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Venerable Master Sheng Yen's New Year Talk 2007
This is the 96th year of the Republic of China, as well as year 2007 C.E.
At the beginning of the year, we usually say "Happy New Year," "Have a great year" to wish each other blessings. We all hope to receive good wishes.
Does good wishes work? Certainly.
I ask this question every year.
Yes, good wishes work.
When we all make a vow,
work towards the same goal,
wish for the same thing,
go in the same direction,
and help each other,
then our good wishes for each other will really work.
Also, One person's good wishes,
when combined with the good wishes of many others, become a joint vow.
Therefore, our new year's greeting cards and New Year scroll this year
contain four words.
These words: "Ho, Jin, Ping, An," means harmony, respect, and peace. And we also added the words "Great Vows." This means that we use our great vows to encourage one another, to help one another, and to wish one another blessings.
This year, we use these words to wish one another blessings.
There are also four sentences in our cards:
"Harmony brings everyone peace and happiness;
Respect makes every path a smooth one.
Let us treat all sentient beings equally, And nurture our world into a pure land."
These four sentences tells us how to put the four words, "Ho, Jin Pin, An," into practice.
Ho means harmony.
Jin means respect.
Pin means equality.
An means nurturing.
If each of us follows and uses the meaning of these four words and four sentences to encourage ourselves and others, and to wish each other blessings, we'll really have peace and things will go well with us, and we can turn our world into a pure land.
This is our good wish.
DDM's greatest achievement last year is that, as we established our Sangha system, we held a benediction ceremony for the new Abbot President.
This is a great historic event for our DDM community.
This means that, I used to be the head of DDM, but as the new Abbot President has been inaugurated,
I now became the Founder.
Now I simply hold the position of the Founder, and have handed over most administrative responsibilities to the second generation.
At various ceremonies and activities
on and off the Mountain, such as transmitting precepts and giving tonsures, I will play a secondary role while the new Abbot President will represent the DDM organizations.
This was a major event for us last year.
As for the meaning of great vows.
I'll now talk about making vows.
What are the vows we should all make?
As we continue to grow, we need funds, for example, for the newly established Buddhist College.
We also need funds for building and establishing the Dharma Drum University.
To reach our fund-raising goal, we still need to work hard.
We're still short of the goal.
Therefore, at the inauguration for the Lotus Bell, we started a campaign called "Great Vows".
As the Lotus Bell has now been completed, let's aim to increase the number of honorary directors. This is a task that requires everybody's help.
December 23, 2006, the day of the Bell's ceremony, was the starting point of this campaign.
But after the starting point, we hope that the number of honorary directors will increase rapidly, so that everybody can sow the seeds of blessings.
I hope you can all sow the seeds yourselves, or repeat your donation as an honorary director, or encourage your family and friends to become our honorary directors so they can join us in cultivating the great field of merit, and contribute their shares to the great cause of Buddhist education.
Meanwhile, in our organization,whether in the Sangha,in the Dharma-upholding system, or in any other division, I hope that we show more care about the members of our Dharma-upholding system. Therefore, in 2007 I have a wish.
I wish to make caring tours.
What do I want to care about and to encourage?
I'll go to various regions, not to ask for money, not to seek donations.
If I'm seeking anything, that is seeking karmic links to the Dharma.
I hope all of you work harder, make more efforts to understand the Buddhist doctrines, practice the Dharma, and put the Dharma into use in daily life.
If you make more efforts, then it will benefit your family, your career,and, especially, your body and mind.
If we can decrease our vexations, our family will be more harmonious, and the environment we live in or our career will have more of a smooth going. All this depends on the Dharma.
The Dharma of the DDM is to be used in daily life. It's practical Dharma. Besides repentance prostration, meditation, and reciting the Buddha!|s name or sutras, we should put the Dharma into practice in daily life.
This is our great vow.
This great vow will enable us to make advances in understanding and practicing the Dharma, and also in cultivating the field of merit, and in upholding and spreading the Dharma, that is, in helping all sentient beings.
In all these aspects, we make a great vow to reach our goals this year.
My blessing to you all for the new year.
I wish you ease of mind, joy, peace, happiness, and good health.
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Sail Date: November 22, 2014
Beautiful ship, disinterested crew
The Breeze is a fabulous ship, it is new, modern, mostly well laid out, and the top deck is terrific for adults as well as kids. However, the people make the cruise, and the crew of the Breeze, from the officers down, are disinterested at best, and surly at worst. When we met any of the officers in the public rooms, or elevators, they wouldn't look us in the eye, never mind say good morning, and I don't think I ever saw any of them smile. The wait staff in the buffet were efficient, but never smiled, never offered to get drinks for us, just did their job with no interaction at all. The wait staff in the bars were slow and surly, when we told one she had poured us the wrong drink, she banged it down in front of us anyway, and ignored us for another ten minutes until we walked out without drinking or paying for it, then she yelled at us. This is the first Carnival cruise we have been on for more than ten years, we are Royal Caribbean Diamond members, and we have come to expect smiles, good morning greetings and our wait staff recognizing us and looking pleased to see us. On this cruise, we sometimes felt like they thought we were a nuisance. The Lido buffet was also very poorly designed, we have been on the biggest ships of Royal Caribbean and never had the crowded buffet and long lines to every different station as there were on this ship. Even if you only wanted one thing ( a piece of toast!) you have to queue behind people who are deciding what they want for their whole breakfast, it was very inefficient and slow. Overall, we were rather disappointed!


