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text: Winter is almost fully upon us. For those lucky/smart to save their coppers all through the summer and have headed out for early season glacier fun, congratulations and f*ck you. The rest of us are still clucking for some mountain time. So to satisfy the thirst we have been teasing ourselves by watching hours on footage online. Funny though, we didn't really realise how many Thuggies are out there. They're popping up on homies heads all over the planet, which makes us smile for many more reasons. Chazou and Dam are some homies from Les Arcs that I randomly bumped into last winter, hadn't seen these shredders in close to 5 years. Wapped a Thug Rug on each of their noggins and turns out they filmed parts in em. Crazy no? Further on into the mini movie Vico shows up too. Small world. Big up to the Minority homies and I'll be seeing you guys this winter for sure. Peace.

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In honor of Women's Month, we thought it would be a lot of fun to take a moment to feature one of our favorite vendors: FanMail. If you're a fan of subscription boxes, are proud to be a geek, and want to take the opportunity to support a business owned and run by women, you really can't go wrong here. A subscription to FanMail means that every other month you are going to get a box of unique, curated items picked specifically for today's lady-geek. There is a focus on featuring other small lady-owned businesses within the items as well. Seriously guys, this stuff is so great that I'm doing this post not because they gave us a box in trade, but because I'm a happy subscriber and am pleased to give them my money.
One (or should I say two) of the things that makes FanMail so special are the owners Rose and Jenny. Rose and Jenny share The Ladies of Comicazi's mission to celebrate women and the community in which we create, forge friendships, and experience our fandoms. They are dedicated, friendly, and are responsible for a lot of people getting their hands on some really amazing stuff.
In an attempt to convince you, I wanted to share the unboxing of my February Box. This month's theme was Familiars and Companions.
Items: Bookstr Notebook, Avatar/Totoro Cross-over T-Shirt, Doctor Who Donna Noble quote sticker, Luna-inspired Sailor Moon Necklace, and adorable Eevee Pokemon (or is that a Flareon?)
Item: BB-8 throw pillow case. So gorgeous!
Item: Niffler pouch - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
I realize my photos don't seem to do the items justice, so if you want to see more, you should head on over to FanMail's Instagram.
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Sometimes we'll pick a wine we want to drink and make a food that goes with it, other times we'll figure out which wine goes with the food.
The tannic profile of Cabernet Sauvignon contrasts beautifully with the fat in a great steak.
The acidity of Sangiovese compares perfectly with the acidity of a tomato-based sauce.
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- Ravens running back Justin Forsett continues to get the work, piling up 95 yards on the ground. He out touched Bernard Pierce 25-8 and continues to be a RB2 this year. I can't imagine Forsett going anywhere next year and could be a value.
- Falcons receiver Roddy White had a throwback game with nine catches for 100 yards and a touchdown. We'd still move on from him in dynasty formats.
- Falcons linebacker Joplo Bartu led the way with 15 tackles. But with so much uncertainty between him and rookie Prince Shembo, it's a situation to avoid.
- Ravens linebacker Daryl Smith had a good day with 13 tackles and a pass defended. Smith continues to play at LB1 level and should be considered that in dynasty formats.


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This is scary. The toy my son as been begging for over the past few months has just sent multiple children into comas! Aqua Dots was recently found to contain a chemical that, when ingested, converts into the date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. Crazy. Every time we go to Target Ian wants to walk down the toy aisle and point out how much he NEEDS Aqua Dots. "But, MOM! They're so cool!"
The toy, made at a factory in Southern China, has been distributed to at least 40 countries. The manufacturer has issued a warning and will let each country decide whether to pull the tainted product or not. And what a crazy thing right before the Christmas shopping season!
But, doesn't this fall just a tad into the giving-bad-people-bad-ideas category? A widely available product that can be used as a date rape drug. Given, you've got to report it, but how many creepy men are going to be trawling bars with Aqua Dots in their pockets now?
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Aqua Dots Recalled
Posted by Angela at 9:45 AM
Tags: crazy world, NaBloPoMo '07
3 Comments:
- Ati2ude said...
As long as they don't recall Doritos!
I'm off work today, so I thought I'd actually post a comment to you: My Christmas shopping is finished!
Hey, since you are the knower of all things to know - what does one get a 12 yr old girl for xmas?
Last question: Does your sister have one of these blogger things that I should be tuning into as well?
- November 8, 2007 at 2:09 PM
- Brandi said...
That is an interesting spin on it. I hope women will be able to see a small pink "aqua dot" floating in their beer.
- November 8, 2007 at 2:09 PM
- Ati2ude said...
Yeah but if you happen to be a Martini drinker like myself, it might easily be mistaken for exotic garnish.
- November 8, 2007 at 3:58 PM
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The dates for tryouts for the CYA travel teams (which play in the Fairfax County Youth Basketball League) have now been set and start the first week of October (see schedule below). Players must attend at least 2 of the three tryouts held for their age group. The travel teams, unlike the house teams, are based on the players age as of October 1st of this year; however, each team is also allowed to roster 2 players who miss the birthday cutoff but are in the same grade (for example, some who turned 11 on August 15th but was in sixth grade could try out for the 11 and under age group since 11 year olds are normally in sixth grade).
Players are allowed to try out at higher age level (i.e, play up) but can only be considered for those age groups for which they attend 2 of the 3 tryouts. Thus, if someone who is 11 tries out for the Girls 12 and under team and does not make the team, he would have to have attended two of Girls 11 and under team tryouts as well to be considered for that group.
NOTE: Everyone trying out for these teams must be registered by the second tryout date. If you do not make a travel team and do not want to play in the CYA house program, you can request a full refund of your registration fee. You can register online on the CYA home page, www.chantillyyouth.org.
The tryout locations, dates and times are listed below. Note that these are subject to change due to gym changes and the like so make sure that you check this site frequently for updates.
Girls 10 and under [4th-5th grade]
Mon, Oct. 1st 6:00-7:30 Rachel Carson MS, gym 2
Wed, Oct. 3rd 6:00-7:30 Rachel Carson MS, gym 2
Thurs, Oct. 4th 6:00-7:30 Rocky Run MS, court 2
Fri, Oct. 5th 6:00-7:30 Rachel Carson MS, gym 1
Girls 11 and under [6th grade]
Tues, Oct. 2nd 7:30-9:00 McNair ES
Fri, Oct. 5th 7:30-9:00 Rachel Carson MS, gym 2
Tues, Oct. 9th 6:00-7:30 Hoop Magic Sports Academy
Girls 12 and under [7th grade]
Tues, Oct. 2nd 7:30-9:00 Greenbriar West ES
Wed, Oct. 3rd 7:30-9:00 Greenbriar West ES
Thurs, Oct. 4th 7:30-9:00 Greenbriar West ES
Girls 14 and under [8th-9th grade]
Thurs, Oct. 4th 8:00-9:30 Hoop Magic Sports Academy [new time and location]
Mon, Oct. 8th 7:30-9:00 Hoop Magic Sports Academy
Tues, Oct. 9th 7:30-9:00 Hoop Magic Sports Academy
Greenbriar West ES (http://www.fcps.edu/maps/gwes.htm)
13300 Poplar Tree Rd, Fairfax, VA 22033
Hoop Magic Sports Academy (http://www.hoopmagicsa.com)
14810 Murdock Street, Chantilly, Virginia 20151
McNair ES (http://www.fcps.edu/maps/mcnair.htm)
2499 Thomas Jefferson Drive, Herndon, VA 20171
Poplar Tree ES (http://www.fcps.edu/maps/pop.htm)
13440 Melville Ln, Chantilly, VA 20151
Rachel Carson MS (http://www.fcps.edu/maps/carson.htm)
13618 McLearen Rd, Herndon, VA 20171
Rocky Run MS (http://www.fcps.edu/maps/rocky.htm)
4400 Stringfellow Rd, Chantilly, VA 20151


