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Angela Lakwete. _Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in
Antebellum America_. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii + 232 pp.
Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. $25.00 (paperback), ISBN
Reviewed for H-Southern-Industry by Shepherd W. McKinley,
Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Whitney and "The First Cotton Gin"
To grace the cover of her book's paperback edition, Angela Lakwete chose
William L. Sheppard's illustration, "The First Cotton Gin," first
published in _Harper's Weekly_ in 1869. In it, Sheppard drew planters
evaluating ginned cotton and slaves operating a roller gin, a forerunner
to Whitney's famous invention. The image, Lakwete argues, gets to the
heart of the matter: the question of Eli Whitney's paternity of that
most troublesome of all American inventions, the cotton gin, as well as
the role southerners of both races played in its invention. Sheppard
sought to dilute what historians since the early nineteenth century had
promulgated, the myth--still alive and well in most textbooks--that no
other gin existed before Whitney's eureka moment in 1794. While on a
visit to Georgia, the myth continues, Whitney (full of Yankee ingenuity
but new to the cotton industry) came to the rescue of black and white
southerners (a head-scratching bunch of dimwits who could only think to
finger gin the cotton) by solving the problem of quickly extricating
seeds from cotton without (completely) destroying the fiber. By
identifying the northern mythmakers and the southern debunkers, as well
as providing a painstaking explanation of the evolution of the ancient
invention, Lakwete properly exposes cotton gins (not just Whitney's) as
cultural artifacts with ample historical baggage. In doing so, she
begins a long overdue revision of what textbooks and history teachers
have mistakenly preached regarding Whitney, cotton gins, and the lack of
southern ingenuity. Of course, change takes time. In the decade since
Lakwete's scholarship forced this professor to revise his classroom
comments about gins, rare is the student who does not revert
reflexively, on exams and papers, to the Whitney myth.
A graduate of the Hagley Program in the History of Industrialization at
the University of Delaware and now an associate professor at Auburn
University, Lakwete organizes _Inventing the Cotton Gin_ chronologically
through the first five chapters, and thematically in the last three.
Exploding the Whitney myth in the book's opening sentence, she
introduces readers to cotton varieties and early cotton gins in the
first chapter. So much for a surprise ending. Global in scope and
research, this chapter also features the emergence of single roller gin
technology during the first century C.E. and its dispersion throughout
Asia, Africa, and North America. Double roller gins appeared about a
dozen centuries later in India and China, but did not dislodge the
single roller. Lakwete completes this background chapter by illustrating
Great Britain's rise in the world textile trade.
In chapter 2, Lakwete narrows the focus to the Americas and advances the
timeframe to the eve of Whitney's invention. Planters in the Caribbean
dominated cotton production early in the eighteenth century, but
mainland producers reentered the trade in the 1770s when the British
mechanized cotton spinning. Lakwete describes American inventions such
as the fully foot-powered gin, the barrel gin, and Joseph Eve's
self-feeding gin as conservative modernizations of the roller gin,
"faithful to the pinch principle" and successful in preserving the
quality of the cotton fiber (p. 46). Contrary to popular belief, ginning
was not a bottleneck for the American industry before Whitney. Lakwete
also provides interesting background on the policy debates of 1787
between Tench Coxe, the "father of the American cotton industry," and
Thomas Jefferson over the role of government in economic development (p.
Reinforcing her thesis that Whitney was just one of several important
inventors of the gin, Lakwete presents his story in detail in chapter 3.
Covering the years 1790-1810, she argues that Whitney's unique
contribution was to patent a "new ginning principle" and a "new kind of
gin," the wire-toothed gin (p. 47). The new machine pulled the short
staple fiber from the seed more quickly than the roller gin's pinching
action, enhancing quantity over quality and forcing textile and cotton
producers to reevaluate their priorities. Modifications to the
wire-toothed gin by other inventors led to the saw gin and a series of
lawsuits. Lakwete demonstrates that Phineas Miller, Whitney's partner,
and William Johnson, a judge in one of the many patent lawsuits, helped
invent the Whitney myth by "collapsing" two centuries of successful
roller ginning into Whitney's invention, and thereby created THE moment
of southern economic discontinuity (p. 71). Lakwete begs to differ. The
saw gin represented a different form of gin from what had come before,
but the change was not, as has been widely proclaimed, similar to the
jump from horse and buggy to automobile.
Planters and gin makers did not abandon the roller gin immediately. In
chapter 4, Lakwete depicts the thirty-year transition from the roller to
saw gin as more evolutionary that revolutionary. While the roller gin
represented "a colonial past" and the saw gin the modernity championed
by Tench Coxe, Americans were relatively slow--slower than textbooks
portray--to fully embrace the saw gin technology (p. 72). The roller gin
remained a strong competitor until the late 1820s, but saw gin makers
hastened its demise by aggressively advertising and developing a strong
manufacturing infrastructure. By not keeping up, roller gin makers found
their products pushed out of the rapidly expanding short-staple market
and restricted to the limited market for long-staple cotton. Textile
manufacturers allowed themselves to be seduced by the saw gin's edge in
quantity, and they adapted to the shorter, lower quality fiber. Lakwete
spends most of the chapter discussing the development of new communities
of cotton gin makers in Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and
Alabama. The transition to saw gins ended with the creation of large saw
gin manufacturing companies, two in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and one
in Triana, Alabama. By demonstrating the vitality of innovation in the
South, as well as the North, Lakwete explores a related set of
reoccurring themes in the next few chapters: the power and breadth of
southern industrialization and the collaboration of northern and
southern manufacturers and consumers.
Not surprisingly, sectionalism takes center stage in chapter 5, which
covers the final decades of the antebellum era to the end of the Civil
War. Lakwete describes this period within the saw gin industry as "a
case study of southern industrialization" due to the developing
manufacturing industry that incorporated the region's agriculture (p.
97). Although gin makers in Massachusetts became more prominent, and
northerners directed the South's biggest factories, southern
manufacturers were important in the industry, and southerners were not
dependent on the North for this most vital machine. Southern mechanics
and manufacturers congregated in county seats, forming "zones of
industrialization" where innovation thrived in gin manufacture, and
later, in firearms production for the Confederacy (p. 97). Southern gin
makers, such as Daniel Pratt, Samuel Griswold, and T.G. Atwood, employed
free blacks and slaves who contributed to the "innovative industry that
blurred regional and racial distinctions as it reinforced them" (p. 98).