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Samsung prepares for a second attack on Apple's iPad2.
The battle between Android and iOS is fascinating; In smartphones, the fact that for a few years iPhone was available exclusively in AT&T, along with Android's openness, endless flexibility, and variety of forms factors, all made Android a huge success: it is not only a very good alternative to the iPhone – it was the only alternative that provided a decent UI, AppStore, complete touch experience, and of course – the Google experience. During 2010, Android became the leading smartphones OS, but failed to compete with the iOS in the tablets area.
When it comes to tablets, the story is completely different because the needs are different: the applications quality is far more important than the quantity, the expectations for perfect usability exceeds the need to customize everything, and for many users, the cellular part is not relevant (Wifi only) or at least not as important as with smartphones.
Bottom line is that for tablets, until this point of time at least, Android OS doesn't provide any killer advantage over the iOS, except maybe for true multi-tasking and Flash. So the only places to change the rules of the game are the hardware and price.
While it will be very difficult to compete with the hardware of the iPad 2, which generally speaking brings everything that was missing in version one while still keeping the slick thin design – price is a different thing: if you can build a similar product, running Android 3.0, but with a much lower price – you could take a shot at beating Apple in its' strongest area: tablets.
So far companies such as Samsung and Motorola failed to do so, which is probably one of the reasons why iPad barely suffered from a proper competition, but it seems like things are just about to change soon: Samsung has recently announced 3 new tablets models in different sizes (adding 10.1 and 8.9), running latest Android OS, and most of all – priced lower than the iPad.
Here's a quote from ZDNet's Between the lines:
Samsung has changed its tablet strategy and this time the company has an approach that is a lot more competitive with the Apple iPad on price, form factor, and overall features. We'll have to wait until we do a full review of the new Samsung devices to decide if the overall product experience approaches what Apple has to offer, but since the Samsung tablet doesn't arrive until early summer and will be running Android 3.0, that gives Google time to repair the Honeycomb problems we saw in the Motorola Xoom and it gives developers time to write a lot more tablet-optimized apps for Android 3.0
The two new tablets that Samsung announced at CTIA have nailed the price tag. One is an 8.9-inch model and the other is a 10.1-inch model and both are priced at or below the entry level iPad. The 8.9-inch is aimed at consumers and its Wi-Fi version starts at $469 for 16GB. The 10.1-inch tablet is aimed at enterprise business professionals and it starts at $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version
Here's an interesting read by DroidNuts.com, talking about Motorola Xoom and how it failed where Samsung now tries to succeed with the new Galaxy tablets (check it out in here).
Would be interesting to see if Android tablets can repeat the success of the smartphones chasing iOS until they actually bypass it.


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Brett and I weren't blogging as consistently when this website was our wedding website. We mainly used it as a platform to communicate valuable information about our big day 🙂 Well the time has come to slowly fill all who are interested in on some of the behind the scenes facts about our big day 🙂 Did you know, for instance, that my wedding dress was actually my mom's? 🙂
When Mom wore it…
and when I wore it…
In between I spent a lot of time with my friend Cathy Moe and a wonderful seamstress/dressmaker extraordinaire, Tina. She helped to transform and modernize my mom's dress so that it was perfect for my occasion too. My mom was really excited that I was going to wear her dress and said that I could restyle it however I wanted 🙂
The original dress was long sleeved (with belled out areas near the wrists) and zipped all the way up the back to the base of the neck. It was decorated with lace and was a beautiful white color. Time turned that beautiful white into a gorgeous ivory. The only thing that I couldn't wear from my mom's big day was her veil…which for some reason didn't change color at all 🙂 Tina removed those long, belled sleeves of the dress first, which really transformed the look. We opened up the back and used the lace from the sleeves to decorate the new neckline of the dress.
The dress was bustled at the same place it always had been though the mechanisms involved were new.
