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Art of gifting under threat
It has been one casualty after another on the UK high street with Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster going into administration in the same month. As stores made their announcements, the subsequent furore over whether paid-for gift cards and vouchers would be accepted highlighted the issue of consumer protection.
It has been one casualty after another on the UK high street with Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster going into administration in the same month. As stores made their announcements, the subsequent furore over whether paid-for gift cards and vouchers would be accepted highlighted the issue of consumer protection.
Jessops' 187 stores were closed down and administrator PwC took the decision not to honour gift cards. Consumers were left with an estimated £800,000 worth of unused cards from the camera retailer, which just one month before had launched an e-gift card to buy online.
The issue was pushed further when HMV announced its intention to file for administration in mid-January. Administrator Deloitte agreed to honour gift vouchers after assessing HMV's financial position, having previously stated that it would not accept or issue vouchers, despite the retailer continuing to trade.
The UK Gift Card and Voucher Association (UKGCVA) is "concerned about the reputation of gift cards and vouchers" but adds that in the past five years, sales of vouchers and gift cards have increased year on year. The trade body has also been in talks with the Office of Fair Trading and HM Treasury about ways to protect consumer funds.
Andrew Johnson, director general of UKGCVA, says: "Gift cards and vouchers are a bit of a victim here on the basis that the retailer is no longer in control when it comes to the pot of money in unredeemed vouchers, the administrator makes the decision on what to do with that money."
Blockbuster went under two days after HMV but it took the decision to accept gift vouchers as part-payment. This decision was made because "it was felt to be in the best interest of creditors as a whole," according to a spokesperson for the movie rental company. The gift vouchers and credit are being allowed as part payment, so the voucher or store credit can be used to pay for up to 50 per cent of the total purchase price.
This ensures that vouchers are worth something to the consumer and cash is going into the business.
But Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, says that consumers will now be wary of trusting brands when buying vouchers. "With the increasing number of high street retailers going bust, consumers need to be aware of their rights, particularly regarding warranties and gift vouchers. Although many groups can lose out when a company goes into administration, it is outrageous that consumers are left out of pocket when a retailer refuses to honour gift vouchers."
Lloyd says Which? wants the rules on gift vouchers and insolvency to be reviewed so that consumers are protected. The UKGCVA's talks with the Office of Fair Trading are ongoing, but as Johnson points out, once a brand goes into administration the company is at the hands of the administrators which will make decisions, rather than the brand itself.
At the same time as retailers deciding whether to accept gift cards as payment, affiliated and unaffiliated brands and shops have been offering to take them. Tesco took the decision to accept Jessops vouchers that were bought at its store, and online gift store Musicgiftsuk.com, a supplier of HMV, offered to honour HMV vouchers.
According to Which?, Tesco, Asda and Boots say that, for a limited time, gift vouchers can be exchanged for the retailers' own gift cards, at face value. Restaurants, bars and nightclubs also waded in with special offers including exchanging vouchers for a free cocktail and 50 per cent off food bills.
So although the reputation of some individual retailer's vouchers as an option for gifting has been dented, marketers can still include them in their plans, for example by choosing to use multi-retailer gift vouchers which reduce the risk of becoming worthless compared to choosing single brand vouchers.
The Post Office One4all gift card is one of many multi-retailer gift vouchers that are emoney-regulated products, which ensure consumers' funds are secure. The gift card offers a choice of 17,000 retailers and sales were up by 40 per cent over Christmas 2012 compared to 2011, suggesting a move to this type of gift.
Declan Byrne, managing director of One4all, says: "We're seeing a shift in consumer attitudes. People want to give gift cards as presents but they are nervous about which retailer to choose. Unfortunately, with a series of high-profile retail closures, consumers are understandably worried about who might be next."
Consumers are not just affected when they buy from retailers directly. Administration decisions also affect consumer promotions when gift cards are used as prizes. Choosing the right brand to partner with in a promotion can be tricky. Promotion verification specialist PromoVeritas sites an example for its client, wine brand Campo Viejo, which ran an on-pack competition to win a £10,000 Habitat gift card for a home makeover.
But during the life of the promotion, Habitat went into administration and Campo Viejo was concerned about its investment and the prize. After negotiating with Habitat's new owners, the promotion continued with the agreed terms but made the promotions industry aware of the risks of using retailer specific cards.
Big ticket vouchers can also be a risky purchase in today's economic climate. Gillian Edwards at ABTA, the UK travel trade association for tour operators and travel agents, says: "Holiday vouchers can make a great present or gift, however, people should be aware that it is holidays that
are financially protected and not the vouchers themselves."
Edwards advises consumers who have these vouchers to redeem them as soon as possible. Once someone has redeemed the voucher and has a receipt for a holiday, they count as a part payment and are more likely to be financially protected.
With the future of the high street looking lacklustre, consumer confidence could be affected by the issues around vouchers when retailers go bust.
UKGCVA's Johnson says: "We are disappointed that gift cards and vouchers are getting negative press at the moment. Hopefully the faith that the public have in gift cards will continue and that this is just a small blip."
A troubled timeline
November 2012
Comet collapsed in early November 2012 and having previously announced that it could not accept gift cards, said it would be accepting vouchers two days later.
9 January 2013
Jessops, the first casualty of the high street this year, did not honour gift vouchers or accept customer returns, leaving one customer with a worthless £500 voucher.
15 January 2013
HMV announced that it was no longer accepting gift cards and vouchers when the entertainment retailer announced its collapse. This caused outrage, particularly among those who had received them as gifts for Christmas. However, after administrators assessed the finances a U-turn was made on this decision a week later.
17 January 2013
Blockbuster went into administration and continued to trade as normal while administrators searched for a buyer, accepting gift cards and credit acquired through the rental shop's trade-in scheme.
Industry in talks with HM Treasury and the Office of Fair Trading, expected to announce the outcome very soon.
Figure Focus
Like-for-like voucher sales grew by 3.2 per cent in Q4 2012. Consumer sales of vouchers went up by 1.6 per cent as some shoppers inevitably turned to vouchers for Christmas presents. Notably though, sales growth of consumer vouchers is considerably down on the peaks seen in the past over the Christmas season, reflecting shoppers' limited spending power this year.
Sales of vouchers by retailers are up by 6.5 per cent with growth coming from both corporate and consumer sales this quarter. The business-to-business sector grew by 6 per cent. Retailer consumer sales growth improved in Q4 compared to the rest of 2012, increasing by 1.1 per cent.
Sales of vouchers by channel shows the high street was the most popular place for consumers to buy vouchers in the run up to Christmas. Direct sales to consumers via stores are up by 1.1 per cent but consumer online sales of vouchers are down by 7.5 per cent.
Figures released in 2012 show that consumers waste an estimated £250m per year on unspent gift cards. The waste includes expired cards and those with change left on the balance of the card.
Source: UKGCVA
Andrew Johnson
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Marketing Week (MW): Should administrators wait until they are clear on the financial situation of the business before announcing whether to accept vouchers?
Andrew Johnson (AJ): Arguably maybe that's why there was a delay in the administrators opening up HMV to take gift cards and vouchers because it's taken them this long to get a handle on the true financial situation. Certainly with Comet there was a 24-hour delay. But the situation with HMV was unusual as it was still trading, the doors of the retailer were open but not accepting gift cards, it didn't make sense.
Each administrator has different rules and there are different circumstances for when a retailer goes into administration so in some respects, gift cards and vouchers are a bit of a victim on the basis that the retailer is no longer in control; the administrator makes the decision on what to do with the pot of money in unredeemed vouchers.
