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I had a really happy childhood in the suburbs of Sydney. And if I'm honest, I think the whole of the rest of my life has been an attempt to recreate that. I was happy as a kid and I just want to stay happy. But by the age of 16 doubts were starting to creep in. I went to an all boys' school, and I think there's something just not right about separating boys and girls at school. Lots of us struggled to deal with women for the rest of our lives. They were a foreign concept to us. I started to worry about, would a girl ever like me, what would she think of this or that. I began to take those first stumbles into dating and proved pretty terrible at it. Looking back, I realise I was ridiculously shy.
If I could go back in time, I'd tell myself to talk to the girl on the bus. Just back yourself, say anything! I used to see this girl every day. I'd look at her and she'd look at me. This went on for months, then finally there came the day that the only empty seat was the one next to her. So I took it. And for the whole journey I didn't say a word. I just couldn't. I didn't know how to start a conversation. Now I think, oh dude, just say hi, just ask a dumb question, anything. A while later one of my mates asked me if I liked her and I was too embarrassed to admit it. Now I think, maybe he knew her! Maybe he was asking on her behalf! Oh my God. Years later she came to see my gig and I spoke to her afterwards. She remembered me. But I still didn't get her number. Why didn't I get her number? What were you thinking Adam? Absolutely clueless.
I got nervous around people a lot. I suppose comedy was my way of dealing with that. It's the one place I can go where I look like I'm in control and enjoying my life. I'm the funny guy who always has the witty comeback. But in real life, I'm still nervous with people. I panic. The right thing doesn't come out.
Even when I was a teenager, I could quote whole comedy routines word for word. Some of my mates even had me on call – they would call me over in the playground to come and do a comedy routine. I'd do them with impersonations, whether that was Billy Connolly or Bill Cosby. I also tried to write a comic strip. My dad was a huge comedy fan and we watched a lot of comedy together, from Bugs Bunny when I was younger, to Benny Hill or M*A*S*H when I got older. We'd sit for hours and just laugh together. Then when I was 18 I went to see my first live comedy gig and it was open mic night. And I realised anyone could have a crack. As soon as I saw that I thought, oh, that's what I want to do.
I didn't have any long-term ambition regarding a career. As soon as I got my first professional show I thought, right, that's it. I've made it. I've done what I wanted to do. Everything else since then has just been a bonus. I supported Sean Hughes in Adelaide in around 1996. He was an amazing comic, just great. Afterwards we went out and played table tennis and drank all night. Over the years I bumped into him, then in the last couple of years we really spent a bit of time together. I was really, really sad to hear he'd died. The last time I saw him he seemed to be on really good form but it turns out there was a lot going on. I think he got to 50 and realised he was a bit lonely and wanted to reconnect with a lot of people.
The only career advice I'd give to my younger self is, don't go to that Argentinian restaurant in LA in 2003. And then you won't get food poisoning and miss all the meetings with TV producers the next day. That's the only regret I have. I'd been contacted by a massive casting director at NBC who'd been following my career in Edinburgh. He cast the sitcom Friends. He set up all these meetings with Jay Leno's producer and the NBC guys and Jerry Lewis' manager. But I was so sick I couldn't go to any of the meetings, then I had to fly back the day after. LA is all about striking while the iron's hot and I totally didn't do it.
If I could go back and have one last conversation with someone, I think it would be my grandmother. She died in 2001. My nana Hills. We named our first daughter after her. She always used to say, always look behind you. And she meant, never forget your family, or your old friends, the real people. I'd like to tell her I named my daughter after her. And that I'm still looking behind me.
I'd love to tell my teenage self, you won't believe how much you enjoy having kids. The best day for me is one where I just hang out with my two daughters. I always knew that I liked kids and I'm very family-oriented. I grew up in a very happy family who did a lot of stuff together. I was talking about this with Russell Brand recently – he's just become a dad. We've had some dad dates in fact. He put it beautifully. He said, some people say when they become a dad, I never knew I had this much love in me. But I always knew I had this much love in me, I just didn't know what to do with it until I became a dad.
When I pulled my sock down, no one really noticed my prosthetic leg
There was a time at school when I was very conscious of my prosthetic leg. It only went to the knee, so in summer I used to wear long socks to cover up the join. Then I realised the only kids who wore long socks were the nerds who got beaten up. So I was being mocked not for having a prosthetic foot but for pulling my socks up. And when I pulled my socks down, no one really noticed my leg. No one picked on me for that. The bullies at my school weren't disablist. I think the younger me would be surprised how much I've embraced my foot as it were.
If I could go back and re-live any time in my life, it would be the fleeting moment I found out we were having another child. My wife came out of the bedroom holding up a pregnancy test. That moment was probably the happiest I've ever been. I felt a wave of contentment. Because then we were a family. I grew up with a brother and for me, growing up with a sibling or multiple siblings, that's what life is all about.
Adam Hills' stand-up show Clown Heart is out now on DVD, £19.99


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Yesterday was a pretty gut-wrenching day at work.
After seeing the community's effort in recent weeks to help fill the stocks at the Salvation Army's foodbank, a bunch of lowlifes have spoilt it in one fell swoop.
The Salvation Army church hall on Old Taupo Rd was broken into overnight on Tuesday and food donated to the Rotorua Daily Post Christmas Appeal was stolen.
The heartless culprits took up to a dozen boxes of food that was to be distributed at Christmas to needy families.
The theft came just one day after a hugely successful can drive in the Westbrook area on Monday.
Many of us from the newspaper were out in force with the Sallies, Rotorua Fire Brigade, Okareka Volunteer Fire Brigade and members of the public pounding the pavements collecting the goods.
I can tell you these donations came from the heart - many weren't from wealthy families but they gave because they knew those receiving them would be less fortunate than they.
To the thieves who have done this - how dare you? It's Christmas for goodness sake and there is absolutely no excuse.
Local residents are suitably horrified, if comments on our Facebook page are anything to go by.
Some of those posting comments labelled the culprits as "thieving scum", "lowest of the lowest" and "psychologically disturbed".
One commented the culprits when caught should be made to stand in the middle of carol singers and be "egged".
This theft is a major setback for the Salvation Army which is struggling this year more than any to feed those in need.
If you were toying with donating, now is the time to dig deep and come forward.
We would be very grateful to receive anything to claw back what we have lost.

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Welcome to my third Writing Without Fear article, this is my exploration of the world of writing, of creating and building your own characters, and telling your own stories.
Today's commentary and exploration of writing was prompted by this article 'The 3 Reasons Why Indies Should Never Use Superheroes' that was knocking around my Facebook feed at the start of the week. Continue reading


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Mark Miller has been appointed as the new coach of Mosta FC. Miller replaces Enrico Piccioni whose contract was terminated earlier this month.
The 56-year old started his coaching career as player-coach with Sliema Wanderers and then Floriana before being appointed coach of Hibernians in 1996 where he served until 1999. He joined the MFA technical sector in 2000 where he coached the Under-17 and Under-19 sides before being appointed Malta Under-21 coach.
In summer 2008, Miller returned with Hibernians but left the club in summer 2012 to join Valletta where he spent two years. He joined Qormi in February 2015 on a short term contract until the end of the season. Miller returned with Hibernians in summer 2016 where he spent until March 2018 when he was sacked.


