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Get an overview of this hotelWinter getaway with a restaurant
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Located near the slopes, this Schignano farm stay is in the mountains, 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from Church of San Zeno, and within 6 mi (10 km) of Argegno Cable Car to Pigra and Argegno Beach. Church of Castiglione d'Intelvi and Argegno Marina are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Property Features
After a day on the slopes, return to dine at the restaurant. Additional amenities at Agriturismo Al Marnich include complimentary wireless Internet access and a coffee shop/café.
Room Amenities
All 14 rooms provide room service, premium bedding, and coffee makers. Guests will also find showers and free toiletries.
Guest Highlights
- Helpful staff
Agriturismo Al Marnich
Property Amenities
Property Amenities
Dining options at the farm stay include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This farm stay offers access to a business center and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 215 square feet (20 square meters). For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle. This Art Deco farm stay also offers a library, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Agriturismo Al Marnich has designated areas for smoking.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 2
- Free breakfast
- Fireplace in lobby
- Grocery/convenience store
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Computer station
- Business center
- Designated smoking areas
- Total number of rooms - 14
- Library
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Picnic area
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Free parking nearby
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 215
- Free self parking
- Coffee shop or café
- Television in common areas
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Garden
- Year Built 1798
- Conference space size (meters) - 20
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Grocery/convenience store
- Laundry facilities
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Bidet
- Shower only
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast each morning.
Al-Marnich - Overlooking the garden, this family restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Open select days.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
- Game viewing on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Ecotours on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Horse riding/rental on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Snowshoeing on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Roll-in shower
Property Policies
Check-in time ends at 9:30 PM
Check-in time starts at 2:30 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11:30 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 2 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 32.00 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 6 per pet, per night (maximum EUR 5 per stay)
- 2 per room
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 46
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 56
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 140 per vehicle (one way)
- Airport shuttle fee per child: EUR 10 (roundtrip), (from 0 to 12 years old)
- Pet fee: EUR 6 per pet, per night (maximum EUR 5 per stay)
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 32.00 per night
Property Name
- Agriturismo Al Marnich
- Agriturismo Al Marnich Agritourism
- Agriturismo Al Marnich Agritourism Schignano
- Agriturismo Al Marnich Schignano
- Al Marnich
- Agriturismo Al-Marnich Schignano, Italy - Lake Como
We should mention
All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport. Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property offers transfers from the airport and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for golf tee times. Reservations can be made by contacting the farm stay prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. One child 2 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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Today's Simple as that share is a picture I captured while the kids were "bird" watching in front of the Capital in Washington D.C.
I love how my babies are looking at a Mama & her babies. Sigh pure bliss.
Today is going to be low key day as our past 2 days was super fast paced but SO much fun. I had SO many fun pics BUT my memory card went wacky and I only now have a few from yesterday! :( BUT good thing that the places we did go to I made sure to grab pamphlets and anything I could had put them into my Smash Album so HA.. I still will be able to scrapbook :)
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Okay, so I know this is a little off base, but I figure that most human bakers enjoy baking for their pets as well. I'm doing a fundraiser for the humane society, in which myself and some of the other volunteers are baking dog biscuits. I have a couple of recipes, but I'm looking for a dog biscuit that will last a long time at room temperature. Any suggestions?
I've kept these for a long time in ziploc bags with no problem.
3 cus whole wheat flour
1 tsp garlic salt
1/2 cup bacon fat
1 cup shredded cheese (any kind, I ususally use cheddar)
1 egg, lightly beaen
1 cup milk
Place flour and garlic salt in large bowl; stir in bacon fat and add cheese and egg. Gradually add enough milk to form a dough.Knead dough and toll out to about 1/2" thick. Usecookie cutters to cut out desired shapes.Bake on greased cookie shee at 400 for 10-12 minutes until lightly browned.
I once made these for my coworkers with dogs and one person actually ate one before I could stop him and he said they were pretty good . Whenever DH makes bacon, we put some of the fat in the freezer so I can make these whenever the mood strikes. I'd like to find a dog friendly decorative icing to dress them up.


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Game NeoWars a strategy for android developers from Microtale, for whom this project is the first on this platform. The game is a bit like projects such as Plague Inc., and lesser-known SPACECOM, so if someone is playing such games, then you should know, the battles in the usual format, we will not see, but the action in the game is not diminished, believe me!
The game takes place in outer space, in an unknown galaxy, where your task is quite harmless - to extract resources with special probes, however, is not one you want to do it, so that, for this opportunity will have to fight! However, all will begin with a fairly short learning that will explain how things work here, but on the third mission, you will battle to the enemy!
Initially it will look quite simple: on the surface planted the probe, which has 40 points, next we see the deposit resources, and run to a beam in the probe points are taken away, but after a while on the ground field has a new probe with a total number of points, in the same way and you can destroy the enemies, if your probe more points than the enemy.
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How much does the uterus grow in pregnancy
I think it's hilarious when food is used to compare the size of a baby in the womb or the uterus. The site below says this about the changes of the uterus during pregnancy.
I was always told the uterus is pear shaped and automatically thought it meant the size too. This site says pre-pregnancy it is the size of an orange and situated deep in the pelvis.
At 12 weeks the size of a grapefruit.
Second trimester it's the size of a papaya.
End of the third trimester it's the size of a watermelon.
Are you wondering what is your Uterus Size During Pregnancy? Learn what is the size normally and how does the uterus size chang…
My doctor always told me to make a fist.... that that's about the size of your non-pregnant uterus.
Theresa, I find the fruit analogies funny too! I personally felt like there WAS a watermelon around the third trimester.
I had a pumpkin lol
Good info!!! It is funny they use foods but I guess that's something everyone can relate to. ( I know I relate way too well with food LOL!)
I am 15 W 1 D and mine feels HUGE! LOL. I My belly is poking out A LOT and supposedly the baby is only 4 inches long.... I'm all uterus!
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Like something straight out of science-fiction, researchers from Stanford University have created a software that makes real-time face capture and reenactment of RGB videos a reality.
Real-time video manipulation means that certain features and aspects of a piece of film media can be manipulated as they play, instead of having to make edits or changes, save the film, and then replay it.
The implications for such technology, as one could imagine, are profound and not entirely clear just yet. But I'm sure that many of us can see this technology being used for malicious or devious purposes, especially with the prominent role that media plays during election cycles and times of political change.
A quick viewing of their film above shows just how impressive the software is, with a man's facial gestures being mimicked by a video of former U.S. president, George Bush.
Erlangen-Nuremberg and Max Planck, the researchers from Stanford, highlight the details of their project:
"We present a novel approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). The source sequence is also a monocular video stream, captured live with a commodity webcam. Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion. To this end, we first address the under-constrained problem of facial identity recovery from monocular video by non-rigid model-based bundling. At run time, we track facial expressions of both source and target video using a dense photometric consistency measure.
