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Just when you thought it couldn't get any cuter in our Torquay store, our new deliveries have arrived for March! We thought we had a day or two to catch our breath and do some 'rainy day' jobs around the office, but we've been inundated with boxes of goodies from some of our favourite suppliers - Herschel backpacks, Toshi beanies, Seedling accessories, Kokeshi dolls, Kewpie dolls, Miann & Co softies, Blundstone boots and Adidas footwear - we can't wait to share them with you.
Kokeshi dolls are a match made in heaven with the Oishi-m brand, and we challenge you not to fall in love with each and every one of them. Kokeshi are Japanese dolls, originally from northern Japan. They are handmade from wood, have a simple trunk and an enlarged head with thin painted lines to define the face. The bodies are painted with floral designs and covered with a layer of wax. Our kokeshi are all vintage, on-of-a-kind pieces with their own personalities and characteristics. Call us for a phone order if you can't make it in-store, on 0352 616738.
Miann & Co have delivered a new range of softies including Walter Walrus and Sylvie Ballerina Bunny. Hop. skip to pick up a Mini Bunny Rattle for a gorgeous little easter gift. We're loving our display of Numero 74 heart cushions and star wands, Oishi-m Ringarosy Sweater Dress, and the Uimi Anya Blanket made from 100% Egyptian Cotton.
Kewpie Dolls are new to the Oishi-m store, but are a brand of dolls and figurines that were first conceived as comic strip characters around 1909. We have four different sizes for you to collect, and you can see how people young and old become enamoured by these characters. They join our ever-popular Sonny Angels for lovable gifts.
Japanese Eraser Sets and Make Me Iconic sequin watermelon purses make for quirky gift ideas for last minute party invitations.
Hurrah for Herschel Backpacks! We've just got this new style, Settlement, in two new colours; Fuschia Crosshatch/Aruba Blue/Deep Periwinkle and Limoges Crosshatch/Pelican/Navy colourways. Thoughtfully designed for kids, the Herschel Supply Kids Collection features sized-down offerings of classic silhouettes, ideal for kinder, day care, a day trip on the train, or an overnighter at nan and pa's place.
Thanks to great success last year with this iconic Aussie brand, we are proud to have our latest delivery of Blundstones. Genuine leather Blunnies for kids are perfect for camping, exploring and all around adventures. They come with an extra pair of footbeds, just remove as little feet grow for months of extra wear. We love them. Adidas Toddler X_PLR EL Conavy/White are sneakers that will rock your world! We only carry functional footwear that's been tried and tested by our own children - and guarantee they're built for playing. One of the premium sports brands in the world, Adidas has always had a strong focus on fashion both on the field and off it.
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Clash of Kings picks up the story where it ended in Game of Thrones, the main focus being on the civil war in Westeros. At the same time, events happening behind the Wall and in the distant east are recalled.
Behind the Wall, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont with a large group of Brothers from the Night's Watch go deeper into the haunted forest discovering villages abandoned by wildlings. They stop at Craster's Keep, a friend of the Watch that tells them that Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall is gathering all the wildlings.
The party leaves and goes deeper into the woods until they reach a ruined fortress known as the Fist of the First Men. There, Jeor Mormont decides to send a small group of Brothers to scout the Skirling Pass. Qhorin Halfhand is chosen to lead the party and he chooses Jon Snow to go with him.
They discover wildling activity in the mountains and they soon realize that they are followed by a group of wildlings. Qhorin orders Jon to infiltrate the wildlings to find more about their plans. In order to be more convincing, Jon kills Qhorin and then he is reluctantly allowed to join the small group of wildlings after a wildling girl, Ygritte agrees to speak on Jon's behalf to Mance Rayder. It is from her that Jon finds that Mance is not going further North, but rather advancing towards the Wall with an army in the tens of thousands.
In the East, Daenerys travels through the res waste with a fraction of the members of her husband's khalasar. Some of the members from Daenerys 'khalasar die as a result of the harsh conditions they have to go through. They stop in an abandoned city while Daenerys' bloodriders are sent to scout the surroundings. After a few days, one of them returns with a welcoming party from the city of Qarth. Daenerys tries to find someone willing to help her regain her throne and even tries to form an allegiance with warlocks.
Her efforts are useless as she doesn't find the help she needs. She is convinced to return to the Free Cities after an assassin is hired to kill Daenerys. She is saved by two men who claimed to be sent by Illyrio Mopatis. Daenerys agrees to return with them to the Free Cities.
In the Seven Kingdoms, the civil war complicates further more.
Theon Greyjoy is sent back to the Iron Islands by Robb Stark in the hope of securing an allegiance between them. The head of house Greyjoy refuses to accept Robb's terms and starts a campaign on his own, declaring himself king. Theon remains with his father and starts raiding the Stony Shores.
Catelyn Stark travels South to Renly Baratheon, Robert's younger brother, who also declared himself king and managed to gather an impressive army through his marriage with Margaery, Mance Tyrel's daughter. Catelyn hopes that she will be able to convince Renly to side with Robb and fight against the Lannisters but Renly refuses. He decides however to go against his older brother, Stannis Baratheon, who also declared himself king and make Catelyn watch how he destroys his brother's army.
The night before the battle was to take place, Renly is killed in a suspicious manner by a shadow that entered his tent while Catelyn and one of Renly's guards were there. Catelyn runs away with warrior-maid Brienne of Tarth, fearing that they will be blamed for Renly's death.
As a result, many lords that supported Renly joined Stannis' side. Stannis advances with his new army towards Storm's End where is meet with resistance from the castellan who refuses to surrender until he sees Renly's body.
The lords that sided with Stannis try to convince him to attack Storm's End, sure on their power. Stannis refuses and convinces Ser Davos, one of his most loyal men, to smuggle Melisandre, a red priestess of the eastern god R'hllor, into the castle. Ser Davos does so only to see her give birth to a black shadow with Stannis' face. That night, the castellan dies in suspicious circumstances and Storm's End falls without further battles.
At Winterfell, Bran remains to rule in his brother's place. He receives the lords that have come to swear their allegiances while also being plagued by strange dreams. The arrival of Jojen and Meera Reed sheds some light on the nature of his dreams. Jojen tells Bran that the dreams he has are not common ones, but rather prophetic dreams.
Bran is forced to surrender the castle after Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell with a small group of Iron men. His sister advices him to give up Winterfell as Theon didn't have enough man power to hold it long enough but he ignores his sister's advice and remains at Winterfell.
Fearing that he doesn't have enough power in case the northmen decide to take back Winterfell, Theon sends Reak, Ramsay Snow's servant, to gather men to protect Winterfell. During the time Reak is gone, Bran, Rickon, Hodor, Jojen, Meera and Osha manage to run away. Theon goes looking after them and returns after a while with two dead boys that Theon presents as being Bran and Rickon.
A large group of northmen appears and starts attacking Winterfell. The northmen are however defeated by an army lead by Reak who was actually Ramsay Snow. Theon opens the gates for them but is taken captive and Winterfell is burned. Shortly after, Bran and the others emerge from the crypt where they hid during the battle. They decide to split up, Osha taking Rickon with her and the others going north.