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May 17, 2007 0842 hours
That's right. This voyage will take one more week until we arrive. While there are many who are making this voyage, I am on one of the first ships that will arrive there. That's right. I've packed my winter coat because it's cold in these parts.
If I am to be one of the first people off the ship, I better wake up early. I should make my way to the deck about five and a half hours before I arrive.
There are fleets of ships making their way to this destination. If you're on one of the ships, I'll see you, at World's End....


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Strictly speaking, perversion is an inverted effect of the phantasy. It is the subject who determines himself as an object, in his encounter with the division of subjectivity. [...] It is in so far as the subject makes himself the object of another will that the sado-masochistic drive not only closes up, but constitutes itself. [...] the sadist himself occupies the place of the object, but without knowing it, to the benefit of another, for whose jouissance he exercises his action as sadistic pervert. [1]
This passage throws a new light on political totalitarianism. A true Stalinist politician loves mankind, but nonetheless performs horrible purges and executions – his heart is breaking while he is doing it, but he cannot help it, it is his Duty towards the Progress of Humanity. This is the perverse attitude of adopting the position of the pure instrument of the big Other's Will: it is not my responsibility, it is not me who is effectively doing it, I am merely an instrument of the higher Historical Necessity. The obscene jouissance of this situation is generated by the fact that I conceive of myself as exculpated for what I am doing: I am able to inflict pain on others with the full awareness that I am not responsible for it, that I merely fulfil the Other's Will. The sadist pervert answers the question "How can the subject be guilty when he merely realizes an objective, externally imposed, necessity?" by subjectively assuming this objective necessity, by finding enjoyment in what is imposed on him.
When confronted with the task of liquidating the Jews of Europe, Heinrich Himmler, the chief of SS, adopted the heroic attitude of 'Somebody has to do the dirty job, so let's do it!': it is easy to do a noble thing for one's country, up to sacrificing one's life for it – it is much more difficult to commit a crime for one's country. In her Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt provided a precise description of this twist the Nazi executioners accomplished in order to be able to endure the horrible acts they performed. Most of them were not simply evil, they were well aware that they are doing things which bring humiliation, suffering and death to their victims. The way out of this predicament was that, "instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!" [2] In this way, they were able to turn around the logic of resisting temptation: the temptation to be resisted was the very temptation to succumb to the elementary pity and sympathy in the presence of human suffering, and their "ethical" effort was directed towards the task of resisting this temptation not to murder, torture and humiliate. My violation of spontaneous ethical instincts of pity and compassion is turned into the proof of my ethical grandeur: to do my duty, I am ready to assume the heavy burden of inflicting pain on others.
The same perverse logic operates in today's religious fundamentalism. When, on November 2 2004, the Dutch documentary filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam by an Islamist extremist (Mohammad Bouyeri), a letter was found stuck into a knife hole in his belly, addressed to his friend Hirshi Ali, a female Somalian member of the Dutch parliament known as a bitter fighter for the rights of Muslim women. [3] If there ever was a "fundamentalist" document, this is one. It begins with the standard rhetorical strategy of imputing terror to the opponent:
Since your appearance in the Dutch political arena you have been constantly busy criticizing Muslims and terrorizing Islam with your statements.
In Bouyeri's view, Hirshi Ali – not himself – is the "unbelieving fundamentalist," and in fighting her, one fights fundamentalist terror. This letter demonstrates how the sadistic stance, generating suffering and terror in its addressee, is only possible after the sadist subject makes himself the instrument-object of another's will. Let us look in more detail at the key passage of the letter which focuses on death as the culmination of human life:
There is but one certainty in our entire existence, and that is that everything comes to an end. A child who comes into this world and fills the universe with his first cries of life, will finally leave this world with a death rattle. A blade of grass which can stick out of the dark earth and is touched by the sunlight and fed by falling rain, will finally rot into dust and disappear. Death, Mrs. Hirshi Ali, is a shared theme of everything in creation. You, I, and the rest of creation cannot get loose from this truth.
There will come a Day when one soul will not be able to help another soul. A Day of horrible tortures and painful tribulations which will go together with the terrible cries being pressed out of the lungs of the unjust. Cries. Mrs. Hirshi Ali, which will cause chills to run up someone's spine, and cause the hair on their head to stand straight up. People will appear to be drunk with fear even though they aren't drunk. On that Great Day the atmosphere will be filled with fear.
The passage from the first to the second part is crucial here, of course; from the general platitude on how everything passes and disintegrates, how all living ends in death, to the much more constrained, properly apocalyptic, notion of this moment of death as the moment of truth, the moment at which every creature confronts its truth and is isolated from all its links, deprived of all solidary support, absolutely alone facing the merciless judgement of its Creator – this is why the letter goes on quoting the description of the Judgment Day from the Quran: "On that day man will flee from his brother. And the mother from the father. And the woman from her children. And everyone of them on that Day shall have an occupation which is enough for them. Faces (of the unbelievers) will be covered with dust on that Day. And they will be ringed in darkness. These are the sinful unbelievers."(Quran 80:34-42) Then comes the key passage, the staging of the central confrontation:
Of course you as an unbelieving extremist don't believe in the scene which is described above. For you this is just a fictitious dramatic piece out of a Book like many. And yet, Mrs. Hirshi Ali, I would bet on my life that you will break into a sweat of fear when you read this.
You, as unbelieving fundamentalist, of course don't believe that there is a Higher Power who runs the universe. You don't believe in your heart, with which you repudiate the truth, that you must knock and ask this Higher Power for permission. You don't believe that your tongue with which you repudiate the Direction of this Higher Power is subservient to His laws. You don't believe that this Higher Power grants life and Death.
If you really believed in all of this, then you will not find the following challenge a problem. I challenge you with this letter to prove that you are right. You don't have to do much for that, Mrs. Hirshi Ali: wish death if you are really convinced that you are right. If you do not accept this challenge, you will know that my Master, the Most high, has exposed you as a bearer of lies. 'If you wish death, then you are being truthful.' But the wicked ones 'never wish to die, because of what their hands (and sins) have brought forth. And Allah is the all-knowing over the purveyors of lies.' (2:94-95). To prevent myself of having the same wish coming to me as I wish for you, I shall wish this wish for you: Master give us death to give us happiness with martyrdom.
Each of these three paragraphs is a rhetorical pearl. In the first one, it is the direct jump from the fear we humans will experience when, at the moment of death, we will face God's final judgment, to the fear the addressee of this very letter (Hirshi Ali) will experience while reading it. This short-circuit between the fear instigated by the direct confrontation with god in the moment of truth, and the fear engendered here and now by reading this letter, is a trademark of perversion: Hirshi Ali's concrete fear of being killed, aroused by Bouyeri's letter, is elevated into an embodiment of the fear a mortal human being is expected to feel when confronted with the divine gaze. The pearl in the second paragraph is the precise example used to evoke the omnipotence of god: it is not only that Hirshi Ali doesn't believe in god – what she should believe is that even her very slander of god (the tongue with which she is doing it) is also determined by god's will. The true pearl is hidden in the last paragraph, in how the challenge addressed at Hirshi Ali is formulated: in its brutal imposition of (not only the readiness to die, but) the wish to die as the proof of one's truthfulness. We get here an almost imperceptible shift which signals the presence of the perverse logic: from Bouyeri's readiness to die for the truth to his readiness to die as direct proof of his truthfulness. This is why he not only does not fear death, but actively wishes to die: from "If you are truthful, you should not fear death," a pervert passes to "if you wish death, you are truthful." This section ends in an unbelievable taking-over of another's wish: "I shall wish this wish for you." Bouyeri's underlying reasoning is complex and yet very precise: he will do what he has to do 'to prevent myself of having the same wish coming to me as I wish for you' – what can this mean? Is it not that, by wishing death, he is doing precisely what he wanted to prevent? Doesn't he accept the same wish (that of death) that he wishes for her (he wishes her dead)?
