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The question of the relationship between faith and works has also risen when it comes to developing a biblical worldview. This is especially important when we evaluate the motivation that an individual may have regarding their involvement in redemptive service.
We believe, like Luther, that the individual is saved by placing their trust in the finished work of Christ at the cross. There is nothing a person can do to earn their salvation. However, once a person understands the Gospel, they will of their own appreciation for what Christ has done for them, respond in a way that manifests works that express their appreciation to God. The key is to not get the cart before the horse. Works will follow conversion. Works are not combined with faith to attain redemption. The works follow in gratitude for the redemptive act by God. | 2019-04-19T20:58:08Z | https://sites.google.com/site/worldviewaddress/in-the-news/works | Porn | News | 0.392138 |
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wikipedia | "One Last Ride" is the series finale of the television sitcom Parks and Recreation. The episode serves as the twelfth and thirteenth episodes of season 7 and the 124th & 125th overall episode of the series. It was written by lead actress Amy Poehler and series co-creator Michael Schur, the latter who also directed the episode. The series finale first aired on NBC in the United States on February 24, 2015, when it was watched by 4.15 million viewers, making it the most watched episode of the season and the highest rated episode since "Campaign Ad" of season four.
With the majority of the season being spent closing long-running storylines, this episode serves as a standalone plot while also saying goodbye to both the characters and the city of Pawnee. The episode received acclaim from critics.
The gang all gather inside the parks department before business hours, as many of them are leaving Pawnee, to reminisce about their time together there. A citizen comes in, saying that a swing set behind his house on a playground has been broken for about three months. Leslie (Amy Poehler) sees this as an opportunity for them all to go on one last mission together as she is worried these people will never be together again in the same room at the same time. The gang agrees, with Leslie saying goodbye to everyone on the way to getting it fixed. After fixing the swing, the group gathers for a picture together and Ben asks Leslie if she is ready. In the last shot of the series, Leslie smiles at the camera, and says "Yes. I'm ready."
After his interim term, Garry (Jim O'Heir) is elected mayor after a massive write-in campaign. In 2019, Craig (Billy Eichner) continues to work at Tom's Bistro, where he meets Typhoon, Donna and Ron's old hairdresser, and the two end up getting married (with Ron as their best man) and living a long life together. Elsewhere, Tom (Aziz Ansari), now married to Lucy, looks to expand his restaurant business, only to lose almost all his money because of an economic recession. He then uses his experiences with failure to become a best selling author and motivational speaker.
In 2022, Andy (Chris Pratt) wants to have kids despite April's (Aubrey Plaza) reluctance. After advice and support from Ben (Adam Scott) and Leslie, April and Andy decide they are ready for kids. They later give birth to a boy, Jack, on Halloween. Elsewhere, Jean-Ralphio (Ben Schwartz) fakes his death with his sister Mona Lisa (Jenny Slate) for the insurance money, but is caught when he attends his own funeral. Ron (Nick Offerman) resigns from the Very Good Building Company, and turns to Leslie to help him, as he is at a personal crossroads; Leslie makes him the superintendent of the Pawnee National Park. In 2023, Donna (Retta) and Joe (Keegan-Michael Key) are living happily in Seattle, where Donna's real-estate firm has been extremely successful due to a resurgence in the housing market. With help from April, Donna sets up a learning initiative with her husband called "Teach Yo' Self" with Donna's commission money.
In 2025, at the Bidens' home, Leslie is approached about running for governor of Indiana. Meanwhile, Ben is approached by Jennifer Barkley (Kathryn Hahn) about running for the same position. The two try and figure out how to decide which one shall run, and head back to Pawnee to help with their decision. They decide to stop by the parks department, where the entire gang – and their respective kids – have gathered to give them support and reunite, including Ann (Rashida Jones) and Chris (Rob Lowe). While there, April and Andy reveal they are having another child, and Ann and Chris reveal that they are returning to Pawnee. We learn that Leslie and Ann have secretly conspired to spark a romance between their teenaged children, Oliver and Sonia, and their efforts appear to be succeeding. Ben and Leslie decide to flip a coin to see who will run. However, right before the two announce that one of them will run, Ben tells everyone that Leslie is the one who will be running, as he knows this has been her dream for her entire life.
In 2035, Leslie is making a commencement speech at the Indiana University, where it is confirmed she is now governor, and has been for two consecutive terms. The university also names its library after Leslie, an unwelcome honor due to the long-standing antipathy between Pawnee's library and parks departments.
In 2048, Leslie and Ben attend the funeral of Garry, who continued to be mayor of Pawnee until his death at the age of 100. At his funeral, Leslie and Ben are surrounded by Secret Service members, implying that either Ben or Leslie has become the President of the United States or the Vice President of the United States.
In the producer's cut of the episode, Shauna Malwae-Tweep's (Alison Becker) and Jeremy Jamm's (Jon Glaser) futures are explored. In 2018, Shauna's fiancé leaves her at the altar, and Bobby Newport (Paul Rudd) sees her crying on a park bench. Shauna and Bobby end up getting married five hours later. In 2020, Jamm is working in a hibachi restaurant in Florida.
The final frame of the series finale of Parks and Recreation, which aired on February 24, 2015, featured a message to Wittels.
The episode aired a few days after the death of writer and producer Harris Wittels, who also appeared on the show as dim-witted animal control employee Harris. The final frame of the series featured the message, "We love you, Harris," from the cast and crew.
The episode received ratings of 4.15 million viewers, almost double the average amount per episode.
The episode received overwhelming acclaim from critics and fans alike. IGN gave the episode a 10 out of 10, calling it a "masterpiece". Additionally, Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A" rating, stating that "the experience of watching 'One Last Ride' was something [he's] not sure [he's] ever had before with a television show", praising the phenomenal end to the series. HitFix's Alan Sepinwall also admired the episode, stating that "after this great final season, and this wonderful final episode, [he] remain[s] very much not ready for a future without Parks and Recreation, even though it ended so definitively, and so well". The episode holds an "Extremely Positive" consensus on Metacritic, the highest calibre of reviews an episode can receive on the database.
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^ "Parks and Recreation: "One Last Ride" Review". IGN. February 25, 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
^ Wilkins, Alasdair (February 25, 2015). "Parks and Recreation: "One Last Ride"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
^ "Series finale review: Parks and Recreation - One Last Ride: End of the line". HitFix.
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wordpress | I love this tower because it’s so un-German… I feel like it should be in Italy or something!
The tower is pretty cool but that pink sky is absolutely gorgeous!
The sky was the main reason I took that photo. I see the tower all the time, but it looked extra special with the sunset behind it.
Love the sky in that picture! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks. I love that sky too!
This is seriously in KA?!
Haha, yes. But don’t worry, I had no idea it was there for years either. It’s near where I live.
Check the photos you took from the castle tower… the ones looking South. You should just be able to make it out in the background. | 2019-04-20T19:00:24Z | https://confuzzledom.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/look-up-look-down-the-vierordtbad-tower/ | Porn | Reference | 0.767836 |
wordpress | My ‘Common’ and ‘Latin’ name is often said to be the same.
I have a shining disposition.
I am a delicate thing that persists long after my blooming season is over.
I’m a west coast kind of soul which is most happy in a warmer place.
Don’t be alarmed by my floral fuzz, it’s quite Innocent and won’t harm you a bit.
If you put me in the wrong place I might burn from the exposure!
My silky tassels are the most famous part of me as they can be up to 12 in(30cm) long which dangle and sway in the breeze. | 2019-04-26T06:31:32Z | https://namethatplant.wordpress.com/tag/gardens/ | Porn | Health | 0.186235 |
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wordpress | Hello WOYWWers! It’s been too long since I have been able to have a lay at my desk, with the festive season, the surprising snowfall, and DDs ice show hell-week (which coincided with the snow week as well) but I have had a chance finally to do SOMETHING crafty , other than paper globes for ornament gifts – they work perfectly to hang around a bottle of wine as a little something extra.
Anyway, I have also been playing with more rosettes – where did I read that they will be BIG (in popularity, not size!) in 2011, with many scrapbook manufacturers selling them as pre-made embellishments? Can’t recall. But as you know I’ve been making them by hand with just a scoreboard and paper trimmer for a while now and see no reason to switch. But if they will become ubiquitous, then I want mine to stand out so ..
I’ve made them before adding a little line of Stickles to the center valley fold between each peak, but I wanted something NOT bling for a change (and despite how hard it is to admit, bling is NOT always appropriate! LOL!) so I have been sewing, a bit. I just went round the rosette with a bit of spare embroidery floss, from the middle along the valley, around the edge back into the middle and carried on till I had lined each valley.
And then I got really crazy and ironed on some thin fuseable interfacing to the back and made a fabric one! Now this I really like. I think it could make the basis for a cute lapel pin.
I am starved for inspiration so am very much looking forward to seeing what everyone is doing. I suspect it will take a while because I would love to find the time to go back 3 weeks to see the ones I missed! I can already see I missed Julia’s new decor over at WOYWW Ground Zero, The Stamping Ground – I thought i was in the wrong place for a minute!
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Love these rosettes, must have a go at them myself. Thanks for the inspiration.
These are super. Thankyou so much for the video.
Love your rosettes. It looks as though someone has had a hidden spy camera in your house, stealing your ideas. The originals are always the best, though. The fabric ones are especially beautiful.
Beautiful little embellishments…I don’t think I have ever seen them before. I will have to learn how to do that!
Ha! Well I know my desk isn’t that bad, as I type, it’s empty (on account of having to move everything for DH to stand on it…maintenance story, yawn).
Anyhoo, welcome back and happy New Year – loving the rosettes…what I’ve noticed about you is that you don’t mind the time it takes to see to the details – I love the embroidery idea! And you choice of fabric actually!
ohhh they are gorgeous and I love the line of stickles.
I absolutely LOVE the fabric one! I agree with you, no reason to buy when you can make it yourself and its more satisfying too!
Yoou have made some lovely rosettes. I would not be too surprised if they are not the flavour of 2011; I have seen a few ladies make them. Why don’t you make some to sell??? Have you thought of it?
Lovely rosettes, I really like the one with the shimmer floss.
These are just lovely, not sure I would have the patience to make my own so I’ll look out for them on sale LOL!
Great rosettes – the last one is my favourite!!
WOW. These rosettes are so detailed. I love how you showed exactly how to make them. Wish I could hand sew. It looks like the perfect lapel pin or even a removable accent for a card. Happy WOYWW from # 16.
I love the fabric rosette. Have a great week!
These are so pretty!!! Don’t you hate when big companies jump on the bandwagon and start with the pre-made goodies??LOL I am glad you are staying ahead of the rosette game and making yours stand out even more. They are beautiful!
Happy New Year! Love those rosettes! I have a thing for rosettes at the moment so have succumbed and bought the sizzix die – you watch I will probably stop making them now! Thanks for sharing. No. 28.
Love your rosettes, and well done on making them your own..I especially love the fabic one.. i’m kinda lazy so had to invest in Tims die for mine.
Love the Rossettes they are all fab and yes they will be the latest crafty craze this coming year.Out go martha punches in comes rossettes!
Ok…so I’m coming back to spend time on this one! I stopped into Roberts Crafts today and saw tons of rosettes pre-made and on samples, so I think that your predictions are spot on! Yours are gorg.e.ous! Happy 2011!
Cool rosettes! I had a go at making my own but when I saw the Tim Holtz die that does all the cutting & scoring for you I just couldn’t resist. Although I feel a bit of a cheat now I’ve seen yours! Great idea to do stitching on them.
Wow, gorgeous! Looks like hard work. Thanks for the peek and sharing.
Great rosettes, I love the centrepieces!
Oh yes, I love these, not sure I would have the patience to do the sewing up the valleys (who am I kidding, I know I wouldn’t have the patience)!! | 2019-04-24T20:24:55Z | https://scrappystickyinkymess.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/fabric-rosettes/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | News | 0.110256 |
wordpress | Success in life is about making choices. When making a decision, it is often difficult to determine which choice is the right one. Just as often, the right choice is a personal one. What is right for you, may not be right for someone else.
As you look back on choices you’ve made, you may determine that you could have made better choices. Don’t beat yourself up about it. Rather, give yourself credit for being able to grow, learn and recognize better choices in the future.
There is one choice that can be applied to any situation and that is choosing not to choose. When you simply let life push you in any direction without making a conscious decision at best you will make no progress. At worse, you could be led down a dark and dangerous path.
Drug abuse, obesity, alcoholism, crime are just a few examples of what is in store for those who choose not to choose. Nobody chooses to be obese – it just sort of happens. Most drug addicts would give anything to free of the uncontrollable urge to do drugs.
When I was a teenager, I was in an environment where drug abuse was common and expected. Everybody was doing it. The default path was to simple become part of that culture. However, I chose not to take drugs. I remember making a conscious choice not to abuse legal or illegal drugs (except caffeine but I did not know it at the time). Being born poor, I knew I had disadvantages in life and that doing drugs was not going to make my situation better. I consider that choice to be one of the most significant choices in my life.
Every time I would hear about someone I once knew who died from an overdose, ended up in prison or was seen lying on the street, I recognized that that was the default path I could have taken. I simply chose not to.
The choice to avoid drugs did have it’s difficult moments. I had to leave or not attend parties where I knew drugs going to be. I had to end or avoid friendships with people who used. I had to accept that I was going to be labelled as “not cool”. The terms “goody-two-shoes”,”narc”,”Momma’s boy” were just some of the labels thrown my way.
Despite my good choices, I did fall into alcohol trap however. For some years as an adult, I chose not to choose regarding alcohol. I knew and know now that there people who can consume alcohol without it being a major problem in their lives, but for me and my family history and the environment I grew up in, the default path led to over-consumption, alcoholism and all the other difficulties associated with drinking too much.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I chose to get out of the alcohol trap and get off the default path. The effects of drinking had only just started to erode the quality of my life so I believe I stopped before I became a full-blown alcoholic.
The important thing to remember is that we always have a choice. If you have been overweight for years, you can choose to take a different path. Sure it may be difficult and require a great deal of effort, but the choice is still yours.
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wordpress | In July, I found myself looking back at some literary masters, publishers looking at new ways to sell books, writers thriving on social media, and a few lessons, bad and good, in our ongoing efforts to live the writing life. Please enjoy.
I was saddened to hear the news of the loss of one of my favorite writers Nadine Gordimer. In a year of saying goodbye to some of our best writers, this one hurts.
Writers have a hard enough time finding readership — do we really have to worry about deceased literary heavyweights vying for a share of the marketplace? Last month, I highlighted new poems from Neruda. In July, Grove announced that it is issuing a lost story from Samuel Beckett. Scribner is also reissuing Hemingway’s classic novel The Sun Also Rises with a previously discarded first chapter. It seems as though publishers are starting to mimic movie studios in the way they mine old material to obtain a new audience.
Kate Angus penned a great article at The Millions about how, even with the proliferation of MFA graduates and the hard work of small press and mainstream publishers, Americans seems to love poetry just not poetry books.
Writers Who Run the Literary Internet?
Flavorwire published a spotlight on 35 writers who run the literary internet. While it looks as though a few on the list purchased followers and reach on Twitter, most of the writers highlighted here are worth following.
No Forbes isn’t the Onion, but it saw fit to publish Tim Worstall’s article “Close the Libraries and Buy Everyone an Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscription. We all know the public library system is no engine of efficiency, but it provides more than just books to our communities (such as computer and internet access). Digitization is part of the future, obviously, but we need to find a way to support those of us who can’t afford the internet fast lane.
In June, poets were in the news with freshly discovered work from a master, a new US Poet Laureate, the loss of an influential voice, and insights into Anne Sexton’s Pulitzer Prize selection. All this, plus more from Hachette v. Amazon.
Do you sometimes wonder what the world would be like if one of your favorite writers published new work? Seix Barral, Pablo Neruda’s longtime publisher, announced that 20 Neruda poems have been discovered in his archives and will be published in late 2014 / early 2015.
Interested in how Anne Sexton won the Pulitzer Prize? In the Poetry Foundation blog, David Trinidad gives us insights into the world of Pulitzer Prize judging by digging into the Chronicles of the Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and revealing how judges’ arguments over books by Plath and Roethke provided the backdrop for Sexton’s selection.
New US Poet Laureate Will Do…?
The poetry world was saddened by the loss of influential poet and scholar Alan Grossman. Winner of countless awards, Grossman was known for a serious style that bridged Romantic and Modernist traditions.
Amazon Looking to Bury the Hachette?
Yes, it’s all about money. As Amazon and one of the big publishing houses Hachette dig in for a fight over pricing and revenue, Evan Hughes at Slate provides insights into a lost opportunity by publishers to thwart the latest Amazon power grab. Chuck Wendig also provides an even handed and humorous look at these two “stompy corporation” on his blog that I highly recommend.
I was in graduate school when I picked up a copy of Velocities, a volume of new and selected poems by Stephen Dobyns. I remember being struck by two things that resonated (and still resonate with me): that it is possible to write narrative poetry with imagination and a humane voice, and the way writing without stanzas can help the reader focus on content over form. Our best authors always make us look at how and why we write. I hope you enjoy insights into the writing process of this important poet and novelist.
I can’t pinpoint one person. When I started reading poetry late in high school, it was Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Eliot’s “Prufrock”. In graduate school, it was Alan Dugan, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. But soon afterward (1967), I found my biggest influence from poems in translation–Neruda, Vallejo, Zbigniew Herbert, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Alberti, Transtromer, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Hikmet, Pavese, Ritsos and many others. Later still I went back to sonnets: Shakespeare, Keats, Bill Knott and others. Besides liking the poets, I’d look for poets who would foil my attempts to anticipate what might come next, because at those places within the poem I would find what I wanted to learn. It was also important to me to find poets who were engaged in a conversation with the world and not simply with themselves. Also, the work of most European poets was informed by a sense of history, which I mostly found missing in U.S. poetry. Most recently I’ve found that surprise and sense of history in the Polish poet Tomasz Rozycki. I also read many contemporary U.S. poets, but we share a historical context, which may distort the poem for me, making me often see as strong what might be weak, and see as weak what might be strong.
I wait for metaphors which will help me approach non-discursively what is otherwise approached discursively. These metaphors may start with the self and then try to move out into the world, until at make my presence hardly a shadow. The form of the poem, the noise, the manner of its telling also combines into a non-discursive metaphor that compliments or heightens the substance of the poem’s telling. Any poet always has a series of concerns which he or she consciously or unconsciously wants to express, so the hunt for the right metaphor, the right telling, always seems to be going on just before the level of conscious thought. Most simply, I can often set this process in motion by reading other poems, especially image driven poems–Yannis Ritsos, for instance. I don’t necessarily take from these other poems, but my brain, in reading, becomes softened or opened to non-discursive thought. So my waiting is an informed waiting, even if on most occasions nothing happens.
At best, it has made me study subjects I want to learn more about. If I don’t read a lot of sonnets and a lot about sonnets when preparing for a class on the sonnet, I’ll humiliate myself. Terror has great pedogogical value. And I’ve been enriched by colleagues and students. But the academic atmosphere can be stultifying. Academics are often tidiers of information; poets–in their search for the right metaphor–can be disrupters of information. This is not a natural fit. There are many academics I’ve greatly admired and have been close to, but for the most part one is sleeping with the enemy. The institutions can be very comfortable and within them poets can become complacent. And deep in their hearts of hearts, etc., the academics have little respect for what you do.
As an author of a popular series of mystery novels, what seat at the table do you think genre fiction deserves in the larger discussion about literature?
A very small seat, maybe a stool. Most genre fiction offers a physical solution to an existential problem: the bad guy is shot. This trivializes the existential problem. Some genre writers, like John Le Carre, can push the boundaries of the genre and tart up the physical solution with brilliant writing and psychological/intellectual depth, but reader still wants the physical solution: the bad guy is terminally dealt with. In Crime and Punishment, Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, murders a pawnbroker for her money. A detective, Porfiry, suspects Raskolnikov and gathers information against him. Perhaps Porfiry could kill Raskolnikov in a carriage chase. Justice would triumph, but the existential problem would be forgotten. We even might be somewhat satisfied. But Dostoevsky wants a novel about redemption, not punishment, and so the novel follows Raskolnikov to Siberia where he serves eight years of penal servitude. Here, with the help of Sonya, a former prostitute who becomes his wife, he at last discovers moral regeneration and is redeemed. Whether one likes it or not, Dostoevsky’s investigation of an existential problem is complete. It hasn’t been truncated two hundred pages earlier with a bullet to Raskolnikov’s brain; it moves past a purely physical solution. My explanation is simplistic, but because the best genre writing may explore an existential problem with great subtlety and the book may be written with great skill, those virtues at least earn the genre writer a small stool at the end of the table, almost in the hall.
Stop thinking about the question and just write. Your voice will evolve our of your subjectivity, which, after all, is unique.
How does being a poet and novelist influenced your work in the other genre?
The poems gain in narrative and the novels gain in image, but they are quite separate in my mind. In addition, the books of poems are quite different from one another, as are the novels, apart from the Saratoga series. I try to avoid self-parody.
Just being alive is adversity enough. I write to save my life.
Stephen Dobyns’ most recent book is a novel, The Burn Palace, published by Blue Rider/Penguin in February 2013. Palgrave released his second book of essays on poetry, Next Word, Better Word, in April, 2011. His most recent book of poems Winter’s Journey published in 2010 by Copper Canyon. His previous work of fiction is a book of short stories Eating Naked (Holt, 2000). His other work includes Best Words, Best Order (Palgrave, 2003), essays on poetry; and Velocities (Penguin, 1994), a volume of new and selected poems. He has also published eleven other books of poetry and twenty other novels. Two of his novels and two of his short stories have been made into films. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and numerous prizes for his poetry and fiction. Between 1995 and 2007, he wrote more than thirty feature stories for the San Diego Reader. Dobyns teaches in the MFA Program of Warren Wilson College, and has taught at Emerson College, Syracuse University, Boston University, University of Iowa and half a dozen other colleges and universities. He was born in New Jersey in 1941. He lives with in Westerly, RI.
Campbell McGrath has been a major influence on my work, particularly my poetic collaborations with John F. Buckley about America on Brooklyn Arts Press. I’m excited that he took the time to share insights into his writing life with us. Please check out his advice on voice–priceless!
Always tricky to limit the list of influences, but a pretty obvious answer for me is Walt Whitman, who opened up the scope of American poetry for all who have followed him. In that same American vein, Jack Kerouac and Woody Guthrie, despite their different genres, have been important models for me, along with poets like James Wright and Richard Hugo. On the other hand, poets like Rilke, Transtromer and Basho have taught me essential things–I can’t imagine my poetry without their influence. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. And these days, the sea is full of icebergs.
Well, in general the writing process is two-part: the mysterious, internal process by which inspiration guides you to the poem in its original state; and then the hard work of developing and revising the poem to its final form. The first of these resists too much helpful advice from me, or anyone else. Usually my first drafts show up in notebooks, or scrawled on a piece of paper somewhere. From there, I work up a first draft on the computer, print it out, and revise it by hand– then go back and forth between the computer screen and the printed page. The poem has distinct identities in those two mediums, I think. Also, I am a big fan of solving problems in my sleep, and I always try to read the latest draft of a new poem before bedtime, and often wake up with just the missing word or image.
I studied poetry in high school, in college, and in an MFA program–and learned a lot. But I only really LEARNED a lot of those things when I became a teacher. When you know you have to stand before a class full of kinds and field their questions, you suddenly realize where the holes and weak points are in your own learning. So you get busy and really master material that you have only digested casually before. I’ve been teaching for more than 25 years, but I still find teaching to be personally educational as well as enriching.
Keep writing. Finding one’s voice is an essential starting point for all writers. You can’t find it by thinking about writing– you can only find it while actually writing. The process, like the old Magic 8-ball fortune teller, reveals all the answers. Also I would say this: find your voice, write enough poems in that voice to really master it, and then abandon it. Find another, larger, more ambitious voice– or to switch metaphors, grow your voice, like a plant, for a single seedling to an entire forest.
Do you consider yourself part of any school of poetry?
How has American history and culture influenced your writing?
I write about America very often–about place, travels, culture, and society–which is the world that created me, and that I still struggle to comprehend. So, it has “influenced” me doubly–by shaping my world and making the person I am, that’s the first level. Then it has re-influenced me in that I take up various aspects of our history, say, to write about, as in my fairly recent book, SHANNON: A POEM OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. It’s a big world, with lots to write about, but I find America endlessly intriguing.
…a piece of art made entirely of words.
Writing poetry is nothing but adversity. It’s really hard, it takes up all your time, it obsesses you–but it pays little or nothing. So you need a day job, and poetry is therefore a second, unpaid career you practice in your time off. I happen to be at the lucky end of this spectrum, with a good teaching job, and the receipt of several awards which paid me actual cash money. But even so–poets get all the respect in the world from me, simply for persevering in the face of economic reality.
I am a big sports fan–Baltimore Orioles, Washington Redskins, Miami Heat, New Zealand All Blacks, Barcelona–that’s five sports but I could name others if I tried.
Campbell McGrath is the author of ten books of poetry, including Spring Comes to Chicago, Florida Poems, Seven Notebooks, and most recently In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012). He has received many of America’s major literary prizes for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship, a USA Knight Fellowship, and a Witter-Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic and on the op-ed page of the New York Times, as well as in scores of literary reviews and quarterlies. Born in Chicago, he lives with his family in Miami Beach and teaches at Florida International University, where he is the Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing.
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than with an interview with one of our best, brightest, and most influential poets Rae Armantrout. My copy of Versed is pretty dog-eared at this point, and I have a soft spot in my heart and a big place on my bookshelf for quintessential California writers.
Early on I was influenced in different ways by William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson – Dickinson because she was a fearless thinker and a woman. When I was growing up it was still assumed that women would restrict themselves to thinking about love and domesticity. She used poetry to confront and argue with God, death, etc. But I think I got my line from Williams. His work is quite sonically beautiful even when it’s minimalist. And then, among my contemporaries, Ron Silliman has had a huge influence on my writing because he is willing to read my drafts and give me his honest opinion. And, because he’s been reading me so long, his takes on my poems are really astute so he knows when something isn’t quite done or when it is but I won’t stop fiddling with it.
I make handwritten notes in a journal first. The note could be an observation. I might write down a snippet of overheard conversation, or a bit of something I read, or a response to something I read, or a description of something I see. Often there’s an unresolved feeling in these notes or an idea I can’t quite put my finger on. Then I feel like a detective because I’m going after that “thing” I sense. Maybe I try to write more in the direction of the feeling/thought (I don’t separate the two) as if I were following it. Other times I wait for more information to appear. Sometimes the poem happens when there are enough elements (bits) that feel somehow related. Then I start stitching the parts together. By this time I’m working on an iPad or computer. I usually go through a lot of drafts.
I’m not sure. Indirectly. Once in awhile I actually do a take-off on something I catch myself saying to a class. I think, did I really say that? Do I mean it? And I go from there. And sometimes I’m “inspired” by something I read for class. Right now I’m team teaching a class called Poetry for Physicists with an actual physicist, Brian Keating, who played an important role in the recent discovery of gravity waves! So he got famous just as we started co-teaching! I’ve been trying to think of ways to discuss literary essays and poems with science students. That has been an interesting stretch. Two days ago I actually made a (simple) flow chart for the first time in my life! So we’ll see what comes of that!
Well The Waste Land was originally called He Do the Police in Different Voices. I think that’s an excellent title. My advice is to realize there are lots of voices in your head. Let them all come out and play. I do.
We’re like fish that way I guess. We school. Seriously, I was educated by participating in the Language Poetry revolution. Those poets are my real colleagues. But we’re all very different writers. Always were really.
How has living in California shaped your poetic voice and sensibilities?
I’m a California native. I’ve always lived here so it’s a little like asking the proverbial fish what the sea is like. That said, I think my time in northern California gave me a particular poetic education. And the space, light, and flora of southern California enter my poems as images all the time. I came from literary nowhere. Neither of my parents went to college. I started reading on my own and I ended up at Berkeley which was the beginning of a shaping experience. But when I was starting out, I didn’t have a very strong sense of what was looming above me, if you see what I mean. I didn’t know enough to be intimidated or feel overshadowed. Oddly, that may have worked to my advantage. I was dancing by myself so I wasn’t inhibited.
Well, my answer above describes the first adversity I faced. I started out behind and I didn’t even know it. Only someone as insanely stubborn as I am would have decided, standing on the sidewalk in front of a suburban convenience store, that she could be a poet. I didn’t even realize that the world was losing interest in poetry! Sometimes not knowing anything is an advantage. I did know about sexism though. When I tried showing my high school English teacher my poems, he said, “Women can’t write poetry.” That just made me angry. Anger too can be helpful!
