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KidsWorld is a safe, fun place where kids (0 through 5th Grade) can meet Jesus and become more like him.
Students & College
Middle School students (6th-8th Grade) participate in GENESIS throughout the school year. High School students (9th-12 Grade) attend HOUSEGROUPS. And College Students participate in our ministry called CRAVE.
If you'd like to belong and grow at Christ Community Church connect to a Community Group. There you can form meaningful friendships, explore the Christian faith and follow God together. We have Community Groups for men, women, couples and more.
The 20s Ministry has two primary elements: weekly Community Groups and a monthly gathering, called 20s Night.
Singles is for anyone who is 30 or older and unmarried, and is designed to connect you with other singles. Singles has two primary expressions: a centralized monthly event at our St. Charles Campus, and decentralized age section events. You can get more information and stay updated on all of our upcoming event dates at the link above.
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We want to help you grow in the midst of life's challenges. Our caring services include: CARE NIGHT, Christian counseling assessment and referrals, bereavement/funeral care, meals (for the sick, after surgery, new baby), financial needs assessment (budget coaching, resource referrals), cars ministry.
God has placed us in our community to be his hands and feet. Learn how we share God's Good News with our community through words and action.
Learn how to connect with our strategic opportunities for being about Christ's mission to "all the nations."
Whether you're planning a wedding, looking for helpful resources to strengthen your marriage or in need of support in a difficult time, Christ Community Church is here to help. Below is a listing of our current marriage-related offerings and opportunities.
Parent Pathway is an online resource for parents as they navigate through the ages and stages of life with their children.
Learn how we seek to give you the tools necessary to create a God-honoring balance between generous giving, reasonable saving, and wise spending.
Learn of our adult sports opportunities for Christ Community members and others in the community to develop relationships and introduce people into the body of believers through an encouraging, recreational environment.


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Essay Topic 1
Aunt Patsy was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?
Essay Topic 2
The characters in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.
Essay Topic 3
Who were the main suspects for the murder, and what made them such prime suspects?
Essay Topic 4
Security and safety were two themes that were touched on a number of times throughout the course of this book. What are some of these instances, and how do these affect the characters in these scenes?
Essay Topic 5
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I've been swamped around here. --Trying to finish up an online animation project, visiting New York last weekend! a few weekends ago and (still) getting the place in order.Lately, I've gotten to do some lettering for various jobs. Its something I haven't done much of in the past and its been really fun.
One of those projects was for t-shirt designs for the annual Lower East Side Kids' Art Bike Parade. Some first drafts:
Mostly, just fooling around with the lettering placement and different bikes.
In the end they wanted ribbon lettering to go with the "2008" ribbon. I think it came out really cute. It was printed in black on yellow shirts.
The parade was a few weekends ago and from the photos it looks like it was a huge hit:


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0845hrs: Blunt Trauma (Andrew Kirker)/
Dr Kirker is one of the current Retina Fellows at UBC and talks about blunt ocular trauma.
Begins with case from past wk. 65 yo WF hit by golf ball directly to right eye. CF vision, no reverse APD (dilated prior night.) Aphakic, vitreous in AC, cyrstalline lens was in vitreous cavity. No break external tissue but certainly internal damage. This is blunt trauma.
Most common in young males due to more active. Some advancements with organized sports protection.
Complete exam; kids may need EUA to complete this. Key to document other eye too. Often future medicolegal so documentation for those reasons too.
Lens: cataract acute or chronic, contusion rosette, zonular loss - may need capsular tension ring for surgery.
Retinal tears: horizontal traction of globe leads to this usually at time of injury. Can get necrotic and stretch tears too. Traumatic RD more often young men. Retinal dialyses often caused by trauma and frequently not diagnosed til much later when macula comes off. Must follow patients til get a good scleral depressed exam.
Berlins Edema (commotio retinae) retinal contusion/concussion. Show histology too. Usually good prognosis for contusion.
Traumatic macular holes: acute post vit detachment or chronic from CME. Does better than age related maculer holes.
Retinal haemmhorage could be hiding a choroidal rupture. Rupture can lead to CNVM in future.
Optic nerve: direct or indirect trauma; pallor may take 3-4 weeks. Rarely, can avluse optic nerve but this is more common with open globe injuries.
Back to the initial case presentation. PPV and secondary IOL for future and happy ending we hope.


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Hashim Popalzai is an officer of Central Superior Services in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan. He holds an MBBS degree and a Masters Degree in Demography from the University of Wales, UK.
He worked in the Federal Secretariat and served in the Establishment Division, Ministry of Population Welfare and Planning and Development Division, as well as Counsellor in the Community Welfare at Embassy of Pakistan in Doha, Qatar.
Dr Popalzai served in the Pakistani National Institute of Population Studies, where he conducted evaluative research on various components of the Ministry of Population Welfare. Two of his research studies have been published.
Dr Popalzai has undergone training in disciplines of reproductive health, project management, and financial management in public service from international institutes. He remains a faculty member of the National Management College an apex institution for training civil servants of Pakistan.


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Vetiver blinds, that lend to burning summer noons
the scented chill of winter nights.
Bihari (14th Century A.D.)
North India wild Vetiver traditionally infused in Copper vessels
Provenance: Uttar Pradesh, North India
Ruh Khas is one of the most complex botanical extracts known to science. It is a mixture of more than a 150 sesquiterpenoid components – some still undiscovered. Ruh means 'soul' or 'spirit' in Persian and Khas is the word for vetiver in Sanskrit. So the term Ruh Khas literally translates into 'soul of vetiver." Vetiver is a perennial grass of the Poaceae, native to India. The name vetiver is from the South Indian language (of Dravidian origins) Tamil, which calls it vettiveru. Tamil literature mentions the usage of vetiver for medical purposes. In North India, it is popularly known as Khas. Vetiver is closely related to other fragrant grasses such as lemon grass and Palmarosa and though it originates in India, vetiver is widely cultivated in other tropical regions of the world.
Ancient Indian inscriptions have listed vetiver as a favourite perfume worn by royalty. Vetiver is also an important ingrediant in ayurvedic science, where it is called Suganti-Mulaka which means 'sweet smelling.' Vetiver extract when presribed in ayurvedic medicine is called Sita-Mulaka (having cool roots) to cool the body by adding it to bathwater. In Ayurvedic medicine vetiver extract is known to strengthen the central nervous system, and is beneficial in overcoming melancholy, depression, insomnia, anxiety, stress, tension and nervousness.
Ruh Khas is different from Khas or Vetiver Oil. Vetiver oil would have the extract of vetiver blended with a carrier oil, most likely sandalwood. A Ruh Khas is quite different from the oil because in this case the botanical extract is not blended with any carrier oil. Therefore, a Ruh is quite pure in state and does not have an 'oily' feel to it. Khas oil is amber brown and rather thick. Ruh Kas, however, is a beautiful emerald green and since it has no base oil,is quite watery. Over time, as the Ruh matures, the watery consistency becomes quite thick and syrupy – a quality which is very desirable in Ruh Khas. The odor of Ruh Khas is described as deep, sweet, green, earthy, and mossy. It reminds one of damp, lush forest floors and of nature. Ruh Khas, like a good wine, ages very well and the fragrance of an aged Ruh is sublime. Ruh Khas is made using copper vessels called degs, as it has been made for thousands of years. Ruh Khas has such a delicate fragrance that it cannot yet be replicated synthetically.
Aside from its fragrant qualities, khas has been used for centuries as a refrigerant and an "air conditioner." Khas screens are hung over windows and balconies, which keep the interiors cool on hot day s, when they are periodically sprinkled with cool water. The air passing through the screens not only cool the rooms, but also add a touch of the exotic by scenting the cool air with its natural perfume.
Ruh Khas promotes the energies of both the first chakra (root) and seventh chakra, the crown. However, the first chakra house is the dominant house.
The first chakra house or the Root chakra forms our foundation. It represents the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival instincts and our sense of connection to our bodies and the physical plane. Ideally, this chakra brings us health, prosperity, security and dynamic presence.
