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Interview with novelist Sheeba Shivangini Shah
Sheeba Shivangini Shah is the author of three published novels, and her fourth one will be out soon.
1) You've already written three novels: Loyals of the Crown, Beyond the Illusions, and Facing my Phantoms; can you briefly tell us about it?
My first, Loyals of the crown was more of a juvenilia. I guess it started out as random notes that I would read out to friends but then one fine day I realized I had written an entire Novel. Stories of women, the extraordinary women have always inspired me that is so clear in all my three novels where I have created theses larger than life figure, women. Women who are furiously passionate and daringly ambitious. Loyals of the crown is a period fiction that delves in depth into the cause of the Kot Massacre but for me it was much more than relaying the events that finally led to the Massacre: for me it was narrating and even understanding the woman inside the younger of Queen of King Rajendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. Then again, Beyond the illusions, although seems more of a psycho- sexual-spiritual quest based on tantrism for me, was again another journey into the mysteries of the feminine. My third novel, Facing my phantoms is a family saga that focuses mainly on the two protagonists who are again two extremely passionate women from two different generations.
2) So what made your write? How do you define yourself as a woman writer?
Writing for me was never a choice. It is for me, an important element that makes me defines me rather and gives meaning to my life. I write so I live, I live so I write, kind of thing.
As for defining myself as a women writer as you ask, there is no demarcation between male and female writers.
Writer's, in general, belong to that eccentric category of humans who have always felt that they do not belong to any community or society. Writers like other artists have some malfunction in their brains that makes them these weird outcasts with extremes of mood swings. Similar symptoms of that of a bipolar, I guess.
Apart from the fundamental characteristics of the freaky writer, I think I am very irregular, extremely unpredictable and definitely a lazy writer.
3) Has writing stories changed you, your personality, identity, and perspective? How people reacted when your first novel was published?
Indeed it has changed my personality. I was once a very social person now I seem to like my solitude. Too much of socializing begins to haunt me and then I have to flee away from people and friends. I prefer to be on my won and dream, fantasize and wonder off into a world of my own.The initial reaction of people when my first novel came was an evident shock. Now they are used to it, I guess.
4) Was it easier for you to get published from Pilgrims' Books? Have you had any deal with them for publication and royalties?
For my first two Novels, it was not all that difficult . I handed my manuscript they liked it and they published it and yes, we did sign a formal contract and I do get a sum of royalty once in a while, never mind if it is the only pittance. As long the story is out.
5) Your five favorite women novelists and novels.
I wouldn't say, I read only female writers. I read what is good, something that touches me, stirs my own creativity. And of course, I seem to pick up books that have very extraordinary protagonists, mainly women.
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Anthony Trollope: Can you forgive her
Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
Anita Desai : Cry the peacock
Margaret Mitchel : Gone with the wind
Hilary Mantel : Wolf hall and Bring up the bodies
(the list could go on)
6) What is writing to you? Your style or genre? How about your fourth novel?
Writing is a journey an exploration of the 'within' and the "without ".
I'm working on the rewrite of my first Novel, Loyals of the crown and then, I have a fiction based in Bombay that is still in the pipeline.
7) To write should one need a room and house? Your approach on financial availability (support) for fiction writing particularly?
Indeed, finance comes as an enormous setback to most fiction writers.
There are many creative writers much better than the ones already published, but I see these not taking writing as a full-time profession due to lack of funds. There writing is limited to a hobby and is never consistent.
As for me, as every other writer would say, I write fiction because I am stifled by stories, characters, words, emotions. I need to pour my heart out else I would go crazy. I have been privileged enough not to depend on the earnings from my fiction , if I had to, I would be on the roads begging for alms.
The business for Nepali writers writing fiction in English is pathetic. One can hardly depend on it.
8) As most of the novelists sought international publishers, why you have chosen a national one? Can you share us some of your tips on editing, writing, and getting published?
My first two novels were published by Pilgrims and my third, Facing my Phantoms by Rupa, a publishing house from India.
I opted for Rupa perhaps because no publishing saw any business in my book here in Nepal, I guess and I'm confirmed that I will get another International Publisher for my fourth Novel.
Mainly because no Nepali Publishing house will see it profitable enough. They can not be blamed. No one wants to read us; Nepalese writers writing in English. Few readers, no market, no business so we go to outsiders.
9) With your novels published what have you achieved? In what way you'd like to be remembered. Do you think your novels have contributed something essential to change the current state of women in Nepal? In short, can novels change (impact) societies?
Personally, I have not achieved much. There is so much more yet to achieve. Of course, I am known today as one of the few writers writing in English here in Nepal. That apart, the hunger remains to do better and keep excelling in my art. I do hope, my Novels have impacted some women out there.
There have been many women who have in some sort of way related themselves to my protagonists. And, I strongly feel that Fictions creates a trend that in due time becomes a way of living. We sort of begin to emulate what we read.
My characters especially, the women are very strong and exceedingly ambitious and rebellious too and I think , in a society like ours, especially so in my cast and community (thakuri) women are not as open-minded as they would believe themselves to be. They are still caught up in that tricky mesh of 'essle ke bhancha ra usle ke bhancha' (what this person will say and what that one will!) and even 'hamro parivar ko chori buhari haru le arru ko jasto chaal chalan garnu hudaina' (daughters and daughter-in-laws of our family will not behave like other girls).
I myself have borne the brunt of these images and repressive but very rampant cult. I have two daughters of my own and I have made it purpose through my writings to attempt to make a fairer society for my daughters.
10) Your message to aspiring women writers.
Write ambitiously, write daringly, write furiously , write honestly and most importantly write passionately.


