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I love the split sides with buttons on the sweater...they give the simple sweater a bit of interest.
As I noted in my last post, it was about 88 degrees the day these photos were taken. Had it been cooler, I would've layered a bit more...probably adding one of RT's fitted button-ups underneath the sweater. Oh well, God bless Texas weather!
Wear it with jeans, leggings, or over a dress as I've done here. And if you're on the hunt for the perfect under-sweater tee...I highly suggest getting a Bella Luxx Roll Cuff Tunic. It has a nice long length so it's great over leggings and skinny jeans.
My dress is Rick Owens (it's technically a tee and I normally wear it with leggings, but it was too hot), the leopard scarf is from Topshop, my boots are Michael Kors (from a few years ago), and my bag is Chanel. I'm posing next to Paciugo's decadent gelato case, which is downstairs in the theater...
I hope you're not too exhausted by all of this fashion talk...I know this isn't a fashion blog :)


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By John Craig, Mark Skwarek and Lily & Honglei
During the Post-World War Two era, the American economy thrived, as did organized labor, which gave rise to an unprecedented middle class in this country. Big cities and small towns, like Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, boasted manufacturing workforces that were second to none in the world.
In the 1970's, in an effort to cut cost and boost profits, much of this manufacturing moved south to "right-to-work" states. A "right-to-work" law is a statute that prohibits agreements between labor unions and employers that make membership or payment of union dues a condition of employment.
Unsatisfied with the significant cost savings of the low paid, non-organized labor force of the South, multinational corporations pressed hard for trade agreements which would significantly ease labor restrictions in the unregulated labor markets abroad.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, was signed into law on January 1, 1994, giving rise to the Maquiladoras of Northern Mexico. Maquiladoras are manufacturing operations in free trade zones, where factories import material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then re-export the products, often back to the country of origin.
Like the 19th century "mill girls" from the textile mills of New England, the Maquiladoras attract young women from rural areas, in this case from across Latin America.
Vulnerable and often alone, these conditions gave rise to the Las Muertas de Ciudad Juárez, the violent unsolved rapes and murders of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas.
By the 2000s, Deng Xiaoping's policies of economic Reform and Opening began an even more unprecedented migration of manufacturing and assembly jobs to China. Supported in part by an aggressive and systematic suppression of the value of the Yuan, China's currency, most of the electronic consumer good sold in the United States are manufactured or assembled in China today.
The connection from Lewisburg Pennsylvania to the high-tech corporate campuses of Silicon Valley can be traced in the migration of the worlds manufacturing on its never ending quest for the least expensive, least regulated labor force and the trail of economic devastation it leaves in its wake. Viewed through their own mobile device, the "From Lewisburg, PA to Silicon Valley" augmented reality public art project asks the audience to consider their own implications in this global history.


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Before adulthood takes hold, four teenage girls spirit away to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for a final vacation together. And all of them have their issues: Carson (Phoebe Cates) is marrying a boy who might not be right for her, Melaina (Bridget Fonda) obsesses over her Hollywood dreams, Pudge (Annabeth Gish) has self-esteem problems and Luanne (Page Hannah) has a hard time letting loose. But as the trip continues, the four grow closer together and help each other start to figure things out.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin: Global Mockery
maison Folie de Wazemmes - Lille - April 30 - July 7, 2009
Organized by Platform Garanti Contemporary Art in the context of Lille3000 for Europe XXL, "Global Mockery" is the first large-scale exhibition of works by artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin after his passing away in December 2007.
Presented on the two floors of the maison Folie de Wazemmes, "Global Mockery" includes important works from Alptekin's oeuvre such as the 1992 version of Heterotopia, the installation Winter Depression, the sculptural work Karakum and stop-motion videos from the Incident-s series previously shown in the Turkish Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennial.
Many of the works in the exhibition, such as the over-sized cheap oil cloth Karakum (Black Sand) bag, pay witness to Alptekin's acute interest in the human condition after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the resulting enormous human traffic, as well as the migration of authorless images that followed it. This work embodies an intercultural travel log through its transformation of the Camel cigarette logo into the adornment of a cheap bag, a reference to the part of the world where the exotic potpourri of Central Asian and Middle Eastern imagery that brands the Camel cigarette packet was originally taken from. In dialogue with the migratory references in Karakum, Heterotopia presents a plane of anonymously rendered images and objets trouvés of history and contemporaneity, juxtaposed and set in friendly tension alongside one another.
After pursuing graduate studies in aesthetics, the philosophy of art and sociology at the Sorbonne, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin remained in Paris as a photographer for Sipa Press in the 1980s. Steeped in European philosophy, semiotics and post-structuralist ideas emerging in France during this time, Alptekin returned to Turkey at the end of the decade, where he taught the philosophy of art.
In 1990, Alptekin began to make art, fusing associative images and objects in bric-a-brac installations. Befitting a philosopher turned artist, his oeuvre is not unified stylistically, but by an ambitious set of themes.
Alptekin took part in numerous international exhibitions including the Istanbul Biennial in 1995 and 2005, the Bienal de São Paulo in 1998, the 2002 Cetinje Biennale in Montenegro, the Tirana Biennial in 2003 and 2005 and Manifesta 5 in 2004. Along with numerous international residencies, Alptekin won a UNESCO prize for his work in the Cetinje Biennale, and the M. Mulliqi Prize at the 3rd International Exhibition at Kosovo Art Gallery, Prishtina, in 2005. As a curator, Alptekin organized exhibitions and events in Istanbul, Tirana, Havana and Helsinki, including cultural activities during Istanbul's 1996 Habitat II NGO-City Summit.
Between 2000 and 2004, Alptekin headed the Sea Elephant Travel Agency (SETA), a non-profit, artist-run collaborative space in Istanbul that sponsored artists' residencies and seminars. Sea Elephant served as an umbrella for Alptekin's numerous international, collaborative ventures, including "B-fact: Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea," a platform for Balkans art, and "BRG: Bunker Research Group," an ongoing collaboration between Scandinavian and Turkish artists initiated during the 2003 Tirana Biennale.
Alptekin represented Turkey in the Arsenale at the 2007 Venice Biennale with the installation Don't Complain (2007), where he screened 14 different videos made from hundreds of assorted snapshots taken on his travels around the world that he called "Incidents" five wooden huts. Don't Complain brought together disparate geographies through the images, connecting places as far apart as Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro.
Platform Garanti houses the archive and library of Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin. The institution is also engaged in a comprehensive study of the artist's career and life.
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Have my creative thinking cap on this AM thanks to this tune!
Latest Fixation: Kimbra – Withdraw
July 31, 2012
Fixation = understatement, when it comes to "Withdraw" by 22-year-old singer & songwriter, Kimbra Johnson. Just as I can't keep this song out of my head, I can't resist sharing my obsession with it any longer!
I haven't seen a performance this moving and passion-filled in a long time. She simply pours her heart and soul out while fully exposing her ground-shaking vocals. This is raw emotion; raw expression with no limit. While it's apparent just how incredibly talented this New Zealand-born vocalist is, she fascinates me even further with her unique style. She doesn't quite fit in any single genre, opts instead for a blend of jazz, old school r&b and soul groove with an indie-pop finish – AKA best combination ever! It's like all my worlds colliding into one perfect one. Think: Maxwell meets Sia.
