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The one-year International Master's Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa is dedicated to creating and nurturing a new generation of Holocaust researchers and educators.
The program works together with Yad Vashem and The Ghetto Fighters House Museum to offer our students access to the largest Holocaust archives and a unique opportunity for hands-on experience in Holocaust museums.
The program aims at providing students with more than just an academic curriculum; it has been designed with the addition of exciting and challenging activities to spark the interest of the student and encourage personal development and dedication to the field of Holocaust research.
An internship program is offered to enrich the curriculum and prepare students for actual employment upon graduation. Available internships include: Ghetto Fighters' House Museum Archives, Yad Vashem Museum and archives, Hagana Archives, the Atlit Detainee camp (Museum), Elementary Schools and more.
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many thanks! I'll check out the film at my nearest poundland.
This one is my favourite, beautiful angle and great lighting.
Noob question; recently aquired an Olympus OZ80 from japan. What is the best value 35mm film I can buy?
Great stuff, reminds me of Boards of Canada and some of Aphex Twin's ambient stuff. Keep going you have great talents!
need to see this, hope they're showing it somewhere near me.
I wouldn't mind trailers if they didn't fade every single shot in and out of black... I feel like 60% of the trailer is just a black screen sometimes. The trailers for the master are some of the best...
Autosuggestion is an amazing song live, as is Candidate, though their recorded versions don't really do it for me. Brilliant band.
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Lol, I saw control on sale in hmv...
Inception would have been mindless eyecandy crap without that emotional element to it with his wife and family. What is wrong with you?
Babby's first anime. And I don't even like anime.
There's only one reasonable explanation for this. She read this thread.
you are so dumb, can you not tell the whole vid is satire?
dude its a quote from this song:
the problem with fp is that every time someone comes up with funny/interesting stories everyone starts asking for proof rather than appreciating the (however forced) attempt at humour.
tbh I don't understand why anyone would want a relationship with someone already in one. Does it not occur to the other guy that he himself might be cheated on? 2 years is so long its just taking the...
There needs to be some kind of godwin's law about people bringing prison rape into forum discussions.
I'm not saying he should have raged at her, but the way he paid for her cab was the equivalent of giving a bully his lunch money; its not helpful at all.
But thats such a defeatist attitude.
Paying for her cab just seems so unnecesary to me. Why would you? Because its seen as chivalrous to pay for the woman? Don't get me wrong i'm all for being polite (when its someone who actually gives...
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they must have been desperate, getting george michael to sing 2 of his songs, a single verse of one would have been more than enough.
so apparently 2 new plinkett reviews are in the works...
are you interested in dating her, or not?
2nd August 2012
i'm confused as to what you're actually asking
there's more black screen than footage in that trailer! whats with all the fade-ins and fade-outs?
overrated implies that he has more fans than he should, but i'm pretty sure most people who like him see his music as some of the best they've heard; its not as though he attracts a really easy...
eh. but you like the blues right?
you there. listen to this girl.
Shes helping a bit of a soul revival kinda. Soul is beautiful, and while its influences will live on, as a fully...
Will give it a listen.
It just occured to me that the album is one of the 20th/21st centuries genuine art forms. There is something really complete and aesthetically pleasing about a good album,...
how could you.
sorry but I don't think you 'get' him. (i dont mean to sound pretentious or condescending).
heh, single accident. check out the rest of the news mate.
I also live in London, and I am aware.
-Recession joke.-
i remember reading some anthony horrowitz book where a medallion made of caesium was used as a murder weapon. haha.
30th July 2012
(the victim wore it in the shower)
I think asleep in the back is one of their best albums, its a denser sound than some of their later stuff. plus its the one they spent the longest time on the material for.
Sounds like someone from the country is a little jealous.
But seriously the olympics has been a complete mess so far. (barring the opening ceremony which was pretty awesome)
Metro, the game, never seemed to really have a story to me, it was more like a sequence of strange events as you go on a journey to achieve something. i know the point was to save your home from...
why are you sympathising with something with a brain the size of a walnut? pigeons suck
that wasnt supposed to sound like an 'edgy so cool' post
I know, reich?
Sorry. I'm going to start reading 'middlemarch' this summer, should be interesting. Its the favourite book of a friend of mine, and my english teacher, so it must be decent.
Its not a kind of subconscious response is it? I mean your body going 'oh shit not on my meds everything is bad', I guess it doesn't matter either way.
30th July 2012
Based on my own...
Sweden eh - thats just south of manchester, right?
maybe cause nobody should give a damn about showing off their new clothes when they're trying to get an education, this idea of uniforms being opressive and pretentious seems pretty extreme.
What part of britain are you from? I was not aware there was a 'general british accent', coming from London.
I agree, but french is pretty good.
Also with british accents its more of a southern thing, scouse accents for example are pretty manky.
flylo hasn't rapped before, he said early in his music career people wanted him to because he just did instrumentals but he never expressed an interest in it, I think he just wants to make great...
Massive cluster of 'what' and 'cool' but not very coherent at all. If they're going to try and adapt a massive book into film why not do it in several instead of cramming too much information into...
saw this as an image ages ago, its good but I got like halfway and remembered which kind of killed the effect this time.
made me think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4QmILo08w
I remember your metro 2033 vids, good stuff. I really enjoy your lets plays as you manage to be funny without forcing it like many other youtubers would.
I think the guy means he is looking for more 'science fantasy' than science fiction?
yeah but who's to say what they deserve?
26th July 2012
I dislike bon iver also, but overrated is really a matter of opinion.
No one is 'overrated' they simply get more attention than what some people consider 'superior' artists who get less.
yeah i realise my pretty dumb mistake with the romantic classical thing, couldn't remember which he was. thanks a bunch thats a great wealth of music/musicians for me to check out. :)

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India's Allcargo Logistics, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ecu Line, has acquired Econocaribe Consolidators, a Miami-based non-vessel-owning common carrier and ocean freight consolidator with considerable presence in North America.
"This acquisition now enables Ecu Line to complete its service offerings, both in terms of global capabilities and coverage," Allcargo said in a statement. "The acquisition also increases Ecu Line's foothold in the U.S. market, which will facilitate growth into and out of the U.S. market and rest of the world, being the largest economy in the world."
The company did not disclose further details of the deal.
Econocaribe, which has nine office locations and 22 receiving terminals across North America, had been handling Ecu Line's shipments as an agent for the past six years. Allcargo took full ownership of Antwerp-based freight forwarder Ecu Line in 2007.