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Jeremy Brandon Hurt, 23, who was stationed at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., pleaded guilty Feb. 13 before District Judge Noel Spence to turning in a false fire alarm. He was sentenced Thursday to one year in the Washington County Detention Center and ordered to pay $500 in fines.
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The effect of the UP4FUN pilot intervention on objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity in 10–12 year old children in Belgium: the ENERGY-project
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Health behavior, health promotion and society
BakckgroundThe first aim was to examine the effect of the UP4FUN pilot intervention on children's total sedentary time. The second aim was to investigate if the intervention had an effect on children's physical activity PA level. Finally, we aimed to investigate demographic differences i.e. age, gender, ethnicity, living status and having siblings between children in the intervention group who improved in sedentary time and PA at post-test and children in the intervention group who worsened in sedentary time and PA at post-test.
MethodsThe six weeks UP4FUN intervention was tested in a randomized controlled trial with pre-test post-test design with five intervention and five control schools in Belgium and included children of the 5 and 6 grade. The children wore accelerometers for seven days at pre- and post-test. Analyses included children with valid accelerometer data for at least two weekdays with minimum 10h-wearing time and one weekend day with 8h-wearing time.
ResultFinal analyses included 372 children 60% girls, mean age = 10.9 ± 0.7 years. There were no significant differences in the change in sedentary time or light PA between intervention and control schools for the total sample or for the subgroup analyses by gender. However, children specifically girls in the intervention group had a higher decrease in moderate-to-vigorous PA than children in the control group. In the intervention group, children who lived with both parents and children with one or more siblings were less likely to reduce sedentary time after exposure to the intervention. Older children, girls and children who lived with both parents were less likely to increase light PA after the intervention.
ConclusionThe UP4FUN intervention did not result in an effect on children's sedentary time. Based on the high amounts of accelerometer-derived sedentary time in this age group, more efforts are needed to develop strategies to reduce children's sedentary time.
KeywordsSedentary behaviour Intervention Randomized controlled trial Children Physical activity Accelerometer Download fulltext PDF
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Rapid Changes, Repeated Challenges: States Out-of-Level Testing Policies for 2003-2004. Out-of-Level Testing Report 13
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The purpose of this research study was to illustrate the ways in which out-of-level testing policies have changed over the three years from 2000-2001 to 2003-2004. In 2000-2001, 12 states were using out-of-level tests to measure student progress toward content standard proficiency. A detailed research study conducted at the end of 2000-2001 to examine the out-of-level testing policies of these 12 states (Thurlow & Minnema, 2001) revealed that policies varied considerably across states. Much has happened in the years since 2000-2001. By 2003-2004, the number of states having a version of below grade level testing (out-of-level or levels testing) as an option in their large-scale assessment programs had increased to 17 states.
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Testing Accommodations, Student Evaluation, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Testing, Measurement, Inclusion, Statewide Planning, State Government, Time Perspective, Participation, Academic Standards, Grade Equivalent Scores, Test Selection
National Center on Educational Outcomes. University of Minnesota, 350 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Tel: 612-626-1530; Fax: 612-624-0879; e-mail: nceo[at]umn.edu; Web site: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/nceo
Autor: VanGetson, Gretchen; Minnema, Jane; Thurlow, Martha
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Today is Sunday. Normally I wake up go to church and then come home, take a nap and then it's off to work. Today, I don't have to work. I'm so happy to have this day with my family. I get to spend the evening with my husband and kids which is very rare.
Today I'm thankful for lazy Sunday afternoons at home with my family.
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.Jake. For (most incidentally) inspiring this post. For (vastly more importantly) being what the definition of a friend is, even though he didn't know me all that well to begin with. For looking me in the eye and saying that You're trying so hard to understand everyone else's point of view and take everyone's side, but someone's gotta take your side, 'cause you're not doing it. And for being right about that. For opening my eyes not only to social / political injustices in the world outside, but also to injustices and errors I commit on the inside--and for being an advocate through it all. I can only hope that someday it will become a fair exchange.
.Joe. For showing me, for the first time in my life and in all my relationships, that I might actually possibly be deserving of something good, deserving of something whole and of someone kind, despite how neurotic I am, despite how impossible I am, despite how nutty I am. for showing me that things still might be okay and I might actually still get a chance at something good and lovely anyway. You have made me believe I have a chance, when before the future looked like one miserable bout after another.
.Kelsey. For being my absolute unequivocal and always irreplaceable Best Buddy Friend Forever since junior high school. My heart is yours. I have so much to learn from you about bowing down before life's lessons, and about facing everything with less fear and judgement. i cannot wait to be eight-six with you.
.Chris. For teaching me what those buttons do and unintentionally opening a whole new world to me, and for teaching me the needs of the heart and soul as they are writ large across worlds, cultures, lifetimes and peoples. You are my teacher of social integrity. I will always buy you a beer as long as I live.
.Vanessa. I didn't know what would happen to me when I gave you my phone number so you could come over and practice playing pool on my shitty rec-room table, but you're made my life vaster and richer, and made me feel less alone in the world of women. In a sandy desert of featureless normalcy, you are my oasis of wonderful miraculous wildness.
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.Ryan Freitas. I don't know you, and you barely know me as a friend of an old friend. But watching your blog every day showed me a new way to let my soul spill out on a page, in a safe place where I could begin to take risks and write without fear. Gangcandy has gone silent of late, and I miss it, but thank you for it; and if I ever write a book culled from my blog bits, or extrapolated therefrom, I will have you to thank for it. Your writing gave me inklings of what an incredible vehicle for self-expression and self-creation a blog could be.
.all the blog pals I've made since. You guys are great. I promise some day I'll update my site with a picture. I swear. No, really.
Honestly, though, thanks for showing me the beginnings of community on the most-impersonal of communcation modalities, the computer. i didn't think it was possible and you proved me wrong.
.Mom and Dad. There are no words. I love you.
.All my pals and friends, near and far. Even to New York and France. yes, you. :) You are my sunshine.
A-fucking-men. Now THIS is how you start a New Year. Wooooooohooooo!
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New York, New York – August 21, 2013 – CBRE Hotels and NAI Puerto Rico, acting as the exclusive advisor to Capmark, announced the August sale of the Normandie Hotel, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The hotel was sold to Houston-based Interra Capital Group.
Originally opened in 1942, the Normandie Hotel is a declared National Historic Site. Inspired by the design of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, the 97,000 square foot hotel includes 173 guestrooms and unobstructed ocean and city views. Closed in 2009, the property currently stands as an unoccupied shell, offering Interra the opportunity to capitalize on its central location within Old San Juan by restoring the asset to its full potential.
Bradley Burwell, Vice President of CBRE Hotels said, "We were happy that we could assist Capmark complete the sale of such a storied asset."
Hector Aponte, Business Director for NAI Puerto Rico, added, "The restoration of this historic treasure will be a great thing for San Juan and the city's tourism by revitalizing the entrance to Old San Juan."
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Lynn said she wanted light, airy and beach theme, which the first two were easy to accomplish, the beach part....not so much. I live outside of Washington DC and there aren't a whole lot of beaches close by. So lets just close our eyes and pretend I took my girls to the beach for a photo shoot. But don't close them to long or you won't be able to continue reading or you may fall asleep.
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The back is made using elastic and a button hole. If we are being honest (and I am) I had never done button holes before I made the Labri Maxi from Bebelambs. It was not as scary as I made it be in my head.
She loves this outfit. The bermuda style shorts are something I just came up with using a pair of pants and shortening them to the knees.
It felt like we were at the beach since it muggy and in the 80's today and is thinking about raining. What can't be seen in most of the pictures is her little sister following her every move. And when I wanted to take photos of the front she insisted on her being in them with her.
We also had another little tag along that followed us around the dock hoping we had some food. He kept distracting the girls while I was trying to take photos. Every time he would honk they would run away.
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Jana Wassilak is the pleasant voice you hear when you call Immanuel. Jana, who has been with us since August 1992, keeps everything running smoothly.
Her hours in the office are Monday – Friday from 8:00 AM until 2:30 PM. You can telephone her at (573)364-4525 or email her here.
Mrs. Van De Mark joined our staff January 2001 and is a graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in Psychology and an emphasis in Child Development/Family Relations.
She also has MBA from the University of Miami. In addition, Suzan works as the church bookkeeper. She is married and has two children.
Brook Boen graduated from MS&T with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and also has a Child Development Associate Degree. She attended this Lutheran School and has been a member of the Lutheran Church her entire life.
Brook is married and has two toddler daughters. Before she had children, she worked in the pre-school as well as the after school care program. She had over 10 years experience working with children. Brook had a love for this school and a passion for helping children grown and learn in a Christian environment.
Mrs. Strandberg graduated from Concordia Teachers College, Seward, Nebraska in 1964 with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. Her major was in Social Studies (emphasis in History) and her minor was in Music (emphasis in Organ). She has completed ten hours of graduate course work in the areas of reading and classroom music.
Mrs. Strandberg teaches music at Immanuel Lutheran School and also serves as Director of Music, Choir Director and Head Organist at the church.
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In his essay "The Global and the Universal," Baudrillard explains the contemporary obsession with the global. The "Universal" is an idea that has its origin in philosophy, considering all of existence. The "Global" is more recent, born out of capitalism and concerns man made production and a negotiated harmony on earth.
Universal: values, human rights, culture, democracy
Globalization: technologies, the market, tourism, information
Globalization relies on a neutralization of values and decreases the universal. Democracy now circulates like a product and can be even represented by jeans. Singular forms – like culture – are the risk, culture is a form of glory and identity but culture becomes sign.
Baudrillard states, "What if information referred not to an event but information itself," which is the essence of Twitter.
He concludes by explaining that manufactured culture is the opposite of culture as destiny, that in place of the real and tangible world, we have substituted man made products and concepts.
Alan Badiou's essay "Only One World" looks at the global in a different way. Badiou's emphasis is on humanity. He believes we only think we have globalization but we instead have unbalanced power benefits and serious separation. Democracy is a myth as people live racially and economically separated. He quotes Sarkozy, "If foreigners want to remain in France they have to love France," and explains that as Westerners, we uphold the security state on "otherness."
District 9 was a science fiction interpretation of Apartheid. During Apartheid in South Africa, from 1948-1994, Africans were under a security state, separated from whites and the media was continually censored. The HRC published a document entitled "Anatomy of Repression" in December 1989 that outlined the forms of media repression.
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2008, Sengalese businessmen who were given micro-credit loans
Global Television Media
In addition to the Olympics, World Cup and other international sporting events, the global ratings rise for pageants. Miss World is the oldest international pageant created in the UK in 1951. Miss Universe was created in 1952 by the US company Pacific Mills and is owned by Donald Trump/NBC. Miss Earth, "Beauties for Cause," started by a Philippine coutnry in 2001 to promote environmental awareness and had controversy over Miss Afghanistan.
The highest pageant ratings are in Venezuela, the US and Puerto Rico. Miss Universe has excellent US ratings, beating NBA playoffs. Miss Universe makes considerable money off TV ads and international broadcast rights, but it also rakes in franchising fees; countries or states that wish to hold qualifying pageants must pay for the privilege. 2003, Miss Venezuela almost didn't make it to the finals in Panama because her nation's franchise, the Miss Venezuela Organization, couldn't come up with the necessary $80,000 fee. In the United States, state franchises raise the cash by asking hopefuls to pony up a $695 fee, and some franchises additionally require that their families take out a $350 ad in the pageant program.


