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I'm not crazy about the yellow in her room on #2, but I like the mirror work (only two or three of them made a distinction between the reflection and the character) and the night sky in the last panel. I'm not sure how much time is supposed to have passed, but it plays into that gradual darkening of the sky from the outdoor panels, and ties both threads together.
I thought the colors were richest in #1. I really didnt' care for the blue lipstick on some of them, and her skin just looked weird in a couple too.
I personally like the actual colors on #1 better, but I think the *coloring* on #2 is the best. The others are flatter, imho, or just plain odd.
Oh! Before I forget, I couldn't actually "vote" so please make sure my 2¢ are counted. Maybe I couldn't because I'm not a live journal user?
I liked 1 and 2 for overall richness, but for character 6 was my favorite because of the use of lighting--as in it seemed to imply she was in a darkened room, which added to the mystery and suspense of the page. The panel showing the blue sky showed me it wasn't just overall dark colors, but an active choice to show the difference between what's going on in the room vs. outside, which I think is definitly a nice touch versus just coloring between the lines in pretty gradients.
This was pretty much my opinion as well.
#1 had the best use of *color!* that caught my eye immediately in thumbnail version. It also had good use of shading (which seemed missing in other versions). I also liked #1's skin tones the best.
However, I went with #6 in the end because it had really great use of shading. Her leg was shaded as she put on her costume as well as her face in the mirror close-up. I didn't see much with shading on the others. I also felt that while #1's colors were more vibrant, #6's colors were much more realistic as well as the darker tones adding a "noir" effect.
And in looking over #2 which seems to be a current favorite, I felt that the colors were kinda washed out. There was nothing in particular that drew my eye into that panel and made me want more.
It was a near-thing between one and two for me, although I went for two in the end, because I thought the colours in one were just a bit too bright and unsubtle. And the fact that the colourist of no.2 had gone to the trouble of putting some thought into colouring the last panel rather than just going for a flat block of colour.
It'd be interesting to see the uncoloured pencils and the script for the page as well.
Looking at them again, I noticed that the bra changes colour from panel 2 to panel 4 in No.1 (if that many numbes make sense...) So I'm definitely glad I went for #2.
I didnt put in a vote in the poll, but I like 1, 2, and 6 the best. Anyone who put in the blue lips lost my vote.
Honestly, I felt that the depth of colors and the depth of backgrounds in the 2nd were far superior. Option 1 was also rather good, but I felt that the 2nd one was most like what sells at our comics stores.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that I *like* the blue lipstick, because it ends up suggesting some fun stuff, like, how quickly does she need to *change her makeup* if she's about to get caught after just chucking her costume into the closet. Color coordination is fun.
I voted '7' because the colors are more vivid and lively -- particularly in the images of the mayhem goin' on while she's getting dressed.
The other ones seem either too pale or too dark. I want the colors in this to pop, and the rest of them don't, really, for me.
I went for 6. 1 *almost* got me, but the colors are just a little too bright. I like the shadows in 6, though, and I like the fact that she doesn't have some funky colored lipstick on. While, like Fred says, that's kind of fun, it's the one extra costume step that makes me not buy it.
I should note that I also picked this one because I liked the color in the gas in the square. I definitely wanted it to be at least visibly noxious but 7 goes too far that direction and the ones where it's white don't have enough oomph.
I voted for #2 because I love the colors and the great detail work that was put in. Second choice would be #1, because it's also heavily detailed, but it's a darker style much more akin to what I remember from Image. #6 was too dark for my tastes, and I wouldn't buy it for that. #7 had a really interesting color scheme, but the blue lips really put me off. I'm with everyone else who didn't like the blue lipstick.
I like #5 because it has the best combination of a) overall coloring, b) contrast changes, and c) color used to delineate action. It's the one panel in which you can best see the action in the crowd scenes. But #2 comes in a close, close second.
It was a toss up between 5 and 3 for me. What killed 3 was Chance's lip color. The blue doesn't really seem like her. But in 5 she doesn't have any lip color and that seems more real to me than having her all glossied up before running out to save the world. I also like the red background, it was very eye appealing and kept the scenes nicely separate.
I really liked the darkness of #6. To me it felt very mysterious and private, and also hinted that Chance herself might have an internal darkness. Also, I loved the blue lipstick in #3, although the rest of the colors in that one didn't appeal to me so much.
This was tough! But in the end #2 won out because I felt there was more depth to the panels.
I was torn between #1 and #2...I went with 2 for the sense of atmosphere lent by the coloring and how the line work comes through. You have nice pencils and inks... Show them off.
I really like the yellow and green fire in #7(?) but I think theirs more clarity in #6 over all the samples. Plus, her face is the most natural looking. I like the red lipstick and I also like the gray shadow that washes over the whole thing.
I think I'd have to read the story first. Though I know the yellow (#2) is not at all pleasent to my non-depth perception eyes. Though a different shade may be ok. The blue (1 & 6) look the best, but that's because of my mood probably. They say to me, 'why did I sign up for this super hero crap. Ah, well, whats a responsible girl to do..' as opposed to the red #5 that kinda says "Stupid Super Hero Job, No bennifit, and it doesn't pay worth a crap." Text, story, or a mood swing would help change that probably. :-) or at least knowing the mood of the story.
I haven't read any other comments so as to give you my undiluted opinion. I do see that I voted for the one that has the most votes at the moment, #2. Here's why.
First, a number of the colorists seem to be coloring randomly. What are these bizarre colors above her in the bottom panel? Where is she? Another dimension? These same colorists were equally random in other choices, so they're all out; goodbye #s 3, 4, 5 and 7. #1 is out because the highlighting is... unsubtle, to say the least. The colors are a little unnatural, too, reminiscent of the four-color days, almost. That leaves #2 and #6. #6 might have made it, but blew it on the very first panel. THE ONE WITH LIGHT SOURCES DRAWN IN IT. And indeed, he colored them bright whites -- that don't seem to have reached the 6 inches to her face without becoming extremely dim. Nice try. #2 gets it right -- look how washed out her face is in front of those bright mirror lights. I love the colorful buildings -- very Blade Runner -- and the night sky he rendered perfects the bottom panel. A very nice job. Most of the colorists seem to have not kept in mind "where is she in this panel?" and "what are the actual reasonable light sources?" when coloring, and #2 clearly did. No contest.
I liked 5 and 2.
1 - Too dark. Can't make out all images clearly.
2 - Not sold on the yellow backgrounds. Awesome job on the smoke clouds, and the hint of flames in the background of the third panel. Love the night sky in the final pane.
3 - WTF?? With the blue lipstick? And the radiation-symbol bra?
4 - I like the blends of background color. And the miasma of smoke. And the variations of people color. But she seemed to be the color of her reflection in the later panes.
5 - This one popped, for me. Oddly, it's the first one in which I noticed her gloves. I also really preferred the contrast of stripes and pants -- it's not as extreme as most of the others, and just looked better to my eye. The coloring of the smoke is more on-the-nose than in some of the others.
6 - The artist seemed to emphasize the body contours more than most, making the heroine look over-developed. And the smoke was clearly a noxious gas, since everyone is green.
7 - The contrast hurts my eyes.
So I think I'd vote 5, then 2, although both were really good. 5 did a better job on her costume. 2 did a better job on the scenery.
What a nice set of choices!
#2 isn't as vibrant as I'd like. The time of day in panel #3 is weird.
#3 It's hard to get away from the blue lipstick. It doesn't work for me.
#4 She doesn't go outside, does she? What time of day is it #3 again? Why are the clouds green? I don't like this one that much.
#5 I like it that she's _not_ wearing trampy lipstick. Why, though, are the clouds green? The matching bra is cute.
#6 More green clouds. Interesting that only this person had it be daylight outside, and it looks like birds and not bats in the sky. But, absolutely great contrast between the dressing scenes in a dimly lit room and the outside. I really like those intermixed, gives a good sense of place.
#7 Weird colors! Strange glowing things! No.
I like #5 and #6 the most, and a lot of things about #1 but it's a bit more towards the comic book cliche in feel.
I think #6 had the most impact on me, I'm voting for that.
Blue lipstick is Right Out (I hate Emma Frost's white too). I best liked the moody colors of 6 (and the green poisoned people), followed by 2 (liked the mirror and stars, hated the yellow background).
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a little bit of P.D.A.
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For years, AFM members have had problems bringing musical instruments aboard planes as carry-on luggage. Recently, discussions with the airlines trade association and Congress have picked up to the point where an acceptable solution to the problem is possible. However, we need to show that there is urgency to the problem. We would appreciate it if you would describe your recent experiences when traveling with instruments to us so we can show the seriousness of the situation for musicians. Please send your recent airline experience to me at tperetti@afm.org. Thank you.
You don't have to be a Union member, just a traveling musician who'd like the right to not have your axe mulched.
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Here's the point I'm at with it: I've written and re-written it five times (maybe more) and my stomach says it's through. But in my head I have a lot of doubts, particularly about the commerciality (is that a word?) of the work.
I've had a few people I know read it and they all say variations on, "This is great! You need to get it published!" But they're not writers. I don't trust them to know what might sell, or not to tell me it's great just because they know me.
I would prefer a person (or persons) who would be willing to read the whole work--a big commitment as it is 116k words at the moment. I need advice on pacing. Like, I know that chapters 2 & 3 are slower, but I can't see clearly how much of a problem that is or how to rectify it. I need to know if I use too much exposition. I'd like an opinion on what genre I should try to place this in.
Ummm...is that enough? I can't think of anything more right now.
Can you tell us a little bit about the storyline? How old is the MC? What challenges do they face?
The MC is a 36-year-old witch living in a small town in rural Colorado. She discovers the new bar in town is haunted, but she views her powers as a dangerous addiction and she doesn't want to get involved. She ends up getting involved anyway, and discovers that the ghost is the guardian of a demon-like creature imprisoned in a cavern beneath the bar. She also discovers (wow, I'm using that word a lot!) that an unknown person, whom she suspects to be the bar owner, is using black magic to try to free the demon and harness its powers for himself. To prevent this, she has to reclaim her powers and enlist the ghost's aid. But things don't turn out quite as she expected and in the end she has to free the demon herself and make an ally of it to combat the evil magician.
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Why should I spend a serious amount of money without knowing if it generates the results I am expecting?
Here is the thing! With Keyconex, I simply would not have a need to do advertisements, because I can search for whom I am looking for. Pretty smart.
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2019-04-22T01:11:57Z
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Oscar Pistorius is a murderer. He brutally shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, most probably after an argument, on the morning of valentines day 2013. Later that day, Reeva had been due to speak to young girls at Sandton High School in Johannesburg, about respect from men and avoiding bad choices in relationships with partners. Oscar not only put a stop to her talk – but to the rest of her life.
The image that the media proliferated and profiteered from was that Oscar was a wholesome good looking hero, a person who’d battled against the odds, succeeded with a disability and who could inspire a younger generation. He made and sold column inches.
The truth was to become much murkier and complicated as the interview I did with author and blogger Lisa Wilson shows – Oscar, in my own words was “a nasty piece of work” and Lisa told me how he didn’t just compete his way to the top – he bullied and used his families wealth and influence to secure a place in the olympics and to ultimately pay for top legal representation – following his cold bloodied murder. And even now -with his bail set at 10,000 rand (or $700/ £450) – and him able to spend time at home as a convicted murderer – it seems to continue to work.
When Oscar was in the court room giving his evidence – most of it lies – I often wondered what his family heard – and why that differed so much from what I and the rest of the world heard? (Apart from the odd crackpots who shamelessly spout his innocents)! Did Oscar’s family argue over whether to support what they must have known was the truth (he murdered Teeva) or was the honour of the family name just too important? I guess we’ll never know.
When Pistorius took to the witness stand – all I heard were the whimpering lies of a murderer – desperately trying to save his career – inconvenienced by his current predicament – wanting nothing more than to get away with his murder and get back to his celebrity lifestyle.
I often ask myself why didn’t his family find the humanity to say to him ‘Hey Oscar, quit with the lies – just tell the truth and let be done. Reeva deserves the truth’. But they didn’t. They supported his story and continue to push the lie that it was all an accident – and that Oscar believed he was protecting his girlfriend with the unforgivable sentence ‘When Reeva went to bed that night she felt loved’. What an abominable insult to Reeva and her family.
And that is one of the things that disturbs me about this family. There was no humanity shown towards Reeva nor the Steenkamps. I guess the family that surrounds Pistorius are tied to his success – you can imagine that as Oscar’s stature rose – so did theirs. His adulation – became theirs- to share with friends and acquaintances, who also wanted a piece of the pie.
When Oscar pulled the trigger and aborted the ‘mission’ – they found themselves shackled to a narrative not of success & heroism – but of a angry, spiteful young man who put himself above others and treated women like accessories – to own and discard at his whom.
One imagines – after all the highs – they didn’t want to face the lows – even if that meant denying facts, and perpetuating a lie. They allowed themselves to become victims.
Unfortunately the latter also meant trampling all over the life and memory of someone else. Oscar’s family couldn’t bring themselves to believe that their status within their social network, South Africa and the world beyond – was as bloodied as the toilet where Oscar ended Reeva’s life.
Oscar and his wealthy family have been pivitol to his success and his failure as a human. The failure that lead him to become a murderer – who is currently on bail and out of jail – which shows what money and influence can do. Had he been unknown, without the wealth – or another colour – he’d be banged up right now – contemplating his actions.
Lisa Wilson has co-authored many books about Oscar Pistorius- including her latest booked which she co-wrote with Nick van der Leek called THE APPEAL: Oscar Pistorius – which she wrote with the freelance journalist and author Nick van der Leek.
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2019-04-21T16:23:24Z
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Pavitra was known among her friends and family as cheery by nature. As an accomplished an optimistic young woman, it was only natural that she was ecstatic at the news of her first pregnancy. It came as quite the surprise then, when following the birth of her first born, this otherwise lively person was transformed into someone neither she nor her loved ones could recognise.
Postpartum Depression, or PPD, affects approximately 30 per cent of Sri Lankan women. An unfathomable statistic in a society where the mother is glorified, and the ‘journey’ that is motherhood is oft associated with great joy and a sense of fulfilment at the thrill of nurturing a new life.
While these sentiments are more often the norm, some new mothers have good reason to feel depressed. For some, the birthing process in itself is a harrowing experience, and once home the drastic turn their lives have now taken, expectedly a shift to a more meaningful life, is instead a swerve to a road downhill. She is over come with the looming expectations of motherhood, her family isn’t there to assist with the baby, nor is her partner available for the emotional support she so direly craves.
As a result the woman feels overwhelmed, detached and inadequate.
Consultant Community Physician and National Programme Manager for intra natal and newborn care at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Dhammica Rowell, has conducted extensive research on Postpartum Depression in Sri Lanka.
‘’There are three types of psychological conditions we usually identify in post partum women,’’ she says. ‘’The most prevalent –detected in about 50 percent of women- are the postpartum blues, or what we all know as the ‘baby blues.’ This is usually detected within the first few weeks after delivery, but is a transient condition and often wanes off.
Postpartum Depression on the other hand, usually sets in a few weeks after and can last for months depending on its severity, and if not detected early.
While the symptoms of the baby blues are taken lightly, and the tell-tale signs of postpartum psychosis are glaringly obvious, the manifestations of PPD vary.
Postpartum depression in itself varies in its severity, and while researchers and psychologists have found it difficult to put a metaphorical finger on what exactly makes one mother more inclined towards it than another, the suspected causes are manyfold.
In Sri Lanka, low familial support is one of the largest contributors to PPD. Women in nuclear families for instance, are more susceptible than those cared for in an extended household. Gender based violence and/or an unsupportive or abusive partner, and even the inevitability of an unplanned pregnancy can abet deterioration in puerperal mental health. Socio-economic factors such as low levels of educational and a lower social standing can also be to blame.
Additionally, in the age of social media and online pretences, women are often prone to self-doubt and worthlessness by being privy to the sometimes exaggerated feelings of rapture that other mothers portray which heavily discount the reality of the experience. The fatigue and anxiety involved for instance, or even the occasional bouts of frustration – all of which are completely normal. The shift to parenthood calls for a readjustment of priorities and a considerable alteration in identity which some women (and even men) aren’t counselled into preparing for, hence the grapple with emotions after a birth.
Considering the fact that the tendency for the average Sri Lankan woman to succumb to PPD is higher than her Western counterparts, is the country equipped to detect and treat this psychological condition?
There are many things that can ease a depressive woman out of PPD, but first and foremost it involves the acceptance of her condition, ideally at an early stage. Treatment then progresses to counselling.
While there already is a ‘game plan’ laid out with confidence for the detection and treatment of PPD, its prevention is not as easy. What makes deterence so hard to thwart is that it requires taking well-embedded societal malaises head-on.
Significant triggers such as alcoholism, abuse and poverty, whether intertwined with or independent of the other require long term policy measures. An attitude of respect towards women and as a result the prevention of gender based violence for instance, is the product of a stable home. Education for children living below the poverty line needs to be facilitated, the national poverty threshold in itself needs to be lowered, and family planning programmes need to be established.
However, the state of awareness of PPD in the country is improving, although this can most certainly be bettered further. Many are unaware of its existence let along its prevalence, and the social stigma attached to a mental illness prevents most women from voicing out their suffering.
The rose-tinted glasses through which we view motherhood calls for a replacement with a new lens – one which accommodates and is accepting of a broader view of maternal feelings, making allowances for realities without impinging on the wonderful experiences that makes one a mother.
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2019-04-26T12:26:59Z
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https://shaahima.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/motherhoods-little-known-secret/
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I need to embed a Powerpoint WITH AUDIO into a web page on DH … suggestions???
If you have the funds Camtasia has a plugin for powerpoint so you can generate an video from your presentation. Camtasia supports avi, mov, swf, animated gif, plus a few others. The price is or was over $300 but haven’t checked on price in awhile.
I’m not much of a PowerPoint user, but Keynote on the Mac allows for export to a Quicktime movie, complete with click to advance. I don’t know what Export options PowerPoint has.
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This is one hand that will feel the cold this winter though here the lost glove basked in late December sunshine.
As 2017 draws to a close, I bid it a fond farewell. In London we are due to end on a warmish, wettish note though storm Dylan is forecast to sweep the year away in gusts.
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2019-04-26T02:17:58Z
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Can Rhoades afford not to hire Gillispie?
Is Rhoades keeping things under his hat until the move can be officially announced, or are the fresh-out-of-the-woodwork Cougar faithful jumping the gun, and seeing what they want to see?
I guess a more pertinent question (since it’s the title of this sucker) is: at this point, can Rhoades afford not to hire Gillispie?
Rhoades has a lot of good will built up with the decision makers at UH, as well as the general fan base. It’s not like an unpopular basketball hire will get him run out of town, especially if he gets the money raised for dramatic upgrades to the football and basketball facilities. And by all means, if Rhoades thinks that we’re better off with an individual not named Gillispie running the basketball program, he ought to hire that person.
But let’s be honest. The Houston basketball program is not a one-year fix. There’s certainly talent coming back next year, but the two most productive players (by far) from this year’s team graduate, in Aubrey Coleman and Kelvin Lewis. And this team played .500 basketball until the conference tournament. Regardless of who coaches this team next year, it’s unlikely that he will be able to immediately bring the program to where the fans/critics expect it to be.
Gillispie is the most proven winner at the college level of any of the candidates UH seems to be looking at. And since most of the basketball world thinks it’s a foregone conclusion that he will be the next head man on Cullen Boulevard, you can bet your bottom dollar that if he doesn’t end up getting the job, whoever does will be compared to Gillispie the Ghost Coach. “Gillispie would have done better in recruiting”. “Gillispie would at least have this team competitive with Memphis”, etc.
-Houston hires somebody else, and then Gillispie accepts a job elsewhere. Perception is: Rhoades chose not to offer the job to Gillispie, and what was he thinking???
-Gillispie accepts a job elsewhere first, and then Houston hires somebody else. Perception is: Rhoades didn’t act quickly or decisively enough to bring in Gillispie, or didn’t provide adequate assurances that facilities will be improved quickly. What kind of ship is Rhoades running???
I’m not saying that Gillispie is unquestionably the man for the job. I think he’d be very successful here for as long as the gig lasted*, but I also would feel very comfortable if we handed the job to Rodney Terry, Tim Floyd (providing the NCAA clears him first) or Chris Walker. Ultimately, I trust Rhoades’ judgment on the hire, and I’ll support whoever he picks. But in spite of its NCAA tournament berth this year, the Houston Cougar basketball program doesn’t exactly have a lot of equity built up in terms of support, and I’m afraid that anybody besides Gillispie at this point will be perceived by an already fickle fan base as nothing more than just that: not Billy Gillispie.
*I’ve seen some complaining that Gillispie would only coach at UH for a few years, and use it as a springboard to another job. It’s possible this is true. But look at UTEP’s or Texas A&M’s records before he got there, and after he left, and tell me we wouldn’t be better off hiring Gillispie, even if it’s a short-term hire.
-The Houston Cougar baseball team lost its conference-opener to Central Florida on Friday by a score of 7-4, but stormed back over the next two days to earn a series victory. The Coogs grabbed a 7-3 win on Saturday before bringing out the big lumber on Sunday, in a game that was called after six and a half innings due to mercy rule. When the dust settled, the Cougars earned a 20-3 victory.
Houston’s 12-10 overall mark doesn’t jump off the page at you, but Boyd’s has them playing the #10 strength of schedule in the country heading into Sunday’s game, putting them at #52 in the RPI. The Cougars are positioned nicely where, as long as we can put up a respectable mark in Conference USA play, we shouldn’t need to depend on a conference championship to earn a berth into the NCAA post-season.
-The UH softball team followed the baseball team’s lead, dropping its opening game against UTEP this weekend before picking up wins in the next two games. On Sunday, the Coogs fell behind 5-1, before riding a seventh-run sixth inning to a comeback victory. The Cougar record now stands at 18-14 overall, with a 5-4 mark in Conference USA.
That’s all for me for now. Next home game for softball is a doubleheader with Prairie View A&M on April 6th, while baseball hosts UTSA on Tuesday, before playing a series at Rice, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Hope to see you there! Go Coogs!
SarCoog: The Houston Cougar golf coaching position has been filled. No more will 6th place finishes in CUSA be tolerated from a program that has produced 44 All-Americans, along 16 NCAA team titles and 8 individual titles in its history.
Jonathan Dismuke, who was previously an assistant coach at Ole Miss and defending national champion Texas A&M, has been announced as the new head golf coach at the University of Houston. In addition to being an assistant on the aforementioned Texas A&M team, Dismuke was also a finalist for the Jan Strickland Award while he was at Ole Miss. This award is given annually to the top assistant coach in college golf. Dismuke is a native of Columbus City, Mississippi and was the 1997 Mississippi State Junior Champion, as well as the 1998 Mississippi Junior Player of the Year. During his Career at Auburn, he was an All-SEC golfer and helped lead the Tigers to their 2002 SEC championship.
From 2004-05 he played professionally on the Hooters Tour (think the ‘golf minor leagues’) and twice in that time attended the PGA Tour Qualifying School.
In my opinion this looks like exactly the kind of hire new AD Mack Rhoades needed to make. He’s brought in a young, energetic coach who obviously knows the game and is ready to move onto the challenges of being a Division 1 head coach. Dismuke is young, but I think he’s ready for the challenge of restoring the glory to Houston Cougar Golf. He doesn’t need to be Dave Williams, but for the sake of the Cougar golf program he can’t be another Vince Jarrett.
SarCoog: As reported by My Fox Houston the new Athletic Director at the University of Houston will be Mack Rhoades, who currently holds the same position at the University of Akron. Rhoades, 43, has served as the Akron AD since 2005 and was a major part of the $55 million on-campus football stadium they’ll be opening this fall. He also served for 7 years at UTEP and rose to the rank of senior associate AD before leaving for Akron.
My one sentence take is this: We wanted a fundraiser in our next AD and I believe this guy is one of the best young fundraisers we could get.
More information will be posted as it comes.
Edit: The Official Site now has a write-up on the hire.
ElViento: My one sentence take is this: His name sounds a little too close to “Mack Brown” for my taste.
Okay, just kidding. At first blush, looks like a good hire.
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2019-04-21T16:30:29Z
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Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Jones was a 1953 graduate of the Montclair Kimberley Academy (formerly the Kimberley School until 1974) and received their 1985 Distinguished Alumni Award. She graduated from Vassar College in 1957.
Jones was just 46 when President Ronald Reagan appointed her as Chief Engraver, making her the first woman to hold this post. Although relatively young by chief engraver standards, by this time she had already built an impressive reputation as one of the leading medallists in the world. Her talent and distinctive style, which she describes as "mildly abstract," had earned her a lengthy series of commissions from such prestigious clients as The Franklin Mint, Medallic Art Company and the Judaic Heritage Society. When Frank Gasparro retired in 1981 after 16 years as chief engraver, friends in the art world and in Washington, D.C., urged her to apply. She did, and soon had a new job.
Jones was the designer of the 1983 Los Angeles Olympic one dollar coin, obverse. Her design incorporated the traditional discus thrower of conjoined outlines in three layers as if in stroboscopic motion.
In an article, “Her mark is on the coinage”, by Judy Klemesrud, The New York Times, June 26, 1983: ”She said she became interested in the rather obscure field of medallion making after meeting Renato Signorini, an Italian sculptor now deceased, who designed the official medal for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. "He's the one who's responsible for my becoming a medalist," she said. "I had never even thought of medals until I was 25 years old."
^ Elizabeth Jones US Chief Coin Designer and Engraver, USA Coin Book. Accessed December 3, 2017. "Elizabeth Jones was born on May 31, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey. During her childhood, she developed a talent and interest in the arts, which would eventually become her career. In 1953, at the age of 18, Elizabeth graduated from the Montclair Kimberley Academy (also known as Kimberley School before 1974)."
^ "Battle Rages for L.A. Olympic Games Commemorative Coins", Coin World, August 9, 2010, Vol 51, Issue 2626, page 18.
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I read a lot of fashion blogs. I follow a lot of model-type females that look like good pictures come naturally to them. I am not one of those ladies.
More often than not, I am complete and utter FAILURE. Once in a blue moon, however, magic happens.
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Experience Columbus is embarking upon a unique way to deliver the Columbus message to the rest of the world. It’s uniqueness revolves around what isn’t in Columbus, so rather than boast about everything that’s here, Experience Columbus is taking a bit of a cheeky approach and making a bold announcement about what isn’t here.
To get the conversation started, Experience Columbus has launched a YouTube Channel called “Not In Columbus”. Here one can see a somewhat viral-looking set of videos that demonstrate what we don’t do (or have) in Columbus.
A vibrant series of print advertisements compliments this message.
Experience Columbus is also using Twitter as a method to reach untold numbers of people. Similar to text messaging, Twitter requires it’s users to assemble a quick message of 140 characters or less and then send it out. But unlike text messaging, Twitter allows other’s to subscribe or follow various “Tweets”.
Did you know that there is a Pulitzer Prize winning photo exhibit here in Columbus? I didn’t, but I found out about it from an Experience Columbus Tweet.
It may sound simplistic, but keep in mind that the New York Times, NPR and other traditional media outlets are using this resource and are reaching people faster and more effectively than at any other time in the history of media.
Consider too that SearchTwitter.com compliments Twitter in allowing anyone, anywhere to search a word or phrase and discover who on Twitter is talking about what at any given time. Type in CMH and you’ll the folks who are flying in or out of our airport. You’ll get more information here than by taking a survey at the security checkpoint.
Are you on FaceBook? So is Experience Columbus. With over 90 million active users world-wide, it’s only logical that Experience Columbus join in on the action.
These new methods of delivering a message in today’s culture of new-media is essential to an organization such as Experience Columbus. As a city that’s known for it’s blogging (8th in the nation) and for its quick adaptation to technology, these methods are now expected – and expected by the very people Columbus is looking to attract. Whether they come here to meet or come here to live, the very first step is to deliver the message.
There’s still time today to enjoy the Fourth Annual Ganther’s Place Garden Tour. Come see how the residents of this central-city neighborhood are making a difference.
Access to this event is available at no cost.
From 1p-6p Sunday July 27th.
Ganther’s Place Garden Tour now has a Flickr tag of GanthersPlace08. Use this tag when uploading your photos to Flickr, and in doing so you’ll give the residents the chance to see the photos you took.
Because of property tax abatements, residential condo units in Downtown Columbus are likely to appreciate in value less than residential units elsewhere in the region. This might provoke worried headlines in a few years, but this lower appreciation doesn’t imply that Downtown property owners have made a bad investment.
These property tax breaks can be substantial. The most generous applies to condos carved out of rehabbed existing buildings; these are eligible for a 100 percent, 10-year tax abatement on the increase in value. That does not mean that property taxes are zero. Owners pay tax on their proportional share of the property’s existing value. Take the Condos at Sixty Spring, for example. A unit in this building assessed at $250,000 would have a land value share of about $17,200, with the value of the improvements accounting for the remaining $232,800. The full tax bill on this $250,000 unit would be about $3,512 per year. But the taxes due are figured on the $17,200 land value plus the share of the building’s pre-rehab value, which is about $3,800, or a total of $21,000. The tax works out to about $322 per year. But after the property has been in service for ten years, the property tax bill will jump to the full $3,512 (probably more because property tax rates are likely to be higher then than they are now).