Mumbai-based Allcargo operates container freight stations at Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), Chennai and Mundra, India's leading container ports, as well as inland container depots at Indore, Kheda, Pithampur and Dadri. The company's activities include warehousing, ship-owning and trucking.


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Tuesday, 14 October, 2014
An encouraging outreach at Woodridge today.
Three weeks ago, one of the team spoke to a young lady named Demmi. She initially refused a tract and said she was Buddhist. By the end of the conversation she was questioning Buddhism but said she couldn't become a Christian because her Dad said that that is not allowed. So she was going to count the cost.
Today, she returned saying she has left Buddhism and is now a Christian, and so is her Dad! Her Dad is now trying to evangelise to his sister. Praise God for all that He does!
Friday, 17 October, 2014
It is always a joy and a privilege to share the gospel, and doing so at the Gold Coast last night was no exception.
As we were walking back to the car, a young guy who I handed a tract to said "You have spoken to me before." So I asked whether he has been thinking about what I said.
He responded by saying he is now converted, trusting only in Jesus for his forgiveness and is fighting against his sin. He has been praying daily and attending a local church. But he didn't have a Bible, so I was able to give him one and encouraged him to start reading it daily.
He was very thankful to receive one. His name is Liam. Please pray for him.
Praise God for saving a people for His name!
Saturday, 4 October, 2014
Plymouth started very wet today and I was unsure if outreach would be able to go ahead, but after attending a Men's breakfast at a Church, it cleared up and enabled my friend Phil and I to head into the city centre of Plymouth for a couple of hours.
When we set up there a man almost imediately approached me and explained that he was a Scientologist and wanted my opinion if you could be a Scientologist and still belong to another religion, as he claimed there were Buddhists, Muslims and Christians in the Scientology faith who believed that both could work along side each other.
I asked him what he believed scientology taught about morality, and he said that man was basically good, needed to be rid of 'thetans' in us that made us bad, and that we were reincarnated and therefore could learn from our past mistakes in life.
He confirmed L.Ron Hubbards science fiction writing and belief in starting a religion to make money, but that the sale of the books to people was because of all the research and study he had done about the life of man.
He listened intently when I explained that we only had one life and chance on this earth to hear and respond to the gospel, as per Hebrews 9 v 27, and that Jesus said he was the only way we could be saved, that he was the only gate, door and Shepherd of the sheep, and if we tried to get to God any other way we were called a thief and a robber. I also tried to speak about original sin and how we all sinned because we were born sinners, and that we didnt have 'thetans' but needed forgiveness from God for our sins committed against him.
He took a tract at the end but was an interesting first conversation for the day.
Another gentleman approached us later on who said he attended Church but was a backsliddeen Christian who was a heroine and alcohol addict, that he attended a Church group and that he had lived away from home since the age of 14 because of his substance abuse and distress caused to his family. We talked lots and Phil and I tried to listen to his story, and gently probed about how he says he became a Christian and if he thought he was Born again. I gave him a Gideons New Testament and some tracts to read, and pointed to the front pages about where to read when he was going through hard times. He was a nice guy who obviously had a lot of issues to deal with and he wished us well.
After giving out tracts to the various people who stopped to take the intelligence test, a lady walked past and asked me to read some passages of scripture to her because she was unable to (either because of sight problems or I think because she had been drinking a little too much). So I chose John 3 to read to her about the need to be born again, and she listened, before taking a tract, which again she wanted me to read to her which was great. She took the tract and was seemingly happy we chatted.
Some kids took some of the Bibles, and while I was wary as to why they wanted them, it led to a good chat about my appendix coming out last week, what vestigual organs were (or are not) and about why I had become a Christian and why we were out on the streets giving away tracts and Bibles. They put the testaments in their bags and said they would look at them.
Lastly for the day, 3 servicemen from the army stopped to take the intelligence test, which led on to them taking the good person test. Two of the guys were very open, whereas one guy said he didnt believe in Hell. I tried to show him that in the New Testament, the one who actually spoke most about Hell was in fact Jesus, because he didnt want anyone going there, but that because our sins were primarily against God and it was him we had firstly offended in our actions and thoughts, it was him we needed forgiveness from. They understood what was said and listened to the good news of the gospel and how someone could be forgiven, and two of the guys took the tracts at the end and shook hands, but the other guy walked off and refused to take a tract. Maybe he was convicted or had a loved one that had died suddenly, but either way all three of them listened to all that was said.
It was a great day and the sunshine came out which was great, Phil enjoyed learning more about evangelism and how to witness to people in taking someone through the Law before showing them the good news of the gospel, and we pray God would continue to work in those peoples lives that stopped to talk today.
Saturday, 27 September, 2014
Riverfire is one of the busiest night of the year in Brisbane where thousands flock to the city to watch fireworks. Operation 513 provided all the gospel tracts for free to be handed out at the event. We can only do this thanks to generous supporters of this ministry.
All praise be to God!
Saturday, 20 September, 2014
Today was a beautiful sunny day here in Plymouth, and my friend Phil and I managed to meet around 1pm and set up the outreach for the first time in quite a few weeks. There were hundreds of people in the city today, partly due to a big science fiction comic event that a former Dr Who actor was signing books for, and so there were plenty of people to witness to. My amp for preaching had died and so we were unable to preach, but managed to have many great conversations with people, largely due to the Intelligence test board again drawing peoples attention. I had also updated our scripture board with some website links etc which quite a few people stopped to read or glance at. The 'Are You Ready' cross with Hebrews 9 v 23 underneath was pushed over after someone read it, another person walking past sticking their middle finger up at it, so Gods word was doing its job, being an offence to those that are currently spiritually blind!
The first people to stop and do the intelligence test were two students studying biological science at Plymouth University, and were very amicable to stop and go through the good person test after they had gotten most of the questions wrong. They both seemed quite convicted and seemingly acknowledged they had broken the commandments, the 7th one pricking their conscience the most in how they reacted. They were very open and didn't once try and debate evolution or atheism, but just nodded when I tried to explain that it was peoples love of sin that pushed them away from acknowledging Gods existence, not for lack of knowledge or evidence, to which they both gave me full eye contact and were silent about, amazingly. They gratefully took a Gideon's new testament each and some tracts and after explaining the good news of the gospel to them and how someone could appropriate what Jesus had done to themselves, a firm handshake and thanks was great to hear for a change instead of opposition.
