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James Joyce, in a letter to his brother Stanislaus on 13 November 1906, announces that he has just started a new "short story" - it is called "Ulysses."
He came up with the idea, he explains, because of a memory triggered by a recent mugging in a street in Rome. He had just been fired from his job at the Bank and drunk all his severance pay (which should have paid the rent and help provide for his one year old son, Giorgio). On his way home Joyce was robbed and left lying in the gutter, destitute, despondent and bleeding.
And it was at that very moment that he suddenly remembered something: being assaulted several years previously (22 June 1904) in Dublin and rescued from the gutter by a man called Hunter, "a cuckolded Jew" who dusted him down and took him home for a cup of cocoa. "In true Samaritan fashion," as Joyce put it. This repetition of woundings triggered a lost memory where an immigrant Jew came to the rescue of a wounded Dubliner and planted a seed of caritas in his imagination.
Several weeks after the Rome mugging, Joyce and Nora were given tickets to an opera whose librettist was called Blum. This second moment of happenstance, after his humiliating fall in a Roman side street, furnished the name of his paternal protagonist, Leopold Bloom. Thus was born the longest short story ever told: Ulysses. The tale of a father and a son traversing wounds on the way to healing.
My subject is the writing cure. My questions are the following:
- How might literature help us "work through" trauma?
- How far can narrative catharsis go and what are its limits?
- And how might narrative healing differ in the case of little trauma (the existential wounds of birth, loss and death) and big trauma (war, torture, catastrophe)?
My chosen example is Joyce's Ulysses - itself a story which rewrites two other stories, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Homer's Odyssey. All three are stories of fathers and sons. Stories of transgenerational trauma, which I will suggest, are transmitted and somehow transfigured in the writing of the stories themselves.
In the opening of Joyce's Ulysses we are told by Haines that it's all about "the father and the son idea. The son striving to be atoned with the father." It doesn't take long for us to realize that the son is Stephen-Telemachus and the father Bloom-Ulysses. Their paths cross in the middle of the book as Stephen exits and Bloom enters the National Library in Dublin. It is a pivotal scene in which Stephen expounds his central theory of the father/son idea in Hamlet. His thesis is that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet the year his son, Hamnet, died and his own father, John Shakespeare, was dying. The play is about the transmission of mortal trauma between fathers and sons.
In short, according to Stephen, Shakespeare wrote "the book of himself" in order to avoid the madness of melancholy, in order to properly mourn his father and his son in a way that he was unable to do in life. The play itself thus serves as a symbolic "working through" of an otherwise irresoluble crisis in which a father (King Hamlet) commands his son (Prince Hamlet) to do something impossible - that is, to remember what cannot be remembered! To tell something that cannot be told. A double injunction. An unbearable burden. An impossible story. The double bind of trauma. "To speak is impossible, not to speak is impossible."
"Remember me, remember me ..." says the ghostly father to his son, while at the same time adding:
"But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house(Hamlet, act 1, scene 5)
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul ..."
The ghost's unspeakable secrets - for which he is condemned to the latency of purgatory, those "sulphurous and tormenting flames" - these very things are precisely what remain secret. The secret "crimes committed in his days of nature" (youth) are, King Hamlet tells us, forbidden tales. In short, the things to be remembered cannot be told in the first place!
We are concerned here, I suggest, with traumas. Unspeakable things which we do not possess but which "possess us" - like spectres. For traumas, as Cathy Caruth writes, describe
"overwhelming experiences of sudden, or catastrophic events, in which the response to the event occurs in the often delayed, and uncontrolled repetitive occurrence of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena."
I think Hamlet perfectly qualifies.
Now, if this reading of Ulysses sounds psychoanalytic it is because it is. Joyce himself admitted to being deeply interested in Jung and Freud when he was "jung and easily freudened," as he puts it in Finnegans Wake. And the story is well known of him bringing his daughter, Lucia, to visit Jung in Zurich only to be told by Jung that he would be as incurably psychotic as his daughter if he had not penned Ulysses.
Writing his book of transgenerational trauma - of Ulysses and Telemachus, of King and Prince Hamlet, of Stephen and Bloom - was, it seemed, the "writing cure" for Joyce's own trauma. The book of himself. And Joyce concedes the creative liaison between literature and life when he confesses: "It is a brave man who would invent something that never happened."
What happens in Ulysses happened to Joyce. He was the manic magpie who, by his own admission, gleaned every word of his story from the stories of history, personal or collective. His fiction is haunted by what he called the "nightmares of history," the mute "mothers of memory" that cry out to be heard, spoken, written. Phantasmal hauntings torment the young Stephen with "agenbite of inwit." They revisit him obsessively, guiltily, ineluctably. Both Hamlet and Ulysses relate such ghostings of narrative memory.
As for Freud, no such meeting took place; but I sometimes imagine Joyce reading Freud's seminal theory of trauma in Beyond the Pleasure Principle - published in 1920 as Joyce was completing Ulysses (1922) - and wondering when he came to the fort/da scene if it did not confirm his own theory of catharsis in the Portrait?
Recall how Freud witnessed his grandson Ernst's first spoken words - gone/back again - while playing with a wooden cotton-reel which he made vanish under his curtained cot and then reappear again in imitation of his mother's coming and going from the house, a cause of unbearable separation anxiety for the young child.
In Freud's famous account of little Ernst's two syllable tale - fort/da - invented to compensate for the little "trauma" of his parents' absence (mother away, father at war) might not Joyce have recognized echoes of his own fictional ploy to compensate for intolerable loss? In other words, might not both Freud and Joyce have witnessed the magical power of words to "work through" wounds, albeit at very different levels? Working through as writing through?
And more precisely, when Freud wrote of his grandson's loss of his mother was he not also writing about his own loss of his daughter: the same person - Sophie Freud. For Sophie was, significantly, Freud's favourite daughter who died tragically in January 1920, several months before Freud, devastated by the loss, wrote the fort/da scene.
(This scene, incidentally, is inserted in the book's narrative, quite abruptly, after Freud's initial outline of a series of examples of World War I trauma. And this interpolation of a "little trauma" - separation from a loved one - into Freud's seminal account of "Big Trauma" - unspeakable violence at war - opens up, I believe, the whole conversation about relations between ordinary and extraordinary trauma.)
My suggestion here is that the mirror play of Sophie Freud's "disappearance," enacted between her father (Freud) and her son (Ernst), is a micro-drama of transgenerational trauma (with a small t). It signals a crossing of identifications where Freud is at once Sophie's father and son, "writing the book of himself," as Joyce puts it, so as to mourn a departed loved one (a lost object). My corollary suggestion is that Joyce may have found writerly resonances in Freud's therapeutic narrative of fort/da. The longest short story ever told echoing the shortest!
This hypothesis is fantasy - but Joyce was a voracious reader and he does have his Finnegans Wake narrator boast: "I can psoakoonaloose myself any time I want!"
So, to return to Ulysses. When Stephen tells us that Hamlet is the story of Shakespeare's father-son relationship, he is echoing his relationship with his own fathers (Mr Dedalus and Bloom). And this story within a story is - please bear with me - itself a parody of Homer's original story of Ulysses and Telemachus.
In other words: we are dealing here with stories within stories within stories. Fathers and sons, repeating, reliving and (perhaps to some significant extent) relieving trauma. Narrative as catharsis. But not narrative catharsis understood as closure or completion. Rather narrative as impossible story: storytelling which forever fails to cure trauma but never fails to try to heal it. And in this very effort itself there is pleasure: the pleasurable purgation of pity and fear.