But this property tax break is an amenity, like granite countertops or a second bathroom, and thus increases the value of the unit. You can figure out exactly the value of this amenity: it is the present value of the difference between the full $3,512 that you would pay without the abatement and the $322 that you actually do pay. You save $3,190 in property taxes per year for 10 years. The question is how much that $3,190 is worth today; in other words, how much you would have to put in an account today to be able to pay yourself $3,190 per year for ten years. If you earn 3 percent on your money, the answer is $27,381. Thus, $27,381 of the unit’s value is attributable to the property tax abatement, and the remaining $222,619 is the value of the underlying unit – what it would sell for if there were no abatement.
Assume residential property values do not change and you sell the unit after five years. The buyer gets only five years of property tax savings, so the abatement is worth less. If the buyer earns the same 3 percent, the five years of tax savings are worth only $14,708. This plus the unchanged $222,619 base property value is what the buyer will pay for your unit: $237,327. It looks like you have sustained a loss of $12,673, but you haven’t. The difference between the sale price and your original purchase price of $250,000 is the value of the tax savings you have enjoyed for five years. Yes, the market makes you pay for these tax savings; there is no free lunch.
Should you move to a new abated property as your abatement period draws to an end? The above example implies that it doesn’t matter. You will receive less for the property you sell and pay more for the property you buy. The difference between the two is the value of your additional years of tax savings. So you can pay for additional tax savings by moving, or not. One way or the other, you are just as well off.
One potential problem, though, is the change in mortgage escrow payments when the abatements expire. Because the unit in this example is worth $222,619 at the end of ten years, the increase in property taxes increases the mortgage payment by $258 per month overnight. This might create affordability problems for some owners. If all has gone well and they have paid down the principal of their loans, they will probably be able to refinance into a loan with a lower total monthly payment. But it is possible that some owners will be forced to sell.
The Columbus Social Media Cafe and your local bloggers invite you to join us for the first ever Flash Mob Food (non)Drive for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank on Monday July 28th. Bring non-perishable food items to donate and have fun doing it.
Everyone participating will board the COTA route #3 either at Broad and High departing at 5:57p (same side of the street as the State House) or along it’s route to Lane Avenue.
When we arrive at Lane Avenue, we’ll box up our donations and enjoy the company of others at Caribou Coffee, Graeters Ice Cream as well as the other merchants at The Shops on Lane Avenue.
The goal is multifaceted. We’ll lend a hand to our local food bank because there is a great local need. We’ll demonstrate the power of our local social media. We’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use public transportation to access good shopping. We’ll demonstrate how public transportation benefits local business and we’ll have fun doing it.
COTA route 3 departs (Northwest Boulevard) on-time from Broad and High at 5:57p and arrives at Lane Avenue at 6:22. Join us anywhere along the route, which you can find at this link. Bus fare is $1.50 each way and exact change is required. If you’re commuting by bus to work that day purchase, a day pass (from the driver) for $3.50 and you can use it for the entire day.
Just one of the great things about San Francisco is that its a city where you can expect the unexpected. There’s so much free thought in San Francisco that even your accountant gets giddy. So when San Francisco blogger Brent Schulkin came up with the idea to solicit local businesses to bid against one another to set aside a portion of their earnings for energy-efficient improvements, well, it was probably just another idea that hatched itself on a fine sunny day like any other.
Brent pursued his idea, however, and created carrotmob. The idea is to organize buying power in such a way that corporations (and in his first experiment with the concept, a neighborhood grocer) find financial rewards through better decision making. To state it simply, use a carrot rather than a stick.
He visited twenty-three local convenience stores in his neighborhood and told the owners that he was going to organize a shopping event to draw buyers to the establishment that was willing to set aside a portion of their earnings on that day to upgrade their facilities for increased energy efficiency. The establishment that would set aside the highest percentage would win.
Watch how the idea unfolds, as well as the results, in the abbreviated video below. Visit carrotmob.org to watch the full-length version.
COTA Neighborhood Guides don’t exist yet, but thanks to Google Maps, I’ve created what could be the model for a more useful way of demonstrating how public transportation serves a specific geographic area.
The map I’ve created highlights the COTA transit routes serving German/Merion Village (command + click to open the image to in a new tab/window).
On the map I’ve charted prominent neighborhood establishments such the grocers, the post offices, the library, restaurants and bars. (Is Whittier Street is becoming the South Side’s Restaurant Row?). Also shown are some dentists, some barbers, pharmacies, the city pool at Lincoln Park, as well as South Side Cycle and Mower.
With a COTA Neighborhood Guide residents can see public transportation within the context of their daily life rather than an ill-scaled map and gridded time-table. While a time-table is an essential part of a transit map, its only an indication of point-to-point service.
Columbus realtors would be served well by COTA Neighborhood Guides.Demonstrating to clients the savings of buying within a Transit Zone would boost both the buying and selling potential of properties.
Local business owners would benefit by being displayed within a context of other businesses and thereby create synergy among merchants. Is there a plumber or electrician in my neighborhood? I don’t know, but if they were a sponsor of my COTA Neighborhood Guide, they’d likely get my business.
And while COTA Neighborhood Guides don’t yet exist, it is possible to chart your public transportation route via Google Maps. It’s a step in the right direction.
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I am Jean Potuchek, a professional sociologist who has just stepped into the next phase of my life, retirement, after more than thirty years of college teaching. This blog is about my experience of that new phase of life.
Please join me as I step into my future.
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Sleekit – smooth, glossy; having a glossy skin or surface; crafty, deceitful, sly; artfully flattering or ingratiating.
Word of the (Burns) Day: "sleekit" – smooth, glossy (Scots).
Blether – talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense; foolish, voluble talk; long-winded talk with no real substance.
Another tribute to Robert Burns on his birthday: Tam O’Shanter, read by Bryan McCormack.
"When you are your own worst enemy, someone who tells you that other people are the cause of your problems is no friend. "
I’m not recommending haggis for eating, but my tartan genes enjoy listening to this.
You are currently browsing the Homepaddock blog archives for the day Friday, January 25th, 2019.
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5%75°64°Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds S at 12 mph (19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C).Cloudy with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C). Winds variable at 12 to 17 mph (19.3 to 27.4 kph).
Tonight - Mostly cloudy. Winds S at 12 mph (19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C).
Today - Cloudy with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C). Winds variable at 12 to 17 mph (19.3 to 27.4 kph).
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Oh, well, that was last night. Too bad I wasn’t there to see it… Or is it?
Anyway, I arrived at our apartment last night welcomed by a questioned that said, “Did you see the snake?” I was like, “Uh, no…? When?” The snake came around at about 9pm and that time I was busy online. They said it attacked one of the chickens owned by one of the occupants of the apartment unit next to ours. The chicken died. It was too late for it. According to one of the sorta witnesses here, the snake was some 8ft long. Kinda long… It was an I-don’t-know-what-kinda-snake-that-was.
Yeah, I know it’s a bit too dim. The camera ain’t too awesome. And the photo was taken during the night.
Yeah, that. That is what has become of the snake when I arrived at our apartment this afternoon. Cooked and ready for chow! The thing is I’m one of the people who tried it! Crazy! I never really thought I can take it in but I’m kinda glad I did – in one sense. It tastes rather good! Well, it depends on how it was cooked – as always. The person who cooked the snake was the owner of the chicken that the snake killed. He knows how to cook. It was cooked with coco milk, soy sauce and other stuff to get it seasoned. Yum!
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I published my first book back in 2009. You might remember it. Monkey Round The World: Travel Writing 1993-2009 was intended to be the first of a series of books using the facilities of lulu.com to rehash my favourite bits of this website in hard copy form. Since then - more accurately, in the twelve months following then - I brought out three volumes of LFF reviews and two collections of Edinburgh Festival reviews, meaning that I currently have six books in print. That's quite an achievement, isn't it?
Except that now she's published Living For The Weekend: 2019 Diary, The Belated Birthday Girl now has two more books in print than I do. I may have to do something about that over the next couple of years. But for now, let's put that to one side and get on with the annual post announcing that you can buy her new diary for £3.99 plus postage and packing from the usual source.
I believe this is what the young people today call a 'surprise drop'.
Yes, I know, the timeline for these Portugal 2018 posts has become so ridiculously convoluted it could be a season of Westworld.
Let's take it slowly. Towards the end of July, The Belated Birthday Girl and I set out from London on an epic train journey to Lisbon, which took about 72 hours and included stopovers in Barcelona and Madrid. That journey's covered in the first half of Nobody Expects The Spanish Expedition. Once we got to Lisbon, we spent six days there, and they're documented in Free As In Jazz Or Free As In Beer. There's then an awkward gap, and after that there's another epic three-day journey from Porto back to London, via Vigo, Hendaye and Hondarribia: that latter journey is the second half of Spanish Expedition.
So this final part of the trilogy will address that gap in the middle - the three days we spent in Porto. Compared with Lisbon, there's a lot less cultural enrichment, and a lot more travelling around between nice places to eat and drink. You only get the one video this time - that one at the top there - but it shows you one of the best bits of travelling we did in those three days.
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High tea (Singapore) – Simply foodolicious! おいしい! 好吃! 맛있는! délicieux! delicioso! 好食!
After having read the impressive testimonial of Chef Frederic Deshayes who is behind this monochromatic cafe Do.main from its official site (Yes, Big names like Lenôtre Paris, Pierre Hermé were mentioned), S and I decided to pay it a visit since we are both Easties!
Having everything neatly laid out and categorised without any of the hipster paraphernalia in sight, it felt like a sincere cafe that wants to keep things clean, simple yet traditional.
Despite only having opened for slightly more than a month and only just a few cakes on display, this outstanding patisserie shop does seem to have a big story to share. With its grand yet not overly lavish interior decor, Mad about Sucre still somehow manages to render one an idyllic experience. Priced at around $10 for each cake/tart, they are indeed pricey but I like the way the experience was made wholesome as they would thoughtfully pair your cakes with a suitable cup of tea for $7 (But of course you could reject the tea if you are not a tea person). Having so much conviction in what they do, the cakes are served in courses starting from the lightest first (This must be a first for me, as I have not experienced such an arrangement before, not even during the 4 years in UK).
A relaxing corner of the patisserie to boast about.
Located in perhaps the most unanticipated location near Serangoon, I foresee that this Korean-run Korean dessert cafe would not run out of business as it is cleverly positioned just beside a gym and big tuition centre. Just exactly what a gym-er would need after a sweaty run and kids would definitely pester their parents for these icy desserts in the blazing heat.
Joe and Dough – Loving the umami sandwiches and intriguing sweets served!
No, I don’t take coffee and tea as these caffeinated drinks give me the jitters but Joe and Dough managed to pull my soul back with its awesome savoury sandwiches and creative sweets after a frustrating search for it at Orchard Gateway! It is actually quite hidden behind an alley of pushcarts that might have resulted in a quieter-than-normal cafe. Unlike most cafes that do not focus on their food but mainly their interior, Joe and Dough thankfully did the opposite which has rendered it the capacity to open 6 branches!
Indeed we were famished as these sarnies were just for the two of us.
Tiong Bahru Bakery – Welcoming CNY and Valentine’s with 3 new flavours and a Surprise!
As the amicable Gontran is shouting out Gong xi Gong xi to us, he was at the same time inspired to create 3 exciting CNY items that evidently have some French elements blended into them. As this year’s CNY comes much later than previous years, it has also overlapped with Valentine’s day, for which Gontran has created a delectable macaroon Burger.
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Who Was The BEST TV/Movie P.I. ?
If you’ve read this blog for more that a couple of days, you probably remember one of the many ‘careers’ I had was that of Private Investigator. Both working for others and myself. I’ve written about some of my ‘adventures’ in these pages.
And, it got me to thinking. Obviously, I wouldn’t have become a PI, had they not existed in literature, movies and television. I was disabled, and didn’t make the cut as a cop, so I went to something related. Using my college-learned investigative skills.
But, who was the BEST? However you define best – most realistic representation, most clever, most cutting edge.
I have my answer, but I won’t post it until you vote. And feel free to comment further, if you like.
Joe Mannix wouldn’t have it any other way.
May have been something I ate.
Will post later today if I’m up to it.
I’ve recounted before in these pages how I am at best a proto-geek. I knew and know geeks, nerds and geniuses, and pal around with them, but never made the cut with regard to technical knowledge.
Yes, things have improved from fledgling Guffaw in the 80’s with his Timex-Sinclair 2k computer. And from the 1992 286 machine with a 300 baud dial-up modem. But this computer/Internet jazz is still in it’s infancy.
If I turn on the television or the radio, it works! I don’t have to replace parts or fiddle with it’s innards to get it to work correctly. THIS is my hope for the evolution of the whole computer thing.
I did ‘something’ to Judy’s printer (with her generosity we share) with regard to the wireless settings. The short answer is it no longer works, wirelessly. As we both have physical issues, running up and down the stairs to see if something printed is a problem. So, we connect (or try to) wirelessly through our router, and viola, printouts! Until I messed something up!
I spent hours searching the Internet for answers, but, to know avail. I finally decided to bite-the-bullet and buy a newer printer. After much research, I found a similar model, with even simpler wireless connectivity, and doled out the funds. Thankfully, they’ve gotten even less expensive!
After a minor snafu with Amazon Prime (two-day shipping isn’t always) I received the printer, and set it up. The computer itself told me it was correctly set up, and PRESTO!
SO, I spent over TWO HOURS with an East Indian Help Desk tweaking the computer, the printer and my brain. STILL nothing. Finally the techoguru (who spoke perfect English, but with a VERY heavy accent) said I should change the settings on my firewalls, or even turn them off!
And, of course, there was little knowledge I could use from the Internet, as I AM NOT A GEEK!
And it STILL says it’s correctly connected and IT STILL WONT PRINT!
GOOD NEWS UPDATE! After all of the above trials and using suggestions from the comments (Thank You!), AND removing one of my firewall programs (there are others), AND reloading the drivers, I now can FINALLY PRINT!!
Gun owners are hostile to having guns registered and requiring a license to own them. The fear of having that data in the hands of the government is justifiable. Not just stories like the Belgian Corporal from 75 years ago on another continent but the stories in present day from Connecticut, New York, and California.
Now we have conclusive evidence that car licenses are also subject to abuse.
It’s time to treat cars like guns. No more registration.
H/T To Tamara K. for the retweet of Kirk Freeman.
You mean a free people should have a right not to be tracked incessantly by the State-run computer system? Their vehicles should be able to move freely without encumbrance, unmolested? Untracked? Unrecorded?
WHAT IS THIS, THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC? UNITED STATES?
Oh No! More School Shootings Possible!
Idaho lawmakers on Thursday approved a measure allowing concealed guns to be carried onto university and college campuses.
The legislation, which cleared the state House of Representatives by a 50-19 vote and was overwhelmingly approved by the state Senate last month, now heads to Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter for his signature.
If the Republican governor signs the bill into law as expected, Idaho will be the seventh U.S. state that allows guns on college campuses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The passage of the Idaho bill comes amid a tense debate on the extent of gun ownership restrictions in the United States, which has seen a string of recent shootings at schools, movie theaters and other public places. . . .
I don’t think there have been any on the campuses which make such allowances, have there?
Summary here. Essentially, Ares makes “80% receivers.” A receiver starts out as raw material — steel, or here polymer. Everyone can agree that’s not a receiver. At the end, it is a finished receiver that, with the appropriate parts attached, can fire. We can all agree that that is a receiver. But at what point between the two does it go from being in one legal status to being in the other?
Hat tip to Jeff Harris….
However, TODAY, I’m promoting the KLAN!
Because, after all, what’s right is right!
Isn’t it wonderful when the family of a dead alleged criminal arrives to tell us how there wasn’t really a home invasion?
Authorities on Monday said Ronald Green, 66, was watching TV when he was startled by the sound of his front door flying open.
Ramon R. Matlock entered the home, and Green ran to a bedroom to retrieve a revolver, authorities said.
Matlock swung at Green, and Green fired a shot into Matlock’s chest and another into his lower back, authorities said.
Authorities said Matlock ran out the door, but only got as far as the front yard. The Omaha Fire Department pronounced Matlock dead at the scene.
His family claims that perhaps the teen had been drinking and was confused, and thought he was at his aunt’s house. Presumably, crashing in through doors and taking a swing at those inside after they’ve retreated to their bedrooms is just how Ramon greeted people.
The district attorney said that Ramon was known in the neighborhood… and not for his hugs. He ruled Ramon’s entry a home invasion, and his swing at the homeowner a deadly force attack justifying the use of deadly force.
Another example of wasted youth.
I did some incredibly stupid stuff in my youth, and as my Dad used to say, I’m not young, anymore. But, it never occurred to me to get drunk, kick in someone’s door and take a swing at a 66 year-old man!
I was more into whining I had no date for Saturday night. And the only time I kicked in a door was when I locked myself out of my own bedroom at my college roommates house.
Police say an officer who helped locate a purse-snatching and shoplifting suspect following a foot chase on the city’s west side Monday discovered that his service weapon had been dislodged from his holster.
I’m so old, I remember when LAPD had those nifty S&W 6″ Combat Masterpieces in a duty rig which were of a clamshell design! One placed one’s finger in the trigger guard (!), depressed a button, and the holster flew open, leaving the K-Frame revolver in your hand – finger on the trigger!
Of course, mechanical contrivances being as they are, more than one revolver was lost by a patrolman scurrying over a wall whilst in foot pursuit and inadvertently depressing the release button! Weapon retention eventually evolved into high-ride duty holsters with steel linings, thumb snaps and specific presentation angles, said holster being held in place on the Sam Browne belt by Chicago (tension) screws.
And, Aikido – Jiu Jitsu – like training simultaneously developed to teach officers how to maintain control and possession of their weapons during physical encounters with suspects interested in obtaining their own control.
Civilian training? SOME is out there. Of course, making certain no miscreant even sees you have a gun until it’s leveled at him is a good idea, too.
I do remember one time when I was a security guard/graveyard shift in an urgent care facility, when an accident victim and his entourage arrived. They were all drunk.
And I was escorting them to the even more crowded clinic when I felt a firm tug on my sidearm! Reflexively, I used my elbow to pin the hand to the stocks, and rapidly turned and stepped away, to break the offending wrist or hand. The guy yelled, let go and complained I’d tried to hurt him. Then he explained he “just wanted to see what I had”! He was drunk, of course. I kept my cool and told him forcefully if he wanted to stay in the clinic with his friend he’d keep his hands to himself. He complied.
I’ve never had any problem of this nature carrying concealed. Perhaps there’s a message here?
I can’t speak for you, but, I’m no Bruce Lee.
Hell, I’m not even Pinky Lee!
RETAIN AND CONTROL YOUR WEAPONS AND ACCESS, PEOPLE!
One of the ‘quaint’ training drills of yore is the Bill Drill.
Back in the dark ages when I was a serious IPSC competitor (once on the gold team and twice on the silver team) Robbie and Brian shot WC pistols and we all got together quite a bit for serious practice sessions. On one of these sessions I suggested a drill to work on front sight tracking during recoil and Robbie being the “funny man” he usually is coined the term “Bill Drill” and it has obviously stuck. Keep in mind this was the early 80s and we were all top level IPSC competitors shooting state of the art race guns/gear for the day. At the time we were all shooting .38 super comp guns out of Safariland holsters (we were all on team Safariland).
This is a new version of the classic Bill Drill developed by Bill Wilson with a goal toward working the draw and different numbers of shots on target. Scoring is standard Vickers with a half second penalty per point down.
Draw and fire 1 shot.
Draw and fire 2 shots.
Draw and fire 3 shots.
Draw and fire 4 shots.
Draw and fire 5 shots.
Bill Wilson suggests a 10-second total score as a goal.
Gotta love the old-timers teaching the young turks a trick or two!
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At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I say Dior Homme (2005) deserves its place on a pedestal of classics. Rarely do mainstream launches proceed without deliberation on market tests, but Dior Homme did. And its composition does not conform either: at the centre of it is iris, a material that does not have a firm ground on the masculine territory like, say, lavender or geranium. Yet perfumer Olivier Polge did an astounding job, thereby firmly establishing its place amongst masculine fragrances.
Iris, which has the connotation of powder puff and lipstick, is not exactly a fresh note. However, in Dior Homme, its carrot facet is cleverly extrapolated with green herbs to give a fresh top note. A combination of bergamot, lavandin, geranium, and carrot seed renders the impression of aromatic green herbs. Cardamom and coriander provide a spicy contrast. Such cool herbs introduce freshness to the dense note.
The lively iris theme at heart revolves around 0.25% of orris absolute with its rich powder, carrot-like green, and chills. A peachy glow, the fruity touch of δ-damascone at 0.11%, and violet-like ionones warm and sweeten the composition. A radiant floral touch keeps the heart limpid. The glow and shimmer impart such clarity and polish, rendering an otherwise austere and sometimes dull note of iris vibrant.
Towards the base, the composition is warm and inviting. Here, vetiver is sweetened by vanilla, coumarin, and musk with a crisp ambery note of Ambrox. The resultant gourmand sweetness is brilliantly offset by the combination of myrrh and frankincense oil each at 0.5%. Patchouli conjures a surprising touch of bitter cocoa when paired with powdery iris. The character of vanillic woods strongly contrasts with that of iris, and pairing them together creates a gripping tension between warm and cool notes. It is riveting.
Offering iris as a masculine fragrance untested is a bold and risky move, but in doing so Dior and Polge have created a milestone with a memorable character and a lasting influence. The iris is rendered surprisingly fresh and spicy, and its rooty chills polished by radiant florals and glow of fruits. Then, pitted against vanillic woods and incense, it makes Dior Homme unforgettable. It is tenacious and its suave sillage of grand cru cocoa and supple leather will impress. Its boldness has certainly left a mark in perfumery.
A note on the concentrations: Since its launch, Dior Homme has been a success, spawning various incarnations. The versions which are clearly related to the original character are Dior Homme Intense (2011), which is an eau de parfum, and Dior Homme Parfum (2014) by perfumer François Demachy. The eau de parfum is like a creamy, sweet leather-cocoa as the levels of vanillin and coumarin are increased. For the parfum, its richness is overall increased, creating a dark supple leather; and the emphasis shifts to the fond with fumes of frankincense and myrrh — the blotter has been oozing these dark swirls even after three weeks from the first spray. The longevity of both is, likewise, sterling. Their presence also lingers long after one has disappeared.
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2019-04-20T02:37:18Z
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I’m Stephen Walker, and I’d like to welcome you to my blog, the purpose of which is to provide lively and informative tidbits about some of my favorite things about St. Louis, primarily in the areas of architecture, design and history. I’m a graphic designer by trade, and in my off time I enjoy drawing house portraits, under the business name of Walker Studio. In 1989, I authored “Lemp: The Haunting History,” which chronicles the tragic legacy of the Lemp family of St. Louis, best known today for their former residence, the Lemp Mansion. Now a restaurant, the mansion is widely known as one of the most haunted places in America. As an avid fan of astronomy, I designed the Delmar Loop Planet Walk, a walkable scale model of our solar system. Dedicated in 2009, it is a permanent installation in the Delmar Loop. The 2,800-foot walk is located along the sidewalk on the north side of Delmar, beginning at the Moonrise Hotel. Like the actual solar system, it is outside, and ready to be discovered and enjoyed by anyone, at any time.
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2019-04-25T04:13:14Z
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The Theatre at Chipping Norton in the heart of the leafy Cotswold countryside is a picturesque small venue, which provided the dancers of Ballet Central, the graduate performing company of Central School of Ballet, with a warmly welcoming family audience and an almost full house for their annual visit. The lopsided stage is narrow but deep, giving viewers in the side galleries problematic sightlines, but this is made up for by intimacy and potential connection between viewers and doers. The company earned my profound respect for their ability to fit energetic ensemble dancing into this space without any problems or collisions.
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2019-04-25T06:16:38Z
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Hi, sewing friends! It feels like forever since we’ve had a good old basic sewing post. So that’s what we have today. I love doing special projects and field trips and, honestly, taking a break from blogging has allowed me to build up a nice backlog of projects to share with you, but it’s also nice to get back to the normal, everyday type of sewing stuff. A little break makes it feel more special, and it makes me excited to share things with you.
So, all that to say, I made a shirt! And I love it!
The pattern I used was Simplicity 2255, which first came to life in my closet in an orange iteration last year.
This time I made the same view (View D) in the same size (16 at the bust, 18 at the waist and hips), but I left off the pocket, and I didn’t mess up the bias binding on the armholes! Progress!
I will say that the shirt feels different in the quilting cotton I chose this time around than the voile-like mystery fabric I used last time. I think I would like the armhole to be slightly larger, so I looked in some fitting books and, if I make this again, I’m going to try scooping out the bottom curve of the armhole just a bit, although I’m open to other suggestions if you have them. It’s not uncomfortable exactly, but it feels a bit high and like there should be more room. This wasn’t something I noticed in the first version.
I’d had my eye on this fabric for a long time, but what I didn’t see until my friend pointed it out, was that the pattern on this fabric almost makes a sort of plaid. (Thanks, Maggie!) I haven’t really delved into much pattern matching, but I decided to try to generally match the horizontal lines, and it turned out pretty well! I’m happy with it. I’m also really in love with the vintage buttons I used that came from my mother-in-law (Thanks, Mom!).
I’m trying really hard to pay attention to what I most like to wear in each season and what I feel good in. For summer, I’ve decided I like looser things so the breeze can keep me cool when I’m wearing them. (In contrast, I find that I want to be wrapped up in blankets in the winter, hence “secret blanket clothing”.) This shirt is definitely loose and breezy, and I feel super cool when I’m wearing it (literally and figuratively).
When I get the chance to watch TV these days, I’ve really been enjoying Atelier, a show created by Netflix and Fuji TV about a girl just out of school (college? grad school?) who goes to work in a custom lingerie store in Tokyo. Unlike an American show, this isn’t smutty or racy, but is a really heartwarming story about learning to take pride in making quality work and to prioritize your customers, co-workers, and friends above your bottom line.
Hila’s blue dress over on Saturday Night Stitch is so cute. I love it! She copied a ready-to-wear dress, and I’d say she nailed it.
Allie J. interviews Deborah Kreiling of Simplicity, and they talk all about Simplicity’s vintage rereleases. It’s really fascinating to get an inside look at Simplicity’s process.
And because I try to share the new things I find with you, I bring you an Olympic sport I missed the first time around: ballet skiing. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if the world is better or worse without this in the Olympics.
It’s Brimfield time again! I love Brimfield! What is it? The Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, MA is the largest outdoor antique market in the United States. It happens three times a year in May, July, and September from a Tuesday to a Sunday. Usually my wonderful husband takes a day off to watch the kids so I can get up long before the crack of dawn to head out there for a full day of antiquing. I love it!
Unlike some people who go to Brimfield, I’m not a serious collector of anything. I keep a list throughout the year of antiques I’d love to find, but I’m usually looking for things that are maybe mid-century, on the smaller side, and something I can use. I save up Christmas and other money, but I don’t think I’ve ever spent it all. I love to look at everything, hunt for treasures and gifts, and get lessons in both history and the psychology of Brimfield. It’s never dull. I walk all day, and then I enjoy some good food.
This year, for the first time, one of my friends was a vendor. Laurel’s business is called Retromat Vintage and she sells vintage clothing as well as other things that are interesting and cool. Here a just a few pictures of some of her goods.
I vote for bringing gloves back.
I got the chance to work for her for about 20 or 30 minutes and, despite my nervousness, it went well. She gave me some sewing goodies that I wanted in return…and a lobster roll.
I felt richly rewarded for my minimal work! Thanks, Laurel! Laurel also gave me this Necchi-Elna catalogue, which was fun to look through since I have a much-loved Elna. I had no idea they were one company at some point.
I also got to see my friend Maggie from my favorite fabric store in NH, and we had some fun checking out the vintage sewing goodies.
My strategy this time, since I wanted to be available to Laurel if she needed me, was to hit my favorite fields first, and then walk through whatever other fields I could get to. All the fields have interesting names. Because I love to delve into whatever I am really interested in, I started a notebook to record favorite fields (currently New England Motel, Quaker Acres, and The Meadows), notes to remember, etc. Inside I have directions to Brimfield, a page for each field with notes, general notes about where I like to park (in the middle), and my wish lists for the current year and years past.
or become a cook in a giant’s kitchen.
My notebook started to get so full of vendor cards, that Scott got me a little accordion file so I can keep track of which vendors are in which fields. Yes. We ARE cool.
Owl scissors! At $2 apiece, I wish I had bought a bunch more for gifts. Maybe next time.
A sleeve board for pressing sleeves. Don’t worry–I’ll clean it up before using it on my sewing projects.
And finally, here are some pictures of things I saw as I walked around.
A Singer Featherweight sewing machine complete with case!
Not everything is antique–some things are upcycled from antiques or are handmade goods like these jeans or supplies for making other things like the yarn below.
It was a great Brimfield, I have to say. I had a lot of fun looking for treasures and hanging out with Maggie and Laurel. If you’ve gone to Brimfield, I’d love to hear your thoughts, tips, or favorites.
For posts on Brimfields past, see these links: 2014 and 2015.
It was time for a crazy-sewing-lady skirt. What came from this determination was “The Apple Picking Skirt”!