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As an exercise in comparative philosophical theology, our approach will be more concerned with conceptual strategies than with historical "influences," although the animadversions of those versed in the history of each period will assist in reading the texts of each thinker. We need historians to make us aware of the questions to which thinkers of other ages and cultures were directing their energies, as well as the forms of thought available to them in making their response; but we philosophers hope to be able to proceed without having to arm ourselves with extensive knowledge of the surrounding milieu, trusting that others more knowledgeable will correct and extend our efforts. Our contribution should then be one of offering perspectives within which further discourse may profitably proceed, suitably challenged and amended in the course of a common inquiry. Since my familiarity is with Aquinas, and since he comes chronologically first, I shall begin with him, though there is no discernible connection between the two thinkers other than their preoccupation with establishing the primacy of existing in a metaphysical discourse which had hitherto obscured its significance. One of Aquinas' earliest writings is a short piece designed to clarify the maze of philosophical terminology which had come to characterize early medieval attempts to assimilate the thought of Aristotle. Its title, De ente et essentia, is regularly translated
"On Being and Essence," yet the text features an expression which does not appear in its title: esse, a Latin infinitive lexically rendered 'to be' yet virtually untranslatable, as we shall see, for it attempts to capture the subject or our inquiry: the very existing of things, including the universe itself.[1] A recent edition of an arguably earlier treatment of these issues, in Aquinas' commentary on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard, shows how crucially the primacy of esse figured in his understanding of the relation of creator to creation from the very beginning of his reflections on the matter. The Latin language itself will invite Peter Lombard to cite Augustine to remind us that "essence is named from 'esse'," with an authoritative reference to the One "who said to his servant Moses: I AM WHO I AM and You shall tell the sons of Israel: HE WHO IS sent me to you (Exodus 3, 14)," and go on to insist that "He is truly and properly called Essence whose essence knows neither past nor future."[2] (Since the English 'being' is ambiguous as regards the Latin ens ['a being'] and esse [literally, 'to be'], in what follows 'being' will render the Latin esse, which in my own translations I prefer to render by 'existing'.) Aquinas begins his commentary on the text of Lombard by asking "Is being properly said of God?" and answers that it is indeed "the most proper name of God among the other names ... according to the perfection of the divine being. ... For in the divine being nothing has gone past nor is anything to come; and so it has its whole being perfect [ly], and for this reason being belongs to it properly." Indeed, "among all the other participations of the divine goodness, such as living, understanding, and the like, being is the first and, as it were, the principle of the others, ... and so too God is the divine principle and all things are one in Him" (M 39-41). He then addresses the citation from Exodus, citing Maimonides' witness, and interprets "the name 'He who is' [as] "imposed by the very act of being, [and since] in God ... His very being is His quiddity, ... the name that is taken from being properly names Him" (M 43). The following article brings out the explicit role creation plays in this act of naming, by asking "Is God the being of all things?" and responding: "Nothing has being except inasmuch as it participates divine being, since it is the first being (ens); hence, it is the
cause of every being (entis)." Noting how that causality must act neither univocally nor equivocally, but analogously, he details "that the divine being produces the being of a creature in an imperfect likeness of itself: and so the divine being is called the being of all things <for> all created being emanates effectively and paradigmatically from it" (M 47). This pregnant passage adumbrates all of Aquinas' subsequent development of the primacy of esse and the role which creation plays in bringing us to recognize that primacy. Moreover, those familiar with Mulla Sadra, notably his summary text Kitab almasha'ir, will be struck by the manifest similarities.[3] Everything turns on the role which esse plays as the vehicle, one might say, of God's creating activity. (Aquinas will later identify esse as the "proper effect of the first and most universal cause, which is God," who needs no intermediaries to bestow it since "God alone is his own existence" [ST 1.45.5].) Moreover, we will find that the mediating notion of participation which Aquinas introduces in this early text will play a central role in Mulla Sadra's account of the way in which wujud comes forth from the One to all beings, even though he will not employ a corresponding Arabic term for it.[4] We shall also see how their concerns mirror one another: to find a way to highlight the metaphysical primacy of individual existing things--a goal which Aristotle had set for himself in the face of Plato, but was never able to complete satisfactorily; as well as finding a strategy to capitalize upon Ibn Sina's celebrated distinction of essence from existing while neutralizing the characterization of being as "accidental" to essence.[5] Esse/wujud as Accidental to Essence? In his opusculum, De ente et essentia, Aquinas cites the Liber de Causis in support of his argument to distinguish esse from essentia, and explicitly utilizes Avicenna's insistence that "the quiddity of a simple substance is the simple entity itself" in assembling the components of his demonstration, yet he is careful not to remark on the infelicity of his Islamic predecessor's identifying the ensuing relation as "accidental."[6] Instead, he offers a prescient correction, presenting esse as the act of essentia, thereby utilizing
Aristotle's more general potency/act distinction to enrich his metaphysics of matter/form, in which essence would invariably prevail, to one in which essence itself would be in potency to the "act of existing" [actus essendi].[7] At the same time, however, he fails to correct the language whereby esse "comes to" and is "received by" essentia, so perpetrating the impression of accidentality which left Avicenna so vulnerable to the searing critique of Averroes.[8] Nevertheless, the transposition from accident to act was accomplished so clearly and unequivocally that the lingering language could hardly threaten it, though what has proved far more elusive has been the proper way to characterize this newfound "act of existing." Aquinas will invoke it steadily in terms suggestive of the pinnacle of created reality: "the proper effect" of the creator, as we have seen; that which is "most interior and profound in anything" (ST 18.104.22.168), the "most formal" (ST 1. 3.) dimension of things--an infelicitous expression connoting an act in the direction of form yet exceeding it. His reticence about further explicating it, of course, may be traced back to Aristotle's insistence in the Metaphysics that act cannot be spelled out except by way of examples, perhaps as a sidelong bow to Plato's Seventh Letter, where the noblest of realities will finally outstrip our language.[9] In any case, Mulla Sadra will confirm and complete Aquinas' move here, as he explicitly locates wujud as that which links the universe to its originating cause: Now contingent beings, [that is, those not necessary in themselves], need something proper to them [thuwat] constituting what they are in themselves [huwiyyat], for should one consider them apart from the One who originates them by that very fact they must be considered to be empty and impossible. [That factor proper to them, then, must be] the act constituted by the One who originates them, much as the quiddity of a composite species is constituted by its difference. For the ratio [ma'na] of being an existence which is necessary is that it belongs to it properly to exist, without needing to be united with an originator nor have any receptacle to receive it; while the ratio of being an existence which exists [that is, contingent] is that it is something
attained, either by itself or by an originator. What it does not need, however, in order to realize its own being, is that another existence be achieved in it. This is what differentiates it from what lacks existence [viz., essences]: in order for them to exist, one needs to consider existence and its connection to them (par 42). Mulla Sadra's central disclaimer here represents an acute polemic against considering the wujud which constitutes the very being of individual things to be something apart from them, with its own proper existence, as it were, for this [wujud] is precisely what makes individual things to be themselves: "indeed, the very being of existence is identical with the quiddity as it exists outside the mind, for once we remove accidental existence from the rest, the entire set of existent things must exist in a way that is not accidental" (par 73). This assertion concludes an extended argument proving that wujud cannot be accidental to an existing thing, for were that the case, the thing would have first to exist in order to exist, since accidents demand existing subjects. Yet while it is simple enough to refute the impression with which Ibn Sina left us, it is not so easy to employ the mode of discourse proper to philosophy to articulate what is neither essence nor accident. We could, however, shift to the linguistic mode to put more simply what Mulla Sadra struggles to articulate here, by insisting (with Aquinas) that propositions always refer to the existing individual. Living individuals, which served as Aristotles paradigms for individual substances, offer the test cases here, for when friends die--be they dogs or persons--we can no longer name what we encounter--the body--with the person's or dog's name, but only refer to the corpse. Anything else sounds strange because it is philosophically incoherent: whatever kind of thing it may be figures only obliquely into our references, which are always to this individual; and since the esse of living things is to be alive (as Aquinas never tired of quoting Aristotle), when they die we are no longer confronting the same thing. Unlike accidental features, were existence able to be removed, the thing itself could hardly perjure. Mulla Sadra indeed comes close to this manner of articulating things when he later expands on the contention that "existing itself is the quiddity in its individuality,
[to insist] as well that existence itself is the very affirmation of the thing rather than something affir med of the thing" (par80). The unique case which forces Aquinas to greater precision in this matter is, of course, the incarnation of the Word of God in Jesus, notably as defined by the Council of Chalcedon in 431 in terms of "two natures in one person." In this case alone, one must specify, when speaking of the person of Jesus, which operative principle (or nature) one has in mind: is he acting qua divine or qua human? Here and only here does this essential specification become all-important; otherwise, the statements we make envisage the individual existing thing, where its kind can simply be presupposed. Notice, however, how we can only call attention to the reality of existing by stepping outside of language itself (langue) to consider how we use it (parole) to make assertions, for if we inquire about it directly, we invariably find ourselves asking what kind of thing it is. Yet that is precisely what both Aquinas and Mulla Sadra deny of existing: that it is a kind of thing! For a more positive account, then, we must move to its source, and what it tells us about that source. Esse/wujud as the Link to the Creator/Originator To move us beyond the abstract analysis which appeared to find two "things" in acknowledging the real distinction between essence and existing, Mulla Sadra shifts our attention to things "as they obtain outside the mind: the principle of an existing thing is existence, for it properly belongs to existence to emanate from the One who originates, with the quiddity united to it and predicated of it [as statements are made of individuals]. Not, however, as accidents are predicated of what they are joined to; for the quiddity is predicated of existence and united with it in the measure that it is itself the very individuality proper to this existence" (par 77). So wujud becomes the trace that the cause leaves in the caused, as Mulla Sadra makes clear when responding to one who objects that "we cannot conceive the existence of something caused while neglecting the existence of the cause which necessitates it, for then the cause would cease to be constitutive of the thing caused." Indeed, but that is an impertinent
objection to our argument, he retorts, "since we say that it is not possible to attain to knowledge of the precise particularity of a mode of existence unless its very individuality be unveiled [mushahadah], and that cannot be realized without some kind of unveiling of the cause of its emanation. That is why they say that knowing its cause only attains knowing what possesses a cause. Ponder this well!" (Par 92). The "unveiling" required to capture the uniqueness of wujud signals that we are in the logical domain of a creator/creation relation. For to speak of things as created implies some knowledge, however imperfect, of their being created and hence of a creator. So it would follow that even to perceive the uniquely non-conceptual character of wujud/esse would require a sort of "unveiling" analogous to the Sufi "knowing" [ma'rifah] of God as al-aqq [the True Reality]. Here Mulla Sadra helps us to appreciate the import of the subsequent accolades Aquinas gives to esse, expanding as they do the spare yet quite explicit assertion of the De ente: "the quiddity ... must be potential with regard to the being it receives from God, and this being is received as an actuality" (4.8). Yet referring to the Avicennian strategy which Aquinas employs in his proof of the distinction of essence from esse, Mulla Sadra notes how that approach is proper to a purely "intellectual analysis of existing things into essence and existence, an analysis which yields two complements, so that one of them is judged to be prior to the other in such a way that the other is attributed to it" (par 77). This is indeed a fair description of Ibn Sina's celebrated argument, yet Mulla Sadra goes on to the consideration we noted in the preceding paragraph of "things as they obtain outside the mind," of wujud as a reality and not a merely analytic component of existing things. It is this treatment which brings us closer to Aquinas' assertion that esse alone provides the only opening allowing us to speak of a similarity between creator and creation: "things receiving esse from God resemble him precisely as things possessing esse resemble the primary and universal source of all esse" (ST 1.15.2). Aquinas can make this strong claim because he has already explicitly identified esse as an act rather than an accident (as we have seen in De ente)--the central claim in which
these two thinkers concur. Mulla Sadra begins by characterizing wujud as "the reality [aqiqah] of each thing" (par 16), indeed "what pertains to the individual beyond the nature it shares [with others], ... and unless species were realized in particular individuals, nothing would exist at all" (par 27). "For taken by itself, the quiddity does not have any being from another by which it would be derived from that other, so that given its lack of being, it could only be related to the One who originates it and gives it being by the very being which we mean by wujud" (par 30). This complex statement recalls Ibn Sina's crucial proposal that our first consideration of essences take them simply as essences, presiding from their being--a proposal which takes the form of an insistence, given the ambiguity of 'being', for they are certainly essences.[10] The very need for such insistence helps to explain the contortions of Mulla Sadra's exposition at this point. He then goes on, however, to concede that this addition to essence "cannot be understood or perceived except through a 'presenting witness' [al-shuhud al-huuri]" (par 30). The phrase alludes to a mode of knowing familiar to readers of ishraqi or "eastern" philosophical theology, such as Mulla Sadra's predecessor, Suhrawardi. The strong links between "presence" and "act" suggest parallels with Aquinas' more sober prose, however, and again offer ways in which Mulla Sadra helps to bring out what may be obscured by Aquinas' concern to fit the mold of scientia given to him. The point of this elucidation, however, is expressed in a formula which brings us closer to seeing wujud as act: "what is necessary is that wujud be that thing by which quiddity exists and is united with it existentially, even though they be distinguished analytically in meaning and understanding. Ponder this well!" (Par 33). The next step for Mulla Sadra will be to show us how wujud is "the act constituted by the One who originates it" (par 42). As with Aquinas, it is the identification of wujud/esse with act which also bespeaks its direct dependence from the One who originates, the creator. Mulla Sadra makes this point clearly in an extended argument which shows that quiddities have no way of multiplying themselves; in other words, we need an objective correlate for the term 'instantiation' if it is not to remain an empty expression. He finds that the only
