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We are pleased to announce yet another successful implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 online. The client is a service provider based in Chennai who is in the business of chip level repair of notebooks and laptop computers.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2011 Dashboard allows not just decision making, but also gives a holistic view of the quantum of work being processed and Time Management.
The company has a fully equipped service centre with repair facilities for each specific sub-system of the PC such as LCD Panel, Keyboard, Mother board and Operating System. The process flow is as follows.
Some of the workflows we included are:
- When a case gets registered the customer will get a 'Thank You' email with ticket number.
- When Confirmation is required triggers a mail to customer asking Confirm that some additional work that is needed.
- Writes Letter automatically to the manager asking assistance or approval.
- Write letters to Logistics enquiry about the Available products.
- SMS customer on completion status.
Microsoft Dynamics simple workflow configuration manager allows accomplishing these easy and efficient.
One of the biggest challenges we faced is that of cascading pick list and multi select fields since a PC could have multiple problems. Besides, descriptive notes had to be made with the complaint.
Based on the information filled in, we generate the case sheet, which is either printed or e-mailed to the customer. Barring Payment collection, every other part of the Service process is accomplished through the CRM.
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When I walk into Doc Holidays without a kilt on I get scowls, yells, chastisement, and general attacks on my person. It's been a bloody cold winter though, so on more than one occasion I've stumbled into the bar bundled up in pants, sweaters, and scarves to keep out the chill.
"Where's your fucking kilt!" the bartender screamed the last time I walked in, and I just shook my head. I didn't have an excuse, and I didn't know what to say.
"I'm having it cleaned. I spilled too much beer on it the last time I was here," I mumbled, and she was kind enough to pour me a drink anyway.
The truth is, that sometimes I just don't have the energy. When I'm feeling down, a little tired, and not tough enough to take on the stares of strangers, I throw on my jeans and walk out of the house.
Today I'm reminded that putting the kilt on and holding my head up high is often just what I need, no matter how low I'm feeling. The smiles I get inspire me more than the laughter and head shaking, and the blues just slip away with each step.
When I walk into the bar tonight, I'll get smiles and hugs, and most of all, I'll feel just that much better about the world.


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Ten years it's taken me to get this far
You've been around just to see if I'd fall
All along my mission you tried to lead into disaster
Pave the road with obstacles of distraction and distortion
Now I see the truth behind your lies
Posing as my friends how you had me hypnotized
Circle of fools surrounding me
Trapping my soul, casting doubt and misery
Ripping my heart out as I'm burning at the stake
No more will I be enslaved, my will you'll never break!
Now I've come full circle so why don't you get lost
Go and find some others fool to bleed upon your cross
Spiritual parasite feeding off of me
By my will I cast you out from your spell I will be free!
I now consecrate my circle
And thou evil shall not pass
As I do the will of the gods
You folls shall never last!
Guardians, watch over me
Protect me from their wrath
So it shall come to pass


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10 La Liga Lessons: Everyone happy after top-of-the-table draw, as Real gain ground
FFT's Spanish expert, Tim Stannard, runs the rule over the latest weekend of La Liga action...
Real Betis are architects of their own destruction
This was painful to watch. Real Betis had the foundations for a revival after their 1-0 midweek win against Athletic in the cup, but proceeded to dig them up good n' proper with a 2-1 home defeat against Osasuna - not normally the most stubborn of visitors. Betis helped Sunday's opponents on their way to three points, though, with a 38th-minute red card for the aptly named Nono, an own goal and a missed penalty from Rubén Castro. Eurgh.
Paco Jémez's tough talking pays off for Rayo Vallecano
Valladolid already look doomed... doomed!
Celta finally rewarded for positive philosophy
Almería still have a true fighting spirit
Getafe are showing their true colours this season
Valencia felt the after-effects of facing Atlético
Athletic had a proper footballing purge
Real Madrid still struggling to take the lead
Atlético and Barca combine for rare show of Spanish unity


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Do you have a lucky number that you use all the time? Well, now you can wear it all the time with the get lucky sterling silver CZ number necklace. This necklace will be sure to get you lots of luck because you can take it with you wherever you go. Wear it at the casino, while scratching your lottery tickets, or for just everyday luck.
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Critical Linking: February 26th, 2015
These are strong, smart, courageous women. They're not without their flaws – that's what makes them so compelling. Complicated and fully realized, these fictional women change throughout the story and sometimes challenge our expectations. They're the kind of characters we find ourselves thinking about long after we've finished the last page.
This list of 21 books with unforgettable heroines gives you just what you want in a book list: a blend of familiar titles and new discoveries.
In the United States, independent bookstores have rebounded strongly from the financial crisis, increasing their numbers by 27 percent since 2009, according to data from the American Booksellers Association.
These numbers are up since 2009, but if you extend back to 2000, we still have lost about 25% of indie bookstores. But the worst seems to be over?
The University of Texas' literary archive said Wednesday it paid $2.2 million for the works of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a price the school sought to keep secret until ordered to make it public by the state attorney general's office.
In an era when $2.2 million dollars barely buys a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, this doesn't seem like a bad price for the archives of one of the titan's of 20th century literature.
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Section 31: Nature of, and transactions in, patents and applications for patents in Scotland
Sections (31.01 - 31.05) last updated April 2007.
In Scotland, the nature of patents and applications as property, and transactions which may be made therein, are laid down by s.31 instead of by s.30. The provisions of the two sections are similar.
s.77(1), s.78(2) is also relevant.
Section 31 applies in relation to not only 1977 Act patents and applications but also granted European patents (UK) and applications for European patents (UK).
|Section 31(1)
|Section 30 above shall not extend to Scotland, but instead the following provisions of this section shall apply there.
|Section 31(2)
|Any patent or application for a patent, and any right in or under any patent or any such application, is incorporeal moveable property, and the provisions of the following sub- sections and of section 36(3) below shall apply to any grant of licences, assignations and securities in relation to such property.
s.130(1) is also relevant.
A patent, application or right therein or thereunder is thus "incorporeal moveable property" in Scotland. The term "right" includes an interest in the patent or application. Any reference to a right in a patent includes a reference to a share in the patent.
s.36(3) is also relevant.
Licences (including sub-licences), assignations and securities may be granted subject to s.31(3) to (7) and provided that, where two or more persons are proprietors of or applicants for a patent, one of them does not grant a licence or assignation or cause or permit security to be granted over the patent or application without the consent of the other or others (subject to ss.8, 12 and 37 (which relate to the determination of questions about entitlement to applications and patents) and to any agreement in force).
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|Section 31(4)
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Section 31(6) was amended by the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995. Where an assignment is done in Scotland the transaction document need only be signed by or on behalf of its granter at the end of the last page, rather than by or on behalf of all parties.
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Section 31(7) is virtually identical to s.30(7), see 30.09.


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While different countries are coming up with pompous state-of-the-art designs for buildings to mark their economic, technical and political hold in the world, India should focus on upgrading its prison facilities. Why?
With the recent "arrested development" of the country's corrupted Who's-Who, there is no dum in the prison facilities like Tihar. India's prisons now houses A-list inmates like ex-cabinet ministers - A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi, besides business honchos like Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka, Sanjay Chandra, Ramalinga Raju, and several other high-profile "chors and luteraas". A business-class is now a must in prisons. For you never know who will grace the prisondom hereafter(I m pretty sure Tamil Nadu's first family is next on the list)!
I m not sure what punishment is suitable for disgracing the nation. But these high-profile goons should never be let out of prison in their lifetime. Infact all the corrupted rich should invest in something called "prison-plan" rather than the usual retirement plans. The prison plan money can be used to build grand correction facilities that will include spas, beauty salons, gyms,presidential suites, honeymoon suites for couple miscreants(Talwars, anyone?), wine and good food served à la carte...infact a Hilton at Prison is not at all a bad idea! Atleast the black money in their Swiss bank accounts can be used to have a better prison life. Also nothing good can ever come out of blood money; even when used for society's cause it will carry the stain. Hence it should be perished with the owner.
I personally do not support crime and corruption, but sometimes one resorts to weirdest of ideas with the hope of keeping the neighborhood clean. If a 7 star correction facility can attract these high profile goons out of the streets, then why not? Maybe tomorrow the common man might get a chance to live in a much less corrupted society!
