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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0532 Tuesday, 9 June 1998.
Date: Saturday, 6 Jun 1998 10:59:49 -0400
Subject: Stratford Festival Season
Well, four down, eight to go. Here's the low down on the starting line
up at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival this year:
Man for All Seasons: Douglas Rains blew everyone off stage during the
first public performance, which lacked connectedness and focus. I'm
told however that the final dress rehearsal was smashing, so it may have
been a simple case of good-dress/bad-show syndrome. The sets and
costumes are sumptuous. Brad Rudy as the Common Man and Benedict
Campbell as Henry VIII were both excellent. I had major complaints
about the female performances - I missed the bond between More and his
daughter in particular. More recent word has it that the show has
improved throughout the Preview season.
Julius Caesar: fraught with mixed reviews and odd directorial
decisions. Highlights include the crowd scenes, Stephen Ouimette and
Tom McCamus as Cassius and Brutus respectively (and conditionally, see
below), and again Ben Campbell as Mark Antony. Campbell has an inate
charisma and eloquence which makes his power over the hoards
unquestionable. Complaints include double casting Stephen Russell as
Caesar and as the clown evicted from Brutus' tent in the second half.
The problem is not with the double casting (surely the similarity of the
clown could have inspired Brutus' hallucination) but that Caesar's ghost
appears ****dressed as the clown*****. Huh????? Also, a few stagey
effects distract and interrupt the flow. Also I missed Brutus' story
line. To me, the play is much more about Brutus than about Caesar.
We're talking about a man who betrays his beloved lord - a sin serious
enough for Dante to place Brutus and his brother into two of the devil's
mouths to be chewed on for eternity (the ultimate sinners). Surely this
is Brutus' tragedy - but in the Stratford production we lose sight of
Brutus' love for Caesar, his torment at (or even his consideration of )
betraying him, his inability to stop the events that follow his deed.
McCamus is entirely watchable as a performer, but his Brutus does not
reveal those elements I feel are crucial to his character.
Man of La Mancha - Loads of fun, sumptuously mounted. Cynthia Dale
surprised me with her ability to carry the role of Aldonza (although she
is much too good looking if you ask me). Juan Chioran is the perfect
sincere ham to carry off Cervantes/Quixote. Amazing choral work. Highly
Much Ado About Nothing: with Brian Bedford and Martha Henry in the lead
roles, this is an older love story than we are used to, but it works!
So much of Benedick and Beatrice's cynicism can be explained by their
age, and yet neither succumbs to shrewish or malicious intent. It's is
a purely joyful production from beginning to end, one which celebrates
life as much as love. My ever-so-serious companion belly-laughed
throughout. Now *there*'s an accomplishment!


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sort sth/sb out
— phrasal verb with sort uk /sɔːt/ us /sɔːrt/ verb
B2 to deal successfully with a problem, a situation, or a person who is having difficulties:
[ + question word ] It'll be difficult to sort out how much each person owes.
More examples
- When the kitchen is finished I'm going to focus my attention on the garden and get that sorted out.
- This is just a holding operation until we get the new management structure sorted out.
- We had a very productive meeting - I felt we sorted out a lot of problems.
- I've been sorting out my study all day, but it's such a mess I don't feel I'm getting anywhere.
- Alan's gone off on holiday and I've been landed with the job of sorting out his mistakes.
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Date: Tue Nov 25 11:43:03 EST 2008
Sam TH wrote: <snip> > I really suggest you look at the paper. Typed Scheme doesn't rely on > PLT specific extensions in the sense of an extra function here or > there. It relies fundamentally on aspects of the PLT macro and module > system that do not have analogues in the R6RS (such as the language > position and #%module-begin). PLT Scheme, in a sense, *is* the > extension needed to implement Typed Scheme. > > I think this really gets to the heart of the question under > discussion. Some small modules in PLT Scheme could be ported to R6RS > (scheme/bool, for example). But virtually anything that would be > interesting relies fundamentally on the extensions that we've > developed, and that we don't want to sacrifice in the name of > portability. We do not see PLT as simply a mechanism for developing > potential extensions to the R6RS. Thanks. Your answer greatly clarifies situation. -- Bohdan
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Business leaders demand progress on trade talks
Business has demanded APEC leaders take tough action to revive the stalled Doha global trade deal or move on to alternatives like a free trade agreement for the Asia-Pacific.
After three days of talks at the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), regional corporate leaders said they were frustrated by the lack of progress on concluding the deal in the World Trade Organisation.
This was Doha's "last, best and almost only chance," said ABAC's chairman, Mark Johnson.
"As business leaders we are deeply disappointed in the inability of our APEC leaders to deliver an outcome on the Doha round," he said.
" Business, which looks for return on investment, is not getting much of a return on its investment in Doha and if we don't see tangible progress we must all move on to alternatives."
The business chiefs said APEC leaders needed to consider seriously the idea of a new Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), first advanced by the US at last year's APEC summit in Hanoi.
" We look at FTAAP as definitely a solution," said senior Philippines business figure Roberto Romulo.
The corporate leaders may today get some good news on the Doha agreement, however, after the World Trade Organisation chief, Pascal Lamy, yesterday gave APEC trade ministers an optimistic assessment of the prospects for the stalled talks as they prepared a strong statement urging a successful outcome of the deal.
Speaking after the ministers from the 21 APEC economies met, the Australian Trade Minister, Warren Truss, said Mr Lamy was "quite upbeat" about the chances of the current impasse in the Doha talks being resolved and an agreement successfully concluded. Negotiations on the stalled deal resumed this week in Geneva.
" I was quite impressed with how optimistic Pascal Lamy was," Mr Truss said.
" He said discussions in Geneva had begun well ... the gaps [between countries' positions] are not as big as people might think."
But Mr Lamy had urged APEC leaders "to commit the necessary political capital to achieve an outcome", he said.
Mr Lamy had private talks with Mr Truss as well as participating in the ministerial discussions.
Officials were last night putting the final touches to a strongly worded statement to be issued by the ministers today urging a successful conclusion to the Doha round. This will also feed into the communique from the APEC leaders summit on Sunday.
While the bulk of their talks focused on Doha, they also discussed an Australian-drafted report on regional cooperation and integration.
The report recommended a range of reforms to streamline trade in the region, including more rapid development of an APEC 'Single Window' which would allow a "one-stop-shop" single submission of all documentation associated with importing and exporting.
It also addressed concerns raised by the ABAC business leaders in their talks about the difficulties and cost of complying with an expanding "spaghetti bowl" of bilateral free trade agreements in the region, by developing consistent "model chapters " from which new agreements could be built.
Harmonisation of trade agreement and export standards across the region was another key measure supported by the ABAC leaders.
However, while the idea of an Asia-Pacific free trade deal being promoted by business was discussed, Mr Truss said concrete proposals were a long way off .
"Any idea that APEC could be turned into a mini-WTO is far fetched," he said .
ABAC members will participate in the APEC Business Summit being held today and tomorrow at the Opera House.
A survey of almost 400 of the region's top business leaders, government officials and analysts has revealed deep concerns about the lack of progress in the Doha deal in the WTO and said that it should be the top priority for APEC leaders at the summit.
This was closely followed by a desire to see progress on a free trade agreement for the region .
The survey by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council also showed that more than 70 per cent of respondents believed protectionism was a risk to economic growth in the region in the next five years and that almost three quarters said the failure of the Doha round would be a threat to growth.
Coordinator of the report, Yuen Pau Woo, said that it was not clear whether APEC could do much to revive the trade talks or that a free trade agreement for the region was in prospect in the foreseeable future.
"The survey nevertheless suggests a desire on the part of opinion leaders for more tangible action toward free and open trade in the Asia-Pacific," he said .
"The threat of protectionism is particularly acute at a time of financial market volatility and economic slowdown in North America."
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"On the Limits of self-improvement"Vanity Fair, October 2007 There's an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment.
Another said just the act of spending money on self-improvement made him determined to break out of his shell.
Joel is the Oprah of televangelists, with a message of self-esteem and self-improvement that has universal appeal.
Forget Oprah—we should all be watching Pixar movies in our quests for self-improvement.
When first genomics started, we figured the result would be self-improvement—literally.
Among the Scandinavians the spirit of self-improvement is very strong.
They think not of self-improvement, and scarcely desire to be benefited in this way.
Every one who has sought for self-improvement recognises the necessity.
He laid it out in books, and such things as aided him in self-improvement.
It is not by self-improvement, but by new birth we reach the blessed kingdom of God.


