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Quietly Around Here
Its a one week semester break here at RMIT and from tomorrow I'm spending all my days with my children (who are currently featuring in the photoblog to your left). Some bushwalking, a movie, perhaps a trip to the zoo. I've just rebuilt the vog site into Movable Type, and am now wondering what I need to do so that I can write each entry in Movable Type now. It's taken a while so now of course I'm behind on what I'm supposed to actually do at work.
Tim Hall
Tim Hall's vogner site is a new comer to vogging, having started in July 2003. What Tim lacks in longevity (if we assume an internet year is equivalent to a dog year then I've been vogging for nearly 21 years!) he certainly makes up for in terms of productivity and vogging acuity.
Tim has kept his tool set simple, discrete and to the point, recognising the importance of bandwidth and time to a networked computer environment. What does that really mean? That the works are small, operate in the browser or player quite happily at your defined resolution, and on broadband pretty much play on demand. Real world video, real world videography, real world vogging.
His narrative style is direct, a combination of simple documentary observation with wry intertitles. This simple use of intertitles, a sort of rifling through film history, is very instructive as it gives the works an extremely strong narrative focus or direction where otherwise the works would be so largely only observational and so more akin to 'symphony of a city' in minor (though significant) keys.
Tim has also experimented with some aspects of QuickTime that many users seem to overlook. For example he has played around with text tracks, partly to insert text into movies, sometimes to make karaoke vogs, and sometimes to make text only works that can be read by using cursor keys. Another thing is what he calls "vogbience" works. I haven't pulled these apart yet but I assume they are a short movie made using either the silly "Ken Burns effect" in iMovie 3.0 or the much better photo to movie. They are then stretched in duration to an hour. This is technically trivial to do, and makes absolutely no difference to the final size of the movie. Hence it is easy to make a one hour (slow motion) movie that is only, say, 2MB in size. The vogbient works are an interesting use of this, implying obviously that they are conceived of as ambient video.
This is interesting and valuable work as it is shoe string vogging which takes positively and creatively the key constraints that successful vogging requires: the world is bandwidth and time poor, we don't need feature production values or content, the view is personal, and it inserts the vogger into the world.
Dear Reader,
alas my blog database got completely and utterly corrupted. So, I have updated various things on my OS X server, including getting mysql configured, and rebuilding vlog from scratch. All the previous entries will be returned, but not for a few days and so this is, for now, a vacant blog. But stay stuned, same blog channel, same blogtime, it will return… (and BerkeleyDB sucks).
Fixing my Canon
My Canon IXUS V, which I managed to break late last year (I'm not sure how, it wasn't dropped or anything, but it did receive a small dent on the lens assembly which seems to have put everything out of kilter), is going to be repaired. I took it to an excellent city camera repair centre (that's all they do) and they quoted me over $500 to repair it last December. Basically most of the lens and CCD assembly area just gets replaced and so the parts cost $540 then there'd be a bit of labour and GST. Given the camera was then available new for around $700 I decided it wasn't worth it. Today I took it in again. The same parts are now $240 plus GST! I suspect the price point here is not lower cost of manufacturing but that the price point for entry for a 2.1 megapixel camera is now around $400, and for the original purchase price of the Canon (barely two years ago) I can get at least 4 megapixels. The decline is to situate the consumers decision between repair, replacement at the same standard, or upgrade. But I can be cynical.
Will Luers and Solublefish
Will's soublefish site is one of the first vogs online, with his first work vog online from October 2001. Will's work is sophisticated in its use of an elegant compositional space in all of his projects which offers a lot in terms of thinking about the aesthetics of content versus negative (in Will's case black) spaces. The earlier pieces are sketches for the more recent work, and while the number of works are small, each has the temper of a vog haiku in their observational poetry and quietude.
Dear Regular Reader
Yes, singular. You may or may not have noticed but I've just added a new category over there on the right somewhere called "Vogs" which is where I am going to compile an annotated collection of links to other vogs. The field has moved just enough since December 2000 to start this. I'm hoping that by December 2004 there will be so many vogs that a manual list will be irrelevant.
Brief Talk
Click the image to load a 512Kb QuickTime movie. Use the cursor key to move through the movie a slide at a time.
This is the abbreviated talk I gave last week about softvideo and vogging. The material is cut down from the longer presentation I had prepared, but with only 10 minutes to try and discuss what vogging is about I culled my points.
As it was I only spoke to two of them, and didn't really simply nail what the point of vogging might be. Live and learn.
Scnes at Senones
Martin Burr sent me an email about this extraordinary project, where as far as I can tell an old hall is being renovated and turned into an interactive arts and entertainment space for the local community. It is to include cinema, dance, music, and theatre. In the cinema section it appears the project is going to explore various creative and theoretical issues around cinematic practice in the context of performance, producing and the local, with the particularly intriguing mention of "development of local cineastic language" and "interactive programming". There is a timeline for when things are being done (including a studio last week). What I like in what I read is the concentration on the local and the event.
Honours Programs
From the press release for the new honours program that is being developed in the Bachelor of Communication that I teach into (I'm primarily in the Media Studies part). Honours has traditionally been thesis only, but since we offer MA and PhD by project it makes sense that you can do this at honours level. I'm particularly interested in project based and applied research, partly because that is a lot of what I do, but also because most of the students I teach are smart but tend to want to make stuff, and I'd love to be able to work with them in much more substantial ways.
RMIT is pleased to announce the commencement in 2004 of its B Communication Honours program. This innovative program focuses on social and critical applications of communication and media, enabling students to undertake practice-based academic research, complete a traditional research thesis, or to do professionally oriented action research by project. The degree can be taken in Advertising-Creative, Journalism, Media Studies, Professional Communication or Public Relations and is available in both full-time and part-time modes.
Details of course structure, eligibility and application process can be found as a pdf brochure at http://www.rmit.edu.au/adc/bcomm#hons
Developing Crits
One of the changes that I'm introducing to the media studies program that I teach in is to develop a student culture of criticism. This is the sort of crit practice that seems taken for granted in many studio based disciplines, such as architecture, fine art, and graphic design. It is much rarer in the humanities, where our print traditions have the associated emphasis on individual feedback, privacy, and the written word. Hence students traditionally write essays by themselves, which are read by teachers by themselves, with written comments to be returned to be read by the students, by themselves.
An implication of this is that students don't really have a context in which to judge their own work, so may not really know why their work is good, poor, or average. What it also means is that when you attempt to do group work, or even get class papers done where you want feedback from students, there is no real understanding or vocabulary on what it might mean, or how to do it. Students tend to respond with generalisations with little idea about what feedback ought to be. It also means that students have not learnt the skills to be able to effectively criticise their own work, for if they can't respond to someone else's effectively it would be reasonable to assume that they would have trouble with their own.
Why might developing this be good? Because being able to judge their own work will stand them in good stead as graduates. Because collaborative work is a fundamental feature of networked and media environments and constructive criticism of your own and others' work leads to more appropriate models of collaborative work. Because by third year I want students to be able to articulate their own learning, and largely be able to assess their own work so that their contexts of practice and learning are understood as contexts of practice and learning.
The problem with all this is that I am a humanities scholar and so don't actually have any model of criticism beyond that of humanities peer review. In the humanities peer reviewing traditionally happens after the essay is written and then it is anonymous. Good peer reviewing means you receive detailed contextual comments, rather than simply corrections or disagreements, and it does lead to a demonstrable improvement in your work, but it tends to happen rather late in the research (and creative) process. It also is a model that really only works for print and so translates poorly to other forms (this is probably one reason why academic email lists are so prone to flaming). I turned to communications design for help, and my friend Lisa Grocott, who has patiently mentored me in process based teaching over the past two years, for models.
What I'm trying with a group of students at the moment is adapted via Edward de Bono via Lisa and it is de Bono's six hat exercise. It sounds, to the post-theory-ism academic, well, too untheoretical to be legitimate, but so far it has worked a treat. The exercise uses six coloured hats where:
- White (what information is known or needed, facts)
this is what information you know that informs how you understand the other person's work, and what you could contribute in terms of facts.
