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We couldn't be happier to have Leslie Hamer of Unless Someone Like You with us this afternoon. The catchy name of her design company comes from the Lorax, one of her favorite books that she still can't read without crying. We think her genius, imagination, and wit rivals even Dr. Seuss so the name could not be more fitting.
At age nine, you wanted to be?
Definitely a scientist. Maybe an astronaut. As a child I was encouraged academically and musically, but drawing or painting wasn't a part of my life until college. I still love science, and long geeky conversations.
How would you describe your style?
This is tough question! Like many designers I find it difficult to "see" my own work. I try to keep things simple and clean. I like negative space, strong typography.
What is your normal workflow or process like?
Ideas come from everywhere. Sometimes I sketch, sometimes I walk around and photograph things, sometimes I dive right into Illustrator. I work quickly and try not to over think anything.
How many iterations does it take for a design to become final?
As many as it takes! Each design is different. Some I rework to no end. Some just appear complete. I imagine it's the same a writing a song, or composing music. Sometimes my ideas are clear and things just fall into place.
What tools, techniques, and mindsets do you find absolutely essential?
My Cintiq is indispensable. I couldn't work without it, I cant imagine how I ever did! When I remember drawing with a plain wacom I still cringe a bit.
What is the easiest part of the design process?
Brainstorming ideas. I'm a bit addicted to daydreaming, especially about design.
Most difficult?
Choosing final colors. I always finalize colors at the end, as having them in the mix too early will distract me from concentrating on layout. Usually there are so many lovely colors, and so many beautiful combinations that my head spins.
Your designs are all so different, which I love! Any tips on how to keep your design top-notch, without getting staid and stuffy?
I'm a very unconventional gal. I'm not girly my any means, but I'm not masculine in my designs either. I love trying something different even if it doesn't work, because the stationery industry to so saturated with floral and frilly products. I'm not knocking the aesthetic, these designs are popular for a reason, but I personally try to stay off the beaten path. It's harder than it seems! My father was a custom luthier (a craftsman who makes stringed instruments) and his designs were always completely out of the box, and totally unforgettable. My work seems very tame comparatively!
Do you have a favorite font?
Hm. It changes. I was into Gotham for a while but it's fading on me. I hated anything italic for some reason and now I find myself addicted. Lately I've been doing more hand lettering, which is time consuming but thrilling.
Favorite color? Or favorite color right now?
I'm into an orangey red right now. It will change, soon, and perpetually. I get into a color and use it everywhere and then quickly grow to dislike it. Just like every piece of clothing I've ever had! I'm fickle.
Favorite pen?
Pilot extra fine. Black.
Tell us about one of your favorite cards offered for sale on Minted and how you came up with the design.
I like my Elliott! Design. I made it with my son in mind, so it's close to my heart. Anyone who has a little boy knows how I came up with the idea!
Destination is a very popular design! How did you manage to make it look so effortless even tough there is so much going on? (I'm personally in love with Cross Your Heart by the way—if I were to get married again, I would send that!)
Thanks for the kudos! That design was inspired by a vintage map I saw in book, where all the roads where converging at a church. This was one of those designs where I could see it all in my head before I started.
Negative space is really very important. Beginning designers tend to see empty space as "blank" and want to fill it, but that space is essential to having a visual flow to the design.
What was your favorite custom piece in the past year and why?
Hm. This portrait. I love drawing long hair and beards. This couple had it all!
What design trends do you think will emerge this summer/fall?
I try to never think about trends, forecast them, or design with them in mind!
I hear ya. That being said, what is your least favorite recent design trend?
Overly swirly script fonts have been everywhere lately. They will never go away, but I don't know if I'll ever like them.
What was your favorite Minted design challenge and why?
My first, joyful celebration. It's what got me hooked.
How does living in the Midwest influence your design?
The Midwest is very unpretentious, which I love. I'm very laid back about my work, very humble and flexible about changes. I don't think I'll ever feel like my work is perfect and that I know everything about design. There is always more to learn, always someplace new to explore. I can always do better.
Where do you go for design inspiration?
Inspiration is everywhere, if you are looking for it. I try not to look at design blogs very often. It's a thin line between staying up to date on what's happening in the world, and depressing the heck out of yourself. Seeing too much of others peoples work makes me feel lost. This is why on Minted I almost never look at other submitted designs until everything I want to submit is finished and uploaded.
What designers do you really admire? Do you have a favorite graphic designer?
I grew up near Chicago and started going to shows at a very young age. The Chicago poster scene was exploding when I was a teenager and for that reason I feel very connected to the work of people like Jay Ryan and his wife Diana Sudyka. When I look back through Jay Ryan's older work its a very nostalgic personal expirience – so many of the posters are for shows I was at, or wished I was old enough to go to at the time.
I have a huge poster collection – much more that can fit on my walls at home! Besides the artists I've mentioned, I'm crazy for Jason Munn, Mat Daly, Dan Grzeca, and Leia Bell, among many others.
What can't you travel without?
My iPad. It fits in my tiny purse and the battery lasts for 12 hours! My poor laptop hasn't been cracked in weeks. Sketching on the iPad with the pogo sketch stylus is super fun as well.
Do you have any hobbies of note?
I like tackling difficult projects. I'm currently dreaming of building a pinball machine with my little brother. Design is my job and my hobby. When I watch movies with my husband more often than not I'm sketching or working in illustrator on my laptop. I can't turn off. It's a problem. I'm working on it.
What can't you live without?
My son. What will I do when he goes to college?
What piece of art would you most like to own?
I've always wanted one of Diana Sudyka's original watercolors. I've had birds my whole life, and I can't tell you how many times I've wished my discretionary income could include originals instead of prints and posters.
What advice would you give a new designer?
Practice EVERY DAY, just as if you were learning to play the piano. Design even if you have no one to design for.
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Seattle's coziest bars and coffee shops
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We asked seattlepi.com staff and readers about their favorite cozy refuges for a cup of joe or cocktail (or an Irish coffee, what the hell). We give you their responses.
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You all know Anthony Clavane of course - the gifted songwriter, the underground troubadour, the love-child of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake. Bon Iver's more thoughtful, better read, more politically astute older brother.
Well your loss if you don't. Most people - most readers of this blog - will know Anthony as the author of The Promised Land last year's surprise best-selling, award-winning account of growing up with the burden of being a Leeds Utd fan. hough actually that does both Anthony and the book a disservice because The Promised Land is more than that. More than a Northern Fever Pitch. It's about fooball yes, but it's also about industrial growth and decline and about being an outsider within tribes of outsiders. It's popular social history as well as football memoir.
And some people will know him as a football writer on the Sunday Mirror. But when I first met Anthony he was a history teacher in Colchester and also a songwriter. A brilliant songwriter (I think he was probably an okay history teacher). So brilliant that when I got the chance to write a play (Still Waiting For Everything) I built it around some of those songs. I will still contend that just because his greatest hits remain largely unheard that doesn't make them any less astounding. He's got half a dozen that would stand comparison with any of the canonical singer-songwriter classics. I know it. A handful of his friends and family know it. The 500 people across the country that came to see my - very fringey - play know it. And one day - possibly quite soon - you will know it too.
Oh and he's working on another book too (but then so is everyone I know...)
Can you give me your autobiography in exactly 50 words (not 49, not 51)
Born and brought up in Leeds . History teacher, news reporter, "Independent" feature writer and sportswriter with the "Mirror". Teaches at the Arvon Foundation, wrote the songs for the play "Still Waiting For Everything". First book, "Promised Land", won Sports Book of the Year at the 2011 National Sporting Club Awards.
Why should I read "Promised Land"?
I know it's based on the fortunes of a football team, Leeds United, but people who don't like football - like Ian McMillan's wife - like it. Apparently. It's really about cultural outsiders; how people (like me), cities (like Leeds) and tribes (like the Jewish community) have attempted to escape their pasts by reinventing themselves – and the price that has to be paid for these reinventions. It's a kind of love story really, or at least a love letter to the three things that shaped by early life: Leeds , football and Jewishness. I'm still living with the guilt of turning my back on all three in my 20s.
Did you learn anything during your research that surprised you?
Where do I begin? Houdini failing to escape from a Tetley's beer barrel, and almost dying from the alcohol fumes because he was teatotal. Cuthbert Brodrick designing Leeds Town Hall in his early 30s - then buggering off to France with a married woman. Alan Bennett excitedly spotting Leeds manager Don Revie outside the Queens Hotel kitchen; The Don was waiting to collect takeaway lunches for his players. Bennett mistaking the artist Jacob Kramer, who had an art gallery named after him, for a tramp when he almost fell over him…outside the art gallery. Albert Johanneson, the first black footballer to play in an FA Cup Final, giving all his medals to my friend's dad and asking him to put them in his safe because he was worried he'd pawn them (Albert had become an alcoholic). The gypsy Revie had asked to remove the "curse" on Elland Road urinating on all four corners of the pitch (it didn't work). The great northern realist writer David Storey signing a long-term contract with Leeds Rugby League – and using the money to pay for his art course at the Slade School of Art. Pele headbutting Billy Bremner. The young Damien Hirst living near Eric Cantona, though not at the same time…
The Dirty Leeds nickname - that was actually pretty fair wasn't it?
Yes and no. The London media hated these cocky northern upstarts because they were unfashionable, played to win and, yes, cut corners. Many of the cynical things they did were in response to the gamesmanship of the European teams they played in the mid-1960s. What's really interesting is the club's repeated attempts to shed this image. First Super Leeds – the "total football" side of the mid-1970s, then Wilko's wonders – with the late, great Gary Speed, Strachan and Gary McAllister in midfield – and finally O'Leary's babies. All these attempts failed. How come Arsenal can successfully get away with reinventing themselves under Arsene Wenger and we can't? I'm also interested in this nickname as a "personal myth" – from Dickens and Shaw, who thought industrial Leeds was a beastly place that should be burned down, to Hirst and David Peace. Why are some people, groups, teams nicknamed "dirty". As Mary Douglas said: "Dirt is matter out of place."
You've lived away from Yorkshire for quite a while - how have your feeling towards your home city changed over the years?
My mum and dad and lots of Clavanes still live in Leeds so I spend a lot of time in the capital of God's Own Country. Back in the 1970s there were so many prodigal-son-returns-oop-north novels and films. I loved them all, especially "Charlie Bubbles" and "Get Carter" (although Caine was too lazy to use a northern accent). When I first went back, in the crappy 1980s, it was a kind of hell. In the 1990s things suddenly changed. I've never been in Harvey Nicks, but I was a big fan of the new Leeds . I liked its aspirational drive. There's an incredible energy in Leeds at the moment – but, like most northern cities, it's up against a government run by out-of-touch southern toffs.
What are you working on now?
I've been commissioned by Red Ladder Theatre Company to write a play, with Nick Stimson, based on "Promised Land" – to be performed at Leeds Carriageworks in June 2012 – and I'm also working on my new book "Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?", which is about Jewish involvement in English football.
I'm a fan of your songwriting. How come there is such a select band of us that know about this side of your life?
Why thank you. Maybe it's because my songs aren't that good, really. But I'm writing the songs for the play and maybe you and my mum will be joined by more admirers.
Where do you see yourself in five years time?
Writing the difficult sixth book – and more songs that nobody, apart from you and my mum, listen to.
Recommend something...
"The Big Lebowski" Okay, everyone knows about that. Anna Karina? She's my favourite actress. Do you mean obscure-ish? My favourite Scottish singer-songwriter is Aidan John Moffat from "Arab Strap".
And finally... tell me something I don't know...
I went to jail in the 1980s for handing out 'Free Nelson Mandela' leaflets outside the South African Embassy. Oh yes, and I hate people winking at me.
I'm sorry I have a twitch... and the real final question... the Columbo question: Mr Clavane - you are a tabloid journalist. have you ever hacked a phone? Are there circumstances in which you feel phone-hacking is justified?
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a phone hacker. In the Second World War, definitely justified. Although Hitler never left any voicemails, I think British intelligence was up to some dodgy stuff back then. And quite right too.


