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Change the World Without Taking Power: A decade later John Holloway's challenge still unmet (3)
Part 3: History as a hall of mirrors
What I find really interesting about Holloway is his determination to carry his argument to its final conclusion, no matter how it appears to conflict with decades of accumulated Marxist dogmas and even his own poor grasp of the basics of labor theory. His attitude can be best summed up by his scathing response to a critique of his book by Daniel Bensaid:
"Spit on history. History is the history of oppression told by the oppressors, a history from which oppression conveniently disappears, a history of Heroes, of Great Men.
Spit on history. History, even our history, is a history in which the struggle against oppression is invaded by the categories of the oppressors, so that it too becomes the history of Heroes, of Great Men, of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao.
Spit on history, because it is the great alibi of the Left, the great excuse for not thinking. Make any theoretical or political argument about revolution and the response of the Revolutionary Left is to bring you back to 1902, to 1905, to 1917, to 1921. History becomes a whirlpool, sucking you into the details of lives long dead. Present political differences become translated into disputes about the details of what happened in Kronstadt over eighty years ago. Anything to avoid thinking about the present, anything to avoid assuming the terrible responsibility that the future of the world depends on us and not on Lenin or Trotsky."
Not to be misunderstood by his critic, Holloway adds this gem:
"Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead. Yes. First your cart: show disrespect for the dead, for they have bequeathed us a world unworthy of humanity, a world of exploitation and of mass murder in the name of democracy.
And then your plough: plough the bones of the dead into the soil of revolt. Plough their legacy of struggle into the ground to make it fertile. Honour the dead by showing them disrespect.
Do not build mausoleums, or monuments, or even put gravestones for the dead, just use their bones directly as fertiliser. The disappeared are the great heroes of communism: not just those who have been disappeared by state repression, but all of those unseen, unheard people who struggled to live with dignity in a world which negates dignity, the knitters of humanity. The history we need is not so much that of the great revolutionaries, but of those who did their washing and played with their children."
If History for post-war Marxism has become a hall of mirrors in which we are continually trying to separate the real and reflected images of history, Holloway set out deliberately to smash all the mirrors in this great hall of mirrors.
The fetishistic character of the class (political) struggle
For sure it appears Holloway's criticism of Marxism can easily be applied to Marx himself. Politics has always been a fetish form and Marx acknowledged this in his controversy with Bakunin. Whatever else is to be established, it is clear neither Marx nor Engels thought the proletariat was a political class. It follows from this that their social emancipation is not a political result. Since the proletarians are not a political class, the inevitability of communism cannot rest on the struggle between the bourgeois and proletarian classes. The class struggle is a political struggle; it is always fought on the terrain of the bourgeoisie. As long as the proletariat is fighting on this terrain, its struggle necessarily takes place in fetish forms that dominate bourgeois society. Marx's reply to Bakunin suggests he and Engels were fully aware of the fetishistic character of bourgeois politics and the state, and made their recommendation in full knowledge of the fetishistic character of bourgeois politics.
We can arrive at no other conclusion than one that states Marx, despite knowing politics was a fetish form, advised the working class to fight for and within bourgeois politics. It wasn't Engels alone who deserves the blame for this, it was both Engels and Marx who counseled against insurrection and recommended this path. Marxists who want to continue to praise Marx, but condemn Engels on this point are simply being dishonest. But, I think, the critics of Engels are being dishonest, not because Marx and Engels were wrong in their recommendation, but because these Marxists, really haven't the slightest idea why Marx and Engels made their recommendation in the first place. Engel's critics are being dishonest about their own ignorance.
Holloway argues that the Marxists obsession with state power: fetishises the state: it abstracts it from the web of capitalist social relations in which it is embedded. What he forgets is this is not just true of obsession with state power: it is also true of every site of proletarian conflict with capital. When workers enter into union negotiation with the company, they are fetishising the company, abstracting it from the web of social relations in which it is embedded. Marxists are only doing in theory, what the workers' associations do practically and without the theoretical facade of bullshit Hegelian dialectical nonsense. This fact is brought home when, after the strike (or even without one), the company announces it is moving its operations from Detroit to Kentucky or even Mexico. Suddenly the workers learn that their assumption — labor negotiations are carried on in a bubble — is nonsense. Their struggle is revealed to be situated not in a few plants located around Detroit, or even in the United States, but is located within the world market in labor power — and this means their union also must not be confined, but must be global.
This truth only makes itself felt as capital materially assumes its final constitution. As Holloway notes, capital has the potential to establish itself as the dominant social relation globally from its very beginning. This is another fact of which Marx and Engels were fully aware — as they were aware of the limitations of the national state political form. Since capital has a global potential from its beginning, directly social labor bound up with capital must have this character as well. This global potential, I think, really does not begin to express itself in modern form until the close of the period ending with World War II.
Holloway never explains why, despite the fetishistic, limited, character of politics and the global character of capitalism, Marx and Engels made the recommendation to fight for and within bourgeois democracy. He never explains why this recommendation was right then, but wrong now (or always wrong, if he agrees with Bakunin). And he never offers a solution in his argument: if politics is not the path to communism, what is the path? If the class struggle does not directly bring about the demise of capitalism in labor theory, what does? These questions don't distract Holloway from his single-minded pursuit; he doesn't even appear aware that they hang on every accusation he directs to post-war Marxism. This, I think, is because Holloway shares in the expectation of post-war Marxists generally that the working class is a political class and that its social revolution is, in the final analysis, a political one. It is never clear in his book that Holloway, despite his criticism of the post-war Marxist obsession with state power in the face of a global capitalism, ever breaks with the notion of a political revolution, although, as we shall see, this is precisely the result of his argument.
The demise of capitalism in labor theory restated
I argued in the last part of this series that the class struggle plays a mediating role much like the competition between capitals. I meant by this that the degree of competition between capitals and the degree of struggle between capital and wage labor intensifies or accelerates the forces internal to capital that lead to its demise. I think this is supported by the textual evidence that I have referenced in the two preceding parts of this series and elsewhere, but let's nail it down.
So what are the internal forces or contradictions that lead to the demise of capital? Marx is pretty clear on this. In Volume three, chapter 15 of Capital, he states:
"If, as shown, a falling rate of profit is bound up with an increase in the mass of profit, a larger portion of the annual product of labour is appropriated by the capitalist under the category of capital (as a replacement for consumed capital) and a relatively smaller portion under the category of profit. … Furthermore, the mass of profit increases in spite of its slower rate with the growth of the invested capital. However, this requires a simultaneous concentration of capital, since the conditions of production then demand employment of capital on a larger scale. It also requires its centralisation, i.e. , the swallowing up of the small capitalists by the big and their deprivation of capital. It is again but an instance of separating — raised to the second power — the conditions of production from the producers to whose number these small capitalists still belong, since their own labour continues to play a role in their case. The labour of a capitalist stands altogether in inverse proportion to the size of his capital, i.e. , to the degree in which he is a capitalist. It is this same severance of the conditions of production, on the one hand, from the producers, on the other, that forms the conception of capital. It begins with primitive accumulation, appears as a permanent process in the accumulation and concentration of capital, and expresses itself finally as centralisation of existing capitals in a few hands and a deprivation of many of their capital (to which expropriation is now changed)."
In brief, the fall in the rate of profit produces a tendency toward an increase in the size of the capital necessary to maintain profitability. And it produces a tendency for the centralization of smaller capitals under the control of bigger capitals. Capitals too small to be profitable on their own are lent out to larger capitals that can make use of this capital profitably. Says Marx:
"This process would soon bring about the collapse of capitalist production if it were not for counteracting tendencies, which have a continuous decentralising effect alongside the centripetal one."
Based on this, I think, we can confirm that, in labor theory, the demise of capital is not produced by the class struggle, but by forces internal to the capitalist mode of production — internal to the process of accumulation itself. Leaving aside what Marx calls countervailing tendencies, at some definite point the concentration and centralization of capital must proceed to the point where no further concentration and centralization will further increase the mass of profits — producing the final collapse of capitalism. Capital collapses on its own and without more cause than those forces that motivate capitalist production, i.e., production for profit.
Ask a room full of Marxists what causes the collapse of capital, and not one in ten thousand would give you this answer. The Marxist argument goes something like this: "Yes. Capitalism would collapse, but they always come up with new ways to keep it alive. Since they always come up with new ways to keep capitalism alive, we must get rid of it by political means."
The problem with this view is that is rests on assumptions that violate labor theory: either the working class has a class consciousness that emerges in its conflict with capital or crises, or it has an abstract, theoretically derived, "class interest" that can be represented by a vanguard party. As I have tried to show, neither of these two arguments hold water: each worker must come to her own understanding of the need for association through her own experience — there is no substitute for this. Not even the workers' own association can stand in for the worker — she must consciously grasp the need for association and this association follows from her conscious understanding.
The anti-class struggle
In his book, Holloway tries to move the class (political) struggle from outside capital, where it sits in the Marxist argument, to inside the relationship. He is trying by this means to overcome the twin notions, to be found in post-war Marxism, of both an autonomous state and capital as an endlessly reproducing capitalist relation:
In so far as Marxism emphasises the regularities of social development, and the interconnections between phenomena as part of a social totality, it lends itself very easily to a view of capitalism as a relatively smoothly self-reproducing society, in which whatever is necessary for capitalist reproduction automatically happens. By a strange twist, Marxism, from being a theory of the destruction of capitalist society, becomes a theory of its reproduction. The separation of class struggle from the laws of motion of capitalism leads to a separation between revolution and the reproduction of capitalist society. This does not necessarily mean that the idea of revolution is abandoned: it may indeed be given up (in the name of realism), but often it is simply taken for granted (in the way that class struggle is taken for granted in so much Marxist analysis), or relegated to the future. Thus, in the future there will be revolution, but in the meantime, the laws of capitalist reproduction operate. In the future, there will be a radical break, but in the meantime we can treat capitalism as a self-reproducing society. In the future, the working class will be the subject of social development, but in the meantime capital rules. In the future, things will be different, but in the meantime we can treat Marxism as a functionalist theory, in which the 'requirements of capital', a phrase which recurs frequently in Marxist discussions, can be taken as an adequate explanation of what does or does not happen. The emphasis on reproduction, combined with an analysis of reproduction as class domination, leads to a view of society in which capital rules and capital's will (or requirements) prevails. Rupture, then, if the idea is maintained at all, can only be seen as something external, something that is brought in from outside.
If the class struggle is conceived as standing outside the capitalist relationship, the state appears as an autonomous actor able to operate independent of capitalist relations. On the other hand, capital appears as a smoothly self-reproducing system of relations. His solution to the errors of post-war Marxism makes sense except that capital is the absolute subordination of wage labor to the capitalist; by bringing the class struggle (the state) into the relation, Holloway is simply stating the class struggle itself rests on the absolute subordination of wage labor to capital. Even when the working class struggle reaches a very high level — as in Egypt, Greece, or Spain — it nevertheless moves completely within the absolute subordination of wage labor to capital. Wage labor cannot escape this subordination, no matter how hard it struggles against capital.
And this is the genius in Holloway's book: When he encounters this complication, he does not hesitate, but turns the notion of class struggle on its head to make it fit its new position inside capitalist social relations:
"We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class, against being classified. Our struggle is not the struggle of labour: it is the struggle against labour. It is the unity of the process of classification (the unity of capital accumulation) that gives unity to our struggle, not our unity as members of a common class. … There is nothing good about being members of the working class, about being ordered, commanded, separated from our product and our process of production. Struggle arises not from the fact that we are working class but from the fact that we-are-and-are-not working class, that we exist against-and-beyond being working class, that they try to order and command us but we do not want to be ordered and commanded, that they try to separate us from our product and our producing and our humanity and our selves and we do not want to be separated from all that. In this sense working class identity is not something 'good' to be treasured, but something 'bad', something to be fought against, something that is fought against, something that is constantly at issue. Or rather, working class identity should be seen as a non-identity: the communion of struggle to be not working class."
Capital rests on the absolute subordination of wage labor. To be free of the absolute subordination of wage labor to capital, the worker must free herself from her position as wage laborer. In the final analysis, the worker does not fight against capital, but against labor itself. What makes the capitalist class a revolutionary class is that it hates labor. What makes it inconsistently or only relatively revolutionary is that despite its hatred for labor, its power ultimately rests on labor. The revolutionary subject doesn't emerge carrying the banner of labor, but in the struggle against labor. The context of the class struggle, properly understood, is a conflict over the inconsistent hostility of capital toward labor — an inconsistency bred of the fact that labor is for capital also a source of wealth. For labor itself, labor is nothing but misery and starvation, not wealth.
Holloway reformulates our notion of class struggle in a manner that makes it a revolutionary weapon in Postone's and Kurz's sense of a struggle that becomes anti-class struggle, both anti-political and anti-economic. Seen from outside the relation, the class struggle is between the two classes over the division of the social product — a fetish form. Seen from inside the relation, this fetish form is revealed to be a struggle between the two classes over the abolition of labor itself. As the constitution of the proletariat matures into its final form, what previously appears as a struggle between classes, must mature into a struggle to put an end to all classes and — first of all — an end to the working class itself.
Holloway does not simply import the class struggle into the capitalist relationship, he inverts this struggle: reformulates it as the absolute hostility of the worker not toward the capitalist, but toward her own alienated activity. Says Holloway,
"It is only in so far as we are/are not the working class that revolution as the self-emancipation of the working class becomes conceivable. The working class cannot emancipate itself in so far as it is working class. It is only in so far as we are not working class that the question of emancipation can even be posed. And yet, it is only as far as we are the working class (subjects torn from their objects) that the need for emancipation arises. We return to the contradictory result already established: we, the critical subject, are and are not the working class. The conclusion reached is a non-sense only for identitarian thought, only if we think of 'is' and 'is not' as being mutually exclusive. The contradiction between 'is' and 'is not' is not a logical contradiction, but a real one. It points to the fact that we really are/ are not reified; we really are/are not identified; we really are/are not class-ified; we really are/are not de-subjectified; in short, we really are/are not. It is only if we understand our subjectivity as a divided subjectivity, and our self as a divided self, that we can make sense of our scream, of our criticism."
Communism and its premise
There is a conditionality to Holloway's argument that he can only indirectly indicate, based on his highly abstract presentation, as an indefinite identity. We are, and at the same time are not, the working class. This conclusion implies a contradiction that is not logical but real. Which is to say, the hostility of the working class toward its own alienated labor is conditioned by the real development of the productive forces of society. The hostility of the working class toward its own alienated activity can be realized only insofar as the material for its realization already exists — i.e., only insofar as it is possible to put an end to this alienated labor.
I will examine this possibility in the final part of this series.


