out upon thee, foolish boy!
“Mother, I will none but her.
What follows is a kind of medieval singspiel, in which verse songs alternate with prose narration. This form has been dubbed a chantefable (literally, a sing-say), and the category has been invented specifically for Aucassin and Nicolette, which is our sole surviving medieval example of what was presumably a genre.
It is a delightful creation, plump with good humour and full of energy. It is a celebration of the medieval ideal of “courteous love”, and a fresh, cleansing wind blows through it. Love has captured Aucassin’s heart, and he prefers his beloved to honour, to wealth, to glory — even to the salvation of his soul. In this sense, he is the “foolish boy” his mother decries, but his devotion is so strong that it inspires him to great deeds of another sort, and to heroic virtues of another order. His love, in fact, renders him worthy to be the hero of a medieval romance.
The story is packed with oddities. In one episode Aucassin finds himself at a castle where the king lies in child-bed and the queen rides forth to battle. Joining the fight, he discovers that they fight not with swords, but with crab-apples, cheeses, and mushrooms. In another, Nicolette stumbles in the forest upon a group of rustics enjoying a pastoral picnic, almost as though the Forest of Arden had been transplanted to France.
The book, which is quite short, is available at the Gutenberg project.
I went to Chartres on my first trip to France. It was a short train ride from Paris; I remember passing through the Versailles train station en route and caring not a whit for it; my heart was set further down that track. It was a slightly overcast day; perhaps I had hoped to see Chartres draped in an overhanging blue mantle, and so was slightly, very slightly, disappointed as I approached. I met the famous English guide, Malcolm Miller, who has been giving tours there for decades. My dominant memories are of a dimmed, vaulting interior and glory all around.
One needs to be eight centuries old to know what this mass of encrusted architecture meant to its builders, and even then one must still learn to feel it. The man who wanders into the twelfth century is lost, unless he can grow prematurely young.
The whole Mount still kept the grand style; it expressed the unity of Church and State, God and Man, Peace and War, Life and Death, Good and Bad; it solved the whole problem of the universe. The priest and the soldier were both at home here, in 1215 as in 1115 or in 1058; the politician was not outside of it; the sinner was welcome; the poet was made happy in his own spirit, with a sympathy, almost an affection, that suggests a habit of verse in the Abbot as well as in the architect. God reconciles all. The world is an evident, obvious, sacred harmony.
was the greatest artist, as she was the greatest philosopher and musician and theologist, that ever lived on earth, except her Son, Who, at Chartres, is still an Infant under her guardianship. Her taste was infallible; her sentence eternally final. This church was built for her in this spirit of simple-minded, practical, utilitarian faith,—in this singleness of thought, exactly as a little girl sets up a doll-house for her favourite blonde doll. Unless you can go back to your dolls, you are out of place here. If you can go back to them, and get rid for one small hour of the weight of custom, you shall see Chartres in glory.
The Virgin still remained and remains the most intensely and the most widely and the most personally felt, of all characters, divine or human or imaginary, that ever existed among men.
Adams takes the time to inspect in detail the structure and decorative programme of the church, meditating upon the rose windows, the portals — west, north, and south — and of course the famous twelfth-century stained glass. (When reading these sections it helped greatly to consult a coffee-table book with pictures of the scenes under discussion; there are pictures in this Penguin edition, but of inadequate quality and too few.) It is clear that he thinks Chartres is the greatest architectural achievement of the time — in fact, he goes further and dubs the smaller of its two spires “the most perfect piece of architecture in the world”.
Although the book’s title would lead one to believe that it is focused entirely on these two great buildings, in fact they account for only half the length of the book. Adams moves on, in the same playful and inquisitive spirit, to a consideration of the literature of the time, and to its intellectual and religious life.
Among works of literature he values especially Le Roman de la Rose, Le Chanson de Roland, the songs of Adam de la Halle, and the wonderful collection of legends Les Miracles de la Vierge. Of these, I especially enjoyed his ruminations on the song of Roland, which I myself have written briefly about, but with far less success. Equally excellent is his appreciation of the religious poetry of Adam of St Victor — most of it, again, in honour of the Virgin — which he praises for its simplicity of spirit and technical excellence.
Indeed, this might be a general criticism to levy against the book as a whole. It is clearly the work of an amateur (and was, in fact, originally published privately in an edition of only 100 copies, to be shared with friends). His oft-repeated, self-depreciating references to his substitution of imagination for expertise — “what we want is not dates but taste” — might be intended to defuse such criticisms. He needn’t have worried overmuch, for he was obviously a man of intelligence and sensitivity, and the lapses in judgment or errors as to fact must be relatively few.
I will, say, however, that I found his prose to have a certain lugubrious quality; the same complaint put me off his other great book some years ago.
Every so often I read a book that I feel I might, under different circumstances, or given more talent, have written, or tried to write, myself. This is such a book for me; not that I think I could have done it nearly so well, but I’d have liked to try.
Any one can feel it who will only consent to feel like a child. Sitting here any Sunday afternoon, while the voices of the children of the maitrise are chanting in the choir,—your mind held in the grasp of the strong lines and shadows of the architecture; your eyes flooded with the autumn tones of the glass; your ears drowned with the purity of the voices; one sense reacting upon another until sensation reaches the limit of its range,—you, or any other lost soul, could, if you cared to look and listen, feel a sense beyond the human ready to reveal a sense divine that would make that world once more intelligible, and would bring the Virgin to life again, in all the depths of feeling which she shows here,—in lines, vaults, chapels, colours, legends, chants,— more eloquent than the prayer-book, and more beautiful than the autumn sunlight; and any one willing to try could feel it like the child, reading new thought without end into the art he has studied a hundred times; but what is still more convincing, he could, at will, in an instant, shatter the whole art by calling into it a single motive of his own.
The architects of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries took the Church and the universe for truths, and tried to express them in a structure which should be final. Knowing by an enormous experience precisely where the strains were to come, they enlarged their scale to the utmost point of material endurance, lightening the load and distributing the burden until the gutters and gargoyles that seem mere ornament, and the grotesques that seem rude absurdities, all do work either for the arch or for the eye; and every inch of material, up and down, from crypt to vault, from man to God, from the universe to the atom, had its task, giving support where support was needed, or weight where concentration was felt, but always with the condition of showing conspicuously to the eye the great lines which led to unity and the curves which controlled divergence; so that, from the cross on the fleche and the keystone of the vault, down through the ribbed nervures, the columns, the windows, to the foundation of the flying buttresses far beyond the walls, one idea controlled every line.
An economic civilization troubles itself about the universe much as a hive of honey-bees troubles about the ocean, only as a region to be avoided. The hive of Saint Thomas sheltered God and man, mind and matter, the universe and the atom, the one and the multiple, within the walls of an harmonious home.
The nineteenth century moved fast and furious, so that one who moved in it felt sometimes giddy, watching it spin; but the eleventh moved faster and more furiously still. The Norman conquest of England was an immense effort, and its consequences were far-reaching, but the first crusade was altogether the most interesting event in European history. Never has the Western world shown anything like the energy and unity with which she then flung herself on the East, and for the moment made the East recoil. Barring her family quarrels, Europe was a unity then, in thought, will, and object. Christianity was the unit. Mont-Saint-Michel and Byzantium were near each other. The Emperor Constantine and the Emperor Charlemagne were figured as allies and friends in the popular legend. The East was the common enemy, always superior in wealth and numbers, frequently in energy, and sometimes in thought and art. The outburst of the first crusade was splendid even in a military sense, but it was great beyond comparison in its reflection in architecture, ornament, poetry, colour, religion, and philosophy. Its men were astonishing, and its women were worth all the rest.
This is a poem that I love, and, in addition to a Middle English version, I’ve a few different translations in my collection, most notably that of Tolkien. Arguably one doesn’t need, and shouldn’t want, a translation, the original being adequately accessible to any reader willing to put in a little elbow grease, but I heard good things about this translation by Simon Armitage, and sometimes one just doesn’t have any elbow grease ready at hand.
The first line has three stresses in the pattern aaa, but the second has two pairs in the pattern abba, and the third again has two pairs but in the pattern abab. Occasionally, as I said, he hits all four stresses with the same sound (“trussing and trying all the trammel and tack” (l.1129)), but these are exceptional.
Alliterative poetry is wonderful to read aloud, and I read this aloud to myself as much as I could — or as much as my saintly wife would tolerate in the wee hours while she was trying to sleep. Sometimes the ear picks up the stresses not evident to the eye, as in a line like: “A man quite capable, it occurred to Gawain” (l.848).
and flung it in fury at the man in front.
‘My downfall and undoing, let the devil take it.
the fidelity and kindness which every knight knows.
through treachery and untruth I have totally failed, said Gawain.
and I shall bear the blame.
I found that I grew very fond of these little envoi as I read; they provided a punchy variation in the rhythm that kept me interested.
“I’ll kneel, bare my neck and take the first knock.
The point is arguable; the Green Knight is a lively, uncouth character who might, I grant, speak in this way, if only to ruffle Arthurian feathers.
Armitage has also translated the same poet’s magnificent poem Pearl, and I’m curious about it. It is one of the most technically virtuosic poems in the English tradition, and I’m wondering how Armitage grapples with those challenges. Perhaps I’ll read it — in a year and a day.
In the world of early music, where manuscripts are often bereft of temporal markings, dynamic markings, and even pitch indications, a certain amount of creative interpretation is an inescapable part of any performance. But there’s interpretation and interpretation: sometimes musicians come along with a bold challenge to the received wisdom about how the music of a particular time and place should sound.
Case in point: Graindelavoix give us a version of Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame that is frankly bizarre: pitches slide all over the place, the timbre is rough and unpolished, and ornamentation, inspired, it sounds, by Middle Eastern and Arabic singing, pervades all.
This embedded video contains a full performance of the Mass, with propers, but I’m queuing it up to the Gloria, which lasts for about 6 minutes. I’m mostly thrilled by the bass in this ensemble, who is some kind of monster: listen, for example, to the notes he sings at “Jesu Christe” (about 2-1/2 minutes in, and again at about 4 minutes in). Amazing.
I’m honestly not sure if I like what they’re doing — it comes close to being an early-music freak-show — but I do like that they emphasize how little we really know about how this music sounded to those who first wrote and performed it. And I definitely like that bass.
If you don’t know how this Mass usually sounds, here is a fairly typical reading of the same section.
This autobiography, the earliest in English, was dictated to scribes (for Margery could neither read nor write) in the first decades of the fifteenth century. In it, Margery describes her spiritual life and her travels, and gives portraits of English life at the time.
Her writing has about it that same refreshing candidness and lack of pretension that I found in the writing of Julian of Norwich (whom Margery met on at least one occasion). She refers to herself as “that creature” much of the time, and is as matter-of-fact about the storms of her soul and the voices she hears as she is about weather and the hazards of travel.
Much of the book is devoted to Margery’s descriptions of her remarkably vivid spiritual experience. She reports having spoken with numerous saints — sometimes St Peter, sometimes St Paul, sometimes St Katherine or some other — with Our Lady, with Our Lord himself, and even with the Holy Trinity. She had an especially strong devotion to Christ’s Passion, and is regularly reduced to tears at the very thought of his suffering. Indeed, these plentiful tears, which she took as a special gift from God (“tears with love are the greatest gift that God may give on earth”), were also a recurring source of tension in Margery’s social circles, and I came to feel a certain affection for them. Again and again she describes how she was overcome with grief and cried out in great sorrow, with copious tears, abundant tears, astonishing tears, unquenchable tears, while those around her gazed with incomprehension or derided with scorn. “Some said it was a wicked spirit tormented her; some said it was an illness; some said she had drunk too much wine; some cursed her; some wished she was in the harbour; some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat; and so each man as he thought.” Margery was aware of the disdain, but, it seems, she remained grateful, for her tears “never came without surpassingly great sweetness of devotion and high contemplation”.
For me, among the most interesting parts of the book were those that described her travels. She made several pilgrimages, including journeys to Santiago, Jerusalem, and Rome. Late in life she volunteered to accompany a young widow from England to Germany. Her accounts are of great interest, partly for their details about the uncertainties of travel at that time, and partly for the descriptions of the places she went and the people she met.
The Book of Margery Kempe is not an immortal classic. It owes at least part of its fame to the mere fact of its survival (in a single manuscript, I note, which can be viewed online courtesy the British Library). I said above that Margery described her spiritual life in the down-to-earth manner in which one discusses the weather, and, as with descriptions of weather, a little goes a long way. But it was genuinely fascinating to read of her travels, to imagine her visiting places that I myself have visited, and to learn, through her, something of the attitudes and character of her contemporaries.
The Germanic tradition of stories about the Nibelungs was familiar to me only through Wagner, but for some time I had wished to acquaint myself with the medieval roots of the legendarium, and at long last I arrived at this Song of the Nibelungs, which is one of the chief glories of that tradition. It was written by we know not whom, and we know not when (but probably around the year 1200).
I first noticed that although the story shares a number of characters with Wagner’s version — Sifried, Brunhild, Hagen, and Gunter, principally — the story as a whole bears no resemblance to Wagner’s, not even in the sections about those shared characters. But in adapting the story for his own purposes Wagner seems to have been in good company, for there is a rich and complex manuscript tradition testifying to the malleability and creativity with which medieval culture treated these tales. The translator, Burton Raffel, does not explain why it was this version of the story which he chose to translate, and I rather wish he had.
The basic arc of the story concerns two royal marriages which, poisoned by jealous pride and suspicion, erupt into violence that eventually leads to the downfall of all. Surprisingly (for those coming to the story from Wagner) there are no gods in the cast, and, although there are cursory references to Christianity here and there — the characters hear Mass in the morning, for instance — the poem as a whole shows little interest in religion, and is far from pious in spirit. There are a few magical elements around the edges, as when one character hears a prophecy from fountain sprites, but otherwise the tale is grounded in the political and interpersonal world of its characters.
I almost wrote that it is grounded in “realism”, but that would not be quite right. The knights at the center of this story — Sifried, Volker, Gunter, Hagen, Rudigor, and a few others — are heroes of legend, which means they fight with superhuman strength, slaying dozens or hundreds of adversaries with ease. The women are surpassingly beautiful. Everyone is impossibly polite: indeed, a significant part of the poem is devoted to the niceties of courtly etiquette, with page after page devoted to the elaborate ceremonies of court: gift-giving, welcomes, and feasts. The author seems to relish the intricacy and formality of these encounters, and the reader — the happy reader, at any rate — will relish them too.
ready to welcome those their king had invited, who would try to destroy him.
rolling. The dead men’s families wept and cried, and wrung their hands.
It is worth noting that Giselher and Hagen are not the villains of the piece, but instead something like its heroes. In fact it’s not so easy to say just who the heroes are: everyone has faults, and everyone pays for those faults in the end. To my mind Sifried comes closest to being an unequivocal hero, but (***spoiler alert***) he is killed off in the early going, the victim of jealousy born of misunderstanding. His wife Krimhild is the wronged party who seeks revenge, which might, on a warrior’s code, be the honourable course, but she too is vindictive beyond measure. The poem is morally complex.
The original poem is written in quatrains consisting of rhyming couplets: AABB. Each line is divided into two halves, with each half-line having three (or, in the case of the last half-line of each quatrain, three or four) stresses. Raffel has tried to preserve this structure in his translation, but inevitably compromises were necessary. He has strictly preserved the metrical scheme, as is evident from the passages cited above. He claims to have usually preserved rhyme as well, but to my ear the rhymes are often only approximate, and as I read I was almost never aware of them.
their deeds were nothing at all compared to noble Sifried’s might.
to me, and I wish it did. Perhaps this can help me explain.
That rhymes at least we well as one of Raffel’s typical stanzas, and it has the right stress pattern, but I’d not call it poetry.
My dear Krimhild, now we need to return to my land. It’s time.
In the third line “here” gets a stress, emphasizing that where they are is the problem, and in the fourth line “now” gets a stress, emphasizing the need for immediate action. Were that stanza smeared out into prose, I’m not sure I’d read it in quite the same way.
Despite the difficulties I had with the translation, we English speakers do not have many means by which to get to know this poem, and I am grateful for Raffel’s labours.
Das Nibelungenlied is a great poem, one especially bracing for readers from our culture, for in it we encounter a world quite other than our own, where honour and strength are the leading virtues, and in which courtesy and violence are engaged in a high-stakes contest of wits. It has a cast of characters that is memorable in action and manageable in size, and strong dramatic instincts. In the sweepstakes of medieval Germanic poetry it doesn’t displace Beowulf in my affections, but I did certainly enjoy reading it.
Over the years I’ve dabbled in medieval literature, enjoying Chaucer and Dante, Chretien de Troyes and Beowulf. Naturally, some works have been more challenging than others, and for a variety of reasons: themes, structure, language. Piers Plowman is as difficult as anything I’ve come across, and then some. I’m tempted to say that there is nothing simple about it.
The work is an allegorical drama in which the main character, Will, wanders through the world populated with a variety of characters — Conscience, Truth, Scripture, all seven of the Deadly Sins, Reason, and so forth — on a journey to discover Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best. The characters offer Will advice, upbraid him, and encourage him on his moral quest, rather like a medieval Pilgrim’s Progress. The story is complicated by a series of dream-visions, and even dreams-within-dreams, that add layers of interpretive difficulty to a book already beset with vexatious challenges.
To seek out Saint James · and saints in Rome.
And had leave to lie · all their lives after.
More than to tell the truth — such talk was theirs.
Went off to Walsingham · with their wenches behind them.
And behaved as they were hermits · to have an easy life.
It’s wordier (as modern English usually is in comparison to Old or Middle), but certainly much easier to follow.
Langland’s style in Piers Plowman is quite unusual. Though this might seem a wild comparison, as I read I kept thinking of Dostoyevsky, not for his interests or his genre (naturally) but just for that unhinged quality, as though the characters are a little wild-eyed, prone to do or say anything. Langland jumps from one thing to the next. He salts his poem liberally with Latin phrases, fragments of Scripture, and quotations from antiquity. He is going somewhere, but unsteadily, with numerous rapid detours. The language is thorny and angular.
I haven’t said anything yet about Piers Plowman, the title character. Will meets him at several points in the poem, always, I believe, in a dream. At various points Will meets him riding into Jerusalem, or in the guise of the Good Samaritan, or offering a pardon for sins. Will speculates that he is Christ in disguise, and, given his characteristics, this seems reasonable to me.
Commentators on Piers Plowman stress its moral seriousness and its satiric edge. Of the former there is ample evidence, for the poem contains many scathing criticisms of Church and society in his day, but of the latter I confess I was able to detect but little. Satire is a tonal matter much of the time, and that’s hard to convey in a translation and hard to detect in an unfamiliar dialect.
In the end, I am pleased to have read the poem, though I confess I did not greatly enjoy it. It is one of those hurdles that anyone wanting an education in medieval literature will have to clear, and it feels good to have cleared it (more or less!), but, unlike Chaucer or Dante or the Gawain poet, I doubt I’ll return to it for pleasure. | 2019-04-19T18:50:23Z | https://cburrell.wordpress.com/tag/medieval/ | Porn | Arts | 0.811962 |
wordpress | So I have been working in and out of town and had to take a moment to post. I know it has been awhile.Here is my weekend beauty secret before a party or for Sunday Funday kinda day at home lounging in your pajamas!
