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Good article to really explain where house values are now compared to the record in 2006, and the WSJ headline about the new house price record
Last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Home Sales Report. The report announced that the median existing-home price in June was $236,400. That value surpasses the peak median sales price set in July 2006 ($230,400).
+Jeff Dowler In my area, prices are increasing at insane rates, depending on community. There are many homes close to the prices of 2005. Some homes have increased as much as $ 100,000. Same things with rents. I think it depends what area of the country you are in.
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Great post OP. And i must say the first answer is more a complementary one more than a critical one.
I think the main point to both posts is that any intelligent guy can conclude things are absolutly not what they look like on tv. I am amazed (not really) that so many people here on glp is fully aware of MSM and TPTB and NWO and all but still choose to hate based on msm reports. Its a bit contradictory and serves the agendas purpose.
Me, i choose to understand people are easy manipulated, most of the people protesting is manipulated, the soldier shooting unarmed handsup civilians is manipulated and most of all most peole here on glp are being manipulated to serve the masterplan.
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Thank You for the complement I do agree there is quite a bit of manipulation on both sides. With that said, I want to direct you to what I am stating is that in Islam you can't have Justice, Freedom and Democracy because you have two different ways of think and living. You have the secular Muslims who as I stated, want to continue living as Muslims, but with out the extreme fanatical strict interpretation of the Qur'an.
At the same time you have the non-seular Muslims extremist(salafis and wahabis) like Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Arabia who want to impose Sharia Law on the entire world. These two ideologies of secular Islam and non-secular Islam will always clash because the secularist want freedom and non-secularist have the mind set of live according to strict Islam or die by having your throat slit with a dull knife.
Hi, yes i understood that. I agree and i believe you when you say you speak based on personal experience.
..what should western world do? When is it right to inerveine? Is it ever? Should we not let the issue develope by its own momentum? This are diffucult question i aske myself. We want to help and its basically a good thing we help each other..but are our governments and our army forces the right ones to do this? Are tthey so clean and morally right so its unquestionable? I dont think so, i think we are far from having the rigt to interveine in such situations..yet we not only play a part in it, we (our political forces, our armys and our corporations)rule and do whatever suites the masterplan.
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Admetus, Peter and I went to the live cinema screening of the National Theatre's EVERYMAN tonight—yes, the medieval morality play*, yanked into the present day and adorned with bad language and cocaine by Carol Ann Duffy, of whom I am a besotted and drooling fan**, and when I saw this play existed and that, furthermore, the National Theatre was going to live-screen it I WANTED TO GO.***
IT IS WONDERFUL AND AMAZING AND POWERFUL AND TERRIFIC. GO IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE. They do rescreenings for these live things some times . . . check your local listings.
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* Which I read in college. Hey, it's shorter than Bunyan's frelling PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Even us English majors have our limits. Although I read most of Bunyan too.^
^ And I like Spenser, who usually appears on the same class syllabus. Sue me.
* I admire both her poetry and her politics. Generally speaking I remember a pressing engagement on the other side of the planet as soon as some arty type starts coming out in political activism like a rash, but there are a few who do it with aplomb, Duffy being one of them. The fact that she's hot on women's and sexual and gender rights AND HAS A SENSE OF HUMOUR WITH IT might have something to do with this.^
^ Also my wet-liberal tendencies are getting larger and meaner and shorter-tempered+ as my Street Pastor and Samaritan duty hours rack up.
+ Frightening. Yes.
*** There followed several months of frustration. I cannot BELIEVE the level of meatloafhood in many and possibly most arts and entertainment web sites. ARRRRRRGH. I think I only found out about either the play or the live screening because I'm on the NT's STREET MAIL CATALOGUE LIST. But you have to buy your tickets from your local cinema, supposing you can find the right local cinema, since the cinema list on the NT site will not match the local cinema's information when, the NT link being dead or missing, you try your local cinema's own web site. This tarantella of frustration is further enhanced by the original performance site—in this case the National Theatre, but it is by no means the only perpetrator of this variety of on line crime—whining continuously in obtrusive pop-up boxes for your location so it can give you a personally tailored web site experience, and, when you cave and give it to them, and it is, let's say, Hampshire, immediately offering you 1,000,000 cinemas in London. THANKS EVER SO. I KNOW IT SOMETIMES LOOKS LIKE THE ENTIRE SOUTH OF ENGLAND IS A LARGE BEDROOM COMMUNITY FOR LONDON BUT SOME OF US REALLY LIVE HERE.^
Meanwhile . . . I could not persuade my local cinema to take my money and give me some seats for EVERYMAN, and since it's a flapdoodling cinema chain, you can't get a local human being on the phone—nor is the on-the-ground ticket office open during ordinary town-errand-running day hours—to tell you if it's coming to your particular local. The chain's theatre local to a town 300 miles away is not really what you are after. ARRRRRRGH. So the NT web site went on saying it was here, and here went on saying Page Not Found. So I finally threw up my hands^^ and bought tickets at a theatre in Greater Footling, which isn't impossibly far from here.^^^ I didn't find out that yes, indeed, EVERYMAN is coming to the local scion of national cinema glory until we walked in to see the Royal Opera House live screening of GUILLAME TELL~ there a fortnight ago, and saw large flashy posters for EVERYMAN on the walls. AAAAAARRRRRRRRGH.