In King's Landing, Tyrion is appointed as the Hand of the King despite his sister's protests. Tyrion slowly starts to remove his sister's men from key positions and replace them with men loyal to him. Tyrion makes efforts to ensure that King's Landing will be safe if Stannis decides to attack it. He secures and allegiance with Prince Doran Martell who agrees to marry his son Trystane to Joffrey's sister Myrcella and he also sends Tommen away in case Joffrey happened to be killed in the inevitable battle. Tyrion also sends Petyr to Highgarden, hoping to get house Tyrell on their side.
During this time, Robb Stark leads his northern army into the westerlands and emerges victorious from a number of battles against Lannister forces, winning a battle at Oxcross and storming Ashemark and the Crag. Because of this, Sansa has to suffer from Joffrey's wrath when he finds out about Robb's victories.
Tywin reluctantly emerges from Harrenhal and attempts to pass the fords near Riverrun, where he is stopped by Edmure Tully, Catelyn's brother and the infirm Lord Hoster's heir. Although this prevents the Lannisters from falling on Robb's rear, it allows them to rapidly march south to join their new allies, the Tyrells.
After Tywin lefts Harrenhal, the castle is taken by Roose Bolton.
Arya Stark is one of the people that serve at Harrenhal. In the beginning of the book, she is taken by Yoren to the Wall. On the road, they meet with soldiers sent after one of the boys in Yoren's group, a blacksmith apprentice named Gendry. Yoren refuses but they are eventually attacked by Lannister freeriders who kill almost the entire group. Arya manages to help a group of criminals bound in a cage before she escapes the battle with Gendry, Hot Pie and Lommy.
They are eventually recaptured by soldiers led by Gregor Clegane. Lommy is killed because of a leg injury but the others are taken to Harrenhal and made servants. During her time at Harrenhal, Arya meets with one of the captives she helped, Jaqen H'ghar, who lets her choose three people she wants for him to kill as a way of repaying the fact that she saved him and two others.
For her three choices, Arya selects Chiswyck, a soldier in Gregor Clegane's forces, Weese, her servant overseer, and Jaqen H'ghar himself. The first two murders he carries out without question; in lieu of the third choice, Arya leverages H'ghar to help her slay the Lannister soldiers guarding Robett Glover, who had been taken prisoner by the Brave Companions. After Glover is freed, the Brave Companions turn their cloaks and join with the North. Control of Harrenhal is ceded to Roose Bolton, whom Arya serves as cupbearer.
Arya escapes shortly after Roose Bolton takes Harrenhal. She kills one of the guards and, together with Gendry and Hot Pie, runs away.
Meanwhile, King's Landing is attacked by Stannis. The majority of Stannis' fleet is destroyed with wildfire but Stannis' men still advance towards the city. Tyrion led a group of soldiers that push Stannis' forces away from the north shore, but Tyrion is heavily wounded when Ser Mandon Moore, a member from the Kingsguard, tries to kill him.
The Battle of Blackwater ends when Stannis' fleet is destroyed by Tywin and the Tyrells.
The book ends with the Tyrells asking that Joffrey breaks his engagement with Sansa and marries Margaery. Despite having her engagement broke off, Sansa remains in King's Landing.


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Following outcry, U.S. drops effort to deport 1-year-old Honduran boy
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The U.S. government has agreed to shelve efforts to deport a 1-year-old Honduran boy whose teenage mother has been allowed to remain in the country and apply for permanent residency.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement had sought to deport Joshua Tinoco since he came to the U.S. last year with his then-17-year-old mother.
The mother and son came after a surge in the number of Central American children arriving at the U.S. border.
Last week, ICE agreed to put on hold the deportation case against Joshua, according to copies of immigration court filings obtained Monday from the boy's lawyer.
The wide-eyed toddler will be able to seek permanent residency in a few more years.
"I am very happy that the government decided not to waste their resources prosecuting, pursuing a 1-year-old baby," said Joseph Weiner, Joshua's lawyer. "This should have been a non-issue."
Officials have not dropped the boy's deportation case entirely but it is no longer active in immigration court, Weiner said.
The decision came less than two weeks after The Associated Press published a news story about Joshua's case.
ICE officials did not comment on the boy's case. In a statement, the agency said it weighs its enforcement priorities and a person's history and prospects for obtaining legal status when deciding how to proceed in an immigration case.
Weiner said he did not know why the government changed its position. He also said he had told the court about a technical problem with the deportation paperwork filed for the boy.
Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arrived on the U.S.-Mexico border last year fleeing gang and domestic violence in Central America. In response, officials sped up immigration court cases to try to stem the growing backlog and deter more people from coming.
Many of the children are applying for asylum or seeking permanent residency under a U.S. government program for abused, neglected and abandoned children. Those who don't qualify could face the prospect of deportation but it is unclear whether the government will actually try to put them on a plane and send them home.
Joshua's mother Dunia Bueso, who said she grew up in Honduras largely without her father and with an alcoholic mother who later died, was allowed to apply for permanent residency under the government's program for neglected children. But she was worried because the government was still trying to deport her son.


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Vocabulary Word
Word: comely
Definition: attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance
Definition: attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance
Sentences Containing 'comely'
She lost her color, and the old and intent expression was a constant, not an occasional, thing; otherwise, she remained very pretty and comely.
In a Western city lived a rich and childless old foreigner and his wife; and in their family was a comely young girl sort of friend, sort of servant.
The hanging down of grapes--the brow of a lion, the froth of a foaming wild boar, and many other like things, though by themselves considered, they are far from any beauty, yet because they happen naturally, they both are comely, and delightful; so that if a man shall with a profound mind and apprehension, consider all things in the world, even among all those things which are but mere accessories and natural appendices as it were, there will scarce appear anything unto him, wherein he will not find matter of pleasure and delight.
Either this world is a kosmoz or comely piece, because all disposed and governed by certain order: or if it be a mixture, though confused, yet still it is a comely piece.
For all things are ranked together, and by that decency of its due place and order that each particular doth observe, they all concur together to the making of one and the same ["Kosmos" ed] or world: as if you said, a comely piece, or an orderly composition.
I had not even seen it when the present undertaking was proposed to me, and since then I may say vidi tantum, having for obvious reasons resisted the temptation which Mr. Duffield's reputation and comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes.
They greeted each other courteously, and then Don Quixote and those who accompanied him turned to examine the bier, and on it, covered with flowers, they saw a dead body in the dress of a shepherd, to all appearance of one thirty years of age, and showing even in death that in life he had been of comely features and gallant bearing.
The innkeeper had a wife whose disposition was not such as those of her calling commonly have, for she was by nature kind-hearted and felt for the sufferings of her neighbours, so she at once set about tending Don Quixote, and made her young daughter, a very comely girl, help her in taking care of her guest.