- Red (feelings, hunches, intuitive responses)
this helps develop lateral and creative thinking. Just respond with your instincts about the ideas and the work.
- Black (devils advocate, why something might not work)
as it suggests, raise issues that get in the way with the aims or ambitions of the project and the research.
- Yellow (optimism, what is good in the project and what is positive)
what you like in the project, why you like it. How it might contribute something useful or be worthwhile knowing.
- Green (potential and possibilities, new ideas suggested, alternative directions)
what possibilities does the project or research suggest, what other directions might it go in, what other things could be done, this might refer to more or other research, or different sorts of project outcomes.
- Blue (facilitate and manage the critique)
this is about making sure the critique stays focused and deals with the appropriate issues in an appropriate way, it is too easy for these sorts of discussions to wander off sideways which at the end of the day is simply unproductive.
To introduce this to students I as the teacher stay blue, and each student in the group only gets to try out one 'hat', and then for each critique they rotate through the hats. Hence a student presents their work, lets say research in progress, then I move around the group and each student gets to make comments from a single perspective, white, red, black and so on. Then another student presents their work and each critiquing student then changes the colour of their 'hat'. By limiting students to one hat at a time it is easier to make appropriate comments. As they move through the different colours they also learn which colours are easier to use, whether because of the nature of the work presented or because of their individual skills. The student receiving the critique gets much more structured feedback, and the group as a group are able to contribute successfully. The themes work well, better than I had anticipated, and as a result they help give the class a vocabulary for commentary and feedback, some more work is needed so that intuitive and creative responses, for instance, are more intuitive and creative – this helps the speaker as much as the receiver.
Ideally something like this would be done towards the end of their first year, or early second year (my class at the moment are final semester final year), so that by their third year the students could do each of the 'colours' themselves and would also be able to apply this to their own work.
Blogs and Verisimilitude
Kaye Trammell raised some objections with a student blog project that I'm involved with (though I quite like being described as a communication professor, one day North American's will realise that it's only in North America that an academic is, by default, a professor). Her points are well made and legitimate, and have been very useful for the students involved as I had been suggesting there were ethical issues involved in the project and Kaye's comments grounded this for them very well.
In response they determined to establish a credits page, as well as an "About Hannah's House" category where the metafictional nature of the project can be indicated.
However, I'm not sure how something like "Hannah's House" muddies the waters of what "blogging really is." Partly because the poststructuralist in me always prickles when an ideological claim appears as an ontological claim. Secondly, because all non fiction genres have a long and rich tradition of works that problematise the borders of what might constitute the genre. In cinema we have works like "This is Spinal Tap" which is a mockumentary, but at no point does the work actually declare that it is fiction. More problematically there is the example of Peter Watkins' 1965 "The War Game" which treated a fictional nuclear disaster as straight doucmentary reportage to chilling effect. And of course contemporary television has made an art form of the parody show of a show, for example The Garry Shandling Show, where only a sophisticated televisual reader would realise that it is in fact fictional and not reality tv. For my money an excellent example would be Chris Marker (of course) for his documentary style is very strongly inflected by the personal and the idiosyncratic, so much so that his 1958 "Letter from Siberia" documentary work was lambasted by critics for its punning, mix of animation and live action and subjectivity.
I should also point out that blogging offered what appears to be a wonderful vehicle for these students. They want to right to and from their daily experience in a manner that lets them build a resource for their peers, but they don't and didn't want it to be individual, nor did they want specific authorship so if they wanted to say something negative about the university they had some (minor) anonymity. At the end of the day I think the versimilitude of blogs is more important than their facticity, and I think this is an important distinction.
Edinburgh from the Bus
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A new vog, "edinburgh from the airport bus" using the same structure as the previous few works, which I'd like to explore a bit more. This work has three simultaneous video tracks, though each is compressed differently so that the first track is only 300Kb in size with a data rate of 2.9 kbytes a second. The next is at 7.6 Kbytes a second for a total size of 760 Kb while the final one is 29 K bytes for a file size of 2.8MB. There are sprites over each of the video tracks which either pause the movie, or vary the font size of the text track up and down.
I was interested in tiling a complete video pane, rather than the slicing I have generally been doing, but to then vary the visual integrity or 'cleanness' of these videos by having them be compressed variably. This hasn't been that effective, largely because the difference in quality between the most heavily compressed and the highest quality isn't discernible enough. There is still a lot of noise and artefacts in the highest quality one and so the graduation or variation between them is less visible. (I think I'll return to this very shortly with footage that I think might be more suitable for this sort of experiment.) This work continues the aesthetic exploration of multiple video panes, networked practice, and the relation of text to image. What this series has begun to suggest for me is also a way of using a simple template like this to write a cinema studies piece, largely because here the moving image seems to drive the text. A major issue for me in my exploration of this work, particularly in relation to possible new forms for academic practice, is to move away from the humanities relegation of the image, particularly the moving image, to illustration for the text. This particularly happens in cinema studies where no matter what the work thinks it does the images are always reduced to secondary in relation to the written word. In a vog like "edinburgh bus" the text only plays because the video plays, it pauses when the video pauses, and the rhythm of the text seems to be driven by the moving image and so the relation of text to moving image is reversed. This poses what remains for me the crux of the matter; what would it mean to write so video was prior to or in front of the text, that the text responded to the video and bears witness to the image. This is a big step. At least for a text based humanities practice.
Having the three video panes show the same content, at different frame and data rates (4, 6 and 12 fps) seems to develop interesting rhythms internally. Each shows the same, slightly differently, and something about the difference between is what constitutes the effect of the work.
The textual commentary is just that, a commentary on my brief visit to Edinburgh, much like a blog entry, sans links (I can embed links into the text track but having browser windows popping up over the video just gets difficult to manage). This is, perhaps, getting close to a possible general template for an everyday kind of vogging, particularly since now that I have a template it is very quick to do.


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Early this morning, Edward 'Gough' Whitlam, arguably the greatest Prime Minister Australia has ever known, died, aged 98.
His legacy is beyond words. Even today, after decades of conservative politics ripping at the heart of Australia, we see his influence. Aboriginal women, children and men, live on their own lands thanks to his initiatives. Hundreds of thousands of state funded university educated Australians owe him a debt. Our international relationships were fostered by him. Universal healthcare and improved social security came from his actions. The introduction of no-fault divorce, the end of conscription and the end of Australia's participation in the Vietnam War. He and his wife, Margaret (who died in 2012) were also tirelessly supportive of the Australian arts and protections for the environment.
Not only will he live on in memory, but also within a near universal admiration and willingness to see him as a greater-than-life figure, to…
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Three lists to argue over while driving to Nebraska:
Premiere Magazine picks the 20 Most Over-rated films. How could have they have missed 2001? a Throwing Things reader asks.
Atlantic Magazine picks the 100 most influential Americans. Lots of people you find on bills and coins. But ... "Lists are for groceries," write David & Barbara on the Atlantic's Web site, wondering about the value of any list in which Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Martha Stewart, Chuck Berry and Hef got votes.
Time Magazine picks the 100 best albums. No "Blood on the Tracks." No "Dark Side of the Moon." And, notes a Suburban Guerrilla commenter, no entry from any band with the name Dave in the title. (But there are two essentials from a dude named David.)
Much to chew on.
Premiere doesn't shy from controversy, picking the "over-rated" Jules and Jim, The Wizard of Oz, Fantasia and American Beauty in addition to easy marks like Forrest Gump, which my mother walked out of for its depiction of Vietnam war protesters.
About Moonstruck, Premiere's executive editor Kathy Heintzelman wrote: The speed with which Nicolas Cage's Ronny (whom a character calls "the most tormented man," as if that were a good thing) proclaims his love for Cher's Loretta would startle even Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
Throwing Things credits the magazine for grilling a few sacred cows, and then adds its own offering of "Dances With Wolves," "The Aviator" and a "Fish Called Wanda."
Time's CD lists came out earlier in the month, and Suburban Guerrilla fussed at it for not including any Laura Nyro. No argument here.
