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cnn | WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, April 29) -- In videotaped testimony at the White House, President Bill Clinton has denied that he pressured an Arkansas lender to make a $300,000 loan to one of Clinton's Whitewater business partners.
Although Clinton's Sunday afternoon testimony has been sealed for 30 days and a Whitewater jury in Little Rock won't see it for at least a week, a source told Associated Press that Clinton reiterated his previous denials during 3 1/2 hours of questions and answers.
The key prosecution witness in the case, David Hale, has claimed that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Mrs. McDougal.
Clinton, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, was called as a defense witness in the tangled Whitewater case. He was subpoenaed by lawyers for James and Susan McDougal, his partners in the 1980s Whitewater land deal. The McDougals and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker are accused of misusing $3 million in government-backed loans and face a 21-count indictment.
"I'm very satisfied with the proceedings today," McDougal told AP, as he left the White House after sitting in on the closed-door proceedings.
U.S. District Judge George Howard viewed the proceedings from Little Rock via satellite, the video signal scrambled to prevent an intercept by TV news crews or others.
The administration says it has no objection to a transcript of Clinton's testimony being made public, but does not believe the videotape should become grist for Republican campaign commercials. One Republican strategist, however, has talked about going to court to force release of the tape.
Clinton is not the first sitting president to testify in a criminal trial. Former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter both did so.
Meanwhile, Newsweek magazine has reported that the FBI has found Hillary Rodham Clinton's fingerprints on a set of Rose law firm billing records that were missing for two years.
The papers were found in the White House last summer after congressional investigators had looked for them for several months.
How many articles from each of the above areas? | 2019-04-23T18:16:24Z | http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9604/29/clinton.testimony/index.shtml | Porn | News | 0.895351 |
wordpress | Good blogs have focus. Good blogs have a mission statement and consistent deliverables. You know what to expect from good blogs, and you are rarely dissatisfied. Sorry, this isn’t a good blog.
I’m now a 21-year-old senior in college in Washington, DC. I was born and raised up in a former fishing village for immigrant Slavonian fishermen and Scandinavian farmers in Washington State.
But please don’t get the wrong impression: I’m neither a fisher nor a farmer. Practical skills are not my specialty. I am a nerd and try to be an athlete. I masqueraded as a musician, and I had a stint as a teacher. I’m a brother to three, a cousin to eleven, and a roommate to three.
If you are often annoyed or turned off by blogs–by the implicit suggestion that I think I often have something interesting to say and feel the need to publish it online, you are not alone. If that is you, then you may click out of this tab right now, because I am guilty as charged.
To tell the truth, I felt the same way about non-expert bloggers for a long time. But recently, I changed my mind. I decided that I want to spend more time putting my thoughts into words; more time creating. This blog will be an outlet to write and an encouragement to live an interesting, reflective life so that reading my posts does not remind you of watching CSPAN. So far, I have found that writing for an audience, no matter how small, is much more interesting and vulnerable than writing for just myself.
This site will wind and meander through music, some books, some life questions, and some completely random ideas. I’m OK with that lack of strict direction, because I believe wandering is the most important single thing to do in your twenties.
When I am a fortysomething or sixtysomething, I will look back and wonder how I became the person that I am. This blog may provide some clues to solve that puzzle. And I hope it also motivates you to keep searching for who you are, what you believe, and how you want to live.
So please look around, explore the archives of the site, and most of all, leave a comment. If you have never before left a comment on a blog, today is a great day to start. Welcome to not just wandering. | 2019-04-26T04:07:48Z | https://notjustwandering.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.432942 |
cnn | Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has made a big breakthrough in its campaign to buy biotech firm Shire -- but its investors are getting worried.
Takeda (TKPHF) has raised its bid for Dublin-based Shire (SHPG) to £46 billion ($64.3 billion). It's the fifth attempt by the Japanese company to win over Shire's board -- and it finally seems to have worked.
Shire said in a statement that its board would be willing to recommend the offer to the company's shareholders, providing certain conditions are met. If the two sides reach a formal deal, it would be the biggest takeover on the planet so far this year.
Takeda investors, however, reacted badly to the increased bid, which is up from the £42.9 billion ($60 billion) the company offered previously.
The company's shares dropped 7% in Tokyo trading on Wednesday. And that's just the latest hit: they're down about 20% since Takeda first revealed it was considering an approach for Shire just under a month ago.
Takeda's pursuit has given a lift to Shire's stock, which climbed more than 3% in London trading on Tuesday. It has gained 33% in slightly less than a month.
The companies say they have a deadline of May 8 to reach a full deal.
Analysts say Takeda is eager to acquire Shire in order to boost its global presence and get hold of its portfolio of rare disease medicines, which have high profit margins.
Shire's main markets are in the United States, China and Japan, according to financial data provider FactSet. Most of its employees are in the United States.
Takeda's bestselling drugs include ones that treat metabolic diseases, cancer and cardiovascular problems.
If the deal for Shire goes through at its current value, it would be the biggest so far this year, according to data from Dealogic. It would also be the third biggest acquisition of a UK-traded company in history.
Shire also drew interest last week from another big pharma company, Allergan (AGN), which said Thursday that it was "in the early stages of considering a possible offer for Shire." After its shares plunged, Allergan announced that it did not intend to make an offer.
-- Jethro Mullen and Alanna Petroff contributed to this report. | 2019-04-18T16:33:31Z | https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/24/investing/shire-takeda-pharmaceuticals-stock/index.html | Porn | Business | 0.817314 |
wordpress | When L and I went to Napa, we wanted to go to two vineyards. We had limited time and also, let’s be honest — after 3 vineyards (unless you’re spitting it out), you can’t taste the difference.
Or at least my taste buds are fried after 3. So in that spirit, we only went to two.
The first was called Stag’s Leap (not to be confused with Stags’ Leap). I hated it. Their Merlot was good and their Cabernet was even better. But it was their attitude that was severely lacking. I felt like I was imposing on their “chat fest” by visiting. I thought they were rude and pretentious. Plus, they had no crackers or bread to help cleanse the palette. What’s up with that? It was too bad because while they make good wine, I’ll never order it again. Oh, and on my flight back — I ended up talking to the couple next to me (and they were with the couple behind me) — we all concurred that this was the worst vineyard in Napa because of their attitude.
The second was fantastic — Mumm Napa. Yummy! Besides the outstanding view of the mountains, we sat outside and were greeted by extremely warm and friendly people. They gave us this small plastic container of crackers. When we ordered, they explained a little bit about each sparkling wine (they can’t call it champagne). It was truly a fantastic experience and a place I’d highly recommend.
The next time I go to Napa (ha ha, hear that L…I’m looking forward to visiting again!), I want to hit Hess. I’ve enjoyed Hess for seven years (at least). I’ve noticed since I first started drinking it, it’s much more widely available.
Finally, L said the best view of Napa was at Rutherford Vineyard. It was pretty spectacular.
And again, I’m no sommelier, but I do think it’s fun!
I went to Napa during my trip to the San Francisco area. I’ll talk about the vineyards we visited later, but for now, the food.
Holy cow folks, was Taylor’s Refresher amazing. I can see why they won the James Beard Award last year.
Food: I’ll start with the bad. The Ahi Tuna burger I got was bad. It was soggy. Quite discouraging though as it was supposed to be fantastic. My colleague/friend, when I reported back (it was her recommendation to go), said I should have returned it. I probably should have. Anyway, the rest of the meal was amazing. L ordered fish tacos. I should preface the rest of the food we ordered by telling you that yet again, we hadn’t had lunch so this was lupper (or linner). We got an order of onion rings, sweet potato fries, and a chocolate shake — and I think they were the best I’ve ever had. The onion rings were amazing — I don’t know how they were able to keep the onions inside when you bite them. Most of the time, the onions come out of the ring. The sweet potato fries were crispy and tasty. The chocolate shake was thick and creamy.
Service: I lost the bet with L. For some reason, I thought you could eat inside. You can’t. You order at a window.
Atmosphere: It’s all picnic tables outside and it’s beautiful. We went on a Friday evening (around 6/7 PM) and I think we met all the children of Napa-area. It seemed like it was a hangout for parents and kids. It’s super casual with fantastic food.
Overall: I will absolutely make sure to come back (but will get a burger, not Ahi Tuna next time)! I am already craving the sweet potato fries, onion rings, and chocolate shake. Too bad it’s on the other coast!
Reservation not accepted (it’s picnic tables for crying out loud!). | 2019-04-18T11:00:52Z | https://whereindc.wordpress.com/category/location/napa-valley-ca/ | Porn | News | 0.083071 |
allaboutspike | Summary: Just wishful thinking on my part.
Buffy negotiated the maze that was the basement of Sunnydale High School. She'd worked out a system. You had to memorize "landmarks" as you went. They'd be different next time she came down here, but remembering a particular filing cabinet, packing crate or stack of unused student desks would help in finding her way back.
She hadn't been down here since the previous Friday, when she'd come to ask Spike if he knew anything about the threat hanging over Cassie Newton's head. He hadn't known anything useful, but he had come through for her when it mattered.
"Spike? Are you here?" She called out to him again. She wouldn't find him if he didn't want to be found. That much was clear. The basement was never the same twice, and it concealed him when he wasn't feeling up to facing visitors.
She rounded a corner and found him, crouched between two packing crates, mumbling in a voice too low for her to make out the words. His bleached blonde hair stood out in the shadows of his makeshift lair. His clothing was black, a ragged shirt with a torn sleeve; dusty, black jeans. His face was turned down so he didn't have to see her.
"Spike, there you are. How's it going?" she said, settling down on the floor to sit cross-legged just outside the nook where he crouched.
He glanced up at her, but seemed to wince when he saw her. His face went back down and a hand came up to hold the top of his head as if he were afraid his brain would burst forth through his scalp.
"St. Alphage," he mumbled, "by the Wall. Not open anymore. People went away. They didn't care anymore. Couldn't keep the place up."
"I was thinking about something I said to you last week," Buffy said haltingly. "I said I thought it was worse when I was with you. But I don't think that's true. Or, at least, I don't know it's true. I don't know what it's like for you when I'm not around. It's just that you seem ... disturbed when I'm here. I thought maybe I was causing it."
"All Hallows, Lombard Street. They tore it down. Used the bits to build the one in North Twickenham. It's gone now."
"But you asked me to stay with you. I couldn't really do it right then, you know. I was trying to save Cassie -- the girl. You helped -- but it didn't help. Tried my best, and so did you, but she died anyway."
"St. Albans on Wood Street. It burnt out when the bombs came. Wasn't the first time. Burnt in the Great Fire too. But this time they didn't put it back up. Just the tower now."
Buffy could hear the words, sitting this close to him, but she wasn't getting any sense from them. He'd been so sharp. His words could cut like razors. He'd look at her and see the truth, no matter what fa�ade she put up to hide herself. Now the words just tumbled out and scattered -- no sense, no purpose. He was just making sounds. He was disheveled, dirty, unwashed. Spike had always attended to his hygiene. It hurt to see him this way.
"I wish I knew what to say to you to make you better. I'm supposed to do that, you know. It's my job. Listen to the students, talk to them and make them better. But I don't have a clue. They come and talk to me and I'm never sure whether they're baring their souls or scamming me. I don't have your ability to see through people. So I just sit there and listen and try to look like I care. I think I care. I want to care..."
"St. Giles, Cripplegate. Bombs got that one too. Germans rained fire. And St. Giles was no more."
"I'm afraid sometimes. I'm afraid I'm not up to this. I'm afraid I can't really help -- I'm just mucking around. I think, why are these young people coming to me? What could I possibly offer them? I'm not that much older than they are. It's not like I'm this wonderful success story for them to copy. What the hell am I doing here?"
"St Ethelberga the Virgin in Bishopsgate. Bomb got that one too, but not in the war. Only a little while ago."
"I wonder if you can even hear me?" Buffy said sadly.
Buffy startled. He was looking straight at her, his blue eyes wide and intense.
"What do you want?" he said, his voice angry.
"I don't need any help right now. But thanks."
"I... I thought you might like some company."
The fire drained out of his eyes and his head sank back down. The hand came back up to grasp the top of his skull.
"If I'm bothering you, I'll go," Buffy said in a tiny voice.
"The oranges and lemons. You have to have both. Can't do with just one."
"Right, oranges *and* lemons. I'll remember that."
"When will you pay me?"
Something about that rang a bell.
"Oranges and lemons," Buffy repeated. "Ring the bells of St. Clemens."
Spike nodded in satisfaction. "Old father bald pate."
"Ring the bells at Aldgate. It's a nursery rhyme. I remember that. When will you pay me, ring the bells at Old Bailey. When I am rich, ring the bells at Fleetditch." Buffy smiled, pleased to have cracked the puzzle.
"You're talking about churches, aren't you?"
"Remembering the ones that ain't there. Somebody has to remember. Gone. Nobody prays there. Nobody's saved."
"Churches you remember from when you were alive..."
"St Mary Aldermanbury. Nothing but rubble."
"Spike... is it better or worse for you when I'm here? Because if I'm making it worse, I can go away."
"Not worse," he said, his hand rubbing the top of his head.
"Good. Because I don't want to make it worse for you." Her voice wavered as her throat tightened. "If I could make it better, I would."
She wanted to reach out and touch his face, but she remembered how he'd flinched away when she tried to touch him back at the church. Her hand started to move toward him, but she pulled it back. She fought back a sob. There was so much she wanted to say, but she knew that if she started saying the things on her mind, she'd be dredging up all the things that hurt him. She'd be talking to make herself feel better while pouring salt in all his wounds.
She looked away, the sight of his clear, blue eyes more than she could bear. But she looked back again -- she owed him that much. He deserved to be seen. He was holding out his hand to her.
She reached out and put her hand in his. His cool fingers closed around hers. They sat in silence for a little while, hand in hand, just looking at each other.
The grief that had overtaken her, the sense of loss, the feeling that he was beyond her reach and would never come back, flowed away. She could feel him here with her. He wasn't what he had been, and never would be again, but there was something else -- something nascent and innocent coming together where the vampire -- no man -- she had known had been.
"This is wrong," she whispered.
He cocked his head to the side to look at her, a gesture so reminiscent of the Spike she'd once known.
"You're comforting me. I came down here to see if I could comfort you."
"Yes. You're my light. I can see by you. Your radiance warms me. When you go, it's dark."
Buffy shook her head. "I don't see how you can see me that way, after all I've done."
"It's not what you've done. It's what you are."
"Are you going to come back to me?"
"I'm here. This is my place. I've always been here."
He let go of her hand and started to rub his head again.
"They're coming. You have to go now."
"I have to be here for them. You have to go."
"Spike, focus. Who is coming?"
Buffy startled back from the force of his voice. She scrambled to her feet.
"I'll help you fight them!"
He curled in on himself and turned around so his back was to her. He rocked, beginning to hum a tune she didn't recognize.
She put a hand on his shoulder, but he didn't react to it. It didn't seem like he knew she was there anymore.
"Spike, I'm going to come back. I won't leave you alone."
He rocked and hummed, oblivious to her.
"I want you beside me," she said softly. | 2019-04-22T06:32:51Z | http://allaboutspike.com/plainfic.html?id=339 | Porn | Reference | 0.274329 |
yahoo | Can you watch dvds on an xbox one?
What is the order of the marvel movies that i should watch them in?
so as recently as last year i became a marvel fan and i only saw a couple of marvel movies and i want to see them all but in order and i want to watch them in time order and not by the year they came out in so does anybody know the timeline order of the movies i should watch them in.
I know i have been saying alot but i mean it i really hate everybody?
i really hate everybody including my parents.everybody treats me like garbage and i hate everybody that exists on this planet and i wish i was never born. i really hate everybody i know ive said it in a couple questions on here but i mean it i really do hate everybody.
I really hate everybody still they are ******* idiots?
again at school today people were passing by me but way too close and i was trying to go around this group of three guys in the halls and they kept cutting me off and blocking my path past them.also ones of them pushed the other one and they almost bumped into me and knocked me down. i really hate people i really cant stand them anymore. everybody just pisses me off and annoys me and i hate people so much. i cant stand people anymore i hate every single f***ing person. i dont want to marry anyone at all and have kids with anyone because i hate everybody. im done with life and i hate my life. why do people have to be so mean to me and make me miserable. i am so done with people i hate everybody and i want to just lock myself in my room away from people and be antisocial and i dont care because i hate everybody.i hate girls and guys, i hate my friends and other students at my school and i hate my teachers.
How come the 4 episodes of loud house from march are not on the nickelodeon app is there anyway i could watch them?
What are some good ways to lose fat from food or stay skinny like i am?
I feel like i was born as a mistake?
the reason why i say that is i am a boy but i feel like i was really meant to be a girl because i am always acting like a girl and putting my hands on my hips and doing the girl hand motions. i mean it could jut be a coincidence since i have mainly all girl cousins and only one boy cousin on my dads side but im not really sure i am really conflicted on what the reason for it could be.
If i have dark thoughts of wanting to kill or hurt someone that means hell right?
Does pokemon lets go eevee and pikachu work on the regular nintendo switch or just the pokemon lets eevee and pikachu nintendo switch?
I am so stressing out right now?
so today i told my friend that i didnt want to be friends with her anymore and now i am stressing out that she is gonna tell my teacher and my teacher is gonna try and make us become friends again but i dont want to because i dont want to be her friend anymore she is really annoying and i hate her so much which is why i no longer wanted to be friends with her. im crying because i dont want someone to force me to be friends with her if i dont want to be friends with her anymore.
Is it weird that i dont feel attracted to either guys or girls?
I think my friend still has feelings for me beause she still does things that look like she does what should i do?
so i think my friend might still have feelings for me after i told her i dont and never will feel the same way about her because i just see her as a friend and thats the truth and ever since then she has still been doing things that make me think she still does and it makes me upset because it makes me feel likes she does not care that i dont feel the same way about her and still wants to feel the same way about me even though i dont. i am gonna be completely honest and say that i never see us in the future being together or having kids together and i dont want her to think we will ever be together or have kids cause we will not i only see her as a friend and thats the truth. i dont see her at all in my future. also i really have never liked her at all as friend either. ever since we both started becoming friends at the beginning of the year i have been annoyed with her and hated her and have only just been sucking it up and being nice to her. i really dont like like her and i dont like her as a friend either. what should i do because i want to be free to like other girls but i dont want her to ruin my life or chances with another girl at all in the future.
Which one of these books should i read on my kindle?
What should i do because i am really starting to get pissed off by my friend?
so there is this girl who i just see as a friend and she told me she like liked me and i handle it nicely and told her i just want to be friends and i dont and never will feel that way about her. now i am afraid she does still and is gonna get jealous when she sees me with another girl and ruin my chances with that girl and any other girl. i dont want her to do that because i made it obvious i dont feel that way about her and never will. i dont also want her to be single because we did not end up dating and get upset and not want to be with anyone else but me even though i told her i dont like like her like that. i clearly am not into her and i dont want her ruining my chances with another girl because she still has feelings for me and will get jealous when shes me with another girl and tries to ruin my chances with that other girl. like there are other fish in the sea that she could find i dont know why she has to be obssessed with me after i told her i dont and never will be together. i clearly dont see us being together in the future ever. what should i do?
Anybody know when supernatural season 14 will be on netflix and also when legacies will be on netflix?
I am really worried right now and feel like everybody believes the lie and not the truth what should i do about it?
so in February my friend who i just liked as a friend told me she like liked me and i handled it at first nicely telling her i just want to be friends with her because i just liked her as a friend and then we agreed on being friends. Thats where i should have just stopped but i didnt i ended up lying and telling her i was gay. Later on i decided for some stupid reason to go along with my own lie which again is a lie because i am into girls and not into other guys. I then told all my friends my lie that i was gay and they all believed me and then as recently as this Tuesday my one friend took my lie way to far and hooked me up with a gay guy from another high school she is friends with. When he started calling me hun and cute thats when i felt like i had to tell the truth cause i did not mean for my lie about being gay to go this far. So i told the guy i wasnt gay and was just lying because i panicked and told my friend who said she like liked me that i was gay. Then i told my friends the truth i was just lying about being gay because there are some girls i just like as friends and some girls i like as more than friends. Now i feel like my friends instead of believing the truth about me actually being straight or whatever the word is for liking girls is a lie even though its the truth and that im actually gay and just lying about liking girls. I regret lying about being gay and wish i can take it all back but i cant. i have always liked girls my entire life always have/will.
Should i just have a secret crush on her?
so my teacher at my high school has a daughter who is a freshman at my school and i find her very hot and i have a serious crush on her like thats all i can think about is her and obviously i am 19. so should i just have a crush on her since obviously she is way younger than me and im way too old for her. | 2019-04-21T04:29:46Z | https://au.answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=PFJ7NADXPQ7BJNXKQEEV6KTYIM&t=g | Porn | Health | 0.291054 |
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wordpress | When my friend Lauren was moving and we were helping them pack, Adam and I ended up taking quite a few things home. One of the things that I got was this awesome frame.
I had a couple ideas for what to do with it, but could not find any helpful tutorials on Pinterest or through a Google search, so I used my own ideas and created, what I think, is something awesome! And now there’s a tutorial for you to use.
These are all the supplies I used in addition to the frame.
2 yards of fabric, a hammer, some nails, a stapler, wire cutters, wire, and clothes pins. I think of everything I had to buy I spent $10.
The first thing I did was put three nails on each side of the frame (on the back of the frame) at equal distances.
Then, I wrapped the wire around the nail, stretched it across, and wrapped it around the other nail, so it looked something like this.
It’s kinda hard to see the wires here, but if you look closely you should see them. Then, just to be safe and to ensure that the wire didn’t slide off the nail, I hot glued over the top of the nail so there would be no sliding.
The next thing I did was staple the fabric to the back of the frame.
Then, again to be safe, I hot glued on top of the staples to make sure the fabric would not fray around the staples.
I wanted this to be like a clothesline for pictures. So you can hang a bunch of little pictures using clothespins on each wire, or, I decided to put one big picture up for the time being. Here is the finished product.
I did not get a chance to blog yesterday because I was in the car for 12 hours driving back from Illinois. And boy was I worn out!
Today, I have an itch to craft! I have been scouring my pinterest boards for the past month looking for a fun craft to do. I have not had much luck. How can it be so hard to find a craft? Well let me tell you.
1-I have next to no wall space left in our apartment. Just about every space is filled with a photo or a canvas or something.
2-I cannot make any more blankets, hats, or scarves, Adam and I both have more than we can use.
4-It needs to be relatively inexpensive. I’m not made of money.
After doing some more looking I found a couple ideas that interest me, but some seem expensive, and some just seem like I would be adding clutter to my house. So I would love to hear your ideas. Have you found a great craft that you’d like to share? Because I want to see it!
i did the coolest thing ever!
i did the coolest thing ever this weekend! want to see?
1 vinyl tablecloth, paintbrush, scissors, masking tape, chalboard paint. These things are going to be an awesome table runner!
first thing I did was tape out my table runner, which you can see in the above picture.
Next, I started painting on the tablecloth with the chalkboard paint.
I painted over the masking tape and did three coats. Once it was dry, I cut around the edge of the masking tape.
And then I peeled off the tape.
Then, you are supposed to condition the paint by rubbing a piece of chalk over it and then erasing it. Here is the completed table runner. I am so thrilled with how it turned out!
My next great idea: painting the top of my coffee table with chalkboard paint so we can keep score on the table when playing games! Wouldn’t that be awesome!
These are some crafts that I am dying to try. I got them off pinterest, but if you click on the photos it will take you to the website where they came from so I can give these wonderfully crafty people the credit they deserve.
Since crocheting is a craft that I can do that doesn’t hurt my shoulder I have been searching pinterest for fun crochet things to do. I found this awesome scarf and thought of one of my best friends, so it is on my to-do list to make one for her, and hopefully it turns out as cute as this!
Doesn’t this blanket look super wonderful and cozy? I think so! So, after I get the money for the yarn and a bigger crochet hook I am going to tackle this beautiful blanket.
I think that this idea is super fun. I don’t really need an end table, so if I made this I do not know where I would put it, but I would have to figure something out because it is just stinkin cute!
I love this thing, and I think it would be really easy to make! I’m thinking a old cookie sheet, some magnets and scrapbook paper. This one probably won’tget made for a while, but I think it is really cute and would probably help me be more organized.
I really love this table runner and have for a while. My parents just gave us a table that looks almost exactly like this and I am dying to try this! I have some of my great-grandmother’s handmade doilies, and since my doilie skills still need some work, I jsut need more of them to finish this. Anyone know where I can get some doilies?
What’s on your craft to-do list?
The only current craft I have going right now I have been working on for almost a year now, and I’m sad to say that this one might be the first one that I don’t finish.
The whole time I have been working this has been my goal. Look how nice and fluffy and soft it looks. And then I read the tutorial and I thought “oh that’s easy.” WRONG! It’s so hard!
First, you have to have enough t-shirt strips to cover the entire rug. Each strip is about 1-inch wide and 4-inches long. Let me tell you right now, that’s a lot of cutting. I have so far cut up about 15 Hanes white T’s and I’m not even close to having enough!
That’s probably because when I go for something, I go wayyyy too far. When I first started and bought my latch hook canvas I bought way too much. When I opened the package I had double the amount that I actually needed. So once I cut that in half I had a canvas of about 20 squares by 20 squares.
So you see that blue line making a square with a bunch of little squares in it? So twenty of the blue squares by 20 of the blue squares. So that’s a total of 400 big squares and each big square has 100 little squares. The tutorial said to put a strip on every other little square. On my canvas, being how huge it is, that’s 20,000 strips of t-shirt!! But did I try and figure this out before I started? No. I figured this out after finishing about 10 blue squares. And that is when I cut it in half, so now I’m only dealing with 200 blue squares and 10,000 strips of t-shirt. Honestly, by the end of this, I’ll be lucky if I have the energy to make a bath mat sized rug.
Now, the process itself is not that easy, it’s not just the size of the project, it’s the actual process and the time that it takes to do it. 1-do you know how long it has taken me to cut the 4,500 strips of t-shirt that I have? Probably about 20 tv shows. After cutting that many t-shirts and only being halfway toward my goal I decided to start making the rug with the strips I had. Easier said than done.
You’re basically just making a knot.
So, needless to say, I have like 8-10 blue squares done out of 200.
I need some motivation or this is never getting done. As we speak, the whole project is in a bag hidden in my office because I’m too annoyed to even look at it.
Did you ever have a project that you thought would never get done?
Anyone want to have a latch hook party to help me finish?
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wordpress | Interview with the designers of Belfort!
Jeff Temple, who has teamed up with the infamous board game reviewer Ender Wiggins (seriously – have you seen their reviews? They’re extremely thorough to say the least. Examples here.) has interviewed the also infamous duo known as Sen and Jay!
Check out the interview and also the link within the interview that takes you to a 10 minute Youtube video of Sen and I explaining and showing some prototype examples of the history of how Belfort came to be! This was a great interview for us – thanks Jeff!
Belfort is currently, as of this writing, the 5th hottest game in the Hotness List on boardgamegeek.com! This is just a fluctuating list that tracks which games have the most activity on their pages. Lots of people are interested apparently. Not only that, but on the people side of the Hotness List, both Sen and I are hot. For some strange reason, Sen is hotter than I am!
On June 1st, Belfort was at the Printers being printed! We’ve been told that it takes 28 days to get everything printed and fully boxed. Then it gets placed on a boat and is shipped to America, and that takes another 30 days. That means Belfort should hit America around August 1st. Some time will be needed for it to get to the distributors and then even more time to get it up to Canada for our Canadian readers out there. Still, we’re expecting to have it in our hands sometime in August!
If you can’t wait that long for a taste of Belfort then, you can check out the final rules with all the amazing art from Josh Cappel. They are posted on the new Tasty Minstrel website (which is much more functional than their last site!): http://playtmg.com/products/belfort. If you’ve been interested in the game but wanted to know how it works, then give them a read!
Pre-orders for Belfort – even for Canadians!
These rates are non-negotiable. They are as low as I can afford to make them, and I will continue to learn about how to get better rates.
These rates do not include any import taxes or duties imposed by your home country.
I will not make any adjustments to the stated value of the games to help you avoid those import taxes or duties. You will need to address that through the political process afforded in your home country.
Yes, you can combine orders of multiple games from multiple people for combined shipping costs. Up to 25 pounds.
Sen and I have finished the script for a promo video to help promote the game and now we’re in the process of getting it animated as it will only feature real people at the end when it zooms out to show people playing the game. Of course we’ll be sharing it here as soon as it’s done – which might even be a bit after the game launches.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve partnered up with Tim Reniert to write comic books. We’ve written a bunch of scripts already, but the first one we’ve commissioned an artist to draw is a story set in the world of Belfort. We found an amazing artist, Rob Lundy, who has gone above and beyond our expectations for this story. We’ve seen some rough layouts and are excited about how it’s coming together. We’ll be sharing more as we progress, but for now, here’s some character art for our two main characters in the story.
We’re very excited about this game. As excited as we were for our first game, Train of Thought, I would say that I am twice as excited for this one. Belfort is the kind of game I like to play – the gamery game! We’re in the home stretch now!
This is one of the most frustrating steps of game design: waiting for a publisher to playtest your game. Getting a publisher to agree to take a look at your game is a big step, and now you have to wait…and wait…and wait, until you hear back from them.
So what can a designer do to lessen the wait period?
The number one thing you can do is to set the expectations at the beginning. As designers we get very excited when a publisher shows interest in our game and we often let some things slide. When you’re handing over your prototype over to a publisher, ask them how long they’d like to have it to review. A 2-3 month window should be ample time for a publisher to playtest your game. A great way to bring this up is to ask them how long they’d like to have exclusivity rights to the prototype. This means that you won’t show your game to any other publisher for this period. Some publishers will let you know immediately that they don’t care if you show it to other publishers – which is great for you as you can start showing other publishers right away. Make sure you let the new publisher that your game is already being reviewed by another publisher. It’s very important to be transparent here as your reputation is on the line. If a publisher spends a couple weeks playtesting your game, only to find out that another publisher wants to make it, then they’re not going to like you too much and they won’t want to see any more of your games in the future.
Unfortunately sometimes we aren’t this adamant in our initial discussion with a publisher and now they have the game and you’re left wondering when they’re going to play it. Eventually you’re going to get to a point when you’re going to have to contact them again, but watch out – there’s a fine line between following up and becoming a nuisance!
Hi , I’m just following up on , the game that I designed and sent to you . We met at and after showing you a sample round, you expressed some interest in playtesting it with your game group. Have you had a chance to give the game a try yet? I’m confident that would be a great fit for because .
Sometimes you’ll get a response and sometimes you won’t. When you do, they usually will say that they haven’t had time and will give you an idea about when they’re getting together with their playtest group again. If they don’t respond, well – that can be frustrating. My recommendation is to wait another couple weeks and send another email. It’s very possible that they meant to respond but it slipped off their to-do list. For this second email, it might be a good time to start setting an end date if one wasn’t agreed upon up front.
Hi , I’m following up again to see if you have had a chance to playtest yet. I am confident that my game would be a perfect fit for your company, but if you’re not interested, please let me know so I can continue to shop it around.
If you still don’t get a response then the third email would usually have a specific end date mentioned. Then at the time specified, let the publisher know you would like the prototype shipped back to you. Don’t make it sound mean – just keep it all business-like.
But the one thing you should be doing while you’re waiting to hear back from a publisher: create more games! If you’re serious about board game design, then you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket! Start working on your next design. The ultimate goal is to have a game in many different stages, so you’re always working on something at each stage. | 2019-04-26T12:27:03Z | https://inspirationtopublication.wordpress.com/2011/06/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.07323 |
wordpress | This post is for my first assignment in Photo 101. The task for me today is convey the theme of “Home,” I saw the Photo 101 post and thought it would be something I could learn from. I will post a new image every day for 30 days, and hopefully gain knowledge, tips, and ideas along the way. Plus, it will be cool to meet others that share the same passion I do. 🙂 If you are reading this, join the group!
I’ve lived in the same area of Central Florida my entire life. Being from here, I know the back roads as well as the tourist spots.. I’ve seen dirt roads turn into 4 lane means of travel, and stop signs turn into stop lights every 1/2 mile on the main road. It’s crazy. We are surrounded by water, both salt and fresh, My playground is a wildlife refuge, and I cherish it as much as the air I breathe.
I will show you all of it. And you will love it too, I promise. But I have to go home to leave home, right? Right. 🙂 So let’s post today’s assignment.
Allow me to introduce you to Johnny. I got off work this afternoon, and with the recent cold spell we had this weekend, he decided to surprise me with Cabbage Rolls.
This is home to me. As soon as we eat, maybe we can run out to the refuge. | 2019-04-26T10:38:10Z | https://krosscourt.wordpress.com/category/lucky/ | Porn | Home | 0.858315 |
livejournal | Or, in plain English, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Without the writers, there are no stories. WIthout the stories, there is no raw material. Nothing left to publish. Nothing to see here, folks, just sit back and watch the tumbleweeds. But the people whose jobs involve getting those stories to those who wish to enjoy them are quite simply taking an unholy advantage in the fact that they think there will always be more patsies... er, new writers... waiting in the wings to take over if anyone they already have in hand falls by the wayside, so it's perfectly fine when those people DO fall, usually through no fault fo their own but through a lack of support in terms of marketing and publicity (mention publicity to any mid-lister, and be prepared for the howls that follow...) and distribution.
Look, I know we can't all be bestsellers. I understand that completely. I just don't think that the industry which is supposed to be taking care of this business knows that. Because they seem to be stuck in a world where there is a single switch - EITHER you are an instant bestseller OR you're out, over there on the slag heap please, now, and would the next person who MIGHT be the next big thing step right up to the guillotine, please?
Readers, I am talking to you. If the writers are the bedrock of this industry, only you can provide the necessary support for them - they cannot rely on the industry whose only motive, these days, seems to be squabbling about how much money THEY can make off of the books that they handle. Readers, I am talking to you.
IF YOU LIKE IT, SHOUT ABOUT IT. Talk about it. Love a book? Buy a copy for a friend who may not have read it. Or get the friend to buy it for themselves. Play games - get a friend to promise to buy a copy and to get another friend to buy a copy and THAT friend gets to get a friend to buy a copy, and... things snowball from there. But it starts with a single person, a single voice, a single reader who loved a story. IF YOU LIKE IT, SHOUT ABOUT IT. Have you posted a review of your favourite book by your favourite author? (somewhere - anywhere - Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, your blog, SOMEWHERE, just DO IT...) How many of your friends know about a particular author because of you? How many have become fellow fans, because of you? How many of their friends?
START AN AVALANCHE. Start one now. Tell people about the fact that the last book in a trilogy has been dynamited by a publishing industry squabble, and then go out and find Stephanie's books. Go out and find a few of mine. Go pick your own favourite and spread the word. Just spread the word. Talk about us all behind our backs. The writers of this world will be grateful for it.
