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This morning I rode the exact same 88 mile ride as last Saturday. I left my house a little late for the 5 mile ride to Food Lion and the group had already departed. James and I caught up in Ridgeway while they stopped to wait for us. It was a strong group and we cruised along at about 23 mph for 3+ hours.
With 9 guys riding a paceline taking long pulls, I didn't spend much time on the front, so when I got up there I took some hard pulls. I rested yesterday and didn't spend much time outside in the heat either. I felt much better today than last week. 70 miles into the ride, going into Ridgeway, I got on the front and did 8 minutes at 367 watts, with the final 5 minutes climbing at 382 watts. James and LL were still on my wheel, and James jumped and took the mountain points.
Coming back from Ridgeway, we were kind of taking it easy, until LL's scooter, piloted by Steve, arrived to moto pace him back to his house. I followed along for 6 minutes until they turned off, averaging 30 mph. That was fun.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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- LL said...
that was good group and a good ride but WOW I am tired.
- August 15, 2009 at 8:43 PM
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THE Thistles in Stirling has announced regular quiet hour events to improve the shopping experience of customers with autism.
Following a successful trial last October, the initiative will become a regular fixture a the centre beginning next month.
Bosses confirmed the policy would be extended following positive feedback received from both customers and retailers.
It will now take place in the centre on the first Sunday of every month between 10-11am, beginning on February 4.
Stores in the shopping centre will participate in the quiet hour by adjusting their lighting where possible and turning off in-store music.
A spokesperson for The Thistles said: "We are pleased to be announcing this long-term commitment to holding a quiet hour in the centre.
"The feedback to this fantastic initiative, that was trialled in The Thistles at the end of 2017, was resoundingly positive.
"We are delighted to be playing our part in raising awareness of the very real challenges autistic people face in their daily lives by now rolling it out once a month through 2018."
The Thistles has been working alongside national charity Scottish Autism to build understanding of the condition across the retailers.
There will also be information on display where the public can find out more about autism and the types of support available.
Charlene Tait, director of autism practice and research at Scottish Autism, added: "The bright lights, music and smells in a shopping centre can be overwhelming for autistic people and their families.
"We are delighted to support this initiative where small adjustments can make for a more relaxed environment for autistic people and those with sensory conditions."


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A nice long wait for this update? I've been popping around between this mod and my other mod projects in other games. And I have to say, I am quite disappointed in the lack of support of this mod. And not making the top 100, again, delivers a message to me to basically cut development on this and go to one of my more supported projects.
Anyhow, Well see how this turns out.
Now onto the update:
The GFA Laser General is mostly completed, I only plan on making a few more tweaks to it before I send a release out. I have yet to fix the bug on that 'New & Mysterious' Unit that I have been talking about. But other than that, I should have this one done soon. I will most likely make a full installer to remove the problem of the 1.0 error.
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Summer Magic
Okay, so what is this?
Summer Magic is going to be a weekly post (Tuesdays) where we can all talk about what we are reading for the summer. Yes, everyone can join in on this, and the more the merrier. NO SPOILERS, please. If you have a blog and would like to link up for Summer Magic, please let me know and we can compile a linked group list. I'm in the works of making up a button as we speak. ;)
Now, I can't guarantee I'll have a whole book read every week. I'm writing too. :P But, every week, I will post for Summer Magic telling you about what I'm reading, where I am in the book, and my thoughts. This will also be a great place to share summer reading ideas, and get to know perhaps some great new authors out there as well. :) The first official Summer Magic Post, will be next Tuesday.
Here is my Summer Magic Reading List (so far *winks*)
1. Silence, by Becca Fitzpatrick (in the middle of now, so need to finish first)
2. Stained, by Ella James
3. City of Lost Souls, by Cassandra Claire
4. The Immortal Rules, by Julie Kagawa
5. Winter's Passage, by Julie Kagawa
6. Nightshade, by Andrea Cremer
7. Captivated, by Deb Apodaco
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Show your pet you love them just a little bit more on Saturday, February 20th because it's Love Your Pet Day! Take a moment to show them how much you care by doing something special just for them. Choose something from the list below or come up with your own unique way to shower your pet with love. Whatever you choose, leave a comment telling us what kind of pet you have and how you celebrated Love Your Pet day for that someone in your life who ALWAYS loves you unconditionally.
1. Make them a Homemade Meal or take them out for Doggy Ice Cream
2. Spend some time with your pet in the great outdoors
3. Arrange a play date for your pet or even host a Love Your Pet Day party
4. Take a Photo with your pet and proudly display it in your home or office
5. Give your pet a special gift (a toy, a bed, a blanket)
6. Plan a special trip for just the two of you (or the whole family, whatever your situation)
7. Have a snuggle fest and tell your pet all the reasons they mean so much to you
8. Dress them up with a fancy new collar or bandana or outfit
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Public Health BurdenOver 200,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year, and approximately 40,000 of those diagnosed die from the disease. Breast cancers are routinely classified by stage, pathology, grade, and molecular profiling.
Cancers that do not have any of these molecular markers are called triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC). They account for 15 percent of all globally diagnosed breast cancers and disproportionately affect younger women. TNBC are more likely to recur earlier in places other than breast tissue, and they have a generally poorer prognosis than other breast cancers.
TherapeuticsMolecules that block the DNA-marking enzyme histone deacetylase have emerged as a promising new class of cancer drugs. One of these in particular is panobinostat, a powerful blocker of histone deacetylase that can shut down multiple cancer-related pathways and reverse DNA-marking effects that have been linked to cancer progression.
Importance to Human HealthThis study took place at Tulane University, whose medical center primarily targets an under served, African American population. TNBC disproportionately affects African Americans; the physician-scientist who led this study is an oncologist who regularly treats TNBC in this population in her clinical practice. TNBCs are generally more aggressive and more likely to recur than other types of breast cancer.
Additionally, there are no currently available drug therapies that specifically target TNBC tumors. A great need exists for cancer drugs that can effectively treat TNBCs. Because the results of this project point to the panobinostat's ability to kill TNBC cells in culture, the researchers want to conduct further studies to determine its potential as a therapy for TNBC. The study team hopes to soon conduct a clinical trial that evaluates the effectiveness of panobinostat in humans with TNBC.
Quotes from the Principal InvestigatorThis ARRA-funded grant, in addition to enabling this important scientific advance, provided the opportunity for a young physician-scientist to establish herself as an independent researcher under the guidance of a seasoned scientific mentor. "Physician scientists [who are] absolutely committed to research [are] a rapidly dying breed in our system. Dr. Collins-Burrow, who is an MD/PhD, is very dedicated to an academic career…[Due to the time she spent finishing her clinical training], she needed a prolonged ramp-up time to get her own program up to speed again before she could get her own independent funding. The ARRA money…rapidly accelerated her ability to get her lab going and to generate the data she needed to submit an R01. She just submitted an R01 grant that is now under review."– Prescott L. Deininger, Ph.D
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The Rural Settlement Workshop is now only a few weeks away!
The Programme and Abstract Booklet can be downloaded here to give you an idea of the wonderful array of talks and posters that are planned. Places are still available to book (through the University of Edinburgh website).
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The antitrust staff at the Federal Trade Commission has latched onto Google's November 2009 $750 million purchase of AdMob, a mobile advertising company, and according to some well-placed media leaks, the Commission could vote soon on whether to challenge the deal as a violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The staff claims a Google-AdMob combination illegally reduces competition for "mobile web advertising," an industry that barely existed just two years ago (indeed, AdMob was founded in 2006). As a percentage of the overall demand for advertising, the type of advertising represented by AdMob — mobile devices, iPhones, etc. — isn't even a drop in the bucket. It's a still-developing market that nobody can predict or project with any accuracy, not even Google.
Not that ignorance has ever stopped the FTC before. Luckily, we have some documentation of that ignorance this time, courtesy of the folks at Wertago, a mobile app developer that was contacted by FTC staff as part of the Google-AdMob review. Wertago wasn't exactly impressed with the staff's grasp of hi-tech industry:
There is no way the FTC knows enough to support a decision to block the deal. The staff members we spoke to were not particularly knowledgeable about the mobile ad space they are considering interfering in, or about the technology sector more generally, or about mobile app development and monetization, or about the changes in the mobile advertising sector in the past year, or about the level of competition and pace of change and innovation in the market, however broadly or narrowly you define it. More generally, it seems obvious to us that the computer, web, and mobile technology sectors are so competitive and fast-moving that NO ONE has the knowledge, expertise, economic insight, or clairvoyance to say with much confidence precisely what effect the AdMob acquisition will have on competition in the market or on consumer welfare. We think a recommendation to block the acquisition would be a mistake. In fact, we think the investigation itself shows how presumptuous and biased toward action (and hubris?) regulators are, and how self-destructive it is for the technology sector to embrace the idea that government should have the power to approve or disapprove mergers, acquisitions, and other private economic transactions.
