text:
What Questions
Have Disappeared?
will life be like after the revolution?"
The disappearance of this question isn't only a trace of the deletion
of the left. It is also a measure of our loss of faith in secular
redemption. We don't look forward anymore to radical transformation.
Perhaps it's a result of a century of disappointments: from the
revolution of 1917 to Stalin and the fall of communism; from the
Spanish Civil War to Franco; from Mao's long march to Deng's proclamation
that to get rich is glorious. Perhaps it's a result of political
history. But there was more that had to do with psychological
transformation. Remember Norman O. Brown's essay, "The place of
apocalypse in the life of the mind"? Remember R. D. Laing's turn
on breakdown as breakthrough? Remember the fascination with words
like 'metamorphosis' and 'metanoia'?
Maybe we're just getting older and all too used to being the people
we are. But I'd like to think we're getting wiser and less naive
about the possibility of shedding our pasts overnight.
It's important to distinguish between political liberalism on
the one hand and a faith in discontinuous transformation on the
other. If we fail to make this distinction, then forgetting about
the revolution turns (metanoically) into the familiar swing to
the right. Old radicals turn reactionary. If we're less dramatic
about our beliefs, if we're more cautious about distinguishing
between revolutionary politics and evolutionary psychology, then
we'll retain our faith in the dream that we can do better.
Just not overnight.
p.s. Part of the passion for paradigms and thier shiftings may
derive from displaced revolutionary fervor. If you yearn for transfiguration,
but can't find it in religion or politics, then you'll seek it
elsewhere, like the history of science.
p.p.s. There is one place where talk of transformation
is alive and kicking, if not well: The executive suite. The business
press is full of books about corporate transformation, re-engineering
from a blank sheet of paper, reinvention from scratch. Yes, corporate
America is feeling the influence of the sixties as boomers reach
thte board room. And this is not a bad thing. For, just as the
wisdom to distinguish between revolutionary politics and evolutionary
psychology can help us keep the faith in marginal improvements
in the human condition, so the tension between greying warriors
for change and youthful stalwarts of the status quo will keep
us from lurching left or right.
JAMES OGILVY is co-founder and managing director of Global Business
Network; taught philosophy at Yale and Williams; served as director
of research for the Values and Lifestyles Program at SRI International;
author of Many Dimensional Man, and Living without a
Fermat's question, 'is it true that there are no integers x, y,
z and n, all greater than 2, such that x^n + y^n = z^n?', F? for
short, raised in the 17th century, disappear when Andrew Wiles
answered it affirmatively by a proof of Fermat's theorem F in
Did Fermat's question, "is it true that there are no integers
x, y, z and n, all greater than 2, such that x^n + y^n = z^n?",
F? for short, raised in the 17th century, disappear when Andrew
Wiles answered it affirmatively by a proof of Fermat's theorem
F in 1995?
answer is no.
The question F? can be explained to every child, but the proof
of F is extremely sophisticated requiring techniques and results
way beyond the reach of elementary arithmetic, thus raising the
quest for conceptually simpler proofs. What is going on here,
why do such elementary theorems require such intricate machinery
for their proof? The fact of the truth of F itself is hardly of
vital interest. But, in the wake of Goedel's incompleteness proof
of 1931, F? finds it place in a sequence of elementary number
theoretic questions for which there provably cannot exist any
algorithmic proof procedure!
Or take the question D? raised by the gut feeling that there are
more points on a straight line segment than there are integers
in the infinite sequence 1,2,3,4,.... Before it can be answered
the question what is meant by "more" must be dealt with. This
done by the 18th Century's progress in the Foundations, D? became
amenable to Cantor's diagonal argument, establishing theorem D.
But this was by no means the end of the question!
The proof gave rise to new fields of investigation and new ideas.
In particular, the Continuum hypothesis C?, a direct descendant
of D? was shown to be "independent" of the accepted formal system
of set theory. A whole new realm of questions sprang up; questions
X? that are answered by proofs of independence, bluntly by: "that
depends" on what you are talking about, what system you
are using, on your definition of the word "is" and so forth. With
this they give rise to comparative studies of systems without
as well as with the assumption X added. Euclid's parallel axiom
in geometry, is the most popular early example.
What about the question as to the nature of infinitesimal's, a
question that has plagued us ever since Leibniz. Euler and his
colleagues had used them with remarkable success boldly following
their intuition. But in the 18th Century mathematicians became
self conscious. By the time we were teaching our calculus classes
by means of epsilon's, delta's and Dedekind cuts some of us might
have thought that Cauchy, Weierstrass and Dedekind had chased
the question away. But then along came logicians like Abraham
Robinson with a new take on it with so-called non standard quantities
another favorite of the popular science press.
Finally, turning to a controversial issue; the question of the
existence of God can neither be dismissed by a rational "No" nor
by a politically expedient "Yes". Actually as a plain yes-or-no
question it ought to have disappeared long ago. Nietzsche, in
particular, did his very best over a hundred years ago to make
it go away. But the concept of God persists and keeps a maze of
questions afloat, such as "who means what by Him"?, "do we need
a boogie man to keep us in line"?, "do we need a crutch to hold
despair at bay"? and so forth, all questions concerning human
Good questions do not disappear, they mature, mutate and spawn
new questions.
VERENA HUBER-DYSON, is a mathematician who taught at UC Berkeley
in the early sixties, then at the U of Illinois' at Chicago Circle,
before retiring from the University of Calgary. Her research papers
on the interface between Logic and Algebra concern decision problems
in group theory. Her monograph Goedel's theorem: a workbook
on formalization is an attempt at a self contained interdisciplinary
introduction to logic and the foundations of mathematics.
Susan Blackmore
we survive death?"
question was long considered metaphysical, briefly became a scientific
question, and has now disappeared again. Victorian intellectuals
such as Frederic Myers, Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Gurney founded
the Society for Psychical Research in 1882 partly because they
realised that the dramatic claims of spiritualist mediums could
be empirically tested. They hoped to prove "survival"
and thus overturn the growing materialism of the day. Some,
like Faraday, convinced themselves by experiment that the claims
were false, and lost interest. Others, like Myers, devoted their
entire lives to ultimately inconclusive research. The Society
continues to this day, but survival research has all but ceased.
suggest that no one asks the question any more because the answer
seems too obvious. To most scientists it is obviously "No",
while to most New Agers and religious people it is obviously "Yes".
But perhaps we should. The answer may be obvious (it's "No"
I'm an unreligious scientist) but its implications for
living our lives and dealing compassionately with other people
are profound.
BLACKMORE is a psychologist and ex-parapsychologist, who
when she found no evidence of psychic phenomena turned
her attention to why people believe in them. She is author of
several skeptical books on the paranormal and, more recently,
The Meme Machine.
can't girls/women do math?"
I take a couple of days off from reading email over Christmas
and when I next log on already there are over twenty responses
to the Edge question! Maybe the question we should
all be asking is "Doesn't anyone take time off any more?"
to questions that have disappeared, as a mathematician I hope
we've seen the last of the question "Why can't girls/women
do math?" With women now outnumbering men in mathematics
programs in most US colleges and universities, that old wives'
tale (old husbands' tale?) has surely been consigned to the garbage
can. Some recent research at Brown University confirmed what most
of us had long suspected: that past (and any remaining present)
performance differences were based on cultural stereotyping. (The
researchers found that women students performed worse at math
tests when they were given in a mixed gender class than when no
men were present. No communication was necessary to cause the
difference. The sheer presence of men was enough.)
I was enjoying my offline Christmas, Roger Schank already raised
the other big math question: Why do we make such a big deal of
math performance and of teaching math to everyone in the first
place? But with the educational math wars still raging, I doubt
seen the last of that one!
DEVLIN is a mathematician, writer, and broadcaster living in California.
His latest book is The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking
Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip.
does all the information mean?"
The ubiquity of upscale coffee houses has eliminated the need
to ask "Where can I get a cup of coffee?" But I suspect that the
question "What questions have disappeared?" is meant to elicit
even deeper and [perhaps] more meaningful responses.
The coffee house glut has been accompanied although with
no necessarily causal link by an avalanche of information
[or, at least, of data] and in the rush to obtain [or "to access"
groan] that information weve stopped asking "What
does it all mean?" It is as though raw data, in and of itself,
has real value, indeed all of the value, and thus there is no
need to stop, to assimilate, to ponder. We grasp for faster computers,
greater bandwidth, non-stop connectivity. We put computers in
every classroom, rewire schools. But, with the exception of a
great deal of concern about the business and marketing uses of
the new "information age," we pay precious little attention to
how the information can be used to change, or improve, our lives,
nor do we seem to take the time to slow down and deliberate upon
its meaning.
We wire the schools, but never ask what all those computers in
classrooms will be used for, or whether teachers know what to
do with them, or whether we can devise ways to employ the technology
to help people learn in new or better ways. We get cable modems,
or high-speed telephone lines, but dont think about what
we can do with them beyond getting more information faster. [Really,
does being able to watch the trailer for "Chicken Run" in a 2-inch
square window on the computer screen after a several minute long
download, constitute a major advance and if we could cut
the download time to several seconds, would that qualify?]
Most insidious, I think, is that the rush to get more information
faster almost forces people to avoid the act of thinking. Why
stop and try to make sense of the information weve obtained
when we can click on that icon and get still more data? And more.