coherent candidate for explaining multiplicity is "that which emanates essentially and is initially originated in the line of multiplicity, namely, the modes of attainment, that is, those things to which it is proper to exist individually. A single quiddity is found in many by their multiplicity" (par 94). Whence this wujud which constitutes individual realities? From "a simple act of a simple nature which is the act of its act: God acts in each thing by emanating good and breathing the spirit of existing and of life" (par 96). This allusion to emanation from the One elicits a thesis said to be "inspired by the Throne," that is to say, the heart (par 97).[11] In terms reminiscent of the Kitab al-Khair [Liber de causis], Mulla Sadra identifies an " authentic initial emanation from the first cause, which is called the 'true reality created by Him', which is the source of world and its life and light, penetrating into everything in heaven and on earth" (par 97). This reality he relates to its divine source as sensible illumination derives from the sun, which offers a pregnant simile since the sun is the source of heat and vitality as well as light. He renders this figure of speech somewhat more straightforwardly by characterizing "the relation of what is originated with respect to its originator as that of imperfect to perfect, of weakness to power," implying that nothing more can be said, since "it has already been established that wujud is a simple reality" (par 102). Since this discussion takes place in a chapter preliminary to his exposition of the utterly simple reality of the One, it may be that he is seeking to differentiate the simple substances from one another by the ploy of more or less wujud, much as Aquinas does in De ente: "these substances, moreover, are distinct from one another according to their degree of potency and act, a superior intelligence, being closer to the primary being, having more act and less potency, and to with the others" (4.10). Otherwise, one would have difficulty differentiating the Originator from what is originated. Aquinas' commentary on the Liber de Causis, where the author states "the first of created things is being," and "as a result, then, it came to be higher than all [other] created things, and to be more powerfully united," is illustrative here.[12] After tracing
this mode of discourse to "the Platonists" and to Dionysius, Aquinas clarifies: "it seems that it is not [the author's] intention to speak about some separate being, as the Platonists did, nor about the being that all existing things participate commonly, as Dionysius did, but [rather] about being participated in the first grade of created being, which is higher being ... both in intelligence and soul" (Proposition 4, ET 31-32). What is at issue here is whether esse/wujud is a univocal term which spans the realm of being, including originated and originator, or whether it is a paradigmatically analogical term, like its complement, good, which may indeed be graded from more to less, but with the crucial marker that distinguishes "the Good" from all else that is good by the fact that the Good is its source. Aquinas introduces the Platonic notion of participation at this point, noting that creation participates in the esse/bonum of the creator, who simply is bonum/esse. Mulla Sadra never quite says it so succinctly in the Masha'ir, but his language strains towards the notion which Aquinas adopts. How to Characterize "the Distinction" of Creator from Creation To speak of "the distinction" of originator from everything else is also to speak of the intrinsic dependence of everything that is on the One whose very essence is esse/wujud, and hence from whom all-that-is comes to be.[13] So the being of everything other than the creator is a coming-to-be, even for those beings whose ontological status is to be not generated, but always to be. For esse/wujud does not announce a status but the reality of things. This is the essential modification which both Aquinas and Mulla Sadra must work in Aristotle's account of "necessary beings" as well as any Neoplatonic emanation scheme which would construe creation as a descending ordering of the universe, in which each higher order has a share in the coming-to-be of the lower ones. Esse/wujud must emanate wholly from the One, and if it does so in an ordered fashion which the canonical "emanation scheme" attempts to outline, that scheme itself must be wholly a product of the One. What this entails, then, is that there be a trace of the originator in everything originated, which both Aquinas and Mulla Sadra identify with esse/wujud. Yet since esse/wujud is neither an
accident nor an essential feature of things, "it" will not be identifiable except as the very act of things, what allows them to "stand out" and to be agents themselves.[14] So what is most significant about things, their individual reality, will escape the conceptualization proper to an essence/accident frame. Yet that very inconceivable act will also link existing things to their source, and inherently so, since (as Aquinas puts it) their very esse is esse-ad, their being is to-be-related (ST 1.45.3). Such is the mark of being a creature, and what both Aquinas and Mulla Sadra bring to philosophy is the demand that creatureliness be incorporated into a Christian or Muslim metaphysics. There is only one way to do this: to find a way of articulating both the similarity and the difference which obtains between creator and creatures. Aquinas will have recourse here to the Neoplatonic strategy of participation to encapsulate "the distinction" which at once links the One with all that emanates from it as well as differentiating their modes of being: the One whose very essence is esse must differ from everything else which has it. Mulla Sadra's way of characterizing this similaritycum-difference by way of an ordered emanation could be regarded as a commentary illuminating Aquinas' use of the notion of participation, which forms the centerpiece of his argument for origination. As Rudi te Velde explicates it: "the point of Thomas's argument is that subsisting being itself implies the existence of other beings, in such a way that no being can be conceived to exist unless as distinguished from the one who is being itself." Since these modalities are so different, there is a negation involved, yet it proves to be a productive one: "it constitutes all other beings as distinguished from and related to God who alone is subsisting being itself. The positive side of the negation is expressed by the term participation: that which is as istinguished from God is not its being but participates in being which it has received from God."[15] Yet that participation sees to it that "the first cause operates [in all creatures] from within, in a most intimate and immediate way [so that God is] more interior to the creature than that creature is to itself. This well-known Augustinian phrase formulates
rather aptly what is means to say that God's transcendence is not transcendence outside and separated from the world, but a transcendence-in-immanence. ... Even if one might say that God gives being to a creature which exists outside God, still God cannot properly be said to be outside the creatures."[16] Sara Grant's Teape lectures comparing Aquinas' metaphysics of created being with Sankara's nonduality focus on that feature of articipation which identifies created esse as esse-ad--a relation which Aquinas insists is a "non-reciprocal relation of dependence."[17] That is, the very existence of creatures involves the creator: since their being can only be from the One who simply is, creatures have no being apart from God. Yet (as te Velde notes [182]) "participation enables Aquinas to conceive a domain of finite causality (secondary causes), a natural order of cause and effect [whereby] God works immanently in nature ... by setting nature free in its own nondivine operation." All the while, however, "no particular cause can by its own power account for the being as such of its effect, so no cause is capable of making its (particular) effect be in act unless it acts by the power of the first one whose power alone is sufficient ground of the being of any determinate effect." So what te Velde calls "the specific structure of participation which underlies the relationship between God and nature," Sara Grant identifies with nonduality, utilizing Aquinas' "nonreciprocal relation of dependence" to offer an interpretation of Sankara's thought which removes it from western caricatures of "monism." We can do the same with similar caricatures of Mulla Sadra (and of his mentor, Ibn al-'Arabi) as propounding something called "existential monism." It seems, rather, that he and Aquinas were engaged in a similar strategy, one for which Aquinas borrowed the Neoplatonic device of participation, utilizing it to his own ends: to show how creatures are internally related to their creator. For if they are not, then the creator is a cause like other causes, rather than a cause of being; and if they are, then any account of their mode of being must attempt to show how they are.
Concluding Remarks One signal result of this comparative inquiry should be to make us appreciate how difficult it is to attain a "metaphysical standpoint" (te Velde [133]), and especially so when the "cause of being" is the free and self-revealing creator of the Hebrew scriptures and the Quran. Since the key reality of wujud/esse is not itself conceptualizable, and when conceptualized turns into the common notion of being, something more than philosophical skills will be required to execute the metaphysical strategy which we have identified as crucial to a proper understanding of both Aquinas and Mulla Sadra. There is a hint of paradox here, for we are suggesting that attaining the requisite "metaphysical standpoint" will call for set of skills beyond what we normally associate with philosophy. Here is where we may profit from Pierre Hadot's reflections on the relevance of spiritual exercises to the practice of philosophy, as conceived by "the ancients."[18] The difficulty is nicely articulated by Rudi te Velde in his attempt to parse Aquinas' characterization of God as ipsum esse subsistens [subsisting being itself]. He notes how the formula cannot capture God, but rather announces, "we have no concept of God. [Indeed,] it is by means of this formula, as expressing the way the human intellect in its understanding relates to God, that it is made clear that God is such a reality which defies any definition or conceptualization [on] our part." Yet the formula is not meaningless; it "signifies God as he is knowable to us on the basis of his 'reflection' in the world" (120). Yet that reflection, embodied in wujud/esse, is not conceptualizable either, so how can it be known--as a reflection? Both Muslim and Christian traditions turn here to practices which can serve to move the understanding beyond formulations, especially when the very structure of the formulae displays that they will not suffice. And Pierre Hadot reminds us that ancient philosophy did the same. A longtime translator of Plotinus, it appears that the very effort of translating--itself a spiritual exercise!--alerted him to the difference between a modern and a classical conception of the virtues required to "do philosophy." Indeed, modern philosophy seldom alludes to "intellectual virtues," contenting itself rather
with "propositional attitudes," yet when one presses the attitude part, something like virtue can in fact emerge. That is to say, modernity's account of what philosophy is and how one engages in it may well prove inadequate to the activity itself, which could also explain why philosophy continues to criticize itself and not merely its findings. The focus of contemporary philosophers like Stephen Toulmin and Alasdair MacIntyre on practices can help us see how Hadot's presentation of ancient philosophy is far more pertinent than an historical exercise, as his recent summary statement in Qu'est-ce que la philosophie antique articulates.[19] Mulla Sadra explicitly contends, as we have seen, that we will need some special "illumination" to attain the appropriate metaphysical standpoint. Lacking something of that sort, te Velde intimates, Aquinas' crucial formula cannot but appear ungrammatical. Yet those who are attuned to what it displays rather than what it (cannot) say will be able to make connections with Plotinus' pointing to a One "beyond being," and find Aquinas and Plotinus engaged in a similar struggle to attain the requisite "metaphysical standpoint"--beyond the common conception of being.[20] And it was his own engagement with Plotinus' intellectual journey which taught Hadot the need for spiritual exercises to follow his mentor. Indeed, the master/disciple relationship, and all that it portends, offers a useful way of characterizing the exercises relevant to attaining this metaphysical standpoint. My own suspicion is that Hadot's suggestions may offer western philosophers a way to appreciate ishraqi wisdom and the demands it makes on one who would practice it. Notes 1. The best edition is that of M.-D. Roland-Gosselin, Le "De ente et essentia" de s. Thomas d-Aquin, 2me d. (Paris: Vrin, 1948); English translation by Armand Maurer, On Being and Essence, 2nd rev. ed. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1968). Citation from Aquinas' later Summa Theologiae will be prefaced by 'ST'.
2. Translated and edited by E. M. Macierowski, Thomas Aquinas's Earliest Treatment of the Divine Essence: Scriptum super libros Sententiarum Book 1, Distinction 8 (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton NY, 1998) [= M], citation at p. 23. 3. Henry Corbin has published the Arabic text under the title of his accompanying translation: Le Livre des Pntrations mtaphysiques (Tehran: Institut FrancoIranien/Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1964). 4. For a recent account of the role which participation plays in Aquinas' thought, see Rudi te Velde, Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas (Leiden: Brill, 1996). The author reprises and refines the earlier treatments of Fabro and Geiger. 5. For a comprehensive and illuminating treatment of the reception of Aristotle's unfinished project, see Edward Booth, Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Writers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 6. De Ente 4.2, 4.4. 7. See De Ente 4.8-9. Many have translated esse as 'act of existing', not only to emphasize the existential character of this reality, but also because Aquinas himself uses the expression actus essendi synonymously with esse, see M 42. 8. Esp. De ente 4.8-9. Averroes' critique of Ibn Sn's understanding of existence as an "accident" can be found in the eighth discussion in his Tahfut al-Tahfut: English trans. by Simon van den Bergh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954) 235 sq. 9. Metaphysics 9.6 (1048a25-b36). 10. See Armand Maurer's note on the term precisio ['prescinding'] in his translation of the De ente, p. 39, note 15. 11. Corbin offers a number of interpretations of the source, the Throne. His Persian commentator, Shaykh Amad As', contends that this refers to the source of Mull adr's inspiration for what follows: that it was given to his heart.
12. Sancti Thomas de Aquino super Librum de Causis Expositio, critical edition by Henri-Dominique Saffrey, O.P. (Fribourg: Socit Philosophique, 1954); English translation by Vincent Guagliardo, O.P., Charles Hess, O.P., and Richard Taylor (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of American Press, 1996). 13."The distinction" is Robert Sokolowski's prescient way of summarizes the metaphysical implications of creation, in his God of Faith and Reason (Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981). 14. Joseph deFinance, S.J., Etre et Agir dans la Philosophie de S. Thomas 3me d, (Roma: Gregoriana, 1965) offers a classic treatment of Aquinas on this matter. 15. Participation and Substantiality (see note 4) 128. 16. Ibid. 181; for a parallel construction in a more properly linguistic mode, see Kathryn Tanner, God and Creation in Christian Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), where she distinguishes "contrastive" from "non-contrastive" ways of articulating the relation. A further illuminating parallel can be found in Sara Grant's Teape lectures: Towards an Alternative Theology (Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 1991) 17. Sara Grant, 35; Aquinas (in ST 22.214.171.124) puts this in a way which has offended those unfamiliar with his quasi-technical language: "In its active sense creation means God's action, which is his essence with a relationship to the creature. But this in God is not a real relation, but onlay conceptual [secundum rationem tantum] the relation of the creature to God, however, is real.... 18. Exercises spirituels et philosophie antique 3me d, (Paris; Gallimard, 1993), Philosophy as a Way of Life, ed. Arnold Davidson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) 19. Qu'est-ce que la philosophie antique (Paris: Gallimard, 1995). 20. The work of Lloyd Gerson is illustrative here: see his Plotinus (London: Routledge, 1997).