All the people of the inn were struck with astonishment at the beauty of Dorothea, and even at the comely figure of the shepherd Cardenio.
He is not a very quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, sound at heart."
I confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say, they are a comely race of people, and particularly the features of my master's countenance, although he was but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned.
But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.
I told him "he should be obeyed." I owned "that the _Houyhnhnms_ among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and comely animals we had; that they excelled in strength and swiftness; and when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in travelling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet; but then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.
The question to be debated was, "whether the _Yahoos_ should be exterminated from the face of the earth?" One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight, alleging, "that as the _Yahoos_ were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and indocible, mischievous and malicious; they would privately suck the teats of the _Houyhnhnms'_ cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down their oats and grass, if they were not continually watched, and commit a thousand other extravagancies." He took notice of a general tradition, "that _Yahoos_ had not been always in their country; but that many ages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these _Yahoos_ engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the _Houyhnhnms_, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every _Houyhnhnm_ kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be _yinhniamshy_ (or _aborigines_ of the land), because of the violent hatred the _Houyhnhnms_, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been _aborigines_, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the _Yahoos_, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agility of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the _Yahoos_." Several others declared their sentiments to the same purpose, when my master proposed an expedient to the assembly, whereof he had indeed borrowed the hint from me.
For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
His department is filled with beautiful, comely young women whom Rafael routinely seduces.
"He was of mean stature, but strong and comely and very valient, about 33 years old or somewhat more."
After Mr. Friar tries unsuccessfully to seduce the comely Yvette he wordlessly and suddenly abandons his work with Duddy.
The film premièred at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Her character was described in "The Hollywood Reporter" as "the train's attractive Indian stewardess" while "Time" called her 'lovely' and "Variety" called her character the "comely train stewardess Rita", stating that "newcomer Karan makes a strong impression as the sexy 'sweet lime' girl".
He concluded by saying that the serpentine dance was only intended to impress the audience with the concept of "a comely woman illustrating the poetry of motion in a singularly graceful fashion, and while such an idea may be pleasing, it can hardly be dramatic.


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So recently I won an Instagram giveaway which included products from Everpro Beauty and Madame La La, here are my thoughts on the products I received from Madame Lala, an upcoming indie tanning brand inspired by the famous Hollywood glow: they're 100% non-toxic, vegan, gluten free and organic – plus sides I was happy to hear.
The self tan mousse promises active hydration, using aloe and coconut water, as well as a streak-free, bronzed LA glow
It applied like a dream – I used a standard cheap tanning mitt and it had a beautiful guide colour. The tan fully develops within 3 hours and is completely non streaky, smooth, non-sticky and feels just like skin. The photos were taken 5 hours apart, and during this time and still now nothing has transferred onto any clothing or anything else.
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The Sally Cats
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- Sally Barr Vocals
- Jon Nathan Drums
- Jim Connolly Bass
- Brad Rabuchin Guitar
- Tom Buckner Saxophone
- Nate Birkey Trumpet
- Nick Coventry Strings
Genre: Jazz
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The Sally Cats were formed in 2005 in Santa Barbara, performing in S.B. hot spots including SOhO, Center Stage Theater, and the Lobero Theatre. The band, comprised of the jazz elite from S.B., Ventura, and L.A., released their debut CD, Wonderful Day, in 2009.
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Hot jazz & ballads, horns & strings!! A big band to be reckoned with. "You sound like one of those mythical women, in front of the swingin'est bands in the world!! What a cool record & a perfect band for Santa Barbara, I'd imagine..." (Darol Anger on The Sally Cats' CD, Wonderful Day)
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Tomorrow, this year's Fields medals were awarded*. The four recipients of this prestigious quadrennial accolade have made profound advancements in their respective areas of mathematics, specifically:
- Artur Avila has revolutionised the study of dynamical systems, proving many hitherto open conjectures in the field. This is exciting from both a pure perspective, augmenting our understanding of the ergodic theory of various systems; and from an applied point of view, giving a deeper insight into the behaviour of chaotic systems such as phase transitions.
- Manjul Bhargava's research massively generalises Gauss's composition law, as well as enabling one to enumerate rings of finite rank with a particular discriminant. This has subtle connections to the theory of algebraic curves, including new bounds on the average rank of elliptic curves.
- Martin Hairer made extremely notable discoveries about stochastic partial differential equations, which generalise PDEs by including the effects of random noise. In doing so, he…
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Here's the thing, I suppose my problems with thirds and fractions in general began in the third grade. I think that was when we were first exposed to this concept that numbers were not always whole and that parts of things were still things but only partly. Fractions eluded me the way Quantum Physics eludes me. I am just on the fringe of understanding but I just don't quite get it.
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions was and still is a nightmare for me, although thankfully I have seldom needed to divide fractions in my adult life. Something simply goes haywire, short circuits when I try to compute what for many people is a simple mathematical equation. And I don't know why. I am a reasonably intelligent woman. I've written ten novels for heaven's sake and to this day I struggle with knowing whether one third is larger or smaller than one half.
If a recipe calls for one third of an ingredient it brings tears to my eyes—especially if I cannot locate the one-third measuring cup. I simply cannot make a guess because I don't know where one third would fall in a one half measuring cup. And so I will not continue on with whatever it was I was attempting to cook or bake. That's right, a whole day taken down by a third.
As a writer thirds are even more scary and confusing. Most instructors of writing will agree that plot can be divided into three neat parts. The beginning, the middle and the end. Heck, even Alice in Wonderland got this concept. But here's the thing, in my mind I see that the novel has been fractioned off into thirds. However, unlike in the third grade, one-third of a novel is not equal in length to the other two thirds. WTH?
Check it out, the beginning might be a chapter long, nine or so pages the middle could be two hundred pages while the end comes in at around thirty or less. From my desk, thirds in writing are not equal but they are proportionate. Uhm.
Proportionate to the story, that is. The length of the beginning has to be just so, not too much, not too little, while the middle third is always much longer and more difficult to sustain and then of course after the climax it is a race to the finish. It seems people are comfortable with threes, not thirds, perhaps but threes. Bad news comes in threes, not thirds. When writing a novel it's best to have three bad things happens because any more will make your reader go insane, etc, etc. You cannot divide a dollar into three equal parts except in a virtual way because there is no such thing as a one-third penny coin. This unsettles me. Why do we even need thirds anyway. Who decided all of this. One-fourth I get. It's neat and equal. Thirds are not equal except to each other third.
So, what does all this mean? Well, I'm not sure. I was just thinking about my trouble with thirds this morning because I am fractionally disabled, an area of shame. Although as I was thinking about it and trying to separate the mathematical and the writerly realities of thirds it dawned on me that I was born to write. It was how I was wired and perhaps in the third grade (interesting my trouble with thirds began in third grade which is not one –third of the way through school) when I was crying over fractions I was really hard at work defending my creative life to come. Defending the notion that creativity, story, art, cannot be equally or easily divvied out and divided, that my one third was not equal to anyone else's one-third. Art is messy. It's hard to quantify and why would you want too.
