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Salon Swagger, located at 201 Summit Ave E on Capitol Hill, is a laid-back, neighborhood establishment for EVERYONE. Our experienced stylists offer high quality services that will put the swagger back in your step but won’t leave your pocket-book empty.
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International ransomware attack currently spreading out to thousands more computer systems. Read MoreContinue Reading...
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UK SMBs are low-hanging fruit; and for cybercriminals, they’re ripe for the picking. It’s not a question of ‘when’ they will be struck, however ‘how typically’ Read MoreContinue Reading...
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A harmful program called KillDisk, which has been used in the past to clean information from computers throughout cyberespionage attacks, is now securing files and asking for an uncommonly large ransom. KillDisk was among the parts associated with the Black Energy malware that a group of assailants utilized in December 2015 to strike a number […]Continue Reading...
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Cyber-criminals appear to be entering into the Christmas spirit, with one group offering ransomware victims who plan to pay a festive discount rate of more than half the original cost.Security vendor Forcepoint found the seasonal campaign from the black hats behind the CryptXXX ransomware variant.Whereas the group typically charges victims 1.2 Bitcoin( $1040 )to obtain […]Continue Reading...
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Android users in the United States are the target of a ransomware campaign that hides its harmful software behind the appearance of adult-themed Android apps.The project has actually spread out a pressure of the Koler ransomware to Android gadgets across the country by fooling targets into downloading a fake app developed to appear like an […]Continue Reading...
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Congressman Garamendi Joins Local Labor & Business Leaders in Celebration of New Job Training Program in Vacaville
FAIRFIELD, CA – It was a good day for workers and employers in Solano County yesterday at the grand opening of the Sheet Metal Workers Apprenticeship Training Center in Fairfield. It is a partnership between SMW Local 104 and local contractors, funded through their joint Bay Area Industry Training Fund. Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA), a long-time champion for apprenticeship programs, was honored to deliver remarks at the ceremony to congratulate Local 104 and their partner contractors on the opening of the facility.
“This is a great opportunity for men and women to learn a trade that will provide them with a solid middle class income as members of the Sheet Metal Workers Union. For men and women willing and able to put in the hard work, there are still a lot of opportunities for a rewarding career, but it often requires training from skilled experts in the field. Apprenticeship programs help Americans looking for work secure the rewarding jobs already available in our economy,” Congressman Garamendi said.
“The Sheet Metal Apprenticeship Training Center will help a lot of workers in our region gain hands-on experience in their field, improve their craft, join a strong union, and connect with employers,” Garamendi added. “These are also green jobs, helping to make buildings more energy efficient as we address the challenges of climate change. We need a lot more programs like this to create a better deal for American workers and make the promise of the American dream a reality.”
Increasing access to apprenticeship and workforce training programs is a key plank of the Congressional Democratic Caucus’s “A Better Deal” vision for America.
About the Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 Apprenticeship Training Center
The state-of-the art training center for Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 and Bay Area contractors recently completed the development of three additional training labs, increasing instruction capabilities for service, testing and balancing, and welding using cutting-edge instructional aids. It originally opened in 2014 as one of four centers in the Bay Area to train apprentices in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) services and repair, sheet metal fabrication and installation, and architectural welding.
To perfect their craft, sheet metal apprentices will work 6,500 hours with four different employers before “turning out” (graduating) from the program. This will make them a tremendous asset for employers who face precise installation standards. The program is especially important for Solano County now because almost half of all journeymen in the field will reach retirement age over the next few years.
According to the California Public Utilities Commission, the HVAC industry has been identified as key for energy reduction goals in California. Half of the energy costs for an average U.S. household come from air conditioning. This training facility is filling the need for skilled workers who create, manufacture, install, and maintain energy-efficient HVAC systems.
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I’m not gonna lie, I have been bullshitting about doing a Calendar of my paintings for a long, long time. I’ve even tried to get other artists to work with me and do a collection of paintings for Calendar too, and no dice. There are so many good themes to do one with and I am lucky enough to had done enough art with a movie theme to put something great together. So this is it, I’ve been working on the graphics in what little free time I had since summer. And I am hoping people respond to it well. Maybe it’ll be a new tradition to knock one out every year at this time. But that is up to you guys.
So here is the Holiday plug… If you know someone who is in to classic cult movies like “Vacation”, “Back to the Future” or “Three Amigos” and want to give them something truly unique for Christmas, this is your gift. Especially if it is someone who doesn’t shut up from quoting “Anchorman”, “Caddyshack” or “Ghostbusters”, this is the gift for them. I put together a collection my paintings mixed with some movie tie-in graphics for each month. Each painting has been inspired from my favorite movies, some I grew up watching as a kid and know religiously, as well as some new favorites. The size of the Calendar is 10″ wide by 18″ long, and has a black high quality spiral binding at the top. I didn’t F around with this, it is just like something you would by in the store. I’m really proud of how this came out and if this is your thing, I think you would really enjoy it.
Ordering is easy, follow this link, or just email me at [email protected]. They are $25 each plus tax. And shipping is $5 bucks anywhere in the country. And if you order multiple I’ll cut you a deal, just ask. Thanks for checking it out and let me know what you think!
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I read a little article the other day. In summary, a bunch of pro-abortion supporters have planned a protest to protest against a protest in protest against abortions.
Maybe read it a couple of times.
Anyway, this made me think.
Firstly, it doesn’t need me to make up a silly sentence to show that the protest seems a bit daft – they’re literally protesting against a protest. That’s like unions striking in protest against the unions who are striking. Pro-life campaigners protest because they disagree that abortions should happen so easily, whereas these guys seem to be protesting because they disagree with the pro-lifers’ opinion…if that’s a sensible course of action we might as well all spend every day protesting!
Secondly, what they’re protesting against seems silly. At the top of the article there’s a picture, and the caption quotes someone they clearly disagree with; MP Nadine Dorris has proposed that 13-16 year-olds should be taught the:
benefits of abstinence from sexual activity.
Now, please feel free to accuse me of being a prood, but what’s wrong with that? At the age of 13-16 sex is illegal, so teaching the benefits of not breaking the law would seem to me to be a sensible idea! It’s like teaching under-18s that not drinking alcohol has benefits. Yes, drinking alcohol can be an enjoyable activity, as can sex, and neither MP Dorris nor me is suggesting that alcohol or sex should be banned from society, but that doesn’t seem to be that controversial to me.
Well, anyway, if you fancy protesting against a protest, or against teaching people that keeping the law can be a good idea, then be my guest.
I won’t be joining you.
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I was listening to some unusual Blues Music from the New York Times article about Elvie Thomas. Great old and mysterious Blues.
I was drawn to this Vintage Paper Texture from StockVault and I added a Woman's Portrait in Corel PhotoPaint. I flipped and cropped the Woman to fit the Texture. I also used the Threshold tool on it for transparency.
I went to my Dover Publications Samplers and selected a Butterfly coloring page and added it. I fitted it to the portrait making it an oval instead of a circle.
I merged the three layers, and went to Filter Forge's Photo Effect Lomography settings and played around with the settings. I found one I liked and applied it to the full image. I added my signature in white and saved that large iteration.
I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3 and upped the Saturation Vibrancy by 33. Then I added Image Information: Title, Programs used, Source, etc. Saving that I resized for display here.
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Kitchen.
The restaurant was fairly large and was very bright and modern. Once it filled up with the Kensington locals it had a pleasant buzzy atmosphere.
The only menu available was the set lunch priced at £29.50 for three courses. Unusually for us though we struggled to find anything on there that really excited or wowed us. During Sunday lunchtime the option of the slightly more varied a la carte isn’t available which was a shame.
No amuse bouche was offered which was a pity but the white sourdough bread was scarily addictive and some of the finest I’ve ever tasted! I wolfed down three large slices of the stuff!
I opted for the only starter that had a supplement (£2) which was confit loch duart salmon with pea bavarois, minted potato foam and citrus crumbs. It looked attractive and was a pretty solid dish; soft salmon, strong pea and a subtle potato flavour. It didn’t set my world on fire however. It wasn’t hot which was a shame as I think that would have made the whole thing more enjoyable.
My gentleman companion opted for the fricassee of Cornish mussels with mousserons (a type of mushroom) and hand rolled farfalle. The pasta was perfectly made and perfectly cooked but the accompanying sauce was far too salty, so much so that it was rather un-enjoyable. The mussels were soft and tender though so it wasn’t all bad.
The only main that took my fancy also happened to have a supplement (£3) which was roast rump of lamb with homemade mint jelly, roast potatoes, carrot and swede mash and cabbage. It was served in lots of little dishes which seemed a little cumbersome on the table; once I’d arranged it all on one plate I felt it had a much more appealing appearance. For a Michelin starred restaurant I had hoped for something a little more exciting/technically challenging than a roast but my God was it the best roast I’ve ever had. The lamb was a glorious shade of pink and was soft and succulent. The mint jelly was sweet and had an almighty thump of minty flavour. The roast potatoes had the desired crispy coating and fluffy centre and the gravy was rich full of meaty loveliness. I haven’t enjoyed a plate of food that much in a long time.
My gentleman companion had food envy as he tucked into his escalope of organic salmon with new potatoes and sprouting broccoli. It was good but nothing to write home about. The salmon was coated in more of those citrus crumbs that featured in my starter which gave it a little bit of texture. It was salmon, potatoes and broccoli cooked well; a safe dish that you might cook at home.
Still feeling rather hungry we decided to share a cheese course (£7.50). Some Tunworth, goats cheese and Stilton were all pleasant enough if not a little un-inspiring. They were the type of cheeses you might find on a Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference cheese board; pretty bog standard.
For dessert I opted for the lemon posset with blueberry compote and lime ice cream. The compote’s sweetness helped cut through all the acidity but the tartness from the posset and lime ice cream was totally overpowering. So sharp it made my eyes squint and my bottom clench. The posset hadn’t completely set making it runny underneath, like a soup.
My gentleman companion had the winning dessert; bitter chocolate pudding with salted caramel ice cream, praline and lime. The chocolate cake was in no way sickly yet it was pure decadence. It was drenched in a chocolatey caramel sauce which was ‘mmm’ inducing and totally luscious. Lime shavings over the top brought a freshness that really lifted the dish.
Service during our lunch was really charming and we couldn’t find fault with any member of staff. I think we simply would have enjoyed the whole experience more if we’d visited when the a la carte menu was on offer. We found the food a little hit and miss and it lacked any real excitement that we may have hoped for. That said, it was the best Sunday roast I have ever had so I’m bloomin glad we went!
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Successful or not, if you attack a ship, you are a pirate… and you will be convicted. Period.
A federal jury in Virginia this week convicted five Somali men on piracy charges for their role in 2010 attack on the the USS Ashland, ending a landmark case that challenged the United State’s definition of piracy on the high seas.
“These defendants are headed where they belong: to federal prison,” said George Venizelos, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office. “Let this send a clear message of deterrence to anyone who threatens those who traverse the high seas.”
During the attack on April 10, 2010, the five Somali men chased and fired upon the amphibious dock landing ship, USS Ashland, that they had somehow mistook for a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden. The attack was quickly “handled” by the heavily armed crew of the Ashland, who then apprehended the suspects and sank the skiffs.
During the original trial, lawyers for the defendants argued that since the pirates were never successful in boarding or robbing the Ashland, the piracy charge should be dismissed… and it was. Prosectors appealed in pursuit of the piracy charge and, as it turned out, a similar case was making its way through the federal appeals court in Virginia that involved another unsuccessful attack on a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Nicholas, where the pirates were convicted on piracy charges and sentenced to life in prison.
The appeals led to a May 2012 ruling by a federal grand jury on the definition of piracy on the high seas to include any attack on a ship even if unsuccessful, and uphold the convictions and life sentences in the case of the Nicholas attack while remanding the case involving the USS Ashland back to court.
The five men were later charged in a second superseding indictment that was filed on August 8, 2012.
“These men were pirates—plain and simple,” said Neil MacBride, a U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case. “They attacked a ship hoping to hold it ransom for millions of dollars. Few crimes are older than piracy on the high seas, and today’s verdict shows that the United States takes it very seriously.”
The five men are scheduled to be sentenced on July 1 and July 2, 2013. The maximum sentence.
The following are the names of those convicted:.
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“Why Don’t We do this?” Sanchin-Ryu Karate’s Frequently Asked Questions Part 1
If you have been reading through some of my past articles, you will see that there was a pattern of some of the “whys” we do things in Sanchin-Ryu. For example, we have talked about why we don’t compete, the role and use of forms and kumite. In this article, I want to break it down past the philosophical things we do and talk about specific techniques we see a lot of times in other martial art styles (or even through media, such as TV/Movies and Sports competitions). In every aspect of our lives we have tradeoffs. We need to weigh the risks vs. the benefits of these things and determine if it is worth the risk by what we have to gain by employing such a tactic.
We are going to talk about some of the more common things that we may have seen or have been asked about by our students or wondered ourselves. We will talk about the risks vs. the benefits of these techniques and then look to our Sanchin-Ryu toolbox to see what we have in place of that tool and how to apply it strategically from our forms.
Full Twist Punch:
The stereotypical “karate punch” that every new student to Sanchin-Ryu thinks that they will learn. The punch is usually chambered at the hip, with the palm facing upwards (just like getting ready to throw a basic san). From there, the punch is thrust outward and the fist turns over as it extends outward so just prior to impact the fist has fully rotated over so the palm is downwards facing the floor. The thumb is usually down to wrap around the first two fingers. The point of impact is still supposed to be the top two knuckles.
Strategically, why don’t we use a punch like this in our studies? First, in Sanchin-Ryu we train to be close-in and try to keep our opponents close to us. The twist punch is designed as a thrusting action and using this punch to the solar plexus will cause an opponent to move back out of range and given a chance to reset and attack again. Second, look at your own body for a second…how many spots does that fist configuration really fit into? In Sanchin-Ryu we use the angle of the fist to best fit into vulnerable spots on the body, and also the best to manipulate our opponent without having to drive them away unnecessarily. Basic ichi and san, are configured to fit right into the area under the xiphoid process and attack the solar plexus for us without driving the opponent back. Basic shi and reverse shi gives us the chance to thrust a punch into the opponent and get manipulation of the spine by using the vertical axis, so the opponent stays in place instead of being driven backwards.
Physically, is one punch better than the other? Let’s begin by doing a basic exercise just with the thumb placement. Go up to a wall and make a fist with the thumb down and around the first two fingers. Placing your fist flat on the wall, allow the wrist to buckle and attempt to let the top of your hand touch the wall and see how far your wrist bends. Now, attempt the same thing again with a proper Sanchin fist and see how far the wrist will bend. By placing the thumb on top, as we do in the Sanchin fist, we see that it moves some internal structures around to solidify the hand and wrist to make it more stable for impact while punching.
Moving on to the vertical fist position vs. the palm down position, let’s examine the bone structure of the forearm and how that impacts our structure during a punch. The forearm is made up of two bones; the radial bone and the ulna bone. The bones are thicker at one end and thinner at the other (although, overall the radial is the thicker of the two), which allows them to rotate around each other so you can rotate your hand from a palm up to a palm down position. Connecting these two bones is something called the interosseous membrane. This is a band of connective tissue that runs the length of the bones and helps to disperse force equally to both bones. When executing a vertical punch, the membrane is tight and both bones are stressed equally when contact is made with the punch. When you turn the palm over, the membrane collapses and does not offer support to allow the bones to twist over and complete the action. When you make contact, all of the force causes the bones to bow outward and if enough force is given, it will cause them to break. You can examples of this happen all the time when someone extends their hand out to catch themselves from falling. The forearm is put into a bad structural position allowing to break easier. Also, the musculature of the forearm is comprised of pronator and supinator muscles (fancy way of saying muscles that turn your palm over). Again, when the forearm is in a vertical position, both sets of muscles are allowed to flex and stabilize the forearm equally, but when you turn the palm completely over, one set of muscles has to relax to allow the other set of muscles to contract. This means that not only are you relying on one bone to support the punch, you are also now relying on one set of muscles to support the punch.
Lastly, let’s take a quick look at using the top two knuckles as opposed to the bottom three knuckles that are advocated by some systems. Just looking at your knuckles you can quickly realize that the first two are larger in size and able to absorb more impact and align themselves better with the forearm. When you land with the bottom three knuckles you are much more likely to break a bone in your hand (it happens so frequently when punching wrong that it is known as a “boxer’s fracture”). If you land with the bottom three knuckles in a horizontal position you are putting all of the impact stress not only on the smallest bones in the hand, but also this puts all of the force on the ulna , which is the smallest of the forearm bones.
When we take a look at all of the factors, we can start to see why the vertical punch was chosen for it’s practicality and structural integrity.
Hook Punch:
First, let’s define what a hook punch SHOULD be. The hook punch, is one of the main tools in the sport of boxing. To execute it correctly, the arm should be bent at a 90 degree angle, with the forearm parallel to the floor (for a head shot). Power is achieved by rotating the whole body into the punch using a twist of the shoulders and hips, and is a close range weapon. Many times we see “hook punches” that aren’t really close in, but seem to be long range weapons. These would be referred to as “swings” in boxing lingo, and are more commonly called “roundhouse punches” or “haymakers”.
We’ll examine the physical aspects of the technique first before we address the strategical considerations later on. There are two schools of thought on whether the palm should be held in a vertical or horizontal position when throwing the hook. Either way, you are striking with the middle and bottom two knuckles when you punch. In the sport of boxing this is okay because you hands are wrapped and gloves on them so hand structure can be at sub-optimal deployment and the glove will still transfer the energy into the target and protect your hand. When you are attempting this strike in a self-defense situation, you don’t have the luxury of hand wraps and gloves to protect the bones of your hand. There is a high likelihood of breaking your hand on your opponent’s jaw when using a full force punch. If our goal is to protect ourselves, it stands to reason that we would want to protect ourselves from techniques that put us at risk of injury as well. This goes for the longer version (haymakers) as well, due to the long arcing path that the punch has to travel to get to the target.
Strategically, the idea of the hook punch is okay. It allows us to create opportunities to end the situation quickly. But, how can we utilize this strategy, while still protecting ourselves from injury? Well, let’s do another quick experiment before we answer that question. Go to a door and open it so you can stand where the door would be in the middle of your body (nose to belly button), turn your stance and body at about a 45 degree angle (a diagonal seisan stance). Bend your arm to a 90 degree angle and raise it so your arm is parallel to the floor. Find your distance and touch the door as if you were making contact with a hook punch (don’t worry too much about what part is making contact, this is a distance exercise). Now, without moving your stance; pull your arm back and bend the arm into a basic go position. Again, extend the arm towards the door and what do you find out? Yep, using your elbow in the same exact manner will give you another 2-3 inches to strike the target. PLUS, you are hitting with a very hard surface and don’t have to worry about injuring your own hand/arm when striking in this manner. When we examine CBA Ichi-Ku, we see this idea first introduced of using our elbows to “hook” into the body and take out the ribs.
Now let’s look at the other aspect of working around an opponent’s guard. We first start to explore this idea in our CBA’s as well. Really start to work your CBA Ichi-Roku thru Ni-Hachi with how we are using the hammerfists and shuto strikes. By using the high chamber of those strikes it not only can be used as a deflection of an incoming strike and clearing our own path. It also can allow us to be outside of the opponent’s guard and creating a new angle of attack for us. Get a mirror and play around with putting your hands into a “I don’t want any trouble” position. Now, lead with the elbow inward and shoot the hammer or shuto straight in from there and notice that if an opponent’s hands were trying to protect the front of the face it allows us to get to the temple and jaw very easily. As you advance in your studies, exploration of the ridgehand will also give you more tools of attacking to the side of an opponent’s guard and gives some different opportunities for spinal manipulation as well.
High Kicks/Jumping Kicks:
Another frequent thing that the public sees and wonders why we don’t use them, is the idea of using high spinning kicks and jumping kicks to the head area. As any of us have been around long enough, our junior students love to emulate the kicks they see on TV and wonder when we will unleash the temple secrets of these tools.
Strategically, when we look at Sanchin-Ryu as a whole, we embrace the idea of once contact is made with an opponent we want the distance very close. Using these types of kicks violates that number one strategy of our art. We would need a lot of space and distance to jump into an opponent or try a spinning kick to the head. We do kick to the head in Sanchin-Ryu, it’s just that we bring the target down to the proper range of our kick (meaning that they will be bent over or laying on the ground). We must also take into account, environmental considerations. Most fights occur in crowded places or in the street. We can’t account for what the terrain is going to be like and the likelihood of it being uneven and littered with junk is a big risk to take to jump or give up balance to that extent (I won’t go into what percentage of the year in Michigan is spent snow covered and an added risk). Needless to say, we want our kicks to be lightning fast and to a lower target where we don’t compromise our balance or structure to lift a leg that high. When we look at jumping we are giving up all of your center to our opponent and once committed can’t change the tactic once it is employed. You are fully committed to jumping at your opponent, and once they move that is it you can’t change strategy until you land and regain your balance.
Physically, our legs are not designed to be used in that manner. If you look at masters of arts that do rely on these types of high kicks, you will find that it is NOT uncommon for them to have hip replacements and/or knee replacements. You will also see the same thing with other artistic endeavors that put the legs through motions they were not meant to be used in, such as gymnastics or ballet. How many “old” ballerinas or gymnasts do you see out there? The body can only handle so much abuse before it stops working. Our hip joints are designed to have a bit of flexibility out to the side (laterally), but they are mainly designed for walking and running forward and climbing up hills/stairs. When we extend the leg out to the side it starts to damage some things inside the hip joint that will eventually cause permanent injury. If our goal is self-defense, again, why are we doing something that puts our own bodies at risk? In Sanchin-Ryu our kicks are designed to work the way our body was meant to work and not against it, this allows us to enjoy our study of Sanchin-Ryu well into our advanced years without worry of damaging it. So, in the mean time, we will keep those kicks in the natural range of motion so it does not put undue stress on the joints and cause problems down the road.
Roundhouse Kicks:
These are the types of kicks that are popular in the mixed martial arts competitions that everyone seems to use. If thrown properly and landed, they are a powerful tool using the shin bone as the striking weapon. So why don’t we use them? Physically, we aren’t putting ourselves at risk for injury too much so that isn’t really a concern. It mainly comes down to strategic concerns.
Strategically, due to it’s arcing motion, they require a bit of space and distance to use properly. Next, is it requires a whole body commitment that does not allow for a good follow up, or fluidity of technique. To counter this kick, use your star step as you move into the arc of the motion, this dissipates the force and also hurts the attacker’s striking limb. These kicks are great in a sporting competition because in sports you aren’t allowed to target the knees or groin. They are also good, because in sports, you have that jockeying for position where you probe your opponent’s defenses looking for an opening. This is something we don’t have the luxury of when protecting ourselves for a street attack. In a self-defense situation, these are the exact targets that we chose to exploit to protect ourselves and get out of there safely. Due to our chambering position of our kicks it allows us to instantaneously respond to a changing situation. For example, if we are stepping into our opponent and they try to disengage our leg is already chambered for a basic ni kick. Or vice versa, we get ready to throw the kick and the opponent attempts to close the distance, they run into the star step and we are still in control of the situation. Round kicks don’t allow for these changes in distancing.
In this article, we have attempted to address some of the things we may have wondered about. Explore your basics and find OTHER uses and ways to strategically employ them to enhance and maximize your knowledge and use of them as tools. Also, there may be other drawbacks that were not addressed, our goal was just to hit some of the bigger ones. When you see a technique we don’t use, there is a good reason for it. Start to look at it strategically and find it’s weakness. Then look at your Sanchin-Ryu and find a tool or technique that can exploit that weakness to keep control of a situation. In this way, you are truly making Sanchin-Ryu your own personal study and making it yours.
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Error Clarification: My wife is an RN and pointed out that it is the RADIUS bone and not the Radial bone (which is one of the nerves in the forearm) as I called it in the article.
I’m a stickler for detail, so I wanted to correct that.
Thanks for looking out for me Tia!
An excellent read. Thank you for taking the time to explain those differences we find between some of the more popular movie gimmick martial arts and our own. Very informative and a great reason to work on our own personal form while practicing. Sanchin-Ryu more than protects us from an opponent. It protects us from ourselves.
Take Care and God Bless,
Chad
Does Davison still have a class?
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Many adults love poop jokes, so kids won’t be left out from the toilet humour with this particular title.
