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Just beautiful, love this verse.ReplyDelete
I love it Candace! Your devotion is perfect - such a great reminder, especially after my stress filled week! Great card, love the stitching and the wonderful ribbon. Have a super week.ReplyDelete
I loved reading your devotion this morning. Just before lunch today, my son was reading a quote that he saw on facebook, that I thought goes along so well with this scripture. It said "People with bibles that are falling apart, usually aren't!" I hope you have a blessed week!ReplyDelete
What a pretty card, Candace! Love the bow, the DP and even the little pearls that match perfectly! Very nice devotion...thanks!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful card! Love the added flourish. Thanks for playing along with us at The Sweet Stop this week!ReplyDelete
This is a beautiful card. I love everything about it! The sewing is a nice touch of added texture. The flourish adds such an elegant touch. And the way you brought it all together is a touch of genius. :-) Thank you for joining us at Frosted Designs for the Twine/Ribbon Challenge. BeverlyReplyDelete
Thank you for playing along with our 'words only' theme over on the craftymess challenge blog.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful rich card. The verse is great, love the stitching around the beautiful papers and that gorgeous bow and flourish really finishes it off!
I really hope you will join in our future challenges over on our blog.
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Love your color scheme. your verse is really showcased well.ReplyDelete
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Hi Candace! I just LOVE this stamp sentiment/scripture, and your card is lovely. Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Word Art Wednesday. It is our pleasure to have you join us, and we're blessed by your participation. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
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Candace - What a great stamp for the sentiment. Sentiment stamps by themselves never catch my eye but they look so beautiful on cards. Love the color of the ribbon you used.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card and wonderful message!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card!! Love the awesome stitching and the tied ribbon looks so beautiful!! Thanks for playing along with us @ Frosted Designs!!ReplyDelete
Candace, Thank you for sharing this beautiful card with us at Craftymessers. Your card fits our 'Word' theme perfectly with your well chosen verse and lovely colours.ReplyDelete
Thank you very much
What an elegant card Candace. Love the verse. The swirl is just the perfect embellishment to this card. Pretty papers... and great stitching! Thank you for playing along with us at The Sweet Stop this week.ReplyDelete
This is just knock-out gorgeous, Candace! Every beautiful detail so richly compliments the verse. You so graciously exemplify that passage! Love the card!ReplyDelete
This card is beautiful! I love the colours, the stitching and the verse is perfect! Thanks for joining us @ Frosted Designs!ReplyDelete
Wowie Candace! This is just Beautiful! Love the Wonderful Verse and Lovely dp's and Fab Bow too! Just Fabulous! So glad you could join us at The Sweet Stop! 8-)ReplyDelete
This is beautiful - thanks for playing along with inky impressions xxxReplyDelete
This is sobeauiful a very classic card & love your colourway.ReplyDelete
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So feminine and love your layout highlighting this wonderful scripture, Candace!! Wonderful devotional thoughts as well! Wishing you a blessed week!ReplyDelete
I really appreciated your thoughts on the SSIC blog-wanted to drop by and leave some love-your card is beautiful and I love this scripture verse as wellReplyDelete
This is just gorgeous! Love the colors and that fabulous border punch strip! Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs.ReplyDelete
So beautiful! I love your papers and the soft brown accents! Gorgeous! Have a blessed afternoon! ~HReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful card. I love the bow.ReplyDelete
Wow Candace - this is beautiful! I love the colours and the sewing that you have added - gorgeous details! Thanks for sharing, you are a blessing! {{{hugs}}}ReplyDelete


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San Luis Obispo County isnt immune to technological advances. In many sectors, we welcome it. But in others, we hesitate. The encroachment of various technological developments inevitably forces us to respond to their implications. One area not so far in our future is "web-vertising" local surf breaks. Its happening around the world, and its starting to happen in SLO County.
Surely, all of us occasionally enjoy visiting surf websites to check out the surf at both local and exotic spots. Catching Hawaii, Australia, and Costa Rica, via webcam, during epic surf conditions is thrilling. Currently, we can find California web cams at Mavericks, Steamer's Lane, Ventura, Huntington Beach, Oceanside, Salt Creek, La Jolla etc. But overexposing such places has a price, as many Southern Californian surfers will attest. Several sites, such as Surfvideo.com and Surfline.com, point their cameras directly at various surf spots around the globe, and these surf cams arent always welcome.
Just a few short years ago, Mavericks, a heavy cold water surf spot was virtually unknown outside the Santa Cruz/San Francisco area. Those secret big wave days are now over! Presently, Mavericks attracts global attention through magazine exposure, surf contests, and yes, webcams. Some of the local residents and surfers resent the accelerating publicity, and webcams only add more force to the gas pedal.
The installation of a surfcam at Salt Creek Beach in Southern California received its share of criticism too. After unsettling overexposure, many local surfers there pressured Surfline.com to change the scope of webcam footage. Although the beach stretches yards long, locals demanded footage be visible only from the parking lot. Surfline.com reluctantly obliged. To many surfers, webcams bring added publicity to their favorite spots. And this publicity is just what they dont want. Longtime Salt Creek surfer Mike Howard says, "I dont want Big Brother camera on the beach." To Howard and like-minded surfers, webcams are an invasive evolution to the culture of surfing.
Matthew Fleming, vice-president of Surfrider Foundation's SLO County chapter, agrees. Fleming argues "When we circumvent the process of discovery (the classic search for surf which either brings elation or depression depending upon the conditions), we take away an integral part of the complete experience. In a small way, web cams undermine the diversity of experience that surfing offers. Surfing is not watching television; it is getting out there and experiencing the highs and lows, the blown-out flat days and the overhead howling offshore ones." For many coastal residents, Webcams stand ready to undermine a natural part of surfing, bring added publicity to the quiet, and overexpose the cherished. Longtime local surfer Jamie Frasinetti remarks, "Webcams take away the magic and beauty of surfing. I don't really want to see a camera where I surf."
Here on the Central Coast, we needn't worry about webcams too much yet. Avila Beach has our only webcam and possess no serious invasion of our local surf spots. But with the increase of web cams covering the United States coastline, its sure to follow that San Luis Obispo County will be hosting more than one camera. Although many of these webcams won't pop up by tomorrow night, they have the potential of covering some our favorite breaks. Whatll we do when web cams pop up at Moonstone Beach, Studios, Morro Rock, Sandspit, St. Anne's, Pismo Beach etc?