BUT THE STORY DOES NOT END HERE. In the first place, there are two theatres belonging to this other incompetently head-officed and web-sited cinema chain, AND with nearly the same name, ie the Toadstool and the Toadstool Phoenix, both of them not merely in Greater Footling but the same end of Greater Footling and Greater Footling is not exactly a gazillion-citizen megalopolis AND BOTH OF THEM WERE SCREENING EVERYMAN. Go figure. Admetus had looked up how to find the Toadstool Phoenix and I had looked up the Toadstool, and there was a certain amount of frantic cross-checking yesterday.
Well we got that sorted and we even successfully arrived at the Toadstool~~. Now my on line booking was, according to what I printed out to take with me, only a booking and we had to get there HALF AN HOUR EARLY to pick up the tickets. Fortunately, having wasted time going in several wrong directions, we got there only about a quarter hour early . . . fortunately because the box office was not open. The ticket machine did not show EVERYMAN. The androids behind the snacks counter were only programmed to provide snacks. The whole dranglefabbing complex was pretty comprehensively deserted and since there are 1,000,000 screens at the Toadstool Stepford we might still be there wandering hopelessly down identical corridors except the screen number was on my booking page. We went there. We decided we didn't like the seats I'd booked—who can tell anything from a web schematic—and sat somewhere else. Since there were only about ten of us perched randomly in a theatre that would probably seat 200 it didn't matter too astonishingly. And no one ever checked our booking, or asked for our tickets, or offered us a wet fish or a glass of Prosecco, or anything else. But there must have been a Stepford minion pressing the button for the show to run, because it did run. Yaaaaaay.
^ The worst offender in the web site visitor location category however is the frelling New York Metropolitan Opera. I don't know what the frelling doodah is going on with the Met Live this year—tickets should be on sale by now—and I can't find a cinema anywhere around here that admits to screening it, including the one I've always used in the past. But if you click through all the dazzle to the Met Live page on the Met Opera site, and ask it to find you your local cinema, it will ask you for your country and then for your city. I clicked hopefully on Mauncester, which is even on the Met Live drop down menu of Hampshire cities . . . AND THE CINEMA LIST STARTS OFF IN AUSTRIA. THEN GERMANY. THEN . . . Belgium, I think. I forget. But you've scrolled down several pages before you ever get to the UK at all. If they're trying to impress me favourably with the number of cinemas worldwide that screen the Met Live this is not having the desired effect.
^^ There may have been language.
^^^ Especially when Admetus is driving. Ahem.
~ The now nationally if not internationally notorious new ROH production of GUILLAUME TELL. Yes, yes, William Tell, but Rossini was an Italian writing for the French opera, okay? Whatever you call it it's supposed to be Rossini's unknown masterpiece, never put on because it's five hours long and you're only allowed to write operas longer than four hours if you're Wagner.+ I was THRILLED when I heard that the ROH was going to do it, and QUADRUPLY THRILLED that they were going to live stream it and live stream it at a cinema close enough for me to drive to. YAAAAAAAAAAY. I bought tickets more or less the moment they went on sale and was enormously looking forward to it. ENORMOUSLY.
The beginning of that week I got a text from Admetus saying, erm, have you seen the reviews for the opening night of GUILLAUME TELL? I hadn't. The hot young director++ in his creative capacity as an enormous flaming asshole had decided that the bad guys' bad-guy-ness—whatever else you do with it, the story is still basically about a bunch of locals being stomped by an invading army—needed to be heightened, and never mind that Rossini and his text provider actually took quite good care of making the bad guys bad in the libretto—and so staged an extremely graphic rape scene during the chirpy ballet+++ at the beginning of the third act. A local woman is harassed and molested by a gang of the bad-guy officers . . . and then stripped naked, thrown on the banqueting table and gang raped. BECAUSE THE AUDIENCE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE BRUTALITY OF WAR.
Opening night was booed so thoroughly that (according to reports) you couldn't hear the music. Quite a lot of ink, newspaper and virtual, was spilled subsequently (most of which you can still find on line if you're interested) and I spent rather too much of that week reading reviews and feeling ill. I almost didn't go. I don't need to understand about the brutality of war, or about the gross inhumanity of man to man or men to woman# and I don't think the first night reaction was anything about British parochialism, which is one of the things that was elitistly suggested.
They'd toned it down some## by the day of the cinema broadcast . . . but I did go, and that scene still made me feel physically sick and I almost walked out. The only reason I finally went at all was because the reviews were also universal that it was exquisitely sung AND I WANTED TO FRELLING HEAR IT which is where we came in. And it was exquisitely sung, and I in fact came home and ordered the CD with the same cast and conductor which gets about twelve stars in the Penguin Guide as well. But for gratuitous, inappropriate, stupid, pretentious shock value, the rape scene takes some kind of gigantic toxic biscuit. I'm also happy to say that the controversy did not put bums on seats around here: I'd never seen the cinema so empty for an opera screening.###
+ I will probably never see Parsifal, partly because I'd be throwing rubbery carrots and small dead animals at the stage by the end of act two, but also because, supposing I hadn't been ejected yet, I'd have pressure sores by the end of act twelve, or whenever it finally stops.