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This relatively straightforward portion of the conversation, however, revealed a relative lack of circumspection, of economic knowledge, and of fluency concerning things you'd really want a powerful regulator to know comprehensively and understand deeply before making any sort of decision to interfere.
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The FTC staff members we talked to asked some good questions, but not as many as you would want them to, and none that really showed a deep level of understanding of how competition works or a nuanced view of the competitive landscape. We were taken aback at how the fate of this transaction might hinge upon the views of people who clearly know much less than they think they know, about an industry they think they can surgically regulate. The more competitive an industry is, the more perfect a regulator's knowledge must be to justify preempting a deal as anti-competitive. Here, the regulator's knowledge seems rather, to be blunt, shallow, while the industry as a whole and the market itself (at pretty much every level of granularity) is very competitive.
Indeed, the internet and mobile technology sectors right now are perhaps the most (or among the most) competitive and fast-moving industries EVER TO EXIST. The web and mobile spaces have remarkably low barriers to entry. That's why there are so many people making a living, or supplementing their income, with small-business websites and now apps, and why a college student could create five short years ago what has become the most important social network in the world. And that's why so many apps have been developed on the iPhone and Android platforms in just two to three years of their existence.
All well and good, but at the end of the day, the FTC can't allow a market to exist without depending on the FTC for its continued existence. That's the issue here. The FTC staff doesn't care about the impact of Google's acquisition of AdMob on the mobile advertising market; even the staff would admit, after a couple of drinks, that they don't know what the impact will be. This is simply an opportunity for the staff to assert, once and for all, that everything Google does will now require several layers of antitrust scrutiny — and that means Google, its customers, and its competitors will need to start spending more money on antitrust lawyers to lobby the FTC. Sure, it means less spent on product development and customer satisfaction, but as the FTC sees it, free markets can't exist without "strong" antitrust enforcement.
The pending Google-AdMob war also represents the latest in a series of steps the FTC has taken to move away from the traditional antitrust concept of "market definition." This has been a judicial albatross around the Commission's neck for years. The courts — which still have some powers here — have long demanded the FTC define a market before it claims a merger will harm competition. The FTC doesn't like this for obvious reasons; nobody likes having to show their work.
The FTC wants to define every market as narrowly as possible; that makes it easier to prove the existence of a hypothetical "monopolist." And what's happened in the past decade or so is the Commission has subtly moved from defining markets to defining distribution channels as if they were markets. The Clinton-era FTC's victory over the Staples-Office Depot merger was one of the earliest successes on this front. By defining the antitrust-relevant market as office-product "superstores" rather then every store that sells office products, the FTC was able to change the focus from markets to methods of distribution.
This trend continued in merger cases like Nestle-Dreyers's ("superpremium ice cream") and Whole Foods-Wild Oats ("premium natural and organic supermarkets"), and those FTC victories paved the way for the looming Google-AdMob challenge. Ten years ago, antitrust regulators might not have bothered with such a small merger; now it's the engine of antitrust growth and development.
Pursuing distribution channels isn't just about defining smaller, niche markets. It's about challenging markets that aren't fully developed, like mobile web advertising. You don't have to wait for the product or service to become popular or well-established before cracking the antitrust whip. All you have to do is identify a core of customers who've become loyal to the product — what Judge Janice Rogers Brown called "inframarginal" consumers in her deplorable decision reinstating the FTC's case against Whole Foods — and you have a pretext for FTC intervention. It doesn't matter how small a group of consumers there are; antitrust treats them like an endangered species that must be protected.
The problem, as the Wertago folks explained so eloquently, is that the FTC doesn't understand the first thing about the distribution channels or consumers they think they're "protecting" from the likes of Google. Antitrust presumes regulatory expertise as a matter of government fiat. It's not even necessary for the FTC to demonstrate it knows what it's talking about. That's dangerous when you're dealing with established industries, and triply so when dealing with still-developing industries, as Wertago noted:
Without a crystal ball, the FTC is simply in no position to predict with any confidence what the acquisition will do to app developers, advertisers, and potential ad network market entrants. That last group (potential market participants) is important because you can't simply judge the competitiveness of an industry by looking at the (visible) existing market participants; you also have to look at the (invisible) *potential* market participants, those who're sitting on the sidelines NOW, but could jump in at any time if an opportunity presents itself. Especially in a low-barriers-to-entry markets, every *potential* market participant is an important influence on existing market participants and the competitiveness of the market as a whole.
The FTC will deal with these problems the way it always does: Hire an outside academic economist (for a six-figure sum) to construct an artificial model of the marketplace that ignores any variable that the FTC can't understand. Again, this is ultimately about the amount of resources devoted to antitrust "enforcement," not trying to predict the future of mobile advertising.
Even if Google fights the FTC and wins, the damage may have already been done. Unless and until someone actually goes after the Commission itself and challenges its existence, the only message that other technology firms will receive is that they better skim some capital away from their products to retain an ex-FTC lawyer to advise them on how to deal with the FTC should they be the next target. Similarly, Google has to make a choice: Follow the Microsoft route of appeasement, guaranteeing a permanent antitrust infestation within your company, or publicly making a comprehensive case against the FTC. Wertago made a good start. Now let's build on it, Google.
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Member of the Photochemistry, Reactivity & Environment (PRE) group.
Theoretical study and modelisation of the impact of solar light on the fate of organic micropollutants in natural environment (mechanisms, kinetic studies, reactivity). Ab initio calculations of excited states (CASSCF, TD-DFT), conical intersections, kinetic constants. Fondamental research : accurate calculation of coupled hindered rotors (kinetic and potential couplings).
1993 : Engineer in Chemistry ESCIL, Lyon, France
1995: Research at Ford Motor Co (1 year), Dearborn, Mi, USA. (adhesion phenomena)
1996 : PhD in theoretical chemistry, Detroit, Mi, USA. (molecular dynamics, theoretical kinetics)
1997 : Post-doc in ENS Lyon, France. (tribology)
1998-2002 : Teaching and research position at SREP), Université de Provence, Marseille. (free radicals, living polymerisation)
2002-2010 : Teaching at ENSCCF, Aubière and Research position in the Macromolecular Photochemistry Research Team, ICCF UMR CNRS 6296, Aubière. (theoretical study of the natural degradation of polymers)
2011-now : Teaching at ENSCCF, Aubière and Research position in the Photochemistry Research Team, ICCF UMR CNRS 6296, Aubière. (theoretical study of the natural degradation of pollutants in the environment)
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in her career, Ansari held positions with MCI Telecommunications
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Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch
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Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch
Although Richard Hine presented a 25-step advice list on How to Write a Novel in 30 Years or Less, he might have left out one "crucial-for success" point: Write a timely story. For when his book, Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch, debuts tomorrow — October 12, 2010 –, the author's perfect timing will become obvious.
However it wasn't always that way. During his years of working in publishing companies that included Adweek in 1988, Time in 1992, and The Wall Street Journal in 2002, Richard accepted each job by being told he "had just missed a great party." And, in the celebratory aftermath, everyone was stressed as the print media tried to be creative in the digital age.
Nevertheless it proved inspiring for the author who took a creative look at what was and what was not happening. As he says of writing his book:
"I've tried to peel away the outer cloak of seriousness that people bring to their workaday lives and reveal some truths about the specific challenges and pressures facing today's media business.
I do hope that my novel will appeal to a broad audience of readers—especially those who like the humor and humanity of "The Office" or movies like "American Beauty." But I also hope I've created a document that records what it was like to work specifically in the newspaper business in the first decade of the 21st Century."