Baby it is so HOT outside. After a day at the beach or you might even have computer eyes…staring at the screen or on your mobile devices.
I love to refresh my eyes with these! Ice Water eyes...have you tried them?
Micro infused with collagen,aloe,amino acids and vitamins C and E really pamper and treat the skin around your eyes.All you do is apply the pads below the eyes and leave on 15-20 minutes. Remove and throw out. If I really want to get more bang for my beauty buck I pack them in the package one more time and use it another night.
Great for hotel,traveling on the airplane and more~ These type masks for your eyes I so adore. | 2019-04-20T01:24:28Z | https://beautycandy.wordpress.com/tag/hot-weather-beauty/ | Porn | Home | 0.412523 |
wordpress | Similar to the blacks who saved Reginald Denny, these Arabs were saved by Jews. Unlike the thugs that assaulted Reginald Denny, however, the Jews then tried to attack the family that saved the Arabs. I cannot recall Jewish citizens acting with such violence against innocent civilians, especially other Jews. Hopefully this is just something that will pass, maybe when Olmert is finally forced from office. But if it does not, then this definitely represents a turn for the worse in Israel. Despite what liars like Christiane Amanpour of CNN would have you believe, attacks on Arabs – and other Jews – by Israeli citizens is extremely rare, and this represents a real escalation with disturbing implications.
See link here. With each passing day, the Bible continues to be validated, and demonstrating that all who reject its literal truth, inerrancy, and final authority in all matters do so out of the hardness of their hearts! | 2019-04-20T00:16:15Z | https://healtheland.wordpress.com/tag/jerusalem/ | Porn | Reference | 0.567663 |
wordpress | After a few last attempts to hold onto summer (see: Saturday afternoons by the lake), the bright oranges, reds and yellows around Zurich started to tell the story of cooler nights, foggy mornings, and the crisp breeze causing people to get cozy and bring out the winter comforter. It is definitely autumn!
With the fog lifting up by the afternoon, the bright blue sky has been an exquisite complement to the symbols of the season: late harvest plants, lingering flowers, plump pumpkins, and the changing of the leaves. I’ve been walking around the ‘m0untain’ near my apartment and marveling at the final stages of summer blending seamlessly into one of my favourite times of year. As a self-declared jacket addict, this is a great time of year since I’m assured of the need for a great long spy trench coat and a cozy wool scarf before venturing out.
And as the growing season wraps up, the plot farmers are hard at work preparing their garden for the winter crops and bringing in the last of the summer’s. This, of course, means pumpkins are ready! To fully embrace this I biked out of Zurich to a nearby you-pick farm called Jucker Farmart. Here they not only display the winning pumpkins in the annual ‘biggest’ competition, there are also pumpkin-made displays with a new theme every year. It just so happened that I decided to visit the farm when the theme was particularly original: Switzerland. Yep, we are talking about displays complete with a gigantic cow, Heidi, the Matterhorn, an alp horn and more made from various shapes, colours and sizes of pumpkin. You couldn’t help but smile at the fun displays, the history and symbols they chose, and the faces of the kids who were totally entranced by the pure quantity of pumpkins and all their alien forms.
And one final impression from another ‘mountain’ above Zurich (they are really more like hills but have the name of -berg, meaning mountain. Hmm… they don’t quite look like the mountains I know) looking out towards the Alps and the surrounding towns. The sun was setting and casting a glow that lit the oranges of the hill and the purple of the horizon.
I have so much to post about- trips, pumpkins, friends and music. But I couldn’t find the inspiration to bring it all together just yet. After a great dinner and a night out yestarday with the usual suspects, I ended up with a bunch of the standard crazy party pictures. These are often deemed the worst offence for facebook/blog posting, but let me make my case first before you expect a slew of flashed out faces or questionable dance moves caught on film. In any case as a group who don’t ‘get out much’ therein avoiding paying outrageous entrance fee at the Zurich clubs, I don’t know where we fall in terms of tearing up the dance floor. Can’t say we fall into the group of poorly coordinated young people, but we were not fox trotting on the dance floor either.
In their own raw energetic blurry way I felt that I should put these pictures out into the world. There is just something about capturing a smile within the spinning lights and jumping bodies which is a bit magical and crystallizes the joy of the moment as everyone lets go of their own inhibitions and sings at the top of their lungs finding their own groove to the music. It is also something I cherish about yoga, a bonding through using the whole physical body as a way of expressing yourself beyond the conversation around the dinner table. Communication happens through eye contact, some synchronous hip shaking, and incoherent hand signals (good thing they are only usually representing two actions- bathroom or beer). | 2019-04-22T09:25:16Z | https://devonabroad.wordpress.com/2011/10/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.13697 |
wordpress | Brown clutched his new bat as he raced toward the back of the store. He had visions of Trevor or the nameless mother slamming the door in his face and leaving him on his own against the cannibalistic dead that rushed at him.
As soon as Brown dashed through the door, Trevor slammed it shut behind him. The group stood there panting and exchanging panicked looks, until the first fists banged against the door.
“Sorry,” Brown apologized while removing his cowboy hat. He ran a sleeve over his brow before continuing. “I’m Brown and this here’s Trevor. We had two other people with us that are now… part of them.” The banging on the door was a blatant reminder as to the ‘them’ he referred to.
The noise on the door grew in volume.
“Wait, what about that back window?” Brown said while taking in the room. It was maybe fifteen by twenty feet and had cleaning supplies, about twenty boxes, and a cheap desk covered with stacks of paper.
Brown talked quickly. “Trevor, muscle that desk under the window, but don’t smash it out yet. Laura, look through those cleaning supplies for anything flammable.” While he spoke he tossed a few of the heavier boxes in front of the door. While the others worked he snapped the heads off of two of the mops, but slid the third mop toward where Laura gathered the flammable things she found.
No one cared to argue and Trevor dropped to the ground first. “Still good,” He whispered.
Brown lowered the girl down, then helped Laura. He office skirt didn’t make things any easier. Brown kept thinking another dozen of the creatures would appear around the corner, but this still failed to happen.
Maybe my plan is working. Maybe they’re all following us into the store.
The door splintered open enough for him to see a blood drenched face on the other side.
I need to move fast.
Grabbing up the paint smeared mop, he lit it. The flames roared up quickly and once it was going, he stuffed it into a mound of paper towels that surrounded one of the boxes of chips. He watched it catch and smoke poured into the room at once. He pulled the flaming mop handle out and while ducking under the smoke, he used it to push the boxes over that were helping keep the door shut.
The door burst open and three zombies stumbled into the fire. Their clumsy feet kicked the fire to new areas and caused it to grow to greater heights.
Milky eyes stared at him and they ignored the fire in their quest for his flesh. But Brown had already reached the desk. He hopped up and looked back one time. Two of the zombies were pillars of flame.
When he opened the window the oxygen caused the entire room to combust He jumped outside as smoke filled the room instantly. Brown landed on the ground coughing, but when he rubbed the smoke from his eyes the others were nowhere to be seen. | 2019-04-22T11:11:20Z | https://eternalaftermathazombieapocalypse.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/burning-pillars-of-death/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.26851 |
wordpress | Zero Error – Flying thoughts and memories.
Welcome to Zero Error : flying thoughts and memories.
To be honest, there’s no one out there in the world who is absolutely perfect. In other words, everybody have their own strengths and weaknesses. So, this makes everybody unique. We commit errors every now and then. A person’s life without errors or mistakes is totally unimaginable. Even if it is, it brings very little meaning to it.
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But, let’s pretend to be perfect. It brings in positivity! Zero Error is that state where there are no questions which talk about errors and perfections.
Click on them and you’ll be there.
So, do thoughts and memories fly? Yes! Let’s give it a try. | 2019-04-23T02:25:02Z | https://pavanathreyaz.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.165784 |
wordpress | My body-swapped Ariel has been my favourite doll lately – it’s pretty great when you like what you do have, instead of thinking about all the dolls you could have, for once 😉 Anyway, as a result, it was an obvious choice for me to take this doll with me to the seaside.
I took photos in three different locations, giving them a slightly different theme, and I’ll post each set separately. These ones come from the walk in the town and on the pier. Unlike the other ones, I did not plan this photo-shoot when I was packing all my doll gear back at home, but then the summery atmosphere of the promenade and all the cool looking food trucks won me over.
In all these photos, Ariel is wearing a Barbie dress from a fashion pack. Her shoes are also Mattel-made, coming from a set of five pairs. Her glasses came with a Dolphin Magic accessory set, except I decided to paint the ‘lenses’ black. I used matte acrylic paint – what I happened to have on hand – so I added some shine using varnish. Unfortunately, it dried slightly bumpy.
…making for some authentic seaside photos.
The weather has just turned very autumn-like today, making it all the more clear that summer is now in the realm of memories.
This is another summer memory that I share with Ashlynn Ella, who accompanied me to the seaside.
This doll bracelet works rather well, doesn’t it? It’s a jewelry piece from craft store, it is used to separate beads in necklaces. The braid-like ornament reminds me especially of Holly O’Hair, but it fits this model and outfit no less.
I sewed the dress especially for a summer occasion like this. It is based on an in-depth tutorial by Strawberry Butterscotch. I would definitely recommend it: it can be used to make a dress for any doll, but the author gives you pre-measured dimensions to fit Ever After High dolls, and thanks to a smart workaround, there is no need to hem the neckline. I made minor changes by adding a sweetheart finish to the top, adding straps and opting for a longer skirt. I used lightweight white cotton, and, overall, ended up with something I would gladly wear at the edge of the sea myself.
In the photo, the dress bunches up a little, because I needed to anchor the doll in the sand to keep her steady without using a stand.
This little bottle would have made a nice souvenir once the photo session was over, but, unfortunately, it must have been lost on the beach. I wonder if someone was thrilled to find it.
We will have to find other ways to remember.
She really looks quite Royal, though in a rather different way than the usual fairy-tale sense.
And so, the sun sets over the summer days.
Think of one colour you would never put on a doll with red hair. OK, make it three colours. Would orange be on your list?
When I was browsing through thrift-store dresses to harvest for fabric I decided, against all common sense, that this design would suit Merida. Doesn’t it, though?
The dress is once again based on the Mimi Sewing Pattern for Disney Animators’ Collection, however this time around altered to make the dress sleeveless. I still have no affiliation with the author of the pattern 😉 It just really is quite versatile.
Merida, being the brave princess that she is, is not afraid to stand on the swing.
I don’t know why one of her socks keeps turning up but it was beyond my power to stop it.
P.S. You can also view the above photos on Flickr, if more convenient. | 2019-04-22T13:09:26Z | https://muscellaneous.wordpress.com/tag/summer/ | Porn | Kids | 0.330995 |
wordpress | Not without a huge surprise for Sara though, as when she arrives she discovers that Amy has died following a lengthy illness. When the quirky townsfolk insist she stay in Amy’s house, Sara begins an adventure worthy of one of the novels she loves so much. The people of Broken Wheel can’t seem to do enough for her and consider her to be their guest. After awhile Sara begins to feel beholden to them and wants to find some way to repay their generosity.
On some levels this book reminds me of one of my favorite novels, “84 Charing Cross Road” by Helene Hanff. Both were stories of people united by their love of books, both were about trans-Atlantic pen-pals. “84 Charing Cross Road” was actually mentioned in the novel.
“Books that had already been read were the best”.
Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark via NetGalley for providing me with a digital advanced reader’s copy. I was contacted by Sourcebooks to take part in the book’s official blog tour in exchange for an honest review.
KATARINA BIVALD grew up working part-time in a bookshop. Today she lives in Älta, Sweden, with her sister and as many bookshelves as she can squeeze in. She has still not decided whether she prefers books or people.
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I am so very intrigued; lovely premise and it looks like the type of novel that would be welcomed right now.
This looks like a lovely warm book. | 2019-04-25T02:41:23Z | https://fictionophile.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/the-readers-of-broken-wheel-recommend-by-katarina-bivald-official-blog-tour/ | Porn | Arts | 0.094055 |
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wordpress | For several years now, Stanford Ph.D. Nick Yee has maintained a wonderful website–The Daedalus Project–that explores the psychology and motivations of MMORPG players. There are several surveys you can fill out on the site if you’d like to put your two cents in.
The most recent addition to his site is an article entitled Our Virtual Bodies, Ourselves? that examines what our choice in avatars might say about us. As someone who tends to play gnomes and/or halflings, I was interested in what this might say about my own personality.
In fantasy games, I like to immerse myself in the fantasy element of things, so I tend to stay away from “real life” options as much as possible. For example, I have yet to roll a human character in any game I have played (excluding Guild Wars if you consider the necromancer “human”) and I seldom create warriors because hypothetically, if I really wanted to I could learn to fence and run around carrying a rapier (until the men in white coats came to drag me away in a straight jacket).
I’ve always preferred flawed heroes in fiction and film, so I tend to favor the slighter, less idealized races (dwarves, halfings, gnomes) to the polish of tall, majestic elves or bland, buff humans. Also–as with most–it was Tolkien who opened up the world of high fantasy to me so I’ll always have a soft spot for apprehensive, self-doubting hobbit types just because as an unsure, introverted kid I found characters like Bilbo Baggins so easy to relate to.
In one sense, this goes against the mirroring the Daedalus article attributes to a lot of character creation–players creating idealized versions of themselves. But on another level, I think the races I select might be more an internal mirroring than an idealized external one.
When I look at myself, it’s not a far stretch to see my dominant character traits embodied in the races I generally choose–grouchy and stubborn like a dwarf; self-doubting and apprehensive like Tolkien’s hobbits; and eccentric, curious, and solitary like gnomes. How about you?
This is a must-read, so do yourself a favor and check it out.
Over the past few months, debates have been popping up around the gaming blogosphere prompted by PvEers excited about the promise of meaningful PvP in Warhammer “even though they don’t normally like PvP” and PvPers concerned–and legitimately so–that they don’t want to see WAR watered down for the carebears.
I think many PvPers like to paint a picture of PvEers as geriatric pen-and-paper role-players too squeamish and atrophied from years of playing EQ to take on anything but sluggish, scripted AI adversaries. But this is not the case.
Look at the RPG in it’s purest form: Dungeons and Dragons. The RPG is simply a communal way of interactive storytelling. This is something sorely lacking in MMO PvP.
I enjoy PvP, but it gets awfully boring awfully quickly in its current state. The old school gamers who level criticism at LoTRO and WoW for not having “enough risk” should turn their attentions to PvP rather than shunning it. I personally think it’s laughable to use the word “risk” when we’re talking about computer entertainment, but engaging in combat with other players delivers a sense of excitement that corpse runs or real time travel–no matter how long–ever will.
We play MMOs because other players add a wonderful sense of life to the worlds we inhabit online. Good PvP IS good PvE because both ideally involve participating in an engaging story, having an impact on the virtual world we’re playing in, and working with others towards a shared goal.
It’s the current state of MMORPGs that fuel these divisions between the camps because in most every game after Ultima Online, PvP and PvE are mutually exclusive (WoW) or PvP is totally pointless (V:SoH).
If PvP is implemented in a more creative way than me getting griefed for no reason by some immature jackass venting his poxy teenage angst–or me mindlessly grinding out honor for gear rewards, numb to the ultimate outcome of the battle–that’d be a healthy baby step. And if there were implications for the ganker and the gankee–both good and bad, now that’d make things interesting. | 2019-04-25T10:29:57Z | https://tenfoldhate.wordpress.com/2008/02/ | Porn | Games | 0.148496 |
dreamhost | I am trying to build a system where by there will be a page in a folder (lets call it foo for now) that will allow me to change the status of the site between active and down. Currently i am doing this with an .htaccess file that redirects all requests to a maintenance.html page, so there is no way that i can access the directory foo to change the status. is there a good way to do this with htaccess, or can anyone think of a way to do it with php? I am right now at a loss.
on pages that you want to restrict access to, check against the flat file to see if the page is suppose to active/down.
write a php form page that writes to the flat file if you want the status of the site be up or down.
a simple way in php would be to create a seperate text file with a single value in it. In your index.php page you would use an if else statement. If the value is 0 print “Sorry page is down for mantainence” and end the program. otherwise if the value is 1 continue.
you could then decide if you just want to upload the text file each time, or write a php program that will write the value for you.
The problem I am forseeing is users that are accessing directory indexes. You may want to place a php program in those directories and have php create the index for them. That way the php program can check the value of your text file. Then if you wanted to you could add values to specify what directories are down for mantainence.
problem is i want to take the entire site down for maintanence. that would be alot of work using your method, but it is a good idea, just more work than i want to do.
where you replace the 123, etc with your IP address, and maintenancepage with whatever your maintenance page is.
Have those two lines commented out when live (with #s), uncomment when you need maintenance. | 2019-04-19T22:47:42Z | https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/help-building-a-maintenance-system-for-my-site/39997 | Porn | Computers | 0.79454 |
wordpress | The reward was showcased in May as the Benitez could say goodbye with a trophy to his CV. The second-leg of the semi-final was a comfortable 3-1 win, and the Blues showed up with a last-gasp headed winner by Ivanovic to secure the crown by a goal against Benfica in Amsterdam.
Little success could have been drawn out of the league with a Top Four spot practically secure, but it was with the thanks of a 1-0 win against Man United. That was followed by a draw to Tottenham, fundamental as the Top Four rivals failed to truly catch up on the Blues, before crowd-pleasing 2-1 wins against Aston Villa and then Everton to round off the 38 league match season. | 2019-04-19T14:29:46Z | https://thechelseachronicle.wordpress.com/football-blogs/20122013-season/may/ | Porn | Sports | 0.760849 |
wordpress | hi everyone, Janna Werner started a challenge, called the 30 days watercolor quotes and i was like, oh yes… i love this one! let´s join the fun!
guess what?! i failed… i made it to day 12… woooop, NOT!
i really enjoyed the painting and the time i spent doing that! but the process before i could start was not easy. i had no ideas and no clue how to get inspired! maybe it was not the challenge, it was not the right time for me to join! kwim?!
never mind, i want to share a few of my favorite pieces with you!
i´ll share some more paintings over the next days! | 2019-04-24T10:35:31Z | https://scissorsglueandpaper.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/30dayswatercolorquotes/ | Porn | Arts | 0.985851 |
wordpress | What does educational transformation mean?
Just as the industrial revolution ushered in a mass model of schooling, the digital revolution is forcing us to rethink schooling for today’s world. The biggest difference now is the rapid pace of change, which means the gap between school, society and technology is growing ever-wider. The call to radically transform schooling is being met … More What does educational transformation mean?
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Not long ago, the principal of a large independent school in Sydney penned a letter imploring his parent community to behave appropriately toward teachers. As more and more parents become educated about their child’s schooling, it raises an important question – who has the right or responsibility of challenging teacher practice? As a society, we … More Who should challenge teachers?
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wordpress | A few days ago, I posted about the Donmar Warehouse’s PR campaign for The Weir, which describes Conor McPherson as one of “our” greatest living playwrights.
I was suggesting in that post that the “our” might just have been a mistake but observed that Irish writers, especially the successful ones, are often referred to as British, and that this can often feel like appropriation.
A few people contacted me either directly or via Twitter, mostly expressing frustration and citing examples of similar errors. But a few others suggested that perhaps the “our” meant “belonging to world drama”: that McPherson is “ours” in the way that Sophocles and Ibsen belong to the world… That is entirely possible, though I would note that no British theatre would ever refer to David Mamet or Bruce Norris as one of “our” (i.e. “their”) greatest living playwrights.
