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Rita Ora Rips Through 'R.I.P.' in Red at 2012 MTV EMAs
The always adorbs Rita Ora opened the 2012 MTV EMAs on Nov. 11 by ripping through her song 'R.I.P.' while dressed head-to-toe in red lace.
The event was held in Frankfurt, Germany, and Ora, with red lipstick on her pout and bouncy blond curls on her head, wore an ear-to-ear smile the entire time she performed. Since Ora is based in Britain, Europe is her overall base of operations, and she was the queen of the night, rightfully so.
Ora didn't merely waltz onto the stage. Instead, she was perched high above it and was eventually lowered to the ground in a giant, gilded birdcage, which fits the song's lyrics about being set free and about saying goodbye to the girl she used to be. The 'How We Do' singer stepped out onto the stage in a red lace catsuit, with her name embroidered in gold on the back, and red sneakers. She was surrounded by male and female dancers throughout the fiery performance.
Ora even held up an umbrella while sparks rained from the sky towards the end of the perf. She had to protect her locks, which were likely loaded with tons of products which can make follicles more flammable.
Once again, Rita Ora delivered a scorching number amid a ton of pyrotechnics and looked sexy while doing it.


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Ok everyone, on 3. 1, 2, 3!
2. Conversations happen around social objects.
3. Social objects are products or services that are remarkable.
4. Remarkable is not just something special, but something worth being remarked about.
Ok, with this in mind, last night as my house mate and I stalked people on Facebook, my shiny, tiny god was in my room and having been for a run I was feeling very lazy, so I grabbed her obelisk of a laptop and logged in.
As soon as the page loaded I was greeted with the below screen – and apologies to anyone whose privacy has been invaded, particularly those who now are forced to acknowledge they know me in real life – advising me the browser I was using was IE 6 and my Facebook experience may be compromised by this fact.
Now, I don't actually log in to Facebook all that often these days, it has worn a tad thin for me. In this though I thought there was a great point to be made about the things you can and should do for the people who use your services or products. It is so easy for Facebook to know what browser I'm using and to suggest upgrades or alternatives (for the record, I use Firefox on my own machine). WHat are the other ways service just happens because people no longer need to ask, they just do?
– The cafe across the road knows I only ever drink long blacks, so they just make them, they don't ask
– My favourite wine bar knows I don't drink sweet wines, so they don't suggest them when I go in
– My favourite record store knows the music I like, but they also know enough to suggest things outside my radar
Those three examples rely on a human remembering and caring enough to act. So if you're in a service industry and there are things you can automate, letting the technology take care of the service so you can do the things requiring a human, what is stopping you? Oh, I just realised I left one of the most important things off my list at the top:
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Tebow: I never asked out of wildcat
Tim Tebow has been criticized for years about his quarterback skills, his arm and how he throws.
He refuses to accept anyone calling him a quitter or phony.
The New York Jets backup quarterback insisted Wednesday that he didn't ask out of running the team's wildcat plays last week, but acknowledged what he said in a meeting with coach Rex Ryan might have been misinterpreted as such.
"I never said, `Hey, I don't want to do anything or I won't do anything,"' Tebow said. "That wasn't the talk at all. He knows that, and everybody on this team knows that. I'd never not do something if I was asked, and I think that's what's disappointing about the whole situation, people saying, `You quit,' or, `You didn't do this.' It was not it at all.
"It was just me asking to get an opportunity to play the position I love, which is quarterback. It wasn't me asking out of anything."
Last Tuesday, Ryan chose to go with third-stringer Greg McElroy over Tebow in place of the benched Mark Sanchez for Sunday's game against the San Diego Chargers. After hearing the news, Tebow went to Ryan to discuss the situation and told him he wanted to be "a regular quarterback."
"I was definitely disappointed and frustrated," Tebow said.
ESPN New York first reported Sunday that Tebow had then asked out of the wildcat, and a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed that to The Associated Press. But Tebow thinks it was a situation in which he wishes he was "more clear" when he initially spoke with Ryan.
Tebow realized that Ryan might have misinterpreted what he said when they met when he wasn't in wildcat packages during practice Wednesday and Thursday, and then sat down with the coach last Friday to clear the air.
"I just asked for an opportunity to play quarterback and he definitely understood that," Tebow said, "and then Friday, I went up to him again and reiterated that, `Hey, I'll do anything for this team like I have all year."'
While Ryan never confirmed or denied the reports, the coach said, "If I would have asked Tim to play in anything, Tim would have gone into the game and done that."
Tebow never played in the Jets' 27-17 loss to the Chargers, as wide receiver Jeremy Kerley handled the majority of snaps in the wildcat package.
More than anything else, Tebow said, he's most disappointed by the attacks on his character and reputation during the last few days – adding that his Christmas "wasn't the best" because of all the talk about how he let his team down.
"When people talk about how you play football and how much, that's one thing," Tebow said. "That really doesn't bother me. I think the only thing that's been disappointing these last few days and frustrating is people saying, `Oh, you quit on your team or you're not a good teammate.'
"For people to not know the situation and then start to bash your character and then say you're a phony or you're a fake or you're a hypocrite, I think that's what's disappointing and that's what's frustrating. Your character is who you are as a man, and that's a lot more important."
Tebow later added: "You work your whole life to build a reputation, and then people try to bring you down when they don't understand even what happened. It's disappointing."
Miami center Mike Pouncey, who played with Tebow at the University of Florida, walked through the Dolphins' locker room Wednesday saying: "Free Tim Tebow!"
That has been the sentiment among Tebow's many supporters, yet the popular backup has had a minimal role in the Jets' offense. He hasn't played a snap in four of the last five games, partially due to him recovering from two broken ribs, but he hasn't been the dynamic addition the Jets expected him to be. New York will either trade or release Tebow after one season.
When asked if he wanted to return to the Jets next season, Tebow said: "I'm looking forward to this game vs. Buffalo, and we've got to pull together and get a win."
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, especially from a guy who repeatedly said he was "excited" to be a member of the Jets when he was acquired from Denver last March.
"It's hard for Timmy, man," Pouncey said last week. "Timmy is a great player. He's a great friend of mine. I wish him nothing but success, and I know he's going through a hard time right now. I had the opportunity to talk to him after our last game and you could tell that he was upset and sad that he wasn't the starting quarterback up there. But I know that once he gets his opportunity he'll do the best he can.
"If the opportunity is not in New York with the Jets, it will be somewhere else. He's a guy who is never going to give up on anything, and I know he wants to be a starting quarterback in this league. And that day will come again for him."
Notes: CB Antonio Cromartie and S LaRon Landry were selected to the Pro Bowl as backups on the AFC roster. It's the first time the Jets are sending two defensive backs – and it comes in a year in which star CB Darrelle Revis was lost early in the season with a knee injury. "When Revis went down, it speaks volumes to what guys took on and made sure everyone was being accountable," Cromartie said. "And our back end doing what they were supposed to do." Landry is the first Jets safety to go to the Pro Bowl since Erik McMillan went in 1988-89. LT D'Brickashaw Ferguson is a second alternate, while C Nick Mangold and KR Joe McKnight are third alternates.


