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ML310C - IT for Cooperative Communication
Students will learn to apply communication theory and ICT while solving communication problems between the Middle East and the west. They will learn to analyze the conceptual structures behind communication and how can one become aware of faulty assumptions and inaccurate stereotypes in an intercultural setting. The students also learn in what ways one can utilize the differences among nations in order to tackle the world's problems, and how can use ICT as a driver to arrive at better communication and more tolerant societies.
The course will teach the students how to appreciate cultural differences, work in virtual teams in order to achieve goals irrespective of geographical boundaries, various languages and ways of working. Students will get to compare their experiences, values, motivations, and leadership practices, to others in the world, and develop their own leadership principles and practices, and be a more effective player on cross cultural teams.
Students will also learn theories about belief systems, game theories, power and mind games, how to counter different personalities. This new experience will require flexibility, teamwork and individual initiatives.
After having completed the course the student shall be able to demonstrate basic skills in: 1. Contribute to design of novel ICT that can more easily facilitate meaningful cross-cultural dialog 2. Designing communication with people from different cultural backgrounds 3. Display skill in utilizing emerging technologies for inter-cultural collaboration 4. Designing communication to be suited for being published in ICT – media 5. Publishing well structured messages on the Web 6. Applying game theory to intercultural communication 7. Enforcing a feeling of mutual respect in the communication 8. Assigning priority to sensitive information 9. Conflict resolution 10. Compressing information to its essentials 11. Generalizing information in order to discover similarities that enables information fusion 12. Classifying information in a way that makes it neutral in a power game 13. Handling communication deadlocks that may result in destructive conflicts 14. Handle negotiations that creates agreements between people with different belief systems 15. Secure that the communication creates co-operation in a multi-cultural environment. 16. Handling competitive communication on a Internet based platforms like Moodle, LinkedIn, iGoogle, Adobe acrobat, Face book, First Class, 17. Displaying skills in an ability to identify with other peoples beliefs and be able to talk about these beliefs in a way that makes other people feel understood on a deeper level. 18. Displaying skills in diplomatic communication without offending your adversary (offending anybody in an unsophisticated way would bring negative credits to the final grading of student performance)
After having completed the course the student shall be able to prove that s/he understands the basics of: 1. Principles of communication theory 2. Principles of game theory 3. Principles of diplomacy 4. Principles of advocacy 5. Theories of how to create peace agreements 6. Theories of political alliances 7. Theories of how international conflicts can be solved 8. Theories of mass communication 9. Theories of how propaganda works 10. Economical principles behind international conflicts
A brief description of course contents: 1. Introduction of principles of communication theory, game theory, diplomacy, advocacy 2. Introduction of theories of mass communication and the role of media in world affairs 3. Introduction to theories of propaganda and international conflicts 4. Introduction to theories of how to create peace agreements and how to create political alliances 5. Basic theories and questions including mental representations, learning, memory, language and thought, as well as problem solving 6. Introduction to Economical principles behind international conflicts and the importance of oil in international conflicts
Communication theory and ICT is combined in a leadership training course at DSV, Stockholm University. The assignment in the course is based on the co-operation between a set of universities in USA, Europe, and Middle East. The mutual assignment is based on the use of ICT for Inter-Cultural and Inter-Faith Development
Via the use of ICT the students will train their communication skills with students from Stockholm University who come from different countries.
The students will learn a type of leadership that is focused on a cooperative communication in intercultural environments. They will work with ICT to design the communication that is needed for reaching agreements with people that have entirely different views of the world.
Forms of teaching
An overarching goal with the course is that students shall be able to use theories and methodologies from a variety of disciplines in order to be able to design competitive communication. The student shall use ICT-tools for designing the communication and for communicating with the teacher and with other students. The student should be able to design the communication so that it creates agreements and co-operation in a multi-cultural environment.
Through the use of distance learning, and blended education, participants will learn from examples in Europe, USA, and the Middle East, and listen to what guest speakers have to say about resolving conflicts and appreciating cultural differences. Students will compare the ideas provided by the course with those ideas in their own regions, and develop a personal philosophy and behavior as the next generation citizens of the world.
The teaching consists of lectures and seminars where both the lectures and the seminars can be completed online, i.e. the course can be taken as a distant course. Outside of ordinary scheduled teaching the student will also participate in group work consisting of reaching agreements with students from different cultures, different backgrounds and with different beliefs.
The student can complete the course by taking part of lectures and seminars at the department of computer and system sciences or the student can complete the course as a distant online course.