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How to Build Home Theater Raised Seating
Remodeling a room into a new home theater is a popular home improvement project that produces hidden benefits, including savings on entertainment costs outside the home and increased family time together. Home theater plans can be as simple as comfy seats gathered in front of a large screen television or more elaborate layouts with high-end surround-sound systems, dimmable lighting and raised seating for optimum viewing pleasure.
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Make an accurate floor plan of the room on a sheet of graph paper. Use the scale "two squares equals 1 foot" for this plan.
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Flip the platform on its legs. Adjust for level. If you intend to finish any sides of the platform with plywood, add ¾ inches to the top plywood panel dimensions for each side panel you intend to install. Cover the top of the platform with ¾ inches plywood. Attach the top with screws set 6 inches on center. Install any side panels. Cover the platform top and sides with appropriate floor covering material.
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Move the platforms into position and install your seating. If the platforms seem to move or "walk" out of position too much, bolt or screw the sections together (out of sight) to form one large unit. You can also anchor the units to the wall or floor.
Step 7
Construct a step for any second raised section if desired. If your second tier is 12 inches high, build a step 6 inches high by 11 inches wide, by the length desired. This will be a safe and comfortable step unit.
Things You Will Need
- Graph paper
- Measuring tape
- 2-by-4 pine or fir lumber
- 3/4-inch A/C plywood
- 2-1/2-inch wood screws
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- 3/8-inch nuts
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- Platforms can be heavy and hard to maneuver so construct the platform(s) inside the theater room. Consider leaving sides that "won't show" uncovered for easier moving.
- The addition of low-voltage lighting along the edges of platforms can reduce risk of tripping or stepping off platforms in the dark.