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wordpress | A real life example of the power of a Christian wife.
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Like the melody, though I can't stand vocals in techno. But I think that peace can only be achieved by forcing our way through the blanket of darkness in the world, not trying to talk it away.
Conscience of the existance and reconizing the blanket is half the work i quess.
whose speech is this ?
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wordpress | Yeah, this does NOT look like much of a lazy Sunday, and it wasn’t. My mom came in to town last night, so over the weekend I was busy with some home improvements.
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And now just makes me look at everything else that needs done now.
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wordpress | One year ago today I took the leap of faith and moved from California to Washington. I’d never lived in a state other than California, so this was a jump into the new. Even more shocking was the fact that I had nothing lined up out here. No job, my wife’s job transfer was still a maybe at best. But I did it anyway.
When I packed up the moving truck I didn’t even have enough gas money to get to Washington. I slept at a rest stop until my wife’s next paycheck came through and finished the trip the next day.
So why did I pick Washington? Well there is a number of reasons for that. The first was because I have wanted to move to Washington for some time, I’d come up here to test for a job years ago and loved it. The second was because it was cheaper to live here than in California but the jobs in my field paid around the same. And finally, it wasn’t so far away that having family visit would be financially impossible. Those were the main reasons.
But leaving a state you were a resident of for the first 32 years of your life is a big step. And like most things we do in life, lessons are learned. So, to go along with my one year anniversary in this state, I thought I’d share some of them. Some of these have to do with Washington itself, and some have more to do with making a move out of state.
1. The Traffic in Seattle is insane.
I learned real quick that one thing everyone in Seattle does is complain about the traffic, then we promptly go back out in that mess the next day. It is just what we do. And it amazes me that a state with so much rain would have so many drivers that have no clue how to drive in the weather. But if you mention that to a Washingtonian they’ll tell you it is because of all the people from California. Finally, any commuter that travels the I-5 knows about the Variable Speed Zones. I learned that when it says 60 MPH, it is really 50 MPH. 50 MPH means 40, and Any anything less than that means you’re stopping.
2. It doesn’t rain all the time, but there is always a chance.
Coming from California where there is such a major drought, I was ready for rain. Rainy weather is my absolute favorite weather and so this was the climate for me. Despite what people think, it doesn’t rain here every day. But if you check the weather there is always some percentage of a chance of rain. I never once saw it say 0% chance of rain. And the time of year doesn’t matter for the rain. But the great thing about it is rain never ruins anyone’s plans out here.
3. The Science Fiction and writing community is big out here.
Now I haven’t dived too much into this one. But I’ve noticed that a lot of writers have been following me on Twitter and Facebook that are from this area. Book shops are all around. And the library system is really good. This is something I hope to explore a bit more.
4. There is so much to explore.
There are something like 17 state parks within an hour drive from me. In the first year I think I’ve got to 10 of them. There are forests, beaches, lakes, and recreation facilities. Out door recreation not your thing? There are museums, architectural items, shopping, amusement parks, Pike Place Market, sporting events, and much more. Many things to do that are free or low cost. For example, $30 gets you unlimited yearly access to the Washington State Parks. And I just love all the rivers, lakes and water falls. And of course the sound is right there. I still haven’t been to so much of the stuff around here, I’m not sure I’ll run out anytime soon.
5. Your family and friends won’t visit as much as you think.
First off, my family and friends may take this as a jab a them, but it isn’t. As I mentioned above, I moved here because of a number of reasons, one being still pretty close to California. I am about 12 hours drive away, an hour and a half by plane. But there are other factors then travel time that play a role. Cost being one of them. The other is just time. When you’re around the corner people can drop in for a few hours to visit. But when you are twelve hours away, they need to block off a few days to do that. That isn’t always practical for everyone. The one annoyance I will say, your family will expect you to come visit them though. So far I’ve been asked to come to California for three separate trips in 2015.
6. Emergency Preparedness is important.
Sure, I admit this is true everywhere. But in California we don’t tend to take the threat of earthquakes very serious. And maybe Washingtonians in general are the same way with their storms, but as some one that moved to this state it opened my eyes to the need for emergency preparedness. For one, the storms take out the power all the time. Flooding is always a possibility. And there is the very real threat of volcanoes. I think the point here is that the change of perspective can open your eyes to the things you’ve taken for granted.
7. You can’t run from your problems.
I’ll admit that the thing that pushed me over the edge and made me move here was a run of bad luck with jobs in California. It hasn’t changed here. I, in no way, regret moving to Washington. But I have realized that a move will not fix the problems you have.
8. The world is a big place.
Travel is important, but actually taking roots in a new place is an eye opener. The world, and even different states, have different ways of doing things. You may not think they are all the best way, but seeing a new way to do things is good for anyone. It is important to expand your horizons and take risks. There are somethings that California does that I like better. But I am quickly finding there are things in Washington I like a lot more. And as I expand my travel locations, I am finding that there is a lot to see in this country and I hope to get to all of it. But it leads me to want to expand my view to a worldwide one. And I don’t see how that can be a bad thing.
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I’m glad you liked it. I’m even happier it helped.
Thanks for the tips on Washington. Are you in seattle. I am to make that leap of faith too. thanks again.
I am in the Seattle area. Good luck on your leap of faith. It has been a good choice for me.
I too am thinking of moving out to Olympia. Cost of living in Orange County,Ca is out of control. 1 bedroom apartments are at a whopping $1600 monthly. My husband loves the cold weather and I can transfer out there and keep my job. Hope to stop living paycheck to paycheck. Maybe this is the right move.
I am glad I did it. Thank you for reading. I hope you can find yourself a home here is Washington. | 2019-04-21T00:36:27Z | https://floresfactor.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/eight-things-ive-learned-since-moving-to-washington/ | Porn | News | 0.187693 |
wikipedia | For the Italian "comune", see Barolo, Piedmont.
Barolo, like most nebbiolo-based wines, is known for its light color and lack of opacity.
In the past, Barolo wines tended to be rich in tannin. It can take more than 10 years for the wine to soften and become ready for drinking. Fermenting wine sat on the grape skins for at least three weeks, extracting huge amounts of tannins and was then aged in large, wooden casks for years. In order to appeal to more modern international tastes, those that prefer fruitier, earlier-drinking wine styles, several producers began to cut fermentation times to a maximum of ten days and age the wine in new French oak barriques (small barrels). "Traditionalists" have argued that the wines produced in this way are not recognizable as Barolo and taste more of new oak than of wine. The controversies between traditionalists and modernists have been called the "Barolo wars", as depicted in Barolo Boys. The Story of a Revolution, a documentary film released in 2014.
Until recently it was believed that up to the mid-19th century, Barolo was a sweet wine. This was attributed to the fact that the nebbiolo grape ripens late in October meant that temperatures would be steadily dropping by harvest. By November and December, temperatures in the Piedmont region would be cold enough to halt fermentation, leaving a significant amount of residual sugar left in the wine. Another popular credence was that in the mid-19th century, Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, the mayor of Grinzane Cavour invited the French enologist Louis Oudart to the Barolo region to improve the winemaking techniques of the local producers. Using techniques focusing on improving the hygiene of the cellar, Oudart was able to ferment the nebbiolo must completely dry, making the first modern Barolo. This new, "dry" red wine soon became a favorite among the nobility of Turin and the ruling House of Savoy, giving rise to the popular description of Barolo as "the wine of kings, the king of wines".
The idea that Barolo was once a sweet wine and that it took a French oenologist to turn it into a dry wine has been recently challenged, based on new research, by Kerin O'Keefe. According to this revision of Barolo's history, Paolo Francesco Staglieno was responsible for the modern dry version. He was the author of a winemaking manual, Istruzione intorno al miglior metodo di fare e conservare i vini in Piemonte, published in 1835. It was Staglieno who was called upon by Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, who appointed him to the position of oenologist at his Grinzane estate between 1836 and 1841. Staglieno's task was to produce quality wines geared towards ageing and stable enough to be exported. Staglieno fermented the wines dry, something that at the time was referred to as "the Staglieno method". Oudart was a grape and wine merchant, not an oenologist, who in the early 1800s moved to Genoa and set up a winery, Maison Oudard et Bruché. By the time Oudart turned up in Alba, King Carlo Alberto and Cavour were already following Staglieno's guidelines and both were producing dry wines. This revised version of the history of Barolo was positively accepted by other experts.
By the mid-20th century, wine production in the Barolo zone was dominated by large negociants who purchased grapes and wines from across the zone and blended it into a house style. In the 1960s, individual proprietors began estate bottling and producing single vineyard wines from their holdings. By the 1980s, a wide range of single vineyard bottlings were available, which led to a discussion among the region's producers about the prospect of developing a Cru classification for the area's vineyards. The cataloging of Barolo's vineyards has a long history dating back to the work of Lorenzo Fantini in the late 19th century and Renato Ratti and Luigi Veronelli in the late 20th century, but as of 2009 there is still no official classification within the region. However, in 1980 the region as a whole was elevated to DOCG status. Along with Barbaresco and Brunello di Montalcino, Barolo was one of the first Italian wine regions to attain this designation.
In the 1970s and 1980s trends in the worldwide market favored fruitier, less tannic wines that could be consumed at a younger age. A group of Barolo producers, led by the house of Ceretto, Paolo Cordero di Montezemolo, Elio Altare, and Renato Ratti, started making more modern, international styles of Barolos by using shorter periods for maceration (days as opposed to weeks) and fermentation (usually 48–72 hours or at most 8–10 days), less time aging in new small oak barrels and an extended period of bottle aging prior to release. By using modern technology, including specialized tanks that allow the wine to be pumped out from underneath the cap of skins and then pumped over, they found ways to maximize color extraction and minimize harsh tannins. Prior to this "modernist" movement, nebbiolo was often harvested slightly unripe and at high yields, which left the grapes with harsh green tannins that had not had time to fully polymerize. To maximize color extraction, producers subjected the wine to extended periods of maceration, taking up to several weeks, and then several years aging in large oak casks to soften the wine. Through the long slow process of oxidation, the perception of tannins lessened (such as occurs when decanting wine), but the fruit would also fade and become oxidized. The decline in fruit would no longer be able to balance the remaining harsh tannins, leaving a bitter, astringent wine with withered fruit. To counter this change, some producers would blend in other grape varieties such as Arneis and Barbera to add color, fruit or softness to the wine.
Advances in viticulture have helped to bridge the gap between modern and traditional producers. Better canopy management and yield control have led to riper grapes being harvested earlier with more developed tannins in the grape skins. As of 2015[update], winemaking for both traditionalist and modernist Barolo producers includes strict hygiene controls and the use of some modern winemaking equipment such as temperature-control fermentation vessels. Rather than fall into one hardline camp or the other, many producers take a middle-ground approach that utilizes some modernist techniques along with traditional winemaking. In general, the traditional approach to nebbiolo involves long maceration periods of 20 to 30 days and the use of older large botti-size barrels. The modern approach to nebbiolo utilizes shorter maceration periods of 7 to 10 days and cooler fermentation temperatures between 82-86 °F (28-30 °C) that preserve fruit flavors and aromas. Towards the end of the fermentation period, winemakers often heat the cellars to encourage the start of malolactic fermentation, which softens some of nebbiolo's harsh acidity. Modern winemakers tend to favor smaller barrels of new oak that need only a couple years to soften the tannic grip of the wines. While new oak imparts notes of vanilla, it has the potential to cover up the characteristic rose notes of nebbiolo.
The Barolo zone is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of the Barbaresco zone with only the vineyards of Diano d'Alba planted with Dolcetto between the two nebbiolo strongholds. Compared to the Barbaresco zone, the Barolo zone is cooler and located on higher elevations, rising nearly 50 metres (160 ft) above Barbaresco. The harvest of the late ripening nebbiolo grape usually takes place in early to mid-October though some producers are experimenting with viticultural techniques that allow for an earlier harvest in late September. At harvest time, rains and downy mildew are two of the main hazards to worry about, along with early spring hail damage earlier in the growing season. Like most of south central and southeastern Piedmont, the zone experiences a continental climate tempered by the Tanaro river and its tributaries - the Tallòria dell'Annunziata and Tallòria di Castiglione - that split the region into three main zones. To the west of the Tallòria dell'Annunziata is the commune of Barolo and La Morra. To the east of the Tallòria di Castiglione is the commune of Serralunga d'Alba located on one of the highest hilltops in the Barolo zone. Separated by a narrow valley to the west is the commune Monforte d'Alba located in the Monforte hills. Further upstream north, located in the v-shape spur between the two tributaries is the commune of Castiglione Falletto.
Located among the Langhe hills, the Barolo zone is a collection of different mesoclimate, soil types, altitudes and expositions that can have a pronounced effect on the development of the nebbiolo grape and the resulting Barolo wine. Within the Barolo zone there are two major soil types separated by the Alba-Barolo road. Within the communes of Serralunga d'Alba and Monforte d'Alba is a compact, sandstone-based soil dating from the Helvetian epoch. In the Barolo and La Morra zone, the soils are similar to those found in the Barbaresco zone, dating from the Tortonian period, being composed of calcareous marl that is more compact and fertile. Throughout the Barolo zone there are clay deposits and soil with enough alkalinity to tame nebbiolo's naturally high acidity. In Jan 2007 Filippo Bartolotta indicated how a vertical tasting of Barolo, from 1985 to the present "showcased Barolo's longevity, intense aromatics, freshness, silk-and-cashmere tannins and also highlighted the considerable contrast between production zones".
Being dependent on a grape that is slow to ripen, global warming has had a beneficial influence on the Barolo zone. Theoretically, the increased temperatures of summer followed by mild autumns that promote misty fog that keeps the grapes from burning has helped to increase sugar levels and led to riper phenolic compounds such as tannins. To empirically link this to anthropogenic global warming is speculative. More likely, better vineyard management and winemaking techniques have contributed to a string of successful vintages for Barolo in the last 20 years.
The present day Barolo zone is located a little over 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southwest of Alba. While it is nearly 3 times the size of the nearby Barbaresco zone, it is still relatively small and is only 5 miles (8 km) wide at it widest point. In 1896, the Italian Ministry of Agriculture demarcated the Barolo production zone to include the communes of Barolo, La Morra, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d'Alba and the northern half of Monforte d'Alba. In 1909, the Agricultural Commission of Alba added the commune of Grinzane Cavour and parts of Novello and Verduno to the zone. When the region was designated as a Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) in 1966, parts of Cherasco, Diano d'Alba and Roddi were included with this delimitation of the Barolo zone staying unchanged through the zones promotion to DOCG in 1980. Despite these additions, over 87% of Barolo is produced in the original five communes of Barolo, La Morra, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d'Alba and Monforte d'Alba with Barolo and Castiglione Falletto considered the "heart" or unofficial "classico" areas of the zone. In addition to restrictions on yield and alcohol levels, to be labeled DOCG, a Barolo must have at least two years aging in oak and at least one year aging in the bottle prior to release. For wines labeled Barolo Riserva, five years of total aging is required with at least three of those years in oak.
The Barolo zone can be broadly divided into two valleys. The Serralunga Valley to the east includes the communes of Castiglione Falletto, Monforte d'Alba and Serralunga d'Alba. Planted with soils higher in sand, limestone, iron, phosphorus and potassium, the wines of Serralunga Valley tend to be austere and powerful and require significant aging (at least 12–15 years) to develop. The Central Valley to the west includes the communes of Barolo and La Morra with soils higher in clay, manganese and magnesium oxide. This region tends to produce wines with more perfumed aromas and velvety textures. These wines tend to be less tannic and full bodied than those from the Serralunga Valley and can require less aging (8 to 10 years). The most widely planted and productive region of the Barolo zone is La Morra, which is responsible for nearly a third of all wine labeled as Barolo and produces twice as much wine as the next leading zone of Serralunga d'Alba.
Since the late 19th century, efforts have been made to identify which vineyards in the Barolo zones produce the highest quality wine. Inspired by the prestige and high prices charged for Grand cru bottlings of Burgundy wine, Barolo producers began separating their holdings into individual vineyard lots and labeling the wines with these single vineyard designations. The practice became so extensive that some producers were doing single vineyard bottlings and charging high prices on all their holdings, regardless of whether the particular vineyard quality merited such a practice.
Led by prominent wine critic Luigi Veronelli, there was a push to have the vineyards of Barolo classified according to the quality of their produce. Winemaker Renato Ratti conducted an extensive study of the soils, geography and produce of vineyards throughout the area and mapped out individual plots based on their quality potential. The "Ratti Map" is still widely used by producers and negociants today. While there is no official designation of cru vineyard in the Barolo zone, both oral tradition and the history of high prices paid by negociants has elevated some vineyards to "cru" status in Barolo. In the commune of Barolo the Cannubi and Sarmassa are considered "cru" class as well as the Brunate vineyard shared with the commune of La Morra. Also in La Morra is the highly esteemed Cerequio and Rocche vineyards. In Castiglione Falletto is the Monprivato and Villero vineyards. The commune of Serralunga d'Alba is home to the esteemed vineyards of Lazzarito and Vigna Rionda while the commune of Monforte d'Alba is home to the Bussia, Ginestra and Santo Stefano di Perno vineyards.
In 2010 the Barolo Consorzio introduced the Menzioni Geografiche Aggiuntive (additional geographic mentions) also known as MEGA or subzones, after the Barbaresco Consorzio introduced them in 2007. 181 MEGA were officially delimited, of which 170 were vineyard areas and 11 were village designations. Following the introductions of MEGA for Barolo (and Barbaresco) the term Vigna (Italian for vineyard) can be used on labels after its respective MEGA and only if the vineyard is within one of the approved official geographic mentions.
Barolo wine is produced from the nebbiolo grape variety with the Lampia, Michet and Rosé clones authorized. The clusters are dark blue and greyish with the abundant wax that dresses the grapes. Their form is lengthened, pyramidal, with small, spherical grapes with substantial peel. The leaves are of average size with three or five lobes. Compared to the annual growth cycle of other Piedmontese grape varieties, nebbiolo is one of the first varieties to bud and last varieties to ripen with harvest taking place in mid to late October. In some vintages, other Piedmontese producers are able to pick and complete fermentation of their Barbera and Dolcetto plantings before Barolo producers have even begun their harvest. According to DOCG regulations, Barolos are to be composed of 100% nebbiolo. Historically producers would blend other grapes such as a Barbera and today there is speculation that modern Barolo producers may be blending in Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah but there has been no conclusive proof of this practice.(cn) In the 1990s producers in the Barolo zone petitioned that the required nebbiolo content be lowered from 100% to 90% but this petition was eventually defeated.
Barolos tend to be rich, deeply concentrated full bodied wines with pronounced tannins and acidity. The wines are almost always lightly colored varying from ruby to garnet in their youth to more brick and orange hues as they age. Like Pinot noir, Barolos are never opaque. Barolos have the potential for a wide range of complex and exotic aromas with tar and roses being common notes. Other aromas associated with Barolos include camphor, chocolate, dried fruit, damsons, eucalyptus, leather, licorice, mint, mulberries, plum, spice, strawberries, tobacco, white truffles as well as dried and fresh herbs. The tannins of the wine add texture and serve to balance Barolo's moderate to high alcohol levels (Minimum 13% but most often above 15% ABV). Excessive extraction from prolonged maceration periods and oak aging can give the wines an over-extracted bitterness.
Within the different communes of the Barolo zone, stylistic differences emerge due to differences in soil type. The calcareous marl soils of Barolo and La Morra are relatively fertile and tend to produce softer, more aromatic and fruity wines that age relatively sooner than Barolos from other parts of the zone. The less fertile, sandstone soils of the Monforte d'Alba and Serralunga d'Alba commune produce more intense, structured wines that need more time to mature. Castiglione Falletto is located on a spur between the two valleys with overlapping soil types. This region tends to produce wines with elegance and aromatics of the Barolo commune and the structure of wines from Serralunga d'Alba.
In the Piedmont region, old Barolo wine is used to make an after-dinner digestif known as Barolo Chinato. The bark from the South American cinchona tree is steeped in Barolo and then flavored with a variety of ingredients, depending on the producer's unique recipe. Some common ingredients of Barolo Chinato include cinnamon, coriander, iris flowers, mint and vanilla. The resulting beverage is very aromatic and smooth.
A string of favorable vintages in the late 1990s led to an increase of price for Barolos and, in turn, led to increased plantings. Between 1990 and 2004 there was a 47% increase in nebbiolo plantings in the Barolo zone with 4,285 acres (1,734 ha) under vine. Production subsequently increased from 7 million bottles in the mid-1990s to 10.25 million bottles in the mid-2000s. In the rush to increase plantings some of the less ideal sites previously used by Barbera and Dolcetto were gobbled up. It remains to be seen if these sites will be able to adequately ripen nebbiolo enough to produce quality Barolo that justifies the high price of the wine. Some experts are predicting a market correction similar to what was seen in the 1980s when a backlog of vintages caused prices to stabilize.
A big, powerful, tannic wine, Barolo needs to be matched with foods of similar weight. Paired with light dishes low in protein, such as steamed vegetables, a Barolo will overwhelm the food; its tannins will react with the proteins on the tongue and sides of the mouth, accentuating the bitterness and drying the palate. In Piedmont, the wines are often paired with meat dishes, heavy pastas and rich risottos; the tannins bind to the food proteins and come across as softer.
^ a b Teague, Lettie, Food & Wine (September 2007). "Is Barolo Still Italy's Greatest Wine?".
^ Speller, Walter, JancisRobinson.com (January 2015). "Debunking Barolo Myths".
^ McCarthy, Ed, WineReviewOnline.com (September 2014). "A Great, New Book on Barolo and Barbaresco". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
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Nicolas Belfrage. Barolo to Valpolicella: The Wines of Northern Italy. ISBN 0-571-17851-0.
Kerin O'Keefe. Barolo and Barbaresco. The King and Queen of Italian Wine, University of California Press. ISBN 9780520273269.
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The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum) is a Christian collection of eight treatises which belongs to the Church Orders, a genre of early Christian literature, that offered authoritative "apostolic" prescriptions on moral conduct, liturgy and Church organization. The work can be dated from 375 to 380 AD. The provenance is usually regarded as Syria, probably Antioch. The author is unknown, even if since James Ussher it was considered to be the same author of the letters of Pseudo-Ignatius, perhaps the 4th-century Eunomian bishop Julian of Cilicia.
The Apostolic Constitutions contains eight treatises on Early Christian discipline, worship, and doctrine, intended to serve as a manual of guidance for the clergy, and to some extent for the laity. It purports to be the work of the Twelve Apostles, whose instructions, whether given by them as individuals or as a body.
Book 7 is partially based on the Didache. Chapters 33-45 of book 7 contain prayers similar to Jewish prayers used in synagogues.
chapter 47 is known as the Canons of the Apostles and it had a wider circulation than the rest of the book.
The best manuscript has Arian leanings, which are not found in other manuscripts because this material would have been censured as heretical.
The Apostolic Constitutions is an important source for the history of the liturgy in the Antiochene rite. It contains an outline of an anaphora in book two, a full anaphora in book seven (which is an expansion of the one found in the Didache), and the complete Liturgy of the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions, which is the oldest known form that can be described as a complete divine liturgy.
In antiquity, the Apostolic Constitutions were mistakenly supposed to be gathered and handed down by Clement of Rome, the authority of whose name gave weight to more than one such piece of early Christian literature (see also Clementine literature).
The Church seems never to have regarded this work as of undoubted Apostolic authority. The Apostolic Constitutions were rejected as canonical by the Decretum Gelasianum. The Quinisext Council in 692 rejected most part of the work on account of the interpolations of heretics. Only that portion of it to which has been given the name Canons of the Apostles was received in the Eastern Christianity. Even if not regarded as of certain Apostolic origin, however, in antiquity the Apostolic Constitutions were held generally in high esteem and served as the basis for much ecclesiastical legislation. The Apostolic Constitutions were accepted as canonical by John of Damascus and, in a modified form, included in the 81 book canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Even if the text of the Apostolic Constitutions was extant in many libraries during the Middle Age, it was almost unknown. In 1546 a Latin version of a text was found in Crete and published. The first complete edition of the Greek text was printed in 1563 by Turrianus.
William Whiston in the 18th century devoted the third volume of his Primitive Christianity Revived to prove that "they are the most sacred of the canonical books of the New Testament; "for "these sacred Christian laws or constitutions were delivered at Jerusalem, and in Mount Sion, by our Saviour to the eleven apostles there assembled after His resurrection."
Today the Apostolic Constitutions are of the highest value as a historical document, as they reveal the moral and religious conditions, as well as the liturgical observances of 3rd and 4th centuries. They are part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers collection.
The forty-seventh and last chapter of the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions contains the eighty-five Canons of the Apostles, which present themselves as being from an apostolic Council at Antioch. These canons were later approved by the Eastern Council in Trullo in 692 but rejected by Pope Constantine. In the Western Church only fifty of these canons circulated, translated to Latin by Dionysius Exiguus on about 500 AD, and included in the Western collections and afterwards in the Corpus Juris Canonici.
Canon n. 85 is a list of canonical books: a 46-book Old Testament canon which essentially corresponds to that of the Septuagint, 26 books of what is now the New Testament (excludes Revelation), two Epistles of Clement, and the Apostolic Constitutions themselves, also here attributed to Clement, at least as compiler.
It is also known as the Epitome, and usually named Epitome of the eighth Book of the Apostolic Constitutions (or sometime titled The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles concerning ordination through Hippolytus or simply The Constitutions through Hippolytus) containing a re-wording of chapters 1-2, 4-5, 16-28, 30-34, 45-46 of the eighth book. The text was first published by Paul de Lagarde in 1856 and later by Franz Xaver von Funk in 1905. This epitome could be a later extract even if in parts it looks nearer to the Greek original of the Apostolic Tradition, from which the 8th book is derived, than the Apostolic Constitutions themselves.
^ Bradshaw, Paul F. (2002). The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. Oxford University Press. pp. 73ss. ISBN 978-0-19-521732-2.
^ Bradshaw, Paul F. (2002). The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship. Oxford University Press. pp. 85–87. ISBN 978-0-19-521732-2.
^ a b Jasper, Ronald Claud Dudley; Cuming, G. J. (1990). Prayers of the Eucharist: early and reformed. Liturgical Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8146-6085-0.
^ Woolfenden, Gregory W. (2004). Daily liturgical prayer: origins and theology. Ashgate Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7546-1601-6.
^ "Apostolical constitutions". Encyclopaedic Dictionary Of Christian Antiquities. 1. Concept Publishing Company. 2005. p. 119. ISBN 978-81-7268-111-1.
^ Michael D. Marlowe. "The "Apostolic Canons" (about A.D. 380)". Bible Research. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
^ Easton, Burton Scott (1934). The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus. Cambridge. p. 13.
^ von Funk, Franz Xaver (1905). Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum. 2. Panderborn.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Apostolic Constitutions" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.
Collins, William Edward (1911). "Apostolical Constitutions" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 199–201. This contains a more detailed exegesis of the writings and their possible authorship.
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For a long time now, best practice for creating Facebook videos has been to make them work with no sound, and at a length of about 15 seconds.
The reason for this was that Facebook was measuring the success of a video by ‘percent completion’ – or the proportion of it being watched by most people.
A video watched to 75% of its length was deemed ‘better’ than one watched to 25%. And the better ones were, of course, being shown in news feed more often.
This sounds like a reasonable thing to do, until you realise that the most successful videos were almost always the shortest ones. Because it’s much easier to get your audience to watch most of a 15 second video than most of a 15 minute video. It’s a simple question of time. Facebook has a very transient audience who tend to flick through content quickly.
Thirty seconds is a long time on Facebook newsfeed. Fifteen minutes is a lifetime.
Facebook now say in a blog post that ‘percent completion’ will be more important on longer videos. So now if your audience watches 75% of that 15 minute video, it will be deemed better than watching 75% of the 15 second one.
“…we know that completing a longer video is a bigger commitment than completing a shorter one.
You may also have noticed, as I have, that Facebook is making the sound on/off button more prominent on videos.
It’s been assumed for a while now that nobody will ever listen to sound on video content – this is obviously their play to try to change that.
It would make sense – sound adds a whole different dimension to videos, and bringing it back would certainly make Facebook vids more interesting.
It means longer videos will start to perform well on Facebook.
And I think these changes are a good thing. The whole 15-seconds-no-sound paradigm was definitely starting to get tired.
Whilst it certainly presented an interesting creative challenge for a while, newsfeed video content felt like it was getting dumber.
Allowing content creators to make longer videos – which is essentially what these changes are doing – means our newsfeeds are likely to be filled with more interesting and in-depth stuff.
And those of us that actually make the videos have more time to play with. I can certainly think of a few colleagues who will be delighted.
Don’t go thinking that just because videos can be longer that they should be. Videos will still need to work hard to hold people’s attention – which will arguably be harder the longer it goes on for.
It’s no good making a great 10 minute long video if the first 5 seconds are slow or dull – people will still drop off before they get to the good stuff and the content will still perform badly.
Videos on Facebook have a 1.5 second audition time – and that certainly won’t be changing.
Why can’t I use Instagram on desktop to schedule posts? | 2019-04-24T12:14:49Z | https://schmocial.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/what-facebooks-video-changes-mean-for-you/ | Porn | Reference | 0.113642 |
wired | Using an "activation atlas," researchers can plumb the hidden depths of a neural network and study how it learns visual concepts.
Shan Carter, a researcher at Google Brain, recently visited his daughter’s second-grade class with an unusual payload: an array of psychedelic pictures filled with indistinct shapes and warped pinwheels of color. He passed them around the class and was delighted when the students quickly deemed one of the blobs a dog ear. A group of 7-year-olds had just deciphered the inner visions of a neural network.
Carter is among the researchers trying to pierce the “black box” of deep learning. Neural networks have proven tremendously successful at tasks like identifying objects in images, but how they do so remains largely a mystery. Their inner workings are shielded from human eyes, buried in layers of computations, making it hard to diagnose errors or biases. On Wednesday, Carter’s team released a paper that offers a peek inside, showing how a neural network builds and arranges visual concepts.
That lets researchers observe a few things about the network. By toggling between different layers, they can see how the network builds toward a final decision, from basic visual concepts like shape and texture to discrete objects. Olah has noticed, for example, that dog breeds (ImageNet includes more than 100) are largely distinguished by how floppy their ears are. The atlas also shows how the network relates different objects and ideas—say, by putting dog ears not too distant from cat ears–and how those distinctions become clearer as the layers progress.
Jeff Clune, a professor at the University of Wyoming who wasn’t involved in the study, says that the atlas is a useful step forward but of somewhat limited utility for now. Researchers trying to understand how neural networks function have been fighting a losing battle, he points out, as networks grow more complex and rely on vaster sums of computing power. “That increase so far has far outstripped our ability to invent technologies that make them interpretable to us,” he says.
The research also unearthed some surprises. As an illustration, Olah pulls up an ominous photo of a fin slicing through turgid waters: Does it belong to a gray whale or a great white shark? As a human inexperienced in angling, I wouldn’t hazard a guess, but a neural network that’s seen plenty of shark and whale fins shouldn’t have a problem. Then he shows me the atlas images associated with the two animals at a particular level of the neural network—a rough map of the visual concepts it has learned to associate with them. One of the shark images is particularly strange. If you were to squint a bit, you might see rows of white teeth and gums—or, perhaps, the seams of a baseball.
As they browsed the images associated with whales and sharks, the researchers noticed that one image—perhaps of a shark's jaws—had the qualities of a baseball.
It turns out the neural network they studied also has a gift for such visual metaphors, which can be wielded as a cheap trick to fool the system. By manipulating the fin photo—say, throwing in a postage stamp image of a baseball in one corner—Carter and Olah found you could easily convince the neural network that a whale was, in fact, a shark.
It’s true, Olah says, that the method is unlikely to be wielded by human saboteurs; there are easier and more subtle ways of causing such mayhem. So-called adversarial patches can be automatically generated to confuse a network into thinking a cat is a bowl of guacamole, or even cause self-driving cars to misread stop signs.
But he finds it exciting that humans can learn enough about a network’s inner depths to, in essence, screw with it. The hope, he says, is that peering into neural networks may eventually help us identify confusion or bias, and perhaps correct for it. Neural networks are generally excellent at classifying objects in static images, but slip-ups are common—say, in identifying humans of different races as gorillas and not humans. With visualization tools like his, a researcher could peer in and look at what extraneous information, or visual similarities, caused it to go wrong.
That said, there are risks to attempting to divine the entrails of a neural network. “With interpretability work, there’s often this worry that maybe you’re fooling yourself,” Olah says. The risk is that we might try to impose visual concepts that are familiar to us or look for easy explanations that make sense. | 2019-04-24T16:36:06Z | https://www.wired.com/story/inside-black-box-of-neural-network/?utm_campaign=Dynamically%20Typed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter | Porn | Science | 0.304496 |
wordpress | Companies had previously been allowed to roll customers over into Automatically Renewable Contracts (ARCs) when users’ original contract periods had come to a close, unless the customer actively chose to opt out.
That practice will be outlawed from 31 December, Ofcom announced today. The move has been welcomed by consumer groups, who complained that users had previously found themselves locked into deals that no longer suited their needs or offered them value for money.
The watchdog estimates that around 15% of UK residential customers are on these ‘rollover’ deals, with BT the largest communications firm currently providing them.
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said: “Ofcom’s evidence shows that ARCs raise barriers to effective competition by locking customers into long term deals with little additional benefit. | 2019-04-20T12:37:53Z | https://pioneear.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/ban-on-automatic-phone-and-broadband-renewals-announced/ | Porn | Reference | 0.124393 |
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Thanks! It’s an interesting issue because it seems like so many people want the church to be popular rather than reverent. There’s a whole lot more that goes into it, like the entertainment complex the church has. Thanks for reading!
Exactly. Surpassingly I have found more people seeking the idea of the church according to the book of acts outside the 4 walls. He surely is raising a new generation of believers that want to seek Him and share His greatness with the world.
Spot on! I know people who have stopped going to church because it got too focused on growth, building and asking for more money.
Thanks! Exactly, the effects of worldly pursuit have its consequences on the church. There are plenty of examples of churches that collapsed because the pastor became all about fundraising instead of tending the flock.
I very much wanted to write a blog tonight. Very much along the same lines as this one here from #Kameron. The words just aren’t there as I am processing an abundance of revelation from experiences over the course of the last week. Needless to say it is much about how I have experienced the “church” outside the four walls as opposed to its current image. So enjoy this read, it is very much a good one about the problems with identity in today’s church. There is hope though as a new generation of believers are rising up, recklessly abandoning their own lives with hopes of glorifying Christ. Much like the church in Acts.
There isn’t much that is real in the church today. People are playing ‘church’, thinking they have done their duty. One thousand churches with 12 members each is probably closer to a functioning church body than two churches with a thousand members each. Great post!
