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Mmz: fate…… vampire diaries…… 8th shot
Saral's POV
I entered the orphanage premises. Everything was same. I was brought here when I was shot to death seven years back. I've noticed since then, nothing has changed. From the colour of flowers in the garden to the mind of people here, everything is crystal clear, pure. The watchman smiled at me as I entered. I replied with one and went my way inside. Every kid I met in my way wished me a morning and so did I. I reached the way where my darling was and intentionally I moved forward from the room where she was and soon she identified my arrival.
"saral…. I'm here…" she says.
"coming mother…." I reply back.
I entered the room where there was an old couple speaking with mother. I see them and turn my gaze towards mother questioningly.
"they are parents of the girl I told." She says. I was willing to cancel the 'date' she had set.
"mother…" I say while she cut me off.
"wait…. Let me finish…… the girl just ran away with her guy friend. These people came to apologise over." She stated.
At once I just couldn't explain how happy I felt.
"nah…. Uncle its fine…. I guess you should get your daughter married to the guy whom she loves. I guess that would be far better for her, leading her life with one she loves than with one whom she doesn't know at all. And I guess…." Mother trailed me off.
"you have guessed enough. Now go have something, I'll be back." She says and I nodded and turned to go.
"he is always the same don't mind…" I hear her tell them with a frown. I smiled to myself for finding one such woman in my life. Well, I didn't find her…. I got her. Ever since there was a news of me being jailed for forcing myself on my girlfriend and killing her guard, which was of course utterly lie, I couldn't help myself face people around. I didn't know the reason but I could feel myself destroying the real saral in me. The joyful me was far gone. That's when I found this wonderful woman of my life. She had been my real god, guide, happiness everything since then. I didn't want to face my family before I could clear the non-sense created in my life. They would trust me, no matter what, but I wanted to prove myself for the society so that none would blame my family keeping me as an arrow. Dad would be very sad by the things that went on. I hadn't met mom for a while I disappeared. I had met my baby doll, Radhika the day before I left. It kept me from being sad for not seeing her at last. I had asked her to promise me that she would not do something that made mom sad. I did meet her friend samaira with her boyfriend and asked them to look after my doll. I sounded casual enough in the meet though my doll kept questioning my idiotic behaviour. I had dismissed all her questions and tried enjoying myself with her for a while.
Well, I didn't introduce myself. I'm saral Mishra. Son of Dilip Mishra and Mala Mishra. I have a baby sister, Radhika, god knows what she does now. I did have a very happy family which split into two pieces' coz of some reason. My mom had me and my sister when they split and eventually my dad earned my custody. My dad was the sweetest of all. He was the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Mumbai. Everything was good until I was sent abroad for my studies. There I met my friend, most likely a brother of mine, Surya. I did meet my girlfriend, Sadha, there, who cheated me by blaming me for the thing which I could never think in my dream that I would do. She lodged a complaint against me stating I attempted to force myself over her. My heart told maybe it was not her, or maybe she had her reasons, but my mind didn't give a damn to it.
I entered the dining hall, where all the kids sat with cereal in the bowls that clad their hands. They smiled at me and some hi-fived.
"mother said we would meet your special friend today. Who is she? She didn't come is it?" a cute girl of four asks me.
"there is no such special friend sweetie, mother is too old and blabbers something….. don't believe her…" I said sitting on my knees to reach up to her level.
She giggled and I smiled but later screamed as mother held my ear twisting it.
"you, old man, you are saying that I'm old? That wouldn't be good for you." she says reaching out for the stick nearby.
I ran around the hall while she chased me but soon she stood gasping for her breath.
"I told you old woman, but you never listen." I said rubbing her back. She smiled cupping my cheeks in her shaking hands.
"that's why I want you to settle. And I believe you would look after these kids after my demise."
"don't speak rubbish mother" a yell comes from the door. We turned towards the voice to see my best friend Surya standing there throwing angry glares towards mother with a frown on his face.
"sorry…." mother utters when this man engulfs her and me into a hug at once.
"you didn't tell you would come?" I asked him.
"something important. I need to talk to you about something." He says sounding serious. He had been to Mumbai. I guess its not about my family.
"have you breakfast and then speak" mother says while pouring some cereal into three bowls.
"okay…" he says.
My mind kept fidgeting around all the while about what he wanted to speak. He never spoke to me in this tone. Not even when sadha was about to drop me behind bars.
"we would leave and most probably leave the city by night." He said. I tried processing things while they decided not to connect with each other.
"what's it? spill out…" I ask him very badly controlling my eagerness after reaching my apartment. His eyes had lost the glow they had before he left.
"uh….hmmm…. that's….." he stammers and my anger grew exponentially.
"will you just tell me what the heck is wrong?"
"saral… I met your….. your sister…. And spoke to her…."
"really? How's she? Mom? You met her too?" I turned really curious and way too happy.
"yeah… she's fine…. Your mom…. She…. She died a week ago…"He says and I shattered.
"what are you speaking? That's not true…" my voice came like a whisper.
"I'm telling the truth. She passed away a week ago…"
Now that's it. I could feel some pointing sound shoot my ears as my eyes go blank. Before I lose my control totally, he held me and fed me some water after letting me sit on the nearby couch. I felt a pang on my heart. It wrenched. My eyes were emotionless. There was no tear dripping but still the pain was just un-explainable. If I'm this way, then what would have my baby doll done. How had she been since then? Dad? Did he go to see her at last? Did he do her last rights? Did radhu leave him to do the last rights? My mind revolved around many questions while I sat in utter silence.
"speak saral. Don't scare me…" surya yells shaking me.
"uh….huh….mmmm…. how's radhu now? Who did mom's last rights?"
"radhika did it. it seems she didn't allow your father near your mom."
"oh!!" my voice was emotionless.
"where is she?"
"with her boyfriend."
"boyfriend?" I was slightly taken aback.
"she has grown up too fast." I said more to myself than him.
"yeah… sisters do grow up fast…" he said with a smile which I hardly tried to return.
"I want to see her once but I don't want her to see me."
"but why?"
"you know why. She wouldn't leave me come back."
"and why do you want to come back at least? She has lost her mom, she's hurt by her dad and even you. she needs you please go stay with her." He said.
"I need to gather proof"
"she is more precious"
"I want to prove myself. So I need proofs." I yell.
"proof…. Proof…… proof…. What will you do with the proof when you have none with you to celebrate your glory after proving yourself….? What will you do if you lose her? Will you still think of proof to prove yourself? How will you guarantee that she won't take some drastic step that may take her away from you forever? Don't be so selfish saral. Do think about her. She needs you, she needs her brother. You have always made her suffer in one or the other way. At least now you wake up. She won't ask you for proofs. She would just trust you even if you lie. What else can you give her in your life if you can't give her your shoulder while she's suffering?"
His words were so true. If I couldn't give her my shoulder, then what could I give her?
"I've booked tickets for us. We need to be there soon. Got it?" he asked and I nodded.
I was left with no other option. I'm still scared about her reaction. We left the apartment soon and got into the airport two hours before departure.
"think again surya, she might not want me there… she has…" I stopped as he glared a murderous glare at me.
"the flight to Delhi, India from the Sydney airport is delayed for an hour due to some problem. Sorry for the inconvenience." Comes the computerised voice. I sighed. Maybe I was happy that I would get some more time to think about answers. Again at the same time I was sad for being late to see my sister. I felt a shot of happiness at the thought of seeing my doll. I wonder why am I not feeling that sad for losing my mom. Maybe because I lost the connection as I spent most of my days with dad.
Why didn't things turn out simple? I loved someone and expecting the same wasn't really wrong right? I met her when I was doing my second semester in mechanics. She was beautiful and good at heart, or so I thought. I did propose and after getting a positive response from her after about a month of pleading, we thought of revealing our relationship to our families. The night we were about to spit things out turned dreadful. She came to my house and behaved weird. I doubted if she was the girl I loved. She said she wasn't interested in me anymore and got a better guy to date with. I was broken and relaxed too for not introducing her to my dad. I finished my masters and planned getting back to India. The night before my departure she had called me and I stupidly thought that things may get better. And that was exactly her plan I suppose. She tried seducing me and later there was a raid by the cops. She stated that I almost molested her. She even told that I killed her body guard. I didn't have a clue about her body guard though.
I came back from my day dream or what seems to be a dreadful past of mine to the earth when surya nudged me.
"to earth saral" he said shaking me.
"times up. Gotta go…."
"yeah…" we started our journey back to India.
"we have our flight to mumbai in the morning at 11. I have booked a room for us nearby." He said when we reached delhi. We were too tired to travel anymore that day.
Next day we travelled and finally reached. My home. Sweet, beautiful, little, cute. I expected my sister to jump on me giving a hug. I would twirl her around. I would take care of her from now. She's stubborn. She wouldn't let me, but I would leave her no choice.
"I would see you later." Surya said and went away before even I could reply.
I went to the door and knocked. I door opened instead at the lite knock. It was calm. It was never so before. Memories of mom chasing us to feed us, we watching TV together, pillow fight of the trio everything were as if playing like a video. Mom's photo was hung there with lamp in front which wasn't lit though. I motioned my glued keg towards it. my heart was still aching, but not aching. I wasn't sure how to feel. A part of me was sad while the other was confused about why am I not as sad as a son would me after losing his mother. I lit the lamp and my hands automatically joined, my eyes closed and tears trailed down. I immediately sought a look at doll's room. I ran over to find her absence.
"radhika.." I yelled.
"radhika I'm here…. Your brother saral is here…" I yell again.
"doll please come… I want to see you…"
I was now choked and I whisper yelled, "please come to me… I would never leave again…"
I ran to mom's room. I windows were open. I rushed in as searched around to get no clue of her. I stepped a step back and I heard crackling sound of paper. I bent to see a crumbled paper on the floor. My heart rate increased with anxiousness. I slowly opened the paper. It was mom's handwriting.
"mishra's I destroyed you…" I could feel her smiling wickedly while writing this. She was also a Mishra right. I looked away at the bed. There was a paper peeping through the duvet.
My legs gave up and my hand trembled while I sat on the floor next to bed after reading it. dad always told me that my mom wasn't good and I had always huffed at him. This was the only topic which we always fought for. I had been with my mom for a while and I thought I knew her well. But everything was upside down. She was not all my mom. Or so the paper said. I really was shattered. Felt cheated.
I felt soft hands on my shoulder. I turned but my vision was blur from tears to see the person. My heart told me it was someone important. I leaned towards the person wrapping my arms around. I felt comfort. Due to the bangle sound I could tell it was a girl. But who? I wiped my tears and broke the hug. I saw the girl and she was……………
To be contined…..
So whos the girl now? Will vampires find him?