Lakwete discusses the differences between northern and southern firms,
and wrestles with the question of what role enslaved African Americans
played in the industry.
Fluctuations in cotton prices during much of the antebellum period
exacerbated the tensions between quality and quantity in the saw gin
industry, and pressured gin makers to innovate. Lakwete explains in
chapter 6 that low prices made planters and British textile
manufacturers demand longer and cleaner fiber with no decrease in
production. Caught in the middle, gin makers sought to perfect their
machines with incremental, conservative changes, usually in the form of
"fancy attachments" that were often sectionally distinct (p. 122). Price
shocks, such as the panic of 1837, spurred inventors to improve gin
speed as well as fiber length and cleanliness. By the 1850s, however,
quantity had triumphed over quality and became synonymous, in the minds
of planters, with perfection.
To paraphrase Monty Python, the roller gin was not dead yet. Roller gin
makers tried to innovate and modernize in the face of the saw gin's
continuing dominance during the 1820-1870 period. A group of
predominantly northern gin manufacturers attempted to increase roller
gin output for the long-staple cotton market, but failed to maintain
quality standards. Other gin makers, located in the South but with
"northern roots," created the McCarthy and cylinder gins in an
unsuccessful attempt to compete with saw gins in the short-staple market
(p. 148). Lakwete's analysis in chapter 7 sheds light upon the cultures
of short- and long-cotton planters. Many long-staple planters continued
to use foot and Eve gins until adopting the McCarthy gin in the 1860s.
The final chapter, "Machine and Myth," returns to intriguing themes
introduced in the preface and mentioned in other chapters. Lakwete
argues that the cotton gin was "a site of invention and innovation and a
symbol of regional prosperity," but as the Whitney myth proliferated,
the gin "degenerated into a signifier of southern failure" (p. 177).
"The narrative begins," she continues, "with inept planters and sleepy
finger-ginning slaves and ends with battlefield dead. It celebrates
Yankee ingenuity in invention and victory and insinuates southern
incompetence in passivity and defeat" (pp. 191-192). Accounts of the
inventor's life, including a particularly influential one by Denison
Olmstead in 1832, fortified evolving stereotypes of "ingenious"
northerners and "incompetent" southerners (p. 180). Historians,
beginning with James Ford Rhodes in 1893, gave Whitney's evil gin agency
and blamed it for the South's cotton economy, the reinvigoration of
slavery after 1800, and the sectional tensions that led to the Civil
War. New South boosters struck back, claiming that the saw gin
represented the dead Old South, and the McCarthy gin represented the
modern New South, but the failure story, Lakwete documents, has survived
to the twenty-first century.
By following the advice of her mentor, George Basalla, to use "things in
history," Lakwete successfully overturns the story of southern failure
by recovering the history of roller gins and southern gins shops (p.
xi). Planters, machinists, and African Americans (free and enslaved)
were skilled innovators and talented marketers, resulting in
technological advances and financial success. Whitney's invention was an
important advance in cotton gin history, but many southerners before and
after Whitney played vital roles in the development of the machine. In a
direct writing style, Lakwete presents in-depth and wide-ranging
research with helpful summaries at the beginning and end of each
chapter. She painstakingly explains complicated technological issues,
including the nuts and bolts of each machine, while providing the reader
with context. This is an important book, and now in paperback form, a
good candidate for graduate level courses. As is evident in this
reviewer's attempt to summarize her chapters, Lakwete had her work cut
out for her in trying to explain this complex industry and its even more
complex machines.
While _Inventing the Cotton Gin_ serves as an exciting revision and
raises even more exciting questions, Lakwete's detailed exploration of
cotton ginning makes for slow reading for those not technologically
inclined. It is understandable that Lakwete should demonstrate the
differences between Whitney's machine and its predecessors and
successors, and it is helpful to reveal the evolutions in production,
marketing, and the needs of planters. But this reviewer would have
preferred less detail and more summary, guidance, and context. Lakwete
documents many cases of, and raises tantalizing questions about,
southern industrialization, but readers of H-Southern-Industry will find
themselves wanting more. Specifically, she declares in the preface that
the "innovative southern gin industry belies constructions of failure
read back from 1865. Instead, it forces a reconciliation of an
industrializing, modernizing, and slave labor-based South" (p. ix).
While Lakwete documents such innovation and returns to this theme
occasionally, readers may wish for a fuller exploration of context--the
cotton gin as "the emblem of the cotton South," the historiography of
industrialization of the antebellum South, and an understanding of the
sense of industrial inferiority among southerners (p. 176). This reader
would have also enjoyed more discussion about the relationships of the
cotton gin to race in the South and Coxe's new nationalism, and of zones
and communities of gin makers to southern industrialization.
Lakwete's _Inventing the Cotton Gin_ is an important addition to the
growing list of works on southern industrialization. Her argument that
continuity, not the myth of discontinuity, marked the history of cotton
gins, is well documented and has important implications for
understanding the antebellum and postbellum periods. Whitney's gin was
not a major turning point in American history, or even southern history,
but part of a long tradition of innovation and collaboration; innovation
by northern and southern inventors and machinists, and collaboration
between inventors and planters, blacks and whites, slaves and masters.
As with other good history books, it challenges what we think we knew,
and sends us searching for more clues.
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say i had so much footage, and I manually (tediously) went through it and separated all the objects from each other and said what they were doing. Then, I could take these words and then generate images using words. Then all you would need is symbolic ai and you could generate logical sequences of images, puzzled together out of different bodies. so you could get cleverbot, and get it to generate images for what it said, (if it spoke in descriptions rather than just chat replies) or maybe it plays sharades as it talks.
The best symbolic ai to date is watson, and im just wondering about perhaps giving it a dreaming ability? out of a puzzle of sprites.
Its a pretty easy idea to mention, but hard to implement, of course, but I dont see why it wouldnt work, then you could have a watson ai as a game mediator, and if you had enough footage, then the game visual could be quite varied.
