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The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language.
In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance, as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms-Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.
The historical domain that is the principal concern of this book, in chronological terms, roughly coincides with the "long" nineteenth century, or the period spanning the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the outbreak of the First World War. As noted in the introduction, this time in European history is characterized-among very many other things, to be sure-by pronounced uncertainty, volatility, and multiplicity in the ways in which religions were identified and categorized. The task at hand is to demarcate this domain provisionally by marking its outer limits, as it were, and this task will be approached from several directions. The chapter begins in section 1 with a snapshot of what came immediately after this period, then moves back in time in section 2 to offer a rough sketch of what preceded it, and concludes in section 3 with a brief look at a few examples dating from the first half of the nineteenth century that testify to the erosion-thus adumbrating the eventual collapse-of the previous, long regnant system of classification.
1. "World Religions" in the Age of World Wars
We begin with a glance at the moment when the term "world religions" in the English language came to be commonly used in more or less the same sense-and for more or less the same purpose-that we employ it today. Because there was a visible increase in the publication of books on this general topic, one might make a preliminary judgment that the 1920s and early 1930s mark something of a watershed. As we shall see, this is also the period when something closely resembling today's world religions courses began to appear in college curricula in North America.
Considering that the period in question came in the wake of one devastating world war and coincided with an uneasy calm before another, it may seem unsurprising that the literature from those years on any topic should be fraught with a heightened sense of crisis. Yet why should the study of religion and the topic of "the religions of the world" be particularly tied to this period of crisis? Arguably, the earliest instance in which the first global war was rendered in print specifically as a religious crisis may be Stanley A. Cook's The Study of Religions. In the preface, dated September 1914, the author states:
This book was prepared and written in the conviction that there was an impending crisis in religious thought. The finishing touches to the last proofs were given at the beginning of a war which will mark an epoch in history. While it had not been doubtful that a very distinctive stage in the development of thought was at hand, this war will have a significance, which one can hardly conceive, for ideas and ideals, for conceptions of humanity, righteousness, culture, and progress, and for religious, ethical, and related problems of life and thought.
Whether his pronouncement should be judged as truly prescient or merely as an early appearance of a cliché, the intuition expressed by this author seems to have endured for decades thereafter. In the meantime, the sentiment only gained strength that the study of religions (in the plural) was an especial exigency of modernity, that is, modernity as an experience fraught with novelty and violence. Two of the earliest books bearing "world religions" in their titles-with "religions" again in the plural-share this sentiment, as the nearly identical titles themselves make obvious: one is called Modern Tendencies in World Religions (1933), and the other, Modern Trends in World-Religions (1934). The prevailing mood of these books is that the whole world is undergoing a profound transformation utterly unlike any other in history. At the same time, it is also implied that an adequate appreciation and comprehension of this transformation is possible only from a widely panoramic, indeed imperially global, perspective. The opening paragraph of the first volume announces:
One who is awake to what is happening in the big world outside his own limited section of it finds tangible evidence every day in his newspaper that humanity everywhere is amove. Here political revolution, there economic upheaval, yonder an intellectual awakening! Something interesting seems to be happening anywhere he turns his attention. "How fares religion amid all this change?" is a question that must occur many times to one who is interested in the faiths of mankind.
As the author goes on to qualify, his point here is not that religion had never changed in earlier times but rather that the nature and the magnitude of change occurring in the present era is unprecedented. This sentiment is echoed exactly by the opening paragraph of the other volume:
Change has always been characteristic of living religions. For religion is not an abstraction. It has vital significance only as it is deeply rooted in the moving processes of folk life.... But in all past ages the drift of religions into new forms has been relatively slow and dignified. It was a process of modernizing a traditional heritage rather than a radical reorientation. Today the great historic religions are compelled to come to terms with revolutionary forces unknown to any earlier era.... It may be that religions of the world are in this generation passing through the greatest transformation of all time. The age-old search of men for a satisfying life-fulfillment ... is now assuming a new embodiment so strikingly different from the old as to appear to the shocked eyes of the orthodox, if not an abandonment of religion, at least a betrayal of the fundamentals. However religion may be defined it could not now remain static and still continue to be a vital phase of culture. Only dead religions, safely remote from the turbulent stream of human living, could escape change in this age of altered thought-forms, enlarged desires, new hopes, and novel problems.
The prose of both these texts is vibrant with the pulse of the present. There is a feeling of great urgency as religions everywhere are said to face unprecedented radical challenges from without. We witness here the great religions of the world precipitously rising to the field of common discourse as something eminently alive, that is, as "living" religions, very much present among us, if not in our own immediate neighborhood then elsewhere in the very same world we live in. And if the living religious traditions are thus multiple, what ushers them all to the common moment of great crisis is one and the same: modernity. In short, what makes "world religions" imaginable and palpable as an objective reality is something like a new sensibility of global awareness, a sense of immediacy of the far and wide world.
What gave particular urgency to this new perception of the increasingly global reality was that the news coming from afar was on balance not very good; certainly by the 1930s there was a growing sense of an impending, or perhaps already unfolding catastrophe. Indeed, a few years earlier, in 1929, a book entitled Christianity and Some Living Religions of the East was issued, which opened with an even more pronounced tone of alarm:
It has become a platitude to say that the earth is now a very small place. Secure and speedy means of communication, the cable and the wireless, have taken from distance much of its meaning. Our newspapers bring to our breakfast table the news of the whole world. Not only are we at once informed of the events of other lands; we are ourselves dependent on them. A failure of the monsoon in India reacts on the prosperity of Lancashire. A crime committed in Sarajevo involved in the miseries of a world-war peoples who before had not even heard of that remote Bosnian town. The success of the young Turks brought Europe once again to the brink of conflict, whilst the civil strife in China has been watched with anxiety by many in Europe who rightly saw in it the possibilities of fresh international disaster. Without peace there can be no security, and peace depends not on one nation but on all. We cannot, if we would, restrict our interests to our own country for the events of any country are the concern of all.
Here, again, a precipitous plunge into uncanny awareness of the global is the opening move of a world religions text. In fact, all three of these books seem to persuade their readers at the outset that one should want to acquire, and acquire quickly, a sweeping knowledge of the multiplicity of religions in the world because a new techno-geopolitics was unfolding dramatically before one's eyes, and it was vitally necessary to come to terms with this strangely brave new world, indeed with a brand new sense of the world itself. The new vision of the world was a necessary consequence of violent globalization in the form of colonialism and the explosive expansion of so-called free trade, as these were the principal means through which the West had become connected, inextricably linked with the whole world. At the same time, in this novel state of global connectedness, the West suddenly found itself to be not so much in masterly control as perilously vulnerable, as it found its own state of well-being inexorably dependent on unseen and unknown realities as remote as a village halfway across the planet. In order to avert real dangers that lurked everywhere, far-reaching attention was urgent, gathering of global intelligence essential. It may be said, therefore, that in the decades following the First World War, world religions discourse unseated an earlier obsession with primitive, prehistoric, or rudimentary religions. Not only did the surging interest in the immediate present supplant the search for the distant, possibly irrecoverable, moment of the origin of religion, there also was a new, or renewed, appreciation of the fact that the time-honored great religions of the world had already gone through many processes of radical transformation, even if the past transformations had been "relatively slow and dignified" by comparison. Of utmost interest now were each tradition's resiliency, adaptability, and sheer vitality for survival and growth in the face of the rising tide of modernization and increasing global competition.
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In contrast to the great world religions, each with its own history, primitive religions lacked interest at this time because, supposedly, primitive religions had experienced little historical transformation. The following statement from the introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of History may be cited as a prototype of this line of thought. After a brief discussion concerning the total absence of political constitution, the presence of cannibalism, and other curious features of the African continent, Hegel concludes:
At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit. Historical movements in it-that is in its northern part-belong to the Asiatic or European World. Carthage displayed there an important transitionary phase of civilization; but, as a Phoenician colony, it belongs to Asia. Egypt will be considered in reference to the passage of the human mind from its Eastern to its Western phase, but it does not belong to the African Spirit. What we properly understand by Africa, is the Unhistorical, Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of mere nature, and which had to be presented here only as on the threshold of the World's History.
