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1. Recycle for Education
Like many developing countries, the African nation of Nigeria faces challenges ranging from educating its children to cleaning up the environment. An innovative program started by a non-profit organization is addressing both problems — and getting results. The Africa Cleanup Initiative (ACI) is encouraging families to fight pollution by letting them use recycled plastic bottles to pay the tuition for their children's schools. Parents participating in the RecyclesPay program get tuition credits based on the number of plastic bottles they bring in for recycling, CNN News reports. With this method for paying tuition, parents have more money available for school supplies, books or clothing. Located on the west coast of Africa, Nigeria is ranked number 11 in the world for plastic pollution. The RecyclesPay program in Nigeria is addressing two problems at once — education and pollution. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about another program that is addressing two problems at the same time. Use what you read to brainstorm an idea for a short video or documentary film. Write an outline for your video, including images you would use. Then write the opening scene.
Common Core State Standards: Writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events; conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
2. Moon Landing Video
On July 20, the United States will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first landing by humans on the moon. Also on July 20 three original videotapes of that landing will be put up for sale by the world famous Sotheby's auction house. The images in the videos include astronaut Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, plus the planting of the American flag by Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The videos were lost by America's NASA space agency in 1976 when they were accidentally sold at a government surplus auction to an intern worker named Gary George. George paid $217.77 for 65 boxes of videotapes, including those of the moon landing. He didn't look at them for years, but when he did he discovered he owned the sharpest images of the landing ever recorded. The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing will be celebrated in many ways by NASA and communities around the nation. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read stories about different celebrations. Use what you read to write a short editorial for the newspaper analyzing what you think will be the most effective or memorable celebrations.
Common Core State Standards: Writing opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.
3. Pageant Groundbreakers
Beauty pageants have been around for nearly 100 years in America, and for many years they shared the country's history of racial discrimination. For years, women of color were banned from participating, and it wasn't until 1983 that Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America. This year women of color are making a statement in the country's top beauty pageants. For the first time, the reigning Miss America, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA are all black women. And this month the Miss Tennessee pageant crowned its first black champion in its 80-year history. The current champions are diverse and accomplished women. Miss USA Cheslie Kryst is a lawyer who does free work for prisoners. Miss America Nia Franklin is an opera singer and arts advocate. And Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris is a model who made a black-pride cultural statement by competing with her natural hair. African American women are achieving greater and greater success in more and more career fields. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read stories about black women who are doing this. Use what you read to write a personal opinion column discussing how these women are role models who are inspiring other women. Share your column with family and friends and discuss.
Common Core State Standards: Producing clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to the task; responding thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.
4. Iguana Invasion
Invasive species are a danger to the environment because they upset the balance of nature. They often have no natural predators and overrun the habitat they settle in. In the state of Florida, iguanas are the latest species to cause problems. Native to Central America and countries in the Caribbean Sea, these reptiles have moved into Florida as the climate has gotten warmer. And they are multiplying rapidly — so rapidly that state wildlife officials are urging residents to kill them. The iguanas, which can grow up to five feet long and weigh nearly 20 pounds, are damaging canals, sea walls and even building foundations, officials said. They also are destroying landscaping and plants, some of them endangered, and leave a lot of poop in people's yards. They also can carry the disease salmonella. "If we don't so something soon, they could literally take over," one biologist said. Invasive species can cause great damage to the natural environment of communities. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about an endangered species that is doing this. Write a paragraph describing the damage that is being done, and how communities are responding.
Common Core State Standards: Writing informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.
5. Piano People
In communities across the nation, people celebrate the arts in many ways. In the city of Rochester, New York, this summer, volunteers used painting skills to call attention to a local music institution. The volunteers gathered at an intersection in front of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and repainted the crosswalks to look like the keys of a piano. The group painting project attracted people in their teens and people in their 80s, many of whom had no painting experience. The city gave its blessing and closed off the street. And when the four piano crosswalks were completed, there was an immediate sense of community pride. Participants posted to Facebook, Instagram and other social media to express excitement at what they had achieved in the name of art. "I'm still pinching myself," said one organizer. Communities celebrate the arts in many ways — and use art to celebrate their communities. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read stories about some of the ways people do this. Then brainstorm a way you could use the arts in some way to celebrate your community. Your art could be painting, music, sculpture, performance or something else. Share ideas with family and friends.
Common Core State Standards: Conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic; engaging effectively in a range of collaborative discussions; using drawings or visual displays when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or points.


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Pro tip: Don't stiff Dame Dash if you don't want to be put on blast. Empire creator Lee Daniels learned this the hard way when Dame came after him very publicly to recoup the $2 milli that Dash lent him in 2005 to make his film The Woodsman. Fed up, Dame came live and direct to Daniels at a public event and demanded he be paid what he's owed. How do we know this? Because Dame had the awkward convo recorded and then posted it to Instagram. Oh, and just in case you thought he was playing, he filed a lawsuit against Daniels — again — demanding that the acclaimed producer and director run him his ducats. Sheesh. #DameDontPlayAboutHisDollars
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RAIN BOOTS: Do you find yourself just floating by? Are you accomplishing anything for Christ? It's so easy to get complacent about things. We get in a rut in our Christian lives and find ourselves just doing the minimum. Our prayer life and bible reading becomes slim. Our church attendance becomes inconsistent. We just barely float by in our relationship with the Lord. "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men." Colossians 3:23
SLIPPERS: Do you find yourself causing others to slip and stumble? Are you aware of your actions? Although we are given Christian liberties, we can't just live life like we want. We have to be aware that others are watching us and we need to set a good example. "Let us not therefore judge one another anymore: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Romans 14:13
BOOTS: Do you find yourself walking over people and only doing things your way? It's sometimes so easy for some of us to do. We forget to be sensitive to others. I think if we'd be a little more loving and tenderhearted we'd tend to stop "walking" this way. "And be ye kind one to another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32
WORK SHOES: Do you find yourself working and doing all you can do for God's glory? It all boils down to serving Christ and following Him. If we are following Him and obeying His word we will bear much fruit for him. "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. John 15:8
FLATS: Do you find yourself flat in your Christian life? Do you need to get yourself motivated? It's so easy to find ourselves like that, just moving along without much life to us. Sometimes we need to just get ourselves energized and get excited about living the Christian life. "Rejoice unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." Psalm 51:12
TENNIS SHOES: Do you find yourself running from your problems? Sometimes some of us want to do this. We hope if we just don't think about our problems, they'll just go away. If we'd just lean on God's strength a little more, we'd be able to better handle things that comes into our lives. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart: and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
SLIP ONS: Do you find yourself slipping on Christianity just for church and hanging it up until the next time? Do people really know you're a Christian? If we aren't living for Christ throughout the week, how can we ever have the witness God intended us to have? "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." Matthew 5:16
SANDALS: Do you find yourself too comfortable with your Christian life? Could you be doing more for Christ? Sometimes it's easy to get comfortable with what we're doing and not really do at all what we have the potential or ability to do. We ought to take hold of life and live it the way God intended. We oughtn't be satisfied with being a mediocre Christian but remember who we are living for. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set down at the right hand of the throne of God," Hebrews 12:1-2
PUMPS: Do you find yourself pumping people up? Are you an encourager? What a great pair of shows to wear. We all have times when we need encouragement so think how important it is to give as well as receive it. "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." 1 Thessalonians 5:11
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CLASSICS PRESENTS... Speakers' Programme 2019-20
Finding Common Ground: Notes from a Classicist Working in Indigenous Heritage Preservation
By: Dr. Lindsey Akerman
Cultural Heritage and Conservation Management Program
Fleming College.
FORMER: Collection Registrar at ACCI,
BAH Queen's Classics and MA Oxford Classics Alumna.
Classics Travel Awards
Queen's Classics faculty and students lead and participate in archaeological projects around the Mediterranean. Several Classics Department awards have been created to help students participate in archaeological excavations or conduct research in international locations. In celebration of International Archaeology Day, Classics will be honouring our student excavators with a special event. Come learn about our travel awards, hear stories from last year's recipients, and meet other archaeological enthusiasts.