text: Bird watching path is settled near Baltoji Voke fishponds area. Path is marked with a special sights and goes along the pond where you are able to see lots of water birds as ducks, grebes , fields and swans also a number of rare exotic species - white-tailed eagle , osprey , great white heron, whooper swan , black stork , hoopoe and others. Visitors of this path will be able to know the difference between a stork, heron and crane as ponds nesting rare whooper swan Lithuania separated from the more frequent and better known to all mute swans why gulls are often incorrectly referred to as The Seagull and many other attractions. Visitors get acquainted with the world of bird's help of professional guides - ornithologists. The trail was built in cooperation on international environmental association "Migratory Birds of the Western Palearctic (OMPO), public institution" Vilnius OMPO, LOD and ponds of the farming company "Black stork". Baltoji Voke (White Voke) district has a unique bird abundance and species diversity - there are registered more than 200 species of birds. The ponds and the surrounding forests, peat bogs and lake Papio detected in more than 60 European protected bird species observed 48 bird species included in the Red Book of Lithuania. Ponds and Papio Lake is of international importance for migratory waterfowl and wading birds resting place. During migration time here stays huge migrating geese, ducks and sandpipers squads. Here is one of the most important Lithuania bellied toad, endangered amphibian species in Europe, spawning ground.


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Santiago Canyon Road near Irvine Lake reopened Tuesday morning, a couple hours after a downed telephone pole shut down traffic lanes.
At 5:27 a.m., a person reported a telephone pole and an overturned vehicle were in the traffic lanes at 4621 Santiago Canyon Road, according to the California Highway Patrol traffic log.
Lanes reopened at 7:05 a.m., the CHP said.
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I wanted to share a little tour of our second bedroom- a shared office and art studio. Soon it will include a nursery and I'll be sure to take pictures of that cute little space too! We live in a tall and small 1200 square feet old brick rowhouse. The top two levels where we spend most of our time add up to only 800 square feet!
The futon is from Overstock, and the shelves and tall shelf are from Ikea. The work table was made by my grandfather from reclaimed barn wood and we removed the two leaves so it's easier to sit at. I found that great work lamp at goodwill and all it needed was a tightened screw and the white chair is thrifted from my parent's house. The posters are printed for cheap from an old OhHappyDay post and I sewed the curtains from some creamy fabric leftover from my grandparent's and then added mini black pom pom trim.
The filing cabinet, small island and mini drawers are all Ikea found on Craigslist or at Goodwill and the owl print is from Gingiber on Etsy. On our office side we had to really scale down and keep things organized so we got a smaller desk from Target and try to keep the top pretty clean. I have some of my paintings up on the wall and a few inspirational quotes up on the corkboard. The black desk lamp is from our old family farm and the fabric wall hanging is from NewHouseProject on Etsy.
I had to think hard about what I wanted to keep in this space and so I ended up getting rid of a ton of art supplies. Now the space is used for blogging, painting and sewing and my husband can use the work table too when he wants to spread out. It was sort of hard and sad to get rid of so many materials and project ideas, but I tend to work better when I have a little more structure and limitations, so for now I feel okay about what's left in the room!
Even though it's small I love how we found the right furniture pieces that fit the room and help with storage and work space. It's easy to get carried away when decorating the house or designing a space and just spend tons of money on things. So it's been fun to make things work, find items for cheap and then still enjoy the space. I love coming up here in the mornings with my tea and reading my favorite blogs, opening the window and looking out at our massive tree in the back yard.