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Networks in Biology – from Identification, Analysis to Interpretation
Tegnér, Jesper (2009) Networks in Biology – from Identification, Analysis to Interpretation. In: Graph Drawing 16th International Symposium, GD 2008, September 21- 24, 2008, Heraklion, Crete, Greece , p. 1 (Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00219-9_1).
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Over the last decade networks has become a unifying language in biology. Yet we are only in the beginning of understanding their significance for biology and their medical applications. I will talk about the diversity of biological networks composed either of genes, proteins, metabolites, or cells and the associated methods for finding these graphs in the data. Next I will provide an overview of different methods of analysis and what kind of insights that have been obtained. During the talk I will highlight current challenging problems requiring computational skills with respect to identification, analysis, algorithms, visualization and software.
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Mulberry and College Intersection to Close Nightly
To complete the final phase of a waterline replacement project, the intersection of Mulberry Street and College Avenue will close from 8 pm to 6 am starting Sunday, August 24 to Tuesday, August 26.
The final phase of the project connects a newly installed waterlines under College Avenue to existing 16-inch water mains on Mulberry Street.
Westbound Mulberry will close beginning at Remington Street. All turn lanes from College Avenue to Mulberry Street will be closed.
The intersections will be open days at reduced speeds.


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Due to a vintage period of great riding, particularly in Sydney, Blake Shinn has slipped under the radar. Going back to the champion George Moore followed by others, including Roy Higgins, Athol Mulley, Peter Cook, Kevin Langby, Ron Quinton and Malcolm Johnston, neither the standard nor depth was stronger. Shinn was competing with the natural attributes of Tom Berry's overwhelming enthusiasm, the youthful exuberance of James McDonald, the power of Nash Rawiller, the all-round polish of Hugh Bowman, and dazzling guest appearance by Zac Purton. Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy rated Purton's effort on Sacred Falls in the Doncaster at Randwick as one of the best he's seen in over 40 years of race watching. But Shinn's past two efforts on Streama, culminating in the Doomben Cup, have been exemplary, as were his other Saturday successes on the Brisbane circuit. Still only 27 and at an age most jockeys haven't peaked, the confidence on Arabian Gold in The Roses, and rails-hugging ride on Tales Of Fashion emphasised his prowess. On conditions slanted considerably towards the inside, Shinn allowed Arabian Gold to drift back in the field and made a wide run from the turn, the only winner on the program to follow that route. So often excellence is taken for granted in racing and, like Shinn, it applies to trainer Guy Walter. Despite Streama's torrid autumn, including three group 1 races before going north, Walter had her primed for the Doomben Cup. Incidentally, while on the subject of commendable navigation, Serge Lisnyy deserves praise for his heady front-running ride to score on Black Jag in the Vinery Stud at Scone on Saturday. Remember at Randwick last November when Lisnyy was savaged by stipes for going too fast on Calming Influence at Randwick.
Perhaps until Arabian Gold's overwhelming triumph on Saturday, the claim that it was the best chapter of "The Roses" was questionable. After all, Melbourne Cup winner Ethereal, ridden by Scott Seamer, scored in 2001 and Dear Demi last year. By winning at Doomben, the diminutive Arabian Gold has been effective at the four major carnivals this season, a tribute to trainer David Vandyke's equine skill and her big engine. Only last week Seamer, listed as retiring from the saddle in 2012, was disqualified for six months after being found guilty of "training horses without a trainer's licence". Certainly this is a breach of the racing rules and should carry a penalty, but six months disqualification? It makes you wonder what stewards would have done if the rack and cat-o-nine-tails was still applicable. Horses have been trained on the sly by jockeys and owners, without a license, since the Byerley Turk. Just what involvement can be classified as "training"? Bookmaker Jack Mandel was involved to a major degree in the preparation of Prince Darius and Persian Lyric, outstanding gallopers in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
"Tabcorp have officially joined the scourge that has become rife within the Australian corporate bookmaking community," according to Fair Wagering. "They are no longer bookies and are simply accountants who wish to manage money [bets] from mug punters. Tabcorp recently sent the document out to agents on its 2600-strong retail network across New South Wales and Victoria. The missive appears to be an attempt to placate agents in at least 100 TAB's who have reported plunging commissions as a result of restrictions placed on the size of all bets, even if just one punter is winning. Tabcorp referred to 'expanded risk management' in their fixed odds division … Because all punters are 'mugs' and have trouble with even basic English, we at FWA have paraphrased some of the key points in Tabcorp's 'Fixed Odds Liability Q&A' to help you to better understand corporate language. Examples ... We drove all winning punters off our website by rejecting any bets that didn't suit us. Don't get too excited if they roll up to your agency ready to bet big, turnover lots and help your business. As soon as one of our bookmakers [accountants] gets a whiff that a winning punter is betting in a TAB agency, we'll flick a switch and shut the agency down. No 10 second reset or phone call will help."
While Glen Boss warned about the rise to the "Big League" (Stradbroke), Melbourne filly Srikandi was dynamic winning Saturday's Juanmo Stakes at Doomben, recording 34.09 for her final 600 metres. Boss reckoned she had a half second up her sleeve. Srikandi was the first leg of an impressive double for the Irish stallion, Dubawi, which also produced Arabian Gold.
Miss Stellabelle, after easing from $4.20 to $6, finished only fifth, beaten over four lengths, in the Dark Jewel at Scone on Saturday.