The letter does not challenge Hirshi Ali on her false beliefs; the accusation is rather that she does not really believe what she claims to believe (her secular slanders), that she doesn't have what is called "the courage of her own convictions": "If you really believe what you claim to believe, then accept my challenge, wish to die!" This brings us to Lacan's depiction of the pervert: the pervert displaces division onto the Other. Hirshi Ali is a divided subject, inconsistent with herself, lacking the courage of her own beliefs. To avoid getting caught in such a division, the letter's author will embrace the death wish, taking upon himself what she should have believed. The letter's final proclamation should then not surprise us:
This struggle which has burst forth is different then those of the past. The unbelieving fundamentalists have started it and the true believers will end it. There will be no mercy shown to the purveyors of injustice, only the sword will be lifted against them. No discussions, no demonstrations, no petitions: only DEATH will separate the Truth from the Lies.
There is no space left for symbolic mediation, for argumentation, reasoning, proclamations, preaching even – the only thing that separates Truth from Lie is death, the truthful subject's readiness and wish to die. No wonder Michel Foucault was fascinated by the Islamic political martyrdom. In it, he discerned the contours of a "regime of truth" different from the West's, a regime in which the ultimate indicators of truth are not factual adequacy, the consistency of reasoning, or the sincerity of one's confessions, but the readiness to die. [4] The late Pope John Paul II propagated the Catholic "culture of Life" as our only hope against today's nihilist "culture of death," whose manifestations are unbridled hedonism, abortions, drug addiction and blind reliance on scientific and technological development. Religious fundamentalism (not only Muslim, but also Christian) confronts us with another morbid "culture of death" which is much closer to the very heart of the religious experience than believers are ready to admit.
The question we should confront here is what, then, does the pervert miss, in his endeavor to absolutely separate the Truth from Lies? The answer is, of course: the truth of the lie itself, the truth that is delivered in and through the very act of lying. Paradoxically, the pervert's falsity resides in his very unconditional attachment to truth, in his refusal to hear the truth resonating in a lie. In All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare provided a breathtakingly refined insight into the entanglement of truth and lies. Count Bertram, who on the King's orders was forced to marry Helen, a common doctor's daughter, refuses to live with her and consummate the marriage, telling her that he will agree to be her husband only if she removes the ancestral ring from his finger and bears his child; at the same time, Bertram tries to seduce the young and beautiful Diana. Helen and Diana concoct a plan to bring Bertram back to his lawful wife. Diana agrees to spend the night with Bertram, telling him to visit her chamber at midnight; there, in darkness, the couple exchange their rings and make love. However, unknowingly to Bertram, the woman with whom he spent the night was not Diana but Helen, his wife. When they are later confronted, he has to admit that both of his conditions for recognizing the marriage are met. Helen removed his ancestral ring and bears his child. What, then, is the status of this bed-trick? At the very end of Act III, Helen herself provides a wonderful definition:
Why then to-night
Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,
Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
And lawful meaning in a wicked act,
Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:
But let's about it.
We are effectively dealing both with a "wicked meaning in a lawful deed" (what can be more lawful than a consummated marriage, a husband sleeping with his wife? And yet the meaning is wicked: Bertram thought he is sleeping with Diana) and a "lawful meaning in a wicked act" (the meaning – Helen's intention – is lawful, to sleep with her husband, but the act is wicked: she deceives her husband, who does it thinking he is cheating on her). Their affair is "not sin, and yet a sinful fact": not sin, because what happened is merely a consummation of marriage; but a sinful fact, something that involved intentional cheating from both partners. The true question here is not merely whether "all's well that ends well," whether the final outcome (nothing wrong effectively happened, and the married couple is reunited, the marriage bond fully asserted) cancels the sinful tricks and intentions, but a more radical one: what if the rule of law can only be asserted through wicked (sinful) meanings and acts? What if, in order to rule, the law has to rely on the subterranean interplay of cheatings and deceptions? This, also, is what Lacan aims at with his paradoxical proposition il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel (there is no sexual relationship): was not Bertram's situation during the night of love the fate of most married couples? You make love to your lawful partner while "cheating in your mind," fantasizing that you are doing it with another partner. The actual sex-relationship has to be sustained by this fantasmatic supplement.
As You Like It proposes a different version of this logic of double deception. Orlando is passionately in love with Rosalind who, in order to test his love, disguises herself as Ganymede and, as a male companion, interrogates Orlando about his love. She even takes on the personality of Rosalind (in a redoubled masking, she pretends to be herself, to be Ganymede who plays to be Rosalind) and persuades her friend Celia (disguised as Aliena) to marry them in a mock ceremony. In this ceremony, Rosalind literally feigns to feign to be what she is: truth itself, in order to win, has to be staged in a redoubled deception – in a homologous way to All's Well in which marriage, in order to be asserted, has to be consummated in the guise of an extramarital affair.
Appearance similarly overlaps with truth in one's ideological self-perception. Recall Marx's brilliant analysis of how, in the French revolution of 1848, the conservative-republican Party of Order functioned as the coalition of the two branches of royalism (orleanists and legitimists) in the "anonymous kingdom of the Republic". [5] The parliamentary deputees of the Party of Order perceived their republicanism as a mockery: in parliamentary debates, they generated royalist slips of tongue and ridiculed the Republic to let it be known that their true aim was to restore the kingdom. What they were not aware of is that they themselves were duped as to the true social impact of their rule. They unknowingly established the conditions of bourgeois republican order that they despised so much (by for instance guaranteeing the safety of private property). So it is not that they were royalists who were just wearing a republican mask: although they experienced themselves as such, it was their "inner" royalist conviction which was the deceptive front masking their true social role. In short, far from being the hidden truth of their public republicanism, their sincere royalism was the fantasmatic support of their actual republicanism – it was what provided the passion to their activity. Is it not, then, that the deputees of the Party of Order were also feigning to feign to be republicans, be what they really were?
From the Lacanian perspective, what then is appearance at its most radical? Imagine a man having an affair about which his wife doesn't know, so when he is meeting his lover, he pretends to be on a business trip or something similar; after some time, he gathers the courage and tells the wife the truth that, when he is away, he is staying with his lover. However, at this point, when the front of happy marriage falls apart, the mistress breaks down and, out of sympathy with the abandoned wife, avoids meeting her lover. What should the husband do in order not to give his wife the wrong signal? How not to let her think that the fact that he is no longer so often on business trips means that he is returning to her? He has to fake the affair and leave home for a couple of days, generating the wrong impression that the affair is continuing, while, in reality, he is just staying with some friend. This is appearance at its purest: it occurs not when we put up a deceiving screen to conceal the transgression, but when we fake that there is a transgression to be concealed. In this precise sense, fantasy itself is for Lacan a semblance: it is not primarily the mask which conceals the Real beneath, but, rather, the fantasy of what is hidden behind the mask. So, for instance, the fundamental male fantasy of the woman is not her seductive appearance, but the idea that this dazzling appearance conceals some imponderable mystery.
In order to exemplify the structure of such redoubled deception, Lacan evoked the anecdote about the competition between Zeuxis and Parrhasios, two painters from the ancient Greece, about who will paint a more convincing illusion. [6] First, Zeuxis produced such a realistic picture of grapes that birds were lured into picking at it to eat the grape. Next, Parrhasios won by painting on the wall of his room a curtain, so that Zeuxis, when Parrhasios showed him his painting, asked him: "OK, now please pull aside the veil and show me what you painted!" In Zeuxis's painting, the illusion was so convincing that image was taken for the real thing; in Parrhasios' painting, the illusion resided in the very notion that what we see in front of us is just a veil covering up the hidden truth. This is also how, for Lacan, feminine masquerade works: she wears a mask to make us react like Zeuxis in front of Parrhasios' painting – OK, put down the mask and show us what you really are! In a homologous way, we can imagine Orlando, after the mock wedding ceremony, turning to Rosalind-Ganymede and telling her: "You played Rosalind so well that you almost made me believe to be her; you can now return to what you are and be Ganymede again." It is not an accident that the agents of such double masquerade are always women: a man can only pretend to be a woman; only a woman can pretend to be a man who pretends to be a woman, as only a woman can pretend to be what she is (a woman). To account for this specifically feminine status of pretending, Lacan refers to a woman who wears a concealed fake penis in order to evoke that she is phallus:
Such is woman concealed behind her veil: it is the absence of the penis that makes her the phallus, the object of desire. Evoke this absence in a more precise way by having her wear a cute fake one under a fancy dress, and you, or rather she, will have plenty to tell us about. [7]
The logic is here more complex than it may appear: it is not merely that the obviously fake penis evokes the absence of the 'real' penis; in a strict parallel with Parrhasios' painting, the man's first reaction upon seeing the contours of the fake penis is: "Put this ridiculous fake off and show me what you've got beneath!" The man thereby misses how the fake penis is the real thing: the "phallus" that the woman is, is the shadow generated by the fake penis, i.e., the spectre of the non-existent 'real' phallus beneath the cover of the fake one. In this precise sense, the feminine masquerade has the structure of mimicry, since, for Lacan, in mimicry, I do not imitate the image I want to fit into, but those features of the image which seem to indicate that there is some hidden reality behind. As with Parrhasios, I do not imitate the grapes, but the veil: "Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind." [8] The status of phallus itself is that of a mimicry. Phallus is ultimately a kind of stain of the human body, an excessive feature which does not fit the body and thereby generates the illusion of another hidden reality behind the image.
This brings us back to perversion. For Lacan, a pervert is not defined by the content of what he is doing (his weird sexual practices). Perversion, at its most fundamental, resides in the formal structure of how the pervert relates to truth and speech. The pervert claims direct access to some figure of the big Other (from God or history to the desire of his partner), so that, dispelling all the ambiguity of language, he is able to act directly as the instrument of the big Other's will. In this sense, both Osama bin Laden and President Bush, although politically opponents, share the structures of a pervert. They both act upon the presupposition that their acts are directly ordered and guided by divine will.
The recent of religious fundamentalism in the US – around half of the US adults have beliefs than can be considered "fundamentalist" – is sustained by the predominance of a perverse libidinal economy. A fundamentalist does not believe, he knows it directly. Both liberal-sceptical cynics and fundamentalists share a basic underlying feature: the loss of the ability to believe, in the proper sense of the term. What is unthinkable for them is the groundless decision which installs every authentic belief, a decision which cannot be grounded in the chain of reasons, in positive knowledge. Think of Anne Frank who, in the face of the terrifying depravity of the Nazis, in a true act of credo qua absurdum asserted her belief that there is a divine spark of goodness in every human being, no matter how depraved he or she is. This statement does not concern facts, it is posited as a pure ethical axiom. In the same way, the status of universal human rights is that of a pure belief: they cannot be grounded in our knowledge of human nature, they are an axiom posited by our decision. (The moment one tries to ground universal human rights in our knowledge of humanity, the inevitable conclusion will be that men are fundamentally different, that some have more dignity and wisdom than others.) At its most fundamental, authentic belief does not concern facts, but gives expression to an unconditional ethical commitment.
For both liberal cynics and religious fundamentalists, religious statements are quasi-empirical statements of direct knowledge: fundamentalists accept them as such, while skeptical cynics mock them. No wonder religious fundamentalists are among the most passionate digital hackers, and always prone to combine their religion with the latest results of sciences. For them, religious statements and scientific statements belong to the same modality of positive knowledge. The occurrence of the term "science" in the very name of some of the fundamentalist sects (Christian Science, Scientology) is not just an obscene joke, but signals this reduction of belief to positive knowledge. The case of the Turin Shroud (a piece of cloth that was allegedly used to cover the body of the dead Christ and has stains of his blood) is indicative here. Its authenticity would be a horror for every true believer (the first thing to do would be to analyze the DNA of the blood stains and resolve empirically the question of who Jesus's father was), while a true fundamentalist would rejoice in this opportunity. We find the same reduction of belief to knowledge in today's Islam where hundreds of books by scientists abound which "demonstrate" how the latest scientific advances confirm the insights and injunctions of Quran: the divine prohibition of incest is confirmed by recent genetic knowledge about the defective children born of incestuous copulation. The same goes for Buddhism, where many scientists vary the motif of the "Tao of modern physics", of how the contemporary scientific vision of reality as a substanceless flux of oscillating events finally confirmed the ancient Buddhist ontology. [9] One is compelled to draw the paradoxical conclusion: in the opposition between traditional secular humanists and religious fundamentalists, it is the humanists who stand for belief, while fundamentalists stand for knowledge. This is what we can learn from Lacan with regard to the ongoing rise of religious fundamentalism: its true danger does not reside in the fact that it poses a threat to secular scientific knowledge, but in the fact that it poses a threat to authentic belief itself.
Perhaps, the proper way to conclude this book is to mention the case of Sophia Karpai, the head of the cardiographic unit of the Kremlin Hospital in the late 1940s. Her act, the opposite of the perverse elevation of oneself into an instrument of the big Other, deserves to be called a proper ethical act in the Lacanian sense. Her misfortune was that it was her job to take twice the electrocardiogram of Andrei Zhdanov, on July 25 1948 and on July 31, days before Zhdanov's death because of a heart failure. The first EKG, taken after Zhdanov displayed some heart troubles, was inconclusive (heart attack could be neither confirmed nor excluded), while the second one surprisingly showed a much better picture (the intraventricular blockage disappeared, a clear indication that there was no heart attack). In 1951, she was arrested with the charge that, in conspiracy with other doctors treating Zhdanov, she falsified the data, erasing the clear indications that a heart attack did occur, depriving Zhdanov of the special care needed by a victim of heart attack. After harsh treatment, including continuous brutal beating, all other accused doctors confessed. "Sophia Karpai, whom her boss Vinogradov had described as nothing more than 'a typical person of the street with the morals of the petty bourgeoisie,' was kept in a refrigerated cell without sleep to compel a confession. She did not confess." [10] The impact and significance of her perseverance cannot be overestimated: her signature would have dotted the i on the prosecutor's case on the "doctor's plot," immediately setting in motion the mechanism that, once rolling, would lead to the death of hundreds of thousands, maybe even to a new European war (according to Stalin's plan, the "doctor's plot" should have demonstrated that the Western intelligence agencies tried to murder the top Soviet leaders, and thus served as an excuse to attack Western Europe). She persisted just long enough for Stalin to enter his final coma, after which the entire case was immediately dismissed. Her simple heroism was crucial in the series of details which,
like grains of sand in the gears of the huge machine that had been set in motion, prevented another catastrophe in Soviet society and politics generally, and saved the lives of thousands, if not millions, of innocent people. [11]
This simple persistence against all odds is ultimately the stuff ethics is made of – or, as Samuel Beckett puts it in the last words of the absolute masterpiece of 20th Century literature, The Unnameable, a saga of the drive that perseveres in the guise of an undead partial object: "in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. [12]
[1] Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 185..
[2] Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1963, p. 98.
[3] Available at http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/320.
[4] Janet Avery and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2005.
[5] See Karl Marx, "Class Struggles in France," Collected Works, Vol. 10, London: Lawrence and Wishart 1978, p. 95.
[6] Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 103.
[7] Jacques Lacan, Écrits, p. 310.
[8] Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 99.
[9] One of the ridiculous excesses of this joint venture of religious fundamentalism and scientific approach is taking place today in Israel where a religious group convinced in the literal truth of the Old Testament prophecy that the Messiah will come when a calf with totally red is born, is spending enormous amounts of energy to produce, through genetic manipulations, such a calf.
[10] Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov, Stalin's Last Crime, p. 307.
[11] ibid, p. 297.
[12] Samuel Beckett, Trilogy, London: Calder Publications 2003, p. 418.