Great song, amazing performance. Back to repeat, for now 🙂
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July 31, 2012
Priscilla Ahn – Dream
July 5, 2012
Obsessed with her!


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I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
Stuntman Robert McDonald must have been gripped with Sea-Fever indeed; according to an article our art editor found this morning, Robert, his son, and more than 5,000 children have worked to build a seaworthy Norse longship out of 15 million ice-cream sticks. I'm not kidding about this. It staggers my imagination. McDonald and his faithful crew are about to leave port in the Netherlands and brave the icy northern seas for England. But they are not coming as marauders; according to Reuters, "he has loaded his ship with cuddly toys and plans to reach London and visit children in hospitals." The media, of course, is eating up the human interest factor, and for my part I am gawking at what this man and 5,000 children made out of ice cream sticks. (A Viking ship carrying stuffed animals to hospitals in England may be wildly bizarre, but it is infinitely more beautiful and useful than 15 million small wooden sticks sitting in a landfill or at the bottom of the sea. I stand amazed.)
Our art editor has posted a link to the article and has opened the forum for discussion here, on our message board. Swing by, see a video about the ship, and comment - this is a remarkable, if unexpected, moment in the history of seafaring.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
(Seaworthy) Viking ship made out of ice cream sticks
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By Chris Ochayi
ABUJA—A member of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Mr. Famous Daunemgha, has lamented that the people of the Niger Delta have been sidelined under the Federal Government's new crude oil swap deal otherwise known as Direct Sale and Direct Purchase, DSDP.
It will be recalled that the management of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had in 2016, replaced the offshore processing arrangement, OPA, and crude oil swap contracts through which it imports petrol, with the Direct Sale and Direct Purchase, DSDP, arrangement.
Speaking with Vanguard in Abuja, Daunemgha regretted that outsiders had hijacked the scheme and denied firms being promoted by the Niger Delta people from benefiting from the scheme.
Daunemgha, who was the former governorship aspirant under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in Bayelsa State in 2011, advocated 80 per cent or 60 per cent of crude oil swap contracts to be given to those who are producing the resources.
According to him, "I am interested in how the Niger Delta region and its people can live better. I am discussing issues such as the promise by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that in all activities, the Niger Delta people would be involved.
"No Niger Delta company is involved in the on going crude oil swap deal. It is the companies promoted by the same South West and North people that are benefiting. Niger Delta people are not involved at all.
"And if that comes out, it is a betrayal of trust that they lied to our people. The region will have a statement to make about that. If you are doing crude oil swap, 80 per cent or 60 per cent must come to those who are producing the resources and that is the only way you can empower the people."
On the 16 points demand by PANDEF, Daunemgha said: "I think the Federal Government has not been able to meet any of the points that had been raised by PANDEF. It adopted the 16 points as working documents, which was affirmed by the Vice President Osinbajo, when he visited the Niger Delta area.
"I think that is a way forward for us. We believe that they are interfacing. We do not have any formal dialogue team to be put in place for now, but I think they are busy doing whatever they are doing to ensure they address the issues that we raised with them.
"But behind the scene, I think there are efforts to talk to the region. But the government has not been able to come out with a blueprint on what they actually want to do to address the issues once and for all."
"We have never had any negotiation with the Federal Government. There has never been any form of negotiation. We put up demands to the presidency and this in turn was adopted as working documents.
"Although, we are aware the power was given to the Vice President, Prof. Osinbajo to be in charge of issues concerning the Niger Delta that in itself is an ideal step to interface with the region. So, when they are ready, I think the PANDEF will come out with its own team to interface with the government."
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The statement below was drafted by academics at the University of Johannesburg on Thursday, 5 November, the day before the mass arrest of students and cleaning staff at the university's Kingsway campus.
We the undersigned UJ academics are concerned with how the University is responding to the ongoing student and worker protests on campus. Our concerns include:
- The presence of police, anonymous bouncers and private security forces who continue to intimidate and assault students and staff with impunity.
- The degree to which media have not been given free access to campus to report without bias on what is a peaceful protest.
- While the university technically speaking can be considered a "private space," it serves a public function and because of this has a particular duty to facilitate basic human rights, including the freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. This means that the interdict granted to the university to address student and staff protests is excessive.
- The violence and intimidation meted out by security forces is escalating, which is exacerbating and provoking further tension on campus. We call for this to stop immediately.
- The university's disregard for the wellbeing of students is particularly distressing. Students and staff have sustained injuries that have led to hospital care, not to mention the traumatic effects of the undue violent response to these peaceful protests.
- We want transparency and participation in the process of establishing the task team charged with insourcing of workers.
- We declare our solidarity with the wider movement of "fees must fall" and our colleagues at other tertiary institutions.
- We call upon our Management to bring institutional policies and procedures into line with the Bill of Rights in the Constitution: "Everyone has the right, peacefully and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket, and to present petitions."
- We call on Management to investigate these incidents of violence with the involvement of an independent institution, such as the South African Human Rights Commission.
These draconian apartheid style tactics are not becoming of an institution that claims to care for its students and staff. We call upon university Management to act in accordance with its own values of 'Making Wise Decisions Collectively', 'Engaging Meaningfully with One Another', 'Displaying Mutual Respect' and 'Leading Consultatively', as stated in UJ's statement of values. We request Management to engage in an open, transparent, democratic, and public conversation with students, workers, academic and non-academic staff over and above formal structures. Vague statements are counterproductive and ultimately very disrespectful to all who are concerned.
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Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > Eleminating the list syntax is mainly a goal to line up the HTTP BNF > syntax completely with other specifications, but I have a feeling that > it may be better to extend ABNF with a usable list construct. Only if you consider empty 1F "appeal threatened" sections as boring. The #-LWS horror permits ASCII art by commas, and that cruft has to be very explicit. Recently 2822upd managed to split this into a no nonsense ABNF, plus an *obsolete* ABNF covering ASCII art with commas. ASCII art with commas is ugly like hell. But if you try to keep any "apparently empty lines" containing only significant white space for LWS it is broken. Kill it, or if you keep it make sure that it is mentioned in the security considerations, and covered by a detailed implementation and interoperability report. RFC 2822 + 2822upd have those "apparently empty lines" in <obs-FWS>, nowhere else. STD 68 mentions the issue in an <LWSP> ABNF comment. You have already seen the 2831bis "translation" of the #-LWS horrors, was anything wrong with that, or why are you looking for other ideas ? FrankReceived on Saturday, 24 May 2008 15:33:20 UTC
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Back in August, when Asus confirmed that the entire Zenfone 3 and Zenfone 4 series will get the Oreo update, the company didn't provide a roll out time-frame, only saying the update will hit all eligible devices "by the second half of 2018".