Several other groups came along, including 3 teenage girls called Abbey, Dion and Ebony who were interested through the intelligence test questions, and even at a young age seemed to realise how they had sinned and that they knew God existed through what he had made. They were keen to take tracts and a Gideon's new testament. David, a messianic Jew stopped to chat and explained how he had become a Christian but only realised later on in his life that he had Jewish roots and so now met with other Messianic Jews in Plymouth to fellowship. 3 students Thomas, Claire and Liam stopped by to chat and interact, and again were very open to talk and didn't once try and refute any arguments about God's existence, evolution or the Bible but listened intently to what was said. All our Bibles went that day and my friend Phil had his first chat with some people about the gospel while I went to the toilet, and so he was encouraged as well as he continues to learn about sharing the gospel with others.
The pictures below show the updated sign and a glimpse of how many people were in the city that day, and God was clearly already working in peoples hearts and minds with how intently people listened and interacted with us today, but more importantly we pray that gospel seeds were sown in fertile hearts and that the Holy Spirit would convict people and they would turn to God that day in repentance and faith.
Saturday, 13 September, 2014
People will go to great lengths to conjure up arguments against the God they know exists. This Saturday night was a prime example of that, with someone claiming that because she doesn't have a footprint of Jesus therefore He didn't exist.
To God be the glory!
Saturday, 6 September, 2014
"The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few" was especially evident on Saturday night in Brisbane city. We had a very low number of team members and yet God brought in lots of people to hear the preaching.
To God be the glory!
Saturday, 9 August, 2014
Another glorious night of sharing the gospel in Brisbane city.
We've seen in the Bible how God spoke through a donkey, now we've seen God speak through an Atheist. Watch the following video from the night:
Here is another video from the outreach, where Balazs recounts a conversation he had with two young ladies:
Saturday, 26 July, 2014
Listen how God brought along some encouragement for a Christian sharing their faith after dealing with a bunch of Atheists going off their nut.
May the following video from the night encourage and challenge you to go and share your faith.
To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Saturday, 19 July, 2014
It sure was an interesting evening tonight with lots of people trying to stop the gospel going out, but it simply drew in a larger crowd. Watch an evolutionist support his belief in evolution, see a universalist argue against Scripture, but ultimately rejoice because Christ is proclaimed!
Watch the following 4 and a half minute entertaining video report from the night.
All glory to God!
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I used an inexpensive gray jersey for the initial mockup to test my pattern alterations. Lately, I feel more confident with pattern alterations so I am sewing my initial attempts in wearable fabrics rather than muslin. The cost is about the same as muslin, and if it fits well enough, I go ahead and finish the garment. I have lots of gray jersey and black ITY just for sewing mockups of knit patterns.
Happy with this pattern, I proceeded to sew another version in this ITY knit. I ignored all the puddling at the back of the waist. I am not sure if I
Evidently I am sewing for summer!
|Here is my second version of the Alice top.
Too bad the print is so busy you can't see the design of the top, or the design of the skirt,
which is the Style Arc Susan Skirt.
|The skirt is designed to be 28 inches (72cm) long,
but I removed the excess and hemmed mine to 24 inches (61cm) .
Isn't this a cute skirt? I sewed mine in a size 14 (Australian) straight out of the envelope without alterations. My waist is not as small as the measurements indicate, but I suppose knit fabric is just very forgiving. It actually felt very swishy and swell in that 28 inch length, so I think I will sew another one, in a solid color, and leave it long.
In addition to a superior fit, there is a substantial amount of novelty to be enjoyed with the Style Arc patterns. For starters, the packaging is different. They come in large clear sleeves that I intend to store in a 3-ring binder. There is one piece of paper with the pretty pictures and the instructions on it. The instructions consist of a sequence of tasks to be performed. There is a glossary on the website along with more detailed tutorials. The pattern paper is sturdy; the notches, stitching and cutting lines are easy to see.
Just a side note, my mother never read the instructions when she sewed. Only recently, she shared her suspicion that she'd always had some type of learning disorder. And here I thought, all this time, that she did not follow instructions because she was just so good at sewing. I held myself to that standard all these years. It was as if I relied on the instructions, I was cheating or something. *snort* Her example certainly influenced my sewing experience. I have only taken classes and bought sewing books in the last few years. Classes and books feel like an indulgence, which is nice. Maybe this is just a hallmark of being middle-aged. I've come to appreciate simple things, and to be grateful when life is simply boring.
There is more! I've been sewing pants. I am just in love with the simplicity and the fit of the Linda pant, and I will share more of that in my next post.
And, just to keep it real, I have a wadder to report. The black ruffled cardigan did not work out. The stretch wool crepe was just too lightweight to do the job. I'll be on the lookout for a nice boiled wool and resume that project in the future. Maybe that wadder is why I am enjoying simple sewing so much.
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Any administrative actions that could provide incentives for more open communication of agency activities, within the government and to the public, would contribute to overcoming this barrier.
Most participants commenting on this question emphasized that the needs most relevant to planning U.S. assistance activities are priorities articulated by the governments and institutions of the developing countries. Therefore, in contacts with other countries' governments, U.S. parties should be prepared to listen, ask, and discuss so as to discover what kinds of initiatives are desired. Participants suggested a number of other guidelines for U.S. government interactions with governments of developing countries concerning road safety:
Initiatives must be structured as cooperative efforts with all parties being equal around the table, rather than the developing country being relegated to a junior partner status.
In communicating with other countries, the U.S. participant must clearly enunciate the nature of its interest and the scope of its commitment to cooperative initiatives.
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Photo- and textbook.
Bookrelease summer 2014.
The book will also be published in
swedish and english:
'Vi bor i varandra' / 'We live in one another'
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The man accused of sexually assaulting and beating a young woman in a Penticton second hand store is prepared to enter a guilty plea at his next court appearance.
James Pennington, the lawyer for David Bobbitt, indicated Monday that his client will enter the plea on seven charges he is facing on April 2 in Penticton.
Circumstances surrounding the case will also be presented to the court at that time and Bobbitt will be listed as a dangerous offender.
Bobbitt is facing charges including attempted murder, aggravated assault and unlawful confinement or imprisonment related to the incident on July 31, 2011.
On that date, Bobbitt, the operator of Dave's Second Hand Store on Ellis Street, allegedly tied up, confined and sexually assaulted a 22-year-old woman at the location. Her toddler was found unharmed nearby.
After a Canada wide warrant was issued for Bobbitt, an orchardist in the Oliver area saw him setting up camp on his property on Aug. 3. The man contacted the RCMP leading to his arrest.
