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Mini-RushCon, Toronto June 19 - 20
Official Hotel:
Chelsea Hotel Toronto
33 Gerrard Street West
Toronto, ON M5G 1Z4,
Official Airlines:
We have 2 discount codes available on both Porter Air and Air Canada. Please use the codes below for flying into Toronto.
Porter Air: RUSH2015
Air Canada: TB63F3B1
4:00 pm - Bonus event free for all attendees
Join us at at Casey's Bar (123 Front St W) before the show for a pre-show gathering. We will walk over to the AAC in time to have our minds blown. Don't forget your concert tickets!
6:00 pm - Bonus event free for all attendees
An Evening with Drinks and Friends Pub Crawl
Meet at the Eaton Chelsea hotel lobby just before 6pm, then we'll walk to the first pub stop. Fun games will be played throughout the evening, with a chance to win fun Rush prizes. Working late? Join us along the way; this is a fun and casual social gathering. In the end, we'll get a late night snack at a popular local diner. Be sure to drink responsibly and have a ride home that night so you can join us for the Rush show on Friday! Open to attendees 19 years and older.
4:00 pm The pre-party begins at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dundas Square. We will have light appetizers, awesome vendors, some trivia games and prizes, a silent auction, and more!
6:30 pm Our buses will leave the Hard Rock Cafe and take us all over to the Air Canada Centre for the 8 pm show. (Dont forget your tickets!) Buses will pick us up after the show and return to Eaton Chelsea. Dont be late! Buses will leave promptly 20 minutes after the lights go up!
UPDATE: Buses to ACC are now SOLD OUT! You can still register for the pre-party only, but you will need to find your own way to the ACC for the show!
Spend the afternoon on a sight-seeing tour of Rush's hometown of Toronto. We start the day with an exclusive tour of Anthem Records:
12:00 pm Meet in the Eaton Chelsea Lobby, and we will walk to Anthem Records for tour
1:30 pm Buses picks up attendees at Anthem for city tour. We pass by Massey Hall, stop at star on Walk of Fame, and a have photo opportunity at the Parliament Building.
3:30 pm - 9 pm Closing party at the Orbit Room, Featuring The David Barrett Trio
(attendees are responsible for transportation after the Orbit Room party)
Rushcon 15, Los Angeles July 31 - August 2
Official Hotel:
Luxe City Center Hotel
1020 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Friday, July 31st 7:45 PM
Starting at quarter till 8, kick off RushCon 15 at the welcome mixer at the Club Nokia VIP Lounge. Extend a welcome hand to fellow fans, hear Rushs passionate music, enjoy some snacks and play some team games for glittering prizes. Well also have giveaways throughout the night.
Saturday, August 1st
Your Saturday registration includes round-trip transportation from Luxe City Center to the beautiful, historic Belasco Theater for a day of RushCon events. Starting at 9am, well have games, prizes, vendors, our annual Charity Memorabilia Auction and much more!
Featured Guest Speaker: Kevin J. Anderson, celebrated science-fiction novelist and author of Clockwork Angels & the upcoming sequel, Clockwork Lives.
Saturday night, hop on the RushCon School of Rock buses to The Forum for the Rush R40 concert. After the show, buses will return us to the Luxe City Center hotel. (Concert tickets are not included in any RushCon package)
Sunday August 2
See the sights of Los Angeles with our Star Map of Hollywood bus tour, featuring famous LA landmarks, a stop at Guitar Center Hollywood Rockwalk to see a show of hand (prints), and a visit to the Rush star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The grand finale of RushCon 15 will be a closing party at the Grammy Museum. (Museum admission price is included in your RushCon ticket).
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By Bill Sheets Herald Writer
GRANITE FALLS — The truckers have spoken and the county has listened.
Snohomish County is changing its design for three roundabouts planned for the bypass route under construction around Granite Falls after it was discovered they were too narrow for some trucks.
"I think it's great, they should have had that in the beginning, but what can you do?" said Dale Girven, co-owner of Pacific Logging of Getchell, who worked with the county on the changes.
Construction had already started on two of the three roundabouts planned on the route when some truckers told The Herald last month that the roundabouts were being built too narrow for their rigs. The 2.1-mile, $28.7 million road skirting Granite Falls to the west and north is projected to be finished this fall.
The changes require the contractor to tear out some concrete already poured in the center of the roundabouts. The work will shrink the center circle to give the largest trucks a wider area in which to turn.
The final cost of the changes won't be known until the work is done, officials said. Bob Morrison, a construction engineer for the county, said he was told to do the work for $10,000 or less.
"The whole process is fairly painless since we caught it at this stage," Morrison said.
The roundabouts were designed by the county to accommodate trucks 73½ feet in length, officials said. Some local truckers, however, say they sometimes drive trailers up to 115 feet long.
The original design included a brick apron of 10½ feet next to the center circle, intended to allow trucks to drive over it if necessary. In the new design, the center circle is being shrunk and the truck apron is being increased to 20½ feet, Morrison said.
For the redesign, Girven, who hauls logging equipment on "lowboy" trailers, drove one of his longest rigs through a mock roundabout painted on the ground and county engineers took measurements.
When the project was designed over the past eight years, the county had extensive advice from truckers but never heard from drivers of the larger trucks, county engineer Owen Carter said.
"We did not know anything about these long trucks until it was brought to our attention in December 2009," Carter said.