Monday, October 21
5:30 - 7:00pm
Watson Hall Rm 517
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Fall 2019
Thursday, September 19th - from 5:30-7:00pm Mac Corry Hall Rm D214
Dr. Arlene Allen, University of Otago, New Zealand
Monday , September 30th - from 5:30-7:00pm Watson Hall Rm 517
CAC Central Tour Lecture
Dr. Brendan Burk, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Department of Greek and Roman studies
The Golden King: Midas of Phrygia and the Myths of Wealth in the Greek Imagination
This talk focuses on the topic of extreme wealth and the quasi-historical figure, King Midas, who ruled the Phrygians in central Anatolia during the 8th c. BCE. King Midas of Phrygia is nearly synonymous with his 'golden touch', and the popularity of this wealth myth surely derives from its cautionary ending: be careful of what you wish. The lesson, that with great wealth can come great difficulties, was as popular in the ancient world as it is today. Greek and Latin sources for the legends associated with King Midas range over hundreds of years: Herodotus, Aristotle, Arrian, Ovid from the Classical world. Post-Classical sources also focus on Midas, such as Chaucer, John Dryden, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, in addition to modern re-tellings of the story. All have contributed to the general impression we have of this once great and wealthy king getting what he wished for from the gods and suffering from it mightily.
A wide variety of sources on King Midas are included in this talk, including archaeological research at his capital of Gordion in central Anatolia, iconographic evidence in Greek art, literary sources of Greece and Rome, and Near Eastern texts that preserve a record of the historical figure from the late 8th century BC. It also examines similar wealthy figures in the Greek imagination. Image: An Attic red-figure stamnos depicting the satyr Silenus being led before the seated King Midas. c. 440 BCE attributed to the Midas painter. (1851,0416.9 British Museum, London)


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they'll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak
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|OSCAR WILDE remarked of Mrs Radcliffe that she "introduced the
romantic novel, and consequently has much to answer for". Fashions
change, but heroines go on, and Mrs Radcliffe's Emily St Aubert, whom we
first see in The Mysteries of Udolpbo rambling "among the scenes of
nature" is not that removed from Anne who, 200 years later, in the
latest novel of romantic suspense by Barbara Michaels, Someone in the
House (1981), stands at her kitchen sink "mincing and chopping and
braising and doing a lot of other things". Anne may be a modern woman -
a self-confessed feminist, in fact - but it doesn't stop her from going
off to spend her summer holiday at a menacing manor house complete with
"strange subterranean chambers", "dank, stone-floored passageways", a
disused chapel, and the mysterious portrait "of a medieval lady in long
trailing robes".
The gothic romance — a phenomenon of popular culture for the last couple of centuries - is like a cake recipe that's been passed around a large circle of acquaintance. Some people add nuts, some raisins, others put in a few dates or take out a bit of sugar; no matter how you make it, to cognoscenti it's recognizably that same cake.
In the beginning there was Horace Walpole. He cooked up The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story (although the word "Gothic" does not appear on the title-page of the first edition), which he published in 1764 as by "William Marshall, Gent, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St Nicholas at Otranto". A second printing brought the original 500 to a thousand copies, and Walpole by then was claiming such a popular book as his own.
The son of a prime minister, Walpole wasn't very amused by the politics of his day, preferring to dwell in his imagination in bygone halls. Eventually, he went to great efforts to turn his fantasies into reality and spent much of his life making his residence at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Surrey, into an elaborate but altogether sham Gothic castle. He soaked up the atmosphere there for almost fifteen years before delivering himself of The Castle of Otranto which had its origins, Xanadu-like, in a dream.
Why Gothic? One might as well try to give an exact answer to why Art Nouveau resurfaced in the late sixties to give aesthetic shape to the counterculture. Someone is always reviving something in reaction to prevailing modes, from spare to ornate and back again. However, as E. F. Bleiler, editor of a 1966 collection of gothic novels, puts it, "Before Walpolc (apart from Bishop Hurd's less important Letters on Chivalry] the word 'gothick' was almost always a synonym for rudeness, barbarousness, crudity, coarseness and lack of taste. After Walpole the word assumed two new major meanings: first, vigorous, bold, heroic and ancient, and second, quaint, charming, romantic but perhaps a little decadent in its association with Romanticism, but sentimental and interesting."
The plot of The Castle of Otranto is, despite scholars' claims for its continued readability, massively siily. The Haunted Hat might be a better name for it, since the action revolves around a gigantic helmet that falls plunk out of the sky, crushing beneath its weight a young prince. Then the homicidal helmet commences to wave its black plumes to indicate that it's still unappeased, while on the human front folks run back and forth, weeping, gnashing, brandishing, fleeing, hiding, denouncing, fainting, etc.
Now this may not sound exactly like what you expect to find between paperback covers, underneath illustrations of nubile females in filmy gowns running below battlements set against a clouded moon, but it was a start. Think of Walpole as the eccentric great-great-great uncle of the gothic novel of romantic suspense. And think of his Theodore and Isabella as the uppermost branches on a family tree which along the way includes Jane and Mr Rochester, Heathchff and Catherine, the nameless narrator and Max de Winter of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, and today has its offshoots catalogued in a newsletter published from Fairway, Kansas, entitled Boy Meets Girl: A weekly review of romance authors, agents, publishers and fiction.
Coincidentally, 1764, the year of Otranto.,was the same as the birth of Ann Ward, later Mrs Ann Radcliffe, in London. She was to take what Walpole had started, in his desire "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern" (as he stated in his preface to the second edition) and give it what they call in the movie business "legs", or staying power. Though Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (first called The Champion of Virtue) appeared in 1778 and was overtly modelled on Otranto, it was Mrs Radcliffe who, with Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797), claimed the gothic for her sex and thus for all time.
There, I've gone and said it: the gothic is women's fiction. Women read it, write it and, most importantly, identify with it. This, despite the hard evidence of Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monk (1796), still thrillingly readable today; Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), an important development in the gothic progression; and all the other gentlemen -William Beckford, Charles Brockden Brown, William Godwin, Sir Walter Scott, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Poe, Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, George Du Mauner, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to name a few - who fertilized gothicism with their work. The exquisite horror tale, the more clanking ghost story, the early Victorian "bloods", the later swashbucklers: all of these can be considered fascinating gothic manifestations (romantic, exotic, thrilling in the most literal sense) but they will lead us along too circuitous a route to any discussion of what is currently designated "gothic fiction" in the modern market.
Jane Austen knew that gothics belonged to her sex and had great fun fleshing out this notion in Nortbanger Abbey, a sly, affectionate parody of the "horrid" novels of that era, in which Mrs Radcliffe's Udolpho is so
omnipresent as to be practically a character. The word "romance", as we know, has many meanings - among them, having to do with love, heightened imagination, and outright fabrication. And I'd like here to apply, with your indulgence, one of my favourite quotations - it's from Saki - for it is resonant in this context: "Romance at short notice was her speciality." Catherine Morland, the heroine of Northanger Abbey, is longing to give up her heart .without too much reflection and, primed by the excesses of Mrs Radcliffe and others, she has the cliches of the genre at her fingertips.
Better still, to illustrate what Saki's daughter of the house in "The Open Window" later did as well, Austen's Eleanor Tilney, the hero's sister, reveals herself to be latently bloodthirsty, conjuring up real-life visions to match Catherine's fictive descriptions. But then, Austen has already told us that Miss Tilney likes the "little embellishments" of history and is "very well contented to take the false with the true". This is the lure of the safe frisson.
From Mrs Radcliffe to the Brontes is not a particularly complicated manoeuvre. The former eliminated the gross supernatural appurtenances that made Walpole's Otranto so grotesque (but which, in truth, give power to The Monk and Melmoth), but nonetheless felt compelled to set her books in the past. Emily St Aubert lives in the sixteenth century yet she has an eighteenth-century sensibility. Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw are true gothic heroines but now the medieval trappings are gone, too. Withering Heights is probably best categorized as a "psychological gothic" but Emily Bronte knew what Ann Radcliffe had known before her: that wild scenery and wilder weather are a staple of the recipe. As for Charlotte Bronte, she made the "Reader, I married him" motif a standard ingredient as well.
In the space between The Mysteries ofUdolpbo and 1847, when the Bronte sisters took the English literary world by storm, Italianate romances enjoyed at least a couple of decades of vogue. Books with titles like Rosaura dl Virafoa; or, The Homicide, The Italian Banditti, Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance, Sicilian Mysteries; Or, The Fortress Del Vechii, The Maid of Padua, and The Sicilian Boy rolled off the presses. Others conveyed their message to the public with exclamation points, such as Joan .'!!, Astonishment ///, The Three Monks III and The Reformist !/!, while novels with names like The Vampyre Bride, The Earl and the Maiden, Who Is The Bridegroom? or, Nuptial Discoveries, and The Nun's Picture also signalled that gothic delights lurked inside.