Reenactment is then achieved by fast and efficient deformation transfer between source and target. The mouth interior that best matches the re-targeted expression is retrieved from the target sequence and warped to produce an accurate fit. Finally, we convincingly re-render the synthesized target face on top of the corresponding video stream such that it seamlessly blends with the real-world illumination. We demonstrate our method in a live setup, where Youtube videos are reenacted in real time."


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English is widely spoken, particularly by government officials and those working in the tourism industry. English is the language of instruction in schools, which means that you will be able to communicate with the locals with varying degrees of difficulty.
Since Maldives happen to be a popular destination for German and Italian holiday goers, a sizeable number of local resort workers are able to speak fluent German and Italian. This may vary depending on the resorts you plan to visit, though.
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I will honestly say that I was a heavy contributor and spokesperson for the "health" section getting added to the site a few months ago.
I sent the idea of "entertainment" to the admins' inbox about a week ago, and I wanted to see what my fellow users thought about this idea. :)
Before the "health" section was added, ?'s about exercise, nutrition, advice on supplements, weight management, etc...had no definite section, despite the sufficient volume of questions. They were scattered under "other", or "style", and had no area to consolidate such content.
Questions/discussions about movies, TV shows, their respective actors/actresses, video games, magazines, books, and ESPECIALLY music and its respective artists...are definitely plentiful on this site...
...but have no definitive section for them, similar to the "health" questions before that section is added.
See? It makes perfect sense to add an "entertainment" section...at least to me it does. All genders and age groups would be able to make use of it equally imo.
What do you think of my genius idea? Don't be shy; share your input and vote, please. :)
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French minister behind a media campaign to promote the "Made In France" brand rejected World Trade Organization concerns over protectionism on Monday and blamed the world body for failing to halt unfair competition from China.
Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg donned France's emblematic striped Breton sweater for a magazine cover published last week to urge local consumers to favor French products such as food mixers by the 75-year-old Moulinex company.
The move came as France prepares reforms aimed at restoring lost competitiveness on world markets, with President Francois Hollande's Socialist government under pressure from employers to cut labour charges they say make French products too expensive.
WTO chief Pascal Lamy, a fellow French Socialist, warned at the weekend that appeals to favor French goods could become "patriotic protectionism", insisting that world trade relied on countries being open to imports.
"I suggest that Pascal Lamy address the imbalance between industrial nations so as to better defend French and European business," Montebourg fired back on France Info radio.
"China was let into the WTO without any conditions," he added of China's 2001 entry in the body, alleging that hundreds of thousands of jobs had been lost in Europe due to unfair competition in the world economy.
European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht said Montebourg's protectionist push made no sense given France probably had the most industrial firms among the world's top 500 companies.
"France can't redistribute the global trade cards alone," he said in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro to be published on Tuesday.
"These firms probably do better overseas than they do in France. So I ask: How do you reindustrialize France with a 35-hour week and without resolving the high wage costs? I don't think Mr Montebourg has much interest in the long-term."
Montebourg, who wants supermarkets in France to set up shelves with purely French products as they do for organic goods, has criticized multinationals such as steel giant ArcelorMittal over plans to close certain French operations.
He is also pushing for a law that would force companies to find a buyer for such assets rather than shut them down - a move even some trade unions suggest would be hard to implement.
French unemployment has hit 13-year highs above three million, or 10 percent, and latest trade data showed a widening of its current account deficit in August.
France's industrial sector accounts for around 13.5 percent of its national output, down from nearly 18 percent in the mid-70s, according to official data.
Employers group Medef has called on the government to make deep cuts to labour charges, which are among the highest in Europe along with those in Sweden and Belgium and are needed to finance the generous welfare state.
However the government is reluctant to transfer the charges to other levies such as a value-added tax, arguing that this would hit consumer spending and so dampen economic growth, which analysts forecast at around 0.4 percent next year.
Instead it has set up a state investment agency aimed at helping small business to create higher-value products for which world markets are prepared to pay a premium.
"France has got major attractions - let's defend them and stop running ourselves down," said Montebourg.
Under French rules, companies can advertise their wares as "Made in France" if the last part of the production process takes place in France - meaning that their components or even part of the assembly process can be non-French.
"One hundred percent French, that doesn't exist any more," Montebourg acknowledged.
French media have lampooned the appearance of the 49-year-old Montebourg in a sweater originally produced for the French navy that has become a fashion icon and inspiration for designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier.
Asked to comment on the outfit, Medef president Laurence Parisot said she found the Montebourg photo shoot for the magazine section of Le Parisien newspaper "very sexy".
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Schools in the U.K. should reduce the use of iPads during lessons because some children are using them to bully and harass others, according to a government minister (via The Telegraph).
Edward Timpson, the Minister for Children and Families, claimed a number of schools were letting children spend too much time using iPads and said that headteachers should use their powers to confiscate them if they are being used "inappropriately".
Timpson told peers on the House of Lords Communications Committee:
"A problem in a number of schools which we've sought to address is the iPad or the tablet coming into schools and it forming far too much of the school day's activities of children and it being used inappropriately for some of the bullying and harassment that we know sadly goes on the back of it.


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A little bit about me
I was always the one with "attitude". My older brother Bugsy was the good one. He came when called, did tricks for food and loved on our humans in a way I could never duplicate. He even wrote a book (Educating Humans) and gave the proceeds to charity. I was different.
I love my family but I sit when I choose, come when I want to and generally listen only to my brother Bugsy and my human dad on holidays. I will often growl at people when they pet me unless I ask for them to do so. I contributed to the book but my byline was "Annoying Little Brother Murphy" so you don't need to wonder where the "attitude" came from.
All in all I am the perfect dog. Cute to look at but don't touch me. The only exception to this rule is my new little sister Molly. I am her mentor and she can do whatever she wants.
My best attributes.
I am a world class eater! How could I not love a job where my primary responsibility is to test (and retest) human grade foods?
A typical day for me involves getting up in the morning, going out to take care of my personal needs, EAT. The rest of the day is basically free time. I play with Molly, go for a long walk, perhaps take a swim, snuggle with my humans and basically bide my time until around 5 pm at which point I go back to work again.
At 5 sharp I start pushing my nose against my humans to let them know what time it is then I EAT!
After that it is play and nap time until bed.
Now tell me how could I not love what I do? As a matter of fact I bet most of you would trade jobs with me right now.
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you have the disadvantage of being too old,and modelling takes preparations in terms of learning to walk,pose,getting an agency,a portfolio-so if I were you,i'd go for it,but keep your day job if you know what I mean.11|00|0
I read that age those not matter , you can model till in your 40s maybe and still grace a cover


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Flix for Short: We No Who U R
2:00 PM on 01.04.2013 // Hubert Vigilla@HubertVigilla
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds music video directed by Gaspar Noe
2013 ought to be a good year. One reason: Push the Sky Away, the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album which drops in February. Gosh, I fondly remember having Let Love In, Murder Ballads, and The Boatman's Call on heavy rotation in high school... because I am old. The opening track/lead single to the new album, "We No Who U R," was released in December, and it's a moody little grower of a song.
This recently released music video for "We No Who U R" was directed by Gaspar Noe (Irreversible, Enter the Void). It's fittingly languid like the song, though pretty darn creepy too. Wonder when Noe will do another feature film.