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Yena to Meet her 'other' Mommy Tom
From the first day i told Yena that her ninang Umma is coming she has been asking about her nightly. When she asks for juice, she will follow it up with; San na Mommy Umma? (Where's Mommy Umma?)Plus, she would recite over and over again: Mommy Umma, Yeung Lei or YL and Tita Kathy. I wonder if she got the excitement on my little stories that when the three arrived tomorrow we will go see all the fishes on a bigger aquarium, plus dolphins and tigers and snakes. And we will swim on a bigger swimming pool and the sea. She loves animals and she loves to swim - the little girl is so excited!
I wonder if she can recite all the things she has been telling about her other Mommy. When i ask her what will she tell her ninang she would say: Hi Mommy Umma! How are you?! Hi Lei (YL) Hi Tita Kathy.
Well i have to pack her things now. We shall be on BLOGGING LEAVE until next week. And we shall be back on saturday night.


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Author Reveals Decades of MARVEL History in UNTOLD STORY
Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, out now from HarperCollins, tells the history — just about all of it — of the publisher that brought the world Spider-Man, the Avengers and the X-Men. Starting with the childhood of Martin Goodman — who founded Marvel predecessor Timely Comics — and ending very close to the present day, Howe details each era of the company for a meticulously researched book (he even uncovered a nearly nude photo of Stan Lee along the way) that's received overwhelmingly positive press from Rolling Stone, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and more since its debut earlier this month. Newsarama talked with Howe for an in-depth discussion on how the book came together, what surprised him during the writing process, the interview he couldn't get, and his thoughts on current Marvel.
Newsarama: Sean, before we get too far into the book itself, let's talk a little about you. Seeing as how you wrote an extensive history of Marvel Comics, you're obviously a fan — were you always a Marvel guy growing up?
Sean Howe: I was a kid of the '80s. My tastes leaned towards Marvel, but there was a time that DC was really kind of staging a comeback — the early part of what would really bloom in 1986; New Teen Titans and Swamp Thing. Definitely some really healthy stuff, and some things that I've gone back and re-discovered. Have you ever read Thriller?
Nrama: I haven't.
Howe: It's a DC miniseries from the early '80s which is frustratingly hard to find in dollar bins, and doesn't exist in paperback.
There's something about Marvel Comics — this tractor beam quality; largely the spirit of the Bullpen Bulletins. There's something that sucks you in. You want to be part of that community. Things have changed, but at the time, Marvel was much more of an integrated continuity. There was that soap opera element. Reading one or two Marvel titles casually would almost inevitably lead you down that path of wanting to know what was going on in that whole universe.
I think that feeling of community, and that idea of, "here's how much fun everything is behind the scenes," is definitely a big part of what intrigued me about the story of Marvel. It's like your extended family; you knew them through some portraits, but you never really knew what was going on, and the finer details.
Nrama: Speaking of continuity — for me, one of the more interesting revelations early on in the book was that there was interconnectivity even in the very early Namor and Human Torch stories. It's fairly fascinating that the building blocks of what's still a part of Marvel were there so early on, as opposed to first showing up during the Silver Age.
Howe: Right, and it was definitely more of a thing in the '60s. But that starts early on. When you read them in real time, and try to imagine what it was like if you were reading those two characters in the months up to their big meeting, it must have been pretty cool to see that happen. I think movie audiences are just getting a taste of what that's like now
Nrama: It's sort of an obvious question, but at what point did you realize that the history of Marvel — the entirety from its inception to now — would make for a good book? When did it all kind of gestate in your head?
Howe: I started thinking about this idea probably about 10 years ago. Growing up, I read a lot of magazines about comic books, it was the day of Amazing Heroes and Comics Interview. I had a subscription to Comics Buyers Guide. When the Internet started reaching this critical mass, and you started to see a lot of people interviewing comics creators, for the first time you were seeing a lot of people talking about their professional careers in retrospect. I think the thrill that I got out of reading these Jim Shooter interviews, or maybe a Steve Englehart or Neal Adams interview, it kind of reconnected me to just how much I had cared about this stuff. I kind of sat out a lot of the '90s, in terms of superhero comics.
I guess just realizing how many great anecdotes there were, that no one was really unearthing at a fast-enough rate for me. I thought for a while that someone else would write this book — it sounds like kind of a cliché, but I really started writing this because I wanted to read it.
Nrama: Obviously you did a ton of interviews and research for the book. How long were you working on it?
Howe: Yeah. The sort of flippant answer is that I've been working on it all my life. I would say it was about three years of totally intensive work. I used to work at Entertainment Weekly, and the magazine industry was not doing so well in 2009, and it seemed like a good time to start work on a book; the book that I've been sort of idly thinking about for a few years.
In addition to the interviews, one of the great things is going back and re-reading a lot of comic books. [Laughs.] Also just poring through old fanzines, and whatever old memos or primary source documents I could get. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 interviews.
Nrama: Was there anyone you were hoping to get to talk to that eluded you?
Howe: I guess it depends on how much you would say that I "hoped" to get Steve Ditko. [Laughs.] I knew it was a long shot, but of course I would have loved to have gotten that scoopI have Tumblr page, and I put up the postcard that I got from Steve Ditko declining to speak with me. He's written quite a few essays about his Marvel days, but they're sort of scattered throughout these low print run publications, and there are so many unanswered questions, beginning with, precisely why Steve Ditko left Marvel Comics.
There's this thing that just gnaws at a historian — that there's this living history that is out of reach. I was just exchanging emails with the widow of the guy who took photographs of the Marvel offices for Rolling Stones in 1971, and her telling me that the photos were kind of inaccessible right now, and just wondering what mysteries could be solved if only that was in my control…
I was really lucky to get so many people to talk to me. I wish someone had done this 20 years ago when there were so many more people around. Martin Goodman died in 1992, Jack Kirby died in 1994. The mind kind of boggles when you think about if you could have sat down with Bill Everett, or Carl Burgos, or John Verpoorten, the guy who was Marvel's production manager in the '70s, who saw a lot. Burgos and Verpoorten I don't think were ever any interviewed for any publication.
Nrama: As kind of the flipside of last question — was there anyone who you talked to that you were surprised by how much they opened up?Jim Shooter and Steve Englehart. Howe: There's people like Jim Shooter and Gerry Conway, that I wasn't surprised that they would talk to me, but I guess I was pleasantly surprised at how willing they were to open up about any questions. Both of those guys should be getting interviewed more. I interviewed them and I put stuff that they said into this book, but they have tons of stories. They really are just treasures of history. Put Steve Englehart on that list, too.
Nrama: Obviously the book covers just about every era of Marvel, including storied periods like the Timely days, to the Silver Age, and the early '90s with the exodus of creators that formed Image. Were there any eras that you found particularly fascinating? Maybe ones that people wouldn't expect to be especially interesting?
Howe: The mid-'90s, I guess. The era after the bubble burst. I wasn't really reading superhero comics at that moment, so it was a shock to me to just realize how bad things were for a lot of those people. I talk a little bit about the mood of the office, but I got the sense that at a certain point it just became people quietly going into the office in the morning and shutting their doors, and then going home at night and wondering every day if they were going to get laid off. Obviously that's a simplification, but that is just so far removed from what was going on a few years before that.There's kind of this break in continuity that happened for a little while, both on the level of character and employee. A lot of the old guard got kind of swept away when things got bad in the '90s, and never really came back, which I find terribly sad. There are so many artists who never really found steady work again, people who had been working their asses off for decades.
Nrama: Since you weren't reading superhero comics at that time, was a lot of that fairly new to you?
Howe: Yeah. If you see how the industry is at the time just from headlines, it's not hard to imagine that things aren't fun at the office, but you've got the death of Mark Gruenwald being a huge example of a morale-crushing moment.
Nrama: Reading the book, and it might just be a credit to the work, it seems like there really was no "dead period" at Marvel when nothing of note is going on. In every era, there seemed to be something compelling happening.
Howe: Good, I'm glad to hear you say that! [Laughs.] One of the things that I found to be a little bit of a challenge while writing it is that there are these certain cycles that just keep repeating, and how do you keep the reader's interest when what's unfolding is, "Marvel's fortunes are getting better, then they're getting worse, then they're getting better, then they're getting worse." How do you keep people from just thinking that you're just crying wolf over and over and over again? If it succeeded, then I think it's just because these eras were so distinct, both in terms of the creations coming out of them, and also the types of people who were populating the Marvel offices, and the freelance Rolodexes, too.
Nrama: Which is part of what makes right now an interesting period —Marvel comic characters are a huge business, and though sales have rebounded in the past year, direct market numbers still aren't what you would necessarily expect them to be given how popular comic book movies are.
Howe: It's very strange to see the Marvel brand embraced without necessarily seeing the art form fully embraced. That's something that I find a little bit distressing, personally. I do think that what I loved about these comic books is about so much more than just the characters. Mr. Fantastic is a kind of interesting character. He's really just sort of a variation of the Gilligan's Island professor. But when you see Jack Kirby drawing Mr. Fantastic, there's something transcendent about that. It's about so much more than just what his secret identity is, and what his powers are.
Nrama: On a similar note, The Untold Story is probably most squarely targeted at hardcore comic book fans interested in delving into history, which may not be the largest number of people. Was it a hard sell at all?
Howe: It wasn't really. I spent several months on the proposal, wrote a pretty long sample chapter, and when it was time to try to sell the book, I think it was two or three days after Disney bought Marvel. Those were huge headlines, and it was also post-Iron Man. That was another big breakthrough. There was definitely a sense in the non-comics community that Marvel was really here to stay.
Nrama: Given that, do you wish you had time to explore the last few years a little more — between the rise of Marvel Studios and the Disney purchase?
Howe: I think there's a lot that's interesting about that. There are benefits to having a little bit of distance. In one sense, big chapter of Marvel history kind of closes when the Spider-Man movie comes out and it's a huge success. To me, that is really the beginning of Marvel the Hollywood entity eclipsing Marvel the comic book company. That's really the end of Stan Lee's journey in a certain sense — not that he hasn't had a great decade-long coda since then, but that was his dream for 30 years leading up to that. That was the dream of a lot of guys in suits, as well.
I think what's going on at Marvel currently is very interesting. I don't get the sense that it's quite an open culture as it's been at times. There's very good reasons that people don't want to talk candidly about things going on — there are non-disclosure agreements, and also it's a smaller industry, and people don't want to say anything that's going to get them in trouble with anyone else. Which isn't to say that I'm only interested in hearing about dirt about the industry [laughs], but you do need to get a little more of the full story than you get from press releases.
Nrama: How much of a fan are you of current Marvel comics? Do you keep up with the new stuff? Clearly you might not necessarily have had time while writing the book.
Howe: I did kind of check out for a while, I was only reading the stuff that I was writing about. I just picked up the first couple issues of Hawkeye, I haven't had a chance to dig in. I really like what I've read of the Mark Waid Daredevil.
It really is, in so many cases, an all-or-nothing proposition, and I don't have the time or the money to read comics that are tied in to 30 other comics. I've been reading comics for 30-years-plus, and I've just spent three years writing a book about Marvel history, and yet I feel like Marvel is not all that user-friendly. I feel like I need to know more than is immediately apparent to me when I go into a comic book store. The stories should be more inviting than they are. I feel like there are 10 different Captain America titles, and I just don't have the patience to try to figure out which one I'm looking at. I'm sure this is stuff that people at Marvel are well aware of and are trying to solve. I'm sure that I'm not the first person to say this, and I'm sure that there are good reasons for its difficulty.
That's why, I think, a character like Iron Fist or Hawkeye who's just sort of existing in their own little corner is so much easier for a new reader to deal with.More from Newsarama:
- Journey Into HISTORY: 10 Books on History of Comics
- Memories of Comic Book 'GIMMICKS' Resurface
- Stan Lee Strikes a Centerfold Pose in 1983 Photo


