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Jacques Derrida
"That is to say, which perhaps is saying that is, although perhaps cannot be said without saying that and without is always the absence and absence is always the presence of the Other, which is to say...." "
"There is nothing outside the text...That's why I've signed up on a 24 month contract with Orange Mobile. Unlimited texts, free phoneme calls and 3G internet access. The future's bright, the future's...(We get the point. Ed.)"
"Deconstruction, from my understanding, does not involve SIT-COM."
"I'm only as finite as my last sentence, no, not that last one, this last one, no, the previously aforementioned err... Bollocks."
"I don't need to understand it to know it's totally lame."
"There's nothing outside the differant meth."
Jacques Derrida (nintendo ~.~ - ?) was the founder of the Derrida Deconstruction™, a bulldozing company with operations in Algeria and France. From this business endeavour, Derrida realised he could carry out similar operations on books, a Eureka moment originating from a pot of alphabet soup, "mon Dieu, je pense qu'il y a quelque chose en cela ! Il n'y a pas de hors-texte". From this, his business structure expanded into the sale of the first commercial alphabetic fridge magnets. This led to an integral accident when he misspelt "difference" on his fridge door; he rectified this by claiming it was the ABSENCE of an origin, 'A' being the first letter in the alphabet, which affirmed the BEING-PRESENT of the differance. Analytic philosophers found this theory risible, and a very poor night-time read, and so spent their time in a productive manner deciding upon the differences between ducks and rabbits. Anglophone philosophers, to put it more broadly, agreed stating that "not only was it a load of tosh" but that "it wasn't even written in English" which made it "even more ridiculous". Meanwhile Foucault was busy trying out the effects of LSD in California, but that's besides the point...
JD, Derrida's DJ name and preferred title, countered that his work wasn't "tosh" or "ridiculous", but actually lay somewhere in between in reference to the problem of the excluded middle by its relation to an antinomy that had no reference to space and time implied by the word "between". Moreover, the ontic-ontological quality of hiccups, commonly believed to be caused by trapped wind, la brisure, were actually initiated by an ABSENCE of 'sneer' quotations in the relationship between the signifier and signified, thus inaugurating its own death before eschatological qualities can even be applied or imposed within a logocentric framework upon the auxiliary form of writing. This was the gist of the argument explained on Derrida's daytime television show for children, "Let's Do Deconstruction" - (the 'do' being sous rature) [the being being sous rature] {the being being being s...oh forget it}.
At the center - wait, let's start again - At the crux o...- hang on...erm - The Derrida controversy regarded his discovery of black holes...Wait, that was Hawking...I'll get it right this time:
Derrida pioneered the concept of deconstruction of text. His initial application of this method involved the use of a swinging ball, influence from his bulldozing days, but this was soon revised in light of the fact that nothing could be outside the text. Fortunately, he solved this problem by deciding that the text deconstructs itself, because that way his pernicious bullshitting was less obvious. There are two simple principles to the idea of deconstruction:
I: "Outside and Inside" : Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.
II: "Absence and Presence" : C'est tous le pareil, seulement les noms changera. Un autre endroit, où les visages sont si froids. Je conduis toute la nuit, pour revenir juste maison. Je suis un cowboy, sur un cheval en acier je monte. Morts ou vivant voulus. Parfois je dors, parfois c'est pas pendant des jours. Les personnes que je rencontre vont toujours leurs manières séparées. Parfois vous dites le jour, par la bouteille que vous buvez...au sujet de tout seul tout que vous faites est pense. Je suis un cowboy, sur un cheval en acier je monte. Morts ou vivant voulus. Ah, je monte ! Ooh, et je suis un cowboy, sur un cheval en acier je monte. Je marche ces rues avec de la six-corde chargée sur mon dos. Je joue pour garde, parce que je ne pourrais pas le faire en arrière...toujours je suis se tenant grand...Je suis un cowboy, sur un cheval en acier je monte. Je suis un cowboy, j'ai eu la nuit de mon côté. Je suis a voulu des morts ou des morts voulus vivants ou vivant.
Jacques is probably best known for his portrayal of Peter Falk in the hit television series Columbo, where his character solved mysteries with the help of his two dogs Muttley and Mumbly, and his glass eye. He joined the BBC as one of the first disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1 in 1957, bringing confusion to millions with his show 'Word Up', but dishonourably ditched his existing listeners to establish the pirate station Anti-YO, specifically targeted at the overweight and non-existant. Repeatedly confirming that these were his the best and most politically active listeners in the entire known history of the multiverse, 'cos that they were too fat or ethereal to complainement'. One listener also stated that when it came to the show 'he was all eyes'.
Apparently Derrida died in 2004, a claim subseqently questioned by the New York Times which asked, "If truth is never final and there is nothing outside the text, how can he really be sure that he's dead?" Upon further Deconstruction of his body, it was discovered that he was indeed made up of just text. Sadly, this text made no sense, even to the most trained scholars.
Major Writing[edit]
Of Curmudgeonology
This brilliantly lasting contribution explains "differance" is fundamentally illogical, as it presumes knowing is never constant--hence its critique of Edmund Husserl's "Pure Ego" (which is stated by Husserl to be Constant). Differance worked for Derrida, as long as he knew relatively constantly from one point of Pure Egoic awareness to the next that he never noticed that he encountered this.
Musical Career[edit]
In the seminal work Spectres of Sparks Derrida posited the notion that a highly-powered form of synth-pop known as Derri-Dance could aid in the process of deconstructing modes of musical production in the 1980's. This lead Derrida to release two albums, the first of which met with a mixed critical reception, garnering a mere 6.0 from pitchfork, and the latter dissappeared without a trace. Fans cited the break in style from the earlier, tape-released and leaked demos, as a reason for the artistic failure of Derri-Dance.


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Media Type: Cartoons (Commentary)
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Created for Evening Public Ledger, date unknown.
"Bonus Bungling"
"Tariff Tinkering"
Printed the day before Easter in 1922, this cartoon depicts the U.S. Congress as a decorated egg displaying some of its more questionable recent accomplishments.
Naval disarmament was an international concern in the years following World War One. The mention of "navy slashing" in the cartoon may be referencing the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922 that gathered nine of the world's greatest powers together to seek a reduction in naval forces. Out of this conference three treaties were eventually agreed upon to reduce the naval capacity of the nations involved. [1]
Following the war there was also a concern over the continued economic prosperity of the United States. Europe's agricultural production and economic activity rebounded and the need for American exports was greatly reduced. As imports to the U.S. increased, Congress engaged in "tariff tinkering" by passing the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. The act raised tariffs on European imports and was intended to favor American industry.[2]
The cartoon also calls attention to the efforts of Congress to draft legislation providing additional compensation to World War One veterans. While Congress managed to pass a so-called "bonus" bill in 1922, it was deemed fiscally irresponsible by President Harding and vetoed. Additional veteran benefits would eventually be provided through the World War Adjusted Compensation Act passed in 1924.[3]
[1] Office of the Historian: Department of the State. (2009). Milestones 1921-1936, The Washington Naval Conference 1921-1922. Retrieved from: < http://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/NavalConference >
[2] Office of the Historian: Department of the State. (2009). Milestones 1921-1936, Protectionism in the Interwar Period. Retrieved from: < http://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/Protectionism >
[3] Office of the Clerk: House of Representatives. (n.d.) Retrieved from: < http://artandhistory.house.gov/highlights.aspx?action=view&intID=347 >
Sykes, Charles Henry. "Our Decorated Hard-Boiled Egg." Evening Public Ledger: Night Extra. (Philadelphia, PA). 1922, April 15: p. 8.
Country: Country:United States
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1922
Creator Name: Sykes, Charles Henry, 1882-1942 - Artist

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This month it was my turn to lead the Bread Baking Babes into battle, and I wanted to do something to celebrate Thanksgiving, the holiday that many Americans consider our most important. I've also been wanting to experiment with dough sculpture, so I asked the Babes to make a cornucopia, a symbol of bountiful harvest and giving thanks, from slightly-yeasted decorative dough.
The light and dark dough recipes are adapted from Jeffrey Hamelman's excellent book, Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes. Hamelman also gives instructions for creating a woven version of the cornucopia, but I opted for a simpler rope-winding method. Some of the other Babes chose to weave, and the results are spectacular.
If you are in a winding-or-weaving, thanks-giving frame of mind, please join the cornucopia-fest and be a Bread Baking Buddy. Send me the link to your cornucopia by November 29 to be included in the Buddy roundup. (And in case you are a cornucopia curmudgeon like this humorous guy, you could also choose to make make another type of vessel with the dough.)