Wednesday, April 27
Why India needs 7 star prison facilties
While different countries are coming up with pompous state-of-the-art designs for buildings to mark their economic, technical and political hold in the world, India should focus on upgrading its prison facilities. Why?
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- M. said...
Cynical. Naive. I say just shoot them all. Case dismissed.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:34:00 PM GMT+5:30
- Tongue-fu Lady said...
guess someone got inspired by RDB :)
- April 27, 2011 at 6:10:00 PM GMT+5:30


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Entomological Foundation Medal of Honor
The Entomological Foundation Medal of Honor was established in 2007 and it it the highest award presented by the Foundation. It is given only to those who have made outstanding contributions toward fulfillment of the Foundation's mission or entomological outreach. The award, which is a gold medal, is presented during the Entomological Society of America's Annual Meeting.
Eligibility -
Nominees for the Medal of Honor are required to demonstrate interest and a history of contributions to the Entomological Foundation's mission, either as part of the Foundation activities or external. Examples include: leading educator workshops, service to the Foundation and similar organizations, development of support materials for teacher education, development of educational curriculum or educational media, etc.
View a list of previous winners.
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- Page Limits - The entire nomination package must not exceed 20 pages total. This includes letters of nomination or recommendation, newspaper articles, resumes, relevant publication lists, and any other supporting information provided.
- Letters of nomination and recommendation must be included in the electronic package. Printed letters sent in lieu of electronic versions will not be accepted.
- Only PDF or RTF applications will be accepted. Files created on either PC or MAC platforms will be accepted. Please make sure scanned images can be clearly read on a computer screen.
- Font size for text may not be smaller than 10 point.
Nomination Requirements -
Nomination packages for this award must include:
- A CV or resume that includes standard background information.
- Evidence of meaningful entomology outreach efforts during the nominee's lifetime.
- An essay (500 words maximum) on why the nominee's outreach efforts and outcomes are deserving of recognition with this award.
- At least two letters of reference from a professional colleague, supervisor, individual, or institution that address the nominee's skills, history, and abilities with respect to entomology outreach.
- Up to five other pages of supporting material.
Evaluation Criteria -
Nominees/candidates will be judged using the following criteria for a total of 100 points:
1. Participation in Outreach Events and Education (40 points total)·
- Active participation in local, regional, national, or international entomology outreach events that directly support children in grades K-12 or their educators (35)
- Participation with the Entomological Foundation (5)
2. Leadership (50 points total)
- Active leadership of entomology outreach and activities that further the EF's mission (20)
- Made community a better place (15)
- Evidence of nominee's impact on entomology literacy of scientists and non-scientists (15)
3. Mentorship (10 points total)
- Personal and active role in helping to build the next generation of entomologists (10)
Deadline -
Nomination packages must be received by ESA headquarters by June 1. This deadline refers to receipt by the awards administrator of a complete package in a readable format. Therefore, early submission is highly recommended. Nomination packets will not be able to be changed after June 1.
Re-nomination -
Upon request, any candidate nominated, but not selected will be reconsidered for the following two years. Nomination packages will be retained for two years by the awards administrator. Nominators must send a letter of re-nomination to the awards administrator by the nomination deadline above. Previously submitted documentation will be used for the evaluation process unless the nominator submits new or updated documents. The re-nomination e-mail must contain this additional documentation. New or updated documents must follow the electronic submission requirements noted above.
Notification -
The awards administrator will notify all candidates and their nominators with the results of their nomination approximately two months after the nomination submission deadline.
Questions -
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Helena Bonham Carter, whose face one might think could save the British film industry if there were a British film industry, is sitting on a bench somewhere inside the secret gardens of the Hotel Bel-Air, yes, having tea.
But as you get closer, the picture of her is not exactly right--or exactly Edwardian at least. The late-afternoon light rests softly on her rising cheekbones; she is wearing a muted floral print dress that reaches down to her black socks and white canvas sneakers; the beguiling pair of dark eyes and eyebrows are acutely familiar from her roles on screen as E.M. Forster heroines. But, but . . . two of her fingers are down inside that cup, poking into the hot water, pinching the tea bag to squeeze the essence of Twinings more to her liking. It is a practical method, but one nonetheless that would never go with cucumber sandwiches.
"The English know how to make tea, but I'm not a great tea drinker," she says. "We don't have regular tea in the afternoon at home."
Helena Bonham Carter would like to point out, in fact, that she is not nearly so English or proper as some people assume after seeing her in "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "Where Angels Fear to Tread," not to mention in Franco Zeffirelli's "Hamlet," playing Ophelia to Mel Gibson's brooding prince.


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The RSPCA is said to be monitoring the condition of a dolphin which swam into Chichester Harbour this morning.
The animal was spotted beached on mud in Bosham Hoe earlier today.
Although a rescue team managed to refloat the common dolphin, it is said to be swimming around languidly, forcing the RSPCA to consider whether or not to put the animal down.
Chichester harbour master Richard Craven said: "The dolphin was spotted by someone in Bosham Hoe on the mud earlier this morning.
"We sent some personnel down there to try to help it as much as we could. The RSPCA and a vet came along and as the tide came in it managed to refloat it.
"The last I heard was that the dolphin was swimming around languidly and they are monitoring it. Soon a decision will be made whether or not to euthanize it, or whether it's strong enough to swim away on its own steam."
Richard Austin, AONB manager at Chichester Harbour Conservancy, tweeted a picture of the animal, saying: "Look what turned-up in #Chichester Harbour #AONB today, a Common Dolphin. We're doing all we can to try and save it."
It is thought to be the first dolphin spotted in Chichester Harbour for more than a decade.
"It's not a common sight, in the last 15 years there's been a couple of porpoises and even a whale, but I think this is the first dolphin," said Mr Craven.
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3rd Place: Delancey Stewart, A Life Half Built
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New Adult:
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2nd Place: Linda Murphy, No Regrets
1st Place: Kailynn Jones, Tracing Ursa
Young Adult:
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2nd Place: RL Syme, Hartwycke
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CTE Gujarat Recruitment 2016 - Assistant Professor
Applicants have a good chance to join the Gujarat government jobs as we have a latest announcement published by the Commissionerate of Technical Education. According to the notification, organization will recruit the applicants on 284 vacancy of Assistant Professor posts. For more info must have a glance in the below section.
Full vacancy details are as follows :
Number of vacancies : 284
Post Name : Assistant Professor
Educational Qualifications : Applicants must have done the M.E / M.Tech in relevant branch from recognized Board/Institute.
Age Limit: Appliers who have their age between require age criteria in years and upper age relaxation are applicable for the reserved categories candidates according to the organization norms.
Application Fee: Candidates have not required to submit any application processing fee charges.
Selection Process: All the appliers will get selected through the process of Written Exam and Interview.
Salary info: After getting appointed, short listed job hunters will get the salary as Rs. 30000/- per month Admissible allowances.
How to apply : All the interested Job searchers should visit the department official website that is ojas.gujarat.gov.in to apply through submitting the online application form. Candidates need to fill the form carefully and then upload all the required documents scanned copy with it. Then after submit it within the given time period and take a printout of it for further reference.
Important Dates:
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Censor.NET reports citing the Defense Ministry press service.
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Soldiers enlisted under contract in 2016 took part in the drills. Anti-terrorist operation (ATO) artillerymen shared their combat experience with them.
According to the command, the military have accomplished all tasks and are combat-ready.
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Very interesting and with a good post processing work. A good one indeed
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For 'The Best Bar-B-Que in Nashville, Tennessee, you've got to visit Jack's Bar-B-Que where they proudly serve barbeque from 'Pit to Plate'. Offering Tennessee pork shoulder, Texas beef brisket, smoked turkey, Texas sausage, St. Louis style ribs, smoked chicken, and other Southern cuisine with their award-winning sauces, there is something to please every palate.
Their cooking method and award-winning sauces makes Jack's the best. After applying their dry rub (spices and herbs) meat is smoked for 18 hours at 250 degrees. From 'Pit to Plate', it is sliced and chopped before serving and you will notice a pink smoke ring. That's the real signature of hickory smoked barbeque. Jack recommends pouring sauces right before eating.
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When you dine at Jack's, you will see for yourself why Jack's Bar-B-Que has been names 'The Best Bar-B-Que in Nashville, Tennessee' by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Southern Living, and USA Today.