Many of the trucks expected to use the route serve gravel pits in the area. The county created an advisory group of quarry operators and in 2005. Based on that input, the county laid out a roundabout using cones in a quarry parking lot, Carter said. Quarry trucks navigated the cones successfully, he said.
The original design, he said, "was based on this test."
Work on the route began last summer. By December, the roundabout at the new road's intersection with 100th Street NE was mostly complete and work had also begun on a second one at the alternate route's intersection with Jordan Road.
Now, work has begun on the changes to this roundabout, Morrison said. Next will come work to re-do the center of the roundabout at 100th, he said.
Construction has yet to begin on the last roundabout, where the new road will intersect with Highway 92 west of town.
The new road was inspired by a desire to reduce truck traffic through downtown Granite Falls, where in 2005 more than 2,000 trucks passed through every day, according to the county.
Carter said the county estimates that only about two-tenths of 1 percent of all the trucks expected to use the route in 2012 — 100 out of 500,000 — will be longer than 75 feet. Still, it made sense to make the change, he said.
"We're trying to accommodate all the vehicles," Carter said.
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Can we all check in and give any new comers an introduction about who we are and our Preemie experience?
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I'll start. My name is Bonita and I have three preemie girls. Alyssa was my first born at 34 weeks due to being induced. I had pre-eclampsia. She was 4lbs 9oz (no NICU) My second daughter was born at 35 weeks after a normal pg due to my water braking. 4 hours later she was born at 6lbs 14oz (no NICU). My third daughter was born at 32 weeks after many pg complications. I went into premature labor that they were not able to stop. She was 3lbs 15oz and spent 2 1/2 of the longest weeks of my life in the NICU.
I'm Tracy, mom to Tyler (age 3.5) and Lana (11 mo). Tyler was born just shy of 29 weeks. My water had broken (still don't know why) and the next day his heart rate dropped too low and they took him by emergency c/s. He weighed 2 pounds, 13 ounces and spent 8 weeks in the NICU before coming home on an apnea monitor. It was the scariest time of my entire life...felt like it would never end. But today, he is a perfectly healthy little boy with no residual issues stemming from his prematurity. It's amazing - no vision issues, no hearing issues, no breathing issues. NOTHING. We will be forever grateful to the drs and nurses in that NICU.
Lana was born nearly a year ago at 37 weeks. I was on the weekly 17P shots and I had a successful VBAC with her. It was a totally different experience from start to finish!
Thanks for the update!
Great idea to do an update thread!
I'm Leah, and my twin boys Isaac and Gabriel were born at 30 weeks 3 days gestation due to early labor and advanced cervical effacement. I was put on bedrest at 24 weeks when it was discovered during an ultrasound that I was nearly 90% effaced. I was in the hospital for the first week of bedrest, and home for the following 5 weeks. At 29 weeks 6 days, I went into labor, and by the time I got to the hospital, I was 4cm dilated. The doctors put me on magnesium sulfate to stop my labor (it was AWFUL) and gave me a round of betamethasone steroid shots to help mature the boys lungs (I had also gotten an earlier round at 24 weeks). My labor slowed for a couple of days, then there was no stopping it. Isaac was born vaginally, 2lb 15oz, and a half hour later, Gabriel was born via emergency c section due to breech position and cord prolapse. He weighed 4lb. Neither boy needed a ventilator, which was great, just CPAP for one week. Isaac was in the NICU for 6 weeks, and Gabe for 9 weeks (he had a lot more respiratory issues and got a couple infections that he had to recover from). Looking back now, I realize I was just in survival mode getting through those weeks. I don't think I really processed what had happened until much later.
They just turned 2, and really the only lasting issue is a mild speech delay. Gabe's is a little worse than Isaac's, but thanks to Help Me Grow, we have them in speech therapy and Early Intervention, and their delays are rapidly improving! I'm amazed at how well they are doing, and also am very thankful to all the nurses and doctors who took care of all 3 of us!
DD1 was 10 days late so I was very surprised when my water broke at 33 weeks with DD2
I had no signs of labour but they kept me on bedrest at the hospital and was told they would induce me at 34 weeks. I went into labour on my own 5 days later. Labour was really fast (90 min) and extremely painful. The ultrasound had indicated she was 5lbs13oz but she was only 4lbs11oz. They don't know why I went early but after my labour they did realize I had a placental abruption so I'm grateful I had no serious complications.
DD2 only had the CPAP in for a day and was under the lights for 5 days. They said all she really had to do was learn to eat. I thought she'd be home in a week. 23 days later. I was surprised at how tired she got after a bottle. Any BF attempts made her not eat for 12 hours.
Right before she was discharged they noticed she had PVCs. Online it says it feels like your heart "skips a beat". They did a full cardio work up and found she'd only started having them 2 days earlier but there is no structural damage in the heart. By themselves, the PVCs are not dangerous but can be an indication of a serious problem. We've been following up with a cardiologist just to monitor. They are more frequent then they were but still benign.
Other than that, we are just starting to leave the newborn phase. We successfully transferred to breastfeeding and are now getting lots of smiles. I've started to use her adjusted age when strangers ask how old she is because otherwise they start to go on about how tiny she is (3months, 9 lbs) and I have to get into her being early.
Wow, glad she is doing better.