But really we’re just talking here about how plays are marketed, so to a certain extent it’s not worth getting too upset about a bit of inaccurate hyperbole.
Roddy Doyle is one of Britain’s greatest writers. He is also my favourite teacher. His books arrived when I needed them most and, like the best of educations, changed my perceptions and the course of my life.
The rest of the article goes on to pay tribute to Doyle at length, referring in some detail to many of his novels and also displaying awareness of his former career as a teacher.
The full article can be read here, and its author is Kerry Hudson. And I should thank Emily Mark Fitzgerald for pointing it out to me via Twitter.
Needless to say, the comments soon started flooding in to the Guardian website, mostly from people pointing out the error. As one user stated it is very difficult to take an article seriously when it has so egregious an error in its opening line.
I completely understand why people are unhappy and I can only apologise. I did initially draft the copy to (incorrectly) read ‘greatest British writer’ but then realised my error requested this to be changed in advance of the piece being filed with the Guardian. For whatever reason that didn’t happen.
She goes on to say that she hopes people will ignore the error and try to follow the spirit of the article in its entirety: “I was just trying to acknowledge and say thank you to someone who had a massive impact on my writing and life,” she said.
Most of the people commenting accepted that explanation/apology – and I have to say it’s refreshing to find someone who is willing to admit a mistake in the way that Hudson does. For anyone who writes anything, this kind of howler is both a perpetual fear and a perpetual risk: there are things that you know, have always known, and will always know – but for some reason will forget for the entire period that you spend writing something. So I think anyone is capable of making this kind of mistake. That is what editors are for, or used to be for.
And for some reason those kinds of massive blunders almost always appear in an opening paragraph.
I mean, what is the context in which an obviously intelligent, obviously educated, presumably thirty-something journalist describes an obviously Irish author who writes specifically about the working class experience within the Irish Republic’s capital city come to actually make a statement like “Doyle is one of Britain’s greatest writers”?
In response to the question of why I ever wrote that line in the first place I think (I wrote the article a wee while ago…) I was thinking about the reach of his books – I found mine in a tiny council estate library in Great Yarmouth – but as I’ve said this was never the wording that was meant to be published. By no means was I ever trying to ‘claim’ him.
This explanation trails off slightly, but is still interesting: it’s likely that what she means is that Doyle’s work feels like an important part of the fabric of her cultural life, not as something exotic or foreign but rather as something that is recognizable and immediate.
This is probably how many Irish people would feel about Coronation Street or Manchester United, or perhaps the novels of Ian McEwan or the music of Radiohead and so on. They wouldn’t describe those things as “Irish” but they would probably use the word “our” about them in some contexts (and I’m not just referring to the way in which Irish people will say “we” when talking about their favourite English or Scottish football team) – or they would in any case feel a sense of ownership, possession, fidelity, and so on. When you really love something, it can feel like it belongs to you, and I think that’s what she was trying to express.
It’s also possible that some of this may be caused by the status of some Irish novelists within the London literary scene. It’s been observed before that sometimes Irish fiction is presented by UK-based publishers not as a national literature but as a genre. “Irish” novels may be very different from each other on the surface: Banville is very different from Enright, who is different from Toibin, who is different from Sebastian Barry, who is different from Joseph O’Connor. But novels marketed as “Irish” do seem to have similar traits: lyricism, mordant (if not morbid) humour, a focus on the past that fuses nostalgia with acts of historical retrieval. And quite recently we’ve seen a few that are set in the past and which deal with the liberation of some unusually self-possessed young woman (Ghost Light, Brooklyn, On Canaan’s Side).
And it’s also notable that the novelists I mention above play a significant role in the discussion of fiction and ideas in Britain: Enright and Toibin’s essays for publications like The London Review of Books are widely read, as are John Banville’s reviews in London and New York.
And it’s also often been observed before that these writers constantly write blurbs for each other’s novels, thus heightening the sense that they are all inter-related by more than just their place of birth.
Again I think much of this is caused not just by marketing but by the ways in which marketing in turn influences the placement and commissioning of reviews – which in turn has an impact on other reputation-building exercises such as public readings, invitations to festivals, appearances on TV, and so on.
So I can understand what Hudson felt when she led off an article about one of her favourite writers by saying that there is no-one quite like him in all the land. I feel something similar about Zadie Smith and David Greig and many other writers and musicians. I know they’re not Irish, but the worlds they create feel like they belong to me.
Commentators over on The Guardian website are characterising Hudson’s error as arising from ignorance. But perhaps rather than seeing these mistakes as evidence of the divisions between our countries (so many of the Irish complaints are tinged with annoyance at not being noticed by a bigger neighbour), we could instead see them as an example of the ways in which the two countries are intertwined in important ways, especially when it comes to our literature(s). This intertwining is not necessarily an entirely bad thing – or an entirely good thing – but it certainly needs to be better understood.
Likewise I think there needs to be an acceptance that when Irish writers have been so warmly and so thoroughly welcomed into British theatre and fiction (albeit when they write in ways that conform to some extent with expectations of what an Irish writer ought to do), this will inevitably blur some boundaries too. We in Ireland celebrate the Booker victories and Tony Awards of people whose careers are to a great extent driven by forces in London: there is a risk in doing so that we are trying to have it both ways.
And at least Hudson has admitted the mistake and tried to correct it.
I recently finished reading Claire Kilroy’s very enjoyable novel The Devil I Know. It’s a satire about the collapse of the Celtic Tiger, narrated by a man called Tristram and written as a testimony to a tribunal taking place shortly before Easter 2016.
One of the things that makes the book so enjoyable is that there’s a strong Faustian element to the story. Tristram finds himself back in Ireland after many years away, and reluctantly joins forces with a cute hoor property developer, in order to construct luxury apartments and a hotel in Howth – sometime shortly before the bust in 2008. He does so under the instructions of his AA sponsor and boss, the mysterious Monsieur Deauville, who only ever contacts him by phone. Tristram soon realises that his boss may not have entirely benign motivations (and realises also that he may be mispronouncing the first syllable in his boss’s surname – “deh, not doh”). The crash comes, and – of course – everything goes to hell.
The inclusion of a satanic character – who is mostly off-stage during the novel but who exerts plenty of influence anyway – owes something to Flann O’Brien, I think. But for some time I’ve been very interested in answering a question that this book gives rise to: why is it that so many Irish writers who set out to tackle the Celtic Tiger do so by writing about people who sell their souls to the devil? Two of the best examples of this trend are Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus and Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, two plays that were actually written before the boom came to an end (I’ve written an academic journal article about both and it is online here). And internationally I’ve read countless articles that describe the credit-fuelled bubble that burst in 2008 as having occurred because people “sold their souls to the devil” – metaphorically, of course.
It’s interesting that the metaphor has such currency these days. I’m writing a book about this at the moment, so don’t want to go into too much detail (if I start I won’t stop) – but the Faust story has two elements that seem relevant nowadays. The first is that the Faust story conveys the idea of how wrong it is to apply a material value to something that should never be sold: this can be our ‘soul’ or it can also be things that we should value for their intrinsic worth such as love, national character, loyalty to a cause, family relationships, or something similarly abstract but essential. For example, in Ireland, many people say that we ‘sold our soul’ by losing touch with many of the things that made us distinctively Irish, such as hospitality, humility, and generosity to others (I’m not saying that I agree with this – just noting that this point has often been made).
And the second is the idea that when you strike a deal with the devil, you will always regret it once the reckoning falls due. Much of the writing about the banking crisis focusses on this aspect of the Faust story.
I see a lot of different explorations of both of those ideas in popular culture at the moment – from things like Public Enemy’s brilliant album title How Do you Sell Soul to A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul to the growing number of TV characters who have (in some way) sold their soul, of whom the best example is, I think, Walter White from Breaking Bad.
Anyway, I’ll have more to say about that in about two years when I get this book I’m writing finished….
But Kilroy’s novel is very good. When I started reading it, it reminded me a lot of John Banville, since it’s a first person narrative, delivered by an erudite and slightly snobbish Irishman who has fallen on hard times. So it seemed slightly influenced by The Book of Evidence (still his best novel, I think), and I wasn’t surprised to realise that Banville has written a blurb for the front cover of the book.
However Kilroy’s novel soon takes up territory that is distinctive and fresh. The characterisation of property developers and politicians is well handled: the already overused phrases about the Celtic Tiger (“we all partied”, “the fundamentals are sound going forward”) do appear, but they’re placed in such a grotesque framework that the shots don’t feel cheap. Kilroy’s greatest achievement here is to write a book that features ghosts, the devil, resurrections from death, and similarly fantastical events – yet it is the real occurrences from the last days of the Celtic Tiger that seem unbelievable. So the most exciting thing about this novel is that the moments that place most strain on your suspension of disbelief are the ones that Kilroy isn’t actually making up. I can’t think of a better way of satirising the Celtic Tiger period than by showing how it reads like a rather predictable horror story.
I do have to confess to having a slightly negative predisposition towards the many books, tv programmes, comedy routines, newspaper columns, and plays that are now satirising the Celtic Tiger. Many of them are in their own way very good – but I think the effect of such work can often be to confirm what we already know while creating the impression that the author is bravely attacking the status quo.
In fact though, in Ireland, the new status quo is that the old status quo was very bad. It’s not true that “we all partied”, but from watching or reading a lot of that work, I think that we in Ireland are now in danger of perpetuating the myth that the entire Celtic Tiger bubble was caused by Someone Else: property developers, bankers, politicians, public servants, Angela Merkel – take your pick: but It Wasn’t Me.
That’s not to say that the post-Celtic Tiger material that’s being written is bad – far from it. Some of it’s very good: I really loved Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz, for example (and don’t consider it guilty of any of the criticism I mention above). And even during the boom, there were excellent novels that sought to come to terms with the consequences of the Celtic Tiger: Keith Ridgeway’s The Parts and Paul Murray’s Skippy Dies stand out, but there were others – and there were also films like The Tiger’s Tail and plays like Declan Hughes’s Shiver. All of those works set out to the challenge the orthodoxies of the boom when it was underway, and thus attempted the difficult job of confronting audiences, demanding that we ask questions about our lives and our society… But I think there’s a risk that some of the work now being produced to attack the Celtic Tiger is just confirming the dominant narrative that’s been built since 2008 – and the lack of dissent from dominant narratives was one of the problems that caused the excesses of the Celtic Tiger in the first place.
All of this is just to say that there may be people who will dismiss The Devil I Know because they may worry that it is another one of those ‘closing the stable door after the horse has bolted’ critiques of the Celtic Tiger. I have to admit, I wavered before buying it myself for that reason. But it’s not that kind of work at all. Its central character is a recovering alcoholic – and if the addiction to alcohol is used as a metaphor for the Celtic Tiger’s addiction to the accumulation of wealth and status symbols, the reverse is also true. I mean, that is, that this is a novel about addiction first and foremost. The Celtic Tiger is the setting and context for the story, but the novel transcends the local or, more specifically, the parochial setting to create a story that could travel widely and survive into the future.
I think this is important. One of the best books I’ve ever read about what debt does to people is Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit – while Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock can be seen as having in some ways predicted what would happen to Ireland if the country ever became rich. In other words, the most relevant works of literature are those that tell us something about human nature – rather than recreating the events of one particular epoch in one particular country.
This is not to say that The Devil I Know is in every respect perfect. There is a very under-developed female character, whose purpose in the novel seems uncertain (another link with some of Banville’s work, perhaps). But what I most admired were the varieties of style and sensations employed. The book is very funny, for example – but it’s also quite creepy. There’s one scene in which Tristram and the property developer drive in the middle of the night to an isolated rural farm – and the novel at that point is actually quite scary: not the kind of thing you’d want to read in a dark house alone on a windy night… So it is (to use one of its own repeated words) often uncanny and unsettling.
One last thing to say about it… It runs to about 360 pages, but because the novel is written in the form of a cross-examination by a barrister, there are quite a lot of ‘chapters’ that are no longer than a single sentence. In other words, it’s much shorter than it looks – it could easily be read in a single sitting (I read it over three days) and actually merits re-reading too.
So – worth a look.
This blog is written by Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway. | 2019-04-21T12:30:46Z | https://patricklonergan.wordpress.com/tag/anne-enright/ | Porn | Arts | 0.168626 |
wordpress | There is a dream of every employee who works in a company to finish the job in the office and go home with smiling face. Another dream is a satisfaction after the employee gave a good or positive contribution in the office.
The issue will occur if among employee have different standard to be achieved. What standard? A same mission is needed to achieve the goal, in this case is company goals. When we take actions to achieve the company goals, good attitude, good spirit need to be build-in inside the employee’s heart.
A very simple example to see a bad or good attitude is, when an employee drives a rent or company car compare to when an employee drives with own car. Why does he drive his own car with full attention, careful? Coz of the car values came from his pocket. He does not want the car broken or damage and make another extra money to spend to fix the own car again. This is good attitude.
And now, if that good attitude is implemented in his working place (company he works with), he feels that he is part of the owner of the company, he imagines that every action from the company will impact to the business and his pocket, what do we do then?
The question, can we have that attitude?
Yes, we can have that attitude. We need to transform ourselves to have good attitude.
Again, by learning, learning & learning and having high maturity level need to be put in our heart. Is it enough? To make a perfect final result, we can add creative thinking to find good solution, to find the good way to get optimum result.
Attention to the team member also needed to improve the teamwork’s spirit, leadership behavior, act as role model and improve managerial style will help to faster the transformation phase.
Insya Allah, with those attitudes, we can go home with smiling face all the time. | 2019-04-20T20:48:41Z | https://learntoimprove.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/changing-attitude/ | Porn | Business | 0.968422 |
wordpress | Watching tape of Zito throwing last night against the Pirates right now, and I have to say, although his stat line really doesn’t look too bad — 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, and 5 K — I really have a hard time believing the guy can be anything more than a back of the rotation innings eater, and even that is asking an awful lot.
Zito’s curveball is one of the most unique pitches in baseball. It’s big, soft, but all around one of the most spectacular pitches that any pitcher could ask to go to. But ask anybody around the game of baseball, and they’ll tell you that you can’t survive in the Majors on one pitch alone. The guys in the box are just too good.
Zito’s fastball has topped out at 85, and was usually sitting around the 83 MPH range. If you are going to toss 83 MPH fastballs to MLB hitters, it better have two things — perfect location and insane movement, ala Greg Maddux. From what I’m seeing, Zito really has neither. I can see that Zito’s fastball is pretty flat, and certainly doesn’t have the plus movement that he would need to make it even a useable MLB pitch.
Even more concerning is the lack of control Zito seems to have over the pitch, or all of those pitches for that matter, right now. Zito’s walked 17 guys over 33.2 innings pitched at this point, compared to just 16 strikeouts. It took him 99 pitches to get through 5 innings against a Pirates team that is just 23rd in baseball in walks drawn.
I’m not sure how much faith I can put in the MLB.com pitch trax thing, but based on what I can see with my eyes, and based on what MLB.com is showing, when Zito is coming into the zone, its because he’s coming right to the middle of the plate, right around the belt.
The Giants better hope that Zito figures out some way to either find some velocity or pick up some movement and start locating, because right now he looks like he belongs in the ‘pen as a long reliever at best, or perhaps he and his nasty curveball can become the first $126 million LOOGY.
We’re almost three months into the Neal Huntington’s reign as Pirates General Manager, and despite some complaints about a lack of off-season activity, Huntington has been a busy man, and I think now would be a good time to stop and reflect on some of the team’s front offices moves since his hiring.
The first order of business for Huntington was the hiring of a new manager and coaching staff. While it is too early to really judge new skipper John Russell and his staff, we did find out a couple of things about Huntington’s philosophy.
Russell, who comes to Pittsburgh with 10 years of managerial experience under his belt, has been known to work wonders with young ballplayers, and is rumored to be a good motivator as well. While with Philadelphia’s triple-A club, Russell worked with former-MVP Ryan Howard and perennial all-star Chase Utley as they made their ascents to the big club.
Thus, we can assume that Huntington’s M.O. is to built towards the future with young, cheap ballplayers. Not a very uncommon approach in baseball these days among small-market clubs, and one that the Pirate faithful are more than familiar with by this point.
He claimed pitchers Phil Dumatrait and Ty Taubenheim, outfielder Kevin Thompson, and infielder Josh Wilson off waivers. Dumatrait and Taubenheim may be able to find a spot in the Bucco bullpen in the near future, and depending upon future personnel decisions — e.g. the potential signing of Chris Gomez (see below) — Wilson might be able to squeeze onto the 25 man roster as a utility infielder, but odds are none of these players will have any major effect on the team’s future.
Selecting pitcher Evan Meek in the Rule-V draft was an interesting decision by Huntington. Meek has some potential, as he is a pretty big guy (6-foot-1), and throws a heavy, sinking fastball. His control has been inconsistent at best, and he needs to develop his secondary stuff, problems that might not be solved if he is couped up in the Pirates bullpen all season long.
Huntington declined options on infielders Cesar Izturis and Josh Phelps. Neither player figured to have any role in the Pirates future plans, unless the Pirates had moved shortstop Jack Wilson, in which case the job would have been left available for Izturis, who won a gold-glove at shortstop with the Dodgers in 2004.
My favorite move so far this winter was the agreement reached with utility infielder Chis Gomez. While the deal hasn’t actually been signed yet (I’m a little curious as to what’s happening there), both sides agreed to terms on a one year, one million dollar contract. Gomez is a respectable fielder, and would serve as a more than suitable utility back-up for the Buccos. His .261 career average is fairly unimposing, but don’t sleep on his abilities with the bat. His season average hasn’t dipped below .279 since his hit .251 with the Twins in 2003, and since 2004 he’s hitting a solid .293 in just over 900 at-bats. We just have to hope that the postponing of Gomez’s signing won’t offend the 14-year veteran out of signing the deal when Huntington is ready to pull the trigger.
Another one of Huntington’s priorities has been to dump the salaries of his aging bullpen pitchers, thus discussions with the Yankees, Braves, Phillies, Astros, and Mets about lefty specialists Damaso Marte and John Grabow.
Huntington’s only trade so far this season was nothing more than a salary dump, as he traded Salomon Torres to Milwaukee for a couple of minor league pitching prospects. Torres, who was set to make somewhere in the ballpark of $3.5 million next season, was the longest tenured Pirate, and you can see my thoughts on the trade here.
I have no complaints about any of the items mentioned above. Some of the moves below, however, are a little more questionable.
I understand Pirate’s fans frustrations with infielder Jose Castillo. His lackadaisical approach to the game is often aggravating, and it’s obvious to even the most casual fan that his swing is far too long. But he is only 26 years old, and still has room to improve, especially with some good, motivational coaching, which is supposedly Russell’s strength.
TIGERS, PIRATES TALKING: The Tigers and Pittsburgh Pirates discussed Detroit third baseman Brandon Inge over the last several days, but it’s not clear if the sides have made any progress toward a deal.
Inge lost his job as the Tigers’ starting third baseman following the acquisition of Miguel Cabrera last week. He has informed Detroit officials that he would rather become another team’s starting third baseman than accept a reserve role with the Tigers.
Of all the least sensible potential deals that I have ever come across, this one might just rank up there as the most ridiculous. If there is any truth to this rumor, Huntington shouldn’t even be fired, he should just walk out the door and quit. While Jose Bautista is no all-star, he has made tremendous strides as a good defensive third baseman. He is younger than Inge (Bautista is just 27 to Inge’s 30), and comes at a much cheaper price (Inge is set to make $4.9 million next season compared to Bautista’s $397,000).