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First, to all of our readers and visitors, I wish you a blessed New Year. Concerning books and articles to be published in 2019, this spring I look forward to the release of The Carolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus published by Medieval Institute Press. It will contain English translations of the Apocalypse commentary of Theodulf of Orleans from the… Read more →


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This carefully researched and reflective work draws upon some of the best scholarship from Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Jamaica, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and United Kingdom. The authors – academics and practitioners alike – situate the Imperial Copyright Act 1911 within their national laws, both historically and legally. In doing so, the book queries the extent to which the ethos and legacy of the 1911 Copyright Act remains within indigenous laws.
A Shifting Empire offers a unique global, historical view of copyright development and will be a valuable resource for policymakers, academic scholars and members of international copyright associations.
Contributors: T.G. Agitha, M. Birnhack, D. Daley, Y. Gendreau, N.S. Gopalakrishnan, N.-L.W. Loon, G. McLay, T. Pistorius, S. Ricketson, U.Suthersanen
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Carson City OKs new rules for business signs
Carson City businesses have new regulations to follow for temporary signage such as banners, flags, and A-frame boards.
The Board of Supervisors on Thursday adopted an ordinance amending municipal code covering temporary signs used by businesses throughout the city.
Now, businesses will be allowed one banner or flag attached to the their building, which can be displayed indefinitely. Previously, the banner or flag didn't have to be attached but could only be installed for a 30-day period, creating an enforcement headache for the city. The flags or banners can't be used in lieu of permanent signage, but a new business can use temporary signage alone for up to 60 days after opening its doors or for longer during construction.
A-frame signs must be within 20 feet of the business. Inflatable devices and freestanding signs can be used only temporarily with a special event permit.
The board started discussing changes to sign regulations in May, and in June the Planning Commission made its recommendation, which the board then worked on until coming up with the final ordinance.
In that time, a few businesses made public comment on the proposed changes, but on Thursday two new businesses came forward asking for more time to give more businesses an opportunity to comment.
"At this point I don't understand what continuing it another 30 days is going to do. We've been talking about this for months," said Supervisor Brad Bonkowski. "We've put a lot of time, energy and thought into trying to do this right."
Both Supervisor Lori Bagwell and Mayor Bob Crowell said the ordinance can be revisited if any of its provisions prove to be a problem.
"It can always be tweaked, but it's an enforcement nightmare if we don't do something like this," said Crowell.
The board voted 4-1 to adopt the ordinance with Supervisor John Barrette, who said he's opposed to A-frame signs, voting no.
The supervisors accepted a $250,000 Land and Water Conservation Fund grant to purchase 206 acres south of the Timberline subdivision and Vicee Canyon for open space. The land, owned by Gerald and Luanna Hamm, was appraised at $501,000. The city matches the grant through the Quality of Life Open Space budget.
The property has several trails that will connect to the city's trail system on the west side. It's also a mule deer habitat, said Ann Bollinger, open space administrator.
The board approved a $114,071 contract with Kimley-Horn to design a roundabout at the intersection of Carson and Stewart streets as part of the South Carson Street redesign project.
Public Works had been considering four to five locations for a roundabout, did a traffic study, and determined Stewart Street was the best intersection. It has both the needed right-of-way to accommodate a roundabout and can act as sort of gateway to downtown, said Dan Stucky, city engineer.
The board approved the contract on a vote of 4-1. Bagwell voted no saying she thought the roundabout should have first gone to the Regional Transportation Commission, where the public would had more opportunity to comment.
The city did hold open houses and take public comment on the South Carson Street Complete Street Project, which included discussion of installing a roundabout somewhere on the road.
The board appointed Jean Perpich to a four-year term as public guardian. Deborah Marzoline retired on Aug. 3 and Adriana Fralick, interim deputy city manager, has been serving as the acting public guardian since.
The supervisors interviewed two applicants for a spot on the Planning Commission recently vacated by Candace Stowell, and appointed Alexander Dawers.
Reno, Bay Area teens launch company to help children with special needs
"The thing that I like most about entrepreneurship is I can work toward something that I'm passionate about and be at the forefront of the change that I want to see happen," said Priyanka Senthil, a senior at Davidson Academy in Reno and co-founder of startup company AUesome.


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"Battle of the Bastards" has been responsible for most of the accolades received by this season of Game of Thrones: this episode alone won 6 Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing; and just last week Fabian Wagner and Miguel Sapochnik were recognized by the American Society of Cinematographers and the Directors Guild of America, respectively, for their work in this episode.
And this great run isn't over. As we reported last month, the Visual Effects Society (VES) nominated Game of Thrones 11 times in 6 different categories. The HBO show received the most nominations, even more than top contenders like Doctor Strange and The Jungle Book. Now the results are in, and they are as good as they could ever be.
Despite the 11 nominations, Game of Thrones was competing against itself as well as other projects in most of the categories, so it could only ever hope to win 6 awards. And it almost did! The only award the show didn't get was Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project, which it lost to The Jungle Book.
Otherwise, Game of Thrones swept the categories in which it was nominated: the eponymous battle of the bastards was awarded with Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode, beating out the city of Meereen in the same episode, the Land of Always Winter in "The Door", as well as some sailing ships in an episode of Black Sails.
Thankfully, Daenerys Stormborn's flight on Drogon over a fully realized city of Meereen wasn't completely outshone by the battle for Winterfell. The amazing scene won not one but two awards: Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial or Real-Time Project and Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial or Real-Time Project. The creature who allowed us to see the whole city wasn't forgotten either, as Drogon won Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode or Real-Time Project.
All of that written, did Battle of the Bastards also get the key VES award for a TV show? That would be Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode. The big one. Game of Thrones had some stiff competition in this area: Black Mirror's "Playtest", Stranger Things' "Demogorgon", The Expanse's "Salvage" and, of course, Westworld's "The Bicameral Mind." In the end, Battle of the Bastards was victorious yet again!
The winners deserve to be individually congratulated, including VFX producer Steve Kullback and VFX supervisor Joe Bauer, each of whom have won five Emmy Awards. The other winners are Glenn Melenhorst, Matthew Rouleau, Sam Conway, James Kinnings, Michael Holzl, Matt Derksen, Joseph Hoback, Deak Ferrand, Dominic Daigle, François Croteau, Alexandru Banuta, Thomas Hullin, Dominik Kirouac, James Dong, Xavier Fourmond, Dominic Hellier, Morgan Jones, Thijs Noij, and Caleb Thompson.