Fortunately, what we have seen in some cases is that there is a period of time during which the administrator will accept vouchers. With HMV that has begun.
MW: Should companies that are at risk stop selling gift cards?
AJ: I think it depends on the definition of 'at risk'. I'm sure the directors of HMV prior to Christmas were looking at lots of ways the company would continue to trade. So they probably didn't see themselves at risk because there were several options that were being investigated.
MW: What effect overall do you think this has had on the retail voucher industry?
AJ: There has been a lot of negative press so we are concerned about the reputation of gift cards and vouchers. But in the past five years sales of vouchers and gift cards have increased year-on-year, compared to the rest of the retail market, which has been fairly stagnant during that period.
Hopefully, the faith that the public have in gift cards will continue and that this is just a small blip.
MW: Can anything be done to protect consumers in the future?
AJ: That is something that as an industry we need to have a good look at. We have been in discussion for the past few years with the Office of Fair Trading and HM Treasury about different ways we can protect consumer funds and have also been discussing this with our members. We hope to come to a resolution very soon so that we can ensure the industry can continue at the success rate that it has been.
More than 50 per cent of the market is sales and gift cards in b2b, which includes use in marketing promotions and we want to be sure that businesses continue to use it as part of their incentive and reward
Who decides whether vouchers can be accepted?
A brand loses control over its business decisions if it goes into administration. Where money should be awarded is up to the administrators, although consumers will still associate it with the retailer.
The terms and conditions on vouchers and gift cards are also no longer valid and administrators can decide on the new terms. This could range from fully honouring gift cards, agreeing that they can be used as a part payment – for example for a voucher worth £20 the consumer must spend the same amount or more – placing voucher acceptance under a time limit or time period or not accepting them.
At the point of administration, the consumers become a creditor in a long list along with staff, suppliers, banks and the administrators themselves, which charge a fee. The only law protecting consumers at present is section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, which says the card firm is jointly liable with a retailer if something goes wrong with a purchase as long as the item is bought with a credit card and cost more than £100.


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Judge Judy was recently on William Shatner's new Biography Channel show Raw Nerve, and the two discussed why she doesn't have empathy for violent criminals, why men are "marginal souls," and why women rule.
One of the things I love about Judge Judy Sheindlin is that she exudes the same sort of pro-woman mindset as my mother, which ultimately informed my own feminism. I doubt either woman would identify as a "feminist", but I think that might be because they're actually female supremacists; that women are simply the "better" sex.
When Shatner grilled Sheindlin on her lack of empathy for criminals, she explained that although she understands that there are reasons for people committing crimes, there's never an excuse when victims involved. "If I wouldn't live next to them myself, if I wouldn't let them compromise the safety of my children and grandchildren, who am I, as a judge, to say to some stranger, 'I'll put you back on the street, because I don't live where you live. Your neighborhood has to deal with it.'"

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Oh myyyy, look at these cuties! I have photographed each of them as a newborn, and I do their family photos each year, so I've got an extra soft spot in my heart for these kiddos. I photographed their parents wedding way back in 2008 in Napa Valley, and they later moved to Texas. Each year, their mom Nicole is diligent about scheduling a family portrait sessions. Client-friends like this mean the world to me! Baby Easton is the newest addition to their sweet, sweet fam, and I loved taking his newborn portraits! Here are some of my favorites.Nicole's parents were visiting from California to meet their newest grandchild, so we had to snag a few pix with them as well. I also photographed their daughter Julia's wedding back in 2007 {I believe that was the year – I have a bad memory!}, so I've known this family for awhile and it's always good to see them!If this doesn't look like the most adorable trouble ever, I don't know what does! ;)After family photos outside, we headed back indoors to grab a few more of the kids together and then get Easton oh his own.He was such a precious model for me.Nicole has a small business making custom t-shirts and such. She added Easton's name to this cute elephant and made the cute worded shirts in this post. You can find her on etsy here.Too cute!!Nicole~
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Trump's Wall Threatens 111 Endangered Species | Outside Online
Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act requires any construction project "permitted, funded, or licensed by any federal agency" to be reviewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for endangered species present in the area. To the best of our knowledge, Donald Trump has filed no such request for his proposed border wall. So we did that for him.
"I will build a great wall—and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me—and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words." — Donald Trump
Assuming Trump's wall will run along the entire 1,989-mile long land border the U.S. shares with Mexico and that the construction project will impact a total width of 1,000 feet (access roads, support structures, staging areas, etc), the USFWS estimates that the project will "potentially impact" 111 endangered species, 108 species of migratory bird, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, and an unknown number of protected wetlands.
Source: Trump's Wall Threatens 111 Endangered Species | Outside Online
The area along the southern border of the USA is one of the richest in biodiversity of the entire country. This will be a devastating change. Some architects have said building the fence will take 16 years, let's home that is true and can be undone before it's too late for these precious species.


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It's the dang weekend. A good time. We've been soliciting your Instagram posts and telling you to use the #DriveFreeOrDie hashtag, and now we're going to car gram our way to the weekend with some posts, including a Cappuccino, Islero, Panoz Roadster, Tercel, and a dragon.
(Jalopnik is on Instagram, you're on Instagram, and we're highlighting the best of it all every week using the #DriveFreeOrDie hashtag.)
The Jalopnik account's highlight of the week was running into the new BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra at the 'Ring:
Thank you to everyone who participated! Again, it's not a competition, nor a beauty contest. We just want to see the cars.
We're going to be doing it again next week, so keep using the #DriveFreeOrDie hashtag and we'll keep our eyes peeled for your cool and interesting cars, and all of the stuff you come across on the street. Please only post new content! No reposts! Thanks!!!
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Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's Dress
Today the gown that Audrey Hepburn wore in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's was auctioned off at Christie's auction house in London for $807,000 (that's almost six times the highest sales estimate the dress had before the auction of $98,000 and $138,00).
The Givenchy black satin evening gown is floor length, has a slit on one side and a unique cut out decollete at the back.
Besides designing the clothing for Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's Hubert de Givenchy also designed her clothes for Funny Face, Charade and continued to dress her for the rest of her life. Givenchy also dressed the likes of Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Duchess of Windsor.
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My PC with an Atheros AR9285 can connect to WEP routers but not to WPA routers. I don't undertand why. It see the network but doesn't establish the connection.
I try on Jessie.
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Nothing work.
I tried with Stretch installation, it the same problem, there is something wrong when "keys are shared".
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Optical illusions can be caused by a wide variety of effects. They are interesting, because, when we look at them, they trick our eyes into seeing something that isn't there, even though we know that it doesn't exist. At times, it can serve to amuse us but there are also cases in which an optical illusion can put us in harm's way. It really depends on the circumstances surrounding the situation when you see the illusion.
This optical illusion is unique, and quite interesting. It was created by Kokichi Sugihara from a Japanese university. As the roof on the garage changes position, it appears to change from a corrugated roof to a round roof in the mirror. This type of illusion not only affects the eyes, it also involves the brain. In essence, it is a visual and mathematical illusion in which the image does not convey depth information.
It doesn't matter how many times you look at it, this optical illusion will continue to fool you. Not only is this possible on a scale model garage, it can also exist if you do it at full scale as well. Watch the video and you will see it for yourself.


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A perfect combination of pine trees, mountains and a mysterious lake, make this magical town, as well as being the ideal place to rest and enjoy water sports.