With both his professional and personal plates heaped with problems, Russell Wiley is out to lunch, literally and figuratively. Here's the Synopsis:
Russell Wiley is in deep trouble. A media executive for the failing Daily Business Chronicle, his career is teetering on the brink of collapse, and his sexless marriage is fast approaching its expiration date. With his professional and personal lives floundering, it's no wonder Russell is distracted, unhappy, and losing faith in himself. Making matters worse are his scheming boss, a hot-shot new consultant determined to see Russell ousted, and the beguiling colleague whose mere presence has a disconcerting effect on Russell's starved libido. Disaster seems imminent…and that's before he makes a careless mistake that could cost the paper millions. Russell realizes he must take drastic action if he is going to salvage his career, his love life, and what little remains of his self-respect. Sardonic, edgy, and true to life, this gripping novel offers an insider's view into a newspaper's inner sanctum and the people who oil the wheels of the "old media" machine.
Now please watch a Video Interview with Richard Hine.
Applying the adage of "Write what you know," the author has taken on the corporate failure of the media to adapt to the times and then mixed in an Everyman to give the book heart, soul, and humor. In truth the complicated issues are reflected in the humanity of Russell (and some of his colleagues) as they throw ideas/darts at the wall, hoping a few will stick to become their salvation and allow them to maintain their power.
Of course power tends to equate with sex and sexiness — according to the author — is "at the core of the novel." In general terms this makes perfect sense since the media is driven by sex. And Russell is in the throes of realizing he isn't as sexy as he once was, whether at home with his wife, or at work with his corporate bosses and the advertisers whose cash keeps the company going. It's all very real and understandable when one considers that the print media has not adapted their content to connect with Internet users. In other words, to succeed in the future, newspapers simply need to sell enough ads to bankroll their high-priced content.
It's simple in business terms but what about in human terms? Ah, therein lies the humor. Although Richard admits that he doesn't know what the future holds for newspapers and magazines, he does know and care for the personalities who work in the industry:
"I do know that the media business I worked in is filled with some of the most intelligent, passionate, committed people you'll ever meet. Scratch the surface and you'll find they're wacky, too. Some even have quite a repertoire of silly walks."
Based on that intimate knowledge, the writer has given us Russell Wiley along with a newspaper staff trying to survive. Um, well, since it is a corporate business some are trying more than others. TRUST: Corporate work experience is not required to identify, appreciate, and understand these characters. Richard Hines' flawless writing "shows and tells" what is needed to know, including how Russell Wiley could use something close to a miracle to salvage his life.
*SPOILERS* are not allowed on The Divining Wand but creative endeavors found on the Internet are. Take, for example, the Daily Edge (definitely a part of the novel) which appears in its secret design on the home page of Richard Hine's website.
The author worked with top website designer Jefferson Rabb to create/build what you see as an internal document that allows for the addition of marginalia — the poking fun notations at today's newspaper business. It's brilliantly clever but that's not the best part. Richard explains taking this a step further:
"When we added a Twitter feed, the first thought was to just leave it, let it sit there inactive. But then I started tweeting fake news stories, and we decided the inactive part of the site should actually be the Blog, which is promised on the home page, but is still undelivered. It's worked out quite well so far, @TheDailyEdge actually had the Top Tweet on the Twitter #news hashtag a few days ago — take that CNN and New York Times!"
What fun and what more proof is necessary to claim that Richard Hine is the wily one? Beginning tomorrow Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch at your local bookstore and online retailer. Please stop by, pick him up, and take him home. His tale makes a wonderfully juicy, after dinner treat!
Book Giveaway: The Divining Wand is giving away two copies of Richard Hine's Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch in a random drawing of comments left only on this specific post. Comments left on other posts during the week will not be eligible. The deadline is Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. EDT with the winners to be announced here in Thursday's post. If you enter, please return Thursday to see if you're a winner.


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The Launch Campaign, 2010 - in aid of abandoned babies
The first everyONEcounts Exhibition
held at The Quays, Durban Point Waterfront, Durban, South Africa
Our aim was to bring awareness to the plight of abandoned babies, mostly new borns who have been 'discarded' down toilets, pits; often found ant-eaten and starved, left alone in open fields, on dumps... and shockingly tied up and thrown away alive in black bags, sometimes even left along highways to be driven over by passing cars.
The project, in the form of an exhibition of donated artworks, sought to bring the attention to these abandoned babies needs.
ALL WORKS including those that were sold beforehand, were exhibited from the 25th November - 17th December 2010 at The Quays on Timeball, at the Durban Point Waterfront Click Here to see the photos.
Artists from around the world pledged their support, each donating an artwork of 30cm x 30cm collaborating in ONE exhibition where each work was available for sale for ONE thousand SA Rands (no more, no less - regardless of status and standing, where each and every ONE is just as valuable regardless of talent and gifting) ... where everyONEcounts.
Colleen Hamer - Untitled - Oil on Canvas - Sold
In addition to all those who assisted directly with the exhibition, we were fortunate to have a team of amazing Comrades Runners who raised funds for everyONEcounts project. View our Comrades runners who raised funds for us on the day.


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The Three Divine Sisters: Pressing Forward with Faith, Hope, and Charity-By Anthony Sweat
This talk is also available in our ultimate 2016 mutual theme bundle HERE.For centuries Christianity has taught about the importance of "faith, hope, and charity." This entertaining and educational 40-minute talk by Anthony Sweat will have you laughing out loud and searching your scriptures as you learn about the divine relationship between these important "sisters". You will love how Brother Sweat helps the youth connect with individuals in the scriptures, like they live in our own day!Brother Sweat relates "faith, hope, and charity" to the 2016 LDS mutual theme! You can use this talk as a fun and educational youth activity – your own personal fireside! In fact, a PDF NOTE SHEET is provided along with this MP3 talk! The note sheet is filled with everything you need to follow along like you are right there sitting in the audience.
Brother Anthony Sweat has been a popular speaker and best-selling author for years. He has taught as a full-time seminary teacher and Especially For Youth speaker and session director. He currently teaches at BYU. He and his wife, Cindy, are expecting their seventh child.Brother Sweat references a painting in his talk by Jonathan Linton entitled "Faith, Hope, and Charity." This painting is featured on the back of the CD printout which accompanies this talk and can also be found at https://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/09/testifying-of-christ?lang=eng* This talk was provided by www.ldstalksforteens.com
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Indians Give Brantley New Contract – MLB Roundup
UNDATED (AP) — Outfielder Michael Brantley has landed a new $25 million, four-year contract with the Cleveland Indians.
Brantley batted a team-leading .284 last season, when Cleveland ended a five-year playoff drought. He also went the entire season without an error.
In other baseball news;
— Seattle has signed right-handed reliever Fernando Rodney to a $14 million, two-year deal. The 36-year old was 5-4 with 37 saves and a 3.38 earned run average with Tampa Bay last season.
— Former Major League manager Jim Fregosi (freh-GOH'-see) is hospitalized in Miami after suffering an apparent stroke while on a cruise for baseball fans. Fregosi is currently an executive with the Atlanta Braves.


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According to two recent public opinion polls, "large majorities of Americans" support President Obama's plans to revive the economy. There's a lot of hope that the fiscal stimulus can take the U.S. economy out of the current mess, so that we can get back to doing business as usual in 2010.
If history is any guide, though, a fiscal stimulus will do little if the banking system is in disarray. In recent memory, Japan is the best example of a major industrialized country with a busted banking system. In Japan, government spending did little in the past 20 years as the banks curbed lending while operating in survival mode.
We should not expect a perfect repetition of the Japanese experience, but as Mark Twain correctly observed, "History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme." Simply put, the banks are more important than the stimulus plan.
This is why financials led the market fall a few weeks back when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was all talk and no detail in announcing his "plans" for the public-private partnership to fix the banks. Geithner is surely aware of the Japanese experience, and he has precious little time to act.
U.S. banks have reported more losses -- and in a much faster fashion -- than the banks in Japan after the Nikkei topped out in 1989. Total write-offs by global financials have already topped $1 trillion, a result of the higher degrees of leverage embedded in the U.S. and other Western financial systems (thanks to derivatives and structured finance products).
Warren Buffett referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction" -- in 2003! If Warren had the chance to elaborate, securitization would probably be included in his statement.
And one of the few strategists who called the bust in U.S. banks -- Christopher Wood of CLSA -- recently stated at a Tokyo conference that he believes the U.S. situation will have worse deflationary effects than Japan because of the collapse in securitization. While Japanese banks made many dumb loans against overpriced collateral in the late 1980s, the securitization market was not well developed in Japan, thus, this imprudent lending behavior did not spread like cancer in the financial system.
As I have written before, you cannot make the banks lend more money in a slowing economy … when they just got burned by having lax lending rules. It makes no sense. This is especially true if they don't know what the toxic assets on their balance sheets are worth. Clearing the overhang of toxic paper in the U.S. financial system should be the government's top priority -- not deficit spending.