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Wow....so much has happened in the past few months. Where do I begin???
Better go with a list format to make sure I hit the points I need to:
1. East Coast Debrief: The East Coast Workshop Tour was AWESOME. Starting with Chris Wright-Martell's Modern Self-Defense Center in Middletown, CT, followed the next day by the inaugural Delaware Kettlebell Workshop in Middletown, DE's St. Andrew's School, and finishing with a special workshop in Hamilton, NJ's Israeli Krav Maga Center, and with a few private consults along the way, the tour was a whirlwind of maximum energy and minimal rest.
Sandy Sommer, RKC of Charm City Kettlebells did a great job organizing the Delaware Kettlebell Workshop, and George Samuelson, CK-FMS followed suit in NJ. Rest well assured that I'll be back to both of those places. In fact, we've already got the dates locked down for next year's Delaware Kettlebell Workshop, so get ready for more of the best comin' your way!
What did we cover? Some of the points we touched on are here in this blog: 3 Prys, Hard Style Lock, Swing Cues, Naked Get-Up, combat applications, etc., etc., as well as a plethora of cues & teaching tools that gave even the most experienced of lifters, athletes, & tactical personnel benefits that they weren't expecting. ;-)
I got to see colleagues I hadn't seen in a while (such as RKC II Rolando Garcia, Sr RKC Will Williams, CK-FMS & RKC II Phil Scarito, RKC Jen Morey, RKC Dr. Don Berry, RKC AJ Oliva, RKC Steph Myers, & RKC II Prof. Steve Freides), while meeting other RKCs I'd never met before, like Anton Iskersky, Deb Vollers, & a bunch of kettlebell instructors from other associations & federations. To say it was a blast is understatement at its most blatant. The hospitality, the respect, the warmth (both socially and climatewise), and the
At every stop along the Tour, I had the opportunity to work with people who are some of my favorite folks to interact with - martial artists & tactical personnel. It warmed my heart to see operators from the NJ State Police & PA State Police, as well as other departments make it out to the Tour stops. Their feedback on how these teaching & training methods directly affect and improve their on-the-job performance means perhaps more to me than anything else, as these are the men & women whose lives are on the line constantly for our safety.
I got to log in several hours teaching Sifu Alex Richter at City Wing Tsun in Midtown Manhattan. Sifu Richter is the USA's representative for Grandmaster Leung Ting's Wing Tsun organization, and he's a perfect example of the "yi wu hui you" (Mandarin - "making friends through martial arts") ideal. He's been working with Rolando Garcia and is going to make an AWESOME RKC someday soon.
David Kahn is another such instructor who's a class act all the way. As Chief Instructor of the US branch of the Israeli Krav Maga Association and with a list of high-profile clientele longer than an Oly bar, he made me feel completely at home while teaching at his facility. I'm pleased to call him a friend, honored to have worked with him, and look forward to seeing him again.
My NJ Workshop Participants - For some reason, the pic's getting truncated. Click on the image to see the full pic and all the participants!
To everyone who participated in the East Coast Tour, I'm deeply grateful for all your feedback, I've noted your requests for future workshops, and I'm hard at work RIGHT NOW on putting together more dates and stops.
I may have to sneak back east for Philadelphia's first ever East Coast RKC certification workshop in early October!
2. Going Down..... Under - Yes, the rumors are true. I'm heading to Australia & New Zealand in October. The dates & city stops are almost finalized, but I need to tie up all the loose ends with the organizers. Rest assured that once things are nailed down, the first place you'll get registration info is RIGHT HERE!
3. Apologies: I need to take a moment to apologize to the folks who were looking forward to the Irvine & Riverside, California workshops that I'd originally scheduled for June & July. After coming back from the East Coast, I did a bit of soul searching and realized that the one person who depends on me most was perhaps seeing me the least.
If you're not sure who that is, look up at the top of the page and watch the slideshow. Most of the pics are of him in some way, shape, or form. So in the interests of being a better Dad and spending time with my beloved son, I asked the organizers to work with me to reschedule those workshops, which we will do at some point in the future. I apologize again for disappointing you & promise that these workshops will be held at a future date.
As Sean Schneiderjean, RKC told me on Facebook, Zig Ziegler is quoted as saying, "Love is spelled T-I-M-E." And that precious lesson is one that I'm going to keep in the forefront of my head & my heart.
4. Hit the Beach with Pavel Tsatsouline! - Speaking of Sean, he's set up a very special workshop with RKC Chief Instructor Pavel Tsastouline in Ventura, CA on the beach! If you've ever wanted to learn directly from Pavel without the pressure of a certification or having to spend multiple days at an event, this one-day event in October is your hot ticket. Sean's even set up a special discount code for those of you who are coming as referrals from KBLA, but it's ending at the end of this month! The official deadline is August 7th, but I wouldn't drag my arse on registering. Even some Sr RKCs (Will Williams & David Whitley) are coming in from the East Coast just to have the chance to work more directly with Pavel himself, so please don't sleep on that. REGISTER NOW before the discount ends and the spots are gone!
5. USMC - 1st ANGLICO: I had the honor of attending the Change of Command Ceremony at the invitation of Lt. Col. Michael Gann, RKC. Heading back to Pendleton brought back memories of a great RKC weekend there, and it was a pleasure to see the Devil Dogs again. Please join me in wishing Lt. Col. Gann and his family nothing but Godspeed as they relocate to the Army War College in PA. The Marines of 1st ANGLICO were damn lucky to have a leader like him. And I've NO doubt that his successor will be Hard Styled soon! We salute you, Sir. OOOOO-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
6. Foot Fundamentals: Instead of a monthly workout, I challenge you to do this...
Set your feet about shoulder width apart at a STRICT parallel along the centerline of the foot. Without allowing the balls of your feet to lose contact with the floor or pivot/slide in any way, bend your knees and pry them out until the center of your kneecap is moving in the same vertical plane as your foot. Get 5 reps of that perfectly throughout the day, and use that as your summertime repatterning drill. You may be amazed at how much your feet feel like they're working overtime, but the rest of your lower body will thank you for it. Wanna know more about the science behind that exercise? Get to one of my workshops or classes & find out!
Friday, July 10, 2009
The Summer '09 KBLA update & Fall '09 Workshop Updates
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An indie epic of sex, crime and romance is bolstered—though not exactly improved—by photos, videos, quizzes and a recipe.
Published in 2011, Poughkeepsie garnered a cult following among readers who were seduced by Anastasia's tale of three foster brothers and the women who love them. This app can be read as a kind of extended thank-you note to those readers: Anastasia offers extra chapters, brief commentaries on particular sentences when clicked ("This is one of my favorite lines") and a feature on people who've had tattoos done of the novel's logo, a merger of a dagger, cross and treble clef. Whatever is prompting people to transform this tale into body art, it's not the high-quality prose and plot. The novel turns on three romances, each lacquered in hokum: Livia, a college student, falls for Blake, a homeless man who plays a cardboard piano and counts the smiles she gives him on the train platform in the titular New York city; Livia's bad-girl sister, Kyle, falls for Cole, a priest-in-training; and Beckett, a coldblooded criminal, falls for Eve, a kind of sexpot mercenary. Credit Anastasia for cannily merging street lit, Fifty Shades–style erotic romance and a soft-focus sentiment fit for a Thomas Kinkade painting. But it's hard not to feel whipsawed by the contrived plot turns Anastasia invents to keep these three affairs moving, and the app's additions are largely ephemeral. Numerous chapters include links to light adult contemporary tunes; there's an occasional sound effect (click "car crash" to hear the sound of a car crash during a scene of a car crash); and illustrations mostly comprise lots of stock images of fit, marginally clothed bodies.
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: 4 Way Stop
4 Way Stop by Jeff R. Graham
4 Way Stop – Cutting Remarks
This is a fun one to cut, but it is a little harder than it looks. The straight meets on the crown can be tough to get lined up. This is a good design to cut a large stone in, with the small facets on the crown it pretty much needs to be large. A medium to light saturated material is best and this will work well in, Quartz, Topaz, man-made Sapphire, Spinel, YAG, and CZ with no changes.
Enjoy cutting your "4 Way Stop"… Drop me an email to let me know your results and what you've cut, or feel free to inquire if you have any questions or need some help regarding this design.