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From Rosetta Cozart
Dear Editor:
The Wetzel County Animal Shelter Supporters, Inc. would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Meckley's office for the generous donation they have been doing annually during the Holidays. A nice sum was donated during the event by clients which Dr. Meckley's office matches. This money goes to great use helping the needy animals of the community get much needed veterinary care. If anyone needs assistance altering their animals please contact the Wetzel County Animal Shelter Supporters, Inc. or the Wetzel County Humane Society and we will make sure you receive assistance needed! Don't breed or buy while innocent animals die.
Thank you!
Rosetta Cozart
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The 1889 New York state election was held on November 5, 1889, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
The Prohibition state convention met on September 4 and 5 at Shakespeare Hall in Syracuse, New York. Prof. Alphonso A. Hopkins presided. Jesse H. Griffen, a Quaker of Yorktown, was nominated for Secretary of State; Joseph W. Bruce for Treasurer; Benjamin L. Rand, a 30-year-old banker of Tonawanda, for Treasurer; Alpheus B. Kenyon, a professor of Alfred University, for State Engineer; and Coleridge A. Hart, a 35-year-old lawyer of New York City, for Attorney General; and Walter Farrington for the Court of Appeals.[1]
The Republican state convention met on September 25 at Saratoga, New York, and nominated John I. Gilbert, of Franklin County, for Secretary of State; Martin W. Cooke, of Monroe County, for Comptroller; Ira M. Hedges, of Rockland County, for Attorney General; James M. Varnum, of New York City, for Treasurer; William V. Van Rensselaer for State Engineer; and Albert Haight for the Court of Appeals.
The Democratic state convention met on October 1 at the Alhambra in Syracuse, New York. Lt. Gov. Edward F. Jones was Temporary and Permanent Chairman. Frank Rice was nominated for Secretary of State by acclamation. Comptroller Edward Wemple was re-nominated on the first ballot (vote: Wemple 265, Edward A. Maher 115½). Wemple's nomination was not "made unanimous." Attorney General Charles F. Tabor was re-nominated on the first ballot (vote: Tabor 266, John Foley 115). State Engineer John Bogart was re-nominated by acclamation. Ex-Attorney General Denis O'Brien (in office 1884-1887) was nominated unanimously for the Court of Appeals after the name of Edward S. Rapallo had been proposed but withdrawn considering the ballots for Comptroller and Attorney General.[2] The ticket, composed by Gov. David B. Hill and ordered to be pushed through the convention, had actually been published two days before the delegates met.[3]
Members of the disbanding Greenback Party met on October 21 at the Grand Central Hotel in New York City. George O. Jones presided. They nominated Thomas K. Beecher for Secretary of State; J. Madison Hall, of Madison County, for Treasurer; John B. Sullivan, of Westchester County, for Comptroller; and James Wright, of Wayne County, for Attorney General.[4]
The whole Democratic ticket was elected.
The incumbents Wemple, Tabor and Bogart were re-elected.
|Democratic ticket
|Republican ticket
|Prohibition ticket
|Greenback ticket
|Secretary of State
|Frank Rice
|John I. Gilbert
|Jesse H. Griffen
|Thomas K. Beecher[5]
|Edward Wemple
|Martin W. Cooke
|Benjamin L. Rand
|John B. Sullivan
|Attorney General
|Charles F. Tabor
|James M. Varnum
|Coleridge A. Hart
|James Wright[6]
|Elliott Danforth
|Ira M. Hedges[7]
|Joseph W. Bruce[8]
|J. Madison Hall[9]
|State Engineer
|John Bogart
|William V. Van Rensselaer[10]
|Alpheus B. Kenyon
|Leonard Henkle[11]
|Judge of the Court of Appeals
|Denis O'Brien
|Albert Haight
|Walter Farrington[12]
- ^ THIS TICKET IS UNIQUE.; PROHIBITIONISTS READY FOR ANOTHER CAMPAIGN in NYT on September 6, 1889
- ^ YIELDING ALL TO HILL in NYT on October 2, 1889
- ^ DELEGATES TO SYRACUSE in NYT on September 29, 1889
- ^ POLITICAL ODDS AND ENDS in NYT on October 22, 1889
- ^ Rev. Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900), of Elmira, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, ran also in 1883 and 1887, Obit in NYT on March 15, 1900
- ^ James Wright, lawyer of Wayne County, ran also in 1879 (lived then in Elmira); and for Secretary of State in 1893 (lived then in Weedsport)
- ^ Ira M. Hedges, of Rockland County, ran also in 1891
- ^ Joseph W. Bruce (b. 1820 Lenox), retired farmer, co-owner of the Bruce Opera House in Canastota, ran also for Governor in 1891
- ^ James Madison Hall, of Madison County, ran also in 1887
- ^ Capt. William V. Van Rensselaer, of Seneca Falls, Division Engineer of the Middle Division of the State Canals under Superintendent of Public Works Silas B. Dutcher, assemblyman 1898, ran also in 1885, sketch of the candidate: STATE ENGINEER in NYT on October 2, 1885
- ^ Col. Leonard Henkle, of Rochester, ran for Congress in 1880, a pioneer of electricity supply, see: COL. HENKLE'S ELECTRIC SYSTEM in NYT on March 19, 1884
- ^ Walter Farrington (ca. 1830 - Nov 25., 1920), of Poughkeepsie, lawyer, ran also for the Court of Appeals in 1881 and 1884; for Attorney General in 1879 and 1906; and for Chief Judge in 1892
- The tickets: LIST OF ALL THE CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED FOR IN NEW-YORK CITY ON TUESDAY in NYT on November 3, 1889
- The Democratic candidates: THE CANDIDATES in NYT on October 2, 1889
- Result: OFFICIAL VOTE OF NEW-YORK STATE CAST AT THE ELECTION HELD ON TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1889 in NYT on December 6, 1889
- Result in New York City: THE CITY VOTE in NYT on November 21, 1889
- The ballot reform, and how to vote: BALLOT REFORM APPLIED TO THIS ELECTION in NYT on November 4, 1889