As you can see, I made quite a few of these horns in my quest to be a good Babe and come up with instructions that work. Be assured, therefore, that when I say, "Spray the cone with baking spray or oil so it does not stick to the dough," or, "A countertop oven does not work well, even for a small cornucopia, because it is too close to the top element and will burn," I know whereof I speak.
I have included recipes for both light and dark dough. I used the dark dough only on the rim of a couple of the cornucopias (cornucopiae?), and I let them brown for a little too long to allow the contrast between light and dark to be very noticeable. I also tried sticking whole cloves into one; they popped out initially but after about a half-hour of baking allowed themselves to be pushed back in and stayed there.
You can make this any size, just be sure it will fit in your oven. I found that a nice size (the two medium-sized ones in the photo, top right and bottom center) was made with a cone rolled from a 14 x 11-inch piece of poster board and ended up being 12 inches long (excluding the wagging tail) with a mouth diameter of 4 inches. This size requires about 900 g of dough. The smaller ones are 6 inches long and require about 300 g.
There is no fermentation or proofing time for the dough, and once I figured out how to do it, they assembled very quickly. However, the baking time is quite long, because you need to make sure the dough is really dried out so the piece will last without molding. So in case you were thinking of whipping one of these up on Thanksgiving morning, you may want to revise that plan.
Because it's a "horn of plenty" and not a "horn of nothing," a cornucopia ought to be filled. The possibilities are many — fruits and vegetables, dried flowers and grasses, small animals, etc. all come to mind. If you want grissini like I have in mine, I have some suggestions.
The other Babes offer more inspiration: Astrid (Paulchens Foodblog), Lien (Notitie van Lien), Görel (Grain Doe), Elizabeth (blog from OUR kitchen), Tanna (My Kitchen in Half Cups), Natashya (Livingin the Kitchen with Puppies), Sara (I Like to Cook), Ilva (Lucullian Delights), Karen (Bake My Day), Elle (Feeding my Enthusiasms).
And now, the step-by-step guide to cornucopia construction:
- Before mixing the dough, prepare your form. Roll a rectangle of poster board or other light but sturdy cardboard into a cone, securing it with tape. Trim it so the mouth is even and it more or less stands up straight (a little off-kilter is fine).
- Cover the cone with foil. (The foil is optional, but it helps the form release more easily from the baked dough.) Stuff the form with crumpled foil or paper to help it maintain its shape. Foil is firmer. To keep the stuffing from falling out, I stapled a piece of parchment paper across the mouth.
- Spray the form with baking spray or oil. Stand it up on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Now mix the dough(s); the recipes are below. I suggest refrigerating it immediately, removing small pieces to work with as you need them.
- Preheat the oven to 360F (180C).
- To form the rim, roll two strands of dough and twist them together like rope. For my 12-inch cornucopia, each strand was 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter.
- Wrap the rope around the bottom of the upright form overlapping the ends and pressing them together slightly.
- Roll another strand of dough, again 1/2 to 3/4 inch, tapering the ends. Coil it continuously around the form until you run out. Then repeat with more pieces, overlapping the tapered ends slightly. I didn't worry about making all of the joins in the back, as I think the overlaps add to the rustic appeal of the piece. Make sure each tier lies on top of the one underneath it with no gaps (although small gaps are okay; they will fill in as the dough expands a little during baking).
- When you get to the top of the cone, continue the coil just a bit further and curve it a little to form the tail.
- Carefully lay the cornucopia down on the baking sheet so that the rim seam is on the underside.
- Make an egg wash by lightly beating together one whole egg, a splash of water, and a pinch of salt. Brush the cornucopia lightly and evenly with the egg wash, reaching as far to the underside as you can without lifting it up.
- Bake initially for 30 – 45 minutes. This should set the dough enough to hold its shape when the form is removed. Removing the form helps the inside dry out much faster. Tongs are helpful if you can't grab it well. At this point, or any further point in the baking, if the cornucopia has reached the color you want it, cover it with foil , leaving the mouth open.
- Return it to the oven to bake for another 30 – 45 minutes. Then turn off the oven, leave door slightly ajar, and let the cornucopia stay in there until it is quite dry inside, another hour or two. If your oven cools down very quickly, you may need to leave it turned on at a low temperature instead of turning it off completely. The exact baking/drying time will depend on the size of your piece.
Light Yeasted Decorative Dough
(Adapted from Bread, A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes, by Jeffrey Hamelman.)
Yield: 1500 g (more than enough for one 12-inch and one 6-inch cornucopia)
- 875 g flour
- 481 g water
- 3.5 g (1-1/8 t.) instant yeast
- 13 g (2-1/3 t.) salt
- 44 g milk powder
- 39 g sugar
- 44 g butter, softened
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with dough hook, or a medium mixing bowl, combine all ingredients.
- Mix on low mixer speed, or by hand, until all the ingredients are evenly incorporated.
- Continue mixing on medium speed, or by hand, until the gluten is very well-developed.
- Use the dough immediately, working with small portions at a time and keeping the remainder of the dough refrigerated.
Dark Yeasted Decorative Dough
(Adapted from Bread, A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes, by Jeffrey Hamelman.)
Feel free to scale this down, since you'll only need a small amount if using it as an accent. However, small amounts may be difficult to mix effectively in a stand mixer.
Yield: 500 g
- 276 g flour
- 15 g sifted cocoa powder
- 162 g water
- 1.2 g (generous 1/3 t.) instant yeast
- 4 g (2/3 t.) salt
- 15 g milk powder
- 13 g sugar
- 15 g butter, softened
The method is the same as for the light dough above.


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VOTD: Every 3D Movie Is The Same
Watch enough movies, and you'll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you've just shelled out $14 to see a movie you're already seen before. Sometimes, it's no surprise that a film looks derivative — did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its originality, for example? — but even great movies fall prey to old habits sometimes. The Avengers was exhilarating, but Lord knows we've seen the dear old Big Apple demolished more than a few times before, and often in very similar ways at that.
The Funny or Die folks point out the most familiar repeating shots and motifs in a video titled "Every 3D Movie is the Same." Unfortunately, it seems their theoretical fact-checkers were dozing on the job, since a handful of the movies they cite were not, in fact, released in 3D. But even so, their point stands. Perhaps they should've just retitled it "Every Studio Action Movie is the Same"? Watch it after the jump.
[via Funny or Die]
Just to be clear, Battleship, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol didn't hit theaters in 3D. And while G.I. Joe: Retaliation is currently being converted to the format, the footage used in this video has never been shown in 3D.
Still, the montage of side-by-side clips make a convincing case for the old adage that there's nothing new under the sun. As movie ticket prices continue to go up, up, up — and as theaters eagerly slap 3D and IMAX premiums on top of them — maybe this video can remind you to be wary of shelling out your hard-earned dollars on blockbusters that look a little too samey. A movie like Brave has plenty to offer besides establishing shots of mountain scenery and archery action sequences, but if you've already seen Transformers: Dark of the Moon, don't even bother with Battleship.


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Carnegie Parish Welcomes Bishop Daniel and Seminarians of St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary
On the weekend of December 13-15, 2013, Bishop Daniel and three Seminarians of St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Bound Brook, NJ (Ivan Chopko, Volodymyr Sukanets Sr., and Volodymyr Sukanets Jr.) honored the St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox parish in Carnegie, Pennsylvania with a visit.
Saturday was the St. Matrona Ladies Society 10th Annual Cookie Walk. His Grace and Seminarians had a "hands on" experience by helping to wait on customers and pack their boxes with cookies along with helping to serve the coffee/tea/hot chocolate in the upstairs of the hall to those who were waiting for their numbers to be called. His Grace waited on Carnegie Mayor Jack Kobistek and then had a discussion talk with him about our parish. Mayor Kobistek informed His Grace about the good work the parish does around the community. His Grace was pleased to see how many parishioners (young and old) worked together to make the Cookie Walk a success. One little girl was heard saying that she had to write a Christmas story about her favorite holiday tradition. She wrote about the past few years coming with her family to our Cookie Walk. She got an "A" for the story!
In the early hours of afternoon, His Grace Bishop Daniel asked Iconographer Michael Kapeluck to open his studio for a tour and a brief class/orientation for the students of St. Sophia Seminary. The bishop along with the seminarians were treated to a detailed explanation about the iconography project upon which Michael Kapeluck is working for one of the Ukrainian Orthodox parishes in Canada.
Later in the day, His Grace Bishop Daniel along with the Seminarians, Very Rev. Steven Repa, and some of Metropolitan Constantine's relatives, held a memorial service at the gravesite of Metropolitan Constantine of blessed memory.