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Detailed faceting instructions by Jeff Graham available at The Rock Peddler
About the author
Jeff R. Graham
The late Jeff Graham was a prolific faceter, creator of many original faceting designs, and the author of several highly-regarded instructional faceting books such as Gram Faceting Designs.
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Starbucks Japan would like you to get your tiramisu on in liquid form, because you get your calorie bombs far too slowly if you have to pause long enough to masticate them. Yesterday, Starbucks Japan started selling a very decadent looking coffee with little chunks of what appear to be bits of cake floating on top of a frappucino base. This is the sort of thing I wouldn't buy, but I'd probably go to the local Starbucks in Asagaya and buy a coffee and hope they'd give me a sample of this while I occupied their precious space and took advantage of their Wi-fi.
They also rolling out three types of cake based on various sugary coffee beverages. Each variety if chock full of sugary "chunks" and sauces:
- Caramel macchiato - cookie crumbles, caramel chocolate, white chocolate chunks and bitter caramel sauce
- Caffe mocha - white chocolate drizzle, black cocoa cookie crumble, ganache cream and chocolate chunks
- Latte - white chocolate topping and white chocolate "powder", white chocolate chunks, milk cream (like condensed milk in taste) and a cookie base
The slices of cake look great, but they all seem a bit overloaded with sweet things. That being said, I'd bet dollars to donuts that these are not insanely sweet, but they are fatty. I very rarely bought cake or sweets at Starbucks in Japan because there was always a plethora of fantastic bakeries around me. I'd buy a pastry at one of them and take it into Starbucks and the employees never seemed to care. Though these look pretty tempting, the baked goods sold at Starbucks were never appealing because they were sealed in plastic just like convenience store pastries and could never live up to the fresh stuff I could get nearby. I don't think these would change my habits, but the mixture of ingredients would be tempting.


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News story
The Bastion Memorial, by Major Tom McDermott RTR
Major Tom McDermott RTR tells us his Bastion Memorial story.
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, I was about as far away from Afghanistan as I could possibly be. I was in an Austrian ski resort, having fun, taking a small group of soldiers from my Regiment to the Army Telemark Ski Championships. It was relaxed soldiering at its best. We were a small team, enjoying a great sport, in a fantastic social atmosphere with a lot of laughs. At around 0600hrs I was fast asleep in my bed.
Three thousand miles away one of my best friends was enduring combat soldiering at it's hardest. He was sat on the roof of a mud compound, somewhere outside the 'Green Zone', the secure area of the Upper Gereshk Valley, Afghanistan. The temperature was similar to Austria, but a grim and freezing drizzle had significantly reduced visibility and numbed all senses.
As sporadic small arms fire zipped around, suddenly and with no warning, there was a blinding flash and the sharp crack of detonation.
In that moment two fantastic British soldiers, one of them my next-door neighbour at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst army officer training centre and one of my closest friends, lost their lives. Captain Tom Sawyer, Royal Artillery, and Corporal Danny Winter, Royal Marines, joined the list of British casualties in Helmand. Tom, described in his epitaph as a 'dynamo of good humour and fun', had been married just eight months.
Two months later I found myself in Camp Bastion, reading Tom's name on a small but perfectly constructed memorial outside the Camp Head Quarters (HQ). One of the rotating Engineer Regiments built the initial memorial. It was made from mortar and stone and stood at just three feet high. A gleaming brass plaque adorned each side, polished daily by the HQ staff, and at the top was a beautiful cross (fittingly constructed from brass gun shells).
Soldiers rotating through 2009-2013, some on their third or fourth combat tour found themselves needing a focal point for reflection. The memorial provided this focus. I often found myself stood in front of it, reading the names, trying to make sense of what it was like to be a soldier in war.
The memorial had evolved and by the time I left Afghanistan for the last time in June 2014, tens of thousands of soldiers had stood in front of it. Hot dust blowing in their faces, listening to the haunting notes of The Last Post at vigils. To me it was the heart of Bastion, a vital and visible reminder of over a decade of fighting in Afghanistan.
This Thursday, on 11 June 2015, the heart of Bastion will be brought to a new home, the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. To me there could not be anything more proper. For those who have not had a chance to visit, the Arboretum is in itself a bastion of reflection, a place of carefully orchestrated peace and tranquillity.
To those of us who fought in Afghanistan, and for the families of those who died, the addition of the Bastion Memorial in Staffordshire will provide something very simple. It is a place to continue to remember those we have lost in a long and dangerous campaign. The heart of Bastion is now in the heart of the country, and I have no doubt that it will help ensure that we never forget.
Major Tom McDermott RTR


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Saturday, August 30, 2003
Yesterday afternoon I had time to kill so I headed out from Liverpool Street, and turning my back on Brick Lane and the Finerati, I found myself in the Square Mile. Before you know it, the newest and most glorious addition to Norman Foster's London is looming over you. The Swiss Re building at 30 St Mary's Axe is gorgeous. I've watched it grow from many points around the city for months now, but this was my first look up close. So I dodged through suits and alleyways to get right up to it, and it' as good up close as from a distance. I've always loved corporate architecture anyway - it's my exotic - but this is a masterpiece. Right down to the details (the cloisters between zig-zag glass shards at the building's base), everything about it seems contained within the logic of a single gesture. Gherkin, zeppelin, the cock to City Hall's bollock? No - it's a fat cat cigar, stubbed out in a giant ashtray, one mile square, transformed into an object of real beauty.
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Yeah, alright. Touché.
As ever, someone manages to better express what I was getting at. And yet again, they're over at k-punk. Mark's correspondent, Jonathan JD2, nails what I was (flailingly) trying to grasp:
"If an iPod can contain 4000 songs, and improved download times, mp3 availability etc are adding to that number exponentially, who is going to have the time to notice which of the songs are the 40 or so truly jawdropping ones? Even if the vastly accelerated and expanded access to music of which 99% is and always has been shite, hasn't irreparably blunted their critical faculties ... What is being heard is: The size of the iPod's database; the sphincter-clenchingly rapid download time; the timbre of our relationship with the screen [Paul Virilio explains this far better than I can in what he says about horizons in 'Open Sky']; the conflation of music with data [and its continuous arrival], such that the listener has no more a connection to a song or its performance than they have with their recycle bin."
That's the thing. The very nature of MP3s mean that one's respect for them (and the poor buggers who actually make them) disappears. I tend to listen (OK, too strong a word, I know) to my iTunes stuff in the background when I'm working, usually on more-or-less random play. At the moment I've just had Kid606, followed by Lutoslawski, followed by the Sea Ensemble. And I do this because it's a way of seeing the music from every possible angle, and it's fun, and it's easy. Yes, I'm injuring the integrity of the original full-length CDs by dislocating tracks from one another (although interestingly these three people/groups probably wouldn't lose too much sleep over narrative discontinuities...), but hey, they're my tracks, on my computer, and I can manipulate them how I like...
And that's the 'risk' with MP3s, as I see it. Whether it's 'fetishism' in the most thorough sense of the word is by the by, I think (although plenty of interesting stuff has been written on this already). What is the real issue is that the download speeds, the contemptuous ease with which iTunes can erase the narrative/structural arch of a work by redistributing its fragments (every so often I get a 2-minute chunk of Penderecki's St Luke Passion), damage, as I say, the respect for the original work (as excess porn damages respect for contact with actual women). Jonathan's friend who no longer plays his records through his hi-fi has lost that moment of connection with a piece of music; that moment of deliberate selection, deliberate cueing up, deliberate play.
And as I sit here, I can only hold my hands up with him - guilty as charged.
Update, 12 Sept, 2003: Jonathan now has his own blog, quarks and charms. Pay him a visit!
Friday, August 22, 2003
Can we expect production of Tone-Loc's patented Funky Cold Medina soon?
(Via NTK)
k-punk picks up the baton on data fetishism.
I see what Mark's saying here, and the Baudrillard quotation is spot on: the fetishist wants to see everything, from every angle. But I think the idea that pure data such as an MP3 is non-fetishisable is an illusion. To stay with the porno analogy, no-one thinks of the individuals on film as people - they have become just bodies. Just data. (This is what is most offensive about it, and what distances the consumer from his guilt.) Baudrillard's porn consumer is really seeking an infinite database of images which may be infinitely queried in order to create that ideal porn experience. The durability of porn is due to the fact that, like Big Macs and smack (all hugely profitable), and probably hi-fi, you are promised a perfect experience which is designed to always fall slightly short.
