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Vivid Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales
The temperature may dip during the Australian winter (June to August), but there's still plenty going on in the big cities, with many exciting cultural events taking place in the cooler months. Plan your winter escape to Australia to catch one of these exciting activities:
Vivid Sydney 2018, Sydney
When: 25 May – 16 June
The Vivid Sydney festival lights up the city of Sydney with grand-scale projections that transform skyscrapers, streets and landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House in one of the world's most beautiful light shows. Wander the city streets during the clear, temperate evenings to admire the enormous moving projections on buildings around the harbour and across several neighbourhoods (including Chippendale, Central Park and Chatswood), and get involved in the festival's other events. Each year, these includes concerts by international headline artists and a schedule of provocative talks on wide-ranging topics, such as authenticity, entrepreneurialism and ethics.
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Gold Coast Airport Marathon, Gold Coast, Queensland
When: 30 June – 1 July
Celebrate the special 40th edition of the Gold Coast Marathon in 2018 on the beautiful Gold Coast. The world class international marathon will attract 25,000 participants of all ages and abilities from over 50 countries across eight races including. The Gold Coast Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, is the pinnacle of road running events in Australia and during its 39-year history has distinguished itself as one of the most prestigious marathons in the world. Its famous flat, fast and scenic course located alongside the city's renowned surf beaches and stunning broadwater plus ideal winter running conditions featuring low humidity, little wind and mild temperatures result in 60% of participants achieving personal best times each year.
Sovereign Hill Winter Wonderlights, Victoria
Winter Wonderlights, Sovereign Hill, Victoria
When: July 2018
Head to Sovereign Hill for the Christmas in July celebrations. During the day, Sovereign Hill's iconic township will evoke a sense of old-world wonder and yuletide feels. Take a stroll down Main Street as snow-flakes fall over the Victorian-style buildings, decorations fill the window displays, the smell of Christmas treats and spices fill the air, and traditional Christmas-themed pantomimes are performed. If you're up for a challenge, try and catch the Gingerbread Man as he mischievously plots his escape from the hungry visitors. By night, watch Sovereign Hill's Main Street sparkles as more than 20 of the attraction's buildings light up with large-scale image projections and Christmas animations. Set to Christmas-themed music, this year's show will be bigger and brighter than ever before, evoking the spirit and enchantment of Christmas.
Huon Valley Mid-Winter Fest, Tasmania
Huon Valley Mid Winter Festival, Huon Valley, Tasmania
When: 13 – 15 July
One of the best places in Australia for a wintry celebration is Tasmania, the rugged island south of the mainland that boasts some of the country's most stunning scenery and best food and wine. In July, the Huon Valley near Hobart is the scene of Mid-Winter Fest, which combines pagan rituals with modern-day revelry to great effect. After the welcome ceremony with fire twirlers, wander among orchards and take part in wassailing, an ancient ritual meant to scare away evil spirits. Afterwards, feast on some of the region's most sumptuous produce, including free-range meats and small-batch cider.
Wildflower Season, Western Australia
Kings Park Botanic Gardens, Perth, Western Australia
When: June – November
Western Australia's 12,000 wildflower species is the largest collection in the world. Scattered across 2.5 million square kilometres (965,000 square miles) of terrain, every year they bring a spectacle of colour and fragrance that must be experienced to be believed, especially when you consider 60 per cent of them are found nowhere else on Earth. You can enjoy their glorious carpets of colour and curious blooms for six months of the year, as the season begins in June in the north, and sweeps down the state to finish with a flurry on the south coast in November. You can see some of the very best of Western Australia's wildflowers close to Perth city centre every September when more than 1700 species burst into bloom in the Botanic Garden in Kings Park. Take a free guided walk from the Visitor Information Centre to make sure you don't miss anything. The Kings Park Festival in September is a long-running tradition that celebrates spring and the park's wildflowers.
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A Phase 1B In-Vivo Esophageal Protocol for Detection of Neoplasia in the Digestive Tract
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
validate binding of the fluorescent-labeled peptide to esophageal neopla
The overall aim of this research project is to develop the use of fluorescent-labeled peptides that affinity bind to pre-cancerous mucosa in the digestive tract for use as an imaging agent to guide endoscopic biopsy or endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR). This particular study is a phase Ib, vaidation of efficacy of the topically applied peptide and continuing assessment of safety. To validate binding of the fluorescent-labeled peptide to esophageal neoplasia using an Olympus FITC Endoscopic Molecular Imaging System.
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Danielle Kim Turgeon, M.D.
Principal Investigator
University of Michigan
United States: Food and Drug Administration
July 2012
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When I brought this project in from the shop my wife asked two questions, 1- What is it? So I told her it was a lazy Susan. 2 – Isn't it to small? I said I guess so if you think it is. Well neither of those questions made me feel very good about my finished work so I just left it on the table thinking I'll just give it away as a Christmas gift. Then this morning when I get up she asked me if it was for her and said it looks perfect on kitchen table. Guess it just had to grow on her a bit.
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#1 posted 10-04-2014 07:53 PM
Nice combination of timber and a good save…
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#2 posted 10-04-2014 08:10 PM
Oh that is so true. I brought a finished bowl into the house and gave it to the wife….and said here's one I made for you…her comment…why don't you sell it? I noticed a couple days later it has fruit inside of it now. Really good glue up on that one. Thanks for sharing
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#3 posted 10-05-2014 01:25 PM
Good looking project. I often have people ask me about making these huge lazy Susan's. But I think if they get too big, with too much crap, all that's going to happen is crap will fly off or shift as it spins. The further from the center, the more outward force of the spin.
What is the bit you used for the edge?
-- Schooled in the advanced art of sawdust and woodchip manufacturing.
#4 posted 10-06-2014 12:52 AM
Thanks JimRochester, the edge was done with a double ogee bit run on both the top and bottom.
#5 posted 10-06-2014 11:08 PM
Excellent work. Very nice array of woods. No wonder it grew on her!
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Writing and Victorianism
J.B. Bullen
Editura: Longman
Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and established scholars from Britain and the U.S.A, develops many of the themes of nineteenth-century studies which have lately come to the fore, touching upon issues such as drugs, class, power and gender. Some essays reflect the interaction of word and image in the nineteenth-century, and the notion of the city as spectacle; others look at Victorian science finding a connection between writing and the growth of psychology and psychiatry on the one hand and with the power of scientific materialism on the other.As well as key figures such as Dickens, Tennyson and Wilde, a host of new names are introduced including working-class writers attempting to define themselves and writers in the Periodical press who, once anonymous, exercised a great influence over Victorian politics, taste, and social ideals. From these observations there emerges a need for self-definition in Victorian writing. History, ancestry, and the past all play their part in figuring the present in the nineteenth-century, and many of these studies foreground the problem of literary, social, and psychological identity.
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- Cuprins : Preface
1. Transition and Tradition: The Preoccupation with Ancestry in Victorian Writing, Sophie Gilmartin
2. The Major Silence: Autobiographies of Working Women in the Nineteenth-century, Carol Jenkins
3. Writing, Cultural Production and the Periodical Press in the Nineteenth-century, Laurel Brake
4. Engendering Vision in the Victorian Male Poet, Catherine Maxwell
5. Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and the Problem of Scientific Romanticism, Patricia O'Neill
6. The Opium-eater as Criminal in Victorian Writing, Julian North
7. Obscure Recesses: Locating the Victorian Unconscious, Jenny Bourne Taylor
8. After the Play: Dreams of Drama and Death in the James Family, Frances Wilson
9. Visuality Codes and Texts: Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy, Stephen Bann
10. John Ruskin and the Victorian Landscape, Phillip Mallett
11. A Life in Writing: Ruskin and the Uses of Suburbia, Dinah Birch
12. Figuring the Body in the Victorian Novel, J.B Bullen
13. The Vic
- Data Publicarii : 1997
- Editie : 1
- Format : Paperback
- Numar pagini : 360
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The Fleet Show is attended by a significant and rapidly growing audience of senior fleet buyers from a wide range of SME, national and public sector fleets. The show is designed to provide exhibitors with the highest possible return on their investment by keeping costs down, while attracting a high-quality audience through extensive pre-event marketing.