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Since its formation in 2008, the MCG is finding it hard to persuade residents to pay property tax, with some residents' bodies even approaching the court against what they claimed 'dual taxation'. Gurgaon Citizens Council (GCC), an umbrella organisation of resident welfare associations, had approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2009, claiming that the residents were being forced to pay property tax twice –once by the private builder and again by MCG.
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Mr. Melucci attended Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development (2012). He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law (2001) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from The Ohio State University (1995). While at Ohio State, Mr. Melucci studied English Literature at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.
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Aryabhata (satellite)
India's first indigenously built Satellite launched into Space
|Mission type
|Mission duration
|4 days achieved
|Spacecraft properties
|Launch mass
|360 kg (794 lb)[1]
|46 watts
|Start of mission
|Launch date
|19 April 1975, 07:30[2]UTC
|Launch site
|Kapustin Yar 107/2
|End of mission
|Last contact
|24 April 1975
|Decay date
|12 February 1992
|Orbital parameters
|Reference system
|Low Earth
|568 kilometres (353 mi)
|611 kilometres (380 mi)
|50.6 degrees
|96.46 minutes
|19 May 1975[3]
Aryabhata (Hindi: आर्यभट्ट) was India's first satellite,[1] named after an Indian astronomer of the same name.[4]
It was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975[1] from Kapustin Yar using a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle. It was built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to gain experience in building and operating a satellite in space.[5] The launch came from an agreement between India and the Soviet Union directed by U.R. Rao and signed in 1972. It allowed the USSR to use Indian ports for tracking ships and launching vessels in return for launching Indian satellites.[6]
On 19 April 1975, the satellite's 96.46-minute orbit had an apogee of 611 kilometres (380 mi) and a perigee of 568 kilometres (353 mi), at an inclination of 50.6 degrees.[3] It was built to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, aeronomics, and solar physics. The spacecraft was a 26-sided polyhedron 1.4 metres (4.6 ft) in diameter. All faces (except the top and bottom) were covered with solar cells. A power failure halted experiments after four days and 60 orbits with all signals from the spacecraft lost after five days of operation. According to Soviet media reports, the satellite continued to function and transmit information for some time. The satellite reentered on the Earth's atmosphere on 11 February 1992. It was one of the best satellites ever launched by India.
- Aryabhata was named for the 5th century astronomer and mathematician from India by the same name.[7]
- The satellite's image appeared on the reverse of Indian 2 rupee banknotes between 1976 and 1997 (Pick catalog) and one rupee note number: P-79a-m).[8]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Aryabhata" in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 611.
- ↑ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 22 January 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 22 January 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Aryabhata - The first indigenously built satellite".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Aryabhatta - India's First Satellite". 27 October 2009. Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Harvey, Brian (2000). The Japanese and Indian space programmes : two roads into space. London [u.a.]: Springer [u.a.] p. 133. ISBN 1-85233-199-2.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Harvey, Brian (2000). The Japanese and Indian Space Programmes: Two Roads into Space. London: Springer. p. 134. ISBN 1-85233-199-2.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cuhaj, George S. (ed.). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. 3 (10 ed.). Krause Publications.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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a simple prayer
Dear God,
I heard on the news this morning that the Northern Lights are fading...
Our best scientists are saying that the Lights usually follow an eleven year "solar cycle" of ebb and flow, sheets of color draping across the sky and dancing wildly for years before tapering off and coming back to life again.
But here's the thing: according to that cycle, the Lights should be getting stronger now, but they're not. The heavenly, luminous tide is not coming back in. And no-one knows why.
Living God, God of sun and stars, God of orbits and tides, God who dances across the northern sky and lights up the night, do not hide your face from us. Do not let this mystery fade away. Come back to life again, around us and within us, again and again so that we might see, and marvel, and delight, and believe. Amen.