Saturday evening the Parish Council went to dinner with Bishop Daniel and the Seminarians to a local restaurant. Following dinner His Grace held an informal discussion with the Council members. Some problems and concerns were discussed. His Grace stated that a parish that is also community-oriented is a thriving parish. He relayed his discussion with the Mayor and pointed out our community participation. Besides our Cookie Walk, Pysanky Sale, and Ukrainian Food Fest, our parish hosts a free Thanksgiving Dinner for the parishioners and community (this year we served ~250 dinners between those who attended, the take-outs, and 30 deliveries). Left over food has been donated to FOCUS Pittsburgh. We sponsor the St. John and St. Martin's Closet in which we collect new/gently used clothing and bedding and on the third Sunday of the month we put the clothing out and anyone from the community can come to chose clothing to take home. Parishioners other individuals and organizations from the community donate clothing. His Grace stated they have an overabundance of children's clothing at the Consistory (too much to send to the orphanages in Ukraine); we can come and get them for the closet. Two members volunteered to drive out to New Jersey and bring back the clothing. In conjunction with the Closet we have an Angel Tree in which the parents write out a wish list for their child(ren) and the parishioners take one or more angels to purchase gifts for the children which will be given out at the Christmas Party. Other activities include a Christmas Eve Supper in which Fr. Steve Repa, Dr. Steve Sivulich, and Alice Sivulich invite parishioners (especially those who are alone or have no place to go) to supper followed by Complines; a Theophany Eve dinner sponsored by St. Matrona's for all parishioners; and a Lenten Mission in which we invite a guest speaker and other local clergy.
Sunday was a wonderful Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. It was very enlightening to have His Grace and the Seminarians serve. Assisting His Grace were Fr. Repa, Fr. Robert Popichak, Deacon Dennis Lapushansky, and Altar Servers. Responses were under the direction of Choir Directress Cynthia Mycyk. New vestments for Deacon Dennis and new altar cloths were blessed. Following Liturgy everyone proceeded to the hall for a delicious luncheon. While everyone was socializing Bishop Daniel met with a few parishioners in the Church who requested a meeting with him. When all was done His Grace and the Seminarians departed for their travel back to the Consistory.
In honor of the three Seminarians and to thank them for visiting us the St. Matrona Ladies Society is sending a donation of $200 to the Seminary Support Fund. The parish is also donating $600 to the Seminary Support Fund in honor of Fr. Steve Repa's 30th Anniversary of Ordination into the Holy Priesthood.


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AL-MUSAWWIR- The Shaper; The Giver of Form
He is Allah—the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form . To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and Earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
(Surat al-Hashr, 59:24)
Our planet contains thousands of different species with entirely different appearances and amazing features. Let's examine the flawless symmetry on a butterfly wing. The surface of each wing is embellished with different patterns and impressive colors. No matter how complicated these patterns and colors may be, they never harm the perfect symmetry between the two wings. Indeed, just like a painter's masterpiece, all butterflies have astonishing appearances. Clearly, the wisdom manifested in such beauty has a source, for even an ordinary painting is painted by someone; it could not have come into existence by itself. This being the case, how could such a perfect living being, one that is as aesthetic as a work of art, come into being by coincidence? Allah, Lord of the universe, created, designed, and formed all of those beings.
Allah, Who created human beings and designed their bodies' internal and external systems, manifests His superior creativity and power on every detail of this complex structure. For instance, the skeleton (the body's structural support system) is an engineering marvel in its own right. It protects such vital organs as the brain, the heart and lungs, and upholds the body's internal organs. In addition, it gives the body a superior capacity for movement, one that cannot be imitated by any artificial mechanism. Bone tissue is not inorganic, as many people think. In fact, it is the body's mineral bank and thus includes many important minerals, among them calcium and phosphate. In accordance with the body's needs, it either stores these minerals or delivers them to where they are needed. Moreover, bones also produce red blood cells. Yet this multi-functional system is only one of the perfect systems existing in the human body.
This is the way of Allah, Who created—and Who continues to create—all of these systems with an unparalleled design so that we may see wherever we turn the manifestations of His unique creation. One verse relates that believers say the following words:
... "Our Lord gives each thing its created form and then guides it."
(Surah Ta Ha, 20:50)
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The company has continued to publish the works of major composers including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, H M Górecki, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and John Adams, and a younger generation of composers including Unsuk Chin, Magnus Lindberg, James MacMillan and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
In 1996, Boosey & Hawkes acquired the distinguished German publishing house, Bote & Bock. A family-owned business which was founded in Berlin in 1838, Bote & Bock has a fine catalogue of works by renowned figures such as Richard Strauss, Pietro Mascagni, Max Reger, Boris Blacher, Gottfried von Einem and Isang Yun. Bote & Bock's historical association with the music of Offenbach prompted the launch of the Offenbach Edition Keck, an authoritative new edition of Offenbach's works edited by Jean-Christophe Keck, which is now being employed in opera houses around the world and has attracted numerous prizes for its publishing excellence.
The second important step in the creation of a significant German publishing centre was the acquisition in 2002 of the Anton J. Benjamin catalogue with its Simrock editions of Brahms and Dvorák. New composing talent is also published from the Berlin office including Michel van der Aa, Brett Dean, Detlev Glanert, Olga Neuwirth and Helmut Oehring.
Further catalogues acquired by Boosey & Hawkes in recent years include Tempo (Prague) in 2004, with its range of Czech music including the children's opera Brundibár, and the French catalogue Jaune Citron in 2005 featuring tango music by Astor Piazzolla. In 2006 Boosey & Hawkes in New York launched a jazz catalogue, signing Chick Corea, David Benoit and Andrew Hill, and taking on the representation of Second Floor Music, a historic jazz standards catalogue.[1]
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Following up from a previous post of his that got lots of great feedback, Joshua Eichorn has posted his own thanks, not only for the responses to his own thoughts but to the PEAR community as a whole.
You'll be happy to know that were already working on many of your suggestions, Greg's post on the subject has some more details. I'll be sharing everyones comments with the rest of the PEAR group at our meeting on the 13th, so if anyone has a suggestion they haven't submitted yet thats your deadline.
The thing he's most excited about is the new mentoring program that will introduce new developers to the PEAR-ality of it all and get them involved with both the coding and the community.


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Regional input-output statistics comprise regional supply and use tables and the input-output tables based on them. The data in the tables improve the precision and add depth to regional accounts data. They describe the structure of production in the regions, relationships between economic activities and the dependence of regions on the product flows in other regions and abroad. The results of the regional input-output survey form an integral part of regional accounts. Product flows described according to a consistent and logical framework add to the content of regional accounts data and enhance their quality. Supply and use tables describe the supply of commodities generated by production and imports in a region and the use of these commodities in the production of other goods (intermediate consumption), consumption as final products, capital formation and exports. The symmetrical input-output tables describe interdependencies between economic activities. Analysis tables derived from them can be used to study the importance of the production and final use of economic activities to regional economy and employment.
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Never Too Old to Find New Friends
15 ways to connect with others and form fulfilling relationships
En español | When you were in school, you had no problem making friends. Ditto for those years when you were a parent of growing kids. But now that you've reached a new stage of life — and maybe have relocated or retired — making new acquaintances can be a little trickier.
Also see: Be a Better Friend
Not only do you have fewer opportunities to meet new people, but "there's also a little more resistance to forming new relationships later in life, and your skills can get a bit rusty," says Marla Paul, author of The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You're Not a Kid Anymore. Besides, you may feel just plain awkward.
Still, it's important to make the effort. Close relationships with others are vital to your health — physical, mental and emotional — your self-esteem and even your longevity, according to recent research. So if watching Grey's Anatomy is the highlight of your week, or you find yourself enthusiastically chatting with telemarketers, you probably need to make some new connections. Here are 15 things that can help you.
1. Get over the idea that everybody else your age already has all the friends they need. "Nobody wears a sign that says 'I'm looking for a friend,' but there are a lot of people out there in the same boat," Paul says.
2. Accept invitations, even if you suspect it won't be the night of your life. Just getting out increases the chances of meeting new people — and friends are sometimes found in unlikely places.
3. Check out continuing-education classes at your local college or university. In addition, many colleges allow older adults to audit regular classes for free, and some have programs specifically for seniors.
4. Senior centers have moved way beyond Friday-night bingo. Most have a variety of classes, activities and even trips. Stop by and ask for a schedule.
5. If you're retired, take a part-time job, even for just a few hours a week. It will expose you to new people and give you a little extra pocket money to boot.
6. Pursue your own interests — concerts, lectures, tai chi, cooking classes, whatever. "Look for things you're passionate about and attend consistently so that you have time to build relationships naturally," Paul says.