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The majority of start-ups go out of business within five years and two thirds are no longer operating ten years after being formed. Most failures are attributable to the following six reasons.
Inadequate Planning
leading to
Not Enough Sales or Poor Execution
coupled with
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overseen by
Unfocused Management
with an absence of
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And a failure to engage
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Some start-ups fail because of factors beyond their control. But responsibility for much of the high failure rate of startups lies mostly with the entrepreneurs themselves.
For example, research shows that writing a business plan, having sufficient upfront capital and putting in place financial controls will significantly increase your odds of survival. Yet too many startups fail to do these basic things. Even poorly run companies can survive for a time if their sales are greater than their cost. This is basic math, but many startsups fail to get their products to market soon enough or cannot sell their product or service at a high enough markups to support their operation.
The reality is that almost 1 out of every 4 startups fails during the first year. The good news is that failure rates drop significantly over the years: 24% to 10% to 7% to 5% to 4%. This is an indication that the most critical period of any company's life is its first year (or two) of operation.
This high failure rate should not deter you. Starting a business is not rocket science. However, be aware that if you chose to ignore the basics – you will have a higher likelihood of failure.
So, my advice is to do your homework (plan appropriately), have discipline (follow the plan), watch your spending and stay focused on your objective.
Following these simple recommendations will greatly enhance your likelihood of success. Good luck building your dream enterprise.


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I can't tell you how many times I've made the New Year's Resolution to lose weight—or rather I can, because I've been making it every year since 2007. And yet, somehow, I've still found myself making the same resolution the following year, and the year after that. You can take this as irrefutable proof that New Year's Resolutions don't work, or that I am a lazy sod who sits in front of a computer for most of her day and wears a groove her favourite armchair, and you'd be right on both counts. But my point here is that sometimes, despite our best resolve, we're all talk. A lot of us are always "gonna do" something, and yet we never do.
In few spheres is "gonna-do-itis" as prevalent as it is in the world of writing. Just about everyone I've ever met has admitted to having "a book inside of them," which sounds remarkably uncomfortable if you ask me. Yet so few of them ever manage to extract that book from their … wherever it is … and actually put it out there where readers can enjoy it (or otherwise). Why is this so? I'll tell you why: because we make excuses.
I'm too busy. I've got kids. I've got a fulltime job. I've got kids. I've got a disease (tip: gonna-do-itis is not a real disease). I've got kids. I've got books to edit (I use this one a lot, partly because it is true, but who keeps accepting the jobs? That damn editor in me is boycotting my writing dreams). I've got kids. I've got scissors for hands. [Okay, Edward Scissorhands, I grant that it might be harder for you, and I'm very sorry for your affliction. As you were.] I've got kids. I've got fleas. I've got piles of washing. I've got piles and I can't sit for long on wet concrete writing with the nub of a blue crayon on the back of margarine lid—or however or wherever else you find yourself most creative. I find an armchair good, which is why I'm a fatty boomballa. You might prefer a treadmill. Whatever! Go to!
My point is—I have a point!—writers who suffer from gonna-do-itis make a multitude of excuses to explain away dismal word counts. I do it. I've been doing it for years. "I was too busy today," I tell myself. And yet, I somehow managed to maintain a lengthy repartee about monkey's uncles in a Facebook group. Ah, well, that was time well spent.
The truth of the matter is that we just don't find the time to put our bums in the seat (or on the concrete) to write. We plot, we plan, we talk about writing, we read books about
writing, we edit what we've already written, we hang out in groups of writers hoping some of the starshine of successful authors will rub off on us and make us glow with writerly brilliance, we write blog posts about Edward Scissorhands, but we don't actually find the time to write. So, this year, my New Year's Resolution was to "Write like I mean it." And by that, I mean to stop calling myself a fiction writer and start being a fiction writer. To follow Cruxim up with its sequel, Creche, this year (not in four years' time). To stop half-finishing
manuscripts, and to stop having gonna-do-itis. To put actual words on actual (okay, so Scrivener is virtual, don't be so pedantic!) paper. One word at a time. One minute at a time. And so far, it's working. Kind of. But I'm gonna do it, I swear it!
Oh, and Cruxim got a cover facelift this week too from the fabulous Eden at Eden Crane Designs, just in time for its first free run on Amazon from the 1st of March to the 3rd of March, so be sure to snag yourself a free copy, because that sequel WILL be along any moment you know. [Disclaimer: By "any moment," the author wishes to advise that she means early April :-)]


text: August 08, 2014 Possible future artist (and something else, I hope) August 08, 2014/ matthew My son has recently shown a love for coloring, painting, and the like. I would love to see him take up a career in art. He just needs to have a backup career, in the event things don't work out immediately. The expression "starving artist" exists for a reason.


