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Activist Nancy Shakir is one of more than 900 people arrested in this summer's Moral Mondays, a series of protests in Raleigh against legislation passed by the N.C. General Assembly. She talks about her motivations, her arrest and the road ahead. This is the first of two parts.
The State Capitol Police officers helped Nancy Shakir into a long, ivory bus marked "Division of Prisons."
She tugged against her plastic handcuffs, one of which felt too tight. Soon, she and the other arrestees learned they could free one hand. They worked together to pull down the bus' old-fashioned slide windows to get some air. They would soon be processed at Wake County's detention center.
Shakir, 73, is a grandmother with a kindly face and silvery gray hair.
"I have to say the police were very nice," she says. "They didn't mishandle us. They weren't rough."
Shakir, a retired educator with no criminal record, seems an unlikely person to be under arrest.
But considering her lifetime of activism, she probably wouldn't have wanted to be any other place May 20, an "amazing" day, she says, that is "indelibly printed in my mind."
Shakir allowed herself to be arrested as part of Moral Mondays, rallies organized by the state NAACP that have attracted thousands of protestors to the North Carolina Legislative Building on Jones Street in Raleigh.
The activists are opposing laws passed by the N.C. General Assembly that cut education; cut unemployment benefits and Medicaid; changed voting procedures and tax policy; scuttled the Racial Justice Act; and restricted access to abortion services. The lawmakers finished their session last week.
Shakir, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2010, has for the past two years worked as a field organizer for Democracy North Carolina, a nonpartisan voting rights group. She serves 20 counties, stretching from Richmond to the South Carolina border. She does voter registration and canvassing and talks to churches, community groups and young people about voting.
When she attended her first Moral Monday, she was surprised to see that the protest organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had drawn a majority of white protesters.
"I thought that's amazing. All these folks are out here. There were speeches. People were singing and praying."
She wrestled with the decision to become one of those arrested. She talked to family and friends.
"Some people said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' Some people said, 'Do what you have to do.'
"I thought about it. What do I really have to lose?"
She places the Moral Monday protests in the context of civil rights, a cause she's been involved in since she was a 15-year-old Jersey girl leading her fellow Methodist youth. She thought of her civil rights heroines.
"I idolized Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Wells. They were willing to go where they had to, to get their rights. I just thought, why couldn't I?"
Coming Tuesday: The arrest. The road ahead.
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Tue, Jun 26, 2012 | 03:21 BST
HMV attaches £179.99 price tag to 3DS XL
CVG reports UK retail chain HMV has listed the newly-announced 3DS XL at £179.99. Other retailers have nominated similar price points but expect to make a loss; Zavvi's gone for a significantly higher £210. The overhauled console has an RRP of $199 in the US, and will arrive there several weeks after its June 28 debut in Europe and Japan.
Fri, Jun 22, 2012 | 15:22 BST
Nintendo Direct: 3DS XL hits EU July 28, US August 19
Nintendo of America and Europe opened their Direct presentations with key news – the 3DS XL is officially on its way to both territories during northern summer.
Fri, Jun 22, 2012 | 13:11 BST
Nintendo Direct JP: next Super Smash Bros from Namco
During the Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation, president and CEO Satoru Iwata confirmed a new Super Smash Bros game is in production – at Namco Bandai.

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PARK CITY С The Bountiful Lady Braves' girls soccer team still don't have a win this season, playing to a 1-1 tie with Park City Tuesday in preseason action.
With the first half aggressively being played by Bountiful, Kennedy Merrick gave the Lady Braves the lead with a goal and held Park City scoreless for most of the second half.
Late in the second half, however, MaKenzie Bothner scored the game-tying goal to force overtime. Both team's went scoreless in the two 10-minute overtime periods, leading to the tie score.
The tie Tuesday meant the Lady Braves are still without a win this season. Bountiful took a tough loss to Viewmont in its opener (which also was a double-overtime game), then dropped a 4-1 match to defending 5A champion Alta last Thursday.
Bountiful has two remaining preseason games before starting Region 6 play, both at home. The Lady Braves host Brighton Tuesday and Davis Thursday next week. The team's opening region game will also be at home against Cyprus on Tuesday, Aug. 28.
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With many small businesses having to file their taxes by March 15th, this is just a last reminder about the small business health insurance tax credit. If you haven't already, it's time to start breaking out the calculator and working through the pound of taxed flesh which will be due to the federal government. And since many small businesses have been counting on the small business health insurance tax credits to help them through the economic recovery, here's again our short "cheat-sheet" review for those of you with small businesses who are still working through tax season.