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Ninja Gaiden 3 Review
I feel like my video game past has been coming back to haunt me. A few weeks ago, Nintendo finally got around to revamping one of my favorite NES games, Kid Icarus (cannot... stop... playing... ), and now Ninja Gaiden 3 (PS3) is on my desk. The original Ninja Gaiden on NES was one of the first games I ever owned, and I've been following the series ever since (Fun Fact: Ninja Gaiden (NES) was the first game ever to utilize cutscenes to tell a story. It's true!). My history with ninja Ryu Hayabusa has been a long and beneficial one, but Ninja Gaiden 3 is the worst thing to happen to our hero since Tecmo released Ninja Gaiden Black (why couldn't they just leave the fixed camera alone?) on the original Xbox. By the time I'd finished the final boss, my entire personality had morphed into that of Towelie from South Park; I found myself mumbling, "I have no idea what's going on right now." To put it plainly, Ninja Gaiden is a franchise that should be held in the highest regard. Games like Ninja Gaiden 3 threaten legacies (remember Devil May Cry 2?) and lose franchise fans.
"Oh he's just being dramatic. It couldn't be THAT bad," I hear you saying to yourself. Nothing would delight me more than self-applying the exaggerator label, but in this case I'm leveling with you; Ninja Gaiden 3 is a bad game. Let's kick off with the most important aspect of any adventure: gameplay. Franchise fans know one of the crowning jewels in Ninja Gaiden's headdress is amazingly difficult, but never unfair, combat. For whatever reason, Tecmo decided to do a 180 and make Ninja Gaiden 3's combat, you guessed it, either too easy or simply unfairly difficult. The omnipresent "any single enemy can give me a game over" tone has fallen completely by the wayside in favor of weak henchmen and laughably easy boss battles (or, conversely, a camera that only seems to be concerned with blocking your view will cause many a cheap death).
Difficulty aside, Ninja Gaiden 3 just doesn't feel like a member of the Ninja Gaiden family for two reasons: stage progress and violence. Wait, what? I'll explain stage progress first. Ninja Gaiden 3 doesn't convey the sense you've made any physical progress during the game, mostly because the campaign is, at it's basest level, merely a series of interconnected rooms filled with enemies. The ENTIRE single player experience can be viewed as such: Enter room, clear room of enemies, enter next room, clear enemies, enter... You get the picture. Boss battles do help to break up the monotony, but like I said before, they are crazy easy, oft repeated and often just plain stupid.
The violence is Ninja Gaiden 3's Achilles heel, but not in a way you might expect. Tecmo announced early on that they were moving away from severed limbs and heads in favor of giving the player a sense of what it feels like to cut through flesh, bone and sinew. To the surprise of exactly no one, the change comes off as a weak one. We aren't going to get into the old game violence debate here, but despite the changes' best intentions, it makes Ninja Gaiden 3 feel like a censored, watered-down version of what could have been a great game.
If you've been with the franchise for a while, you already know that Ninja Gaiden plotlines rarely come close to making any sense whatsoever. What we've got in part three is similarly disjointed, but with a much darker tone; Ryu is possessed by a demon/sword, turning him into one of the series' fiends. It sounds cool on paper, like a Prototype 2-type mutation with special attacks and such, but the plot device is totally wasted gameplay-wise. The only time you'll be actively thinking about your possessed arm is when it is slowing Ryu to a crawl or just generally getting in the way, and the result is a feeling that Ryu is like a driver's ed car, with someone pressing the passenger side brake every so often.
Beyond the wasted arm mechanic, the plot of Ninja Gaiden 3 will leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. In a move reminiscent of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the jump to Warrior Within, Tecmo amps up the moral ambiguity by displaying PLENTY of civilian and innocent death, all in search of just how far they could go. No one appreciates this kind of shift any more, and the dour, depressing tone will only appeal to those who aren't old enough to be playing M rated games anyway. To make matters worse, the game relies HEAVILY on cutscenes, one right after another. So not only is the tone just unpleasant, it is constantly shoved in your face.
I could keep going, talking about the targeting system that renders all ranged weapons unusable or how you'll often see one boss multiple times, but I won't. Ninja Gaiden 3 isn't good. It isn't the Ninja Gaiden you know, the Ninja Gaiden you love. With equal parts disappointment and disgust, my opinion on this one isn't too high. My advice? Remember Rachel from the Xbox Ninja Gaiden (or Black, or Sigma, or Sigma Plus)? Sure you do. Think about her for a little while and save your hard-earned dollars. You can thank me later.
Final Rating: 40%. The score should probably have been lower, but I'd like to see Tecmo get another chance to return Ryu Hayabusa to his former glory.


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This post is nothing more (or less) than a hub to some free mp3 downloads of fantastic live performances.
Radiohead – Live at the BBC (April 1)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – San Francisco 1978
This post is nothing more (or less) than a hub to some free mp3 downloads of fantastic live performances.
Radiohead – Live at the BBC (April 1)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – San Francisco 1978
I'm holding my breath for tickets to someday go on sale for the gigantic R.E.M, Modest Mouse, and The National summer tour promoting the April 1 rollout of R.E.M.'s new disc Accelerate. Thanks to the wizards at Stereogum, we can listen to the track Supernatural Superserious, which has a big ole guitar hook and a radio-song friendliness.
R.E.M. has sort of faded out of the music scene's consciousness, but if they would just ADD MORE SHOWS with this amazing line-up, they might be able to prove to all of us that InSound is right in its discussion of the 2007 live album/documentary release: "R.E.M. Live proves that the group packs a stronger punch live than they do in the studio."
Thanks to Muzzle of Bees and BrooklynVegan for the tip on these 2008 tour dates.
May 23 – Vancouver, BC – Deer Lake Park
May 29 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
May 31 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre
June 03 – Denver, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 06 – Chicago, IL – United Center
June 08 – Toronto, ON – Molson Amphitheatre
June 10 – Raleigh, NC – Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
June 11 – Washington, DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 13 – Boston, MA – Tweeter Center
June 14 – Long Island, NY – Jones Beach Theater
June 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center
June 19 – New York, NY – TBA
June 21 – Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
The combination of these three bands trumps all my misgivings about going to another amphitheater/arena venue. This is one of those moments when the music will easily transcend seats of any crappiness.
I love Modest Mouse. Listen to them on MySpace or to four live songs here. I hope they play a mix that represents their entire back catalog. The ever-helpful Hype Machine directs us to the location of songs such as Jesus Christ Was An Only Child, Float On, Parting of the Sensory, Bukowski, 3rd Planet, Dramamine, Worms vs. Birds, I Came As A Rat, and Summer. Each of these songs comes from a different MM disc (buy them!), and here's a bonus b-side King Rat (right-hand column). As Isaac says in Summer, "Dance d-d-dance d-dance and go crazy!" Or, if brooding is more your speed, there's plenty of that, too.
The National rocks my music world. Buy their discs. If you've already done the buying, grab three tracks from their Daytrotter session, but since that doesn't address anything from the acclaimed Alligator, also check these THIRTEEN tracks (especially Secret Meeting, if you're just easing into it) live from National French radio "Black Sessions."
I saw this great rock show (download courtesy of NPR) at the 9:30 Club last summer during the Boxer tour. MPR's The Current's session with The National offers three more live songs. Whew! That's a lotta goodies!
There's also gonna be a documentary about The National: A Skin, A Night. It's done by Vincent Moon, the brilliant bastard who orchestrates the Take Away Shows.
***The Take Away Show with The National doing their song Start a War is one of my very favorite things on the net; it seems it will be part of the film. Simple and perfect, and if you don't listen to or watch anything else I recommend, at least humor me on this one.
I am so incensed by the exclusion of Into the Wild's soundtrack from year-end lists, I am creating a 2007 best albums list. Everyone else thinks they're righting the world's wrongs, too, but so be it.
stellasplice's favorite albums of 2007:
Boxer ~ The National
MySpace Site Buy
Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild ~ Eddie Vedder
Buy and Listen
The Shepherd's Dog ~ Iron & Wine
MySpace Site Buy
Because of the Times ~ Kings of Leon
MySpace Site Buy
Marry Me ~ St. Vincent
MySpace Site Buy
Glory Hope Mountain ~ The Acorn
MySpace Site Buy
Buckle in the Bible Belt ~ Ha Ha Tonka
MySpace Site Buy
Oh, My Darling ~ Basia Bulat
MySpace Site Buy
Music for the Motion Picture Once ~ Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard
MySpace Site Buy
Rust Belt Blues ~ Oliver Buck
MySpace Site Buy
The Stage Names ~ Okkervil River
MySpace Site Buy
These two were quite good, but I unfairly wanted them to be Wolf Parade and The Shins, respectively, so I never could fall for them wholeheartedly:
Random Spirit Lover ~ Sunset Rubdown
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? ~ Of Montreal (though it is my fav. Of Montreal disc)
I love the following artists. However good their 2007 discs may have been, they did not measure up to the artists' previous releases, so they have been relegated to addendum status:
The White Stripes
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
José González
The New Pornographers
Beirut (he swallowed up Alaska in Winter, too)
Modest Mouse
The Shins
Elliott Smith
The Polyphonic Spree