The premise of this Hasbro game, for ages 4 and up, is real simple – each player takes turns to flush the toilet and the last player left who doesn’t get sprayed wins! Raise your hands of any of you have ever lost the game in real life before!
Out of the box, the toilet comes in 4 loose pieces, which snap together really easily. But as with many of such toys, it’s a one-time assembly, so you won’t be able to break it apart again for packing away, unless you intend to break it!
Once assembled, fill up the toilet bowl with water and start flushing the toilet several times continuously, until it starts spraying water.
Each player takes turns to face the toilet bowl, and spin the toilet paper roll spinner, which will end up pointing at 1, 2 or 3. This number will indicate how many times the player has to flush the toilet. Think of it as a toilet version of Russian Roulette, but with a slightly more disgusting premise.
If the player only hears the flushing sound, he’s safe. But if the flushing sound is accompanied with a gush of water sprayed in his face, he’s out. The last player standing with a dry face wins the round.
The overall make of the toilet is sturdy, holds the water well with no leaks, and sprays water with decent finesse. You know, if you’re into that sort of thing. The spinning toilet roll does its job well and spins as intended, in place of a dice roll.
The only gripe I have with it would be the flush handle implementation. For some reason, the handle tends to get partially “stuck” at random intervals, and requires additional strength to push down, which results in a loud click sound as though something broke. At first I thought it had something to do with how the mechanism builds up water pressure in order to spray the water out. This would have been a real bummer as that would mean players could tell when the toilet is about to spray.
However, after multiple tests, the loud clicking and handle resistance turned up randomly. This dulled the fun factor quite a bit, especially when my son had difficulty pressing down the flush handle whenever this happened.
All in all, due to the simplicity of the game, even my 3 year old son could play it (even though it’s meant for ages 4+). There are no small parts, so its real safe. And even at 3, he already knows to avoid placing his face in front of the toilet bowl after seeing it spray for the first time!
Alas, I can only foresee kids playing 1 or 2 rounds of this before moving on to the next activity. It gets old pretty quickly. Afterall, it’s just a toilet bowl that sprays at random.
Maybe I can add some juice to the tank and aim for the mouth……
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A wide range of GPS information on the Sandia Mountains is available for downloading from this web site.
Most of the GPS data was recorded with a Garmin GPSr (GPS receiver), but the download files are available in four different formats: Garmin Mapsource, Google Earth, GPX, and G7toWin.
Appendix 3 in Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide lists 354 GPS waypoints in the Sandia Mountains that are referred to throughout the book. To go to the Waypoint Download page, click here.
A GPSr is capable of recording a "track" as you take a hike. Such a trail track might save several hundred latitude / longitude pairs that are recorded every 50 feet or so as a log of exactly where you have hiked. I have recorded trail tracks for all of the 57 trails in Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide. These trail tracks (in the four different file formats listed above) are available for downloading. With the proper software, for example Garmin's Mapsource or the G7toWin program) you can then upload a trail track into your GPSr. Then, as you hike that trail you have a GPS trace of exactly where the trail runs (for example, in case you have ventured off of the trail or have taken a wrong turn). To go to the Track Download page, click here.
If you have a Garmin GPSr with mapping capabilities we have a nice contour map of the Sandias that you can upload into your Garmin GPSr. The map includes tracks of most of the trails and roads. To go to the Garmin Contour Map Download page, click here.
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Even though Oscar upsets can sometimes be extremely infuriating, I do have to admit with an awards season full of super predictable results, I kind of look forward to a few Academy Awards Show shockers. Here’s a look at 10 of the biggest Oscar Upsets.
Roberto Benigni over Ian McKellen for Best Actor- 1999
This has got to be one of the worst Best Actor winners ever. Sorry! Ian McKellen is so dang good as James Whale in Gods and Monsters, he even makes Brendan Fraser look like a great actor. I will also accept Nick Nolte in Affliction as the winner. I will never accept the fact that Life is Beautiful is a great film. Or that Roberto Benigni was once America’s sweetheart.
Three 6 Mafia Over Dolly Parton for Best Song- 2006
As much as I love Dolly, I have to admit this was one of the more amusing upsets. It certainly wasn’t hard out there for a pimp in 2006. Dolly should win an Honorary Oscar for her genuinely enthusiastic response to their win. I love her so much.
Tommy Lee Jones over Ralph Fiennes for Best Supporting Actor- 1994
I like Tommy Lee Jones. He was perfectly great in The Fugitive. But seriously? Ralph Fiennes was friggin’ unbelievable in Schindler’s List. This guy does evil so well, it’s kind of scary that I find him so attractive.
Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas for Best Picture- 1991
Don’t hate me but…can I confess that I kind of can’t stand Dances With Wolves? I would rather watch Waterworld or The Postman. Okay, maybe not The Postman. Goodfellas, however, I watch pretty much every time it’s on, even if it’s already halfway over. I miss Joe Pesci before he became a caricature of himself.
Marisa Tomei over Everyone for Best Supporting Actress- 1993
This victory was so shocking that everyone assumed Jack Palance had read the wrong name. I’ve liked Marisa Tomei in other things, but I’m not a fan of her performance in My Cousin Vinny. Personally, I think Vanessa Redgrave should win every time she’s nominated. But maybe that’s just me.
Crash over Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture- 2006
OMG. This has to be one the first times I was truly pissed off by an upset. Brokeback Mountain haunted me for days after I saw it. Crash did not leave me haunted, despite that fact that it tried so damn hard to make me feel something.
Bob Fosse over Francis Ford Coppola for Best Director- 1972
If this was a Fosse win for All That Jazz, I might be okay with Coppola’s loss. What can I say, I LOVE that movie. But Cabaret over The Godfather for a directing award? That’s an offer the Academy should’ve refused. Sorry, I hate myself already for writing that.
Gwyneth Paltrow over Cate Blanchett for Best Actress- 1999
I hate this upset. HATE IT. It just doesn’t seem fair that someone who went on to found a twee website, named GOOP beat a woman who went on to play Kate Hepburn and Bob Dylan. NOT FAIR AT ALL!
Juliette Binoche over Lauren Bacall for Best Supporting Actress- 1997
I love me some Lauren Bacall, but I have to say, I was kind of happy when Juliette Binoche won for The English Patient. I’d rather Bacall not win at all, than win for The Mirror Has Two Faces. I don’t want that to be her defining role.
Carol Reed over Stanley Kubrick for Best Director-1968
Stanley Kubrick should have an Oscar for directing. We can all agree on this, yes? So how about this year? I mean Oliver was good and all, but it’s not one of THE GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME. Just sayin’!
Desi Jedeikin
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Carl?
Of course it is good to catch mistakes in reporting. But we need a lot more critically intelligent coverage of research and science as an institution and more public analysis of the relationships between science and government, science and the owners of the economy, basic science and technology development for profit, science and the military, science and society, etc. etc.
I'm afraid that blog attacks on errors of fact are really a way of suppressing science journalism. For journalists, errors are very serious in part (but only in part) because they give the Censor -- CEO, politician, scientist, police chief, lawyer, doctor, general -- a club to beat you to death with. Surveillance is constant the the club is wielded relentlessly every day.
Censorship is very widely distributed in our society. Every company president, university president, deputy minister, etc., spends a large part of the day ordering his or her staff to spin, suppress, divert or undermine honest attempts at reporting. Newspaper publishers spend a good deal of their time suppressing coverage of their activities and decisions! The space for genuine coverage without censorship, suppression, threats and harrassment in Canada today is very narrow.
Anonymous says,
I'm afraid that blog attacks on errors of fact are really a way of suppressing science journalism.
What a strange think to say.
What are we supposed to do when we discover that an article by a science journalist misrepresents the science?
If it turns out that most of the articles by science journalists are bad then this is a critique of the entire field. The solution is for science journalists to get their act together and start producing better material.
Do I want to "eliminate" bad science writers? You bet I do.
What's your solution?
Jim asks,?
I think it represent a lowering of standards. There were always bad papers being published but they usually didn't appear in the major journals. Today we have a different situation. There are lots of really horrible papers being published in Nature and Science.
Even graduate students in journal clubs are able to see the flaws in these papers. Apparently the reviewers missed those flaws.
I don't know why.
Any thoughts?
I think scientists and all scholars should:
1) Demand free inquiry and free expression for the non-academic writers and editors who work for them in their universities. Demand institutional journalism of integrity and accuracy, even when it challenges your claims or uncovers things about your institution that you do not wish to see revealed.
2) Demand that the print media assign teams of reporters to cover universities on a day to day basis and science on a day to day basis. Demand the same of broadcast and new media outlets. Disinterested coverage + critical analysis of research results, programs and institutional and disciplinary developments. Every day and intensively.
3) Reject Quirks & Quarks and Daily Planet gee-whizzy PR programs. Demand critically intelligent coverage and analysis.
4) Demand that journalism schools mount training programs for people with undergraduate and graduate degrees in science so that they can be trained to step outside the social control of Science and cover research (results), whole programs as they emerge and Science, institutionally, as a whole, intelligently and critically, particularly in its relationship with the state and the owners of the economy.
5) Comment publicly on your colleagues' work and their PR efforts when they make false or exaggerated claims about their work and/or its importance. Researchers, like artists, can be expected to talk up their own work. But journalists should be skeptical, to say the least, of promotion. There aren't many Darwins or Picassos out there and even great scientists go wrong.
6) Understand that Science goes where the money is. Yes, there will always be a few important reseachers and thinkers who follow their own muse, but scientists, like almost everyone else, migrate toward resources. Or, rather, the availability of jobs and research money draws researchers. The decisions about where to put that money are made by politicians and others based on their ideologies. Science as an institution is dependent, not independent.
7) Further, understand that, in historical terms, scientists have rarely defied the politically and economically powerful. More often than not, scientists have been eagre to comply with state and corporate policies later deemed to be pernicious (or worse). Individual scientists can act with great integrity and at great personal cost, but Science as an institution is a faithful servant.
8) Correct errors of fact in journalism in the context of 1-7above. Challenge analysis and interpretation that you believe is inadequate to the facts. Defend your work in public and in print, not by censorship, suppression and PR spin.
Larry Moran said...
Even graduate students in journal clubs are able to see the flaws in these papers. Apparently the reviewers missed those flaws.
I don't know why.
Any thoughts?
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This is the puzzle to me. My experience with peer review is that they found flaws, or poorly explained parts of my papers (mind you, I have nothing in Science or Nature, so the comparison is not precise). These were not high-impact journals, but the reviews were thorough and fair. Maybe it's different at the big journals?
Whenever this conversation come up, we end up discussing;
1) "Interdisciplinary" research making good choices for reviewers more difficult.
2) Commercialization of journals. Maybe poor editorial decisions are being influenced by the "sexy science" or "controversy sells" ideas. The explosion of low end journals in recent years may also contribute, but we'll keep this discussion on the bigger, older journals.
3) Scientists are too "busy" now, and are not as careful in their peer review duties. The fast turn-around times at the journals may also speed up the process, but decrease the quality of the review.
4) We are in a bit of an information boom at the moment. I think too many people are being caught up in the excitement of the newest observations, and are clearly forgetting the past research, and failing to interpret their results in the full context of the literature.
5) Does the culture of "my research will cure cancer" thinking in grant proposals, etc carry over into our thinking of our work at the time of publication? I see more and more of this in conference presentations. And bold claims are what tend to get in Science and Nature at the moment.
This is a really important issue. I think too many people are being swept up in it to stop and notice the poor quality work that is piling up.
As to bad papers, In my field (climate) it is often a case of passing a highly mathematical paper on to the wrong reviewers. The first paper I ever reviewed had a clear error in its mathematics. However, no other reviewer spotted it and the author, a professor of mathematics, was able to convince the editor (not a mathematically inclined person) that I must be wrong (argument from authority). The paper was published as is, but it didn't take long for diligent readers to note the blunder.
I've rejected or called for the heavy modification of about 2/3 of the papers I have reviewed. This takes much, much, more time than just skimming the submission, not trying to understand the math, and giving it a pass. Career-wise, doing thorough reviews is a very bad idea.
Editors appreciate a reviewer who will do the dirty work of rejecting such submissions. The problem is that your reward is to get the next dubious manuscript sent your way. I had to decline to do any reviewing for an entire year to break the cycle.
However, our field does not suffer alone: the great chess player and author, Lev Polygayevsky (I'm sure you have all heard of him) made a similar comment about chess literature:
"In ninety-five percent of all chess books you will find so egregious an error on page one that you can with a clear conscience close the book and never look at it again"
William Hyde
Scientific American has more scientifically realistic/accurate articles than most. Interestingly, also a high proportion of them are written by very articulate scientists. (No doubt with help from the "journalists" on the editorial staff).
bay says,
Scientific American has more scientifically realistic/accurate articles than most. Interestingly, also a high proportion of them are written by very articulate scientists.
That used to be true 30 years ago but it's not true today.
Can you give me an example of a good article in a field that I can evaluate? Anything about genomes, biochemistry, molecular biology, or evolution will do. Right now I can only think of one or two article in the past decade that would pass muster. They weren't written by science journalists.
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Though the entertainment cache of the word “catfish” has now quite neatly transferred itself over to the star of the original documentary of the same name instead of the film’s directors, the original Catfish filmmaking team is still very much making movies – not television shows about often horrifying Internet lies (as much as we love said television show about horrifying Internet lies). While Nev Schulman, “accidental” star of the 2010 film Catfish, has turned his notoriety into an MTV television show, Catfish: The Television Show (naturally), which ostensibly mimics his journey in the original film, his filmmaker brother Ariel Schulman and his partner Henry Joost have gone on to more cinematic glory.
Well, sort of. Since the success of Catfish, the duo has directed both Paranormal Activity 3 (a personal favorite) and Paranormal Activity 4 (not so great); the pair is now set to turn their talents to yet another Internet-influenced property.
THR reports that Joost and Schulman will direct a big screen version of the 2012 Jeanne Ryan YA novel “Nerve.” The outlet reports that the novel “tells of a high school senior wallflower who, in an attempt to broaden her horizons, joins a global online game of provocative truth or dare while an audience of ‘watchers’ vote and comment. But as she becomes a sensation and advances higher and higher, the game evolves and soon she finds herself in a dangerous and life-ending situation.”
Jessica Sharzer has already penned the film’s adaptation. Sharzer’s current resume includes work as both a writer and an executive producer for American Horror Story (as of now, she’s penned six episodes and produced twenty-six), and while that may sound like a strange fit for a new take on a teen novel, the screenwriter also adapted the hard-hitting Laurie Halse Anderson YA novel “Speak” back in 2004. That script eventually became a Kristen Stewart-starring drama, and Sharzer’s take on the material was both compelling and respectful to the original novel.
There’s no word on when Joost and Schulman will get to work on the film, as they already have pretty full schedules as of now, including pre-production on a new thriller and an attachment to direct a new take on The Monkey Wrench Gang.
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Although initial estimates pegged Pitch Perfect 2 as the returning box office champion this weekend, it actually went in a slightly different direction.
According to the analysts at Variety, Disney’s new film Tomorrowland, directed by Brad Bird and starring George Clooney, scraped by the competition with a $32.2 million debut. Considering the near-$200 million budget put forth by Walt Disney Pictures, this is perceived as a lackluster debut for the latest from the director of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Incredibles, who also co-wrote the film along with Damon Lindelof. The story of the film, influenced by Walt Disney’s vision of a utopia exemplified by his EPCOT concept, concerns a world created so that the best minds on Earth could help to formulate a brighter future for all of humanity.
Reviews of the film may have also led to a somewhat anemic box office performance, with Tomorrowland currently standing at 49% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics, and a 62% approval rating from audiences.
In a very close second place is last week’s champion, the sequel Pitch Perfect 2. That film’s take this weekend amounted to just over $30 million, with a take closer to $37 million expected by the end of the Memorial Day holiday.
Adding to Tomorrowland‘s woes are a pretty weak take at the international box office, with receipts standing at just over $26 million in those markets. This will make the film’s ultimate profitability a more protracted road than initially thought, as analysts had expected the film to take in at least $50 million by the end of Memorial Day. That outcome is all but extinguished, now.
For more on the ongoing saga of the box office,
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In trouble with the boss… Few dare to defy global hotel magnate Zac Constantinides – he’s the boss and everyone knows it! So when his London interior designer turns out to have dug her gold-digging claws into his brother, Zac’s solution is to transfer her…to New York! Emma may have more skeletons in her closet than most, but Zac’s brother isn’t one of them. The temptation to take her impossibly arrogant boss down a peg or three is too much to resist! So whilst she’s with him in New York she’ll play the role he’s given her – and be every bit as bad as he thinks she is…
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I quite liked the story. Emma was a likeable character who saved the story for me. Zac wasn’t terribly nice but he did have sufficient honesty about himself that kind of won me round. He was reasonably decent to Emma.
The story is a similar one that has been written before in M&B (Harlequin). If you enjoy reading M&B Modern, you’ll probably enjoy reading this one, it was at least better than some of their titles this year.
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Had a great time with Mum, saw lots of interesting stuff and came away with course information on metal clay, glass bead making and stain glass making... God knows when I'll find time for them, but very inspired to have a go!
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See you soon, Sara x
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An Interview with Artist Liz CoatsSeptember, 2006
Liz Coats initially studied visual art at the Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, New Zealand. She moved to Sydney and then to Melbourne, Australia in 1974. In Australia she met with groups of women artists who were emerging professionally and linking with women artists in other parts of the world. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1977 at the George Paton Gallery of Melbourne University Union. In 1979 she traveled in Europe and the US. Returning to Sydney, she has continued to exhibit regularly, with 35 solo exhibitions, including in Australia, New Zealand and China. She has had artist residencies at the Australian Visual Arts Board studio in Tokyo and an Australian Asialink studio at the Beijing Art Academy. In 1997 she received a Master of Fine Art (Research) degree from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. In 1989 she received an Artist’s Fellowship from the Australian Visual Arts Board and in 1999 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Her paintings are held in numerous public gallery collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and the Auckland City Art Gallery. She currently has a studio in Wanganui, New Zealand where she paints full time. With Bridie Lonie, Head of the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand, she is working on a monograph on her work.
Julie Karabenick: Throughout your painting career you’ve used geometric shapes and structures to organize your work with color.
Liz Coats: From the beginning I was interested in conveying spatial characteristics of colors in pigment form. I chose geometric organization to guide the shape of the colors.
JK: And over the years you’ve explored a number of organizing strategies.
LC: Sometimes colored brush marks are organized in groups geometrically. Sometimes the organizing shape is embedded in the ground and shows through the layering. The colors and the gaps between them are always important for the shape of the image.
In my more recent pentagonal paintings, segments of color combine to form five-part geometries.
JK: Your approach gives your geometric forms a very fluid feeling.
LC: Yes. I build shape directly with color and apart from line. The emphasis is on color and how it is distributed. The fluid and shifting appearance is my response to acrylic paint media diluted in water and the way the paint settles on the various surfaces I work with, including canvas, board and paper.
For a long time I have mixed pigment colors with acrylic mediums. Working wet on wet and wet on dry surfaces, the paint spreads differently. Varying dilution and intensity in the colors encourages the white ground or colors beneath to show through. The way the gesso ground is laid down becomes as important as the colors that are laid over it. My intention is to construct the two-dimensional painting plane into a visual experience of depth and circulation.
JK: And it’s been your custom to work in series?
LC: Yes. Each new series of paintings has a similar structural theme, and I work to reinvent the color interactions.
JK: How does a series typically begin?
LC: I begin by experimenting with combinations of materials and shapes until an image comes together showing a clear structural progression.
Sometimes a simple geometric diagram will catch my eye and I will adapt it; or I make numerous small sketches that divide the square or rectangle until a spatial balance strongly attracts me. Sometimes experiments with arrangements of colors will suggest the structure.
There can be many weeks of experimentation before I am satisfied with the structural order. Then I will work with different sequences of colors within the structural outline established at the beginning.
JK: Despite the fact that you begin with an organizing structural premise, your working methods encourage variation and a certain amount of unpredictability.
LC: I’m attracted to qualities of ambiguity and visual shift within regular and repetitive forms. I look for a “live” quality to emerge in each painting. The paint applications and color interactions will to some extent be unpredictable in their detail. I do not change the sequence or adjust colors once they are laid down, so that risk is always central to my approach.
Although the structural outline is predetermined, working with the volatility of colors means that outcomes are never certain. The way hard edges appear to dissolve brings experiential concerns to the forefront—there is a broadly phenomenological aspect to my method.
JK: You were born in New Zealand, but spent some of your childhood in Australia.
LC: I was brought to Australia as a baby and began school there, before returning to New Zealand at age seven. I believe those different and contrasting early environments have influenced my understanding of spatial issues in painting and have strengthened my critical capacities.
JK: You did your undergraduate studies at the Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, New Zealand where I gather you didn’t find the art climate very supportive to making abstract art.
LC: During art school, I was not clear about a future direction for my painting. But in general, there was some suspicion towards what were called “formalist” concerns. After my initial studies, I went to live in the rural outskirts of Auckland. There I met with a local resident and abstract painter who had an internationalist perspective. He introduced me to the ideas of many US and Northern European abstract painters. He also introduced me to the Russian Constructivist artists and made the point that there were many women painters among them.
JK: You were soon to relocate to Australia.
LC: I moved to Australia in 1974, and after a period of orientation, I began to paint and exhibit there consistently. I also began to research in depth the origins and influence of abstract painting. I couldn’t have begun to work as I did without knowledge of the history of abstract painting since Mondrian and including the visual concerns of painters such as Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin.
JK: At that time, you were beginning to explore ways to infuse abstract geometric painting with more intuitive and experiential concerns.
LC: Much of the geometric color painting that I was looking at in this part of the world seemed to me to be burdened by several generations of stylistic input. In my opinion, artists were paying less attention to the material qualities of colors as paint and the temporal nature of the activity, so that their paintings had lost a certain vitality. I also felt that fresh contributions would be made by women approaching this genre.
In 1975, I discovered Russian artist and theorist Mikhail Matyushin, a friend and colleague of Malevich. Matyushin believed that it was impossible to avoid organic responses when dealing with color and light. The experiential nature of his thinking about “embodied seeing” interested me, as well as his understanding of Cezanne—that the body does not stand apart from the scene, but is immersed within it. How to express this in painting?
JK: You began to address these concerns in your first series of paintings, the Chameleons.
LC: Choosing a gridded and square format provided a relatively neutral ground for the systematic layering of colored marks. I decided to apply transparent and semi-transparent colors with small, spaced brush marks across the whole surface of the painting without backtracking or corrections. The direction of brush marks in each layer was angled to contrast with layers below, building depth in the surface, one color for each layer. Between the brush marks and the gaps, the shape of the paintings emerged.
JK: And the nature of your environment was having an impact on this work?
LC: Looking back, it now seems that all my work has been informed by the shapes and colors of the natural world, though there is no direct borrowing of images or colors. I suspect that the vast areas of eucalyptus forest along the eastern seaboard of Australia influenced my early brush work—intuitive responses to eucalyptus leaves, vertically suspended and oscillating sideways in the breeze, sparkling with light reflections after rain, and showing as filigree against the blue sky. And the colors that I favor in Australia—warm hues of pink, red and yellow—are in notable contrast to the penetrating blue-violet-silver light of New Zealand. Working in these very different environments has strengthened my discrimination of color used for structural outcomes.
JK: In your next series, the Kores, the grid asserts itself more strongly.
LC: Each Kore painting is divided into a grid of eight by eight squares, with the center four squares containing a different sequence of color layers. The square divisions become visible where opposing angles of brush marks slightly overlap at the edge of each square.
JK: And, characteristic of your work, the experience of depth was a key concern.
LC: Yes, the network of connections in depth interests me. I included many layers of different colors to achieve the desired depth and resonance within one color range. The way my eyes adjusted focus between the central four squares and the outer squares, seeking visual balance across the whole painting plane, also encouraged an experience of visual depth.
JK: The way you apply color using small brush marks also creates the structure in your next series.
LC: This painting from the Dark Water, Flowing Light series contains straight and undulating horizontal lines, and an oval shape in the middle with a different order of color layers. I was interested in ways that light fall can illuminate the shape of a painting across a surface of one predominant color in different densities.
JK: In your next series, the brush marks are less densely grouped and the structure seems more emphatic.
