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Nationalism is the pathology of modern developmental history as inevitable as neurosis in the individual. – Tom Nairn – 'The Break-Up of Britain.'
Brexit and Trump have not suddenly happened.
My generation has been outpaced by the frenzied speed of technological advances for some decades now. Large sections of society lack meaningful vocations and work, small shops and community centers are disappearing, since such places are no longer considered financially viable. Public services in Britain have been sold out. Liberal arts and crafts are reduced to soft and unprofitable educational choices. People have become exploitable commodities and are being gradually deprived of culture. I am reminded of Cecil Collin (1908-1989) and his 'Vision of the Fool.' For him, Saints, artists and poets are one with the joy and sorrow of the Fool, in whom the poetic imagination of life lives and coordinates heart-intelligence in human society. A cosmic folly that is present in the person of us, which cannot be exploited because it is above state, class or politics. It's what I sense in many people I meet, a longing for what has been demeaned as useless – the poetic imagination of the innocent fool.
Western citizens should of course be grateful. We have progress, gadgets, toys – life has never been better. Yet the cornucopia of consumer choices does not replace human relationships, community facilities, lack of housing, lost jobs, lost pensions, does not prevent the gnawing disillusionment that is spreading like a virus, while beneath the impotent silence fester anger and self-destructiveness. When starved of meaning, what tends to make people feel alive, short of war, is upturning the apple cart and watching the unfolding drama.
Britain's populist Brexit vote was valuable fuel for Donald Trump. He even called himself Mr Brexit – down with cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism – up with nationalism and walls to keep out the alien hordes. Brushing over complex issues with simpleminded slogans resulted in over 50 million Americans to vote on promises to make America great again by a man whose opportunist character will be severely tested by reality. Hopefully the task will mellow his character, and not result in toxic consequences for years to come.
For Britain, and other EU countries, there is yet an opportunity to re-evaluate the cards that have emerged on the public table. The Brexit referendum event gave food for thought, enough to serve the intelligent questioning of what truly lies at the heart of the growing disagreements and dissatisfaction among so-called affluent societies.
I guess I'm not the only one to suffer from Br -exasperation.
Not scapegoating, but a careful analysis is called for – and a constructive participation, with Europe, towards addressing the challenges of our time is what I wish for. The biases in the trail of globalism must be acknowledged and engaged with. The EU, despite massive failings, still offers the bests chance for stability. Turning the clock back is futile. In my view, to support and effectively influence the EU project is the intelligent way forward for Britain.
But is seems the British Parliament hasn't got the guts to open the real discussion that was never held, and hasn't got the guts to acknowledge how its senseless policies have allowed injustices and inequalities to heap up. It is utterly hypocritical to blame the results of bad politics on migrants.
Stakes are high. Sanctioning the pathology of nationalistic frenzy could destroy what has been achieved. See the history of Human Rights.
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Dr. Asma Mohammadi is a doctor, author (Soar Beyond Skies), writer, and poet living in California. Ever since childhood, her mounting interest in language was evident as she penned articles for school journals. Her profound fondness for poetry evolved growing up, and she began exploring her writing skills.
Her poetry has an essence of feminism, equality, mental illnesses, psychology, stress related disorders and many more such topics.
A compilation of rapture, despair, longing, self-love, triumph, and loss, her debut book 'Soar Beyond Skies' is a collection of poems chronicling the challenges of contemporary life such as inequality, social criticism, peer pressure, anxiety, depression, sexism, displacement, racism, objectification, breaking stereotypes and many more.
Smashing the shell of confinement and taking on the cliched perspectives, her book takes you on a journey that traverses the stagnant plains, the eye-catchy mountains, the winding roads and the pit stops in life.
It is split into seven sections namely sweet (joy), bitter (fear), sour (grief), salty (hope), insipid (apathy), spicy (ecstasy) and pungent (criticism). With flavors of practicality as well as fantasy, it engraves love on the minds reflecting on the vital aspects of life.
She delves into solitude life to offer elements of reality and bitter truth. Her life revolves around various components of living fearlessly, evading judgments and voicing opinions when needed.
Asma is an active poet and writer on her Instagram page dr.asmapoetry where she started unboxing her emotions three years ago for the world to read, feel and relate. She believes in the medicinal power of words, and her verses are meant to paint hearts with compassion, purity, and love. She enjoys playing tennis, designing greeting cards, traveling and creative writing in her leisure hours.
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Since the last International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) three years ago, the baking and snack industries have changed dramatically. Some instances such as the deadly product recalls following tainted ingredients supplied by the Peanut Corp. of America set into motion a flurry of activity — as well as federal legislation in the form of the Food Safety Modernization Act — that has affected daily operations and how bakers respond to food safety concerns.
To assess today's state of the industry and address these myriad issues as IBIE 2013 nears, Baking & Snack's editorial team sat down with a panel of experts who contribute regularly to our magazine. We held a freewheeling roundtable during the American Society of Baking's and BEMA's "Best Week in Baking" early this year.
Our panel included: (pictured below, from left) Theresa Cogswell, head of BakerCogs, Inc.; Jim Kline, president, The EnSol Group; Donna Berry, 20-year technical editor, writing for various trade magazines, including Baking & Snack; and Jeff Dearduff, vice-president of operations, ARYZTA North America.
In this report, the panelists talk about what keeps them awake at night. Let's drop in on their conversation and find out what they have to say.
Baking & Snack: What worries you about the future of the industry? What are the big unknowns?
Theresa Cogswell: The thing that keeps me up at night is the same thing that kept me up at night when I worked for Wonder and Hostess, and that's food safety. We have seen brands brought to their knees and evaporate overnight because of poor food safety, whether it's allergens or pathogens.
Jim Kline: Certainly food safety, but also employee safety as it relates to the more sophisticated equipment and leaner operations. That concerns me.
Jeff Dearduff: To hook onto that, I would say concerns about labor and talent keep me up at night. Finding qualified talent to work in bakeries is getting more and more difficult, and this drives you in one of two directions. You either suffer with what you can get, or you put capital into your facilities and take labor out. But there's a fine line between handcrafted breads and handcrafted-like breads and robot-made automated breads.
Are we understanding you correctly that you feel there is a risk that talent is disappearing?
Mr. Dearduff: There is a risk that talent is disappearing. You can always get people to man the line, but finding qualified people, who can notice when something is not right, is difficult.
Ms. Cogswell: A proactive, trained person to troubleshoot.
Mr. Kline: Someone who can react to a problem.
Mr. Dearduff: Yes. They hear something, smell something, see something, feel something that's not right, and they raise a flag and get it fixed.
Is this a symptom of the industry, or is this a generational trait?
Mr. Kline: You can go back to a speech that was given by a president of the American Society of Baking 40 years ago that spoke to labor issues and skill, but the one thing I disagree with is the question, "Is this a risk?" It's not risk; it exists. It's not an "if;" it's there.
How can bakers evaluate which employees are worth investing extra money in training?
Mr. Dearduff: Some bakers bring in temporary workers, put them on a line and tell them, "Watch this go by," or "Watch this fall into this hole." Then, there are other companies that bring in temporary workers who are required to go through safety training and GMP training. They get some job-level training before they go on the line.The training might last a day, or it might last a week. With temporary workers, it's usually no more than a day, but at least, they get that. When they don't get that training, that's when you see more accidents and food safety incidents. And obviously, productivity tanks.
Mr. Kline: Training is important. We talk about it a lot, and we have the resources within the industry, especially with AIB International. Yet we don't make use of those resources. We still haven't gotten to the level of sophistication to really make use of training and to understand the implications of a well-trained workforce. That sort of surprises me.
Is it because of pressure on the bottom line?
Mr. Dearduff: I think so. That's really what it comes down to, but it's shortsighted.
Ms. Cogswell: But employees can't be out of the bakery for weeks to take a course at AIB. That's not possible.
Mr. Dearduff: No, but I remember years ago, we hired a team of people that could go into a bakery and fill a supervisory position, so if you wanted to send someone for training for 16 weeks, you could. But as companies get leaner and leaner these days, how do you take somebody out of the process when you have no one to replace them?
Ms. Cogswell: Years ago, there was a group within Interstate Bakeries called Dolly Madison University, and it provided both internal and external training. However, those departments were cut decades ago.
What influences outside of the baking industry also create cause for concern?
Donna Berry: The fear of miscommunication keeps me up at night, whether it's from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, from GMO freaks or whomever. It's that ignorant person who takes off with an issue, either in the press, on Twitter, Facebook or other media outlets. How do you prepare yourself to respond to those kinds of issues?
Ms. Cogswell: The economic impact from the woman who started the pink slime blog is completely unknown, but we know companies went out of business. At least 600 people worked in one company alone.
Ms. Berry: It's very, very scary. As a communicator, it scares me that I could say something that could be misconstrued and even taken wrong by the industry. In general, not knowing who is going to say what is a horrific fear, and that does keep me up at night, thinking about what that could be and wondering if I am prepared to respond to a blog or tweet.
The baking industry had its Atkins moment, and it did not respond well. We got the Grain Foods Foundation off the ground, but it was still a shock.
Ms. Berry: I attended a presentation that featured three media monitors who get paid to monitor social media, websites, everything that's going on out there. There is a whole force of people at food companies that spend all day reading what is going on. They literally monitor how many hits each topic receives. Then, they have teams to respond.
If companies have such teams in place, they can be a huge asset. Just as food safety is scary, so are the social media. You need to have someone on your communications team who is prepared to respond to anything on social media anywhere that can damage your reputation.
These companies said their websites allow customers to make comments, and they don't remove the negative ones. They have the right to, but they don't because that would actually make it worse. But these companies need to respond quickly with a valid argument. People are allowed to have opinions, especially with products coming back to the marketplace. I encourage bakers to have something in place.
Ms. Cogswell: I think your point is incredibly well taken because today, with social media, your brand could be dead before you even know you have a problem.
Mr. Dearduff: If I sat here all day, I would not have thought of social media being an issue that would keep me up at night, but you all are right on.