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Meatloaf with Green Beans
Dressed up with a little cheese, this classic meatloaf is an easy everyday choice. A combination of ground meat and a different cheese would also taste great -- try pork and beef with Gruyere or Monterey Jack cheese.
- Total Time:
- Servings: 1
Source: Everyday Food, April 2010
- 1 tablespoon plain dried breadcrumbs
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 2 tablespoons grated cheddar
- 1 scallion, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons finely grated carrot (from 1/2 carrot)
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 4 ounces ground beef
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 4 ounces green beans, trimmed
Preheat oven to 375. In a medium bowl, combine breadcrumbs, milk, ketchup, cheese, scallion, carrot, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and teaspoon pepper. Add beef and gently combine. Transfer mixture to a rimmed baking sheet and form into a 2 1/2-by-4-inch loaf. Bake until cooked through, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small skillet, heat oil over medium. Add green beans and 1 tablespoon water. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and cook until water is absorbed, about 3 minutes. Uncover and cook, stirring occasionally, until beans are crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Serve alongside meatloaf.


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Penang, Malaysia (AFP) Nov 10, 2010
Overfishing in Southeast Asian seas has left garoupas and sea bass in dire straits, searching for mates on denuded seabeds, according to experts alarmed by ever-declining catches.
Marine scientists and fishermen say that popular fish species -- especially the large and valuable ones -- have been caught indiscriminately, causing numbers to plunge dramatically.
For big fish "finding a mate is a difficult task. They have to swim a long distance to find one," said Edward Allison from the World Fish Center in Malaysia's northern resort island of Penang.
One of the culprits is bottom trawling, which involves dragging huge, heavy nets along the sea floor. Large metal plates and rubber wheels attached to the nets move along the bottom and crush nearly everything in their path.
Allison said the habitat for young fish, or fry, is also shrinking because the mangrove swamps which provide food and protection are being obliterated by coastal development including tourist resorts.
Demand for top-quality seafood, from Southeast Asian nations themselves and from Hong Kong and China, is another major factor behind the emptying of the seas.
According to World Fish data, there were 10 times more fish in the Gulf of Thailand in 1965 than 30 years later.
In Malaysia the decline was between 80 and 90 percent while in the Philippines it is estimated that there was a 46-78 percent dropoff in fish stocks.
There is little data from other countries without the resources to carry out the studies, but World Fish believes the rate of decline in those three countries is reflected across Southeast Asia.
In Tanjung Karang, a fishing village in central Malaysia on the banks of the murky Tengi river which flows into the Malacca Strait, coastal fishermen are gloomy as they come ashore to sell their daily catch.
After spending four hours at sea Kamarul Nizam, 35, managed to net only a few kilos of small prawns and cheap catfish. He sells them to Gan Soon Heng, a wholesaler who has been in the business for more than two decades.
Sitting in his wooden shop on the banks of the Tengi, Gan gives Kamarul about 30 dollars -- meagre pay for a hard day's work, as half is eaten up in costs.
Gan shows off a 37 kilo (81 pound) stingray, a 12 kilo garoupa and a long Spanish mackerel.
"Such a big stingray is rare. Even the 12 kilo garoupa is considered small. Twenty years ago you could catch much bigger fishes. Now you only get small ones," he said as he pointed to a few palm-sized stingrays lying in an icebox.
Tiew Kian Hap, 44, has fished the Malacca Strait for three decades, trawling for giant stingray, redfish and black pomfret.
"If we catch them we can make a profit. But their numbers now are much less. Also there are a lot of fishing boats out there hunting for them too," he said.
Instead, he mostly hauls in tiddlers that go to make belachan, a strong-smelling fish paste that is a vital ingredient in some popular Malaysian dishes.
Tiew lamented the lack of enforcement that sees big trawlers encroach close to the shore, wiping out the fry that, if left undisturbed, would grow into a valuable catch.
"Popular fishes like kambong or mackerel which we hope to catch get wiped out because even the small ones -- one to two inches -- are caught when their nets sweep the ocean floor," he said.
"There is no point reporting it because no action is taken."
Another fisherman, Ong Chee Hooi, 33, said the decline had been sharp in the past five years, and that even the mud crabs that used to be plentiful in the mangroves were disappearing.
"Their numbers have fallen. Factories and houses put up by the coast are polluting the water and this is killing the mangrove swamps," he said.
Allison said the use of dynamite and cyanide to fish in coral reefs, common in Indonesia and the Philippines, also poses a serious threat.
He urged enforcement authorities to adopt conservation measures such as encouraging the use of hook and line traps that net only targeted fish, and aquaculture to produce popular species.
"The aquatic system is quite resilient and they can recover if we can remove some of the pressures. What is needed is the political will and motivation to do so," he said.
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Off-Balance-Sheet Financing
You are here: Home : Buyer's Guides and Special Reports : Off-Balance-Sheet Financing
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board have handed down new rules and guidance aimed at improving the transparency of financial statements. The SEC is rewriting its guidance on MD&A disclosure, introducing Regulation G, and rewriting its rules governing Form 8-K. FASB is trained on consolidation of variable interest entities, or VIEs (formerly known as special-purpose entities, or SPEs) and on loan guarantees.
Collectively, the new mandates are intended to help investors view companies through the ''eyes of management''; detractors say that these initiatives only cloud the issues.
At right, you'll find features from senior editor Marie Leone that will give you a clearer picture of the developing situation. Below, you'll find earlier CFO articles on off-balance-sheet financing, as well as our ''Enron archive'' - where you can read about how we got here, and what your colleagues feel we should do about it.
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Sevilla vs Real Madrid football match Preview
Sevilla vs Real Madrid: The semi final of Copa del Rey played between Sevilla vs Real Madrid football match on 26 Jan 2011.All football fans are waiting for this great match and ant to enjoy a real actionfootball match .
Sevilla vs Real Madrid football match Preview
Date and Time: Jan 26, 2011, 2:00pm
Cup : Spain Copa del Rey Semi Fianl
In this semi final both team want to leads from each other so they come with proper game plan and also present a real action football match . Both side fans want to won their side and they want to see their favorite team in Fianl of Copa Del rey.
Sevilla vs Real Madrid are both equally balance teams some how but Real Madrid have some key players who change any situation to their own choice so Sevilla must with a proper game plan if they wan to won this important match.