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- 11212 Lee Hwy
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by Bettye McClelland Jakes on Saturday, Apr 18 2015 at 07:12AM CDT
Stopped in yesterday with my sister in law who is not a knitter but wants to learn to knit. Extremely, knowledgable,helpful and friendly. A nice selection of yarns. I'm the knitter and thoughly enjoyed my time there.
by Megan on Thursday, Feb 07 2013 at 06:57PM CST
My mom, sister and I went in to this yarn shop during a lunch break a couple weeks ago. I just needed some basic Cascade 220 superwash for a child's sweater, but my mom and sister both ended up also making purchases. The staff was very friendly and helpful-even made a great lunch recommendation!
by sumaq on Saturday, Aug 11 2012 at 02:40AM CDT
This is the closest yarn store to me so I've been there a couple of times when I needed basics (like Cascade for trim or something). Most of the yarns are not the types I would normally pick. I have not found the staff to be particularly knowledgeable, once they told me they hadn't heard that Malabrigo produced superwash yarns (even though they carry Malabrigo), and by phone they told me that they are not aware of any needles manufactured for kids (even though I asked about the Pony needles with the little kitty tops). And when I was asking about yarn for a blanket, they recommended the 25$ a skein Louet Euroflax as one option (most expensive blanket ever?). The last time I went with my 4 year old who is my constant companion (but admittedly high strung), and they kindly asked me to leave and come back without her. :) I had a credit to use there but gave it to a stranger, knowing that I probably wouldn't be able to justify paying for child care just to shop at a yarn store, I'd probably just go back to Uniquities next time or buy the same item online. Uniquities is a bit farther away, but they have a wider selection of yarns I'm interested in and the staff there has never asked me to leave. Nature's Yarns may just prefer to sell to an older crowd, and if that is their niche I hope it works out for them. But if you have kids younger than 10, I'd avoid this store if they are with you.
by jayel on Thursday, Jun 30 2011 at 06:34PM CDT
An open and airy store with lots of comfy seating for sitting & knitting. Welcoming staff, and a nice, but not comprehensive selection of yarn, arranged for the most part by weight. I feel very much at ease shopping here and I keep coming back, even when I know I'll get snarled in traffic on the way home (I simply can't rush yarn shopping!).
by Conrad Johnson on Wednesday, Apr 01 2009 at 07:36AM CDT
Being a guy I was kinda put off by the person 'in charge' that day. She seemed to be uncomfortable with me in
the shop, so I left as soon as I found something. Maybe next time she'll feel more comfortable with me in there.
It wasn't the owner, she was out of town. I also think the
selections are fairly well organized by type - but then not
much of any one dye lot so that is a limitation.
by krewerka on Sunday, Sep 14 2008 at 06:07PM CDT
A new store with somewhat limited but very nice selection. Working hard to get what you want, and providing classes. Not opened on Sunday except for yarn tastings.
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The CP2 engine with crossplane technology produces a wave of linear torque that just keeps on coming right through the rev range for remarkable acceleration in every gear – and the compact chassis and adjustable suspension are built to slice quickly and precisely through every corner.
Next generation aerodynamic bodywork with dual LED headlights and aggressive slant-eye position lights reinforce the bike's modern design and forceful good looks – and with its long-distance ergonomics, wider handlebars and adjustable screen, this versatile new middleweight is always ready for your next road trip. New Tracer 700: It's Your Turn.
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- More responsive torque-rich CP2 engine
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"American Airlines Crew Member Finds Lost iPad Using Community Find Feature"—
"To the team at tile I would first like to say THANK YOU! This is an amazing story that I have to tell. I'm a flight attendant for American Airlines, and on October 13 I left my iPad on a plane that I was working on. It never showed up at "lost and found," and I resigned myself to thinking it was gone forever. Lucky for me, I'm a gadget geek and I purchased your Tiles during preorder, because I thought it was such a great idea. After marking the Tile as "Lost," the Tile app kept giving me notifications that the iPad was STILL at O'Hare international Airport. I've been getting these notifications for the past five weeks without actually locating it. Yesterday, November 26 I decide to go to work early in order to narrow down the search. As it turns out I kept finding my tile in the vicinity of three gates. I decide to check each gate one by one. No luck at the first two, but at the third gate the find button for playing the tune pops up and I hit it. I'm walking around the gate listening intently, and in the closet behind the gate I hear the tile singing it's BEAUTIFUL tune. I asked the agent who happened to be there, if he would open the closet for me. Inside the closet for sure the tile is playing much louder. I get to digging around in boxes and find nothing but still hear the tile. Above the door was a ledge, so I feel around up there, and I find my iPad!! Covered in dust and still with a 20% charge, my iPad is back in my possession! I can't begin to tell you how happy I am."
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Split Band Ruby Engagement Ring
Designers' Notes:
A split band ruby engagement ring with a floating halo of diamonds is an absolute show stopper. An east-west set emerald cut ruby sets the stage for a custom engagement ring that's not for the faint of heart. The head-turning deep pink ruby is contrasted with a sparkling diamond halo and a double band of diamonds in the white gold split shank design. Bold and one-of-a-kind, The Valerie engagement ring is a statement making stunner.
Metal: 14k white gold
Stone: 1.21 carat ruby; 0.62 ctw diamond melee
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Note: This split band ruby engagement ring was custom made for and named after an Abby Sparks Jewelry client. The Valerie custom ruby and diamond halo engagement ring is not available for purchase and is completely one-of-a-kind. If you would like to create a custom ruby engagement ring with Abby Sparks Jewelry please book an appointment.


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Since 2007, Condé Nast Traveler has handed out our World Savers Awards to travel companies that are powerful forces of change within their industries. These are companies and hotel properties that contribute positively to local communities, that are conscious of the environment, that even protect wildlife. We'll announce this year's winners in our September issue, but over the next few weeks, we'll introduce you to all of the finalists, starting today with standouts in disaster relief and conservation—because no matter who wins, they're all worth knowing about the next time you travel.
Disaster Relief
New Orleans, Louisiana
about the company: A modern, minimalist 1,193-room New Orleans hotel, minutes from the French Quarter and adjacent to the Superdome.
how it's giving back: After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a line a half-mile long stretched from the Superdome to the hotel as thousands of refugees moved through the property to a bus evacuation site. It reopened in 2011 after a $275 million redesign, symbolizing the rebirth of New Orleans. More recently, the hotel rebuilt the garden at Langston Hughes Elementary School and is landscaping the New Orleans Cancer Survivors' Plaza.
one more surprise: The hotel donated $300,000 to help build two homes sponsored by Brad Pitt's Make it Right project (pictured) in the city's hard-hit lower ninth ward.
Tokyo, Japan
about the company: The elegant Grand Hyatt Tokyo—think mood lighting, mahogany furnishings—rated high enough on our Readers' Choice Survey to make the 2012 Gold List.
How it's Giving Back: Following the 2011 tsunami, Grand Hyatt Tokyo housed and fed fresh meals to more than 370 evacuees. With the help of other Hyatt properties around the world, the hotel raised more than $98,000 for relief efforts by the Japan Red Cross.
one more surprise: In addition to reducing energy consumption by 25 percent since 2006, the hotel participates in an innovative environment and health initiative. Ecocap, a Japanese nonprofit, collects plastic water bottle caps and sells them to recycling facilities. The money goes toward polio vaccines. By 2011, the hotel had recycled a total of 691,400 collected caps—the equivalent of 864 vaccines.
Water Conservation and Waste Reduction
Denver, Colorado
about the company: A clean-lined, 1,100-room business hotel in Denver, within walking distance of the symphony and the Denver Art Museum, and its important collection of American Indian art.
how it's giving back: Of its 988 tons of waste in 2011, the hotel composts 131 tons and recycles 403. As a result of these efforts, the hotel reduced its solid waste by 54 percent last year.
Various locations
about the company: More than 3,800 properties in 91 countries, that embrace the principles of responsible business.
how it's giving back: Hilton Worldwide's proprietary LightStay system tracks sustainability performance across the entire portfolio of properties. These hotels reported 19 percent waste reduction in 2010, as well as 3.8 percent decrease in water use and a 6.6 percent decrease in energy use—the equivalent of filling 1,018 Olympic swimming pools and powering 19,302 homes.
Various locations
about the company: 28 opulent resorts with locally influenced designs, spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Oberoi's Gurgaon in New Delhi made the_ Condé Nast Traveler_ Hot List in 2012, and its Agra property was on the 2012 Gold List.
How it's giving back: More than 80 percent of waste water is treated and recycled through Oberoi's conversation program. In addition, several hotels have installed rainwater harvesting systems.
one more surprise: Each Oberoi hotel supports local projects, such as a care center (St. Catherine's Welfare Society for Destitute Children, at right) for more than 200 impoverished children affected by HIV in Mumbai.
about the company: Holland America has a 15-ship fleet that offers more than 500 sailings annually.
how it's giving back: Holland aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 20 percent between 2005 and 2015.
one more Surprise: Since 2010, the cruise line reduced the total quantity of solid waste generated by the fleet by five percent, and increased the total quantity of recyclable materials generated by five percent.