++ On whose head let there be a positive avalanche of small dead animals in an advanced state of decomposition
+++ French operas of that period apparently HAD to have ballets. There are a lot of standard rep grand operas that seem suddenly and startlingly to come to a thundering [sic] halt for the ballet. Good time to sneak out for another glass of Prosecco. Especially if it's GUILLAUME TELL under this director.
# Oh, and? The actress does not—or at any rate did not—get a mention in the credits. Several of us saw some further symbolism in this.
## After both director and ROH head did the blustery bit about artistic integrity and said they weren't going to change a thing
### There was a lot of raging stupidity elsewhere in this production. Why the freedom fighters took their shirts off—rarely a performance plus in a large group of opera singers—to smear themselves in blood and dirt before they went into battle was not clear, and went CLANG in a production that had more or less updated the story to the 20th century. And there is a scene at the end that I'm surprised was even allowed, when the villagers' children are stripped down to their underwear and bathed in a series of small tubs dotted across the stage. Presumably it was to indicate Fresh Young New Beginnings, the bad guys having been against the odds seen off, but it was creepy in the extreme.
~~ Some of our wrong turnings tonight looked very familiar since Fiona and I had made them a while back when we tried to find the Toadstool. We had of course complicated the issue by stopping at a yarn store first which for some reason Peter and Admetus were not interested in. Men. Sigh.
The HandleBards. No, really
If you have a chance to see these dangerous lunatics*, I mean, this exceptionally talented and engaging AND ENERGETIC troupe of young men, do climb into or onto your internal combustion engine vehicle of choice, bring along a large picnic hamper of high-calorie comestibles and, if you're sensible, a bottle of fizz, and several blankets because this is England after all**, and possibly folding chairs, if you're ancient and decrepit***, and GO. The HandleBards are a hoot.
Admetus and I went last night. I admit I was not instantly overwhelmed with desire to see four men doing the stripped-down bicycle [sic] version of Shakespeare, since it sounds like a dumb-ass idea and I am not a Shakespeare fan, but I watched a few clips on YouTube, as above, and . . . well, I am rather drawn to insanity. I still can't get my head around the 2000 miles on a bicycle thing, carrying all your kit, from show to show, plus setting up, doing your play at a hundred million miles an hour of adrenaline-cranked frenzy, striking it all down again, getting some food and sleep and then doing it all over again tomorrow, but then I am ancient and decrepit.†
What we saw last night was Midsummer Night's Dream††. Now you go knowing that there are only four of them and they play ALL the parts. But I still spent the first scene with fathers, lovers, Theseuses and other riffraff milling about not having a clue what was going on, except that some of the people who were supposed to be on stage were being indicated by empty coats on poles which the four, you know, live actors would swirl into and back out of in a hurly-burly of something or other AND AFTER THEY'D CYCLED HALF A GAZILLION MILES EARLIER THAT DAY? Beulah, peel me a grape.
You do tune in pretty quickly to the mayhem. They also pad out a few scenes by shanghaiing members of the audience††† The two additional blokes cavorting in rainbow wings as Peaseblossom and Mustardseed deserve special mention and will probably never live it down. Since all I had was a blanket to keep me warm I was particularly taken with the armful of borrowed dog, bewildered but good-natured. The tallest and the shortest of the four principals were also the two with the facial hair . . . and who played Hermia and Helena, so they can get off the dwarf and painted maypole‡ lines.
You also start laughing before the show even starts. The 'stage' is mostly pegged-out bunting, but they do have a proscenium with arch equivalent, which must be their heaviest piece of kit. From audience-eye view it looks like a lot of long spidery legs with joints for folding up bicycle-pannier-sized‡‡ and a kind of mobile circular rail suspended above the not-much-bigger-than-handkerchief-sized curtain that gives them somewhere to hide not-that-scene's bits, and behind which some of the split-second costume and character changes occur. They hang some of the scene-specific background bits on the rail—heraldic looking banners for Theseus, village-amateur props for the rude mechanicals. Someone pins or drapes that scene's background to the stretch of rail at that moment behind the curtain . . . but the rail is connected to one of the long-suffering bicycles, and one of the longer-suffering bicyclists pedals the rail around, so the new scene background comes whizzing out from behind the curtain.‡‡‡ Snork.
It may take you a little while, somewhat stunned by the energy level as you will be, also to tune into the fact that these guys are not merely corybantic fruit loops but good at what they do.§ When they decide that 2000 miles on a bicycle carrying the complete works of Shakespeare is a bit excessive§§ I hope they'll go on to be famous actors. §§§ They'll deserve it in several more than the usual hard graft and working up from the Bottom ways. May their tyres never puncture and the weather maintain a little fair patch hovering over them wherever they go. It was perfect last night. Only one blanket required.
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* Wrong country? The UK is a great place for a holiday! We have Stonehenge! We have the British Museum! We have skylarks! We have lots and lots of rosebushes! And we have more method ringing bell towers than in the entire rest of the world combined!^
^ Although you'll probably need to take a rather long holiday to learn how to ring while you're here.