The seventh chakra is the chakra that relates to consciousness as pure awareness. It is our connection to the greater world beyond, to a timeless, place of all-knowing. When developed, this chakra brings us knowledge, wisdom, understanding, spiritual connection, and bliss.


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Want to win at blackjack? Learn how to count cards with WACC 21 playing cards that work like flash memory cards. If you want to make more money by having a firm grasp of the odds, then you can bet all your money that counting cards is the right thing to know!
WACC 21: Card Counting Tutorial
Searching online and reading books would still require you to have a deck of 52 playing cards to work with. It takes practice to be a master at counting cards, and when the dealer flicks his wrist to show his card, the odds may be on your side by simply knowing what has been dealt.
The thing about knowing how to count cards is that when the game has been playing for quite some time, you can know if most of the high cards such as 10, Jack, Queen, and King have been played. This will enable you to make a studied decision whether you should hit or stand.
WACC 21: Prevent Getting Busted
Though it is not illegal to count cards in the casino, they HATE players who know how to do so. That's because the odds are turned in the favor of the player.
Many people get escorted out of the casino on the flimsiest reason because they write notes or their mouth moves while they are counting cards.
With blackjack, no matter how many players there are on the table, you are not competing with them - it's only the house that you have to beat.
With WACC21, counting cards will be automatic on your mind, just like a well-oiled machine.
When you know how to count cards, even the cards of the other players can be taken into consideration. Knowledge is power and the face card of the dealer might be an Ace - but you have made the proper assessment and realize that the chances of the dealer getting a high card is very low.
Earlier in the game, if your cards sum up to 16, the choice would be difficult to make. But, when half or over half of the deck has been played, you can make an intelligent guess of what cards are going to come out next and avoid getting busted.
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McDSP Releases ML8000 Advanced Limiter
McDSP is proud to announce the release of the ML8000 Advanced Limiter. The ML8000 is the next generation of limiter technology, using two completely separate stages of processing for significantly improved peak level adjustment.
The first stage of the ML8000, the Multi-band Limiter, uses 8 bands of active processing for superior phase response over traditional cross-over based designs. The second stage of the ML8000, the Master Limiter, is a precise recreation of the patented ML4000 limiter algorithm, right down to the limiter modes. Additional features include unique band Focus modes, filter design enhancements to further reduce peak distortion, and the ability to set all multi-band threshold values to band input levels instantly. Despite the additional stages of limiting and multi-band processing, the ML8000 has the lowest latency in its class.
The ML8000 will be available for an introductory price of $129 Native and $229 HD until September 30th, 2016.
More information is available at www.mcdsp.com.
Company Statement
McDSP is an innovative Silicon Valley audio software company founded in 1998 by Colin McDowell. Beginning with the release of the pioneering equalizer plug-in FilterBank, McDSP has continued producing industry acclaimed and awardwinning software titles. McDSP audio signal processing technology can be found in pro audio plug-ins for popular digital audio workstations including Pro Tools and Logic, the Avid VENUE and S3L live sound systems, as well as licensed algorithms in the gaming industry. McDSP audio algorithms are used by companies such as Activision, Bioware, and Microsoft, and in consumer products like the LouderLogic and Retro Recorder iPhone applications.


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A blog relating to vintage analog Roland "x0x" musical instruments. Primarily focusing on the SH-101, MC-202, TB-303, TR-606, TR-808, TR-909. Also featuring eurorack modular synthesis and DIy projects.
Friday, February 5, 2010
How to copy and paste patterns on a Roland TB-303
A tutorial video on how to copy and paste patterns on a Roland TB-303. This isn't a documented feature, rather its a "bug" of sorts
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nice one - i remember reading this on hyperreal.org wayback in timeReplyDelete
my contribution to tb303 knowledge-
how to get started programming a tb303
also be good to see how to write patterns to tracks - or getting rid of what's already in track memoryReplyDelete
good points, i'll make some videos on them in the near futureReplyDelete
Great trick! Thanks for the post. I'll be putting it to use right away.ReplyDelete
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The CFTC has rescinded the exemption from registration that Rule 4.13(a)(4) provided to commodity pool operators (CPOs)and commodity trading advisors (CTAs) whose investors are qualified purchasers or accredited investors. As the exemption from registration was widely relied upon, the amendment imposes significant new compliance requirements for many funds.
These amendments were enacted in order to bring the activities of CPOs and CTAs under the regulatory oversight of the CFTC. As a result, fund managers also required to be registered as investment advisers with the SEC would face dual registration and compliance with both sets of rules.
Hedge funds that invest in commodities futures, whose operators are regulated by the CFTC as CPOs and advisors are regulated as CTAs, have long availed themselves of the exemption from registration with the CFTC under Rule 4.13(a)(4).
Once the final rule becomes effective, funds will be required to (i) cease all commodity trading activity that falls within the rubric of the amended rule; (ii) seek to qualify under Rule 4.13(a)(3)'s de minimis exemption by reducing trading volume and filing for an exemption with the National Futures Association; or (iii) comply with the amended rule and register the fund as a CPO or CTA.
Registration allows the CFTC to have greater access to information about commodities funds and their investment activities whereby allowing them to better monitor the systemic economic risks posed by the commodities markets.
Fortunately, the CFTC is maintaining a de minimis exemption to the new registration rules, allowing CPOs and CTAs who trade a de minimis amount of commodities to maintain and exemption from registration. The threshold set by the CFTC requires the fund to have: (i) no more than 5% of the fund's portfolio in aggregate comprised of initial margin and premiums on commodity interest positions, or (ii) an aggregate net notional value of commodity interest positions not exceeding 100% of the liquidation value of the pool.
The amended rule includes enhanced reporting requirements and the creation of two new forms for CPOs and CTAs to use in reporting information to the CFTC. These newly required reports must include detailed descriptions of the CPO's and CTA's operations, including the amount of assets under management, leverage, exposure to credit risk, and trading and investment positions for each pool.
The revised reporting requirements will become effective on July 2, 2012. The compliance dates for CPOs and CTAs vary depending on the amount of assets held by each entity.
For CPOs having at least $5 billion in assets under management, compliance must begin 60 days after the end of the CPO's first calendar quarter ending after July 2, 2012. For other large CPOs with assets of $1.5 billion - $5 billion, compliance must begin 60 days after the end of the CPO's first calendar quarter ending after December 14, 2012. For all other CPOs and CTAs, compliance must begin 90 days after the end of the 2012 calendar year.
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Use of AED Improves Survival Rates
Rosemont, IL (Vocus/PRWEB )--Utilizing an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) as part of a comprehensive emergency action plan (EAP) at an athletic event can mean the difference between life and death for an athlete or spectator experiencing Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) , confirms a study published in the inaugural edition of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Doug Chrisman, 18, Hyde Park, NY – 18 at time of event (2008)
Monday morning, 7:30am, Doug was busy skimming the stock in preparation for that day's class. The stock didn't make it. Doug did. His classmates at the CIA (The Culinary Institute of America that is) saw the freshman from Missouri collapse, and one of them ran to get the nurse. The chef called the Safety Office and an AED was immediately brought to the scene. Doug was unresponsive and his pulse had disappeared, his face was turning blue — they only had minutes before he would die.
Todd Black, Seattle, WA – 56 at time of event (2008)
Todd is an avid Randonneur, that is he likes to get on his bicycle and leave town for an extended trip. This is called a Randonnée, which is a French word that means excursion or long journey. Randonneurs do not compete exactly, they think of it as more a test of endurance, self-sufficiency and developing their bicycle touring skills. Just the pronunciation is difficult enough, let alone cycling over several hundred miles in a specified time period!
One Sunday morning last month, Marty, Todd's wife, got a phone call to say he had fallen off his bike. She put her head down on her desk and cried. This was the second time she had received a call from the paramedics. That first time it had been nearly midnight in Spring, and she learned that, although Todd hadn't broken any bones, he had suffered some serious damage. This time she expected something bad had happened, but not this bad.