I think if you went for shapes it might be interesting, as long as it could handle some variations in the shapes. Like getting it to recognize apples in different pictures.
Doing something like "please draw an image of an apple on a table", would be easy.
A lexical parser to seperate out the various elements of the sentence, a database of known objects, blah blah.
If that's what you want, I reckon you could do it and it would be fast enough on even a basic laptop.
However how far are you willing to go?
I want an image of the event horizon of a black hole viewed from inside the black hole in 4 space
Or the more likely end use....
me wAnT pic Holly Valance naKeeeeeDDDDD
Or some other brain dead user input.
actually that last one would be worth a lot of money..... maybe this could be a worthwhile project ;>


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Miley Cyrus hosted the opening of the new Beacher's Madhouse location at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas this weekend. The 21-year-old was in great spirits and walked the red carpet with the venue's founder, Jeff Beacher, smiling and sticking out her tongue (of course!) for photos. She also got up and danced on stage to Calvin Harris' song "I Need Your Love," but there was no twerking in sight!
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Miley also brought some of her A-list friends out to the event with her, including Katy Perry and Adam Lambert. The group also hit up Britney Spears' opening night at Caesar's Palace while they were in town.
DJ Pauly D showed up at the event sporting a Britney T-shirt in support of his onetime tour buddy. Katy, Adam, and Miley sat at a table together and enjoyed some of the in-house entertainment, which included a marching band of bottle service girls.
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However, there was one guest who definitely got everyone's attention - Twilight star Kellan Lutz! After he and Miley partied together in Miami last weekend and then shared a private plane home, rumors started to swirl that the two were an item. Despite claiming "I'm happily single" when asked if he and the singer were hooking up, they definitely looked like more than friends at the swanky Vegas event.


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KUZUMAKI, Japan — Regardless of Copenhagen, if Japan is to realize its ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, more of its towns and cities will need to look like Kuzumaki.
This isolated, sprawling town of dairy farms and vineyards in Iwate prefecture is the unlikely setting for country's boldest experiment with renewable energy.
While its 8,000 residents endure winter temperatures as low as -25 degrees Celsius, Kuzumaki, perched in the highlands 500 kilometers north of Tokyo, is perfectly placed to undergo a carbon detox in a country that is heavily dependent on nuclear power and Middle East oil.
Evidence of Kuzumaki's ecological credentials is everywhere, from its 15 wind turbines to the 420 solar panels that supply a quarter of the local junior high school's electricity.
Even the cattle have been enlisted. At Kuzumaki Highland Farm, 13 tons of manure, created every day by 200 dairy cows, are mixed with scraps from a nearby restaurant and turned into liquid fertilizer and methane gas for an electrical generator in the town's biomass facility.
Wood chips from local trees are used to power milk and cheese production and to make smokeless bark pellets for stoves and boilers installed in homes, a residential facility for the elderly and its winery.
Kuzumaki's success hasn't come cheap, however. It relies heavily on government subsidies; residents receive half of the 100,000 yen it costs to install a boiler in their home, while those that use solar panels receive subsidies for each kilowatt of energy generated.
Its low-carbon project stretches back to the late 1990s when the then-mayor, Tetsuo Nakamura, spotted that potential clean energy, forestry and dairy farming had to save the town from financial collapse.
Blighted by poor communications, freezing winters and a heavy dependence on cattle farming, Kuzumaki has suffered from the same population decline that threatens many other rural communities in Japan.
And so the Kuzumaki Town New Energy Vision was born. A decade on, it has generated a thriving eco-tourist industry, a food self-sufficiency rate of 200 percent (compared with just 1 percent in Tokyo) and an ever-shrinking carbon footprint.
The number of wind turbines has grown to 15, with wind power now generating 22,200 kilowatts, far more than the town's 2,900 households need, while forests, which cover 86 percent of the town, are being expanded to suck up CO2.
The result has been an impressive dent in Kuzumaki's carbon output, from 39,000 tons of CO2 a decade ago to just 6,000 tons. In 2007, renewables provided 161 percent of its energy needs; in a good year, when the winds are strong, that can rise to 185 percent, a higher level of energy self-sufficiency than any comparably sized town.
Officials say their success in proving that even the remotest mountain community can live sustainably has made it the envy of towns and villages throughout Japan.
"We have hundreds of groups coming every year to look at our facilities," said Haruyuki Yoshizawa of the local agriculture, forestry, environment and energy department. "They share our vision, but that's usually as far as it goes — a vision.
"No one else in Japan is combining wind, solar and biomass the way we are. Even if they wanted to it would be difficult. The power companies don't want to invest in things like biomass. And as former government entities they still have a huge influence over energy policy."
Japan's enthusiasm for renewables remains lukewarm, despite a claim this week by the Global Wind Energy Council that wind power alone can help developed nations achieve as much as 65 percent of the cuts pledged by 2020.
According to the council, Japan did not even rank in the top 10 of countries in wind power capacity last year. While the U.S. added 8.3 gigawatts in new wind power capacity in 2008, Japan, installed just 346 megawatts.
And while global wind power generation in Asia is expected to triple over the next five years, the bulk of that growth will be seen in China, not Japan.
Campaigners accept that geographical factors mean it will be difficult to replicate Kuzumaki's clean energy initiative on a grand scale, but add that the biggest obstacle to investment in clean energy is political.
Japan's established power companies are desperate to keep independent energy producers out of their regional fiefdoms, said Noriaki Yamashita, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Energy in Tokyo.
"Kuzumaki is a shining example of what is possible, but it is difficult to adapt to other areas because of resistance from the utilities," he said. "Even if, like Tokyo, they can't create their own clean energy, it should be possible for cities to buy in surplus electricity, heat and fuel from rural areas. They can't produce, but they can buy.
"But the power companies are only interested in intensive production through nuclear and gas- and coal-fired power stations, which they see as more reliable. There is no interest in exchanging electricity between regional companies, and I can't see that mindset changing."
In the meantime, Kuzumaki's wind turbines will keep turning, driving a bold environmental experiment in a town that risked sinking into obscurity without it.
The town office says there is scope for as many as 80 wind turbines atop the Kamisodegawa Highlands, but the harsh financial climate, coupled with falling oil prices and an apparent addiction to nuclear power, means no one is sure when they will be built.