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'Lost Continent' Detected Under Indian Ocean
(NEWSER) – The remains of an ancient continent ripped apart by plate tectonics tens of millions of years ago may lie under the Indian Ocean, researchers say. Scientists who analyzed beach sand on the island of Mauritius found tiny crystals of zirconium silicate that were hundreds of millions of years older than any rocks on the island, Nature reports.
They believe the zircons hint at the existence of a landmass they have called Mauritia, which was sunk around the same time the landmass that became India started to move north from Madagascar. Plate movement reconstruction and gravity mapping backs up their theory.


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It can't be easy being a Unitarian Universalist.
As I go about my reporting, Unitarianism is often cited as the example of what other faiths don't want to be or become.
If we're not careful, we'll be no different than the Unitarians.
When he says that, doesn't he know he sounds like a Unitarian.
Stuff like that.
It's true that Unitarians have no creed. They don't have to believe (or not believe) anything. Instead, they are dedicated to the search for meaning. And they are very happy to look for wisdom in other faith traditions.
Of course, for many other traditions, this approach is the relativism that they disdain.
It makes sense that Unitarians can use some support now and then from fellow Unitarians. But there aren't many around. Only 220,000 or so in this country.
That's why a Croton fellow decided to arrange a European exchange program for Unitarian teens from the burbs. European Unitarians have even fewer brothers and sisters to confide in.
I talked to some Unitarian teens the other day about what they believe and why they're visiting Europe (apart from the obvious reasons). I'll write about what they told me in tomorrow's FaithBeat column.
By the way, there are plenty of Unitarian jokes, too.
How 'bout this one: When an airplane was about to crash and the flight attendant asked a UU minister on board to pray, what did the minister say?
"Let us all join hands for silent meditation."