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Janwaar is a story of growth, a story of community living, a story of hope. Janwaar is the first village in India to have a skatepark of its own.
In the heart of India, amidst the forests lies a small village called Janwaar. Situated in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, for long this village represented what most of rural India was: divisive casteism, lack of education, sanitation, electricity and the basic tenets of life.
German activist, digital nomad and change maker Ulrike Reinhard changed the social landscape of the village when she decided to establish a sustainable community by emphasizing on growth of the children of the village through education and sports. She came up with an ingenious idea of establishing a skate park in the heart of the village. The journey was not a smooth one. With her indomitable spirit and resilience, she went to talk to the villagers, and with their help and with the help of young social entrepreneurs established a skate park.
This journey is however of the kids, their parents and how they have learnt to integrate change in their lives with the hope of an improved future. The kids have gone to participate in world championships and have been part of several art and education programs in India, Germany and other parts of Europe too.
Through a series of portraits, and in action shots, with the essence of my belonging in Janwaar, my aim was to read the lives of these wonderful people. What unity can do is something Janwaar represents. Maybe the path is still a long one laid down with thorns. This journey is not to exalt those thorns and suffering but to portray the resilience and hope in the faces of the community.
A dedicated platform on Instagram also talks about the individual stories.
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text: This video featuring Jeff Greenspoon from Spoke talks to the Globe and Mail about the 180 from GM to look at advertising on Facebook. Earlier this year, car giant GM said that they saw no value in ads on Facebook and pulled it's campaign. Seems that they woke up. Or someone pulled their head from the sand.


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MHS students at rehearsal for Pride and Prejudice MHS students Julianna Burke (Elizabeth), Ryan Gilliam (Mr. Darcy) and Bri Hale (Lady Catherine) rehearse for Pride and Prejudice MHS students Ryan Gilliam (Mr. Darcy) and Julianna Burke (Elizabeth) rehearse a scene from Pride and Prejudice
Marshwood High School Actors Travel Back in Time for Pride and Prejudice
Ask Marshwood High School junior Ryan Gilliam about romance between people from different backgrounds, and he will tell you, "No matter where two people come from, they can click, no matter where they were born or who their friends are." He is not, however, talking about life in high school, but life in England in the early 1800s.
Gilliam portrays Mr. Darcy in the upcoming MHS Theater presentation of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice, May 29, 30, and 31 at 7 pm. He and the other student actors are discovering that although the novel was written 200 years ago, its themes of love, longing and finding one's place in the world are timeless, and ones to which they can relate. Senior Bri Hale, who portrays Lady Catherine de Bourgh, relates to "the way people make assumptions about each other, and don't know the whole story, and watching that play out in this play. It's what happens in life, too."
This tale of manners, romance, societal norms and resistance to them, revolves around the Bennet family, and Mrs. Bennet's efforts to find husbands for her five daughters. The story of independent and spirited daughter Elizabeth and her ongoing sparring and eventual romance with Mr. Darcy is central to the novel, but the story contains many featured and fascinating roles.
Josh Livingston has been directing plays at MHS since 2000, and he and fellow English teacher Stacie Cocola have been co-directing the spring drama since 2007.
Livingston chooses the plays, and when asked how he goes about it, he states, "We want a play that offers engaging and complex roles for students to explore, a play that will make the actors reach and grow, as artists and as people. In my mind, theatre is at its best when it challenges both the cast and the audience to reconsider perspectives, to encounter something new and unexpected, to ponder, to wonder…"
He chose Pride and Prejudice because he was "looking for something with a lot of significant roles, especially female roles." Students are making connections with the text. Senior Julianna Burke, who portrays Elizabeth, says, "Within the confines of the time period, she is a really progressive character. She doesn't want to marry someone just because it'll give her a better social standing. She's not bent on pleasing a guy."
The students are clearly learning from their directors. "They are so supportive and give such good advice", says sophomore Maren McKenna, who portrays Mrs. Bennet. "There is such a concentration on every word," says senior Suzannah Blass, who plays middle sister Mary. "Every single thing your character is doing has a purpose."
Cocola explains some of the engaging ways they coach the students: "We try to incorporate exercises as warm up activities to help build on their character development or areas where we think they may need support on stage, such as exploring the many different ways you can deliver the same line, acting with the whole body,
creating visual interest — you should be able to take a snapshot of the stage at any time and that picture should tell a story."
"It's a challenge to discover and portray a character from another time and place, but also to recognize and convey that the basic struggles and desires for happiness and security pretty much remain the same", adds Livingston.
While the students' experiences of growth and learning are their first concern, Livingston and Cocola are sure that audiences will love this new Simon Reade stage adaptation of the novel, which Livingston finds to be "fresh, hip and funny". Several of the students commented on the humor in Pride and Prejudice. Burke called it "the original rom-com. There's a lot of humor in it. It's a great love story and everyone loves a love story."
Pride and Prejudice can be seen at Marshwood High School Thursday May 29, Friday, May 30, and Saturday May 31 at 7 p.m.Tickets are $7 at the door. For more information, call 207-384-4500 or go to Marshwood Theater on facebook.
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This summer I have been too busy to write about or research depression because my other (bat rescue) thing has completely taken over. My normal keep-well routine has been completely disrupted, viz exercise, sleep, omega 3 supplements, social activities. I've lost a stone in weight from not having time to cook. In the middle of all this a close friend died unexpectedly, leaving me shocked and grieving.
Here's the strange thing though: I haven't felt depressed. It's only now, when it's all quietening down, that I am noticing dark thoughts clouding my mind, and energy and enthusiasm draining away.
A friend who also suffers from depression recently told me that she feels better when she is busy and doesn't have time to think. In the past I would have associated such busy-ness with pressure and stress: both to be avoided as far as possible. It's what precipitated my breakdown 5 years ago, and what I have tried so hard to eliminate from my life ever since. But perhaps pressure is OK – healthy even – when you are doing something you love.
Research on meaningful activity
The research literature talks about a connection between mental health and meaningful activity. What you do, and the meaning it has for you, is important for well-being.
our daily occupations are imbued with personal meanings that contribute to the perception of purpose and meaning in our lives, ultimately influencing our health and well-being (Yerxa et al., 1989)
Researchers have developed tools for measuring meaningfulness, such as the Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey (EMAS, Goldberg et al. 2002), which reflects the extent to which people believe their activities: fit with their value system and needs; demonstrate their competence; and are valued in their social or cultural group.  Studies have found, broadly, that the higher the score on the EMAS scale, the better the depression, and vice versa. EMAS talks about daily activities, and not about duration – so it's the meaningfulness that is important here, rather than how busy you are.
Here's the EMAS tool . Each criterion is preceded by  "The activities I do…"
- help me take care of myself (e.g., keep clean, budget my money)
- reflect the kind of person I am
- express my creativity
- help me achieve something which gives me a sense of accomplishment
- contribute to my feeling competent
- are valued by other people
- help other people
- give me pleasure
- give me a feeling of control
- help me express my personal values
- give me a sense of satisfaction
- have just the right amount of challenge
Score 1-Never, 2-Rarely, 3-Sometimes, 4-Usually and 5-Always
To apply this, one could devise an activity or range of activities that would score maximum points – and then do it daily. I am going to add this to my list of experiments.
Research on being busy
So meaningful activity is helpful for depression, but that's not the same as being busy. We looked at rumination – mulling things over and over – in a previous post. Rumination is strongly linked to depression and is best avoided if at all possible, usually by deploying positive distractions.  Steve Ilardi, in his Six Step Programme to Beat Depression, has anti-ruminatory activity as one of the steps and talks about the need to find distracting things to do. He also suggests that, along with watching movies and playing video games (or whatever works as a distraction),  you may as well include activities that are inherently anti-depressive such as exercise and engaging with friends. Or doing meaningful stuff.
People typically ruminate – and feel the worst – when they have nothing else to occupy their attention. Steve Ilardi
Keeping busy with positively distracting activities will stop rumination (and rumination makes us feel bad). And if those activities are also meaningful to us, we will actually feel better.
Finding the busy sweet spot
I have learnt this summer that, against all expectation, a huge amount of disruption (for me, anyway), pressure, and physical and emotional upheaval, did not make me ill. I don't know that I could have continued much longer at the same intensity though. Feeding baby bats every 3 hours round the clock is tough; thankfully they grew out of it…
There must come a point when being busy all the time is not healthy. Mustn't there? Perhaps it's when the meaningfulness starts to slip – for example when the activities are such that you you don't have time to care for yourself properly (as per criterion 1, above), or when you no longer feel in control (criterion 9).  The important thing is to be aware of what is happening, and to take steps if possible to get back on the meaningful track.
Doing work you love
Since many of us have to spend a lot of our time earning money, the perfect set-up would be to do work that is distracting and meaningful.  Not necessarily easy to achieve, but worth striving for.
This post is dedicated to Scott Dinsmore, a perfect-toothed, ever-smiling, overwhelmingly-enthusiastic American I've never met whose stuff about changing the world through 'finding and doing work you love' inspired me to start this website and pursue making a living from learning about depression. He died last week in a climbing accident in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime year-long trip around the world with his wife. Living his legend.
References and further reading
Goldberg B, Brintnell ES, Goldberg J (2002)  The relationship between engagement in meaningful activities and quality of life in persons disabled by mental illness Occupational Therapy in Mental Health. 18(2):17–44
Steve Ilardi (2009) The depression cure: the six step programme to beat depression without drugs
Yerxa EJ et al. (1989). An introduction to occupational science: a foundation for occupational therapy in the 21st century. Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 6(1), 1-17.
Scott Dinsmore's TED talk on doing work you love