That doesn't seem to bother Yoshizawa, whose town welcomed more than half a million visitors last year, up from 60,000 when the wind turbines appeared about a decade ago.
"They don't just come to eat our delicious ice cream," he said. "They come to see what a clean energy revolution really looks like."


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Writer Don Payne passed away on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at his home in Los Angeles, CA, at the age of 48. The cause was sarcoma, according to fellow writer John Frink, who worked with Payne as a scriptwriter on The Simpsons. Frink and Payne wrote for sitcoms like Hope and Gloria and Men Behaving Badly before signing on to The Simpsons in 1998. Payne served as a writer and producer on The Simpsons, ultimately writing more than a dozen episodes of the show (five of them solo) and serving as a consulting producer on 100. In addition to his work on The Simpsons, Payne wrote My Super Ex-Girlfriend (released to theaters in 2006) and shared writing credits for 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and 2011's Thor.
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Do I need a b800 or my head examined?
Ok, so my mother-in-law asked me to take portraits at the family reunion and for some reason I said I would do it. There's 14 siblings in her family and with all the offspring and cousins and what not, I'm looking at about 175 people.
In any case, I got a good deal on a Alien Bee B800 on craigslist and so I bought it in case I thought I would need it. I also have 2 sb800's to bring to the party.
My initial thought was to buy a roll of white seamless and rent the back drop support and shoot the b800 set up high over the camera and light the white seamless with the sb800's. But since I've never done this type of thing before I'm looking for suggestions.
Is my plan basically sound?
I have a small softbox and an umbrella. Is one a better choice than the other for my key light?
How wide would the seamless need to be in order to accommodate groupings as large as 15 or so?
How much booze will I need to get through this?
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This Friday night Australians should get the best look at Mars in over a decade.
Even those with amateur telescopes pointed to the Eastern sky can expect to see a substantial sized disc with dark markings on the planet's surface as well as its polar caps.
The reason is that Mars is currently both opposite to the Sun in the sky and at the point in its eliptical orbit that brings it closest to the Sun.
This "opposition" means that Mars will be the closest to the Earth - only 57 million kilometres away - since 1988.
While the actual opposition was on June 14, Mars will not obtain maximum diameter until June 22.
According to Melissa Hulbert of the Sydney Observatory, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights should all offer good viewing opportunities.
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A group of Jamaican musicians and dancers led by explosive "singjay" Abijah, as well as Tessanne Chin and rising star I Eye, have set off on a major tour of Japan. The tour is being coordinated by the Min-On Concert Association, in collaboration with the Embassy of Jamaica in Tokyo, and Jamaica's Ministry of Youth, Sports & Culture.
This will be the second in a series of summer concert programs, dubbed Caribbean Musical Cruise, put on by Min-On featuring countries of the Caribbean region. The series began in 2009 with artists representing Trinidad & Tobago.
The Jamaican group starts their tour in Tokyo and their 24th — and final performance — will be Oct. 16 in Toyama Prefecture. They will also do a couple of concerts specifically for schools, as well as engage in exchange activities.
While not drawn from the highest tier of Jamaican acts, the trio of singers should represent the island well. Abijah, whose signature anthem "Revelation" spent upward of 30 weeks at the top of the Jamaican charts, has collaborated with the likes of R&B artist Tevin Campbell, Japan's DJ Krush and top Jamaican acts such as Beenie Man and Yellowman. Abijah has also delivered motivational talks to students at schools and colleges across Jamaica and elsewhere, including Oxford and Harvard universities.
Singer/songwriter Chin, has been making a name for herself with her brand of rock-tinged reggae. She has opened for luminaries such as Roberta Flack, Boyz II Men and Patti LaBelle among others, and is a former backup vocalist for reggae legend Jimmy Cliff. Newcomer I Eye, emerged through the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's annual Festival Song Competition and has since come under the wing of respected veteran Jamaican producer Clifton "Specialist" Dillon, who is also the tour manager for the visiting group. I Eye is set to release her first album, "Fever Grass."
The vocalists will be backed the Skool Band, which will be led, in the absence of band leader Desi Jones, by guitarist Seretse Small. According to Small, audiences will be introduced to Jamaican music in all its forms, from the early days of ska, through rocksteady and reggae.
"We'll also perform traditional Jamaican folk music forms, such as kumina and dinki mini, with the drumming and dancing that goes with them," Small says.
While Japanese audiences, generally, have long been familiar with reggae music and Jamaican artists, other aspects of Jamaican culture are substantially less known, among them, dance. The performances by the four representatives of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica will go some way to redress this imbalance. The NDTC is one of Jamaica's top cultural institutions and the dancers will be led by the NDTC's Dance Captain, choreographer and dance lecturer Marlon Simms, and he will be accompanied by Chelcia Creary, Sheckena Daley and Javana Rowe.
Japan has long been one of the biggest markets for reggae and while it is de rigueur for reggae acts to tour Japan, this project represents something of a departure from the norm and is arguably the highest profile cultural delegation to visit Japan. The performances will be in concert halls rather than the typical outdoor festival/stage show format, and hope to attract audiences which, for the most part, would not usually attend reggae-flavored events.
Jamaica's Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports Olivia "Babsy" Grange, was in Japan on official business and attended the opening concert.
"I hope that this tour will inspire the (Japanese) people to experience and learn more about Jamaican culture, especially those people who have not yet been exposed to our country. I also anticipate that this will encourage the people of Japan to visit our beautiful country in the future. In this sense, I believe that this cultural exchange will further strengthen the cultural bridge between our two countries," Claudia Barnes, Jamaica's ambassador to Japan, said in a statement.