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Jokes about differences between female and male habits are standard among comedians. These differences enable researchers to draw particular shoppers by aligning advertising messages, advertising, product options, retailer layouts and displays (including colors), and customer service with the expectations of the specified prospects' gender and purchasing traits.
Analysis by Shoppercentric , a UK-based buying research company uncovered that males aged 18-24 defy most male procuring patterns by searching — each in retail stores and online — shopping with friends, and rivalling girls in the variety of impulse purchases".
BCG surveyed greater than 12,000 women from a wide range of geographies, income ranges, and walks of life about their training, finances, properties, jobs, actions, pursuits, relationships, hopes, and fears, in addition to their shopping behaviors and spending patterns.
Research by customer experience consultancy Empathica, as reported by Practical Ecommerce, found that men have a tendency to stay to their mission when buying on-line" which is in contrast to women who develop the endeavor by wandering amongst merchandise and classes".
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When you first start snowboarding, getting going and safely stopping are key. Doug goes over a few helpful tips to keep you safe while getting down the hill.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Then We Came to the End
Ferris so successfully describes the office setting and its daily goings-on that some office veterans might cringe when he hits a little to close to home for comfort. This is an agency filled with people much like the ones you work with every day. You like most of them well enough, and even consider one or two of them to be good friends, but you almost never see them outside the office setting. Some of them have little habits and mannerisms that drive you nuts, some of them you find attractive, and you might even feel threatened by one or two others who always seem ready to stab you in the back if it means a move up the corporate ladder for them.
As the layoffs continue, surviving agency workers feel more and more pressure to look busy even as their actual workloads shrink to almost nothing. Rumors and speculation become the order of the day, and little clusters of whispering employees gather to discuss old rumors - and to send a few new ones out into the workplace themselves. They may not know each other very well but the employees have strong opinions about each other based on what they observe at the office. As office-mates disappear one-by-one and the company looks more and more unlikely to survive its downward spin, personal grudges, petty dislikes, and old rivalries become more and more important.
One laid-off copywriter sneaks back into the office and even attends meetings in an attempt to prove his worth to the agency. Another refuses to admit that he suffers depression but begins stealing prescription medicine from a co-worker's desk. Others prefer to pretend that it is business as usual and they carry on with their office love affairs, both real and imagined. As their numbers dwindle, those still on the job become more and more frantic and strange things begin to happen. Workers raid newly vacated offices to find better chairs or office doodads for themselves; some fired employees tend return like bad pennies; and others begin to crack in their own rather unique ways.
Joshua Ferris put me back in a world I personally experienced not that long ago. His use of satirical dark humor to describe the office trauma in Then We Came to the End sets just the right tone for the story he tells. Ferris also has a knack for perfectly describing even the most minor of his characters, as he does, for instance, in the case of one loner payroll clerk: "Her office was a firetrap of put-off filing. Sandy had gray hair and wore one of those ribbed finger condoms that gives one speed in the sport of accounting." (Hey, I think I know that woman.)
Despite my flashbacks, this was a fun book for me to read and I recommend it to anyone who has been there and is not afraid to go back one more time for a little visit.
Rated at: 4.0
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This was a Pulitzer finalist for 2008.ReplyDelete
I think...ReplyDelete
ooooh, brain way behind fingers.
Still, I want to read it.
are you serious? This book is not like real cubicle life. Not even close. Total drivel.ReplyDelete
I think you'll enjoy it, Suzy...lots of dark humor used to make a good point about the corporate world.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I'm serious, Anonymous. Are you?ReplyDelete
If so, tell me why you think the book is total drivel rather than just do a drive-by trashing. Then I might actually care what you think...
I really liked this book. Most people at my book club have not. I think it is almost like a modern day Trollope. More detail than plot.ReplyDelete
Plus I think it has one of the best opening lines in all of history: "We were fractious and overpaid."
Thomas, thanks for reminding me of that first sentence...classic, indeed.ReplyDelete


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Roman destruction of Jerusalem
Here, I go through the criticisms of Abu el-Haj's discussion of our knowledge and understanding of the Burnt House and the Herodian Quarter in Jerusalem, which are both accepted as the remains and as evidence of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
Note as I do that she had affirmed that 'we know... that the Roman Legion burned the city down, destroying the Upper City' (Anonymous A, 2006a) and that she had derived the alternative from the site director Nahman Avigad's (1970: 136) excavation report, which considered that '[t]he building was destroyed before 70 A.D., perhaps by the Zealots'.
Internal disputes
Biblical and ancient Near Eastern archaeologist Prof. Aren M. Maeir (September 2004) was the first to query Abu el-Haj's treatment of two sites associated with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.:
In her discussion of the "Jewish Quarter" in Jerusalem, Abu el-Haj argues against the "standard" explanation (Roman destruction at Jerusalem in 70 C.E.); she prefers a ludicrous explanation, relating the archaeological evidence of wide-scale destruction in Jerusalem to internal disputes, that flies in the face of available evidence.(It would appear to be from this review (and a subsequent interview with Maeir) that journalist Gabrielle Birkner (16th November 2006) determined that, 'Ms. Abu el-Haj suggests Jerusalem was destroyed not by the Romans, but by the Jews themselves due to rising class tensions among them', although Birkner's use of 'class tensions' sounds closer to anti-Abu el-Haj activist Paula R. Stern's (7th August 2007d) 'Marxist-style rebellion' than it does Maeir's more generic 'internal disputes'.)
Accidental fires
Academic Anonymous A (30th November 2006a) joined in:
Roman (Second Temple) Judea is well-documented. The details given in Josephus, Tacitus, and elsewhere correspond neatly with the very extensive evidence that has emerged from the archaeological record....As far as I can tell, Anonymous A (30th November 2006a) went on to quote most of pages 143-146 verbatim, with a few ellipses. They derided:
Occam's razor is the rule that, when given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated, or, parsimonious, formulation. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae. It does apply to archaeology. Judging from the following, Anthropology may be the sole field of knowledge where it has ceased to apply.[....] "Both of these interpretive frameworks clearly rely upon an already existing story. We already have to know that there was a Roman siege and destruction of the city. We have to know that there was internal Jewish strife in the Herodian city, a conflict that precipitated the burning down of Upper City homes.
No historical cause can be ascribed to evidence of fire on the basis of the material remains alone. With no prior narrative at all, ash could quite simply be evidence of the accidental (or, at least, an inexplicable) fire, or more accurately, of accidental (or inexplicable) fires.
On the basis of the ash itself, there is no way of determining either which cause the evidence of fire indexes, or whether all the evidence of fire at a single site (the Herodian Quarter or Burnt House) points toward a single historical cause, be that a known historical event or an accident.
(After all, each of these houses could have been burned more than once: by Zealots, by Romans, and by accident, partially but not wholly destroyed during each ensuing incendiary incident.)
"In such arguments and interpretations, the key (historical) texts and the key (archaeological) evidence remain in a circular relationship of discovery, explanation, and proof. The history produced through this work of archaeology relies on an already-existing story, which is used, in turn, to interpret the evidence found... The overall historical narrative produced about these periods in Jerusalem's past, whether Iron Age or early-Roman, never transcended this national quest or the broader historical paradigm implied therein." pp. 143-146[.]
I suppose that, in a sense, it is "equally plausible" [italics by Abu El Haj] that the foundations of the only two houses uncovered from the time of the destruction, both happened to have been destroyed by accident or by multiple "accidental (or inexplicable) fires" in the year between the minting of coins found in them and the date of the known destruction of the city. But it is certainly not parsimonious.Even if Maeir (September 2004) labelled her alleged explanation 'ludicrous', at least he said it was grounded in 'internal disputes', not 'accidental fires'.
Occam, you created your razor in vain.
Moreover, while it is true that "these interpretive frameworks clearly rely upon an already existing story," the "story" of the Roman destruction of the city in the year 70 is a well-documented part of Roman history supported by a vast amount of evidence, much of it literally carved in stone. This is hardly a case of an archaeologist choosing a narrative on a nationalistically-inspired whim.