Inge is already on the decline of his career, having hit .236 with just 14 home runs in 2007 — Bautista hit .254 with 15 dingers last year — and unless Inge would be willing to make some spot starts as a back-up catcher, something he has already expressed serious dis-interest in doing, he would be completely worthless to the Bucs, especially for nearly $5 million per year.
Also, Neil Walker will be spending the early part of this season preparing for his September cameo at PNC Park, and if he meets expectations, it won’t make a whole lot of difference if Inge or Bautista has been at third, because they will both be out of a job. Might as well save the cash, lord knows the Pirates need it.
There have been a lot of grumblings about Huntington early on, but honestly, its too early to judge his worth as a GM at this point. It will be interesting to see in what direction he decides to take this team.
There’s potential here for some big deals that could make or break Huntington very early on in his GM career, and its an Anthony Smith-guarantee that Bucco fans will be watching him closely.
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wordpress | I’ve recently noticed a lot of Internet literature (like this and this) regarding the habit of over-apologizing that plagues millennial women. I’d always thought that in addition to being used for a formal apology, saying “sorry” was just a polite thing to do, even if you haven’t done anything wrong.
I say sorry when I feel like I’m bothering my boss too much via email, when I really just want to make sure I’m doing things correctly. I say sorry when I ask the cashier to pack my groceries in a reusable shopping bag. I say sorry when a waiter brings me a regular Coke instead of diet, even though I know I ordered correctly. In reality, I shouldn’t be sorry for any of these things–my existence and my preferences aren’t an inconvenience.
I recently resolved to reduce the amount of airtime I give the word “sorry.” It’s been a difficult task–I usually don’t even realize when I say it, so I made sure to consciously avoid apologizing (unless, of course, I was in the wrong). Someone knocks on the bathroom door while you’re using it? There’s no need to apologize for occupying it. Don’t want to get drinks with a guy who keeps badgering you? You shouldn’t be sorry for not wanting to waste your time.
Asking someone to clarify something.
Someone else’s mistake…it’s not your fault if the barista at Starbucks gives you whole milk instead of skim, even if she makes it seem like it’s a major inconvenience.
Declining an invitation somewhere. Say “no, thank you” instead.
Leaving work early or calling out sick (as long as you’re actually sick).
Not knowing the answer to something.
Asking someone to move over on the train so they only take up one seat instead of two, so you can sit down.
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wordpress | Romantic, Iris. Your poem makes me long for summer.
Lovely thoughts especially as it is winter here!!
I thought your words were beautiful.
Thank you, glad you did. | 2019-04-21T18:18:19Z | https://poetsmith.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/summer-sweet-summer/ | Porn | Arts | 0.947247 |
wordpress | Going Vegetarian and Oh, I Cooked Dinner for Myself from Scratch!
Hey All, I know that it has been awhile and I promise a more regular publishing schedule is forthcoming, but for now I have awesome news. I cooked dinner for myself tonight! I made vegetarian chili with wild rice and vanilla pudding from scratch. I went to the grocery store after work and then came home and cooked while my nieces hovered around me and asked to help. Dinner was delicious. I’m stuffed right now, stuffed and proud. My nieces and nephew loved the pudding and so did I. Oh, by the way, I’m a full on vegetarian now. Over … Continue reading Going Vegetarian and Oh, I Cooked Dinner for Myself from Scratch! | 2019-04-26T08:30:21Z | https://fatkatfitkat.wordpress.com/tag/vegetarian/ | Porn | News | 0.411487 |
wordpress | Erin LeBlanc from Oregon Health & Science University and colleagues reported that Vit. D supplement brands varied widely from label claims. 12 manufacturers were checked and contents ranged from 52 to 135% of expected dose.
Points from me…A good source of vitamin D may be hard to find.
Our bodies manufacture vitamin D3 when skin is exposed to the sun s ultraviolet-B rays which can be blocked by both windows and sunscreen.
And vitamin D is found naturally only in a few foods (e.g., fish, eggs).
That’s why products like milk are vitamin D-fortified.
Dietary supplements are often recommended, but vary in quality and may not include D3, which may be 3 times more potent than D2.
The supplement form (e.g., liquid, tablet) and manufacturing may also influence absorption potential.
That’s why it s just as important with this “basic” vitamin to seek higher quality for maximum benefits.
Vit D2 versus D3-Meta Analysis-John J. Cannell, M.D. | 2019-04-24T02:01:46Z | https://adjust2it.wordpress.com/category/vit-d-potency-varies-widely-from-label-claims-jama-internal-medicine-feb-2013/ | Porn | Science | 0.899832 |
wordpress | Band plays a mixture of Party Band Music.
Band plays a mixture of Blues, Classic Rock, Oldies, and R&B, from 50’s to present.
We originally were going to do this glass in May but had to reschedule this class for June. We had a lot of interest and hope to see you here!
We are so pleased to host a wine glass painting class at Ungrapeful Winery. The design for this class is called FLAMINGO. Class will be under the instruction of Susan Daugherty on June 15, 2018 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. We would request that you arrive at the winery at around 6 PM to have a leisurely free wine tasting. Our wines will be available for sale by the glass and by the bottle during this event. Be ready to have a great time!
Band plays a mixture of Southern and Classic Rock.
We are so pleased to host a wine glass painting class at Ungrapeful Winery. The design for this class is called FLAMINGO. Class will be under the instruction of Susan Daugherty on May 18, 2018 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. We would request that you arrive at the winery at around 6 PM to have a leisurely free wine tasting. Our wines will be available for sale by the glass and by the bottle during this event. Be ready to have a great time!
Band plays a mixture of Southern, Classic Rock, and Country. | 2019-04-21T22:40:30Z | https://ungrapefulwinery.wordpress.com/2018/05/ | Porn | Arts | 0.797329 |
msu | We integrate statistical methods that help address the dependencies inherent in social network data and graphical techniques for representing social structure with theory from organizational studies, communications, social psychology, etc.
A course on multivariate statistics including Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation, Cluster Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling.
An introductory course into the general linear model (ANOVA and Regression) featuring SPSS and NELS88 a nationally representative data base). I draw the substantive context from recent examples in the educational literature.
An introductory research methods course for master's students in Education. Students learn to interpret statistical analyses in the context of research articles. I design small group discussions including role playing, tutoring, argumentation, etc. | 2019-04-24T00:06:26Z | https://msu.edu/user/k/e/kenfrank/web/teaching.htm | Porn | Society | 0.219117 |
wordpress | There was an episode of I Love Lucy where Ricky Ricardo says to zany Lucy “you’ve go som explaing to do”. I thought of that quote when i read this piece by Karl Rove. He has to explain to his super donors why despite the millions they turned over to him and his super pacs they lost and it interesting to see it is all about the president. Read the link and share your thoughts.
« At what point will NBC cut Donald Trump loose?
Thank you for the comment invite .
I was not over enthused with either candidate .
I’ve serious concerns about P. Obama’s ability as a military Commander-in-Chief .
There is no excuse for the ME fiasco and loss of lives .
IMO , the enemy of the GOP was the group of radical leaders unable to think outside the box .
The greedy , predatory financial rogues on Wall Street and in high places in some Corporations soured the public .
I believe the D supporters outperformed the R supporters .
Either candidate would have a mess in January ..
I know folks who voted against Obama in 2008 because they wanted Clinton as a candidate .
Those for Romney lost … so if we want improvement ALL voters need to communicate with CIVILITY and propose a better plan if they do not like current or proposed policy.
One can be forceful and suggestive without ad hominem attacks or threats .
Write your Federal & State Senators and Representatives . Write your Governors and President . | 2019-04-25T19:46:09Z | https://ebonymompolitics.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/fox-news-karl-rove-explains-the-obama-victory/ | Porn | Reference | 0.642105 |
wordpress | The community of Langley has lost one of its driving forces, and a family has lost their loving wife and mother. Brenda Alberts, 66, passed away July 25, 2016.
Born Brenda Christine Blueman in 1950 in Sudbury, ON, to parents Audrey and Wesley Blueman (both deceased), Brenda was married to her husband Kurt for more than 40 years. She was a loving mother to their son, Nicholas Kurt, a locomotive engineer, and to their daughter, Stacey Ann, who passed away in 2005.
As a resident of Fort Langley for more than 35 years, Brenda owned the Birthplace of B.C. Gallery and was known for her passionate support of local artists, charities and heritage matters. She re-established Remembrance Day Services at the Fort Langley Cenotaph in 1999, and was an enthusiastic fundraiser and supporter of Relay for Life, Langley Hospice, Willoughby Community Hall, the Fort Langley Cenotaph flagpole installation, Canadian Museum of Flight and many other local causes.
Brenda is survived by her sister, Beverly (Stan) Saliwonchyk of Kitchener, ON, niece Lesley (married to Chris) and nephew Nathan (married to Nora), along with their children, Marlow and Milly, respectively.
A memorial service is set for 2 p.m., Thursday, August 18, 2016 at Christian Life Assembly (21277 56th Ave., Langley). All who were touched by Brenda’s life are welcome. Gifts in her memory can be made to the Langley Hospice Society.
Larry Tillyer’s acrylic painting, Gibson Harbour, was awarded First Place in the recent Federation of Canadian Artist’s 2016 Plein Air Exhibition. See Larry Tillyer’s paintings at the Birthplace of B.C. Gallery in Fort Langley. Congratulations, Larry!
Fort Langley’s May Day parade starts at 11 am on Monday May 23, 2016 (Victoria Day). The route for the 94th May Day parade runs along Glover Road from Mavis Ave to 88th Ave, then heads along 88th to Trattle Street and into the Fort Langley Community Park where the Lions’ famous chicken BBQ, May Pole dancing, children rides, and live entertainment continues until 4 pm. Thank you to the Fort Langley Lions!
Birthplace of B.C. gallery artists are participating in Fort Langley’s Bloom Market today and tomorrow (May 7 and 8) Open both days 10 am to 5 pm. Artists Margo Harrison, Susan Rind and King Richard Brodeur will be at the Fort Langley Community Hall and Patricia Falck, Lyle Longstaff and Perry Haddock will be at the Birthplace of B.C. Gallery.
Show opening this weekend (Sat and Sun April 23 and 24 at the Birthplace of B.C. Gallery (11 to 4 pm both days). Show continues until Sunday May 15, 2016 (open every day 11 to 5).
A show of new paintings by King Richard Brodeur, Canucks legendary goalie.
It has always been Hiro Tsujimoto and Ricardo Masana’s philosophy that “sometimes the right way is not the easiest way.” For the business partners, and brothers-in-law, the “right way” means trekking through jungles with armed government escorts to find coffee plantations that are socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. It means spending hours in a windowless 700 square-foot Port Kells warehouse, blending and trying new coffee recipes. It means roasting their coffee in small batches fresh to order, and delivering it to their customers within 24 hours, despite the “logistical nightmare” that creates.
On February 25 the pair was recognized for their hard work at the Small Business BC Awards. They won the Best International Trade award, recognizing the fair trade work they do with 54 countries around the world.
Congratulations Hiro and Ricardo! Republica Coffee does Fort Langley proud! | 2019-04-23T10:13:29Z | https://birthplaceofbcgallery.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Arts | 0.31398 |
wordpress | The San Francisco Giants’ offense is struggling.
And while the Giants rank fourth in the National League in batting, their batting in run-scoring situations is horrible.
So we’ll look at just how horrible by using NL rankings in various statistical categories with runners in scoring position.
Not to play spoiler here, but it’s pretty horrible.
For those looking to point a finger at this struggle with RISP, here is how individual hitters with more than 10 plate appearances with RISP have fared for the Giants. | 2019-04-22T00:15:14Z | https://mlblogsmoresplashhits.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/a-series-of-lists-to-show-how-bad-san-francisco-giants-are-with-risp-tease-its-really-bad/ | Porn | Sports | 0.991147 |
wordpress | It’s true that CodeIgniter needed some simpler to handle license, but the outcome so far looks rather devastating and is paralleled with scare among the PHP based framework’s users and with misunderstandings of the new license by lead developers.
The code, which is currently developed by many on github, did suddenly undergo some major license change on October 20th for release 3.
From a BSD-like license to OSL 3.0, a license with strong copyleft for network usage.
For the future use this means: If you can browse a CI-framework 3 website, you’ve got the work distributed to you. The website owner must provide you the source-code under OSL of the derivative work she/he created otherwise termination is in effect.
This conflicts with much of the common usage and will be a show-stopper for those who don’t want to release their CI applications under OSL. Looks like this is preventing upgrades to CI version 3 for many who can’t change to OSL.
For example those who had previously sold their applications to their customers under a proprietary license, like the many CMSes that are based on CI. Or those who use as well GPL’ed code, the OSL is GPL incompatible. As the OSL is broad about what’s distribution (like the AGPL, not the LGPL), it does not allow these and other type of use but requires distribution under OSL.
There is an ongoing thread on the CodeIgniter forums (CodeIgniter changes license to OSL 3.0?) where users want to know more. In the project’s feedback tracking system a new request has been opened to change the license again (GPL compatible non-copyleft popular license).
Next to the burden the pure fact of switching from permissive to reciprocal is introducing to users of the framework which are scared by this step, the lead developer located @ EllisLab went into duck-and-cover mode after the topic was brought up and discussed in the forum.
The current licensing practice is questioned by their own users and it looks like that the choice of the OSL license hasn’t even been fully understood by the CodeIgniter project as they put files with conflicting licenses into the package.
The description of what you can do with the original work [“translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange”] to create a derivative work based on the original work is turned upside-down and asked earlier the reaction was to pass-on a link to OSL 3.0 Explained written by Lawrence Rosen, the author of the license. But that document is very specific about what a derivative work is and modifying the CI code inside the application folder (ignoring config files for a moment which should not be copyrighted at all) by extending classes looks like a simple alternation to me.
For example, the CI developers are putting fragments of the code they distribute under the AFL (Artistic Free License) inside. This would be allowed under the OSL if a collective work is formed. A collective work requires that two independent works are brought together. If the two works are not independent to each other but the one work is based on the other, then it’s a derivative work. But for derivative works, the OSL requires that it’s under OSL as well. As the code under AFL is not an independent work, but extends from CI code, it must be licensed under OSL, not AFL. So the fact that the CI developers put the files in there under AFL while putting other files in there under OSL leaves the overall code in a contradictory state on the licensing side as it either can’t be licensed under AFL or CI itself can’t be under OSL.
Another thing that looks not to be much noticed is the fact that OSL distributes over network even when only a part of the application can be accessed, like a website as the front-end of it. Under OSL this counts as distribution [“Remote Deployment”] regardless that the application is installed on another computer. As clicking a link on a CI based website is sending a command into the application (Router and Controller, CI refers itself to the MVC model), the website is the user-interface of the software and any user has rights under the OSL, like getting the source-code which only runs on the server.
Next to that, OSL also requires that you make visible to any user to whom the software is communicated to (visits your website) that it runs on an application that is licensed under OSL. Be it a collective work or a derivative work.
Overall, the OSL does not sound like a developer-friendly license for a PHP framework if you want your users to work with it, especially as CI has not been similar licensed from it’s very beginning.
Other PHP Frameworks are often available under a MIT or BSD license, like Symfony2 or Zend Framework. This prevents many problems, from different kind of business models with the software you develop, compatibility across licenses and last but not least, the license is known. OSL is not widely used and there are better alternatives for developers. If you’re looking for copyleft, consider the GPL instead otherwise ensure that your application is already complete.
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What a shame. I considered to use this framework, but the prospect is just scary. Their dev head talkes about employing lawyers to check the new license.
So they changed the license before they had any idea about the implications? That seems like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
If a lawyer is what it takes to be on the safe side I guess other people will run, too.
CI: We have a super cool new open source license. It’s great. You can do anything you like! It’s super special and flexible as hell. It has Open Source in its name!
USER: Why did you change it? OSL? AFL? For what’s is it good? What about GPL’ed code and commercial use?
CI: We can’t answer your questions, because our lawyers don’t want us to talk about licenses. In the meanwhile we tell you: We have a super cool new open source license. It’s great. You can do anything you like! It’s super special and flexible as hell. It has Open Source in its name!
I wonder if this is going to become epic.
Personally my favorite is the part to change from permissive to reciprocal for a PHP framework (!) while it’s in running operations (!!). Or wait, the copyright they claim. That’s probably the best part.
Okay, a PHP dev might not want to read this: They should ask Ruby, how to make things less and not more complicated.
Yes, things would def. have been simpler if they’d gone with BSD or MIT. However, as I understand it the /application/ folder can be any license (except GPL I guess). So you can have commercial products and/or permissive licensed products based on CodeIgniter.
Sure, BSD or MIT would be much better. Such a well known license helps developers to easily deal with the framework.
Have you seen any written statement by EllisLab that they have clarified with a lawyer (and that lawyer says it’s 100% OK) that they could put files in the application folder under AFL (not conflicting the OSL)? I only read disclaimers in the last days. And they tell everybody that they need to ask lawyers on their own. So this is far away from something “can have” nor answered. They actually say that you should ask your lawyer first. As I wrote in my article here, the OSL is pretty precise when you can and when you can not, if you create a derivative work, or your code is not an independently written work (which the application folder in CI definitely is not), those files are to be licensed under OSL.
The point is especially important because OSL is an AGPL like copyleft license.
hakre, OSL has no viral component. It does not care what license you use for files that link to or are packaged with it, and its license does not extent to folders, or files that don’t carry a prominent OSL 3.0 notice. That requirement is a legal one that is in the OSL 3.0 license itself. If the file doesn’t say OSL 3.0, it’s not OSL 3.0. And that file’s license does not reach to other works, certainly not to your independently written code.
> OSL has no viral component.
OSL 3.0 is a reciprocal open source license. You know that but you write the opposite. Don’t you think other’s won’t notice?
Link or other technical measures are explicitly not a criteria in the OSL, if you want the OSL to not apply to your work, just don’t create a derivative work, or a collective work with dependently written code.
I’ve seen you being misleading on this since day one. As you don’t know my code, or code of others, you can not tell everybody that the OSL would not apply to them. Because you don’t know if others are creating derivative works or not.
Even more important you do not even try to get legal help in a productive manner and clarify common points.
If you don’t want the OSL to apply for everybody else, choose another license for CI. You already know the solution.
If you want the OSL, you should not hide away the problems this can create but openly and explicitly talk about them. It’s not easy to outline what a derivative work is or not, and this problem will have any of your future users that don’t want to put their code under OSL.
Next to that the OSL is not GPL compatible. Not everybody likes the GPL or perhaps a person that is a proponent of it, but many like software under the GPL. You brought this to the personal level, your feelings about the GPL. Feelings are totally uninteresting. We either use software because it makes sense or we don’t. I don’t go for feelings, I go for facts. And if the licenses are incompatible, you’re out of the game. That simple it is.
Fix this. Don’t make so much words, just fix it. Everybody will thank it to you.
Your questions should be fully answered in today’s post. And disagree with our conclusions if you like, but I must note that I have not misled or lied about our conclusions as you imply.
You’re missing it’s a demand: GPL compatibility and non-copyleft license.
Next to that in no way gives Rosen a guarantee that calling something a library and telling everybody they would link to it, does not create a derivative work.