** And, speaking of England, an umbrella, or possibly a tent
*** Or perhaps might be distracted by wondering what you're sitting on. You know, ON. Even before I lived in town with three dogs I used to be a trifle wary about sitting on bare ground . . . although pre-three-dogs-in-town this was mainly because it was likely to be damp. A few weeks ago the hellterror and I rounded the corner from the main street into the churchyard and found a large number of serious walkers^ bestrewn about the grassy triangle you come to first. The same grassy triangle that every dog within miles rushes to with little whimpers of joy on sight—including mine.^^ Not all of whose owners are as pathologically over-supplied with plastic bags and paranoia as I am. And damp may come from a variety of sources. I hope when the walkers arose from their respite no one was too . . . unhappy.
^ Not a pair of All Stars in sight and I'm sure denim jeans and cotton socks are anathema. Proper hiking boots with proper hiking socks turned down at the tops and Nordic walking sticks and proper breathable sport clothing and the whole ninety-seven yards.+ Scary.
+ Or 88.69 metres.
^^ The hellterror on this occasion was bemused. She was willing to be generous, however, since people usually mean petting+ and furthermore, full length upon the sward they are at her level.
+ There is always someone(s) who goes ewwwww bull terrier VICIOUS FIGHTING DOG it's in the GENES don't tell me they can EVER BE TRUSTED they'll RIP YOUR THROAT OUT in your sleep but there are fewer of these than I feared when I took delivery of my little shovel-headed# badger-faced bedspring-legged bundle of mania## getting on for three years ago.
# While shovel-headed is the term of endearment I'm accustomed to, the unique bullie profile is more, I feel, trowel-headed: those wide trowels for planting rather than the narrow ones for weeding. Or possibly pooper-scooper headed.
##Maybe the HandleBards should get their own bull terrier.
† Even if I do hurtle many miles every day in pursuit of the members of the hellmob. I have tough, case-hardened feet. But 2000 miles on a BICYCLE SEAT?
†† From our CHAIRS. Admetus has FOLDING CHAIRS. Folding chair technology has come a long way since my last attempt, specially imported from Maine with the eighty cartons of books when I arrived on these shores, and which I think died in the shrubbery somewhere at the old house.
††† If you go I recommend you do not go too early nor sit in the front row.
‡ I have always been fond of the painted maypole. I'd forgotten that the canker-blossom, always a good sound Shakespearean insult, had come from this scene.
‡‡ I'm assuming the spider legs fold, and the bicyclists don't also have to bolt them together every night.
‡‡‡ If you're hopelessly confused, watch the proscenium set up in the YouTube clips. I don't think you see the rail moving, but you can see the hitched-up bicycle
§ And while the four on show are the only ones who climb on the bicycles the directors and adaptors and whoever else back at base are brilliant at what they do too. The cut down, ridiculousnessed-up version really works. I was surprised at the amount of physical slapstick and roughhousing: given the whole bicycle thing I would have thought—even allowing for the fact that this is a young man's^ game—that they'd need to be a little careful of the bruises. Nobody is so flawlessly accurate about at-speed contact work that there won't be any. But they freely grapple and throw each other around and fall melodramatically to the ground. I hope they're taking their vitamins. And arnica for bruises.
^ I can't help but hope that one of the personnel changes some day will include an insane young woman willing to engage with the imprudence and balderdash and 2000 miles on a bicycle seat.
§§ There have already been some personnel changes as you will see if you work through all the clips.
§§§ Peter and I went to a very beautiful, very grand garden today—one of the private-gardens-open-to-the-public-for-charity that are so popular over here. It was huge, with wild bits and orchards and meadow and views of the surrounding, and then nearer the (grand) house, clipped-hedge-differentiated 'rooms' of glorious flower borders, professionally designed and meticulously kept.^ And it really was beautiful . . . but it was also rather too gorgeous and definitely too relentlessly primped and weeded, although this may just be my guilty conscience about my tiny nettle-infested patch.^^ But . . . the HandleBards are better value.^^^
^ And tea with cake.
^^ Although my roses are fabulous.
^^^ And I don't know if it's a venue by venue thing or a head office thing but they could be a lot better advertised. So look them up and go if they're anywhere near you, okay? And pass it on.
Yurk. Also, from the ridiculous to the sublime
The yurk part: experiments in raising my activity level to previous modest heights are proving unsuccessful, or at least inspiring undesirable repercussions. Which is to say I have barely got the hellpack hurtled today, and possibly in slo-mo, I'm too whacked to be sure of what my legs have been doing, but Pav can create her own alternate realities, and hucklebutts rather well on her extending lead, given the absence of large inconveniently-placed trees. And the hellhounds are, after all, well into middle age, and are happy to saunter along, looking elegant and fabulous, with a brief sprint when no one is looking but me.
The rest is a daze.* And this one. Word. After. Another. doohickey, whatsit, blog is just beyond me tonight.**
But I don't want to leave you entirely without frivolous reading material. So here's the ridiculous part:
B_twin, knowing my feelings about Peter Jackson***, sent this to me several weeks ago and I laughed and laughed and saved the address so I could hang it on the blog some day† and today is the day. Some of you'll have already seen it . . . but there are paragraphs definitely worth revisiting.