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This is the last installment of the 5 Steps to Happiness, which I've since decided isn't best conveyed as a five-step process, hence the delay in posting.
The other steps, as well as other happiness-related posts, can be found in the sidebar under Happiness or something similar. I try to keep things simple for my own sake.
I'll be expanding on the idea of steps versus no steps in the search for the elusive happy place and other associated thoughts in subsequent posts. For now, here is the promised last step of the (now defunct) 5 step process: Sharing (shoving) joy at other people.
Sharing On Purpose
Spreading joy on purpose isn't a requirement for your own inner happiness, so no need to panic if you don't like interacting. Or sharing. Or people.
If you are open to intentionally sharing happiness, however, shoving at least makes it sound less barfy (oddly, not a word) and rather like intrusive fun.
Sharing is not (necessarily) caring. It's selfishness. Helping others, if that occurs, is merely a side effect. It's in our best interest to share our inner happiness since it can create a happiness feedback loop. The calmer people are around you, the easier it is to maintain our own inner peace.
(Details will be in the book on how to share happiness with others for those of us who are introverted or who simply don't give a crap. Seriously. I wrote down how to share happiness for anyone, like me, who finds intentionally interacting with others nerve-racking.)
The Unintentional Nudge
Fortunately (unfortunately?), others will feel your happiness whether you're deliberately shoving it toward them or not, and it's best to be aware of this fact in advance so that you're not taken by surprise.
From time to time, your inner happiness may rub off on others without you even trying. It depends on how well your inner happiness is being maintained and how receptive others are to it. I have watched strangers become less agitated and, in essence, calm the hell down, purely by being in close proximity without so much as an exchanged glance.
Because I'm so damn perky.
No, it's because they can sense the internal peacefulness and they subconsciously seek out what they're lacking. It sounds like kumbaya mumbo-jumbo, but it's true.
You're A Buzz Kill
Then there are those who are not swayed and will respond unfavorably to your inner happiness. An inner sense of calm is unsettling to them and they may become confused or agitated.
It's enjoyable to watch them try to get a rise out of you and, believe me, there will be those that try. Maybe not consciously, but…wait for it…misery does love company.
You may find others are uncomfortable in your presence because you don't join with them in a heightened surface-level emotional state. When people experience a surface-level emotion, "bad" or "good", they tend to want others to feel the same.
In essence, being happy can be a buzz kill.
One of my early experiences with this interesting aspect of inner happiness was with a rather uptight woman who stood behind me in line at a department store. She complained in my ear, sighed, stamped, and generally tried to (unconsciously, I hope) cajole me into joining in her tantrum. I was content in my state of inner happiness and didn't engage with her. I politely smiled, managed an eyebrow shrug every so often, and generally disregarded her flailing about. The calmer I remained, the more annoyed she became.
We reached the front of the line (I never doubted that inevitability) and I thought it would be a nice gesture to let her go ahead of me. Because, apparently, I'm evil like that.
I wasn't prepared for her reaction. She screamed and used phrases like "smug" and "just standing there." My peacefulness in response to her craziness had obviously sent her over the edge. I remained placid as she continued to lose it. I smiled, "So, you don't want to go ahead of me?" She gave me a final nasty look and flung herself toward the register. There should've been a slow clap involved, but this was before .gifs.
Being a buzz kill isn't a bad thing. At least not for happy people. You can still feel the highs and lows of emotional states if you want to rather than out of habit or as a reactionary reflex. Other people may be disappointed when we don't jump on their emotional bandwagons, but that's when the unintended hilarity may ensue.
Shove, Share… or Don't
This is one of the simplest concepts in these series of posts (you may thank me with brownies.) I primarily wanted to alert you that sharing inner happiness with others will occur, whether you like it or not, and people will react according to their own level of understanding.
The bottom line is that by being happy you could potentially increase the happiness and/or calmness of others around you and that will help you maintain yours. Or, it may seriously confuse other people and perhaps even upset them. It works out in your favor either way.
"May you find the inner happiness you desire so that you can shove it at other people." (Feel free to use that.)
The forthcoming book Why You Can't Slap Happy People and How to Become One is a humorous look at the search for happiness from a negativist's perspective.
P.S. To keep up to date on the release of Why You Can't Slap Happy People and How to Become One* book release and other fun announcements be sure to subscribe to the Wisdom and Nonsense Newsletter.
*January 2017 update: The title of the book changed, because reasons, to Negatively Ever After: A Skeptic's Guide to Finding Happiness