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Coastal Kitchen (Capitol Hill)
Web Site
Allergy Friendly
Coastal Kitchen has a detailed allergy book with information on all of their dishes. Just tell your server what dishes your interested in and they'll check the book. The restaurant uses olive and canola oil.
Author's Note: We just ate here last night and the server was very accommodating and friendly. And the food was great!!
Flying Apron Bakery (Fremont)
Web Site
Allergy Friendly
From Flying Apron Web Site (January 2008):
"Flying Apron products are created with your good health in mind. They are made using the finest organic ingredients; whole grain wheat free flours and organic non hydrogenated oils. The Flying Apron is a wheat free, gluten free and vegan bakery. Many of our products are alternatively sweetened as well. For a list of ingredients for each of our products see our menu."
Flying Apron serves a small selection of lunch items and you can special order cakes (even wedding cakes) and pies for special occasions.
Author's Note: If you can eat oats, the raspberry Flying Aprons are the best! Lunch selection is limited but its a good place for a quick snack. The staff is very friendly!
Gordito's Healthy Mexican Food (Greenwood)
Web Site
Allergy Neutral: Staff Accomodates Allergies; Check with staff
Gordito's staff will check on ingredients for you and are very helpful. Shellfish and other meats are cooked on separate grills. Ingredients are fresh. They do use soybean oil when making an item "fajita style" and chips are deep fried in soybean oil. It seems food is peanut free (but please double check).
From their web site:
"What makes our food healthful you ask?…We are completely transfat free, our beans are made without lard or oil, our rice without chicken stock, all of our meats are grilled, and our salsas are all made from fresh tomatoes and chiles.
We have many vegetarian and vegan options, even our chips are completely animal free."Author's Note: We love Gordito's and since learning of our food allergies we haven't been there and lately we've been craving it like crazy, so we thought it was time to give it a shot. I called ahead on a weekday and spoke with a manager, he was very helpful. I can't do shellfish or soy and my hubby needs to avoid peanuts. We got the thumbs up on everything except the chips and the "fajita style" veggies (they are both made with soybean oil). So we headed there for our fix. I double checked our order's ingredients with the woman at the cash register. I do have to say I felt a little nervous standing there watching them making the food (chances for cross contamination seem high!). But I enjoyed every bite of my wet salsa verde pork burrito and I felt just fine afterwards. Same goes for my hubby! Yay Gordito's! Please note that this was the Greenwood lunch, I haven't checked on the others.
Norm's Eatery & Ale House (Fremont)
Allergy Alert: Allergens in Food, Check With Your Server
Norm's menu specifically notes to "Please Inform Your Served [sic] of Any Food Allergies You May Have."
Author's Note: My recent trip to Norm's reminded me of one of those rules we all know but don't regularly follow: don't assume anything. I LOVE Norm's (the food's yummy and I can bring my dog along!) so when my friend suggested we meet there for dinner I was game. But, I hadn't eaten there since learning of my soy allergy. I checked the menu before heading out. Seeing the note at the bottom of the menu about allergies made me smile and think "Cool, they are allergy friendly." But, it was a different story when I got there. My first let down came when I informed the server of my allergy asking her to check on soy ingredients and she seemed annoyed at my request (um, aren't I supposed to tell you?). And let down number two came when she came back with the answer: just about everything on the menu is made with some sort of soy product. But I was there and I was hungry... so I ordered what I could (a salad) and tentatively took a few bites (was it really soy-free?? I didn't feel totally confident.) Needless to say, this is a bummer. If Norm's is cool enough to accommodate dogs, can't they take care of us with food allergies too? I'm thinking about writing Norm's a letter asking them use a little less soy....
Sitka & Spruce (Eastlake)
Web Site
Allergy Neutral: Staff Accommodates Allergies, Check with Your Server
Food is made from local and fresh ingredients. The menu changes daily. Many of the dishes do include nuts and dairy. They do appear to be soy-free. Just let your server know about your allergy. Wait staff is friendly and accommodating.
Author's note: The food is excellent. The wait can be long and you'll leave smelling like the kitchen, but it's worth it.
Yanni's Greek Restaurant (Greenwood)
Web Site
Allergy Alert: Check, Then Double Check with Your Server
Author's Note: I called ahead to ask about whether they used any soy products and was told "no". When we sat down to dinner I asked again and server said, "let me check with my Dad, the chef." Sure enough almost everything on the menu is made with soybean oil. So we ended up with a dressing-less lettuce salad, a plate of cucumbers and some really dry lamb kebabs. We probably won't go back. Lesson learned: it's always to good to double check before you order, even if you've called ahead.


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Means being pregnant =)
Just learnt the expression few minutes ago from a book.hehe
B has been working since 6 days ago.There are some problems at the plant so he is needed to help with the work. I'm bored. and I miss him. Baby misses him too. We both miss him.
But he's coming home next week. And we'll go see Baby A on Thursday. weeeeeeeeeee
Korek-korek gambar lama. First thing came into mind - Kecik nya aku time ni.hahahahahaha
#throwback Seoul Tower. Temperature - around 14'C
Hubby, I miss you. Come home soonest okay.


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When I left my apartment-dorm and walked down the stairs to the building where my first class is held today, I noticed that the clouds were misty over the mountains. Now, the skies are beautiful blue, the breeze is cool, and the sunshine is warm. I know it sounds more like Spring than Fall, but I promise, this is a lovely Autumn day in Northeast Georgia.
It is also the day I mailed in my absentee ballot. Oh yes, I'm a real adult now. This has been a pretty neat experience! I mean, who would have thought that there is an "straight party" voting option? I knew there are two main parties and usually a third candidate, but what's up with having six options? And, for those of you voting in my home state, the question about governors and lieutenant governors at the end has more dependent clauses than a bad high school English paper.
But all of that aside, I'm so glad I got to vote in this election. Because I have to vote absentee, I also get to cross off half of number 26. It is an exciting experience to have a say in what goes on in our country, and I am thankful for governmental system we have here, even if it is flawed.
|Mailing in my ballot!
And no, I won't tell you who I voted for. :)
Happy "Firsts..."
-- First time making my own bulletin board! Used the Ellison die-cute machine and everything.
-- First time watching football on tv because I wanted to. And I enjoyed it!
-- First time voting in the presidential election!
-- First time voting in the presidential election!
-- First time having a published author sign a book for me.


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He was emaciated, sick and so very tired. It was hardly miraculous, that the Cong didn't care. They continued to torture him long after he had nothing more to give them.
He'd known their intent when they brought the bucket of tar to his cell...was far too weak to resist.
Through a veil of pain, he watched the blade rise and fall. He saw the blood spurt and knew his choice...tar or death. They could not break him. They could not stomp out the last spark of life within him so easily. He plunged his arm into the bucket.


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Tales of a Dark City
Ever since The Shadow Weave changed the nature of reality, there have been those who claim that it is possible to manipulate the quantum forces of the universe without the need for an M-R Node. They maintain that will, dedication, and the right sort of practices can tap into the power of the Shadow Weave and reshape reality.
Whether this is possible for everyone is in doubt, but certainly there are those who have made breakthroughs with powers thought impossible to normal men. These are the Mystics of the world, the various Mages, Saints, Psychics and Mad Scientists.
Historical: Unlike the other Origins, there aren't any specific dates that can be pointed at to pin down the term "Mystic," which refers to this category overall. Each of the four recognized traditions maintain that their methods stretch back to antiquity, and that they are only now coming to light because the coming of the Novas have shown the world their powers as possible, whereas before they would have been mocked and disbelieved.
Other Terms: There are four branches of Mystic, each with a definable slant in their practices and beliefs.
Mages or Magi are traditional Hermetic wizards—they pour over musty tomes and conduct rituals, use foci such as wands, rods or staves, or else use New Age mysticism to produce wonders. Don't call them Witches or Warlocks—they hate that.
Saints maintain that their powers are gifts from the Divine (or the profane, depending on their beliefs). They intone special prayers, maintain certain lifestyles (and might lose their powers if they violate their beliefs), and generally try to act within the strictures of their faith as they understand it. The unbelievers call them God Botherers or Holy Rollers.
The Enlightened believe that their true power comes from within. They set their minds, focused through intense discipline, and pull off amazing feats of clairvoyance, telekinesis, extra-sensory perception, and other feats of mind over matter. Most people call them Psychics.
Then there are those who say that all this navelgazing and godbothering misses the real point. The truth is that just that scientific laws and constants were a lot less lawful and constant than previously believed. Science is a continual quest for the truth, so these Geniuses use hypermathmatics, quantum mechanics, and radical paradigms to pull of their seemingly supernatural abilities. Those who call them Mad Scientists are just jealous peabrains who don't have the requisite background to understand the potential applications.
Game Mechanics: Mystics are the generalists of the BNW, and the ones that tend to aim for the widest array of utility effects. Variable powers like Super Sorcery, Copycat, Invent and so on are their bread and butter. They tend towards being The Smart Guys and the Jacks of All Trades of the BNW. Mystics generally have drawbacks related to their mental states, and many are quite driven, obsessed, or otherwise insane.