Being city dwellers, it is almost unthinkable not to spend a weekend in a town that attracts by its path, for its rustic details that are mixed with semi urban life that give its cafes and restaurants and the elitist atmosphere that contrasts with life country of some of its inhabitants and neighbors.
Limit to the north with Amanalco Becerra and Donato Guerra, with Zinacantepec to the east and south with Temascaltepec, Zacazonapan and part of Otzoloapan.
This magical town has a beautiful natural setting surrounded by coniferous forests, abounding in pitch pine tree, which can grow to 40 meters high and in the center, an attractive lake formed by the dam reservoir Miguel Aleman. Here you can practice many water sports, including sailing, from table-boats sailing to greater length, boating, kayaking, skiing, fishing, among others.
Valle de Bravo is one of the most important tourist centers of the State of Mexico, because it has all types of accommodation and food services: cabins, trailer park, hotels, restaurants, lodges, golf courses, among others, as well as multiple services such as disco, rental bikes and horses.
On one side of Central Garden is located the Parish of San Francisco de Asis, ancient construction of two ships built by the Franciscans in the 17th century, which preserves inside the baptismal font and the original font of holy water.
The Municipal Market is located on the streets of Independencia and Hidalgo.
Another market that offer different features is the handcraft market, which is located on Avenida Juarez and Peñuelas Street. There you can buy handcrafts made of coffee clay, which is extracted from the mines of Calvary and Barranca Seca.
For dining there is a wide variety of food that meet the expectations even of the most demanding palate, in Los Portales sold tacos, pambazos, tamales, atole and bread baked in a wood oven, besides the traditional turkey mole, pig's head, steam beef, trout and barbecue.
The most common drink is natural pulque, fruit liqueurs typical of the region, such as quince, anise bitter, guava and blackberry.
You can rent boats or take a tour group in one of the yachts that ply the lake's shore, there are restaurants on the boardwalk and other curiously, floating on the banks.
The surroundings of this magical town are ideal for practicing all kinds of adventure sports such as mountaineering, rock climbing, horseback riding, hiking, biking, camping and riding ATVs. Who likes to feel pure adrenaline, may launch in hang gliding and paragliding, which usually start from the top of Cerro de la Cruz from a height of 2500 meters above sea level.
Northwest from Valle the Rock Prince is located. You can walk up doing a walking of about 20 minutes or by car and offers a nice view of the town, the mountains behind the lake and its people. Can also see rustic paintings, sculptures snakes, archaeological and prehispanic ruins.
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Another attraction is the Bosencheve National Park, comprising 15,000 hectares, the area is covered by forests of conifers and adorned by two temporal gaps, called Green & Dry.
We recommend you visit the Cascade Avándaro, located on the road to the village of the same name, and 10 minutes from junction with the road from The Saucos.
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Adoption Tax Credit 2018
What is the Adoption Tax Credit and how can adoptive parents claim it on their 2018 taxes? How much is the Adoption Tax Credit and what types of adoption are covered? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Rebecca Wilmoth and Josh Kroll about the Adoption Tax Credit 2018.
The tax code provides an adoption credit of up to $13,810 of qualified adoption expenses (in 2018) for each child adopted, whether via public foster care, domestic private adoption, or international adoption.
- The amount for 2018 is $13,810. It is a non-refundable tax credit. What is a "credit" and how does it differ from a deduction or some other form of tax savings?
- If you get a tax refund every year, how would you use the Adoption Tax Credit?
- What type of adoptions are included or excluded? Stepparent adoption? Embryo adoption? Same-sex partner second parent adoption? Unmarried heterosexual second parent adoption?
- Can you get credit for each adoption you complete even if completed in the same year? What about adopting siblings at the same time?
- What is a Qualified Adoption Expense for purposes of the Adoption Tax Credit?
- Are birth mother expenses (or expectant mother expenses) allowed as a qualified adoption expense?
- Are failed domestic adoption attempt expenses allowed under the Adoption Tax Credit?
- Are failed international adoption expenses allowed under the Adoption Tax Credit?
- When can you claim the Adoption Tax Credit?
- Domestic infant: If we have adoption expenses during 2018, but do not finalize an adoption in that year can I claim those expenses for my 2018 return or do I have to wait until my 2019 return?
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- Special Needs Adoption: How does the Adoption Tax Credit differ for adoptions from foster care?
- What income level is excluded from claiming the Adoption Tax Credit in 2018?
- What if you can't use all the credit in one year because you don't have $13,810 in federal tax liability? How long can the credit be carried over?
- Will the Adoption Tax Credit offset self employment tax or will it only offset income tax liability? How are employer benefits for adoption handled for tax purposes under the Adoption Tax Credit?
- How does the Adoption Tax Credit work in conjunction with employer benefits?
- What type of documentation should you submit with your taxes? What type of documentation should you keep in your records?
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6 Responses to Adoption Tax Credit 2018
What is adoption credit i adopted my 5 grandchildren myself 3 yrs ago. Is there is a return for this
My wife showed me this website and I listened to the online broadcast. We completed our 2nd international adoption late last year. The prior one was is 2013. I have been using tax software to prepare the forms and we typically get refunds based on our deductions. I was able to get the adoption credit in 2014 and 2015, but never got the full amount of expenses credited. The software never said I could. The broadcast mentioned 5 years though. Can I still get credit from 2013 now? And can I expect to full credits for this latest one going forward? If I can be pointed toward some resources, that would be great. Thank you.
My question is that I was adopting domestically and incurred several expenses in 2013-2014. The mom renigged the adoption and the child was returned back to the mother. Fast forward to 4 years later. The same child was put into DHS custody in which we were his foster family and successfully adopted in 2018 as a special needs (adoption assistance agreement). Are we eligible for the tax credit from the failed adoption in 2014 because it was domestic and we incurred fees. Or, because it is the same child, are we only allowed to have the one tax credit.


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What's in the exam?
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Practical Session 2 Update - USA
We appreciate how much the cancellation of our exams has affected learners And we are working hard on solutions to ensure learners can gain their qualifications at the earliest opportunity.
However, on the basis of official and local advice we will be cancelling Session 2 Practical exams scheduled for October-December. Our Representatives will provide further guidance in due course. We are very sorry for the impact on teachers and candidates and we will continue to monitor the situation. Thank you for your loyalty and support while these restrictions remain in place.
We will be gradually rolling out remotely-assessed Performance Grades https://gb.abrsm.org/en/performancegrades/ internationally starting before the end of 2020 and will share exam dates and booking periods soon.
Music Theory November Update - USA
We are still in the process of confirming with our Representatives whether Music Theory exams can take place in every area, based on local official advice. However, we can confirm that the Theory exams in the following areas below have been cancelled. All other areas are currently scheduled to hold a Music Theory exam, however we are monitoring the situation closely and will be in touch if anything changes.
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There are four sections to a Jazz Trumpet / Cornet / Flugelhorn exam, giving candidates the opportunity to demonstrate their skills through prepared work and musicianship tests.
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Turns out, employers are doing a lot to conserve and protect the environment and natural resources – at least according to TRC's online panelists we surveyed this spring.
Nearly three-quarters of our panelists who are employed full or part-time told us their employer was actively doing at least one of five activities related to conservation and energy preservation. The larger the employer, the greater the participation. While we can't project our findings to corporate America as a whole, this is certainly encouraging news for our planet.But as keen as our panelists are in crediting their employers for taking these steps, they are not above questioning their motives for doing so – the majority says these acts are undertaken as a way to save money – as opposed to protecting the environment. Perhaps a conjoint analysis could be employed to determine employers' true motivations.