Exactly. I think one reason that people are turned off by the church in general is because it’s so similar to the world that there’s almost no distinction.
Spot on. I played church for decades. Now, I have reached the point of being the church, as Christ intended. | 2019-04-25T16:17:53Z | https://imsnowedin.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/do-you-treat-the-church-like-a-corporation/ | Porn | Reference | 0.082577 |
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wordpress | Boro Rangers won the battle of the top two in the North Riding Football League Premier Division, despite finishing with ten men, at leaders Thornaby Dubliners. Matty McQueeney broke the deadlock for Rangers inside five minutes. However, Tom Atkinson levelled matters for Dubs within seven minutes of the second half. With 20 minutes remaining, Jamie Lee put Rangers back ahead and McQueeney put the result beyond doubt, two minutes from time. Lewis Colley picked up a red card for the visitors, but Rangers held out to go within two points of Dubs, with a game in hand.
Stockton West End are two points further back, with a further game in hand after a 2-0 win over Redcar Town. Sean O’Brien and Elliot May netted for West End as they stayed right in the title picture.
Yarm & Eaglescliffe leapfrogged Town on goal difference after thumping St Marys 1947 4-0. Sean Mackin slammed in a hat-trick with an own goal completing the scoring against their Middlesbrough visitors.
Grangetown Boys Club are up to sixth after halting Redcar Newmarket’s resurgence in style. Boys Club fired four as Anthony Jones, Ryan Emmerson, Liam Cooper and top scorer Ben Martin all found the net. Newmarket replied through Jamie Graham.
Staithes Athletic also fired four on their travels, without reply, at New Marske. Gary Sivills’ men notched through Danny Harris’ brace and further strikes from Connor Hood, as well as Ryan Thompson’s 20-yard drive.
Second-bottom Kader showed more tenacity to force their second 4-4 draw in three games, this time against Bedale. Callum Fletcher netted for Dale inside ten minutes, with two goals in seven first half minutes from Ross Hodgson putting them in control. Despite Hodgson completing his hat-trick, 12 minutes into the second half, goals from Ellis Hoyland and Richard Mills, plus a Luke Smithyman brace earned Kader a point.
Bottom club BEADS bridged the gap with Kader to just a single point after a 5-3 victory over Stokesley Sports Club. Dan Lofts kept up his fine run, with Ash McCarthy, Mark Sowerby, Louis McGarity and an own goal completing their scoring. Sports Club netted through Ryan Leslie’s double and Steve Cattle’s goal.
There were just two matches in the First Division with Tees Valley Tigers went second after a fine 3-0 win at another new club Loftus FC. Paul Banks, Isam Benomran and Conor Bagan netted for the Tigers.
Stokesley Sports Club Reserves are level on points with the Tigers, in third and a hold a game in hand following a comprehensive victory. Another new club, Middlesbrough Rovers, are finding it tough going and were hammered 9-2. Goals from John Cairnes, Isaac Walker, Matty Lazenby and Yousuf Bennett put Steve Todd’s men four up at half-time. Youngster Walker wrapped up his hat-trick with two quickfire second half strikes, with the club’s top scorer, James Brodie-Myers clipping in a brace and Sam Pears completed the Stokesley scoring. Daniel O’Brien netted two consolation goals for Rovers.
competition, with only Whitby Fishermens Society and Thirsk Falcons progressing. Fishermens did so at the expense of their Division One rivals Loftus Athletic, after a 4-2 win. Jordan Rowe netted twice for the hosts, but those strikes were cancelled out by goals from Dan Brown, Karl Storr and a Jake Faichney brace.
Great Ayton United Royals were defeated 3-1 at Brompton side Unicorn FC, of the Wensleydale League. After a goal-less first half, Joe Marsay put Ayton ahead, early in the second period, but the hosts’ wind advantage told by the end.
Redcar Athletic Reserves were defeated 4-1 by Beckett League Sleights. Tom Eglinton grabbed Athletic’s single goal, but they couldn’t avoid their visitors racking up their eighth successive victory, this season. Thirsk Falcons fared better at home to Beckett League leaders Lealholm, beating them 1-0 thanks to Chris Everingham’s goal.
Stokesley Athletic lost by the odd goal in five at York side Huntington Rovers Reserves. Alex Grainge and Jack Boddy netted in a 3-2 defeat.
Not too far away, Lingdale Village went down 2-0 at Easingwold.
On Sunday, in the Under 19 division, Redcar Newmarket thumped champions Guisborough Town, 9-1. Curtis Holmes blasted four, with Jack Reeves also picking up a hat-trick. Stuart Thomson and Michael Urban put Newmarket on cloud nine. Tom Yafano responded for the Priorymen.
Yousuf Bennett’s brace helped ten man Coulby Newham to a 2-1 victory at Seaton Carew. | 2019-04-26T16:10:40Z | https://northridingfl.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/results-and-reports-sat-3rd-sun-4th-nov/ | Porn | Sports | 0.359014 |
wordpress | I’m not really into football. Certainly not footballers, and wouldn’t know an ex-footballer if he went up my Cazaly.
I had seen Kekovich years ago on The Fat, but wasn’t a regular viewer – what with it being a show about sport. Sport and me? Nup.
Yet, when he turned up to speak at our little event, there were a few things he said that I really needed to hear right now. I’m feeling a bit stuck – a bit torn as to whether I try to keep my hand in any theatre performing (don’t get excited, it’s just fringe), or whether I just keep my head down and work. Kekovich talked about the need to feel free to be ourselves – to inject our own personality into our work. He talked about maintaining the larrikin sense of humour within our Australian culture. Kekovich is known for speaking his mind, being brash and obtuse. He’s one of those older men who believe political correctness has gone too far. He’s also surprisingly eloquent and used a helluva lot of big words that I’d only ever seen in Dickens novels.
Anyhoo, he’s right, to a point.
Yet we still need to hear the truth, and truthful thoughts, rather than hiding behind what you think other people want you to say. So, I guess from a blog perspective, I’ve realised that I don’t need to be so worried about getting it wrong or offending someone. I need to be braver to say what I think (once I’ve worked out what I think, of course).
The Australian sense of humour is traditionally self-deprecating (or self-defacating – an expression someone once used to describe an affable monk. I kid you not), while, at the same time, not being afraid to ruffle some of the tall poppies’ petals. I haven’t even opened my comedy files since my little boy was born, but I’m thinking it might be a good time to do that and see if I can inject some of that Kekovic larrikinism into it. I’m feeling the need to be a bit more creative – and I don’t mean with toilet rolls, glitter pens and animal stamps. | 2019-04-18T22:36:46Z | https://everybodylovesstring.wordpress.com/category/procrastination/ | Porn | Arts | 0.689221 |
wordpress | “A picture is worth a thousand words” – the enormous gap between the guidebook’s description of Hierve el Agua and the breathtaking reality.
If the words Hierve el Agua, or Boiling Water suggest lazing away the afternoon slipping in and out of hot water pools …surprise! Water is indeed boiling up from an underground spring, but it is NOT HOT. Take a dip in this gorgeous pool and the water temperature could also take your breath away!
The spring water is laden with minerals, and over thousands of years a system of petrified waterfalls has been formed by calcium carbonate deposits.
Feels great on your feet!
A trail leads from the pool area across small dikes and channels formed by mineral deposits that built up over thousands of years. Steps have been carved into some of the deposits to make your descent down one side of the largest mineral waterfall a little easier. Gazing up at the face of the 30 meter (98 ft.) high falls, you can appreciate the eons nature spent creating a masterpiece.
Along the trail you will notice a complex system of irrigation canals and terraces built by the Zapotecs about 2500 years ago.
View of cascades from the trail to the falls.
Visitors can enjoy the many types of plant life that flourish in the arid conditions.
We traveled the 50 km. from the city of Oaxaca to Hierve el Agua (town of San Isidro Roaguía near the archaeological site of Mitla) by colectivo , which is a kind of shared taxi that is common in Oaxaca. We were thrilled by spectacular vistas as we wound our way up paved mountain roads to the 1821 meter (5800 ft.) altitude of Hierve el Agua. These thrills paled in comparison to the trip down. Riding in the back of a pick-up truck colectivo that climbed at least another 2000 ft., this time on a narrow, twisting dirt road, I was treated to views of Hierve el Agua far below! | 2019-04-18T22:26:07Z | https://alaskamexicoandbeyond.wordpress.com/category/hiking-2/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.976337 |
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livejournal | I should be happy. My brother got his ROTC scholarship, finally, and we had cake and pizza and I filled his bathtub with ballons. But he and mom are all tense over which school he should go to, can go to, etc etc etc, and it's making me all headachy.
"[raging at fate]: Well, exactly, look at you. Not remotely important! But me? I could do so much more! So much more! But this is what I get. My reward. And it’s not fair! [He shoves paper off the desk as he begins to cry, gasping for breath. His eyes fill with tears and he shakes his head and sighs.] Oh… [heartbreakingly soft] Lived too long."
And then, when the regen comes, looking like such a lost child, "I don't want to go."
I feel so sorry for 10. I love the Doctor - his madness, his darkness, his pure genius. I loved 9 for being so raw and broken; for being the old solider returned home from war to find that there is no home, not anymore, and for finding Rose, this brilliant, absolutely human girl who could love him without judging him and could start to make him whole again. I am starting to love 11 for being quirky and fun and with that hint of darkness even more darkly hidden. But 10... I think he was only ever complete with Rose. He imprinted on her; was born out of 9's deep need for forgiveness. There's the accent, the youth, the hotness, the fun... but he was still so dark, 10, and it just lay there under the surface, waiting. Rose could reign him in; remind him of love and innocent and forgiveness, but Martha was too in love with him to do anything but be dragged around 'til the very end. And then Donna came, and Donna was like a sister, judgemental, but able to make it alright, but by then it was too late. She could help him while she was there... but then after "Journey's End" he was all alone. So very alone, and trapped with only his brilliance and his madness and his darkness. The stuff of nightmares. What was it from "Fear Her"?
I think he might've ended up like the Master if he'd been left alone for too much longer. I mean, the quote from "11th Hour"
"Been knocking around on my own for a while - my choice - but I've started talking to myself. It's giving me earache."
Might just be a reference to 10 and his gob, but I genuinely think that, had 10 stayed 10, he might've gone mad. I mean genuinely mad.
But oh, 10, I love you so. Three seasons and, what? 5 specials, weren't enough. I wish you had found Rose before JE. I wish you had never lost her. I wish you could have been happy with her for all of your days or, at least, had her to even out your lumps and bruises. You needed her. You regenerated with her, for her, because of her, with her in your mind and hearts and soul. And you died all alone.
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tripod | Welcome to the new-style Riding Safely newsletter! We've been going for just over four years, so we decided to change the format. If you've missed us in your Inbox lately, that's because we wanted to get it right. Meanwhile we've gone on producing monthly reports, and you can catch up with them on the Past News page. But if you're pressed for time, we'll still be bringing you up to date on the key news reports of 2008.
We now report on more global issues - health, safety and welfare are common issues wherever you are. Other countries have much to share in this respect, and Riding Safely will be bringing you all we've learned from them. And on that score, we'd like to welcome our new subscribers from around the world, particularly those in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Remember, we don't just report the news. We try to provide solutions as well. Hopefully, together we can make the horse world a better place for everyone, including our equine friends.
Dark winter months are attractive times for arsonists to strike. Over the past month we've seen two suspected attacks. Go to our FIRE section to find out how to protect your premises from arson while picking up winter fire prevention tips from equestrian fire specialist Harry Paviour.
Highly respected, leading FEI vet Bob Baskerville is at home recovering after surgery following a kick from a sedated thoroughbred. Speaking to Horse & Hound he said: "I consider myself to be very lucky this time, but would like to remind everyone not to become complacent when working around horses — especially their feet". I'd like to wish Bob a very speedy recovery. Leaving aside his particular case, I'd echo his thoughts. Riders, owner riders and professionals sometimes become complacent around our four-legged friends. There are many reasons for the unfortunate accidents that happen to our horses and riders. Let's make sure that complacency isn't one of them.
The parents of a four-year-old with a rare genetic disorder say he is being helped by horse riding. Dyfan Wynne, from Wrexham, is the only known child in Britain with the condition called 'Chromosome 8 deletion'. It has left him with poor eyesight, learning difficulties and the need for heart operations.
But hippotherapy, physiotherapy on horseback, has helped him learn to walk and increased his self-confidence. The youngster progressed so well with the hippotherapy sessions that he is now in the 'vaulting' classes - effectively gymnastic movements on horseback. Dyfan's mother Helen said the treatment for her son has changed his life.
The RDA is launching a new programme to boost the number of its volunteers.
Stable staff at racing yards are to get higher wages from November and an increase in holidays.
Redwings Horse Sanctuary offers some money saving tips to horse owners as the UK economic situation worsens.
Horses with cancer have a better chance of recovery thanks to the extension of a cancer therapy unit at the University of Cambridge. The Queen's Veterinary Hospital at the university is the only facility in Europe offering radiotherapy for horses. Last week it opened a new building to house a radiotherapy machine designed to treat animals.
Laddy, World Horse Welfare's one-eyed horse appears in the new book Equus by photographer Tim Flach.
An American Judge has sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree animal cruelty to nine months in jail for mistreating her horses.
Two teenagers have admitted shooting two Shetland ponies at a care home in May.
A horse was fatally wounded after being shot in the neck in Godstone on 24 September.
Anyone who is 16 years and over who has access to horses and equine facilities can take part. You’ll also need a competent person (Level 3 – e.g. AI)) who can observe you undertaking some basic but key practical activities with horses. The course fee is £40 and this includes registration fees and all necessary learning and assessment materials, however if you are between 16 and 18 years old the course is absolutely free. Everyone will be able to access their own Equi Study Tutor to help them complete their course. Click here for more information on the “Safety with Horses” campaign.
Hunts across the UK express their relief that, following a hat safety review, staff can continue to wear a Patey if they choose.
The US Polo Association is the first in the world to set rules over headgear for the sport.
Riders in North Yorkshire have called for action to slow down drivers following a series of accidents.
The Queen's granddaughter was taking part in a cross-country event at Pau near the French Pyrenees on Saturday (25 October) when her horse Tsunami II fell at a fence and broke its neck. Her spokesman said she was 'devastated' by the horse's death.
Cross-country course designers and engineers are teaming up in the US to develop safer jumps to help prevent serious horse and rider injuries and deaths.
Course builder and designers, including US Equestrian Federation President and licensed course designer David O'Connor, will join with faculty and students at the University of Kentucky, forming a multidisciplinary team to develop and demonstrate additional frangible technology for cross-country fences.
The FEI is considering introducing licences for four-star riders under plans to improve levels of safety in eventing.
Two horses in Texas, one of them in Denton County, have been diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis. The Denton County horse had been vaccinated. According to information from the Texas Animal Health Commission, Texas is one of seven states where EEE has been reported this year in horses.
The disease is spread by infected mosquitoes and can be transmitted to humans. Horses with mosquito-borne encephalitic viruses such as EEE, Western Equine Encephalitis, or West Nile Virus may stagger, appear confused, and act erratically. “The disease is not so much killing the horse, it’s what it may cause the horse to do, (such as) fall over or fall asleep while drinking and drown,” said Dr. Dean Hansen, of the Little Elm Breezeway Animal Clinic. In 2002 when West Nile Virus was first detected in Texas, 1,699 equine animals were stricken with infection. West Nile vaccine has helped cut those case numbers from 716 in 2003 to two cases in 2008. “Vaccinating against mosquito-borne diseases has to be a part of routine equine health care. Don’t stop just because case numbers drop,” Schwartz said. “As good as vaccines are at protecting against infection, there are rare times when a vaccinated animal will still contract disease. That is no reason to avoid vaccinating your animals,” he added.
The chairman of the Pony Club has extended the organisation's deepest sympathies to family and friends of Jade South, the 15-year-old member who died at a rally on 30 October. Jade, from Linton, Ross-on-Wye, was crushed by her 16hh horse Oz in a rotational fall at a South Herefordshire and Ross Harriers Pony Club Rally, held at Pauntley Court Farm cross country course in Gloucestershire.
Kate Ludden is warning other owners to be vigilant after her horse was hit by a car after gates were left open allowing him to stray on to the road.
UK: Racehorse dies of heart attack on gallops and crushes rider Work rider Michelle Bentham is recovering from being crushed when the horse she was riding collapsed due to a heart attack.
A bus driver who hit and killed a horse being ridden on Dartmoor with a minibus full of children is wanted by police. Officers in Tavistock said a white private hire minibus had hit a horse at the local beauty spot known as The Rock on the Crapstone Road in Yelverton between 3.30pm and 4pm on Wednesday 15 October.
Network Rail has dismissed claims that it was to blame for the death of a horse by refusing to switch off the electricity current on a railway. A six-month-old cob called Husher was electrocuted after falling on to the track between Aldershot and Farnham in Hampshire on 28 September.
A Police horse was injured after being involved in a collision with a Range Rover in Rochdale town centre.
Three people were injured when a horse-drawn carriage dramatically overturned after two of the animals pulling it bolted, flipping the coffin into the street. The hearse, carrying the coffin of Caroline Thompson, 79, struck a street bollard and careered into cars after two of the four horses pulling it darted away. The startled horses fled the Ipswich street before being recaptured 15 minutes later. One person was treated in hospital for a bruised hip and broken nose, while another two escaped with minor injuries.
A rider whose horse was electrocuted by a damaged cable has spoken of her disgust that the company responsible have not been prosecuted.
A 50-foot transport trailer carrying 44 horses tipped over on Deerfoot Trail killing 12 horses.
Residents are worried that a serial arsonist might be on the loose after two pet dogs were burnt alive in a suspected arson attack at a stable in Clydach.
Two horses were led to safety by their owner after a suspected arson attack on their stable.
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An award winning horse was rescued by local firefighters after it fell down a 12ft ditch between a wall and a stable building.
An increase in the national minimum wage from £5.52 to £5.73 an hour for adult workers came into force on 1 October 2008.
The statutory hourly rate for 18 to 22-year-olds has also risen from £4.60 to £4.77 and for 16 and 17-year-olds has lifted from £3.40 to £3.53.
The rise comes with a warning from the government that it is proposing stricter penalties for bosses who fail to pay.
Olympic eventing team trainer and former Olympic gold medal-winning horse rider Yogi Breisner has been given The Queen's Award for Equestrianism by the British Horse Society (BHS). The Princess Royal presented Yogi with the award at Buckingham Palace yesterday (16 October). Yogi was chosen by the BHS board of trustees "for outstanding services" to the horse world. BHS chairman Patrick Print said: "Yogi is unquestionably one of the great equestrian trainers of our time.
Heroes in the field of equestrian safety were honoured at The British Horse Society’s Sefton Awards, held at the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment's Barracks, Knightsbridge, London.
The awards mark outstanding contribution in the field of riding and road safety. They can go to anyone who, through their achievements, has raised awareness of the need for riding and road safety.
This year there were two recipients of the prestigious award, Alison Brown from Sinnington in Yorkshire and Rose Horrex from Gwent, South East Wales.
It was not Fat Boy the pony's best night. First he ate so many fermented apples that he became drunk.
Then he staggered across a garden and tumbled into a swimming pool.
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wordpress | Why do I like Richard Dawkins?
There may be many reasons but here is a footnote on The Greatest Show on Earth in which he rants against using the form “Beijing” instead of “Peking”.
I’m no scientist but I do share this trait of character that makes you expect respect for the conventions and consistency across languages, rules, and systems… I’d really find very difficult to build knowledge on without it.
I admit I’m quite bad at small talk. Weather is considered the universal topic to avoid awkwardness but if you meet me you are at risk to make it even more uncomfortable for you. In Ireland, where I live, weather is quite bad: rainy, often windy, and unstable. When people learn I come from Spain they either ask me whether I miss the Spanish weather or just directly assume so. Many people from the British Isles go to Spain on holiday every year, in most cases to the Mediterranean coast or the islands. Most of them completely ignore the northern half of the country, and after Madrid and Barcelona their inner Spanish geography handbook just includes important hotspots such as Ibiza, Mojácar, Benalmádena, Fuengirola and the like (with funny placename pronunciations which make it slightly difficult for me to guess). I’ve come across some folks who enjoy being and looking classy and let me know they’ve been to the real heartland of Spain, which seems to be between the centre and the North of the country. They do know indeed that the North is cooler.
I’ve been watching the Spanish weather forecast since last week and it seems that for most of the time my hometown of San Sebastian has been only a couple of Celsius degrees warmer than Dublin. For example last Monday (28th July) they were enjoying 22 Cº there for the 20 Cº we saw in Dublin. On the same date Madrid was boiling at 36ºC and some Spanish regions were around 40ºC. However my people in the northern corner near France were enjoying our oceanic climate, which is basically the same as in Britain and Ireland (with a few nuances). Regarding the 2 degree difference, it actually works like this around the year. Weather in San Sebastian is seldom more than 5 degrees hotter than in Dublin. It also rains quite a lot down there, so I’m not in the least annoyed by the rain here. In fact I only dare to call rain, like “real rain”, to what we experience in the Basque Country whereas Irish precipitation is mostly made up by thin drops of drizzle.
Wind is the really annoying part of the Irish weather in Dublin. It offers an awful chill factor and is responsible for the climatological lack of stability. It also makes umbrellas almost unusable. Very rarely you get soaked by the Irish drizzle so you could walking down the streets happy and umbrellaless most of the time. The main practical difference is that you can more or less predict how the day will turn out when you are in Spain whereas in Ireland you don’t know what the sky is going to bring you in the next half hour. Splendid sunny Spanish days that nothing can waste or days in which it won’t stop raining versus the lottery of Irish weather in which most of the tickets aren’t carrying great chances precisely.
Apart from that, the other element that annoys us Mediterraneans in the periphery of the continent is the lack of sunlight hours in winter. This effect of latitude conditions weather, but its effect in the human body (vitamin D) and joy for life is larger than the havoc a few wet days can cause. Anyway, there is some compensation for it in the longer summer days, especially in May-June-July where sunlight lasts until 23h.
So, no, I come from Northern Spain and the weather there is quite similar. I don’t miss the weather.
In April 2009 I stepped in Cologne. I arrived by train from Hanover in a night in which I hardly could see the monstrosity of its cathedral, just in front of the station. I used the following day to stroll around the most typical places of the city. I was a hot humid day which persuaded me not to follow upstairs to the spire of the cathedral. Luckily, the next day, in which I should follow my trip to a Duesseldorf, started clear and shiny, ideal for the scheduled ascent.
One of the best-known German words among those who don’t speak German. We came across it in a sign to advise about the danger posed by the tramways. Certainly they are more difficult to be seen, and therefore more dangerous, when you walk looking to the ground, so the placement seems about right.
A pub named after a chess defence which includes a chess knight graffiti on its wall. Nothing special, but otherwise I wouldn’t reach the magical number fourteen.
3. Fist and ear statue.
My imagination does not reach the meaning of this statue. It must be the fight against deafness as much as the concept that listening to others makes us stronger. None of the ideas that came to my mind seem to be specially full of sense. Inside the ear there was litter and some cigs butts, but I’m quite sure it is not an ashtray.
Best location for tourist photos. I have one myself, ice-cream crashed on my head in tower-of-pisa fashion, which I don’t include here out of sheer shame.
The cathedral of Cologne is a spectacular mass. Certainly it is in the first place on the list of things worth seeing in town, but it has not place on this list. What does fit on my list of funny things is the piece in front of the cathedral of which it is said it is identical to the one on top of each of the towers, 140 metres above. One can imagine the efforts to put it up there. Awesome in every sense.
There is an interesting example of stained glass inside the cathedral. It looks like a tribute to the geek world. The colours of stained glass have always fascinated me and this is no exception in spite of its low definition.
In the old town, die Altstadt (actually not so old as not much of the city survived WW2) there’s an area of narrow streets and restaurants. In one of those this lamp held by a whale could be seen.
In an Italian restaurant’s gents there was a football-themed latrine with its goal and all that. There’s a pink football and even if I’m saying too much I’ll let you know that you can move the ball but it is impossible to score.
9. Street ground, orchestra ceiling.
The auditorium in which the Philharmonic rehearses is under the street, more specifically under a square beside the railway tracks. near the cathedral. Apparently, people stepping may disturb the acoustics, so whenever there’s a concert or rehearsal some men prevent pedestrian from stepping over the musicians.
Acoustic law and order agents. The cathedral on the background.
A friendly alien on a post beside the tracks. It must be one of those guerrilla art actions.
This is a meme which has been spreading recently. I think I’ve heard the city of Florence is going to fine the assholes which may uglify it with this kind of junk. The happy couple places its lock with names or initial in a public place and then get rid of the key, or eat it, or keep it until their love is rust. In Cologne the chosen venue is such a city icon as the railway bridge.
Futuristic architecture is everywhere but it is still interesting to watch buildings of this type and size. As I saw them from the distance I’m not sure whether the shape is designed in order to keep the room at the base or to provide with shadow and shelter from the rain.
Germans love antiques in street markets. In this Flohmarkt (flea market, as it is in French or English) and other similar one can trade coins, stamps, old postcards. Also some more unusual stuff such as this elephant. I cannot imagine its price or the use it can serve.
A bookshop chain example of advertising in an underground crossing stairs. The concept is that each step represents the spine of a book. A metaphor full of beauty and wonder, as every book is a new step in life.
After several months 14 funny things I saw in Cologne about the city of Cologne (Köln), is one of the most successful posts in this blog, so I started working in an attempt to show some of the interesting things I could see in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg some days before. I’ll get the pictures out of its folder and will comment them more or less in chronological order.
The first day in town we were strolling around the city centre where we could see the German Theatre (Deutsches Schauspielhaus), which reminded me the Opera of Prague. Funnily, once we got closer we saw a plaque in which they mentioned the architect was actually the same man.
Hans Hummel. This water carrier is a typical character in Hamburg. He can be found in different places around the city, especially on postcards. Apparently he was one of Hamburg’s water carriers before the times of the running water, but he was also a poor man the children laughed at. The German Wikipedia says he lived between 1787 and 1854.
Some of the buildings in Hamburg made me remember the houses of Amsterdam. I’m not sure if the architectonic style when from city to city on the ships that sailed the northern seas. Art and commerce together.
From one of the wonderful bookshops of Hamburg (an urban feature from which Spain should learn) we can see the area of Jungfernstieg, a street in front of river Alster at Binnenalster, which seems a lake but it is not one. Hamburg is placed where two rivers meet. River Alster is a tributary of the Elbe. Interestingly, the port of Hamburg on the banks of the Elbe is 88 km away from the river mouth into the Baltic Sea. Hamburg, which boasts one of the most important ports of the world is a port city but not a seaside city.
Hamburg’s City Hall is a building of peculiar beauty. It is at the very centre of the city, a few metres away from Binnenalster. Even if we arrived at dusk and could not see its interior, it is not difficult to realise that this is an impressive building. I spent some time looking at statues, as the one of victorious archangel Michael. I still ignore what the function of the post in from of the city hall is, but it includes a nice ship on its top.
Beside the city hall there is a 3D map of the city centre. It is certainly some help for the blind and a pleasure for cartographers and map aficionados. Binnenalster and the city hall square in which the map sits can be seen perfectly. The farther side of the map represents the flow of the Elbe.
We came across the geographical coordinates of Hamburg 53°33′18″N 9°59′24″E in a shopping centre. For Spaniards, it is Important not to mix the O for Ost (East, in German) with the O for Oeste (Spanish for West, which in German is W, West, the same as in English). Meridian 10° E runs trough the city. In fact, Google Maps provides 53°33′55″N 10°00′05″E as coordinates.
In the underground station “Rathaus” (City Hall) the tiles in the wall showed the city’s coat of arms, which I’ve seen so many times on a coffee cup at home.
One thing which drew my attention was a lever to stop trains, if needed, sitting on the platform. I had seen this kind of device on trains, but never outside them.
The easter egg thing is not specifically from Hamburg, but a tradition in the whole Germany. The next morning we found several shrubs decorated with plastic eggs, but the real ones are edible. Typically, children paint them in gaudy colours.
Interesting architecture. Chilehaus, with its geometrical design, is one of the outstanding buildings in Hamburg. Seen from one of its angles it shows a ship shape. It is said that the project was commissioned by a man who became wealthy in Chile. Among other things, it houses Instituto Cervantes.
Hamburg is the capital for Germany’s newspapers, publishers and media. In your walk you’ll recognize the famous names.
The storehouse area is a whole journey to the 19th century. I loved coming a cross an old small Volkswagen Beetle beside the old depots.
Speicherstadt. When I arrived in this place I experienced some kind of déjà-vu, as I knew it thanks to old photographs, even if I didn’t know that it was in Hamburg. The ship could be unloaded directly into the warehouses. Today the whole area is being renovated.
A dream for the future. This infographic shows the project for the new building of the Philarmonic, on the banks of the Elbe. The base of the future building is on the left of the image. It will be very recognizable, beside the river. I’d love coming some time and listen to a Wagner opera.
We took a boat tour around the port on that same day. It is a very pleasant experience which I recommend to everyone visiting Hamburg, but there are some many views that the tour deserves its one post. I hope you enjoyed this photos to the point that they are some encouragement to visit this city.
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is an animal to be found all around Europe, Ireland included. It is not so usual that they show up in urban areas in daytime. A couple of weeks ago we were in a café, looking through the window. This place is at The Point, an area of Dublin relatively close to the city centre (5 minutes by car or 25 on foot to O’Connell Bridge in the main street). Suddenly three foxes enter a depot.
At first time they could have been taken by dogs, but they had that gait so peculiar in foxses. My photographs are not so good, as the distance was a considerable one and there was a dusted pane of glass in the middle.
Then I investigated and read a little about this animal. Apparently they don’t go out to see the sunlight or populated areas but in their reproductive period, from December to February, the dog follows the vixen wherever she goes without caring about safety or survival. In fact, the couple of foxes that appears in the photograph was sniffing around the railway facilities and from time to time they stopped to mate.
The third fox arrived some fifteen minutes later and enter the warehouse that can be seen beside the van on the first photograph. The couple ended up crossing the tracks en mounting the coal load in the background. I think the rail tracks, combined with the Royal Canal, may be the corridor by which these animals access the city.
In any case this was a little uncommon experience and an opportunity to learn something about Irish wildlife.
* A blog about foxes in Ireland, in which they say they even get into houses in the noblest neighbourhoods of this capital.
I threw a fiver at this book on my last extravagant spree. I wouldn’t have paid it by its nominal price but then again, what are discount bookshops for? I was intrigued and looking forward to finding out whether it actually contained some user-friendly software with which you’d be drawing nice lines on top-quality or at least funny maps. Not at all. Actually, the CD includes several country layered maps in psd format for which you will need Adobe Photoshop or similar. The book is made out of a series of screenshots which actually may come in handy, as I’ve always hated to jump from on tab to the next, back and forward, which ends up happening whenever you are checking an online tutorial. Good for a fiver, but nothing special.
En mi último arrebato consumista he tirado cinco leuros en la compra de este bonito libro con cedél. No hubiera pagado los veinte papeles que se supone que cuesta ni harto de grifa, pero para eso tenemos librerías de descatalogados. Creía que en el cedé vendría algún programa fácil de usar con el que trazar rayitas en mapas curiosos pero nainas. Vienen unos cuantos mapas en formato psd con sus capas y tal, pero para los que hace falta Adobe Photoshop a algún programa parecido. El libro está hecho a base de pantallazos que en un momento dado pueden venir bien, por el rollazo que es andar saltando como poseido de una pestaña a otra, que es lo que uno acaba haciendo cuando uno consulta un manual en el propio ordenador. Que por cinco euros no está mal, pero tampoco es nada del otro jueves.
In order to spend a weekend and visit some friends I travelled with some other friends to Milan five years ago. I believed the trip pictures were in the hard drive of that old laptop from which I still need to rescue stuff, but luckily I had save them in one of the DVDs that I seldome made in my rare attacks of lucidity. I’ve spent a nice time watching them and I may publish some at any moment. The first thing I’ll drop is an advertising billboard (or may be not, as I never quite knew what it was advertising) that we came across at Linate airport. It was a very beautiful world map and I couldn’t resist the temptation to take it with me, in my camera.
In Europe we have a nice collection of clichés. Sure I don’t know all of them but, for instance, I can see a bull saying hola! in Spain (and Portugal?). Also a guitar and some wine; a shoe probably for the zapateado and a cathedral that looks like Barcelona’s Holy Family, but placed rather in Santiago. Italy, ciao bella, is inescapably a boot. We also have the English bobby and the Irish shamrock, a Balkanic ballerina, a cook which is maybe from Croatia and a Turkish or Greek waiter. Most of my dear Estern Europe is woodlands in Germany there are sausages, beer and a horse! Scandinavia is a place of wood, skates, deer, sleighs, viking helmets and liquors and in the Russian motherland we can see the Kremlin, matrioshkas, icons and space shuttles from Baikonur. And the decorated eggs called pisanky. Last but not least, the Caucasus is a place of tractors and mountains.
I don’t know so much about Asia and I expect to be missing even more, but I can see that Russia says до свидания to say farewell to Europe and then a quite empty Siberia is filled with pictures from which the Russians extract petrol barrels and gas. Then the Chinese Great Wall, an important defence element whose main mission is to have hundreds of restaurants named after itself. China is reduced to a water buffalo and the spiky Himalayan mountains; a rice bowl and a the multi-colour terracotta army. The Indian subcontinent is represented with images of The Book of the Jungle: elephants and snakes, frankincense and a holy man. In Indochina, a big-bellied Buddha and a Balinese dancer, mountains that could be Krabi islands. Korea is a dragon and Japan is a geisha ¿is it possible that a football player, a memento of that World Cup, sits between them?
Africa is the craddle of mankind. If we start in the Maghreb we find some mountaints that must be the Atlas, palm trees, camels, heaps of sand and the pyramids of Egypt. A little farther away in Palestine is where God lives and that’s why his eye is showing up. In the Gulf of Guinea, masks and djembes and also a football, probably because the best teems in the continent (Ghana, Ivory Coast) belong to the area. Southwards the wildlife including giraffes, zebras, elephants, lions… and the Madagascan lemur.
America is the most mixed continent. Canada shows up a a huge nature reserve. The United States are the largest arrival country and the iconic one par excellence. The skyscrapers in its Big Apple, its Route 66, baseball, Californian paradise. Mexico looks just like holidays and sombreros and farther South we’ve got pre-Columbian pyramids, many palm-trees, some Amazonian Indian, the Corcovado Christ, o futebol, and the imposing Andes.
In Oceanía everything is commonplace: kangaroos, boomerangs, crocodiles, koalas, dreamlines, rugby and the typical hat. I can see a bit of green Kiwi sheep. I never understood whether the continent is Australia or Oceania. I will have to study better both continents and what they contain.