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It's been quite some time since I took part in an ACAC (ambigram.com ambigram challenge), but this time I was tempted again. It was quite an elaborate challenge with seven different categories (read all about it here) and I submitted three different designs for three different categories – and they all won!
So here are the ambigrams:
Number 1: "Dan Chan", rotational ambigram
This one was quite easy because I could build upon an older design of mine, but I like it very much for its readability.
Number 2: "Amazing Grace", rotational ambigram
It took some time until I came up with the "z/G" solution, but after that it all came naturally. I'm very happy for the consistent style, especially the lower case "a"s.
Number 3: "Bian Lian", rotational ambigram
My favorite. "Bian Lian" is the ancient chinese art of quick face/mask changing and I wanted to incorporate that into the design. I made a color version first, but the black and white version is much better from a graphical point of view.
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Universal Music Group
Consumer Web • Music
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation, & entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, & audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Junior women's tennis player Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) has been named Georgia College Athlete of the Week, as announced by the sports information office Tuesday afternoon.
Barksdale was a bright spot for the Bobcats this week, going a perfect 2-0 in singles action while splitting her pair of doubles matches.
In GC's 9-0 victory over West Georgia, she was dominant in a 6-0, 6-0 rout of Kelly Arsenault at the second singles slot after pairing with Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio (Paris) in an 8-0 win at the top doubles position.
Barksdale then picked up the Bobcats' lone victory in an 8-1 loss to Brenau University, taking down Hannah Thompson 6-1, 6-1 at the fourth singles slot.
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The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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(Reuters) - American world number four Brandt Snedeker, the hottest player on the 2013 PGA Tour, has pulled out of next week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona because of sore ribs, organizers said on Tuesday.
Snedeker, who clinched his second victory in his last six starts on the U.S. circuit with a win at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday, has been receiving treatment on his ribs since last month's Humana Challenge.
"I certainly will miss competing in the Accenture Match Play Championship, and I really do appreciate what Accenture does to make that one of the premier events on our schedule," FedExCup champion Snedeker said in a statement.
The 32-year-old, who is on holiday this week with his family in Hawaii, hopes to return to PGA Tour action for the March 7-10 WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral.
Snedeker, whose sizzling run of form dates back to the Tour Championship in September when he also landed FedExCup honors, first experienced soreness in his left rib cage during the January 17-20 Humana Challenge.
After receiving extensive treatment, he suffered no pain during the Farmers Insurance Open and Phoenix Open which followed, finishing second in both events.
However, the soreness returned during last week's Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, where Snedeker triumphed by two shots, and he has been advised by his doctor to rest as much as possible.
Snedeker has played in five events on the 2013 PGA Tour, winning once and recording three other top-three finishes.
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This Indenture made this
20th Day of June in the Year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, between Isaac Smith
of Boston in the County of Suffolk and State of the Massachusetts-Bay, Esqr.
on the One Part; and Scipio Dalton a Negro-Man (who now
lives and for some years past has lived with the said Isaac, in the
Capacity of a Servant in his Family) on the Other Part --
Witnesseth that the said Isaac Smith on Condition of the
true and faithfull Performance of certain Services hereafter
to be performed for a certain Time, which the said Scipio in
his Part of the Covenant hereinafter contained, hath
promised and engaged to perform; Hath Covenanted and
agreed, and by these Presents doth Covenant and agree with
him the said Scipio in manner and form following,
that is to say, that he the said Isaac Smith Esquire his Heirs
or Assigns shall and will on the twentieth Day of June, which
will be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one,
Give and grant unto him the said Scipio his Freedom,
with full Liberty to depart from his Family and Service if
he shall so incline, and he the said Scipio shall be from thence-
forth considered by him the said Isaac Smith as free from any
further Obligation to serve him the said Isaac or his Heirs or
Assigns or any Person claiming or to claim under him or them.
And the said Scipio Dalton on his Part, doth by
these Presents Covenant and agree with the aforesaid Isaac
Smith Esquire in manner and form following, that is to say,
That he the said Scipio will well and truly serve him the said
Isaac Smith, in the doing the usual Business of his Family
with chearfulness and fidelity without murmuring, or contradict-
-ing the just and reasonable Orders of him the said Isaac or his Wife,
for and during and unto the full end and Term of two Years
from the Day of the Date of these Presents; and that during the
whole of said Term of two Years as aforsaid, he the said Scipio
will behave himself in all respects towards his said Master and Mistress
and the whole Family, as a good and faithfull Servant ought to do.
Particularly that he will not at any Time when he is sent out on
Errands stay longer than he ought to do -- that he will not at
any time go out on Evenings into Company without Leave from his
Master or his Mistress therefor, and that when he has obtained such
Leave, he will not stay out so late as to keep up the Family beyond the
usual Hour of Bed-time, but will come home in proper season so as not
in any way to disturb the Family -- that he will get up early in the Morning and make the Fire -- and that he will behave himself
during the whole of the said Term of two Years abovementioned, with
Sobriety and good Temper, agreeable to the true intent and meaning -- of
And the said Isaac Smith on his Part doth further covenant
agree with the said Scipio Dalton as follows, that is to say, That if
he the said Scipio shall well and truly perform his Part of the Coven-
-ant and Agreement above contained, that then and in that Case he
the said Isaac Smith will not only give him the said Scipio good and
sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel and Washing and Lodging during the
aforesaid Term of two Years, but will also at the end of said Term
give him, together with his Freedom, one Suit of such Clothes as shall be proper for
working Days, and another Suit of Clothes proper for him to wear on and suitable for him.
And it is further agreed by and between the said Scipio
and Isaac Smith, that if he the said Scipio shall wilfully and know-
-ingly fail in, and neglect the Performance of his Part of the Covenant
and agreement herein before contained, and shall persist in the same,
that then and in that Case the Covenant on the Part of the said Isaac
Smith as herein before contained, shall be void and of none effect,
otherwise to be in full force and virtue.
In Witness whereof the Parties to these Presents
have hereunto sett their Hands and Seals interchangeably, the
Day and Year first above written
Signed Sealed and
Delivered in the
Presence of us
Suffolk: ss Decr: 24th 1779.