If I haven’t already said it, I probably don’t want people to know! But here’s an easy answer. I like to dance. I listen to top 40 radio in my car. And I play “The Fame Monster” (Lady Gaga) and “My Head is an Animal” (Monsters and Men) often when I’m driving. Bob Dylan and The Stones as well. | 2019-04-19T04:17:27Z | https://writeliving.wordpress.com/tag/poetry/ | Porn | News | 0.443044 |
wordpress | Donald Trump is obviously not entirely unintelligent. By the same token, not even his biggest fan could deny that he frequently says things that are, to put it kindly, maladroit.
It was a remark which demonstrates an extraordinarily distorted view of himself. And it prompted this picture on Facebook, showing Nelson Mandela behind bars, looking sad (as he would be) but with a wistful and tolerant half-smile. The implication, of course, is that Nelson Mandela was a politician who had been treated worse or more unfairly, and that it was really dumb of Donald Trump to forget it.
But Mandela was not sent to prison as a politician. He was sent to prison as a terrorist. We will probably never know quite how many people Mandela killed, either directly or indirectly. Some reports put it at about 200 deaths, and many others injured. Like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness (also mass murderers), he is one of these people for whom the past has, in some sense, been erased by their subsequent efforts towards peaceful resolution of broader conflicts. The families of all their victims are required to relinquish their anguish. And there is some sense in that, for the greater good.
But it is dumb to suggest that Mandela was treated badly for his politics. He was very lucky not to be hanged for his crimes.
And so Donald Trump will never be the dumbest kid on the block. Whenever he says something stupid, there will be someone on the political left who says something even more stupid in response. | 2019-04-23T00:40:55Z | https://phenell.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/the-trump-effect/ | Porn | Reference | 0.594723 |
wordpress | ……………. Now in regard to the upcoming portal. What I am being told is that this particular Lion’s Gate portal carries the energies and the theme of a butterfly. And just like a butterfly emerges out of her cocoon, so is our inner child emerging to remind us to tune into the energies of creation abundantly flowing to GAIA for us to play with.
The energies of the 8/8/8 portal allow us to playfully get things done. To soak up all the energies flowing our way in preparation for the final merger with the creative aspect of ourselves. To finally carve a new divine path for our lives, co creating a new world.
We are asked to acknowledge the goddess within, and embrace her fully and completely. Allowing her to unite within our heart space with the masculine energies. Swirling within a vortex of our own creation, formulating a new direct line to the source from which we can draw the energy, love and knowledge of truth of that which we are.
Now is the time of infinite potential and possibility. Now is the time to create and materialize what we want, into our environment. We are reminded to utilize all 4 elements at our disposal, doing simple things like sprucing up our living quarters to get our creative juices flowing. To more intricate things, such as rearranging our thoughts, doing something we’ve always wanted to do but were stopping ourselves due to various programming ingrained in our psyche.
We are asked to finally come to the understanding that we are co creating our realities, we are asked acknowledge, that we are surrounded by energy of abundance. That there is no lack in the universe and all lack, boundaries or obstacles are perceived by the outdated programming that continues to operate on this plane of existence. We are asked to shed all of these beliefs, and to use the energy of the NOW moment of time to our full potential, to go forth and co-create!
Once again creativity is what we are asked to allow to blossom into our lives. So please let your creative juices flow and take you to new heights. Utilize this energy to materialize that which you’ve wanted to, for so long, and remember to play with your newfound connectedness to the divine, allowing yourself to BE in this moment all the way knowing that this time whatever you truly want will come to pass!
I would also like to draw your attention to the symbolism of a butterfly to help you grasp the idea that we’re being presented here. In the words of Avia from whttp://www.whats-your-sign.com “Overwhelmingly, cultural myth and lore honor the butterfly as a symbol of transformation because of its impressive process of metamorphosis.
From egg, to larvae (caterpillar), to pupa (the chrysalis or cocoon) and from the cocoon the butterfly emerges in her unfurling glory.
What a massive amount of transition this tiny creature undergoes. Consider for a moment the kind of energy this expends. Imagine the whole of your life changing to such an extreme you are unrecognizable at the end of the transformation. | 2019-04-23T14:04:44Z | https://bluebutterfliesandme.wordpress.com/tag/walking-my-path/page/2/ | Porn | News | 0.267911 |
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wordpress | Apep (Apophis) was the ancient Egyptian spirit of evil, darkness and destruction who threatened to destroy the sun god Ra as he travelled though the underworld (or sky) at night.
Naamah or Na’amah (Hebrew: נעמה) is a legendary demonic creature, the mother of divination. How she became a demon is unclear.
Naamah comes from Hebrew: נעם naim and means pleasant.
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wordpress | Baka to Test to Shokanju Two! Opening Theme – Kimi + Nazo + Watashi de JUMP!!
You + Riddle + Me and JUMP!!
Hi!! Question: Which is better, being alone or together?
How much should we talk about? Are you pretending to not see it?
If you look closely at the ending sequence of Baka to Test to Shokanju, you can see the actual translated lyrics in the background. The following lyrics are my interpretation, however, not the same as the shown lyrics.
There’s some wordplay in the lyrics that I couldn’t fully convey in the translation. The phrase “yakiniku teishoku” is a pun on “jakuniku kyoushoku“, which means “law of the jungle (the strong eats the weak)”. The phrase “shichiten batto” is a pun on “shichiten battou“, which means “falling and rolling on the ground”.
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Something that grows when you leave it alone- What is it? | 2019-04-26T12:02:07Z | https://atashi.wordpress.com/category/baka-to-test-to-shokanju/ | Porn | Games | 0.702102 |
cnn | (CNN) Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho dedicates victory over Burnley to club's vice-chairman ... Cristiano Ronaldo still waiting to score for Juventus in Serie A ... Lionel Messi on the mark for Barca ... Here's your Monday recap from a weekend of sport.
The reality of life in La Liga hit minnows Huesca like a knockout punch from a heavyweight boxer.
Despite enjoying the perfect start with teenager Hernandez putting the underdogs ahead in the third minute, the newly-promoted side suffered an 8-2 thumping by Barcelona at the Nou Camp Sunday. Ouch.
Lionel Messi scored twice and provided two assists, while Luis Suarez recorded a brace and Ousmane Dembele, Ivan Rakitic and Jordi Alba also made it onto the scoresheet. Jorge Pulido assisted the Catalans with an own goal. When it rains, it pours.
Huesca had lost 8-1 in its only previous match at the Nou Camp, in the Copa del Rey in the 2014-15 season, so at least this was an improvement of sorts.
"I'm happy because we created many chances but I'm not satisfied with the two goals conceded," said Barca manager Ernesto Valverde.
The win moves unbeaten Barcelona to the top of La Liga, level on points with Real Madrid, which beat Leganes 4-1 Saturday thanks to a Karim Benzema brace and further goals from Gareth Bale and Sergio Ramos.
Next to the north of England where all eyes were on how Manchester United would respond following two consecutive league defeats which had led to growing criticism of manager Jose Mourinho and the club's vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
The club's torrid week ended with a much-needed 2-0 victory at Burnley and Mourinho dedicated the win to Woodward, who was labeled "a specialist in failure" in a banner that was flown over Turf Moore before kick-off.
A United supporters' group was behind the protest which condemned Woodward -- who effectively replaced David Gill as chief executive in 2013 -- with the words once used by Mourinho to describe former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.
"You know, in the match I am not looking to the sky unless I am asking something for the guy to give me help," said Mourinho after two goals by Romelu Lukaku secured a victory which went some way to easing the pressure on him following the 3-0 home defeat by Tottenham on August 27.
"I didn't see planes but Ed Woodward won this afternoon. He won 2-0."
United fans chanted Mourinho's name during the match and asked if he was happy with the result, the Portuguese added: "I am, and I think some of you must be disappointed because it would be much better if we lose. But I think the performance was very good and very good since the first ball we touched."
"Italian football presents different problems," said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri when asked about new signing Cristiano Ronaldo's Serie A goal drought.
Though Juve has won its three opening games of the season, $117m summer signing Ronaldo has failed to score in those games against Verona, Lazio and Parma.
"It takes time," said Allegri after his team's 2-1 win over Parma Saturday. "He's not getting the rub of the green at the moment either -- the ball is not bouncing right for him or he's shooting just off target."
Ronaldo's son isn't having any such trouble settling in Italy however, scoring four times on his debut for Juventus' under-9s. Perhaps Cristiano Jnr can pass on a few tips to his father on how to adapt to Italian football.
It is not often that managers admit to being pleased with a player making a calamitous error.
With his team 2-0 up at Leicester, Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson -- the club's record purchase after an $84 million transfer from Roma in July -- attempted a Cruyff turn in his own box which, perhaps unsurprisingly, ended in disaster as it allowed Rachid Ghezzal to halve the deficit.
Alisson's mistake made for an uncomfortable end to the match for the Reds, but Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp focused on the positives.
"To be 100% honest I am really happy it happened because we don't have to wait for it now," said the German, whose team lead the English Premier League after winning their first four games in a season for the first time in 27 years.
These are troubled times for Danish football.
The Danish Football Association (DBU) is reportedly looking to recruit players for this month's matches against Slovakia and Wales after contract negotiations broke down with its star players over commercial rights.
Coach Aage Hareide will not be in charge of this week's internationals and the country, ranked ninth in Fifa's world rankings, could be banned from competing at the 2020 European Championship if it is forced to forfeit Sunday's Nations League opener against Wales. | 2019-04-24T00:14:21Z | https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/03/sport/barcelona-lionel-mess-jose-mourinho-manchester-united-cristiano-ronaldo-nadal-spt-intl/index.html | Porn | Sports | 0.600742 |
wordpress | Here is a collection of photos taken by Dan Rice and his associate, threeDeez Design.
I see that you are doing the thing you love. How have you been? Email me bubble427@gmail.com. If you don’t remeber who I am then just think of being on my couch for a few years.
Great pictures….Love the picture of you with the mural.
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wordpress | PLOT: Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi are in love and all they want is to be left alone. Baron Scarpia, however, wants Floria for his physical needs. He arrests Mario for aiding a fugitive and tells Tosca she can save him by giving herself to him. She agrees, but the kiss he has so longed for is the fatal kiss of a knife blade. He had promised to set up a false execution for Mario, but the treachery of Scarpia is revealed as Mario is killed. Tosca vows to meet Scarpia in front of God as she leaps over the side of the building to her death.
The day has finally arrived for tonight I am watching my very first opera at the Hackney Empire and I’ve chosen Puccini’s Tosca to break me in. I have done my homework (or so I thought) as I read up on what it was about and more importantly familiarised myself with its music weeks before.Olivier award nominee Tim Carroll directs this political thriller, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, in which a handful of idealists are pitted against the might of a totalitarian state. Noel Davies, conductor of ETO’s acclaimed spring 2005 production of ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ and veteran of the Royal Opera and the New York Met, is the conductor.
I arrive just 15 minutes before the show and was impressed with the newly refurbished Hackney Empire, didnt realise that my stall seat was literally just at the back of the orchestra, I can even see the conductor’s baton swinging up in the air when they were doing some sound check. The orchestra is scaled down by just about 30 or so musicians, under conductor Noel Davies who gave life to Puccini’s music that evening. The stage was devoid of props, Michael Vale’s minimalist set – a series of six foot-high mottled grey panels with a ladder leading to an upper level – may be little more than practical, though its two-level possibilities are well exploited. And then it begins. We had a full house and there was just a lot of energy in the audience, halfway through Act I, I was already enjoying myself.
The singing, in Edmund Tracey’s English translation, was respectable but with some reservations. The reason I shied away from “La Bohéme” the week before was because it will be sung in English, I had by then realised that this production was from the English Touring Opera. Soprano Julie Unwin who played Tosca was a revelation. She was delightful to watch on stage and gave Tosca the much needed edge as a character. The role of Cavaradossi was performed by understudy Michael Bracegirdle. He gives his all in his Act 3 letter aria but takes a while to warm up in Act 1. By the time I heard the melody to “E lucevan le stelle”, I was by then soaring and all choked up.
And the stars were shining and the earth smelt sweet.
and I die in despair.
It was fantastic! The cast had like 8 curtain calls that evening, and very well deserved. They say you never forget your first time. I surely wont.
How melodramatic Puccini is. And how great.
Ehr, did you know I am watching another Puccini, “Turandot” that is, at the Royal Opera House in the summer? My tickets just arrived today too! | 2019-04-21T06:28:47Z | https://feignedmischief.wordpress.com/2006/03/09/opera-review-puccinis-tosca/ | Porn | Arts | 0.889908 |
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wordpress | Since it’s mid November it also means Christmas is coming. With the Christmas arriving, one cannot escape these beautiful red and green foliage of poinsettias. They automatically remind me of Christmas with there reds, greens and yellows.
The spirit of Christmas should be everlasting in one’s heart; however, the day is not. Similarly these red leaves too, are temporary. I try to enjoy them till they last. I do get sad, when the leaves turn completely green and wait for them to change their colours during its season time. I enjoy the temporary colours in their temporary moments with an everlasting joy.
Whenever and wherever I see these beautiful vibrant red leaf plants I’m surrounded by a fog of nostalgia. It reminds me of a very soon – to approach Christmas. The reds, greens and tiny dots of yellows, forms a very easy combination of a Christmas time, and immediately gushes me with the warm memories of a past Christmas.
As a child, our school would close for winter vacation around the 20th or 23rd of December. Before going on a long vacation, each one of us would take time to neatly tear a blank sheet of paper and draw (at the best) our own interpretation of Christmas.
That would be our Christmas cards; although, in the later years making of cards were substituted with buying read made cards.
Where my artists friends drew candles and cakes, I drew these red and green leaves with golden balls at the center. I don’t know what made them smile, but looking at their happy faces I felt happy, too.
At home these plants used to stay in a nice big pot. With the arrival of Christmas, Mr Red And Green Plant used to get a complete make over. I, along with the entire gang of siblings, used to decorate the plant with colourful streamers and balloons. On Christmas eve, we loved bursting and playing with those balloons. Of course, the streamers were spared as they would be reused the next time.
When there is a chill in the air.
When Christmas Songs play all day long.
When the spirit of Christmas is on the loose.
When giving is a joy, sharing is a blessing and receiving means being loved.
When stars are hanging and trees are shinning with lights.
When fun, feast and family all come together.
When loads of sweets, chocolates and cakes are gobbled by the watch.
When I turn deaf and blind to: stay fit and healthy.
When I get to wear red and green together like a Christmas tree.
It’s that time of the year, when I get to celebrate Christmas.
Christmas is the time of joy, celebration and leftovers. I like this kind of leftovers; they are tasty, delicious and I can have them all.
This leftover object that I’m going to talk about is nowhere close to being tasty. It is not edible at all; although it is durable. When I started working at least seven or eight years back I had saved some money. I wanted to invest it into something good and worthy. After a lot of thinking and gathering friendly opinions I finally wanted to buy a cross trainer.
I have no idea how I thought of investing my hard earned money into something that was not even me. I’m not an athletic person, never was, never will be. But I still went ahead to buy a cross trainer. The only fitness equipment that I had seen at home was a heavy dumbbell. That was my father’s. It was quite heavy and I could not lift it when I was fifteen. I think I took the inspiration from there. It is not a sin to have a body in good health and shape after all. Would you not agree with me?
When I got it I made sure to utilize it. So I came up with a workout routine. Everyday for fifteen to twenty minutes I used to exercise on it. I started with early in the morning before breakfast. With time I started to lessen the number of days then the time and finally I just would say hi to it. I really enjoyed spending time with it because I didn’t need a trainer or someone to help me and I was sure about the results too as I used to feel quite energetic.
Since I was happy with the results I got motivated to use it daily without fail. I was using it daily and churning out my extra body fat with all the enthusiasm that I had. Then we shifted to a new city. It was difficult to move it and I was recommended to part it away. It was not the fear of parting away with this piece of machinery it was the money that I had spent on it that struck me first. Lastly it was the feel of being athletic and having a healthy body. Because of all this I didn’t want to part away this piece of equipment.
Finally it did arrive with me to a different town. Somehow everything changed here because of too much work I started neglecting it. Very soon it started catching dust sitting at a corner of the house. Then when I found the time my knee was hurt and I could not use it. So all in all it has stayed as a masterpiece at one corner of the house for more than five years now. There is some hope that I would start using it although it will not be the way I used to in the past and that keeps me from selling it.
I’ve found another use for it now that I don’t exercise. It is serves as a masterpiece and whenever someone comes by a point is made not to hide it but showcase it. It is good to see their curious and sometimes excited looks. Once I was asked to sell this by my friend. Of course the answer was no and always will be. Now and then I’m advised by my family members to sell this as it takes up space. But I can’t, it is not only an object; it is a masterpiece for me. It is not only a fitness equipment but a remembrance of my past. It is not a lifeless metal object; it shares memories with me and I will not part away with it. It is a leftover of a place and a part of my past that I would always love to cherish and remember.
You cannot buy traditions, that’s a good thing, however, you could make one, that’s sounds comforting to me. They are simple to maintain (not always but sometimes). All you need to do is carry on a past one or introduce a new one or in some case totally drop it or find a long lost one and start it again…it could be your version or the real one itself. I’m perfectly fine with either of the options.
Traditions for me always revolve around a festival (that would mean Christmas). Like my grandmother distributed gifts after the morning mass on 25th of December to all the children of the house (it had to be morning, not evening and it had to be 25th and not 24th evening or night although we used to be awake for carol singers). My mom started keeping gifts under the tree on 24th of December. Timing was very important over here; it had to be 24th midnight and it never changed to early 25th morning, at least till the time I was living with her it was like this. It made me feel like those movies where Santa was keeping the gifts, except we knew that there was no Santa.
I have stuck with my mom’s version and keep gifts for the guests and family members under the tree; for the visiting guests and children I hang sweets on the tree. Perhaps I would carry grandmother’s version when I become one.
Sundays are family days, everyone likes to relax a bit, energize and prepare themselves for the week ahead. Turning the Sundays into fun days is easy but I’ve introduced a lost tradition which was started by my grandmother and carried by my mom. That is, to have a small family prayer on Sunday evenings. I used to pray alone but now I feel praying together has brought us closer. It also gives inner peace and strength not only to me but to the others as well. | 2019-04-21T16:32:25Z | https://normashilpi.wordpress.com/tag/christmas/ | Porn | Kids | 0.38732 |
wordpress | And it is okay to cry about it. It is a hard thing to cope with for everyone involved.
My mom was diagnosed at stage 4. It is awful. And it all came flooding back.
That is just absolutely horrible. I can’t even imagine. So sorry.
My son has stage 4 cancer. So I get asked the “how are you” questions. I don’t mind them. I like to state things very honestly. But yes, it is so hard to talk to someone you aren’t related to when you know they are near the end.
Although you feel bad for asking, I am sure your colleague was touched by your geniune concern. I pray that one day soon that there is a cure.
I super miss you too. I need to get my poop together and come visit you!
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wordpress | There are so, so many problems with that concept, some of which I’ve addressed before (the impossibility of all the New Testament copies, written in various languages, and yet all saying the same thing, being conspiratorially made up at the same time, with no evidence of such a hoax, being perhaps the greatest issue and the one I’ve mentioned most). But one thing that is impossible to miss is that the Old Testament foreshadows the New Testamet.
In the Old Testament, Israel was promised a Savior, a Messiah. In the New Testament, Jesus is proclaimed the Christ (which means Messiah), the Savior. In the Old Testament a substitutionary system of sacrifices for the forgiveness of sins is presented, which the Jews were to follow. In the New Testament, Jesus is identified as the Perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
There are smaller instances, or types, in which an Old Testament person or his action foreshadows some aspect of Christ’s work, revealed in the New Testament. There’s Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac, along with the provision of a ram that substituted for the son, pointing ahead to God’s willingness to sacrifice His Son who IS the substitution for each of us.
Then there’s David, the rejected boy, who became king, just as Jesus was the rejected of the religious Jews, yet He came to be their spiritual king. There’s Moses who led Israel out of captivity, just as Jesus leads those who believe in Him out of the slavery to sin and death and the Law.
There are literally dozens, maybe hundreds of these kinds of Old Testament foreshadowings. I just learned of another one today.
My church is reading Exodus together, then someone will write a meditation on it. Today we read about how the tabernacle was put together after the Israelites all gave the needed materials and the craftsmen constructed the parts.
In this particular passage, one of the pieces detailed is the ark. That’s essentially a box that contained, at the time, only the stone tablets of the Law. On top, covering the ark, was what the Old Testament calls, the mercy seat. Image. Mercy covering the Law.
Well isn’t that precisely what the New Testament teaches? Jesus dying in our place freed us from the Law; God’s mercy overcomes the Law.
James says, “Mercy triumphs over judgment” and of course, judgment is a result of law.
Paul says, “For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Or mercy. Because the Law was always under the mercy seat.
Hosanna! the people cried as Jesus made His way up the road to Jerusalem crowning Mount Zion. Those thousands of Jews gathered from all over the area, making their Passover pilgrimage, had heard about this miracle worker who raised the dead and healed the blind and fed thousands with a few loaves of bread.
Wasn’t he the one they were waiting for? There had been others and even more in the future, all claiming to be the One God had sent to bring the people of Israel back to a place of independence and relevance.
In the years before Christ’s birth, the desire for a savior grew along with the hated Roman rule. So no wonder the crowds who witnessed the signs and wonders Jesus performed, who heard His stories and teaching about the kingdom of God, looked to Him and expected Him to take the next step. They wanted Him to declare Himself, to rally an army or to call down God’s miraculous power and judgment against Israel’s enemies.
They wanted to be saved.
The problem was, they didn’t understand that their real need was the enemy within, not an enemy without.
So on that fateful day when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, the people were convinced their Messiah had come. They joined the parade of His followers, adding their cloaks to the path and waving palm branches as they would for a conquering hero. Because that’s exactly who they thought Jesus was. And they cried, Hosanna!
But no walls fell. No fire and brimstone. No miraculous defeat of the Roman forces.
Oh, sure, Jesus chased out the money changers from the temple. That was promising. But where was the judgment hurled against the Romans?
What the people missed amid their cries of Hosanna was that the judgment they looked for was the judgment Jesus took upon Himself. The innocent one, who knew no sin became sin for us.
The people looking for victory missed the victory over death that Christ’s own death secured.
The crowds were right to cry, Save now! That’s what Jesus came to do. But the spiritual kingdom of the Christ looked far different from the one they expected.
His kingdom included Gentiles and extended for centuries into the future. In fact, it makes possible everlasting life. And it’s built on forgiveness, mercy, compassion, love. Not revenge, judgment, exclusion.
But the people didn’t know that then. They cried Hosanna because they wanted a hero. God’s man who they’d read about in the prophets and the psalms. And this Jesus was clearly from God, wasn’t he? I mean, no sinner would be able to cleanse a leper or make the lame walk.
So cry Hosanna, they did. And they were right, because Jesus does save. They just didn’t understand what He wanted to save them from, not then, and not in the days that followed when the crowd became a mob instead and started chanting, Crucify him, crucify him.
Well, today we can see the irony. Those first century Jews were saying the right thing, but they didn’t understand what it meant. We understand, but are we still saying the right thing?
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As Thanksgiving approaches here in the US, I want to keep perspective. God’s greatest gift to His creation is His Son. He is the ultimate evidence of God’s love, and He, really, should be the focus of our thanksgiving. All the other things are peripherals. They serve a purpose, but they mainly point to the main thing—Jesus Himself.
In light of this fact, below is a reprise of an article first published here in June 2012.
God is powerful and does amazing things, never more clearly demonstrated than when He sent Jesus, God incarnate, to live on Earth with those He created. God’s greatest feat, yet this is the one that a great many people deny. Here is the line of demarcation that divides humanity.
The thing is, Jesus came with proof.
Recently as I read the book of John, I noted how many times that gospel referred to the signs Jesus did. And yet, you know what the Pharisees asked for as proof He was the Messiah? Yep, signs.
As I look at it, Satan seems to be most concerned with calling into question Jesus’s identity. I’ve studied and analyzed the record we have of those three temptations of Jesus in the wilderness, comparing them to the classifications of sin mentioned in 1 John (“the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life,” – 2:16), and to the specific doubts Satan stirred in Eve (“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise” – Gen. 3:6, emphasis mine).
But more recently I began to see these temptations as a direct challenge by Satan demanding that Jesus prove His deity–(“If you are the Son of God…,” “If you are the Son of God …,” and then turning it on its head, “If you worship me…”) This “prove it” demand was the same one the Pharisees hounded Him for, all the way to the end. Even as He hung on the cross, they were saying, If you’re the Christ, get yourself down from there.
The real issue with Jesus throughout history is whether He is who He said He is.
John also recorded Jesus’s own statement about the witnesses He had. In the Jewish context no fact was established without two or three witnesses. Jesus came in with three several times.
The point is this. The signs and wonders in Jesus’s day had a specific purpose. They established His identity.
They also served a definite purpose in the early Church—they established the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. First in the disciples, then in the other Jewish converts, and later in the Gentile believers.
So what about signs and wonders today?
I have no doubt God can do signs and wonders today. He can multiply bread, move mountains, heal the blind, raise the dead. He is still God, after all.
Part of me thinks, Well, need, for one thing. There are people who need food and who can’t see and who have died. But just like the fact that Jesus didn’t come to establish an earthly kingdom, He didn’t come to set up a utopia either. All the people Jesus healed eventually died of some other cause. They didn’t stay cured. Not physically, anyway.
The signs and wonders, though, point to the real reason Jesus came. He conquered death. He defeated sin. He triumphed over Satan. His signs and wonders were the precursor to the ultimate victory He enjoyed, breaking the bonds of sin and establishing the Way to reconciliation with the Father.
Signs and wonders are not the gift. A magician named Simon discovered that. He of all people, who presumably had trafficked in the dark arts, was amazed at the power of the Holy Spirit, released when the apostles laid hands on people. Simon wanted that power.
But it wasn’t for sale. The power was nothing more than the evidence of that which Simon could have–the indwelling Holy Spirit who would seal him for salvation.
Signs and wonders? They aren’t the big thing. They are merely the evidence of He who is Bigger, Grander, Mightier than we can imagine, the Maker of heaven and earth.
He’s given us all the signs we could ever want to believe that He is who He says He is.
There’s a hymn entitled “Marvelous Grace” that ends with the line “Grace that is greater than all my sin.” It’s a good reminder. No matter what sins I might see, whether in my culture, my church, or my heart, God’s grace is greater.
The Old Testament books of Isaiah and Jeremiah seem to put the spotlight on sin a good deal of the time, and as I said in my last few posts, there seem to be more and more parallels between what the people and nations did those ages ago and what we are doing today.
God was clear about His response to such things as greed and self-righteousness and neglect of the poor and helpless. He condemned those who turned their backs on Him.
But Isaiah is also full of Messianic passages. I can’t help but imagine that when Jesus was explaining the law and the prophets to the two men on the Emmaus road, He spent a significant amount of time explaining Isaiah.
After all, the Jews believed in the coming Messiah, but they didn’t understand He would be a suffering Servant, the sacrificial Lamb who would take away the sins of the world.
When I see the pieces all start to fit in place, I am amazed by what a great God we have. On one hand He shows us how egregious sin is, how offensive it is to Him, then He turns around and shows us the extent of His love. Not by changing His mind and overlooking sin or pretending it really isn’t so bad after all.
He simply trumps it with His grace. Grace that is greater, and will always be greater. No one can out-sin God’s grace simply because He who knew no sin became sin for us. Sin requires death, and He died. My debt is paid by His greater grace.
So, yeah, I might be perturbed by my culture and even by many who call themselves Christians, but rather than being disheartened, I see the need as greater for those of us who know the truth about God’s grace to broadcast the good news. Because in these days, we all long to hear good news, and the truth about God’s grace is the best.
God is powerful and does amazing things, never more clearly demonstrated than when He sent Jesus, God incarnate, to live on Earth with those He created. God’s greatest feat, yet the one that a great many people deny. This miracle is the line of demarcation that divides humanity.
Recently as I read the book of John, I noted how many times that gospel referred to the signs Jesus did. And yet, do you know what the Pharisees asked for as proof He was the Messiah? Yep, signs.
But more recently I began to see these temptations as a direct challenge by Satan demanding that Jesus prove His deity—(“If you are the Son of God…,” “If you are the Son of God …,” and then turning it on its head, “If you worship me…”) This “prove it” demand was the same one the Pharisees hounded Him for, all the way to the end. Even as He hung on the cross, they were saying, If you’re the Christ, get yourself down from there.
John also recorded Jesus’s own statement about the witnesses He had. In the Jewish context no fact was established without two or three witnesses. Jesus came in with three several times, one being the signs and wonders He performed—things like feeding the five thousand from a few loaves and fish or walking on water, healing a blind man and raising a child from the dead.