After the cut I've included a trailer for Push the Sky Away as well the NSFW cover art.
[Pitchfork via The Film Stage]
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Let's Talk – Let The Transformations Begin, Too!
Let's talk about happiness, self-esteem, confidence, everything. But this is not a self-help or self-improvement conversation, nor 'impractical spirituality'. It's simply a meaningful, transformative conversation about the Inside-Out Understanding of the human experience, and it really does change everything.
From feeling like something is 'wrong' somehow, to knowing that all is well then…
[Last updated: August, 2016 – post summary]
A Transformative Conversation: You, Me and Rumi…
What, exactly, is a transformative conversation?
What is this Inside-Out understanding?
And – finally! – will any of this hurt?
…Hah!, well believe it or not esteemed poet, Rumi, answers all those questions in just 9 words (see above). Mere mortals like me need a few more, though.
So let the transformative conversation begin…
Not just any ol' conversation, mind, but a transformative coaching conversation about what it means to be YOU – via the Inside Out understanding of the human experience discovered by a Mr Sydney Banks, called The Three Principles.
But this is not a self-help conversation of the motivational tub-thumping kind. Nor is it a conversation about TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) like NLP, or EFT or even CBT. And it is most definitely NOT a conversation to remind you of your pain and your suffering and your 'low self-esteem' (so I can swoosh you this way and that way and get you to buy, buy, and buy some more!).
Instead, it's a conversation about what happens when we connect ourselves to who we truly are, to love; when we connect ourselves to others. It's all about connections, it truly is.
"You Are Not Broken"
All is well, actually, with you. (Even if it looks like it isn't.) You really are not broken, and you definitely don't need to be fixed!
Trouble is you just don't realise this, right now, that's all.
- But this conversation could help you.
- And the many other transformative conversations I intend to create here could help.
- And my coaching could help you, too.
Or maybe a personal example could inspire you to 'see' ('feel') it, who knows!…
So I've been in and out of serious long-term relationships, in my life so far, and for a long time I'd considered myself 'broken' – asking myself questions like "What's wrong with me? Why can't I settle down like everyone else does?" etc. But now I see that this is just my journey so far, to have loved several women as well as I can.
I no longer struggle to make my relationship work; instead I now trust in love and I see what happens. This is how it is. Nothing is wrong. I am not broken (I'm really not).
Must be time for that Sufi poet extraordinaire, Rumi, to have his say, I reckon, to contribute to the transformative conversation as only he can:
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?
– Rumi
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"…You Are Powerful Beyond Measure"
Sounds scary, doesn't it, being powerful beyond measure!
- Would it help you if I told you that so was I, powerful beyond measure, and so was everyone else alive on planet earth right now?
- Would it help if I told you this power was the natural order of things?
- Would it help you if I told you that this power was really love – a power to guide you effortlessly through the travails of life, relationships, career, everything? (If you let it.)
We all have access to this power, to the infinite intelligence that's behind life. Some call this force 'creativity'. Some call it 'love' (like me). And some even call it God.
Whatever you call it, ALL have experienced this power at some point in their life. And all have felt abandoned by it too, lost and alone – separated, isolated, powerless.
More and more I'm living life by the 'strange pull' that Rumi speaks of below.
Whether it's a new romantic relationship that just feels right (no matter the 'circumstances' that could make me run in the opposite direction), or it's making space to begin my transformative coaching practice with no pressure to earn money from it. Or it's the moment-to-moment experience of my day, where I allow myself to come up with ideas of how to spend it and simply allow what feels best.
I feel guided, as my life unfolds, and not driven by fear as I used to be.
Time for some more words of love and wisdom from Rumi…
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull
of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
– Rumi
"…You Are LOVE"
I'm sounding really hippy now I know. But you ARE love, you are, and so am I. Alas, you can also be fear too (as can I). And, yes, it's when we act from the place of fear that all the damage gets done.
Now I'm not promising you a life of fearless living here. I'm just saying that once you understand the true nature of the human experience you naturally (it seems) love more and fear less, and the effect is rather wonderful, rather marvellous.
Hmm, I could talk about how love and fear have shown up in my relationships for a very long time indeed. How open and embracing I feel when acting from love, and how tight and closed down I feel when acting from fear. How fear justifies my actions, my limitations, and how love needs no reason to proceed other than it feels like the 'highest' thing to do. How I love fear and fear love.
Let's just say that I met a woman – her name was Francesca G – and we fell in love. And it all started with our mutual appreciation of Rumi's words below…
Over to you again, then, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi:
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
– Rumi
A Transformative Conversation or an Overdose of Spiritual Clichés?
Hmm, "you are love", "you are powerful beyond measure", and "you are not broken" – all of these sentiments come across as classic spiritual clichés. And like any cliché – true or otherwise – they are easy to ignore.
But the REAL power behind a transformative coaching conversation is that you get to see the truth of these statements – about you – for yourself. Really. But you can only find this out for yourself…


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These United States
Alabam's our wild red yonder
Jeff Sessions makes its heart grow fonder
Inside its schools
The rightwing rules
In the person of Mr. Ponder
These United States
Alabam's our wild red yonder
Jeff Sessions makes its heart grow fonder
Inside its schools
The rightwing rules
In the person of Mr. Ponder
Whether your campus administrators are protecting coaches at Penn State or professors at Berkeley or athletes at Baylor…
… Seems as though there's eventually an awfully high price to pay.
… orientation, Donald Trump has adopted a fierce Lysenkoism in regard to science. Scientific American is not amused:
Donald Trump also has shown an authoritarian tendency to base policy arguments on questionable assertions of fact and a cult of personality… [T]he major Republican candidate for president has tweeted that global warming is a Chinese plot, threatens to dismantle a climate agreement 20 years in the making and to eliminate an agency that enforces clean air and water regulations, and speaks passionately about a link between vaccines and autism that was utterly discredited years ago…
He has got to learn to use language that has been thought through and that is clear to everybody, and to stick to that language.
No one ever said being a kindergarten teacher is easy.
How we (very very slowly) learn.
Here's another one.
"Especially after spending $65 million on a stadium, it's always hard to say, 'We were really stupid,' and yet that's sometimes what a person has to do," she said.
… she can expect some backlash.
[University of Virginia president Teresa] Sullivan's absence has not gone unnoticed, said Katherine Schieffelin, whose daughter attends UVa.
"She should be naming the time and date to join her at the Mall to stand in solidarity for the safety of women," Schieffelin said. "She should be encouraging all who love UVa to join her with candles and flashlights and provide a voice to those students who feel betrayed by this administration."
When Sullivan was ousted from her post by a faction of the Board of Visitors in 2012, she enjoyed the full-throated support of protesters who demanded and helped secure her reinstatement, Schieffelin said.
"Many people fought hard with similar gestures to keep her in office and instead of releasing this whitewashed statement she should be showing outrage and passion and fire," she said. "She should be leading."