As I’ve sewn more and more, I’ve used awesomely patterned quilting cotton less and less, but let’s be honest: quilting cotton has the MOST FUN prints! So, I decided that I needed a skirt (or a dress or a…something) out of some really cool quilting cotton. Who should step in the fill the gap but Melody Miller of Cotton + Steel and her super cool Picnic collection.
This was the project I chose after finishing my jacket for the Refashioners challenge. I still had/have a few projects on my “big ‘ol batch of sewing” list (good name, right?), but I needed something quick and easy…and with only one or two new concepts to learn. So, I checked out Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing by Gretchen Hirst from my library for the billionth time (I really need to buy a copy!) and used her instructions to create a dirndl skirt, which is basically two rectangles sewn together with a rectangular waistband at the top. I’d never made one of these types of skirts before, and I wanted to try it. I also wanted to try using horsehair braid to make the hem stand away from my body.
And it was fun! And easy!
So, let’s talk about a few details. I ordered my fabric from fabric.com, and got my horsehair braid from Pintuck & Purl. Maggie, the shop owner, gave me some information on using it, and between that and Gretchen’s book, I was golden. I got the pink zipper at Joann’s, and in my button collection (a gift from my in-laws’ attic), I found the BEST button! Check this out!
It’s a squirrel! And it looks like it’s holding the apple! Thanks, Mom!
This was certainly a project of details. It’s such a simple skirt, that I had fun on those extras. I’m really convinced that the things that make clothing special (besides quality construction and style lines) are fabric and details. Even in the thrift store I use fabric as a guide, looking along the rows of clothing for stand-out fabric, and only then considering the garment.
Since I mentioned details, I have another favorite detail on this skirt–the tag!
I didn’t realize until the last time I was up at Pintuck & Purl and was talking to some of the other ladies at the Sip & Stitch night that Cotton + Steel always has cool selvedges. This fabric had all the information about the designer and the line and all that, but it also had this cute little section that said, “I made something pretty for you!” Well, selfish seamstress that I am, I changed “you” to “me”, and I sewed it to the back of my skirt.
Now is when fantasy clashes with reality. Would I really wear this apple picking? No. But I did wear it to church, and it’s making the beginning of fall feel pretty fun (I was having a hard time letting go of summer after the last winter we had.).
While I was making this, I spotted Jenny’s cool skirt featuring fabric with a map of London on her blog, Cashmerette. I felt we were thinking on the same wavelength, which I liked, since she’s pretty cool.
Now that all is said and done, I’m not sure this is my favorite silhouette on me, but I think I’m going to try at least one more high-waisted, gathered skirt (from a different pattern) before I decide for sure. Sometimes new silhouettes just take a little getting used to.
So, what about you? Do you try to go incognito with your sewing projects so everyone will think they are store-bought or do you like to stand out and embrace looking “homemade”?
Whatever you are sewing, I hope it makes you excited for the season ahead and drives you on to make more projects in the future!
Here we are at the end of week three of Me-Made-May. I’m excited to show you some more pictures. I was expecting a lot more repeats by this time, but I’ve been digging deep in my closet and storage to try to keep things changed up. It’s encouraging that I’ve made more garments than I thought I had. It also makes me want to sew even more!
Since May started on a Friday, the weeks are running Friday to Thursday (at least as far as my blog posts are concerned). Fridays come with a little extra challenge for anyone who wants to take it on, and week three’s challenge was “Something Old”.
The shirt I’m wearing is “old” in that I made it before I really got traction with sewing and before beginning the blog. It’s also made from a vintage sheet. If you read the last post, you’ll recognize this shot. I found a vintage sheet that almost matched my shirt at Brimfield!
This shirt is made from McCall’s 6848, which is a pajama pattern. You may recognize the fabric from the Mother’s Day skirt in last week’s Me-Made-May post. It’s a sheet that someone gave me. I love the fabric and I wanted to see if this shirt would translate into an everyday shirt. I’d also thought of making it from a knit for exercising and/or day-to-day wear, but I’m not sure. I like it in these pictures, but when I was wearing it, I kept seeing an old pair of scrubs I used to wear as pajamas.
The back yoke is actually the hem of the sheet.
Day 18 turned into a bit of a photo shoot, so even after narrowing down my choices, I have a lot of pictures to show you.
This scarf/wrap is really versatile. I designed it from some of my husband’s old t-shirts in reverse applique a la Alabama Chanin. It was a lot of fun to work on and while I don’t wear it as often as I would like, I think it’s still one of the pieces I’m most proud of.
You’ve seen this one before! The challenge with a repeat garment, especially since I’m taking pictures every day, is to find a new way to style it. I do that in normal life, too, but when I find a good outfit, I also repeat it. I’m trying not repeat whole outfits this month so I can give you something a little more interesting than seven of the same outfits repeated each week. It’s a good creative exercise.
I used to be so good at exercising regularly, but my main motivation to exercise this spring has been because I made a new piece of exercise clothing. I made this shirt and it looked so awesome with the chevron fold over elastic as an edging, but when I wear it, it gapes more than I would like. I think I may go back and fiddle with the neck and armholes to see if I can get a fit I’m happier with.
This shirt is also from McCall’s 6848. You can see my first gym-ready version of it here.
Last, but not least for this week is an Alabama Chanin sleeveless shirt.
I love this shirt, but I think if I make it again, I’ll make it one size larger. I’d love something with a slightly looser fit.
I made this shirt from a knit sheet (the main part) and an old t-shirt (the binding).
I love the Alabama Chanin patterns year-round, but especially for the summer. I have a feeling I’ll be making more in the warmer months.
That wraps up another week of Me-Made-May. Thanks for following along. I’ll report back with more soon!
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2019-04-25T10:53:37Z
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Neil Sadwelkar is one of those personalities in contemporary Bollywood who plan the post production of your AV project and oversees its implementation. He is a post-production consultant, editor, ad filmmaker and documentary director rolled in one. At one time, or another, he headed Pixion, and then Prime Focus. Currently, he is more into technical consultancy, in today’s ultra hi-def digital filmmaking scenario. With a Masters Degree in Physics, and years of experience in technical maintenance in Nehru Planetarium, and later in the mainstream industry, he knows the technical sides of any level of AV production. He backs that up with an aesthetic understanding and practice in filmmaking, doing many things at a time, unlike the specialists in Bollywood.
Neil Sadwelkar came to Digital Academy, on 2nd May, 2012, to take students to a three hours journey to the land of the digital cinema.
This fantastic journey started with a listing of digital cameras in the contemporary market. Modern digital camcorders came to the market in the late ‘80s. But, they became truly popular from the mid ‘90s only. Indian market swayed to the digital, in the new millennium. And in five years, the market literally flooded with cameras from different companies, for different purposes. To make the matter more complex, more than seventy five different recording formats started co-existing. Patent laws and proprietary formats made one specific media stream or file unreadable by another machine. That gave birth to many different workflows for the same goal.
Sony marketed the first prosumer digital video camera, in mid ‘90s. They named it DCR-VX1000. It was the first video camera to stream data through IEEE 1394 interface, commonly known as firewire. The compression given to the stream was the standardized DV; and the popular storage medium was the ubiquitous mini-DV tape, ¼” wide.
Very Soon updated models, with wider facilities, came up. Canon produced XL-1, Sony marketed DSR-PD150, Panasonic with DVCPRO25, and so on.
After George Lucas developed CineAlta F900, the first HD camera in the world that could record 24 progressive frames per second, in collaboration with both Sony and Panasonic, the prosumer and TV market expected an improvement in their image acquisition too. JVC, Sony and Panasonic responded with GR-HD1, HVR-Z1 and the Panasonic AG-DVX100 cameras respectively.
Neil was at the forefront of this digital revolution, personally using all these models, and handling or designing the project workflow for each.
He talked about those years, and how he learnt to manage workflows for so diverse models such as later Sony AVCHD camcorders to Sony NEX series to Television broadcast cameras, to the growing need for using multipurpose DSLRs such Canon 5D MKIII.
Neil listed a dozen such cameras he worked with, through the new millennium years. He also talked about the new generation editing suites that came along, such as AVID Media Composer, and Apple FCP.
When someone from the students asked him which camera he prefers, his point was simple. He prefers none. Each has its own use, as per the requirement of the story and the clientele. A seamless, noiseless, very filmlike image sits in the spectator’s mind for a Karan Johar Romance. Red Epic would be perfect for that job, with its own pristine workflow. But, a quasi-docufiction like Stanley ka Dabba may be perfect with a Canon 7D, with its realistic, handheld motion images.
It may in fact look fake if a news documentary is shot with Arri Alexa, even with ProRes 4:2:2. Neil, who edited more than 300 TV commercials, does not judge an image by its gloss. He said, an image would serve its purpose best when it fits the existing mindset of the spectator, or supersedes it, but not attacks it.
In the second phase of his lecture, Neil Sadwelkar took specific examples of very high frame rate cameras such as Phantom or Weiscam, recording from 650 to 4000 FPS for super slow motion. Such cameras are useful not only for commercials or action sequences, but also in sports. Action replay in slo-mo, or judging whether it was an LBW, is perfectly possible now thanks to these cameras.
Extremely tiny cameras like GoPro, SonyPOV or Contour are in the market today for their extreme maneuverability and invisibility. Such lightweight, heavyduty cameras can easily be used under water (in simple water housing), or in the balloon above, connected to the chopper head, or to the helmet of the diver if necessary.
Footage from such diverse sources was never possible before digital revolution. These days, truly, imagination (or, the lack of it) is the only fence that limits an artist’s creativity. Implementation is just a matter of planned execution.
With this, Neil Sadwelkar lands up in the most important part of his talk – How to plan a shoot, and how the image is really acquired inside a digital camera.
Unlike a traditional camera, digital cameras capture images with a sensor. The sensor converts the incoming array of brightness variation to variation in electric voltage. Through electronic switching in the ICs, an electronic map of the same image is created. This image can then be processed inside the camera in various ways.
Noise reduction, Contrast enhancement and assigning the output to a particular space may be done in the camera. Particular Look Up Tables (LUT) can be saved from such settings, and they can be further applied to future images, or image streams.
However, that would give a permanent, or baked, look to the moving image. If the DP, or Director, later wants to change certain properties of the image, s/he would not be able to do so without losing visual information.
It was precisely for this reason the Raw image output made possible by Red One camera became so popular. In Red One, and its upgradations up to the contemporary Red Epic, powered by Dragon Sensor, offers a choice of outputting the raw electronic map of the original image, to the filmmaker. With maximum visual information in hand, the filmmaker can decide how to optimize the image for different viewing platforms – Cinema halls, Blu Ray discs, or satellite TV.
In reply to a student’s question, Neil clarified, at this point, that the Raw data captured in the Arri Alexa or Red Epic camera is never output as Raw. Raw, being just an array of voltage fluctuations, is unreadable by the human brain. Hence, to show up as an image, Raw always has to undergo some compression.
Compressions are of two types – lossy and lossless. Some compressions such 3:1 or 5:1 contain so much visual information that practically they can be taken as Raw.
While high budget Hollywood movies are shot on 5:1 or 6:1 compression ratios, Indian blockbusters such as Bhag Mikha Bhag shot with an array of Epics used mostly 8:1 compression ratio. TV shows use 12:1 compression ratios or so.
From here, Neil Sadwelkar began the journey of the captured image to the end product. He showed how compressions are necessary for another reason. They are too big to be recorded to the memory card, in real time. This pushed the industry to invent external capture stream recorder, such as Aja Ki Pro or the Sony Axs-R5.
In the modern file based, tapeless systems, movie files are ultimately recorded in some specified formats.
While those like R3D RedRaw are machine-specific formats, similar to mainframe computer’s machine language (or, at best assembly language), those with compressions like Apple ProRes 4:2:2 and wrapped in a .mov extension are much more portable just like a compiled program.
And just like a compiled program, they are less efficient too.
However, efficiency, which translates directly to image quality in the filmmaker’s matters less for TV. While most current Indian TV shows have a bandwidth around 20 Mbps, a theatrical projection must be acquired at near 400 Mbps, or more. Precisely that is the bandwidth of Red Epic at 8:1 compression ratio.
This leads to dedicated memory recorder or hard disk in camera, like Redmag or Aluratek hard disk controller. Also new interfaces like Thunderbolt has come to exist, that finalyy replaced the age old Firewire technology.
Many cameras also provide comparatively cheaper HDMI or HD-SDI interface for comparatively uncompressed HD output.
In most of these cameras, sound can be recorded in comparatively uncompressed PCM 48KHz, at 24bit sampling block.
At this point, Neil Sadwelkar opened up the issue of D-Cinema and E-Cinema which he touched before. D-Cinema is the universally accepted standard for professional theatrical projection, while E-Cinema is the HDTV standard. While TV revolves around HD – 1920 x 1080 resolution, and ProRes 4:2:2 compression method; Motion Picture is set at a higher standard which starts from 2K – 2048 vertical lines, and can go upto 5K for all practical purposes.
However, what Neil did not mention here was that human eye is perhaps not made to look at more than 2K projection resolution, on an average. A debate on this, raised by Paul Wheeler, in the first years of the new millennium, is quite well known.
The last phase of Neil’s lecture concerned the quality of the acquired footage and the Digital Intermediate workflow handling that. Neil said, while footage from professional digital film cameras such as Sony SRW-900, or Cine Alta F-35 records on HDCAM SR tape for best output, Red One or Canon C300 records on CF card. Along with the Raw, proxy files of different compression ratio, in ProRes 4:2:2 method are generated automatically, in many of these cameras.
However, the workflow remains very similar and commonsensical, whatever the capture method or compression is.
If the moving image is captured in tape, in HDV or Varicam format, it has to be streamed to the editing machine through a firewire or thunderbolt interface. Normally, the footage undergoes a generation loss as it gets dumped and compressed into a machine readable format.
There are many different formats for different machines, or editing programs, such as Avid’s OMF or MXF.
For file based image acquisition, sometimes the footage has to be compressed so that the machine can handle it. Such compressions are very similar to proxies generated in some of the digital film cameras.
After editing, an EDL, or XML (For FCP X) is generated to open the project in a Color Correction suite, after conforming the XML date with original quality footage.
At this stage, CGI works are composited on live motion plates too, before the final Color Correction.
After the final CC, sound and music are added. Only at this stage, the project gets ready for an initial approval.
These days, almost all projects are going for a final encryption at ehe hands of companies like Scrabble and Qube, to be packaged as projection ready Digital Cinema Packages.
Neil Sadwelkar answered a few final questions related to Cinema projection, and how projectors handle the encrypted DCP, with a unique Keycode.
It was a marathon session covering almost a biography of Digital Cinema. However, there was little time in the end, for a detailed discussion on Digital Intermediate. Many students wanted to hear more about that highly glamorized workflow on which Neil is an expert. However, Neil satisfied their quest by showing that it is not possible to talk about all workflows, as they keep changing with the nature of the project, and finally all boil down to commonsense.
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UPDATES IN MICHIGAN FAMILY LAW: Gray Divorce, a Growing Trend.
Gray Divorce, a Growing Trend.
"Gray Divorce" is a growing trend. in 2013, researchers Susan L. Brown and I-Fen Lin sociologists at Bowling Green State University, working under a grant, wrote Working Paper WP-13-03, published in March 2013 as The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce among Middle-aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010. They explored the significance of later life divorce. The authors said: "As early as 30 years ago, researchers argued that divorce among older adults would be a growing trend." These studies gave several educated guesses why this would occur.
Females, who are more likely to be employed and have greater autonomy now than in the days of Ozzie and Harriet , have greater freedom to seek divorce and live independent of a husband.
People are living longer. This increases the likelihood that a marriage (or re-marriage) might end in divorce as opposed to ending by death of a spouse.
Many people have greater expectations in life and want marriage with a spouse who is a real partner. If spouses "grow apart," one or both is more likely to see divorce and re-marriage or life as a single to be more appealing than an empty sham marriage.
In 2012, Brown and Lin published a study about the divorce experience of today's middle-aged and older adults by estimating divorce rates across socio-demographic subgroups and examining key correlates of divorce. Empirical evidence updating studies published prior to 1990 examined the changing incidence or rate of divorce as well as the risk factors associated with divorce for both middle-aged and older adult cohorts.
Brown and Lin concluded that the traditional focus of gerontological research on widowhood must be expanded to include divorce as another form of marital dissolution. Their research showed that divorce rate among adults aged 50 and older doubled between 1990 and 2010. According to their research, over 600,000 people aged 50 and older got divorced in 2010 but little is known about the predictors and consequences of divorces that occur during middle and later life. Demographic characteristics, economic resources, and the marital biography were associated with the risk of divorce in 2010. The rate of divorce was 2.5 times higher for those in remarriages versus first marriages (perhaps because once divorced, the perceived stigma of divorce had blurred or disappeared. The authors found, however, that the divorce rate declined as marital duration increased.
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Conventional wisdom suggests that weight gain is an inevitability that comes with age. Studies have found that the metabolism does slow with age. In fact, people who are older than 45 suffer the loss of 10% of their muscle mass in each decade. As muscle mass is lost, fat is gained.
The obvious answer is to begin a regimen of exercise. While this is an excellent method for keeping the metabolism operating at a higher rate, nutrition also plays a key role in weight loss and in helping the metabolism to efficiently break down the carbohydrates, fats and proteins that are consumed. Getting the right nutrients can ensure a healthier, more active future.
The human body uses glucose for energy and helps everyone maintain appropriate blood sugar levels. A trace mineral called chromium plays a major role that assists the body to produce essential glucose. Moreover, chromium helps fight illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. Even cholesterol levels appear to improve when adequate levels of chromium are consumed.
Many foods feature concentrated amounts of chromium. Potatoes, onions, whole grain foods, tomatoes and oysters all have naturally occurring chromium. For an additional boost, many people look for a multivitamin and mineral supplement that includes this trace mineral.
Green tea is another food that’s great for maintaining active metabolism levels. People who regularly drink green tea are able to metabolize fat much more efficiently and lower their risk of having high cholesterol numbers. Green tea even boosts the body’s own natural antioxidants.
Magnesium is also an important factor for a healthy metabolic rate. It additionally helps prevent cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Bran, dried herbs, pumpkin seeds, flax, sunflower seeds and cashews are all packed with magnesium. When people are getting proper amounts of magnesium in their diet, they are better able to regulate their weight.
The body can more effectively metabolize carbohydrates when it has sufficient levels of potassium. Heart attacks and diabetes can also be prevented with potassium. Foods like tuna, cod, apricots, avocados, almonds, yogurt and various beans are best sources of this essential nutrient.
It's not unusual for people to begin experiencing memory problems with age.
Distressingly, these difficulties seem to begin quite young. However, memory loss is not an inherent part of aging. It's something that people can somewhat control by keeping their mind active throughout the course of their life.
An active brain is healthy. Accordingly, learning new skills and challenging the mind on a regular basis can help prevent memory loss. Challenging your brain can take many forms. Perhaps you'll do puzzles or learn a new language. Some people take up a new hobby or attend a community education class. Through reading, gardening or picking up an entirely new skill, the mind continually builds new neural pathways and stimulates brain cells. The result is a healthier, richer memory.
When building memory skills it also helpful to engage more than one sense. Instead of only using your eyes to experience the world, focus on noticing scents, textures and sounds as well. When you can engage at least two of your senses during an experience, you're much more likely to be able to recall the event later, and your memory will be richer in detail.
You may also find it useful to automate certain parts of your daily routine. For instance, if you designate a spot where your keys go, you won't waste precious time and mental energy trying to find your keys every day. Similarly, you might consider using planners and reminders to help you keep track of upcoming events and appointments. That way you don't have to carry around the information in your head. You're much more likely to make it to those appointments, and your memory won't be cluttered with information that's better stored elsewhere.
Repetition can be a valuable tool to improving your memory. When you meet someone new, be certain to use their name once or twice during the ensuing conversation. If you're afraid you'll forget it later, write it down or say the name out loud while picturing your meeting with them. It's repetition like this that can help an event to stay planted in your memory.
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British Rail Class 303 "Blue Train"
TransClyde branded Class 303 unrefurbished unit no. 303 089 at Wemyss Bay railway station.
The British Rail Class 303 is a type of electric multiple unit. They are also known as "Blue Train" units. They were introduced in 1960 for the electrification of the North Clyde and the Cathcart Circle lines in Strathclyde. At first they were classified as AM3 units before the introduction of the TOPS classification system. They were the dominant EMU on the Glasgow suburban railway network for over 25 years. The final units were withdrawn from service in 2002.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Rail Class 303.
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When the rich man died, he begged Father Abraham to send Lazarus down to comfort him. But a great chasm separated them. Where did it come from? How could anyone ever get across?
What can we learn from a dishonest man? In this parable, Jesus explains that it’s not what we have, but how we use it that matters.
Note: The first minute or so of the recording for this sermon has some technical difficulties. The sound quality improves considerably after that.
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I say this partly in response to forgottenboy and Adam's comments in defense of Freud on the basis of established utility. As a means to local argumentative ends, i.e. stripped of its universal explanatory power, I could live with the continued presence of psychoanalytic thought in literary studies. I know—and am presently arguing with—people for whom this better-than-squat model enables them to produce incisive work.
The splits that we see at work between so-called modernists and postmodernists, between Lacanians and Deleuzians, between all manner of methodological beasts, are in large part not splits caused by differences in reading for meaning, but rather differences in the methods by which interpretation and the subsequent production of meaning is possible. In other words, the theoretical assumptions that inform the interpretation determine the possibilities and final form that any interpretation will take.
That final sentence speaks directly to my concern that even a local psychoanalytic explanation has global effects on the shape and outcome of the argument it assists. The argument may have turned another way—perhaps an equally tendentious one, but differently so—had it not adopted a set of ready-made psychoanalytic concerns. A Jamesian reading may have worked better, but the psychoanalytic has greater appeal. Why?
I'm not knocking strong ideological and philosophical convictions per se. I am, however, questioning the seriousness with which they're held when folks betray little or no awareness of the trap 1) integral to their theoretical druthers which they 2) spring with postal regularity.
Why not admit it? Why insist that one is open to new ideas when the very system to which one so rigidly subscribes precludes the possibility of accepting them? If everyone else knows you play a rigged game, shouldn't you?
"The affair-- I mean the affair of life--couldn't, no doubt, have been different for me; for it's at the best a tin mould, either fluted and embossed, with ornamental excrescences, or else smooth and dreadfully plain, into which, a helpless jelly, one's consciousness is poured--so that one 'takes' the form as the great cook says, and is more or less compactly held by it: one lives in fine as one can."
Were I to try to systematize an epistemology and psychology based on James, rather than Freud, this is the sort of quote with which I imagine I would begin. There are two reasons for this. First, in its proper context, it is one of the most moving speeches I have ever encountered. Second, it offers a fairly precise and abstract account of sensibility, accounts for the formation of sensibility, and evaluates the relationship between formative experience and freedom -- all of which could help in the construction of a tentative model of the psyche.
However, this is a speech by Lambert Strether, not Henry James. It is "in character," even where it specifically concerns character, and is a contingent product of Strether's own (invented) life history. Therefore we would not be justified in leaping from this statement to a Jamesian psychology. That would not be fair to Ralph Touchett, who holds a far more optimistic view for the whole of his short life.
Furthermore, it bears a striking resemblance to the Freudian theory of the complex. It is not the same as Freud's theory, at all. For one thing, Strether's "tin mould" is asexual. But it does allow us to speculate that some people may inhabit more Freudian worlds than others; in other words, that the complicated relationship between the form and content of their mental lives produces repressed drives, anxiety, parapraxis, and so on. It is natural that some of these people, when and if they become writers, will produce works of criticism and fiction heavily influenced by Freud.
Along these same lines, I can see critics more sympathetic to Ralph Touchett having more interest in Walter Pater, or Matthew Arnold, than in Freud. The wonderful thing about Henry James is that his fiction is large enough to contain both Strether and Ralph.
Of course, not every critic produces work which is authentic on this level. In your post on an earlier generation being allowed to "discover" postmodern theory, you lamented the crippling effects of professionalization. Undoubtedly, certain graduate students pick up Freud for cynical reasons, under enormous pressure to secure a tenure-track job. Thus Freud tends to wrongfully overshadow other systems which might be valuable: he is granted too much universal explanatory power.
But I would like to offer a view intended to augment Rufo's analysis. I don't think the bitter arguments between theorists are simply the result of different epistemological foundations. I think they are also the result of different experiential foundations. Lacanians dress differently from Deleuzians. They listen to different music. They buy houses in different neighborhoods. (I am thinking of several specific people, on both sides, in my department.) We put them in some bland room, give them a text overflowing with meanings, and expect them to reach consensus even when they are competing for the same jobs.
Even as I am tempted (in my own defense) to assert and prove my independence from Freud, I am equally concerned to present that independence as itself related to my own life, and only meaningful in light of other people whose narrower work has benefited me enormously. It has been useful in this conversation to refer to expansive authors like Joyce. Some other blog finds Kafka, a supreme analyst of the inescapable -- inescapable. That is the circular process by which experience moults into truth.
But this process need not result in stasis. My interest in working with both Deleuze and Lacan pushes me towards methods by which they might be reconciled. Good Lacanian writing tries to go beyond the mirror stage through the immanent process of naming and analyzing it, and good Deleuzian theory tries to go beyond schizophrenia. It is this beyond which could justify what appears at first to be methodological obsession.
Another way of putting this might be, to echo an earlier point, that different interpretative systems often share utopian aspirations towards freedom through the word; despite their passionate differences, they can be ranged alongside one another according to their common hopes. But here I am ashamed to draw so heavily on the work of Ernst Bloch.
Noted, Luther, but worth a second recommendation.
Over the weekend I came across a string of comments by contemporary researchers in the cognitive sciences acknowledging their respect for and continuing interest in Freud -- as a great innovator in a great direction rather than as a canonical authority; none of them are "Freudians" or "anti-Freudians" any more than they're "Newtonians". I agree with forgottenboy that our greater investment in one thinker more than another reflects personal disposition. Surely the point should not be to deny that -- the point (if one prefers a vigorous intellectual life) is not to rest there, like someone who enjoys their first cheeseburger with bacon and thereafter everlastingly eats nothing but.
What makes these debates so unsatisifying in the end is that the people being targeted don't participate and wouldn't learn anything if they did. Instead, people who say we shouldn't be smug parrots of orthodoxy "argue" with people who say we should be able to enjoy and deploy what interests us.
Screw all of you. I want orthodoxy.
Regarding the cognitive sciences' "demolishing" of Freud, here's a starting point for that neurosciences thread I mentioned in my other comment this morning.
Ray and LB, I meant to say a little something about the Wood article earlier, because with the exception of the discussion of the translations problem toward the end, one could read that article without realizing that the disorders in question are developmental and/or traumatic. I find the mind Freud described far more compelling than his account of how it got there, but anything more serious than an appreciation of Freud requires that account be invoked.
Undoubtedly, certain graduate students pick up Freud for cynical reasons, under enormous pressure to secure a tenure-track job.
I didn't intend to make those who adopt Freud sound mercenary so much as, well, pressured. Were I to pick up Freud at this point, irresponsibly use an argument of his to bridge a gap in my work, that would be mercenary. (Although, I feel obliged to note that the longer this conversation continues, the more I'm convinced that my own position is the intellectually poorer. I've even ordered a couple of books on the "cogntive" or "adaptive" unconscious.) But I think scholars move to Freud more for the comfort than anything else: the knowledge that you possess the knowledge; that your methodology, if not sound, can be defended. The former is the appeal to a foundational psychoanalytic model, the latter to a local one. I'm increasingly convinced that the latter possesses real utility, esp. for a non-scientific discipline like literature. But at this point in the discipline's history, I encounter the former much more frequently.
My reason for invoking James was to point to a rough contemporary of Freud with a different but equally extendable theory of cognition. We still see Jamesian readings of turn-of-the-century literature—egads! I recently wrote one—but I include James for the same reason I'd include Freudian concepts in any work I did on American literature written after 1920: Freud is a central figure in the cultural history of that moment, people understood themselves in Freudian terms, wrote Freudian novels, &c.
Another way to say that: I believe Freud an evocative writer in and about a particular cultural moment, but I think of his work as belonging to that moment. I mentioned my affinity for Benjamin earlier, and linked it to questions, themes which seem consonant, to my mind, with Kafka and Julis Knipl. Now, I can justify my intuition of consonance there, both historically and by appeal to literary tradition. Despite the argument being ahistorical, I still think a particular mode of thought best describes for us the issues raised in a book written in the '90s. That appeal to literary tradition contains power, allows you to leapfrog decades, but it's not unlimited or universal. It doesn't allow me to apply ;any theory to any literary work, only those to which it shares some fundamental something.
For example: I'm writing about turn-of-the-century evolutionary theory. I'm using it to describe problems in the works of turn-of-the-century authors. My decision to apply invalid theories of human development to explicate literary works raises no eyebrows. Were I to apply those theories to contemporary literature, say, Y - The Last Man, I'd have to justify why I did so. What is it about those books that warrants my applying a long discredited theory of human development to a series which, on its face, demands to be read with an eye to contemporary genetics?
I grant Freud the same indulgence I do James Mark Baldwin, and I do so gladly. Thus, your example of the similarities beteween the Stretherian asexual tin mould and the Freudian complex strikes me as potentially relevant, so long as you can demonstrate that they were both working with what was in the water.