Just past the middle of the nineteenth century, the "sensational novel", a close sister of the gothic, reached its apotheosis with M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), while at the same time Mrs Henry Wood issued her
spectacularly successful sentimental melodrama, East Lynne (1861). These two divergent fictions of erring wives further fuelled the female appetite for reading matter that was more titillating than uplifting. They were like life in that they were set in a recognizably acceptable milieu but they were definitely fantasy - and thus like gothics - in that extreme events were allowed to occur and women could be active, even aggressive.
The rise of novels of mystery and detection is the next significant taste to be charted: more nuts and raisins. In the United States, in 1878, a lawyer's daughter, Anna Katharine Green, with The Leaveniyortk Case, added a substantial woman's touch to this budding genre, followed by such genteel plotters as Mary Roberts Rinehart and Carolyn Wells. The "Had-I-But Known" theme, to borrow an expression coined by Ogden Nash, though it had always been incipient, was the last to be informally added to the gothic concoction.
As I have implied, over the period of time in which the gothic romance became popular, women were rarely if ever in the same kind of danger outside of fiction as they were inside. Excessive childbearing, disease, and boredom were the greatest threats faced by women, and novels portraying women in danger, not surprisingly, became an antidote to the last-named. Brutish husbands and relations were not uncommon, but poisonous snakes in air-shafts stalking helpless heiresses were rare indeed (for what is "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" if not Sherlock Holmes investigating a gothic situation?). Just as the female sex could be more active in fiction, so could they be more menaced.
By the twentieth century, even as the formula was solidifying, women were moving out into the world, no longer just as governesses but in practically every profession. Oddly, however, the relatively passive Cinderella-type heroine, as in Rebecca, perhaps the premier gothic romance of our era, kept her hold on her audience. The Bluebeardish and Pandora's box aspects of the gothic romance have become increasingly pronounced while a great many best-selling romances (in paperback) are no longer "gothic" at all, slighting mysterious elements almost entirely in favour of the heroine's entanglements with seemingly unsuitable, initially indifferent men.
At the start of the 1980s, literary mitosis has created the "contemporary romance", which is now propagating itself at a rate far greater than the cell -the romantic/historical gothic-suspense novel - it originally split off from. Although the major modern writers of gothics, such as Daphne Du Maurier, Anya Seton, Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney, Susan Howatch, Barbara Michaels and Mary Stewart, still have devoted fans, other, lesser authors have been forced, like their heroines, to go underground..
To be fair, two of the most interesting gothics of the last ten years have been written by men. Although Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey protests that "nearly as many" men as women read gothic romances (he himself claims to have finished "hundreds and hundreds"), the number of young males, or middle-aged or elderly ones, reading this genre has never really been a factor. After all, since I feel identification with the artificially endangered heroine to be crucial, who is there for them? In general, heroes like Mr Rochester and Heathcliff - the two basic models - are constructed to appeal to women, although there are, of course, men partial to Byronicism still. But whether they read gothics is another matter; it's enough for most to know the stereotype.
Thomas M. Disch's Clara Reeve (written under the nom de plume Leonie Hargrave) and Vincent Virga's Gaywyck are both tours de force; each is a meticulously recreated, affectionate homage to the eighteenth-century
original. In Clara Reeve (1975), Disch, a poet and much acclaimed writer of speculative fiction under his own name, romps through the conventions while maintaining a scholar's eye on his detail. Every bit as much a lush production as Clara Reeve is Gaywyck (1980) which, with its mischievous titular allusion to Seton's Dragonwyck, lays claim to being the first homosexual gothic. That is to say, Virga has made the Cinderella/Pandora heroine a young man whose love affair with the lord-of-the-manor-who-has-a-secret-in-his-past is eventually consummated.
There have now also been gothic-type novels with disfigured and handicapped heroines, straight male "heroines" (with brooding lady love-objects withholding their favours for mysterious reasons), middle-aged heroines, and other well-intentioned efforts at pluralism. Like mystery and detective fiction, the gothic has become an equal-opportunity employer, but a recent American manifestation, a "No-Frills Book", guarantees for its Romance ("complete with everything") only that it has a "man, woman, large house, one walk, a kiss and an event near the sea".
That's a far cry from the nineteenth-century assessment by the literary historian Henry A. Beers of The Monk (1795) which he said
used and abused the now familiar apparatus of Gothic romance. It had Spanish grandees, heroines of dazzling beauty, bravoes and forest banditti, foolish duennas and gabbling domestics, monks, nuns, inquisitors, magic mirrors, enchanted wands, midnight incantations, sorcerers, ghosts, demons; haunted chambers, wainscoted in dark oak; moonlit castles with mined towers and ivied battlements, whose galleries rang with the shrieks and blasphemies of guilty spirits and from whose portals issued, when the castle clock tolled one, the spectre of a bleeding nun, with dagger and lamp in hand. There were poisonings, stabbings, and ministrations of sleeping potions; beauties who masqueraded as pages, and pages who masqueraded as wandering harpers; secret springs that gave admittance to winding stairs leading down into the charnel vaults of convents, where erring sisters were immured by cruel prioresses and fed on bread and water among the loathsome relics of the dead.
Other variables would, of course, include heirs, orphans, hermits, brides, beggars, outcasts, exiles, copses, corpses and curses, all ventilated by groaning winds.
Eventually, one's brain begins to clang shut like a drawbridge, refusing to admit any more caskets, portraits, mistaken identities, flickering candles, false closets, bloodstained documents, forged wills, mad first wives, and dour housekeepers who wear large bunches of keys at their waist. But it's been fun, hasn't it?
As I have been pointing out, the tradition is being carried on, whether in mainstream gothics (now called romantic suspense) or other sorts of mystery, romance and adventure tales. They all borrow bits from one another and adapt somewhat to current trends. It is impossible that Horace Walpole or Mrs Radchffe, or even Oscar Wilde, could have foreseen a publishing climate in which coupons for free Harlequin romances would be given away in boxes of tampons in order to gain readership for pre-tested, interchangeable titles. But I think, despite this peculiar ploy, it's safe to assert that the gothic novel has not, after all, suffered a gothic fate.
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Agroecology On-Farm Internship 2003
Many times on a farm I feel there are moments that can't be fully understood unless they are experienced by the reader themselves. However here is my attempt to explain what summer life is like on Briar Patch Farm.
A typical day on the farm started at 5:30 AM, when I opened my eyes the sun was just breaking over the horizon. Many mornings it was rainy and wet, however there were those few mornings where the sun was breaking through the early morning fog and the mornings where the sun was glowing a cherry red that made those early morning awakenings worth while. I would drag myself out of bed and into the work truck. When I first arrived we had to stop on the way to the farm and shovel fresh cut grass into the pick-up to feed. Justin and I would feed at both barns on Preston's farm. One thing that will stick with me forever is the odor that every billy goat that was of breeding age emitted. We'd have a break for breakfast after we were done; then at around 7 AM we would get back into the truck and head up to the shop to receive the days order.
The typical orders were haymaking tasks, unless it was raining, so the day wouldn't start until the dew came off the grass. Carson or I would rake the grass into windrows then we would let the hay dry some more, around 2 or 3 we would fire up the baler and start baling. Within 20 minutes we would have a full wagon to unload. Then from then on out we would have a wagon to unload every 20 minutes until 7 at night or whenever we stopped. Some days we would unload 15 loads before we would stop. After that many bales of hay all we wanted to do was go to sleep. However we had to feed the goats and we always had to feed ourselves or the next morning would be next to impossible. Around 9:30 or 10:00 we would finally crash. It felt good to finally be able to relax but we knew that the next day would start bright and early at 5:30.
After the previous night of hay unloading I'd wake up a little sore and go through the same feeding ritual. The hardest thing to do the morning after is picking up the first hay bale to feed. The twine on the bale made my hands hurt, my shoulders were sore and I was tired too. It had to be done so we did it, no questions asked and without complaining about it. After a few days like this my body got used to it like it always has so it became easy. We would receive new orders everyday and we'd just get them done and then the next day we'd do it all over again. That's what farm life is like, sometimes repetitious but that's farming. A man once told me that he farms because he liked to, not for the money, I believe that is the only way you can farm. You have to want to and you have to enjoy it, if you can't do that then you can't farm.