Some Salt Creek Beach surfers are now considering circulating a petition to force Surfline.com to take down its digital video camera indefinitely. Although limiting the footage to just the parking lot seems like a reasonable compromise to a growing problem, for some Salt Creek surfers it's not enough. Perhaps some day SLO County surfers will be in a similar predicament. And whatll we do then?
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Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat
|Tun Dato' Haji
Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat
S.M.N. (Tun), Dato'
|عبدالحميد بن حاج جومت
Abdul Hamid in 1965
|1st Deputy Chief Minister of Singapore
|In office
June 7, 1956 – June 3, 1959
|Chief Minister
|Lim Yew Hock
|Preceded by
|Newly Created
|Succeeded by
|Toh Chin Chye As (Deputy Prime minister Of Singapore)
|Minister of Local Government, Lands and Housing
|In office
1956 – June 3, 1959
|Chief Minister
|David Saul Marshall
Lim Yew Hock
|Preceded by
|Francis Thomas
|Succeeded by
|Ong Eng Guan
|Minister of Communications and Works
|In office
6 April 1955 – 1956
|Chief Minister
|David Saul Marshall
|Preceded by
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|Personal details
|April 12, 1916
|1978 (Age 61-62)
|Political party
|United Malays National Organisation (Singapore Branch)
|Alma mater
|Raffles Institution
|Politician and Diplomat
Tan Sri Dato' Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumad P.M.N. (Jawi: عبدالحميد بن حاج جومت; April 12, 1916 – 1978) was a member of Singapore Legislative Assembly of Malay ethnicity. He was credited as "Singapore's first Malay minister", as well as the "first Singaporean ambassador to Germany". He founded the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in Singapore. He served as Deputy Chief Minister in Lim Yew Hock's cabinet. He also served as Minister of Local Government, Lands and Housing, as well as Minister of Communications and Works.
Early and personal life[edit]
Abdul was born April 12, 1916[1] in Singapore.[2] His father was Haji T. P. Jumat, and his mother was M. Datin Kartini. He attended Raffles Institution.[1]
Abdul had seven children. His youngest child, Putra Haron Jumat (born 1963), is a Malaysian politician who is a member of Barisan Nasional.[3] During his political career, Abdul was an acquaintance with Lee Kuan Yew, although they were not in the same political party.[3]
Abdul first started out as a skins exporter with his own company until around 1955, when he founded the Singaporean division of UMNO (Abbreviation for the United Malays National Organisation.)[1] Abdul was a member of political party Labour Front.[4] Following David Marshall's rise to power as Chief Minister in 1955, Abdul was given the role of Minister for Local Government, Lands, and Housing, making him the first such minister;[1] he was initially intended to be Minister of Communication and Works.[5] Cited as "Singapore's first Malay minister",[3] he carried the position until June 1959; Abdul subsequently became the "first Singaporean ambassador to Germany".[1] He was ambassador to other countries too, such as Egypt, the Netherlands, and the Philippines.[3] In addition, Abdul served as Deputy Chief Minister of Singapore from 1956 to 1959.[6] Abdul was conferred the title of Dato' and the Order of the Defender of the Realm, rank Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm.[7]
In 1973, Abdul went back to Malaysia, where he lived most of his later life as ambassador to various countries. He died some five years later in 1978.[3]
Foreign honour[edit]
- Malaya : Honorary Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (1958)[8]
- ^ a b c d e Corfield, Justin (2010). Historical Dictionary of Singapore. Scarecrow Press. pp. 13–. ISBN 9780810873872.
- ^ Who's who in Malaysia and Guide to Singapore. 1975. pp. 4–.
- ^ a b c d e Zakir Hussain (May 2, 2013). "A Johor candidate's Singapore story". The Straits Times.
- ^ Lee, Edwin (2008). Singapore: The Unexpected Nation. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 119–. ISBN 9789812307965.
- ^ Tan, Kevin. Marshall of Singapore: A Biography. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 244–. ISBN 9789812308788.
- ^ "Portrait of Mr. Abdul Hamid Haji Jumat, Deputy Chief Minister of Singapore". BooksSG. Archived from the original on July 6, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ^ Morais, John Victor (1959). The Who's who in Malaysia. Solai Press. pp. 2–.
- ^ "Senarai Penuh Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat Persekutuan Tahun 1958." (PDF).


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An impressive three bedroom semi-detached house of character offering spacious well-planned accommodation with many attractive features throughout. The property is situated in this popular residential area conveniently sited for local amenities including shops, schools and recreational facilities. Bradford City Centre is within easy reach and all the major surrounding towns are easily accessible
The property which has been considerably improved by the present owners has a gas fired central heating system and sealed unit double glazed windows. Briefly comprises entrance vestibule, spacious sitting room, open plan to dining kitchen with built in appliances. To the first floor there are three bedrooms and an attractive bathroom with a three piece suite. Externally there is a larger than average rear garden. To the front of the property there is a garden and a drive which provides ample parking facilities and leads to the garage.
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Attractive front entrance door with decorative glass. Radiator.
Spacious Sitting Room
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Sealed unit double glazed window to the front elevation. Ceiling cornice, panelled style door, display recess, radiator. Open plan to:
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Contemporary stainless steel sink unit with cupboards and drawers under. Attractive range of fitted base and wall units incorporating built in oven and four ring gas hob. Space for fridge. Plumbing for automatic washer. Gas fired central heating boiler. Wood effect floor covering. Feature island unit. Sealed unit double glazed window to the rear elevation. Sealed unit double glazed side window. Gas fired central heating boiler. External door with decorative glass panels.
Sealed unit double glazed side window with decorative glass. Spindled balustrade, access to roof space.
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Bedroom Three
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Sealed unit double glazed window to the front elevation. Panel style door, radiator.
Attractive Bathroom
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White suite with chrome effect fittings with "P" shaped bath with curved shower screen and shower over. Contemporary wash hand basin with mixer taps. Low flush w.c. Sealed unit double glazed window, decorative glass. Panel style door, part tiled walls.
To the rear of the property there is a good sized mainly lawned garden and paved patio area. To the front of the property there is a pleasant garden and drive providing ample parking facilities which leads to GARAGE with side personal door. Garden shed. External lighting including down lighting underneath the gutters.
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Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country by Jerrilyn McGregory (University Press of Mississippi; 224 pages; $50). An ethnographic study of gospel music and spiritual activism in what is known as the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and north Florida.
The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism edited by Dan Berger (Rutgers University Press; 303 pages; $75 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Essays on black-power, feminist, gay, American Indian, Puerto Rican, and other movements of the decade.
Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge by Johannes Voelz (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 336 pages; $85 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Topics include Emerson's philosophy as a response to the requirements of lecturing on the lyceum circuit.
Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War by Carole McGranahan (Duke University Press; 307 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Combines ethnography and history in a study of why there has been a neglect in Tibetan history of a resistance movement against China, which lasted from the 1950s through 1974 and was aided by India, Nepal, and the United States.
Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China by Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard University Press; 138 pages; $29.95). Offers an anthropological perspective on population governance and politics in China, including a shift by the regime toward viewing citizens as human capital.
Eventful Archaeologies: New Approaches to Social Transformation in the Archaeological Record edited by Douglas J. Bolender (State University of New York Press; 272 pages; $80 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings on European and North American prehistory.
Falling Into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia by Evelyn Blackwood (University of Hawai'i Press; 264 pages; $55 hardcover, $24 paperback). An ethnographic study of "tombois" and their girlfriends in the West city of Padang.
The Hadrami Diaspora: Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim by Leif Manger (Berghahn Books; 201 pages; $60). A study of the Hadramis of South Yemen and their diasporic communities in the Indian Ocean region.
Holy Ground, Healing Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas by Donald J. Blakeslee (Texas A&M University Press; 252 pages; $45 hardcover, $22 paperback). Combines anthropology, archaeology, and environmental history in a study of a lake in north-central Kansas created on the site of a spring held sacred to Indian peoples in the region.
Kin, Gene, Community: Reproductive Technologies Among Jewish Israelis edited by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli (Berghahn Books; 372 pages; $95). Topics include how technologies of assisted reproduction figure into the policing of boundaries in Israeli society.
Take Me to My Paradise: Tourism and Nationalism in the British Virgin Islands by Colleen Ballerino Cohen (Rutgers University Press; 270 pages; $75 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). An ethnographic study of the cultural, political, and other impacts of tourism on the islands.
Pox, Empire, Shackles, and Hides: The Townsend Site, 1670-1715 by Jon Bernard Marcoux (University of Alabama Press; 178 pages; $36 hardcover, $20 paperback). Combines archaeological and historical perspectives in a study of a small Cherokee community in eastern Tennessee.
Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America, 1710-1840 by William H. Truettner (University of California Press; 159 pages; $39.95). Examines how portraits of Indians figured in the culture of imperial expansion; artists discussed include Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West.
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Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy by Debra Osnowitz (ILR Press/Cornell University Press; 272 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A study of the career paths, work practices, and decision making of contract employees in software and systems development and editorial work in print and Web communications.
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The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media by Ilana Gershon (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $22.95). A study of how college students use Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and other media to end romantic relationships.
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation by Agnes Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer, translated by Susan Emanuel (MIT Press; 226 pages; $29.95). Examines mechanisms and structures modeled on nature.
Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert by Michon Mackedon (Black Rock Institute Press, distributed by Museum of New Mexico Press; 236 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). A study of nuclear culture in Nevada that traces the manipulation of language and imagery by the atomic industry.
Laughter: Notes on a Passion by Anca Parvulescu (MIT Press; 212 pages; $21.95). Explores modernism, feminism, film, avant-garde philosophy, and other realms in a discussion of laughter, particularly as passionate outburst.
Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body by Cassandra Jackson (Routledge; 138 pages; $105). Focuses on photography in a study of the wounded black man as a recurrent cultural image.
The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman (MIT Press; 238 pages; $35). Documents how open-source and proprietary software interact in often unexpected ways and evaluates open source's economic impact.
Consistency, Choice, and Rationality by Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura (Harvard University Press; 218 pages; $39.95). A work in choice and demand theory.
Obama's Bank: Financing a Durable New Deal by Michael Likosky (Cambridge University Press; 377 pages; $75 hardcover, $24.99 paperback). Develops a proposal for a public-private bank to finance improvements in America's infrastructure.
Imagining Children Otherwise: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Childhood Subjectivity edited by Michael O'Loughlin and Richard T. Johnson (Peter Lang Publishing; 247 pages; $119.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Essays on such topics as children's performance of whiteness in early education in Australia.
Schools in the Landscape: Localism, Cultural Tradition, and the Development of Alabama's Public Education System, 1865-1915 by Edith M. Ziegler (University of Alabama Press; 217 pages; $41.50). Considers how the day-to-day operation of the schools was shaped by localism and traditions.
The Child in Film: Tears, Fears, and Fairy Tales by Karen Lury (Rutgers University Press; 209 pages; $72 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores the disruptive power of the child in films made for adult audiences, including such works as Taxi Driver and Pan's Labyrinth.
Dagur Kari's "Noi the Albino" by Bjorn Nordfjord (University of Washington Press; 165 pages; $24.95). A study of the 2003 film, which is set in the remote Westfjords of Iceland and blends elements of the universal with the intensely local.
The Epic Film in World Culture edited by Robert Burgoyne (Routledge; 391 pages; $37.95). Films analyzed include The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Passion of the Christ, Red Cliff, The Te Kooti Trail, There Will Be Blood, and 300.
Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago by Pierre Clavel (Cornell University Press; 256 pages; $65 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Describes how mayors Raymond Flynn and Harold Washington enlisted neighborhood activists in their programs for reform.
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung (Oxford University Press; 394 pages; $27.95). Discusses an immigration center across the bay from San Francisco, which was a way station, and sometime deportation point, for many of the half million immigrants who sought entrance from 1910 to 1940.
Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan by Carol Lasser and Stacey Robertson (Rowman & Littlefield; 216 pages; $36.95). Identifies three phases in women's relationship to civic and political life.
Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York by James D. Livingston (State University of New York Press; 205 pages; $19.95). A study of the 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, a member of a prominent New York family who was accused of matricide via poisoned soup.
Berlin: Divided City, 1945-1989 edited by Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake (Berghahn Books; 211 pages; $70). Essays by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and others on perceptions and representations of Berlin during the four decades before German reunification.
Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America edited by Paulo Drinot (Duke University Press; 306 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Essays on the Argentine revolutionary's travels, country-by-country, through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and later through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico.
Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence by Colin A. Palmer (University of North Carolina Press; 363 pages; $39.95). Explores colonialism and anti-colonialism in then British Guiana through a study of the life and shifting political fortunes of the Guyanese leader (1918-97), a founder of the leftist People's Progressive Party.
Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan by Mark A. Jones (Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press; 407 pages; $45). Considers how psychologists, pediatricians, reformers, and others shaped a new Japanese ideal of childrearing and childhood during the period.
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans by Thomas C. Holt (Hill & Wang; 438 pages; $27). Traces the experiences of successive generations of African-Americans since the first sale of slaves in Jamestown in 1619.
Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds by Tony Shaw (University Press of Kansas; 301 pages; $34.95). Uses five American and five Soviet films to compare cinema's role in disseminating cold-war ideologies.
Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia by Toby Craig Jones (Harvard University Press; 292 pages; $29.95). Considers the relationship between political authority and resources in the history of the kingdom.
Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City by Jonathan Soffer (Columbia University Press; 494 pages; $34.95). Discusses Mayor Koch as both a moderate and a pragmatist as he responded to the city's fiscal and other crises in the late 1970s and 80s.
Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 by Richard Graham (University of Texas Press; 334 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores the class and racial boundaries crossed among food traders in the northeastern coastal city.
A Fleeting Empire: Early Stuart Britain and the Merchant Adventurers to Canada by Andrew D. Nicholls (McGill-Queen's University Press; 280 pages; US$39.95). A study of British merchants and privateers, including the Kirke brothers, who in 1629 forced Samuel de Champlain's surrender in Quebec.
Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father by Nicholas Dungan (New York University Press; 192 pages; $27.95). A biography of the Geneva-born statesman, diplomat, and scholar (1761-1849), who helped establish New York University and the American Ethnological Society.
God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution by Thomas S. Kidd (Basic Books; 298 pages; $26.95). Documents the evangelical contribution to America's independence.
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage by Beth S. Wenger (Princeton University Press; 282 pages; $35). Traces new constructions of Jewish culture and history that eased immigrants' adjustment and created a heritage in step with American ideals.
Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia by Eugene M. Avrutin (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $39.95). Describes how Jews figured in new forms of record keeping on Russia's population that emerged in the late 18th century.
A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society, 1960-72 by Robert J. Savage (Manchester University Press, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan; 401 pages; $95). A study of television in Ireland during its first decade and describes how the new medium tested constraints in Irish society.
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikotter (Walker & Company; 420 pages; $30). Draws on previously unavailable archives in a study of the human and infrastructural devastation that followed the "Great Leap Forward."
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy by Nora Titone (Free Press; 479 pages; $30). Links the rivalry between Lincoln's assassin and his famous older brother to the younger's entry into a world of conspiracy.
Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America by Heather Murray (University of Pennsylvania Press; 320 pages; $45). Uses letters, diaries, memoirs, films, and other sources to document the relationships of gay men and women with their families since the early postwar period.
Open Range: The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland by Darlis A. Miller (University of Oklahoma Press; 176 pages; $24.95). Traces the life of a New Mexico-born woman who became famous with the publication of No Life for a Lady (1941), her memoir of growing up on a cattle ranch.
Organizing for War: France, 1870-1914 by Rachel Chrastil (Louisiana State University Press; 256 pages; $45). Describes how defeat in the Franco-Prussian war spurred many French to join gymnastics clubs, the Red Cross, and commemorative organizations.
The Papacy Since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor edited by James Corkery and Thomas Worcester (Cambridge University Press; 275 pages; $99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Uses case studies of some of the most significant popes to trace the evolution of the papacy.
Paris, 1200 by John W. Baldwin (Stanford University Press; 304 pages; $65 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores change in Paris at the turn of the 13th century.
A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterey, Mexico, 1846 by Christopher D. Dishman (University of Oklahoma Press; 268 pages; $34.95). Discusses a three-day battle in the Mexican War said to mark the first time U.S. troops engaged in prolonged urban combat.
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman (Twelve; 513 pages; $30). A collective biography of Justices Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, William O. Douglas, and Hugo Black.
Sitting In and Speaking Out: Student Movements in the American South, 1960-1970 by Jeffrey A. Turner (University of Georgia Press; 380 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Documents the racially marked antiwar and other activism of Southern students; draws on research at more than 20 public and private institutions in the region, including historically black schools.
A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic by George William Van Cleve (University of Chicago Press; 391 pages; $39). Argues that the Constitution's provisions regarding slavery were more than compromises, and that the document was pro-slavery in a pervasive sense.
Turkey, Islam, and Modernity: A History, 1789-2007 by Carter Findley (Yale University Press; 527 pages; $40). Documents the dialectical relationship between radical and conservative social forces as they shaped late Ottoman and republican Turkish society.
The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall by Charles Pelot Summerall, edited by Timothy K. Nenninger (University Press of Kentucky; 298 pages; $35). Edition of a previously unpublished memoir by the general, who served as chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1926 to 1930 and later as president of the Citadel.
Why the West Rules---For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future by Ian Morris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 768 pages; $35). Focuses on the role of geography in the West's dominance.
The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials by Christiane Kohl, translated by Anthea Bell (Other Press; 243 pages; $14.95). Describes encounters between opposing witnesses housed by the Allies in a villa outside the city.
Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1660-1830 by Mark Harrison (Oxford University Press; 384 pages; $115). Focuses on India and the West Indies in a study of how experience in colonial realms shaped British medicine.
Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection by Mark E. Borrello (University of Chicago Press; 215 pages; $40). Focuses on the British naturalist V.C. Wynne-Edwards (1906-97) in a study of scientific debates over the nature of group selection.
Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by Michel Meulders, edited and translated by Laurence Garey (MIT Press; 264 pages; $27.95). Traces the life, work, and legacy of the German scientist Herman von Helmholtz (1821-94).
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution by Erwin Chemerinsky (Simon & Schuster; 326 pages; $27). Argues that conservative activist justices in the federal system have narrowed Americans' constitutional protections; topics include the expansion of the power of the presidency; decisions that disadvantage workers, minorities, and the poor; and major rollbacks on defendants' rights, including in capital cases.
The Creation of the "IUS Commune": From "Casus" to "Regula" edited by John W. Cairns and Paul J. du Plessis (Edinburgh University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 304 pages; $95). Essays on how Roman statutes were transformed into common law between 1100 and 1400.
Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions From "Griswold" to "Roe" by Marc Stein (University of North Carolina Press; 384 pages; $39.95). Contrasts the court's liberal rulings in the 1960s and 70s on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity with its conservative decision in a 1967 case regarding an immigration statute that labeled homosexuals "psychopathic personalities."