7. Set up a page on Facebook. You can connect with old friends and friends of friends — who just may happen to know someone in your area. Worst case: you'll find a few online soul mates.
8. Invite a few of your neighbors for dinner if you like to cook, or organize a potluck meal if you don't.
9. Get a dog if you're an animal lover. Conversations with other dog walkers are guaranteed, and even people without pets will stop to say hello to Max, giving you the perfect opener. Can't have a pet? Volunteer at your local shelter.
10. Work out at a nearby gym or the Y — but don't just do the machine routine: Join a class so you see the same people every week.
11. "Don't put too much pressure on a fragile new friendship because that can scare people away," Paul says. If someone doesn't call you back immediately, don't assume they simply don't like you. Try again.
12. Have faith — and exercise it. Many churches and synagogues make it a point to welcome newbies and introduce them around.
13. Volunteer in your community. Museums, hospitals, churches, animal shelters and schools are always looking for people to help out. Find opportunities in your area at AARP's createthegood.org or VolunteersofAmerica.org.
14. Log on to Meetup.com and enter your ZIP code. You'll find dozens, even hundreds, of groups in your area, focusing on everything from animals to Zen meditation. Also check out the AARP online community. If you can't find the right group, you can start your own.
15. Be willing to take a risk. When you meet someone you like — a salesperson or someone seated next to you at a lunch counter — take the initiative and ask for an email address. What's the worst that can happen?


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"Writing a lesson is hard, creative work and doing it right is very time consuming," says Stephen Churchville, the founder and creator of LessonWriter, an online solution for teachers to help them write better lessons faster. When reading is involved, a lot of effort goes to repetitive tasks like identifying vocabulary and parts-of-speech, finding explanations and examples for grammar and word roots and stems, formatting pages, etc., according to Stephen. "Those essential but non-creative tasks are to teachers what melting butter and washing pots are to cooks," he explains, "So I made LessonWriter to free teachers from those tasks and give them more time to be creative, like microwave ovens and dishwashers do in the kitchen." What else LessonWRITER can do to help teachers is the subject of this interview. Enjoy!
Victor: What does the name mean?
Stephen: We wanted a name that addressed the essence of what our service does, and that is write lessons. There's been some criticism, that the name is too literal or limiting—but I think most people get an idea of what we do as soon as they hear the name.
Victor: What is it? Who created it?
Stephen: LessonWriter is a website that provides free services to help teachers prepare and manage their lesson plans in keeping with "best practices" in literacy, differentiation, and critical thinking.
I created the first versions, and after I shared the programs with other teachers they started making requests and suggestions. Jennifer Applebaum, a fellow teacher and curriculum developer, has been a participant since the beginning and came up with some popular features like the graphic organizers and teacher lesson plan.
Babi Pal joined very early on and guides a lot of the web design, and he and Ben Evenson-Phair work on the site's back-end programming and databases. Another team member, Thomas Empl from Austria, was a big help with the linguistic programming.
Victor: How is it unique from other similar products and services? What companies do you see as in the same market?
Stephen: Before LessonWriter, the choice was between doing all the work yourself or using canned materials.
There are some terrific companies providing content-area literacy curricula and delivering leveled-content for differently-abled students, and we have learned a lot from them, but they are all canned materials selected by a committee in another state that has never met your students and did not know what today's news would be when they wrote the materials, so we see a big advantage in the teachers ability to choose the content that motivates her students like today's news.
With LessonWriter, teachers get the advantages of traditional materials (sequence of skills instruction, standard presentation, glossaries, etc.) and the creative, motivational, and pedagogical advantages of choosing content specifically for their students.
And LessonWriter's TEAM features encourage teacher collaboration, so that ESL, literacy, and special ed teachers can participate in content-area lesson planning.
Victor: When was it developed? What is something interesting or relevant about its development history?
Stephen: Since LessonWriter was developed part-time over many years, we have been able to test and refine and get feedback on every step. If we were a traditional company, LessonWriter would have had to be finished by a deadline and pushed out the door before it was ready.
I started developing the original programs in the fall of 2002 or winter of 2003. I was teaching ESL at the time, and so focused on vocabulary, pronunciation,grammar and linguistic oddities like idioms and phrasal verbs. As I shared the programs with teachers in other subjects, they requested features like graphic organizers, more question types, lesson plans, images, and customizable dictionaries. Other ideas were implemented only to be thrown out after testing because they were too difficult to use, not universal enough in their application, or were just unpopular.
After the formal launch of our free services in 2008, we started getting a lot more feedback from teachers all over the world.
Victor: Where did it originate and where can you get it now?
Stephen: Our company is in New York City, and the services are available on our website LessonWriter.com So far, our trainings have been held in New York City and New Milford, N.J., but we love to travel and are planning our expansion into other cities.
Victor: How much does it cost? What are the options?
Stephen: Everything we have for individual teachers is completely free, and tens of thousands of teachers around the world use our services without cost or obligation.
For schools, we offer our TEAM services for $1299 per year, and we give a one-year subscription for free when a school buys our BASIC professional development training.
Victor: What are some examples of it in action?
Stephen: Check out the short demo videos on the website that highlight the ease of use of our TEACHER tools and and the powerful TEAM and SCHOOL features.
Victor: Who is it particularly tailored for? Who is it not for?
Stephen: Not for? My first answer was gym teachers, but then I remembered that they are often assigned health classes! There is (or should be!) some reading every subject and class, and LessonWriter has a contribution to make whenever students struggle with literacy and comprehension. LessonWriter's biggest contribution is to help all teachers teach reading in their content area.
Victor: What are your thoughts on education these days?
Stephen: Teachers and administrators know that they are taking on impossible tasks and they do it anyway.
For example, no one really believes a teacher can plan five different lessons, each with accommodations for several differentiation groups, in a single prep period or evening. They all know it is not possible to challenge gifted students and support challenged students simultaneously every day in every class. Yet they wake up everyday and set to out to do just that, which is pretty heroic.
By helping teachers create lessons and lesson plans that address those challenges in a fraction of the time, LessonWriter gives teachers a fighting chance.
Victor: What sort of formative experiences in your own education helped to inform your approach to creating LessonWriter?
Stephen: I was lucky enough to go to the Stowe School, a very small alternative high school in Vermont, and had the chance to work one-on-one with teachers to select books and agree upon assignments and assessments. Reading what you want, guided by a competent and interested teacher holding you to rigorous standards, is pretty exciting.
That sort of individualization is a challenge in large schools, but with LessonWriter teachers really can allow students to choose content and then tailor activities to each student's needs.
Later, while student teaching in New York City, I was challenged and frustrated by students with low literacy skills. I remember my mentor Fern Lowenfels said that whatever our subject, we are all ultimately reading teachers.
Victor: What is your outlook on the future of education?
Stephen: Let's face it, no one is happy with education in America, and dissatisfaction with the status quo drives demand for new solutions. Today, people look to technology for solutions, so for people in educational technology, the future is going to be a blast.
From a social point of view the near-term future is less exciting. Debates about testing and teacher accountablity will continue to serve as straw men, distracting us from addressing larger social issues. What social issues? Well, we have many examples of successful schools, so ask the question "Why not do what they do?". The answers are the political and economic compromises we've made, and have nothing to do with pedagogy or how to teach most children.
Perfect pedagogical practice is only part of the battle. Lessonwriter supports teachers in doing their jobs well, and when we know that the educational efforts are sound,the issues that must be addressed outside the classroom become clearer.
Victor: What else can you tell educators and other leaders in and around education about the value of LessonWriter? What makes you say that?
Stephen: As teachers, we always emphasize skills and methods to students to help them become more aware learners. In the same way that teachers offer students systems for checking a math problem or self-assessing an essay, LessonWriter provides not only the tools but the meta-cognitive process for being a more aware planner and educator.
Victor Rivero tells the story of 21st-century education transformation. He is the editor-in-chief of Edtech Digest, a magazine about education transformed through technology. He has written white papers, articles and features for schools, nonprofits and companies in the education marketplace. Write to: email@example.com


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I know what you are thinking. More brussels sprouts? Well, I can't help it, I love these little nuggets of deliciousness.
I'm seriously in love with this recipe though, I could honestly sit and eat the entire bowl of this salad and be a happy camper.
That is how much I love Brussels Sprouts. Call me weird? Sure. Do I care? Not really. 🙂
#SundaySupper is all about Thanksgiving leftovers today, more specifically – what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers. Nicole from Daily Dish Recipes is hosting our feast and I think you are going to walk away with some incredible ideas to make on Friday afternoon or maybe Thursday night (I won't judge!)