Can you imagine writing a novel in three equal parts? I can't. And so for all you creative types out there that struggle with fractions and numbers and perhaps how to tie your shoe laces (there's a great TED talk about this very issue btw-shoe tying that is), I say press on. Let your thirds fall where they want to fall.As I tell my students--WRITE YOUR STORY THE WAY IT WANTS TO BE WRITTEN. Rules are for people who get thirds and quantum physics.


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In mirrored reflections, she waits,
Her fractured face just stares and hates.
I catch glimpses of her long black dress,
Wrapped tightly in a loving caress.
Then she vanishes into a mist,
I breathe in the air that she kissed.
Black eyes watch as in bed I lie,
They laugh and tease, I slowly die.
No one believes that she is there,
Just following me everywhere.
I can never be at rest,
Chained forever to my silent guest.
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Tina Brown is no stranger to controversy, especially when it comes to her tenure at Newsweek. Since Brown took over as the editor-in-chief of the newsweekly, she has managed to put out one much-slagged cover after another.
There was Newsweek's disastrous Michele Bachmann "Queen of Rage" cover, the one that managed to make the Minnesota Congresswoman look like a cross between Steve Carell on "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" poster, a bull shark, and a bath-salt zombie.
And then there was the grossly misguided Princess Diana "Diana at 50" cover, which featured a living-dead Di gal-paling with perky little Kate Middleton that delighted fans of Royal Family slash fiction and angered pretty much everybody else.
After that, there was the "The First Gay President" cover, an epic bit of Red State troll baiting, depicting Barack Obama with a rainbow halo.
But this time, Tina Brown has gone too far.
She's up and dropped a racial slur on the cover. And if that wasn't bad enough, the cover features President Barack Obama.
Judge for yourself.
You see it, right?
I'm mean, it's right there. See the way Obama's head splits the Newsweek masthead.
The thing is I can't decide if it says "N-Week" or "Neek."
But even more perplexing, I can't decide if any of those things actually mean anything derogatory or if it's just a shoddy cover. I mean, if the folks at Newsweek meant the masthead to say "N-Week," was this their way of trying to use the N-word without using the N-word, you know, by breaking it down to a single letter?
And if they meant for it to say "Neek," is that like some kind of new racial slur for black folks? I don't know about you, but "neek" seems like a far more likely candidate to be a racial epithet than Monday. Just say "neek" out loud and you'll see what I mean.
Honestly, when it comes to President Obama, racial attacks abound, some in-your-face and others only partially hidden.
We've had anti-Obama bumperstickers that say "Don't Re-Nig in 2012" and images of Barack in S&M wear eating fried chicken and strange examples of reverse blackface-ism featuring the president as the Joker.
And then we've got professional politicians, dropping code words for the racist segment of the population.
First there was Newt Gingrich, who loved calling Obama a "food-stamp president" and accused the commander in chief of being a "Kenyan anti-colonialist," and now we have Mitt Romney saying that Obama was trafficking in the politics of "division and anger and hate," a statement that led MSNBC host Touré to proclaim that the GOP presidential candidate was engaging in the "niggerization of the campaign."
On last Thursday's The Cycle, Touré said:
"That really bothered me. You notice he said anger twice. He's really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the 'otherization,' he's not like us.
"I know it's a heavy thing, I don't say it lightly, but this is 'niggerization. You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we've been trained to fear."
I agree. In America, politicians, right-wing media types, and law enforcement officials have long since stoked racial fears among the white population by portraying the black male as a violent predator who has a nearly innate desire to prey upon his lily-white neighbors. These race baiters love nothing more than to insinuate that black men are savage-like animals full of rage and hate. Make no mistake, Romney knows full well what he is doing and exactly who he is trying to court. The Republican Party of today was built on this very thing. The Southern Strategy never ended. It still goes on.
As for Tina Brown and the gang at Newsweek, I'm sure there was no ill intent here. Just a happy accident.
At least for anyone looking to inject a little more racial controversy into the 2012 presidential campaign.
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'Enlightened' Cast Teases the HBO Dramedy
The new HBO show featuring Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd, premieres Monday, Oct. 10.
Laura Dern stars as Amy, who, after a very public breakdown, returns from a treatment center in Hawaii with an entirely new outlook on life. In the HBO series Enlightened, Amy returns to reality to deal with her mother (played by Dern's real-life mother Diane Ladd), her troublesome ex-husband (Luke Wilson) and a new set of co-workers who may not agree with her new outlook on life.
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1. Laura Dern Finds It Easier to Work With Her Mother
Dern admitted that she is a little more enlightened herself because she found it easier to work with her mother, Diane Ladd, now than when she was younger. Dern worked alongside her mother in the films Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, but told THR that Enlightened was a better experience. "It's a very different experience than working with her in my early 20s, as I said to her jokingly a few minutes ago, 'You know when we worked together when I was 20, every word you said triggered me, now every eighth word you say triggers me—so there is incremental growth!'"
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2. Diane Ladd Couldn't Watch Her Daughter Have a Mental Breakdown
Dern's mother told THR that she couldn't and wouldn't watch her daughter's scene in which she has a mental breakdown. "I don't watch unless I have a scene with her and of course then I'm fighting her in the scene you know, and I'm involved in my own character," she said. "But no, if I'm not in the scene with her, I'm not going to watch her go through that. No, that tears my heart."
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3. Luke Wilson Says "Anything Goes" With His Character
Luke Wilson was able to really push with his character, Levi, who is Dern's character's ex-husband. "I mean for me it was always kind of fun to play this character because I'd always think that because what this guy does with kind of drugs and alcohol, he can be in a great mood, he can be you know on the edge, he can be laughing, he can literally be kind of alone and sobbing so it's really kind of anything goes."
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4. Diane Ladd Is Sick of Reality Shows
Ladd had plenty of nice things to say about working with her daughter and the HBO show. However, she's not such a fan of all the reality shows that have infiltrated television. "Everybody I tell about show they say, 'Oh thank god it's not a reality show,'" said Ladd. "I mean there are one or two good ones but I'm sick to death of them, up to here." Ladd went on to express her frustration at the popularity of reality TV and its effects on her own trade. "My people aren't working, they can't make a living, and I think it's a tragedy. You've got all these great writers and directors and actors and cinematographers, out there and they're not utilized."
5. Tim Sharp Plays the Bad Guy, and It's Funny
Tim Sharp (Six Feet Under) plays the new boss on the HBO show, and he admits that he's an obstacle for Dern's character. "I guess I'm the bad guy of the show if there is one," he said. "I'm her main obstacle. I'm by no means evil, I'm just a douche bag and it's funny."


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It's been FAR too long since I was last at the patch – a whole week dammit! This morning then, I was determined to fling the pre-work window wide open and hit the patch as early as possible in order to catch as many birds as my worm would allow. As it turned out (as seems often to be the case, happily) those few hours first thing delivered a veritable smooregasbord of July birdage, despite the ever-shrinking water levels (see later).