Paul Rittenhouse, Northport, NY – 45 at time of event (2005)
One warm Friday summer afternoon, Paul was on his way to get a new gadget for his sailboat. He'd just revitalized a 22 foot Ensign sailboat and needed a tension gauge to check the mainstays. He didn't make it. Instead he crashed the car. It wasn't exactly his fault, he was clinically dead at the time he collided with a tree on the side of the road, just outside the fire station and opposite a supermarket. The impact was not enough to deploy the airbags, but it did total his Jeep. Paul doesn't have any recollection of the accident, nor much of the week in hospital afterwards. He knows what happened because he stays in contact with the witness who saved his life.
Tara Heinle, Rapid City, SD – 34 at time of event (2008)
Tara and her husband, Todd, were taking a little time out after their summer vacation, and prior to the in-laws arriving for a visit. Luckily, they were at home that Wednesday morning.
Tara had just brushed her teeth, and was preparing for the morning shower. There was a noise, and her husband asked "What fell?" He got no answer and proceeded to investigate. Todd saw Tara on the floor of the bathroom. She had a certain look about her, and despite her being his wife, the look was familiar to him.
"My husband is a police officer and he said, 'I've seen that look before," and he started CPR right away." First, he called 9-1-1.
A Message from the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation
We see it in the news far too often: A student is at football practice, or playing lacrosse, or just walking to class when he suddenly collapses and dies from sudden cardiac arrest.
When a tragedy like this happens, people often think there's nothing they can do. But there is: Immediate treatment—before paramedics arrive—with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, and an automated external defibrillator, or AED, gives the victim the best chance at life.
Schools exist for the purpose of preparing young people for life. Doesn't it make sense that schools themselves should be prepared to save a life?
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It took five mighty shocks to get Cynthia Crawford's heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago. A dramatic rescue, to be sure, yet it was routine care she could have had at any hospital. What came next, though, was not. As she lay unconscious, barely clinging to life, doctors placed her in an inflatable cocoon-like pool that sprayed her naked body with hundreds of icy cold jets of water, plunging her into hypothermia.
"Like jumping in the North Sea," said the cardiologist leading her care, Dr. Paul McMullan.
Days later, Crawford was recovering without the brain damage she might have suffered.
ATLANTA -- Bernardo Soto, 11, is back in class after suffering sudden cardiac arrest in a school hallway.
His assistant principal at Chestnut Log Middle School in Douglas County helped save his life with quick thinking, good training and the right equipment.
"This was a divine moment and divine timing,"said Assistant Principal Greg Williams. "I feel great every time I see him. It was a meant-to-be moment."
Soto, a sixth-grader, had no idea his heart was in trouble until he collapsed on September 26 on his way to first period.
"Do you remember waking up and feeling funny that day?" 11Alive's Jennifer Leslie asked Soto.
"Yes," he replied.
It turned out he was suffering from sudden cardiac arrest, which is usually deadly.
"I had not doubt we were gonna get Bernardo through this," Williams said. "No doubt."
Don't Hold Off Chest Compressions if Cardiac Patient Is Gasping
People in cardiac arrest need CPR -- even if they're gasping for air.
Bystanders, and even some doctors, sometimes hold off giving CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) if a collapsed cardiac patient is still struggling to breathe. That could be a big mistake.
Cardiac arrest patients are more than five times more likely to survive if bystanders attempt resuscitation while the patient is still gasping, say Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, director of Arizona emergency medical services, and colleagues.
"Gasping is most frequent soon after collapse, and decreases with time," they note. "Bystander resuscitation efforts markedly improve survival in patients who are gasping from cardiac arrest."
Pittsburgh, PA–Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the nation's leading cause of death and tragically claimed the life of NBC journalist Tim Russert and thousands of others last summer. The National Press Club book fair this week features the SCA Foundation and Jeremy Whitehead, whose story, "A Heart Too Good to Die - A Shocking Story of Sudden Cardiac Arrest," depicts his wife Carolyn's triumph over near death. Whitehead directs the Foundation's national SCA Survivor Registry. "Challenging Sudden Death: A Community Guide to Help Save Lives," co-authored by Mary Newman, SCA Foundation president, and Jim Christenson, MD, also will be highlighted. The SCA Foundation will also be recognized at the NPC Annual Awards Dinner.


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For the fourth year running, I'm releasing a summer manifesto printable, this year new and improved.
From 2015:
Yesterday I posted a photo to Instagram of a quick list in my journal of things I want to do this summer. Late May is always the time of year when summer feels so close and inevitable and yet it's still only spring and you feel like you have all the time in the world (isn't summer like, half the year?) but then suddenly your Instagram feed is flying by in a haze of photos of feet in the sand and watermelon in a bowl on a deck and fans blowing curtains lazily and all of a sudden kids are going back to school and everyone's saying, "How can summer really already be over?"
Yesterday I had a moment of wanting to live my summer with as much intention and awareness as possible, and so I started a list. A simple list, to get started.
And then I thought, this should be prettier! I want to print something out and hang on my wall to remind me of my goals every day when I eventually wake up sweating with the fan on high in my third floor apartment every morning this summer.
And maybe you do, too. (Minus the third floor sweaty apartment, if you're lucky.)
And so I give you summer manifesto printables!
These are regular letter size files, so they'll print up nicely on any home printer. I printed mine out on some kraft card stock and am going to fill them in this weekend -- they'd also be great on some brightly colored paper, I'm sure. Feel free to share what you'll be up to this summer, too -- I want your good ideas :) If you do print out and fill in, share your lists with us on Instragram! #ruthclarkcreative


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Origins of the Term Bespoke
The term bespoke arose when in the old days, a customer would choose a bolt of cloth in a tailor's shop, whereupon the tailor would mark it as being "bespoken for". It has come to mean a traditional form of tailoring in which a uniquely individualised pattern is drafted for each client, and the optimal traditional tailoring technique is used to realise the shape of the final garment.
The first question about bespoke tailored clothing is this: do you need it? The two main reasons for going bespoke are as follows:
1. Difficulty attaining a good fit from ready-to-wear garments
2. Access to a wider range of styles and cloth designs
Naturally, others just want the finest traditional craftsmanship that money can buy.
If you have a very proportionate figure, then you may not absolutely need it. Ready-to-wear garments are made for a proportionate figure, but are cut on tried and true blocks. The best ready to wear firms only hire the most skilful cutters, many of whom have extensive training and experience in bespoke tailoring. Patterns are cut to the precision of a millimetre or less (1/32-1/64"). At the top end of the market garments are often extremely well made up. The trouble is that everyone has some sort of disproportion, so that even the best proportionate pattern only takes a guess at what your figure is really like. A skilful tailor will find a whole host of disproportions that you probably never even knew existed. Then there is the fact that ready-to-wear always offers an extremely limited choice of styles and colours or cloth designs in your size.
Another way of getting a better fit and access to a wider range of choice is by using a made-to-order programme. This involves making a standard set of basic adjustments to a tried and true ready-to-wear pattern. The range of adjustments that it is possible to make to a pattern is fewer and less fundamental to its basic architecture than in bespoke pattern making. There is usually no try on, or fitting phase, (although some will allow you this option, at extra cost). To start with you will be asked to try on a finished garment in your nearest size. The alterations necessary to achieve a good fit are noted and these come already incorporated into the finished garment. The person who notes these alterations is frequently a salesperson rather than a tailor, but some firms may have a tailor of various degrees of skill to do this task. The big advantages of this approach are that the work is based on tried and true patterns and that it is more economical.
The term bespoke is strictly reserved for instances where a cutter will draft your unique pattern taking into account the specific features of your body along with matters of fashion and personal taste. Fittings are always required. The number of these will depend on the tailor and how difficult a fitting challenge your body presents.
There are a couple of downsides to bespoke tailoring. The first of these is that it takes a very skilful tailor to better the tried and true patterns from ready-to-wear and made-to-order firms. In the wrong hands, there is always the danger that it could end up worse than a ready-to-wear garment. The second downside is that there are too many choices and the client may insist on a style that is inappropriate to their physique. If you add these two downsides together it can be a formula for disaster. However, a good tailor will guide you to making the right choices in terms of style and cloth selection. This is part of the Art of the Tailor.