Under healthcare reform, a small business may claim a federal tax credit worth up to 35 percent of what the business spends on health insurance for its employees. To qualify for the tax credits under healthcare reform, a small business must have fewer than 25 full-time employees, have average annual wages of $50,000 or less, and cover at least 50 percent of the cost of healthcare for its employees. The tax credits are calculated on a sliding scale, with the full 35 percent credit going to small businesses with 10 or fewer full-time employees and average annual salaries of $25,000 or less.
Some things to note:
What's a Full-Time Employee? This should be a simple question, but it's not. In figuring out how many full-time employees you have, you need to figure out your full-time equivalents (FTEs) which depends on the number of hours, days or weeks worked by all of your employees during the year. The number to keep in mind is 2,080 hours which counts as one FTE. Any combination of employees working an equivalent of 2,080 hours during the year is one FTE. For example, four employees each working 20 hours a week for six months of the year, you count the four as one FTE (four employees times 20 hours times 26 weeks equals 2,080 hours).
Wages. In figuring out your average wages, remember that wages include all wages earned by your employees during the tax year, including vacation, sick days, bonus and commissions. To reach your average, take those total wages and divide by your number of FTEs (not your total number of employees). Don't forget, you get to round down to the nearest $1,000.
Family Members. Family members of a business owner or a business owner's partner cannot be counted in the calculation of tax credits. More importantly, a family member's hours, wages and health insurance premiums cannot be counted in the tax credit calculation, so a small business that mainly employs family members will likely only receive a small fraction of the tax credits it would receive if it employed mainly non-family members.
Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit Worksheet. Believe if or not, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is actually trying to help small businesses plan out how much they may be eligible for in health insurance tax credits on their website, though. The IRS has provided small business with a nifty worksheet to help calculate their tax credits on their website, and we think it's worth taking a look at if you're planning to use the tax credits this year: IRS Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit Worksheet
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- Immediately after using the eye drops, wash your hands to remove any medicine that may be on them.
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The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
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Is Pope Francis the Catholic Princess Diana?
New pope has taken the papacy out of the Sistine Chapel, into the streets
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The Price of Education: What is the World's Most Expensive University?
The cost of a good education is notoriously expensive, and whether you're after the best possible edge in your career of choice or simply the prestige of having graduated from a big name school there's no doubt that the sky's the limit when it comes to how much you may end up paying. So how much do the richest of the rich pay? The most expensive 4 year university in the world appears to be George Washington University in Washington D.C. -- tuition per year runs just under $40,000 (which doesn't even include extras like room & board and books).


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'A fine recital that adds a few welcome items to the recorded repertory of the lute song, engineered close to perfection' (Gramophone)
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele
Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway. But that thereby doth find and plainly feele How MUTABILITY in them doth play Her cruell sports, to many mens decay? Spenser, The Faery Queen Shepherd: The winged hours fly fast when we embrace; anonymous, set by Henry Lawes Two descriptions, one high-flown, the other quite mundane, of the human condition! We can respond to the sentiments today, even though we have lost touch with the culture that expressed them. A popular Renaissance wood-cut shows Time leading Man through the three ages of his brief life. The notion was that above the Moon, in the heavenly spheres, Time had no power, whereas all beneath the Moonthe world, the four elements, Man, all creatures and plantswere subject to change and decay. Campions song Come, cheerful day puts it bleakly: So every day we live a day we die. How should Man respond to this predicament? He could follow the course suggested by the classical poets Anacreon, Catullus and Horace (all enjoyed in seventeenth-century England) and concentrate on seeking out the good things of life, short-lived delights that should be seized while they were there. In What then is love but mourning? Campion uses this thought as a means of seduction (Come away, my darling) made all the more beguiling by Rosseters cheerful setting. Ronsards Mignonne allons is more devious, dwelling with delectable melancholy on the mortality of a lovely rose and leaving the lovers invitation to the end, thinly disguised as a piece of philosophy. Most forthright of all is the Herrick/William Lawes version, Gather your rosebuds while you may; that this was far and away the most popular of Lawess songs perhaps tells us a little about the atmosphere in England in the years before the Civil War. Naturally this approach did not guarantee success, and lyric poetry is full of accounts of Times unfairness. One of the most sophisticated of these is It was a time when silly bees could speak. In this, known in some sources as The Earl of Essex his buzz, the queens former favourite complains with much clever wordplay about his rivals, the time-servers at court, the lazy drones who get more favour from Time than honest thyme-feeding workers like him. If only he had known, as we do, that the bee-hive is ruled not by a king but by a queen, he would have enjoyed his metaphor even more. Essexs claim that he is cast down when atomies