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Amy Winehouse Stories
Amy Winehouse doing what she did best. Photo by Yui Mok/PA
The death of singer Amy Winehouse in 2011, at the tragically young age of twenty-seven, was big news. I remember hearing about it and being shocked, and having a friend tell me about the "27 Club" to which Winehouse had the dubious honor of gaining entry. The name refers to the fact that many hugely talented musicians—including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain—also died at twenty-seven, an age at which many people are just getting their careers off the ground.
Four years later, Winehouse is having a cultural moment. A documentary about her life, simply called Amy, is on wide release and has been getting a lot of press. Meanwhile, an exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Amy Winehouse: A Family Portraitopens an intimate album on Winehouse, allowing us to view…
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Jon Stewart, Meet Me At Camera Three
Like many fans and critics, I've been preemptively nostalgic about the impending end of Jon Stewart's tenure on The Daily Show. When Jon announced his retirement, I was astonished and moved. From my adolescence until now, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show was a constant, a salvo, an adult version of a bed-time story. Particularly in the Bush years, but equally today, it has been an oasis of sanity in an ever-darkening geopolitical climate and an ever-sensationalized media landscape.
For someone who came of voting age just eleven months after 9/11 and who came into the workforce during the Great Recession, it has been reassuring to hear a voice of truth and humor cutting through the bullshit and the darkness and telling me: "You're not alone. There is still sanity somewhere. As long as we all know this is fucked up, and we acknowledge it, all is not lost." …
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Teapots and coffee pots Screen Print Poster A2 size
This screen printed poster was pulled by me in a studio in Leeds. It is in a vibrant cobalt blue colour in acrylic by Daler and Rowney although may be available in other colours upon request. It is printed on white quality thick printing paper, A2 sized, again, by Daler and Rowney. The image is approximately 25cm x 25cm. It fits beautifully in standard frames from the high street. In the picture it has been trimmed slightly and displayed in a square Ribba frame from IKEA. The frame shown is 52cm x 52cm to give an extra sense of scale. I have a smaller A4 sized option in my shop but have been asked for a larger version.
As with all screen printed products no two images are exactly the same. This adds to the charm and uniqueness of the product. It forms part of an open print run but is initialled by me at the bottom right hand corner.
This print is also available in red; please let me know if you would prefer this colour. I can also print other colours if you have a particular scheme in mind.
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Playing table tennis is a great way to have some fun and get active. When you play a quick game with friends or family, you'll burn calories without even realizing that you're actually working out. While you can find small tables that will fit in any room, those smaller tables lack the features that die-hard players want. If you want something that will fit your lifestyle now and keep fitting that lifestyle in the future, you want this JOOLA Inside Table Tennis Table. The table is suitable for use indoors and is perfect for using at home or in a community center.
JOOLA Inside Table Specifications
From the moment this box arrives on your doorstep to the moment you finish setting it up is roughly 30 minutes or less. As it comes with everything you need for installation inside the box, you can set it up on your own or with a little help from some loved ones. You'll then want to jump right in and start playing.
It features a durable surface that uses a type of wood composite material. When the ball hits that surface, it will bounce and spin the exact way you want it to move. The composite material is also pretty resistant to scratches and other minor damage.
This JOOLO table tennis table actually features two separate pieces that make up the top. Each of those pieces folds into a compact package. You can easily take the table apart for storing when you need some extra space.
JOOLA includes casters that attach to the bottom of the legs. Those casters lock in place to keep the table from moving as you play, and the standard legs lock in place too. When you need to make more room, you can simply unlock the casters and push the table to a new spot.
Pros/Cons of JOOLA Inside Ping Pong Table
The pros and cons of this inside table tennis table from JOOLA include its easy portability. Use the rolling casters on the bottom to quickly move the table across the room. Those casters also lock to keep the table sturdy when playing ping pong.
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Instead of using inexpensive MDF for the surface of this table, JOOLA used a type of wood composite that will last much longer. That surface also ensures that balls bounce and spin perfectly and absorbs some of the shocks from those balls to cut down on chips and scratches.
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Comparing this indoor JOOLA table tennis table against other similar tables is one of the best ways to decide if it's right for your home or activity center. As the table has a durable surface made from wood composite materials, it can last for years without showing wear and tear. You'll also like that the top can fold up or down for storage, solo play or playing with others. While it isn't the absolute best table tennis table, it's a great option for those just starting out in the sport.
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DNA Lounge update
DNA Lounge update, wherein Yelp oh-so-politely tells us to get fucked.
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King City
You should read King City by Brandon Graham. It's the best comic-book-type thing I've read in quite some time. The trade is a huge phonebook-sized thing and it's awesome.
It's hard to describe. Well, it's not hard to describe the plot, but it would sound really goofy, which it is, but it's amazing. This dude has a cat who can turn into lock picks or a grappling hook and he has to defeat a tentacle monster. And it's full of puns. But it's not really about that. You see what happens when I try to describe it? That's like saying Scott Pilgrim was about a slacker who punches people.
So you should just take my word for it and read it.
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Muslim blogger launches inclusive range of hijabs to suit all skin tones
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It's been a long time coming, but the fashion and beauty industries are slowly inching towards becoming more inclusive.
From Christian Louboutin's range of nude pumps to suit all skin colours, to Naja's line of nude lingerie - available in seven different shades - change is finally afoot.
And now a Muslim blogger has added a collection of inclusive hijabs into the mix.
Habiba Da Silva, a 22-year-old Birmingham University graduate, has launched a collection of hijabs, called "Skin", designed to suit all skin colours.
Writing on her website, Da Silva said the collection was "inspired by togetherness amongst different types of people", and that she hoped it would "break up the trend of having brands with clothing dressed on only lighter skinned models".
Currently available in four shades, the Skin collection is based on the idea of marriage, with Da Silva noting on her site that this is "not necessarily as a bond between a man and a woman" but rather "a bond between people from different backgrounds and cultures".
The lightest shade is called "Zaffeh", which translates in Arabic to "wedding march", while the darkest shade is "Aure", which translates as the Hausa word for "marriage".
The other two shades are called "Aroosadda", the Somalii word for "bride", and "Rukhasti", which translates as "sending off" in Urdu.
Speaking to BuzzFeed, Da Silva, who is of Lebanese and Brazilian descent, explained her reasons for launching the collection.
"I've always been interested in cultures, since I come from two different cultures myself," she said. "It's always been something that I've always been passionate about."
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Pursuant to Act 1, the Pennsylvania Department of Education publishes an index % applicable to the School District. For the upcoming 2015-2016 fiscal year, the school district real estate tax increase is limited to the index, 1.9%, unless a higher tax rate is approved by voters pursuant to a referendum or the School District qualifies for an Act 1 exception.
For the upcoming fiscal year, the School District does not intend to seek approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Education or the County Court, as required by Act 1, for an exception allowing an increase of the real estate tax above the index. The District will be planning the 2012-2013 budget with Act 1 limits.
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Are Plants Crucial For Humans To Survive? This Scientist Is About To Find Out
The fact that plants absorb harmful carbon dioxide and emit oxygen that humans need to survive, has been well documented for many years now. Despite that, we seem to continue to treat plants like second-class citizens - Something geologist Iaian Stewart is trying to change, by spending 48-hours inside a sealed box.
To demonstrate that plants are indeed the 'lungs of the planet', the Plymouth University professor will conduct an experiment that has to date been performed only with rats. On September 16th & 17th, the environmentalist will spend 48 hours in solitary confinement inside a 130sqft. transparent plastic container, where his only companions will be a hammock, a laptop, an exercise bike and approximately 150-200 plants that have been specially cultivated for the experiment. The species of plants which include miscanthus, banana, sweetcorn and a mix of tropical herbs have been selected because they produce large amounts of oxygen.