Now, let's go back to the beginning. Homer's Ulysses. It is a standard motif of Greek myth that sons act like father's before them. Like father like son, and so on ad infinitum, until someone says "Stop!" That someone is the true storyteller who transposes the regressive repetition of trauma in life into a cathartic repetition in narrative.
Think of the great cyclical myths. Zeus castrating Saturn castrating Ouranos. Orestes reiterating the curse of the house of Atreus. Or perhaps, most famously, Oedipus repeating the deeds of his father Laios. Recall: Laios raped the son of his host, Pelops, thereby committing the equivalent of incest and the betrayal of hospitality. His double transgression replicates the curse of his own father, Labdacos, and is repeated by Oedipus in the next generation. The continuing narrative lineage comes under the heading of the "House of Labdacos" and involves a recurring acting out of unspoken traumata (Greek for "wounds").
Claude Levi-Strauss has remarked how the three names of patrilinear descent in the story - Labdacos (lame), Laios (left-sided), Oedipus (swollen footed) - all refer to wounds which cause difficulties in walking. This fact, he suggests, which is symptomatic of a transfer of trauma over three generations (and four if one includes Antigone and wishes to open the discussion to fathers and daughters and, by extension, to contemporary feminist readings).
The only solution to this curse of cyclical repetition is the conversion of the untold wound into some form of telling - in this case, the symbolic emplotment of Oedipus's tragic narrative. Only this, according to Levi-Strauss after Aristotle, can bring some sort of catharsis which suspends - through the purging of pity and fear - the compulsive acting out of mute trauma.
The basic thesis, in sum, is that myths are machines for the purging of wounds: strategies for resolving at a symbolic level what remains irresolvable at the level of lived empirical experience.
Human existence is cursed by a tragic, because impossible, desire to escape the trauma of our autochthonous origins - namely, the desire to buck our finitude. To deny death. In the Oedipus cycle, this tragic curse is epitomized, as noted, by the patrilineal names for wounds that bind us to the earth. And the poetic role of muthos-mimesis that comprises tragic drama (as Aristotle reminds us in the Poetics) is to narrate our heroic desires to transcend our terrestrial nature: Cadmos kills the dragon, Oedipus defeats the sphinx.
But our desires are ultimately impossible: we are scarred by contrary and irreconcilable fidelities: to earth and sky, to immanence and transcendence, finitude and infinity, matter and spirit, nature and culture. For Levi-Strauss, great mythic narratives are attempts to procure cathartic relief by balancing these binary opposites in symbolic constellations or "mythemes." In a word: what is impossible in reality becomes possible in fiction.
So how might this reading relate to the father-son story of Ulysses and Telemachus? Let me say a word about Homer's version and then proceed to Joyce's.
Ulysses is condemned to act out the wound of his own failure, his own existential finitude, again and again. He has absented himself from the wounds of his birth and upbringing, his autochthonous origins in Ithaca, sailing off to heroic glory. But his attempts to become an immortal warrior are constantly countered by reminders of mortality (the brutal carnage of Troy and subsequent calamities). And the breaking of the lure of Calypso is also central to his disillusionment.
Originally leaving Ithaca as an aspirant hero, Ulysses returns as a beggar: a lowly outcast only recognized by the smell of his flesh (by his dog, Argos) and the scar on his thigh (by his nurse, Euryclea). It is significant that Euryclea only touches her master's scar after a detailed narrative about how Ulysses received the original wound in a childhood hunting incident with his grandfather, Autolycus. Yet another example of transgenerational trauma. (Note that this narrative "working through" leading up to the final, healing touch, takes all of seventy seven lines.)
Telemachus, expecting a triumphant victor to return, does not at first recognize Ulysses; he is so fixated on his Great Expectations of the father that he does not see the "scar" on his body. He is blinded by illusory imagos. Delusions abound. When he finally acknowledges that the mortified stranger before him is in fact his real father, they sit down together and eat. Sharing simple food of the earth, squatting in a swineherd's den, is how they finally come together as host and guest. Hospitality as antidote to the hostile curse of fate (ate).
The word Homer uses for "scar" here is oulen. This is a term often associated in Greek literature with "trauma" - as in Plato's Gorgias, oulas en to somatic ... hypo traumaton, where oulen means both "trace" and "scar."
While the wound is timeless, the scar appears in time: it is a carnal trace which can change and alter over time though it never disappears. Scars are written on the body; they are forms of proto-writing. And narrative catharsis is a process of working through such carnal traces.
Put simply: while the wounds remain timeless and unrepresentable, scars are the marks left on the flesh to be seen, touched, told and read. Scars are engraved wounds that may, or may not, be healed. I shall return to this distinction below.
So how, in the light of all this, does Homer's epic compare with Joyce's parody? Quiet apart from the fact that we have leaped three thousand years - from a "cold" synchronic literature to a "hot" diachronic one - the "father-son idea" repeats itself. But the repetition is forward not backward. That is what writing can do: give a future to the past. Joyce's narrative invites a release from the haunting cycle of trauma.
The story of Stephen and Bloom recounts their respective efforts to escape the loss of absent parents (Stephen's mother and father) and a departed son (Bloom's prematurely departed son, Rudy). They both seek a new bond of spiritual paternity-filiality; but they cannot find it for as long as they remain captive to their illusions of what this should be - Stephen's fantasy of perfect fusion and Bloom's obsession with his lost son. Only when they accept their condition of wounded finite beings - Stephen breaking with the literary elite of Dublin, Bloom returning home to Molly (with "less envy than equanimity, less jealousy than abnegation"). Only then can arise a love beyond illusion.
Surrogate father and surrogate son exchange stories of failure and mourn lost illusions. Such love beyond loss is only a hint of course, a glint in Molly's matinal eye. But enough of a narrative catharsis, nonetheless, to give the reader hope in another day - in beginning again. "Childman weary, manchild in the womb."
So, to return one last time to Hamlet, we might ask this: why does Stephen Dedalus choose this particular story to work out his theory of the father-son idea? Let's take a closer look.
The ghost of King Hamlet asks his son to remember something that cannot be remembered. So, as already noted, the play begins with a tale that cannot be told, a testimony that cannot be transmitted - thereby breaking with the age-old sacred tradition of death-bed blessings passed from fathers to sons. (This breakage is an example of what Dori Laub calls the "collapse of witnessing.")
Hamlet, we saw, knows his father is condemned to flames for a secret sin committed in his youth. But his father is forbidden by this very same sin to say what this is, that is, from telling his story. So Hamlet inherits a double injunction: remember, don't remember. (A confusion confounded by a supplementary injunction: intervene to stop your mother's incest, but don't do anything: "let not thy soul contrive against thy mother aught" - no wonder the Dane is confused!)
Thus here, as in many ancient narratives of trauma, blind acts of murder and incest are encrypted rather than confessed. Whence the inheritance of the wound as a mark in one's flesh - what Hamlet famously calls "the mole of nature" which one inherits with one's birth. Hamlet spends the entire play trying to "catch the conscience of the King," deploying the "antique disposition" of mask and subterfuge, pun and quip, play and wit, so that he might "by indirection find direction out."
But working through takes time. Patience. Five full acts! Truth only ultimately reveals itself when Hamlet succeeds in abandoning his illusions about a perfect father - "look here upon this picture and on this ..." (act 3, scene 2) - and accepts that he, no less than his father before him, is a failed, forked, mortal, finite thing. Henceforth, "the readiness is all."