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Brain : Alzheimer's Association
Your brain is your most powerful organ, yet weighs only about three pounds. It has a texture similar to firm jelly.
It has three main parts:
- The cerebrum fills up most of your skull. It is involved in remembering, problem solving, thinking, and feeling. It also controls movement.
- The cerebellum sits at the back of your head, under the cerebrum. It controls coordination and balance.
- The brain stem sits beneath your cerebrum in front of your cerebellum. It connects the brain to the spinal cord and controls automatic functions such as breathing, digestion, heart rate and blood pressure.
Supply lines
Your brain is nourished by one of your body's richest networks of blood vessels.
With each heartbeat, arteries carry about 20 to 25 percent of your blood to your brain, where billions of cells use about 20 percent of the oxygen and fuel your blood carries.
When you are thinking hard, your brain may use up to 50 percent of the fuel and oxygen.
The whole vessel network includes veins and capillaries in addition to arteries.
The cortex: "Thinking wrinkles"
Your brain's wrinkled surface is a specialized outer layer of the cerebrum called the cortex. Scientists have "mapped" the cortex by identifying areas strongly linked to certain functions.
Specific regions of the cortex:
- Interpret sensations from your body, and sights, sounds and smells from the outside world.
- Generate thoughts, solve problems and make plans.
- Form and store memories.
- Control voluntary movement
Left brain/right brain
Your brain is divided into right and left halves. Experts are not certain how the "left brain" and "right brain" may differ in function, except:
- The left half controls movement on the body's right side.
- The right half controls the body's left side.
- In most people, the language area is chiefly on the left.
The neuron forest
The real work of your brain goes on in individual cells. An adult brain contains about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, with branches that connect at more than 100 trillion points. Scientists call this dense, branching network a "neuron forest."
Signals traveling through the neuron forest form the basis of memories, thoughts, and feelings.
Neurons are the chief type of cell destroyed by Alzheimer's disease.
Cell signaling
Signals that form memories and thoughts move through an individual nerve cell as a tiny electrical charge.
Nerve cells connect to one another at synapses. When a charge reaches a synapse, it may trigger release of tiny bursts of chemicals called neurotransmitters. The neurotransmitters travel across the synapse, carrying signals to other cells. Scientists have identified dozens of neurotransmitters.
Alzheimer's disease disrupts both the way electrical charges travel within cells and the activity of neurotransmitters.
Signal coding
00 billion nerve cells. 100 trillion synapses. dozens of neurotransmitters. This "strength in numbers" provides your brain's raw material. Over time, our experiences create patterns in signal type and strength. These patterns of activity explain how, at the cellular level, our brains code our thoughts, memories, skills and sense of who we are.
The positron emission tomography (PET) scan on the left shows typical patterns of brain activity associated with:
Activity is highest in red areas and then decreases through the other colors of the rainbow from yellow to blue-violet.
Specific activity patterns change throughout life as we meet new people, have new experiences and acquire new skills. The patterns also change when Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder disrupts nerve cells and their connections to one another.
Alzheimer's Disease and the Brain
Alzheimer's disease leads to nerve cell death and tissue loss throughout the brain. Over time, the brain shrinks dramatically, affecting nearly all its functions.
These images show:
More brain changes
Here is another view of how massive cell loss changes the whole brain in advanced Alzheimer's disease. This slide shows a crosswise "slice" through the middle of the brain between the ears.
In the Alzheimer's brain:
- The cortex shrivels up, damaging areas involved in thinking, planning and remembering.
- Shrinkage is especially severe in the hippocampus, an area of the cortex that plays a key role in formation of new memories.
- Ventricles (fluid-filled spaces within the brain) grow larger.
Under the microscope
Scientists can also see the terrible effects of Alzheimer's disease when they look at brain tissue under the microscope:
- Alzheimer's tissue has many fewer nerve cells and synapses than a healthy brain.
- Plaques, abnormal clusters of protein fragments, build up between nerve cells.
- Dead and dying nerve cells contain tangles, which are made up of twisted strands of another protein.
Scientists are not absolutely sure what causes cell death and tissue loss in the Alzheimer's brain, but plaques and tangles are prime suspects
More about plaques
Plaques form when protein pieces called beta-amyloid (BAY-tuh AM-uh-loyd) clump together. Beta-amyloid comes from a larger protein found in the fatty membrane surrounding nerve cells.
Beta-amyloid is chemically "sticky" and gradually builds up into plaques.
The most damaging form of beta-amyloid may be groups of a few pieces rather than the plaques themselves. The small clumps may block cell-to-cell signaling at synapses. They may also activate immune system cells that trigger inflammation and devour disabled cells.
More about tangles
Tangles destroy a vital cell transport system made of proteins. This electron microscope picture shows a cell with some healthy areas and other areas where tangles are forming.
- The transport system is organized in orderly parallel strands somewhat like railroad tracks. Food molecules, cell parts and other key materials travel along the "tracks."
- A protein called tau (rhymes with wow) helps the tracks stay straight.
In areas where tangles are forming:
- Tau collapses into twisted strands called tangles.
- The tracks can no longer stay straight. They fall apart and disintegrate.
- Nutrients and other essential supplies can no longer move through the cells, which eventually die.
Progression through the brain
Plaques and tangles (shown in the blue-shaded areas) tend to spread through the cortex in a predictable pattern as Alzheimer's disease progresses.
The rate of progression varies greatly. People with Alzheimer's live an average of eight years, but some people may survive up to 20 years. The course of the disease depends in part on age at diagnosis and whether a person has other health conditions.
- Earliest Alzheimer's – changes may begin 20 years or more before diagnosis.
- Mild to moderate Alzheimer's stages – generally last from 2 – 10 years.
- Severe Alzheimer's – may last from 1 – 5 years
Earliest Alzheimer's stages
In the earliest stages, before symptoms can be detected with current tests, plaques and tangles begin to form in brain areas involved in:
Mild to moderate Alzheimer's
In mild to moderate stages, brain regions important in memory and thinking and planning develop more plaques and tangles than were present in early stages. As a result, individuals develop problems with memory or thinking serious enough to interfere with work or social life. They may also get confused and have trouble handling money, expressing themselves and organizing their thoughts. Many people with Alzheimer's are first diagnosed in these stages.
Plaques and tangles also spread to areas involved in:
- Speaking and understanding speech
- Your sense of where your body is in relation to objects around you
As Alzheimer's progresses, individuals may experience changes in personality and behavior and have trouble recognizing friends and family members.
Severe Alzheimer's disease
In advanced Alzheimer's disease, most of the cortex is seriously damaged. The brain shrinks dramatically due to widespread cell death. Individuals lose their ability to communicate, to recognize family and loved ones and to care for themselves.
Related articles
- Study Sheds New Light On Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease (medicalnewstoday.com)
- Alzheimer's Advance: Gene Could Help to Clear Brain Plaques Responsible for the Disease (healthland.time.com)
- 'Mystery' cause of Alzheimer's unlocked (express.co.uk)
- Brain Scans and Brain Scams (psychologytoday.com)
- A Clearer Understanding Of Alzheimer's Given By Scientists (medindia.net)
- Mapping The Brain Onto The Mind (cen.acs.org)
- Sea slugs helped him win a Nobel Prize (cnn.com)
- A Nobel Prize with help from sea slugs (fox2now.com)
- Drug That Slows Alzheimer's in Mice Developed By Salk Scientists (medindia.net)
- Brain : Alzheimer's Association (doctorandsurgeon.wordpress.com)
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Full Access Member/ Limited Access Member
Posted about 9 years ago by Carrie McLaughlin
Hello RAPANPA Members-
Following discussion of member vs non-member website privileges in our business meeting last week, Julie Winter has worked with the website administrator to define 2 categories of membership. A "full access member" is current with dues and will have the ability to view all postings, email members, view profiles, etc. A "limited access member" is someone who is not current with membership dues. With this "limited access" status, they will continue receiving information regarding upcoming events and other announcements. We hope this will encourage our non-renewing members to become current with dues. Our goal is to remain inclusive of all NP's and PA's in our region as well as adhere to our membership policy.