Sullivan asked Charlottesville police to investigate and issued a statement Wednesday before leaving the country, assuring the UVa community the school "takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct."
The statement was lambasted on the university's Facebook page by hundreds of students and alumni who said Sullivan did not go far enough.
So, nu, would it have killed you to cooperate? I mean, since you didn't cooperate (which would have meant, far as I can tell, a not-outrageous amount of work on your part), you now have two problems: You got the lowest possible ranking on a national, high-profile, ed-school ranking; and you look as though you knew what was coming so you… didn't cooperate.
George Washington University was among the lowest-ranked programs in the country. It received this warning from the council: "No prospective teacher candidates should entrust their preparation to these programs because candidates are unlikely to obtain much return on their investment."
Here's some stuff about the rankings:
Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group, the rankings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations. Education secretaries in 21 states have endorsed the report… The review was funded by 62 organizations, led by the Carnegie Corporation and the Broad Foundation. The National Council on Teacher Quality analyzed admissions standards and inspected syllabuses, textbooks and course requirements and rated 1,430 programs on a scale of zero to four stars.
What, you said we don't have to cooperate with that fly-by-night Carnegie Corporation… ?
Isn't the business of being in denial about how bad they are one of the big reasons many ed schools are so bad?
So now your only option is to dump on the Carnegie and the Broad and all those education secretaries… Only we know what we're doing… They don't know what they're doing…
Here's what you should have done:
The University of Michigan's School of Education was one of the few institutions that willingly gave its materials to the National Council on Teacher Quality. "There was no particular reason not to," said Dean Deborah Loewenberg Ball. "This is one of society's most important topics."
Let UD give you some advice, not that you'll take it: Apologize for not cooperating (or at least give some reason for not having done so that doesn't make you look dumb) and say that while you think the rating unfair, it's one of many useful sources of criticism available to the school, and will be taken seriously.
Meanwhile, you're going to have a bumpy pr ride for awhile, and you should be thinking in broader terms about how to manage it. One thing to do would be to publish and defend elements of your curriculum. The head of GW's teaching program should right now (or in a few hours; it's 4:13 AM) be preparing an opinion piece to be sent to the Washington Post which in measured terms explains and defends the school's curriculum, admissions philosophy, etc.
UD will now check out GW's teacher training curriculum. She's happy to speculate about what might have set off the Council.
UPDATE: The Washington Post is scathing:
The council's methodology was developed over eight years, relying on a review of course descriptions, syllabuses, student-teacher observation instruments and other materials. It came under immediate attack as incomplete and inaccurate from institutions of higher education. Such criticism is rich considering that many of these same institutions fought tooth and nail to keep materials from researchers. "Tremendously uncooperative" is how Kate Walsh, president of the council, described many institutions, which refused to share textbooks or course descriptions. The council had to file open-records requests; many private institutions that are not subject to Freedom of Information requirements opted out. What were they trying to hide?
From the mouths of babes.
Architecture students at the University of Arizona rebuke the fancy eco-architects who built the 2007 extension to their old and – compared to the new glass architecture building – reasonably sustainable brick architecture school building.
It's some kind of best-laid green plans fable for our times that, as Tom Beal writes in the Arizona Daily Star
The 2007 glass-and-steel addition to the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture – promoted by the university as "a laboratory for sustainable practices" – is one of the biggest energy wasters on campus.
In its first year of operation, it used four times the energy of the comparably sized brick building to which it is attached. Its glass walls and unshaded, exterior cooling ducts, combined with design changes made to save money during its construction, make it difficult to heat and cool efficiently.
A "green wall," designed to shade the building's south side, has yet to grow.
The Tucson heat, seasonal glare, reflected light and noise from traffic on East Speedway blast through its north-facing glass walls. Students say the glare can be irritating and disorienting.
Well yes, glass buildings in Tucson… Of course, they can be made energy efficient, but a lot of things have to work. Like that green wall…
"It was a great idea and it's worked in other places, and I'll be damned if I can explain why those vines struggle," said [the building's architect].
The building's architect claims that eco-considerations were not foremost in the building's planning, but the article featuring his work on the extension (and based, one assumes, on an interview with him) touts eco stuff first thing.
There is a kind of pedagogical genius to the building.
In a sense, the building is living up to its description as "a working laboratory for sustainable practices."
Master's in architecture candidate David Tapia Takaki said it is providing plenty of problems for the students to fix.
Add noise pollution to its other problems.
One of the big problems on the north edge is traffic noise, said [a student]. "It's the cars on Speedway. If you are there one or two hours, you will not notice, but stay there all day and it can give you headaches."
The Speedway! Named America's ugliest street some decades ago, it remains a noisy thoroughfare.
All in all, an embarrassment.
… the chancellor of Syracuse University had Jamie Dimon give the 2010 commencement address. She defended her decision by saying:
It is rare that a university is able to bring a speaker with a birds-eye view of, and extensive on-the-ground experience with, a major global challenge.
Now that Dimon's irresponsibility has produced a globally destructive two billion dollar loss at his massive bank, UD thinks it's time for Chancellor Cantor to invite him back. Thanks to her, Syracuse already has the distinction of having been the only American university to honor this man in this way; and if her criterion for the choice of speaker continues to be someone who has immediate experiences of major global challenges, the choice of Dimon is better than ever. His bank has just created a major global challenge.
Maybe she should have invited Simon Johnson instead. He certainly had useful things to tell her.
Meanwhile, Syracuse can take pride in the fact that it did its small bit to encourage Jamie Dimon to "preen and flash along … until [his] hubris causes the next [financial] disaster."
Other law enforcement officials who have received ethics training through Hopkins described it as largely classroom-based — and intense. The classes begin with a foundation in ethics, including a primer on Aristotle, then move on to modern applications of those ancient lessons.
Johns Hopkins University is teaching Secret Service guys not to fuck prostitutes.
UD thanks David.
I suppose it's all, at bottom, a category error; but UD is enjoying following the Krauss/Albert fulminating dust-up about science and philosophy.
I'll admit I've never gotten far beyond scaring myself when thinking with any depth about why there's something rather than nothing…
Not really scaring myself… Feeling very sharply the impossibility of moving my mind to the cosmological back-of-beyond.
As a literary type, though, I've loved nothingness poems and prose all my life. I've loved writing that captures the conviction and the feeling all thoughtful people occasionally have, that – in the words of Leopold Bloom, struck down for a moment in a Dublin pub by absolute nihilism – no one is anything. Everything depends on the nothing you are talking about, and I'm not talking about the nothingness that a field without particles might represent; I'm talking about the "death in the soul" Albert Camus felt in Prague. What Don DeLillo in Libra imagines Lee Harvey Oswald feeling in Texas:
He walked through empty downtown Dallas, empty Sunday in the heat and light. He felt the loneliness he always hated to admit to, a vaster isolation than Russia, stranger dreams, a dead white glare burning down.
What James Agee, in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, felt, also on a Sunday, in Alabama:
… the subdual of this sunday deathliness in whose power was held the whole of the south… nothing but the sun was left, faithfully blasting away upon the dead earth…
In my next Faculty Project Lecture, I'm talking about three great nothingness poems – Auden's Brussels in Winter, and Larkin's Absences, as well as his Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel. And of course there's Elizabeth Bishop's Cape Breton.