This post originally appeared here in June 2012.
The Old Testament books of Isaiah and Jeremiah seem to put the spotlight on sin a good deal of the time, and I notice more and more parallels between what the people and nations did those ages ago and what we are doing today.
God was clear about His response to such things as idol worship and greed and self-righteousness and neglect of the poor and helpless. He condemned those who turned their backs on Him by following their own path and neglecting His.
When I see the pieces all fit in place, I am amazed by what a great God we have. On one hand He shows us how egregious sin is, how offensive it is to Him, then He turns around and shows us the extent of His love. Not by changing His mind and overlooking sin or pretending it really isn’t so bad after all.
So, yeah, I might be perturbed by my culture and even by many who call themselves Christians, but rather than being disheartened, I see the need as greater for those of us who know the truth about God’s grace to broadcast the good news. Because we all long to hear good news, and the truth about God’s grace is the best. | 2019-04-22T04:36:56Z | https://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/tag/messiah/ | Porn | Reference | 0.844931 |
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I know I have blogged stir fries before but each is a bit different. This one had a sweet and spicy base and I served it over the brown rice. I have to say I have never been any good at making rice – for some reason it never turns out well. I decided to invest in a rice cooker and went with the Cuisinart 7 cup cooker. Aside from the fact that it looks great – boy is it easy and clean up is a breeze!
So here is what I made and how I made it.
Make 3/4 cup of brown rice (enough for two people) any way you choose, either in a pot or a rice cooker. While this is cooking….
Place cubed chicken in a bowl with the sauces and the ginger and garlic. As this is marinating, steam the broccoli and peppers for about 2 minutes in the microwave oven with a bit of water.
In a saucepan, toss the chicken, whatever sauce is left in the bowl, the broccoli and the peppers and stir fry till chicken is cooked and no longer pink. That’s it! Now serve over some rice and you have a tasty meal ready in about half an hour.
Forgive me for being delinquent in posting – busy week and been eating mostly leftovers and stuff from the freezer. I did try a new recipe for Moroccan Chicken which I found very bland so will stick with my original recipe which I think is yummy! Recipe for that will come later in the year. Meantime got this in from cousin in Greece. Looks great and she says it is super easy! Of course she then had to just show off and send over a picture of breakfast that she picked (pomegranates, figs and yogurt – see bottom of post) – Oh so European!
Halve the peppers, taking out the seeds and membranes, lay them in a lightly oiled baking tray. Skin the tomatoes (can’t always be bothered to do this!) and quarter them and put two quarters in each pepper half.
Snip anchovy fillets in half into rough pieces and scatter over peppers. Slice the garlic thinly and do the same. Drizzle oil over peppers and season with pepper (no salt needed, the anchovies are salty).
Put in a 350 oven for about an hour.
Scatter with basil leaves before serving. Good at room temperature or hot.
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tripod | SAM's editor has come to a juncture in life where he doesn't have the critical large blocks of time available to engage in effective political blogging.
To do a good job engaging in social media activism requires following the intense 24 hour news cycle across big/little media including social media, in order to have anything original to say. At least this is the only way we have found to synthesise the evidence and the facts and build on that with a unique life/professional experience.
For instance we find our blog posts including comments on ezines are barely 5% of the effort, the mere tip of the iceberg, with 95% of time involved in following all background themes and threads. In this sense less is more in terms of influential blog posts with any prospect of getting in the mind of a specialised beltway audience: Political staffers, press gallery, other activists.
We feel some sadness at the decision as our influence has only grown over this time with concurrent value in the domain name. A google of the editor's name presently comes up no. 1 in Australia and no 2 globally behind a namesake in the shlock horror movie business.
For instance we notice a new narrative in the big media at the end of this week relating to the sexual "hypocrisy" of various people and institutions. Right or wrong we feel this "hypocrisy" theme was kicked off by SAM's expose' of a commentator, and News Ltd, in relation to their alleged history regarding prostitutes and/or brothels.
Yes, we feel there will be alot of people relieved we are hanging up our social media political sling shot, metaphorically speaking. For instance we rang and left a message for the director of news of ABC Radio News about the Assange misreporting only last Friday.
Also relief closer to home amongst loved ones.
We expect players in politics will be sceptical that this author will indeed remain silent after 5 years given the wonky addictive nature of politics, indeed the siren song. Believe it.
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Steve Nash is unquestionably the best Canadian baller ever. And don’t just take my word for it, no, take the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame committee’s word. They are the ones who got this guy into basketball’s most sacred grounds.
As it currently stands, Nash ranks first amongst Canadians in games played, assists, and second all-time in points-per-game. But despite his 1,217 games on an NBA court, the greatest moment of his career didn’t come while playing in the association. It actually turned out to be representing Canada at the Olympics.
Nash can be credited heavily with Canada’s appearance in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. During the 1999 Tournament of the Americas, Canada finished with a silver thanks to Nash’s leadership, breaking a 12-year Olympic drought in qualifying for the Games.
The ‘Raptors Effect’ is often cited as the major reason why basketball grew as much as it did north of the border, but Nash’s presence and success in the NBA certainly helped pave the way as well.
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sfgate | Facing voters left, right and middle who don't like the direction he has taken the nation, President Obama is expected to focus on job creation and deficit reduction in a State of the Union address tonight that attempts to show he has not abandoned his lofty goals of a year ago.
When he inherited a monumental financial crisis and monstrous deficit last year, Obama promised to lay an ambitious "new foundation" for the economy, pushing through an unpopular bank rescue, a record-shattering fiscal stimulus, and embarking on a push for comprehensive health care reform.
Last week's Republican victory in a Massachusetts Senate race has scrambled that strategy and sown fear and confusion in the ranks of Democrats facing their own re-election races in November.
The call in the Capitol is for jobs and, especially, aid to small business.
"I went home to San Francisco, I drove down Post Street, down Sutter, down Union Street, I looked around the city - and I was shocked at what I saw in terms of closed small stores," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
"Morgan Stanley has just walked away from five big office buildings in San Francisco," she added, giving them back to its lender after buying them when the real estate market was near its peak.
People are "anxious, they're worried, they need reassurance, and that's the major message that this president has to deliver," Feinstein said. "There's no one better to make them understand it than this president. I hope he does it."
The contrast between last year's $862 billion stimulus and the three-year freeze on nondefense discretionary spending that Obama will propose tonight could hardly be sharper.
He has also rolled out proposals ranging from a higher child-care tax credit to a saver's credit in an effort to ease the economic pain on the middle class. But health care legislation, Obama's central domestic project, is on life support.
Although Obama no longer faces a financial crisis and plummeting employment, the challenges ahead are as daunting and possibly more perilous politically because they are more insidious: a weak recovery, double-digit unemployment and budget deficits that have grown so large and persistent that experts fear they threaten to trigger another economic crisis.
Disheartened liberals implore him to tack left and push through health care reform, arguing that he has compromised too much, and moderates insist he must move to the center as then-President Bill Clinton did after his health reform died in Congress and Republicans seized control of Capitol Hill.
Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., is urging Obama to promise to veto spending bills that go over his budget, due in early February, to demonstrate he is serious about deficit reduction and set himself apart from his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, who never vetoed excessive spending by Republicans who then controlled Capitol Hill.
Obama may address the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to show liberals that he has not abandoned their causes. He is also expected to call for immigration reform, although such a project has almost no chance of getting through Congress in an election year, especially when unemployment is so high.
He has warned in recent interviews that reducing federal debt is going to be "just as unpopular" as the bank rescue. His spending freeze, Feinstein said, is not enough to make more than a dent in a deficit now estimated at $1.35 trillion for this year, on top of $1.4 trillion last year. The White House estimates a freeze would save $25 billion a year.
On Tuesday, the Senate rejected a bipartisan commission proposed by Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., that would have forced Congress to reduce deficits and debt as part of a bill to increase the debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion.
Feinstein and her California Democratic colleague, Sen. Barbara Boxer, both voted for the commission. Feinstein was a sponsor.
Boxer said she sees no conflict between deficit reduction and employment, citing the 1990s boom years under Clinton when millions of jobs were created and the government began running budget surpluses.
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She also said Obama "needs to look back just briefly to let folks know what a long way we've come from being on the precipice of financial disaster" when the economy was shedding 700,000 jobs a month.
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cnn | Editor's note: Are you there? Share your story with CNN iReport, and view some of the photos of the situation in Tunisia we've received so far.
Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) -- Tunisian opposition leaders joined the current ruling party Monday in a new government to replace the country's ousted president, while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a return to stability "as soon as possible."
The government will be led by current Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, who took charge of the North African country when longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled last week. Ghannouchi's 19-member Cabinet will include three opposition leaders and 10 independents, he announced Monday.
The new government will be tasked with leading Tunisia toward new elections, he said.
Street clashes continued in Tunis on Monday, three days after Ben Ali's departure, with police firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators in Tunis. Ban called on the new government to restore stability and the rule of law "as soon as possible."
Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after ruling the country for 23 years. His ouster followed weeks of protest over what Tunisians said were poor living conditions, high unemployment, government corruption and repression.
Fouad Mebazaa, a former parliament speaker, was named acting president Saturday. He promised to restore stability and respect the constitution of the North African country.
Speaking in Abu Dhabi, Ban told reporters the new government should protect human rights and guarantee freedom of speech and association. But he said he remained "extremely concerned" about the ongoing clashes in the streets.
"This is a moment for the Tunisian people to strengthen the country's longstanding culture of political moderation and its attachment to peace," he said. "I call on the government and all stakeholders to ensure a prompt restoration of the rule of law, and to respect and accommodate the aspirations of the people. Tunisia must regain its stability as soon as possible, to pursue the path of development and prosperity."
The new government includes opposition leaders Mustafa Ben Jaafar, who will serve as health minister; Ahmad Ibrahim, education minister; and Ahmad Najib Al Shabi, minister of local development. Among the holdovers is Ahmad Friaa, the interior minister.
Friaa, speaking later on state TV, said 78 people have died in the clashes across several weeks and 94 have been injured, among them many police officers. He urged people to stop riots and to work with police. He vowed that those who should be held responsible for mistakes of the past will be punished. And Friaa ended his speech saying, "Yes for democracy, yes freedom, no for chaos."
Friaa also said the cost of the turmoil of recent weeks is 3 billion Tunisian dinars (about 1.6 billion euros, about $2 billion U.S.).
What do the opposition in Tunisia want?
The announcements came a day after the country's army clashed with armed gangs and remnants of Ben Ali's personal guard. Police have arrested looters and as many as two dozen of the ousted president's relatives since Friday.
Public protests continued Monday, as about two thousand people packed into a major road in Tunis. As the demonstrators tried to work their way toward the headquarters of the ruling party, police opened fire with tear gas.
Opposition officials told CNN there were other peaceful demonstrations in towns in central and southern Tunisia.
Tunisia's unrest was triggered by the December suicide of an unemployed college graduate, who set himself ablaze after police confiscated the fruit cart that was his source of income. Recent diplomatic cables from the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia, disclosed by the WikiLeaks website, revealed growing discontent with what Tunisians believed was widespread corruption and nepotism within Ben Ali's government.
Experts say the kinds of protests seen in Tunisia could inspire similar actions, particularly by unemployed young people, in other Arab nations.
In the weekend's chaos, a group of Swedish hunters visiting Tunisia said Monday they were stopped on the streets near Kasserine and beaten. Some of the men's eyes were swollen and blood-filled. One man had apparently been beaten on the back. Another man had a head injury.
"To be fair, when we look back, we can understand that our guns scared them," said one of the men, Ove Oberg, who met with CNN Monday morning.
The men said by the time the army came and understood the hunters were tourists, they had been badly beaten.
"If the army didn't find us, we would have been dead," Magnus Josefsson said.
Mohamed Guiga, a witness to Sunday's clash between government troops and Ben Ali's loyalists, said most Tunisians have rallied to each other's aid since the uprising.
"We are proud of those people -- simple people, young people, normal people -- who take care of each other," Guiga said.
CNN's Rima Maktabi, Ben Wedeman, Per Nyberg, Matt Smith and Neil Curry contributed to this report. | 2019-04-23T20:22:25Z | http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/17/tunisia.protests/index.html?hpt=T1 | Porn | Health | 0.699855 |
utoronto | The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences extends its congratulations to this year’s Fields Medal recipients.
TORONTO. August 3, 2018 - The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences extends its congratulations to this year’s Fields Medal recipients, Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Akshay Venkatesh, and Peter Scholze.
At a beautiful ceremony held at the opening of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro on August 1, four researchers were presented with the highest honour in mathematics. Awarded only every four years to a maximum of four exceptional mathematicians under age 40, the Fields Medal is considered by many as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics.” The winners of the Fields Medal are selected by a group of renowned specialists nominated by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), which organizes the ICMs.
“These notable researchers are being duly recognized for their outstanding achievements in mathematics”, said Ian Hambleton, Director of the Fields Institute, who looks forward to following their continued success and to inviting them to the Fields Medal Symposium in Toronto.
Since 2012 the Fields Institute has had the honour of hosting a Fields Medallist at the annual Fields Medal Symposium in Toronto. The purpose of the Symposium is to recognize the work of the latest recipients of the Fields Medal, to bring together brilliant researchers to take the honoree’s research area to new frontiers, to raise public awareness of mathematics and the Fields Medal, and to inspire the next generation of researchers.
This year’s Fields Medal Symposium in November will honour the achievements of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, who was awarded a Fields Medal in 2014 for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
The Fields Medal was founded through the efforts of John Charles Fields, a Canadian mathematician who had a major impact on mathematics at the national and international levels. Apart from founding the award that would eventually (and unofficially!) bear his name, Fields was a passionate advocate for mathematics and research and was determined to raise the status of mathematics. For this reason, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences was named after him at its founding in 1992.
The Fields Institute continues to promote John Charles Fields’ vision of the international role of mathematics in connecting researchers, academics, students and the public. We are delighted to congratulate the winners of this year’s medals.
Caucher Birkar was awarded a Fields Medal just a month after his 40th birthday for his substantial contributions to the world of algebraic geometry. Born in 1978 in a Kurdish village in Iran, he went on to graduate from the University of Tehran before seeking political asylum in the UK and pursuing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Nottingham.
His thesis, “Topics in modern algebraic geometry”, reinvigorated the field and is dedicated to his brother Haidar, “whose curiosity led [him] to the world of mathematics.” Since then, he has become a professor at the University of Cambridge and his work has revolutionized birational geometry, especially his development of the minimal model program (MMP) and his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties.
Alessio Figalli was awarded a Fields Medal for his work in calculating variations and partial differential equations. His results have profound implications for meteorology and the study of crystalline structure, but are also beautiful in their own right. His excellence in this field has been well-recognized, and this was not his first time on the stage of the ICM. He spoke in 2014 on quantitative stability results, not knowing that he would return to the ICM stage four years later to receive the Fields Medal.
Currently a professor at ETH Zurich, his academic path has taken him all over the world, from completing a full undergraduate degree in two years in Pisa, to studying under Fields Medal laureate Cédric Villani in Lyon, to working in Paris at the Ecole Polytechnique and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, to the University of Texas at Austin.
Peter Scholze is awarded a Fields Medal for his contributions to the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry. At age 30, he is one of the youngest mathematicians to win this prestigious prize. His work, cited by the IMU as transformative for his field, is exceptional and he is rightly considered to be one of the most influential mathematicians in the world.
Born in Dresden, Germany and raised in Berlin, Scholze has risen quickly in the mathematics world. As a graduate student at the University of Bonn, he gained notoriety for simplifying a complex mathematical proof in number theory from 288 to 37 pages. Shortly after completing his PhD in 2012, he became a full professor in Bonn at the age of 24 and the youngest in Germany to hold such a position.
Fields conceived of the award in the late 1920s, but it took until 1932 for the award to be established and funded. Officially, the award was meant to be called the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, free from any recognition of John Charles Fields himself. But, by the time the medal was first awarded in 1936, Fields had passed away, and it had become known by the wider public as the Fields Medal.
Fields had stipulated the prize was to be awarded for what had been already accomplished, but it was also “intended to be an encouragement for further achievement on the part of the recipients and a stimulus to renewed effort on the part of others.” The ICM later placed an age limit of 40 years of age in order to help encourage younger mathematicians in their careers. The award comes with $15,000 CAD from a fund that is administered by the University of Toronto. The prize is bestowed every four years, and there can be two, three, or four winners. | 2019-04-22T22:36:49Z | http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/news/Fields-Institute-congratulates-Fields-Medal-winners-Caucher-Birkar-Alessio-Figalli-Akshay | Porn | Arts | 0.151142 |
wordpress | Such a great neutral look for a room!
Yummy sorbet recipes! Now all that I need is some warm weather!
Maroon and Blush Pink is one of my favorite color combinations!
Will be making a version of this soon, 4th of July perhaps?!
blush pink and maroon especially with her nice tan!
Seriously I can’t wait for a tan!! | 2019-04-25T10:05:51Z | https://projectmephilly.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/pinspiring-19/ | Porn | Reference | 0.358476 |
wordpress | I think that it is a great idea, my problem is with the MBA program.
There are a quite a few problems with management, but unfortunately most MBA programs (I just checked the Harvard MBA syllabus), still do not address the core issue.
A culture that focuses on doing “the work” better, with a real understanding of statistical quality control, so that management understands the reasons for any issue and what is the responsibility of management and the process and what is the responsibility of the worker.
Deeming’s criticism that that the MBA with the bag of tricks is unable to improve the process, and will make things worse, but can buy and sell the business is still the case.
There are examples such as Toyota Production System, Lean and 6 Sigma that look at how to make processes better, and these should be covered in the MBA syllabus.
There are two key issues in business.
The Harvard MBA Course has bits about managing scientific advance, and entrepreneurship. It may identify how to do a me to business, since “me to” business is the safest.
There is an established market, and you have a way of improving, quality, cost, sales, speed, or some other factor that will provide you with an advantage. It helps to have a good understanding of the market, but an outsider may be have some useful insights.
New markets are created by specialists and visionaries that understand the area. e.g. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, HP, Ford, Sony, Toyota Not by MBA’s.
It is important that MBA’s understand their role in the organisation, which is to help grow and improve, and develop technical leadership, and it would be helpful if there was more emphasis on the practical tools required rather than the financial tools, since most organisations already have a finance director.
If an organisation is going to do really well it needs to be run by people that really understand the organisation, and its area of business. Sadly MBA’s are too often part of the job hopping CEO mentality, that is detrimental to progress.
When Harvard first introduced the MBA course it was for experienced business professionals that understand a business, and want to professionalise their management skills. This is still a valid path, unfortunately it is now more often an immediate follow on to a degree. e.g. You can now go straight into a Harvard MBA, though the preference is 2-5 years experience. However you have to commit to a 2 year course, which is going to be difficult if not impossible for anyone that has progressed beyond there initial training and is now active in their career.
This is why their is a conflict between the requirement to have people that understand the business and how to improve the core of the business running the business and the MBA program which takes people that are not yet ready to run the business and gives them tools that are not appropriate to improving the business along with a belief that they should run the business. | 2019-04-21T06:07:27Z | https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/ | Porn | Business | 0.98681 |
salon | TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell is thanking police, social workers, teachers and everyone who cared about her two sons — nearly a week after their father killed them in a gas-fueled blaze.
The boys' grandfather Chuck Cox thanked people of all faiths who had prayed for them, saying "it helps us to know that there are good people in the world."
Hundreds of people attended Saturday public funeral for 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden at Life Center Church in Tacoma, Wash.
They were killed in a fire set by their father, Josh Powell, when they went to visit him Sunday at his home in Graham.
Powell also died. He was a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife two years ago. | 2019-04-20T00:40:03Z | https://www.salon.com/2012/02/11/family_teachers_remember_powell_boys_in_tacoma_2/ | Porn | Kids | 0.577987 |
wikipedia | This user is originally from Pleven.
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Todor Bozhinov is hereby awarded the Barnstar of National Merit as late recognition for all his contributions to Bulgaria related articles (and portals).
I, Ghirlandajo, hereby award you this Epic Barnstar for all the nice articles your wrote about the history and architecture of Bulgaria. Keep it up!
Thank you for your interesting and well-researched contributions to the articles which are part of the WikiProject Serbia! | 2019-04-21T12:11:56Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TodorBozhinov | Porn | Arts | 0.333095 |
askmen | If the answer to the first question is a 'Hello no' and a big, fat 'Yes!' to the latter, you’ll definitely want to be smart about showing her what an amazingly thoughtful man you can be.
"You can spend the next few days asking yourself, "I love her every day, why would I have to show it more on an imposed commercial day in February, of all months?", or even come up with 10 solid reasons why you shouldn’t have to follow a day some unknown person came up with... or you could simply take my advice and just celebrate!" laughs Noël.
Bringing her breakfast in bed with a mimosa.
Getting a good bottle of wine, lighting candles and cooking dinner.
Sitting beside her at a restaurant rather than in front of her.
Giving her a full body massage like you never have before.
Reading her a chapter of a Harlequin Romance novel.
Telling her how great she makes you feel or how lucky you are to have her in your life. | 2019-04-19T13:03:29Z | https://www.askmen.com/dating/dating_advice/skipping-valentine-s-day-3.html | Porn | Reference | 0.339178 |
wordpress | The man’s voice is deep and crashes around the room like a rogue wrecking ball. He is missing most of his teeth which makes conversation difficult, and asking him to repeat his words only results in yelling the same barely decipherable utterances again.
The man is pacing, he has a large presence and moves with a force that doesn’t stop easily or make detours. He is a straight through the mountain, never mind the winding road that wraps around it, kind of guy. He stops moving and looks down at the man.
The man’s daughter is sitting on a chair, a softer and smaller version of the man. She holds her purse on her lap and waves the little man away. She knows how her father must sound from the hallway.
Something deflates in the visitor’s chest as he walks away, he is disappointed and dissatisfied. He wants to be helpful and save a damsel in distress, but is once again thwarted by the damsel. He wonders why no one wants to be saved, particularly by him, for the rest of the day.
Back in the room, the man is gathering his personal things and dropping them into a plain canvas bag that cinches tight with a draw string. Once he finishes with that task, he opens a cabinet door and peers inside at an assortment of supplies.
“Daddy, what are you doing?” his daughter asks.
Instead of answering, he goes onto the next cabinet. He peers inside and is again displeased. He opens a third cabinet and grunts with delight. It is filled with an endless supply of Boost drinks in chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavors.
“What? Do you want these?” He generously offers his daughter the cans of chocolate Boost held in both hands.
“Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do,” he says with amazing clarity, reading his daughter’s mind.
He rummages around in the first cabinet, finding a clear bag with a company logo printed across the front of it. One by one, he unloads the cabinet of its burden and transfers the cans into his bag.
“Why else would they be here?” he asks with a shrug.
The woman shakes her head and laughs with a sigh, there is no point in arguing.
“Sure, I remember what you told me,” the old man said.
His name was Tom. He wore khaki pleated pants and a collared shirt; his clothes were clean and ironed but hung from his body. They were meant for a bigger man, a man with more meat on his bones and vitality in his heart.
He dismissed the woman, who also happened to be his wife and caregiver, with a weak wave. Clearing an area in front of him, he rested his elbows on the cluttered table and held his head between both hands. Blue veins ran across the back of his hands and down his arms. Band-aides covered skin tears and puncture wounds, still fresh from the most recent treatment.
Wanda crept forward silently in her orthopedic shoes and stockinged feet, bringing a grandmotherly smell cloud of light perfume and hairspray and powder. She placed her hand on his forehead and her rings spun around, getting looser on her fingers as she also started to shrink with age and disease. Her hand expertly registered two temperatures, fever and not-fever. His skin felt cool and clammy, somewhere between fever and not-fever.
“Get off,” he barked, lashing out as any sick animal will do in self-defense and looked up at her. If he had fangs, he would have bared them at that moment and then scampered off to hide in the forest. Instead he had to settle for snarl of old, dull teeth, brown with coffee stains.
She yanked her hand back with a “Harumph!” as though bitten by his sharp tone.
“Do you remember what you told me?” Tom asked.
No self-respecting wife would admit to forgetting a directive given to a husband.
“You told me to cheer up because things could always get worse,” he allowed for a dramatic pause.
Wanda waited, she was anxious and hopeful that something nice would come out of her husband’s mouth. Perhaps something about how he appreciated her dedication and excellent nursing skills, and tolerance of his grouchiness and bad attitude.
Wanda gasped, that was the lifelong advice that she gave to friends and family, strangers and neighbors. She said it out of habit; it was a reflex in her desire to help, to say something when silence prevailed and there wasn’t anything to say. Now here it was, regurgitated and bastardized. The cancer was killing more than her husband, it threatened to destroy the life they built together.
Unless she could come up with another helpful saying to boost his spirits and refocus his energy.
Christmas dinner: a month late, at sushi restaurant. It is fitting for the small, dysfunctional family. There is a member who is missing; the void left by his absence is palpable. It is almost tangible, like a forgotten thought, half remembered.
He’s lucky. The tension is high and tight, making it hard to breath. There is so much water under the bridge, the tresses are about to be wiped out. The women speak through filters, carefully straining out anything of substance, while the man studies the menu and wishes his brother-in-law was there.
“Sake,” he requests from the waitress and quietly prepares to wait out the flood.
The woman’s lip quivered as she watched her husband regale their grandchildren with tales of days from fifty years past. There was one about a monkey named Diana and another about a man in the Marines, and a more recent one about ending up a beauty parlor in just his swim trunks and a towel.
Suddenly, the woman realized she was holding her breath, trying to freeze the moment. At her very core, she resisted movement forward towards the undeniable future. She inhaled deeply of the stuffy air around the table and blinked back the tears that threatened to constantly fall.
The man’s voice grew weaker and started to crackle as he continued his story telling. A bag with tubes gurgled and percolated as it pulled liquid from an open wound in an undisclosed location under his baggy shirt and pleated pants. He tapped his plastic cup with cartoon turkeys marching along the rim against the side of the table. The woman, now breathing but with a still quivering lip, stood to fill his cup with punch. Not so long ago, she would have resented the same request, but not anymore. Now, it was something to do to be useful and needed and she was grateful.
Meanwhile, the man bravely marched through the fields and belly crawled through the jungles of his memory; afraid that if he stopped, he would find himself at the edge of the universe with nothing left to hold him back.
I have a not-so-secret love affair/obsession with my i-phone and technology in general. It’s the world in my hands and at my fingertips. If I want to find out how long to boil corn or how to change a flat tire, the rationale behind string theory or the number of monkeys in the jungle, it is all there waiting to be summoned from the mysterious depths of the internet. As wonderful as it is to have access to endless information, it is not my main reason to constantly check my phone or computer.
For me, it’s for the sense of connection that texts and emails offer and the validation that a like via thumbs up or a star provides. I constantly check and recheck emails and text messages and stats, giving too much time and value to the number of views or comments left. A void opens up in my chest when there is no activity. No calls, no texts, no views or comments. I am alone in the world and my loneliness is a black hole that threatens to swallow me.
Why do I allow myself to go through this torment over something that is as unreal and fleeting as phantasmagoria? All of it is smoke and mirrors, an intangible and impossible replacement for a real human connection and genuine approval. Yet, it is to technology that I continue to turn for entertainment, comfort and interaction and my anxiety around real people grows.
I am quite certain that I am not alone in this. I went on a bike ride with my husband, a real person, last weekend. We rode through a town in which people were gathered on park benches, waited in line for a restaurant and were seated at tables with steaming hot plates of food. Every single person on the benches had their phones out, they texted, played music and threw poke’ balls. Almost every other person at the restaurant had their phone next to their plate or in their hand. While standing in line, the people glanced at their phone or flipped through screens, some punched in messages or played games.
We rode onward and I felt a profound sense of sadness at the scene as it seemed like a fair representation of the greater population. There is a human desperation to feel a part of something greater, linked to others, approved and liked. Through technology, we have the ability to be constantly connected, no matter the distance. However, the closer the physical proximity, the less use or ability people have for a quality connection.
I am pledging to put my devices away for a bit and to appreciate the reality that surrounds me, to engage with other people, and to be present in my interactions. For the weekend, I will have to seek validation from within myself and connection with those in my household, on my block, and in my life.
Get ready husband and cats, we are about to have a seriously engaged weekend. | 2019-04-23T02:32:37Z | https://hoosiersunshine13.wordpress.com/category/family-2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.287923 |
yahoo | Apple cofounder Steve Jobs popularized the "tech keynote" back in the mid-80s, where he would walk on stage to a crowd of hundreds of fans to announce new gadgets, software, and technological developments.