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122nd SS-Standarte
The 122nd SS-Standarte was a regimental command of the Allgemeine-SS that was formed in the city of Strasbourg during World War II. The Standarte was activated on November 12, 1940, and reached battalion strength by the end of the year. The command was a successor to the previously disbanded 121st SS-Standarte, also situated in Strasbourg.
By 1942, most of the General-SS members assigned to the Standarte had either joined the Waffen-SS or had been called up to serve in the regular Wehrmacht. After 1944, the Standarte effectively ceased to exist except on paper although the unit was listed as having a posted commander until the German surrender on May 8, 1945.
The single commander of the 122nd Standarte, throughout the unit's existence, was SS-Obersturmbannführer Ernst Greulich.
See also[edit]
- Yerger, Mark C. Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units, and Leaders of the General SS, Schiffer Publishing (1997). ISBN 0-7643-0145-4
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Ottawa's hydro rates are ridiculous. My bill yesterday was for 76.12 for one month.
Hydro used to bill every two months. Now they changed the billing period, so maybe we wouldn't notice the difference in the bills. I guess they think we're morons.
As you can see below, more than half my hydro charges are for Delivery, Regulatory charges, Debt Retirement Charges and Tax.
Then today in my newspaper, I received the brand new LICKBO (LCBO) 36 page glossy "Magazine". A "Magazine" devoted to taking pictures of laughing smiling beautiful people (ugly people need not apply) because apparently we need to be told to drink more booze.
Not like LICKBO has a monopoly or anything in Ontario, and that the only place you can buy booze in Ontario is at this monopoly. How much did they pay for this "Magazine" anyway? A ton I imagine. And it is circulated through the newspapers. What a farce.
The money that Ontario uses for to tell us to drink more, should be put directly on the Delivery, Regulatory charges, Debt Retirement Charges and Tax of Ontario residents' hydro bills. That would make sense.
And stop producing these obnoxious "Magazines".


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I was too excited to post these photos from our tour last week. It seems that I was too excited to post it but I tired from last week's vacation and event. So for now, let me post to you our first "eight-hour" travel going to the Island of Siquijor. Well that picture was taken when we were in the ship.
I will update you soon about our "one week vacation and tour".
Keep going everyone and God bless.
Keep going everyone and God bless.


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All are invited to come to the table--His Table--and be nourished, strengthened, encouraged, accepted and loved as He does us. The door is open, welcome to the Episcopal Church USA.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
A month later...
I was also able to return to church last Sunday for the first time in a good while. That was especially healing for my heart and soul. To lose myself in worship of my most courteous Lord was indeed refreshing and renewing. To be surrounded by my church family was superb, and to see my priest and hear her saying the Eucharistic prayer once again simply sent my spirit soaring with elation. Singing the hymns and the fraction anthem, the Venite, chanting the psalm, all of it...inexpressible joy.
This Sunday I will be going with the LEM after the 10 am service to take communion to a home bound parishioner out in the hills outside of Ashland. The home bound parishioners are ones I have never met until I resumed being a Lay Eucharistic Minister I & II recently, and before the Great Knee Incident. Some of these dear hearts have not much time left on this side of the veil but they are ready for the other side nonetheless. These are the Prayer Warriors of old, staunch allies of God, part of the Greatest Generation. Solid and nearly indestructible. They remind us of where we are all headed, and its really ok.
As far as Church News, I haven't heard a whole lot since I last reported about the change in the statement of the IAmEpiscopal.org site. Funny how things fall silent all of a sudden. I need to dig around on the other reliable Episcopal blogs to find out the skinny on what is going on with that if anything. And when I find something to share, I will post it here with links to them directly.
We do need to be praying in preparation for General Convention 2009 coming up in a few weeks and for those who will participating and voting on various resolutions. I know my priest will be one of those delegates from the Diocese of Oregon, as she was in years before. Thank goodness for the one clear-headed person I know will be there making prayerful and deliberate decisions on how she will vote and what she will say if called upon.
We also need to be praying about and watching the tense situation in Iran. The people had their voice snuffed out in the so-called election, and now they want it back. Pray for those who seek freedom and religious freedom from the current theocracy and tyranny of the current president and master-mind of this hijacked election process. Democracy my a**. The corrupt holders of the government wouldn't know democracy if it hit them in the face. Just as George Bush tried to create and almost succeeded in creating a theocracy here in America, the people spoke for freedom, their rights and for change. And we got it. Anything is better than what was happening in this country and to its people. We cannot stand idly by and see it happen to another country and another people longing to be free from oppression. So pray, talk about it, encourage those there by sending or commenting on Twitter and on the blogs by Iranians there and in the USA. If you are participating in Twitter, just input #Iranelection in the search box and "hear" what is going on "live feed".
I have plans for returning library books today. I also will check out the Big Bookstore since I haven't been there in months. Its something to do and gets me out walking around, good for rehab of the ol' knee. I may start trimming the laurel hedge this afternoon, a little anyway. One must start somewhere or my front outdoor room will be swallowed by it!
I bid you all a good week and may the Lord bless you in all you encounter and attempt!
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Episcopal Church removes 'transparent' governance pledge from website
Facing criticism for withholding information, Episcopal Church removes 'transparent' governance pledge from website
Facing criticism for withholding information from its 2.3 million members, the Episcopal Church has quietly removed from its new IAmEpiscopalian.org website assurances that the church is committed to openness and transparency in government.
For months, the site had proclaimed on its home page: "Our controversies and conversations have been public. Our governance is transparent. You are free to see our imperfections…" See the original message:
Welcome to I am Episcopalian, launched this Ash Wednesday 2009, the beginning of Lent.
The Episcopal Church is a big, colorful, vibrant church. We hope you will see that in the wide spectrum of its members represented here on this site.
In our Church you may touch ancient traditions and experience intelligent inquiry. It is an expansive Church, a loving Church, with strong ties to our roots as a nation. We are a thoughtful, inquiring, freedom-loving and welcoming body, and we thrive not only in the U.S., but also throughout Latin America, Asia and Europe.
We invite you to see and hear the very personal reasons we choose to be Episcopalians. Our controversies and conversations have been public. Our governance is transparent. You are free to see our imperfections, as well as share our joy in that which unites us - our openness, honesty and faith.
But sometime this week, after the church was repeatedly criticized for concealing key governance decisions from the people in the pews, the "transparency" and "openness" message disappeared.
Compare this to the statement above:
The Episcopal Church welcomes you.
You will hear this recurring theme in the videos by clicking on them above. We welcome you not only in the U.S., but also in parts of Latin America, Asia and Europe.
In the Episcopal Church, we may all serve as preachers, teachers, or worship leaders. Both men and women are welcomed into ordained ministry. Each and everyone of the baptized may experience God's grace at the altar, and the knowledge that God loves you and forgives is always present.
The best way to experience how the Episcopal Church welcomes you is to visit. To find a church, please click "continue" below to the main website. To share a personal story of why you are an Episcopalian, follow the directions for uploading your video here.
Definitely missing from this revision is "Our governance is transparent".