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Millions of people take part in Les Mills group programs, in over 20 000 clubs, in over 80 countries around the world. Les Mills has a mission – to create a planet that will be fitter and healthier. Les Mills base is in New Zealand, wherefrom programs are renewed every three months with new choreographies, music and trainer's education. That way they create the experience of exercising known and loved around the world.
In our schedule you may find 6 Les Mills programs – BodyPump, BodyCombat, BodyAttack, BodyBalance, RPM and CXWorx.


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Newsletter, October 10, 2013
The Enterprise-class Monitoring Solution for Everyone
Worldwide: +371 6778 4742 USA (Toll-Free): 1-877-4-ZABBIX Japan: 03-3582-5388 E-mail: [email protected]
Yesterday, the Zabbix team announced the availability of the first beta version of Zabbix 2.2 – Zabbix 2.1.7 that introduces all major features along with numerous improvements.Please note! Although Zabbix 2.1.7 is feature complete and represents the expected 2.2 version, it is still a beta release and is absolutely not for production.To get a full list of all improved and developed features of Zabbix 2.1.7, please go to the Release Notes page.
Zabbix 1.8.18
For those who are happily continuing work with the Zabbix 1.8 version, we have good news for you, as the Zabbix team has introduced the availability of Zabbix 1.8.18.
If you are using Zabbix 1.8 with a node-based distributed setup, then by running the SQL patch provided here you should improve the performance of configuration syncing a lot.
For more details on Zabbix 1.8.18, please go to the Release Notes page.
Zabbix 2.0.9
Another release was put out yesterday by the Zabbix team – Zabbix 2.0.9! Please feel free to download it now. This release fixes some known issues of Zabbix 2.0.x and introduces some new minor features that are nicely described on the What's new in Zabbix 2.0.9 page.
Complete Release Notes of Zabbix 2.0.9 are available here.
Zabbix SIA has signed a Partnership Agreement with a new Reseller in Brazil, TSA Quality, bringing better reach to Zabbix product and services for existing and potential clients of TSA Quality.
The TSA Quality business is focused on providing and spreading superior products and services from the company partners at a fair price and according to the community needs. "Our company believes that the focus on quality and customer satisfaction are the means to the success of any application, technology or process", says TSA Quality.
The Zabbix team really appreciates and is proud of each new partner acquired. So we are looking forward to a very positive cooperation with TSA Quality! For more details on this piece of news, please read our Press Release.
ITpro EXPO 2013
Starting from yesterday, the Zabbix Japan team together with CROSS HEAD, a Zabbix Certified partner, will participate in one of the largest IT events in Asia – ITpro EXPO 2013 , taking place at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition hall, in Tokyo, Japan!
To meet Zabbix specialists and to have a chance of getting answers to all of your queries regarding the Zabbix product or services, please visit the event and come to see us at booth No. 8-32.
Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall
Next week, on October 19-20, Zabbix Japan team together with Zabbix-JP (Japanese Zabbix community) invite all of you to visit the Zabbix booth at another major IT event in Tokyo, Japan – Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall.
On Saturday, there are 3 seminars on Zabbix Monitoring Solution scheduled during the conference, which will be presented by the representatives of Zabbix Japan LLC, Zabbix-JP and SRA OSS, Inc., a Zabbix Certified partner.
On October 16-18, Alexei Vladishev, founder and CEO of Zabbix SIA, is going to the 10th Latin American Free Software Conference – Latinoware 2013 that is taking place at Itaipu Technological Park (PTI), in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brasil.
During the three conference days Alexei Vladishev, along with other speakers, will give 9 presentations, dedicated to Zabbix Monitoring Solution. To get detailed information on the scheduled presentations, please refer to the conference official program. For other information on the upcoming event, visit Latinoware 2013 webpage.
See you all next week in Brazil!
Additional information in the monitoring and inventory sections [ZBXNEXT-1763]
In Zabbix 2.2 we aim to make host-related information more accessible to users from the monitoring sections. To do that we've improved the host inventory page to display more data about hosts and extended the "Latest data" page to provide information about items. That way the information that earlier was accessible only from the configuration section will also be provided in the monitoring section.
If you speak or understand German, and you feel like you need to learn or refresh the basics and key features of Zabbix Monitoring Solution, then make sure you do not miss our today's webinar, called "Zabbix Monitoring Lösung – Überblick: Architektur und Key Features".
It will not take you a lot of time, effort or energy. Moreover, the participation or registration will not cost you a penny, as all our webinars are free of charge! Simply register and you're good to go!
In case if German is not the language you can speak or understand, then you can always choose to attend a Zabbix webinar in any of the other 8 languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish. Our webinar schedule is updated daily!
At Zabbix Professional Training sessions you are trained by the most professional Zabbix experts who will make sure that your gained knowledge allows you to start or continue work with Zabbix software with full confidence and on the utmost level.
Our Certified Trainers are currently allocated in 6 countries, providing Zabbix Professional Training courses all over the world in 9 different languages. By saying that we mean that there are no borders or language barriers if only you truly want to gain qualified knowledge about Zabbix from a reliable source and improve your own or company performance!
Information on all scheduled Zabbix training is available here. In the table below upcoming courses are listed, for which we encourage you to register if these suit you in terms of time, language and location:
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ARCE Excursions Find us
ARCE's educational excursions offer opportunities to explore important sites throughout the world, under the guidance of experts in archaeology, history, palaeontology, and geology.
Capacity is limited and early reservations are recommended.
To make reservations, or to obtain additional information about the excursions listed below, please contact ARCE's program coordinator, Mary Sadek, by phone in Cairo (20 2 2794 8239) or by email.
January 2010
Come join ARCE and an expert guide on a trip to Siwa, the most fascinating of all Egyptian Oases.
ARCE-OC is proud to announce this custom designed tour for you,
our members.
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February 2010
Come join ARCE and an expert guide on a safari to El Gara Cave, a natural hollow formed by rain in the Eocene limestone (55 million years ago).
March 2010
Join ARCE on a day excursion to the Wadi Hitan ("Valley of the Whales"), a paleontological site in Al Fayium Governorate of Egypt, some 150 km southwest of Cairo.
April 2010
Join ARCE on a day-trip to the Island of Marea led by Egyptologist Dr. Rawya Ismail.
September 2010
Join ARCE on a day-trip exploring the tombs of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty. The trip is led by Tarek Swelim.
October 2010
Led by Egyptologist Dr. Rawya Ismail.
November 2010
Come and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner under the stars at the most beautiful part of the Western desert, the White desert.
December 2010
The International Council of Museums, in an effort to fight against illicit traffic in cultural goods, compiles the Emergency Red List of Egyptian Cultural Objects at Risk. This list aims to help art and heritage professionals and law enforcement officials identify Egyptian objects that are protected by national and international legislations. View the Red List for Egypt.


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If you're considering a Tahiti destination wedding or elopement, it's likely that you've been imagining saying your wedding vows in an exotic location, and so will you.
Whether on a palm-fringed beach, or atop a lookout with dramatic high rugged mountain peaks in the background, you are hoping for a ceremony of a Western style, intimate, simple but meaningful.
I've now been developing and officiating wedding ceremonies in Tahiti, vow renewal ceremonies and other milestones' ceremonies for several years since getting professionally trained in the U.S. and obtaining a diploma in weddings back in December 2014.
What Are Your Options For Wedding Vows?
As a Wedding Celebrant I will develop and write a personalized ceremony that recognizes your unique personalities, that tells your story and makes your vision of a perfect ceremony come to life. Marrying is about exchanging vows and promises, so this one part of the wedding ceremony is of a greatest importance.
Okay, but what are the options there?
1. Writing Your Own Wedding Vows
The vows are your personal pledges and promises to one another for your life together as a married couple. You may choose to write your own vows and maybe wish to keep them secret from your future spouse. In this case, I strongly recommend that you provide me with a copy before the ceremony. It will allow me to print them out on a nice, sturdy paper card and hand them out to you – rather than having you dig out folded up pieces of paper – and it will also allow me to review your wedding vows for content to make sure that they are comparable in length and tone to your future spouse's. Pre-written wedding vows tend to be longer as when you write them you're not yet in the emotional whirl of the actual ceremony so be sure you'll be able to carry out to the end!
