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Past Lectures, Meetings, & EventsKeynoted the Informal Meeting of the 27 EU Environmental Ministers German Presidency of the European Union German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Keynote Speech: "Environment, Innovation, and Employment" Essen, Germany, 1 June 2007 Mr. Rifkin was
invited by German Environmental Minister Sigmar Gabriel to give the keynote
address at the Informal Meeting of the 27 EU Environmental Ministers, during
Germany's presidency of the Council of the European Union. In his speech,
Mr. Rifkin outlined a strategic economic game plan for ushering in a third
industrial revolution and a shift to a post-carbon, post-nuclear era for
Keynote Address: "Globalization and Europe's Role in the World" Brussels, Belgium, 14 September 2007
House of World Cultures Keynote Address with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Berlin, Germany, 19 September
Chaired 5th roundtable at the conference entitled "Changing Mentalities and Patterns of Production and Consumption" Paris, France 2 February 2007
Sponsored by European People's Party-European Democrats (EPP-ED) of the
European Parliament
European CEO Forum Keynote Address: "Sustainability and Climate Change" Venice, Italy, 12 May 2007
57th UITP World Congress and Exhibition Public Transport: Moving People, Moving Cities Keynote Speech: "Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization in the 21st Century" Helsinki, Finland, 21 May 2007
Sponsored by the European Commission and European Parliament Keynote Speech: "The European Dream" Rome, Italy, 24 March 2007
Hosted by Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament Presentation at the Fair Energy Roundtable Speech Topic: "Environmental Technology- A Chance for Europe" Brussels, Belgium, 11 April 2007
SuperReturn 2007: The 10th Annual European Private Equity and Venture Capital Summit Morning Keynote Address: "The Third Industrial Revolution: Examining the Convergence of Energy, Climate, and Communication and the Business Opportunities This Will Create" Frankfurt, Germany, 27 February 2007
International Meeting on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome "To Be European Today: The Path of Identity Past and Future" Presentation to Italian Parliament Rome, Italy, 5 June 2007
Reception of the 2007 Saint George Award Zaragoza, Spain, 23 April 2007
Abruzzi, Italy 15 September 2007 Featured LecturesLondon School of Economics and Political Science Ralph Miliband Lecture Series Speech topic: "The Hydrogen Economy: Making the Transition to the Third Industrial Revolution and a New Energy Era" Special Guest: Environment Minister David Miliband London, England, 8 May 2007 Deutsche Post World/DHL DHL Innovations Center Opening Speech Topic: "The Hydrogen Economy: Energy Innovation and the Future of Logistics" Troisberg, Germany, 27 March 2007 Credit Suisse Thought Leadership Conference: Time-Out: Leisure in the 21st Century Speech Topic: "The Future of Work and Leisure" Geneva, Switzerland, 19 March 2007 CIRT (Construction Industry Round Table) 20th Anniversary Conference: Future Factors 2020: "What Design & Construction Will Look Like in 20 Years" Keynote Speech: Third Industrial Revolution Audience: 75 CEOs of leading engineering, construction and architectural firms in the United States Grand Cayman Island, 29 October 2007 Akron Group Real Estate Sustainability Conference: "Global Solutions for Future Energy Economics" Keynote Speech: Third Industrial Revolution Vienna, Austria, 6 November 2007 Fortis Bank Fortis Energy Forum 2007 Speech Topic: "Leading the Way to the Third Industrial Revolution" San Antonio, Texas, 29 November 2007 IBM Corporation IBM Intelligent Utility Network Conference Keynote Speech: Third Industrial Revolution Audience: 50 participants from Senior Management of Utility Companies Scottsdale, Arizona, 30 November 2007 Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs Innovations Lecture 2007 Keynote Speech: Third Industrial Revolution Audience: 150 academicians, civil servants, top executives from the largest stock exchange companies The Hague, Netherlands, 4 December 2007 State of California Department of Education 19th Annual California Partnership Academies Conference: Educating Students for a World of Opportunities Keynote Speech San Diego, California, 12 March 2007 Swedish Confederation of Federal Employees (TCO) Conference: Growth, Jobs, and Welfare: A Scandinavian Model for Smart Growth? Speech Topic: "The Future of Work in the 21st Century" Stockholm, Sweden, 11 January 2007 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 21st Century Talks: Population Explosion to Implosion? Speech Topic: "'Homo Urbanus': Celebration or Lamentation?" Paris, France, 22 May 2007 |


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The problem is Nginx (1.1.10) does not seem to respond to a php file. Any suggestion welcomed.
1. XP with IIS + PHP + FastyCGI --- this has been installed and work fine Type 127.0.0.1 would get what it should be.
2. Nginx installed specified port 8888 and this is also work fine. Typing 127.0.0.1:8888 which will show the content of html/index.html.
3. The PHP section is un-commented as follow:
location ~ \.php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
The 127.0.0.1:8888/index.php or 127.0.0.1:9000/index.php only produce page unavailable message.
3.1 Test adding listen 9000 -- make no difference
3.2 Test with the following -- make no difference
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.dll";
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "C:\Program Files\PHP\php.exe";
The questions are:
1. is it right to think the correct testing should be: 127.0.0.1.8888/index.php and Nginx would know to direct PHP extention to fastcgi.dll?
2. I can not see anywhere in nginx.conf file tell Nginx to use fastcgi.dll? I thought it should be the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable
but testing with both does not seem to make any difference?
3. Is it necessary to have IIS enabled? I thought it should not but can not be sure.
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ALEXANDER CITY, AL. CONT. PERSON: RANDY AND GAYLE QUINN EMAIL: email@example.com ADD.: 1750 STEWARTVILLE RD. SYLACAUGA, AL. 35151 PHONE # 256-245-6175 WE WILL BE HOLDING OUR 1st ANNUAL PICNIC & BUSINESS MEETING OCTOBER 5th,2002 (ALSO A TRADE DAY) WE WILL BE TAKING MEMBERSHIPS FOR THE 2003 SEASON. EVERYONE IS WELCOMED!
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas Contact man is Buck Jones 870-886-2573 3 miles off highway 91 on county rd. 620. Clubhouse on the left. We host U.K.C. squirrel and coon hunts. We have full kitchen facilities and men and women's restrooms.
NKC hunts held the second Saturday September through May, except Nov. and April. Clubhouse located 13.7 miles north of I-40 on Hwy. 7.
President: Billy Ray Freeman P.O. Box 467 Dover, AR 72837 Phone: 479-857-1856 (after 7 p.m.) Email: email@example.com
Vice President: Dwight Phillips 92 Phillips Lane Hector, AR 72843 Email
Secretary:Lori Freeze P.O. Box 1330 Mountain View, AR 72560 Email
Treasurer/Hunt Director: Justin Hudspeth 2923 Black Hill Rd. Bee Branch, AR 72013 Phone: 501-514-1948 Email
Bruce Blihovde, Sec/Treas.