Commenter davminnj found some essentials missing:
wheres john wesley harding?
face to face?
forever changes?
two steps from the blues?
tonights the night?
another green world?
the circle game?
pretzel logic?
i absolutely cherish otis blue-but how could they then have left off the immortal otis redding?
Suburban Guerrilla commenter Izquierdo piled on:
And the ignorance/arrogance of them to define
"music" in such a jaw-droppingly limited way
a grand total of two jazz albums, no classical,
no world music, nothing electronic, no musical
theater, no folk, no music of social protest,
no film music, nothing from the
first six decades
of recording history, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera, as the King of Siam liked to say.
and if they can pick london calling, then why not x- wild gift?
(Collage by Nick Rubin)
He'd asked earlier, Who cares what current Time staffers think? One of those picking, however, has some taste. Alan Light was editor of Tracks and Spin before that - and a Rolling Stone writer before that. I'm guessing the Eminem comes from Light.
Another unhappy listener, Kevin Hayden, laid waste to the list noting a few critical absense:
Consider whos been left off:
Buddy Holly
Blind Faith
Eric Clapton
CSN or CSN&Y
early Stones
Mamas & Papas
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Loving Spoonful
Robert Cray
BB King
Pink Floyd
Moody Blues
KD Lang
Marianne Faithful
MC Hammer
James Taylor
Herbie Hancock
Ike & Tina (or Tina)
Mariah Carey
Joan Baez
Peter, Paul & Mary
The Righteous Brothers
Barry White
the better albums of Stevie Wonder than the two weak ones they chose
The Police
The Cars
Eurythmics/Annie Lennox
Arrested Development
Village People
Rare Earth
Leon Russell
Johnny Cash
Patsy Cline
Sarah McLaughlin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jan & Dean
Christina Aguilera
Janis Joplin
The Supremes
The Four Tops
Gladys Knight
Patti Labelle
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Mothers of Invention
Arlo Guthrie
Todd Rundgren
Dixie Chicks
Men At Work
Linda Ronstadt
Dionne Warwick
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Los Lonely Boys
Jethro Tull
Donna Summer
Earth, Wind & Fire
Boyz in the Hood
Billy Joel
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Neil Diamond
The Monkees
The Doors
Oh, baby. Did he say Billy Joel?
The list was not just for "best" but most influential. By any standard, Billy Joel was influential. (Plus, I happen to think "The Nylon Curtain" was a perfect album.)
How do I say this? If I found Billy Joel in a prospective love-interest's record collection, it was discovering her qiana shirts. A troubler.
Absolutely the worst list I've ever seen. What the heck is Time doing? Their Time Warner Classic Collections that they pimped through half hour infomercials with out of work "VJ'S" have better picks - than their actual list. Where's Doc Watson's Memories, Leo Kotkee's MudLark - was there any Coltrane, Monk, Mondern Jazz Quartet. Oh I guess Coltrane wasn't influential enough. Even Mike Mather fans know "Love Supreme". That list completely sucks - it's unbelievable - and where the heck is the Allman Brothers Band - they only spawned a whole genre and are still touring and kicking out unbelievable and inspired music. But not worthy of Time's list - sheer ignorance! Come on influential even Mike Mathers legions know "Filmore East" - No Dead - where's Working Man's Dead - how about Airplanes Surrealistic Pillow? Where's the Prog Rock - or Clannad. Bob Marley gets "Legend" - that came after he was dead - what's so influential about a greatest hits album. Try Exodus or Natty Dread - you blithering idiots! No Dark Side - unbelievable! Time as out of touch as ever and official apologist of the Status Quo - yuck - who reads that rag anyway?
"Who reads that rag...?" Exactly, Paul. The list is as irrelevant as the magazine, so what does it matter? No list is ever going to be comprehensive. No accounting for tastes. Such things are only created to create buzz. Mission accomplished.
2001 is one of the finest films ever made. I dare anyone to take on Nietzsche better than Kubrick.
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text: Hello everyone, This is my first time posting so I'll give a quick introduction as well. I am an aquarist at a local AZA aquarium in New Jersey. I've had a deep passion for cephalopods as far back as my memory goes and I've been fortunate enough to care for some of the cephs we house at our aquarium. Anyway, we recieved our O. hummelincki back on July 6th from Dynasty Marine in Florida and as of today, she has laid her eggs. I was not able to get much info on how long the previous place had her, I was only told "just a few weeks". So I am being quite optimistic and I'm hoping she may be carrying sperm and the eggs could be fertile. I am also under the impression these eggs have not been sucessfully reared in captivity before as well. I've grown quite fond of the little octopus over the last few weeks and I just feel the need to try and do something for her eggs. If there's nothing that can be done I totally understand but I do not want to give up on her eggs just yet. If anyone can give me any feedback on egg reaering for this species I would be incredibly appreciative as this is the first time I've dealt with octopus eggs and trying to hatch them. Thank you!!! P.S - I will try to post some older pictures and videos of her when I get a chance. She really is quite beautiful!


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Strayer Committee, 1948
Amongst the questions pursued by the Strayer Committee were:
a) Are existing facilities in institutions of higher education
being used to the maximum degree consistent with good
educational practice?
b) What is the maximum number of students that can be
accommodated at each campus with existing facilities without
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c) Are the present college and university facilities properly
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general classroom or have shifts in student interests caused
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Benchmarking a manual for Australian Universities
DEET Higher Education Division, February 2000
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1. Asking staff members to fill in a form for each teaching period
indicating space used and the number of students present
2. Using a timetabling / room booking system to provide class
data linked with enrolment data from student admin systems
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room use and occupancy over a full week
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Trends implications and issues, May 2002
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1 package lasagna noodles broken up and boiled to package instructions. Drain don't rinse
In the meantime while the noodles cook:
Fry 1 lb hamburger and 1 lb loose sausage fried together drain stir 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder and 1 tablespoon grating cheese set aside
4 o 5 cups Italian sauce homemade or store bought
1 lb Ricotta cheese mixed with 1 egg and 1 tablespoon grating cheese( 1 egg per pound of Ricotta so if you use more double recipe)
2 cloves minced garlic
shredded mozzarella
salt and pepper to taste in everything
Place drained cooked broken noodles in a large 13x9 deep baking pan sprayed with cooking oil. Put some sauce on the bottom, broken noodles next. Drop or spread the Ricotta mixture next over the noodles then some shredded mozzarella evenly over the top of them. Add the meat, spoon on more sauce ending with more noodles on top. Sprinkle with more shredded mozzarella. ( I add some dried parsley or fresh on top with dried oregano which that is optional.)
Bake for around 30 minutes or until cheese is melted on 400 degree hot oven.
Bake for around 30 minutes or until cheese is melted on 400 degree hot oven.


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Among the many talents of Maestro Ilaiyaraaja is his capacity to hold his audiences in a bind when he speaks on stage, irrespective of the topic he speaks about. Besides his great prowess in creating soul-stirring music, the Maestro does deliver impressive speeches from time to time. The book-release function and his birthday celebrations held in Chennai's Music Academy the other day was one such occastion to cherish forever.
A couple of books penned by the Maestro were released. Kamal Haasan, a self-proclaimed fan of the Maestro, did the major talking at the event. "I have come here to speak without any preparations; in fact, I don't need to prepare to speak about the deeds of Ilaiyaraaja. I have come not as an actor but as a great fan of the Maestro, whi is a rare genius when it comes to composing music who has been hailed by people from all walks of life the world over.
"He's so simple and I love to act as his PRO, singing his praise event after event. When I was invited to take part in his birthday celebrations, I replied that we shouldn't remind him about his age and let him continue to score mesmerizing music for many more years to come. He's a great writer, a gifted lyricist and an amazing musician. We have argued about many things in the past and though I have irritated him with my half-baked comments, he has continued to give unforgettable songs.
"I'm so jealous of his commitment, talent, self-confidence and dedication, traits which have made him what he is today. I have plenty of memorable experiences with him as he has scored music for more than 100 films of mine. He has made me a singer who has been accepted by many; this is just one of his unending list of achievements. I earnestly hope our friendship lasts forever," concluded Kamal.