I find a curious reassurance in these evocations of … psychic vastation? What to call it without sounding pretentious, ponderous? Everyone laughs when people say things like If you remember the 'sixties, you weren't there. But, you know, the business of not being there… that sense of suspension from yourself, the world, everything… It feels like a serious business, one with insights in it that might compete with quantum field theory.
… America's top college students are nihilized into the power elite will recall Walter Kirn's classic Lost in the Meritocracy, where he chronicled his transformation from an earnest person who loved literature to "the system's pure product, clever and adaptable, not so much educated as wised-up." At Princeton, he learned to hone
more-marketable skills: for flattering those in authority without appearing to, for ranking artistic reputations according to the latest academic fashions, for matching my intonations and vocabulary to the background of my listener, for placing certain words in smirking quotation marks and rolling my eyes when someone spoke too earnestly about some "classic" work of "literature," for veering left when the conventional wisdom went right and then doubling back if the consensus changed.
Now there's this year's account of the '"intoxicating nihilism" that dominates campus social life' at another corporate feeder.
At the sports factories, it's one-and-done. In the higher precincts, it's four-and-whore.


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|Joseph Salvatore "Skinny Joey" Merlino
|A sprawling indictment was filed by federal prosecutors against 46 alleged members in a massive East Coast bust. Charging the men with a smorgasbord of crimes like gambling, loansharking, extortion, arson, gun- and cigarette-running, and conspiracy to commit assault, the feds are also alleging white-collar offenses like health care fraud, credit card fraud and extortionate extensions of credit.
Members of the Gambino, Bonanno, Luchese, and Genovese crime families from New York, along with a crew allegedly led by Joseph "Joey" Merlino in Philadelphia, were collectively labeled "the East Coast LCN [La Cosa Nostra] Enterprise."
Joseph Salvatore Merlino
Daniel Leo, Genovese acting boss
|The mob in America might no longer be what it used to be, but it's hardly a thing of the past. The new indictment includes what most think of as "normal" mafia crimes like assault, gun trafficking, and loansharking, but also a few that surprise, like health care fraud and credit card skimming. When did the mob get into white collar crimes? Many of the Italian mafia families sought to diversify their interests into more high-tech, white-collar crimes dating back to the 1980s.
Anthony 'Tony the Wig' Vazzano
Bradford Wedra faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if he is convicted on racketeering charges
Retired NYPD cop, Michael Rizzi
|A former NYPD officer who married into the mob is expected to plead guilty to money laundering charges in connection with a million dollar prostitution operation he allegedly ran.
Michael Rizzi, an officer from 1992 to 2000, is slated to appear in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday afternoon to admit to profiting from roughly two dozen prostitution businesses for the last four years, including dozens of round-the-clock online operations that provided door-to-door service of women to johns. If convicted, he could face between 2 and 4 years behind bars.
The U.S. Attorney's Office announced that it had taken steps to "restrain" Rizzi's websites.
|Rizzi is married to Jill Juliano, the daughter of Gambino crime family soldier Richard Juliano, whose older brother is Joseph (Sonny) Juliano, a powerful Brooklyn-based captain in that Mafia family overseeing their waterfront operations.
Authorities had alleged that Rizzi's operation replaced the shuttered Pure Platinum Models, a Manhattan-based online prostitution site taken down by law enforcement years ago. His Staten Island-based business went under the name MJM/Manhattan Stakes and Entertainment, or BJM. Some of its customers spent as much as $100,000 each, with one spending $25,000 for a single night.
Francesco Paolo Augusto Calì is the boss of the Gambino crime family.
|Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo
|Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo (born June 4, 1944) is a former de facto boss of the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family who eventually became a government witness. Fictional mob boss Tony Soprano is based upon Palermo.
In the early 1960s, Vincent Palermo met and married the niece of mob boss Sam DeCavalcante. DeCavalcante took a liking to his son-in-law and began inviting him to visit his social club in Kenilworth, New Jersey. He worked at the fish markets in the early morning hours and hung out with mobsters on Sunday afternoons.
|James Gandolfini - Sopranos
Local authorities uncovered the scheme and started investigating Weiss, and the two mob families became nervous. Gambino boss John Gotti requested that the DeCavalcante family murder Weiss.
|On September 11, 1989, Palermo, Anthony Capo, and James "Jimmy" Gallo murdered Fred Weiss, on orders from DeCavalcante boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi. Weiss was associated with mobsters from both the DeCavalcante family and the New York Gambino crime family.
Weiss and his mob partners had purchased a vacant property in Staten Island and illegally dumped large amounts of dangerous medical waste there.
Mob Boss Giovanni Riggi during the trial of the 1989 slaying of Weiss
John D'Amato
|Palermo was quickly 'made' and shortly after was appointed caporegime and given his own crew. Riggi was sent to prison in 1989, and he appointed John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato as his acting boss. However, D'Amato's disgruntled girlfriend alleged in 1992 that he was bisexual. Riggi ordered Palermo and Anthony Capo to murder D'Amato in order to avoid embarrassment to the DeCavalcante family. In early 1992, D'Amato disappeared and his body was never found.
By the mid-90s, Vinny Palermo was the de facto boss of the family, paralleling Tony Soprano in the Sopranos, and John Riggi was the boss in absentia from jail.
|'Vito Spatafore' - Sopranos
|After testifying for the government, Vincent Palermo and his family entered the federal Witness Protection Program.
|In 1998, the FBI recruited DeCavalcante associate Ralph Guarino as a mob informant who devastated the DeCavalcante family. The agency gave him cell phones rigged with surveillance equipment to distribute to other family members. In October 1998, Vincent Palermo's trusted lieutenant Joseph Masella was shot to death, leaving an opening in the family. Guarino was promoted to made man.
In 1999, the FBI moved in on the DeCavalcante family. Palermo decided to become a government witness. He confessed to killing Weiss and mobster Louis LaRasso and to planning the murders of John D'Amato, Joseph Masella, Charles Majuri, Frank D'Amato, and Tom Salvata. He also implicated other DeCavalcante family members in various crimes.
Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo
|On September 14, 2009, the New York Daily News exposed Vinny Ocean's new life in witness protection as a strip club operator in Houston, Texas. The 'Penthouse Club' and 'All-Star Men's Club' were hotbeds of prostitution and drugs according to police. He also owned a Mexican restaurant and a car wash - all next to one another in a gritty section of Houston.
On March 4, 2013, Palermo filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Under Chapter 11, a person's assets and debts are not liquidated, but the filer is given court protection from creditors.
Palermo put his $2.45 million home up for sale in September 2015.