By Abu El Haj's unique reading, however, archaeologists leapt to dubious conclusions because they are dedicated Jewish nationalists, and "a tale of destruction [is] much more in keeping with a nationalist historiography than are several alternative but equally plausible accounts," such as accidental fires in the only two houses discovered, fires that happened to both occur in stone houses with tile roofs in the early months of the year 70.
Parsimony and over-interpretation
Abu el-Haj did not 'argu[e] against the "standard" explanation (Roman destruction at Jerusalem in 70 C.E.)' as Maeir alleged. Anonymous A did not accuse her outright of questioning the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, but did paraphrase her discussion of narrative down to 'the "story" of the Roman destruction of the city' and did feel the need to point out that it was, 'a well-documented part of Roman history supported by a vast amount of evidence, much of it literally carved in stone', implying that that was questioned by Abu el-Haj.
Yet, Anonymous A (30th November 2006a) even quoted a passage in which Abu el-Haj stated that, '[c]learly, we know... that the Roman Legion burned the city down, destroying the Upper City on the eighth of Elul in the year 70 C.E.'
Using just the material Anonymous A (2006a) reproduced, it can be seen that Abu el-Haj only considered that,
[f]or example, at least some of the evidence of fire and destruction at both Burnt House and the Herodian Quarter could just as convincingly be read as evidence of class or sectarian conflict.... From those same historical sources, after all, we also know that Jerusalem erupted in intra-Jewish conflict on more than one occasion prior to the year 70 C.E. and that Upper City homes were set alight by "Zealots" who considered Jerusalem's priestly class to have become corrupt, having strayed from the values of Judaism.Indeed, Abu el-Haj's interpretation is anything but the condescendingly-branded 'unique reading' that Anonymous (2006a) alleged: it is derived from the excavator Nahman Avigad's (1970) own excavation reports.
In fact, in one Preliminary Report, the house at Site E is interpreted as exhibiting the material signs of such intra-Jewish conflict: "The period of the Herodian dynasty (37B.C. to A.D. 70) was represented [at this site] by three floor levels in most of the excavated area... The building was destroyed before 70 A.D., perhaps by the Zealots, who are known to have caused severe damage to Jerusalem in the period prior to its destruction by the Romans" (Avigad [1970: 136])[.]
That possibility is not recognized at either Burnt House o[r] the Herodian Mansion, however, even though the time span between those two possible kinds of fires - those set by Jewish Zealots and those by Romans - is too short for any dating of the ash itself to determine which event it proves.
In other words, both of these stories are underdetermined by the data. Each is potentially compatible with it. The choice thus rests at the conceptual level: which interpretative framework is to be brought to bear upon the archaeological evidence.
Abu el-Haj's alternative narrative
Anonymous A (30th November 2006a) quoted 'Abu El Haj's alternative narrative':
"[....] From about the middle of the first century C.E., when the construction finally stopped and money ran out and so forth, historians are now beginning to point out how much tension there began to be within the city of Jerusalem between poor people living in the slums who had worked on the Temple and the rich people living in the Upper City who were the landlords, landowners, and Temple functionaries, and so forth...Anonymous A (2006a) invited readers to,
In fact, (vis-a-vis) the beginning of the revolt in 66, Josephus (a rich person himself) tends to downplay the social aspects of the revolt... (But) people came up from the City of David, which is Silwan, and burned the municipal records office and then the villas of the rich in the Upper City... So this may be evidence of the rage and anger in Jerusalem, and the destruction you see here was not done by Romans but by Jews themselves."
Follow Abu El Haj's chain of logic with me:It is a little unclear here, but it sounds like either there were more than one layer of ash in one stratigraphic sequence, or there were more than one, discontinuous ash layer across the site.
Avigad found just two largely intact houses in the upper city, both burnt.
Abu El Haj knows f[ro]m Josephus that there were class riots in the year 66.
She postulates that each of the two houses was burnt, but only partially destroyed, in the riots of the year 66.
Then each house was rebuilt - in the midst of a major war against the Romans, a strange time to build or rebuild a Jewish mansion, albeit not inconceivable.
And the rebuilding was done promptly, the houses were reinhabited in time to be filled with the coins, pottery, and utensils destroyed by the fires in the year 70.
All of this is in aid [of] avoiding the parsimonious explanation; that the ash layers are evidence of the fires known to have burned the city in the year 70.
There is, of course, a political agenda here. Abu El Haj wants to establish that all archaeological dig reports and monographs are mere "stories."This claim is, of course, undermined by Abu el-Haj's derivation of her interpretation from the excavator's own dig report, which Anonymous A (2006a) must have known when they wrote that, because they wrote out that passage verbatim along with the others within their post.
Academic Anonymous C (14th May 2007) recounted:
In the remnants of a building now open to the public as the Burnt House Museum Avigad's team found a destruction layer complete with ash and coins minted in 67, 68 and 69 CE. Based on this evidence, Avigad concluded that the house was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70, "probably" on the 8th of Gorpieus, the date when Josephus tells us that the city was burned....I don't know if the evidence revealed repair or rebuilding, but Abu el-Haj did not claim that the damaged and/or destroyed parts of the building were 'rebuilt' (as Anonymous A said her alternative required) or '[abandoned then] reinhabited' (as Anonymous C said it required).
Abu El Haj begs to differ. She finds it "equally plausible" that the house was destroyed by "accidental (or inexplicable) fires" or by fires caused by the Jews themselves, [as] "there was internal Jewish strife in the Herodian city." Furthermore, "each of these houses could have been burned more than once, by Zealots, by Romans and by accident, partially but not wholly destroyed during each ensuing incendiary accident."
The Roman Jewish War of the years 66-70 was a failed war of national liberation, and, simultaneously, a Jewish civil war. We know from Josephus that early in the war the faction known as Zealots set fire to houses in the upper city. For Abu El Haj's scenario to be plausible we have to assume that the Burnt House, one of the few largely intact house foundations uncovered by the Avigad dig, happened also to have been among those few houses that were burned by Zealots early in the war, and that after it was burned thoroughly enough to leave an ash layer it was repaired and reinhabited at the height of a notoriously brutal war by whoever left that pile of coins.
Histories underdetermined by data
She posited that, 'each of these houses could have been burned more than once: by Zealots, by Romans, and by accident, partially but not wholly destroyed during each ensuing incendiary incident'. (That is to say, they could have continued to live in the parts of the house undamaged by the first burning episode.)
Anyway, the critics have made far too much of Abu el-Haj's note of the possibility that one site suffered two burning episodes, possibly because it was easy criticism; the class or sectarian (or accidental) fires that she noted could have caused the burning at the houses could have happened in 69 or 70, removing the need for a second burning episode in the explanation.
Her point was that we know there were fires set by Romans, Zealots and slum-dwellers between the years 66 and 70 C.E., but that we have no evidence at the houses that reveals to us which of those arsonists burned which of those houses.
In a footnote to page 146 that Anonymous A (30th November 2006a) did not quote, despite the pages of material they did, Abu el-Haj (2002: 306n8) recalled that:
In his critique of the field of classical archaeology, Anthony Snodgrass fabricates a humorous and telling example of the dangerous tales that can be spun out of such evidentiary reasoning:Abu el-Haj's point was no more and no less than the one that she made in the body of the text, that 'both of these stories are underdetermined by the data'. She neither denied nor even questioned the Roman destruction of Jerusalem; indeed, she affirmed it.Imagine the reaction of the future excavator of Geneva in, say, 3,000 years' time. He uncovers the ruins of the Grand-Théâtre de Genève, which was in point of fact destroyed by fire on May 1st, 1951. He forms tentative hypotheses, which he tests by excavating some 250 metres away. He he strikes the ruins of the Bâtiment Electoral, burned by another fire on August 4th, 1964. His hypothesis hardens; it would be perverse to deny that both destructions were caused by the same historical event; he has the chronological evidence to show that they occurred close together in time; he knows, too, the dates of World War II. We can safely predict the conclusions to which (at least if he follows the practices of twentieth century classical archaeology) he will come. (Snodgrass 1987: 65-66)
Questions of archaeological knowledge are important - they affect Abu el-Haj's reputation within the archaeological community, her ability to work and the impact that her work has. These incriminations negatively affect that and the campaign against Abu el-Haj uses them as intellectual cover.