Then Isaac Smith Esqr. and
Scipio Dalton Subscribers to this
Instrument personally apeared and
acknowledged the same to be their free
Act and Deed --
And whereas by a law of the late
province now State of Massachusetts=Bay made in the Second
year of the Reign of Queen Ann intitled, "An Act relating to
Molatto or Negro Slaves" it is enacted, that no Molatto or Negro
Slave shall be manumitted, discharged or sett free untill suf=
=ficient untill sufficient Security be given to the Treasurer of the
Town or Place where such person dwells, in a Valuable Sum, not
less than fifty pounds: to secure and indemnify the Town or
place from all charge for or about such Molatto or Negro to be
Manumitted and set at liberty, in case he or she by sickness, lameness
or Otherwise be rendered uncapable to support him or herself
And as the aforesaid Isaac Smith may hereafter be oblidged, by
Virtue of the above recited Law, to take upon himself the Care and
charge of the said Scipio Dalton when Sick or otherwise disabled
after he shall have given him his Freedom, in the Manner here=
=before Expressed. And whereas the said Scipio Dalton, is ready and willing
as much as in him lies, to guard and secure the said Isaac Smith from
any such future charge or loss that may arise on Account of his Sickness
and agree with him the Said Isaac Smith in Manner and form
following, that is to say: That if in any future time after
the twentieth day of June one thousand seven hundred and Eighty
one (when he is to have his Freedom) he the said Scipio shall
by force of the aforesaid law, be thrown on the said Isaac or his
Heirs to be supported and taken care of at his or their Expence
that then and in that case He will repay such Expence, if it
shall be in his power either by working for him or them so
long as shall be a just and equitable equivalent and satis=
-faction for such care and Expence or in such other way as he
may be able to repay the same
In Witness whereof the said Scipio Dalton
hath hereunto sett his Hand and Seal this twentieth Day of
December in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy nine.
Signed Sealed and
Delivered in the Pre-
sence of us.
Suffolk. ss. Decr 24th 1779.
Then Scipio Dalton, Subscriber to the
above Instrument, personally appeared
and acknowledged the same to be his free
Act and Deed.
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Fall 2006
September 29 & 30 Drawing at the Well: The Sacred Feminine: A Weekend Retreat at the Doubletree Hotel, Rohnert Park, CA. Sponsored by the Vicki Bailey Lecture Series in Depth Psychology
Our culture, with its emphasis on outer-directed activity and material pursuits, has fallen out of contact with the deep wellsprings of the sacred feminine. Primordial source of creative, abundant life energy that centers and grounds us, men and women alike, the sacred feminine provides us with a natural home for our beings. Accessing the sacred component of this grounded feminine being leads us all into new dimensions of loving connectedness, joy, and service. Our communities, our country, our earth, call out for this today.
This two-day retreat is designed to offer multiple glimpses into how the sacred feminine is an energy that can be accessed by everyone, explored, and activated in our lives.
Virginia Beane Rutter, M.S. The Archetypal Paradox of Feminine Initiation
The archetype of initiation embedded in a modern woman's psyche is one of conflict between negative and positive cultural attitudes toward being female. In this presentation the negative side of the conflict is represented by the classical Greek practice of initiating girls into womanhood through service to the virgin goddess Artemis. That service reflected the demeaning Aristotelian culture of misogyny, the attitude that women were inferior to men in every way. By contrast, in the Navajo Kinaalda puberty ceremony the girl is transformed through becoming Changing Woman, her people's creator. In the context of her matrilineal culture, she is said to be "walking into beauty" and the ritual is thought to renew the whole tribe.
As a woman moves into the initiatory archetype in psychotherapy, she confronts these opposing forces in her psyche. Dream elements appear that reflect images from these ceremonies in unique ways to each woman. The self works to resolve the conflict and guide a woman along the path to individuation. Slides will be shown to illuminate the images and clinical work.
Virginia Beane Rutter, M.S. is an analyst member on the teaching faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has a private practice in Mill Valley. Her writing includes the books Woman Changing Woman, Celebrating Girls, and Embracing Persephone.
Maureen Murdock, M.A., M.F.T. Evolution of the Image of the Divine Feminine
If we believe, as Jung did, that the whole history of the human race is in some ways always alive in the psyche, we can psychologically reclaim images of the Divine Feminine, which is an eternal archetype within all of us. She has shown herself to us from the earliest times of our civilization, in cave paintings and primitive sculptures, in the great mythologies, and appears in many guises in our present cultures. She is part of the fabric of our very being. In this slide lecture we look at images of the Divine Feminine throughout recorded history to remind us of how she is alive within us today.
Maureen Murdock, M.A., M.F.T., is a depth psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco. She was Chair and Core Faculty of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and currently teaches in the Depth Psychology Program at Sonoma State University. She is the author of the best-selling book, The Heroine's Journey, as well as the newly revised Fathers' Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; and The Heroine's Journey Workbook. She edited an anthology entitled Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life and her books have been translated into 11 languages. She gives lectures and workshops internationally.
Carol Lee Flinders, Ph.D. Outbreaks of the Sacred Feminine
When the Mother is provoked beyond all patience, say the myth and mystery traditions of the world, she barrels up out of the depths of the earth and sets things straight -- feeds the hungers, and repairs the broken web of life. She may appear as Kwan Yin, or Spider Woman, but she can also embody many times over, as women who look for all the world like ordinary human beings until you follow them around for a day and watch them work small miracles.
Diverse, vivid, and compelling, the life stories of women like Jane Goodall, Tenzin Palmo, Etty Hillesum, and Sister Helen Prejean yield powerful insights into what each of us can do to unleash the healing forces within ourselves and experience the sacred feminine first hand. We will reflect on these stories as resources and precious roadmaps for our own life journeys, and we will practice a form of meditation that is deeply consonant with them.
Carol lee Flinders, Ph.D, is an independent scholar and lecturer. She has taught at U.C. Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union and is presently a fellow with Santa Clara University's Spirituality and Health Institute. A director of the newly formed Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Religion, she is currently teaching at the Sophia Center at Holy Names University in Oakland. Co-author of the bestselling Laurel's Kitchen cookbooks, she has written extensively on women's spirituality. Her books include Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics; At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual hunger and a Feminist Thirst, and Rebalancing the World. Her latest book is Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action.
Richard Stein, M.D. Initiation as Surrender: A Twelve-Year Analysis
This presentation is based on the analysis of a middle aged man with chronic pain whose dream life included a series of stories and images related to the Crucifixion and the healing of the Messiah. The archetypal material blends with the personal and transference work in a beautiful way to demonstrate the archetype of initiation, as described by C.G. Jung and Joseph Henderson. The case material will be elaborated with the theoretical understanding of this type of process along with the amplification of the dreams.
Richard Stein, M.D is a Jungian analyst who has been practicing in SanFrancisco for the last 30 years. He is on the training faculty of the San Francisco Jung Institute, where he teaches regularly in the public programs and candidate seminars. This presentation will be based on the chapter he wrote for an upcoming publication of papers presented at a public program in San Francisco honoring the work on initiation by Dr. Joseph Henderson.
Robert J. Hoss, M.S. Dream Language
This presentation reviews the language of dreams and how the dreaming brain speaks a coherent, understandable language of association that is bizarre only to the waking mind. We will learn a Gestalt-based Image Activation technique which lets your unconscious speak through the dream imagery, to reveal hidden feelings, conflicts, fears and desires that may be holding back your progress in life. This is followed by a Jungian-based closure technique designed to recognize and work with the compensating message in your dreams that projects your personal path to wholeness. Finally we discuss the subliminal effect of color and the role that specific colors play in adding an emotional dimension to your dream imagery.
Bob Hoss, M.S. is the author of Dream Language and is Executive Officer and former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. As a scientist with training in Gestalt therapy, he has been teaching dreamwork for over 30 years and is on the faculty of the Haden Institute for dream leadership training, and the adjunct faculty of Scottsdale College in Arizona. He frequently appears on radio and television.