The sublime part: http://www.diegrossestille.de/english/
Aloysius loaned me the DVD . . . oh, months ago. Probably months and months. I watched it once fairly quickly but really—even after you've watched all the extra bits and clips—it raises more questions than it answers so I wanted to watch it again before I gave it back . . . and that plan of a plan went on kind of a while. Poor Aloysius finally asked for its return so I hastily rewatched it right around the time B_twin sent me the SMAUG review . . . and these two so clearly belong together.†† You know. Ridiculous. Sublime.
The SILENCE web site is a little obscure but keep clicking. The film is a documentary about a 'closed' Carthusian monastery and it's . . . well, it's amazing. I didn't, myself, ever forget I was watching a film—I'm a trifle resistant to arty films and this one has AAAAAAAART stamped on every frame, and the suggested use of it as a meditation aid I'm like, what?—but the mixture as demonstrated in these monks' lives of the spiritual and the practical, the outer and inner, the ordinary and extraordinary, was lovely and moving. And the landscape is spectacular. Although I'm glad I don't live there, aside from the whole no-talking thing.
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* There was a lot of lap time today. This is now the second and third generation of critters to think that ME is a great invention.
** Also I need to claw myself together to go to my monks tomorrow night.
*** The brief polite version is that I thought THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING was a mostly honourable failure, I hated TWO TOWERS and never saw RETURN OF THE KING. There was never any way in any universe similar or dissimilar to this one that I was going to see what smashed and broken melee he was going to make of THE HOBBIT.
† Preferably before the third film comes out, but greatness, in reviewing as in everything, is timeless.
†† I am sick. Yes, I know.
Shortie Wednesday
For a woman who got about four hours of sleep last night I'm doing really well. Luke and his family left this morning and I was conscious to see them off. Morning. Conscious. Golly.* I did not fall asleep during the silent-prayer sit this afternoon although there may have been a little more swaying than totally desirable. As I keep saying, those Zen guys had some good ideas. Cross-legged if you can fold up enough to get your knees on the floor—your zafu is totally your friend here—really is a stable posture and having to keep your back more or less straight requires a certain minimal attentiveness. My brain, unfortunately, was even more of ricocheting disaster than usual but by the end of the second half the physical stillness was beginning to have some effect. A bit like trapping your manic hellterror between your legs. You are going to be quiet now. Yes. You are. Quiet. I said quiet.
I even made it through bell ringing at the abbey. The good thing about summer holidays is that those of you who show up get to ring a lot. This is a mixed blessing on four hours' sleep in a muggy airless ringing chamber, but it was okay. And when Albert called for bob minor I chose a middle bell so I could practise my ropesight on a method I should know backwards, forwards, upside down and in a frelling queue instead of a circle so you can only see some of the bells depending on which way you're looking and end up with whiplash, snapping your head back and forth. And even that was okay, in spite of the 7,341 Dreaded Three-Four Down Singles that my bell had to ring.
But today is OFFICIAL SHORT BLOG WEDNESDAY YAAAAAAAAY. I was going to post this last week, and then that amazingly sensitive and perceptive blogger tweeted her review of SHADOWS and that, of course, took precedence.
Adele Geras retweeted this eight or nine days ago**, as it happens a few days after I had finished a KES ep in which Kes has a white-flapping-thing experience she does not enjoy. And while I don't think I'd call the original the best or my favourite M R James story*** it's probably in my top ten. This dramatization is also interesting, I think, for it being a classic example of the BBC of that era: what it does really well and what it does badly. But I did find this well worth forty minutes of my time. If a few of you watch it and express an opinion/interest I'll do a bit of a SPOILER post about what I thought of it.
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* A significant part of the problem at the moment is that I own only one fan and . . . the hellcritters need it worse. You only think about additional fans when you need one, by which time they've sold out.
** But because good record-keeping and tidy organization are not in my skill set I've managed to lose who tweeted it originally, and I can't find it to check. I merely emailed myself the link.
*** If I had to choose it might be Casting the Runes. Maybe I should do some rereading. . . .
Various. Hey, I've been working, I have no brain or ability to make connections
So I finally made it to bell practise at the abbey again tonight and . . . the less said about it the better.
I tell myself that it's been a month since I was there last, that I already know I'm finding the learning curve with those particular bells steep*, and that tonight wasn't as bad, say, as the first time I rang there.** Or the first time I rang there after quitting New Arcadia, being intimidated out of my tiny mind, and wondering if I had a future as a ringer anywhere.
But not very much better.
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I wish to say that I am DELIGHTED at the forum comments about year round decorated not-just-for-Christmas trees.† I've actually thought of trying to do this, de- and re-ornamenting a tree†† or a tree-like object, but in the first place I've never got round to it, partly because in the second place as soon as you start thinking, okay, this can be anything I want it to be the possibilities unfurl into infinity . . . beginning with the fact that it wouldn't have to be exactly a tree, although, come Christmas again that might be easier.†††
I am also delighted that several people have posted liking John Carter: the critic-flayed film. Excellent. Now all it has to do is come to Zigguraton or Mauncester. I admit I want the full theatre experience. ‡
Meanwhile, Diane in MN posted a link to this excellent article about Burroughs and the original novels:
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Library-Without-Walls/A-Dreamer-of-Mars-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-and-John-Carter/ba-p/7187 ‡‡
And last but not least, also carrying on from last night's link-post, my favourite story so far about recent rampant sexism:
Only a little over ten years ago, when I was an undergrad exchange student inFrance, I received a telemarketing-type call on the separate line that my host family nicely provided in their exchange student room. The woman on the other end asked to speak to the man of the house. As I was somewhat flummoxed by actually hearing this question out of the 1950s, the first phrase my still-shaky French brain offered up was: "I don't have one."