The young woman who was seriously injured in the assault, quickly received the support of family members and the entire community.
On Monday, Bobbitt leaned forward and appeared resigned, as he appeared by video in the court room. He said he will need to talk to his lawyer about what is happening, because he is not sure how the whole court thing works.
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Family members of the victim expressed relief and happiness over the direction the case appears to be heading, as they left the court house.
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As the rain began to fall in Everbank Stadium on Sunday, the Bengals wrapped up their third win of the season, this time against the Jaguars. What is most impressive about their 3-1 record is the way that their game planning has continually improved to maximize their makeshift personnel.
Newly-signed Chris Crocker was reunited with the team as Chris Lewis-Harris was promoted from the practice squad to alleviate the Bengals' cornerbacks, of which only Terrance Newman and Adam Jones were available. The run game was also worrisome for the Bengals, not only their own struggling attack but the dangers that Maurice Jones-Drew presented to the Bengals' linebacking corps.
In the end, the Bengals were able to emerge with a 27-10 win, their third straight, to improve to 3-1 to keep pace with the division-leading Ravens. They were able to maximize the personnel they had available through another well-designed game plan that maximized their personnel.
Marvin Lewis, Jay Gruden and Mike Zimmer deserve much of the credit for this win, but several Bengals were also indispensible to Cincinnati ruining a day in which Fred Taylor was added to the Jaguars' ring of honor.
Let's look at how the Bengals rained on the Jaguars' big day.
Chris Crocker and Reggie Nelson: Reunited and it Feels So Good
Even though Chris Crocker was added to the Bengals as a reaction to their depleted cornerbacks, his coverage was no more important than the way he was able to elevate the play of ex-Jaguar Reggie Nelson. With Crocker able to play in more of a free-safety style high and in the middle, Nelson saw extended time underneath for the first time this season. He thrived in his return to the role which he played in the Bengals' top-ten defense of the past two seasons.
Blitzing, run support, and underneath pass coverage are all strengths to Nelson's game. So far this season, with Taylor Mays and Jeromy Miles as his fellow safeties, he was forced to play almost exclusively over the top. When he finally returned to his comfort zone, he was able to give a boost to the run defense.
In the play above, Nelson diagnosis a running play and provides support on the edge, not allowing a run to be bounced outside for a large gain. This has been a sore subject for the Bengals this season, but with Nelson in run support the Bengals held Jones-Drew to 38 yards and a 2.92 average.
In the screen pass above, Nelson immediately diagnosis the play and runs up to make the tackle. With middle linebacker Rey Maualuga struggling in every facet of his position, Nelson's run-support and controlled chaos gave the Bengals a huge boost in the area that had haunted them through three games.
Crocker played excellent in coverage all game. His interception was a direct result of instinctive, heads-up play. He and Nelson were both playing over the top, and when Gabbert lofted a pass over Jones' head, Crocker broke on the ball and took a great angle to make the interception. Less recognized was Crocker's coverage on several sideline and underneath routes on Justin Blackmon to limit what could have been huge gains by the rookie receiver.


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Thank you so much for featuring my "Glorious Colors" duvet cover from Deny Designs!! This pixelated image is actually created from one of my original paintings, it was fun to play around with a digital aspect to create something unique and different. Here is a picture of the original painting "Glimmer of Hope" ~ http://fineartamerica.com/featured/glimmer-of-hope-by-madart-megan-duncanson.html


text: A Critic at Large May 28, 2007 Issue A Boy's World The Tintin century. By Anthony Lane Table of Contents A frame from "The Crab with the Golden Claws" (1941), the book in which Tintin meets Captain Haddock. Credit © HERGÉ/MOULINSART 2007 A hundred years ago, on May 22, 1907, a child named Georges Remi came into being. He was born in the Etterbeek district of Brussels, which is about as quiet a start in life as any person can have. Four years earlier and sixty miles away, in Liège, another Georges was born, a countryman of Remi's named Simenon, of equally unremarkable origins. Yet each man would, in his unobtrusive way, conquer the world. Simenon became the author of more than four hundred books, including seventy-five novels featuring Maigret, the wisest and least judgmental of detectives. In his novice years, he often wrote under the pseu-donym of Georges Sim, and Georges Remi, likewise, preferred a shrunken name, although in his case the diminution stuck. He took his initials, switched them around, and ended up with R.G., which a Frenchman—or a French-speaking Belgian—would pronounce as Hergé. He devised his own investigator: younger than Maigret, more geographically thrusting, and far less fond of the bottle, but imbued by his creator with a similar, lightly borne air of moral purpose. His name was Tintin, and to date some two hundred million copies of his adventures have been sold. There are twenty-three complete Tintin books, ranging from "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" (1930) to "Tintin and the Picaros" (1976). They are comic books, and Tintin is the cheery, footloose hero of them all, his bravery just this side of recklessness and his constant companion a small white mutt named Snowy. Each book began, like a Victorian novel, in serialized form, the plot unfolding—or left judiciously hanging—in the pages of a newspaper or a magazine. To the majority of his uncountable fans, however, in more than forty languages, Tintin means a book: a slender object of desire, as large as a file folder but as jewelled in its coloring as an illuminated Psalter, and so clearly unwordy that even the least bookish of children will feel that they are holding something more delicious than burdensome. To receive a copy in hardback, as opposed to softcover, was, in my childhood, a gift beyond compare. At boarding school, Tintins were the rarest kind of contraband; just to add to the mystery, we were forbidden to read them except in the sickroom, and there must be others besides me who were left with the Proustian suspicion that illness, however painful, was not without its joys, and with the feverish memory of lying there, propped up, hearing the noise of a normal school day swell and recede below, and plunging instead into the far more extravagant, unregulated life of the boy reporter and his dog. Tintin addicts are a mixed bunch. Last week, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, the director of "The Lord of the Rings," announced a three-picture deal to bring Tintin to the big screen. I once heard Hugh Grant declare on a radio program that if he could take only one book to a desert island it would be "King Ottokar's Sceptre" (1939). The same work, which takes place in the imaginary kingdom of Syldavia, was described to me by Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian steeped in the culture of the Balkans, as one of the most acute parodies ever written—or drawn—of the region's nationalist politics. General de Gaulle declared that Tintin was his only international rival—he was envious, perhaps, not just of Tintin's fame but of the defiantly positive attitude that he came to represent. (Both figures can be recognized by silhouette alone.) The