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We love Bicester and want to make Bicester a better place to live. If you spend anytime around us, you'll see that we have a passion for noticing the things that need restoration and joining with others to help our city prosper. We believe thats what Jesus did and is still doing even in our town today!
One of the recent opportunities we have is to bless Bicester by opening a coffee shop on Langford Village. Learn more about that here: www.fltrcoffee.co.uk


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The rules of banking have changed – and so have your customers' expectations. How do you keep them engaged and doing business with your bank when there are so many other options out there? Digital transformation is the key to staying relevant and competitive. But how do you minimize IT complexity, increase agility and align to the needs of your business as well as to what comes next?
Join Aite Group senior analyst Enrico Camerinelli and Software AG global director Laura Crozier, CFA, for this interactive webinar focused on the digital revolution and evolution of the banking industry – sponsored by American Banker.
We'll detail banking giant Credit Suisse's real-world use case and outline how they realized a 6-month payback and millions saved annually by avoiding unnecessary development projects. You'll learn how using dedicated Enterprise Architecture and IT Portfolio Management tools can help your organization:
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All attendees will receive a copy of Aite Group's latest market analysis, Integrated Portfolio Management: A Source of Boldness and Tenacity


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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ok, why is it so hard to find Abu Ghraib videos on the internet? Aren't they a huge INTERNET phenomenon? My mentor keeps plying me to include some in my project and I have spent two days looking for some usable ones, and they are impossible to find! I wish I knew Arabic.
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It often seems to me that The Duellists (or The Duelists for our friends across the pond) is one of the forgotten classics in historical fiction films. Quite surprisingly, it is directed by Ridley Scott, who is not known for any strive for historical accuracy and who has even stated that he willingly ignores historical details in order to tell a good story. Perhaps we should count ourselves lucky that he did not see history and the story conflicting in this particular case.
Based on Joseph Conrad's novella The Duel - A Military Tale, the film begins with a duel between lieutenant Gabriel Féraud (Harvey Keitel) and a civilian. In the next scene, another lieutenant, Armand d'Hubert (Keith Carradine) explores the city of Strasbourg to find Féraud and relate the orders for him to keep a low profile for a while, as the opponent turns out to have been the son of the city mayor. D'Hubert ends up finding Féraud attending a party and the latter takes the interruption as a personal insult and proceeds to challenge d'Hubert into a duel.
It ends up being the first of many duels as Féraud begins to consider the very existence of d'Hubert as an insult towards himself. As the film shows their meetings over the next 16 or so years against the backdrop of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaigns, we learn more and more about the men and their differing ideas of what honour is and how it should direct one's life. Overall, the film follows the original novella very faithfully. The biggest differences are in the details that the viewer gets to know. In the novella, we learn more about the people d'Hubert encounters along the way and we get a longer description of the awful Russian campaign. But, on the other hand, the film gives the duels themselves more focus and the cinematography is, in a word, beautiful.
The biggest changes to the story come towards the end. The film shows us more about d'Hubert's courtship with his future wife, including a memorable proposal scene that is the best such scene that I've ever seen on film. And, as it turns out, the excellence may be more due to a horny horse than the director - although he needs to be praised for his decision to keep the scene rather than get another take. The same authenticity is visible in all the scenes, from the small street-side tavern to all the duelling scenes. The only exception is perhaps the scene where Féraud and d'Hubert slash at each other with their cavalry sabres - and when their blades strike the walls of the room we see sparks flying (the result of a camouflaged chicken wire with a 12 volt charge). But it is a tiny fault in otherwise great film.
It should be said that Ridley Scott himself has admitted that the historical authenticity of the duels was not his aim. Setting them up was the responsibility of the fight choreographer William Hobbs and it is apparently to him that we owe our thanks for some of the best duels we've ever seen on film. Similarly, I suspect that the authentic uniforms and side-locks that Napoleonic soldiers wore in order to protect themselves from sword slashes (which were never mentioned in the novella) owe thanks to the historical adviser, Richard Holmes.
The ending of the film is very different from that of the novella. Both mediums make the point that wars are senseless, but whereas the film ends soon after the last duel, the novella gives us an additional twist that truly shows the difference between the two duellists and their sense of honour.


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Contributed by David Moore on Jan 16, 2007 (message contributor)
Summary: What type of christian are you. Common or valuable.
• My Treasure
o I have here a very valued treasure. Many men have died for this treasure. It is usually buried deep in the earth. It is…
• Coal (Hold up a Bag of Charcoal)
o About coal
Coal remains an enormously important fuel and is the largest single source of electricity world-wide.
In the United States, for example, the coal power plants generate 50% of the electricity produced
o Common Christians – Common Christians are probably fueling more than 50% of the world.
Consumed easily
problems come they fail with
it kills there witness
they come a dime a dozen
speak the name but deny the power
anyone can "say" I'm a Christian
Can't be cleaned
not willing to be changed
"our righteous is like filthy rags"
Easily broken
discouraged easy
depressed easily
the enemy comes along you are easily broken apart
• Diamonds
o About 130 million carats (26,000 kg) (57 pounds) are mined annually; with a total value of nearly USD $9 billion.
o This 20 lb bag of Charcoal I hold, if it were diamonds, would be worth…
o About 3 Billion dollars
o But because it only coal, it's worth… about 3 bucks.
Let's take a look at why.
Diamonds are formed by prolonged exposure of carbon bearing materials to high pressure and temperature. On Earth, the formation of diamonds is possible because there are regions deep within the Earth that are at a high enough pressure and temperature that the formation of diamonds is thermodynamically favorable.
High Pressure
Allow God to send things your way
let Him test you
High Temperature
Turn up the heat
This is when a bad situation goes worse
Under continental crust, diamonds form starting at depths of about 150 kilometers (90 miles), where pressure is roughly 5 gigapascals and the temperature is around 1200 degrees Celsius (2200 degrees Fahrenheit)
Your ministry begins in places no one will ever see
Then it's like all of a sudden God notices you
(More research on diamond formation at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond )
Diamond formation under oceanic crust takes place at greater depths because of higher temperatures, which require higher pressure for diamond formation. Long periods of exposure to these high pressures and temperatures allow diamond crystals to grow larger.
If you are willing to go even deeper God can do greater things with you
this takes longer and requires more pressure
• The 3 value measures
o Cut
God will begin to remove things in your life
o Carat
the diamond does not weigh a lot
your idea of a important person may be different than what God thinks of as an important person
o Color
How pure are you
I could have a beautiful shirt, but if there is only one black spot on it. Everyone will be looking at that one spot.
If a diamond perfect, but a cloud is located in one spot the value decreases
o Clarity
Make sure it is clear who you serve
How do they know you are a Christian
A T-shirt
A bumper sticker
a key chain
just because you say so
your attitude
way you speak
the friends you keep
It's time we stop being common. Let's be worth something to this world. Let's be pure, and just. Let God work on us, the way He wants to work on us. Stop taking short cuts.
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It's not hard to find Atlassian…
In the next few months you can find us at a lot of conferences, user groups, and cities. Here are some of the events that are coming up:
Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking at JAOO Sydney in May. Atlassian will be sponsoring all three CITCON 2009 events in Minneapolis, Brisbane, and Paris. Soren Harner, VP of engineering, will be speaking at Jazoon in Zurich. We'll be at SDWest and QCon London next week, Web 2.0 Expo the month after that, JavaOne in June and Enterprise 2.0 shortly thereafter.
There are half-a-dozen user groups coming up (hopefully in a city near you), and of course the granddaddy of all conferences (in all time, space and dimension): Atlassian Summit in San Francisco is a a few months away.
Hope to meet you somewhere along the way!
It's not hard to find Atlassian
It's not hard to find Atlassian…