It is this beyond which could justify what appears at first to be methodological obsession.
I dunno -- there's an article up on that most beloved website about the literary aspects of Marx's Das Kapital.
I think "literature" is where thought goes to die before finally becoming fossilized in "philology".
Has anyone ever come across those who seem to think that directly engaging with primary texts is a guaranteed way not to understand them -- that trusting other scholars is literally the only way to go?
Which, all in all, alludes to adequate account of how the secondary texts arose: they're either transcribed or written by people who probably witnessed the transcription. Talk about your metaphysics of presence.
Scott -- I think one of the main reasons I dislike science is that it's much harder to think about science, to really criticize science. I feel like I have to take the pronouncements of science at face value: because of advanced and often specialized mathematics and high-cost research, I can't subject the findings of science to a personal analysis -- or so some supporters of science *claim*.
2. Could you say a little bit about what you think is the value of studying history? It seems the work you do does tend more towards the historical, and it seems knowledge is not 'historical' in the same way it is 'scientific'. Why do you study literature?
I hope by taking this (more humble) tenor I can contribute more to and get more out of this discussion, which interests but also disturbs me.
Say I am Freud, and I've devoted my entire life to this bunk theory of consciousness and psychology, but I really believed that what I was doing was not only right, but also moral. When science comes and tears out the foundations from under me, how can I help but conclude that all the 'thinking' and 'research' and 'interest' I put into my field was worthless? Science calls this 'cognitive dissonance', I suppose -- but that itself seems just another name for 'resistance', maybe?
I want to believe that intellectual work -- studying and making some sense (perhaps not a sense everyone will like) of Heidegger and Derrida, to make my sense -- is worthwhile even if it doesn't acquire 'truth'. What I don't like about science is that it feels to me like it devalues all work that doesn't finally end up in 'truth'. I understand you might reply, "Well you have to set yourself to a high-standard -- you have to continually aim at truth" -- but I suppose I have some sympathy for the continental philosophers, the irrationalists, the mystics, and the religious. I don't want to think that what they've devoted their lives to is 'inferior' to science tout court. Of course, I don't want to stray into a feel-good pluralism, either -- but I suppose I tend to think that nothing is entirely true or entirely false. Rather we have to keep going through everything because there's no thought that hasn't hit on something somehow -- or at least that doesn't point the way to a hit.
Imagine, for instance, if after 10 years studying postmodernism suddenly and with an amazing zeal I were to turn to physics and that something I had read in Derrida inspired a new and correct unified theory. I'm not saying that this will happen, nor am I saying that postmodernism holds the key to unlocking modern mysteries -- I'm just saying that the course of knowledge -- precisely because we in some sense don't know it -- is not guaranteed to unfold according to our current certainties. Further, even though I have taken up and rejected countless theories already in 22 years of living, just because I have rejected something (like Orthodox Judaism) doesn't mean that I have done so rightly. I suppose what I'm advocating is a kind of universal fallibalism.
Alex, I think you're relying on a scientific straw man here. Do you have any examples of scientists *claim*ing that you have no choice but to take science at face value? Do you have any examples of Freud being described as "worthless"--that is, as not even having led to any worthwhile advances or lines of inquiry? I don't think even Scott has taken that position. (I'll grant that some vehement anti-Freudians probably do take that stance, but I don't think anyone takes them to be the scientific majority.) Science, as several people have pointed out, relies on and honors plenty of foundational thinkers who everyone acknowledges were wrong a lot of the time. I think that at least in its ideal, and to a large extent in practice, science is far more interested in advancing knowledge than in mocking those who don't understand or who got it wrong centuries ago.
I don't agree that science is an impregnable cabal. In fact, I think that science, though obviously requiring a lot of specialized knowledge (and I'm speaking as someone with no aptitude for science or math), has a strong claim to being much more transparent than many of its opponents. When Galileo proposed that the earth moves around the sun, he had evidence that he was anxious to share. When evolution advocates, or believers in global warming, argue their case, they have evidence that they're anxious to share. In all of these cases, the retorts, which are founded on religion or instinct or the specious claim that "science can't explain everything," are far more arcane.
I agree with you that not all, perhaps no scientists would claim that science is to be taken at face value -- but I also think it is very difficult and sometimes impossible to separate a scientific theory from its philosophical implications. We're very apt to confuse what we observe (the data) with its meaning -- that is, we're constantly making data into montstranta. I really do think the two are separate and that if we confuse the two, we lose something very important. We can always engage with the meaning of a theory, even if the evidence supporting it is lacking -- that is, we take Aristotle's physics and we say, "What does it mean to say that matter seeks its natural resting place? How in this argument is 'matter', etc..."
What bothers me about Crews is that he doesn't seem to allow for any such separation. Freud's theory can be reduced to the facts it relies on, and to the extent that the conjunction of these facts is false, the theory is also false.
Alex: "When science comes and tears out the foundations from under me, how can I help but conclude that all the 'thinking' and 'research' and 'interest' I put into my field was worthless? [stated as if Freud]"
Well, you don't really understand what science is about. Scientists are almost always eventually found to be wrong about something -- perhaps even everything that they worked on. But you still can't get to contemporary science without people having worked on historical science. Slagging Freud for falsifying data is fair, slagging him for being wrong is pointless. Slagging people for continuing to use Freud now that he's pretty much known to be largely wrong is fair. Of course that last applies most stringently to scientists, and it's not clear whether it really should matter for literary studies. But the reasons that people have given for this continued use seem to come down to things like convenience, tradition, and nostalgia, none of which sound like very good reasons within the context of academia to me.
Also, wrongness is a matter of degree. Newton is now wrong, but his laws are perfectly good for most uses. What I've been trying to get at with comments about folk psychology and history of observation and fire-earth-air-water and so on is that many of the parts of Freudianism that are still largely used refer to rules of thumb that may not go away even if cognitive science works out what's really going on nerve by nerve. So there may really be an argument for continuing to use the most commonsensical elements of it even though it's wrong.
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This year, a single Columbia junior will be selected as the Steamboat Summer Scholar and will have the unparalelled experience of interning at the Hospital of Special Surgery with Columbia alumnus and New York Mets team physician Dr. David Altchek. Deadline for application submission is January 29, 2010.
The 2010 International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) Program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and organized by Purdue University, is now accepting applications for the 2010 grant cycle. IREE 2010 awardees will receive a stipend (US$4,000 for graduate students and US$3,000 for undergraduate students) to conduct engineering-related research in China from May - August 2010. Additionally, grant awardees will receive allowances for: an orientation program; travel to and housing/meals in China; plus a re-entry program. The 50 students (20 undergraduate and 30 graduate students) that receive the IREE award will spend 10-12 weeks working on frontier engineering research projects in university, industry, or government labs in China.
Please join Peter Kerrigan, Deputy Director of DAAD NY, and Michaela Gottschling, Director of the RISE program, for an information session on this unique summer opportunity in Germany. The meeting will take place at 3 pm on December 3rd in the Core Conference Room of Hamilton Hall.
Join the Gates Cambridge Virtual Coffeehouse Webinar to learn more about this great scholarship opportunity!
Learn about various Fulbright Scholarship opportunities for post graduation.
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In 1918, the Treasury Department established a Special Narcotic Committee, tasked with reviewing the scope of the drug problem in the United States. The Committee issued its final report, Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, in June of 1919. The product of a year’s worth of work by a committee which included reputable figures in the drug field, the report covered many aspects of the drug problem—but no part of the report drew more attention than the conclusion that the nation’s addict population numbered one million. To understand how that figure was obtained, we need to briefly review some very poor statistical analysis. And that’s part of the story. But the bigger story is that “one million addicts” took on a life of its own, a mythical number that long outlived the federal government’s own interest in its promulgation.
The Committee had surveyed physicians and pharmacists registered under the Harrison Act, asking them to report the number of addicts under treatment. Only 30 percent of the surveyed doctors replied, and these responses identified 73,000 addicts under treatment. The Committee assumed, first, that there was no duplication in any of the report and, second, that one could extrapolate from this figure that the actual number of addicts was 238,000 (in other words, that the remaining 70% of non-respondents would have reported addicts under treatment at exactly the same level as the respondents). Then, in an even bigger leap of faith, the Committee estimated that, since not all addicts were receiving treatment, the real number of addicts was one million. In truth, there’s no clear evidence of where one million came from, though it seems to have been a rough sort of compromise between a figure of 750,000 generated by the Public Health Service and 1.5 million generated by the Internal Revenue Service. We know about most of this already. We also know, courtesy of David Courtwright, that the Special Narcotic Committee got it wrong. In Dark Paradise, Courtwright employed the most reliable data at hand, and generated a maximum figure of about 300,000 opiate addicts, a number which seems to have been declining prior to 1914, and which was almost certainly lower still by 1919.
So the Committee put out a number that turns out to have been grossly inflated. End of story? Not exactly. It is important to remember that the Committee wasn’t just bungling. The Committee, and the political figures around the Committee, had an agenda that involved maximizing the scope and extent of the drug problem and justifying an expanded and aggressive federal anti-drug effort. Indeed, for months prior to the report’s publication, the “one million” figure had been aggressively promoted to the newspapers. The source of most of this was Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, future Speaker of the House and head of the Committee—and, not coincidentally, sponsor of tough new amendments to the Harrison Act. Thanks in no small part to Rainey’s efforts, the one million figure took off. It appeared in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (March 1918), and in a September, 1918 wire story which led with the number and appeared in newspapers from the Kansas City Star to the Bellingham [WA] Herald. In December, 1918, a business journalist named Richard Spillane (no relation) published an article on national alcohol prohibition which suggested the ban on alcohol might increase the number of drug addicts, reporting that “it is stated on authority of government officials that there are 1,000,000 known drug addicts in America.” In early 1919, the Frederic J. Haskin newspaper syndicate featured a “Daily Letter” column, “Needed: An Anti-Dope League” that also featured the one million addicts claim, while Scripps Newspaper chain promoted the one million figure in discussing the work of New York City Health Commissioner Royal S. Copeland (more on him in Part II of this post).
100 years from now, Points may be publishing something about “the wispiness of solid numbers” in 2014 regarding drug use, but it will be alcohol instead of opium, cocaine, or marijuana.
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Pneuma: The inner self or conscious part of you that experiences the interpretation of your surroundings and perceives your relationship to them.
Penumbra: The outside edge of a shadow that is only partially shaded.
The gloaming: The time of day when the partially shaded edge of the sunlight on earth makes it neither night time nor daytime.
The average healthy mind ignores information that is not obviously relevant. (This unawareness is literally ignorance) My work often attempts to draw attention to things that were always visible but were overlooked or ignored. I aim to alter my viewer’s awareness to reveal things we cannot see until we learn how to see them while suggesting that other things in life might be unperceived or unintentionally disregarded.
This particular work will attempt to inspire change in perception of the self by pointing out the inaccuracies of our senses and of our ignorance of nature. It will celebrate the liminal moment of freedom from identity that happens when you realise that you are not exactly what you thought you were. It will strive to achieve with science and reason a state between self-awareness and egolessness that is usually only achieved in spiritual ritual.
You enter a room. A voice speaks. It is so dark that you cannot see the walls to orient yourself in the space. You breathe deeply. You slowly become aware of your surroundings. You struggle to focus your eyes. The space around you seems to get brighter and then everything becomes clear. You are immersed in the cold light produced by living glow-in-the-dark mushrooms.
I am preparing to create an audio installation that will house a collection of living bioluminescent organisms invisible in the dark until the eye adjusts. Viewers will sit in the dark and listen to a recording that will simultaneously be a biology lesson and an exercise in awareness. The audio track will introduce my research about the inaccuracies of our perception and how technology and culture affect our understanding of our world and of ourselves. The recording will discuss selective attention, illusions, the 21 human senses, our physical biology and micro biome through a series of interactive exercises that will challenge perception and awareness. The talk will cycle through several themes rhythmically: Light and dark, awareness and ignorance making a metaphorical correlation between the eye and I until the audience becomes more deeply aware of their surroundings and internal events. As the viewer’s eye adjusts to the dark they will become aware that they are surrounded by glow-in-the-dark organisms whose authenticity may not be evident due to their unfamiliarity. Using natural history, ritual, contemporary art and pop media models I will build a platform to reflect on nature and self-identity.
As an artist Interested in cognitive dissonance, paradigm shifts and moments of realization, I am drawn to the lecture and ceremony as methods to perform this work. The piece will be presented as an audio installation and a live performance/ talk at conferences.
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The NAHB/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) reached a new high of 291 in September. The addition of 49 markets was also the largest number new to the list since December 2012 when 84 markets were added. Five markets were dropped, four because of a fall back in prices and one because of a dip in permits.
The large increase in new markets on the list can be attributed to several changes. First, the house price index used for each metropolitan area is calculated by Freddie Mac. After some additional study, the Freddie Mac economist improved the accuracy of their index and the change in methodology increased the rate of appreciation in 89% of the metros on the list. The metro areas that were on the list in August and September recorded an average house price increase of 3.3% from August to September.
The increase could also be due in part to seasonality in the price index which tends to rise faster in the spring and early summer (the April price index was the latest available for the September IMI). A similar index increase occurred beginning in September 2012 as those seasonal house prices began to take effect.
Finally, house prices have been increasing nationally as more markets and more home sales exhibit rising demand with continued low supply levels.
The metro areas on the September IMI are located in every state except Connecticut and that state technically qualifies since two counties in the New York City metro area are in Connecticut. California has the most metros on the IMI, 24, followed by Texas at 21 and Florida at 18.
This will be the last edition of the NAHB/First American Improving Markets Index. The index was introduced in September 2011 to reinforce the fact that some markets were starting to show improvement while the national statistics stalled. As the number of markets on the IMI increased, the national measures started to show overall improvement. The IMI has contained more than 70% of all markets since early 2013. The national trend is now more reflective of the individual markets although the distance to a normal market remains wide across metropolitan areas. A new index will be introduced for the October release that will highlight markets approaching their normal level of economic activity.
The number of markets on the NAHB/First American Improving Markets Index fell to 247 as 3 were added and 11 dropped from the July level of 255. Most of the markets that fell off had very small price increases that qualified them to be on the list and the latest price indexes slipped back below previous peaks. For instance, Virginia Beach was on the list in July with a 0.7% increase in house prices since January 2012. The average price increase in July for the markets that did fall off the list was 0.5% while the markets on the August list have an average price increase of 7.4%.
The small drop in the August list is similar to the stall in the index in 2012 as the not seasonally-adjusted winter and early spring house price data soften when those markets with small increases see price indexes slip down below the previous peak. Last year, the seasonally price effect lasted through August.
Every state contains counties of a metro area on the list with California at 24 metros, Texas at 19 metros and Florida at 18 metros. As evidence of the dynamic nature of the IMI, two of the three new entrants in August have been on the list before. Kankakee Illinois was on the list from October 2011 to January 2012 and in June 2013. Since the underlying data is revised, metros can come back sooner than the 6 month requirement for an increase. Ocean City New Jersey reentered the list in August after having been on the list from February 2012 to May 2012. Atlantic City New Jersey is on the list for the first time.
The July NAHB/First American Improving Markets Index dropped slightly to 255 from 263 in June as 14 metropolitan areas were dropped from the list and six were added. The number of markets that are improving remains at over 70 percent of all metropolitan areas with sufficient data (361). The majority of the dropped metro areas had weak house price growth as of the June report and those prices fell back below the previous low for the July report. In June their reported average price growth was less than 1 percent while the metros that remained on the list have an average house price growth of 6.6 percent.
The relative peaking in the IMI at about 70 percent of all metropolitan areas for the past six months is a natural outcome of a full national recovery while a few markets sustain just enough growth to qualify but slip back from that marginal growth. Over the nearly two years of the index, 94 percent of eligible metropolitan areas have appeared on the list. The factor that usually knocks a market off the list is house price appreciation and rarely is it more than one of the three factors. House prices are not seasonally adjusted so some weakness parallels the cyclic trend for house prices to soften in winter months.
Every state except Connecticut has at least one metropolitan area on the list, although two counties within Connecticut are within the New York MSA which is on the list.
As the housing recovery spreads to most markets, the index will likely remain above the 70 percent mark but marginal growth in one or more of the three indicators (house prices, single-family permits and employment) may move the slower moving markets on and off the list.
The NAHB/First American Improving Markets Index fell by 15 to 258 metropolitan areas in May. The decline was due to 19 areas falling off the index while four were added. The primary cause for leaving the list was softness in house prices. The 15 metropolitan areas that were dropped from the list because of a fall in house prices had an average price increase in April (the last month on the list) of 1.6 percent while the markets that remained on the list had average house prices increases of 6.7 percent.
The 258 metropolitan areas on the list represent over 70 percent of all metros and every state has at least one market on the list. An improving market is one where there has been a six month or more improvement in house prices, single-family building permits and employment. These three critical indicators of a local market health have proven to be good indicators of the overall health of a housing market.
The slight decline is in line with a similar decline in the index last year as winter house prices begin their seasonal weakness. The May to June 2012 index dropped 20 percent but the current weakness was less than 6 percent as house prices have gained more stability and momentum since 2012.
Texas and California lead the list with 21 metro markets on the list each. Florida is third with 17 markets followed by Michigan at 11 and Indiana at 10.
Following seven consecutive months of gains, the list of improving U.S. housing markets remained virtually unchanged in April, with 273 metros on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI).
After a strong run-up through late 2012 and early 2013, the number of improving markets is holding steady at a high level. We can expect to see more gradual gains going forward as challenges related to increased demand kick in – including everything from tightened supplies of developable lots and skilled labor to the rising cost of building materials.
The stability in the improving markets list this month is encouraging, with three quarters of all metros tracked by our index considered on the upswing as the spring buying season begins. In some markets, the main thing that’s holding back a recovery is a relatively thin inventory of homes for sale, which could be resolved if builders had easier access to credit for building homes and putting people back to work.
The IMI is designed to track housing markets throughout the country that are showing signs of improving economic health. The index measures three sets of independent monthly data to track improvement in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). The three indicators that are analyzed are employment growth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, house price appreciation from Freddie Mac and single-family housing permit growth from the U.S. Census Bureau. A metro area must see improvement in all three measures for at least six consecutive months following those measures’ respective troughs before being included on the improving markets list.
The list of major markets (MSAs) included in the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) grew to 274 out of a possible 361 in March, from 259 in February. With 76 percent of the markets included the housing market recovery is on more solid footing than it was at this time last year.
The index identifies metropolitan areas that have shown improvement from their respective troughs in housing permits, employment and house prices for at least six consecutive months. The index has shown steady growth over the past year as national measures of housing market improvement including housing starts and house prices have also shown consistent strength.
While we expect this positive momentum to continue, it’s important to understand that many markets are just beginning the recovery process, and that numerous issues – from credit availability to the rising cost of building materials and emerging lot shortages – are slowing the pace of that advancement.
The expanding housing recovery is energizing communities nationwide by generating jobs and local tax revenues and it could be an even more potent force for economic growth if credit for building and buying homes was more readily available.
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The pressure is ramping up on President Obama to intervene in the Dakota Access Pipeline. For example, I recently received an email from MoveOn.org urging me to call the President: “President Obama has the power to stop the pipeline and deny the Army Corps of Engineers’ easement on our land. He must take action immediately. Will you call President Obama now?” the email asked.
But at this point in the process, does the President have that power? What is the President’s appropriate role? It’s more complicated than it seems on the surface.
For the sake of argument, let’s consider a situation with the hypothetical Minnesota Access Pipeline (MAPL). Let’s say the project that has been in the works for years and its June, 2017. After a lengthy review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denies the permit. It says the project threatens Minnesota’s fresh water and important wild rice beds. The Corps’ decision is a great relief to many in the environmental and Native Rights movements.
Continuing with our hypothetical example, it is fair to assume that the fossil fuel industry and others would start pressing President Trump to intervene and overrule the Corps’ decision. Would that be an appropriate use of Trump’s Presidential power?
If President Obama intervenes at this late stage in DAPL, what precedent would it set for President Trump?
High Country News ran a helpful article Thursday that elaborates on these questions. It was headlined: What Obama can actually do about Standing Rock: According to tribal law experts, not much. The writer interviewed three tribal law experts. including Kevin Washburn, a professor of Indian law at the University of New Mexico and Obama’s Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs from 2012 to 2015. Washburn said had Obama known sooner about concerns that the pipeline would threaten drinking water, he could have moved to stop it, as he did with Keystone XL. “It’s heartbreaking,” Washburn said.
With the review process nearly complete, however, the decision is in the hands of the Army Corps — not the White House. This process is set up to avoid arbitrary or purely political action by the president.
Sarah Krakoff, an Indian law professor at the University of Colorado, also was interviewed and offered a caveat. She said the President might have grounds to step in if the Army Corps used a faulty permitting process. For more, read the full story.
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A United States Treasury security is a government debt instrument issued by the United States Department of the Treasury to finance government spending as an alternative to taxation. Treasury securities are often referred to simply as Treasuries. Since 2012 the management of government debt has been arranged by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, succeeding the Bureau of the Public Debt.
There are four types of marketable treasury securities: Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). There are also several types of non-marketable treasury securities including State and Local Government Series (SLGS), Government Account Series debt issued to government-managed trust funds, and savings bonds. All of the marketable Treasury securities are very liquid and are heavily traded on the secondary market. The non-marketable securities (such as savings bonds) are issued to subscribers and cannot be transferred through market sales.
Federal Reserve Banks are required to hold collateral equal in value to the Federal Reserve notes that the Federal Reserve Bank puts into circulation. This collateral is chiefly held in the form of U.S. Treasury debt and government-sponsored enterprise securities.
To finance the costs of World War I, the U.S. Government increased income taxes (see the War Revenue Act of 1917) and government debt, called war bonds. Traditionally, the government borrowed from other countries, but there were no other countries from which to borrow in 1917.
The Treasury raised funding throughout the war by selling $21.5 billion in 'Liberty bonds.' These bonds were sold at subscription where officials created coupon price and then sold it at par value. At this price, subscriptions could be filled in as little as one day, but usually remained open for several weeks, depending on demand for the bond.
After the war, the Liberty bonds were reaching maturity, but the Treasury was unable to pay each down fully with only limited budget surpluses. The resolution to this problem was to refinance the debt with variable short and medium-term maturities. Again the Treasury issued debt through fixed-price subscription, where both the coupon and the price of the debt were dictated by the Treasury.
The problems with debt issuance became apparent in the late 1920s. The system suffered from chronic over-subscription, where interest rates were so attractive that there were more purchasers of debt than supplied by the government. This indicated that the government was paying too much for debt. As government debt was undervalued, debt purchasers could buy from the government and immediately sell to another market participant at a higher price.
In 1929, the US Treasury shifted from the fixed-price subscription system to a system of auctioning where 'Treasury Bills' would be sold to the highest bidder. Securities were then issued on a pro rata system where securities would be allocated to the highest bidder until their demand was full. If more treasuries were supplied by the government, they would then be allocated to the next highest bidder. This system allowed the market, rather than the government, to set the price. On December 10, 1929, the Treasury issued its first auction. The result was the issuing of $224 million three-month bills. The highest bid was at 99.310 with the lowest bid accepted at 99.152.
"Treasury bill" redirects here. Note that the Bank of England issues these in the United Kingdom.
Treasury bills (or T-bills) mature in one year or less. Like zero-coupon bonds, they do not pay interest prior to maturity; instead they are sold at a discount of the par value to create a positive yield to maturity.
Regular weekly T-Bills are commonly issued with maturity dates of 28 days (or 4 weeks, about a month), 91 days (or 13 weeks, about 3 months), 182 days (or 26 weeks, about 6 months), and 364 days (or 52 weeks, about 1 year). Treasury bills are sold by single-price auctions held weekly. Offering amounts for 13-week and 26-week bills are announced each Thursday for auction, usually at 11:30 a.m., on the following Monday and settlement, or issuance, on Thursday. Offering amounts for 4-week bills are announced on Monday for auction the next day, Tuesday, usually at 11:30 a.m., and issuance on Thursday. Offering amounts for 52-week bills are announced every fourth Thursday for auction the next Tuesday, usually at 11:30 am, and issuance on Thursday. Purchase orders at TreasuryDirect must be entered before 11:00 on the Monday of the auction. The minimum purchase, effective April 7, 2008, is $100. (This amount formerly had been $1,000.) Mature T-bills are also redeemed on each Thursday. Banks and financial institutions, especially primary dealers, are the largest purchasers of T-bills.
Like other securities, individual issues of T-bills are identified with a unique CUSIP number. The 13-week bill issued three months after a 26-week bill is considered a re-opening of the 26-week bill and is given the same CUSIP number. The 4-week bill issued two months after that and maturing on the same day is also considered a re-opening of the 26-week bill and shares the same CUSIP number. For example, the 26-week bill issued on March 22, 2007, and maturing on September 20, 2007, has the same CUSIP number (912795A27) as the 13-week bill issued on June 21, 2007, and maturing on September 20, 2007, and as the 4-week bill issued on August 23, 2007 that matures on September 20, 2007.
During periods when Treasury cash balances are particularly low, the Treasury may sell cash management bills (or CMBs). These are sold at a discount and by auction just like weekly Treasury bills. They differ in that they are irregular in amount, term (often less than 21 days), and day of the week for auction, issuance, and maturity. When CMBs mature on the same day as a regular weekly bill, usually Thursday, they are said to be on-cycle. The CMB is considered another reopening of the bill and has the same CUSIP. When CMBs mature on any other day, they are off-cycle and have a different CUSIP number.
This is the modern usage of Treasury note in the U.S.; for the earlier meanings, see Treasury Note (disambiguation).
Treasury notes (or T-notes) mature in two to ten years, have a coupon payment every six months, and have denominations of $1,000. In the basic transaction, one buys a $1,000 T-note for $950, collects interest of 3% per year over 10 years, which comes to $30 yearly, and at the end of the 10 years cashes it in for $1000. So, $950 over the course of 10 years becomes $1300.
T-notes and T-bonds are quoted on the secondary market at percentage of par in thirty-seconds of a point (n/32 of a point, for n = 1, 2, 3, …). Thus, for example, a quote of 95:07 on a note indicates that it is trading at a discount: $952.22 (i.e., 95 + 7/32%) for a $1,000 bond. (Several different notations may be used for bond price quotes. The example of 95 and 7/32 points may be written as 95:07, or 95-07, or 95'07, or decimalized as 95.21875.) Other notation includes a +, which indicates 1/64 points and a third digit may be specified to represent 1/256 points. Examples include 95:07+ which equates to (95 + 7/32 + 1/64) and 95:073 which equates to (95 + 7/32 + 3/256). Notation such as 95:073+ is not typically used.
The 10-year Treasury note has become the security most frequently quoted when discussing the performance of the U.S. government bond market and is used to convey the market's take on longer-term macroeconomic expectations.
"U.S. Bonds" redirects here. For the singer/performer, see Gary U.S. Bonds.
Treasury bonds (T-Bonds, or the long bond) have the longest maturity, from twenty years to thirty years. They have a coupon payment every six months like T-Notes, and are commonly issued with maturity of thirty years.
The U.S. Federal government suspended issuing 30-year Treasury bonds for four years from February 18, 2002 to February 9, 2006. As the U.S. government used budget surpluses to pay down Federal debt in the late 1990s, the 10-year Treasury note began to replace the 30-year Treasury bond as the general, most-followed metric of the U.S. bond market. However, because of demand from pension funds and large, long-term institutional investors, along with a need to diversify the Treasury's liabilities—and also because the flatter yield curve meant that the opportunity cost of selling long-dated debt had dropped—the 30-year Treasury bond was re-introduced in February 2006 and is now issued quarterly.
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (or TIPS) are the inflation-indexed bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. The principal is adjusted to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the commonly used measure of inflation. When the CPI rises, the principal adjusts upward. If the index falls, the principal adjusts downwards. The coupon rate is constant, but generates a different amount of interest when multiplied by the inflation-adjusted principal, thus protecting the holder against the official inflation rate (as asserted by the CPI). TIPS were introduced in 1997. TIPS are currently offered in 5-year, 10-year and 30-year maturities.
Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities (or STRIPS) are T-Notes, T-Bonds and TIPS whose interest and principal portions of the security have been separated, or "stripped"; these may then be sold separately (in units of $100 face value) in the secondary market. The name derives from the days before computerization, when paper bonds were physically traded; traders would literally tear the interest coupons off of paper securities for separate resale.
The government does not directly issue STRIPS; they are formed by investment banks or brokerage firms, but the government does register STRIPS in its book-entry system. STRIPS must be purchased through a broker, and cannot be purchased from TreasuryDirect.
STRIPS are used by the Treasury and split into individual principal and interest payments, which get resold in the form of zero-coupon bonds. Because they then pay no interest, there is not any interest to re-invest, and so there is no reinvestment risk with STRIPS.
The "Certificate of Indebtedness" (C of I) is a Treasury security that does not earn any interest and has no fixed maturity. It can only be held in a TreasuryDirect account and bought or sold directly through the Treasury. It is intended to be used as a source of funds for traditional Treasury security purchases. Purchases and redemptions can be made at any time.
Government Account Series Treasurys (GAS) are the principal form of intragovernmental debt holdings.