Meanwhile, Episcopalians who support full-inclusion for gays and lesbians are calling on the church to release the names of a secret committee which is studying the theology of same-sex relationships. They say the secrecy is an insult and contradicts the church's commitment to "transparent governance."
Again I thank MadPriest at "Of Course I Could Be Wrong" in the UK for alerting us to this story as brought to us by Frank Lockwood at "Bible Belt Blogger" in Arkansas.
This news, disturbing and sudden, in my opinion does not bode well for TEC especially in light of our upcoming General Convention in July. Praying is needed, my brothers and sisters...
Friday, June 05, 2009
Oregon Bishop Search Cmte UPDATE
Search Committee Update
June 5, 2009
-The Rev. Sara Fischer, search committee communications sub-chair
The Search Committee invites your prayers during the coming weeks as we embark on the next level of discernment in our process. We have identified eight semi-finalists for nomination as our Tenth Bishop of Oregon. So that all sixteen members of the Search Committee can interview each of these eight semi-finalists in depth, we have invited them, in two groups of four, to gather with us for several days in a retreat setting. We will complete these two intensive interview sessions in late June, and then enter the work of discernment and reference-checking. Our final act as the Search Committee will be to present, in August, no more than four names to the Standing Committee. Please pray for the Search Committee and for each of the semi-finalists who are themselves in a process of discerning God's call.
For more information, see http://diocese- regon.org/bishopsearch or contact Paul Barthelemy (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Mary Cramer (firstname.lastname@example.com), Search Committee Co-chairs.
Submitted by Deirdre Steinberg, Diocesan Communications Director
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
HoB Theology Cmte Chair refuses to release secret committee names
Bishops' Theology Committee chair declines to release names of same-gender study group
Advocacy groups call decision 'insult' that goes against church's transparent governance
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] A group formed by Episcopal Church bishops to study the theology of same-gender relationships has begun its work, but the chair of the committee that appointed the panel refuses at least for now to identify its members, a decision that critics say is insulting and lacking in transparency.
"It has always been the committee's intention to publish the names of the panel when the work has reached the appropriate stage," Diocese of Alabama Bishop Henry Parsley, chair of the House of Bishops Theology Committee, said in a statement June 3. "We believe that for a season the work can best be accomplished by allowing the panel to work in confidence. This supports the full collegiality and academic freedom of the theologians and provides the space they need for the deep dialogue and reflection that is taking place among them."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_108986_ENG_HTM.htm
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
House of Bishops' secret committee on same gender relationships in TEC
A huge Hat Tip to Ann Fontaine+, priest in Lander Wyoming and regular contributor to The Episcopal Cafe. Read Ann+'s article at The Lead at the Episcopal Cafe for more information...
CHICAGO, June 2, 2009—Ruth Meyers, professor of liturgics at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and General Convention deputy from the Diocese of Chicago, released this statement today in her role as co-convener of the Chicago Consultation:
The report of the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops, included on page 51 of the Blue Book for the 76th General Convention, states that the committee has been asked by the House of Bishops to undertake a theological study of same-sex relationships in the life of the church. According to the report, the Theology Committee has appointed "a diverse and balanced panel of theologians" that has already begun its work.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Anglican/Episcopal news headlines: news you can use...or not.
There has been a lot going on in the Anglican Communion, here at home and abroad. In my attempt to stay caught up, I offer the following leads of some of the more noteworthy reports. Granted it is the Episcopal News Service, and granted, there are readers who do not give the ENS much credence but you know, its news. Does any media outlet really tell it like it is? So here is the information on "local" [stateside] stories and items from overseas.
I only wish to help those who don't have the resources or who are unaware of where to find the latest news, and help them stay afoot, if you will, on what the WWAC is up to, or not. So I humbly offer the following with links to the complete stories included.
COLORADO: Former Episcopal priest indicted on 20 felony charges Armstrong allegedly siphoned $392,000 from church funds
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service] A former Episcopal priest surrendered to authorities May 22 after a grand jury issued a 20-count felony indictment alleging he stole $392,000 from Grace and St. Stephen's Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado before breaking from it and joining the Convocation of Anglican Churches in North America.
If convicted, the Rev. Donald Armstrong, 60, now rector of St. George's Anglican Church in Colorado Springs, could spend the rest of his life in prison. Each charge carries a four-to-12 year possible prison sentence, with potential fines amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was released after posting $20,000 bail, according to authorities.
Full story:http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108014_ENG_HTM.htm
CALIFORNIA: Bishop: "a sad day" for Central California diocese
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Jerry Lamb of San Joaquin has sent final deposition notices to 61 priests and deacons who disaffiliated from the Central California Valley diocese and The Episcopal Church.
Lamb described the actions as "heartbreaking," on May 26, after finishing the last of the letters, which were to be mailed out to clergy who, along with former Bishop John-David Schofield, realigned themselves with the Argentina-based Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
Full story:http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108029_ENG_HTM.htm
SCOTLAND: Tutu gets standing ovation from Church of Scotland after addressing gay issue
[Ecumenical News International] During an address to the Church of Scotland) General Assembly in Edinburgh, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said that homosexuals have a place in the church.
Full story:http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_108053_ENG_HTM.htm
MISSION: Pakistan
Episcopal Relief and Development sends emergency aid to Pakistan
[Episcopal Relief and Development] The ongoing fighting between Pakistan's military and the Taliban rebels has caused massive chaos, violence and displacement in the country. According to USAID, more than two million citizens have been forced out of their homes since the fighting intensified in early May. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) continues to increase at an alarming rate.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, claims that the current displacement crisis in Pakistan is the most significant and fastest growing since the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
Full story:http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_108037_ENG_HTM.htm
EASTERN OREGON: Rivera appointed provisional bishop
[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Edna Bavi "Nedi" Rivera was elected provisional bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Oregon (http://www.episdioeo.org/ ) by unanimous vote during a special convention May 23. Twenty-seven clergy and 67 lay delegates representing 21 of the 22 parishes in eastern Oregon were certified to vote.
Full Story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108353_ENG_HTM.htm
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FORT WORTH: Bishop asks clergy to verify decision to leave
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth provisional Bishop Edwin F. Gulick Jr. has asked 72 members of the diocesan clergy to meet with him to verify their decision to leave the Episcopal Church with former bishop Jack Iker.
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EDUCATION: California
Church Divinity School of the Pacific lays off staff, restructures seminary
[Episcopal News Service] Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) announced May 29 the layoff of five of its 17 full-time staff members as a part of a comprehensive restructuring of the Episcopal Church-affiliated seminary in Berkeley, California.
The restructuring is a response to mounting financial pressures and changes in the educational needs of the Episcopal Church, according to a CDSP news release.