"Jamaica Rocks" will take place at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall in Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref., on Sept. 10; Green Hall in Sagami Ono, Kanagawa Pref., on Sept. 11; Ichikawa Bunka Kaikan in Ichikawa, Chiba Pref., on Sept. 14; Honda no Mori Hall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., on Sept. 17; Chukyo University Bunka Shimin Kaikan Aurora Hall in Nagoya, Aichi Pref., on Sept. 18; Toyohashi Kinro Fukushi Kaikan in Toyohashi, Aichi Pref., on Sept. 19; Iida Bunka Kaikan in Iida, Nagano Pref., on Sept. 20; Yaizushi Bunka Center Large Hall in Yaizu, Shizuoka Pref., on Sept. 22; Shizuoka Shimin Bunka Kaikan in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Pref., on Sept. 23; Himeji Bunka Center in Himeji, Hyogo Pref., on Sept. 25; Act City Hamamatsu Large Hall in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Pref., on Sept. 26; Grand Cube in Osaka on Sept. 28; Shimane Kenmin Kaikan Large Hall in Shimane, Shimane Pref., on Sept. 29; Kureshi Bunka Hall in Hiroshima on Sept. 30; Kochi Kenmin Bunka Hall, Orange Hall, in Kochi; Fukuoka Sun Palace Hotel & Hall in Fukuoka on Oct. 3; Tokushimashi Bunka Center in Tokushima, Tokushima Pref., on Oct. 5; Niigata Telsa in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 6; Nagaoka Shiritsu Gekijo in Niigata on Oct. 7; Joetsu Bunka Kaikan in Niigata on Oct. 8; Nitori Bunka Hall in Hokkaido on Oct. 11; Fujinomiya Shimin Bunka Kaikan in Shizuoka on Oct 14; and Aubade Hall in Toyama on Oct. 16. For more information, visit www.min-on.org.


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Acer first showcased the Iconia Tab A700 back at CES in January and its now been officially unveiled and is available for pre-order in the US and Canada.
The Acer Iconia Tab A700 has an amazing 10.1 inch touch-screen which runs at a resolution of 1920*1200 pixels. This means it supports full HD and has a higher resolution than full HD TV's and delivers 55 per cent higher pixel density than 1280*720p tablet displays.
The 10.1 inch 16:9 display is perfect for multi-media content and the Iconia Tab A700 also has amazing sound credentials. It supports Dolby® Mobile 3 with 5.1-channel home theatre surround sound.
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Ryan Mcginley's "1999 -2015" @ Kunsthal KAdE, Netherlands
Kunsthal KAdE's new summer exhibition opening tomorrow, May 30th, is a major overview of work by American photographer Ryan McGinley (b. 1977, New Jersey, US). The show will include works from every series and period in the photographer's career, from the gritty snapshots of his early life in the urban underworld of late-1990s Manhattan right through to his recent, highly aesthetic 'road movie' photographs of young nudes shot amid the untamed nature of the rural United States.May 29, 2015


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Taylor Swift 'Red' Sales Still Soaring: Charts Update
Taylor Swift is nearing the 3 million mark with sales of her latest album, Red. Holiday shopping has catapulted the project to the tops of both the country albums chart and all-genre Top 200 chart this week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Over the holidays, Red averaged more than 200,000 copies sold per week, making its grand total now at almost 2.9 million units sold. Red was the best-selling country album of 2012, and the second-best seller overall for the year, behind Adele's 21.
Just after Taylor on this week's country chart is Lady Antebellum, with the trio's On This Winter's Night holiday album at No. 2. Rounding out the Top 5 are Little Big Town's Tornado, Blake Shelton's Cheers, It's Christmas and Jason Aldean's Night Train.
Over on the country singles chart, Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" is No. 1 in digital sales this week, with duo's breakout song now topping 1.4 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two" follows and is now close to half a million downloads in total sales. "The Voice" winner Cassadee Pope's version of Miranda Lambert's "Over You" comes in at No. 3, just ahead of Hunter Hayes' "Wanted" and the first single from Taylor's Red album, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
Next up for Taylor is her Red tour, headlining 58 shows in 45 cities in 2013. See a list of cities and dates on the trek here.
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NEW YORK (Jun. 1)
Jimmy Carter, the current front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination, has strongly criticized former Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew for making "false malicious, anti-Semitic remarks." The former Governor of Georgia made his comments in a letter to Seymour Graubard, national chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League and Benjamin R. Epstein, the ADL's national director.
Agnew, who resigned the Vice-Presidency in disgrace in 1973 after pleading no contest to charges of income tax evasion, has recently alleged that Jews control the American media and exert an undue influence on foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. In his letter, released by the ADL today, Carter said:
"Jewish Americans have added immeasurable contributions to this country in every field of professional, educational and cultural endeavor. They are as loyal to America as any other group of people in the United States. The dedication of many American Jews to the preservation of a Jewish homeland is not only understandable, but commendable, in the light of centuries of discrimination and persecution."
Carter stressed that "The preservation of a strong and viable Israel is not only in Israel's interest and in the interest of world Jewry, it is in the national interest of the United States as well." He said that by claiming that Jews have too much influence in the press, Agnew was "shifting attention for the cause of his own personal downfall" from the "American system of justice" to the press. "Mr. Agnew should net take out his frustration on the religious group which all too often in the past has been the scapegoat." he declared.
Carter urged the ADL to "continue to take strong steps to correct misconceptions and to root out the last vestiges of anti-Semitism and other discrimination." The ADL, in releasing the letter stressed that it should not be construed as an endorsement of Carter's candidacy. Graubard and Epstein said they welcomed Carter's letter and were confident that it expressed the views of the overwhelming majority of the American people.


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Even in the first month of 2009, concerns over state budget cuts forced local colleges and school districts into a precarious financial position.
College of the Canyons and the Master's College were forced to cut programs and staff. The Saugus and Newhall School Districts considered hiring freezes and increasing class sizes to save staff jobs.
Students also felt the pinch of California's budget woes. To save thousands of dollars on their books, COC students started renting textbooks and flooded new classes offering professional work experience.
The basketball court was also ripe with stories in January.
Canyon and Hart high schools' girls basketball teams had to dismiss a coach and three players over two days after officials discovered both schools had players living in different districts playing on their teams.
Some stories were more disturbing.
Hackers tormented a 17-year old special education student from Valencia High School by posting violent and pornographic pictures on his YouTube page for more than three weeks. Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Deputies filed a criminal complaint with the district attorney on Jan. 16 and the student had to stop using his YouTube account.
Master's College cuts staff
Jan. 7 — Master's College officials announced they were forced to let go of nine staff members to save financial aid programs for students. The cuts were also necessary to keep the cost of enrollment from skyrocketing, officials said at the time. About 80 percent of Master's College students receive some form of financial aid.