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Black Crusade Tour 12.09.2007, Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce, Trivium and Machine Head
Black Crusade Tour 12.09.2007, Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce, Trivium and Machine Head
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Welcome to my first concert review. I am going to give you an impression of a gig from the Black Crusade tour from sunday 09.12 at the (sold out!)Schlachthof(Slaughterhouse) in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The Black Crusade Tour is a five band tour and all of them are quite famous! Headliners are the mighty Machine Head, one of the biggest influence in modern thrash metal in the last ten years. Co-headliners are Trivium, a Metalcore/thrash metal band that has become amlost as famous as Machine head in the last three years. The opening act are Shadows Fall, a metalcore band of which I know they are famous in the united states but pretty unknown in europe. The second opening act were Arch Enemy from Sweden, a Melodic-Death-Metal band with a female vocalist. The third opener were the beloved/hated Dragonforce, a Powermetal band from England.
First of all I have to apologize that I can't remember the exact setlist of every band because i was drinking and going crazy in the moshpit...
The gig was totaly sold out, 3000+ metal fans came to see this great touring package. Unluckily it was not
happy day for everyone, there was a sign at the entrance that Phil Demmel of Machine Head would not be playing this day because of a family related issue and that he will be replaced by some of the guitarist from the other bands.Unfortunatley I spent too much time drinkin beer outside the hall so got in too late and missed the first two songs of Shadows Fall...
Shadows Fall
I heard the band playing while standing in the row at the entrance and entered the hall during their song ''The light that blinds''. They played 2 songs before that one and 2 more after it. The crowd was not moving much which I relate to the fact that they're not very well known arround here (including me). The sound was loud and clear, maybe a little too much hights. They played their songs without mistakes and their shouter sounded exactley like he does on the record. On stage performance was a bit static; exept for their shouter: Have you ever seen a man with 5 feet long rastafarian haircut doing rotor-headbanging. They finished after five songs and I didn't manage to get close enough to the stage to make a good video.
Arch Enemy
The melodic death metal band with their female gutural singer Angela Gossow and the reunited Guitar Duo Michael and Christian Ammot played like there was no tomorrow! Perfect sound, great growls and beautiful guitar melodies. Christian Ammot (now with a beard) had fun playing live again, he even improvised with his brother after the last song. Angela kept the crowd moving and talked in german (she is born in germany) with a suprisingly high speaking voice.
-Blood on your Hands - a good opener from the new album
-Ravenous - an Arch Enemy classic, first serious moshpit of the evening
-My apocalypse - great song with a groove
-Nemesis - Uptempo track with melodic parts
-We will rise - The Arch Enemy Anthem as last track of their set
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sorry for the low quality, it's just a handy-cam
You either love or hate this band. I think they get pretty annoying after a couple of songs but their life show was the best I've ever seen in my life! They started with a classical intro that was interrpted after a few seconds. A voice told the crowd(in german) that the band figured out that intros like (mozart piece was played for a sec) or (wagner piece played for a sec) or even worse intros like (ecstasy of gold, metallicas intro track, is played for a sec) are just ''schwul'' and not metal ''Dragonforce proudly presents you a METAL intro: The Donkey Kong Theme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUyN_Wq11Jw...feature=related
During the ''METAL'' intro Herman Li and Sam Totman jumped on stage and started the first solo. The show had an incredible sound, you could hear every instrument and singer ZP Theart was singing like a young god. While they're technically perfect performance they joked arround on stage, drank beer while playing highspeed licks, duelling each other or changing the lyrics into a rated version( I wont give an example... ok imagine what they made out of '' now we stand here with our ***** in our hands ). For the last track Sam Totman and bassist Frédéric Leclercq switched instruments and even the bassist was shredding those solos!!!
-Fury on the Storm
-Operation Ground and Pound
-My Spirit will go on
-Through the fire and the Flames
-Valley of the Damned
One of my favourite band was tonights co-headliner:Trivium. They had a good sound and played mostly harder stuff. No 'like light to flies', no 'dying in your arms' but the heavy song 'beoming the dragon' was played for the first time on a tour in germany! The drummer Travis Smith was a bit off some times but the rest was flawless. I really miss Matthew's old screaming voice though most of the screaming parts are now done by Corey Beaulieu. During the song 'Rain' Bassist Paolo Gregoletto (with a new mustash) played an incredibly amazing bass solo with wahwah and tapping. For the first time of the evening the pit became really heavy (my head still hurts) and for the final 'Pull harder on the strings of your Martyr' the first circle pit of the evening was set off.
-To the Rats
-Ember to Inferno
-Entrance to Conflagration
-Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation
-Anthem (we are the fire)
-Becoming the Dragon
-Pull harder on the strings of your martyr
Machine Head
The headliner of this tour had a sad message for everyone in the crowd: The father of lead guitarist Phil Demmel had passed away the day before and he went off the tour and back to the united states. He was replaced by Corey and Matthew from Trivium, Chrsitian from Arch Enemy and Frédéric from Dragonforce. All those players had 1 day to learn 2 to 3 songs (lead guitar!) from another band to perform them the other night! And they all did a hell of a job, there were only two mistakes in the whole set!
Rob Flynn had the crowd in his hands and squeezed every last bit of powerwe had left out of us. The pit was the heaviest I've ever been in (ouch!), nearly every song had a circle pit and for the final davidian Rob started a wall of death all the way to the back. Everyone who is into Metal music has to visit a Machine Head gig, it's unbelieveable how heavy and thight all instruments are played (a guy next tom me named the sound :''face-crushin'')
Robert Flynn is easily one of the best shouters out there but he is not a good singer. He was off in every clean passage he sung. His on-stage presence is unbelievable. Unluckily I didn't stayed to the end because was about to puke at the end of the set (beer+bad air+mosh-pit+temperature+more beer)
-Clenching the Fist of Dissent (Corey Beaulieu) <<Played right after his own gig!
-Old (Corey Beaulieu)
-Imperium (Frédéric Leclercq) <<again the Dragonforce Bassist on lead guitar!
-Ten Ton Hammer (Frédéric Leclercq)
-Halo (Matthew Heafy)
-Asthetics of Hate (Matthew Heafy) <<< song was dedicated to Dimebag Darrel
-Blood Sweat Tears (Matthew Heafy)
-Decend the shades of night (Christian Ammot) <<< song was dedicated to phil demmel's Father
-Davidian (Christian Ammot)
...It was one of the best concerts in my life. Even the other band members watched the Machine Head gig from the side of the stage
Behind the Black wall you can see Herman Li and Travis Smith watching Machine head play
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One word - amazing!!
You rock Zakk! I will take time and check the links later - but this might one of the coolest concert reviews we have got! Thanks!
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Glad you like it, took some time too write it and upload all my vids and pics
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Amazing review man, thanks for your work, i enjoyed reading it alot
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Brilliant review dude, Im going to see the Black Crusade gig here in Finland this friday, it's going to be awesome!!
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Great review man ! I fell like I been there !
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haha amazing review.. what i find funniest is the difference between europe and america.. SHADOWS FALL IS HUGGGEE HERE!!!.. like it was the most violant moshpit ive ever been in when i saw them and they were incredible!.. DragonForce was also amazing when i saw them..Arch Enemy ive never seen but i love them too.. Machine Head and Trivium i like.. but alot less than the other 3... just shows the differances .. Great Review sounds like a wicked time.
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Seen all these bands live, all there shows are just AMAZING!!!
Glad you enjoyed them all, sounds like a sick ass show!
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I wish this came to the US .