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Beauty and the Airbrush: The Billion-Dollar Confidence Trick
Our Book Club review this time is Beauty and the Airbrush: The Billion-Dollar Confidence Trick by Nicola G Marshall.
As a mum to two daughters (now aged 22 and 20) I've experienced the difficulties associated with encouraging girls to grow up to be body-confident young women able to differentiate between 'normal' natural beauty and a healthy appearance, and the unachievable perfection they are bombarded with on an almost daily basis. I think adults find it much easier to be aware of and ignore the airbrushed perfection we see in magazines (although I also think we're far from immune to it), but young people have never known anything different and I believe that for many of them it's doing untold and lifelong damage to self-confidence and body image. And for what? So that companies can make huge amounts of money from an industry built on lies and deception.
Faces and bodies are reshaped; skin is smoothed, lightened or darkened; teeth are whitened, as are whites of eyes; acne, wrinkles, pores, broken veins, dark shadows and uneven skin tone are a thing of the past; lips are fuller; breasts are bigger – the list goes on, and on. Our perceptions of what's achievable are being warped and we're all being conned – and purely for money. We know that many, if not most, of the images we see are altered in some way, but do we really understand the full extent of retouching and the real extent of the deception?
Nicola Marshall is a former professional retoucher. She's used 20 years' experience as a retoucher at the very high end of the digital imaging business to give us an insight into the world of digital retouching. Nicola has worked for many big brands and retouched countless images of celebrities and models for magazines. It's clear from her book that she feels a sense of responsibility about the work she did and its "potential to cause harm to society". For a time she was able to ignore the potentially damaging effects that retouching work was having on people, but she eventually came to the realization that in her opinion it was no longer a way to make a decent living, and that she could make a much more positive contribution by sharing her knowledge of the world of retouching – and that's what she's done with Beauty and the Airbrush.
"People who knew nothing about human anatomy were asking for bodies and faces to be distorted to a more 'pleasing' look. They were hypercritical of anything that didn't conform to their own narcissistic, warped ideas of total perfection. Nobody cared about the effects on the viewers of those images and nobody was listening to the growing tide of resentment from the public. Retouching seemed to be getting out of hand and I started to feel really uncomfortable about being a part of it."
Nicola states that the main aim of the book is to teach people to recognize the extent to which fashion and beauty photographs are being routinely altered. She wants us to use the knowledge and understanding of the many techniques used in photo forgery to help us to be aware of the extent to which we're being conned; to stop worrying about the way we look; and to make informed choices and decisions when buying beauty products. Perhaps most importantly, she wants adults to use this knowledge to educate our children.
The book covers areas such as…
- What is retouching? And how photos are drastically altered
- Reasons for retouching
- The effects of retouching on our self-confidence and buying decisions
- The future of retouching. There is no way back. Retouching has become an accepted part of modern life and it's here to stay; regardless of how any of us feel about it.
Not surprisingly, Nicola is resistant to skincare advertising – she makes her own soap and skin cream, and in her book she also gives advice on how to do this for yourself.
There's a lot in Beauty and the Airbrush that's thought provoking. For example, Nicola makes an interesting point about the difference between the effects of fashion photography and the effects of retouching in skincare advertising…
"Looking at images of very thin fashion models has been widely deemed to be responsible for a percentage of young people claiming to feel extremely unhappy about their bodies and cases of anorexia in very young girls are often cited as proof of this fact. My experience as a working retoucher has always told me quite a different story though. Over the years, the people (mostly women) who discussed my occupation with me very rarely mentioned the fashion images that I retouched and it was always skincare advertising that was the first thing they talked to me about. I believe that the skincare industry is the big financial winner in the mass fostering of lack of confidence in human facial appearance."
My instinct tells me that the preference for ultra-thin and often gaunt fashion models in magazines and on catwalks, plus the airbrushing of models' bodies in magazines, inevitably has a negative effect on children's and young people's feelings about their shape, size and weight compared to others'; but I can also see that the financial big winners are those in the beauty industry – people are living longer than ever before and the primary aim of the skincare/beauty industry seems to be to make us ashamed and fearful of looking our age.
Nicola also says that she estimates that across the entire industry of creating photographic images that are predominantly seen by women, at least 80% of the work is carried out by men. "Theories could abound about the subjugation of women by men who are creating falsified images of unachievable beauty"; and why on earth women are allowing themselves to be deceived and made to feel a particular way about themselves by what is after all, simply a way for big companies to make an awful lot of money.
I enjoyed reading Beauty and the Airbrush and there was plenty more in it that was thought-provoking as well as enlightening. I wish there were more people prepared to speak out and keep us informed about the extent to which we're all being deceived and manipulated by the beauty industry.
Beauty and the Airbrush is available on Amazon.
What are your thoughts about the seemingly ubiquitous altering of fashion and beauty photographs, and the potential effects of this?
Angela Boothroyd
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Jude Law Set to Receive $200,000 Scandal Payout
Squaring up after a wide-reaching British tabloid scandal, Jude Law is expected to receive $200,000 once the settlement is complete.
According to reports, Rupert Murdoch has agreed to pay damages to three dozen victims affected by his phone hacking claims and tabloid articles.
Britian's tabloid newspaper News of the World (which in now closed) admitted to publishing 16 articles about the "Sherlock Holmes" actor between 2003 and 2006 by using info obtained by hacking cell phones.
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The Piru district is in northeastern Ventura County in the vicinity of the creek of the same name. The Frazier Mountain district is just to the north, and the town of Gorman on the Ridge Route highway is 10 miles to the northeast. Placer mining was begun here in 1841 by Andrew Castillero, and gold from the district was shipped to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1842. Small-scale placer mining continued intermittently through the 1890s, and there was some work again in the 1920s and 1930s. Among lode-gold mines, the principal operation was the Castac mine, which has an estimated total output valued at about $160,000.
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The placer deposits are in and adjacent to the upper part of Piru Creek, chiefly in the vicinity of its junction with Lockwood Creek and to the east in the Gold Hill area. The gold has been recovered both from Recent stream gravels and older terrace deposits on the hills north of the Creek. The placer gold often is coarse-grained. There are a number of north-striking gold-quartz veins that range from a few inches to about 4 feet in thickness. The veins occur in shear zones and usually in granitic gneiss or hornblende schist. The ore contains free gold and varying amounts of pyrite. Milling ore sometimes averaged 1/2 ounce of gold per ton.
Bowers, Stephan, 1888, Gold-Ventura County: California Min. Bur. Rept. 8, pp. 680-684.
Huguenin, Emile, 1919, Gold-Ventura County: California Min. Bur. Rept. 15, pp. 759-760.
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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor often seems to fall ill after traumatic events. Is this a means of escape (if so is it efffective)? Is there another explanation for his recurring illness?
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Victor, the protagonist of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, seems to be unable to deal with any traumatic events in his life. If anything traumatic befalls him, Victor lapses into sudden illnesses. For some, these illnesses may act as a defense mechanism which allows Victor to escape from the reality of things. For others, these sudden illnesses may be the "things" which force Victor to recognize exactly what he has done.
The first time readers see Victor fall ill is in chapter five. Victor has just found success in reanimating life. Horrified by the creature, Victor paces his loft until he falls into a fitful sleep. During this sleep, Victor dreams of Elizabeth and her death. Awaking from the dream, Victor finds himself in a cold sweat with his muscles convulsing. Later the next day, after Clerval arrives, Victor believes that he sees his monster. Immediately, Victor falls down in a "fit." It takes months for him to recover. This illness could illustrate Victor's inability to face what he has done.
Victor also becomes very ill when he arrives in Ireland. After being charged with Clerval's murder, Victor falls into illness again. During this illness, he rants and raves that he is responsible for the deaths of William, Justine, and Clerval. This illness could illustrate a time where Victor is able to understand (and come to terms with) his responsibility for creating the Creature.
Both of these times Victor falls ill, he takes many months to recover. For some, this may illustrate a defense which allows him to "ignore" what he has done. On the other hand, Victor may need this time to recover from the shock his body and mind has gone through. Regardless, Victor seems far too weak to really deal with life. He seems to push himself to the brink of exhaustion only to fall into illness when he has gone too far