Anti-Abu el-Haj activist Paula R. Stern (7th August 2007d) wants Israel and Israelis 'to be ever vigilant against those who seek to rewrite our history and deny our past' (although Abu el-Haj denied nothing that was true), but Stern cannot write that in her petition against Abu el-Haj, so she (19th February 2007a) 'urge[s] you [Columbia University/Barnard College] to deny tenure to Nadia Abu El Haj.... because the use of evidence in "Facts on the Ground" fails to meet the standards of scholarship'.
It sounds like Stern's (7th August 2007d) true objection is that,
Even without the security of tenure El Haj has signed the petition urging Columbia to divest f[ro]m Israel, and a petition alleging that Israel planned to carry out a brutal and massive ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians at the start of the Iraq war. There was no evidence of such a plan, just as there is no evidence for the absu[r]d allegations found in her book.I examine that indictment in a later post on the petition expressing fears of Israeli ethnic cleansing during the Iraq War, but Stern gave as an example,
her allegation that in the year 70, Jerusalem was destroyed not by the Roman Army, but by a Marxist-style rebellion of lower-class Jews targeting upper-class Jews. The book is filled with risible pseudo-history of this type.In this case, Nadia Abu el-Haj's did not even say anything controversial, merely noting that we know there were fires set by Romans, Zealots and slum-dwellers between the years 66 and 70 C.E., but that we have no evidence at the houses that reveals to us which of those arsonists burned which of those houses; her critics didn't defend archaeology, but help the campaign against her (which does no service whatsoever to archaeology).
The next post explores some of the ways Abu el-Haj's argumentation and presentation have been questioned, through archaeologist and activist Alexander H. Joffe's attack upon Abu el-Haj's work, in particular her understanding of archaeology as science (with digressions into the backgrounds of Campus Watch and the David Project, for which Joffe worked and from which the reasons and strategies for targeting can be deduced).
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New Work: Presbyterian Record
One of my most regular clients is a Canadian publication called Presbyterian Record. Art directed by the lovely Caroline Bishop, my work for the magazine is always fun and creative. I've posted here a couple of recent examples that I thought were particularly successful. Usually, the articles I'm working on have a spiritual connection and also a wildlife connection, so whenever possible I like to draw the wildlife in question. For these ones it was a Canadian Goose and an Arabian Stallion respectively.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into Apple's tax practices is complete, and the conclusion is that the Mac, iPhone and iPad maker isn't breaking any laws. Congress pulled Apple in for hearings earlier this year over accusations that it was intentionally keeping money outside the United States to avoid paying taxes.
SEC: Apple didn't violate U.S. tax laws
The investigation revealed that the majority of Apple's overseas earnings are held in Ireland and that the money will be staying outside of the U.S. The SEC report stated,
Substantially all of the Company's $40.4 billion in undistributed international earnings intended to be indefinitely reinvested in operations outside the U.S. (as of September 29, 2012) was generated by subsidiaries organized in Ireland, which has a statutory tax rate of 12.5 percent. The Company supplementally advises the Staff that most countries in which the Company operates have tax rates lower than that of the U.S.
Since so much of Apple's wealth outside the U.S. is held in Ireland, the SEC advised the company to add more information to its Federal reports that identify where its money is held and what risks that poses instead of simply referring to foreign holdings. Apple agreed to the request and will note what possible impact any changes to Ireland's tax laws could have on the company's bottom line.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer were called before Congress in May to testify on the company's tax practices. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), said at the time, "Apple wasn't satisfied with shifting its profits to a low-tax offshore tax haven. Apple sought the holy grail of tax avoidance. It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere."
Mr. Cook firmly disagreed stating,
Apple does not use tax gimmicks. Apple does not move its intellectual property into offshore tax havens and use it to sell products back into the US in order to avoid US tax; it does not use revolving loans from foreign subsidiaries to fund its domestic operations; it does not hold money on a Caribbean island; and it does not have a bank account in the Cayman Islands.
When Congress suggested Ireland should change its tax laws to be more in line with the U.S., the country's Minister for Jobs (as in employment, not Apple's co-founder) said "[Companies] play the tax codes one against the other; that is tax planning, and I think we do need international cooperation through the OECD to deal with the aggressive nature of that."
Ireland ultimately decided it didn't need to conduct an investigation of its own into Apple's tax practices.
According to Apple, 61 percent of its net sales happen outside of the United States, and much of that money will be used to promote the company -- just not in the U.S.
The real issue isn't whether or not Apple is sheltering money outside the U.S. to avoid paying taxes. Instead, it's Congress seeing the laws it created working exactly as designed: Favoring holding money outside the country to avoid hefty taxes. Bringing its offshore cash into the United States, regardless of where it was earned, would cost Apple about 33 percent, and taking that kind of a hit would be fiscally irresponsible to share holders.
Instead, it costs Apple less to borrow money for ventures like its stock buyback program than bringing its own money into the country.
Congress could change U.S. tax laws to make Ireland less attractive to companies, or it could change laws to make it less expensive to bring money into the States. Instead, it chose to spend U.S. tax dollars to investigate Apple's practices and determine the company is fully complying with current laws -- something that seemed fairly obvious before the investigation began.
Maybe Congress should've spent more time looking at reforming tax laws instead of targeting Apple only to show that Mr. Cook was right when he said his company pays all the taxes it owes.
[Thanks to the LA Times for the heads up]


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The "Like to Save" discount is the first car insurance discount of any kind strictly for Facebook users liking a brand page on Facebook, and it is a natural extension of Esurance's heritage as a company born of the internet and using the latest technology to better serve customers.
Esurance is offering the Like to Save discount to embrace the millions of Arizonans using Facebook.* According to social media analytics company Socialbakers, Arizona has 3,046,180 Facebook users, making Arizona the 15th largest population of Facebook users in the United States; in addition, Phoenix has the largest concentration of Facebook users in Arizona, with 931,440.
Consumers in Arizona can go to www.esurance.com/like2save to get an online car insurance quote; during the quoting process they can elect to "like" Esurance for an immediate ten percent discount on their policy. The discount is also applied to future policy terms, and is in addition to various other discounts that Esurance offers.
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Aaron S. Dumont holds an M.D. degree and is currently the Charles B. Wilson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA. He has clinical interests in all aspects of neurosurgery with special interest in cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery and is fellow trained in open microsurgical, endovascular techniques, and radiosurgery. His laboratory research efforts, currently funded by NIH, focus on the role of inflammation and oxidative stress in the formation, progression, and rupture of cerebral aneurysms and translational research focuses on cerebral vascular disease and stroke. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association (Stroke Council), has more than 200 publications, serves on the editorial board of multiple journals, and is involved in national and international neurosurgery and stroke societies.
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"What part of this email is not abusive and threatening?" Skeptically threatening public debate and democracy.
Recently, John Parkinson sent me a threatening and abusive email not too dissimilar to those recently collated by journalist Graham ReadFearn. In a later exchange, the same individual tried to take the line that this behaviour was not threatening or abusive, and that the scientific community was being too sensitive. Similar sentiments have been circulated by Tim Blair. My only response to John Parkinson was "What part of these emails is not abusive and threatening?".
Here is an illuminating discussion of this issue by Graham Readfearn, released on ABC Drum Unleashed yesterday.
GRAHAM READFEARN, ABC Drum Unleashed, June 10, 2011
You will be chased down the street with burning stakes and hung from your f****** neck until you are dead, dead, dead.
The above note was contained in an email sent to one of these academics, but it is just one example. There are many scientists who over recent years have been receiving notes and communications like this.
Last Saturday, The Canberra Times revealed it had discovered abuse, threats and intimidation of at least 30 scientists working on climate change across NSW, ACT, Queensland, WA, South Australia, Victoria and NSW.
In most instances, the abuse had been in the form of emails. There were other incidents which were not reported.