Hand Talk: Sign Language Among American Indian Nations by Jeffrey E. Davis (Cambridge University Press; 272 pages; $95 hardcover, $32.99 paperback). Examines the persistence of traditional signing languages among American Indians, including among those who are deaf.
Language and Social Change in Central Europe: Discourses on Policy, Identity, and the German Language by Patrick Stevenson and Jenny Carl (Edinburgh University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 292 pages; $90). A study of German's relationship to other languages in the region.
Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia by Zane Goebel (Cambridge University Press; 225 pages; $95). Considers how talk helps mediate social relations among Chinese and other groups in two wards of Semarang, the capital city of the province of Central Java.
Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Andreas Pflitsch, and Barbara Winckler (Saqi Books; 505 pages; $28.95). Writings on Adonis, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Etel Adnan, and 26 other Arab authors who write in Arabic, English, French, and Hebrew.
A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930 by M. Cody Poulton (University of Hawai'i Press; 280 pages; $56 hardcover, $29 paperback). Translation and study of one-act plays from the period.
Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America by James B. Salazar (New York University Press; 300 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Explores ideas of character in fiction, reform movements, and political culture from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries; focuses on writings by Melville, Twain, Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, and Jane Addams.
Charlotte Bronte's Atypical Typology by Keith A. Jenkins (Peter Lang Publishing; 214 pages; $74.95). Traces the English author's rewriting of biblical material through her four novels.
Defoe's America by Dennis Todd (Cambridge University Press; 264 pages; $95). Explores the historical context of the English writer's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants.
The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Burton Raffel (Northwestern University Press; 852 pages; $35). Translation of Dante's masterwork.
Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism After the Holocaust by Pieter Vermeulen (Continuum; 182 pages; $120). A study of the German-born American critic that explores how his Romantic ethic and aesthetic has engaged with modernity.
Hunting the Sun: Faulkner's Appropriations of Balzac's Writings by Merrill Horton (Peter Lang Publishing; 277 pages; $80.95). Argues that virtually all of Faulkner's fiction has roots in the work of his French predecessor.
Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America by Robert Genter (University of Pennsylvania Press; 375 pages; $49.95). Discusses the 1940s and 50s as a pivotal, rather than declining, period in modernism.
Literature, CInema, and Politics, 1930-1945: Reading Between the Frames by Lara Feigel (Edinburgh University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 292 pages; $115). A study of politically engaged "filmic" literature of the period, including works by Auden, Isherwood, and Woolf.
Memos From the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability by Djelal Kadir (Stanford University Press; 296 pages; $65 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores issues in comparative literature through foundational figures since the 13th century, including Nicholas of Cusa, Giordano Bruno, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Erich Auerbach, Zbigniew Herbert, and Orhan Pamuk.
Mother Nature by Emilia Pardo Bazan, translated by Walter Borenstein (Bucknell University Press; 264 pages; $69.50). Translation of the 1887 Spanish novel, which is the sequel to Bazan's most famous work, The House of Ulloa.
Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture by Catherine Keyser (Rutgers University Press; 225 pages; $39.95). Focuses on Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy.
Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Jonson by Thomas MacFaul (Cambridge University Press; 312 pages; $95). Discusses the varied imagery of paternity in the five men's works.
Postcolonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibilities of Inheritance by Roy Osamu Kamada (Peter Lang Publishing; 157 pages; $67.95). Examines the appropriation and transformation of aspects of colonial culture in works by Derek Walcott, Garrett Hongo, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Reading Masques: The English Masques and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century by Lauren Shohet (Oxford University Press; 240 pages; $99). Explores the circulation of courtly and non-courtly masques, including works by lesser-known writers.
Ritual Violence and the Maternal in the British Novel, 1740-1820 by Raymond F. Hilliard (Bucknell University Press; 316 pages; $60). Explores narratives of persecution and reparation in works by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Radcliffe, Godwin, Austen, Scott, and other writers.
Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action by Susan J. Wolfson (Johns Hopkins University Press; 381 pages; $70 hardcover, $30 paperback). Considers how interactions with other authors shaped the work of writers in the "long Romantic era," from the 1780s to the 1840s; figures discussed include Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith.
Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century "Hidden" Lives by Juliette Atkinson (Oxford University Press; 312 pages; $99). Describes how wary biographers in the Victorian era turned from the lives of "great men" to write accounts of humble, unsuccessful, and neglected figures.
Victorian Disharmonies: A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction by Francesco Marroni (University of Delaware Press; 241 pages; $38.50). Uses an idea of disharmony to explore works by such writers as Dickens, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, and Hardy.
Victorian Empiricism: Self, Knowledge, and Reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot by Peter Garratt (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; 244 pages; $42.50). Explores the five writers' approach to epistemology.
Virgil in the Renaissance by David Scott Wilson-Okamura (Cambridge University Press; 314 pages; $95). Examines Virgil's literary reception between 1300 and 1600.
Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction by Edward Ragg (Cambridge University Press; 262 pages; $85). Traces the poet's interest in abstraction beginning with Harmonium and refined in his later work.
Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky by Gabriella Safran (Harvard University Press; 410 pages; $29.95). A biography of the writer and folklorist Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport (1863-1920), who was born in Russia's Pale of Settlement and as "S. An-sky" wrote the famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk.
Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival by Ray Allen (University of Illinois Press; 309 pages; $80 hardcover, $25 paperback). Discusses the folk group formed by three city-bred musicians---Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley---who introduced regional styles of Southern music to Northern urban audiences.
Jazz Matters: Sound, Place, and Time Since Bebop by David Ake (University of California Press; 199 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores such topics as negotiating national identity among American jazz musicians in Paris.
Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality by Veit Erlmann (Zone Books, distributed by MIT Press; 422 pages; $32.95). An intellectual history of the ear and what is termed the "listener function."
Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism by Nicholas Rescher (Lexington Books; 223 pages; $75). Discusses an explanatory theory that has its origins in Plato's Timaeus and was revived by Leibniz.
Damascius' "Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles" by Sara Ahbel-Rappe (Oxford University Press; 560 pages; $99). First English translation of a treatise by the Damascus-born philosopher who was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian closed the institution in 529.
Elemental Philosophy: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas by David Macauley (State University of New York Press; 433 pages; $85). Explores philosophical notions of the four elements since ancient times and considers their relevance to contemporary environmental thinking.
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou, translated by Susan Spitzer (Verso; 239 pages; $26.95). Translation of a work by the French philosopher in which he explores the philosophical reception of the German composer, including in writings by Adorno and Nietzsche.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic edited and translated by George di Giovanni (Cambridge University Press; 960 pages; $180). Scholarly translation of the revised Book I (1832), along with the original Books II (1813) and III (1816).