If anybody detects an object that I may have omitted (I simply couldn’t write about them all) with an interesting name or story, I thank you in advance for the comment. | 2019-04-20T00:13:08Z | https://alfanje.wordpress.com/category/english/ | Porn | Home | 0.9683 |
utoronto | For André Arsenault, opals could turn out to be very precious gems indeed. Arsenault, a recent PhD graduate of the University of Toronto’s department of chemistry, is the founder of Opalux – a company he started to commercialize his doctoral research into these “photonic crystals,” as chemists know them.
Although artificial opals are similar to the naturally occurring gems, Arsenault found that it is possible to stimulate the artificial kind electrically to change their colour. By integrating them into a layer of millions of tiny silica spheres, Arsenault was able to manipulate them to produce the entire light spectrum, including ultraviolet and infrared. Once you can do that, says Arsenault, it’s possible to arrange artificial opals into a display similar to the liquid-crystal screens found in millions of laptops and televisions. “It wouldn’t be too different, in terms of construction,” he says.
Unlike LCD screens, which require a bright backlight and a series of tinted filters to produce colour, artificial opals are inherently coloured. This means that the display would only require power when the image is changed. The rest of the time, it would be stable – just like ink on paper. The applications for such an invention run the spectrum from novel anti-counterfeiting technologies, to high-resolution digital paper, to billboard advertisements that could change their message in less than a second. Arsenault says such products are still years away, although Opalux is likely to have a basic version of the technology on the market in the next year or so. At the moment, photonic crystal displays don’t react quickly enough to display full motion video, limiting their use to static displays such as posters and signs. But the research continues, and these limitations will likely be solved in the future.
Arsenault is not the only one who believes he’s on to something big; last fall, he won first place in the Innovation Challenge Awards, a prize given out by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada for identifying commercial applications for graduate research. Opal appears to be one rock that’s on a roll. | 2019-04-24T16:46:48Z | https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/uses-for-artificial-opals-photonic-crystals-andre-arsenault/ | Porn | Business | 0.295729 |
wordpress | Pattern Description: Toddlers’ shirts have collar with collar stand, yoke, front placket with button closure, and shirt-tail hemline. View A has long sleeves with buttoned cuffs and breast pocket. View B has short sleeves and breast pocket. View C has western-style yokes, long sleeves with buttoned cuffs, and front pockets with buttoned flaps. I made view B.
Pattern Sizing: T1-T4 — I made a T2 for my nephew Thor; he just turned two. It’s a little big on him, but I think that’s fine for this kind of shirt and he’s got room to grow.
Were the instructions easy to follow? The instructions were very easy to follow.
LIKES: I thought the collar/stand instructions were great and made for a great looking collar. I am really proud of my first collar and stand!!!
my FIRST collar with stand!
Even David Coffin thought so. Really! We’re FB friends and when I posted a picture of the collar and stand he commented, “Nice collar.” I was blown away! In my shirtmaking research I did read David Coffin’s book on shirtmaking from cover to cover. I thought it was fantastic and it definitely helped me with this project. The Kwik Sew method for making a clean finish on the yoke was also great.
DISLIKES: I didn’t like the tiny seam allowances which did not allow for flat felled seams at all. 1/4 inch SA’s??? You can’t even serge them to finish them off. I accidentally serged off part of one of the sleeves. It was minor and I was able to fix it, but it could have been a disaster. I ended up overcasting with my sewing machine to patch some sections.
Fabric Used: I bought what I thought was a plain cotton gingham fabric, but when I got it home, I noticed it had some stretch. I just assumed it was 100% cotton because why would anyone add lycra to gingham shirting? I just don’t understand it. However, it didn’t really affect anything with the making of the shirt. Because of the regularity of the print/weave of the fabric, I cut all the pattern pieces in a single layer to match up the print as much as possible. While they were cut precisely to match, it was a little difficult to maintain the matching of the gingham at the machine. I think it will take much more practice and maybe the use of my walking foot, but I’ll get there. This was my first time really trying to match such a pattern.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made: I didn’t make any real alterations, but I did change construction order and used some different techniques.
I did not interface the pocket as I didn’t think it was necessary. The instructions would have you hem the shirt before you sew the side seams, but I think that’s crazy. I waited until after I had sewn them. I guess I’m no longer a beginner now if I am disagreeing with pattern instructions! On the other hand, the instructions also have you sew up the sleeves before you hem them, but it’s really hard to hem tiny little sleeves. I didn’t think of this before I sewed them up, so I was forced to hem them after they were sewn. But if I had sewn up the T1 size, I don’t think I could have hemmed the sleeves on the machine; I would have had to sew them by hand. Another change I made to the pattern was to use pearl snaps instead of buttons. I just thought it was a neater look and more child friendly. I loved it. And an embellishment I added was to use freezer paper stencil (tutorial here) to create a red thunderbolt on the back of the shirt for a more urban feel. Thor’s name means God of Thunder, so it was very a propos and he loved it.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? I will definitely make it again, but next time, I will add more to the seam allowances so I can make flat felled seams. Why not? You’ve already gone to the trouble to make a real collar and stand. Why wouldn’t you also want flat felled seams as well? Also next time, I will only interface half the placket as I felt it was too stiff after all the layers are sewn together. It could have been that my interfacing was too stiff, but I still think halving the interfacing would be better. I would definitely recommend this to anyone, even beginners, as long as they take their time and really understand the directions.
Conclusion: I love this pattern. I think it makes a great and professional looking shirt due to the great collar/stand and yoke instructions.
In other sewing news, I just muslined the bodice for Vogue’s DVF wrap dress knockoff, 8379. I will start cutting out the real fabric tomorrow. Wish me luck please.
Wow, either I am getting better at this sewing thing or this is just a speedy project. After all it is a teeny tiny little shirt. Did I mention that it was small too? Tonight I assembled the collar and stand.
Then I attached the sleeves and sewed up the side seams.
Thank you for all your kind comments and suggestions on my last post about the matching. I actually feel a lot better about my matching today. Sometimes you just need some time to get some perspective. Right?
I still have to have to serge the side seam SA’s, make the buttonholes, attach the buttons, and hem the sleeves and bottom of the shirt. I actually feel pretty confident that I can do all that Friday night. Am I nuts???
check out that pattern matching with the pocket!
I do have an idea to add an embellishment to the shirt, but it’s a secret as I think my sister reads my blog sometimes. If she doesn’t she’s in big trouble. Hahahaha!
P.S. Carolyn pointed out to me that I neglected to mention the store that was having a great sale in NYC. It’s P&S Fabrics on Broadway below Canal and above Worth. I’m a dork. What can I say?
Iron your shirting fabric, don’t just press it. Stretch it out in the same direction as the selvedges.
Use sew in interfacing not fusible since you wash shirts often.
Use a flat fell foot for superior flat fell seams.
Insert arms flat and then sew side seams.
Match the lightest thread color present in your shirting for your thread.
The first point is something Thea had already mentioned to me when I had problems with my Alhambra clover print fabric. The sewing the arms flat first thing was a surprise to me as well as the match the lightest thread color. And actually I disagreed with that last point for my specific fabric print. I, unfortunately, do not own a flat fell foot as it did not come with my machine, but will consider getting one for the future. But fortunately, my little boy’s shirt pattern does not require flat felled seams as the seam allowances are only a 1/4 inch, much too small for a flat fell seam finish.
I had my sewing lesson with Thea last night and we started work on the shirt. When I cut out the fabric, I cut in a single layer so as to match the print as much as possible. I am using a check fabric, or is it gingham? I can’t see what the difference is between the two. But despite my careful cutting, I still did not get a perfect match. I’m kind of bummed about that. The feed dogs just didn’t want me to match I guess. Not sure what else I can do to counteract this, except to whip out the walking foot. Any suggestions? I pinned the heck out of it.
As for thread choice, I went with a navy thread even though David Coffin suggests white when white is present. I just thought it blended better. Here’s my test swatch.
So far I have interfaced the parts that needed interfacing, the collar and stand, and the button hole placket. I used Pam Erny’s interfacing. I really like her interfacing but can’t speak to competitor stuff as hers is the only kind I have ever used. For the placket, I probably should have cut the interfacing in half because you double the placket over itself, thereby doubling the interfacing and it became too stiff. Live and learn.
I opted not to interface the pocket and am pretty proud of my placement. It’s perfectly matching on one side, and just a little off on the other. The topstitching isn’t too bad either, but again, not perfect.
That’s where I left off last night. I have to attach the yoke to the fronts now. Working on that tonight. Wish me luck! | 2019-04-24T14:52:34Z | https://eword10.wordpress.com/category/shirtsblouses/ | Porn | Kids | 0.918502 |
livejournal | "Everybody has a story, Skip."
"Seems like you got the variety pack."
"In a free society you are what you say you are. If you screwed up one life, sometimes you can get another shot." | 2019-04-25T15:49:30Z | https://underwatercolor.livejournal.com/27240.html?thread=16488 | Porn | Society | 0.399718 |
typepad | Today's NY Times features an article on a Carrier Air Condition plant that recently closed in NY State (apparently production moved to China).
What is most disturbing is that in the 80s and 90s for the most part stories that featured the effects of a plant closing at least showed a sign that workers were outraged by what was happening to the working class of this country. This latest article however presents to us workers who seem more content and accepting of the fact that they are laid off and will be taking new jobs in different sectors for less pay.
SYRACUSE - When factories close, the workers who are laid off often feel like dinosaurs in a fast-disappearing industrial age. But when the Carrier Corporation shut down its huge air-conditioning factory here last year, Joseph Huppman saw it as a golden opportunity.
Mr. Huppman, who worked at Carrier for five years after spending 17 years in the Air Force, took advantage of his layoff to pursue a career that had long beckoned to him.
"I always wanted to be a nurse, and the opportunity never came up before," he said. "Carrier, by sending my job to China, made the opportunity come up."
But education has not been a cure-all. It does not ensure that the workers will find jobs or, if they do, that the jobs will pay as well as Carrier did. Happy as he is to be a nurse, Mr. Huppman is earning $30,000 a year, half what he earned at Carrier, where he earned $17 an hour and worked hundreds of hours of overtime.
After the 5 month long strike waged by tens of thousands of UFCW members against 3 major grocery chains in Southern California ended both the union and the employer did not want a repeat. The master grocery contracts that followed in Northern California were significantly better than the settlement in Southern California.
Safeway Inc. this week offered buyouts to thousands of seasoned Northern California workers in a bid to replace them with cheaper new hires.
At least one longtime worker said the amount isn't nearly high enough, and took a dim view of the impetus for the buyout.
"They're trying to get rid of the old-timers who are higher-paid so they can get the new hires starting at $8 with no benefits or dependents for 18 months," said Gregg Davidson, a 34-year Safeway veteran, who works at the Lafayette store. "The plan is to lower (overall) wages as quickly as they can."
Like many shopping strips in immigrant neighborhoods, Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick is overflowing with 99-cent stores, cuchifrito stands, sneaker shops - and egregious wage and hour violations.
At the Super Star 99 discount store at 353 Knickerbocker, employees say they work 63 hours a week for $260, which works out to $4.13 an hour, far below the state minimum wage of $6 an hour and the federal minimum of $5.15.
At the Nuevo Mexico restaurant at 276 Knickerbocker, Patricia Reyes, a 29-year-old waitress and cook, said she received just $165 a week, including tips, for 72 hours of work, which comes to $2.29 an hour.
And at Footco, a bustling sneaker shop at 431 Knickerbocker, workers said they earned $4.75 an hour working more than 50 hours a week.
Concerned about the high rate of wage violations, Make the Road by Walking and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union have adopted an unusual strategy. They are collecting information about violations from scores of workers on Knickerbocker Avenue. The two groups plan to confront storeowners with this evidence and give them a choice: either face a lawsuit or government action seeking maximum back pay, or agree to unionization and face a less aggressive push for back pay.
The retail union and Make the Road by Walking say that a half century ago, half of Knickerbocker Avenue's stores were unionized, but that just two were now. The groups assert that unionization would be preferable to occasional back-pay settlements because it would mean long-term improvements in wages and benefits.
"The State Department of Labor is completely overwhelmed and doesn't seem to have enough commitment or resources to do the job properly," said Andrew Friedman, a co-director of Make the Road by Walking. "My sense is many folks are very scared to stand up and complain because they worry about losing their jobs and because they have a perception that the State Labor Department isn't interested in protecting the rights of immigrants."
"Since I no longer own my small business, and since I do not control billions in assets, I suppose that I should identify with the oppressed labor class."
Ha, so he then admits that there is an oppressed labor class!
The director of Super Size Me has made a new documentary. This time he tackles the minimum wage problem.
SUPER MAN RETURNS!: Oscar-nominated documentarian Morgan Spurlock, whose fast-food exposé Super Size Me gave McDonald's a serious case of indigestion, is targeting something smaller for his next project: the nation's minimum wage. For the June 15 premiere of his new FX ducu-series, 30 Days, Spurlock and his fiancée, Alexandra Jamieson, relocated to Columbus, Ohio, for a month and lived on $5.15 an hour. "It's so impossible," says Spurlock. "There were days when I'd work 18 hours and make $90." During the experiment, the human guinea pig toiled as a construction worker, a dishwasher, a landscaper and a printer. "I wanted to get a job at a fast-food restaurant," he reveals, "but, what a surprise — none of them would allow us to shoot there."
According to an article in today's NY Sun the employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas inc states that the opening of next week's Star Wars film will prompt "a significant spike in absenteeism on Thursday and Friday of the four day opening weekend." With an estimated cost the day after the opning midnight screening estimated at $627 million.
Should Migrant Workers Be Paid the Same as Domestic Workers?
The basic facts of the case are straightforward: Last year a Latvian company, Laval un Partneri, won a bid to build the school in Vaxholm, a suburb of Stockholm. The company used Latvian workers, which it is entitled to do because Sweden, along with Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands, has opened its borders to workers from the new East European members of the European Union.
decided to abandon the project.
The Swedish labor union says it was acting in the interest of the Latvian workers, who they said should be paid the same wages as their Swedish counterparts. According to Agell, the Latvian workers were paid a monthly salary of 13,600 kronor, or about €1,480, half the level that the union said was appropriate.
From the very beginning, Starbucks has been committed to offering comprehensive, affordable health coverage to our employees. In fact, we were one of the first companies to offer coverage to part-time retail workers. And we'll continue to do that, but no company, small business, or individual can sustain a broken system indefinitely.
As the price of health care continues to rise, fewer individuals and families can afford to pay for coverage. Fewer small businesses are able to provide coverage for their employees, and those that do are struggling to hold on to the coverage they offer. It is a problem that affects all of us. Cover the Uninsured Week will mobilize thousands of business owners, union members, educators, students, patients, hospital staff, physicians, nurses, faith leaders and their congregants, and many others at press conferences, health and enrollment fairs and other activities held May 1-8, 2005.
I find it interesting that some corporations are being pressured, through economic forces, to recognize the healthcare crisis. | 2019-04-24T14:36:40Z | https://industrialrelations.typepad.com/unionsfirmsmarkets/working_today/ | Porn | Business | 0.846681 |
wordpress | by Justin Elliott ProPublica, April 24, 2013, 12:07 p.m.
Last year, we told you about how former Lockheed Martin executive Ann Sauer had been hired to be the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Sauer got $1.6 million from Lockheed, including a buyout, before being hired by Sen. John McCain to come back to Capitol Hill, where she had previously worked as a staffer. Watchdogs cried foul.
With McCain stepping down as ranking member of the committee, Sauer left the job on the Armed Services Committee earlier this year and now works as a federal budget expert for hire.
Her replacement? Another former Hill staffer who went to work with large military contractors 2014 including Lockheed.
John Bonsell, the new staff director for the Republicans on the committee, spent five years as a lobbyist for military contractors such as Boeing, GE Aviation, BAE Systems, and SAIC. He made $276,400 in 2011, his final year as a lobbyist, a disclosure form shows. Bonsell did not respond to our requests for comment.
Bonsell takes the Armed Services Committee job at an especially fraught time for military contractors: the industry has been fighting 2014 so far unsuccessfully 2014 budget cuts that kicked in under sequestration last month.
Before working as a lobbyist, Bonsell had a two-decade career in the Army including a stint as chief of concepts and doctrine on the Army staff at the Pentagon. After that, he became a legislative assistant to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., in 2001.
In 2007, he joined Robison International, a lobby shop focusing on military issues that is led by a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs named Randall West.
After five years as a lobbyist, Bonsell rejoined Inhofe’s staff in 2012 as legislative director. Earlier this year, when Inhofe took over from McCain as ranking member on the Armed Services Committee, he hired Bonsell to be staff director.
Asked if Bonsell’s previous role as a lobbyist for industry players presents any conflict, Inhofe spokeswoman Donelle Harder said the senator views that work as a plus.
“Due to his 20 plus years of service in the U.S. Army and his post-retirement career, Sen. Inhofe finds John Bonsell uniquely qualified to understand the perspective of both the government and the private sector as the committee works to address unprecedented challenges with the future of our national defense,” she wrote in an email.
Inhofe has said that his top priority is to avoid military budget cuts.
by Cora Currier ProPublica, April 18, 2013, 9:45 a.m.
It’s been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain. With 59 detainees at Gitmo currently on hunger strike, by the military’s count, here’s a primer on what’s going at the island prison.
Yes, most recently last weekend. In an early-morning raid on Saturday, soldiers in riot gear moved about 60 of the detainees from their communal living camp into individual cells. Guards fired four “less-than-lethal” rounds; they say some prisoners wielded makeshift weapons, constructed from broken broomsticks and plastic water bottles filled with rocks.
In a statement earlier this week, the military said the detainees were being placed on lockdown to allow for “round-the-clock monitoring.” In recent years, the communal living arrangement had been redone to “feel more like a dorm.” Now, the Miami Herald reports, those men are confined to their cells, without TV, legal documents, and the other things they were previously allowed.
At least one detainee has alleged that the hunger strikers are being punished, by being forced to drink potentially unsafe tap water and cold temperatures in their cells. The military disputes that, saying the tap water is safe and bottled water is available. On Monday, a federal judge ruled he did not have jurisdiction to weigh in on the prisoner’s treatment.
As of Wednesday, 15 detainees are being force-fed nutritional supplements through tubes inserted into their noses. The military says strikers “present” themselves for the procedure, though it also says passing out counts as consent.
No one has been brought to Gitmo under President Obama. The last people to leave were two Uighur Muslims from China, who were resettled in El Salvador last spring. Adnan Latif, a Yemeni, died in an apparent suicide in September. He was the ninth detainee to die.
This January, the State Department shut down the office responsible for detainee resettlement. Even if transfer restrictions were loosened, it’s not clear what would happen to the prisoners who are being held indefinitely. A new periodic review process for the detainees was created in 2011, though it still hasn’t actually begun. Military commissions started up again, with some changes — though still plenty of controversy, including questions about government censorship and surveillance.
The Pentagon has proposed a $150 million overhaul of the facility this year.
by Cora Currier ProPublica, April 11, 2013, 11:12 a.m.
The long-troubled military trials at Guantanamo Bay were hit by revelations earlier this year that a secret censor had the ability to cut off courtroom proceedings, and that there were listening devices disguised as smoke detectors in attorney-client meeting rooms.
Now, another potential instance of compromised confidentiality at the military commissions has emerged: Defense attorneys say somebody has accessed their email and servers.
“Defense emails have ended up being provided to the prosecution, material has disappeared off the defense server, and sometimes reappeared, in different formats, or with different names,” said Rick Kammen, a lawyer for Abd Al Rahim Al Nashiri, who is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
The lawyers say they don’t know exactly who is accessing their communications. And it’s not yet clear whether the emails were intentionally grabbed or were scooped up mistakenly due to technical or procedural errors.
Either way, the lawyers are concerned.
In response to the apparent breaches, the military’s chief defense counsel ordered defense lawyers to stop using email for privileged or confidential communications.
“This follows on the heels of the seizure of over 500,000 e-mail containing attorney-client privileged communications as well as the loss of significant amount of defense work-product contained in shared folders,” Commander Walter Ruiz, one of the military defense counsels, said in an email.
The search of thousands of emails was revealed by the prosecution, attorneys say.
“The searches on their face looked to be fairly benign,” Kammen said. The defense emails turned up when prosecutors requested a search of prosecutors’ own emails. “The people who were doing the searches ended up providing all manner of defense material as well.” It’s not clear what department, agency, or office did the search.
It is not possible to corroborate the attorneys’ accounts because the full documents are undergoing security review, and are not yet public.
The Pentagon declined to comment, citing the ongoing trial.
In recent months, defense lawyers also realized that files were missing from their shared and personal servers. There is no evidence that the missing files are connected to the email searches.
“The main thing is that the integrity of the system as the whole is in very serious question,” said Commander Ruiz. The order to stop using servers and emails, “essentially cripples our ability to operate,” he said.
These new concerns are the latest example of irregularities of military commissions overshadowing the actual facts of the cases brought before them. Pretrial hearings have been consumed by issues such as whether defendants can wear camouflage to court (they can), when mail can be read, and what exactly lawyers can discuss with or send their clients. The prosecution has also tried to prohibit “informational contraband,” including any material on “current political or military events in any country; historical perspectives or discussions on jihadist activities.” Copies of the 9/11 Commission Report and the memoirs of an FBI agent have been taken from defendants’ cells.
In cases before the commissions, defendants’ interactions with their attorneys are subject to strict controls. Orders aimed at protecting classified information govern most proceedings and lawyers have limited access to their clients. Defense lawyers previously had to get a security officer’s approval to use even mundane information from defendants. That requirement was loosened a bit, but details of the defendants’ time in CIA custody 2013 including their own accounts of being tortured 2013 are automatically classified.
There have been seven convictions under the military commissions. Another seven detainees are currently facing charges, and 24 others may yet be prosecuted. The government has deemed 46 detainees simply too dangerous to release but doesn’t plan to try them.
The Obama administration initially sought to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other alleged 9/11 plotters in federal court in Manhattan, but reversed its position after heated opposition from Congress and New York City officials.
Though President Obama has thus far failed to fulfill his pledge to close Guantanamo, no one has been brought to the prison under the Obama administration. In recent months, a string of terror suspects have been extradited from foreign countries to face charges in U.S. courts. | 2019-04-24T22:22:24Z | https://theguerrillablog.wordpress.com/tag/pro-publica/ | Porn | Business | 0.480921 |
wordpress | The debacle was even more monumental than expected. It was historic, worse than 1983. The left—mainly PS—lost 155 communes with a population of 9,000 and over, 49 between 30 and 100K, and 8 cities of over 100K. Those who’ve read about it elsewhere already know the story: the PS managed to save Paris (Anne Hidalgo), Lyon (Gérard Collomb), Lille (Martine Aubry), Strasbourg, and Nantes—and, thanks to a merged list with the Front de Gauche, picked up Avignon from the UMP (and fended off the FN) plus a few others—but it was the Berezina just about everywhere else. Toulouse, which the PS won in 2008, went to the UMP, along with numerous cities that have been Socialist/left bastions for decades, even a century: e.g. Limoges, Belfort, Nevers, Dunkerque, Chambéry, Amiens… The dense network of PS-run municipalities that was painstakingly built up by François Hollande during his period as party first secretary—and particularly in the western part of the country—was decimated in one fell swoop. After the 2008 elections the PS was looking to be the party of cities, the one with the strongest local base, but now the UMP/UDI have taken that mantle (and with the UDI-MoDem, led by François Bayrou in Pau, taking its share of communes, meaning that it will be a big center-right player in the coming years). Even the PS victories in the large aforementioned cities have to be relativized, as the intercommunal governing structures that have been established over the years, and particularly since the 1990s—and which will progressively supplant the communes themselves in local decision-making—, will also pass to the right. So even though Martine Aubry won reelection in Lille she was not happy last night, as the UMP took nearby Roubaix and Tourcoing, meaning that she will lose the presidency of the Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine, which is almost as important to her as being mayor of her city. As for the future Métropole du Grand Paris, the UMP (Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet?) may have enough votes to control it when that time comes (January 2016).
On this score, the results in the famous ‘red belt’ around Paris were also calamitous for the left (PCF and PS), which, entre autres, lost the communes in the neuf-trois I mentioned in my post last week: Bobigny, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Le Blanc-Mesnil, Livry-Gargan, Saint-Ouen, and Villepinte. By my count the PCF only has six communes left in the Seine-Saint-Denis. And to the list of setbacks one may add Villejuif in the Val-de-Marne, which has been Communist since the 1920s but was taken by the UMP, whose list, in a merger contre nature, included a local EELV fed up with the eternal PCF rule over the town; among the renegade Villejuifois écolos was the gauchiste economist Alain Lipietz (he and the others have been suspended from the EELV for their transgression). My (Algerian origin) in-laws there are no doubt content with the outcome (I’ll have to call them this week), BTW, as their property taxes will most certainly not be raised by the new UMP-led administration.
Local taxes were a big issue in this election and across the board. They’ve gone up significantly and just about everywhere, in communes run by the right as well as the left. E.g. in my very right-wing banlieue, the taxe d’habitation has increased by at least 25%—maybe even more (I’d have to do the calculation)—since the 2008 election, and which was one of the factors in the defeat of the incumbent mayor (UDI/ex-UMP) at the hands of his erstwhile (UMP) associate-turned-rival. The ras-le-bol over inexorably rising local taxes will be a big challenge to all the new mayors, as they try to maintain local services plus deal with already high municipal indebtedness.
As for the Front National, it won 11 communes. If one hasn’t yet seen the list, go here, here, or here. Notable FN victories include Marseille’s 7th sector, with a population of 150K—it will be interesting to see how the new FN mayor, Stéphane Ravier, gets along with the neighboring 8th sector mayor, la très forte en gueule Algerian-origin Samia Ghali (the only PS tête de liste to win a Marseille sector yesterday)—; Hayange in the Moselle, a dying industrial town and site of ArcelorMittal’s recently shuttered steel blast furnaces that President Hollande promised to save but could not—and whose FN mayor-elect, Fabien Engelmann, is a former trade unionist (in the formerly Communist-run CGT, from which he was expelled for joining the FN)—; and Mantes-la-Ville in the Île-de-France (Yvelines), whose FN list squeaked through to victory due to the (incomprehensible and inexcusable) inability of the two rival left lists (PS and divers gauche) to merge between the two rounds—and, irony of ironies, the mayoral candidate of one having been physically manhandled by Jean-Marie Le Pen in an infamous incident in 1997.
But it wasn’t a slam dunk for the FN yesterday, as party heavyweights Florian Philippot and Louis Aliot (Marine LP’s current S.O.) failed to win Forbach and Perpignan respectively, and Gilbert Collard bit the dust in Saint-Gilles. And it needs to be reiterated that Robert Ménard’s victorious list in Béziers was only supported by the FN, with a number of its conseillers municipaux-elect—including Ménard himself—not being FN members.
Marine Le Pen and other FN leaders swear that they’ve learned from the fiasco of the FN’s local government experience in the 1995-2002 period—notably in Toulon, Vitrolles, and Marignane—, which was marked by incompetence, amateurism, and corruption—not to mention initiatives such as serving pork dishes only in school cafeterias catering to Muslim students—, and won’t repeat the mistakes. Frontiste communes will, it is promised, be governed more responsibly and professionally this time. On verra. One of the first issues the mayor-elect in Fréjus, 26-year-old David Rachline, will have to deal with is the project—currently underway—to build a mosque in the commune. One would assume that FN mayors, echoing the rhetoric of Marine LP, will take a hard-line against expressions and manifestations of “communautarisme,” a neologism that, translated into American, refers to the asserting of ethnic identities by persons of post-colonial immigrant roots, i.e. from North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and which the dominant French ethos—shared by right and left alike—considers to be a bad thing (but only when it involves communities hailing from the African continent; no one cares if it’s the Portuguese, Armenians, or even Vietnamese or Chinese who do it). The younger generations from these communities are more educated, organized, and assertive in expressing ethnic identities nowadays than in the past, so if FN mairies try to pick a fight with them, a fight they will get.
In an analysis of the elections last night, Art Goldhammer wondered if the real political problem in France is less the failings of François Hollande—or of Nicolas Sarkozy before him—than of the French presidency itself, of its seeming omnipotence and the outsized expectations this generates, and that inevitably leads to disappointments on the part of the electorate. Art is absolutely right on this. As he points out, the constitution of the Fifth Republic was tailor-made for one man, Charles de Gaulle, a larger than life historical figure who returned to power at a time of grave national crisis—the Algerian war—and when France needed a strong executive who could assert primacy over the legislative branch of government (and also a seditiously-inclined military). But that historical moment is gone and not only is there no one with the stature of de Gaulle—il n’y a plus de grands hommes—but there is no justification nowadays for an advanced democracy to concentrate so much power (hors cohabitation) in the hands of the executive. It worked more or less for François Mitterrand, though he was saved by the first cohabitation, which paved the way for his reelection, and with his interminable second term ending in failure. Jacques Chirac’s presidency was a failure from almost the get go (and with him winning reelection on a silver platter thanks to the accident of the 21 avril). And the bilan of Sarkozy’s presidency—and now Hollande’s—requires no elaboration. In the case of Sarkozy and Hollande, plus Chirac during his brain-dead second term, the perversity of the omnipotent presidency has been aggravated by the quinquennat and the accident of the electoral calendar, in which the presidential and legislative elections happen one month apart, and with the legislative following the presidential—a sequencing that was decided in a law passed by Lionel Jospin’s gauche plurielle government after the 2000 referendum and was supported by the UDF (but not Chirac’s RPR). What this did was permanently hitch the fortunes of the National Assembly—elected in the wake in the presidential election, axiomatically giving the newly elected president a majority—to the President of the Republic, thus rendering it even more powerless vis-à-vis the executive. The latter calls all the shots. The problem is institutional, not linked to the personality of whoever happens to be the chief resident in the Elysée palace. So in view of the omnipotence of the President of the Republic and the expectations of the French people that he will solve all the problems—and at a time when France, which has no control over its own currency, has less power on the European and world stage than ever, and with an increasingly uncompetitive economy—, it is inevitable that his poll ratings will plummet almost as soon as he takes office and his party massacred in intermediate elections.
The next elections—after May’s European—are the regionals, in March 2015. The PS controls 21 of 22 regions in metropolitan France. Anyone want to take bets on how many they’ll be left with after that one?
ADDENDUM: The abstention rate yesterday was 38%, which is historically high for a municipal election. But the turnout was nonetheless higher than for other types of elections, notably the European. And way higher than one would ever see in an off year election in the US. If the upcoming American midterm elections could attain such a turnout, the outcome would be very different than the one we’re likely to get (and less favorable to the Republicans). Just sayin’.
UPDATE: Rue89’s Pascal Riché explains—with a certain dose of mauvaise foi, he admits—why yesterday’s result was, in fact, a setback for the Front National. Not a bad analysis, actually.
There’s almost no question about it: the Socialists are going to get massacred. They could lose as many as 100 communes with a population of 10K or more. The PS’s dense network of local elected officials will be decimated. Whatever governmental remaniement President Hollande cooks up next week will be bien dérisoire in the face of such a monumental setback. Socialist voters are so demoralized and exasperated with their president—it is nigh impossible to find anyone on the left these days who will stand up for Monsieur Hollande—that they will most certainly repeat last Sunday’s performance and stay away in droves from the polls.
The UMP will do very well, of course, but all eyes will be on Marine Le Pen’s Front National, which, according to the above map, has a good shot at picking up seven communes—with Béziers and Forbach all but certain—, in addition to Hénin-Beaumont and Orange (whose mayor, Jacques Bompard—re-elected last Sunday with 60%—, quit the FN a decade ago but is no less a facho than when he first won the town in 1995). But the FN and its extreme right allies could, in fact, win as many as 20 municipalities, including several that the map forgot to include: Beaucaire (Gard), Bollène (Vaucluse)—whose incumbent mayor, Marie-Claude Bompard, is not formally FN but is politically identical to her husband in nearby Orange—, Brignoles (Var), Cluses (Haute-Savoie), Cogolin (Var), Hayange (Moselle), Le Luc (Var), Le Pontet (Vaucluse), L’Hôpital (Moselle), Marseille’s 7th sector, Tarascon (Bouches-de-Rhône), Villeneuve-sur-Lot (Lot-et-Garonne), and Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne). To these one may add Villeneuve-Saint-George in the suburban Parisian Val-de-Marne (and near where I live), where the 2nd place divers droite list—which had been endorsed by the UMP and UDI—merged with the 3rd place FN against the PCF-led incumbents. If the FN wins most of these, it will be a political earthquake equivalent to the PS’s débâcle annoncée. It does appear, though, that Avignon will be spared the FN, with the fusion of the PS and Front de Gauche lists there.
For an idea of what may lie in store for communes under FN rule, see this Rue89 enquête from two months ago, on Jacques Bompard’s reign in Orange, “Orange, 20 ans d’extrême droite: «Les cœurs se sont fermés».” Persons of Maghrebi and African immigrant origin—and particularly those who live in public housing—will wish they lived somewhere else.
And on Hénin-Beaumont’s new frontiste mayor, Steeve Briois, see this one by Claude Askolovitch in Rue89, “Quand Steeve Briois, 15 ans, jubilait dans un bus rempli d’immigrés,” in which Askolovitch reproduces a passage from his (excellent) 1999 book Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu’il est, recounting his experience of following Briois, then a teenage FN activist, around the declining industrial towns of the Pas-de-Calais. Briois, who hails from the couches populaires, developed a youthful antipathy toward his generational contemporaries of Maghreb origin, i.e. the punk was a racist from the get go. Now people do grow up and evolve in their ways of thinking. Or they don’t.
Also in Rue89 is this very interesting reportage of the FN’s campaign in Marseille’s 7th sector (13th-14th arrondissements), “La tentation du FN à Marseille: «Il faut bien leur faire peur»,” which may yield it victory tomorrow. One learns, entre autres, that a certain number of Maghrebi voters, driven by opposition to the gay marriage law or simply because they are totally fed up, voted FN. What is clear is that the FN simply does not strike fear in the hearts and minds of a significant portion of the electorate, including voters of immigrant origin who would normally have reason to fear it.
One will have noted that the majority of communes that the FN stands to win are in the southeast. On the regional cleavage in the FN vote, geographer Laurent Chalard, whom I linked to in my previous post on the election, had a good op-ed in Le Monde earlier this week on “Les failles stratégiques du Front national,” in which he discussed the contradictions at the heart of Marine Le Pen’s and the FN’s discourse as they strive to address constituencies with fundamentally divergent revindications: the FN’s traditional middle class/petit bourgeois base in the southeast, which is opposed to state intervention, taxes, and Parisian bureaucrats; and working class voters in the northeast, who fear globalization and favor state intervention in the economy to protect their jobs or restore them. How the FN manages this contradiction—and if the mainstream parties of the left and right can exploit it to undermine the frontistes—will have a significant impact on the party’s fortunes in the coming period.