One researcher, The Canberra Times reported, had received "threats of sexual assault and violence against her children" after she was pictured in a newspaper at a tree-planting event.
Earlier this week, I published eight email texts on my blog and at independent media site Crikey, which included the following:
"Wouldn't mind that turds such as yourself spend your time masturbating and collecting grants but you are costing jobs, and billions to the tax payers your filthy piece of lying shit! Die you lying bastard!@"
I should correct one error of my own making. When I published eight examples of emails sent to Australian climate scientists, I stated all the emails had been sent since January 2011. Two of the emails were sent in January 2010 and I did not have a date for the third. These three were all received by me in the minutes before publishing.
This leaves five examples from just two of the 30 scientists known to have been affected, far from the full extent of this issue. Other excerpts from these five emails, sent since January 2011, included "The quicker that C**ts like you and your kind Die the better" and "DIE YOU C**T".
All of this abuse excludes the public attacks on climate scientists which have been made, and continue to be made, by some newspaper columnists and many bloggers who see action on climate change as an affront on freedom or a socialist plot.
Newspapers and blogs across the world have written about this Australian story, which taken in its entirety reveals a systematic and prolonged attempt to intimidate scientists and prevent them from engaging with the public.
In a statement, Universities Australia chair Professor Glyn Davis said the attacks were a "fundamental attack upon intellectual inquiry". Disagreeing with scientific findings was part of robust debate, he said, but seeking to intimidate scientists "who reach unwelcome findings" served to undermine democratic society:
Academics should be able to contribute to public discussion without the risk of vendettas or email abuse campaigns. Serious public policy debate needs civil and informed discussion. Aggressive abuse and hate campaigns make no helpful contribution to a crucial policy debate.
So given the foul nature and extent of this abuse, how could anyone fail to condemn it? Even those who deny that human-caused climate change is a problem, would surely find threats of sexual assault and the sending of aggressive and intimidating messages to be beyond the pale?
Enter Tim Blair, a columnist at The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney which has a readership of more than 900,000 people. Rather than condemn the disgusting content of the emails, Mr Blair dismissed the entire story as "no big deal".
Yesterday also in The Daily Telegraph, a follow-up claimed the initial story was a beat-up instigated by climate scientists to engender sympathy from the public. This story focussed only on issues at Australia National University in Canberra. No mention was given of the other 30 scientists in other institutions, some of which are in The Daily Telegraph's circulation area.
How could this be an "opportunistic ploy" from the climate scientists, as the story suggests, when it was Canberra Times environment reporter Rosslyn Beeby who instigated and pursued the story?
And how could this issue raised in a rival Fairfax media outlet be dismissed by concentrating on just one university, when it's clear that this involves a number of institutions?
The Daily Telegraph news story said the extent of heightened security at ANU was the issuing of keyless access cards, but it failed to include the fact that scientists were moved to a new location where keycard security had been introduced. Was this fact, like the others it chose to ignore, left out to make the issue sound more trivial?
None of these important factors bothered Shadow minister for industry, innovation and scienceSophie Mirabella, who last night also chose to peddle the myth that scientists had somehow orchestrated the release of emails to gain sympathy from the public.
In a press release she wrote how a "shadow has been cast over recent reports that scientists received death threats over the carbon tax debate". Mirabella suggested that "some scientists appear not to have been totally honest about such threats".
Which scientists have been dishonest, and how?
Why didn't Sophie Mirabella's office check with the university or The Canberra Times first? Perhaps they did. Why choose to react to this paper-thin meme rather than condemn the actions of the perpetrators, whose identity currently remains unknown.
Two things have been confirmed by this sorry and regrettable turn of events.
One is that the public debate over climate change, whether it be over the science or policies, has a very nasty and unsavoury underbelly.
The other, is that some have become so consumed in the pursuit of their own agenda or politic that compassion and reason have been pushed aside.
Graham Readfearn is a freelance journalist and writer covering the environment and sustainability.
9 Responses to "What part of this email is not abusive and threatening?" Skeptically threatening public debate and democracy.
Phil M says:
We hear from denialists all the time saying "it's all over for the warmists", "the hoax is over" , "the game is up".
Then there is threats of violence against scientists which clearly shows one of two possibilities.
1) They know now it's not over or the game is up. They know they are wrong & don't like the results. This is the last trick in their bag,violence.
2) They go around using words like "the game is up" & "It's over for the warmists" because they intend on using violence to help their cause.
Deniers will always have this monkey on their back while we pump every increasing CO2 into the atmosphere, while simultaneously deforesting. They can remove funding for scientists that they accuse are being "alarmist", but that wont stop other countries who are concerned funding their scientists. It is only in Australia, Canada & the USA where the most vitriolic rhetoric is experienced from deniers, due to the presence of the largest miners & fossil fuel giants funding parties, front groups, media & denier scientists. The rest of the world has largely moved on.
It's only conservatives of Australia, Canada & the USA that so vehemently oppose climate action. Their conservative allies in other countries are moving towards low carbon economies & have accepted the science. They can see & want to be part of the next boom after the tech boom of the 1990′s. The "green tech boom". They support all business not just the fossil fuel sector.
Even with violence & allowing themselves to be conned by large corporations & right wing media entities like Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Piers Akerman, Tim Blair, Chris Smith etc to name a few. It wont make the excess CO2 go away or it's effects.
Phil M says:
Unrelated. A great new video on joining the dots (or not) of climate change.
janama says:
Phil M – you should read this article:
Phil M says:
Let's face it Janama. As a Bolt devotee, there is nothing short of a killing ( we hope) you don't condone for your side as fair play on scientists who don't tow your ideologically line. It is natural for you to downplay & defend the mouth foaming manufactured anger & misinformation that people like Bolt, Jones, Ackerman, Blair & most of the shock jocks spew out daily.
The Australian has been one of the most premier sources of disinformation on climate change over the past few years. Tim Lambert is up to case 63 of the Australians war on science ; http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/05/the_australians_war_on_science_63.php
And you still expect us to look at something the Australian has got to say on the matter?
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I didn't ask you to look at what The Australian has to say as it is only a newspaper and can't speak a word – I suggested that you read what Rowan Dean, advertising creative director and panellist on The Gruen Transfer, has to say on the subject. Care to comment on his article instead of attacking the messenger?
janama says:
BTW Phil M – based on what you just posted you would ignore this post article:
Phil M says:
"I didn't ask you to look at what The Australian has to say as it is only a newspaper and can't speak a word – I suggested that you read what Rowan Dean,"
Scroll up, it's still there Janama, you didn't say that at all. Here is what you said:
Phil M – you should read this article:
Please bold or highlight the bit where you said Rowan Dean. Please realise that others cannot see your thoughts.
"Care to comment on his article instead of attacking the messenger?"
Rowan Dean is a denier & writes for a denier newspaper & what? He has tried to play down attacks on science & scientists & attempted to denigrate anything to do with AGW & the carbon tax, like he has done in several other conservative forums. The story was in alignment with Dean & the Australians ideology so its a win win for both.
"BTW Phil M – based on what you just posted you would ignore this post article:"
I'm not sure if you realise this Janama, but the Australian isn't the only source of information in the world. That story was all over the interwebs & had broke nearly a month before the Australian reprinted it. The Australian didn't print it to be even balanced. It printed it as a trophy for it's nutjob readers.
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When I was a child, in the late fifties and early sixties,my father retired from a long career in the Navy to south Florida. I have vivid memories of the coral reefs and fish; I remember John Pennecamp and Bahia Honda, Key West, and others. When I returned with my husband of 25 years in 1996 to revisit some of these places, they were destroyed.Returning after 40 years of marriage,I bore witness to the horror of the pitiful remnants being bombarded by the oil spill.My grandsons will not ever see what I saw. If something is done now, maybe their grandchildren might.We have no earthly idea, even now, what the actual function of reef systems is in the world- and they have been damaged almost to the point of death before enough research could be done to fully understand their function. We are woefully ignorant, and I fear not only for the natural world, but for the consequences to everything (and everyone) else- we are all at the mercy of the greedy and the thoughtless.
dp says:
Making threats to climate belief opponents of any stripe seems to be a widely practiced thing in Australia. This man would have me receive a tattoo because I'm unconvinced by the alarmist message.