Philip Novak, Ph.D. Jung's Psychology in the Light of John Hick's Philosophy of Religious Pluralism
In recent decades few thinkers have been more important to the field of global philosophy of religion than the Englishman, John Hick. The ideas first systematically presented in his seminal An Interpretation of Religion have now exerted a worldwide influence. This seminar places key aspects of Hick's philosophy of religious pluralism into dialogue with the ideas of C. G. Jung.
This seminar addresses six areas: Introduction: a note on global theology; naturalistic vs. religious interpretations of religion: Jung as a religious interpreter of religion; the Kantian turn (Hick and Jung on the limits of human knowing); the common psychological structure of the great religions; the question of method: the classical yogas and Jung's dream yoga; goodness and wholeness: ethical and psychological views of the ends of human development.
Philip Novak, Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Program in Philosophy and Religion at Dominican University of California where he has taught for 25 years. He is the author of The World's Wisdom (1994), an anthology of the sacred texts of the world's religions, The Vision of Nietzsche (1996), an anthology of the writings of the noted German philosopher, and The Inner Journey: Views from the Buddhist Tradition (2005). He is the co-author with Huston Smith of Buddhism: A Concise Introduction (2003), and has published numerous articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular journals
Spring 2006
Eric Thompson, M.A. Biblical Creation Stories and the Mythic Imagination
This seminar surveys Biblical creation myths with selective attention to a few of them. We will regard the Garden of Eden, with its interesting insights into the human condition, and Proverbs 8, which arguably contains the remnant of a Hebrew Goddess, Hokmah (Greek: Sophia), as a consort and co-creator with Yahweh. We will explore the potential in these texts to relate to depth psychology.
Eric Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate, is Instructor of Religious Studies in the Humanities Department at Santa Rosa Junior college. He has published and presented on the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and its various historical contexts; and comparative mythology and mythopoesis, its social function and religious institutionalization. He received the NISOD Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005.
Virginia Beane Rutter, M.A. The Villa of Mysteries: Cultivating the Vine of Life
Our discussion last fall focused on the archetype of Dionysos in ancient Greece, the image of his mask , his energy of possession and healing and its implications for clinical work. Today's seminar will take up the question of how we draw from his indestructible life stream, to vitalize our individual, characterized lives instead of our egos being obliterated by Dionysian energy. The Romans gave the god his due in the form of a ceremony that contained the potentially overwhelming energy of the archetype. This ceremony is depicted in the intense, colorful frescoes from the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii and has been interpreted as the initiation of a midlife woman into the cult of Dionysos. We will investigate the meaning it holds for both men and women. Please bring an altar object, and/or a dream or poem that speaks to this material for you so that we can express our individual ways of honoring this god of paradox.
Virginia Beane Rutter, M.S. is a Jungian analyst practicing in Mill Valley, California. She received her analytic training in both Zurich and San Francisco and holds M.A. degrees in Art History and Counseling Psychology. Her study of ancient myths and rites of passage through art history and archaeology is mirrored in her clinical work. She is the author of Woman Changing Woman: Feminine Psychology Re-Conceived Through Myth and Experience; and two books on parenting girls, Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters, and Embracing Persephone: How To Be the Mother You Want for the Daughter You Cherish. She is currently writing about Artemisian initiation.
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Eudora Welty exhibit on display at MSU Libraries
"Eudora Welty: Mississippi Daughter," an exhibit in conjunction with Mississippi State University's Maroon Edition, is on display on Mitchell Memorial Library's 2nd and 3rd floors through December 2011 and highlights the literary career of Mississippi's much-honored author.
Historian and author Hunter McElva Cole of Brandon, collected thousands of Welty items, beginning with his early work on a Welty bibliography, and through that work Cole and Welty developed a friendship that continued through their association at Millsaps College. This new MSU Libraries exhibit showcases letters, manuscripts, photographs, interviews, speeches, published works, articles, and memorabilia collected by Cole.
Included are personal and revealing Welty letters to Cole concerning her use of the name "McElva" for the character "Judge McElva" in The Optimist's Daughter, first published in The New Yorker in 1969.
As eecutive director of the Mississippi Writers Association, Jo Barksdale of Jackson, planned and carried out a Eudora Welty Festival in 1995 and also spearheaded an effort to purchase Welty's childhood home on Congress Street and make it into a writer's center. Photographs and other materials concerning the Welty celebrations in Jackson from the Barksdale Papers are also represented in the exhibit.
The collection of Noel Polk of Starkville, professor and author of the most comprehensive bibliography of Welty works, contains many unique Welty-related pieces, including autographed books, journals, programs, interviews, and other memorabilia. On exhibit are selected Polk Collection items, including foreign language editions of Welty works.
The Maroon Edition Committee is particularly pleased to include exhibit materials documenting Welty's connections with MSU. A program and clippings document the selection of Welty as Outstanding Mississippi Woman by the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1983. Also loaned to this exhibit by Nancy Hargrove are photographs and an autographed volume of short stories from Welty's 1987 MSU visit for a symposium sponsored by the Giles Distinguished Professors.
As part of the exhibit, MSU Libraries' Special Collections Department, located on Mitchell Memorial Library's third floor, features a "Browse Eudora Welty Editions" shelf.
"We want visitors to be able to handle and appreciate some of the beautiful printed Eudora Welty items, such as greeting cards, keepsake editions and special editions of Welty photographs and writings," said Manuscripts Coordinator Mattie Abraham. Visitors to Special Collections can also "Listen to Eudora Welty" via audiotapes of The Optimist's Daughter, several short stories and interviews, and videotapes of Welty readings and special occasions.
For additional information on the Welty exhibit, please contact Abraham at 325-3848. For hours of operation and more information on MSU Libraries, please visit http://library.msstate.edu/.
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Joe sez: If you've missed the previous guest blogs, they've been fascinating and informative.You can read G.E. Nolly's fifty year journey as a writer here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-ge-nolly.html
You can read Kevin Hardman talking about Amazon ranking here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-kevin-hardman.html
You can read Mark Terry talking about his publishing journey here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-mark-terry.html
You can read Jeff Schajer talking about his thrillers here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-jeff-schajer.html
You can read Lisa Grace talk about movie options here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-lisa-grace.html
You can read Brandilyn Collins talking about dialog subtext here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-brandilyn-collins.html
You can read Katherine Sears talking about Booktrope:
You can read Kevin Hardman talking about Amazon ranking here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-kevin-hardman.html
You can read Mark Terry talking about his publishing journey here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-mark-terry.html
You can read Jeff Schajer talking about his thrillers here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-jeff-schajer.html
You can read Lisa Grace talk about movie options here:http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-lisa-grace.html
You can read Brandilyn Collins talking about dialog subtext here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-brandilyn-collins.html
You can read Katherine Sears talking about Booktrope:
And now here's Richard Denoncourt...