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But the athletic footwear marketer denied it was deliberately trying to court controversy-and media attention-by creating an ad it knew the networks wouldn't accept.
Rather, Nike said its point is to further protest what it believes is TV sports' prejudice against soccer-a sport Nike sees as a major growth area.
The ad in question blasts the networks for not giving more time to women's soccer. The The 30-second commercial features Mia Hamm, who played on the U.S. women's team, which Nike sponsors. The spot's voice-over notes that Olympic viewers "didn't see the best football player in America win a gold medal in Atlanta this summer . . . because all the networks agree that the best football player in America isn't good for ratings."
NBC, CBS and ABC rejected the ad in storyboard form before it was created. ABC later rejected the finished commercial as well. Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore., created the spot as part of a larger campaign promoting Nike's soccer business.
"We felt-and it's the sentiment among this country's 17 million soccer fans-that NBC dropped the ball by not showing women's soccer at the Olympics," a Nike spokesman said. "We wanted to be a voice for those 17 million to say, `Hey, you say it's not good for ratings, but why don't you even give it a try?"'
ESPN, primary TV partner for Major League Soccer, and Fox, which doesn't broadcast soccer programming, began airing the spot earlier this month, Nike said, as did Comedy Central and Black Entertainment Television.
Nike is staking much of its future global growth in becoming the premier soccer brand. Currently a $200 million business for Nike, the company wants to be the category leader by the 2002 World Cup.
ABC said it rejected the ad in storyboard form on the grounds that the commercial's claims were erroneous. ABC and ESPN, both owned by Walt Disney Co., carry an array of soccer programming, most of it featuring men's teams.
NBC also confirmed it refused to run the spot. At presstime, CBS had not returned phone calls.


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After Ford opposed President Woodrow Wilson's plan to send troops to help defeat revolutionaries along the Mexican border, the Chicago Tribune called Ford an "ignorant idealist . . . and an anarchist enemy of the nation." In return, Ford sued the newspaper for defamation and $1 million in damages.In summer 1919, the lawsuit went to trial and lasted 14 weeks. It generated two million words of testimony as the Tribune sought to demonstrate to the world that Ford was indeed an ignorant idealist. After the trial, the media was not very kind to the "people's tycoon" who had failed to answer high school–level questions. "Mr. Ford has been submitted to severe examination of his intellectual qualities. He has not received a pass," declared The New York Times. The New York Post called Ford "a joke." The jury found in favor of Ford. However, they only awarded him six cents in damages, which the Tribune never paid.