LC: In the Bridges, what mattered to me was the tension between the more openly spaced color marks and the embedded lines. The linen was stained in dark shades of blue overlaid with white gesso, leaving the lines and stained dots at the center exposed. The lines and dots play with visual balance against the vibrational field of colors that seems to hover across the white middle ground. I positioned the stained dots as visual anchors within the ambiguous spatial field.
JK: The individual colored marks become larger and more distinct in your subsequent series.
LC: In these larger paintings, I was interested in ways that single layers of colors in horizontal bands could settle into connective balance within the painting plane. Linear gaps in the unevenly applied white gesso are exposed as raw canvas. These lines echo the structure of the Bridges. There is also a wide circle reaching almost to the edges of the square that balances with the horizontals and verticals. Where color marks cross over the exposed lines, the “bones” of the painting show through.
During a residency in Tokyo in 1987, I made small Growing Paintings on Japanese kozo paper. The time in Japan strengthened my convictions about the way I was working—emphasizing the qualities inherent in the painting materials, developing an enlivened relationship between color pigments and ground, and allowing bodily experience to influence painting outcomes.
JK: In your large series in four parts, The Fisherwoman and the Gardener paintings, energetic surfaces are created by the interplay of colored marks and structural lines.
LC: After working on Japanese papers in Tokyo, I was ready to feature fluid color brush marks more prominently in shaping the structure of the whole painting. In The Ground and The Nets paintings, the colors are applied in horizontal bands of vertical brush marks.
In The Mirror and the The Heart paintings, the vertical brush marks are crossed by horizontal marks in one color. The gesso is applied with variable density and influences the strength of the color marks laid over it. In the Mirror and Heart paintings, symmetry becomes more pronounced, guided by the shape of the gesso ground.
I still have a vivid memory of watching a video of a traditional performance during a New Year’s party in Tokyo. Three fisherwomen were dancing in unison in front of fishing boats moored at the docks. The drift of their undulating bodies in flowing kimonos seemed to merge with the motion of invisible waves, as if calling on fish to rise into the nets. This recreated scene has stayed with me as an image of striking eloquence.
JK: In the Cicada Series, we see a change in the nature and arrangement of the color marks and in the resulting organization.
LC: Color shapes were combined in repeating sets, expanding from the center. Diagonal lines cross the whole plane where raw canvas shows through the gesso, and contrast with the color shapes organized in a partial horizontal grid. The gaps between the colors where the white gesso shows through also contribute to the overall shape.
The color fragments are made with overlaps of contrasting colors, creating a slightly stereoscopic visual effect. In the lefthand panel, I included opaque pigment dots to partially obliterate the underlying shapes, leaving just enough space to see the underlying form through the white gaps.
JK: In your Lattice series, there’s a wonderful tension between the regularity of the grid of hexagonal shapes and the fluidity of the paint application.
LC: These Lattice paintings contain repeating triangular shapes that link to form hexagons. The way the colors combine in groups with selective understaining gives form to the geometry. Where each set of triangles meet, there is a center of focus.
These paintings are strong examples of my approach to risk because of the difficult structural/color balancing, where shape articulation is worked towards rather than controlled.
JK: Symmetry and pattern are important in your Morphic series.
LC: Symmetric formats have enabled me to find a balance between unequal yet complementary shapes and colors. Oscillations between symmetry and asymmetry occur within both the color details and the systems of layering. Each color layer is geometrically linked, while symmetry breaking and “accidental” links between the layers are encouraged.
The source for these Morphic paintings was a linear diagram in rotation. The appearance of “organic” detail is a result of the way the liquid pigments spread in the gesso.
In 1999, I traveled to Wellington, New Zealand for an artist residency. During this time I was awarded a Pollock/Krasner Foundation grant. In that first six months in Wellington, I made the Flora series of paintings.
JK: Soon, your work began to feature pentagonal shapes.
LC: During a residency near Napier on the east coast of the North Island, I began to make paintings with kiln-fired pigment colors on glass. The way each shape and the spaces between were coordinated in these pentagonal geometric forms was ideal for this technically challenging process. I was also attracted to the complex way these five-sided geometries contain both symmetry and asymmetry within square or nearly square formats.
After having worked and exhibited in Australia since 1974, I now began to spend part of each year in both countries. In early 2000, I established a studio in Wanganui on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand where I continue to work.
JK: And where, as has always been true, your environment would influence your work.
LC: Colors in nature or the pigment colors I work with in the studio are all interpreted through the character of light in the surrounding environment. Because I choose particular qualities of color media to combine for structural interaction within a painting, it has taken me some time to adapt to the natural light of this region.
I find visual nourishment with immersion in the natural environment of growing shapes and colors. Outside my studio in Wanganui, I have made a garden of mainly indigenous shrubs and grasses on a difficult sandy site, with plants chosen for their shapes and local color. The air in this region is particularly clear and the light is sharp and cool with dark shadows, in contrast with my experience on the east coast of Australia.
JK: In your Liquid Light series, the geometric shapes and structures are extremely fluid.
LC: Liquid Light: Red #14 contains multiple layering of the pentagonal geometries within the red spectrum. The effect of the colors in combination cannot be fully determined in advance, nor can the refractive character and textural variation be adequately reproduced in photo images. Each color supports the whole image, while all the colors in combination lift the painting visually into a dynamic whole. This is the space in which I work.
JK: And the pentagons continue in your recent multi-panel works.
LC: With Deep South and other similar paintings, I’m no longer working in series. Composed of nine parts, Deep South is an essay in itself.
Some of the shapes are pentagonal in origin and some suggest movements of flow. Dividing the painting into separate panels enabled complimentary structural forms and strong color shifts to be developed in a way that I could not achieve within one large panel.
In the last few years, living close to the natural world and away from inner city warehouse living, the character of colors that I work with has changed. In New Zealand, it’s hard to ignore the environment—including the changeable weather patterns and dense, mineral-rich colors in the vegetation—reds, yellows, purples, greens.
I think you can learn a lot by observing phenomena in the natural world where living patterns are not disturbed, and you can apply this knowledge to painting. I don’t mean copying the appearance of things. In each new environment I look into surfaces to understand the substance of the whole. It is a natural instinct to search for familiar signs and examine what is new to the senses.
These are really simple ideas. They suggest that style is not an issue and you do not need to work hard to challenge tradition—you are already in the tradition of “seeing.” I keep on working not only because I want to keep on learning, but because I don’t want to let go of the net that is being created.
JK: The net?
LC: I suppose here I am referring in the abstract to the continuity that flows through all my work and that cannot be let go of, while remaining unpredictable. There is also an element of “capture” with this concept—strong but fluid. I’m not interested in obvious stylistic continuity and follow the structural implications in the colors.
Learn more about the artist at
Interview images and text copyright©2006 Julie Karabenick and Liz Coats. All Rights Reserved.
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Ritu Kumar’s white polka dots and black embellished saree blouse Posted on June 6, 2011 by Sunny Something about black and something about black paired with gold – very royal and gives the sense of opulent. I like this combo. Here are the details of the blouse, if you’d like to see it. Nice!
very nice saree, but I dunno, it’s a little bit boring. It needs a little bit more splash of color lol
Kinda boring for me too.
This like this as it is. This looks like a combination of formal and party wear.
In the blouse both the front side have a holes to make more sexy look.
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Bus: The OASTH buses connect the airport and the Macedonia Intercity Bus Station throughout the day by the 78, 78A and 78N lines. The journey time is 30-40 minutes.
- Line 78 departs every 30 minutes during the day.
- Line 78N operates during the night.
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- Along the route, you can get off in the city centre (Platia Aristotelous) and at the main railway station of Thessaloniki (Neos Sidirodromikos Stathmos).
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Transfer: If you don’t like using the public transport and hesitate to take a taxi, consider booking a private transfer which will wait for you on the airport and take you to your destination. The transfer company will send a professional driver to pick you up. You can even pre-order a child safety seat if you’re travelling with a child.
Renting a car at Thessaloniki Airport: Rent your car directly at the airport in one of the offices of rental companies like Hertz Avis, Europcar, Sixt and Budget. The car rental offices are located at the Arrivals Level. Still, the best way to rent car is to do it online, that way you’ll avoid the possible queue.
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Q: I have an early morning departure from the airport, are there any airport hotels I can stay at?
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A: Yes, you can exchange your money, but you can also take money from the ATM machines at the airport. However, we advise you to do it prior to your arrival to avoid low currency rates.
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"This season Hackett is helping men around the world in The Art of Dressing; with a versatile Menswear Collection that reinforces our links with major British sporting events. Battle of Blues is inspired by our sponsorship of The Boat Race. The Aston Martin Racing Collection features the iconic Le Mans Gulf colours, The Mayfair Collection is split between London Greys & Brown in Town, which supports the suggestion that brown can now indeed be worn in town. Island is a colourful collection evoking sand-swept terrains & seascapes. Finally, Into the Blue uses a palette of blues & whites, taking the collection from day to evening."
-L.A.S
In a way I'm glad the wheels are turning on proportions- that way I won't be influenced as much by what's going on in the whole industry and can find my own style in the slimmer details I love
Still appreciate it though, especially if it's endorsed by you L.
Hackett have never led and never will despite their style aspiring to those that do.
Leave it for those who need a second opinion from their girlfriend.
(Who shares the same taste as his mother.)
It all looks very nice. But I can't help but feel that all of those images could have been photocopied out of a Polo Ralph Lauren catalog.
There are some nice bits here but as with Ben Sherman there are lots of negative connotations in the UK tied to Hackett (but at the opposite end of the scale).
I guess the main one is that they're clothes for posh public schoolboys who have grown out of Jack Wills/Aubin and Wills etc. I know that doesn't mean it should be disregarded and that's not what I'm saying but there are a few obstacles that would stop me walking into one of their stores.
The suiting looks good and that's the strongest bit for me, the rest I could happily leave though. Maybe I just need to get over my prejudices...
i'm really starting to think that the is the best men's blog out there, among the ocean of garbage that is the men's clothing blogosphere. you have been incredibly consistent.
if only you changed the design of the blog and added some color to the background it would be perfect
fabiosciarretta- Thanks for the kind words and as far as I can tell the blog layout won't be changing anytime soon - sorry.
I'm not sure how this stuff fits so I can't speak to that as a differentiator but Anon 3:48 is right, these could be screen shots from the polo website. I hear guys like Tintin and LBT talk about their great history as trailblazers but I fail to understand why they insist on being such followers in the present.
Wonderful post! Good to see attention paid to Hackett. Superior brand and only getting better.
This is the real deal, not the wannabe stuff copied by aspirational Noo Yawk boys selling WASP style.
I suspect some Trads would prefer to acquire their gear used from eBay, and I'm sure some will stay away from Hachett because it's not 'Murrican enough.
But, it's their loss.
On effing point. Incredible collection that can be broken down into many basics folks already have and re-built in a street appropriate ensemble.
Enzo AGC & Anon 3:48 - Spot on gents; Hackett are followers simple as that.
Tintin and LBT - what great history as trailblazers are you referring to? The real deal? Do me a favour.
LOI - suiting there's OK-ish, but it's Huntsman-lite so you might as well get out to Zone 4 and get one of old boys to bespoke for you for circa the same dough.
DAM - Your hyperbole is good; too good for a plastic brand like this.
Really this is my favorite blog and also start and end my day with it. Don't change the style of this blog becuase is very simple and that's what makes me love it.
In regard to hackett very go to hell looks which Im a big fan of. The double breasted blazer is a must.
LAS keep up the great work
Sounds like this brand is to the Brits as AE is to us. That being said, I like it, but I'm sure if I lived on the other side of the Atlantic I wouldn't.
Hackett opened a massive store in Dublin recently. I haven't even darkened its doors due to the negative connotations with the brand. I can't for the life of me see how such a 'British' brand can do well in Ireland. and I say that as a Barbour zealot.
Always interesting to see the different views from the two sides of the Atlantic but I echo the comments on this blog. Easily my favourite as I find it way less up itself than many of the others. Plus there was a post on The Replacements.
Seems like a british take on prep/trad. The fits are on point(wish RL fit like this)but it's leaving me with a dandy taste in my mouth.
Am I blind? I actually like that blueDB blazer, yet can't find it on the damn site. I suck at the Internet. Anyone see it?
Kevin
the DB blazer is not in online store just in the stores. I have contacted to see the price and if i can get shipped to US.
Thanks for the great post!
Send me an e-mail ([email protected]) and i will keep you up to date on all our news- We just had the press launch of AW10 which is also a beautiful collection!
Millie Graham (Hackett)
Ah, good to know I'm not deranged. Thanks Seth.
Hackett go up and down; sad that you colonial fellows are not familiar with the interesting history of the brand. The cavalry cut trousers (or 'pants')and tweed coats used to be worth the hike down to the wrong end of the King's Road. Also very sad for poor oirish Fergus in his trendy Barbour gear - 'negative connotations' - what a twat.
Kingsroadman.
Cheers for proving my point Kingsroadman. Hope you had a smashing St. George's Day.
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There are a good few things the French do really really well, and which occasionally make me wish I could live in France permanently. And I’m not talking about food, wine, coffee or clothes.
I’m talking about a service culture of repair and cleaning. The French are prepared to spend on clothes and shoes in the expectation that if they spill a bit of cassoulet on the silk, someone somewhere will sort out the problem and render the garment as good as new.
I was reminded of this today as I went to collect one of my favourite pairs of shoes, the heels of which the dog had decided made a good pair of chew bones. They ended up looking like a pair of chew bones. The black fabric was torn off to reveal a disturbingly white bone-like heel. My local cordonnerie took them however with barely a raised eyebrow, commenting only that the heels might be a fraction lower after repair. I was frankly grateful if they had any sort of heel after repair. And on collection, a great miracle had been achieved, and the heels were as good as new.
At the same time, my husband was handing over a stained Thai silk runner to the local dry cleaner. This time there was a hint of a disapproving raised eyebrow at anyone allowing a piece of Thai silk to become waterstained, but no suggestion that the piece could not be cleaned.
In contrast, our local dry cleaner in Leeds has a very different outlook on the purpose, function and capabilities of a dry-cleaning business.
I don’t know about you, but I tend to get things dry cleaned when they get a bit dirty. I can’t think of a time when I took a clean dress for a dry clean, but maybe that’s just me and my sloblike ways.
But in response to “I’ve got this dress/coat/jacket for cleaning..” the invariable response is a sharp intake of breath followed by a long drawn out sigh and
“… Oh dear. Look; there’s a mark here…”
“Yes, that’s the bit which needs cleaning.”
Pursed lips. “Ooooh, I’m afraid we can’t deal with marks.”
“But you’re a cleaners!”
“Yes, well I’m sorry but we don’t do marks. There’s no guarantee we can do anything here.”
“Well, yes, I realize there are no guarantees but can’t you at least have a go?”
More pursed lips. The personification of no-can-do shakes her head, mutters again and grudgingly writes out a ticket.
How silly of me to ever think anything can be cleaned once worn.
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The other day Robert Fenske reported on Gorizont 16 (88-071A, 19397), as I have also recently: Last night in spite of rapidly moving and worsening low clouds (not to mention the moonlight!), I was able to see two of its flashes at about 6:16:31 and 6:19:40, which means that it may be visible over a lot of the Americas from Atlantic to Pacific. It appears to flash for hours each evening to at least as bright as +4.5 (although it does seem to me that occasionally one of the flashes is fainter), and it may get up to +3.5. This object is easy (at least on this visit over the USA) with handheld 10x50 binoculars even in bright moonlight; it might be one-power from a good site on a moonless night. So I hope that others are getting to see it. It would be interesting, to me at least, to know how widely visible it is at any given time. Ed Cannon - [email protected] - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to [email protected]
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. No doubt it’s on a thousand coffee cups in a thousand offices. Right next to the “hang in there” kitty and high-five “teamwork” posters. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I have anything against motivational messages. We all need a boost now and then. I’m just curious…
Two Delicious Days To Make Up For Working The Other Five
Between my job and being a parent, I work quite a bit. Correction I work a lot. Which is easy to do because I enjoy it.
Unfortunately, this creates a dilemma. While my creative side loves preparing great meals and coincidently writing about them as a hobby, my practical side understands the concept of time. Or lack thereof given a busy workweek.
Enter the weekend.
AKA two foodie filled days that make up for working the other five.
I suspect there are others like me out there. Weekend kitchen warriors who can’t wait for Saturday and Sunday to come around so the delicious fun can begin.
So why not share my experiences? Hopefully you’ll do the same. Even though we don’t really know each other just quite yet. We already have something in common.
Our love of food. So let's dig in.
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Some of the good and bad we’ve noticed recently.
LAURELS
• The city of Rincon and its fire department gets a laurel for providing a top-notch training facility for its firefighters. The fire-training structure should give local firefighters the right experience in a number of different building types and rescues. A well-trained department can only be a good thing, both for the safety of the residents and their property, and the firefighters themselves. Good job.
• We weren’t sure we’d ever live to see the day, but here it is. Augusta National Golf Club has added its first female members to its private club and deserves a laurel for doing so. Let’s hope these first two women, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina businesswoman Darla Moore, are just the first of many women invited to become members.
• The sheriff’s office gets a laurel this week too for its work to keep Effingham County children safe. The office got on board with a safety initiative to encourage drivers to stop for school buses. Deputies rode on school buses and followed buses this week, handing out seven tickets in just one day. State officials said 11 Georgia children have been killed since 1995 when either getting on or off buses. The sheriff’s office has said officers will continue to ride buses at random times throughout the school year. We hope drivers finally get the message.
• Effingham Health System has a laurel coming its way for the hard work and commitment it took for the hospital to receive Level IV trauma center status. The certification means more patients can be treated closer to home and is good news in several ways for those who have taken ill or have been injured. Beyond the treatment available in the ER, keeping Effingham County’s ambulances inside the county lines — instead of traveling to a Savannah hospital — translates into quicker response times for those in need. And that is really good news.
DARTS
• We have to throw a dart at the four guys who ambushed — and shot at — a pizza delivery guy. It wasn’t exactly a brightest move for more than one reason. Just how much money did they think they could get from a pizza delivery guy? This quartet of tough guys, that also included a 15-year-old, ordered a pizza and were then lying in wait for the delivery. The address turned out to be for a vacant house and the pizza man — obviously much brighter than the robbers — was quick to realize something wasn’t right. If he hadn’t, the shot fired into his car might have hit more than a pizza box. The robbers were arrested shortly after their crime and will now have some time to ponder where they went wrong. Maybe they can figure it out.
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Dooley, a stereotyped Irishman, wins a Thanksgiving turkey in a raffle. In trying to make his way home with his prize, poor Dooley is beset by one disaster after another. Upon reaching home, the long-suffering hero is set upon by his behemoth-like wife, who demands that he remove the troublesome turkey post-haste. By the time the "END" title has flashed upon the screen, Dooley finds that he has precious little to be thankful for. Produced by Bison (the precursor to Thomas Ince Studios), Dooley's Thanksgiving was originally released on the same reel as the company's The Parson's Prayer.
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The Times is endorsing both levies but with a caveat (and it's not exactly what you might think). They are worried about "leadership." And here I thought it might be complete accountability for that $1B especially for capital funds. I find it troubling that both the Times and Schools First don't make that accountability -given the strife since the last BEX/Operations levies - a promise not to be forgotten.
(In the past, Schools First members have repeatedly told me, off the record, that they, too, are worried about the transparency and have pledged to me to follow-up. I have never seen that effort come after the election.)
The Times misses no opportunity to complain about the Board and the Superintendent in ways that have little to do with the levies.
The School Board continues to struggle to work as a coherent body. New
Superintendent José Banda appears unable to defuse a teacher boycott of
a standardized test that he and other district leaders view as a
valuable part of their assessment strategy.
Defuse? He told them the teachers would be suspended without pay. He cannot challenge their democratic right to speak out. He cannot fire them outright because they have spoken in and done nothing that violates their contract.
But then they get right to it:.
Here's part of what I had to say in the Comments:
Oh you mean that Steve Sundquist and Peter Maier got voted out
because they didn't pay attention to district finances. That "whims"
vote was the vote of Seattle voters who had had enough of this lack of
oversight. That's OUR job as voters and I'm sorry the Times thinks it's
wrong.
And a City Hall takeover of Seattle Schools? Uh, no thanks (but
look for that if Tim Burgess gets elected). Is LA a great district?
NYC? No. It will not change any thing but the elected control that
VOTERS enjoy.
As well, the comments are troubling, both because of the number of people who say they are voting against them as well as why.
One commenter says:
Did the Court also say that funding public education must also mean
funding public operation of the schools? If they did, too bad, I am
still voting against the levies.
I'm not sure if this person understands that state funding of public schools IS funding their operations.
Another person points out the obvious:
Why will the state ever step up and address its shortcomings in funding
schools when they know the local district/voter will pick up the slack
because no one ever holds schools/teachers/administrators/school boards
accountable.
I'm not sure I believe no one is "ever" accountable but yes, the state has gotten away with underfunding schools (especially SPS) because they know Seattle will step up.
One good comment:
So when the *voters* do their job and throw out the board members
responsible for letting the foxes into the henhouse, and when the board
does *its" job and fires the corrupt superintendent and hires a new one,
and the new superintendent does *his* job and lets go of bad managers,
you have a problem with it?
What exactly did you want, Seattle Times? Magic fairies to wave their wands and put everything back in place lickety split?
The truth is, there was a much needed course correction that
happened just before, then during the last election. Change is
happening, plans are being made, and I for one like the fact that out
district is tackling difficult problems that were ignored for too long.
It will not happen overnight, and it will take a renewal of the levies
to fix these long standing problems.
I find it concerning that the Times is more interested in forwarding an agenda than really helping voters shape their opinion and then, their vote.
10 comments:
I did have a snork at the piece in the SchoolsFirst ad that said that all BEX III projects were completed on time and on budget. I'm not sure who was smoking what when they decided to bring that up. I understand change orders and how schedules and budgets change, but it's meaningless to say that every project met the schedule and budget at the end of the job.
Still voting for it, still important, and the Times still has its collective head up its butt. Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.
(My comments on this, re-posted from an older thread and the Times' Comments section):.
From Anonymous (give yourself a name next time):
"I wonder if they will try to change state law to get rid of school boards? That would hopefully garner some attention and statewide debate."
I doubt that as I don't believe the rest of the state would go for it.
BUT would some legislators go to the Legislature to allow the City of Seattle to take over the schools? I absolutely think they would and given how Senator Tom thinks Seattle is the source of all problems for the state and his new "power", sure.
McGinn came into office talking Big Talk about school takeover. He ended up doing nothing except focus on truancy.
But Burgess, backed by the Ed Reform Industrial Complex might be a more frightening threat. The other candidates? Kate Martin ran for school board. Doubt she'd want the city to take over schools. The others? Who knows. But apparently Varner does as once again someone appears to be whispering in her ear.
DistrictWatcher
Charlie,
Thank you for your comments on this Times article! Though not a big supporter of the district at times, your tenacity to use data when making conclusions hopefully will be heard loud and clear.
2 Weeks to go.......
A friend
MW & All: Take a look at Brier Dudley's revealing article from today's Seattle Times High-tech expects breaks while education funding suffers. Can somebody please tell me why we continue to countenance such galling behavior from our local billionaires, instead of scolding and shaming them for their thankless, anti-social, unbridled greed? It's enough make me want to puke! Simply disgusting. WSDWG
Taxing companies simply shifts tax burden around - either to the customers, or to the employees who must accept smaller salaries, or to shareholders (like pension funds). So, the evilest of evil, Microsoft of course, "avoided" 250 million last year. We have a billion dollar education deficit. That barely puts a dent in it. It's the voters who have repeatedly said they don't wish to pay for anything. And that anything includes education. Look in the mirror for responsibility. WSDWG - you're a simpleton as usual.
Reader
Let's see...$250 million times how many years of avoidance....the ethics of which we speak to our children about. Compound that amount of money with the millions spent each year on 'education reform' measures, such as the recent charter school bill which Microsoft donated numerous millions to. At the very least, some of the money that really should be 'coming into the state' could actually be used appropriately, that is, if it was there. Our family is already doing our part on our taxes, so you're right 'Reader', we don't want to pay more. I just think that those in a position to do what is ethically correct (even though they can legally 'avoid' doing so,) should do the right thing. There indeed would be more money to assist our children in our schools.