A lot of Thanksgiving leftover recipes talk about what to do with the turkey, but I wanted to give you something to do with your leftover sides, besides just reheating it. This dish takes something so simple and totally recreates it into a new side. In fact, I plan on cooking it as is for my Thanksgiving meal!
Of course making this dish is dependent on having leftover roasted sprouts after your meal (like that would happen!) So plan on making extra to serve with Thanksgiving part 2 (or 3 or 4) for the coming days.
How shaved the brussels sprouts are in the salad depend on how soft they ended up when you originally roasted them. I wanted to slice my sprouts, but I had tiny ones, and the best I could do was chop them up a little more without smooshing everything.
- Leftover roasted brussels sprouts, sliced or cut into quarters
- 2 ounces pancetta, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1 large shallot, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1/2 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- In a medium saute pan over medium to medium-low heat, cook your pancetta until crisp and golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towels, reserving grease in the pan.
- If the reserved grease in the saute pan starts to smoke, lower the heat and add the sliced shallots. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and they just begin to caramelized about 8-10 minutes.
- After the shallots are finished cooking, add the leftover cold brussels sprouts to the pan and heat through until warm - about 5 minutes. Toss in the cooked pancetta.
- While everything is cooking, in a small bowl, whisk together the dijon mustard and white wine vinegar. Slowly drizzle in the extra virgin olive oil and whisk to make an emulsion. Season with salt and pepper.
- Drizzle the vinaigrette over the brussels sprouts mixture in the saute pan and toss to combine.
- Adjust seasoning if necessary and serve immediately.
Don't forget to check out what everyone else is offering up for Thanksgiving leftover ideas today!
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has rolled out its rumored iPhone trade-in program, enabling a consumer to receive a credit that would go toward buying either the new iPhone 5S or the new iPhone 5C, which are expected to be officially announced at a special media event on Sept. 10.
"IPhones hold great value. So, Apple Retail Stores are launching a new program to assist customers who wish to bring in their previous-generation iPhone for reuse or recycling," Apple representative Amy Bessette said in a statement. "In addition to helping support the environment, customers will be able to receive a credit for their returned phone that they can use toward the purchase of a new iPhone."


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Okay, so you didn't plan ahead, but don't worry. The new animated flick The Nut Job has squirreled away enough lame nut puns to get you through the winter. More than enough.
Opening shortly after anyone who would want to see it has gone back to school, The Nut Job feels for all the world as if its being dumped into the marketplace because, well, it had to come out sometime. And while it's not aggressively bad, the picture doesn't distinguish itself in any way. Given the animation boom we're living in, that's probably the kiss of death. Who will want to see The Nut Job when they could go to the screen next door and see Frozen?
That said, there's no accounting for the taste of seven-year-olds, and this could well become their instant favorite movie...until they see another one and forget this one ever existed. Set in the late '50s in the fictional town of Oakton, The Nut Job concerns one Surly (sitcom star Will Arnett), a ruthless rodent self-described as "just a squirrel trying to get a nut." For participating in a nut-gathering incident gone disastrously wrong, Surly gets banished from the city park where a community of critters has been struggling mightily to save enough nuts to sustain them through winter.
So Surly, trailed as ever by his dim-bulb buddy Buddy, faces the harsh world of city streets and alleyways and storefronts, but lo! It's a nut store! Sweet providence! And a chance for Surly to redeem himself, if he chooses to play nice with those who've rejected him. Playing peacemaker is Katherine Heigl's Andie, but Liam Neeson's tin-pot tyrant Raccoon proves, y'know, a tough nut to crack. Meanwhile, a human drama—actually, a human noir—is playing out among the denizens of the nut store: crooks using the shop as cover to plan and execute a bank heist.
This would seem to be enough material for an eighty-six minute movie, but before long, it's apparent that the screenwriters have enough to sustain interest for about half that length. It should come as no surprise, then, that the rubbery The Nut Job has been expanded from director Peter Lepeniotis' 2005 short film "Surly Squirrel." Like many rodents, the plot runs in circles, covering over and over again the same ground of whether or not characters can be trusted or redeemed until finally delivering the (obvious) answers.
During all that storyline stalling, one can enjoy the decent animation (offered up in 3D) that specializes in facial expressiveness. But, with the exception of the story's inciting event, the action is pretty dull, and the comedy, despite striving at times for a Looney Tunes vibe, lacks creative energy. But if you go, go armed with the knowledge that this is a Canadian-Korean production. That way, you won't be thrown for a loop by the bizarrely out-of-left-field animated cameo, in the closing credits, by Korean pop star Psy, who parties like it's 2012.


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This isn't exclusively an "Obama problem" — the boss emeritus has been scorching ICE for its catch-and-release policies for ages, starting long before O took office — but it's important counterprogramming to the left's narrative that Obama is some sort of fanatic about deporting illegals. Jeff Sessions put one hole in that balloon last week when his office ran the numbers and found that that if you're here illegally and don't have a criminal record, you're already basically exempt from deportation. ICE won't touch you, whether because you qualify for some sort of statutory exclusion or because Obama's definition of "prosecutorial discretion" means that he can refuse to enforce the law in hundreds of thousands of cases.
Now here comes Mark Krikorian's Center for Immigration Studies to add another puncture: Even among illegals who do have criminal records (not including traffic violations), tens of thousands are being released back into their communities by ICE after apprehension. That's fully 35 percent of "criminal aliens" whom they encountered.
These figures suggest that despite claims of a focus on public safety, the administration's prosecutorial discretion criteria are allowing factors such as family relationships, political considerations, or attention from advocacy groups to trump criminal convictions as a factor leading to deportation.
For example, the prosecutorial discretion directives issued by ICE headquarters instruct officers to release illegal aliens if the alien is a parent or caregiver, if the alien claims to be in school, if the alien has been here a long time, or if the alien claims to be eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, among other factors.8 If an alien is found to have applied for legal status, protocol requires the deportation charges be put on hold, and the benefits application may be expedited, presumably to spare the alien the consequences a criminal conviction might have on the alien's eligibility for the legal status. In addition, ICE agents and officers have been instructed to ignore convictions for state crimes if the conviction occurred under a state law that the administration opposes or thinks is too harsh. Finally, many criminal aliens have been released from ICE custody, received case continuances, and sometimes even case dismissals as a result of petitions, protests, and vigils staged by illegal alien advocacy groups.
One locality that has been specifically targeted by ICE for politically motivated prosecutorial discretion is Maricopa County, Ariz. ICE attorneys in the Arizona field office reportedly are required to terminate deportation cases in which illegal aliens have been convicted of felony identity theft, which is a "crime involving moral turpitude" that requires mandatory detention and should cause the alien to be removed.
According to a House Judiciary report on ICE's 2012 numbers flagged by CIS, 26,000 "criminal illegals" were released last year and then went on to commit more than 4,000 major felonies, including 59 murders. My assumption is that most of the criminals they're releasing have been convicted of nonviolent offenses, like identity theft (mentioned above) or drug use; the administration has, in theory, a powerful political incentive to send violent criminals home before they do something ghastly here that gins up a round of bad press that's unhelpful to the cause of amnesty. The House Judiciary numbers confound that assumption, though. INS is guaranteeing that thousands of otherwise preventable crimes, some violent, will be committed by going easy on a population of criminal illegals that approaches 70,000.
Why would CIS showcase this data now, though? Because, as you hopefully remember, Obama's in the process of caving to amnesty fans by ordering DHS to review its deportation procedures to make them "more humane." Immigration activists have been in his face for months demanding that he at least lighten up on deportations if he's not prepared to impose a formal moratorium for all illegals. But he already has lightened up on non-criminal illegals, as noted above; to find any extra leniency, ICE will have to go even easier on the criminal class. A report like this won't stop Obama from doing that in the name of pandering to the left with leniency generally — lefty media won't carry it, after all, and even if they did, what liberal's mind will change because of it? — but it might make Republican fencesitters in the House a bit more jittery about a new amnesty push. Who wants to confront an angry voter at a townhall with this information at his or her fingertips?
The grand irony here, courtesy of the Times, is that the left's narrative about Obama being a deportation hard-ass has worked so well among Latino voters that … it risks suppressing their turnout for Democrats in the midterms and beyond. The White House itself has occasionally pushed that message to parry the GOP's claim that O is some kind of unprecedented softie on immigration, and now it's at risk of blowing up in their faces. Imagine if the big Republican rethink on immigration after 2012, with reform once again stalled in the Republican-controlled House, actually ends up with a backlash against Democrats because President Overreach declined to unilaterally amnestize 11 million people himself. Too funny.