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This page was really fun to draw. I love making action poses. And Clinton is such a dork. XP
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For some reason this scene reminds me of american dad.I donnt know why,but clinton reminds me of roger.
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History and Culture
Goliath culture is essentially the same as that described in Races of Stone, with obvious minor changes like having them move between both mountains on the individual islands and between individual islands in the archipelago. Will make notes on the RoS history section
Goliaths in the Baldric use the goliath pantheon as described in Races of Stone, but modified somewhat to reflect the fact that they are living on an archipelago, rather than a mountain range. So, below are the changes to make to the individual gods
- Kavaki: replace all references to Ram with Walrus
- Kuliak: story needs to change slightly, but can't decide how
- Manethak: essentially unchanged, but Manethak's followers are also fishermen/hunters of aquatic animals as well as of those who live on the archipelago. Harpoon may be substituted for spear as his favored weapon
- Naki-Uthai: in addition to the climbing of mountains, Naki-Uthai is also associated with the movement between the various islands of the archipelago (I'm thinking kayak, but I don't know if those are statted out). Add Travel to his domains
- Theleya: no changes needed
- Vanua: replace winter storm with tidal wave
Racial Traits
- +4 Strength, -2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution: Goliaths are massively muscled, but their bulk sometimes gets in the way when they're trying to be nimble.
- Goliath base land speed is 30 feet.
- Medium: As Medium creatures, goliaths have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size. However, see the powerful build ability description below for more details.
- Monstrous Humanoid: As monstrous humanoids, goliaths are proficient with all simple weapons, but they have no proficiency with any armor or shield.
- Powerful Build: The physical stature of a goliath lets him function in many ways as if he were one size category larger. Whenever a goliath is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for an opposed check (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the goliath is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. A goliath is also considered to be one size larger when determining whether a creature's special attacks based on size (such as improved grab or swallow whole) can affect him. A goliath can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject's size category.
- Mountain Movement: Because goliaths practically live on the ledges and cliffs of the most forbidding mountains mountainous archipelagos, they are particularly adept at negotiating mountain hazards. Goliaths can make standing long and high jumps as if they were running long and high jumps. A goliath can engage in accelerated climbing (climbing half his speed as a move action) without taking the -5 penalty on the Climb check.
- Acclimated: Goliaths are automatically acclimated to life at high altitudes. They don't take the penalties for altitude described in the Mountain Travel section on page 90 of the Dungeon Master's Guide. Unlike other denizens of the mountains, goliaths don't lose their acclimation to high altitude even if they spend months or years at lower elevations.
- +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks: When speaking to one another, goliaths tend to augment their verbal communication with subtle body language. They are likewise able to "read" the unintentional body language of others.
- Automatic Languages: Common and Gol-Kaa. Bonus languages: Dwarven, Giant, Gnoll, Terran.
- Favored Class: Barbarian. A multiclass goliath's barbarian class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty (see the XP for Multiclass Characters section on page 60 of the Player's Handbook). Barbarian//Swordsage. A multiclass goliath's barbarian class on one side of the gestalt and his swordsage class on the other side does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty. The tribal life of the goliaths produces many barbarians.
- Shoreline Hunter: Goliaths treat harpoons and skipping blades as martial weapons rather than exotic
- Level Adjustment: +1.
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Common templates
You may also play a more psionically-inclined Goliath (essentially a Goliath/Half-Giant hybrid) by making the following changes to the above.
- +2 Strength, +2 Constitution, –2 Dexterity instead of +4 Strength, -2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution
- gain the psionic subtype
- Naturally Psionic: Half-giants gain 2 bonus power points at 1st level. This benefit does not grant them the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
- Psi-Like Ability: 1/day—stomp. Manifester level is equal to 1/2 Hit Dice (minimum 1st). The save DC is Charisma-based.
- Lose mountain movement
- Favored Class: Psychic Warrior//Ranger
Underwater Hunter
Some goliaths focus on their swimming and hunting beneath the water, rather than on their skill with the thrown weapons favored by the others.
Gain: Hold Breath, as a darfellan, a -2 penalty to CHA
Lose: Shoreline Hunter
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The moving is done, the shop is empty except a couple things he has to go back and get tomorrow. All he's said to me so far is that it finally hit him- emotionally. But that's all it took, thankfully I ran some errands and I spent the entire time crying the shoulder heaving cries. Not for me, but for him. For him, for his loss. I texted his best friend from high school and asked him to give him a call in a couple days. Knowing my husband he needs a few days of quiet… not that he will get that in this house. But a bunch of people descending on him is NOT what he would want.
I cried buckets and buckets on my errands, I could barely see through the tears as I was driving. I wish there was something I could do to help him. But there isn't – he has to deal with it his own way.
And I know this should be about him, but as his wife, as his partner, and as the person sharing his life, hopes and dreams I too feel the loss. I feel the weight of an elephant on me. It's like my depression hit another low. This picture was posted in one of my support groups on Facebook, and it hit my heart straight through.
The only place I know like that is Heaven, and though I am homesick for it I'm certainly not ready to go there…