Ilaiyaraaja said that he felt so 'heady' with all the praises showered on him. "I can even tolerate if somebody abused me; but getting praised is something which is very difficult to endure. I have always avoided the limelight. My job is to score music; I feel the Almighty has just created me and dedicated me to do the job of composing music which I'd keep on doing till my last breath!" said the Maestro.


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Picture: Missy Higgins 2007 ARIA - Australian Recording Industry Association Awards at Acer Arena Sydney, Australia - 28.10.07
Singer/songwriter Missy Higgins and rock group Jet were the big winners at the AUSTRALASIAN PERFORMING RIGHT ASSOCIATION AWARDS (APRAAS) in Sydney on Monday (30MAY05).
Higgins, 21, picked up the Breakthrough Award, Song of the Year for SCAR and shared the Writing trophy with KEVIN GRIFFIN - who co-wrote Scar - at the star-studded ceremony in Sydney's Four Seasons Hotel.
Melbourne foursome Jet were named Songwriters Of The Year and recognised for their international success with Most Performed Australian Work Overseas for ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL.
Unable to attend the ceremony in person, frontman NIC CESTER said in a pre-recorded message, "This is a real honour to receive this award. There have been so many people who have helped make this album pretty successful. We've had fun over the past two years."
Performers at the bash included country singer Kasey Chambers, Eskimo Joe, Evermore and MELINDA SCHNEIDER.
The full list of winners are:
Song of the Year: MISSY HIGGINS for SCAR
Writers: MISSY HIGGINS and KEVIN GRIFFIN
Songwriter Of The Year: JET
Breakthrough Award: MISSY HIGGINS
Ted Albert Award For Outstanding Services To Australian Music: MICHAEL CHUGG
Most Performed Australian Work: Pete Murray for SO BEAUTIFUL
Most Performed Foreign Work: 3 DOORS DOWN for HERE WITHOUT YOU
Most Performed Country Work: KASEY CHAMBERS for LIKE A RIVER
Most Performed Dance Work: Daniel Merriweather for CITY RULES
Most Performed Australian Work Overseas: JET for ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL
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I want to focus today on one of the early geography activities that you'll ideally introduce to your preschooler during the first semester of the school year. I already talked about land, air, and water in relation to a Montessori-inspired transportation unit.
Here are some helpful ideas for introducing land, air, and water from around the blogosphere:
If you sign up for my weekly newsletter in the form in my right sidebar, you'll receive a free geography album created by Karen Tyler, a certified AMS teacher, who has a wonderful online training program through World Wide Montessori Online! Starting on page 47 of the album, you'll find thorough directions for introducing land, air, and water.
Montessori MOMents had "Land, Air, and Water – Montessori Materials" using Air, Land, and Water Sorting Cards from Montessori Print Shop. (Unfortunately, the Montessori MOMents blog is no longer available.) Montessori Print Shop also has other inexpensive air, land, and water materials.
Jessie from The Education of Ours has Geography Activity: Land, Air, and Water at Mommy Moment.
Montessori for Everyone has inexpensive Land, Air, and Water Matching Cards and Chinese Land, Air, and Water Cards.
Montessori Mama has an Air, Land, and Water Mat.
Making Montessori Ours has Make a Land Water and Air Mat.
To the Lesson! has Elements of the Earth: Land, Air, and Water and animal pin pushing to be sorted into land, air, and water animals. UPDATE: Even though Montessori schools and homeschools have been using push pins for pin punching for years, I think it's time to change. Please read this sad post and consider an alternative to push pins, such as Montessori Services' wood handled puncher (like the one pictured at To the Lesson!)
A Bohemian Education has an activity to introduce land, air, and water. (Update: Unfortunately, the blog is no longer available.)
The Adventures of Bear has a Land, Water, Air lesson.
Montessori at Home (blogspot) has a Land, Water, Air Presentation.
How We Montessori has Land, Air and Water Categorisation.
Carrots Are Orange has Preschool Geography {Land, Air, Water} presentation.
Just Montessori has land, air, and water lessons.
Barefoot in Suburbia has a land, air, and water activity and a land, air, and water birds activity.
Once land, air, and water is introduced, you can keep the concept fresh with extensions such as a transportation focus, an Earth Day focus like To the Lesson's, or a focus on a particular animal such as birds, like Barefoot in Suburbia's.
Have fun with land, air, and water! 🙂
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RIDGELAND — HORNE LLP will close the firm's 12 office locations Oct. 1 and celebrate the firm's 50th anniversary with a firm-wide day of service.
More than 400 team members across the Southeast will serve in their communities to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the firm on Oct. 1.
The announcement comes as the firm hits the halfway point in their 50 Days of Service project, a yearlong anniversary project that commits HORNE team members to 50 days of service in the communities where they live and work.
Executive partner Joey Havens, CPA, said, "We believe in living out our mission of creating value and making a difference especially in our communities."
As part of HORNE's 50 Days of Service project, team members in HORNE's metro Jackson area have participated in Souper Bowl of Caring, Lemonade Day, Run for Hope, and volunteered for Ronald McDonald House, Mississippi Blood Services blood drive, collected used eyeglasses for the Lions Club and more than 50 HORNE representatives ran in Gov. Phil Bryant's inaugural 5K Race for Health June 30. Among the 25 completed projects across the firm, team members have volunteered for organizations such as the Special Olympics, Ronald McDonald House and American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.


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Musings from a contemplative bus operator's point of view, by Deke N. Blue. Copyright 2013-2017 by Just Zakanna Productions Inc.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Defend US, Don't Suspend US!
This is the message our union and management should be screaming at every opportunity via every media outlet. Since its silence is deafening, I will do the shouting. Damnit, the absurdity has reached new levels with every assault, and I'm fed up! We ALL are. Except our management, evidently, who seems to be furious with US for defending ourselves. This is asinine, inhumane and infuriating to any normal human.
Our union reps recently defended a brother who has been assaulted SIX times in the past year. He was summoned to a disciplinary hearing because he "left the seat" after being punched and tackled his assailant. Well gee, did they expect him to hand the guy a lollipop and kiss his hand? Offer him a refreshment, maybe even buy him a bottle of booze at the closest liquor store?
After being assaulted the sixth time, this operator is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is something our nation's brave soldiers suffer after the horrors of warfare, and many sadly take their own lives because their anguish is unbearable. Yet bus operators are expected to be super-human. We're supposed to take our beatings meekly. We're suspended for fighting back. Our brother's plea to consider his own PTSD was reportedly ignored, and he was suspended. When I heard this, it felt as if management had leveled a gut punch and slapped us several times when we hit the ground. This isn't supporting your front line employees, it's being outrageously punitive.
It is natural for a human being to not only defend himself, but to at least prevent his assailant from inflicting further damage. Management has stated we're not allowed to do so, even though Oregon State Law allows us this basic right. Its ambiguous policy is that we're allowed "reasonable self defense" when attacked, but we're subjected to a panel of Monday Morning Quarterbacks who lambast us for our actions after our bodies have experienced Fight or Flight Syndrome. We don't have time to call and ask their opinion during an attack, we have to react instantly to preserve our own safety. Some victims endure pain and traumatic flashbacks for months afterward. For someone who's been attacked even once, our agency's rules are biologically impossible to adhere to. This operator, after having endured bodily injury and PTSD from five previous assaults, couldn't take this latest insult. So he tackled his assailant, didn't inflict any injury, and returned to the bus to hit the silent alarm. He waited 22 minutes for police to arrive. By that time, the bad guy was long gone.
This is an operator with no history of violence. We're vetted to the extreme, with the slightest of previous incidents thoroughly investigated prior to being employed as an operator. But PTSD is something many of us, myself included, deal with on a daily basis. Some managers have never been behind the wheel of an in-service bus. They've never dealt with passengers who consider mayhem a hobby. They're insulated from our world, which is the reality of transit. They deal in numbers, we transport those unable to understand proper behavior, let alone practice it.