Arkansas Squirrel Hunters #9 Bay Meadows Drive Dardanelle, AR 72834 Phone Bruce: 479 229 5124 Established 1993 Incorporated - non-profit Insured We meet and hold trials at Petit Jean Mgt. Area, Centerville, AR. on the Pullen Pond field trial area. We have two buildings we can use ,both with kitchen facilities and bathrooms.
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Michael Croucher
5022 Ga Hwy 37 West
Moultrie, Georgia 31768
(229) 873-1602
8 miles south of the 72 mi. marker on I-64 along Ind. State Rd 145.
For info call Ralph Hobbs at 812-357-2683
Hunts listed in the Hunt Schedule of Squirrel Dog Central and Full Cry
Located in Scottsville Ky for info call:
Pres: Greg Shubert (270) 618-0783
We are located at Allen Co Coon club
In London Kentucky for info on activities call:
Bob Souders...606-843-9431....Boyd Perry...606-376-2146.......Nick Parker...606-549-1230
We are a state wide club in Louisiana.All are welcome to join.The
Compitition hunts will be Cur or Fiest only.We will also have buddy
hunts, youth hunts and lots of good Cajun food to eat.
Jason Gunter (318)466-9535
Rick Guillot (318)564-6806
Tommy Melder (318)623-9420
Ducie Ducote (318)447-9435
We are not just a cur club. We are going to have hunts for Feist Hounds and Curs. Our first buddy hunt is Sept 22 at the Tombigbee State Park north of Tupelo MS. Want to invite every one to come be a part of our first buddy hunt and join our new assoc.
Contacts: Beth Swords 1268 Co Rd 119 Blue Springs MS 38828 Tele# (662)534-8833
Our dues are $20 a year payable to Mid-South.
Established 2001 In Support of the UKC Mississippi State Championship for the Cur and Feist's.
Picayune, Mississippi Contact me Owen Brayson
Phone: 601-799-1703 E-mail
See Hunt calendar for information on hunts
Hartville, Missouri Contact: Donnie Clark 11050 Castlehill Drive Mountain Grove, MO 65711 417-453-6691 or Chester Clark 8603 Mtn. Cur Lane Mountain Grove, MO 65711 417-668-5592 We hold OMCBA and KSBA sanction Mtn. Cur hunts usually in the spring and again in the fall. We also hold Battle of the Breed Fun Hunts twice a year welcoming all types of dogs! No dates for any 2001 fall hunts have been made yet.
Located 20 miles south west of Springfield. for more info call Mike Smith 417-466-0426 or 417-425-9693
Allen Franklin 740-732-5647 48224,SR 174 Sarahsville,Ohio 43779
Will soon be putting on NKC squirrel hunts.
Located near Montpelier, Ohio. Directions and hunt schedule at www.trailhound.8k.com. My name and address is: Jim Davis 2799 Cemetery Rd. Edgerton, Ohio 43517 Phone #419-658-2246
Place: Haw Creek Community Center
21 miles South of Heavener, OK Turn left at Big Creek Church sign Go 5 miles, just past church, on the right.
We have our own rules posted. Consists of 2 hunters, 2 dogs and 2 guns Buddy hunts will be the 3rd Saturday of each month Except, for November, it will be the 2nd Saturday So, get a buddy and come on out.
Breakfast and Lunch will be available. Spectators and visitors are welcome. No non-prescription drugs or alcohol.
$10.00 entry fee per hunter Jackpot $10.00 membership dues run from February to February
For more information call:
Bruce Curnutt--918-655-3255
Cecil Williams--918-658-3527
Mickey Pilkington--918-653-7427
Jim Naylor--918-653-2959
Aaron Alexander--918-653-3356
Ceb Scott--918-653-2079
We meet the second Tuesday of each month at 5 pm. We are located off US 15S. on Leavinworth road approx. 3 miles south of Society Hill, S.C. We have our own clubhouse with all facilities (except phone). We host several sanctioned hunts each year, As listed in Full Cry and on the hunt calendar of this site.. Our membership dues are $20.00 the first year and $10.00 thereafter. There is a meal served at each meeting, and we'd love to have you join us either as a member or as a guest.
Terry Luther, secretary, at (843)479-7077
We are located in Whitmire, SC at the Whitmire Coonhunters Clubhouse. We hold several hunts evey year which are sanctioned by the USDR and NKC. We are also the host of the USDR World Hunt held every December. At the hunts we also have a bench show and a treeing contest for those interested. We also have a full kitchen and restrooms.
Our dues are $10 annual. If you are interested please contact Isaac Thompson at 803-787-7309 or email.
You can also check out our website at
We, the East Tennessee Squirrel Hunters Association, are not just a hunting club. We are a family oriented; NON-COMPETITION club that promotes good sportsmanship and hunting with dogs just to mention a few. We fish, we boat, we have club picnics, we hold shooting matches (just for bragging rights of course) and we especially hold in reverence the ability to take our youth hunting and fishing.
Robbie Silver my address is 1408 SAGER RD DANDRIDGE TN 37725.
Telephone is 865 475 4176 for info.
Chuckey,TN.We meet monthly. 1-2 buddy hunts a month. We need more competitive interest in membership to begin phases to host sanctioned hunts in this area of upper east TN. Contact: Secretary Paula Arnold Club web site
Established February 15, 2003
Our club covers Henderson, Decatur, Benton, and Carroll Counties.
The Goal of the NTSHC is to promote the sport of hunting with tree dogs and improve the image of hunting to the general public.
The NTSHC is a club for the family, we encourage wives and children to participate in all functions.
Any breed is allowed, the only criteria is the dog must be NKC registered to participate in events held during a registered Hunt.
Registered hunts will follow any and all rules of the appropriate registry.
Buddy hunts or fun hunts you can hunt what you bring.
There is a meal offered at each hunt, and we'd love to have you join us either as a member or as a guest.
For more information please see our website
Hunts will be listed on the Hunt Calendar of Squirrel Dog Central and Full Cry.
Jerry McBride (731) 968-8543 E-mail
Bendell Ellis (731) 352-9504 E-mail
John Carnett (731) 847-9787 E-mail
Reggie Montgomery (731) 549-2848 E-mail
NTSHC membership is $10.00 individual or $15.00 family due each January.
