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Rachel Levy, 37, worked as marketing director at the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston before her position was eliminated in July 2008. She previously held brand management positions at Kraft Foods and Jim Beam Brands. Ms. Levy received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1998. She lives in Boston.
A few months ago, I was asked a question by a potential employer that I couldn't answer. The question was: What do you think of what we are doing in social media? I couldn't answer it not because I didn't know what he meant, but rather, that I hadn't actually looked it up. Although social media is the area of marketing I am most interested in, I was still stuck in my old ways of researching a company by looking at their website.
With so much competition, doing thorough research of a company is one of the most important steps in preparing for an interview. It gives me the opportunity to bring up what I have researched, or just have a better understanding of how the company operates. Realizing this put me into action to change the way I now research companies.
Here's what I've started doing. I search for the company's fan page on Facebook. I look what they have posted, and what their fans are posting about them. I do the same for YouTube. I find their corporate account on Twitter, and again, see what they are tweeting about. I also search on an application called Twellow, to find employees of the company, and see what they are writing about. I find their company profile on LinkedIn, and look up the profiles of some of the people I might be working with or key executives, and definitely the people I will be interviewing with. I try to find at least one item about a person that I have in common with them, so I can bring it up in the interview somehow.
Additionally, I do quick searches for the company and key people on Hoovers and Zoominfo. Other good websites include: Vault, Glassdoor, Lexis Nexis, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. Of course, there's the good old search engine where I can type in the company's name, or coupled with keywords such as 'good' or 'bad.' Through looking at these sites, I also try to understand who the company's major competitors are.
Of course, I still look at the company's website, and at a minimum, read the About Us section, the press section, and overall what the company has been doing. If they have a blog, I read the first few posts.
Spending the time doing this extensive research has really helped me better understand the mindset of the people and the company I'm interviewing with. Last week, I was asked in the interview what I thought of a company's website, and I could give a very thorough analysis. Additionally, after having done the research, I'm more confident, can ask better questions, and get a deeper understanding of whether I would want to work at this company in the future.
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... instead of wasting my time teaching people who don't even really have the passion for aikido. they said that they want to exercise. but instead of training hard, most of them just chat on the mat. it really pisses me off and make me want to leave them and pair up with other senior students who I can apply my real aikido to and have the desire to learn and train hard..
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I see you got great advices. How is it going on now after some time? You wrote something about your first sensei and how the training was hard and he did not needed to show the techniques a lot of times- you just learned. Sounds like a great role model. Maybe you can think about whats the technique of his teaching and try to copy it.
Sounds like you are not happy with your own classes. I mean you are "the boss" you can create the perfect class exactly the way you want it to be. If you believe in your students they will prove you they can do more that you thought they could.
I think the way of training is only depending on the teacher. You are the one that have to create the level of training and the discipline. You can choose powerfully techniques in motion, train a lot of ukemi every class and encourage them to rase up from the tatami faster after being throne to increase the dynamic of the training and for them not to have time to talk with each other
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the music sounds a little tribute-ish to the 28 days later soundtrack :)
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i wish people play like this but u know we want to run over the map like kids :D
myeah but I think most of the people can't meet the hardware requirements to play decent quality and lagless
yeah, two steps from hell FTW! great choice.
The trailer makes the game look easy..... Its not! it requires skill an under standing of rules/laws(of the real world eg. gravity distance recoil...) but most of all team work. going at it alone never works out.FANTASTIC for team based gamers if you have BF2 and haven't played this mod then DAMN!!! do
finally tho, right? games are too arcady these days, they always have to appeal to a mass market, which in my opinion makes them ****. there arent enough games like this.
somethings need to be grounded in reality and i thank you for this.
now all i have to do is download 4gb's of it.
how does the community get together with this mod?
I'm sorry but i jizzed my pants the whole time this video was play D:
wtf???????? I really didn't like BF series since BF2 but this mod is awesome and now BF 2 deserves to be purchased =)
Bloody Brilliant!
How many people play this mod online? im thinking about buying the game just for this mod and forgotten hope.
This is the most popular mod for bf2 so I'm pretty sure there are a lot of players on it. There are many other cool bf2 mods as well but this is more popular.
Hei,, we are many people playing this brilliant mod, where the most important thing is the teamwork, and the respect for the rules.
the best bf2 mod out there 2 date...got 2 lov the PR
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wish i had time to play this.