Perhaps they just need to some quiet time away from the topic. I'd suggest they spend that time shearing sheep and weaving wool because it's trending colder there.
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Keeping roaches out of your home can be a difficult job especially if you live in an apartment. There are some things you can do that will help greatly and eliminate those nasty little creatures. If you have a huge infestation, you really have no choice but to call on the expertise of an exterminator. If you want to make sure you don't end up with a roach problem, take these preventative measures.
Store all food in tightly lidded plastic containers or glass jars. Do not store any type of food inside of cabinets or on countertops in their original boxes or bags.
Do not leave pet food bowls or pet water bowls out. Roaches are attracted to the pet food and they are also attracted to the water.
Clean your kitchen and dining area thoroughly after each meal. Sweep up all crumbs and bits of food from the floors. Wipe down your dining table, countertops, stove, oven and inside of your microwave. Wash all of your dishes, pots, pans, cups, glasses and utensils. In other words anything you touched clean and dry thoroughly.
Run your dishwasher. Do not leave plates, bowls, cups or utensils with any leftover food residue even inside of your dishwasher for long periods of time. If there are not enough dishes for a full load to run your dishwasher, wash the dishes by hand.
Do not leave any standing water including damp sponges, rags or towels lying around. Roaches are attracted to the water. This also includes fixing all drips and leaks under sinks or in faucets. A dripping faucet is more than an annoyance, it will attract roaches.
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Do not store paper grocery bags or cardboard boxes. Roaches feed off of the glue used for paper bags and cardboard boxes. Roaches also lay their eggs in the folded areas of the paper bag. You may bring a clean bag or box home, but given time the eggs will hatch and you will have a roach problem which can lead to a serious infestation.
Keep your home free of clutter. A clutter free environment give them less protection.
Seal all crevices, cracks or holes in and around your house or apartment. This is especially important in kitchens and bathrooms. Pay particular attention to the openings behind stoves, refrigerators sinks, in and under cabinets and vanities and countertops. Use a silicone caulk or spray insulation to seal the holes and openings. Silicone caulk and spray insulations can be purchased at hardware stores and home improvement stores. They are both very easy to do.


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Sometimes you might need to have the all the hyperlinks from a webpage.For example if you are a developer you might be in need of a javascript or css of a webpage that is hosted externally.Sometimes this trick will also help you extract the download link from survey sites.Whatever might be the reason let us learn to do this.We will learn 3 different ways to extract hyperlinks from a webpage in this post.
Extract Hyperlinks From A Webpage In Chrome
This trick is very simple but is limited to Google chrome users.The trick is performed with via the Chrome Dev tools.
Steps To Extract Hyperlinks From A Webpage In Chrome
- Go to the page from which you want to extract the hyperlinks.
- Click on 'Inspect Element' from the right click menu.
- Click on the 'Console tab'.
- Now paste the following code in the input field. urls = $$('a'); for (url in urls) console.log ( urls[url].href );
- Hit enter.
iWeb Tools's Link Extractor
This is a web based service which means you don't have to download any software nor it is limited to any users.You can use this tool here.This tool will show the type of file along with the anchor text in the output field.
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Using this tool is very simple.All you have to do is to go the the above url.Enter the webpage url in the input field and hit extract!
BuzzStream Tool
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- Go to Buzz Stream Urls Extract Tool
- Copy the source code of the webpage from which you want to extract the Url.
- Paste it in the tool's input field and hit create CSV.A CSV file containing the hyperlinks will automatically be downloaded to your computer.
How To Get The Source Code Of Webpages?
Chrome:Right click on the webpage and click on view page source or press Ctrl + U
Internet Explorer:Right click from the webpage and click on view source.
Firefox & Netscape:Right click and click on view page source or press Ctrl + U
Opera:From the view menu click on source or press Ctrl + F3Why Google Chrome Is The Best Browser For developers?


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Commonly asked questions:
1. Where do you live? (Dimana Anda tinggal?)
2. Who do you live with? (Dengan siapa Anda tinggal?)
3. Where have you been? (Dari mana Anda tadi?)
4. What do you do for a living? (Apa pekerjaan Anda?)
5. How do you go to your office? (Anda ke kantor naik apa?)
6. Have you been to Bali? (Apakah Anda pernah ke Bali?)
7. Where is the post office near here? (Dimana kantor pos yang dekat dari sini?)
8. What's the time, please? (Jam berapa ya?)
9. Could you tell me what time the next plane arrives? (Jam berapa pesawat berikutnya tiba?)
10. How old is your first daughter? (Berapa usia anak Anda yang pertama?)
11. How far is the post office from here? (Berapa jauh kantor pos dari sini?)
12. Is your office far from here? (Apakah kantor Anda jauh dari sini?)
13. Do you like living in a big city? (Apakah Anda suka tinggal di sebuah kota yang besar?)
14. Where did you come in your family? (Anda anak yang keberapa dalam keluarga?)
15. How old are you? (Berapa usia Anda?)
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20. What's for dinner, mom? (Makan apa untuk makan malam, bu?)
21. What's the weather like in Jakarta? (Bagaimana cuaca di Jakarta?)
22. Have you been here long? (Apakah Anda sudah lama di sini?)
Match the following answers with the above questions:
a. No, I don't. Big cities are usually crowded and polluted.
b. It's okay. No problem.
c. No. I only arrived in this city 4 days ago.
d. If it doesn't rain, I usually ride my bike to the office.
e. She's still 12 years old.
f. It's warm in the day time.
g. I am not sure yet. We may eat out tonight.
h. Not far from here. Just go down this street and turn right. From that turning, you will see a blue house. That's mine.
i. You won't believe when I tell you that I am already 45.
j. It's US$10 each. If you take 2, you can have them at US$15.
k. It usually arrives after 7 pm.
l. My family is in another city. I am alone here.
m. I write articles for online publications. It's not much but enough to cover the cost of living here.
n. Yes, it is. I have to change twice to get there.
o. It depends on which bus. If you take an AC bus, it costs you Rp.250.000.
p. I came number 2. My brother, Tom, is the oldest.
q. It's only 100 meters from here. Take this road, and turn left at the first turning.
r. I've been to the market to buy some fish.
s. Yes. I've been there twice.
t. The nearest one is 500 meters from here. You can take a minibus to get there.
u. It's 3:30 by my watch.
v. It should have arrived by now. I think it'll be a bit late.
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What will Christians say about a naked Harry Potter?
Oh dear. When word of this gets out the Christianists are going to have fits - again. Daniel Radcliffe is the young star of the Harry Potter films. And Christians hate Harry Potter. Various fundamentalist types have been mounting campaigns to have the book banned from public libraries, school libraries, etc.
Their problem is that the Potter books are make-believe. But Christians can't tell the difference between the fictional and factual. They think there really are witches, demons, devils and the like. So to them the Harry Potter books are pure evil.
And Mr. Radcliffe, 17, is not on their list of favorite people since he is the young man who brings Harry Potter to life in the films.
Well now it gets worse -- at least for the Christians. Radcliffe is about to take a live role on stage in London. And this is going to get fundamentalist tongues wagging -- provided they know what the play is about.
The play is a psychology drama by Peter Shaffer about a disturbed young man, played now by Radcliffe, Alan Strang. Strang commits a horrible crime were he blinds some horses and a psychologist is working with the lad to try find out why this happened. By the way the psychologist is being played by Richard Griffiths, who played Harry Potter's nasty Uncle Vernon in the film.
Eventually the therapist unweaves the intricacies of Strang's mind. He finds that the boy's mother was hyper-religious and she had placed a graphic painting of the dying Jesus above the boy's bed. As Strang went through puberty and his hormones ran rampant he would bring himself to orgasm. But this image of torture was there for to see. And this leads to his incident with the horses. (I'm reluctant to say much as this will run the plot.)
