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CADILLAC, MI — The Hoxeyville Music Festival, nestled in the northern Michigan woods and now in its 10th year, has come full circle.
This year's headliner, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, "is bringing us back to our roots," said festival organizer Jake Robinson. "We started as a bluesy, roots kind of festival, and his music represents that."
Hornsby also broadens the music fest's scope, appealing to a wider, more pop audience, perhaps, than in years' past, which featured jam band Umphrey's McGee and bluesman Buddy Guy, among others. Hornsby draws on jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues and jam band musical traditions.
Robinson said he hopes Hornsby's wide appeal will mean the three-day festival will sell out all 3,500 tickets. "That would be a nice 10-year birthday present."
Hornsby joins a full docket of entertainment on three stages that includes opening night headliner Kalamazoo-based Greensky Bluegrass.
"Greensky has gathered the most steam among our Michigan-based groups," he said. "They have a faithful core of fans from around the state, especially Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. They'll be performing a full two hours on Friday night. It'll be a big block of Greensky."
About 30 percent of the acts are Michigan-based as one of the goals of the festival has been to cultivate and showcase talent in the Mitten state.
The event, held in the forest, about 20 miles west of Cadillac near Wellston, offers about 2,500 on-site primitive campsites. Vendors will offer Michigan foods and products and a bar featuring microwbrews from Short's and Right Brain breweries.
One highlight is the glow-in-the-dark disc golf course set up in the woods. It often attracts those who usually don't play the sport, Robinson said.
The family-friendly festival also features kids' activities on the Mitten Stage, which plays host to Michigan artists and typically offers storytellers, magicians and jugglers, along with the music.
"Ten years doesn't seem that long ago," Robinson said, noting it began as a one-day event with one stage and featured 10-15 local bands. It was based at Coyote Crossing Resort, which is off M-55 near Caberfae Ski Resort about 12 miles west of Cadillac. (The resort, with several cabins and a popular restaurant, still houses many of the musicians during the festival. Stop in for lunch or dinner during the event, and you may encounter an
impromptu jam session or meet the headliners.)
Robinson said the event grew to two stages the following year and three in 2007, drawing in more national acts. It has remained that way since.
"We are pretty pleased with the way it's progressed," Robinson said.


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obesity and dopamine/serotonin
I heard some dude with a PhD blame child obesity on decreased dopamine and serotonin. And here I thought it was all about insulin. He said it was the other chemicals that caused insulin resistance. And here I thought obesity and insulin resistance was based on diet... Anyone ever heard anything like that?
I found this:
I'm currently looking into more on Medscape. Drugs that increase serotonin production are used to help fight obesity. My guess is that its in relation to kids getting way too many carbs (mainly of the processed variety) and their bodies pouring out tons of serotonin and just not being able to keep up. Fix? Don't give kids crap to eat. |
http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/2...onnection.html I bet Robb might know... |
Many hormones go on at night...melatonin, serotinin, GH, cortisol, insulin.....lack of sleep means messed up hormones.....always the same old message....go to bed and you will be better off. If seratonin is low, cravings go up.....seratonin is converted into melatonin at night....all interconnected.
Well Robb pointed out to me that seratonin and dopamine are neurotransmitters, not hormones.
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Well, there ARE reasons neurotransmitters could be affected over time that have nothing to do with diet or sleep.
But I am just trying to figure out if it's those or the hormones that are most responsible. Where are all the science geeks? I wish I was smart enough to be a science geek. |
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neur...web1/Byrd.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8697046 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6381575 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3527063 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3056265 |
I've tinkered with brain chemistry and this is an area where I split the difference with the naturopaths: control your diet, get fish oil and some moderate excercise outside, and talk therapies sorted first, then look at interventions. SSRI's and Dopamine whoosey whatsits are super powerful drugs that really do help a lot of people, for amny many others, their serotonin problems get fixed by talk therapy alone. obviously, diet helps hugely as does excercise and sunlight. If the system is so easily altered, why use the nuclear option unless you have to? |
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Madrone -- a tasting room favorite, tart saison with west coast hops
Biere de Garde -- a traditional amber french country ale
Fleur de Ferme - batch no. 2 of the popular dark saison with chamomile, lavender and hibiscus
Also, The Commons' Sticke will be on tap at Bailey's German Fest on April 28.
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Bourbon Blond, a live barrel of Northwest-style sour is a single barrel of blond ale that was aged for 12 months in a Makers Mark barrel. Subtle Bourbon and vanilla greet you in the nose. A pleasant oak and slight vanilla hint on the palate gives way to round, light, sweet Bourbon in the finish. The ABV is 6.25% and it sells for $6.50 a glass.
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Sally Tilley's curator insight,
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Love a bit of organisational brilliance! Thanks for sharing @joevans
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May 28, 2014 10:48 PM
Thanks, Silvia and Mark for sharing what thoughtful curation could look like in the classroom!
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March 21, 2014 10:18 AM
.....or contact me. See http://www.Lancashire-regional.tv
Bridget Bengtson's curator insight,
March 21, 2014 11:05 AM
This is a fantastic tool for engaging anyone with picture or video for behavioral feedback, or for social stories and language development. Very easy to operate and free. Social stories for kids are a snap.
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March 23, 2014 12:16 PM
This is a guest post from Greg Kulowiec of EdTechTeacher.org, an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.
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How to use instagram in school AND in libraries...
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Investigating the gap in learning between elementary schools and middle-high schools concerning apps. |
Alan Ovens's comment,
May 29, 2014 8:35 PM
Bloom wrote his stuff in 1956. This is just a pretty picture of some old ideas. It doesn't even capture all the dimensions Bloom was talking about. It seems to me this is just a way of using technology to push old ideas about what learning and knowing is.