KASPER, a physicist, is Associate Vice Provost for Research at
Columbia University and was Associate Director of the Superconducting
Super Collider Laboratory.
Jason McCabe Calacanis
long before all nations obey the basic principles of the human
rights as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
on December 10th, 1948?"
The distinctive Amnesty International arched sticker, with a burning
candle surrounded by a swoosh of barbed wire, seemed to adorn
every college dorm-room door, beat up Honda Accord, and office
bulletin board when I started college in the late '80s at Fordham
University. Human rights was the "in" cause. So, we all joined
Amnesty and watched our heroes including Bruce Springsteen, Sting,
and Peter Gabriel sing on the "Human Rights Now" tour (brought
to you, of course, by Reebok).
As quickly as it took center stage, however, human rights seemed
to fall off the map. Somewhere in the mid-90s, something stole
our fire and free time, perhaps it was the gold rush years of
the Internet or the end of the Cold War. The wild spread of entrepreneurship
and capitalism may have carried some democracy along with it.
Yet just because people are starting companies and economic markets
are opening up doesn't mean that there are fewer tortures, rapes,
and murders for political beliefs. (These kinds of false perceptions
may stem from giving places like China "Most Favored Nation" status).
Youth inspired by artists created the foundation of Amnesty's
success in the '80s, so maybe a vacuum of activist artists is
to blame for human rights disappearing from the collective consciousness.
Would a homophobic, misogynistic, and violent artist like Eminem
ever take a stand for anyone other than himself? Could anyone
take him seriously if he did? Britney Spears' fans might not have
a problem with her dressing in a thong at the MTV Music Awards
but how comfortable would they be if she addressed the issue of
the rape, kidnapping, and torture of young women in Sierra Leone?
Of course, you don't have to look around the world to find human-rights
abuses. Rodney King and Abner Louima taught us that human rights
is an important and pressing issue right in our backyard. (Because
of these examples, some narrow-minded individuals may see is as
only a race specific issue.) One bright spot in all of this, however,
is that the technology that was supposed to create a Big Brother
state, like video cameras, is now being used to police Big Brother
himself. (Check out witness.org and send them a check or
a video camera if you have the means.)
Eleanor Roosevelt considered her fight to create the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights her greatest accomplishment. How ashamed
would she be that 50 years has elapsed since her battle, and now,
no one seems to care.
McCABE CALACANIS is Editor and Publisher of Silicon Alley Daily;
The Digital Coast Weekly, Silicon Alley Reporter and Chairman
CEO, Rising Tide Studios.
Douglas Rushkoff
nothing sacred?"
seems to me weve surrendered the notion of the sacred to
those who only mean to halt the evolution of culture. Things we
call "sacred" are simply ideologies and truths so successfully
institutionalized that they seem unquestionable. For example,
the notion that sexual imagery is bad for young people to see
a fact never established by any psychological or anthropological
study Ive come across is accepted as God-ordained
fact, and used as a fundamental building block to justify censorship.
(Meanwhile, countless sitcoms in which parents lie to one another
are considered wholesome enough to earn "G" television
politicians claim to be "God-fearing" is meant
to signify that he has priorities greater than short-term political
gain. What most people dont realize is that, in the Bible
anyway, God-fearing is a distant second to God-loving. People
who were God-fearing only behaved ethically because they were
afraid of the Hebrew Gods wrath. This wasnt a sacred
relationship at all, but the self-interested avoidance of retaliation.
it seems that no place, and more importantly no
time is truly sacred. Our mediating technologies render us available
to our business associates at any hour, day or night. Any moment
spent thinking instead of spending, or laughing instead of working
is an opportunity missed. And the more time we sacrifice to production
and consumption, the less any alternative seems available to us.
radical proposal to combat the contraction of sacred time was
suggested in the book of Exodus, and it's called the Sabbath.
What if we all decided that for one day each week, we would refrain
from buying or selling anything? Would it throw America into a
recession? Maybe the ancients didn't pick the number seven out
of a hat. Perhaps they understood that human beings can only immerse
themselves in commerce for six days at a stretch before losing
touch with anything approaching the civil, social, or sacred.
RUSHKOFF is the author of Coercion, Media Virus, Playing the
Future, Ecstasy Club. Professor of Virtual Culture, New York
Henry Warwick
If Barbour's theory of Platonia is even roughly correct, then
everything exists in a timless universe, and therefore doesn't
actually "disappear". Therefore, all questions are always
asked, as everything is actually happening at once. I know that
doesn't help much, and it dodges the main thrust of the question,
but it's one support for my answer, if oblique.
Other than forgotten questions that disappear of their
own accord, or are in some dead language, or are too personal/particular/atomised
(i.e., What did you think of the latest excretion from Hollywood?
Is it snowing now? Why is that weirdo across the library reading
room looking at me?!?! When will I lose these 35 "friends"
who are perched on my belt buckle? etc.) questions don't really
disappear. They are asked again and again and are answered again
and again, and this is a very good thing. Three Year Olds will
always ask "Daddy, where do the stars come fwum?" And
daddys will always answer as best they can. Eventually, some little
three year old will grow into an adult astronomer and might find
even better answers than their daddy supplied them on a cold Christmas
night. And they will answer the same simple question with a long
involved answer, or possibly, a better and simpler answer. In
this way, questions come up again and again, but over time they
spin out in new directions with new answers.
It's important to not let questions disappear. By doubting the
obvious, examining the the same ground with fresh ideas, and questioning
recieved ideas, great strides in the collected knowledge of this
human project can be (and historically, have been) gained. When
we consign a question to the scrap heap of history we run many
risks risks of blind arrogance, deaf self righteousness,
and finally choking on the bland pablum of unquestioned dogma.
It's important to question the questions. It keeps the question
alive, as it refines the question. Question the questions, and
then reverse the process - question the questioning of questions.
Permit the mind everything, even if it seems repetitive. If you
spin your wheels long enough you'll blow a bearing or snap a spring,
and the question is re-invented, re-asked, and re-known, but in
a way not previously understood. In this way, questions don't
disappear, they evolve into other questions. For a while they
might bloat up in the sun and smell really weird, but it's all
part of the process...
WARWICK sometimes works as a scientist in the computer industry.
He always works as an artist, composer, and writer. He lives in
San Francisco, California.
"Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing?"
is a question that the ancients asked, and one that crops up a
few times in 20th century philosophical discussions. When it is
mentioned, it is usually as an example of a problem that looks
to be both deep and in principle insoluble. Unsurprisingly, then,
it seems to have fallen by the scientific, cosmological and philosophical
waysides. But sometimes I wonder whether it really is insoluble
(or senseless), or whether science may one day surprise us by
finding an answer.
CLARK is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the
University of Sussex, UK. He was previously Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology
Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author
of Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Parallel
Distributed Processing, Associative Engines, and Being
There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again.
Piet Hut
is Reality?"
It has become unfashionable to ask about the structure of reality
without already having chosen a framework in which to ponder the
answer, be it scientific, religious or sceptical. A sense of wonder
at the sheer appearance of the world, moment by moment, has been
To look at the world in wonder, and to stay with that sense of
wonder without jumping straight past it, has become almost impossible
for someone taking science seriously. The three dominant reactions
are: to see science as the only way to get at the truth, at what
is really real; to accept science but to postulate a more encompassing
reality around or next to it, based on an existing religion; or
to accept science as one useful approach in a plurality of many
approaches, neither of which has anything to say about reality
in any ultimate way.
The first reaction leads to a sense of wonder scaled down to the
question of wonder about the underlying mathematical equations
of physics, their interpretation, and the complexity of the phenomena
found on the level of chemistry and biology. The second reaction
tends to allow wonder to occur only within the particular religous
framework that is accepted on faith. The third reaction allows
no room for wonder about reality, since there is no ultimate reality
to wonder about.
Having lost our ability to ask what reality is like means having
lost our innocence. The challenge is to regain a new form of innocence,
by accepting all that we can learn from science, while simultaneously
daring to ask 'what else is true?' In each period of history,
the greatest philosophers struggled with the question of how to
confront skepticism and cynicism, from Socrates and Descartes
to Kant and Husserl in Europe, and Nagarjuna and many others in
Asia and elsewhere. I hope that the question "What is Reality?"
will reappear soon, as a viable intellectual question and at the
same time as an invitation to try to put all our beliefs and frameworks
on hold. Looking at reality without any filter may or may not
be possible, but without at least trying to do so we will have
given up too soon.
PIET HUT is professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced
Study, in Princeton. He is involved in the project of building
GRAPEs, the world's fastest special-purpose computers, at Tokyo
University, and he is also a founding member of the Kira Institute.
David Berreby
''How does [fill in the blank] in human affairs relate to the
great central theory?''
I do not, of course, mean any particular Great Central Theory.
I am referring to the once-pervasive habit of relating everything
that had human scale Chinese history, the Odyssey, your
mother's fear of heights to an all-explaining principle.
This principle was set forth in a short shelf of classic works
and then worked to a fine filigree by close-minded people masquerading
as open-minded people. The precise Great Central Theory might
be, as it was in my childhood milieu, the theories of Freud. It
might be Marx. It might be Levi-Strauss or, more recently, Foucault.