Savings bonds were created in 1935, and, in the form of Series E bonds, also known as war bonds, were widely sold to finance World War II. Unlike Treasury Bonds, they are not marketable, being redeemable only by the original purchaser (or beneficiary in case of death). They remained popular after the end of WWII, often used for personal savings and given as gifts. In 2002, the Treasury Department started changing the savings bond program by lowering interest rates and closing its marketing offices. As of January 1, 2012, financial institutions no longer sell paper savings bonds.
Savings bonds are currently offered in two forms. Series EE bonds, which pay a fixed rate but are guaranteed to pay at least double the purchase price when they reach initial maturity at 20 years. Series I bonds have a variable interest rate that consists of two components. The first is a fixed rate which will remain constant over the life of the bond; the second component is a variable rate reset every six months from the time the bond is purchased based on the current inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) from a six-month period ending one month prior to the reset time. New rates are published on May 1 and November 1 of every year. During times of deflation the negative inflation rate can wipe out the return of the fixed portion, but the combined rate cannot go below 0% and the bond will not lose value. Series I bonds are the only ones offered as paper bonds since 2011, and those may only be purchased by using a portion of a federal income tax refund.
For the quantitative easing policy, the Federal Reserve holdings of U.S. Treasuries increased from $750 billion in 2007 to over $1.7 trillion as of end-March 2013. On September 13, 2012, in an 11-to-1 vote, the Federal Reserve announced they were also buying $45 billion in long-term Treasuries each month on top of the $40 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities. The program is called QE3 because it is the Fed's third try at quantitative easing. The result is that an enormous proportion of the US debt is actually owed from the Treasury to the Federal Reserve; according to a 1947 law, the Federal Reserve must return this money to the Treasury each year, after expenses.
After the Federal Reserve buys Treasury securities on the open market as part of the QE program (as it is prohibited from buying them directly from the US Treasury at auction), the Federal Reserve receives its interest thereafter, instead of the private sector seller. The amount of that interest payment is thereby removed from the economy. In 2012, the Federal Reserve collected nearly $82 billion in interest profit from its treasury securities purchases. (Page 302 of the 2013 "100th Annual Report") After expenses (district Federal Reserve property taxes, salaries, facilities management, dividends, etc.), it returns all money to the US Treasury.
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Welcome! I am an American Academy of University Women (AAUW) American Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, with Benson Farb as my mentor. As a native Chicagoan, it is exciting to be doing math at home.
My main area of study is in hyperbolic 3-manifolds and low-dimensional topology, whilst always trying to learn more geometric group theory as I go along (groups acting on spaces---what's not to love). Co-advising various undergraduate research projects in phylogenetics and discrete Morse theory have also proved wonderful experiences in applying topological ideas to new settings.
Click here for my research page. My CV can be viewed as a pdf here.
One of my former Calculus students at UIUC coined my math aphorisms "Guz Clues" (I do enjoy a good math pun, and he was promised that this moniker would find perpetuity here).
I share in Federico Ardila's axioms: Axiom 1: Mathematical talent is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries. Axiom 2: Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences. Axiom 3: Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs. Axiom 4: Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
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▬▬Your Participation appreciated !!! | A *meeting place . . .
As a volunteer driven collective, misFits’-for-change uses all the free spaces available around us (from empty rooms and small party halls in the apartment buildings, to the basements; or the lounges; along with booked events in community centers). We are also planning to use parks and outdoor premises in the appropriate seasons. As of now, without any funding, our main target is to develop each programs and build a solid foundation to proceed further. For that, your help in participation is needed and appreciated!
PLEASE let us know of the free spaces available around you. That way you are helping to make dialogues with each other, breaking the communication barriers and educating each other, in the space created together.
If your buildings or offices offer FREE spaces for events and celebrations, please let us know by an email to misfits4change@gmail.com | sathyatk@gmail.com | ktdeepa@gmail.com; and, thanks for your help in Advance!
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The summer harvesting outside the l.a.Eyeworks warehouse is in full swing! After months of patient nurturing, our plants are beginning to give back in style! We're delighted to have a mouthwatering melange of tomatoes mint, basil, rosemary, oregano, lemon grass and lavender. Fragrant, fun, flavorful, and (of course) a little funky!
Chef extraordinaire Jimmy Shaw invited us for a sneak peek into his new Loteria! Grill restaurant in Hollywood with a special fete in honor of Diana Kennedy, doyenne of Mexican cuisine. Loteria! Grill is expanding from its legendary casual digs at The Farmers Market to bustling Hollywood Boulevard in June. Jimmy (wearing his vintage Alvar) is pictured with local writer, Ruth Handel (in her nifty Nico), and l.a.Eyeworker, Angela Gee (sporting a Silver Lake).
Foodies should note that Diana Kennedy's classic The Art of Mexican Cooking has just been re-issued.
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Getty Image As Donald Trump has inserted himself into the sports world, plenty of players have pushed back against the president’s efforts to critique or demean them via social media. We’ve seen players in the NFL and NBA fire back at Trump over his anti-protest stance and his efforts to control the narrative when the… via… Read More It always takes so much….
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This entry was posted in Opinions in the Shorts and tagged Balanced Budget Amendment, Commentary, Mitch McConnell, Moody Blues, Onion Headlines, Onion Satire, Opinions, Opinions in the Shorts, Paul Ryan, Politics, Republicans, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Onion. Bookmark the permalink.
About dang time for the Moody Blues!
And as far as Speaker Ryan goes, his ‘family time’ will yield bucco dollar signs. And may he and his peeps keep in mind all those many Americans who can’t do their business at home with the same results.
No mistake about, Speaker Ryan is in line for big bucks … and if he can balance that with family time, I wish him the best. Meanwhile, his peeps will continue the party-first mantra.
Book tours and speaking engagements and watch out . . . a cable show maybe, who knows?
Love the Moody Blues and Elton Frank 🙂 My own invite didn’t arrive either Frank So don’t be too disappointed .. 🙂 And yes lots of twists and turns in regard to the latest crisis in Syria.. I wonder who recognises Truth anymore? as your apt sheep image shows many just follow the herd. And Bleat their bleat. While innocents keep on suffering..
Cheers to SIr Elton and the Moody Blues in the same post is a good thing! The TV show was very enjoyable. Will probably watch it again because my wife didn’t see it.
As we now know, our two countries (plus France) executed bombings in Syria. What a mess on many levels. Keep the faith with goodness and hope.
Glad you enjoyed the first image. I wonder who they go the animals to do that!
Wishing you a Peaceful Sunday Frank.
I’m wondering how many people will leave office or the administration this week?
I’m behind on both posts and work, so I’m stopping to read other articles, but I had read the Molly Ringwald piece earlier in the week, and it actually came up in a family dinner discussion when my niece wondered about showing some of those movies to her daughter.
The administration has quite the revolving door. Probably the best and greatest door in presidential history! The fact that you had already read the Ringwald article and it came up in a family discussion confirms my decision to include it here. Thanks!!!
I’m sorry you didn’t get an invite to the wedding, Frank. Look at it this way. The thousands you saved on the gift will console you. Afterall if you didn’t go over the top on gift impressiveness it (the gift) would end up at a charity resale shop with a dignified note thanking you for your donation. Enjoyed the pizza post. Started following. The thug in charge in Syria is a known murderer. Who can say what is going on there. Enjoyed the post and congrats to the Moody Blues and you for the Moody Blue PR.
An idea … a post listing 10 things about not getting invited to the royal wedding!
Meanwhile, even though the Syrian leader is a thug and has used chemical weapons before, I still wonder if the rebels didn’t do it for the sake of keeping the US involved. If so, so far it worked. Meanwhile, glad you enjoyed this run of Moody Blues songs … make to other songs next week. … well, maybe.
I read Curmudgeon’s post last week too. Very funny. As for Speaker Ryan, I think he’s got something up his sleeve. Maybe he wants to get out of the Trump era for a bit to avoid being further tainted. Then, when the coast is clear, he’ll jump back in the ring.
Mudge’a article is a hoot, so thanks for confirming that. Hopefully others will read it. Regarding Speaker Ryan’s decision, “family” is an easy out – so I am interested to see what his future holds. Time will tell.
AFA, thanks for the call out (although GOOGLE is not amused).
I have complete agreement with all your other comments.
Another tip of the cap for your worthy efforts!
Yay, for The Moody Blues!!!Fun post, ad especially liked Curmudgeon-at-Large’s post you referred us to! Now, that’s a hoot!!!
It appears I need to learn a lot more about bots and twitter, especially in combination.
A splat from the Curmudgeon at Large.
Thanks for reading Mudge’s great post. Definitely splat worthy!!! Hope you listened to the bell piece.
I did like “Enjoy Song of Celebration” by Arnold Sherman, especially his placing of the tutti accents. Thanks for keeping me abreast of the latest music literature for handbell choirs.
Thanks for listening to the piece. A fun one to play and also good for the audience.
Loved the Elton John Special as well as the Moody Blues video. But the best fun was The Onion’s explanation of Trade War Escalation is so funny and true it almost made me cry.
Hey hey hey … I hope all is well with you. Sometimes I don’t know if any ever follows The Onion suggestion that I provide. Thanks for naking my day.
That Pizza story – I remember reading a version of it a while ago… so worth the re-read and so funny!
Oh yes … the pizza story is a good one. I didn’t realize there are other versions out there.
Playing with the words? Well … it’s a matter of timing. After all, it has to be a spontaneous generation and I have to be available at the time. The second unknown is (if done) where would I post it.
Hmmmm…. on your blog, dahlink!!
Not if but when 😉 Your fault. You did such a bang-up job on the last one, we want more!
Because Cincinnati borders Kentucky, we get our share of McConnell news. Oh my – and every 6 years the campaign ads! But if I had my choice of Ryan or McConnell, I’ll take Ryan. Meanwhile, cheers to the Moody Blues for their long-awaited induction!
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The trial of Edradynate Estate’s former head gamekeeper, David Campbell, continued at Perth Sheriff Court in late January.
David Campbell, 69, denies that between 14 and 16 April 2017 at Edradynate Estate he maliciously damaged game crops by spraying them with an unknown substance which caused them to rot and perish.
At the time of the alleged offences, Campbell was no longer an employee of the estate, having worked there since 1983 but after falling out with the landowner, millionaire city financier Michael Campbell (no relation), his employment was terminated in February 2017. Michael Campbell told the court in November 2018 that he believed his former employee had caused the damage ‘in revenge’ (see here).
A disgruntled gamekeeper made sinister threats about what would happen on a millionaire’s shooting estate after he was replaced, a court has been told.
A witness described how David Campbell made the remarks to him at a drinks party some time before game crops were sabotaged on the estate.
Donnie Calder, 44, said: “The new gamekeeper had been appointed. He had stated that he was going to be putting in a lot of new game crops in various places. To the best I can remember, David said ‘as long as he had breath in his body, game crops would not be grown at Edradynaye Estate’. I didn’t really think much of it. David was bitter. He didn’t want to leave his employment as he enjoyed his job. I just assumed he decided there wasn’t going to be game crops. I don’t know why. He was quite calm. It was a matter of fact thing“.
Mr Calder told the trial at Perth Sheriff Court that he was called to the estate some time later to look at damage which had been done to a section of game crop. He said: “The game crops looked like they had been sprayed with a weed killer of some description. I was asked to look at them with the new keeper. The crops were dead. They didn’t die of natural causes – something had been used to kill them“.
Covert CCTV footage taken at the scene of the damaged crops showed a mystery person making a series of 2am raids to spray them. Estate owner Michael Campbell, 76, said he was sure the man in the video was David Campbell, owing to his “mutton chop” sideburns.
Farmer Andrew Kennedy, 62, said he was aware that the accused was “upset” about having to leave his job. “He had worked there for a long, long time and he was aware it was coming to an end, probably a career end“, he said.
The estate’s new head gamekeeper, Ian Smith, told the trial that the area was one of the best on the estate. He said that the damage would have cost “thousands”.
He told the court that the covert CCTV footage showed a “small” person in a white boiler suit spraying the crops with a backpack sprayer. He said the person, who was filmed during the early hours on two days, appeared to be wearing a head torch and a hood or mask.
The trial will continue in March.
It might seem odd that we’re reporting on this case, and although we can’t explain that decision while this trial is on-going, all will become clear in due course.
PLEASE NOTE: We’re not accepting comments on this case until the trial concludes. Thanks.
How about you update now it has been proven he was Not Guilty!!
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It's one of the wealthiest, most beautiful beachside communities in the world and MTV has unlimited access to the tight-knit power clique of eight rich, beautiful teenagers that live there. Their lives intertwine in ways you won't believe, until you drop in for a visit. Laguna Beach is paradise--a little slice of heaven on earth--why would anyone want to leave? The answer will come as you watch the best friends share experiences through parties, relationships, love and small town injustice. This is where the angst and the tumultuous affairs are the stuff of prime time drama, except this is all REAL. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Welcome to paradise, otherwise known as Laguna Beach, California.
Everything Laguna Beach is what we are gonna talk about. the First season: cast, episodes, the fashion, the lingo... and Second Season: the mtv preview, what we think will happen.
and of course Icon posts are allowed.
2. if you want to promote a community in here you have to email me first so I can approve you.
3. Only Laguna Beach Posts allowed. if not email me first and I will read the post first to approve it or not. if you do not do so I will delete the post automatically.
4. BE NICE, HAVE FUN, ENJOY THE COMMUNITY!
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흐로닝언 대학교(네덜란드어: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 약칭: UG)는 1614년 네덜란드 흐로닝언에 세워진 공립대학교이다. 20만명 이상의 학생들이 졸업을 하였다. 유럽 대학교의 유명한 코임브라 그룹 회원학교이다.
Peter Hofstee, professor of theoretical physics, joined IBM in 1996, currently the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Element (SPE) of the Cell microprocessor.
Klaas Knot, current President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).
↑ “Rug wordt 'joedzjie'”. Universiteitskrant. 2016년 4월 27일에 원본 문서에서 보존된 문서. 2016년 4월 19일에 확인함.
↑ “Prominente Groningse hoogleraren”. 2015년 5월 31일에 확인함.
위키미디어 공용에 흐로닝언 대학교 관련 미디어 분류가 있습니다.
이 문서는 2018년 11월 12일 (월) 03:29에 마지막으로 편집되었습니다.
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More Friday Night Lights recipes for you...We'll be trying a new recipe out at tonight's game. Stay tuned for that recipe next week.
After I took this picture, I thought, "Seriously, Janna who takes a crock pot to a football game?!" Apparently I do. But, really how else was I going to keep it hot while transporting it?
Dump all of the above items in a crock pot and let it cook for a few hours. I also use this recipe for camping. I mix all the ingredients, freeze it in a zip lock bag and then throw it in the cooler. It's a hot, easy dinner for the first night when you're tired after setting up camp.
The lovely Amy is my food model.
Kimberly gave me a HUGE zucchini. So I used it to make zucchini spice bread using this recipe. I added some cream cheese frosting.
Outfit your child with the "Armor of God." This a great activity for this time of year, as the season of costumes approaches. Save your armor for Reformation Day activities (more post on that in October).
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Step One: My plastic armor had creepy dragons on the front of them, so I removed those and drew crosses to replace them. Then, using a permanent marker, I wrote the appropriate words on each piece of plastic armor.
Step Two: I had to get a little creative with the belt of truth and the shoes of readiness, because (of course) they didn't have these at the Dollar Store. So for the feet/shoes of readiness, I grabbed an old pair of sandals. (Fall is a good time to repurpose summer's sandals since they won't fit next year, anyway.) I cut a piece of silver duct tape to cover the top of the shoes and then split the word readi-ness across them.
Step Three: For the belt, I took two pieces of duct tape and sandwiched them with the belt in the middle.
About four years ago, I was listening to a Beth Moore talk on CD and was encouraged that if I wanted something to be true in my child's life, it needed to be true in mine. If I wanted Anne to love the Word and fervently seek the Lord in prayer, it had to be something that was honestly and sincerely modeled in my life. I needed to be in the word, I need to be in prayer and she needed to see me do it.
read or pray. But I'm talking about that every day, every morning seeking the Lord before I hopped up and began my own agenda.
One key piece of advice I received was: "Pray that God will give you a greater love for Him and His Word, and He will always answer, 'Yes!' " I found this key to getting me in the habit of getting up each morning. I would literally pray the night before, "Get me out of bed, Lord. Wake me up alert so I can't fall back to sleep. I want to spend time with you, but my lazy self needs some help." And he answered.
This box is where I get my "daily bread" each morning. (I grabbed this at a thrift store.) It sits next to my big chair by the fireplace and I store all my supplies I need in the morning. Coffee is also key, my friends...I have to admit my time with Jesus is very dependent on downing a couple of cups.
Now, I try to get up before the kids each morning to do this. But sometimes the kids wake up before I am done. And, that's more than okay. It's good for them to see spending time with Jesus.
And there are "seasons" as well. When I was pregnant or had a newborn my time with the Lord had to change a bit to allow for more sleep, etc. And, that's okay, too.
I've talked more about growing your own faith on this page. Also, one of my best girls, Joanne, has written a book on the subject. Not sure where God should fit in your daily life? She exams this and gives practical advice in her book Misplacing God: And Finding Him Again.
I'm going to be speaking at my mom's group at church (Faith Bible Chapel) in a couple of weeks. If you live in the Denver area, I'd love for you come. It would be really great to get to meet some of you blog-world friends in real life.
If you're interested, call the number on the flyer and sign up! Oh, and let me know if you're coming so I can look for you.
How do you plan a quiet time/Bible time for you kids? It might be easier than you think and you probably already have almost everything you need.
Start by collecting several Bible story books that you already own. We keep all of ours in a box near the dining room. Each morning, we pick a couple of books to read from. Sometimes when Anne gets up while I am still doing my quiet time, I'll say, "Go and pick out a Bible study book from the box." She'll read to herself while I finish my prayer/Bible time. Other times we do it while the kids eat breakfast. I read a couple of books to them.
I can't remember how old Anne was, but one day while I was doing my Beth Moore Bible study, she said, "I want to do MY Bible study." Now, if you've done a Beth Moore study, you know that each day you use a workbook where you have to look up verses, read and fill answers to questions. So Anne saw me writing in a book. That's what Anne wanted to do, so I quickly grabbed a coloring book that had pictures of Bible stories and her crayons. Now, we always keep a faith-based coloring book in the box. I love the one she is doing right now. It's by Eloise Wilkin who illustrated several old Golden Books.
Remember that you are trying to encourage quiet times in "little" ones, which means the quiet time should be "little" as well. We usually only color one page in her Bible study book and it's not everyday. That's the other key: variety. Some days we just read one book, some days two or three, some days we do a color page. It doesn't have to be the same thing every day and it's probably best if it isn't. Keep it interesting and you'll keep them interested. That's why we have a whole box full of books--so there is a lot to choose from.
Speaking of books, I'm going to share a few that we've been reading a lot lately. This series (pictured below) is called the "Let's Talk About" series. I believe you can find them used online. I've found all of mine at yard sales and thrift stores. They are topical books based on topics/truth we currently trying to teach Anne: sharing, being selfish, lying, whining. Although these books are not labeled as "Christian," I believe the truth and moral lessons given support what the Bible says. And you can always compliment the books by reading verse from the Bible that pertains to that topic.
One thing that I really like about this series is that each book really explains and defines the topic. I'm not sure about you, but I the first time I caught Anne in a lie, I really had to think, "How do I explain what truth is?" How do you tell a 3-year-old what a lie is? How is it different than telling an imaginative story that is fiction? The books addresses/defines each topic in a way that toddlers can understand and used scenarios that are relevant.
Another series that I've been picking up second-hand are the Alice in Bibleland series. I think these might be out of print, but you can get them used on Amazon. I love the rhyming text and, of course, the little blondie girl.
Big Truths for Little Kids was suggested by mother-in-law, and I've got to say this is a staple of our quiet times. We usually do this book at least three times a week. Basically, you can use this book to help your children memorize theological/biblical truth. It uses sets of questions, supplemented with some stories to teach what are basically catechisms.
Me: "What else did God make?"
We don't set any goals or try to memorize a certain number. We just go through it and when she seems to have a new one completely memorized, we add a new one.
If you are interested in other books we like, check out the Mustard Seeds Bookshop. Whenever I find books we love, I always try to list them in the shop so others can benefit from "our research." Christian books for kids can be found under the Growing Your Child's Faith category.
Thank you to everyone who prayed. Please continue to pray that his recovery is smooth and speedy.
We asked in Jesus name and he delivered! Thank you, Lord for saving our sweet Morgan.
Yesterday, we found out that my 5-year-old nephew Morgan has a brain tumor. He was having an MRI done for another less-threatening item, when a golf-ball sized tumor showed up. The two items were not related, but it is a miracle that they found the tumor. They usually don't discover this type of tumor until symptoms start to surface.
They are operating to remove the tumor at 7:30 a.m. (Western time) Saturday morning. Surgery will last until 5 p.m. Please pray for my sweet nephew: healing, courage, strength. Pray for the doctors: wisdom, a steady hand, energy through the long surgery. Pray for my brother Toby, his wife Trudy and daughter Lexy: strength, peace, comfort.
Matt is a coach for the Faith Christian Academy football team, so we are in the midst of the season now. It has really become a family affair and the kids just love going to the games. To make it even more memorable, I try to bake/make special treats for the game. My good friend CL (wife of the head coach) and I plan meals to "tailgate," using the wagon parked on the side of the field.
DINNER: Walking Tacos is one of our favorites. It's also a great camping meal. No clean-up!
Step One: Chop up all your ingredients and put them in small zip-lock bags. I usually put the meat in a Tupperware.
Step Two: Once you are at your location, open a bag of Doritos and crunch up the chips.
Step Three: Add all your toppings to the bag and mix using your fork.
Step Four: Eat directly out of the bag and toss when finished.
DESSERT: I try to bake these right before the game and wrap them in cloth napkins to keep them warm. A thermos of coffee makes it perfection.
These are a favorite and I really don't have a recipe per say for the filling... I do make my crust from scratch using this recipe.
Step Three: Use a pastry blender to mix Crisco and flour. Blend until it just sticks together. Add wet mixture and blend.
Now you have a generous amount of pie dough to work with.
For a short cut, buy a pre-made crust. You will likely only get four pies from a store-bought crust.
Step One: Put the apples in the bowl and toss with flour. I like to have the apples pretty evenly coated to help them from getting too "runny" during the baking process.
Step Two: Add brown sugar, bits of butter and a generous portion of pumpkin pie spice.
Step Three: Divide dough into balls (if using homemade crust). Roll out a ball into a circular little crust.
Step Four: Put apple filling on one side of the circle and fold over the other half making a little half-circle. Seal the edges well using your finger so they don't leak.
Step Five: Brush pie with milk and generously sprinkle the sugar on top. I personally feel the crunchy, sugary topping is the best part.
Step Six: Bake at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes or until the crust is a golden.
To make your own freezer-paper spirit shirts, check out this tutorial.
This summer, I feel the Lord has really been trying to teach me about my children and parenting through my garden.
A couple of months before the first frost, I started several flats of seeds under lamps and on heat mats in my garage. Each day I was so excited to see if they had sprouted. I tenderly cared for the little seedlings each day, making sure the soil was just damp, the lights were putting off heat, etc. It's the same as when my little ones were infants--they relied on me for everything, nearly every hour.
Then, came time for transplanting. Into the outside soil they went. Still under my care, but time to start growing deeper roots in the outside world. Because the seedlings' roots were shallow and thin, I had to water carefully. One hot day without enough moisture, and they would not just wither, but die because the roots were not strong enough to weather the heat.
This is where I feel like I am at with my own two sprouts (Anne and Jack). They are old enough that they are learning and growing based on the world around them. Am I provided fertile soil for them to grow their roots of faith? Am I weeding out influences that will sap them of the good in the soil? It's an exciting time as well because so much growth can happen so quickly at this stage. Information is easily and joyfully absorbed.
There are also days when I am discouraged as a mother-gardener. When will I see the fruit? For several weeks this summer, we had rainy and cool weather. A nice change, but my gourds and squash needed sunny weather to produce. (My kids need the Son, too.) Anyway, there were times were I though, "Is this worth all fuss--the weeding, the watering--what if I never get a squash out of this garden?
But then, I remembered all the time and energy I put into those little seeds in the garage many months ago. What a waste if I were to give up now. There would be no fruit at all if I stopped now, but at least a chance of something if I continued on.
The Lord challenged to me to "keep tending" daily some of the parenting things I'd like to just slip by sometimes. Like when it's the third, fourth or--ahem--fifth temper tantrum of the day and I just want to give in so that the screaming stops. Or, how it would be easier and faster to just clean Anne's room by myself, instead of stepping her through it each time.
Being consistent is hard, but I've got to continue the work I've started. For one day, it will yield (I pray) a young man with self-control and young woman who cares for and respects the blessings she has.
I guess all this to say, "Be encouraged fellow mother-gardeners." If we keep weeding, fertilizing, pruning and tending our little sprouts, there will be a harvest.
Many of you asked for the recipe...so here you go!
Note of Quantity of Jars: How many jars of pickles will this make? The size and number of canning jars you will need depend on the size of the cucumbers, etc. Basically, I've found that the canning process is not an exact science when it comes to end number of what you will produce. Before you delve into this recipe, be warned that I had extra brine left over this time. Other times, I've nearly run out before the end. I think this may be due to the fact that sometimes, when the brine simmers longer than 30 minutes, it can lose some volume as it becomes a syrup. Still, with the left over brine, I made two jars "bread and butter" onions and some refrigerator (non-canned) veggies.
Once all the veggies are cut, put in a large bowl and cover with 1 cup of pickling salt mixed with water. You want the veggies to be completely covered. Lay a thin dish towel over the top and pile on ice. Let sit in ice bath for three hours.
Put all the above items into a large pot and bring to a boil. Simmer uncovered for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally. Beginning preparing canning jars (wash and boil jars in canning pot). For more on canning guidelines go to this site.
Step Three: Drain veggies and rinse thoroughly. Rinse a second time.
Step Four: Once jars are hot and brine is ready, spoon veggies into jar and add brine to cover the veggies.
If you have extra brine, you can stick other fresh veggies in it and pop it in the fridge. Just remember, since these aren't preserved, you need to eat them in about a week.
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Two frightened dogs were surrendered to the Marin Humane Society. Upon examining the female, we learned she recently had puppies. After some detective work and a lot of convincing, our team was able to get the person who surrendered the dogs to also surrender the puppies, as they still needed their mama and were not in a safe situation.
We captured the moment when sad and scared mom got to see her puppies again. Tears of joy all around at this happy reunion.
Via Reddit. This comment says there were originally five puppies but one didn’t survive which might explain why the mother kept looking for another puppy.
It better be nice today!
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Houston Police have arrested 4 men connected to least 30 robberies and at least 2 sexual assaults in the Houston area since late June.
The suspects are LaCharles Craige, 18, Trenton Jackson, 21, Cameron Lucas, 17 and Marquis Clark (21). All are charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Craige also is charged with aggravated sexual assault.
In the most of the robberies, the suspects were armed with handguns and semi-automatic rifles. They demanded items or money and threatened to harm the victims. In at least two cases, the victims were sexually assaulted.
A long investigation by the HPD Robbery Division, the Missouri City, Pasadena, and Sugar Land Police Departments and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office turned up the suspects were involved in the robberies in Houston, Missouri City, Pasadena, Sugar Land and Montgomery County.
The investigation continues. If you have more information on these cases, you are urged to call the HPD Robbery Division at 713-308-0700.
This entry was posted in Crime and Safety, Crime News, Fort Bend County News, Harris County News, Houston Crime News, Houston News, Houston Police News and tagged Serial Robbers Arrested in Houston, Serial Robbery Suspects Arrested and Charged in Houston. Bookmark the permalink.
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Sándor Radó was also the name of a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst.
The native form of this personal name is Radó Sándor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Alexander Radó (5 November 1899, Újpest, near Budapest – 20 August 1981, Budapest), also: Alex, Alexander Radolfi, Sándor Kálmán Reich or Alexander Rado, was a Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent in World War II.
Radó (codename: DORA) was also member of the resistance (German: Widerstandskämpfer) to Nazi Germany devoted to the service of the so-called Red Orchestra, the Soviet espionage and spy network to Western Europe between 1933 and 1945. There he was the head of the Switzerland resistance group Red Three, one of the most efficient residents of the Red Orchestra.
Radó was born into a Jewish family in Újpest, at the time an industrial suburb of Budapest. His father (Gábor Reich) was first a clerk at a trading firm and later a businessman. In 1917, after graduation from gymnasium (high school), Radó was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and was sent to fortress artillery officer training school. Graduated at the officer candidate school in 1918, he was assigned to an artillery regiment. During this time, he also studied law as a correspondence student of the University of Budapest.
In December 1918, after the fall of Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Radó joined the Hungarian Communist Party. When the communists came to power in Hungary in March 1919, he was appointed as cartographer on the staff of a Hungarian Red Army division. Ferenc Münnich, the political commissar of the division, then made him commissar of the division's artillery. Radó took part in fighting against Czechoslovak forces and in fighting against anti-communist insurgents in Budapest.