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May 29, 2014 9:34 PM
Alan check the far left edge of the image. It does address the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy as outlined by Krathwohl http://www.unco.edu/cetl/sir/stating_outcome/documents/Krathwohl.pdf
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Hi John. I appreciate the link and have looked at the articles. The point remains that the revision still represents an old way of thinking about learning and only concentrates on the cognitive domain. The first article does not appear to explain why the revision only deals with vol one of Blooms Taxonomy. What about the affective and psychomotor domains? I am curious why people keep pushing the overly cognitivist notion of this taxonomy when iPads (and more modern learning theories) give us a way of thinking about learning in enactivist and embodied ways. I think it is generally accepted that the cognitivist view of learning is fairly outdated. Mobile technologies and digital learning should be informed by more contemporary theory. I would be interested go hear your thoughts and anyone's else who wants to respond.
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Thanks, Silvia and Mark for sharing what thoughtful curation could look like in the classroom!
Emily Kate Hardy's curator insight,
February 27, 2014 11:35 PM
Inquiry Learning isn't something I do that often.
Martin Debattista's curator insight,
February 28, 2014 2:30 AM
Many of these app are also available for Android - Dropbox, Evernote, Skype, all Google apps obviously etc.
Mick Huiet's curator insight,
March 15, 2014 2:06 AM
This is a very logical organization of apps. It would be interesting to compares other schools or districts app usage in this manner.
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leaders create sustainable change by putting the right tools in front of our teachers/students AND building a culture of innovation
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um big quadro de aplicativos utilizados para apoiar aprendizagem no seculo XXI... |


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MCD official held for accepting bribe
New Delhi, March 12 Rajender Singh Negi, a Head Clerk with the Slum and J J Department of the civic body, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Vigilance Department yesterday while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from one Mohammed Ashiqeen for issuing a possession certificate for his DDA house in Inderlok, an official release said here. Negi had allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 for giving the document, but Ashiqeen expressed his inability to pay the amount. The officer then agreed to accept the money in two installments of Rs 10,000 each, it said. Ashiqeen then approached the Anti-Corruption Bureau and on the basis of his complaint they laid a trap and caught the official while he was accepting the first installment, it said. A case has been registered against the erring official and the money recovered, it added.
Ranbir Sena activist nabbed The Special Cell today claimed to have arrested a district organiser of Ranbir Sena of Bihar, involved in mass killings in the state. The sleuths also claimed to have seized one country-made weapon along with five live cartridges from his possession. The accused person has been identified as Vinod Sharma (38), hailing from Bihar and currently residing in Shahdara. Acting on a secret information that Vinod would meet his associate near Gagan Cinema, Shahdara, the sleuths laid a trap and nabbed the accused. During interrogation Vinod told the sleuths that he was involved in at least eight cases and in 1993 he came into contact with Ranbir Sena, which was involved in mass killings in Bihar.
Duplicate LDO manufacturing plant unearthed
The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police today claimed to have apprehended one Sunil Mittal and unearthed a duplicate LDO manufacturing plant at Khasra in Mundka in West Delhi. The sleuths also claimed to have recovered 59,000 litres of duplicate LDO from the premises of the accused. Acting on a secret information that one person was manufacturing duplicate LDO, the sleuths sent a decoy customer and upon finding that the accused was manufacturing and selling duplicate LDO, arrested Mittal and seized duplicate LDO from his premises. During interrogation the accused told the sleuths that there are several plants functioning in Kachchi colonies in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The accused started the plant six months back and earned huge profits due to this illegal business. |
Firing creates panic in college
Greater Noida, March 12 Both the foreign students, who had come from Meerut to make inquiries in local engineering colleges, were later arrested by the Kasna police. But by the time Kasna police reached the spot, the local miscreants had fled from the scene. According to the police, the two foreigners were MBA students in Meerut, who wanted to join an engineering course. The incident happened when a local student greeted them with Hello Kaliya
(blackie). It had offended them and later they assaulted the local boy. A brawl ensued as some local students tried to save their class fellow. Hearing the commotion, some local people armed with firearms descended on the scene and thrashed the foreign students after firing a few shots to scare everybody. The foreign students were from Tanzania and Vietnam, the police said.
Pak spy sent to judicial custody
The Special Operation Group of the UP Police had arrested Shah, a resident of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday from the cantonment area here for allegedly spying for Pakistan. Hussain, 28, had opened an account in a bank in the cantonment area under the fictitious name of Ravi Kumar and used to send information about senior army officers and vital army installations to Pakistan through e-mail. Hussain had visited Pakistan in 2000 and after developing relations with the ISI, stayed there for three and a half years.