At the turn of the last century, there was a Darwinist version
going, promulgated by Francis Galton, Herbert Spencer and their
These monolithic growths had begun, I suppose, as the answers
to specific questions, but then they metastasized; their adherents
would expect the great central theory to answer any question.
Commitment to a Great Central Theory thus became more a religious
act than an intellectual one. And, as with all religions, the
worldview of the devout crept into popular culture. (When I was
in high school we'd say So-and-So was really anal about his locker
or that What's-his-name's parents were really bourgeois.) For
decades, this was what intellectual life appeared to be: Commit
to an overarching explanation, relate it to everything you experienced,
defend it against infidels. Die disillusioned, or, worse, die
So why has this sort of question vanished? My guess is that, broadly
speaking, it was a product of the Manichean worldview of the last
century. Depression, dictators, war, genocide, nuclear terror
all of these lend themselves to a Yes-or-No, With-Us-or-With-Them,
Federation vs. Klingons mindset. We were, to put it simply, all
a little paranoid. And paranoids love a Great Key: Use this and
see the single underlying cause for what seems to be unrelated
and random!
Nowadays the world, though no less dangerous, seems to demand
attention to the seperateness of things, the distinctiveness of
questions. ''Theories of everything'' are terms physicists use
to explain their near-theological concerns, but at the human scale
most people care about, where we ask questions like ''why can't
we dump the Electoral College?'' or ''How come Mom likes my sister
better?'', the Great Central Theory question has vanished with
the black-or-white arrangement of the human world.
What's next?
some new Great Central Theory slouches in; some of the Darwinians
think they've got the candidate, and they certainly evince signs
of quasi-religious commitment. (For example, as a Freudian would
say you doubted Freud because of your neuroses, I have heard Darwinians
say I doubted their theories because of an evolved predisposition
not to believe the truth. I call this quasi-religious because
this move makes the theory impregnable to evidence or new ideas.)
the notion that overarching theory is impossible becomes, itself,
a new dogma. I lean toward this prejudice myself but I recognize
its dangers. An intellectual life that was all boutiques could
be, in its way, as stultifying as a giant one-product factory.
we learn from the mistakes of the last two centuries and insist
that our answers always match our questions, and that the distinction
between theory and religious belief be maintained.
DAVID BERREBY'S writing about science and culture has appeared
in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Slate, The
Sciences and many other publications.
do women want?"
People in the Western world assume women have it all: education,
job opportunities, birth control, love control, and financial
freedom. But women still lack the essential freedom equality
they lacked a century ago. Women are minorities in every
sector of our government and economy, and women are still expected
to raise families while at the same time earning incomes that
are comparably lower than what males earn. And in our culture,
women are still depicted as whores, bimbos, or bloodsuckers by
advertisers to sell everything from computers to cars.
it take another century or another millenium before the biological
differences between men and women are taken as a carte blanche
justification for the unequal treatment of women?
SYLVIA PAULL is Founder, Gracenet (www.gracenet.net) Serving women
in high-tech and business media.
"The Great Idea That's Disappeared"
greatest idea that's disappeared from mainstream science this
past 400 years is surely that of God. The greats who laid the
foundations of modern science in the 17th century (Galileo, Newton,
Leibnitz, Descartes) and the significant-but-not-quite-so-greats
(Robert Boyle, John Ray, etc.) were theologians as much as they
were scientists and philosophers. They wanted to know how things
are, of course but also what God had in mind when he made
them this way. They took it for granted, or contrived to prove
to their own satisfaction, that unless there is a God, omniscient
and mindful, then there could be no Universe at all.
Although David Hume did much to erode such argument, it persisted
well into the 19th century. Recently I have been intrigued to
find James Hutton who, as one of the founders of modern
geology, is one of the boldest and most imaginative of all scientists
earnestly wondering in a late 18th century essay what God
could possibly have intended when he made volcanoes. The notion
that there could be no complex and adapted beings at all without
a God to create them, was effectively the default position in
orthodox biology until (as Dan Dennett has so succinctly explained)
Charles Darwin showed how natural selection could produce complexity
out of simplicity, and adaptation out of mere juxtaposition. Today,
very obviously, no Hutton-style musing would find its way into
a refereed journal. In Nature, God features only as the
subject of (generally rather feeble) sociological and sometimes
evolutionary speculation.
Religion obviously flourishes still, but are religion and science
now condemned to mortal conflict? Fundamentalist-atheists would
have it so, but I think not. The greatest ideas in philosophy
and science never really go away, even if they do change their
form or go out of fashion, but they do take a very long time to
unfold. For at least 300 years from the 16th to the 19th
centuries emergent science and post- medieval theology
were deliberately intertwined, in many ingenious ways. Through
the past 150, they have been just as assiduously disentangled.
But the game is far from over. Cosmologists and metaphysicians
continue to eye and circle each other. Epistemology how
we know what's true is of equal interest to scientists
and theologians, and each would be foolish to suppose that the
other has nothing to offer. How distant is the religious notion
of revelation from Dirac's or Keats's? perception
of truth as beauty? Most intriguingly of all, serious theologians
are now discussing the role of religion in shaping emotional response
while modern aficionados of artificial intelligence acknowledge
(as Hume did) that emotion is an essential component of thought
itself. Lastly, the ethics of science and technology how
we should use our new-found power are the key discussions
of our age and it is destructive to write religion out of the
act, even if the priests, rabbis and mullahs who so far have been
invited to take part have often proved disappointing.
I don't share the modern enthusiasm for over-extended life but
I would like to see how the dialogue unfolds in the centuries
to come.
COLIN TUDGE is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy,
London School of Economics. His two latest books are The Variety
of Life and In Mendel's Footnotes.
Was Lost Atlantis?"
Two journalists once ranked the discovery of lost Atlantis as
potentially the most spectacular sensation of all times. Now,
the question what or where Atlantis might have been has disappeared.
The Greek philosopher Plato, the only source for Atlantis, incorporated
an extensive description of this legendary city into a mundane
summary of contemporary (4th century BC) scientific achievements
and knowledge of prehistory. Nobody attributed much attention
to the account during subsequent centuries. In Medieval times,
scholarly interest focussed on Aristotle, while Plato was neglected.
When archaeology and history finally assumed the shape of scientific
disciplines after the middle of the 18th century AD
science still was under the influence of Christian theology, its
Medieval mother discipline. The first art historians, who were
brought up in a creationist world, consequently interpreted western
culture as an almost divine concept which first materialized in
ancient Greece, without having had any noticeable predecessors.
Accordingly, any ancient texts referring to high civilizations,
much older than Classical Greece, had to be fictitious by definition.
During the 20th century, dozens of palaces dating to a golden
age a thousand years older than Plato's Athens have been excavated
around the eastern Mediterranean. Atlantis can now be placed in
a historical context. It is an Egyptian recollection of Bronze
Age Troy and its awe-inspiring war against the Greek kingdoms.
Plato's account and the end of the Bronze Age around 1200 BC can
now be seen in a new light. Why was this connection not made earlier?
Four Egyptian words, describing location and size, were mistranslated,
because at the time Egypt and Greece used different calendars
and scales. And, in contrast to biology, where, after Darwin,
the idea of creationism was dropped in favor of evolutionism,
Aegean prehistory has never questioned its basic premises.
Geoarchaeologist EBERHARD ZANGGER is Director of Corporate Communications
at KPNQwest (Switzerland) and the author of The Flood from
Heaven : Deciphering the Atlantis Legend and Geoarchaeology
of the Argolid. Zangger has written a monograph, published
by the German Archaeological Institute, as well as more than seventy
scholarly articles, which have appeared in the American Journal
of Archaeology, Hesperia, the Oxford Journal of Archaeology,
and the Journal of Field Archaeology.
and Inappropriate Metaphors"
The detection of "questions that are no longer asked"
is difficult. Old questions, like MacArthur's old soldiers, just
fade away. Scientists and scholars in hot pursuit of new questions
neither note nor mourn their passing. I regularly face a modest
form of the disappearing question challenge when a textbook used
in one of my classes is revised. Deletions are hard to find; they
leave no voids and are more stealthy than black holes, not even
affecting their surrounds. New text content stands out, while
missing material must be established through careful line-by-line
reading. Whether in textbooks or in life, we don't think much
about what is no longer relevant.
response to the inquiry about questions that are no longer asked
is to reframe it and suggest instead a common class of missing
questions, those associated with obsolete and inappropriate metaphors.
Metaphor is a powerful cognitive tool, which, like all models,
clarifies thinking when appropriate, but constrains it when inappropriate.
Science is full of them. My professional specialties of neuroscience
and biopsychology has mind/brain metaphors ranging from Locke's
ancient blank slate (tabula rasa), to the more technologically
advanced switchboard, and the metaphor de jour, the computer.
None do justice to the brain as a soggy lump of wetware, but linger
as cognitive/linguistic models. Natural selection in the realm
of metaphors is slow and imperfect. Witness the reference to DNA
as a "blueprint" for an organism, when Dawkins' "recipe"
metaphor more accurately reflects DNA's incoding of instructions
for organismic assembly.
R. PROVINE is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and author of Laughter:
A Scientific Investigation.