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FOSDEM is once again descending on the ULB in Brussels, and so again will there be a MySQL and Friends Devroom. Tradition calls for a MySQL and Friends Community Dinner, and we certainly aim not to disappoint this year!
Like last year, we'll be renting the same private space to allow for easy socializing (at …[Read more...]
My dear colleagues, Liz van Dijk, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Kenny Gryp, also known as the "Party Team" are organizing the "Fosdem MySQL & Friends Devroom Community Dinner" !
Like last year, we'll be renting a private space to allow for easy socializing. However, in light of this year's 20th Anniversary of MySQL in May, as well as MariaDB's 5th Anniversary in February, we want to take things to the next level, and give the night a true community feel. Our …[Read more...]
I'm currently wrapping up last things in the office to be prepared for my presentation about MySQL-Statsd at the Percona Live London conference next week. It will be a revised version of the talk I gave at the Percona Live Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, but this time it will be more focussed to the practical side and, obviously, the MySQL-Statsd daemon we open sourced recently, so if you missed that talk or think a follow up is needed you should definitely attend! Slides will also become immediately …[Read more...]
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Definición de shoulder pad en inglés:
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Oraciones de ejemplo
- Fine-tune the shoulder pad position in a garment.
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These people must think that thier customers are completely stoopid....
Our mortgage was placed with them approximately 1 year ago and we have had nothing but grief ever since.
First it started with the Harrassing telephone calls 4-5 times a week at home (which I recorded) and the s/a at my work, calling my job asking for my husband practically every morning.
These people call my home every morning at exactly 8:06am, to ask me where this month's payment is I explain to them that the payment was mailed out to them.
The rep. will then put me on hold and come back after reading comments (he/she will claim) and say, yes we recieved this months payment But when will you be sending next months payment!!!!! We say next month isn't even here yet!
Then they try to pressure/threaten us into giving them a date, when we say to them that it is not yet the next month so payment isn't due they continue to try and get us to set up a check by phone, aka an assisted check by phone with a $15.00 charge.
The nerve of these people, this started last Aug or Sep. 2005, right after they aquired our account from Ameriquest.
When we inquire about the name of the bank which legally holds our mortgage, we are met with resistance. In 8/05, we had a chk returned to us for insufficient funds because the funds were not withdrawn by them in a timely manner.
It was a little over 3 weeks when they attempted to draw the funds so naturally other checks came in and drop the balance in the account.
by then it was time for the next month to be paid, so I called them, and asked if we could just redeposit that check and draw the funds.
They couldn't do that because the check had already went through thier processing so they requested we issue another check for that month's payment in addition a late fee of $48.43.
In addition to, a seperate check for the current months rent I said ok this should clear it up. Before I could complete this
another rep. calls my home when I'm not there and speaks with my husband. Ignores the previously agreed to arrangements
Speaking to him they urged us to set up a payment plan where we would agree pay the current months past due morgage, plus a portion of the missed months mortgage,for the next 3mths. and the company would wave the above late fee.
Needless to say my husband agreed and was put on this SO-CALLED payment plan that resulted in additional fees and increased our reg. payment substantially (FOR THE NEXT 3 MONTHS).
During this time we're getting a barage of certified mail, reg mail, and harrassing phone calls from multiple tel. numbers (caller Blocked) from reps of Home Eq Services, as though we don't have an agreement.
This action put undue financial stress and added fee's upon us.
but at the end of the agreement period, by some miracle we ended up having over paid by approximately $398.00.
At this point where thinking it's just after the major holidays goining into Jan. 2006 and we're ahead for our Jan. payment.
We check our statement thinking we should see a credit for the overpayment of $398.00 during the agreement, and ready to request that it be applied to the next months mortgage payment, decreasing Jan payment by that amount.
SUPRISE SUPRISE, they send us a statement and a letter telling us that they are keeping that overrage as they had to send someone out to our home to view it for forclosure purposes.
Whats amazing is noone ever contacted us about viewing our home nor did anyone to our knowledge ever come out. Also miraculously the fee for that service wasin the amount of our exact overage payment.
In addition to that, they placed smaller fee's on our statement/account and could not or would not explain them, whenever we asked during any of thier harrassment phone calls,
we were told that one was an escrow fee, which is around the s/a amount as our overage payment.
We also have a $336.75 advance fee, what this??? we don't know, a $2.92 fee entitled entitled -other fee, reps have no explanation for.
regarding the so-called escrow fee we informed Home Eq Servicing that we have no ESCROW on our home at least 15 times and they stil continue to harrass us for that fee.
I could go on and on, but I'll stop here. I'll say this between the daily phone calls to my home and my job and the trip to the mail box where we find sometimes up to 3 notices from these people in 1 mail delivery.
Something has got to give. If you or some governing entity have access to, or knowledge of some lawful way to put a stop to these criminals before they ruin our credit so that we can't refinance and be rid of them please contact us immedially at any of the contact forms included with this email.
I have read the report of the other home owner, who is going through identical and worse treatment, with these crooks, and I shudder to think where we will end up.
This company has access to our and others income and personal information and as with the other homeowner I feel that It is not their business, even if they feel that our we can afford to pay
5 times more than we are paying now. We Have the rate and the monthly payment that we have because we worked hard to protect our credit.
These people with thier games, and manipulation tactics will be STOPPED!!!! the hard working American citizens of this nation will not allow this nonsense.