"We're working with students to make education affordable," the college's senior vice president Mark Tatlock said at the time.
Hart School District sued
Jan. 8 — Willam S. Hart School district was sued by a family whose son said he was molested by former counselor Roselyn Hubbell. The lawsuit says Hubbell had a sexual relationship with the student and coerced him into smoking marijuana. Hubbell was arrested in June after authorities caught her checking into a hotel room with a male student. In April, Hubbell plead 'no contest' to one count of misdemeanor molestation. She was forced to register as a sex offender and serve probation.
Teacher layoffs considered
Jan. 11 — Faced with losing almost $30 million in state funding over the next three years, William S. Hart Union School District officials said they were considering increasing class sizes and eliminating teachers, staff and other programs.
"The kind of cuts the state is going to require will force us to consider the prospect of cutting teacher positions and increasing class sizes," district superintendent Jaime Castellanos said at the time.
Night classes start filling up
The news wasn't all dire that day. People fed up with their current job prospects started filling up night classes at COC. In 2008 night class enrollment jumped 20 percent as older students decided to go back to school.
Arts commission created
Jan. 13 — The City Council approved creating an arts commission by a 3-2 vote. The council was divided over whether money and resources should be dedicated to the commission during a city hiring freeze. Commission members were sworn in at their first meeting last week.
Jazz festival canceled
Also, COC canceled its annual R.K. Downs Jazz Festival. Budget cuts forced officials to pull the plug on the event that had been a fixture for the school's jazz program for over 30 years.
The festival invites local high school bands to play with COC musicians for family and friends. The festival will be coming back next year; it's scheduled for Feb. 27.
Basketball coach resigns
Jan. 15 — Canyon High's girls basketball team was forced to forfeit 11 wins after it was discovered that two players falsified their residency records in order to play for the school.
Coach Stan Delus resigned and the two girls transferred to different schools within the district.
Basketball player transfers
Jan. 16 — A senior on Hart High School's girls basketball team was forced to transfer after telling her coach that she didn't live in Santa Clarita. She told her coach because school officials were about to check players' residency records.
Students rent textbooks
Jan. 22 — COC set up a rental system for textbooks to save students money. On average, students were paying nearly $1,000 for books each semester — costing about three times more than their course fees. Renting books reduces the students' cost by about 25 percent, saving them hundreds of dollars per book, officials said at the time.


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Cocktails and burgers were served at the back chapel of the former Couvent des Récollets in Paris, when Nadéah took the stage with her tunes. Suddenly the hall blacked out, the music stopped, the garden lights went out as well, the Martini bars that dotted the garden went silent. Everyone was wondering what was going on.
Then this film came on screen.
KIDS LOVE JETLAG | OPENING from Fred & Farid Group on Vimeo.
The film ended with the announcement of "KIDS LOVE JETLAG" release, FRED & FARID GROUP's 5th agency, and now all the guests knew this sudden black-out was - in the words of Pee-Wee Herman "I meant to do that" - on purpose.
Then Skip The Use band set the stage on fire in the Maison de l'Architecture, playing "People in the Shadow". Kids Love Jetlag will explore digital influence through creativity.


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Integer Signal Sources
Integer Constant - generates a constant integer signal
Integer Step - generates an integer step signal
See Also
Signal Blocks Overview
Boolean Signal Sources
Real Signal Sources
The components described in this topic are from the Modelica Standard Library. To view the original documentation, which includes author and copyright information, click here.
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Google has purchased ITA Software, a firm specializing in software that compares flight schedules and prices, for $700 million in cash.
Google hopes that the acquisition will provide benefits to the consumers by making it easier to find flights online. The firm believes that the acquisition of ITA will pave the way for significant improvements in searching for and comparing prices of flights online. Such improvements, Google argues, will benefit the travel industry as a whole, by increasing online sales.
TA's technology is used by a number of travel firms as well rival search engines such as Microsoft's travel search offering, Bing Travel. Keen to allay fears from rivals, Google has insisted that ITA's existing partnerships will not be affected by the acquisition and also that Google has no plans to offer its own flight booking service.
Writing on the Google Blog, Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, said:
"Today, almost half of all airline tickets are sold online. But for many people, finding the right flight at the best price is a frustrating experience; pricing and availability change constantly, and even a simple two city itinerary involves literally thousands of different options. We'd like to make that search much easier, which is why I'm pleased to announce that today we have signed an agreement to acquire ITA."
Google expects the deal to come under intense scrutiny and is going to great pains to point out that the acquisition will not adjust current market shares in the travel industry, will not lock out competitors and will not lead to Google selling airline tickets or setting airfares.
Read more at Google's ITA Press Page and Press Release, found via BBC News and The Independent


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Had saline implants replaced with silicone to minimize rippling. I ended up with one breast slightly higher than the other. Y The doctor did a revision and now the breast that was lower is significantly higher. He dd the revision using internal sutures. Is it normal to over correct and let the breast settle in. He used 500 cc implants and said the weight of he implant and the skin stretching will take a while. Just panicking because of the big difference between the two.
Revision Surgery for One Implant Slightly Lower, is It Normal to over Correct and Now It is a Lot Higher?
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Breast augmentation Revision
Thank you for the questions. Without photos, this may be difficult to answer. Whenever I revise augmentations with internal sutures I too overcorrect slightly. The larger the implant, the more I overcorrect. The settling process can take 3-6 months. So, don't panick just yet. Give it more time and chances are good that it will look more symmetric by Christmas. Hope this helps.
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I'd give it 4 to 6 months post-op before panicking as implants settle and skin does stretch. The implant may have been over-corrected knowing that it will eventually settle. If you're still concerned, it's a good idea to consult with your plastic surgeon.
Breast Augmentation Asymmetry- Breast Implants Uneven
Yes, with time the breast implant will drop and they will be more even. However, it might not drop enough.
- Breast augmentation risks iclude asymetry or implants that are uneven. Small degrees of asymetry are best left alone. Larger degrees usually are treated with surgery.
- It is easier to lower implants and this breast augmentation revision or re-do typically has a high success rate. The surgery involves cutting the lower part of the capsule to lower the implant.