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Every man is familiar with that grade school taunt reserved for a woman standing up for herself: "What are you, on your PERIOD?" It is probably one of the worst insults that can be leveled against a woman, so much, that any man using it will assure himself of a easy escape path, before unleashing the verbal equivalent of a nuclear assault.
It leads in to an old tasteless joke that if a woman ever becomes President there will be a war every 28 days. I don't know a lot about headaches but I do know they can be related to menstrual cycles. (In fact I think a lot of men are well aware of that.) The recent media led attack on Michele Bachman, is nothing more than a journalistic version of that adolescent taunt.
It plays into a negative stereotype of women, that's almost as common as a barefooted pregnancy: a hysterical woman on the couch with blinders on her eyes, and a cold compress over her forehead. Migraines are the reason why Victorian parlors had fainting couches.
Rather than spread rumors, journalists should be investigating whether there might be a Federal Crime involved, since the medical information of Americans is subject to confidentiality regulations. Ever since Bill Clinton passed HIPPA, it has been illegal to release the personal information of a Democrat. That's why we know nothing about the blood pressure of a fifty-year-old African-American; who has affection for beer, cigarettes, and cheeseburgers; and lives with his mother in law.
Personally I think that medical information is important before an election, considering it's a well known fact that high blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, stroke and worst of all, a Biden Presidency. It is amazing to me that the American Journalists have been able to find this private detail about Michelle Bachmann's medical records, but we still don't know whether the President even wrote his own books.
I don't think that there is anything particular to migraines that could hinder any of the required Presidential duties, except that Michele might play a little less golf. It is ironic that in during the most vacationed Administration in History, there is suddenly concern over a candidate that might need to lie down every so often.
It's almost funny, that something so minor might be used to disqualify Representative Bachmann. The medications Michele takes, work in about a half hour, which is roughly the time it took a previous President to hold an informal meeting with an intern.
The big fear, is that is eating at the minds of many journalists has nothing to do with the actual headaches, it is a fear that we might get a candidate who has actually read the United States Constitution. We would also get a President with a good excuse for throwing like a girl. And ultimately, an occasional headache in the White House is far less a problem, than the 330 million headaches the nation has been experiencing since 2008.
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The European map was redrawn with the end of World War I, forming the new nation of Czechoslovakia (1918). This relative independence fed the pride of the Czech population of that country, united by language.
The Czech language is written in familiar Latin letters, but includes a number of diacritics (additional marks above or below letters to indicate altered pronunciation) that are unused in other European languages. At the beginning of the 20th century, printing in Czech was largely accomplished with types from German foundries, and the necessary diacritics were in some cases unavailable and in others poorly harmonized with the letters they accompanied.
Czech designers saw the need to create types of their own, which would serve the particular needs of written Czech; for example, type and book designer Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944) cut new type punches to add proper diacritical marks to several existing faces. He went on to create the striking Preissig Antiqua typeface (1925).
Czech designers rejuvenated their printed language through the development of new type designs as a way to differentiate Czech culture from the various ethnic groups that could now be called "Czechoslovakian." The newly drawn borders of Czechoslovakia in 1918 enveloped a diverse mix of ethnicities that had not previously lived together in these proportions or under these power distributions. In addition to the Czechs and Slovaks in the country, by 1921 the nation also included Germans, Hungarians, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, and Russians. It should be pointed out that the Germans, who had been part of the dominant culture under the previous Austro-Hungarian rule and whose type designs had been used to print the Czech language for years, were now ethnic and political minorities. In addition, the Czech Lands, where Czechoslovakia's capital of Prague was located, stood out as having substantial advantages over the other nation-states formed in 1918 and the remainder of the country. This area's social and political structures more resembled the established nations of Western Europe and included high levels of industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, social welfare systems and literacy.
An opportunity to present a "Czech" image to the leading democracies of the West on an international scale was the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in 1925. Under the roof of its own pavilion, Czechoslovakia displayed type design, pottery and textiles, among other arts. Among the type designers who exhibited here was Vojtěch Preissig, a Czechoslovakia native who had moved the United States in 1910. Keeping in touch with the design community in Prague, Preissig had been asked by the director of Prague's newly formed State Printing House, Karel Dyrynk, to create a new type specifically for the Czech language that would be shown in Paris in 1925. Preissig began the project in 1923 and worked for two years on the typeface he called Preissig Antiqua.
Although Preissig Antiqua was designed in the United States, Preissig worked closely with Czechoslovakia's State Printing House to get it print-ready. For Preissig's first draft, he sent his design in the form of a sample print made from his copper matrix. The printing house then created metal type based on the sample print, printed a proof and sent it back to Preissig for his approval. Preissig was disappointed with the results as it seemed the type cutter "fixed" his cubist-inspired design. Where Preissig had intentionally created letterforms from wedges and diagonal lines, the type cutter straightened the strokes to be parallel with each other and rounded edges that were meant to be angular. In Pressig's words, "They 'adjusted' my typeface, although only the word 'slaughtered' can express what they did." For the second draft, Preissig sent the actual copper matrix from which the printing house could print, but it came back modified yet again. Preissig was still unhappy with a third draft, but entered it into the 1925 exhibition.
The Paris exhibition, according to Iva Knoblach, was perceived as the "first national manifesto of Czech typography abroad" and Preissig Antiqua was received as the first Czech typeface because of its integration of diacritics with letterforms. His design placed such a strong emphasis on diacritics that the marks directly influenced the shapes and sizes of the letters with which they are paired. Not only did Preissig Antiqua set a precedent for future Czech designers, but stated to Europe that although Czechoslovakia was newly sovereign, it possessed a distinct national identity and could participate on equal footing with fellow democracies of Western Europe in politics, industry, design and the arts.
— Lisa Melander
1Quoted in Iva Knoblauch, "Vojtech Preissig: Czech Typographer?" Typo no. 14.
2Iva Knoblauch, "Vojtech Preissig: Czech Typographer?" Typo no. 14.
Suggestions for further reading:
Gaultney, J. Victor. "Problems of a Diacritic Design for Latin Script Text Faces." Master's thesis, University of Reading, 2002.
Knoblach, Iva. "Vojtěch Preissig: Czech Typographer?" Typo no. 14.
P22 Type Foundry. "Vojtěch Preissig."
Typo.cz and Designiq.cz. "Diacritics: All You Need to Design a Font with Correct Accents." "Czech."


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Learn everything you can about the market in general and the specific type of investment you're considering before you put down any money. Educate yourself.
Talk to an expert. If you're not a financial or legal expert, consult a qualified accountant and attorney before embarking on any real estate deal.
Join a real estate investors club. You'll meet people like yourself who have had both good and bad experiences. You'll also gain access to many valuable expert sources such as real estate agents, property inspectors, appraisers and contractors. The National Real Estate Investors Association offers a list of clubs on its Web site, at www.nationalreia.com.
Establish relationships with local real estate agents. The days of low housing inventory and bidding wars are over. Today, agents are anxious to unload their listings at fair prices. Check with some local agents to see if they have properties that you can acquire. Banks, too, are taking back an increasing number of houses through foreclosure. Since they're not in the real estate business, they're anxious to sell these properties as well.
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Thursday, December 3, 2015
High Roller
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- jandi said... {Reply}
Lovely shots! The views look amazing!
- December 3, 2015 at 7:28 AM
- Bekah said... {Reply}
Even as scared of heights as I am, this looks AMAZING. Does it move really slow??
- December 3, 2015 at 7:53 AM
- aspiritofsimplicity said... {Reply}
That is very cool....I'm a little dizzy just looking at your pictures.
- December 3, 2015 at 8:01 AM
- abrianna said... {Reply}
What a fun way to spend a day.
- December 3, 2015 at 9:45 AM
- Karen S. said... {Reply}
Wow! That's one perfect way to see the city! It's my one favorite go to place for sights. Check out Red Rock Canyon if you can, it's a distance from town. You'll be super amazed.
- December 3, 2015 at 10:37 AM
- Gina Kleinworth said... {Reply}
So cool! They were just getting started on building that when we moved. What an attraction.
- December 3, 2015 at 11:15 AM
- Rose @ Walnut Acre said... {Reply}
Wow! This looks like so much fun!
- December 3, 2015 at 2:41 PM
- Nicki said... {Reply}
Super cool shots - the London Eye is on our list for our trip to London next year - can't wait.
- December 3, 2015 at 9:50 PM
- Dara @ Not In Jersey said... {Reply}
so fun!
- December 4, 2015 at 9:49 AM
- Anita Johnson said... {Reply}
It looks like a wonderful way to see the city, and I would be safe on the ground looking up!
- December 4, 2015 at 10:10 AM
- Lr Jamison said... {Reply}
Oh, my freakin' gosh! Those are some amazing shots, but I think I might loose it being up so high in the air. Beautiful images you captured and the shots inside your cabin look so peaceful, but I don't know if I could do it. Thanks for sharing at Friday Photo Journal.
- December 4, 2015 at 11:16 AM
- Molly said... {Reply}
wow that blue sky, what a beauty
- December 4, 2015 at 5:21 PM
- Clairejustine oxox said... {Reply}
Beautiful shots!! Lovely pictures Tamar, it looks like you get a great view of everywhere :)
- December 6, 2015 at 1:35 PM
- Kim said... {Reply}
I've always wanted to do this! It looks amazing. And those blue skies are amazing, too!