The temperature and humidity inside the box will be maintained at a level that is optimal for the plants, while special lights placed inside and outside the box will ensure that they can photosynthesize the entire 48 hours.
Though experts will be monitoring the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide, as well as, Professor Stewart's vital signs constantly, he will receive no aid from them, unless he demonstrates signs of complete oxygen depravation. In fact, the researchers hope to conduct some tests on him to explore the effects on humans, when faced with depleted oxygen levels.
The stunt, which will take place at an environmental visitor center called The Eden Project in Cornwall, Southwest England, will be filmed for a BBC documentary 'How Plants Are Made' - Hopefully the professor's endeavor will help highlight the importance of the vegetation around us - Something we all seem to take for granted!
This is not the first time the professor has encountered personal discomfort to make us aware of important environmental issues. In 2010, he ventured into Mexico's crystal caves where the temperature exceeds 500° C with 100% humidity, dropped down a hole in the Iranian desert and crawled through seven-thousand-year-old tunnels in Israel- All to show how geology, geography and climate have influenced the evolution of the human race. His efforts were captured on tape by a BBC and broadcast in a documentary entitled 'How Earth Made Us'.
Resources: news.com.au, BBC.co.uk
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GeographyCornwall, UKIranIsrael
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- MATTTuesday, November 27, 2018 at 6:50 amdid you know the oxygen is a waste and they breath in are carbon dioxide waste
- cheetahflairTuesday, February 21, 2017 at 8:13 amIts amazing how plants are the source of our oxygen. its confusing.
- persassyThursday, November 3, 2016 at 9:34 amCool!
- Kid manMonday, April 25, 2016 at 5:04 amThis article is awesomeness
- Trenton Friday, September 11, 2015 at 7:25 amCool
- :DMonday, March 2, 2015 at 8:37 amit helped me in class
- AnoynomousWednesday, September 10, 2014 at 9:04 amWell to prevent global warming we must plant more trees.
- jjWednesday, September 3, 2014 at 2:16 pmthx did my homework
- jakeWednesday, September 3, 2014 at 2:05 pmthis is pointless
- Gamercrown71Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 12:35 pmThis really helps me for my 5th grade homework :)


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Coda is a distributed file system. Among its features are disconnected
operation, good security model, server replication and persistent
client side caching.
This package builds the entire source tree but only installs(/packages)
the server side programs.
For more info, contact information available below.
EMAIL: email@example.com
WWW: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
make generate-plist
Dependency line: coda-server>0:net/coda6_server
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was:
PKGNAME: coda-server
There is no flavor information for this port.
SHA256 (coda-6.9.4.tar.gz) = 87995da7155f5f99e9ec19e8250d98b97544a9d5531d1b79d3c77557ef200285
SIZE (coda-6.9.4.tar.gz) = 1687157
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
No options to configure
pkgconfig gmake shebangfix perl5 readline
Number of commits found: 48
Remove expired ports:
2018-08-20 net/openmq: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 net/coda6_server: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 net/ceph-devel: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 java/jgrapht: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 mail/mutt14: mutt 1.4.x has been out of support for 10+ years use
2018-08-20 www/pydio: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 security/fastd-devel: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 security/fastd: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 devel/bhyve-vm-goagent: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 devel/cherivis-devel: Depends on broken and expiring cheritrace-devel
2018-08-20 devel/cheritrace-devel: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 devel/javolution: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 devel/bisoncpp: Depends on broken and expiring libbobcat
2018-08-20 databases/php5-pdo_cassandra: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 games/crafty-open-large: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 games/crafty-open-enormous: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 games/crafty-open-medium: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 math/jakarta-commons-math: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 math/hfst: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 math/octave-forge-communications: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 lang/v8-devel: Broken for more than 5 months
2018-08-20 sysutils/rubygem-fluentd010: Broken for more than 5 months
Deprecate ports broken for more than 5 months
Mark BROKEN: fails to build
In file included from cml.multi.c:3:
./cml.h:1:2: error: unterminated conditional directive
#ifndef _CML_
Reported by: pkg-fallout
Fix coda6_client and coda6_server after ino64 changes.
Update devel/readline to 7.0 patch 3
- Bump PORTREVISION for shlib change
Changes: https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/CHANGES
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11172
Exp-run by: antoine
Bump PORTREVISION to reflect the update of devel/lwp.
Submitted by: John Hixson <firstname.lastname@example.com> (via email at AsiaBSDCon)
net/coda6_client: unbreak with libc++ 3.9
vol_cml.cc:3621:10: error: assigning to 'char *' from incompatible type 'const
char *'
comp = strrchr(hook->name, '/') + 1;
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reported by: pkg-fallout
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories m, n, o, and p.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Reset maintainership:
- Lots of maintainers timeout
- unresponsive for almost a year
Cleanup plist
Fix build when pkg does not extract mtree
- Switch to USES=libtool, drop .la files
- Strip libraries
- Bump dependent ports as .so version has changed
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Add USES=readline to fix configure.
1: Stagify.
2: add RUN_DEPENDS to perl, bump version.
Approved by: portmgr@ (blanket)
Modernize LIB_DEPENDS
With hat: portmgr
- Convert gmake,bzip2 to USES
Approved by: portmgr
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Finish converting the whole ports tree to USES=pkgconfig
new devel/pkgconf added to replace devel/pkg-config. new version of pkg-config
are no more self hosting so we are stuck with 0.25 version while pkgconf provide
the same set of features as 0.27 and a compatible frontend. A symlink to
pkg-config has been added for convenience and compatibility
This also introduces a new macro to use pkgconf in your ports:
it can take the following arguments:
- yes (meaning build only dep)
- build (meaning build only dep)
- run (meaning run only dep)
- both (meaning run and build dep)
From now USE_GNOME= pkgconfig is deprecated in favour of USE_PKGCONFIG
The old gnome macro has been modified to use pkgconf but still the sameway: run
and build dep to avoid large breakage.
While here fix some ports relying on pkg-config but not specifying it, fix some
ports broken because testing wrong .pc files, and fix ports using pkg-config
--version to determine pkg-config version instead of
pkg-config --modversion pkg-config like recommanded by pkg-config
With Hat: portmgr
Exp-runs by: bapt (pointhat-west), beat (pointyhat)
- Fix CONFLICTS: net/coda6_client was mistakenly affected
- Bump PORTREVISION for PLIST change
Notified by: Benjamin Kaduk <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Mark CONFLICTS between net/openafs and net/coda6_server: both install
- Bump PORTREVISION for PLIST change
PR: ports/158584
Submitted by: Ben Kaduk <email@example.com> (maintainer of net/openafs)
- Get Rid MD5 support
Make coda6_client build on FreeBSD HEAD.
Disable all utmp bits. This will have no effect on 8.0 and earlier,
since the utmp code was broken to begin with. It doesn't read from the
proper utmp file, so it could have never worked.
Approved by: miwi (portmgr)
Feature safe: yes
- Update to 6.9.4
PR: ports/130761
Submitted by: Wen Heping <email@example.com>
Approved by: maintainer timeout (clsung; 3 weeks)
- Remove conditional checks for FreeBSD 5.x and older
Update CONFIGURE_ARGS for how we pass CONFIGURE_TARGET to configure script.
Specifically, newer autoconf (> 2.13) has different semantic of the
configure target. In short, one should use --build=CONFIGURE_TARGET
instead of CONFIGURE_TARGET directly. Otherwise, you will get a warning
and the old semantic may be removed in later autoconf releases.