Now, instead of porn images, you have MP3s. And the great thing about yer iPod is that now our record collections are queriable. We can instantly compile and edit any playlist we want: in essence get closer to the infinite variety (and dissatisfaction) of porn. Of course, the tracks can be savoured for themselves, but, like the actors in the porn film, we need not actually know or care anything about their 'content', their nature, in order to seek pleasure in them.
The analogy is far from complete, of course, and not particularly robust. But I think the point can be made that there are two modes of fetishization: for the medium and for the data. Cassette lovers fetishize the medium, porn lovers fetishize the data (unless they really like glossy magazine paper - and in which case, why not Auto Trader as well as Playboy?). Do MP3 collectors tend towards the latter?
Thursday, August 21, 2003
National Slacker Day 2003
I heartily approve. Idling is, naturally, something we endorse at Rambler towers. You know what you have to (not) do, people. But if you're stuck, then you could do worse than try here for inspiration.
Personally, I'll be squeezing a pharmaceutical company for an easy few quid on a clinical trial, then settling down to watch an imperious innings from Michael Vaughan at Headingley. I suggest you do similar ;)
I like this. Has anyone else noticed that the Terminator films are basically hi-tech Tom and Jerry? The new one is non-stop slap-stick, so maybe at least Jonathan Mostow has.
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
It seems I was a little premature in my analysis of the origins of Celebreality - apparently Noel Edmonds is nobly taking all the blame.
Joke of the Week, from last weekend's Sunday Times:
'When Brian Sewell, the art critic on the London Evening Standard, was once asked which living artist he would least like to be stuck in a lift with, he replied: "Tracey Emin with a full bladder."'
Boom boom.
'Onward, Britney' is the new 'All your base are belong to us'? ...
Also available as a T-shirt here.
(Thanks to the good folks at It's all in your mind for the spot.)
Thursday, August 14, 2003
I was in the middle of writing a comment on this, but was getting carried away, so thought I'd give it a post all of its own...
Undoubtedly TV has accelerated the sense of 'ownership' between fan and 'celeb', and phone-interactivity is no small part of this of course. But I think the basic decline is older - I remember in the early rise of Britpop someone writing in the NME (or Melody Maker) that part of the attraction, and the fun, was that popstars then (referring to anyone from Menswear to first-album Spice Girls) were only just out of reach*. ie They weren't particularly good looking, or talented. Just lucky - answer the right ad in Stage and Screen and it could have been any of us. That was the mythology then, and it has become our unfortunate reality now. Pop Idol just shortens the process.** The same could be said of the rise of Ladmags at around the same time - most of their cover girls, then as now, were pretty ordinary looking. Nice enough, but hardly Monroe. It's the logical extension of a longer process towards the democratisation of culture in general, and I have to say I'm unconvinced...
*It may have been in the same piece, but somewhere similar this ownership-based relationship was put forward as the reason for Lennon's murder...
**Hmmm - indeed makes the process the whole point. The success of any participants is just a bonus. Maybe more on this at a later date if my head won't let it alone...
Today I embark on another of those 5-day odyssies of pain that is watching English test cricket. If you can't (bear to) watch, you could do worse than follow the Grauniad's infamous commentary here. And you'll be relieved to note (as I was) that the Smiths mentioned are not of the Mozza/Marr variety...
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Angus @ I Feel Love ponders some string quartet arrangements of songs by someone whose name escapes me at the moment... In a typically blogtastic moment, I read this in terms of k-punk's latest wisdom (see below).
I think Angus is right to an extent - a lot of people buying records like this do so to "inflect their liking of pop music with a bit of surplus capital" (incidentally, I think the same is true in the opposite direction: old-timers trying to be groovy).
I'm not sure I agree with him on the inadvisability of arranging for string quartets per se, though. Yes, good ones are rare, and most are ridden with clichés, but the 'Man-Sized Sextet' (sex-, quar- ... what's a little due- between friends?) off PJ Harvey's Rid of Me is one hell of an exception. What's more, it sounds like nothing in the classical repertoire - grittier than anything I know, and I know some grit. I've also seen the Kronos Quartet do some Sigur Rós arrangements, which against expectations also worked.
What is the problem - and here's the rub - is that in arranging music written for the recording studio it's easy to jettison 90% of that music: the sound it makes. Ask anyone to sing the riff from whatshisname's 'How Soon is Now', and they can't, really, even though it's only two notes. But play them on your stereo, and they'll all recognise it. Any arrangement will just be pale imitation unless it has the balls to recompose the original (as my PJ Harvey example does, in fact).
Brian Eno once said something along the lines that in two-second bursts, all string quartets sound the same, from Haydn to Bartók. But play a two-second burst from (almost) any pop/rock track, and it's instantly recognisable. And that's at the heart of what both Mark and Angus are getting at, I think. 'Tunes', harmonies, counterpoint, 'dull expertise' are not necessary in pop/rock, but the quality of sound is essential. You can do this with arrangements for 'classical' instruments, but it's harder than most record execs think.
As I'm not on my home Pac-a-Mac today, but on a work PC, I see there's been trouble with scrolling down to see the whole blog. I think it's fixed now (may be something to do with my counter), but if you still can't see everything let me know. Ta.
Sound is social. Music, more than any other medium involves people. If you make a noise, people will hear.
"Now more than ever what differentiates one artist from another is vision - and that's what we want from sound, isn't it, not yet another dull display of expertise, but a new way of encountering the world?" - Mark @ k-punk.
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Incidentally, one of the poster quotes (from the Telegraph) reads 'Good Bye Lenin! recalls Amelie ...'. Well, not really, except in the broadest terms - it's about reality/unreality, and it has subtitles. But it does have very similar (maybe even identical, I haven't checked) music. That noodly, pseudo-minimalist piano thing that we first heard Nyman using in The Piano. Now, I love minimal music in general, but this stuff has become too formulaic, too flattening (witness the effect it seems to have made on the Telegraph's reviewer). An echo of those (necessarily) formulaic live piano improvisations you had with silent films?
Ok, as promised...
What first gets you about Good Bye Lenin! is how finely balanced it is. Obviously it's a film about nostalgia, and the tensions between East and West Berlin (read 'Europe'). And yet it never settles on one side or another. Is the West better than the East? Are Coke, cigarette and lingerie adverts preferable to statues of Lenin? And it's much more complex than that, but I don't want to reveal any unnecessary plot details, but trust me, it's beautifully poised. (But if you do want a summary of sorts, go here.
What I like most about it, as I mulled it over with m'Lady late into last night, was the universality of it. Yes, it's a film about a very specific time and place (Berlin, 1989-90), but somehow its story doesn't become tied to this. It's not - to take another recent Central European film - like The Pianist, which is a very Polish tale. Besides the fact that it is set in 1930s-40s Warsaw, the jokes (the first thing to happen to our Polish hero wandering around 'liberated' Warsaw is to be shot at by a Russian) are dark Polish humour, and the story is a microcosm of recent Polish history and mythology (you have Chopin, Russia, Germany, the destruction of a country, the Warsaw Uprising, etc. etc). It is a Polish myth in construction.
Good Bye Lenin! is very different. It shows these myths in construction - the Ostalgie for the old Berlin, the events of 1989-90 (events like the Berlin Wall coming down and the World Cup, which are carefully illustrated with archive footage, and thus tug at all our heartstrings) - but shows us to trust and mistrust them in equal measure. Everybody has them - even the West German film guy, with his 2001 hommages - and we all have to sustain them to make sense of anything. And by doing this, it transcends being a documentary film about a place and its people (which to an extent The Pianist is), and allows those people to move on, to live and breathe. As someone with a vested interest in rethinking East and West Europe (more of which another day) this was a relief. Go and see.
Haven't watched the final 24 yet - it's still sitting in the video machine, and may just stay there, I find after 23 episodes I just don't have the energy - but when I get round to it, I might have something to say on that series.