Contact: Chuck and Adam Loudin 16 Hickory Lane Buckhannon, WV 26201 (304)472-6745 Email Adam: email@example.com Email Chuck: email@example.com
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But for Kwasi Afari Minta, the Ghanaian musician who was caught in the King's Cross fire, the suffering does not end. On top of everything, he learnt yesterday that he now faces a legal bill approaching pounds 150,000.
Mr Minta, the most severely injured survivor of the disaster a decade ago, was awarded just pounds 110,427 damages by a High Court judge after an eight-day hearing. Since he turned down the pounds 350,000 settlement offered by London Underground because it was "simply not enough", he must now pay the company's lawyers' fees.
Speaking after the ruling by Mr Justice Toulson, Mr Minta, 43, who had submitted a claim for pounds 1m plus damages, said: "I am very disappointed. I have come out of this with nothing after all the suffering."
Patricia Dryden, head of litigation for London Transport, said they had already made payments of pounds 100,500 to Mr Minta and had tried to settle the action.
"Our last settlement offer of pounds 355,000 was deemed so sufficient by the Legal Aid Board that, because Mr Minta did not accept it, they withdrew legal aid a few days before the case was due to come to court, which meant he had no legal representation at court."
During the hearing earlier this month, Mr Minta, who lives with in Putney, south-west London, and is married with a five-year-old autistic son, admitted he was an illegal immigrant who should not have been in Britain at the time of the tragedy. He was given only a one-month visitor's visa when he arrived in the UK in 1985. He told Mr Justice Toulson that when he arrived he had not realised he needed a visa.
The giant fireball which exploded at King's Cross in November 1987 killed 31 people. A total of pounds 4.5m has been paid out to 110 people making claims for death, injury and property damages.
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How to Take Good Meeting Notes…
Oh, well. It wasn't a very good meeting, actually….
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You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.8 Comments on "How to Take Good Meeting Notes…"
May 2, 2008 at 9:43 amI still love the tee-ball guy in the lower right hand corner. It sort of looks like Dr. Xenon.
May 2, 2008 at 4:50 pmI love your notes…I have been in meetings where I've wanted to scream, "Just get to the point!" or "Make a decision, people!" but have refrained for fear that my backup career as a snarky blogger isn't going to pay the rent.
Have you ever seen the Kill Time book? Check it out. It's full of little images you can scribble on during meetings while still looking somewhat professional.
May 2, 2008 at 8:31 pmFriar,
The WTF Duck kills me. Oh my goodness this is a great piece of paper.
I was in a client meeting a few weeks ago listening to the client and crew blab on and on arguing among themselves (for my benefit of course), when I discovered there was a wireless signal in the room. Presto! I began "taking notes" on the laptop=writing emails.
I'd get too much into the drawing and get caught. Not very businesslike. Email was just the right amount of not paying attention to keep me from testing the length of my skirt by crawling out under the table. 🙂
May 11, 2008 at 11:35 pm[…] How often were you forced to attend a meeting in a tiny room and there aren't enough seats to go around the table? Late-comers end up having to sit against a wall. To me, this really sucks. Hell…if I'm going to be stuck in a stuffy box for God knows how long, watching painful PowerPoint slides that would euthanize a Great Dane, I need to be at a table where I can take notes, sip my coffee, and more importantly…doodle. […]


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Managing researcher development : 'drastic transition'?
Murray, Rowena and Cunningham, E. (2011) Managing researcher development : 'drastic transition'? Studies in Higher Education, 36 (7). pp. 831-845. ISSN 0307-5079
Full text not available in this repository. (Request a copy from the Strathclyde author)Abstract
Academics are expected to write for publication and meet publication targets in research assessment processes. These targets are set by national bodies and institutions, and they can be daunting for academics at the start of a research career. This article reports on an intervention designed to address this issue, writer's retreat, where academics simultaneously engaged with research assessment and developed writing projects. Using Gardner's model of researcher development, an evaluation study showed that retreat participants quickly adopted the programmatic element, made some progress in the relational element, but made little or no progress with the personal element. This analysis shows that the structured, facilitated writer's retreat is an effective method of researcher development, and points to specific areas where development did and did not occur. It shows that this new retreat format allows emerging researchers to negotiate their relationship with research assessment through writing, but it also identifies areas where further support is needed.
Item type: | Article |
ID code: | 35803 |
Keywords: | managing, researcher, development, Sociology, Education |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Sociology |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Social Work and Social Policy > Sociology |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2011 15:35 |
Last modified: | 22 Mar 2017 11:52 |
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Past relationships are tricky affairs.
What starts off as a fun round of twenty questions can turn into an icy chill in no time if you aren't careful.
Finding out more about past relationships is never a good thing, but like all inquisitive fools, we go looking for dirt in our lover's past.
And when we do find the dirt, we dirty our hands and are left with a stench that lingers for a long time after the discovery.
Talking about exes and past lovers may feel like a bag of bricks lifted off your back, but it may come back to haunt you again though your present lover.
If your new lover has popped the past relationships question to you, and you find no way of avoiding it with a smile or a wink, perhaps you should learn how to talk about past relationships and make sure you don't find yourself in sticky ground by giving the wrong answers.
How to talk about past relationships
The next time you come face to face with a question about your past relationships and the number of notches on your bed, keep these pointers in mind.
It'll help you answer well and your partner will hear exactly what they want to her, rather, what they should hear.
The do's and don'ts of confessions
First of all, you have to understand that all of us have a past. At times you may find yourself in a relationship with someone who's not dated many people. When you go out with someone who really doesn't have a sexual past as exciting or brag worthy as yours, you really have to think twice about telling all your secrets.
You're with this special person today because of the coincidences and relationships you've experienced before. And you really don't have to feel bad about your extensive list of past lovers once you've settled down with someone else, but you do have to be careful about what you say to your new lover.
Remember, you can still tell the truth to your new lover without going into explicit details.
Past relationship confessions
When you start going out with someone seriously, one of the first questions you may face after reaching a certain level of closure may be about your old flames. Everyone wants to know how frisky their mate has been in the past, and they want to know as much of their partner's past as they possibly can.
But what you reveal can change your relationship, always remember that.
You may have had previous partners, one night stands or even sex buddies. Or you may even have participated in activities that are way past your lover's moral barrier, so watch what you say. Try to avoid talking about your sexual partners as far as possible, but if the push comes to shove, then go for a very low figure, based on your partner's personality. Never ever make your partner feel second-best, or third or even fifteenth-best. Your present lover is special, and this is the person you want to be in love with, for the rest of time. Let them know that. [Read: Should you ever confess to cheating?]