do climb might have recalled for his readers the popular image of Fortunes wheel, which she turns inexorably, throwing off the ambitious as surely as she has raised them. The lover also reguarly complains about Time and change: Go, passions, to the cruel fair claims whole annals could be written of the faithful lovers endurance, rewarded only with change in the beloved: a fairly common sentiment made uniquely poignant by Fords exquisite setting which uses long-drawn chromatic lines for the lovers time and sad syncopations for her despair. Now each creature joys the other follows another familiar pattern, painting the joys of spring when every living thing turns to loveexcept for the singer, alone and melancholy. It was of course accepted by all thinking men that the worldly approach was ultimately self-defeating. One suspects that proponents of it in poetry were writing with a certain irony, expecting the wise man, aware of the transitory and relative nature of material things, to enjoy them with one eye fixed on the hereafter. Gather your rosebuds is addressed to the young man who in maturity would adjust his perspectives. Henry Leas poems His golden locks and Far from triumphing court celebrate his retirement as a time of prayer and contemplation. This was the proper role of old age, an honourable estate celebrated, rather more tongue-in-cheek, in Campions galliard-song Though you are young and I am old. Published in 1601, this might have been a sideways tribute to the ageing queen, though it is doubtful that she would have appreciated it. The galliard form is cleverly exploited, the voice singing in steady long notes to express old age, while the lutes frisky divisions suggest the bubbling of youth. Danyel seems to be doing something similar with his galliard He whose desires, the text of which sums up the contemplative approach: Rest alone with thyself, be all within; For what without thou gettst, thou dost not win. This more spiritual perspective was not exclusively Christian. In the ferment of ideas developing in Europe at this time Platonism and Hermeticism had their place, the latter characterized by a constructive despair of the world, which was seen as a trap to be shunned by the wise man intent on regaining his rightful place in heaven. There are hints of this in Dowlands Flow not so fast, ye fountains: Time can abate the terror Of every common pain; But common grief is error. True grief will still remain. This grief, which can take one beyond Time, is clearly not to be confused with petty, individual depression, which in any case would scarcely emerge from Dowlands exquisite setting. Platonism had an especial attraction for artists. Dependent as they were on earthly patrons, they could hardly turn away from material beauty, but the Platonic theory of the Ideal, of which any earthly beauty is but a pale reflection, offered a direction for their endeavours and could explain why great art seemed to escape the ravages of Time. I have built a monument more enduring than brass, boasted the Roman poet Horace, whose works were still read, translated and even set to music in seventeenth-century England. Samuel Danyel in Time, cruel Time muses on a ladys face so lovely that it seems immune to Time, but concludes that even she will be beguiled at last. He has given her a measure of immortality, however, in his poem which still delights us today, and his brother Johns setting, with his characteristic blend of rhythmic freedom and melodic refinement, gives a further dimension to our experience, achieving a kind of suspended grandeur which arrests the listener, and so fulfils the role required of Art, that it should be a defence for Beauty against the ravages of Time. With this in mind, we can begin to consider the title song and masterpiece of our anthology, Time stands still. Here we are invited to be still, with Time, and contemplate the figure who has stopped him in his tracksan eternal figure, dazzling even to Cupid, who has Fortune helpless at her feet. Who is this person? The publication date of the song (1603) and the protestations in the second stanza suggest a tribute to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth who died in that year: indeed it is tempting to assign the poem to her devoted servant Henry Lea. But beyond this simple identification one can also look for others among the personifications so beloved by the Elizabethansthe lady Philosophy, for example, who in Contemplation offered man his highest activity and best link with the Eternal. Or perhaps the answer lies even beyond Philosophy, and one could see in Dowlands song a version of the picture found in the Flemish emblem books, of Time transfixed by the dazzling face of his own daughter, Truth. His golden locks Time hath to silver turned was sung by one Robert Hales as part of Henry Leas presentation to the Queen when he retired as Queens Champion at the Accession Day tilts of 1590. For this he had a special suit of armour made all in white (for Old Age) and emblazoned with the sun in gold on his right shoulder (for the active life he was leaving) and the moon in silver on his left (for the passive contemplative role he now requested). It was said that the Queen was so delighted with his presentation that she demanded that he do it again for her the following year! He finally withdrew to his fine mansion near Woodstock where he remained for a further twenty years, outliving Elizabeth and extending his courtly allegiance to the new queen, Anne. Far from triumphing court, written by Lea in his extreme old age, and after the death of Queen Elizabeth (verse 1), celebrates a visit made to him in 1608 at Woodstock by the new king and queen, James and Anne, making a courtesy call on this most venerable survivor of the previous regime. Queen Anne gave him two presents, referred to in verse 2a jewel to wear in his hat and a miniature of herself which he undertakes to carry on his heart. Dowlands setting was published in 1610, the year of Leas death, perhaps as a final tribute to the courtier poet. Emma Kirkby © 1986 |


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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To regard ones immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
William Jennings Bryan
In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation.