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EU agencies on the move: challenges ahead
Since the 1990's, the number of EU agencies has increased steadily and rapidly. While they have been given more discretionary powers, the mechanisms of control and accountability have not kept up with this development.
The rapid growth of the EU administration has not been given as much attention as other aspects of the European integration. Today, there are about 40 EU agencies that form part of the EU executive, and they fulfil a wide range of tasks.
Having examined the development of EU agencies, Ellen Vos, Professor of EU law at Maastricht University, specifically points out three current dilemmas:
- Lack of a clear legal framework with regard to the delegation of powers.
- Inadequate requirements concerning the independence of the agencies.
- Unclear accountability mechanisms.


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The Stop Notice is a powerful tool. If a subcontractor or material supplier has properly perfected its lien rights (see Mechanics Liens), serving the owner of a construction project with a Stop Notice imposes a duty on that owner to withhold payments to the general contractor in an amount that would pay any such claim. If there is a construction lender on the project, a bonded stop notice served on the lender requires the lender to withhold funds. The only exception occurs when a payment bond has been previously recorded in the county where the construction project is located. As a practical matter, the Stop Notice usually brings the parties to the negotiating table in a way that phone calls and angry letters won't. Timing is the key, however, and many a subcontractor has lost an otherwise good case by sitting on his rights.
Construction law is as sophisticated as any body of law on the books. The volume of construction litigation has served to define and refine this area of law unlike other, more recent bodies of law. For virtually any construction dispute imaginable, there are cases on the books reporting an appellate court ruling precisely on point. In addition, the California Civil Code sets forth a host of laws specifically bearing on professionals, tradesman, and consumers in the construction arena. As you might expect, with so much legal history available to the careful lawyer, it is rare that construction disputes go to trial. Most often, construction disputes are resolved through mediation or arbitration.
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Welcome to Pocket of Words! This little site launched in 2015 as a way to share my journey's around New Zealand. I hoped these tales inspired others to step out of their front door and experience the world around them and beyond.
Life is a wonderful journey but we have to brave enough to take the first step. I hope to inspire people to embrace everything joyful about life whether it be through travel or through practicing mindfulness. Because after all, wouldn't you want to be the best you you could be?