Stephen Caracappa (left) and Louis Eppolito.
|Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito were two former New York Police Department (NYPD) police detectives who worked on behalf of the New York Mafia, principally the Lucchese crime family. In 2006, they were convicted of labor racketeering, extortion, narcotics, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, eight counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Both were sentenced to life in federal prison.
|In the history of the NYPD there have been many corrupt cops. Lt. Charles Becker, electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1915 for killing a snitch; Murder Inc. canary Abe "Kid Twist" Reles who went flying out of a Coney Island hotel window, while being guarded by cops ("Canary Could Sing But Couldn't Fly", the tabloids screamed); Frank Serpico and the drug scandals of the 1960s; Officer Michael Dowd who ran a dope empire out of a Brooklyn precinct.
Caracappa and Eppolito, though, were something altogether different. At $4,000 a month each, they were on permanent retainer for the Lucchese crime family.
Cops by day, hitmen by night they used police data bases to find turncoats, impeded investigations, and at $65,000 a pop, were killers.
|The duo were given the contract to whack diamond dealer Israel Greenwald. He'd been cooperating with the FBI on an investigation and the mob was unhappy. Very unhappy. Caracappa and Eppolito got his address then snatched him off the street and blew his brains out in a Brooklyn warehouse. The body was buried in a garage where it stayed for 20 years until the dirty cops were ratted out.
Dope dealer and career criminal Burton Kramer dropped the pair in 2005. In court, he laid out a sickening buffet of murder, corruption and betrayal of public trust. Caracappa and Eppolito were both convicted of murder. Eppolito was sentenced to life plus 100 years. Caracappa received life plus 80 years. In April, at a prison hospital in North Carolina, Caracappa died at age 75 after a long fight with cancer. As he was dying he begged to be let out of prison. He was denied.


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Former Kiwanis member pleads guilty to stealing more than $140,000
Bruce Fowle, a former Kiwanis member, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $140,000 from the group Thursday morning at the Penobscot Judicial Center. Fowle was sentenced to 15 months in prison on theft charges.
Posted June 27, 2013, at 11:50 a.m.


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Beautiful Strawberry Truffle kisses
Valentine's Day Desserts
Beautiful Strawberry Truffle kisses
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I have such a sweet tooth and would love trying any of them!! The chocolate creme filled looks amazing!!ReplyDelete
These desserts look so yummy! I'm having a hard time choosing which one to make first...ReplyDelete
they all look so good. too bad I am watching my sweet and treat intake these days.ReplyDelete
Kiss cookies are my very favorites, but it never occurred to me to use anything but green or red sugar for Christmas (duh!) Gotta go buy some pink sugar now, so I have an excuse to make some for Valentines Day! :) Pinning!ReplyDelete
Can I have one of each please?ReplyDelete
I want it all!ReplyDelete
So yummy! Especially the molten cake, whoopie pies, and the cherry pies!ReplyDelete
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I stopped smiling about 6 years ago. I have always been embarrassed of my teeth and a guy made a comment about them on picture day and that was the last time I consciously smiled showing my teeth. I always try to hide my teeth in pictures and in general. Now I look in the mirror and try to smile and I seriously believe I forgot how to smile. Is this even possible? My mouth just doesn't make the shape of a smile. The corners don't go up into a u-ish shape they just go outwards. What should I do?
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The Cult
ormed by Ian Asbury (vocals), who grew up in Scotland and then in Canada (where he gained exposure to the culture of the Native Indians at the Six Nations Reserve). After moving to Bradford, Yorkshire, England he met a band rehearsing in a basement containing the members Haq Quereshi (drums), David 'buzz' Burrows (guitar) and Barry Jepson (bass). He joined in as vocalist and their rise to stardom took a decided leap for the better.
Their fifth gig, at London's Haven Club, received an audience of over 2,000! As Southern Death Cult (a name chosen from a newspaper headline), they made their recording debut with a double 'A'-side single in 1982 titled Fatman/Moya, and supported Bauhaus on tour the next year. By March of that year they folded because Ashbury was upset at their image of being 'positive Punk', and that his Native American concept was being 'watered down' by the rest of the band. Their debut (and only album) under their original configuration, Southern Death Cult (1983), was released in January of 1983 posthumously.
His new band, under the truncated name of Death Cult, comprised the rhythm section of Ritual, a recently departed Gothic band, in the form of Ray 'The Reverend' Mondo (drums) and Jamie Stewart (bass). Billy Duffy (ex-Ed Banger And The Nosebleeds/ex-Theatre Of Hate; guitar) joined in shortly after. This reformed line-up made its recording debut on a self-titled 12 inch. Ashbury who was using the name Ian Lindsay (his mother's maiden name) used his own from this point on. Shortly later, an appearance at the Futurama festival encouraged Mondo to give his drum stood over to Nigel Preston (ex-SexGang Children), a former band mate of Duffy's in Theatre Of Hate. 1984 would see the final name change for the act, which feared that the 'Death' prefix typecast them as a Gothic act so they dropped it in favor of just Cult.
Its sales boosted by a number one in the independent charts for the anthemic Spiritwalker single, they released their new debut album, Dreamtime in 1984. She Sells Sanctuary, as a single, would follow close behind on the charts the following year. Mark Brzezicki of Big Country took over Preston's spot for the studio sessions of the follow-up recording until Les Warner permanently took over the spot.
Love (1985) proved to be the act's coming out onto the scene. It featured full-bodied Hard Rock tracks and strong guitaring. She Sells Sanctuary, now a track on the album, hit the charts high as did Rain. Electric (1987) completed the metamorphosis to a Hard Rock act leaving little clue as to their inspirations. Produced, in part by Rick Rubin, it proved to be a bold and strong statement. It became a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic, receiving a 4 in the US and a 38 in the UK (I guess the Brits. are harder to impress). The track gone single, Love Removal Machine, wouldprove to be one of their biggest hits; it was inspired by Ian Ashbury's thoughts on the work of a 60-year-old stripper he watched one night at a military social club.
The follow-up gigs saw Stewart switch to rhythm guitar and Kid 'Haggis' Chaos (Real Name: Mark Manning; ex-Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction) take his old position. But he and Warner would soon after be disposed of entirely, with the former joining 4 Horsemen. Now reduced to a three piece of Ashbury, Duffy and Stewart they needed a drummer so they hired Micky Curry for the recording sessions of Sonic Temple (1989). The album would merge the energy of Electric with the passion of Love. It didn't matter on the quality or content, for their past success made thema name brand outfit guaranteeing success, and indeed, Ceremony (1991) made it at 9 UK/25 US despite the complaints accusing it of being listless, but the follow-up "best of..." compilation, Pure Cult (1993), made it to #1. In 1994 they reunited with producer Bob Rock to create their self-titled The Cult in to equal appeal. It contained a tribute to Kurt Cobain titled Sacred Life amongst its tracks with the new membership of Ashbury and Duffy with Craig Adams (ex-Sisters Of Mercy/ex-Mission; bass) and Scott Garrett (drums) but shortly after the act broke up after canceling their 1994 tour due to newly recruitedguitarist James Stevenson suddenly leaving to return to his former act, the reforming Gene Loves Jezebel.