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The media in South Africa commemorates the 41st anniversary of the infamous "Black Wednesday" which happened on the 19 October 1977, The World and Weekend World newspapers and several organisations were banned.
We think this day is a good time to reflect on the state of journalism in the country in 2018, especially in light of the recent scandal that has rocked a Sunday newspaper.
We have come a long way to media freedom in this country. Being Africa's oldest community radio station project, which at one stage faced the full wrath of the apartheid government, we feel it is our duty and responsibility to promote accurate and fair reporting.
Bush Radio does not have the resources to be a "breaking news" station, but it is our duty to be accurate and give our listeners an opportunity to make up their own minds. This however can only happen if we present all sides of any argument, through good research and having access to role-players like politicians on a local, provincial and national level – this is proving harder and harder as officials simply refuse to comment or respond to questions from our newsroom and producers.
We call on all role-players who have an interest in improving the lives of the people on the Cape Flats to be accessible, especially to community media who truly speak and represent the people of Cape Town. It is only by engaging on the hard questions that we can truly claim to be improving the lives of citizens – and being a platform where people and audience can engage with political and social leaders. Thereby learning, healing and growing this wonderful city.
As a place where many young journalists start in their careers, we call upon our audience to hold us accountable and engage with us around our reporting and broadcasts.
Background on Black Wednesday:
On this day in 1977 in South Africa, then Minister of Justice Jimmy Kruger, banned The World and Weekend World newspapers by stating that these publications were "publishing inflammatory material that threatened the nation's security" and the paper's editor Percy Qoboza and other journalists were arrested and jailed.
19 organisations were also banned and apartheid critics were detained.
The organisations banned were BPC, SASO, Black Community Programmes, Black Parents Association, Black Women's Federation, Border Youth Organisation, Eastern Province Youth Organisation, Medupe Writers Association, Natal Youth Organisation, National Youth Organisation, SASM, Soweto Students Representative Council, Soweto Teachers Action Committee, Transvaal Youth Organisation, Union of Black Journalists, Western Cape Youth Organisation, Zimele Trust Fund, Association for the Educational and Cultural Advancement of African People of South Africa.
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The historical life of St. Nicholas is shrouded in legend. Born in modern-day Turkey on March 15, AD270, Nicholas was the only child of affluent parents, both of whom died in a plague leaving young Nicholas a very wealthy orphan.
Nicholas was raised in the Christian faith and became an early bishop in the Greek church.
One of many stories concerning the bishop's generosity involves a destitute father, unable to raise a dowry sufficient to marry his three daughters off. On two nights in a row, Nicholas crept up to the man's window and dropped a small sack of gold coins.
On the third night, the man stayed up to learn the identity of his secret benefactor, only to be asked to keep the name, secret.
Saint Nicholas died on December 6 in the year 343. He was entombed in a marble cathedral dedicated to his name, in the Roman town of Myra.
Nicholas is remembered as the patron saint of whole nations and cities such as Amsterdam and Moscow, revered among the early Christian saints and remembered for a legendary habit of secret gift-giving.
Some ideas take hold in the popular imagination, while others fade into obscurity. The "Three Daughters" episode made it into nearly every artistic medium available at that time, from frescoes to carvings and windows, even theatrical performances.
The Patron Saint not only of sailors but of ships and their cargoes, the seas were the internet of the day and the story of St. Nick spread from the Balkans to Holland, from England to Crete.
In time, the Feast of St. Nicholas took hold around December 6. Children and other marginal groups such as old women and slaves could receive gifts, but only by demanding them. Secret gift giving appeared sometime around the year 1200.
On the European continent, legends of St. Nicholas combined with Pagan traditions and developed in quirky directions, including an evil doppelgänger who accompanies St. Nick on his rounds.
As early as the 11th century, the Krampus may be expected to snatch up bad little tykes in parts of Germany, Austria and the Alpine villages of northern Italy, never to be seen again.
In eastern Europe, the witch Frau Perchta "The Disemboweller" was said to place pieces of silver in the shoes of children and servants who'd been good and worked hard over the year. Those who'd been naughty or lazy would be slit open and their organs replaced, with pebbles and straw.
In French-speaking regions, Père Fouettard (Father Whipper) accompanies Père Noël on gift-giving rounds, dispensing beatings and/or lumps of coal to naughty boys & girls.
In some German speaking regions, a malevolent Schmutzli accompanies Samichlaus, carrying a twig broom with which to spank wicked children.
Never mind Santa Claus. The Schmutzli is watching.
In the 13th century, the "Little Ice Age" of led to a proliferation of chimneys. Windows and doors were common objects, often the things of thieves and vagabonds. The chimney was different, a direct pathway to the warm heart of the home. So it was St. Nick made his first gift-giving appearance via the chimney in a three daughters fresco, painted sometime in 1392, in Serbia.
St. Nicholas was beginning to be seen as part of the family outside of the Church, which is probably why he survived what came next. Saints reigned in the Christian world until the 16th century, when the Protestant reformation rejected such "idolatry" as a corruption of Christianity.
Whatever you called him: Sinterklaos, Saint-Nikloi or Zinniklos, St. Nick went away entirely in England and Scotland during the time of Henry VIII, giving way to the spirit of Christmas cheer in the person of one Father Christmas. England would no longer keep the feast of the Saint on December 6. The celebration moved to December 25, to coincide with Christmas itself.
Protestants adopted as gift bringer the Baby Jesus or Christkindl, later morphing into Kris Kringle.
Puritan arrivals to New England rejected Christmas and everything with it, as "un-Christian". In 1644, Massachusetts levied a fine of five shillings, on anyone observing the holiday.
Sinterklaas survived the iconoclasm of the Reformation in places like Holland, transferring to the 17th century settlement of New Amsterdam: what we now know as the new world port city of New York.
Sinterklass blended with Father Christmas to create a distinctly American Santeclaus, which began to take hold in the 19th century.
The Christmas "celebrations" of the period looked more like Mardi Gras than what we know today. Drunk and rowdy gangs wandered the streets of New York, Philadelphia and the cities of the northeast, something between a noisy mob and a marching band. Men fired guns into the air and banged or blew on anything that would make noise. Mobs would beat up the unfortunate, and break into the homes of the "upper classes", demanding food and liquor.
New York philanthropist John Pintard, the man responsible for the holidays celebrating the fourth of July and George Washington's birthday, popularized an image first set forth by Washington Irving, in his satirical story A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, depicting St. Nicholas bringing gifts to good little boys and girls, and switches with which to tan the hides of bad kids.
The unknown genius who published and illustrated A Children's Friend in 1821, first depicted "Santa Claus" not as a Catholic bishop, but as a non-sectarian adult in a fur lined robe, complete with a sleigh inexplicably powered by a single reindeer, coming in through the chimney not on December 6, but on Christmas eve.
An anonymous poem believed to have been written on December 24, 1822 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, began with the words: "T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house"…
"A Visit From St. Nicholas", better known by its first line, gave us the first description of the modern Santa Claus. It was a tool for domesticating the occasion, agreeable to law enforcement for calming the rowdy streets, to manufacturers and retailers for selling goods, to the church to make way for a family friendly day of worship and to parents, for the control of unruly children.
The "Right Jolly old Elf" took his modern form thanks to the pen of illustrator and editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant and scourge of the Tammany Hall political machine which had swindled New York city, out of millions.
The idea of a Mrs. Claus seems to come from a poem by Katharine Lee Bates of the Cape Cod Curmudgeon's own town of Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Today, the author is best known for her 1895 poem "Pikes Peak", later set to music and widely known as "America the Beautiful".
Tonight, NASA may be expected to track Santa and his sleigh drawn by eight reindeer, though none are any longer, all that tiny. Santa Claus will appear around the planet. Regional variations include Santa's arriving on a surfboard in Hawaii. In Australia, he's pulled by six white kangaroos. In Cajun country, Papa Noël arrives in a pirogue, drawn by eight alligators.
Santa Claus is the most powerful cultural idea, ever conceived. This year, Christmas sales are expected to exceed one Trillion dollars. Not too bad for a 2,000-year old saint, best remembered for gift giving with no expectation of anything in return.
Merry Christmas.
Fun fact: Today, the port city of Bari on the Adriatic coast of Italy is remembered for the WW2-era mustard gas accident, which spawned the discovery of modern chemotherapy drugs. A thousand years earlier, city fathers feared growing Muslim influence over the tomb of Saint Nicholas, and went to retrieve his remains. Find him, they did. Saint Nicholas' large bones were removed and brought back as holy relics to Bari where they remain, to this day. Smaller fragments were removed during the 1st Crusade, brought back to Venice or enshrined in basilica from Moscow to Normandy.
The teeth and small bones of the real St. Nicholas are enshrined in over a dozen churches from Russia to France and the Palestinian territories. Some of these cherished relics were believed to reside in St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, in New York City, destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and never recovered.