The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson (Princeton University Press; 246 pages; $29.95). A work in political philosophy that seeks to revive the ideal of racial integration.
Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution by Rebecca Comay (Stanford University Press; 224 pages; $60 hardcover, $21.95 paperback). Topics include parallels drawn by Hegel between the upheaval in France and the intellectual revolution in Germany of the Reformation and Idealism.
Philosophy of Science After Feminism by Janet A. Kourany (Oxford University Press; 168 pages; $99 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Defends an ideal of socially engaged science.
Plato and the Talmud by Jacob Howland (Cambridge University Press; 300 pages; $85). Draws parallels between the Greek philosopher's writings and the rabbinical text; topics include the relationships between prophets and philosophers, fathers and sons, and gods and men as explored in Plato's Apology and Euthyphro and in the Talmudic tractate Ta'anit.
Self and Community in a Changing World by D.A. Masolo (Indiana University Press; 343 pages; $65 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores African philosophical discourse in recent years.
Brazil and the United States: Convergence and Divergence by Joseph Smith (University of Georgia Press; 256 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces the history of U.S-Brazilian relations since the early 19th century.
Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann (Penn State University Press; 182 pages; $59.95). Evaluates both positive and negative effects of globalization in both economic and sociopolitical realms.
The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany: Bringing Women to the Party by Sarah Elise Wiliarty (Cambridge University Press; 288 pages; $85). Uses the concept of the "corporatist catch-all" party to examine the Christian Democratic Union's responses to women's demands over the past 40 years.
Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics by Cathy J. Cohen (Oxford University Press; 281 pages; $27.95). Draws on the Black Youth Project, a national survey, in a study of the political lives and attitudes of African-American young people.
Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events edited by Louise K. Comfort, Arjen Boin, and Chris C. Demchak (University of Pittsburgh Press; 384 pages; $32.50). Writings on preparedness for terrorism, extreme climatic events, epidemics, and other disasters; documents how links among systems create both greater vulnerability and greater responsiveness.
The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski (Stanford University Press; 200 pages; $55 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Examines China's threat to Latin American manufacturers in world markets, and its greater success in building industry.
Incarceration and Human Rights edited by Melissa McCarthy (Manchester University Press, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan; 153 pages; $85 hardcover, $30 paperback). Offers international perspectives on such topics as prison inspection and human rights, the detention of applicants for asylum, and mental illness and preventive detention.
Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods by LaDawn Haglund (Penn State University Press; 238 pages; $64.95). A study of privatization in developing countries that compares water and electricity services in Costa Rica and El Salvador.
Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation by Donald P. Haider-Markel (Georgetown University Press; 188 pages; $29.95). A study of legislative elections from 1992 to 2006 and policy making from 1992 to 2009 that documents the potential of state-level politics for effecting change on gay-rights issues.
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown (Zone Books, distributed by MIT Press; 167 pages; $25.95). Discusses the growing number of countries that are erecting walls along their borders; argues that such barriers are a futile response to the threats they are supposed to forestall.
Why Conservatives Tell Stories and Liberals Don't: Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the American Right by David M. Ricci (Paradigm Publishers; 271 pages; $91 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). An analysis of what is termed the conservative script.
Civil War Humor by Cameron C. Nickels (University Press of Mississippi; 160 pages; $28). Examines humor in broadsides, political cartoons, comic valentines, penny dreadfuls, and other texts produced during the war.
Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition: An Eco-Cultural Perspective by Pierre R. Dasen and Ramesh C. Mishra (Cambridge University Press; 408 pages; $99). Draws on data on child development from Bali, India, Nepal, and Switzerland.
The Creation of a Federal Partnership: The Role of the States in Affordable Housing by Margaret M. Brassil (State University of New York Press; 239 pages; $75). Examines the role of state housing agencies since the 1970s, with case studies of Maryland, Minnesota, and Texas.
Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede by Malcolm Lambert (Yale University Press; 329 pages; $50). Combines historical and archaeological perspectives in a study of the coming of Christianity to Roman Britain.
Pagans and Practitioners: Expanding Biblical Scholarship by Alf H. Walle (Peter Lang Publishing; 170 pages; $67.95). Topics include how the New Testament can be read as a rebuttal of pagans.
Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought by Richard B. Miller (Columbia University Press; 227 pages; $24.50). Develops an ethical liberal response to religious extremism.
Toward a Generous Orthodoxy: Prospects for Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology by Jason A. Springs (Oxford University Press; 248 pages; $74). A critical study of the German-born American theologian (1922-88), that examines his engagement with such figures as Wittgenstein, Clifford Geertz, and Erich Auerbach.
The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life edited by Daniel K. Finn (Oxford University Press; 380 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Interdisciplinary essays on Catholic social teachings; topics include just and unjust contracts, and sustainable prosperity.
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India by Kelly Pemberton (University of South Carolina Press; 233 pages; $59.95). Combines historical and ethnographic perspectives in a study of shrines in Ajmer Sharif, Bihar Sharif, and Maner in the states of Bihar and Rajasthan.
Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng (University of Chicago Press; 404 pages; $60 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). Considers how ordinary people draw boundaries between public and private.
The Transnational Condition: Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe edited by Simon Teune (Berghahn Books; 233 pages; $70). Topics include how young French and German activists in the global-justice movement experience transnational protest events.
Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession by Francesco Duina (Princeton University Press; 237 pages; $32.50). Discusses sports, business, entertainment, and other realms in a study of the pervasive language of winning and losing in American culture.
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing by Peter Eisenstadt (Cornell University Press; 336 pages; $35). A study of a housing cooperative created in the early 1960s in Queens County by the United Housing Foundation, whose president, Abraham Kazan, worked with the famed planner Robert Moses.
A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson (Rutgers University Press; 269 pages; $72 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Topics include Jewish women's activism and their challenge to conventions of gender, politics, and religion.
Solidarities Beyond Borders: Transnationalizing Women's Movements edited by Pascale Dufour, Dominique Masson, and Dominique Caouette (University of British Columbia Press; 320 pages; US$90). Includes case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry by Siobhan Brooks (State University of New York Press; 125 pages; $60 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). An ethnographic study on how race affects the lives and working conditions of black and Latina dancers in both "queer" and "straight" clubs in Oakland, Calif., and New York City.