DF is fantastic live, they have such fun on the stage and they've really nailed all their songs now. As much as they get slammed for being sloppy live was on all their new material. Once they've had time to truly master it live, they kill it. I saw em twice, and they were better the second time, and they weren't bad the first time.
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Remember when Colbert gave control of the Colbert Report to the Clinton Campaign?
Ever Notice How Colbert's Late Show is a Mile-a-Minute Globalist Propaganda Fest?
Read More: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/46703
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Remember when Colbert gave control of the Colbert Report to the Clinton Campaign?
Ever Notice How Colbert's Late Show is a Mile-a-Minute Globalist Propaganda Fest?
Read More: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/46703
"It's all a hoax." That's what my 62-year-old father, a Cruz-Rubio supporter, has been telling me since the very first time the media uttered, "Trump may have colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election."
I wasn't so sure he was right. After news broke indicating Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had met with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016 to get "dirt" on the Clinton camp, the situation for Trump looked worse than ever.
"It's a hoax," my father reassured me. "Maybe Trump Jr. did meet with the Russian lawyer, but there was no collusion. This is a plan put into place by the Clintons. You'll see."
"How can you possibly know that?" I responded. "You have absolutely no reason to believe it's a hoax."
"I've been watching the Clintons work for 30 years. That's all the evidence I need," he answered.
In the rollercoaster ride since word of the Veselnitskaya meeting first reached the public, there have been numerous ups and downs. Like most Americans, I've been left wondering exactly how far the Trump team was willing to go to win the 2016 election. Were they really open to trading away American interests, as the Clintons appeared to have done many times, to capture the White House?
Although there remains a possibility someoneon the Trump team struck a deal with Russian operatives in an effort to win the election, new revelations about the role the Clintons may have played in the infamous Christopher Steele dossier seem to suggest a large portion—and perhaps all—of the Trump-Russia narrative was invented by the Clintons, the Hillary Clinton campaign, or their sycophants.
On Tuesday, Fox News reported that a recently unclassified (but still heavily redacted) memo from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) claimed, "Clinton associates were 'feeding' allegations to former British spy Christopher Steele at the same time he was compiling the controversial anti-Trump dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign."
We already know Steele's work on the dossier was being funded by Democrats and the Clinton campaign in the middle of the 2016 election, and a recent memo made public by the House Intelligence Committee says the FBI relied on Steele's memo to obtain an important Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant from a federal judge.
The House memo also claimed the FBI did not disclose to the court that Democrats and Clinton had paid for the dossier. Further, the House memo showed the FBI relied in part on a news story to corroborate the findings of the Steele dossier, even though that report had also been based on information fed to reporters by Steele himself.
As damning as all this is—and it's clearly damning—there's even more evidence pointing to the Clintons' involvement in the FBI's investigation and the creation of the dossier. On Jan. 30, The Guardian reported its sources claim the FBI has also relied (and may still be depending on) a second dossier, this time written by Cody Shearer, a long-time Clinton associate who has ties to past Clinton campaign efforts to destroy opponents. Those efforts include California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who ran against Bill Clinton for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in the 1990s; Ross Perot, also a Clinton opponent from the 1992 election; and Gennifer Flowers, who accused Bill Clinton during the 1992 primaries of having an affair with her.
Additionally, although it's unclear how many people connected to the Clintons may have been "feeding" information to Steele for his dossier, we know Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer received from Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal in September 2016 at least some of Shearer's information and passed it along to Steele, who was then still working closely with the FBI. Winer also admitted he passed the information to another State Department official, who then gave it to Secretary of State John Kerry.
Blumenthal's role in both dossiers is not an insignificant detail. Not only is Blumenthal an extremely close ally to Hillary Clinton, he is also closely linked to Shearer. Shearer worked with Blumenthal to help tear down Clinton opponents in the 1990s, and reportedly helped Blumenthal provide Hillary Clinton intelligence about the Libyan revolution in 2011.
According to Winer, who wrote an opinion article about his experiences for the Washington Post on Thursday, Steele said at the time Winer gave him the information from Blumenthal that the Shearer report and his own research had a lot of similarities. But, of course, there's no way to know Winer is telling the truth. He was, after all, an important member of Obama's State Department who says Blumenthal is an "old friend."
Piecing all this together is difficult, but the broad strokes are as follows: (1) Much of the Trump-Russia collusion evidence comes from the Steele dossier. (2) The Steele dossier was created during the 2016 election, at the behest and funding of Democrats and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
(3) Grassley and Graham's memo and Winer's op-ed show Steele was given some information from at least one source tied directly to the Clintons. (4) The FBI is likely using a second dossier in its investigation, one authored by Cody Shearer. (5) Shearer has close ties to Blumenthal and the Clintons.
(6) Top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice, including members of the team working on the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, had ties to the Democratic Party; or the dossier; or expressed their dislike of Donald Trump, a conflict of interest for their work; or all three. For instance, DOJ official Bruce Ohr's wife worked for Fusion GPS, which paid Steele to make the dossier while it was being created.
(7) The FBI used the Steele dossier and maybe even information from Shearer to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign team, but it failed to tell the FISA court of the dossier's connection to the Clintons or that Blumenthal's information reached Steele. (8) The vast majority of "evidence" supposedly linking Trump to Russia resulted directly or indirectly from the FISA warrant and the investigation that followed.
Read More: http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/13/clintons-behind-whole-trump-russia-collusion-story/
Her campaign is linked to at least three separate pieces of information fed to the FBI, including the dossier the FBI used as a pretext to spy on a Trump campaign associate.
A significant part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's basis for investigating the Trump campaign's Russia ties is looking more and more like a political hit job carried out by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Her campaign's fingerprints are on at least three separate pieces of information fed to the FBI, including the Christopher Steele dossier Republicans say formed the basis of a secret warrant obtained to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
A former State Department official confirmed on the record Thursday that Clinton associates were funneling information to Steele as he was compiling a dossier commissioned and paid for by the Clinton campaign and DNC. That's on top of the recent revelation that a top Department of Justice official fed the FBI information compiled by his wife, who was working for the firm Clinton and the DNC were paying to dig up dirt on Trump, Fusion GPS.
The dossier was quoted "extensively" in the FBI's application to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, according to a memo released by Republicans on the House intelligence committee. In a January letter to the FBI made public this week, two Senate Republicans also said Steele's information formed a "significant portion" of the warrant application.
"It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele's work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility," Sens. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and Lindsey Graham wrote in the letter referring Steele to the FBI for a criminal investigation.
Taken together, here's what we know so far about the extent of Clinton's involvement in the FBI's case.
In an account published by The Washington Post, former State Department official Jonathan Winer describes how research compiled by a Clinton ally made its way into his hands and then to the FBI. Winer was in charge of combating transnational organized crime at the State Department under Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and returned under the Obama administration to work on international law enforcement. Between his two gigs, he became friends with Steele, who as a result began feeding information to the State Department, and tipped Winer off in Sept. 2016 to the Trump dossier he was compiling.
That same month, Winer met Blumenthal, who provided him with notes on Trump and Russia compiled by another Clinton insider, Cody Shearer. "What struck me was how some of the material echoed Steele's but appeared to involve different sources," Winer writes in The Washington Post. He decided to show the notes to Steele, who told him the information could be used to corroborate his dossier. Steele walked away with a copy of the notes, which he provided to the FBI.