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Crises separate the wheat from the chaff. In the brokerage space, the two clear winners are Goldman Sachs
Goldman trades at 0.81 times book value, while Morgan Stanley trades at 0.72 times book value, both at a discount. The firms are unlikely to be as profitable as they were in the last credit cycle due to the decline in the use of balance sheet leverage, but they will also have less competition to deal with.
Bank winners
I am puzzled by the precipitous decline in Wells Fargo
If the major indexes keep falling in 2009 and mutual fund and hedge fund outflows continue, even good banks will decline as their valuations contract. But it is in these messy times that you get to pick up good stocks on the cheap.
Brokers have done better than banks thus far in 2009, so Goldman and Morgan are worth a look on pullbacks, but if you look for bottom-fishing candidates in the financial sector, the three banks above still make sense to consider.
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I had mentioned earlier that I liked the way that the Shock rpg handled stats, so I've tried to incorporate that. However, I also think that each phase of the world should have a Mythic Chaos rank associated with it, as it seems that the hero's fortunes rise and fall depending on each stage. I also think that some stages will need to be broken down into sub-stages with their own chaos rank.
Like, for example, in the "Crossing The First Threshold" phase, we don't want the hero to fail miserably, or the story gets stuck. So, I think that Phase should have a high chaos rank, and a high chance of success for the hero, with lucky breaks, etc.
In the "Ordeal" phase, the chaos rank should probably be lower near its beginning (sub-stage), when the hero should be at his/her lowest of lows,. Then it should rise near its end.
Now, of course, if chance surprises me and say, the hero fails at "Crossing The First Threshold", I'll have to find an in-story reason to deal with that, and try again. I think it's hard trying to maintain a balance between a coherent story and an interactive game. :)
Going back to the vaguely Shock style stats, I've decided that the overarching four stats for everyone will be Brains vs Brawn, and Integrity vs Corruption. I think those themes seem to have manifested themselves through play so far, and it makes sense that the story should be about those.
The way that Shock stats work is that you pick a number between 3 and 8 for each "praxis". In order to succeed you have to roll a d10 and come up under or over that "fulcrum" depending on which side of the "praxis" you're choosing. For example, if I chose Eli to have a 8 for his "Brains vs Brawn" praxis, it would mean that I have to roll under 8 using a d10, if Eli is using his Brains. If trying to use Brawn, I'd need to roll over 8.
Also, each protagonist in Shock has Features, which are characteristics that make your Protagonist unique. For each Feature a character has, a d10 is available when rolling against a stat/praxis. When a protagonist fails a roll (and only when they fail), that character gets to add a new feature, and an additional d10 to his arsenal. This is supposed to emulate a changing tide of fortune.
How am I trying to adapt this to Mythic and the Chaos rank? Well, I decided pick an "Acting Rank" for each Praxis, and the rest is pretty much like Shock: roll over or under Exceptional odds for a success depending on which side of the scale is being used. So, for example, I picked an "Exceptional" rank for Eli's Brains vs Brawn praxis. Eli needs to roll under Exceptional if using his Brains, and over Exceptional if using his Brawn.
Note that I'm using the Mythic "Acting Rank" as if it was an "Odds" rank. It translates to the same thing, but the "Acting Rank" definitions sound better to my ear.
The other thing I will be trying to emulate from Shock is the way it uses pools of d10's to count successes. Instead of pools of d10's, I'll be using pools of d100's (or 6 d10's). So for each feature, I'll have a d100 (or a pair of d10's).
One thing I'll do differently from Shock is that I won't be using the d4's for defensive rolls, but each character's successes will cancel the opposing character's successes. I haven't thought this out, so I'm not sure how it will look like in play, but I'm anticipating a lot of rolling!
Here are the first three characters (one of them we haven't met in play yet):
- Braniac and Artist. Knowledge seeker.
- Unassertive & scared of confrontation.
- Wants peace and affection.
- Does not like to swim (gained during lost conflict in Session 7)
- Brains vs Brawn : Exceptional (Eli needs to roll under Exceptional Odds for a success using Brains, and over Exceptional Difficulty for a success using Brawn . The actual number to beat changes depending on Chaos Factor.)
- Integrity vs Corruption: High
Brelward (audience boos)
- Cowardly bully
- (Mythic: Mockingly-Petite) Insecure about his height (a short beefy bully)
- (Mythic: Boldly-Ruined) A spoilt brat (ruined-->spoiled)
- Will abandon friends to save his own skin. (Gained during lost conflict in Session 6)
- Brains vs Brawn: Weak (Roll under Weak Odds if using Brains, Roll over Weak Difficulty if using Brawn. His strong side of the scale is Brawn.)
- Integrity vs Corruption: Below Average (Mythic didn't put him too far down the Corruption scale)
Thor (Eli's friend/protector)
- Highly principled; to a fault maybe. (see Integrity vs Corruption praxis)
- Brave, but not very smart. (reflecting his Brains vs Brawn praxis)
- (Mythic: Energetically-
LameAgile) An athletic kid.
- Brains vs Brawn: Minuscule (Roll under Minuscule Odds if using Brains, roll over Minuscule Difficulty if using Brawn)
- Integrity vs Corruption: Incredible (highly principled kid, to a fault maybe)
One interesting, and potentially neat thing about using opposed stats is the sharp contrasts they create. Weakling geniuses, vs physically gifted dim bulbs. :) That can change with time, if they fail enough and get more dice to roll.
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My husband and I have started a new eating pattern. We've decided we're not eating large amounts of sugary/starchy foods at dinner. As a matter of fact, we're trying to not eat those kinds of foods much at all. But my body didn't pre-agree to this arrangement, so right now, I'm typing because it keeps me away from the shortbread cookies in the cabinet. 🙂 My body is imagining it's hungry. But it's not. I ate enough at dinner; it's just that established pattern of eating mega carbs at dinner that I'm reacting to now that I've changed it.
I've broken this fattening pattern before, at various time of the day, depending on what time of day I've been indulging myself with sugary/starchy foods. I used to work in downtown Chicago where there are some dang good delis and bakeries. Just the muffin population alone is enough to make EVERYONE in Chicago really overweight. Muffins were a huge downfall for me for about six months. There was this place upstairs from the store I worked at that had really tasty, sugar crystal topped muffins. I got in the habit of eating breakfast at home and then eating breakfast #2 (muffin) at work. And what happened? I got fatter. Duh. When I realized this new pattern I'd adopted, adding just enough calories that I didn't burn in a typical work day, I decided to stop it. So I did. I just stopped patronizing that bakery upstairs every day before work. My weight went right back to my "normal" range.
Our pattern lately has been far too many heavy carbs at dinnertime and then something sweet to chase it (more carbs). Example: lasagna for dinner, sweetened salad, and ice cream for dessert. Not enough protein, not enough veggies. Too much starch and too much sugar. It's this particular pattern we're trying to break. I know I can do that. I've done it before.
I also know I'm not "fat". But I'm not at my optimal weight either. I'm maybe 8 pounds over, which is enough to make me feel "off" and sluggish. My optimal weight (where my body feels good and "right") is 122-125. I am at 130-132 currently. So my goal over the next however many months is to get back to about 125. I know I will feel more energetic and like how I look better too.
Below is an average day's eating for me. If I eat this way, I maintain my optimal weight quite easily.
Breakfast: egg, breakfast meat, piece of toast, fruit, milk
Lunch: sandwich, maybe soup, more fruit, water
Snack: yogurt or a cookie or cheese
Dinner: meat, salad, starch (lots), maybe veggies, water
Late night snack: fruit or cheese, water
I tend to be fairly good about my eating patterns. It's just when I break what works optimally for me that I see negative changes and feel not so great. It's usually very straightforward for me to find the break. Changing it can be challenging though. 🙂
I am wondering as I get older, however, and my metabolism slows, if my plan-of-attack (simple process-of-elimination) will fail me. My mom told me she needs to eat less as she gets older because she gains weight if she eats the same. I can feel that pattern starting with me too. So I'm trying to get smarter about my dinner choices now. My body will adjust. It always does when I go after bad patterns. It's just the first few days that are hard. (Like right now, I'm craving carbs – I want to eat a bunch of Doritos with some Curve Ball beer. 🙂
I don't often talk about my body or that I'm working on shedding a few because most women mock me when I do. 🙂 Most women think I'm this skinny-minny gal who has nothing to complain about in this department. They essentially tell me to come off it. In reality, even thinnish people have optimal weights and are very affected when they're off. I can tell if I gain 5 pounds. It really affects my energy level and mood. I may only weigh 130 with that gain, but it's still a gain that doesn't work for me. So I work hard to rid myself of it. Up to this point in life, that has only meant deleting extra calories. I think as I age it will require more work. (Dang, I may have to seriously exercise rather than just joyride on my bike or do yardwork.) I don't like the idea that my so-far-successful plan won't work one day, and I'm in the middle of implementing it again, but we'll see I suppose.