And now you’re lost again, the general problem to decide about the derivative state of a work still exists. You have not written/published something with a legal base according to the state of derivative-ness for the files you’ve put under AFL. Unless you don’t provide something that is legally clear about that, I won’t trust you about those files.
Where is your legal analysis?
You trivialize the complex legal context about derivative works in software because you know that your users don’t want to use OSL for their code. You try to make something comfortable while others know already what they want – for understandable reasons. But you’re not open to that solution, you even ignore very valid arguments.
Rosen is not only the author of the license, but as well lawyer of Magneto (or was at that time). He also needs to protect his client I guess. Just a hint to not read too much out of words.
Additionally you write in your latest article that OSL would only apply if something has been modified. That’s not the full story again about the OSL, it does apply as well if no modifications are made. | 2019-04-18T19:05:00Z | https://hakre.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/codeigniter-goes-copyleft-with-osl/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.091146 |
wordpress | 5/10 – Mood lower today due to what was supposed to be an informal catch up with work, turned out to be a proper meeting, which in the end did not go ahead as I had no federation representation due to miscommunication. I have got a review meeting on 16th December so any return to work date can be set then when I have more idea about what is happening after Psych assessment.
← Is the fog lifting? | 2019-04-25T02:34:45Z | https://mindovermarathonrunner.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/friday-11th-november-2016-10-03pm/ | Porn | Business | 0.926599 |
wired | Vampires turn into high-tech blood farmers in Daybreakers , a futuristic film set in a world where the human population has been decimated by hungry hordes of undead bloodsuckers.
It’s a promising premise, and the new Daybreakers stills and trailer look intriguing. See the trailer and several photos from the movie below.
Set in the year 2019, Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke as researcher Edward Dalton, who is grappling with the effects of a plague that has transformed the world’s population into vampires.
As humans near extinction, the bloodsuckers capture and farm the few remaining mortals as the search for a blood substitute reaches a fever pitch. Meanwhile, a mysterious group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery that could save the human race.
Willem Dafoe ( Spider-Man, Antichrist ) co-stars as crossbow-toting badass Lionel “Elvis” Cormac with Claudia Karvan.
Daybreakers , which was written and directed by the Spierig Brothers ( Undead, The Big Picture ), opens Jan. 8, 2010. | 2019-04-25T16:10:12Z | https://www.wired.com/2009/10/sci-fi-bleeds-into-vampire-flick-daybreakers/ | Porn | Arts | 0.842121 |
wordpress | I have been looking forward to this trip for months. I had it all planned out in my head. I will get enough sleep to have full energy for this day long “do you wanna build a snowman?” tour. But nope, this was scheduled on a Sunday, and naturally my friends and I had a big “Hello Melbourne!” kind of Saturday night (well till early morning really).
Luck was still in my favor though, so yes I survived the entire ride with my mouth dry and closed.
With the help of 3 sips of coffee, 2 bites of bacon and egg muffin (couldn’t finish my breakfast because I was pulling all efforts known to humans to not throw up and embarrass myself) and half a bottle of Powerade, I was able to pull myself together right on time to appreciate this amazing view.
We all grew up in a tropical country, so for all three of us (our other friend would not be seen on any of the photos due to anti-social tendencies, lol), this was our first ever snow experience. So I would suppose these seemingly “too excited” photos are sort of understandable.
The best part was the chair lift ride. We were literally all in awe during those jaw-dropping, amazing few minutes. It had almost a magical feel to it, like we were in a surreal place only meant for books and movies, and no I am not exaggerating.
Honestly, I am normally a cynical, almost always discontented type of person, but during those moments, I actually thought that hey, am I just not so damn fortunate? | 2019-04-24T16:44:31Z | https://bringbackmysunshine.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/do-you-wanna-build-a/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.927306 |
wordpress | I’m coming from the private sector. What should I expect to be different from State? The same?
Differences: State is a large bureaucracy, and things move slowly. Painfully slowly, at times. Most processes could be radically simplified but for whatever reason (regulations, accountability, turf battles) they usually aren’t. Worrying about price is, despite what the news might say about the government cutting back spending, is not something that’s ingrained into the corporate culture. Overseas you’ll not only be working with your colleagues, but in a lot of places you’ll be living right next door as well. Security, both physical, information, and technical, are taken very seriously. You will not be using the latest and greatest IT equipment, nor are you allowed to bring in your own or even install your own software. Regulations always have the final word, but whether or not the regulation is met often depends on your ability to convince someone of their point of view. Once you’re tenured you basically can’t get fired unless you really, really screw up. People guard their turf jealously for whatever reason, and occasionally the attitude of “not my job” pervades the work environment. There’s a very clear path in almost every skill code for promotion. You get to travel and switch jobs every few years.
Similarities: In general you’re surrounded by people who want to do the right thing. Your coworkers and colleagues will be both good and bad. Benefits and pay are pretty good. If you choose well, your work will be interesting. Excellent performance is rewarded, even though there’s a ton of chaff that makes it into the hopper as well. E-mail storms and e-mail “oops”es still happen. On short trips you get per diem. Your boss is still a toss up as to their competence and demeanor. You still have performance reviews.
This was kind of an open-ended question, so feel free to disagree. “Different in a good way” is how I’d summarize. | 2019-04-25T14:21:18Z | https://opsecblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/rq-private-sector/ | Porn | Business | 0.967806 |
wordpress | Seeing/reading this at work has got me wanting to take a long stroll in the New England foliage just outside. Lovely post. You somehow manage to make art so…readable, even for those of us who understand literature more easily than paintings.
Thank you very much indeed! I’ve always preferred an interdisciplinary approach, since art and literature often complement each other perfectly. I’m certain New England is beautiful at this time of year, and autumn is a season to be enjoyed.
Wonderful blog post! Millais’ Autumn Leaves is one of my favourite paintings of all time. It really captures the feeling of an Autumn evening. You can almost feel the glowing darkness of the Autumn air, the crinkle of the fallen leaves. | 2019-04-26T12:25:14Z | https://dantisamor.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/millaiss-vision-of-autumn/ | Porn | Arts | 0.974968 |
wordpress | This is the view from our class!!!
When studying as an actor in New York I found that I did my best work in class after my teacher, Terry Schreiber, lead us through a physical warm-up and relaxation routine. I practiced many of those exercises as well as others that I learned as a somatic professional before auditions and performance. However, it was always invigorating and encouraging to practice within a class setting. “Relax, Places, Action” (RPA) was developed with the desire offer actors an ongoing exercise and warm-up class for auditions and performance.
RPA is a physically oriented multidisciplinary approach aimed at releasing tension and increasing presence for the actor. As you may know, tension is a killer for performance. Even after hours of preparation and emotional investment, tension can kill an audition. Part fitness and part relaxation, this one hour class opens the mind and body to greater awareness. Using pilates, yoga, and relaxation techniques, RPA will help you master your auditions by channeling anxiety into usable energy. Tone your body and prep for auditions in the same hour!
I love this class, it is wonderful. My auditions have been going awesomely plus I know how to stand up straight and finally figured out my downward facing dog. It just helps you get back in your body and start the week off right.
Best class ever! I feel completely centered after each one.
I agree with Zuri and Jenny. I have a lot to work on, especially my posture. With Meghan’s special attention, my form is getting a lot better.
Also, I love coming to class every Monday morning, setting intentions, and talking with other actors/writers. It’s a great community of people. I especially like coming to RPA because I am not in an acting class right now but this gets me back in my body and relaxes me so I’m ready for anything. | 2019-04-24T12:07:30Z | https://mindmotion.wordpress.com/relax-places-action-exercise-relaxation-for-actors/ | Porn | Arts | 0.694729 |
wordpress | High-school dropout Gurdeep Singh Chadha, or “Ponty” as his friends call him, has achieved the Indian dream. A portly, religious Punjabi with a salt-and-pepper beard, Chadha (52) has a farmhouse in Delhi’s power belt, Chattarpur; a mansion in Dubai; and sundry other homes and cars. Chadha’s business empire, the Wave Group, is conservatively valued at Rs. 6,000 crore. It encompasses distilleries, multiplexes (Wave cinemas), sugar and paper mills, real estate, poultry and films (he produced the 2005 Sunny Deol starrer Jo Bole So Nihaal). Chadha’s brothers, sons and a grandson run parts of the empire, but it is Ponty’s networking skills and acumen that keeps them ahead.In 2005, during the reign of chief minister Mulayam Singh in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Chadha won statewide contracts to supply ready to eat food for poor, underweight or otherwise malnourished children under the world’s largest child-health programmes, the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). Many thought – wrongly – that Chadha’s interests would suffer when Singh’s rival, Mayawati, later won the state. Chadha’s company, Great Value Foods, retained the nutrition contracts, and in 2009, he gained an unprecedented monopoly over the state’s wholesale liquor trade.
Nothing has come of recent moves against Chadha, such as the income-tax department raids in February this year on 25 of his properties in Delhi and UP. Two days ago, the UP Lokayukta was asked to investigate his 2010 and 2011 acquisition of four State-owned sugar mills for roughly – according to the government auditor’s report – a tenth of their value. I had no luck reaching Chadha for comment.
Chadha’s story is unexceptional in a country known for crony capitalism, except that his dominion over the child-nutrition programme does not help a state that is home to every sixth malnourished child in India. Eight million women and 30 million children in UP depend on the ICDS for basic nutrition.
The contracts awarded to Chadha’s Great Value Foods are also symptomatic of a larger, rarely discussed issue: how politicians, officials and private companies often conspire to fix ICDS contracts, which, according to a 2004 Supreme Court judgement, should be handed only to local self-help groups, women’s groups, or mahila mandals, and village communities. Chadha’s contracts are “a complete violation of the Supreme Court orders“, says a letter sent last month to the Supreme Court Commissioners – who have monitored litigation related to food for India’s poor since 2003 – by their principal adviser Biraj Patnaik.
ICDS contracts are worth more than R8,000 crore, the financing split between central and state governments. In some states, local cooking and supply has had significant impact; in others it has become the subject of scams.
“Despite seven years having past since the Hon’ble Supreme Court banning contractors from the ICDS…the politician-bureaucrat-contractor nexus has managed to violate the orders of this court with impunity,” says Patnaik’s report, which reveals how ingeniously the Congress-controlled Maharashtra government and contractors undermine laws. Similar fiddles were previously revealed in BJP-ruled Karnataka.
After the 2004 judgement, Maharashtra, like many states, continued giving nutrition contracts to the old contractors, arguing it needed time to make the changeover. Five years later, when the state supposedly switched to local groups, Patnaik’s investigations revealed that three mahila mandals had been awarded contracts for the state. The private companies leased by the mandals to produce take-home rations, he discovered, were owned by wives, daughters and sisters of the same mandals.
To be sure, over the last six years, Maharashtra has almost halved the incidence of malnutrition in children, reveals a provisional report released by the International Institute of Population Sciences. But that is largely because a host of government departments acted in concert against the diverse components of malnutrition, including promotion of breastfeeding, the use of toilets and improving healthcare. In vast swathes of the state, things are as bad as ever. Causality is hard to establish, but in Nashik, where 32% of children are stunted, or below normal height, the ration programme is being run by one of the mahila mandals investigated by Patnaik.
India’s progress against malnutrition is out of sync with its economic progress. More than half of children under three were undernourished in 2006, when the last such survey was conducted. That’s only a 6% fall since 1999.
Things can change only if the rot that Patnaik’s report hints at is eliminated. He recommends a special investigation team. Indeed, there is much that requires investigation, locally and nationally. For instance, Patnaik found one of the Maharashtra mandals had subcontracted take-home ration production to a Tamil Nadu company called Christy Fried Gram Industry, which after two years of pressure from the SC Commissioners was blacklisted this year by the Karnataka government for supplying substandard and possibly toxic food to crèches statewide.
Back in UP, two government tenders (issued in September 2012 and due to be opened this month) for micronutrient-rich powders meant for infants being weaned, or moving from breast milk to semi-solid foods, invite applications – for the first time – from mahila mandals, self-help groups and village communities. Prospective suppliers must deposit R45 crore as earnest money and should have manufactured and supplied, to any state, at least R25 crore worth of powdered weaning food over the last two financial years.
As I read the tender conditions, it’s obvious no grassroots group can fulfill such conditions. However, one company can: Chadha’s Great Value Foods. | 2019-04-19T16:49:09Z | https://kractivist.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/the-full-ponty-icds-and-corruption-in-india/ | Porn | Business | 0.638565 |
wordpress | I write a weekly email update to my church family. Since the beginning of February, I became the team leader for media and missions along with my normal responsibilities in music. It’s been an interesting addition, one that is posing new opportunities as well as challenges. As a result, I am the one who got the short straw to write the weekly update to the congregation. Most of the content is decided by the staff as a whole, but I am the one to pen the words. Most weeks, I include the statement that God is at work in our midst. Sometimes I pause when I write that statement. It’s not that I don’t believe, it’s just that, to me, it’s a statement that carries an incredible amount of weight.
I found myself pausing momentarily on his statement. And it surprised me. It wasn’t disbelief, but rather a little skepticism. What was it that caught my attention for just a moment and made me question his statement? I think it might be because I’ve been in ministry so long that sometimes the mundane and uneventful turns into a bit of skepticism. Really? Is God really moving? So what’s He up to? It’s the same feeling, I believe, that makes me pause each time I type it in my weekly update to the congregation. Really? Is God really moving? And I wonder if our congregation feels the same way about those words when they hear it from me.
I’ve decided I can’t spend a lot of time reflecting on that! It’s not my job to decide what the reader believes or doesn’t believe. But I do want you to hear it from me. I, that’s me, do believe that God is at work. He’s up to something and I have such a sense of expectancy, sometimes I just want to shout it at the top of my voice. You will notice that I have said the above pause happens momentarily. And it should happen every time any of us makes a statement like that. We all better be able to back it up with some proof. But God is at work. And I want others to see it as well.
So here it is: I have seen God give healing to some of you. We have prayed for it and it has happened. Sometimes God’s healing is through the door of heaven, but healing happens. I have seen God move in the hearts of the Ukrainian people and I so desperately want Him to move here in Temple like that. I have seen God move in my days, simply rearranging a meeting or putting together a divine appointment that makes something happen on an otherwise uneventful day. I have seen God move in the hearts of men and women lately, softening them and drawing them unto Himself. I don’t understand how God moves and how the Holy Spirit works it all out, but I know he does. And I believe it. Really.
And I want you to believe it as well. I want you to know that I pray God gives us spiritual eyes to see His hand move in mighty ways during this journey we are on together. I want you to see His hand of provision and come to know Him as Jehovah Jireh, our Provider. I have been very interested in Joe’s teachings on Sunday morning about the journey of the people of Israel. God still has a plan for His people and we are part of that plan. What a blessing it is. God is at work. Really. | 2019-04-24T20:42:55Z | https://garyanthony.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/god-is-at-work-really/ | Porn | Health | 0.631889 |
wordpress | There’s one thing Eon Productions could do for the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, that could be done for minimal cost, evoke the series’ long history and might get at least some fans pumped up.
Bob Simmons, subbing for Sean Connery, performing the gunbarrel sequence that would be used in Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger.
Film a gunbarrel sequence to start out the movie with Daniel Craig’s 007 wearing a hat.
You remember the hat, don’t you? In about 10 seconds, the gunbarrel sequence evokes danger as the audience views Bond from the vantage point of an assassin attempting to kill 007. Bond, aware of the peril, turns and fires, and we see what’s supposed to be blood come down from the top of the screen.
Bob Simmons, Sean Connery’s stunt double, subbed for the star after title designer Maurice Binder had devised the gunbarrel logo to start off Dr. No. We don’t know if Connery wasn’t available. Regardless, Simmons looked enough like Connery (certainly at a distance and wearing a hat) so nobody would notice it wasn’t the star of the movie who walked out and suddenly fired at the audience.
Thus, began a tradition, that lasted 20 movies, through, 2002’s Die Another Day, where the gunbarrel logo started off a 007 film with some variation of The James Bond Theme. The hat disappeared when Roger Moore assumed the role with 1973’s Live And Let Die; it’s our understanding a version with Moore wearing the hat was filmed but it obviously wasn’t used.
So the traditional gunbarrel was scrapped, with a new one (without the Bond theme) featuring star Daniel Craig just before the main titles. Wilson said in 2008 that “We’ll probably go back to the traditional style,” for Quantum of Solace. It didn’t turn out that way. Craig’s second gunbarrel came at the end of the movie, just before the end titles although with a traditional James Bond theme arrangement.
We don’t take it for granted the gunbarrel will back in any way, shape or form. Wilson, Broccoli and director Sam Mendes may decide to dispense with a gunbarrel altogether as far as we know. But *IF* one is included, having Craig wear a hat would be (pun intended) a tip of the cap to the past that’s subtle. The series did a special gunbarrel with Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day, but it was hardly subtle. Brosnan “fired” a CGI bullet at the audience (and supposedly into the barrel of the assassin following Bond).
If Wilson is serious about Skyfall having “a magical Goldfinger feel,” then a traditional gunbarrel with Craig sporting a hat (as Simmons, Connery and George Lazenby did) would be a good place to start. | 2019-04-25T06:35:55Z | https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/tag/james-bond-gunbarrel-sequences/ | Porn | Reference | 0.163998 |
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wordpress | Just see at the looks on their faces! They sure seem to enjoy fighting ‘terrorists’ – US.
This act has suspended the Bill of Rights, effective anytime the government declares an emergency (i.e. hurricane Katrina).
They are another big step closer to having complete control over our lives. If there was another ‘terrorist attack’, the secret government will have the power to do virtually anything it wants.
Support and uphold the Constitution… period.
Will you allow this to happen?
Do not surrender your mind and your reasoning to ignorance, because this is very real.
It will take everyone to work together if we are ever going to prevent tyranny, fascism, and enslavement. If you think dictator Bush will be the end of it – you’re terribly wrong.
History repeats itself – if we let it. People need to communicate and act together. Become part of a community or organization that is acting to conquer the threat that faces every non-elite person in America.
We The People have an obligation, to our ancestors and the Founding Fathers that fought and died for our freedom, we must revolt against tyranny and oppression to preserve our Rights.
And if you don’t, then you might as well accept your national id card and RFID. You will submit your fingerprints, retinal signature and DNA to the federal government and private, secret institutions. You will have chosen to surrender yourself, your family, and everyone you love. Why? Because you were too lazy or afraid to fight to preserve your rights, constitution, and country. This is what’s at stake… don’t want any longer!
We’re watching it happen. It’s only a matter of time. And the longer we wait – the harder this is going to be.
Ten Steps to collapse a democratic system, to replace with fascist rule.
Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens (i.e. Blackwater).
Target key individuals (i.e. Ron Paul censorship).
Control the press (i.e. ‘Faux News’).
Declare all dissent to be treason (i.e. Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007).
Suspend the rule of law.
Remember, fascism is not ‘just a thing of the past’. Hitler was only 70 years ago. And guess what… the Bush family funded him!
Wake up! All the evidence is out there… do your research.
Have you seen the film Freedom to Fascism? | 2019-04-19T06:56:45Z | https://hempsavetheworld.wordpress.com/tag/fascist-agenda/ | Porn | Reference | 0.682903 |
salon | So now what? That’s the question those of us who care about the planet, its people — and, you know, basic human decency — have been asking since Election Day. Donald Trump, a climate denier who has promised to gut the Paris accord, scrap the Clean Power Plan, bring back coal, and roll back pollution restrictions is our next president, and the civil and human rights of so many in this country are threatened. Hateful, violent acts committed in his name continue to populate the news.