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What the Press is Saying
Arreva is making headlines! Read our latest press coverage.
DonorCommunity and Telosa Software Merge To Become Arreva Software
New Company Will Offer Donor Management and Online Fundraising Solutions that Scale from the Small Nonprofit to the Enterprise
Arreva Software Appoints Gregg Davis As Chief Executive Officer
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Join Wayne Winston for an in-depth discussion in this video What is a seasonal index?, part of Excel Data Analysis: Forecasting.
- The fourth quarter of the year is the months October through December. As you probably know, and we pointed out in the chapter one videos, Amazon.com sells a lot more merchandise during the fourth quarter than any other quarter, primarily because of the holiday season. This is an example of seasonality, and the problem with seasonality is it makes it really difficult to forecast future values of a time series. If you've noticed, all the examples we've done so far in forecasting have not had seasonality. They've been yearly data, but now we're ready to tackle the issue of seasonality in the remaining two chapters of this video.
So, a really important concept that will really refine your understanding of, in this video, is the concept of a seasonal index, and then in the rest of the chapter we'll teach you the ratio to moving average method, which is a simple yet powerful method to incorporate seasonality in your forecasts, used by many corporations. Okay, so let's suppose you have for Q1 through Q4 these four numbers, which we will call seasonal indices. So, what do these mean? The Q4 seasonal index of 1.3 means in Q4 this company tends to sell 30% more than an average quarter.
That's what the 1.3 means. And in Q1 this company sells 20% less than an average quarter. That's what the 0.8 means. So, seasonal indices must have a certain property. They must average to one. In other words, the quarters that are above average must sort of be canceled out by the quarters that are below average. But you really can't do much forecasting on quarterly data or monthly data if you don't understand seasonality, and that's going to be the main topic of this entire chapter, but in this video, we just want to give you a simple understanding of seasonal indices.
So, we have a little brain teaser for you that I use often when I train at companies, and very few people get the brain teaser right. So, we'll work you through it. Okay, so let's see if we understand seasonality. So, suppose you work for a company whose fourth quarter is great. It's seasonal index is two. So, what does that mean? During the fourth quarter, their sales tend to be double an average quarter, and they were pretty bad in the first quarter. Their seasonal index is 0.5, which means in their first quarter their sales tend to be half of an average quarter.
Let's look at some sales data for this fictitious company. Let's suppose in Q4 of 2014 they sold 400 million dollars worth of merchandise. Q1 of 2015, they sold 200 million dollars worth of merchandise, and you were asked to evaluate the performance of the company as an outside consultant. Are they doing better or are they doing worse? Naive analysis is as follows. Sales dropped 50%. Two hundred is 50% of four hundred. This company has real problems.
Well, you're not a very good consultant if you think that, because you're neglecting seasonality. What you have to do is really deseasonalize the sales. I often say desalinization, but deseasonalize. So, what you want to do is say, hey, what really happened in each quarter, in terms of an average quarter? Basically, Q4 of 2014, but the seasonal index was two. So, that's really like selling this much in an average quarter. You divide by the seasonal index. That's a pretty good estimate of what the level was during that Q4.
In other words, 400 in Q4 is basically telling you the level of the time series, based on that observation, was 200 in that fourth quarter. Now, when you deseasonalize Q1 of 2015, you divide by the seasonal index for that quarter of 0.5, and you get 400 in an average quarter. So, if you look at this the right way, even though sales dropped 50%, the data indicates that the level of sales doubled from Q4 2014 to Q1 2015.
So, you can see from this very simple example, if you didn't understand seasonality, you would draw an incorrect conclusion that this company is doing worse, when they're actually doing fantastic. So, in the next video we'll introduce the ratio to moving average method, which can be used to incorporate seasonality in forecasts and estimate seasonal indices.
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- Show time-series data by plotting and displaying information.
- Devise a moving average chart.
- Recognize how to account for errors and bias.
- Interpret and utilize trendlines.
- Determine how to model exponential growth.
- Compute the compound annual growth rate.
- Analyze the impact of seasonality.
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January 26, 2012
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Project • Ongoing
The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for 2017–2019 in Chad recognises the importance of being accountable to people affected by crisis. However, their views are not yet systematically collected, analysed, nor acted upon throughout the response. In our SIDA funded project, we are working with the CHS Alliance and the humanitarian country team to develop a common approach to community feedback that informs decision-making, strategic planning, and programme monitoring. Along with our partners, we are building the capacity of humanitarian actors on the ground to maximise participation and meet related goals of the response plan.
We are collecting feedback from affected people, field staff of aid agencies, and their local partners in order to systematically monitor the implementation of the HRP for Chad against the Core Humanitarian Standard. In cooperation with the CHS Alliance, we are using the findings from this project to help agencies implement programmes that are informed by and adapted to the views, perceptions, and priorities of the people they aim to serve.
Key findings
Global Report - 2018 EN/FR and 2019 EN/FR
Survey of Humanitarian Staff - 2018 FR
One-Pagers and Recommendations - 2019 FR/EN
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Regional Report - 2018 FR
One-Pager and Recommendations - 2019 FR
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Regional Report - 2018 FR
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Maintainable CSS presentation slides
I gave a talk at developer, developer, developer day on Saturday about maintainable CSS so here are my slides. :)
The video of the presentation is up on Vimeo:
Feel free to use these slides if you'd like to give a similar presentation. Feel free to give it as is, as a starting point or ideas for your own presentation. I'd love it if you could link back to me, but this is all about getting people talking about writing maintainable CSS rather than anything else.
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dDAB for short; the blog formerly known as A Daily Dose of Architecture
Thursday, July 12, 2012
What Time Is It?
At approximately 12:12 p.m. in Christian Marclay's "The Clock" -- showing at the David Rubinstein Atrium as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2012 -- comes a clip from the 1948 film Hamlet, in which the title character holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! [quote snipped from Wikipedia]"
Before setting foot within the black box space erected within the privately owned public space spanning between Broadway and Columbus, I had a number of preconceptions about Marclay's 24-hour visual artwork. One was a parallel with the video in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (which is supposedly named for the Hamlet quote), the one that people can't stop watching because the film taps into a part of the brain that provides it pleasure, an unending pleasure that eventually leads to death. I was hardly expecting to lose myself to that extent, but descriptions from friends who saw the piece in Venice (where it won the Golden Lion Prize last year) and raves from critics pointed toward a hypnotic state reached by viewers. I stepped into the space at 10:40 a.m. this morning and did not leave until 2:40 p.m. I was not hypnotized, but I did thoroughly enjoy the piece.
[Don't call it a cinema: the black box in the Rubinstein Atrium | Photo by John Hill]
For those not familiar with "The Clock", it is a 24-hour video that is composed of clips from thousands of films, most illustrating the time -- through a clock, a watch, a piece of dialogue -- that coincides with the actual time where it is being shown. Therefore it acts as a timepiece. But it is not just a clock, it is much more complex and artistically intentional than just a cutting together of short clips that tell us the time. It is an overlapping collage of video and sound that washes over the viewer likes waves on the sea. Yet these are waves of time that are orchestrated to the minutes and hours of the day as embodied in the films and television shows (there are a few in there) that by nature take liberties with time yet are reflections of our daily lives. The experience of watching it is somewhere between that of a film, where action and plot require us to keep a tally of what is going on, and something like Andy Warhol's Empire, where the movement of time is natural and without any apparent action. "The Clock" does not require a memory of events, and it is much more frenetic than Warhol's anti-film, so the viewer is free to paradoxically lose one's sense of time by constantly being reminded what time it is. It's magical.
Here is a short clip at 12:04 to 12:07 p.m. to give a sense of how Marclay expresses time and how he layers video and audio:
Before spending three years making "The Clock" Marclay had created the 7-1/2-minute "Telephones" (1995) that collages Hollywood clips with, yes, telephones. Like smaller sections of "The Clock", this earlier piece has an apparent flow that is obviously intentional:
So how did Marclay end up making a 24-hour-long video artwork? (He's clear in saying it's not a film, since it does not have a beginning or an end like a film: "It begins when you walk in and ends when you walk out.") Stepping back in time further, this clip from the television show Night Music shows the "turntablist" at work creating soundscapes from records:
So Marclay's love for and experience with sound collages is really at the root of his art, and "The Clock" is as much about sound as the moving images. Hence it's being shown at Lincoln Center in an enclosed space that lets the sounds be clearly heard. This staging of the film unfortunately limits the occupancy to 96 people at any one time. Combined with the free admission, this means there will most likely be lines for its 16-day run, especially if people, like me, watch it for four hours at a time. "The Clock" runs from July 13 until August 1, showing 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the week (minus Mondays) and for 24 hours on weekends. Highly recommended and worth any wait.
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News Library
Public-private alliances build economic momentum in West Africa
Alliance-building is one of the hallmarks of the USAID West Africa Trade Hub, as underlined by two high-profile conferences this spring for groups it helped found: the Global Shea Alliance and the Borderless Alliance.
In what has become a major industry event, the fifth annual shea conference, "Shea 2012: Shared Value," brought to Benin 420 stakeholders in shea, an African nut-based oil increasingly mixed into Western cosmetics and confectionary. Co-organized by the Trade Hub, the Global Shea Alliance and the Benin Association for Export Promotion, the April conference cemented consensus on establishing a shea nut quality program and a launched a new initiative to increase the use of shea in the U.S. food industry.
"If the Global Shea Alliance did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it," said Mamatou Djire, who operates a shea company in Mali and is a member of the Global Shea Alliance Executive Committee. "The shea industry is important to 200 million people in West Africa, directly and indirectly. The Alliance is the platform to improve the industry, and we are happy to see that it is thriving."
Read more about the conference and hear directly from attendees.
In May, more than 175 public and private sector stakeholders gathered in Cote d'Ivoire for the first Borderless conference to affirm dialogue and advocacy as means to tackle transport and logistics difficulties. They also elected the Borderless Alliance's first executive committee with leading regional companies in key positions, including Nestle and Olam International.
Since 2000, West Africa has seen unprecedented economic growth. But, attendees said, what if the region's business environment actually encouraged regional trade rather than made it so challenging to traders?
The potential is enormous, said Jean-Louis Billon, president of Cote d'Ivoire's Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
"Today regional trade represents 12 percent of all trade in West Africa," Billon said. "That's compared to 45 percent in South America, 54 percent in North America, 58 percent in Asia and 64 percent in Europe."
Read more about the conference and hear attendees' impressions.
The Trade Hub also helped create the African Cashew Alliance, which will hold "The Future is Now!" the 7th African Cashew Alliance Annual Conference and the World Cashew Expo12 in Cotonou, Benin from September 17-20. Learn more.
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a spot of beauty...
... amidst this.
I've been using the phrase 'the winter of our discontent', just cause I like the sound of it, but frankly, we are a little bit tired of the grey. We fully acknowledge that as Californians, we really have no room for such complaints, but we miss the garden.
Seems we've had far more freezes-- and deeper-- than usual, and no rain, and things are looking much deader than they should. Some things which usually bounce back in spring are looking not-so-bouncy.