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RPW Thailand 2018 deemed 'great success' as eyes now turn to 2019
It is fair to conclude that Refining Petrochemicals World (RPW) Thailand 2018 was a great success!
Two days of conference provided 180 delegates a special platform to discuss the issue of maximising profit margins and improving asset performance in NOC/individual refineries, the topics covered: ASEAN downstream market and strategy, FCC technology and catalyst, energy efficiency improvement, Automation and IoT, process safety management, asset reliability & integrity, maintenance and turnaround.
During the conference, more than 50 face to face meetings in totally of 1000 minutes were organised. We believe RPW participants have got a lot from new and varied formats of connections and enjoyed two days of networking, and as a result, we gathered plenty of positive feedbacks from participants.
We are looking forward to seeing you in 2019!
Refining & Petrochemicals World (RPW), Thailand 2019 will be held on 23-24 January in Bangkok. This event will gather more than 200 industry professionals from refining and petrochemical plants, technical solution providers and software/intelligent systems contributors to discuss the key factors drive the productivity and efficiency. We focus on two main areas: "Operation Optimisation" & "Advanced Process Technology" and the major refineries and petrochemical producers from Thailand and other ASEAN countries will all come and deliver the up-to-date projects information.


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Beijing. Strassen-Bilder in Peking. [Beijing, 19th century].
50 watercolours mounted on album paper. Curious album of 50 watercolours, showing various portraits of people who do business in the streets of Beijing, among them a barber, street vendors, carpenters, jugglers, sculptors, beggars, mouse and rat catchers, newspaper salesmen, pickpockets, etc.
INLIBRIS, Rathausstraße 19, 1010 Wien, Austria
www.inlibris.at email@example.com
KOTTE Autographs, Weberweg 2, 87672 Roßhaupten, Germany
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2 Of My Favorite Concealers That Will Have You Completely Covered
As someone who is prone to acne discoloration, I do take my concealer seriously. While my duties as a lifestyle blogger include frequently being gifted with the latest products, and obsessing over new beauty finds, when duties call I turn to my holy-grail products. This week, I'm sharing my favorite concealers and why I love them.
When it comes to my must-have makeup products, I have two that I can always count on to make me look fabulous. I can try, but I can't imagine a world without concealer. There are so many to choose from, but these two concealers will give you seamless coverage that will keep your skin looking flawless. They're both super-light, and offer great pigment which provides awesome coverage. They give me all day wear and I don't have to reapply.
Tip, for best results, apply concealer to cover your blemishes before applying your foundation for a natural finish.
The Concealer: Liquid Concealer by Vera Moore Cosmetics, $16.50
Not only is this great in person, but it's even more flawless in pictures. This liquid concealer is ideal for camouflaging imperfections such as acne/blemishes, scars, discolorations, dark spots and under eye circles. Its creamy texture provides a natural-looking coverage. Apply it with a powder brush and blend into the skin.
The Concealer: Total Coverage Spot & Scar Concealer by Black Opal, $12.00
I've been using this especially on those days where I need to cover those trouble pimples and blemishes. It stays on all day, covers dark circles and blemishes. It's high pigment provides total coverage and a matte finish for my skin.


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Bo'ness United manager Allan McGonigal thinks his job could be on the line within four matches if the club's poor recent results don't improve.
The BUs are fourth bottom of the McBookie.com East Superleague table after losing three of their first four games, with some frustrated fans turning against McGonigal and the team.
And the under fire gaffer told the Bo'ness Journal: "I have to try and turn things around in the next four matches.
"I probably have four games to save my job.
"Things couldn't continue if results remain the way they have been.
"But I still think I can turn things around.
"I'm a Bo'ness fan and I'd never need to be asked to leave this club if we keep losing. I would just leave.
"But we have not had one bit of luck since the start of the season.
"If that doesn't change then I live in the real world so I know what would happen to my position.
"If it is the right decision for me to leave then so be it."
McGonigal was speaking in the wake of two defeats for Bo'ness within the space of four days, a 2-0 reverse at Jeanfield Swifts on Saturday and a 3-1 home loss to Penicuik on Wednesday night.
So it's vital that Bo'ness get something from their trip to Bonnyrigg Rose this Saturday.
But their chances won't be helped by the unavailability of stars Ross Gibb, Scott Campbell, Marty Wright, Michael Gemmell and Alan Comrie.


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Hello everyone, ned Las Lindas update!
I want to thank everyone for the patience you all had with me and the long wait between updates. Sadly theres many things going on and on my side (Besides the Bazaar work) and that have made it slow down the updates. Speaking of the Bazaar, I'm glad to see theres only two images left. After they are done, I will return to our regular weekly LL updates, and hopefully also continue uptating the bonus comics.
So this page was a blast to work with. Since we decided to have Geecku in the farm, I was waiting eagerly to do this and many more funny pages with her. It is her official debut on comic-canon form so several things may change from previous incarnations of the character, but she will still the same crazy girl I always loved, that's for sure!