- December 8, 2015 at 3:13 PM


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Executive Summary:
Race Priority: C
Race Execution: A-
- Hammer bar 2 hours before the race.
- 1 Roctane GU prior to the start of the race, 1/2 package at 4 miles and the remaining 1/2 package at 8 miles.
- 8 oz of water in the 30 minutes before the start. 4 oz of water at 4 miles and 4 oz at 8 miles.
- What went well: This was a PR for me by over 3 minutes. I was 7/105 overall and 2/17 in my age group at this event.
- What could have gone better: I feel like I should have had a little more speed in me late in the race.
Race Report Commentary:
As I reflected on my Triathlons from the past few years, the one thing that stood out was my lack of progression in running. My primary focus has been improving my biking and swimming to improve my overall time, but during 2013 it was glaringly obvious that my running was beginning to be a drag on my overall times, relative to my closest competitors. As I looked at 2014, I decided to cut back long course Triathlons for a year, and focus on improving my running.
The first step was to select a goal, so I signed up for Grandma's marathon with the goal being to qualify for Boston in 2015. The second step was to select a plan. I chose to try Marathon Nation, with the focus on building speed first and then building endurance. Overall the plan is 24 weeks long, with a half marathon planned at the halfway point, to see how I was progressing. The plan requires a lot of focused speed work, such as weekly tempo, hill, and interval work. Essentially it is structured around the training concepts of Jack Daniels, based on prescribed training paces calculated from Vdot tables (combination of VO2 Max / running economy). Overall the plan has been working, with my Vdot increasing from 47 to 50, corresponding to around a minute decrease in my 5k time.
Now at the midpoint of my marathon plan, running a half marathon was a chance to see if the speed I was seeing at the shorter distances was translating into longer distances. I signed up for the Hy-Vee Fort Dodge half marathon, as it is one of the earlier half marathons in Central Iowa, and I grew up in the Fort Dodge area and was familiar with the general course.
As always, I created a race plan, detailing my expected pacing. One of the neat things about doing 5k run testing, is you can use the Vdot pacing calculators to help you create a general pacing plan (assuming you've done the required endurance training). Marathon Nation suggests derating your Vdot by 1.5 for a realistic half marathon race plan. Inputting 48.5 into the Vdot calculator, resulted in a predicted half marathon time of 1:33:58, for 7:10 per mile average. Realizing that part of the course was on a gravel trail, and that they changed the course in 2014 to include a couple short but steeper hills, I modified my pacing for these areas. Overall I ended up with a conservative target of 1:36, with a 7:20 per mile average.
The start of the course was at the Water Park in Fort Dodge. With this being a point to point race, they have shuttles that will take you from the finish line (Kennedy Park) to the race start. Since my dad lives in town, he simply dropped me off at the starting line at 8:30, with a 9:00 start time. I warmed up a bit, drank some water, ate a GU pack and packed my warmup gear into a bag that was transported to the finish line. It was 32 degrees at the start, with a 6 mph wind from the South. I wore Tri shorts, a Tri shirt under a light nylon jacket, gloves, and compression socks (yep… looking geeky, but comfortable). I also carried two 8 oz bottles of water with me in a fuel belt as I find it easier to drink out of a nozzle than a cup.
In general, my plan was to run around 7:10 for the first 5 miles. I knew that part of the run would be on a gravel trail (slowing me down), but it's also mostly downhill (speeding me up). I also wanted to avoid starting too fast, so I tried to also keep my pacing above 7:00 per mile. They sounded the horn a couple minutes after 9:00 am, and I was surprised how aggressively some of the people started. There was a lead pack that bolted away, and then a series of stragglers. I stayed on target, and began passing people around mile marker 1. I passed the lead woman and then another guy by mile 2. Overall, miles 1 and 2 are very flat, through open areas (fields) and one small residential area.
In mile 3, you start the gravel trail. I could see three people in front of me, stretching out from 1/10 to a 1/4 mile away. I kept to my pacing targets, and watched my footing, as the gravel trail isn't entirely level. I also found all of the bridges to be frost covered and slippery, so I was a bit cautious. Overall I was feeling really good running 7:00 to 7:10 (for reference my threshold pace is around 6:52). I focused on staying relaxed and just getting into a rhythm. At mile 4 it was clear that I was going to catch the guy in front of me, as he was beginning to fade a bit. Shortly after passing him we went back to a concrete path. I then pulled out a GU pack… and promptly dropped it (I don't have a lot of feeling in my right hand). I kept going… deciding to just eat half of my remaining GU packet and then and eat the remainder around mile 8. I pulled out my water bottle and drank around 4 oz to get the GU down. I was surprised how much this slowed me down, glancing down at my watch and falling to 7:24 mile for mile 5… basically a loss of focus. Overall miles 3 to 5 are a nice section of the run, as you are running through wooded areas most of the time.
Mile 6 takes you from the downtown area to Loomis Park, along the Des Moines river. Shortly after entering the park, you hit the first more significant hill. It's not terribly long, but is a little over 5% grade. I noticed during this mile that I had gotten a bit closer to the two runners in front of me. The closest "Mr Orange" (wearing an orange shirt) was less than a 1/10 mile in front of me and "Mr Green" (green shirt) was still over a 1/10 away. In general, the park is a great place to run. It did have one tricky spot, where a spring causes water to cross the road. This was all frozen into about an 8′ long section of ice, which caused me to slow down to avoid a fall. Fortunately they had a race volunteer on a bike there, warning us this was up ahead. Once clear of the ice, the road through the park was easy and pretty. As you exit the park and turn on to 7th street, you hit the most significant hill on the course. It's about 1/4 mile long, and on average is about 7.5% grade. As you round the corner though, the grade is just under 13%, which slowed me down significantly. That being said, I passed Mr Orange in the steep section and made progress on Mr Green. My dad was waiting at the top of the hill, to shout some encouragement. I expected this to be an 8:00 minute mile, but was able to run a 7:51. My HR spiked up to 172, over my threshold, until I recovered (threshold around 168). Mile 8 is a flat residential area winding back to 15th street going towards Kennedy park. Mr Green made a left instead of a right and I yelled at him that he was going the wrong way. He headed in the correct direction, but he lost some ground to me with the error (the course wasn't well marked there). Mr Green promptly picked up the pace and pulled away from me. I had anticipated that I would slow with recovery, planning an 8:00 mile again, but managed to run 7:19. Overall miles 6 to 8 through Loomis is pretty, and the hill on 7th is a challenge, but not a killer.
The rest of the course, miles 8 through 13.1 are relatively flat and exposed to the wind. You run North along 15th street on a nice concrete path, then follow that path about a mile East, a mile North, and then a mile West back to 15th, and eventually North again to Kennedy Park. I ate the rest of my GU packet at mile 8 and drank about 4 oz of water. Shortly after we approached an aid station, where Mr Green grabbed water and walked a bit. He saw me coming and starting running right before I got to him. We passed Mr Red around mile 9… who I hadn't even seen… who was walking and one of the guys who had bolted in the first mile. I had expected to be around 7:20 at this point, with the intent on stepping back up to 7:10 miles at mile 11. I was running around the same pace as Mr Green at around 7:15 – 7:20 pacing. He looked to be in my age group, so my intent was to hang with him and then pass with authority if I could. As we approached the aid station around mile 10, I passed Mr Green. My thought was if I passed him prior to the aid station… he may be more inclined to stop for water than if I was right behind him. He did stop, and then I picked up the pace to get some additional distance. I was feeling pretty good and ran mile 11 at 6:53. It's downhill and with the wind (it had picked up to SW @ 16 mph). Of course when I turned back West at mile 12 and fought the wind, and a crappy little hill just before the mile 12 marker, I slowed down to a 7:26 pace and felt poorly, with my HR running close to threshold. I recovered a bit when I turned North again, but then my right knee started to implode with sharp stabbing pains. I glanced back and was about 1/10 a mile ahead of Mr Green, and knew I couldn't let up, and just ran through the knee issue. I thought there was a chance I was near the lead of my age group, so I kept pushing. I could see the time in the 1:34 range as I approached the finish, and kicked it a bit to finish under 1:35 (barely) at a 7:15 average pace. The last few miles of the course are a bit lonely and exposed to the wind, but have no big hills or significant challenges. The race director did a nice job of putting funny/motivational signs along with way to give you something to read, and they had an aid station at mile 12 to give you a little encouragement.
When I checked the timing tent (we wore chips) at the end, I was surprised with the 7th place overall and 2nd place age group position. I had thought that I may be first in AG… but the winner in the 40 to 49 division finished 2nd overall and ran just under 1:16 (5:46/mile), so he was one of the lead pack people. The 7th place also surprised me, because I had thought more people had got away in the lead pack (later realizing that I had passed 6 people after mile 1). I was happy with beating my targets, but also disappointed that I didn't have more left in me in the final couple of miles. I suspect this is a lack of longer distance training, which is more prevalent during the second part of the marathon training program. The other factor may simply be fatigue from running on different surfaces. With the cold winter and my concern about falling after my accident, I've been almost exclusively on the treadmill since January.
Overall, I liked this race and would recommend it to others in the area. There are some nice areas (trail, Loomis Park) and a couple of challenges (Loomis hill, 7th St. hill). They had police at all the intersections, and the race directors were very nice and genuinely appreciative of the participants. The proceeds from the race are also used to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Besides the half marathon, they also have a 5k around the lake at Kennedy park. Note that it is a cross country 5k route, on soft trails. Their website is here and Facebook site here.