On 1 September 1919, after the fall of the communist regime in Hungary, Radó fled to Austria. He studied geography and cartography at Vienna University and wrote on military matters in a German-language Magazine Kommunismus, published by Hungarian political emigrants in Austria. In July 1920 he established the information agency Rosta-Wien, which he used to spread propaganda received in broadcasts from Soviet Russia. To receive these, he had bribed the head of a Vienna radio station. Information bulletins from these materials were distributed to left-wing newspapers and organizations in various countries.
In 1922 Radó moved to Germany and returned to his studies, first at Jena and then at Leipzig. In October, 1923, he took part in the preparation for Comintern-planned large armed uprising in Germany and was made military chief of the communist forces in Leipzig. But the badly planned revolution had to be aborted at the last moment. Fearing arrest, Radó left Germany for the Soviet Union in September 1924. In Moscow he worked for the All-Union Society for Cultural Contacts with Abroad (VOKS) and then for the World Economy Institute of the Communist Academy. Radó returned to Germany in 1926 and established the Berlin cartographic agency “Pressgeography”. He gave lectures at the Masch, the Marxist Workers' School, teaching economic geography, the history of the working class movement (Arbeitergeschichte) and imperialism.
After Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Radó and his wife Lena fled through Austria to France. In Paris, Radó established the “Inpress” (an independent anti-Nazi press agency). In 1935, during a visit to Moscow, Radó was approached by Artur Artuzov, deputy chief of Soviet military intelligence and by Semyon Uritsky, chief of Soviet military intelligence. Radó agreed to be their intelligence agent with the main task of obtaining intelligence on Nazi Germany. Radó failed to obtain a residence permit in Belgium, but in 1939 was permitted residence in Switzerland. He moved to Geneva and founded yet another cartographic agency, Geopress.
In 1937 Radó visited Italy to collect intelligence about the Italian military support of the Francist forces in the Spanish civil war. This intelligence was sent to Moscow through Paris Soviet military intelligence station. In 1938 Radó contacted Swiss journalist and agent Otto Pünter in Bern, who gave him military intelligence on Italy. On Italy's military support of Franco's forces he received material from "Gabel", a Yugoslav serving as Spanish Republican consul in Sushak, Yugoslavia and military intelligence on Germany from "Puasson", a German Social Democratic political emigrant living in Switzerland with sources in Germany.
Report to the GRU by Dora about a meeting of leading German OKW and industry representatives, including Göring (chair), Röchling, and Vögler in Jagdhaus Hubertusstock [de], March 1943.
In 1940, Radó contacted Alexander Foote, an English Soviet agent in Switzerland who joined Ursula Kuczynski's network in 1938. Foote became a radio operator for Radó’s intelligence network, and in March 1941 managed to establish radio communication with Moscow Centre from Lausanne. In his radio communications, Radó used the codename "Dora". In the first half of 1941, "Luiza", a Swiss intelligence officer gave Otto Puetner (and Radó) the important information, that many divisions of the German Wehrmacht were being concentrated in the East. This warning of an imminent German attack, like that from Richard Sorge and from other Soviet agents, was dismissed by Joseph Stalin.
After the outbreak of the German-Soviet War on June 22, 1941, Radó's network continued to provide Soviet General Staff with very valuable intelligence on German forces. Some of it was supplied through Puetner by "Zalter", a press officer of the French embassy in Switzerland and by "Long", a French intelligence officer who fled to Switzerland after the capitulation of France. Both had sources in Germany, among them Ernst Lemmer ("Agnessa"), editor of a German foreign policy bulletin.
In March 1942, a most valuable piece of intelligence was sent to Moscow: summer German offensive aimed at the occupation of Caucasian oilfields (Operation Blue) would begin between 31 May and 7 June 1942. Radó's network got this from Georges Blun ("Long"), provided by General Adolf Hamann, at the German OKW. Soviet command did not make proper use of this intelligence.
Through Christian Schneider, a German lawyer who had worked in the International Labour Bureau in Switzerland until 1939, Radó made contact with Rudolf Roessler, a German political emigrant living in Lucerne. Roessler, codenamed “Lucy” apparently had extraordinary sources in Germany who provided valuable military intelligence, the Lucy spy ring. Roessler allegedly was the conduit the British used to transmit the results of their codebreaking of German cipher traffic (operation Ultra) to the Soviets without revealing their ability to read this German code.
At the end of 1942, Abwehr and Gestapo caught up with the “Rote Kapelle”, Leopold Trepper's network. There had been some contacts between both spy rings in 1940, through Anatoly Gurevich (alias "Kent"), a Soviet undercover intelligence officer and so Radó’s network became known to the Germans. They even obtained the radio cipher used by Radó’s network which enabled them to decrypt some of Radó’s radio communications from Switzerland.
Meanwhile Radó’s network continued to supply Moscow Centre with valuable intelligence. In April 1943, Stalin received news about the planned German offensive near Kursk (provided by "Werter", a Roessler source in Germany).
In the second half of 1943, the Germans persuaded Swiss authorities to act against Radó’s network. Using mobile radio direction finders Swiss police tracked down one of Radó's radio transmitters operated by Swiss agents Edmond Hamel and Olga Hamel. They were arrested on October 14, 1943. On the same day Margarita Bolli was caught, an Italian emigrant living in Switzerland and a radio operator. Radó went into hiding. On November 20, 1943, they caught Alexander Foote. Christian Schneider and two more contacts in Switzerland were arrested on 19 April 1944. Rudolf Roessler on 19 May 1944.
On September 16, 1944, Radó and his wife Helen, the sister of Hermann Scherchen, a German conductor in whose home they had hidden, illegally crossed the Swiss-French border on a French train with the help of the French Maquis from Upper Savoy. On September 24, they reached Paris. Radó contacted a Soviet military intelligence agent and in January 1945, Radó and Leopold Trepper were evacuated via plane to the Soviet Union. Due to military operations in Germany, a direct flight to the Soviet Union from Paris was impossible, so the plane flew over Northern Africa. Using a stopover in Cairo, Radó, who suspected his arrest on arrival in the Soviet Union, escaped and managed to enter the British embassy under an alias. He applied for political asylum, but this was denied and Radó tried to commit suicide, but was only injured and hospitalized. Radó was extradited by Egypt to the Soviet Union based on a false accusation, in August 1945 he was brought to Moscow under guard. In December 1946, he was sentenced by a Special Council of MGB without trial to 10 years on espionage charges.
Following the death of Stalin, Radó was released in November 1954, and allowed to return to Hungary. In 1956, he was officially rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. In 1955, Radó was appointed chief of the Hungarian cartographic service. In 1958, he was appointed to the chair of cartography in Budapest Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences. In 1971, he published his memoirs in Hungarian. They were translated into several languages. But a first uncensored edition, based on the original manuscript, was only published in 2006, in Budapest. He died in Budapest in 1981.
Arthur Koestler In his autobiography The Invisible Writing, devotes a chapter to Radó under the heading “Homage to a Spy”. In the mid 1930s Radó and his wife had helped the struggling Koestler and at one stage in 1935-36 Radó had employed Koestler in a mysterious 'news reporting agency' which he was managing at the time. Koestler’s book was first published in 1954. The contents make it clear that at the time of writing Koestler believed that after the war Radó had been liquidated by the Soviets. The 'Danube' edition reprint of the book, published in 1969, carries the original chapter unamended (pages 368–378). ISBN 0-09-098030-1.
^ The Ultimate Spy Book, by Dorling Kinderslay Ltd., London), The world of secret services, H. Keith Melton; ISBN 3-453-11480-9; p. 38 „The Red Orchestra“; Switzerland, Red Three.
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Who would ever consider getting a toilet seat with the Dutch flag? Exactly: nobody. So why is it different with the UK flag? Because it’s Punk? Or Burberry? Or Harry&Kate? Hm, I wonder how my British friends like our purchase..
After a day in the countryside I came back to Geneva to discover my bike had a flat tire. A bummer, because I live 11 km from the city and it was already getting dark. Still sparkling from the lovely day I’d had, though, I started to walk home.
He introduced himself as Hector. He was originally from Mexico, working as a sculptor in Geneva. “Your skin is beautiful,” he said while tearing a wheel from his bike, “like ceramics”. I protested vehemently against his offers and asked if he had a pump I could use? “Oh Luce,” he said dreamily, “we can go biking together” .
Hector had a pump and a tire repair kit. He seemed shocked at the idea that I knew how to repair my own tire and insisted on using all his glue to patch the tube. But it worked. I thanked Hector, who thanked my bike for bringing us together. “It’s magic,” he concluded. And when could we meet again? “I could be your cat,” he suggested, “you would only have to pet me occasionally”. I blew him a kiss. “At least let me be your bicycle repair man!” he pleaded.
With my bike fixed I very much enjoyed my ride home. We all need to meet a Hector once in a while.
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Friday protests in Jordan draw thousands to the streets as demonstrators call for the fall of the government and an end to corruption.
More than 1,000 Jordanians demonstrated in the southern town of Tafileh Friday, demanding the fall of the government and urging an end to corruption, protesters said.
The Friday protests come as King Abdullah II urged the government Wednesday to “protect the innocent victims of slander and hatred”, including members of his family.
In response, King Abdullah on April 26 created a commission to propose constitutional reform.
AMMAN — Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated on Friday across the kingdom, calling for regime reforms as well as the sacking of what they called the “corrupt and oppressive” government.
“The people want to reform the regime and end tyranny. No to corruption,” around 2,500 Islamists and trade unionists chanted as they marched from the King Abdullah Mosque in central Amman to a roundabout near the interior ministry.
“Reform starts with combating corruption and the corrupt,” reads a banner carried by the demonstrators.
“The regime and government are not serious about reforms,” he told AFP.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Islamic Action Front, accused Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit’s government of corruption.
“The government is corrupt and oppressive. Reform is inevitable, and rulers have two choices: adopt reforms or quit,” Zaki Bani Rsheid, leader of the IAF political office, told the crowds.
“Who are the partners of Khaled Shahin,” they chanted, referring to a top Jordanian businessman who have been sentenced to three years in jail for corruption.
The government has allowed Shahin to travel to the United States for medical treatment, but he was spotted in a London restaurant in April, which caused an outcry in Jordan.
Jordanians have been protesting since January to demand political and economic reforms as well as more efforts to fight corruption.
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Last Monday and Tuesday I visited Southwell in Nottinghamshire and there, for the first time experienced Yarn Bombing.
Yarn Bombing is when an individual or a group create items with wool and decorate a town or a village with them.
Southwell, as many of you will know is a small market town between Newark and Nottingham. It has both a distinguished history and a very distinguished eleventh century cathedral.
Apparently almost 4,000 knitted and crocheted items have been placed in and around Southwell as a yarn bombing event.
The project commemorates the centenary of the end of the First World War and features tributes to all the men of the town who died in the conflict.
It was coordinated by the Southwell Yarn Bomb Group, but also featured work by various community groups. A woman born less than a week after the armistice in 1918 knitted 100 poppies.
There were no colour or size requirements so when the poppies, which were all individually made, were collected, it was fascinating to notice how well they all blended together.
The completed items have now been distributed across the town, in shop windows, schools and the minster as well as decorating street furniture such as bollards. It was, in fact, the bollards that I noticed first. Each bollard bears the name of a soldier or sailor who was killed in action during the war.
It is very striking and in some ways perhaps a bit more meaningful. I noticed people were walking along the street and taking a moment to look at each bollard in order to read the name of the victim.
Message to the Yarn Bombers – keep knitting!
Interesting topic and superb work. Keeping a note in my calendar for going next year. Thank you Robin.
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The zoning in Permaculture is as well a way to design a framework where will be integrated Technical and Biological Closed loops.
More we go to zone 5 more we find biological independent closed loops, more we move to Zone 0 more the loops are either domesticated or integrated to technical loops.
It is per definition easy to see that Zone 5 biological mechanisms are independent from any human impact. Let’s see how the integration works when getting closer to Zone 0. If you grow vegetables in Zone 0 you’ll use compost which is maybe originated both from mulch or green vegetation harvested in Zone3 produced by biological loops. The manure can come from a chicken coop part biological part technical, maybe you’ll shred the green vegetation using a shredder (technical) then use simple tools to form the piles, use “technical” methodology (Berkeley composting) to make your compost, etc… The vegetables after processing produce scraps which are recycled in a worm farm (Technical and Biological) and the worm casting will feed newly planted tree seedlings in Zone 3 to speed up the growth of the wind break you realized was missing.
This is just an example and if we take into account the multitude of closed loops we will integrate in the farm operations we assume that the zoning can help in this integration by facilitating the most permanent or structural hybrid Biological/Technical Closed Loops processes.
With this in mind you could design your zones not only in term of simplistic logistic consisting in counting the annual frequency of presence in an area but by defining the annual presence in an area when operating (or piloting) a specific hybrid closed loop. Resources areas within zones are then bound by the most frequent hybrid processes. And path logistic is then designed to facilitate these processes.
For example egg production can include the following steps of the technical process; chicken care, egg harvesting, chicken food complement, located in the limit of zone 1 and zone 2 and let the biological steps of the process (mainly chicken going errand); controlling insects, controlling weeds, scratching the soil, etc, located in zones 3 and 4.
Another example is the presence of predators coming from Zone 5 and impacting the actors (as preys) of a specific process. You decide to use a non permeable interface to these predators between zone 5 and the areas where the process take place. This may change the localization of Zone 5 to use natural existing edges.
When your Permaculture farm mature, together with a more precise involvement on specific processes you want to focus on, you may use this “process orientated” methodology to redesign your zones and optimize the predominant hybrid closed loops.
In this schema a hybrid process is represented inside the zones. Next step would be to modify the zoning to better adapt to this process.
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« The Pre-Socratics were totally awesome.
This entry was posted on April 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm and is filed under listening, music, personal with tags listening, music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Please join us in welcoming Shannon of CorkyFriendz, our featured member!
Hello there! My name is Shannon and I am the artist behind Corky Friendz, wine cork gifts. Born and raised in Oregon I have an innate passion for the Pacific North West and all the beauty that it holds. It is truly inspiring to live in such a corky city as Portland, and my handmade gifts are dripping with that rustic quirkiness!
My happy place is the outdoors! Example would be being 33 weeks along and being the only pregnant lady seen hiking in Glacier National Park. I love to make people smile. I worked in the school photography professional for 11 years creating yearbooks, and making memories. It was a joy getting to let out your silly side for the sake of that 3rd grader having the best smile for his fall photo.
Fast forward to 2017; Corky Friendz has not only given me the opportunity to stay home with my 5 month old son, but the privilege to create a gift that can make others smile for years to come. What a blessing, right!?! As a side note….I also am an 80-year-old woman at heart who pets every animal I meet, makes zucchini relish using my grandmother’s recipe, and can appreciate a good glass of wine after a long hard day of pulling weeds in the garden.
Corky Friendz opened its Etsy Shop three years ago after my husband encouraged me to “give it a go.” My goal was to showcase corks with a second life as a wine cork gift to earn some adventure money. I bought a wood burner and learned how to use it; sliced my hand open cutting the charms, and burnt my fingers with lava-hot glue in the earlier days. I never dreamed I would be able to make so many people smile with my whimsical corky ornaments & wedding cake toppers! Each review, comment, message and note fuels me to create new designs that can brighten someone’s day. All of the corks I use are sourced locally from Portland wine bars, restaurants, vineyards, and neighbors.
All the wine corks used in my shop are locally sourced from PDX wine bars, restaurants, vineyards, and neighbors alike. We offer hand crafted wine cork reindeer, cats, dogs, rabbits, & moose to hang on your tree at Christmas time. Champagne cork wedding cake toppers, Mr. & Mrs. wine glass charms, and monogrammed wedding favors year round. We also just released our Happy Camper Adventure Line featuring tents, tps, evergreen trees, & beautiful mountain motifs on our wine glass charms/magnets. I wood burn each design by hand into the cork itself. This allows me to add any custom work a custom might request. The sky really is the limit. I have created coasters with a double hump camel, buffalo wine glass charms, and even a cork fairy ornament to accommodate our customers’ custom needs. I also use artist conks (it’s a mushroom that grows on the side of a tree) as my own personal canvas for larger more intricate wood burning pieces. I enjoy a challenge!
My inspirations are constantly in motion with what is going on around me. My mind is a sponge that soaks up every last image these big blue eyes see. I tend to get a huge surge of inspiration from my travels. A few recent adventures would be stroller exploring Portland, Cannon Beach, Glacier National Park, and Elf (the movie) because smiling is my favorite.
This year is a big year for Corky Friendz! We are currently working on www.corkyfriendz.org website; featuring‘s very own shop and blog with wine craft tutorials posted each month. CFZ also has sights on a few makers shops in the PDX area to host it’s wires for up close and in person encounters!
My dream is to continue our brand in local shops, vineyards, and private events. Above all, it is to enjoy each minute of the journey this corky business has led me to have.
The quality and effort that goes into each one of our items (big or small) is phenomenal. Being an artist at heart and having the skill of free hand rendering gives you originality you don’t see with some other corky shops. You also are not buying a mass-produced item. You are receiving a keepsake for that special someone who is hand-made by a local Portland gal who poured love into creating that one corky creation. You are buying a tiny original piece of art on each wine glass charm, magnet, and artist conk. You are investing in a family lifestyle that takes the big business out of our lives, and allows me to spend priceless time with a growing child that I would be missing if working a 9-5.
I started in my living room with a hot glue gun….Today my work space has blossomed into a beautiful sunny studio. Boasting tons of natural light with lace mobiles hanging in the windows; I’m surrounded by jars filled with bows, google eyes, and spools of wire. It’s dreamy to say the least.
Oh golly! I would tell my old self it takes one step at a time. Just because a door is open doesn’t mean you have walked through it. It’s the little things that get you to the other side. Looking back, each small step has carried my designs farther than I ever thought possible. I mean, when you see an order come in from Ireland?! Of course I want to make your wedding cake toppers; I’m honored!
Dive in! The journey of selling on Etsy has really encouraged me as an artist to, “Get out there!” more. The people you meet, the stories you hear, and the knowledge you gain is worth every keystroke.
I LOVE to hike. Exploring the sights and sounds with my little family made up of giant slobbery dogs, and baby babbles makes me appreciate the greatness of being submersed in nature. When the mountains are too far from home, you can find me in the garden tending to the veggies and a glass of red wine in the evenings.
This quote is from the book I am currently reading, The Power of One.
You can follow Corky Friendz on Instagram ( www.intstagram.com/corkyfriendz ) for the latest “behind the scenes” look at what’s happening in the shop. Also, our new website at www.corkyfriendz.org is in the works! Newest product lines, a blog spot featuring wine cork craft tutorials and vendor announcements are just a few things that the website will have once it is complete.
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Former Metallica/Flotsam & Jetsam bassist Jason Newsted returns with a new metal outfit. The simple album title is indicative of what you’ll find on this release — heavy metal music. That’s it. This isn’t “modern” metal, this isn’t alternative metal. It’s meat and potatoes heavy metal influenced by the likes of Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Motorhead and, yes, Metallica.
Newsted does a fine job on vocals as he snottily growls on vocals in a style similar to James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine and it’s good to have him back front-and-center with his own band. He was underutilized in Metallica and with this new band I hope he’ll be much more visible in the metal scene than he has been for the last decade or so.
Heavy Metal Music is not unique and does not set out to reinvent the metal wheel. It’s quite down-to-earth and basic but that’s okay. That’s all you need sometimes and Newsted has come up with a handful of memorable songs such as “Heroic Dose”, “Soldierhead” (which sounds like it could’ve come from Death Magnetic), “Above All” and “Nocturnus” (Iommi riffing). It’s good to know there are still those out there dedicated to providing an old school sound but they don’t try to pretend it’s still 1985. This is new music rooted rooted in 1970s & 1980s metal.
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"It takes a theory to beat a theory"--this is surely one of the top ten all-time comments uttered by law professors to one another in those ritual interactions that are called "faculty workshops" or "colloquia." The first instance of the comment that I can find in the legal literature appears in an article by Richard Epstein [92 Yale Law Journal 1435 (1983)], and some legal academics associate the comment with Professor Epstein, whose facility in law faculty workshops is legendary.
What does "It takes a theory to beat a theory" mean? What is the point or purpose of making this comment in a debate about normative or positive legal theory? Of course, the core idea is relatively straightforward. One can't beat a theory just by nitpicking. We go with the best theory we have, warts and all. So if you want to beat a theory, you must show it is not the best theory we have, and the only way to do that is to produce a better theory. Hence, it takes a theory to beat a theory. Or to put it crudely, if we are playing "king of the hill," whoever is on top stays there until pushed off.
Most of the entries in the Legal Theory Lexicon series deal with some concept, theory, or idea that law students are likely to encounter in their first year of law school. But this entry is a little different. "It takes a theory to beat a theory" is not likely to be heard much in the classroom. It's a "workshop comment" not a "class comment." But in a way, that makes this idea all the important for law students, including first year law students, with an interest in legal theory. And understanding this move and its counters is essential for anyone who plans a career in the legal academy.
Apart from the frailty of its theoretical underpinning, nonoriginalism confronts a practical difficulty reminiscent of the truism of elective politics that "You can't beat somebody with nobody."' It is not enough to demonstrate that the other fellow's candidate (originalism) is no good; one must also agree upon another candidate to replace him. Just as it is not very meaningful for a voter to vote "non-Reagan,"' it is not very helpful to tell a judge to be a "non-originalist."' If the law is to make any attempt at consistency and predictability, surely there must be general agreement not only that judges reject one exegetical approach (originalism), but that they adopt another. And it is hard to discern any emerging consensus among the nonoriginalists as to what this might be.
Nevertheless the economic theory of regulation is achieving a substantial scientific prosperity. Its findings with respect to both the operation and the origins of regulatory policies directed to particular industries (such as the securities markets, transportation, and occupational licensing) command a substantial support. To be sure, the explanatory triumphs have not been overwhelming, and indeed the theory itself is still relatively primitive. The main reason for the considerable acceptance of the approach is that fundamental rule of scientific combat: it takes a theory to beat a theory. No amount of scepticism about the fertility of a theory can deter its use unless the sceptic can point to another route by which the scientific problem of regulation can be studied successfully.
--"It takes a practice to replace a practice." This variation is at the root of Scalia's point. You can't vote against a candidate; you must vote for someone. You can't just stop interpreting the constitution if you reject originalism; it takes some other interpretive practice to substitute for originalism.
--"It takes a better explanatory theory to substitute for a theory that has even limited success." This variation is at the root of Stigler's point. The economic theory has some success; so it will continue as the "dominant paradigm" until something better comes along.
--"It takes a better normative theory to substitute for a normative theory that has plausible support." Thus, one might say that it takes a better theory of justice to displace Rawls's theory.
And I'm sure there are many other variations.
--Expose the hidden "presumption." It takes a theory to beat a theory may assume that the theory in question must be "beaten" or it stands. But that assumption requires a justification. It must be argued there is some "presumption" in favor of the theory's validity. What is the source of that presumption? Why does this theory enjoy the presumption rather than a rival theory? Sometimes these questions can't be answered. Other times there are answers, but once they are articulated, they can be contested.
--It doesn't take a theory to beat an argument. Even if it does take a theory to beat a theory, it doesn't take a theory to beat an argument. Arguments fail if they are invalid or unsound. Arguments are invalid if the conclusions don't flow from the premises. Arguments are unsound if their premises are false. So when someone says, "It takes a theory to beat a theory," you can reply, "Oh, you thought I was trying to beat a theory, but what I actually did was to beat an argument."
--Recharacterize the Status Quo. Frequently, "it takes a theory to beat a theory," assumes that the theory to be beaten is, in some sense, the status quo--the current king of the hill, the way we are doing or thinking now. But this is not necessarily the case. Take the "originalism" example. One might argue that "originalism" isn't the "king of the hill." Rather, the status quo is eclecticism--a little precedent, a little originalism, a little instrumentalism, etc. So if the case for originalism is inadequate, the presumption is for the status quo--not originalism. In other words, poking holes may be enough. Once the theory in question is no longer the status quo, the question becomes is the new theory demonstrably better than what we've got now.
The last ditch defense of the rational choice theory is to insist that it takes a theory to beat a theory, and that the behavioralists have only assembled a collection of empirical regularities without any unifying theory. The behavioralists indignantly respond that they do have a theory, although an incomplete one. The assumption on both sides is apparently that the sine qua non of social science is having a unified predictive theory. But perhaps this is merely another symptom of economics' famous case of "physics envy." Physics presents a breathtaking example of mathematical elegance combined with fantastically accurate predictions. But taking physics as the paradigm of science may be a mistake. Today's great success story among the sciences may well be biology. Biology does have a central paradigm (evolution) and an understanding of its molecular basis. But organisms, because they are the products of evolution rather than design, are extremely complex, and no one seems to think that their features can be predicted in any detail on the basis of a deductive theory.
There are many ways of doing this. Here's one way of making the move: "Hmm. You seem to be assuming that we need a theory here. I'm puzzled. Why would you assume that?" Stressing the words in italics. This move puts the burden on the maker of the "It takes a theory to beat a theory" move to justify the theory assumption--and as a practical matter, it also buys you time.
--Go Pragmatic. This is a variation of denying the theory assumption. When someone asks for a theory, you can reply that the subject at hand requires a "contextualist" and "pragmatic" analysis. As the scare quotes indicate, I'm not very fond of this move.
One frequently hears it said that "it takes a theory to beat a theory." Those who invoke that view are typically doing so in order to justify maintaining the rational choice paradigm until some well-articulated theory comes along to replace it. That is not, however, how scientific advances typically occur. Rather, anomalies arise and are either explained within an amended paradigm or serve as observations that make a case for another paradigm (as yet undefined).
--I've Got a Theory. Of course, this move is especially impressive in the context of a workshop. Your paper makes a critical or destructive point. Someone in the audience goes "It takes a theory to beat a theory." And you go, "Great point. I've got a theory and here it is." You then get 5 minutes of uninterrupted theory exposition, and, of course, no one at the workshop has heard your theory before, and hence, no one has had an opportunity to prepare objections.
--It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory, but you have no Theory. This is a variation of Lloyd Bentsen's famous, "Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy." The idea is this: "It takes a theory to beat a theory," assumes that we have a theory of X on the table. So one effective counter is an argument that there is no "theory of x" to replace. One way to do this is to set out a list of criteria, C1, C2, C3 . . . Cn, that must be fulfilled if a given cluster of ideas (I1, I2, I3, . . . In) is to count as a theory, T, of a subject, X. You then argue that the view on the table is not a true theory, because it fails one or more of the criteria.
A variation on this move is "It doesn't take a theory to beat a really bad theory." If your objection to a theory makes it clear that the theory cannot be correct, then it doesn't take theory to beat a theory. Or to continue the metaphor, "You don't have to become the king of the hill to knock someone down."
Undoubtedly, there are many other standard countermoves and numerous others that are relevant to particular contexts. I hope this post gets you started.
"It takes a theory to beat a theory." Or does it? I hope this Lexicon installment has given you a taste of this famous move and some of the replies. And I also hope that it has provided some of the flavor of the intellectual atmosphere of faculty workshops and colloquia. As always, theLexicon provides only a simplified (and all too often simplistic) treatment of a subject that deserves an extended discussion.
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CHICAGO – Defensive playmaking cleared the way for the Maroons to run rampant on offense as University of Chicago football rolled to a 56-9 victory over Illinois College on Saturday afternoon at Stagg Field.
The Maroons improved to 1-2 with their first victory of the 2018 campaign, while the Blueboys fell to 0-3. The 56 points were the most by a UChicago squad since the 2010 team scored 61 against Carnegie Mellon University. UChicago scored 55 points twice in the 2017 season against Cornell College and Beloit College.
With first-year quarterback Jeffrey Jackson at the helm, UChicago found its rhythm and amassed 470 total yards. Jackson completed 22 of his 31 passes for 234 yards and four touchdowns. He spread the ball around to 10 receivers, connecting with a different target on each score. A powerful rushing attack produced 236 yards with an average of 6.1 yards per carry. Sophomore running back Vittorio Tricase led the charge with 92 yards on 15 attempts, while first-year Nicholas D'Ambrose ran for three touchdowns and senior Henry Imburgia raced away for a 69-yard score on the longest play of the day.
Not to be outdone, the Maroon defense consistently impressed. Sophomore nose tackle Jackson Ross hauled in a spectacular interception after batting the ball at the line and later recovered a fumble he forced. Junior cornerback Roberto Rabines snagged another pick for the third turnover of the game. Ross led the team with 10 tackles, while linebacker Zach Atiyeh contributed nine. Junior defensive end Ben Christensen racked up 1.5 sacks as well.
UChicago started slow as an interception on its first possession gave Illinois College an early scoring chance, but the Maroon defense held the Blueboys to a 30-yard field goal.
The home team fought back with a five-play, 66-yard touchdown drive. Jackson got the ball moving with a scramble before completing two short passes. Tricase moved the chains again on the ground, then Jackson hit junior wideout Dante Nepa for a 28-yard touchdown to put UChicago out in front.
The teams traded punts for the remainder of the first quarter but a 20-yard return from senior safety Jeremy Vincent as the second got underway primed the Maroons for another score, with the offense taking over at the opposition 32. It was not long before a perfectly-placed ball from Jackson split two defenders and found first-year receiver Jacob Jackson in the corner of the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown.