In the right hands, the greater freedom that bespoke offers can lead to the creation of a masterpiece – something that is peerless in both fit and style. Freedom is the freedom to create a masterpiece or a disaster. The range of styling choices is extremely wide and the choice of cloths even larger than from most made to order firms.
Lastly, there are a subset of people who have no choice but to bespeak their clothes. These are people who have sufficiently pronounced disproportions that they cannot wear ready-to-wear garments, and even made to order programmes have only a finite degree of flexibility. The most extreme cases can be described as "orthopaedic tailoring", and can present a huge challenge to a cutter.
Choosing a Bespoke Tailor
This is not always easy as the number of bespoke tailors is decreasing everywhere. However, the forum may be able to point you in the right direct direction. Please see the Tailor's Directory. You may also know of someone who can recommend you a good tailor, who usually do not advertise and rely mostly on word of mouth.
Firstly, make sure that the bespoke tailor really is a bespoke tailor. This means that a unique pattern must be drafted for you, and then the incomplete garment proofed in a fitting stage. This does not mean that you try on a completed garment to see if it fits you!
The term "bespoke" is not legally protected. This means that firms may advertise platinum even though what you really get may be silver. It should automatically arouse deep suspicions when on asking questions should you discover that by "bespoke" they mean a factory made-to-order garment. This sort of dishonesty does a firm's reputation no good, especially when there is absolutely no reason to be ashamed about offering a garment that is made-to-order. If they hide it from you by deception, by trying to pass off made-to-order as "bespoke", you can assume there is a reason for them to be ashamed of the truth.
In Europe, the term su misura , sur mesure or nach Mass can mean either bespoke or made-to-order. Many bespoke tailors in English language speaking countries will describe their garments as "made-to-measure", when what they really mean is bespoke. Often these tailors are Italian because su misura means "based on measures". They argue that their garments are cut based on the precise measures of your body, and that this is the true meaning of "made to measure" or "su misura". That is why some prefer the term "made-to-order" over "made-to-measure" when speaking of (usually factory made) garments based on ready-to-wear patterns that have been tweaked.
The next problem is that of reputation. Just because a firm has been around for generations does not always mean they are just as good today. Skilled cutters and tailors are getting fewer and fewer, with little guarantee of continuity within firms. Some iconic firms coast off the reputation of their past. Less iconic sounding firms may be forced to rely more on the quality of their workmanship.
The first step to choosing a tailor is to interview them. You must be able to feel comfortable with them, and sense that you have the prospect of a good long-term relationship. Ask how they would cut a garment for you and you alone, rather than asking what "house style" they would cut for just anybody.
This term "house style" has unfortunately become rather popular. It has resulted in many people going from tailor to tailor inquiring about what their "house style" is, hoping they will find one that "fits" them – much like shopping for a ready-to-wear garment that fits. A tailoring firm that admits to routinely employing the same cookie cutter house style for all and sundry body shapes should be treated with great suspicion. If that were how they cut, it would hardly be better than a ready-to-wear garment. In fact, it should come as a great reassurance to you if you are told "we have no house style" (while trying hard to smile rather than cringing). This does not mean they lack their own unique ideas on cutting and styling for you, it just means they are less rigidly doctrinaire about forcing it on everyone. Even if you elicit reassuring denials about having a "house style", any tailor will nonetheless have very personal ideas about how they would go about cutting and making up garments to suit the unique features of your body. Ask your prospective tailor how they would go about styling the garment for you.
The next important thing is to see an example of a tailor's work. If you have a friend, relative or colleague who goes to the tailor, this may be the first step. Check the fit of a garment on its intended wearer. Look at the fit, rather than how glamorous its wearer may or may not be. Here are some basic things to look out for on a coat:
The sleeves should also have a clean, effortless fall without distortion and a gentle curve that follows the line of the arm:
The back of a coat is often gives the most information about the fit. It should present an effortlessly clean line, free of winkles, and sit neatly into even the stoutest waist:
Also look to see how well made the coat is:
The Inner Construction
You may want to inspect "under the bonnet" just as you might when buying a car. The engine, the heart and core of a coat, is its canvas. This is what gives a coat its unique shape. When you look on the inside of the coat you should be able to see hand pad stitching in both the chest area of the canvas as well as the lapels:
The pad stitching in this example from Jeffreyd's blog can be seen in the form of rows of hand sewn herringbone shaped stitches in the chest. On the finished canvas the pad stitches will also extend into the lapels.
Short Cuts
A handmade canvas is still the ideal way for a canvas to be made up. It gives the tailor the chance to lovingly shape the coat according to the needs of your body shape. This is the traditional method used today by all high class tailoring firms, and the method has changed little in the last 150 years.
However, there are some short cuts that some firms take to reduce the time taken to produce a economical coat, usually to be able to provide a more competitively priced garment.
Fusing is the most economical speed tailoring technique. If you see fusing it means that the layers of cloth are given structure by having a layer of fusing glued onto it at high temperature. If done well the results can be quite reasonable, but unfortunately this can too often be symptomatic of cheaper garment making where there there is cutting corners all round. This is what a fused front looks like:
If poorly done or if the dry cleaner incorrectly handles your coat, the fusing can come unstuck causing irreparable bubbling of the fronts. If this happens the coat may have to be thrown out. The overall garments tends to flatter in shape rather than being more three dimensional and it reduces the cloth's ability to "breath".
Machine Made Canvases
In the next example, the tailor has taken another possible short cut. The lapels have been properly pad stitched by hand but the chest has been done by an ordinary sewing machine, as can be seen by the rows of plain and dead straight machine stitches in the chest:
If the both the lapels and chest area of the canvas has been made up by an ordinary sewing machine this is how it might look:
If you see these neat rows of straight machine stitching on the canvas, the tailor has taken a short cut and you should expect to pay a lower price.
Make sure that the canvas extends all the way down to the hem of the fronts. It is possible to fuse just the bottom section of a coat or even omit the canvas and still have a sewn in chest piece.
Some factories, and occasionally smaller firms, may own more fancy equipment that better tries to mimic the optimal shaping of hand work than an ordinary sewing machine or fusing. These include zig zag stitch machines:
And blind stitch machines:
Only large factories can afford a twin needle jump stitch machine, and if you see it, it means that the coat was factory made:
Nonetheless, despite the advent of new technology, hand padding the canvas and lapels is still the best way for a tailor to give a coat optimal control over its shape.
The most important thing to note with the trousers is whether they have a clean and straight hang. Notice the complete absence of any wrinkling around the seat on the follow pair made by Jefferyd:
Some Commonly Discussed Subjects
1. Soft vs Structured.
The more important thing is the ability to tailor and cut, and prospective clients should look for this ability above all others. Both can be good if done well but each is suited for different purposes. The more formal the intended purpose, the more structure (shape might be a better word) a coat should be given so it looks clean and chiselled. A well fitting structured coat is more time consuming to produce but should still be equally comfortable and natural feeling. The heavier the cloth, the heavier the canvas will be to match it resulting in a cleaner and more shapely garment. However, a casual summer coat should be softer with less structure, and its rumples become part of its informal charm. Keep in mind that coats made up with reduced structure will lose shape more over time. For these reasons it is best to choose the heaviest cloth that you can. However, "soft" should not mean that a coat should be allowed to be sloppy and shapeless. Beware of people trying to pass off sloppy workmanship as having a rumpled "charm" or "sprezzatura" comprehensible only to the true cognoscenti.
The shoulder is described as being "high" or "low" depending on whether they are structured or soft:
The amount of structure in the shoulder is determined by how structured the coat is overall, by how sloped the wearer's shoulders are, as well as by fashion and taste. People with square shoulders need very little support there whereas those with sloped shoulders need more. The most technically demanding type of shoulder to produce is the concave shoulder (pagoda shoulder or spalla insellata) such as on this example by Jefferyd:
2. Fitted vs Draped.
Many people poorly understand the concept of drape. Drape refers to a way of cutting fashionable in the 1930-40s in which the chest is made bigger than it measures. The coat is cut to make the excess cloth sit as neat vertical folds at the front and back of the armholes:
The traditional drape cut in its pure form is fuller all around, through chest, waist and trousers. The fullness of chest gives the wearer the appearance of a having a bigger and more athletic chest, but should not look boxy or shapeless. The overall silhouette makes the wearer look bulkier, and is best suited to those with slender figures.