The act continued on with Ashbury, Scott Garrett, brother Matt Garrett (bass) and Patrick Sugg (ex-Lucifer Wong; guitar/vocals) under the name Holy Barbarians to release the one-off Cream (1996) before Ashbury released the Spirit/Light/Speed album in 2000 on his self-named effort along with musicians John Roome and Chris Goss (of Watchmen).
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"On February 21, 2013, our minister for finance told us that Germany and France were watching our back", he continued.
"What were they watching our backs for, to shove the knife in it? That's what it seems like.
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What's going on with the final final ending of BoI?
In the absolute final ending, Isaac defeats XXX, and we see a series of Polaroid photos. Some of these photos are inane, some revealing, and some simply intriguing and obtuse.
Let's have a look at them, shall we?
#1: Isaac with his mother, and what appears to be his father. A small man with a white undershirt and sweat pants, with thin hair and a mustache. Isaac looks up happily at his mother, who smiles down benevolently at him, while Isaac's father grins with what seems like fatherly pride. This is one of the simple ones: Isaac's family, complete and happy.
#2: This photo adds a great amount of evidence to the "alternate characters are Isaac in costume" theory many fans have presented. At no point in any other part of the slideshow do we see any reference to siblings of Isaac (though they might be in that basement somewhere), so the little girl dressed to look just like Mommy could very well be Isaac in his Magdalene form. This makes Magdalene seem a much more important character; the version of Isaac that loves his mother and her God more than anything. No other alternate of Isaac appears in the polaroids, meaning that Magdalene existed for Isaac before things got bad. Or perhaps Magdalene is the manifestation of Isaac wanting to return to this simpler, happy time, when he could walk with, and pretend to be, his mother.
#3: Things start to get darker, and more suggestive. Isaac is turned away, in what looks like shame and rejection, from a dark devil-like shadow in the corner of a room. The seed of some evil in Isaac? The shadow looks much like him, and recalls the scenarios of the previous 2 endings (Isaac flipping to various forms of himself, ending with a dark shadow form, and Isaac seeing himself as a devil in the mirror).
#4: Isaac's mother and father, holding hands, looking very much in love. Their relationship, we can presume, was not one based solely around Isaac: they had very true feelings for one-another. Note that in #1, Isaac is looking up at his mother; in #2, Isaac is dressed LIKE his mother. Isaac's father seems merely secondary at all times to his own son. Could it be, perhaps, that the shadow in #3 is some Oedipean jealousy Isaac feels? The picture in #4 establishes that Isaac's mother loved her husband and did not live merely for her son, so perhaps Isaac felt (unjustly) that his father was stealing his beloved mother?
#5: Isaac standing alone, looking sad. Shores up the speculation of #4; Isaac is alone, apart from his mother and father, and is not happy about it. Isaac is only happy when he is with his family, and most particularly, his mother.
#6: Isaac, crying in front of a chest, naked. The theme of the chest is always prevalent in BoI: chests contain good things for Isaac. Chests also hide things away. Isaac goes into a chest in one ending: he always finds a chest with something valuable (or terrifying) inside in previous endings. The final boss of the game is a dead baby inside a chest. Chests can contain terrible secrets, as well as hidden treasures. What secret is contained in this chest?
#7: Isaac's mother, holding a knife aloft in rage. Considering #6's relative similarity to the typical gameplay of BoI, and #7's connection to the main plot line of BoI (Isaac's mother coming to kill him with a knife), these two seem to be simply references to the main game. But consider:
-Pictures 1-5 all seem to tell some semi-linear story. If 6 and 7 retell the story the player just went through, then what place can there be for #8, which would also be BEFORE the main plotline (introduced in the opening cut scene)? It would be very poor storytelling to interrupt a prologue with en medius res, and then just as abruptly return to the prologue.
-Isaac's mother is holding the knife with clear anger in her eyes, not the vacant and insane expression she has when she tries to kill Isaac in the opening cutscene and in the game's first ending. Her expression is purposeful and hateful…she is attacking someone for a perceptible reason. But what reason? Who is being attacked?
#8: Isaac and his mother, watching a figure (appears to be his father) leaving the family. Isaac's hand is on his mother's back. The hand on the back is a human gesture for two things: comfort, and possession. Considering the jealousy exhibited in the previous photographs, perhaps Isaac's father leaving was something Isaac WANTED, because now Isaac would get his mother all to himself.
And, once all the photos are gone, watch carefully…it shows up for just an instant, faintly:
"Get in the box!"
From these observations, a few theories can perhaps be strung together:
1) Isaac's inner evil spawned first from his love for his mother, a love that went beyond conventional and into fetish (dressing like her).
2) Isaac, in his jealousy, did something bad. Isaac did something to make his father go away, leaving his mother behind. What could get a loving couple to split so dramatically? Perhaps a well-told lie. Isaac may have fabricated that he was stripped naked and stuffed into a chest to die. His mother would have found him sobbing in front of his "prison", and when asked what happened, Isaac might have said something like this: "he told me to get in the box."
3) Now the anger in #7 has a clear focus. In an effort to protect his son from a perceived mad-man, Isaac's mother attacked her husband, likely cursing and shouting. Isaac's mother is, of course, a woman of the Lord: she would not kill him as long as she was still sane. But she might threaten him, might tell him to get out of the house and leave her son alone…
4) And so, he does. Isaac's father appears meek and weak in the photos, and as a weak man, he walked away, with just the shirt on his back, completely driven from their home. So Isaac got exactly what he wanted: his mother's love, all for him, shared with no one.
Assuming the above statements are true, then the evil within Isaac his mother hears about from "God" would be the terrible sin Isaac committed to drive his father away. The theory also helps to provide reasons for some of the personas of Isaac.
Judas: Judas is known as the betrayer of Christ. Judas is also the simplest character to unlock, requiring that one simply beat the full game. Thus, closest to Isaac's heart next to Magdalene (referenced before the events in the game took place), is Judas the traitor and scoundrel, who sold out his lord for a few silver pennies. Perhaps Judas is Isaac's way of accepting his sin, and living as a traitor while relishing it (Judas' unlock portrait is quite siniter). After all, Judas and Isaac both got what they wanted for their betrayals: Judas got his silver, Isaac his mother. Yet, when Judas realized the true scope of what he had done, it is said that he hung himself in shame. It so happens that the item the players unlock directly after Judas is Transcendance, the noose, with which Isaac hangs himself. If Isaac did lie to his mother to get his father removed from their family, then Isaac directly follows in Judas footsteps, up to and including suicide as payment for sin.
XXX: the blue baby, fought as the final boss. The fight is nearly identical to the fight with Isaac in the Cathedral. Two plot-relevant bosses, who fight with the same style, and look similar, likely have a connection, the most likely one being what many fans already suspect: that XXX is the "corpse" version of Isaac himself. Most interestingly, this corpse is fought in The Chest, the same chest that Isaac may have cried crocodile tears in front of when he condemned his father. XXX could be the fate that Isaac would have suffered had his lie been true, and perhaps, is the fate that Isaac now feels he SHOULD suffer (he has, after all, killed his beloved mother, his whole reason for causing all this trouble). The item "fate" is also XXX's head, and in one of the endings, Isaac actually DOES lock himself in the chest. It would be a sad, but poetic, end to the game if Isaac killed his broken mother, then locked himself away, the way he claimed that he was in the first place.