The UChicago offense would return to the field in even better position after the defense pounced on its first turnover of the day. Facing third-and-5 at its own 20, Illinois College tried to complete a pass over the middle but Ross swatted it into the air, spun around, caught his own deflection, and rumbled down to the five-yard line. D'Ambrose made good on his teammate's highlight-reel effort, pounding through the middle to stretch the lead to 21-3.
The Blueboys shook off the sudden deficit and twice threatened to score as the first half drew to a close. Both times, however, the Maroon defense was more than equal to the task. Starting near midfield, the visitors marched to the UChicago nine-yard line before Ross stuffed a third-down rushing attempt and came out with the football. After the next UChicago drive stalled, Illinois College again began in good field position and progressed all the way to the UChicago three-yard-line with the help of a long completion and two penalties for pass interference. After forcing two incompletions, the Maroons stopped a rush for a loss to set up a fourth-and-goal with eight seconds remaining. Vincent broke up a pass into the end zone and UChicago took its lead unscathed into the break.
The Maroons received the ball to begin the second half and Tricase unleashed a trio of scurrying carries, the last good for 37 yards. Jackson then lobbed a jump ball for senior wide receiver Trevor Anderson, who made an astonishing catch at the back of the end zone while keeping his heels in bounds.
All the momentum now favored the hosts, who forced a three-and-out then drove right back down the field for another touchdown as D'Ambrose rushed in for his second score of the day. Another three-and-out set the stage for another UChicago touchdown drive. Jackson completed passes of 16 and 14 yards before connecting with first-year wideout Elliott Grays in stride over the middle for a 25-yard score.
D'Ambrose completed his hat trick from 15 yards out early in the fourth quarter, turning the corner and diving for the pylon.
Despite its struggles with the relentless Maroon defense, Illinois College managed to build a drive in the late game. A roughing the passer penalty negated an apparent interception and a few plays later the Blueboys capped off a 13-play, 82-yard drive with a touchdown pass.
UChicago, however, insisted on having the final say. After the ensuing kickoff and a six-yard rush on first down, Imburgia broke loose along the right sideline and sprinted 69 yards to put an exclamation point on the win.
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I hope that 2009 has started off well, and that this is going to be a wonderful year for you.
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To this end it is necessary to increase our efforts to mobilize bilateral and multilateral climate finance as well as align financial flows with the goals of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, and to achieve a global decarbonized, climate-resilient economy over the course of this century, including the transformation of the energy sectors by mid-century. We therefore reaffirm the Copenhagen commitment of developed countries to the goal of jointly mobilizing US$100 billion annually by 2020 from public and private sources to support climate action in developing countries. We encourage all potential providers of finance to join in efforts in reaching and surpassing this goal.
We recognize the particular need of the most vulnerable countries such as the Small Island Development States and Least Developed Countries to address the impact of climate change.
We strongly encourage all countries, who have not done so yet, to ratify the Paris Agreement and commit to support efforts to adopt its rulebook by 2018 and to work with all Parties to achieve this. We acknowledge the potential that climate change has to undermine poverty eradication and sustainable development and recognize the importance of including actions which consider the challenges and concerns of women and Indigenous peoples.
Implementing the Paris Agreement, coherently with and in the context of the 2030 Agenda, is essential and can provide us with significant opportunities for modernizing our economies, for enhancing competitiveness, and stimulating employment and growth, while securing social inclusion. The implementation of the 2030 Agenda can also engage and benefit from the experience of the many coalitions and initiatives developed under the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action. In this context we welcome the growing number of private sector actions, such as the work of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on climate related financial disclosure.
We stand ready to continue cooperating with all Parties in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
We welcome the inclusive and transparent consultations held during the sessions of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in May 2017 on the organization of the Facilitative Dialogue in 2018. We recognize the importance of the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue in maintaining momentum and encouraging ambitious global action towards achieving the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. We continue to support COP22 Presidency and the incoming COP23 Presidency in their efforts with a view to developing and presenting a shared proposal on the design of the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue at COP23 in Bonn, in accordance with the mandate contained in COP22 decision.
We commit to engage actively in this dialogue, with a view to taking stock of collective progress towards achieving the long-term temperature goal, and to inform the preparation of a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) by 2020 for Parties with an NDC containing a timeframe up to 2025 or, for Parties with an NDC containing a timeframe up to 2030, the communication or updating of these contributions by 2020.
We call on all Parties to contribute constructively to a focused, clear and participatory dialogue with a view to deliver an ambitious outcome that helps us achieve our climate goals.
We support an interactive evidence-based dialogue drawing on the best available science, including reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the sharing of experience and best practice as well as expertise from United Nations institutions and intergovernmental organizations. This dialogue will increase our understanding of collective progress and highlight concrete opportunities for actions and cost-efficient solutions in areas of high mitigation potential.
We also recognize the essential role of sub-national and non-state actors through the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action in developing coalitions and implementing ambitious climate actions as part of the collective efforts that will contribute to the achievement of the long-term mitigation goal of the Paris Agreement. We look forward to their contribution to this process.
We intend to share information on the progress in putting in place and implementing measures to achieve our NDCs and inform on progress in preparing to communicate or update NDCs to be submitted by 2020.
We acknowledge with appreciation the efforts made by those countries that already submitted mid-century long-term low GHG emission development strategies and encourage remaining Parties to complete their strategies well ahead of the 2020 deadline.
We recognize the important role of carbon pricing in tackling climate change, including market-based approaches and we welcome the second Strategic Dialogue of the Carbon Market Platform that will take place in September.
We welcome the adoption of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase-down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) at the twenty-eighth Meeting of the Parties. We intend, and also encourage other Parties to take the domestic steps necessary without delay. We welcome the agreement by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to adopt a Global Market-Based Measure to address emissions from international aviation. Recognizing progress made to date, we call on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to further accelerate its efforts to reduce carbon emissions from the maritime sector.
We acknowledge that scaling up sustainable finance is fundamental to achieve sustainability and climate goals. To this end, we welcome the growing efforts, including strategic initiatives and private sector-led actions, to respond to environmental opportunities and risks, thereby increasing flows of sustainable finance. We will encourage private actors to implement the respective recommendations as appropriate.
We acknowledge UNEP's contributions to the discussion through the papers and tools on "Financial Centres for Sustainability - Reviewing G7 Financial Centres in Mobilizing Green and Sustainable Finance" and on "Mobilizing Green Finance for SMEs in the G7".
We acknowledge that financial centres play a pivotal role in the allocation of capital. We recognize the commitments to sustainability made by an increasing number of financial centres and the potential of these initiatives to be furthered through international cooperation. We note with interest their launch of an international network of financial centres and we welcome the Italian proposal to host the first meeting of the network.
Considering the importance of SMEs for our economies, we welcome the work on SMEs financing, including the focus on supporting women entrepreneurs, devoted to the aims of financial inclusion and business growth intended to reinforce their access to funding while improving the diversification of their financing instruments. We note that under the German G20 Presidency, work has started to identify and promote successful financing models that incentivize SMEs to improve sustainability in their production processes. We recognize that many SMEs and start-ups contribute to innovation and to the diffusion of technologies and processes that help achieve the transition to sustainable development; we aim to assist them in their endeavours to access capital to finance their activities as we foster a better integration of environmental risks and opportunities in the financial system. We emphasize the value of relevant information that can orient investors towards green investments when financing SMEs.
We will consider existing best practices on how to support and strengthen SME innovation strategies and entrepreneurial efforts contributing to sustainability.
We recognize that access to financial instruments, including innovative ones, for SMEs investments is an important part of the transition towards sustainable development. We invite all relevant key actors to support, on a voluntary basis, the development of sustainable finance for SMEs.
We recognize that environmental infrastructure projects can also benefit from many of the approaches to enhance access to capital for sustainable small and medium enterprises and note that these projects provide critical environmental benefits such as clean water and air while also spurring economic growth and creating jobs.
There is strong evidence that Resource Efficiency, 3Rs, Circular Economy and Sustainable Material Management can be a major driver to attain economic growth and employment, and can bring about environmental and social benefits together with long-term economic competitiveness and prosperity. This is fully recognized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, where many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets will only be attained if we improve resource efficiency globally.
National and regional policy decisions play an important role in resource efficiency. We also recognize that collective actions internationally are key if we are to ensure widespread benefits amongst countries on a global scale. As a result, we encourage international cooperation and the promotion of integrated approaches and policies as an important condition to achieve tangible results. These actions should take into account all dimensions of sustainable development as well as cooperation with business and stakeholders.
We support the main findings of the IRP and OECD reports that resource efficiency can improve the overall economic and environmental resilience of our countries. We consider that substantial increase in resource efficiency is essential to meet the SDGs and associated targets and climate goals in a cost-effective manner and we will consider the relevant policy recommendations of both reports.
35. In this context, building on the outcome of the 2015 Elmau Summit, the 2016 Ise-Shima Summit, the Toyama Framework on Material Cycles, we adopt the enclosed "5-year Bologna Roadmap" which aims to advance common activities on resource efficiency. We will endeavour to participate fully in the 10-Year Framework Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns.
We recognize the valuable work done through the G7 Action Plan to Combat Marine Litter (G7APML). We reiterate our concern for the issue of marine litter, in particular plastic litter and microplastics, and reaffirm our commitment to fight this global threat. We are keenly aware of the need to fully and timely implement the 2030 Agenda and, in this context, of the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular 6, 12 and 14, and their relevant targets addressing marine litter directly and indirectly. We believe that moving towards a more resource efficient and circular economic model, including efficient resource use and sustainable materials and waste management systems, is an effective way to address marine litter. We acknowledge the socio-economic benefits of marine litter prevention and reduction measures, including in terms of employment generation, tourism development, sustainable fisheries, waste and wastewater management and other areas.
We welcome and acknowledge the relevant United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolutions 1/6 and 2/11 on marine plastic debris/litter and microplastics, as well as the decision XIII/10 addressing impacts of marine debris in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and we look forward to the UNEA assessment of the effectiveness of relevant international, regional and sub-regional governance strategies and approaches to combat marine plastic litter and microplastics to be presented at UNEA 3 in December 2017. We acknowledge a number of international initiatives such as the Global Partnership for Marine Litter (GPML) and the recently launched Stop Plastic Waste International Coalition. We acknowledge and recognize the importance of the outcomes of the SDG14 conference in New York last week and look forward to the fourth Our Oceans Conference in Malta of 5-6 October 2017.
We are aware that in the context of the cooperation among international instruments and initiatives on marine litter and within their respective mandates, the Regional Seas Programmes (RSPs) are key to effectively establish and implement coherent and coordinated regional basin-wide approaches. We are also aware that the Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) may have an important role in addressing, at regional level, specific marine litter issues resulting from fishing activities.
We are therefore determined to further implement the G7 Action Plan to Combat Marine Litter (APML) and call for strengthening the coherence, efficiency and effectiveness of existing international efforts, in particular the RSPs' activities to address marine litter, while taking into account regional contexts, mainly through the following initiatives: a) Harmonization of science-based indicators and methodologies for monitoring and evaluation, including through research; b) Identification, development, implementation and outreach of broad and accessible databases; c) Identification and dissemination of best practices, especially on prevention and management of waste and litter from land based and sea based sources and on removal actions; d) Development of capacity building efforts; e) Identification, development and dissemination of measures for: cost-benefit assessments, partnerships to support cost recovery instruments, extended producer responsibility and promotion of investments in waste and water management infrastructures, including through cooperation with the private sector; f) Progressive reduction of single-use plastics and microplastics, including microbeads, to avoid the leakage of plastics to the marine environment, including through research on substitutes.
We acknowledge the background report "Financing the Carbon Transition" by WRI on the alignment of the World Bank's, IFC's and ADB's investment in energy supply with a 2° C pathway and encourage the continuation of this research and its expansion to all Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and other sectors.
We recognize that MDBs and other international development banks have an important role to play in contributing to scaling up sustainable and climate resilient investments to implement 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement globally and welcome their effort in maintaining momentum towards full implementation. In line with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, we recognize the significant potential of MDBs and other international development banks in financing sustainable development and providing know-how.
We welcome progress made to date by MDBs and other development finance institutions in updating and developing their policies in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the SDGs. At the same time, we acknowledge that further steps are needed to align their financial support to the path which leads to the full implementation of the Paris Agreement and refrain from investment in high carbon assets.
We call upon the MDBs and other development finance institutions, to further increase their sustainable and climate resilient investment and strengthen their effort to leverage and crowd in private finance into the green and blue economy, including by meeting their 2020 climate pledges and further aligning their activities with the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement goals, also through a strong commitment to adaptation, and to support the transition towards a low carbon and resource efficient global economy. We likewise acknowledge the important role of export credit agencies and their continued efforts towards more sustainable and climate resilient investment. We urge MDBs to use their unique position to further broaden their impact towards sustainable development by sharing their expertise to mainstream climate considerations within national development planning and in preventing harm through social and environmental impact assessment and respect for applicable social and environmental standards.
We support the MDBs and our Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to continue their commitment to shift investments to low GHG emissions and climate resilient infrastructure projects.
Looking to 2020 and beyond, we look forward to seeing fully mainstreamed climate change considerations throughout MDB operations, promotion of clean technology, and support the poorest and most vulnerable to build resilience to the impacts of climate change. We also reiterate our call for supportive enabling environments and financial tools to accelerate private finance flows.
In that context, we welcome initial progress on the MDB Balance Sheet Optimization Action Plan of the G20, which may also enable the MDBs to increase support for green finance. We encourage the MDBs to consider how they can significantly and efficiently scale up activities to better mobilize private sector finance.
We also highly welcome the considerations by the MDBs to develop a "Joint Climate Action Plan", building on individual climate action plans. The G7 will work closely with the G20 to support this collective effort by the MDBs. We further encourage MDBs to support multi-stakeholder initiatives and coalitions from the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action.
We recognize and support effort by G7 and other countries interested in examining and removing incentives, particularly inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, not coherent with sustainability goals.
We recognize the benefits of monitoring progress in the phasing out of incentives, including subsidies, not coherent with the sustainability goals, such as inefficient fossil fuel subsidies which encourage wasteful consumption and we support existing initiatives underway such as the G20 voluntary peer review process.
We take note of the OECD work on these issues, and we recognize that OECD is considering further work for improving understanding of incentives, including subsidies.
We support G7 and all countries interested in exploring approaches to better align fiscal systems with environmental goals. In particular we intend to contribute to the implementation of the commitment of our Heads of State and Government adopted in Ise-Shima in 2016 for the elimination of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by 2025.
Furthermore, we consider the need to exchange views and information, to better understand the impact of fiscal policies and measures on the achievement of our sustainability goals.
We note the OECD background paper on "Jobs Implications of Green Growth: Linking employment, growth, and green policies". We acknowledge that well designed and implemented environment policies can create economic growth and employment.
We underscore that environment policies in a transitional period toward a sustainable development can spur economic growth and have a net positive impact on job creation and reaffirm, based on our experiences, that these objectives are mutually supportive and central to our roles as Ministers.
Special attention should be paid to regions and sectors that may be impacted. We acknowledge the importance of investment for new skills to support job creation in sustainable sectors.
We acknowledge that further research is required to quantify all employment impacts, including the gender dimension of environment policies including resource efficiency and circular economy. We invite OECD and encourage Academics and research institutions to further work in this area.
We welcome the many on-going initiatives in support of African countries' implementation of 2030 Agenda.
In particular, we recognize the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on Africa's agricultural production and food security, water availability, as well as on stability and economic growth in the region; and the importance of increasing access in Africa to affordable, modern, sustainable and reliable energy. We also recognize that the G7 is actively engaged in African countries, in promoting gender equality and in providing a broad range of assistance to address identified needs in cooperation with African counterparts.
We welcome the initiative of the Italian Government to establish a Centre in Rome, for facilitating the voluntary exchange of information on increasing the effectiveness, synergies and complementarities of ongoing initiatives in support of Africa.
We welcome the report from the side event on Universities for Sustainable Development.
We welcome the report from the side event on Firms for Sustainable Development.
We the United States of America continue to demonstrate through action, having reduced our CO2 footprint as demonstrated by achieving pre-1994 CO2 levels domestically. The United States will continue to engage with key international partners in a manner that is consistent with our domestic priorities, preserving both a strong economy and a healthy environment. Accordingly, we the United States do not join those sections of the communiqué on climate and MDBs, reflecting our recent announcement to withdraw and immediately cease implementation of the Paris Agreement and associated financial commitments.
UNEP-IRP 2017 "Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications" – OECD 2016 "Policy Guidance for Resource Efficiency"
Please refer to footnote 1 on the US position on climate change and MDBs.
We, the G7 Environment Ministers and high representatives, and European Commissioners responsible for environment and climate, taking into account the Toyama Framework on Material Cycles and the key messages and recommendations produced by the IRP and the OECD reports, have decided on next steps to advance resource efficiency and adopt the following roadmap as a "living" document to prioritize actions that advance life cycle based materials management, resource efficiency, and the 3Rs, including in the supply chain.
To this aim, acknowledging that 12 out of the 17 SDGs refer to resource efficiency and that by 2030 countries are called on "to achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources", recognizing the value of knowledge-sharing and building on the ongoing work, we decide to carry out the following concrete actions, by taking the lead or contribute on a voluntary basis as appropriate, recognizing that each member might not contribute to all areas.
This page was last updated June 23, 2017.
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There are a few changes that have been made to the qualifications for the Earned Income Credit. This credit helps those taxpayers whose income is under a certain amount (listed below) and typically have dependant children living with them. Some single people may qualify as well.
The following paragraphs explain the changes to the credit for 2008.
$438 if you do not have a qualifying child.
You have more than one qualifying child and you earn less than $38,646 ($41,646 if married filing jointly), You have one qualifying child and you earn less than $33,995 ($36,995 if married filing jointly), or You do not have a qualifying child and you earn less than $12,880 ($15,880 if married filing jointly).
The maximum amount of AGI you can have and still get the credit also has increased. You may be able to take the credit if your AGI is less than the amount in the above list that applies to you.
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Atheists, and non-Christian Believers alike. Please do read this article, it should appeal to you. Take it whole heartedly. God wants us to be believers of him.
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https://birdchirp.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/god-wants-us-to-be-living-examples-of-faith/
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Waymo wants to make sure you never get sick in self-driving cars.
A patent application published Thursday from the self-driving arm of Google's parent company detailed an elaborate system to prevent motion sickness in its vehicles.
The method involves determining routes that could minimize motion sickness. For example, sensitive passengers would be given a relaxed ride on gentle roads. Those people who are more in a rush could select a faster but slightly rougher trip.
The application describes how an alert could be pushed to encourage passengers not to look down or read during the trip. Passengers more sensitive to motion sickness may also be referred to specific seats in the vehicle where they're less likely to feel the effects.
Waymo would examine how severely the vehicle accelerates and sways back and forth to determine the likelihood of motion sickness occurring on a certain route.
An image from the Waymo patent application details options that may be given to passengers.
The patent states a car could adapt its driving style if a passenger reported feeling uneasy. This could result in leaving a wide gap between it and the car in front of it or switching to a less congested street to avoid stop-and-go traffic.
Waymo, which plans to launch a self-driving service for the public in Arizona later this year, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Autonomous vehicles have been hyped as an opportunity to allow people to do work while commuting, but passengers will need to be comfortable.
Waymo isn't the only party interested in addressing motion sickness. In January, University of Michigan researchers received a patent for a wearable headset that flashes lights to prevent motion sickness in vehicles.
In November, an Uber patent application published online described a system of lights in its vehicles that would alert passengers of upcoming turns.
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Sister Dear is the first of Laura McNeill’s books that I’ve read and she blew my socks off. An amazing story filled with drama and suspense, Sister Dear was a page flippin’ story that I’d easily recommend to anyone who loves suspense books. The characters are so well written and even the bad guys have likability. That, to me, is the sign of a great writer.
Nothing is more unjust than a person being punished for a crime they didn’t commit, but that’s exactly what’s happened to Allie Marshall. Determined to prove her innocence and gain back her life, she’s digging up secrets that other people want left buried. Never underestimate the love a mother has for her child and the lengths she’ll go to in order to protect that child.
Family should be strong and those are the people one should be able to count on. Too often, that’s not the case. When everyone else is against you, when no one else believes you, family should be the ones you can count on. Sister Dear rocks the familial boat and tells the tale of betrayal to the nth degree.
I received this book from Thomas Nelson Publishers and the Fiction Guild in exchange for my honest opinion which I’ve provided here.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — Umno leader Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz voiced today his support for PKR president-elect Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, regardless whether or not the Port Dickson MP will succeed Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as prime minister.
Speaking to the press at Parliament today, the Padang Rengas MP stressed that he has always been a “friend and supporter” to Anwar, even during the incoming prime minister’s darkest days.
“I support Anwar Ibrahim. I’ve always supported Anwar Ibrahim. If he becomes the prime minister or not, I support him. I’ve always been his friend.
“As I’ve said, when he went through hardship, I still supported him even though at that time, I was a minister and I didn’t leave Umno,” said Nazri.
He also told the press that he attended Anwar’s daughter and Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah’s wedding.
When asked about the possibility of a unity government between Umno and Pakatan Harapan, Nazri said that nothing was impossible.
“You see, politics in Malaysia is very fluid, dynamic and moves all the time. We can’t say today this shouldn’t happen and all that. A lot of things we didn’t thought of happened. So nothing is impossible. We’ll just watch and see. That’s all,” said Nazri.
However, he also made it clear he will never leave Umno.
Nazri acknowledged that he has been skipping Parliament because he needed some time to get used to be on the other side of the fence, as he has been part of the government since 1995.
“It’s a transitional period and I’ve been in the government since 1995 when I first stood for elections. I’m trying to adjust myself to be an Opposition, but you know, it will take some time.
“But I think I will participate in debates, contributing positively to any bills which I feel I support,” he said.
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Don't blink. You might miss another jump in oil prices.
Crude has spiked 14% in just the past three days, ending Friday at a 17-month high of $51.68 a barrel.
OPEC breathed new life into crude this week by shocking skeptical Wall Street with an agreement to cut production for the first time since 2008.
The OPEC decision marks a significant shift in the Saudi Arabia-led cartel's two-year price war against U.S. shale. Investors are betting OPEC's decision to stop flooding the world with oil will ease the supply glut that caused prices to collapse in the first place.
"OPEC made a very serious and very credible cut. The market got all it could have hoped for from OPEC," said Michael Wittner, global head of oil research at Societe Generale.
Doubts had been growing about OPEC's ability to reach a deal, causing oil prices to plunge just before Wednesday's meeting. In the end, oil spiked 12% on the week, the biggest weekly gain since 2011, leaving oil prices at nearly double their 13-year low of $26 a barrel from February.
The good news for drivers is prices at the pump remain low, at least so far. The average gallon of gasoline fetched $2.16 on Friday, up from $2.13 a week ago, according to AAA.
Related: OPEC raises the white flag in battle with U.S.
So how high will oil prices go?
Anthony Starkey, energy analysis manager at Bentek Energy, an analytics and forecasting unit of Platts, said crude could range between $50 to $60 a barrel in the first half of next year.
However, Starkey said the rally's "sustainability is sure to be questioned" as investors wait to see whether OPEC adheres to its own production limits. The cartel has a mixed track record, at best.
Even former Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi on Friday said, "We tend to cheat," according to Bloomberg.
Wittner put it this way: "We need to see OPEC deliver."
The other force that could limit oil's rise is the wall of American shale oil just waiting to be pumped now that prices are higher. In many ways, OPEC's decision to cut production reflects a recognition that this new competition from the U.S. can't be drowned with cheap oil.
In fact, U.S. producers have emerged stronger and leaner, allowing them to pump at prices that were once too low.
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Head coach RPBL – Jr. Orioles American League 12U. Runner-up 2017. Development of Coaches’ Clinic in 2018.
Assistant coach RPBL Rangers 11U Travel A Team. Competing in HCTBL.
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There are so many threads that we'd love to keep at the top of the forum to show how important, informative, or just plain fun they are - but just not enough room to do so.
I hope this will help our old and new forum members to find what they are looking for more easily, but it is by no means an exhaustive list - so don't forget to use the search-forum feature if you don't find what you are looking for here.
No better or worse than all those other scammers out there, but these had the audacity and the lack of good judgement to spam THIS poetry forum!!
Useful advice about how to start writing those poems that just won't come out - you know, the ones that ring the doorbell then run away.
This is a fantastic thread of poems - step in and play.
This one is an epic poem!
Can you converse in verse?
Can you make a poem out of a newspaper clipping?
This is a w.i.p - I'll be adding to it.
Here, I'll be putting links to the best of the poetry-related threads that appear in other forums.
We know you love poetry, but do you love love poetry?
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Read the wise words. . .
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One focus is the contribution of the basal ganglia and cerebellum to the learning, planning, and online control of tasks such as rapid aiming and reach-to-grasp.
A second related focus is the learning and retention of internally generated versus visually triggered movements in people with Parkinson’s disease.
We are also examining stability of gait across the lifespan and in people with Parkinson’s disease, and we are initiating a clinical gait assessment program.
Another focus is collaborative work in which sequential performance and bimanual control are being examined in children with developmental coordination disorder.
The purpose of this project is to examine learning and retention after 3 weeks of practicing four fundamentally different motor tasks. Funding: NIH Grant NS 43733-02.
The task is to let go of the ball at the top of the ramp, make contact with the blue button and pick up the ball in the green target area. Subjects practiced this task at home and were tested weekly in the lab for performance and retention. Changes in performance are based on number of successful interceptions and kinematic measurements using a dual Northern Digital Optotrak 3020 Camera System.
This study was designed to examine the effect of regular exercise on speed of information processing and specific types of cognitive processing in older adults. The purpose is to test the selective improvement hypothesis (Kramer et al, 1999), which states that exercise in older adults positively impacts executive cognitive processes but does so in a task-specific manner, specifically benefiting those processes mediated by frontal lobe functioning. We found partial support for this hypothesis; we also found that cognitive processing was not related to fitness level. Funding: Iowa State University Research Grant.
One of the tasks in this study is reaction time that varies in complexity. Another task that is known to require executive processes of the frontal lobe is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, but is not speeded. This task was not affected by exercise or fitness level.
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which people with Parkinson’s disease plan a movement sequence as a group of movements, or whether the overall approach is more segmented. Changes in performance were measured using the Optotrak system. The goal of the task pictured is to move as quickly as possible to a series of targets. The results indicate that people with Parkinson’s disease do not use feedforward anticipation in a manner similar to young or older neurologically healthy adults.
The purpose of this project is to examine changes in stability in older adults while engaging in cognitive processing. One primary measure of gait that we are utilizing is gait harmonics.
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This square is called Angels Around the World, with four angels standing on the center circle. Bonnie Pierce did a wonderful job writing the pattern clearly and concisely, but I really had to pay attention to get every part crocheted correctly!
I’m glad that I have made a few Daisy Flower Crochet Chairty Squares, because the construction was similar. The angel skirts and bodies are crocheted as joint rows with the background and then the angel wings and heads are added with separate lengths of yarn. There are about ten ends to tuck in for one six inch square!
The Lacy Bullion Heart square was the easiest square out of the bunch. The center of my heart has a spiraled look, which doesn’t show in the sample picture. Next time I will chain-one more loosely; that might fix the swirl look.
I added the ‘2008’ after sewing the heart to the black square. Even though I pinned and basted the heart on the background, it wasn’t centered very well, so I added the date to balance the square out.
I had to eliminate one or more rows from each of the squares to get exactly six inches across. Even with a size E crochet hook, I could never get the correct gauge. Red Heart Super Saver runs a little thicker than other worsted weight yarn and I’m guessing that was part of the sizing issue.
I made the Grannyesque Headband with random tan wool I had from my stash. The yarn was bought by my grandmother, so I’m guessing it’s Mill End yarn. There’s no label to go by, anyway.
The headband pattern is so easy, with granny shells and triangular ends. My favorite part were the ties, which are written into the border. I love patterns that start and end with the same length of yarn!
Here’s a picture from the garden. I like how the light bends around the petals. I wonder if there’s a ‘rule’ in photography not to have a strong line end in a corner. The stem angle looks off to me, now that I look at it.
According to the Thai solar calendar, the color associated with Wednesday is green.
I attended the winter music concert for the local high school today. The kids did an amazing job and I really enjoyed hearing the strings. I love watching the bows bounce across the violin during a performance. Plus the kids played a song called the Regal Overature and part of the song required them to pluck the violin strings. The other sing titles I remember are Procession for a New Day and Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. All nicely done.
When I was at the school I got a chance to chat with a little five year old I formerly babysat and she graciously tried on my two finished Soley Granny Squares Hats for me. I wanted to see if my sizing estimations were correct. When she put the smaller hat on her head it was clearly too tight. She looked up, then leaned close and whispered to me, “My head is too big”. That little girl is still the cutest! Unfortunetly I couldn’t get a photo as my batteries died on me.
I must have taken too many pictures of these chairs from the band room. I just thought the handwritten numbers were interesting. The little purple message is also informative.
I spent half of high school in Massachusetts and ‘yeat’, or for added emphasis ‘yeat da bun’, was a very popular swear word to write on school property. The word was banned from school vernacular but it was inked on bathroom stalls, etched into wood desks and written anywhere else conceivably possible. The origin and meaning of the word was not obvious and I remember a few debates as to what the word literally meant. The school newspaper even had an article on the word once where the author attributed the word to horse dung. The article about ‘yeat’ from the online Urban Dictionary doesn’t mention horses though. Has anyone else heard of this slang word?