Please contact us if you have a way out from under this company besides refinancing. Our situation should be reviewed by a governing agency and our overage returned to us, and those bogus fees removed from our account history.
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The new edition of the Russian distro comes with bugfixes for the network manager, default printer settings and an updated version of OpenOffice 3.0.
News of the release was made public by Alexey Rusakov on the ALT Linux announce list. Among the more important changes to version 4.1 are OpenOffice and improvements in Compiz support, enabling the 3D desktop to be switched on and off over the menu. A 32Bit ALT Linux installation DVD in English is also available.
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Built around a 2.6.25 kernel, ALT Linux 4.1.1 comes with a KDE 3.5.10 Desktop as standard. ALT is considered to be the most popular distribution in Russia, and is used widely in Russian schools. Fifty full-time developers provide a solid team for ALT Linux.
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As a painter and artist in his spare time, Newark, New Jersey, boxer John "Apollo Kidd" Thompson IV (11-0, 4 KOs) has created many satisfying works of art. But Thompson will be looking to put his finest work yet on canvas this Friday, May 10, when he takes on Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico's also-undefeated Giovany Rodriguez (8-0, 5 KOs).
The two middleweights will clash over eight rounds in the co-feature of a ShoBox: The New Generation doubleheader (on SHOWTIME at 11 PM ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma, presented by Camille Estephan, of Eye of the Tiger and Greg Cohen, of Greg Cohen Promotions, in association with Pitbull Promotions.
In the ShoBox-televised main event, Montreal, Quebec, Canada's undefeated IBF #3-ranked Dierry "Dougy Style" Jean (24-0, 16 KOs) will take on Los Angeles' IBF #7-rated southpaw Cleotis "Mookie" Pendarvis (17-3-2, 6 KOs) in a 12-round IBF eliminator for the mandatory #1 spot at 140 lbs.
Tickets are priced at: Reserved: $25.00, Premium: $40.00 and Platinum: $60.00 and are available at www.buffalorun.com or by calling The Buffalo Run Box Office (918) 542-7140. On fight night, doors open at 7 pm.
24-year-old Thompson is a true renaissance man, combining a day job at an airline, his love for travel, his art and a blossoming career as a professional boxer.
"Working at United Airlines allows me a discount on travel," he said. "Last year, I went to Paris and Scotland. I also have my own business, called Divine Artist. I do portraits and landscapes, even abstract art. My motto is if you can think it, I can put it on canvas. But boxing is in my blood. My father started me in boxing when I was four. It comes very, very naturally for me. It's so easy for me to feel people out and beat them."
An old-school technician in the ring, Thompson styles himself after the pure boxers in the sport. "I'm a boxer. That's the name of the game: to hit somebody and not get hit back. A lot of people get caught up in brawls. I like Floyd Mayweather because he's a true boxer."
Despite all his other pursuits, Thompson takes his boxing career very seriously. He trains twice a day at McGirt's Training Facility in Nutley, NJ, under new trainer, former world champion James "Buddy" McGirt (his father and original trainer, John Thompson III, now serves as co-trainer).
"Buddy has been a great help as part of the team," the younger Thompson said. "He's a really cool guy who knows a lot about boxing. My father and I are still very close and Buddy has been able to add dimensions to what he and I were able to build."
Thompson also says he's very pleased with manager William Mielnicki and his promoters, Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions and Vito Mielnicki of GH3 Promotions. "William, Greg and Vito have been moving me very well and I am very thankful. I'm very pleased with where I am in my life and career. A lot of people have about four to five fights in two years. I've had 11 and won them all in less than two."
Despite it being his first showcase for a national audience, Thompson says he's expecting things to go his way. "He's (Rodriguez) a southpaw, more of a boxer. He's 8-0. I read he plans on winning, but we can't both be victorious. I'm pretty sure I'll win. I'm working on giving him a boxing lesson, but if the knockout comes, it comes. It's not something you should plan on."
Thompson is a well-rounded, intelligent man who will see how far his fistic talents take him, but no matter what, will continue to strive to be a role model and leader.
"After I become a champion, I want to start a business and be self-sufficient in my community of Newark. I go Downtown and see less-fortunate people. I want to start a program where I can help people provide for themselves. I want to help people get on their feet. It's hard out here. I love my family and my coach. I'm very thankful for everything given to me. I have a lot of people to thank for that. I will always try to give back in my life."
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Hard Cider Exploration at the Finnriver Farm & Cidery
Don't you love an intimate and personable tasting room where you can actually chat with your Pourer Connoisseur? Me, too. These folk know their goods. Created in-house, the Finnriver hard ciders (hard...so hard core) and fruit wines are fine-tuned to their flavor, from ginger to pear to currant.
My favorite? At the time of tasting (selections will vary), the Dry Hopped Cider. It's fresh, not-too-sweet (great for those not too keen on sweet drinks), zesty, and lively. So what's next?
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Lille said Ribery was released for "bad behaviour" following an alleged school fight, but the player insists it was because he was considered too small to succeed in professional football.
Ribery has been at odds with the Ligue 1 team's academy director, Jean-Michel Vandamme, since.
"Regarding my behaviour as well as soccer (at Lille), there was just one problem at school, where we were (messing about) and I (accidentally) broke a girl's elbow," Ribery told a news conference on Monday.