If you’re feeling sad, angry, and confused, we hear you.
So as we’ve done before in similar times, Grist turned to politicians, advocates, and other green leaders to ask how we keep working toward climate action, sustainability, and social justice? And what gives them hope, inspiration, or determination in such a trying time?
As they roll in, we’ll continue to post new responses to this page and share them on social media with the hashtag #SoNowWhat to spark ideas and conversations. We hope you’ll join in and offer your own ideas for how we continue to make progress and find hope. Please weigh in below in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter. We’ll be listening.
What gives me hope? You. You have the power to defend your rights, protect your air, water and communities, and enforce those legal protections when the government fails to do so.
It may sound daunting. But it’s also possible.
That’s how we started at NRDC. A scrappy bunch of young lawyers banded together to pursue a big idea: give people a way under the law to protect themselves against polluters. Thus spawned the environmental laws we use today — the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and others.
With these tools in hand, NRDC and our more than 2 million members have taken polluters to court, forced the government to adhere to laws they have failed to enforce, and driven new protections for our air, water, health, and climate.
There is little doubt we will face the most adversarial administration and Congress we have ever seen. And we’ll all pay the price if our safeguards are weakened.
During the campaign, Donald Trump talked about climate change being a hoax. You know what? Climate change is not a hoax. It is a threat to this entire planet. He better start listening to the scientific communities and not just the fossil fuel industry.
Trump’s agenda is a minority agenda, not supported by most people. Our job is to mobilize and educate and to fight back at every instance.
What gives me the most hope at this moment is the passion being exhibited through protest by those who feel cast aside by this election. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, and only half the people voted for Trump — which is only a quarter of our country. While many have stated that this election would be about the soul of America, what we know to be true is that “we the people” are indeed stronger together. How we show up now is more urgent than ever. One man is not enough to stop our momentum. We will continue to push for climate justice with unyielding determination and resilience.
The ongoing peaceful protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota pipeline that threatens our health, land, and future, is just one incredible example of how far Americans are willing to go to protect the land we love and our children’s future. This is just the beginning of our renewed fight to save our planet, and we are more determined than ever.
While reports of assault and abuse begin to tick up after this election, it remains imperative that we stand with one another — shoulder to shoulder, lifting each other’s voices and spirits, and continuing the fight for social justice.
People around the country taking action are what’s giving me hope right now. As a lifelong activist and organizer, I’ve seen how hard it is to convince people to actually take to the streets in protest or solidarity. But since the election, collective expressions of caring and community over hate-mongering and divisiveness have been happening almost spontaneously. I feel sure that this bleak moment in our history will actually bring together a broader and more united progressive movement that embraces immigration rights, racial justice, environmental progress, women’s health, the LGBTQ community, and more. I am excited to be a part of that newly strengthened movement and driven by the great strides we will make together.
I am deeply concerned at what Donald Trump will do to roll back progress made by the climate movement toward a clean, safe, equitable planet for all. While we’ll need to redouble our efforts to call out climate denial and push back against extractive industries, the renewable energy revolution has too much momentum for one man to stop. Industry giants like Apple and IKEA have become major customers for renewable energy in bids to show leadership. At the community level, residents in North Carolina and Florida, for example, are pushing back against corporate attempts to limit their access to locally generated renewable energy (like rooftop solar panels on houses and schools) as the U.S. embraces clean power over fossil fuel pollution.
I am inspired by the prospect of a just transition from fossil fuel jobs to clean energy careers. When communities can earn enough to feed their families without fearing the air they breathe or the water they drink, that’s what I call making America great again.
As someone who has worked with the most amazing leaders and community groups on environmental justice — an issue that is never mainstream, seldom popular, and mostly absent from the political discourse of our country — I often look, and always find, hope in those leaders to keep fighting for the healthier environment we all deserve. In the wake of an election that brings an administration eager to neglect climate change efforts, sustainability, and environmental justice, I now feel emboldened by the community activists who have been relentlessly fighting to protect public health in communities overburdened by pollution.
While it’s true we may be facing an unfriendly administration, this only means that now more than ever we have to support communities and activists across the country who are in the trenches, fighting for change. We have to make sure we are there — shoulder to shoulder, mano a mano — to fight with them. We need to raise our voices in the coming months and years so that political leaders understand that our communities will not tolerate attacks to their health or their environment.
Well, we had horrible election results for climate change, but even in light of the election I think there is room to go forward. We’ll have to do a couple of things.
The first thing we’ll all have to do is mobilize. Nobody can count on President Obama to get this done for us. We’ll have to join environmental groups, make sure our voices are heard, and get involved.
Second, I can tell you a dirty little secret from my position in the Senate, and that is: The good corporate actors on climate don’t bring that message to Congress. There is almost no positive corporate lobbying about climate change in Congress. That leaves the field entirely to the fossil fuel industry. So we need to put pressure on the corporations who signed the President’s Paris pledge to get to work in Congress and make their voices heard, as well.
The last thing I’ll say is: I think we need to change the narrative a little bit and make sure that Americans are aware of this phony baloney climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has set up. It shouldn’t be allowed to work in the dark. We should call it out, and we should honor and cite the work of scientists who are examining it. What makes me excited and gives me determination is that we need to get this done to make sure our country keeps a leading role in the world. And everywhere I go — Republican or Democrat, west, east, north, south, urban, rural — young people get this. So we need to pull together and get this done. We can and we will.
I think this time around we have different assets at our disposal. The biggest one is that when it comes to climate and clean energy, there is an alliance between the market and our movement that we never had before. Clean energy now is cheaper than coal and gas in most parts of the country and it creates more jobs than fossil fuels, and investors are increasingly moving away at least from coal — investors and corporate leaders that we didn’t have in the Bush administration.
There’s an alliance between the market and the climate movement that we haven’t seen before that is more powerful and more diverse than it has been. We can achieve change at the local and state level and private sector — even if we have deniers running our federal government.
A Trump administration spells a grim future for climate governance in the U.S. Yet, like climate change itself, the rest of the world marches on. There are tens of thousands of examples we can point to where non-state (i.e. business) and sub-national entities (i.e. states and cities) are acting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, and protect people from the impacts of climate change.
Among the organizations committing to do something about climate change, some major emitters are stepping up to the plate. Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue, recently announced that by 2025 it will generate half the energy consumed by its operations from renewable sources. Even fossil fuel companies, including BP, Chevron, and Exxon, are making efforts to reduce operational emissions — lest they go the way of Peabody Energy, which has done nothing to mitigate emissions except for declaring bankruptcy earlier this year. Our analysis includes 1,500 companies representing $32.5 trillion in revenue — more than one-third of the global economy — that have pledged some form of climate action.
The recent election revealed a huge problem for the environmental movement: We don’t show up to vote. But the good news is that this also presents a game-changing opportunity.
The data is still coming in, but it looks like 100 million eligible voters didn’t vote. And, if previous trends held true, our research at the Environmental Voter Project shows that over 10 million self-described environmentalists did not vote.
Although frustrating, this hints at some really good news: We’re already winning the battle for people’s hearts and minds. Dozens of studies show that Americans overwhelmingly acknowledge climate change and support strong policies to address it. Furthermore, over 20 million Americans care so much about climate change that they list it as one of their top issue priorities.
And here’s why that gives me hope: Persuading someone to start caring about climate change is really hard; but getting someone who already cares about climate change to tweak their habits and start voting is much, much easier. Changing habits is always easier than changing minds. If we can get environmentalists to start voting, politicians will have no choice but to respond.
We must embrace the lessons the 2016 elections offer our movement. One I’ve embraced is that we must increase our focus and efforts at the local level to realize the reforms necessary to address climate disruption. While I am not giving up on working the federal circuit, I believe that local elections/initiatives offer the best opportunities to disrupt and resist perilous policies of the incoming administration and Congress, as well as advance forward-thinking policies.
For this to be successful, the environmental movement must start thinking of itself more as a social justice movement and rally around vulnerable populations, whose vulnerability has increased due to the results of the election. Local organizing, by nature, will force movements to increase and improve the idea and exercise of diversity, because diversity is not just about numbers, it’s also about shared power and inclusiveness. My home state of Washington learned the hard way via I-732’s defeat — the perils of non-inclusive local organizing/outreach.
Progressives should take heart in some of the local successes, like great victories in California on plastic bags and fracking, in Florida on solar energy, and the election of Ilhan Omar in Minnesota [Omar is the nation’s first Somali-American legislator]. The Native-led resistance to DAPL is a model that we can and should use to inform our resistance to all fossil fuel-infrastructure projects and acts of abject racism, misogyny, and slow-genocide. Young people are doing amazing things around the country, from divestment campaigns, to school walk-outs, to sit-ins at the offices of Chuck Schumer. These victories/actions give me hope, and the amazing people I work with movement-wide offer copious amounts of inspiration and determination.
My 15-month old son, Zahir “the Bean,” is of course my primary inspiration and motivator, though.
For the first time in my life, state government in Iowa and the federal government are now both fully controlled by Republicans, many of whom profess that climate change is a hoax. This comes at a time when the climate emergency is more apparent, and the need for climate action more urgent, than ever before.
It feels discouraging, and I do not doubt we will see many efforts to force construction of fossil fuel infrastructure, or roll back policies to support renewable energy, or even do away with government support for basic climate science.
Yet, get away from the noise of “lock her up” and “Trump digs coal” and I believe our success is inevitable, if we remain engaged.
That is because the dangers of climate change are real and affect real people — from this year’s flood victims in Missouri, Texas, West Virginia, Louisiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and South Carolina, to ongoing sea-level rise in Florida and drought in Arizona (all states won by Trump).
In the same states we also have real solutions that create real jobs, grow real businesses, help real farmers, save consumers real money, and improve the health of everyone.
1. Continue to speak up with elected officials. A Doubting Thomas today can be a leader for climate action tomorrow. Remind Republicans of their successes including the Clean Air Act, the Montreal Protocol, and solar energy investment tax credits. Do not let them off the hook by ignoring them.
2. Take even more personal actions to promote sustainability and tell elected officials how well they work.
3. Build community among people who recognize the issue’s urgency and invite others to join you in meeting the defining challenge of this century.
I am hopeful because on the day of the election, I got a note on Facebook from a friend of mine from middle school, who I haven’t talked to in 15 years, who asked me: “What can I do to become a leader in this moment?” And then I checked my email, and I heard from so many friends I never hear from, all asking: “How can I join the climate movement?” And then on Tuesday, there were hundreds of incredible actions to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline.
There are leaders everywhere in our movement. We are going to stand up and confront the Trump agenda everywhere it pops up, just like movements throughout the world and throughout history have done. We know we can make the impossible possible, and the future depends on it.
*Correction: Due to a miscommunication in correspondence, an earlier version of this story attributed Mary Berry’s response to her father, Wendell. The editor regrets the mistake and has been sentenced to memorizing the entire Berry taxonomy, both botanical and Kentuckian. | 2019-04-18T15:16:25Z | https://www.salon.com/2016/11/28/keep-the-hope-what-environmental-leaders-are-saying-on-hope-and-progress-in-donald-trumps-america_partner/ | Porn | Science | 0.340276 |
wikipedia | Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. (June 30, 1934 – May 14, 1997) was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats.
Blackstone was born in Three Rivers, Michigan, the son of noted stage magician Harry Blackstone Sr. (also known as "The Great Blackstone"). As an infant, he was used as a prop in his father's act.
Rather than utilize the routines his father developed, Blackstone developed his own and modernized his performance, though onstage he would, on occasion, perform a sequence of his father's illusions in a period setting.
Blackstone created four levels (beginner to advanced) of magic kits that were the best selling in the field. In the early 1970s, he promoted a "PF Magic Wedge Kit" on a television commercial for PF Flyers sneakers, and he appeared on several commercials for Jiffy Pop popcorn.
In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Blackstone donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. the original floating light bulb — designed and built by Thomas Edison — and the original Casadega Cabinet, used in the "Dancing Handkerchief" illusion. This was the first donation accepted by the Smithsonian in the field of magic.
Blackstone appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show, Donahue, The Today Show, Reading Rainbow and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. He also made occasional appearances as the mysterious Dr. Mephisto on the TV soap opera Santa Barbara. Of his several TV specials, the PBS two-hour special was unique due to the intros by some of The Muppets. Blackstone's PBS Square One TV, where he used magic tricks to teach mathematics to young people, was a favorite of his. His recurring segment was known as "Backstage with Blackstone."
Blackstone designed the illusions used on SeaWorld's water show featuring the DC Comics superheroes. They included The Joker cutting Batgirl up into multiple pieces, a variation of a classic multi-box illusion, and the first use in many years of the Jarrett pedestal to vanish Wonder Woman.
Blackstone and his wife Gay created and produced the special effects for "The Magic Summer Tour" for New Kids on The Block, as well as their "No More Games Tour". He also did special effects for Alice Cooper, Michael Jackson ("The Victory Tour"), Earth, Wind and Fire, and Jane's Addiction with Perry Farrell.
During his career, Blackstone toured the U.S. extensively. Notably, his Magnificent Musical Magic Show played in 156 U.S. cities and Broadway. It opened in May 1980, and played 118 performances.
Blackstone received the Academy of Magical Arts Magician of the Year Award in 1979 and 1985.
He performed at the prestigious FBI National Academy Association retrainer session in Chicago in 1980 where he was the featured performer at the formal closing banquet.
At the time of his death he was the most highly awarded magician of all time.
Blackstone lived in Redlands, California. He died on May 14, 1997 in Loma Linda, California at the age of 62 due to pancreatic cancer.
The Performing Arts Theater at Redlands East Valley High School is named in his honor.
His widow, Gay Blackstone, is the former president of The Magic Castle in Hollywood.
Gay Blackstone appeared in the season 10 episode 14 Pawn Stars episode "Tricky Ricky," in 2014, and sold a vanishing birdcage prop used by both Harry Sr. and Harry Jr. to Rick Harrison for $2,600.
Blackstone, Harry Jr. There's One Born Every Minute (Los Angeles, Ca, U. S. A.: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc, 1976. Softcover. ISBN 0-87477-329-6, ISBN 0-87477-056-4.
Blackstone, Harry Jr. My Life As A Magician Paperback (Aladdin: 1992-05-01) ISBN 0-671-64436-X ISBN 9780671644369.
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^ Houdini.org on Blackstone Jr.
^ a b Harry Blackstone Jr. donates Harry Blackstone Sr. illusions to Smithsonian.
^ Find a Grave, Harry Blackstone Jr.
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wordpress | Drew: so magicians are susceptible to axes, right?
Well, I know who Leuca is going to be killing this week.
Sharing is caring. Don’t forget, there are two bad guys that need dealing with.
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wordpress | According to Merriam-Webster, process is “a series of actions or operations conducing to an end”. When applied to writing a book, those actions would be: pre-writing, writing, revision, editing, and then publishing. That sounds, as my mother always said, easy-peasy.
Merriam-Webster obviously hasn’t met me.
I cracked up reading her description but guess what. It’s funny because it’s true. The “process” I followed to write my first book, A Twist of Wyrd, was a study in frustrated perfectionism. But it wasn’t necessarily my process that was the problem.
Every writer follows a different path to their final destination: the Hero’s Journey, beat sheets, various systems created by other authors, or pieces of all these things sewed together into a Franken-process. Where I went wrong was the mistaken belief that I just hadn’t found my OTP (one true process). I thought there had to be some magical system out there that would take me from dim bulb to illuminated writer.
That may sound a little weird, but in order to understand why I was so dead set in my OTP belief, you need to know a little more about me. When I’m not writing stories about valkyries and berserkers, I’m a spreadsheet slinging, database pinging Business Analyst. My day job is all SQL code and Excel formulas, and if you’ve never worked with either, let me just say that a single misplaced comma can ruin your day. So, making the switch from by-the-book Vlookups and Select statements to a “learn the rules so you can break them” philosophy was a little panic inducing.
After trying everything else, I decided I had nothing to lose, so I did it. I stopped worrying about the rules and the beats and the acts and I focused on telling the story of a man and woman battling enemy factions and their own fears on the path to real love.
The by-product of my newfound “just tell the story” attitude was that I started to trust myself and my writing. I finished my novel and worked up the bravery to share it with beta readers, warts and all. Knowing that I was sending out an imperfect story to others was terrifying. What if they hated it? What if they found gaping plot holes? What if they couldn’t connect to my characters? What if? What if? What if? This is the part of the process where I created about thirty different versions of my book cover and thought about throwing in the towel.
Then an author friend of mine stepped in and saved my sanity, and with it, my book. How? By freaking out while writing his own novel. This successful man, who I deeply admire, was experiencing some of the same fears I was. What if readers hate my story? What if I’m not giving them what they expect? What if they just don’t get it? Suddenly, I was the one offering comfort and advice, and in doing so, I realized that there was nothing wrong with my process or my writing or with me. The only problem I had was one that we all have from time to time…letting fear hold me back.
So, that’s how I reached the publishing phase of process, with a whole lot of help from my wonderful beta readers and my brilliant editor. Just to be clear, this doesn’t mean that I’ve gotten over the freaking out. I’ve just made the decision not to let it stop me anymore. My plan for book two in the Ways of Wyrd series is to surrender to my lack of process, step into my character’s shoes, and leave the footprints of her life on the page. I’m kinda scared, but I’m also looking forward to the journey, no matter how twisted the path may be. | 2019-04-26T14:29:40Z | https://biblioparadise.wordpress.com/2018/03/ | Porn | Reference | 0.345334 |
wordpress | This morning for some reason I was thinking about “Hungry Are the Dead”, this groovy little indie turn-based survival horror Gameboy Color (yes) game. Most of the links for it are dead, but I was able to track down a copy on the website of one of the creators here. So, grab a Gameboy emulator and check it out.
I was kinda hoping that they’d turned it into a full game, perhaps for Android or something, but alas it is still just the GBC demo. But it’s a really cool GBC demo.
and I’m like Wii U, and Wii Farmville too!
but I can tell how much you weigh!
while we’ve got all the classic games!
Heeeeey, they might show up some day.
but here’s a new Zelda! and a new Mario!
There, that should hold you for a year.
And now there’s a neeeewww way, to repackage our old games!
Yaaaay, and no easy way to pay!
We made Wii Fit for your mom and Big Brain Academy for your dad!
And we’re like uh… wait! Uh, wait! Uh, WAIT! Gamers!
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wordpress | The packaging is excellent, sturdy, beautiful, and practical. The only thing you might not love about it is the inner lid, I chose to keep it on, because I noticed that the cream oxidizes under the light into a red-purple color. Therefore I chose to keep it on, even if it meant an extra step. I even kept the packaging for storing something, not sure what yet, buttons? perfume samples? Something that I did not like was that the instructions do not contain the suggested way to massage the cream in. You can get this online through introducing a code. I did it, and it did not work. I wrote a message to the brand asking about it, but never got an answer. Also, the personal in the shop did not know it. There is no Caritas spa where to go in my town, so in the end I used the cream and massaged it as I thought it should be without knowing the real deal.