dude this mode kicks so much *** i think it deserves to go big with better graphics and a cd case :P i love this mode hope it goes big couse ill be 1st person to buy it
y i wish ppl actualy do team work other then going around building driving tanks and letting the go to waiste if we do teamwork game would be so beast and u would acomplish more TEAM WORK TEAM WORK
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It is evident from the outset that Kenwood has fashioned another award winning Cabernet Sauvignon in the 2004 Jack London. Beginning with a richly endowed robe and a haunting aroma, replete with blackberry, currant, eucalyptus, and mint, the newly released 2004 Jack London Cabernet Sauvignon captures this terraced vineyard's unique terroir: the red-lava earth of Mount Sonoma, the warm eastern sun, and the cooling afternoon sea breeze much like the author's stories invoke all the physical and elemental sensations of nature. And remarkably, with only fifteen or twenty minutes of breathing time, this young, but well-balanced Cabernet delivers to the palate all that it promises in the olfactory. From the very first sip, succulent, complex Cabernet flavors fill the mouth: blackberry, cassis, menthol eucalyptus, and currant, all beautifully imbued with oak. And once again, this Jack London's elegant ripe tannins are beautifully integrated into the wine, as are all twenty-four months of ageing that every Jack London Cabernet spends in French oak barrels. Certainly, some aeration improves the impressive 2004 Jack London Cabernet Sauvignon, but one of the real charms of this wine is not having to wait an hour or more for elemental drinking pleasure. Enjoy this youthful Cabernet at no more than 66° F and as often as you can. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2019.
A fine young Cabernet Sauvignon, such as the 2004 Kenwood Jack London, is ideally paired with rich, rewarding fare. Consequently, a prime cut of filet mignon, grilled over an open flame, lightly coated with a wild mushroom sauce, and served next to creamy mashed potatoes, remains one of our favorite pairings with this wine. Prime Rib of beef and leg of lamb provide other excellent tried and true accompaniments, but given this wine's connection to Jack London we suggest you dare to be adventurous. Consider tapping into the wild past of North America and sample what sustained many Native American tribes and the earliest Rocky Mountain men, buffalo, in the form of a nutrition-rich coffee-crusted bison filet. If you take this route, pay attention to the cooking time and temperature since bison provides a lean, quick-cooking cut of meat. Most cows' milk cheeses offer excellent companionship to this flagship wine as well. And when a vegetarian mood strikes, a spicy four-bean chili will satiate any appetite. Fortunately, an unadorned glass of the 2004 Kenwood Jack London is such a pleasurable experience, too. Enjoy!
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London's life mirrored the polar pulls of the physical and the civilized. In his early years, London worked as an oyster pirate, he shipped on a seal-hunting expedition, and he joined the Yukon Gold Rush in 1897. At the turn of the century, however, London found literary success. As America's best-selling author, he acquired a significant fortune and in 1905 began acquiring farmland in Sonoma Valley to form Beauty Ranch. In contrast to his adventurous youth, London was committed to experimental and progressive farming techniques, such as controlling erosion and designing labor saving farm buildings. So, although deeply drawn to the native beauty of his land, London spent his final years fabricating a haven of comfort and civilized living at Beauty Ranch, which included some of Sonoma County's finest wines.
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I was born in Riverside, Burlington County New Jersey and spent much of my first ten years there. My father died in WWII having never seen me. My step-father was in the Navy so we spent a lot of time traveling around. I graduated from high school at the Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, joined the Navy in 1961, came out to California in 1963 and have been here ever since. I have been married twice, have three children and eleven grandchildren. My second wife Sandy and I have known each other since we were five years old and have been married since 2006. I have been doing my family genealogy since 2010 and a member of Find A Grave for over four years now.
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UT-Arlington police arrested a man last week suspected of fondling several women on campus.
According to police, a female student reported that the suspect sat next to her at the Central Library and made conversation. He then stuck his hand inside her shirt and touched her chest. When she tried to leave, the suspect shoved her against the book stacks and held her there, police said.
She was able to free herself and contacted police. She described the man as being dark-skinned with brown eyes, short black hair and a thin mustache and beard. He is about 5 feet 9 inches and is described as having a medium build, police said.
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Superintendent Dan Teplesky told a crowd of about 40 parents at the board meeting Thursday night that the district has no issues with the fire code at Chase, which has an enrollment of 357 students. In 2009-10, the year before Monticello closed Duggan elementary in Bethel, enrollment at Chase was 222. The board formed a committee to study the space issues.
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Roger in quarters
The world No. 1 and home favourite is bidding to win his sixth Swiss Indoors crown, and enters this year's tournament as defending champion. Only once has Roger failed to take home the trophy since he first triumphed in 2006, and he survived a second-set blip to win 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-5 against Bellucci.
Roger went into a 3-0 lead within 10 minutes. As is typical of a champs performance, a solitary break was all he needed to close out the set, although he did have to save two break points against him as he attempted to serve it out. Bellucci fought back early in the second, taking Roger to a tie break after games had gone with serve. Bellucci stormed into a 6-2 lead to create four set points. Our Champ saved all four but eventually relented as the Brazilian levelled the match. Forced to a third set, Roger came out fighting, creating a break point in Bellucci's first service game. He failed to convert on that occasion but eventually made the decisive breakthrough helped by a Bellucci double fault. By this time Roger was back in control and closed out the match delighting his fans who had been sitting on the edge of their seats for the last two sets.
Roger will meet the winner of Lukasz Kubot and Benoit Paire in the last eight.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Former WBC welterweight titleholder Victor Ortiz was at Friday's weighin at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, not as a competitor but as an observer.
Ortiz has been away from boxing for the past several months, recovering from a broken jaw suffered in his ninth-round TKO loss to Josesito Lopez in June.