Shearer and Blumenthal, known respectively as "Mr. Fixer" and "Vicious Sid" in Clinton world, are staunch allies of the Clintons. Winer notes he didn't know whether the information Blumenthal fed him was accurate, but says he fed it to Steel anyway because he was "alarmed at Russia's role in the 2016 election."
Grassley and Graham express concern in their criminal referral that Steele was "vulnerable to manipulation" while compiling his dossier on Trump, as he has admitted to meeting with at least four different news outlets during that time (in violation of an agreement he had with the FBI), and indicated he received unsolicited and unverified tips on Trump and included them in his dossier. "Simply put, the more people who contemporaneously knew that Mr. Steele was compiling his dossier, the more likely it was vulnerable to manipulation," they wrote in their letter.
Of course, the Clinton network knew to some extent about the dossier, since Hillary's campaign and the DNC had commissioned and funded the effort through Fusion GPS. Whether Blumenthal was planting bogus information to manipulate Steele or passing along what he regarded as a legitimate tip is unclear, but it's certainly not a good look.
Regardless, this second unverified and unsolicited dossier made its way to the FBI thanks to the Clinton camp.
Read More: http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/10/hillary-clintons-fingerprints-fbis-investigation-trumps-russia-ties/


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Four ladies who've purchased a bookshop in the Scottish Highlands find murder messing up their plans.
Illinois native Janet Marsh is no stranger to Inversgail, a charming west Highland coastal village where she's owned a vacation home for many years. After her husband, Curtis, had an affair with one of his graduate students, Janet got the house free and clear in the divorce proceedings. Now she and her Scottish friend Christine Robertson, who's lived in Illinois for decades and whose parents live in Inversgail, have settled in the town, along with Janet's 38-year-old daughter, Tallie, and her friend Summer, planning to run the bookstore along with a tea room and a B&B. For some reason Janet hasn't been able to get into her house, though she gave the real estate agent who's been renting it out plenty of notice, and when she strolls over to take a look, she sees the kitchen piled high with reeking garbage. But that's not the worst of it. The body of Una Graham, the local agony aunt and troublemaker, is soon found in the garden shed with a sickle in her neck. Neither the local constable nor the specialists sent in have much to say. So the four ladies decide to do some sleuthing on their own. Janet's realtor thought Una was persecuting her and was the one who dumped the garbage. Janet's next-door neighbor, a famous and self-centered author of mysteries, had his own problems with Una. And when they find a cache of threatening letters probably written by Una hidden in the unfinished tea room, they realize she must have had lots of enemies. Their investigation turns up many sad stories that could provide motives for murder. Now they just have to find the right one before the killer strikes again.
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So the plan is on Monday we will be starting our novels. I did the math and if I am writing like I did on my last novel, I should maintain a 2000 words a day schedule to be done by Thanksgiving. I have read different schools of thought on having a word count goal. I have heard it cramps your style and makes you less productive. I have not found that to be true. Counting my words at the end of the day make me feel productive. It's a little treat to myself. I never beat myself up if I only managed to write 200 words that day. There are always going to be more productive days down the road where I write 5000 words that day. I keep a running tally, because I have always liked to see my progress (you should see some of my to do lists, I take them to the extreme to feel like I accomplished something). So the word count thing is just like everything else, do what works for you.
However, as I am finishing up the final draft of my outline, I was thinking back to the assignments in Domet's 90 Days To Your Novel. I would have to say my all time favorite activity was Day 8. This day was about taking three of your characters and putting them in a scene. From one characters point of view, then write the same scene from second one's POV, and then the third's POV. I learned so much about my characters and their relationship with each other. I decided to take my three friends and put them in a scene where one reveals she is going to start going to Al Anon. Even though I had flirted with the idea of having each one narrate their own story, after this exercise, I decided on only two narrators. Even if I don't use 90 Days To Your Novel for my next book, I think this exercise is going to be a big part of any prep work I do on future novels.
If you are stuck or just not sure about the relationship between some of your characters, I would suggest this exercise. You just might get some insight into a character that's been giving you the cold shoulder.


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"I love the Japanese aesthetic. Perfection melded with playfulness and a compulsion toward the iconic. I've been looking for a way to bring these aspects of Japan into what we do. My respect for the Japanese goes beyond the aesthetic though, into their ethic and culture of perfection. Honor through bringing something (everything?) to it's pinnacle. " -Sacha White
There's something about Japan that's always captivated us, and with half of the Speedvagen cross team based there, we have a strong connection to the country. The opportunities we've had to travel, race, and learn with the SV Japan crew and their extended community stand as some of our favorite memories on (and off) the bike. Our friendships and experiences there, combined with our love of the Japanese commitment to design, have had us looking for the chance to design a component of the Speedvagen universe in Japan in for some time. We wanted an opportunity to bring our team ethos to life, infused with a combination of the unique Japanese aesthetic and our own focused commitment to detail and craft. This limited edition Speedvagen kit is that project.
Representing a fresh, fun and distinctly Eastern take on the Speedvagen approach to bikes and style, the design comes from SV Team Member Masashi Ichifuru, a good friend and member of the extended Speedvagen family. Ichico, as he's known, has worked for some of Japan's most well known animation houses, and is a talented graphic designer and photographer, as well as a lover of espresso with an enviable collection of hand made bikes. We asked Ichico to create a kit that felt connected to the way we ride and race—to how we approach bringing together the ideas of speed, friendship, and riding tough, without losing sight of taking care of fellow racers—and laughing at ourselves when appropriate. (Which is fairly often, frankly.) We think he nailed it.
For the kit's design, the SV shield gets re-imagined with a bold kanji character taking the place of the numeral 11. According to Ichico, "Unicorn, written in Japanese kanji character, is Ikkakujyu or 'single horned beast.'" Ichico took the 'beast' part of the kanji character for the image, telling us it has the same meaning as the word "animal," but with a wilder nuance. In his words, "In the same way the number "11" in the shield represents taking it further, in order to "take it to 11" the wild in you must come out and take over." We couldn't agree more. The kit's stripes come from Ichico's desire to create a clean, simple look that strongly represents the vibes of the team. To symbolize the relationship between the two halves of the SPEEDVAGEN family, Japanese and American, he created a bold and playful graphic component across the pockets, mixing the SPEEDVAGEN letters with the Katakana Japanese alphabet. The result is simultaneously vivid and simple, deftly balancing elegant execution with a sense of pure fun.
Taken together, the kit is a physical manifestation of the things we love about being on our bikes together. As Ichico said in a conversation about this project, "I love it when people and things come together perfectly at the last minute, as if a great script writer plotted it." Or, as they say on the A-Team: I love it when a plan comes together.
ABOUT THE KIT For the jersey and bibs themselves, we turned to our friends at Castelli. Long time supporters of our SV race team—not to mention cross-town neighbors—Castelli is committed to making superior race kit. Their blend of decades-old history and modern material development echoes our own desire to bring craft principles together with the best possible ingredients.
The jersey is Castelli's Team jersey, which has a race cut and features a full-zip closure. This limited edition run will feature an SV badge zipper-pull, to complete the design.