Clearly, a tacit understanding among those who felt themselves to be riding the crest of the historical wave was that primitive peoples of Africa and elsewhere- brittle and unmalleable remnants of the past as they were, hitherto untouched and untested by time-were doomed to extinction in the near future, whether this process was to be through actual obliteration of the population or through irreversible assimilation into another, more developed mode of existence, whether this anticipated outcome was to be celebrated or lamented. Primitive religions thus abdicated their place of prominence in the study of religion and gave way to the great historical religions of the world. Henceforth cultic practices that were not part of the world historical movement came to be treated primarily in a cognate field specializing in the study of the prehistoric and the primitive called "anthropology of religion." This new arrangement notwithstanding, "primitive religion," though somewhat demoted, did not disappear entirely from the new mapping. To the extent that the world religions discourse aspired to embody the impartial principle of global coverage, many historians of religion were reluctant to endorse a summary dismissal of the minor and the inchoate, and hence they sought and found a way to accommodate the little traditions of tribal societies in the new epistemic regime. When these minority traditions came to be included in the scope of world religions, it was under a generic rubric, now named "primal," "tribal," "indigenous," or "preliterate" religions, distinguished from, but still kept adjacent to, ancient and prehistoric religions. We see this arrangement succinctly expressed by Jack Finegan in The Archaeology of World Religions (1952):
There are many living religions in the world today. In addition to the more prominent systems of belief and practice cherished by groups which have long recorded histories of political or numerical importance, there are the numerous forms of faith found among preliterate peoples in various parts of the earth. If the latter may be dealt with collectively under the heading of "primitivism" the major religions of the present world are at least twelve.
One may reasonably ask why, in the case of preliterate peoples alone, their "faith" can be "dealt with collectively" as a generic type, whereas all other "forms of faith" are treated individually as historically unique and specific traditions. The convention of summarily treating "primitivism," under whatever name, is now more or less routine, such that an explicit justification for this peculiar arrangement is not to be found unless one looks into some early-twentieth-century texts. In a book published in 1904, John Arnott MacCulloch (1868-1950), for instance, blithely opines that "the aspects of savage religion do not vary greatly wherever it is found," and on that ground, he suggests, a general treatment of them as a type would "ensure a better acquaintance with religion at a low level than a separate account of each savage race would do." As we shall see, this handling of "primitivism" is analogous to the way an older system of classifying religions dealt with the myriad varieties of paganism or idolatry.
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Setting aside for the moment the peculiar problem of "primitivism," the twelve living religions of the world enumerated by Finegan are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and primitivism. While Finegan's text is from a later decade (1950s), the formation of the list itself seems more or less contemporaneous with the three titles discussed above. Indeed, the list is virtually identical to the one in Robert Ernest Hume's trend-setting volume, The World's Living Religions (1924). It is in fact exactly the same as the one in John Clark Archer's Faiths Men Live By (1934). The latter volume may be the first world religions textbook specifically designed for a liberal arts college course. Archer, who was Hoober Professor of Comparative Religion at Yale University, notes that the book was "written primarily to provide the author's students with a coherent, comprehensive guide to their study of the living faiths," designed to serve "college upper classmen, theological students and general students of religion," and "intended for a full year's course, three hours weekly." The volume comes complete with "A Students' Manual" (or what would be called today "study questions") and "Collateral Readings," an indication that by the 1930s, if not earlier, a curriculum in comparative religion had been duly established in some of the leading American universities. Just as significant is the indication that, concurrently, something like a standard list of "living religions" had come into existence with this curricular development.
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1. World Religions in the Academy Today
2. The Discourse on Religion as a Discourse of Othering
3. A Synoptic Overview
4. Writing History in the Age of Theory: A Brief Discourse on Method
Part 1
Chapter 1: "The Religions of the World" before "World Religions"
1. "World Religions" in the Age of World Wars
2. Early Modern Taxonomy, or the Order of Nations
3. Before the Birth of Science
Chapter 2: The Legacy of Comparative Theology
1. Two Pioneers: Frederick Denison Maurice and James Freeman Clarke
2. Strategies for Representation
3. A Critic: Charles Hardwick
4. The Variety of Parascientific Comparativism
Part 2
Chapter 3: The Birth Trauma of World Religions
Chapter 4: Buddhism, a World Religion
1. Before Buddhism
2. Europe Discovers Buddhism
3. Buddhism and the Future of Europe
Chapter 5: Philology and the Discovery of a Fissure in the European Past
1. The Discovery of the Indo-European Past
2. The Birth of Comparative Grammar
3. The Supremacy of Inflection
4. The Essential Nature of the Semitic: Ernest Renan
Chapter 6: Islam, a Semitic Religion
1. The Problem of Islam for Premodern and Early Modern Europe
2. The Problem of Semitism and Aryanism for Nineteenth-Century Europe
3. Islam, the Arab Religion: Abraham Kuenen
4. Sufism, an Aryan Islam: Otto Pfleiderer
Chapter 7: Philologist Out of Season: F. Max Müller on the Classification of Language and Religion
1. The Aristocracy of Book Religions
2. On the Possibility of the Common Origin of Languages
3. The Trouble with the Turanian
4. The Real Trouble with the Turanian
5. A Tale of Two Burnoufs
Part 3
Chapter 8: Interregnum: Omnibus Guide for Looking toward the Twentieth Century
1. Bequest of the Nineteenth Century: The Sacred Books of the East, 1879-1910
2. The World's Parliament of Religions, 1893
3. Amateur Interests Have Their Say: Private Foundations and Endowed Lectureships
4. Colonial Self-Articulation
5. Transitional Systems
Chapter 9: The Question of Hegemony: Ernst Troeltsch and the Reconstituted European Universalism
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The Musician's How-to Series Presents... ORGANIZING To Maximize Your Time by Marty Buttwinick (SAMPLE) SONATA PUBLISHING CALIFORNIA This is an excerpt from the title: HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A MUSICIAN So You Never Have To Have A Day Job Again! ISBN 0-9642529-6-1 What the trades say about "How To Make A Living As A Musician"... "...remarkably thorough... ...he delivers worthy advice concerning matters that we musicians tend to think we're too cool to confront." GUITAR PLAYER magazine "...a practical guide to earning a steady income with real-world general-business gigs..." BASS PLAYER magazine "This book should be in every budding musician's library..." L.A. JAZZ SCENE "The outstanding feature of the book is the extremely high level of detail in every section..." MIX BOOKSHELF ©1993 & 2000 Marty Buttwinick. All Rights Reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced in any form, or by any means without the written permission of the copyright holder. Sonata Publishing, P.O. Box 250790 Glendale, CA 91255-0790 USA http://www.sonatapublishing.com, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone/Fax: (818) 242-5551 Introduction There is more to being a musician than fingering notes on an instrument. There are the subtleties of group interaction; musicianship; repertoire; the business side, if you are a professional; and many additional subjects. The Musicians' How-to Series consists of short- to medium-length booklets/articles about a variety of music-related topics. This series provides musicians and singers with supplemental information that for the most part isn't taught in schools, and might or might not be learned on one's own or from a private instructor. Much of this information has never before been in print. Organizing To Maximize Time shows you just that. These time-proven techniques can help you with goal planning, time management, priority setting, handling distractions and more. Want more gigs? Want to get the original scene moving more quickly? Want to start making more money playing music? This info can help you speed the way to your musical goals. MB Table of Contents What is Organization? Getting Organized Activities that Need Doing and Scheduling Programs and to-do Lists Activity Organizing Sequence Scheduling and Time Management Schedule Irregularities Physical Organizational Basics Object Placement Paperwork Basic Filing Needs Computers Phone Numbers Chart Organization Summary 1 2 2 3 3 5 5 7 7 7 8 10 10 10 10 Organizing To Maximize You Time What is Organization? Organization consists of coordinating activities, things and people so you can achieve your goals. Whether you're filing papers, arranging rehearsal schedules or spending time with your relatives on Saturdays, some degree of efficient planning needs to occur. Priorities must be set, schedules need to be made, other people need to be worked with and things need to get done. The more you do, or want to do, the more organized you need to be. People natively have varying degrees of organizational talents and tolerances. Some people enjoy organizing while others don't. Some love to make future plans while others would much rather do anything else. Well, the bottom line is, you organize and plan as much as you need to get and keep the show on the road the way you want. Organizing can keep activities stable and expanding. I've worked with people who are very organized, and people whose lives are like hurricane wreckage. I've also worked with people who think they are incapable of organizing, when they're just not-organized. It's not always a matter of being unorganized but a matter of either just not knowing how, or not spending the time to organize. Time is a little culprit that cuts across everybody's life in one way or another. Too much time, not enough time—and is there really enough time to do it all? This entire chapter aligns with the time factor quite well. Organizing - 1 The English word "time" comes from an ancient word daimen, which means to part, or divide up. Three Webster's Dictionary definitions of the word "time" that pertain are: 1. A known, fixed, or anticipated period of existence or duration. 