This surrender of idealised imagos reaches its climax in the famous graveyard scene when Hamlet comes to realise that the father who loved him as a child and bore him daily on his shoulders was not, as he had imagined, his natural father, King Hamlet, but the long buried court jester, "poor Yorick." Only then is Hamlet the son ready to act according to something beyond himself - "a divinity that shapes (his) ends" - acknowledging his own mortal condition. Now the "readiness is all."
And here, as in King Lear, wisdom comes from the lowliest of creatures. Hamlet the son dies, the play hints, poisoned by the same sword that Hamlet the father used to poison King Fortinbras on the day Hamlet was born. And, to follow this hint of the grave scene, it was this secret poisoning which led to the cycle of further killings of Kings by Kings (Fortinbras, Hamlet, Claudius) and sons by sons (Hamlet, Laertes and - almost - Fortinbras). Inhumations and exhumations. Cryptings and decyrptings. Secrets of the grave whisper through the mouths of fools.
This fatal circle of repetition only comes to an end when Hamlet himself becomes the sacrificial symptom of cyclical acting out and exposes the wound in his own body where the sword entered.
Note that the fatal wounds of King Hamlet's body were never seen or touched by his son as "scars," for the poisoned King was "to his grave untimely sent," his prematurely decomposing body having to be interred without ceremony: Hamlet never saw the corpse of his father - just as Shakespeare himself, as Stephen reminds us, never saw the corpse of his son, Hamnet. The wounds were never witnessed as scars. Once again, we find a "collapse of witnessing" which makes for traumatic "delay." Traumas are revisited as ghosts, coming back again and again, after the event, revenants apres coup. Freud's Nachtraglichkeit.
(This phenomenon of delay is extremely relevant, I think, for an understanding our own contemporary culture's fear around dying and death. In former times, mourners were encouraged to have direct and sustained funerary witness of dead bodies before burial - think of the Irish wake for example. And this culture of death-denial is manifest today in all kinds of symptomatic avoidance behaviour faced with the wounds of disabled and otherwise scarred persons. To take just one example: might not a mass social media phenomenon like Facebook - where we "prepare a face to meet the faces that we meet" in a virtual climate of mandatory cheer - might this not also prove to be, deep down, a book of ghosts?)
Let me sum up. Because the son did not witness the father going down into his grave this absence was engraved in his flesh. The loss, the lack, the gap of the empty grave, the missingness, all this was encrypted as a suppressed "right of memory" waiting five full acts of "procrastination" to be retrieved.
This is, perhaps, the reason T.S. Eliot described Hamlet as an "artistic failure" if also the most written about drama in western culture. And it is also the reason why Andre Green describes Hamlet as the greatest literary performance of unconscious trauma and recovery, to which psychoanalysts have been endlessly drawn like kittens to a ball of wool!
In short: fathers and sons - sons and fathers. Eventually it is Hamlet's own sacrificial surrender which enables the play's other fatherless son, Prince Fortinbras, to live on: to survive the fatal curse which ghosted the whole revenge cycle for generations. Hamlet's dying words to Horatio say it all: "absent thee from felicity awhile / to tell my story."
The story that could not be told is finally told - though it took five acts. And the closing words of the Fifth Act are delivered by Fortinbras himself, finally set free - by Hamlet's sacrifice - to recover the crypted memory of his father: "I have certain rights of memory to this kingdom," concludes Fortinbras, "which now to claim advantage doth invite me." Memory and story cross in mourning. And if there is catharsis, for us the audience, it is indeed a purging of pity and fear.
Much more could be said here about narrative catharsis.
There is Aristotle's theory of cathartic affect in the Poetics and Joyce's rewriting of it in A Portrait of the Artist. There is the difference between catharsis as it effects the author and the audience: where Aristotle focuses on the purgation of the spectators' emotions, Joyce also applies it to narrators, real or implied. His own poetic persona included:
Myself unto myself do give
This name Katharsis-Purgative...(Joyce, "Holy Office")
Bringing to Tavern and to Brothel
The mind of witty Aristotle.
Then there is the question of the respective therapeutic roles of imagination, cognition and emotion (Paul Ricoeur, for example, has much to say on this in his rereading of Aristotelian catharsis in Time and Narrative). And there is, crucially, the difference between catharsis in lower case trauma - the "originary traumas" of birth, loss and death - and in upper case trauma - torture, rape, abuse, catastrophe and genocide.
These latter examples of Big Trauma often involve such appalling terror (Schreck) that several experts claim - among them Judith Herman, Berel Lang and Claude Lanzmann - that no catharsis is possible at all. This last point raises the critical question of the ultimate limits of catharsis: what traumas may, or may not, be subject to narrative healing.
I would like to repeat, in closing, that we need to think about the genuinely cathartic role of trauma stories as requiring open narratives that never end, rather than closed narratives that presume to wish away wounds rather than working through scars. Trauma narratives are by their very nature truncated, gapped, fractured, inconclusive. They may be great stories but they can never offer terminal solutions. There are no total cures.
Writings can only work through traumas as traces, revisit them as hauntings; they can never fully retrieve such experiences or tell the full story. In the transposition from inexpressible wound to written scar there is something lost in translation. Invariably. Why? Because the "wound" is precisely that which could never be properly registered or recorded in the first place. It was because it was "too much" that trauma repeats itself as lack. Trauma narratives are scabs over the cavities left by inexperienced experience.
Recall, in conclusion, our three stories.
- The trauma inherited by Hamlet - namely, his father's murder by Claudius on top of his father's sin committed on Hamlet's birthday- is something hinted at in the play; it is never openly stated. Moreover, the fact that his father's death and burial are "missed" by Hamlet - who was absent in Wittenberg - is a further token of "inexperienced experience." And this is linked in its own murky way with Hamlet's mother's incest with Claudius. Secrets everywhere. Plays within plays. Cypherings and decypherings. (Which is why Andre Greene, Nicolas Abraham and other psychoanalysts have hunted obsessively to untangle the mystery - without success.) Shakespeare's drama engraves traces of buried trauma which Hamlet resolves to exhume - as in the grave diggers' scene - but never finally exposes. Many bodies are rotten and rotting in the state of Denmark (from its eponymous King to the disappeared Polonius). But they are all hidden away. Behind walls and wainscotings, lies and disguise, screens and "seems." All we have are odours, ashes, allusions - oblique ciphers less deciphered than played with (like cotton-reels or gallows wit) and played out (in imitated suffering and action). In this sense the play's very success is its failure. Hamlet's manic-melancholic words swarm like bees over the black hole of an empty hive. But they can never fill in the gaping wound; only, at best, conjure and confront the invisible ghosts within. The narrative catharsis comes ultimately not from the cognition of discovery (we never know exactly what happened) but a curiously liberating recognition of recovery. Failing to gain full knowledge of his father's unspoken crime (laconically mentioned in Act 1), Hamlet nonetheless comes to acknowledge the limits of his own finite, humble existence - his crucial lesson in the grave scene. Indeed, the fact that King Hamlet's hidden story (the real reason he is condemned to purgatory) remains buried throughout the play, only returning as spectral intimation, itself performs Prince Hamlet's inability to discover his own story and, by extension, our own inability, as audience, to discover the unfathomable story of the play. Hamlet is a tragedy of trauma: it recounts the impossibility of saying the unsayable.