Being the data geek I am… here's my race plan versus actual:


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Mathew Ritchie's work is exciting for the way it smoothly combines painting and sculpture with Conceptual Art, with installation, publication and even performance, yet remains anchored to fundamental issues of depiction and abstraction. The work provides a potent nexus of interests and has triggered his rapid rise, really just within this century. Most comment focuses on his use of divers scientific models or diagrams, blended with topical issues, historical scholarship, mythic cosmology and amusing personification, with the spread from work to work, for paintings, from wall to floor and ceiling, to site-specific temporary murals, free standing models, websites, audience participation there, online and hard copy publications and last year at Andrea Rosen, NY (The Universal Adversary]), to animation and sound tracks activated by motion sensors (a longer description of this show is found in January's Art in America (p.136).
Predictably, the effect is overwhelming, even stifling and critics quickly suspect the web of science and scholarship; grow impatient with the perfunctory illustration and endless text extensions. But sometimes one does well to attend to style before jumping to conclusions about substance. It may be that the conspicuous complexity in what is being said or represented here are better thought of as a way of saying or showing something surprisingly simple and familiar.
To begin, there is Ritchie's pictorial style, which offers a (mostly) three-dimensional model of abstract powers and relations, together with cursory notation. The pictures are of abstractions, without quite being abstract pictures (on this point see also Post 14). Ritchie's models are also notably biomorphic in depicting strictly matters of geometry and physics, and this hints at a certain priority (see as well Post 2). His pictures are sketchy or thin, literally and emotionally, or metaphorically (see God of Catastrophe 2006).
Both qualities give his pictures a tentative, restless feel. But what ought to look comic or cartoon-like – keeping pace with his prose - never quite graduates beyond arrows and arabesques. The prospect of say, a version of Roger Penrose by Chuck Jones (or vice versa) goes unfulfilled. Where figures and the concrete in depiction loom, Ritchie's work turns strangely gauche or reluctant. See for example the figures of Kokabel or Kashdejah from The Hard Way. The look, if anything, is closer to Power Rangers Meet Giacometti (see also the cover to The Father Costume. When confronted by figure or person, Ritchie's drawing is suddenly bereft of flair or style, expresses just this hesitation, minimises the threat through grander schemes.
Another contrast is offered by the work of Paul Laffoley, currently showing at Kent, NY. Laffoley also revels in the arcane and esoteric, draws together diverse branches of science and scholarship, yet resorts to emphatic borders and strict proportion in accommodating diagram. The sheer disparity of reference there urges an exercise in enormous control and precision; becomes as much an exercise in such presentation as the collected content. For Ritchie, the opposite is true. The abstract model is an opportunity for flight, literally and metaphorically, from more troubling, concrete matters (see A Glorious Martyrdom Awaits Us… 2003). Work projects endless extensions to other works and texts, reaches out in all directions. 'Reaching out' becomes the underlying theme, along with its frustration or evasion, the sense of being cut adrift. For while the model stands for much more than is ever available in any one work, the pattern is unmistakeably one of deliberate dispersal, distance and delay. The model takes on a more psychological dimension.
The great seething conundrums depicted are perhaps easier seen as desperate efforts to establish or maintain prestigious contact, even superiority, to compensate for more concrete and corporeal failure. They never quite succeed; instead stress the struggle for grounding. The impressive learning spreads attention far and wide, distracts from shortcomings closer to home, the absence in person, frailty of personality and picture. Concrete depiction can never quite anchor the sprawling network of abstraction. On the one hand the work reaches out for meaning, on the other holds it at arm's length. The frustration is undeniably registered by the viewer, is really at the heart of the work, perhaps before realising. The work enacts an old play with power at the cost of the particular and personal. Ritchie's work not only participates in this, but convincingly displays it, stylistically; deserves a place at the fore of the current art world.


text: Themes in eclipse 16 February 2006 One thing i've been googling recently is themes for eclipse on the off chance. As great as eclipse looks, its visually as boring as ASP code :o) Though i haven't found any themes [yet], there is a way to stop it looking like the Windows 2000(legacy look) and more like XP;Get the manifest file, there are two alternatives for this:Download the file from here, orFind the file included with Eclipse, inside the eclipse\\plugins\\org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_3.x.y.jar filePlace the file as javaw.exe.manifest to the same location of javaw.exe (for me this was the C:\\WINDOWS\\system32 directory)Start Eclipse. The about dialog box in Eclipse should look a little more like XP.N.B. Tip and instructions from Vineet's JournalBy the way if anyone knows of any themes for eclipse please leave a comment


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Buyer beware: BBBcertifiedgifts site not part of the Better Business Bureau
How exactly is BBBCertifiedGifts.com able to offer a $1,000 Walmart gift card for $79.95 -- with similar offers on other gift cards? The short answer: It can't .
To bolster the idea that it is legitimate, the site not only uses the Better Business Bureau's well known acronym "BBB," but also features its logo.
But the real Better Business Bureau told WalletPop that it is in no way affiliated with the certified gift site.
And the BBB's office in Wyoming, where the site lists its address, said the listing is a virtual office space commonly used by scams. It also carries no box number, ensuring that all mail sent to it would be returned to sender.
The BBB said its legal team will investigate the site and its claims as a result of WalletPop's inquiry and is planning to issue a warning about the site. BBB affiliation isn't the only recognized name or identity used on the site; a close look at its 100% satisfaction guarantee logo reveals that it's taken from Schwan's satisfaction guarantee page.
And, if you read the Frequently Asked Questions, the site implies an association with Entertainment.com to answer how they can offer such low prices. When asked about whether or not the offer is real, the site dodges the question, name-dropping PayPal, to further earn your trust.
Additional warning signs include non-specific claims to support multiple charities, a deal that ends in just a few weeks and the fact that the site was registered just this month.
BBBCertifiedGifts.com is a great example of all that you, as buyers, ought to beware.
Update: A woman who only identified herself as Lisa J. provided the following comment from BBBCertifiedGifts.com.
BBBCertifiedGifts.com did not respond to our request for comment.I have forwarded your specific question to our VP of Operations, Chris Norris, who is out on Holiday.However, if you have in depth questions for your article I would be happy to answer them. This is a limited promotion and the goal is not only offer deals to consumers but also increase brand loyalty for selected retailers. The promotion concept is simple: If you receive an amazing deal to a certain store you are more likely to return that store time and time again.


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Welcome to Braintree Housing Authority!
The Braintree Housing Authority is committed to serving our community's housing needs using all resources available. We strive to maintain clean, safe and affordable housing for low-income elderly, family and disabled households.
Braintree Housing Authority properties are smoke free as of September 1, 2015.
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The Sobey School of Business Bachelor of Commerce offers you many choices of majors so you can achieve success on your terms, just like Ali Algermozi
A career in accounting appeals to students with wide-ranging interests and good communication skills. Ultimately, accounting is about information. Sound management of financial resources can capture not only how a person or organization is doing, but also where they are going. This information is crucial for decision-making in business, government and also for personal finances. Learn how to prepare financial and related information, and how to interpret what it means.
Accounting at the Sobey School of Business provides students with a comprehensive and respected degree from one of Canada's leading business schools. World-class faculty with professional experience combine with excellent scholarship opportunities and co-op options to make the Sobey School of Business the right choice to prepare students for a successful career as accounting professionals.
The Accounting major at Saint Mary's is tailored to meet the requirements of the newly merged Canadian CPA designation. Sobey School of Business Accounting students are sought by major accounting firms, industry, government and non-profit organizations. There are many opportunities for academic awards and exchanges with universities in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Accounting students have many opportunities to put their classroom learning into practice. Our students volunteer with Revenue Canada's Community Volunteer Income Tax Program, compete in business competitions, take part in Saint Mary's and ICBC case competitions and plan and host the Accounting Society's Annual Etiquette Dinner. They are eligible to receive the Samuel H. Jopling, Dr. Harold G. Beazley, KPMG and Sobey Accounting Achievement Awards
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Future career opportunities:
"The best thing about the accounting program is the mix of instruction from academics as well as professionals from the industry. You get real- world experience, practical insight and know what to expect when you're out of school when performance is based on more than just marks."
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"The accounting program at Saint Mary's is respected nationally not only for the active research program of the faculty but also for the long-standing links between the Sobey School and the profession and the excellent success of our graduates in many different careers."
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To complete a major in Accounting, students must attain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.2 in the 3rd and 4th year ACCT courses (as indicated below by *).
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(i) It is recommended that students who are considering pursuing a professional accounting designation take ACCT 3350 and FINA 2360 in Year 2 and take ACCT 3352 in Year 3. In Year 2, students would defer 3 credit hours in ECON electives and 3 credit hours in non-Commerce electives until Year 3.
(ii) CISY 2320, CISY 3326, CISY 4435, ACCT 3345, ACCT 3357 or any 4000 level course in Accounting not used to fulfill other requirements may be used to satisfy this requirement.
(iii) Students cannot receive credit for any of ACCT 3332, 3333, 3334, 3341, 3342, or 3343 towards accounting electives or free electives if they major in Accounting.