2. A period set apart in some specified or implied way from others. 3. The length of the period required in performing an action or going over a course. Did you ever not get things done because you didn't have enough time? Well, according to these three definitions you could propose that either: (1) you didn't have enough known, fixed or anticipated periods to do things in, (2) you didn't have enough activities correctly coordinated with each other, or (3) the length of the periods required to do what was needed was too long—so you didn't have enough time! Well, if these things amount to not having enough time, might implementing these things in your life create more time? Much of this article addresses these points. If you had five things to do and did them all you had enough time. If you had five things to do and couldn't get them done you didn't have enough time, or were just being lazy. By organizing you not only create smooth flowing activities—but actually create the time in which to do them. Check it out—it works for me. Getting Organized GOAL ALIGNMENT PLANNING PRIORITIES SCHEDULING DISCIPLINE ORGANIZING PHYSICAL OBJECTS Many success stories come from goal setting and efficient follow-through. Once you've worked out your goals, plans and priorities you need to start scheduling your life. Activities that Need Doing and Scheduling Here is an overview of the things that need doing to really have all bases covered. There are more topics than the ones I mention, but this will give you the idea. Not all of these items need to be constantly addressed, and certain things might not pertain to you at the moment. (38 Items) Programs and To-do Lists A program is a series of steps designed to get you to the goal. You could have a program to get your band working, find more work as a musician, or whatever it is you need to do. Depending on the magnitude of the activity, a program can be long or short, simple or involved. Programs are the steps that bring your plans to reality. Organizing - 2 Some example programs are: A "Get More Gigs" program for an individual could be: 1. Call all my musician friends and let them know I want more gigs, and tell them what kind of gigs I'm looking for. Get some leads and follow them up. 2. Register with a referral agency and go look at the union bulletin board. 3. Practice a lot so I'm ready for any upcoming auditions. 4. Clean my gear and get my amp fixed. 5. Look for gigs every day until I have enough work. A program can have five steps or twenty-five steps, depending on how involved things are. The idea is to have a series of very specific things to do that can be completed and marked off as DONE. Once all the steps are completed, the program should have a specific end-result, such as "A Clean House," or "A Month of Booked Gigs." Then you have a completed program... and you do another. If you're used to "getting more gigs" you probably don't need to make a list. If you've been through the motions dozens of times there might not be the need. You don't need to organize for the sake of organizing. But if what you're doing involves many steps, or you're squeezing another activity into a busy schedule, or are unfamiliar with what's happening—make a list. The idea is to program things that can be done in a relatively short period of time and knock them out.... ... After aligning goals, making plans and drawing up programs, the next step is to get everything scheduled into your daily life. Activity Organizing Sequence Since the whole reason for organizing is to get things done, whatever paperwork methods you use should promote that result. Getting things done is what matters. If you successfully do what you've planned, chances are your paperwork methods work for you. If you don't do what you've planned, chances are they don't. There are many ways to create daily and weekly to-do lists, and the following example is just one out of many possibilities. This planning sequence is best done either at the end of a week or at the very beginning of a week. This way you get your life set-up to go, and can just go for it without thinking about what to do next. Organizing - 3 STEP 1 Have on hand all of your paperwork, including your goals, programs, ideas and projects. Look it all over to get the big picture. Get More Gigs Program 1. Call everyone for gigs 2. Register with an agency 3. Practice daily - learn tunes 4. Make new biz cards 5. Sit in at 3 jams 6. Repeat 1,3 & 5 till working 3 gigs a week Clean House Program 1. Put everything away 2. Dust everything 3. Vacuum rugs & clean floors 4. Clean the windows 5. Clean dog run 6. Clean & fix heater Misc. Stuff 1. Get new tires 2. Send present to Aunt 3. Send off resumes 4. Take canine to vet 5. Fix closet shelves 6. Post office - stamps 7. Arrange for picnic 8. Do two auditions 9. Call those two agents 10. Rearrange bookshelves Goals Markets Ideas Plans Research STEP 2 You can list items by basic subjects: You can list items by types of activities: You can list items by complete subjects: The idea is to clearly define the exact activities you will do in the time period of one week. The more precise your activities are, the easier it will be to schedule things into your life and get them DONE—not just thought about or "tried to do."... Organizing - 4 STEP 3 Take your weekly list of things-to-do and write them in some kind of daily or weekly calendar. Depending on how busy you are, you might or might not need to write in specific times for everything. I usually need to. The idea is to start with any preset activities, like work or gigs, and schedule things around those. If you don't have any preset activities, take one thing, schedule that in, then align things around that. Monday Tuesday New tires Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 8 9 10 11 Register with 12 an agency Call agents Call printers 1 2 3 WORK 4 5 6 Bank 7 Shop Finances 8 Personal calls 9 Gig calls Gig calls Gig calls 10 Practice Practice Practice 11 12 Bizcard ideas Practice Audition Vet Post ofc Fix heater Picnic Audition Practice Gig calls Practice Jam session Date Practice STEP 4 Throughout the week adhere to your schedule.... Every activity you do has a purpose to it. The intention you have for what you want to do will affect how much you work—or do anything. Nothing happens unless you intend it to happen, and underlying that is the decision for something to be. This viewpoint is very important to remember, and operate from. STEP 5 Five Step Organizing Sequence—Summary 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Organizing - 5 Scheduling and Time Management Even if your planning is beautiful, fitting everything into you're schedule could be difficult. If you have lots of free time, when to do things might not be a problem. But, if you're pretty busy to begin with and have trouble fitting things into your schedule, here is a trick might help. Start with a time-overview of all your personal and business activities to see exactly how much time you actually spend on what you already do; then you can get an idea of how much time you could spend on new activities. (The example I use is strictly made up and you obviously have to put your own life into the equation.) The sequence is: ... Schedule Irregularities Have you ever made a great schedule that was destroyed because of some kind of interruption? This is often the most frustrating thing about life. You plan it out so everything fits and WHAM... • Your car breaks down, you lose three hours of your day and get backlogged. • You stay up too late watching TV or talking to a friend on the phone, so you have to sleep in and miss those "extra" activities you've been wanting to do. • You finally get the night off to learn some tunes or practice and a friend you haven't seen in four years drops by. • Your best friend's boyfriend broke up with her and she calls every day crying hysterically for two weeks. • You volunteered a few hours a week to some activity, and it became six. And there goes the schedule, and very often your new "business." Here are some tricks to help with distractions, interruptions and emergencies. DISTRACTIONS After many years of fighting with distractions, I've realized that they can always be there. There can always be something to distract you from what you really want to do unless you live an isolated life, or a life without much