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I want to format an SD card from my Linux virtual machine. I have a built-in SD card reader in my laptop. I tried using VirtualBox and VMware Player and installed Ubuntu 10.04 guest. None of them are showing the SD card reader as a device. I can access the SD card from the Windows host.
I am not interested in solutions using shared folders as I want to access the SD card as hardware (it should show up in /dev
I basically want to set up the SD card for BeagleBoard, but I don't want to install a physical Ubuntu on my PC.


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Payday loans are a problem. Can a public bank be part of the solution?
When the coronavirus first posed a threat to the health and finances of Americans, Tiffany Moore of Forest Park first turned to an installment lender hoping for financial relief.
The good news: She was approved for a $9,500 loan to compensate a tenant in her property who couldn't pay rent. The bad news: an interest rate of 35.989%.
It was easy to sign a contract that brought temporary relief. But realizing she would end up paying more than double what she borrowed, Moore repaid the loan early.
Payday loans, title loans and installment loans with exorbitant interest can put a financial grip on borrowers. This remains the case, even though the Illinois Predatory Lending Prevention Act now imposes a 36% cap on the annual percentage interest rate that lenders can charge.
These exorbitant offers continue to proliferate in black and brown neighborhoods, as a report by Stephanie Zimmermann of the Sun-Times makes clear.
Lawmakers should consider a way to help vulnerable communities access credit without resorting to high-interest loans.
Payday lenders emphasize that they serve high-risk neighborhoods and borrowers that other lenders avoid.
Yes, they provide a necessary service. But what desperate borrower can get out of a difficult financial situation while borrowing money at an interest rate of 36%?
Divestment cycle
The report highlights data produced by the nonprofit Woodstock Institute, which found that major zip codes for payday loans were predominantly black. ZIP codes included 60619 and 60620 on the south side, both of which are 95.7% black and include Chatham, Avalon Park, Auburn Gresham and Washington Heights. The 60614 zip code, which includes Lincoln Park and is 84% white, showed the lowest incidence of payday borrowers.
"Consumers only need loans with triple-digit interest rates if they're stuck in a cycle of divestment. If they weren't, they'd get a safer, more affordable product," we said Brent E. Adams, senior vice president of policy and communications at the Woodstock Institute, "These lenders are cycle-dependent and irrelevant if communities are thriving."
In March, this editorial board supported capping payday loan rates, writing that Illinois should impose it out of fairness and in the name of racial equity. Some 40% of borrowers in Illinois end up defaulting on their payday loans. More often than not, they find themselves caught in a cycle of debt, with old loans turning into new ones.
Another step down the road could be bringing affordable banking services back to low-income neighborhoods that have suffered from divestment.
Members of Congress have expressed support for a postal banking pilot program in rural and urban communities across America. The objective would be for the government to learn from the pilot project and establish permanent banking services as part of the US Postal Service. The nonprofit bank would offer low-cost checking and savings accounts, mobile banking and low-interest loans.
State Representative Mary E. Flowers pushed for the Community Bank of Illinois Act for more than a decade, but faced continued opposition from bankers.
"Banks are in the business of making money, and I'm offering lower interest rates here for residents," Flowers told us. "All I want to do is give loans to people they wouldn't give to."
We are not convinced by the idea of a public bank, at the federal or state level. There are many unanswered questions about how the model works, as well as the potential cost to taxpayers.
But the idea of a system that allows low-income, unbanked borrowers to meet their basic banking needs and also have access to small, low-interest loans is worth considering.
There's no reason to expect payday loan companies to agree to lower the 36% cap any further, if at all. Ed McFadden, spokesman for the American Financial Services Association, points to a 2015 Federal Reserve survey in which lenders said they could not break even on loans below $2,532 at an annual percentage rate of 36%.
Postal public banking is not a direct solution, but it could help deal a blow to the problem of predatory payday lending.
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Toddlers love digging through things. Kitchen cabinets, boxes of blocks or my daughter's favorite the DVD drawer. I roped in that inherent desire to dig and find for this love themed Valentine's Day activity for toddlers an easy discovery box. Besides the silk flower petals inside there are paper hearts and family photos of people she knows and loves cut into hearts. As we played I'd ask her to find someone and she would search and search until she did. Great for families like ours that are spread out, or for any that are separated due to work or deployment.
- Gather your materials. You will need a container, some silk flower petals, printed card stock, double stick tape , family photos and a heart paper punch.
- Start by punching out paper hearts. The reason you want so many is that you want the toddler to pick each up and look on both sides to see if there is a picture. If the ones without the pictures over frustrate your child remove them. This builds concentration and memory.
- Cut out your pictures and using double stick tape stick them to some of the paper hearts.
- Add them to a container with the silk flowers.
- Add a toddler. She loved finding pictures of her brother as a baby the most.
- If they get up keep playing yourself, it doesn't mean the activity is a flop they might just want some goggles… I had a hard time not laughing hysterically when she put the goggles on. She was happy and moved the box to the floor so maybe she was just more comfortable on the floor. I ran with it.
- Label things as you go but don't interrupt too much, be there to help along not to direct.
My Toddler's Favorite Valentine's Day Book
Where Is Baby's Valentine?: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Karen Katz.
I can't tell you how many times I have read this book since I brought it out of storage after Christmas. Countless. Every time we sit and lift the flaps together I get a serious craving for chocolate. Karen Katz is a toddler's dream come true. Her illustrations are big and bright and filled with happy babies. Her text is short but still meaty enough for young preschoolers and the flaps to lift and open are perfect for this age when a static book often is just too static for a dynamic toddler. I can see why my daughter brings it over to me everyday. It's the perfect book to go along with this activity and you could even slide a few of the hearts with photos under a few flaps while you read.


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For hardcore Doctor Who fans, the show is like a cranky elderly relative. You love it because it's basically family. But you don't always like it. (Steven Moffat ... grumble grumble ... female characters ... grumble grumble ... what the hell did you do to River Song grumble grumble ...)
That being said, I think I could love Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, even if the producers don't let him swear the way he did as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It — spun off a few years ago as the movie In the Loop, for those of you who aren't British TV addicts. Though if that's what you're really hoping for, there are already the inevitable fan mashups circulating on YouTube. (Warning: The video at that link is decidedly NSFW.)
Yes, the news of Capaldi's casting does involve the inevitable disappointments — fans have been clamoring for a nonwhite Doctor or a Time Lady instead of a Time Lord, now that Gallifreyan gender-switching is officially canon. I personally cherished a vision of Tilda Swinton stepping up to the TARDIS console.
But Capaldi definitely does represent a change of direction for the show: He's 55, the same age First Doctor William Hartnell was when filming began in 1963. Following Matt Smith, who was the youngest Doctor ever cast — and my television boyfriend David Tennant — that's quite a swerve. It makes me think the show runners are turning away from the tragic-romantic, Lonely God, slightly funny-looking-heartthrob version of the Doctor we've been watching for the past seven seasons.
One of the biggest divisions in Who fandom — and I'm just going to assume everyone here cares about Who fandom — is over the Doctor as a romantic figure. Russell T Davies, who rebooted the series in 2005, had such an obvious crush on his main character that watching some of the Tenth Doctor's adventures with his companion Rose was uncomfortably like reading someone else's love letters. (Err ... not that I minded in the slightest.)
To more traditionally minded fans, that was just NOT ON. The Doctor can be avuncular, caring, mentoring, fatherly, loving in his own weird two-hearted-alien way, but would you date him? Lots of people would say no, not for a planetload of precious, precious Zeiton-7 ore.
So I can't help but think that with Twelve, and the approach of the show's 50th anniversary season, we're taking a deliberate step back in time toward classic Who. That makes sense, given the way last season was full of references to past adventures — Matt Smith's face coming out of the Time Vortex during the credit sequence! Be still my beating heart! That hasn't been done since Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy!
Wait, wait just one darn minute: The Seventh Doctor, as I recall, was an older, slightly grizzled Scottish eccentric ... so my point perhaps is proved. And I think it's going to be fantastic.
Some day, SOME day, this show will give us a female doctor. But until then, there's always Joanna Lumley in The Curse of Fatal Death.
And anyhow, Tilda Swinton actually IS a Time Lord, so she's probably busy.
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Prog Rock
"The time between the notes relates the color to the scene."
"I much prefer Brighton Rock, or Blackpool if I can't get any of that"
"We do not write "songs". We write "suites", "epics" and "concept pieces". We do not write "lyrics". we write poetic expressions of the truth of the Universe. GET IT STRAIGHT!!"