There is wide disconnect between transit management and its frontline workers. It's so bad, union workers went to Salem to lobby the Oregon Legislature to increase penalties on our assailants.
The recent fare policy fiasco is another indicator of management's lack of perspective. It thinks that by not prosecuting fare evasion that it will protect operators from fare issues. It actually makes the situation worse, because now we have nothing in our arsenal to keep some of the troublemakers off our vehicles. If nobody has to pay, they're not invested in a safe, peaceful ride. It also erodes the respect we should reasonably expect as professional drivers. Most passengers pay and are courteous. It's the bad apples who cause trouble, even when they get a free ride. They have no respect for anybody, especially us.
I've read widely of abuse, even murder, of transit operators worldwide. It's a pandemic, and all the agencies have come up with so far is caging us like zoo animals in a pathetic band-aid to this monstrous problem. New hires are shaking their heads as they try to sort through this nightmare. They can't believe the mental health disaster we face daily, and are appalled at the seeming lack of concern for our well-being.
Our brother was suspended for, among other things, "violence in the workplace." As if it was his own fault he was assaulted. We are responsible for the safety of all inside and outside of our vehicles. We expect passengers to behave in a manner consistent with agency code. When they break the rules, it endangers the safety of our peaceful passengers if we don't refuse service to troublemakers. This assailant did exit, but not before leveling a punch at the oft-beaten operator. Instead of focusing on the criminal's behavior, they suspended the operator. This is intolerable and irresponsible, and we all deserve an apology. This punitive action disregards our safety. Our brother deserves compassion and aid. Instead, he's been served with the most horrible of insults.
Safety Is Our Core Value? So why then, are we brutally served the core? Where is the value? Come on folks, this statement is ludicrous. We're owed not only an apology, but an entirely-revamped system that values, rather than dehumanizes, US.
I recently spoke with an operator who stated she's been assaulted 12 times on the job. Some would argue this number suggests she has a "bad attitude." Perhaps she does, but even gentle people bite back after being mistreated. If an office worker is assaulted, do you think her management would punish her rather than the assailant? If she fought off a rapist, would she be suspended? Not in any rational world. We don't live there; transit operators work in the trenches, and it's an often an irrational environment.
My wife and I never thought this job would be so treacherous. Police officers and firefighters go to work with the full realization they might not live through a shift. But even cops shake their heads and tell us they wouldn't do our jobs. We're on our own. Not allowed to carry any sort of implement that could be construed as a weapon. No pepper spray or mace. Just sit there and take a beating, and maybe you'll still have a job if you don't raise your hand in defense. If you live through it, don't complain to the media without management approval. Free speech is one thing, but if you puncture the fallacy of this "safety" mantra bubble, the backlash is severe. We all know nothing is free... everything comes with a price.
Transit workers are vigilant protectors of the communities we serve. Dispatchers tell us we're "the eyes and ears of transit." When we see people in jeopardy, we call for help. A Portland operator was recently hailed for heroism when he alerted a sleeping family their home was burning, saving their lives. A Milwaukee, Wisconsin operator spotted two young children walking alone and stopped to help, learning they were lost, so she brought them aboard and alerted police. We don't just drive, we are unofficial members of every neighborhood's watch program. Yet, when we're assaulted or involved in a collision, it seems we're automatically at fault.
One reader recently lambasted me for being negative. "Bitch, bitch, bitch," they wrote, also saying that I need "a new job." No, I truly love my job. I enjoy providing people a smooth, safe ride. To endure abuse in silence, however, is something I cannot do. When my fellow operators are being pummeled and then suspended, I'm gonna bitch. Passionately, with gusto. If management pitches conflicting policies at us, I'm gonna take a swing.
Without communication, there is no understanding. When only one side communicates, the majority loses. We should not cower beneath the shadow of blind compliance. The truth is light, just a step away from the darkness of silence. Winter is over... I'm ready for sunshine.
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- AnonymousApril 14, 2017 at 10:29 AM
Wow !! How can a company and the union give so little support to someone that has been assaulted in any way shape or form?? What would happen if this happened to someone at corporate headquarters or union office? The news media would be outraged and all over it !! Why then are frontline employees that are the "face" of Trimet treated like second class citizens? Why are they treated like they're just a tool and not a human being? You can bet if someone hit me or spit on me I would do all that I could to save myself and the last thing I would worry about is losing my job !! See you in court Trimet and union !! I would get a lawyer so quick it would make their heads spin ! As for the bitch, bitch, bitch comment I was having a bad day and you became an easy target just as drivers are an easy target for the drunk, deranged and just plain mean people out there. Please forgive me and keep writing. Keep fighting the good fight ! You are one of the many voices that is needed on this issue and many more. Again, please accept my apology and I ask for your forgiveness !! By the way, your writing is extremely eloquent! Please don't stop !ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey brother(?) it's all good. Sometimes I do bitch too much, and that's why I need a break here and there. Just like you know, we all can have a bad day. We all suffer some form of PTSD from time to time.Delete
Thanks for your support and kind words. Please share this blog widely. Above all, please stay safe out there. Peace.
- AnonymousApril 14, 2017 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes it is more emotionally damagaing to have been assulted and not to have defended yourself in any manner. You see this kind of result in children who have been abused by parents. To have not defended yourself leads to a sense of shame and defeat within ones self.Delete
civilians (managers) most have NEVER EVER DRIVEN A BUS and have no idea..what the hell a operator goes through..no just the stupid ass passengers..we avoid accidents several times a day..sending our blood pressure super high..the schedules are for machines and the workers make it work. I hope he sues to be made whole the stupid ass people kill me..sitting behind a desk AND ARE FUCKIN CLUELESS...thank u for the read..i feel u big time ...local 241 in the house..b safe family from afarReplyDelete
Thank you Chicago sister! Always love hearing from fellow operators from afar. Seems like we're all feeling a bit betrayed by this. Peace, and safe travels Joyce!Delete
Working for tri met is like being in an abusive marriage and being gas lighted. Thats why I divorced I mean retired them in August.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Dora, hope you're doing well.Delete
- AnonymousApril 15, 2017 at 8:43 AM
How come I cant see the comment I posted ??ReplyDeleteReplies
Not sure. I post all comments. If you can see this, you should see them all.Delete
- AnonymousApril 15, 2017 at 10:37 AM
Now I can.. still can't see my other post that I wanted to be anonymous that wasn't .. hope you got my message about that thanksDelete
- AnonymousApril 16, 2017 at 2:06 AM
Trimet is corporate america! No! They could care less if we get assaulted. They would wacky any of us in a second if it meant getting cheaper help and more money in the hands of the upper trimet hierarchy! It's a war on wage earners and working people in america. It seems like you just have to sell out these days and screw over the working guy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 18, 2017 at 11:05 AM
From office to road and love driving. Last bus of the night pulling in at 247a and never feel safe. 1 year driving and can't wait to move away from bus because like many are saying no one has our backs and we are not expected to defend ourselves. I truly didnt know the reality of what a Transit operator goes through and now that I'm in the seat... Well there you have it. I hope things change in the very near future but it appears many struggles are fought and lost leaving Little hopeReplyDelete
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I will certainly call the car a black beast, and like Poorna says, every aspect makes the car good looking in the exteriors. the car looks very much macho and I have been taking for long drives since I bought it, and no complaints yet. The car is comfy for the entire family.
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This man and woman are running a scam for their profit. They asked me to meet them in another county at Hardees and called before my arrival to say they only accepted cash. They parked so I could not see their tag and this is a criminal operation. I cannot imagine how many animal lovers they have taken advantage of. And this should be reported to the IRS AS it is not a non profit.
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close it down
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
crooks - man and wife I assume driving a white GMC truck Sierra, newer model
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they were legitimate and really interested in animal welfare and not just seeing how much money they can put in their pocket
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
One time
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
Can you prove your statments or do you run one step ahead of the law!!!!!
Ms. Sauto; Give us your title and tell us what you need this infomation for? homeless hounds.