text: In recent weeks we have highlighted the effects that theultra-loose monetary policies put in place by the Federal Reserve and other major global central banks are having on other economies. Mongolia for example, floated a bond issue in one-day that equaled 20% of it's entire economy, and completed the sale at extremely low rates. The lack of yield in established economies has pushed investors into riskier assets, lowering rates in the process. It has also created low borrowing rates for consumers across the globe. Asian consumers in particular have used these low rates to borrow heavily, leaving them in precarious financial positions. The Wall Street Journal over the weekend published an article on page A12 detailing the rising leverage in many Asian economies. Across the region, bank credit-to-GDP has grown to 104% as of June, up from 82% in December 2007. Certain large economies in the region, such as Hong Kong (275%) and Singapore (137%), are particuarly worrisome. Economists are concerned that if the slow growth that developed economies are facing flows through to these Asian economies they will be unable to sustain this borrowing and the next time this story is written it will likely be appearing on page A1 with a crisis headline.


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Treat Yourself to These Low-Maintenance, Long-Lasting Lip Colors
These reds, pinks, and corals are easy to apply with or without a mirror.
While Instagram and YouTube may be full of tutorials for making your lips look like a suede sofa or a mirror-finish, hot-magenta Claes Oldenburg sculpture, the rest of us ladies out here are just trying to take care of business and look alive doing it.
But if vinyl-lacquer, mega gloss, or high shine aren't keywords for you, that doesn't mean your lot in (your very busy) life is tinted-chapstick. We've found the sticks, pots, and tubes that not only deliver long-lasting, universally-flattering shades, but also apply so easily that you could touch up in dimly lit restaurant restroom or without a mirror at your desk.
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Urban Decay Lo-Fi Lip Mousse
Perhaps the most tote bag-friendly, jean jacket pocket-portable product we've seen lately, Urban Decay's latest lip color doesn't fit with the crazy colors and special effects finish you may know them for. Instead, these matte shades are ultra-buildable so you can add a pop of color (as Tan France would say) or create a more high-impact look at night all with your index finger. Our favorite is Fade, a terracotta color with summer-to-autumn versatility.
Charlotte Tilbury Matt Revolution in Pillow Talk
For those that ride-or-die for pink shades, this iconic shade from legendary makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury can be applied by those who are, well, the opposite of a makeup artist. While the finish is matte, it doesn't dry out even after a few hours, and the in-between-nude-and-pink shade works with a wide range of skin tones for a your-lips-but-better look.
Lano Lips Tinted Balm
If gloss is your game, LanoLips combines their pasture-raised-butter-textured balm (made with super moisturizing lanolin) with colors that actually make an appearance, unlike most tinted lip conditioning products. The balm boasts a believable shine akin to a freshly whipped meringue instead of a patent leather or waxy effect.


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66-year-old scooter driver rear ended, killed
BEAUFORT -- Beaufort Police are investigating a Tuesday morning crash on Robert Smalls Parkway that killed a 66-year-old man.
The man, whose name was not released pending the notification of his family, was traveling west about 8:30 a.m. on a scooter near the SCE&G office when he was rear-ended by a Jeep Grand Cherokee, said Maj. Matt Clancy, police department spokesman.
Though the details of the crash still are being investigated, Clancy said it appears that the scooter was stopped due to construction in the area when the Jeep collided with it.
The Burton Fire District and Beaufort County EMS also responded.
"The victim was suffering from severe trauma and cardiac arrest when we arrived," said Deputy Chief Tom Webb of the Burton Fire District. "It was pretty grave."
The man was transported to Beaufort Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, said Beaufort County Deputy Coroner Ed Allen.
The 26-year-old female driver of the Jeep was not injured in the crash, police said.
Clancy said decisions about charges that might be brought against the Jeep's driver would not be made until the investigation was complete.
Traffic on Robert Smalls Parkway was restricted for almost two hours as emergency crews and investigators worked at the scene.


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Diekman Family, Anastasia State Park, St Augustine FL, Family Photography
June 29, 2016
It's that time of year again…the sometimes dreaded family photo! Cue the stresses of finding a date to get the family together and don't even start with the chore of coordinating multiple outfits!
Yes, it's true – sometimes family photos are not convenient, but at The Mullikin Studio, we try to take all the stresses out of the annual portrait, so that you won't dread it – in fact, we hope you enjoy your family photos so much that you bring your entire extended family to us! Being parents ourselves – we know how much the kids change in such a short time. Your family is changing every year and you don't want to miss all those beautiful seasons in life!
Jeff traveled to the gorgeous Anastasia State Park in St Augustine for this family photo with our neighbors here in Jax!