activity. Here are some ways to handle them: 1. Control them... 2. Ignore them. 3. Work around it. Keep in mind that the object of efficient planning is to do the things that will take you from point A to point B. You need to determine what must be done to pull the whole thing off. That's why you need personal policy—policy keeps you on track. It can take one person three weeks to accomplish the same as it takes another person one week. An individual has a choice of how long it takes to get things accomplished, it's your choice to get a lot done, or a little done... I mention this because some people don't make it simply because they don't work hard enough at it. Unfortunately society rewards those who don't work (welfare) and penalizes those who do Organizing - 6 (taxes); and many people are raised with the idea that "Well, it'll get done somehow, I think I'll take a nap." What is that famous quote, "Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration?" It's true. The point is: you can do whatever it takes to get the job done, you just have to want to enough and go at it. The following two diagrams demonstrate two extremes of going A – B. Inefficient Got sick & had to start again Another 3 days off Got distracted again A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 B Too much TV Couldn't find the paperwork Extra hanging oops! not my goal Efficient A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 B As you can see, the person in the first example might or might not ever make it to point B. You need to do what it takes, or not. It's all in the decision and the implementation. EMERGENCIES (How to handle) Emergency: a sudden, generally unexpected occurrence or set of circumstances demanding immediate action. [Webster's Dictionary] UNFINISHED THINGS Speaking of unfinished things—accumulated unfinished projects, communications and activities can slow you down like a huge weight wrapped around your neck. No fun. If you're moving a little slow, despite everything looking good, this might be the culprit at the bottom of it all. Anyone can "acquire" a number of started, yet unfinished activities, even if something was started by just being written down or by having too many unreturned phone calls. Organizing - 7 The solution: 1. 2. ...Organizing one's life to pursue personal goals, especially when working full time, is a skill that can require practice. You don't become perfect all at once. You need to gradiently (step-by-step) get a little bit accomplished, then a little more, then a little more... You are able and you are capable of doing whatever you want.... ...If your goals are real and you are actively pursuing them you should be alive with activity. If you are not pursuing your true goals, or if you have true goals that are being neglected you can be tired and lifeless. I think the happiness that comes with true goal achievement sounds more fun. Physical Organizational Basics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Object Placement The two main reasons you need to be physically organized are: (1) so you can do what you need to do without wasting time looking for things, and (2) not be stopped from doing the things you want because you can't find something. Daydreams don't need a filing cabinet unless you're a writer needing to keep track of potential material. But when you have the physical objects of a business activity involved, they need to be organized or you could find yourself not being able to function.... Paperwork Some people love it, and some people hate it. It doesn't really matter because you have to do it anyway. Because of the love/hate thing it's very important to set up your files, records and to-do lists in a fashion that works for you. Files and records aren't any good if you don't use them. As I go through some paperwork essentials, keep in mind that you need to get set up for yourself. Organizing - 8 In-Basket: A basket, tray or file folder where you put items that you get, but still have to be looked at, like your mail that you pull out of the mail box then plop down on the kitchen table. Your kitchen table, at that point in time is an "In-Basket." Pending-Basket: A basket, tray or file folder where you put things that you've looked at, or started in some way, but cannot be dealt with immediately. There's still something to do with it. Out-Basket: A basket, tray or file folder containing things which have been dealt with, and are now ready for their next action, i.e., being mailed, filed or tossed. Whether you use trays, file folders or whatever, the idea is to have some order to the paperwork that comes your way so you don't get clogged. It's always best to actually take care of the "thing" in your hand, as it is in your hand. Need to file something? File it. Need to send out a package? Do it now. But since we don't always do that, In, Out and Pending areas are very efficient. Did you ever end up with a stack of mussed up papers, bills, and things in a drawer and couldn't find anything? No fun. Basic Filing Needs What determines how many files you have..., is how many files you need. The following are some common, music-oriented files: SALES ORIENTED FILES: Anything to do directly with the gigs themselves. Contracted Gigs: Signed contracts that you have received from a client. Pending Contracts: Any paperwork on "for sure" gigs that have loose ends. Hot Prospects: Good leads that could easily turn into gigs. Prices: How much you charge for different situations. Driving time? Overtime? MANAGEMENT ORIENTED FILES: Anything dealing with running the band. Plans and Ideas: Game plans, ideas, lists of things to do, etc. Legal Papers: Fictitious name statements, anything legal. Receipts: Printing, supplies, equipment purchases and rentals, travel costs. SUPPLIES : ... MARKETING ORIENTED FILES:... MASTERS: ... MISC. FILES: ... THINGS TO KEEP ON FILE for future reference.... Organizing - 9 Prices Pending Contracts Hot Prospects Contracted Gigs Sales Oriented Plans & Ideas Legal Papers Receipts Management Oriented Supplies Marketing Oriented Masters Misc. Files Things to keep on file for future reference Computers Phone Numbers Chart Organization Summary Organization consists of coordinating activities, things and people so you can achieve your goals. Organizing can keep an activity stable and expanding. When there is lots of activity, things tend to collide and bounce off of each other without a channel for things to flow in, firmly established goals to reach, and a plan of action with which to reach it. Organizing - 10 If there's not enough activity in an area, having these points happening will help in the motivation department. When all of these points are truly "in" you should feel motivated, alive and happy. GOAL Discipline Organizing Scheduling Priorities Alignment Discipline Organizing Scheduling Priorities Alignment Planning YOU DECISION PURPOSE Planning ] Organizing - 11 About The Author Marty Buttwinick is a veteran musician and band leader. Throughout his colorful career he has played a multitude of venues from clubs to major concert halls, and has recorded for film, records and television. He's played venues from Knott's Berry Farm to Tokyo Stadium; performed &/or recorded with original rock acts as well as the Santa Monica Symphony; and has played countless dinner houses, casuals, clubs and theatres, including recent performances of the Hollywood musicals, The Rocky Horror Show and Reefer Madness. Marty has worked with Latin great, Willie Bobo, Motown queen Martha and the Vandellas, as well as with Ray Charles and Edgar Winter. He is also the musical director/conductor for actress/singer Karen Black in her one-woman show. (Los Angeles, San Diego & San Francisco performances). He has recorded at/for Warner Bros., Capitol Records, CBS and NBC, including work on cartoons, albums, film scores and the soap All My Children. Marty is also an experienced music copyist and conductor, and has spent over 400 hours tightening up bands and teaching professional group-playing skills and rehearsal techniques to musicians of all ages. He is currently freelancing as a bassist while teaching for the Faunt School of Creative Music in Studio City, where he has delivered more than fifteen thousand hours of one-on-one instruction and career consultations. The Musicians' How-to Series is drawn from his many years in the business both as a professional musician and an educator. His book, HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A MUSICIAN—SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO HAVE A DAY JOB AGAIN!, is currently available from the Faunt School of Creative Music at (818) 506-6873. To order by credit card call Theresa between the hours of 1:00 and 5:00 PM PST, Mon. through Fri. For more information point your browsers to: http://www.sonatapublishing.com or e-mail Marty at firstname.lastname@example.com Publisher Organizing - 1
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Every party is looking out for tie-ups to make gains from its partner's popularity
The forthcoming general elections are throwing up greater prospects for poll alliances, as the bifurcation of the State has opened up avenues for combinations and permutations.
In a clear indication of realignment of political forces, almost every political party that has stakes in the State is looking out for an alliance or understanding to make gains from its partner's popularity and vote-bank.
There are no takers for the Congress' hand of friendship in Seemandhra in spite of the party looking out for a promising partner. In Telangana, where the party is on a perceivably strong wicket for fulfilling the nearly six-decade-old dream of the region's people for statehood, it remains confused.