The bibs are Castelli's Team bibs. They feature a race cut, with a KISS 3 pad for a comfortable ride on the road or on the cross course.
As far as versatile, easy-to-love pieces go, a solid wind vest is pretty much at the top of the list. Castelli's Wind Vest is made with Windshear™ fabric for an extremely lightweight piece, that's breathable enough to keep you comfortable while offering excellent protection from wind and light rain. It features two zippered side openings for easy access to jersey pockets, and packs down small so you can take it anywhere.
For something so simple, the arm warmer can certainly be a ride saver. Paired with a vest, they help extend your comfort zone by at least 10 degrees (not scientifically proven). Casetelli's Lycra® Arm Warmers feature an anatomic cut for a close fit that won't constrict muscles or motion. Made with a classic gel gripper that has some stretch, they stay put without grabbing.
Jeff Curtes killed it again with this collection of shots from two weekends of early season pro UCI racing in Boulder, CO and Waterloo, WI. Get stoked! Gloucester is here!!
[Speedvagen Family Racing teammate Laura Winberry is taking a short hiatus from her MFA in writing and will be guest posting all season. Look for haikus, shorts and the occasional race report from her to be accompanied by photos from teammate Jeff Curtes, or in this case, her own video work.]
From Portland to SLC to Ogden to Boulder and then back we, collectively: raced bikes, dragged luggage, led women's clinics, heckled, ate food, laughed, slept, conversed, caffeinated, and did more than a few loads of laundry.
Here's some of that in fast forward (photo below is linked to the film!). Hope you enjoy it as much as we did, and thanks!
Seeing as how I'm midway through a graduate degree in poetry (really? what are you going to do with that?!), Rousculp & White at Speedvagen here decided it would only be to all of our best interests to combine the awesome worlds of cyclocross and poetry. I couldn't agree more. As a result, throughout the season I'll be posting cyclocross related/inspired poems, mostly in the form and/or experimental phase and/or permutations of the haiku.
Generally speaking, haiku usually arrives in its most well-known form of 5-7-5, with the numbers referring to the amount of syllables in each line of the poem. The so-called essence of haiku is "cutting," which is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them. An indication of season is also another essential of haiku. There's more, of course, and haiku can spin off in any number of directions; for all intents and purposes here, however, we're going wild with this. And by wild I mean experimental and against the grain, I mean counterculture and grit; I mean 'cross.
Haiku is often typecast and pocketed as the peaceful, calm form of the poetry world. How nice. My aim is to show you its more feral moments, how it can be the perfect partner to 'cross, and how it can, literally, play in the mud with the best of them.
Cyclocross meet haiku. Haiku meet cyclocross. It's the bell lap—shall we?
To begin: a translation of the badass Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
Writing shit about new snow
for the rich
is not art.
Tell us how you really feel, Issa.
See? Haiku, and the individuals who write it, can subvert and be more subtly subversive than you might assume.
The following consists of four haikus (& their titles, as indicated with italics) strung together to create one experimental haiku strand. To note: line spacing can be awkward on WordPress; the following, more or less, reflects the form of the haiku as it was intended, minus proper line spacing.
To the man clad in spandex, you know who you are—
meet me: on the edge
of 5th / I'm a mess
dressed in fresh lime peels, precious
metal & $$$$$
dollar bill to my teeth & a flush
tongue to your calves / quads
pedaled into pear bulge steep'd
in sunrust & damp
with your cloudboom laughter,
slingshot through beard thick
& head back eyes flinging: rock
-ets, copper & dusk
hotfoot to bolt, chest heave & your
haunch like what beneath
spandex lucence, hips that flick
me on—demount this
*September 6th – GPRT Het Meer – Portland, OR
*September 7th – Fazio Farms – Portland, OR
*September 13th – US Open of Cyclocross – Boulder, CO
*September 14th – Boulder Cup – Boulder, CO
September 20th, 21st – CXC Trek Cup – Waterloo, WI
*The Cross Crusade: Featuring Kid's 'Cross Daily 9:00am – 2:00pm (Full Schedule Here)
*October 11th & 12th – Alpenrose Dairy – Portland, OR
*October 19th – PIR at Heron Lakes – Portland, OR
*October 26th – Washington Co. Fairgrounds – Hillsboro, OR
*November 1st & 2nd – Deschutes Brewery (Halloween!) – Bend, OR
*November 9th – PIR Infield – Portland, OR
*November 16th – Barton Park – Barton, OR
November 1st – Rapha Super Cross Sydney – Sydney, Australia
*November 8th – Oregon State CX Championships – Troutdale, OR
November 23rd – Kansai Cross – Japan
*November 29th & 30th – Rapha Super Cross Nobeyama – Nobeyama, Japan
*November 30th – Nobeyama Kid's 'Cross (KX) – Japan
*January 8th – 12th – Cross Nationals – Austin, TX
*Three or more team members will be racing here.
[Speedvagen Family Racing teammate Laura Winberry is taking a short hiatus from her MFA in writing and will be guest posting all season. Look for haikus, shorts and the occasional race report from her to be accompanied by photos from teammate Jeff Curtes.]
It's (all) About Time
The season has begun, is beginning.
Folks emerge from the woodworks near and far, relatives gathering for a holiday, only it isn't about blood because family's where you find it. In the still hot days just before leaves turn to gold, in the final pieces of all that is summer, a tribe painted in lycra and odd tan lines comes together.
These are our people.
And Speedvagen is our family.
How long is one minute?
Jeff sat at a ninety degree angle for sixteen-hours, from Australia to Vancouver to Portland. Daisuke and Hama—ten hours from Tokyo, after three out of Nobeyama. Brennan and I drove up from Bend, which took a little over three. For Tina, about the same. The point is this: many hours of travel have transpired in order for us to be here, at Vanilla, at this very minute. There are also the (countless) hours of preparation that have gone into it all, and by all I mean the kits, the shoes, the helmets, the logistics, the sponsors and, of course, the bikes.
What would it all be without the magic of the bike, of these bikes? A gathering of really sweet folks, indeed; but what we'd be doing with our time, I'm not quite sure. Running in circles in padded shorts perhaps.
But add a little gold here, a stripe of revolver blue there, and we have a convergence of beautiful bikes, with beautiful people to match. (And I'm not talking supermodel beautiful. I'm talking thick laughter kind of beautiful. I'm talking people with the same kind of heartbeat beautiful; vivid, authentic, offbeat; gritty, wild, solid beautiful.). Which is exactly what happened this past Saturday morning, after so many long minutes of travel and preparation and caring about something, when the entire Speedvagen team gathered at the Vanilla Workshop in order to experience the start of 'cross season together.
Christmas! (or Chanukkah and/or) in September!
It's not about the gifts. It's about who you are with. At least that's what someone older than you probably told you when it came to receiving presents. At age 9, it sounded like bullshit; really, that person was right. But I've covered the "who you are with" base, so now it's time to talk gifts. Sort of. What I mean to say is: now it's time to give you an idea for how we exchange gifts in our Speedvagen family, as it's the reason for all of the hours and minutes and all of the everything you read through earlier in this post. It's simple—we come together. We do not receive our kits in the mail. Our bikes do not arrive disassembled in boxes. We do not do this alone. And I can tell you, after having seen the faces and felt the presence of each one of my teammates family members yesterday morning, early sun streaming in through an open garage, coffee and embraces and howyoubeens abounding, the way that we exchange gifts, the way we open our season, the way we do things—is what it's all about. An entire workshop of creatives has labored, crafted, honed, perfected, and paid attention in order to make such a morning come to fruition.