So for now, what does this mean? Well, for starters, we need to continue to look for ways to highlight the short and long-term financial benefits associated with pro-conservation behaviors. If a company can protect the environment and save money doing it, it's a win for everyone.
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Minh Man Nguyen is a civil engineer from ESTP (Paris), graduated architect from both France (ENSA Paris La Villette) and USA (Georgia Tech). He now teaches a class on the use of digital tools at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture. At ENSA Paris-Malaquais School, he coordinates the digital tools workshops and teaches studios in the Digital Knowledge department.
He cumulated 10 years of professional experience in numerous firms, including the Atlanta firm Mack Scogin Merill Elam Architecture. He also joined the structural engineering office RFR, located in Paris, where he especially worked in the "Complex Geometry" department, among others. There, he contributed to the University of Vienna research program about optimization algorithms and their application in architecture, and additionally worked on highly sophisticated shapes, such as the LVMH Fundation. In 2011, Minh Man Nguyen co-founded the architecture firm WAO. He also co-founded WoMa, la fabrique de quartier in early 2014, a place promoting the collaborative use of skills, tools, and work.


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White Pike (Seathwaite) 598m [Hill]
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rock 10m NNE of cairn
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Last Bagged on 5th Nov 2018 12:51pm by bpackingbongos
First Bagged on 23rd Nov 2013 9:28am by Leerockwell15
Maps to White Pike (Seathwaite)
Off for a nite under the stars(G) munro277
20th - 21st Feb 2015
A short overnighter to see how this new Mariposa lightweight rucksack carries
Beacons: 1521 | Distance: 17.9 miles | Height Gain: 7,566 ft
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Backpacking and wildcamping some of the finest fells in the Southern Lakes
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A round of southern fells from Coniston.
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Marsha Ambrosius covers Sade and JoJo covers Anita Baker. What?!?!? I am in love. Marsha Ambrosius released an amazing remake of Sade's 1988 classic "Stronger Than Pride" and she definitely put a modern twist to a timeless classic. Now what can I say about Ms. JoJo's remake of the GREAT Anita Baker's 1986 classic "Caught Up In The Rapture" besides LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! She is serving the kids and yes we have no choice but to deal with it. These 2 songs should be downloaded immediately.
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Unfortunately, the nature of what CARM does means that it will attract those who like to hide behind anonymous nicknames and spew out their vitriolic condemnation of anything Christian--sometimes with foul language. This can't be helped when confronting the various degrees of denial of God's truth. Still, why open the CARM videos to comments? There are three main reasons:
- To provide Christians an opportunity for dialogue with unbelievers.
- To learn the attitudes and reasoning of unbelievers so as to better respond to them.
- To increase the popularity of CARM by exposing CARM to more people that is promoted through the comment interaction.
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Z Club NY takes the Zumba® experience to another level by constantly adding locations that are convenient for our customers and hosting special events such as theme-based classes, Zumba® in the club events, and other. Let New York City be your dancing ground!
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Enjoy an extended Zumba® experience and an opportunity to dance with Z Club NY and guest instructors. Our master class series bring you a variety of new types of music, theme based classes, and fun locations. You are guaranteed to meet different people and have lots of healthy fun.
Zumba® Parties
Z Club NY organizes nightclub Zumba® parties where we take the workout from the studio to popular NYC hotspots. Come and party with us; whether you are a Zumba professional or you have never taken a class before. Experience the party in a party setting, let loose, and just have fun!
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Even as instructors we are always improving our technique, and now you can too. Come and experience our international dance sessions lead by guest instructors and learn the basics of the dances that are incorporated in Zumba® choreographies such as salsa, samba, belly dancing, African, Masala Bhangra, and more.
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Famous brand US Polo Assn has been around for over 100 years. The story of its creation is directly related to the popularization in Europe and America polo game, which was founded in 1969 in England and became a game for the wealthy, strong and self-sufficient who value convenience, comfort and high quality.
In those times many as were representatives of the bourgeois elite and the aristocrats who had special requirements for the things that they use in everyday life. Thats why it is not surprising that on the market of sportswear a new, unfilled group was appeared. It was then, back in 1890 and was founded by US trademark of expensive clothes polo.
One of the most famous outfits for this game are so-called T-shirt "Polo", which is a model of T-shirts with a collar and three buttons in front. Company US Polo Assn was specialized in manufacturing of this type of t-shirts and other types of clothing polo.
Buyers of brand US Polo Assn are differed by active lifestyle, strong stance, a sense of elegance and style. Clothing of brand is equally appropriate in the office on an important meeting, and in an informal atmosphere everyday.


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Gloucestershire County Council Traffic Signals Maintenance Contract
We are seeking tenders for our contract for the maintenance of existing traffic signalling equipment in Gloucestershire.
United Kingdom-Gloucester: Control, safety or signalling equipment for roads
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Shire Hall
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Contact person: Mr Mike McGowan
Telephone: +44 1452328900
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NUTS code: UKK13
Internet address(es):Main address: www.gloucestershire.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: www.gloucestershire.gov.uk
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Traffic Signals Maintenance Contract.
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We are seeking tenders for our contract for the maintenance of existing traffic signalling equipment in Gloucestershire.
To ensure that signal installations continue to provide safe passage for road users at junctions and safe crossing points for pedestrians and other vulnerable road users.
To maintain traffic signal equipment to a standard that minimises the number of equipment failures and associated repair times, thus avoiding delays and safety risks to road users.
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We are seeking tenders for our contract for the maintenance of existing traffic signalling equipment in Gloucestershire.
This is a 5 year contract with the option for 2 x 2 year extensions to a total of 9 years. Tenderers are encouraged to bid for 2 variant bids. Variant 1 is for a 9 year contract, Variant 2 is to quote to replace existing equipment to the tenderers own equipment to reduce maintenance costs. Full details are contained within the tender documents.
The estimated value of 7 950 000 GBP includes the potential capital investment required by an acceptable Variant 2. The estimated contract value for Mandatory bids and for Variant 1 bids is 4 950 000 GBP.
Due to the confidential nature of some of the tender information, a Confidentiality Agreement must be competed and signed by each tenderer before they can receive the full tender documentation.
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2 further 24 month options to extend, to a total of 9 years.
Tenderers can propose a Variant bid for the contract length to be 9 years without Options.
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Gloucestershire County Council.
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Local Harvest Initiative
As a land grant university, UNH is committed to supporting and advancing the state's agricultural economy. Small, family farms are part of our state's heritage and play a vital role in our economy and culture. The UNH Local Harvest initiative raises awareness and educates students, staff and community members about our local agricultural landscape and its role in sustaining our physical and economical health now and in the future.
Local Harvest Feast
Held each fall, the Local Harvest Feast is an evening of fine dining with mouth-watering creations, produced from local foods. Open to the public and students alike, this hugely popular event shows why supportive local agriculture and food producers is so important. During the evening, there are opportunities to meet local producers and browse their presentation tables.
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- "Butternut squash ravioli is my reason for living! Soooo...good!"
- "Dinner was super! Thank you guys so much! I'm super full and am probably going into a food coma, a good food coma."
- "Great local food! Love it :)"
- "The apricot ginger sauce for the ham was wicked good!"
- "It was fantastic!!! Can we please have more events like this!!."
- "I like it because of all the fresh/healthy food!"
- "Local Fest was epic, good job Philly crew."