The party's north Telangana leaders are favouring an alliance with the TRS because of the latter's strong base there, but their south Telangana colleagues are against any alliance owing to the poor presence of the TRS there.
Nevertheless, the Congress high command is keeping a channel of communication with the TRS open. After ruling out merger with the Congress, the TRS leadership is keen on allying with the ruling party knowing well its weakness in at least half of Telangana. However, its ambition to play the big-brother's role is getting increasingly unpalatable to the Congress.
"We want to contest majority Assembly seats so that we can play a key role in rebuilding Telangana," TRS politburo member B. Vinod Kumar said.
The party is also in informal talks with the MIM and the CPI with an eye on minorities and trade union vote. Sources told The Hindu that the party is also preparing for a solo run in case it fails to work out an alliance.
Former government Chief Whip Gandra Venkataramana Reddy said that in the event of a tie-up, sitting members in the Assembly and the Lok Sabha would retain their seats.
"The remaining seats will have to be shared in a mutually-agreeable proportion," he added.
Meanwhile, the main Opposition TDP is in the final stages of sealing a deal with the BJP.
"Our leadership has taken the decision keeping in mind benefits from the 'Modi factor' in spite of apprehensions expressed in the party about losing votes of a section of the minorities," a senior TDP leader from Telangana said.
Riding a perceptible wave of popularity, the YSRC is perhaps the only party that is not too keen on poll alliances. However, it is in talks with the CPI (M) to cement its position in some pockets of Telangana where the influence of the Telangana movement is relatively less and the presence of Seemandhra population is considerable.
Among the emerging parties, the Lok Satta, which had literally played spoilsport for the TDP in several Assembly constituencies in 2009 elections, is seeking a pact with the like-minded Aam Aadmi Party to reach out to the young and educated lot who are on a high moral pedestal.


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Batman: Arkham Knight is only a couple of months from release and we couldn't be more excited. Rocksteady are set to bring the caped crusader into the new console generation with a vegenance, delivering enhanced freeform gameplay, driving and combat on top of gorgeous visuals.
If that's not enough for you, though, Warner Bros have announced a new season pass that will offer a trickle of extra content into the game. You'll get "new story missions, additional super-villains invading Gotham City, legendary Batmobile skins, advanced challenge maps, alternative character skins, and new drivable race tracks." for the bargain price of only...
That's it. Season passes have been getting progressively more insane over the last few years, but they've now crossed the line into literally insulting our intelligence.Click here to read more...
Don't take that title as a slur on Rocksteady's excellent work on the Arkham series of Batman games, or as an ill-judged prediction that Arkham Knight is going to be anything other than brilliant. Far from it. Batman: Arkham Knight could be the crowning achievement of the trilogy, the realisation of years of hard work and the culmination of efforts and ideas that were finally allowed to exist as gaming hardware caught up to Rocksteady's lofty ambitions.
So why so keen to see them let the Dark Knight go after June 23rd (well, after the inevitable expansion packs at least)? Rocksteady have proved themselves to be an excellent studio and it would be cruel to tie them to making one franchise over and over again. Let's see them and Batman go out on a high, before ideas become stale and before the studio becomes fatigued trying to come up with fresh ideas in order to better their own impossibly high bench marks. They've been working on Arkham games nonstop since 2007!
Rocksteady have earned enormous respect with the way they've handled the Batman brand and it's been great to see them not rushed into annualising the series for a quick buck regardless of quality (hello, Assassin's Creed). So as much as each delay for Arkham Knight has hurt, we've known that it's been for the best as it was with their delays on the first game.Click here to read more...
Dying Light is an odd game. Its story is rubbish, and its scripted missions are even worse, frequently railroading you into combat against men with machine guns when all you have is a bloodied table leg. But there's something to be said for the systems underpinning the game's world. Ignoring the script and going off-piste and just having fun with all of Dying Light's bells and whistles is actually a lot of fun. Ignore the clunky framing, and there's a wonkily brilliant sandbox to much around in, stuffed with the undead and things to climb.
Not that you see much of that in the game's opening scenes. Let's just say that it takes a little while to get going.
Nonetheless, here's a look at the game's introduction and the scene setting and instruction that comes with Dying Light's first half hour or so. The video above is bereft of commentary, but you can click here to see and hear me take on the game's first hour too if you like.
As foretold yesterday, ShopTo have dropped the price on the current-gen versions of LEGO Batman 3. Coming in at under the £30 mark, it will save you around £6 compared to the next cheapest offer.
In our review, Jon felt that LEGO Batman 3 was a bit of a step backwards in terms of gameplay, which is a shame considering how much attention love and attention to detail the DC universe was given. Still, it's a LEGO game, so if you're after more of the same it will be right up your alley. Thanks to oUkTuRkEyIII @ HUKD!
Gamersgate have a massive 75% sale running right now for a number of Batman titles, and you can pick up the Batman Arkham Collection for just £20.
You can bag the individual titles from just £3.75, and if you want to throw the LEGO games into the mix as well you can click here to pick up the Batman Complete Collection for £27.50, though do be warned that it doesn't include the latest release, LEGO Batman 3.
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Batman: Arkham Origins can't hold a candle to Rocksteady's two original games, but it's still an enjoyable open-world BatRomp now that the technical issues have been all but ironed out. GAME's exclusive steel pack Heroes & Villains edition is currently only £9.99 on last-gen consoles, which boasts beautiful presentation. Thanks to oUkTuRkEyIII @ HUKD!
LEGO Batman 3 promises to go "Beyond Gotham," but TT Games are thinking bigger. Sure, the Justice League's bid to stop Braniac from abducting major cities takes our heroes around the world and even outside Earth's atmosphere, but at its core this is nothing less than a love letter to DC's entire sprawling universe. It's an attempt to cram in characters from throughout the most obscure parts of the canon, comics, Elseworld stories, the films and everything in between; from the snarling antihero we know today to Adam West's legendary 1960's romp.
And Batcow. And The Condiment King. And Mister Mxyzptlk. And... Kevin Smith?!
It's a veritable DC fan's dream crossover, but fans of the LEGO series can also expect some new gameplay features, enjoyable stud-collecting adventures and the gentle yet anarchic humour you'd expect from the Manchester-based studio.Click here to read more...
It's all in the name. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham takes us beyond the iconic city on a quest to save the entire world, drawing on a massive pool of characters from every part of the DC universe, fan favourites and Elseworld stories.
I recently sat down with TT Games producer Matt Ellison to discuss how they approached development, what new features to expect and how LEGO Batman 3 promises to be a DC superfan's dream crossover. Not to mention a blast for aficionados of Adam West: the one true Batman.
In my opinion. Watch it all above, including what Ellison other classic franchise TT Games would love to give the LEGO treatment if they could get hold of the license.
It's make or break time for Carl in the final episode of our Shadow of Mordor mini-series. After an age of killing Orcs, bodyguards, and himself, we're here - the final Warchief has arrived, and he's got a taste for ranger blood. See how the fight ends in the thrilling* conclusion to... THE HUNT.
*Your definition of "thrilling" may vary.
So here we are - the final Warchief of our four targets, and it's the toughest one yet. With no immediately obvious weakeness, this could be Carl's greatest challenge yet in our Shadow of Mordor mini-series. Of course, he'll have to deal with the bodyguard first, but then it's a case of luring out his final target... but that could be easier said than done. See for yourself in our latest episode!
Stay tuned for our final installment of... THE HUNT.
With the Hobbit movies proving to be one of the longest train wrecks in recent memory, it's a relief to see developers looking elsewhere for inspiration of doing Tolkien's world justice. So, to fill the gap between the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we find ourselves deep in the heart of Mordor.