And the morning was: in the flesh, which we borrow for only so long, about being eye to eye and hearing voices and stories from, literally, around the world. The morning was a familial introduction to our racing machines, and the point in time when we got the privilege of seeing Sacha's face soften from we're overworked to this makes sense and this feels so damn good. Just like Christmas (and/or) we got to see one another's expressions, revel in detail together, even cry a little. Then we all took our very first pedal strokes, down the block and through the roundabout, on the magic gold bikes that will continue to take us through it all. And by through it I mean through it, not around.
Thank you to everyone. Greasy knuckles, calloused hands, paint splattered faces, legs tired from standing—we know you're out there and you've made the world of bikes a better place. Thank you.
Rebound/Tireless Velo is proud to bring an updated version of their Zaandercross race for 2014. Gone are the long sandy stretches that made that race so popular/unpopular. We have been able to acquire a stunning new venue, Alderbrook Park, with all the challenges, terrain, and amenities for a great cyclocross race. Once again part of the GP series of races we invite you to come out see what we've put together. Expect lots of twisty grass and treed sections, several punchy climbs, stairs, power gravel grinding, and a little tiny bit of sand. Also, expect a great atmosphere and a great place to spend the day with the family.
Once again there is a raffle and once again all proceeds go to benefit the amazing work of P:ear. P:ear builds positive relationships with homeless & transitional youth through education, art & recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful & healthier lives.
Last year we were able to raise $5000 to aid P:ear in their efforts. Help us to double that this year by buying a $5 raffle ticket! You could win one of our Speedvagen Integrated CX stems!! You don't even need to be present to win, but you should be.
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- Adventure, mystery and a fight for survival in a medieval time city.
- 14 year-old Mac is abducted from everything he has ever known and hurled into a bewildering and dangerous new life in the time city of Loxeter. Why? he wishes he knew.
- He wasn't anything special in the twenty-first century but in Loxeter he is. Very special indeed. Why? He wishes he knew.
Further books about Mac and his adventures are planned for the future as well as other novels.
In fact, Stephen is planning to write lots more. He has been a teacher, a headmaster, a DJ and a football coach but, from September 1st 2016, he intends to be a full-time author for as long as he can think up things to write about!
This website will develop throughout the remainder of 2016 and will include a blog, latest news and further. If you want to keep up-to-date with Stephen's writing, ideas and plans, come regularly to this site www.stephenbaird.info
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"Black Inscription keeps breaking my heart… Every single moment comes from a place of truth… it is a journey both devastating and exhilarating! "
— Osvaldo Golijov, composer
Black Inscription, from Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi and Jeremy Flower, is a multimedia song cycle that follows a deep sea diver on her Odyssean journey. Written with guidance from experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and brought to life by a seven-piece band fronted by three singers, the immersive world premiere is a symbolic, scientific, and emotional plunge into the ocean where wonder, discovery, and reckoning entwine.
In Black Inscription, a free diver inspired by the late and great Natalia Molchanova, descends into the depths of the ocean, never to resurface. As her terrestrial ties dissolve, she encounters a mystifying underworld with billions of bioluminescent creatures, endlessly inventive structures of coral, gyres of human detritus, and abandoned nets still fishing for no one – sights both awe-inspiring and devastating.
The name Black Inscription comes from pioneering ecologist and writer Rachel Carson's description of the line of microplants that universally signifies the place where water meets rock. It is "…a message only partially legible although it seems in some way to be concerned with the universality of tides and oceans."
Black Inscription deciphers some of these messages through music, sound and imagery, and plunges us into our oceans, filling us with wonder, outrage, and hope.
"With lyrics about coral spawns, dislocated aquatic creatures and the water cycle, [Black Inscription] reads... like a love song to the changing sea... " — Zara Abrams, The Huffington Post
Join the Black Inscription crew and help bring this project to life in January, 2018 in New York City at the Prototype Festival, described by the New York Times as "...the city's most important spotlight on contemporary opera, broadly defined."
YES!!!! All contributions go through HERE, a non-profit and our fiscal sponsor. HERE is the venue in NYC that is presenting Black Inscription. Soon after the end of this Kickstarter campaign, HERE will send you an official letter for your tax records.
As we dive deep, your contribution will provide the oxygen for two big projects: The release of the album, and the creation of the live performance.
The Black Inscription album will take 2 forms:
• For those of you with an insatiable appetite for vinyl, we're creating a gorgeous 180-gram double gatefold LP.
• For those of you who prefer their music digital but have a deep love of tactile fine art, we're creating a dark blue envelope that contains a set of hand silkscreened prints by Lisa Carroll, one for each song, with the lyrics on the back… an instant exhibit for your living room!
(Both formats will include a CD of the album as well.)
Your contribution will also give life to our rehearsals, artist fees and the transportation, housing and feeding of our artists. That's 7 band-members, 4 theater designers, a visual artist, a graphic designer, 2 engineers, a writer, a voice actress! And last, but certainly not least, it will fund the creation of our immersive theatrical world, including a video installation created from both sourced deep sea footage and from our own underwater video shoots... that includes an underwater videographer, a suba-certified dancer, renting the accompanying gear... and much more!
COMPOSERS Matthias Bossi, Jeremy Flower & Carla Kihlstedt / BAND Carla Kihlstedt (voice, violin), Matthias Bossi (drums, voice), Jeremy Flower (guitar, keyboard, electronics, voice), Kristin Slipp (voice, keyboard), Ariel Parkington (voice, viola), George Ban-Weiss (bass for the live show), Jon Evans (bass on the album) & Michael Abraham (guitar) / LYRICIST Carla Kihlstedt / DIRECTORS Carla Kihlstedt & Mark deChiazza / Environment & Video Designer Mark deChiazza / Sound Designer Quentin Chiappetta / Lighting Designer Mary Ellen Stebbins / Costume Designer Sylvianne Shurman / SPOKEN TEXT Hannah Silva / VOICE ACTOR Tatyana Gessen / Visual Artist Lisa Carroll / Visual Artist Anna Singer
Our premiere is a 6-night run at the PROTOTYPE Festival on January 11-13 and 18-20 at 9:30pm At HERE's Dorothy B. Williams Theatre:
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY - Entry on Dominick St.
Tickets are on sale HERE!
Our entire budget, including the fulfilling the kickstarter rewards and the fees, is actually $64,500. I haven't posted the full number as our goal because of the high all-or-nothing stakes of a kickstarter campgain. We have had a few generous contributions outside of kickstarter which have gotten us started. $42,000 is the absolute bare bones figure that we need now to support the many elements of both the live performance and the album release.
If you help us go beyond our full budget goal, we'll use the funds to bring the show to other theaters and create a digital web presence for the project that connects it to oceanographic information and resources. If we truly shoot the moon on this campaign, we'll create a Virtual Reality music video for one (or more) of the songs! And, once that's done, we'll take the entire cast and crew out for a round of drinks to celebrate!