But to be more general.... When this series began on UK terrestrial TV, it was followed by the last, lamentable, series of the X-Files. Which was striking, because here you had two extended US thriller series about government agents and agencies, but from two very different US mindsets. The X-Files is very definitely peacetime TV: government agencies are not to be trusted, they lie, they murder, they conspire, we're all being duped, none of us is safe, the enemy is within. They use technology to obscure, and bury the truth, as well as to create threats to civilisation. Surveillance is bad - trust no-one.
Yet 24 is post-11th September. It's War on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq. It's wartime TV: government agencies (and agents) are good. OK, the name of the FBI has become so besmirched on TV that they have to come up with a new set of initials - CTU - but the principle is still there. Look how cool all that surveillance technology has become. With their Apple G4s (natch) hooked up, CTU can seemingly access any bit of information about anything, instantly. Forget the sinister warehouses of biometric data cards in the X-Files, this is serious. But never once is the validity of all this data access, liberty infringement, etc etc ever conceived of critically. (Of course, I'm talking here about the CTU side of things here - obviously the Washington administration aspect is more complex in the second series). The whole programme supports the idea that open government access to anything ever is wholly acceptable, and desirable.
And against this vision, the X-Files seems even more absurd than ever, which of course it is. But don't ever stop asking where your liberties are going, because common wisdom is being shifted.
Monday, August 11, 2003
Crikey. You turn your back for a couple of days, and find you've got reader(s). Feel a bit like Richard Tull in Amis' The Information. Still, I'm terribly vain, so it's appreciated!
Off to see Goodbye Lenin tonight, so the Central European word-splurge that has been waiting to come out might just get a chance later... In the meantime, an interesting piece to read.
Sunday, August 10, 2003
I wouldn't call it British stoicism - it's just too hot to think... I was going to post on this yesterday, but couldn't bring myself to do it. Still, here you go.
According to Metro (sorry, no online version), the free London rag, 100 commuters spent 9 hours travelling from Southampton to Waterloo earlier this week. About 70 miles, at an average of 8mph, in 30+ degrees C. Yuck. Apparently, the heat buckled all the track, and they had to switch to three different trains - one of which only had one carriage - pregnant women were fainting, etc. etc.
Now, of course this is a ghastly experience, and the rail companies involved made a bit of a hash of things, but these are extreme weather conditions. Like 3 feet of snow is extreme. So it's perhaps not surprising that some people had a lot of trouble getting into work. My sympathy for these poor sods vanishes completely however when I read between the lines: over the course of nine hours they've been shunted onto three separate trains. And when it came to the final one - the single carriage black hole of Calcutta - they were advised against using it because it would be dangerous. Now by this stage it must have been mid-afternoon. On a Friday. In August. When getting to work is all but impossible. But still these fools press on, imagining that turning up at the office in the early evening is worth it. For God's sake TAKE A HINT!!! GO HOME!!! Relax with your families, read a book, make love to your wife; but don't imagine for a second that the world will end if you stop punishing yourselves day after relentless day.
We're not stoical - we're just muppets.
Ah, well the comments are working now, anyway. Thanks to Angus for the tip-off - en*t*t**n are a Briit company, and what with the weather here, I'm giving all Brits the benefit of the doubt for the moment...
Friday, August 08, 2003
OK, still no comments. Third-party code issues. And me probably being a bit crap with html.
Are nerds always outsiders? Are the two synonymous? Not necessarily. To use Morrissey as a (largely metaphorical) example, versus another archetypal slice of outsider/nerd/misfit music, Radiohead's 'Creep', it seems obvious to me that music - above all other media, in fact - is capable of articulating degrees of outsider/nerdy-ness. Take Creep. Rock track, big guitars. Rode the grunge wave for a bit. Big shouty chorus with simple words and a simple tune, and pretty big signposts pointing out when the chorus was coming up. In other words, you can sing along, in the clubs, at the gig. Hell, wave your lighter in the air if you want.
But listening to 'How soon is now', or 'This charming man', or whatever, is completely different. Morrissey's lyrics and melodies are shaped to be pretty unrepeatable (as a whole): certainly without spending a bit of time analysing and reviewing. You don't tend to get the communal sing-along chorus. They don't scan easily, or commend themselves to memory naturally: 'I'm a creep/I'm a weirdo', vs 'I would go out tonight/but I haven't got a stitch to wear'...
So your Radiohead/'Creep'-type outsider actually finds community in 'Creep'. It suggests participation, shared experience. Morrissey-type outsiders are more likely to find a personal, private pleasure in his music - and thus resist communalism. The relationship is one-on-one.
To be slightly less MOR about this, I'd suggest this is a big difference between Dizzee and the Streets - some kids at Charing Cross last night were swaggering round yelling 'Fix up, look sharp' at each other. Can you imagine the same thing with the Streets' 'Be brave my apprentice/stand tall, clench fists'?
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Thursday, August 07, 2003
There's a lot of Morrissey going around at the moment. Somehow I missed Morrisey, even though I was exactly the right age at the time. Probably a bit too baggy for my own good. But I've been listening to a lot of Gene this week, and one of the things that Martin Rossiter and Mozza do have in common is the ability to play with male sexuality. Speaking as a heterosexual man, one of the things I've always found most thrilling about Rossiter's lyrics is the (to my ears at least) homosexual innuendo running through them. The typically-masculine imagery (fighting, cars, prison) is made damned sexy, and thus subversive.
And actually, I think Loaded was a very different beast around its inception (didn't Morrissey appear on the cover at some point?). It was capable of wit, and some fine writing; then it became a poor man's FHM (yeesh!).
OK, so it's not music, but there you go. I'm still in the first flush of blog, so that's my excuse. And this has been playing on my mind recently.
Apologies to all non-Londoners - although I did see a TV version of the following, so maybe you know what I'm on about, but... As someone who spends Far Too Long on the Tube, I stare at a lot of ads, and a seemingly innocuous one for a well-known ladies' deodorant really troubled me. Briefly, the tagline is something like 'So, you think no-one can see your underarms in the office?', and there's a photo of a woman on the phone, with one arm behind her head playing with her hair.
Fine. But bear with me.
Half out of focus, in one corner, is a man - the sort who might look at your underarms, perhaps? with a paunch, moustache and sweat. An unpleasant-looking stereotype, in fact. And then you notice that the whole picture has actually been shot through the glass window of an interior office (the boss's?). It's voyeuristic, and you as the viewer, looking at this woman from the safety of your window, are expected to relate to the corpulent peeping-tom character. And what's more, the advert is intended to appeal to women who, it seems from this ad, should expect and hope to be leered at throughout the day - why else would they want to buy this product?
Perhaps I'm going semiotic-crazy, but it seems very weird to me. It's too hot to think very hard about these things, but maybe there's some overlap here with the Female Capitalism talk doing the rounds.
Blimey. [breathes deeply] That took longer than I thought.
Anyway, here we are, a brand shiny new blog. How to begin?
A few words about what might be expected here, and probably won't actually happen.
In the tradition of the good Dr, I'll probably have a crack at most things, but since I'm a music writer/academic by trade and training you can expect some of that, as well as the usual blogosphere mix of cultural-topical waffle.
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The McCanns interviewed by Fredrik Skavlan on Swedish TV, 23 March 2012
The McCanns interviewed by Fredrik Skavlan on Swedish TV SVT (Skavlan Talk Show)
This video is available [on the link above, from 38:55] until Sun April 22
Aired: Friday 23 March 2012
With thanks to A Miller for original transcript
Archive footage:
Gerry McCann: Please, if you have Madeleine, let her come home to her mummy, daddy, brother and sister.
Kate McCann: I just wanna say 'thank you'. Please continue to pray for Madeleine, she's lovely.
Gerry McCann: ...and we continue to hope for the best possible outcome from this for us... and for Madeleine.
Fredrik Skavlan [Host]: Errr... Kate and Gerry McCann please welcome to... welcome to Stockholm.
Gerry McCann: Thank you.
Kate McCann: Thank you.
Fredrik Skavlan: Errr... It's... it's been... it's been almost five years, errr... since, since, errm... Madeleine disappeared and... and now you Kate are reliving the whole thing by writing a book about what happened. Errm... Why are you doing that?
Kate McCann: Well I actually started to keep a diary back in May 2007. I was advised to do it actually, and at the time I felt it would be important for Madeleine really, so that when we found her we'd be able to fill in the gaps, errm... in her life, and then I also thought it would be good for Sean and Amelie as well, so that they would have an account really, of the truth of everything that happened.