First off, I'd like to give a big thanks to JA Konrath for giving me this opportunity. I gave his novels a shot one day and found not only a treasure chest of entertaining stories, but a prose style that yanked my eyes across the page without breaking a sweat. That kind of craftsmanship is what I strive for in my own work.
However, when I started publishing—like your typical newbie—I ignored one of the most important lessons one can learn from an author like Konrath, who has built an impressive following around his work.
And this mistake cost me a lot of money, too. Around $2000, actually, which is what I paid a well-known service to construct what I thought was the ideal cover for my book, Milo Banks and the Tower of Light.
Let's rewind a little. Take a look at JA Konrath's book covers. You know which of his novels are horror (see AFRAID), which are pure suspense (see TRAPPED), and which provide a mystery with a heavy dose of comedy (see WHISKEY SOUR). This is how covers should look. Hell, I even hired his cover designer, Carl Graves, to do three of my own books. But I had to learn from my rookie mistake first.
Here's what happened. I released a fantasy novel meant for teenagers aged 12 to 16. It's about two 14-year-old kids (a twin brother and sister) who discover that their family is descended from ancient gods. The novel takes them into a world where those same gods—before disappearing off the planet—left behind four races of people based on humans.
Because of the existence of these four races (Acolytes, Savants, Sargonauts, and Ferals) the book encounters themes of racism and genocide, and the villain is a Hitler-esque figure who believes that Ferals (people with orange eyes, tails, and the ability to "phase" into animals) must be eliminated in order for him to maintain control over his empire.
I paid a service to create a brightly colored cover with two kids riding a winged horse into the sky. I titled the story "Milo Banks and the Tower of Light." It's a long, awkward title, but at the time, Harry Potter and Percy Jackson were doing extremely well. Amateur, right?
The cover, as you can see, targeted a "middle grade" audience of children around the age of 10. This was flat out wrong. The book deals with heavy sociopolitical themes and contains images of violence way too intense for kids of that age. I realized this only after paying that $2000 (and the artist did a great job, no question there), and after seeing sales remain flat.
Since then, I've retitled the novel to "Savant," which is short, sweet, and relevant to the main character's situation (Milo discovers he is a Savant—a member of a race capable of wielding powerful magical spells).
The new cover design, which I did myself, shows a kid who appears to be around 14 (the average age of the reader I'm targeting), and it shows him with a serious look on his face. It's brightly colored, but without looking pastoral and gaudy. You can tell by looking at it that the book has fantastical elements, but the kid's expression—and the castle in the background—are more mature and serious while retaining that promise of otherworldly adventure.
And you know what? It only cost about $100 in photo licensing fees to make.
Ultimately, a good book cover is not about the money spent or saved, but about the message. When the eyes of potential readers begin landing on your book cover—the first thing they'll see—what impression will they take away from it? In this case, they see a book suitable for teenagers, not little kids, which makes sense considering the nature of the story.
The result? Sales have quadrupled with this new release, and they get stronger by the day.
So you tell me. Does the new cover succeed? What has your experience been with paying for cover designs and branding your story? Do you feel your book covers accurately reflect the nature of the story you're trying to tell?
Those of you who would like to read Savant can do so for free. Just go to my blog, Self Land Stories,and sign up to receive blog post updates, or sign up for my newsletter. I'll email you Savant as an .epub that you can load directly into your e-reader. When you're done, leave a review and let me know what you thought!
Thank you, indie authors and readers, and keep those books coming!
Joe sez: Well, since we're talking about cover mistakes...
I wrote a book in 1997 called SHOT OF TEQUILA. I hadn't yet gotten an agent, and when this one made the rounds I had a few agents call me up and tell me they liked it, but couldn't sell it.
Tequila, see, was written as an homage to the pulps. Tough guy, hardboiled, Chicago mob noir, with lots of violence. A genre that, in 1997, wasn't selling according to agents. So I was told to write something more commercial.
I went on to write ORIGIN and THE LIST, neither of which sold, and then WHISKEY SOUR, which did. When the Kindle opened up to self-publishing in 2009, I put ORIGIN and THE LIST up for sale, and reworked SHOT OF TEQUILA to tie it into my Jack Daniels series, then put that up for sale as well. I asked Carl Graves to do a retro Robert McGinnis type of pulp cover. And I liked his end result, which he hand drew for me.
Well, THE LIST and ORIGIN sold pretty well. But TEQUILA didn't sell at all. I'm talking 1/10 of the sales of THE LIST and ORIGIN. It was getting good reviews, and people liked it, but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't selling.
So I decided maybe early tech adopters weren't as enamored with pulp like I was, so I had Carl do a new cover, tying it into my JD books (even though Jack was a supporting character, not the main one.)
Once I changed the cover, sales quadrupled, and in three years I've made $65,000 off a book that NY assured me no one wanted.
So let me talk for a bit about some of the things I like to see in a cover, both as a reader and as a writer, and why I think so many self-pubbed covers are lacking.
1. Can it be read as a thumbnail size in grayscale? Always make sure your cover artist gives you an example of your cover as small and gray, because that's how many readers will see it on e-ink devices.
Your name and title should be able to be read while small and gray.
2. Does it convey genre? Both of these covers for Tequila show it's a crime thriller. But the first one looked old fashioned, the new one looks current and hip.
3. Are there words on the cover? Look at some Big 5 covers. Besides the title and author name, there are usually other words. Blurbs from other authors, or reviews from well-known publications. Taglines. "Author of XYZ". Etc. Adding a tagline, review, or "author of" is a subtle cue that makes readers subconsciously think this was released by a major publisher.
4. I'm not an artist, so I'm not one to speak about the rule of thirds, vectors, color schemes, hue and chroma, negative space, blending, light and shadow, or many of the other things a pro is aware of. But when I first started self-pubbing, I could tell the Big 6 covers from newbie covers at about a 95% accuracy just by glancing at them. This has become more difficult as the years have passed, as more and more writers are realizing the importance of professional covers. But I still see covers all the time that make me cringe.
5. Branding. Having multiple books with a similar style or theme (my Jack Daniels series, Jack Kilborn books, Timecaster books, Codename: Chandler books) help readers identify you and your titles. The author is the brand. The covers can reflect that.
6. Get a second opinion. I was wrong about the first Tequila cover. I liked it, and didn't care what anyone else said about it (I had peers I trusted who didn't like it), and it hurt my sales. Now I listen to peers. An even smarter move is to crowdsource opinion like Marcus Sakey just did.
7. Don't be afraid to change. One of the advantages indies have is our ability to experiment. If sales aren't where you want them, a new cover may be something that can goose them. Asking friends and family isn't going to get you an honest answer, unless friends and family are professionals and don't mind hurting your feelings.
Readers do judge books by their covers. If you aren't open to the fact that your cover may not be working, you aren't doing yourself any favors.


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Arsenal full-back Nacho Monreal claims the confidence shown in him by Arsene Wenger has helped him settle quickly in the Premier League.
The 27-year-old Spaniard was a January deadline-day signing from Malaga following injury to Kieran Gibbs and Andre Santos - who has since joined Gremio on loan - fell out of favour.