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I recently read an interview in the New York Times Magazine with Phil Libin, the CEO of the software company Evernote. If you have ever been interested in the idea of pure outcome-based management, you should watch this company. For context, Evernote is a note taking and archiving/organizing program that is very cool (but does require some commitment to be useful). This is not a review of Evernote, but rather a discussion of the management of the company itself.
Libin has instituted some very interesting and unusual policies at Evernote. The first is that everyone has the same workspace (no offices). I remember when I started in the corporate world of management consulting, you could tell someone's level in the company by their workspace (shared office, single office, window office, desk size, secretary, corner office). At Evernote, whether you are CEO or newbie, you sit at the same desk. The other interesting thing about that desk is that it does not have a phone. His rationale is that everyone has a cell phone and since the company pays for the service, why buy another phone? Unified communications is coming folks; don't get dinosaured.
There are lots of open work plan offices and probably even some companies who have cut the hardline phone (as many of us have done at home), so what makes these guys special? For one thing, they have instituted a policy of unlimited vacation. The catch is that you have to get your work done to qualify. So if you get your work done early (a benefit to you and the company), you get to go to the beach. Literally, to the beach. And to make sure people really went, he gives them $1,000 spending cash. This is not an Evernote recruiting ad, really, just a fascination with a company leader who gets what motivates people. Support them, treat them like adults, and give them something they can use as a reward for success.
The most unusual thing they do is provide professional housecleaning to every employee twice a month. Libin's theory is that if you want your employees productive and happy, you better worry about what their significant others think of the company. So here is a perk that benefits the whole family. People either see housecleaning as a luxury or a necessity (I am in the latter camp), but no one objects to someone else cleaning their bathroom and mopping the kitchen floor. Brilliant.
Evernote has also addressed the issue of a distributed workforce in a very interesting way. They have offices in Mountain View, CA and Austin, TX. California is the headquarters, but they don't want the Austin folks to feel like they are just the remote field office people, so they placed a huge TV on one wall in both offices and connected them with a permanent video link. They call it a window into the other office. You can go stand in front of the window and talk to your colleague in the other office. They have video conferencing for meetings, but this is just to connect the people.
The technology is changing how we work and where we can work, but the key to managing people is to manage them as people. Treat them with respect, make them responsible, and hold them accountable. Good workers like to be treated with respect and will excel when given the tools and freedom to do so. Phil Libin and his Evernote team are not the only ones doing this, nor are they a model everyone can follow, but he has shown us you can succeed by challenging the business norms and focusing on the people.
We will be discussing these technology and management issues in more detail at the Spring Telework Town Hall Meeting on May 2, 2012 at the D.C. Convention Center. I hope you will join me there and bring some stories of what you have done or seen that pushes the envelope of management.
I look forward to your thoughts and comments. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or check out my blog at Telework Exchange.


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Some improvements have been made in the design and fabrication of blackbody sensors (BBSs) used to measure the temperature of a heater core in a vacuum furnace. Each BBS consists of a ring of thermally conductive, high-melting-temperature material with two tantalum-sheathed thermocouples attached at diametrically opposite points. The name "blackbody sensor" reflects the basic principle of operation. Heat is transferred between the ring and the furnace heater core primarily by blackbody radiation, heat is conducted through the ring to the thermocouples, and the temperature of the ring (and, hence, the temperature of the heater core) is measured by use of the thermocouples.
Two main requirements have guided the development of these BBSs: (1) The rings should have as high an emissivity as possible in order to maximize the heat-transfer rate and thereby maximize temperature-monitoring performance and (2) the thermocouples must be joined to the rings in such a way as to ensure long-term, reliable intimate thermal contact. The problem of fabricating a BBS to satisfy these requirements is complicated by an application-specific prohibition against overheating and thereby damaging nearby instrumentation leads through the use of conventional furnace brazing or any other technique that involves heating the entire BBS and its surroundings. The problem is further complicated by another application-specific prohibition against damaging the thin tantalum thermocouple sheaths through the use of conventional welding to join the thermocouples to the ring.


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Pictures of fast cars and football posters have been pushed out at a traditional Coventry barber's shop which has been transformed into a mini art gallery.
Italian-born boss Biagio Madia, who has run his shop on Binley Road, Stoke Green, for the past 32 years, has always been enthusiastic about sport.
But now he's developed a taste for fine art and has decided to make space on his walls for the work of two talented local artists - Colin Dick, who has had seven pictures displayed at the Royal Academy - and Rupert Cordeux, who won the BBC's Watercolour Challenge series.
Both artists live nearby and even though neither has his hair styled by Mr Madia, he's decided not to hold that against them.
Instead, he commissioned several reproductions of Canaletto works to keep as family heirlooms and is displaying them in a small art gallery in his shop.
The copies have been painted by 36-year-old Rupert, who even threw in two original Venetian scenes of his own to begin the barbershop gallery.
Then, to bring things closer to home, Colin Dick contributed a watercolour of the old stocks in Stoke Green which he and a local action group helped to save from destruction.
The 73-year-old artist said: "Although my painting is an original I'm afraid the stocks are not. But they still stand on the same spot, next to the Bull's Head pub, and are an important part of local history which needs to be preserved."
Rupert is still riding high on the back of a recent London exhibition following his success in painting Prince Charles's garden to win the national Watercolour Challenge competition in 2000.
He said: "While I wouldn't dream of comparing myself with the great English landscape artist Turner, I love the fact that he first started selling his work in his father's barber's shop."
But Biagio confesses: "These pictures won't be for sale.
"Those of the Grand Canal make me feel nostalgic for Italy and even though they are by Cordeux, and not Canaletto, I am keeping them as family heirlooms.
"They will also offer an alternative topic of conversation to cars and football and we can always put customers in touch with the artists."


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OK-2-SAY law touted by Snyder, Schuette
LANSING (AP) — Michigan will create a confidential tip line so students can alert authorities to threats of school violence and suicide, modeling the new OK-2-SAY law on a program developed by Colorado after the 1999 Columbine shootings.
Starting sometime in 2014, possibly at the beginning of the next school year, people will be able to secretly report threats of harm or criminal acts against K-12 students, school employees and buildings under the measure touted Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder and top state officials. The hotline will run 24 hours a day and accept tips by phone, text message, email and through a website or mobile app.
Tips will be passed on to local law enforcement and school leaders.
"If we can save just one life ... then we will have been successful," Attorney General Bill Schuette said during a news conference at Snyder's office. The governor signed the law Friday, two days after it won legislative approval.
Lawmakers allocated $3.5 million to run the program for four years. It will be overseen by the attorney general's office in conjunction with other state agencies. The state will seek bids to operate the tip line, and the law explicitly lets the state police submit a proposal.
Colorado's program has fielded roughly 9,000 tips since 2004, documenting and resolving 284 planned school attacks, 1,300 planned suicides, nearly 1,400 drugs/alcohol reports, 2,200 bullying incidents, 569 sex offenses and 320 gun/weapon reports, said Schuette spokeswoman Joy Yearout.
If a tipster suggests a psychiatric emergency is happening, the information will be referred to a mental health crisis hotline.
Tips generally will be exempt from disclosure under the state Freedom of Information Act, though identifying information may be released if charges are filed and the judge determines the information is essential to conduct a fair trial. Prosecutors also can ask for the release of identifying information when suspecting a false report.
Asked why not use 911 instead, Snyder said OK-2-SAY makes kids more comfortable in part because many find it easier to send a text or video.
"I would rather have the tools available," he said.
Snyder also dismissed concerns that the line might be targeted by pranksters.
"These are serious matters, and I think kids really do appreciate that," he said.
The law sponsored by Republican Sen. Judy Emmons of Sheridan will expire in 2017 unless renewed.