"Mekanïk Üdü Wüdü futura de Kommandöh! Magma 1001°Centigrades Janik Top. Špaćank Uć Đaerž. Merci"
"I think we need some mandolin around here."
"Pfff...Yeah, mandolin. How original."
"I had one of those once, before I bought my Minimoog."
"Moog sucks. I could ARP your head off!!!"
"A Flower?!"
"A discipline that does not lead to a compassionate practice may be said to have failed."
"Where are Karn Evils 1 Through 8?"
"I wish my brother George was here."
"We'll be right back right after this commercial for Captain Crunch, now featuring Crunchberries!"
"This is not music"
Prog Rock (not to be confused with Prod rock) was a particularly widespread, genre of music, which is thought to be mostly under control now in the civilised world. Groups such as Pink Floyd, Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush, Yes and the much later Marillion were rife amongst the, pseudointellectual (mainly male) youth, much as the Grunge genre of the early 90's became to deadly effect. Most Progressive Rock bands only lasted a limited time, band members often breaking up due to musical similarities (or in Pink Floyd's case, Roger Waters), except Marillion who defined the Popular Prog Rock genre.
Sometimes referred to as "Prague Rock" due to its roots in Czechloslovakian Folk Music, progressive rock rebelled against the more popular regressive rock, in which artists would work backwards, from material about self actualization, metaphysical ethics and gnoseology, to songs like "Work Sucks", "School Sucks", "I Want My Mommy" and finally "Gurgle Gurgle". In short, progressive rock groups decided to stop writing three-minute songs about sex and instead wrote ten-minute songs about God knows what (although it is believed that Jon Anderson knows the meanings of the lyrics of all prog songs ever written).
And remember: if we'd had CDs in 1971, "Echoes" would have been eighty-seven goddamn minutes long.
Origins of Prog Rock
Prog rock was first founded when some racist Europeans decided they had it with that rock music based on "negro blues" and decided to create rock music based on Aryan classical music. Just like Hitler they were hugely popular at their heyday, but as soon as they tried too hard they were thrown in the trashcan, only to be talked about with shame. Today they mostly hang around dark websites reminsicing about Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's sudden hair loss. Some folks still believe Jon Anderson will lead them back to prog days of yore but Jon (from his hospital bed) has deemed it "Quite improbable and inherently unlikely".
With their love for the flamboyant and theatrical Progressive Rock soon cut a colourful swave through the music scene, as long haired youths nodded knowingly into pints of Guinness and light ales worldwide, whilst discussing the musical virtuosity of Karn Evil 9, or the sheer genius of a 27 minute Mellotron solo, or the sheer genius of a 18 minute guitar solo, or the sheer genius of a 3 second bass solo. Every single progressive band from the heyday used a man named Bill Bruford as a drummer because he thought 4 was 7.
Prog Rock is also known to be the final evolution of Rock music, using over-the-top insane musical composition (which may or may not be influenced by LSD hallucinations) and impossible-to-understand lyrics about moonchildren, tales from topographic oceans or "man-ergs" (confirmed to have been influenced by LSD hallucinations). The lower species called Punk decided to rise against it. Punk defended that each band was supposed to write only one 3 chord song during their carrier, and only change this song's lyrics along the albums. This clashed into a Prog vs. Punk war that lasts to this day, with neither side showing signs of wanting to give up.
Symptoms of Progressive Rock
Symptoms include:
- Brain Damage.
- ...subsequent Brain Salad Surgery
- Becoming Schizoid, especially in the 21st Century.
- Being Gentle (This symptom can only affect giants)
- Listening to bands such as Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, Kansas, Rush, Genesis etc.
- 27 minute song composition (or longer).
- Keyboard solos especially where they do not belong (you heard me Emerson)
- Playing bass guitar
- ...subsiquently taking over the band andtaking credit for everything the band has written
- Not being American
- Mandolins (see Mike Oldfield).
- "Creative" hair stylings (see here).
- A cape.
- A wizard hat.
- A cape and a wizard hat.
- Interest in pirates.
- Going down to Willow Farm to look for butterflies, flutterbies and gutterflies.
- Getting wood when seeing old pics of Greg Lake.
- Using an extended Vocabulary
- Having Breakfast in America
- Bill Bruford.
- Dressing up like a killer garden gnome.
- Getting your ass kicked by Sid Viscious, or kicking Sid Viscious' ass.
- Being a talented musician wasting talents on useless music.
- Being mistaken for Art Rock
- Being mistaken for Heavy Metal
- Being mistaken for Avant-garde
- Being mistaken for Symphonic Rock
- Being mistaken for Jazz Fusion
- Being mistaken for Psycadelic Rock
- Being mistaken for Music that makes sense
- Dreaming about Being an eskimo and loosing your vision due to someone rubbing a mixture of husky wee-wee (I mean doggy wee-wee) and snow into your eyes
- Building walls during concerts... Big fuckin' expensive walls.
- Your wisemen not knowing how it feels to be Thick as a Brick
- Keith Emerson punching Elton John in the face.
- Singing about moonlit knights and eclipses.
- Spitting in fans' faces.
- Calling The Shaggs better than The Beatles
- The ability to understand EXACTLY what Peter Gabriel was talking about (Jon Anderson....).
- Using big, fancy words that mean nothing.
- Thinking about Modest Mussorgsky.
- Drugs.
- Pete Sinfield.
- Mellotrons.
- Touring with a saxophone player.
- Naming a guitar effect after yourself... You heard me, Robert Fripp.
- Summoning angels with guitar riffs (i.e. Steve Howe in Close to the Edge)
- Summoning demons with drum riffs (i.e. Danny Carey in every single Tool song ever)
- Analogue Synthesizers.
- Time signatures unknown to mankind (for example only the shreddergod John Petrucci of Dream Theater knows how to play 69/420).
- Starting to get hits in the 80's (which is quite scary for a prog-rocker, we're just not used to it).
- Starting to talk about modern day warriors and today's Tom Sawyer.
- Thinking that Winston Churchill dressed in drag, he used to be a British flag, PLASTIC BAG, WHAT A DRAG!
- Dawn of light flying between the silent and self sources, chased amid fusions of wonder.
- Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.
- Repeatedly stating that you will be there
If you feel you may be suffering from any of these symptoms we advise you to seek medical and psychiatric help immediately.
WARNING: Latest Research has shown possible links between the spread of Progressive Rock and Kitten Huffing. Remember kids, JUST SAY NO!
The Progressive Rock Article Suite I-III
Part I: The Definition
Progressive Rock
What It Is?
It Can't Really Be Defined
Which Leads to Long Battles Boring As Hell Battles Between Morons
"What Is Prog
And What Is Not"
The Truth Lies
The Faraway Galaxies
There's Something On The Loose
Yesterday I Found A Moose... Or Should It Be Goose?
Or Geese Or Meese, Caboose Or Cabeese,
The Mice In The Hice, And The Grouse In The House
Which Jumped Over a Fence
Yes, This Doesn't Make any Fuckin' Sense. Anyway, 'Does Anyone Have Any Good Pot Around Here?'
Concentration, Will Be My Epitaph,
As I drawl on a cracked and open snatch,
If we make it, we can all sit back,
And smoke crack
Shine On You Sane Crystal
In other words Progressive Rock is like Drugs, Drugs & Roll, Rock & Roll, Rocks, Drugs and Spam! (see Jethro Tull for more)
Part II: We Are the Children of Eternal Light / The Author Still Doesn't Have Any Imagination to Come Up With Something Funny, Including 'The Cleaning of the Underwear Drawer', and 'Cthulhu's Lament (in $ flat Sergeant-Major, with change)' (The Development section) in 11/8, 9/8, 5/4, π/7, 9/16, 16mm and acid
Guitar solo (about ten minutes)
Synth solo (about ten minutes)
Well, At Least the Keyboardist Must Wear a Cape.