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Here come the Transgression…
In the next few weeks, we're going to be introducing a new category of works to the Belfort and Bastion catalog. Specifically, we are going to be offering you works of Transgressive literature and art.
Which should, of course, invoke in you a certain response. You should, at this moment, be sitting there in front of your laptop, your hand on that cup of mocha-grande, and be asking yourself, "What the hell do they mean by that?"
A damn fine question.
Unfortunately, we're not too sure ourselves.
It seems odd that there should be any question of what "transgressive literature," or "transgressive fiction" is. There's a whole section on it at Wikipedia. That wise source informs us, "Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual and/or illicit ways. Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressional fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social, or nihilistic. The genre deals extensively with taboo subject matters such as drugs, sex, violence, incest, pedophilia, and crime."
All well and good.
But, come, let us be honest. Most of the time, and for most people, transgressive literature has meant just one thing.
It used to be that you could say what was "transgressive" without a whole lot of effort. It meant a dirty book. Or, if you prefer, porn or erotica.
And that was a good thing…for publishers and writers. It meant you could be daring and new (and extremely salable) by simply throwing in a few words like "dick" or "cunt" or "boob" or whatever. And, if you weren't particularly talented, well, terrific. Lack a plot or sense of character. No problem. A little sex here and there, plus a lurid and leerworthy cover on the paperback version, and who cared? I mean, really?
And if you could write…if you actually had talent…ah, so much the better. It meant that people like Oscar Wilde, Algernon Charles Swinburne, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Anne Desclos (a.k.a., Pauline Réage), Anaïs Nin, etc. could (like De Sade) smuggle ideas under the cover of smut into a greater public's otherwise unresponsive intellect.
Of course, it was a dangerous game. The endless court cases, the imprisonments of artists and writers, the unwelcome attentions of the world's Anthony Comstocks great and small…these were real threats.
But, until recently, you knew what was illicit to say. You knew what could not be said. You knew what was considered unspeakable.
Alas, that is no longer the case.
Sex was the lodestone of the unspeakable right through the 1970s. But after that …well, the erotic gradually faded from the transgressive. It became less taboo. Less dangerous. Less important.
That was, of course, because sex was no longer quite the problem it had once been. Unwanted pregnancy is a serious thing, and not just for the mother or the child. Societies, particularly but not exclusively pre-modern ones, are not fond of children who must somehow be supported without the co-operation of at least two adults. Preferably more. Hence, again particularly but not exclusively in pre-modern societies, marriage becomes a vital economic institution, and sex outside that institution becomes a sin. And discussion of sex outside marriage becomes a crime.
But contraceptives change all of that. Suddenly, extramarital sex becomes relatively consequence free. Yes, you run risks. You have your share of "illegitimate pregnancies." You have diseases, including quite serious ones, likes HIV. But, on the whole, sex becomes "casual." Even recreational. Indeed, it becomes the norm.
And, in the process, porn looses its sting. It becomes just another middle class industry.
Today, of course, there is nothing transgressive about porn. Except for the most obviously wantonly and hideous acts (rape, child abuse), there is not a form of sex that isn't portrayed quite freely in the market. Straight, Gay, oral, anal, group, solo, with dolls, toys or sheep …you name it, it's out there.
The Dominatrix in her black leather catsuit bounds about superhero movies for the entertainment and titillation of twelve-year-old boys. Her brooding male equivalent, in tight breeches and equipped with a riding crop, is to be found on the covers of bestsellers everywhere. Soap operas and sitcoms, meanwhile, discuss role-play and pegging and mammary intercourse. Talk shows provide tips on the proper methods of bondage and the correct pronunciation of Bukkake. Oh, and if you have questions about what "tea-bagging" is, or how one performs a "turkey slap," well, these things are nicely covered in the some 85 pages (and counting) of Wikipedia that deal with different sex acts.
Yes…of course, yes…there are still barriers and taboos. There are still places and times where one had better not raise, as it were, the issue. Yet, come! Admit it. This is a new age. And there is no turning back… in spite of the best efforts of moralists and censor of every stripe, ranging from the religious fundamentalist to the radically feminist.
Sex has become all too commonplace. It's depictions are no more transgressive than images of eating, and considerably less so than those of defecation.
So, what is transgressive now?
I think there is a short and a long-term answer to that. The short-term answer is that we shall see sex itself questioned. After having been so long taboo, its current dominance in society invites critique. An age, after all, in which the Kardashians and the Real Housewives discuss the intimate details of their bedrooms on Reality TV (and their revelations are considered worthy of front page coverage), is by definition ridiculous.
We shall see, then, a class of literature exploring that fact. We shall see a type of book asking if the insertion of this or the extraction of that is really so exciting. Or, indeed, if it is worth remarking upon at all.
And Belfort and Bastion has two titles about to go online that might be said to fall into this category. The first of these is WARNING: Sexually Explicit Content by Aubrey Tannhauser, while the second is The Pellucid Risen: Book One, Awakening, by Brad Amante.
Both of these mock sex, or rather, they mock our cultural obsession with it. They do so, however, in very different ways.
To explain that, let me take them one at a time.
The Pellucid Risen: Book One, Awakening, by Brad Amante, came into us via editor Victor Storiguard, who (as he puts it) "stumbled across" Mr. Amante's blog-based webfiction some time ago (you can see it at bradamante75.blogspot.com, by the way).
Amante writes science fiction and his book is, at first glance, nothing more than a piece of rather conventional space-opera, or rather "time-opera" since the main character visits the future. It concerns a young man, Robert, who has led a pretty wretched life in our own century, but who is then murdered for mysterious reasons.
However, he's frozen, and after five hundred years, he's brought back to life. In fact, he finds himself in a feminist utopia in which the sexes have completely changed roles. Women are tall and masterful. Men are small and delicate.
So far there's nothing here particularly transgressive. Sex-role reversal is a staple of sci-fi, and, indeed, in what passes for public discourse these days (think about the famous Newsweek issue, and the equally famous article in the recent Atlantic).
Ah, but here's where things get interesting. Robert, now a male ingénue named "Bobbi," has rather a lovely time. He's petted and pampered and wooed and won by dozens of beautiful superwomen, all of them desperate for his favors.
Women, on the other hand, well, they discover that being on top isn't quite the bowl of cherries they thought it would be.
And, this, of course, is the transgression. What the author is saying is simply this: the great and much ballyhooed Battle of the Sexes…the battle over sex, the battle during sex…is in the end irrelevant. The victory is uncertain, the victor unclear, the triumph …
WARNING: Sexually Explicit Content by Aubrey Tannhauser, meanwhile, is a more subtle work. In it, Tannhauser presents us with the life and loves of Jacob Lamdan, a young man who wants nothing more than to be a famed author of well-crafted erotica.
And this should be a snap for Lamdan. He's a decent stylist and he's got scads of personal experience from which to take his material. He is, you see, one of those young men that women perceive as beautiful, no matter how they really appear. Where the rest of us poor heterosexual males (particularly those who are, as they delicately say, of a certain age) must struggle and sweat to gain even the passing attention of women, Lamdan gets it whether he likes it or not. They fall into his arms at the least excuse. They offer him sexual escapades that would embarrass Caligula. Indeed, they demand his attentions with a single-minded fury. (We have here something of Amante's Bobbi, do we not?)
But, Jacob discovers something distressing. To wit, his easily obtained sexual experiences provide no inspiration. They have required no effort, so they are not genuinely rewarding. They satisfy the animal, but they do not nourish the human part of him. He has no muses, only fuck-buddies and "friends with benefits."
In time, he finds that only by withdrawing from the sex may he save himself. In the process, he must confront both great unhappiness and real tragedy, but it is his route to salvation.
Which is, of course, how Mr. Tannhauser commits his own transgression. He takes the climax of every porn film, every romantic comedy, and every advertisement for underarm deodorant…i.e., the moment when boy-gets-girl and vice versa…and says, "It doesn't matter."
Doesn't matter. And maybe should be avoided.
So those are our newest additiosn. And it is also my suggestion for short-term transgressions.
But what about the long? The other possibility I suggested? The second and more lasting sort of transgression.
That is complicated. And political. And for another day.
But, I will leave you with a clue. I hope it will be appropriately tantalizing.
It is a quote from Voltaire. It is: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
But let us change it. Let us say, instead, "whom you may not mock."
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Trangressions are coming...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
just ten days
Until Mr. Gans goes live...
Monday, August 6, 2012
Stay tuned for a note on transgressions....
Friday, August 3, 2012
17 days and counting...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Hello, hello!
Welcome to the editorial blog of Belfort and Bastion, publishers for this millennium.
Here, we will introduce our titles. We'll introduce our editors. We'll try to explain our motives and goals. And, most importantly of all, we'll ask for your input, your thoughts, and your ideas.
So, stay a while. Read. Comment. Tell us about yourselves and what you want us to publish for you.
We look forward to the beginning of a beautiful, if (now and then) complicated friendship.
~ The Editors
Belfort And Bastion
Here, we will introduce our titles. We'll introduce our editors. We'll try to explain our motives and goals. And, most importantly of all, we'll ask for your input, your thoughts, and your ideas.
So, stay a while. Read. Comment. Tell us about yourselves and what you want us to publish for you.
We look forward to the beginning of a beautiful, if (now and then) complicated friendship.
~ The Editors
Belfort And Bastion
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Alkisti is made from the French grape variety Chardonnay. Chardonnay grapes have been grown in the Region of Paphos for the last 35 years. Besides been a foreign grape variety, Chardonnay has adapted very well to the hot, dry climate of Cyprus. Fikardos Winery sources all its Chardonnay grapes from the surrounding villages of Kalepia, Letimpou and Polemi. All of the vineyards are more than 20 years old and the vines are trained with the traditional "goblet" system. The Chardonnay grapes are grown in limestone soil and are located at an altitude of between 400-500 metres above sea level.
Alkisti Taste Notes
A refreshing white wine with aromas of passion fruit, guava and grapefruit. Crisp acidity, chalky minerality and tropical fruit dominating the palate.
Variety: Chardonnay (100%)
Type: White Dry
Vintage: 2017
Alcohol: 12.5%
Food Pairing
Alkisti pairs very nicely with seafood dishes such as Grilled Prawns and Trout Cakes With Basil. Alkisti can also be paired well with white/light meat dishes such as Chicken with Creamy Mushroom Sauce, Turkey Salad and Grilled Pork Chops.
Decanter World Wine Awards 2018, Bronze Medal
Decanter World Wine Awards 2017, Bronze Medal
Chardonnay du Monde 2017, Bronze Medal
Cyprus Wine Competition 2007, Silver Medal
Chardonnay du Monde 2006, Bronze Medal
Chardonnay du Monde 2004, Bronze Medal
Fikardos Wines
Fikardos Winery works in close cooperation with vine growers and always aims in selecting the best grapes for vinification. Besides working with international varieties the winery gives strong emphasis to Cyprus Indigenous varieties