"I have boxing on hold, not by choice, it's one of those things where I actually have to step away from it," said the 25-year-old Ortiz (29-4-2, 22 knockouts), of Ventura, Calif. "It's not the greatest feeling; it sucks, that's what I live for."
Ortiz was upset by recent reports that his jaw injury wasn't healing properly and required a second surgery.
"The night I broke my jaw is the only time I had surgery," said Ortiz in clear speech. "I don't know where people get their sources from but I think people need to kind of relax a little bit, ease up out of people's business. I already had my surgery, my jaw feels good. I can actually open it and yawn now, I can eat. A few weeks ago I was still hurting, every time I yawned I had to hold it shut. I'm pretty happy that I can actually open."
Ortiz says that his hiatus will allow him to pursue other ventures, such as the movie he will star in entitled "AWOL 72".
Ortiz said he will play the lead character, a marine, but isn't exactly sure when filming will begin. "It's going to be something fun. It's a pretty big film, it will be in theaters," said Ortiz.
Ryan Songalia is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and contributes to GMA News. He is also a member of The Ring ratings panel and can be reached at email@example.com. An archive of his work can be found at www.ryansongalia.com. Follow him on Twitter: @RyanSongalia.


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By Abeni Phillips
Howard University News Service
WASHINGTON (Sept. 26)
Howard University School of Divinity will host its
96th Annual Alumni Convocation October 17 and 18.
This year's theme is Radical Reconciliation
Special guests include the Cynthia Wedel Lecturer the Rev. Allan Boesak and the Rev. Curtiss Paul DeYoung, an alumnus of the School of Divinity.
Boesak, Ph.D., is a South African theologian and Scholar In Residence at Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind. Boesak was born in Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. After graduating from Bellville Theological Seminary in 1967, he worked as a pastor in Paarl. He was ordained at age 23. He is a leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the United Democratic Front and anti-apartheid activist.
DeYoung, Ph.D., is a professor of Reconciliation Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., and an ordained minister in the Church of God in Anderson, Ind. Prior to graduating from Howard University in 1980, he served for 17 years in the Minneapolis—St. Paul region as the president of the Twin Cities Urban Reconciliation Network , the executive director of the City Gate Project and the senior pastor at a multiracial congregation. He has been to South Africa, Egypt, France, Guatemala, Mexico, the Netherlands, and to Thailand on numerous occasions speaking on reconciliation and the multiculturalism of the Bible.


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With a new year comes MANY new British shows on WETA UK! From documentaries, to dramas, to comedies, we're bringing British television to the Washington, DC area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and all for free on your TV. Read on for descriptions and video previews of all our new programs coming to WETA UK in January!
Wild Indonesia
Premieres Tuesday January 1 from 3:00pm – 6:00pm | Three episodes air back-to-back
This is the story of one of the world's most fascinating regions and its wildlife: Indonesia. From freezing glaciers to coral reefs, orangutans to Komodo dragons, the sheer diversity of landscapes and life defies the imagination.
Benny Hill
Premieres Tuesday January 1 at 11:00pm | Airs late night during the week
This sketch-based, slapstick comedy show starring Benny Hill is a classic British comedy. Benny appears in many different costumes and portrays a vast array of characters.
Downton Abbey Season 1
Premieres Wednesday January 2 at 3:00pm | Two back-to-back episodes Wednesdays at 3:00pm
Set in the Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, this period drama depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era — with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and the British social hierarchy in general.
DCI Banks
Premieres Wednesday January 2 at 9:00pm | Airs Wednesdays at 9:00pm
Tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot combine drama, crime, and thrill in this series.
Sherlock Holmes & Agatha Christie's Poirot
Premieres Thursday January 3 at 8:00pm | Sherlock & Poirot air back-to-back Thursdays at 8:00pm
The classic 1980s version starring Jeremy Brett and David Burke moves from WETA TV26 & HD to WETA UK Thursdays at 8:00pm. Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet also moves to WETA UK airing Thursdays at 9:00pm.
The Café
Premieres Friday January 4 at 8:00pm | Airs Fridays at 8:00pm
Three generations of a family host customers at their seafront cafe in this warm and funny comedy series. Sarah moves back home from London, having lost her boyfriend and her job, so she's helping out her mum Carol at the café. Returning home has its pluses and minuses, find out how Sarah handles them in this comedy series.
Primeval Season 1
Premieres Monday January 7 at 4:00pm | Airs Mondays at 4:00pm
This series is returning to WETA UK! When evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day, the natural world is turned on its head and humanity faces a threat to its very existence. Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing creatures from the very earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world. Cutter and his team struggle to keep the looming disaster secret while dealing with savage dinosaurs and other deadly foes.
Vera I
Premieres Monday January 7 at 9:00pm | Airs Mondays at 9:00pm
Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is an experienced and brilliant murder investigator in North East England. Kind-hearted but an inherent loner, Vera freely admits she can become obsessed with her job; driven by her own demons, the detective faces the world with sarcastic wit, guile, and courage. (Vera II begins Monday January 28)
Life of Mammals
Premieres Tuesday January 8 at 4:30pm | Airs Tuesdays at 4:30pm
David Attenborough introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on Earth, from the smallest to the largest. This is the story of 4,000 species which have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on earth, dry or wet, hot or cold.