Talking about the details
Even if your sweet love asks you to talk about your feelings and wants explicit graphic details of bedtime activities with your ex, don't do that. Things could only go from bad to worse. If your ex lover used to call you "tongue twister", "mind blower", "Mr. Yummy", or "Ms. Perky", just avoid mentioning that tiny detail. It's not necessary, and it is definitely not going to help. [Read: How to pick a pet name for your lover]
And if you've had a few one night stands or even made out with a total stranger, you're on dangerous grounds.
If you don't say anything, there's always the odd chance that your partner may find out anyways. On the other hand, even if you're a great lover, the fact that you had a few one night stands or experienced a sex-with-a-stranger fantasy, will inadvertently change the way your new partner looks at this new relationship. Really, unless someone's had a one night stand themselves, can they ever understand the real circumstances that led to the sex in the backseat or would they just think you're a horny perv who just can't wait to stuff or get stuffed?
When it comes to talking about the intimate details, skip the parts where you went sowing your wild oats or let anything that walks enter your doorway. It'll change your partner's perspective about the relationship. But do bring the topic up someday, when you're in a seasoned relationship and have built enough trust for your partner to overlook your wild earlier days.
Making the comparisons
When there's talk about past relationships, there's always bound to be comparisons. If your lover wants to know who's bigger or who's better, answer without thinking. Of course, it's your current mate who's the best, right?
A little white lie can help your relationship go a long way. You would only reassure your mate, and would help them feel better about themselves if you keep them happy in love, even if one of your exes was so good there were burn marks on the bed sheets after a scorching session in bed.
This is corny, but your past is history, and your future is a mystery. But work on your present, and make your partner feel like they're the best. Eventually, they may well be the best part of your life! [Read: How to be happy in a relationship]
Talking about sexual pleasure
So have you had sex in the back seat of the same car you're driving now? Or have you made out on a rocky cliff you haven't been to with your new lover? Or have you kissed one of your exes for over an hour and have never kissed your present amore for anything more than five minutes? Worry not. And tell not.
Things like these don't really have to be spoken. And for crying out loud, it's your lover we're talking about, not your priest. You can tell a bit, but never go the whole nine yards like it's going to improve your relationship or something! Trust your instincts and the moment your relationship feels threatened, quit talking more about it or going into explanations. [Read: Handling insecurities in a relationship]
And if you ever see your partner's lips quivering, their eyes getting wider or their nails digging into your upholstery in the middle of your confession, ahem, you've gone too far already!
Save your secrets
As much as you want to reveal all and hold no secrets in your romance, you should understand that some things are better left untold. A conversation about past relationships can be compared to walking into a haunted house. We all want to hear about it, we all want to experience the story, and we want to walk in and explore every little detail. [Read: New relationship advice for a good relationship]
But once you're too far in, you'd only regret it or pay a huge price. So before understanding how to talk about past relationships and going into your next revelation about your past relationship, think hard and ask yourself, can both of you walk out of it unharmed? If you can, then go right ahead and get into the details. If you can't see a satisfying ending by exploring your past, seal the doors of your past and throw the keys.
[Read: A past confession gone wrong!]
After all, talking about past relationships has no happy ending. Follow these tips on how to talk about past relationships and at least hope for a satisfying and simple ending, and a happier present relationship.
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So, I had the talk about my past. Not willingly but I did and it went exactly as I thought it would. It's being brought up with more questions, than I bear to answer. I don't understand why when I'm with him making him happy. I don't understand why he wants to talk about my past when it makes him unhappy and have me walking on eggshells so our relationship won't be destroyed. Having this conversation is like zip lining with nothing to hold onto while on the rope. This article was very helpful, I wish I would have read it before having the conversation.
I think we ask our partners about the past for a few reasons:
1) our own security as your new love. We want to be the best. And we are hoping we have been the best and are subconsciously trying to pry it out of you.
2) curiosity. But mostly security.
Well….this has been an eye-opener hasnt it! You wanna hear a story about me?? Of course you do!!
It all started when my partner and I moved in together for convenience reasons after dating for five months. I work from home so sometimes get distracted by things around the house. One day while my partner was at work I noticed her lap top (you know where this is going now don't you) open on the dining table – she had been applying for work you see. Anyways, she was reluctant to show me any photos of her in the past so I realsied that this was my chance to do a bit of snooping….and snoop i did!
Sure enough I found her photos, nothing incriminating at all, all above board and perfectly innocent, happy tiimes with friends, her family, her ex of six years, nothing to worry about (although I always make the conscious decision to delete all photos of ex's when I begin new relationships, I cant expect everyone else to do likewise, i know that.
The problem is that I snooped further and found three word documents saved that were emails written by my girlfriend to her ex. They had broken up in 2010 and she shortly after moved to the UK. at the end of this year when she realised that she was coming home to no job, no money, and not much at all, she began to miss him in the hope he would take her back. And worse for her was that she had found out the he had moved on and was happy in a new relationship. This crushed her and she did what many people would have done in the same situation and poured her heart out in the hope of getting him back. Now for me to read all this almost killed me, I was an absolute mess inside. How could she feel so much for someone and let them know it only eight months before me? How could she tell him their first sexual encpounter was amazing and it got better and better ever since? Ours certainly wasnt amazing – we were drunk after a night out and I lasted maybe 2-3 minutes? She even went as far as to sware on her deceased fathers grave that she truley wanted him back! This once again made me feel awful considering I was unfortunate to never meet her father.
I confronted her about my actions and her reaction was one of complete embarrassment and shock that I would be so deceitful. BUt since then she has explained that in the whole six years she never really loved him at all and that I am the only man she has ever loved. Yet I find this so hard to believe. I have uncovered numerous lies she has told but I do not have the courage to confront her about them because I am so affraid of her reaction. I truley love the woman – despite the fact I was deceitful in the extreme – my curiosity certainly got the better of me.
Now Our relationship, as far as i'm concerned is struggling because I do not know whether she is telling the truth about anything. She openly admitted to telling me she lied to her ex often just to keep the peace and make things easier and I have witnessed her mother even suggest she lie about things "because it's easier that way". I come from an honest family and I believe that the truth is always best in every situation. If the tructh cannot be handled then move on
What the hell do I do?
Never tell your past to your new boyfriend or girlfriend it will destroy the relationship iv experinced it i told my boyfriend about my past and he became so insecure he started making up his own past saying he lost his virginty with his ex after 3 years later he admitted it that he was a virgin when he met me and he ddnt know how to tell me we argued about his fake past for nothing for 3 years im not with that loser no more what a saddow insecure childish boy to create his own past up after knowing i had more sexual partners he had a choice i told him everything before getting together what a sad loser
I have never had a problem with my GF talking about our past relationships, everything from sexual details to likes and dislikes. But hey, we are almost of same character and loves adventurous talks. It did bring out some insecurities but again we totally overcame everything.