A Year and a quarter to go
Yeah BUTTTT - the shortfall is a billion dollars every year. $250 mill from the highest company in a good year doesn't even really dent it. Really, do we really want to tax R&D? That's the "perk". That's the only source of real jobs in the region. High tech is highly competitive. This author doesn't seem to understand that with his soak the rich rants. A few good years don't mean there will never be challenges for companies. Didn't we already lose nearly all R&D at Boeing? The idea that jobs won't leave the region is pretty short sighted. If we really wanted to tax something - what's wrong with taxing soda pop, junk food, beer, gas, etc??? Isn't that the basic proposal? It's pretty reasonable - tax lifestyle excesses, things that don't benefit us. AND protect jobs that our kids will actually need.
Reader
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Friday’s Fun (May 30, 2008)
It’s Friday — time to talk about some fun things to do with the grands!
Did you know that the National Wildlife Federation is having a “Great American Campout” on June 28? Depending on the ages of your grandkids you may want to start planning a camping adventure. You could camp with your grandchild in your backyard, make a tent or fort inside the house for hours of fun, or go camping at an RV park or campground.
You might want to invite the grands to your house on the evening of June 28, grill hamburgers and hotdogs, and gaze together into the sky at all of the marvelous stars the Lord has created.
The National Wildlife Federation has a great website with info. about backyard campouts. You can register for the “Great American Campout” or just click on some of the links (such as “Get Ready to Camp"). I printed instructions to make a Rustic Stick Frame. (Yes, our three-year-old granddaughter will be visiting this weekend. Guess what we’re going to make?) I also printed some campout recipes. Can’t wait to try the Oatmeal Trail Mix.
Now, that’s another thing that we can do with our grands. Make the campout recipes together. I think our little granddaughter and I will just whip up a couple of batches of trail mix during her visit—one for Pops and me and the other for her parents. Or, maybe we’ll make three batches—the third for her out-of-town cousins. I might just take a picture of us making the recipe together and mail it —with a colored note from their little cousin—and of course the trail mix.
There sure are lots of fun things to do—especially with our precious grandchildren!
Do you have any camping ideas that you'd like to share? Or, special camping memories?, May 30, 2008
The Great American Campout!
2 comments:
The campout at home sounds like a great idea, especially for younger children. Let us know how it goes.
I'm enjoying your new blog.
It's been fun to get e-mails from many of you. Thanks for your encouragement about the Grand Connection!
Some of you are having trouble leaving comments. I'm so sorry. Maybe this will help. After you click on "comment" at the end of a blog, you just type in your comment, the "test" word (to prevent spammers), and then either enter your Google/Blogger info. or click on "anonymous." If you choose "anonymous," you could still type in your name, initials, etc. below the comment itself ... or you could just leave it "anonymous." Hope this helps!
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Family Fun
Bring the family along. There is
always something to do. Many of the wives enjoy sitting around
renewing acquaintances, or talking about their husbands Cub
adventures. Maysville is just down the road and the town will be holding
their Fall Festival this same weekend. If your spouse is into
yard sales there are usually several of them along the way.
Are you into pottery? Gillsville has
severy potters you can visit. The annual Turn & Burn at Hewell's
will not hapen this year but there are others you can visit.
Craven Pottery located at
6640 Highway 52 and
Sim's
Pottery
at 2057 Highway 323
are two of the many potters in town.
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The girls love to chat and the
more girls there are the more there is to chat about!
→
The Kids really enjoyed the
balloons last year!
Even the little ones had a tractor to cruise on!
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Asked in
Puja & Rituals
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6:02 PM on November 29, 2008
Tags: urmila characterised ramayana
Username and Dharmaketu.One version says that when Lakshmana accompanied Sri Rama for the fourteen-year exile, Urmila went into a trance and fell unconscious. She regained consciousness only after his return. It seems she took all the tiredness of her Lakshman who was serving Rama and Sita withouth sleep for fourteen years.Some other versions show her to be a woman of character. She was known to be a great scholar. Some versions of the Ramayana portray her as a talented painter. iki/Urmila_(Ramayana_Character)
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6:04 PM on November 29, 2008 versions of the Ramayana portray her as a talented painter. iki/UrmilaRamayanaCharacter
yea your are right perhaps Urmila is the most neglected character in the Ramayana. Valmikis text mentions her only once, in two lines, to tell us that she was married to Lakshmana. We dont hear imagine Ramayana at present day scinario, Urmila would have divorced Laxmana to live with someone else....wish u were born in that era to take her care!...You are right though every body remember sacrifice
even i feel that it was an injustice done by laxman. sita went with raam becaus she wanted to fulfil the duties of an ideal wife. even urmila had that desire but laxman asked her to fulfil the duties of an ideal daughter in law. it was injustice because a wife would always desire to stay with the husband....Well... Every lady in Ramayana is a sufferer of some or the other male ego. A typical male dominated
So far the sacrifice of passion, emotion, love and sex are concerned, the position of Urmila in the Ramayana, is much greater than that of Sita. I raised this discourse on many occasions. Urmila and neglected Urmila like that. He performed his duty by giving protection to Sita, at the cost of his wifes hopes and aspirations. Laxmana forgot that Urmila, his wife, was also a woman of flesh and blood
the younger sister of Sita named Urmila.In Puranic scripture Lakshmana is described as the incarnation of Ananta Shesha, the thousand-headed Naga upon whom rests Lord Vishnu in the primordial ocean of milk. /Lakshmana...WELL LAKSHMAN WAS SON OF SUMITRA SECOND WIFE OF MAHARAJ DASHRATH . HE GOT MARRIED TO YOUNGER SISTER OF SITA -URMILA . IT IS BELIEVED THAT LAKSHMAN IS INCARNATION OF SHEH NAAG WHO REMAINS ALWYS
Urmila was Laxmans wike and Kunbhkaran,Vibhishan and Ahiravan were ravans brothers...Urmila is the name of Lakshmanas wife. Vibhishana & Kumbakarna are the names of the brothers of Ravana...Urmila was the wife of Laxmana, the brother of Rama. Vibhishana, Kumbhkarna, Ahiravana and Mahiravana are the brother of Ravana...Urmila-> Laxmans wifeKumbhkaran-> Rawans brother
There are some contradictions between Tulsi Rmacaritamnasa and Valmiki Ramayana. For example, in Valmiki Ramayana in 36th Sarga of Bala Kanda, there is the story of Parvati. In Rmacaritamnasa, in these stories Parvati comes first and Sati later....There are numerous differences between Tulsi Rmacaritamnasa and Valmiki Ramayana. One example is the scene in which Kaikayi forces her husband to exile Rama
Karan and Dusan are the sons of SHATRUGNA AND SHRUTIKIRTHI...In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Shrutakirti/Shrutkeerti IAST rutakrti was the daughter of Kushadvaja, a brother of King Janaka of Mithil; hence sons 1 taksha 2 pushkala.laxman- urmila ------1 angad 2 dharamketushatrughana- shrutkirti they also had two sons but their names are not much known.hope this will help...Shatrughna marries Shrutakirti
daughter of Janak....This question needs some detailed explanation. There seems to be no importance given to Janaka Maharajas wife in the Ramayana.So,I am leaving that point;ie,name of Janaka Maharajas wifes Mahavishnu?But Sita Devi was brought up by Janakan as her own father.Later he had 3 more daughters,Urmila,Sruthakeerth i & Mandavi.Viswamithra Maharshi arranged marriage of all the four,Sree Rama with Sita
. There are about 200 temples in this complex and the bas-relief of the temple depicts the story of Ramayana. Parts of this temple was damaged in the recent earthquake that hit Indonesia.Brahma temple, one gods. One of the most famous of the bas reliefs found at Prambanan shows the story of Ramayana, where Sita is kidnapped by an ogre and ultimately rescued by Hanuman and his army. This famous story
gods. One of the most famous of the bas reliefs found at Prambanan shows the story of Ramayana, where Sita is kidnapped by an ogre and ultimately rescued by Hanuman and his army. This famous story. It is characterised by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the 47m high central building inside a large complex of individual temples....The Prambanan temple is the biggest
urmila was the only biologocal daughter of janak maharaj,sita and her other two sisters ,maharaj janak recived with the blessing of earth and varun and agni dev....King JANAK of Mithila was a saint.Srimati Sita Devi is the daughter of the Earth goddess, Bhumi Devi, and central figure of the Ramayana.King Janaka was the wise and benevolent King of Janakpuri and although a great saintly king he was childless
...Self motivation will help you achieve self development.Valmiki who was a cruel hunter was never motivated from outside.And you have seen the emergence of the greatesst Indian mythology Ramayana.What all you need strengths and weaknesses. still some amount of external influence is needed with which a person forms a perception and then decides what is good and what is bad....keep tellign yourself urmila tht u dont
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SB CAN Files Lawsuit to Preserve Prime Farmland
LAWSUIT FILED TO PRESERVE PRIME FARMLAND
IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
Santa Barbara County Action Network Challenges Lompoc General Plan Revision Opening Door to Large-Scale Urban Development
of Prime Agricultural Land on City’s Western Boundary
Santa Maria, CA – On behalf of Santa Barbara County Action Network (SB CAN), nonprofit law firm Environmental Defense Center filed a lawsuit in Santa Barbara Superior Court today, alleging that the City of Lompoc violated the California Environmental Quality Act in its decision to include the “Bailey Avenue expansion area” in its 2030 General Plan Update approval. Opposed by both environmental and farming groups, the Bailey Avenue development proposal would transform the 270 acre piece of prime agricultural land into an urbanized development consisting of nearly 2,700 homes and more than 225,000 square feet of commercial space. The Bailey Avenue area lies within some of the most productive agricultural land in the state, and is currently farmed largely for lucrative row food crops including broccoli, lettuce, artichokes, and celery.
“The City not only ignored its own long-standing agricultural protection policies in its General Plan, but also voted against the desire of its citizens who have fought the expansion of the City into this area for over a decade” stated Joyce Howerton, Advocacy Director for SB CAN.
SB CAN’s decision to bring the litigation was driven largely by concerns regarding the future pattern of agricultural land conversion within Santa Barbara County. SB CAN views the City of Lompoc’s decision as the most important, precedent-setting annexation ever considered by the City of Lompoc, one that has County-wide implications for the future of agricultural land. The development of Bailey Avenue has long been opposed by many Lompoc residents, as evidenced by the recent City Council elections in which the two Council members who voted to include the project as part of the General Plan update were voted out of office. The City’s approval is the first step towards ultimate annexation, which also requires LAFCO approval.
“The City’s action puts the entire future of agricultural land in Santa Barbara County at risk, by setting a precedent for unnecessary conversion of prime agricultural land into urban uses at a time when the City of Lompoc should focus on revitalizing its existing downtown area,” said Brian Segee, EDC Staff Attorney representing SB CAN in the case.
As determined by the recent Housing Element update which is also a part of the City’s 2030 General Plan, the City of Lompoc has sufficient infill vacancies to meet State housing mandates, and the project is not needed to meet the City’s projected growth numbers. This unnecessary development would expand the City’s boundaries to outlying areas that currently contain irreplaceable prime farmland, creating urban sprawl and exacerbating the City of Lompoc’s current economic problems within the existing downtown area.
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News and Spotlights Recent news and events in the La Porte ISD Community are highlighted here. Use our submission form to suggest future "News and Spotlights" items.
By JOHN BLACK
This first football game of the oh-so-promising 2012 football season certainly did not go the way the La Porte faithful would have scripted it Friday night in Bulldog Stadium - except that the Dogs won it in overtime, 20-14.
The Clear Brook Wolverines spotted the Bulldogs 14 points early; clawed their way back to knot the score midway through the fourth period; took advantage of one-too-many La Porte turnovers with under four minutes left; barely missed a 50-yard field goal with 18 seconds remaining; and had a first down in overtime at the La Porte 14.
But then they fumbled and Victor Holmes returned it 80 yards for the Dogs, to apparently win it - only the refs said it was no fumble. So Brook ran another play and fumbled again, and even the refs agreed it was a fumble, scooped up by Ellis Hutchinson and returned to the Brook 40. It really didn't matter how far he returned it, of course, unless he had gone all the way. As it was, La Porte got the ball on the Brook 25 and needed just three plays to gain the victory.
First it was Keith Whitely for six yards to the 19, behind the veteran Bulldog offensive line. Then it was Whitely for five more and a first down at the 14. And finally it was Johnathan Lewis going around left end and scooting into the end zone for the six-point victory.
Whew! We definitely dodged a bullet. And now the Dogs travel to Pasadena Memorial Stadium to play the South Houston Trojans in a 7 p.m. non-district match-up Friday, Sept. 7.
La Porte has numerous starters returning from a highly successful 2011 campaign that produced a 12-2 record, a regional playoff berth and historic wins over North Shore and Katy. But the Bulldogs found out Friday night against Clear Brook that history and high expectations will only carry you so far.
The Bulldogs had an impressive start, moving a total of 122 yards on their first two offensive possessions to score a pair of touchdowns and take a 14-0 lead early in the second period.
That first TD came after the La Porte defense allowed just one first down before forcing a punt, as Trevor Mouton and Corey Lee and Jesse Hickman and Justin Pickell and Alex Jones all made strong plays, forcing a punt that Keith Whitely returned five yards to the Bulldog 33.
From that point it was quarterback Jordan Jackson rifling a quick out to Jahvey Mark for nine yards; Whitely running for eight; and on an eventual third and 12 Jackson hitting Mark again for 10, forcing a fourth and two. Head coach Jeff LaReau elected to go for it and Whitely took a pitch left for six yards and the first down.
After a run lost a yard and a pass got the yard back, the Bulldogs got tricky. Jackson took the snap and pitched to sophomore Britt Grant, who appeared to be heading for a run left. But he stopped and lofted a perfect strike to David Terrebonne, who was absolutely all alone at the goal line. David hauled it in for the TD, covering 36 yards, and after Eric Medina booted the extra point, the Dogs had a 7-0 lead with 3:38 left in the first quarter.
Again, the defense was up to the task. Medina had booted his second straight kickoff well out of the end zone, and the Wolverines were soon back to the 20 after a procedure penalty (kickoffs this year are now brought out to the 25). The Brook quarterback tried to run right and was smoked by Whitely; the qb then tried to scramble and this time was hammered by Corey Lee; and Brook fumbled on the next play and lost a yard, forcing another punt.
And here comes the offense again. If you read about the Bulldogs last year, you will recognize these names - the blockers up front. The core of the offensive line returns, and you will be seeing these names plenty of times again this season...the likes of Justin King and Jose Garcia and Michael Leagan and Tony Briones and Maurice Morris and Michael Rodriguez, listed in numerical order. They opened holes that helped produce another TD.
Starting at their own 45, the Dogs got 12 quick yards from Whitely right up the middle; got nine more as Jackson hit Johnathan Lewis with a quick strike; and then another trick came out of the bag. Jackson handed to Whitely, and Keith gave it right back to Jordan. He fired a perfect strike into the end zone but the catch was barely missed. So Whitely got three for the first down, and Grant added four as the first quarter ended.
Victor Holmes came in at quarterback and it did not take him long to find success. He took the first snap and headed right, running all the way to the Wolverine eight yard line - a gain of 17 yards. And after Lewis went left for three to the five and Grant added two to the three, Jackson rolled right and hit the bullseye on a pass to Grant, who was running hard left to right, about two steps inside the end zone. The TD made it 13-0 and Medina was true for the extra point, and the Dogs had a seemingly comfortable lead a 14-0 with 10:13 left before the half.
But it was a that point that the air seemed to deflate from La Porte, both offensively and defensively. And before you knew it, the Wolverines had seven points to get close at the half; hung in there throughout the third quarter, taking advantage of several La Porte miscues; and found themselves in a 14-14 deadlock against the state-ranked Bulldogs with 6:45 left in the game.
La Porte had four turnovers in all, and in the last few minutes had two of those four - a fumble at the Brook nine, and a pass interception at what would have been field goal range for the strong-legged Medina. Instead, Brook hit a long pass and very nearly hit a field goal to win it with 18 seconds left.
So it took the overtime heroics on both offense and defense to win it.
The Bulldogs had 385 yards of total offense, including 258 on the ground as Whitely ran for 135 yards on 22 carries; Lewis added 57 on 12 carries; Holmes ran twice for 33 yards; Grant ran 10 times for 25 yards; and Clifton Figaro had one carry for six yards.
Jackson, making his Bulldog debut as a starter, hit 12 of 17 passes for 91 yards and had the one pick. Grant caught five of those passes for 24 yards; Jahvey Marks hauled in three for 25 yards; Terrebone snagged two for 37 yards and a TD; Malik Graves had one catch for 16 yards; and Lewis had a single catch as well, for 13 yards.
All in all, it was not a bad night, considering that a win came at the end. But as anyone would expect after the first game of the season, there is definitely room for improvement.
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With a well-designed, and professional looking website your family child care business can project the image and professionalism that can compete with child care centers and preschools.
Here is part I in helping you develop a great looking website. No need for you to ask, your ten-year old nephew, because you are computer challenged. Let’s get started.
1. Hosting, what is it and why do I need it? Hosting can be used to refer to the housing of your website. You have to put it somewhere. Knowing that you want a website cheap or free is where we will start. Weebly is my favorite free website host. What is nice about Weebly is they want your business, they have a section called Weebly for Education that is specifically tailored for teachers and schools. My second choice is Homestead cheap but, a great site for easy to build websites that let you have a bit more freedom and space than the free websites.
2. Now, do your consumer duties and become an informed shopper. I highly suggest you Google free websites and look for some more options. Any of them work great.
3. Now that you have made your choice, you need to register or join. During this registration they will ask you to enter a domain name. Now, you can either buy a domain name. This means you will get a name that looks like this, your name with a .com, .net, or .org at the end. They are fairly cheep; go to godaddy.com and research a untaken name or you can get you free subdomains from your host. This name will look something like this. Your name, then the host company name then a .com at the end. A bit more lengthy but still very cost-effective.
Tips on choosing your domain name. Keep it simple, easy to spell and easy to remember.
4. Now to the part I find the most fun. Choosing a template and the start of your design. Creativity rules when choosing your template. You might have an idea of what you want, but if you do not I suggest you just browse until you find that one design that says, this is it.
Tips on a choosing template. The template does not have to be all cartoon, and kids. I have seen some well done websites by family child care businesses that use nature, color and anything in-between.
Websites, are an important tool in showing a potential client what you are about, and your business. Many overlook this marketing tool, due to believing that it is too hard or expensive.
I am calling all family child care business that have completed your website to post it here. One its free promotion for you. Two, it will help other get ideas on what they can have in a website.
The Business of Family Child Care…Yes, you Need a Website. Part II
The Business of Family Child Care…Yes, you Need a Website. Part III
Beating Burnout with Social Networking
Here is my Family Child Care Business Website. Take a look.
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I must admit…..I am a huge advocate for business websites. I have received countless calls/emails from potential families from my family child care website,. I think providers are missing out on a relatively cheap marketing tool by not having one.
Great advice! My website has brought me all of my clients. It’s the only way to go!
Great advice! My website has brought me almost all of my clients. Potential clients always comment how much they liked my site and how it answered so many of their questions.
LikeLike Needs some work! Esp. in the paragraph, seems I have way too much all jumbled into one giant paragraph! lol! But here it is!
Hi, Colleen.
In Weebly, you can add paragraphs so that the words aren’t jumbled together. You can also create new pages so that you have separate sections about you, your program, the schedule, pictures, etc. Having an organized website helps you and prospective clients.
I strongly recommend that daycare providers or child care providers advertise their daycare/ child care facilities online (I mean on other daycare listing websites). One website I will suggest is allows you (the provider)to advertise your daycare on an uncluttered environment. The website does not have distracting ads, which makes it appealing to both daycare providers and parents who are searching for daycare. If you own a daycare consider listing your daycare on
When ever I talk with a provider, I always stress to get themselves a website if they don’t have one. What a perfect way to advertise. Parents are looking more and more to the internet when looking for child care. They can view your site, read your policies, and know about your set up before the interview.
I am currently having Hollee – redo my curriculum web site, and I can’t wait…
Jean
I checked out Hollee stuff I think she is going to be a bit busy in the design department. She does great work.
Misti… Hollee is like me. We like to keep busy, and I agree she does a great job….
Thanks, ladies! You are very sweet and, yes, I like to stay busy. I just finished another site now, so I’ll be e-mailing you Jean 🙂 Kudos for the work you do, Misti!
As a Licensed Family Child Care Provider and Web Designer, I wholeheartedly agree that small businesses NEED a website. Thanks for stressing their importance. I actually have a training, “Websites Made Simple” that shows people how to buy a domain, add Google Analytics, and shows how to use the best free web hosts: Weebly, WebNode, Wix, and Shutterfly (in my opinion, especially because of their ease of use and ability to use your own domain).
Thanks for your wonderful blog and support of Early Childhood Education!!!
Here’s mine.
Can I come play in your back yard. I love it… Did you design it yourself? Where did you get your ideas?
Love your website. Do you follow the Reggio Emilia Approach? Where did you get the light table and you play-house for indoors?
I had a website for over a year. It did not bring me anything but SPAM
Oh! I hate SPAM…
That’s terrible. I receive very little spam, maybe 10 e-mails a year, from having a website. I do a few things to prevent spam: I have my phone number on a picture banner and my e-mail as a picture link, so spambots and people can’t just scour the internet for phone numbers and e-mails to get mine. I also register my domain (and all of my clients’ domains–I’m a web designer, too) with Domains by Proxy. For less than $10/year, they use their info as the registrant info so that I do not receive spam. By law, domain owner info is public info, so Domains by Proxy (you purchase through your host, such as GoDaddy or BlueHost) is wonderful and easy to use. Go to and you can look up owner info for every domain…and see why Domain Privacy is imperative.
I’m sorry having a website didn’t work for you, Michelle!
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To Do Tuesday: Face Time
While the massive, special-effects-y Spider-Man sequel opens today, we’re looking for something that can help us keep from overheating, and like some literary character, Audrey Hepburn always seems so cool! Film Forum is running Hepburn’s fashion-industry comedy Funny Face today. Given that we’re too warm to wear much beyond a tank top, a pair of
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You might be asking why, I am having Monday’s Review on Friday. It is not that I want to skip the weekend, it is just that I was so excited about the Color it by Numbers review.
I was asked to do a special review by Color it Numbers. Which means I get to give something away. Yes, the Green Fish is running our first contest, and you get a chance to win, all three coloring books.
Color it by numbers, was developed by a small team of software development professionals specializing in the development of educating and entertaining programs for children.
It is a coloring book that supports the learning of basic computer skills. It was easy for my two year old to sit on my lap, as we talked about colors we manipulated the mouse, clicked and painted our pictures.
My three and four year olds had no problems matching numbers and colors as they painted their pictures. It was easy
to understand, click the paint tube when it “puffs” you have your new color. I could adjust the color tubes, to specific colors to reinforce our color for this week. I could also make the color by number picture more difficult for my school age kids. If we felt like painting what ever, by no numbers, we could do that also, then clear it and start it again.. This is fun, while also having a good foundation in colors and number reinforcement. Plus, with the older kids, it was easy for them to get into and get to where they are going without my help.
Test it out yourself, you can color two pages to see how it all works. Color it by Numbers
So if you are ready, I will tell you how to put your name in for the random drawing that will be done April 17th, 2011. You will get all three coloring books from Color it by Numbers: Animals, Cars and Princess. The more steps you do, the more chances you have to win. To enter you have to do at least on of the steps, this is mandatory, you can do more to have more chances to win.
To Enter: Do one or more of the following.
1. You can go to Little Scholar and The Green Fish and “like” the page. If you are already a fan, please be sure to mention that in your comment left below.
2. You can go to To Color it By Numbers and “like” this page as well. (Be sure to leave me a comment letting me know you have done so.)
3. Tweet or post on Facebook ” Win Color it by Numbers @ The Green Fish Chronicles (Then leave me a comment with the link of the tweet and or let me know you posted)
4. Follow the Green Fish on Twitter. (Be sure to leave me a comment letting me know you have done so.)
5. If you add a link to the Green Fish Chronicles to your website. (Leave me a comment with the link to your site where I can see the link.
The give away will end at 10:00 pm (cst) on April 17th, 2010. The winner will be chosen at random. Thanks for your support of the Green Fish Chronicles.