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Panarin scores in OT, Blue Jackets rally to beat Maple Leafs
NHL Headlines
- Red Wings acquire F Erne from Lightning
- Panthers to retire Luongo's No. 1
- 'Canes give GM Waddell 3-year extension
- Lightning sign veteran D Shattenkirk
- NY state approves $1.3B arena for Isles
TORONTO (AP) Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky had a hard time holding back his smile after a come-from-behind victory over Toronto.
Artemi Panarin scored 3:11 into overtime to help the Blue Jackets overcome a two-goal deficit and beat the Maple Leafs 3-2 on Monday night.
Bobrovsky made 35 saves, including a handful of big ones to keep his team within 2-0 before a third-period rally. Columbus scored twice in the final 4:35 of the third period to set up Panarin's OT goal, when he took a pass off his skate and kicked it to his stick for the winner.
"Those kind of wins make good atmosphere in the locker-room, lots of energy, lots of happiness," Bobrovsky said.
Nick Foligno and Pierre-Luc Dubois scored in the third for Columbus. Foligno scored after goalie Frederik Andersen lost a bouncing puck before it found its way behind him, then Dubois tied it with 2:47 left, snapping a wrist shot blocker side on Andersen from the slot.
"We knew if we scored one somehow that it changes momentum," Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella. "The saves (Andersen) made during the game and that one goes in ... it's a funny game."
James van Riemsdyk and William Nylander scored for the Maple Leafs. Andersen stopped 30 shots.
"At least 50 minutes or so we played great, I think we could have put it away in the third and we didn't. Then they get a good bounce and, yeah, it's tied up," Andersen said.
Andersen kept the Leafs in it long enough for van Riemsdyk to open the scoring at 11:09 of the second period, deflecting Roman Polak's point shot past Bobrovsky for his 18th goal.
Nylander doubled the lead on the power play with 3:58 to go in the second, shooting a wrist shot over the glove of a screened Bobrovsky for his ninth.
Blue Jackets forward Sonny Milano left the game in the second period with an upper-body injury and didn't return after being on the receiving end of a check from Andreas Borgman.
The Leafs started the third the way they finished the second and could have put the game away if it wasn't for Bobrovsky, who turned away Connor Brown and Nazem Kadri on point-blank chances.
"Some nights when you're ahead you get on your heels and the other team takes it to you. That wasn't the case at all. It was the opposite way around. But they scored on their opportunities that we gave them," Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said.
NOTES: Shots were 36-27 Toronto heading into overtime. ... Borgman replaced Connor Carrick in the lineup after being a healthy scratch in Toronto's 3-2 shootout win Saturday against Vancouver.
Blue Jackets: Play at Buffalo on Thursday night.
Maple Leafs: Hosts Ottawa on Wednesday night.
More AP hockey: https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey
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It's straightforward to refer to a "craftsperson" instead of a "craftsman" if one doesn't want to imply a gender. But "craftspersonship", "sportspersonship", and the like seem pretty cumbersome. Is there a more elegant alternative?
You could simply drop the dressing and go with "craft". The word is already used this way, parallel to the word "skill". It is generally unambiguous whether one is using "craft" in the sense of a set of skills, or in the sense of the quantity of those skills one has developed.
Edit -- edge case:
For the use "fine craftsmanship", I like the earlier offering of "finely crafted".
Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. – tchrist♦ Jun 12 '17 at 14:28
Yes, there is: realizing that "craftsmanship" is gender-neutral. People who think it is not should take it up with themselves, not the word.
If I see discrimination where there is none, the root of the problem is myself and not the language. It is also a textbook example of an etymological fallacy.
Craftsmanship implies "man" about as much as woman does.
7This is the wrong place for a discussion. Here is the right place: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/5305/… – quant Nov 2 '14 at 3:51
4You are a bigot, Mister Eric Wilson, and when the animals revolt you will be the first to go. ;P – J A Terroba Nov 3 '14 at 20:58
10@RegDwight: I agree with your overall conclusion, but I think you dismiss the point more peremptorily than is justified — so for the record, I will give the argument for the other side. The "etymological fallacy" applies only when a compound is semantically opaque, or nearly so. Most -man compounds are not by any means opaque, and it's been reasonably argued that in some cases, their use does reinforce gendered stereotypes; craftsman might well be such an example. "If I see discrimination where there is none" — none may be intended, but it may be caused/perpetuated nonetheless. [cont'd] – PLL Nov 3 '14 at 22:58
5So in many cases, I believe it is worth trying to find alternatives for -man compounds; I don't try to police how others speak, but I do consider this in choosing my own words. I agree in this case that craftsmanship doesn't seem to retain any gendered connotations (going both on my own intuition, and corpus searches others have posted in comments). But I don't think it's such an open-and-shut case as this and some other answers suggest. – PLL Nov 3 '14 at 23:05
12Speaking as a feminist, craftsmanship is fine and gender-neutral. Shall we change the word human too? – Anon343224user Nov 4 '14 at 11:02
It's already gender neutral.
It isn't and never was specifying male.
It's the root of the word. Linguistically it's traced back to an archaic word for human not the gender specific word for a male.
10How is this any different or an improvement on RegDwight's answer, which was posted almost a day earlier? – Mari-Lou A Nov 1 '14 at 13:25
10@Mari-LouA It's far less aggressive. RegDwigHt's is almost defensive. – fredsbend Nov 2 '14 at 15:58
4@Mari-LouA it's shorter, talks about the root, and doesn't have any ego-stroking. i like this answer more. – ell Nov 3 '14 at 19:14
2I've been provoked :), so here's my reply. "It's [craftsmanship] the root of the word. Linguistically it's [craftsmanship] traced back to an archaic word for human". Nowhere does user96135 mention man in his answer. Wiki: "The word [man] developed into Old English man, mann meaning primarily "adult male human". (Me) Old English is dated 5th-12th century. So it's also meant "male" for a very long time. RegDwight's answer is at least sound and logical. – Mari-Lou A Nov 4 '14 at 7:40
Consider the terms artisan and artisanal. From en.wiktionary, artisan means "A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft", while artisanal has senses including "Of or pertaining to artisans or the work of artisans" and "Involving skilled work, with comparatively little reliance on machinery".
As a parallel to the craftsman/craftsmanship or craftsperson/craftspersonship pairs mentioned in the question and in some answers, we have artisan/artisanship.
From en.wiktionary, artisanship means "The state or quality associated with being an artisan"; thus, it denotes working in a skilled manner.
Oxforddictionaries.com gives the following definition and two examples for artisanship:
Skill in a particular craft:
'pieces of jewelry which testify to the high artisanship of these ancient people'
'a heritage of exquisite artisanship'
Note: a pleasing and workable gender-neutral alternative to "sportsmanship" seems less available. Interestingly, Google ngrams for sportsmanship, sportswomanship, sportspersonship (or, more clearly, for sportswomanship,sportspersonship) shows that sportspersonship is used far more frequently than is sportswomanship.
12I personally think that artisanship captures the sense perfectly, if you examine the examples cited (here and on Wiktionary). – Marc Oct 30 '14 at 5:49
Of course these words are very similar to "craftsmanship". Great suggestion. – Fattie Oct 30 '14 at 15:07
I dunno about you, but all the Arts whom I've ever met have always been guys. However, I must agree with you that -anal is gender neutral. :) – tchrist♦ Nov 3 '14 at 23:36
Although of course -san is a japanese honorific suffix, clearly indicating the word's sinocentric bias. For shame! :p – Benubird Nov 4 '14 at 8:54
4This answer needs more credit. I'd also like to offer a more reputable source: the oxford dictionary supports that artisanship and craftsmanship have the same meaning. – kadu Nov 4 '14 at 13:51
There are potentially infinite gender-neutral alternatives to craftsmanship.
You could say that an item was "well-crafted", or if you have to refer to the specific quality of its well-craftedness, then you could stay general with a word like "quality" or "artistry" or you could be more specific. If it was a car, you could talk about its "engineering" or its "design", etc. In other words, there should be a term associated with the specific craft.
While "craftsmanship" was never intended to be a gendered word, it does focus exclusively on the works of the human race. When you know the race that crafted a particular item.
Consider changing:
"All craftsmanship is of the finest quality."
"All wares were crafted with the utmost skill."
"This is good shit, esse."
Admittedly, the feel isn't quite the same, but if you keep at it, I'm sure you can assemble passable PC diction.
I'm surprised I haven't seen handiwork yet. It connotes association with a craft and is short, tidy, and commonly used. Best of all, it does not identify with a gender.
Craftsmanship implies a trade and level of expertise and skill like building a handcrafted wooden table with a press gold leaf inlay, handiwork is what your mom says about the spice rack you made her. – user53089 Dec 21 '14 at 6:26
Does handiwork specifically refer to work done by hand? Craftsmanship has taken on a broader meaning, for instance software craftsmanship. – brianmearns Dec 20 '17 at 21:17
@brianmearns Like craftsmanship, handiwork has roots in work done by hand, but is not limited to that. Dictionary.com gives examples such as "In all of Mozart's music we discover the handiwork of a genius." Although Mozart's hands were involved, his mind was the primary actor. Also, "Besides, Savoir Beds guarantees the handiwork on these beds for 25 years, or 9,150 nights." Perhaps the beds were made by hand, but it's likely they were not. – GlennFromIowa Dec 21 '17 at 22:21
There is a substantial difference between the word 'craftsman' and the word 'craftsmanship.'
Let's look at some typical usage scenarios:
"He is a good craftsman." - sounds right.
"She is a good craftsman." - sounds wrong.
Clearly, these two show that there is an implied gender in the word.
"Her work displays good craftsmanship."
"The carving's craftsmanship was obvious."
The word 'craftsmanship' applies not to a human as a label, but to an object or action in recognition of some property. It means that said work has some property that would indicate the work of a skilled craftsman. This could be seen as a very faint gender implication, but the abstract nature of it makes it rather negligible, and it is applied not to the target of the word, but to an idealized image of what a craftsman is like.
There are alternatives for sure, but there is no real need to replace it.
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As @Marc suggested in a comment on @jwpat7 's answer, "artisanship" fits the bill quite nicely. "Artisan" is a gender-neutral term, and "artisanship" is defined in the OED as "Skill in a particular craft".
While it doesn't include the sub-definition that craftsmanship does ("The quality of design and work shown in something made by hand; artistry"), I think it's perfectly acceptable to use artisanship in the same way, i.e. "The necklace she made exhibits exquisite artisanship", and I think most audiences would understand the connotation to be the same (except without any potential gender bias).
1Why are you burying the answer inside parentheses? The word that's based on art that is semantically parallel to craftsmanship is artistry. – Scott Oct 31 '14 at 16:31
Unless we have evidence of a very recent evolution of the word to be gender-biased, the dictionary entries below are evidence that craftsmanship is gender-neutral, and even species-neutral, in standard American English, and (given the lag/conservatism of dictionaries) has been for some years. (Note that this is not mere oversight, the same dictionaries are happy to point out when a word implies male or female.)
- Skill in a particular craft
- The quality of design and work shown in something made by hand; artistry:
skill in an occupation or trade
- the skill involved in making something beautiful or practical using your hands.
- the beautiful or impressive quality of something that has been made using a lot of skill
The same is not true of sportsmanship which some dictionaries define in a gender-neutral way, but some connect to 'sportsman', which is commonly defined as a man or 'particularly' a man. However, the times they are a changin': a Google search for women's event sportsmanship shows 'sportsmanship' being widely and publicly used in a gender-neutral way, so the dictionaries just haven't caught up with current usage.
If there is a systematic way to deal with such words instead of case-by-case, I don't know it.
1The dictionaries and style guides of my youth regarded man" and *he/him/his as gender-neutral in such sentences as "Man has left his mark on all the continental land-masses, including Antarctica". Many of us have become more sensitive to the implied male-orientation of this, which is why policemen have become police officers (just one example), despite the protests of the RegDwights of half a century ago. The word 'craftsmanship' appears to have slipped through the net. – tunny Nov 4 '14 at 8:20
artisanship - http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/artisanship
Skill in a particular craft: pieces of jewelry which testify to the high artisanship of these ancient people a heritage of exquisite artisanship
1If the question had been a single word request, this would be the accepted answer. Sorry @jwpat7, TLDR. – Mazura Nov 2 '14 at 2:12
In the interest of less prescriptivism and more variety, let's consider a few possible alternative suffixes to -manship that might work (personal favorites in bold):
- itude (craftitude, sportitude, penitude)
- osity (craftosity, sportosity, penosity)
- iness (craftiness, sportiness, peniness)
- ability (craftability, sportability, penability)
- aciousness (craftaciousness, sportaciousness, penaciousness)
- acity (craftacity, sportacity, penacity)
Feel free to add your own!
Best of the non-answers. I'm surprised I haven't heard sportitude from one of my daughter's sportacious friends. – Spike0xff Oct 31 '14 at 20:33
4craftiness means something quite different from craftsmanship. – tobyink Nov 3 '14 at 8:08
2@tobyink It's funny you sat that, as crafty originally merely meant skillful, and then specifically skillful in business dealings, and then became a kind of insult about said skills, and now means "something quite different." I say we take it back! – Kyle Hale Nov 3 '14 at 15:48
Given the degree of controversy about the -man- component of craftsmanship in the comments here, it seems worth looking for alternatives that a) remain centred on the craft aspect, b) avoid the likelihood of entanglements connected with sexual politics, and c) still sound reasonably natural and unforced.
Accordingly, I suggest these possible substitutes for craftsmanship:
Crafting skill, crafting ability and crafting virtuosity.
Similar solutions also work for the other terms the OP mentioned — for instance, for sportsmanship:
Sporting gallantry and sporting fairness;
and penmanship:
Skill with the pen, beautiful handwriting, skilful calligraphy and chirography.
2All the dictionaries on my desk plus Google NGrams for his/her gallantry and gallant man/woman If it were even remotely gender neutral, we'd see, I dunno, something remotely resembling (and by remotely, I dunno, a 90-10 split) parity. But it skews virtually exclusively towards masculine uses, and not really improving, unlike his/her sportsmanship, where the feminine is quite attested and increasing in parity – guifa Oct 31 '14 at 20:53
Precision. Skill. Care. Depending on the context, I'm sure synonyms or near-synonyms can be found which dodge the issue.
If you feel the issue is worth dodging. Personally, I'd rather fix the interpretation of existing language. Some of my fraternity brothers are female, and we made a very deliberate decision to change the meaning of "brother" in this context rather than trying to create either a new term or separate-but-equal terminology.
Firstly - as it already says in the OP, it is completely and totally normal to talk about
It's utterly unsurprising and no more of a shock than "chairwoman" or "chairperson".
See the Facebook page: Celebration of Craftswomen
Using "google" type in craftswomen or craftsperson.
If you don't like the USA, or Berkeley, do not go there.
But it is stunningly unrealistic to not observe, or try to ignore, that "craftsman" is just one of many words, which can be censured in the modern "highly Politically Correct" milieu.
Further, the actual question at hand is, to rephrase:
"today in certain regions everyone says 'craftsperson' rather than the sexed word. No problem so far. But 'craftspersonship' is a bit long - what's an alternative"
This is actually a great question and it's unusual that everyone has completely ignored it!
Rhetorically speaking, next time you talk to a person—female—who has spent 25 years becoming a leading wooden boat builder, lithographer, or silversmith—and who happens to live in, say, northern California and chooses to use "non-sexed" words like humankind, craftsperson ... go ahead and give her an all-purpose explanation for why the non-sexed words movement is poorly-founded.
Again -- I (say) might 100% agree with the political position ("this non-sexed language business is a bad idea") but (A) the obvious has been pointed out by many people using the extreme examples of "n----" etc and (B) it's just not what the question is about.
And as well as all that, I actually have the answer to the question, Cai!
(or perhaps with two "s") works very well, and it's quite obvious you're shortening in the word for anti-sexed-language reasons.
Note that it already appears in some crappy dictionaries
4This made up word is not a "more elegant alternative". Neither is this entire answer that eventually preports a word unciteable from any DICTIONARY. – Mazura Nov 2 '14 at 1:37
If you don't like the English language, do not use it. – J A Terroba Nov 3 '14 at 21:03
1Instead of flagging RegDwight's answer, which is being silly. Where are the examples for craft(s)ship for example? Do American women artisans really prefer the term craftswoman or not? Evidence, facts, not only opinions. – Mari-Lou A Nov 4 '14 at 7:52
3It's NOT being silly man - I really meant it. (A) it simply ignores the question (B) it's just a political statement against that socio-political movement. I love Reg, brother, but it's a fact. A well-known typical problem on these sites is person asks question Q, and people respond "oh, you don't want to do that!" Look at it this way dude: imagine the OP ws heavily prefaced: "LET'S ALL AGREE THAT antisex language is silly, OK? LET'S ALL AGREE TO THAT. GIVEN THAT, here's a question..." You with me, my main man?? – Fattie Nov 4 '14 at 8:06
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Wednesday, 2 December 2009
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Varinder Singh, Tribune News Service, Amritsar, December 2
The repair of the verandah ceiling, along with the in the Golden Temple complex, has finally reached the completion stage with a number of artistes and workers giving finishing touches to the painting and repair jobs at the place.
Similarly, experts working on the restoration and repair of the Darshani Deori (main entrance to the sanctum sanctorum) were also busy winding up the work, which had taken off in July this year. The daunting task of the repair of the verandah encircling the Parkarma, particularly the replacement of its more than 50-year-old ceiling, was started by the SGPC on April 4, 2007, with active participation of Baba Harbans Singh "Delhi Wale" and his followers. The pillars of the verandahs have also been repaired.
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Tarot Tuesday! The card for the week is the Two of Swords, representing: Inner-Peace, Harmony, Stillness and Clear Decisions.
The 2 of Swords is a reminder of the importance of inner peace in our lives. This card signals a time to cultivate "peace of mind", a state of being that can only come from a calm mind and open heart.
This path requires letting go of internal struggles, mental conflict, and over-thinking. This is a place of trust and surrender, where we give ourselves over to the ultimate grace and harmony of the universe! Truly, a meditation within itself.
This card asks the questions: What areas of your life are out of balance? What do you need to bring into more harmony? Where do you find the most peace? The question of harmony is especially true regarding your relationships. Is there something that needs to change in this area? Indeed, this path promises a time of clarity regarding relationship choices and decisions.
At the end of the day, this is a time for being mindful and protective of anything or anyone that affects your peace of mind and true serenity. Harmony is your mantra now!
Affirmation: I am at peace with myself and the world. I surrender all worries and concerns to the divine.
Wishing you a week filled with much serenity and inner-peace!