Fredrik Skavlan: Your... your twins?
Kate McCann: That's right, yeah.
Fredrik Skavlan: Errm... If we could start by going back, errm... to... to May, errr... 3rd 2007. What's your strongest memories of Madeleine from that day?
Gerry McCann: I think the strongest memory I have is of really, the photograph that was the last photograph we have of her and, errr... you know, we'd had a lovely holiday. Madeleine was having a great time and just after lunch we went over to the pool area and, errr... she was sitting there paddling in the pool and I was sitting next to her and she turned round and she's just beaming. And then the... the last time I saw her, which was probably minutes before she was taken, when she was lying asleep, and it's terrible how... I've said this a few times but I had one of those poignant moments as a parent where... I went into her room, and the door was open, and I... I just paused for a second and I looked, and she was sound asleep, and I thought how beautiful she was. The twins were asleep in the... in their cots and I thought how lucky we were. And within, you know, minutes that was shattered!
Fredrik Skavlan: What happened was that you went... you went to eat with the other parents that you were on vacation with?
Kate McCann: That's right.
Fredrik Skavlan: Errm... This was not far from the apartment?
Kate McCann: It's about 50 metres as the crow... crow flies but about 70 metres on foot.
Fredrik Skavlan: Yes, and... and as you sat there in this restaurant you... you went back and forth on shift to... to check on the children, is that right?
Kate McCann: That's right.
Fredrik Skavlan: And... and what... what happened when the last time you went to check?
Kate McCann: Well it was 10 o'clock when I went to check on Madeleine and, errm... I walked into the sitting room of the apartment and I noticed that the children's bedroom door was open further than we'd left it. We always close it quite far over but just enough so some light gets in and it was quite open. And it was our friend Matt who had checked on the children at half past nine when he was checking on his daughter next door, and I thought to myself well maybe... maybe Matt's left the door open when he's checked on them. So I walked over to the bedroom door and I was about to close it to again, and as I did that, it kind of slammed shut, and I thought, 'oh, there must be a draught' and I checked the door behind me and I hadn't left that open.
And then I opened the door again, of the children's bedroom, just to leave it open a little bit and that's when I really looked in. And I... I couldn't quite make out Madeleine in her bed and I just looked and looked and, errm... it was obviously quite dark, and it must be a parental thing where you don't switch a light on in case... you're worried about waking them but then I realised she wasn't actually there and I thought, well she must have wandered through to our bedroom and maybe that would explain why door was open. So I went into... to our bedroom and she wasn't there and that was the first time really that the panic hit and I just ran back into her bedroom, and literally at that point, errm... the curtains which were closed just kind of flew open and that was when I noticed that the window was open as far as it could go and the shutters outside had been raised all the way up. And I just knew straight away that someone had, errm... taken her, so...
Fredrik Skavlan: So... so this... this was your first thought?
Kate McCann: Yeah, absolutely, there's no way a... a young child could have got out.
Fredrik Skavlan: This... this decision of not eating in the apartment it has been a lot of discussions about that and not... not staying in the apartment, to go to eat with the other parents - as you did every night.
Gerry McCann: We felt incredibly safe and we were in a very quiet holiday resort. We were with a group of friends, we hardly saw anyone of an evening and it... it was so close that it... it didn't feel very different to eating outside in your garden, with the kids upstairs in the bedroom, and it... literally we were only going back, errm... to check that no one had woken up and of course at the time someone stealing your child was the furthest thing from our minds and, errm... it... it...
Fredrik Skavlan: This was really not something you had thought twice about?
Gerry McCann: Yeah, no, it was, it just felt, errm...
Kate McCann: I think if we'd had to think about it or even say to each other 'do you think that's okay?' then it wouldn't have happened. But it just felt like a very natural thing; we'll eat at the restaurant on the complex, errm...
Gerry McCann: I think... I think the hardest thing with this is, you know with hindsight we made a mistake, errm... it was a collective mistake but unfortunately we can't change that and, errm... and whatever anyone may think about our decision making that night Madeleine's completely innocent and, you know, she's been taken and, errm... and it's hard for us because, you know, no one could feel more guilty than we did to... to... to think that your behaviour gave someone an opportunity, a risky opportunity, but one that they took and, you know, we persecuted ourselves for that, but you've got to look forward, you can't go back, we can't change that unfortunately, and errm... and what we've tried to do is... is always to look forward.
Fredrik Skavlan: Were you like... were you the worrying kind of parents. I mean, there are...?
Gerry McCann: I'll answer that! I would say: I wasn't but Kate was! I would have said that Kate was a bit over protective whereas, you know, I grew up in a big family; the youngest of five, and you feel, oh, you know, indestructible, but Kate was much... as an only child maybe, I don't know, but definitely much more protective, errr... of the children than... than me.
Fredrik Skavlan: There... there were, errr... you... you came in contact very... very quickly with the Portuguesian [sic] police...
Gerry McCann: Sure...
Fredrik Skavlan: Errr... How was that experience?
Gerry McCann: We were expecting a Metropolitan type response and I remember... I remember saying to the officers, 'where's the helicopters? I want helicopters with heat seeking equipment.' And, you know, the officer kind of laughed at us and said, you know, 'this isn't...', you know, 'we don't have a Royal Navy' and... and this thing... and... and you just... and I'm sure every single parent can understand this because everyone has lost a child momentarily and the terror and how frightening it is, be it in a supermarket or a playground or a park, and you just want everything done and you want... you want the world to stop and... and scream, and... and the response, you know, was slow. Errm... And that... that's been one of the hardest things for us, because, you know, Madeleine could have been moved very easily and the Spanish border's only about 90 minutes away and obviously you are on the Mediterranean, and one of the aspects of why we are campaigning internationally, errr... is because she could have been taken anywhere.
Fredrik Skavlan: What happened was that as time went by you didn't really trust the Portuguesian [sic] police and they didn't trust you?
Gerry McCann: We were there for three/three and a half months, we felt we had been completely eliminated from the enquiry, we'd been interviewed... the circumstances, you know, errm... and then, you know, for whatever reason, and possibly pressure, and a desire for this case to go away, it was portrayed in the media that, errr... there was very strong evidence that Madeleine was dead. People see 'DNA' and other things, and that we were responsible for hiding her body and...
Fredrik Skavlan: There were rumours about DNA in the car... in the car that you hired?
Gerry McCann: And we want to be absolutely clear about these things, you know, there's two aspects: we didn't hire that car for 3 and half weeks until after Madeleine was taken, and the second aspect is there's no DNA match. Errr... You know, when you see the files there's a mixed sample of DNA that comes from 5 people and obviously some of it matched Madeleine's. But of course, all, of our DNA matches Madeleine's and... and to be fair, you know, it was incredibly frustrating from the time we were arguido, through to the... the file being closed the following July but the... the Prosecutor's final report was very clear actually, and unequivocal, that, you know, there was no evidence that Madeleine was dead. And there was no evidence that we were involved but certain people have chosen to ignore that information.
Fredrik Skavlan: Which one of these media speculations was... was most shocking, do you think? Was most hurtful?
Kate McCann: I mean, there were loads, I mean, I guess the worst thing is if they say she's dead - and there's no evidence - because if she's dead there's no search, errm... (laughs)
Gerry McCann: I think the other thing, just to go back to that, Fredrik, is that we had an interview with the police, which Kate details in her book - an unofficial interview - and, errm... basically two of the senior officers were saying to us, errm... 'tell us what happened, we know what happened.' And... and I was in tears, saying, 'do you have evidence that Madeleine is dead? Because if you do, as her parents, we need to know.' And they were saying, 'it's coming, it's coming'. And that, you know, the pressure that was put on us to confess to a crime of... of hiding your own daughter's body and to... to say that you were going to pursue us for murder. And... and it's not unique to Portugal, this happens with police the world over, it's happened to many different people, it's happened to other parents in similar situations to us.
Fredrik Skavlan: How is your daily life, it's been five years, how is your daily life affected by this now... or do you have a daily life?
Kate McCann: Yeah, I think we've reached a new normality I guess. You know, our life will never be what it was, you know, it's never gonna be truly normal again because of what's happened but we've got to a place where we are obviously functioning, I mean Gerry works full time. I haven't returned to medical practice but I've worked on the campaign and investigation. Six months of my life was spent going through the Portuguese police files, nine months was spent writing a book, and of course we've got two other children. We've got Sean and Amelie, and it's, you know, it's actually quite a luxury, but a nice luxury, to be able to take them to school and be there for when they come home, so...