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Senior Biologist
Pangea Biological (Pangea) in Encinitas, CA 92024 USA
Senior Biologist Position Summary:
The Senior Biologist will be responsible for managing projects (both in the field and in the office) and providing leadership to the environmental team. In the field, the Senior Biologist will be a technical lead, providing guidance and support to team members, and being the expert in their specific discipline. This leader will provide technical support and guidance to other team members on biological reports, ACOE/CDFW/RWQCB permit applications, and biological and water sections of CEQA and NEPA documents. The Senior Biologist, with his/her working knowledge of the regulatory requirements within California for energy and infrastructure projects, will be able to assist senior management on high level assignments including project-specific financials, client management, proposals, and team management. The preferred candidate will have a strong background in regionally specific wildlife and plant resources and strong knowledge of the local flora/fauna of California.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a senior/leader in overseeing the work of other biologists, assisting them in identifying regulatory requirements and appropriate documentation, mitigation, and monitoring and reporting compliance.
- Conduct reconnaissance-level, general biological surveys and focused surveys, and evaluating impacts and mitigation.
- Coordinate with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies including U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Regional Water Quality Control Board, and California Public Utilities Commission to develop mitigations and solutions.
- Be an active participant in resolving conflicts that arise between energy-related projects and biological resources through permitting, client-agency negotiation; and designing avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures.
- Hold permits/certification to conduct surveys for California gnatcatcher, least Bell's vireo, southwestern willow flycatcher, Quino checkerspot butterfly, fairy shrimp, and/or arroyo toad, and/or experienced in conducting wetland delineations within the western United States.
- Serve as a technical resource lead and contribute to the technical accuracy of project deliverables.
- Conduct QA/QC of project deliverables to ensure accuracy and completeness.
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An Alimosho Grade 'B' Customary Court, Lagos was stunned last week when an enraged  Mr. Olayinka Ajayi-Bembe threatened to set himself and his  wife, Mrs. Bolanle Ajayi-Bembe on fire, except the court immediately dissolved their marriage.
His grouse was that the woman had repeatedly denied him sex for over three years  while at the same time going out with another man despite still married.
The aggrieved husband stormed the court with an empty keg of petrol insisting that the marriage must be dissolved otherwise he would cause commotion either in court or in their home, if the court did not  resolve the matter that day.
He disclosed that he and the woman  cannot continue to live under the same roof.
Ajayi, who frowned at the efforts of the Office of the Public Defender (OPD), Alausa to resolve the matter, complained that only a speedy trial and dissolution of the case would stop him
According to him, allowing the OPD to intervene in the case, especially after the matter is before a court of law was like adding salt to his injury.
He said "I cannot continue to live with this woman again, by the time I finish with her, the story will  change. I will set both of us on fire, if she dares follow me to my house.
"I am tired of living under the same roof with a woman who has denied me sex for over three years. She has become  unruly and had also refused to cook for me."
He argued that his wife has been coming with another man to her matrimonial home to have sex when he is not around, adding that the man lives in their neighbourhood.
"She brings her boyfriend into our matrimonial home, right on our bed, when ever I go to work. The man lives very close to our house and he is a member of a dreaded militant group. I cannot continue to risk my life because of an ungrateful wife,†he said.
The court quickly advised him not to carry out his threat, saying that it is impossible to join  unwilling partners or couple together. He was told that he should exercise  patience to allow the matter to be settled legally.
In her response, the woman at the center of the crisis, Bolanle denied all the allegations leveled against her by her husband.
She said though she would have preferred to stay  in her matrimonial home, but since the man is unwilling to be her husband, she would concede to the dissolution of the marriage.
Despite  the husbands position,  an officiall of the OPD, one Mrs Olayemi Oni who was in court argued that the couple could still resolve their differences. She prayed the court to grant her some time for the couple to find a lasting solution to the problem.
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Discussion in 'Streetwear and Denim' started by LA Guy, May 15, 2015.
And white sneakers
How old are you / what kind of environment do you live / work in? Do you have enough in-depth conversations with individuals on either side of the political spectrum to derive their interests If you encounter more right-leaning people in the context of work vs. left-leaning people in a more social context it would make perfect sense that left-leaning people seem more interested inc ulture etc.
Let's do this. In other news, bought myself some Hender Scheme WIP-08s (the "New Balances") as a b-day present for myself:
Never really wanted GATs, but kinda like the Hender Scheme ones. Probably a dumb idea
Was recently thinking about this piece by Cathy Horyn, who talks about a "post-trend universe." That is, there are so many small micro-communities now for fashion to exist, you no longer need huge narratives that everyone must follow. So workwear can exist alongside gothninja alongside Italian tailoring alongside palewave or whatever.
Anyway, it made me think about whether this also means we won't get to see the big designer fashion fights anymore, like YSL vs. Karl Lagerfeld. Or how Versace and Amani played off of each other in the 1980s (one super indulgent; the other very austere). Same with Gucci vs Prada, or Azzedine Alaia vs. CDG (although I guess that last one was more womenswear -- but same idea with one being very fitted and glamorous; the other very austere).
Seems like a shame, because those fights really made for great fashion stories. Also helped to define decades.
We've seen this on this forum for about a decade, and it's actually the route of some of the things that you've complained about. People into a specific style feel no particular opposition, in general, to another style, and this is especially true of more sophisticated, knowledgeable people. A goth ninja does not feel threatened by dudes into Visvim, or SLP, or whatever, and so the proponents of those styles do not feel at all compelled to argue with the proponents of another style. It's very much a "live and let live" world, but also one in which there is not much cross pollination. An hardcore SLP fan is not likely to be going to be in the Viberg thread, ever.
I even see this need for an overarching narrative diminishing in classic menswear, where there was always more conflict/discussions, because the idea of there being a more or less universal set of classical "rules", which sets up a natural conflict with those who don't believe that there are such a set of rules, or between people who have strong beliefs about the details of these rules. The attitude I see much more of is "Oh, yeah, that's cool for you. I don't really love it, and it's not my style, but... whatever." is much more prevalent. And the incidences of CM or SWD going across the border to troll hard have become essentially non-exisitent, definitely not the case even 5 years ago, when "jeans are just for yard work".
All of those come into play. I was thinking mostly about the neighborhoods that I live and interact in, including my work since its a place of service for the community. My work requires in depth interviewing of numerous people each day, and I am regularly told intimate details of the lives of relative strangers. So I don't think its work place vs social circle that affects what I see, but its a good point to think about.