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* Not to mention the stairs. Which have definitely got steeper in the last month.
** I had a cup of tea with Penelope today at her house^ and was describing my difficulties at the abbey, including the business of not ringing in a circle, which is what most of us are used to and what our rather feeble ropesight can cope with, but a line. Not a line, said Penelope, who has rung there herself, a banana. She's right. Unfortunately I thought of this image tonight and it did not help my concentration.
^ Not without difficulty. Her entire street is up, with 'road closed' signs at both ends and mobs of yellow-jacketed persons rushing up and down waving uninterpretable instruments of destruction, flanked by diggers and dump trucks in a wide range of sizes and numbers of teeth. Having tried both ends without success, I parked Wolfgang in a hedgerow and hiked in, leaping over abysses and bubbling pits, and fending off over-familiar bulldozers. I believe they were air-lifting Penelope out when she had to go to work.
*** Maybe I should focus on singing. I pulled Che Faro Senza Eurydice off the shelf today for the first time in a while, to have a go at being tragic.^ Um. I think I may have achieved whining. Perhaps I'd better not focus on singing.^^
^ This may be as far as I can get into opera, but I want to sing this properly.
^^ I did get Nadia to help me with the frelling Owl and frellinger Pussycat on Monday. With her at my elbow being crisp it all seems terribly doable. This has gone away again. Yes, I can now sing the descant alone, possibly even without the one-finger-on-the-piano to hold me steady. But as soon as the basses start up tomorrow evening I'll be toast. Pleeeeeeease let Griselda be there.
† Goes nicely with 'a dog is for life and not just for Christmas'
And this year, Marks and Spencer, not to be outdone in the responsible consumer and empathic small-footprint, we're-all-just-visiting-this-planet stakes, brought out a holiday-red shopping bag that says 'a bag is for life, not just for Christmas'. I have a second-hand one—it arrived in this household bearing Christmas presents—and it amuses me every time I need a red plastic shopping bag to put something in.
†† I am totally with the idea of a chocolate Easter egg decorated tree, for example.
††† In the third place, I think Peter might not be entirely thrilled with the idea. Hmm. I could start experimenting by decorating the geraniums^ on the windowsills at the cottage perhaps. But a year-round holiday tree would, in my dastardly hands, turn into another sort of shelving for little noodgy objects—I already have not only a full complement of the standard sorts of dustcatchers, but little dangly things on chains and ribbons suspended from curtain rails and the cottage's gigantic overhead beams and so on.
The good part of a rolling-with-the-seasons decorated tree is that you do get the fun of decorating (as someone on the forum said is an important part of the tree thing) while the boringness of the taking-down part is somewhat ameliorated. But what I foresee is that I'd just end up with the seasonal decorated not-a-tree plus a frelling Christmas tree all over again.
^ I've been moving around the cottage garden the last three days muttering Empty space! Look at all this empty space! and frantically trying to remind myself that this happens every year, I've got stuff ordered, CALM DOWN. Today in my inbox I have about sixty-two 'your order has been shipped' from plant nurseries all over England. And Scotland. Wheeeee. There goes my plan to repot everything on the windowsills before Spring Frenzy starts however.+
+ ::says in a very small voice:: But I do need a climbing rose . . .
‡ Opera and cheezy SF&F: McKinley's theatre-going priorities. Which reminds me. Last-month's-but-I-missed-it big story was: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/02/van-halen-different-truth-review
Remember I told you that I finally got around to having my adolescence in my thirties? Yeah. Well, the David Lee Roth Van Halen was a major feature in this enterprise^ and I was totally with Bloom County when Michael J Binkley declared that the whole world has gone to hell in a handbasket since David Lee Roth left Van Halen.^^
Now . . . want to know how I finally found out about the new album? By following an opera singer on Twitter.
And am I going to buy the first David Lee Roth Van Halen album in almost thirty years? Hmmm. . . .
^ Although a friend who was there used to say that I didn't have a disturbing and unhealthy crush on Roth, I wanted to be him. Well, yes. The wardrobe, you know, although I've kept more of my hair.
^^ I had the original cartoon taped to my wall in Maine, but I didn't get it laminated fast enough and it disintegrated when I peeled it off to take to England. This may have been an omen, of course.
‡‡ Michael Dirda is fabulous. He is fabulous not least—as I was saying of Michael Chabon last night—because he takes genre seriously.


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SK Telecom Americas today launched SKTA Innovation Accelerator to fund and help create the essential data center and core technologies needed to meet modern computing demands. SKTA Innovation Accelerator pairs entrepreneurs with Strategic Partners and provides up to $1 million in combined funding, services and facilities. SK Telecom Americas is the business development and venture capital arm of SK Telecom, Korea's largest wireless operator and a global technology leader, and has worked with some of the brightest minds in VC and angel investing—and some of the biggest technology companies in Silicon Valley—to design this novel new funding model.