Photo Credit 1 & 2 : Hélène Havard
All photos of this beautiful couple here: J&M | Moorea Wedding Ceremony
2. What Comes From The Heart Wedding Vows
Some couples may choose to not write their wedding vows in advance, but rather say what comes from their hearts on the day; of course you'll be thinking of what you want to say before, however if you get emotional during the ceremony, which will be the case, know that it will clearly be a little difficult to say much, as both your capacity to think clear and to talk may be a bit altered in the process 😉 so go simple and straight-to-the-point!
Photo Credit : Jean-Philippe Yuam
C&T | Moorea Wedding Ceremony
3. "Do You" "I Do" Wedding Vows
Some couples just know that they will get super emotional during the wedding ceremony so they choose to go with "Do you" "I do" wedding vows; no need to read from a paper, no need to remember things you want to say, you simply answer "I do!" when your Wedding Celebrant prompts you to… you want these easy wedding vows short, so that it is not too repetitive with the rings ceremony that usually comes next. If that last option is the one that fits you best, I will craft "Do you" "I do" wedding vows that blend well in the entire story.
Photo Credit : AngelM
Y&C | Rangiroa Wedding Ceremony
Whatever your choice of wedding vows, your Celebrant wedding ceremony in Tahiti will be all together unique, memorable, heartfelt and true to your personal story. It will sound like no other simply because as a Wedding Celebrant I will craft each and every ceremony to a particular couple. You own your Celebrant wedding ceremony, and so do you with your wedding vows. I will of course gift you a keepsake copy of the ceremony along with your wedding vows cards so you can read and re-read over the years!


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I don't like the idea of masking because no one should have to hide who they really are. Individuality should be loved and accepted.
But masking is also a means of being able to interact, and often, if a person did not mask, they would not be able to interact at all.


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In an exclusive report by Vanity Fair White House correspondent Gabriel Sherman, it was revealed that Trump has been caught totally off guard by former personal attorney Michael Cohen's stunning admission that he lied to the Congress under oath. The fear in the Trump camp is that special counsel Robert Mueller has set a trap for the president by first getting answers from him which matched Cohen's responses in relation to Trump Tower Moscow, and then revealing that his former lawyer had indeed been lying to the Congress about it.
"Trump was totally caught off guard by the Cohen plea," a source told the journalist.
As reported, the responses coming from the Trump camp since it was revealed that Cohen had lied to the Congress, and subsequently signed a new plea agreement with Mueller's team, have been erratic — betraying a sense of surprise by the turn of events. Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was quick to label Cohen a "proven liar," but soon after Trump called his former attorney "weak" and accused him of "making a story" at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Giuliani changed tactics and once again seemed to insinuate that there was nothing wrong with Trump having given answers to Mueller which matched Cohen's.
"The Cohen news is very bad," one former White House staffer said, before expressing surprise at the fact that Trump would publicly denounce Cohen's answers as being lies — considering his own responses have been reported to match them.
Trump 'totally caught off guard' by Cohen plea -- and aides fear he's fallen into Mueller's 'perjury trap': reporthttps://t.co/rdt5ONten3— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 30, 2018
In fact, the consternation in the Trump camp ahead of Cohen's admission that he lied to Congress would indicate that there was fear brewing already in the White House. After Trump's team, led by Giuliani, had delivered the answers taken under oath by the president, Giuliani was reportedly very angry at the way Robert Mueller's office had started to stonewall them.
"Rudy is extremely frustrated," a friend close to Giuliani had said at the time
"He thinks Mueller is acting like some junior U.S. attorney who's got his panties in a wad and doesn't want to talk to you."
Now the major fear within the Trump camp is that the next indictment might be coming soon. And who might be the one who would be indicted?
"Don's been telling people he's very worried after today," a source told Sherman, referring to Donald, Jr., who might not have been expecting things to go downhill so rapidly.


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My lovely mail gal brought me a very thick package yesterday....the backing and binding fabric for the Sea Glass quilt top I finished up last weekend. I found the Moroccan Mirage fabrics that coordinated with the fabrics I had used on the top from Sew Fresh Fabrics - the only place on the web they could be found.
Also in my package were the fabrics I choose for the *Picture-Perfect* Polaroid Block Swap hosted by Debbie from A Quilter's Table. Can't wait to dive into fussy cutting this fabric.
Lastly, I spied the Cookie Butter from Trader Joe's on an end cap yesterday while shopping and couldn't resist. My younger son was with me and was super excited that we were going to try it. We arrived home and before we unloaded anything else, opened this up and went in with two spoons. It's different and neither one of us went back for more the rest of the day. Older son tried it too and said "wow" with a puzzled look on his face. Fun to try but I'm sticking with my beloved Nutella.
I'm headed out for a few days on a little vacation...have a great week!


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"Motorola's done it again. The Moto G4 is great value and doesn't sacrifice any specs to get there. It's a bit big and lacks extras, but for the money it's amazing".
These days the low end of the smartphone market is jam packed full of impressive yet affordably priced handsets, but that wasn't always the case and one of the first to truly impress was the Motorola Moto G.
Since then the company has launched several newer and improved versions of the phone, bringing us up to the Moto G4. It's still a highly affordable handset at around £159 and it's still packed full of impressive specs, but it's got more competition now, so is Motorola's cut-price champion still the king?
The Moto G4 gets off to a fairly strong start, with a solid construction which feels well made. It also looks reasonably good, with slim bezels around the screen and curved edges. Plus, it's splash resistant, so if it gets wet it should still work – though it's not on the same level of water resistance as found in the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S7, so you should still try and avoid liquid.
The Moto G4 is also somewhat customisable, as rather than sticking with the basic black or white colours you can add all manner of brightly coloured backs and accents or even an engraving if you use Moto Maker when buying it.
Those are the good bits, but the design isn't a complete success. It's fairly chunky at 153 x 76.6 x 9.8mm and 155g. It's also not especially premium, with a removable plastic back.
None of this is surprising at this price and the chunkiness has been used to good effect, allowing the Moto G4 to have a big screen and large battery, but it's still worth being aware of. This isn't a handset which you can comfortably use with one hand.
Many cheap phones are also small, but not the Moto G4, which has a 5.5-inch screen. Thankfully, it's sharp too, at 1080 x 1920 for a pixel density of 401 pixels per inch. That's not pin sharp, but it's fairly crisp and large enough to make the most of movies and other visual content.
The display is also bright and provides a similar experience to 2015's Moto X Play – a phone which is older but positioned higher in Motorola's range.
Unless you have particularly big hands you'll be using two hands to operate it much of the time, so if you want a compact phone this isn't it, but there are plenty of other compact choices at this sort of price and having a larger screen should help the Moto G4 stand out.
The presence of quad-core processors and solid performance on phones that cost around £150 still seems impressive, but the Moto G4 doesn't settle for that, instead packing an octa-core Snapdragon 617 chip.
That's just about a mid-range one, with four cores clocked at 1.5GHz and four running at 1.2GHz. It won't trouble the likes of the HTC 10 or Motorola's own Moto Z, both of which use a Snapdragon 820, but it's still a speedy chip, especially as it's paired with 2GB of RAM.
Though Motorola isn't completely alone in packing this much power into an affordable phone, with the Honor 5C offering similar performance, but Motorola is a bigger name in the west, so it's more surprising from them.
The camera on the Moto G4 is impressive, but less so than it was when Motorola first wheeled it out on the Moto G 3rd gen. Yes, you get essentially the same camera here as last year, but when that's a 13MP sensor on the back and a 5MP one on the front that's not such a bad thing.
It's designed with point-and-shooting in mind, so you don't get many manual controls, but shots are typically detailed and in focus, so if you're not too fussy the Moto G4 will do the job just fine, though of course it can't compete with higher end snappers like those found on the LG G5 or Huawei P9.
Like other recent Motorola handsets, the Moto G4 runs more or less stock Android and it's the latest version – Marshmallow. That means you get a clean, intuitive interface with minimal bloat. It's lacking the sometimes-useful extra features other manufacturers add, but most of them can be bolted on with an app or widget from Google Play anyway.
The Moto G4 lacks much in the way of standout features, which is unsurprisingly a trend among budget handsets, as they wisely opt to focus on the basics. It's a slight shame, but when the complete package is this good the lack of extras is a minor issue.
There's a large 3000 mAh battery in the Moto G4. That's the same size as the juice pack in the substantially more expensive Samsung Galaxy S7.