French have half claimed Tintin as one of their own, and earlier this year the Pompidou Center, in Paris, mounted a major Hergé show. On the outside of the museum, draped down the full six-story height of the building, was a red-and-white rocket with a long, explosive plume. If you had read "Destination Moon" (1953) or "Explorers on the Moon" (1954), you would recognize that rocket instantly, and would know that its nose was pointing not only at the stars above but toward an area no less ripe for exploration. It was going to Tintinland. How to describe the place? "A fictive universe which is as coherent, and as closed in on itself, as the world of Balzac." That is the view proposed, in "The Metamorphoses of Tintin" (1984), by Jean-Marie Apostolidès, who states that the hero of the early stories "annihilates himself in the absolute," which may be another way of saying that he keeps falling through trapdoors. Hergé has never been short of commentators, who are both enticed and (although they would not admit as much) exasperated by the care and calmness of his art—by how little it gives away and by how much, to their prying eyes, it must therefore be concealing. In "Tintin and the Secret of Literature," published last year, the British artist and novelist Tom McCarthy plots an enjoyable course through the corpus, helped on his way by Baudelaire, Sartre, Derrida, Freud, and the anthropologist Marcel Mauss, whose name could easily belong to an Hergé villain. For McCarthy, Tintin—in particular the Tintin who gazes out from the cover of "The Castafiore Emerald" (1963), shushing the reader with a finger held to his lips—is "the protector of the ultimate meaning held irretrievably in reserve." And you thought you were reading a comic book. On one level, the growing band of exegetes—Tintinologists, as they are called—know that they are playing an overheated game, toying to the point of comic surfeit with a set of kids' stories that are intended to be funny. In McCarthy's words, "The Tintin books remain both unrivalled in their complexity and depth and so simple, even after more than half a century, that a child can read them with the same involvement as an adult." I would say that the child's involvement has a credulous freshness that the adult, for all the critical tools at his or her disposal, will strive in vain to recapture, but McCarthy is right to point up the simplicity of Hergé's achievement. There is infinite variety in the settings of the Tintin books—he journeys to landscapes as disparate as Peru, Scotland, Egypt, Tibet, and the pitted lunar surface—and yet what keeps the tales intact, and prevents them from splintering into travelogues, is the unifying presence of our hero, plus that select squadron of characters who recur from book to book, and who warm even the most exotic scenes with their foolish familiarity. Most important, there is Captain Haddock, a bearded sailor, who, as we learn from "The Secret of the Unicorn" (1943), which recounts the legend of his seventeenth-century forebear, has the sea in his blood, although the salt may long since have been flushed away by the contending flood of alcohol. At his earliest meeting with Tintin, in "The Crab with the Golden Claws" (1941), the Captain is little more than a lush, with a drunkard's unthinking bravado but few other virtues; as is so often the case, it took the author a while to realize the potential of his own creation. (P. G. Wodehouse wrote of Jeeves, "I still blush to think of the off-hand way I treated him at our first encounter.") Haddock proved indispensable as a roistering comic foil, forever issuing the same polysyllabic curses ("Billions of blue blistering barnacles!"), and he is still there, pipe in mouth, on the final page of "Tintin and the Picaros," thirty-five years after his début. There are other figures who acquire the relentlessness of the leitmotif—striking when they first appear, dangerously close to tedious as you realize that, like eager party guests, they are never going to leave, yet somehow growing funny again through that undaunted capacity for repetition. I am thinking of Professor Calculus, Hergé's benign twist on the loony scientist, vast of brain and hard of hearing; Bianca Castafiore, the opera singer whose embonpoint fights for supremacy with the punishing force of her coloratura; Jolyon Wagg, the insurance salesman and archetype of the hearty bore, roaring at his own good humor as he invades the space of more retiring souls; and Thomson and Thompson, the hapless detectives who come with their own built-in repetition, each being almost a mirror image of the other. A single letter keeps them apart: to French readers they are Dupont and Dupond, to Spanish Hernandez and Fernandez, and to Afrikaners (who call Haddock "Kaptein Sardijn") Uys and Buys. Arabic-speaking Tintinophiles know them as Tik and Tak. The detectives' initial act, on the fourth page of "Cigars of the Pharaoh" (1934), is to arrest Tintin for suspected drug smuggling. Once that misunderstanding is ironed out, they become both a perpetual annoyance—tripping from one tale to the next, often worsening the scrapes in which Tintin finds himself—and a ridiculous double talisman. He is invariably glad to see them, and so are we, in the way that we relish the company of our most mockable relatives; when they fail to show up in "Tintin in Tibet" (1960), one of Hergé's finest projects, we vaguely miss their presence, regretting that they are unable to join the fray. They like to don disguises, especially national costumes, yet camouflage has the effect of making the pair look more, not less, conspicuous, and they tend to revert to their basic outfit: black bowler hat, mustache, dark suit, and pratfall-enhancing cane. How did this look arise? Hergé admitted, in an interview in 1971, that his father, Alexis, had a twin brother who copied him in every particular, including headgear and facial hair. "My father had a cane, my uncle went and bought the same one," he recalled, then added, "What's odd is that I never gave a second's thought to them when creating Thomson and Thompson. But the coincidence is strange, all the same." So it is. Hergé was a product of the solid Catholic bourgeoisie, educated at Saint-Boniface school in Brussels. Harry Thompson, one of his biographers, starts his second chapter with the heading "Hergé and the Unbelievably Dull Childhood," and, indeed, what follows is quite hypnotizing in its lack of drama, let alone of glamour. Hergé performed well at school, although, as he later claimed, "if you believe my parents, I was only really well-behaved when I had a pencil in my hand and a piece of paper." He added, "I couldn't tell a story except in the form of a drawing." Notice, from the start, the emphasis on plot. Within the Tintin books, there are compositions so perfect, so uncluttered, that they have been inflated from two or three square inches to poster size, yet it would be hard to find a single frame that does not either set a scene or notch the tale forward, as precisely as the cog of a gear. Such stimulation as there was in Hergé's youth came from his exploits as a Scout. A proto-Tintin by the name of Totor appeared in a cartoon strip that Hergé drew for a journal called Le Boy-Scout Belge, and there remains, in the developed character, a trace of the tryanything, do-gooding spirit of the Scout troop. The troop itself, however, has long since faded; Tintin has a number of friends, most of them disturbingly weird, yet essentially he acts alone, with only his pet as a sidekick. As the books progress, he becomes a kind of hyperscout, so determined never to be bored that, not content with seeking or initiating thrills, he appears to attract them by some inherent force of narrative gravity. There are twelve frames on the first page of "The Black Island" (1938), three across by four down. In the