John, It may interest you to know that as the owner of Homeless Hounds that i answer to a board. Of 5 people and accountant if i do something illegal or not up to industry standards i can lose my job and the board can replace me. I also pay taxes to be able to solicit funds both on the intake and output of animals to the state. as dose ever rescue. That may help clear up your notion of scam activity.


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October 17th, 2005, 06:22 AM #1new alexa web services 1.0, problem with their signature system?
Anyone here using the alexa web services (new version, 1.0, just came out on the 10th) having any issues with their authorization/signature process? I have stepped through everything and it still seems to be uncooperative. Details:
My CC info is valid and current and I have signed up as I have an access key ID as well as a secret key (AND an old SubscriptionId) -- no combination of them work.
Maybe some of this might help you help me:
* as far as code, i am using java and i am computing the hmac as per the example code provided by the api documentation. i am also computing the correct time and formatting it correctly by way of the xml schema dateTime format, in the UTC timezone. i am base64 encoding the computed hmac, and i've tried two different base64 encoders (and verified against the php base64 encoding) to make sure it was not broken.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><WebSearchResponse xmlns="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSAlexa/2005-07-11"><OperationRequest><RequestId>13JB57AXQ3TDQWBT1MPW</RequestId><Errors><Error>AWS.NotAuthorized<Message>The identity contained in the request is not authorized to use this subscription id.</Message></Error></Errors></OperationRequest></WebSearchResponse>
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Johnny Manziel Enters Rehab Program
Cleveland Browns quarterback and Tyler native Johnny Manziel has entered a treatment facility, according to multiple media reports.
Cleveland Browns quarterback and Tyler native Johnny Manziel has entered a treatment facility, according to multiple media reports.
As we approach the NFL Championship game, the Patriots just can't stay out of the news, or out of my news feed... This is hilarious!
I wonder just how many hours of footage these guys go through to find perfectly hilarious clips like these...
Any true Dallas Cowboys fan can tell you exactly what happened in the 1992 season. Dallas went 13-3 and cruised through the playoffs, beating the Buffalo Bills 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII for their first of three Super Bowl wins in the 1990s.
Each conference has a playoff spot open as the NFL readies for its final week of the 2014 regular season. Here are this week's most interesting storylines.
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is a terrifying force on the field and is quickly becoming a fan favorite off it. There's no better example of that than a picture Watt tweeted out Monday night.
Despite losing quarterback Drew Stanton to a knee injury in the second half, the Arizona Cardinals used four Chandler Catanzaro field goals to beat the Rams, 12-6, in St. Louis on Thursday night.
30 year-old Jason Brown is man to whom money really is not a driving force. He's not the type of story that NFL fans have become accustomed to hearing; he's a story of doing good for others.
Seattle, Philadelphia and Detroit each dominated their respective divisional opponents on Thanksgiving Day to notch important wins.
Minnesota Viking running back Adrian Peterson has now been suspended without pay for the remainder of the 2014 NFL season.
High scores and amazing offensive performances highlighted Week 8 of the 2014 NFL season. Here's what we learned on Sunday:
For the last seven seasons, Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has been virtually unmatched. Now, it appears as if that run has come to an end.


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I don't know what the shit is on the check but it doesn't have anything to do with the lesson. The number line thing is trying to teach kids to back-count in their head. And Jack makes an error in the tens column subtracting 20 instead of 10, i.e. going back ten too far on the number line. Think word problem: Jack is a cashier at a corner store. A kid gives him $3.16 for snacks that cost $4.27. How much does the kid still owe Jack? Your cash register and card machine are down. Do you write out the calculation, get a calculator, or back-count in your head on an imaginary number line in the time it would take to get pen and paper? Also, the kid's running out the store now….
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Unanswered: import for tables using insert_update
I need to import a few tables from one database to the other. But I would ideally like to use the insert_update option since almost 90% of the rows are already in the tables. So i want them to be just updated if they are changd. But my problem is that most of these tables dont have either a primary key or a unique key. There is no way for DB2 to knowwhich rows to check for updates.
1) Is it a necessitiy to have a primary key?
2) Is there any other way to replicate the databases?
HADR is not a solution since we need both databases.
i guess even db2 replication needs primary keys.
My main objective is to replicate one DB to another which will be used during day time. So in the night I need to replicate.
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"It does not work" is not a valid problem statement.
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The Classic Tales Podcast - The Man With Two Left Feet
B. J. Harrison: "Now, I know that the definition of autism has been evolving since 1908 until what it is today, but I think that the hero of today's story is on what is now considered the autism spectrum. My reasons for saying this?
"1) His method of study is unorthodox, and requires an incredible amount of tenacity, even fixation. Most people couldn't do this. This is what I term the autism super power.
"2) His unwillingness to vary his study schedule of the Encyclopedia (He won't skip a volume).
"3) He imagines a fantasy scheme where his problems are all solved, and works diligently to accomplish this impossible task.
"4) He is rather socially awkward, bless him.
"This is no way official, and I can't back it up with anything other than my own observations, but when I read this story, it struck me how my autistic son has many of these same character traits. He also demonstrates the autism super power, and is a truly amazing boy. I find it encouraging that P.G. Wodehouse saw how characters of this temperament could find happiness and love in a world that largely misunderstands them."
How this topic applies to Christian Living:
I Corinthians 13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.


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Rooms, services Travelling to Council Bluffs and looking for accommodation? Take a look at what Fairfield Inn & Suites Council Bluffs has to offer! Eight comfortably furnished rooms are offered by the hotel to guests looking for accommodation in Council Bluffs. In case you ever feel like eating in, you may taste delicious local dishes in the restaurant of the hotel. Available wellness services will provide you the opportunity to refresh yourself, an indoor pool will also be waiting for you. If you wish to learn more about the exact scope of services provided by Fairfield Inn & Suites Council Bluffs (including any available for an extra fee), you will find them on the information sheet below.
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Students/members/cheerleaders of Cheer-Bling' Sports Ministry have been earning free Technology/Recreational Equipment or Cash by participating in the FundingFactory Recycling Program. They collect empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, and laptops from the community and send the waste products to FundingFactory in exchange for their choice of technology and recreation products, or even cash.
LOUISVILLE - Summer vacation may be only beginning for most students, but that doesn't mean Kentucky Farm Bureau's (KFB) emphasis on education is slowing down. Eighty-four high school juniors from 54 counties across the state have accepted invitations to attend KFB's 27th annual Institute for Future Agricultural Leaders (IFAL).
On Sunday, July 15, Mrs. Shirley Lakes presented her 31st annual piano recital at the First Baptist Church in Shepherdsville. A variety of music was performed: classical, religious, contemporary religious, popular, Broadway, country, movie themes, swing, and ragtime.
CLERMONT - A former Bernheim Middle teacher and counselor returned to where his heart is this school year.
CAMPBELLSVILLE - Carrie Wohlschlegel posted her newest favorite quote on Facebook the other day ... a quote from Ibn Battuta: "Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."
SHEPHERDSVILLE - A woman who has been synonymous with the Bullitt County Fair for over 30 years has died.
Nearly 50 local students recently participated in the Engineers of Tomorrow's week-long FIRST Robotics summer day camp at Mount Washington Middle School.
At the end of the last school year, Mount Washington Elementary student Ryan Robertson treated his classmates to a special exhibition in the school yard.
LOUISVILLE - Each year, thousands of fans fill Cardinal Stadium for a great line-up of chart-topping artists performing in the Kentucky State Fair's free concert series. And, each August, the Kentucky State Fair Board makes it a priority to offer a Free Concert Series for a variety of musical tastes.
Local Fox Chase resident, Wayne C. Muscar, has been cast in the Shelby County Theatre Company's latest play, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
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satsuma & poppyseed cupcakes
6oz soft margarine
6oz self raising flour
6oz caster sugar
3 eggs
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icing sugar
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2- add the rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly
3- spoon batter into 12 large paper cases in a 12 hole cake pan
4- bake in a pre-heated oven at 190c for 20 minutes
5- remove from oven and leave in pan for 5 minutes
6- take cakes out of pan and cool completely on a wire rack
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Burges Salmon is one of the largest non-London based law firms in the country. Based in Bristol, they are increasingly winning high profile cases, and their client list includes Eurostar, Aviva, and Lloyds Banking Group to name but a few. Due to the increased profile of the firm, the recruitment process has been updated in recent years, and is more competitive than ever before. This page is designed to take you through each stage of the recruitment process, and provide you with resources for that all important practice leading you all the way through to the offer.