The cleanly fitted cut is at once more traditional and more modern. The more fitted a garment is the more precise the cutting and fitting must be. A full traditional canvas structure will help a garment be more fitted to the wearer. That is to say, it is traditional for formal garments to be structured and fitted, and more casual garments to be a softer and loosely fitted or draped. It is also possible to add a hint of drape just to the chest of an otherwise fitted garment, but there are other ways of making a chest look more athletic without having to resort to drape. As the style is largely historical, few tailors cut with drape way any more, although some enthusiasts of Film Noir era Hollywood films like to replicate it. Regardless of what exaggerated claims some enthusiasts may make, both the fitted and draped garment should be equally comfortable if done properly.
3. Light vs Heavier Cloths.
Heavier traditional tailoring weight cloths (>13 Oz) always make up better, resulting in a cleaning and more shapely garment. Heavier cloths must be matched with heavier canvas, and the resulting increase in structure is one of the main reasons why the garment looks better, and will retain its shape longer. Some people are very heat sensitive, with a great deal of individual variation, and feel unable to tolerate anything but the lightest of cloths.
4. British, American, Italian etc "National Silhouettes".
Within each country you will see such a wide range of styles that these things mean relatively little. For many years the French, Germans and Neapolitans all closely emulated the British, resulting in a lot of cross-pollination. Migration of tailors across boarders has furthered this process. Things also change according to fashion. For example, some people associate unpadded shoulders with American tailoring. Yet for a long time shoulder padding was considered an American tailoring invention – so-called "American shoulders". Infinitely more important is how good a fitter a cutter and tailor is at tackling the unique challenges that your body shape presents.
If you have any further questions about what you have read here, please don't hesitate to start a thread on the subject in the The Bespeaker's Advice Forum or else look to see if someone has already asked the question before.
There are plans for further updates on what to look out for when judging quality. If you have any suggestions please send me a private message.


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10 Things You Need To Know About Burglars
Home burglars tend to be good at what they do. After all, a single misstep can land them in Chester County Prison for a while. Burglars also are typically not criminal blockheads, and they have developed a number of ways to get into your home, get your valuables, and get out. Serial burglars are good at finding the right property to burglarize at the right time.
Burglars have some of the most compelling reasons to avoid confrontation with you and your neighbors. Consequently, they have developed a number of simple tricks that they do not want you to know about. Most of the tactics burglars use to target properties may seem fairly harmless at the time. Fortunately, they are also fairly easy for homeowners to thwart.
1. An Open Door Is an Open Invitation
Simple home locks on doors and windows are one of the easiest ways to discourage daytime burglaries. As insane as it might sound, many burglars will knock on your door to see if anyone is home. If not, they can simply let themselves in. If you answer, they can ask to use the bathroom to see inside your home and target it at a different time. In another common scenario, a burglar will offer to mow your lawn or wash your car in order to gauge whether or not your home likely has items of value.
2. Burglars Have Jobs that Allow them to Scope Things Out
Often, a home burglar was already in your home. If you ever get a creepy feeling, simply tell a service provider that an emergency came up and they have to leave. The majority of homeowners have had countless interactions with different service providers. Trust your gut, and check to make sure all of the windows and doors are locked after the service provider leaves.
3. Hiding Your Jewelry and Valuables Will Not Always Work
Home burglars that bypass home door locks are exceptionally well-versed about popular hiding places. Don't count on your valuables being safe under a mattress or inside the sock drawer. Additionally, never hide your key under the doormat or on top of the door frame. Give a trusted neighbor or relative custody of your spare key, or have advanced home door locks that give trusted housekeepers and nannies limited access.
4. Don't Give Service People In Your Home Permission to Wander Around
It might seem rude to insist on sitting near the glass repair guy or refusing to let the delivery man use your bathroom. However, it is common for burglars to disable home locks during their day jobs. It is important to be realistic, and it is important to keep your home safe. After all, what type of professional would ask to use your bathroom rather than waiting to go to a nearby convenience store? Another tip – don't trust all locksmiths you find online or in the phone book. Check out this article titled "Locksmith Scammers on the Internet" for tips on how to spot unlicensed or fake locksmiths.
5. Pass the "Out of Town" Test
Burglars may put fliers on doors to see if a home is vacant. Remove all fliers from your door, and arrange for a neighbor to watch your home while you are gone. Make a young child's day by offering $10 for newspaper and flier pickup service for a week. Also, arrange for the post office to keep your mail until you return. Keep a small light on while you are away to give the appearance that someone is home.
6. A Good Front Yard Indicates Valuables Inside the Home
You can garden to your heart's delight. However, ornaments in a front yard often indicate that the home has valuables inside. Most homeowners want to keep their property nice and well-kept. Consider investing in home door locks and windows with alarm systems.
7. Show Off Your Burglar Alarm System
Numerous burglars do not particularly care what home they choose next. They simply want to take valuables and get away easy. A sign that clearly shows your home alarm system can be a good deterrent. Make your home look as unappealing as possible to a burglar without diminishing its curb appeal.
8. Ignore Unknown People at Your Door
One of the easiest ways to avoid making a mistake when dealing with a potential burglar is simply to ignore strangers that come to your door. Some are there for a legitimate reason, but others are there to see how easy of a target your home might be. They can see if you have any dogs, they can judge your demeanor, and they can get a quick peak inside your home. It's better to be considered a little rude than it is to be considered the next victim of a home burglary. Keep your doors locked when you are at home to avoid an unwanted confrontation.
9. Shut Your Blinds at After Dark
Most active burglars do not stick out, and it is common for them to stroll through neighborhoods with a dog in hand. A well-lit house can give burglars the opportunity to scope different homes in a neighborhood. They can identify the easiest targets that likely have the most valuables. Additionally, there is not a lot to see from your home at night, and you probably don't want other people looking at you while you are in your home anyway.
10. There Is No Substitute for Quality Home Locks
Some of the most popular entrances into homes include the window over the kitchen sink, the bathroom window, and the front door. Lock all of your windows and doors when you are gone and before you go to sleep. It almost never hurts to lock your front door while you are home. You can replace most items of value, but you can never replace a loved one if a burglary goes wrong. The idea of never having to lock your doors at night might seem nice, but it is not safe. Great Valley Lockshop is a factory authorized dealer for some of the biggest names in the door lock industry including Schlage, Kwikset, Corbin/Russwin, Sargent, Adams-Rite and more.
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With permission of our beloved master, Acharya Agyaatadarshan Anand Nath we are placing the excerpts of a discourse that he delivered on the topic of Saundarya Lahari Sadhana for the benefit of every seeker. Read on..
Saundarya Lahiri sadhana in Tantric system is a means to attain the highest spiritual experience i.e. pratyaksha darshanam of Devi in all her grandeur and glory. If you aspire for that kind of experience then you MUST be initiated in Tantric discipline. Once initiated as and when you become capable your Guru shall allow this sadhana and also tell you some secret keys of this. A Tantric practitioner is supposed to takes up ANY sadhana ONLY with the Guru's permission.
But those of you who are not initiated should not get disheartened because you can equally benefit from it.. gain higher wisdom, material wealth, perfect health… great relationships and much more just by rendering the chanting of different verses to the Mother divine in prescribed manner. So.. Irrespective of your status of initiation or deeksha Your connecting with Shakti shall grant you all the resources, powers and toys needed for leading a comfortable and engaging life. I think that is what most of you have come for. (Smiles)
In fact this very first verse of Saundarya Lahiri can be said to be a Kalpa-Vriksha or wish-granting tree. It is oozing with power to fulfill ALL YOUR DESIRES FOR OBJECTS. Everyone who seeks fulfillment of one's material desires can use this verse for obtaining divine mother's grace. Within this verse there are concealed and coded vibrations of the panchakshari mantra i.e. Shiva's Mantra and also the maha-mantra of SriVidya that is called Panchdasi Maha-Mantra -Vidya. Since none of you are yet inducted in these mantras I shall not be uttering the mantras. I hope soon all of you shall progress and become eligible for initiation into SriVidya..