FACT: if you have to talk about your past, weigh the consequences of what you are about to say and who it is you are telling. The past is like the haunted house in a horror movie, you feel like you wanna see to the end but you are not sure whether what you are about to see is really worth it or not. The level of trust is what determines what you can talk and what you cannot.
But again, use your wisdom on this…..
I accidentally read an old message on my bf's facebook account with this girl that she met online, I know his ex gf but I'm curious why he didn't tell me about this girl. Based on the facebook message, they met somewhere and it seems like the girl liked him so much, I think they had a one night stand. I was shocked because he said I was his first.I don't know if I need to ask him about it, I felt like he didn't love me because he lied to me.
Interesting topic. As a BM, I am single, no kids, no drama, debt free and eedtacud. I prefer being single because it's easier. Women=less money, less time to get things accomplished in my opinion. People prefer not to become an item these days due to so-called super equality rights, feminism has definately played a major role in the decline of commitments. Most women are masculine and a ton of men of today's generation is feminine? (in my opinion). Hope this helps.
So the advice is to lie? That's the way to build a relationship.
I don't know why, but women seem to be the worst offenders in this area. My girlfriends have said, unprovoked, the stupidest things to me about their pasts — things no one would want to know. Meanwhile, I'm always careful and considerate to shield them from unnecessary details.
I'm tempted to start returning like with like:
GF: I wanted it every night with the last guy.
BF: My last GF always swallowed.
We have been married now for 4 years. I told my wife about my past relationships because she likes asking me about it. But now she make fun of it by bringing topics and compares. I don't understand why she's so interested in hearing about her? She gets angry calls me a lair.
I am being honest with her but she treats me bad. This is emotional abuse, I have never been interested in discussing her past because I believe that what matters is our present and future and what happened in the past is not relevant to us. She is penalizing me by not touching her or having sex with her.
What should I do?
I ended a relationship recently with a lady I dated for three or four months. We both have our sexual pasts, but my ex gf would share details that I just didn't need to hear. I grew up in a way more conservative setting while she grew up with parents with open relationships and kinky fetishes. She told me she was a stripper for four months while she was in college. My response was "ok, that's a first for me; let's not share that one with my mom!" Then one day she texted me some really racy pics of her stripping at the club she worked at. It was a little unsettling to me and I let her know it was too much history for me. No judgment of her history; just don't want to have it be waived in our present. She's a bisexual and would often talk openly about her sexual antics with other women like it would turn me on. I would again tell her that I have no issue with her past, but just don't need to hear about the details. Then, the zinger came at the end of the relationship. We were out at a wine bar drinking wine and sharing a nice time together. She then goes into this story of when she was in Thailand and brags about how she hired a bar girl in a sex bar to give her oral while all the men watched. She then hired the woman to go back to her hotel room to have sex. I stopped her as she was telling more and just said again, I'm just not comfortable with so much info. She got upset with me and accused me of judging her. I told her straight up that based on her jealousy and insecurity issues, there would be no way I could share such a story with her. I wouldn't anyway out of respect. There was no apology or expression of regret.
I lost respect for her that night and it really bothered me that she felt it was ok to run over the boundary I had clearly defined earlier. The incident caused me to really take inventory of the relationship and I chose to break up with her a few days later. She didn't get it even after I broke up with her. All she'd say to me was "you couldn't handle my past" and my reply was "you couldn't stop trying to make your past our present".
I am 37 and I have had about 17 years of back to back serious monogamous relationships. Today I am just dating around, playing the field, meeting people and having fun. I've met this amazing 25 year old girl who is like a carbon copy of me and like a lightning bolt striking me I've just lost interest in all the other 10 girls I have been seeing, I havent talked to them in weeks.
This problem seems to recur with my dates and especially with this girl. Being 25 and from a conservative family, she's only really had one serious boyfriend.
It is difficult for me to not talk about past experiences that have happened over the past 17 years, and almost all of them involve one ex or another. Sure I could talk about things that happened 20+ years ago but I highly doubt that this girl wants to talk about things that I did when she was five years old or younger when I was already an adult.
But she like all the rest get annoyed when the exes come up. I dont pine for any of them or talk about how great things were or anything, just sharing experiences ranging from funny things that happened while camping to annoyances or even how one girl was straight up psycho and tried to kill me. This doesnt just happen with this girl, it happens with older girls my age as well.
I dont understand how we are to be expected to hit the "Delete" key on so much of our past simply because another person was in the picture then. I understand that someone who loves us today does not want to hear about someone else loving us in the past. Of course if I was to say something along the lines of "Oh, me and Julie had such great times", or "Oh, me and Magda had such hot sex" that this would be uncomfortable as it would insinuate that I was still loving them. But to talk about shared experiences (one of these girls I was with for nearly 10 years) with someone so close and intimate it is very difficult to recant the story without involving the other person.
I wish that there was more ilterature on this topic for people to read, especially for women from womens' perspectives but also for men who have a jealous tendancy.
There was obviously something that I loved about each of these women I was in a serious relationship with (cohabiting, I was even engaged to one) – but there was also a reason why things didn't work out. Our past experiences make us who we are today; and those past experiences make me into the man that my current girl has grown to love.
This topic should not be quicksand. Obviously nobody wants graphic sexual detail but I find that people are far too sensitive on the topic of exes.
This is way overthought. If you can't discuss everything openly, then find someone else that prefers not to discuss his or her details openly. I've found being open & comfortable enough about even sharing details brings two people closer & assures both people involved in the relationship, that despite each other's pasts, you two are a flippin fantastic match. A little jealousy will quickly pass if there's complete trust & mutual respect for one another. Be honest. I give my best to someone who gives me their's. I don't care about his sketchy past & he shouldn't care about mine. In the end, I'm with him because we're a good fit. Bring on the honest men that have a little healthy jealousy (like myself) but can read my clear spoken & unspoken messages that HE's the man for me & I'm ALL his now. The rest were just stepping stones to the best.
wife and I never talk about our past sex Lives,
but the other nightwhe I had her at the E.R. While waitng on some
results,she told me about something from years ago.
A supposed Seet Heart of her family came by, hr famiy
was gone to town, she told me he made some advances
and they got laid, afterwards he told her that hewas getting married.
I ust wonder why she told me about ths, I'm not mad. Just confused
can somoe explain why she told me


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The mayor of a small coastal village in northern Somalia dismissed media reports that the 288 feet French luxury yacht Le Ponant hijacked by pirates on Friday Apr. 4 in the Gulf of Aden has anchored near the village of Eyl, 500ikm north of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Abdullahi Said O'Yusuf, the mayor of Eyl, told Somalia's Radio Garowe last night that the hijacked French yacht had passed Eyl and headed south towards coastal waters off the region of Mudug, in central Somalia.