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How Will A DUI Affect Your Auto Insurance Premiums?
As you know, your driving history directly affects the price you pay on your insurance premiums. So, then, it is not surprising that being convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) will significantly increase the expense of your auto insurance coverage. You may think that driving home after a couple of drinks at the holiday party is not a big deal, but making the choice to drive while impaired can end up costing you more than just a night in jail.
Drinking alcohol slows your reaction times, diminishes your concentration, and impairs your ability to monitor your speed. Behind the wheel, these symptoms make you extremely dangerous. Auto insurance providers do not want to assume the added risk of your unsafe driving, and will pass along the added cost of the risk to you.
There are other costs associated with DUI conviction, too. You will be responsible for thousands of dollars in legal fees, and will likely need to process a proof of financial responsibility form before getting back behind the wheel. Your insurance provider can likely file this form, usually an SR-22, on your behalf but again, you will have to pay a fee.
You can save more than just money by driving responsibly- you can save a life by keeping off the roads when you are impaired. Remember, drunk driving does not just affect you. Intoxicated drivers cause nearly a third of all fatal motor vehicle accidents. Do not be selfish and careless- you have the power to protect your fellow drivers.
To get the protection you deserve while on the road and off, contact CorMarc Insurance Services in Murrieta, CA. Our expert team offers our superior service to individuals, families, and small- to mid-sized companies. Call us today to have all of your auto insurance needs fully met.


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This week inHusker history
The week of May 4-10, looking back in five-year intervals:
1909: A loophole appears to allow Husker tackle William Chaloupka, team captain in 1908, an extra season of eligibility, but it wasn't to be. Also, the Athletic Board elections are spiced up by opposition to athletic director Raymond G. Clapps purported de-emphasis of football and baseball.
1959: After a scoreless first half, the Varsity scores three touchdowns in the final 30 minutes for a 22-0 win over the Alumni. | Preview
«1964: Sophomore-to-be quarterback Bob Churchich leads the Whites to a 24-15 win in the spring game, a night contest at Seacrest Field.
1969: Bill Bomberger's field goal with 19 seconds remaining lifts the Whites to a 10-8 win in the spring game.
1974: Three fourth-quarter touchdowns give the Reds a 41-40 win in the spring game.
1979: Transfer I-back Jarvis Redwine rushes for 94 yards as the Reds register a 27-13 win in the spring game.
1989: Defensive back Charles Fryar feels he has been snubbed in the NFL draft.
2004: Trev Alberts cautions Husker fans to be ready for ups and downs with the new coaching staff.
2009: Sam Keller sues EA Sports and the NCAA over the use of players' likenesses in electronic games.
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text: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West. The team, along with the Seattle Seahawks, joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team. The Bucs played their first season in the AFC West as part of the 1976 expansion plan. After the season, they switched conferences with the Seattle Seahawks and became part of the NFC. The club is currently owned by the Glazer family. The team plays its home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. The Buccaneers ... more on Wikipedia


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Opponents of legalizing marijuana have long claimed that it is a "gateway drug" that leads to use of other substances. But one of the country's most famous physicians says the opposite might be true. "The real story is the hypocrisy around medical marijuana," Mehmet Oz — better known as Dr. Oz — said in an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday morning. "People think it's a gateway drug to narcotics. It may be the exit…
Dr. Oz Says Medical Marijuana Could Help Solve Opioid Addiction
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Hopefully you have realized from my other posts that I am fascinated by the variability of plants within a population. Sometimes subtle, sometimes quite stark, these differences from one individual to the next is a nice reminder of genetic diversity and how the biological world works.
This post is about the variability of Hechtia montana in and around Sahuaripa, Sonora. Sometimes you have to get up close to see the differences in plants, but sometimes like in the picture to the right, you can see a difference in the size and habit even from a distance.
|Hechtia montana
If there are difference that are clear enough from a distance then you are almost guaranteed to see some interesting things when you get closer. Some of the differences are in the size, color, shape of the leaf, spines, or even the overall conformation of the plants.
On the left is a plant with notable spies and a more green cast. Below are a few more pictures showing diversity within a very small area.
|A green Hechtia montana with relatively small spines
|A very white form of Hechtia montana
|Size differences in Hechtia montana clumps.


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I love all of Eric Carle's work and decided to create some materials to expand on the Brown Bear Brown Bear book which is a favourite of mine! I created a little book for each color. Each book allows the children to draw pictures and practice printing the color words as well as introducing some basic Dolch vocabulary in a predictable pattern format. There are two versions of the booklet. A fold-able version and a cut-apart and staple version.
There is also a printable for each color word that allows the child to practice printing the color word, pictures to color, and an opportunity to add a picture of their own.
In addition, I created pocket chart strips for each color. They can be used as is or you can enlarge them on your photocopier. We have a photocopier that lets us take an 8 X 11 sheet and enlarge it to 11 X 17! I used it this week when I got my unit ready for school next week.
I find real objects such as small toys or objects to fit in the blank spots in the sentence frames. The children like to look for objects that fit.
You can make multiple copies of the blackline masters to extend your opportunities to add "found" objects to your pocket chart.
Or you can leave the sheets in one piece, laminate them, add a bucket of colorful toys and turn them into a literacy center! I like to laminate them and add some washable felts to the center so the students can underline or trace the color word with the correct color word.
I ran off the sentence strips on my color printer for the 8 X 11 sheet. Gives it a bit more pop for the centrer activity. I used the enlargement feature on our photocopier to make my pocket chart version and just colored in the first picture with some felts.
You can find this thirty page package at my Teachers Pay Teachers store! Download the preview and let me know what you think!
Lots of color fun, I hope!! Have fun your first week back!