Data and processing is increasingly being pushed into the cloud as mobile devices become the dominant computing platform for both work and play. There are more iPhones sold each day than people born in the world, and mobile devices are becoming as powerful as computers1. The Commodore 64 computer, once the most powerful PC, functioned on only 64kb of RAM, but Apple's iPhone 5s has 1 GB of RAM. The corresponding semiconductor, hardware, management software and energy infrastructure required to keep up with these new developments is staggering, and growing exponentially as connected devices and wearables proliferate.
"Over the past decade, venture capital funding has swung to software and cloud services, and it's no longer in vogue for VCs to invest in core technologies," said Min Park, president of SK Telecom Americas. "We created SKTA Innovation Accelerator to fill this critical void in the technology ecosystem by pioneering a new funding model that brings financial velocity to IT infrastructure startups by enabling a quick path from concept to exit. Our model simultaneously de-risks the investment for initial investors and founders, and gives Strategic Partners early insight into new technologies that can rapidly fill holes in their product portfolio or empower them to enter new markets."
The Innovation Matchmaker: How the Accelerator Works
SKTA Innovation Accelerator is an "innovation matchmaker" that offers a new way to seed and accelerate core technology startups by matching entrepreneurs with Strategic Partners. The goal of the Accelerator is to identify and cultivate tomorrow's IT infrastructure solutions today, providing up to $1 million in funding composed of working capital, professional services, development tools and state-of-the-art facilities per venture to jumpstart the technology ecosystem needed to power the next wave of innovation. SKTA Innovation Accelerator matches each portfolio company with a Strategic Partner committed to providing technical and market guidance to rapidly develop a minimum-viable product for the right market segment. The Accelerator strives to provide everything entrepreneurs need to remain laser focused on transforming their idea into a venturable proof-of-concept.
During the Seed Phase of operation, the startup (together with the professionals and support teams at the Accelerator) develops the product, business plan, milestones and metrics to deliver the product to market. At this time, patents are filed, simulation data is collected and analyzed, and prototypes are built and tested. The Seed Phase should last between 6 and 12 months. At the conclusion of the Seed Phase, the projects that show the most potential will be selected to receive Series A funding and will progress on one of two exit paths:
1. Spin-In: Acquisition by Strategic Partner
2. Venture: Additional funding from traditional capital sources
"The pending rollout of the Internet-of-Things and the continued exponential growth of the Cloud require a seismic shift from the current infrastructure and how it is managed," said Ken Lawler, senior advisor to SKTA Innovation Accelerator, renowned semiconductor investor and a founding partner of Battery Ventures' Silicon Valley office. "The way in which people interact with the internet is about to undergo another evolutionary step. Delivering core technologies to make that step a reality is what the Innovation Accelerator is built to do."
"SKTA Innovation Accelerator is helping to grow the broader technology ecosystem required to ensure innovation keeps pace with future demands," said David Lee, venture partner to SK Telecom Ventures, founder and managing partner of SV Angel and an early investor in Twitter, Foursquare, Flipboard, Dropbox and Airbnb. "This new accelerator has flipped the VC funding model on its head to make it financially viable for entrepreneurs and VCs to grow the next wave of hardware-based technologies."
For more information about SKTA Innovation Accelerator or to learn how to apply, please visit: http://sktainnopartners.com/f-a-q/.
About SKTA Innovation Accelerator
SKTA Innovation Accelerator is a different kind of accelerator based in Silicon Valley. We seed core technology startups by matching entrepreneurs with Strategic Partners committed to providing technical and market guidance for rapidly developing the minimum-viable product for the right market segment. SKTA Innovation Accelerator identifies and cultivates tomorrow's IT infrastructure today, providing startups with up to $1 million in funding, professional services, development tools and state-of-the-art facilities to jumpstart the technology ecosystem needed to power the next wave of innovation. For more information please visit http://sktainnopartners.com/
About SK Telecom Americas
SK Telecom Americas (SKTA) is the business development and venture capital arm of SK Telecom, Korea's largest wireless operator and a global technology leader serving 25 million customers with $16 billion in revenue. In 2011, SK Telecom was the first provider in the world to offer a publicly accessible 4G LTE network, and in 2013 it was first to offer an LTE-Advanced network.
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Name: Dalal Al-Maghribi
Known as: Al-Maghribi
Father: Saed
Mother: Amnah
Date of Birth: 1958
Date of Death: 1978
Nationality: Palestinian
Place of Birth: Beirut
Category: Political activist
Profession: Political activist
Dalal Al-Maghribi
- Palestinian
- Pseudonym: Jihad
- Was born in Al-Mazra'aa neighborhood in Beirut in 1958.
- Her father was a Palestinian from the village of al-Lidd and her mother was Lebanese.
- She received her primary education in Ya'abud school and her intermediate education in Haifa school. Both schools were run by UNRWA in Beirut.
- She joined "Fatah" movement in 1972.
- She led a military operation in the occupied territories on 11 March 1978, commanding the group of "Dayr Yasin." The operation was planned and organized by Khalil al-Wazir and was codenamed "Kamal `Adwan" in reference to the Palestinian intellectual who was assassinated in Beirut in 1973. She hijacked a bus going from Haifa to Tel Aviv and was killed in that operation.