To workaround this issue, many ports hack the CONFIGURE_TARGET variable
so that it contains the ``--build='' prefix.
To solve this issue, under the fact that some ports still have
configure script generated by the old autoconf, we use runtime detection
in the do-configure target so that the proper argument can be used.
Changes to Mk/*:
- Add runtime detection magic in bsd.port.mk
- a fool forgot to cvs rm a patch
- bump PORTREVISION
- I forgot to add patch
- bump PORTREVISION
- Update to 6.9.3 to fix broken caused by latest devel/rvm, devel/rpc2 changes
- hereby take over the maintainership
- Chase rpc2 update
Pointy hat to: clsung
- Set --mandir and --infodir in CONFIGURE_ARGS if the configure script
supports them. This is determined by running ``configure --help'' in
do-configure target and set the shell variable _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS
which is then passed to CONFIGURE_ARGS.
- Remove --mandir and --infodir in ports' Makefile where applicable
Few ports use REINPLACE_CMD to achieve the same effect, remove them too.
- Correct some manual pages location from PREFIX/man to MANPREFIX/man
- Define INFO_PATH where necessary
- Document that .info files are installed in a subdirectory relative to
PREFIX/INFO_PATH and slightly change add-plist-info to use INFO_PATH and
subdirectory detection.
PR: ports/111470
Approved by: portmgr
Discussed with: stas (Mk/*), gerald (info related stuffs)
Tested by: pointyhat exp run
Update to version 6.9.1
- Update to 6.1.2
Submitted by: pointyhat and Ho, Jheng <email@example.com>
Thanks to: Ho, Jheng <email@example.com> for testing and feedback!!
Add a proper warning that this code is not tested and the previous version
was causing panics.
* net/coda6_server and net/coda6_client from 6.0.7 to 6.1.1 and thus
un-DEPRECATE them
* devel/rvm from 1.10 to 1.13
* devel/lwp from 1.12 to 2.3
* devel/rpc2 from 1.28 to 2.2
These four are tightly related so I upgrade them in one.. well.. changeset
Extend expiration date with one week.
There is a newer version on the master site from September, it seems that
the project is active again and thus I will try to update this port to
the latest version.
Mark DEPRECATED. The coda5 ports no longer fetch; the coda6 ports are
almost 2 years out-of-date; none of them compile on 5-STABLE or 6-STABLE
at this point.
Reset maintainer of coda6_* due to no response to questions about status.
Hat: portmgr
- Mark IGNORE on >=6.0. Coda 6.x makes a kernel panic on this version.
- Fix another IGNORE message.
Approved by: krion@
- Update to 6.0.7
PR: ports/74258, ports/74259
Submitted by: Radim Kolar <hsn(at)netmag.cz>
Approved by: maintainer (timeout: 1+ month)
- Bump rvm's lib version
Fix "coda-server-6.0.6 failed on i386 4".
Notice from: kris via bento
Update coda5*- and coda6*-affiliated software.
Fix build under fresh -CURRENT (gcc 3.4.2).
Bump or remove PORTREVISION where it needed.
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 1)
Fix build on -STABLE.
Submitted by: tjr
New ports: coda6_server and coda6_client
I've just added the kernel support for Coda 6.x. It would
be great to have the server and client in the ports collection
to make it easier for people to experiment with.
PR: ports/56623
Submitted by: Tim Robbins <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
9 vulnerabilities affecting 54 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
All vulnerabilities
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This forum is about wrong numbers in science, politics and the media. It respects good science and good English.
IIRC, Kinsey's number included everyone who'd once had a drunken fumble or session of "self exploration" with someone of the same sex. From my own circle (industrial R&D, not entertainment or politics), the known, dedicated homosexuals (i.e. those that sleep mostly or exclusively with the same sex, excluding those that might on occasion) are around 1 in 30, so closer to but still rather higher than, 1%.
Really, in terms of the arrangements society makes, it doesn't matter if homosexuals are 10%, 1%, or 0.0001% of the population. Society supplies a legal framework for a contractual arrangement known as "marriage" and there isn't any obvious reason why your freedom to enter in to such a contract should be restricted by the sex of the other contracting party. Judgment of numbers has nothing to do with it - it's just that there is no good reason, in a liberal society, to not let consenting adults have fun with each other.
The paedo frequency issue is clouded by the fact that men interested in postpubertal girls below the age of consent are counted as paedophiles. This definition of course includes almost all of the male population (less the homosexuals).
'Bloke in Germany' sounds like JamesV under a new name. In response to a couple of your points:
"IIRC, Kinsey's number included everyone who'd once had a drunken fumble or session of "self exploration" with someone of the same sex."
I'm pretty sure the 10% figure is a long-term practitioner figure, otherwise I can't see it having been been so extensively quoted. After some checking I found that Kinsey's 'Sex Research Institute' that he founded in the 1940s is still going, but it is now known as the 'Kinsey Institute'. On the Kinsey Institute website there is a webpage which conveniently summarises the main findings reported in Kinsey's books.
The 10% figure relates to "10% of males in the sample were predominantly homosexual between the ages of 16 and 55". Kinsey did give a single homosexual experience figure, but that was 37% for males.
"Really, in terms of the arrangements society makes, it doesn't matter if homosexuals are 10%, 1%, or 0.0001% of the population."
I'd say that assertion is only valid if you regard gay marriage as being a 'human right', which most of us wouldn't. The European Court of Human Rights was asked to give a ruling on whether gay marriage was a human right back in 2012, and even they didn't think it was.
When you take out the human rights aspect, the size of a group that is on the receiving end of some favourable legislation is a pretty important consideration. If the group is too small in size, then it just looks like politicians are helping out some arbitrarily favoured group. In the case of gay marriage, politicians would I say definitely be having to take account of the numbers - they must be making a calculation that there are more gays in the UK than devout religious people who would be offended by gay marriage. If I was asked to guess, I would say there are more devout religious people around in society than gays, but it's probably the other way round inside the Westminster bubble.
I've also got my own theory as to why people might tend to overestimate the size of the gay population in the UK - in my view it's to do with a much reduced awareness of a type of person that used to be known as the 'mummy's boy' in British society. The 'mummy's boy' was a standard character that appeared in British comedy in the 1960s and 1970s - examples would be Private Pike in "Dad's Army", Frank Spencer in "Some mothers do 'ave 'em", and the various parts that Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey used to play in the Carry On films. But then in the mid-70s the mummy's boy character seemed to be discarded from British TV comedy, with non-macho male roles being taken over by gay characters instead (the Mr Humphries character in "Are you being served" was apparently written as being a mummy's boy, but to the annoyance of the writers, the BBC arranged that he was played as a gay character). The mummy's boy character used to appear in British comics as well, the most well-known example occurring in the Beano's "Dennis the Menace" (not to be confused with a US comic character of the same name), where Dennis had a next door neighbour called Walter, also known as 'Walter the Softy', that he used to torment. One of the images of the grammar schools in the old British state school education system was that they were full of people like Walter, and that was actually true to quite an extent. The Beano apparently got into a bit of trouble with the Walter character in the 1980s, because the generally reduced awareness of the previously well-known mummy's boy character led to accusations that Walter was gay and Dennis was homophobic, as mentioned in this news story:
Back in the 1970s the idea that there could be lots of non-macho males in British society who weren't actually gay was well understood, but I think it is less well understood today. The 'mummy's boy community' is probably now seen as being part of the overall gay community.
"From my own circle (industrial R&D, not entertainment or politics), the known, dedicated homosexuals (i.e. those that sleep mostly or exclusively with the same sex, excluding those that might on occasion) are around 1 in 30, so closer to but still rather higher than, 1%."