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Better hope no one sees you
Hideo Kojima is many things: ingenious game developer, enigmatic personality, avid film buff. The Metal Gear Solid series is often thought to be an extension of the man's unique vision - and if that's the case, you may also want to add 'mischievous pervert' to the list of labels. Easter Eggs, particularly those of a decidedly naughty nature, are practically a tertiary trademark of the series, right behind excellent stealth action and ludicrously convoluted plotlines.
Given all the dirty secrets strewn throughout the series, it's a wonder how Kojima and his team weren't being marched into the HR department on a regular basis. To show you what we mean, we've gathered some of the most incredibly not-safe-for-work moments from throughout Snake's many missions. Whether you're viewing these lewd bits in this article or in-game, just pray that nobody suddenly walks in on you, or there will definitely be a loud chime and a red exclamation mark over somebody's head.
Eva's explicit dreams (Metal Gear Solid 3)
There's a part near the end of MGS3 where you have to lead Eva through a dense jungle toward freedom, but if you hit her with a tranquilizer dart, she'll fall asleep and have some rather vivid dreams, starring her and one Naked Snake. Bonus NSFW: During this gameplay sequence, you can pop into the Cure menu and take a glance at Eva's medical history. One of the items on the list is a breast augmentation, which you'll probably notice if you rotate her X-ray model around.
Taking modeling photos of the Beauty and the Beast unit (Metal Gear Solid 4)
Each of the members in the Beauty and the Beast unit is both glamorous and terrifying. After destroying their mechanical form, they shed their armor to reveal a gorgeous runway model clad in a skin-tight latex suit who hunts you down like a demon from a Japanese horror flick. But if you don't neutralize the boss within a few minutes, you're both transported to an all-white room for three minutes, and it's here that the Beauty will actually pose for photos if you equip your camera. It's bizarrely exploitative, even for Metal Gear - especially when Drebin recounts their sordid backstory for you after you take them out.
All of Quiet's shower scenes (Metal Gear Solid 5)
Quiet's manner of dress certainly leaves little to the imagination, and The Phantom Pain at least tries to justify the reason why wearing a handkerchief and ripped fishnet stockings in the Afghan desert is a proper outfit for a sniper. When you recruit Quiet and visit her in her cell, you'll find her lounging around, most likely with her top undone as she sunbathes on her cot. Sometimes, she'll shower, just kind of standing there and rubbing herself as the water falls from the spigot, then kneeling down and slowly splashing around in the puddles. Again, there's a reason for it, but, uh, yeah.
So many girlie mags (Metal Gear Solid 2)
The soldiers of the Metal Gear Solid universe are easily distracted - whether it's a noise they hear in the distance, or a box lying on the ground, they'll probably break from their patrol and take a look. That goes double for the, erm, "gentleman's" magazines you can leave lying around on the ground. Plop one on the ground with its centerfold visible, and once the enemy's got it in its sights, you've got a good few minutes of uninterrupted sneaking.
Hiding in a locker to get freaky with a pin-up poster (Metal Gear Solid 2)
Whether you're a high-school student or a hardened terrorist occupying Big Shell, it can be nice to cover up the cold, dreary metal of a locker's interior with an image of someone you find attractive. Snake will sometimes stumble on posters of bikini girls when hiding out in MGS2's lockers, and switching to the first-person perspective ensures that it's all up in your face. If you continuously zoom in and out, you'll hear the gooshy squelch of a 'kiss', the controller will start to gently vibrate, and Otacon will scold you on the codec with a good bit of shaming. The embarrassed, mouth-agape look on Snake's face says it all.
Trying to slice away the censor bars (Metal Gear Rising)
In keeping with series tradition, the sword-combat-centric spin-off Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has images of voluptuous women plastered in the most random places. Now, one of the main hooks in Revengeance is Blade Mode, which lets you rapidly slash Raiden's sword at any angle you choose. And these pin-up posters just happen to be covered in yellow "KEEP OUT" tape, arranged just so to make it look like the women are naked underneath; slicing it away reveals that these models are in fact wearing bikinis. And in one instance, trying to cut the clothes off a cardboard cutout instantly replaces it with another cutout of the same woman, now dressed in leather. The hell?
Making Rose's boobs jiggle with the controller (Metal Gear Solid 4)
In Metal Gear Solid 4, Rosemary is assigned by Campbell to be Snake's go-to psychological counselor and can be called for advice at any time by codec. What Rose doesn't know is that someone seems to have upgraded her bra with player-controlled hoopty hydraulics. Using the DualShock 3's motion-sensing gyroscopes, you can make her breasts look like they want to jump right off her chest.
Naomi's ridiculously unbuttoned blouse (Metal Gear Solid 4)
Seriously, what is up with her shirt? Are there buttons missing?
Mei Ling photo mode (Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions)
The individual levels in VR Missions are mostly benign - sneak through here, defeat these Godzilla-sized soldiers, what have you - but eventually you can unlock a Photography mode, which lets you voyeuristically take pictures of 3D models of Snake's assistant, Mei Ling. Complete more missions and you can inch ever closer in the virtual space, so you can take better photos. Yay?


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Between the kickboxing and slugfests of the political debates, it is healthy to switch channels to a university faculty fencing match, which can be just as dangerous, but sometimes deal with more lofty issues.
The stakes at Mount St. Mary's University of Maryland in Emmitsburg, Md, the country's second oldest Catholic university, with 2,240 students and 120 full time staff, are high: faculty fired, reputations spoiled, students threatened with pointless dismissal, the principles of Catholic education squandered, thousands of alumni outraged and now the school's future up for grabs.
The university's new president, Simon Newman, a business entrepreneur with no higher education administrative experience, decided in August that a large number of freshmen just recruited would drop out as the year went on. So he devised a questionnaire to measure their psychological balance—feel depressed? nobody likes you?—and eliminated 20-25 students before the end of September in order to diminish the total in the annual retention report.
His provost and several faculty members considered this unethical. The dean asked, "How can we in good conscience administer this?" Another emailed, "We cannot dismiss students because we think they won't succeed." When Dr. Greg Murry warned Newman that we "we might be kicking out some students who would make it." The president replied, "There may be some collateral damage," as if he were a battlefield commander willing to sacrifice some innocent lives. "This is hard for you," he told the professor, "because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can't. You just have to drown the bunnies … put a Glock to their heads." His imagery of students bombed, drowned and shot in the head may reveal something of his personality.
Ultimately the president's scheme was thwarted; but the student paper, The Mountain Echo, ran the story in early December. The Frederick News-Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Washington Post have made it a national issue. President Newman struck back and removed David Rehm as provost; fired philosophy professor Thane Naberhaus for unspecified offenses; removed dean Joshua Hochschild, who had defended students against Newman's slur; fired Ed Egan, director of the law program and adviser to the Echo; and appointed a new provost who had received a vote of no confidence in her previous job.
John E. Coyne III, chairman of the board of trustees, blames "a small group pf faculty and recent alumni" conspiring against Newman.
The larger public fought back; 7,000 academics (and counting)* signed a letter protesting the firings; 75 alumni shared their open letter to the campus community. A committee of three alumni wrote an open letter to the students in which they revealed a conversation in which the president had expressed contempt for the Mount's Catholic identity and called for a radical de-emphasis in the liberal arts, for which the university was best known. Germain Grisez, renowned emeritus professor of Christian ethics, wrote to the trustees calling upon them to "terminate President Newman at once." Why did he write? "Having taught others justice," he said, "I must practice it."
Newman may be gone soon. But what have we learned? I have known many university presidents, most of them Jesuits. Most have been visionaries, intelligent, broadly educated, imaginative, students of human nature. A few have been courageous and supported people like me in times of stress. A few were poor choices; the search committee had not done its homework.
Newman, with his admissions officer, did not how how to select student applicants with high motivation and some stamina. The search committee who hired him flunked. Just as teachers must love their students, so must the president at least respect his students and faculty. He is responsible for them all.
Catholic universities must scrupulously follow the shared American university norms for faculty and student rights, particularly in times of controversy. Whatever is accomplished in the classroom means little if in our dealings with one another we are not scrupulously fair, respectful and just.
*Correction (Feb. 11, 5:00 p.m.): An earlier version of this blog post misstated the number of signatories to a letter protesting the recent firings at Mount St. Mary's.