As I did last Sunday, I’ll be working a bureau de vote all day tomorrow as an assesseur titulaire in my commune (where the local right-wing is tearing itself apart in a fratricidal war, as it always does in local elections). À suivre.
ADDENDUM: The blog 500 Signatures: French Politics & Elections Blog of political scientists Jocelyn Evans and Gilles Ivaldi is closely tracking the FN’s electoral progress, and with lots of data and statistical analyses.
The website of the French journal Esprit has a lengthy interview (en français), “La fin de l’illusion turque,” with Ahmet Insel, who teaches economics and politics at Galatasaray University in Istanbul (and is a founder of the İletişim publishing house). It’s one of the most interesting analyses I’ve read of late on the current political situation in Turkey, and notably on the conflict between RT Erdoğan and the Gülen movement, and the role of the military in this. Insel says that an AKP national vote of 45% or above in tomorrow’s municipal elections—which he deems probable—will represent a big victory for Erdoğan, providing him with the legitimacy to launch an all-out offensive against the Gülenists (not to mention anyone else he feels like going after). But in the (improbable) event that the AKP wins less than 40%, many AKP militants will start looking to a post-Erdoğan era and which may provoke a split within the party, such that the AKP could lose its current majority in the Grand National Assembly.
le Premier ministre restera condamné à une posture défensive. Il va passer le reste de sa vie politique à craindre l’ouverture de nouveaux dossiers, la publication de nouvelles preuves accablantes. Qu’elle soit lente, en passant par une phase «poutinienne», ou rapide en cas de défaite aux élections locales, la chute de M. Erdogan est inéluctable.
Sooner rather than later, inshallah.
What Insel has to say to about the Kurdish question is also most interesting. Erdoğan wants to cut a deal with the PKK but his hands are being tied by various domestic actors, not the least of whom is the nationalist Turkish public, i.e. the AKP base, and its ethnic conception of the Turkish nation.
Geographer Laurent Chalard, who teaches at the Université Paris-IV Sorbonne, has an analysis in Figaro Vox of the significant drop in support for the PS last Sunday from voters of immigrant origin. The abstention rates in communes with concentrations of Maghrebis and Africans reached record levels, notably in the Seine-Saint-Denis (a.k.a. le neuf-trois), Paris’s 18th-19th-20th arrondissements, Marseille’s 8th sector (les quartiers nord), and Lyon’s eastern banlieues, and with Socialist-led lists taking a disproportionate hit. Voter participation rates have always been lower than average for these populations and for structural reasons, which Chalard mentions: a voting-age population that is both disproportionately younger and less educated, and with lower levels of political mobilization via intermediate groups or the parties themselves. The latter point I can attest to from personal observation: in my mostly middle/upper middle class banlieue, the only parties/candidates who actively solicit votes in the one cité in town are from the Front de Gauche. The others don’t bother, deeming that there are few votes to be had there—which is the case with the right—or, as with the Socialists and écolos, because they’re not comfortable with ethnic-style campaigning and don’t have a populist economic message to compensate for that, so leave the cités to other parties of the left.
A second factor identified by Chalard for the high abstention rate is the government’s policies and discourse on questions de société, i.e. on issues having to do with social mores, notably gay marriage. Voters of Maghrebi and African origin may be on the left when it comes to the economy but are culturally conservative; thus the opposition by Muslim personalities and groups to the mariage pour tous law last year and the disproportionate hysteria in the banlieues over the so-called “théorie du genre” during that preposterous episode early last month. Chalard’s hypothesis is plausible but I’m dubious. It’s still the economy, stupid, and with the immigrant-origin communities—which are inadequately socialized politically and alienated from the system as it is—affected by unemployment even more than the rest of French society.
Mediapart has had two enquêtes over the past two days on the disaffection of immigrant-origin voters in the current election cycle and their defiance toward the Socialists, one on the Seine-Saint-Denis, the other from Marseille.
The Socialists’s adversaries in the Seine-Saint-Denis are not only the right—UMP and UDI (the FN is not a factor in the department)—but also the PCF/Front de Gauche. The PS, which made big gains in the department in the 2008 elections and at the expense of the Communists, had high hopes of knocking off the latter in several communes but suffered a setback on Sunday, notably in Montreuil—where National Assembly deputy and rising star Razzy Hammadi was eliminated from the 2nd round and with a humiliating fifth place finish—, Saint-Denis—the PCF’s last remaining municipality of over 100K inhabitants, which it has been running almost continuously since the 1920s—, Saint-Ouen, and Villetaneuse, and with Aubervilliers and Bagnolet in the balance. And the UMP/UDI have a strong chance of taking Bobigny—the neuf-trois prefecture and longtime PCF bastion, the loss of which to the right would be hugely symbolic—, Aulnay-sous-Bois—whose très droitier UMP tête de liste, Bruno Beschizza, is a former police officer—, Le Blanc Mesnil—which has been PCF since the 1930s—, Livry-Gargan, and Villepinte.
As for Bobigny, the UDI mayoral candidate, Stéphane di Paoli, seems to be running a smart campaign, at least judging from his list of candidates to the city council, which includes a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf and who is prominently displayed in the campaign’s main poster. And it’s getting publicity outside the commune, as one may see in this dispatch in the high-profile Franco-Islamic website Oumma.com. The video of the exchange between the communist militant and young veiled woman is worth the watch. The latter manifestly understands the meaning of French laïcité more than does the former. If I were a Balbynien, I’d likely vote for Monsieur di Paoli.
ADDENDUM: Here’s a post of mine on “the Muslim vote” in the 2012 presidential election, which one poll had at 93% for François Hollande (far more a rejection of Sarkozy than an affirmative vote for Hollande). In the Seine-Saint-Denis, Hollande received 65% in the 2nd round against Sarko (N.B. not everyone in the neuf-trois is of post-colonial immigrant-origin or from the couches populaires; there are plenty of regular “white” Frenchmen and women out there).
This is not quite an instant analysis and I don’t have much to say about yesterday’s vote that isn’t being said by everyone else, which is that it was a disastrous result for the Socialists—worse than anyone expected or that was projected in polls—, an excellent one for the Front National, and not at all bad for the UMP, and with the backdrop a record abstention rate for this kind of election (39%), reflecting a demobilization of the Socialist party’s base. PS voters disproportionately stayed home—and one needs to specify that it was indeed PS voters, as the other constituents of the left, i.e. the écolos and Front de Gauche, did well where they ran separate lists. The Socialists are not even trying to spin the result. Patrick Menucci, the PS mayoral candidate in Marseille—who finished in third place (behind the FN) with a paltry 21% citywide, a calamitous score that absolutely no one anticipated—, bravely insisted on France Inter this morning that he could make up his 17 point deficit with Jean-Claude Gaudin but one doubts anyone believes this (including Menucci himself). In my own very right-wing banlieue, where I manned a polling station yesterday (photo below) as an assesseur-titulaire (for the PS-EELV-MRC-PRG-MUP list), the total score of the two left lists was 18%, compared with 21% in both the 2008 and 2001 municipal elections (and with François Hollande receiving 40% in the 2nd round of the 2012 presidential).
Two comments. First, on the FN’s result. It was certainly very good for the frontistes but is, objectively speaking, not that big of a deal. So the FN’s secretary-general Steeve Briois won a narrow outright victory (50.3%) last night in Hénin-Beaumont, a depressed industrial town of 25,000 souls in which the party has been investing political resources for years and that Marine Le Pen won with 55% in the 2012 legislative election (losing the larger constituency by a hair). It’s about time the FN won that sorry place. As for Béziers, where the FN-supported Robert Ménard will most certainly be elected mayor next Sunday, it should be specified that he is not an FN member and doesn’t even issue from the extreme right. He was a founder of the civil libertarian Reporters sans Frontières in the 1980s, hung out more with leftists than rightists back then, and was engaged with bona fide, mostly left-wing Algerian democrats who opposed both the military-backed regime and Islamists as that country descended into internecine bloodletting in the 1990s (a product of Ménard’s then support of Algerian democrats was this book). Ménard—whom I don’t know personally but used to see around—was/is a flamboyant, bloviating self-promoter—and, IMO, an insufferable jerk (e.g. the kind who incessantly talks very loudly into his mobile phone in public)—who has found a new outlet for his flamboyant, bloviating self-promotion in Marine Le Pen and the hard right of the political spectrum. It will be most interesting to see how he and his frontiste associates run a city of 71K inhabitants, a third of whom live with less than €1000/month. Likewise with Gilbert Collard, the near certain mayor-to-be of Saint-Gilles, likewise a self-promoter extraordinaire and whose political parcours spans the far right to the far left and everything in between (as I noted two years ago here). The FN managing a handful of municipalities—as many as ten and possibly including Perpignan (but please, not Avignon)—would be a good thing IMO, as Marine LP & Co will finally have some concrete political responsibilities and a bilan to defend. For a party whose national electoral support has been in the teens for the past three decades, it is only normal that it should have at least a few elected officials in executive positions. But again, the number of communes it will be running will only be a drop in the bucket: less than one percent of municipalities with a population of over 10,000. And that will be as good as it gets for the FN.
Second comment. The PS may be able to limit the damage next Sunday via at least a partial mobilization of its electorate. Maybe. In Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who very unexpectedly finished behind Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet citywide, will still likely win next Sunday (as merged PS-EELV lists in the 4th, 9th, 12th, and 14th arrondissements will be en ballotage favorable, and may even take the 5th arrondissement if the right’s warring lists there don’t merge; we’ll know after tomorrow night’s deadline for merging and reconstituting lists). Martine Aubry in Lille, Gérard Collomb in Lyon, and Jean-Marc Ayrault’s successor in Nantes will also win, despite sharp fall-offs in the PS vote yesterday. And Toulouse and Strasbourg look doable. So it ain’t over till it’s over.
But whatever happens next Sunday the municipal elections will still have constituted a big setback for the PS and President Hollande, meaning that there will be a governmental remaniement sooner rather than later and most certainly with a new prime minister. As for what good that will do and if it will change anyone’s fortunes, allez savoir… RDV la dimanche prochaine.
That’s what this Time magazine article on Turkish PM Erdoğan’s Twitter ban and nationalist demagoguery calls him. As for what a honey badger (en français: ratel) is and does, take a look at this YouTube linked to in the article. Beurk!
I’ve been trying to decide who’s worse, Erdoğan or Putin. They’re both equally unspeakable, in fact, with Erdoğan maybe only slightly less awful due to Turkey’s more or less democratic institutions—though which are seeming less these days—, institutionalized party politics, and more or less free and fair elections. But if Erdoğan and Putin were to switch countries, I would definitely fear Erdoğan more than I do Putin now.
Christopher de Bellaigue has a review essay in the April 3rd NYRB, “Turkey goes out of control.” The books under review are Soner Cagaptay’s The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century’s First Muslim Power and two on the Fethullah Gülen movement, one by Joshua D. Hendrick, the other (in Turkish) by Ahmet Şık. Cagaptay is a curious case. He was a fierce critic of Erdoğan and the AKP through the last election—repeatedly warning in numerous articles and op-eds of the threat the AKP posed to secularism and Turkish democracy—but then did an almost 180° turnaround. Though he doesn’t come out and praise Erdoğan personally—at least not so far as I’ve seen—he’s now bullish on Turkey’s future—economically, geopolitically, etc—under the current regime and expresses not a peep of criticism of Erdoğan and his government, not even during the Taksim/Gezi Park movement last June. So he’s become a sell-out changed his mind. Ça arrive.
UPDATE: Zeynep Tufekci, UNC-Chapel Hill prof—and to whom I linked several times last June—, has a very good post on her Technology and Society blog on “The day the Turkish government banned itself from Twitter.” The lede: People in Turkey have banned the ban.
I just read (several days late) a full-page op-ed by Belarussian-Ukrainian investigative journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich in Le Monde dated March 16th-17th, “Poutine et les bas instincts,” in which she describes, almost to her horror, the Kremlin propaganda induced nationalist hysteria that is currently sweeping the Russian population. Russia sounds very much like Serbia in 1990-91, and with Russian attitudes towards Ukraine akin to Serbia back then vis-à-vis Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Worrisome, to say the least. Alexievich‘s tribune is translated from Russian. If it exists in English—or if I can find it in Russian—I’ll post it as an update.
UPDATE: This looks to be the original Russian—or maybe Belarussian—version. | 2019-04-23T08:38:16Z | https://arunwithaview.wordpress.com/2014/03/ | Porn | News | 0.299339 |
tripod | The Froebel College of Education is launching a journal with a date of first publication expected in April 2002. The journal�s mission is to contribute to the wider debate in Irish education from early childhood to senior primary level.
Papers are invited from anyone with an interest in early childhood education or primary education. The topics covered include every aspect of education, from mainstream to special needs. Papers that present research findings are invited, as are theoretical and philosophical papers. The journal aims to become a vehicle of discussion and dissemination of good practice and a forum in which issues can be debated and investigated.
Papers from previously unpublished authors are especially welcome.
The journal also accepts reviews of recent publications about primary, early childhood, and mainstream (inclusive) special education. Book reviews should be 8-10 double-spaced pages. The journal will consider publishing essay reviews, in which the author analyses one or more books with a similar focus and discusses the implications for future practice or research. These essays should range from 15-20 pages.
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livejournal | Affector - Harmagedon (2012) - International band including vocalist Ted Leonard (Enchant, Thought Chamber, Spock's Beard). Drummer Collin Leijenaar (Neal Morse/Dilemma). Bass player Mike LePond (Symphony X) And 4 special keyboard guets: Alex Argento, Neal Morse Jordan Rudess, Derek Sherinian.
Royal Hunt - Show Me How to Live (2012) – Great to have vocalist DC Cooper back.
Stan Bush - Dream The Dream (2010) – Including a reworking of The Touch (originally on The3 Transformers The Animated Movie soundtrack).
Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two (2011) - There might be more better songs on some of the other faves but this is a more interesting whole experience, there’s some weirdly beautiful stuff on there.
The Watch – A bit dissapointming for who’s in it, a few good chuckle moments though.
The Bourne Legacy – Action packed.
I enjoyed the old fashioned sci-fi of Source Code and In Time, the survival thrills of The Grey but Horrible Bosses had me chuckling.
September has 3 days off work, 2 gigs, some BBQs and a spa day. | 2019-04-19T01:12:56Z | https://baggy.livejournal.com/845321.html | Porn | Arts | 0.984485 |
wordpress | Alec Rawls sent out another blogburst, updating the protest planned for Saturday September 11, 2010. Unfortunately I got behind in reading my email and neglected it.
As previously promised, Alec included an image of his newspaper advertisement and a link to the pdf file which you can print and mount on poster board or in a window.
Please do whatever you can to stop the erection of a symbol of Islamic triumphalism at the crash site!
Keyes notes our claim that the design is still replete with terrorist memorializing features and he seems to find it credible. Why shouldn’t he? The damning features are all right there in architect Paul Murdoch’s design drawings. Thank you Doctor Keyes! “It’s not just embarrassing. It is a dangerous willful blindness, spurning the woken vigilance of Flight 93.” That’s the last line of the full-page advertisement that Tom Burnett Senior and Alec Rawls will be running in the Somerset Daily American this Friday and Saturday (when the two first ladies will be in town for the 9/11 anniversary): Click for legible image. Full ad-copy PDF here (large file warning). We are hoping that visitors will hold onto our ad, maybe even tape it to their car windows, and most especially, show it to any press people they come across. Hey, if the Park Service can use 9/11 to plant the world’s largest mosque on the Flight 93 crash site, we can use 9/11 to object. To join our blogburst against the crescent mosque, just send your blog’s url. | 2019-04-24T10:24:50Z | https://snooper.wordpress.com/category/anti-islam-demonstration/ | Porn | News | 0.331964 |
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typepad | I have been feeling pretty listless since coming home from Norway. I am unsure where to direct the energy I had been using on practicing and fantasizing about living in a far away place. Now, I find myself without a plausible daydream, and searching for the next bee to put into my bonnet. I wish I knew what to do with myself. I'm looking for a sign.
Which is why when this happened, I had to stop and take a picture.
The other day I dropped a penny, and it landed on it's edge. This penny represents the most wishy-washy "sign" in all of history. It also perfectly encapsulates my mood. | 2019-04-23T22:56:30Z | https://ohforfun.typepad.com/oh_for_fun/2006/05/flipped.html | Porn | Reference | 0.332743 |
wordpress | Could a Canadian FATCA be in the works?
Since this case broke in February, governments around the world have been investigating the possibility that their citizens have offshore accounts set up mainly to avoid paying taxes. Germany, which as of late 2008, is leading the international crackdown on tax evaders, has reportedly collected up to 250 million euros from more than 200 tax evaders who have turned themselves in, and from 330 citizens who wrongly believed they were on the list of accounts stolen from LGT Group (the largest family-owned private wealth and asset manager in Europe, owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein and thought by many to be the factor behind the US crackdown on tax evasion through their FATCA legislation.
When prompted for a comment regarding Canadians, the CRA refuses to comment.
The CRA would not even throw the press a bone by offering how many Canadians are involved, if the CRA is investigating, and if the CRA would accept voluntary disclosure from those involved in order to help them come clean without the fear of penalties and / or prosecution.
One can wonder if the silence is a result of a crack team of CRA staff who have known about and are working on resolving the Canadians attached to this list, or whether this whole situation came out of left field and the CRA is scrambling to get more information before they can respond publicly.
For those of you who are unaware, this came to light when in February when a former LGT computer technician name Heinrich Kieber stole and sold account information of about 1,400 wealthy clients to the German foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Germany then shared the data with other countries which triggered an international crackdown on tax evasion.
Kieber, for his part, has been given a new identity and placed in witness protection in an undisclosed country. During a hearing in the US, surrounding US citizens’ use of banks in Liechtenstein and Switzerland, Kieber answered questions and outlined the extensive efforts and schemes enlisted by the bank to ensure secrecy.
Swiss banks will now refuse to hold offshore money from US citizens and the US plans on suing the bank. This is just the beginning!
Should Canada follow the lead of other countries investigating their citizens who have accounts in Liechtenstein? Those countries have made public the number of people who have stepped forward and declared their offshore income. Is there is reason why Canada remains quiet? | 2019-04-26T05:55:59Z | https://intaxicating.wordpress.com/tag/list/ | Porn | News | 0.396891 |
wordpress | If you’re like me you have a few websites that you find yourself constantly looking up on your iPhone throughout the day. I mean these are important websites because obviously you can’t wait for a computer and that’s what 4G is for anyways…am I right?!
So here’s a trick that will help you bypass about 3 steps and take you straight to the page you’re looking for online.
1. Open Safari on your iPhone and go to the web page of your choosing.
2. Once you arrive at the web page, tap the arrow as if you want to send the page and this menu will pop up. When it does select “Add to Home Screen”.
3. Now you’ll have the opportunity to name your button what ever you desire. I chose to label it “ListaLand” because that is the blog I want to open to with ease. When you’re done select “Add” in the upper right-hand corner.
4. The button will now appear on your home screen and you can place it anywhere you like.
Now you’ll be able to open your most visited webpages super quick. I made buttons for ListaLand and the schedule for my gym!
What web pages would you like to be able to open easily?
This week while surfing the net I found an article that could be deemed one of the most useful articles of all time… (I mean as far as managing our social networks go!) I present to you Social Media Tips You’ll Wish You’d Known Sooner!
We can all relate to scrolling through our Facebook news feed’s only to care about one of every six posts. I mean do any of us talk to really even talk to 1/12 of the people we’re “friends” with anyways? Chances are no. Thanks to Facebook and this link now you don’t have to look at those randos anymore! All you have to do is make sure you’re logged into Facebook and follow the steps.
Every photo looks better with a filter right? If you take photos on “Airplane mode” and try to upload it to Instagram, the photos will not be posted but instead saved to your Camera Roll. You can save them as nice photos or just upload them later and “double filter” them for extra photo editing.
Need a resume in a quick minute? Well if you’re on LinkedIn getting one should be a simple as clicking your heels together three times. Just use the Resume Builder! Choose from over ten templates and the program will organize all of your information for you. BAM.
Those are just some of the things that will help you take advantage of all of your networks. Visit the article for more tips on how to better use Pinterest, Twitter and more!
What are some of your favorite social media hacks?
I am officially the proud owner of The Yahoo Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World.
The book expands on all things blogging, newsletters, email, UI text, SEO, mobile, HTML and copyright in its 512 pages. Mind you I have only made it to page six, but this is what I’ve learned.
Make sure your words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages are short! It’s a good idea to include bulleted lists for organization.
Slim down your copy as if you’re making and brochure but for an online format.
Put most important content in the upper-left area of the screen (this is where the eyes naturally go first).
The most important elements of your content should be emphasized with headlines, boldface type and or other visual cues.
Make sure to use keywords that people might search for.
Only include 1-2 ideas per short paragraph.
Use simple language that is easy to scan opposed to more technical and sophisticated terms.
…And that’s just the start of the book! I can’t even wait to get into more!
Do you have any of your own personal guidelines for effective writing? | 2019-04-23T10:22:06Z | https://listaland.wordpress.com/category/social-media/ | Porn | Business | 0.803525 |
wordpress | A large post. Possibly my largest post. Certainly my most complex or diverse posting. Therefore, I’ll provide a bit of guidance for you–hopefully it will make things easier for you to understand / navigate.
Four sections: Fireworks, Market, Textures, Walkabout.
“Fireworks” is a “WIP,” or “work in progress.” Each year, I head out to see if I can improve my firework photography. Because the 4th of July only rolls around once a year, I only really can apply the general skills / knowledge acquired over the past year to those challenging conditions.
“Market” is my attempt to respond to my first challenge by a professional photographer to “get out” and about with my camera.
“Textures” is my attempt to respond to my second challenge by the same professional photographer to create unique textures to use when layering photographs.
“Walkabout.” Should be pretty obvious. Some macro, some wildlife photos.
Fireworks. Some of the best fireworks photos I’ve taken.
Market. Target of opportunity. I wish I’d had more time.
Textures. Collected over two days. A decent beginning–I might do more of this.
Walkabout. Trying to get creative during the weekend hiatus. | 2019-04-19T09:02:11Z | https://pj8photography.wordpress.com/tag/glass/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.574705 |
wordpress | Here at Kars4Kids, we are excited to finally say goodbye to scraping ice off our windshields and say hello to driving with the windows down as we sing along to our favorite jingle on the radio.
“Spring” into action with these top 4 ways to channel your spring fever, as we say goodbye to winter and hello to spring!
Spring is the perfect time to break away from the monotony of winter and tackle any projects or long forgotten hobbies you’ve been wanting to retry. Want to change jobs? Finish a book? Build a birdfeeder for your backyard? With the warmer weather approaching, now is the perfect time to get motivated and make a plan of action for finally finishing (or starting) your project.
Throw open those windows and let the fresh air in! During the winter months, we often times isolate ourselves into the warmth of our home, but now that spring is here, it’s time to throw open those doors and windows, and freshen up your home.
One way to do this is to tackle some spring cleaning. So you don’t get too tired out and give up halfway through, try writing a to-do list and aim to accomplish at least one task per day. Whether it’s dusting off the bookshelves or repainting a room, it will feel great to check items off your to-do list each day.
An added bonus to spring cleaning is not only freshening up your home, but having the chance to donate unused or unwanted items to charity. This can be anything from unworn clothing, old toys your children are no longer playing with, or even that clunker taking up space in your garage. You’ll be surprised what you can find to donate once you start cleaning! Find out more here about donating your unwanted vehicle.
It goes without saying that spring time is the perfect opportunity to reacquaint yourself with the great outdoors. After being cooped up all winter, there’s nothing like the feeling of breathing in fresh air and hearing the birds chirping once again. Going on a simple nature walk in your nearest park, taking a stroll around a lake, relaxing on the beach, or, for the more adventurous ones, taking a vigorous hike through the woods, are all great ways to welcome back the warmth.
Enjoy seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Each season comes along with fruits and vegetables that are at its prime during those specific months. After going a whole winter without peaches, plums, and strawberries, it is definitely exciting to see them filling the shelves at the local supermarket again. Celebrate the homecoming of your favorite springtime fruits and vegetables by turning it into a fun family activity by going fruit and vegetable picking!
Popular fruits during this time of year are peaches, plums, and grapefruit, guava, and berries. Popular spring vegetables include artichokes, asparagus, beets, fava beans, peas, and radishes.
We hope you find these tips useful as you welcome back spring and enjoy the warm weather! | 2019-04-23T19:36:57Z | https://kars4kids.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/spring-fever-at-kars4kids/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.289589 |
livejournal | "Raven" reading participants: if you haven't let me know that your lines are coming, and I haven't gotten them from you by tonight, I'm handing them out to others!
I'll be posting tonight, hopefully before 6pm CST!!
I have no interesting voice or accent (although I could fake one! Ha!), but I'll be a pinch-hitter. You just gotta tell me what to do.
Dang it! This happened last year too! Soon as the hubby gets up I'll make him record his and we'll send them in. Sorry!
Just emailed mine to you.
Sign me up for pinch hitting.
Your icon is teh awesome.
Sent you my lines and Starr's!
Comments on the way tonight--got stalled by last-minute international travel.
I'm here with my USB microphone if you need a pinch-hitter. | 2019-04-20T14:15:35Z | https://mollyringle.livejournal.com/193745.html | Porn | Business | 0.323463 |
sfgate | 2 What Happens if You Are Married & the House Is Not in Your Name?
4 Can a Person's Name Be on a Deed Without Being on the Mortgage?
Generally, property owned by people before they marry remains their own and separate from the marriage, although this isn't always the case. If you marry and decide to add your spouse's name to your home's property title, this can change the house from being your separate property to being marital property. If you've decided to want to go ahead and do it, you'll have to execute another deed.
A quit claim deed is typically used to create new ownership of property, such as by adding your spouse's name to your home's title. The deed would transfer the property from you as the sole owner to you and your spouse collectively. Most states allow quit claim deeds to be drawn up and executed and then recorded in the applicable county's property records office. You also may want to include a signed affidavit with your quit claim deed attesting that you're voluntarily adding your spouse to your property's title.
Valid property deeds must be in writing and both the giver or grantor and the receiver or grantee must be properly described. The parties involved in creating property ownership through a deed must be competent to transfer that ownership and capable of receiving it. Valid deeds must also typically include a granting clause with words such as "I hereby grant," making the intent clear. You must sign the quit claim or other deed you're using to add your spouse's name to your property's title.
Your spouse must accept the deed you've drawn up to add her name to your home's title. The deed must also be notarized. Not all states require that property deeds be dated, but it's still a good idea to do so. Many counties also require that property deeds be recorded or filed with the county clerk after they're executed.
Always consult an attorney before adding anybody, including your spouse, to your home's title. If you have a mortgage on your home and you add a new owner without your lender's consent, it's possible that the lender could call the loan due in full immediately. adding your spouse as co-owner may require that you both jointly refinance the loan.
Guerra, Tony. "How to Add My Wife's Name to the House Deed." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/add-wifes-name-house-deed-97567.html. 09 December 2018. | 2019-04-19T04:17:10Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/add-wifes-name-house-deed-97567.html | Porn | Reference | 0.402584 |
wordpress | Apply early for West Virginia!
Performers – Final Line up July 5th , see our main page on how to submit your submission.
We’re busy working on Hogging Up Virginia, and this website is expected to come to life in mid July.
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Apr 19th, 2019: Full Moon; 29° Libra; 7:12 am. Dates and times are calculated at EDT/EST.
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wordpress | Suisei no Gargantia Final Episode: Chamber why??
What a tame ending…it seemed like everyone I talked with was expecting such a bloodbath. All we got was a…motor oil bath? It wasn’t a bad ending…I was kinda expecting it to be a lot worse. But I think we knew all along that it would somehow end with Ledo fitting himself into society at Gargantia.
Author marthaurionPosted on June 30, 2013 Categories Suisei no GargantiaTags anime, gargantia2 Comments on Suisei no Gargantia Final Episode: Chamber why??
See? You all thought I was crazy, but the squirrel had a spy watching Ledo this entire time. And now, all-out war has started. So far, Ledo’s side is looking pretty weak, but it looks like Gargantia is planning to reveal its secret weapon. My guess is that it’s a Valvrave, but that’s just me.
Next week, the final battle…Ledo has discovered that Striker is really behind all of this, so he gets to keep his pristine perception of his commander. And suddenly this has turned into a battle against a rogue AI. I’m still waiting for the sacrifices…who will be killed to finish this fight? Pinion? Melty? Amy? The squirrel?
Well, the prediction seems fairly clear to me now. I mean…Kugel conveniently forgets to send out a distress signal to the Alliance? That was the first thing Ledo did…meaning he didn’t want to send it out. That can only mean his plan is to take over Earth with his dominant power over them. Assuming it’s a one-season series, that can only mean that he’s the primary villain.
So now Ledo has to lead the rebellion against Kugel, right? He’s so submissive now…it probably means Pinion will be the one who convinces him to turn against Kugel. Surely he won’t be able to attack Gargantia, right? Next week, the confrontation will likely begin.
Interesting…so Ledo has decided not to go nuts with his new knowledge. Chamber has managed to convince him to continue his fight…that seemed almost too easy. On the other hand, Pinion is setting himself up for failure. He has no real power of his own and he’s kinda flaunting it. Has he even considered the possibility that Ledo might defy him?
But anyway, it seems like the Alliance has finally found Ledo. But what are the exact circumstances? For all we know, the commander might be just as stranded as Ledo…the other possibility is that the Alliance is just chilling in orbit right now. I’m sure Ledo has an interesting story to tell next week.
Well, finally we know the truth…it’s something I expected but dang…I just ignored the possibility up until now. I thought the Hideauze had been evolved from squids or something for testing…I didn’t think they were human. But what is Ledo to do with this information?
It’s not like he can change things on a grand scale…he doesn’t have the authority or power. So maybe he just gets rid of his vendetta and refuses the Alliance help when it comes? Or just flat-out shuts off the SOS. But that’s such a simple ending…it’s too easy. Surely there’s something more than that.
Yes, excellent…everything is going according to the squirrel’s plans. Split them up and their forces will be weakened. They’ll never see it coming. But seriously…nothing really happens this week other than the fleets separating and the old commander’s funeral. Ridgett gets the leader spot, but isn’t fit for it…that sorta thing.
I guess Ledo gets that stuff about basically being stuck…not sure whether that’s just supposed to dampen his hopes or if there’s something more to be gathered from it. It probably strengthens his resolve as he decides he can at least fight the Hideauze on Earth. Either way, next week, the battles begin.
Suisei no Gargantia Episode 7: To war!
So, the show has finally decided to show its true face with the arrival of the Hideauze. The likelihood that this is an origin of the species is very high so far. The other possibility, of course, is Ledo’s theory that he brought them to Earth. That one’s strange, though, because they seem to have been around for a while before Ledo arrived (which is possible if the two fell into different points in time-space, though).
Things can no longer be peaceful now…Pinion’s salvage quest seems kinda silly, but the split of the fleet was probably bound to happen. Now Ledo will return to being a soldier…so what will happen? Maybe Amy will decide to tag along.
You stand in my way again, my nemesis?
Author marthaurionPosted on May 19, 2013 Categories Suisei no GargantiaTags anime, gargantia7 Comments on Suisei no Gargantia Episode 7: To war!
Oh hey…Ledo finally did something useful. And he’s found his true calling working in salvage? We’ve reached the halfway point of the show and the Hideauze have appeared again. Another misunderstanding? But Chamber identified it this time, not Ledo. I can’t imagine he’d be wrong.
What does this mean, though? Does this mean the show switches to battle mode? Highly unlikely based on what we’ve seen so far…unless…it was the squirrel all along. I knew it. I think it’d be interesting if this single Hideauze was like some independently evolved Hideauze on Earth…like a new subspecies?
And thus, Ledo is inducted as one of them. Next, he will realize that it’s all actually a cult for a bunch of people who worship the sun and are waiting for the Day of Reckoning when their god will incinerate all water on Earth and- wait…what? It doesn’t look like it’s that kind of show? What do you mean “it’s not that kind of show”? Why wasn’t I informed of this?
I’m on your table eating all your food.
Suisei no Gargantia Episode 4: Quick! Collect the water!
More quiet life for Ledo…this is the sort of episode you would expect for someone adjusting to a quiet life after being constantly at war. The whole “he’s searching for a purpose in a world without fighting”. To be fair, though, he’s basically made Chamber do everything for him up to this point…so what exactly has he done?
Don’t really know what to expect out of this show…it’s so slow. Nothing’s really happening. Is this the point of the show? Slow adjustment? Or are big things supposed to happen? I don’t see all that many signs of stuff bubbling under the surface yet…so I dunno.
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wordpress | I grew up loving Tove Jansson’s classic Moomin series, but I wasn’t aware that she also wrote a picture book called The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My. Published in 1952, it was reissued by Sort Of Books in 2005 as a beautiful hardback version and has now been turned into an iPad/iPhone app.
In the story, Moomintroll is taking some milk home to Moominmamma when he meets Mymble. She is crying because she has lost her sister, Little My. They both set off to find her, exploring new places and meeting different creatures along the way, from the Hemulen who loves cleaning, to the Fillyjonk in her distinctive red dress, to the electrifying Hattifatteners. Every page ends with a gentle cliffhanger, such as “Well, guess what happened after that?” until Little My is found and you come to the safe, comforting home of Moominmamma and a lovely spread of special treats to eat and drink.
The app does justice to Tove Jansson’s text and illustrations. The translation by Sophie Hannah reads brilliantly (and is also brilliantly read aloud by actor Sam West in the narrated version). The black, white and block colour illustrations of Moomin Valley and its inhabitants retain their atmospheric otherworldliness. The original book has cut-out illustrations, which are re-imagined in different ways in the app, such as the paper “ripping” on the Fillyjonk’s page.
There are numerous interactions on every page, many of them really inventive. Some are triggered by tilting the iPad, such as setting off a rock fall in the cave. Some are triggered by touching items. You can find Moomin and some wiggly spiders inside the Hemulen’s vacuum cleaner, or switch on the Hattifatteners’ electric shocks, which keeps Mr Tall (aged 4) amused. Little My is hiding on some pages, and it’s fun to find her. Little Miss Chatterbox (aged 2) loves that as soon as you tap on Little My, she hides somewhere else! There is a certain degree of tapping at random to find what works, but I think hints would spoil the illustrations in this particular app. The text is in a small and intricate font in keeping with the style of the book, but not easy to read for young readers. The text boxes can be easily opened by tapping the T signs. Pages are turned by swiping, which has to be done from the very edge of the screen; this is fine with practice for little fingers and the page turn is very realistic.
This app was an instant hit with Mr Tall, Little Miss Chatterbox and me. It is a great introduction to the Moomin series for young children, and we’ll be picking up some of the chapter books as bedtime stories in the not too distant future. The price is at the higher end of the spectrum, so it isn’t a spur-of-the-moment purchase, but worth it for the calibre of story, illustrations and well-integrated interactivity. I really recommend it for a first Moomin experience, and I’m sorely tempted to pick up the physical copy of the book too as those cut-out pages look just beautiful!