So all this imagery of the crucifixion and it's connection to a warped teen is going to be enough. But then it gets worse -- at least worse for Christians. As the Brits would say there are scenes in the production where Alan Strang gets "his kit off". In other words he'll be standing, facing the audience, delivering a monologue with "his willy" for all the world to see.
In fact for 60 audience members there will be seats up on the stage, very up front and personal. A writer for London's Daily Mail said: "I predict that those 60 seats on stage are going to be the most sought-after seats in London."
Now the legions of teen age girls who moon after Radcliffe will be saving their pennies -- along with quite a few teenage boys with the same sentiments. And they will be able to get in. The producer of the show, David Pugh, said: "I am not going to start playing the game where I say you can't come because you are 11 or you can't come because you are 14. Who the hell am I to start saying that? I saw the play at 14 and it changed my life. If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't be producing it now."
And Harry Potter discussion web sites already have had messages from teen age fans saying they are trying to get in to see the show. One 13-year-old girl posted a message saying she wondered what Radcliffe looked like naked only to have the message removed. Another girl said she was already "buttering up" her mother to get permission to see the play.
The nude scene is not a fleeting one. I've see the stage production and the film version. And for a nude shot it is relative long -- the scene that is. Pugh says "Daniel is fully committed to the role and he has not asked for any special favours." That is theatre talk for Harry Potter will be naked on stage. But Pugh points out: "The nudity and those scenes are an essential part of the story. We are not doing it as an excuse to show Harry Potter's willy."
The matter was discussed openly with Radcliffe and his parents and his agent. "There were no issues Daniel was worried about. He said he would play whatever's in the script."
Radcliffe apparently really wanted to do the show. Author Peter Shaffer has been turning down requests to allow a revival of the play. But he changed his mind when Radcliffe did a private performance of the part for him. Pugh said he's been wanting to do the play for some years but couldn't find the right boy for the part. "When Daniel performed for us at the workshop we couldn't take our eyes off him." I suspect it will be like that in the theatre -- particularly during certain scenes. I wonder how long it will be before hidden cell phone photos of the willy in question appear on the internet.
Since Radcliffe is worth something like $40 million he isn't taking the part because he needs the money. The fan web site danradcliffe.com announced that through the site fans could book tickets directly before they go on sale to the public.
Somehow I can't see this happening in Texas.


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Reminder that the schedule for sort outs On Sept 7 and 8 is posted on the NMHA website.


text: Hello all. Hope you're all having a great day. Can someone explain to me (briefly, and with a good outsource) the general procedure and the prices associated with shipping mass deliveries from North African (Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt) and Middle Eastern countries - or really any other in general. Who should I connect with? What must I learn? What am I to expect? Also can anyone refer me to where I may find information on taxes, duty and transport costs? Feel free to answer any of these questions to your knowledge! Looking forward to all contributions. Kind Regards, Riyadh.


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The Real Reason Canadians Are Worried About Climate Change
Even though ours is a joke headline, we're not making this story up. It looks like a new political species, the "neo-climatons" are making a political evolutionary jump, now that Al Gore has everyone, including the Washington DC Beltway Pols, believing Climate Change is real. Via: Ottawa Citizen Online:- "Canadian water is on the table at trilateral talks between politicians, businessmen and academics from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. A series of private conferences for the North American Future 2025 Project will include the discussion of "water transfers" and diversions, according to the outline for the project, a trilateral effort to draft a "blueprint" on economic integration for the governments of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico." Go read the whole story; but we put some choice tidbits for you below the fold. Meanwhile, does this kind of talk done in private encourage free LeBatts for the southern neighbors? If so, nice. Finally, and as we've pointed out before, this water transfer scenario is highly implausible. Should a mega-drought hit the US, there won't be the time or the resources to pipe blue Canadian water to enough places in the US to sustain existing culture. What might plausibly happen is that dust-bowl style, plenty of thirsty dry jobless US citizens will be making their way north. We're just saying...""It's no secret that the U.S. is going to need water. ... It's no secret that Canada is going to have an overabundance of water.
"At the end of the day, there may have to be arrangements," says Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, director of the project, which is spearheaded by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a powerful Washington think-tank, in partnership with the Conference Board of Canada and CIDE, a Mexican policy institute."
..."News of the talks emerged the same day as the UN's blue-chip panel on climate change released a report predicting that the U.S. would clash with water-rich Canada as the drought-stricken MidWest looks north to the Great Lakes."
..."Gordon Hodgson of the Ottawa-based Conference Board says that, even though it includes the board's logo, the project outline does not necessarily reflect his institute's views.
"The reality the Americans perhaps don't fully appreciate is that we don't have a whole lot of water to export. ... There are near-scarcity conditions in Western Canada, and a lot of water is being used to extract bitumen from the oil sands.""
Image credit: Joe-KS.com, Water Hole - How to steal Canadian Water.


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Jasper Huang's 'Congeal' photo shoot is an artistic feat in both the body painting and live arts realms. This series uses thickly-applied grayish-white body paint that reminds me of plaster. The models' interpretive dance poses lend a considerable amount of elegance and grace to the finished product.
We've seen a number of body painting photo collections that elevate body painting to a form of live arts rather than a mere titillating form of nudity. Check out some other photo shoots that follow this theme below.
Plaster Body Painting
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45 Beautiful Body Paint Features
Extreme Body Painting
International Skin Art Competitions
Literary Body Paint
Nature-Inspired Body Painting
Jasper Huang's 'Congeal' is a Blend of Painted & Live Art
- By: Marissa BrassfieldAug 2, 2009
References: jasperhuang.tw & behance.net
References: jasperhuang.tw & behance.net


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Friday, May 4, 2012
Feeling Bummed Out n Ugly
It's turning into a tough day. The major symptom of which was the recent thought "I am really amazingly ugly. Wow." I mean, on normal days I hardly think I'm beautiful, but don't generally find myself actually repulsive. Today - repulsive. It occurred to me that I could combine features from some animals and come up with a pretty good representation of my face. Start with over large hawkish nose, frog-ribbiting double chin, and then fill in the rest with pudgy pink pig. Egads.
So, being mindful of where these sorts of emotions come from, I have looked back to the hour or so before I thought this. Three things, wedding related, that threw me. First, I found a wedding invitation from some years back - a wedding we attended of very good friends. Just now going through their divorce. Sigh. Then worse, another invitation from good friends, again a wedding we attended - the bride passed away last year. So painful.
So I figured I'd try to focus on the positive, and checked out some pictures posted of a wedding we attended just a few weeks ago. And OMG, there I am, in profile. My second chin really is like a frog. Nose is huge and sort of bent in the middle.
And I've been trying so hard to get in shape. I've had a lot of success with eating well, getting in my treadmill time, and doing flexibility stretching. You'd think seeing this would really put a fire under my butt. Instead it has completely taken the wind out of me. Like, why bother, too far gone.
I know that part of me isn't really upset about my looks. I'm focused on that because I had a lot of negative messages about my looks growing up. That plus my general self-hatred leads to really hating my reflection in the mirror on a regular basis. So, it's not that as much as being down about my friends, I think. Hard to draw the line between what starts you feeling bad, and then where it leads. The workings of depression can be so bizarre. So often, it isn't what we are thinking now that is the real "problem" but some other trigger, some other incident, that may have gone nearly unnoticed at first.
I'm still avoiding mirrors and pictures for the rest of the day.
Your Hostess With Neuroses
Image credit/info: Sad Girl by raymaclean on Flickr via Creative Commons, CC 2.0
9 comments:
- middle child said...
The last half of your last paragraph. That's where I was today, trying to explain it to my husband.
Feel better!
- May 5, 2012 at 12:08 AM
- Tina Fariss Barbour said...
I'm sorry you're feeling this way. I can relate, because it's easy for me to beat myself up for my looks also.
Sometimes it helps me to focus on what I'm doing, and not how I look. Getting involved with something I love doing helps me to refocus on what actually is more important than how I look.
And I try to remember that depression can cause us to have distorted thinking.
I hope you feel better soon!
- May 5, 2012 at 12:50 AM
- Ann said...
IN my head you look like that orange tabby. :) Totally adorable!!