James Burgh
Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
James Burgh
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
Don\'t forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Charles de Lint
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense he is always satisfied with himself.
Napolon Bonaparte
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William Seward Burroughs
For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.
Robert Burton
Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.
Robert Burton
Is not man born with a love of change an Englishman to be discontented an Anglo-Indian to grumble?
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I," When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
Sir Richard Francis Burton
There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?
Sir Richard Francis Burton
No, we never die for long, While we've got that little life To live for, where it's hid inside.
Kate Bush
If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.
George Walker Bush
I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
George Walker Bush
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George Walker Bush
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George Walker Bush
I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.
George Walker Bush
A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.
George Walker Bush
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
George Walker Bush
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George Walker Bush
My conviction comes down to this: we do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.
George Walker Bush
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras
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Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.
Malcolm de Chazal
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Welch Bush
There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.
Isidore Isou
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark Zuckerberg
The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?
Mark Zuckerberg
Creating channels between people who want to work together toward change has always been one of the ways that social movements push the world forward and make it better.
Mark Zuckerberg
More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg
If you just work on stuff that you like and are passionate about, you dont have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
Mark Zuckerberg
Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.
Horace Bushnell
Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.
Horace Bushnell
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.
Horace Bushnell
As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
Horace Bushnell
Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
Jim Butcher
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Jim Butcher
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I remain just one thing, and one thing only and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table... I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Erwin Chargaff
If religion is only human, and its form is mans form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
mile Auguste Chartier
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Stuart Chase
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Stuart Chase
Every institution goes through three stages utility, privilege, and abuse.
Franois Ren, vicomte de Chateaubriand
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
George Bancroft
To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.
Samuel Butler
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.
Samuel Butler
They [my thoughts] are like persons met upon a journey; I think them very agreeable at first but soon find, as a rule, that I am tired of them.
Samuel Butler
Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.
Nicolas Chamfort
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.
Nicolas Chamfort
Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!
Nicolas Chamfort
Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.
Nicolas Chamfort
The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.
Ktya Pujals Chamma
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
Samuel Butler
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Thomas Carlyle
You cant publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
Julian Paul Assange
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Wystan Hugh Auden
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
Thomas Carlyle
Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.
Orson Scott Card
A revolution is not a trail of roses. A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.
Willa Sibert Cather
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
Kofi Atta Annan
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
Nick Cave
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
Peter J. Carroll
A book is simply the container of an idealike a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter
Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
James Earl Carter, Jr.
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
James Earl Carter, Jr.
There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.
Samuel Butler
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Albert Camus
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
Co C
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.
Sir Neville Cardus
It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.
Georges Bataille
For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.
Paul Alexander Baran
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.
Paul Alexander Baran
Poison cures in certain contingencies, and in those cases poison is not an evil thing.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
There are no children of whom we are fonder than those that are born of our brains, to whom we are father and mother in one.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.
Zahir ud Din Muhammad Babur
Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
Nicola Cabibbo
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
James Branch Cabell
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
James Branch Cabell
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
Nigel Calder
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.
Leonard James Callaghan
I joined this party because I believe in freedom. We are the only party believing that if you give people freedom and responsibility, they will grow stronger and society will grow stronger.
David William Donald Cameron
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
Warren Earl Burger
How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
Lois McMaster Bujold
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Julia Cameron
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.
George Walker Bush
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
There is sort of Christians Christianity of whose had died out long ago, they have just not noticed that. Thus, they let all things stay as they are.
Wilhelm Busch
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
George Herbert Walker Bush
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Robert Burton
The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."
Robert Burton
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
Edward Snowden
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
Barbara Levy Boxer
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
Barbara Levy Boxer
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel Foucault
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
Octave Mirbeau
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
Pentti Linkola
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.
Noam Chomsky
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
Tony Benn
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
Mark Cuban
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Ive been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.
Russell Simmons
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
Guy Kawasaki
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
Paula Nelson
People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing thats why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Abdul Kalam
The Holocaust, that is what is happening right now in GazaThe president of Israel at this moment should be taken to the International Criminal Court together with the president of the United States.
Hugo Chavez
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
Alexander Berkman
Boris Johnson has real contempt for Londoners. He hates that we celebrate each other's heritage; he hates that we try to pass on a healthy environment to our children; he hates that we look after our most vulnerable neighbours; and most of all he hates that we all expect to share in our city's financial success.
Sian Berry
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.