If your estimating is accurate, it means that your own industry, at 3.3% gay, is gayer than the UK's right-on Channel 4 TV organisation currently is. There was a news story a few weeks ago about Channel 4 announcing new diversity targets for its workforce by the year 2020:
The current LGBT figure for Channel 4 is 2.4%, with a target set for 2020 of 6%. LGBT stands for "Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender". The general public tends to use 'gay' as a non-gender specific word, but in media and government circles they often use the word 'gay' to refer specifically to male homosexuals. The recent Office of National Statistics figure for LGB is a 1.5% average for the UK. (It is 1.1% just for LG, and they don't give a figure for the transgenders, but I would think it is reasonable to assume that the LGBT figure is dominated by LGB) So Channel 4 is already meeting the UK average by some margin as far as I can see. The 6% target Channel 4 is adopting seems to correspond to what the UK Treasury and the gay charity Stonewall think the UK gay (or it might be the LGBT) population is.
Channel 4 also intends to increase the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) percentage in its workforce from the current value of 15% to 20% by 2020. I checked what the current BAME figure is for the UK, and it was 14% in the 2011 Census, so Channel 4 is already meeting the UK average, but they appear to be increasing the figure to 20% to reflect the greater BAME presence in London.
All of which suggests that in fact they will now be discriminating against "straight" people and against white anglo saxons?
Oh dear.
In reply to JMW, the Coalition government introduced some legislation a few years ago related to making it easier for employers to implement this diversity quota stuff, as explained in this news story:
The Coalition government have invented something called 'positive action', which is supposedly distinct from 'positive discrimination', where it is now legal for an employer to favour a minority group candidate over a candidate from the majority group provided that they have the same qualifications for the job.
But this positive action concept will depend on accurate statistics. I reckon the 6% LGBT figure is a factor of four too high for the UK.
The person pushing the 6% LGBT figure for Channel 4 staff seems to be its 'Head of Diversity', the former Labour MP Oona King (who lost her seat to George Galloway in 2005 as I remember it). The figure also seems to be endorsed by the Communications Minister, Conservative MP Ed Vaizey. The 6% LGBT figure probably looks entirely reasonable to people like King and Vaizey, as they come from the world of British politics, where that figure is probably easy to meet.
To estimate an LGBT figure for British politics, there are a couple of sources I could find. One is from a newspaper interview with the former Conservative MP Matthew Parris in 2006:
"There are probably "50 or 60 gay or bisexual MPs", Parris estimates. "When I was in parliament none of them were out. Now I suppose 10 of them are out, which leaves the remaining three-quarters still not talking about it. Most gay men marry and it then becomes difficult for reasons other than questions of conscience to talk about things." Was he ever tempted to get married? "No, I wasn't.""
In the above quote from the 2006 article, "marry" means marry to the opposite sex. Using the Parris figure of 50 to 60 MPs out of a full total of 650 MPs, that would make the LGBT (actually it's going to be LGB as I can't see a transgender MP getting elected) percentage as 7.7% to 9.2% in the House of Commons.
There is some supporting evidence for the Parris estimate available from the Lib Dem party website regarding the diversity of their candidates for the forthcoming 2015 General Election:
LGBT people make up 7% of the prospective Lib Dem candidates standing in the forthcoming General Election. I suspect you won't see too many of this lot actually declaring themselves as being LGBT in the campaigning literature.
So my view is that British politics is an industry that is quite a bit gayer than average, and politicians assume that the rest of us are just as gay as their industry is.
Hmm, Martin the fact you found that modern statistic for LGB by self identifying is so low 1.1% is very INTERESTING being way way lower that what we might expect.
(although the topic title might put people off as "none of my business" or "not PC to discuss" )
- I should say that I found it is backed up by a large 33,500 survey by US authority CDC also finding 1.6% gay, 0.7% Bi, 1.1% no answer, put in the WP headline as less than 3% identify as LGB
- That no answer statistic is irritating as it takes for a massive error bar.
IMO It is not healthy for society to force people into living a lie. So it is outrageous for there to be no openly gay league footballers; there need to be role models.
@10% society there would be dozens of gay footballers guaranteeing a player in every game.
But a society level @1.5% and another 1.5% in the closet added to a choice not to enter football could possibly mean a tiny overall percentage say 0.4% : saying that there might be 1 gay in the 220 players in 10 games.
be interesting to find out how "Stonewall recommends working towards a target zone of 5 – 7%"
Cos they seem to be saying that significant number of people in anonymous surveys are liars.
Where do some of those who tick the wrong box come from ?
1) Those under immense social pressure due to their religion/culture
2) Those who became parents and convinced themselves they are not gay.
A target of 6% when you'll maybe never get more than 2%. Wow
But anyway I see quotas as fighting racism with racism when you just need to treat people as individuals and have laws that protect them from discrimination. You can't guarantee that any particular group given a perfect market would choose to any workfield at the same percentage aa the overall population.
A particular note for BME (Black/Minority/Ethnic) is that for work quotas you should consider the specific age group, you can't go by overall society percentage. I suspect BMEs are heavily skewed towards the school age so they won't be hitting the top of their profession until almost retirement so of course they seem under represented now.
On the subject of there being no openly gay premier league football players, or football league players in general (I understand that there is actually only one semi-professional non-league player who is openly gay), the starting point for that is I would say is that the football industry is about as homophobic as you can get. To give some evidence for that assertion, consider the case of Graeme Le Saux, one of the top English footballers in the 1990s. Le Saux suffered from allegations about being gay, despite not actually being gay, from other players throughout his career. This news story from 1999 gives an example:
Le Saux's main 'problem' seemed to be that he just wasn't seen as 'one of the lads' - he was university-educated, a Guardian reader and was interested in things like antiques. A few weeks ago, I noticed he was the 'Dictionary Corner' guest on 'Countdown', probably the only footballer to have appeared on that programme.
To get into the football industry, you don't just turn up for an interview like in other jobs, there is something like a five year or more 'induction period'. You would have to start off as a talented schoolboy player, then you get signed up by a football club and rise up through their youth system. A gay teenager would have to put up with a homophobic atmosphere for several years, where fellow players would be suspicious of someone who didn't appear to be 'one of the lads'. I would expect the number of gay footballers to be significantly lower than the average percentage for gays in society, and any that do make it would be very good at 'acting straight'.
The football industry might underperform on the LGBT quota, but on the other hand, it has to be said that they do massively overperform when it comes to the BAME quota. According to this link, on the opening day of the 2012-13 premier league season, black players represented 32.2% of the total, and of the English players, 34.5% of the total. So about a third of the players in the premier league are black. In this particular case, the BAME representation is dominated by B with hardly any contribution from AME.


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The story of this image is pretty obvious and endearing; the sun is going down and the cub is starting to fall asleep.
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This photograph is made so much more powerful as it is not just an image portraying a male lion and a herd of buffalo.
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The tension in the buffalo's stance and the aware/relaxed walk of the lion pulls the viewer in to what is being captured.
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THE number of Bruneian visitors coming to Malaysia has fallen by 7.7 per cent in the first half of 2015 compared to the same time the previous year, according to statistics on tourist arrivals from Tourism Malaysia.
Tourism Malaysia said a total of 553,412 Bruneians visited Malaysia from January-June 2015 compared to 599,831 in 2014.
The number of Bruneian visitors dropped by 41 per cent in June 2015 to 65,868 compared to 111,632 in the previous year.
Zurina Abd Samad, Director of Tourism Malaysia in Brunei, said safety concerns brought by the Sabah earthquake have dissuaded Bruneians from travelling to Malaysia.