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Have you seen Adam Levine's ass yet? Would you like to see Adam Levine's ass, either again or for the very first time? Then go right on ahead and push play on the video for Maroon 5's "This Summer's Gonna Hurt Like a Motherfucker" and watch the frontman strip and get dressed really quick to perform the gigantic single for an arena crowd. The quick butt-flash at the beginning—NSFW, probably!—is the only Levine-y nudity herein.
If that's not enough for you, we've got a bunch of sexy Adam Levine snaps on hand, and/or you can go back to the "Animals" video, featuring Mr. L and his wife getting naked and covered in blood. Because why not.
The single—one of our favorites from last month—comes from a forthcoming reissue of the V album. Earlier this year we heard a hot "Sugar" remix featuring Nicki Minaj.


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This creamy Walnut Cranberry Apple Smoothie is perfect for the holidays and will really hit the spot with its warm & spicy fall flavours.
I have had a bit of a smoothie hiatus over the past few weeks after the seal on my blender decided to break mid way through blending a full jug of homemade cashew milk. You wouldn't believe the mess that made. My new seal arrived last week and the first thing I made was this Walnut Cranberry Apple Smoothie.
Smoothies aren't just for the Summer. Fall fruits and veggies can make a fantastic and healthy addition to your breakfast blend at this time of year.
Cranberries are a fruit that tend to be very under-utilized and are often only eaten in cranberry sauce a couple of times a year at most which is a shame when they are so full of flavour and nutrients. They can help prevent urinary tract infections, reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease, slow the progression of tumours and aid dental health by preventing the binding of bacteria to the teeth.
They are great in both savoury and sweet dishes and as you will find when you try this recipe, are just perfect in a smoothie! If you have any cranberries leftover after Thanksgiving this is a great way to use them up. If you don't have some, next time you are at the grocery store look out for them in the produce section. They keep easily for a couple of weeks in the fridge.
This Walnut Cranberry Apple Smoothie brings together the tartness of fresh, plump cranberries, the juicy sweetness of apple, the rich nuttiness of walnuts and a hint of cinnamon warmth. The combination is delicious and makes a wonderfully nutritious breakfast or snack.
I really struggle with the cold and couldn't bear to drink a smoothie with ice in it for breakfast at this time of year, hence the reason that this recipe contains no ice at all. If you like your smoothies a bit frosty then by all means throw some ice cubes into the blender with the other ingredients.
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Walnut Cranberry Apple Smoothie
- 75g | 3/4 cup fresh cranberries (or you may use frozen - see recipe note)
- 1 large apple cored and chopped into chunks
- 4 tablespoons chopped raw walnuts ,
- 1 tablespoons maple syrup , add an extra one if you like your smoothies on the sweeter side
- 240mls | 1 cup non-dairy milk (I used my homemade cashew milk )
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Add all the ingredients to a blender.
- Blend for a minute or two until completely smooth.
- Serve immediately.
Nutritional information is provided for convenience & as a courtesy. The data is a computer generated estimate so should be used as a guide only.


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Giselle No. 5 Ceramics
Set of 4 Hand-Carved California Wildflower Coasters in Assorted Colors
Why should coasters be dull and boring? Why should they all look the same? These stoneware coasters are made from a warm toned, speckled clay and carved and hand painted with a variety of vibrant poppies and other wildflowers. Each coaster is a unique and individual design. Never again will you get your coaster confused with your friend's!
I like to put a coaster next to each bed as well as using them in the living room.
This listing is for a set of four (4) carved wildflower coasters. Please see the photos for the color assortment.
These coasters are all 3.75" in diameter. The base has little pads so the bare clay won't damage your furniture.
I have chosen photos that convey the true colors and beauty of the clay and glaze as closely as possible. Always be aware that all computer monitors show color differently and it may appear a slightly different shade upon arrival.
All clay and glazes used are lead-free and non-toxic
This item is oven and dishwasher safe; however I strongly recommend hand washing to extend the life of your handmade pottery.
Please read the full listing and see all shop policies before you purchase.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: All designs, creative content, descriptions and images are copyright 2018-2019 by Giselle No. 5 Ceramics - Giselle Massey - whether registered or unregistered. Making copies of my work is strictly prohibited. Violation of this copyright may subject the violator to civil and/or criminal prosecution. All rights reserved.
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A quick question , can anyone check the reference 23 ( Vlad Ward used an Executioner with twin Gauss Rifles, two Large Lasers and four Medium Pulse Lasers ) as that seems just plain impossible if the omni mech rules were followed, it could mount all those weapons but it would have 0 armor and 0 tons of gauss ammo , so some clarification would be nice :) . --188.8.131.52 15:04, 17 June 2015 (PDT)
Blood Legacy, page 191 "He (Phelan) saw that each arm mounted a Gauss Rifle and each side of the torso was arrayed with one large laser and two medium lasers." Blood Legacy, page 193 "It punched through the weakened armor on the Executioner's right breast, destroying the laser. The large dropped down to crush one of the pulse lasers." Blood Legacy, page 193 "The pulse laser in the shattered right breast stitched a half-dozen streaming holes in the Lone Wolf's right leg." Blood Legacy, Page 193 "The other two pulse lasers both melted a hole in Phelan's right flank. The Executioner's large laser lanced it's red beam through the left side of the Lone Wolf's chest as Phelan brought his machine under control and turned to face Vlad.
Following omni mech rules, the Executioner could have exactly 2 ER Large Lasers, 2 Med Pulse lasers, and 2 gauss rifles with 3 tons of ammo, giving it a BV2 score of 3271.
- The content was removed, I believe because Vlad (and Phelan) did not pilot the Executioner for a significant amount of time. I do remember a post on the old BattleTech forums (long gone with several database wipes) where it was stated that the engine would have to be downgraded to make everything fit, and Vlad had the "pull" to order his technicians to modify the 'Mech so heavily. This does violate the OmniMech rules, but remember, the rules were being fleshed out around the same time this novel was written. It may have been legal when it was written and then the rules changed. The BattleTech Compendium, Technical Readout: 3050, and Blood Legacy all were published in 1990. --Cache (talk) 07:05, 26 September 2015 (PDT)


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My 2019 wedding clients have me so excited for what is to come this year!
Every couple I have had the pleasure of working with so far has been just beyond amazing.
This engagement session was all kinds of fun and photographing at locations that mean so much to people, make my job that much better!
Enjoy a little look into this fall engagement session.