Initial reports were that the French yacht and its 32-member crew had docked near the coastal village of Eyl.
But Mayor O'Yusuf, who reached the Puntland capital city of Garowe today, repeatedly denied the widespread reports, saying that the townspeople of Eyl would 'not allow' the pirates to dock near their small fishing village.
Yusuf, said he would be 'happy... to see the pirates killed' as a small French warship, the Commandant Bouan, maintained permanent surveillance of the vessel.
'The French and American ships must attack the pirates. They have our blessing,' Mr Ghelle said, adding that the hijackers have been encouraged by ransoms paid in previous ship seizures.
'These pirates are terrorists and there is no need to negotiate with them.
'Attacking them will solve future piracy plans.'
In Paris, a defence source said troops from the gendarmerie's elite counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit were sent to Djibouti where they will remain until further orders.
Unconfirmed reports emerging from the region of Mudug said the hijacked ship had reached a small coastal town on the Central Somali coast where armed villagers engaged the pirates in a skirmish that killed at least two people.
Clan elders in Mudug contacted by Somalia's Radio Garowe said they had heard of the report, but declined to comment until they reach the remote location for confirmation.
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A political board game ? Hmmmm ... you will need my expertise. I still have 3 computer games all about politics on my laptop.
Cipri - AnonymousDecember 3, 2012 at 2:06 PM
something like this?
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6195/election-day Excellent idea, Andrei! :) I'm very into politics myself and I can't wait to hear more about this new project. However, one might fear that the non-US public at least is not too accustomed to what is so special about 2000 and 2004 so and I think you should consider including newer "scenarios", like 2008 or 2012.
ReplyDeleteAndrei. I would honestly think about a different country. When it comes to usa I can think of at least two games by Jason Matthews who really knows alot about history and politics. 1960: The making of the president and Campaign Manager 2008 are examples. For German elections I remember Die Macher. I believe a political game about Europe would be more interesting. My 2 cents...
ReplyDelete@Alex - I am aware that the 2000 and 2004 are slowly fading away from people's memories, but those were much tighter and therefore much more interesting. I will consider approaching the 2008 or 2012 as well
@LordRevan - thanks for the warning, I though about placing the game in Europe, sadly the US electoral system is the only one entertaining enough to make a board game. I know 1960 and it is a good game, I haven't played Campaign Manager but I read the rules. What I have in mind will be quite different. But I am biased of course, we'll see what people (American people) think of it after the first sessions of playtesting
@Michael - thanks, I checked your review and it looks interesting, fortunately nothing in common with what I;m designingAndrei, I will put it there... The eternal struggle between italian communist party led by Palmiro Togliatti and the Christian Democrats led by Alcide De Gasperi. That's the best time in Italian history... just giving u hints... I am not sure I can take another game of US elections. I would buy a game about other elections in Europe on the contrary. Italy after WW2 or Romania after Ceausescu, or Poland, or even France could be interesting...


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It wasn't long before the couples decided it was also time to tell their grown children. And that's when happiness began to happen in an even bigger way. The children encouraged their mothers to start selling MaMaw Ruth's pound cakes online, so they could raise money to help even more people. And it wasn't long before they were receiving more than 100 orders in a day."The first time we saw those orders roll in, we were jumping up and down," Mary Ellen said with a laugh. "We were so excited that we did a ring-around-the-rosie! Then we called all the children and said, 'What do we do next?'"That's when the 9 Nanas moved their covert baking operation out of their homes and into the commercial kitchen of a restaurant owned by one of their sons, where they can sneak in before sunrise and sneak out before the staff comes in.
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To learn more about The 9 Nanas and Happiness Happens or to purchase one of MaMaw Ruth's special pound cakes, you can visit their website: Happiness-Happens.com.
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Joe Morgan is also a good baseball colour-commentator.....i think the white guy is the play-by-play guy anyway.......
carews swing was sick though, idk if anyone swung the bat as fast as he did
McGwire, Bagwell, Sheffied and Manny all swing a good deal harder.
Doesn't matter. Morgan beats Carew in every way, except of course batting average which is a vastly overrated stat.
Rings, SLG, OBP, OPS+, RC/G, GG, SB's, SB/CS ratio. Name the stat - Morgan pounds Carew.
I think Carew is better
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Yeah but stats can be manipulated. Morgan had more power but was worse in the field. And was surrounded by the best hitters in the league. When you have Bench, Rose, perez, griffy foster, you are going to drive in and score alot of runs. Carew was not exactly surrounded by much.
And most importantly Morgan was and is an *******.
Ummmmmmmmm Hard and fast are not the same thing my friend in swings. Batting average doesn't matter but it is an important stat when you look at how good a player was.
And his OBP is slightly lower which is kind of sad considering he had tony Perez or Bench hitting behind him for a good portion of his career. (and BTW you take Cincy out of the picture when he was surrounded by those other players and Joe morgan could only beat Carew in the power department. Essentialy if he'd been on the twins all those years he was on the reds this would be a much diff argument. power vs. finesse)
Oh and joe morgan is an *******.
Morgan because I love that guy on ESPN.
what are you talking about? Show me one single defensive stat or writer that ever said Carew was better in the field then Morgan. Carews career stats look good because he played less than half of his career at 2B, and about 40% as many games as Morgan, while Morgan played until deep into his decline at age 40.
Morgan led off and also batted 3rd in the heyday of the Red Machine which helped. But he also played the 1st 9 years (about 42% of his career) in one of the worst hitters parks ever (Dome) with the most stingy run env since 1920. And when you adjust his stats, he was nearly as productive there then Carew was in his first nine years (look at the adjusted slash at BR, his OBP and SLG were higher than Carew). But in Carew's last 10 years he only had 4 real good years. In Morgan's last 13 he had 7.
Carew early had: Oliva, Killebrew
later Braun, Hisle, Bostock
then Grich, DeCinces, Downing, Lynn, Baylor
some of his later teams stunk, like Morgan's earlier and late teams, but for both it was essentially bad pitching and not bad line-ups.
Then of course there is the baserunning which Morgan wins easily. 689 SB against 162 CS vs. 352 SB against 187 CS. 25 more CS for Carew then Morgan, but Morgan had 347 MORE steals then Carew. Convincing I would say.
5 GG's for Morgan - well above average range, above average in errors compared to other 2B. Carew sadly for him was so weak at 2B (couldn't throw, bad footwork) that he played more games at 1B then 2B. Using contemporary notions of comparing players vs. other players at their positions - Carew was slightly above average at his career for 1B (in some bad years below), whereas Morgan was mammothly ahead of 2B he played against almost every single season.