It translates into decent, but not amazing life. You should get a day out of it with mixed or moderate use, but most buyers will still find themselves having to charge it every night – or dash for a charger by lunchtime of day 2. One nice addition is fast charging, which isn't often seen on budget handsets, but to keep the cost down Motorola hasn't put a fast charger in the box, so you'll have to shell out for one separately if you want to juice it up quickly.
Memory comes in at a choice of 16 or 32GB and you can bulk that up with a microSD card of up to 256GB. Buying a card that big will add a lot to the cost of course, but it's nice that it's an option.
Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G and Bluetooth 4.1, but there's no NFC and unsurprisingly there's no fingerprint scanner either.
The Moto G4 is a top flight budget phone which impresses every bit as much as previous generations of the handset.
The competition has increased and the likes of the Honor 5C are strong alternatives, but the Moto G4 is still one of the very best smartphones you can get for around £150, with a good screen, lots of power, decent battery life and a respectable camera.
Dimensions (mm): 153 x 76.6 x 9.8
Weight (g): 155
Battery capacity (mAh): 3000
Colours: Black, White
Screen size (inches): 5.5
Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels
Pixels per inch (PPI): 401
Processor: 1.5GHz octa-core
Processor make: Snapdragon 617
Internal storage: 16/32GB
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Laurel Bank Joinery
We specialise in the production and fitting of hardwood shop fronts. These shop fronts can be made to architects specifications or existing old shop fronts can be replaced and the design matched perfectly to their original beauty.
We also provide a design service with suggestions of what type of shopfront you could have to those without drawings or an original to work from.We specialise in customising each shop front to the exact specification of each of our customers and offer a totally unique handmade design and refit service.
We also do all other joinery work including stairs, doors and windows. We only use the best quality kiln dried hardwood for parts exposed to the elements. We can match an existing Georgian panel door you like or can make and fit a modern design you have in mind.
In addition we provide a wide range of Ornamental Joinery Services such as Skirting Boards, Architraves, decorative pedestals and display stands. Our tailor made joinery pieces are individually crafted to give a unique "look and feel" to your home or business. We take pride in every project and work on a one-to-one basis with the client to create a professional facade to compliment your business.
Laurel Bank Joinery is family run business with over 40 years of experience and expertise in the making and fitting of shopfronts and all joinery work. We take pride in knowing our work will stand the test of time due to quality materials, attention to detail and superior craftsmanship.


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Jason Buttrill finds out the reason why IDF uses lethal force during border demonstrations. Most of the media neglects to ask or answer this crucial question. Interview with the IDF's Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus on Monday, May 15th, 2018 when (according to Hamas) over 50 Palestinians were shot by IDF.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
"Hamas seeks destruction of Israel"
Col. Kemp to UN Gaza session: "Hamas seeks
destruction of Israel and murder of Jews everywhere"
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
USA Embassy Opens in Jerusalem
Many Palestinian protesters have been killed in Gaza in a wave of violence
as the new U.S. embassy opens in Jerusalem. Almog Elijis, the spokesperson
and Consul for Media Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York,
said on CBSN that the embassy move will actually help achieve peace in the
region in the long run.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Netanyahu Reveals the Iranian Secret Atomic Archive
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed new and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international community in its secret atomic archive.
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Looking for a bit of flirty fun this festive season? We find out how to outshine the competition at Christmas parties and discover the secrets of successful flirting.
Like turkey with all the trimmings or karaoke renditions of Mariah Carey's Hero, the office Christmas party is a tradition to be embraced but once a year.
Most people use it as an excuse to let loose at their employer's expense, but a growing number are seizing the opportunity to release pent-up sexual tension, translating furtive glances shared over a PC desktop into true love.
In the past, free food and booze have always been the biggest draw, but in this credit-crunch climate - where the petty cash is unlikely to stretch beyond a paltry mince pie - a chance to flirt with work colleagues could provide the biggest pull.
According to Elizabeth Kuhnke, author of Body Language For Dummies, this is a great time of year to be looking for a new partner.
"The festive season is the ideal time to look for love," she says.
"Parties are in abundance, meaning spirits are high and inhibitions are low."
"It's a little known fact that availability counts for more than beauty in the dating game.
"A man will tend to pursue a woman who may not be the most attractive in the room, as long as she's giving off signals indicating her availability. The most important thing to understand when searching for a partner is how to communicate your interest."
Kuhnke adds: "Women focus on their hair, clothing and make-up when preparing to go out, but they must also remember that their body language is instrumental for gaining and maintaining the interest of a partner. Understanding the key signals, and using them to your advantage, matters more than an outfit."
So dressing up - or down - is the easy part, and hours wasted styling hair could be better spent learning how to flick locks coquettishly. In fact, the only things we should really be applying in the mirror are body language techniques.
Sending out signals by means of subtle physical nuances might sound complicated, but it all comes under the umbrella of flirting.
So how do you perfect it to a fine art?
"The essence of a good flirt is confidence, empathy and humour," says Jean Smith, a social anthropologist and founder of Flirting & Walking tours in London (www.allureseminars.com).
"A good flirt makes the other person feel good, and because they're so confident, they don't need the validation back - although they always get it."
What's more, flirting can be used as a tool to generate success in other areas of your life.
"The benefits of being a good flirt are wide and varied and whatever the flirt wants them to be", adds Smith.
"Whether that's an upgrade, a discount, a job, or a date for Saturday night."
Peta Heskell, the original Flirt Coach and board member of The Academy of Marriage, Sex and Relationships (www.flirtingacademy.com), agrees.
"When you can flirt with anyone, for fun, with or without the sexual element and you know who to flirt with and who not to, it makes people feel good about you and that leads to social and business success," she says.
It may not always seem the case, but according to Heskell we were all born flirts.
"Flirting is a natural mechanism designed to help us send signals to someone we like so they might make the approach but some of us have had it parented, 'friended' or schooled out of us."
Sadly, many of us have lost the confidence to flirt. Heskell suggests hiring a Flirt Coach to remedy the problem, but there are plenty of DIY steps you can take.
If you're shy, Heskell suggest practicing with older people or children.
"They're more amenable to connection as they're often less inhibited and more laid back. Put your full attention on them as they come towards you, think nice thoughts about them, and look at them. It isn't rocket science, start by smiling and saying hello.
"The more you practice, the more naturally you'll do it with someone you really like."
While making eye contact and smiling are obvious flirting tips, why not try some more obscure suggestions?
Elizabeth Kuhnke recommends "exposing your soft underarm... a part of the body that most men find attractive".
Another trick is to tilt your head, revealing the skin on your neck.
"This makes you look helpless and sexy, a combination few red blooded men can resist".
A good flirt will also learn to read situations well. Jane Hoskyn, dating expert at iVillage.co.uk, says listening is key. She suggests remembering things a man mentions early in the conversation and repeating them later, making him think you have a great deal in common.
And it's not only a case of developing your own body language, but also interpreting your partner's.
"If he likes you, he'll follow your eye contact by pushing his shoulders back and puffing out his chest - it's a primate thing," she says.
"Also watch out for a suppressed smile and super-quick raised eyebrows."
Once the art of flirting has been mastered and body language finely tuned, these transferable skills can be applied to all areas of life.
Whether it's a snog under the mistletoe, a new ally at work or a bonus from your boss - make sure you walk away from this year's office Christmas party with more than a painful hangover.


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The only thing that sucks with the J1000 DQ65 is that it's a plug-in without any expansion to 64-bit. Nothing should suck when it's free and I must agree with that. But it's a big downer it couldn't use 64-bit resources when it needs it.
The DQ65 is a 5-band dynamic equalizer that has two gain controls per band. The two bands control one loud and quiet threshold parts. Being able to control these two parameters allows for an excellent tone-shaping tool without much fuss.
As with some 32-bit plug-ins, they can be quite unstable. But this happens none too often with the DQ65.
As with dynamic equalizers, band-pass monitoring is achievable with just a single click. Handy for shaping individual frequency spots that you want processed.
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Naturalism and Subjectivism
Naturalism and Subjectivism
The present work is scheduled to appear in 1959, which is notable as a centennial year for a number of reasons: among others, as an anniversary of the appearance of Darwin Origin of Species and Marx Critique of Political Economy, and also of the birth of John Dewey and Edmund Husserl. It is concerned with the tension between naturalism and idealism in its historical outcome of subjectivism, as developed in the phenomenological movement.