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A new coaching change has invigorated the St. Pete Raiders U-18 Boys with new players being added to the roster, not only strengthening the roster but making team selection more competitive than ever and further reinforcing an already strong group of players!!
The most exciting news is that the team was accepted into the "Florida Premier State League", which is an Elite League sanctioned by FYSA!
The level of competition will be fierce and we have every confidence in the boys stepping to the plate and performing to the highest level.
Both William Thacker and Tony Paris will co-coach the boys for their final year as "Raiders" before seeing them off to their respective colleges.
Many of these players have been with the club since age 9 so it's a special group with loyalty being the key component from not only the players but the parents as well.
Both Paris and Thacker are gearing this season totally towards college preparation. The players will be acclimated to what college life will be as a student athlete and to the demands they can expect when they walk through the college gates for the first time.
With Paris' 10 years as a college coach and Thackers current activities at Eckerd College as both as a standout player and coach, there is no better team of coaches to guide the boys through the myriad of college life.
The boys have now started the arduous task of fitness testing and will begin their first preseason friendly on Monday July 14th vs West Florida Flames.
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bondage, burden, discerning the spirits, duties, encouragement, entering his rest, freedom, relief, rest, the new self, the old self
To be honest with you, sometimes I would rather write theoretically about any topic I have only heard of than always sharing what I have just experienced with God. If I could talk about another great revelation of sorts, okay, everybody would like to share or read such stories. But another lesson learned through worries, doubts, fears, stress, and suffering? Therefore, what I ask myself often is this, 'Who really wants to read my testimonies about the latter anyway?'… Only those who can relate, I guess.
Nonetheless, I want to keep this entry short. I have been tired and stressed out pretty often lately. Thinking about writing on the internet again did not only give me a big yawn, I even felt repelled to do it. Whether this repulsion proceeds from another dry and empty part of a wilderness journey God has been led me through or simply from a lack of time and interest in describing my own spiritual experiences (which have been not that thrilling lately, either), I don't know. The only thing I know now is that there is a difference between our old nature's rest for our soul and entering God's rest by His grace.
The first kind of rest many of us might know. If you are a perfectionist like me, you might also have a lot of things-to-do-lists, some must-do-lists, and some should-do-lists. My old nature always says, "Susanne, you can rest as soon as everything is done. NOT before!" Do I need to tell you that I am rarely ever done? Even if I worked through one of these lists, I do not need to wait very long until after a certain kind of relief and pride, aka my old nature's 'rest', another task-to-do is awaiting to be done by me. So, what I just saw today as I was so very wrung out by too many tasks clamoring to be done by me (TODAY and NOT one or two days later) was that this kind of rest is essentially bondage. There is no freedom in "You must do or you should do this or that!", or is it? 🙄 Yet where the Spirit of the Lord is, there should be freedom, right? (cf. 2 Cor 3:17)
To cut a long story short, after many quick prayers and having found more quietness of soul through fellowshipping, all of a sudden this burden of hurried thinking and doing dropped down from my heart and mind, so to speak. I can hardly describe this other kind of relief I found then as I realized that a lot of things still have to be done if I do not want to miss the deadline, but I sensed that God was in control. I do not need to control my life anymore although, admittedly, I keep trying every day. And that gets me so worn out, I think. Letting go and letting God handle my life in all its details, that is what I need. Maybe, it is similar for you?
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." (Is 30:15 ESV)
Returning to God BEFORE we plan our days well is key, I believe. And that is NOT easy at all as I know myself. But God is always worth waiting for.
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Mt 11:28-30 ESV)


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Recently I rediscovered Beth Katz, a photo editor I had worked several years ago at Fit Pregnancy Magazine, when she popped up as I was searching for folks to follow on Instagram. Beth has a beautiful, refined sensibility, that is both elegant and calming.
I began following Beth, only to discover that she had begun making the most beautiful ceramics. Every time I saw her feed, I kept thinking, why hasn't she been doing this forever, these are gorgeous?
But that's not how things work, we do things how and when we do them. So now Beth has launched Mt Washington Pottery, and I made a visit to her home in Mount Washington, California to do a studio visit to get a closer look.
Beth's work is almost all white, like her home, which is tucked up into a hillside, surrounded by trees. Thus, this COLOR STUDY, is devoted to her and her work. Enjoy!