Running through the application are five values that you must demonstrate at every stage:
The application form is your first opportunity to impress the recruitment team at Burges Salmon. As well as all the standard application form information, you are also asked to answer some questions about yourself. Each of these questions has a word limit of between 150 and 250 words, which is not a lot when you are trying to get your point across. Plan your answers outside the form and cut and paste them in. Furthermore, you are not required to attach your CV, so the application form is your only opportunity to put forward the information that you would normally put on your CV. This will be challenging in the space you have available. JobTestPrep's CV builder package is here to help you craft your application form. Before you start your application form, read our guide to every stage of the law firm application form on our JobTestPrep blog.
The questions on the application form include:
If your application form meets the required standard, you will be invited to attend a whole day assessment centre at the firm's offices in Bristol. The programme for the day is as follows:
The Watson-Glaser critical thinking test is a unique test, different to all other tests you will sit. The aim of the test is to determine your ability to think critically, and help the company assess your suitability for both the job you are applying to, and the company as a whole.
The Watson-Glaser test will test you on five key areas:
The Watson-Glaser test is distinct from the other types of tests usually used in job application processes, and will ask you questions you may never have answered before. JobTestPrep's website contains a practice pack for the Watson-Glaser test which will help you improve your scores in the real thing.
The firm will use the group exercises to assess your teamwork and negotiation skills. The group exercise can take any number of forms, but it will focus on negotiation. See XXIV Old Buildings Chambers profile for an example of a negotiation exercise. The group will be expected to perform together, but you will also be expected to shine in your own right. Getting this balance is difficult, but will improve with practice. JobTestPrep's group exercise pack can give you tips on what you should and should not do on the day.
A written exercise can be anything from writing a brief for a case, summarising the information in a document relating to a case, or preparing a presentation, generally on some form of legal scenario. Even if you do not know ahead of time exactly what type of written exercise you will face, it is still important to prepare. Take a practice written exercise with our online written exercise practice.
This interview is a short, more informal interview with a partner designed for the firm to get a feel for you, your motivations in law, and what drives you. The partner will have seen your application form, so make sure you take a look at what you wrote on the application form to refresh your memory. Be prepared to ask questions of the partner, perhaps about their work and interests, and what they like about working with Burges Salmon. Even if it is informal, you will still be making an impression on a partner with the firm, so be sure to prepare. See JobTestPrep's interview preparation package for tips and advice for the interview.
The final stage of the application is an interview with a recruitment partner and member of the HR team. This interview is a formal interview designed to ask you in more detail than earlier about your motivations for working in commercial law, in choosing Burges Salmon, and more information about you and your past work experience. As before, review your application, the interviewers certainly will have. Do your research on the firm, what they do and any recent cases they have been involved in. You should also be up to date in the legal world, and in any big commercial events. It is important that you relax and be yourself in the interview. Interviews can be nerve wracking, and at this stage there is a lot hanging on this interview. Make sure you are prepared for the whole interview experience. JobTestPrep can help you prepare for this interview with our interview preparation package.
The Burges Salmon recruitment process is designed so that the firm can pick the best candidates. Competition is fierce, and it is worth heeding the advice of former trainees: get as much experience as you can before hand; demonstrate the soft skills that show you can relate to clients and coworkers alike, and can work well under pressure; do your research ahead of time, understand the firm, and read the business press. A large proportion of the cohort who start training contracts each year did a vacation scheme with Burges Salmon. The application process has a slightly shorter assessment day, and instead of the final interview, these applicants will have a final interview with a partner will take place towards the end of the vacation scheme. This page has guided you through each stage, highlighting the packages available from JobTestPrep to help you prepare.
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Keepin' It Real Rewinds 00
Sweet Henry's posture captures my spirit well, as I'm stare at my computer screen… if only I could type comfortably in that position. This post has been brewing in my head for weeks now, so I'll warn you in this first paragraph that it has the potential of being a catastrophic mess of Jen's thoughts, but hopefully I can express a little bit more of "ME".
I also have to warn you that I'm a bit apprehensive on how this post (and posts to follow) may change your perception of me, but I feel burdened to share more of the "reality" of our life.
As my Sunday School teacher used to say, "Fasten your seatbelts!" (Right, Marie?)
Lets' see where do I start???? I love this blog for many reasons.
~It gives me a way to share our boys with our family and friends (and all of you "lurkers" too!).
~It gives me an outlet and a memory book to capture some of the stories of our lives. (After all, isn't the best part of taking a picture sharing it?) I can hardly wait to share this journal with the boys someday!
~It's a resource for other multiple moms, especially expectant ones who can use our archives as a way to prepare for their journey, laugh at our mistakes, see different multiple products, contact us for support, etc. This is one of my favorite things about our blog and one of the main motivations behind these posts. You'd be surprised at how many mothers of multiples that I come in contact with who have read our entire blog. Do you realize that's hours worth of reading? Computer screen, after computer screen of text? It amazes me, but at the same time if I would have found a quad blog before our delivery, I'm sure I would have done the same. Finding a "real life" family who has walked your path is golden.
~It's a way to glorify Jesus Christ. He has provided for us, loved us, answered our prayers, performed miracles, and protected our family through this amazing journey. There's well over a thousand of you coming to this site a day, and I feel a strong responsibility to share with you our Savior. Creator. Father. Redeemer. And I hope to do this better in future posts….Would you fellow believers pray for boldness and clarity in my writing? I am both humbled and overwhelmed at this task.
So after reflecting a little bit on "why I blog", (because to be honest, some days I feel like throwing in the blogging towel, and trying to hide us all under a giant-family sized rock), I decided that some of our story needs a more realistic approach. I don't mean that our pictures, videos, journals, adventures, etc. haven't been true to life….they are some of my favorite memories and I am so glad that they are documented in a way that I can save them in my "image bank" and that we have the opportunity to share them with you, our readers. The majority of my posts will continue in the same style and content.
However, I think some of you feel like you "know us", by reading this blog and I desire to show more of our heart with you. This blog simply scratches the surface of who we are as a family. I'm still wrestling with the how, what, and when, of going about all this, so be patient with me. (A little pat on the back for encouragement sake would do too!)
I'm planning on rewinding back to the pregnancy for several future posts. I know, I know, 18+ months later, but you're never ever obligated to read. There's just a bulk of our story that I'm fearful that will be forgotten if I don't write it down….soon!
I'll close for now with a few verses that have been an encouragement to me in recent days.
"Not that I have already attained or am already perfected. I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3: 12-14


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With a vast range of many overriding cognitive merits such as enhanced alertness and a
thoroughly energizing feeling that dominates one's whole mental and emotional system,
Modafinil has established incontestable reputation as one of the finest nootropics in the 21st
century market. However, there's a disturbingly huge price difference between generic and bona
fide varieties of this awesome substance. Does this marked cost discrepancy really match the
effectiveness levels expected from these Modafinil categories?
To respond to this extensively debated question, here are a couple of immediate personal
experiences gathered from thousands of individuals who've sampled each of these two
Modafinil versions.
Without denying, most of the users living in US and UK confess to have started with original
types of Modafinil such as Provigil. The most realistic reason for this almost individual-to-
individual early choice of brand is simply that the government-authorized variety is a lot easier to
purchase over the counter as it takes a simple doctor's prescription to get hold of anywhere in
With continued use, most first-time consumers soon learned the ropes and started looking for
cheaper versions such as Modalert and Modvigil. Going by the straight remarks of many
Modafinil fans, they finally saw no good reason to spend over 50 dollars on Provigil while they
could get less expensive pills for about a single buck. All these sincere remarks
counterbalanced, a vast number of observations back up the bare fact that there are hardly any
significant distinctions between patented and online-acquired Modafinil. To aptly put it in the
nearly homogeneous tone of almost every honest reviewer on the internet – generic and original
Modafinil trademarks are "essentially the same"!