SO… now let's look at the first verse of this great mantra-stuti.. it is:
|| Sanudarya Lahiri – Verse 1 ||
As I told this shloka is a boon-granting, wish fulfilling energy… this energy or Shakti is contained in its specific sounds. It is chanted to remove the obstacles from our life. It is also used in getting the desired objects in our life. Like every other shloka of Saundarya Lahiri this shloka is also reverberating and overflowing with energy. So You shall need a Yantra to hold it. Some of you have already been introduced to the concept of Symbology and Mandalas by Ma Shakti Devpriya ji.. so you know what a Yantra does. This verse uses a specific Yantra. Most briefly explained…. Yantras and mandala have a mysterious quality that they can store the generated energies during the worship or practice and then they can also reflect it back to the worshiper. This reflected energy has a transforming effect on the practitioner. It is for THIS PURPOSE a mandala or Yantra is used otherwise your energies dissipate without creating any impact. OK?
Now I shall be drawing the mandala…
Have a look.
There are two yantras that can be used in your prayoga..
The most popular one is this… (draws a yantra)
Another Yantra I am drawing now… (draws another yantra)
This Yantra shall be made on an elevated platform. You can use a big round plate what we call thali for it. The material used in drawing this particular mandala is red coloured rice-flour.
Now let me first share the practices for those who are not initiated in Tattva Shakti Vigyaan. Take a beautiful photograph of Mother MahatripuraSundari. The picture should be such that you love and feel great to look at… Not just any picture. Get that framed and place it at your sadhana place. The day you place this picture at your puja place you shall be offering 'Panchopachaara' to this divine mandala (picture) of Devi. Since that day every morning and evening you shall continue with this panchopachara for the days your chanting continues. Ideally you should continue offering panchopachara even after your prayoga is over. After all you have now invited and installed Mother – The creator and ruler of Cosmos at your place!
What is panchopachara? If you do not understand what is panchopachara then do not worry.
These are simple humanly offerings made to the object of reverence such as a Yantra, Idol or Mandala… believing them to be a living entity… rather more like a living being. So you offer water for bathing, offering fragrant sandal paste for anointing, offer vermilion or turmeric for smearing on devi's forehead, offer flowers to show your respect, light up fragrance and a deepam. Finally you offer something to eat.. generally something sweet is offered followed by water offering. That is it!
The same ritual shall be followed with the Yantra you shall make everyday. Looks simple…?? It is!!! But you should remember it is a ritual mandated only to cultivate the required attitude of reverence and forge a connect with saguna swaroopa of Primordial Shakti in the form of Mother Goddess MahatripuraSundari. Therefore it can not be done mechanically… there should be this feeling of Shakti – The Mother Goddess being there in the Yantra to receive your offerings. In a nutshell the more you feel Devi's personal presence in your rituals more effective and successful your Prayoga will be. Right?
Now listen to the exact sequence in which you shall be doing this chanting. Please keep in mind this method is for those who do not have 'deeksha'. For dixits (initiated ones) I shall discuss after this..
- After taking bath wear clean clothes.
- Sit facing east (for this particular prayoga) at the specified place. Preferably on a red woolen blanket (asani).
- Light up a deepam (vertical wick) of clarified butter (ghee). Preferably cow's ghee should be used.
- Now make the perfect shaped Yantra on the elevated platform with red flour of rice (for that mix the powdered rice with red color)
- Invite Mother to assume her seat in this Yantra. Offer panchopachara to the Yantra with love and reverence. Keep the offerings little away from Yantra and take care while you make offerings especially water as if that gets sprinkled upon the Yantra it might distort its shape. A distorted or disfigured yantra should not be used in any circumstance.
- Visualize Devi accepting your offerings.
- Convey the object of your desire or the obstacle you want to win over to the mother.
- Now chanting of this first shloka begins.
I repeat the chanting for you..
9. You are supposed to chant this shloka minimum of 108 times. (You may use rosary beads to keep the count).
10. Once your chanting gets over make a prayer submitting your being to mother with folded hands. Request Devi to accept your energies and bhava and bless you with your desired object.. Thank her and request her to leave for her heavenly abode.
11. Sprinkle some water below your asana and offer namaskaram to king of gods Indra and pick up that water with your finger and rub it to your forehead.
Always remember that Shakti can not be manipulated forcefully and therefore even if you are provided with every tool for your prayoga or application you shall have to be humble and in the receiving mode.
Precautions you should take –
- Always take permission from your Guru. Share your intentions of doing the prayoga and request for permission.
- You MUST share the tithi (date and time) of your starting the prayoga in advance.
- No one should be physically present while Prayoga. Neither watching over of this process by anyone is allowed.
- If you are chanting only 108 times then this chanting should be done for 120 days. The ONLY other possible combination is 10×108 times per day for 12 consecutive days. I don't think you will have that much time at your disposal. So.. my suggestion would be that you take up chanting of 108 times on a day.
- Best time for this sadhana is night however you can choose any convenient time but the rule is maintain that same timing everyday for four months.
- Keep everything you need during Prayoga within your reach. Once you get seated for chanting you should not leave the seat without completing the number of counts decided. In life-threatening situations around (or any such emergency) you can terminate your sadhana prematurely but then all your previous counts go in vain. For example if you started 10 days ago and on 11th day you had to terminate your prayoga prematurely without completing 108 (or 10×108) chants. All your counts so far become null and void. In that case you should give yourself a break and do not continue your sadhana. Start afresh, requesting for obstacle free passage through prayoga.
- Ensure deepam keeps lit up during entire chanting… till the end. If deepam is put off due to any reason your sadhana is said to be khandit.. or interrupted. The same rules apply here also.. means your sadhana done so far will become null and void.
- You completely abstain from sex and sexual stimulating material or activities during the entire period of sadhana. Keeping an attitude of reverence towards opposite sex is desirable.
- During this sadhana consumption of alcohol and meat etc is not allowed. Stay vegetarian.
- One of the most important precaution is to stay away from anger. But even if you get angry due to any reason you are not supposed to raise your voice in spat of anger. Such a behaviour creates havoc around you and also leaks your energies.
- Finally… You should not throw any articles like flower, burnt wick, dust or ashes of Dhoopam etc. that are used in Puja here and there indiscriminately. Never throw these things in dustbin. The best way is to dig a pit and bury those items (nirmaalya) there. Avoid disposing Nirmaalya in rivers/water bodies either as that causes water pollution.
At the end.. Let me clarify… Especially for those who are not initiated in Tantra or Tattva Shakti Vigyaan 'Bhava' or the attitude is extremely important. A childlike innocence and enthusiasm during chanting is the key. Like a child you should feel that you are secure in the assuring and protective company of the Divine Mother. You should know within that 'She' is your mother and she is listening to you. It is with this Bhava you should conduct your chanting and japa. … then… you shall reap the immediate benefits invariably. Of course absolutely correct pronunciation should be learnt and be maintained during the chanting!
Hope you all shall surrender your false ego at the lotus feet of the Beautiful Goddess of the Three Worlds and receive Her grace."
Acharya ji further gave some more instructions on the subject –
"For the higher practitioners (Krama initiates) all of the above rituals are going to be completely different. These are more elaborate and would require more precision… because you will be given beeja mantras for these verses. So you shall require personal guidance on this sadhana. You already know that more than your own efforts Gurumandala's blessings do the magic for you. Here in these rituals also you shall be invoking Gurumandala and carrying out protection rituals as the first few things. You shall be using the personal mantra (that is given during your 'deeksha') as well. For the rest of period (when you are not engaged in prayoga) practice of 'samyama' and 'witnessing' is the key for receiving grace of mother.
Jai Ambe Shri!"
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Hatred, the Leftist Emotion?
You're a white racist.