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Dave Winer say that we are hamsters.
You say we are calves.
I say that we are the suppliers and the companies are our clients.
p.s. while searching for an answer to your ground conductivity question, I have found something you posted on March 1995 in rec.radio.broadcasting
Pingback from My web is not their web on April 3, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Doc – just as a matter of interest, what Google considers to be your "social circle" can be found at http://www.google.com/s2/search/social#socialcircle when you are logged in. It seems to be a very comprehensive data aggregation (good or bad, depending on your viewpoint) and is currently under-utilised by Google, a situation almost certain to change soon ("+1" being something of an indication of Google's intentions for "social")
If you imagine all your contacts interacting (which some of them are) and having their own networks (which all or most of them do) then you might be interested in our paper, "The Cultural Impact of Mixed, Dual, and Blended Reality." In it, we introduce the concept of PolySocial Reality (PoSR), multiple rapidly compounded realities. Its a problem, no doubt.
Hey, you say tools for integrating your all your contacts and social stuff don't exist, but my HTC desire hd let's me do this, in fact its brilliant at it, the auto complete for addresses and numbers is merged from all of my sources including my official work address server.
a few questions/comments:
Wouldn't integration of all your disparate social network accounts mean that you'd lose freedom and independence? I keep separate accounts not for privacy or lack of integration, but for intended segregation for dedicated purposes.
You mention that you have too many contacts in too many different accounts. Isn't your frustration caused more by the empty promise of the social web instead of your multiple contacts? You used to have a great resource with the Compuserve network, and one would think "more is more" but the social web doesn't exactly come to the rescue when we need specific, "one-off" bits of information like your ground conductivity answer.
The next generation doesn't seem to burdened by owning many large networks on different platforms. They are masters at making groups with differing privacy levels. Also, I suspect, they will learn how to navigate the current clumsy search engines in order to find the obscure webpage they need.
The "scarily accurate" results are just a drop in the bucket. The AI that is coming down the pike will show us truly how hard it will be to delineate between calf and cow.
-Christine Cavalier
I couldn't agree more about the point of the "user" actually being more a supplier. I wrote a fairly company-specific article suggesting remedies on a micro-scale for XMOS – one of the UK's fast-growing chip startups:
Pingback from The Personal Web – On the road to Bandol on April 5, 2011 at 7:01 am
"The message I'm bringing is not about how these companies can improve the cow systems everybody has done so much to build and improve already. It's about how buyers and sellers are no longer just cattle, and how we now need to prove something we've known all along: that free customers are more valuable than captive ones."
I always thought the message was more like "one volunteer is worth ten conscripts" – so here's how to get the cattle to want to *give* you the milk.
Look, why are those companies going to listen to you if they don't think they're going to make money off it? That seems pretty obvious. It'd be nice if they were going to be dedicated to making money while respecting our individual and special uniqueness. But you keep acting like you're surprised when that's not quite how it turns out.
Maybe "surprised" is not quite the right word. But there seemed to me a certain emotion (rueful? melancholy?) in passages like:
"Second, what makes Spam or Trash "conversations"? I'll go to my grave being known as the main guy responsible for the "markets are conversations" meme, but usage like this makes me regret it."
"Sorry, but no. My Web is not their Web. I'm tired of being shown. I'm tired of "experiences" that are "delivered" to me. I'm tired of bad guesswork — or any guesswork. I don't want "scarily accurate" guesses about me and what I might want."
"I want liberation from the commercial Web's two-decade old design flaws. I don't care how much a company uses first person possessive pronouns on my behalf. They are not me, they do now know me, and I do not want them pretending to be me, or shoving their tentacles into my pockets, or what their robots think is my brain. Enough, already."
You major fame rests on (my phrasing!) conflating the commercial sphere with the social sphere – that's the vulgar (in the sense of crude) meaning taken from markets-are-conversations. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, I suppose you'll say. However, you write stuff like the above that strikes me as protesting against the most obvious and immediate consequence of it. And then when I ask why the same process won't happen with the further project – as it seems pretty easy to see it going down the exact same path – well, maybe I'm just prattling on about things I should know just show my unsophistication.
Pingback from Web 3.0, The Cloud, and Vendor Lock-In on April 8, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Insightful and well stated.
Some people prefer backpacking (a wilderness experience) and some people prefer to go to a resort (a curated experience). Preferences will vary across time and across individuals.
If you drop a pop up ad in front of me when I'm trying to go backpacking, you're just going to piss me off.
Hey dude
Been busy doing small acts in a town which needs help. Here they still think SEO is marketing and that ANY job (typically working for an ERM SW company or metal bending or grinding entity) is better than nothing at all.
We've got to capture the energy and insights of "the Haves" and get them to help "the Have Nots."
So yes – I'm helping folks get integrated with Facebook – not because I want them locked in, but because if they can learn on-line job skills – they might be able to feed their families.
Meanwhile – eventually – I believe that Google +1 can be our "open Lego board" – we've always dreamed of. certainly if Google had any sense, and all those employees want their X-Mas '11 bonuses – then they'll help US mesh into THEM.
Pingback from Harold Jarche » Are we awake? on April 11, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Doc thanks for this post – long-time fan here.
Wasn't there a big context-change for the web soon after it was opened for commercial use? I recall when reading TBL's proposal (after the fact, admittedly … it was about 1992 for me) that the assumption was most folks in that community would have read/write access to the http layer … the original browser was also a publishing tool. Alas, it made more sense for the browser/publisher not to also be the server daemon … but it was probably a nominal distinction back then (?)
I've always felt the web has a certain DNA that is geared for peer-to-peer, at least in spirit … but maybe that's just a romantic notion on my part?
Pingback from Marc's Voice » Mid-April blogging '11 on April 13, 2011 at 10:17 am
I'm not sure that the "cow and calf" metaphor entirely fits, but one thing's clear: "social networking" is, for the most part, bull.
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"Usually I'm looking for something very specific, and often what I'm looking for is not for sale."
+1 (heh)
I miss the early ("static") web because search engines actually found information, instead of linkbait, splogs and tangentially relevant retailers. The web was smaller, so it may not have had the answers, but you had a fighting chance because opinion was largely relegated to USENET. Not so much today. Wikipedia is proof that the social web can drown information in a crap-flood: we really need it, and we really shouldn't.
An absolutely brilliant post, sir. This issue seems to be keeping me up at night, much more often. The whole effort out there to "personalize" my web experience, tinged with commerce, makes me feel that someone is looking over my shoulder. In a world full of people that know so much, why would I want to constantly rely on those who are my "+1" crowd? And yes, I still have an actual dictionary on my desk. Totally old school.
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18 years ago I was given the greatest gift of my life.
A second chance
I know the value of my life and continually appreciate it, no matter how 'tough' things may get. Today is my rebirthday.
On September 15, 2001, someone made an attempt on my life.
I'll admit it. Before that fateful day, I was just as jaded, jagged and miserable as many other human beings who occupy this earth are.
I was always pissed off at the world. I continually wanted to know when the universe would stop shitting on me. I bitched at everything and everyone. My temper roller-coastered like it was my full-time job. I had your typical bad luck, bad girlfriends, bad relationships, bad jobs, etc, etc.
Yeah, I was a mean ole' cuss. I can't say 'positivity' was part of my repertoire. I was going nowhere fast, and I just couldn't seem to get a leg up. I was simply treading water.
Then someone tried to kill me.
I needed someone to try and steal my most prized possession (my life) for me to truly appreciate its merit.
Yes. You read that right.
I first blogged about it in 2008 (hard to believe). Every year I re-share the original blog post. It's cathartic for me and my loved ones. It's important to me because I want the reminder. I want to remember and never forget my gift.
And I'd like you to have the reminder too because life is fleeting.
Let me tell you a story (in the original words that I wrote several years ago)…
It's been 7 years.
This time of the year always has a special place in most of America's hearts. September 11, 2001 is a date none of us will soon forget. It changed the face of our nation and impacted our world in a way none of us could have ever imagined. Emily (crzegrl) shared here views of how it impacted her.
At the risk of diminishing or making that day any less than it really was. This time of the year has a very different meaning for me. I do remember September 11th. I do remember what I was doing that day. I do remember how I felt and how the world around me changed. But it's not what is in the forefront of my mind.
September 15, 2001
My Re-Birthday.
It's been 7 years.
It was a Saturday. (Yes I remember it that well)
There was a time in my life when I was not active in healthcare (It was a short time). I had stepped away from the healthcare setting and returned to my career in retail. Retail had helped pay my way through college, and then it was the way to put food on the table after college was over. My career in healthcare wasn't paying the bills, and retail was a better option (at the time).
It was a typical Saturday night. I was one of the midnight managers on duty. Part of my responsibility as a manager was to hold the night-shift meeting with the over-night employees.
This particular night we decided to have an open forum concerning the difficulties people may or may not be having with the current state of affairs. The terrorists attacks were affecting everyone, and we wanted to let our employees know we cared.
I can't say I remember how it happened.
I can't say I was prepared for it.
It happened in time 'slices'.
I was talking with the over-night group of employees. It was me in front of approximately 20 others. Half-way through the meeting and in mid-sentence I can vaguely remember an 'itching' or 'biting' feeling on my neck.
It wasn't anything out the ordinary. I chalked it up to one of the bodily aches or pains I have no explanation for. (Like when I get a shooting pain in my finger that comes a goes in a matter of 7 seconds)
It got more quiet. It was like I could only hear the fans of the air conditioning running. I guess the only way to explain it… is things seemed to slow down.. immensely. Like the slo-mo option on a VCR/DVD player.
I don't know what happened next. Or should I say I don't know which came first. The banshee-like shrieking screams or the shadow of a person coming out of my left peripheral vision. All I know is that it was a startling moment.
The Scream.
The Shadow.
And I reflexively look to my left.
I remember saying to my self, "Hmm, why is Jane (we'll call her Jane for identity purposes) standing so close to me. She should be sitting out in the crowd with the rest of the group."
She's now advancing towards me. "What is she doing?"
Her left arm is raised in the air. I think she's going to take a swing at me. So out of reflex, I block her left arm. I block her arm with my R arm and grab her swinging arm with my L hand. Then I grasp her swinging arm with both hands.
I can't quite figure out why she's trying to hit me?
Another handful of screams.
Through the tussle and wrestling of her arm I realize my hand is full of blood??? In fact I have blood on both my hands?
"OK. Who's blood is this?", I blurt out with a sense of sarcasm.
… ??
More screams.
… ??
Wait a minute.
What's that in Jane's hand?
Is that..?
No way.
Wholly SH#T. Jane has a knife in her hand.
"The blood is YOURS! She cut your throat. Your bleeding from your neck!!!!!!", a voice from the crowd cries out hysterically.
Now, I'm no idiot. I know the inner workings of the human body. I'm pretty well versed in what anatomical structures are located in the neck.
I know I'm still breathing. I'm not chocking. Not having any trouble moving air.
At the same time Jane is tackled by a single employee from behind. Then another, then another. And then more. It takes close to 5 people to get her down.
I put my hand on my neck.. and sure enough … nothing but blood.
Yep. It's a true story. I was attacked from behind with a swiss army knife by an employee of mine, in front of approximately 20 people. She sliced my neck almost from ear to ear.
Here are the finer points of the story:
– she used a very dull and old swiss army knife
– she did not use the blade side of the knife and drag it across my neck to cut me. She used the knife in a stabbing motion and scraped the tip of the knife across the length of my neck
– she never spent a night in jail. She had a psychiatric evaluation. Her medications were adjusted. And that's the last thing I was told (Please don't ask.. I don't know what the heck happen concerning her lawful conviction)
– Yes, I have a Keloid scar that has taken 7 yrs to slowly diminish on my neck. (The intent of the ED physician was to use the smallest/thinnest suture possible so to NOT leave a scar, and it did the exact opposite)
-The only entertaining piece of all this was that when the 911 call was made. All the EMS arrived expecting to see a decapitated man. And I mean ALL of the EMS. For the small town I was in, I think I counted 4 Ambulances and 6 marked Police and 2 unmarked Police cars.
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about that day. It changed my life. We always whine and complain about some of the most ridiculous things in life that seem so very important at the time. Everything from being late for work, being stuck in traffic, having to wait in line in the grocery store, having a poor wait staff wait on you at the restaurant, or having to sit in coach for a 4hr flight… the list is endless. Everyone hates having a bad day.
I touched on my theory about life and how bad your day really was in a previous blog post: Blinking & Breathing, I can't complain.
I'm not perfect. I do have stress in my life. I do have those 'Pull out your hair' moments and those "all I wanna do is scream" moments. But I'm always grounded and reminded by my profession and by my past that maybe you and/or I not having THAT bad of a day.
September 15th is my Re-Birthday. I was given a second chance at life. For some strange reason, I survived that incident. I will never know why. I questioned it for a long time, and never got the answer I wanted until I realized there was no answer. I'm here. I'm staying here. I'm not going anywhere. And while I'm here, I'm making the most of my stay.
Here's what scares me sometimes when I think about my attack.
As an employee for the retail store I worked for, each employee is issued a box cutter. The only reason I'm still here is because Jane had bad aim, and a dull swiss army knife.
What if she would have used the box cutter instead of her swiss army knife?
I don't have bad days anymore.
Carpe Diem
Fast forward…
In 2013 we moved to a new city. With the move came new friends. When my face was still new, I had a friend comment on my 'positivity' and being 'always happy'. I told her there was a story behind my obsessive passion for being happy, but that I'd explain it to her later. I shared this post with her.. (Thanks, Allison).
This is the reason I'm always positive. Why I greet every morning with my:
"Gewwwwwwd morning"
I get to be here another day.
Many great things have happened to me since that scary day.
I became a registered nurse, I met and married my soul mate, and now I'm working as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, a job I truly love.
I'm here. I'm staying here. I'm not going anywhere. And while I'm here, I'm making the most of my stay
I'm not too sure where I'd be today had I not gone 'under the knife' so-to-speak. I can admit that I wouldn't have the abundance of happiness I possess now.
What I do know is that I took a tragic, frightening and possibly life-paralyzing event and turned it into something positive. Positive for me, and hopefully positive for anyone who's around me.
This might sound a bit cliche'… or it might sound a bit phony…
but I needed someone to try and steal my most prized possession (my life) for me to truly appreciate its merit. And for that, I couldn't be happier.
I continue to value the gifts I've been given. I've met more amazing people both online and in person. Every so often I take my life for granted by complaining a lil' too much, but I still cherish every second I'm still here.
Thank you all for being a part of my life.