- "Philly-Excellent job on Local Harvest! It's one of my favorite meals of the year-even better than Thanksgiving!! My personal favorites were the butternut squash ravioli (make it a regular!) and the apple crisp w/ice cream. Although I'm disappointed about losing Thursday late night, it looks like things are shaping up to be another great year here. The amatraciana Sauce out tonight is very good! Keep it on the menu!!!


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What can be worse than mile-long traffic and the insipidly annoying "fah-lah-lah-lah-lah" that seemed to follow us everywhere we go these days?
It's having to brave the long, frustrating lines while trying to score "tax-free" PX goods on your local duty free.
The little sister just arrived from a four-day seminar held in Malaysia and brilliantly proposed we head out to Duty Free to "check things out". Because I am raring to get my hands on gummy candies and super sized oatmeal packs and six pack soaps, and maybe a case of corned beef for the house, we all trooped to the local duty free which is about a good PHP200 bucks by cab away from the house.
Upon seeing the long line of vehicles waiting to get inside the premises, I know we are in for an adventure. Inside was pure pandemonium because people just don't wanna use the chairs prepared by Duty Free for them. Hundreds of people were standing, milling on the small lobby (emphasis on small) while the chairs in front of the counter remained unoccupied. In fairness to Duty Free, the calling of assigned numbers were fast and breezy, and the staff seemed efficient in processing the shoppingeras. It's the people I don't get. They mill away and block walk ways and entrance ways while in front of them, chairs were waiting to get filled.
Inside, there no freaking carts because apparently all returning Pinoys and their next and next of kin were burning money that day. In order for you to secure a freaking cart, you had to go outside, past the exit doors and wait for those loading their finished groceries inside their vehicles then you get the carts and lug it inside the duty free — past the exit doors, past the grocery exit and up the rounded thingie leading to the department store. That's how you get a cart and lose 20 pounds in the process.
Another thing I hate about the local duty free is the building's lay-out. Honestly, I have to give it to the guy who did the lay-out of the place. Boy, you really have to pass by everything before you get to have your groceries.You have to get pass the booze, the munchies, the perfumes, the shoes, the clothes and the toys (pray you don't have a kid with you) before you reach grocery. That's call purchase by temptation. But for someone who just wants to get her supply of huge bottle of Head and Shoulders, it's just pure torture.
Know what, the thing is–the Duty Free staff is actually doing their best to give good exceptional service in spite the claustrophobic surroundings and the shitty lay-out. The cashiers were quick and very efficient. The guards were helpful and not "in-your-face". Going home, we were able to get a cab in 15 minutes.
You know what bugged me? The people…my fellow shoppers to be exact. What is it with our f*cked off perceived sense of entitlement that makes us act like morons? People don't even know how to say excuse me or please or sorry? I don't care if you've been to the US, Japan, Dubai or wherever in the world that may be but if you act like some hot-shot with execrable manners, then you are nothing more than a pile of crap. Just because you earn your money in greenbacks or in some other foreign currency makes you better than any of us. It does not give you any excuse to act high and mighty. It does not give you any excuse to be uncouth or act rude to other people.


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Sales and Sales Management are almost always seen as some of the most critical jobs Performing in the critical Processes of any Enterprise – and therefore worthy of the time and attention and bucks it might take to get their Learning right by getting the Training and Performance Support right. So many of the CADs – Curriculum Architecture Design efforts I've done over the years were focused on those Target Audiences.
Here is a listing of those that I directly did – many others were done by my business partners and my staff and the staffs of clients where I was brought in to train and sometimes certify their capabilities and competence in the Analysis efforts, and CAD Design efforts, and the Project Planning and Management efforts for this level in ISD.
CAD is one of three levels of ISD in PACT…
PACT is an acronym…
PACT is done for the sake of the Business, for the sake of the Enterprise – NOT for the sake of Learning. It's done for ROI.
Imagine that the daily sales goal for 3500 sales people is $750.00 per day.
Imagine that over 50% are actually operating "way below" that – and that the average is closer to about $450.00 per day. Imagine also that some – more than a few – are selling at around $2200.00 per day. Every day.
What's the PIP – Performance Improvement Potential – in dollars (not intangibles)?
3500 x $450 = $ 1,575,000 is what is being generated. Per day.
What if you could get the majority to average at the difference between the current goal – and the top end, what the Master Performers are actually doing, say at: $ 1,450 per day?
3500 x $1450 = $ 5,075,000 – again "per day."
What would that be worth – that future state versus the current state?
$5,075,000 – $1,575,000 = $3,500,000 (per day)
$3,500,000 (per day) x 240 days per year = (wait – no – YOU do the math). The client did.
That's what was being left on the performance table – so to speak.
That's the potential R for the I – as in ROI.
And that's business-speak – something that you should get yourself to be comfortable with if you aren't already. And PLEASE – don't even mention Level 1, or 2, or 3, or 4 evaluation data-sets – unless your version of Results (L4) "is" ROI or ROA or RONA – or whatever other appropriate business metric resonates with your specific client.
Once we did that math with the Project Steering Team present – no one, I mean no one – wanted to get into challenging me about the I in the ROI that I had ball-parked for them.
They just wanted to know how soon could we have the post-efforts done – the MCD in PACT – and have the new content in place and working in training their constant flow of new hires – as they had terrible turnover rates – which would drop once their people got the training they needed to be successful – another benefit.
Plus with some of the content being "appropriately being shared" those maintenance costs would also be dropping – over the life cycle of these 7 sets of curricula.
Below – one of 7 T&D Paths for the Call Center Sales Associates from that one project – there were 7 Sales Regions which previously had 7 totally different sets of curricula – with zero shared content, structure, philosophies, etc.
By the end of the project the amount of content for each of the new 7-sets – had been almost halved – and the focus of the content was not on isolated facts about sales, and products, and regulations, and the systems one had to use to do the job – what you'd get from a whole bunch of bite-sized sets of content (easily distributed on mobile devices or desktops – a collection of modules – but not a modular curriculum) but content that was integrated into and on Sales and the Sales Process. Where "skills building" was happening with each new topic or task added in to the Learners' repertoire each day.
Here is the case study from the effort.
This below – is the Sales Model I created with the team of Master Performers assigned to both the Analysis Team and the Design Team of the CAD effort – a model which was to be "one" of the anchors for the organization of all of the content. Note: many times there are two models that organize the content.
Those Master Performers were then assigned to the MCD efforts (the ADDIE-like level of PACT) and help integrate the next sets of teams (Analysis, Design and Development teams) to build and alpha-test, beta-test and then Pilot-Test the content.
We took the effort through MCD Phase 3 – which was combined with Phase 2 – for this effort – where we handed it off to our client and their people to build out the content – Phase 4. And then we got busy with other projects and other clients.
And – as I've discovered over and over again since the early 1980s – most clients do not want to share the actual changes from the baseline data that I had been made privy to when we started. So I only ask once – and then drop it. We were asked to do more work for this client not long afterwards – which is feedback in itself.
Here is another model – adapted from another Sales CAD project I did from back in the mid-1980s…
Our clients aren't always concerned about how much of the content can be shared within the Enterprise with other audiences (and that's a dang shame) – but I am always concerned with that – and a promoter of that.
For I like to think of myself as a good steward of shareholder equity – for each of my clients and their shareholders.
I don't believe in training for the sake of training, or for the sake of learning. I see it for the sake of the Stakeholders – and mostly for the Shareholders – who like to invest a buck for much more than a buck in return.