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"We are not drifting, not with one of us still left holding the line. And the wind that has moved you to set your sails lifting, blows cold on the one who got cut loose behind." (Ralph McTell)
The song above is about a love affair ending, but it's been going round my head all week. Without any warning, the second of my two children announced he was moving out and moving away. It hit me like a punch. I wasn't prepared. The elder had quietly left a few weeks earlier but not far away and, while one was still there, it felt like they both were.
If I thought about it logically, they were barely ever there. The lives of middle-aged schoolteachers and two young men rarely move in the same timeframe. But other things were there – an overflowing washing basket, the smell of surreptitious fags, bacon fat. And that will go. My house is going to be clean and tidy and quiet. And I can't bear it.
Nothing can prepare you for the birth of your children and, just as they have no idea of the disruption they bring when they arrive, equally, they have no idea of the pain they cause when they leave. Just as well. It wouldn't do to worry them, or worse, make them feel obliged to stay. We've all met the lonely older people who stayed at home with their parents and have no life after the parent dies. I don't want that for my kids but I'm not ready to part with them either.
So, I'm randomly crying: the Winnie-the-Pooh sign saying, "X's Room" was enough to set me off today, the day before it was a favourite mug.
I find it hard to believe their childhood's over. And harder still to accept that my role is on the sidelines of their lives now. I'll get used to it…all parents must – but I'm not going to pretend I like it.


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Retaining Your Rights as an Author
When a work is published, you may give up your rights to the copying and distribution of your own work.
If you contract with a publisher, the publisher typically controls the publication of your original work and assumes copyright of the work. Although this saves you much of the burden of advertising, producing, and distributing your work, you may give up some or all of the rights you originally held that directly affect your role as educator and scholar.
For example, unless you receive permission from the publisher, and depending upon a fair use judgment, you may no longer have the right to :
- authorize copies of your work for inclusion in a course pack
- place a digital copy of your work on eReserves, a course web site (e.g. Canvas), or on the college's or a professional society's web site or digital archive
- distribute a copy (in print or via email or the internet) to colleagues and students .
What can you do to retain your rights when having a worked published?
- Negotiate with a publisher to retain your rights in connection to any personal, professional or non-profit educational activities for which you may want to make and control copies of your work
- Add an "author amendment" or "author addendum" to the publishing agreement to retain rights. More resources are available on our Author Rights Agreements & Addenda page
- Grant the College basic rights for use of your work on its web sites (Canvas, eReserves, etc.).
- Explicity retain ownership of your content
- Grant only those rights that the publisher strictly requires to publish the work.
- Keep all other rights, specifically those of value to you (such as making unlimited copies for educational purposes at the College or elsewhere).
Read all the agreements carefully before you sign them.
- Negotiate to keep those rights which are important to you.
Having raised the issue of your authorial rights, send the publisher a copy of the author amendment or addendum that you would like to include in your contract.
- Once you have reached agreement on the language of the provisions, write a cover letter acknowledging the publisher's cooperation and noting the inclusion of the amendment/addendum. Then mail the contract, amendment, and cover letter to the publisher.
- Get a signed acceptance of your amendment confirmed by the publisher.
Keep a copy of all paperwork for your records.
- Even if you are unable to obtain the right to post your work to your web site or institutional repository now, the publisher may grant those rights in the future. Retain a copy of your work so it may be easily posted at a later date.


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A few weeks ago I attended my very first bridal event. Why did I go? Why not? I didn't have much else to do. I had been spending way too much time on the computer and was feeling the need to get out. But why else did I go? Because they advertised that they had a focus on tablescapes. I thought, "This was what I need!" I had no idea about how to decorate our tables. This could be my needed inspiration. And well, it turned out to be so!
When I first entered the space I saw exactly what I came for: tables set up two different ways. One side was for the vintage-loving bride (me) and the other was for the modern gal (not so much me!). I was really inspired by the use of gold, pinks and aqua. The menu cards were hand drawn with glitter lettering (how'd they do that!!). And the retro pink coconut cake was just so Marie Antoinette cool.
The only bummer was that this was the extent of the tablescapes. Darn! Just one?! It took me two hours to get there from New Jersey. In total it took me only 20 minutes inside looking at stuff, talking to vendors–but this vintage tablescape was worth it..right?
After cruising around on 100 Layer Cake, I noticed that they posted pictures from the event. Have a look and which do you prefer? To the left is Modern and to the right is Vintage. Below is a picture I took myself of another beautiful bouquet that inspired me. It was at a vendor's station advertising calligraphy arranged by Bloom Floral (I think).
If you are thinking about attending a bridal event–go for it! It really does help to go see things in-person and talk to people in the business. At the bottom is the real reason to go–the perks! Lots and lots of samples. I was on such a sugar high when I left it was spectacular. Truffles, cheese, cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes, chocolate, cupcakes! Mmmm…yum! I received a number of follow up phone calls from people. But since I am not having my wedding around here it really limits what I need help with. I wish I could take up any of those cupcake vendors ;-}


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Nick Ross
Nick started dancing Salsa in 2007, and since 2008 has been a keen Salsero and Salsa DXer - attending classes in the UK and abroad!
It was the social and fun aspects of Salsa dancing and lessons that attracted him initially - as well as his love of music. Meeting up with regular Salsa goers of all ages over the years at different events accross the UK brings about a great opportunity to meet new people and catch up with old friends he has made.
He projects this fun and social atmosphere in the Salsa DX classes that he teaches. As well as Salsa, Nick also enjoys the "other" latin dances such as Bachata and ChaCha.
He has a background in teaching & coaching Skater hockey, which he did for 15 years, where he took the Great Britain woman's team to International tournaments across Europe.
Nick started teaching Salsa DX in May 2009 and since then has built a loyal following at his classes and has now joined the Abanico Salsa team to start teaching "Intro. to Latin" dances and DJing in Torquay, and Salsa classes across the region.


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I called this thing My Best Human Face not only because that's one of my favorite lines on the album, but because I sometimes don't know who I am, or if I'm as kind and generous and happy as other people. The title speaks to the vague theme of identity-confusion that is loosely woven into the songs - a reoccurring theme I recognized only after the writing was done. It's a confusion which I think exists for most of us, sure, but that doesn't mean it has to be the campfire in the middle of our circle; we don't have to stare into the flames. It's simply not that important. At end of it all, these are good-time songs, meant to inspire good times in the listener. They were made joyously, with a stubborn love of music at their centre. And while some of the content might be dark or sad, the memories of making these songs brings only gladness and gratitude, and it's their construction, not deconstruction, that I want to celebrate now.
- Spencer Krug
Following up the stunning Julia With Blue Jeans On, Spencer Krug delights us with five more majestic tunes, newly written and never before released.
Released physically on vinyl only, this EP is the perfect collectible for all Moonface audiophiles.
The quietly stunning Julia With Blue Jeans On is the fourth Moonface release, bringing a degree of intimacy and self-reflection unlike anything Krug has produced to date.
The lyrical theme of Moonface's With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery, recorded with Helsinki prog kraut rock band Siinai, is heartbreak. According to Krug, it was not planned, but became obvious halfway through the writing process. Some recently battered, still mildly swollen heart snuck its way into the first lyrics written, so he went with it. He wrote songs based on his own experiences with heartache, stories told to him by friends, and drummed up scenarios of ill-fated love that were absolute fiction. Altogether, the inevitability of life's flawed and failed relationships, the shitty feelings we feel as a result, and the people we become (ugly, brave, violent, crawling like babies back toward the womb) while trying to deal with those feelings are the ideas explored in these songs. It is not a particularly original theme, but one Krug felt worth digging into, perhaps deeper than he ever has before.
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Moonface is not a band, just plain half-old me, in any solo or collaborative projects I'm involved in from now until whenever. In early 2010 the first EP was released on Jagjaguwar. It was called Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums, and sounds as the title suggests. This past winter, trying to keep sane in my snowed-in Montreal home, I recorded another solo record. This new one is an LP called Organ Music not Vibraphone like I'd Hoped and is due out August 2nd, 2011. -Spencer Krug
This is physically available only in the vinyl format (approximately 20 minutes of music on a single side of a 12-inch record). It is also available in digital formats. The vinyl edition and some digital editions will be accompanied with a dream journal, on which the music is based.