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Benson, Lisa Julie (2007) Antique photographic paper, Gathering light and time in my studio and during composite realities. Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and Photography, Centre of Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
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Exhibited in Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and Photography. This exhibition presents new works by Australian and international artists who use photography in combination with other components including: paint, site, time, light, to address questions regarding perception, memory and being. The exhibition is informed by the following considerations: 1 The concept of the Composite: Henri Bergson defined the composite as a construction / model where things different in kind are reconciled through our experience over time ( duration). The composite artwork therefore embraces ideas of complexity and multiplicity, allowing for different conventions and materials to coexist within singular works and for shifting contents to become apparent over the time of viewing. 2 The use of a visual language informed by Non objective art, Conceptual and performative practices in order to raise questions concerning the nature of photography as an object/language/experience in the world i.e. what a photograph is as well what it is of. 3 The need to make works which explore how photography mediates our interrogation, construction and perception of the real amid the world. The exhibition will be responsive to the conditions of CCP. Given the ambition of the project and the substantial nature of the works, we wish to use the whole of CCP with the exception of the education gallery, in order to give each artist appropriate space and scope to explore the above issues in original ways. Many works function in series, or require space between them. The above issues although pertinent to much contemporary practice have been little explored in the Australian context. Curated by Dr David Thomas (RMIT).
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NEW: In a confidence vote, Italy's lower house confirms the new prime minister's government
Enrico Letta was sworn in Sunday, the same day a gunman shot officers outside his office
Letta has said unemployment and political reform are top priorities
Italy has an 11.6% unemployment rate
After months of political uncertainty and economic crisis, the lower house of Italy's parliament gave Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new government a vote confidence on Monday.
Letta received support from lawmakers in a 453-153 lower house vote. Lawmakers in the upper house, the Senate, are scheduled to vote on Tuesday.
Letta was sworn in on Sunday – the same day a gunman shot and wounded two national police officers outside the prime minister's office.
But Letta was being sworn in at the presidential palace a short distance away and was not present at the time of the shooting, state-run news agency ANSA said.
Italy has been hampered by political uncertainty since February, when elections left none of the candidates with enough support to form a government.
Letta, a center-left politician, has 18 ministers – two of whom are members of the center-right People of Freedom Party led by three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Nearly all the others are members of Letta's Democratic Party or people close to it.
Letta said last week that the most important priority is tackling the country's 11.6% unemployment rate, which has pushed many young Italians to leave the country.
The second most pressing issue facing Italy is the need for political reform, he said.
Constitutional changes are needed to reduce the number of members of parliament and fix an electoral system that has kept the country locked in a political stalemate it can't afford, he said.
"We need to do this together with the largest participation possible," he said.
He also said the European Union's policy of austerity needs to change.


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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's defense didn't settle for just beating Missouri.
The Bulldogs added to their growing collection of shutouts with a late goal-line stand.
Jake Fromm threw two touchdown passes to George Pickens and No. 6 Georgia posted its third shutout, dominating a Missouri offense missing two of its biggest playmakers in a 27-0 victory Saturday night.
Georgia (8-1, 5-1 Southeastern Conference, No. 6 College Football Playoff) moved closer to its third straight berth in the SEC championship game. The Bulldogs can clinch the SEC East by beating No. 12 Auburn next week.
"It will be a big game, and our players have an opportunity to be at their best when their best is needed," said Georgia coach Kirby Smart.
Missouri (5-4, 2-3) fell to 0-4 in road games with its third straight loss. Quarterback Kelly Bryant and leading receiver Johnathon Johnson did not play.
Bryant's status had been in doubt due to a hamstring injury suffered in a loss at Kentucky two weeks ago. He participated in pregame warmups and then watched as backup Taylor Powell and Connor Bazelak led the offense.
Powell played the full game before Bazelak, a freshman, led the Tigers to their only red-zone appearance late in the game.
Bazelak, playing in only his second game, led the Tigers to the Georgia 1. Bazelak's passes on third and fourth down from the 4 were incomplete.
The Bulldogs have three shutouts for the first time since 1981. Georgia remains the nation's only FBS team to not allow a rushing touchdown this season.
Smart said his players were "all kind of chopping at the bit at the end to make it tough to score. ... I thought they showed some competitive character there at the end with that stand."
The Bulldogs bolstered their claim as the league's top defense. Georgia leads the SEC in total defense , rushing defense and scoring defense.
The Bulldogs held the Tigers to 198 yards and 11 first downs, including only five through three quarters.
Missouri coach Barry Odom said the Bulldogs are "better up close and in person."
"I knew they were good, but I think they're a little bit better than they may get credit for nationally," Odom said. "Georgia is as good and as solid as a team as I've gone against in a long time."
Johnson was held out due to an illness. Odom said he expects Bryant and Johnson to play next week.
Georgia also lost its top receiver when Lawrence Cager hurt his shoulder making a 30-yard catch late in the first half. Cager had six catches for 93 yards before the injury.
Between Pickens' touchdown catches of 25 and 18 yards in the first and fourth quarters, respectively, the Bulldogs relied on Rodrigo Blankenship's four field goals.
Missouri: Without Bryant and Johnson, the Tigers couldn't generate consistent offense. Powell completed 10 of 22 passes for 84 yards with an interception. Larry Rountree III led Missouri with only 24 yards rushing on nine carries. Bazelak completed 8 of 12 passes for 64 yards.
Georgia: Following an emotional win over Florida, the Bulldogs showed good poise by avoiding a letdown. Facing the SEC's top pass defense, Fromm was not as efficient as usual. He completed only 13 of 29 passes for 173 yards with no interceptions and two touchdowns. D'Andre Swift had 12 carries for 83 yards, including a 47-yarder.
Following No. 5 Penn State's loss to No. 13 Minnesota and No. 2 Alabama's loss to No. 1 LSU, Georgia may move up at least one spot in the next AP Top 25.
Georgia had to play three centers. Starter Trey Hill was helped off the field with a left ankle injury in the first quarter. Right guard Cade Mays moved to center before he suffered an apparent right leg injury early in the fourth quarter. Jamaree Salyer took over as the third center of the night.
"That's tough," Fromm said. "That can kind of get on you mentally. I was a little bit worried there, but our guys did a good job."
The Bulldogs also lost right tackle Isaiah Wilson to an undisclosed injury in the fourth quarter. Smart said none of the injuries were believed to be serious.
Missouri: The Tigers face another top 10 SEC rival when they play No. 10 Florida next Saturday.
Georgia: The Bulldogs will play their sixth straight SEC game when they visit No. 12 Auburn next Saturday. Georgia has won the last two games in the series.
More AP college football: https://apnews.com/tag/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25