And the former Osasuna left-back was thrown straight into the starting line-up just two days later against Stoke, an immediate involvement that Monreal believes helped him adjust to the English game.
"Since I've been here the manager has given me a lot of confidence and he's been starting me," Monreal told the club's official site. "This has been very important for me because it helps a lot to feel that the manager has faith in me, especially as I've just arrived. This in turn this leads to good performances.
"Everything has been challenging in different amounts, because the league is completely different to La Liga. Coming here and not speaking the language, being unable to communicate with my teammates, is one of many difficult situations that is making me grow as a person and as a player.
"It has been tough adapting to the type of football played here in England as the players are a lot more physical. There's also a different style of play, as I've said before there's an emphasis on reaching your opponent's goal as quickly as possible.
"I've been here two months now and little by little I am adapting to this style of play. I am happy to be here."
However there are still aspects of playing in Spain that Monreal misses, but says his friendship with new team-mates Santi Cazorla and Mikel Arteta have helped him settle in "the best city in Europe."
"The worst change for me is the difference between a very hot town in the south of Spain and the freezing cold weather over here!" he added.
"However, London is one of the best, perhaps even the best city in Europe. It's very diverse. You can go out and there are cinemas, theatres ... there's a lot of choice. Thanks to the help of Santi and Mikel I'm adapting well to the way of life over here and I'm happy."
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MedicineMover necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
A logo to depict a movement and dance psychotherapy private practice in Victoria, BC, Canada. This is a new, dynamic and pioneering approach to psychotherapy, using movement, music and dance to heal.
A medium to large contemporary logo for use on a website. This will also be used in offline promotion material.
This is a private practice which will be run out of an office/dance studio. This movement practice involves a philosophical framework which includes the 5Rhythms® Dance, Gestalt Awareness Practice and Integrative Body Psychotherapy.
Movement Psychotherapy is a new mode of psychotherapy that invloves using patterns of how the body moves to interpret patterns in other realms of life (emotional, psychological, spiritual, social etc.) My practice will also include sound/music healing. I am looking for a design that encapsualtes a holistic and integrated approach to movement, wellness and transformation.
- Design should include a contemporary First Nations medicine wheel including text for the brand name MEDICINE MOVES and a strapline like "Emptying the Mind, and Following the Heart". The text should follow the curves of the circular design above and below the circle.
- In the links included, it gives you an idea of the feeling of what I am looking for (spirals, circles, flow and movement) http://www.positiveside.ca/images/V…heel_e.jpg
Wording for medicine wheel logo - "body, mind, heart, spirit". Colour scheme: Blending and integration of colour, using soft, natural colours, blues, browns, greens, etc. found in nature. Style: Movement/dance in the logo. Contemporary figure/silhouette in centre of medicine wheel: maybe include a moving figure in the middle of the medicine wheel.
- Don't want bold colours (like in traditional medicine wheel). Would prefer blending and integration of colour.
- Avoid use of straight lines, quadrants, squares, or anything else that separates elements of medicine wheel
- Don't want a square background, would prefer circular shape
- No traditional dance figure. This is about abstract free-from movement, not choreographed dance.
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This was the 4th flight since the almost 6-year restoration project was completed. The first flight was on July 4th, the second on July 23rd (above photos), and the third on the evening of July 24th.
Unless noted, all photos are copyrighted Sunbird Photos by Don Boyd (AviationStockPhotos.com and AviationPhotoPrints.com)


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Physical Sciences
Research Highlights
December 2007
Molecular Crash Test
Scientists slam small proteins onto a surface to see how fast the molecules fall apart
Results: Like crash test dummies in a new car ad, peptides were flung onto a surface to see how fast they would come apart. By accurately measuring the energetics and dynamics of the fragmentation of proteins, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Hong Kong showed that a disputed theory—which provides the cornerstone of today's mass spectrometry research—accurately predicts the rate at which the protein falls apart or dissociates.
The proteins of interest are peptide radical cations; that is, short proteins containing a positive charge and missing an electron.
Why does it matter? For decades, scientists have argued whether or not the statistical theory, built in the 1920s and known as RRKM, adequately describes how fast large molecules fragment. This theory states that added energy is randomized in the molecule before it breaks apart. Although this may seem like an esoteric argument, resolving it is necessary to expand the scientific foundations of modern mass spectrometry.
"This is the first real approach to show that fragmentation of radical cations of peptides can be adequately described by statistical theory," said Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Julia Laskin, the study's principal investigator.
By accurately measuring the energetics and dynamics of the fragmentation of proteins, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Hong Kong showed that a disputed theory predicts the rate at which a protein dissociates. Enlarge image
Method: To determine if the RRKM theory accurately predicted the dissociation pathways for a complex molecule, the researchers conducted careful experiments and compared the results to those predicted by the theoretical calculations. These experiments were done at the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility at PNNL.
To start, the research team needed to build the peptide radical cations. The researchers started with a short protein backbone, adding a copper complex of an organic compound. The entire complex was transferred into the gas phase. Next, an electron was moved from the peptide to the copper ion, creating a positive charge and missing electron (radical) on the peptide. An additional fragmentation step of the newly formed ion resulted in the formation of a new peptide radical cation where the radical's location was well defined.
This carefully prepared ion is then slammed onto a surface, which adds vibrational energy to the molecule very quickly and causes fragmentation.
"The process is similar to building a stunning vase and then dropping it on the floor to see how durable it is," said Laskin.
Using sophisticated equipment, the researchers followed fragmentation of the ions after the charged particles collided with the surface. Then, the research team conducted calculations using the RRKM theory to compare experimental and theoretical rate constants.
The researchers proved the RRKM modeling completely accounts for the kinetics of the different dissociation pathways observed in the experiments and the dissociation of the peptide radical cation is well described by the RRKM model. Preliminary results suggest that the statistical behavior is quite common for dissociation of peptide radical cations.
Next steps: The team plans to compare their results from studies of the energetics and dynamics of positive and negative odd-electron peptide ion fragmentation to the energetics and mechanisms of fragmentation of the corresponding positive and negative even-electron ions, which is much better understood.
Acknowledgments: This study was supported by the Chemical Sciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy and a grant by the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, Special Administrative Region, China.
Citation: Laskin, J., J. H. Futrell, and I. K. Chu. 2007. "Is Dissociation of Peptide Radical Cations an Ergodic Process?" Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129: 9598-9599.


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Wiltshire has been given greater independence from Whitehall in a bid to boost regional economic growth.
Wiltshire and Swindon is one of 20 areas which will receive key Government powers devolved to the county, it was announced today by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The deal for Wiltshire focuses on unlocking the economic potential of the area's military presence by freeing up redundant Ministry of Defence sites and using the skills of military personnel to support business growth.
The key behind the deal is to make it easier for Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council and the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to work with Government agencies more effectively and flexibly by cutting through bureaucracy and making it easier for the LEP to attract investment to the area.
The bid, which was submitted in January, requests funding for 2,000 degrees to be delivered in the county, establish a 'land bank' which brings together the area's public owned land, including military sites, to identify where appropriate economic development could take place and devolve the funding process for apprenticeship, skills and research to the councils and the business community.