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We'll be participating in the Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge on May 5, 2019, in support of Wellspring Calgary. We're excited to take on the challenge and look forward to pushing ourselves to climb the 775 vertical feet (1204 steps) of The BOW building in downtown Calgary in full duty gear.
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I can do math, but I cannot remember the name of my second child without saying the first child's name first, and sometimes the third child's as well. I can rise up singing, and I can fall flat on my face and what do you think that means? Do you think it means I miss you? Do you think it means I am drinking in the attic, naked and out of my mind, do you think it means regret? Do you think I care what you think?
That is all I had to say to you tonight and that is a better conversation than many I've had without you since I don't know when. Truth – I am not drinking naked in the attic, playing old Tom Waits songs and chain smoking, and if I was, I'd be enjoying it and not worrying about you, or your dumb dog – how is old Blue, anyway? I guess he'd be older than dirt or dead by now, older than dirt and sitting outside that tavern where Sheila sang every Thursday night, Cry me a river and all that. There was a tavern, there always is, and one night, after midnight, I left that tavern, you sitting on a stool tapping your cigarette pack against the bar, leaning in to tell something funny, something sexy, something completely full of shit to a woman with apricot hair, and her name was Jennifer, I think, or Juniper.
Then suddenly twenty years or so passed and I'm back visiting, expecting that the old place was torn down and replaced with an oxygen bar or sushi or something, but it's still there, only place in Clearwater where folks are still allowed to smoke. Changed the city limits so the Blue Elvis Lounge is just outside of jurisdiction, smoke still hanging over the pool tables like a heavy fog. Patsy Cline's ghost has rubbed the bar smooth and shiny, the lights have been blue in here for 50 years.
After midnight, the tone in the Blue Elvis Lounge changes. A sea change – old smokers going home to an early death, young smokers filing in, throwing themselves into the sagging booths, setting up mikes, opening the doors, skinny young men in straight thin pants and their pale girlfriends. And once upon a time there was a tavern, she reads, this young Sheila, whose name is Colleen, and then Travis and then Brynn, and they slam their words together and smoke, slam their words together and smoke, until after hours and then they leave, on little cat feet, and continue this conversation at all night coffee shops, same as it ever was.
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Vsetin, Czech Republic, Oct 2008 - Most of the Vsetin Romany families whom the Town Hall resettled to the Jeseniky and Prostejov areas and to whom it provided interest-free loans for the purchase of houses have failed to meet their commitments, Town Hall spokeswoman Eva Stejskalova said.
She said if the Romanies failed to repay their loans properly they could lose the roof over their head.
The Town Hall as the owner of the new houses could order their distraint and sell them, Stejskalova said.
The Romany families were moved out from a dilapidating house in the centre of Vsetin, mostly populated by rent-defaulters two years ago when Jiri Cunek, current Czech Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the junior government Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), was Vsetin mayor.
He was sharply criticised for his step.
According to the contracts the Romanies signed with the Town Hall they are to repay the loans in monthly installments of 1500 to 2330 crowns.
"The interest-free loans worth between 350,000 and 557,000 crowns were provided to eight Romany families although they were not entitled to alternative housing and the Vsetin court confirmed this," Stehlikova said.
However, only one family is repaying the debt properly while the others have failed to pay the installments by the due dates set out in the contracts, she said.
There is a several months delay in the payment, Stejskalova said.
She said the town authorities had appealed on the Romanies to repay the loan arrears within a fortnight.
If they fail to do so, the matter will be taken to court, the Romany families will be faced with execution and the town will sell the houses, Stejskalova said.
"The Town took an accommodating step when it provided the loans to the families because that had no legal right to alternative housing," Vsetin Deputy Mayor Lubomir Gajdusek said.
Of the 64 families resettled two years ago, 22 have found new housing in the town and several families were moved to the Jesenik and Prostejov areas.
The remaining families were moved to container-like flats on the town's outskirts.
Stejskalova said a mere 42 resettled families were paying the rent on time.
The resettlement of Romanies from the centre of Vsetin was criticised by Romany associations and human rights activists.
Czech ombudsman Otakar Motejl also criticised the Town Hall saying that it made a mistake.
However, Vsetin officials have dismissed the criticism from the very beginning and defended their decision as correct.
Source: CTK


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"This volume presents a checklist of twentieth-century criticisms of the English novel from Defoe through Hardy. The list, which closes with 1974, has two parts: an alphabetical listing of novelists and novels and a listing of general studies of the novel." Sources of criticism of such writers as Austen, Bronte (all 3 of them), John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Love Peacock, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and many, many others. Black cloth, 202 pages (including bibliography). Bumped corners and light general wear.
Title: The English Novel, Twentieth Century Criticism, Volume 1: Defoe Through Hardy
Categories: Literary Criticism,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Chicago, The Swallow Press: 1976
ISBN Number: 0-8040-0742-X
ISBN Number 13: 9780804007429
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall
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Keywords: CRITICISM, CRITICS, LITERATURE, ENGLISH NOVEL, DANIEL DEFOE, THOMAS HARDY, JANE AUSTEN, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, EMILY ANNE JOHN CLELAND, WILKIE COLLINS, CHARLES DICKENS, GEORGE ELIOT, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, ELIZABETH GASKELL, OLIVER GOLDSMITH