The WETA UK Event: The Complete Garrow's Law
Premieres Saturday January 12 at 8:00pm | Airs Saturdays at 8:00pm
Garrow's Law is a legal period drama depicting William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey in the 18th century.


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Definition of viper in English:
- There were other snakes in his collection; mambas, vipers, adders, boomslangs, vine snakes, sand snakes, pythons and other cobra species.
- While human encounters with cobras, vipers, and pythons can prove fatal, more often than not it is the snakes that are killed.
- The dexterity with which the charmers handle deadly snakes such as cobras and vipers has added to the allure of the street-side performances.
- Did we have idiots regulating morons or mice monitoring vipers?
- I surrounded myself with vipers in human bodies.
- Which may be why the vipers in the political snake pit are rattling their rattles and baring those long, curved fangs.
viper in one's bosom
- A person who betrays those who have helped them.Example sentences
- Thank goodness one politician opposed their entry - or we could have this viper in our bosom!
- Apparently he has been unconsciously nursing a viper in his bosom, for the same Science now 'turns and strikes him.'
- Why nourish a viper in one's bosom, cultivate an adversary, possibly an enemy?
- Example sentences
- Hers is the most determined fall into degradation, epitomized by the viperine smile that simmers on her lips after her final abasement for a fix.
- In view of its precarious status, removal of viperine snakes from breeding pools should continue to be part of the population management strategy for this endangered amphibian.
- I took this photo of a viperine snake last August at midday on a shaded stone wall just outside a village in Northern Navarra.
- Example sentences
- Surely, people are more scared of you and your viperish tongue?
- Occasionally she even demonstrates some viperish spirit, as when she traded insults with another model.
- Considering they're cousins I've never seen a more viperish attack of sibling rivalry ever.
- Example sentences
- Now we face the least appealing of the evening's ever-shifting alternatives - marching eight miles through viperous wastes, past a frontier checkpoint, to the nearest outpost of the border patrol.
- When the Commission finds in her husband's favour, she has to watch her poisoner pardoned, freed and fêted as a popular celebrity, while she faces an increasingly viperous press, and is jeered at and spat on in the streets.
- It was a peaceful town till about a year ago when some viperous barbarian started slaughtering folks.
Early 16th century: from French vipère or Latin vipera, from vivus 'alive' + parere 'bring forth'.
Some vipers give birth to live young which have hatched from eggs within the parent's body, whereas the eggs of most snakes are laid before they hatch. The name viper derives from the fact they are viviparous ('producing live young' M17th), coming from Latin vivus 'alive', as in vivisection (early 18th century), and parere 'to bring forth', the source of parent (Late Middle English). The phrase a viper in your bosom, 'a person you have helped but who has behaved treacherously towards you', comes from one of Aesop's fables in which a viper reared close to a person's chest eventually bites its nurturer. See also adder, snake
Words that rhyme with vipergriper, piper, sniper, swiper, wiper
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The episode also follows up on Catherine's unjustified shooting of the pilot's serial killer with Schaeffer lying on her behalf despite mounting a defense of "the truth" earlier in the episode. But he's now beginning to fall under her spell with regards to the possibility that her stepfather is a serial killer, so presumably that's why he changed his mind. Oh, and Schaeffer's long-suffering wife (Anne Dudek) revealed she's pregnant.
This week's serial killer story carries over to next week.
Performances: Sometimes Sevigny seems well-cast as a crazy-obsessive detective; other times she just sounds like a petulant brat (and too much like her "Big Love" character), especially when interacting with her co-worker (Omid Abtahi).
Notable guest star: Comedy series mainstay Kyle Bornheimer ("Family Tools," "Perfect Couples," "Worst Week") appeared as "cheese dad," a married guy Catherine meets at a kids arcade and offers to have a one-night stand with. She orders him to her Mt. Washington condo and though there are a lot of warning signs that she's crazy -- she stalks him from the hallway, her mail is all over the floor, she gets obsessed by a bouncy ball that falls out of his pocket -- he stays long enough to have sex with her. It's Bornheimer's third stint in a Pittsburgh-set show following "Romantically Challenged" and the movie "She's Out of My League." (If "cheese dad" turns out to be a serial killer, I'm done with this show, Pittsburgh angle or not.)
Recognizable locations: Definitely saw the inside of the Allegheny County Courthouse. 31st Street Bridge (fantastic shot under the bridge looking toward Downtown). An opening scene may have been the 31st Street Pub. A murder victim was found in an alley Downtown, possibly the one between Liberty and Penn.
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Although the garden may beckon as strongly as ever, the tasks involved - pulling weeds, pushing wheelbarrows, digging holes, moving heavy pots - become increasingly difficult, or even impossible, with advancing age. But the idea of giving it up is unthinkable for most gardeners. So what's the alternative?
In Gardening for a Lifetime, Sydney Eddison draws on her own forty years of gardening to provide a practical and encouraging roadmap for scaling back while keeping… (more)
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Explore the life of Shakespeare and the London where he lived.