- Similar issues of "unsayability" surround the unspoken traumas of Stephen and Odysseus. There are signs here too but they too are equally crypted: Stephen's over-determined guilt, Odysseus' occluded scar. And we, as readers, may in turn hypothesize about the nature of the various authors' own engraved wounds. For instance: What Homeric trauma, personal or collective, lies behind the long forgotten story of Odysseus's infantile wound? How deep was Shakespeare's shame at missing his own son's funeral, currying favour with a barbarous Queen, abandoning his father's forbidden Catholicism? And, to give Joyce the last word: what traumas, little or big, may have been reactivated by his incidental mugging in a Roman night street? Guilt at abandoning his mother and family? The painful break with his city and culture? Or perhaps, father back still, the untold historical rupture inherited from the Great Irish Famine with its extinctions, evictions and exiles?
- This last transgenerational wound is rarely acknowledged by Joyceans (itself arguably a symptom of elusiveness). But for all its neglect it is, I suspect, a key aspect of Joyce's native unconscious. Joyce himself was born in 1882 less than thirty years after The Great Hunger ended, a catastrophe that split Ireland into pre- and post-famine history witnessing a million dead and another million banished (almost a third of the population between 1847-1852). Joyce's father and grandfather lived through this unspeakable horror though like most witnesses who survived at home or abroad, the pain of an Drochshaol (or "bad times" as they were elliptically known in Irish) went largely unwritten at the time. So if Stephen vows at the end of A Portrait to "forge in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his race," is it not logical that this massive gash in the national psyche would return in his next novel, Ulysses, as an irrepressible haunting? A stammering tale demanding to be heard?
- This is, I submit, what happens. The references are oblique but they are pervasive, as Luke Gibbons and other critics have recently shown: from Stephen's dead mother's phantasmal returns to Bloom's frequent allusions to hunger, soup kitchens and potatoes - he even carries one in his pocket as talisman! "You don't know whose thoughts you're chewing on," muses Bloom, "Famished ghosts. Ah I'm hungry." Or as the Daughters of Erin (also called the "daughters of memory") sing in the "Circe" episode: "Potato, Preservative against Plague and Pestilence, Pray for us!" The allusions are multiple if characteristically muted. Much hermeneutic digging is required. Here as in Hamlet's graveyard or Odysseus' childhood. (Yorick and Euroclyea as child reminders). Throughout, wounded authors call for readers, traces for interpretations, hints for guesses, ciphers for thoughts.
To sum up: Joyce's narrative of his native psyche shows that past wounds are never completely past, no matter how much one prays. The psychic palimpsest of personal and historical abandonment finds expression in the ineradicable wounds of what Stephen calls "banishment from the heart, banishment from the home."
Joyce identified similar experiences of "sundering" in both Shakespeare and Homer whose traumatized heroes also carry indelible scars of exile and injury. Like his literary predecessors before him, Joyce grafted stories onto histories - forgotten, repressed, occulted or stolen. His narratives were secreted from those "nightmares of history" which, by Joyce's own admission, made his writing "the last word in stollentelling."
Ulysses is, I wager, a tireless literary effort to awaken, cathartically, from such historic nightmares by restoring forfeited stories and bringing ghosts back to life. It is, in short, a work of mourning and recovery. A writing which translates wounds into scars, flesh into fiction. A working through of trauma.
Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and is Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice. His most recent book is Anatheism: Returning to God after God. This is the text of the Simone Weil Lecture in Human Value he delivered last month at Australian Catholic University.


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On day one, we will also be hearing from Fergus Boyd, Vice President, Digital and IT at Yotel. Fergus is responsible for this start-up affordable luxury hotel brand's digital strategy and services (web, mobile, social), IT innovation, and all back-end and guest-facing technology. He is a serial digital entrepreneur and technology transformation agent and led award-winning IT, eCommerce, and innovation initiatives at Virgin Atlantic and British Airways (BA).
In the run-up to the Forum, we asked Fergus to answer a number of questions on how Yotel uses digital to differentiate itself in the hospitality and accommodation market. His answers are a must-read for other tech management and digital business leaders facing similar challenges. I look forward to hearing Fergus' presentation, "From Raw Fish To Moving Beds," this Wednesday. Come and join us by registering today!
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Vannevar's Law is named after the mid-twentieth century engineer, Vannevar Bush, named after his first name because Bush's Law refers to the discredited supply-side economic policy pursued in the United States of America and the United Kingdom in the last few years of the New Elizabethan Era. It states the following:
"Information Technology develops linearly and incrementally and specialisms tend to be isolated. Revolutions and competition are rare".
The rate of progress in IT is sometimes contrasted with that in space-related industries, where progress is seen as exponential, frequently revolutionary and highly competitive.
Note For Readers In The Gordon Timeline
(i.e. OTL)
Although this is possibly the most significant difference between OTL and the Caroline timeline, those living in the timeline do not generally see an alternative, just as we see no alternative to Moore's Law. Hence the following explanation is from OTL's perspective, though it excludes the POD itself.
Limits On The Progress Of Information Technology
- Moore's Law did in fact apply in terms of doubling of transistors per unit area of silicon or germanium for a short period in the 1960s. However, it went unnoticed and hence did not become a target for industry or research. This was a factor in its decline and rate of change has long since become linear.
- Higher rates of economic inflation means that there is less demand for hardware. People buy devices to last because profit and wages are constantly undermined by inflation. However, this has only been the case since about 1986.
- Due to the difficulty in manufacturing integrated circuits, IBM tends to monopolise hardware simply because it's the largest IT company. Other companies simply lack the resources to compete. This stifles innovation. Other monopolies in IT hardware also exist. IBM are the only manufacturers of useable microprocessors and a number of decisions have been made within the company which have slowed technological change.
- Several nations in the developed world have a state monopoly on telecommunications. This has led to a situation where telecommunication subscribers rent their computers from the PTT or Post Office. This situation has, however, only existed since the use of online data services became popular. It entails that subscribers are generally unable to upgrade their hardware until the organisation from which they rent it chooses to do so.
- Engineers, mathematicians and logicians have failed to find any way of connecting circuits consisting only of any particular single kind of logic gate to express all possible truth tables, i.e. there are no known Sheffer functions in the formal logical systems used in this timeline, although of course they do exist undiscovered and in fact are known to philosophers and in informal logic. The connection between their use in one field and the other has, however, never been recognised. This single fact is the most important scientific and technological difference between the Caroline Era and OTL. Two major consequences is that many types of logic gates are composed of circuits which cannot be realised by combinations of any other logic gates, and that there are often no known ways to simplify the design of a higher-level logic circuit without changing its function.
- In connection with the fact above, De Morgan's Laws' are not known to mathematicians, logicians or engineers in this timeline, though they are again familiar in philosophy and informal reasoning. This again means that there is often no way to simplify a higher-level logic circuit.
Taken together, these two facts mean that although the level of integration of transistors initially progressed exponentially, it did not reap the rewards it has in OTL, because it was easily possible for a circuit with the same function to have something like ten times the number of transistors, making it both larger and slower than its better-designed equivalent in OTL.
- Due to these constraints, IBM designed the influential IBM 7030 differently. They began to design it earlier and therefore used an earlier design of transistor, chose to save space and money by standardising on a byte of six rather than eight bits and were unable to use pipelining or prefetch due to the lack of space and the lost efficiencies in the circuits that would have been required. Hence all of IBM's mainframes were larger, more expensive and slower.
- Computer-aided Design is primitive, not particularly user-friendly and short cuts are often missed. This is in itself because digital computers are less advanced.
- The lower processing speed means that the distances travelled by signals on printed circuit boards and within integrated circuits are not a bottleneck and they have not needed to be addressed in designing hardware.