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As many of you know we recently began selling our newest board game, Cargo Noir. We've been testing, playing, designing and readying this game for publication for many months and feel strongly it is one of our best – so it's exciting to finally see it getting into the hands of others.
A core game play aspect of Cargo Noir is bidding for the right to earn cargo tokens from different ports. You work to collect either matching tokens (all the same), or different tokens (all different). It seems that many who have tried, or even worse taught, the game – have been picking up their "different" tokens randomly, not realizing that the rules explicitly state that they need to be "each of a different type".
While this may seem like a small, even trivial difference, when you play a game with so few rules as Cargo Noir (about on par with Ticket to Ride), it is essential you play all the rules as designed and written. Otherwise things can – and often will – go horribly wrong.
While the easiest response would be to just shrug our shoulders and say, "Come-on folks, read the d**n rules!" – it's ultimately our job to make sure that it's clear how to play the game and it appears we didn't emphasize this well enough. In hindsight, we should have highlighted this rule and given additional examples. We were wrong and that is our fault. We will address this in future reprints, and in an upcoming downloadable version of the rules, to make sure it is crystal clear for everyone.
So, we hope you get the chance to play Cargo Noir and judge for yourself on whether it is a game for you. And if you do, remember that when you trade in different types of Cargo, EACH Cargo token must be of a different type.
One final note: We've been getting complaints that some of the Cargo Noir token bags are tearing and ripping. We've already asked our manufacturer to remake new reinforced Token bags that will be made available free to anyone who has a torn bag. Details on how to order your free replacement bag will be posted on our website in April.
Thanks – happy gaming and smuggling,
The Days of Wonder Team
PS: In the early days of Ticket to Ride, almost the exact same thing happened. One guy rated the game really poorly on BGG, harping on how that game was totally broken. He had mistaken the word "Train Cars" for "Train Cards", played the game for 2 turns, claiming a green route and declaring the game over (in Ticket to Ride, the game ends once you have 2 Train Cars left in reserve or less, not 2 Train Cards). We reworded the rules to prevent any further confusion; we have not had an issue since!
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June 6
1919 — Man o' War wins his first race, a 5-furlong contest over a straightaway at Belmont Park. The 3-to-5 favorite wins by six lengths, covering the distance in 59 seconds.
1924 — Cyril Walker captures the U.S. Open with a three-stroke victory over Bobby Jones.
1936 — Granville, ridden by James Stout, wins the Belmont Stakes by a neck over Mr. Bones. Bold Venture, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, does not run in the race.
1946 — The National Basketball Association is founded at the Commodore Hotel in New York.
1981 — Summing, ridden by George Martins, wins the Belmont Stakes, spoiling Pleasant Colony's Triple Crown bid.
1987 — Bet Twice, ridden by Craig Perret, breezes to a 14-length victory in the Belmont Stakes to deny Alysheba the Triple Crown. Alysheba is a distant fourth.
1987 — West Germany's Steffi Graf, eight days shy of her 18th birthday, becomes the youngest women's champion of the French Open when she beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 4-6, 8-6.
1998 — Real Quiet is denied the Triple Crown when Victory Gallop edges him at the wire in the Belmont Stakes.
1999 — Andre Agassi rallies to win the French Open and become the fifth man to complete a career Grand Slam. After losing the first two sets, Agassi surges back to beat Andrei Medvedev 1-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Agassi won the 1992 Wimbledon, 1994 U.S. Open and 1995 Australian Open.
1999 — Juli Inkster wins the U.S. Women's Open with a 16-under 272, the lowest 72-hole score in the championship's 54-year history.
2007 — The Anaheim Ducks capture the Stanley Cup with a 6-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators, ending the series in five games.
2007 — Trevor Hoffman becomes the first major leaguer with 500 career saves when he closes out the San Diego Padres' 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2010 — Rafael Nadal wins his fifth French Open title and avenges his lone Roland Garros defeat, beating Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Nadal improves to 38-1 at Roland Garros, with the only loss to Soderling in the fourth round a year ago.
2011 — The Bowl Championship Series strips the Southern California Trojans of their 2004 title, leaving that season without a BCS champion. BCS officials vacated the championship after the Trojans were hit with heavy NCAA sanctions last year for rules violations committed during the 2004 and '05 seasons.
2015 — American Pharoah leads all the way to win the Belmont Stakes by 5½ lengths, becoming the first horse in 37 years to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. The bay colt, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Victor Espinoza, is the 12th horse and first since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Triple Crown.
2015 — Serena Williams overcomes a mid-match lull and a third-set deficit to win her third French Open title and 20th major singles trophy by beating Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2.
2015 — Tiger Woods hits a new low with the highest score of his career — an 85 in the Memorial at Muirfield Village, the course where he has won eight times. Woods ends his front nine of the third round with back-to-back double bogeys and finishes with a quadruple-bogey 8.
June 7
1930 — Gallant Fox, ridden by Earle Sande, wins the Belmont Stakes by three lengths over Whichone, becoming the second horse to capture the Triple Crown.
1941 — Whirlaway, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, becomes the fifth horse to win the Triple Crown by capturing the Belmont Stakes by 2½ lengths over Robert Morris.
1952 — One Count, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, wins the Belmont Stakes by 2½ lengths over heavily favored Blue Man.
1969 — Arts and Letters, ridden by Braulio Baeza, ends Majestic Prince's bid for the Triple Crown with a 5½-length victory in the Belmont Stakes.
1980 — Temperance Hill, a 53-1 long shot ridden by Eddie Maple, wins the Belmont Stakes by two lengths over Genuine Risk.
1986 — Danzig Connection, ridden by Chris McCarron, wins the Belmont Stakes by 1¼ lengths over Johns Treasure to give trainer Woody Stephens his fifth straight Belmont win.
1995 — Hakeem Olajuwon's tip-in with .3 seconds left gives Houston a 120-118 overtime win in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Houston, trailing by 20 points in the first half, are led back by Kenny Smith, whose Finals record seventh three pointer sends the game into overtime. Orlando's Nick Anderson's misses four free throws in the 10.5 seconds in regulation that allows Houston to stay in the game.
1998 — Utah breaks the record for fewest points in an NBA game since the inception of the shot clock, losing 96-54 to Chicago in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. It's the highest margin of victory in NBA Finals history. Utah's 54 points break the NBA-record of 55 set earlier in the season by Indiana.
2004 — Ruslan Fedotenko scores twice, including the critical first goal, and the resilient Tampa Bay Lightning hold off the Calgary Flames 2-1 in Game 7 to win their first Stanley Cup.
2006 — New Jersey becomes the first state to institute a statewide steroid-testing policy for high school athletes.
2008 — Da' Tara spoils Big Brown's bid for a Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes. Da' Tara, a 38-1 longshot ridden by Alan Garcia, goes wire-to-wire winning by 5 1/4 lengths over Denis of Cork and covers the distance in 2:29.65. Big Brown, the 1-4 favorite, is eased up in the homestretch by jockey Kent Desormeaux finishing so far behind at the end that his margin of defeat isn't even charted.
2009 — Roger Federer completes a career Grand Slam, winning his first French Open title. Federer wins his 14th major title to tie Pete Sampras' record by sweeping surprise finalist Robin Soderling 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4.
2014 — Maria Sharapova wins her second French Open title in three years, overcoming some shaky serving to beat fourth-seeded Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4 in the final.
2014 — California Chrome fails in his bid to win the first Triple Crown in 36 years, losing the Belmont Stakes to long shot Tonalist. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner finishes in a dead-heat for fourth with Wicked Strong.
2015 — Stan Wawrinka beats Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to win the men's French Open title. Wawrinka, who beat No. 2 Roger Federer in the quarterfinals, ends No. 1 Djokovic's 28-match winning streak in the final.
June 8
1935 — Omaha, ridden by Willis Saunders, becomes the third horse to win the Triple Crown by capturing the Belmont Stakes with a 1 1/2-length victory over Firethron.
1950 — Boston beats the St. Louis Browns 29-4 at Fenway Park, and the Red Sox set six major league records: most runs scored by one team; most long hits in a game with 17 (nine doubles, one triple and seven homers); most total bases with 60; most extra bases on long hits with 32; most runs for two games with 49 (20 a day earlier); and most hits in two games with 51.
1958 — Mickey Wright beats Fay Crocker by six strokes to win the LPGA Championship.
1980 — Sally Little wins the LPGA Championship by three strokes over Jane Blalock.
1985 — Creme Fraiche, ridden by Eddie Maple, becomes the first gelding to win the Belmont Stakes, beating Stephan's Odyssey by a half-length.
1986 — Larry Bird scores 29 points to lead the Boston Celtics to a 114-97 victory over the Houston Rockets and their 16th NBA title.
1990 — The "Indomitable Lions" of Cameroon pull off one of the greatest upsets in soccer history, 1-0 over defending champion Argentina in the first game of the World Cup.
1991 — Warren Schutte, a UNLV sophomore from South Africa, shoots a 5-under 67 to become the first foreign-born player to win the NCAA Division I golf championship.
2000 — Mike Modano deflects Brett Hull's shot at 6:21 of the third overtime, ending the longest scoreless overtime game in Stanley Cup finals history and helping the Dallas Stars beat the New Jersey Devils 1-0 in Game 5.
2005 — Freshman Samantha Findlay hits a three-run homer in the 10th inning to lead Michigan to a 4-1 win over UCLA for its first NCAA softball title.
2008 — Rafael Nadal wins his fourth consecutive French Open title in a rout, again spoiling Roger Federer's bid to complete a career Grand Slam.
2008 — Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes the first rookie in 10 years to win a major, beating Maria Hjorth on the fourth hole of a playoff with a 5-foot birdie on the 18th hole to win the LPGA Championship.
2013 — Serena Williams wins her 16th Grand Slam title and her first French Open championship since 2002, beating Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4.
2014 — Rafael Nadal wins the French Open title for the ninth time, and the fifth time in a row, by beating Novak Djokovic 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4. Nadal improves his record at Roland Garros to 66-1, and stretches his winning streak at the clay-court major to 35 straight.
2015 — The NCAA approves multiple rule changes to men's basketball for the 2015-16 season, including a 30-second shot clock and fewer timeouts for each team. The shot clock was last reduced, from 45 to 35 seconds, in 1993-94.
June 9
1888 — James McLaughlin sets the record for most number of wins by a jockey in the Belmont Stakes, six, when he rides Sir Dixon to a 12-length victory. McLaughlin's record is matched by Eddie Arcaro in 1955.
1899 — Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzsimmons in the 11th round in New York to win the world heavyweight title.
1934 — Olin Dutra edges Gene Sarazen by one stroke to win the U.S. Open.
1940 — Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by three strokes in a playoff to win the U.S. Open golf title.
1945 — Hoop Jr. wins the Kentucky Derby, which is run one month after a national wartime government ban on racing is lifted.
1973 — Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, wins the Belmont Stakes in record time to capture the Triple Crown. Secretariat sets a world record on the 1½-mile course with 2:24, and a record for largest margin of victory in the Belmont, 31 lengths.
1978 — Larry Holmes scores a 15-round split decision over Ken Norton for the WBC heavyweight title in New York.
1979 — Coastal, ridden by Ruben Hernandez, spoils Spectacular Bid's attempt at the Triple Crown with a 3¼-length victory over Golden Act. Spectacular Bid finishes third.
1985 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores 29 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 111-100 victory over the Boston Celtics and the NBA title in six games.
1990 — Monica Seles becomes the youngest winner of the French Open, beating two-time champion Steffi Graf 7-6 (8-6), 6-4. Seles is 16 years, six months.
1991 — In the first all-American men's final at the French Open since 1954, Jim Courier rallies to beat Andre Agassi 3-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 for his first Grand Slam title.
1993 — Patrick Roy makes 18 saves and the Montreal Canadiens capture their 24th Stanley Cup, beating the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 in Game 5.
1995 — The Houston Rockets set NBA records with their seventh straight playoff road victory and their ninth road win of the playoffs, beating Orlando 117-106 in Game 2 of the NBA Finals.
2001 — Jennifer Capriati beats Kim Clijsters 1-6, 6-4, 12-10 to win the French Open, her second consecutive Grand Slam title.
2003 — The New Jersey Devils end the Anaheim Mighty Ducks' surreal season, winning the Stanley Cup with a 3-0 victory.
2007 — Justine Henin claims her third consecutive French Open title and fourth overall, taking advantage of 19-year-old Ana Ivanovic's nervous play to win 6-1, 6-2. Henin is the first woman since Monica Seles in 1990-92 to win three consecutive Roland Garros titles.
2007 — Rags to Riches, a filly ridden by John Velazquez, outduels Curlin in a breathtaking stretch run and won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first of her sex to take the final leg of the Triple Crown in more than a century.
2008 — Ken Griffey Jr. becomes the sixth player in baseball history to reach 600 homers with a drive off Mark Hendrickson in the first inning of the Cincinnati Reds' 9-4 victory over the Florida Marlins.
2010 — Chicago's Patrick Kane sneaks the puck past Michael Leighton 4:10 into overtime, stunning Philadelphia and lifting the Blackhawks to a 4-3 overtime win in Game 6 for their first Stanley Cup championship since 1961.
2012 — Maria Sharapova wins the French Open, defeating Sara Errani 6-3, 6-2 in the final at Roland Garros to complete the career Grand Slam.
2012 — Manny Pacquiao tries to turn his welterweight title fight with Timothy Bradley into a brawl, but it is Bradley who won a split decision to end a remarkable run by the Filipino fighter. Bradley wins 115-113 on two scorecards, while losing by the same margin on the third.
2013 — Rafael Nadal becomes the first man to win eight titles at the same Grand Slam tournament after beating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the French Open final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.
2013 — Inbee Park birdies the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with Catriona Matthew to win the rain-delayed LPGA Championship.