Take a guided tour of the Globe Theatre. Admission includes entry to the Exhibition.
Every 30 minutes. Take a guided walking tour of Bankside. Admission includes entry to the Exhibition.
Fusing music, dance and some serious comedy, Emma Rice's first production as Artistic Director brings the Dream crashing into the Globe's magical setting.
In these chaired Q&As, members of the theatre company share their experiences of working and performing in the Globe, and answer your questions about the show.
The title role is Shakespeare's most brutal and poetic creation and the play his most unsettling engagement with the supra-natural and the nature of evil. Enter the unique intensity of the Globe as this cycle of wondrous horrors captures our imagination once again...


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First impressions are everything, especially when it comes down to crafting a compelling business plan executive summary for investors. Since this document will most likely be read first, before investors will dig deeper into your full business plan, you've got to make it count. Think of your business plan summary like a 30-second infomercial that should reel in the right angel investors in like a moth to light.
Your business executive summary is best written once you have your business plan is completed, because it encompasses your entire vision. Once you have your business plan established, you'll want to get started on the design of a business plan executive summary that will inspire and entice angel investors from the moment they read it. You need that special "wow" factor to make it work. Do this well, and you'll have many investors vying for your attention in very little time.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's deft handling of the media is certainly a legacy of Prince William's memories of what happened to his mother.
Note: This article is from the Guardian.
This article titled "Royal baby likely to be kept at arm's length from media by savvy parents" was written by Roy Greenslade, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 23rd July 2013 13.00 UTC
Who has best learned the lessons of the 1980s, when Prince William was a baby and his mother was subject to an unrelenting media-feeding frenzy – the press or the palace?
The straightforward answer is that the palace long ago took that experience on board and has handled its PR with greater professionalism ever since.
Even when it wobbled in the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, it managed to turn matters around within a week.
The popular press, resistant to any restraint, may lay claim to having learned from its past misbehaviour, but a leopard would change its spots before tabloid editors mended their ways.
Editorial ambitions are largely irrelevant, however, because it is the change of the royal cast, and the differences in their characters, that count more. The Duchess of Cambridge has not made the mistakes of her late mother-in-law. Discretion has been her watchword.
In the years since she and her husband met at university, the couple has avoided the media elephant traps set for them. They will surely do so again now that they have become parents.
They will protect their baby just as they have done so successfully for themselves over the past couple of years. To keep media attention to a minimum, they have used all the security advantages provided by the palace and, on the rare occasions of intrusions into their privacy, have been swift to act.
The duchess has sought help from the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to deal with prying photographers and, when she was snapped topless while sunbathing in a French villa, the palace called in the lawyers.
They have kept journalists at arm's length by merely fulfilling the minimum of official press conferences and photocalls. Neither she nor her husband have stooped to briefing the press and give no hint of doing so in future.
Their reticence appears to be part of their personalities, but their deft handling of the media is certainly a legacy of Prince William's memories of what happened to his mother.
Diana was the object of intense press and public fascination from the moment her relationship with Prince Charles emerged. Though she kept her distance from reporters and photographers during their engagement and the early stages of their marriage, the newspapers soon found that she was as much a Princess of Sales as a Princess of Wales.
So a royal ratpack, partly monarchist and adulatory, wholly commercial and cynical, exploited every opportunity to obtain circulation-winning material about Diana.
It began when she was pregnant with William. She was pictured in a bikini on a beach on an obscure Caribbean island. The Press Council – forerunner of the PCC – censured the two papers responsible for publishing the pictures, The Sun and Daily Star, but the die was cast.
Princess Diana became public property. And her sons' early lives were blighted by intrusion too. The Sunday People went so far as to publish a picture of William answering a call of nature under the headline "The royal wee".
As the Wales's marriage disintegrated, it was transformed into a royal soap opera recorded in daily updates in papers and magazines. The paparazzi tormented Diana by following her every move, but she went on to compound the problem by indulging in covert briefings of favoured journalists.
William and his brother, Harry, were able to enjoy a measure of privacy because the palace secured agreements with the press, largely brokered by the then PCC director, Guy Black (now Lord Black, a Telegraph group executive and chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance that oversees the PCC).
Even so, as a schoolboy William could not be other than aware that the press was always looking for ways to evade the agreement. Meanwhile, he must have noted the negative effects of a compromised private life on his mother's status.
One key difference between the media of his youth and that of today is the obsessive use of social media. Everyone is a journalist now in the sense that people can observe, snap photographs and then publish them in the blink of an eye.
But people need to get close up to take pictures with smartphones, and aside from formal engagements, the couple do not appear in public. So there is no opportunity for candid shots.
Thus far, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have not been troubled by the rise of the new media landscape. Though pictures of the duchess attending official visits have appeared on Twitter, nothing remotely intrusive has been posted.
It is impossible to predict with any certainty that the latest addition to the Windsors will enjoy a life entirely free from intrusion, but the signs surely point in that direction. This new prince is bound to start off with a relatively quiet infancy.