This is one of the lovely epithets being slung around today. If I were on the receiving end of such hostility, I would have to respond by saying that I do not believe in turning the other cheek. Therefore . . .
You're a totalitarian, postmodern progressive irrationalist, which means you are a communist/socialist/fascist/Nazi polylogist leftist and wannabe dictator whose only method of accomplishing anything is through physical force masked by governmentally initiated coercion and legal plunder called laws and regulations.
Other comments could be added, such as, "you're a racist against whites, a misandrist, and a heterophobe," but let's just say, for short, that you are a communist/fascist leftist.* Your motivation is envy and hatred.
Envy has been covered by Helmet Schoeck and Ayn Rand, though Rand said envy is not the right word. Hatred of the good for being the good is more correct. So, let's look at the psychology of hatred.
"Hatred of the good" is not envy because bad students who express this emotion do not want to be good students. They want the good students to fail, or at least be dragged down to their level. The same can be said for today's entitlement poor. They do not want to work hard to become rich like successful business people. They want the rich to suffer (ignoring the history of rags-to-riches stories) and become like them.
Hatred, according to psychologist Edith Packer (Lectures on Psychology, chap. 3), is an emotion that begins with anger and resentment. If unchecked, that is, if underlying evaluations of the emotions are not examined for truth or falsity, and when false, not corrected, anger and resentment can develop into rage, hostility, and aggression.
Underlying anger, says Packer, is the universal evaluation that "an injustice has been done to me," the word "universal" meaning all instances of anger express the same evaluation. That evaluation in any specific instance, however, may be valid or true, as when someone rudely cuts in front of us in a movie line, or invalid or false when it turns out that the cutter was joining his wife who was holding his place, or the cutting was inadvertent.
Anger expresses an injustice resulting from a specific action. Resentment expresses stored-up anger, stemming from a belief (valid or invalid) of long-term unjust treatment that has been neither confronted nor resolved. This can then lead to hatred.
Hatred says the target of the emotion is totally contemptible, that the person's character, not just his or her specific action, is despised. To quote Packer, "an individual who feels hatred usually also feels helpless to correct the injustices committed by the person he hates. While hatred can be justified in some rare cases, almost always it is neurotic or pathological"** (Kindle loc. 790-91).
Rage, an out-of-control fury deriving from the conviction that somehow I am the cause of this injustice, often follows from hatred and is pathological. As is hostility, although hostility is a defense mechanism that only looks like anger. Deriving from self-doubt that is projected outward at an alleged injustice, the aim of hostility is to make the target suffer. Aggression, finally, is the behavioral manifestation of hostility, verbal or physical actions to deliver the intended injuries.
Hatred of the good that we see today is rage, hostility, and aggression, by way of shouting down speakers or banging on windows to disturb them, blocking street intersections or entrances to venues, and, in the worst cases, hurling rocks and other missiles at the targets and destroying their property.
Such hostile behaviors are criminal, driven by frail egos filled with self-doubt, and are not new.
Recall the decidedly un-civil-disobedient student demonstrations of the 1960s, the seizures of property, kidnappings of college deans . . . and bombings and killings. Or recall 1920s Weimar Germany and its street clashes between red-coated communists and brown-shirted Nazis, not to mention Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
The pathological and contemptibly immoral goal in both time periods was to tear down and destroy the accomplishments of capitalism and, ultimately, replace it with some form of totalitarianism. The same is occurring today.
Marx and Engels advocated violent revolution. Lenin, Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler were just carrying out the communist/fascist founder's wishes.
Marx's method of argument was to declare to his opponents, "you're just a bourgeoisie." We can't reason with you, he would say, because you don't understand proletarian logic. That's the meaning of "polylogism."
Today's Marxists, that is, the postmodern progressive Leninist, Mussolinian, Stalinist, Hitlerian leftists, do not even pretend to offer arguments. They smear opponents—people of prominent positions in universities, business, entertainment, and, especially, the media—by calling them names: "You're a white racist, misogynist, homophobe."
And they intimidate and threaten them, by pouring money into campaigns of vilification. If the targets do not toe the politically correct party line, or apologize grovelingly when they cross it, the leftists step up their campaigns to have them removed and their careers destroyed.
If this is not hatred—hatred of the good, the competent, the able—I don't know what is.
(By the way, communist/fascist leftists, all crimes are hate crimes. That pickpocket who relieves you of your wallet is not doing it out of warm, fuzzy love.)
Postmodernism, and its leftist activists, reject the Enlightenment's values of objective reality, reason, logic, individual rights, and capitalism. Stephen Hicks, in his book Explaining Postmodernism (1, 2), eloquently dubs postmodernists the Iagos to the Enlightenment's Othellos. Their goal is to inject doubt into modernity's values and, as it did with Othello, "let that doubt work like a slow poison" (Hicks, p. 200).
Or, as Hicks elsewhere describes the activists on college campuses (whom he denies the epithets "snowflakes" and "delicate flowers" because their tears, he says, are a tactic): the "grievances are not meant to be resolved. They are meant to fester and be used in the service of power-politics strategy. . . . The protesters' point is to make unreasonable demands, and their goal is to see how much they can get away with."
Calculated hate? How can it not be!
The antidote to this festering poison is a rational psychology that the Iagos do not possess, but if they did, it would consist of independence and a commitment to facts and truth.
In particular, it would be a commitment to the Enlightenment's values that there really is an objective reality "out there," that we can identify it through reason and logic, that we each individually possess rights deriving from our nature as human beings and applying universally to every person on earth, and that laissez-faire capitalism, or the closest thing we have ever come to it, has cured, and continues to cure, dread diseases, and has abolished, and continues to abolish, poverty in cultures worldwide by providing abundant opportunities for all to rise above their original stations in life.
* I've been struggling for some time to come up with an appropriate sobriquet to describe the far leftists. "Communist/fascist" works because differences between the two systems are superficial and Marx, Engels, and Lenin considered communism and socialism to be synonyms. "Left" on the political spectrum means total control of life and economy—this includes fascism—so "totalitarian leftist" becomes redundant.
** A justified emotion of hatred, for example, might be that of a victim of the Holocaust whose hatred is directed at the Nazis and their modern-day sympathizers
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Georgia Archives need you
Mrs. Glenda E.A. Anderson, Member, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (GHRAB) writes in an email of March 24th, 2013:
Call now!
Mrs. Anderson notes good news:
HB 287, transferring the Georgia Archives into the University System of Georgia, passed the Senate unanimously (46-0) on March 21st. It now needs only the Governor's signature to take effect on July 1, 2013.
And there's "sort-of" good news:
The Georgia House Appropriations Committee has approved just over $224,000 in restored additional funds for the Georgia Archives in the 2014 budget. On March 21st, the Georgia Senate Appropriations Committee approved another $76,000 in additional restored funding. So, thus far, the General Assembly has approved just over $300,000 in restored additional funds for the Georgia Archives in the 2014 budget.
Here's the problem:
But, the Chancellor and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia requested $450,000 in restored additional funding for the Georgia Archives in the 2014 budget.
So $450,000 is what is needed.
Here's where you come in:
We believe that our massive, statewide, 6-month, grassroots effort to contact every State Senator and Representative with printed information, correspondence, face-to-face meetings, calls, and emails is a major factor in the unanimous passage of HB 287 in both the House and the Senate. The Legislators heard our concerns, and they acted on them.
We need the same kind of massive, statewide, grassroots effort NOW, if we are going to have any hope of securing for the Georgia Archives the $450,0000 in restored additional funds which the University System needs to revive it.
Call now!
Here's what you do by Wednesday, the 27th:
CALL the Offices of the members of the House & Senate Conference Committee members who will make the final revisions and decisions on the 2014 budget. Ask to speak to the Legislators. You likely will not be able to reach them. So, speak with their staff members, and ask them to get your message to the Legislators.
1. Thank the House members for their restored additional $224,000 for the Georgia Archives.
2. Thank the Senate members for their restored additional $76,000 for the Georgia Archives.
3. Ask both the House and Senate members PLEASE to fully fund the $450,000 the Chancellor requested for the Georgia Archives. That is the total which is needed. $150,000 more is still needed.