- IBM did not design capacitor-based dynamic RAM chips because more effort and money was needed to design its other hardware. All semiconductor RAM is therefore static and consists of flip-flops made from the larger components required, so their capacity is lower per transistor than even the static RAM chips in OTL. This makes a microcomputer with the same specifications larger and more expensive.
- Software is sometimes rather slower because shortcuts in logic using functional completeness or De Morgan's Laws are not used, and because the likes of brute-force algorithms or optimising loops by unrolling them would take up unacceptably large amounts of memory. However, precisely because of the lack of space and slower processing, optimisation for speed and memory is better than it is here and there is little software bloat or creeping featurism.
- Engineers and other professionals tend to enter careers in Space technology rather than IT because it is seen as more glamorous and lucrative. Hence there is a "brain drain" into the space industries which holds back IT.
- Vannevar Bush's conservatism with respect to technological progress, particularly his statement about a computer the size of the Empire State building, has been quite influential, partly because of the disappointing influence of miniaturisation on IT, and has become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the Caroline timeline in the same way as Moore's Law has in ours.
Analogue Computing
As a result of Vannevar's Law, analogue computers to do the same tasks lasted longer and some aspects of contemporary technology are still analogue where they would be digital had Moore's Law applied. One example is the Apollo Guidance Computer.


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At least it did for me a little. Seeing Leonard Nimoy messing up lines and laughing takes him out of his Spock character and reminds me he was not so much superior Vulcan, but very, very human...
The passing of Leonard Nimoy shook the world, and the small town of Missoula, Montana as well.
The late, great Leonard Nimoy, who died earlier today at the age of 83, will always be Mr. Spock, second-in-command of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk. For a long time, Nimoy was not okay with this. And then, over the years, he embraced the character that defined his career and inspired an entire generation of fans (many of whom became scientists, engineers, and astronauts). But Nimoy didn't just sit back and rest on his Vulcan laurels. When he wasn't wearing those pointy ears, Nimoy was acting, directing, writing, singing, and lending his likeness and distinctive voice to commercials and TV specials. He was a real Hollywood renaissance man, dabbling in high art, low art, and everything in-between.
We have very sad news to report from The New York Times: Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek's Mr. Spock for almost 50 years, has died. Nimoy's wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, told the Times the cause of death was "end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." The beloved actor and director was 83 years old.
Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role in Star Trek, passed away this morning at his home in Bel Air from "end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease". He was 83.
William Shatner unleashed his inner country star recently lending his voice to one of Luke Bryan's most popular hits, 'Country Girl (Shake It for Me).'
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"This father's day, make your father feel like a hero". A very Archies style writing! Archies gallery has created a niche market for itself with their interactive and unique cards for every occasion but giving it a deeper thought, where is this sudden splurge in such special days coming from? Parent's day, family day, valentines day, father's day, mother, daughter, sister, brother, hug, kiss, teddy, chocolate, propose and what not days! Phewww, the list goes on!
More than a way of making 'people who matter' feel special, it is a gimmicky way of inducing need into the minds of people. The need to buy such expensive gifts, cups, cards, key chains, show pieces etc, which before the expansion of Archies culture were nowhere to be seen!
What otherwise is the need to spend on such items and the concept of celebrating days which are absolutely not required! The core idea of spending on a reason as stupid as a hug, chocolate etc is absurd!
Where comes the need of celebrating parents day, family day when you wish everyone individually on their respective days? It is just to shell out money and people are falling prey to these tricks.
Why Wait For One Such Day When You Can Show Your Love All Around The Year?
If you truly love someone, why on earth would you want to wait for Valentines Day to come to confess it? In the spur of the moment, people tend to spend extravagantly during the pre-valentines day week like Hug Day, Kiss Day, Propose Day, Teddy Day, Chocolate day to please their lovers but this is making relationships more mechanical where people today judge others on the basis of amount and type of gift given and not the intention behind it, which creates a big hole in the pocket of such buyers!
Gifting cards, giving big showpieces to parents and loved ones is highly materialistic and people are forgetting the charm of spending time with their parents and loved ones, cooking a meal for your mother, taking your sister for a ride and many more ideas, which genuinely show that you care!
Giving cards to your teachers, family members on that particular day is nothing but waste as no one day is enough for showing affection, which is a 360 days process!
Business for Some
It is a big business cycle today with huge profits which is the reason for introduction of many more such 'not-so-very-required days'. During such days, T.V, internet, newspapers and even malls and markets are flooded with commercials, banners, hoardings announcing these special days and what Archies has to offer. As a result, all such galleries are seen jam packed with young people looking for the best possible gifts to show they care, no matter the person the gift is intended for actually requires it or not!
During friendship's day, markets are seen full of different friendship bands and people queue up to buy them to prove their friendship, which then becomes a race for everyone to compare as to who got the maximum bands!
Commercials are so enticing and they make believe consumers that there is no better way than this to celebrate joy and love, which is hard to resist!
Youth Are the Main Targets (Archies Culture!)
Youth are the most easily tapped audience and this is what such companies cash on! They make ads surrounding the youth, attaching the emotional quotient with it, which is the weak nerve of we Indians, and there it is, an irresistible combo which rings their cash registers! Youth are losing out on the emotional quotient and running behind the said and done ways to please people, which is more of a status symbol today!
Many More Brands Are Falling Suit
Taking inspiration from Archies and their flourishing business, many more brands have been set up to venture into the ever growing market of cards, gifts and show pieces (read gimmicks).
With altogether various choices, consumers are spoilt for choice and in the name of competition, these companies are coming up with innovative gifting ideas, online shopping, special packages, contests and prizes which are more than enough to work as factors to induce a desperate need in people to avail such offers, resulting in more undue expenditure and pure westernization of concepts of relationships!
Gears Have Shifted
Except for 1 feature and news bulletin on our forgotten heroes like Bhagat Singh, days which hold international and national importance, the youth is largely disinterested in all such events as Archies prioritizes propose day over all such days! The youth follows suite blindly which has taken away complete attention from these important days and rottening our intrinsic values, being countrymen of India!
The consumers are in a dire need of revamp and all such gimmicky activities need to stop, or at least minimized to avoid over expenditure and loss of the pure essence of love and relationships..
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Top 10 Rush Albums
Rush bassist Geddy Lee turns 58 today (July 29), and we're celebrating by taking a look at some of the band's best work. With 18 albums under their belt so far, which ones are "best" is a fiercely debated topic among fans of the Canadian trio. We'd like to add our voices to the discussion, and share our list of The Top Ten Rush Albums:
'Snakes and Arrows' (2007)
This slot was a point of contention among the UCR staff, when considering the last three full Rush studio albums released to date. The initial impact of 'Vapor Trails' suffered due to sound quality issues, but if you put 'Test for Echo' and 'Snakes and Arrows' up against each other, it's a dead heat. In the end, the emotion surrounding Rush's continued output of new music with 'Snakes' wins out. The initial single 'Far Cry' confidently validated that without a doubt, Rush had returned, offering a very immediate reminder of how vital their music remains in the present.
'Roll the Bones' (1991)
Rush's first album of the '90s found the band sending the keyboards further back in the mix as Alex Lifeson's guitar regained its deserved prominence. The title track injected a spoken word rap, somewhat controversially, into the otherwise familiar realm of what had previously been expected from a Rush album. After shifting stylistic phases throughout the '80s, 'Roll the Bones' firmly planted the Canadian veterans back on solid ground for an album that was generally well received by the Rush fanbase.