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How to Make Charming Paper Dice Without Using a Ruler
Apparently 3 out of 10 people are perfectionists. If that includes you, please don't read any further - these paper dice are definitely not for you!
Why? Because each dice is extremely wonky, they have lots of gaps and cracks, and are unashamedly held together with sticky tape.
The idea came from having to quickly make a paper dice for my son (he'd lost the dice to one of his board games) - I used the technique outlined below and found the results quite charming.
How to make your own dice without using a ruler
Just follow these simple instructions or use my printable artwork.
First, the rules:
Rule 1
No rulers can be used in the making of dodgy dice.
Rule 2
Each side of the dice must be different
Rule 3
Gaps and cracks are to be celebrated.
Rule 4
The dice must be assembled hastily using sticky tape not glue.
How to do it:
Step 1
Draw six freehand squares, some with tabs, onto paper or card (as shown in illustration 1).
Step 2
Draw on the 'numbers'. Use your imagination and have some fun!
Step 3
Now cut out the dice. You don't have to be accurate.
Step 4
Fold the tabs inwards, and then fold the sides inwards, until a cube shape is formed.
Step 5
Finally, use sticky tape to join the sides together.
Remember the more uneven and wonky the dice the better - so work loosely and don't fuss too much!
Do your own thing
We tend to want to do things accurately, especially when it comes to making things. Sometimes it's fun to embrace imperfection, perhaps this is something you could apply to other projects you are working on.


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Post subject: First post thanks to Hannah
I would just like to say Thankyou to Hannah for making a travel section.
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A Guide to Infantalising and Trivialising the Public sphere
It is no coincidence that Salman Rushdie who remains the poster child of the censorship debate in India begins his celebrated Midnight's Children with the twin image of the birth of a child and that of a nation. The rest of the novel traces the intertwined stories of the child's growth with the political history of independent India. But if one were to extend this allegory taking into account the kind of public sphere that seems to exist in India 65 years after independence there seems to be something amiss about this metaphor of birth and subsequent growth into maturity. A strange malaise pervades the public sphere in India today, where it seems almost as if we have turned the natural cycle of growth around and the children of midnight appears to suffer from the malady of the protagonist in David Fincher's film "The Curious case of Benjamin Button" where a man is born a mature adult but ages backwards and slowly slides into infantile regression. If we were to consider the unreasonable response to Ashis Nandy's talk at the Jaipur literary festival as one in a long continuum of such cases where individuals are hounded for hurting sentiments of communities, the Indian public sphere sadly appears as a weak and sickly child suffering from irony deficiency.
Consider for instance the fact that in 1922 Gandhi proudly declared that it was his duty to be seditious describing Sec. 124A of the Indian Penal Code as a prince amongst political provisions of harassment or Lala Lajpat Rai's bold response to the Indian Cinematograph Committee (which demanded greater censorship of cinema because Indians were not mature enough) that he did not want the future citizens of this country growing up in a nursery and that they should be exposed to all influences to enable them to arrive at better judgments. This situation has largely been brought to bear by a lethal combination: the existence of draconian penal provisions that curtail speech, a criminal justice system that makes it ridiculously easy for groups to file complaints on the basis that they have been hurt and an instrumental media that profits and feeds on the eruption of scandals.
A plain reading of Ashis Nandy's statements at Jaipur make it abundantly clear that far from making casteist slurs, he was actually critiquing a narrow understanding of corruption that did not question the unstated assumptions of upper class and caste privilege which to Nandy's mind is a greater form of corruption. Those who are up in arms against him seem to have huffed and puffed to a point of breathlessness and shortness of breath- doctors will tell you- can affect your hearing. So it might be worth our while to pause, take a deep breath and agree that even if we disagree with what Nandy said it may at best be a disagreement about form in which case one can generously shrug the statement as an awkwardly construed statement. And if one disagrees with him in substance then lets pretend for a while that we are a mature democracy and challenge him intellectually.
Filing a case under the SC ST (Prevention of atrocities Act) and the IPC against a speech act with absolutely no malicious intent only trivializes the intent that corrective legislations like the former were meant to address. Asad Ahmad in his work on blasphemy in colonial India demonstrates how criminal cases around hate speech in colonial India became public events by way of their circulation in media and through rumours so that legal claims of emotional hurt become the basis of mobilization of affective communities centered on the public performance of emotion. This is a strategy that was perfected by the lumpen right wing which has unfortunately been adopted by all minority groups as well.
Assuming that members of the Dalit community feel upset with the form of the statement as a result of historic prejudice, this would call for a verbal or intellectual redressal rather than resorting to legal remedy or street protest. An often ignored virtue in the debate on free speech and censorship is the virtue of listening. The time has come to admit that freedom of speech and expression is highly overrated without an equal commitment to careful listening. This is particularly true when one lives in an eggshell democracy where every step we take, and every word we utter has to be carefully measured against the potential 'hurt' that can be caused. The true test of a democracy lies as much in the amount of speech that it willing to grants its citizens as in the amount of uncomfortable speech that it is willing to listen to. Azra Tabassum, a writer in Delhi says "Fearless Speech demands fearless listening" and while Ashis Nandy is paying a heavy price for his speech the real casualty of the entire affair will be on our collective ability to listen fearlessly and genuine speech in India will be held in perpetual ransom those who infantilise and trivialise our public sphere.