Details of the Operation:
She successfully infiltrated the Palestinian territories with a group of Fedaiyeen and took control of an Israeli Mercedes. The group used this car to control an Israeli bus and drove it to Tel Aviv. On their way, they took control of another bus and moved its passengers to the first bus and continued driving and managed to cross more than one military checkpoint. This drove the military to deploy more troops and a fierce battle took place near Al-Khudaira settlement that lasted for more than thirty hours. Some Israeli hostages were killed in this battle, along with Dalal, Muhammad Shar'aan (Palestinian), Abdul Raoof Ali (Yamani), Muhammad Abdul Rahim (Palestinian), Muhammad As'aad (Palestinian), Muhammad Al-Shimmari (Yemeni), Ali Amriya (Lebanese), Khalid Abdul Fattah (Palestinian), and Yahya Skaf (Lebanese). The two Palestinians, Hussein Fayyadh and Khalid Ibrahim, were captured and the operation resulted in the death of thirty Israelis and wounded more than eighty settlers and soldiers.
The commander of the army at that time was Ehud Barak, and the minute he knew that Dalal was the commander of the group, he approached her body, grabbed her hair, and started pulling it before the cameras.
She was on the list of corpses claimed by Hizbullah in the deal of prisoner exchange with Israel made on 17 July 2008. DNA tests showed that her body was not returned, and the four returned bodies belong to anonymous martyrs. The location of her body is still unknown.
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Hotel Eikenhof, East Flanders (prefecture)
- Free breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 18 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Free train station pick-up
- Garden
- Car rentals on site
- Multilingual staff
What's around
- Canada-Poland War Museum (5.3 mi / 8.5 km)
- Bulskampveld (8.7 mi / 13.9 km)
- St. Vincent Church (9 mi / 14.6 km)
The rooster needed to made into soup. Every hour starting at 0400. All else was delightful. Staff was excellent. Breakfast was wonderful.
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- Standard Single Room
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- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 2:00 PM-6:00 PM
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- 2 per room
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Bhopal: Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh Assembly Thursday staged a walk out charging the BJP government of being "insensitive" in dealing with the kidnap and murder of a school boy and subsequent violence in Shivpuri town last week.
The party also demanded resignation of Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta and suspension of concerned police officials in the matter.
The issue was raised by Ramniwas Rawat, Choudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi and Dr Govind Singh (all Congress) through a call attention motion. They pointed out a number of lapses on the part of the police that led to violence in the town after the abduction and killing of Utsav Goyal on March 2.
Rawat charged the government with not handling the matter in a sensitive manner which resulted in violence in which an enraged mob not only ransacked a police station but also torched few police vehicles including that of the Sub Divisional Officer of Police.
Chaturvedi also slammed the police and highlighted a mobile number through which calls were made and wanted to know from the Home Minister whether police had tried to find out who owned that cell number and what was his role in the crime.
Mahendra Singh Kalukheda (Congress) also charged the SP with failing to anticipate the situation. "He did not even sent requisition for the required additional force from neighbouring districts to control the situation which led to violence in the town for full two days."
The Congress members also accused the government of not arresting three more persons in the matter who played a major role in the incident.
Tulsiram Silawat and Brijraj Singh Tomar both from Congress also cornered the government on the issue and pressed for suspension of SP and the concerned police station in-charge for lapses.
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In that anorak I'd be difficult to lose! :))
What is the river called here?
I wouldn't dear to let you out my sight, regardless the colour of you anorak Amelia. ;-))
The river is called Gyaånå (Gya-elva) (The Gya River)
Very beautiful landscape. An anorak is something I'll never use here!
An anorak is something we almost always use here Ivo. ;-)
Hi PerO this is a wonderful picture with fantastic colours L&F Best Regards Richard
I just knew the red anorak would attract attention! ;-)
In fact Ivo, I'm kind of glad that we here have the ability to experience the different kind of weather through the different seasons. :-)
Today is heavy rain all day, and we will need an umbrella as well if going outdoor.
Thanks for visit and a nice comment my good-weather friend. :-)
Best wishes to Rio from a wet Norway,
Thanks for a beautiful comment and your L&F Richard!
The red anorak is my favourite too. ;-))
All the best,
Maybe, Amelia, I should cut it out, save it and use it in some other photos as well. :-)))
Well it wouldn't be out of place in many of your photos Per. I always seem to be wandering around saying, "Oh this is absolutely so beautiful!" ;-)
When you mention it Amelia. ;-))
Nice shot, fine composition, well done. Like5.
Greetings, Leif.
Just to tell you that you have an extra 'h' in the title Per. :)))
Hugs from the lady in the red anorak.
Thank you for visit, kind words and your Like Leif.
Best regards,
Thanks for the correction Amelia. I can't possibly blame the keyboard for this one. ;-))
Now I have a few on you as well. Where do you want to start? ;-))
I'm going early to bed this evening. ...I think. ;-)
I hope you are not too bad Per! The weather looks fairly promising tomorrow - Adrian has the car!
My text message will arrive with you prompt at 9a.m. ;-)
Weather looks rather wet and stormy until noon tomorrow Amelia, but perfect after that. :-)
Let's call it a date. ;-)
Better hit the sack intermediately then, to be prepared tomorrow.
Good night my friend. .-)
Photo taken in Eigersund, Norway