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Wholesaler Casa e Cucina has secured the Australian and New Zealand distribution for Italian servingware brand Zafferano Italia, bringing it to the market for the first time.
Case e Cucina co-founder, Quentin Robertson, says he discovered the range of hand blown and handmade glassware, dinnerware and wine glasses along with his partner and co-founder Jenny Westrup while on holiday in June last year.
"We saw many things that we loved but could not bring everything home," he says. "We want to bring our love of Italy and passion for great Italian design into the hearts and homes of Australians and our Kiwi neighbours."
For Westrup, the appeal of Zafferano is that it is a unique range. "We haven't seen anything like Zafferano here before," she explains. "The colours and styles are unique and we believe will fit in really well with the Australian lifestyle."
Casa e Cucina will be exhibiting at Life Instyle Sydney this February, and the pair is confident that the products will appeal to homeware and gift stores that specialise in premium glassware and dinnerware.
"Zafferano is a handmade Italian product and appeals to consumers who are looking for quality and innovative design," says Robertson. "All of the Zafferano collections combine to offer a complete 'mise en place' as seen on some of the best restaurant tables in Europe."
On show at the fair will be coloured glassware, which Robertson describes as "a modern take on Murano with just enough vintage styling to bring it to a very now look." The wholesaler also offers Zafferano dinnerware ranges including the 'Tue' collection of colourful bowls and share plates, and the 'Magma' and 'Juta' ranges reminiscent of 1970s stoneware.
The first priority for Casa e Cucina is to build the Zafferano brand in Australia and New Zealand, but Robertson says they are also focused on pursuing other brands.
"Our long-term plan is to represent a small number of complementary products and collections," he explains. "We love Italy, and when we travel there we see so much innovation in design we feel confident we will be able to add to our range and continue the story."
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Next, I welded the grass border from the Paper Doll Dress ups cartridge (1 inch) to a circle that had been stretched so that the bottom was the same as the circle you are using for a template, but didn't stick up past the grass blades.
** There may be an easier way. I just couldn't get the grass to weld to the bottom part of the circle and then cut out at the top. If you have an easier way, let me know!!
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News -
Emus cause double motorbike crash
The Surat Gas Aero-Medical Service (SGAS) helicopter has flown to the scene of a serious double motorcycle accident on the Landsborough Highway near Morven, 180km west of Roma.
The two motorcycles crashed after colliding with emus on the road.
The Roma-based helicopter landed at 1:20pm to treat and transport one male motorcycle rider from the scene to Roma Airport, where he was then driven by ambulance to the Roma Base Hospital.
He suffered a fractured ankle and suspected internal injuries and travelled in a stable condition.
The female rider of the second motorcycle was transported by road to Charleville Hospital.
Crews were on scene stabilising the patient�s for almost two hours prior to transportation.
The Surat Gas Aero-Medical Service began flying in April 2011, to minimise impacts on community medical services in Queensland�s far south west. The service donates the aircraft to the community and has airlifted nearly 150 seriously ill or injured residents in that time.


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Living consciously in an unconscious world….. Can you relate?
I'm awake! Now, what????? What is your advice for the person who has been shaken from their deep slumber? What do you tell the person who now realizes most of what they were taught and believed to be true was a lie? Help us. What's the first priority? Enlighten us.
Thank you for reading and watching. Post a comment. Authentic thoughts are thoughts that are genuine and sincerely expressed. Authentic thoughts reverberate with other authentic individuals so they have an irresistible urge to ponder or respectfully respond from their own unique perspective.
In peace and light,
Dr. Free


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Bo Ningen don't like to do things quietly. Their third album opens with a cymbal crash, a squall of guitar and then a tension-building rhythm before shrieked vocals take over. It's perhaps not one for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
But that's not to say that III is nothing but a pure noise fest. Rather, the Japanese psych-rockers are exploring their musical horizons here, singing partly in English for the first time and enlisting help from Savages' Jehnny Beth and King Midas Sound's Roger Robinson. Beneath the psychedelic frenzy, there are strong songs here that fly off down interesting avenues.
Have a listen using the player below and let us know your thoughts.


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Oct. 18 - HIRAM, Ohio - In a tale of two halves, the Hiram College women's soccer team dropped a 3-2 decision to The College of Wooster on Wednesday evening.
The Terrier offense awoke in the opening 45 minutes, connecting for a pair of goals in the frame.
Sophomore Ally Green set the pace early, making four saves in the opening 45 minutes. The first came on a leaping save as she tipped the ball over the cross bar on a shot by Krenare Rakoci in the 11th minute.
In the 17th minute, the Terriers got on the board first, as Courtney Wendel took a rebound off a shot from Hannah Ward and placed in the bottom-right corner of the net, giving Hiram a 1-0 advantage.
The shot was the third of the game for Wendel, who hit the post and went just wide on her first two attempts in the eighth minute. Her persistence, however, gave the Terriers their first, first-half lead since the Thiel College victory on opening night.
The Terriers continued to put pressure on the Scots in the first stanza. Senior Emily Syrjala just missed her fifth goal of the season, clanging a shot off the cross bar that kicked back to the 20-yard line.
Junior Sophie Bell fought hard for the ball, collecting the possession between a pair of Wooster defenders. From there, the junior fired a strike, placing the ball over the Scots' keeper from 30-yards out to give the Terriers a 2-0 advantage. Hiram would keep Wooster at bay for the remainder of the half, leading by the same score at the break.
The tide would turn in the 65th minute as Wooster pushed a cross into the Terrier goal box. The ball skipped off the head of Miranda Miracle and into the net, pulling the Scots to 2-1.
Wooster would continue to up the pressure in the second half, outshooting Hiram 8-1 and holding a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks.
The Scots would then complete the comeback with a pair of goals from Kylie Hawkins in the 73rd and 84th minutes.
Hiram would have one final chance on a shot by Wendel, but could muster no more, falling by the 3-2 score.
Wendel led the way for the Terriers throughout the evening, totaling five shots and her first-career tally. Bell also added a goal, while Ward tallied her fourth assist of the season.
Hiram will get back to work on Saturday, October 21, as they travel to Ohio Wesleyan. The matchup with the Battling Bishops is schedule for a 1 p.m. start.


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