"This is when I got dumped. But they already wanted to fire me well before because I was too little."
After leaving Lille in 1999, he joined amateur club Boulogne-sur-Mer, in his hometown in northern France, where his career took off.
But he claimed that Vandamme still harbours feelings of jealousy towards him. "Even now, when I read some comments by Vandamme, I read many untrue things," Ribery said. "I can see he is jealous."
Vandamme, who is still at Lille, told the French newspaper France Soir last year that Ribery was released because of his behaviour.
"We dumped him after 250 warnings and 300 reprimands," he said. "We could not tolerate his behaviour...He fought a girl at school and broke her arm. It was hard because we were seeing his talent even if we never thought he would have such a career."
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Mario Mandzukic looked close to rejoining old club Wolfsburg, but that move has reportedly fallen through and the Bayern forward is still on the market.
Even before signing Diego Costa, Chelsea were chasing Mandzukic, who will move on from the current Bundesliga champions after Robert Lewandowski's signing in January. Mandzukic is a hard worker who can be considered one of the best finishers in Europe.
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"The least important question you can ask about Engelbart is, "What did he build?" By asking that question, you put yourself in a position to admire him, to stand in awe of his achievements, to worship him as a hero. But worship isn't useful to anyone. Not you, not him.
The most important question you can ask about Engelbart is, "What world was he trying to create?" By asking that question, you put yourself in a position to create that world yourself."
"It has some unique perspective every once in awhile, but honestly, America can be super derivative. Most of the stories have already been on The Simpsons."
"You can control time when you can see it." Things I like here: half-day resolution; tracking time as a group, rather than solo activity; the value of projects that may be numerically "over budget". Meetings as "0" is interesting; I'm not sure about that yet.
Nice tutorial for exploring AR with Processing. (Yes, I know it's AR, but I also am interested in how this works, so stop your booing in the peanut gallery).
"The film was shot back through the earth's atmosphere in buckets that parachuted over the Pacific Ocean, where C-130 Air Force planes snagged them with grappling hooks." You cannot make this stuff up. Hexagon sounds phenomenal.
Ben Benvie hiked all 2000miles+ of the Appalachian Trail, and took his camera. These are his pictures from Maine, the final state of the trail, and it just looks brilliant. I am not sure I could do this, but the appeal is enormous.
Strictly speaking, "The Best of *American* Journalism", but there's lots on here I'd like to read sometime.
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Game Design, Psychology, Flow, and Mastery – Blog – External Rewards and Jesse Schell's Amazing Lecture"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."
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"For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind." Bill Safire's speech for Richard Nixon, on the event Armstrong and Aldrin were marooned. A glimpse of alternate history.
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When I visited the top of the Rock the Levante cloud formed all of a sudden and it was almost impossible to see anything, but a bit further down the view was still okay. On the other hand it was quite exhilarating to feel the Levante wind and to see the seagulls soaring in the wind.
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Hotel is good overall as per cost, location, service and it's clean. Very good experience. Anybody who is going for holiday can stay here easily it's very near from beach around 5 min walking. Overall, it's fine.
Have stayed 5th to 7th June'16 at deluxe Cottage. Overall cleanness, room size and facilities are OK. Room service and behaviour of staff are excellent. This room is best for winter season. Free wi fi facilities are extra advantage with this type of hotel. But restaurant facility are not good, they are charging something extra for regular food.
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Location is awesome and extremely windy. Requires no AC at all. Manger is very polite and doesn't hesitate to allow unmarried couple upon providing original Govt. ID Proof. Would prefer to return again.
The staff were good. But it is far from sea beach. We stayed in ground floor so there was no option for ventilation. They should also include fooding. Beach takes about more than 10 minutes to reach by foot though toto and other options are available.
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The experience was all good. The garden is osum. Rooms are clean. Well arrangement. The experience was good.
Foood was excellent. Best cook. Management also good. Full secure nd safe. I refer every one for this hotel.
On the earlier reviews was reluctant and did take a risk but it was Good and reasonable Hotel with good service, rooms are Nice and spacious, but efficiently designed, with large comfy beds, soft pillows, a TV. We had a Great experience at the hotel. Excellent customer service. Suggested always.
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The hotel meets all the criteria for people who wish to get a good accommodation at a reasonable price. Services of this particular hotel is appreciable. Good place for couple and also for family.Bakkhali Beach is 7-8 minutes by walk and 3-4 minutes by auto/toto. Breakfast lunch dinner are available on demand. my review certainly will help you out to choose your hotel
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"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas"
"Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."
"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction."
"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
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Bang & Olufsen never fails to surprise us. From its audio performance-enhancing iPad case, the BeoPlay A3, to sheet metal TVs you can hang from the ceiling, the company combines unique design with the latest technologies in order to offer something a little different.
And it has done it again, with the BeoPlay A9, a speaker system that's crammed into one mightily spherical unit.
The A9 is wireless (apart from power, naturally) so can be hooked up to an iPhone, iPad or Android device with no strings attached. It features two three-quarter-inch tweeters and two 3-inch midrange drive units, with each driven by separate 80-watt class D amplifiers.
There's an 8-inch bass unit driven by 160-watts from its own class D amp. And there are three pre-set audio modes that are specific to where the BeoPlay A9 is positioned. You see, it can sit on its own stand on the floor, be hung from a wall or placed in a corner. Either way, it provides enough volume and clarity to fill a reasonably sized room easily. We know, because it provided all of the music needs for the launch party in a London bar which Pocket-lint attended.