Keynotes are not very efficient — they're long, and usually lacking surprises given the abundance of leaks of major tech products.
Tech companies would be better off retiring keynotes in favor of online debuts, where they can control the presentation and messaging — plus preserve some surprises — by making announcements directly to consumers via websites or videos.
Steve Jobs was famous for his "keynote" presentations.
For decades, starting in the mid-1980s all the way up to 2010, hundreds of tech enthusiasts would cheer for Jobs as he walked on stage to debut new gadgets and services in front of a large screen. People treated him like a rock star, even though the keynotes themselves consisted of little more than showing off a PowerPoint presentation using Apple's software, appropriately named "Keynote."
Indeed, Jobs' presentations did feature a "rock star" quality about them. No matter what he was there to talk about, he always made Apple's latest invention sound like something you couldn't live without. He made even smaller developments sound exciting and world-changing.
These days, that mystery no longer exists. Between the power and pervasiveness of the internet, and the fact hundreds of thousands of interested parties will pay significant sums of money to learn even the smallest detail about the next iPhone, it usually means tech keynotes get spoiled in one way or the other — many months before they're even held.
For years, we've known crucial details about the new iPhone long before Apple holds its official keynote. We knew about Touch ID in the iPhone 5S before it was introduced. We knew about the iPhone 6 redesign months before it happened. And we knew almost every single little detail about the iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, and this year's iPhone XS and XS Max, before those phones were launched.
It's not just Apple, though. Samsung's two biggest phones of 2018, the Galaxy S9 and Note 9, were known about months before their debuts. And Google's new Pixel 3 may have been the most-leaked smartphone ever, with countless leaked images and documents — and even a physical sale of a pre-release phone — leading up to its October unveiling.
The fact is, if you follow the news at all in 2018, it's very rare to witness a tech presentation that features legitimate surprises. And if there are no surprises, what's the point of the presentation?
Keynotes should evolve into "online debuts"
If the goal of the keynote is to give tech companies control over how they present their new products, there's a better way to do that than inviting people to a physical event space.
The internet offers powerful visual tools — and the fact is, after every tech keynote ends, the company invites people to just visit the website anyway to learn more.
— An online debut gives the company more control over how the new product is presented. With physical keynote addresses, things can go wrong. Microphones can cut out, executives can fumble over their lines, or the products might not work at all! By debuting products online, companies could have total control over how people learn about these new gadgets and services for the first time.
— An online debut provides a greater element of surprise. It's nigh impossible to keep new gadgets a secret before they're debuted, but that's because those products have to make it to a physical event space — and the more people that have exposure to those new products, the greater opportunity there is for leaks. By launching new products online, tech companies could retain the element of surprise; perhaps they could unveil the new product while it's still in its design stage to get ahead of leaks that come out of the supply chain, when the product has already reached the manufacturing stage.
— Keynotes are too long, and too boring, too often. Showcasing new products online first gives people a chance to learn about gadgets at their own pace. Unless they're fans or journalists, most people will not sit through two-hour keynotes — even if it's Apple or Google running the show. Two hours is an extraordinary amount of time, but these tech companies have lots of announcements to get through. By going fully online, tech companies can summarize announcements more easily, or provide more accessible ways to learn about more details instead of sitting through a long presentation. | 2019-04-22T18:54:42Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/time-tech-giants-retire-keynote-144106376.html | Porn | Computers | 0.307289 |
wikipedia | An orbital ring that has fixed tethers hanging down to the ground.
An orbital ring is a concept of an enormous artificial ring placed around the Earth that rotates at an angular rate that is faster than the rotation of the Earth. It is a giant formation of astroengineering proportions.
The structure is intended to be used as a space station, space elevator or as a planetary vehicle for very high speed transportation or space launch.
The original orbital ring concept is related to the space fountain and launch loop.
Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Fountains of Paradise (1979) is about space elevators, but an appendix mentions the idea of launching objects off the Earth using a structure based on mass drivers. The idea apparently did not work, but this inspired further research.
Paul Birch published a series of three articles in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society in 1982. Anatoly E. Yunitskiy, author of string transport idea, also published a similar idea in USSR in 1982 and later explored it in detail in his book published in 1995.
Andrew Meulenberg and his students, from 2008 to 2011, presented and published a number of papers based on types and applications of low-Earth-orbital rings as man's "stepping-stones-to-space". An overview mentions four applications of orbital rings.
Several different methods and designs have been suggested for the construction of an orbital ring.
A simple unsupported hoop about a planet is unstable: it would crash into the Earth if left unattended. The orbital ring concept requires cables to the surface to stabilize it, with the outward centrifugal force providing tension on the cables, and the tethers stabilizing the ring.
In the simplest design of an orbital ring system, a rotating cable or possibly an inflatable space structure is placed in a low Earth orbit above the equator, rotating at faster than orbital speed. Not in orbit, but riding on this ring, supported electromagnetically on superconducting magnets, are ring stations that stay in one place above some designated point on Earth. Hanging down from these ring stations are short space elevators made from cables with high-tensile-strength-to-mass-ratio materials.
Although this simple model would work best above the equator, Paul Birch calculated that since the ring station can be used to accelerate the orbital ring eastwards as well as hold the tether, it is therefore possible to deliberately cause the orbital ring to precess around the Earth instead of staying fixed in space while the Earth rotates beneath it. By precessing the ring once every 24 hours, the Orbital Ring will hover above any meridian selected on the surface of the Earth. The cables which dangle from the ring are now geostationary without having to reach geostationary altitude or without having to be placed into the equatorial plane. This means that using the Orbital Ring concept, one or many pairs of Stations can be positioned above any points on Earth desired or can be moved everywhere on the globe. Thus, any point on Earth can be served by a space elevator. Also a whole network of orbital rings can be built, which, by crossing over the poles, could cover the whole planet and be capable of taking over most of freight and passenger transport. By an array of elevators and several geostationary ring stations, asteroid or Moon material can be received and gently put down where land fills are needed. The electric energy generated in the process would pay for the system expansion and ultimately could pave the way for a solar-system-wide terraforming- and astroengineering-activity on a sound economical basis.
If built by launching the necessary materials from Earth, the cost for the system estimated by Birch in 1980s money was around $31 billion (for a "bootstrap" system intended to expand to 1000 times its initial size over the following year, which would otherwise cost 31 trillion dollars) if launched using Shuttle-derived hardware, whereas it could fall to $15 billion with space-based manufacturing, assuming a large orbital manufacturing facility is available to provide the initial 180,000 tonnes of steel, aluminium, and slag at a low cost, and even lower with orbital rings around the Moon. The system's cost per kilogram to place payloads in orbit would be around $0.05.
General Planetary Vehicle (GPV) - a Anatoly Yunitskiy's project for the removal of weight at low circumplanet orbit. GPV is a ring located on the equator of the Earth (or parallel to the equator) consisting of individual segments connected (for example) by hydraulic cylinders. Inside the ring segments there are cells for placing the payload and necessary equipment. The heart of the GPV consists of two circular channels passing through all the segments of the ring. High vacuum is kept up in the channels and they are completely isolated from the environment. Inside these channels there are two magnetically levitated flywheel rotors assembled from small metal and flexible (e.g., polymer) segments. The flywheel rotors are held by an electromagnetic system mounted inside the GPV shell, according to the principle of magnetic levitation and act as the rotors of the giant motor (capable of operating in a generator mode as well).
The GPV ring is located on a specially equipped overpass, encircling the Earth. In the initial condition it is fixed on the overpass.
With the help of an external energy source one of the rotors spins up to speed higher than the First Cosmic Velocity at sea level (i.e. orbital speed at sea level, same as the escape velocity divided by root two). Due to the centrifugal force, the rotor (having reached the First Cosmic Velocity) balances itself and then seeks to "fly" up, producing lift force. The rotor's speed is to be a little more than necessary to balance the ring.
After releasing the clamp the GPV ring begins to rise up (increasing its radius, and accordingly, the diameter). Thus, the hydraulic cylinders and gaps between the segments allow the formation to increase its length. The belt rotor stretches by 2-5% due to its elasticity. Having achieved the required height the rotor transfers to the generator mode, and the electricity generated is used to boost the second rotor in the opposite direction. As a result, the GPV accelerates to achieve the First Cosmic Velocity on a low Earth orbit. The height reached by the GPV is determined by the abundant rotor's initial kinetic energy and the capability of its body structure and rotors to stretch.
On the equatorial orbit the GPV is unloaded into stationary orbit cells located at the same orbital altitude in the plane of the equator.
Landing is carried out similarly in the reverse order.
The simplest type would be a circular orbital ring in LEO.
In addition, he proposed the concept of "supramundane worlds" such as supra-jovian and supra-stellar "planets". These are artificial planets that would be supported by a grid of orbital rings that would be positioned above a planet, supergiant or even a star.
The manga Battle Angel Alita prominently features a slightly deteriorated orbital ring.
The second iteration of the anime series Tekkaman features a complete ring, though abandoned and in disrepair due to war, and without surface tethers.
In the movie Starship Troopers, an orbital ring is shown encircling the Moon.
The anime series Kiddy Grade also uses orbital rings as a launch and docking bay for spaceships. These rings are connected to large towers extending from the planets surface.
The anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00 also prominently features an orbital ring, which consists primarily of linked solar panels. The ring is connected to earth via three space elevators. This ring effectively provides near unlimited power to earth. Later in the series the ring also shows space stations mounted on its surface.
Orbital rings are used extensively in the collaborative fiction worldbuilding website Orion's Arm.
Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey features an orbital ring held aloft by four enormous inhabitable towers (assumed successors to space elevators) at the Equator.
In the close of Arthur C. Clarke's Fountains of Paradise, a reference is made to an orbital ring that is attached in the distant future to the space elevator that is the basis of the novel.
In the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Mars has a large orbital ring called the Ring of Steel. It is primarily used as a shipyard for interstellar craft. It is the largest man made structure in the galaxy.
In the game Xenoblade Chronicles 2 there is a giant tree that has grown around the base of an Orbital Ring.
The third part of Neal Stephenson's book Seveneves has an orbital ring around a moon-less earth.
The opening battle of Star Wars: The Clone Wars's Season 6 pilot takes place on some form of ring-shaped orbital space station surrounding the planet of Ringo Vinda.
^ Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, part III: My Later Endeavors (The gigantic machine he is referring to is better known as "air convection" and "weather").
^ a b Paul Birch, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - I", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 35, 1982, pp. 475–497. (see pdf (accessed 6 April 2016).
^ Paul Birch, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - II", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 36, 1982, 115. (pdf).
^ Paul Birch, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - III", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 36, 1982, 231. (pdf).
^ Техника-молодежи» 1982 № 6, с. 34–36 – "Technical Youth" 1982 – To the space by wheel (in Russian).
^ Anatoly Yunitsky String transport systems: on Earth and in space. Gomel, 1995 (in Russian).
^ A. Meulenberg and P. S. Karthik Balaji, "The LEO Archipelago: A system of earth-rings for communications, mass-transport to space, solar power, and control of global warming", Acta Astronautica 68, 2011, 1931–1946.
^ "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - I-III".
^ Paul Birch, "Supramundane Planets", Journal of the British interplanetary Society, Vol. 44, 1991, 169.
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wordpress | WARNING: WIKIPEDIA LIES. POISONED WELL. DO NOT DRINK.
The Wikipedia website entries are popular, but can be altered by virtually any anonymous person who desires to scribble some unsubstantiated personal opinion, gossip or deliberate deceit into their pages, or to erase legitimate and accurate materials which they object to. Over the years, the Wikipedia entries on "Wilhelm Reich", "orgone energy", "orgonomy", "orgone accumulator", "cloudbusting", and so on, have occasionally shown some allegiance to facts, but typically degenerate shortly thereafter when invaded by vandals. Important factual materials then get erased, and substantial falsehood and even slander is inserted — usually by those identifiable as professional "skeptic clubbers" and other "activists" with a personal grudge against Reich’s ideas and discoveries. None of the revisionist scribblers uses their real name when doing this, of course, and so the whole thing boils down to some insipid and foul "consensus" where the ignorant and hostile anonymous majority determines what is allowed, and knowledgeable dissenters are basically thrown out the door.
About five years back, or longer, I spent many hours correcting false statements and adding documentary citations onto the Wilhelm Reich Wikipedia page, detailing new scientific papers, academic dissertations, published articles in peer-reviewed journals and new books which supported Reich’s biophysics. At one point, they were erased and deleted by some malcontent, substituted with words declaring no such independent professional corroboration of Reich existed. This allowed other kinds of slander to persist, as without scientific verifications, then the falsehood of "Reich the crackpot" could be asserted without opposition. I then spent additional hours reposting the materials. Now they have vanished again, and "Reich the crackpot" is back into Wikipedia. All the newer scientific evidence validating his findings, indicating their importance for psychology, biology, physics, cosmology and atmospheric science, etc., has been fully deleted.
By contrast, nearly every published paper that ever had bad words about Reich, even if filled with foul lies and fabrications, including or especially the new malicious and lie-filled book by C. Turner "Adventures in the Orgasmatron", gets quoted as if it was "important intellectual commentary" validating dismissal of his life and work as a wasteland. By contrast, experimental confirmations of his findings, undertaken by professionals working in universities or private laboratories and published in peer-reviewed journals, are simply erased from existence, in rather outrageous Lies of Omission.
Wikipedia thereby helps to publicly spread a fully malicious misrepresentation of Reich’s life and work, and about the science of orgonomy more generally. Wikipedia entries on Reich should therefore not be consulted as factual or accurate material.
They are only valid as evidentiary expressions of the open war against his findings which began in Europe in the 1930s, when Nazis and Communists maliciously assaulted him in newspapers, put him on death-lists and burned his books. This same malicious aggression to Get Reich continued in the USA after 1947 when a tidal wave of mainstream media slander began, leading to his death in prison, and the burning of his books. Today, people of similar upset emotional backgrounds aim to utterly destroy the legacy of his research, through continued slander and distortion. Wikipedia is now a leader in this effort.
Do a search on the words Wikipedia+Lies or Wikipedia+slander to review a host of websites put up by scholars and others on the subject, their own small protests against the ant-army of scribblers who have plenty of time on their hands compared to anyone who actually works for a living.
For more information, see the "Emotional Plague Bibliography" and the OBRL "Response to Skeptics" pages.
These are the reasons why reputable and serious university professors will scold or even flunk a student if they dare to cite Wikipedia as a reference source, doubly so for any controversial subject.
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wikipedia | The Boeing 717 is a jet airliner. It has two engines, which means that it is a twinjet. It also only has two columns of seats, which makes it a narrow-body plane. The Boeing 717 was designed and sold by McDonnell Douglas. It was called the MD-95, which was designed from the DC-9. The 717 can hold up to 117 passengers. It can fly for 2,060 nautical miles (3,820 kilometres). The 717 has two Rolls-Royce BR715 turbofan engines.
McDonnell Douglas was going to make all MD-95s in China. However, in 1994, McDonnell Douglas began to look for a cheap place to make the planes. Halla Group in South Korea was made the wings of the plane, Alenia of Italy made the fuselage, Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. of Taiwan make the tail; and a part of Korea Air Lines made the nose and cockpit.
↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Boeing 717". Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Boeing (May 23, 2006). "Boeing Delivers Final 717s; Concludes Commercial Production in California". Press release. http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2006/q2/060523a_nr.html. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Norris, Guy; Wagner, Mark (1999). Douglas Jetliners. MBI Publishing. ISBN 0-7603-0676-1.
↑ Becher 2002, p. 107.
↑ "The Boeing Company ... The Giants Merge", Boeing history.
↑ "Aerospace Notebook: Orphan 717 isn't out of sequence", seattlepi.com, December 22, 2004.
↑ "Air Canada buying 90 jets from Bombardier, Embraer". CBC News. CBC. December 19, 2003. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
↑ Boeing (January 15, 2005). "Boeing to Recognize Charges for USAF 767 Tanker Costs and Conclusion of 717 Production". Press release. http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q1/nr_050114a.html. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
↑ Flying the 717-200, Airline Pilot, Retrieved 15 December 2007.
↑ Boeing 717 incidents, Aviation-Safety.net, March 22, 2009 .
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wordpress | General Dynamics Land Systems Customer Service and Support, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $7,184,510 cost-plus-fixed-fee, multi-year contract for maintenance, technical inspections, and testing of the Army Prepositioned Stock and Theater Sustainment Stock Abrams tracked vehicles. Work will be performed in Kuwait with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2017. One bid was solicited with one received. Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Army) in the amount of $3,750,000 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is the contracting activity (W52P1J-15-C-0062). | 2019-04-22T20:25:22Z | https://jeemaz.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/abrams-maintenance/ | Porn | Business | 0.97045 |
wordpress | Great post! Sorry to have abandon your blog for so long. I have good excuses but won’t go there. Glad to have saved your link, though, since google kicked reader to the curb. Blessings to you!
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cnn | Will Elena Kagan be confirmed?
Washington (CNN) -- Elena Kagan was the nominee at her confirmation hearing Monday for the Supreme Court, but you would not be faulted for believing the real spotlight was on those not attending-- the conservative members of the bench who drew so much attention from senators on the Judiciary Committee.
Time and again, the lawmakers -- mostly Democrats-- chose to concentrate on the high court's impact on a range of issues -- business disputes, privacy and free speech. They set the tone for the intense questioning of Kagan to follow this week -- probing how the 50-year-old lawyer who has never been a judge would impact the court for perhaps decades to come.
The partisan political aspect of the hearings -- the "advise and consent" role senators play in accordance with constitutional requirements -- will turn on how the court that issues final rulings will decide hot-button cases.
"We have less evidence about what sort of judge you will be than on any nominee in recent memory," said Sen. Herbert Kohl, D-Wisconsin. "Your judicial philosophy is almost invisible to us. We don't have a right to know in advance how you will decide cases, but we do have a right to understand your judicial philosophy."
Of greater interest for many senators was commenting on how the current justices decide the big issues of the day.
"By acting in such an extreme and unjustified manner, the (high) court badly damaged its own integrity," said Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, of the court's ruling this year on campaign finance reform. "By elevating the rights of corporations over the rights of people, the court damaged our democracy."
Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, cited the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens to attack conservatives on that bench.
"I join him in wondering just how or why those who profess to oppose judicial activism have voiced their support for these Supreme Court decisions in which justices have overturned long-standing precedent and substituted their own legislative voices for Congress," Cardin said.
"For all the talk of balls and strikes,'' said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, the high court continually improves "'the strike zone for corporations.'' That was a reference to the 2005 testimony of Chief Justice John Roberts, who compared judges to umpires during his Senate confirmation hearings.
On the other side, some Republicans chose to focus on Kagan's old boss, Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom she served as a law clerk in 1988.
"Justice Marshall's judicial philosophy," said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, "was not what I would consider mainstream. As he once explained: 'You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.' He might be the epitome of a results-oriented judge."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, singled out Kagan's statement calling former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Judge Aharon Barak her "hero." Barak has been attacked by legal conservatives for what they call his judicial activism.
"Your hero is an interesting guy and you're going to have a lot of explaining to do," Graham told Kagan. "His view is really disturbing but I expect you will have good answers."
Kagan herself tried to stay out of trouble by taking a middle road, declaring her respect for individual liberty championed by conservatives, as well as her respect for precedent, which the political left and right both appreciate -- depending on the issue.
"The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals," Kagan said in her opening statement. "But the court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people."
The real drama of the hearings begins Tuesday with the questioning of the nominee. It will be her responses, and not the speechifying of the senators, that will illuminate Kagan's past record and how strongly she is able to defend it.
Given her lack of judicial experience, and her long resume in two Democratic administrations, senators will want to know if she is about politics, or about the rule of law.
Sources close to her say she is eager and confident to answer her critics, but aware she cannot reveal too much about her views. She said as much Monday, promising only to build upon a lifetime of learning and listening.
"I will make no pledges this week other than this one -- that if confirmed, I will remember and abide by all these lessons," she said. "I will listen hard, to every party before the court and to each of my colleagues. I will work hard." | 2019-04-26T14:39:27Z | http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/28/senate.kagan.first.day/index.html | Porn | Reference | 0.31307 |
livejournal | I almost cried when I saw this.
I'm still left unsatisfied, and it hurts. I hope that I explained that correctly, that he still has one year and all the things he could do in it before he'll be 23. He's only 21.
Re: I hope you're feeling better.
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wordpress | A Visit to a Christopher Durang Play–OR COUPLES THERAPY AGAIN!
So, 3 sessions with the Stork Man, who we actually both kind of like, and who is ridiculously knowable for all of his quoting Eckhardt Tolle. But, I am the Queen of the Backup Plan and my partner kind of likes having an out, too, so we decided to interview this new woman for comparison.
Let’s call her Santa Claus.
Actually, I don’t care what we call her. Because all I can say is that I have always loved Christopher Durang, and once, at the Stage Source audition, when an actress did a comic monologue, and all the producers were like, “Who wrote that? Was that a Durang piece?” And I was like, “I wrote that. Where did she get that?” (I HAD written it. And turns out I had given it to PP and she coached the actor.) Anyhow, the point is I was in heaven for weeks because people thought I wrote like Durang.
Beyond Therapy is probably my favorite Durang play. It contains a cast of insane characters, the therapist being the most insane. She plays with a Snoopy puppet (I am obsessed with Snoopy) and can’t remember her clients’ names.
So when Santa Claus pulled out the gorilla puppet and the turtle puppet to illustrate the typical couples dynamic, I almost couldn’t believe it. I mean, I was living a Durang moment. Of course, the gorilla was me and the poor turtle was my partner, and I am never going back to see Santa again, but still. So Durang, with the gorilla trying to gobble up the poor turtle, who just keeps pulling back into her shell.
I would like to say, on my own behalf, that I’m not often that needy. Most of the time I’m doing what I’m doing right now, distracting and entertaining myself, while my partner, who no doubt would like to talk about our feelings about Santa Claus not being very jolly or giving good presents, watches the Patriot’s game. I can be pressuring, controlling, hyperactive, etc, when I’m not creating something or making fun of someone (in only the most spiritual possible way, of course) or meditating and noticing how I am persecuted by inanimate objects.
I am very disappointed that Santa Claus didn’t turn out to be on my side. Instead, the stork looms up Route 9 in his house by the park, bringing babies to the elderly in his spare time.
I got to be in a Durang play.
I can’t even tell you how that makes my day.
I hope someday to play the therapist in love with Snoopy. The fact that it isn’t much of a stretch doesn’t mean I wouldn’t enjoy the hell out of it.
Happy Turkey Day to all of you non-Durang people. May someone act out your relationships with puppets for you between now and the end of the year.
It is an experience worth having. Or at least blogging about.
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livejournal | I slept very well last night. I am still tired though. Looking forward to sleeping in for the next couple days.
Although I do have a party to go to on Saturday so that will cut into some of my sleep.
Still annoyed about the supposed parking ticket I have. I cant call until after 10:30 on Monday because of a meeting. It will probably bug me until I get this resolved and I am sure it will not be resolved easily. I can feel it in my bones.
I am waiting for a phone call now, from a salesman. I should be in a meeting but I want to make sure I get the call. My boss's last day is today. I need the information. I dont like things to be left unresolved. Funny since most of my life has one unresolved issue after another, although I am the one usually left hanging. | 2019-04-20T21:12:53Z | https://sln1987.livejournal.com/38164.html | Porn | Business | 0.989041 |
wordpress | It’s just like I thought. Oh my, the scenery is unbelievable. We checked into our wonderful apartment in Greve in Chianti. How delightful!
Our apartment is the yellow one directly behind the statue.
Our apartment is directly above the butcher shop.
We went to the store for staples….yes, that is one euro, thirty-three for 100 ml of red wine. I am in heaven!
OMG! I don’t think I would ever have to cook. Just give me a piece of bread, some ham from the butcher downstairs, cheese, red wine and your lovely terrace!
So, so true! You would live this Chevon!
Just how lucky can two people be??
Not much luckier than us!
Greve in Chianti, what a lovely place to stay. I only had 1 day in Greve and loved it. The Tuscan hills around there are what you see in a calendar. | 2019-04-24T18:29:47Z | https://maryhendon.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/under-the-tuscan-sun/ | Porn | Reference | 0.25267 |
wordpress | Bubble tea is a popular drink that originated from Taiwan. There are so many flavours in each of the choices: green & black teas, milk teas, fresh fruit, and slush. Popular toppings include tapioca pearls, coconut jelly and grass jelly. It’s a cold drink but you can get hot bubble tea as well. It’s typically $3-5. Toppings are an additional 50 cents.
My friends and I go here because it’s the best bubble tea place at UBC, our university campus. It’s also the most expensive (no surprise). The tapioca pearls are good but I don’t like the grass jelly. It’s a shame because my favourite topping is grass jelly. My favourite flavour from here is jasmine milk tea.
This place is located at the Nest which is closer to class. The price is cheaper than Pearl Fever but the taste is mediocre. The pearls are not the best. My favourite flavour is the mango slush and I recommend it.
I miss this place. I have good memories of it and the taste was good. The price was average. This is also located at Metrotown Mall in Burnaby. I don’t like the one in Metrotown because when I ordered a mango slush, there were mango chunks and was taken out of the blender too quickly. It could have been just that worker, I’m not sure. I would rather go to Big Orange in Metrotown and order a honeydew slush there.
EDIT: You can read an update about Little Tea House here.
Chatime is one of my favourite bubble tea places. It is one of the more expensive places, but I think they have the best grass jelly because they are not shaped as cubes. You can slurp them (lol). I always get the roasted milk tea. Roasted milk tea is not as sweet as original milk tea which is perfect for me because I don’t like sweets very much. I frequently hear songs by Jay Chou in the store. I love that because Jay Chou is one of my favourite singers. However, the Chatime in Broadway felt very stuffy and I felt like I needed fresh air.
4.5/5 – Maybe 5 if it wasn’t stuffy. Could be just the Broadway location.
Bubble 88 only accepts cash. It is a Taiwanese restaurant, not just bubble tea restaurant. The food is inexpensive and you can get a meal (including bubble tea) for around $13. It’s one of my favourite restaurants and they play music by my favourite singers, like Jay Chou and JJ Lin. The bubble tea tastes okay, but it’s not outstanding. I go here for the food.
This is the oreo taro slush bubble tea. I haven’t seen this flavour in other locations. It tasted great. Popcorn chicken is always a good food choice at Taiwanese restaurants. They played Bii’s song when I went there!
4.5/5 – I’ve only been here once, so I can’t give it a definite score.
Gong Cha is popular but the prices are expensive. The taste is good, but not “amazing.” There is a lot of hype but my friends and I agreed that it was worth going once. We aren’t sure if we would go again. I like that they give decorations for our straws. That was the highlight of our trip there.
This place made me feel very comfortable because they have One Piece and other anime figurines. They also have manga that we can read inside. I freaked out when I went in and saw all the anime stuff. It’s a small place but gives off a cozy feeling. I ordered a simple, cheap drink but I haven’t tried other flavours yet.
This was located at a food court. It wasn’t anything too special but the prices were fair. The taste was good, average.
Boiling Point is a hot pot restaurant. It’s one of my favourite restaurants! In the morning/early afternoon they give you a free cold tea drink. This tea in the picture was free and it tasted good. I’ve ordered bubble tea before (not pictured) and it was good. There is no option to split the bill so I have to bring cash and repay my friend. It’s so weird and I don’t like it. The prices are different at night (more expensive) and that is weird to me as well.
5/5 – Overall score for the restaurant. I like to go in the mornings only for a free cold drink and cheaper price.
This is the only place I know that offers bubble tea in this size. I love it because it’s so big! The pearls were mediocre but the drink was good (I got jasmine). It was well priced for its size and pearls were included in the price! I would definitely visit this place again. It’s too bad I live far from this restaurant. It’s inside a pho restaurant but my friends and I only got the bubble tea. The customer service was great and I liked the worker there a lot.
Many people know Bii from the Taiwanese drama, Bromance. I was a fan of his music (he is a singer!) before Bromance existed. Bii is one of my favourite singers and he is my number one idol.
It is currently on Netflix with English subtitles. Bii plays Wei Qing Yang, the male in the second couple. I recommend the drama because it has an interesting premise. The actor and actress in the main couple are famous for their previous dramas, such as Fated to Love You and Two Fathers. I really appreciate the close-ups of Bii’s beautiful face but watching his scenes make me sad at the same time because the girl is not me LOOL. I love that he sings the opening theme song, along with three other singers in his talent agency. One of the songs I really like is sang by two people from his talent agency. His solo songs play during his scenes, as well as other romantic scenes.
My friend showed me Bii’s music video for I know. I was busy when my friend showed me so I just listened to the song without watching the video. I thought Bii’s voice was really nice… I decided to watch the video and he was so good looking!