Stay tuned. The next post will have more of Crafty Christina‘s Soley Granny Squares Hats!
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I know everyone is tried about hearing about what I am learning about when I study Catholicism. I did win on my test with selecting the right pope. Almost a mouth ago, I was reading online about Catholicism and I knew about Catholics not eating meat or only eating fish on Fridays. I was curious way. I remember my freshmen year, when I would eat lunch with a friend who was Catholic about how she would always make a fuss over the dinning hall not catering to her need. They had a fish option but it was always fried and the salad bar was terrible.
As I was doing some research, I came across abstinence in the Catholic church. I had been curious about fasting. I have fasted a few times myself during Lent but brushed it off and never really knew what fasting meant in religious terms.
A brief history: Before Vatican II (the last council of the Church), Catholics were required to abstain from any type of meat on Friday. As a form of pence to remember Jesus’ death on the cross. Meat is now allowed on fridays but abstained from during Lent.
The article that I am reading talks about giving up something good for our spiritual benefit. It also talks about how we are suppose to do some other form of penance if we do eat meat on friday. What are these pence(s)?
Personally, my reason is to allow my body a day of rest from meat even though I rarely eat meat because I can’t afford it (unless it’s turkey meat; I do have ground turkey and chicken cubes in the freezer). I feel like tonight, since I had pizza that my abstinence would not be valid. Since that is something good and it was vegetarian.
This has been my four meatless friday and it’s felt good except for the pizza which has caused my stomach to hurt but other wise good. During morning prayers, which was rudely interrupted by a power outage and my faculty partner calling, I was thinking about Christ’s death and way this practice on not eating meat came into play. Such as when I made my lunch last night, I could have had turkey on my sandwich but chose to go vegetarian which was onion, cheese, and tomato. Maybe I am doing my meatless friday as doing something good such as for spiritual reasons or just letting my body has a break from meat.
It’s almost 11, I am suppose to be getting in bed, and going to sleep but everything seems to be pulling me in every direction.
I have three test this week. Something that I have forgotten exist in the college world. I have done this before and very thankful that my only busy week on this semester is at the start. I have decided not to plan meetings with friends for coffee (unless I really need them) or that thing called excise. I might be skipping my yoga class on Wednesday for some me-time/ study time.
It’s an amazing class and I love every minute of it. I have a confession to make, I attended my first Mass last week and went on Sunday night again. The first time, I totally had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had done some reading online before hand on kinda what to except since Catholic churches scare me. I have really good friends who are Catholic and are super friendly but going to church was little nerve racking. I made it and I feel guilty for sitting the last pew but wanted to be able watch other people around me. After having my fears reassured and seeing a very familiar face in terms of my old English professor. I don’t think he noticed me but I might have been watching him throughout the service since he was in my line of sight (not in a creepy way, more in a observing people around me way). I was able to locate my Roman Missal and was able to pick up the difference between Lutheran liturgy and Catholic liturgy both are extremely similar just some word changes and possibly different meanings (not really sure). I enjoyed the hymns, the sermon, the chanting, and the bells during the Eucharist. I sat in the pew quietly during communion with my hymnal (singing along) since I am not allowed to take communion. Over all the experience was great, it just raises some questions on my own faith. Another confession, I have been discerning since the end of the summer about my own faith. I had already been doing a ton of research online about the Catholic church and the Lutheran church. It’s difficult since I have started to question my own Lutheran upbringing and it’s very complicated and upsetting at times.
Enough on that, Hebrew is going well and stressful mostly because we have our first test. It has become slightly rewarding since I can now pick out words and make somewhat of an attempt to sound them out. I spend most of my time being wrong. Except for getting perfect score on the first quiz.
Modern English Grammar has also been hit and miss. I am starting to pick up on little things that I do in my writing and make an attempt at correcting. I have gotten all the assignments right so far. My professor made us take a pre-test the second day of class so that we can see where we are at the end of the semester. I don’t think that I did very well.
American Lit is very interesting. My professor is amazing and I haven’t talked yet because I have this fear that whatever comes out of my mouth is going to sound stupid compared to his amazing insights. The girl, who sits next to me, showed up for the first time in three weeks. She came the first week but hasn’t shown up the rest of the semester. She just sat there the entire time and watched me take my usually four pages of notes. She also asked about the exam on Friday (one of three grades) and was still confused when I tried to explain to her what was going on.
I am also still working in the lab which my hours got cut so I am only working eight hours more like less then eight hours. I have to log eight hours because the professor I work for is worried that department might say something if he is not using the entire budget that has been set aside for student workers like the ten other people and I.
Doing a ton of reading and got Margaret Atwood’s new book which I am excited to read at some point.
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Still known to millions primarily as the author of the The Lottery, Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of new interviews, Shirley Jackson—an exploration of astonishing talent shaped by a damaging childhood and turbulent marriage—becomes the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary giant.
She kept it up until the end, sending her literary bombs unerringly to their targets, then standing back to watch them explode.
Ruth Franklin hit a home run for me with her comprehensive biography of the amazing Shirley Jackson. If you’re a fan of Shirley’s work, this is a must read. After reading this, I am more enamored with Shirley than I already was. She went against the grain in so many ways, and it was a pleasure to step into her world.
Franklin was granted access to many fascinating letters written by Shirley and her husband Stanley, which provided a truly intimate reading experience. Through the correspondence, we gain insight into their rocky marriage, as well as Shirley’s tenuous relationship with her mother, Geraldine. Reading this biography allows for a deeper understanding of many of Shirley’s works – whether it be humour or horror, Shirley wrote what she knew.
One of my favourite parts of the book comes in a discussion about Shirley’s humerous book about raising her children, Life Among the Savages. Franklin goes on to illustrate how much Shirley’s kids loved this book, displaying the book jacket in their kitchen and endearingly dubbing it Life Among the Cabbages.
Shirley was a woman who struggled greatly in her short life. She struggled with her relationships to her husband and mother, with her weight, financially, with household tasks, with her role was a working mother, and with her eventual agoraphobia. As a mother who works outside of the house in an anxiety ridden and fast paced world, I can relate to many of these challenges.
This is a detailed biography that does sway from the narrative at times, but I found all of those moments to be worthwhile. This book has a well deserved place alongside of Shirley’s on my shelves.
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When posts are tall, a light palette minimizes their height.
You can immediately tell that poster beds proportionally fits better in bedrooms with high ceilings. Large bedrooms with 10-foot ceilings can easily handle four-poster beds with large, chunky posts. But when posts are slender, a tall four-poster bed doesn't overpower a room with 8-foot ceilings when you don't load the room with other chunky furniture. To check if the posts are too tall for the ceiling, simply measure the tallest post and compare that to the ceiling height measurement before assembling the bed.
A large bedroom with 10-foot ceilings easily accommodates a tall poster bed with heavily carved posts with room for a to-scale dresser and vanity. Four-poster beds in dark woods, as with mahogany or walnut, don't have a heavy appearance in a large bedroom with high ceilings; but if ceilings are lower, a dark, four-poster bed with slender posts is less imposing. The clearance above the posts is not as important as the clearance in the room. Leave at least 56 inches of space in front of the bed, so the bedroom has proper traffic flow and room for additional furniture.
In small bedrooms with lower ceilings, light colors makes the bed less visually dominate, especially when it is painted in white or a pastel color. Whitewashed flooring can also visually expand and enhance the space. Poster beds in light woods are less spatially dominating, allowing light walls, flooring and drapery to lighten the room. Furnishings and decor are subjective, rules don't really matter if you like the look -- as long as the bed doesn't scrape the ceiling. But if it looks overcrowded in the room with its tall posters grazing just beneath the ceiling, it might just be too tall and imposing for the room.
, Anya. "How to Tell if a Poster Bed Is Too Tall for the Room." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/tell-poster-bed-tall-room-101344.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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This brand new book by a beekeeper and gardener with a lifetime of experience is a great addition to any gardener’s, wildlife enthusiast’s, or beekeeper’s library. Whether you just want to help out struggling native or honeybee populations being decimated by colony collapse disorder, or you are a food gardener who wants to attract pollinators, or you are a beekeeper, this book is the go-to reference guide for bee-friendly gardening. Other species of pollinators will benefit, too.
Author Peter Lindtner has been head horticulturist at the world-renowned E.I. DuPont Garden at Hagley Museum, the original site of the DuPont company, for more than 30 years. I know Lindtner. He live lives a few miles away from where my family lived in Delaware. His daughter is friends with my sister. Lindtner is a Czech immigrant, while his wife is a Hungarian immigrant, so our families have a shared ethnic history. His daughter helped him with computer and internet-related book tasks.
Buy the book from Wicwas Press. Amazon has a “Look Inside” feature for the book on its Kindle edition page.
A flowering wild prickly pear cactus on the way to Prescott, Arizona at around 5,500 feet elevation. What a gorgeous sunny Arizona day!
All prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.) have edible pads (nopales in Spanish) and delicious fruit. Each fruit variety tastes a little different. Prickly pear cacti grow wild across the Western U.S. There are many species, and they hybridize easily in the wild. Purchase varieties suited to your microclimate(s) at a native plant nursery or collect seeds or root cuttings of plants collected nearby. Domesticated varieties with small spines are from Mexico; domesticated nopales and fruit are sold at locally owned grocery stores in Arizona.
I have a couple of safe canning recipes for prickly pear juice that I created in The Natural Canning Resource Book: A guide to home canning with locally-grown, sustainably-produced and fair trade foods.
Cochineal scale insects (Dactylopius spp.) parasitize prickly pear cacti. They produce carminic acid, a red dye, to deter being eaten by other insects (carminic acid does not taste good to other insects). Carminic acid dyes protein fibers (wool, silk, soy silk, milk fiber). Cochineal insects are found from South America through Central America and up into North America as far north as Colorado. Flagstaff, Arizona, where I live, has a wild cochineal species living at 7,000 feet.
Commercial dried cochineal insects and pure cochineal dye extract come from Dactylopius coccus, a species domesticated by indigenous people in Central America hundreds of years ago.The domesticated species produces more dye per unit of weight than wild species do, plus the insects themselves are much bigger than wild ones are, so you need fewer of them. However, the wild ones are perfectly usable for dye, too.
Photo: Sheep grazing in a Flagstaff-area ponderosa pine forest. Northern Arizona University Special Collections call no. NAU.PH.84.1.78.
Just like we all have a foodshed, we also have a fibershed. Do you know the history of fiber agriculture in your area? Did farmers grow cotton, flax or hemp? What varieties? Did they raise fiber animals? Which breeds? Are there farmers today who still grow fiber crops or raise fiber animals in a small scale, humane way? These questions and their answers are necessary to relocalizing sustainable economies.
Sheep ranching was one of the Flagstaff area’s first export industries. During the summer, flocks would be herded up into the San Francisco Peaks and other mountain areas. in the winter, the sheep would graze at lower elevations in the ponderosa pine zone. Many of the first sheep herders were Basque immigrants from northern Spain. Basque bumper stickers can still be seen on vehicles in Flagstaff today.
Adapted from Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A guide to high-altitude, semi-arid home permaculture gardens.
It’s snowing today, so I am reminiscing about summer. This is Sasha in a barrel planter with a trellis growing cucumbers. Permaculturists design garden ecosystems in which every element has a minimum of two functions within the ecosystem. More functions lead to higher yields and a greater level of garden self-maintenance.
And, no, the cats are unable to get anywhere near the hummingbirds. The hummingbirds are way too fast for them.
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Twig + Tale has released their new pattern this week – a men’s and women’s Forester Coat. I had the great opportunity of sewing up the jacket pre-release and although my husband possibly owns more clothes than me, it was a great opportunity to finally sew him something of substance beyond slippers and PJ pants.
Hee hee, it still makes me giggle thinking of this photo shoot as it was 35C (in April!) so we followed the shoot with a swim to cool off! I’m looking forward to the cooler weather, one of these days, to see this gorgeous coat on this gorgeous man in action.
This pattern like all Twig + Tale patterns doesn’t let you down. Plenty of features for you to choose from including the sleeve tabs featured above, detachable hoods, welt pockets, back belt (see below) 3 ways to close (snaps, buttons or zipper) and a nestle-down baby-wearing add-on! Where were these patterns when my cuddlies were babies!
My coat was made from a woollen Glen Plaid and it is lined giving it a professional finish. Oh, I forgot to mention the awesome hidden pocket for phone or sunnies!
A final option is to sew a wind flap over the front opening which, in my opinion, transforms the jacket from casual jacket to tailored coat.
This is not the first jacket I’ve sewed so it came together pretty well – there are just a squillion pieces to cut out which takes a lot longer than the fraction-of-the-size kids sewing pieces I usually work with! My husband has broad shoulders so we chose a size to suit those and then had to take in a fair bit on the arm and bodice widths; and possibly could have come in a bit more, but with the current fit there is room for a jumper underneath.
If you’ve never sewed a coat before feel confident choosing a Twig + Tale pattern to guide you. Lisa leaves no questions unanswered and includes a bunch of video tutorial links to really clear up any of the tricky parts.
It looks pretty good. He looks good in it plus the cap.
What a great looking coat. No one would know it was handcrafted if you didn’t tell them!
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Blueberries thrive in Mediterranean climates.
You can never have too many blueberry bushes (Vaccinium corymbosum). These compact shrubs with their dark-green foliage are attractive almost all year round, but it's the berries that win our hearts. If all the crispness and sweetness of a summer morning could be contracted into one fruit, it just might be the blueberry. Perfect with breakfast cereal or topped with whipped cream for dessert, blueberries are also rich in vitamin C, antioxidants and fiber. If you have a few blueberry plants, you can propagate others from suckers, those vigorous shoots that arise from the blueberry's roots. .
Dig out the soil around a sucker that has been growing for at least two seasons. Use a small trowel or fork to dig until the root area is exposed. Take care not to wound the sucker or the root it shares with the parent plant. Act in early spring for best results.
Clean a sharp knife or garden clippers by rubbing a cloth dipped in denatured alcohol up and down the blade. Cut the sucker from the parent plant with a clean stroke, taking a good section of fibrous root along with the sucker. Cover the parent plant's exposed root with garden soil.
Prune the sucker to remove any parts of creeping, underground stems that are attached to the fibrous roots. Trim the shoot or shoots of the sucker by at least half.
Plant the sucker as you would a blueberry bush, placing its roots into acidic, well-draining soil in a sunny location. The soil in the new location should come up to the same level on the sucker as in its prior location. If planting more than one sucker, space them 3 feet apart for a hedge, or 4 to 5 feet apart for freestanding bushes.
Water well and mulch with organic compost, taking care not to allow the mulch to touch the plant. Water regularly during the sucker's first growing season since its roots are limited until the plant establishes.
It's easy to identify suckers; they are new shoots that grow from the ground within a few inches of the parent plant. The amount of suckers a blueberry shrub generates differs among varieties.
Blueberry suckers typically have a small root and long, vigorous shoots. If you do not trim back the shoots when you are planting the sucker, the root cannot sustain the shoots and the new plant will die.
North Coast Gardening: Blueberry Taste Test! Which Ones Taste Best?
Spengler, Teo. "How to Plant Blueberries From Offshoot Suckers." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/plant-blueberries-offshoot-suckers-49288.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.
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Numerical modeling techniques are being designed to simulate the response of composite vehicles subjected to blast, impact, and crash loadings. The approach is based on a meshless peridynamic scheme incorporating progressive damage processes, solid-solid contact and solid-fluid interaction mechanisms.
Quasi three-dimensional woven composites that improve the delamination resistance and energy absorption capabilities, while maintaining adequate in-plane properties of structures.
A laboratory-based "shock tube" is available for physical simulation of high-energy impacts and crash loads.
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By the time we got around to playing Rhapsody, Disgaea was out and making waves in the SRPG world. It focused attention on Nippon Ichi Software, the developer of both titles. We decided to play their SRPGs roughly in the order made. Rhapsody offered insight into future games by NIS.
Every SRPG aficionado has reason to be knowledgeable of Rhapsody. It was the first SPRG foray into North America for NIS. But “knowledgeable” does not mean one has to log hours playing, because the target audience of this game is 11-year-old Japanese girls.
While there is nothing wrong with that, we can hardly think of a less promising demographic in terms of North American sales forecasts. Before internet games and independent publishing fully bloomed to widen the spectrum of players, we have to wonder what was going through Atlus’ mind when they decided to translate and import this Japanese game.
Despite its incredible femininity, we still played in hopes of an enjoyable tactical experience irregardless of juvenile content. NIS has many devoted fans out there. Analyzing this game started us on a journey which eventually told us whether or not this fan base was fully justified.
Check out this impressive, professional looking sculpture.
The design of Rhapsody built atop standard RPG traditions more than many other SRPGs. Overall look and environments stand up well or better than most similar titles on the PlayStation. The camera looks down upon a 2-D painted world for most interactions but sometimes lowers to eye-level.
There is some cosplay out there regarding Rhapsody’s lead character, the Puppet Princess herself, Cornet.
Lead Character Cornet’s cornet Sound Byte: There is a lovely 10 second sound byte in which Cornet plays her horn. It has stayed with us as pleasant and memorable. A pleasing soft sound. A minor thing really, but it makes our list. Hear it below at TIME INDEX 3:16.
Soothing Background Sounds: The stylized background music, not the vocal singing numbers. The former were enjoyable if slightly puerile. The latter, we will leave to you in the “Good and Bad” section.
Quality, Lots of Quality: There is a decent amount of content in this game. Some of it you may like; some of it may make you gag. However almost all of it is high quality. They developers seemed to care greatly about this product and did not let junk pass muster.
Nice sprites. Microscopic, but nice.
Apparently girls play SRPGs in decent numbers in Japan. In other countries they watch the Kardashians… ugh.
Nippon Ichi set the bar very high in every visual category (but special effects). Artist Yoshiharu Nomura crafted a series of good-looking characters including humans, puppets, and animals. His designs, whether your taste or not were of excellent quality. His portraits take a backseat to none.
The backgrounds were one of the first things that caught our attention. Having experienced many games on the PlayStation, we were pleasantly shocked by the rich, verdant painted backgrounds. Lush forests, colorful buildings and an overall texture that seemed lifted from the pages of a painted storybook. We do not know where all those colors came from, and have to wonder why other PlayStation game environments did not quite match up.
The menus were and text boxes were well done and readable with subtle transparency. The colors chosen for highlighted grid squares worked well. Once again, all this under the constrictions of the PlayStation.
Puppets… are your Weapons: It is an interesting enacted concept. In this game a party of puppets are amassed instead of a crew of people. It fits the property, and the puppets have some personality, but it may not be everyone’s cup of tea.
Myao does not look much like a bad guy.
A Quick and Efficient Combat System: Button presses and combat decisions are quick and easy. However the combat system is shallow. As deep as an 11-year old Japanese girl might like.
Musical Numbers: Broadway style singing and dancing is almost never in a video game thing. Rhapsody is the reason we have to have “almost” in that sentence. Many people who played this game recall these numbers fondly. Though we did not care much for them, they were well done and in some strange way fit this game. Review the clip below if you choose, and make your own determination.
Explore Your World: Like in many standard RPGs, towns are combat free zones to be explored. Rhapsody adopted this well and it was mechanically sound. However we would have preferred interaction with shops and townspeople to have more substance and interest.
Failure of Message: A great pitfall in any video game when a player gets the point of saying, “I just don’t know what to do next.” Then they proceed to wander around aimlessly, draining there desire to play, and goodwill towards the game. In our opinion it went beyond the occasional missing of a clue.
Not only is Crowdia cosplayed well here, but also… Burdy?
Static Experience: We have no need to pull punches and deliver our analyses as we see them. You can play this game for two hours or twenty hours, but aside from some inane story elements and characters your experience will change very little.
Get a Compass: One reason people play SRPGs as opposed to RPGs is they enjoy streamlined navigation. There is a world map and there are locations of interest. There is not a lot of wasted time or movement. Rhapsody got us lost in senseless mazes like caves. Save it for RPGs please.
These caves were so much fun! *This statement not approved by the Truth Squad.
That was Random: Abuse of the random encounter can destroy the enjoyment of a game. Final Fantasy Tactics limited them to stops on the world map. It was tough, but fair. It seems Rhapsody can lapse into a random (and meaningless) time-sinking encounter every time we sideways scroll to another screen. Ugh.
Yup. Stuffed sidekick cosplay. Burdy.
The (lack of) Tactics: This is a strategy role-playing game. Sometimes called a tactical role-playing game. Note the words “strategy” and “tactical”. We know the combat system was simplified for the target audience, but we saw little progression and got tired of mashing. An 11-year old Japanese girl might too.
Pretty, but also pretty flat. There were no elevation decisions.
Maybe you can explain to us what is fun about wandering around, lost in a maze, and subjected to random encounters? You have to keep exploring to find your way through, but every bit of exploration done opens up another random encounter. That was not fun. That was the opposite of fun.
If judged solely on art and overall quality, Rhapsody is an excellent game and portends good things for NIS. However once you factor in design and content choices, the future becomes more muddled. We learned just about all we were going to after ten hours, and without the enjoyment factor there was no reason to play on.
Okay, so we like happy endings. We would recommend Grandia (PSOne). It has more well rounded appeal and is a better game overall.
It is a 99.9% certainty that 11-year-old Japanese girls, or even an 11-year-old American girls are not reading this analysis. But if they were, we might, might recommend this game to them. But to everyone else who enjoys this genre, you can do better than this shallow experience. That is of course unless you are looking for Broadway style numbers.
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This entry was posted on April 16, 2008 at 22:47 and is filed under wishlist. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Cookie time. I try my best to get business names down as accurately as possible, but this one wins. I gave up. Kelli’s Cookies, Kelli’s Best Inc., Kelli’s Best Cookies, Kelli’s Gourmet Cookies. Who knows. Short of calling up and talking to Kelli myself I don’t think I will ever find out. At any rate, these cookies are crazy good. For a long time I’ve driven past the storefront on Douglas (just west of Royer Park and the creek) and seen the sign claiming “Best cookies on Earth.” A bold statement, but now that I’ve had them, I’m not so skeptical. I mean, still though, you’d have to have tried every single cookie on Earth to make such a claim, which I suspect would be an impossible task, but I digress.
I popped into the Douglas location (they also have a shop within the Fountains near a fire pit in the center) on Friday afternoon and had a look at the display for a while by myself until the nice woman in the back finally noticed me when she turned from her work, bagging up cookies. Here they bag each one individually, and my favorite part, on the back of each one is a sticker that says what kind it is along with the ingredients. Now that’s convenient. In addition, the bags have some sort of heat-seal applied to a strip just above the cookie itself, locking in the moisture. I just opened my last one here on Monday night and it was as fresh as if I bought it this evening. Anyway, I bought a dozen and got a mix which worked out perfectly because they have exactly 12 types aside from their gluten-free cookies. The are $2.50 each or $25 for a dozen. That probably sounds like a lot, and it kind of is, but A: they’re really good; B: they last longer than your typical cookie because of how they’re packaged; and C: they’re BIG cookies. 1/4lb each. I’d say they’re worth it.
Many of these I gave to friends so I can only comment directly on a few, but they were all fantastic. Even flavors that I wouldn’t typically get. I’m a simple guy, I like my chocolate chip cookie and that’s about as far as I normally go. All the cookies I tried were soft as if they were baked just hours earlier (possible for the 1st one I suppose). I found the chocolate chunk cookie to not be as sweet as I expected, which was not at all a bad thing. Whenever I think of buying a single cookie I think Mrs. Fields, and those are really sweet, like for the sake of being sweet. This was sweet simply because it happened to be a cookie (this probably all sounds ridiculous, but it’s how I’ve been thinking about them). It let everything else speak for itself. The brown sugar was very present right alongside the chocolate chunks. It was great with or without dipping in milk.
Another one I tried was the chocolate rainbow. This was a super dark, rich chocolate cookie with M&Ms on it. It was seriously rich, milk was a requirement. Fantastic though. The Snickerdoodle was much more tame in comparison and it’s flavors more delicate. This is normally not a cookie I would get myself, but I enjoyed the pieces I had while sharing it with some friends. Finally, tonight I opened up the White Chocolate Mocha. Another dark, rich cookie, this one had white chocolate drizzled across the top. I find coffee flavored things to be hit or miss usually. This was great. The coffee flavor was not particularly strong, it was just enough to remind me that it was a mocha cookie. I loved the white chocolate on top, which was fairly thick.
I didn’t think I’d say so much for this post, I mean, they’re cookies. Go try one. Now here’s a bunch of photos.
I love their cookies! One of the best ‘undiscovered’ places of Roseville.
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There is a series of blog posts that I wish I’d written. They are well-thought, well-sourced, and persuasive. They are friendly to truth, but not friendly to tradition. They will be troubling to those unable or unwilling to distinguish between the two.
GOD’LINESS, noun [from godly.] Piety; belief in God, and reverence for his character and laws.
1. A religious life; a careful observance of the laws of God and performance of religious duties, proceeding from love and reverence for the divine character and commands; christian obedience.
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We’re closing out another busy graduation season at Miller Auditorium! In addition to hosting Western Michigan University’s Commencement three times a year, Miller also hosts many community graduation ceremonies every year.
Local high schools we host annually include Mattawan High School, Gull Lake High School, Parchment High School, Hackett Catholic Prep and Portage Northern High School. Miller also hosts Commencement ceremonies for Kalamazoo Valley Community College twice a year and an annual graduation ceremony for the WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. That’s a lot of great grads crossing the Miller stage every year!
This past weekend, we hosted over 1260 grads for WMU’s Summer Commencement Ceremony. The weather was perfect and it was a wonderful day for new grads to celebrate with their families and friends. We send a special congratulations to all the grads who walked across our stage to embark on the next stages of their respective lives and we wish them the best of luck in all their future endeavors!
We recently announced our current 2016-17 Lake Michigan Mailers Spotlight series, which, together with our previously announced PNC Broadway series of Dirty Dancing–The Classic Story on Stage, The Book of Mormon, RENT, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella and Motown the Musical, completes our current list of 2016-17 Miller season events.
Peppa Pig Live!: Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 @ 6 p.m.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas: Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016 @ 8 p.m.
MercyMe: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016 @ 7:30 p.m.
Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 @ 7 p.m.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet: Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 @ 7:30 p.m.
Little River Band with special guests Ambrosia: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 @ 8 p.m.
Annie: Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 @ 7:30 p.m.
DRUMLine Live: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 @ 7:30 p.m.
Menopause the Musical: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 @ 2 p.m.
And this is just the beginning! As in seasons past, we will continue to add great new shows throughout the season and the best way to hear about them first is to join our Miller e-club.
Interested in tickets? A few shows (New Edition, Dirty Dancing and Peppa Pig Live!) have single tickets available now, but all shows can be purchased as part of a PNC Broadway subscription or by being a Friends of Miller member. Subscriptions can be ordered online at http://www.millerauditorium.com/subscribe and you can contact the Miller Ticket Office with questions at (269) 387-2300. Group tickets are also available for all shows with your group of 10 or more people via (269) 387-2312. Here’s to another great season and we’ll look forward to seeing you at the shows!
The 70th Annual Tony Awards aired on CBS last night and this annual celebration of Broadway showcased the amazing array of entertainment now playing in New York City and across the country on tour. Host James Corden, of The Late Late Show, helmed the three-hour plus ceremony and kept Broadway’s biggest night consistently engaging.
In honor of the Tonys, some of the Miller Auditorium staff gathered for a Tonys watch party in our Edward Jones VIP Lounge. There were Tonys-themed games and cheers when our Miller 2016-17 Broadway season commercial aired.
The big news of the night was Hamilton. The hit Broadway show made history with 16 nominations and ended the evening by taking home 11 Tonys including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton star and mastermind, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Celtic Woman is coming back to Miller Auditorium! In case you are not familiar with this amazingly talented group, here’s what you need to know.
Even though the name is Celtic Woman, it is actually a group composed of four women. Over a decade ago David Downe, musical director of Riverdance, joined forces with producer Sharon Browne to create Celtic Woman. Since that time the cast of women has changed over years, but what hasn’t changed is the beautiful quality of their music. Today’s Celtic Woman is Máiréad Carlin, Susan McFadden, Éabha McMahon and Máiréad Nesbitt.
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Star Wars Uncut is the brainchild of Casey Pugh, a developer dedicated to creating new and fun experiences on the web.
Working as a developer at Vimeo, Casey became interested in using the internet as a tool for crowdsourcing user content.
Star Wars Uncut is the product of 2 years of hard work for Casey who wanted to test the appetite for creating a crowd sourced movie.
Rather than create a film from scratch Casey broke the first Star Wars film down into 15 second segments and asked the general public to make their own favourite segment of the film. The results are in and the final edit is now available to view online.
If you love Be kind Rewind you’ll love this. Very lo-fi but none the less entertaining.
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This post marks somehow special. My first post on here with my trusty BlackBerry Z10. For all of you that grew up with Samsung and Apple. BlackBerry used to be a super cool brand and was a business tool. Until it went down and got lost some where.
But I think right now we see a new BlackBerry and the devices come back with superb features.
Check out BlackBerry and spread some live for this iconic brand.
I had a Blackberry 20 years ago. It finally died in 2009.
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