first, our hero is walking along a country road, with Snowy chasing a butterfly at his side. The pastoral interlude lasts exactly one frame. In the next, a sound breaks the peace ("RRRR PFTT PFTT"), and by the twelfth frame Tintin is lying face down in a field with a bullet in him and Snowy barking at a departing airplane. In short, things fall over themselves to happen to Tintin, who is what all boys both love and dread becoming: a magnet for trouble. In 1925, Hergé, his studies completed, went to work for Le Vingtième Siècle, or the Twentieth Century, a daily whose guiding principles—it was described on its masthead as a "Catholic and National Newspaper of Doctrine and Information"—bore the stamp of less tolerant times. The editor was an energetic right-wing clergyman named Father Norbert Wallez, who kept a framed photograph of Mussolini on his desk. In 1928, Hergé was deputized to edit the children's supplement, Le Petit Vingtième, which appeared every Thursday. On January 10, 1929, there was an announcement: Le Petit Vingtième, always keen to satisfy its readers and to keep them abreast of what is happening abroad, has just sent into Soviet Russia one of its best reporters: Tintin! And there he was: a kid in a striped tie and checked suit, boarding a train with a dog. The checks made no effort to follow the curve of the clothes, being simply imposed in a grid pattern—a rebuke to perspective, and a first sign of the bracing flatness that we associate with the classic Tintin image, unhampered by fuss. Clarity is administered like a punch. Happiest of all is the incident on page 8, which will shape our hero for all time: he leaps down from a tree into the front seat of a car and speeds off, with the windy force of acceleration blowing his forelock back into a quiff. And there it stays, a never-breaking wave, as stiff as a unicorn's horn, for the rest of his days, as if to remind us of that primordial thrill. The Soviet Union was no random destination. Father Wallez wanted Tintin, the mascot of impressionable Catholic minds, to use his first assignment to uncover the perilous scourge of Bolshevism. Whether young Belgians had a genuine thirst for spiritual propaganda is hard to tell; at any rate, so successful was the rookie reporter that, for his return from the Red menace, on May 8, 1930, an actor was hired to grease his hair, put on Russian clothes, and step off a train in Brussels into an adoring throng. The fact that, officially, Tintin did not exist, that he lived in two rather than three dimensions, and that he had been dreamed up by a man named Remi, who walked some distance behind "Tintin" at the station, put no damper on the day. Tintin was launched, and his next port of call was still more provocative. For years, the result, "Tintin in the Congo" (1931), was unavailable, and no wonder. (Its eventual reappearance in a magazine in Zaire may be an irony too discomforting for Western readers.) The book is an unmitigated parade of racial prejudice, with bug-eyed natives swaying between ignorance and laziness. Hergé redrew it in 1946, but without changing such scenes as a black woman on her knees, bowing to Tintin (who has just given her husband quinine) and crying, "White man very great! . . . Has good spirits. . . . Him cure my husband! . . . White mister is big juju man!" Back comes the reply: "We're the tops, aren't we just?"—delivered not by Tintin but by Snowy, whose thoughts are bubbled like speech. Not only is the white man superior to the races that he rules; so is his dog. Hergé did alter the lesson that Tintin teaches to a classroom of Congolese children. In the later version, it is mathematics. In my facsimile copy of the original, as printed in Le Petit Vingtième, our hero, introduced by a Catholic priest, points to a blackboard and begins, "My dear friends, I am going to talk to you today about your country: Belgium!" Behind that exclamation mark lurks a saga of appropriation and enslavement that, even by the standards of European incursions into Africa, took cruelty to bewildering extremes. (It is often the most placid and orderly of nations that give rise to the most unfettered of distant colonies, as if requiring a jungle in which to unleash their communal id.) The Belgian Congo had been born as an idea, and thus grabbed as a usable possession, in the last quarter of the previous century; it owed its allegiance to Leopold II, the King of Belgium, who never went near the place, and who grew rich on African rubber. Those who refused to toil for the regime were summarily punished; in 1899, an American Presbyterian missionary reported finding more than eighty severed human hands being smoked like hams over a fire. This was the comic paradise in which Tintin larked. What matters about the early Tintin books is not just the attitudes that they enshrine—Hergé claimed that his concept of the Congo, which remained under Belgian rule until 1960, was no different from that of his compatriots at the time—but the steps that he then took to shrug off his xenophobia. A crucial happening, in this respect, was his encounter, in 1934, with Chang Chong-chen, a student at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. Hergé had declared his interest in China as a plausible setting for a Tintin tale, and he needed an adviser. Many years later, Chang recalled their coalescence: We were like two brothers. I suggested to him that to use real events as the inspiration for his adventures would be a better idea . . . the oeuvre would have a historical value, divested of pure fantasy and artificial sentiments. Thus "The Blue Lotus" was born. The book came out in 1936, and with it emerged the principle that would both drive and stabilize Hergé's efforts for the rest of his life. It is an ethic that the Flaubert of "Salammbô" would recognize: the farther your reach, whether into the past or across continents, the more compelling your duty to get it right. You or I may not know what a chorten is, but Hergé knew: it is a Buddhist monument, and he would not be able to embark on "Tintin in Tibet" without amassing photographs of monasteries, lamas, and, yes, chortens, all of which would be copied in fanatical detail in the book. The same held true for every other region, as for every automobile and airplane, that he presumed to depict. It is as though he went in terror of improvisation, because he knew where—in the case of the Belgian Congo—ignorance had led. This is not to ascribe any gnawing shame to Hergé but merely to suggest that he redeemed his transgression in the only way that an artist can—namely, with pencil and pen, banishing technical error and hoping that other, larger injustices would disappear in turn. Hergé remained indebted to Chang, who returned to China, and with whom he lost contact for years. In 1960, "Tintin in Tibet" showed Tintin searching desperately for a friend named Chang in the yeti-haunted snows, and in 1981, two years before Hergé died, the real Chang came to Belgium for a tearful reunion. He had shown Hergé how to beat back prejudice: Don't flare up, cry vengeance, or launch competing theories. Just tell the truth. That is why my favorite Tintin stories are those with their feet on the ground. They may be outlandish, but I like to recognize the lands in question, and the activities that unfold upon them. Give me rain, a running Tintin, the brewing of European intrigue, and the long, menacing hoods of enemy cars: at times like these, in "King Ottokar's Sceptre" and "The Calculus Affair" (1956), Hergé slots into position next to John Buchan, Graham Greene, and the Ruritanian fantasies of Anthony Hope. Conversely, whenever the fantastical looms, however splendid, my attention drops. I am keen to follow Tintin, for example, as he pursues a chunk of meteorite that has fallen into the Arctic Ocean, in "The Shooting Star" (1942), but once he steps