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Andy Timmons / Mesa/Boogie U.S. Clinic Tour – August/September 2011
Meet Texas Guitar Great, Tone Master & Favored Nations Recording Artist, ANDY TIMMONS, as he performs at the following locations in a rare, informational clinic setting, featuring music from his latest Favored Nations release, RESOLUTION (DVD release, RESOLUTION LIVE) and critically acclaimed debut release, ear X-tasy. Plus, as a very special bonus, you'll be the first to hear some new material off his highly anticipated upcoming release, ANDY TIMMONS BAND PLAYS SGT. PEPPER. This is Andy's epic new trio rendering of the legendary Beatles, Sgt. Pepper record, arranged and performed as you've never heard or imagined and only possible by one of the world's most remarkable guitar virtuosos! Andy has truly created a "masterpiece of a masterpiece" that every Beatles and ATB fan will be anxious to add to their collection.
Andy will also share his secrets for getting amazing tone, featuring his favorite amps and cabs – The Mesa Lone Star, Stiletto Deuce II and TransAtlantic TA-30, mated with the legendary Mesa Rectifier, Lone Star & TransAtlantic cabinets. Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the world's most incredible players perform up-close and personal and find out how you can improve your tone!
Players such as Eric Johnson, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani have invited Andy to perform with them – Come to any of these events and you'll quickly understand why….
Admission is free, sponsored by Mesa/Boogie and your local Mesa/Boogie Dealer. Admission/Seating is limited and will go fast so make your plans to attend today! Don't miss it!!!
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Holiday Wardrobe: Little Black Playsuit
While I am a more than prone to a little black dress (or eight, at last count), this Max & Co playsuit is the one little black number that has truly stood the test of time.
In silky smooth crepe de chine, this simple draped black playsuit is universally flattering. It falls to the mid-thigh, ideal for work or evening, and the loose fit is perfect for skimming over the odd food baby.
I picked up this style in Siena a couple of years ago, and am still wearing it regularly. It is wonderfully versatile and very well made. You can find a similar black playsuit here, and this cross back Missguided one is a slightly sexier take.
This holiday outfit was my option for dinner at Calistoga's Jole restaurant. Jole was the one restaurant I was particularly looking forward to, having been told to expect a menu similar to Nu in Girona (the best restaurant I have been to in a good while- find out more here). Unfortunately I was disappointed.
In fairness the food was well suited to me, given the smaller portion sizes, but my family were not overly impressed.
Given that I can't remember what I ordered, and that I didn't even attempt to instagram it, suggests that the meal was pretty forgettable.
For this so-so dinner I wore the playsuit with my favourite Zara two-tone heels (these Kurt Geiger ones are just as gorgeous- in either nude or white), an & Other Stories cuff and carried my Mulberry mini Alexa- the perfect size for evenings.


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Simon Sadler
Professor of Design
He has been a UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow, a Fellow of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and a Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education, the Advisory Board of The Architect's Newspaper, and the Advisory Board to the Architectural Humanities Research Association.
Sadler's research currently focuses on the holistic and libertarian tendencies of Californian, British and Italian design. Recent publications include:
- "TEDification versus Edification," Places (January 2014)
- "Autonomy's Ghost and General Education," Architectural Histories 1.16 (2013)
- "Steve Jobs: Architect," Places (March 2013)
- "The Varieties of Capitalist Experience" and "Spectacular Failure: the architecture of late capitalism at the Millennium Dome, 2000 CE," in Peggy Deamer, ed., Architecture and Capitalism (New York: Routledge, 2013)
- "Archigram's Los Angeles: Sentimentality for the Future," in Sylvia Lavin and Kimberli Meyer, eds., Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: MAK Center and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013)
- "A Container and its Contents: Re-Reading Tomás Maldonado's Design, Nature, and Revolution: Toward a Critical Ecology," Rm 1000, 1 (Spring / Fall 2013)
- "Plug-in City," Beyond Sant'Elia. A Hundred Years of Urban Visions (Como: Villa Olmo, 2013)
- "Architecture—An Art of Alteration," Nordic Journal of Architecture, 2.3 (2012)
- "Diagrams of Countercultural Architecture," Design and Culture, 4.3 (2012)
- "A Culture of Connection," Boom: A Journal of California, 2.1 (2012)
- "The Dome and the Shack: The Dialectics of Hippie Enlightenment," in Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, Cal Winslow, eds., West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California (Oakland: PM Press / Retort 2012)
- "Warren Chalk" and "Archigram," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
- "Matrix vs. Möbius: An Architectural Historian's Guide to Recycling," Dédalo, 8 (2011)
- "L'Architecture dans le Salon: The Civic Architecture of a Projective Modernism," in Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman, eds., Architecture from Neo-Avant-garde to Postmodern in Britain and Beyond (New Haven: Yale, 2010)
- "An Architecture of the Whole," Journal of Architectural Education, 61.4 (2008)
- "Drop City Revisited," Journal of Architectural Education, 58.1 (2006)
Recent keynote and guest lectures include:
- "Archigram's Los Angeles," Graham Foundation, Chicago, 2014
- "Holism: an Incomplete History," College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley 2013
- "Architecture—A Hermeneutics of Alteration?" and "A Natural History of the City," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2011
- "Delirious California," Architectural Humanities Research Association, Cardiff, 2011
- "Better City, Better Life: New Babylon and Beyond," University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal, 2010
- "After Archigram," Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, 2009.
Publications and Work
His publications include
- Archigram: Architecture without Architecture (MIT Press, 2005)
- Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (Architectural Press, 2000, co-editor, Jonathan Hughes)
- The Situationist City (MIT Press, 1998)
He is Affiliated Faculty with the Graduate Programs in Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Art History, Transportation Studies, and the Environmental Humanities Supercluster, and is Faculty Mentor for students in the University Honors Program. He is a Mellon Researcher at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA).
He was co-convener of the symposium
- "Icon And Anonymity: What Is Californian Architectural History?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012, with Volker Welter
- UC Multicampus Research Group "California Architecture & Design," 2012-13, with Christina Cogdell and James Housefield
- The academic session "Driving History: Cars In/As Architecture," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, 2011, with Gabrielle Esperdy "The Whole Earth" Symposium at the University of California, 2006, with Douglas Kahn
In 2011 he co-curated the photographic show "Roberta Price: Across the Great Divide" at the Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, with Renny Pritikin.
More details and downloads of his work can be found at ucdavis.academia.edu/SimonSadler
Simon Sadler teaches the history and theory of architecture, design and urbanism, and researches ideologies of design since the mid-twentieth century.
His current courses at UC Davis include DES 221, Theory and Issues in Design; DES 40B, History of Design: Ideology; AHI 168, Great Cities: London, Paris, Vienna in the Nineteenth-Century; AHI 184, Twentieth Century Architecture; and AHI 187, Contemporary Architecture.
Previously, he taught at the University of Nottingham; Trinity College, University of Dublin; Birmingham City University; and the Open University.


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I want to tell you about three things.
"Agrippa was not unfamiliar with inns; on the contrary, he frequented them willingly and a few small stones were sufficient to pay his bills because, as Del Rio says, he gave them the appearance of good money in the eyes of the landlord. This time, however, he had lost his magic powers and was abandoned by all except his dog. Realizing that the end was drawing near, Agrippa himself grew tired of even this last, faithful companion, and brusquely cast him away. Giovio gives his exact words: 'Get away, damned beast, you have who brought me to utter damnation!' The meaning of the anecdote is clear: the dog, which was of course black, was no less than the incarnation of the devil. As soon as his victim came to his senses and realized the damnation brought him by his companion, the pet ran and plunged headlong into the River Saone, splashing and giving off sulphurous fumes."
"Even compressed, folded, and enveloped, elements are powers that enlarge and distend the world. It hardly suffices to speak of a succession of limits or of frames, for every frame marks a direction of space that coexists with the others, and each form is linked to unlimited space in all directions at once. It is a broad and floating world, at least on its base, a scene or an immense plateau. But this continuity of the arts, this collective unity in extension, goes out and beyond, toward an entirely different unity that is comprehensive and spiritual, punctual, is indeed conceptual: the world as a pyramid or cone, that joins its broad material base, lost in vapors…"
"But more curious than anything was a low cloud of yellow-grey smoke or vapor, and, underlying everything, a dull confused murmuring" (Ypres Salient).