I actually think CM Is more rule-anxious than ever before. People want to dress classically, but since most people there have entered the coat and tie look through the internet, it just means people are dressing according to SF rules, not social rules (or I guess in a traditional sense, old social rules). There's also very little "dress as you wish" culture. WAWYT there is more homogenous than ever, especially when you compare it to the diversity the forum had ~5 years ago. Changes on CM don't seem to be about what Horyn is writing about at all; feels like just a changing of populations (why the old group left is obviously a big contentious debate; prob not worth rehashing).
Anyway, leaving CM aside, it seems like the emergence of these microcosms also means that you don't get these big "fashion moments" in history, which were often defined by two big designers playing off of each other. Must make it strange, then, to write about the last decade of fashion twenty years from now.
Analogy time: You could take DWW post and replace fashion with hip hop, which had a great history of rappers playing off each other, battling it out with lyrics. Now everyone just finds their niche
I'm not sure that you need a central conflict in order to have a compelling narrative, though it's certainly easier. The story of the conflict between Versace and Armani, for example, while they certainly disagreed, is more compelling in the telling than anywhere else. It was fairly obvious fairly early on which designer had the upper hand. The House that Versace built was important mostly within a small fashion circles, and not so much in the "bigger world", and in fact, a relative fashion outsider, Ralph Lauren, was the real killer of the 80s, and the one designer who remains extremely relevant to the present day. Armani and Versace still exist, and their work influences generations of designers at every level, but Ralph Lauren continues to be a major force in the current industry.
That's true.
I guess even if we don't focus on designers, I find it helpful to think about fashion in terms of big (sometimes oppositional) groups. One of my favorite encapsulations of the mid-20th century was by Bruce Boyer, who said that after the Second World War, middle class Americans looked to two directions for style: an Eastern Establishment WASP culture for business dress (and their accompanying, slightly more casual Ivy League look); and then the headier, working class culture of zoot suits, workwear, and motorcycle looks. Most middle-class guys ended up taking inspiration from the Eastern Establishment, which is what made things like leather jackets feel so powerful (sort of like an anti-sport-coat for the anti-hero).
It's kind of oversimplified, but it's also a nice way to explain 1950s and '60s fashion without just saying "there was a huge explosion of sportswear after 1947, and here were some of the big styles" (which some writers have done). Boyer's framework makes it easier to think about things.
But if everything is just about how there are dozens of microcommunities, it gets harder and harder to think about fashion history. At least in terms of what defines these big "moments." Workwear was probably the last big thing, but nothing since workwear has been "big." It almost forces writers twenty years from now to talk about fashion in those boring terms ("there was a huge explosion of styles after workwear died, and here are some of the main groups. Also, after those dozen groups died, here are the two dozen that sprung up").
I think someone (maybe Horyn) also commented once on how there aren't any new influential designers since the 1990s. Everyone who's important now basically came out twenty years ago. And even of those who are important, their influence is kind of contained (e.g. Hedi Slimane recently at SLP -- although I accept that might be contentious, as the guy has been hugely influential in many ways).
Cathy Horyn keeps on reminding us that she is getting old and a bit bitter. The fact is that the fashion establishment is just not as important and influential as it used to be. The businessmen and the smaller, often outside, players, are both encroaching on the importance of "fashion designers" and "fashion press", in fashion/
The luxury conglomerates trade fashion designers like pro-sports players, and the influence of any one specific designer is greatly diminished. Jil Sander and Margiela show that brands can stay relevant long after their founders have left, and these are not brands like Balenciaga, which was a mordant brand needing complete reinvention. Both Jil Sander and Martin Margiela were active designers. Bring in a Raf Simons, a "design" team, and clever marketing, and the brands even gain in relevance after the departure of their namesakes. Smaller designers and independent retailers, many without classical training or backgrounds, have outsized influence compared to decades past. Bloggers are more influential than Cathy Horyn and Suzy Menkes.
The most important development of the 21st century, so far, was "premium" denim, which made things like workwear possible, and really, changed the paradigm of fashion. This had nearly nothing to do with the fashion establishment. Most luxury and designer brands did not bring in denim until well after the fact. It was mostly led by amateurs and serial entrepreneurs who had access to some factories and washhouses and celebrities. The logical conclusion all of that were the one man dry goods brands.
Horyn actually welcomes the new free-for-all world of fashion. I do too (I think?). I assume everyone thinks this is better, since it gives people more fashion choices. I'm just wondering what a chapter on post-2010 fashion might look like in twenty years. If we're really in a post-trend universe, it seems like it will be hard to synthesize things.
Maybe it would focus on silhouettes? If there's any "trend" I see emerging in the next 5-10 years, it's fuller and fuller fits across the spectrum. Suits and casualwear are probably going to be a bit fuller, just out of reaction to the skin-tight, cropped things we've been seeing for so long.
We are socialists. You'd know this if you followed me on instagram, on which I posted photos from the recent Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles.
It helps to have evidence to show in favor of a hedge against possible pitchforks.
Not to go full pomo but this might be somewhat mistaking cause and effect. You could easily argue that the predominance of major designers wasn't because of some inherent world-shaking qualities that those designer possessed but because of the way fashion news/opinions were disseminated in a more centralized way where a few big institutions/magazines had control over the discourse and the narrative in the pre-internet. The interwebs and the rise of fashion blogs and forums have changed all that. I suspect that the means of communication and the dissemination of ideas have changed way more than any innate qualities of designers have, and the timing of the "post-trend" world seems to back that up.
tl;dr - designers haven't changed, the means of discourse about them have
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, all parents should encourage their children to read literature as it can prevent them from slipping into a wrong path. "We can prevent children from heading down the wrong path only by studying literature," she said.
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I absolutely LOVE this song and wanted to share it with you all. Many of my friends are starting their own cute little families. A lot of the times life can get so crazy busy. Sometimes we feel we don't have what it takes to be the strong person that our children need us to be. Guess what? We weren't meant to be that strong person on our own. Heavenly Father is with us always. We need to remember Him. Ask Him for the strength we need to be the best we can be for those who depend on us. He will give you the strength you need. You'd be surprised. When you feel like you can't do it alone...you'd be so surprised what strength and joy you can be filled with. He will lead you to the right decisions and help you give love that your children need. Trust Him.
We all have great talents and gifts to give to others; to give to our children. Don't ever hesitate to ask for help though. The great strength you recieve from our Heavenly Father can't be obtained any other way but by asking. :) Love you ALL!!