'Permanent Waves' (1980)
With 'Permanent Waves,' the band began to drift away from their harder-edged sound, slipping into a more radio friendly frame of songwriting. 'The Spirit of Radio' seemingly is a celebratory pat on the back for the entertainment medium of the same name. As drummer Neil Peart explains, that feeling exists at the core of the song, but it also laments the formulaic and soulless programming methods that were starting to rob radio of the once-great spontaneity enjoyed by listeners.
'Signals' (1982)
How do you follow up the most successful album of your career? If you're Rush, seeking to match or surpass the success of 1981's 'Moving Pictures,' you dig in and put out an album that's more musically focused, with shorter songs (alas, they couldn't all be '2112' length epics, apparently), while continuing to experiment with the evolving keyboard-heavy sound that the band embraced during the '80s. One of the album's best known tracks, 'Subdivisions,' began as a song that Neil Peart first jammed with members of the road crew during the 'Moving Pictures' tour before bringing in the rest of the band.
'A Farewell to Kings' (1977)
The fifth Rush album ushered in a couple of firsts: 'Closer to the Heart' was the first Rush song co-written with a non-band member, and it also gave the band their first hit in the U.K. As a perennial fan favorite, it's been present in nearly every tour setlist, with only a few exceptions. 'Closer' was omitted beginning with the band's 2002 tour, a move that caused great consternation amongst Rush fans. It turns out, the band just needed a break from 'Closer to the Heart' after playing it consecutively for so many years. It finally has seen regular action again as part of the current 'Time Machine' tour.
'Hemispheres' (1978)
Continuing the story that began at the conclusion of 'A Farewell to Kings,' Rush devoted the entire A-side of 'Hemispheres' to the second part of 'Cygnus X-1.' 'Book I' at the tail end of 'Kings' laid out the initial part of the story in 10 minutes. For 'Book II' on 'Hemispheres,' Rush would spend an additional 18 minutes fleshing out their mystical storyline. The epic dual suite probably isn't the best starting point for anyone trying to introduce a friend to the top Rush albums. But if you want to show off a bit of the band's musical chops, 'The Trees' makes for a nice and relatively quick (especially for the time period) excerpt.
'Rush' (1974)
Listening to Geddy Lee's yowling vocals on tracks like 'Finding My Way,' (a point of contention with anti-Rush fans who find Lee's early vocals to be harsh on the ears), from Rush's 1974 debut is a "far cry" (intentional pun) from the overly polished sound that they've developed in more than 40 years as a band. For both their studio albums and live shows in the early years, less was often more, and the sound of 'Rush' closely reflects the band's live sound from the era. Plus, one only needs to hear a few seconds of the seven minute-long 'Working Man' to know that Rush were heading towards bigger places.
'Fly by Night' (1975)
The second Rush album brought the studio debut of Neil Peart as the band's new drummer and principal lyricist. Peart's addition was a game-changing move, giving Rush a clear direction with a rhythmic pilot who was more than ready for the challenges that lay ahead. As older musical aficionados will recall, the chimes at the end of 'By-Tor and the Snow Dog' were pressed into the runout groove of the first album side. For older turntables, this meant that the chimes would keep playing until the stylus was lifted.
'2112' (1976)
One of the highlights of the 'Test for Echo' tour was the full airing of the titular '2112' suite from Rush's fourth album. Often mistakenly identified as a concept album because of the seven-part title track, '2112' was born out of the commercial failure of the band's previous album, 1975's 'Caress of Steel,' and delivered Rush their first gold record. The famous 'Starman' character also makes his first appearance on the back cover of '2112.'
'Moving Pictures' (1981)
'Moving Pictures' is obviously one of Rush's top albums, and that's at least partially due to the undeniable 'Tom Sawyer.' The classic anthem is certainly one of the great album opening tracks of all time, and the sonic punch its opening inflicts still sounds just as impressive as the first time that we heard it. Geddy Lee delivers one of his most famous lead vocals and the signature lyrical opening has us scratching our head, wondering how we left it off of our list of best opening lyrics earlier this summer. Unlike some ho-hum full album performances by other artists, the chance to see 'Moving Pictures' complete on the 'Time Machine' tour was a rare moment worth every concert dollar. But if you know Rush, you'll know that you always get your money's worth.


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- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, chilled
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons water (105- 110 F)
- 2 large eggs, separated
- 1⁄4 cup sour cream
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 cup finely ground walnuts
- 1 teaspoon rum extract
- 1⁄4 cup powdered sugar, divided
Directions See How It's Made
- Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a small mixing bowl; cut in butter till it resembles coarse crumbs.
- In a separate bowl, add yeast to warm water, stir in egg yolks, sour cream and vanilla; blend into flour mixture; mix until soft dough forms; refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400°F; lightly grease a baking sheet; set aside.
- Beat egg whites until foamy, gradually add sugar and continue to beat until stiff peaks form, add rum extract, gently fold in nuts; set mixture aside.
- Divide chilled dough into 4 equal parts, refrigerating each part until ready to use.
- Roll each section into a 9-inch circle on a lightly floured surface.
- Sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar; cut each circle into 12 wedges.
- Spread a heaping teaspoon of prepared meringue on each wedge, roll up each wedge, beginning at wide end.
- Place on baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until pale golden brown.
- Transfer to wire racks to cool.
- Sprinkle cookies with remaining powdered sugar when cool.


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I remember at the Oath-ing at reception center at Fort Dix , like it were yesterday..!
Basic training.!
I recall pledging my life to up-hold the (CONSTITUTION of the USA) against ALL ENEMIES (FOREIGN and DOMESTIC) and a (COUNTRY DIVIDED)..not a way to win anything..!
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Drumlee makes his hurdling debut having finished last in the Champion Bumper at Cheltenham back in March. He's worth noting for the future but MR FIFTYONE may come out best in this. The latter is a half-brother to a winning hurdler and won a bumper at Gowran on last month's racecourse debut. Carrow Queen made a decent enough start over timber when fourth at Sligo only to disappoint last time and Giantofaman never figured on his hurdling bow, although he's been placed in a couple of bumpers since. Maximum Feat and Noble Call could prove best of the remainder.
Drumlee (IRE) 33-1 (11-5) Always towards rear, weakened over 3f out, tailed off, last of 23, well behind Briar Hill (11-5) at Cheltenham 2m N H flat G1 (1) gs in Mar.
Benalex Park 33-1 (11-7) Led, headed 6 out, 4th next, ridden and no extra after 4 out, 9th of 12, 41l behind Ange Balafre (11-7) at Wexford 2m 4yo mdn hdl sft in Oct.
Mr Fiftyone (IRE) 8-1 (11-3) Tracked leaders, close 3rd 3f out, ridden in 2nd 2f out, stayed on well final furlong to lead close home, won at Gowran Park 2m N H flat sft in Oct beating Shanahan's Turn (11-9) by 1/2l, 20 ran.
Carrow Queen (IRE) 8-1 (11-7) Tracked leaders, ridden from 4 out, 7th before straight, soon no impression, badly hampered and kept on same pace from 2 out, 7th of 15, 37l behind Royal Run (10-11) at Roscommon 2m 4f mdn hdl gf in Sep.
Sli Na Fiarana 11-2 (8-4) Towards rear, pushed along entering straight and no impression on winner in 8th 1f out, kept on same pace inside final furlong, 5th of 14, 5l behind Castle Guest (9-8) at Leopardstown 1m 2f hcp sft (flat).
Cango (IRE) 18-1 (11-7) Mid-division, 8th entering straight but no extra from 2 out, 13th of 22, 26l behind Peter From Paris (11-9) at Naas 2m 3f mdn hdl in Oct.