The deal has the support of major companies based in Wiltshire such as Honda, Dyson and Nationwide and is also supported by the MoD.
Wiltshire Council leader councillor Jane Scott said: "This is excellent news for the area. It will lead to key government-decision makers working with us and our partners to cut through red tape so we can deliver speed and certainty when it comes to making important decisions on investment opportunities which will in turn lead to local jobs for local people. We are very proud of the military presence in this county and this is another example of us working together to boost the local economy and make our communities more resilient.
Swindon Borough Council leader councillor Rod Bluh said: "This is further recognition of Swindon and Wiltshire's huge potential in driving regional economic growth. There's a good reason why so many major businesses are here already, and this will help attract more investment. The 2000 extra higher education places this deal hopes to deliver will boost the employment chances of young people, and give businesses the skills they need employees to have. Another key benefit of the deal is a consistent approach to decision-making right across Swindon and Wiltshire."
Paul Johnson, chairman of the Swindon and Wiltshire LEP, said: "We're delighted that the Government want to work with the LEP and our unitary authority partners to further our goal of strong economic growth and job creation in Swindon and Wiltshire. This deal is the result of a co-ordinated effort from the core partners to set out a compelling vision on how we can unleash the economic firepower of the military assets in the area.
"The business community will be key to turning this aspiration into reality – utilising the skills of the military personnel to support their growth plans as well as building a symbiotic relationship for the future that sees them supporting the Army reserve force and getting highly skilled and motivated people working for them in return. Government have committed to playing their part by removing bureaucratic barriers and providing the policy tools to give businesses confidence to invest more in the economy of Swindon & Wiltshire."


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Her blog Mamasalwayswrite is one of my favorite reads. It was even nominated as a 2009 favorite blog by Parent's Pick by Nickelodeon for Favorite blog in Portland, Maine. She's playing a fun little bloggy game called "5 questions"
B, over at Cuttings on a Blog, answered five questions from Sussanah (of Unravelling and Ink on my fingers fame), and offered to send five other questions to anyone who wanted to play. Kathleen at Mamasalwayswrite was next and sent me these questions.
Here are my five questions from Kathleen:
What was your first favorite book?
What summer experience do you recreate every year?
We don't have one of those family traditions where we go the the same beach house or destination vacation every year. We tend to have "little things" that add up as our traditions.
I want them to be happy. I think they will both become mothers, good friends, and hopefully live close enough to me (but not with me) that I can play with them often.
I plan to make this happen by being the best mother that I can be to them so they will want to keep me around and hopefully not stick me in a nursing home too quickly!
I think the Frog Princess will pursue something creative or "artsy" because she is such a natural fountain of creativity. She loves medicine and science, I would not be surprised if she becomes a doctor (she says she would like to be a pediatric emergency room doctor.) I know she also really wants to become a mother and artist. Only time will tell.
As far as the Mini-Saurus goes it's harder to predict since she's only two and her little personality is just coming through as her language is sky-rocketing. I will say that she is the most polite child I have ever met. "Please" and "Thank You" were some of her earliest words. Maybe she'll become the new "Miss Manners" columnist.
When/why did you start writing your blog?
You have a whole day to yourself. What do you do?
Picture a quiet rainy day with the house all to myself. Not down-pour -- just drizzly -- It's my favorite weather since all of the greens are greener and the pavement, tree trunks, and stones look prettier wet.
I would wear jeans and a tank top and spend the morning sipping coffee on my deck under the canopy reading the paper. Then I would move into my art studio, have a big yummy salad for lunch, work on whatever projects I felt like. There would be an excellent mix of music on my ipod.
Ideally, by mid-afternoon a traveling flea market/garage sale filled with wonderful vintage linens and glassware would set up shop on my street so I could just walk over and browse and find some old (new to me) goodies. The dealers would find me to be so charming that they would want to give me everything at a greatly reduced cost.
I would also have an appointment for a facial that would be free of charge so as not to incur any
"budget guilt" on such indulgences.
Then my dear hubby would come home to snuggle up with me and watch a movie (a romantic comedy) We'd have wine and something yummy like pasta for dinner that I didn't have to make. The children would be sleeping over at grammy and grandpa's for the night. We would be able to enjoy some "grown-up time" without little ones in the house and (of course) he would have taken a massage class and would have a massage table set up for my evening rub-down. purrr....


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California Department of Transportation
Date: June 23, 2011
District: 4 - Oakland
Contact: Traci Ruth
Phone: 510-286-6120
$825 Million allocated to create jobs and improve transportation
OAKLAND – The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $825 million in new funding to 92 highway, transit, and rail projects that will strengthen California's economy and upgrade the state's vast transportation system. The allocations included nearly $9 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. To date, the state has allocated nearly $8 billion in Proposition 1B funds.
"From one end of the state to the other, transportation projects are providing jobs and improving mobility for people and businesses in California," said Caltrans Acting Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Two notable design-build projects in Los Angeles County received $526 million in allocations: the Gerald Desmond Bridge ($470 million) and the Interstate 10/Interstate 605 Direct Connector ($56 million). Design-build streamlines a project by overlapping design and construction to speed up construction and potentially reduce costs. Design-build is currently being used in 32 other states. Caltrans obtained design-build authority in February 2009 with the passage of Senate Bill 4 (second extraordinary session). The legislation established a demonstration program, which allows 10 design-build projects for Caltrans and five for local transportation agencies, subject to authorization by the CTC.
Other highlights of the allocations include: · $49 million from the State Highway Operations Preservation Program (SHOPP) to construct a new truck climbing lane and rehabilitate pavement on Interstate 580 in Livermore. · $13 million in SHOPP funding to repair storm damage on Interstate 580 in Livermore · $42.3 million to relocate and expand the truck scale facility, relocate and realign ramps to improve CHP truck inspections, and improve freeway efficiency and safety for vehicle traffic.
For information about all projects that received allocations please visit: http://www.dot.ca.gov/docs/ctcprojectallocationsjune2011.pdf
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Set your bearings for adventure! Tucked at the foot of the majestic Carnavon Range, 90 kilometres north of Roma on the Great Inland Way, the thriving township of Injune is the perfect base for adventurous travellers. Injune is a quaint country town full of intriguing history, spectacular views and inspiring natural landscapes.
Nestled in the Great Dividing Range, Injune is blessed with a climate that takes you to the depths of cold crispy winters to hot summers and perfect spring and autumn weather. Like most small towns west of the Great Dividing Range, the town was built on a natural water system and the surrounding ranges give birth to five of the major river systems in South West Queensland and New South Wales. Mount Moffatt is part of these mountain ranges and from here, the views of the surrounding land is nothing short of spectacular. Often sited as the second coldest place in Queensland , Mount Moffatt almost qualifies as 'alpine'.
While visiting Injune, pay a visit to the Information Centre, have a swim in the town's modern swimming pool and stop at the stunning lookout across Arcadia Valley and explore its beauty.