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Upstream commit: 607bfbf2d55dd1cfe5368b41c2a81a8c9ccf4723 When selecting a new window, tcp_select_window() tries not to shrink the offered window by using the maximum of the remaining offered window size and the newly calculated window size. The newly calculated window size is always a multiple of the window scaling factor, the remaining window size however might not be since it depends on rcv_wup/rcv_nxt. This means we're effectively shrinking the window when scaling it down. The dump below shows the problem (scaling factor 2^7): - Window size of 557 (71296) is advertised, up to 3111907257: IP 184.108.40.206.33000 > 220.127.116.11.33000: . ack 3111835961 win 557 <...> - New window size of 514 (65792) is advertised, up to 3111907217, 40 bytes below the last end: IP 18.104.22.168.33000 > 184.108.40.206.33000: . 3113575668:3113577116(1448) ack 3111841425 win 514 <...> The number 40 results from downscaling the remaining window: 3111907257 - 3111841425 = 65832 65832 / 2^7 = 514 65832 % 2^7 = 40 If the sender uses up the entire window before it is shrunk, this can have chaotic effects on the connection. When sending ACKs, tcp_acceptable_seq() will notice that the window has been shrunk since tcp_wnd_end() is before tp->snd_nxt, which makes it choose tcp_wnd_end() as sequence number. This will fail the receivers checks in tcp_sequence() however since it is before it's tp->rcv_wup, making it respond with a dupack. If both sides are in this condition, this leads to a constant flood of ACKs until the connection times out. Make sure the window is never shrunk by aligning the remaining window to the window scaling factor. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <firstname.lastname@example.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <firstname.lastname@example.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Sperry Tree Care Co.
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Eugene, OR 97404
Accurate diagnosis is critical to the success of any management program.
Sperry Tree Care Co. consulting arborists, Nathaniel Sperry and Alby Thoumsin, have nearly 40 years combined experience diagnosing tree problems in the area surrounding Eugene and Springfield, Oregon.
We choose to manage pest and disease problems through cultural rather than chemical means. This means creating an environment that will support healthy trees and plants without creating dependence on expensive, toxic pesticides. This can be as simple as planting the right tree in the right location, paying attention to soil qualities and correct application of fertilizers and irrigation. For example, here in the Willamette Valley, spring rain can cause leaf problems. Pruning or selective thinning to increase sun exposure and air flow can sometimes improve this problem.
Pesticide spray programs are usually very profitable to the companies that sell them and often kill beneficial organisms as well. Think before you sign up for any spray program. You do have options.


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The Saga Faction Pack adds a new playable faction to Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Fall of the Samurai, previously only available in the Limited Edition, for use in single or multiplayer Campaign modes and Custom and Multiplayer Battles.
Centuries of trade with outsiders has given the people of Saga an understanding of foreign and modern ways, allowing them to adopt new military technology quickly.Faction Traits:Gunnery (+5 to the accuracy of all artillery pieces)
Industry (+5 to growth from industrial buildings)
Engineering (-15% reduction to the recruitment and upkeep costs of ships)
Rangaku (Trade with the Western Powers has been established)History of the Saga
The Modernisers
The Saga domain is ruled by Nabeshima Mochizuru, the latest in a line of daimyo who were given this territory after the Tokugawa won the vicious civil war of the Sengoku Jidai. The Nabeshima did well by being sensible enough to join the Tokugawa cause while there was still some doubt over the result. They did not wait until the Battle of Sekigahara to decide where their true loyalties lay.
The domain includes the port of Nagasaki, a valuable resource for any daimyo. It is here that Japan has its only official trade with the West, and it is here that interesting ideas arrive in the country. Perhaps this knowledge of the harshness of the outside world is what has convinced the Nabeshima to throw their weight behind the Imperial Court rather than the Shogun.
The Nabeshima clan can rely on a few advantages in the coming struggle: they have Western connections and trade that is far ahead of any other domain. In turn, this learning allows them to be artillery experts, and have good shipbuilding and industrial facilities. The modern world has much to offer to those who would embrace it. Interestingly, the historical Nabeshima Mochizuru eventually resigned his position and left Japan to study in England.
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Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor, or AMD equivalent (with SSE2)
Memory: 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive: 32GB free hard disk space
Screen Resolution: 1024x768 minimum
Recommended:OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
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Memory: 2GB RAM (XP), 4GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
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Angry Gran Run
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Publisher: Box10.com
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Angry Gran Run is the smash hit mobile game now available online! Angry Gran has been locked away in the Angry Asylum, she's very angry and she's been plotting her spectacular escape. Now she needs YOU to guide her through the streets once she's busted out! Make sure you avoid all the obstacles and try and collect the cash to pay for upgrades.
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Finnegan's Wake:I haven't read it, but then, I don't actually want to.Yep. That pretty much sums it up.
What is this craving, this yearning, that we call love? Well, let's look to literature for answers. In the works of William Shakespeare, love is a life-defining event, a sudden all-consuming passion, a realization of adulthood, and also a tragic miasma from which many will never return. In Shakespeare's world, love was not safe. Romeo and Juliet did not survive it; neither did Hamlet or Ophelia, nor Lord and Lady Macbeth, nor Othello and Desdemona.
These were Shakespeare's most powerful and memorable characters, all of them doomed. But Shakespeare also wrote comedies, in which he generally allowed his characters to live. My favorite is "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a vast and perfect riot of romance and human error.
This play is set in Athens, Greece at a pagan festival celebrating the summer solstice (an ancient tradition echoed in a variety of other artistic and cultural forms, from the "Walpurgis Night" scenes in Goethe's "Faust" to today's Burning Man). The entire city is caught up in the excitement of the coming festival, including a royal family, a comical troupe of unprofessional actors attempting to put on a play, and four young lovers who run into a dark forest and get lost (predating "The Blair Witch Project" by 400 years).
What these mortals don't know is that the summer solstice has also filled the forest with mischievous spirits, super-beings, fairies and magical creatures of various types. The spirit-creatures are mostly oblivious to the mortals, but the fairy king Oberon and his assistant Puck conjure up a scheme that crosses into the other world. Potions and spells abound, most of them missing their intended targets, and complete chaos breaks out in the middle of the night. The four young lovers become tragically confused about who loves who, while a dull-minded and unimpressive actor gets turned into a donkey and somehow ends up making love with the fairy queen Titania, all the while attended by forest pixies with names like Mustard Seed, Cobweb, Peas-Blossom and Moth, in what is certainly the most luxurious moment of his life.
By morning, it's all forgotten, and the festival goes on. We are made to understand the vulnerability of all human beings -- from humble townspeople to vapid young lovers to grand rulers of the spirit world -- to the mysteries of the dark night. Love carries no death sentence here, and the moral of the play is that we do best to simply succumb to our urges and inner spells when they hit us. As if we ever had a choice.
Both Shakespeare's tragedies and his comedies reflect the awesome scale of love, the way it blooms hugely in the human soul. I guess I know a little about this because, a few years ago, I skeptically found myself falling in love with a person whose charms managed to knock out all my defenses. I'm not scared of much in this world, but I'm smart enough to be scared of love, because I know how much power it holds. As in Shakespeare's forest, for me love remains a magical spell, a mysterious opening into a world of pure emotion and no logic, a realm of intoxicating confusion that is as delicious as it is dizzying.
So, even though I usually try to avoid hokey holidays, I need to send a shout-out today to that special someone who is out there, lost with me in the Athenian woods.