Then I decided to Google him (LOL this is what I do…). I learned that Bii is half Korean and half Taiwanese, but grew up in Korea. He was scouted by SM Talent when he was a teen in Korea but didn’t go for it. I thought it was really impressive that he became fluent in Chinese because he learned the language after he came to Taiwan. He talks and sings mostly in Chinese, but he does sing some Korean songs.
After that, I started reading his Facebook status updates. (LOL) He wrote in Chinese and it was tough to understand them at first. I live in Canada and although I am a fluent speaker, my reading skills were lacking. Google Translate helped, and gradually I was able to understand more words. ^^ The reason I was working this hard was because his statuses were unlike other celebrities’ statuses.
I don’t follow him as much as I used to, but I remember he wrote statuses for his fans. He would tell us to dress warm so that we would not get sick, and to drink soup because it was cold out. He told us to sleep early so that we have more energy the next day. Bii was so caring and I was really envious of the many girls who had photos of them hugging him, and fans who watched him perform at his concerts.
Several months after I started liking him, I found out that he sang the Korean version of one of my favourite songs, Dui Wang. Dui Wang is the ending song of my favourite Taiwanese drama, My Lucky Star (2007).
I drew the Den Den Mushi from the Marineford Arc (in One Piece) and Buggy the Clown. At first, Buggy scared the Den Den Mushi/transponder snail but after he made it cry out of happiness. Buggy showed it compassion so I felt compelled to draw their relationship.
The poo snake is the weakest monster in the video game, Blue Dragon. I can’t believe I drew something like this… but I had fun.
When I bought my ticket online for Anime Evolution, I used Eventbrite. That was just a few weeks ago. The process went smoothly and I had a good experience with them. By buying my ticket online, I didn’t have to pay at the door. It was nice because I bought my ticket early and got a discounted price. I printed my ticket out and just showed it to the people who organized the event and registered on their site.
Alright, my dream con includes the one and only… EIICHIRO ODA, the creator of One Piece! I would love to meet him… That would be a dream come true.
I would also want Hiroshi Kamiya, the voice actor of Izaya Orihara, to be there. I want him to talk in Izaya’s voice for me. I also want to meet the Japanese voice actor of Deidara from Naruto Shippuden. I’ll definitely need English translators there.
More people I want to meet are my favourite cosplayers, like Yuegene Fay. I want to take pictures with everyone. It would be nice to have a photographer who just follows me around and takes a bunch of candid and staged pictures LOL.
In the last two anime events I went to, I did not find a lot of anime merchandise I was interested in. That’s why in my dream con, I want a lot of One Piece and Izaya merchandise. I want cheap prices please… Can the ticket prices be free for everyone too? LOL.
A restaurant or food stalls would be nice. I always buy food nearby when I attend anime events but they’re always outside the convention location. It would be super convenient if there was a restaurant… Not cafe because that’s not filling enough. Real food!
The location should be in… Japan. Then after the convention I can explore Japan with my friends hahaha. I want to go to Ikebukuro and all those anime attractions.
What else… I want props outside and inside the convention building for photo-taking. Stuff like a cool-looking background or the Thousand Sunny (lol) would be good.
Oh! I also want a bunch of prize draws where everyone gets a raffle ticket and there are multiple prizes to be won. Prizes like… authentic nendoroids and One Piece flag, etc. Okay, that’s all I can think of for now.
These are my 10 favourite anime opening songs. I’m not saying that these are “the” best anime songs of all time, but my current personal favourites.
Every time I listen to this song, I get really nostalgic because I watched Fruits Basket when I was in primary school. The anime is very colourful and sweet. The manga is more complete and “darker” in my opinion. I recommend you finish the manga if you haven’t already.
One Piece is my number one favourite anime. It is the best selling manga series in the world and currently has over 700 episodes. Although it is really long and still ongoing, I highly recommend this series for everyone. It’s great for people of all ages. I may be 20 years old, but I am just in love with this show. I learned a lot from One Piece, including the meaning of friendships. It helped me realize that I was in toxic friendships in the past and that things can always be better. The show made me feel every emotion possible, and it brought back my laughter.
I love just about every opening and ending song in Durarara. I enjoyed the first season more than the second. I thought the second season introduced too many characters too quickly.
Naruto and Naruto Shippuden have several opening songs I like. For Shippuden, I turned to the manga because I hated the filler episodes (except the one-episode funny ones). I can’t get into Boruto, the new series about Naruto’s kids, because I don’t like the art style. I also feel that a lot of characters are out of character.
Death Note is one of my favourite anime and I fell in love with it the instant I laid my eyes on the series. I was around eleven years old and I remember my classmates telling me that it was too scary. Lol. There’s a Netflix film adaptation of Death Note. While I won’t judge the film too much without watching it first, Death Note remains a popular series after all these years.
If you only listen to one song in this post, it should be this one. Maybe. | 2019-04-21T18:36:40Z | https://wretchedanddivine.wordpress.com/2017/08/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.296912 |
yahoo | Abigail Breslin credits her avoidance of the dreaded curse of being a child star to one thing - her mum.
The actress says her mother Kim always taught her to stand up for herself and worked hard to make her feel like a normal child - despite the fact she was nominated for an Oscar by the time she was 10.
Born on April 14 1996 in New York City, Breslin starred in her first commercial at just three years old.
She graduated to the silver screen at the age of six when she landed a role as Mel Gibson's daughter in the science fiction film Signs.
From there she starred in Raising Helen and scored a cameo in The Princess Diaries 2.
But it was her role as aspiring beauty pageant contestant Olive Hoover in the 2006 critically acclaimed Little Miss Sunshine that shot her to stardom and earned her an Academy Award nomination.
While she missed out on the Oscar, she did take home a Critics Choice award for her performance.
The next year she made her stage debut alongside Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman in the play Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in New York. She followed it up with a performance in Definitely Maybe opposite Ryan Reynolds.
In 2008 a role in Nim's Island with Jodie Foster continued her career while her 2009 performance in My Sister's Keeper garnered positive reviews.
A slew of other roles followed, culminating in her 2013 role in August: Osage County alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.
In more recent years Breslin has worked in television in the show Scream Queens and in the made-for-TV remake of Dirty Dancing in 2017.
She's also dedicated her time to be an advocate for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence after revealing she herself was once in a violent relationship.
"I'm a domestic violence and sexual assault survivor. While I now am no longer with my abuser, in the aftermath of what happened to me I developed complex PTSD," she once revealed in an emotional post to Instagram.
"Never feel like you are less than because you have a condition that you didn't cause. You are still beautiful, you are still important, you are still WORTHY." | 2019-04-24T21:04:32Z | https://nz.news.yahoo.com/todays-birthday-14-4-140518278--spt.html | Porn | Arts | 0.922315 |
wordpress | On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, this blog outlines successful policies in Latin America that have helped redistribute funds to help bring about equity in education, and benefit its indigenous populations.
To achieve Education for All, it is necessary not only to increase domestic resources for education but also to redistribute these resources equitably so that a fair share reaches marginalized groups. More often, however, resources are skewed towards the most privileged.
To shift education spending in favour of the marginalized, some governments have introduced compensatory funding formula, which allocate more resources to locales, communities or schools that are in need of greater support, such as indigenous populations. This can help overcome educational deprivation and socio-economic inequality.
Brazil weighs its national spending in order to tackle widespread education inequality between states; inequality that affects its indigenous populations the most. In the poorer northern Amazonian states, for instance, income is less than half the level in the richer southern states, so tax revenue and spending per pupil are significantly lower.
To address this imbalance and prioritise the needs of marginalized indigenous groups, the government introduced in the mid-1990s the Fund for Primary Education Administration and Development for the Enhancement of Teacher Status (FUNDEF). This school funding reform guaranteed a certain minimum spending level per pupil. Schools in rural areas were generally favoured over urban schools, with greater weight given to those attended by marginalized indigenous groups.
Recognising state disparities in the quality of teachers between poorer and richer states, 60% of Brazil’s new fund was earmarked for teacher salaries. This is very much in line with the findings in the EFA GMR 2013/4, which showed that the uneven allocation of trained teachers can widen equity gaps in learning. By 2002, the new funds had enabled almost all teachers to acquire minimum required training, and ensure an influx of fully qualified teachers to schools serving students from marginalized groups. In fact the teaching workforce in Brazil increased by around one-fifth in the years since 1997.
And more significantly, average school attendance of the poorest 20% in Brazil rose from four years in the mid-1990s to eight years by 2006. Between 1997 and 2002, average enrolment increased by 61% in the North-East region and 32% in the North region.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, educational attainment is on the rise: on average, adults had spent 3.6 years at school in 1965 which increased to 7.5 years in 2005. The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013/4 estimated that this contributed to two-thirds of the average annual growth rate in GDP per capita in the region between 2005 and 2010.
However, not all countries in the region kept pace. In Guatemala, for example, completed years of schooling among adults in 2005 was just 3.6 years. The Report calculated that, if Guatemala had matched the regional average, it could have more than doubled its average annual growth rate between 2005 and 2010, from 1.7% to 3.6%, equivalent to an additional US$500 per person. A major reason for Guatemala’s poor performance is that members of indigenous groups have historically received half as many years of schooling as non-indigenous groups.
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, let’s jog the memories of those forgetting to include them in their education policies and reform plans. The benefits that come with redressing historical inequities by improving the provision and quality of education for children from indigenous groups accrue not just for the child, but for the whole of society.
This entry was posted in Equality, Ethnicity, Language, Latin America, Marginalization, Rural areas, Teachers. Bookmark the permalink.
I am glad to note the steps taken by Brazil to make education really to be with in the ambit of the poor and powerless, – giving more to those who have less- positive discrimination formula adopted even in developed countries as in USA for certain communities.
However, there is more that could be done to improve the quality of LT in remote marginalised areas and groups helping the poor and powerless to become more empowered.
This refers to developing educational programs that are more responsive to the needs and aspirations of the poor and powerless.Such a project was carried out in Sri Lanka for those who study in small schools – marginalised and starved of resources. Eight dimensions were identified by the research team through a preliminary case studies of a few selected schools. The publication is available free on request (CD) which spells out the derails of the roles of stakeholders in this innovative project. | 2019-04-21T15:18:20Z | https://gemreportunesco.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/achieving-equity-through-finance-helping-indigenous-populations-in-brazil/ | Porn | Reference | 0.17468 |
wordpress | Ansi z358.1 2009 in relation to safety showers and eye wash units.
Guide includes a Checklist and Safety Survey as well as providing details on the requirements for Emergency Safety Shower and Eye Wash Stations.
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wordpress | This bibliography is provided as a means for you to begin your search for more information on operations. There are links to large and small railway sites of note from people that I either know personally, have been referred to by my clients or that I have found useful when I was learning about operations and layout design.
If you have any suggestions for sites that you’d like to see included please drop me a line here: <link to no spam email script>.
The OpSIG operations primer is a great place to start. This site provides answers to the many questions we all have when we are starting out.
For an Introduction to Car Cards and Waybills (CC&WB) drop on by another OpSIG site. This article is a reprint for the OpSIG’s excellent member publication the Dispatcher’s Office.
This link leads to the OpSIG’s suggested internet resources. Take a look through all of the resources thay have collected. Initially take a look at the car forwarding links.
This link provides a basic overview of operations and car cards and waybills for your model railroad layout.
The final link, mentioned in other pages above, shows you how to operate your layout using car cards and waybills.
Lance Mindheim’s personal site is a real eye opener as to the quality of work that can be achieved in a relatively small space. Visit Lances site by clicking here. | 2019-04-25T22:41:20Z | https://huntervalleylines.wordpress.com/yard-office/operations/operations-107-bibliography/ | Porn | Reference | 0.664288 |
wordpress | That auditorium looks like C130 in UF’s Chemistry Lab Building — one of the 17 auditoriums I’ve taught in as a UF faculty member.
Many of those teaching assistants are new and will be attending orientation sessions as part of their preparation.
For more than a dozen years, I’ve been a presenter at the University of Florida’s orientation for new teaching assistants, sponsored by the Graduate School and the Teacher Center. I really enjoy helping the more than 400 new TAs each year be better prepared for success in their teaching.
Here are five suggestions for how to maximize your experience as you attend a new teacher orientation.
#1 – Consider the questions you have about teaching in general and your teaching assignment.
You’ll be more engaged in the sessions if you consider those sessions as a way of answering questions you have about teaching. So before going to the orientation, make a list of questions you have…and then add to your list as other questions occur to you as you participate in the orientation. | 2019-04-26T12:35:10Z | https://successfulteaching.wordpress.com/tag/orientation-for-new-teaching-assistants/ | Porn | Reference | 0.406962 |
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livejournal | the merry month of may.. - when it's all over we still have to clear up..
the merry month of may..
for months now i've had this "rule" of not posting anything in this journal unless something significant happens that i can write about. that didn't work. not that my life is that boring. writing stuff down is one thing, but then i often wonder why i should bother putting it out there online.
ok then, so i'm still around on LiveJournal. reading my friends page (each day, when possible) and still active in Support.
actually, i'm going to see Claw Boys Claw tomorrow. i'm not even sure if i'm going to record the Eurovision Song Contest. i didn't plan this on purpose. we got the tickets five weeks ago.
and damn, we have to wait at least three more weeks before we can go watch Star Trek: Into Darkness in a theater over here..
Good choice. Peter te Bos easily beats Anouk, not even thinking about the pile of crap the ESF comes up with.
Te Bos bedankte ons nog voor de keuze die we deze avond hadden gemaakt. hij verwachtte trouwens dat velen het Songfestival wel zouden opnemen, en liet weten dat zelf ook te doen.
nu moet je natuurlijk nooit alles geloven wat die man zegt, maar wie weet..
Waarom zou je 'm niet geloven?
yes there was a bit of all those things, not too far away from where we were standing. i can remember seeing only one actual stage dive though..
I'm glad you're still around. So many have abandoned LiveJournal. It's not worth checking my friends page every day, not a lot happening there. Some friends I knew from LJ moved to other places where I can follow them. Some just disappeared. Others I didn't know very well in the first place. I guess if I want some more to read on my friends page here, I'll have to add some new people. | 2019-04-24T12:11:00Z | https://tamar.livejournal.com/214879.html | Porn | Reference | 0.309708 |
typepad | The discussions about social media policies moved from the “nice-to-have” guidelines to the necessary legalistic, corporate documents a few years ago. Most companies who engage in social media now have some type of policy outlining guidelines and expected behavior from their employees. Some brands have a link to their policies from their Facebook “About” tabs.
The need for having an internal social policy is simple: it reduces risk. In reality, the social policy is most likely a variation on other internal, employee documents. One advantage it does have is that it clearly states what behavior is allowed and forbidden in specific social channels.
Legal teams like social policies. Social media scares them to start with, so having some type of protection is necessary for them. It’s also a good for all of the employees. The clearer companies are with their employees, the fewer misunderstandings and mistakes will happen in the social channels. Social policies won’t stop all poor behavior. But they will cause some people to pause and think before they act socially. And if companies need to take disciplinary action, employees can’t say they haven't been warned.
Do all companies need a social media policy? Maybe. But there are certain types of companies that do themselves a disservice by not having one.
Take HubSpot, for example. HubSpot is one of the bright social media stars out of Boston. It’s seen strong growth and has assembled one of the best teams of social media thinkers in the country. It offers a suite of inbound marketing tools along with training and is a boon for both newbie social companies and more mature ones. It’s one of the reasons we at the #BTVSMB invited Rick Burnes to come to Burlington a few years back.
It made me wonder: Does HubSpot, who teaches others how to act socially, have a social policy themselves? Here is a clearly self identified HubSpot employee, a supposed social media pro, talking about minors and “Over The Pants Hand Jobs.” Posting on company time no less.
Now maybe I missed the post where some of my social media favorites like Laura Fitton, Dan Zarella and Brian Halligan, all HubSpot gurus and some of the smartest people in the business, write about social media masturbation (although you could make the case that this IS what social media is all about. But that’s another post.). I can’t remember them tweeting about encouraging employees to make highly inappropriate comments with the brand name attached.
Actually I’ll bet the opposite is true, given the recent examples from Chrysler and Kitchen Aid.
The super smart Mike Volpe wrote an opinion piece a few years ago arguing that having a social media policies was stupid . I think Mike only got it half right that time. You need to hire smart people AND have a social policy. I think Brian Halligan’s gang went 0 for 2 this time.
Insurance companies are risk averse industry sector. That’s an understatement. Their business is based on risk avoidance. That might be one of the reasons why many of them have been late to online and social media.
In the comments the young man expresses great support for the risky behavior of underage and binge drinking. Now, I’m not an insurance guy but shouldn’t they be promoting less risk, not more? While the guy is not as easily identifiable as a William Gallagher Associates employee as the HubSpot guy, it doesn’t take much effort to find out, or to see that he too is commenting on company time.
I’ve worked with a few insurance companies in Massachusetts and I know it’s a tough, competitive environment. I’m not sure promoting binge, underage drinking is the right brand message for William Gallagher Associates. Insurance companies place a great emphasis on building trust between their sales people and their customers. Maybe saying impetous comments builds trust for some people. But I’d rather not buy my insurance from someone like that.
WGA does participate in social media: they have a very good blog, a small Twitter presence and a pretty good Web site. I bet that they don’t have a social policy either. As a risk management company, they probably should.
I may be missing something though. WGA CEO Philip Edmundson also tweets under the name PoliticsOfObesity. It's a great stream, by the way. Could it be that he's starting a new focus, Politics of Binge Drinking, and using some of his staff for research?
None of this really comes close to the Chrysler debacle. Maybe I am picking on HubSpot, but it’s only because they’re big guns that can take it. But both of these comments are so off brand as to raise some serious questions. | 2019-04-19T11:24:41Z | https://digitalstrategy.typepad.com/digital_strategy/2012/10/index.html | Porn | Business | 0.801978 |
typepad | Thank you to everyone taking part in the Blogging Survey. Thanks to my blog friends and word-of-blog, it is getting publicity and the large response is helping the quality of the survey. Many thanks!
I'm knee deep in peer-reviewed journal articles I've researched on media theory issues relating to this study so at the same time I'm reading through these, I'll be honing in on the blogs that I'll be analyzing for a content study as an adjunct to this survey. This project builds on previous research I've done in the area of new media studies as part of my graduate studies towards a master's in Media Studies. This is an area I'm particularly interested in and feel has been understudied because it is too new. Online news use, blogging with a sub-study on female blogs with a special emphasis on mom blogs will be included in this project.
Part of the project will be completed in time to be used as my final for my class in digital media theory but I want to work with all of the data beyond that deadline. The blog survey will be closed on December 6. I'll begin to make results available through the MotherPie blog beginning the end of January.
I really appreciate the support of the blogosphere community in helping me develop the survey and provide me with ideas to include in the research.
I took it and I linked to it on my blog today. Good luck!
Hi! Good luck with your project.
I have two suggestions for future surveys, regarding specific questions that I found difficult to answer.
- The question, "Do you work for income" could use an "occasionally" option.
- Likewise, the question "Do your family members resent the time spent blogging" would be better served with more options. I would suggest Always/Often/Sometimes/Occasionally/Never rather than a simple Yes/No.
Great survey! Looking forward to seeing the results!
I've crossposted and provided the link on my women-centric blog.
That was fun. I'll pass it on.
I took the survey and I will mention it on my blog tomorrow.
I posted a link as well.
Can't wait to see results..
I was sent here by Kenju, and have done your survey.
Just finished the survey. Can't wait to see your results!
motherpie...Eleanor here. Just completed your survey and good luck on your project.
Good luck with your survey. I'll be very interested in the results.
Did the survey, hope it helped but I'm a 'newbie' so I don't know if my information is that pertinent or relevant. I would link it to my site, but I have no idea how to do that - sorry.
I took it, and left my email address. And if it will help you at all, my actual real-life job is writing for an old-media company, so if I can provide any anecdotal information for whatever it is you're doing, I'd be glad to.
I'm gonna link your survey on my blog. I just completed it and found your questions quite inciteful!! | 2019-04-24T16:33:17Z | https://motherpie.typepad.com/motherpie/2006/11/blog_research.html?cid=25183218 | Porn | News | 0.130461 |
wordpress | A hand knit pillow cover in progress using my Salish color scheme.
The bowl carved by rotary tool is smoothing out nicely. Time to decide on how to finish it.
A black and white prairie landscape almost finished. This time a 16×20″ canvas.
There are also three carvings currently being worked on and a woodcut.
← Sneak peek at what is coming up…….
Always busy it seems. Today has been en plein air painting, photography, crocheting, and driftwood collecting for carving. One thing I do little of is watching TV…….no time! LOL! | 2019-04-21T10:15:36Z | https://htheblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/todays-works-in-progress/ | Porn | Arts | 0.85745 |
wordpress | Wonderful story! I really loved reading it and can relate in a lot of ways. Thank you for sharing. | 2019-04-18T21:40:05Z | https://4mothers1blog.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/13116/ | Porn | Reference | 0.432695 |
wordpress | I’ve always thought that greater attention should be paid to the use of buckets in Ozu’s colour films. There has been a lot of talk and writing about the teapot, but not the bucket (and the broom).
Perhaps Wim Wenders thinks so too. In his Tokyo-Ga (1985) movie Chishû Ryû pays his respects to Ozu’s grave and he washes it using two wonderfully coloured plastic buckets.
Read more "Chishû Ryû -Tokyo-Ga"
Read more "Σχετικά με το Paris, Texas"
Read more "Jiro Taniguchi at the movies"
Cary Grant‘s picture in a woman’s bedroom in 1950.
Read more "Cary Grant in the-Woman-in-Question’s room"
Read more "Blue Sky Maiden"
In Giants and Toys (Yasuzô Masumura, 1958) the advertising business is tough. Competition is relentless and one has to do things one doesn’t want to.
He fights it but in the end he has to make a fool of himself. He wears the space suit and walks the streets to advertise.
It makes it a little easier, I guess.
Read more "A bright smile"
Read more "The Ronin with No Name" | 2019-04-24T10:51:32Z | https://asbestoe.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/ | Porn | Business | 0.89529 |
utoronto | Most of the information in this page can be found from the Rocketboards website.
Here is a tutorial provided by Rocketboards.
1. An Ubuntu image for DE1-SoC. This Terasic webpage provides four SD card images. The Ubuntu image is named “Linux Ubuntu Desktop”.
CAUTION: I was not able to successfully update the preloader part of the image (Preloader needs to be updated when the Hard-Processor System (HPS) configuration has been changed (in Qsys)).
2. An Angstrom distribution of Linux Image that I created from source, for ArriaV-SoC, link (md5sum: 1155e1cf0505744d61258c1e5302000d).
The steps for creating the image can be found from the “complete manual” below.
Here is the complete manual.
See this link for creating the preloader based on the hardware configuration.
Here is the command for updating only the preloader part of the SD card image. Be sure to check the disk name and partition number. | 2019-04-25T07:46:57Z | http://legup.eecg.utoronto.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=running_linux_os_on_arm-based_soc_fpgas | Porn | Computers | 0.801765 |
tripod | Saint Death, otherwise known as Santa Muerte, La Santísima Muerte, and as Doña Sebastiana, is a religious figure who receives petitions for love, luck, and protection. Saint Death is depicted by means of both male and female representations. In some Mexican traditions, most notably among the descendants of Austrian immigrants, Saint Death is believed to be the wife of Krampus.
Although the Catholic Church has attacked the worship of Saint Death as a pagan tradition contrary to the Christian belief of Christ defeating death, many people insist on praying to this figure for miracles. Saint Death is venerated by a wide variety of people from many different backgrounds. Often, those who pray to this figure are seeking the recovery of health, stolen items, or kidnapped family members.
Saint Death can be either male or female. When male, he is frequently dressed as a grim reaper with a scythe and scales (the scales may be reminiscent of St. Michael); when female, Santa Muerte is dressed in a long white satin gown and a golden crown (Muerte and the related Romance words have a feminine gender). In this form, many devotees view her as a variation of the Virgin Mary.
Grim Reaper statues are made in red, white, green and black – for love, luck, financial success and protection. Offerings to Saint Death include roses and tequila. Public shrines to Saint Death are adorned with red roses, cigars, and bottles of tequila, and Saint Death candles burn in his/her honor. Throughout Mexico, and in parts of the United States (especially in Mexican immigrant communities), Saint Death prayer cards, medals, and candles are made and sold to the public.
One resource indicates that the cult of Saint Death has been around only since the 1960s, and originated from witchcraft in the state of Veracruz; however, other research inclines one to question if Saint Death is in reality much older. Saint Death may have his/her roots in pre-Christian beliefs of the Aztec Native Americans who worshipped a similar figure by the name of Mictlantecuhtli, the god of death, along with his wife, Mictecacihuatl.
Similar to other cultures around the world, pre-Christian deities in Mexico are sometimes syncretized as pseudo-saints. On the other hand, in Spanish the phrase santa muerte could also be interpreted simply as "holy death." Thus Saint Death may simply represent a reinterpretation by folk religion of the traditional and orthodox Roman Catholic practice of prayer to receive a blessed death in a state of grace.
Her prayers, orations, and novenas contain the Trinity and worship of Yahweh. While some view Santa Muerte as a figure of black magic, others view her as a Catholic saint worthy of veneration. The controversial saint is sometimes associated with marital fidelity, and is often used in love spells.
Saint Death is worshipped by the Iglesia Católica Tradicionalista mexicana-estadunidense, a church not related to the Roman Catholic church. | 2019-04-26T06:15:05Z | http://texasboo.tripod.com/creaturesofdeath/id20.html | Porn | Health | 0.207918 |
wordpress | Songwriter and guitarist for The Outfield, John Spinks has passed away at age 60 from liver cancer. The British pop rock band, The Outfeild had eight Billboard 100 hits from 1986 – 1992 which includes of course it’s Number 6 big hit, Your Love which was written by John. Their debut album, Play Deep spent 66 weeks on the chart and went Platinum.
Oddly, The Outfield had great commercial success in the US much more than their homeland. I think I still have my Outfield cassettes. I wore them out and loved them. Their songs still bring me back to my youth as soon as I play them. I thank them for the great music which became the soundtrack of my youth.
We would like to thank you for ‘Your Love’ and the continued support you have given John throughout his career. He loved making music and playing his guitar. He found pleasure knowing that his music made people happy and bought them fond memories. He worked hard with many days in pain to finish the Replay album. There were times when he could barely pick up his guitar, but he refused to give up knowing he would disappoint fans. The hardest day for John was when he put his guitar in its case announcing his hands could no longer play.
During the last months of his life, John, Tony and Alan wrote new material. What the future holds for this is unclear at the time of this writing.
I will leave you with one of my favorite songs from The Outfield, Your Love.
Adelita’s Way gearing up for their album release with another instant download for pre-orders! | 2019-04-25T18:52:17Z | https://musicjunkiepress.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/the-outfield-guitarist-and-songwriter-john-spinks-dies-from-liver-cancer/ | Porn | News | 0.687052 |
wordpress | OMG what is it with Tumblr and animals tonight?
First it was catsnake, and then chickencat, and now dogpig??
This entry was posted in Training and tagged animals of tumblr, catsnake, chickencat, dogpig. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-20T16:31:32Z | https://reginadabean.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/ninjakasuga-sirartwork-reblog-for-noises/ | Porn | Reference | 0.329091 |
wordpress | In addition, through the course of the last week we have “finished” the foyer, living room, dining room and kitchen. There is no art on the walls yet and the dining room’s decor is hurt somewhat by the piles of artwork leaning against the walls and sitting in the corners. However, we sat by the fire two nights running and just absorbed the space and the magic that we find in the vaulted ceiling, the brick, the 3/4 wall, the clerestory windows. The house amazes me because I am forever finding some new angle that I had never seen before that makes me gasp. It’s really magical.
We also replaced the aerator on the kitchen sink – our first little home improvement item. We also had to put a screen door back on its track, try to figure out how to remove the fireplace screen (since it doesn’t work very well at all), replace light bulbs, try to find the main water valve into the house (where could it be???) and curse the way the upper cabinets in the kitchen are designed (the sellers were smoking crack when they dreamt up that configuration). So, it’s dreamy in a realistic way. There’s so much to do but it’s such a pleasure to do it in a place we love. | 2019-04-23T08:51:47Z | https://summitridgehome.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/monday/ | Porn | Home | 0.818495 |
livejournal | Where's the option for "Bacon sandwich? Ew! You people are on crack."? I like bacon. I even like bacon as a small part of a sandwich. But I can't fathom how anyone can make a sandwich where bacon is the main ingredient.
No, no. The extra H makes it clear that this was said while eating a perfect bacon sandwich- clearly giving you the upper hand!