Four booked for cheating
The complainant has alleged that four accused, identified as Sandeep,
Rambir, Virender and Prashant Mishra, took Rs 3 lakh from the victim about one and half years ago for getting his younger brother a government
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Active participation by youths in
New Delhi, March 12 Most of them in white, some sombre, others merry, it was an expedition that saw hundreds of students take part in the 75th anniversary of the Dandi March. Organised by the NSUI, the march was a learning experience, claimed most. It was a tribute to Gandhiji and a chance for the students to do their bit for the nation. It was an opportunity for us to take part in such an initiative, which has a special mention in history. And what made it doubly rewarding was watching students join us at every step that we took, said Kuntal Krishna, spokesperson of the NSUI. The march that began with 70-odd people at Jawaharlal Nehru Universitys Sabarmati Hostel, criss-crossed the city to reach the Mahatamas final resting place, Rajghat. More than 200 students undertook the 22-km walk and no one showed signs of slowing down. In fact, even when the police tried stopping us at more than one place, we were determined to keep walking and none of the students agreed to their suggestion that we should take a bus till ITO and then proceed to walk, said Madhumita, the president of the JNU unit of the NSUI. And it was not only the young blood that walked the miles. As a mark of celebration of the famous Dandi March, the Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, flagged-off a walk at Gandhi Smriti, where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, as hundreds of Congress activists and Gandhians set out on the 2-km march that culminated at the August Kranti Udyan. This was the 75th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhis famous Dandi March. The Union Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, also joined in along with the former Union Minister, Mr Vasant Sathe. Besides, function was organised at the Raj Ghat and all 12 districts of the national Capital. Those who attended the function at the Raj Ghat included Mrs Dikshit, the DPCC President, Ram Babu Sharma, senior Congress leaders R. K. Dhawan, Ajay Maken, Tajdar Babbar, Ashok Chopra and many other senior leaders. All MPs, ex-MPs, MLAs and Municipal Councillors attended the Dandi March function. |
Meet to discuss common sports injuries
New Delhi, March 12 The focus of the workshop is to discuss common injuries like ligament sprain, hamstring and other muscle injury, ligament tear- instability, tendinitis, cartilage injury affecting different parts of the body and joints like knee, shoulder, elbow, ankle, wrist and other foot problems affecting the sports persons. It has been found that about 60-70 per cent of injuries affecting sports persons commonly can be prevented by pre-event and pre-season preparation, which includes thorough medical check up, regular physiotherapy attention, bio-mechanical check, podiatric assessment, attention to nutritional and body statistics, detailed screening of previous problem of athlete. Also, appropriate strength training, routine redressal of personal problem and regular and proper training schedule can keep the previous injuries of athlete under check. One important aspect to be discussed is to bring in regular accreditation of coaches into being, as this is very essential for the overall development of athlete and sports. The meeting will also focus on specific sports like cricket injuries, which is becoming more evident with increasing duration and number of games played by players in a very competitive environment. One such example has been our injury-struck star player with tennis elbow. The workshop will also focus on other injuries affecting fast bowlers, spinners, wicket-keepers like chronic low back pain, knee injury, hamstring and other muscle injuries. Injuries from other games like football, tennis, basketball, snooker, wrestling and hockey will also be focussed upon. Hockey is another sport where impact injury along with back problems are common. The workshop will try to address how a hockey player can prevent these injuries by using proper sports gear. |
VAT is transparent tax regime: Walia
New Delhi, March 12 We need to replace the 30-year-old rules and regulations in our country. The VAT is a transparent tax regime and traders will benefit, the Delhi Finance Minister, Dr A. K. Walia, said at a meeting, organised by the Sales Tax Bar Association here. Noting that every year five lakh people are added to the existing population of Delhi, Mr Walia said the government had to provide more services and needs adequate funds for development works and whatever we get (from VAT), would be used for the city. The Finance Minister assured traders that their concerns would be addressed when they
join hands with the government for the successful implementation of the VAT and said there was no reason for them to worry about harassment. Punishment under VAT is the same as in the sales tax law, he noted. The Member, Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mr K. Sethuraman, said the ultimate objective of the
new tax system is to avoid cascading effect of indirect taxation on final user and called for state-level reforms. |
Redressal system goes online
New Delhi, March 12 The Chief Minister said that computerisation of the department will help people make complaint from their homes. They need not visit the MCD office. They do not need either to telephone to the officer concerned. She expressed desire to make other departments like Delhi Jal Board, power, sanitation, etc online. It will expedite the work as well as transparency will also be there in the departments. She said that this agreement was signed last year in July between the MCD and the eGovernments Foundations, a non-profit making NGO. The citizens can now register their complaints through multiple system. The complaints could be sent either by login of Internet to site or by sending e-Mail to address . Besides, complaints can be lodged on phone or visiting personally at the office of Assistant Public Relation Officer in all the 12 zonal offices of the MCD as well as Headquarters (Town Hall), where the complaint forms will be available. All the complaints will be issued a tracking number which will enable him on the Internet on phone to find status of the complaint. System will also provide interactive messaging system between the citizens and the MCD officials. This system will be available round-the-clock every day. Citizens can view the status report of all the complaints in a graphical manner. The status reports would be available city, zone and MCD department-wise. |
40 cases of unfair means detected
Faridabad, March 12 While a total of about two lakh students are appearing for the Board exams through out the state this year, about 17,000 candidates are from Faridabad district. According to reports, 13 students were caught copying or were found possessing cheating material by the flying squads and the raiding parties appointed by the Board in the Faridabad sub-division, while around 27 students were booked in other sub-divisions, which included Palwal, Hathin and Hodal. A total of over 330 students were found copying through out the state yesterday. The Board has set up about 470 flying squads and Special Task Force teams in the state to check and supervise about 800 examination centres for the Secondary examination. Section 144 of the IPC has also been implemented in and around the exam centres to prevent gathering of unwanted elements, said an
official.TNS |
Tribals allege torture, exploitation
New Delhi, March 12 Tribal activists said that a large number of employment agents, some of them using self-given Christian names and religious symbols, were preying on job-seeking tribal women from Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh. Addressing newspersons here recently, lawyer Mary Scaria of the Justice and Peace Commission said case histories of hapless tribal victims had made a mockery of human rights in the national Capital. NGOs taking up the cause of working girls and women were shocked to find utter callousness among the police force. Even when we accompanied the girls to register their complaints with the police, it was with great difficulty that police stations would accept the complaints. Only in rare cases were actual FIRs filed, read a joint statement by Ms Scaria, Domestic Workers Forums Sophie and All India Catholic Union president John Dayal. There were an estimated 85,000 to 100,000 tribal women working in Delhi, most of them unmarried and less than 25 years in age, they said. We have requested the Police Commissioner to identify a senior officer of the rank of Joint Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner to sensitise the police in this regard. Ms Scaria alleged that many cases of tribal murder, suicide and fatal torture had gone untracked, unexplained and not investigated. |
Govt urged to modify admission procedure
New Delhi, March 12 In a letter to Mr Lovely, it has been pointed out that to make the process transparent, the parents should be asked to submit their application forms to the nodal officers concerned instead of approaching the schools or submitting their applications to the schools. The parents should also be asked to give three or four preferences of the schools to which they wish to get their children admitted. It should then be the duty of each nodal officer to scrutinise the applications received by him, and accordingly direct the particular school to admit the particular eligible students, said advocate Ashok Agarwal. He said the claims made by the government about the number of students admitted to various unaided schools in the past academic session, are based on the records submitted by schools, which have not been authenticated by any government
agency.TNS |
Budget session from March 15
New Delhi, March 12 Foam factory gutted:
The Fire Brigade sources said the blaze was reported at 1 p.m. following which 12 fire tenders were pressed into service. However, no casualties were reported. Short circuit could be cause of the fire, the spokesman of the Delhi Fire Service
said.TNS |
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Harbour Cottage was scheduled for demolition until local artists and businessmen converted the old building into a gallery. It now provides a permanent exhibition space in this attractive corner of the town for visitors to view the work of local artists, as well as an increasing number of artists from further afield.