And I'd like to ask you: what writer, book, poem, play or quote best represents the meaning of love in your life, and in your world?
flower of this purple dye,
hit with cupid's archery,
sink in apple of his eye
when his love he doth espy
let her shine as gloriously
as the venus of the sky
when thou wakest, if she be by,
beg of her for remedy
captain of our fairy band,
helena is here at hand;
and the youth, mistook by me,
pleading for a lover's fee,
shall we their fond pageant see?
lord, what fools these mortals be
Love--I particularly and fantastically have always loved Pablo Neruda's words of love. While tirelessly infinite when discussing the finite I find his touching use of language easy, if not far too beautiful. I know, on this day of a saint I will never meet, I have found a love that has allowed me to be lost without caring what the end of the road will be--I care only about the hunt, the journey, and the hand I will hold on my way.Happy Valentine's to all,KateSonnet XXVPablo NerudaBefore I loved you, Love, nothing was my own;I wavered through the streets, among objects:nothing mattered or had a name:the world was made of air, which waited.I knew rooms full of ashes,tunnels where the moon lived,rough warehouses that growled Get lost,questions that insisted in the sand.Everything was empty, dead, mute,fallen, abandoned, and decayed:inconceivably alien, it allbelonged to someone else-to no one:till your beauty and your povertyfilled the autumn plentiful with gifts.
Sex Without Love, Ferlinghetti, +1Sex Without Love--Sharon Olds How do they do it, the ones who make lovewithout love? Beautiful as dancers,gliding over each other like ice-skatersover the ice, fingers hookedinside each other's bodies, facesred as steak, wine, wet as thechildren at birth whose mothers are going togive them away. How do they come to thecome to the come to the God come to thestill waters, and not lovethe one who came there with them, lightrising slowly as steam off their joinedskin? These are the true religious,the purists, the pros, the ones who will notaccept a false Messiah, love thepriest instead of the God. They do notmistake the lover for their own pleasure,they are like great runners: they know they are alonewith the road surface, the cold, the wind,the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-vascular health--just factors, like the partnerin the bed, and not the truth, which is thesingle body alone in the universeagainst its own best time.The below, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, From Coney Island of the Mind, has been translated into 20 languages.cast up the heart flops over gasping lovefoolish fish which tries to draw its breath from flesh of airand no one there to hear its death among the sad busheswhere the world rushes by in a blather of asphalt and delayChet Baker's Funny Valentine's about's what's going on with me now, sometimes.
Nice ... thanks WW.
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That's really moving, Kairo -- thanks for posting it!
Infernal DesireI WANDER all night in my vision,Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping....I too pass from the night,I stay a while away, O night, but I return to you again, and love you.---------Those are two segments from papa Walt's 'The Sleepers' the second part is what immediately struck me as I thought of love in poetry. though I might not know why.I thought some more on the subject and dragged my milkcrate of records out of the closet. From therein I withdrew my Cummings records and put him on. Turning and turning in the widening gyre. oh wait... "sweet spring is yourtime is my time is ourtime for springtime is lovetimeand viva sweet love"(all the merry little birds areflying in the floating in thevery spirits singing inare winging in the blossoming)lovers go and lovers comeawandering awonderingbut any two are perfectlyalone there's nobody else alive(such a sky and such a suni never knew and neither did youand everybody never breathedquite so many kinds of yes)not a tree can count his leaveseach herself by openingbut shining who by thousands meanonly one amazing thing(secretly adoring shylytiny winging darting floatingmerry in the blossomingalways joyful selves are singing)"sweet spring is yourtime is my time is ourtime for springtime is lovetimeand viva sweet love"-eddie estlin cummings therewrit.The sentiment, at least, is positive. Oh love is sweet and a song and he conveys it more within his many images, pages and ideas. There's the sexy car poem... probably lacking on the love front. And 'anyone lived in a pretty how town' is a heartrending fable. If you really want to think about it you could mention Roland Barthes' 'A Lover's Discourse' or even you could mention Kierkegaard ... if you can pronounce it.But you're better off to look through Gregory Corso and Frank O'Hara ... love is found in the poets ... why is that?Actually now that I've gone on too long I recall Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' which may portray a truer portrait of love than any poem. Where the power of love kills and distracts ... the body can keep living long after love has killed you.
CombinedI like my poems about love, although they usually have a doomed ending.I like Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's day". It is cheesy, but the kind of thing you wish you had the guts to say to people you like.I like the lines in Under the Bridge that say "At least I have her love, the city she loves me"And there's a movie called Italian for Beginners that is Danish.I guess maybe because it's in subtitles you have to pay attention closely but they capture the magic of relationships pretty well.I guess combine all this and you get a good love sonnet or something.
Great additions, Mindbum. Good call on Corso, yeah, he wrote some good ones. I was already thinking about Kierkegaard's "Either/Or" (as well as Plato's "Symposium". Haven't read Barthes, though -- I will try that one.
Shakespeare and Chili Peppers ... that's my kind of mix. Thanks Andeh.
CoquettishRoguish: yes I'm also fascinated by that reception of the 'natural interaction', called love, often disguised for human, seemingly conscious eyes as in that quotation from Shakespeare -- but then, the world of today seems (only seems) more complicated, and there are changes over times and age. I'd like intellectual streaks (Sartre, Beauvoir, Nin), revolutionary ones (Kollontai), with the wisdom/solidarity of everyday life (Saroyan), the often rough trade overlay of society's context (Carver, also, partly, House of Leaves), contemplative and wished for, when all is achieved, and said and done, and time on our hands (Ammons, Purdy, Sagan). The reality, yes reality weave of Finnegan's Wake, Jamelah, adapt its melange to the fierce colors of today. Views on love as hard work (Algarin), a bit of actuality and irony (Garp, Woody Allen, Wolfe).I also keep on being carried away by myriads of Rock lyrics, Kinks, Doors, Jefferson Airplane -- Miracles which can be correlated to reality, since youth's burning the liquor of satisfaction, melting together, the trial for consistence between knowledge about hormones and giving in to wicked dangerous romanticism, emotions, Love reign / rain o'er me (Who), declare teleonomic biofunctions and social care and roles, and still fall, fall -- or better off with age and sympathies cool nectar / bitter remedy (and renewal), sharpening the eye once more in sweet consolation.But above all, the voice of Kerouac in Big Sur: "the irrational mortal loneliness is ... raised up like a sacred urn to heaven in the mere fact of the taking off of clothes and clashing wits and bodies in the inexpressibly nervously sad delight of love" "nobody in the world even ever dares to write the true story of love""in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstraction"... giving expression to that old natural circle, but as well comprising hesitation, social functions, and that implicit yearning for transcendence, transdurance, the (ab)solution for / from original sin (rem. Baudelaire, cp. Neruda, Hikmet) in love, in a Catholic-tender-sensual-meditative-ecstatic way that thrills me, resounds in me: all my experience and sensations. I think that in our present societies we still have much to change to be able to address love in such a way, to make it a collective ritual liberating force, and there are even intensely regressive forces at work, romantic and idealising rigidity, power motivation, possession - beyond rational balance and fair social responsibility.Longing for the final blurring of lines, of frontiers like in that Midsummer Night's Dream, the game of existence, reaching out, converging, forgiving in older age even, give us some peace, insight, in time, for mortal sins.