Risks and challenges
The songs of 'Black Inscription' are already in the can. We're working now on the elements of the live show in January. I'm happy to say that, barring acts of god, uprisings of vengeful mermaids, or total debilitating natural disaster, there is no risk of us not reaching the goals set for this project!
The timeline of the 'Black Inscription' album release is a bit tight between sending the tracks to the press and getting it all back in time for opening night in NYC, but I have mapped it out and am optimistic.
The worst-case-and-somewhat-unlikely scenario would simply be having the album in hand a few weeks later than our January NYC shows.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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The 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in Research and Industry 2017 (CFDRI 2017) organised by Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia in collaboration with Prince of Songkhla University is an event focusing solely on the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in academic and industrial research. This event, being the first of its kind in Malaysia aims at bringing together researchers from the academia and the industry from various engineering disciplines to exchange knowledge, experience and ideas in this branch of study.
With the Theme "Streamlining Technological Shift", the conference will run in parallel sessions with topics covering the application of CFD in the following fields:
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This event will be held on the 3rd – 4th August 2017 at BP Samila Beach Hotel, Songkhla, Thailand.
All accepted peer-reviewed papers will be published in IOP Conference Series-Materials Science and Engineering, Online ISSN: 1757-899X, indexed by SCOPUS. The papers will be published online latest by December 2017.
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Mr. Byars grew up in Alabaster and graduated from Thompson High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from the University of Montevallo, and earned his Masters of Education in Administration from the University of Montevallo. He completed his Ed.S. in Educational Leadership and Administration at the University of Montevallo as well.
Mr. Byars currently lives in Alabaster with his wife Christy and sons Brooks and Hudson, and his precious daughter Maryn. He loves spending time with his family and going to the park and watching sports. Mr. Byars is a huge Auburn fan, WAR EAGLE, and enjoys tailgating and watching Auburn play with his friends and family. Mr. Byars also enjoys reading John Grisham novels and going to the beach. He enjoys watching Sportscenter and reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond and Matlock.


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The Octopus Scarf
I had such high hopes for this scarf. The pattern was a lot of fun to do and really fast. In fact I had the first half done in a day. And then it struck me. I'm knitting a very long fuschia tentacle. What were supposed to be cables actually look like suckers to me. Don't they look like suckers to you?
Fortunately the scarf is reversible so instead of wearing a Sucker Scarf you could wear just a regular ol' scarf. How disappointing. I suppose if I went with a bigger hook size the cables might not be so prominent. I won't bother to link the pattern unless someone in my "blog audience" should happen to be a marine biologist, in which case an Octopus Scarf might be something they'd like. Regardless, I've added this scarf to the pile. I think this is number 11 but frankly, I have no idea.
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The 90s was an iconic decade, and while the era may be long gone, smartphone users can reminisce with the iPhone flip phone case.
The quirky case slides easily onto your smartphone and transforms it instantly into a flip phone-esque device that actually works. The flip phone case features a built-in receiver that changes where you hold your phone, which means you'll feel like you're using one of the retro devices. When closed, the flip phone case looks identical to the older phones, but doesn't restrict access to buttons or speakers so you'll always know when an alert is coming in.
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When I'm being rational I know that just exceptionally bad luck. But really, it's hard not to take it personally.
Last week was my second visit to Bhutan in six months. I was attending this three-day literary festival—on someone else's dime, which always contributes a certain frisson to travel—and then I was going to do a week of travelling on my own. This was going to make up for the last time when, regular readers of this column may remember, I fell sick on my first night, coughed my lungs out all over Bumthang and Thimphu, and ended up being ordered back home by the Indian military hospital doctor. This time I was hale and hearty and raring to see everything I'd missed.
We took off from Delhi in 41°C heading up to 44°, and landed at the international airport in Paro at 22° in a blessed drizzle. We climbed into the bus and started the forty-five minute journey to Thimphu. I couldn't stop smiling. There it was all around us, Bhutan, unspeakably lovely Bhutan: ethereal green clefts, scudding iron-grey clouds, pristine air, breezes that you'd sell your mother for. Everything was perfect.
About fifteen minutes into the bus ride I felt the first twinge, a painful spasm in the upper abdomen. Twenty minutes later it happened again, like a fist grabbing my insides and squeezing hard. My belly began to gurgle and twist in a dangerous sort of way. At the hotel I lunged into the bathroom expectantly but nothing happened. We had a bunch of speeches to sit through, so I popped a Digene. Things settled down, but the pain returned soon enough with such intensity that I found myself sweating in a cold evening.
I dragged myself through the festival with frequent doses of Digene, and two doses of antibiotics. On Thursday evening the worky part of the trip was over, the antibiotics seemed to be holding the fort, and I was looking forward to a week of skipping up and down mountainsides with an imaginary scarf billowing prettily in the wind. Everyone else was flying out early the next morning.
That's when the pain got so bad that I began to beg for a doctor. I was hustled into my jacket and driven to the local hospital through the rain at 10pm with a hot water bottle pressed to my middle. I think I was walked from room to room in search of a bed and a doctor, and am dimly aware that someone had a minor altercation with a doctor who resented being pulled from a critically ill patient to tend to someone who seemed to have a mysterious case of cooped-up gas.
I do clearly remember ending up on an antibiotic drip and two injected painkillers. I reacted to this by involuntarily leaping around on my bed (convulsions, someone said), speaking in sentences that came out as 'gaaah' and 'bleugh' (incoherence, someone said) and throwing up at regular intervals (gross, someone said). I think my doctor cousin in Delhi was on the phone with various people all night, and I know that it was he who, discovering that a CT scan couldn't be had where I was, ordered me back home, on an airplane seat that the Indian embassy was kind enough to arrange at the crack of dawn.
The CT scan in Delhi showed that I had—get this—roundworm. After five days of deworming meds and unusually ablutionary vigilance I haven't yet had the pleasure of spotting the little creep, but the doctor assures me it's dead as a doorknob, and I'm right as rain.
So, Bhutan. Feels like déjà vu all over again. I know it's just bad luck, but it's hard not to take it personally. Take your deworming tablets regularly, children.


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Each year, the Leadership Pocono class is divided into groups to work on a project that benefits its local community.
Each year, the Leadership Pocono class is divided into groups to work on a project that benefits its local community.
This year, one group is a marketing and creating promotional material for the Anger Management Course offered by Catholic Social Services.
The group has met with Tom Regan, program coordinator, and Nitza Desire, a Manpower and Catholic Social Services board member, to compose a plan to increase awareness of the class.
"I think it's important for the community to know that there is a resource and program available to reduce the incidents of domestic violence and violence in general. I also think it is important for businesses and corporations to be aware of a program that addresses workplace violence and harassment." Regan said.
Not only is this program beneficial to people who are mandated by a court to complete the course, but it also benefits anyone who may need help in managing their anger or stress from day-to-day.
The group will make recommendations for expansion of the Anger Management program and hope to see the course implemented by local businesses and schools as a part of employee wellness programs. The group will give a presentation at The Sherman Theatre in June.
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