I always check the barns for owls at the Big Hand Ranch as I drive by on early starts and so it was today. Pull over. Window down and... nothing peeking out of the hole in the roof of the first barn... and... nothing under the eaves of the second. Ah well, too much to hope for maybe. Decide to head straight to Halfway House as the pollen seems finally to have settled. Thank God! Driving off when... what's that on the pill box? Bins up... Little Owl. Excellent! This methinks, bodes well. Change of plan, Pumphouse HAS to be worth a quick shufti first – THEN Halfway House. Sorted. Jay over the track by PHP and a quick check of the viaduct as I drive by yields... Peregrine – usual spot. Score!
Pumphouse Pool
Not bothering with coffee as this is a flying visit to check for any passage stuff. Grab my scope and I'm in the east hide (as usual). Kingfisher on his perch, 15 Lapwing scattered about the various shorelines, 2 Oystercatcher making a racket, 2 Great Crested Grebes snoozing down the far end with just 3 Tufties today and a male Pochard. There's a solitary juvenile LBB Gull (looks like it's been up all night) on one of the rocks and an adult Grey Heron on the other. A quick scan turns up 15 Coots and a lone adult with 4 new young. Talking of which, there's a brood of 3 well grown Little Grebe young cheeping away and being attended by a parent and another chick about the same age, being attended by another adult in the SE corner – a brood split I presume. This lot started with 5 young, so they've lost one – shame. Hold on though there's another brood! SW corner, adult with 3 new young. Wasn't sure if there were 2 pairs as had only seen 3 adults. Guess the fourth must have been on the nest. Cool. Right, no passage waders tho, so I'm off to HWH.
Manchester Ship Canal (BB to HWH)
Car parked. Togged up. Off. Yellowhammer 'chitting' by the black and yellow gate. 2 young Willow Warblers mucking about, Chaffinch, Wren, Whitethroat. At the bend we have... Mute Swans. Three of them on the far side of the canal and... 13 Canada Geese. Hmmm. No Great Crested Grebes. 2 Sand Martins, no... 3 Sand Martins over, Greenfinch singing, Robin 'tipping', Goldfinch, Blackbird, Pied Wagtail calling somewhere, 2 Carrion Crows, 1 Magpie and 6 Swifts over. 2 Lapwing on the little muddy strip (but no passage waders – had Common Sandpiper here not so long ago). Kestrel. Chiffchaff. Further along there's a bunch of Tufties... I make it 31... 7 more Mute Swans, 45 more Canadas, 2 white 'Domestics' and the family of 7 Greylags. 5 more Sand Martins over... but no Swallows or House Martins still and there's a Sedge Warbler started up... and stopped... and there's a Blackcap that's content to keep going. What else? Another Goldfinch, another Chiffchaff, 2 more Greenfinch singing, 3 more Whitethroat, 4 more Wrens, a Stock Dove and a Jay over and I'm at Halfway House. Quick look across to Randall's Sluice before I set up and there's another 9 Mute Swans (that makes 19 on the MSC) and 9 Canadas (that makes 67 - numbers up).
Halfway House
Oi Oi??? That's odd. Not a Shelduck in sight... not one... anywhere! That HAS to be a first I think. I mean, Shelduck are a given at HWH. I've never NOT had Shelduck here. Not that I'm desparate to see another Shelduck... don't get me wrong. I'm just saying... it strikes me as odd. That's all. SO... scanning left to right... Lapwing (15), Curlew (1), BH Gull (53), Common Sandpiper (yay!) off towards the canal calling, Grey Heron (1), Mallard (3) another Common Sandpiper low over the water from the other side of the river, following the first, Cormorant (1). Big bunch of gulls. Can I be bothered to go through them? Oh, go on then... for completeness; 167 BH Gulls (including 6 juvs), 195 LBB Gulls, 1 Herring Gull – yee haw! Singing stuff? Quiet this morning tbh – just Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Goldfinch, Blackcap, Song Thrush and Whitethroat. Overhead during my brief sortee I add 1 Gadwall, 1 Pied Wagtail, 6 Crows, 3 Magpie, 2 Swift, 1 Stock Dove, 50 Feral Pigeons, 3 Woodpigeons, 3 Goldfinch, a Cormorant and a male Pheasant. That's it. Quiet, except for the hint of a suggestion of some passage from the Common Sands – thank you very much. Onwards! Now, as Duncan claims he's prepared the marsh for passage wader viewing, least I can do is give his handiwork the once over.
Norton Marsh
En route, Brown Hare in Lane End Field. Screen hide – choppage but no birdage AND I still can't see the dried up pool – ahem! Tower Hide – CAN see the dried up pool, but still no birdage. WE NEED RAIN!!! Yomp to Norton Marsh hide checking for Little Owl in Balloon Hut Field. Nothing. Norton Marsh Pool – aha! Something!! 2 Lapwing, 3 Woodpigeon, 1 juvenile BH Gull and... *2 Green Sandpipers, 'kloy-klee-klee' – Exeelento! Very nice. Return passage has begun...
Norton Marsh Pool 30th June
TODAY!!! But there was still stuff on it.
Yomp back along the UMS paths yields the proverbial Paul Daniels save for Tree Sparrow, singing Yellowhammer and Skylark. No sign of any Stonechat in the Phrag Field, nor Little Egret in the trickling ditches. Do get a bonus Goldcrest in the tall conifer by the rebrick houses though (only regular spot for these this year - winter musta hammered em). Back at the car I get Treecreeper as I'm slinging stuff into the boot and then it's a slow trundle in the old Volvo along the road past the White House, stopping every once in a while to listen for stuff and check for Hobby. No Hobby, but do get an unexpected Grasshopper Warbler reeling away in the thick of the Snipe Fields. Thought they'd all stopped. Willow Tit and a juv Great Spotted Woodpecker at the feeding station was all I add over coffee and nuts and then it's...
Lapwing Lake
I can see; 18 Mallard, 1 Gadwall, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 13 Coot, 5 juvenile Moorhen and 1 Little Grebe with a brood of 3 half-grown young. That's the lot!
Eastern Reedbed and Millbrook Pool
Now, it's fair to say, I think, that the east end of the reserve is not a particularly pleasant bit of the patch during the dry summer months. For a start, it doesn't tend to hold much; today just... 18 Mallard, 28 Gadwall, 2 Great Crested Grebes with 2 well-grown, but still stripey chicks, 7 Coots, a juvenile Grey Heron and... the Millbrook Mute Swans with their brood of 9, now well-grown cygnets. It's also a bit sad looking. The reedbed has a kind of green dreariness about it at the moment – it looks 'fatigued'. Millbrook Pool is even worse! Choked in green gloop it's the swimming ground of just 2 Gadwall, a Mallard with 2 half grown ducklings and a Little Grebe with 3 well-grown young today. The wet flush in the NE corner is now and extremely dry clog of thick, knee-high vegetation. If there's owt in there, it ain't coming out! There's a very bored looking Grey Heron wondering 'wtf have I done to deserve this?' Even the 17 Canada Geese seem to have finally given up and are lying in a heap. The only bright spot in this gloomy picture is a Kingfisher! Good on YOU mate! It's probably the Pumphouse male.