Whenever you visit to the Artist's Town of Kirkcudbright there is always something to enjoy at the Harbour Cottage Gallery. An exciting and absorbing programme of events takes place throughout the year featuring exhibitions run by the gallery as well as a number of private showcases of local artists' work.
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Ferrari mull protest over Vettel's title win
Published on Nov 29, 2012 7:02 AM
(REUTERS) - Ferrari are considering whether to lodge a protest that could lead to the result of the Formula One world championship being overturned.
British and Italian media reports said Ferrari were "evaluating footage" to see if it shows Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel making an illegal overtaking move in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, where he finished sixth to clinch the title.
The German beat Ferrari's Fernando Alonso by three points to rack up his third straight drivers' title.
Ferrari are analysing television footage from Vettel's on-board camera to determine if the 25-year-old overtook Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne in an illegal area of the track.
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James Prestini notebooks, 1936-1979
Prestini, James Libero, b. 1908 d. 1993
Sculptor, Art teacher, Designer
Active in Berkeley, Calif.
Collection size: 1.0 linear ft. (7 v.)
Collection Summary: Notebooks contain primarily printed material. Included are 1 v. of photocopies of essays by Prestini, 1972-1976; 1 v. of biographical material; 1 v. of magazine articles, not in chronological order, 1949-1986; and 4 v., 1936-1980, arranged chronologically, of newspaper clippings, articles, exhibition announcements, and other printed material concerning Prestini's career.
Biographical/Historical Note: Sculptor, designer; Berkeley, California. Died 1993.
Donated 1983 by James Prestini.
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St. Petersburg-overwhelming & its just the suburbs
Trip Start
Jun 03, 2010
Trip End
Jul 02, 2010
Where I stayed
Norwegian "Sun" cruise ship
Ok, I know all of you are frightened that I am going to give you a history of St. Petersburg, well don't worry because I'm not. I'm going to give you my impressions and sometimes Sam and Danielle's impressions too.
First off today was a very long day mostly in the suburbs of St. Petersburg and some of what we saw was amazing while some of what we saw was depressing. A little history to start with, St. Petersburg was once a marsh and in order to fill it in every citizen was taxed one stone. Some of those stones are still driven and walked on to this day. I wish US taxes were paid in stones.
We started our day with a quick sightseeing tour of downtown St. Petersburg. I saw the Hermitage for the first time; it was AMAZING and HUGE. We only passed the Hermitage but we get to visit it tomorrow, I am very excited. Anyhow we made a quick stop for a couple of photo ops and then it was out to the suburb of Peterhof.
Peterhof palace—Peter the Great loved fountains. We saw fountains that looked like the sun and like a mushroom. We also saw a cascade fountain which looked like a giant checkerboard and another fountain depicted Samson killing a sea lion, really representing Peter the Great defeating the Swedish navy. The fountains come on at 11:00am to music, we arrived at the palace just before eleven and were able to and watch the fountains come on and it was awesome. The fountains came on one by one and with the palace behind the main fountains it was a majestic sight. One other fascinating fact is all of the fountains are operated by gravity, no electricity is used at all. We strolled the grounds of the palace seeing only a few of the 147 fountains Peter the Great had built.
We weren't able to go inside the palace at Peterhof but it was huge on the outside. Instead of the palace we were able to visit the home where Peter the Great stayed while the palace was being built. His home was large for just one man and it was beautifully furnished. Most of the furnishing are reproductions because during WWII almost everything in the St. Petersburg area was looted by the Nazi's and what was left after them the Soviet Union nationalized for themselves. The original fireplaces were made from porcelain imported from Holland and were used to heat the home all of the palaces we will see during our visit to St. Petersburg had similar fireplace/heating features. The hallways and interior rooms were beautiful from the floors to the ceilings it was breath taking to look at.
While we were at Peterhof we stopped for some soft serve ice cream and it was to die for, Sam who did not want any took one lick of mine and that was the last I saw of it. It was probably unhealthy for me anyhow so Sam was really just looking out for me, yea right.
Overall our first morning in Russia was great and the weather cooperated even if it was a little cool the afternoon looks to warm up with lots of sunshine. So for now luv to all Ann, Sam, and Danielle


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Free Salameh Kaileh!
At 2am on Tuesday April 24, the Palestinian-Syrian intellectual and activist Salameh Kaileh was arrested from his home "without explanation," as his lawyer Anwar Bunni of the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research put it. This is not Salameh Kaileh's first time in a Syrian prison. He was a guest of the Assad family in its several jails for eight years and eleven days in the 1990s.