Hannah More
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
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Coffee and Bong Hits
By Nick Welles nwelles
2 weeks of coffee, bong hits, and writing. Nick Welles spills his verbal dhiarea onto paper. Short stories and an attempt at poetry, Welles gives a look into his mind with his first book.
About the Author
Publish Date February 11, 2010
Dimensions Pocket 120 pgs Black and White printing (on cream uncoated paper)
Category Poetry
Tags two crows surfboards, short stories, nick welles, welzie, welzieart, coffee, poetry
mpna says
Wise words supurbly delivered. An instruction manual for a life well lived. Looking forward to the motion picture.
posted at 07:49pm Nov 15 PST
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This fucking book changed my fucking life. Fuck.
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Asia Tours
- Thailand
- China
- Cambodia
- Vietnam
- Tibet
There is no simple way to describe the wealth of opportunity that Asia travel offers the adventure seeker. Markets and bazaars, souks and stupas, ancient ruins constructed by grand civilizations long gone, modern cities and villages where life goes on much as it has for centuries. From the hustle and bustle of Bangkok, Delhi, Beijing, Amman and Kathmandu to the overwhelming immensity of the Himalayas, an Asia tour provides the traveller with as much to marvel at as Marco Polo and the explorers of old. Whether you're looking to cross Mongolia, follow the Silk Road to China, trek to Everest base camp, explore Tibet, visit Vietnam or island hop in southern Thailand, Asia is waiting to entrance you.
Sailing Thailand - Koh Phi Phi to Phuket (ATSH)
The perfect add-on to any Thailand adventure, this 4-day sailing trip allows you to escape the crowds, tucking into hidden bays and pristine beaches on Thailand's western coast. Snorkel in crystal-clear waters and dine on freshly prepared local delicacies. Beginning in Koh Phi Phi Leh—made famous by the movie "The Beach"— our G Adventures exclusive 14-passenger catamaran is the perfect home for relaxing and enjoying these stunning islands.
Highlights: Relax on the deck of your yacht in the stunning southern Thai islands, eat delicious Thai cuisine, lounge out on beautiful beaches, swim and snorkel in quiet bays
- Travel Style:
- Marine
- Trip Type:
- Group Travel
- Service Level:
- Standard
- Physical Grading:
- 2
Northern Thailand Hilltribes Trek (ATHH)
Trek through the hills surrounding Chiang Mai and meet the local people, known collectively as hilltribes, who have made their homes on these slopes. They have lived in peace and without modern conveniences for many years; a visit to these traditional communities is like travelling back to a simpler time. Learn about jungle food and the local way of life, and ride an elephant through the forest. After all that exertion, recline on a bamboo raft and float downriver, giving the friendly locals a wave as you drift past them going about their daily lives.
Highlights: Explore the vibrant colours of Chiang Mai, trek through Northern Thailand, meet the friendly locals, learn about the Karen tribe and witness their traditional weaving
Ancient Angkor Wat (TAKAAC)
A perfect add-on to any Southeast Asia trip, explore the Angkor Temple complex with an expert local guide. Built over a period of 400 years by a number of different rulers and covering an area of more than 400 sq km, the temple complex of Angkor was only rediscovered 150 years ago. This magnificent site holds incredible structures and sculptures from the Khmer Empire and is one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. With its beautiful gardens, stone carvings, and endless photo opportunities, a visit to the magical and mysterious UNESCO World Heritage Site Angkor will remain with you forever.
Highlights: Take in the archaeological splendour of the majestic Angkor temples with an expert local guide, explore vibrant Siem Reap
Chiang Mai & the Golden Triangle (TATGTC)
Visit the fascinating city of Chiang Mai, a thriving metropolis with many points of interest to visitors and a less hectic alternative to the capital. Explore ancient temples, ride on top of a gentle elephant and delve into Thai culture and traditions in lush, mountainous scenery. Visit indigenous hilltribe communities for a glimpse into traditional life, and then venture by boat to the threshold of three different countries—the Golden Triangle—where the borders of Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and Laos meet.
Highlights: Get up-close and personal with majestic elephant at a conservation centre, delight in Chiang Mai with a khantoke dinner, seek enlightenment at the temple of Doi Suthep, marvel at the mysteries of Chiang Rai, explore local hilltribe villages
Trip | Length | Style | Service Level | Starting Price |
Sailing Thailand - Koh Phi Phi to Phuket (ATSH) | 4 days | Marine | Standard |
Northern Thailand Hilltribes Trek (ATHH) | 5 days | Classic | Standard |
Ancient Angkor Wat (TAKAAC) | 4 days | Comfort | Upgraded |
Chiang Mai & the Golden Triangle (TATGTC) | 5 days | Comfort | Upgraded |


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U.S. stocks closed slightly higher for a second day Thursday, thanks to strength from the technology sector, including Apple's 1.6% rise. But the gains were limited as investors refrained from making big bets as long as the fiscal cliff remains unresolved.