The cream has a lovely rich cream consistency, and a very nice and silky feeling. It absorbs quickly, but it leaves a slight creamy silky feeling on the skin. This is not uncomfortable or annoying in any way. It actually feels very nourishing and soft, very comfortable. I really enjoyed using this cream, it was a lovely product, but it did not help at all with the purpose I bought it for. In this regard, the oil I was using before, which costs a 10th of what this cream cost me, did better to help maintain the skin elastic. This cream costs around 120Euro for 200ml. It is very expensive. It is surely nice, and I used it only on the areas I felt needed the extra help: abdomen and breasts. The Frei massage öl for pregnant skin was really good at this, and it costs around eleven Euro. Unfortunately, due to a bad recommendation I spent a lot of money on something that did not fulfill what I needed. The product is not bad at all, but I think it is probably aimed at more mature skin that needs a lot of nutrients that it might not be producing enough anymore. That is probably why I did not see a difference in my skin while using it, and it also did not contribute to keep the skin elastic, which is what I really needed. I was very disappointed, and not very encouraged to follow the advice of the people at that store after this.
Would I buy this again? Maybe in a few years, when I feel my skin might profit from this kind of product. | 2019-04-25T15:48:26Z | https://wwallytodoynada.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/france-carita-creme-revelatrice-fermete/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.835395 |
wired | It's a scenario security researchers have long worried about, a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware – disguised as legitimate Microsoft code – to unsuspecting users.
When a machine on a network attempts to connect to Microsoft’s Windows Update service, the connection gets redirected through an infected machine first, which sends a fake, malicious Windows Update to the requesting machine. The fake update claims to be code that will help display gadgets on a user's desktop.
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wordpress | Because I’m always on the lookout for new and delicious sounding recipes to entice me into healthy eating, I picked up Gwyneth Paltrow’s book in Chapter’s one day. After a few discreet iPhone shots of some especially mouth-wateringly good sounding recipes, I figured I should just go ahead and buy the whole thing. I’ve tried a handful of recipes so far, and have really liked all of them. This one for roasted cauliflower and chickpeas was the first one I tried, and will definitely be making it again. We had it as a side for dinner one night, and it was so good that two people easily polished off an entire head of cauliflower in one sitting! And the whole recipe involved about six ingredients, most of which you likely already have in your pantry. Not complicated at all!
Mix up two kinds of mustard, add rice vinegar, parsley and kosher salt. Dressing complete!
Toss the cauliflower mix with some parsley and the mustard dressing, then revel in that gorgeous, golden colour!
Toss the chickpeas and cauliflower together in a large roasting pan or cookie sheet with 3 tbsp olive oil and a big pinch of salt. Roast, stirring occasionally, until everything is dark brown and the cauliflower is quite soft, about 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk together the mustards, vinegar and 1/4 olive oil with a big pinch of salt and fresh ground black pepper. While the chickpeas and cauliflower are still warm, toss them with the mustard dressing and the parsley. Serve warm or at room temperature.
This is easily one of the most flavourful curries I’ve ever made. I have my go-to curry recipe, but thought I’d spice it up a bit and try a curry recipe from Jamie Oliver. I had some sweet potatoes that needed to be used up so his sweet potato and chick pea curry called to me. I made a few minor adjustments based on what I had in the fridge, and man oh man, this turned out great! What I loved most was how rich the curry tasted, and how the sweetness from the potatoes was a perfect balance. Fresh cilantro, salty cashews and Greek yogurt really put this curry over the top.
It all starts with a solid base of onions, garlic and curry paste.
Then add your veggies and some coconut milk and let it simmer until the sweet potatoes are cooked through.
Once the sauce has thickened up and you are about to serve, throw in some spinach. Stir, let sit for a few minutes until just wilted.
Then serve it up with cilantro, cashews and Greek yogurt. Prepare for your taste buds to rejoice!
Dang. Just try this. So good.
Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and curry paste, mix well, then cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onion is soft and golden.
Add the chilli, ginger, cilantro stalks, cauliflower, sweet potato and chickpeas. Cook for 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and 200ml water (or broth) and bring to the boil.
Reduce the heat to a simmer, then cover and cook for 10–15 minutes. Remove the lid, then cook for a further 15–20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sweet potato is cooked through and the sauce thickened. Add more water/broth if necessary, 1/4 cup at a time. Stir in the coconut milk and cook for a couple of minutes, then stir in the spinach and cook until wilted. Scatter over the coriander leaves, cashews, greek yogurt, then serve with poppadums and rice.
To freeze the curry for another time, leave to cool in the pan, then spoon into portion-sized containers or freezer bags and freeze. The curry will keep there for up to 3 months.
These falafels are a garlicky DREAM. Lots of raw garlic ensures this! I have a pretty serious addiction to garlic, so I served these with homemade tzatziki; also chalk full of raw garlic. Don’t go anywhere after eating this unless you have some high octane mouthwash or aren’t afraid of losing a few friends due to intense garlic breath. It’s powerful stuff!
Now that you’ve been adequately warned about the garlic, let’s move onto the rest of the ingredients; chick peas, parsley, lemon, cumin, hot sauce and salt. Very simple and very delicious.
Throw everything in the food processor or blender and pulse until well blended.
Add some flour(use whole wheat if you want to keep it extra healthy) to the chickpea mixture and stir until completely combined.
Form the mixture into patties and fry them in a bit of butter or oil.
Make sure they get golden and crispy!
Get the rest of your ingredients ready. I like to inhale my falafel on a pita with homeade tzatziki and fresh veggies.
Take a nice close look at this pretty little thing.
Or do it up open face!
1. In food processor, blend together chickpeas, garlic, parsley, lemon juice, cumin, hot sauce and salt. Transfer mixture to bowl and stir in flour.
2. Form mixture into 24 balls (about 2 tbsp each) and flatten slightly.
3. Heat oil in non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Fry falafel for 2 – 3 minutes per side or until golden brown.
4. Serve in a pita with tzatziki along with cucumber, diced tomato and lettuce.
Often I find it’s easy for chicken salad to be drowning in heavy mayonnaise dressing, but this dressing is light and the avocado brings an amazing creamy texture. Also, the addition of chickpeas and diced tomato to the mixture help make it light, fresh and healthy. And you can absolutely use light mayonnaise and sour cream in the dressing to make it that much healthier.
Start by mixing up the dressing, then put it in the fridge until you’re ready to use it.
Throw everything you want to appear in the chicken salad into one bowl. The possibilities are endless! Usually I add celery because I like it’s crunchiness, but I didn’t have any this time around so I used snow peas instead. It was delicious, and got me thinking that you really could add any vegetable you want to this mix. I also used grated carrot, diced red pepper, and chickpeas. Such a tasty way to get your veggies!
I also added chives from my “garden” (aka, a few planters on my 4′ X 4′ balcony), but again add whatever fresh herbs you have on hand. It’ll add another dimension of freshness! So much freshness going on in this sandwich!
Mix in the dressing and load it up on your favourite bread. Bring a fork along to finish this sandwich….it can get messy! Or you could stuff it into half a pita and reduce the mess, but I rarely pass up the opportunity to consume fresh baked bread.
I added a few slices of cheddar to this too, because I also rarely pass up the opportunity to consume cheese.
Attempt to fold it up into sandwich form, and dive in!
In a large bowl, combine chicken, vegetables, chickpeas and fresh herbs.
In a small bowl, add mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice and salt and pepper. Stir together until completely mixed.
Add mayonnaise mixture to chicken mixture, and stir until completely coated.
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wordpress | She’ll be forced to face her demons once more.
When she is turned unexpectedly mortal, she and Darcy reluctantly return to the world she fled to seek help.
But when they arrive, Emma is confronted with a choice.
One which, if she chooses wrongly, could come between her and Darcy forever.
Emma never met a challenge she couldn’t handle.
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wordpress | In 2017, investment in data centers grew to an all-time high of $18.2 billion, doubling the value of investment in 2016 – and it’s not difficult to see why. Data centers make so much of today’s modern technology possible, from video streaming services and money transfers to data storage and much more – this is, after all, where the cloud lives. These centers are dominated by vast data storage systems, and if it’s one thing these systems need to operate efficiently and reliably, it’s environmental temperature control.
Data centers produce a huge amount of heat and, when this heat isn’t managed properly, it leads to slower servers and – eventually – server failures. Unfortunately, the same issues occur if the air is too cold. This means that HVAC systems have to be designed, installed and maintained with a very precise focus in order to deliver the ideal air temperature consistently and reliably through these huge spaces. Here are some tips on achieving this from our team of commercial HVAC contractors.
Remove non-essential heat sources: You can save on energy costs and reduce pressure on your commercial HVAC system by having a ruthless approach to unnecessary heat sources. These include baseboard heaters, lightbulbs and server equipment that is not currently in use. Just saving one watt of power at the server level can mean a total savings of 3 watts in the data center due to reduced pressure on heat management systems.
Invest in effective airflow management: This amounts to delivering cool air to where it’s needed and removing hot exhaust air as quickly and efficiently as possible. Common strategies for achieving this, include using variable speed fan drives in the HVAC unit, enclosing server racks to reduce the mixing of hot and cold air, and ensuring the HVAC and ductwork is designed to uniquely suit your building and server configuration.
Don’t forget about humidity: Too much or too little moisture in the air can also damage server equipment, so don’t leave this out of the equation. Additionally, maintaining a constant, optimal humidity level puts less pressure on your HVAC system and modern systems can even utilize cool outdoor air (especially nighttime air) to reduce mechanical cooling costs. | 2019-04-21T08:57:46Z | https://tritechenergy.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/how-to-keep-your-data-center-cool-whatever-the-weather/ | Porn | Computers | 0.822309 |
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wordpress | Perhaps the first little pig knew best?
The wind in Melbourne can huff and puff but it won’t blow our (round)house down.
People respond to the word straw when I mention the Whistlewood Common roundhouse. Incredulity often fleets across the faces of my companions (unless they have watched Grand Designs). So, for this month’s post I spoke with Hannah Hunt, our designer from Straw Works. By the end of this post you should be a firm advocate of straw as a building material.
Get planning permission. For this our first architect designed our beautiful octagonal roundhouse, and we planned its location. The local planning office gave consent in July 2014.
Develop technical drawings and specifications to demonstrate a whole bunch of stuff to a building inspector. We are coming back to this step.
Create the construction drawings, so that we can plan the build and resource the materials. While this step doesn’t involve any consents, it is vital to the overall process.
During construction receive inspections from building control. If we have made any changes, we agree them with the building inspector.
We have finished the first three steps. Now we are planning the build and resourcing materials.
What does building control (the building inspector) want to know?
Before we get into all that, I should mention that Whistlewood Common has engaged a private building control service. Our service provider is a Corporate Building Control Approved Inspector. This means they can give us all our consents. They work directly with the local authority and their experience with strawbales is invaluable. AND they help us make the right decisions. Their experience doesn’t just ensure the quality of our build but will also help us achieve our goals. If you are not sure what goals Whistlewood aspires to, please see December’s post.
So what does building control want to know?
Will our building meet safety regulations?
Will our building meet fire regulations?
Will our building meet insulation standards?
Will our building be breathable?
To know whether straw works, we need to know what it is going to do. In some straw bale constructions the staw is an infill material. These buildings have separate frames that are structural. In our roundhouse, the straw will hold up the roof.
That begs the question – how strong is straw? The answer is strong enough, with the right construction methods. Load-bearing straw walls can take the weight of a solid wood roof. But they work in a different way to ‘traditional’ walls. Most importantly straw cannot support a point load. Think of the rafters in your house, they bear down on the bricks. If we used the same construction in the roundhouse the bales under the rafters would compress. As a result the roof could end up uneven.
Instead, we use two methods to make the bales ‘strong enough’. The first technique is to use a roof or ring plate on top of the bales. The ring spreads the load of the roof evenly around the building. The second procedure is pre-compressing the straw.
Let’s step back a moment and refresh ourselves on the structure of the roundhouse. For more details see the first post in this series. Our foundations are made of tyres filled with pea shingle. A base plate rests on the rubbery supports, and we will build the straw bale walls onto the base plate. Hazelwood stakes will hold the bales in place, and the roof plate goes on top. To ‘squish’ all the air out of the bales, we will loop many ratchet straps under the base plate and over the roof plate. Then we will pull hard. Once the bales are compressed, we will replace the ratchet straps with tape. If we didn’t pre-compress the bales we would have to wait for gravity to do its job. The pre-compression also levels out the roof plate.
So, long story short, yes straw works. In our case, it will hold up the roof.
Yes, we have engaged an extremely competent, experienced firm to design and manage the build. The roundhouse will satisfy all safety regulations from disability access to fire exits and all necessary signage.
You might be forgiven for thinking that a straw building would not resist flames. The truth is that straw bales – once compressed – break the fire triangle. Now, what is the fire triangle I hear you cry? For a fire to take hold it needs three things – hence triangle – fuel, a source of ignition and oxygen.
Squishing all the air out of the bales deprives any fire of that all-important third ingredient. Hannah likens burning a straw bale to burning a telephone directory. If you apply a flame to a telephone directory the edges will char. While some of the outer pages may catch fire, the fire will run out of oxygen and splutter out almost as soon as you remove the source of ignition.
If you have ever watched a TV programme or film where the good guys pick up essential information from a poorly burnt stack of papers – usually in an open fireplace – you know what we mean.
Given the previous section, I won’t describe straw as ‘toasty’, but it is a great insulator. If you want to get into the science here is a link to an online book. For a lay person’s version read on.
To achieve the same level of insulation as mineral wool, we need twice the thickness of straw. Taking your roof space where the latest recommendation is for 200mm (20cm or 8 inches), you would need 400mm of straw. We are using 450mm straw bales, so we have enough insulation.
We will see in a second that straw bales are breathable. So they let air pass through them, just not enough to sustain fire. As cold air comes in it picks up warmth from the air in the build and acts as a secondary insulator. The warm air increases the effectiveness of straw (and many other natural insulators) conversely mineral wool is not breathable. Just in case you wondered this effect is called dynamic insulation.
Finally, our walls will have two beautiful finishes – 30mm of clay on the inside and 30mm of lime render on the outside. 60mm is a lot of material. And while they are not great insulators in their own right, applying this much render and clay to the walls of the roundhouse further increases its ‘thermal mass’.
Modern construction techniques have improved insulation and comfort by sealing gaps and stopping drafts. But they have also compromised ventilation. In particular, they stop water vapour from leaving buildings. When this results in condensation the fabric of our buildings can be damaged, and moulds may start to grow.
Newer building regulations recognise this issue and set a standard for breathability in roof spaces. Inded, permeable roofing felt has been a requirement for some time. Now breathability is not the same as a draught. The latter is an uncontrolled air escape or ingress. Whereas breathable materials allow water vapour to pass through them. Straw bales are breathable, so is lime render and even clay render. This means we can expect excellent air quality in the roundhouse year round. And that we are unlikely to experience the problems associated with damp.
Another aspect of breathability covers the amount of toxins in the air. Many modern building materials ‘off-gas’. For example, formaldehyde escapes from glues in bonded wood products. To reduce formaldehyde levels we will avoid Oriented Strand Board and instead use Smartply and woodfibre board.
As you know, we are using the most natural materials we can find and are keeping a firm eye on the distance the materials will travel. However, for the most part, finding products of the right quality is fairly easy. But when it comes to straw, we will have to inspect the bales before we confirm our purchase.
We need to make sure the bales are regular shapes and dense (not too floppy!). We can accept no loose straws, and each bale must be a similar size. The straw must be in good condition; it must be dry, stored well and have no signs of mould.
Common sense and our ‘five senses’ will help us inspect our bales. We will also use a straw bale standard, written by Straw Works, to make sure we get the right bales for the job.
In case you were wondering we will be using wheat, barley or rye straw. Straw is the inedible part of domesticated grasses (it is a stem, not a leaf) and is not a food source.
As you know our roundhouse is octagonal. That shape has eight exterior corner of 45°. However, you may have noticed that most buildings have right angles (90°) at each corner. Creating our unusual shape in brick would require experienced, talented bricklayers. In straw, it is pretty much impossible. Our builders can shape straw bales, but making sharp angles isn’t feasible. So instead, we are going to have beautiful, soft, natural, organic curves.
When Hannah told me about the pre-compression my thoughts turned to the openings in the walls. She quickly put my mind to rest on the subject of windows. All our windows will be in the roof, but the four doors are going to need special treatment. The main door will be a traditional hinged door. The other three, leading to the stage, are a series of ‘French doors’. In both cases the door frames need to be strong and robust.
To keep the doors upright we cannot attach the door frames to the straw bales. Instead, they will be fixed to the base plate and, after the pre-compression, to the roof plate. We will cut notches into the straw bales to hide and insulate the frames. Enclosing the frames prevent ‘cold-bridging’ to further reduce heat loss. | 2019-04-19T00:18:54Z | https://michellespaul.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/perhaps-the-first-little-pig-knew-best/ | Porn | Business | 0.127876 |
wordpress | by Marlie van de Ven – Arnold van der Linde.
The first trip in the snow with our camper, with a crappy heater, on the way for some fresh powder!
We have to drive eight hours for the best condi0tions what was possible for two days of snowkiting.
Day 1: We must work till 5 o clock, so we meet at 17:30 to pack the van, eat some frites and hit the road. We drove non-stop eight hours. We arrived at 4 o clock in the night and hit some sleep for a nice next day. The first day was full of sunshine but no wind. So we went down to snowboard and checked the area on the Feldberg and made some nice powder pictures. We met there some guys from the kiteschool “Skywalker”.. they have a permit to give snowkite lessons over there, it’s a nice place to snowkite you have a lot of different high levels en enough area! So we talked a little bit and they took us the next day to different nice spots. You can take the first lift on the bottom on the mountain, with a 1 way card. When you are at the top, you can recognise the huge snowkite area between de tower and the other side of the mountain. Be sure you pump up your kite and roll out your lines on the area where the piste bully is. Otherwise the snow will eat you. The first day without wind but nice scenery of the Feldberg. The first night, outside -15 degrees Celsius, no isolated van and a crappy gas heater. The ultimate receipt for a fever ;). But we are very romantic and light some fire for heat.
To see all pictures from our trip go here.
Check out this video – we’ve got it from our friend Jannicke Stav. | 2019-04-22T04:26:06Z | https://nobilekiteboarding.wordpress.com/tag/snowkiting/ | Porn | Sports | 0.354432 |
wordpress | It was in 1966 when the Beatles released the album Revolver and when I was born. And when the publishing house Philosophia, was founded.
An der endgültigen Fassung dieses Artikels zur „Landschaft“ einer möglichen Welt arbeite ich, die nichts Konkretes enthält. Es ist unvorstellbar, wie viele Dinge in dieser Welt müssen definiert werden können (Mengen, Zahlen, semiotische Systeme), selbst wenn sie keine konkreten Individuen „beherbergt“.
Wie immer, wenn ich an einem Artikel arbeite oder darüber nachdenke, fragt die Familie „Was ist das, worüber du gerade nachdenkst?“ und ich antworte „Nichts“.
Diesmal ist diese Antwort sogar wahr!
I’m working on the final draft of this article on the „landscape“ of a possible world which doesn’t contain anything concrete. One cannot imagine how many things can be defined in it (sets, numbers, semiotic systems) even if it is devoid of concrete individuals.
Like always when I think or work on an article, my family asks: „What’s going through your mind right now?“ and I answer „Nothing“.