Born in 1955 in Birzeit in the West Bank (Palestine), Salameh studied in Baghdad (Iraq) and Damascus (Syria). Salameh emerged out of the University of Baghdad in 1979 with a BA in Political Science, already as one of the brightest Marxist thinkers and as a brave fighter for universal freedom. His reputation would soon span across Syria, in Palestine, around the Arab world and elsewhere. He wrote many books on a variety of themes, on imperialism, on Marxism, on the limitations of the Arab nationalism movement, on globalization, on Zionism, and on the legacy of the scientific method. Some of his books (in Arabic) include Arabs and the National Question (1989), Critique of Mainstream Marxism (1990), Imperialism and the Plunder of the World (1992), Socialism or Barbarism (2001), The problems of Marxism in the Arab World (2003), and The Problem of the Arab Nationalist Movement (2005).
Although Arab Nationalism and the Arab resistance movements have received their fair share of criticism, Salameh's criticism was always from the left-wing and always constructive – it was toward building a new Left force for a freedom movement that would drink deeply from the powerful heritage of Marxism and Communism. Trenchant critiques of the Arab and Palestinian Left, as well as the Marxist Left itself, kept his allies on their toes; as the revolutionary from Guinea-Bissau Amilcar Cabral said, "tell no lies, claim no easy victories." This was the touchstone of such an intellectual and political project. Salameh's main critique of the Arab Left was that it consistently played the role of "following the other," or hitching its wagon to larger social forces such as Arab Nationalist movements and Ba'athism, which ended up discrediting the Marxist Left when these movements came to power. Their failures, in authoritarianism and repressive regimes and in accommodations with the domestic and international bourgeoisie, tarnished the heritage of the Left.
Salameh sharpened his intimate critique of Arab Nationalism and of Marxism by his simultaneous and unrelenting criticism of Western imperialism, the conservative Arab regimes, and centrally, Zionism.
Salameh went to jail in the 1990s when he renewed his criticism of the suffocation of the Ba'ath regime and its collusion with imperialism. Many have forgotten that in the Gulf War of 1991, the Syrian government participated alongside the Grand Coalition of the West against the Iraqi regime. As a gift for this participation, the West turned a blind eye to another round of reprisals by the Assad regime against its domestic opposition (as well as consolidating Syrian power in Lebanon). Salameh went to prison then.
Since his release in the late 1990s, Salameh has continued to fight for a democratic political opening in Syria and in the Arab world in general. When the first demonstration of the current phase took place on March 15, 2010, Marxists such as Salameh were right there in the thick of the struggles. The Syrian Communist Party has lain at the feet of the Assad regime since the 1960s, and has not represented the currents of genuine Marxist dissent and revolution for several generations. Many Syrian Marxists have sought, therefore, alternative platforms to struggle against the mafia-capitalism promoted by the Assad regime. In February of this year, Salameh laid out the potentiality of this uprising for the Left,
"These communists who have been taking part in the uprising believe that bringing the regime down is the main objective, and have no belief in the possibility of reform. They know that the struggle of the poor classes will continue until the replacement of the regime is made by the workers, farmers, and all the public classes, which suffer from a lack of a political representation. This is because there is no answer to their problems except through getting rid of all the liberal parties, and the collapse of the mafia-capitalist governing class, and the traditional bourgeoisie that work within the regime now and aim to control it. This capitalist mafia brought in the Baath Party and made some achievements when they first got to power, but these achievements were captured and this regime is synonymous with the capitalist mafia now. In order to achieve the goals of the uprising today, there must be a new vision based on a Marxist analysis, and that represents the interests of workers and farmers, which, in turn, can allow a new party to be set-up that would undertake a genuinely transformative programme. It is this possibility which has been opened through the uprising. Marxists therefore, must start forming the workers and farmers party, in order to establish a democratic republic, which reflects the public interest."
Interestingly Salameh, though unequivocal of his support for the Syrian revolution, has criticized for different reasons both the Syrian National Council (mainly external opposition) as well as the National Coordination Council for Democratic Change (mainly internal opposition) as not truly representing the revolutionary masses. For Salameh, these sections of the Opposition are unified by two things: neither of them trusts the capacity of the people to achieve change, and neither of them believe that the Syrian regime can be toppled by the Syrian people. The National Coordination council's call for reform and dialogue with the regime to achieve change misses the revolutionary moment and aspirations of the people. By lowering the bar, they lost the support of the masses. On the other hand, the SNC's call for military intervention also belies a lack of belief in the Syrian people to achieve change. Both of those bodies, Salameh added were composed of members who had lost faith in the capacity for revolutionary change and before the March 15th uprising, had done their best to accommodate to the 'reality' of the Syrian regime.
It is because Salameh is an independent voice and is an active presence for the future of Syria that the Assad regime decided to muzzle him in custody. That is the only explanation.
This is our statement on the career of Salameh. There is much to be said, and much more to be written. This is also an invitation for others to join us, to sign this statement of appreciation for his work, and to demand that the mafia capitalist regime of Assad immediately release Salameh.
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Please consider signing the following petition demanding the release of Salameh Kaileh and all other political prisoners: http://www.change.org/petitions/everyone-who-supports-freedom-and-justice-for-the-syrian-people-to-immediately-and-unconditionally-release-salameh-kaileh
As an activist for social justice and rights for 50 years, I urge immediate release of Salameh Kaileh. He was only arrested for holding ideas, which is not legitimate for imprisonment. Justice demands that all those of good intent, need to support the freedom of Salameh Kaileh in Syria.
Freedom for Salameh and all political prisoners in the Ba'ath dungeons!
freedom for Salemeh and for Syrian working people.
Many of us in the west support the Syrian revolution against the Ba'ath regime, and all the Arab/Muslim revolutions, we are watching carefully, as we participate in our own Occupy movements here …free Salameh Kaileh.and all political prisoners of this regime and the others as well..