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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Philip Coates wrote:
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I've been putting on weight.
You see, school keeps me really busy. And by "really busy" I mean silent-scream-wild-eyed-ripping-of-hair-and-gnashing-of-teeth-can't-stop-now-or-I'll-never-get-this-done BUSY. So I haven't had time to go the gym. I mean it. I really, really haven't had time.
On top of that, when I'm stressed I tend to self-medicate with food. So, to put it simply, I've been silent-scream-wild-eyed-riping-of-hair-and-gnashing-of-teeth-can't-stop-now-or-I'll-never-get-this-done STRESSED... and, honey, that makes for a bad case of the munchies.
This is a problem for 2 reasons:
1. We have big plans as a family.
We want to do one of the those walking vacations in England. The wonderful ones where you walk the countryside while your lovely tour company moves all your stuff from the hotel you stayed in last night, to the hotel you'll stay in tonight. Midday, you stop and have lunch and a pint in a nice British pub...
and then you meander on your way, enjoying the countryside and arriving at your next stop just in time for dinner.
Also, those biking vacations in Europe sound wonderful. Biking in the Netherlands or Germany or the north of France.
I'd like to take the kids downhill skiing sometime.
I don't know when we'll have the money to do these things, but I want to be ready when and if we do. Also, there's the right now activities - walking, hiking, playing with the kids, swimming, skating, etc. I need to be fairly fit to enjoy them with my family and I don't want to be so out of shape that I can't do active stuff with my kids.
2. I don't want to get so fat I can't bend over.
I'm watching a show on HGTV.ca (free live streaming in Canada - THANK YOU HGTV) about this newly married couple who are renovating a house. It's a great show. The husband is funny and charismatic but he's quite big and I couldn't help but notice on the latest show that, when he was babysitting a friend's toddler, he had trouble bending down to play trains with the little boy on the floor. His belly got in the way.
I really don't want that to happen to me.
So what I've decided I'm going to do is this:
The plan
1. Not renew my gym membership, because I'm not using it anyway. I might buy a summer membership, though, so we can use their outdoor pool (which is beautiful - they just converted to salt from chlorine). Paying for a gym membership is expensive and useless if I'm not using it. If I don't renew it, I can put that money towards something I will enjoy doing - like #6 or #7.
2. Get work-out videos from the library and (shhh, I don't think this is legal) copy them onto my computer.
3. Do the workout videos often... like everyday. Or, at least, on the days I'm at home all day working.
4. Take walks. duh.
5. Maybe take up running again. Maybe. I don't really enjoy running, you see. But you can't argue with the fact that it's good exercise.
6. Join the 'walk a marathon' class at the Running Room. I heard about this on CBC - the guy who reaches the class says that walking is better than running and he trains for and walks marathons. Sounds like good training for a walking vacation in England to me.
7. Think about signing up for those kick boxing classes, burn off that stress by kicking and punching.
And that's my plan.
Wish me luck!
PS: I did a work-out video this morning by the guy who choreographed the dancing for Madonna's latest tour:
It was fun, but HARD. I'm sure I looked ridiculous trying to keep up with the dance moves at full-speed. There's times I wish my curtains were more opaque.
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When the responsible party isn't responsible, apparently
Anwar al-Awlaki and extra-judicial targeting of American citizens
This is a tricky situation, I think. al-Awlaki poses a pretty obvious "clear and present danger" to American interests, but we can't really walk in and arrest him. Amidst the outrage at governmental willingness to kill him, I've yet to hear a good solution for this sort of person.
Interesting perspective on the Democratic Congressional leadership's tactics re: tax cut bills
AI War
Updated: I bought Tidalis. It's fun! And it's only $10.
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The Wedding Grinch
Boy, some people are just no fun. There's been an on-going thread on Andrew Sullivan's site about weddings, diamond rings, and the money spent on ceremony, ornamentation, etc., all in (conscious or unconscious) signalling ploys. But one writer took this to the extreme in this post (look for the reader who "finds all wedding expenses unnecessary"):
I'm getting super bummed at the layout of this blog. I need a new Drupal theme. I want my fonts to be more refined.
Updated: OK, I have a new theme. Deco. It's OK for now, I guess. At least it's not the old theme.
I live under a rock buried beneath a pile of bigger rocks, for I have not heard California Gurls. I have heard Paparazzi repeatedly but that's because a (non-Lady Gaga) version of it is on Kidz Bop 17 (I'm thinking about doing a blues version of that song).


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A £30,000 benefits cheat claimed handouts as a single mum while living with her husband could spend the rest of her life paying it back, a court heard.
Burnley magistrates were told how Lorraine Wilkinson, 49, had dishonestly claimed £10,860 in income support, £16,780 in housing benefits and £2,759 in council tax benefit over a five year period.
The mum-of-three who is now on a number of benefits, has now started to pay back the £30,400.30, at £36 a week which could take her years to pay back, the court heard.
Prosecutors said that Wilkinson had two children with Gordon Wilkinson before the couple separated.
But, he was said to have gone back to live with her again so he could look after the youngsters while the defendant spent a lot of time at hospital with her third child, prosecutors said.
The court heard Wilkinson's husband was working in Burnley while sharing her home and investigators saw him leaving her address on an almost daily basis.
Wilkinson who has since moved to Old Market Court, Morecambe, admitted three counts of dishonestly failing to notify a change in circumstances, between October 2008 and June 2013, one involving the Department for Work and Pensions and two regarding Burnley Council.
She was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for a year, with a 12-month community order and 150 hours unpaid work. She must pay £85 costs and an £80 victim surcharge.
Prosecutor Andrew Robinson said Wilkinson's claim was legitimate at first in 2003, but it became a fraud in 2008.
She had claimed on the basis she was a lone parent, separated from her husband, with one dependent child and another on the way, the court heard.
Magistrates were told from 2008 until 2013, there was evidence Mr Wilkinson was living at the address, having registered it with his employer and was seen leaving the house.
Mark Williams, defending, said the Wilkinsons, who are still married, had been apart for some time and she had had a third child.
He said:" It's not an intimate relationship and it isn't now.
"But there was a common household.
"She is repaying the money at £36 a week and that will continue potentially for the rest of her life, until this money, or as much of it as she can, is repaid."