Great interest attaches to phenomenology because of its strategic position as the last stronghold of idealism. The old opposition between naturalism and supernaturalism, or between materialism and spiritualism, has been superseded by a conflict between naturalism as a philosophy based upon the findings and methods of the sciences, and subjectivism as a general tendency, with its principle of the primacy of the experiencing being. The practical importance of this principle is seen in its use for numerous philosophies of man and existence. That makes it all the more pertinent to examine subjectivism in juxtaposition with its major antagonist--naturalism.
The criticism, at times severe, which is offered by the present volume, will be sure to meet with hostility in some quarters. To those who demur in the name of a "pure" philosophy, or in the name of a vacuous philosophy of existence, it may be said simply that fidelity to the cause of truth is alone at issue.
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Project descriptions (past 5 years) and public dissemination activities where relevant:
2010- current: Geographies of ageing and wellbeing
About this research:
This research is embedded in the Faculty Research Network 'Ageing and Wellbeing' and explores attachments of older people to their neighbourhoods and homes and the strategies employed to retain a sense of mobility and empowerment. The PhD research by Debbie Lager is associated with this project. Recently, we have begun to address intergenerational relations.
Public dissemination activities:
2017: Workshop 'Break Out' during All-Inclusive Learning, teaching day at the University of Groningen
2016: Invited speaker at a Panel discussion at the Ouderenfestival Groningen (Groninger Forum)
2016: WIJS050: Ouder worden in Paddepoel
2015: Sociale Vraagstukken: De overheid moet plaats maken voor ouderen
2015: Friesch Dagblad (by Sippie Miedema): Een veilige wijk
2015: Noorderbeedte (by Annelies van der Groot): Wandelwijsheid
2015: Dagblad van het Noorden (by Lieke van den Kommenacker): Sjoelen op een klaverjasboot
2015: Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen: Inzichten uit de Oosterpark
2015: Invited speaker Seminar Wonen en Zorg, Amersfoort, organized by Ministerie Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties: 'Mobiliteit, ouderen en leefbaarheid'
2014: Keynote speaker 'We nemen de ruimte' symposium Heerenveen
2014: Invited speaker at the 'Gezondheid, Zorg en burgerschap' symposium at Maastricht University
2014: Invited speaker Lezingencarrousel Het Huis van Morgen. LetsGro Festival, Groningen
2014: Kijk op het Noorden (by Henk Dilling): Innovatieve wegen naar gezond ouder worden
2014: FrieschDagblad: Participatie begint met ontmoeting in de buurttuin
2014: Seniorenkrant: Wordt er ruimte gegeven aan particulier initiatief op het gebied van zorg?
2011: Included in episode on care by the university programme 'Adams Appel' 2011: 'RUG Opinie'
2015-current: Geographies of Diversity and Inclusion ( in the Urban Context)
About this research
This project addresses how social and physical features of urban spaces lead to experiences of in- and exclusion for marginalized groups, and how this affects the everyday lives of such groups. A key aim is to work with these marginalized groups on a dissemination strategy. The project originated already in research preceding 2015 but this year is significant as the collaboration with Noorderbrug and Minerva begun. At the same time, I began teaching a module by this name for the Honours course. It is significant to mention here since a key outcome is disseminating to a broader public. In these projects, dissemination is achieved through exhibitions based on photography (Noorderbrug), and in the form of a museum. The PhD research by Laura Kapinga and Rik Huizinga address issues within this project.
Public dissemination activities:
Noorderbrug project:
2017: various exhibitions February: Exhibition 'Break Out' at Academy Minerva March- Mid April: 'Exhibition 'Break Out' at Noorderbrug
2017: Dagblad van het Noorden article: Wat voor ons van zelfsprekend is, blijkt voor hen een big issue. (by Marijke Brouwer)
2017: Noorderbrug website: Expositie laat de levens van Groningse studenten en cliënten De Noorderbrug zien
2016: Gezinsbode article: Foto expositie Groninger studenten en cliënten de Noorderbrug
2016: Noorderbrug website: Foto expositie Groninger studenten en cliënten de Noorderbrug
2016: Lichtpuntje, yearly report Noorderbrug
2016: RUG Unifocus movie
2016: various exhibitions:
January: Exhibition 'Laten Zien' at Academy Minerva
Feb-May: Exhibition 'Laten Zien' at Noorderbrug August: Exhibition 'Laten Zien' at RGS annual conference in London
October: Exhibition 'We, people in transtion' at Minerva
December: Exhibition 'Break Out'at Minerva
2012-current: Tidal Cultures
About this research:
This project originated with the research and exchange programme "Between the Tides". Comparative arts and humanities approaches to living with(in) intertidal landscapes in UK & the Netherlands. Learning from those who live and work with complexity, change and fragility (with Prof. Owain Jones (University of BathSpa). The programme was funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (UK). One outcome of the project is Gwenda van der Vaart's PhD research on the role of arts in building resilient communities in coastal areas. Research is embedded in the Faculty's Coastal Resilience Group.
Public dissemination activities:
Project blog 'Tidal cultures': http://tidalcultures.wordpress.com/
2017: International workshop at University College Groningen. Output will be included in exhibition in June
2014: Exhibition at Sense of Place Symposium Terschelling
2014: Noorderbreedte: Waar we thuis zijn (by Annelies van der Groot)
2013: Exhibitions, performances and broadcasts on Radio Mobi during the International and Interdisciplinary Conference for Emotional Geographies
2007- 2013: Geographies of the Great Bear Rainforest (Canada)
About this research:
Funded largely by the Gratama Foundation, this research, first of all, aimed at innovating Cultural Geography methods teaching and addressing knowledge valorisation by producing a video documentary and a teaching pack for secondary schools. Using the voices of some of the stakeholders, the documentary presents the Great Bear Rainforest as a social construction, and explores different meanings and values assigned to the forest by these stakeholders.
Public dissemination:
2008-present the research has been presented in teaching within the Faculty as well as the University of Plymouth (UK), the Hanze University, Bremen University and the University of Wageningen.
2011: Nacht van de Kunst en Wetenschap held in Groningen
2010: The research was at the centre of a one-hour radio show 'Hoe?Zo! Radio' 'Op zoek naar de beren'
2009: included in episode 'Grond' by the University programme 'Adams Appel'
2009: Broerstraat 5: 'Het bos, de beer en de beleving'
2009: Teaching pack: 'A forest for the future' produced for Dutch secondary schools
2007- 2013 Youth, belonging and wellbeing
About this research:
This research explores important locations in the everyday lives of youth in order to examine people, place and process in developing place attachment, and assess the impact of place attachment of wellbeing. The research adopts participatory methods which include training youth as co-researchers, conducting in-depth interviews, walks and producing photos and videos. In addition to a few Master theses, a project was conducted on Vancouver Island in 2007, funded by the 'International Council for Canadian Studies', and Elen-Maarja Trell's PhDresearch explored these issues in Estonia. Public dissemination activities: The pupils involved in the project in Estonia produced a promotion film for their school
2003- 2007 Imprisoned geographies (NWO-VENI funded)
1996- 1999 Made in the GDR the changing geographies of women in the post- socialist rural society in Mecklenburg-Westpommerania, PhD research, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK (supervisor Prof M. Blacksell)
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Fans hope Canaries will hold out for at least £12m for Pritchard from Huddersfield
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Huddersfield Town look to be closing on an agreement to sign Alex Pritchard from Norwich City but fans want the Canaries to hold out for a deal worth at least £12m.
The Premier League side started their negotiations with a cheeky bid of £5million, prompting outcry from City supporters.
With the 24-year-old thought to be keen on a move to the top flight after spending the last 18 months in the Championship, national newspaper The Sun have since gone as far as claiming that the former Tottenham Hotspur and England Under-21 starlet has agreed a four-and-a-half year deal with the Yorkshire club.
MORE: Norwich City transfer rumours – Huddersfield up Pritchard bid to £11million as deal looms
The Terriers have reportedly upped their offer to £11million, entering more realistic realms – but still not enough for many fans taking part in our latest poll at pinkun.com.
Over 4,400 fans voted as we asked how much City should sell Pritchard for, with 44 percent happy that a price between £12m and £15m would be a fair price.
Plenty believe the playmaker is worth more though, with 41pc voting for a minimum of £15m.
Huddersfield boss David Wagner is believed to be keen to add some attacking talent to his squad, with the Terriers having scored just 18 goals in 22 Premier League games since promotion.