Gary (FR) 25-1 (11-0) Always towards rear, ridden and no impression before 3 out, weakened and tailed off, 14th of 15, well behind Ebazan (11-5) at Ballinrobe 2m mdn hdl gd in Jun.
Giantofaman (IRE) 6-4fav (11-7) Tracked leaders on inner, 3rd 3f out, ridden in 2nd 1 1/2f out, 1L 2nd when wandered around under pressure under 1f out, soon no impression on winner, veered right close home, 2nd of 13, 5l behind Onwiththeparty (11-10) at Sligo 2m 2f N H flat hvy in Oct.
Maximum Feat (IRE) 20-1 (11-2) Chased leaders, 3rd halfway, improved to close 2nd 3 out, soon challenged, ridden in 2nd 2 out, no extra in 3rd last, kept on one pace, 5th of 16, 15l behind Carriganog (11-2) at Clonmel 2m 4yo mdn hdl sft in Oct.
Miller Of Glanmire (IRE) 10-1 (11-4) Led, ridden and headed before 2 out, soon weakened, 14th of 20, 35l behind Arctic Fire (11-8) at Tipperary 2m mdn hdl gd in Oct.
Never Said That (IRE) 50-1 (11-4) Chased leaders, 7th halfway, ridden and no impression 4 out, 8th of 16, 33l behind Bendanella (11-4) at Wexford 2m 2f mdn hdl sft in Oct.
New Country (IRE) 4-1 (12-0) Sis, rr & ro aftr 5th, in a race won by Creative Boru (12-0) at Necarne 3m ire ptp sft in May, 12 ran.
Noble Call (IRE) 25-1 (11-4) Soon led and clear, not always fluent jumping, reduced lead from before 3 out, headed next, soon no extra, 5th of 16, 18l behind Bishopslough (11-4) at Thurles 2m gd in Oct.
O Lucky Them (IRE) 8-1 (11-7) Held up in rear and failed to settle, never a factor, no threat from 3f out, 11th of 13, 40l behind Neck Or Nothing (11-3) at Punchestown 2m N H flat gd in Oct.
Colla Pier (IRE) 66-1 (10-11) Towards rear and soon behind, mistake 4th, never a factor, 9th of 15, well behind Gilt Shadow (11-9) at Down Royal 2m mdn hdl.
Love The Memories (IRE) 66-1 (10-7) Always towards rear, 16th of 22, well behind Un De Sceaux (11-11) at Punchestown 2m mdn hdl hvy in Feb.
Minella Gathering (IRE) 50-1 (11-7) Chased leaders, 4th halfway, soon pushed along and lost place, no extra, 8th of 11, 50l behind The Game Changer (11-7) at Cork 2m 4yo mdn hdl sft.
Agoodnightatspa (IRE) Definite Article mare out of Emesions Lady.
Max Fine (IRE) 16-1 (12-0) Tracked leaders, ridden and weakened quickly from 6f out, pulled up entering straight, in a race won by Young Finnegan (11-11) at Cork 2m 2f N H flat hvy in Apr, 17 ran.


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I recently found out that i am allergic to alternaria tenuis. I can not find what causes this mold/fungus. where is it located?READ MORE
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It was difficult to find much reliable information on this mold, but from what I did find, it appears that it is an outdoor mold, which is responsible for leaf rot on plants, among other things. I'm wondering if it might also be found on the leaves and in the soil of potted plants indoors.
Alternaria tenuis appears to be one of the most common molds, even if there isn't much factual information easily available.
I suggest you discuss this finding in more detail with the allergist who tested you for it. Surely he or she can provide more information than anyone here.
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I've sen a lot of girls (Seems to be a trend lately) wax off a majority of their eyebrows... and then draw them on whenever they're going out or something... lol like wtf is the point?
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With the perfect proposal, now it is time to find the perfect photographer for your engagement photos!
• Find a photographer that fits your style! Most wedding photography packages include engagement photos, so if you haven't chosen a photographer yet, do so. Read Things to Remember When Choosing Your Wedding Photographer
• Engagement photos should be taken around six months before your wedding date. If you want to include your engagement photos on your save-the-date announcements, take your photos sooner (Read When to Send Your Save the Dates). Also, once you receive your engagement photos, you may want to send an announcement to the local newspaper (we'll discuss this in a future post, so stay tuned).
• Choose the "style" of photographs you want: fun and quirky, romantic, cute and funny, artsy, sexy and seductive and so on. Choose your style right away so you can determine wardrobe and locations. Depending on how long your engagement session is, you could choose two or more styles. Make sure you have a plan for wardrobe and locations for each.
• Take the time to choose the right locations. Locations should have interesting elements and colors to fit your theme or they should mean something special to the two of you. Make a day of checking out possible locations.
• Wardrobe is very important. You want to coordinate, but not be matchy-matchy. You want to look fabulous, but be comfortable in whatever you're wearing. Comfort is key to taking great photos. Choose your outfits based on your style and/or your theme. Remember to lay your outfits out next to each other to determine whether they coordinate well. Any jewelry worn should look nice without being distracting.
• Ladies — you're often comfortable doing your own hair and makeup (use matte makeup for best results), but you may want to go to a professional for that extra boost of confidence. It's totally up to you! Also, make sure your hair, nails, toe nails and eyebrows are done.
•Gents — get a haircut one or two weeks before. Also, make sure your nails are clean and that facial hair is trimmed just how you like it.
• Posing is probably the most difficult part about engagement photos for most people. Here are few tips to keep you feeling good and looking great: Get comfortable being affectionate in front of the camera for some great candid shots. Put hands in pockets with thumbs out or with thumbs in and hands out. Don't tan a lot. Try keeping hands at different levels: one beside you and one in your pocket. Have fun! Be playful! Most importantly, focus on each other, not the camera.
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In Saath Nibhana Saathiya, we feel Kokila (Rupal Patel) is being too loud and harsh to Gopi (Devoleena Bhattacharjee) and Ahem's (Mohammad Nazim) daughter Meera. Though Meera is stubborn and hate her mother Gopi, aren't the family members treating her bad?
We understand that the family has tolerated a lot from Meera and can't take any more, but we don't get the logic behind Kokila's way of treating Meera? Kokila's punishments are not only making Meera more stubborn but day-by-day her hatred towards Gopi (her mother) is becoming stronger.
Kokila's loud voice and powerful dialogues sometimes are very irritating, and her punishments seem unreasonable. Forget television, do you think in reality any person can give such punishments to their grandchildren or children?
Kokila locks Meera in the room. She takes away her accessories - laptop, mobile and everything because of which she is surviving or happy. Seeing Meera paint the walls with all hatred messages to her mother Gopi, Kokila's anger and Gopi's sadness gets doubled.
Meera had brought Rs 2 Lakhs worth - designer clothes, jewellery and many other things, and asks Dadi to pay the bill. Finally Kokila pays and gives all the costly item brought by Meera to the maid! Who in Meera's place won't get irritated?
Later, Kokila throws her out in the rain. The whole family watches her getting drenched. Though Gopi and Ahem try to convince Kokila, she requests them to give her a chance to change Meera.
Meera steals umbrella from the shop, but the shopkeeper chases her and takes umbrella away. This whole thing happens in front of Meera's family, who are watching all these incidents 'live'. Kokila even asks Tolu and Molu to keep an eye on Meera.
Well, we know Kokila is trying to teach Meera a lesson, and we also know she will rescue Meera if she gets into trouble. But don't you think the punishments and the treatment given to Meera by Kokila only works in TV shows and not in real life?