Yes! YES! Buah ha ha ha ha ha!
... Well, I suppose we all have to have our first "clicked the wrong comment link" moment eventually. Sorry about that!
Not sorry about the "ew" though.
Agreed. Erm, how can one consume that much bacon as a meal? Side dish, yes. Condiment-sorta. But...eugh. | 2019-04-18T21:00:18Z | https://rho.livejournal.com/331127.html?thread=1885303 | Porn | Reference | 0.269391 |
sakura | All I ask is that you email me, and if you can, please keep a link to me at the footer.
Here is an example of image borders and the "split right box" and "split left box". You can split your text using CSS classes, This also has the "bluebox class inside the split.
This is a sweet little split left container you can put images or text into.
If you find any problems with my template can you please email me, and let me know what I need to fix!
Another example of great coding from OS template designers. Here is a rounded text box for your use. Enjoy! The rounded corners on this text box is done with CSS that was developed by Adam Kalsey.
I have also included a footer bar just like the header bar if you want to tackle having the footer 'stick' to the bottom of the page, regardless of content.
The blue square above the navigation can be used for your site logo, just open it up in photoshop and clear the white, or use your own! - I obviously used the ideas behind the OSWD template, which is my favorite, this is my first attempt! | 2019-04-22T22:08:13Z | http://karedo2.sakura.ne.jp/veganism/recipe-%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%94/ | Porn | Reference | 0.319169 |
wordpress | On November 20 I was a guest speaker for “Artists as Activists and Change Agents” class for Human Ecology at Otis College of Art and Design. I focused on Full Circle: re-birth of a tree, how it lead to wearable art. Plus I surprised the student by giving them 45 minutes to create some wearable art. Afterwards we held a fashion show and photo shoot! It was super fun. As soon as I said start they started running like they were on Project Runway.
They made some fantastic pieces. A working rain coat. An outfit for royalty. A prom/wedding dress. And an array of accessories including a working belt! All out of discarded items I brought to class. They were all given one element as a theme and one plastic tablecloth as a base.
A new year a new yarn bomb!
Started the new year out right by making art! A Piece of Me is a new art exhibit from Yarn Bombing Los Angeles and Dreameco Crafts (Amy Bauer and Richard Hecht) along with our knitting guru Britta Amundsen and other yblaers opens January 27. And once again I’m yarnbombing a tree!
I also believe we have a YBLA workshop on Saturday, February 17, 12-3pm in the same location as above.
Here is a sneak preview of our work… hope it entice’s you to stop by to see it on the tree! | 2019-04-20T19:00:33Z | https://amybauerart.wordpress.com/tag/amybauerdesigns/ | Porn | Arts | 0.995587 |
wordpress | I have been souring the internet looking for good palm-free soap recipes, and usually I find ones that contain some percentage of oils that I don’t have. I can get pretty creative at coming up with a decent mix based on what I do have, but sometimes I wind up with a softer finished bar than I was hoping for.
I felt like I struck gold when I saw Offbeat and Inspired’s Peppermint Mocha Soap, since it is palm free, but I don’t have canola oil, so I went to work on Brambleberry’s lye calculator and came up with the recipe below. I made one 10″ loaf and poured a little bit into some tiny silicone seashell molds I have.. I’ve only unmolded the shells so far, but they have firmed up nicely and have a beautiful glossy finish.
I tried an in-the-pot swirl, a new technique to me, and let me just say the soap didn’t look how I had imagined it as I was pouring it into the mold.. despite using the sunflower oil, my mocha soap batter still thickened up more than my white peppermint batter, so it looked lumpier than I thought it would when I poured it. I’m going to unmold it tomorrow and slice it within the next few days.. we’ll see how it turned out! Despite its less-than-stellar looks so far, it still smells absolutely divine!
If you have never made soap before, I wouldn’t recommend starting out with this recipe. I relied heavily on Soap Queen’s beginner’s guide to cold process soapmaking and lye safety instructions for my first several batches.
I started by making the mocha soap base: brewed coffee with twice as many grinds as recommended, and set the coffee in the fridge overnight to cool completely. The next day, I slowly added the lye to the cold coffee and stirred completely. Like many non-water lye mixtures, this one smelled pretty bad, so I was outside while I mixed it to help with the fumes.
While the coffee-lye mixture was cooling, I mixed my lye into the distilled water for my peppermint soap base so that could start cooling as well.
Then I measured my oils in two separate containers, a larger 12-cup pyrex for the peppermint soap base and a 2-cup pyrex for the mocha soap base. I melted the baker’s chocolate in my microwave, stirred 1 Tbsp of cocoa powder into the melted chocolate, and added a few tablespoons of the warm mocha soap oils to the melted chocolate to stir all of the lumps out. Then I added the smooth melted chocolate to the 2 cup pyrex. I added a pinch of sea salt into each container of oils to help the soap harden.
When the oils and lye-water mixtures were both around 110 degrees, I started mixing. I blended the mocha soap base to a light trace, then moved onto the peppermint base and blended that to a slightly thicker trace. It took a while for each base to reach trace, so I think while I was blending the peppermint soap the mocha soap continued to thicken up on me. I panicked and quickly poured small amounts of the mocha soap base into the peppermint base at 12, 3, 6 and 9 to try my in the pot swirl… and then realized I forgot to add my peppermint essential oil to the peppermint soap base!
I was thinking about just having a swirled mocha soap, but I really wanted the peppermint mocha smell for Christmas. I added my peppermint EO to the soap batter and lightly swirled it into the top with my spatula, and hoped for the best.. then I poured into my 10″ silicone mold. I could see the thicker mocha soap was not swirling into the peppermint soap as I had imagined it would, but I set it under a cardboard box with a towel on top to insulate it and hoped for the best.
When I un-molded my seashells I noticed some of them have whitish spots visible, I think that may be my peppermint essential oil that didn’t get thoroughly mixed into the soap. I’ll post pictures when I slice into my 10″ loaf to see what the final product looks like.
What are your favorite palm free soap recipes? | 2019-04-22T16:54:24Z | https://soapspiration.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/palm-free-peppermint-mocha-soap-recipe/ | Porn | Reference | 0.296219 |
yahoo | On his first night working at Corner’s Variety convenience store, in Hamilton, Ontario, employee Salahaldeen Odeh fought off two robbers armed with a shotgun.
This surveillance footage of the August 10 encounter shows two men, with bandanas over their faces, entered the store around 5 am. As one of the men reached for a gun, Odeh quickly jumped over the counter and fought off both men, who can be seen fleeing on foot.
Hamilton Police confirmed the robbers were in possession of a shotgun during the incident. They also recommended “people comply with the demands made of them” in violent situations. | 2019-04-26T07:47:58Z | https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ontario-convenience-store-clerk-fights-030002705.html?guccounter=1 | Porn | Shopping | 0.454172 |
typepad | Have you ever thought about why God saved you? He didn't have to bother rescuing us from judgment, and we certainly didn't deserve his forgiveness and acceptance. So why did He do it?
The Apostle Paul reminds us that one of the ways we should live our lives and please God is so that we can keep on giving thanks to Him for qualifying us to share his inheritance. As Jesus explained to the woman at the well, God is searching for worshipers, and what better way to recruit people to praise Him than to rescue them when they couldn't save themselves.
Most of the time I overlook how lost I've been in my sin. I fail to remember the horrible cost Jesus paid to save me. And I forget the thrill of being with Jesus forever that awaits me. Such neglect robs me of joy and stifles my worship.
Styles of worship music do not matter. Physical posture is not the issue. What truly inspires heartfelt praise is the growing awareness of how rich and full our salvation is in Christ. If you haven't recently, take time to remember how much Christ has changed your life. Review your lost condition and what Jesus did to save you. Thank Him for rescuing you. Thank Him for his unconditional love and grace to you. How lavish is the Father's love for you that He made you his precious child (1 John 3:1)!
Are You Qualified to Go to Heaven?
Who has the qualifications to go to heaven? The Pope? Mother Theresa? Billy Graham? The Dalai Lama? You and me? Believe it or not, anyone who by faith depends on Jesus Christ can be certain they are going there.
In Colossians 1:12-14, Paul explains that the fourth characteristic of Christians who are walking in a way that honors God (Colossians 1:10) is that they are joyful worshipers of God the Father. Followers of Jesus keep on thanking God for the inheritance they have received from Him, and they do this, not out of duty, but for sheer joy. They are well aware that they don't deserve to receive any blessings from God, and this conviction makes their praise all the more joyful. How sad that so many Christians have lost their sense of joy and wonder at God's grace! They forget that Christ has qualified them to share his blessings in the this life and go to heaven in the next.
Our sinful rebellion disqualifies us from inheriting any of God's blessings, and if we're ever going to make the grade, God the Father has to do the work. Thankfully, He has made us sufficient to receive a share of the inheritance He is giving to all of the saints who are in the light. He qualified us to inherit by rescuing us from the authority of darkness and then placing us in His beloved Son's kingdom. Note the contrast between "the kingdom of darkness" and "saints in the light." Christians need to live lives set apart from sinning because they have been set free from the kingdom of darkness (Satan's domain). They are holy because God has taken them to be his possessions through Jesus' salvation work.
Almighty God has already qualified us because He has already rescued and already transferred us into his Son's kingdom of light. We were redeemed when He purchased out of the slave market of sin and set us free. Jesus paid the price for our liberation when He died on the cross. All of our sins have been forgiven, not because we deserve it, but because Jesus graciously took our punishment in our place. His sacrifice makes our inheritance all the more priceless (1 Peter 1:18-19).
God takes the disqualified and makes them qualified when they trust in his Son, Jesus Christ, for their forgiveness and acceptance with Him. You can become fit to inherit God's blessings now and heaven later when you depend on Christ to rescue you. Think about it: If you've been qualified to become a shareholder of heaven, you have a lot to celebrate, so let it show in your praise of God!
Paul prays for the Colossians that they would be filled with a thorough knowledge of God's will and have the spiritual wisdom and insight to apply it to their lives (Colossians 1:9). In vv. 1-12 he explains what will happen when they put into action their knowledge of God's will: They'll walk about (live their lives, conduct themselves) in a manner that is worthy of the Lord and pleases Him. Rather than seeking to advance themselves and satisfy their selfish desires, those who obey Christ live to honor Him and do what satisfies Him.
To behave in a way that is "worthy" of the Lord Jesus means to act in a way that is "suitable" for one who claims to be submissive to his authority as Lord (both the Owner and Boss). If we claim that Jesus is our Lord, then we need to conduct our lives in a way that is appropriate. Our behavior must show our devotion and respect for Him and so becomes an act of worship.
The motivation for such behavior is the desire to please Christ and do something that brings a sense of satisfaction to Him. We are correct to avoid living our lives trying to impress God or earn his approval. Only salvation through Christ which we appropriate by faith gives us God's full approval. Yet, just as a parent is pleased and proud when a child freely chooses to obey, so the Lord Jesus is both honored and satisfied when we trust and obey Him.
It's impossible to please God when we allow ourselves to be controlled by the sinful nature/fleshly impulse we all have within us (Romans 8:8). Jesus died for us not so that we would please ourselves but seek to please God.
It's impossible to please God when we mix the gospel with other religious beliefs and philosophies. That's why Paul prayed that the Colossians would receive a thorough knowledge of God's will and not settle for the "special knowledge" the false teachers claimed to offer in their noxious blend of Christianity, magic, and angel worship.
So how do you and I go about pleasing God? Paul shows us four ways in vv. 10-12: Bearing fruit through good works, increasing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with God's power, and giving thanks joyfully to God. We'll look at these in greater detail in the days ahead.
I have a personal responsibility to love God and love my neighbor. The "you" in both commands is in the singular form, and it reminds me that I have to do the loving. It's "You...yes, you!," not, "You all..." While the church certainly needs to love God and others, I realize that I must take the initiative to love them, whether or not anyone else does.
I need to be fully engaged in loving God and loving my neighbor. Jesus said that I have to love them with my whole (all) heart, soul, and mind. My neighbor needs to be loved just like I love myself. Nothing should be held back when I give to the Lord or to others in need.
I live a life of full devotion to the Lord when I love God and my neighbor this way. All that I do and say must hinge on my loving God and loving others. Every other command in the Bible flows out of these two. To me, it sounds like Jesus is saying, "These two are the commands. Everything else is simply a way to practically apply them in your daily life."
I can't love God if I don't love my neighbor. Jesus sure seems to be placing equal stress on both commands. Of course, we must love God first. But can I say that I really do love Him if I don't love the people He has placed near me? No, I can't. Ouch. The genuineness of my Theology is seen in the generousness of my Hospitality.
I am a thankful man today.
The privilege of serving God.
The family of God at the Chapel.
The opportunity to learn and grow.
Way more than enough. And then some.
"Thank you for it all, dear Heavenly Father.
Your grace has met my every need."
Today, we Morgans are headed over the mountains to visit my kinfolk. Tomorrow, we travel south of the border into Maryland to be with Dawn's family. Saturday, Audrey and Chris come for a visit. It'll be great to be with them all!
Another reason for thanking God is this: Thanking God puts me and you in our proper place. It humbles us by reminding us that we are dependent on God. I think that this fact alone is one of the main reasons we tend to not thank God or others. We don't like to admit that we need them.
One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
"Your faith has made you well." By so blessing the grateful Samaritan, Jesus shows that thanksgiving is an expression of our humble, trustful dependence on God. In a very real sense, ungratefulness = pride. When we don't give thanks, it might be because we actually trust in ourselves.
Our giving thanks strengthens our faith. Our giving thanks testifies of God's greatness to the world. Our giving thanks tells our children that they can trust God, too. Maybe we Christians would be a more persuasive witness in the world if instead of protesting we spent more time giving thanks for all that God has done.
I'm looking forward to our Thanksgiving Praise Service tonight at the Chapel. It's a tradition, yes, but it's also alive. When I hear of all that God has done in our church family this past year...I come away full, overwhelmed by the Lord's faithfulness to little ol' me and my brothers and sisters in Christ. The simplicity of it all is remarkable. Just us, God's children, telling our Daddy in Heaven that we are thank-full to Him.
Giving thanks is powerful! Do you understand the impact your thanksgiving can have on your own faith? Do you see how it can influence others to trust God as well? Are you full of thanks to God? When will you tell Him?
We're quick to pray, but are we quick to give thanks? Scripture constantly reminds us to not only ask for God's help, but also to praise Him when He comes to our aid.
Why does God want us to give thanks? I think there are at least three reasons for thanksgiving, and we can ill afford to misunderstand God's purposes for it. I'll share these simple ideas with you over the next several days.
Persistent thanksgiving halts this slide toward living a life without God since gratitude is an act of worship. Christians worship God by offering sacrifices of thanksgiving along with their good deeds to Him.
A grateful person recognizes how gracious and kind God has been in his or her life and so appreciates Him. To such a person, giving thanks is an act of worship, a heartfelt expression of their love for God. Thanksgiving just wells up within them. They don't need a special day to thank God; it's their daily habit.
So, are you forgetting anything in your prayers? What are you thankful for? Have you given thanks to God? | 2019-04-21T12:46:23Z | https://bibleblog.typepad.com/bible_blog/worship/ | Porn | Reference | 0.160961 |
google | A disposable diaper is provided with adhesive tabs permanently adhered to a backing sheet of a diaper at marginal locations. Each tab is folded back on itself so that a tacky surface on the free end of each tab is exposed. A release coated surface is provided on the backing sheet of the diaper inwardly of the folded over free end of each tab so that when each side margin of the diaper is folded along the length of the diaper prior to packaging, the exposed tacky surface of the free end of the tab is lightly adhered to the release coated surface to hold the diaper in a folded attitude and to retain the tacky surface in a protected position within the confines of the fold, thereby eliminating the need for a separate release sheet. For use, the tacky surfaces adhered to the respective release surfaces are exposed for applying the diaper to the baby by merely unfolding the diaper.
Disposable diapers provide substantial advantages in convenience over diapers intended to be laundered and reused, particularly when the diapers are used away from home. In recent years, many different disposable diapers have been proposed and some have been successful in the marketplace. Typical disposable diaper structures comprise a facing material to be brought into contact with the infant's skin, an absorptive moisture-retaining layer of relatively high moisture-holding capacity, and a moisture-impervious backing sheet. Typical disposable diaper structures are shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,612,055 to Mesek et al., and in U.S. Pat. No. Re. 26,151 to Duncan et al.
As may be seen from the above-cited patents, it has been desirable to obviate the problems that are inherent in closure systems utilizing extraneous fasteners such as safety pins, snaps and zippers, and tab-type adhesive closure systems have been used in lieu of such extraneous fasteners.
The adhesive systems shown in the above-mentioned patents include adhesive tabs which are adhered to the backing sheet and which extend outwardly from opposite sides of the diaper at one end thereof. The exposed areas of the adhesive tabs are provided with cover strips thereon that are readily separable from the adhesive tabs. However, disposable diapers using an adhesive closure system of this general type have the disadvantage in that the consumer must dispose of the cover strips when they are separated from the adhesive strips. This is an inconvenience to the consumer who is placing the diaper on a baby at about the same time.
An illustrative prior art adhesive system having cover strips permanently attached to the diaper is shown in Gellert U.S. Pat. No. 3,646,937. The Gellert arrangement has the disadvantage of having a release surface on the inside of the diaper, where it can possibly come in contact with a baby's tender skin. The closure system illustrated in the Gellert patent also has the disadvantage that it requires the use of two hands to peel back the releasable end of the adhesive tape. Additional disadvantages are the complexities and expense which are added to the manufacturing process because each adhesive closure has to be manipulated on the front side, around the edge, and on the back side of the diaper, instead of handling it on one side only.
In this invention, the side of the diaper that faces away from the baby when the diaper is in use is provided with adhesive tabs which do not require cover strips. The tabs are adhered to the diaper at marginal locations and are folded inwardly upon themselves so that a tacky surface on a free end of each tab is exposed and faces in the same direction as the diaper backing sheet. A release coated region is provided on the diaper inwardly of and adjacent to the folded-over free end of each tab so that when each side margin of the diaper is folded along the length of the diaper, the tacky surface of the free end of each tab is releasably adhered to the release coated region. This holds the diaper in a folded attitude suitable for storage or packaging, yet in an attitude from which it can be opened by a lateral pull which simultaneously releases the free end of the adhesive tab ready for use in applying the diaper to an infant. Thus, the adhesive tabs of the diaper are readily made available for use and nothing need be disposed of. Also, the tacky surfaces ultimately used to secure the diaper are covered and positioned in a protected location within the confines of the folded diaper prior to use.
In one embodiment of this invention, a release coated surface is provided on the side of the adhesive tab opposite from the tacky side thereof, and the tab is folded inwardly about fold lines which divide the tab into three substantially equal segments so that the terminal tab segments overlie the central tab segment. Thus, when a box pleat is formed in the diaper, the tacky surface of the free end of the tape tab is positioned in surface-to-surface releasable engagement with the release coating on the tab segment adhesively attached to the diaper. This particular embodiment has the advantage that the entire closure system is provided by a single relatively long adhesive tab, the major portion of the length of the tab adhesive being adhered to the diaper to increase the strength of the bond between the tab and the diaper as compared to prior art closure systems.
In an alternate embodiment, the release coating is separate from the tab and can be on a separate member adhesively secured to the diaper backing sheet inwardly of the adhesive tab. In this embodiment the tab is folded about its mid-portion so that the tacky surface on the tab free end is disposed in surface-to-surface releasable engagement with the release coated surface on the separate member when a pleat is formed in the diaper. The release coated surface can be larger in area than the tape tab, thereby making alignment of the tacky surface on the tab free end and the release region less critical during manufacture of the diapers.
In either embodiment, the need for a separate release strip covering the adhesive surface is eliminated, yet the adhesive surface is completely protected within the confines of the folded diaper to prevent undesired inadvertent adherence prior to application of the diaper to a baby. The tabs are made readily available for use by merely opening the folded end of the diaper to overcome the light adhesion between the free ends of the tabs and the release surfaces.
FIG. 9 is a perspective view on a reduced scale and showing a diaper in a configuration assumed after the diaper is placed on an infant.
While this invention is susceptible of embodiment in many different forms, there is shown in the drawings and will herein be described in detail preferred embodiments of the invention, with the understanding that the present disclosure is to be considered as an exemplification of the principles of the invention and is not intended to limit the invention to the embodiments illustrated.
Referring to the drawings, diaper 10, shown fully opened and laid out flat in FIG. 1, includes moisture-impervious backing sheet 12 which forms a diaper outside surface for direction away from an infant. Facing sheet 16 forms an inside surface for direction toward an infant, is made of moisture-pervious fibrous material and is substantially equal in dimension and coterminous with backing sheet 12. While not critical to the present invention, diaper 10 also preferably includes highly moisture-absorbent fibrous pad or batt 14 situated between backing sheet 12 and facing sheet 16. Pad 14 is also rectangular in shape, but smaller than the facing and backing sheets and is centrally disposed therebetween. Pad or batt 14 may be formed in accordance with the teachings set forth in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 3,612,055 to Mesek et al.
As illustrated in FIGS. 2-5, substantially identical adhesive tabs 18 and 18' are located at opposite longitudinal sides of the diaper near one end thereof and are used to secure the diaper on the baby. Tabs 18 and 18' are provided with a tacky, pressure-sensitive surface such as surface 22 on tab 18, along the entire length of each tab. In this embodiment the adhesive tape segment forming tab 18 is divided into three portions of substantially equal length: fixed end portion 20, central portion 26, and free end portion 24 at the distal end of tab 18. Central portion 26 and free end portion 24 have face 30 situated opposite tacky surface 22. For manufacturing expedience, preferably entire face 30 is provided with a release coating. Fixed end portion 20 has release coated surface 28 on the face opposite tacky surface 22 and provides a release region on backing sheet 12. Central portion 26 and fixed end portion 20 of tab 18 are permanently adhered to the plastic backing sheet 12 of diaper 10 at a marginal location thereon; however, central portion 26 can also remain unattached, if desired.
During manufacture and storage, side margins of diaper 10 are folded toward each other with backing sheet 12 innermost so that adhesive tabs 18 and 18' are situated within the resulting fold. That is, free end portion 24 of tab 18 is folded over upon central portion 26 and is releasably attached to release surface 28 by folding longitudinal margin 42 of diaper 10 so as to bring tacky surface 22 in juxtaposition with release surface 28. Longitudinal or side margin 42 of diaper 10 can also be further folded over upon itself about line B--B with backing sheet 12 on the outside, resulting in tab 18 being repositioned as shown in FIG. 3. Line B--B is a line formed by the intersection of plane A--A in FIG. 2 with the plane of diaper 10 and is usually positioned about 1/8 inch to about 1/2 inch inwardly from fixed end 20. Plane A--A is substantially perpendicular to diaper 10 and to outside surface 40 of facing layer 16. To form a box pleat as shown in FIG. 3, margin 42 is further folded upon itself about line D--D, with backing sheet 12 on the inside. Line D--D is a line formed by the intersection of plane C--C (FIG. 2) with the plane of diaper 10. Plane C--C usually is situated about 1/8 inch to about 1/2 inch inwardly from folded over free end portion 24 and is substantially perpendicular to diaper 10 and to non-tacky surface 30 of tab 18. FIG. 3 shows diaper 10 in its folded over position, forming a box pleat and with tacky surface 22 of folded over free end portion 24 releasably adhered to release surface 28 on fixed end portion 20. Diaper 10 can be packaged and stored in this position until ready for use.
It is recognized that the order of the folding operations can be changed, and the same result will be achieved, thus different orders of folding are considered to be within the spirit and scope of this invention.
As described hereinabove, the folds preferably are made about a line spaced about 1/8 inch to about 1/2 inch from the terminal portions of tab 18 in order to compensate for the thickness of the several layers of the diaper 10 and the tab 18. However, the folding planes and fold lines shown in the drawings are only approximations since the overall thickness of the materials being folded will vary depending on the particular materials that are employed in any given instance.
In an alternate embodiment, illustrated in FIGS. 6-8, the tape segment forming adhesive tab 18 is divided into two approximately equal portions, that is, permanently adhered or fixed end 26 and free end 24, which portions are substantially the same as the respective portions in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 2-5. The embodiment of FIGS. 6-8 differs from the embodiment of FIGS. 2-5 in that separate tape segment 32 carries the release coating. Tape segment 32 has tacky face 34 permanently adhered to diaper 10 at a location inwardly disposed from fixed end 26 of tab 18 and opposite face 36 which bears a release coating for protecting the tacky surface 22 on tab free end 24. Separate tape member 32 is disposed substantially on the longitudinal axis of tab 18. In lieu of separate tab member 32, a suitable release coating can be provided on backing sheet 12, if desired.
FIG. 7 shows a diaper provided with the tab construction shown in FIG. 6 in its folded over position. Tacky surface 22 of folded over free end 24 is releasably adhered to release surface 36 on tape member 32, and the diaper can be stored in this position until ready for use.
In the folded positions illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 7, tacky surface 22 on free end 24 is protected. However, tacky surface 22 can be readily exposed by gripping side margin 42 of diaper 10, and pulling outwardly in the direction indicated by arrow E. As best shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, tacky surface 22 on free end 24 readily separates from the release coated surface 28 (in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 2-5) or release surface 36 (in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 6-8) with which it is in releasable contact, and the diaper will unfold to its rectangular shape and will be ready for use. Arrow K indicates the path of tacky surface 22 on free end 24 as it is separated from releasable adherence to release surface 28. Arrow G indicates the path of uncoated surface 30 when free end portion 24 is displaced from juxtaposition with central portion 26. Upon release from surface 28, free end 24 can be grasped and can subsequently be pressed against an adjacent portion of the backing sheet 12 so as to secure diaper 10 on a baby.
Adhesive tab 18 preferably is made of a resilient material that does not retain the folded over position indicated in FIGS. 2 and 6 after the diaper 10 is unfolded from the position indicated in FIGS. 3 and 7. Rather, upon release, folded over end portion 24 will rotate about line F--F in the direction indicated by arrow G in FIG. 5, and will tend to assume a position substantially along the longitudinal axis of tab 18, thus free end 24 can be easily grasped for securing diaper 10 to a baby.
If adhesive tab 18 is made of a material that tends to retain its folded over position after the diaper is unfolded, then the consumer unfolds free end portion 24 from central portion 26 by sliding a fingernail beneath the distal portion of the free end 24, grasping free end 24, and then rotating it about line F--F in the direction indicated by arrow G. Since free end 24 is not adhered to central portion 26, and since these two portions merely have their uncoated faces 30 in juxtaposition with each other, no resistance is encountered when free end 24 is unfolded.
This invention has the advantage of providing an adhesive closure means which is permanently attached to the diaper and in which no components of the closure system need to be disposed of by the consumer when the diaper is applied to a baby. Another advantage is that the release coated surface on the fixed portion of the tab remains on the outside part of the diaper, where it is out of contact with the baby's tender skin, after the tacky surface on the free end of the tab is exposed. A feature of this invention is that each side of the diaper can be unfolded and the tacky free end of the adhesive tab thereby exposed by using only one hand, leaving the user's other hand free for other purposes. A further advantage of this invention is that the entire adhesive closure means is on only one side of the diaper, thus simplifying the manufacturing process.
When a single adhesive tab is used, having a tacky free end, a central portion, and a fixed portion which is adhered to the diaper on one face, and having an opposite face with a release coated surface, the need for a separate cover strip is eliminated. Also, the relatively long adhesive surface which is in contact with the diaper increases the overall strength of the bond.
When a release surface separate from the adhesive tab is used as shown in FIGS. 6-8, the release area or region can be made wider than the tacky portion of the tab, thereby making alignment of the tacky adhesive and the release area less critical during diaper manufacture.
If desired, tacky surface 22 can be omitted on part of the free end portion 24. As best illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 7, a short length of the tacky surface 22 at the juncture of central portion 26 and free end portion 24 is neither adhered to the plastic backing sheet 12 nor releasably adhered to release coated surface 28 (FIG. 3) or release coated surface 36 (FIG. 7). A pressure sensitive adhesive can be omitted along this short section which is adjacent to line F--F, if desired. Further, as can be seen from FIGS. 2, 4, 6 and 8, the sections of tacky surface 22 between lines F--F and H--H on free end portion 24 (FIG. 8) are in contact with the plastic backing sheet 12 when free end 24 is unfolded, and only the sections of tacky surface 22 between lines H--H and J--J on end portion 24 are actually adhered to an adjacent portion of plastic backing sheet 12 when securing diaper 10 on a baby. Thus, although that section of the tacky surface 22 between lines F--F and H--H on free end 24 contacts backing sheet 12 adjacent to central portion 26 when free end 24 is unfolded and provides a stronger adherence between tab 18 and the backing sheet 12, tacky surface 22 is not required on this section of free end 24 and can be omitted if desired.