Side Note: The particular pattern I'm talking about with eating too many carbs at dinner followed by a sweet treat is the way most restaurants arrange their menus. It's also reinforced where we all shop for food. No matter what door you enter in a grocery, the first foods we're greeted with are all starches and sweets. I'm all about breaking with the system when it feels like the system is against me, against optimal eating patterns, and good health.
Side Note 2: Here are a few other mental tricks I do to keep on MY system rather than succumb to the commercialized one which really does NOT have my best interests at heart…
1. I try to follow the "80% rule" that is well-known in Japan. Only eat til you're 80% full. That's plenty. Most restaurants offer you enough to fill TWO people to 80% capacity. Ultimately, most commercial restaurants aren't out to help us. Let's be honest. Their core purpose is to make money. Therefore, more food=more profit. There's nothing wrong with that as a business selling product, but we consumers need to realize it and not just get sucked into mindless eating out "experiences" where gluttony supposedly equals good times. (That's mental if you really think about it. And America is not really thinking about it.) Of course it's fine to enjoy a nice dinner out, but I find myself not so willing anymore to get brainlessly "sold" on feel-good eating experiences where the restaurant clearly benefits, and I clearly don't.
2. I grocery shop primarily on the perimeter of the store and stay away from the aisles as much as possible. The aisles have all the processed, pre-packaged stuff. The perimeter has the fresh, raw stuff (produce, dairy, meat, fresh baked goods as opposed to pre-packaged).
3. I brush my teeth earlier in my evening rather than right before bed. Sounds weird, but this actually makes me think "sleep" rather than "eat". Plus I don't like doing things twice. So for my bizarro personality, this little trick has stopped many a time from impulsively snacking late at night.
4. I think of eating out as a special treat, not something well deserved in my week, many times over. America has succumbed to the idea that eating out should be a "normal" part of everyone's normal week, daily social life (ex.: work lunches), and family time. Eating out has become a way of life, all week long. Many families eat out as much as they eat in now. And restaurants are serving mammoth portions compared to what they were 20 years ago. I don't know why everyone keeps asking why Americans are getting heavier every year. It's a dumb question. Just do some thinking on our habits and mindsets. Who decided that eating out was the new eating in? Someone with their eye on making money, that's who. Very smart by the way – they're clearly winning.
Those are my thoughts on food today. I'm still feeling hungry, but I'm going to break this fattening dinner habit!


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Working through the many projects I have done over the years, I have learned that there are two approaches you can take. One approach would be to go it alone and the other approach would involve working with others in order to complete the project. There are obviously advantages to each approach.
Probably the best benefit of going it alone in a project is that you have complete control over every aspect of it. You make all of the decisions, there is nobody there to argue with it or no creative differences of any kind. There may be other issues that will come into play like your budget. Perhaps you simply do not have the budget that would allow you to hire on others or to entice anyone to participate.
I know a lot of people who basically have been going it alone. Some of them, it seems to work for, while others don't seem to make much progress at all, regardless as to how many years they have been at it. If it seems that you are not making progress after going it alone for a long time, it may be time to consider trying to put together a team.
Sometimes you may be able to assemble a group of people without having to shell out a lot of money. Allow me to provide an example. Let's say that you are a blog writer. I know from experience that you can write blogs for a very long time and build a readership base at a very slow pace. Most bloggers I know of basically go it all alone. They write their own blog and do their own website with their blog on it. They often struggle to build a following or acquire a great number of subscribers.
The problem is that many bloggers don't work together to help promote one another. It's not really about being competitive, it has more to do with the fact that each person gets so caught up in what they are doing that they often neglect to look at the big picture. To me, the big picture is not the work itself but building up a following so people can see your work.
Now let's say that you have been writing a blog for a number of years and have not been building that following. Well, you may be doing something wrong that has nothing at all to do with the quality of your work. It may have much more to do with your approach to promoting yourself.
So let's also say that you now want to change your approach since it has not been working out so well for you. Let's say that you find a few other bloggers and decide to start your own website that will post the work of a number of bloggers. Each blogger promotes the site in the hopes that they could all share each others' readers. So how would this work any better than going it alone? I am glad that you asked. Allow me to elaborate on that:
First of all, people will generally care more about something that they are involved in rather than something that they are not involved in. It is basic human nature. So when it comes to promoting something, they are more likely to promote, mention or bring attention to something they are involved in.
So if you have a group of ten bloggers promoting a website, you should be able to pull in a significant amount of traffic to the site. Then you could hope that over time, the traffic will grow and your readership base for your blog will grow significantly as well.
Then there is the social networking aspect of it all. Let's say that your website has a Facebook group. If each contributing writer participates in the group by posting and commenting, while inviting their Facebook friends, they should be able to generate a lot of activity as well as interest in the Facebook group. That could help to generate more interest in the website as well.
Much of the success would obviously depend upon the level of participation of the group of writers. If each member of the group really does his or her share of the writing, promotion and participation on the social networking sites, success for each member becomes more likely. So obviously it is important to make sure that you assemble a group of quality writers who work not only hard on their writing but their self promotion as well. If everyone works hard and together, it should turn out much better than going it alone.
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Updates: Green gentrification, ha! Why 'green cities' need to become a deeply lived experience: "Urban greening provides an opportunity to recast the relationship between people and environment…Rather than simply cultivating green spaces for a narrow set of anthropocentric benefits, we pose the question: who are the participants in urban greening?"…Anthropocene reading: literary history in geologic times…Environmental history workshop (Sep 2018; virtual workshop)…Cii-fi companion coming…
Back half of Remaking nature – see front half.
Composing new natures
Having now introduced some of the reasons why nature must be remade, this week we move on to experiment with different ways of composing new natures.
How do we translate our concerns about nature into interventions that will make a meaningful difference? How can we both discursively (in the way we write, speak and think) and materially address questions of politics and ethics, history and justice, facts and values?
Starting points:
- what do you want to achieve – to address a specific problem, celebrate nature, acknowledge our interconnections with the wider world, or advocate for a particular outcome?
- determine how you want your audiences or participants to respond – what do you want them to think, feel, or do?
- what is your creative idea that will achieve your desired responses?
- what will you actually do – will your intervention be artistic, discursive, or performative?
Four modes of intervention aka creative eco-activism:
- challenging or disrupting ways of thinking about nature – increases mainstream awareness, but can you achieve what you want by creating a shared sense of collaboration, or open up public agendas and opportunities for action?
- narrating possible natures – documenting and re-storying/writing nature, inc digital stories; discursive, but can be dualistic; how can we represent nature and make a voice for it?
- creating a public sense of identification with nature – #some opens up possibilities for interventions that resonate with your audience's concerns, values, and attachments: seek ways to create emotional connections and use everyday language that your audiences will identify with – no jargon!
- motivating action – advocacy and activism
- plus from comments: embedded and participatory
- how to talk about environmental problems in ways that will resonate with your audiences
- how to intensify and mobilise concerns about the more-than-human world
- how to establish meaningful mechanisms for navigating and intervening in decision-making processes
- artistic representations – eg Nuclear Futures
- eco-criticism and re-writing nature – see below
- bio-art – artistic interventions at the nexus between plant science, art, plus earth jurisprudence (bioethics, or nature rights), reflecting on the possibility of plants and other entities having a different way of thinking, a different form of sentience and ultimately different rights, calling for a radical rethinking of humanity's place in the world (Prue Gibson)
Next, drawing on the concepts developed in this course post a link to an inspiring example of an intervention, possibly relating to your topic. Why does it inspire you? Hmm…it just all goes back to reading Peter Singer aged 14. Any trees stuff? #labbeagles? See Walking with the more than human (and blog). I have an issue though with being anthropomorphic re animals. (From the week 5 discussions: Re anthropomorphism, aka the "*unwarranted* use of human-like characteristics in our descriptions of others. As such, the term tends to largely be used in question begging ways – as an insult that assumes that the animal doesn't have these characteristics, when that is precisely what is at issue…[see also] anthropodenial…human chauvinism and human exceptionalism. They need not travel together".)