- Raising implants is more difficult. The surgery usually involves suturing the capsule "up" called a capsulorrhaphy. The success rate is high- but probably only around 80%.
- Settling or dropping willl occur after the operation. Give it time. This means months not weeks.
Breast augmentation revision surgery can be frustrating. It takes time for healing to occur. You may need another procedure but only time will tell. Be patient. A secomf opinion always helps. They will even out with time!
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Around January I began my fitness drive. I've been having a good old go with YourShape which is proving fun, I've had a session with a personal trainer and I have attempted the odd run. The problem has been the darkness, its quite dark by the time I am child free and I cant afford the gym. However, I have had another secret weapon some fitness DVD's.
Now to be fair I couldn't honestly review the three I was given at the same time so my lovely sister in law has reviewed one of them for me.First up in this fitness review series is Nadia Sawalha Fat to Flab. This was the DVD which I was most keen to have a go at, I like Nadia as a TV personality as she seems quite real. I know she really was quite fat and that she has lost a lot of weight and looks fab on it so I was looking forward to having a go at her programme.
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Holsworthy is a market town and civil parish in the north west of Devon, England. It is situated near the county border with Cornwall, and is 9 miles from the coastal resort of Bude. It is on the intersection of the A388 and A3072 roads, and lies on the River Deer, a tributary of the Tamar. The population increased by 15% from 1981 to 1999 and was estimated at 2,116: the census figure for 2001 is 2,256.
Holsworthy was located in the Black Torrington Hundred. It was a Registration District and registration subdistrict during the 19th century. In 1894 it was made part of the Holsworthy Rural District, but was made an urban district in 1900. In 1964 it reverted to being a member of the Rural District Council again. It is now a part of the Torridge District, the district municipality which covers that part of Devon.
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Lockdown Lifted At Casino After Shots Fired Inside
Tulsa Police say someone walked into a South Tulsa casino and fired shots.
It happened about 8 p.m. Sunday at the RiverSpirit Casino located at 81st and Riverside.
The casino was on lockdown so officers could find the person responsible.
The lockdown has been lifted.
Channel 8 spoke with a witness who said she was gambling near the front of the building and heard three loud "pops."
Guests were escorted to the back of the building before given the all-clear.
Then they were told to go back into the building together as there were reports of another shooter outside.
Police say they were pursuing two female suspects in the parking garage.
A casino spokesperson says only one bullet was fired and one window is damaged.
No one was hit by any bullets.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Sergio Garcia had one of those stretches where it felt like every putt was going to drop. He needed every one of them Friday for a 7-under-par 65 to match his best score on the TPC Sawgrass and take a one-shot lead over Tiger Woods at The Players Championship.
Next up is Woods and Garcia in the final group on the weekend, which is sure to add even more attention to the stage that is Sawgrass.
Garcia didn't miss a fairway and putted for birdie on every hole on the back nine but wasn't gaining any ground. That changed on the front nine, when he made seven straight putts — five of them from about 15 feet or longer — to race by Woods.
"When you start going like that, obviously it feels great," said Garcia, who was at 11-under 133. "Everything seems kind of clearer in your head. You seem to see the break. You seem to feel like everything is a little bit easier, a little bit smoother, and you hit the putt and it manages to go in. If it was easy, we would have plenty of those, but it's not. Enjoy them while you have them."
Woods looks like he's having a good time on the course that has vexed him more than any other on the PGA Tour, and he could be the greater threat on the weekend. Already a three-time winner this year on tour, Woods has rarely put himself in trouble and had his second straight 67.
Woods was at 134, his best 36-hole total by six shots at this tournament, including the year he won.
He tied for the lead with a 5-wood into 20 feet for eagle on the par-5 second hole, then took the lead alone with a short birdie on the fourth. But it didn't last long: Garcia, playing in the group ahead of him, ran off five straight birdies, finishing that stretch with a 20-foot putt on No. 5 and a 25-footer on No. 6.
Woods and Garcia have played together on big stages — Bethpage Black, Royal Liverpool — with a big edge for Woods. They first were linked when the Spaniard was 19 and gave Woods all he could handle at Medinah in the 1999 PGA Championship. They were paired in the final round of the 2002 U.S. Open and 2006 British Open, both won by Woods.
Asked about playing with Woods on Saturday, Garcia said he wouldn't see it as anything but another round of golf.
"I don't have to measure myself against anybody," he said. "I know what I want to try to do, and any given day I can shoot a round like this and any other day he can shoot a good round and beat me."
But with the tournament only halfway over, this is far more than a duel between Woods and Garcia.
The 18 players within five shots of the lead include three current major champions — Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and Rory McIlroy — along with Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Steve Stricker, Hunter Mahan and Zach Johnson.
Westwood chipped in from 100 feet for eagle on the 11th hole and was atop the leader board until making pars on his last eight holes. He had a 66 and was two shots behind, along with Kevin Chappell (66) and Stenson, who had two eagles on the front nine in his round of 67.
Ryan Palmer, who learned Thursday night that one of his best friends died in a car accident in San Antonio, had two eagles in a round of 69 and was three shots behind. Defending champion Matt Kuchar birdied three of his last four holes for a 66 and was at 7-under 137, along with Scott, Mahan and Johnson.


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Last week my post What I Wish I Could Say to the Parents on the Plane garnered a ton of traffic–and a ton of comments and emails, both here and on Facebook.
And while much was positive, a significant part was quite negative. How could I judge that mother like that? Now parents will be scared to fly with kids because of judgmental people like me!
Looking back, I wouldn't really change what I wrote, but I might have added more context. It certainly was not my intention to hurt parents who are super-tired and overworked and worrying that others are judging them if their kids misbehave. And yet I'd like to revisit a particular aspect of the incident, and then ask you all: don't you think this child deserved better? I was being sarcastic because sometimes the best teaching situations come from real life examples. I can talk all I want about how to discipline, but when you tell a story, it tends to hit closer to home. Hence I chose this one. But my point in the post was not that the kid was a brat or that the mother's parenting was ineffective; it was that the mother wasn't even trying. That was the problem.