(First published in the Economic Times.)
January 30, 2013 10:07 AM
Dear Lawrence we are verythankfull to you as a student of socialscience as well as the one who does nt feel ourselves as a part of so called public whose sentiment keep open itsef for gerting hurt.I think the only way we can fight wid this politics of hurt , is by saving the publicsphare by not letting it terrorise by this.so this article i hope is a firststep in that direction.
Ulaga Tamizhan permalinkJanuary 30, 2013 10:07 AM
Why assume only "members of the Dalit community feel upset"??
Hargopal Singh permalinkJanuary 30, 2013 10:58 AM
It was very much disturbing to hear about the noisy protests over the comments made by a sociologist in a panel discussion on an issue .The topic was Republic of Ideas.It was part of discussions held in the Jaipur Literature Festival.The name of the topic itself is pompous and suggestive of its own autonomous and separate domain.One cannot have any objection to it whatsoever.Rather to drag it into any controversy is totally unjustified.Whether there can be a Republic like that is beside the point.Every body is free to indulge in such luxuries.How such discussions fall under the jurisdiction of Indian Penal Code passes one's comprehension? Even if media persons are allowed to cover such discussions , they are supposed to look upon them as such and certainly not as a material for sensationalism.If it uses it for that purpose it is the media which should be held responsible for hurting the sentiments and not the panelists.How does the police come in ?How an FIR lodging is justified?If that is so police will have to be posted in the class-rooms also. . .
January 30, 2013 3:17 PM
Well said and well written. Freedom is definitely something we fantasise about. And with great freedom comes great responsibility. We don't realise that 'freedom' is also a measure of a society's ability and maturity to withstand criticism. My God if we were all to be sugary syrupy with each other either we'd be living in Utopia or more likely in Fool's paradise. It is this perceived uninhibited 'freedom' of speech that has seen Indians taking to social media so fiercely. After all anonyomity is the cloak of fearlessness.
Jason Keith Fernandes permalinkJanuary 30, 2013 3:42 PM
Dear Lawrence,
I find the way in which you lump the wide variety of responses to Nandy's "flippant and vulgar position when speaking of the relationship between caste and corruption" deeply disappointing, and indeed, if I dare say so, offensive.
Not all of those offended by his statement have called for him to be arrested. Some have even pointed out the tragedy that the meagre option that the Prevention of atrocities Act provides to this group provides is being squandered on this silly (but nevertheless offensive) statement. Indeed, not all are asking for street protests.
However, all those who are protesting are asking that it be recognised that one cannot flippantly make statements using the SC/ST/OBC groups as fodder. One must have the that much common courtesy, which incidentally save Shuddhabrata, not many, and definitely not you have shown. How is THIS for not listening?
disappointedly yours
Ramesh Narendrarai Desai permalinkJanuary 30, 2013 8:24 PM
Lessons from la affaire Nandy :-
1. Intellectuals should understand emotional state of the oppressed and erstwhile oppressed people. They can not always understand nuances of intellectual statements.
2. Touchiness is intimately connected with maturity of individuals and collections of people. Lesser the maturity, more is the touchiness.
3. The weak and the erstwhile weak, use newly acquired strength, in a disproportionate quantity. Provisions of the law are used where a debate or a mere censure would have been adequate.
4. We all need to become maturer. Wisdom is an entity greater than intelligence. Intellectual arrogance makes us to transgress the boundaries of wisdom.
5. The authorities while adhering to the law, need to use wisdom, in its implementation.
6. With passage of time, the erstwhile oppressed would become mature. In the meanwhile, others who have not been oppressed in the past, need to be cautious about touching the sensibilities of the erstwhile oppressed.
This is the learning that I got from this issue. It is for others to accept them or not. Consequences do not spare anyone including me.
January 31, 2013 9:29 PM
I think fearless listening has not been practiced here to understand the protesters' point of views and sentiments/ hurt. Intellectuals from privileged positions putting up a great defense for their sapient saint Nandy, latching on to only exposing the fallacy of the protesters, albeit falsely assuming they are a unitary unit, and blowing the arrest demands out of the proportion to minimize demands for the critical analysis of Nandy's comment. People who lack cultural and political capital sometimes articulate their outrage through demands of actions (arrest for this one), but there are many who have been condemning Nandy critically without calling for his arrest, that group is less focused here. Writers in this forum while condemning Nandy right at the "Introduction" of their essays end up advocating on his behalf, seeking forgiveness for him. Most writers here on Kafila came out calling themselves, still, a "student" or a "follower" or a "disciple" of Nandy, completely setting the tone for the partisan stands on his behalf. Why should freedom of speech only involve disciples defending their Guru and namecall others as undemocratic? To obfuscate caste categories, Nandy, in this forum, has been referred to as an "Acharya" and his so called critics have called themselves "Ekalavya", really! Why not Arjun? Such derision for practicing identity politics, yet disciples defending their Guru, Bengalis defending another Bengali, Upper caste defending another upper caste, privileged defending another privileged, are somehow not identity politics. I am not calling for Nandy's arrest, but I think he has lost his intellectual right to be called a Guru so often on Kafila.