Enter Talion, a ranger working on the Black Gate who, along with his family, is killed almost immediately by invading Uruks. Luckily (sort of) for him, an Elven Wraith spirit invades his body just before death. Meaning that a short while later he is resurrected and will continue to do so each time he is killed.
Throughout the adventure we'll learn more about life in Mordor for humans before the orcs and Uruks invaded and Sauron took over and we'll even learn how the One Ring was forged and how Sauron betrayed the nine. The time setting and location are ripe for gaming territory and Tolkien nuts should definitely take a look.
Shadow of Mordor brandishes its base influences with little shame, but in fairness, Monolith has chose some of the best brands to initiate, namely Assassin's Creed and Rocksteady's Batman titles. So expect an open world where you can climb any surface and find lots of side-missions and collectibles to keep you entertained between story missions. These distractions also help to fund your numerous combat upgrades, so it rarely feels like time wasting. The climbing mechanics are solid and the animations have a pleasing weight to them too.Click here to read more...
With two Warchief now slain, Carl sets his sights on his third target as we continue our Shadow of Mordor mini-series, the Hunt. In today's episode, Carl interrupts an execution, unleashes some bees, and generally causes plenty of havoc on the path road to assassination glory.
Stay tuned for the next installment of... THE HUNT.
One Warchief has been slain, but the second target proved that the numbers game can be more than punishing in Shadow of Mordor. So, in today's episode of The Hunt, Carl dusts himself off after a rather fruitless effort and starts again out new bodyguards whilst trying to avoid yet another embarrassing defeat.
Stay tuned for our next episode of... THE HUNT.
So, the first attempt to take out a Warchief didn't go to plan.
Still, Carl returns with a taste for revenge in our second episode of our Shadow of Mordor mini-series... THE HUNT. With the board now shaken up thanks to enemies rising through the ranks, Carl tries again in his attempt to take down Sauron's Warchiefs, before looking at his next target.
And things get messy. Quickly.
Stay tuned for our next episode of... THE HUNT.
Taking out the big players in Sauron's army is the main objective in Shadow of Mordor, guiding Talion as he slaughters the Warchiefs. It's made all the better by the Nemesis system, which generates enemies unique to your playthrough. Seeing as he has reached a point in his playthrough where he is tasked with killing them all, Carl has chronicled his adventures in taking down the Warchiefs in a new mini-series we are calling... THE HUNT.
In our first episode, Carl gathers intel on the 5th Warchief, before taking out some bodyguards and striking his first target. Do be warned - this episode contains moments of light jazz.
Stay tuned for the next installment off... THE HUNT.
The Nemesis system within Shadow of Mordor helps to create an emergent personal narratives for each player, but it doesn't stop there. When a player is killed by one of the enemies in their game, a Vendetta mission type is created for others to deal out some belated vengeance within their own game. To highlight this, Carl takes on one such mission in our latest look at Monolith Production's open world Orc-slaughtering simulator.
Stay tuned to the site for our upcoming Shadow of Mordor mini-series, The Hunt.
Following my preview session of it at Gamescom, my feelings towards Shadow of Mordor had been that of cautious optimism. Yes, the gameplay looked incredibly familiar, but the Nemesis system had the potential to elevate the game to something special. In fact, at the time I even stated it could perhaps even generate anecdotal gold. All I needed to know now was that it felt satisfying to play.
Well, I've finally got hold of a copy, and while the review won't be landing on Dealspwn until next week I can say that my first steps have been rather entertaining. You can see for yourself by watching our latest episode of First Contact, as I assume the role of Talion and go get some ranger-like justice on some dastardly Uruk.
Stay tuned to the site, as we'll have more gameplay footage ahead of our review next week!
Warner Bros are throwing this weekend's Steam sale, and it's exactly as you'd imagine: some decent if unspectactular savings on Batman, Bastion, LEGO, FEAR and Lord Of The Rings. Though we've basically just dropped down to typical 'deal' prices, such as we've seen on GMG and other retailers recently, the LEGO discounts are particularly worthy of note. £5.74 for The LEGO Movie Videogame is seriously good value, as is the similar price for The Hobbit - even if the game was clearly rushed out.
Anyway, click here to browse the selection on Steam... and be sure to thank jaystan @ HUKD!
There are a number of reasons to get a current/new-gen console right now. Destiny is almost here, The Master Chief Collection is just over the horizon, and there is a now a decent backlog of launch titles to pick through. The thing is, as good as all as those games may be I haven't had the feeling of "OH DEAR GOD I NEED IT RIGHT NOW" like I have done in previous generations. At this year's Gamescom that all changed, and it's all down to the hands-on session I had with Arkham Knight.
Actually, I'll be most specific – it was the Batmobile.
I was given the opportunity to sit down with a small section that take place near the start, as Batman is sent into the ACE Chemicals Plant to rescue some hostages and see who's up to no good. Unfortunately this meant I didn't get a sense of how big the city of Gotham is this time around – one of my biggest queries about the game – but I did get to see how the Batmobile can be an asset to the Caped Crusader when face to face with the bad guys. The short of it is that's incredibly satisfying, but I'm guessing you more want details so let me tell you story all about how Batman & the Batmobile kicked some ass.Click here to read more...
Confession time – when it was announced I didn't give much hope to Shadow of Mordor, despite the cool premise that was being presented to me. "An Assassin's Creed style game set in an open world Middle Earth? There have been worse ideas," I thought to myself, but it was the reveal of the Nemesis system that piqued my interest. "If it's exactly as they're saying it will be, that could be very interesting" was my response. A game where your villains change every time you play or make a decision? I chalked it down to the overhyping of a system that created the illusion of choice and an elaborate AI army, and went about my business.
But then I went to Gamescom and saw the Nemesis system in action. It's real folks. It actually works, and it's going to be the stuff of YouTube gold.
Before we get into it though, here's a quick round-up of everything else that was shown and told to us during the presentation. The game will take place directly after the third Hobbit film The Battle of Five Armies, filling the gap between the recent films and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. As Sauron's forces begin their invasion, they wipe out the Rangers of the North protecting Gondor, including Talion – the main character for the game. (Un)luckily for him, a wraith brings him back to life who turns out to be the spirit of Celebrimbor – the Elf king who forged the rings of power that led to this entire mess in the first place. As such, the player will assume control of both Talion and Celebrimbor in a quest for revenge against the Dark Lord's forces.Click here to read more...


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What makes Pakistani food different from Indian? The cuisine is more elemental, strongly flavored with fresh ginger, garlic, and green chiles, and far less dependent on the powdered spice combos central to Indian cooking. Yes, meat is front and center, but often beguilingly combined with veggiesespecially squashes, okra, tomatoes, and lentils. A case in point is haleem ($5.99), sometimes called the national dish. It's listed on the menu as a Saturday special, but seems to be available most of the time. Handed over the counter on a plate, the gray mass of whipped lamb and lentils roils like a storm cloud on the horizon. The texture, too, is cloud-like: buoyant and multi-lobed, so that when you spoon it onto the accompanying rice pilaf, it sits on top and doesn't sink in. Tendrils of fresh ginger provide pungency.
Goat curry ($4.99), on the other hand, depends for its powerful savor on the shards of cinnamon bark that bob among the meat chunks. The halal goat is so fresh it might have been grazing in a flowering meadow earlier that day. Another afternoon we enjoyed something the waitress called "chicken with egg," which plunged whole boiled eggs and pieces of chicken in a tomato sauce from which orange oil oozeda no-no in French cooking, but a yes-yes in Pakistani. From a steam table selection of a dozen dishes, there are usually three or four vegetarian ones. Best is a curry made with the sinuous and pale green snake squash ($3.50), which keeps its firmness and delicate color despite long stewing.