Song of Solomon, old boy...Levi, your enthusiasm for Shakespeare is contagious. You have an appreciation and understanding of the Bard which I admire.For my reply, I've chosen some excerpts from the Song of Solomon:He says, Oh, that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine, your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out She says, If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me. I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates. O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me! He says, Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies... Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine.She says, With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills...like a gazelle, or a young stag.Now, that's some Old-Testament-school Valentine! I must say, I like the Bible, even if I do cuss and smoke.As much as people want to be logical, sometimes we experience magic that can't be explained. It's been said that in order to love, we have to have free will. Otherwise, we would be like robots. But because we have free will, we can make mistakes. But because of love, we can be forgiven for those mistakes. This demonstrates that love has a lot of 'buts'. That is logical, because I love buts.
Jamelah, that Finnegan is a nice boy. And stable. Very stable.
Excellent poem choices. I like them both.
Neruda and PetrarchIn a workshop I am currently taking we are studying the works of Pablo Neruda and asked to write a poem that riffs off of his early but most famous works on love, a subject I find very difficult to write about.While reading, I was struck by how the conventional tropes of love poetry dating back to the troubadors still pervade the modernist works.So I choose a canzone from Petrarch that picks up the theme of being shipwrecked by love:Passa la nave mia colma d'oblioPer aspro mare, a mezza notte il verno,Enfra Scilla et Caribdi; et al governoSiede l signore, anzi l nimico mio.A ciascun remo un penser pronto et rioChe a tempesta e l fin par ch'abbi a scherno;La vela rompe un vento humido eternoDi sospir, di speranze et di desio.Pioggia di lagrimar, nebbia de sdegniBagna et rallenta le gia stanche sarte,Che son d'error con ingnorantia attorto.Celansi i duo mei dolci usati segni;Morta fra l'onde e la ragion et l'arte,Tal ch'incomincio a desperar del porto.My ship laden with oblivionPasses through harsh seas at midnight in winterBetween Scylla and Carybdis, and at the helmSits my lord, rather my enemy.At each oar a thought hasty and cruel That scorns the tempest and the end;The sail and a wet, eternal windOf sighs, hopes, and desires break each other;A rain of tears, a fog of disdainDrenches and loosens the already tired ropesWhich are made of error entwined with ignorance.Hidden are my two usual sweet stars;Reason and art, dead among the waves,Such that I am beginning to despair of the port.
Last PoemThere is one love poem that makes me shake. It was written by the French poet Robert Desnos. He was arrested for resistance activity during the Nazi occupation, and sent to Auschwitz. In 1945, a few days after liberation, Desnos died of typhoid fever in Theresienstadt. On his body they found a revision of a poem Desnos had written to his wife years before. These words are among the last he ever wrote.I have so fiercely dreamed of youAnd walked so far and spoken of you so,Loved a shade of you so hardThat now I've no more left of you.I'm left to be a shade among the shadesA hundred times more shade than shadeTo be shade cast time and time again into your sun-transfigured life.
Love songsTalking about love I can't avoid in first place love songs. Some of them old love songs that I know since a long time. I love these somehow bare-direct love songs:-- Seminare by Ser' Gir'n-- Canci'n del pinar by Fandermole-- Love by John Lennon-- Meu bem, meu mal; Queixa, Surpresa by Caetano Veloso-- Puente by Gustavo Cerati(There are more...)
I also found Neruda and some lines by Petrarca great.
does it for me, Bill.why bother to write love poetry when these rhapsodies sing and have sung us for so long
utterly sadwhat's to say?
Oh, man. That is heavy with no doubt as to the honesty of it.
I'm wondering what Jack meant when he said, "Nobody in the world even ever dares to write the true story of love." What does it mean to you? I'm just curious.
Tristran and IsoldeIn the story, Isolde is promised to be married to King Mark, who sends Tristran to fetch isolde. Since it's an arranged marriage, Isolde's mother makes a love potion so that Isolde will not be in a loveless marriage. However, on accident, Tristran and Isolde, thinking the love potion is wine, drink it and instantly fall in love. Isolde's maid finds out, and says to Tristran: "you've drunk your death." And he replies (paraphrasing): "if what you mean by my death is the love I have for Isolde, that is my life. If what you mean is the penalty I shall suffer when Mark finds out (beheading), I willingly accept that. But, if what you mean by my death is eternal damnation in the fie pits of hell, I accept that too."
Nice one ...
Songs of Solomon, Reprise.The Songs of Solomon are wonderful earthy parts of "the Bible". They have staying power in my mind, too.


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Back now with DAY TO DAY. Segregated schools may be a thing of the past, but segregated proms are not, at least not at Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia. This past weekend, for the first time ever the school held a racially integrated prom. Josephine Bennet of member station WMUM in Macon, Georgia has more.
JOSEPHINE BENNET: Turner County is named after Henry Turner, a captain in the confederate army. In the past, black and white students held private proms. The school has not sponsored its own event since 1971, when desegregation took effect.
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BENNET: Senior class president James Hall(ph) shows up for this year's prom in a white tuxedo with his date on one arm. Hall says the idea of a unified prom was a dream of the students.
Mr. JAMES HALL (Senior Class President, Turner County High School): Last year, we went to our own - well, when I say we, I mean the African-American kids. We have a prom and the Caucasian kids have a prom. At our prom, we go to our prom. You know, it was fun, but you know, it's not as good as it could've been with everybody, all your friends, the entire school.
BENNET: Cheryl Nichols(ph) looks like any other high school senior on prom night. Wearing a sequined gown, she has her hair pulled back in a bun. She says a group of white kids held their own prom last weekend, which she attended. Some of those kids will not be at tonight's prom.
Ms. CHERYL NICHOLS (Senior, Turner County High School): They are like because my mommy and daddy, you know, they don't agree with being with the colored people, which, you know, I think it's crazy, but you know, if you still live at with your parents, you kind of still have to abide by their rules.
BENNET: For students like Tiffany Gardner(ph), last week's prom was more about tradition.
Ms. TIFFANY GARDNER (Student, Turner County High School): I guess it was normal because that's how we all grew up. I think it's going to be great. I think everybody's going to get along and it's going to be fun because we're all just - we all grew up together. We all went to school together, so we get to have a prom together.
BENNET: School superintendent Ray Jordan graduated from Turner County High in the late '70s. He says the private proms have never been an issue.
Mr. JAY JORDAN (Superintendent, Turner County High School): We don't think the system was broke. There was no controversy. We had students of different races sharing their prom pictures and so forth from the individual proms. Our kids got along. They just chose not to party together.
BENNET: According to principal Chad Stone, 150 of the 174 kids eligible to come to this year's prom showed up. This is his first year as principal of Turner County High. He says when the story reached the rest of the world, the donations starting coming in from as far away as Afghanistan. The $5,000 in extra funds made it possible for him to buy 20 iPods to give away as door prizes and have a jump-start on next year's prom.
Mr. CHAD STONE (Principal, Turner County High School): The kids here in our senior class are very close kids. You know, they've been very successful in the classroom with doing outstanding on test scores across the state, and that's the type of kids we have. They've been very successful on the athletic field, playing together, so why not let's still be successful and have a school prom. I think you're going to see a lot of things change over the next few years.
BENNET: Outsiders were not allowed inside the prom. Noriega McKeller(ph) stepped out for a little fresh air and said things were going great inside.
Mr. NORIEGA McKELLER (Student, Turner County High School): We're in there partying, doing what we've got to do, everybody dancing with each other. It's real nice, it's real nice.
BENNET: Those sentiments are echoed by other kids as they leave the high school gym tired by happy. The girls carry their high heels in their hands, wearing their boyfriends' tuxedo jackets to ward off the chill of the night air, and if the smiles on their faces are any indication, the prom will be back next year. For NPR News, I'm Josephine Bennet.
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