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Discovering that Vein of Gold
Our Artist Way and The Vein of Gold (VOG) group met and studied Julia's Cameron's work years ago. Perhaps I should have reviewed The Vein of Gold before writing but I chose to write from memory. In retrospect the assignments in The VOG made me dig deeper than ever before but my experience in rereading a book is that you seldom have the same lessons. In fact, it often seems like a totally different book because you have grown and moved on.
The Vein of Gold Workshop
At one of our weekly gatherings our facilitator told us the exercise to be completed for the following week's class was to write a song. Egads, I knew nothing about music. Correction, I did play a plastic flute in grade school. Does that count? Still grumbling, bellyaching and bitching to myself even after I got home I went to bed dreading the assignment.
As I lie in bed my head filled with chatter, "Oh brother, I'm not going to be able to sleep and I have an early morning appointment. Aargh!" More grumbling. But wait, some of the words coming to me were rhyming. Being the astute student that I was I had my trusty legal pad and pen on my nightstand. Listening carefully I wrote what I heard and then slept like a baby, a contented baby.
In the morning I awakened, the word sonnet would not go away. Knowing a sonnet was some kind of poetry but not knowing the structure I looked it up. After reading what I had written the night before I removed one line and had my sonnet.
With sonnet in hand I returned to the group the following week. The others sang their homework in turn as instructed. They all had lovely voices and the words were moving. It's my turn, I couldn't bring myself to torture the others with my voice, a vocalist I am not. After my reading three women were wiping tears from their cheeks. I felt surprised and perplexed. The ride home was spent in contemplation of the evening and how something that I had written could bring up such emotions. For the first time since I was ten years old I felt I wasn't the only one still hurting from childhood memories.
After writing this I pulled the sonnet from my filing cabinet to read what I had written back in 1997. It still brought a tear to my eye but for different reasons. The sonnet was written by a sad, abandoned little girl. It is with a grateful heart that I thank Julia Cameron and my VOG Group for helping me to release my past . . . or at least a lot of it.
Here is my sonnet entitled "Quiet Sentinels of the Past."
Quiet sentinels of the past
Why do you hinder me and stifle my laughs.
I rarely remember your cardinal rule,
It seems to appear when I'm rendered a fool.
I've been searching and searching to fix what is broken,
Now I realize many words need be spoken.
So cry, my sweet, those tears from your youth.
You'll grow so much wiser by living your truth.
I know so little of these things I speak
But unless I try I'll not find what I seek.
Those emotional ties to childhood beliefs
Once let go, we find such relief.
I would like to free this emotional tie
For in letting it go – I know I will fly.
So cry, my sweet, those tears from your youth.
You'll grow so much wiser by living your truth.
Mickey Baxter, '97
As I remember a couple of weeks had passed when our assignment was to write a prayer. I mention the timeline only because I think you will be as surprised as I at the difference in the writing in such a short time. It is as if it were written by someone else. In a way . . . it was.
Two Quick Little Projects
Recently, I had an order for table tents for an upcoming July wedding. The bridal bouquet included hydrangea, eucalyptus pods, ferns and gracefully twisted little branches among other wild flowers. It is a joy to have orders that are out of the ordinary for me. I'll share others at a later date. Here is a shot of the final product.
In my hometown of Huntington, Indiana the annual JeffFest Celebration was held last weekend. Part of the celebrating is an art auction to benefit the Arts in Education program sponsored by the LaFontaine Arts Council. Each entry is 5″ x 7″ and is framed by Four Corners Custom Framing. The last few years I've donated to this worthy cause. Here are this year's mixed media donations.
Dear Mickey,
Do you sketch your paintings and murals before you paint. Sketching isn't my fave when it comes to my art. How important is it?
Jeff B.
Hi Jeff,
It depends on which you are referring to. I always provide a sketch for mural clients. For a painting, in my opinion sketching isn't a necessity. I happen to enjoy it. Sketching helps me to select and edit resource material and to record personally meaningful references for possible use at another time. My sketches are a personal response to the subject. Back in my studio I begin to create the lights and darks. This is not based on the values at the location but on my personal sense of design. It's also a good time to create personal sensitivity in the painting. If you would like further explanation I am happy to go into more depth. Thanks for the question, Jeff.
Happy painting,
Bella's Insight
Hello from Colorado, I had another adventure! Mom says that some of the most interesting things can be found right in your own backyard. Well, that big mountain you see when you look to the west from Colorado Springs has more than just a road to the top of the Peak with great views. It has lakes, fish, critters and fun people.
I saw lots of those peppy little chipmunks when we got out of the car. Then we took a pretty good walk along water that kept splashing at my paws. Not sure what that was all about but it smelled slightly familiar, hmmm.
Well, I led the way along Crystal Creek Reservoir, bet you're surprised at that, Not. Lots and lots of things to sniff, my favorite thing besides eating. When it was time to head back to the car we saw a couple in a boat. When they got out of their boat they asked if we would take their picture with their fish. Did they say, "FISH!" I love fish. Those fish didn't exactly look like what I expected. They were big, they wiggled and they had eyes. I think they were staring at me – I watched them from the corner of my eye.
The nice couple invited me to be in the pic, how 'bout that!?! I just love making new friends. New friends with fish are especially nice. What a great day, I don't remember much of the ride home.
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The letter request:
Good friends of mine, Matt and Elena, split up last year and while I thought I was equally friends with both of them, only Matt has stayed in contact with me. I've tried to reach out to Elena but she seems to be avoiding me. I feel like they've decided amongst themselves who gets to keep me as a friend but the thing is, if I only get to be friends with one of them, I'd actually prefer Elena.
The letter:
Dear Matt and Elena,
Let's start by saying that I know you are no longer 'Matt and Elena.' It's for simplicity (and transparency) that I address you both in the same letter. You know that biblical passage that people read at weddings: Love is patient and kind…Love never fails…? It's a wish that gets stated as a truism. The reality is that sometimes love is an arsehole and fairly often it fails us dismally. I don't need to tell you guys that.
It's absolutely none of my business how the divorce proceedings panned out. I will never enquire about how you guys decided who kept the house, or who got the kids when or, perhaps most poignantly, who got to keep that super comfy couch.
What I am interested in is how your friends were divvied up. Specifically, how did you decide who got to keep me? I'll tell you how things look from the outside: it appears that, like the dog, I'm staying with Matt. It appears that the decision has been made that Elena and I are no longer friends.
I've imagined that this decision was a result of bargaining. That Elena said to Matt, 'You can have the coffee machine and Raj's friendship if I can have the blue floor cushion and Sue and Nick from up the road.' But maybe it was simply based on gender and I ended up with Matt because we're both blokes. I've wondered if maybe it wasn't even discussed. I've wanted to call one of you up and ask, 'Did Elena even put in a bid for me?' But I'm not sure I really want to know.
I'm assuming you guys aren't up for sharing me… I can understand this. You want to feel comfortable to mouth-off over a few beers without worrying that I'm also getting the other side of the story. You want to know that, when I invite you round for a party, you won't have to spend the night avoiding eye contact in opposite corners of the backyard.
I guess what I'm asking is whether there is any scope to contest the settlement. Whether we can go back to the drawing board and this time I can choose who gets to stay my mate. If you're open to this I'd like to state upfront that I like you both a lot, I really do. I just like one of you slightly more than the other…
Yours sincerely,


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Unless you are using a trial license, Elastic Stack security features require SSL/TLS encryption for the transport networking layer.
This section demonstrates an easy path to get started with SSL/TLS for both HTTPS and transport using the Elasticsearch Docker image. The example uses Docker Compose to manage the containers.
For further details, please refer to Encrypting communications and available subscriptions.
Prepare the environmentedit
Install Elasticsearch with Docker.
Inside a new, empty directory, create the following four files:
instances: - name: es01 dns: - es01 - localhost ip: - 127.0.0.1 - name: es02 dns: - es02 - localhost ip: - 127.0.0.1
The path, inside the Docker image, where certificates are expected to be found.
Initial password for the
Version 8.0.0 of Elasticsearch has not yet been released, so a
create-certs.yml is not available for this version.
Version 8.0.0 of Elasticsearch has not yet been released, so a
docker-compose.yml is not available for this version.
Run the exampleedit
Generate the certificates (only needed once):
docker-compose -f create-certs.yml up
Start two Elasticsearch nodes configured for SSL/TLS:
docker-compose up -d
Access the Elasticsearch API over SSL/TLS using the bootstrapped password:
curl --cacert certs/ca/ca.crt -u elastic:PleaseChangeMe https://localhost:9200
elasticsearch-setup-passwordstool can also be used to generate random passwords for all users:
Windows users not running PowerShell will need to remove
\and join lines in the snippet below.
docker exec es01 /bin/bash -c "bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords \ auto --batch \ -Expack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certificates/es01/es01.crt \ -Expack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certificates/ca/ca.crt \ -Expack.security.http.ssl.key=certificates/es01/es01.key \ --url https://localhost:9200"


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Category Archives: Interiors
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Dedar II
I recently posted about the super Luxe International collection from Dedar. I wanted to share a few more images from their beautiful collections. Please contact us for samples & full details
Leading Luxury Italian Fabric and wallpaper Collections from Dedar will be arriving in the next few weeks at RHA Interiors. we feel privilege to stock this beautiful range of luxury fabrics and striking wallpapers. Dedar carefully select their stockist and these collections are only available in small number of Interior showrooms. Dedar are also the UK distributors for the interior collection for Hermes. Please contact me to view the collections or discuss any interior query you may have at email@example.com
Dedar has been used across the world to in many luxury venues such as The 'Four Seasons hotel Des Bergues', Geneva, The 'Sky Gardens', Dubai, and one of my favourite hotels 'Le Burgundy, Paris'
we will post more from the Dedar collection as the new collections arrive
Interiors Sale
RHA Interiors will be holding their Interiors sale January 1st – January 31st 2012.