There’s no picture for this post, I’m afraid. I find the task of taking a picture of nothingness demanding, but it beats me. | 2019-04-19T10:43:09Z | https://philori.wordpress.com/tag/fachpublikationen/ | Porn | News | 0.329436 |
wordpress | Limited edition of 50, mini cd in a hand made cover, contained in pro art , all housed in a hand made outer sleeve.
01. A Room With a View.
Recorded live at roomservice 2010 on november 4th, 2010 in wageningen.
edited in march and april 2011.
dedicated to my mother whose birthday i had to miss because of this.
~ by STRIATE CORTEX on May 13, 2011.
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wordpress | Thank you SO much for sharing your adventures with us,,..
My most sincere Thoughts and Prayers go out to You and the Crew, and the DQ,,,,….
I sincerely hope that, even though it’s the end of the season and the Delta Queen is docked in New Orleans, people don’t forget about her and give up on contacting senators and congress. They can still act to save her, either in a lame-duck session, before Christmas, or we can try again next year. But, we can’t put her out of our minds and just accept defeat!
Bill, almost 2 weeks have passed since the rest of the remaining crew and I were forced from our home, I just wanted another chance to thank you with all my heart for all you have done, and i’m sure are still doing for this just cause. Just wanted to let you know my bags will remain packed for our return to the Legendary Delta Queen, May God Bless You until we sail again, Tim Fisher, Bartender, Delta Queen..
Since our return from our fall cruise from Nashville to Pittsburg, I’ve had an ongoing sadness thinking of what I call “MY” beloved DQ. It just does not seem possible that we cannot book a cruise for next year.
AND, Bill, I appreciate all you and other crew members did to keep the DQ afloat, and YOU to give us a website that makes us feel back “at home”.
And, lastly, I keep hoping that a replacement for my lost ’08 thermal mug will somehow materialize in the mail after all the giftshop stuff shakes down…..but as days go by, I know I have to be content with holding in memory my lucky, happy days aboard the gracious Delta Queen.
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wordpress | Dave Detwiler continues to be one of the most highly sought after “first call” lead trumpet players and music educators on the east coast, his career spanning over 32 years.
As a music educator, Dave has managed a thriving trumpet studio for over 40 years. Many of Dave’s students have earned trumpet scholarships at major universities and conservatories – some have even pursued professional careers in music. He has received several Virginia State Teachers awards while instructing at the high school and college levels, including an Outstanding Teacher award while serving as Director of Jazz at Georgetown University – a position he held for 14 years.
After attending Valley Forge Military Academy on a full music scholarship, Dave attended The University of Pittsburgh where he was a standout performer in the concert band and Pitt jazz ensemble under the direction of Dr. Nathan Davis.
In 1973 Dave joined “Pershing’s Own” in Washington, D.C. where his career flourished for more than 26 years. As a lead player and jazz soloist with the Army Blues, Dave recorded and traveled throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to performing at the White House and other official concerts in and around Washington, D.C., Dave was also the featured trumpet soloist for numerous U.S. Army Concert Band performances, including tours of Europe, Japan and Australia. During a tour of Sweden in 1990, one of Dave’s performances prompted the front-page headline to read, “The World’s Best Trumpeter” in the Strengnas Daily News.
Dave appears regularly with the National Symphony Orchestrea and has performed with The New York Philharmonic, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Barry Manilow, Al Jeareau, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Harry Connick, Jr., and numerous others as a local Washington Music Union member. Dave can be seen performing in shows at The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, The National Theatre, Nissan Pavilion, and on the annually televised “Christmas in Washington”, Kennedy Center Awards, National Memorial Day Concert, and A Capitol Fourth. | 2019-04-26T01:41:55Z | https://davedetwiler.wordpress.com/about-2/ | Porn | Arts | 0.966828 |
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It really adds a whole new atmosphere to an already atmospheric spot. Such a creative way of highlighting a particular part of the city’s history, too. | 2019-04-26T02:29:55Z | https://oranjeflamingo.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/castellum-lights/ | Porn | Arts | 0.955409 |
wordpress | What a glorious wedding this was at Pleasant Hill Vineyards. With so many wonderful wedding professionals involved, how could it not be? Our Whimsical Gatherings team enjoyed working alongside Jennifer Laraia Designs once again on another detail-packed celebration. Dan from Watson Studios was there to capture all of the beautiful moments and we were thrilled to see this featured recently on Southern Weddings blog. From the cake by Cheryl McMillan, to the rentals from All Occasions and Anderson Rentals, to the paper products by Ali-G Design, to the food from Northshore Brasserie, this was a day to remember! Our friends from Ogle Entertainment, BlueBilly Grit, Bangs and Blush, and A Regal Carriage Company were there as well! For more from this lovely day, please visit our Facebook Page! | 2019-04-22T12:12:58Z | https://whimsicalgatherings.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/pleasant-hill-vineyard-wedding/ | Porn | Arts | 0.665198 |
wordpress | After I quit my full-time job, I was determined to blog more. In the start of the new year, I made a resolution to blog once a week. Now, here I am eight months since quitting and almost six months into 2018, writing my first blog post. And it’s about a trip I took a month ago!
Canadians are super friendly! I met so many nice people during my travels.
They have great coffee and coffee shops. While there, I became obsessed with Second Cup.
Tim Horton’s was not one of those great coffee shops. It’s equivalent to a greasy fast-food joint, with the same smell, low-quality food and stale dining area.
Everyone speaks French as a primary language in Montreal. I wasn’t expecting its prominence, but really liked how it made me feel like I was in a far-away country.
If you’re dining alone, the restaurant staff absolutely do not want you taking up a table. I was offered the bar first every time, and a couple places wouldn’t even let me sit at a table after I requested one over the bar.
The cities shut down on Sundays. Both downtown Ottawa and parts of downtown Toronto were dead on Sunday.
A lot of people smoke. I’m going to blame the French influence.
Poutine is not that great. I prefer cheese or chili on my fries to gravy any day.
Meanwhile, Beaver Tails live up to their hype. And now the franchise is headed to the states thanks to a gentleman I met at a Montreal bar who recently purchased eight with the intention of US expansion.
Most restaurants, including non-fast food, cook their burgers on flattops instead of grills. I noticed this on a few menus and could taste the distinct flavor in mine at a gourmet burger joint.
It’s freakin’ expensive here. Even though the US dollar goes further, prices are high on average and then everything incurs a 13% tax.
The shoulder months are not good for visiting. My friend warned me, but it wasn’t until I was there in April that I truly saw how wet and ugly everything was. I can imagine how beautiful it is in the winter and summer when the ground and trees are covered in snow or greenery, respectively. The other downfall was that a lot of things were closed in the off season.
Verdict: I had a great trip and would definitely go back to Toronto. I absolutely loved that city! I’d give Montreal another chance, especially because Old Montreal is really cool. Ottawa is only worth a stop if you’re passing through to or from Montreal and Toronto. | 2019-04-20T21:19:45Z | https://lindsayeholloway.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/1985/ | Porn | News | 0.193253 |
yahoo | What are some really good and believable conspiracy theories?
They can be about anything. I’m interested.
The Navy has traditionally followed the rule that, when international relations are critical, the fleet puts to sea. That is exactly what Admiral Kimmel did. Aware that U.S.-Japanese relations were deteriorating, he sent 46 warships safely into the North Pacific in late November 1941 — without notifying Washington. He even ordered the fleet to conduct a mock air raid on Pearl Harbor, clairvoyantly selecting the same launch site Admiral Yamamoto chose two weeks later.
When the White House learned of Kimmel's move it countermanded his orders and ordered all ships returned to dock, using the dubious excuse that Kimmel's action might provoke the Japanese. Washington knew that if the two fleets met at sea, and engaged each other, there might be questions about who fired the first shot.
Kimmel did not give up, however. With the exercise canceled, his carrier chief, Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, issued plans for a 25-ship task force to guard against an "enemy air and submarine attack" on Pearl Harbor. The plan never went into effect. On November 26th, Admiral Stark, Washington's Chief of Naval Operations, ordered Halsey to use his carriers to transport fighter planes to Wake and Midway islands — further depleting Pearl Harbor's air defenses.
On 29 November, US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (Hull, Cordell) showed a reporter from The New York Times a message saying that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked on 7 December. As the attack approached, the American government received information from numerous sources that 7 December would be the day. On 1 December, Naval Intelligence in San Francisco worked out from news reports and signals picked up by shipping companies that the Japanese fleet that had disappeared from home waters was then to the west of Hawaii. Those who believe that Roosevelt knew about the attack all along maintain that a number of other reports say that the Japanese would strike at Pearl Harbor, but they have yet to be declassified.
"...on 26 November 1941, Churchill's private secretary Anthony Bevir sent by hand to the American Embassy their second message for the day, to be transmitted to Roosevelt accompanied by a note: "I enclose a telegram from the Former Naval Person to the President for dispatch as soon as possible. I am so sorry to trouble you at this hour."
Of all Churchill's voluminous correspondence with Roosevelt during World War II, this is the one message that cannot be read, since the file containing it is withheld from the Public record office in London for the next seventy years. According to Britain's Foreign Secretary, to release it would harm national security."
"On 26 November there was received specific evidence of the Japanese intention to wage offensive war against Great Britain and the United States"
But no details of what this "specific evidence" consisted of were placed before the inquiry.
Page 141, paragraph7,.............and................ 142 paragraph1.
U.S.Navy Inquiry into Pearl Harbor, July to October, 1944.
Admiral Kimmel: "Do you recall whether on or about 26 November you received information from the office of naval intelligence that gave specific evidence of Japan's intention to wage offensive war against Britain and America?"
Admiral Stark refused to answer saying:" It would involve disclosure of information detrimental to the public interest."
Aliens already living among us will soon take over the world destroying humanity by a cunning means, encouraging is to wage war against each other. When we have killed ourselves, they will take over easily killing any survivors.
"Good" as in "entertaining" or "good" as in "correct"?
There aren't any conspiracy theories that I find believable.
Not sure if these are conspiracies anymore since proven true.
The CIA did introduce crack cocaine to the black community to destabilize it.
Type in Illuminati backwards into your computer and you will be on a NASA website.
Ultra MLK govt tried mind control of unsuspecting people in the 60s and 70s.
The Dalai Lama was a CIA puppet who was there to disrupt Chinese modermization and society.
Tuskegee experiment. The govt did infect black men with syphilis to try and find a cure.
Canadians had a gaydar experiment back in the 60s and 70s. Something about dialated pupils could identify if one was gay. Done to keep them out the military and mounties.
Govt tried to poison the alcohol to keep prohibition going.
Govt collected dead body parts from dead children after the 2 atomic attacks to study the effects of radiation.
MK ultra was proven true.
I’d beleive that Neil Armstrong was actually warned off the moon.
Not that beleivable nor do I really beleive it but I always thought the LBJ killed JFK theory makes sense.
The end of trolleys in America. There are conspiracy theories out there a dime a dozen, mostly crackpot theories by nutters, but the oil and rubber industries conspired to get rid of trolleys for obvious $$$$ reasons. This was a real conspiracy.
The Lincoln Kidnapping Conspiracy is very interesting; in the end, the conspirators shot Lincoln and stabbed the Secretary of state in a plot.
How what is happening today in the US with illegal aliens undercutting jobs similar to the time in Roman Empire when slaves did same thing?
Are Herodotus and Thucydides reliable historical writers?
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wordpress | On pp. 30-31 of the Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin there is a long preface to the lyrics of Alexander’s Ragtime Band. I’ll quote the beginning and a couple of other fragments.
Berlin was not impressed by it when the melody first came to him. In fact, after playing over a few times on the piano, he did not take the trouble to note the melody on paper. He might never have completed the song had it not been for a trip to Palm Beach, Florida which months later he arranged to take with Jean Schwartz and Jack M. Welch. Just before train time he went to his offices to look over his manuscripts in order to leave the best of them for publication during his absence. Among his papers he found a memorandum referring to Alexander, and after considerable reflection he recalled its strains. Largely for the lack of anything better with which to kill time, he sat at the piano and completed the song.
No one liked it in that form so I set a lyric to it. It then lay on the shelf for some time as everyone thought the chorus was too long and the range to large for the ordinary voice. However, Emma Carus liked the song and introduced it in Chicago. It was a big hit for her and before long many other vaudeville acts were singing it.
The song’s popularity was far-reaching.
I took my first trip abroad in 1912 and was delighted to hear it whistled by a newsboy as I stepped off the train at the station in London. I soon realized how big a hit “Alexander” was in England. Within a year or so it became an international song hit and was translated in almost every known language.
Much has been written about the fact that Alexander’s Ragtime Band is not itself an example of the ragtime musical idiom. It is a march. However, it was so infectious and popular that it helped, by association, to revive interest in ragtime, which had evidently been waning in popularity since its heyday around the turn of the century.
Controversy also surrounded its origin; it was suggested that the song was written not by Berlin but by the black pianist Lukie Johnson, which Johnson himself denied. Later, Scott Joplin claimed Berlin had stolen the music from his opera Treemonisha; the two men do appear to have met, but that is as far as it went. Treemonisha was registered for copyright two month’s after “Alexander’s…”, but this did not deter Joplin, who died in 1917 convinced his work had been plagiarized. Towards the end of his life, Scott Joplin suffered from a degenerative illness which affected his mental powers, so the assertion must be treated with caution. His biographer Edward Berlin has made a careful study of this claim, but although, he says, there are similarities between “Alexander’s…” and “A Real Slow Drag”, this is hardly surprising, as a great many songs and instrumentals were written in the same style at that time.
According the Complete Lyrics, the most popular early recording was that by the renowned comedy team of baritone Arthur Collins and tenor Byron Harlan. Other important 1911 recordings included those by Billy Murray, and the Victor Military Band. It was later covered by many top artists including Bessie Smith, the Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell, and Ray Noble.
The song is memorialized on screen by Alice Faye in Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938), and by Ethel Merman , Dan Dailey, Donald O’Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnnie Ray in There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954).
This song was likely introduced by vaudeville performer Jack O’Leary, known as “That Singer,” who is pictured on the original sheet music. A 1915 recording by vaudeville stage actor/vocalist Walter Van Brunt became a popular hit.
During 1912, William Frawley — later of I Love Lucy fame—- was the first person to perform the song publicly, in the Mozart Cafe in Denver, Colorado. Frawley told this story during a May 3, 1965 appearance on the TV game show I’ve Got a Secret. Despite its published title, in conversation it often is referred to simply as “Melancholy Baby,” without the word “My,” including by Frawley himself in the above mentioned appearance.
Al Bowlly had a hit with his 1935 recording. The video below features a live performance, with piano accompaniment, filmed while on a holiday in 1936.
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Ernest Ball, Chauncey Olcott, George Graff, Jr.) The song was composed for Olcott’s original stage production, The Isle O’ Dreams. He sang the song in the show.
Below: John McCormack with orchestra. Originally issue circa 1923 according to the youtube provider.
Frank Patterson (October 5, 1938 – June 10, 2000) was an internationally renowned Irish tenor following in the tradition of singers such as John McCormack and Josef Locke. He was known as “Ireland’s Golden Tenor”.
Ballin’ the Jack (Chris Smith, Jim Burris). The song was the catalyst for a popular dance of the same name. The song and dance were performed in For Me and My Gal, the 1942 movie starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
B-10450-A). Release as a 78 rpm single with Don’t You Leave Me Here as the B-side. Both sides are available in .ra file format at at redhotjazz.com.
You Made Me Love You (James V. Monaco, Joseph McCarthy) Introduced in the Broadway revue The Honeymoon Express, 1913.
Liza Minnelli sings You Made Me Love You for the cast of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, THE LIFE, starring Sam Harris. The Broadway production, directed by Michael Blakemore, opened on April 26, 1997 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it closed on June 7, 1998 after for 466 performances and 21 previews.
I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone? (w. m. Shelton Brooks) is a ragtime/blues song written by Shelton Brooks in 1913. A response to the song was written in 1915 by W.C. Handy, “Yellow Dog Rag”, later retitled “Yellow Dog Blues”. Lines and melody from both songs show up in the 1920s and 30s in such songs as “E. Z. Rider”, “See See Rider”, “C. C. Rider”, and “Easy Rider Blues”. | 2019-04-24T17:14:57Z | https://songbook1.wordpress.com/fx/1910-13/ | Porn | Arts | 0.480901 |
wordpress | well done. you’ve cut precisely to the proverbial jugular of the issue. It’s not about being indignant or catching a cheater. It’s about public trust: it’s delicate, near-impossible to retrieve and utterly vital for socially responsible news reporting.
“Typo on Wikapedia?” I’m sorry, please never make a typo in a sentence about typos. It’s like a space-time rift of facepalming.
..don’ja just love the typos! Keeps us humble, usually with a smile on our faces. BTW, I think you are a little bit cocky, very bright and I love it! I’ll be watching you!
RIght on, Rachel. Don’t cut out your kidney though; you can get those paid gigs as you are.
Thanks, Taylor. Loved your SciAm post on the subject.
An interesting read, even though I have no idea who Lehrer is. I studied Journalism in England (I are English, geeza, after all) and, let me tell you, there’s no journalism work here. Certainly not paid. Best of luck, though, and keep at your writing. Maybe write a book, eh? Self publish and that. Anything for publicity. I once ate a jar of marmite in 10 seconds to try and impress my student peers. Didn’t work. Dang!
Thanks for blogging about Jonah Lehrer! He should be so ashamed of himself! Looking forward to seeing more from you.
Your words about how hard it is to get a job with the New Yorker made me think that he got arrogant and lost appreciation for what he had. A lot of people lose sight of their ethics when they get cocky. What a shame and it does undermine the trustworthiness of the news. It’s like my belief about sports now. Lance Armstrong was the last straw for me. When someone starts breaking records anymore my thought is now what is he taking? It’s a shame.
Half of our political system is living within its own quasi-reality, picking and choosing facts. Journalistic integrity matters more than ever.
… not just Personally; that should be an affront to every scientist, or just anyone partial to the facts.
Lehrer pisses everyone off, not just science journos.
You are awesome! even though I have not heard of Jonah Lehrer. I really felt the closeness between you and Jonah( whether you love or hate him) . It is good to know that a lot of them play into what works not only mainstream. I love this quote from you “always appreciated how good he was at playing into what the mainstream wanted to read.” I hope to read more from you. One can feel your energy your passion and most importantly you are freshly pressed. We can also talk about science too.
Being “infamous” in America also often pays off. Many former journalists that were caught doing what Lehrer did usually go on to write a book about it followed by more books and lucrative publishing contracts.
By becoming infamous, they are now a better known public figure. Not everyone in America and/or the world values honesty and integrity. Instead, there are many people who make the Lehrers of the world their personal heroes and role models.
For example, this is the first time I’ve heard of Lehrer. Now, because of his plagiarism and fabricated quotes, I know who he is but I’m sure I will never buy or read one of his former or future books.
Lehrer may never get a job in the media again but a traditional publisher will still publish his books if there is an audience for them. Now, Lehrer gets to stay home and get paid to write. A dream job with no boss.
America even has a powerful conservative political group known as neoconservatives that believe it is okay to lie and they call those lies “noble”. When G. W. Bush was president, neoconservatives had a lot of influence in the White House. | 2019-04-24T14:24:16Z | https://racheldoesscience.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/say-it-to-my-face-jonah-lehrer/ | Porn | News | 0.145707 |
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