And now create your own intervention based on yer week 3 issue – say something interesting, provocative, perhaps eye catching, about your issue and its possible futures, ideally in a way that might make a difference to how people understand and live with this environmental issue. Then add it to the creative interventions padlet, with details of the theoretical context for your intervention – why do you think this is a good approach, and what have you hoped to achieve with it?
Eco-criticism and re-writing nature
Eco-criticism, a field of study that explores the inter-relationships of literature and the environment, is a tool for intervening in the way nature is understood, imagined and made – not simply as a mode of critique but also as a means of effecting change. How can, and do, literary and poetic forms help to trouble mainstream thinking about the environment?
Eco-criticism is a subfield of literary studies and cultural studies that looks at representations of the more-than-human world in poetry, film, and fiction. In the early days of the 1980s and 1990s, eco-critics didn't have a very complicated idea of nature, but since then the real problem of naturecultures has been taken on.
Eco-critics can help in the project of reimagining nature in numerous ways. One important way is the historical perspective, looking into the history of artistic representation to show up how nature or the more-than-human world has been represented across time…there have been other ways of reading and understanding the more-than-human world in history, and that can help denaturalise the present.
There's something quite apocalyptic about the mainstream imagining of climate change. We need to take the challenges of climate change seriously, but at the same time we can't just imagine it in apocalyptic terms. Eco-criticism can show us how the apocalypse has had different incarnations across history. Every generation has had its own apocalypse story – our present crisis is just a part of this bigger history. But at the same time we need alternative visions for the future, and poets and artists, particularly operating in a speculative fictional sense, can help us to get out of this apocalyptic vision and think differently about the future.
Storytelling, and particularly narrative storytelling, is emerging as central to the EH project because it offers a different way of representing information. Eco-critics look at the structure of stories, the formal techniques, the history of different modes of representation and use story as a way of presenting and disseminating their research.
As Donna Haraway said in her recent article in Environmental Humanities it matters which stories tell stories. The stories we tell about the world, matter the world, and actually have an impact on the way that we behave, and the way that we live, and the way that we imagine the future. And so stories, both fictional and non-fictional are really important to this broad project. (Jennifer Mae Hamilton; from transcript)
- narrating possible natures – documenting and re-storying/writing nature, inc digital stories; discursive, but can be dualistic; how can we represent nature and make a voice for it?
- storytelling, particularly speculative forms that offer alternative visions of the future, is an important tool for engaging with environmental challenges, see article by Margaret Atwood, reflecting on the growing rise of speculative fiction, principally 'cli-fi'; a way of educating young people about the dangers that face them and helping them to think through the problems and divine solutions, or just another part of the 'entertainment business'?
Eco-criticism linkage:
- Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-UKI), publishes Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
- European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE)
- Research Centre for Environmental Humanities (Bath Spa; blog | @BSUEnvHums)
- MA in Literature, Landscape and the Environment (@LitandLand; course | @samlwalton)
- Cultures of nature and wellbeing – "connecting health and the environment through literature"
- Landscaping change – "exploring the transformation, reconstitution and disruption of environments through the arts and humanities and social science" (article); events on Earth (report), Water, Route ("on places and the connections we make between them") and Streets, plus a conference on 29-31 March 2016 (report | Storify)
- climate change literature aka cli-fi – Free Word Centre's Weather Stations project and Weatherfronts 2016, see World Literature Today overview; This is a picture of wind; see also fictocriticism
- elements of new nature writing – esp Amy Liptrot (@amy_may) on (self)tracking and connecting with nature (reviews: Will Self | The Island Review | Katherine Norbury); see also Technobiophilia
- more Orkney from Laura Watts (@laurawatts; review of ebban an' flowan by Amy Liptrot)
- more Denmark: @aktionsfilosofi & Growing Pathways | @fnogr | @GryWHallberg | Ny Jord. Tidsskrift for naturkritik (FB; review | Atlas | Information| Promenaden) | Poesi og politik i klimakrisens skær | Kan litteraturen redde klimaet? | Free Word Centre favourite Charlotte Weitze (review) with Den afskyelige and Maja Lunde with Biernes Historie (norsk; review | another) garnered a lot of media coverage and even an event, but mixed reviews
- more ethnocentric Denmark: an article in Politiken about safari parks on 16 July opened with this corker: "Rundt om i verden vil folk forbyde zoologiske haver, og forhindre drab som det på giraffen Marius. Vi danskere ser mere pragmatisk på det – vi er vant til, at natur og dyr er noget, mennesker forvalter." But we have a contrarian: a KADK Kandidat Med blik og tanke for naturen
- more: Paul Kingsnorth on how land feels | Ken Worpole on the new nature | The trees, a dystopian environmental novel
Have to say, so far none of this does as much for me as I feel it ought to, and others' creative intervention projects don't appeal either. Still, I wrote a bit on what now turns out to be EH in October 2014, summing up two events in Copenhagen from Energy Futures at ITU (@EnergyFutureITU; gone a bit quiet since). On Pynt eller politik?:
The debate on engagement stuck out, with participants highlighting the need for new forms of communication, perhaps reducing the dystopian angle on climate change in favour of something more positive. More idealistic was a call for more of the aesthetic, which in turn would emphasise the ethical in society and education (this works better på dansk), more solutions and positive stories, less of the victim, endless facts and figures – current discourse is too functional and economically driven. What is needed is collective action rather than passive individuals, a lifestyle and value system change away from consumption.
New narratives for new natures
This week we looked at the power of storytelling in composing new natures. We encountered the recurring idea that telling stories draws us into new connections, accountabilities and obligations. You invented your own creative stories about the future through the Game of Global Futures, which illustrated how different connections, or coalescences, lead to different environmental outcomes.
Sadly, this is where I lost the plot and reached my personal tipping point. Games don't appeal, but thanks to a fellow students for posting some material re the dominance of storytelling, specifically Galen Strawson in Aeon and Tyler Cowen via the medium of TEDx (really), who went from Christopher Booker's seven basic plots to the three problems with stories (they're simple and manipulative, they end up serving dual and conflicting functions, markets and politicians don't always send us the right stories) – embrace mess!
We were also introduced to the concepts of re-making and re-worlding, "used within EH and a range of other fields which acknowledges that our understandings of the world are made and re-made through encounters between different imaginaries…art interventions and other forms of research — as forms of worlding — can envision new worlds that demonstrate greater ethics of care and concern, and can potentially open up more responsible imaginaries and ways of knowing".
Moving on, there are four different modes or lenses for telling stories within EH:
- justice – the social justice expression of environmental ethics; breaks down the division between the social and the environmental and acknowledges the role of social and political power in shaping environmental outcomes
- care – affective, ethical and practical (a vital affective state, and an ethical obligation, and a practical labour), but care not without risk; what kinds of emotional, political, and epistemic frames orient our caring acts? what am I really caring for, why, and at what cost to whom? (come in, CPH Zoo)
- art – what are the implications for knowledge and public engagement in environmental issues, when an artistic mode is adopted?
- democratising knowledge – questioning existing public engagement approaches that concentrate on public acceptance of pre-determined, technology-driven responses to environmental problems and engaging with complex issues around who has access to framing environmental problems and driving change; what counts as facts and what counts as values? We've tended to value facts, which we assume are objective, over values, which we assume are sort of subjective or sort of irrational (comment from co-student: "the general public has 'values' right enough but these are often of the NIMBY variety or based on sentimentality…there is a whole industry grown up around public participation which keeps everyone in a fine state of ferment")
Each of these storytelling modes offers a different framework for understanding and working through the stories humans tell — and hence the relationships we establish, with their world-making consequences. Together, these modes can help us to tell new stories that exhibit greater responsibility towards humans and the more-than-human world.
Where do these new natures take us?
Final week, a conclusion? Discussing the importance of care and responsibility in future-making, introducing the notion of 'staying with the trouble', and why it's important to base our accounts in situated experiences of the world.
Forget utopias – the lure of hope as a form of denial or distraction can be very strong. Engage in practical and concrete modes of care and responsibility for possible worlds – what's needed is a critical lens on, and more attention towards, what it is that we're specifically hoping and working towards.