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by Larisa Bibko, Special Education Teacher
A Cute and Fearful Two Year Old
An incredibly cute but fearful 2 year old named Sashko could neither walk nor speak. His physical and mental development was delayed due to microcephaly diagnosis. "Oh, he needs so much help, professional help! We don't want to miss another day, the earlier we start, the more we can do!" I thought to myself when we first met.
Immediately Sashko joined our preschool education group, and he loved it immensely. He would never miss a lesson thanks to the help of granny, papa, or mama who were always there to bring him to the lessons. He loved the fellowship and he loved to grow.
Model of Care
Sashko's life started to change. A team of loving and disciplined therapists helped him develop in different areas of his life. Special education teachers worked with him in the preschool. Physical therapists maximized his walking ability. Psychologists and sensory therapists helped him relax and conquer his fears. Speech therapists helped him learn how to communicate better and Occupational therapist helped him master basic daily tasks. It looked like he was far enough along to join a public kindergarten at the age of 3!
Hopes to Pieces
When the time came for him to stand before the special committee that would decide what form of education to offer him, the hope for inclusion in the public system broke to pieces. To his mother's big surprise, they not only refused him in a kindergarten for children with special needs, but also suggested sending him to an orphanage (boarding school).
"You don't give my child even one chance for development. You cross him out of life," she argued with the committee director. "My child has a right for inclusive education by law. If you don't put him in the kindergarten, I will bring this case to the Mayor of the city, and if I have to, even to the President's wife Marina Poroshenko".
The committee director explained they had no teacher's assistants to work in kindergartens, whereas Sashko's mother said she would volunteer. Having a PhD in Chemistry, she was ready to give up her work for an opportunity for him to be included. She left certain that she would find a way to reach the first lady, if needed, but her child would not live in isolation.
Exceeding Expectations
Just a few weeks later, Sashko's mother received a call from a special committee: they found an assistant and her son was to be accepted to a kindergarten. He will be the first child with special needs admitted to a public kindergarten on the inclusion program! Overflowing with joy she rushed to MTU to break the news - he son would have equal opportunities alongside other children.
Today Sashko is an independent, attentive, and active boy who attends a kindergarten and enjoys spending time with his peers.
We are thankful to God for the opportunity to improve his life and for his loving mother, who stands strong for her child's rights.
Thank you, friends, for allowing us to be instruments in God's hands to change children's lives.