Freedom forSalemeh and all other political prisoners of the criminal Assad regime!
When will we ever stop flinging people in prison for their political views? Why are we so afraid of such people?
As a veteran of the Marxist left and of opposition to Zionism and imperialism in our region, I express full solidarity with Comrade Salameh Kaileh. Down with imperialism and Zionism! Down with the oppressive Arab regimes!
As a member of Amnesty International and human right activist I join the demand to free Salameh Kaileh
I demand that the Syrian government release Salameh Kaileh and restore his full legal political rights.
Yes to freedom Salameh Kaileh! Sim liberdade para Salameh Kaileh!
"On the other hand, the SNC's call for military intervention also belies a lack of belief in the Syrian people to achieve change."
Syrian protesters were calling for a no-fly zone and other types of foreign intervention well before the formation of the SNC in October. The SNC has many flaws, but the left seems intent on criticizing it for imaginary reasons.
"It is because Salameh is an independent voice and is an active presence for the future of Syria that the Assad regime decided to muzzle him in custody. That is the only explanation."
Salameh's "independence" doesn't matter. The Assad regime imprisons, tortures and kills its adversaries from the entire political spectrum.
Of course this is news to those in the left who believe that the resistance axis was just months away from liberating Palestine before being scuttled by naive Arabs demanding an end to their oppression. Assad's Syria was never a force for good, it subjected Salameh, Dalielah and other secular intellectuals, as well as thousands of Islamists and non-political actors to the worst kinds of brutality for decades.
Yes to freedom Salameh Kaileh!
Free Salamek Kaileh and all prisoners of conscience.
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The Macpac tunnel tents can be split and carried separately. It is possible to pitch them taut if you are very careful to stake out the pole sleeve sections of the tents with symmetric tension.
The Minaret handles strong winds better than the Olympus because it is a lower profile. One person needs to be short though as it has a short and a long side.
As these tents are well-engineered, they are heavier than some models. The floor doesn't let water seep through. I often just take the fly and poles as these models are multi-pitch.
Last time I used a Minaret, I got slabs of rock and placed them strategically against panels with copious amounts of dead tussock as padding to eliminate flapping. You will need the padding to protect the tent fabric from abrasion.
A Kaitum 2 weighs about the same and gives you full length throughout the inner and a full porch and entrance and vent at each end, so I'd sooner have one of those. Having said that, the Kaitum is considerably more expensive so you damn well should get something more!
Aaah Pete you got at least 2 things more than you thought
1. The name Hilleberg
2. the looks of neighbouring hikers "he actually bought a Hilleberg"
Kind regards
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Add "price gouging" to your list. Every hurricane season provides us with an example of how some important good gets depleted quickly because vendors are prohibited from raising prices by anti-gouging laws. Gas runs out in beach communities at 10 am, as people load up, where if the price went sky high, maybe they take a couple gallons and fill up inland where supply is more plentiful. Every time I explain this to a non-believer, they get irate and would support martial law as a way of tempering consumption before they would support the price mechanism. If you ever doubt the Nazi-esque tendencies of mainstream Republicrats, just try that argument ;-). Posted April 19, 2005 1:59 PM
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> Even if you stack the deck, a substantial majority - 60% - still oppose organ/baby markets. There's just no pleasing most people. I don't know how much you can conclude from this. Being wrong in a hypothetical situation has no costs. You can hardly give an accurate answer to the hypothetical question, if you can't imagine what it would be like if the hypothetical were true. (Some people would have a hard time imagining that all non-market methods had failed.) From what I've read, a lot of people enlisted after Pearl Harbor, who would have said that they would not support entering the war even if Japan bombed a naval base they had never heard of. I suspect those people failed to imagine the impact that Pearl Harbor would have. Posted April 19, 2005 2:31 PM
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The Vapors signed to United Artists, releasing their first single, "Prisoners," at the end of 1979; it failed to chart. "Turning Japanese," the band's second single, became a major hit, reaching number three on the U.K. charts in March of 1980. New Clear Days, the band's debut album, was released two months later, which didn't sell as well as the single. In 1981, the Vapors released the more ambitious Magnets, yet it received lukewarm reviews and poor sales; the group disbanded shortly after its release. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Construction on Wheeler Field continued in the 1930s on hangars and other facilities.
- 18th Pursuit Group, Wheeler Field, 1935.
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Sunday, 25 March 2012
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
I've always meant to try The Catcher in the Rye, which seems to score so highly on lists of 'best ever' books, so the Back to the Classics challenge seemed a good opportunity.
The book follows three days in the life of a sixteen-year-old boy, Holden Caulfield, who has just been expelled from school. It is told in the first person, and is really just a peek inside his thoughts as he packs up his things, leaves his school room-mates behind and takes himself off to New York to lie low in a hotel before going back home to his parents. The strength of the novel lies not so much in what happens, but in what Holden thinks and feels about the world around him.
Holden isn't a particularly nice boy and it takes a while to warm to him. He's in that fortunately short-lived phase of life when he's too old to view the world with a child's happy acceptance, and not old enough to settle into an adult's quiet resignation. Holden finds almost every adult "phoney" and despises almost everyone he knows. He has a strong sense of injustice and refuses to settle in the way that most adults soons learn to.
But Holden does have a softer side. He was profoundly affected by the death of his younger brother, whom he loved and admired, and he has a lovely relationship with his little sister, Phoebe. He also thinks fondly of a girl he used to know back home and becomes seriously agitated when he learns that she is going on a date with his room-mate, who Holden fears will take advantage of her.
Is The Catcher in the Rye worthy of all the high praise it gets? Well, as an insight into a troubled teenage mind it is an excellent piece of writing, but personally I didn't love it. It didn't really grab me and, though it's only a short book, it took me a while to get through, simply because I couldn't summon up much enthusiasm. I would imagine that it would appeal to men more than women, as they are more likely to identify with Holden, but all that barely suppressed anger and raging hormones was not really my cup of tea. Three stars.