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Skyway offers none of the three-selections-over-rice specials common to places like Cuisine of Pakistani and Lexington Avenue's wonderful Haandi. The prices mentioned above, though, represent substantial servings, so it's best to go with a crowd and share several. That way you can also taste a broad range of the exceptional flatbreads, which run from a puffy tallow-slicked naan to a spicy potato-stuffed aloo paratha to a qeema paratha ($3) featuring thin crisp layers of pastry separated by a cumin-flavored chicken mince that glues the layers together as surely as rubber cement.
Hands down, the most impressive dish is batair masala ($5.99 for two). Lined up in the steam-table receptacle like Rockettes, the quail carcasses kick their legs high in the thick red sauce. The dark tender meat is infused with garlic and ginger, so the taste is as pretty as the spectacle. And you won't find tastier (or cheaper) game birds anywhere in town.
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Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar. Heavenly interpretations of sushi and contemporary Asian cuisine are created by famed Hawaii chef D.K Kodama. More than a few dishes have won awards, including the shrimp dynamite in a creamy garlic masago aioli and unagi glaze, and the panko-crusted ahi sashimi sushi roll. Though it has tried-and-true mainstays, the menu is consistently updated to include new and exciting options, such as the Hawaiian moi sashimi rolls and the Japanese yellowtail nori aioli poke. You can certainly make a meal out of appetizers and sushi rolls, but Sansei's entrées, from both land and sea, are great. On Sunday and Monday from 5 to 6 pm, selected menu items are half off (limited seating; first come, first served). Or opt for a late-night meal on Friday and Saturday, when sushi and appetizers are half off from 9:30 until midnight. 201 Waikoloa Beach Dr., 801 Queens' MarketPlace, Waikoloa, HI, 96738. 808/886–6286. www.sanseihawaii.com. No lunch.
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I like the idea of having a stroller where the baby can be laying totally flat as a newborn, instead of always in a car seat with a car seat attachment.
I've heard it's not good to keep them in a car seat for too long at a time and their mobility definitely seems limited in a car seat.
So my question is - is a stroller that goes totally flat as comfy for the baby as one with a bassinet attachment? (Such as the Bugaboo, Uppa Baby etc) I know an advantage of the separate bassinet is that you can take it off to carry a sleeping baby into the house and use it around the house as a nap spot.
But I just mean when they're actually riding in a stroller - is a stroller that lays flat just as comfy for baby as a separate bassinet?
The one I'm looking at (Bumbleride Flyer) goes totally flat, but doesn't come with a bassinet.


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slam en français
traduction "slam", anglais-français Dictionnaire en ligne
Les traductions dans français:
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noiseto shut with sudden force and noise
- cogner(verb )
- slam
D''autres significations:
(transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
The shock and noise produced by slamming
(card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
(countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
A poetry slam.
To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise
(transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
(countable) (basketball) A slam dunk.
(transitive) to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
(countable, prison) A meal where ingredients are shared by three or more people to create dinner.
(countable, bridge (card game)) A bid of six ( small slam ) or seven ( grand slam ) in a suit or no trump.
(countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
(countable) A sudden impact or blow.
To strike forcefully with some implement
(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
(transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of.
(obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
(transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down , against or into.)
(intransitive, bridge (card game)) To make a slam bid.
(transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
to drink off, to drink quickly
An act of slamming
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Varanasi: Move over Nano. Here comes "Fame" for just Rs. 25,000 assembled together by a 16-year-old.
The car, equipped with a 150 cc four-stroke scooter engine and weighing around 160 kg, was among several products on display on Saturday at the 'Young Innovators' exhibition of Banaras Hindu University. Its inventor Standard XII student Chandan Kumar drove all the way here from Azamgarh, about 150 km, in the green coloured open air, two-seater mini car.
He calls it "Fame" and claims "it is small, reliable and the biggest advantage is its price – Rs. 25,000."
Mr. Chandan said the car had four gears and claims it gave an average of 45-50 km a litre and top speed of 80 km an hour.
"My father is a mechanic and I was always interested in cars, so decided to make one. The car is especially for the narrow alleys of Varanasi. I have not kept track of how much it really cost me as I used old spare parts," he said.
The boy, who has no formal training in the field, said he did not get any outside funding for making the vehicle but is hoping that the Banaras Hindu University finances a project to upgrade the model.
When his invention was compared to the Rs. 1 lakh car unveiled by Tata Motors, he said, "I actually finished my car two years ago but took time to improve the body and comfort levels. I wish to make it even better than the Nano." —PTI


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My daughter has an awful bum rash. Took her to the pedi yesterday and its yeast. I got her Rx Nystatin and the Dr said to give her a bath in Baking powder or soda?!
I can't remember which?
My daughter has an awful bum rash. Took her to the pedi yesterday and its yeast. I got her Rx Nystatin and the Dr said to give her a bath in Baking powder or soda?!
I can't remember which?
Alex and Bethany 2009
Sadie 02/05/11 - Maxwell 02/11/12 - Isla 22/08/14
Thank you. I Dr Googled it and it said Baking Soda. I had heard that before and thought it was an old wives tale.
Does it really help?
The great cook/baker I am doesn't even have any in the house so I am going to send my hubby out to get it. I didn't see anybaking soda at the pharmacy when I was getting her script.
Poor thing is on an antibiotic and has an upset belly so she has been pooping a ton! like every few hours, just a tiny tiny bit, last night while she was sleeping she'd screm i'd go in and change her (about every 2hrs) everytime she'd poop it would burn her and she'd scream in pain. Her bum is so so raw.
The DR had the nurse use a special wash (to get rid of bacteria cuase she's pooping on open broken skin) but it doesn't seem better.
It will be 48hrs tomorrow. Would it be wrong to bring her in for a Sunday urgent visit for really bad, bum rash?
We have a visit Weds, but this thing isn't getting better. Normally in the past when the skin 'breaksdown' the DR doen't Rx Nystatin (for yeast) they prescribe this ointment. I dont know why the Dr didn't this time.It was a 'sick' visit so it wasn't our usual Dr. But i feel like its past yeast. her skin is open.
I'll see how she does overnight, but if its not better would you bring her in on a sunday? I dont want tehm to think i'm crazy, since a rash usually isn't urgent, but this girl is uncomfortable.
I have left her diaper off most of the day and when she has a diaper on I use lots of nystatin and lots of triple paste, and its still open skin. it doens't look like its gotten better at all (normally if its yeast i see an improvment w the nystatin quickly) We have been giving her probiotics (shes on the antibiotic) and doing lots of rice cereal, applesauce and bananas.
If the baking soda doesn't help, try putting some epsom salts in her bath. It took me 4 kids to discover this solution, but it works wonders on my LO's bum when it is rashy! Also, if the rash has turned into open sores, Bag Balm is really good for protecting the skin against wet/dirty diapers. My second child used to get open/bloody diaper rash and Bag Balm was the only thing that helped!
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I use aveeno baby soothing diaper rash cream and I put corn starch over it. It works like a charm.
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For pp who asked upthread about epsom salts burning if skin is open - in my experience, it doesn't burn at all. I've used it myself for scrapes and abrasions, and it doesn't seem to bother my LO at all when I use it in her bath water when she has sores on her bottom. I also use it on occasion for bleeding hemmorhoids and it is actually quite soothing.