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Welcome to Mars Hill Refuge. We exist to allow a place for people who have left Mars Hill to tell their stories. This is meant to be a safe haven for those who have been wounded by their experience with Mars Hill Church. We have our own story (see Our Story). We have found many stories in various places on the internet, but we believe that those who are starting their "exodus" from Mars Hill need a place to find stories like theirs. When we started seeing red flags, we were very confused and felt "crazy" because you become so immersed in Mars Hill "culture" that you are not sure...
We have no desire to be a watchdog blog. While we do feel that there are many things wrong at Mars Hill and with Mark Driscoll's twisted "gospel", we do not want to focus on him but on becoming more Christ-like and helping others discern the truth that sets them free. There are many wonderful blogs that intelligently address these issues. If you would like to participate in those discussions, you can find links to them on our "Things We Like" page.
Would you like to tell your story? Please click on the "More Stories" link for more information.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Why We Are Here
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I am so impressed that you ramped up this site so fast. I hope to become a regular reader, if not contributor... I pray that the many ex-members of MH who have been severely damaged by MH would find refuge here, comfort, safety and healing.
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I happened across this site today and I'm glad I did. I pray for healing and peace for everyone who has been hurt by Mars Hill! What a wonderful ministry you have started!ReplyDelete
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The school I work at is an AMSTI school. AMSTI stand for Alabama Math & Science Technology Initiative. Teachers have to be trained to teach AMSTI. There are 2 sessions that usually take place a week out of the summer. After the 2 sessions, the teacher will not need to be trained again unless the teacher changes grade levels. The reason I am telling you all this is to give you a little back ground for the training purposes. This past summer I did my second training for third grade AMSTI kits, and it was very engaging and interesting. I look back now, and wished I would have take pictures throughout the trainings.
The first year training (each year training is done in 1 week each) we covered the first 2 kits of the rotation. There are four kits, and they are delivered one per nine weeks throughout the school year. The first kits we went through was the Plant Growth & Development , and Chemical Tests. However, this summers training was on The Human Body and Earth Materials.
The students are to do Interactive notebooks throughout the AMSTI kits while performing each lesson physically. For example, the first kit I receive is Plant Growth and Development. WE are in the last week of the 9 weeks and we are beginning to wrap up the kit, but I will give you a run-down of the lesson.
The students first start the kit by observing a wet lima bean and a dry lima bean. They compare and contrast them in their notebooks. (There is a lot of pre-planning involved for the teacher, and most of the lessons have materials that need to be prepared beforehand. Like, soaking the bean at least 2 days in advance. The lesson then proceeds to planting the brassica seed (which grows really fast). The students take care of the plant while it is set up under fluorescent lights and a watering system by observing the changes in their notebooks each day.
The students really enjoy taking part in the lesson each day. The plant grows from the root, forms a stem, leaves, and then a flowering bud. Once the flowering bud gets there then the students observe dry beans, and make notes of how the bee is important to the flower in the reproduction process. The students make glue sticks to place the bee on the flower (pollinating it). I am telling you this whole process so you can get a visual picture of how a kit works out. The students are to go away from this lesson knowing the life cycle of the plant, and how nature has an important role in it.
The above is just one kit, but my favorite kit is the human body kit. I was trained on it this past summer, and could not get enough. I was so impressed by the lessons in this kit that the day went by so fast! My favorite part was the owl pellet. We were talking about how the human body works, and we went into talking about the owl, and how the owl does not actually have a rectum. the owl breaks down its food and then pukes it back up, eww! Anyway, this is where the blog from "Grooving into Third Grade" caught my interests. This teacher actually documented her training on her blog. I am so jealous! Looking back now, I wished so bad that I would of. You can look at her pictures and her documentation from the link below.
http://form http://cbuffkin.blogspot.com/2011/07/amsti-training.html
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Shoot Down
Shoot Down
author Mark A. Hewitt
release date - October 23, 2014
Shortly after takeoff, a jumbo jet explodes over the waters of Long Island, New York. Witnesses claim the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile; the government insists a mechanical malfunction brought down the airplane. An old CIA file is uncovered which details the President was warned—to preclude commercial airliners from being shot out of the sky either pay a ransom or suffer the consequences.
Just as the Agency finds the shadowy man responsible for the shoot down of the airliner, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is suddenly overthrown, sparking a race between the CIA and the terrorist networks to win the ultimate terrorist prize—hundreds of man-portable, shoulder-launched, anti-aircraft missiles.
Duncan Hunter and his top secret airplane once again team up with an expert crew to find the anti-aircraft missiles ahead of the al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood, and kill the man who shoots down airliners for profit.