February 17, 2013 6:01 PM
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (2004), 2004:541542 Cambridge University Press
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About the long-term coordinated variations of the activity, radius, total irradiance of the Sun and the Earth's climate
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The 11-year cycle represents a simultaneous parallel change in both the activity level and the total irradiance of the Sun. So, in case of variations of the amplitude of the activity level - a power of a cycle - the amplitude of solar irradiance variations is expected to change correspondingly. The identical correlated course of the long-term variations of activity and luminosity of the Sun on the secular timescale has been observed earlier by Eddy (1976), and Borisenkov (1988). Moreover, according to the data of Borisenkov (1988), in each of 18 deep Maunder-type minima of solar activity, revealed over the span of the last 7500 years, the cooling of climate had been observed, while warming occurred during the periods of high maxima. Thus, the integral radiation has always been essentially higher at the maximum, and it had noticeably decreased at the minima. Therefore, quasi-periodic variations of the solar activity during both the 11-year cycle and 80- and 200-year cycles are accompanied by proportional variations of the integral flux of solar radiation, which result in geophysical effects. The main cause of climate change during the last millennia is the corresponding cyclic variation of the 80- and 200-year component of irradiance correlated with activity. That is why, the contemporary is not anomalous but is ordinary secular global warming (Aguilar 2003; Reid 2000), as well as previous similar cases of warming during the periods of secular activity growth is still mainly connected with an increase of the secular component of solar irradiance variation.
Recent observations Ulrich (1995) and Noel (1997, 2001, 2002), show that the solar radius variations within an 11-year cycle has the correlated identically with the activity level variations, although a contrary result with smaller amplitude was obtained by Laclare (1996). Furthermore, revealed that the larger radius is connected with high activity level, and a smaller one with low activity level (Basu 1998). The results of Sveshnikov (2002) have ultimately confirmed the reality of close connection between the change of activity level during a cycle and the course of radius variations in both phase and amplitude. In particular, during 11-year cycles with an increased activity level, larger amplitude of radius variations is generally observed, while during the cycles with a decreased activity level - the lower amplitude, i.e. the courses of 11-year variations of both the radius and the activity level are mutually correlated and parallel to each other. A presence of 80-year cycle in the radius variations (Sveshnikov 2002, Parkinson 1980, Gilliland 1981) together with secular climate variations is an additional argument in favor of presence of secular component in the solar irradiance variations. In the phase of maxima of 11-, 80- and 200-year cycles has correspondingly larger radius and higher luminosity, while in the phase of minima of these cycles an opposite picture is observed.
Observed correlated long-term identical variations of radius, irradiance and activity, which require enormous energy resources for a rather long time, are, in our opinion, the consequence of the same processes, taking place in the innermost solar interior, and are coordinated by a global variation of the whole inner structure of the Sun, caused by changes in the state of energy-releasing core, its temperature, and, probably, its rotation rate in the course of cyclic activity of the star (Abdussamatov 2003). Variation of energy release from the core and corresponding temperature change lead to disturbance of the solar equilibrium, determined by the balance of forces of the inner pressure and gravity. An increase of energy release in the core is accompanied by the growth of temperature, which result in unavoidable global heating of the Sun, and corresponding increase of its radius and total irradiance with the effective temperature remaining practically constant. Therefore, cyclic variations of the solar constant result from corresponding change of the emitting area, i.e. W = (R/R)/(S/S) = 0.5. Hence, the amplitude of the 11-year radius variation should be limited to R < 0,5.
Thus, possible long-term smooth quasi-periodic oscillations of the core's energy release, accompanied by the corresponding temperature changes, can lead to cyclic global reconstructions of the whole Sun, induced radial pulsations around mean value of the radius, and, therefore, to variations of the solar constant", proportional to the relative change of the radius squared. Such long-term global variations of the whole Sun, caused by the corresponding changes in the temperature of the core, can catalyze generation of an activity cycle. Increase of the core's temperature and corresponding expansion of the whole Sun can catalyze the raise of activity, while decrease of the core's temperature will catalyze a drop in activity, with the amplitude of the central temperature variations determining the power of a cycle. If amplitude of the core's temperature fluctuations is small, weak cycles with a low-amplitude activity level will be developed, while higher amplitudes result in more powerful cycles. An absence or a rather low amplitude of the temperature fluctuations can lead to a deep minimum of both activity and luminosity of a Maunder-type. Hence, solar activity can acquire additional energy released in the core.
Summarizing, observed cyclicities in solar variations are determined by corresponding quasi-periodic changes in both activity and size (and, therefore, total irradiance). That is why, one can expect that in the nearest future (in accordance with expected decay of the activity and irradiance secular cycle) regular secular decrease of the Earth temperature should replace the contemporary not anomalous but regular secular global warming.
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