- May 5, 2012 at 2:25 PM
- klahanie said...
Greetings friend,
Oh and how the taunts from childhood can linger on and impact how we perceive ourselves.
And yet, despite this, you embrace the positives, look for what makes you truly grateful.
I know that the past can haunt and the inner critic takes over. I also know that the inner critic tells lies and the sweet innocence of the inner child is a most positive focus.
I try, as best I can to live my life with realistic positive anticipation, rather than, negative speculation.
For what it's worth, I bestow upon you the wondrous gift of empathy.
With respect and admiration for your transparency, Gary
- May 5, 2012 at 8:46 PM
- Amy said...
Yikes. Sounds like you're in a lot of pain. Perhaps your friends' divorce and the loss of your other friend took you to a despairing place, one painful enough that projecting that pain onto your looks was easier than contemplating death, either death itself or the death of a relationship.
Since I grew up with you, I feel I am in a position to say that you are not ugly. You are far from it. You have gorgeous hair, great skin, beautiful eyes, a little waist, and a *great* nose. Do not diss that nose. Noses are awesome.
- May 7, 2012 at 11:56 AM
- AVY said...
Beauty comes from the inside, as stupid as that sounds.
/ Avy
- May 8, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- The Blue Morpho said...
Hey middle child, thanks for the encouragement!
Tina - yes, the distorted thinking is always tough. Too bad it still hurts so much, even when you know it's distorted.
Hello Ann - Yeah! I like that idea that I look like Stress Cat. Hope he doesn't mind :)
Klahanie - thanks muchly for the supportive comments!
Amy - Heh, well, yeah I'd say I took a bit of a hit thinking about so many sad things all at once. Still it is hard to try to think positively about one's self when there are so many negative head voices still hanging around.
- May 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- Cole Marie said...
I stumbled upon your blog through a blog that is following me. You are very insightful. I find that my mind also wanders and I am left feeling shamed and unaware of what started the entire process. I wish I knew how to follow your blog or attach it to mine so others could see it. I live with BPD, PTSD, OCD, and Bipolar. Glad to see another person speaking up because our time is now.
- June 4, 2012 at 2:07 AM
- The Blue Morpho said...
Cole - thanks for reading and commenting, I am glad the blog speaks to you! You can follow the blog by hitting the 'follow' button at the top bar, or the 'join' button in the followers gadget.
- June 4, 2012 at 2:06 PM
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Indeed, it's hard to ignore the company's overachievements. The Nike-sponsored MTV show Battlegrounds is going into its third season with the NBA's latest heartthrob LeBron James. In the past few years the company has earned an astonishing assortment of media accolades: a Grammy for its documentary Concert for George, an Oscar for The Fog of War, its second IFC Independent Spirit Award for Metallica-Some Kind of Monster, and a trip to the Whitehouse to receive a prestigious design honor from the Cooper-Hewitt. But strip that hardware away and what remains is an impressive body of commercials work that would keep any company in the highest ranks. While @radical parted ways last December with commercials headliner and The Fog of War director Errol Morris, the creative output of its six global offices hardly suffers. For one, Tarsem re-emerged with a stream of stunning work, including Nike's "Masks," and a Pepsi soccer and surf spectacular, out of Brazil. The company in recent years has brought on a fresh string of global talents like Les Elvis, Daniel Askill, Sebastian Strasser and The Glue Society, many of whom earned accolades at Cannes this year. Meanwhile, U.S.-based helmers like Steve Miller, Jeff Labbe and Dave Meyers have shown steady career growth. As a solo artist, Miller remains in peak comedic form, most recently with fishy laughs for ESPN. Meanwhile, former Wieden creative Labbe has demonstrated the richness and maturity of a more seasoned director on new spots for Powerade. Music video maven Dave Meyers, who signed to the company in 2000. has developed an impressive spots oeuvre with iPod and Sony. Prior to his arrival, the shop had never touched clip, but since he helped to launch @radical's music division, the company has enjoyed a formidable presence in the music world, earning 12 nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards and 17 from the MVPA, thanks not just to Meyers but also innovators like Chris Milk and hip hop impresario Kanye West. On the managerial side, @radical has shored up the commercials front with the addition of executive producer Maya Brewster, former frontwoman at Partizan. Scherma says, "In all honesty I think this is our busiest year in commercials ever, the biggest we've ever had since we started @radical.media-in commercials, and branded entertainment. Because they really work together."
There's no denying that as advertising and entertainment boundaries have become increasingly blurred, @radical's all-terrain efforts bear a palpable significance in today's media landscape. Recent examples include Mercury's Meet the Lucky Ones, directed by Battlegrounds helmer Derek Cianfrance for Kirt Gunn & Associates, with whom @radical is again teaming this year on a follow-up campaign. Another standout accomplishment includes the wide-reaching "One" campaign, directed by Marcus Tomlinson, who earned an Emmy nomination for his spot work and also shot the print component of the effort. "That was a pro-Bono effort," quips Kamen. The multi-platform campaign, produced and conceived out of @radical aided in collecting two million signatures in support of the U2 frontman's social service organization DATA.org and helped fuel the Live 8 concert extravaganza. Elsewhere the company's relatively new print division has led to more cross-platform and crossover opportunities for agencies and @radical directors and photographers: print shooter Andrew Zuckerman moved to directing broadcast for Puma; while Dave Meyers shot Apple iPod spots, photographer Matthew Welsh contributed to the print components of the campaign. In the meantime, longform efforts are still in full swing, with upcoming projects like The Iconoclasts, a Sundance series it's co-producing for Conde Nast and Grey Goose Entertainment. The shop's also preparing to launch an advertiser-related VOD channel later this year.
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"When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there."
Believe it or not, that's one of the world's shortest stories.
It's titled The Dinosaur and belongs to Augusto Monterroso (December 21, 1921 – February 7, 2003) a Honduran writer, known for his humorous and ironical style in his work.
When it comes to writing, one tends to think that it's necessary to count on plenty resources to find inspiration. That stories need to be long in order to deliver meaning.
Take another look at the first line of this blog post. You'll see that all you need is a powerful idea to welcome as many interpretations as the universe has.
Flash fiction, a style of fictional literature characterized by its brevity, starts showing more presence on the world wide web through sites like Flash Fiction Online and Flash Fiction Magazine.
Micro narrative leads the way to compiling ideas for a longer composition. Sometimes, as a writer, you find yourself jotting down random thoughts without any connection between themselves. This literary style may put them all together.
Another tool that may you help with micro narrative is Twitter. You have 140 characters to tell a story. Great way to train your mind to express in a few words.
Play with ideas and possibilities. Starting small can bring some great results.


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Over the last few years there has been a steady rise in travellers seeking an alternative holiday outside of Europe. Places such as South East Asia have become popular places to visit. With these new destinations come added risks, such as typhoid, to the normal traveller and often people are unaware of these hidden risks.
Preparation is key and prevention is better than cure!
As a Travel Health Nurse working for Nomad I spend my time educating travellers about the risks they may encounter and using preventative measures such as vaccination. I spend the rest of my time working as a senior nurse in a London Emergency department and we have experienced an increase in people returning from these countries with a variety of tropical illnesses. The common trend is lack of preparation and knowledge. Not all travellers consult a specialist travel clinic such as Nomad and some book holidays last minute, so are unable to complete many vaccinations.
The common trend is lack of preparation and knowledge. Not all travellers consult a specialist travel clinic such as Nomad and some book holidays last minute, so are unable to complete many vaccinations
We are now seeing more cases of travellers returning unwell and recent cases of Typhoid fever. Typhoid fever is a bacteria infection spread through contaminated food and water. It is common in countries with poor sanitation and hygiene. The illness can develop 1 to 3 weeks after exposure and often presents as fever, headache, confusion and abdominal pain. If left untreated it can lead to many serious health complications and become a medical emergency. The disease can be prevented by ensuring you drink bottled water, eating food prepared safely and a pre-travel vaccination that lasts for 3 years. Vaccination is vital for those travelling to a country where Typhoid fever is common and when travellers cannot guarantee safe food and water.
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