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Cross-posted from Medium.
As a parent whose kids grew up alongside the developing ubiquity of mobile connected devices and social media, I have grown pretty used to adopting a curmudgeonly line on the subject of 'being present' at the kitchen table, in the car, on holiday. We all know the routine — where humans, and especially young humans, cluster together their eyes will inevitably flicker towards tiny screens behind which lurk all their social connections, hungry for chatter, vampiric in their need for attention.
'Just turn the bloody thing off,' I'd say, stabbing the air with my fork in the general direction of a connected device. 'Be with the people you're with.' At which points eyes would roll and a tut would sound and we'd all feel comfortable with our assigned social roles: the Traditional Old Dad Who's Playing Up His Inner Luddite will tonight by played by Lloyd, the surly offspring who thinks he Just Does Not Get It will be played by one of two adolescents.
In fact, my view has, if anything, become more prevalent. There's a new working assumption that constant distraction is A Bad Thing, and that we are somehow becoming a species of needy morons twitching at the sound of every new mobile notification.
Thing is, though — I think I might have been very wrong about this. Because now my daughter's at university, and my son's often at work when I'm at home because he runs a bar and that means late nights. A couple of hours ago, I texted my daughter a picture of a Welsh castle we'd visited, and she replied an hour later to say she'd seen it. My son will often text me weird questions in the early hours of the morning, which I'll find on my phone when I wake up.
Both of these things are 'presence', just of a different kind. What mobile connected devices have provided is something my parents never had — a continual and intensely satisfying reassurance that my children are potentially present at all times, that we remain connected at all times if only digitally so, such that my daughter's university room is almost a shadow room in my own house, and the reality of my son sitting on a stranger's sofa discussing obscure movie references is available to me as a confirmed memory the following morning, even though I never experienced it directly.
So, if you've got teenage offspring, and you're cheerfully chastising them for Snapchatting with the friends they saw LIKE AN HOUR AGO, remember this. Their friends are present to them in ways you will only be able to dream of when your children are no longer alongside you, when a few words and a picture on a palm-sized screen provides reassurance, connection and remembrance. This is entirely normal to your children, but this does not make it any less wondrous.