When it was revealed to the gathered press, the first thing that blew us away, however, wasn't its audio capabilities, but its size. The A9 is no mere iPod dock, it's a massive, round piece of objet d'art.
It looks like the moon with legs. Or, to take a Nineties catchphrase from Messrs Lee and Herring, the "moon on a stick". It's an apt simile in that a moon on a stick was used to describe something fantastical that not many of us will ever attain. The Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay A9 is £1,700, give or take a quid.
Sadly, we didn't get to check out the volume controls at the launch event - we suspect the revellers may have called for our heads - but are looking forward to giving it a whirl, because you only have to wave your hand across a sensor to raise or lower the volume. And, thankfully, we should get a chance when we visit Bang & Olfsen's base in Denmark later this week.
Until then, we'll just have to imagine what Snooker Loopy sounds like from such a magnificent, if not unusual, beast.
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In 2010, the 50th anniversary of the first publication of "Venice" is celebrated - one of the finest travel books on the world's most famous tourist destination! This book has been slightly updated without disturbing its period flavour, and is being celebrated by Faber, the book publisher. In the intervening years, Jan Morris has proved to be one of the finest observers of history seen through contemporary eyes, with a string of superbly written books, including the trilogy on the British Empire. "Venice" is perhaps Jan's supreme achievement though, and remains, for many, the best book on a city without compare. To be heard on the way to Venice, whilst there, and on return.
Here, revised and introduced by the author, is Jan Morris's portrait of La Serenissima, published 50 years ago and still without equal. She cherishes every cranny: the city's 3,000 alleyways, its jails, its waterways and its buildings decaying like 'dukes in threadbare ermine'. She presents its past, its art and its language, which Byron called 'sweet bastard Latin'. A suitably respectful narration - with an Italian flourish. - Rachel Redford, The Observer If you are going to Venice this summer, and even if you are not, Jan Morris's Venice makes excellent listening. Newly revised, it is introduced by the 84-year-old Morris herself, then the dulcet voice of Sebastian Comberti takes over narration. It opens historically but takes in architecture, culture, practicalities (the boats of the fire, police and ambulance services, the rubbish collectors who are slowly creating a whole new island) and the mysteries of death. Morris fell in love with Venice when there during the Second World War, and her accumulation of memories is heartfelt, personal, quirky and enlightening. Perfect for a leisurely approach by Eurostar and night train to Venice, but just as good for whiling away the dull hours commuting to work. - Christina Hardyment, The Times 'I was in my 20s when I wrote this,' says Morris in the introduction to her best known travel book, 'and I like to think that its faults are the heady faults of youth.' What faults? Fifty years on, it is still the best all-round guide to a city that, despite the ever-present hordes of tourists, remains the most magical destination on earth. Listening to this equally magical audio made me long to go back and check out all those less touristy bits that so enthralled young Morris - the alley too narrow for Browning to open his umbrella, the crypt allegedly containing Mary Magdalen's finger, the fish market 'laden with sleek wriggling eels, still pugnaciously alive, beautiful little red fish packed in boxes like shampoos, heads upwards ... soft bulbous octopus furiously injecting ink ... a multitude of sea matter ... sliding, sinuous, shimmering, flabby, spongy, crisp, all lying aghast upon their fresh green biers dead, doomed or panting like a grove of brilliant foliage among the tundra of Venetian stone.' Yes, the descriptions do go on a bit, but that's part of the charm. It was written, says Morris, 'in a rush of enthusiasm like the splurge of a love affair'. The enthusiasm is infectious. Venetian history, culture, religion, food - she relishes them all, from the glory years between the 12th and 15th centuries when La Serenissima controlled the trade routes between east and west, to the nuns at one of the more fashionable convents claiming their right to supply a mistress for the new papal nuncio, to the notice on the Grand Canal: 'It is forbidden to spit on the swimmers.' Don't go to Venice without it. - Sue Arnold, The Guardian商品の説明をすべて表示する
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"Confronted by these multitudes, in summer the character of Venice abruptly coarsens. The cost of a coffee leaps, if you are anywhere near St. Mark's, and is gradually reduced, in topographical gradations, as you take your custom farther from that avaricious fulcrum. The waiters of the Piazza brush up their brusquest manners, in preparation for the several hundred people each day who understandably believe that there must be some mistake in the bill. Souvenir stalls spring up like garish fungi, and the market is suddenly flooded with straw hats, gondoliers shirts, maps printed on head-scarves, lead gondolas, spurious antiques, a million water-colours and a thousand paper-weights in the shape of St. Mark's Campanile.
The unsuspecting visitor, stepping from the steamboat, is accosted by a pair of ferocious porters, who carry his bags the fifteen-odd feet into his hotel lobby and demand, as their compulsory payment for this service, the price of a substantial meal, with wine. The withered sacristans of the famous churches, brushing the dust from their cassocks, emerge eagerly from the shadows to drag you to the very last dismal pseudo-Titian of the vestry. Pampered young men pester you to visit their showrooms. The cry of Gondola! Gondola! follows you like an improper suggestion down the quays. There is a queue for the lift to the top of the bell-tower. Enough people peer into the horrors of the dungeons each morning to make Casanova s head reel. There is a shop near St. Mark's so well adapted to every possible shift in the balance of power that the homesick tourist may buy himself the flag of Yemen, the Ukraine, Bolivia, or even the United Nations.