We are offering 20% OFF Wallpaper, Fabric, Paint & Accessories. For those of you lucky enough to live in the Yorkshire area we will be offering a free 1 hour initial consultation. Throughout January we will be running competitions & ex-display fabric sales. You can follow our pins, Facebook or Twitter for more information
To book a consultation or further information email us at rebecca@rhainteriors.


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Captain Ahab (band)
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Captain Ahab
|Los Angeles, California, United States
|Electropop, jumpstyle
|Years active
|Deathbomb Arc Records
Irritant Records
Cock Rock Disco
|Jonathan Snipes
Jim Merson
Captain Ahab was an American electropop duo based in Los Angeles, California. They referred to their DIY take on jumpstyle and electropop music as "ravesploitation".
The band was made up of producer/vocalist Jonathan Snipes and hype man Jim Merson. They were known for their provocative lyrics and high-energy shows where a sweaty, half-dressed Merson would descend into the crowd to dance and grind on audience members.[1]
In June 2006, Captain Ahab won a contest to have their song "Snakes on the Brain" included on the enhanced CD portion of the soundtrack to the film Snakes on a Plane.[1]
On September 28, 2006, the song "Girls Gone Wild" was played briefly in "The Convention", the second episode of the third season of The Office.
Their single "Was Love" was written for and played in the first season episode "Gravedancing" on the Syfy series Caprica, as well as the remix of Maxfemm's "Weak Condition"[2][3]
They played their final show at The Smell, in Los Angeles, California on Friday, November 2, 2012 to a sold out crowd. Also performing that evening were Toxic Lipstick, Foot Village, and Books on Tape. The final show was announced via a music video on Vimeo on September 16, 2012 [4]
- The End of Irony (2010) (on Deathbomb Arc Records)
- Split 12" with Copy [rave002_ Ravesploitation Records (Deathbomb Arc Records)]
- Captain Jumpstyle (2007)
- The Great Disappointment (2006) (on Hatestate Records)
- Snakes on the Brain CD EP (2006) (on Deathbomb Arc Records)
- After the Rain My Heart Still Dreams (2006) (on Deathbomb Arc Records)
- I Can't Believe It's Not Booty 12" (2005) (on Deathbomb Arc Records)
- I Am Become Ass tour CD-R (2005)
- Split 7" with KIT (as "Bodahab" with Rose for Bohdan; 2005 on Hug Life Records)
- Captain Ahab & Rose for Bohdan - No More Hot Carls VHS (2004 on Deathbomb Arc)
- The Sex is Next (2004 on A2 Audio)
- Nintendoclash tour EP with Swimming is Floating (2003)
- Bot Pirate 12" (2002 on Irritant Records)
- ^ a b Ben Munson (8 April 2011). "A.V. Club Madison". A.V. Club Madison. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "Was Love | Captain Ahab". Captainahab.bandcamp.com. 2010-02-19. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ^ "Bear McCreary – Official site". Bearmccreary.com. 2010-02-19. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ^ "Time to Say Goodbye on Vimeo". Vimeo.com. 2012-09-16. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
External links[edit]
- Captain Ahab's website
- Captain Ahab on Soundcloud
- Reversion, a feature film scored by Jonathan Snipes
|This article on a United States-based pop music group is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


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Create a contemporary look in your home with the Minka Lavery Brushed Nickel Trim for 6 in. Recessed Can. The versatile finish and etched marble glass will match many lighting decor styles. This trim is a great choice wherever you have 6 in. recessed can fixtures.
- Steel and glass construction offers durability and beauty
- Rated for PAR 30 lamps, 65-Watt max
- Designed for use with 6 in. recessed can fixtures
- Etched Marble glass creates a brilliant glow when illuminated
- Includes assembly and installation parts
- ETL listed for indoor use
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A new guideline for triaging mass casualty victims has been recommended by a federal emergency medical services agency for use by all state and local EMS groups.
The Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services has recommended that state and local EMS agencies improve their mass casualty triage capabilities by adopting the new guideline and released an implementation plan for meeting that recommendation nationally.
The guideline, dubbed the Model Uniform Core Criteria, or MUCC, identifies the key features that should be included in a mass casualty triage system and is designed to standardize the process and improve interoperability between agencies when they respond to an emergency with multiple casualties. One of the guideline's key recommendations is to quickly identify those with life-threatening injuries and provide immediate lifesaving interventions, such as placing a tourniquet to stop a victim from bleeding to death.
"Having a national standard for mass casualty triage means that all responders in these chaotic and rapidly changing situations will be operating from the same sheet of music. This will help to ensure that as many lives as possible are saved," said Dr. E. Brooke Lerner, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Deputy Director of MCW's Injury Research Center.
"Based on the lessons learned from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the MUCC ensures that critical patients with potential for survival get immediate help by incorporating quick lifesaving interventions, such as a tourniquet or opening their airway. The lifesaving interventions are integrated directly into the triage protocol," said Dr. Richard Schwartz, Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Services at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
Schwartz was Principal Investigator on the grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that enabled broad-scale assessment of existing military and civilian triage protocols. Lerner led the 30-member multidisciplinary working group representing federal and academic institutions that developed the MUCC guideline.
"Most triage protocols used in the United States today do not include lifesaving interventions," Schwartz said. "This guideline will ensure that all responders to a mass casualty incident are providing lifesaving interventions that only take seconds to do then quickly moving to the next victim."
The Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services represents the Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Communication Commission. The committee has indicated federal dollars may be available to help implement the protocols across the nation.


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SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has passed 15 million, church President Thomas S. Monson announced Saturday in Salt Lake City.
Monson, opening the Mormons' 183rd semiannual conference, said the number of missionaries has grown 37 percent since the church lowered the minimum age a year ago, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
There are 80,333 missionaries in 2013, up from 58,500 in 2012.
The age for serving as missionaries was reduced last year from 19 to 18 for men and 21 to 19 for women.
Monson addressed 20,000 people gathered at the Salt Lake City Conference Center and millions more listening via telecasts and Internet streaming.
"Now is the time for members and missionaries to come together, to work together, to labor in the Lord's vineyard to bring souls unto him," Monson said. "He has prepared the means for us to share the gospel in a multitude of ways, and he will assist us in our labors if we will act in faith to fulfill his work."
Monson, 86, has served as president since 2008. He is considered a "prophet, seer, and revelator" by members of the church.


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I have a wedding this weekend and I just got my nails done. My cuticles are the worst part of my hands and I'm worried that they will be dry when I need them to look their best.
I have a special oil that I apply each morning, but if you don't want to spend the money, here are some HOMEMADE CUTICLE CREAMS that won't break the bank:
1. Mayonnaise
You heard me…it's not just for tuna sandwiches anymore. Pour some in a bowl and submerge your fingertips into the creamy white stuff. Your cuticles will be soft.
2. Olive Oil
Dab some of this Italian staple on your cuticles when you get out of the shower. And in my opinion, it smells yummy!
3. Lemon and Honey
Mix 2 parts lemon juice and 1 part honey. Soak your fingers for about 10 minutes. Pair this with a cup of tea and your favorite cookie and you have yourself a great afternoon!
Do you have any homemade nail solutions that you love to use? Please share!


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I took this picture at a conference I was at on Sunday night...
God has really been encouraging me a lot through the Bible (imagine that!). Earlier that day I was studying Mark 4:35-41. It's the story of Jesus calming the storm...Basically Jesus and the disciples are traveling by boat when a storm comes. The disciples are freaking out, and Jesus is asleep. In verse 38 they wake him up, and say -
"Teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown?!"
So Jesus gets up, and tells the storm to "Be Still", and it listens (Awesome). Then he turns back to the disciples and says to them -
"Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
As I was reading that, I was thinking about my own situation, as I sit here in Las Vegas waiting for my Spanish Visa. In my head I could hear myself having a similar exchange with Jesus ...
"Jesus, don't you care that my visa is going to get denied, and I'm not going to be able to go do what you've called me to do?!"
And Jesus turned to me and said -
"Poppy, why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
As I wait to hear the final outcome about my visa, I feel more and more like God is giving me the opportunity to exhibit great faith and trust in him. On Sunday night in the middle of worship at the conference I was attending, we sang a song that says:
Because you're with me
Because you're with me
Because you're with me
I will not fear
As I sang, I stretched my hands high, and surrendered myself, and any fear and anxiousness I have about the situation over to God. As I sang, I felt God reminding me of what I'd read earlier. I felt him reminding me to not be afraid, to trust...


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What is a Native American Traditionalist?
As I try to tell everyone else.
These websites and blogs teaching
from the teaching of the ancestors.
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