More Recommended Reading:
Monday’s Review: 1-2-3 Learn Curriculum
Monday’s Review: Barefoot Books
Monday’s Review: Kid Approved Meals
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I liked the color by number page. Susan
I liked the litle green fish.
I follow.
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Board of Directors Meeting: June 15, 2010
University of Texas at Austin
Materials for Submitted the NDTLD BoD
- Minutes for Dec. 16, 2009 (Reed)
- Retreat [Agenda] Review (Reeves)
- Retreat [Themes] Review (Reeves)
- Revised Mission Statement Cochrane
- Retreat [Themes] Review (Reeves)
- Nominating Committee Report (Lippincott)
- Preservation Report (McMillan)
- Conference Committee Report (Reeves)
- Proposal 2012 Peru(Reeves for Libio)
- International Activities ReportETD Questionnaire/ (Cargnelutti/Schirmbacher)
- Revising the ETD Guide (Jewell/Reed)
- Canada Report (Reeves)
- Southern Africa and NDLTD Web Reports (Suleman)
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returned to Dar’kharrow Port and joined up with the rest of the party.
After some discussion the party decided to travel to St Barbanstown through The Ruins of Lightgarde.
After a day of traveling the party reached the forest near the mountains just north of the blackened area around The Ruins of Lightgarde. Here they set up camp. Whilst Erast slept the rest of the party were on the lookout for danger.
During their second day of traveling the party were beset by a small pack of zombie wolves. After a short battle the wolves were killed, with no harm done to the members of the party.
The party arrived at the The Ruins of Lightgarde in the afternoon and set out to find a library to gain knowledge of what might have happened to destroy the city of Lightgarde.
After some search in the library two of the party members met a strange robed and masked person, who introduced himself as “Kar”.
This Kar person proved to be kind of weird and vanished mysteriously after a brief talk with Thanos and Eric.
Whilst the party wasted their time in the library, Mornie har the fortune of aqainting himself with a strange gnome.
A short while later, the party were attacked by two undeads, Cadavers.
The party quickly dispatched the undeads with little difficulty. One of them being splattered by a single ray of fire at the hands of Erast.
As the time passed the night aproached. The party decided to travel through the runs towards St Barbanstown.
As they neared the edge of the city, the were beset by packs of undead.
3 Ghouls blocked their way, whilest cadavers attacked from behind, whilst Zoombies attacked from the side.
Thanos and Mornie managed to slip by the ghouls however Lucy was demounted by the ghouls. After a small intermission, Eric made a glorious stand killing all of the undeads and the skeletons which attacked him after the battle started.
Mornie and Erast rode of into the wildernes whilst the rest of the party made their stand.
Days passed: 3
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Nominations sought for Public Service Excellent Award for 1988
By Catherine Doss
Spectrum Volume 20 Issue 08 - October 16, 1997
The Academy of Public Service Excellence is seeking nominations for the Public Service Excellence Award for 1998. The purpose of this award is to recognize university employees for outstanding public-service accomplishments to the university community and the state.
Up to four people are selected annually to receive this award and an honorarium at the university's Founder's Day ceremony in April. Award winners are automatically inducted into the Academy of Public Service Excellence.
Nominees will be evaluated on program results, innovation, creativity, subject matter, expertise, communication skills, and professional activities in Continuing Education, Virginia Cooperative Extension, international research and development, public-service programs, and other outreach activities. Particular emphasis will be placed on those activities that go beyond the normal expectations of the nominee's position within the university.
Nomination deadline in Dec. 12, 1997. Nomination packets should be submitted to Kathy Lewis, Office of the University Provost, mail code 0132.
For more information, contact William S. Swecker Jr., at extension 1-4621 or e-mail: [email protected].
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InfoAge update
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- Hi, everybody! (Reply in unison: "Hi, Dr. Nick!"),
Went to yet another InfoAge board meeting last night. Lots of stuff to
The most exciting news: we (the InfoAge board, not MARCH) decided on a way
to build a large "preview museum" very quickly.
You know how new housing developments always include one "demo" house for
customers to check out? That's basically the new plan at InfoAge. When you
enter the main building ("the hotel") through its lobby, there is a long
hallway to your right with a bunch of empty rooms. Conveniently, the number
of rooms just about equals the number of different groups based at InfoAge
overall. The rooms vary in size but they were all designed as offices. So
anyway, each of the InfoAge groups will get a room (or two for some of the
larger groups), which we're to use to create small previews of our
forthcoming real museums.
The beauty of this plan is that smaller organizations like MARCH get to make
something tangible without waiting years for the results. It also helps the
public because suddenly (by this fall or so) the main building will be
packed solid with exhibits; we'll no longer just be about explaining what's
going to happen in theory. Meanwhile, InfoAge and all the member groups
will get income from the preview museum, and we can continue planning our
"real" museum in the background.
The room assigned to MARCH is small -- approximately 11x12 ft. -- but it has
a great location (first room next to the lobby) and it's fairly secure. It
also has an air conditioner which may or may not work. It's adjacent to the
room where Frank O'Brien will house his NASA Apollo computer exhibit, and
there's a doorway between the two rooms; it was my idea to situate us and
him together because we're both about computers.
Because of the space limitation, what I think we should do is pick one or
two representative computers from each of a handful of major categories and
make some mini-exhibits. For example, we could include a couple 70s and 80s
micros, a PDP-11, etc. ... Just enough for our room to be busy and colorful
and for visitors to come by and say "Wow a whole room full of old
computers!" and for us to reply "You ain't seen nothing yet, this is only
the 1/10th-scale preview of our real museum."
I and the rest of the InfoAge board are really jazzed about this project,
which was the brainstorm of the folks from the NJ historical divers
assocation. So, I welcome any and all feedback about what / how we should
exhibit in this preview area.
Also at the meeting, we discussed upcoming events. One major event is
Saturday, April 1 -- the official "transfer ceremony" for the powers that be
to turn over the lease and stuff. It's all a giant formality of course
because InfoAge has basically had the run of the land for years already.
But our presence is requested, and it can be anything from me at a table
with some computers from our in-house collection, or there can be a few
small actual exhibits if anybody wants to do that. Similarly, June 9-11 is
the Armed Forces Day event at nearby Fort Monmouth; we'll plan for that at
some later time. A third event is a June 1 semi-forum InfoAge fundraiser at
$100 a head; I will go to represent us although all are welcome.
Lastly, there are people working at InfoAge almost every Saturday and
Sunday. So if any MARCH members happen to have a free day or half-day, of
happen to be in the area with time to kill, then let me know (or contact
Fred directly at 732-299-0894) to help out with stuff. Quite frankly, it
would be nice for people other than just me to visit and help, especially
since all of the current work is of direct benefit to our May 13 event.
- Evan
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rural-to-urban migration on the diet and nutritional status of a peri-urban population in Iran
Abstract
In spring 1994, a survey covering a total of 300 households was carried out to study the effect of rural-to-urban migration on nutritional status of recent migrants in Islamshahr, a peri-urban area of Tehran, Iran. The sample consisted of 97 long term migrant, 96 short term migrant and 107 rural households. The study revealed that intake of food energy, protein and almost all nutrients was higher among migrants. On average, both migrant and rural population had intakes of zinc and riboflavin below the requirements. In addition, the rural population had low intakes of vitamin C due to lower consumption of vegetables and poorer food diversity. About 26% of migrant children were stunted compared to 21% rural. The peak of stunting for short term migrant children was in 3–4 years age group suggesting a pre-migration history of chronic malnutrition. The prevalence of both underweight and overweight was higher for short term migrant adults. These facts and the observed better standard of living for the migrants suggest that rural-to-urban migration was mainly the result of rural-urban socio-economic inequalities which has to be addressed in the country's development policies. ^
Subject Area
Health Sciences, Nutrition
Recommended Citation
Fatemeh Giahi,
"The effect of rural-to-urban migration on the diet and nutritional status of a peri-urban population in Iran"
(January 1, 2001).
Electronic Doctoral Dissertations for UMass Amherst.
Paper AAI3000306.
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Thinking about visiting Florida? A lot of people live here and love it. Just like any other state, there are many benefits to spending time here in sunny, beautiful Florida. Below we’ll look at some of the benefits of visiting Florida so that you can see what you’re missing out on.
There are many advantages to visiting Florida, and everyone who either lives here or vacations here, loves it here. Marco Island specifically is a very good vacation destination. Just as is listed above, there are many things to do here to make your vacation that much more enjoyable. So if you’re looking for your next spot to vacation, don’t make the mistake of passing on Florida.
We offer a huge selection of the Island’s finest vacation rentals in every price range. Whether you want to stay a week, several weeks, or even months, we can match you with a home or condo ideally suited to your needs. Contact our Marco office today.
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If you work in schools, pencils are an integral part of everyday life. For adults, they can be a way to express individuality and taste. For example, I’m rather picky about my choice of pencil, mostly for reasons having to do with the eraser. For children, pencils are not just a tool for writing, but also a form of currency. A colleague and I ran a social skills group for 5th graders a couple of weeks ago, and at each child’s seat we placed a piece of colored paper and a newly sharpened pencil with an American flag design on it (we happened to find them in a big bin of mixed-up pencils in the art room). The kids were so excited when we told them they could keep the pencils, like, “Wow! Cool!” It was really sweet, and such a simple little thing that made them so excited.
So I found this recent interview with a scion of the pencil-making world, Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, pretty interesting. Who knew that pencil-making had such a rich history? Or that one family has run the business for 8 generations? Or that there is a nearly 250-yyear-old feud between the Faber-Castell family and the Staedtler family? They’re like the Hatfields and McCoys of Bavaria!
This all reminded me of an Italian jewelry artist named Maria Cristina Belluci who makes interesting pieces using re-purposed colored pencils. Here are some of her designs (click on images for links):
A quick search of Etsy found a few US-based sellers making jewelry in this style (click on images for links):
And lastly, if you’re feeling crafty and want to try your hand at making pencil jewelry, there is a step-by-step tutorial on DesignMom.com. She shows you how to make each of the pieces shown below: two different necklaces and a brooch. Looks like a fun project for a rainy day, or maybe something for all you art teachers out there. A great way to introduce concepts surrounding recycling, color theory, and mixed media. Not sure I would wear any of these with a white shirt, but still they’re lovely to look at. Enjoy!
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[Vanity] Trump to lower the boom on Thu 07/27 on Deep State and Clinton/Obama?
4CHAN, VARIOUS SITES | 24 JULY 2017 | EEE Posted on 7/24/2017, 9:04:07 PM by Extremely Extreme Extremist4chan reporting that there will be major Trump news this Thursday.
Is this true?Is Trump rope-a-doping his enemies for past 6 months and tried to work with them, tried to get his agenda going for the people, and now realizing they are truly out to get him, so he “attacks” Sessions as a diversionary tactic. And Sessions behind the scenes is set to deliver the goods and it will all culminate on Thursday?Could Thursday, July 27th, 2017 be a defining day in Trump’s presidency?
Source: [Vanity] Trump to lower the boom on Thu 07/27 on Deep State and Clinton/Obama?
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Join us for our last Parent Involvement evening of the year “CATCH” Night,
Tuesday, May 21st from 6:00pm -8:00pm. There will be Zumba , Kickboxing and
Cross Fit Demonstrations and a Health and Fitness Fair! A free snack will be
served starting at 6:00pm (Subway sandwiches) with planned activities
starting at 6:30pm. Mariachi and Ballet Folklorico will perform.
Congratulations to the following Art Students for scoring the highest
score on their art pieces at the Jr. Vase Contest. Students' art is on
display in the art case in the 8th Grade hallway. 8th grade students are
Sara Garcia, Ana Garcia, Alejandro Espinoza, Kiara Torres, and Dax
Emerson. 7th grade students are Isabel Metevier, Joanna Beesley
and Paulina Mendoza. The students are in Mr. Hasbrouck and Ms. Koch's
art classes.
Congratulations to Hernandez Middle School artists who placed at District
level competition. The following students in Mr. Hasbrouck and Ms. Koch's
art classes placed in the top three in their categories in the Secondary Art
Show. They have worked extremely hard all year and have helped to earn some
respect for the Hernandez Art Program.
Lizzy McCaulley- 2nd Place- Painting/Division 1
Chang Oh- 3rd Place- Other Media/Division 1
Abril Coronado- 3rd Place- Black and White drawing/Division 1
Paulina Mendoza- 3rd Place- Ceramics/Division 2
Galya Gonzalez- 3rd Place- Painting/Division 1Well done Bulldogs! Look for pictures of their artwork soon on the website.
The first ever Cross Fit Competition was held at Hernandez Middle School last week.
Congratulations to the following
students for winning the competition at Hernandez Middle School.
Joshua Gant-7th Grade-Male
Rogelio Garza-7th Grade-Male
Lexis Palacios-7th Grade-Female
Ariana Allen-7th Grade-FemaleThese students will go on to compete in the first ever RRISD District Cross Fit Competition on May 22nd, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the RRISD Athletic Complex.
PE students have been working very hard since the second month of school
towards this goal and they all did a great job this year.
Hernandez Middle School celebrates RRISD's
Centennial.
For more information on Round Rock's Centennial Celebration, visit the
Round Rock ISD Centennial Website.
Announcements
Follow the links below to read about current events
happening at Hernandez Middle School.
Register for Reading and Math Summer Academy
Academia de Verano de Lectura y Matemáticas
KICKS Summer
Transportation Schedule
Memorial Day Holiday is
Monday, May 27th
SPHS 3
Day Kitty Clinic-August 12-14
RRISD
Title 1 School feedback requested. Please complete the RRISD Title 1 Survey.
Order your 2013 Yearbook - Time is running
out, order now.
Award Ceremony Save the Date May 24
Magical
Masquerade Ball Semi-Formal Dance Set for 8th Grade-May 24
Free Parent
Fitness Nights Continue
Worth the Wait Dates are set - Curriculum
available for review in the Library
Summer KICKS
Program to be held at Hernandez Middle School
Speech and
Health Classes Available at SPHS Summer School
Incoming 7th
Graders require updated immunizations to start school this fall.
PTA Letter to Parents
Free Food and Music at Hernandez Every Saturday
WOW - Word of
the Week - Students can earn BARC Stickers for using the Word of the Week
Future Tigers Website - Information for parents and students entering
SPHS
RRISD 2013-14 Transfer Information Link to District Website
Summer Basketball Camp at Stony Point High School
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Students are required to wear their ID everyday
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WW2 Vet Shot Intruder Who Kicked in His Door, Suspect’s Brother Says He Shouldn’t Have Been Killed
An 89 year old World War II veteran in Wake Forest, North Carolina had to use deadly force to defend himself against a neighbor who kicked in his door over the weekend.
Jeffrey Baylon Mitchell, age 47 and Calvin Anderson Ray, age 89, had exchanged words before. Mitchell rented a nearby property owned by Ray and was upset about a broken air conditioner.
According to WRAL, a repairmen had been by Mitchell’s home twice over the weekend to fix his AC unit, but Mitchell said the unit was still not working.
That’s apparently when Mitchell decided to kick in his landlord’s door. Ray, being an elderly gentleman and feeling threatened by the kicked in door, wasn’t taking any chances. He shot and killed Mitchell on the front porch.
Police took Ray into custody for questioning, but released him after determining the shooting was a clear cut case of self defense.
Mitchell’s brother is speaking out about his brother’s death. Also from WRAL,
Scott Mitchell, Jeffrey Mitchell’s brother, said Sunday that Ray should be charged with a crime and that his brother should not have been killed for kicking in a door.
“He knew my brother would never lay a hand on him,” said Scott Mitchell, who added that his brother and Ray used to be friends. “My brother was a hot-headed person. All my brother wanted was to get that air conditioner fixed so he and his son didn’t have to sleep in a hot house. My brother would never lay a hand on him ever. If there is one thing my brother loved more than anything it was his son. He’d never do anything to leave that boy in this world with just his mama.”
This is the 45th defensive gun use we’ve documented in the state of North Carolina and the 1,220th defensive gun use we’ve documented overall.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Do We Believe What We Dream? (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
I guess it's pretty standard to think that when we dream that p, we believe that p. Why?
Posted by Eric Schwitzgebel at 6:46 AM
Labels: belief, Jonathan Ichikawa
14 comments:
Delightful post, Jonathan! (And you do have my view of belief right.)
If one thinks that behavioral dispositions are central to belief (as I do), then one question is: Do we behave (or act) in our dreams? I don't actually cross streets of course, but I can imagine someone suggesting that there's a sense in which I do something internally indistinguishable from crossing a street; and maybe what's essential to belief is just what that internal "as if crossing the street" thing has in common with actually crossing the street. I don't think I'd go that way myself; but on the other hand, if we don't accept something like that, maybe it makes our work against the dream skeptic too easy? I know that I believe I'm here in Kinko's; if it were a dream, I wouldn't believe it; therefore I'm not dreaming.
Another issue is reasoning. Sometimes in dreams, I think, I make inferences. Is there a way to make sense of this, if I'm not believing? (Maybe so -- parallel to inferences within fictions?) And even if I'm not believing, at least there's a functional role or set of cognitive dispositions that are analogous to or similar to that of belief: The tendency to draw Q from P and P->Q.
This was a very helpful post for me Jonathan. Thank you. I have not thought much about belief ascription in relation to imaginative simulation. Your thoughts about dreaming seem applicable to a lot of things, including the reading of fiction. I hope to see more on this.
If much of our general experience of the world is rooted in imaginative simulation (I’m currently inclined to think so), the gap between real belief and belief within our story-worlds might not be very large . . .
Thanks, Eric. A few thoughts:
...if we don't accept something like that, maybe it makes our work against the dream skeptic too easy? I know that I believe I'm here in Kinko's; if it were a dream, I wouldn't believe it; therefore I'm not dreaming.
A major part of my dissertation is basically a response to this suggestion. Ernest Sosa thinks that the imagination model does give us this easy response to dream skepticism; I disagree, suggesting instead that, given the indistinguishability and non-identity of 'dream belief' from belief, it's a mistake to think of false beliefs as having an essential role to play in skeptical arguments.
RE: reasoning: Since I think that we imagine what we dream, instead of believe it, that we reason with our 'dream beliefs' isn't a threat to my view. Because we reason with our imaginings in just the same way as we do with beliefs.
Great post.
Dreams are just so odd on many levels. For instance when I first wake up the "dream" often seems real and I'm for a moment troubled by reconciling the waking world with the "reality" of the dream world. Further, for at least several minutes, I have full memory of the dream world as if it were part of my consciousness. That is it appears that I was conscious as I was dreaming even though we'd say I wasn't conscious.
I half way wonder if some of the problems of dreaming and beliefs are related to the problem of consciousness and dreaming.
The other odd thing is if, in a dream, I believe I am dreaming. Now is that a belief? Yet often within a dream while staying in the dream state I appear able to distinguish what is or isn't a dream and access the non-dream reality. It's quite odd.
Jonathan,
Perhaps the following is relevant.
For many years, when I lectured on Descartes and his stuff on the skeptical hypothesis that perhaps one is dreaming right now, I would emphasize that one's dreams are never actually what I would call "a Cartesian dream": An incredibly realistic dream in which you wonder for an extended period of time whether you are dreaming and are convinced after a while that you are not dreaming.
However, I stopped giving that lecture when I one day (night) had a full-blown Cartesian dream. In this dream I did all sorts of things to test wheter I was dreaming: I examined my surroundings for fantastic violations of natural law; I scrutinized the intricate details of the woodgrain in my desk and the hairs on the back of my hand; etc. After a series of inqueries, I arrived at a mental state that was introspecitviely indistinguishable from a belief to the effect that I was not dreaming.
I'm convinced, retrospectively, that the whole thing was a dream. (Largely due to the episode's being book-ended by my being in bed.) But at the time, I subjected my mental state to all of the introspective tests I would normally run if asked to figure out what I really believe.
Assuming that everything I wrote above is sincere (it is!), then wouldn't that be a pretty powerful consideration for concluding that, at least sometimes, we believe what we dream? I think it would be. I think further that a decent functionalist theory of belief should be consistent with this.
One thought: The fact that you now believe that you had such a dream is not, in my view, conclusive evidence that you did in fact have such a dream. (You know my usual skepticism about reports about the stream of conscious experience.)
But, just for fun, let's suppose (as might be the case) that you did have a "Cartesian dream". Jonathan, are you committed to the impossibility of that?
Sorry for the slow response!
Pete, I think that the dream you describe is possible, even given my view that we do not believe the contents of our dreams in virtue of dreaming them. Can you tell me more about why you think it represents a "be a pretty powerful consideration for concluding that, at least sometimes, we believe what we dream"?
Is the idea that anything subjectively indistinguishable from a belief must be a belief? I deny this. This has some interesting and surprising consequences for consideration of dream skepticism.
Jonathan, I'm curious how the possibility of a Cartesian dream fits with your imagination model of dreaming. There's an old literature that suggests that vivid images are qualitatively indistinguishable from sensory experiences. Are you accepting that, or...?
Jonathan,
I don't know if subjective indistinguishability is sufficiently clear for me to know what I'd be agreeing to. On some readings, that's what I meant to suggest. Here's another way of putting it.
All of the tests I myself can perform to see whether I believe P can be performed in a Cartesian dream.
I presume you wouldn't want to deny that we can have beliefs even under conditions in which we are systematically deceived. I also presume that we ought to embrace the possibility of belief formation and testing in systematically decptive environments like the Truman Show soundstage or Star Trek's holodeck.
Assuming that you agree with these presumptions, I'm left wondering what the crucial difference is between the Cartesian dream and being fooled some highly convincing Virtual Reality.
Eric:
Given the possibility of a Cartesian dream, I'm committed to the following: there are possible cases in which we experience imagery/imagination and are unable to recognize them as imagery/imagination.
That's weaker than the claim that vivid images are qualitatively indistinguishable from sensory experiences, because it leaves open the possibility that the reason we're unable to distinguish them is that we're cognitively impaired, or not attending to the right features of the experience.
Pete: I'm not quite sure I see what you're getting at. Tell me if this helps.
I think that this -- All of the tests I myself can perform to see whether I believe P can be performed in a Cartesian dream. -- is false. I'm not sure what tests you have in mind, but unless they're all very internal, I don't see any reason to think that this will be true.
I think I agree with the things you're assuming I agree with, if I understand them properly. Then you ask:
Assuming that you agree with these presumptions, I'm left wondering what the crucial difference is between the Cartesian dream and being fooled some highly convincing Virtual Reality.
Crucial with respect to what? One interesting difference is that I think, and have argued, that in the Cartesian dream, we don't have false beliefs. There are other differences too, but without knowing what's motivating the line of questioning, I don't know how to say which ones are crucial.
Jonathan,
I think maybe I'm losing track of the dialectic here but maybe the following helps.
You grant that there can be belief in the holodeck/Truman show cases but not in the Cartesian dream case. The question I'm pressing concerning the difference is: what's the crucial difference between the cases in virtue of which the dream case doesn't have belief?
Is the crucial difference behavior? It matters that I'm relatively immobile and in bed? Does paralysis likewise prevent one from having beliefs?
Is there something about the functional roles of beliefs that are thereby changed? If, unawares, a virtual reality helmet was placed on you, you could be fooled into believing in the presence of objects that aren't actually before you. This wouldn't change the functional roles of your cognitive economy in so radical a way that you would be prevented from believing the existence of these virtual objects. Why think the Cartesian dream is any different?
Of course, there is the question of why think the Cartesian dream is relevantly the same. My answer is (i)that it seems the same, (ii) while having it I attempted to ascertain what it was that I believed and came to the conclusion that I believed that such-and-such was real, and (iii) retrospectively I maintain that I did indeed hold those beliefs that I now reject. Those constitute at least prima facie reasons for accepting that at least sometimes we believe what we dream. I don't see that I'm obligated to derive them from some other principle (like, "everything subjectiviely indistinguishable from a bleief is a belief"). If functionalism or behaviorism somehow proves me wrong, I'm going to need a lot more convincing. In particular, I'm going to need to see how behaviorism/functionalism can consistently rule out dream beliefs while granting them in the holodeck/truman show cases.
Does this help at all?
Thanks, Pete, that does help. Whether or not you lost track of the dialectic, I definitely lost track of it. I think I'm on board now.
I don't know the answer to your question, because I don't know what it takes to be a belief. Different theories will give different answers. Behavior might have something to do with it, although you're right that paralysis presents a complication. Maybe some more internal notion of behavior is what's key.