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I never thought to question the "official story" regarding the death of Jimi Hendrix. However, the older I get I realize that just about everything we hear from "official" sources is bunk. Last week in his podcast, Talk is Jericho, former WWE Star Chris Jericho, interviewed Richard Syrett. They discussed little known anomolies surrounding the death of the greatest guitar player of all time, Jimi Hendrix.
The "official" cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates causing Hendrix to choke on his own vomit.
Here are some of the anomolies:
- Red wine was in Hendrix's lungs and hair but not in his blood. (Waterboarding?)
- Jimi didn't drink red wine according to his friends.
- James "Tappy" Wright was Jimi's road manager
- Mike Jeffery was Jimi's manager and a "former" British MI-6 assassin. I put former in quotes because I'm not sure anybody is ever a "former" member of an intelligence agency.
- Jeffery was a very controlling manager. He is even suspected of planting drugs on Hendrix so he'd get in trouble and could then ride to his rescue.
- Hendrix was unhappy with Jefferey's management and his contract with Jeffery was set to expire in a few months; Hendrix was unlikely to re-sign with him.
- Jeffery had borrowed heavily from New York Mobsters to finance the building of Electric Land Studios in New York.
- Jeffery had a life insurance policy on Hendrix.
- Hendrix was staying at a hotel with his girlfriend Monika Dannemann. However, Hendrix was found dead, alone in his room.
The theory, as relayed to Richard Sayrett by James "Tappy" Wright, is that Monika Dannemann slipped something to Jimi, so he'd pass out (barbiturates). She then goes out to get cigarettes and in comes the wet team lead by the "former" MI-6 agent/assassin Mike Jeffry, who waterboards Hendrix with red wine, essentially drowning him.
Mike Jeffery's motive was to collect on the insurance policy to re-pay the mob the money he borrowed to finance Electric Land Studios.
On March 2nd, 2018 Rock-n-Roll Twilight Zone podcast, Richard Syrett played interview he had with Tappy Wright and Tappy says that Jeffery later admitted to him that he had killed Hendrix.
The one thing that I don't get is what was Dannemann's motive for assisting in the murder? I don't get her motive unless she was threatened.


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Security researcher took over airplane systems via inflight tech
Security researcher Chris Roberts apparently told the FBI that he had successfully hacked into an airplane's inflight systems numerous times over the last four years and took control of engine functions, according to a search warrant filed in court last month. Agents said that Roberts told them he hacked into in-flight entertainment systems by connecting an ethernet cable to an electronics box under the airplane seat in front of him, and issued a command that caused the aircraft to climb.
Apple still trying to get mapping right, buys a startup
Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation to give its mapping services a boost, the New York Times confirmed after MacRumors reported the deal. Apple has been working to get mapping right since it moved away from relying on Google Maps, but has suffered some detours on the way.
License plate readers worried FBI lawyers, documents reveal
As license-plate-reading technology spreads and huge databases are built up across the U.S. that could be used to track innocent people's movements, it emerges that the FBI had its doubts, at least for a while. Wired reports that the FBI's lawyers recommended that it stop buying the devices in 2012. Seems that the moratorium was temporary, though.
Just click 'buy'—coming soon to Google search results
Google will include a "buy" button in its search results on mobile devices in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. Google will let shoppers store payment information, and products will still be sold and shipped by retailers. Macy's is apparently in talks to sign on to the program.
Alibaba sued over sales of luxury counterfeits
Alibaba is facing a lawsuit in New York federal court brought by luxury brands that are alleging the Chinese e-commerce giant is deliberately promoting fakes on its online marketplace. Attorneys for Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and Yves Saint Laurent say that Alibaba is knowingly helping an "army of counterfeiters" by directing consumers to their products when it's obvious that they aren't offering the real deal.
ARM moving fast on next high-end chip
ARM is in the advanced stages of development of its next high-end processor, and it could reach mobile-device makers by the end of next year. The company's designs are used in most of the world's smartphones and tablets, and its speedy development work reflects both the intense pressure to get new products to market quickly, and heightened competition from Intel.
European telcos split on sanity of blocking Google's ads
After some European mobile service providers were reported last week to be considering a scheme to block Google's mobile ads across their networks in a ploy to force the search giant to share revenue, a few other big carriers have stepped forward to say the plan is ill-conceived. Both Deutsche Telekom and Swedish operator TeliaSonera said they would not engage in the plan; a representative of the latter pointed out that Google's apps and services drive traffic, and data consumption, and tangling with it doesn't make sense.
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Sony's smart light bulb does more than illuminate the scene—it also sets the mood with music. Check out this demo from Tokyo.
One last thing
SAP's latest campaign promises to make ERP simple, but customers turn to the vendor to solve complex problems. Can its new initiative succeed?