"There were travel cancellations made which somehow triggered some safety issues among Bruneians who initially wanted to go to Kota Kinabalu," she told The Brunei Times.
The fasting month of Ramadhan and the school exams which only ended nearly halfway through June have also discouraged Bruneians from crossing the border in June.
Bruneians are among the most frequent visitors to Malaysia, placing fifth in visitor arrivals just behind travellers from Singapore, Indonesia, China and Thailand.
Singaporeans accounted for the most number of tourist arrivals with 6.4 million tourists in January to June, followed by Indonesians with 1.3 million.
Tourists from all five countries registered a drop from three to 11 per cent when it comes to tourist arrivals from January to June 2015 compared to the first half of 2014.
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Fire up Windows Update, because April's bug count from Redmond is looking rather stiff. Dubbed by some as "unprecedented," Microsoft today released four critical updates covering a body of 20 software flaws. All four updates packages are considered critical, although only 8 of the 20 bugs discovered rate as such according to Microsoft. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011 addresses 14 new bugs spanning almost every Microsoft OS currently in use, from Win98 SE to Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition.
Among the 14 vulnerabilities are 8 which could allow attackers to run their own code by exploiting such weaknesses as in the Windows log-on process and the Negotiate Security Software Provider (SSP) interface used during authentication. The most severe of the dozen-plus-two vulnerabilities -- six of the bugs are rated ?Critical? -- could allow an attacker to take complete control of an system, including installing programs, deleting data, or creating new user accounts that have full access privileges.
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Israel to assist Indian farmers, set to share new technology
In a bid to strengthen the agricultural sector of India, the Israel's international development agency set to assist the ailing farmers with the new technologies and innovative strategies. Notably, the Israel development agency has been working in the country for last few decades. It has nearly ten centres of excellence across the country. It is mainly focused on the technology development, sharing, and innovation. While speaking to the media, the deputy director of MASHAV, Yuval Fuchs, asserted that his agency would help reduce poverty in India.
Unfortunately, nearly twenty per cent of the world's poor people is in our country. It is said that the Israel agency is sincerely trying to reduce this rate to null or zero.The interesting fact is that this agency is not trying to introduce any unfamiliar techniques. Their modus operandi is entirely different from the traditional concepts. It is learned that they would initially study the local features. Then, they help the farmers to develop a convenient strategy themselves. It is totally different from the traditional concepts, in which the helping agencies often spoon-fed the innovative ideas. Here, in contrary to that, this agency is enriching the farmers with the knowledge, which helps them to create or adopt the proper strategy and idea themselves. The Israeli agency has already proved their presence in the dairy farming sector and horticultural sector of our country.Anyway, the Israel President, Reuven Rivlin is expected to visit our country on November 15. We can hope that the Israel will present us more creative projects to strengthen our country.
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Working in series
Producing a series of paintings, even a small series, can help focus the mind and let you explore a subject in-depth and push further into ideas, composition and painting techniques. Repetition is how we learn and each painting is different, even if similar material appears in each.
While I know I can jump all over the place with subject matter sometimes, I always drift back to the water and fish and reflections, whether aquatic or hard surfaces. That play of light continues to draw me as well as challenge me.
I've completed three pieces in a series of paintings of people and the water. It started out with the capelin fishery in June after watching children and adults wading out to catch the little fish in buckets and nets. I am continuing to explore that with more paintings of people in the water waiting their turn at the easel. I continue to go down that avenue, accosting people at the beach and asking if I can photograph them or their children. Everyone I have asked has been very obliging and quite interested in what I'm doing. No arrests yet. :)
I have other ideas of water-related paintings and need to set some up with models or patient friends willing to head into the water for the sake of art. And the Atlantic can be cold! However, last week when I was in it, it was surprisingly warm, after expecting it to be breath stoppingly cold, so there may be hope for models for me yet.
One of the paintings I wanted to do was of a baby at the water's edge. I will be working on that and made a sketch of a possible painting from a photo of my daughter and grandson. I enjoy working out compositions and pulling in aspects of more than one reference to create what I need. Taking the time to draft out a plan helps solidify ideas and work out concepts before investing time into a larger piece that you discover won't work when you're half way through it.
There will be some cohesiveness beyond the subject matter as most of the pieces will be on the same size canvas - 12" x 24", except for the 12"x 12" capelin painting. That may need a companion to go with it for balance.
You can see the other pieces in the series on my website:
The Capelin Catcher
The Bounty Hunter
Capelin Scull
8 comments:
- laura said...
Really love this--the combination of graphite line and color is wonderful: it looks both sharp- and soft-focused at the same time.
Also a great pose, beautifully observed and drawn!
- 15 August, 2013
- Christiane Kingsley said...
Very interesting post, as always, Jeanette. I certainly agree with you concerning the benefits of working in series.
Fly me down to your beautiful part of the country and I will walk into the cold Atlantic for you:-)
- 15 August, 2013
- Jeanette Jobson said...
Hi Laura. This study has a b it of everything in it :) Graphite, watercolour, ink and a touch of pastel. Call me indecisive!
I liked the pose, complex as it is with all those limbs, so I hope I can pull it off as a painting.
Christiane, yes, even the same object painted over and over and over reveals a lot of information and learning.
I'd love to take you up on that offer Christiane, but cold doesn't have to be part of the deal. :)
- 16 August, 2013
- Katherine Thomas said...
That sounds like myself. I always like to make a very detailed drawing before I commit color to paper and invest my time in a large piece. I read that many well-known artists do that too. This painting you have done of hte mother and child is precious! I hope you find some willing models, as you said, and create a whole gallery full of beach scenes. There is something so compelling about sharing a day at the beach that everybody can identify with. Congratulations on a gorgeous painting!
- 16 August, 2013
- Jennifer Rose Phillip said...
better get those models quick,going to be winter soon ;)
2 years ago at college when all I drew where horses, helped me a lot with their anatomy, so know I can draw them very abstract but they still look like horses
i really like this sketch :) and the finished painting of it should go well with the others
- 17 August, 2013
- Jeanette Jobson said...
I think you've hit it there Katherine. There is something quite identifiable with beach scenes. Pretty much everyone has been there or seen something similar which provides the connection to memories.
My detailed drawings and studies are what I need to help me work everything out. I don't often work on a piece without doing something prior to it, even if its a sketch.
More beach trips are in order I think!
Jen you're right! It will be cold before you know it. The season is so short and many beaches here aren't exactly for swimming with either cold water or strong currents. I think I'll have to bite the bullet and hire some models or get a few lifeguard friends to cooperate. :)
Work in anatomy is so beneficial and it stays with you.
- 18 August, 2013
- suzanneberry said...
i am really drawn to this jeanette. i have always loved the combination of line, color and blocked shadow! beautifully drawn, amazing touches of color. one of my favorites and i'm pinching it to go in my inspirational folder right now!!
- 24 August, 2013
- Jeanette Jobson said...
Suz, I'm delighted that it inspires you. Drawing is what I love most of all and sometimes I just throw everything in there for colour too and get a bit carried away. I loved the contrasts in this and the shapes of the figures.
- 25 August, 2013


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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Postcard from Norway: Cycle of life, Oslo
18 comments:
- William Kendall said...
That first one is very, very weird!
- August 14, 2013 at 7:34 PM
- Norma Beishir said...
You took the words right out of my mouth...uh, keyboard!
- August 14, 2013 at 9:16 PM
- Randy said...
Not my style but they made for good shots.
- August 14, 2013 at 10:14 PM
- a.s.m. said...
Buenas fotos a un interesante reportaje de escultura.