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HBSE 10th result 2018 – Haryana Board SSC Result:
The HBSE, Haryana Board of Secondary Education, conducts the public exams at Class X and Class XII level that is for Secondary and Higher Secondary levels. The examination schedule was released.
The Haryana Board is going to declare 10th results release date after the exams for the session year 2016-17. Haryana Board announces the Haryana Board 10th Result in the last week of May. So the private and regular students who are searching for HBSE 10th Result 2018 they can check the Matric Class result for 2018 on the oÜcial website. The students who are registered for Haryana Board matric exam 2018 can check their Haryana Board 10th Result for 2018 from the official website. The link for the results will be provided on this page, once the results are declared.
The 10th Class examination timetable was released for March 2018 session. The examination will start on March 7th and will end on March 25th.
www.hbse.nic.in 10th result 2018 – to view Results:
Follow the below process to view your results, once the results are declared.
- The link to view Haryana Class X Results will be updated here on this page.
- Click on the link that will be provided.
- Find "Haryana SSC Results 2018" link.
- Click on the link. Provide your details to view the result.
- Click on "View Results" button to view your result on the screen.
Take a copy of the result for further reference.
Haryana Class X examination Timetable:
As Haryana have regular system for some schools and semester system for some schools, the timetable is different for Regular Students and semester re-appear students
Below is the Timetable for Haryana 10th Class exams for Regular students without semesters:
Below is the Timetable for Haryana 10th Class exams for Secondary 1st semester students (Re-appear)
Below is the Timetable for Haryana 10th Class exams for Secondary 2nd semester students (Re-appear)
HBSE tenth result 2018 Analysis:
The pass percentage in Haryana SSC Results increases year on year
Haryana Board Secondary Education 10th Class Exam Results:
The Haryana Board was formed in the year 1969. It was established at Chandigarh. It started with a staff of 100 officials who are allocated from the Punjab University of Chandigarh. The board conducted the first Metric exam in 1970. In 2006, Haryana Board adopted the semester system from the session 2006-2007. It is the first Educational Board in India to do so. And also it is the first Board to introduce relative grading system in the results.
As semester system is introduced, the board conducts the exams twice in a year for Class 8th, 10th, and 12th. Semester I exams is conducted in September and Semester II exams is conducted in March. Results are declared within 6-7 weeks from the completion of the exam.
HBSE grants affiliation to the private schools of Haryana. All the government schools in Haryana are affiliated by HBSE.
Visit this page to view HBSE 10th Class Result of 2018. All the best Haryana students for your exams.


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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Ever get the feeling that you've been bamboozled
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot that Brought Nixon Down
"The system worked," Carl Bernstein's famous assessment of Watergate, turns out to be completely wrong. Powerful new evidence reveals that in the most consequential scandal in American history, virtually nothing worked as intended. The real Watergate scandal is how our Constitution and Bill of Rights were deliberately trashed in the successful effort to realign political power, drive President Nixon from office, and imprison his senior aides.
Here is a talk Geoff Shepard gave about the book at the Nixon Library:
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Gender politics from women's point of view
Signe Arnfred, previously a researcher at NAI and currently Associate Professor at Roskilde University in Denmark has just published her new book: "Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Rethinking Gender in Africa". The book shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Signe argues that development policies for women should take into account the actual positions of power which women do command.
Three questions for Signe Arnfred.
1. In what ways have the assumptions about gender and gender relations, as articulated by Portuguese colonialism, Frelimo socialism and neo-liberal economic regimes, collided with the way in which women and men see themselves?
- The first thing to note is that assumptions about gender and gender relations have been very similar through these three – in political and economic terms very different – periods of Mozambican history. In spite of the differences, all regimes have seen women as subordinated and oppressed, not taking note of female positions of power, which are particularly prominent in northern Mozambique.
2. Are there any examples of resistance to the gender policies put forward by the above actors?
Ā- In the early 1980s, when I first made investigations in Mozambique, women of the north were very explicit in their critique of Frelimo, and of the OMM, the national women's organization. They tried to make the OMM and Frelimo listen to their concerns, with little success. In later years, the resistance has been more in terms of foot dragging vis-Ó-vis development initiatives, and a silent maintenance of double agendas: a hidden one rooted in local traditions, and a more open one following the politics of the day.
3. What can we gain from a thorough investigation into gender relations in Mozambique?
- My point throughout the book is to investigate, expose and try to understand 'the hidden agenda' and cultural traditions from women's points of view. In this way the book is an attempt to re-map African, in casu Mozambican, culture and tradition. 'Culture' in Africa, seen with Western eyes, has been interpreted as patriarchal and woman oppressive. The analysis in this book – informed and inspired by post-colonial African scholarship – shows that culture and tradition, differently understood, may include empowering messages for women.


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|13 Jan 2011
Startup: Fan Speed (Loud/Fast)
I've got a user that everytime they boot their machine, every fan in the chassy spins very fast(thus loud). Right after posting the fans start to slow down, and become stable about the time windows loads.
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I was about to post a thread about the same thing.
Mine only happens for 5-8sec then it's smooth.
When I turn it off for 5-8 hours and turn it on, i don't hear it.
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|13 Jan 2011
Without fail no matter what, it will hummm like mad. I will call the mnf today and ask them. Maybe it will have some relavance to your issue.
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Check the bios settings, some have an 'active' setting that sets the fan to 100% on startup and sometimes close also.
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
If it's not in the BIOS, this may just be the normal behavior of the machine. I have an Nvidia 9800GTX+ that spins the fan loud during boot and it's not until the Windows system boots and the Nvidia driver initializes that the fan quiet's down. It's actually annoying enough that I have considered on multiple occasions of switching over to a Radeon 5850 as they are much quieter...and consume less power.
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|13 Jan 2011
My GTX+ never spun like that, same with this user machine's chassy fans, it started after replacing the PSU I think.
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The Mission Committee is hosting two guests from Israel. Elias Abu Ghanima and Abuna (Father) Arif, associated with the Mar Elias Educational Institution. You are invited. – On Wednesday, at 6:30 pm, April 5th, there will be a dinner with a program to follow. (If you cannot attend dinner and want to hear the presentation, come at 7:15 pm.) The program will focus on Christian schools in the Israeli context: what makes them unique, why have they emerged, and why are they still needed. The two leaders will also address the situation of Palestinians living as a minority on the Israeli side of the Green line (the UN boundary line establishing the West Bank separately from the state of Israel, largely ignored by Israel with the establishment of numerous Israeli settlements).
Those who visited Israel with the PPC group, may remember Archbishop Chacour and the Mar Elias Educational Institutions he founded in Ibillin, in the Galilee, near Haifa, Israel. Elias Abu Ghanima is the head of the high school and met with our group on the Israel trip. Abuna Arif is the full time pastor of the two Melkite Catholic Churches that are in the villages of Arraba and Sakhnin.
If you would like to attend, contact the church office at 609-737-1221 so we have a head count for dinner and know whom to expect after dinner. Extension 10 or email@example.com. If you have questions, contact Hope Anderson, at 609-737-6622.


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Very fancy indeed...
While perusing Drawger yesterday I came across the gorgeous lettering sketchbook of Linzie Hunter. Some of you may remember Linzie Hunter's brilliant illustrations of spam subject lines (see Jen's recent post). I love seeing how artwork comes about and think that these sketchbooks are a perfect example. Don't you wish your sketchbooks looked like this?! I do!
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Oh yea! I went hunting after posting the sign and seeing your comment. "Very fancy indeed" was an instant fave. Some of her children's illustrations are wonderful also.
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The Federal Trade Commission has filed a Notice of Appeal following an administrative law judge's dismissal of its complaint against LabMD. As we reported when the complaint was filed in 2013, the FTC alleged that LabMD failed to provide reasonable and appropriate security for the personal information it maintained on its network, constituting an unfair act or practice under Section 5 of the FTC Act causing injury on two occasions.
The first involved an insurance report that was made available on a peer-to-peer sharing network. The second involved paper day sheets that were discovered in the hands of individuals allegedly involved in an identity theft scheme. The FTC argued that LabMD had unreasonable security practices generally, causing an increased risk of unauthorized disclosure and, in turn, identity theft to all of its customers. Rather than settle with the FTC as many other companies have done in similar situations, LabMD challenged the FTC's authority to bring its investigation, as we previously reported. In deciding for LabMD and dismissing the case, the ALJ found the FTC had not demonstrated that LabMD's activities caused or were likely to cause substantial injury to consumers, and thus had not established unfairness under Section 5.
Many have wondered about the impact this decision will have on other companies, especially as the FTC has been viewed as one of the leading regulatory agencies in bringing enforcement in connection with privacy and security issues.
TIP: There are no signs that the FTC is otherwise slowing its aggressive enforcement of data security cases under its Section 5 authority. Companies that are reviewing their security and privacy practices should thus take into consideration FTC perspectives about privacy and security obligations.