Birchwood Pool
Last time I was here a week ago, the green weed was almost at the island (as you look out from the east hide), so I was curious to see if it had now reached the shore. Quelle suprise! It was back how it had been a week before that (see pix below – note dates).
30th June
5th July
Now THAT is weird - weedy ebb and flow in the space of 2 weeks??? Wonder if anybody has been out in a boat and hoiked a load of it out or summit? That's incredible die-back, if that indeed is what it is... very strange! Maybe the Coots ate it... mystery.
Birdwise, not much going on compared to last time, although there are three bigish Gadwall broods here today (7, 9, 9) – only remember there being brood before. There's 23 Tufties floating about but I can see only 1 brood of 2 half-grown ducklings... Other odds and ends... 2 Pochard, 4 Moorhen, 2 Grey Heron (incl. one lying down), 3 Mute Swan, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe (no young), a herd of 59 Canada Geese and a sharp increase in Coot numbers signalling the start of the moulting flock build up methinks coz I reckon there's about 65 of them here now compared to about 25 at the start of the month... watch this space.
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Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mallard, Gadwall, Pochard, Tufty, Buzzard, Kestrel, Peregrine, Pheasant, Moorhen, Coot, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, *Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, BH Gull, H Gull, LBB Gull, GBB Gull, C.Dove, S.Dove, F.Pigeon, Woodpigeon, Little Owl, Swift, Kingfisher, GS Woodpecker, Skylark, S.Martin, Swallow, P.Wagtail, Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, S.Thrush, Blackcap, **L.Whitethroat, Whitethroat, S.Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, R.Warbler, W.Warbler, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, G.Tit, B.Tit, W.Tit, LT.Tit, Treecreeper, Magpie, Jay, Crow, Rook, Jackdaw, T.Sparrow, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Bullfinch, L.Redpoll, R.Bunting, Yellowhammer.
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The company reported earnings of $48 million, or 26 cents per share. Adjusted income came in at 42 cents per share, above analysts' estimate of 40 cents per share.
Revenue rose 15% to $395 million. Analysts expected to see revenue of $451.39 million.
Good Headwinds in the Technology Space
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Brozzetti's Pizza
Category: Pizza
72 Baldwin St
Johnson City, NY 13790
(607) 797-9960
I came back to Binghamton 4 years after graduating. One of the main reasons was to try Brozzetti's pizza. I never heard of it before – but it is apparently legendary!
It sits at the back of the hospital in Johnson City, and like the people who choose to drink the water in Binghamton, it's kept alive by the hospital workers. There are no tables, so you will invariably be eating with the locals in the parking lot beside doctors and nurses taking smoke breaks out of sight of bosses (and lung cancer patients).
I wouldn't even say it's a step up from Elios. It is one of those crappy regional pizzas so unique that every month or so you get this irrational taste in your mouth's mind and can't get it out until you have another slice. The crust is chewy, and by the end of the rectangle pie the cold slices are just worthless. The sauce is a grade below Hunt's catsup and the cheese is a blend of 2 of the cheapest cheeses at the Giant.
For some reason I want some now. Damn these masochistic taste buds!
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You can say one thing for James and John: they took Jesus at His Word. "Ask and you shall receive," our Lord promised, so they asked with the full expectation of getting what they wanted. "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." No hemming and hawing around. Not even a "Thy will be done," thrown in to sound pious. Just this: "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." Simple enough, a straight-to-the-point request to the One they believed is the giver of all good things. It's easy to wag our fingers at these two brothers. "Just look at 'em, elbowing their way up to the top. Good grief! Ought to be red-faced, those two, but there they are, not a smidgen of doubt, chests puffed out like they've already plopped down on those two seats." But notice, if you will, who else is wagging their fingers in this story. It's not Jesus. He has a few words of correction to say, all right, but the only accusatory fingers that are shaking are those belonging to the other disciples. They are the ones all put out by James and John. In fact, Jesus is the essence of patience with them. Correcting? Yes. But chewing out? No. Those indignant are the ones who feel ambushed, who not-so-secretly covet those seats for themselves and who just hadn't got up the gumption yet to ask.
To their request that day, Jesus replied that they had no idea what they were asking. And, in that, James, John, and all of us are stuck in the same boat. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought. We're like five-year-olds, begging for Oreo cookies and ice cream at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We want what is sweet; we want comfortable lives, happy families, secure jobs; we want our sports teams to win, to get a close parking spot at Wal-Mart, just enough sunshine and just enough rain. And, if it's not asking too much, we wouldn't mind a little more money, a nicer car, college degrees for our kids, and smiles on the faces of our grandchildren. Although we might not voice prayers for such things, if our hearts spoke to heaven, these are some of the things they would say.
And—hear me well—there is nothing wrong with desiring and praying for these things, for they are well and good, in and of themselves. James and John may have been told "no," but they weren't chided for making their request. Bold and audacious though it was, it was indeed a prayer of faith. They may not have known what to ask for, but they knew who to ask. And that's what matters. Knowing exactly what God wants us to ask for isn't what matters; what matters is that we ask Him. What matters is that we know that God invites us to believe that He is our true Father and that we are His true children, so that boldly and confidently we may ask Him as children ask their father, even if that request is for Oreos and ice cream for breakfast.
When you make such requests, know that God is going to give you what you ask for, or He'll give you something better. Something better for you. My three-year-old son might not think oatmeal is better than ice cream, but I, his father, know that it is. So I give him what is best for him, because I love him. Now if I, an evil sinner, know how to give good gifts to my child, how much more will our Father who is in heaven give good things to you who ask Him?
To James and John, our Lord gave the cup from which He Himself would drink and the baptism with which He Himself would be baptized. To their lips would be pressed the chalice of martyrdom; they would receive the baptism of blood. The sword of Herod baptized the body of James. He was the first of the twelve who died as a witness to Him who died and rose again. And in that, James truly is preeminent. He received his crown.
In so doing, James received something of an answer to his request. What James really desired was to be beside his Lord Jesus. He wanted to sit not twelve seats away, not six, but smack-dab beside him. And so it was, yes, even better. For not only was James beside Christ, he was in Him and Christ was in James. He was conformed to the death of Jesus. He died in Him and rose in Him. He was crucified with Christ so that it was no longer James who lived, but Christ who lived in him. James learned what it means to come not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a testimony to Him who gave His life as a ransom for many, as a ransom for you. James did not sit down at the right hand or the left hand of Christ; he sat down on the throne with our Lord, as do all those who are baptized into the body of the king of kings and the Lord of lords.