A suitable backing sheet material for the diaper embodying the present invention can be an opaque polyethylene web about 0.001 inch thick. Another suitable sheet material for this purpose is a polyethylene terephthalate web having a thickness of about 0.0005 inch.
Several different types of facing materials may be used for diaper facing sheet 16. For example, facing sheet 16 may be made up of a mixture of fibers consisting predominantly of inexpensive short cellulosic fibers, such as wood pulp fibers or cotton linters, in amounts of about 75% to about 98%, the balance being textile length fibers such as rayon as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,663,348 to Liloia et al.
Facing sheet materials suitable for use in this invention have fabric weights in the range of about 1 to 5 oz./yd.2 and densities of less than 0.15 g./cc., generally in the range between 0.05 and 0.1 g./cc. The dry strength of the facing sheet for a fabric having a weight of about 1.5 oz./yd.2, is at least 0.15 lbs./in. of width in the machine direction and at least 0.1 lbs./in. of width in the cross direction. Such fabrics have unusually good elongation, loft, softness, and drape characteristics in comparison to prior products incorporating any substantial amount of short fibers.
Facing sheet 16 may also be made of an apertured, nonwoven fabric which is formed, for example, in accordance with the teachings in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,862,251; 3,081,514; and 3,081,515. Briefly, such fabrics are foraminous structures wherein groups or groupings of fibers have been rearranged from a fibrous nonwoven starting web into positions surrounding less dense fabric portions by passage of a fluid through the starting material. The fibers within the groupings are mechanically interlocked, and may be arranged into various patterns, as is well known by those skilled in the art. A suitable binder may be utilized to help retain the fibers in their rearranged locations, as is also well known by those skilled in the art. The fabric can be made of naturally occurring fibers, synthetic fibers or blends thereof. Typical facing layers made of a polyester-type material can have a weight of 3/4 oz./yd.2.
In addition, facing sheet 16 can be formed of a nonapertured material, such as a nonwoven isotropic web, sponge, or the like. In all of the aforementioned facings, the materials should be relatively hydrophobic so as to retard wicking within the facing layer.
Highly moisture-absorbent fibrous pad or batt 14 which is substantially rectangular in shape, but usually smaller than the facing and backing sheet, is centrally disposed therebetween. Pad 14 can be formed in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Pat. No. 3,612,055 to Mesek et al. Alternatively, a higher moisture-absorbent layer can be provided substantially coextensive with backing sheet 12 if desired.
Typical disposable diapers which can be fitted with a tab-type fastener described hereinabove are shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,612,055 to Mesek et al. and in U.S. Pat. No. 3,683,916 to Mesek et al. Other suitable disposable diaper structures are shown in U.S. Pat. No. Re. 26,151 to Duncan et al.
Release properties can be imparted to the release regions such as surface 28 and surface 36 by coating these surfaces with a silicone release compound, or the like. Appropriate release formulations suitable for this purpose are well known in the art.
The pressure-sensitive adhesive coating for providing tacky surface 22 is formed by applying a pressure-sensitive adhesive known in the art to the appropriate tab surface. The applied adhesive shall have good tack, good cohesive strength, good resistance to moisture and good resistance to aging. Illustrative of such adhesives are mixtures of natural or synthetic rubber, zinc oxide, and various resins, also latices of natural or synthetic rubber, or water dispersions of acrylic tacky polymers or copolymers.
Diaper 10 is applied to an infant by positioning diaper ends 50 and 52 around the waist of the infant with the intermediate portion of diaper 10 being disposed in the infant's crotch. Free end portions 24 and 24' of respective tabs 18 and 18' are then separated from their release areas and diaper ends 50 and 52 are pulled into a tight fitting engagement with the infant's waist. The exposed portion of the tacky surface on tabs 18 and 18' is then pressed against an adjacent portion of plastic backing sheet 12 to secure the diaper on the infant. The final configuration assumed by the diaper is shown in perspective on a reduced scale in FIG. 9, and the diaper is held in this position by the adhesive closure system of the present invention.
release sheet means positioned on the pad assembly at a location on another panel to cover adhesive on the securement portions of the strips, said securement portions of the strips being attached to the release sheet means to retain the outermost pleats in their overlying relationship prior to placement of the diaper.
2. The diaper of claim 1 wherein the pad assembly has a plurality of longitudinally extending folds defining the central panel, a pair of first panels extending from and overlying the front surface of the central panel, and the outermost panels extending from and overlying the first panels.
3. The diaper of claim 2 wherein the release sheet means comprises a pair of release sheets secured to the back surface of the first panels and generally underlying the first portions of the tape strips, said securement portions of the strips being folded back and attached to the release sheets.
a pair of release sheets secured to the back surface of the first panels and generally underlying the first portions of the tape strips, said securement portions being folded back adjacent the side edges of the pad assembly and attached to the release sheets to retain the outermost panels in their overlying relationship prior to placement of the diaper.
5. A folded disposable diaper having an inside surface for direction toward an infant and an outside surface for direction away from said infant when the diaper is worn by that infant and comprising: a substantially moisture-impervious backing sheet, a moisture retaining layer adhered to one side of said backing sheet, a pair of adhesive tabs each having a fixed end adhered to a marginal portion of said backing sheet on the side thereof opposite said moisture retaining layer and a free end having a tacky surface on the side thereof adapted to face in the same direction as said diaper inside surface, and a release region on said backing sheet inwardly of and adjacent to each folded-back free end; the free ends of said tabs each being folded back against the respective fixed ends to provide an exposed tacky surface facing in the same direction as said diaper outside surface and each side margin of said diaper being folded against the outside surface of the diaper so as to position the tacky surface on the folded-back free ends in surface-to-surface releasable adherence with said adjacent release coated region; whereby the diaper is held in a folded attitude suitable for storage and from which attitude the diaper can be opened by a pull on said side margin releasing the free end of each of said tabs for use in applying the diaper to said infant.
6. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein said release region is a release coating on the fixed end of each tab and facing in the same direction as the diaper outside surface.
7. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein said release region is a tape segment adhered to said diaper backing sheet and having a release surface facing in the same direction as the diaper outside surface.
8. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein the side margins are folded toward each other with the backing sheet innermost and wherein said adhesive tabs are situated within the resulting fold so that the tacky surfaces of said tab free ends are in contact with adjacent release coated regions.
9. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein the side margins are folded toward each other in a box pleat and wherein said adhesive tabs are situated within the resulting fold so that the tacky surfaces of said tab free ends are in contact with adjacent release coated regions.
10. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein said release region is a tape segment having a release surface facing in the same direction as the diaper outside surface and larger in area than the tacky surface of the adjacent folded-back tab free end.
11. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein each adhesive tab comprises a tape segment having a tacky surface on one side thereof and a release coating on the other side thereof, said tab being folded back on itself about a fold line disposed inwardly from the distal end of the tab about one-third the length of the tab to overly the central one-third of the tab, and the release coating on the innermost one-third of the tab being in contact with the tacky surface on the tab portion overlying the central one-third of the tab.
12. The disposable diaper in accordance with claim 5 wherein each adhesive tab comprises a tape segment having a tacky surface on one side thereof, said tab being folded back on itself about a fold line disposed inwardly from the distal end of the tab about one-half the length of the tab, and the tacky surface on the folded-back portion of the tab being releasably attached to a release surface on the diaper backing sheet. | 2019-04-26T03:19:13Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US4084592A/en | Porn | Arts | 0.109672 |
columbia | Happy Thanksgiving from Avery Library!
We will be closed Thurs. 11/24 & Fri. 11/25.
This entry was posted in Access Services on November 22, 2011 by Ted.
Columbia University Libraries’ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) announce an unprecedented $4 million gift from the Durst family, one of New York’s most respected commercial and residential real estate families. The Durst Organization has also donated Seymour Durst’s Old York Library Collection, which includes books and ephemeral materials about New York City, as well as architectural documentation, including renderings, plans, and photos from the Durst Organization Archives.
"The gift of this extraordinary collection and supporting funds will make these valuable New York materials available for research, teaching, and learning not only for scholars at Columbia, but also to a worldwide community of researchers," said Carole Ann Fabian, Director of the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. "Development of the virtual Old York Library– a digitization project that will make the Old York Collection available online — will honor Mr. Durst’s important tradition of collection-building and allow the collection to be used in the curricular and research activities of the GSAPP Real Estate Development program, as well as provide accessibility to public."
"The Old York’s collection was fueled by my father’s passion for New York City, especially its history, buildings, and architecture," said Wendy Durst Kreeger, President of the Old York Foundation. $1.2 million of the gift will be used to catalog and house the collection in Avery Library, as well as to create a digital Old York library to ensure broad access to the materials.
Architectural documentation including renderings, plans, and photos from the Durst Organization Archives will also be donated to Avery Library. These documents, which have never before been available to the public, will give scholars the opportunity to further understand the scope of the Durst Organization’s impact on New York City’s skyline and streetscapes. The archives also highlight Durst’s pioneering work in environmentally responsible commercial and residential development.
"The Durst Organization’s architectural archives will be an outstanding resource for Columbia University,” said Douglas Durst, Chairman of The Durst Organization. "For nearly 100 years, my family has been assembling, building, and operating real estate in New York City and we have accumulated a vast amount of knowledge and information that will be invaluable for anyone interested in New York’s history and real estate."
$1.8 million of the gift will be used to create the Durst Digital Research Laboratory in GSAPP’s Center for Global Design and Development. The remaining $1 million will create the Durst Fund for Research, which will support a series of annual projects at GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program over the next five years. Each year, students and researchers will relate one aspect of the Durst collections to an important question facing the future of global cities. Through a series of cross-disciplinary activities, such as workshops, seminars, symposiums, exhibitions, publications or short-term visiting scholars, this question will be explored and answered, further advancing the fields of architecture and real estate development.
"This historic gift from one of the most established real estate families, not just in New York, but in the nation, is truly transformative for our program," said Vishaan Chakrabarti, Holliday Professor and Director of GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program and the Center for Urban Real Estate. "We are deeply grateful to the Durst family for this gift and we look forward to a wonderful collaboration to enhance our programs and make our cutting-edge work and research even more accessible to the academic community and beyond."
This entry was posted in Avery in the News on November 15, 2011 by Ted.
Bwog, the 24/7 blog incarnation of The Blue and White, Columbia University’s monthly undergraduate magazine, recently published an article about Art Properties, a department of Avery Library.
This entry was posted in Art Properties, Avery in the News on November 14, 2011 by Ted.
Today is Veterans Day. Avery Library has a great deal of material related to monuments, memorials and military architecture.
Our Drawings & Archives collection has Henry Ogden Avery‘s competition entry for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant [unbuilt] as well as drawings by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for a World War I Veterans Memorial in New Britain, Connecticut.
Our Classics Collection has a privately printed 1881 pamphlet on the Veteran’s Room at the 7th Regiment Armory in NYC.
We also have material on World War II memorials, Korean War monuments, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and information on military base retrofits.
We honor our veterans and their service by preserving this material and making it available for research.
This entry was posted in Avery Classics Collection, Drawings & Archives, Research Services on November 11, 2011 by Ted.
In addition to traditional subjects in Art History, Avery Library also collects books on the strange, unsettling world of Outsider Art. Outsider art is a term used to describe art created by untrained artists who create works outside the boundaries of official culture.
Munich ; New York : Prestel in cooperation with the American Folk Art Museum, 2009.
The iconic American outsider artist is presented here in a new critical light, locating him for the first time as a major figure in the history of contemporary art. Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness, through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. This book examines the radical originality of Darger’s art, including his use of collage, incorporation of religious themes and iconography, and frequent juxtaposition of innocence with violence.
Martina Weinhart and Max Hollein, editors.
Weltenwandler : die Kunst der Outsider = World transformers : the art of the outsiders.
Frankfurt : Schirn Kunsthalle : Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2010.
This book presents a wide range of art by artists working beyond the bounds of conventional artistic production, ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day, including the dream worlds of Swiss artist Aloise; the precise mathematical utopias of George Widener; and the "Ewigkeitenendeland" (End-of-Eternities Land) of Austrian artist August Walla. Others represented here are A.C.M., Emery Blagdon, Darger, Auguste Forestier, Magde Gill, Karl Junker, Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern, Judith Scott, Oskar Voll, Adolf Wolfli and Birgit Ziegert.
New York : Mark Batty Publisher, 2009.
First identified in 1943, autism has over the last decade become an international topic of conversation. Drawing Autism celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, paintings, and collages created by people diagnosed with autism. The work of over fifty contributors exhibits an array of unique perspectives on how these individuals see the world and their place in it.
The drawings of the electric pencil.
[New York?] : Electric Pencil Press, 2010.
Around the year 1910, a patient at State Lunatic Asylum No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, who referred to himself as The Electric Pencil, executed 280 drawings in ink, pencil, crayon and colored pencil. These beautiful drawings of animals, people and buildings were executed on both sides of 140 ledger pages, each bearing the name of the hospital in official type across the top, thus dramatizing the interface of the institutional and the creative. His many portraits–head-and-shoulders or just heads–feature formal, sometimes dazed-looking men and women with elaborate hats or razor-parted hair who stare out of the page with wide, piercing eyes in a manner that suggests both a possible chilling regime of "mental health" treatment and the unblinking, unsettling gaze of those who haunt the margins of sanity and society.
This entry was posted in Bibliographic Services, Research Services on November 9, 2011 by Ted.
Andrew S. Dolkart, Director, Columbia GSAPP Historic Preservation Program, and James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, will be speaking tonight on "The Acropolis of New York: Creating Morningside Heights" at Riverside Church, room 9T from 6:30-8pm.
Sponsored by MHHDC (Morningside Heights Historic District Committee) and Riverside Church, he will also be signing books.
This entry was posted in GSAPP on November 2, 2011 by Ted. | 2019-04-24T20:08:34Z | https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/avery/2011/11/ | Porn | Business | 0.532735 |
tripod | alto sax; Christian McBride, bass; Art Taylor, Bernard Purdie, drums.
This session marks Jimmy Smith's return to the Verve label, after an absence of twenty-three years. The intent here was to pair him in the studios for the first time with a group of compatible young musicians like Roy Hargrove and Christian McBride who, as it turned out, were not even born when he had his greatest recorded successes on Verve in the early and mid 1960's.
Surprisingly, the jazz classics performed here are all compositions never previously recorded by Jimmy, "Sister Sadie" by Horace Silver, "This Here" by Bobby Timmons, "The One Before This" by Gene Ammons, "Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock, "A La Mode" by Curtis Fuller, as well as tunes by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. This project differs from the many jam sessions Jimmy did for the Blue Note label in the 1950's in that the songs are more arranged. There is still, however, plenty of room for Jimmy and the various soloists to stretch out.
Although they had played together once before in Paris (on a gig where Jimmy played piano), this was the first time Jimmy and Art Taylor had ever recorded together. Sadly this was to be Art's final recording session. His swing and his fire were an inspiration to everyone on the date.
--RICHARD SEIDEL, from the liner notes. | 2019-04-22T09:05:25Z | http://hardbop.tripod.com/damn.html | Porn | Arts | 0.889407 |
wordpress | In 1985 I was a young Airman stationed at McChord Air Force Base, just south of Tacoma, WA. The dormitory I lived in was a run down relic on the southwest corner of the base. It was a two story affair with a long interior hallway that all of the room doors opened into.
It was pretty common for people to leave their room doors open while just hanging out, listening to music or whatever. Other people would wander by, hear something interesting and pop in for a listen.
This was a real education in “new” music. The people I lived with and worked with were from every corner of the country, and many had traveled and lived abroad. This made for a veritable melting pot of music; rock, rap, pop, country, world… you name it.
A friend came into my room one day with an armful of vinyl. He handed them to me and said “I want you to have my Steely Dan records.” It turns out he had gotten into some trouble (weed) and was being shipped off to the equivalent of and Air Force chain gang.
“You are the only one who will appreciate these.” he said as he left and I didn’t argue.
Aja was one of the first records I had bought with my own money. My older sister and I had a deal, I’d buy a record, she’d record it to 8-track for me and keep the vinyl. Well, that 8-track was long gone, but here was a vinyl copy of Aja that just dropped in my lap.
Aja is why I love albums. Here are seven individual songs that, when listened to back to back and in the proper order, become somehow more than the sum of the parts. As a kid with a homemade 8-track, this album lived in my crummy portable player for the better part of a year. I must have listened to it 1000 times.
I listened to my friend’s record a lot over the next few months, and became entranced with the pre-Aja Steely Dan as well. I saw him a time or two during that time, being marched around from job site to job site, picking up trash or cigarette buts.
I got close enough to him one time to make eye contact. He was standing at attention outside the base bank, waiting in line. He gave me a slight nod but the look on his face told me that it would be a bad idea if I tried to talk to him. I walked out to my car, rolled down the window, put my Aja cassette in and cranked up whatever song happened to be cued up. I gave the group a slow drive by, hoping my friend would catch enough of the music for a bit of cheer.
A few weeks later I heard he had been kicked out of the Air Force, dishonorably discharged. I never saw my friend again, but I remember him every time I hear a Steely Dan song.
Most of the time, I buy albums because I know/like the artist and want to own and listen to their music. Sometimes you come across a record of a certain style or content that you want to experience or become familiar with. In this case an investment of $0.99 (or less) in a decent LP seems like a good bet.
Just over a year ago, my wife and I took our first “real” vacation… just a getaway without family obligations or schedules. We went to an all inclusive resort in Jamaica.
One of the highlights of this trip was an evening performance by the Silver Bird Steel Drum Band.
In the thrift store, the vinyl appeared very clean and scratch free. The inner sleeve was there and the outer jacket still had the original shrink wrap, opened, but intact.
The label is Tradition Records which was founded by Guggenheim heiress Diane Hamilton and presided over by Patrick “Paddy” Clancy, part of the group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. I can’t find a release date for the record but It appears to be between 1965 and 1970.
Finding a nearly 50 year old vinyl LP that is near mint condition is like finding a needle in a… no, wait. Finding a nearly 50 year old vinyl LP that you care to listen to is near mint condition is like finding a needle in a haystack. I had this record all cleaned up and playing when my wife came home from work. Without a word, she dropped all of her baggage from her workday and started to dance… just like Jamaica!
Speculation in vinyl records is a fool’s errand.
This fool has a hundred or more records he speculates will bring profitable “in store credit” to his account at a local independent Record Store. The theory is that if you find a unique, interesting, clean (hopefully all three) LP at a thrift store, garage sale, estate auction… whatever, for $1.00 or less your local independent Record Store will happily give you $1.00 (or more) in “in store credit” to spend as you see fit on records of your choice.
You see, since I have started this endeavor I have been buying apparently (to me anyway) unique, interesting and clean vinyl LPs by the box-full. Some deals have been too good to pass up, some have been a stretch. All in I’ve probably spent $300 on vinyl (sorry honey) this month. Some of these LPs will go into “the collection”, LPs I hope to play and cherish often in my home. But most will go in dribs and drabs to the three local Independent Record Stores we have here in Spokane, hopefully to net a small margin for me to expand “the collection”.
This is the first record I purchased speculatively, Shoes – Boomerang.
Mine is promo #214046. Honestly, I had never heard of Shoes, despite the fact that they were active during my formative years and had some MTV exposure. My copy of Boomerang was in a thrift store, visually graded as a VG+ vinyl and sleeve (complete with a protective jacket).
After a cleaning the record played very well, just a slight surface noise. The music was a great throwback to 1982… almost a mix between Oasis and the Knack.
Would I listen to Boomerang again over some other tried and true record in “the collection”? Probably not, but I’m glad I got to listen to it this one time. I’ll hope my speculation pans out… and I hope the Shoes fan in Spokane that finds this record at 4000 Holes, or Groove Merchants, or Recorded Memories, is as thrilled to have found a unique, interesting and clean copy of Boomerang as I was.
Either way, I’ll blog about it!
Thrift store hunting for vinyl albums is feast or famine… not 50/50, mind you, I’d say 10% feast and 90% famine. That is not to say that 10% of the records in thrift stores are things you would buy to add to your collection… more like 10% of the stores you enter, you find something worthwhile to take home.
Take a recent excursion I went on that included several thrift stores and one “record” store… the “record” store was a complete bust! They did have several new vinyl records, but the selection of used vinyl numbered around 50 LPs, al of which were severely overpriced. For instance, they had a We Are the World LP priced at $19.99. Now, there are recent Ebay sold listings for this LP for $0.99, so what makes this particular record, intrinsically, worth 20 times that?
This record may have had an instrumental value back in 1985… if you were daft enough to buy it, maybe starving people would get food? But why is it worth $19.99 today? It would have to be intrinsically worth $19.99, the music contained on the LP would need to be worth $19.99.
A few blocks down the road, a thrift store had a predictable selection of scratched up and gross 101 Strings, Mantovani, and Ferrante & Teicher vinyl. Great. My 5th encounter with a Firestone Christmas collection had me asking “why doesn’t someone just shitcan this garbage?”… and then, BOOM!
A Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy LP!
Sweet! This record contains some of the best music and songwriting I’ve ever heard. Other than the title track, this LP contains Werewolves of London (featuring bass and drums by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, no less), Lawyers, Guns and Money and (the standout track for me) Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.
This was Zevon’s third album and the one where mainstream radio played songwriter singing his own compositions. Prior to this, Zevon penned songs like Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Mohammed’s Radio and especially (for me, anyhow) Carmalita were fantastic songs that were hits for other artists.
A visual grading of the vinyl showed it to be in very good condition, well worth the $0.94 asking price. After a thorough cleaning, the record does play as expected, a little surface noise, but all in all an exceptional recording!
It does lack a bit of dynamic, possibly due to production by Jackson Browne? Anyway, this is a solid addition to the record collection… one I will cherish way more than any $19.99 copy of We Are the World! R.I.P. Warren Zevon, I will enjoy every sandwich!
I don’t remember why I despised Helen Folasade Adu. It may have been the ubiquitous presence of the song The Sweetest Taboo on radio, TV and bar of 1985. It may have been the perception that this seemed an altogether manufactured musical substance… the good-looking, but exotic (to me, anyway) singer, surrounded by the band from Simply Red or Culture Club.
Nothing could change my mind. I was in that finger-in-the-ears “I can’t hear you!” position… Helen, now just Sade, was just the worst of the other one named female singers of the time, without the vocal gymnastics. A friend, and American Sargent, newly transferred from England (after a lengthy stay) to Tacoma, sang the praises of Sade… (To be fair, he always alluded to her physical charms alongside her musical acumen, but I would have none of either!).
(I used to do live sound for some small bands) I had set up the sound system for some show and decided to put Promise on to see if everything was working OK… From the first track, the sound that came out just blew me away! Jazzy, but not pretentious, funky but poppy, not muddy, and those vocals… more torch than Tesh!
Why had I missed this?!? confirmation bias? Who knows, the bottom line was I was hearing some 10-year-old music for the first time. I listened, then I increased the volume, and I listened again… eyes closed, sitting in the “sweet spot” of the theater, and was blown away! A friend who owned a neighboring store heard this music resonating from the theater and came in to investigate… she sat next to me in the sweet spot, shook her hair out-of-the-way and smiled… “nice!” she said… although I couldn’t actually hear her.
Since then, I’ve acquired several Sade CDs… but thanks to RRR Auction/Estate, I now own Promise for $0.05!
This vinyl record is a unicorn… (as close to pristine as I have found, proving that unicorns DO exist). 95% out of 100% low surface noise, tracks all very dynamic and full of “life”, just a joy to listen to! I did notice that there was a “for promotion only” stamp over the UPC… I assume this was a DJ or promoter copy of the record that was played very little, if at all.
The Sweetest Taboo is the hit on this record, but the standout song is side #2, song, #1, Mr. Wrong. I’m always searching for vinyl that I can count on to give the best possible impression to a visitor that asks “which is better…”, now I have one more in my arsenal to help answer that question.
Rick Wakeman’s – The Six Wives of Henry VIII. First of all, I recognized Wakeman’s name as the keyboard player for the band Yes, but the title, The Six Wives of Henry VIII threw me for a loop. I had definitely never heard of this record before, was it a concept album? A band? A joke?
Then I paid attention to the cover art. There’s Wakeman, jeans and sneakers, casually walking in front of a portrait of… no, no a statue of… no! Madame Tussaud’s wax figures of Henry VIII and his Six Wives! It almost looks as though the photo was taken accidentally.
The musician list included other members of Yes, including Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White and Bill Bruford.
I had that feeling when listening to yet another record liberated from RRR Auction/Estate. It was just called Deodato 2. The vinyl looked clean and the gatefold album cover was pristine. I cued it up, dimmed the lights and gave it a spin.
On yet another record label I am unfamiliar with, Creed Taylor Incorporated (CTI) Records, this LP has five songs total, three on side A (including a killer interpenetration of Nights in White Satin) and two on side B with a listing for Rhapsody in Blue.
From the first track, I could tell there was something off. Unfortunately, this record had been played with a damaged stylus at sometime in its life, and had a pronounced sibilance running through each song. What a shame! The sound from the record was big, bold and fun!
But side B was the WTF side. Track 1 was called Super Strut and track 2 was the aforementioned Rhapsody in Blue. It turns out the Super Strut was used in Grand Theft Auto – Vice City (my only XBox game) and Rhapsody in Blue was used in early 1970s Pontiac commercials. Go figure.
I’ll definitely be looking for a replacement copy of this LP. | 2019-04-20T04:42:09Z | https://cariboumarkt.wordpress.com/2015/01/ | Porn | Arts | 0.856222 |
wordpress | In my previous posts on the DOE I remarked on all the DOE employees whose hair was catching on fire because the Trump Transition Team asked them if they worked on a particular program. They refused, saying it was harassment of scientists and interference with scientific freedom.
DOE management developed a scheme to withhold information from congressional staff.
Dr. [Noelle] Metting was directed to omit information from a presentation to congressional staff given during the briefing.
DOE management avoided critical information pertinent to the continuance of the LDRRP .
DOE management worked to kill the LDRRP because it did not further the Administration’s goals to advance climate research.
With regard to H.R. 5544, DOE management sought to manipulate congressional staff – both republican and democratic staff.
DOE management and senior employees gave intentionally misleading statements to Congress.
Dr. Carruthers and Dr. Weatherwax both made inconsistent statements at different points during the Committee’s investigation.
Management quickly took steps to remove Dr. Metting from federal service.
Dr. Metting was removed for providing Congress with candid testimony without regard to the potential chilling effect on other scientists.
Dr. Metting was the DOE’s sole expert on LDRR and her opinion was silenced to further political interests.
Dang … now I understand why the DOE officials were so willing to believe that asking who worked on what project was actually an attempt to enact retribution and muzzle them.
It’s what they have been doing themselves to their own opponents. So of course they’d assume the new people would do it as well.
The DOE exhibited a complete disregard for the legislative process and Constitutional separation of powers at an institutional level.
The DOE must overhaul its management practices to ensure that the Department carries out its Constitutional responsibilities to be truthful with Congress and respects the legislative process.
As Usual: I ask that people QUOTE THE EXACT WORDS THEY ARE REFERRING TO, so we can all understand your objections and comments.
December 21, 2016 in DOE.
My experience is that the things people complain about loudly are so very frequently the same things of which they also are guilty. The inability to see oneself realistically is a fascinating human trait.
…My experience is that the things people complain about loudly are so very frequently the same things of which they also are guilty….
It’s very like the European Commission that wanted it’s accounts audited and when the lady who did it reported that there was no knowing or control of where large sums of money were. They turned on her with such fury and spite trying to destroy her career and reputation.
The DOE must overhaul its management practices to ensure that the Department carries out its Constitutional responsibilities to be truthful with Congress and respects the legislative process…..
In my world, disregarding the legislative process and the Constitution is deserving of some form of punishment.
However, if I were disregarding the legislative process and the Constitution for my own ends, and all that happened was that I was told that I shouldn’t, I would carry right on disregarding. After all, I already know that I shouldn’t, and that hasn’t stopped me….
At this point, DOE management has zero incentive to stop these practices. After the “strongly-worded memo” there is not only no punishment, but they still get their bonuses (you can thank the horrible pay-for-performance system for that part).
Read the full report. Shows the depths of Obama skullduggery. Kill a program affecting DoD and DHS in order to fund ‘climate research’ within DoE. Rep.Smith will surely forward a copy to incoming Interior Secretary Perry, who can undertake the appropriate termination actions and reinstitute what appears to be an important research area in general.
More: “The Energy Department fired Dr. Metting after the meeting.
They eventually re-hired her after she threatened legal action.