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Court of Appeal commutes kidnapping charge for 3 men
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THREE men including a businessman were sentenced to seven years in prison by the Court of Appeal today on a reduced charge of abducting a five-year-old boy with intention to wrongfully confine him almost seven years ago.
Deputy public prosecutor Nahra Dollah informed the three-member panel of judges that the prosecution had accepted the trio's oral representation to amend their charges.
The panel – comprising Justices Hanipah Farikullah, Ahmad Nasfy Yasin and Nordin Hassan – subsequently convicted and sentenced Siow Kek Keong, Riduanshah Yahya and Mohd Saifulamry Jarkasi to seven years' imprisonment.
Siow, 52; Riduanshah, 40, an Indonesian; and Mohd Saifulamry, 35, a lorry driver; were initially charged under section 3 (1) of the Kidnapping Act 1961.
The charge was amended to abduction with intention to wrongfully confine the boy under section 365 of the penal code.
The maximum sentence for kidnapping is death, while the charge under section 365 is punishable with imprisonment of up to seven years and a fine, on conviction.
In November 2019, Shah Alam High Court sentenced the three men to life imprisonment and two strokes of the rotan after they were found guilty of kidnapping the son of a contractor for a RM300,000 ransom at the roadside in Jalan Seroja, near Taman Setia, Sungai Chua, Kajang at 9.26am on October 9, 2015.
Lawyers Geethan Ram Vincent, Belinda Low Siet Wan and S.S. Seelan, representing Siow, Riduanshah and Mohd Saifulamry respectively, in mitigating, said their clients were remorseful and promised not to commit the offence again.
Geethan Ram said the victim was unhurt and almost all the ransom money was recovered.
Nahra said the three had served six years and nine months in prison, which was adequate since the maximum sentence for the offence under section 365 is seven years.
She also asked the court to take into account that the offence committed by the three involved a five-year-old child.
Geethan Ram told the media that his client would be released from prison today, taking into account one third remission of the prison sentence.
According to the facts of the case, the boy was abducted when his mother dropped him off at a kindergarten. The boy was returned to the family after the father paid the ransom money. – Bernama, July 4, 2022.


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Enjoying my Funemployment with a beer sitting outside on a beautiful warm Summer NYC day at the Bryant Park Cafe patio bar!
Yupper, I have had some major life changing developments over these past few weeks, and I now have some free time on my hands to fill my days, but that is a blog post for another time. As for now let's just say that I'm taking some much-needed "me time" and exploring my options. Why not do it while enjoying what the city has to offer during the terrific weather we have been blessed with lately? Beer me baby! Continue reading Bryant Park Cafe & Bar – an outside oasis in NYC.


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The calendar says summer doesn't begin for a couple of weeks, but don't tell that to the folks at Philmont.
Summer has arrived at the New Mexico high-adventure base. The first weeklong conference at the Philmont Training Center started yesterday.
And later this week, the first crews will begin their journey into Philmont's legendary backcountry.
Here's a look at the numbers:
- 2,100 crews will take a trek at Philmont this summer.
- 22,700 Scouts and Scouters will be on those treks — that's the most in Philmont's history.
- 50 miles is the length of the shortest 10-day trek, though most crews will add side hikes to increase their mileage.
- 110 miles is the length of the longest 10-day trek.
- 1,070 staff members will help make sure these participants have the trip of a lifetime.
- 3,000 Scouters are registered for one of the center's excellent training conferences.
Speaking of those training conferences, there's still time to register for one for this summer. Simply contact the Philmont Training Center to find out more information.
But let me offer a word of warning to those planning a visit: Go to Philmont once, and you'll be hooked for a lifetime!


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"Time Running Out To Ensure Sustainable Prosperity For All." That was the headline of a recent press release issued by the Worldwatch Institute. (You can read it here.). It provides some eye-opening insight into what anti-capitalist, anti-modern technology, and environmental alarmists are thinking.
For instance, Worldwatch points to the amount of resource consumption by the world's middle and upper classes, and laments the increase in people expected to join those consumer classes in the future. According to the release, "The planet can't maintain such increases in resource demand without serious consequences for both people and ecosystems. We must act quickly to redefine our understanding of the 'good life' and redouble our efforts to make that life sustainable."
The following statement describes these people's thought process and vision – "The Industrial Revolution gave birth to an economic growth model rooted in structures, behaviors and activities that are patently unsustainable," says Michael Renner, Worldwatch senior researcher. "Mounting ecosystem stress and resource pressures are accompanied by increased economic volatility, growing inequality, and social vulnerability. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the economy no longer works for either people or the planet."
I've been chastised in the past for mentioning that such groups want to remake our society, but their own words bear this out: "Instead, we need to reprioritize basic needs and pursue true sustainable prosperity: development that allows all human beings to live with their fundamental needs met, with their dignity acknowledged, and with abundant opportunity to pursue lives of satisfaction and happiness, all without risk of denying others in the present and the future the ability to do the same. This, in turn, means not just preventing further degradation of Earth's systems, but actively restoring them to full health."
The release points to the upcoming United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development, which is taking place in Rio de Janeiro in June, as a means to move the global economy in their direction. There's a lot of talk about green economies, sustainable development, and poverty eradication leading up to this conference. If you're not familiar with the underlying meanings, it translates into decreased lifestyles and consumptive patterns for the developed world; a rejection of capitalism; income redistribution; and a framework that punishes developed modern economies in an effort to bring them in line with the developing countries of the world.
These groups continue to use the fear tactics of the environmental movement, which call the very existence of humanity into question. But, increasingly, the focus is on changing our consumer culture, our priorities, and even our definition of what is sustainable.
What's sobering is that these folks clearly believe they must not only change our lifestyles, cultures, and beliefs, but fundamentally recreate our political and economic systems to enforce their vision of sustainability. It's sobering to read their broader goals, which go beyond creating a "green" economy. They openly talk about "degrowth" (reducing the standard of living) in developed countries, and "demarketizing" (government seizing control) of certain sectors of the economy, including food production.
Meanwhile, "sustainable transportation" equates to moving people to the cities and eliminating automobiles in favor of mass transport, or better yet walking. They call for the reinventing of the corporation, which includes "shifts in their purpose, ownership, capital investment and governance." Basically, it means socialism.
They call for more power, more money and more control; currently, they're striving to increase the power of the UN Environment Program (UNEP). And they advocate strict policies for eliminating population growth. They're also looking to punish consumerism through taxation, and encourage industries and products they consider green and sustainable. They openly seek more government oversight of the economy, and call for food security and equity, which translates to an elimination of industrial meat production.
In fact, the president of Worldwatch makes it clear, "We know enough right now about the state of the world to see clearly that we have to change the way we live and the way we do business."
At times, those of us in production agriculture are so focused on feeding the world, providing a safe and abundant food supply, and contributing to a higher standard of living that gives all people an opportunity to succeed and better their lives and the lives of the next generation, that we forget there are those who actively seek to redefine not only our economy and culture, but our very values. If we are to prosper and be sustainable, we must actively fight these attempts.
Right now, they may represent a minority view, but they're doing everything possible to wrap their anti-capitalist, anti-meat, anti-modern agriculture views around the protective cloak of environmentalism. In doing so, they openly aim at taking control of the levers of power and force their vision upon the world.


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Our success in naval base management has mainly been attributable to the concept of a 'one-team' approach, where Babcock and its customers work together within a partnering framework against Key Performance Indicators.
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Sometimes you just see a nail polish and know it's going to be a classic. Such was the case with OPI's Warm & Fozzie.
Part of OPI's 2011 Muppets Holiday Collection, Warm & Fozzie was part of the first wave of mainstream interesting foil-metallic-shimmer-duochrome-awesomesauce finishes, that in my world at least was kick-started with Chanel's Graphite (possibly my most referenced nail polish ever – I just can't get enough of it!). Since then, we've seen loads of polishes with a similar finish in the same metallic colour family (including Butter London's Wallis and Estee Lauder's Nouveau Riche) but I still hold a soft spot for one of the originals!


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