Cain: In the book of Genesis, Cain was the first child of mankind, and was also the first murderer and exile. Cain committed his sin because of jealousy for his brother, whom God loved best and favored. Isaac committed HIS sin because of jealousy for his father, whom his mother loved best (at least from Isaac's perspective). Because Cain committed his sin, and was judged, he was condemned to wander the Earth, but protected with "the mark of Cain", so that no one would slay him in retaliation for the crime he committed. In BoI, "Cain" is the fastest character (murderers and exiles are always on the run), and he is missing an eye, a very easily-seen "mark". "Cain" also starts with the "luck foot", which ensures that random events will not harm him. Cain is perhaps Isaac's identity as a criminal and sinner, doomed to wander without hope of redemption.
Eve: Eve was the first woman, born of Adam's rib, and was the first human to sin. She was tempted by the serpent to take the fruit of the tree of wisdom, which she had craved. Isaac was also tempted to take a forbidden fruit: his mother's love and full attention, without his father getting in the way. Before Isaac's sin, his family lived happily and innocently, pure and WITHOUT sin. Thus, Isaac's sin is the "first" sin, and his identity as the originator of the pain and suffering of his family (and the mental breakdown of his mother) is personified in the character Eve.
Magdalene: Much of Magdalene's significance is already described above, but a few more interesting connections reveal themselves when she is considered. Magdalene was a whore who loved and followed Jesus; some even speculate that her and Jesus consorted together and had children. Isaac loved his mother, enough even to "follow" her by dressing up as her and walking about with her. Whores sell their own bodies, and it happens that Magdalene in BoI is the most ready and capable to sell herself to the Devil for power. Isaac sold his soul for his mother's love, and the definition of a whore is someone who sells themselves. And even if a whore wants to receive salvation and redemption, the ease with which they can slip back into sin is never gone (again referring to how easily Magdalene can use Devil Rooms, devil beggars, sacrifice and curse rooms).
Samson: Samson was a judge of the Hebrew people, who possessed superhuman strength given to him from God in exchange for his upholding the ancient "Nazarite Vow": that he would never touch a corpse, consume anything that grew on the vine, or cut his hair. In the end, Samson dies when, blinded and humiliated by his Philistine captives after inadvertently breaking his vow, he pulls down the pillars of a heathen temple, killing himself and hundreds of Philistines with him in an act of martyrdom. Samson sinned when his hair was shorn, and he only redeemed himself through his martyrdom. Isaac also sinned, and his redemption comes only from a similar act of martyrdom: killing himself, along with legions of other monsters and sins in the process. Samson is Isaac fueled by his last purpose: to atone for his crimes in blood, the ancient manner in which all murders and betrayals were paid for. His unlocked items all relate to blood: bloody lust, being Samson's drive to kill until he is cleansed; blood rites, magic by which blood is given up for power and purity; and the bloody penny, a reference to the ancient practice of "blood money" (paying a family for the murder of a family member to end a feud without any more killing.)
So what happens after Isaac defeats XXX?
Presumably, considering the previous endings to the game, Isaac locks himself away in the chest. His mother is dead, killed by his own hand to defend himself; his mother went insane because of Isaac's sin; his father is long gone, a condemned shell of a man. Isaac has nothing left but his precious chest, that bought him his happiness and ultimately tore his life apart. He accepts his fate, and most likely, if anyone came to that house on the hill, they would find a dead woman lying in front of a chest…and the mummified body of a little boy inside.


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GENEVA — A shooting in southern Switzerland has left three women dead, two men wounded and raised questions about how a troubled suspect was able to go on a rampage with an old military rifle.
The shooting — which came on the eve of students' return to classes in Newtown, Connecticut, after a horrific school shooting — also highlighted the easy access to firearms in gun-loving nations.
The suspect, a 33-year-old unemployed man living on disability payments, fired about 20 shots Wednesday night in the village of Daillon, authorities in the Swiss canton (state) of Valais said Thursday.
He opened fire from his apartment and pursued people in the street, police said. Armed with a Swiss military rifle and a handgun, he then threatened to shoot the officers sent in to stop him, police said.
"The shooter pointed his weapon at our colleagues, so they had to open fire to neutralize him, to avoid being injured themselves," police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told Swiss radio.
The suspect, who police did not identify, was arrested and taken to the hospital with serious wounds. Bornet said he lived in Daillon but the motive for the shooting was unclear.
Guns are popular among the Swiss — the Alpine country has at least 2.3 million weapons among a population of less than 8 million. Many rural areas have gun clubs, with children as young as 10 taking part in shooting competitions.
The suspect was using a military rifle that was once standard issue in the Swiss army, interim cantonal police chief Robert Steiner said.
Prosecutor Catherine Seppey said the suspect was unemployed and had been receiving psychiatric care since at least 2005, when he was first admitted to a psychiatric hospital. He was currently under the care of the cantonal agency for the disabled, she said.
His weapons were confiscated and destroyed in 2005, she said, "and currently no arms register showed he had a weapon. The inquiry will have to determine where the weapons came from."
Buying a firearm in a Swiss shop requires a permit, a clean criminal record and no psychiatric disability, but buying a firearm from another person is less restrictive and old-style Army rifles are often sold at military surplus markets.
Most types of ammunition can be bought, while automatic firearms generally require a special police permit.
Seppey said the shooter knew several of the victims but "he was not known for making threats."
The victims were three women aged 32, 54 and 79 who died at the scene, and two injured men, aged 33 and 63, who were taken to the hospital, Seppey said. The two youngest victims were a couple with small children.
"We have no words to express ourselves after an event like this," Christophe Germanier, head of the Conthey district where the shooting occurred, told a news conference.
Daillon is near some of Switzerland's most popular ski resorts, such as Verbier and Crans-Montana, and is in the country's main wine-producing region. The area also boasts a sizeable share of the country's federally protected hunting reserves.
Authorities say firearms are involved in nearly a quarter of the 1,100 suicides a year in Switzerland — which don't include another 300 cases a year of assisted suicide — but shooting rampages are rare in peaceful, prosperous Switzerland.
A gunman who killed 14 people at a city meeting in Zug in 2001 was the nation's worst rampage, leading to calls to tighten national gun-buying laws. Friedrich Leibacher used a commercial version of the Swiss army's SG 550 assault rifle for the rampage, then killed himself.
All able-bodied Swiss men who are required to perform military duty often take their army-issued rifle home with them after completing military service. In 2007, the government began requiring that nearly all army ammunition is kept at secure army depots.
Many in Switzerland believe that distributing guns to households helped dissuade a Nazi invasion during World War II. In 2011, Swiss voters rejected a proposal to tighten gun laws.
"This is part of Switzerland's self-defense, where the entire army can be mobilized in 24 hours," said Daniel Warner of the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. "I don't think (the latest shooting) is going to cause a change in attitude here."
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