Me gusta en especial la primera foto, por luz, contraste
y definición de calidad.
Un saludo, Ángel
- August 15, 2013 at 2:15 AM
- LOLfromPasa said...
Princeton visits Oslo...so neat. Interesting bit of history here and unusual sculptures.
- August 15, 2013 at 2:44 AM
- Peter said...
Very touching sculptures - powerful.
- August 15, 2013 at 4:05 AM
- Seraphina´s Phantasie said...
Wonderful sculptures of the circle of life. Great photos !
Best regards, Synnöve
- August 15, 2013 at 4:17 AM
Ah, the top image sums life up perfectly. Trying to juggle so many things, without dropping any of them... in this instance, children!
- August 15, 2013 at 4:22 AM
- Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan blogger (大哥) said...
Oh my word! That first one! hahaha!
Duncan In Kuantan
- August 15, 2013 at 6:04 AM
- Tanya Breese said...
why is he juggling those babies? i don't get it? lol...i love the second sculpture though, very touching.
- August 15, 2013 at 9:55 AM
- N Buckles said...
Thank you so much for visiting my blog. London is one of my favorite cities to visit and I am hoping to go back again. Oh even though it is a sculpture, people just can not keep their hands away from the baby..
- August 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM
- cieldequimper said...
I love that park, isn't it amazing?
- August 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM
- Catherine said...
200 sculptures, wow! The second one is really beautiful... the first one too, but makes me a little anxious for the babies ;)
- August 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM
- Kaya said...
I didn't know about this artist and I like him a lot. The first sculpture has so much vitality, energy. It's amazing.
And the second is... Sorrow, sadness, tenderness.
Gustav Vigeland is extremely talented. He can impress this world with his work and it's not so easy to do in this art.
- August 15, 2013 at 2:13 PM
- LONDONLULU said...
Thanks so much everyone! Tanya - that sculpture was likely a funny commentary on the juggling act every parent must do when the kids arrive! :)
- August 15, 2013 at 5:40 PM
- orvokki said...
In the upper figure seems to be a child-hater :)
Fun statues.
- August 16, 2013 at 3:14 AM
- PerthDailyPhoto said...
200 sculptures! Gosh he was tres prolific wasn't he...and they're so big, I wonder how long it took him? Super shots Lulu.
- August 16, 2013 at 12:39 PM
- JM said...
Both sculptures are fantastic but I especially like the one on top.
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Darrell Dula, wrongly accused along with three other men of raping a young Orthodox Jewish and forcing her to become a prostitute, has sued New York City and the Brooklyn district attorney's office for malicious prosecution, defamation and false imprisonment. Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, and Lauren Hersh, the chief of Mr. Hynes's sex-trafficking unit, were named in a separate, related suit.
Mr. Dula spent ten months in jail without bail before prosecutors last month dropped all charges against Dula and his three co-defendants.
Hynes had called all four men "low lives" in front of reporters, claiming they'd forced the young woman into prostituting herself for eight years, starting when she was 13. "It's one of the sickest cases I've ever seen," the veteran prosecutor gushed. In addition, reporters were told that Mr. Dula had been involved in sex trafficking, and had threatened the woman's family members, according to one of Mr. Dula's attorneys.
Hynes and lead prosecutor Lauren Hersh proceeded with the prosecution despite knowing that a year prior, the woman had brought similar allegations to NYPD sex crimes detectives, only to change her mind and recant within hours.
Then, an assistant district attorney, Abbie Greenberger, quit her job, complaining that Ms. Hersh pressured her to continue the prosecution even though the accuser had partially recanted her allegations. The accuser claimed the recantation was pressured by the police.
Shortly after, Ms. Hersh, who oversaw the case, also quit her job, amid claims that she had failed to tell the defense about the changed account or about other evidence that could have damaged the prosecution's case. She resigned in May, after the district attorney's office conducted a review and concluded that she had not acted improperly.
According to a former Brooklyn prosecutor with close ties to Mr. Hynes's office, the lawyer-disciplinary committee of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court's First Department, in Manhattan, is investigating Ms. Hersh's conduct in the rape case and other cases.


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Blast From The Past: El Debarge On Comeback, Prison Stint & Working With RZA
El DeBarge speaks just like he sings. Controlled yet passionate. Whispery yet cool. Soft yet confident. Such attributes were front and center during his astonishing performance at 2010's BET Awards. There he was, making one of television's most memorable comebacks. During a medley of some of the biggest hits of DeBarge, the vastly underrated family group he fronted, the 49-year-old's voice resembled the same heart-stirring falsetto that made such '80s and '90s staples as "I Like It," "All This Love," "Rhythm Of The Night," and the Quincy Jones' produced "The Secret Garden" indelible numbers. The hip-hop generation knew every word written by the singer/songwriter/producer (the Notorious BIG's mammoth 1995 hit "One More Chance/Stay With Me Remix" was just one of many songs that has sampled from the DeBarge catalogue over the years). And no one was more humbled by the standing ovation he received that evening than El.
Following several high profile run-ins with the law, in 2008, El DeBarge was sent to prison on a two-year bid for drug possession of crack cocaine. Battles with substance abuse have played a dark role in the otherwise rich legacy of the DeBarge family from late big brother Bobby to the youngest sibling Chico. But El plans to make the most of his return. The re-energized and clean performer is set to release his first new album in 16-years Second Chance. For El, the aptly-titled Geffen set, due out September 28, is bigger than music. It's a resurrection. VIBE gets the story from the man himself.—Keith Murphy
VIBE: Take us back to your surprising comeback at this years BET Awards. What was going through your mind as you were performing some of those classic DeBarge songs?
El DeBarge: What was going through my head? The awesome responsibility that God had placed in my hands to bring love again to the world through music. I felt so privileged and honored that God has given me a second chance. Here I am, 22 years later, given a second chance after all of my struggles and obstacles. I just felt so blessed that night to be able to do that.
You named your upcoming album Second Chance. What is it about that title that symbolizes your struggles with drug abuse and the other personal issues you've faced over the years?
Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing Second Chance not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled. My own personal struggles with drugs and heartbreaks in relationships are no different than what's going on out in the world where people are losing their homes in this great recession that we are having. It's about people wanting second chances in life. People's children have been taken away because of their own personal issues…they want a second chance again to be good parents. The people losing their jobs, they want a second chance at life…just to live better. That's what my album title symbolizes.
Throughout your career, you've written and produced some of DeBarges' biggest hits as well as your own solo material. But on Second Chance you're working with a diverse range of talents from Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Babyface to Ron Fair, the Avilia Brothers and Michael Angelo. Were you looking for something specifically from your collaborators?
It was important when I was choosing the producers and co-writers for this album that they all had a passion for real music. Babyface brings a lot of passion to this project. We worked together in the early '90s. I know what he brings to the table: real music and a level of professionalism. He reminds me of myself. Next to him and Ron Fair, I'm probably the greatest perfectionist [Laughs]. But Babyface just has a different swagger about him. I think that his style of writing blends very well with mines because he is a singer as well as a songwriter. All of the people that I worked with know how to cry; how to get emotional. They know how to let music just flow from them without holding it back. These are people who are ministers of music, not just songwriters. There's one other name you forgot…Theron Feemster. We call him Nephew [Laughs].
One of the more surprising aspects of your career is your willingness to work with hip-hop artists. 50 Cent is set to appear on Second Chance and over the years you have collaborated with the likes of DJ Quik and RZA.


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The Abbott government has flagged possible cuts to the level of help Australians can expect if they get into trouble overseas.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced the government is devising a new "consular strategy" for 2014-16 and she is now inviting public comment.