So now James, along with all the heavenly host, prays for you. They enjoy their Sabbath rest, but they also know of you who still labor, who still ask for Oreos and ice cream, who still don't know what to pray for. So they ask the heavenly Father to give you what is best. And He does. He gives you Himself. He gives you a baptism with which to be baptized. He buries you into His flesh and resurrects you via that same flesh to a new life. He places a cup to your lips and bids you drink of the blood given and shed for you. He has given His life as a ransom for you, so that you are now His own. He has bought you at a price. You are His. Bold and impetuous as James, meek and bashful, young and foolish, old and foolish—it doesn't matter who you are, but whose you are. You are His, His beloved child. And nothing in heaven or on earth can change that.
**A slightly revised version of this reflection appears in Christ Alone: Meditations and Sermons, which you can read more about below.
What we need in our fragmented world, full of hurting people, is the love of Jesus Christ, who welcomes home sinners with a grace that knows no bounds. My book Christ Alone: Meditations and Sermons, is packed with reflections that go that extra mile of grace. Again and again, they present the Christ who is crucified and risen for you. Please take a moment to check it out here. You may also be interested in my collections of hymns and poetry entitled, The Infant Priest, which you can purchase here. Both books are also available on Amazon, as is my booklet Why Lutherans Sing What They Sing (also on Kindle). Thank you for your prayers and support!


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Jenn at Artists Play Room has a weekly challenge that I have only played in once before and missed last week because I thought the deadline was Sunday. I was determined to meet the deadline this week, because the theme was based on books and bookmarks. Now I don't actually have a bookmark showing in the above photo, but I have a lot of altered books. These are all ABs in progress, or were back in September, 2011, when I first published this picture. Sadly, when I tried to copy it to this blog post, it copied full size, which made it way too large for you to see in this photo. In order to view the entire photo, you will need to click on it.
Then, in February, 2012, I was asked to show a few of my altered book covers, at least the ones I had completed. There were so many, I couldn't get them all on one table,
so here are the three you couldn't see that were originally lurking on my dresser behind the table.
And finally, since Jenn DID ask for a bookmark, I have one I made back in 2003. I looked long and hard and found this reject. I was in a bookmark swap and this one, hidden away with other rejects, didn't make the cut. In fact, it didn't even make the hole or tassel. But it IS a handmade bookmark, using some of my handmade paper and some really unflattering dried bits. Sadly all the others (more colorful, I might add) went to swap friends years ago.
So that's it for me until I have time to return to blogland. Have a great Monday everyone.


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Note- Originally published in 2010 on Associated Content. Dick B. like many other individuals, who could not seem to counter argue my points, instead opted for the censorship approach and had all of their comments and many of these articles removed from publication.
Recently I was left messages from AA guru Dick B. www.DickB.com I was a little upset that Dick masks his advertisements for his site in the form of comments on my articles. However, I hate censorship so I felt that they warranted enough points to be left in print.
I journeyed into the world of Dick B. only to find that it was yet another site claiming to hold the nonexistent wisdom of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is yet another site that puts another spin on the overplayed recovery rhetoric that AA and the recovery community espouse. At best it was trite and mundane.
One would ask "Why Vince? Why do you torture yourself with these individual's pompous morbid self examinations? Why do you torture yourself with people like Dick B., who provide little to no evidence as to what they are claiming?"
I can only answer these questions by saying that I am driven by an insatiable curiosity to discover some new fact or concept that recovery, religion, or AA might produce. To date I have been sorely disappointed. My adventure into the world of Dick B did highlight a fact which I have been indirectly stating in various ways from the beginning of my writing about AA. This fact is that AA is an extremely malleable program such that it can be molded into anything a person desires.
Dick B. is a Christian in recovery and he believes that AA is a direct reflection of the Bible. Dick essentially is redefining AA in terms of the Christian faith. In many ways Dick feels that AA has lost its path from its original Christian tenets. "…I began picking up at A.A. meetings some A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature which seemed to endorse, and even encourage, unbelief—the idea that you didn't need to believe in anything at all to get well (Dick B., 2008)."
He might very well be right about this idea, since the AA program has developed into a generic form of religion (or I should say spirituality). But to combine AA with Christianity is really an affront to both Christianity and Alcoholics Anonymous. This is the ridiculous nature of the AA program, the twelve steps can be applied to whatever one desires. By virtue of this nature, the twelve steps are so broad in application as to make them meaningless. The examples of this idea are seen all around us. The twelve steps are constantly transformed to apply to any malady that people see fit, from quitting smoking to sexual promiscuity. Yet none of these applications have any scientific proof that they are effective. Just try to find a real scientific study that measures the effectiveness of the twelve steps for treating sex addicts or smokers and you will find nothing substantive. Besides anecdotal evidence, there is nothing to validate the use of the twelve steps for treating anything.
Sadly Dick B has only gone to prove this idea by virtue of his beliefs. He has molded the AA program or perhaps regressed it back to its origins of being more religious. However, this is in violation of the concepts of AA (at least AA claims this) that they should be nondenominational. Dick has also shown AA to be a religious organization not a spiritual one by showing that AA is derived from the bible.
I guess there are some major questions that Dick and anyone who is Christian and believes in AA should ask themselves. If Jesus is truly powerful and possesses the power of God's healing then why do Christians need Alcoholics Anonymous? What could Alcoholics Anonymous possibly offer or do to improve upon the power of Christ? Funny that an atheist is asking the question.
Dick B. (2008, October 27). Dick b.'s story. Retrieved from http://dickb.com/dickb-story.shtml
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Polish computer gamers will soon have the chance to dive into the dictatorial world of 1980s Poland and struggle to set up a clandestine union under the noses of the authorities.
A social networking game, "Solidarity — Online Conspiracy" divides a fictional Polish town into sectors in which players have to set up underground union cells, organise meetings and demonstrations and try to win over management opposition.
To give it that authentic touch Lech Walesa, who led the Solidarity trade union during its historic conflict with Poland's one-party state, makes appearances along with other well-known dissidents and activists.
Gamers also have to keep a sharp eye out for agents trying to infiltrate their group.
To help recreate the atmosphere of the time the designers have included cult television shows from communist Poland, dreary newspapers and grey loo paper: one the great banes of the era.
"The game is like a doorway to history," said Jerzy Gudejko, one of the game's designers. "It will pass on to a generation of 14-15 year-olds the memory, knowledge and emotions involved in the fight against the communist regime." But there are no bloodthirsty shoot-outs with the secret police or violent riots.
The designers stress the game, while educating the young about the struggle for freedom, is also aimed at highlighting and promoting the spirit of co-operation that was key to the success of Mr Walesa's Solidarity in the 1980s.
"Solidarity is a social game; one person alone cannot win," explained Mr Gudejko. "Success can only be achieved by working as a group so players need to organise."
The appearance of the game reflects a desire in Poland to teach the growing generations of young Poles born after the return of democracy about the struggles and deprivations people had to endure under communist rule.


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Recently I've started using rsnapshot, and have found it pretty useful. Rsnaphsot uses librsync to create snapshots of various directories.