Then there is career length/results. Morgan played longer, won more hardware - rings and MVP's - what is the argument? Batting average? All this for one stat by you guys? One discredited stat?
Here is the final kicker. How many of you guys actually saw both play - and both play live?? I did. Morgan had a much larger impact on a given game then Carew. Carew was obviously at artisan with the bat. If the title said "best striker" of pitched ball - Carew wins. but it says "Rod Carew vs. Joe Morgan" which means everything including entrails. And on that basis, Carew is deep in the shadow thrown by Morgan. Anyone that says different is repeating what they read or what their father told them. It's not true, and it's never going to be true.
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Ahhhh a great old thread.
More on Carew vs Morgan:
Morgan played 2527 games at 2B
Carew played 1130 games at 2B (and played 1184 games at 1B)
Adjusted slash (park and era adjustments):
Morgan: .285/.408/.447
Carew: .340/.406/.443
Peak 10 yr (any order) rWin Shares:
So, at their best, Morgan was in a higher echelon than CarewCode:Morgan Carew 10.8 09.5 09.5 07.5 09.3 07.2 09.1 06.7 08.4 06.5 05.6 05.2 05.4 05.0 05.2 04.6 04.9 04.5 04.8 03.5
Morgan 97.1 rWAR (20th all time -4th JAWS 2B) > 76.6 for Carew (38th all time - 6th JAWS)
Carew was great at stealing home, but Morgan crushed him as he has almost every base runner all time:
JM 689 SB w/ 162 CS
RC 352 SB w/ 187 CS
BR era/park Adjusted HR: JM: 291 vs 95 for Carew (with almost 1200 games at 1B in his career - ouch)
3.04 career MVP shares for Morgan > 1.8 for Carew
Carew 0-4 in post season series with a slash of: .220/.291/.300 w/ 2 SB 2 CS in 14 games
Morgan 6-5 in post season series with a slash of .182/.323/.348 w/ 15 SB 2 CS in 50 games
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6/27/09: We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader, Ainge said. There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I dont know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and its just unacceptable.
told you all since 2010 he was a toolbag.....
If we're talking about 1972-1977 Joe Morgan, then it's a no-brainer. You pick Joe Morgan. Otherwise, give me Carew.
Future Hall of Shamers:
(1) B.A.L.C.O. Barroids (2) Mark McJuicer (3) Jose Chem-seco (4) Rafael Palmeiroids (5) Ken Chem-initi (6) Jason Gi-andro (7) Ryan Fraud (8) Muscle Melk (9) Woman-Ram (10) Shammy Sosa (11) Roger Clear-mens (12) A-Roid (13) Ryan HGHoward
6/27/09: We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader, Ainge said. There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I dont know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and its just unacceptable.
told you all since 2010 he was a toolbag.....
Well this poll is rather hilarious 5 years later.
Carew by miles? lol!
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SouthEast Crescent Authority Act of 2003 - Establishes a SouthEast Crescent Authority for all parts of the following southeastern states not eligible for assistance from the Appalachian Regional Commission or the Delta Regional Authority: District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. Directs the Authority to perform various functions, including: (1) formulating plans and programs to spur economic development, and approving grants to States and public and nonprofit entities toward that end; (2) establishing priorities in a development plan for the region; (3) supporting local development districts, and creating them where they do not exist; and (4) encouraging private investment in the region.Permits the Authority to request and receive Federal, State and local government personnel as employees.
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I should really try skiing. There are some good slopes near where I live in Virginia. I might be able to master it easier than some other sports, such as tennis!
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I am a skiier, and live across the river from the Catskills. It has never occured to me to try the slopes there, as I am more focused on the NY/MA resorts. Do you have any specific recommendations? Reggie
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Now it's getting a little clearer why veteran defensive coordinator Wally Burnham was willing to uproot his family from the toasty South Florida climate for a chance to go to work on Paul Rhoads' new staff at Iowa State.
Rhoads announced that Shane Burnham will be joining the Cyclones' staff as defensive tackles coach on his father's defensive staff. Shane is Burnham's son.
Shane Burnham arrives at ISU from Elon College, where he served as linebackers/defensive ends coach and special teams coordinator for the last four seasons.
"In all of our hires, in addition to their position assignments, I was looking for individuals who have recruited certain areas of the country," Rhoads said. "Shane fits what we needed on the defensive side of the ball and in recruiting background. I liked that he has coached all positions in the front seven. In addition to on-field success, Shane has recruited well on the West Coast of Florida. He recruited a significant number of players on the current Elon roster. The pieces all fit."
Shane Burnham is familiar with working his father before. He was a linebacker on South Carolina's team when Burnham coached the Gamecocks.
Two-fers are familiar across the recruiting trail where brothers will sometimes play on the same team.
Father -and-son coaching tandems aren't that rare, either. Lane Kiffin lured his father, veteran NFL coordinator Monte Kiffin, to join his staff at Tennessee. He also hired his brother-in-law, David Reaves, to become his quarterbacks coach.
And USC coach Pete Carroll hired his son Brennan, who now serves as the Trojans' tight ends coach.
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The patrol says 67-year-old Don Cates, a Barton County commissioner from Claflin, died Tuesday afternoon when his ultralight, single-engine plane hit a power line and crashed into a ditch just northwest of Garfield in Pawnee County. Cates was the only person on board.
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When one-year-old Jessica's tiny thumbs hit the buttons on her toy mobile phone, the purple lump of plastic goes beep-beep-beep, just like the real thing. Shaking it to and fro, the girl's eyes light up and she gurgles in approval.
Nothing groundbreaking here – babies like toys – but this one's a bit different. For one thing, it was designed by Jessica's father, Sim Oram, the founder and boss of Somerset toy firm Russimco.
It's also cleverer than your average plaything, because the batteries in Jessica's electric "eco-phone" are not only "not included" – they aren't even required; she might not realise it, but just by shaking her phone, Jessica is generating the electricity that powers it.
An electric toy without batteries? It sounds implausible; these days it seems every remote-control helicopter and robot guinea pig we wrap for Christmas or a birthday needs an expensive pack of double-As. But, unsurprisingly, these little cylinders of toxic chemicals are anything but green.
Toys account for a significant share of the near one billion batteries UK consumers get through each year. Less than 2 per cent are recycled; every year, an estimated 22,000 tons (equivalent to more than 100 jumbo jets) of household batteries end up in landfill, where their toxic entrails can leak out.
What's more, batteries are woefully inefficient power sources, requiring 50 times more energy to make than they generate.