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Ok, so i have looked at a lot of other threads about the unidentified network thing and the main thing about those other threads is that they revolve around wireless connections which doesn't help me. Plus i'm not sure if that has any relevance.
(setup): I have an HP touchsmart desktop with windows vista home premium (i don't think all the spec are necessary, if so please let me know)
(problem): A few weeks ago i was able to connect to the internet and then out of nowhere the computer tells me that it is connected to an unidentified network and won't connect to the internet at all. It is connected via ethernet cable. I have enabled and disabled the drivers as well as firewall, gone through the updates, did roll backs, tried a system restore and reset both the modem and the computer and so far nothing has worked. Oh, and i have tried letting the computer diagnose and repair and i get a notice that says that the network adapter is experiencing driver or hardware issues with some options ( if necessary i can provide a screen shot)
(thoughts): There cant be anything wrong with the modem due to the fact that I have 2 laptops connected wirelessly and they work perfectly fine, which is also how I am posting this thread. I didn't install or remove any programs before the problem started so I don't think i have to worry about anything like that.
(question): So after all that can someone please tell me what i am missing? Could the ethernet card in the computer be the problem? Any thoughts on the situation would be helpfull


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With schiff we get the true woman, who was brilliant, cunning, and could out-Machiavelli any male ruler.
The biggest risk is not that "we go over this phony fiscal cliff," schiff said in a recent interview.
"The thing [North Korean government] want[s] the most is the non-release of this film," schiff said.
But schiff also said sometimes eavesdropping has its limits as well.
But schiff said this "has the feeling of a lawyerly kind of argument, to put the best case on a pretty strained legal theory."
schiff had tottered forward on bandaged feet, hand round ear, mouth open, as if to swallow whole whatever he couldn't hear.
As schiff continued to meet with difficulty, he soon called on Morgan again.
Das glckhafft schiff has been frequently reprinted, critical edition by J. Baechtold .
Nevertheless, as the opposition continued, schiff soon got in touch with Harriman.
Olive oil should, according to Fuchs and schiff, be of service where a saline liquid is undesirable; mineral oil seems useless.


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Orycteropus is peculiar among Edentates in that the Ischia do not unite with the vertebral column.
"There is a thunder-storm coming up from Ischia, I believe," said Artois.
Lying in the same direction are the islands of Procida and Ischia, also volcanic.
Francesco was born in the castle on Ischia in 1489, and was one year older than Vittoria.
The islands of Procida and Ischia continue and complete this side of the bay, which is about twenty miles long as the boat sails.
It was of this that Ibsen said he could not have written it any nearer home than Ischia and Sorrento.
Off Ischia we had the news that put the Admiral into a fury we were glad to see him in again.
The central feature of Ischia is the great crater of Epomeo (a, Fig. 14).
Similarly, on the 28th of July 1883, he hurried to Ischia, where an earthquake had engulfed some 5000 persons.
It is six or seven hours from here to Ischia, if the wind holds.
"the seat bone," 1640s, from Latin, from Greek iskhion "hip joint," in plural, "the hips," probably from iskhi "loin," of unknown origin.
ischium is·chi·um (ĭs'kē-əm)
n. pl. is·chi·a (-kē-ə)
The lowest of the three major bones that constitute each half of the pelvis, distinct at birth but later becoming fused with the ilium and pubis. Also called ischial bone.


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Day 6. IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY!
Quick update:
– coffee this morning was half caffeinated, half decaf with butter and cinnamon and was delicious. Definitely felt a little foggy in the afternoon though. Ah, caffeine.
Food today:
Trader Joe's sardines in olive oil
1/2 potato
1/2 avocado
2 squares dark chocolate
1 beef stick from Fair Food Farmstand
1 honey crisp apple in honor of fall. Delicious.
1 glass red wine (part of my personal plan for the moment!)
How's everyone dealing with their first
Friday night on the challenge?


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Are you a person who says "Extraterrestrial stuffs interest me than whats going on , on Earth?". Then This app from NASA is for you.The organisation has released an app named "NASA Be a Martian" across various smartphone and tablet platforms like Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 8.
This app keeps you updated of whats the new update from the Mars rover, latest pictures and videos from Mars, videos on scientists speaking about missions, animated tours and a lot more cool stuff to know about.A message forum with the app helps users to get clarified of their doubts.
If you want to know more about Mars and planning to move your home there, then probably you would like to download the apps for your platform from the links below.
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TWO top class comedians are bound for Theatre by the Lake.
Both fresh from successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Lucy Porter brings her Northern Soul show to the Keswick theatre on Tuesday, February 11, and Sean Hughes pays a visit on Thursday, February 13, with his award-winning Penguins.
Actress, comedian and writer Lucy is a familiar face on Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks and has appeared on Radio 4 panel show The Unbelievable Truth. As a live performer she's at the top of her game, with more than 20 Edinburgh Fringes under her belt.
Lucy's new show Northern Soul is jam-packed with characteristically cheery anecdotes and banter.
Stand up legend Sean has performed all over the world as a comic, and has acted in Coronation Street, Alan Parker's film The Commitments and a West End As You Like It with Sienna Miller.
Twenty four years after he was the youngest ever winner of the Perrier Comedy Award, seasoned Sean's reflections on life and love are as romantically tragic and deeply comic as ever.
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Even in graduate school, in a supposedly rhetoric-centered writing program, we never used or opened Aristotle's Rhetoric. We never studied the terms of rhetoric, nor did more than very simple analyses of a few of the standard forms of argument. That really shouldn't be surprising — at the same institution, for seven years, I taught Creative Writing, including poetry, without being able to scan (I thought I could). Years afterward I began to work the rudiments of meter: I only recently began to be interested in formal rhetoric, but at least this time I'm aware of my ignorance.
One part of that ignorance will be on display here tonight and in the next few non-NaPoWriMo posts, since I can't name the rhetorical strategies employed in this poem of Paul Goodman's:
These people came up here
only two hundred years ago.
A half a dozen names
of fathers in the graveyard
have brought us to the farmer
who used to be my neighbor.
But now his sons have quit
the beautiful North Country
for Boston where they will not find
a living or even safety.
The boy has joined the Navy
to bomb other farmers
where our Navy ought not to be.
"I set my mind on Ritchie.
I bought all the machinery for him
and the blue-ribbon cattle.
Now it has no point."
So they have sold and gone
to San Diego
to see the boy on leave.
There will not be another
generation in America,
not as we have known it,
of persons and community
and continuity.
This poetry I write
is like the busy baler
that Sawyer bought for Ritchie,
what is the use of it?
But I am unwilling to be Virgil
resigned and praise what is no good.
Nor has the President invited me.
[p. 49 in my long out-of-print edition of the Collected Poems: Amazon lists a few used copies of a slightly later edition]
[p. 49 in my long out-of-print edition of the Collected Poems: Amazon lists a few used copies of a slightly later edition]
Goodman would have known the terms. Here and elsewhere he displays an easy familiarity with Classical antiquity: Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics preceed his Aenied, and Goodman, in this (post?) bucolic poem, is refusing to be a poet of Empire — especially of an empire that doesn't think enough of poets to even ask them to serve that empire. The economy with which he manages that comparison and rejection is nothing short of astonishing.
I want to understand that economy, so I'll be looking at this poem as I begin to explore the terminology and structure of rhetoric. It will be slow, at first, since I am slow and this is NaPoWriMo. The poem may turn out to be a bad choice of starting point — but Goodman's sonnets were also my first introduction to metrical handling of contemporary matter, especially political matters. I trust him.
And I hope some of you will help keep me from going too far astray.
Things (I mean things, not people) weren't working at work so I got theNaPoWriMo stuff, or most of it, done early: I've posted the seventh 2008 NaPoWriMo poem, a taunting double dactyl from Jack, and I've podcast it here. I'll replace that crappy audio tonight (the URL won't change).
And that means that when I get home to my books I can finally begin a series of posts on the rhetoric of contemporary and near-contemporary poems, starting with Paul Goodman's "Sawyer."
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text: Alessio Pili was born in Milan in 1980 and later moved to Sardinia. Pushed by a strong passion for electronic music, especially for Detroit and dark techno, he became a dj around the age of 18. His inspiration came from artist such as Steve Stool, Basic Channel, Luke Slater, Birmingham influenced techno and all the others pioneers of this style. His dj sets are characterized by dark and hypnotic sounds, moving and evolving to more groovy and bright sonorities, often played on 3 decks to create a more unpredictable aspect during the his sets. His productions are strongly influenced by the music he plays in his sets; his choice of sonority and sound is mainly old school and classic techno with a futuristic approach. Refusing the abuse of new technologies and still fighting for the surviv..Alessio Pili's biography Alessio Pili Musician