Here are the names and telephone numbers:
Senator Jack Hill (R-4, Reidsville), Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, 404-656-5038
Representative Terry England (R-116, Auburn), Chairman, House Appropriations Committee, 404-463-2247
Senator Ronnie Chance (R-16, Tyrone), 404-463-1366
Senator David Shafer (R-48, Duluth), 404-656-0048
Representative Jan Jones (R-47, Milton), 404-656-5072
Representative Larry O'Neal (R-146, Bonaire), 404-656-5052
If you have time, you could also call your own Senator and Representative, and ask them to encourage their colleagues on the Conference Committee to "find" the additional $150,000 which is needed to complete the $450,000 for the Georgia Archives.
Along with Mrs. Anderson, the SGA reminds you, "We are in the home stretch of our advocacy efforts for the Georgia Archives during the 2013 General Assembly Session. This is the final push."


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ITALY PAVILION MILAN EXPO 2015 Design by Nemesi & Partners
The design chosen for the Italy Pavilion was the winning project in an international competition adjudicated by Expo 2015 S.p.A. in May 2013. In total, 68 architectural practices took part, the winning design came from Nemesi & Partners in association with Proger and BMS Progetti (for the engineering and cost management) and Prof. Livio De Santoli (for building sustainability).
"We imagined an architecture that would represent the idea of being together and the ability to recognize themselves as a community through an innovative, contemporary building taking into account the great tradition of the Italian architecture." Michele Molè, founder and director of Nemesi.
The Italy Pavilion consists of the creation of Palazzo Italia (built area 14,400m2 with 6 levels) and some temporary buildings along the Cardo (built area 12,500m2 with 2 levels). 7 months from the preliminary to the executive design 14 months of construction over 200 professionals involved Italian companies to build the pavilion 27,000 square meters in total, for the most part exhibition spaces.
Palazzo Italia is a genuine landmark on the Expo site, standing out because of its architecture and its location on one of the four cardinal points - the northern one. It also provides a scenic backdrop for Viale del Cardo which runs right across the site. Palazzo Italia reaches a height of 35 meters, the highest peak within the Expo site. It's the only permanently architecture at the Expo. Palazzo Italia draws on the concept of an "urban forest", with the "branched" outer envelope designed by Nemesi to simultaneously conjure up primitive and technological images. The weave of lines creates a play of light, shadow, solids and voids that generates a sculpture-like building with clear hints of land art. For Nemesi, the spark for Palazzo Italia was a concept of cohesion in which the force of attraction generates a rediscovered sense of community and belonging. The internal piazza represents the community's energy. This space - the symbolic heart of the complex - is the starting point for the exhibition route, in the midst of the four volumes that make up Palazzo Italia. These four volumes house the Exhibition zone (West), the Auditorium and Events zone (South), the Office zone (North) and the Conference and Meeting zone (East). The volumes are symbols of giant trees, with massive bases that simulate great roots plunging into the earth. Seen from the internal piazza, they open up and become longer as you look up, visually forming a canopy beyond the giant glazed roof.
Nemesi designed the exhibition layout of Palazzo Italia to be a gradual journey to discover and understand the shapes and contents of this special architectural landscape. The route starts from the internal piazza, a great hall in which visitors are welcomed. The curved, inclined elevations give the volumes a sense of fluidity and dynamism, forming a space of genuine beauty. The great flight of steps, that rises up from the square, crosses this area longitudinally to visually connect all the floors. The triple-height space from the second to the fourth storey is like a giant "hanging" shell that, visible from the piazza, houses the Exhibition zone.
Palazzo Italia is the symbol of the contemporary factory, an Italian architectural and constructive challenge, a work characterized by experimentation and innovation in terms of design, materials and technologies used. Palazzo Italia was designed and conceived as a sustainable energy building almost zero thanks to the contribution of photovoltaic glass in coverage and photocatalytic properties of new concrete for the outer casing. An " osmotic" building that dialogues and exchanges energy with its surroundings. 2,000 tons of i.active Biodynamic concrete over 700 branched panels all differents 4,000 sqm of sail covering - 400 tons of steel The rich weave of branches that forms the outer envelope helps to highlight the sculpted shapes of Palazzo Italia. Nemesi used a unique geometric design to create this outer "skin". The full 9,000m2 of the façade of Palazzo Italia is clad in more than 700 i.active BIODYNAMIC concrete panels with Italcementi's patented TX Active technology. When the material comes into contact with light, it can "capture" pollution in the air, transforming it into inert salts and reducing smog levels. The mortar used is 80% recycled aggregates, including scrap material from marble quarries in Carrara that helps add more luster than in traditional white cement. This new material is also very "dynamic", enabling the creation of fluid designs like the complex shapes used for the panels that are part of the construction of Palazzo Italia. All panels for the envelope are unique pieces realized by Styl-Comp. The roof designed by Nemesi for Palazzo Italia is an innovative "sail" realized by Stahlbau Pichler. It's an interpretation of a forest canopy, with photovoltaic glass and flat and curved geometric shapes (often squares). Together with the building's envelope of "branches", it's a manifest expression of innovation in design and technology. The roof reaches its architectural height above the inner piazza, where a massive glazed conical skylight "hangs" over the square and the central steps, radiating natural light.
The Italy Pavilion includes a series of temporary buildings that look out onto the Cardo. These are being built using "dry" technology to facility their removal and relocation when the Expo ends. Nemesi used the idea of an Italian village to develop the buildings along the Cardo, creating volumes juxtaposed with small squares, terraces and covered walkways. Different geometric shapes, at times overhanging, are assembled to almost form a giant mosaic in which each piece has its own design and autonomy. The ground and first floors are often little squares produced by the alternation of architectonic volumes. The buildings along the Cardo represent the different parts of Italy, especially the regions, providing them with meeting and exhibition areas. The area facing Palazzo Italia, along the northern part of the Cardo, is used for the institutions, exhibitions and meetings that fall under the European Union Pavilion, providing a symbol of the close ties between Europe and Italy.


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Viscosity is an online tool to help you quickly draw Modern Art Paintings using just the mouse – no artistic skills required.
You just move the curson over the layers in some direction and watch as different colored pieces assume abstract shapes in animated motion.
You can then download your "creative work" as an image and set it as a desktop wallpaper or share it with your friends online.
The software recently won the Art category at SXSW 2008.
Here's my first modern art created with Viscosity – this "painting" took less than a minute to generate and look alright when set as a desktop background.
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Writer of Holliston Friendship is Tragic Greg Wright
Jeremy is joined by Greg Wright they discuss Holliston: Friendship is Tragic.
Greg Wright has written several comics, including the pulp-fueled Wild Bullets from the Michigan Comics Collective; Monstrous—a mash-up of classic monsters fighting steam-powered robots; and Holliston: Friendship Is Tragic, a comic featuring the characters from Adam Green's cult TV show. He earned his Ph.D. in American Literature and Film from Michigan State, and his award-winning fiction has appeared in a variety of journals. He has taught screenwriting, film, literature, humanities, and composition.
If he had a castle with a secret passage, he'd probably tell everybody and make it just a regular passage.
About Holliston: Friendship is Tragic
The characters from the tv series appear in this brand new stand-alone adventure, being brought to comics for the very first time. Adam, Joe, Corri, and Laura are about to discover just what their friendship can handle when Adam finds a cursed credit card and buys his friends some Halloween gifts. The presents are perfect… a little too perfect. Soon, mad killers, giant monsters, and evil aliens are on the loose, as well as the deadliest threat of all: success! Will the gang sell out? Will they ever speak to each other again? What's the return policy for cursed credit card purchases? Find out in Holliston: Friendship is Tragic!
Holliston is created by Adam Green. Written by Greg Wright (Monstrous, Wild Bullets, Last Monster Standing), with pencils and inks by Stephen Sharar (Up the River, Wild Bullets), and colors and letters by Joshua Werner (Zombie Rush: Riot, Jack of Spades, The Creepshow in Necrogeddon).
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