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Some other shows will be confirmed soon ( Graspop in Belgium and a Show @Paris Bercy on June 29th ).
AEROSMITH with another singer could have been interesting & funny.
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- A man suffers cardiac arrest at AC/DC last show in Melbourne Australia.
- Hellfest in France is getting more hot names including Alice Cooper, Ratt & others TBC (KISS & Twisted sister are headlining )


text: As former Assistant Chef at the White House, Sam Kass believes in good-tasting food that is also good for you. So upon discussing the current state of the American food system, he finds himself at odds. Just a few minutes in to a question and answer session at Harvard University, Kass blurted, "schools are serving sh*t" and "grocery stores are cr*p." … Continue reading


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Five years ago, despite the growing ubiquity of FireWire, if you wanted to edit video seriously on your PC you were still better off with dedicated hardware. But times have changed, and dedicated hardware just hasn't been able to keep up with the burgeoning power of more general components like the graphics card and CPU. So most video editing companies have moved as many editing tasks as possible over to software, in order to take advantage of faster GPUs and processors.
One product which was starting to look a little jaded in this context was Matrox's RT.X100. Although this could still give you dependable real-time editing when mixing two, or on a good day three DV files and a title layer or two at the same time, it couldn't go beyond that. This was because a fair amount of the effects processing and video encoding was still being performed by the editing card itself. Although you could rely on the performance for this reason, it also meant that a faster processor would not give a significant increase in abilities, and your graphics card wasn't being used at all.
But Matrox has been hard at work, and not long ago launched a whole new line of products aimed squarely at the growing market for editing in High Definition. First on the scene was the Axio family, now consisting of three members. This is primarily aimed at the serious professional, with price tags to match. Now that Axio is out the door, Matrox has turned to the more 'prosumer' end of the market covered by the RT.X100, and repackaged much of the same technology as Axio in a more cost-effective offering. But at over £1,000, where the RT.X100 hardware can now be had for under £500 without Adobe Premiere, the RT.X2 is still aimed at those who are quite serious about their video editing.
"'Big card, big system"'
The first thing you'll notice about the RT.X2 hardware itself is just how big it is. Despite using the diminutive PCI Express 1x interface, the RT.X2 is a full-length card, and won't fit in many chassis. You'll need a full-depth case to house this card. You also need to take great care what hardware platform you use. Taking a look at Matrox's list of validated motherboard and processor combinations and you will see there are only a few recommended options.


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We aim to provide meaningful opportunities for alumni to engage and connect with each other and to OCAD U; to deliver services and engagement opportunities of value to alumni; to foster student participation that builds lifelong commitment to the University and an identity as future alumni; and to increase the philanthropic support of alumni to OCAD U.
The OCAD Florence Program 1977-78 is getting together for a 40 Year Reunion !
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We are looking for Rod and Diane Smith, Shim and Young Soon Chon. If you know their whereabouts, please have them contact Robin.
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Atomic-Scale Engineering of Solid Interfaces:Towards Enhanced Electronic and Optoelectronic Functionalities
Speaker:Dr Agustin E. Schiffrin
From:Monash University
When:4pm Thursday 4 May 2017
Where:CQC2T Conference Room, Level 2 Newton Building, UNSW
Electronics and optoelectronics technologies rely on the control of electric charge at the interfaces between active materials of solid-state devices. This behaviour is dictated by quantum mechanical phenomena unfolding at the nanoscale and depends strongly on the atomic-scale morphology of these systems.
Controlling the atomic-scale structure of such interfaces is hence essential for optimizing the electronic and optoelectronic properties of solid-state systems, with potential for developing enhanced nanoelectronics, light-harvesting and light-emitting technologies.
Here, I will show how supramolecular chemistry on surfaces – where organic molecules and atoms are used as building units for the assembly of well-defined nanostructures – offer compelling avenues for designing materials with atomic-scale precision and tailored electronic properties. I will focus on 1D and 2D organic and metal-organic nanostructures, resulting from on-surface non-covalent and metal-ligand interactions between π-conjugated molecules and transition metal adatoms.
I will also discuss experiments dealing with ultrafast photo-induced electron dynamics in photoactive supramolecular nano-assemblies on surfaces.


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Etichette: ILLUSTRATIONS
Hello everyone
I am a young comicbook artist, member of Pagezerolabs studio. Once finished the Scuola Internazionale di Comics few years ago, I understood that dreaming is one of the few things that helps me to live in a world full of nonsense. I think the ability to depict your dreams is a foundamental ingredient to draw, because it means being able to let anyone enter into an imaginary world. It's something great for me, the only bad thing is that doing this up all the time, often you forget to come back on earth ^__^
Please meet at myspace!
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The holidays are upon us! And that means party planning is in full swing. Here's our 5 tips to make sure yours is one to remember.
1. The food must be delicious.
Period. There's nothing worse than going to a party where the food is bland and boring. Also, consider incorporating the holiday theme in an innovative way without overdoing it. For example, our friend Colbert from Footers Catering says, "One of my favorite items is our Pork Belly Donut Bite – braised pork belly on a sugared donut hole with fresh apples. You get the sweet apples of the season with the unexpected combination of pork and a donut!"
Colbert recommends heavy hors d' oeuvres and interactive stations for a "mix and mingle" type of party. Plus, it's easier to have a variety of options for people who are avoiding items with gluten or dairy. When it comes to dessert, Colbert says "Bite-size sweets are perfect because guests can enjoy them without feeling too guilty for indulging. Some of my personal favorites from our seasonal menu are the rum & eggnog cheesecake shooters and mini pumpkin whoopie pies."
Eggnog cheesecake? Sign us up.
2. Which way is the bar?
Because…that's the first question most people ask when they show up to a holiday party, right? #Priorities
So, how do you make the drink selection holiday-ish without being cheesy? Adam from Peak Beverage says, "For the winter, flavors like peppermint, cranberry, vanilla, allspice, clove, chocolate and orange are great. Try adding one or two of these festive flavors to a classic cocktail recipe to mix it up." You can also have a cocktail special for the evening, like a hot, spiced cider or a Poinsettia, a simple combo of champagne and cranberry juice. "You can add a little more bang to this by using a cranberry liqueur or some vodka or gin, and garnish with fresh cranberries," Adam says.
And you know you're secretly (not so secretly) hoping that someone has a few too many later and embarrasses themselves on the dance floor. So how many drinks should you plan for per guest? Adam says 2-3 specialty cocktails per person is an average estimate. Plus, here's a good rule of thumb for what to have on hand; red wine, white wine, domestic beer, craft beer, and a few staple liquors and mixers. It is the holidays after all.
3. Make it a winter wonderland
The holidays can be a magical time, and people love to feel that in the atmosphere.
Create this look with lighting, such as classic red and green or blue and warm white uplights on the walls, or our favorite, a twinkle wall. Production Designer Yan says "A twinkle wall is pipe and drape with twinkle lights added in, and it creates that wonderful starry night feeling."
Another fun touch is a gobo light with different sizes and shapes of snowflakes, or you can incorporate your company logo here too. And you can't go wrong with a chandelier. Try adding one in a place you know people will gather, like over the dessert station or bar area.
4. Can you take our picture?
Ok, just one more. I forgot to do my skinny arm…
You won't have to fool with any of that when you rent our Photobooth. With our green screen, you can customize it any way you want! Christmas trees, snowflakes, a sparkle wall, reindeer games…you can be inside a snow globe or sit on Santa's lap if you want. Just let us know what you're thinking and we can make it happen. Plus you can share it on social media straight from the booth.
5. Chestnuuuts roooasting…on an open fire…
It's ok. Belt it out. We can't hear you.
Now, if you do want to be heard, we have a karaoke option that can really make your party extra special. For a classier vibe, we recommend our favorite Christmas jazz playlist with all the good ones from Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr., Dean Martin and Michael Bublé. You can build a custom playlist, of course, with all your holiday favorites, and we recommend adding in a few fun group dances like "Cupid Shuffle" or "Wobble." Nothing boosts company morale quite like wrapping up the night with a great heels-off, hands-up sort of dance tune.
As always, we are here for you.
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