I agree that there are important unanswered questions here. There's more work to be done. I guess the extent to which one is dissatisfied with what I've said so far will depend on how much he trusts introspective and memory reports of dream experience.
um, is it just me, or should you maybe credit the origin of the idea you discuss in your post to Sosa? Your single mention of Sosa in a comment could leave readers thinking that Sosa thinks the thought you attribute to him in response to the interesting thesis about dreams you mention. Which you got from Sosa.
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Saturday, October 01, 2016
The Case for
Abstention
"Digby" of Salon seizes on a couple of gaffes by Gary Johnson en route to introducing a half-way valid point:
... [M]ost.That's a good point, but Digby isn't taking it far enough. Digby wants "us" (by which she means Clinton supporters -- I am not) to "stop pretending" that Johnson is a "real alternative." Fair enough, but here's a whopper of a fact that both of the top two candidates are (at best) completely unfamiliar with: The proper job description of the President, as the chief executive of a government originally founded with the purpose of protecting individual rights. It is not necessary for me to list the many ways both of these candidates propose to make a mockery of this office, via wealth distribution or attacks on other rights (most alarmingly, freedom of speech). The very programs these two prevaricating proponents of improper, intrusive government threaten us with immediately disqualify them. So what if they both know that Aleppo is a large city in Syria? In that respect, it would appear that Johnson knows something that they don't.
Except that he doesn't, either. In "Why Not to Vote Libertarian," Peter Schwartz suggests that Johnson's party also doesn't know the proper purpose of government:
A mentality that regards the existence of government per se as odious will not distinguish between initiated and retaliatory force on the part of a government. It will simply mandate, as stated in the LP's platform, that we "avoid entangling alliances" and "end the current U.S. government policy of foreign intervention, including military and economic aid." Can there be alliances that enhance our defense against aggression? Can there be military efforts that protect our freedom? It's all part of one big hash called "intervention," according to the LP, and should be condemned. (Yes, the platform states that we should maintain "a sufficient military to defend the United States against aggression," but that's just window dressing. Whenever there is occasion for the proper use of military force -- against ISIS, for instance -- the libertarian directive invariably is: "non-intervention.")But Johnson's a former Republican, so many, including myself, might think or say that he'll not toe the party line so tightly as to cause confusion. That might make a vote for him worthy of consideration -- but consider the following, from Power Line:
Unfortunately, Johnson appears clueless when it comes to foreign policy/national security, and not just because he doesn't know what Aleppo is and could not name a single foreign leader. Johnson wants to decrease military spending, ignore ISIS "until they attack us on U.S. soil," eschew enhanced interrogation techniques for terrorists, close Gitmo, and abolish the NSA.Alas, it would appear that Johnson is indistinguishable from his adopted party, regarding "non-interventionism."
And (or on top of that) one could even argue that this has already happened, and one could further note that Hillary Clinton will likely continue Barack Obama's policy of deliberately importing refugees who may well be members of ISIS -- so how would voting for Johnson be worse? Schwartz answers as follows: "[The Libertarian Party] is conveying to the public the noxious message that laissez-faire means 'non-interventionism.'" Whatever smearing of what the left calls "capitalism" (often some measure of central planning) it has succeeded in, at least the American public does not (yet?) regard complete passivity against foreign aggressors as capitalism.
So, as much as it pains me as an Objectivist to agree with anything by an author from a publication that is hostile to Ayn Rand, I have to agree that we can't regard Johnson as a real alternative. But that doesn't mean I am going to join them in asserting that this election offers any real alternative.
Were this a regular job and I were on a hiring committee, I'd recommend making do without any of the "help" on offer. The best I can do in this election, is to vote for Republicans down the ticket (in the faint hope that they might rein in any winner) and abstain from casting a vote for any Presidential candidate. I am not "throwing away" my vote: The fools from both major parties who want the government to "take care of everyone" in any sense other than keeping us free "took care of" that months ago.
Weekend Reading
"The dollar is down nearly 5% in terms of one form of honest money." -- Keith Weiner, in "The Fed is Good for Gold" at Acting Man
"If you feel you have no choice but to rush, then something else is probably wrong." -- Michael Hurd, in "'Rush' Is A State of Mind" at The Delaware Wave
"Good mental health starts with identifying and correcting contradictions that we don't realize we're holding on to." -- Michael Hurd, in "How Confusion Can Be Helpful" at The Delaware Coast Press
Somehow, Not Ending With a Bang
Pharma blogger Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" posts are always a hoot. His latest, about a compound "that becomes less explosive as a one-to-one cocrystal with TNT," ends with him contemplating a lab procedure from a paper about the compound:
..?And if drawing Cthulhu's attention isn't funny enough for you, his earlier post about hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (aka CL-20) includes gems like the following:... [bold added]
Hexanitro? Say what? I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio.Oh, and if it's not odd enough that there are people willing to work with such things, see the addendum to this earlier post.
-- CAV
Updates
Today: Corrected "reign" to "rein" in first section.
5 comments:
Hi Gus,
Grammar? Vocabulary? nazi here.
Thought that this might have gotten past your homophonic sensor array.
...(in the faint hope that they might reign in any winner)...
I have no doubt that they intend to rule and reign but I think you might actually be wanting the leather straps that keep a horse from running away with you. (Or with the gov't and the erstwhile protection of your individual rights.)
I have to agree that Johnson has thoroughly disappointed my nascent hopes of his being an alternative vote. But on the topic of wasting your vote...
The US Presidential Election arguably had 1 major party - the ever-present Democrats in favor of slavery - and three 'Third Party' candidates. I wonder how many of the present Republican Party-types would have argued against 'wasting your vote on Abraham Lincoln'.
And, of course, this gem from the Simpsons.
And the inevitable denouement.
c andrew
"The US Presidential Election [of 1860]..."
C.,
Thanks for your comments and for catching the error, one of the few I seem to make consistently. I'm on the way to my kids' gymnastics lesson, so I'll enjoy the videos later.
Gus
The Power Line assertion that Gov. Johnson "could not name a single foreign leader" is false and it's too bad that most in the media perpetuate this distortion because, in fact, MSNBC's Chris Matthew's asked the governor to name a single foreign leader he "looks up to"; this is what Gary Johnson could not name. Big difference. To this point, Johnson himself later posted on Twitter that he still "could not name a single foreign leader he looks up to" a day or two later.
Scott,
Thank you for pointing that out. That is a big difference indeed, and the perpetuation of the incorrect impression not only is unjust, it sucks all the oxygen out of the fertile ground what Johnson's tweet could have opened up. Namely, "On what grounds does any leader derserve admiration?
Gus
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Three newly discovered bonebeds from the Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, China, are unusual in preserving vertically stacked and articulated to associated skeletons of at least 18 small, non-avian theropod dinosaurs in pits that are 1-2m deep.
Louisville, Ky. - A new adventure will be stomping into the city and heading straight for the Louisville Zoo in March.
Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Environment and also in Communities Tuesday 19th January 2010 - 12:15pm Prehistoric prints to become England's newest geological conservation site Natural England announced today that the dinosaur footprints and tracks at Ardley Trackways, near Bicester in Oxfordshire, have been notified as a Site of
It's not a blockbuster movie, but Hela Sheth with the Exploreum says, "It literally feels like Jurassic Park out here." Sheth is talking about the newest Exploreum exhibit, 'Dinosaurs Alive!' "We have 12 animatronic dinosaurs.
On Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30pm, join Dr. Andrew Farke when he discusses an infamous dinosaur in his lecture, "Chasing Triceratops: A New Look at the Horned Dinosaurs," at the San Bernardino County Museum. This presentation is open to public and free of charge.
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Year Four.
It is two o’clock on a Wednesday and Russell Price is on a conference call.
“Yeah, I know you’re behind budget in denominational support for 3 years straight, but I’m telling you, you’re not getting out of that spiral without the right leadership and that will probably cost you some money. …Uh-huh. …That’s what I’m sayin’ here. Look, the numbers don’t lie: fours years in this place and he’s got 121 professions of faith, 78 recommitments, 246 new members, a 15% rise in average worship attendance, and annual giving increases to show for it! …I get what you’re saying, so when you get ready to talk turkey let me hear from you. …Yep …Bye.”
It still feels awkward to trott out statistics like that. Raw, detached. More like making the case for a potential Hall of Fame baseball player than for a servant of God Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. But someone’s got to cut through the mush and help people connect the dots, right?
A call back. Didn’t take so long. Personnel committees who’ve been leaned on by deacon boards tiring of running the show and harrassed by congregations growing weary of the interim pastor whose specialty is something other than preaching are more crisp decision-makers who respond pretty well when they hear the stats. There’s a myth in America that “the numbers don’t lie.” It seems to be true in baseball… well, except for the juicing. Still, powerful myth. No one’s sure if it’s true, but no one has figured out how to argue with it either.
“Can he preach this Sunday?”
“I don’t see a problem with that. Let me give him a call. I’ll confirm with you later today.”
“Thanks.”
“You betcha.” Rusty hangs up the phone. “Sold,” he says to himself before dialing the number. Part of selling your guy is knowing you’ve got someone worth selling, someone who’ll deliver.
“Andy… Rusty. Listen, how’s this Sunday for a preaching look-see? I think I’ve got you a winner…”
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This week, OSHA posted on its website a case study designed to show the benefits of implementing a comprehensive workplace safety and health program. In announcing the case study, Assistant Secretary Edwin Foulke, Jr said the report “is a good example of what can happen when management and employees dedicate themselves to workplace safety and health.” The news release’s quote from the company was equally positive “…safety is part of our culture, and we have had measurable results over the past 5 years.” But, the Foulke-promoted report has a familiar blame the worker tone, even suggesting in one part that an employee’s broken wrist was not really work-related.
The case study involves Ritrama Universal Duramark of Minneapolis which is described as a “multi-national corporation that manufactures pressure-sensitive films and labels for the automotive, beverage, health, beauty and pharmaceutical industries.” Back in October 1997, Ritrama was inspected by the State of Minnesota’s OSHA-program (MNOSHA) and received 10 citations. Several were for guarding of belts, moving equipment parts and other hazards, and some for electrical and lock-out/tag-out dangers. The company contested the citations and entered into a formal settlement agreement with MNOSHA. The Ritrama report says the firm agreed to do the following:
- develop a leadership-management program
- involve employees in a safety and health program
- appoint a safety director
- form a safety committee, and
- develop a recordkeeping program for injuries and illnesses
So far, so good. The company reported a reduction in lost-time injury cases from 13 in 1996 to 1 in 2005, and 269 days of restricted duty for employees (because of an injury or illness) in 1995, compared to 0 in 2004 and 2005. The results sound almost too good to be true, and I don’t have any data to indicate that they aren’t true. My concerns comes from a few other things I read in the report.. Surgery revealed that this employee had a pre-existing condition that resulted in multiple surgeries.”. (The original alliance agreement was signed in 2002, renewed in 2004 and again in 2006.)
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Kimi ni Todoke ep 19 February 17, 2010 by halfadeckshort 4 Comments Her miniskirt dreams Left hanging in the closet: Walking by, alone. Advertisements Share this:Twitter Related
February 18, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Even though the plot is predictable, the final moment really got to me. That is some genuine melancholy that hit me right in the gut.
February 18, 2010 at 5:17 pm
They did a great job of making her reactions understated and believable. I liked how she sabotaged all of his former relationships by running up to him with bugs while he was with his girlfriends, and how she resists doing something similar now. She’ll end up with Ryu though, so it’ll turn out to be a good thing for her… but it still sucks for now.
February 20, 2010 at 1:50 am
Good thing Chizuru cheaped out and bought that simplistic mini-skirt rather than the expensive ruffled skirt. This is why you need to check your store’s return policy!
February 20, 2010 at 6:48 pm
You’re right, it’s probably too late to exchange it for the Kafka Makeover Kit® (even though there have been indications that Katayama might be into that kind of thing). Threesome?
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Moscow, Russia (Sports Network) - The trips up and down the giant ramp became almost dizzying throughout the night at the World Cup city event in Moscow on Tuesday but one after another the dominant parallel masters became clear and after the very last lightning quick run down the 18-gate course, Alexis Pinturault and Julia Mancuso were the winners.
A totally different format for alpine World Cup athletes, the excitement of the Moscow race became clear from the start. Racers, standing side by side, bounced up and down in the start gate before tipping back and launching out of the gate. Throughout the night, a few athletes were slammed in the legs with the start gate, thrown sideways, skied through gate panels and charged into the pads after crossing the finish line.
German Felix Neureuther was the man to go up against Pinturault in the Big Final and the two were a tight match, taking turns in the lead across the finish but it was the Frenchman who pulled ahead, landing the very first victory of his World Cup career. Thus, Neureuther ended up second and, after beating Austrian Romed Baumann in the small final, Sweden's Andre Myhrer rounded out the podium in third.
The women's final heats proved equally exciting, as Mancuso ended up taking down Austrian Michaela Kirchgasser in both runs of the Big Final as the Austrian took second place and keeping up the ongoing rivalry, Lindsey Vonn one-upped Maria Hoefl-Riesch in the Small Final to round out the ladies podium.
Ironically, neither Pinturault nor Mancuso had planned on finishing on the podium on Tuesday, much less win the race.
"My first training was just before the race," said Pinturault, whose best event is giant slalom, in which he had two World Cup second places and also a second place in super-combined a couple of weeks ago in Chamonix. "I was hoping to get experience and learn for the next time, so I'm rally surprised and happy to win."
Mancuso has had the city race in the back of her mind all season but slalom is her weakest World Cup discipline, so she was equally enthralled with the victory.
"Does this count as slalom? Does it mean I have a slalom win?" she asked after the race. "In parallel, it's slalom distance [between gates], but it's tighter and more direct down the hill. If slalom races were set straight, I could be good. This event - it's half mental, half physical. You have to get out of the start quick and not be distracted by who you're racing."
Launching out of the start gate correctly seems to be the secret to success in the city events.
OFFICIAL RESULTS - Moscow, Russia
Men's City Event - Slalom
1. Alexis Pinturault, FRA; 2. Felix Neureuther, GER; 3. Andre Myhrer, SWE; 4. Romed Baumann, AUT; 5. Marcel Hirscher, AUT; 5. Beat Feuz, SUI; 5. Mario Matt, AUT; 5. Steve Missillier, FRA; 9. Aksel-Lund Svindal, NOR; 9. Ted Ligety, USA; 9. Adrien Theaux, FRA; 9. Cristian Innerhofer, ITA; 9. Phillipp Schoerghofer, AUT; 9. Alexander Khoroshilov, RUS.
Women's City Event - Slalom
1. Julia Mancuso, USA; 2. Michaela Kirchgasser, AUT; 3. Lindsey Vonn, USA; 4. Maria Hoefl-Riesch, GER; 5. Tina Maze, SLO; 5. Marlies Schild, AUT; 5. Kathrin Zettel, AUT; 5. Nicole Hosp, AUT; 9. Elisabeth Goergl, AUT; 9. Anna Fenninger, AUT; 9. Viktoria Rebensburg, GER; 9. Tessa Worley, FRA; 9. Daniela Merighetti, ITA; 9. Federica Brignone, SWE; 9. Anja Paerson, SWE; 9. Anna Sorokina, RUS.
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Another huge crash on a 400 series highway again with multiple fatalities. As I understand it, there was a previous collision backing up traffic some distance ahead and one trucker failed to stop in time. My friends, jumping on Facebook were quick to criticize inattentive driving and cell phone/texting as a likely cause. (Today’s excuse for everything.) In a statement, one friend had this idea:
“Trust me when I say this is not meant as a dig or generalization of all truckers but I do put a considerable amount of windshield time in. Every time I’m on the road I see distracted transport truck drivers. I’ve seen countless tractor-trailers crossing lines into other lanes only to come along beside them and find them with their phone in hand texting on the wheel or with it up to their ear. I’m at a point now if I have to pass a transport I switch lanes if possible or accelerate to get past them because I don’t want to ever be beside one.
Let’s face it every driver out there has crossed over the lines at one
time or another. Reaching for a coffee, changing the radio station, looking at the scenery, not to mention the volumes of idiots in passenger vehicles I see with their phone in hand every day! We have a serious problem on our roads that is killing people daily. Here are a couple of suggestions for solutions:
1) There should be technology installed in cell phones that disables them from making outgoing calls, answering incoming calls or texting when the phone is mobile unless connected to a secured, hands-free system.
2) All transport trucks should be equipped with lane sensor technology. My wife has it in her vehicle and it is quite remarkable! You can adjust the distance to the car in front of you to 2 or 3 vehicles and the system tracks and keeps your distance and will slow the vehicle to keep the separation or stop the vehicle to prevent a collision. The system also keeps the vehicle from ever being able to wander out of the lane! It’s quite incredible technology and I truly believe it can save lives.”
(my friend Vic Berzins)
I like Vic’s suggestion and would like to see this as standard equipment on all vehicles, not just trucks. I can see some obstacles to having this implemented regarding the changing weight and load dynamics with commercial vehicles. Not to say it can’t be done but, not likely in my lifetime.
I agree with Vic that one should get past big trucks whenever possible, with as much space as possible. There are a lot more reasons for this than what he mentioned. My personal opinion is that drivers following too close cause the majority of the mishaps on our highways. I like the fact that Vic is offering solutions. Most people just criticize without any thought.
I don’t know why this particular driver failed to stop but, I’d like to add this thought to Vic’s technology suggestion:
For at least, the last 27 years in Britain, on “M” (Motorways – highways like 400 series) there have been message board, electronic road signs every few hundred feet that light up indicating stoppages on the path ahead. I made fun of them when I was there because the message on the sign was usually “Slow Police Ahead”. It included whatever reduced speed you should adopt. The advised speed got slower the closer you were to the stoppage. My sarcastic comment was always “Those poor dumb witted, slow thinking, British Police.”
If Ontario can erect huge signs that tell you that it is so many minutes to such, and such an exit or transfer point, then surely this kind of advanced warning can be installed. All that’s needed is something to catch the driver’s eye warning of problems ahead. Race tracks have had warning flag systems forever. Panic actions or stops have always been traffic’s worst hazards in any situation.
Keep in mind that Ontario licenses 30,000 new drivers every year and only the worst of the worst ever have to retest until they reach age 80. For the most part, truckers and bus drivers with safety-conscious fleets are usually the only ones taking regular driver training/refreshing.
When I was still actively teaching Defensive Driving, our drivers had to attend my course once every year. Beyond the very first mandatory commercialized Defensive Driving Course they had to take, set by the various safe driving organizations, our drivers came back annually to my own specialized course designed specifically to address the daily hazards they faced. I found those drivers to be very participative, attentive and appreciative on a regular basis, This was especially so when they were proud to take home their certificate which declared them to be “Defensive Driving Specialists”. They could “stick their chest out” and be proud of their ability. I believe that pride made them safer on the road. They certainly carried those certificates with them regularly and were quick to point out when the next course was due.
I would like to add one more point. Regardless of what we do, there are no guarantees of safety anywhere or at any
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"It's the of the world as we know it . . ."
". . . and I feel fine." REM is our traditio for this final Friday of Advent in 2008th year of grace.
Posted by Dcn Scott Dodge at 8:57 AM
Labels: Liturgical Year
Hey cool, Scott! If I can get those lyrics memorized, I'll no longer be singing "eye of the hurricane lyna nana her taine na na na na na na lyna lyna lyn itt's the end of the world as we know it"...(or something worse), to that tune. :)
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Christmas is coming ever closer and this is a little chipboard book I have started to decorate. So far I have only done the front and back covers. Again I have gone ribbon crazy and used them to make the background for the front and back of the book.
The front was first covered with double sided tape in strips and the ribbons chosen from a selection from the Ribbon Girl. I wanted a different colourway from the traditional Christmas colours and chose mainly oranges and turquoises in a variety of designs and textures. These were simply adhered and trimmed in place with scissors. I liked the frayed edges so I just went over the edge with spiced marmalade Distress Ink as seen.
The front was then decorated with a nesties die cut plate in coffee, edged with the same ink and stuck in place. The word plate and Christmas trees are from PaperArtsy and were stamped on stout card in black archival ink and coloured with Copic markers to match the colour theme and cut out with a craft knife. Some orange Stickles glitter glue was added to the spots on the trees before sticking them in place with Glossy Accents.
The word plate was edged with ochre ink and mounted on foam pads as shown. Last job was to add some eyelets with a crop-a-dile to finish both the back and front.
I will decorate the rest of the pages in similar colours in a festive theme so these will be posted as I complete them. Watch this space.
Sid xx Pin It
I love how you've gone with non-trad Christmas colours, Sid. A delightful book!
this is gorgeous! Love the wonderful ribbon colors!
I love it! The colours are so brilliant!
Dazie
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That ribbon idea is great!. did you have enough?
Gorgeous mini-book Sid!
Love the non christmassy colours!
Fabulous! The ribbons look great! x
love your book , and i particually love the fact its not traditional christmas colours either - so bright and cheerful !
Great little book and I also like the non-traditional Christmas colors. Wasn't sure you did much other than ATC's :)
Hello - your book looks great! I like the way you've used the ribbons. Mary (the older ribbon girl)
Love the colours of ribbon you've chosen, can't wait to see what happens to the inside xxxx
looks like the start of something fab indeed, keep it up
Awesome! Love the mini-book.
fab work Sid! Love the colour combination on here
isa x
Sid, Hello and thank you for sharing another piece of your amazing art. Just a little not to say that when you write Xmas, that you are marking Christ out of Christmas. Just a heads up.
Penny
Oooh I like this mucho! Bravo Sid :-)
like this modern take on christmas and all the textures of the ribbons
I love the non traditional colours you have used on this Sid. it looks great.
Hi Sid
Great book, nice job.
Best wishes
Billie :)
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Here's one of John and I from Saturday too, but we're old news right?? lol! I still like it, even though he looks like he's forcing himself to smile, bad John! haha.
I just love nights like this, oh how I wish there were more! hehe.
Also, guess what I just did?? Worked out for nearly an hour! I'm ashamed to say I NEVER do that anymore, and I am SO out of shape!! I'm planning on working out LOTS once we move to Oklahoma, but I had better start now. I feel fantastic though! I'm definitely going to try to work out every day from now on! :)
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About the book
Heaven Bent is a unique collection of essays, reflections and poetry, edited by Luke Gahan and Tiffany Jones, which brings together academics, religious leaders, activists, politicians, theologians and everyday people, who explore a diverse range of spiritual expressions. Heaven Bent examines the past, present and future of faith, religion and spirituality and LGBTI people in Australia.
Heaven Bent was launched in Melbourne at Hares & Hyenas Bookshop. Cr. Tony Briffa from the City of Hobson’s Bay and the worlds first Intersex Mayor launched the book and spoke, along with edtor Luke Gahan and Alyena Mohummadally (contributor).
Heaven Bent was launched in Sydney, with guest speakers Prof. Kerryn Phelps, Jackie Stricker-Phelps, Luke Gahan (Ed.) and Gina Wilson (contributor)
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Heaven Bent : Australian lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex experiences of faith, religion and spirituality. Edited by Luke Gahan and Tiffany Jones, with a foreword by Senator Louise Pratt,
Clouds of Magellan, Melbourne 2013
paperback RRP: $29.95 | ISBN: 978-0-9874037-4-2 | 334 pp.
Bookshops: Heaven Bent is available to bookshops and libraries from our distributors – Dennis Jones & Associates and Bulldog Books.
Readers: In Australia and New Zealand ask at your local bookshop. Heaven Bent is available as ebook or print-on-demand from the usual suspects – including Amazon and Apple iBooks.
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The Episdoe was written by Jon Vitti and directed by Lance Kramer. The Storyline was pitched by Vitti, who based it on an article about social status in senior homes. The Episode features Olympia Dukakis as Zelda, Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Bergstrom and Harvey Fierstein as Karl.
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The Show begins with the Simpsons Family getting a Phone call from Grampa Simpson's retirement home saying that his is at Mt. Gropply. They had very humiliating memories together (including Mr. Bergstrom and Homer fighting each other while skiing and Lisa becoming more phobic about Nudity after Martin shows off his revealing Snow Suit)
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Boy, 9, with Down’s Syndrome who gets lost in the moment as he belts out the Whitney Houston classic I Have Nothing gains worldwide fame as his clip is seen more than 18million times
- Dane Miller, from Prosper, Texas, gave a soulful rendition of Houston’s 1993 hit
- Auntie Jeanne Miller shared footage online saying: ‘#mynephewDanerocks’
- Video has had incredible 18.6m views and 195k shares since last Monday
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An adorable video of a nine-year-old boy with Down Syndrome belting out a Whitney Houston song has brought a tear to the eye of millions of people worldwide.