"More Australians are going abroad each year," Ms Bishop said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Most have enjoyable and trouble-free experiences but some encounter difficulties and seek consular assistance."
The minister says the cases the government deals with are increasingly complex and she wants a new approach that encourages people to be more self-reliant.
She says submissions should address the questions contained in an issues paper, which points out Australians have "no right" to consular services.
The paper asks people to consider who should be able to access consular assistance and what services could potentially be reduced or withdrawn.
It points in particular to Australians involved in criminal proceedings abroad, saying such cases absorb more than half the time the government spends on consular work.
"Such cases are by nature complex but changing current policies and practices could allow resources to be directed to cases where help is needed most," the paper says.
This might include reducing the frequency of prison visits or attendance at trials and other court processes, the issues paper says.
The paper also asks if consular services should be varied according to local circumstances and according to the capacity of the individual to cope.
It also asks for comment on what can be done to improve public understanding of consular services and the role played by the media and social media.
"While the government will continue to assist Australians when they are caught up in disasters or political turmoil abroad, consular assistance should not be the first resort," Ms Bishop said.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade helped 11,927 people in difficulty overseas in 2012/13.


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This sheet can be used on the cover of your math binder! I used many different fonts; you can upload to UPS and they will likely have everything needed on file. Since I don't own a color printer, I will be using UPS to print my document, lol!
Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this blogging adventure. So many of you have enriched my teaching; I hope I can give back to you this year!
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Author: S. C. Stephens
Genre: Adult Contemporary
Rating: 5/5
Cover: 10/10
Publication Date: February 24th
I was given an egalley of this novel by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
"In Thoughtless, Kiera told her story. Now it's time for Kellan Kyle to share his side in Thoughtful . . .
The only place Kellan has ever felt at home is on stage. Gripping his guitar in a darkened bar, he can forget his painful past. These days his life revolves around his music and his band mates, and that's the way he likes it. And then one woman changes everything . . .
Kiera is the kind of girl Kellan has no business wanting - she's smart, sweet, and dating his best friend. Certain he could never be worthy of her love, he hides his growing attraction . . . until Kiera's own tormented heart hints that his feelings might not be one-sided. Now, no matter the consequences, Kellan is sure of one thing: he won't let Kiera go without a fight."
I knew from the get-go that this book would shred my very soul to pieces.
I wasn't wrong.
Out of all three books, Thoughtless is the only one I haven't re-read because I couldn't face dealing with all that pain again, so I knew what I was doing. I knew exactly what I was doing.
And, as usual, Stephens doesn't pull any punches. We know what's coming, but we can't stop reading; it's like watching a train wreck. But boy, what a hot hot hot train wreck it was!
All the scenes that we love - and the ones that we love to hate - are in there, which means that yes, Thoughtful is just as long as Thoughtless. To be honest, Kellan was a fun narrator. Seeing things through his eyes did clear up a few things - like his woman binge and what was really going through his head when Anna was around. It also made me consistently want to wrap him up in a security blanket and tell him how much he's loved. It's one thing to be told about insecurities and his belief that he doesn't deserve to be loved through the medium of Kiera; to have them right there, shoved in your face... made it all the more painful and unfair.
This is a definite must-read for all fans of Kellan and Kiera. Just make sure the tissues are nearby, and maybe a stiff drink too for when you finish. If you really want to sob, a good song to go with it is Taylor Swift's Style. I guarantee it'll make you shed a few tears, just listen to the lyrics; it fits them to a T.


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Think twice before using Chinese lanterns, is the warning from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service ahead of tomorrow's Chinese New Year celebrations.
The plea from the fire service is supported by the Chief Fire Officers' Association (CFOA) and fire and rescue services from across the country, due to the dangers sky lanterns can pose.
Allen Cunningham at Humberside Fire and Rescue said: "Chinese lanterns do look pretty but the damage they can cause can have devastating effects. They pose a real fire risk because there is no way of knowing where they will land. They can start fires which go undetected until serious damage has been caused, particularly in rural areas. They can seriously damage property and cause environmental damage, destroying animal habitats and, in some cases, can kill or seriously injure livestock."
Paper lanterns consist of a candle or fuel cell filled with paraffin wax suspended inside a frame of wire or bamboo. When lit, they float upwards and drift away, landing when the fuel has run out. They can reach up to 1,000m in height and drift for several miles in the breeze. But there is no control over where they land.
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service attended six incidents last year that were caused by sky lanterns "This is not a particularly high number, but we have a responsibility to inform people of the dangers these lanterns pose and I urge people to consider the risks before taking the decision to use them," Allen advised.


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To initiate the process of obtaining a land lease, the applicant must complete an application form provided in the link below and submit it to the Real Estate Department including a cover letter describing the proposed use and a detailed map showing the dimensions of the proposed lease area. The applicant is strongly encouraged to include any legal descriptions, site photos, and plat maps to ensure timely processing of the application. If the application is incomplete the application will be immediately rejected.
The application requires payment of a non-refundable $200 application fee and a non-refundable $300 document preparation fee, which can be paid via check or money order made payable to Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad, LLC (PN).
Application for a Land Lease does not guarantee approval.
Upon approval, a Land Lease Agreement will be forwarded to the applicant for signature. The Land Lease will outline the terms and conditions of the occupancy as well as any insurance requirements. In the event there will be construction activity related to the occupancy, Railroad Protective Insurance may also be required.
The Land Lease Agreement executed on behalf of the Applicant should be returned to the Real Estate offices including the first year rental payment and relevant proof of insurance. Once in receipt of these materials, execution of the Land Lease on behalf of the railroad will be arranged.
For "standard processing", the entire process takes between 4-8 weeks. "Expedited processing" will reduce the processing time to between 1-2 weeks and costs an additional $875.


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My life, a patchwork quilt, filled with many loves and interests and you are a part of it.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
One Year Ago Today......I Miss You
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I send you the gentlest thoughts. A year ago today my mother in law died. May your memories bring you some happy moments on your birthday. Time may change things biput your love will be forever.ReplyDelete
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so sorry for your loss...hopefully you have found some peace this past year....will send up a prayer for you.ReplyDelete
I hope you find just happy memories in 2014, God bless you.ReplyDelete
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The Texas AgriLife Extension Service's office in Mason County will conduct their Fall Hill Country Expo from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Oct. 1 at Saint Paul Lutheran Church in Mason.
Three Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units will be available.
"We'll be addressing some major issues and concerns that our producers need to be familiar with so they can make informed decisions, not if, but when, those issues arise," said Brent Drennan, AgriLife Extension agent in Mason County. "We'll also present some timely management topics that all our area producers need to be aware of."
The morning's topics will include:
– Animal Health Issues (Trichinosis in Beef Cattle), Dr. Dave Rosberg, Mason veterinarian.
– Carbon Credits, What They Are and What It Means to Landowners, Joe Franklin, range specialist, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
– Land Owner Experience With Prescribed Fire, Chris Hotard, Mason County landowner.
– Effects of Prescribed Fire on Prickly Pear and Woody Plants, Dr. Mort Kothmann, Texas A&M University range professor at College Station.
– Wildfire Prevention, Dr. Charles "Butch" Taylor, superintendent, Texas AgriLife Research Station at Sonora.
Lunch will be served on site at the end of the morning sessions.
Dr. Judon Fambrough, senior lecturer and attorney with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University at College Station, is the scheduled keynote speaker for the afternoon session. He is set to speak on emerging issues facing the Texas Hill Country including imminent domain, power line easements and landowner liability.
The program is sponsored by AgriLife Extension, Hill Country Resource Conservation and Development Area and the Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Mason County.