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Russell Teibert shows his worth for Whitecaps
The wisdom of the crowd suggested that, after dropping Gershon Koffie to the bench last week, Martin Rennie would consider that to be a message well and truly sent to the young Ghanaian concerning his two recent poor performances and restore him to the starting eleven at the expense of Russell Teibert.
After all, Teibert had been competent in the 1-1 tie at San Jose but had done nothing to suggest that he had the potential to be a genuine threat to Koffie's place in the starting eleven.
Martin Rennie clearly differed on this point however and, whether he felt that the Canadian deserved a chance to show what he could do at BC Place, or whether he felt that his performance in training merited another run out, it was Teibert who got the nod for the game against Real Salt Lake on Saturday.
And the youngster didn't let his manager down.
Playing as the most central of the three deeper forwards, Teibert made numerous runs across the Salt Lake back line from the first minute to the last and that constant challenge to the opposition said as much about his overall work ethic as it did about his fitness.
As with any young player there were flaws to his game of course; he displayed a tendency to rush a pass (especially in early portion of the game) and struggled throughout to beat his man when he had the ball at his feet yet, perhaps surprisingly, his preference to receive the ball with his back to goal and the sheer amount of ground that he covered, both combined to make him a very passable replacement for the injured Kenny Miller.
What Teibert also brought to the team was an effective set-piece delivery as his in swinging free-kicks from the right (a mirror image of Camilo's from the left) caused Salt Lake problems throughout the game, but perhaps the most impressive aspect of his whole performance was that he actually wanted the ball all the time.
It can often be easy for a youngster to step back slightly and allow the more experienced players to carry the burden of possession, but Teibert didn't do that once and even after a mistake he would still be running into space, arms aloft, shouting for the ball.
There was almost a hint of David Beckham about his game on Saturday. Not in the "he will soon be modeling underwear and marrying a pop star" sense, but in the "this is a player who is prepared to get the absolute maximum out of slightly limited resources" sense.
And that isn't intended to damn him with faint praise; it's a recognition of the time that he has clearly put in to honing the aspects of his game that can make him the most effective player that he can be.
Teibert won't play that well every week; he may not even get selected for the next game, but what he showed against Real Salt Lake is that he has earned the right to be considered a genuine contender for a starting spot for every game this season.
He also made Martin Rennie's options pleasantly more numerous and his selection headaches unpleasantly more acute.
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Download Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 1 (PDF) >
In a groundbreaking decision, the Central District of California became the first court to hold that antitrust violators who received amnesty from criminal prosecution were not entitled to the damages-limiting benefits of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 20041 ("ACPERA") in a parallel civil litigation. In re Aftermarket Automotive Products Antitrust Litigation, 09 MDL 2007 (C.D. Cal. Aug. 26, 2013). Specifically, the court determined that, notwithstanding their status as criminal amnesty recipients under the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division's ("DOJ") Corporate Leniency Program, civil defendants – a parent company and its subsidiary – were not entitled to receive a reduction in damages under ACPERA because they had failed to provide timely cooperation to plaintiffs in the civil litigation.
By way of background, Congress enacted ACPERA to increase the penalties for antitrust violators and to assist prosecutors and the victims of antitrust violations in pursuing the wrongdoers. Price-fixing conspiracies are notoriously difficult to detect without cooperation from at least one participant in the illegal scheme. In order to encourage cartel members to self-report illegal activity to the DOJ, the DOJ has long employed a corporate "leniency" policy, which provides amnesty to the first conspiracy participant that reports the criminal activity and cooperates with the DOJ.
As a further inducement to the cartel member to turn itself and its co-conspirators in, and to assist the victims in recovering their losses, ACPERA gives the leniency applicant the option of limiting its civil damages exposure by cooperating with the plaintiffs. Instead of being jointly and severally liable for three times the amount of all damages caused by all members of the conspiracy, as otherwise required by Section 4(a) of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. § 15(a)) and governing case law, a leniency applicant that has cooperated satisfactorily with the civil plaintiffs is liable only for actual – not treble – damages and, in addition, only for damages from its own product sales – not from the sales of its co-conspirators. ACPERA §213(A).
However, in order to qualify for these ACPERA benefits, the leniency applicant must show that it provided "satisfactory cooperation" to plaintiffs in the civil action, "which cooperation shall include:"
(1) "providing a full account to the claimant of all facts known to the applicant . . . that are potentially relevant to the civil action;"
(2) "furnishing all documents or other items potentially relevant to the civil action that are in the possession, custody or control of the applicant . . . wherever they are located;" and
(3) "using its best efforts" to procure and facilitate cooperating individuals to be available for interviews, depositions or testimony and to respond "completely and truthfully, without making any attempt either falsely to protect or falsely to implicate any person or entity and without intentionally withholding any potentially relevant information."
In In re Aftermarket Automotive Products Antitrust Litigation, the court emphasized that a critical factor in determining whether the ACPERA applicant's cooperation is satisfactory is the "timeliness of the applicant's initial cooperation with the claimant." It further noted that mere compliance with discovery obligations under the federal rules was not tantamount to satisfactory cooperation under ACPERA. Ultimately, the court concluded that the amnesty applicants were not entitled to ACPERA benefits because, notwithstanding numerous proffers and the production of tens of thousands of pages of documents, they failed to timely provide plaintiffs with a "full account of facts potentially relevant to the conspiracy."
1. Pub. L. No. 108-237, § 213(a)-(b), 118 Stat. 661, 666-669 (June 22, 2004), as amended by Pub. L. No. 111-190, 124 Stat. 1275 (June 9, 2010).
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Sursă: Freeform crocheted bag and winter sales
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Freeform crocheted bag and winter sales
Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays!
I want to introduce you my new crocheted bag:)
#freeform #crochet #bag #purse
For more pictures follow the link from the first picture.
And now it's time for winter sales!
Etsy: use coupon code wintersales at check out for a 25% discount, available until January, 31. All items will be shipped after January 6.
How my shop looks these days:
And more on links (just click a photo and it will redirect you to my shop, or the direct link on the right of this page).
For alittlemarket.com: sales start on January 6, without any code, same discount already set it!
For my latest work and wips, you can check my FB page, or we will meet on Christmas. Now I have to go, I have a lot to do:(((
#crochet #beading #sales #etsy #handmadefor sale
Freeform crochet hats and more
Hi everyone! I didn't post lately but I worked hard: 2 freeform hats with flowers and spirals, and a skirt, a lattice bracelet and more.
Let me introduce you my hats first:
this one is sold, somewhere in transit. It is a double #freeform #crochet #hat, the back side is dc green.
And the second one, same colors, different shape and flowers:
this one is still available in my etsy shop here. I will double it, I think.
It was really fun to make them. How to do it? Hmm, first decide the color palette and the shape. After these steps, just be crazy, play with yarn, anything is allowed, no more rules. For tips and tricks use any available resource: some free resources are on internet: embellishments on Renate Kirkpatrick's blog or on Pinterest.
Now my crazy #winter #crochet #skirt:
available here and in my etsy shop.
And a pretty lattice #bracelet, red, obvious, for Christmas:
available on my a little market shop only:here.
About my mittens and some little snowflakes feel free to brows my shops and/or my old posts:) I will be back soon I hope with news!