Ford's C-Max and Fusion hybrids get nowhere near the fuel economy estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new blog post by Consumer Reports magazine.
The United States is one step closer to becoming a major exporter of natural gas. A long awaited report from the Energy Department issued Wednesday said the benefits of exporting the gas far outweigh the costs.
The Ram 1500 has been named 2013 Truck of the Year by Motor Trend magazine. The magazine's editors were impressed by the truck's posh interior, fuel economy and posh interior.
While China has become the world's second largest economy, doing business in China is now perceived to be more corrupt, according to Transparency International. China dropped five spots to 80th place out of 176 countries surveyed in the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index.
The longer Congress waits to avoid the fiscal cliff, the more complicated it will be for businesses to figure out how much to pay workers early next year.
Democrats are expected to fight hard to preserve the tax deduction for state and local taxes, despite its more than $80 billion cost to the federal budget, during the fiscal cliff negotiations. A look at the states that benefit most from the deduction makes it clear why.
Aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce may face prosecution over allegations of corruption in China, Indonesia and other international markets.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are better at managing their money than the average American, new research shows.


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This requires a bit of a back story - back in December I got a set of the Powerflex wishbone bushes fitted by a suspension 'specialist' who argued with me the sleeves needed no welding - sure enough, 2 days later on track, the sleeves had popped out and were ruined.
They decided to repair the sleeves by straightening them out and trying again, but this didn't work and it was found the wishbone was still flexing a lot due to the metal being softened. I contacted Powerflex to get their opinion on this matter and they sent me a new set of bushes with modified sleeves despite not being at fault.
This time the set was fitted correctly with the sleeves tack welded in etc... so after 2 months of street driving, this is what the rear left wishbone bush looks like...
Rear Right:
Basically my question is - WHY is this happening? Powerflex have been absolutely FANTASTIC in trying to sort this out for me but they have no idea why this is happening - they've never seen it before. It appears the wishbone is flexing far too much under braking, but I don't see why this would be a unique issue if that was the case. Also I don't quite get why the left side is significantly worse.
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Did you enjoy yourself the other week down at the studio.
It was fabulous Andy, really really enjoyed it. My friend, Deb, who came with me (well, I sort of went with her, the tickets were in her name, lol) enjoyed it too. Was a very long day though. Left Liverpool at 7am, and eventually got home about 1.30 the following morning, lol
Looking forward to the repeats on Dave, ha ha
Glad to hear that Anthony.
Television is not what it seems though and yes they are long days.
Thank you.
yes it is Nigel.we were down there for a few days filming.
Yep works a treat - love the subtlety of the colour pop too.
Love it - I'm not really into race car shots usually (too many look the same) but this is brilliant!
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LOL its supposed to be.
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By Jack Copeland
A new generation of Division III videos based on the "Discover/Develop/Dedicate" language of the division's identity initiative is now available online, and versions that can be customized for school or conference use will be available for use later this month.
The videos feature student-athletes discussing how, in addition to competing in intercollegiate athletics "for the love of the game," they have benefited from the opportunity provided by Division III schools to discover their potential and develop their passions through full participation in campus life, and ultimately to dedicate themselves to success as citizens and leaders in society.
This new Division III video featuring all three themes was shown at last month's NCAA Convention.
Seven videos exploring those themes – including a 3:40-length video that was shown to Division III delegates at last month's NCAA Convention in Indianapolis – now are viewable on the NCAA Division III YouTube channel, where they also can be linked to institutional and conference websites.
Schools and conferences also soon will be able to download more than 50 different versions of the videos, including customizable versions (which will permit insertion of institutional images and messages) and closed-captioned and subtitled versions.
The videos are cut in lengths suitable for use as public-service announcements in game broadcasts or webcasts (30 seconds long); as "featurettes" for use on institutional or conference websites (60 seconds long); or for public presentations about the Division III experience (the 3:40-minute version).
They were produced for Division III by Innovative, Inc., which also created Division III's first videos released in 2010.
All of the new videos – as well as a "customization tool kit" including materials for use in adapting the customizable videos to school or conference use – will be downloadable from an NCAA-managed website. Directors of athletics and sports information directors soon will receive an email providing an online link for accessing those videos, as well as password information.