My suggestion: Pres. Trump should put her in charge of the group and double her salary. | 2019-04-21T13:10:48Z | https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/reprisals-against-doe-scientists/ | Porn | Reference | 0.439556 |
tripod | I figured its about time I let you tag along to some of my favourite hangouts.
This is Perth's local Christian radio station.
This link is THE BEST one I have found for explanations of what my denomination- Westminster Presbyterian- is all about. | 2019-04-20T02:17:59Z | http://greenlightshade.tripod.com/greenloversparadise/id2.html | Porn | Reference | 0.860328 |
wordpress | My name is Carol Paris and I am a beadweaver and bead embroiderer who lives and works in Torphins, a rural village in the NE of Scotland. I am mother to two children and work from home in the company of many animals, including my dog, Dexter.
I am an experienced teacher having taught English in secondary schools for over a decade and now beadweaving and bead embroidery classes for several years. I teach in a bead shop called Bead Pop in Aberdeen and a craft gallery in Johnshaven called Starfish Studio.
I also design my own beadwoven and bead embroiderered jewellery designs. These are sold in various local shops such as Starfish Studio in Johnshaven and Pebble in Aberdeen.
I exhibit annually for NEOS (North East Open Studios) and sell at fairs in the latter months of the year.
I am also available to teach private workshops in your own home or at your own venue. Added to this I am available for parties for small groups of older children, aged 8 and above. | 2019-04-19T08:14:15Z | https://beadweaving.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Arts | 0.332469 |
wikipedia | Amherst Villiers (1900–1991) was an English automotive, aeronautical and astronautic engineer and portrait painter. He designed a land speed record-breaking car for Malcolm Campbell, and developed the supercharged "Blower Bentley", driven by Henry Birkin and (in fiction) by James Bond.
Charles Amherst Villiers was born in London on 9 December 1900, the son of Ernest Amherst Villiers and the Hon. Elaine Augusta Guest.
He was educated at Oundle School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Villiers began his automotive career modifying Brescia Bugattis and supercharging a Vauxhall for racing driver Raymond Mays. He designed the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird which Malcolm Campbell used to break the land speed record in 1927 with an average speed of 174.88 mph.
The 'Blower Bentley' was developed in 'Bentley Boy' Henry 'Tim' Birkin's workshop in 1929, using an Amherst Villiers supercharger bolted to the front of a Bentley 4½ Litre, to boost its maximum power in the production version to 175 brake horsepower (130 kW). The first of five racing specials was the Brooklands-designed Bentley Blower No.1, which had an output of 242 brake horsepower (180 kW). The Blower Bentley's never won a major race, but it set new lap records at Brooklands.
In 1930 he bought from the Air Ministry one of the Gloster IV biplanes which had been used by the RAF High Speed Flight as practice machines for the Schneider Trophy. He was planning to install an unsupercharged geared Napier Lion racing engine and remove the floats for an attempt to break the world air speed record, but the plans did not come to fruition.
In 1936 Villiers developed a 120/130 hp four-cylinder aero engine, the Amherst Villiers Maya I (named after his wife). The engine was first tested in a B.A. Eagle and later in Villiers' own Miles Whitney Straight, but did not go into production.
During the Second World War he served as a ferry pilot.
After the war he joined the "Brain drain" of scientists and engineers moving to the United States to work on the space programme. He became a portrait painter in New York, and his portraits of his friends Ian Fleming and Graham Hill hang in the National Portrait Gallery in London. In Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, Bond drives a 4.5-litre Bentley with the Amherst Villiers supercharger.
Charles Amherst Villiers married, first, Maya de Lisle Adam. After they were divorced he married Juanita Lorraine Brown. Juanita Lorraine Brown Villiers and Charles Amherst Villiers had two children, Charles Churchill Villiers and Veronica Jane Villiers.
He died on 12 December 1991.
^ Jackson, A.J. (1973). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 1. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10006-9.
^ Jackson, A.J. (1974). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 3. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10014-X.
^ Fleming, Ian. Casino Royale, Jonathan Cape, 1953: "Bond's car was his only personal hobby. One of the last of the 4½-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers, he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war. It was still serviced every year and, in London, a former Bentley mechanic, who worked in a garage near Bond's Chelsea flat, tended it with jealous care. Bond drove it hard and well and with an almost sensual pleasure. It was a battleship-grey convertible coupé, and it was capable of touring at ninety with thirty miles an hour in reserve."
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wordpress | Kate and I are preparing for a cinema date that has been in the calendar for months and I will give you two guesses as to what film will be on the screen!
We are both such huge Beauty and the Beast fans, so as soon as we heard a rumour of a brand new YA retelling we knew we just had to get our grubby hands on it and include it in our April box. For anyone out there who has had their head buried in the sand (or in a book!) for the past two weeks, click here to see our trailer for our Belles & Beast themed box and click here to head over to our website and join us!
We are so excited to be including lots of amazing goodies this April, all of which will be handmade by very talented crafty people.
Here at Book Box Club we recognise that our book boxes are only able to happen because we have the help of so many awesome people along the way. Working with artsy creators has to be one of the highlights of our job and this month we have found some items that we think you are going to love. So, without further ado….we are excited to announce that one of our lovely April suppliers will be…Laura the creator of the Manchester based Fox and Lilly.
As soon as we saw Laura’s designs and super stylish website our fist thoughts were of filling our own houses with all of the lovely things she makes! Once we had calmed down a bit and put our business hats back on we realised that if we love Laura’s items then you guys sure as hell will too, so where better to turn for our next box supplier! We thought we would find out a little bit more about what inspires Laura to create in our Book Box Club Crafty Q&A.
My all time favourite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I fell in love with her work as a teenager. I love the fashion, manners and etiquette of the Georgian period. As well as reading classics I also love a good science fiction novel such as the Hunger Games and Divergent trilogies.
I’m currently in the process of bringing out a range of ceramic jewellery and accessories. Last year I debuted a small range at Christmas markets and they were really popular and well received. When you cook up an idea and after months of making and tweaking it, its an incredibly proud moment to see customers compliment your work.
What does your crafting area look like?
Chaos! I’m a messy maker, so when i’m in the middle of making orders my area is a sea of fabric and pins.
It’s less about eating and more about drinking tea. I’m a sucker for making a cup of tea during crafting and completely forgetting its even there. For me cups of tea fuel my creativity. Lately I’ve found myself crafting to the tunes of the La La Land soundtrack having recently watching the movie.
I once made up a big batch of ceramic dishes and I had to transport them to a local pottery studio for firing. When clay has dried and not yet had its first firing they are so easily breakable, and these has been drying out for two full days. When I arrived at the studio and opened the box I found around a half of them had broken in half during the five minute drive. Having spent three days making and drying them it was probably one of the most frustrating moments.
My inspiration for crafting stems from my mother. As a child I would see her cross stitching and making up my amazing school play costumes. Her creativeness certainly rubbed off on me during my upbringing and from that I decided to study Textiles at GCSE and A Level.
In my spare time I also play for a local brass band. I’ve been playing in a band from the age of 11 and currently play for a Championship section band. Just last month our band qualified for the Nationals in October which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall.
A crafternoon with a cup of tea and the La La land soundtrack sounds like an absolute dream to us! I hope you all are as excited as we are for the item Laura is making for us; it will be a custom item designed especially for Book Box Club, which means that only our April members will have it. We think its going to be absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much to Laura for being a star and for these lovely photos. If you don’t already follow the Fox and Lily Instagram feed, you really should, it has given us some serious feed envy!
Have an enchanting weekend everyone!
They’re lovely aren’t they? We’re so excited to send out one of Laura’s creations! | 2019-04-24T17:45:54Z | https://bookboxclub.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/introducing-one-of-our-talented-april-suppliers/ | Porn | Arts | 0.225954 |
wordpress | Summer is quickly approaching and we are excited about celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary of the AZ Family Fit Camp. The Camp will begin Monday, June 3rd, 2019 and go through Thursday, July 24, 2018. There will be 23 sessions this summer. We will be still be doing our sessions every Monday and Wednesday 6:30 pm-8:00 pm like we have done the past 9 years depending in Vistancia.
To Celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary we are changing things up.
We will NOT be at Liberty High School on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Instead every Thursday between June 3rd and July 24th we will be going to a different place to work out. For example- hiking East Wing Mountain, swimming at Sunrise pool, working out at the Beach House to name a few. We will be putting up a schedule on the website when it is finalized.
THE CAMP IS FREE! THE CAMP IS FREE!!
Please feel free to contact us at: info@paladinopt.com or call 623-824-2785.
Registration is now open! REGISTER HERE to get SIGNED UP!
YES THE CAMP IS FREE!! Thanks to our awesome sponsors!
If you would like to donate to our non profit organization that promotes wellness. Press the donate link. Thank you.
We have partnered with a local non-profit group, 12oz of Hope, who is helping make 2019 Fit Camp a reality! All payments will be accepted through their PayPal site (link above). For more information about 12oz of Hope, please click here!
Summer is quickly approaching and we are excited about our 9th Annual AZ Family Fit Camp starting up again this summer. The Camp will begin Monday, June 11th, 2018 and go through Thursday, July 19, 2018. There will be 24 sessions this summer and we will meet either every Monday and Wednesday or every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30 pm-8:00 pm depending on the location that works best for you . For the ambitious you can go to both locations if you please.
We have partnered with a local non-profit group, 12oz of Hope, who is helping make 2018 Fit Camp a reality! All payments will be accepted through their PayPal site (link above). For more information about 12oz of Hope, please click here!
What an outdoor camp in the AZ Summer Heat- how is that possible?
This will be our 9th year of the AZ FAMILY FIT CAMP- yes its possible- the temperature reduces significantly at 6:30pm – 7pm. We all need to get outside in the summer as long as you drink water and stay hydrated. We take lots of water breaks during the camp. Its a great safe place for kids and parents of all ages to have a fun workout.
Picture is from the 2017 AZ Family Fit Camp end of camp pool party. | 2019-04-19T05:17:22Z | https://jasonpaladino.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Health | 0.36894 |
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Top-Floor 2 bed/2 bath, 1888 sqft. of living space with extended lanai. This condo features fully remodeled kitchen with trey ceilings & recessed lighting, deluxe sized granite counter tops and backsplash, energy efficient signature brand appliance package, tiled floors in main living areas, remodeled bathrooms with surround tile walls and floors, walk-in custom storage closet and designer pendant style lighting in master suite, CENTRAL A/C (rare to find!), vinyl-clad plantation shutters, Bosch full-size stack W/D, freshly painted interior, LED lighting in all recessed lights, pot shelving in living area adds architectural flair…did I mention fantastic OCEAN, SUNSET AND MOUNTAIN VIEWS from lanai area? | 2019-04-20T08:40:53Z | https://mauilifestyleinvestor.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/ | Porn | Home | 0.51058 |
wired | A computer security professional who sold Internet Explorer exploit code to credit card hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Tuesday in Boston to three years probation and a $10,000 fine.
Jeremy Jethro, 29, was paid $60,000 by Gonzalez for a zero-day exploit against Microsoft's browser, "the purpose and function of which was to ... enable the conspirators to unlawfully gain access to, and redirect, individual's computers," according to court records.
Gonzalez led a team of hackers who gained unauthorized access to company networks and stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers, though it's not clear what role, if any, the $60,000 zero-day played in the attacks. Jethro's attorney, Stacey Richman, told Threat Level the exploit was a dud.
"The exploit never worked," she said. "None of them worked. There was a question of potentially two [exploits] and neither of them worked."
Jethro pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor conspiracy charge for providing the malware. Under Tuesday's sentence, Jethro will be confined at home, under electronic monitoring, for the first six months of his three-year-long probation.
Richman said Jethro did not know Gonzalez's intended use for the exploit. She also said the judge took into consideration her client's life change in 2006 when he turned to Christianity and "renounced any aspect of any wrongful behavior."
She said Jethro, who is currently working in the computer industry "had spent the years since then entirely in a very proper manner."
He's the third person to be sentenced for conspiring with Gonzalez in criminal activity. Last December, Stephen Watt, a former coder for Morgan Stanley, was sentenced to two years in prison for providing a sniffer to Gonzalez that helped him siphon card data from TJX's corporate network. Watt was also ordered to pay restitution to TJX in the amount of $171.5 million.
Earlier this month, Humza Zaman, a former network security manager at Barclays Bank, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for serving as a money courier for Gonzalez. He was charged with laundering between $600,000 and $800,000 for Gonzalez.
Gonzalez is scheduled to be sentenced this week in Boston for his role in the hacks of TJX, Dave & Busters, Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven and Heartland Payment Systems. He faces a sentence of between 17 and 25 years. Prosecutors are asking for the latter.
18:30: This article was updated to add comment from Richman, and to correct an error. Jethro's charge did not link him to Gonzalez's credit card thefts. | 2019-04-25T14:24:03Z | https://www.wired.com/2010/03/jethro-sentencing/ | Porn | Computers | 0.815837 |
wordpress | Do you know why you show up at work every day?
Inspired by a colleague, I recently decided to document my reasons for showing up at work on my personal page of our company’s wiki. A few people “copied” the idea and told me it helped them crystallize their purpose and helped them focus on their contribution toward the success of the organization. Some of them told me others outside our organization might be interested in this – so here it is. There is no copyright on the content 😉 so feel free to use it.
Using varied and innovative approaches Pyxis substantially increases the level of performance of companies it serves. As such, Pyxis generates a high profitability that it re-distributes to its shareholder-employees and to the community.
In line with the vision, mission, values and culture of the organization, I pledge to exercise strong leadership, to ensure the sustainability of our operations and to support the organization’s growth by deploying efforts and resources needed to achieve the objectives.
Establish an Agile Business Intelligence consulting practice.
Participate in the sales and marketing process for our products and services.
Lead the definition and implementation of our corporate strategy.
Support the development and capabilities of my “golfers” through the Caddy process.
I promise to take the leadership and work with all interested individuals in the establishment and implementation of a corporate strategy allowing the organization to achieve its objectives and its mission.
I am unwavering in the individual success of my players, my caddy and the caddy team.
Distorted reality or listening to the voice inside your head?
I admit I was biased. It actually happened more than once. I stuck to a perception or to an earlier impression to judge someone’s message or their action.
This isn’t a new phenomenon and I certainly am not unique but it is important to remind ourselves that the voice inside our head sometime leads us to incorrect assumptions about other people. Want an example?
You don’t know Christina or Patrick but you heard that Christina is slightly hysterical and the Patrick is a slow learner. Then one day you attend a meeting where both Christina and Patrick have been invited. At some point, someone in the group makes a simple joke and Christina bursts laughing while others only politely smile. Later in the meeting, after a lenghty explanation by a colleague, Patrick asks a very simple question about something everyone else already understood. You leave the meeting thinking Christina is hysterical and Patrick seems dumb.
Are these individuals as you perceive them to be or are you victim of selective perception. Did the events confirm your perception or did your brain play a trick on you looking for evidence of their peculiarities?
As managers, we are often required to make judgements in order to take quick decisions so this situation is a dangerous one. I don’t believe we can eliminate this bias but awareness is important in order to properly assess our employees, our colleagues, and all people we work with.
Helping employees grow without an HR department?
Our organization is using an innovative human resource management approach inspired by the “golfer – caddy” relationship in golf. Although the approach isn’t fully matured and there are still adjustments to be made, I believe there is value in sharing the process.
The management of special situations and salary determination lacked transparency and were perceived to be unfair.
To address these emerging issues, the organization developed the “Caddy” process, a model of decentralized community-based human resource management.
In golf, the caddy is the person who carries the golf bag, gives advice and provides moral support. A good caddy is aware of the difficulties, obstacles and peculiarities of the course, as well as the best strategies to play the course. The caddy is not the one who plays the game, the golfer is!
The objective of the process is to support employees’ success and monitor their well-being. In addition, the caddy process is a way for all employees to participate in the management of the organization by helping their peers to receive the proper feedback and skills to be successful in their role. The caddy process is deemed more efficient than the traditional hierarchical model.
When an employee joins the company, he/she is assigned a caddy for a period of six months. After that period, an employee may decide to change caddy any time. A discussion between the golfer and the new caddy is required to identify the expectations of each party and determine if the match is possible and desirable.
Preparing the salary revisions and making recommendations.
“I am unwavering in the success of each of my players, my caddy and the caddy team”.
Because people are the most important asset of the organization. Their development is linked to the success of the organization.
The Caddy process is based on trust and respect. It is a relationship of support and coaching without direct authority.
The Caddy is a humble person with great listening capabilities. He has the courage to confront the person if necessary and the wisdom to do so in respect of the person. Above all, he shares a common goal with his golfers: the professional success and development of the latter.
The Caddying is one of the most important roles in the organization and he is recognized as such, encouraged and valued by the organization.
The Caddy process has a significant positive impact on the development of the golfer.
This is not a traditional post. At least, not for me in the context of this blog but I am so impressed with the Summer Camp (Camp de jour du College Gerald-Godin) my kids are attending that I couldn’t keep it to myself.
As a parent, I want my children to develop their body and mind and have fun in a safe and stimulating environment. Sportmax has it all.
Every night at dinner, the kids can’t stop telling us about their day, their friends and their monitors. The day goes by so fast they tell us!
One more thing, the monitors who take care of the children have high energy, they are smiling every time I see them and they seem to enjoy their work. That’s a winning combination – some organizations I work with could grow their business if their employees were as involved as the camp monitors are.
Thanks to everyone at the camp who are making my kids’ summer such a great experience. | 2019-04-21T22:08:27Z | https://danossia.wordpress.com/2009/07/ | Porn | Business | 0.310561 |
typepad | Bookshelf furniture seek 'n' find - "Write now is good."
I love the hidden chair and foot stool.
All is well...writign along...how about you?
Ricky — Congrats on seeing the chair! Alas, no prize. IKEA? I'll look for this there on my next seek 'n' find furniture shopping spree. | 2019-04-22T16:35:40Z | https://writenowisgood.typepad.com/write_now_is_good/2008/08/find-the-chair.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.978138 |
wordpress | The Metastatic Breast Cancer Network (MBCN) offers brochures in English and Spanish for people living with Stage IV breast cancer. Special thanks to our friend Sandra Bishnoi and the Center for Language and Intercultural Communications and the students in SPAN322–Medical Professions, Rice University, Fall 2015, for preparing the Spanish versions.
You can download a copy of Diagnostico: Cancer de mama metatasico .
If you’d like hard copies of the above brochures, drop us a line.
Learn more about SHARE’s helpline, support groups and education programs for Latinas.
You’ll find Komen en Espanol here.
This handout offers an overview of MBC in Spanish.. And here are questions you can ask your doctor about MBC.
BreastCancer.org has articles and discussion forums for Spanish speakers.
Are there additional Stage IV materials/resources in Spanish we should know about? Let us know–we are happy to add them.
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tripod | James, you may recall was one of the three Philp children who left Scotland in 1863 and sailed on the Queen of Beauty to Auckland. He became a newspaper reporter. and family moved from New Zealand in 1888, settled in Sydney and later moved to Brisbane. In both cities he had a distinguished career in the newspaper business.
James' son, his grandson, Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp was knighted in 1958 for his services to the Queensland bar.
As we saw in an earlier chapter Alexander Bowie, with his marriage to Margaret Hill was a bit of a social climber and I am sure that he would be delighted that about his grandson's knighthood.
The following rather, poor quality photograph, records that event.
Sir Roslyn's Grandson, Andrew Philp a barrister in Cairns Queensland , was the first descendant that I traced and spoke to.
A son of Sir Roslyn and Ellen Kilgour Ross was born on the 20th March 1923. During the second world war he servrd with the RAAF and latterly was bases in 161 Bomber Commaand out of Tempsford airfield. This was the place from which all secret operstions behind enemy lines were flown and on the night of 6th October 1944 Ross's plane was intercepted by a German fighter over Vemb in Denmark and shot down. The other crew members escaped alive, although wounded, but sadly at the age of 21 Ross was killed by the fighter's bullets. | 2019-04-23T18:17:42Z | http://cunninghamc.tripod.com/BowieAustralia/Ausrellies.html | Porn | Society | 0.532061 |
wordpress | Now, even the left is calling on Kagan to recuse herself from hearing Health care case.
Now that the Supreme Court has officially decided to hear the challenge to the constitutionality of the PPACA (Obamacare), the calls for Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from the case are flooding in. The issue is whether or not the Justice and former Obama administration Solicitor General through her previous duties, involvement, and expressed opinions, would be able to maintain the appearance of impartiality as required by federal statute. Predictably, these calls have come from pundits and politicians on the right. As noted in a previous post on DTN, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder does not see any reason for Kagan to recuse herself. I was unable to find any direct commentary on this from the president but his spokesman Jay Carney stated that this issue was examined and settled during the nomination process and any further calls to revisit the issue “sure sounds like a political thing”. Of course, Carney’s explanation makes no sense whatsoever, the senate confirmation process is an effort to determine whether or not that body should consent to the appointment of that individual to the court, not to excuse them from recusing themselves from any future case that court may hear. Also, as Fred Lucas of CNS news noted, we now have new evidence in the form of DOJ internal emails that strengthen the case for recusal.
He then goes on to make a brilliant matter of fact case for recusal.
Now CNS is reporting that yet another email is indicating that Kagan was brought into the loop on Mark Levin’s Obamacare complaint. As evidence piles up and calls for recusal from both sides increase, it will be interesting to see if, as Eric Segall asks, Kagan views herself as a judge of law who is obligated to approach legal issues objectively and open-mindedly without regard to partisan political outcomes or if she is merely a left-wing ideologue with no regard for the integrity of the court.
At no time in the five decades of my life have I ever witnessed the current level of oppression exhibited by our federal government on the states and the people. It started with the health care reform bill which in addition to the individual mandate also mandates that states increase the number of people eligible for Medicaid at a cost to state taxpayers of $118 billion through 2023 and creates the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats that answer only to the secretary of HHS and wield more legislative power than congress. Then they sued Arizona and Indiana over state legislation enacted to enforce the immigration laws the federal government has failed to enforce. The latest news on this front has been the full frontal attack by the NLRB, first with their lawsuit to prevent Boeing, a private company, from expanding with a new manufacturing facility in South Carolina, a right to work state, and then their latest edict reducing the time period prior to union elections which would stack the deck in favor of the unions.
After mounting pressure and protest from the Virginia legislative delegation led by Virginia State Senator Mark D. Obenshain and the administration’s declining job approval ratings, the justice department has announced a proposed settlement allowing the sale. In other words the federal government is standing down.
improvements they planned to make regardless and basically allowed the justice department to save face while backing out of an ill-advised, job killing lawsuit.
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moonfruit | I’ll not give the plot away too much, because I hate it when film reviews go into minute detail make you think what’s the bloody point of going to see the movie?!
Anyway back off my horror soap box.
"Die-ner (get it?)" was written & directed by Patrick Horvath,it involves the interesting problem of a sociopath killer Ken, played with nice charm & menace by Josh Grote, finding that his victims will just not lie down and play dead.
I'm good at playing dead, did it for 20 years under the mistaken assumption it would sort out my tax problems but I digress.
Killer Ken stops off in a dinner in the middle of nowhere.
The pre-credits scene is a nice touch that draws the viewer in with the waitress played brilliantly by Maria Olsen, who is known predominately for her scary horror roles, showing her gentler, softer flirtatious side.
"Working on Die-ner was to die for: I had a wonderful time eating the pumpkin pie and the odd finger..."
The true nature of the movie becomes obvious when Ken goes on a killing spree and then is very surprised to see (though he hides it very well) that the people he’s killed start getting up and trying to attack him and even worse than that; seem determined go about their normal business too.
I loved it when Maria Olsen, as the now zombie waitress, is ringing sales in the till over & over. Makes me wonder is there any real difference to the poor waiting staff that work like zombies?
Maybe Zombies are just misunderstood & want to get on with the boring & mundane!
The movie is very well directed by Patrick Horvath, I am not too familiar with his work but I am going to watch out for him from this viewing. "Entrance" seems to be his latest movie.
Actors Parker Quinn and Liesel Kopp also do an admirable job in the film.
The one criticism I do have with the film is the flash backs of our “anti hero” of sorts Ken; jumping to his childhood. I’m sure they are in some way trying to represent something that turned him into a killer but nothing is made clear and to be honest just gets in the way of the action.
Bit of a pet hate in all modern movies, they have to explain the wise & wherfores, why can’t they just be? No one had to explain why King Kong loved Fay Wray, he just did.
But in this movie it only detracts slightly & holds up what is a marvellous low budget independent romp of a, very black humoured zombie movie. That has just got the right amount of blood and gore.
And as this has the honour of being my first review on here I should explain the system.
2 – Okay – needs more BLOOD!
3 – Good – But chuck the blood dear boy!
5 – Excellent – Bloody marvellous!!!
Hope you like my irreverent reviewing style dear viewer, new to this don't plan to every be negative for negativity's sake. I always try to be constructive in any criticism.
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wordpress | This is very powerful. I strongly relate to your struggle, how the simplest of things are so difficult to manage. I used to wear myself out trying to keep up with other people. Perhaps, like you, I am resigned. I have accepted the fact that I am different and have a low tolerance for most things. Small tasks can seem overwhelming. I have learned to be okay with doing what I can do, no longer caring about living up to others’ expectations of me. I am not a mother, though. I am responsible for only myself and my cat. I can only try to understand how difficult it is for you to be present for your family. I think you have great strength and courage. Thank you for sharing.
I’m sorry. I think given all the challenges you’re doing really well!
I wish I was closer so I could help, in more concrete ways that simply writing.
I agree with Teacupofwater….this sounds like acceptance to me too. It is a place where I say, OK, this is what I can do, may not look like everyone else, or what I think everyone else is doing but it is what I can do. Hugs. You got him to the game and you didn’t forget where he was. (My son had to walk home miles from a game because I forgot I took him there.) Resign, acceptance, or whatever you call it to me is a healing place. A place where we finally say, “I am not a bad person because I cannot meet expectations outside of my ability.” Cheering for you from my computer.
May I say I’m impressed? I mean, you have learned to sort things out. I still struggle with becoming overwhelmed and going completely blank. So many things feel like a tidal wave crashing over me. I might even know some of the whys in a surface sense. I can’t change anything I’m unwilling to look in the face. I want to be more mindful.
As Ruth said, you did get him there. I missed a lot of activities because my mother couldn’t be bothered. If I wanted clean clothes, I had to wash them myself. If I was hungry, I had to figure it out myself, with a mother who deliberately bought food I couldn’t eat because she didn’t want me to get fat.
I’m not saying your life isn’t a struggle. I’m saying please stop beating up on yourself. You work so hard to do as much as you’re able when there are so many parents who don’t do even a fraction of what they’re able to do. God bless. | 2019-04-24T22:56:39Z | https://roots2blossom.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/resigned/ | Porn | Sports | 0.415546 |
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wordpress | River City Social Media Talks Unique Ways to Market to Teens, Twitter Enhancements and My Reading List!
There were a few things that I discovered last week in the worlds of social media and small business that made me a pretty excited! First are the social media platforms of Yik Yak and Whisper. Both of these platforms have been around for at least a year now and both are posting sites with at least one making the list of the top 5 most dangerous apps for kids.. Nonetheless, any small business looking for an exciting and unique way to reach a geo-targeted, teenage demographic (Valentine’s Day, Proms etc. are around the corner), should definitely explore these apps! Warning, Yik Yak employs geofencing technology, which is intended to disable the app on high school and middle school campuses, but I’m often shut out at my home which is approximately 2 miles from a middle school.
The next thing I’m excited about is gaining access to the Twitter’s enhancements – video and group messaging! I have to admit I was disappointed about not being part of the first wave of users to get the enhanced features, but the new features are very cool so I can forgive the oversight.. No more spending hours figuring out how to squeeze a compelling story into a 6 second Vine video, Twitter is giving us 30 seconds to record a video directly onto the platform. Further, you can also send direct messages to multiple users instead of just one at a time. The one funky part of this is that you must enter the names of the message recipients individually. In a perfect world I would be able to open my lists, select multiple recipients and Twitter automatically populate the message box with my selections. Nonetheless, group messaging is still a welcome addition.
My final exciting items of note from last week are 2 books that I feel in love with and I thing anyone who wants to take their business to the next level should check out. The first is Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans by Peter Shankman. This is a very easy read with Shankman’s advice for turning customers into fervent fans that will help a company massively increase their customer base, brand awareness, and most importantly, revenue. The second is Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin. Linchpins are the people who figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art. This is also a very quick and simple read that’s packed with insight and inspiration – you know, like what I do here!
Oh and one more thing, I am moving to WordPress from the Blogger platform in the next couple weeks. Please visit me on WordPress and subscribe! There are no free e-books, no gimmicks, just my short and sweet thoughts on the world of all things social media!
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