Bass solo (about two seconds/five notes/not at all)
Drum solo (two minutes, nineteen seconds, by law)
Other guitar solo (about fifteen more minutes)
Random jamming with incoherent lyrics about quantum panties, and audible snoring of the Sound Engineer in the background (about twenty minutes)
Part III: The Definition (Reprise in Five)
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"What IsPro gAndW hatIs Not"
Coda: T-T-T-T-T-That's All Folks! (featuring vocalist: Porky Pig)
Expressionistic soundscapes (or: the Sound Engineer yawns, farts, scratches his stomach, walks into the playing room, missteps on the dwarfed flautist of the band because of thick smoke covering the room and falls on the drum set cursing like a seaman)
"Well At Least It's Fucking Boring And Corny!" - Mr. Obvious (1974)
(fanfares and fade out)
(unfortunately (or not, depending on your preference,) the recorder ran out of tape 17 minutes before the band stopped playing)
Band: Uncyclopediarium Song: The Progressive Rock Article Suite Intro . - palm mute / - slide up to \ - slide down to ~ - vibrato h - hammer on b - Bend p - pull off Suffixes for bend t - tap f - full bend h - half bend ph - pinched harmonic q - quarter bend t - tap bend * - see comment ^ - Hold bend r - release bend x - Succatto ~ - vibrato bend e - bend with string breaking S - Stutter g - get bent , - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note (X_X) Ghostface Killah note " - tremolo note <> - Trill % - pose & - pluck with an eyebrow U - unintentional action Y - really unintentional action @ - bang the guitar against the monitor a - have an acid flashback q - do something really fucking stupid ! - run in circles, waving the guitar in the air while uncontrollably picking the strings u - untie vocalist's hair from strings T - try to tune the string, unsuccessfully s - soil yourself on cue and call it avant-garde F - set fire to drummer tb - tab the song while performing it WARNING: Do not try playing the guitar by banging the strings with your nuts! (silence actually because the guitarist is missing) e ||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| B#||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Hb||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Db||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| A#||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Bb||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| sound eng: snoring e ||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| B#||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Hb||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Db||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| A#||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Bb||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| drums: rabadabadam bamdam e ||-------------------|---------U0--------|-0-----------0-----|-0------------0----| B#||-------------------|-------------------|---6-----6----6----|---6bf^^^^^r-------| Hb||-------------------|-------------------|-----0-----0----0--|-----565-65--------| Db||-------------------|-------------------|-------7----------7|--------4----------| A#||-------------------|-------------------|-8-----------8-----|-8-----------Y9----| Bb||-------------------|-------------------|------------U0-----|-------------------| drums: dumdurum dumdum vocal: D A Ab Wb Щ# e ||-6\0/7-------------|-5\4---------------|-0-----------%-----|----2--3\2---3-5---| B#||-------3\0/4\pi----|---4/5-------------|-2U,-3h22Y,--%-----|-----3--4\3-2------| Hb||-------------------|-----3\i-----------|-0U,----3Y,--%-----|------2----3--4----| Db||-------------------|--------&5\&4------|-2U.---------%-----|--0-------4---5---T| A#||-------------------|-------------&3h2--|-0U.---------%-----|---1---------------| Bb||-------------------|-------------------|-0U,---------%-----|-------------------| sixth string: Zb J# µb @!^#* ouch, it hurts [goes to her mom] e ||-1\2---4--4--------|-3---5-3-3\2-------|-16h14---10\2------|-24h23-----23h20---| B#||---2--3-2----------|--4-4-34----3\4----|----15h10---3h4----|-----16h12---------| Hb||---3\2--3----------|---2--4-------24h23|--------------14h5-|---------7h5--8h6--| Cb||------4----2-------|----4-5------------|-------------------|-------------------| A#||---------5--2------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------| Bb||-----------2-2be | | | | drums: undistinguishable from line noise audience: [wakes up] e ||-24-----------!--!-|-!20--------@6--@-@|@Googol@--@--0-----|--Y8--7h3----------| B#||--23h20---23---!-!-|---!---------@3-@--|-@ | | Hb||--22---22h20----!--|---!-!!!u----@4@-@4|--@8--@-@ | F| Cb||---------------!---|-!--!---u---@-2@@2-|--@5-@-@-@---0-----|--Y9h5---7b~e | A#||---------------!-!-|-!--!---u-----@69--|----@20@-----------|-------------------| Bb|| | | | |
One common side effect of Progressive Rock is bankruptcy. This can be caused by the following:
- Hiding behind 1 million dollars worth of effects boxes on a stool while high paid session musicians jam right next to you.
- Touring with a 50-piece orchestra
- Utilizing 37 session musicians
- Your band's keyboard player having 27 keyboards and an electronic percussion set-up on stage
- Your band's guitar player having 15 guitars up on stage
- Your band's bassist taking the band over and taking credit (and receiving royalty) for everything your band writes
- Your band's singer needing those weird expensive costumes
- Your band's drummer using a set that would make Neil Peart hold a garage sale
- Holding a concert on a floating stage in Venice.
- Touring in Japan, Italy and Germany, instead of in your own country, where nobody listens to your music.
- Disbanding 7 times, only to reform after a while with a completely different line-up
Most of this can be alleviated by contracting different viruses such as Punk or Indie.
See Also
- Prog Archives
- HowTo:Write a Progressive Rock Song
- HowTo:Be Awesome
- Kate Bush
- Eddie Van Halen
- Britney Spears
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
- Two Humps
- The 4 Scientists
- Punk Floyd
- Yes (band)
- Progressive Metal
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Yi Zheng
Dr Yi Zheng is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Chinese Studies, the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature (Purdue University Press, 2011); 'Modernisms in China', Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Donald and Zheng, 2010); 'A Taste of Class –
Manuals for Becoming Woman' (Donald and Zheng, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 17.3, 2009). 'Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class and Taste in Contemporary China', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, (ed. Zheng and Donald, vol. 6, no. 22, July 2009) and 'A La Mode: the Provincial and the Cosmopolitan', Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change (2008).


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Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial
If she'd planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn't have done a better job.
Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty—all came under the scrutiny of Dwanna L. Robertson, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts and contributor to Indian Country Today Media Network, who spoke at the American Sociological Association's (ASA) annual meeting August 17-20 in Denver that drew some 6,000 members.
Robertson addressed the Indigenous Peoples session of the ASA meeting on the topic "A Necessary Evil: Framing an American Indian Legal Identity." She described interviews with 30 Natives, only half of whom had legal identities in terms of tribal enrollment or other federal validation.
"Native American people is the only race in America that has to prove that they're Indian," she quoted one study participant. "If you're black and you say, 'I'm black,' and nobody will question it. If you're white, you say, 'I'm white" and nobody questions it, but if you're Indian they want to see your CDIB card. 'Well, you say you're Indian (but) let's see your card."
She pointed out that of 4.7 million who identified as American Indian in the 2009 census, only 1.9 million are enrolled members of federally recognized tribes and the numbers indicate there are 2.8 million who identify ethnically as American Indian but who are not citizens of federally recognized tribes.
Some American Indians live outside ethnic/cultural or racial identity and occupy a "unique political status," she said, describing legal identification through tribal citizenship, lineal descent, blood quantum and parents' tribal affiliation, all of which can contribute to access to Native services in housing, education, health and other areas.
Two other categories of Native identification are ethnic identification, which includes relational, social and tribal connections, ceremonies and historical belonging; and biological, racial identification, including phenotype, genetics, and other measures, she said.
Claiming "Indianness" is complex, involving criteria that "serve to confuse our ability to define and identify who qualifies to be an Indian," she said, observing that because Native people commonly believe that "real Indians" are enrolled and have federally-issued cards, people who cannot prove racial heritage, yet identify ethnically/culturally, may be excluded.
Most of her study members expressed concern about requiring only lineal descent and relaxing blood quantum criteria and talked generally about blood quantum as a "necessary evil" in the service of preserving tribal sovereignty, she said. "Tribal enrollment is framed as necessary for the preservation of sovereignty."
Robertson said a Cheyenne in the study believed that "what is left of sovereignty is in the hands of those left on the land," which might not be true but which echoed the views of nearly all the study members who mentioned sovereignty as a reason for the blood quantum requirement even though it perpetuates infighting and even though "race" is an artificial construct.
On a personal note, Robertson said the ASA offers a minority fellowship program and, in her application, she filled out questions about racial and ethnic identity, halting only at the request for her "enrollment number." She gave up the opportunity to attend a major university because of the underlying issue: 'If I was black, would I need a card [that included the number]?"
Another presenter, Michelle M. Jacob, Yakama, associate professor in the University of San Diego's department of Ethnic Studies, targeted language revitalization efforts as a form of indigenous resistance, as a "way for people to heal from the effects of colonization," including historical trauma from language loss in the boarding schools.
Others who spoke were Sarah Dodge Warren, Lewis & Clark College, whose topic was "Indigenous Rights and Naming Regulations in Argentina;" Jan C. Lin, Occidental College, "Native Voices of Los Angeles from the Spanish Pueblo to the World City" and Erin A. Cech, Stanford University, "Unsupported and Uncertain: Communal Goal Incongruence and the Experience of Native American Students in STEM Majors."
Panelists and attendees offered such closing suggestions as "embrace diversity," "it's important to move away from the blood issue," "it's really a colonial thing," "I think it's troublemaking," "some tribes privilege blood over culture," and "this whole field is growing."
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