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I've never read it and I don't really have the desire to. I'm not a fan of insights into teenage boys' minds so whilst I can appreciate it may be well written and a modern classic, I don't think I'll enjoy it much.
ReplyDeleteI have read this a couple times, and I think I'm all set with reading it again. I'll keep it on my shelf for when my sons get older - just in case they are interested - but you are right. There are better books for me to spend my time on.
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Originally posted by AdamTM Since over the course of 3 years they've opened a second server, hired 30 more devs (more than doubling AV's staff) moved into a larger office building, and are relaunching an overhaul of the game for free? You don't do that when you're bleeding money. |
Originally posted by DavisFlight For starters by cutting out part of my post and leaving in the part I quoted you distorted my post immediately, nicely done. The success of a product or products does not define the market as a whole. 10 new theme parks could be released and all fail, but if 1) the majority of MMO gamers are in theme park MMOs (as they currently are and have been for years) then that is the main market and 2) If for every sandbox MMO that is released 10 theme park MMOs get released then you can see where the market focus is in companies. Eve is a successful sandbox, but arguable the only successful one that exists and has existed for years. Darkfall has a tiny amount of players compared to any major MMO, it truly matters not in defining the market and is a great definition of niche market by being a FFA PvP world. What YOU like does not define a market. You can love sandboxes and love to play EvE and Darkfall, but that does not change that by a massive majority the main market of MMOs right now is theme park. |
Originally posted by Jaedor That doesn't change the fact that that's the more moronic business scheme of all time and has literally never worked in 8 years. Not only that, but those numbers are NOT accurate sub numbers. Not even close. |
Originally posted by SnarlingWolf It's not about what I like, it's about profitability. Themepark MMOs, for the last 8 years, have been a one way ticket into financial failure. Meanwhile, sandbox MMOs have been the only MMOs in the last 8 years to steadily grow over time. |
Originally posted by DavisFlight Not of that had anything to do with the game growing. The new server wasn't opened because the EU one ran out of room, it opened because NA players needed a server closer to them. The relaunch was directly related to the fact that the DF needed to many fixes to make it feasible to just patch and make an expansion, and so that they could attempt to draw in more players with a better game. Tasos even said as much. Nice spin though, but your wrong. |
Originally posted by DavisFlight Your random picking of part of a post while leaving the whole post that it quoted in is fascinating. You need to look up what markets mean. You hate theme parks, we get it. But until there are more games/players involved in sandbox MMOs vs theme park MMOs then theme parks remain as the main market in MMOs. There is no arguing that, there is no opinion on that. That is how it works. You can also have the main market overcrowded, which is what many people feel the theme park MMO market is, but again it doesn't make it not the main market. |
Originally posted by DavisFlight Only one subscription based sandbox has grown, and that is EVE. UO, who knows, but it sure isn't gaining subs. MO and DF both have steadilly lost subs sinse their release, that's a fact. |
Originally posted by Uhwop So how do you explain the free overhaul? Or the 30 new developers? If Darkfall never grew, how did they afford the new office? The relaunch? Your story doesn't add up. Mine does. |
Originally posted by Uhwop MO has because it's a joke. Darkfall has not. It has flucuated but has overall gone up. |
Originally posted by DavisFlight I only ran a succesfull small business for over a decade, and at an age when most guys are still trying to figure out how to talk to women. I'm pretty sure I know EXACTLY how business works from the ground up. No your story doesn't add up because the guy in charge of the game has said the complete opposite of what you're saying. All of AV's money is got through defense contracts with Greece, learn a little bit about the company your cheerleading. |
Originally posted by Uhwop @Uhwop....DavisFlight's logic is fairly straight forward. What about your "experience" of running your own small business leads you to believe AV hasn't grown if they've hired 30 more developers etc etc? |
Originally posted by DavisFlightEve is growing by 50k subs every 6 month in a linear fashion since its launch. It has currently ~350k subs (2012). At that rate, it will reach notability (2M subs, ~10% of the market) in 2028, when I can probably buy a real spaceship. Afaik, Darkfall has ~10k subs tops. Growing, maybe, significant any time soon? nope. Even if they would manage to double their subs every 3 years, they still wouldn't reach notability by the time everyone of us is dead. Steadily growing isn't doing them any good if there is a peak like WoW experienced in 2011. We can now say with confidence that the market for "classic" or "traditional" MMOs (both DF and WoW fall into this category) is roughly 22 Million (source: MMODATA.net), there just isn't more fresh subscriptions to be had, and the competition for subs is on. 350k subs just isn't a large part of the cake. Even if you take all the major sandboxes together (EVE, Perpetuum, DF, MO, DS etc.) you get not more than maybe 500k. Since the competition is already been going on for a while and the growth of sanbox is essentially glacial, I don't see this as a large market to be tapped anytime soon. Also please don't forget that operating costs of MMOs don't scale as well as your revenue. |
Originally posted by DavisFlight They convinced some investors to throw money at them? Stranger things have happen. Alganon has an expansion coming too. How do you explain THAT? |
Originally posted by DavisFlight really? DDO is putting out a new expansion. LOTRO is still running. DCUO is adding content. wait .. wow just released an expansion. What financial failure? |
Originally posted by SneakyRussian AV has defense contracts with Greece, that's how they afford to do things with a game that isn't making them money. No one redevelopes a game because it steadily grows, you do it when it's failing. Their ability to do that has nothing at all to do with the game. They do not just make games. |
Originally posted by SneakyRussian I dont have experience of business and shit, but I've heard about this Project Copernicus and that little company called Big Huge Games that released their game, got shitty sales then started "expanding" their business to make an MMO. Afaik everyone knows how that ended. |