Town sit 11th in the top-flight table with 16 games remaining but are only four points clear of the relegation zone and have won just two of their last 11 league matches.
It is the first season Huddersfield have competed at English football's top table in 45 years thanks to the financial support of owner Dean Hoyle, spending around £35m on the likes of Steve Mounie, Tom Ince and Aaron Mooy last summer.
The local businessman and his wife, Janet, were reported to be worth £284million in the 2017 Sunday Times Rich List, ranking them as the 12th wealthiest in Yorkshire, having sold greetings card retailer Card Factory for an estimated £350million in 2010.
Pritchard has scored eight goals and created 11 in 43 games for the Canaries since joining from Spurs in a deal worth around £8million in August 2016.
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After a little time away from SL, Miss Jenny is back and we all meet at Psi's. Of course, my sis Kylie is the blonde who is already gagged :P
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Ever since Apple announced the launch of Final Cut X last summer, members of the video production community have been debating what to do about editing platforms and software. Final Cut Pro is the world's most popular professional editing software, with millions of copies sold. In the number of installs, FCP easily outweighs the competition combined. So there was much attention and suspense in the summer of 2011 to see what Apple would offer as a replacement for Final Cut Pro 7, which had become somewhat long in the tooth.
I've made a living as an editor in television since 1983. (Yup, I'm old!) At my first television job, we did edits on 2" quad tape machines. I've gone from composite to component; from analog to digital, and from 2" tape to no tape. I've never seen our community as upset as it was last summer. If you don't edit yourself, you're probably asking: "What's the big deal?"
Basically, it's all about workflow. Before your eyes glaze over and you click to something else, let me explain. Computer-based "non-linear" editing started with the idea of capturing or "digitizing" content off of tape or film. This generated media files that; in the beginning, were usually proprietary to the application that generated them. The user wasn't too concerned about what codec or name the files had; they were generally viewed as temporary until you were finished with your project. Then, you did a "digital cut" back to tape. Archiving consisted of copying the project timeline to an external disc and then you would delete the media files and move on. While there's a million permutations of that idea, the basic concept was pretty simple and straightforward. As compression formats got better and disc space got much, much cheaper; people began to be more comfortable with the idea of video staying "on-line," or in a digital file format. Soon, Panasonic and Sony were both offering cameras that captured images directly to a memory card rather than videotape. The file-based workflow was born, and our industry changed; seemingly almost overnight. All of the major providers of editing software scrambled and deployed versions of their edit platforms that were "friendly" to file-based workflows. However, they were still grounded in the idea that; at some point, most finished productions would wind up back on a videotape cassette. This continues to be the preferred deliverable for most television networks; although many will now accept commercials or short-form material as computer files. It's only a matter of time before long-form submission becomes file-based as well.
Against that backdrop, Apple delivered its long-awaited re-write of Final Cut Pro in the summer of 2011. Far from being the evolutionary advance which users had come to expect from Apple, Final Cut X was a revolutionary "clean-sheet" leap from the old software. While this might sound really "cool" to many, it didn't take experienced users long to discover some really uncomfortable restraints in the new software. First and foremost, the new software would not import project files from previous versions of Final Cut Pro. This is a big deal in an industry famous for needing quick and accurate revisions to previous material. Final Cut Pro X contained no mechanism for direct communications with videotape machines, still a big deal in any edit suite where the final output is destined for distribution other than internet. Final Cut X did not "play nice" with Pro-Tools, the industry-standard audio mixing technology. While Apple has addressed this in an update, the other, larger issues are still unanswered, and are likely to remain so.
So what's an editor or post facility to do? As of this writing in January of 2012, there is no indication that Apple has any intention of writing a new software application for "the rest of us" who edit television for a living. Final Cut X will not allow us to meet the deliverables standards that most end distribution and clients require. While there are work-arounds that might allow one to do so, I personally can't image using Final Cut X to achieve the output that my job requires every day. Final Cut Pro 7 isn't broken; we can use it for another year or two; but eventually, we must go somewhere. The question is, "where?"
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In Japanese , there are countless words to mean 'I'. Each word has a different nuance. Normally we use 「わたし」. But in very informal or casual situation, we use different words. And there are many words used just by women, men, king, ninja etc...
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In Japanese, we don't use the word 「あなた」or「きみ」so often which are equivalent to 'you' in English. Instead of the word, we use someone's name to address people. But when we would like to add some nuance, other expressions might be used.
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Letter: MPE chooses to be unfair to members by building fiber-optic backbone for internet service
As a retired electrical engineer with 42 years of experience in the electric utility industry, I am used to monopoly utility providers (e.g. Mountain Parks Electric) having regulators assure that major investments are needed before those costs can become part of the charges for electric service. However, MPE is unregulated, and so they have the authority to build a fiber-optic backbone system for local internet service and to charge all costs to electric customers rather than to users of the fiber-optic system. This is clearly unfair to all electric ratepayers! MPE chooses to do business this way when other cooperatives have obtained millions of dollars in grant funds to construct such fiber-optic systems and then operate them as a self-sustaining subsidiary business. I doubt MPE has even applied for available grants — that takes time and effort. It is much easier to hide a 1 or 2 percent increase in revenues in everyone's electric rates. I never dreamed I would witness a member-owned utility choosing to be so unfair to its members.
MPE spent over $90,000 for one of the two consultants' studies to evaluate the feasibility of entering the broadband internet business. Although they refuse to share copies of those reports, it is obvious that there is no sustainable business case for such a venture. The board and management of MPE agreed to proceed anyway with their multi-million-dollar project to build a "middle mile backbone system" by forcing electric customers to foot the bill. They decided for all of us that we can afford to subsidize this scheme. I might expect such a socialist decision in extremely liberal Boulder, but not in conservative Grand and Jackson counties.
Initially I thought this decision would not adversely affect MPE employees. However, as I consider this further, it seems likely that in just a few years when the board notices that MPE electric rates are higher than others in the state, they will seek to reduce operating costs somewhere. The only viable option is reducing employee wages and benefits, perhaps by a reduction in force. I hope not, but such possibility seems likely.
MPE has mentioned the possibility of using this new fiber-optic backbone system to improve electric service. That capability should already exist in their technology solutions with a backbone communication system installed just a few years ago at a total cost less than $300,000. The fiber-optic system is not needed to provide nor to improve electric service. So why is MPE not being straight with us now? Unless deployment of those improvements was mismanaged, there is no new benefit to electric customers to build a fiber-optic backbone at a cost of millions — it is only to provide broadband internet service. MPE opted to buy the Chevy several years ago, but now they decided to buy a fleet of Cadillacs, too, and at an additional cost more than 10 times that of the Chevy! Of course, if that is the MPE cooperative way, why not also subsidize the following needs in electric rates: affordable housing, medical care, public transportation, trash service, a supermarket in Walden, gasoline stations, propane service, newspapers, etc.? If you think this is poor management of your cooperative, I ask that you call MPE to complain before it is too late to stop the waste of millions of your dollars!
If MPE chooses to be the first cooperative to hide costs for broadband internet in every customer's electric bill, I think we need to petition the State to make them the first in Colorado to fall back under the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission!
Les Shankland, Grand County
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In this post, I will show you an example of how you can use to PowerShell to automatically set your maintenance windows for Patch Tuesday and overcome the limitations of the recurrence schedule… well in other term, make them work every months. This script is based on the one from Octavian Cordos that you can also found on Technet; Original Script
Ok so now let's have a look the script. First it will look for all collections where the name match the following pattern, *SU_Server_Montlhy_Autoreboot_Day_*. Then it will take the last character as to set the Maintenance Window X number of days after the patch Tuesday. i.e (SCCM-SU_Server_Monthly_AutoReboot_Day_6 will have a MW set 6 days after). If needed you can change this pattern to match you need, and here is a example of what I have in place:
By default the script will create a maintenance window from 1:00 AM to 5:00 AM with no recurrence and it will also clean previous Maintenance Window. Note that you can change the time of the MW in the script by modifying those 2 variables and this to match your needs;
So here's a quick recap:
- The script will scan your collections based on their name
- All Previous Maintenance Windows that apply to the collections who match this pattern will be deleted
- A Maintenance Window (who apply to Software Updates deployment) will be created for all your collections (that match the pattern) X number of day after the Patch Tuesday based on the last character in the name of the collection.
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