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Economic impact of Sandhill cranes in central Nebraska is $14.3M
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Champagne Flute Fountain: Love It Or Hate It?
There is something about the word combination champagne fountain that makes me incredibly excited. Endless flowing champagne is a fantasy I've entertained ever since I learned my mom had one at her wedding. However the champagne flute fountain isn't exactly what I had in mind. I love this idea though: you'll never confuse your glass with someone else's glass and these can double as a pretty cool decoration when filled with something creative like colored rhinestones or m&ms. What I hate about them is the gigantic price tag that registers over a $1000! In an ideal world I could afford them, but until then I'll add these flutes to my champagne fountain fantasies. What do you guys think of them? Champagne flute fountain: Love it or hate it?


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Sounds like you could do it via gmail and google reader too:Āhttp://ruudhein.com/from-google-reader-to-gmail

And RSS feeds are just XML, so you could write something custom if you wanted complete control.

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:18 AM, <email@example.com> wrote:

 I use rss2email to convert feeds into text I can read in my inbox in pine.
 Works great.

 http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

 Here's an example of what it sends me:

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 Subject: Books by my bedside

 Three books that I'm excited to read:

 Ā * [Love in the Time of AIDS][1], by Mark Hunter. It has been acclaimed as
 the best book about HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and I'm not surprised. I was
 in South Africa when Mark was doing his fieldwork, working within a
 community over the course of years, trusted enough to be given access to
 love letters. When he presented his findings, it was always dynamite.

 Ā * [Consuming Mexican Labor ][2] by Ronald Mize and Alicia Swords. With a
 Republican House on the horizon, we can expect the anti-Latino rhetoric to
 step up a notch. And yet, as Mize and Swords show, there has been
 bi-partisan support for the idea that the US economy ought to rest on the
 backs of its poorest neighbours.
 Ā * [The Wind-Up Girl][3], by Paolo Bacigalupi. A [biopunk][4] set in a
 future South East Asia run by Monsanto's corporate children. Bacigalupi's
 latest has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, but this is the
 book that, deservedly from what I've read so far, has launched him into the
 stratosphere.

 Ā Ā[1]:
 http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=401463
 Ā Ā[2]:
 http://www.utppublishing.com/product.php?productid=2741&cat=0&page=1
 Ā Ā[3]: http://windupstories.com/
 Ā Ā[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl

 URL: http://rajpatel.org/2010/10/30/books-by-my-bedside/

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 On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Michael Shiloh wrote:
 > To: Noisebridge <firstname.lastname@example.com>
 > Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] how to read rss feeds

>
 > in my continuing quest to become somewhat literate in the ways of the
 > 21st century, i have decided that its time to learn how to read RSS
 > feeds. enough blogs are interesting to me that i want them delivered,
 > instead of me remembering to go to the website every so often.
 >
 > i like my feeds like i like my my email: plain old text. i don't like
 > forums or guis. (i'm using thunderbird only because i haven't gotten
 > around to setting up mutt, but that would be my ideal.)
 >
 > my fantasy rss reader would deliver the rss feed as simple text email to
 > my mailbox with a link to the original.
 >
 > i use linux and thurnderbird, although sometimes i'm forced to read my
 > google email account via the google website.
 >
 >
 > what rss readers can do this for me, ideally with a simple apt-get install?
 >
 >
 >

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Heavy rain has seen flooding in parts of the country. In Upton, Worcestershire, mobile flood barriers have been placed along the burst river banks. Picture by Jackie Blighe.
Jackie Blighe also sent in this picture. It shows flooding in the centre of Upton.
This is the view from Becky Payton's flat overlooking the River Avon in Evesham. Becky was forced from her home during last year's floods.
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