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wordpress | USA, 08 September 2018. Graham Staines, an Australian national, ran a home for lepers in eastern India for 30 years.
On the night of January 22, 1999, he was returning from a Christian camp with his two young sons when they stopped to sleep in their car. In the early morning hours, an armed mob of 50 people surrounded their car and set it alight. Staines and his sons Phillip (age 10) and Timothy (age 6) were burned alive.
The ringleader of the mob was Dara, a member of a group called Bajrang Dal, which the CIA’s World Fact Book describes as a “militant religious organization.” That year, Dara continued leading targeted assassinations of minorities. In September 1999, he murdered Catholic priest Arul Das.
In 2001, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warned about a “disturbing increase in the past several years in severe violence against religious minorities in that country”.
As USCIRF reported, “The recent increase in violence against religious minorities has been associated with the rise in power of Hindu nationalist organizations, including the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as well as their political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
From 1998 to 2004, the BJP was India’s ruling party. In 2014, it again rose to power and remains the ruling party today. Currently, the BJP is the ruling party in 15 of 29 Indian states; it is a coalition partner in an additional four states.
Dismal poverty and literacy rates, however, throw into question whether or not the ruling party truly represents a democratic choice by the people. According to 2017 data by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), 41.3% of Indian people live in poverty.
Furthermore, according to 2015 data by the World Bank, India’s literacy rate is only 72%. There is a huge gender disparity, with 81% literacy among men but only 63% among women.
Within this framework, Indian minorities are under siege. Reporting in 2018, USCIRF stated, “In 2017, religious freedom conditions continued a downward trend in India.
Conditions for religious minorities have deteriorated over the last decade due to a multifaceted campaign by Hindu nationalist groups… to alienate non-Hindus or lower-caste Hindus.
In February 2018, the festival of love, Valentine’s Day, was greeted with violence by Sangh Parivar groups. “We want to save our daughters and sisters from this type of vulgar presentation of love,” declared Surendra Jain, the international Joint General Secretary of the VHP.
Members of VHP, Bajrang Dal, and other outfits rampaged through cities, attacking stores with Valentine’s Day displays, assaulting couples, and generally engaging in unrestrained moral policing. Similarly, over the 2017 Christmas season, Indian Christians fell under attack throughout the country.
Priests were arrested for singing Christmas carols, communities received death threats, churches were attacked, cars were burned, and Sangh Parivar groups issued public statements warning Christians not to celebrate the festival.
In 2017, the State of Jharkhand became India’s 9th state to pass an “anti-conversion” law. The law requires converts and the person performing a conversion ceremony to obtain prior permission from their local magistrate; it imposes crippling fines and prison time for conversions deemed false.
Furthermore, a wave of lynchings drew international headlines as Muslims and Dalits were stabbed, beaten to death, or burned alive by mobs who accused the victims of possessing beef or harming cows.
Journalism website IndiaSpend reported, “2017 has seen a 75% increase in attacks versus the same period in 2016.” Analyzing all related attacks since 2010, the report concluded that 97% occurred after the BJP rose to power in 2014.
A multitude of international bodies are warning about the risks facing Indian minorities.
In 2018, watchdog group Open Doors USA ranked India as the world’s 11th most dangerous country for Christians.
In 2018, watchdog group Voice of the Martyrs ranked India as “hostile” for Christians, stating, “RSS informants live in nearly every village and report on the activities of Christians, resulting in attacks and arrests….
In 2018, advocacy group Human Rights Watch warned, “Vigilante violence aimed at religious minorities, marginalized communities, and critics of the government, often carried out by groups claiming to support the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), became an increasing threat in India in 2017.
The RSS, founded in 1925, is an all-male, uniformed, armed organization with millions of members. It structure and ideology was modeled on the youth movements in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The RSS “put forth a vision of India as a land of, and for, Hindus,” explain historians Barbara and Thomas Metcalf.
The group are “proponents of a mystical nationalism, with racial overtones that evoked sympathetic parallels with German fascism.”.
The RSS and its affiliates have been repeatedly implicated in pogroms of minorities.
Gujarati Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a member of both the BJP and the RSS, was implicated in orchestrating the violence.
Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in 2014. As conditions for religious minorities continue to deteriorate under his regime, the direct influence of the RSS over India’s government has expanded significantly.
In 2016, The Hindustan Times reported that “more than third of the 66 members in the council of ministers had an RSS background.” In 2017, BJP President Amit Shah attended a “crucial coordination meeting with various Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) outfits” before working with Modi to expand the council of ministers.
What can citizens in Western countries do to help?
In Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, some elected officials have spoken out about the growth of extremist violence in India.
Yet in the USA, the largest and most influential of these Western countries, leading Hindu-Americans and Indian-Americans in federal offices have taken a firm stand in defense of the BJP and its Hindu nationalist agenda. Among these are Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).
Additionally, Gabbard has met with Modi on at least four occasions since, including September 2014 in New York, December 2014 in India (a trip which she made at his personal invitation), September 2015 in California, and June 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Gabbard is also working hard to bring the Hindu nationalist agenda to U.S. soil. Among other actions, she has backed Hindu nationalist efforts to propagate revisionist history about India.
When the BJP came to power in 2014, one of its first agenda items was to revise school curriculum to reflect Hindu bias, including portraying mythological events as history. Today, the party continues to advance this agenda.
Gabbard supports importing this joint BJP/RSS effort to USA educational institutions. In 2017, when Hindu nationalists internationalized this agenda by demanding revision of California textbooks, Gabbard wrote to the California State Board of Education to urge them to accept a long list of controversial changes.
While India lies on the opposite side of the world from the USA, elected officials have an opportunity to defend the lives of Indian minorities by dialoguing with India about religious freedom and human rights issues.
Instead of speaking against the actions of the Sangh Parivar in India, however, officials like Gabbard and Krishnamoorthi are working hard to pave the way for such groups to work on USA soil.
In September 2018, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA — the U.S. branch of the VHP, which the CIA labels a “militant religious organization”) will host the World Hindu Congress 2018 in Chicago.
Both Krishnamoorthi and Gabbard issued public statements eagerly accepting invitations to the conference. Gabbard accepted an invitation to chair the conference [later backing out].
Prominent guests, however, include BJP politicians Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath (the controversial Chief Minister of India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh), as well as Mohan Bhagwat, the Supreme Leader of the RSS.
The lives of India’s minorities are vulnerable as they remain under siege by militant Sangh Parivar groups who have declared their intention to exterminate non-Hindus from India.
These groups are planting deep roots in the USA, where they are setting up sleeper cell organizations with influence over primary school curriculum, universities, and elected officials. Their reach extends to the highest offices in the land.
American citizens can help besieged Indian minorities by learning about the threats facing them and then calling on USA elected officials, especially Gabbard and Krishnamoorthi, to denounce the actions of the BJP, the RSS, and affiliated groups and to disassociate from such extremists.
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wordpress | In August of 2008 we went to Sydney’s tiny Factory Theatre to see Laura Marling supported by Marcus Mumford (sans his band Mumford and Sons) and fell in love with both. We bought their albums. We scoured the Internet for their MP3s. We learned their songs on guitars and violins and mandolins. We told everyone we knew to check them out and do the same (even if they couldn’t play the mandolin).
A year and a half later and Marling is selling out shows at the Sydney Festival and Mumford has come in at the top spot in the triple j Hottest 100. For the first time in our lives we’d been ahead of the game. For the first time we’d been there at the beginning, before it was cool.
Which got us wondering: What if it wasn’t a fluke? What if the music we are listening to, the folk and the roots and the acoustic, was what Australia was looking for? What if we’re once again sitting on the next Mumford and Sons and not getting the word out there?
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wordpress | speed work | Run Inspired.
When I first started to run, speed was not something on my mind. I instead started running as a preventive measure – I didn’t want to gain those dreaded Freshman 15. Then I ran my first 5K and I actually came in 3rd place for females (it was a small race). I attributed this speed to intervals on an elliptical (odd, I know). Maybe actually running some intervals would be a little more effective? I finally decided to try some speed work and in 2009 I ran my fastest half marathon by 13 minutes and my fastest marathon by almost 20 minutes. This was the product of a workout I read in Runner’s World, and that I know for certain because it was the only speed work I ever did at that time (other than bike intervals once a week for 30 minutes). I loved my Tuesday speed workouts because the distance never seemed as long as it did when I was running at a steady pace. Perhaps due to the fact that I didn’t have the energy to think about how far I was actually running. The workout hurt, but I knew it was coming every week, so I just did it with no complaints. The results were evident.
Cool down for 1 – 2 miles (depending on goal race distance).
There are plenty of other speed workouts I do, and I’ll share them in the weeks to come, but this one holds a special place in my heart. I feel like it really introduced me to being a “fast” runner. | 2019-04-19T14:58:50Z | https://runworkeatsleep.wordpress.com/category/running/speed-work/ | Porn | Sports | 0.634679 |
wordpress | This short video shows an anthropomorphic robot named PETMAN, a DARPA project from Boston Dynamics, with a soundtrack added by a YouTube user. Fun!
By the way, I saw a preview of the movie “Robot and Frank” last weekend. Also fun. See it when it rolls into your town.
A 1-day workshop on Analog and Mixed-Signal Design Automation will be held on November 8 in conjunction with ICCAD in Silicon Valley. It’s no secret that advanced-node process scaling makes all IC design more complex and more challenging—even more so for analog and mixed-signal designs. This workshop will cover the latest design automation advances specifically for analog and mixed-signal IC design teams. Click here for more info.
And just as a reminder, Cadence has just published a brand new book on mixed-signal design and verification methodology. You have a week left before the introductory price disappears, so this would be a really good time to purchase your copy. I’m told it’s an excellent book. Click here to download a free PDF copy of the book’s first chapter.
This week is being consumed by the Flash Memory Summit. 3D Thursday will return next week. Thanks for standing by.
Nikon has just announced an Android-powered point-and-shoot camera—the $349 Coolpix S800c. It’s a 16Mpixel camera with a 10x optical zoom but the real innovation appears on the back in the form of a touch-panel LCD 0.8Mpixel OLED display that is immediately recognizable by anyone who has every owned a smartphone. The Nikon Coolpix S800c runs Google’s Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and has a built-in WiFi connection so that images taken with the new camera can be easily uploaded to the Web. Now I’m not a big image and video uploader (wrong demographic) but Nikon is specifically targeting this camera at consumers who regularly use online services such as Facebook and Instagram. In fact, the video on this announcement page repeatedly underscores the camera’s use as an instrument of social media interaction.
This new Nikon camera is an excellent example of how embedded systems are migrating to 32-bit processors (including the ARM Cortex-A9 processor reported to be in this camera) and large, standard operating systems and GUIs such as Google’s Android. With that migration, embedded systems are also using far more RAM and ROM (or Flash) than ever before—the Coolpix S800c is reported to contain 512Mbytes of RAM and 4Gbytes of NAND Flash memory—which is precisely why Micron Technology’s VP of Embedded Marketing Jeff Bader brought this new camera to my attention today at the Flash Memory Summit.
The Nikon Coolpix S800c is not just a camera. It’s a portable device with a WiFi connection to the Internet that’s able to run many of the 500,000 Android apps that are on the market. Not aimed at my age bracket perhaps, but an important feature to many potential camera buyers.
It’s appropriate to ask why anyone would need an Android-based point-and-shoot camera when there’s already one built into every smartphone. Nikon’s video, mentioned above, addresses that question directly. The Coolpix S800c camera’s optics, imaging sensor, exposure control, fill flash, and shutter responsiveness are all vastly superior to the corresponding elements in a smartphone. It’s easier to take better photos—in most cases much better photos—with the camera than with a smartphone. For people who care about image quality, those better images could make the difference. For others, the idea of carrying a second device to replicate the image-making ability of their phone won’t make sense. Different strokes, and all that.
Micron’s Bader asserts, and I agree, that embedded products such as the new Nikon coolpix S800c will become increasingly common as consumers first become accustomed to and then will expect advanced touch interfaces on all of the electronic products that they purchase. Their buying habits are being shaped by high-end products from successful systems companies including Apple, Google, and Samsung. Others will need to follow, or risk being perceived as old-fashioned, outmoded, and—even worse—obsolete.
I rarely get to tell an in-depth System Realization story like this one. The development of the 44Tbyte, enterprise-class Skyhawk SSD starts with a clear picture of the objective—build an enterprise-class, solid-state storage server using commercial MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory—and unfolds, well, systematically from there. I heard this story yesterday during a private meeting with Skyera’s CEO, Rado (Radoslav) Danilak, and VP of Product Management Alessandro Fin at the Flash Memory Summit in Silicon Valley.
Fitting 44Tbytes of NAND Flash into that 1U, half-depth, rack-mount box calls for high density circuitry. The desire to sell the box at a low price for enterprise-class storage (see below) also drove the decision to adopt MLC NAND Flash memory for the SSD’s design.
However, there’s a very good reason why few enterprise-class SSD vendors use MLC NAND Flash memory in their products: raw MLC NAND Flash memory isn’t as durable as SLC (single-level cell) Flash and data integrity is paramount in enterprise-class storage applications. MLC NAND Flash memory is typically rated at 3000 P/E (program/erase) cycles while enterprise-class storage requirements demand on the order of 100K P/E cycles to achieve a 5-year product life. Most MLC NAND Flash is designed for use in USB drives and SD cards where durability is not the issue—cost and density are. Yet it was the relatively low cost and high density of MLC NAND Flash that drew Skyera to this type of memory for an enterprise-class storage peripheral.
Skyera decided that the way to extract enterprise-class performance and durability from MLC NAND Flash memory was to develop its own Flash-management algorithms. That decision led to the development of a proprietary NAND Flash controller for the Skyhawk SSD. The NAND Flash controller addresses write amplification, one of the biggest problems with SSDs based on NAND Flash memory. The additional P/E cycles caused by write amplification exacerbate the issue of limited MLC NAND Flash durability.
Another way to extend the durability of the MLC NAND Flash memory is to build in additional memory redundancy through RAID storage technology. However, Skyera looked at existing RAID algorithms from “leading suppliers” and discovered that these algorithms are all tailored for rotating storage media. Existing RAID algorithms have baked-in assumptions based on the interface, speed, and latency characteristics of hard disks and these existing RAID algorithms were not able to exploit the fine-grained nature of NAND Flash memory.
So Skyera developed its own RAID algorithms, which it calls RAID-SE. (The “SE” is for Skyera). The RAID-SE algorithms also went into the NAND Flash controller. These algorithms achieve RAID 6 reliability while reducing write amplification to extremely low levels.
One more technology went into the Skyera NAND Flash controller: compression. Data compression boosts SSD capacity and increases performance by reducing the amount of data traffic going into and coming out of the NAND Flash memory. Skyera developed its own compression algorithm tailored for the specific needs of enterprise-class SSD storage and implemented the algorithm in controller hardware because a software implementation wasn’t fast enough.
At this point, Skyera had a fast (high IOPS), high-capacity SSD based on commercial MLC NAND Flash memory. Using this SSD in a system presented the next bottleneck. The SSD could support a lot of storage traffic from multiple servers and the Ethernet ports linking the SSD to the enterprise system became a bottleneck so Skyera developed its own Ethernet switch and integrated it into the Skyhawk SSD design. The Skyhawk SSD’s proprietary Ethernet switch has forty 1Gbps and three 10Gbps Ethernet ports and it’s incorporated into the same 1U, half-depth box as the SSD appearing in the photo above. More important, the Ethernet switch is integrated into the SSD’s system design, which further boosts overall performance through some additional system optimization.
Skyera is selling the Skyhawk SSD for “under $3 per gigabyte – before compression and deduplication.” According to Danilak and Fin, if you compare that price with the cost of a RAID-based, enterprise-class, hard-disk storage system with a comparable network switch, you will find the price to be more than competitive. Skyera achieved this price/performance breakthrough using a systematic approach to System Realization, starting with the adoption of MLC NAND Flash (the underlying premise that makes the Skyhawk SSD cost-competitive with rotating storage), the development of the NAND Flash controller and the RAID-SE algorithm to overcome the limitations of MLC NAND Flash memory, and finally the addition of sufficient Ethernet throughput to unleash the Skyhawk SSD’s system potential.
This story plots the methodical analysis of a well-defined system problem and a step-by-step development of hardware and software to overcome the challenges presented by the problem. It’s a terrific lesson in effective System Realization and I’m indebted to Rado Danilak and Alessandro Fin for sharing the story with the EDA360 Insider.
Here’s a link to a very interesting and cool hack of a Canon 5D Mk II DSLR achieved by stuffing a Raspberry Pi Linux-based single-board computer into an accessory battery grip. EDA360 Insider has covered the Raspberry Pi board before. (See “3D Thursday: Raspberry Pi Foundation’s $25 ARM board boots Linux using stacked DRAM.”) The board is a Linux platform based on a 700MHz ARM 11 processor core running in a Broadcom Mobile Multimedia Processor SoC. It attaches 128 or 256 Mbytes of SDRAM on top of the Broadcom SoC using POP (package-on-package) 3D assembly. Significantly, it sells for about $25!
Photographer David Hunt says he had the idea to couple a single-board computer to the Canon 5D Mk II DSLR for “a couple of years” and that the Raspberry Pi’s specifications triggered his desire. He took action. Using an old, broken battery grip, Hunt installed the Raspberry Pi board into the space formerly occupied by two batteries in the grip.
The Raspberry Pi communicates with the camera via a USB port (the Raspberry Pi is the host in this case). It can download the images via USB and then transmit the images via WiFi or Ethernet. In later updates, Hunt notes that he’s now got the Raspberry Pi clicking the shutter on the camera.
For more information, see Hunt’s August 13 blog post, “Camera Pi—DSLR Camera with Embedded Computer,” where you’ll find detailed images of this ingenious hack.
Click here to see Nenni’s SoC post.
Which Android Phones are winning in Asia, and where?
This is too cool! Animoca publishes games for Android-based platforms and, apparently, collects information about what type of platform a game is downloaded into. So the company just published an analysis titled “Animoca data: the top Android phones in key Asian markets for July 2012” and this graphic, which answers the question in immense detail including handset vendor and specific phone models.
There’s a wealth of platform data available on this site.
Thanks to Dean Takahashi for the pointer!
Hip Hop and NASA? Whoda’ thunk it? Some fevered brain saw the connection between NASA and LMFAO.
Once more, Australia’s Dave Jones has produces an eminently watchable and helpful video where he tears down three PDAs from 1986, 1996, and 2004: A Psion Organiser, a US Robotics Palm Pilot 5000, and an HP iPaq. Over two decades, processor speeds jumped from 3.6864MHz to 16MHz to 400MHz; RAM jumps from 8 Kbytes to 512 Kbytes, to 128 Mbytes (!); and the processors go from the Hitachi (now Renesas) 8-bit 6303 to the Motorola (now Freescale) 16/32-bit 68328 to the ARM-based Intel 32-bit Xscale PXA255. (Yes, Intel once manufactured ARM processors—and not that long ago!) Construction ranges from through-hole to SMT. The Psion PDA is old enough to pre-date the broad use of Flash memory, so its data is stored in battery-backed SRAM while the other two PDAs make heavy use of Flash memory.
This kind of product archaeology gives system designers a good grounding in ideas that worked (in their day) and stocks your personal design toolbox with much-needed ideas—what once worked, what doesn’t work any more, and what might still work. As usual, Jones’ observations ranging from pcb trace density to interboard connector schemes to design for testability, power conversion, and mechanical assembly. All of these topics are educationally invaluable.
Packard Plant Slide Show by Elvin Wyly.
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You’ve got a little more than a month to sign up for a $4.99 TI Stellaris Launch Pad Dev board based on the ARM Cortex-M4F processor core. Register and you get on the list to purchase a board for $4.99 but 25 registrants get the board for free.
That’s a lot for a fiver.
A couple of days ago, I let you know that Cadence had just published a comprehensive book on mixed-signal SoC design and verification. The book’s title is the “Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide,” written by the top mixed-signal design experts from across the industry. The authors work at companies that are currently pushing the boundaries of mixed-signal SoC development including Boeing, Cadence, ClioSoft, and Qualcomm.
You can download the PDF by clicking on this link: Mixed-Signal Methodology Book Chapter 1. No tricks. No registration. Just click on the link and get the PDF. Immediate gratification ‘R us.
I think you’ll want to read this first book chapter and then I hope you’ll order the book here where it’s currently on sale at 40% off!
This past weekend, the Web was abuzz with last week’s unveiling of Samsung’s Exynos 5 Dual mobile processor. This SoC features two 1.7GHz ARM Cortex-A15 processors rather than the previous Exynos generation Dual mobile processor that incorporated two 1.4GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores. Between the ARM Cortex-A15 processor’s additional clock rate and its improved instructions/clock figure of merit (1.5x better for integer processing and 2x better for floating-point processing), Samsung says that the Exynos 5 Dual mobile processor has twice the processing bandwidth of the previous generation.
However, these two leading-edge CPU cores are not the only significant feature of this new mobile processor chip. It also includes a controller for 2560×2048-pixel WQXGA displays (also known as the “Wide Quad Extended Graphics Array”). Worst case, a WQXDA display controller operating at 60 frames/sec and 24 bits/pixel requires 8 Gbytes/sec of memory bandwidth. However, that’s with the display controller getting the entire memory interface. As the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual White Paper points out, assuming the display controller “only” takes 80% of the memory bandwidth, the chip will need 10 Gbytes/sec of memory bandwidth and that’s giving the two ARM Cortex-A15 processors a mere 2 Gbytes/sec of memory bandwidth to share.
Here’s a graph of display resolution versus memory bandwidth from the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual White Paper.
Consequently, the designers of the Exynos 5 Dual mobile processor added two 800MHz LPDDR3 memory controllers to the design. Together, these SDRAM controllers can generate a peak bandwidth of 12.8 Gbytes/sec of memory traffic between the Exynos 5 Dual mobile processor and the attached LPDDR3 1600 SDRAMs.
To get your own copy of the Samsung Exynos 5 technical White Paper, click here.
Cadence has just published the “Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide,” which provides an overview of design, verification and implementation methodologies for advanced mixed-signal designs based on recommendations from the book’s co-authors—top mixed-signal design experts from across the industry including authors from Boeing, Cadence, ClioSoft, and Qualcomm. Circuit designers will find the book helpful in understanding the many facets of mixed-signal design and verification. For managers, the book provides an overview of modern mixed-signal methodologies to make it easier to understand and plan for investment in design capabilities and skills.
Click here to read the first chapter of the book.
For more information about the book including ordering info, click here.
If you don’t understand why this is here, don’t sweat it.
Also Note: This is not the first time something like this has happened. Neil Armstrong had to eject from a runaway Lunar Lander trainer shortly before it crashed and burned back in the 1960s, as you can see from this Discovery Channel video at about the 2:30 mark.
Yes folks, it’s still rocket science. The difference? No software back in the 1960s. Just human piloting finesse.
Bob Zeidman, founder and president of Zeidman Consulting, has just published the third edition of his book “Introduction to Verilog.” It was first published a dozen years ago and is based on the Verilog seminars that Zeidman has given at conferences around the world.. You can buy the hardcover for $495 (I hope it’s got a hand-tooled leather book jacket and a gold bookmark for that price) or the more reasonably priced paperback edition for $24.95.
If you want to get a sense of Zeidman’s writing style before acquiring the book, download an excerpt from the book here. Remember, this is an introductory book. If you don’t need it, perhaps you know someone who does.
You can get a look inside the book and order it at Amazon.
In the satirical 1984 movie “This is Spinal Tap,” Nigel the guitarist explains why the volume controls on his Marshall amps go to 11 instead of 10 like everyone else’s amps: “If we need that extra push over the cliff,” we put it up to 11. Xilinx just did that with the clock rate of its Zynq-7000 family of processors with integrated FPGA fabrics. The two ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores in the 28nm Zynq-7000 parts were originally specified at 800MHz. Now, they go to 1GHz.
A new blog published today on the ARM Web site titled “How do you take an ARM POP up one more notch?” describes a very recent collaboration between ARM and Cadence to enhance the ARM POP IP, which helps any SoC design team maximize PPA (power, performance, area) results. ARM has offered its POP IP for a couple of years but this is the first time that the company has modified its POP IP for a specific EDA design flow.
The ARM POP IP discussed is specifically for an ARM Cortex-A9 processor core implemented in a TSMC 40nm process technology.
Not your specific processor core?
Not your chosen process technology?
Note: For more info, see Richard Goering’s Industry Insights blog “ARM and Cadence Improve Cortex-A Power and Performance with Optimized Flow” and this article in EETimes by Peter Clarke.
The 9th International 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference and Exhibition will be held December 12 -14, 2012 at the Sofitel in Redwood City, CA. It’s run by RTI International.
referring to his life in a lamp.
So what do you get on a board the size of a stick of chewing gum that costs $115 to $229?
The TI OMAP35x Application Processor family is a good example of an SoC originally developed for the mobile phone handset market that has significant application in other sorts of embedded markets. The Gumstix Overo COM boards are one means of making that processing power available to system designers in an easy-to-try form that can be tucked away inside of nearly any product.
It’s now possible to conduct some interesting performance tests on real PCIe Gen 3 products and the video below shows you a PCIe Gen 3 RAID card talking to 16 SSDs, which is the number of drives needed to saturate a setup based on an Intel Sandy Bridge processor and chip set. The result is 6600 Mbytes/sec of throughput—about 90% of the theoretical maximum. With tweaking, that number might go up to 95%. Just watch the video.
For information on the PCIe Gen 3 IP used in the creation of the Adaptec RAID SoC, click here.
How to program all of those SoC processor cores? Answers from Jim Ready. Free event, September 18.
While we can stamp out processors galore on an advanced-node SoC, programming those processors is another matter entirely. Yet “multicore” and “many-core” SoC designs are the in-vogue approach to processing performance. How to solve this dilemma?
Get a glimpse of one approach from Jim Ready, who has been very active in embedded operating systems since developing the world’s first commercially viable RTOS—VRTX—and offering it through his company Ready Systems starting in 1980. Since then, Ready has stayed with the embedded OS market, most recently as founder of embedded Linux pioneer MontaVista Software. Ready is currently the Chief Technology Advisor for Software & Embedded Systems at Cadence.
On Tuesday, September 18, Ready will give a presentation titled “Beyond Virtualization: A Novel Software Architecture for Complex Multi-Core SoCs” to the IEEE-CNSV (Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley). The event will be held at the KeyPoint Credit Union in Santa Clara, CA. The talk is free and you don’t even need to register. Just show up at 7 pm. The location is 2805 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, CA.
This is a great opportunity to hear one of the most insightful experts on advanced embedded software that you’re likely to find. More information here. | 2019-04-26T00:18:33Z | https://eda360insider.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Porn | News | 0.608732 |
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Cork grows naturally in only two areas of the world: the Mediterranean region of Europe – particularly the Iberian Peninsula, where Portugal and Spain produce more than 80% of the world’s cork – and, Northwest Africa.
Los Alcornocales Natural Park – a name that literally means “the cork oak grove” – is the largest mass of cork oak on the Iberian Peninsula, and the cork woodlands are home to rich biodiversity including endangered species such as the Iberian lynx, Iberian imperial eagle, and other rare birds. A stunning array of ferns, fungi, and other plants call these forests home alongside the cork oak trees, which can grow to more than 65 feet tall and provide shelter for the creatures that thrive here.
For most forest ecosystems, the word “harvest” signals threat. But a cork harvest isn’t typical of forestry because the tree itself isn’t cut down. In fact, there is no harm to the tree thanks to the cork oak’s unique ability to regenerate outer bark (the layer we know as cork) and the mastery of the farmers. There’s no deforestation, no heavy machines, and no industrial complex – rather a sustainable way of the life that retains nature’s bounty.
For the full story, I invite you to read at USA Today 10Best Eat Sip Trip where this story was originally published in March 2018.
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wordpress | I’ve started this blog for a couple of main reasons; First, I’d like to help other drummers figure out what skill sets are needed to work steadily as a freelance drummer. I’ve noticed that most music “schools” are great at showing you how to play your instrument but terrible at showing students how to make a living doing what they love and showing you what people look for most in a drummer.
Secondly, I’d like to turn people on to the music that inspires me. Much of the music I love, I discovered by listening to the hip hop artists that sampled it and researching backwards. I’ll show you the origins of a lot of modern music through my record collection, the importance of a record’s liner notes, and hopefully encourage more musical awareness in future generations.
Drummers, does this sound familiar? A typical drumming clinic usually goes like this; a ten minute introductory pyrotechnic display/athletic event to try and impress the audience of drummers and draw the obligatory “woooooo!!!” Then after toweling the sweat off his brow the clinician asks for any questions pertaining to concert that was just given. Then a photocopied handout is given with some hands exercises, maybe some independence stuff, a demo of how to use rudiments, some humorous stories from the road, then wrap it all up with another pyrotechnic display. Pretty close right?!
Nobody ever tells you how they went about getting steady work, or how to make the rent! As if they would be giving away some secret formula that, if released will take away work from themselves. No schools tell you how to get gigs or how to get heard, or what to practice in order to get work and make a living. Worst of all, no one asks the burning questions!
I meet a lot of drummers both younger and older who have a lot of the same questions that I had growing up. I was afraid of appearing dumb or naive and I thought that if I asked them, everyone would know that I wasn’t a steadily working drummer thus bringing me way down on the cool scale. The questions I had were not necessarily about drumming, but more about how to make a living doing it.
I will cover all of these questions in the near future and in the process try to turn you on to the extreme importance of doing your listening and studying liner notes!
We are so lucky to live in a time where anything you could possibly want to learn is at your fingertips. Let’s share our knowledge with each other and take music to new heights.
In addition to being a drummer, I’m obsessed with long distance running combined with climbing in the mountains. Whether I’m at home or on the road with the band, I’m always running every chance I get. To keep track of my training, I’m going to use this page as my personal progress journal and photo collection of the beautiful places that running has taken me to.
I don’t know how John Wicks is going to answer the questions above. But I can tell you why I think he’s a “successful drummer” who people want to tour with and is called for session work, etc.
John is the most musical drummer I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. He is a stickler for getting the right sound. He reads. He listens to the other musicians and integrates his playing with the group. And he’s a great guy to hang with not only because he’s a great guy with a big heart, but also because he loves, loves music.
I look forward to reading his blog.
Thanks MJ!! The feeling is mutual!
john- very well written! glad there’s some “truth telling” going on! Now- if you can start a side blog on the music BIZ and tell the truth there too! Seriuosly- congrats and all best wishes on doing this good work! | 2019-04-19T13:15:14Z | https://drummersseat.wordpress.com/mission-statement/ | Porn | Arts | 0.852892 |
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wikipedia | This article is about the amusement ride. For other uses, see Carousel (disambiguation).
"Merry-go-round" redirects here. For other uses, see Merry-go-round (disambiguation).
A carousel (American English: from French carrousel and Italian carosello), roundabout (British English), or merry-go-round, is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. The "seats" are traditionally in the form of rows of wooden horses or other animals mounted on posts, many of which are moved up and down by gears to simulate galloping, to the accompaniment of looped circus music. This leads to one of the alternative American names, the galloper. Other popular names are jumper, horseabout, and flying horses.
Carousels are commonly populated with horses, each horse weighing roughly 100 lbs (45 kg), but may include a variety of mounts, for example pigs, zebras, tigers, or mythological creatures such as dragons or unicorns. Sometimes, chair-like or bench-like seats are used, and occasionally mounts can be shaped like aeroplanes or cars.
The "roundabouts" or "merry-go-rounds" installed in playgrounds are usually somewhat different devices: simple, child-powered rotating platforms with bars or handles to which children can cling while riding.
2 Similar uses of the term "carousel"
The modern carousel emerged from early jousting traditions in Europe and the Middle East. Knights would gallop in a circle while tossing balls from one to another; an activity that required great skill and horsemanship. This game was introduced to Europe at the time of the Crusades from earlier Byzantine and Arab traditions. The word carousel originated from the Italian garosello and Spanish carosella ("little battle", used by crusaders to describe a combat preparation exercise and game played by Turkish and Arabian horsemen in the 12th century). This early device was essentially a cavalry training mechanism; it prepared and strengthened the riders for actual combat as they wielded their swords at the mock enemies.
By the 17th century, the balls had been dispensed with, and instead the riders had to spear small rings that were hanging from poles overhead and rip them off. Cavalry spectacles that replaced medieval jousting, such as the ring-tilt, were popular in Italy and France. The game began to be played by commoners, and carousels soon sprung up at fairgrounds across Europe. At the Place du Carrousel in Paris, an early make believe carousel was set up with wooden horses for the children.
By the early 18th century carousels were being built and operated at various fairs and gatherings in central Europe and England. Animals and mechanisms would be crafted during the winter months and the family and workers would go touring in their wagon train through the region, operating their large menagerie carousel at various venues. Makers included Heyn in Germany and Bayol in France. These early carousels had no platforms; the animals would hang from chains and fly out from the centrifugal force of the spinning mechanism. They were often powered by animals walking in a circle or people pulling a rope or cranking.
Viewed from above, in the United Kingdom, merry-go-rounds usually turn clockwise (from the outside, animals face to the left), while in North America and Mainland Europe, carousels typically go counterclockwise (animals face to the right).
By the mid-19th century the platform carousel was developed; the animals and chariots were fixed to a circular floor that would suspend from a centre pole and rotate around. These carousels were called dobbies and were operated manually by the operator or by ponies.
In mid-19th century England, the carousel became a popular fixture at fairs. The first steam-powered mechanical roundabout, invented by Thomas Bradshaw, appeared at the Aylsham Fair in about 1861. It was described by a Halifax Courier journalist as "a roundabout of huge proportions, driven by a steam engine which whirled around with such impetuousity, that the wonder is the daring riders are not shot off like cannon- ball, and driven half into the middle of next month."
Soon afterwards, English engineer Frederick Savage began to branch out of agricultural machinery production into the construction of fairground machines, swiftly becoming the chief innovator in the field. Savage's fairground machinery was exported all over the world. By 1870, he was manufacturing carousels with Velocipedes (an early type of bicycle) and he soon began experimenting with other possibilities, including a roundabout with boats that would pitch and roll on cranks with a circular motion, a ride he called 'Sea-on-Land'.
Savage applied a similar innovation to the more traditional mount of the horse; he installed gears and offset cranks on the platform carousels, thus giving the animals their well-known up-and-down motion as they travelled around the center pole – the galloping horse. The platform served as a position guide for the bottom of the pole and as a place for people to walk or other stationary animals or chariots to be placed. He called this ride the 'Platform Gallopers' . He also developed the 'platform-slide' which allowed the mounts to swing out concentrically as the carousel built up speed. Fairground organs (band organs) were often present (if not built in) when these machines operated. Eventually electric motors were installed and electric lights added, giving the carousel its classic look.