So here are the facts: the mom and dad were sitting across the aisle from each other so they could talk. The 4-year-old was against the window; the 6-year-old was in the middle. They brought no toys. They brought no books. They only let their kids watch a few of the movies on the plane (they cost money). They weren't talking to the kids. And they weren't disciplining the kids.
The 6-year-old whined a yelled a lot, but the 4-year-old just screamed. And so I wrote my post about how a parent should act on a plane with a child.
Let me reiterate: the issue was not that the child was screaming. Lots of kids scream on planes. The issue was that the mom was doing absolutely nothing about it, and hadn't brought anything to help the child. You cannot expect a little girl to be perfectly quiet for 5 hours on a flight with nothing to do. The mom got exasperated and started issuing warning after warning, to no avail, but she made no effort to engage the child in anything.
A few commenters said, what if the mom was tired? What if they were returning from a funeral and she was exhausted? Well, yes, that might have put a slightly different spin on it. But she sure didn't look depressed with the way she was talking with her husband. But here's the thing: I've taken my one and a half year old to her own brother's funeral–when I was the grieving mother. And you know what? I still packed books. Because I wanted Rebecca to have something to do, and I knew I wasn't in much position to help her. So I put a bunch of books and toys in a bag, and we went to the church.
Of course that mom may have been exhausted. We all are exhausted at some point. But she is still a mother, and a mother has a responsibility to care about her child. I am not sure why people think that it's so bad to point this out. Is it actually fair to take a child on a plane for 5 hours and then ignore her?
Now some of you have flown with kids who have cried the whole time because their ears hurt, or they were tired, or sick, or scared. I know some passengers get annoyed with you, but that wouldn't have been me. I am never annoyed when I see parents trying; I feel a lot of compassion, and there are times I have offered to bounce a crying baby on a trans-Atlantic flight to give a mom a break. I think we all should do that! And there are times when I was travelling with my kids when they were younger when we have shared our toys and books with other young children.
If a mom is trying, and she's at her wit's end, then compassion should be our main response. But what should be our main response when a mother doesn't even look like she cares? Have you ever seen that, whether you're on a plane or not? I've often been out with moms who have kids in strollers or kids by the hand who never even talk to the kids. They talk to their friends, and ignore those children. They take them into McDonald's and order them food and then text the whole time, rather than acknowledge their child's presence.
That makes me mad, and I will continue to call them out on it. If a child is acting out in those circumstances, it is not the child's fault. It is a natural response to being bored and ignored.
Now some of you have children who are more difficult in public because of autism or other syndromes. I can understand being very wary of people judging your children in public, because other people can't necessarily tell that your child has these problems just by watching them. But the key to me is not the child's behaviour, but the parent's engagement. If the parent is engaged, and trying appropriately to help and discipline and steer the child, that's great, regardless of the child's response. But if the parent is doing nothing, that's a problem.
In other words, what bugs me is not the child's behaviour but the parent's response. Do you see that? I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear enough in the original blog post; I really am. But I also am afraid that we've gotten to the point where we're afraid of setting any standards for parenting in public in case we make people feel guilty. You are the parent. You have a responsibility to engage your child and raise them properly. You have a responsibility to consider your child's needs when you go out in public, even if that's a tall order. You just do.
I know I'm not alone in feeling this way, because author Joanne Kraft emailed me after reading the comments to the post and sent me a link to a similar post she wrote, where she's railing about a dad she saw in a store. It's awesome. She writes:
Hey there Mr. Playground-Dad. Yes, I'm talking to you. I've been watching you and your son for quite some time now. Would you like to know the one question that keeps popping into my head over and over again?
Have you lost your mind!?
For the past ten minutes, I've witnessed your son yell at you, slap you, and refuse to sit beside you in a time-out. Your only response when he wiggled away was to yell, "You're going straight to bed when we get home." Your son yelled back even louder, "No I'm not!"
Why didn't you get up and run after him? Why didn't you pick him up and walk out of the play area? Why did you let him continue playing? Are you afraid of him? He can't be older than five.
What's that? You're tired?
Too bad. Parenting isn't an option. Lots of us parents are tired. Poor excuse dad. Do you think parents of well-behaved children aren't tired? You are the adult. He is the child.
You can read the rest here, but I just want to reiterate: I think, as a society, we have forgotten how to parent. It is not compassionate on children to stop pointing this out. We need to call parents back to parenting effectively, which is why I tried to give pointers on how to keep kids engaged.
This mother didn't seem to care at all. Some may still think I'm judgmental, but my primary thought and prayer was for that little girl. No one deserves to be ignored like that, and I am not sorry for feeling that way. I'm just sorry if I wasn't clear enough in the first place.


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David Yurman Withdraws From Baselworld International Fair
After what sources call an "exasperating" back-and-forth with Baselworld, the international watch and jewelry fair, David Yurman has pulled out as an exhibitor, reported WWD.
David Yurman confirmed to WWD that it won't be participating in order to focus on its growing international business.
Baselworld is a yearly trade show that takes place in Basel, Switzerland. It is regarded as the premier fair for watch and jewelry brands. This year it is scheduled for April 25 to May 2, 2013.
Sources from Yurman deny speculation that petty disputes over booth location is what led to the company's withdrawal.
"With a burgeoning global business and a focus on retail and shop-within-shop properties, we have decided to market ourselves independently of Basel next year," the New York-based brand said. "We have been strong supporters of Basel and our participation has long been a highly effective and engaging platform for our company."


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A COUPLE from Wellington has launched a day service for older people called the 'Young At Heart Club'.
Created by Lloyd and Diana Yorke, it aims to give older people a place to make friends and engage in fun and stimulating activities.
The pair, who have experience managing a day care centre in Mid Devon, set up the not-for-profit group to tackle feelings of loneliness and isolation and boost youthfulness among the older community.
The Yorkes would like to attract elderly people from Wellington, Cullompton and Tiverton, and give carers some respite.


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I am also selling this locally and those transactions have priority (for ease). Please contact me via message and include a phone number in your message so we can talk before concluding the transaction. I don't offer returns because I'm not a camera shop. I've described it accurately and if you are not comfortable with that then please move along. I'm just tired of dealing with buyers who develop "buyer's remorse" or just want to try something out.
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