All versions of the videos explore the "Discover/Develop/Dedicate" themes, as follows:
"Much like our (two-year-old) inaugural video, the new set seeks to tell our story through the voices of student-athletes, who explain how they have 'discovered' what they could achieve at our Division III institutions, how they have 'developed' their passions not only for sports but for life, and how our schools enable them to 'dedicate' themselves to this experience," Hope College President James Bultman, who recently completed his term as Division III Presidents Council chair, told delegates who viewed the new video in Indianapolis.
The ability to customize videos is another response to member schools and conferences' request for promotional materials enabling "co-branding" of Division III-produced materials with their own institutional and conference logos and relevant messages. Other such materials, ranging from signage to T-shirts, currently are available through Division III's purchasing website, where institutions and conferences are receiving a $500 credit through August 31, 2012, for purchases.
The customizable videos can be used for purposes ranging from portraying Division III's unique approach to intercollegiate athletics as practiced at a specific school, to the promotion of specific upcoming events – including the inaugural Division III Week observance scheduled in April.
Most of the downloadable videos will be available both in QuickTime (.mov) and Windows Media (.wmv) versions, and the customizable videos include "keyable" QuickTime versions that give editors some flexibility in altering the length of videos and use of graphics. The customization tool kit includes the various motion and identification graphics that appear in the finished version, as well as examples of how some of those graphics may be used.
Seven recent or current student-athletes are featured in the videos:
Questions about the new videos or any other identity initiative programs and resources may be directed to Jack Copeland at email@example.com.
Jack Copeland is a consultant with the Division III identity initiative.


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GREENFIELD, Mass. – Over the top of her computer screen, Addie Rose Holland eyes a stainless steel assembly line, where shredded pickled carrots get scooped from buckets and packed tightly into 15-ounce Mason jars.
Three years ago, Holland looked out on a vastly different view – the frozen surface of Siberia's Lake El'gygytgyn. She was there as a paleoclimatologist, probing lake sediment for clues on how past climate changes impacted the Arctic.
The research and panoramas were eye-opening. But the world of science ultimately proved too remote and abstract. Driven by a desire to spur change in her own backyard, Holland swapped her parka for a hairnet: She's incorporating her world of science into her world of pickles.
"We're not solving global warming by making pickles," said Holland, 33, who today co-owns Real Pickles, a Greenfield-based organic food company.
But her company can, she hopes, help nudge the corporate world toward a more sustainable, healthier, less energy-intensive model. "We're contributing to a global warming solution by helping to reorient our food system," she said.
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Holland isn't done with science. She holds a part-time position as interim program manager for the Interior Department's Northeast Climate Science Center, based at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she organizes a speaker series on climate impacts and solutions. The center provides tools and information to help land managers plan for and adapt to climate impacts.
While Holland's career path may be unique, her attempt to balance a life of research science with a desire for more concrete impact is not.
At virtually every stage in the geosciences, women drop out of the academic track faster than men. One 2008 study found that, while approximately 45 percent of all students in geoscience masters degree programs are female, the percentage drops to 34 percent in doctoral programs.
Subtle gender biases, grueling hours and a paucity of female role models play a role, according to Mary Anne Holmes, a mineralogist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and former president for the Association for Women Geoscientists. "These small, almost imperceptible hurdles add up," she said.
Holland didn't perceive a gender bias. What frustrated her, however, was how quickly chats about her research could go sour. Holland thrives on the positive vibes she gets as customers make the connections among her pickles, local farms and benefits to their community. Talks about the implications of climate change proved far more frustrating.
"Conversations about climate change often turn either to denial or guilt or depression," she said. "But pickle conversations are full of laughter and hope."
Those climate conversations, she added, are extremely important, and the challenge of connecting that information to the public is a big part of what keeps her in science. If she can get to climate through pickles, she said, the conversations are "invariably much lighter."
"But you can't always get to climate conversations through pickles." And the desire to bridge that gap is why her work communicating climate science remains a big part of her life.
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Holland's path into science started at a Connecticut state prison where she used soil microbes to help clean up groundwater contamination from dry-cleaning solvents.
She took a job with a Connecticut-based engineering company, Fuss & O'Neill, that focused on cleaning up environmental messes created by industry. The work required a lot of soil and groundwater testing, which she enjoyed. But she found it hard always being the one showing up to clean someone else's mess. "The relationship with the client was always negative. I wanted my life to be full of positives," she said.