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Interested in taking photography classes in Laketon IN? Whether you are a beginner, hobbyist, or professional, the most effective way to improve your photography skills is through hands-on classes with knowledgeable instructors.
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I told you yesterday that you could get 100 prints from Snapfish for just about $7 . . . then today I realized you can actually get 200 prints for just $2 plus shipping and tax. Just use the code JULY200PRNTS.
I'm actually headed over to order mine right now – still have a ton of printing to do to get caught up, like two years worth!


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Interdistrict School Choice at High Point
updated 8/14/18
High Point Regional School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of their operations. The lack of English language skills shall not be a barrier to admission or participation in the district's activities and programs. High Point Regional School District also does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.


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These yellow lights are not enough / To illuminate this night / These streets all have a hollow ring / Sounding down inside / This town got our wild years / Now it's quiet here, and still / What good is life without the few / Who lived it to the full? / This yellow glow / Is gonna show me home / Down rivers made of stone / But if you miss old friends tonight / Then you are not alone
Thecocknbullkid - On My Own (Mp3)
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? (Mp3)
Friends Again - Honey At The Core [Alt. Version] (Mp3)
David Vandervelde - Can't See Your Face No More (Mp3)
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
TVD | Holiday Bullshit
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But Pete! Got! A New! Coat!
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If you're looking for a healthy alternative to mayo-laden tuna salad, this Mediterranean tuna salad is sure to please. Made with flavorful ingredients like olives, artichoke hearts, and roasted red peppers, this tuna salad dish is amazing on a sandwich, on crackers, or by itself. If you can get your hands on some good quality tuna packed in olive oil, it makes this dish even more delicious!
Yields: 2 servings | Serving Size: 1 cup | Calories: 337 | Total Fat: 25 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Trans Fat: 0 g | Cholesterol: 31 mg | Sodium: 623 mg | Carbohydrates: 14 g | Dietary Fiber: 6 g | Sugars: 3 g | Protein: 20 g | SmartPoints (Freestyle): 10 |
- 1 (6-ounce) can or jar of tuna (packed in spring water), recommend Safe Catch Tuna
- 1/2 cup artichoke hearts, diced
- 1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, chopped
- 1 roasted red pepper, chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons slivered basil leaves
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
- Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Chill until ready to serve.
- Serve in lettuce leaves, on a baguette, or on whole grain crackers.
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Sometime I wondering would Apple named their produce with and i in front forever?
iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac, iTunes, iMovie, iCal, iChat, iDVD, iPhoto, iWeb, iSync, iWork, iLife,
All this i i i i i thing was named when Steve Jobs still as a CEO of Apple Inc. But now he had already gone and do you think that Tim Cook also gonna follow this foot step?
I have a feeling that Tim Cook not going to name Apple's produces with i i i i things in front again.
Like the Safari, Aperture, Photo Booth, Macbook they don't need the i in front.
So I got a feeling that Apple next generation of phone is not calling iPhone 5. If Apple still want to be a leader of all this electronic gadget they must think of some thing different again like last time when iPhone born. Seriously I do crazy support the Apple's gadget and did it for nearly 5 years but at the same time now I also sense that other brand's produces also catching up Apple now. I'm not sure now I still can hold my holy-molly to love Apple again in future if they fail again like that when Steve Jobs not the CEO of Apple.
I have see that the iPhone's Apps has almost reach to the bottle neck. Apps people created this day look like repeat and repeat. Social, Video, Photo, Games all like nothing much change. Is kinda boring now.
Say true true one lah... I have an iDea for the Apple. If you can invented your next iPhone that can use in the "WATER" and it will be great and I'm sure this is another Boom again for the iPhone.
Take a look at this... iPhone can use in the sky, space, on the ground or cave but you never hear that people using iPhone in the water. If the next iPhone can in the water..... dammm my daily life is going to change again in 2012. Taking shower, enjoy my hot bathtub, I still can play music and Angry Birds there. Taking pictures and videos in the swimming pool wasn't that awesome?
And I'm sure that day it comes a lot of Bath/Shower Apps develop... and Apps can create for the diver who can use in the sea. GPS under the sea etc...
Apps for children can play with their iPad during shower just like a rubber ducky!!! See... isn't that a great iDea... more place and more apps to create for using under water!!!
Tim Cook.... please hire me!!! I really want to help Apple and see this day happen!!!
I can't block them over taking me any longer!!!


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Harried Chinese bureaucrats, complaining they are being "drowned in an ocean" of worthless meetings, are refusing to attend conferences unless they are provided "souvenirs," an official says.
Zhang Wen, a low-level official, said Thursday China "wasted" billions of dollars annually on worthless meetings.
"I attended 17 meetings per month during the last quarter of 1984, and 14 in the course of last month," Zhang said. "If I had been to all the meetings I was supposed to attend, this figure would be more remarkable."
Zhang, citing recent government statistics, said Chinese factories spend $2.5 billion on meetings each year.
Organizers have taken to using a number of "tricks" to lure people to their meetings, Zhang said.
"For instance, one notice for a meeting said a new film would be shown before the proceedings began, but when people arrived they were told the film was to be shown after the meeting," he said.
"Other effective tricks include holding meetings at places which have historical sites or scenic attractions and also distributing souvenirs at the end of meetings."


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If you go climbing up at Tallarook you'll find the access road has been blocked off and many signs posted on trees stating: 'Trespassers will be prosecuted'. The land (including all of Tallarook rocks) is owned by Ron Milanovic, and whilst he is happy for people to climb there, his main concern was stopping the people who dump cars there.
The owner, Ron Milanovic, has requested that all climbers contact him on 0413 402 744 before climbing on his property. Just park at the fenced-off area and walk in, only about 100m away from the cliff. Also it would be wise if no bolts or anchors are placed or replaced without the owners authorisation.
A new fence and access gate will be installed on the property boundary. Hopefully this is a win for climbers. Ron is checking into the liability issue with his insurance company so hopefully they don't spoil the party


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