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|18 Mar 2010
|Screen Bandita presents: 'Reels From Life Two Or: How We Learned to Love Postmodernism'
|film Screening
|13 Mar 2010
|Film Study Day and Hinges Between Days Book Launch
|Stills Film Study Day
|4 Mar 2010
|Stills f:ocus group
|Stills f:ocus
|3 Mar 2010
|March Reading Group: Selected by Matt Lloyd
|Stills Reading Group
|26 Feb 2010
|Study Day: Shadow Sisters: Women in the History of Photography
|Study Day
|17 Feb 2010
|February Reading Group: Selected by Jenny Gypaki
|Stills Reading Group
|4 Feb 2010
|Stills f:ocus
|Stills f:ocus
|3 Feb 2010
|Academic Talk: Richard Williams 'Sexuality, Space and the Architectural Project: A Provisional History'
|Academic talk
|27 Jan 2010
|January Reading Group: Selected by Ruth Barker and Catherine Street
|Stills Reading Group
|20 Jan 2010
|Film Screening: The Magic Lantern
|magic lantern film screening
|14 Jan 2010
|Stills f:ocus
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|13 Jan 2010
|Poetry Evening
|Poetry Reading
|12 Jan 2010
|Experimental Music: Christine Sehnaoui Trio
|Experimental Music
|3 Dec 2009
|Stills f:ocus NEW FREE GROUP EVENT
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|20 Nov 2009
|Experimental Music: Braw Gigs presents Family Battle Snake
|live music
|12 Nov 2009
|Film Screening: Counter Images. GDR Underground Films 1983-1989
|film Screening
|6 Nov 2009
|Exhibition Opening - Elín Jakobsdóttir Hinges Between Days
|Exhibition Opening
|22 Oct 2009
|REWIND at Stills: DVD Launch & Performance of In Two Minds by Kevin Atherton
|REWIND at Stills
|21 Oct 2009
|October Reading Group: Drugs: counter-culture or culture's hidden foundations?
|Stills Reading Group
|26 Sep 2009
|Doors Open Day at Stills
|23 Sep 2009
|The Magic Lantern at Stills
|The Magic Lantern at Stills
|27 Aug 2009
|6 Aug 2009
|Artist Talk: Joachim Koester, Waking Dreams
|Artist Talk
|5 Aug 2009
|Private View: Poison Protocols and Other Histories
|Private view
|5 Aug 2009
|EAF Reading Room at Stills
|Reading Room
|27 Jun 2009
|Stills' Old Town Open Day
|Stills Workshop
|24 Jun 2009
|REWIND at Stills: Kevin Atherton Screening
|REWIND at Stills
|21 Jun 2009
|Stills' Talk & Tour - FREE
|Stills open day
|18 Jun 2009
|June Reading Group: 'Inventions of Hysteria'
|Reading group
|28 May 2009
|Artist Talk & Book Launch: Robin Gillanders
|Artist Talk & Book Launch


text: This time of the year the oranges are so good! I can't seem to get enough of them. What better way to use them than to make orange julius. My mom used to make us orange julius when my brothers and I were little. I think it had frozen orange juice concentrate, white sugar and nonfat powdered milk in it. I'm sure she's shuttering right now thinking about it :) When I make smoothies I always … [Read more...]


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I am in love with blushes and haven't gotten myself a new blush since forever. I think the last blush that I purchased was MAC Melba, which has always been my go-to. However, seeing that I wasn't going shopping anywhere for Labor Day, I decided to shop around for some good online deals. I have always been wanting to try out products from bhcosmetics and they were having a huge Labor Day Sale, which were products up to 70% off! I got the 10 color Glamorous Blush palette for $7.95 (originally $16.95) and the 7 piece Seductive Brush Set for $9.45 (originally $19.95).
So far, the brushes are so soft and do a really good job at apply my makeup. It doesn't shed and it also comes in a cute travel case, so it is easy to bring it place-to-place. I also like it because I can cover my brushes from getting dusty. The blushes are beautiful! I am in love with blushes and these are pigmented and really give my face a pop of color. Speaking of pop of color, here's my makeup of the day below!
- Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream (Medium Sheer Tint)
- Makeup Forever Extreme Comouflage Cream Concealer
- Revlon Photoready Concealer (Light Medium 003)
- MAC Studio Fix Powder (NC42)
- Bhcosmetics blush palette (1st color on the top row on the left)
- Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (Eden)
- Urban Decay NAKED Palette
- Toasted – on lids
- Buck – blended in my crease & used to fill in my eyebrows
- Virgin – on my brow bone and inner eyelids
- Sephora Eyeshadow Palette (I don't remember the specific name) teal eyeshadow
- L'Oreal Telescopic Liquid Eyeliner (Carbon Black)
- Covergirl Lashblast Mascara (Very Black)
And that's it! I had a lot of fun putting a bit of color on my eyes, instead of neutrals today (:


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Dynamic Tariffing (DT) is a product that requires careful positioning and packaging within the operator's existing market environment. It needs to be tailored to local market conditions and the operator's strategic direction. The Launch Consultancy service is designed to guide and assist the operator in the definition, packaging and launch of the product.
The service is delivered by Digitata's Business Advisory Services team and draws on best practices gained from previous deployments of DT. The Business Advisor (BA) engages with the Operator's team throughout the delivery of the service to align on the strategy that will determine how DT will be positioned and launched in the marketplace.
Digitata Evaluation and Evolution Service
The Evaluation and Evolution (E&E) Service follows the commercial launch of the Dynamic Tariffing Solution (DTS). This service provides strategic product support through continuous engagement with the Operator. As part of this ongoing consultation, the Operator is furnished with monthly strategic reports which, on a quarterly basis, are delivered to the Operator in country.
The E&E reports provide an analysis and evaluation of the current and prospective performance of the DTS from the following perspectives:
- Business strategy recommendations
- Product positioning
- Product evolution
- Product innovation
- Intelligent pricing
- Customer acquisition (new and migrated)
- Customer activity
- Customer retention
- Market penetration
- Intelligent pricing
- Price point evaluation
- Pricing strategy comparisons
- Net effective tariff analysis
- Intelligent pricing
- Minutes of Use
- Uncharged Minutes of Use
- SMS traffic
- Data volumes
- Subscriber spend analysis
- Revenue trend analysis
- Revenue DT/non-DT comparison
- ROI analysis
- Utilisation analysis and optimisation
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Tooling by Design
Controlling Sheetmetal Flow
Deep-drawing operations require holding forces—called blankholder forces, draw-pad forces or binder forces—applied at the flat-blank flange area, to control material flow. This force must be sufficiently low to allow material flow into the die cavity to produce the required part shape with minimal stretching and thinning, yet high enough to prevent wrinkling.
The surface of the blankholder contacting the sheetmetal usually is smooth or polished to help ease material flow. When deep drawing irregularly shaped parts, some areas may be left intentionally rough to increase local friction and balance material flow.
Blankholder-force guidelines found in technical handbooks tend to work well for deep drawing flat-bottom cylindrical cups and rectangular boxes with vertical walls. The blankholding process window—the range of forces that will produce acceptable parts—can be quite large for these types of parts.
Fig. 1
Many deep-drawn cups do not have flat bottoms or vertical walls; some have tapered walls or hemispherical or dome-shape bottoms. All have one thing in common: The need for high blankholder forces. Insufficient blankholder force will prevent the workpiece material between the draw post and the die entry radius from becoming stretched tightly across the punch face. When this loose material buckles, waves and wrinkles can form in the unsupported region.
When cups are designed with full-hemispherical bottoms or partial domes, stampers must give special consideration to the forming process, because the process changes from simple bending of material over the punch radius—the case flat bottom-cup drawing—to stretch forming across the punch face. The drawing of dome-shape cups combines stretching and drawing.
When a dome-shaped draw post contacts the blank, the material is stretched in all directions. This stretching requires enough blankholder force to keep the blank from drawing into the cavity too soon. If the blank does begin to flow too soon, the material may pucker in the unsupported regions. The term "pucker" is used here to distinguish between these stretch-forming wrinkles and conventional draw wrinkles.
As the dome shape approaches that of a full hemispherical shape, the importance of balancing blankholder forces and material flow increases. As soon as stretch forming is completed, the blank flange must begin to draw inward. Otherwise, the punch will continue to stretch material in the dome area, causing it to tear or fracture.
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Drawing a cone shape—a cup with significantly tapered walls—from a flat blank requires substantial blankholder forces. The likelihood of the material fracturing early in the punch stroke is high due to the small punch-face diameter and tight radius in the bottom of the cup. Successful drawing of cone-shape cups often requires a stepped-cup approach (Fig. 1), with two or more body diameters in the drawn shell. Stampers produce step-shells by stopping the redrawing process partially through the press stoke, so that only a portion of the shell is redrawn. The step shell is drawn into a cone in the final draw after the appropriate step reductions have been made.Axis-symmetric cup drawing is rather straightforward and easily understood. However, not all cup drawing is symmetrical about the cup axis. For example, consider deep drawing a non-symmetrical shape such as an ellipse (Fig. 2). This task becomes difficult due to the unbalanced flow of material toward the draw post, caused by the disruption of the uniform compressive loads found in axis-symmetric cup drawing.
Compressive forces during elliptical cup drawing peak in the area of the smaller radius, where failures such as tearing and fracturing most likely will occur. To reduce compressive load, the stamper can notch the blank in the smaller-radius area, provided the notch does not adversely affect the final product trim. It may be necessary to reduce the percent-reduction or cup-wall heights to successfully deep draw elliptical shapes.
Another example of a non-symmetrical cup: A flat side on an otherwise round cup (Fig. 3). There, the blank material at the flat portion of the cup may flow too quickly and leave loose material in that portion of the cup wall. The material flow in the area of the flat may need to be controlled or restricted by additional blank material or by the use of draw beads.
Stampers use draw beads to control blank movement, especially when deep drawing irregular shapes. The beads force material to bend and unbend before entering the die cavity, creating a restraining force that causes the sheetmetal to enter the die cavity at a reduced rate of speed. The height, shape, length and quantity of draw beads determine the amount of restraining forces generated. Draw beads must be fully set before any material flow begins; setting the beads requires increased blankholder forces.To help promote part stretching to produce a tighter panel and control springback, stampers can use a special type of draw bead called an active draw bead. This type of bead, which locks out material flow near the bottom of the draw stroke, sits in a pocket during most of the deep-drawing process. It is raised (usually by pins under the beads) a few fractions of an inch from the bottom of the press stroke to dramatically increase the restraining forces on the blank flange. The stamper can adjust the distance that an active draw bead travels to fine-tune the amount of stretch required to produce an acceptable part. MF
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it's really useful for us.How to calculate Blank holder force for cup drawing and Biw Parts.what are criteria to select Blank holder force?
Eric, your statements regarding stand-offs are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, standoffs are not als practical in many progressive die and/or small part applications. Thanks for the contribution!
regarding your assertion that "force must be sufficiently low to allow material flow into the die cavity to produce the required part shape with minimal stretching and thinning, yet high enough to prevent wrinkling." if Stand-offs (equalizer blocks, kiss blocks, spacers) for the blank holder are used we can use substantially higher forces (to assure flatness) while not overly restricting the metal flow. If the stnadoffs are fractionally greater than metal thickness this also minimizes the sensitivity of spotting on metalflow, but often requires the use of drawbeads.


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Spring apparently did not get the memo. There's snow on the ground here along the 42nd latitude.
I got this fabulous idea from Dana-Made-It for a butterfly sanctuary. I love her site! Bonus that we share the same name, towhead kids, and an affinity for sewing.
My children are not quite as good as coloring/ decorating as Dana-Made-It's kids, since mine are 1 and 3, so I cut up the stash of scrapbook paper that I have had for 6 years. They can glue!!! I'm never going to start scrapbooking, so I might as well use up all that pretty paper. And let's be honest, I truly don't need anymore hobbies!
Everytime we walk through the back hallway, the bright butterflies bring a smile to our face.
We also made a sunflower version of our family.
I cut out petals of yellow, orange and yellow stripes, green stems and leaves, and a few accessories.
We glued them to an orange paper plate I have had sitting in my pantry for years because I keep forgetting I have them at Halloween and Thanksgiving! Didn't she do a great job keeping with the simple pattern on this one?
Then we glued another orange plate over the petals to make it look all nice and neat and also to make room to personalize our sunflower people.
We used some sticky wax to hang our little sunflower family up next to the butterflies.
It may be frozen outside, but spring has sprung indoors!