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Hong Kong
30 May 2010
Price realised
Conversation; & What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love
Conversation: signed 'Koh Koh Sang Woo' in English; numbered and dated '1/3 2009' (on the reverse)
What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love: signed 'Koh' in English; numbered and dated '2/5 2009' (on the reverse)
two archival digital prints on diasec
175.3 x 122 cm. (69 x 48 in.); 111.4 x 161.8 cm. (43 7/8 x 63 3/4 in.) (2)
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Gallery Sun Contemporary, Koh Sang Woo, exh. cat., Seoul, Korea, 2009 (different edition of What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love illustrated, pp. 13-14).
SAMSUNG CAMERATA, Vol. 1, Seoul, Korea, 2009 (different edition of What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love illustrated, pp. 15-18)
'Artist meets brand', Bar & Dining Magazine, Seoul, Korea, 2009 (different edition of What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love illustrated, unpaged)
Seoul, Korea, Seoul Station, Seoul International Photography Festival, 1 December 2008-31 January 2009 (different edition of Conversation exhibited).
Seoul, Korea, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Koh Sang Woo, 6-28 February 2009. (Conversation exhibited, different edition of What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love exhibited).
New York, USA, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, SCOPE New York, 3-7 March 2009 (different edition of What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love exhibited).
Koh Sang Woo diverged from traditional photography to explore the potential of the camera to express emotions behind the surfact of a conventional image. Through inverting the positive and negative of the image and tactfully arranging its colors, space is inverted, and the real feelings hidden under an image are captured instead. Koh turns black into white and red into green, and displays the intrinsic consciousness on the photograph. Exploring "Love" as his main theme in the past ten years, Koh has combined the techniques of photography and drama into his works, producing a series of "visual hymns" for the audience to contemplate on the real significance and value of love.
Self Portrait #7; & The Chaser (Lot 1694) in this sale are earlier works of the artist. In displaying themes such as "relationship" and "intrinsic beauty" in his work, Koh shows the modern misinterpretation of love. Koh believes that sometimes we forget that "love is unconditional, uncountable, and is the appreciation of intrinsic beauty." In The Chaser, the use of unifying deep blue, fluorescent pink and sharp orange connects the three main characters and signifies their ambiguous tripartite relationship. The artist empties out the souls of the characters in the scene by exposing their bodies bare and using the inverted blue to emphasize the mood of apathy. The bright, neon headdresses and sunglasses suggest a sense of artifice and unnatural beauty, as the characters shield their gazes and dress in disguise. The colours that emphasize the curled up hair, red lipstick and extravagant dresses of the three female models in Self Portrait #7 seem to ridicule women who blindly conceal their natural appearance with with artifice and makeup. If one does not carefully study the shape of the hands, we will pass by the fact that one of the models is in fact a man who, unexpectedly, is Koh Sang Woo himself.
Conversation; & What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love (Lot 1693) are more recent works of Koh. He first paints patterns on the couple and then inverses the image. Two pairs of lovers embrace passionately in the dark, snuggling close to each other's bodies of bluish green colours. The bright purple and orange hair colour creates a painterly quality in the ethereal and dreamlike image. In Conversation, Koh redefines "intimacy" through his own understanding and interpretation of colour. Coupled together under the dreamy, pastel light of the atmospheric scene, the lovers entangled in each other's arms illustrates the meaning of real intimacy and communication of love through their embraces. What Light Dreams When the Sun is in Love describes a highly metaphorical scene of how one only sees love in the other person that they embrace. The relationship between the characters poetically portrays lovers who are blinded by love, when one is like a butterfly naturally mesmerized by the flower they graze.
The Gutai group was a collective of experimental performance and multimedia artists whose influence on contemporary art is only now being recognised
The minimalist art movement of the 1970s exerts a powerful influence on some South Korean artists, as Claire Wrathall reports
Ski lodge looking a little sparse? Our pick of vintage posters by the giants of 20th-century graphic design, offered in our Interiors sale on 29 January
The Turner Prize-winning artist on why he loves his ladies' bike, and his adventures riding around London 'like a kind of two-wheeled flâneur'


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- Hidden US Tax Issues in Signing a Release on Termination of Employment
- November 19, 2014
- Law Firm: Dentons Canada LLP - Toronto Office
It is common in the US for an employer to obtain from a terminating employee a waiver and release of all claims (with certain statutory exceptions) against the employer. The consideration for the release is typically the payment of severance.
The customary form of release gives the employee 21 days (45 days if the termination is because of a group layoff), to consider the release, consult with counsel, if desired, and sign. Then there is a 7-day revocation period, after which the release becomes final and binding, and the employer pays, (or commences payment of), the severance.1 The 21- or 45-day consideration period starts when the severance payments have been agreed upon and the final form of release has been presented.
Until 2010, there was little need to be concerned about the date the final form of release was presented to the employee for signature in relation to the date of termination of employment. That changed when the US Internal Revenue Service indicated2 it would consider severance payments made after signing a release potentially to be "deferred" compensation, unless strict limitations set by the US Internal Revenue Code on the time and form of payment were both set forth in writing and observed in operation.3 These limitations require the terms of virtually all terminations that involve the signing of a release to be in writing if there is a potential for "deferred" compensation to be paid.
Under the US Internal Revenue Code, with certain exceptions, any amount of compensation, including severance, that is earned and/or vested in one year that could potentially be paid after March 15 of the subsequent year is "deferred" compensation.4 An employee may not electively defer compensation unless the election to defer is made prior to the year in which the compensation is earned. Severance is typically "earned" when a qualifying termination occurs. Thus, once the termination has occurred (or is imminent) it is too late to elect to "defer" compensation. There is a 20% excise tax plus interest penalties, all payable by the employee, for violating the rules on deferred compensation.
Under the applicable rules, payment of "deferred" compensation can only be triggered by a limited number of events. Termination of employment is one of those events.5 Signing of a release is not one of those events. Generally, a payment made on account of termination of employment will be deemed to have been made in compliance with the deferred compensation rules if it is made during the same year as the termination of employment, or within 90 days after termination, so long as the employee has no ability to affect the year in which payment is made.
However, in some circumstances, the employee could affect the year in which payment is made by delaying the signing of the release. Unless the release document prevents this in all circumstances, the employee will be subject to the excise tax and interest penalties even if, as the facts play out, severance is paid in the same year as termination of employment. This hidden tax issue can be illustrated by the following example:
Employee A is entitled to severance on termination of employment, provided Employee A executes and does not revoke a release. The document contains no time limit on when Employee A must sign the release. This violates the "deferred" compensation rules and will result in a 20% excise tax and interest penalties to Employee A, even if, as the facts play out, Employee A's employment terminates, and Employee A signs the release the same day, allows the revocation period to lapse, and receives payment immediately on lapse of the revocation period (i.e., all within the minimum possible amount of time). The problem is that the documents do not preclude a situation where Employee A could have a termination of employment in November or December, and by delaying signing the release, "elect" to have payment made in the subsequent year.
There are two alternative methods of avoiding the adverse tax result in the documentation of the employment termination arrangement:
Provide for the severance payment to be made (or commence) "on the 60th day" following termination of employment, provided the release has been executed and the statutory revocation period has expired on or before the 60th day. If the release has not become irrevocable by then, the severance is forfeited. It is also permissible to provide for payment on a date less than 60 days from the termination date, but as a practical matter, in order to allow time for a 45-day consideration period and a 7-day revocation period to elapse, the document should not provide for payment before the 52nd day after termination of employment.
Provide for the severance payment to be made (or commence) within 90 days after termination, provided the release has been executed and the statutory revocation period has expired on or before the 90th day, and provided further, that if the 90-day period begins in one year and the revocation period could end in the subsequent year, the payment will be made in the second year.
Incidentally, these timing rules apply not only to the signing of a release, but to any payment dependent on an employee action, such as executing a non-compete agreement.
Fortunately, the US Internal Revenue Service also permits faulty documents to be corrected by revising them to include one of the alternative methods of compliance at any time prior to the employee's termination of employment in order to avoid the excise tax and interest penalties.6 It's too late if the problem comes to light after termination of employment.
1 These time periods have become standard because they are required in order to satisfy the requirements of the 1998 regulations under the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
2 In IRS Notice 2010-6.
3 There are exceptions for severance payable by March 15 of the year after an involuntary termination of employment, and for other amounts payable solely upon involuntary termination of employment to the extent all of these criteria are met: (a) the amount is less than two times the prior year's compensation, (b) the amount is less than U.S. $520,000 (indexed after 2014), and (c) the amount is paid by the third December 31 after termination. The termination must be truly involuntary or must be a resignation on account of a narrowly defined set of "good reasons." Nevertheless, these exceptions cover many severance payments, even if a release is required.
4 Internal Revenue Code Section 409A; Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4).
5 The other events are death, disability, a fixed date established prior to when the compensation is earned (such as age 65), a change in control of the company, and a documented severe financial hardship that cannot be satisfied by other means. Each of the terms termination of employment (separation from service), disability, change in control, and financial hardship have very specific regulatory definitions.
6 IRS Notice 2010-6, modified by IRS Notice 2010-80.