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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Some wines go to vinegar with age, some wines become truly superior with age, other wines simply age well and remind you of why they are considered standards against which others are compared. Because the settings of the stories are dated, but the content is still relevant, most of these stories fall into the last category. Open the pages, relax and enjoy! There is one word to describe Dandelion Wine - lyrical. I read a lot of Bradbury when I was in high school, and this book reminds me why I fell in love with him all those years ago. It is the summer of 1928 in a small town in Illinois, and Douglas Spaulding - age 12 - makes some big discoveries. Most of them are existential, almost all of them are existential. In his table, Douglas and his brother, Tom, keep track of the things that happen to them and then write what they think something might mean in a larger sense. In Douglas' world, life's unfairness begins to read its ugly head but the adults around him give him support to explore what that might really mean. Two more words: exquisite and poignant A novel of incidents from the beginning through to the end of the summer of 1928 in the town of Green Town, Ill, pop: 26,349, explored principally through the eyes and lives of Douglas Spaulding, 12 years old, and his 9 year old brother Tom. A novel about the wonder of summer through the eyes of inquisitive, intelligent, secure boys; a child's realization of the inevitability of death against the vitality and energy of youth; the loneliness of old age for some while for others its richness in succeeding generations; the significance that children attach to things, not yet understanding their ephermerality; loss of family members (through death) and friends (through life); the strength and support of extended family; the magic of youthful imaginations; the warp and woof of small-town life in a time of innocence now lost, but not an unreal one....and not entirely innocent as a serial killer is murdering women and instilling fear in the town. Bradbury is a wonderful writer. Like Stephen Leacock he conveys humour is the absurdity of the normal in events and relations. Touches of almost magical realism clothed in the lively imagination of boys and painted with a remarkable strength of colour and rhythm and description and metaphor. A real pleasure to read. Transcendent. Luminous. Heartbreakingly nostalgic. A re-read, of course, spurred on by the discovery of a brand new sequel. I've always loved this book, but never so much as now when my own boy is 12. This warm and loving novel-cum-memoir is nothing at all like Bradbury's other books. It's a love letter to that moment when one is hanging suspended in the dream space between childhood and manhood. It's the magic of new tennis shoes and the realization that you too must die. Bradbury inhabits Doug so fully that I have the summer of 1928 among my own memories. Extraordinary, highly recommended. Young">http://bysinginglight.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/dandelion-wine-a-review/ Young writers are often told to "write what you know," a phrase usually taken to mean that said young writer should focus on the events of their own life in looking for inspiration. In a way, Dandelion Wine is a book produced out of that impulse. It is obviously mostly autobiographical, even without the clear proof of Bradbury's introduction. It is the story of the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. Although the story is ostensibly from Douglas Spaulding's point of view as a twelve-year old boy, the narrator is much older and many of the events of the story are told from the point of view of older characters. There is sometimes a sort of irony in the difference between their observations and the "discoveries" of Douglas and his brother Tom which follow those observations. Because Douglas is not the sole narrator this is really not a book for children. It is a book for those who remember being a child. Bradbury is a master of the short story form and in many ways this book is really a collection of short stories about various citizens of Green Town in summer 1928, all of them held together by the framework of Douglas. The stories move in chronological order, often with interlocking plots and characters. Miss Roberta and Miss Fern are frequently seen, as are Douglas and Tom's grandparents. This interlocking gives a sense of life in this small town, where people's lives do not occur separately, but are interwoven. Bradbury is also a master of prose and nowhere more so than here. Open the book to almost any page and almost any paragraph and you will find a gem waiting for you. There on the first page: A whole summer ahead to cross off the calendar, day by day. Like the goddess Siva in the travel books, he saw his hands jump everywhere, pluck sour apples, peaches, and midnight plums. He would be clothed in trees and bushes and rivers. he would freeze, gladly, in the hoarfrosted icehouse door. He would bake, happily, with ten thousand chickens, Grandma's kitchen. And there are many others scattered throughout the book. My favorite of all the stories is the time machine. This being Ray Bradbury, you might suppose that this is a time machine in the conventional science fiction sense. But Dandelion Wine is full of surprises. This time machine is no metal contraption. It is an old man, Colonel Freeleigh, who remembers the bison and the Civil War, although he cannot remember which side he fought on. He brings the past to life for the three friends, Charlie, John, and Douglas. This is a book to revisit in the same way that Bradbury is revisiting the summers of his childhood, a book to savour and to let sink into your pores. It is a book which, like the dandelion wine of the title, you could open in the winter when you need the golden warmth of summer; it is a book which you could open in the summer to taste the flavor of all the summers past. Highly recommended. no reviews | add a review Is contained in5 in 1: Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The October Country / Dandelion Wine / The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury The Best of Bradbury: Five Major Works by the Master of Science Fiction (Boxed Set): Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, Lon by Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine / Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine and Farewell Summer (2 books, as a set) by Ray Bradbury The Novels of Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationIs a student's study guide toHas as a student's study guide
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0553277537, Mass Market Paperback)World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man's voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing. --Stanley Wiater (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:47 -0400) In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928. (summary from another edition) |
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