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By Ed BrockAn off-duty police officer working as a security guard at a movie theater found himself in a brief standoff with a 13-year-old boy with a gun. "He pointed it at me and then threw it at me," said Zebulon Police Officer Ashley Gilham. Gilham said he was responding to a fight in the courtyard of the AMC Southlake Pavilion Movie Theater on Mt. Zion Road in Morrow around 11:25 p.m. Sunday when he saw one teenager passing the gun to the 13-year-old. The teen apparently planned to use the gun on somebody else involved in the fight. When Gilham came up behind the teen and ordered him to drop the gun, the 13-year-old spun and pointed the gun at Gilham. It was a move that could have cost the boy his life. "The only thing that kept him from getting shot was that (Clayton County Police Officer Tevis Harris) was behind him so I didn't have a clear shot," Gilham said. Harris was also working off duty at the theater. On the second order to drop the gun the teen, who was not identified because of his age, threw the gun at Gilham and ran away. He was arrested after a short chase and has been charged with aggravated assault, pointing a pistol and possession of a weapon in a public place, Clayton County Police Capt. Jeff Turner said. Turner said the 15-year-old boy who handed the gun to the 13-year-old was charged with possession of a weapon, obstruction of an officer and disorderly conduct. The incident represents an ongoing problem with teens hanging around the theater, Gilham and Turner said. "We have fights every weekend," said Gilham who has worked at the theater for two years. "This is the first time it came to this point." Turner said parents need to be aware of what's going on at the theater and should make sure their children do not stay at the theater long. "We're going to start charging more people with loitering and curfew violations," Turner said. After midnight teens 16 years old and under must be accompanied by an adult. AMC Theaters spokesman Rick King said the theater keeps off duty officers on site to discourage loitering. "The facts show that our officers responded quickly and effectively," King said. King said the company takes other measures to prevent security problems but he would not give details. Gilham previously worked for the Jonesboro Police Department.
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Wang Zhi (pirate)
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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.
Wang Zhi (Chinese: 汪直 or 王直)[1] was a Chinese pirate and trader of the 16th century, one of the chief named and known figures among the wokou ("Japanese" pirates) prevalent at the time. It is said he was aboard the Portuguese ship of Fernão Mendes Pinto when it landed on Tanegashima, off the coast of Japan in 1543, marking the first contact between Europe and Japan.[2]
In 2000, a monument was erected to Wang Zhi in his hometown of Huangshan City. In 2005, two Chinese professors defaced this monument, explaining that Wang Zhi was a "race traitor".[3]
- ^ Note: The History of Ming records his name as 汪直, whilst the Annals of Zhejiang lists his name as 王直.
- ^ Arano, Yasunori. "The Formation of a Japanocentric World Order." International Journal of Asian Studies 2:2 (2005). p189. (Arano points out that the ship, carrying a number of Portuguese, and famous for this first European-Japanese contact, may have in fact been a Chinese junk.)
- ^ 新華社通信オンライン2005年2月2日記事「日本人が建てた倭寇の墓壊す=「中国人蔑視」と反発−安徽省」


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The Nets would rather be at The Rock than a hard place to sell or sell out.
They hope next season's move to the Prudential Center in Newark will not only increase ticket sales but help recruit free agents.
During the Nets' summer courtship of LeBron James and other free agents, they will be able to show players the state-of-the-art facility, which opened in 2007. It should be a major advantage because NBA players have seen — and been mostly unimpressed — with the outdated Izod Center that has an eyesore called Meadowlands Xanadu surrounding it.
Would James, Dwyane Wade or any other marquee free agent really play there full time?
"It's a nice building," Nets guard Keyon Dooling said of Prudential Center. "Somewhat I think it should [help]. But the bottom line as far as recruiting is having a decent team and having the funds to pay players. The building is a lot better than our building at the Izod Center. So that should be a bonus."
The Nets should have the funds with future owner Mikhail Prokhorov, whose fortune is estimated at $17.85 billion, set to take over in the spring. The team needs plenty work, but they will undergo a facelift after the season.
They will have a new owner, a new coach and new building it was announced Thursday that they will occupy for at least two seasons until the Brooklyn Arena is done. The Nets also will have three of the first 31 picks in the June NBA draft.
All of these things — especially if the Nets wind up with the No. 1 pick and Kentucky's John Wall — will impact what transpires starting July 1 when they will have about $23 million for free agency.
The Nets will roll out the red carpet for prospective free agents. There will be plenty of competition from the Knicks, Bulls, Heat and Clippers so it will be much better for the Nets to show players a new building rather than 29-year-old Izod Center.
They could give free agents a video presentation on a spectacular jumbotron TV. The Nets could even have part-owner Jay-Z perform a specially made song live or via tape on that same monitor above the floor inside the Prudential Center before showing them what's just across the River and what Prokhorov thinks of them monetarily.
"You want to try to woo a player as much as possible," Devin Harris said. "The better stuff you have the better stuff it is they'll get."
"When I got here, the fans were the difference between our games and Dallas games. I was used to playing in front of sellout crowds every night. That's something guys look at, the type of facility, obviously. The Newark facility is more equipped to handle us today so that's the thing a guy's looking for."
The fan aspect is important. The Nets drew 28,511 at two preseason games at the Prudential Center. Their average home attendance is 13,087, but that's tickets distributed. Their Izod turnstile count is a little more than 10,000.
They're expecting more fans in Newark because of mass transit and the many businesses in the area. Also, unlike Izod there are good restaurants in the area that are walking distance to the Rock.
"The fans were great," Harris said. "It was something new for us. The facility's great. We're excited by it."
But the excitement is tempered because many of the current Nets won't play there and this season still has 27 games.
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The cook who pleaded guilty in June to putting hair in a steak he prepared at a West Bend restaurant had done so before on at least two occasions, and the incidents were reported to management, according to a lawsuit filed against the restaurant by the man who was served the steak.
Kevin J. Hansen and his wife, Marcia Hansen, filed the lawsuit last week against the Louisville, Ky.-based Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, seeking unspecified damages for "severe and permanent injuries and extreme emotional distress" resulting from finding a "clump" of hair in a steak prepared by Ryan Kropp, 24.
Kropp, of West Bend, was charged with placing foreign objects in edibles. He pleaded guilty to the felony June 19. He could be sentenced to up to 3 1/2 years in prison Aug. 12.
According to the lawsuit and a criminal complaint, a manager at the restaurant had Kropp prepare another steak for Kevin Hansen on Feb. 23 because Hansen said the first one had not been cooked properly.
Kropp later told police he was angry because he believed Hansen was "just trying to get free stuff," so he cut a slit in the center of the steak and inserted his facial hairs, according to the criminal complaint.
But Ryan Hetzel, the Hansens' attorney, said Friday that another cook told police that Kropp was cleanshaven that day and said, "These are my pubes" before putting the hair into the steak.
Hansen took the steak home and didn't eat it until the next morning and "while consuming the steak, found a clump of hair in a pocket in the steak," the lawsuit says.
Hansen then reported the incident to the West Bend police.
According to the lawsuit, Hansen has undergone extensive medical treatment, incurred expenses from purchasing medication and suffered "severe and permanent pain, suffering, inconvenience and disability" and "severe and permanent mental anguish and suffering, severe and permanent embarrassment and emotional distress." He also seeks to recoup lost wages from missing work.
"This has really had a major effect on him," Hetzel said. "It's bothered the heck out of him."
The lawsuit also alleges that Marcia Hansen suffered "loss of love and affection companionship and society" and will continue to do so.
The lawsuit claims that the restaurant should have known that Kropp had a history of "anti-social and criminal behavior," saying that there were complaints of hair being found in food in December 2007 and January 2008.
The Hansens, of West Bend, are asking for a jury trial.


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Residents of the tiny community of Taft, Tennessee, are mourning the wrongful death of the 25-year-old Walmart employee who was shot Monday, December 6, by the estranged ex-boyfriend of a co-worker.
The shocking murder in the parking lot of the University Drive Walmart in Huntsville was apparently the result of domestic violence. The intended victim of the intentional act of brutality was grazed by another bullet during the shooting, which occurred after she had broken up with the shooter.
"She said if she ever left him, she was afraid of what he'd do," said the owner of a local grocery store in Taft on Tuesday. "She said she would have left him a long time ago if she wasn't so scared."
Both the shooter and the young Walmart employee who was killed in the shooting were residents of Taft, although the shooter had not lived there for long. The shooter's ex-girlfriend had also lived in Taft for a period of time, so all three were well known to residents.
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