Carousel built in 1905 by Gustav Dentzel which is still operational in Rochester, New York.
These mechanical innovations came at a crucial time, when increased prosperity meant that more people had time for leisure and spare money to spend on entertainment. It was in this historical context that the modern fairground ride was born, with Savage supplying this new market demand. In his 1902 Catalogue for Roundabouts he claimed to have "... patented and placed upon the market all the principal novelties that have delighted the many thousands of pleasure seekers at home and abroad."
In the United States, the carousel industry was developed by immigrants, notably Gustav Dentzel of Germany and Charles W.F. Dare from England, from the late 19th century. Several centers and styles for the construction of carousels emerged in the United States: Coney Island style – characterized by elaborate, and sometimes faux-jeweled, saddles – with Charles I. D. Looff; Philadelphia style – known for more realistically painted saddles – with Dentzel and the Philadelphia Toboggan Company; and Country Fair style – often with no saddles at all – with Allan Herschell and Edward Spillman of western New York, and Charles W. Parker of Kansas. The golden age of the carousel in America was the early 20th century, with large machines and elaborate animals, chariots, and decorations being built.
Similar uses of the term "carousel"
On some playgrounds, small manually powered carousels exist.
At airports, rotating conveyors in the baggage claim area are often called luggage carousels.
Various photographic slide projectors, notably those made by Kodak until 2004, used rotating trays or magazines called carousels to hold the slides and were often known as "carousel projectors."
The National Carousel Association maintains a list of Historic Carousel Award winners, primarily focused on carousels in Canada and America.
The oldest existing carousel made in 1779 to 1780 stands in Germany at the Wilhelmsbad Park in Hanau.
c.1894 High Park, CNE grounds, Munro Park O. L. Hicks Miniature boats (replicas of Columbus' ships) travelled in a circular trough. Chains pulled the boats.
Location is CNE grounds which was second site.
Name Pinta is visible on bow of right hand boat. Location is Munro Park, Toronto which was third site where this attraction was installed.
c.1895-1903 Efteling. Kaatsheuvel. Brabant. The Netherlands Hendrik Janvier This carousel was built between 1895 and 1903 by designer Hendrik Janvier (1868–1932). Janvier was the progenitor of the famous Dutch funfair family Janvier and is seen as the founder of the Stoormcarrousel tradition. He used tools from different manufacturers, because there did not yet exist a dedicated stoomcarrousel manufacturer yet. Upgrades and renovations were made in the years after 1903.
Today this old stoomcarrousel is located in the Efteling (Themepark). In 1955 the Efteling bought the ride for ƒ 15.475,-. (Gulden) from the Janvier family. It reopened in 1956. Originally, the price for a ticket to make a ride, was only 5 cents.
Contains: 22 Horses, 4 Coaching's, 2 Pigs & 2 clowns.
The King Arthur Carrousel has existed since 1932 and was moved to Disneyland in 1954. It is an assembly of two carousels. Walt Disney wanted it to have four courses of all jumpers. The remaining chariot woodwork was repurposed as the "Calliope" tenders of Casey Jr. Circus Train powered gravity coaster.
The carousel at Harper Motors is an iconic landmark on the North Coast of California. It was bought by the dealerships owner Harvey Harper in 1991, after purchase this 1947 Allan Herschell Carousel was shipped to Oakland by train and drive to Eureka in a semi-truck. It took a year to assemble on site. It was refurbished and repainted in 2013 which caused the ride to be closed for a month. It is open daily free of charge to the public from 12-4 except on holidays and when inclement weather doesn't allow for riders.
The carousel at Phantasialand in Germany is one of the biggest in the world, made by Preston & Barbieri one historical amusement ride factory in Italy.
The world's only two-row stationary carousel built from an original Dentzel blueprint left in existence, the Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Shelter Building, is located in Highland Park in Meridian, Mississippi.
In May 2005, William Henry Dentzel III, built the world's first solar-powered carousel. The carousel operates during Solfest at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, California.
There is only one carousel in the world that rides in a waving motion - "Over the Jumps: The Arkansas Carousel" in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is also the only remaining wooden track carousel built by the Herschell & Spillman Company, and one of only four track carousels still in existence.
The carousel at Conneaut Lake Park in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania is the last T.M. Harton Carousel that is still in operation and its Artizan band organ is one of two known of the same model in the world.
In 2007, SeaWorld Orlando opened Sea Carousel, Florida's first aquatic carousel.
In 2012, Buttonwood Park Zoo opened an Americana carousel by Chance Rides.
The two double-decker Columbia Carousels built by Chance Rides and located at Six Flags Great America and California's Great America are the two tallest carousels in the world.
The Merry-Go-Round at Bear Mountain State Park features hand-painted scenes of the Park and 42 hand-carved seats of native animals including black bear, wild turkey, deer, raccoon, skunk, Canada goose, fox, swan, bobcat, rabbit, and more.
On Canada Day 2016, a new attraction was opened in Downtown Markham, Ontario. The Pride of Canada Carousel was commissioned by Christopher Bratty, current president of the real estate and development firm The Remington Group. The carousel was produced and originally envisioned by Shelley M. Shier of Broadway Bound Fine Arts and Entertainment for The Remington Group. The carousel sits inside a glass pavillon designed by Sheldon Levitt from Quardrangle Architects. The carousel itself features 44 ride-able reusable material sculptures representing different elements of Canadian culture. It was designed by artist Patrick Amiot who worked with the Brass Ring Carousel Company to build the ride.
Ice floe carousels have been constructed on frozen lakes.
In Mary Poppins, Mary, Bert, and the children ride a merry-go-round, then leave the carousel on their horses to go off on a fox hunt and a horse race.
In the film Charade, near the end, there is a scene where appears a carousel in the background with the music of the main theme, a Parisian waltz composed by Henry Mancini (Charade carousel) played with bells.
In the film Logan's Run, the residents of a domed city of the future are doomed to die on their 30th birthday, unless they can be "renewed" in a ritual known as "carousel".
In Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the carnival's carousel can cause riders to become younger or older depending on the direction, left and right in which they ride.
Carousel (1945) was a Broadway musical featuring hit songs such as "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone". The protagonist, Billy Bigelow, is a carousel barker.
In the dramatic climax scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) the hero and the villain struggle on a carousel.
David Carradine's 1983 film Americana revolves around a Vietnam veteran's obsession with the restoration of an abandoned carousel.
In the Australian children's picture book The Carousel by Ursula Dubosarsky, illustrated by Walter di Qual, after an exhilarating ride on a carousel, a child has a semi-mystical vision of the carousel horses breaking free from the wheel and galloping across the world.
The 1930s novelty song, The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, is the theme song for the Looney Tunes series of cartoons by Warner Bros.
The classic children's television programme The Magic Roundabout uses a carousel as its central motif.
The 1990s children's TV show Playdays had a carousel called Rosie as the central motif for Wednesday episodes from 1992 to 1997, presented and maintained by Mr. Jolly.
The classic film The Sting features a large indoor carrousel adjacent a brothel, where the Madame allows the girls to ride on slow nights.
The ride is in all four RollerCoaster Tycoon games.
The three installments of the book series Kingdom Keepers: The Return by Ridley Pearson features the carousel from Disneyland being used as a time machine to the opening of Disneyland Park.
In the 2016 film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children a carousel is featured along with other similar fairground rides on one of Blackpool's famous piers. The carousel appears when a character in the film that possesses the peculiarity of super strength rips a horse from the carousel and uses it to immobilize one of the other characters in the film known as a "Hollow".
MTV's Teen Wolf (Season 6, "Ghosted") in a scene of a town called Canaan, a street fair was happening and there is a carousel with one of the horses covered in blood.
Town Square Carrousel at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa (Chance-Morgan). Also has a decorative crown for a top.
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wordpress | Acting in his new capacity as head of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA), former senator Charles Fuschillo will be a guest speaker at the popular “Image of Success Networking Series” on February 4th at Mio Posto in Hicksville. A portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to the AFA.
The Image of Success Networking events run throughout the year and feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, first rate opportunities to connect with prominent members of the business community on Long Island and beyond and noted speakers to provide fresh business ideas. On February 4th, Mr. Norman Wasserman will be the featured presenter. Norman is a successful producer of concerts and fundraising events throughout the metro NY area and Las Vegas since the late 80’s. He is also the founder of Friend Entertainment USA, which appeals to all ages and adds a new dimension to an old idea – creating highly profitable fundraising events. His topic is “CONCERT + OPM = FUN-RAI$ER.” The event runs from 6-8pm. Mio Posto is located at 600 W. Old Country Road in Hicksville.
NEW YORK (January 2, 2014) — Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) Chairman Bert E. Brodsky announced today that Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr., an eight-term New York state senator, has been appointed chief executive officer of the leading national nonprofit organization, which is dedicated to optimal care for individuals with dementia and their families.
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Nowadays both sexes firmly count themselves as Decision-Makers. Not all 21st century norms have been overturned as more often its men commanding a boardroom while women remain with ultimate say in the bedroom. Males continue to dominate the tech and construction industries, while females are gaining ground in engineering and finance. Universally, “dressing for success” has been talked up, over, and inside out.
Boardroom attire for both sexes has evolved constructively, while Victoria’s Secret has caused bedroom attire to become virtually mainstream. Yet ladies alone have a unique luxury of wardrobe choice where men don’t – skirts and dresses can substitute for pants! Men—metrosexuals, college students, urban guerillas and high-powered corporate execs- have one sartorial option and one alone: all pants, all the time. So it would behoove guys to get the details right, right?
3. Flat-front waists— wear them. Despite what you think, pleats make you look bigger and cue the world you are out-of-style.
4. What style change lies ahead for 2014? The return of cuffed slacks. “A good trouser is cut to sit properly on a shoe. Precise, clean, sharp.” says Duncan Quinn, a British bespoke owner with shops in New York and Los Angeles who prefers a “turnup”, which is the English term for cuff. Furthermore, Alex Young, the suiting director at NYC’s Freemans Sporting Club Bespoke Studio and self-described “ambassador of cuffs,” says hip men are “cuffing” up. It’s not just a pointless flourish, he states, as a cuff adds weight, anchoring the hem and creating a cleaner drape.
Cuffed Suit Pants – should be worn with classic, clean line shoes, nothing casual or thick-soled. Wear with a sharp crease down the front; let them cover and sit on top of the shoe.
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msu | Small orchid (10-20 cm) of moist, acid soils in the Upper Peninsula; plant with 2 opposite ovate leaves occurring halfway up the stem; flowers pale green, the lip with rounded lobes at the base, flower stalk covered tiny glandular hairs.
Auricled twayblade is found at the high flood line in moist alluvial sand under alders, along small stream drainages near the bare sand and on rocky ledges of the shoreline. Throughout its range this species has a strong preference for moist, acid, sandy to humic soils and a cool microclimate.
Tag alder, sweet fern, fowl manna grass, sedges (Carex intumescens, C. gracillima, C. gynocrates, C. crinita), sensitive fern, dwarf raspberry, swamp buttercup, horsetail, bugleweed, bracken fern, shinleaf, meadow-rue, virgin's bower, Canada mayflower, nodding trillium, red maple, swamp maple, and nannyberry.
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wordpress | Domestic Violence is a complicated and uncomfortable issue, one not often spoken about in public. But it is an issue which affects all of us – if not directly than indirectly. There has been a lot of domestic violence research but somehow the findings of this research fail to get the headlines that are warranted by the size and severity of the problem.
As a human rights issue which affects more than 3 million children every year, it is shocking that domestic violence remains a secret. Here at Makers of Memories, we realize the power that one simple fact can have on people. Hearing that more than half of school age children in domestic violence shelters show clinical levels of anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder can make you stop and think. So can hearing that 75% of boys who are present when their mothers are beaten were later identified as having demonstrable behavior problems.
These simple facts can make a huge difference in the fight against domestic violence. Simply mentioning facts makes domestic violence an acceptable topic of conversation and can make a difference in the life of a survivor. | 2019-04-24T15:31:02Z | https://dianevboone.wordpress.com/domestic-violence-statistics/ | Porn | Kids | 0.981066 |
livejournal | Melt the butter in a largish sautee pan (ideally one with a lid). Stir-fry dry ingredients over a medium heat for ~30. Pour the tomatoes in before the spices burn & bring to a simmer. Stir in the cream & bring to a simmer. Add chickpeas and meat, if you're putting meat in. Simmer until the sticky rice has finished cooking. Throw in the fresh tomato at the last possible moment & serve over sticky rice.
I roasted up a leg of lamb and used about half of it in this, with a nice long simmer so it was super tender. It also works well with chicken, and presumably with beef, pork or shrimp, if them's your wish.
This can be made entirely satisfactorily without chickpeas, fresh tomato, or even paprika, but the tomatoes and chickpeas give it a nice heft and freshness. | 2019-04-24T21:55:55Z | https://mizkit.livejournal.com/1073525.html | Porn | Reference | 0.140217 |
wordpress | Since time immemorial, or at least since market data began, financial institutions on the sell side have been on the receiving end of the data game. To acquire essential data, banks employ teams of analysts, and may use tools or third party consultancies to assist with comparing and selecting data sources. Although some firms have started developing tools which deliver partial transparency to vendor pricing, whether it’s product comparison or exchange data pricing, the industry is still by and large a closed book in terms of transparency on data costs.
What if the banks were on a more even footing with the vendors? Imagine if it was a level playing field, with both customers and providers having something to trade? With global regulations coming into play, this need for verifiable data is only going to get stronger. Banks will need to have even more data, with escalating bills and the increased complexity of its usage and management.
What if banks saw themselves as a type of vendor? With something to trade, the conversations with the traditional vendor become more quid-pro-quo, a more equal discussion. A bank’s proprietary data in exchange for a vendor’s aggregated data, feeds and trading platforms, whereby everyone is getting a bit of what they want in return for something they already own?
As banks are getting fed up with paying to receive their own data back from vendors, is it now time for financial institutions to see themselves as niche data sources, by identifying the asset classes in which they hold the strongest hands, and see how this can be commercialised.
To do this, banks first need to identify what data they produce, and how they give it away. Is it given to the right recipient, or is it freely distributed to the public? Who is the caretaker of this process? Is the vendor really taking care of who is seeing a bank’s data? Is it the vendor’s job to do so (this answer is no, in case you were wondering).
By exchanging data between banks and vendors, the market will see an increase in equality of the consumer / vendor relationship, benefitting both sides. For banks, having something to trade provides leverage when purchasing inbound market and reference data, thereby creating a more equal relationship with vendors and potentially reducing data overheads.
This in turn gives all players in the market the best possible sources of data by liquidity.
Vendors also benefit from listening to their customers and giving them richer, more granular data sets, sourced from third parties and original sources. This allows vendors to better understand their customers’ business, thereby provides vendors with valuable insight into which markets, assets and functionality would be of most interest to clients present and future.
The overall outcome improves transparency for the market, which makes everyone happy, including the regulators. | 2019-04-20T16:54:44Z | https://bloginstitutefintechcirclecom.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/market-data-sourcing-fintech/ | Porn | Business | 0.608089 |
wordpress | A singing song bird left no tune.
A raging storm I could not see.
And gave thanks to the Lord for His grace.
The bird all bloodied; wounds in this life will heal.
The one thing not seen is its spirit. The mercy of God holds it still. | 2019-04-26T14:16:39Z | https://littlegoatherd.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/914/ | Porn | Arts | 0.401332 |
tripod | inspired by an actual coupon that I received via mass-email on a cool summer evening.
Hey B&N� fans, have you seen-O?
they've offered two-for-ones of Frappucccino�!
and you can get an extra drink that's frapp�.
if you were already buying over zero.
You'll only find yourself one-upped on.
I print the darned thing! and will use it, quite meekly.
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typepad | Thinking Blossoms: Exactly what is inspiration?
Judy Barber takes her camera for walks and thinks about life, work, and everything. Then she’s refreshed and ready to coach, write and give workshops and presentations. More about Judy.
"Every now and then you discover a book that refreshes your soul. This is one of them." Michael Bishop. Principle Consultant, Relate Australia.
(click on photo to enlarge) Here's an utterly perfect camelia, I think it has the sort of beauty people call 'achingly beautiful'. In a sense there's nothing much to say about it because it just is. Everything about it is delightful, the colour, the shape, the petals, the detail and the way it stands out against the dark shiny leaves. It's inspiring just to look at it without adding any meaning, at least I think it is.
Inspiring? Exactly what does that mean? What's the change in me when I look at something so beautiful, and of what use is it when I still have to empty the rubbish bin and get to an appointment in a hurry?
Well that says it. We see something beautiful and catch our breath, in a sense taking it in. And that influences us to attain a state of controlled excitement, it fills us with creative power and communicates divine power. So while we definitely can learn from nature and make helpful meanings from what we see, just the act of looking is transformative, inspiring in itself.
Do enlarge the camelia picture for a better view. In fact, I'm smuggling in some pure inspiration to your desk top.... You will still have to empty your rubbish bin and get to your appointment on time, but you can experience your day differently.
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wordpress | Each of these picks was helmed by one of a small cadre of truly artistic directors who work their medium in creative and skilled ways to produce unique visions on screen. Some were hits, some not, but they can all be found still at Amazon.com. You may have different ideas, and I’d love to hear them, possibly for a new post.
A psychological thriller in a class by itself, so well executed and so intelligently thought out, that it elevates itself beyond the subject matter. The scenes are extraordinarily detailed and have movement that takes them from one into the next, borrowing from surrealism, cubism, and impressionism to evoke the disturbed subconscious of a killer.
Psychotherapist Catherine Deane (Lopez) has a special ability to bond with very troubled patients using a special technology that allows her to visit them in their own minds. When a serial killer (D’Onofrio) is caught with one of his victims still hidden alive somewhere, Catherine ventures into his demented world to find the answers. There they mingle in a sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrifying world shared by the killer’s childhood self, who needs to protect her from the demon he has become.
This film enters the realm of the imagination, marrying symbolism to the subject matter in a way that keeps the story moving and very clearly connects reality with dark fantasy. Artists who use symbolism too often get mesmerized by the complexity of their own thinking, rendering the artwork confusing and inaccessible to an outside audience. By drawing heavily on references to conceptual and contemporary art (ranging from Escher and Dali to H.R. Giger, a sculptor and painter who contributed to the visual effects of Alien), the film creates an extraordinarily unique plane where the story can play out between realities, and anything can happen. The stills from the film present a showcase worthy of any gallery opening, but the film has a movement beyond the stills that you won’t want to miss. Dark though it is, it’s also mesmerizing.
The Cell is a fantastic example of how to use symbolism, metaphor, color, and the full range of a painter’s palette to enhance a very grounded story. The biggest surprise is how you can come to empathize with the demon, whose motivations become clear and understandable, and how the director leads you back out of the dark fantasy world to resolve the real-world crisis.
Sydney Pollack, Director. Starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Cliff Robertson.
I think every visual artist (photographer, filmmaker, painter) should see this beautiful film by Sydney Pollack, a masterful filmmaker who died last year. He made many hugely successful movies with major stars, including The Way We Were, Tootsie, Absence of Malice, and Out of Africa (among many others), all of which are well worth watching, but this film stands out as a visual and storytelling masterpiece.
What Sydney Pollack does best―and perhaps better than any other director―is establish a tone for a film, which he carries through visually, in the music, in the dialogue, and the overall pacing of the piece. The tone of Three Days of the Condor is pensive, brooding, lonely, and a little sad—an interesting counterpoint for a political thriller. Pollack personalizes the mortal conflict in bittersweet detail, showing characters who are alone even in a crowd. Nobody is safe.
Turner: You’re funny. You take pictures of empty streets, and trees with no leaves on them.
Turner: Not quite winter. They look like…November—not autumn, not winter, in-between. I like them.
The colors of the film are muted and drab, deeply shadowed so that nothing seems completely visible—or completely invisible. Each character stands alone. Most of the scenes in the film have two characters, sometimes three, suggesting that the big problems of the world often come down to the actions of just a few people. Pollack is also interested in making observations about the futility and emptiness of what was then the Cold War—a standoff in anticipation of the real thing. A world of mistrust separates us all from each other. Watch for a particularly stark and underplayed moment near the end of the film between Turner and his potential assassin, played by Max von Sydow.
Here’s an interesting clip of an old interview where Pollack talks about how the film evolved, and how it was received by audiences and critics. If you haven’t seen Three Days of the Condor, or seen it recently, then make sure to watch it again soon!
Lasse Hallström, Director. Starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas.
…An amazing closing shot that just perfectly sums up so many of the scenes in the film.
Hallström also directed other visually appealing films, including Ciderhouse Rules, Casanova, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, as well as two films I especially recommend: Chocolat, and The Shipping News (a visually stark film that completely captures the harsh life on the Nova Scotia coast).
Hallström seems to choose a palate for each of his films and approaches them as a painter would, which is why you should really get a bunch of them from the library or video store and do a weekend marathon. Casanova, the most commercial and to my mind, least appealing of his films, still captures the rich golds, ambers and red of the venetian sunset in every frame, and the wardrobe and interiors are extremely vibrant as well. The Shipping News is rendered in grays with blue and green overtones, often like sepia, and for Chocolat, he manages to make you salivate, even in frames that don’t have food in them, by carrying over the rich browns, tans and white of the confectionary store.
But for real mastery, his work reaches a high point with An Unfinished Life, which is rendered as a moving landscape film that tells a compelling story about the people who inhabit (or come and go) this unforgiving countryside. In particular, there are long shots of the gravesite of (Einer Gilkyson) Redford’s son, and a shot taken of the dilapidated ranch house from various angles. Hallström explains that for one shot taken from the barn he actually added by CG the silhouettes of two cats in the frame watching Einer in the yard. For more background on the film, visit this interview with the director for Box Office Mojo by Scott Holleran.
Forget the Natalie Portman movie about the girl who gives birth in Walmart, this one-of-a-kind film of the same name is an absolutely unique story by rogue writer/director John Boorman about the fall of society through decadence and the rescue of the human soul through—you guessed it, ART.
Funny, strange, and very entertaining. the story starts off with Dabney Coleman as the wealthy NY City real estate developer who specialized in demolition of historical sites. His three spoiled kids have all been following their muses on Daddy’s largesse for too long, and so he cuts them off from the family gravy train and drops them off at the historical site rescued from his wrecking ball by protesters. They are given $750 each and encouraged to use their considerable educations and wits to make a living.
When they finally adjust to the notion of becoming self-sustaining, they tackle the task through the filters of their substantial creative abilities in a myriad of unusual ways Dad never planned on. They agree to bring boarders into help their plight. Brother Jimmy brings home his Wall Street buddy, while sister Daphne (Thurman) brings home a magical well past his prime, who now lives in a box. Chloe (Amis) invites her friend who is at work on his first fashion collection.
But it is Chloe’s own art project that ties all of the stories together as she gets to work on photographs for a calendar, using housemates covered in body paint against tromp l’oeil backgrounds for each of the portraits. The result is a stunning visual experience that many followers of the movie (myself included) have tried to find in the real world.
Unfortunately, as a non-Hollywood film, product marketing was not figured into the distribution strategy, and the much sought-after calendar was never made available. Real-life artist Timna Woollards has kept a very low profile, but parts of the calendar can be viewed from the blog, Pandora’s Parlor.
As Dad’s empire crumbles under the weight the stalled demolition, and Wall Street takes the first of several big tumbles, the people with the money (including Dad and his banker) are all turned out and are taken in by the creatives, who stand behind their artworks.
Boorman is known for producing a number of major films, including Deliverance, writing another dozen or so, and directing almost as many. Where the Heart Is is certainly one of the lesser-known of his films that has become a cult classic over the years since it was made.
As a writer/director, he often made allegorical films that were rich with symbolism and cultural epiphanies, such as 1985’s The Emerald Forest (which I just picked up at Staples for $4.99). He seems fascinated with the ways man destroys the world around him, and pondering what will save us. In Where The Heart Is, he offers the belief that human survival comes from nurturing creativity in the middle of urban blight―as civilization dies, art lights the future.
Schooled film directors are taught to use paintings and photographs to develop their initial storyboards of how their film will look, so you can probably find a lot more paintings in this movie.
Then there’s the script—always fun, and full of the sharp, quirky dialogue Shanley is so well known for (he got more serious as he got older).
So now that we have the artists and writers on board (a writer’s pun), you can make it a family movie night because of the brilliant cast. This was the first pairing of Tom Hanks at his young, charming best as Joe Banks (where you see the beginnings of films like Castaway) with Meg Ryan and Meg Ryan and Meg Ryan as three entirely different characters. Their famous chemistry is immediately evident. There’s also a small boatload (sorry, can’t help myself) of fun character shots with Lloyd Bridges, Abe Vigoda, Nathan Lane, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer, Robert Stack and Ossie Davis. This movie is far more entertaining than I remembered, and surprisingly inspiring.
Patricia (Meg Ryan): Do you know where Joe Banks is?
Waponi Chief (Abe Vigoda): Maybe he run away. Maybe he don’t wanna jump in the big Wu.
Movie Message: When life really looks bleak, it’s time to take a giant leap into the unknown.
And here you can view the Hollywood Trailer, which manages to capture not one of the many marvelous shots from this movie! Shows you what Hollywood can do with great material. See it anyway, twice!! | 2019-04-23T07:13:45Z | https://artsenclave.wordpress.com/tag/an-unfinished-life/ | Porn | Arts | 0.52339 |
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wikipedia | This article is about the Feast of the Ascension. For the event that it celebrates, see Ascension of Jesus.
The Ascension in: Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Folio 184r, 1410, Musée Condé, Chantilly.
Ascension is a Christian holiday. The word "ascension" means "going up". According to the story told in the Bible, Jesus ascended (went up) to heaven with his apostles. The holiday is celebrated forty days after his resurrection. The story tells that Jesus' body went to heaven, and that in heaven he sits at the right-hand side of God the Father.
Ascension Day is officially celebrated on a Thursday. However, not all countries hold the feast on this day. It is one of the ecumenical feasts. All Christians celebrate this feast, much like Easter and Pentecost. It is a very important feast in the calendar of the Christian Church.
In some countries (at least in Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (since the 1930s), Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Namibia, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Vanuatu) it is a public holiday; Germany also holds its Father's day on the same date.
The Eastern Orthodox Church calculates the date of Easter differently, so the Eastern Orthodox celebration of Ascension will usually be after the western observance (either one week, or four weeks, or five weeks later; but occasionally on the same day). The earliest possible date for the feast is May 13 (of the western calendar), and the latest possible date is June 16. Some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, however, observe Ascension on the same date as the Western Churches.
The feast is observed with an all-night vigil.
The Epistle to the Romans is a book from the Bible which was written about the year 56 or 57. In it, Paul describes Christ as in heaven and in the abyss. This seems to be the earliest Christian reference to Jesus in heaven.
One of the most important texts about the Ascension is in the Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11. According to the two-source hypothesis it is also the earliest. There Jesus is taken up bodily into heaven forty days after his resurrection. The text says that the apostles saw this happening. Before going into heaven, Jesus gave a speech called the Great Commission, in which he said that he would return. In the Gospel of Luke, the Ascension takes place on Easter Sunday evening. The Gospel of John (c. 90-100) talks about Jesus returning to the Father. In 1 Peter (c. 90-110), Jesus has ascended to heaven and is at God's right side. Ephesians (c. 90-100) refers to Jesus ascending higher than all the heavens. First Timothy (c. 90-140) describes Jesus as taken up in glory. The traditional ending in the Book of Mark (see Mark 16) includes a short version of what Luke had said about the resurrection. It describes Jesus as being taken up into heaven and sitting at God's right hand. The way that Christ's Ascension is described is similar to the general description of his welcome in heaven, a description that comes from Hebrew scripture. The picture of Jesus rising bodily into the heavens fits in with the old traditional idea that heaven was above the earth.
There are texts that are not in the Bible that also speak about ascension, for example Pistis Sophia. In his text Against Heresies, Irenaeus tells about the Gnostic view that the Ascension happened eighteen months after the Resurrection. The apocryphal text known as the Apocryphon of James describes the teachings of Jesus to James and Peter 550 days after the resurrection, but before the ascension. This text suggests an even longer period. The recently discovered Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas, like the canonical Gospel of Matthew, does not mention the Ascension.
The feast of the Ascension has been celebrated for many centuries. Although we do not have anything in writing about it before the beginning of the fifth century, St. Augustine says that it is of Apostolic origin, and he speaks of it in a way that shows that all Christians celebrated it long before his time (he lived from 354-430).
Christ's ascension is mentioned in the original Nicene Creed. This text has been important to Christians ever since it was made in 325. It is included in the Mass. It is also mentioned in the Apostles' Creed. It is important for Christian belief because it shows that Jesus' humanity was taken into Heaven. Ascension Day is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year. There is plenty of evidence that shows that the feast dates back at least to the later 300s.
The canonical story of Jesus ascending bodily into the clouds is different from the gnostic tradition, by which Jesus was said to transcend the bodily world and return to his home in the spirit world. It also contrasts with Docetic beliefs, by which matter is basically evil and Jesus was said to have been pure spirit.
Scholars of the historical Jesus think that New Testament accounts of Jesus' resurrection were stories that were invented by the apostolic-era Christian community. Some describe the Ascension as a convenient way to disagree with ongoing appearance claims in the Christian community.
↑ "The Church in Malankara switched entirely to the Gregorian calendar in 1953, following Encyclical No. 620 from Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem I, dt. December 1952." Calendars of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
↑ The account in Acts was originally in Luke-Acts. The Ascension account in Luke came later, possibly after the text had been split in to Luke's gospel and Acts. Mark's reference to the Ascension is based on Luke, part of the traditional ending, written in the second century and added onto Mark. Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar. The acts of Jesus: the search for the authentic deeds of Jesus. HarperSanFrancisco. 1998.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar. The acts of Jesus: the search for the authentic deeds of Jesus. HarperSanFrancisco. 1998. "Empty Tomb, Appearances & Ascension" p. 449-495.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Harris, Stephen L., Understanding the Bible. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985.
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imdb | The Mindy Project was cancelled by FOX on May 6, 2015. It was picked up by Hulu a week later.
Mindy Kaling named her character Mindy Lahiri after acclaimed Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Chris Messina (Danny Castellano) played a small role in You've Got Mail (1998), a film that is frequently mentioned by Mindy (Mindy Kaling) and Danny throughout the show.
Chris Messina missed the shooting of four consecutive episodes in season four, because he was busy filming Live by Night (2016). Nevertheless, he did guest voices in each episode.
Various actors and actresses in the show have appeared in The Office (2005), including Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Ellie Kemper, Anna Camp, Kelen Coleman, Zoe Jarman, Ed Helms, Timothy Olyphant, Beth Grant, and Paul Lieberstein.
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In the show, Mindy mentions numerous times how she's from Boston, Massachusetts. In real-life, Mindy is from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Also, Mindy plays a gynecologist, while in real-life, her late mother was a gynecologist.
The role of Dr. Jean Fishman was written specifically for Niecy Nash.
The nightime establishing shots of the fictional "St. Brendan's Medical Center", are actually shots of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, even though the show is set in New York City. This is more obvious in some shots, which actually include Philadelphia City Hall in the background, topped with the statue of William Penn.
Dan Hedaya and Rhea Perlman played a former couple on Cheers (1982).
In the show, Danny Castellano's parents are played by Rhea Perlman and Dan Hedaya, who are no longer together, with his mother having nothing good to say about his father, who left her when the kids were young. Perlman and Hedaya also played ex's Carla and Nic Tortelli on Cheers (1982), who are the parents of four kids, where Perlman's character Carla again had nothing good to say about Hedaya's character Nic, who also left her when their kids were young.
Beth Grant (Beverly) and Garret Dillahunt (Jody Kimball-Kinney) appeared in No Country for Old Men (2007).
Chris Messina (Dr. Danny Castellano) and Jenny O'Hara (Dot), Danny's mother's best friend, appeared in Devil (2010).
Many of the shows guest stars, including B.J. Novak, Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms, and Paul Lieberstein appeared on The Office (2005).
Mindy Kaling and Beth Grant appeared in The Office (2005) season four, episode nine, "Local Ad".
Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon appeared in A Wrinkle in Time (2018).
Two stars of the 90's sitcom Wings made appearances on The Mindy Project: Tim Daly and Steven Weber.
In season three, episode sixteen, "Lahiri Family Values", Mindy (Mindy Kaling) and Rob Gurglar (Tate Ellington) go to the bank in San Francisco to apply for a small business loan. The street shots around the bank were filmed in Toronto, Ontario, not San Francisco. Specifically, they were filmed at the corner of Yonge and Queen streets, which are easily identified by the distinctive street signs. | 2019-04-25T18:18:37Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2211129/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_trv_1 | Porn | Reference | 0.958303 |
uchicago | This beginning workshop is designed to encourage and refine your skills in writing fiction. Ideally, it will also refine you as a reader and a critic. In this class, we’ll explore the elements of memorable fiction, including character, story structure, and language. Through readings and discussions, we’ll cover how to turn short pieces into longer ones, and how to make writing bold, vital, and realistic. We will work with short stories, including work by Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rick Moody, Lorrie Moore, and others. Part of our classes will be workshops, during which students will critique each others’ work. The other portion of classes will be craft discussions, during which we will analyze the literary craft at work in assigned texts. We will also do in-class writing exercises. For the course, you will complete one full-length story, which you will present for class critique, and then write a significant revision of that story, which you will include in a final portfolio at the end of the quarter. The course will also include a series of writing exercises and readings in canonical and contemporary short fiction, all intended to stoke your creativity and illuminate the aesthetic traditions that inform your work.
This course will be roughly one-half lecture/discussion and one-half creative exercises and workshopping of student work. We'll read and analyze primarily contemporary short fiction by writers like George Saunders, Etgar Keret, Kelly Link, Antonya Nelson, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro and William Trevor. Discussions will tend to be focused around one particular subject each week: setting, dialogue, perspective, etc. We'll also address more subtle concepts like psychic distance, free-indirect style, and movement through time. Students will present their own work to the group for critique and discussion. We'll seek to both hone our skills as attentive readers and to further develop as writers of clear, sophisticated prose. This course is open to all students but will give priority to those who are interested in pursuing the Creative BA or Creative Writing Minor. Unlike normal Fundamentals courses, this class is not open bid and requires submission of a writing sample and the consent of the instructor.
We'll examine CNF from all of its sides beginning with the rhetorical precision of Aristotle and moving through the rigorous interior self-mapping of Montaigne, the looping denials of DeQuincey, and then into the modern modes courtesy of Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, Arundhati Roy, and others.