Dane Miller, from Prosper, Texas, was filmed giving his passionate rendition of Houston’s 1993 hit, I Have Nothing, by his auntie during a family car journey.
As he nailed the song, from Houston’s album, The Bodyguard, he danced to the beat as if performing to a stadium full of people.
Soulful: Dane Miller (pictured), from Prosper, Texas, was filmed giving his passionate rendition of Houston’s 1993 hit, I Have Nothing, by his auntie during a family car journey. As he nailed the song, from the album, The Bodyguard, he danced to the beat as if performing to a stadium
Jeanne Miller, Dane’s proud auntie, shared the video on Facebook with the caption: ‘Is this boy not the sweetest thing ever?! He loves to sing ❤️ ❤️. Whitney would be proud #getthatboyamic #mynephewDanerocks’.
The video has had an incredible 18.6million views as well as more than 195,000 shares since Jeanne shared the video last Monday.
‘He is just very vibrant,’ Jeanne told ABC News. ‘He’s very high-functioning so if he hears music, it’s just something that sticks with him. He’s very proud [of the video]. He just smiles and giggles.’
Inspiration: Jeanne Miller, Dane’s proud auntie, shared the video on Facebook with the caption: ‘Is this boy not the sweetest thing ever?! He loves to sing ❤️ ❤️.’ She added: ‘Whitney would be proud #getthatboyamic #mynephewDanerocks’.’
Dane’s other favourite artists include Taylor Swift, Kidz Bop Kids and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
She told ABC News that her 13-year-old son Dawson introduced his younger brother to the Houston classic.
She added: ‘When we had Dane, we didn’t know that he had Down syndrome, but it wouldn’t have mattered. He has been probably the biggest blessing of our lives. He is just so loving and joyful. He is what’s good about this world.’
Danna told Inside Edition: ‘He’s been musical since around two years’ old. He’s been playing the drums. He sings. He loves music. He puts his whole heart into everything he does.’
Dane’s other favourite artists include Taylor Swift, Kidz Bop Kids and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra – in particular their song, Carol of the Bells.
Messages of support and encouragement for Dane, who has his own YouTube channel, have been pouring in from commentators on the viral video.
Victoria Latenser said: ‘His pure joy and beauty brings tears to my eyes. Thank you God for giving this beautiful soul to this world.
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‘He’s a brilliant ray of sunshine. I look forward to seeing more from this precious human being. And thank you Dane for changing the way others see those born with something extra.’
Dayna Steven added: ‘Omg my heart is melting.’
While Greta White said: ‘What removes barriers and give pure emotion and strength? This young man and music.’
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Kids Company bosses Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob face boardroom bans amid probe into charity’s collapse
- Kids Company collapsed in 2015 just after getting a £3m grant from Government
- In 15 years, Kids Company took a reported £42million from the taxpayer
- Batmanghelidjh reportedly paid £90,000 salary when Kids Company went down
- Mr Yentob forced to step down as the BBC’s creative director in December 2015
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Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob face being disqualified from running companies after the Kids Company charity scandal, it was revealed today.
The Insolvency Service has announced it will bring court proceedings against them.
It has the power to ban any senior officials from organisations that have liquidated from taking similar positions for up to 15 years if their management contributed to insolvency.
Kids Company collapsed in August 2015, amid allegations of abuse and financial mismanagement, casting doubts on Mr Yentob’s ability as its chairman.
Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob (pictured together) face being disqualified from running companies after the Kids Company charity scandal
Experts have said that any business ban could be very damaging for those involved.
Nick Moser, head of Corporate Recovery at Taylor Wessing, said: ‘Disqualifications of directors are not as common as people might think. Because of limited resources at the Insolvency Service, they usually only follow a high value or high profile collapse.
‘However, Kids Company is a collapse which was always going to be under public scrutiny and I doubt the directors will be surprised to be investigated. Even a 6 year disqualification – which is significantly less than the 15 year maximum – is serious and will have a major impact on the business lives of those concerned if that is the outcome’.
Mr Yentob was forced to step down as the BBC’s creative director in December 2015 after admitting that his involvement in the Kids Company scandal had become a ‘serious distraction’ to the broadcaster.
He had been accused of compromising the BBC’s impartiality on five separate occasions by meddling with its coverage of the failed charity.
Mr Yentob piled pressure on journalists and presenters as they were preparing to go to air with their reports on Kids Company, of which he was chairman.
He personally telephoned Newsnight executives twice ahead of investigations into the failed charity, and sat silently in the Radio 4 Today programme studio during an interview with its founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh.
His resignation was met with gleeful cries in the BBC newsroom, which has been at the sharp end of Mr Yentob’s interference.
The charity collapsed in 2015, just weeks after it was handed a £3million grant by David Cameron’s government.
In 15 years, Kids Company took a reported £42million from the taxpayer, but a damning 2016 report showed ‘catastrophic failures’.
Batmanghelidjh was reportedly paying herself a £90,000 salary at the time that Kids Company went under.
An investigation was also carried out over claims that thousands of pounds of the charity’s money was spent on paying the boarding school costs of her chauffeur’s daughter.
The charity collapsed in 2015, just weeks after it was handed a £3million grant by David Cameron’s government
Soon after, Yentob resigned as the BBC’s creative director in the wake of controversy over his role as chairman of the scandal-hit group.
Kids Company’s founder Ms Batmanghelidjh had ministers ‘in her thrall’ and her ‘powerful personality’ allowed her to become an expert at controlling people, a senior Tory MP said last year.
Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the influential Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), said the controversial charity boss deliberately prevented information reaching trustees – including ministers.
A report published by the committee last January urged the BBC to reopen its investigation into Alan Yentob, the former chairman of Kids Company, after he was accused of ‘deliberately intimidating’ corporation staff during the collapse of the scandal-hit charity.
The MPs said his meddling in the BBC’s coverage of Kids Company had been ‘unwise at best, and deliberately intimidating at worst’. And they said BBC bosses were too slow to take action against Mr Yentob.
In a damning assessment of Batmanghelidjh, Mr Jenkin told the Today programme: ‘The founder of this charity was a very, very powerful personality, who had a very, very big vision and she became expert at controlling the people around her and even the trustees were in her thrall to an extent’.
Accusing the charity’s trustees of negligence, he added: ‘People sometimes chose trustees to be very nice and well-motivated people, but who don’t necessarily have expertise in the sector they’re dealing with.’
Mr Jenkin suggested that allegations of sexual abuse in the charity – which ultimately did not lead to any prosecutions – were ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’ and led to the charity losing its reputation.
The charity, which aimed to support deprived and vulnerable inner-city children, received £46million of government funding over 13 years including £3million days before it collapsed last August.
The Commons committee admitted in its report: ‘Ms Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company appeared to captivate some of the most senior political figures in the land.’
HOW ALAN YENTOB CONFRONTED BBC COLLEAGUES OVER KIDS COMPANY FUNDING SCANDAL
Alan Yentob (right in the Calais jungle) was forced to apologise after repeated clashes with BBC colleagues over Kids Company
His first intervention came when he called Newsnight on July 2 2015 as it was preparing to reveal that the Government was withholding £3million of funding from Kids Company, which folded on Wednesday.
The following day he turned up uninvited at Radio 4’s Today studio as charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh was interviewed.
On the Thursday he tore into BBC News special correspondent Lucy Manning ahead of an investigation into allegations of abuse at the charity, but he later apologised.
Then, more than a month later – and after the initial controversy – Mr Yentob telephoned Radio 4 presenter Ed Stourton, 45 minutes before he was due to go on World At One with an item about Kids Company.
Mr Yentob insisted there is no conflict of interest because he does not have control over BBC News. ‘I’m not remotely considering my position at the BBC. I don’t think I’ve in any way abused my position at the BBC,’ he said in October 2015.
Mr Yentob admitted the interventions and said he ‘regrets’ any intimidation to BBC journalists, but insisted that he did not compromise the BBC’s editorial independence.
The BBC faced mounting pressure to axe Mr Yentob, amid concerns that he has abused his position at the corporation to promote Kids Company, and that his failures as chairman have now made him ‘toxic by association’.
Among the most embarrassing episodes, was the ‘hysterical’ letter signed by Mr Yentob and sent to ministers as the charity was negotiating for more Government funding.
It warned that without Kids Company there could be ‘arson attacks’ on Government buildings, rioting in the streets and ‘savagery’ in parts of Britain.
However, Mr Yentob compounded the embarrassment when he told MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee that a boy had been murdered because of the charity’s collapse.
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Pervert, 27, who was snared by vigilantes after asking a schoolgirl, 14, for ‘naughty pictures’ and trying to meet her for sex is spared jail
- David Coyle thought he’d been sending explicit chats to a 14-year-old called Ellie
- But Newcastle Crown Court heard he was snared by Guardians of the North
- Coyle admitted attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming
- Judge Deborah Sherwin sentenced him to 20 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with rehabiliation and treatment requirements
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A pervert was snared by paedophile hunters when he turned up to meet an underage girl for sex.
Assistant restaurant manager David Coyle thought he had been sending explicit chats to a 14-year-old teen called Ellie over social media site Whisper in June.
But Newcastle Crown Court heard the 27-year-old, who had claimed to be three years younger than his true age, had been snared by Guardians of the North.
The group’s members pose as children to expose men trying to have illegal contact with them.
Within hours of meeting online, Coyle had sent a series of graphic sexual messages to the account who he thought was Ellie.
Assistant restaurant manager David Coyle thought he had been sending explicit chats to a 14-year-old teen called Ellie over social media site Whisper in June
He had called the schoolgirl ‘cute as f***’, asked her personal, explicit questions, queried if she could ‘get out of school’ and asked her for ‘naughty pictures’.
When Coyle turned up to a pre-arranged meeting in the street with who he thought was Ellie, he sent a message saying he believed he was being ‘set up’ and that ‘something had spooked him’.
He was collared by the Guardians of the North, sitting in his car nearby.
Prosecutor Richard Herrmann told the court: ‘They took possession from him of his mobile phone and car keys before the police were contacted.’
The court heard Coyle was carrying condoms in his car when he was arrested.
Coyle, of Sycamore Park, Brandon, County Durham, admitted attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
He had called the schoolgirl ‘cute as f***’, asked her personal, explicit questions, queried if she could ‘get out of school’ and asked her for ‘naughty pictures’
The judge said the suspended sentence means the probation service can work with Coyle to prevent further offending
Judge Deborah Sherwin sentenced him to 20 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with rehabiliation and treatment requirements.
Coyle must abide by a sexual harm prevention order and sign the sex offenders register for ten years.
The judge told him: ‘Over the course of 24 hours matters escalated very quickly because from chatting to her you raised with her all sorts of sexual possibilities of things you wanted to do to her.
‘There was an idea to meet up. You arrived to meet her and drove to the area where you expected her to be.
‘At the last moment you got cold feet, no doubt because you realised you had been set up. You were stopped by those who were setting you up.
When Coyle turned up to a pre-arranged meeting in the street with who he thought was Ellie, he sent a message saying he believed he was being ‘set up’
Liam O’Brien, defending, said Coyle had not set out to speak to someone underage and had been on an adult website
‘Of course, Ellie never existed, she was a persona adopted by a member of Guardians of the North, a group that go on the internet and pose as young girls.
‘At the time you were conversing with her you thought she was a real person and the arrangements meet up were real.’
The judge said the suspended sentence means the probation service can work with Coyle to prevent further offending.
Liam O’Brien, defending, said Coyle had not set out to speak to someone underage and had been on an adult website.
Mr O’Brien added: ‘He has, through his own fault, ruined his life by committing this offence.
‘His five year relationship ended as a reuslt of his foolish behaviour and he had to give up his employment. ‘
Mr O’Brien said Coyle, who has been shunned by some of his family, plans to move home and ‘start afresh’ in a new area.
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Paedophlie Who Raped And Murdered Girl, 3, Is Executed By Machine Gun At Point Blank Range
A of a crowd of thousands of people.
His hands tied behind his back as he was led from a prison van before being laid down on a rug in front of the crowds of people all filming on their mobile phones.
A police officer then comes up from behind him and shot him in the back as he lay on the floor.
Images of the scene also show huge crowds gathered to watch the execution in the city’s main square and many people following the police truck carrying al-Maghrabi’s dead body after his execution.
In Yemen, Sharia law is the source of all legislation.
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y’all i saw the sessions and i loved it a LOT
i’ve been really excited about this movie and i love helen hunt and MAN it was really great? so genuine and sweet and intimate and awkward and the performances were really good and i think you should check it out but not w/ your mom (unless your mom is perfect like mine)
like i laughed and cried and yelled at alexa to shut up when i was crying (she was laughing bc she doesn’t know how to handle crying) and i love helen hunt
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June Diane Raphael arrives at the ‘Imogene’ premiere during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival held at Ryerson Theatre on September 7, 2012 in Toronto.
"I don’t think I’d be watching a movie. Isn’t there someone to be having sex with or something?" - Connie Britton on the last movie she’d watch before the end of the world (via fromoneroomaway)
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With a swirl of differing, at times conflicting, opinions surrounding the equity crowdfunding industry, it can be difficult to isolate the right advice for you. Whether you’re an entrepreneur questioning whether to leverage a crowdfunding platform for your business, or a retail investor looking to diversify, it can sometimes feel like practical experience is the only way to learn more. Below, Invesdor has compiled insights from both investors and entrepreneurs with experience in the industry, to provide first-hand accounts of the ins and outs of equity crowdfunding.
Lessons for entrepreneurs
For entrepreneurs, it’s almost instinctive for your initial approaches to veer to VC and angel investors. While VC funding is an industry norm, it doesn’t offer the same transparency and publicity as an equity crowdfunding raise, and certain companies exhaust time and resources attempting to lure VC investment.
Laurence Cook, of Pavegen, which raised £1.9 million in the UK via equity crowdfunding, iterates this point: “The way we looked at it, raising the money privately might have been cheaper and faster, but crowdfunding just had so many other upsides – in better investment terms, and better publicity, that for us it just made total sense.”
Indeed, the VC community is increasingly looking at emerging equity crowdfunding trends to help spot profit patterns. As Bret Conkin, Chief Evangelist at CrowdfundSuite, states: "There’s certainly a group of crowdfunding non-believers in the venture capital community, but there is an increasing percentage who are buying into it. In some cases, they are even combing through the crowdfunding platforms, as a way of finding new companies to invest in.”
The flow-on of free media, brand advocates, and investor momentum that are innate in many equity crowdfunding campaigns is similarly alluring, and these traits are pulling more entrepreneurs towards the industry. As Juha Suojanen, of EkoRent, who raised €171,000 with Invesdor attests: “Because we are in the business of electric vehicles, we had a good hunch the public would be enthusiastic about our mission. As well as the money, we expected to get some free media time in TV, newspaper and radio, and tie our existing users closer to us. And that’s exactly what happened. We have been really pleased with how it turned out.”
Lessons for investors
Investors new to the concept of equity crowdfunding may assume it relies on large pools of inexperienced, so-called “Mum and Dad” investors, who need not be accredited, but who may lack the industry nous of angel or VC investors. Not so.
The democratization of finance that equity crowdfunding has allowed for means a diverse network of investor types is at play: OurCrowd Founder and CEO Jonathan Medved attested to this, saying: “The idea that venture capital and investment stays a cottage industry with no automation and no scale, no change really in fifty years is crazy.”
Furthermore, governments worldwide are responding to growing calls from the equity crowdfunding industry to enhance regulations and allow liberal frameworks, the likes of which have lead to the first crowdfunding unicorns, and successful test grounds such as New Zealand. London has set up the LCIF (London Co-Investment Fund), “new Government-backed fund designed to address the funding gap in London faced by tech start-ups, and will see £25m invested in 156 seed stage companies within the Technology, Digital and Science sectors over the next three years.” This is a testament to the industry’s endurance and nascent popularity in the UK.
Similarly, Obama attested to the industry staying power and importance when he signed the JOBS Act into law in 2012: “When their [entrepreneurs’] ideas take root, we get inventions that can change the way we live. And when their businesses take off more people become employed because, overall, new businesses account for almost every new job that’s created in America.”
Our rapidly evolving economies and cries for new, innovative means of investment have created this diverse equity crowdfunding industry, which the above experts consider a necessary and beneficial component of modern finance.
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Lose weight naturally and healthy is the desire of many people around the world. However, it is not an easy task because it involves a lot of effort. However, we know it’s worth it, because by fighting obesity, we also fight against heart problems, inflation and other health problems.
It is for this reason that experts recommend having good eating habits and physical activities.
These will help us to maintain our weight stable and to get better health. However, we have other very effective aids at our disposal. Today we will talk about 5 beats based on spinach that will help you eliminate excess fat .
SPINACH WITH ORANGE
With this beat we combine the antioxidant properties of orange with spinach dietary fiber. This beat can serve as an ideal supplement to lose weight in a short time. In addition, they help us increase our energy levels and improve our physical and mental productivity .
What we will need:
-3 units of oranges.
-7 leaves of spinach.
-2 units of kiwi.
-1 glass of water.
Preparation and use:
The first step is to thoroughly wash the spinach leaves and put it in the blender. Then add the juice of the oranges. Then, add the chopped kiwi and the glass of water to facilitate the liquefaction process. Now, we liquefy everything for several minutes or until we get a consistent substance . Of this powerful substance we must consume 1 cup just before exercising. We can also consume it in fasting and mid-afternoon.
SPINACH, MANGO AND COCONUT WATER
The combination of the nutrients of these ingredients will allow us to be able to weight in a very short time. In addition, this drink helps us fight cholesterol and fluid retention . Its vitamins and minerals promote the balance of inflammatory processes. In the same way, they avoid fatigue and anxiety.
What we will need:
-Coconut water (1 cup).
-Spinach (6 leaves).
-Mango (1 unit).
Preparation and use:
Like the previous shake, we must wash the spinach leaves very well. Then we put them in the blender along with the pieces of mature mango and coconut water. We will liquefy everything until we have a homogenous substance without lumps .
This fabulous beat should be taken as an appetizer, out of the main meal hours. That is, instead of eating a snack when we are hungry, we will drink this beat . Also we can consume it in fasting or as part of the breakfast.
SPINE, PINEAPPLE AND AVOCADO
This beat, in addition to combating excess weight, will give us a lot of energy. It improves our metabolism, and eliminates the desire to eat more than we truly need. It is also rich in digestive enzymes, anti-inflammatory compounds , etc. All this helps us cleanse the body and reduce the chances of suffering from cardiovascular problems.
What we will need:
-1 unit of ripe avocado.
-7 leaves of spinach.
-3 slices of pineapple.
-1 glass of water.
Preparation and use:
Wash the spinach leaves very well then chop the avocado and pineapple into small pieces. Afterwards, we will put all the ingredients in a blender and we will liquefy them very well. This powerful drink should be taken fasting, at least 3 times a week . We can also ingest it to satisfy hunger and anxiety.
SPINACH, BANANA AND PEACH
This drink is considered one of the best energy drinks and anti-inflammatory. Aside, it has few calories, so it helps us to lose weight. It provides the body with all the nutrients it needs to supplement your diet without being hungry .
What we will need:
-6 leaves of spinach.
-1 unit of peach.
-1 unit of ripe banana.
-1 glass of almond milk.
Preparation and use:
First, we must wash the spinach leaves thoroughly. Then, we will put all the ingredients in a blender and we will liquefy them along with the milk of almonds. We must liquefy everything until obtaining a homogenous substance, ready to be ingested. This beat will be taken in the middle of the morning or before the workouts .
SPINACH AND APPLE
Both ingredients have very useful properties when it comes to losing weight. In addition, they promote body detoxification and overall health. This beat will ingest if we have digestive problems or suffer from constipation .
What we will need:
-Col (2 leaves).
-Water (1 glass).
-Lemon (1/2 unit).
-Spinach (7 leaves).
-Green apple (1 unit).
Preparation and use:
All ingredients should be put in a blender, with spinach leaves previously washed. Now, we will liquefy everything very well until we get a homogenous and consistent substance. This drink will consume 2 to 3 times a week . That will be enough to lose weight quickly and without much effort.
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SVK::Command::Status - Display the status of items in the checkout copy
status [PATH..]
-q [--quiet] : do not display files not under version control --no-ignore : disregard default and svn:ignore property ignores -N [--non-recursive] : do not descend recursively -v [--verbose] : print full revision information on every item
Show pending changes in the checkout copy.
The first three columns in the output are each one character wide:
First column, says if item was added, deleted, or otherwise changed:
' ' no modifications 'A' Added 'C' Conflicted 'D' Deleted 'I' Ignored 'M' Modified 'R' Replaced '?' item is not under version control '!' item is missing (removed by non-svk command) or incomplete '~' versioned item obstructed by some item of a different kind
Second column, modifications of a file's or directory's properties:
' ' no modifications 'C' Conflicted 'M' Modified
Third column, scheduled commit will contain addition-with-history
' ' no history scheduled with commit '+' history scheduled with commit
Remaining fields are variable width and delimited by spaces: The working revision (with -v) The last committed revision and last committed author (with -v) The working copy path is always the final field, so it can include spaces.
Example output:
svk status M bar.c A + qax.c svk status --verbose wc M 53 2 sally wc/bar.c 53 51 harry wc/foo.c A + - ? ? wc/qax.c 53 43 harry wc/zig.c 53 20 sally wc
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Introduction
Apache Zeppelin is an exciting project for many of our customers who want to use the notebook and visualization capabilities to make big data more approachable and easier to understand.
Zeppelin addresses use cases like data exploration, data discovery, and interactive code snippets. It provides built-in visualization. Many users see Zeppelin as a potential modern data science studio.
This tech preview of Apache Zeppelin provides:
This technical preview can be installed on any HDP 2.3.x cluster, whether it is a multi-node cluster or a single-node HDP Sandbox. The following instructions assume that Spark (version 1.4.1 ) is already installed on the HDP cluster.
If you have an HDP 2.3.0 cluster, it came with Spark 1.3.1, you can either upgrade the entire cluster with Ambari to 2.3.2 to get Spark 1.4.1 or only manually upgrade Spark to 1.4.1
The Zeppelin Technical Preview is provided as a tarball, compiled against Spark 1.4.1.
The below steps run as user root.
wget
tar xvfz zeppelin-0.6.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz
cd zeppelin-0.6.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT cp conf/zeppelin-env.sh.template conf/zeppelin-env.sh
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf export ZEPPELIN_PORT=9995 export ZEPPELIN_JAVA_OPTS="-Dhdp.version=<HDP-version>"
To obtain the HDP version for your HDP cluster, run the following command: hdp-select status hadoop-client | sed 's/hadoop-client - (.*)/1/'
cd zeppelin-0.6.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT
cp /etc/hive/conf/hive-site.xml conf/
Make sure to remove “s” from the value of hive.metastore.client.connect.retry.delay & hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout in the hive-site.xml in zeppelin/conf dir to avoid a number format exception.
su hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root hdfs dfs -chown root /user/root
To launch Zeppellin, run the following commands:
cd zeppelin-0.6.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT bin/zeppelin-daemon.sh start
The Zeppelin server will start, and it will launch the Notebook UI.
To access the Zeppelin UI, enter the following address into your browser:
http://<node_where_zeppelin_is_installed:9995>
Note: If you specified a port other than 9995 in zeppelin-env.sh, use the port that you specified.
Before you run a notebook to access Spark and Hive, you need to create and configure interpreters for the two components.
To create the Spark interpreter, go to the Zeppelin Web UI. Switch to the “Interpreter” tab and create a new interpreter:
master yarn-client spark.home /usr/hdp/current/spark-client spark.yarn.jar /usr/hdp/current/spark-client/lib/spark-assembly-1.4.1.2.3.2.0-2950-hadoop2.7.1.2.3.2.0-2950.jar
Note: the path for spark.yarn.jar assumes that Spark 1.4.1 is installed. If you are running Spark 1.5.1, change this value to the path for Spark 1.5.1.
spark.driver.extraJavaOptions -Dhdp.version=2.3.2.0-2950 spark.yarn.am.extraJavaOptions -Dhdp.version=2.3.2.0-2950
Note Make sure that both spark.driver.extraJavaOptions & spark.yarn.am.extraJavaOptions are saved. Without these properties set, the Spark job will fail with message related to bad substitution
Configure the Hive interpreter:
hive.hiveserver2.url jdbc:hive2://<hive_server_host>:10000
Note: the preceding setting uses the default Hive Server port of 10000. If you use a different Hive Server port, change this to match the setting in your environment.