onto the bobbing rock, and finds it brimming with giant spiders and sprouting toadstools the size of elephants, something in the story drowns. "The Land of Black Gold," similarly, is about a fight over oil supplies, but at the last gasp Thomson and Thompson swallow some bad tablets and wind up with floor-length green hair and green bubbles spewing from their lips. The Tintin books seem so blithe today, and their farcical mechanisms so well lubricated, that it is hard to imagine how they had to be mended and recast along the way. "The Land of Black Gold," for instance, appeared as a book in 1950, full of references to the Stern Gang and other cells of Jewish resistance against the British Mandate in Palestine. By the time it was revised, in 1971, these had all but vanished. Yet there had been an even earlier version, initiated in 1939 but dropped in May, 1940, not least because its central baddie was German. By then, Belgium was occupied, and Le Vingtième Siècle had shut down. Hergé, after brief military service and a spell in France, returned to his homeland and to a job at Le Soir, where, in September, 1941, the weekly ration of Tintin expanded to a daily strip. Under these new conditions, Hergé—like Wodehouse, who was interned as an enemy alien—not only survived but bloomed into one of his most flourishing periods. Once the war ended, both men were interrogated about the nature and intensity of their collaboration (Le Soir had been taken over by the occupiers); both pleaded guilty of innocence, and neither ever dispelled the shadow of suspicion. There are two kinds of evidence against Hergé. The first is circumstantial: his acquaintance with Léon Degrelle, for example, a Tintin fan who founded Rex, the association of Belgian Fascists, received support from Hitler and Mussolini, and devoted himself, after the war, to the cause of Holocaust denial. It was Degrelle who, years before, as a foreign correspondent for Le Vingtième Siècle, had sent a package of American comics to Brussels from Mexico, thus introducing Hergé to the delights of the Katzenjammer Kids and Krazy Kat. More damning is Bohlwinkel, the rapacious financier whom Hergé planted in "The Shooting Star," and who originally bore the name of Blumenstein; in a letter of 1954, the author, responding to a charge of anti-Semitism, placed him alongside "English colonists thrashing the Chinese, German merchants of sudden death, treacherous Japanese, terrible African sorcerers, Chicago gangsters," adding that he had nothing as a whole against "Yellows, Blacks, or Whites." Hergé himself was no villain; indeed, he became a joy-bringer of global renown. But his ability to dig himself into a hole of misconceptions, and to avert his gaze from evil, verges at times on the chronic. Or are we asking too much? Might children crave such ready aversion more than ever? Nobody could advocate the return of the blunt stereotypes in which Hergé dealt, but the dangers in which his hero gets trapped—excitingly mortal yet shorn of actual suffering—require no adjustment. Tintin seems ideally formed to glance off real history, catching and bruising himself on its corners; it's no surprise that Spielberg, the man who brought us Indiana Jones, should have declared an interest. Like Indy, Tintin has more than enough literal plunges to keep him busy; he seems to spend an inordinate amount of time on rockfaces and heaving decks, in tunnels or the cockpits of plummeting planes. You could try to count the number of times when walls, bookshelves, and other surfaces give way and yield up hidden passages, but you would go crazy, just as Tintin almost tears his quiff out trying to decipher the clues with which fate both bestrews and blocks his path. (Hergé, asked what he would have become if not an artist, replied, "Spéléologue," or spelunker.) After a mere eight pages of "The Crab with the Golden Claws," we find Tintin adding up the oddities that have arisen so far: "A tin + a drowned man + five counterfeit coins + Karaboudjan + a Japanese + a letter + a kidnapping = a real Chinese puzzle." There was also the magnifying glass that he mistook for a bone. Such fetishistic love of objects would have pleased Hitchcock, as would the moment on the penultimate page of "The Secret of the Unicorn" when three scraps of paper, each of which has been tucked inside the mast of a model ship, are layered together and held up against the light, the palimpsest revealing the location of the next concealment—a pirate's hoard, to be unearthed in the sequel, "Red Rackham's Treasure" (1944). Tintinologists cannot get enough of these buried treasures, and I applaud Tom McCarthy for the logical rigor with which he deduces that the jewel embedded in the title of "The Castafiore Emerald" is, in fact, Bianca Castafiore's clitoris. Given that she is not only a diva, whose party piece is the "Jewel Song," from Gounod's "Faust," but a certifiable ball-breaker (Haddock quails at the sight of her), anything is possible. Yet McCarthy's argument falters for one reason: there are no genitalia in Hergé's work, because there is no sex. Tintin passes increasing portions of his life with an unmarried seaman, yet it seldom occurs to us to question their rapport. Tintin never has a girlfriend, nor does he express the need for one, and that absence is part of his greater mystery. He has no parents or siblings. He has no children, of course, and we are unsure whether he counts as a child himself; like Peter Pan, the boy reporter never ages, being a person both of his time and buoyantly apart from it. He often dresses in plus fours, like a golfer of the nineteen-twenties, yet when he finally upgrades to flared brown jeans, in "Tintin and the Picaros," we feel embarrassed and betrayed on his behalf. If he reminds me of anyone, it is Charlie Brown. Both characters are more profoundly understood by their dogs than by any human. Both, indeed, are barely characters at all, being a bundle of unchanging qualities—courage and curiosity in one, hope and defeatedness in the other—allied to the simplest of graphic gestures. An oval, two dots, a line that sometimes widens to an O: such is Tintin's head, and at moments of stress or shock it is surrounded by a bizarre halo of flying drops, though whether these are symbolic or sweaty I can never decide. He came here once, for "Tintin in America" (1932), but though the visit ended with a ticker-tape parade, it was not a success, for Tintin failed to root himself in the local imagination. He has sold in forty languages, and his questing has become a lingua franca, yet the United States has felt no widespread craving for his exploits. Spielberg will have his work cut out for him: Tintin may be too constrained for American tastes, being possessed of no superpowers, and with his earthly powers under tight restriction. He is Clark Kent without the phone booth, although Clark at least had a paying job, whereas Tintin, nominally a reporter, never receives a salary or files a story. If anyone here has warmed to the primary boldness of Hergé's colors, and to the confidence of his compositions, it is not child readers but grownup artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein, both of whom admired him. (Warhol did Hergé's portrait on request.) In such spirited company, he can be viewed as a prophet of Pop, and that is how I revere him, too, decades after I lay in the sickroom and devoured his collected works. Hergé has long ceased to make me laugh, but he puts me into a blissful trance, in which the same old jokes and people, with minor variations, stream brightly across the page. 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This tin smells like dessert, seriously. I considered dipping it (and may still) the topping smells that good. No "chem" smells, just raspberry jam and vanilla upfront, roasted cocoa/coffee when you really get in there.