Individual registration is $10 at the door, but organizers are asking participants to call the AgriLife Extension office in Mason County at 325-347-6459 or the Hill Country Resource Conservation and Development Area at 325-347-5005 by Sept. 25 so an accurate lunch count can be made.


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Long ago, the Vile God and the Goddess waged war with each other. Equally matched, they were sealed away in another world…
Now a lazy young man named Fang somehow finds himself a key part of this war he'd really rather not deal with, but fate beckons in this uncommon RPG!
Fang, Eryn and Tiara are fantastic comedy-centered characters. However, these are the only characters that will give you the same feel as Neptunia. Not only that, but every other playable character is almost completely insignificnt. (Minus a betrayal or two.) The voice acting is fantastic; both Japanese, and English. The art and character sprites are much better than in Neptunia.
The dungeons aren't copy pastes of eachother. That's right, did going through the same exact landscape OVER, AND OVER in Neptunia get on your nerves? You don't have you worry about it for this. Some of the dungeons are far more expancsive as well. Regardless, however, many still aren't the most visually appealing.
Almost a copy-paste of Neptunia's system. There are some differences, such as the tension gauge, which is used to Fairize (Essentially the characters transformation, like that CPU forms in Neptunia.). You do not equip weapons, because each weapon is bound to the character it is equips on. Instead you power up your character with WP you gan through battle.
The grinding in Fairy Fencer F is much worse than Neptunia. Although the game does not pose very much difficulty, you'll still be killing the same enemies OVER AND OVER to amass WP, to power up your weapons. WP is earned maybe 2-3 per battle, and is used to dictate your weapons Physical attack Power, to its Range, special attacks, normal combo attacks and even the amount of hits it gets in a combo. It also gets to the point where a single power up can cost 1000 WP. So get ready for the grind train when you go to play this.
It's pretty generic for jRPG games. Sealed dieties that split their power in the past. Hero finds a "fragment" of the power and continues on a journey to unseal the "goddess", while the badguys try to unseal the "demon lord". You'll basically fight one badguy at a time sent by the enemy organization until you reach the end of the game. All threee ending are lackluster. Once again, it's Idea Factory, and Compile Heart's characters that make the game.
They overlayed the buttons for default keyboard use; which they didn't do for Re;Birth's steam release. This makes it much easier to get used to the mapping. There's always full controller support as well if you're still having trouble. There's much more mouse support than Neptunia. YOU CAN MOVE AROUND WITH THE MOUSE. REVOLUTIONARY. I haven't had too many FPS issues, as I did with Re;Birth (Mainly Sister Generation) but, I'm newer to computer gaming, so I don't have much experience with FPS issues in the first place. Most of the DLC comes with the product. Of course, these are originally free DLC in the first place, but at least you don't need to go download them one by one like I had to do on the playstation store. It looks like they'll release the paid DLC in the future as well.
It's definetly a different experience than Neptunia, but you'll see the similarities. The grinding made me want to break the game disk; but now that I baught the game on steam I'll experience it all over again.
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Initial Release Date: August 04, 2015
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Starting around Rosh Hashanah 2016 and culminating a day after Hanukkah ended, I bootlegged my own audiobook as a present for my grandma because she can't see too good anymore and I didn't want her to have to hear the shmuck my publishers hired read my book. Then I put it up on Bandcamp so people besides her can hear it too. This was very fun to record and I think I did a good job even if I made some mistakes and some of the self-conscious asides are too long. Cover art is from my dear friend Yusuke Okada's Neu Yorker series.
"In his podcast, Radio Harvester, Colin Atrophy Hagendorf interviews fellow WEIRDOS, and FREAKS in their favorite pizzerias. This show is a must listen for all Punks, Skins, Rudes, Weirdos, Freakniks, Grease Balls, Dirt Brains, Bad Gas Bad Acne Having Ass Losers and all other Counterculture Types and General Roustabouts. NO COPS! NO CREEPS! PEACE IN THE PIZZERIA!"
Check out some of my favorite episodes below:
This month I sat down with Ted Leo over a giant vegan pizza and we talked about his punk roots in Jersey, why going to college is stupid, how to dress well as you get older, Skrewdriver records, touring, etc, etc etc. Ted is a handsome mensch who makes good music and you should listen to what he has to say! He has a new record he's kickstarting, so bless him with some cash. If you're wondering why we didn't talk about the current political climate it's because this interview happened a long ass time ago! Luckily, Ted was on This Week In Atrocity last week talking about the artist's place in the current political climate and it's a great convo, so if you can't get enough of the man TL, listen to that.
Brontez Purnell (of Younger Lovers, Gravy Train!!!, The Brontez Purnell Dance Company, author of F*g School and co-author of The Cruising Diaries with Janelle Hessig) talks to Colin about growing up queer and black in the Deep South, finding punk, his familial history in Oakland, studying and performing dance as an extension of punk performance plus talks mad shit on white garage rock douchebags and everyone else from Alabama.
This month I sat down with Osa Atoe of Shotgun Seamstress fanzine! She is so cool and smart and it was really cool to hang out with her. We talk about Shotgun Seamstress, Osa's zine "by, for, and about black punks," and the complicated, sometimes conflicted relationship between Osa's black identity and her punk identity. It's not all somber or serious! We laugh a bunch and it's a really complex and enlightening conversation. Check out Osa's website, please!
This month I sat down with my hero Tom Scharpling of the Best Show. I'm just gonna let this interview speak for itself. If you're unfamiliar with Tom's work, head to http://www.thebestshow.net and check it out. He's a force of nature, this guy.
It is SHOCKING that Golnar and I had never actually met before this interview. We have all the same friends, we're the same age, both spent our teens lurking at No Rio, I used to go to shows at her old house Jane Doe when I was in my early 20s. And Golnar is as cool as it is weird that we didn't already know each other (very cool). During this interview Golnar claims to be the only punk. We also discuss the pros and cons of growing up in the 90s vs. growing up on the Internet, Golnar's time as coordinator of Maximum Rocknroll, and B|ta'arof the Iranian culture magazine that she edits now. We don't talk about Golnar's band In School, but check them out, they shred. I neglected to mention this in the actual recording because I'm a dunce, but we ate at Louie's Pizzeria on Baxter Ave in Elmhurst and the pizza was fucking GREAT.
Xara Thustra is the first ever stranger I interviewed, and I feel super lucky it was her! He is a true freaker artist in San Francisco who has collaborated with a ton of my friends and we got to eat fancy pizza and talk about toxic masculinity, the culture of The Streets, how dancing can improve your life. Visit their website, please: www.xarathustra.com.
Cristy Road! We have been penpals for 16 years and actual homegirls since whenever she finally moved to New York. We talked about being punk teens with punk zines, growing up, queer identity in the pop punk scene. Visit croadcore.org for more info!
Sue Jeiven of East River Tattoo, maybe the only truly punk tattoo shop in the world, talks about tattoos, taxidermy, and dealing with terminal illness. Check out some of her work here.


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The San Francisco-based company reduced 2001 revenue expectations to $65 million to $70 million, from $85 million to $90 million, and initiated cost-cutting measures to improve earnings-per-share expectations.
"The major reason for all of these actions is to enable us to operate in this kind of environment and take a more conservative approach," said Stacey Levitz, senior-director, investor relations at Netcentives.
In addition, the company has added the role of CEO to the duties of President Eric Larsen, who is responsible for day-to-day operations, while Chairman West Shell III takes a more strategic, client-focused role. Shares of Netcentives were at 88 cents in midday trading on the Nasdaq today, down from it 52-week high of $30. -- Cara Beardi
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