Although previously touted as the true pill in a corrupted nootropics industry, the full truth is that
Provigil doesn't have any extraordinary benefits beyond other ordinary brands out there. If
anything, you may yet take it for sheer prestige –save for the white lie that you're using
anything even remotely as "more refined" as some biased folks would rush to claim. The most
sensible explanation for the crazy price gap is nothing very far from the fact that patented
Modafinil versions are chiefly manufactured within the United States, where the substance is
highly regulated. In a similar vein, the other everyday brands can be sold for less than a dime
for the main reason that they're routinely produced in large quantities, majorly in unregulated
Asian pharmaceutical sectors such as India.
As such, online user forums such as Reddit and Quora end in unequivocally unambiguous
threads – agreeing that generic Modafinil brands are just about as effective as much-
hyped/state-accredited names such as Provigil. Therefore, the originally vague question of
whether it's Modalert/Modvigil or Provigil is thus emphatically put to rest –Modafinil's Modafinil,
specific brands notwithstanding. Whichever common or "FDA-approved" tablet you use should
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scammer or huckster pretending to be selling real Modafinil brands. Even among tens of cheap
Modafinil versions obtainable online, it's still advisable to buy from legit sites that have amassed
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My running theory about Word for Word is that the company does better with plain, Chekhovian writers -- Tobias Wolff, Eudora Welty, Alice Munro -- than with colorful ones. Great plain writers cram a lot of life into their stories, and Word for Word's contribution is to add color and detail, to make the stray line about a romance (in Munro) or a bullet (in Wolff) as vivid as a paragraph in Faulkner.
Angela Carter can't be accused of plainness. She's a wild, cluttered writer in love with the expressive possibilities that 20th-century English has left behind. She uses words like "perambulate" and "viscera." In "The Fall River Axe Murders" -- about Lizzie Borden -- she describes the Borden house, the heat of the day, the pear trees, the clothes worn by women in the American 1890s, and a trip Lizzie once took to Europe, before getting to the part everyone cares about, which is the hatchet-massacre by Lizzie of her father and stepmom.
Carter, in fact, never quite reaches that part: She flirts with it. "Fall River" is a long, gothic flirtation.
This caginess poses a problem for a group dedicated to producing her story with no edits. The scenes are visually vivid enough, but have no suspense. A theatrical production can't get away with Carter's longueurs, and even under the clever direction of playwright Amy Freed (The Beard of Avon, Freedomland), Fall River bogs in places. It can't be helped.
Still, Freed's show is bright and inventive and beautifully acted. John Balma and Amy Kossow are perfect as the Borden parents. "They are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spratt in person," Carter writes, "he tall and gaunt as a hanging judge and she, such a spreading, round little doughball." Andrew Borden is a former undertaker, a real estate investor, and a cartoon of a Victorian penny pincher; Balma plays him with wooden, Lincoln-esque decorum, in a booming voice. His wife, Abby Borden, is a glutton, and Kossow plays her as a mean, pinched stepmother helpless in the presence of sweets. "When she tackles a sticky brownie, oozing chocolate," writes Carter, "then she feels a queasy sense of having gone almost too far, that sin might be just around the corner if her stomach did not immediately palpitate like a guilty conscience." Kossow palpitates, trying to resist, and then licks the brownie in question, sensuously.
Stephanie Hunt also does brilliant work as Lizzie herself, living in "the thin condition of New England spinsterhood" -- more than 30 years old but still under her father's roof. Hunt has an expressively mad way of staring out from behind her frizzy, disheveled hair. Lizzie has "'peculiar spells' ... moments of disconnection," and confides about them to a pettish family friend, Miss Russell, played with nicely tuned solicitousness by a bespectacled Nancy Shelby. "It must have been something you have eaten," she says. "Was it yesterday's supper?" Yes, perhaps that's all it was.
The cast is larger than necessary -- four actors populate an "ensemble" apart from the named characters -- to fit as many founding members in as possible. The extra stage business makes sense only because "Fall River" is a typically excessive Angela Carter story. Freed puts the ensemble to good use near the end, though, playing a clutch of Lizzie's pet pigeons, which Andrew slaughters with an axe and the gluttonous Abby wants to cook into a pie. The members sit haplessly in one corner of the stage, under an odd green light, cooing and fluttering their arms. They somehow sound exactly like pigeons, "the kind that look like shuttlecocks and go 'vroo croo,' soft as a cloud."
Jim Cave's sultry lights make the weather of Fall River feel not just hot but humid; Mikiko Uesugi's plain set, with its akimbo-looking doorways, gives the show a fairy-tale feel. The atmosphere of Fall River, in fact, may be its biggest success: Freed and her cast and crew have captured the mixture of fairy tale and Victorian true-crime that Carter herself achieves.
In real life, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of killing her parents. Evidence loomed against her, but the 19th-century Massachusetts jury seemed to shy away from the notion that a quiet, Christian woman would commit such a bestial crime. That's why the pigeons, in Carter's story, are a stroke of brilliance: They add a strong fairy-tale element as well as a realistic motive. When she died at 67, Lizzie left most of her money to animal-care organizations.


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Mike Demana has been writing wargaming rules to host his friends or stage at conventions for a couple decades. Enthusiastic players often prompted him to publish his rules, but he never seriously considered doing so until the rise of electronic publishing. Inspired by the marketing model of Ganesha Games (Song of Blades and Heroes), he helped start First Command Wargames in 2014 with four friends. His first product was a skirmish rules set for the French & Indian War, Song of Drums and Tomahawks (a joint-venture with Ganesha Games). Already it is Ganesha Games second-best seller, and First Command Wargames' leader. He believes in extensive play testing to ensure a quality product. Mike is an avid traveler who has visited more than 75 countries. He retired from an airline job in 2010, and is now a middle school history teacher.


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Date Recorded: 11 Feb 2011
Location: Fort James
Details: Shot of Hide Away Bay, Antigua. This beach is a perfect spot to spend the day relaxing extremely deserted and remote
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Bordered by Clinton Hill and minutes away from bustling downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene offers the ideal blend of quiet residential brownstones and big-city amenities. It's home to Brooklyn's first park and a diverse cultural community. Historically significant architecture abounds, with medieval-inspired designs like the Church of St. Michael and St. Edwards located near the neoclassical structure of the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.


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A recent article in Bloomberg's Businessweek highlights why it's been a very bad week for Walmart.
This week, hundreds of Walmart workers and members of OUR Walmart in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas, intensified their calls for Walmart to end its practice of retaliating against workers who are simply exercising their right to speak out for a better life and improved working conditions. Citing Walmart's $17 billion in profits last year, members of OUR Walmart are calling on the retail giant to publicly commit to raising wages and increasing access to full-time hours so that no worker at Walmart makes less than $25,000 per year. In the past few weeks, members of OUR Walmart have organized similar actions in Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago.
Following the strikes in Ohio and Texas, the NLRB's General Counsel issued a decision in favor of workers that Walmart illegally disciplined and fired workers over strikes and protests. The NLRB will prosecute Walmart's illegal firings and disciplinary actions involving more than 117 workers, including those who went on strike last June, according to the decision.
The NLRB decision addresses threats by managers and the company's national spokesperson for discouraging workers from striking and for taking illegal disciplinary actions against workers who were on legally protected strikes. Workers could be awarded back pay, reinstatement and the reversal of disciplinary actions through the decision; and Walmart could be required to inform and educate all employees of their legally protected rights.
Also this week, an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer caught national attention when it reported that the Walmart store in Canton, Ohio, was collecting food for employees who can't afford Thanksgiving dinner. Stephen Colbert covered the story in "The Colbert Report."
As Black Friday approaches, members of OUR Walmart have launched a petition to President Obama and unveiled an online portal that lets associates sign up for community support. For more information or to sign the petition, sponsor a striker or attend a Black Friday action in your community, visit http://blackfridayprotests.org/.