On my systems I typically configure backups of:
backup /etc/ localhost/ backup /usr/local/ localhost/ backup /var/lib/rpm localhost/
Drop in cron entries into /etc/crontab:
# Backup filesystems
0 */4 * * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly
50 23 * * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily
40 23 1,8,15,22 * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly
30 23 1 * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly
And get snapshots under /.snapshots
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It doesn't take up much space. If I wanted to I could store the snapshot remotely. And it's been helpful when I needed to remind myself what I did on some host that may have caused issues.


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The London-based practice will not be working on the scheme's high-profile second phase, the new-build element, following the recent completion of phase one, the renovation of the existing building.
Contractor Bovis Lend Lease and developer Land Securities - in a private-public partnership with the BBC - have cited 'creative differences' as the reason for the split.
But the AJ has learnt that Richard MacCormac had become increasingly frustrated by a series of value-engineering exercises on his competition-winning designs.
The architect had a number of arguments with Bovis - to which he was novated - over losing elements of his scheme, including the huge subterranean newsroom and an innovative use of breakout spaces in the offices.
However, the most recent row was over plans for a vast glass wall, which was proposed as a visual link for the new and old elements of the scheme.
Artist Antoni Malinowski, who worked with MacCormac on the scheme, told the AJ that relations between client and architect were increasingly fraught in recent months.
'Richard was insisting on certain basic design elements that were at the core of the project - such as the blue glass wall - that the client was trying to undermine,' he said. 'They said they could not afford it.
'Richard was sticking to his guns. He was saying that there had already been many
other changes on the scheme.
'He told them that they should not change it otherwise there would be nothing of his scheme left,' Malinowski added.
And another source extremely close to MJP confirmed that the client-architect relationship had indeed gone sour.
'The split itself has come as a complete surprise,' the source told the AJ. 'There is
no way Richard would have wanted it to end like this.
'But it can be extremely upsetting when contractors insist on more cost-saving measures when there have already been a number of significant value-engineering exercises undertaken.'
These developments - which Eric Parry has described as 'a sorrow' - will further heavily undermine the BBC's credentials as a client, after it also made serious cost
savings on David Chipperfield's BBC Scotland building in Glasgow.
In 2002, the corporation's operations chief, John Smith, won a series of awards, including one from the AJ, for his work as a construction client.
The official statement from Bovis Lend Lease and Land Securities gives few formal reasons for the split.
'All parties wish to make it clear that [the split] is in no way a reflection of their opinion of the professional capabilities of MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, whom they continue to view with the highest regard,' it says.
It is understood that a new architect for phase two will be appointed imminently.
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I am very happy and proud to receive my first blogger award from Jebaslin Hephzibah
Thank you so much Jeba for considering me to give this award...... I am so excited ............
Thank you so much Jeba for considering me to give this award...... I am so excited ............
- you have to put a link of her/his blog in your blog
- you have to put the logo of the award in your blog
- you have to pass on the award to 7 blogs which has less than 50 members
- you have to put their links to this blog
- you have to inform these people that they received the award
- you have to write 7 things/facts about yourself
I am passing on the award of the blogging to:
- Marius Quilling
- Monica Andrei
- Sergal's quilling art
- Obsessed with paper art
- Pily
- Namrata Dhoot
- chytra
Seven things/facts that i would like to share about myself.............
- I love spending time with my family.... playing with them... watching movies.... watching them dance and play.... singing....
- I love quilling and I never get bored or tired of doing it. I don't feel the time going when I am quilling.
- Next to quilling I equally love fabric painting.
- I love cooking and I like to try out new recipes and new things.
- I love to listen to spiritual classical hymns and to listen to the audio Bible.
- I love gardening............ vegetables & fruits, more than flowers............
- I hate wasting time..... when I have to wait for my turn or something, it irritates me.... I keep something handy to do during these times........ at least a book to read...
Thank you and God Bless you all abundantly


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Maha Akhtar will never forget October 28, 2005. On that date, the woman who has been studying and performing the khatak dance of her native India since the age of six discovered she is the granddaughter of Anita Delgado, legendary flamenco dancer from Malaga who was wooed at 17 and then whisked off to India by the maharajah of Kapurthala, where she lived in opulence and scandal. Her husband's many trysts notwithstanding, Delagdo's iniquitous affair with her stepson brought irreparable disgrace. It's a story seemingly written for film, so it's no surprise that Penelope Cruz, herself a former dancer, has bought the film rights to Pasion India, Javier Moro's novel based on Delgado's story. Five years before that, Akhtar had begun to explore fl amenco on her own, studying in New York and Seville and feeling somehow compelled to connect the two idioms. She began choreographing crossover works with master dancer Juan Polvillo. The bridge was easy to build, as flamenco's gypsy roots are well-documented. Gypsies, or Roma, are perhaps the most romanticized and scorned people on our planet, ostracized because of the very stereotypes that inspire our envy: their fiery spirit and refusal to conform to "civilized" norms. Their mystique has been immortalized and universally celebrated over the centuries through their music, which has left deep imprints wherever these wanderers touched down, but especially in Spain, where flamenco rules supreme. The spicy, Roma-dominated mix of ingredients that make up flamenco is being revitalized today, as players and singers reclaim their Indian legacy. Recent interest in the history of the Roma people has located their origins in Rajistan, in northwestern India. They were driven out, possibly as early as the 10th century, by the Mogul rulers, under whom Roma music, once purely devotional and restricted to the temple, out into the world of secular art. After leaving India, the Roma traveled as one as far as Persia, then split into two strains, one that traversed the Balkan countries, the other trekking through North Africa before reuniting in Spain. (Research on the origins of the Roma language has shown the term "gypsy" to be a misnomer, applied by European hosts who believed these new people to have been Egyptians). By the time the Roma arrived on Spanish soil in the early 15th century, that country had already absorbed the fiery rhythms of North Africa. Spain would provide fertile ground for the development of Roma music the Gypsies gave a definitive new identity to the traditional sounds, and dance, of Andalucia, and ultimately the entire country. Now AKHTAR and others are driven by the desire to "revitalize flamenco by taking the music back to its original roots," by, for example, re-emphasizing the drama of arm and hand movements, still crucial to the narrative of classical Indian dance but downplayed in today's flamenco, which favors lightning-fast limbs. "Arms now," she laments, "it's all about speed, and not about the story or the feeling." Performances by the Akhtar/Polvillo ensemble are trenchant and intense, enhanced by South Asian and Spanish instruments and searing vocals. The addition of Nicasio Morena's sublime cello helps bridge the two musical strains, and adds immediacy and mystery to the work. Thanks to a major new work currently being performed in Madrid, the Spanish people are now able to see and hear their cultural heritage being celebrated. Choreographed by Manuela Carrasco, whom Akhtar describes as "the torchbearer of pure flamenco," the piece reenacts the odyssey that brought the Roma to Spain. Akhtar herself choreographed the dances for the Indian segment. Another musical homage to this epic cross-cultural journey is presented by Singer/dancer La Conja, baharata natyam Indian dancer Rajika Puri and their musical director, Romany guitarist/composer, Pedro Cortés. Cortés was pulled towards the origin of his people's music, and travel
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