Originally posted by Uhwop Haha wow, nice fiction there bud. The deals with the Greek defense happened in 2006, 3 years before Darkfall launched. It was a one time thing. Do you honestly believe the Greek MILITARY funded the office, the game, and the new developers? You honestly believe that, your fantastical story that has NO EVIDENCE, against what the devs have said themselves? |
Originally posted by AdamTM That's funny, because not only is that not even CLOSE to when happened with Project Copernicus, but it's not even remotely relavent to what's happening in Darkfall. 37 Studios got funding from Rhode Island to make an MMO. They worked on the MMO for about 4-5 years. Another studio was developing a singleplayer RPG on their own. 37 Studios bought the singleplayer RPG studio and had them reskin the game so that it was in the same world/IP as the MMO they were making. The singleplayer game released and did really well. The MMO was delayed again. Finally, they just ran out of money. Darkfall on the other hand, was an MMO that was created on a budget of 1,000,000 dollars. They made a profit off of it so they reinvested it into their own company, to hire 30 more devs, get a bigger office, and overhaul the game. Now that they had the experience and staff to make the game how they always wanted, they could afford an overhaul. That could not have happened if Darkfall was a financial failure. Understand now? |
Originally posted by Jaedor True and this idea was obviously shared by other developers and/or thier investors because we've gotten a handful of MMOs, similar to WoW's model, in the last year. What happened to them? Downsized and either swimming to F2P shores or struggling. WoW's model only works for WoW. Rift has successfully taken a small chunk or gained their own but each of the others (swtor, tera, tsw) have obviously not. Not as much as they needed to get by anyway. I'm not that they aren't good games it's just the model they follow draws a quick in and out reaction from a majority of the players. That's why I think, or agree with others of like mind, that the next wave of successful MMOs will be social sandbox titles that offer the full combat system you get now with tools to make you feel like part of the gameworld. Does "successful" mean a gagillion subs? No but a good MMO should grow over time. |
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I highly recommend this tour. The views are exceptional. Everyone is friendly.
It was a very long day, but well worth it. Everything went according to plan.
This was a great tour. All driver and guides were there to meet us at all destionations when we arrived. Lunch was wonderful!
The tour was great and everything went smoothly.
This tour rates a 5 with us because of the excellent care we received from the first people who picked us up at 3:00 a.m. to get us to the bus, to the last person who picked us up at the bus terminal at 9:00 p.m. The young lady who took care of us in Paracus was wonderful, the Ballestas Island tour was great, the lunch was lovely, the bus was very comfortable. Our only complaint is that the Japanese pilot who flew us over the lines only spoke Japanese and ignored us when we asked for explanations in English. I know that all pilots have to know how to speak English, but he didn't make an effort. The airline should know that they had some unhappy Americans on the trip.
Although it was an exhausting day, the trip was amazing.
This was a great tour but an extremely long day and exhausting. We left the hotel at 3am and returned at 9pm. Were I to do it again, I would stay in Paracas for a few days to break up the trip. The bus was FAR FROM luxury and the breakfast served on the way and the "snack" served on the way back were disgusting. The breakfast beverages offered were coke and Inka Cola, but I was glad that they also had water.
I was not that taken with the Ballestas Islands although the boat was very nice. The flight over the Nasca Lines, however, was spectacular. Our guide was kind, pleasant and competent. He tried very hard to speak good English and had to be awarded an A for effort and success. Our lunch was also very nice in a pretty setting.
This trip was awesome. A very early pickup (3:10am) but the company made sure we knew exactly the time, etc.
They took great care of us, there were guides at every stop. The islands were beautiful, and the Nazca lines were wonderful. We had to wait a bit, but we were comfortable. We were late getting back from the lines, and had to eat our lunch, via box lunch on the bus back, but no problem. The bus was nice and had refreshments, etc.
We got back on timE, and had time to catch a 1am flight.
I highly recommend this trip!
The bus was a luxurious coach with reclining seating-wonderful. Waiting for the local transport lost uys some time, which only left us 30 minutes to eat the lunch. A Great Day though.
Every step of the trip there was someone to hand us a bus ticket, show us where to go, where to eat. The tour was wonderful. It fulfilled a lifelong dream. We had a good view of the Nasca Lines. One hint: it is better to just look at the lines. If you try to photograph them, you will miss part of the experience.The Ballestas Islands were also wonderful - so much animal life. The guide was knowledgeable and pointed out examples of each bird and mammal we saw.
Fabulous tour, great transportation. The Ballestas Islands were worth the price alone. A once in a lifetime experience.
It was such a long day but well worth it. A visit to the Ballestas Islands and the flight were well coordinated. Lunch was supplied and the bus trip was excellent, so comfortable with snacks supplied. Maybe take something to settle your stomach before the flight as you are doing alot of turns to enable you to see all the lines. A great experience.
So wonderful I may not even need to see Galapagos.
Although it is a long coach journey, the coach is very comfortable and you can sleep. Simple meals are provided on the coach. The Ballestas islands have amazing wildlife and we also saw whales while on that trip. There are good views of the Nazca lines (worth seeing) and the lunch was good as well.
This is a fantastic one-day trip from Lima to see the Nazca Lines. I was traveling by myself and every detail was taken care for me. The bus ride to Pacaracas was great for sleeping until you got there. I was met by a guide as soon as I disembarked at the station. The Ballestas Islands are amazing with how close you get to the wildlife. Then I was taken to the airport for my flight to see the Nazca Lines which were incredible! After the flight, off to a beautiful resort for lunch poolside, looking at the ocean. Then I headed for the bus back to Lima. Incredibly well organized and a perfect way to add the Nazca Lines when you don't have much time.


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