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This article was published 1/1/2009 (3879 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Nearly nine years ago, sisters Doreen Leclair and Corrine McKeown placed five calls to Winnipeg's 911 emergency line over an eight-hour period. When police finally arrived at their home, the siblings had been stabbed to death by McKeown's ex-boyfriend, Bill Dunlop, who is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.
A provincial inquest into the sisters' deaths and a city audit of its 911 communications centre revealed serious flaws in the way Winnipeg handled emergency calls, resulting in a series of improvements and new procedures early in this decade.
But the final improvement — a 311 line to field non-emergency inquiries and reduce traffic on vital emergency lines — has proven difficult to implement since former mayor Glen Murray first pledged to get the service up and running in 2002, when he flew to Chicago on a fact-finding mission.
Winnipeg's single-desk telephone service will finally go online before the end of January, said Mayor Sam Katz, who initially pledged to create a 311 line in 2005 as one of the recommendations of his red-tape commission.
"What we'll be able to do, as I've said before: 'Burning building, (call) 911. Burning question, 311,' " Katz said earlier this month. The mayor first uttered those words during his 2006 re-election campaign. At the time, he pledged to have 311 running by the end of 2007 and use the system to track the progress of inquiries to ensure city staff follow through on citizen questions or complaints about everything from potholes to building permits.
But Katz's pledge proved impossible to accomplish during that time frame. It took project managers longer than expected to weigh the pros and cons of delivering the new service under three different models: contracting out the telephone service, handling the job with existing city equipment and staff or developing some form of public-private partnership.
In October 2007, the city reached a deal with the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 500 to consolidate 22 existing call centres into a single 311 service without outsourcing any labour. That deal called for the city to create and operate a 311 call centre at a cost of about $31.1 million over its first five years.
In February 2008, city council chose to place the new call centre in an 11,000-square-foot office space in the cityplace building at a cost of $1.1 million for renovations and furnishings.
Project managers have spent the rest of the year preparing the transition from 22 separate call centres to a single 311 desk. City officials say the long-awaited project is on schedule for a January launch.
"This will be one wonderful thing for our city, once people really understand what it does. It will be fantastic," Katz said. "People will appreciate one number, as opposed to hundreds of numbers out there."
Federal broadcast regulators initially paved the way for a 311 service in Winnipeg in 2004, when it granted seven Canadian cities permission to use the number to handle non-emergency calls.
Callers who dial 311 in Winnipeg now will hear a recorded statement promising the line will be in operation by the end of the month. A formal launch will take place in coming weeks, city officials say.
Winnipeg's nine-year journey toward the creation of a single-desk telephone call centre:
2000: Sisters Doreen Leclair and Corrine McKeown (above) are stabbed to death by McKeown's boyfriend after calling 911 five times over an eight-hour period in February.
2001: A provincial inquest into the sisters' death, as well as police investigations and a subsequent city audit, reveal serious flaws in Winnipeg's overburdened emergency communications centre. Recommendations for improvement include the creation of a 311 line to handle non-emergency calls.
2002: Former mayor Glen Murray flies to Chicago on a 311 fact-finding mission.
2004: The CRTC approves Winnipeg's application to use 311 for non-emergency calls.
2005: Mayor Sam Katz's red-tape commission recommends the creation of a 311 telephone service,
2006: Up for re-election, Katz pledges to get 311 up and running by the end of 2007.
2007: The city reaches a deal with its largest union to create a 311 call centre without contracting out any labour.
2008: Cityplace is chosen to be the home of the new call centre.
2009: 311 is slated to replace 22 separate city call centres before January comes to a close.
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Northampton Athletic Club and Smith Vocational Adult Community Education have partnered to offer W.I.T.S. Personal Trainer Certifications.
W.I.T.S. is an approved CEU provider for the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB), the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
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Welcome to HeavyTorque Issue 18 (April 2019), the magazine of the heavy and abnormal transport sector and the heavy lifting industry. You can read all the main articles from this issue by clicking on the relevant picture or text below.
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Welcome to HeavyTorque Issue 18 (April 2019), the magazine of the heavy and abnormal transport sector and the heavy lifting industry. You can read all the main articles from this issue by clicking on the relevant picture or text below.
You can find articles from every issue of HeavyTorque by going to the Magazine section of the website. Issues are listed by date of publication. Or you can use the search facility at the top of the page to find articles on specific subjects.
There is a charge for premium content. You can read individual articles for 99p each or read all the articles in one issue for £5.95. Or you can take out an annual subscription to HeavyTorque from as little as £32.00. This gives you unlimited access to online content and four issues of the magazine by post every year.
HeavyTorque is a quarterly magazine that brings you news, in-depth features and comment from experts in the sector. The HeavyTorque website gives you access to the main articles from every issue of the magazine. You can choose to read individual articles online, or download them, with a charge for premium content. Or you can subscribe to the magazine to get unlimited access to all the content. The website also brings you all the latest news from the abnormal transport and heavy lifting sectors, updated daily. And you can find out more about the industry's prestigious annual awards, The Heavies – including previous winners, award categories and how to enter next year's awards.
From the well written articles to the exceptional photos, Heavy Torque is a market leader in our industry. At Van der Vlist we love keeping up to date with the latest news and projects, even making our own appearance in 2016. We could not recommend this magazine enough.
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by Nicole Miller
I fell in love with horses the way most young girls fall in love with horses — through movies, cartoons, horse figurines and even a wooden rocking horse. I couldn't get enough. Every company picnic, I'd spend all day on the pony rides.
Needless to say, my dad knew this wasn't a childhood phase. My mother had owned horses, and it must have been in the blood.
When we moved onto property, I was given my very first horse, and it was all over for me. A dozen years, two rodeo queen titles, and eight horses later, I'm still as obsessed, though I'm confined to city limits most days.
I now get a lot of my horse fix through blogs such as this one, which is how I've come to be the voice in front of you.
Since the day I started cleaning stalls at the age of 12 simply to be around horses, the horse-human connection has fascinated me. It seems to have captured quite a few folks:
In "Hollywoodland"* and beyond, there are many celebs known for their love of horses:
– Selma Blair
– Gisele Bundchen
– Madonna
– Christine Brinkley
– Johnny Depp
– Jennifer Garner
– Elizabeth Taylor
– Viggo Mortensen
– Joe Perry
– Robert Redford
– Nicole Kidman
– Jewel
– Lucy Liu
My own list:
– Jennifer Lawrence
– Patrick Swayze (was a champion for the Arabian breed)
– Russell Crowe
– Jamie Foxx (anyone catch the fact that he did his own horse stunts in Django Unchained?)
– Ronald Reagan
– Queen Elizabeth (she's still riding!)
– Captain Kirk – I mean – William Shatner
There are so many more…
But what is it? What is that spark that draws some people to horses (and not others?)
In future posts, I will examine humans throughout history who have truly loved their horses and sometimes how that love impacted history. First off, I'd love to hear what you think.
Readers: What is it about horses that draws you in? How would you define the horse-human connection?
*I'm reading a great book about the cowboys who shaped the early movies and I just love calling it Hollywoodland.
**Source: http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/celebs-who-love-horses-12403.gallery


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If you've flown anytime in the last 30 or so years, you'll know that the first announcement flight attendants make—after telling you how to buckle a simple seatbelt—is that smoking is prohibited on all flights.
But if you go in the lavatory, there are still ashtrays.
According to Gizmodo, FAA regulations require all planes to have ashtrays onboard.
So why would they still be needed?
Well, it seems that in the 1970s, a plane crash that killed well over 100 people was attributed to a cigarette that was not put in an ashtray.
Even though smoking is banned on planes and there are hefty fines if you actually light up, the craving for nicotine is still very strong for some people. So strong that they'll risk it all and light up on a plane.
So, to avoid a disaster, the FAA is still putting ashtrays in airplanes just in case some renegade smoker feels the need to get his nicotine fix at 35,000 feet.


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By Kara Witherow, Editor
Last month, nine South Georgia United Methodists traveled to Baldwin, La. to work in the United Methodist Committee on Relief's (UMCOR) Sager Brown supply depot. There they got an up-close look at how the agency responds before and after disasters.
The trip, sponsored by the Conference Outreach team, was organized by Allison Lindsey, associate director of Connectional Ministries and led by Susan Hughes, a member of Central United Methodist Church in Fitzgerald. Hughes says she's long wanted to serve at Sager Brown and immediately jumped at the chance to take this trip.
"I have a heart for missions and reaching out and serving. I love the Lord so much that it's in me to do that," she said. "I've always wanted to go to Sager Brown because of what they do. I'm glad I went; it was such a blessing."
While at Sager Brown the team sewed, repaired, and packed 6,000 school bags that will be sent to children across the country. They also packed and verified 448 cleaning kits/flood buckets that will be used to clean after a flood or hurricane.
Dr. Richard Wright, pastor of Central UMC, was one of the team members who primarily worked to verify and repack cleaning kits. Serving at Sager Brown gave him a greater understanding of and sense of pride in UMCOR and helped him better know how churches across the connection can and do participate in the agency's mission.
"Having not gone before and not understanding how it actually worked there was some mystique that surrounded it," he said of UMCOR and the Sager Brown depot. "I think it was important for me to go to actually understand it and what the Sager Brown depot actually does."
The time they spent serving at Sager Brown also helped Hughes, Dr. Wright, and the other team members – Warren Plowden, Kathryn Wooten, Agnes McKinney, Janine Cameron, Mary Ann Braswell, Patti Newman, and Carol Banks – realize the need for cleaning kits and the importance of packing them correctly, in accordance with UMCOR's directives.
Thousands of cleaning kits – five-gallon buckets filled with supplies critical for mucking out homes after a flood or hurricane – were sitting in the Sager Brown warehouse awaiting verification so they could be shipped. Many of them, however, needed to be repacked for one reason or another, whether it was because 50 garbage bags instead of 24 were packed inside or because a note was included.
"The buckets are so very, very important," Hughes said. "Natural disasters are always going to be around, and I've seen the extent of disasters and what they do to families. They hit people from all backgrounds. These buckets mean everything and are so helpful."
While some might think the work boring, Dr. Wright knows that what they were doing at Sager Brown was important, critical work. The work being done in local churches – raising money for disaster response efforts, sending gifts to UMCOR, and making cleaning buckets – is just as vital, he says.
"Jesus says that we're to love God and we're to love our neighbors. And if we believe what John Wesley said, that the world is our parish, then our world extends beyond the walls of our church and far beyond the city limits of our towns," he said. "So when we see somebody who is in need, these mundane tasks like putting the cleaning buckets together and sending money to UMCOR so they can purchase food and water in a local area is pretty important, it's a way for us to have a practical demonstration of our love for God and for our neighbors."
While they worked, Hughes said, those who will use the buckets and be served by the teams who use them were never far from their minds. In addition to North and South Carolina and other areas hit by Hurricane Florence, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New York have all experienced heavy flooding in recent weeks and months.
"We are sending love through those buckets to people in need," she said. "He calls us to love like He loves and I can always love with my actions. We are called to do this."


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Author: Microsoft
Latest version: February 2008Added 2008-02-17
Using the GAT, you can make reusable code and pattern assets directly available in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.The GAT is designed to simplify integrating reusable code into applications allowing architects to automate development activities that developers would usually have to perform manually; often by following a series of instructions. By using the toolkit, architects can also ensure that repetitive and often error-prone activities are performed in a consistent manner, streamlining and accelerating the development process.The toolkit can be used with assets developed in-house or by third parties; such as the assets created by the Microsoft patterns & practices team. These assets can be exposed to developers within Visual Studio, and in some cases, configured by using configuration files, templates, and wizards.In order to use GAT, you must first install the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), which expands Visual Studio by allowing guidance packages to run.