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MagicISO can also convert any image file format including BIN to the standard ISO format. It can handle images created by CD burning software (Nero Burning ROM, Easy CD Create, and so on) or virtual DVD/CD-ROM driver software (Daemon-tools).
MagicISO has the ability to create ISO image files as well. You can directly add, delete, and rename files or folders in CD image file(s). The program can handle images of up to 10G in size so that users can extract, edit, and open DVD image files with ease.
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text: of late, if a site is pointed to ispconfig server(in DNS record of domain registrar), instead of showing the default index page, as it used to show, now I am getting one of the website as default(if no domain is created for the domain in question). Example: a new domain example.com is registered and its A record is pointed to the ip of my ISPCONFIG server, but no domain is created in ISPCONFIG control panel than when browsing that domain used to show a default ISPCONFIG index page, but don't know from when, but now it is showing one of the sites from my server. Your help is needed to address this problem. Thanks.


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Law Professor Eric Goldman: The CFAA Is A Failed Experiment; It's Time To Gut It
from the take-a-stand deptWe've been talking a lot about CFAA reform lately, but law professor Eric Goldman is taking it a step further. He's written a fantastic piece for Forbes that explains why the whole concept underlying the CFAA is a failure and should be almost entirely done away with. The key part is the theory underlying the CFAA is an attempt to apply the age-old concept of "trespass to chattels" online, in the theory that the online world can be considered not unlike the offline world. Except... it's not so simple. Not at all.
Stretching the ancient doctrine of trespass to chattels to apply to Internet activities has been an experiment in law-making. Unfortunately, I think the experiment has failed completely. The CFAA and state computer crime laws initially were designed to restrict hackers from breaching computer security—a sensible objective that, as I discuss below, should be preserved. The expansion of these laws to cover all sending or receiving of data from an Internet-connected server hasn't worked...He goes on to point out that there have been massive unintended consequences of trying to apply an offline concept to a very different online world, and to also note that other existing laws can already handle many, if not potentially all, of the scenarios that people normally fear concerning malicious computer hacking.
Indeed, because legal doctrines already overlap so extensively, we almost never see an online trespass to chattels claim asserted on a standalone basis. Instead, an online trespass to chattels claim is usually just one of numerous legal violations asserted against the defendant. These doctrinal overlaps mean we usually don't need online trespass to chattels either to supplement the more squarely applicable claims or to act as a "gap-filler" to plug the rare and narrow holes left by the other legal doctrines.And thus, his recommendation is basically to gut the CFAA almost entirely:
1) Repeal most provisions of the CFAA (that don't relate to government-run computers) and preempt all analogous state laws, including state computer crime laws and common law trespass to chattels as applied online. Note: without dealing with analogous state laws, reforming the CFAA is an incomplete solution.It's difficult to argue with these suggestions, which is probably why most of Congress will likely instead ignore them.
2) Retain only the (A) restrictions on criminal hacking, which I would define as the defeat of electronic security measures for the goal of fraud or data destruction (and some of these efforts are already covered by other laws like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act), and (B) restrictions on denial-of-service attacks, which I would define as the sending of data or requests to a server with the intent of overloading its capacity.
3) Eliminate all civil claims for this conduct, so that only the federal government can enforce violations.
4) Specify that any textual attempts to restrict server usage fail unless the terms are presented in a properly formed contract (usually, a mandatory click-through agreement).
Filed Under: cfaa, cfaa reform, chattles, doj, eric goldman, hacking, internet, laws, trespass, trespass on chattels


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Behind the Mask
Marie Brown
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Ryan McDonagh's putback after a Dan Girardi prayer caromed behind the net gave the Rangers a 3-2 win in overtime. Dany Heatley's bad-angle flick off of Nikolai Khabibulin's chest at the end of regulation salvaged a point for Minnesota, and eventually a second one with a shootout win. Both goals went in with half a second left on the clock (replays would adjust each to two seconds remaining), and both goals were officially maddening for the home crowds in Calgary and Edmonton.
Sucks, Alberta. I know. Nothing is more infuriating than being on the wrong end of a last second goal. The damn team just has to keep a little puck out of a little net on a big rink for a few seconds longer, and it's over. If you could have harried the skater in the neutral zone a little more, or pinned the puck against the boards for just a few heartbeats, or just parked the bus like a motherfucker, it's over. And don't even try to think of all the time added over the previous 20 minutes, when the clock is stopped a fraction of a second after the actual whistle: it'll drive you mad.


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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Two additional Penn State Lehigh Valley undergraduates have been accepted to participate in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored MSTEM (medicine, science, technology, engineering and mathematics) training course.
Samantha Gonzalez and Samely Gonzalez received full scholarships, air fare and lodging to attend "Frontiers in Aging and Regeneration Research (FrARR): Translating MSTEM in Aging Research from the Lab to the Clinic and Beyond," May 11-16 at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. This course trains and mentors promising junior and senior undergraduates in sophisticated aging research and regenerative medicine technologies, and encourages and supports them as they embark on graduate studies in MSTEM fields.
"Working side-by-side top research scientists in and out of the lab, using state-of-art cell and molecular biology and tissue culture techniques to study stem cells, and delving into the critical thinking that defines present day work in regenerative medicine will empower these young women as they carve out their own careers in medicine," said Jacqueline McLaughlin, associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley and faculty mentor to the students. "Moreover, performing real-world research will transform them into problem-solvers who can work to help society address the medical diseases of today."
In December 2013, three other Lehigh Valley students became the first from the campus to be selected for a REMEDY program.


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N.M. Bureau of Geology Publishes Non-Technical Booklets, June 28, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., June 28, 2001 -- The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) recently published the first booklet in a new non-technical series of publications which are designed to provide New Mexicans with informative overviews of the state's water, landscapes, and Earth resources.
"Information Series 1 Our Water Resources: An Overview for New Mexicans", by William J. Stone, a noted New Mexico hydrogeologist, provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, survey of the state's available groundwater and surface water resources. The 38-page booklet answers such common questions as: "Where does our water come from?," "How do contaminants get into our drinking water?," and "What information is available on water resources in my area, and where do I go to get it?"
"Information Series 1 Our Water Resources: An Overview for New Mexicans" is available for $5, plus $2.50 for shipping and handling, from the NMBGMR. For more information about the booklet or any other NMBGMR publications, write to the Bureau Publications Office, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, or call (505) 835-5410, or visit the website at


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Connect 4 - It's the vertical checkers game the whole family will love! Take turns dropping checkers into slots. First to get four in a row - horizontally, vertically, or diagonally - wins! Kids of all ages will take delight in developing strategies to outwit their opponents. A game for 2 players.


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MeDeFe wrote:Minister Masket wrote:Yeah, go on then.
I need to know there's a better anime out there than Naruto.
Can we agree that anyone who talks about Narutard in anything other than scathing terms is to be kicked out?
Sign me up as well.
hahaha, Naruto can just have its own thread that you dont have to look at, hows that
your in, only 1 more person and we can ask for a usergroup
EDIT: killmanic is our 10th, im sending in the request now, but if more want in you are welcome!