Forget apocalypse – use optimistic stories that provoke a sense of agency, rather than focusing on apocalyptic visions of the future. If the communication does not resonate with social norms, values or attachments that influence audiences' sense-making processes, it cannot succeed.
We now leave you with a final provocation: What is your next step? How will you use the knowledge and connections that you gained in this course to influence change in a situation that you care about?
Overall, too many new concepts, too much jargon, too many earnest academics talking to each other – a rather more high minded MOOC than many.
EH linkage:
- Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (@EEHNetwork), @EnviroHum (experimental environmental eZine)
- Centre for Environmental Humanities (Bristol; @UoBrisCEH)
- GeoHumanities Forum (Royal Holloway; @RHGeoHumanities)
- Solway Centre for Environment and Culture (@SolwayCentre)
- projects: ChickenCoop (@Chicken_project) | Hydrocitizens (@Hydrocitizens) | Law and time (blog & @RegulatingTime)
- DK: Klimakvarter (Østerbro; installations/performances) | Land Art Generator Initiative 2014 & Land-Shape (Nordjylland) | Humanomics research group, inc Claus Emmeche (see Natursyn podcast with Nicolai Halvorsen)
- Bifrost (@Bifrostonline | ): "environmental humanities intervention on climate change" led the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies; not much Danish participation spotted
- academics/writers: Amy Cutler (@amycutler1985) on the forest; see Late Junction (21 June) | Michelle Bastian (@mhbastian) on time | David Borthwick (@BorthwickDave) | Tom Jeffreys (@tomjeffreys) esp Baltic diary: art, nature and national identity and The Learned Pig's nature leg (@The_Learned_Pig)
- plus #medhums (@UoBrisMedHums), Medical Museion, @Sustain_UCPH and Ruth Garde (@ruthgarde; suspect part Danish, likes benches); also comes as a MOOC, Medicine and the arts: humanising healthcare; CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society) and The Reader
- CNET's Technically literate
- Living as a goat, which looks at the issues raised by two recent efforts
- a new book on humans' relationship with dogs, worth a closer look; when I got my first dog my values were put into question by the rather different approach taken by his Danish breeder and associated trainers – see Colin Dayan's With dogs at the edge of life for some more challenging perspectives – see the LRB Bookshop and the Boston Review
From the Walking Encylopedia (2014), walking as a way of expressing environmental concerns and tracking climate change – see for example Jess Allen's All in a day's walk and Tilting at windmills. Jess is exploring the concept of tracktivism, "utilising walking and moving and talking in rural landscapes to address issues of environmental, social or political concern". (Update: on Talking Walking. Aug 2o14; see also on Academia.edu.) Also Peter Ward's Pebble Ridge and BIOsphere. Steph Bradley is involved in with the Transition Network – see her blog – and uses storywalks to tell Tales of our times.


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Claro Monastery Hike & Rabadan, Sun 19 Feb 2012 (Zurich)
Rabadan, Rabadan, Rabadan, the craziness is less than 4 days away!!!
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Here is the plan!
Travel Arrangements
Getting There
Milano Centrale 9.10->10.34 Bellinzona
Lugano Centrale 10.12->10.34 Bellinzona
Milanese REMEMBER to buy Swiss and Italian tickets separately to save money(via Chiasso).
There's 30 minutes (although this train is often late) at the station to group, get swiss francs or any other supplies you need before we take the 11.09 Bus Protected content Bellinzona Piazzale to Gnosca, arriving at 11.22am.
The hike will finish at Castione-Arbedo where we take either the 14.24, 14.52, 14.55, 15.25, 15.52 or 15.55 for a 4 minute train journey back to Bellinzona.
Getting Back
For Milano, Andy has suggested the Bellinzona 21.25->22.50 Milano Centrale or ->23.09 Sesto. There are sensible train links at the following times
17.25->18. Protected content 20.25->22. Protected content 22.25->00.22
For the Luganese it's a lot more flexible. You can also buy tickets on your phone if you have the SBB app.
Weather Forecast
As of 15 Feb Protected content forecast for 19 Feb Protected content Bellinzona is 8C, some clouds with a 15% chance of <0.1mm of rainfall. Pretty Good :)
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Hike Description
We descend from bus Protected content 11.22am and take a quick look around the church ruins at Gnosca, before locating the footpath and heading towards the small bridge over River Ticino.
Once safely on the other side we head north along the river bank until we are just past the road bridge. Here we follow a path right towards central Claro and find the path towards the monastery.
We ascend the hill and visit the monastery, then come down using the same route.
We take a left on the Path outside Claro that brings us down to the river path we travel South along the route we travelled on earlier but instead of crossing the bridge to Gnosca continue to Castione-Arbedo and find our way to the train station.
The ascent is only 400m. The hike is quite easy and takes around 4 hours. You should bring a sandwich or snack and some water. Trainers/sneakers are fine. We should aim to get on the 14.55 or 15.25 train back into town.
If you need more details on this carnival go here (in Italian)
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Cheers and See You Soon,


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Events both immense—like the painful birth of a nation—and humdrum are observed through the eyes of a child from a wealthy Bengali family, in an unusual novel-as-memoir by a celebrated British author.
Zaved Mahmood is the husband of writer Hensher (The Missing Ink, 2012, etc.), and it's Zaved's stories of childhood which feed this richly-detailed fiction evoking life in Dacca, Pakistan, in a large, comfortable, extended family, while also subtly introducing disturbing glimpses of a growing social divide. Zaved recalls his childhood years, playing in the garden of his grandfather, the president of the East Pakistan Income Tax Lawyers' Association. Zaved's father is a lawyer too and so, eventually, will the son become. We glimpse the boy's parents, siblings, uncles and aunts, meet his pet chicken and journey with him to the village where the family originated. But these low-key early scenes are threaded with hints of oppression. Zaved's family is Bengali, and their culture is coming under increasingly suppression by the Urdu-speaking government. In 1971, after an election, violence flares into a terrible, eight-month war of independence. The family, huddled together for safety, witnesses the bloodshed firsthand but survives, and episodic family life, its dramas and feuds, resumes.
Neither history nor autobiography, this well-crafted, illustrated hybrid offers insight and warmth yet remains something of a literary curiosity.


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Hello Everyone,
How was your Monday? Mine was, well STINKY! Yes, your read right! STINKY!
We had soooooo much fun writing Stinky Poems today.
First, we started off by picking gross, stinky, disgusting words out of our Frankenstein heads.
The words were meant to describe different aspects of our Halloween character. The students had the choice between a Werewolf, Frankenstein, a Witch, and a Vampire.
Would you like to take a guess as to which character was the most popular!!!!????
The Werewolf was all the rage and won by a landslide!
So, after picking their character, students picked words out of 6 Frankenstein Heads (love the Dollar Store). One to describe the character, one to describe its attire, one to describe what it smells like, one to describe what it feels like, one to describe what it sounds like, and one to describe how it makes the student feel.
The kiddies had soooooo much fun picking the words out and
"EWE" and "YUCK" were exclaimed all morning long!
This was such a great way to review synonyms and learn some new vocabulary.
After we filled out our sheets, we recopied our poems and completed our crafts.
Here is the finished product and a taste of some of our Stinky Poems!
Click on the pictures to enlarge and read the poems!
You can find my Stinky Poems Halloween Craftivity right over HERE!
Until next time...


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K.C. is the girl he won't let get away...
K.C. Carter has always followed the rules - until this year, when a mistake leaves her the talk of her college campus and her carefully arranged life comes crashing to a halt. Now she's stuck in her small hometown for the summer to complete her court-ordered community service, and to make matters worse, trouble is living right next door.
Jaxon Trent is the worst kind of temptation and exactly what K.C. was supposed to stay away from in high school. But he never forgot her. She was the one girl who wouldn't give him the time of day and the only one to ever say no. Fate has brought K.C. back into his life - except what he thought was a great twist of luck turns out to be too close for comfort. As the bond between them grows, he discovers that convincing K.C. to get out from her mother's shadow is hard, but revealing the darkest parts of his soul is nearly impossible...
Oh my God! This book. The feels.
I think this is the first book to ever give me mixed feelings about character's and their relationship...
I was convinced at one point that either the character's had bipolar, or I did. They would argue, then KABOOM! Fire. Passion. Chemistry.
Jax was an asshole. His MO was asshole, asshole, sweety-pie, asshole, asshole, etc. And yet, I fell in love with me? I was like, wait what? How is this possible? But I know how; because Penelope Douglas is a bad-ass!!! She created such a diverse, complex character in Jax and you had to deal with his jerky-side coming out once in a while, to get to the really good stuff underneath.