To create a notebook:
res0: String = 1.4.1 Took 32 seconds.
Zeppelin comes with a notebook called Zeppelin Tutorial. The tutorial is a good way to explore Zeppelin.
You can find many more sample Zeppelin notebooks at
Often in the notebook you will want to use one or more libraries. For example, we recently published a blog on Magellan – a library for Geospatial analytics in Spark. To create a notebook to explore Magellan, you will need to include the Magellan library in your environment.
There are three ways in Zeppelin to include an external dependency.
")0.3-s_2.10")
For more information, see.
spark.files /path/to/my.jar
export SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTIONS="--packages group:artifact:version"
To stop the Zeppelin server, issue the following commands:
cd zeppelin-0.6.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT bin/zeppelin-daemon.sh stop
There is an experimental Ambari stack definition for Zeppelin available for installing Zeppelin and managing its configuration and life cycle (GitHub repository). This stack definition can build Zeppelin or use a pre-built version.
If you need help or have any feedback or questions with the tech preview, please first check out Hortonworks Community Connection (HCC) for existing questions and answers. Please use the tag tech-preview and zeppelin.
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Data::Riak::Result::WithLinks - Results with links
version 1.7
This object's list of Data::Riak::Links.
my $link = $obj->create_link( riaktag => 'buddy', );
Create a new Data::Riak::Link for this object's key within its bucket.
This only instanciates a new link. It won't automatically be added to the object's list of links. Use "add_link" for that.
my $obj_with_links = $obj->add_link( $obj->create_link(riaktag => 'buddy'), );
Returns a clone of the instance, with the new link added to its list of links.
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Infinity Interactive.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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Creative Nail Designs - maybe with white tips and black or different colored lines
Lace designed white French tips. Beautiful and artistically looking French tips with lace designs in white nail polish on the bottom part of the nails.
Designs of French manicure are much more intricate this season. Click to see our favorite French manicure designs.
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Arrest warrant issued for former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson in South Florida.Story | Conversation | May 16, 2013
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Cutting No. 3 receiver Chris Henry after his latest arrest makes this much clear for the Bengals: Making Chad Johnson a happy camper is an even greater priority, writes James Walker.Story | Conversation | April 03, 2008
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Christian Bale - He was better as a cowboy. And by cowboy I mean Newsie. And by Newsie I mean Jack.
Christian Bale. Freaking Yes.
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Christian Bale is a force to be reckoned with be it whatever role he takes on. The commitment that he gives to his role is always above and beyond! Every actor should learn from him!
christian bale - let's get married! ;) haha the hottest batman ever!
christian bale = christian grey I would die a happy woman if this happened!
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Quotes from Shakespeare - Test Your Memory
Two Quizzes on Shakespeare Quotes
How well do you know your Shakespeare? The amount of famous quotes from Shakespeare's plays is extraordinary. How well do you remember who said what and in which play?
Take these two quizzes to find out. The first asks simply in what play did a particular quote appear. The second asks who spoke the particular quotes.
Warning: It's not easy!
Which works do you prefer?
Which genres of Shakespeare's work do you prefer?
Was it easy, hard, impossible? How well do you know your Shakespeare?
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40% and 80% - I used to know a lot, but I've forgotten so much.
Great quizzes!
I just learned how much I do not know about Shakespeare...10% and 40%, brought the average down!
Great lens~ loved the quizzes :)
This is great! Thanks a lot!!! As you can see from my handle, I'm a Shakespeare nut, too. Mystico is the dream magician in my first novel - 'The Crystal Dream', which is a take off of Will's last work - 'The Tempest'.
Pretty challenging, but fun. Good lens.
Pretty Hard. I haven't cracked open my Shakespeare anthology in a while now.... perhaps now's the time! Great quizzes :)
Whoever said when you're in doubt go with your 2nd guess rather than your instinctive first answer was wrong. I only got 20% on the play quiz but would have got 60% if I went with my first reactions. The second quiz on quotes I got 50% which isn't too bad considering I only fully read 2 of his plays.
Great quiz! Tough, even for this English teacher
good quizzes. I need a Shakespeare refresher course. 60% Ugh!
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Who's the best team in the NFC? With the Packers, Giants and Lions moving up, SportsNation says the Cowboys are still on top. And what is Kobe Bryant's trade value? If they had to pick one player to start a team, they wouldn't pick Kobe.
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What should be the spread on the Dolphins-Patriots game this weekend? Pats-Cowboys was seen by 29.1 million viewers, the most watched regular season NFL game since '96. And what players would you trade for Kobe Bryant?
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Useful Photoshop Tools
Useful Photoshop Tools
>Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features." Wikipedia
Like many digital photo editing software programs Photoshop has many tools that any photographer can use to enhance, shape, alter or manipulate any photograph.
However, it does not help if many of these tools are not fully understood and you tend to get their applications confused with other tools are their respective applications.
Some of the most confused tools are the stamp tool, the healing brush, the opacity tool , the fill tool, merge visible layers, and the flatten image tool.
Each has a specific purpose and to use them appropriately you need to really understand what each was designed to do.
For this you need to read as much as you can about each tool as well as to look at several examples of each tool in use in before and after selections.
Let's begin by defining what each tool is meant to do and although some work in similar ways to others each is distinctly separate and different from the others.
The stamp tool is very similar to the clone tool in that it takes pixels (parts of an image) and uses these pixels to replace pixels in another part of the photograph. It is very useful for removing imperfections from an image like dust spots, blemishes and so on.
Its most important application is for removing, or rather replacing pimples, and skin discolorations from the face area in a portrait.
For those who shoot film like I do, it is probably the most important tool in Photoshop. Film is very susceptible to dust particles and even the smallest ones can ruin a picture.
Click on a part that you want to copy like a perfect skin section then use the tool to replace unwanted parts. Follow the instructions in Photoshop but it is usually right click on the part you want and left click on the part that you do not want.
Better work with small areas one at a time and always remember that any part you click on will be replaced by the part you wanted and this can get tricky if the scene feature various degrees of light and dark areas as well as different degrees of coloration (not all face portions look the same for example).
Opacity sample
The healing brush tool is also very useful for "repairing" unwanted areas.
The healing brush captures the texture and coloration of the area you took as the best sample you want and blends it with the color tone and texture of the area you are painting over.
The healing brush is most useful for removing small details from an image and the stamp tool is most useful for replacing something in the picture.
If you have an element in the scene like a tree branch that seems to protrude from a subject's head then the stamp tool is perfect for getting rid of it.
Do you understand these tools better now?
The merge visible layers and the flatten tool. The merge visible layers mergers all visible layers with one another so it seems as if everything (color wise) belongs in the same place while the flatten tool will merge all layers (everything) and gets rid of the invisible layers.
The easiest way to think about these two tool is to think of subtle differences in color. One will blend subtle differences together while the other will eliminate the most subtle ones.
Healing brush tool
Creative (albeit strange) use of the clone stamp
The next two easily confused Photoshop tools can be said to be Opacity and the Fill tool. One works the entire opacity of the image while the other only reduces opacity to a particular layer.
They are very similar in their application but keep in mind that the more you reduce the opacity the more "transparent" the entire image becomes to the point of being completely transparent and this occurs at the 0% point when the image is completely transparent.
The fill just makes a layer (part) of an image become "transparent" and the more you reduce it the more that portion becomes transparent until you reach the 0% mark. Think of a portrait of a lady. Opacity will make the entire portrait transparent while the fill will only make her "hair", for example, transparent.
Another useful tool is the Skin Glow Enhancement
These tools along with many more are ways to enhance your pictures and make them better in ways that were not possible before the introduction of the digital photographic age.
The bets thing that anyone willing to digitally edit pictures is to become familiar with the chosen program like Photoshop or Gimp, practice often and read as much as possible before venturing into doing any sort of digital editing with any photographs that mean something to you.
Use these and any other tools wisely and keep in mind that they should be used when you want to be creative and if you want to add some "humph" to your images but should never be abused or rather overdone to the point that the originality of the photograph is lost in all the digital editing. This off course is unless you are doing so purposelessly for a specific purpose..
However nothing is a suitable substitute for a good creative eye, a photographic mindset and good use of your skills as well as a thorough understanding of the limits and capabilities of your gear.
Nothing will ever replace the best piece of equipment which you possess and that is what is between your ears and inside your head...your brain!
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Tim Kavanagh sifts through ESPN Insider's top fantasy content from Week 16 to present the best start, sit, injury and pickup advice in one place.
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Scouts Inc. offers a full seven-round projection for the 2013 NFL draft.
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Fan found dead after being ejected from Buffalo Bills game
A fan ejected from Thursday night's game between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins was found dead in a small creek Friday morning near Ralph Wilson Stadium, according to multiple reports.Story | Conversation | November, 2011
NFL roster moves and player deals for Friday
Rounding up Friday's deals in NFL free agency.Story | Conversation | July 29, 2011
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Source: Cowboys to retain quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson.Story | Conversation | January 12, 2011
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The Benefits Of A Spare Tire Bike Rack
A spare tire bike rack is the perfect accessory for people who not only need to transport their bikes, but are also proud owners of a vehicle like a jeep that has a spare tire on the back.
If you are going on a biking vacation or even a weekend away, you may want to consider purchasing a spare tire bike rack for your vehicle. This is the best way to keep it safe and, most importantly, secure on your car or van.
If you are going on a short journey you may have been able to fit your bike into the back of your jeep and have no problems at all but if you are going on a longer journey with other people, this may not be the best solution.
Thinking About Buying A Bike Rack For Your Car?
Other reasons to consider buying a bike rack for jeeps include:
- A bike rack can hold more than one bike
- You will have more space in your trunk
- Your bike will be protected from knocks and scrapes
- Bike racks are available at competitive prices
A Bike Rack Can Hold More Than One Bike
If you are a couple or you have children, you may want to take more than one bike with you on your travels. If you invest in a good quality bike rack, you will be able to attach more and still have space to spare.
You Will Have More Space In Your Trunk
A vacation away usually involves luggage and other essential accessories. This will all need to fit in your trunk somehow. If you use a bike rack which is mounted on your spare tire, you will be able to free up the much needed space inside your jeep or van, as well as the space on the roof of your car. There will be no need to try and reduce the amount of things that you can take with you. Everything will fit nice and neatly.
Your Bike Will Be Protected From Knocks And Scrapes
If you secure the bikes to the spare tire, they will be locked into place. This means that they cannot slip and slide as they could if they were attached using ropes, cords or cables. If you choose the right type of bike rack for your car, van or jeep, you can ensure that the bicycles are held statically in place and will not move until you unlock the rack to remove them yourself.
Bike Racks Are Available At Competitive Prices
If you are looking for the perfect spare tire mount rack for your jeep, you will see that there is a great choice online. The prices will range from the basic budget option to the highly professional, technical and security laden bike rack. Whatever your budget, you are sure to find the right thing to meet your requirements.
Whether you are looking for bike rack for jeeps or a spare tire bike rack that holds more than one bike, take a look at the following that are on offer.
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Bruins Take Game 1 In OT
Brad Marchand's overtime goal gave the Bruins a 3-2 win and 1-0 series advantage over the Rangers
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The Word: NHL Rough Play
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The Bruins rallied from three goals down in the third period to force overtime and beat the Maple Leafs to advance to the second round of the playoffs.May 13, 2013
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Tavares, Islanders Even Series
John Tavares and the Islanders scored six goals against Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to even the series at two games apiece.May 07, 2013
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Barry Melrose, Tim Legler and Tedy Bruschi discuss how openly gay athletes could be treated in the NBA, NHL and NFL.April 30, 2013
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Bucci's Vlogumn: Hockey Lingo The Sequel
Back by popular demand, John Buccigross reopens the Dictionary of Hockey and introduces the world to snipes, smoke shows, and toey low bacon.March 03, 2013
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Bucci's Vlogumn: Hockey Lingo
John Buccigross dives into the hockey dictionary to speak the new lingo of the game including muzzy, saucy paws, and players full of dangelitis.March 03, 2013
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Best Rivalry In Sports?
"SportsCenter" debates the best rivalry in sports.February 07, 2013
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What can fans expect when the NHL returns this weekend after an 113-day lockout? Julie Foudy, Jessica Mendoza and Prim Siripipat weigh in.January 16, 2013
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Michele Steele, Jessica Mendoza and Adena Andrews discuss the impact the NHL lockout will have on fans and the league.September 19, 2012
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Best Aztec Tattoo Designs
PreHispanic Images
There was a rich variety of art in the Aztec empire The drawings of the gods were often sharp and angular, brightly coloured. Aztec tattoos were symbolic of the Aztec devotion to their gods and religious belief . Art in the Aztec empire, like its culture and religion, came from a long history .Nowadays people choose Aztec tattoo designs to pay respect to the ancient and powerful culture of the Aztec.
Aztec Calendar Tattoo
The tonalpohualli Tattoo
Stories and myths were commonly written in pictures and represented in sculptures, giving more opportunity for art. A colored rendition of the Sun Stone, or the Stone of Axayacatl. Depicts the 20 daysigns around the Sun God. the calendar system that was used by the Aztecs as well as other PreColumbian peoples of central America. The tonalpohualli, or day-count, has been called a sacred calendar because its main purpose is that of a divinatory tool. It divides the days and rituals between the gods.
Aztec Mayan Inca Mesoamerican Tattoo Designs
Aztec Sun Tattoo
Mexican and Mesoamerican style tattoos are among the most beautiful and original new tattoos designs today. Many people with Aztec roots get Aztec tattoos in order to pay homage to their heritage, the most favorite representation for tattoos is the Aztec Sun Tattoo. The sun was very important to the Aztec people, it was the guardian of the heavens. That's why today, an Aztec sun tattoo symbolizes belief in an afterlife.
Aztec Tattoo
The Aztecs were a civilization that lived from the 13th to the 16th century in and around the area that is now called Mexico. Religion and the many gods were very important in the Aztec culture, a lot of the daily life of the Aztecs was meant to honor and please the gods.
Art could be made with gold, silver, copper, jewels, feathers, coral, clay and stone, to name a few. As mentioned before, many of materials were not native to the region, but had to be bartered fo
Tattoo Aztec Warrior Spirit
Aztec Spirit Tattoo
Ancient Aztec art was actually very lifelike. Many of their artistic representations of people, as well as animals, look amazingly realistic. The art looks full of life, reflects the people's passion to avoid death and disaster, and then to conquer even that if it came.
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Posted by cal on August 20, 2010 at 1:47 pm
i had a 4-H chocolate milkshake at the Ulster County Fair a couple weeks ago and it was DAMN GOOD!!! when are you guys going fair-ing? maybe we can join you… it’s kind of a tradition isn’t it!?!
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Oh dear. The people of the UK have just inflicted upon themselves the most astonishing act of economic and even constitutional sabotage.
Of course, it is a disaster for David Cameron, whose whole legacy will be this calamity.
It is a disaster for the pollsters, whose industry is now irreparably tarnished.
It is a disaster for the bookies, who took a pounding.
It is a disaster for the winners, who have no economic or political plan they can possibly hope to implement in practice.
But none of that really matters.
What matters is that it is a disaster for you and me (if you live in the UK or its territories). Already, your and my cost of living has soared in effect 10% – everything is suddenly 10% more expensive versus what you earn and hold in wealth; and your and my assets, if you are lucky enough to have them, have suddenly decreased in value similarly.
To be honest it doesn’t really affect me that much – I’ll have to watch what I spend on a couple of foreign trips later this year maybe, but I can probably work a little harder and make up most of any gap.
But if you are on low or fixed income, you won’t be so lucky. Suddenly everything is 10% more expensive, maybe more; and that includes the provision of public services and perhaps welfare upon which you may depend. You are, instantly, materially worse off. And yet if you are in that position, the chances are you voted for this to happen.
That is the disaster.
The UK will reach an arrangement with the EU – we can only hope that neither will be diminished too severely. The UK itself may manage to stay together, though it is hard to see how – it is clear that Scotland (and Northern Ireland to a point) voted decisively in one direction while England and Wales chose another. In the shorter term there will be a change in Prime Minister and Chancellor. But none of that really matters.
The fact that people on fixed incomes have been hoodwinked into doing something which will only make their lot worse is what really matters. Yet the reason they have done so is that they feel no one is listening – and still, no one is. Not the media. Not the new Prime Minister. Certainly not Nigel Farage.
That is the disaster.
Democracy relies on people participating and making informed choices. In this Internet age, with the raft of information available, the irony is people are no longer doing that. And, as ever, it is the worst off, on the low and fixed incomes, who will pay the price of populist rantings.
That is the disaster.
We live in interesting times. But, frankly, I’d rather not.
So, it’s Brexit for the UK as a whole. But already there are calls for a second referendum in Scotland, and SF talks again of a united Ireland.
David Cameron’s legacy; the man who broke the EU and broke the UK. An even worse PM than the unhappy Lord North.
David Cameron will not have caused the break up of the EU. If that would be the result, Brexit would be regarded as a resounding success. Maybe you meant to say “broke away from the EU” instead of “broke the EU”
As for the UK breaking up, we will see. It is not necessarily the case that the Scots would vote for independence in a referendum to leave the UK. For one thing, the outlook for North Sea Oil revenues (SNP’s trump card) is getting worse by the day.
I also don’t necessarily agree with the word ‘disaster’ to describe the current situation. I voted for remain but that was on the basis of balance of risk and uncertainty and not because I particularly liked Europe. There will be short term economic diminution. As for the medium term, there could be net gains. It is very much a case of ‘wait and see.’
I would note that, in this referendum, people ignored their economic interests.
So if anyone things the price of oil will play even the remotest part in the next Scottish referendum, they haven’t learned a thing from what has just happened.
Scottish independence is not certain, but it is now likely, and soon.
I’m pissed, really pissed.
At the Labour party who chose the wrong brother.
At Cameron who called this in the first place
At the remain campaign who were ducking hopeless
At the older generation and their intolerant views
And finally at the UK nationalists who have lit a fire under the regional nationalists.
Border poll!
Border poll!
Border poll!
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Well said.
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Google News ranking factors have long been shrouded in mystery. However, a recent report aims to penetrate that shroud by compiling survey data from content optimizers who work at top news outlets. Here's what the report shows.
Summary of the Core Findings
As an executive rundown: It's vital to have a strong reputation in the category of the content; use your keywords in the title, headlines, ledes, and content; optimize your articles for social sharing; produce unique, user-driven content; focus on getting a positive Google News user response (high CTR, low bounce); and use the Google News sitemap. Additionally, standard SEO tactics – especially building links to both your core domain and your targeted content – remain relevant.
Before moving on to a full breakdown, let's take a quick look at how these conclusions were formed.
The Report's Methodology
The study, presented by Local SEO Guide, Perfect Market, and newsknife, brings together opinions from the 17 experts in the industry. Among those experts are John Shehata of ABC News, Eleanor Hong of ESPN.com, Simon Heseltine of the Huffington Post, and Topher Kohan of CNN. The full list of contributors can be seen here.
While the exact nature of the survey wasn't released, it's clear that not all items on the list were viewed as priorities for all SEOs involved; several actively dispute the relevance of factors included on the full list in their commentary. To take best advantage of the findings, it's important to prioritize the items on the top 10 news ranking factors list and focus only on the first few items noted on the additional pages.
Alternatively, you can just take a look at the following key factors.
Key Google News Ranking Factors: A Practical Checklist
Rather than going through every item on every list the report compiled, let's walk through the things you can apply to your site with minimum effort and maximum results. Here are key accessible ranking factors and how you can implement them.
• Use keywords in your headlines, page titles, ledes, and meta descriptions. After doing some basic research on the key terms related to the content, be sure to include a targeted keyword or keywords in your title. To maximize the weight of keywords headlines, try to keep your headline brief (ABC's John Sehata recommended 10 words as a maximum).
Additionally, it was suggested that you use synonyms and related words in both the areas mentioned above and in the main body on the content. As always, the use of synonymous terms should never be added to content in a way that makes the message redundant.
• Optimize your core domain. Use the standard SEO tactics to increase the number of inbound links to the main domain, create an optimized link architecture, and improve the social feedback on the core domain.
Adam Audette of RKG emphasized the importance of building links by saying, "True internal pagerank [...] is still paramount to Google’s approach to search."
• Optimize the content for social. The survey's respondents suggested that both the volume and velocity of social shares were important. As such, it's important to make social sharing easy (e.g., sharing buttons in a visible place on the content) and to get the sharing started yourself.
As AJ Kohn of Blind Five Year Old said, "Tweet first, revise the article later." Even respondents who didn't feel as strongly anticipate that social will become a much heavier factor in the coming months and years.
• Get to the story first. It's simple enough to understand: breaking the story helps your content succeed both by improving your long-term position and by giving your content a (brief) window without competition.
• Work for citations. Citations from reputed sources are seen as a major element in a given article's rank. It's important to publicize your content in channels that are likely to lead to citations, so contact any group that's using elements of your content without citation, and – most importantly – provide content worth citing.
• Provide unique content. Keep the amount of quoted material to a minimum and provide as much fresh insight, media, and original journalism on the topic as is possible.
• Optimize your headline and ledes for CTR and low bounce-rate. Create snappy, relevant headlines, enticing leads, and interesting content. The respondents agreed that Google looks at the tracked CTR from both Google News and other networked outlets to determine the user value of content. Additionally, bounces back to the Google News page is likely used to determine the rate of success.
• Produce quality content. Beyond the normal importance of quality, Google News editorial evaluators will be judging your content to determine whether it's up to snuff. Your site can and will be pulled from News entirely if the evaluators think your content is thin.
As should be evident from many of the factors noted here, quality content will also improve the success of your site by altering both tracked user behaviors (e.g., social sharing and CTR) and general optimization (e.g., you're more likely to get inbound links and article citations).
• Use standard optimization practices. Items like page load time, image optimization, ad-to-content ratio, and content length still apply. For the sake of news content, ABC News' John Shehata recommends 200 to 800 words as a general rule – a rule, he notes, with plenty of exceptions.
• Use the Google News Sitemap. This sitemap format, described in this official help page, allows publishers to specify additional details (genre, geo-location, the name of the publication, etc.), provide rich metadata that makes the News results entry more enticing to users, and increase the speed at which their content is indexed.
AJ Kohn described the importance of this tool by saying, "The Google News Sitemap: Learn it. Know it. Live it."
What We Don't Discuss Here
You'll notice that we don't mention every top ranking factor here. That's because many of them aren't controllable for standard outlets. For example, according to the report, the single most important factor is being seen as an authority on the category of the news content.
This is vital because it impacts both the Google editorial evaluators' opinions and the response of the audience; being a recognized source increases click-through, decreases bounce rate, and increases the likelihood of social sharing – all of which are trackable metrics that are recognized as influencing ranking. Unfortunately, this also means that "the rich tend to get richer in Google News," as AudinceWise's Matthew Brown puts it. It's simply not possible for a standard outlet to do any short-term optimization for this factor.
Likewise, items like "human opinions of news brands" (which involves awards and similar), as well as factors that were seen as only having a slight impact, have been omitted. Those interested, however, can view the full report and the ongoing discussion on the!
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How Strong Are Weak Patents?
We analyze patent licensing by a patent holder to downstream technology users. We study how the structure and level of royalties depends on the patent’s strength, i.e., the probability it would be upheld in court. We examine the social value of determining patent validity before licensing, in terms of deadweight loss (ex post) and innovation incentives (ex ante). When downstream users do not compete against each other or the patent holder, license fees approximate the license fee for an ironclad patent times the patent strength, and reviewing validity before licensing would be unproductive (in expected value). But when downstream users compete, two-part tariffs for weak patents have high running royalty rates, combined with a negative fixed fee, and examining patent validity generates social benefits, both ex post and ex ante. Even without negative fixed fees, rival downstream firms will accept relatively high running royalties, so determining patent validity prior to licensing.
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