It was figures such as these that inspired toy maker Sim Oram to branch out. For 15 years, Russimco, which Oram, 42, runs with co-director Richard Bowman, has knocked out millions of retro games your granny might have enjoyed (anyone for Flipping Fishes?) and toys made from sustainable wood. But however much parents like hand-made fire engines and alphabet jigsaws, colourful plastic, flashing lights and whizzy sounds can prove irresistible to kids.
"Whether we want them to or not, kids enjoy playing with something like a mobile phone," Oram says from his office-cum-playroom in a converted coach house in Chilton Polden (population: 700). "We wanted to make green versions of the tried and tested toys kids know and love."
Going green first meant ditching batteries, so Oram had to look to alternative sources of power. Inspiration came in the form of Trevor Bayliss, the inventor of the successful wind-up radio. "I was driving around Devon on a rainy holiday with my family, when I heard Trevor on the radio talking about how his radios had saved so many lives in Africa just by giving people access to education," Oram says. "It dawned on me that the same technology could be applied to toys, which for decades have had a wind-up element."
Oram's next task was to take the mechanisms that power traditional wind-up cars and plunge-powered spinning tops and make them produce light, sound, and movement. A couple of years on, Russimco recently unveiled its Ecotronic range at the London Toy Fair.
The toys look like anything you might spot at Hamleys, but closer inspection reveals one big difference: there is no battery compartment or fiddly cover that requires a miniature screwdriver to open (who has one of those, anyway?)
Oram and his team have achieved this by fine-tuning age-old technology. The wind-up eco-duck, for example, is a glorified dynamo like those that used to power the lights on old bicycles. Cranking the handle immediately starts powering the toy, whose chunky buttons play nursery rhymes and cause lights to flash.
Jessica's purple phone does away even with the handle, thanks to technology developed by the physicist Michael Faraday more than 150 years ago. Inside the toy, a magnet scoots up and down a tube wrapped in a coil of copper wire when the phone is shaken. The movement creates a current in the coil, which powers low-energy LED lights via a capacitor, or storage device.
Russimco's toys seem to be a hit with kids and retailers, but Oram is worried the £2.2bn-a-year industry will resist the second prong of his attack on un-green toys: packaging. Every year, the pile of detritus that follows present opening seems to grow as manufacturers devise ever more elaborate boxes. The reason for all the wire ties, moulded plastic, and boxes an origami master would struggle to fashion, is simple – toy makers want their products to stand out on the shelves. But Oram says neither the environment nor the consumer benefits. "I've got four children and have marvelled at the way toy companies have invested so much in designing packaging that's impossible to get into. And I know I'm not alone," Oram says. "And then you look at the waste involved."
Over the Christmas period, toys bought in the UK produce an astonishing 800,000 tons of packaging, a tiny percentage of which is recycled. In many cases, the dimensions of packaging are 80 per cent higher than that of the toys inside.
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● Recalculating
By Charles Bernstein
University of Chicago Press, 189 pages, $25
As an old joke goes, there are three types of people in the world: schlemiel, the guy who will spill the soup; schlimazel, the one whose lap the soup will get spilt on, and the nudnik, who asks, "What kind of a soup is this?" When avant-garde poet and thinker Charles Bernstein, in his composition "Talk To Me," writes "Talking to other people is OK but / really I only want to hear the dialog / that I create myself. / That's the problem with poetry: I want other voices / but I want them always to be /// My own voice," it seems to me that he's channeling the trio of classic Yiddish archetypes all at the same time — In a good way, metaphysically speaking. Bernstein's poetry has a dialogical, polymorphous and playful nature: Instead of spoon-feeding his readers bits of transcendence, he spills the whole bowl, and it is funny, and hot, and painful, and above all, a self-inquisitive process.
Co-founder of American avant-garde's singularly impactful magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Bernstein once summarized his poetic stance this way: "Against the priestly function of poet or poetry I propose comic and bathetic, the awkward and railing." Three decades of Bernstein's writing life were recently gathered in "All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems." "Recalculating," however, is Bernstein's first collection of actual new poetry in seven years. The collection is vast in its scope, and in many ways it's a culmination of the ideas the poet's dealt with throughout his writing career — questions of language and reality, poetic tradition and popular culture, philosophy and clowning, writing and performance. Emotionally, too, the range surges from lightweight slapstick to unbearable tragedy. And here more than ever, the poet engages with his Jewishness.
In the poem "Unready, Unwilling, Unable," Bernstein writes "I am a Jewish man trapped / in the body of a Jewish man," which at the first glance, comes across as a quip. Yet, juxtapose this against the "Radical Politics and Secular Jewish Culture" essay from a number of years back where he defines chosenness: "… doesn't mean you get to choose: you've been chosen and you can fight it, deny it, explain it away, or accept it, but none of that changes if not the historic, then the psychiatric insistence (not to say intrusiveness) of Jewishness." One might just get a feeling that the quip isn't merely there for a laugh. But this isn't about self-loathing — it certainly ain't your grandmother's self-loathing — for Bernstein's is a wrought but not unhappy definition that hints at some larger stakes.
"I was on my third scotch and Maalox / when the phone rang. It was Veronica / again" opens the poem "Stupid Men, Smart Choices," a virtuoso remake of a pulp fiction narrative, which soon enough swerves where no pulp fictions go: "She'd fallen / again, this time so hard and so fast / she felt she had been clobbered / by an Acela running amuck / on the slow track from Boston to / Gloucester." The poem is a tour through literary traditions and mindsets, a witty, enjoyable play of overlaying voices and ideas. Yet underneath it all, there runs a current of a very serious concern: the fear of being locked into an unbearable predicament — set by inherited ideas, behavior patterns and enough self-awareness to not only recognize it, but even equate it with something more mysterious and irrational, like fate or quintessence of being a human. Could this be originating in the same place as the sense of being trapped inside one's historical and psychiatric Jewishness?
"Recalculating" is an immense book, hitting the extremes — of slapstick and tragedy, wisdom and buffoonery. The book's accomplishment, ultimately, is its constant attempt to expand what it is in us that is affected by poetry. "Good poets make analogies; great poets make analogies between analogies," as Bernstein himself put it. It isn't merely the mind or imagination, not the preconceived ideas versus vertigo of contexts. It is always something further, deeper in — or as it were, out — an orchestral blast of meaning; the spontaneous delight of a lifted burden; a clarification or a clearing through a distraction; a hope amid the awkward, woeful predicament. And this is the method the poet the reaches toward in the culminating stanza of his poem "Jew": "The scholar cannot understand an unusual diacritic mark over a word in the text he is studying and ponders on it several days before asking a Jew. 'It means nothing,' says the Jew, blowing a speck of dust off the page."
Jake Marmer is the author of "Jazz Talmud" (Sheep Meadow Press, 2012) and a frequent contributor to the Forward.
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