Gerry McCann: It's probably important to emphasise, you know, we do spend obviously a lot of our spare time, errr... focused on it and the last year we've slept a lot better knowing that the review is taking place. But if you had a casual observer looking at us as a family they would see a family of four. They'd see a happy family of four, and they wouldn't really see... they wouldn't suspect that we'd been, errm... you know, suffered a great trauma, errm... but for Kate and I... Sean and Amelie are as happy as any 7 year olds that we know and for Kate and I, we get enjoyment from life, we do, we do, do that, but until Madeleine's back with us there's... there's always going to be a void and that there's a limit, you know, whereas before you could be... you could have unbridled joy, anything now, is always... there's always a tinge and it's often the family things because Madeleine is not there with us.
Fredrik Skavlan: How... how has it affected your relationship?
Kate McCann: Well we're very lucky in that our relationship was very good, very strong, before this happened and I'm not sure we'd have survived if that wasn't the case I mean I don't think there could be anything more traumatic than what's happened to us plus all the additional stuff on top of that.
Fredrik Skavlan: You... you said you've written the book for the twins, how much do they know?
Kate McCann: Probably as much as we do to be honest now, errm...
Gerry McCann: Virtually, yeah!
Kate McCann: We did take advice from a child psychologist and he said to be as honest and as open with them but let them take the lead so if they ask you a question you respond as... as fully as you can and that's exactly what we've done. So we've got to the point now where they understand that a man has taken Madeleine. They... they view it like burgalry [sic]; she's been stolen and you shouldn't take something that doesn't belong to you but they understand, you know, there's lots of people helping us. They understand why we are in Sweden today, the purpose of that is to ask for more help really, errm...
Fredrik Skavlan: Can... can they really remember?
Kate McCann: Well obviously they were very young, but they have re-counted things that happened prior to May 2007, which has kind of thrown me a little bit. Obviously they have been surrounded by Madeleine ever since. There's pictures all around the house and Madeleine's bedroom is still there, they've obviously seen things on the television and they know that my job really has changed from being a doctor to looking for Madeleine, errm...
Gerry McCann: And I think it's important to say that they still see Madeleine as a big part of their life, and as parents that's incredibly comforting and they'll say things like 'We're going to get on an aeroplane and we're going to look for that man, and when we find him we're going to... ' and I'll say 'we'll give him to police', but they even talk about that. But I think, you know, if we don't find Madeleine in the next... period we will face more difficult times as they get older and they're on internet and they start seeing some of the vile material which is there.
Fredrik Skavlan: In your book you... you... you mention that you have been perceived as, errr... as cold in a way?
Kate McCann: Well someone's always got an opinion and I think we've learned how judgemental people can be and, I mean, I think its maybe part of human nature, we are all quick to judge from a position of ignorance.
Fredrik Skavlan: Is there a right way of grieving and a wrong way of grieving?
Kate McCann: Well exactly, I mean how should a mother or father grieve when their child is abducted and...
Gerry McCann: I think the other thing people probably don't understand is that when we've done media, in particular in the early days you had to really psyche yourself up to go on there and deliver the message, you know, we set objectives...
Fredrik Skavlan: Were you advised on how to behave?
Gerry McCann: We... I mean the very initial things we weren't, but when we did the first sort of direct appeal to the abductor, errm... Kate... we were... and I was told that Kate should speak as the mother, female voice and that she should not show any emotion in case that gave the abductor some sort of kick so that particular appeal, but I think as much as anything, you know, Kate had probably cried 16 hours a day for 4 days, by time we did that, and we were just drained, you cannot physically cry 24 hours a day. I mean it's impossible.
Kate McCann: The day we did the appeal to the abductor, which was on the Monday, and I spoke to Alan the counsellor and I said, 'I feel really numb' and I felt really bad that I felt numb, I just... and he said 'Kate you can't cry for 24 hours a day, you know, this is... this is natural' but... (lets out sigh) it's hard, I mean if you laugh people will say 'how can they laugh when their child has been abducted'; if you don't laugh you'll either get called 'cold' or you're 'on the edge of a nervous breakdown' or... and it's just hard, you've just got to be who you are, you know.
Fredrik Skavlan: Do you have days that when you can forget, when you can sort of not think about it?
Kate McCann: No, I don't think there's any day when Madeleine isn't on my mind, you know, she is always there but... For 18 months/2 years I never thought I'd enjoy myself again, I never thought I'd allow myself to enjoy anything again, errm... and with time you adapt and I... I realised that actually it is okay to do that and it is important to do that, you need to get rest, you need to enjoy your life, and you have to be well and happy, you know, for each other, for Madeleine when she gets home, for Sean and Amelie, and... and thankfully, you know, we are in a position now where we get a lot of enjoyment out of things, Sean and Amelie in particular.
Fredrik Skavlan: Today, almost 5 years later, what do you believe happened to Madeleine?
Kate McCann: Well, I mean, my view hasn't changed, you know, since the 4th of May really, and that is, that a man took Madeleine. And that man was the person who our friend Jane Tanner saw carrying a child away from the area of the apartment. And sadly I don't really know anything else since.
Fredrik Skavlan: How long do you think you can find the strength to continue this search?
Kate McCann: Well, as long as it takes. I don't think any parent, errm... would ever be able to give up on their child and even the weeks where we are absolutely shattered, errm... or there's another injustice that comes your way, you get up the next morning and think, 'right let's go again' because, you know, Madeleine is part of our family. We all need her back and she needs to be with us... just need to keep going.
Gerry McCann: I mean, there are times when you just think 'I cannot do this, any more', errm... 'it's too much' and particularly, you know, the attention that's come through the media, but, as Kate says, you know, that bond with us, and with Madeleine, and for Sean and Amelie, and even if you wanted to I don't think we could stop.
Fredrik Skavlan: Please know that our thoughts are with you, errr... thank you so much for coming here to Stockholm and telling us about her, reminding us about Madeleine is still missing. Thank you, so much."
---------------------------------------------Note: a new Swedish tv interview with the McCanns has also been freshly aired. (see The McCann Files site for the details.) The dates for both shows was unknown to me until I noticed that Kate Healy was wearing the exact same clothes and even earings on both these Swedish shows.
The date for the programme:
Nyhetsmorgon -
Föräldrarna letar fortfarande efter försvunna Madeleine McCann" ( tv4play.se ) was the 25th March 2012 ( 2012-03-25 10:32), hence the show that is transcripted above is from the same day imo, however is dated 23-05-2012 by the McCann Files.
-How busy the McCanns have been since Bennett's court!1) Bennett's court
2) Amaral's Court
3) The Charity Race (Missing Persons)
4) The Swedish Tour Of Shows! -And it's not even Easter yet. What a tight agenda!-
What mistook me about the date of this show with Fredrick Skavlan was the fact that Ms Kate constantly insisted about her book. I then thought I might have missed that "Tour" last year, and that she was there to promote her book. Oh well she is STILL promoting it eagerly so I take it that any little helps to boosts her Profits - or are the sales not going so well now?
I cannot see how a book that expose her daughter's "little genitals torn apart" on page 129 would help an abductor-raptor to stay calm and decent - see what she says in this show above, her usual tripe about not being emotional on early tv (May 2007) because otherwise it would encourage the abductor to react against Madeleine.... If "he" / "she" / "they" have read the book, "Ah ah ah ah"! (I can laugh because I do not believe these two liars and I can PROVE once again that they've lied, see the "SMASHED WINDOW" and the "TAMPERED SHUTTER", = LIE + LIE, followed by other ones.)
I have highlighted points that brought me to react, either by shaking my head, swearing at the tv or laughing. They'll never change... the record is definitely scratched.


text:
While adoption is one of the most exciting and rewarding steps a family can take, it is also terrifying on many levels. There are so many variables, unknowns and risks associated with this process. No matter how sure you and your spouse are about this decision, there will still be moments of doubt and concern.
However, it is important to know that you are not alone. Other families on the verge of adopting are in your same shoes, as were the families ahead of you that successfully adopted. They were successful, and you can be, too.


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