Initial char, a hollow, tinny smoke with a strong dry raspberry. As I tamped and did a full light I got a great big mouthful of raspberry and cocoa smoke that was incredibly thick. Just as with the tin note, not a lot of chemical taste or smell, just raspberries. The smell was heavy on the vanilla where I didn't really detect it as much when competing with the raspberry flavor of the smoke.
Halfway through the bowl, I started to pick up some coconut flavors. I also picked up a very familiar aromatic taste, like the smell of Dad's Borkum Riff vanilla cav.
Despite smoking this pipe rather hot (like a fat kid eating cake, really) I didn't get any tongue bite, even when I could tell the smoke was hotter than it should have been.
This is a wonderful aromatic, for the reason that it is more strongly flavored than anything else I've had, yet does not have any of the more synthetic flavors once it starts burning. The burn qualities were exceptional, even when hot this didn't bite.
The only drawback being that the tobacco, at no time, takes anything more than the role of "flavor delivery medium". That's ok, but I think I would have liked to taste some more distinct tobaccos in there as well.
Pipe Used: Benton Bulldog (Edwards)
Age When Smoked: Unknown
Purchased From: Pipes and Cigars
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This is a Lane Tobacco and as a fan of CAO products, I don't feel that it's a good representation for CAO. I don't care for the whimsical clear plastic disk on top of the tobacco as it hinders the drying of the opened tin (and it needs to dry desperately). There's surprising little flavor, other than vanilla. The Virginia content is just a teaser and not a player. This stuff smokes like a coal furnace; once it's burning, it continues to burn like a scented bathroom candle - magic hee hee. If you're looking for a great Raspberry flavor, buy some Lane Black Raspberry in bulk; it smokes much better and has less PPG. CAO Black is saturated with goopy oily gunk and besides leaving my mouth raw, it made one hell of a mess in my pipe. If you've never tried CAO Moontrance or Eileens Dream, please don't prejudge CAO based on this muck. I bought two tins when CAO Black first hit the market because they were on sale 2 for 1; I gave one tin to a friend (he likes it). I don't like giving bad reviews, and perhaps the first batch had some problems. But if you're looking for Captain Black, buy Captain Black and if you plan to smoke aromatics regularly, it might be best to purchase them in bulk as the preservatives seem to be much more prevalent in tins.
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CAO black is in a class of tobaccos I refer to as the modern American aromatics, the flavor is ALL topping and NO tobacco. I never smoked a Hookah but imagine this weed would be at home in a hookah as well. The cavendish here, as a reviewer stated already, is a flavor delivery substrate and nothing more. Upon opening he tin you get smacked with the raspberry. It is a delicious smell and very strong. You can also get the cocoa and maybe some vanilla in the tin note but you have to try for it. It is excessively moist and needs a few hours dry time but once aired sufficiently it's ready to bring the goods. This tobacco is all about the topping and it delivers. Raspberry up front then cocoa and/or vanilla in the background depending on the puff. You'll need a few extra matches but Black is nice and consistent to the bottom. You'll be left with some sticky goo, some crusting, and a ghosted pipe but that's to be expected with this type of aro. Excellent room and beard note also expected with this class of tobacco. Hardly any nicotine to be had, just topping, topping, topping. I like this for an after lunch pipe before heading back to work or when doing something outside and feeling like a sweet smokable treat. Unsuitable for real, heady, pre-bedtime piping. Highly recommended for lovers of the highly cased leaf, for everyone else, meh.
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The can of tobacco I got was pretty moist so it may need some additional time to dry. I agree with some of the other reviews that Eileens dream is a much better blend, as I couldnt taste any of the rasberry or coco taste so much. Ill give it another shot in a briar pipe and see how that goes.
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Client: "We've decided we need a warmer blue in our logo."
Me: "Blue is a cool color."
Client: "Well, just make it warmer, whatever that takes."
Me: "It's impossible. Blue either becomes green or purple."
Client: "We don't like either of those options. Just do your best to warm it up without changing it dramatically. You're the designer. We know you can do it."
to be fair, the designer could have dug a little deeper to find out what the client meant by "warmer" rather than just assuming its art-dictionary definition.
there was obviously an end result partially-visualized in the client's mind, perhaps the current blue was a loud, bright turqoise. changing it to a richer, cobalt blue or indigo could easily be seen as 'warming' up the blue (as in making it friendly and more inviting)
is this like design pragmatics?
I think this is an interesting concept. Clients can be difficult, certainly, but it's also important to remember that they're often not very knowledgeable about what designers do (which is why they hired one, right?). It's easy to take the "my client is an idiot, I have it so hard" approach just because the client doesn't speak the same language. Design is an abstract thing, it's difficult to describe in words for someone who does it every day, much less someone who knows nothing about it.
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Former Iowa Hawkeyes wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, who is planning on writing a tell-all book about his stint at the school, made some shocking statements about coach Kirk Ferentz earlier this week. Johnson-Koulianos, one the program's best receivers, accused Ferentz and the school of mishandling his drug-related suspension and costing him an opportunity to succeed in the NFL.
Storify collected some of the receiver's remarks about his mistreatment, which you can read here.
The Iowa athletic department responded to the accusations in a statement on Friday:
During his career at Iowa, Mr. Johnson-Koulianos had moments of success on the field. He also made some unfortunate decisions during that period of time. As we do with all student-athletes, we attempted to assist him and work through the various issues. Unfortunately, his tenure ended with him being suspended from participating in intercollegiate athletics at Iowa due to being in violation of the UI's Student-Athlete Code of Conduct (ESPN).
Johnson-Koulianos talked about his upcoming book with ESPN:
I passionately served that institution for five years. I've reached out and made plenty of efforts to mend the relationship. I've certainly moved on but now an opportunity to tell my story about my life and all the experiences within it has presented itself.
My hope is that future players know the possibility of abandonment if adversity arises at this particular institution. Providing perspective can sometimes be detrimental but truth is what matters most.
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