This workshop will explore the underlying mechanics that have made plays tick for the last 2,500 odd years, from Euripedes to Shakespeare to Büchner to Caryl Churchill, Susan Lori-Parks, and Annie Baker, etc. Students will be asked to shamelessly steal those playwrights' tricks and techniques (if they're found useful), and employ them in the creation of their own piece. Designed for playwrights at any level (beginning or advanced), the workshop's primary goals will be to develop a personal sense of what "works" on stage within the context of what's worked in the past, and to generate a play, start to finish.
Because fiction is concerned with human experience, it is rife with killers and thieves, liars and adulterers, cowards and creeps. Our literature is resplendent with every type of moral weakness, social transgression, hygienic lapse, and general personal unpleasantness. (Not to mention all the well-meaning folks whose consequential mistakes make others suffer.) In this course, we will examine stories about characters who attract our fascination despite (or because of) their unsympathetic actions or qualities. The goal, as always in literary fiction, is to see beyond moral judgment to the irreducible particularity (and mystery) of human motive. And to ask: how does the story achieve its effects? In terms of craft, we will focus on all the essentials (characterization and POV, plotting and structure, mood and voice) with special attention to how writers use suspense to seduce the reader into complicated emotional investments. Readings may include stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Paul Bowles, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Gaitskill, Edward P. Jones, Ha Jin, and Tessa Hadley, as well as Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Students will submit their own original fiction for workshop, where we will always be on our best behavior.
Ekphrasis was originally a Greek term meaning a highly detailed description of an object that offered a fully realized experience of that object, embodying not only its physical qualities but also its emotional impact and other intangible qualities. In modern times that concept has been reinterpreted in artistic terms: as a written form of art that responds to a visual form of art. For the purposes of our class, we will take on an expansive definition of ekphrastic poetry, studying and generating poetry that responds to any non-literary medium. We will begin by considering poems by John Keats, W.H. Auden, Anne Sexton, and many others that respond to visual art, but then we will also consider poems that respond to other artistic media, such as music, movies, dance, etc. We will also read critical work, tracing broadly the various ways that poets have interpreted the ekphrastic relationship between poem and inspiration. How does the extra-textual origin of these poems influence them? How does it affect their form and diction? How does it affect the reader’s experience to have or lack access to the original inspiration? In this hands-on class, students will complete a writing exercise each week, accompanied by trips to the Art Institute of Chicago and to other museums, galleries, and performances. Our lab section will be used approximately bi-weekly to allow for such excursions.
Are memoirs inherently self-indulgent, or is the self that they indulge that of the reader, not the author? In this class you’ll a) write your own attempt at a memoir, learning firsthand the pitfalls of the genre, and b) look at the genre’s historical landmarks, such as Rousseau’s Confessions and St. Augustine’s Confessions, and at early novels, which almost invariably presented themselves as found texts or letters, i.e., as faux memoirs, and still do. (“Call me Ishmael.”) Although your memoir is about what happened, ultimately it has to be about what what happened means. So we’ll ask each other this question in workshop, via intensive line edits and more qualitative, essayistic critiques. We’ll study exemplars by Orwell, Nabokov, Rian Malan, and Lucy Grealy, as well as craft books such as The Situation and the Story, by Vivian Gornick, Then, Again: Time and the Art of Memoir, by Sven Birkerts, To Show and To Tell, by Phillip Lopate. You’ll learn the history of the form by reading Memoir: A History, by Ben Yagoda.
The focus of this advanced poetry course is two-fold: 1) workshopping students’ original work, and 2) reading a range of contemporary poetry. Over the quarter we will review craft topics such as rhythm, form, imagery, and voice, and we will investigate various approaches to the writing process. In this spirit, local and visiting poets will be invited to class to discuss their writing processes, giving students a chance to dialogue with practicing poets. Readings will include peers' work, recent books by contemporary poets, and supplementary poems and essays on craft. Along with contributing weekly poems to workshop, students will be expected to participate in in-class interview sessions with visiting writers, write a brief essay on process or craft, and attend at least one Creative Writing event. To be considered for the workshop, students should submit 3-5 original poems.
This course is for students writing a creative BA or MA thesis in nonfiction, as well as Creative Writing Minors completing the portfolio. If space allows I’ll also admit those who are working on a long piece of nonfiction on their own. It can be an extended essay, memoir, travelogue, literary journalism, or an interrelated collection thereof. It’s a workshop, so come to the first day of class with your work underway and ready to submit. You’ll edit your classmates' writing as diligently as you edit your own. I focus on editing because writing is, in essence, rewriting. Only by learning to edit other people’s work will you gradually acquire the objectivity you need to skillfully edit your own. You’ll profit not only from the advice you receive, but from the advice you learn to give. I will teach you to teach each other and thus yourselves, preparing you for the real life of the writer outside the academy. | 2019-04-20T00:25:48Z | http://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/courses/course-archive/winter-2016 | Porn | Arts | 0.744417 |
suicidegirls | those are some good shows.
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uchicago | 1 v. ; 22 x 19 cm.
Notes taken by an unidentified student in lectures by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the history of philosophy, at the University of Berlin, in winter 1829-1830. Codex Ms 430.
In 1818, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel accepted an offer to take over the chair of philosophy at the University of Berlin. For the remaining thirteen years of his life, particularly after the publication of his Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse (1821), he devoted himself almost entirely to lecturing. It is mainly from the notes of his students during this period that various editors later compiled and published him important works on aesthetics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of history.
The notes in this manuscript document Hegel's lectures on the history of philosophy, delivered in Berlin in the winter of 1829-1830. The manuscript is unsigned, and is very neatly and carefully written, suggesting that it was copied by a student from his own notes. | 2019-04-20T06:54:18Z | https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.MS430 | Porn | Reference | 0.349952 |
wordpress | You drive past them every day. As tall structures, they dominate the horizon. They are also the two most enduring, stable, federally designated bench marks of Schaumburg Township.
One is the WGN radio tower on Rohlwing Road in the very eastern part of the township. The other is officially called a horizontal control station and it is the Hoffman Estates water tank in the center of the township at the intersection of Golf, Higgins and Roselle Roads. It is largely because of their height that they were chosen as bench marks by the federal government in 1956.
As noted by the National Geodetic Survey in Geodetic Bench Marks , “bench marks are long lasting points for which elevations have been determined, used to control other surveys and to monitor movement of and within the earth’s crust.” They are points of reference that surveyors might use when building a road, constructing a building or laying out a subdivision. Proper bench marks are selected based on the stability of the soil and location; low susceptibility to damage, destruction or movement; availability to users and lack of surrounding vegetation.
Because both of Schaumburg Township’s two key bench marks were established in 1956, I was curious about the timing. I contacted the National Geodetic Survey in Washington, D.C. to ask if this date was significant. Was the Survey routinely sending out their field teams to establish bench marks in the area? Or did the coming development warrant the establishment of some local bench marks that surveyors could use when laying out subdivisions and other developments?
The WGN tower was built in 1938 so it had been here for a while. On the other hand, the Hoffman Estates water tower was built in 1955, a year before the bench marks were established. Unfortunately, the National Geodetic Survey could not establish the significance of the date. I then talked to a local engineer who’s been in the field for years and he said that there would have been a team who would have surveyed the entire area. The Survey in Washington had mentioned that their teams were 3-8 people. It stands to reason that, with a team that large, they would have been surveying the area in a methodical manner.
Obviously, these two structures provide a multitude of purposes–whether it is broadcasting, providing water, acting as a cell tower or being a focal point for local surveyors. All of that height has to be good for something! | 2019-04-24T08:49:16Z | https://ourlocalhistory.wordpress.com/category/bench-marks/ | Porn | Reference | 0.723604 |
wordpress | Sigh in relief of hallelujah sponginess.
Hands you see down raised up are no pious cushions.
Oh my God they are pangas.
The ten-point-eight on Ritcher’s Scale of your divine thud.
Psyching to scramble for heaven’s falling sofa set & towels & chumvi.
I say, make contigency plans before you are airbone, flightless.
A billion strong-winged green flies.
One of your greatest pieces. Very pious (though many Africans won’t understand – Jews will however), powerful, smashing.
The tone is very prophetic, incidentally. They were like that. Not an easy job for God to handle and herd them. | 2019-04-22T10:19:35Z | https://madiang.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/i-warn-you-god/ | Porn | Arts | 0.179079 |
wordpress | Increasingly, Twitter is becoming a long-form medium. It’s not just the 140 vs. 280 character thing, but with the use of threads, writers can present rather extensive essays.
Every once in awhile I find threads which I think are worthy of being preserved somewhere more permanent. The writer may have envisioned something temporary — a kind of Snapchat prose — but the words deserve greater attention. So as we’ve done before — Skye Jethani, Mark Clark, Sheila Wray Gregoire, etc. — we want to introduce you to a voice which is new here.
Dr. Steve Bezner has been the Senior Pastor of Houston Northwest Church (Houston NW) since January 2013. Steve is married to Joy, and they have two teenage sons—Ben and Andrew. This originally appeared on his Twitter account on January 24th.
Here’s a surprising tidbit: Paul apparently was not very impressive in person. His speaking ability was just so-so. His physical appearance was nothing special. And he had some sort of physical ailment. (I’m guessing weak eyes based on context clues.) But it gets worse.
There were other, more dynamic leaders in the ancient church who would speak at the churches Paul started after Paul left town. And the people would be amazed at their abilities–their charisma, smooth words, and physical appearance.
And those churches would abandon Paul.
Paul refers to these individuals sarcastically as “super-apostles” in 2 Corinthians. They apparently also went to Galatia, as they were working to preach a different gospel from the one Paul had brought. Some even tried to follow Peter or Apollos (friends of Paul’s) over Paul.
Paul didn’t have the best appearance. Or speech. Or personality. He was quiet and meek. And the people in the early churches preferred the loud apostle. The strong apostle. The one that could “hold a room.” The one that was impressive.
Paul did, however, have principle. He refused to take money when he did not need it. He pushed into new territory to take the gospel, while others simply rode his coattails. He faithfully raised up new leaders like Timothy, Titus and Silvanus. He painstakingly worked on theology.
Many pastors I know are like Paul rather than the (appropriately) unnamed “super-apostles.” They have been called. They grind away in obscurity. They take less money than they could make in the private sector…or work another job. They faithfully disciple. They study Scripture. They do all of this knowing full well that there are other pastors out there who will always gain more notoriety.
Others who are more opinionated.
Others who always speak while they are processing.
Others who seem to somehow end up in the spotlight.
But Paul’s letters are encouraging. The man who was not the greatest preacher or leader is read 2000 years later. We do not even know the name of Paul’s “super-apostle” competitors. Faithfulness and skillfulness, over time, bears fruit that some never experience.
So to those “normal” pastors: Take heart. Stay true to the Scripture. Hold fast to your convictions. Teach, love, preach, pastor, and do so knowing that you will reap a harvest of faithfulness that is often unseen. Your ministry is worthwhile, even when it feels pointless.
Skillfulness in the field where you are planted.
Raising up followers of Jesus.
The owner guided us around her property consisting entirely of one ‘crop’ a somewhat obscure herb that some reading this might never have had contact with. As we stood in one place in the hot sun for nearly 30 minutes, and in the field for about 60 minutes overall, our guide was oblivious to any potential discomfort. She speaks well and clearly. She is obviously intelligent.
More important are two qualities: She has a passion for what she is doing. It constantly leaks from the overflow of her heart. And she knows her subject down the last detail. I can’t imagine a question she couldn’t answer.
In most cases, the sermons you remember because you’d like to forget them (there’s a phrase!) either lacked passion (a dry monotonous delivery) or lacked substance (the speaker hadn’t studied or had no depth).
The problem was, the farm owner had both, yet in our little group of six, I’m not sure how engaged we were. One person out of the six asked several questions however; this would represent the 15% of people in our local churches that some estimate are really into what is going on and are committed to lifestyle Christianity. In Canada we call them keeners.
I should also add here that both my wife and I picked up the parallel between what we were experiencing and its application to church life. As soon as we were out of earshot of the rest of the group, it’s the first thing we mentioned.
Now, we knew going in what the subject matter was going to be. We just didn’t know how that would be presented. For nearly an hour in the hot sun, we were offered answers to questions we weren’t asking, details only a solid aficionado of the subject would want to know.
Now I know how preaching sounds to an atheist.
We weren’t dragged to this event against our will; in fact we paid an admission to be there. So there was some interest, but not in the type of things that were presented. My wife noted a couple of things that were absent in the presentation; I’ll let her explain.
If the medium is the message, is the storyteller the story? Our credibility is born out of who we are, and our storyteller told us a story that communicated nothing of herself, or any other people. She shared an expert stream of hows, of dos and don’ts, of whens and wheres and hows, of so many centimeters apart and deep and high, of percentages and techniques, of days and weeks and months and years – but no who.
We were told that the plant was native to the Mediterranean area. So who brought it over here and why?
We were told that there are 57 varieties of the plant, examples of each to be found in a separate plot of soil. Who created them all?
One little nugget that dropped was that her family had, until a few years ago, been market gardeners (implying a varied and multi-seasonal crop). She never explained how they’d made the leap from something so practical and communal to something so esoteric and exclusive. Where did this passion come from?
There was no history, no personality. No identity.
So basically, all of our passion and all of our knowledge does not guarantee that our presentation will become infectious, or frankly, that anyone is listening at all.
I know that some people read blogs who are very distrustful of churches that try to make the gospel relevant. I like what someone once said on this: We need to communicate the relevance the gospel already has. I know in my own life there have been times when I was passionate and detailed about things that my hearers may have had a mild interest in, but I wasn’t addressing their felt needs.
Spiritual passion + Biblical knowledge does not necessarily result in audience receptivity, even if you’re the best orator in the world. | 2019-04-25T09:03:01Z | https://paulwilkinson.wordpress.com/tag/preaching/ | Porn | Reference | 0.203286 |
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Good for you on making these choices for yourself and not for others- that takes real motivation and courage, I felt inspired just reading your words!
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wordpress | My Little Boy Turned 6!
I am now the mother of a 6 year old! How did this happen? Like really?
On March 22 2012 and 8:22PM my Husband and I welcomed a VERY teeny tiny little boy into the world, after a very hard and difficult labour he finally arrived by Emergency C-section weighing 5lb 15oz.
Fast forward 6 years and he is a very tall, very solid, energetic boy with a thirst for knowledge! Over the years he has developed into the kindest, most caring, eager and loving little man while still being reckless and rambunctious.
He can write his own stories, read his own books, play computer games, throw, catch and kick a ball and he is the kindest most loving big brother.
I am beyond proud of the amazing kid he has become and I cannot wait to see what else he achieves!
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newgrounds | Shoot the pathetic bastards with the pink asses!
Preloader loads the running bastards first, but the music will start playing when the game is loaded.
it was allright allthough a bit easy towards the end!!
Again a nice little game Marko!
I feel that the challange is missing so it would be much cooler if the was a 1/2 second cooldown each time you shot or something like that. | 2019-04-23T14:04:09Z | https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/140895 | Porn | Games | 0.99556 |
wordpress | time to ditch the thermals?
Whether you are a beg-int looking for a fun group to run with, or you are part of our crew training for the beginners Kamikaze Adventure Race, South Downs or Seaford Half Marathon & Tough Mudder foundation runs – you’ll love this Sunday’s training run.
We will be offering a 3miles (beg-int, Kamikaze teams) run, along with a six mile tarmac to off-road route that will go out over Rottingdean to Saltdean and return (longer route) and a small loop for the shorter distance.
It is a beautiful run (and the forecast is for blue skies) but there is a hill – hence the beast!
But our run ambassadors and coaches will ensure we are there to help coax you up the hill – and it will make you stronger.
And for the advanced, faster runners amongst you, we have a twist. …You’ll just have to come along and see what it is!
Drop ins are welcome at £10 but package prices are also available (missed or going to miss a Sunday session the package? use against our yoga classes on Monday).
PLEASE COMMENT HERE IF YOU ARE COMING AND TO WHICH DISTANCE.
Please be on time as we will be leading a dynamic warm up at 8.30am which you will require.
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wordpress | Who won the F1 teammate battles in 2018?
Some were close, some weren’t in the same stratosphere … F1 teammate fights were many and varied this season.
Here, in constructors’ championship order, is how all 10 sets of F1 teammates fared against the driver in equal equipment in 2018.
In 2017, the first year of the Lewis Hamilton-Valtteri Bottas axis at the sport’s benchmark team, Hamilton took nine wins to Bottas’ three, and both had 13 podiums as Hamilton snared the title, Bottas finishing third and just 58 points adrift. This year, as Hamilton upped his game, Bottas couldn’t keep pace, despite being denied a pair of wins through horrid luck (a late puncture while leading in Azerbaijan) and, in hindsight, heavy-handed management (being told to gift a win to Hamilton in Russia for a title the Briton eventually won by 88 points). Hamilton’s fifth championship might have been his best yet; the gulf in almost every metric to his teammate will cause Bottas to do some soul-searching over the northern hemisphere winter.
Sebastian Vettel’s season was one of high highs (five wins in the first 13 races) and deep lows (numerous on-track mistakes and zero wins in the final eight races), while Kimi Raikkonen’s year was more steadily consistent without ever threatening to challenge his teammate on raw pace, as their qualifying chasm suggests. Both had 12 podiums, but when you consider that eight of the Finn’s were for third place, it’s plain to see Vettel was Ferrari’s undisputed number one for the fourth and final year of this pairing.
Judging this early in 2018, Daniel Ricciardo held sway, and it wasn’t close – the Australian won two of the year’s first six Grands Prix, while teammate Max Verstappen was spinning, hitting rivals or barriers, and generally finding new ways to squander points. From then on, the Dutchman delivered; 37 points behind Ricciardo’s tally after Monaco, he out-scored him 214 points to 98 the rest of the way, aided to some degree to Ricciardo’s six retirements (to two) for the remainder of the campaign. One-lap pace was all Verstappen too, finishing the year well ahead of Ricciardo despite qualifying behind him in two of the final three races.
Carlos Sainz doesn’t lack for raw pace, so it says much for how good Nico Hulkenberg was this year that the German out-scored, out-raced and out-qualified the Spaniard in their one full season as teammates before Sainz heads to McLaren for 2019. The points gap between them, on pace, should have been far greater, but seven retirements for Hulkenberg to his teammates two made the difference 16 points and three places in the standings. After making mincemeat of Jolyon Palmer and seeing off Sainz in his first two Renault seasons, the arrival of Ricciardo will up the stakes for Hulkenberg in 2019.
Kevin Magnussen scored 60 per cent of Haas’ 93 points that saw the American team achieve its best constructors’ championship finish (fifth), but the contest between the Dane and teammate Romain Grosjean was closer than that. This was the closest qualifying head-to-head on the grid (11-10 to Magnussen, with an average gap of just 0.009secs), and while Magnussen scored more often, Grosjean finished better when both drivers saw the flag. This is a well-matched mixture of styles and personalities, which probably explains why Haas is one of just two teams (along with Mercedes) to retain the same drivers next season.
For much of 2018, McLaren was only faster on raw pace than Williams, which finished dead last in the constructors’ championship and had its drivers occupy two of the final three places in the standings. So how did McLaren finish sixth overall? Stoffel Vandoorne’s pace was underwhelming but largely representative of what he was driving; teammate Fernando Alonso bent the machinery he was given to his will by out-qualifying Vandoorne in every race (and 37-3 in two years in the same car) and scoring 81 per cent of his team’s points despite six retirements to the Belgian’s two.
Sergio Perez scored more points than Esteban Ocon for the second year running, and snaffled the only podium for a driver outside of the ‘big three’ teams (Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull) when he came third in Baku, the chaotic type of race he always seems to shine in. So why did Ocon have the Mexican’s measure? The Frenchman’s head-to-head advantage in qualifying was significant, and while both drivers only finished in the same race 13 times, Ocon was usually seeing the chequered flag first. Five non-finishes for Ocon compared to his teammate’s two does much to explain their narrow points gap after 21 Grands Prix.
Marcus Ericsson was rarely described as slow in his five-year F1 tenure; inconsistent, perhaps, but there’s no denying the Swede can be rapid. Which is why so many, including Ferrari, were so excited about what Charles Leclerc did in his rookie season alongside Ericsson. After a so-so start, Leclerc finished sixth in Azerbaijan in round four, and didn’t see Ericsson for dust much thereafter. The final qualifying tally and margin between the two (Leclerc was 0.327secs on average faster, the second-biggest gap between teammates behind Alonso-Vandoorne at McLaren) was impressive; spearheading Sauber’s climb from the foot of the constructors’ table as a debutant might have been a greater achievement.
Remember what we said about teammates playing nice? That definitely wasn’t the case at Toro Rosso with Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley (just Google their radio exchange in Brazil), while the standings paint an equally nasty picture for Hartley, the New Zealander losing his F1 drive at the end of the season while Gasly was promoted into Ricciardo’s vacated Red Bull cockpit. Gasly scored 88 per cent of Toro Rosso’s points (the largest contribution by one driver to their team’s tally), and his fourth place in just the second race of the year in Bahrain meant this inter-team fight was over early.
How far and how fast did Williams fall in 2018? The year prior, the team finished fifth in the constructors’ championship with 83 points; this season, Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin scored seven points total between them as Williams finished last, with one point fewer than the team managed in the first race of 2017 in Australia … It’s tempting to say there were no winners here, but Stroll just gets the nod by virtue of scoring more points (largely through his annual strong showing in Azerbaijan) and retaining a spot on the grid for next year with Racing Point Force India thanks wholly to his father’s acquisition of the team.
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wordpress | It feels so good to be back at our place. I was feeling ‘home sick’ by Saturday night.
Don’t know when I’ll finish the trip details – hopefully by the end of the week.
The trip was great! We saw a lot of interesting places and things. Made some new friends. And, learned that people in Michigan have never heard of Amish Macaroni Salad!
All in all, we had a great time.
Of course, all the pictures are here. And, I am in the process of adding more… later (too tired right now). But, I believe Greg is going to be uploading his pictures soon and you can see his here.
Well, I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend!
I am still recovering from the busy, but oh so much fun, weekend!
Saturday, my day of birth (at 1:47am), was jam packed with everything. Greg and I left the house a little before 11am and didn’t return until a little after 10pm.
We stayed for about a half hour and decide to head to the mall. The plan was to kill time at Dave and Busters but they were so freaking crowded we ended up spending over an hour at Books-a-million. Around 5:30 we leave the bookstore (I bought another wedding magazine and chatted with the cashier as she was planning her wedding as well) and stopped at the food court to get something to drink and kill a little more time.
Greg secretly met with the ‘Scroll Mistress’ and put my name on the list to recognize my 29th Birthday! That is why he was asking if I considered myself girly enough for a tiara!
oohh baby! I so wanted a picture with him but each time I was going to approach him someone else would and eventually I gave up because I thought the last thing he needs is another interruption from a guest.
Finally at 7:30 the doors were opened and we were called in by color; Greg and I were on the Red and Yellow team.
At the end of the show all birthday’s were announced and mine was the second one!! And what stood out was that the announcement and parchment all had my maiden name!! It was so neat to hear.
When Greg and I made it home we were so exhausted. We walked the entire mall (a little over a mile) one and a half times and just trying to relax after the busy day. I uploaded the pictures and putted around the computer and around 12am headed to bed. During those two hours (10pm – 12am) I went to check on Amelia twice only to realize that she wasn’t in her room. I was missing her!
On Sunday Greg and I were up for good by 8:30am. We couldn’t sleep in; Greg woke up at 7am worried about Amelia (because she wasn’t up yet) only to remember she wasn’t here. Yeah, we’re really missing Amelia.
Greg did something I didn’t expect him to do. He shaved off his beard/mustache thing!! I honestly didn’t expect him to do it. We were talking about it one night last week and he said he’s been curious and decided to do it Sunday morning!
I think Greg looks years younger (cute baby face)! He’s told me not to get used to it as he’s going to let it grow back. His excuse as to not keep his face hair free is because it requires too much work (meaning frequent shaving) and he’s too lazy.
we make it to Ikea!!
After lunch Greg and I pretty much loose Sean and Aaron. Greg and I already knew what we wanted so we headed over to that section to check the dressers out. The dresser I wanted was out of stock so I ended up choosing the dresser that Greg wanted, so we bought two – one for each of us and we chose the colors we wanted (I chose the birch veneer and Greg chose the oak veneer). Greg really wanted a nightstand but I didn’t feel there was enough of a selection for my taste. Greg found the one he liked and I passed – for now. We talked about dining room tables and chairs and a computer desk. Currently, our dining room table is really a waste of space – it fits but it’s more than we need. So we were looking at something a little smaller with room to grow (as our family grows) and would give a little more space to rearrange our current furniture settings to include a desk out in the living/dining rooms. We found a table that we liked and added it to our ‘wish list’ for later this year.
Once we jotted down the item numbers and isle location of the dressers and night stand we headed down stairs to the kitchen, textiles, and all the other goodies. Greg wanted to get some things that I felt we don’t need right now but would be great for the wedding registry (considering Ikea, along with Bed, Bath and Beyond, Target, and JCPenny – sounds like a lot but I feel it gives people a lot of choices). We picked up some new glasses and wine glasses for the kitchen. Then, it was to the bedding section (which I love). There was an awesome sale going on and I bought this quilt, a king size, for only $12.50!! I am seriously considering going back to Ikea to buy more for Christmas presents this year!! In order to get the additional 50% off the ticketed price, you had to ask a floor assistant for a coupon – which I did. And got extras!! But the promotion expires on the 10th so I need to hurry up and make up my mind. Anyway, since we bought the quilt so cheap I had to buy a new duvet and I chose this one. I have wanted an Ikea quilt and duvet cover so long long (I love how fluffy and comfortable the look in the tv commercials and catalogs) and I was so excited to finallyhave one!! I couldn’t wait to get home and put the duvet on the quilt and make the bed! After bedding we wandered into the lighting section (another part of Ikea that I love) and argued (not really) over changing the light fixture in the dining area; Greg feels we would need to hire an electrical contractor to change the fixture. I kept telling him he’s over exaggerating something so simple to do and that my brother could do it (as he’s done it before). Greg doesn’t want to change the fixture. Boo on him. But we did get a new lamp to include in the living room (high ceilings make the room difficult to light – when there are no lights from the ceilings). I can’t believe the lamp was only $14.99(which cost about $38 at Target for a very similar lamp)! Greg and I really did some good shopping at Ikea.
When we were checking out we were trying to figure out our total. Greg was estimating $600 and I was guessing mid $400. Our total was $473. Not bad for two dressers, a night stand, lamp and lamp bulbs, glasses, quilt and duvet, and a few smaller items (cookies, kitchen brushes, etc). Sean and Aaron met us at the check out and helped Greg and I bring everything up stairs (the dressers alone weighed 138lbs a piece) and to show our gratitude we took them out to dinner of their choice and they wanted to go to Old Country Buffet.
Greg assembled the first, his, dresser once we were home from dinner. Neither of us watched the super bowl. I talked to my Mom I believe for the 6th time that day and around midnight, again, we went to bed.
That is my birthday weekend in a nutshell. | 2019-04-20T09:03:39Z | https://jagsch.wordpress.com/tag/flickr/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.76735 |
wordpress | ONE ANSWER AT A TIME : THE QUESTION OF RELIGION.
In the wake of the Garissa university attack, Kenyans are feeling helpless, irritable and many are unable to sleep or enjoy a meal. We are undeniably facing a state of anxiety and depression on a large scale.
The whole nation feels wounded and angry. Yet even in this state we can hardly comprehend the state of anguish of the families that lost their dear ones. We say our condolences even as we acknowledge that you are inconsolable.
This attack has left us with many questions.
The reality however is that no single group or person has all the correct answers to the questions arising out of terrorism especially when it is presented to us dressed in the colours of a religion. However we need to begin proposing solutions and even originating initiatives that will deny the al shabaab human and financial resources.
One such initiative is a genuine dialogue on our religious texts and doctrines. What is the role of religious leadership in giving guidance to aspects of religion whose strict and literal interpretation may cause harm to individuals and society?
The founding figure of the Christian faith is Jesus Christ who is also mentioned in the muslim book of faith as prophet issa whose revelation is referred to as Injil. It is written in the gospels that he fasted for forty days without water or food. Now from a purely medical point of view I would strongly advice anybody against going for that long without a meal. Only the extreme Christian (barring the possibility of a mental condition) would set himself a goal of fasting for forty days without food or drink.
Religious leaders in Kenya need to educate their followers that in most cases we belong to our religions on account of birth. If your parents are muslims, 98% chance is that you end up a muslim. If they are catholic another 98% probability that you will be catholic.
It is therefore important to appreciate that whatever religions we belong to may be a result of both circumstance of birth and ignorance of other religions. As a young Christian boy I was always curious about religion. I started off believing that the small church in my village was the only way to a life after death and that anybody who did not join in to practice my faith was doomed including some friends with whom I often played soccer the whole day.
The minds of the young are malleable but once certain spiritual doctrines are learnt, they may last a lifetime even if the individual becomes a professor later on.
I was lucky to have interacted with islam very early in my life hence it was not very long until I began thinking beyond my small church. I was generally perturbed by a prayerful culture that had its differences from Christianity but pleasantly surprised by the similarities between the christian patriarchs/ prophets and their muslim equivalents. Jesus was Issa, John- Yahya, Abraham – Ibrahim, Joseph – Yusuf, Mary – Mariam, moses-musa , Solomon – Sulaiman etc.
This early interaction with a different religion inculcated in me a sense of acceptance and tolerance. I could not understand why we had different practices but had to content with the reality that the religious universe had many solar systems and the possibility of life outside my earth undeniable.
A few years later I came across a certain secular song that seemed to provide some answers to my spiritual questions. The powerful analogy presented therein even though it might not gain entry into mainstream theology, can serve as a good introduction to a world of diverse religions.I am happy to share with you the first stanza of the song, ‘God is One’ by Alpha Blondy.
At this difficult time, KENYA must begin a conversation geared towards creating harmony between the religions. Right from the village level to the national. A genuine debate involving Christian and muslim top scholars who understand both the Bible and the Quran must be given space in mainstream media to debate and answer tough questions. These debates are happening elsewhere in the world.
If there are any sections of the religious texts (Christian or islam) that seem to glorify death or violence or hatred, the scholars must find the correct theological interpretation that will guarantee a peaceful co-existence.
We have prominent national Islamic organisations and their Christian counterparts.They need to hold dialogue and send out joint newsletters (on a weekly basis) to all the believers under their respective umbrellas.
The elders must emphasise to their believers that Kenya is a secular state with religious freedom. You are free to worship whoever you want, whenever and wherever. Only that in the process of that worship do not insult your neighbor, harm her or yourself.
The Kenyan government seems to have a lot on its plate. However the ministry of education should seriously consider scraping off the teaching of specific religious studies in schools and replacing it with a new subject – World Religions and Ethics (WRE).This will mean that in as much as a child learns about the parents religion at home, their minds are opened up to the existence of other belief systems that deserve to be tolerated.
Adult Kenyans who are past school age have no excuse for remaining within the confines of their religions with regard to general knowledge. It would be pleasant to see persons of different religions exchange their religious books. If indeed one is grounded in their own faith they should have no fear of acquainting themselves with the faith of their neighbor.
‘”Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
P/S – Dedicated to the fallen comrades of the #GarissaAttack. | 2019-04-20T20:33:19Z | https://chitayib.wordpress.com/2015/04/ | Porn | Kids | 0.495195 |
yahoo | LOS ANGELES – Of all the ways to try to do this, to win baseball games in the October cauldron, the lefty at the end of the dancing fish hook certainly was one of them.
A rare one. Maybe nothing quite like it ever, actually, to run the street con out there in broad daylight, before tens of thousands of potential witnesses. Wasn’t even their lucky corner. But, yes, it was one of the ways.
Long before Wednesday’s Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, the Milwaukee Brewers announced their starting pitcher to be Wade Miley. In fact, asked Monday afternoon to identify his Game 4 starter, Brewers manager Craig Counsell declined to say, but did offer that his Game 5 starter would be Miley, the veteran left-hander, on short rest. In hindsight, it seemed an unusual moment of forthrightness when it came to his pitching plans. In hindsight, that’s called the hustle.
Miley was the bait. The pig in a poke. The queen of hearts that’s flashed and palmed.
The series was tied Wednesday at 2-2. The Los Angeles Dodgers set their interchangeable lineup on the card table, large with the men they liked against Miley, fresh as a new $20.
Miley threw five pitches in what amounted to the most heavily attended side session in baseball history. (He’ll start Game 6 on Friday.) Healthy, he handed back the baseball to Counsell, and walked from the mound, many of his teammates not sure what they were seeing. From the bullpen came right-hander Brandon Woodruff, notified of this duty, he said, Wednesday morning, to oppose the Dodgers’ first right-handed batter. Miley was shown. Miley was palmed.
The cloaked starter – Woodruff – pitched authoritatively for most of the next six innings. The Dodgers won the game, 5-2. Maybe Miley on short rest, and going as long as he could, followed by Woodruff, would have changed the outcome. Maybe not. But Woodruff followed by a weary bullpen left it at 5-2.
Asked about the subterfuge, Counsell smiled and said, “I don’t know what ‘subterfuge’ means.
So bullpen games spring from nowhere, which is the game too perhaps, and the Brewers do what they have to do to reach the World Series, and they’ve played well enough to and pitched well enough to do that too, outside of this sudden bent toward hitting .219 over five games.
Thing is, while the Brewers were stirring up the fog machine and pulling Woodruffs out of hats, the Dodgers were doing what they had to do to reach the World Series, and that was getting the ball to Clayton Kershaw. Across a Wednesday afternoon that began in sunshine and ended in shadows – more shadows, turned out – it became clearer that what the Brewers had attempted was wholly virtuous. They do not possess a Kershaw, not this Kershaw, not the man who threw seven innings of three-hit baseball, who watched in between as his teammates found their two-strike consciences and delivered clutch at-bats and composed hits, who finished the seventh inning and had more in him.
The Brewers were true to who they are. In some ways, they cannot merely stand and trade punches with the Dodgers. The starting rotation was reputed to be one of those ways. When 11 2/3 innings are required of a bullpen the very night before, fortuitous matchups – right vs. right, left vs. left, from their bullpen’s perspective – is perhaps a luxury and another of those ways. The Dodgers, frankly and mildly suspicious of the Brewers’ plan to start Miley on three days’ rest, were therefore slow to commit all of their right-handed bats. They had their eye on the queen of hearts, their hand on their wallet.
In the end, the game doesn’t really change. Sometimes it’s just overthought. The Brewers identified the mark who may or may not have been a mark, and Wade Miley smiled and went along, and Brandon Woodruff reported for his shift, and that’s where it would play.
Which is where it always would be settled, no matter how this went down, no matter the moving parts, no matter the street corner. Lucky or not. That’s the hustle. | 2019-04-22T12:00:30Z | https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wade-miley-bait-craig-counsell-attempted-hustle-dodgers-045024799.html | Porn | Sports | 0.487108 |
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