And K.C. (Or should I say Juliet?) What she went through with her childhood, how horrific and terrible. From what she went through, I don't understand how she wasn't more damaged. Jax pushed and pushed and pushed K.C. - pushed her to her limits. Until she finally found freedom and became herself - Juliet - not the ghost of someone else. She became stronger, independent, stuck up for herself, and I admired her for that. And I applaud Jax for pushing her.
I loved this twisted, fiery relationship. Loved how Jax wanted to be better and do better by Juliet. Loved how he spoiled her. Adored her. Oh, and I especially love their tattoos! The Wings, and Bite Marks/Juliet Quote from Romeo and Juliet.
However, there was just one thing that annoyed me about this book - nothing big or anything. It might just be me, but when Jax says "I'd cut my hair, stepped foot in an Abercrombie and Fitch, and made love for the first time." I was like, er, wait, what? Since when did you make love to Juliet? Did I miss that? 'Cause it just seemed that you screwed her, thoroughly! But, maybe that's just me.
Other than that, this book is a must read! I absolutely adored it - I got through it in just two days (71% in day one). So guys, get reading!
Favourite Quotes:
"God, baby... I missed you."
"Come here," he growled, and lifted me underneath my arms, holding me above him. I gasped, looking down at him and seeing the veins bulging on his neck.
He smiled, excitement flashing in his eyes as he stared up at me. "I fucking love you, baby."
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Hotel Chata Rooms
The Hotel Chata offers accommodation in two- to seven-bed rooms and suites with extra beds. All are equipped with a private bathroom. Guests can use a social hall, darts, bike rental, ski and board games rental, laundry and other services. Attentive staff will be happy to provide tickets to social and cultural events and to give information on how to spend your free time the best.


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There aren't any requirements to purchase no-fault insurance, which makes it easier to find cheap Missouri car insurance. They do, however, require UM/UIM coverage to protect against accidents with uninsured or underinsured motorists. Liability is of course required, and the specific amounts can be found in the table below:
|Most Common
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|Property Damage Liability
|Uninsured Motorist Bodily Injury
|Medical Payments
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|Not required
|500 deductible
|Not required
|250 deductible
Unlike some other states, Missouri requires Uninsured Motorist coverage which protects drivers from underinsured motorists, motorists with no insurance at all, or from hit-and-run accidents. But there are also optional types of coverage, such as Comprehensive, which can protect you from theft or vandalism.
If you are convicted of your first DUI offense, you may face the following penalties: a 6 month prison sentence; a fine of up to $500; your license may be fully suspended for 30 days and undergo a restricted suspension for an additional 60 days; you will have to pay a $45 license reinstatement fee; you will be required to purchase SR-22 insurance; and you might have to install an ignition interlock device on your automobile.
Not every driver is required to file an SR-22. These are for special cases when motorists are convicted of serious driving violations. These include causing an accident while driving without insurance, being convicted of a DUI, or operating a motor vehicle without proof of insurance. In Missouri, you will need to file an SR-22 in order to have your driver's license reinstated.
You only have to be 15 years old in order to apply for a learner stage permit in the state of Missouri. You must maintain that permit in good standing for at least six months, gain 40 hours of supervised driving, and 10 hours of supervised night driving before moving to the next level. At the age of 16, you can then apply for an intermediate permit, which restricts novice drivers from being on the road between 1 and 5 AM. For the first 6 months of your intermediate permit, you cannot drive with more than 1 non-family passenger under the age of 19; after that, the passenger restriction raises to 3. At the age of 18, Missouri teens can apply for a full driver license.
If you have a poor credit score in Missouri, you could end up paying an 87% higher rate than what a driver with a good or excellent credit score would pay. And while that seems like a very high number, that's actually good news. In most states, that discrepancy is usually much higher.
This might sound unusual, but your insurance policy actually covers your vehicle more so than it covers you, the driver. That's why your insurance company asks questions like the make/model of your vehicle during the policy underwriting process.
Everything we've discussed so far may seem like a lot of information. But even beyond things like where you live, or what vehicle you drive, there are additional traffic laws which can have an influence on your rates if you aren't careful:
For better or for worse, the state of Missouri doesn't have any laws right now that charge motorists with aggressive driving if they happen to be caught driving aggressively. Obviously, things like running red lights or stop signs are still not legal, but committing such dangerous acts while driving will not result in an extra charge of aggressive driving.
|Aggressive Driving
|No state law
|Cell Phones and Texting Laws
|Primary Texting Ban (Novice Drivers <21
|Inc. Penalty for High BAC
|Admin. License Susp. on 1st Offense
|90 days
It is a proven fact that talking on a cell phone while driving can increase your likelihood of getting into an accident by four-fold. And there is even further documentation to prove that texting while driving makes a deadly accident even more likely than that. However, despite these facts, the only law in Missouri with regard to cell phone use prohibits texting while driving for novice drivers under the age of 21. Fortunately, though, this is a primary level offense.
|Rural Interstate
|70 mph
|Urban Interstate
|60 mph
|Other Limited-Access
|65 mph
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It's late in the night with rain on it's prowl,
Let me make you my prey oh my doll!!
Filled with love and passion immense,
Come, roll into my arms & hold me intense.
Let's dance, let's kiss, let me make you wet,
With my hands kneading your thighs, hips & waist.
Make me your seat uncovering my hairy chest,
But I will roll on you and will ride you on step next,
Passing my lips through the mounds n valley
Oh baby! Let me make the pleasure so heavenly,
Gliding the fingers on the flat road of your belly,
I pause & poke the pothole to send the shivers slowly
In circles and rectangles I steer my tongue for a wet trail,
You writhe, you moan, your legs spread & I access the triangle well,
Exploring the curves, cracks & the sphincter,
Let me quench my thirst with your dripping nectar,
Suddenly you say 6 and I reply 9 with lust in my eyes,
And the number we form gives my yearning a steep rise,
Digging your nails on my back, you squeal & twitch with a leak,
I go on with teases more & more, till you guide me for the prick,
Gripping your assets & waist the speed becomes faster,
You arch your back biting your lips feeling the destination closer.
With the heaviest quiver, I fill you.. I feel you, up to your womb,
Panting both we say I love you.. I love you with consecutive spasm.
Panting both we say I love you.. I love you with consecutive spasm.
I kiss the eyes, the cheek..
when You hug me tight with your strength all,
when You hug me tight with your strength all,
Lying spent in early morning we realize..
the journey we started from a roll & reached each others soul.
the journey we started from a roll & reached each others soul.
P.S: Edited it after the first publish.J


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At least 57 al-Shabab extremists killed in Somalia assault
NAIROBI, Kenya – The African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia says at least 57 members of the al-Shabab extremist group have been killed after AU and Somali forces attacked one of its camps.
The multinational force said on Twitter that vehicles and equipment were destroyed Thursday morning and "a large cache of weapons" was captured.
The statement says helicopter gunships supported the assault on the al-Shabab camp outside Afmadhow.
A separate statement on the assault by Kenya's defense ministry says an unknown number of extremists were injured. There was no immediate word of casualties among the AU or Somali forces.
The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab has lost ground in Somalia in recent years under pressure from such assaults but continues to carry out deadly attacks in the capital, Mogadishu.


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EDISON, NJ – The old saying "no good deed goes unpunished" proved true for a Piscataway man Friday morning when, after rushing in to save a woman who fainted and fell on the train tracks, he came back to find that someone stole his backpack, containing his computer.
"This theft, perpetrated in the midst of such a selfless good deed, is nothing less than appalling and disgusting," said Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan.
Shortly after 7:40 a.m., Madhuri Recherla, 26, fainted and toppled off an Edison Train Station platform onto the northbound tracks, said investigating Officer James Navas.
Another commuter, who police later identified as Anil Vannavalli, 34, of Piscataway, dropped his backpack on the platform and leaped onto the train tracks to carry the unconscious Edison woman to safety, police said.
While Vannavalli was doing that, police said an unidentified thief among the crowd of morning commuters stole the man's backpack which contained his laptop computer and headphones, valued at $700; about $200 in cash, and his work identification card, police said.
Recherla was semi-conscious when Officers Navas and Lisa Cimmino arrived at the train station.
She was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center, in New Brunswick, for treatment.
Police are now investigating the theft.