And chanting a sing-song melody of triumph, the guides of Venice come into their own again. "Guides", wrote Augustus Hare in the 1890's, "are usually ignorant, vulgar and stupid in Venice, and all but the most hopelessly imbecile visitors will find them an intolerable nuisance" (though in later editions of his book he dropped the bit about the imbeciles). Nevertheless the guides of Venice flourish, the directors of itineraries boom, and many a poor holiday-maker staggers home at the end of a day's pleasure as though she has been grinding corn on a tread mill, or attending some crucial and excruciating viva voce. There are 107 churches in Venice, and nearly every tourist feels he has seen at least 200 of them: for the guides and guide books presuppose an unflagging whip-lash energy in their victims, an utter disregard for regular meals, and an insatiable appetite for art of all periods, standards and purposes."
Or this, about Venetian cats:
"Venice is... a metropolis of cats. Now and again the sanitary authorities have conducted a cat-hunt, to sweep away vagrants and scavengers: but so fond are the Venetians of their cats, even the mangiest and scabbiest of them, that these drives have always ended in ignominious failure, and the animals, spitting and scratching, have been hidden away in back yards and boxes until the hygiene men have gone. The population of cats thus increases each year. Some lead an eerily sheltered existence, and are rarely allowed out of doors, only appearing occasionally, like nuns, upon confined and inaccessible balconies. Many more are only half-domesticated, and live on charity, in old drain-pipes from which sympathetic citizens have removed the grilles, under the seats of laid-up gondolas, or in the tangled recesses of overgrown gardens. You may see them any morning wolfing the indigestible entrails, fish-tails and heads, wrapped in newspapers, which householders have laid down for them: and on most winter afternoons an old lady arrives to feed the cats of the Royal Gardens, near St. Mark's, while a man in a sweeping overcoat so manipulates the flow of a nearby drinking fountain that a jet of water is projected into a declivity among the paving-stones, forming a cat's basin, or a cat-bath."
Sigh. Morris packs more imagery and life into each paragraph than most writers manage in a chapter - or an entire book. This is the type of book that makes those of us with delusions about our own writing want to give up and go home. Confronted by such richness, the would-be writer stalls. The one or two clever and (he feels) well-constructed phrases which he has turned over in his mind to describe some event, thought or feeling, and polished to what he has seen with a quietly sheltered pride as a burnished luster, suddenly seem, in comparison to just about anything Morris has written in this wonderful book, dull and sadly wanting. Rather like a teenaged girl who privately primps and fusses over her appearance in front of her bedroom mirror for hours until, finally satisfying herself that she must be irresistible to men, steps out of her front door to rudely discover that the street is full of supermodels.
"Venice" is one of the best books I have ever read, and I have never found a book that so completely captures the life and character of a great city as this does. For those who love language - and Venice - it is pure pleasure from start to finish.
Quick biographical note: Jan Morris was formerly James Morris - s/he underwent a sex change in 1964 (which explained the perplexing fact that I couldn't find any first editions under the author's female name).
I especially loved the section about all the lion statues scattered throughout Venice, especially the unfortunate and less famous ones. Another fascinating section involves the many bell towers (which ones collapsed and why). The section on lace-making is marvelously detailed.
Very often, the author will resort to listing things, but each noun in the list might have an unexpected glamorous adjective that makes the list something you'll stop and read again. And all the time, you might be jealously thinking, "Why can't I write thrilling prose like this?" I have never read a book that so brilliantly captures the smells, colors, sounds, cuisine, textures, sociology, artworks, and history of a city the way this one does.
Just one example to support my point about the prose. (p. 273) "Old women huddle about in their long black shawls, like undernourished eagles." Wow!
In planning to visit Venice, I've worried that it is a sort of cultural Disneyland. A place that exists only for tourists.
When I think about traveling somewhere, I hope that it will be a wonderful experience. So I try to learn as much about a place as possible. Travel essays provide at least one person's view of a place. Venice by James Morris is a rich account of Venice and its history. Reading the book, I felt that I could feel the city through Morris' perspective.
James Morris was one of the early transexuals and became Jan Morris, the noted travel writer. Venice was originally written when Jan was James and she did not change the authorship with later editions. From reading the introduction, I think that this is because in Jan's view James really did write the book. This was an earlier avitar of Jan's and she wishes to honor his perspective.
Jan Morris is a wonderful, lyrical writer. Reading her writing, I feel a bit like I'm walking the canals and experiencing Venice. Reading this book made me much more sure about my decision to visit these old bones of empire.
But in 1996 I just thought that the reason for that exhaustion lies in my lack of true interest in Venice, it's not potent enough to carry me happily from the first page to the last.
Since then I've read Norwich, Ackroyd, Tiziano Scarpa, Frederic Lane, Christopher Hibbert and others, last of all a very compilative and uninspired book of Paul Strathern, after which I've decided to revisit the work that had started me on this trip of learning - hopefully, as an antidote to Strathern.
Finished rereading it couple days ago and have to admit I was getting irritated after first two thirds of the Morris' book - just like before. Author's relentless showing off, all these lists of different lions, all the chattering, hopping, making noises, not giving up on all this when you are already in the third hundred of pages made me realize my first impression was probably right, and it's not my faltering interest that I have to blame for failing to appreciate the style and substance of the classic.