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Penny Arcade's 'The New Kid' Comic Getting Feature Film Treatment
by Ethan Anderton
June 2, 2011
Source: Heat Vision
Earlier today we heard about Paramount Pictures picking up the DC Comics property The Mighty for a feature film adaptation, but this time the studio has picked up an online comic for their next animated venture. Heat Vision reports the studio has picked up the online comic The New Kid from the web comic masters as Penny Arcade. Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) will script the story which focuses on a kid who deals with the familiar predicament of being the new kid in school. But the catch is that this kid happens to be the lone Earthling in an intergalactic school full of aliens. This sounds like a family film I can get behind.
Here's the first comic from Penny Arcade introducing the premise:
It's interesting because Gabe from Penny Arcade actually wrote about the idea of the comic itself saying, "Being the new kid is hard, being the new kid in a school full of aliens is harder. Tycho mentioned that this one could be the biggest thing we ever do and I think he's right. My fantasy is to see Dreamworks, Disney or Nickelodeon make an animated feature or a Saturday morning cartoon out of this one. Who knows maybe they will see it and give me a call!" If the film can get the kind of success Rango pulled in for Paramount, then I'm betting we'll see them taking on even more animated fare in the future. However, their deal with DreamWorks Animation is almost up, and unless they strike a new one, they'll have to find a new source for animated fare. Interested in The New Kid?
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Dear Secretary Hagel:
We respectfully request that the U.S. Armed Forces modernize their appearance regulations so that patriotic Sikh Americans can serve the country they love while abiding by their articles of faith.
As you know, three devout Sikh Americans have been granted individualized accommodations to serve in the U.S. Army. These patriotic soldiers wear turbans and maintain beards in a neat and conservative manner, both in accordance with operational requirements and their Sikh religious beliefs. They are also able to wear protective equipment, including helmets and gas masks, in conformity with safety requirements.
These Sikh soldiers have given their all in service of their country. Maj. Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi earned a Bronze Star Medal for his service in Afghanistan, which included treating multiple combat injuries and reviving two clinically dead patients back to life; Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan earned a NATO Medal for his service in Afghanistan; and Corporal Simran Preet Singh Lamba successfully graduated from the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVNI) program for his proficiency in Punjabi and Hindi.
Given the achievements of these soldiers and their demonstrated ability to comply with operational requirements while practicing their faith, we believe it is time for our military to make inclusion of practicing Sikh Americans the rule, not the exception.
Devout Sikhs have served in the U.S. Army since World War I, and they are presumptively permitted to serve in the armed forces of Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, among others. Notably, the current Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army is a turbaned and bearded Sikh, even though Sikhs constitute less than two percent of India's population. Throughout the world, and now in the U.S. Army, Sikh soldiers are clearly able to maintain their religious commitments while serving capably and honorably.
We look forward to working with you to end the presumptive ban on Sikh Americans in the U.S. military and extend opportunity to Sikh Americans who wish to serve and defend our nation.
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Katie Eary recalls mother's creations
Katie Eary's school friends all lusted after the clothes her mother made her.
The British designer is synonymous with menswear creations as well as her work with Kanye West, and has always had a flair for fashion.
When she was a youngster, it was her mum who helped style Katie, with others keen to get their own handmade creations.
"We were very poor as kids and she used to make a lot of our clothes. At school everyone wanted at least one of the things she had made me," Katie confessed to Hunger magazine.
These days Katie counts the likes of Rita Ora and Lady Gaga as fans.
Fellow British designer Phoebe English also told the publication the impact her mum had on her work.
Phoebe recently showcased her Autumn/Winter 15 collection at London Fashion Week and credits her childhood with shaping her career.
"From the moment I could hold a pencil my mum encouraged us to draw all over the walls of our house, no wall was out of bounds," she smiled. "As the years went by and my sister was old enough to join in, a heavy almost mural like quality spread across all the rooms. The drawings stopped at about 4ft high as we were too small to reach any further.
"I will always be grateful to her for allowing me to draw at any moment of the day and also now for having a beautiful archive of all my childhood drawings and the memories attached to them."
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|Introduced by Assembly Member Grayson
February 16, 2017
An act to amend Section 65400 of the Government Code, relating to land use.
AB 852, as introduced, Grayson. Planning and zoning: general plan: report.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law, after adoption of the general plan, requires the planning agency to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development that contains specified information pertaining to the implementation of the general plan.
This bill would require that this report also include the number of housing development applications received in the prior year, units included in all development applications in the prior year, and units approved and disapproved in the prior year. By increasing the duties of local planning agencies with respect to the preparation of the report on a city's or county's general plan, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.Section 65400 of the Government Code is amended to read:
65400.(a) After the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, the planning agency shall do both of the following:
(1) Investigate and make recommendations to the legislative body regarding reasonable and practical means for implementing the general plan or element of the general plan, so that it will serve as an effective guide for orderly growth and development, preservation and conservation of open-space land and natural resources, and the efficient expenditure of public funds relating to the subjects addressed in the general plan.
(2) Provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes all of the following:
(A) The status of the plan and progress in its implementation.
(B) The progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs determined pursuant to Section 65584 and local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 65583.
The housing element portion of the annual report, as required by this paragraph, shall be prepared through the use of forms and definitions adopted by the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2). Prior to and after adoption of the forms, the housing element portion of the annual report shall include a section that describes the actions taken by the local government towards completion of the programs and status of the local government's compliance with the deadlines in its housing element. That report shall be considered at an annual public meeting before the legislative body where members of the public shall be allowed to provide oral testimony and written comments.
The report may include the number of units that have been substantially rehabilitated, converted from nonaffordable to affordable by acquisition, and preserved consistent with the standards set forth in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 65583.1. The report shall document how the units meet the standards set forth in that subdivision.
(C) The number of housing development applications received in the prior year.
(D) The number of units included in all development applications in the prior year.
(E) The number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year.
(F) The degree to which its approved general plan complies with the guidelines developed and adopted pursuant to Section 65040.2 and the date of the last revision to the general plan.
(b) If a court finds, upon a motion to that effect, that a city, county, or city and county failed to submit, within 60 days of the deadline established in this section, the housing element portion of the report required pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) that substantially complies with the requirements of this section, the court shall issue an order or judgment compelling compliance with this section within 60 days. If the city, county, or city and county fails to comply with the court's order within 60 days, the plaintiff or petitioner may move for sanctions, and the court may, upon that motion, grant appropriate sanctions. The court shall retain jurisdiction to ensure that its order or judgment is carried out. If the court determines that its order or judgment is not carried out within 60 days, the court may issue further orders as provided by law to ensure that the purposes and policies of this section are fulfilled. This subdivision applies to proceedings initiated on or after the first day of October following the adoption of forms and definitions by the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), but no sooner than six months following that adoption.


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Arif mailed me these wonderful collection of wild flowers found in Arunachal Pradesh, some of which has been identified and some not yet. I am sharing the snaps below. Try to identify these wild flowers and post their names . Hmmm..quite a challenge, huh!
Have you been able to identify them? No!...Well, here is a clue. Arif says many of the above flowers are quite common in other parts of India...Did it ring any bell? Still, no!.... Now, don't ask me if I know their names for I am as clueless as you are.;-)


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With it's state of the art functionality combined with it's great design that complements any home, this cool mist tower is ideal for medium rooms. It provides a refreshingly cool, invisible mist, as well as a digital humidistat which offers precise humidity control for your optimal comfort. This model also contains an Antimicrobial Product Protection and Arm and Hammer treatment to key plastic parts.
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