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Cosmology and Critique
June 10, 2015 § 12 Comments
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As if I haven't posted about Whitehead enough recently, I need to link to Craig Hickman's introductory post on Process and Reality. It's one of the clearest and shortest takes on what's at stake in Whitehead's philosophy I've read and I recommend it to anyone struggling to find a way into the notoriously difficult account given in that work. One comment in particular stands out to me. Craig writes:
Simply put Whitehead is saying that the Kantian tradition of critique, the critical project, is at an end, and needs to be supplemented by a constructive project rather than more critique; secondly, there is a need to model or enframe an adequate philosophical scheme or cosmological perspective that will entail making explicit its own constructive engendering processes and include the work of present day sciences; thirdly, the need to base this scheme on the condition of science, yet unlike science to make explicit what is only formulated at the factual level in the sciences themselves; and, finally, to realize that this is an open-ended incomplete task, one that will never be closed off or finalized because the universe itself is not completed but is like the sciences and philosophy itself an ongoing project-in-process. There can no longer be a static system of the universe or knowledge, rather reality is in process and becoming.
The key concept to think about here is critique. What did Whitehead mean by this? What did Kant mean by this? If the critical project is at an end, does that mean we stop being critical in a colloquial sense? The short answer is no. I take the word critique here to mean something very technical. It doesn't mean a return to dogmatism or to the construction of what Kant called transcendental illusions (more on that below). It doesn't mean we stop doing what's sometimes called ideology critique or that we stop eviscerating the ethical, political, and moral injustices wrought by this or that sociopolitical order.
Rather, the critical project here refers simply to the transition philosophers enacted in their post-Kantian mode through emphasizing the transcendental project of epistemology rather than the cosmological project of metaphysics. That is, Whitehead pursues a cosmological understanding of world over and beyond the Kantian notion of world as regulative ideal used to clarify and systematize the ideas of reason. The critical project is in some sense a reduction of the World to a merely regulative world.
On this point, I recommend Sean Gaston's The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida. Gaston gives us a helpful and compelling discussion of the shift from cosmological accounts of world, as found for example in Plato and Aristotle, to the accounts of world as a regulative ideal we find in Kant. The details are too numerous to outline here (and note that Gaston may be too hasty in his account of the of the cosmological world). However, suffice to say that any speculative philosophy worth its salt must acknowledge the difference between the cosmological and the regulative and overcome it, lest we slip back into the dogmatism of pre-critical (i.e., pre-Kantian) metaphysics. (Metaphysics and epistemology should always be conducted in tandem for just this reason.)
The risk is that instead of producing a new realist metaphysics, as is Whitehead's aim, we instead produce another in a long line of what Kant called transcendental illusions, which Gaston helpfully describes as any "subjective view that takes itself as an objective summation of things as they really are" (10). Gaston continues to describe the challenge before us: "Before critical philosophy it was easier to speak of the world as something ontologically given. It was also easier to speak of a concept of world in general on this basis. Kant implies that there can be no concept of world in these terms and that we must use the idea of the world in general within the epistemological limitations and possibilities of reasoning" (17).
Whitehead's challenge, which I share, is to reconsider the possibility of a cosmological account of world beyond human reason. (Note here that for Kant the issue was never a question about the existence of a reality independent from or external to human thought but whether or not we could ever give an adequate account of such a reality.) This I take it is also the aim of those of us interested Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and so on. Anyway, go read Craig's post. It's really quite helpful.
Histories of Lived Experience
August 8, 2014 § 14 Comments
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Earlier today I delivered a talk on ethology, ecology, and aesthetics as part of a panel on Cosmopolitics at the International Big History Conference held in San Rafael, CA. I am posting my talk below, which you can also find in .pdf form here.
Histories of Lived Experience: Intertwining Ethology, Ecology, And Aesthetics
Adam Robbert, San Francisco, CA
Paper presented at the International Big History Conference, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA, August 8.
What is the significance of meaning in Big History? There is a great diversity of opinion on this issue. For example, Eric Chaisson, one of the original board members of the IBHA, holds that Big History must let go of concepts such as intentionality, subjectivity, and, presumably, meaning, in order to understand evolution objectively.[1] Conversely, the focus of my talk is that an understanding of meaning is necessary for an understanding of evolution at its most fundamental level. A central claim of my talk is that we have to understand that which is meaningful to organisms if ever we hope to comprehend the history of evolution on Earth. My talk thus offers a non-anthropocentric and aesthetic account of meaning in the context of geological history. Ecology from this view is an ongoing entanglement of meanings, concerns, and decisions, and it marks the space where the division between matter and meaning breaks down. « Read the rest of this entry »


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Aside from a basketball court, where's the next most obvious place you'd find New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony? Holding a massive sword while wearing a fur robe in Sherwood Forest, of course!
Grey Goose vodka commissioned artist Kehinde Wiley to honor Melo as the "King of Sport" with an incredible painting, with Spike Lee ("King of Culture") and Swizz Beatz ("King of Music") also earning honors, for its "Le Melon" vodkas.
As The Washington Post points out, this leaves one obvious question: Doesn't the NBA already have a King?
[Grey Goose, The Washington Post, h/t Bob's Blitz]