My mom's rings were also featured in my wedding bouquet. 🙂
To see more pictures from our ceremony, click here! Did you consider wearing your mother's dress for your wedding? (Or your grandmother's for that matter?) 🙂


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(I am indebted to a fascinating exchange of posts at www.blackhorsewesterns.org for providing me with the guts of this article)
It's a curious paradox that one of the most popular, best and proficient exponents of the hard-boiled western novel also happens to be one of its least-known. For many years, fans have wondered if Peter McCurtin was a real author, or merely a house name behind which a small army of scribes produced some of the toughest and most compelling westerns of the 1970s and 80s. The name George Harmon Smith has often been linked with that of McCurtin, but who was Smith, and was he really the driving force behind the Peter McCurtin phenomenon?
Thanks to a few dedicated researchers, we now know that there really was a Peter J. McCurtin. He was born in Ireland on 15 October 1929, and immigrated to America when he was in his early twenties. Records also confirm that, in 1958, McCurtin co-edited the short-lived (one issue) New York Review with William Atkins. By the early 1960s, he was co-owner of a bookstore in Ogunquit, Maine, and often spent his summers there. Additionally, McCurtin and his second wife shared their home in Ogunquit with a dog that also happened to be part wolf.
McCurtin's first book, Mafioso (1970) was nominated for the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, and filmed in 1973 as The Boss, with Henry Silva. More books in the same vein quickly followed, including Cosa Nostra (1971), Omerta (1972), The Syndicate (1972) and Escape From Devil's Island (1972). 1970 also saw the publication of his first "Carmody" western, Hangtown.
Carmody is, on the surface at least, just another trail-wise adventurer. Sometimes he is presented as an outlaw, sometimes as a gun-for-hire. Whatever his current occupation, however, Carmody's eye is always on the main chance, as McCurtin's tough, spare narrative frequently makes plain.
Carmody's exploits set the tone for most of the westerns McCurtin was to write over the next two decades. His view of the frontier is harsh and unforgiving, a place where a man with any sense looks to his own safety, and to hell with everyone else. McCurtin's westerns are fast, violent and chauvinistic, but the violence and sex are seldom overtly explicit. McCurtin further distances his protagonist from other stock western anti-heroes by recounting the series in the kind of hard-boiled first-person style normally associated with the private-eye genre.
In the first book, Carmody is employed by a wealthy mine owner whose daughter has been abducted and held to ransom. For The Slavers (1970) Carmody locks horns with a powerful rancher who treats his Indian employees (who once saved Carmody's life) like slaves. In Tough Bullet (1970) Carmody is living high in New Orleans when his money is stolen and he is framed for murder, while in Screaming on the Wire (1972) (possibly the best book of the sequence) he tangles with a psychotic killer claiming to be the younger brother of Billy the Kid. In The Killers (1972) Carmody pins on a marshal's badge in order to dodge a posse, and finds himself caught between a bunch of outlaws and a clan of hillbilly killers, while one of the weaker novels, Tall Man Riding (1973) sees Carmody tracking down the men who attacked him and stole the proceeds of a bank robbery he has just committed.
McCurtin's editor at Leisure Books remembers that he was "a terrific, fluent, natural writer of action, and a solid researcher for his westerns and mysteries. Leisure did not, in my time (1979-1981), let anyone else write under Peter's name, but Peter wrote under other names in addition to his own byline. He was a real workhorse with, unfortunately, an alcohol problem (like so many), and without question the very best writer that Leisure was publishing at the time. Perhaps he could have been better and more prolific under better circumstances." For a while, McCurtin himself also worked as an editor at Leisure Books.
The author spent a prolonged spell writing various mercenary and Executioner-style anti-Mafia stories. His name appeared on the first of Manor's Marksman books, Vendetta, leading many to speculate that he also wrote under the pseudonyms "Frank Scarpetta" and "Bruno Rossi" (author of the Sharpshooter series). He also provided a novelisation for the cult action classic The Exterminator.
McCurtin returned to the western in 1979 to take over the Sundance series originally created and written by the late, great Ben Haas, under the pseudonym "John Benteen". In McCurtin's hands, however, Sundance -- a half-breed Cheyenne who undertakes various missions to raise funds to fight the corrupt Indian Ring -- became a colder, more impersonal figure, more violent and less credible.
Having said that, it should be added that, overall, McCurtin did a reasonable job of continuing Sundance's exploits, producing some interesting action-orientated westerns, among them Day of the Halfbreeds (1979) in which Sundance is sent to Canada to infiltrate Louis Riel's Metis movement and eventually stop a rebellion (a plot that is vaguely similar to the Lassiter story Gunfight at Ringo Junction, leading one to suspect that he might also have written occasionally as "Jack Slade"). Iron Men (1981), meanwhile, sees Sundance helping the Central Colorado Railroad against the underhand tactics of a much larger competitor. It is also worth mentioning that the 1980 Sundance yarn Los Olvidados is a reworking of the earlier Carmody book The Slavers.
Midway through his tenure on the Sundance books, McCurtin wrote the adult western series Jim Saddler, under the name Gene Curry. This series returned him to the gritty first-person style of narration that made the Carmody books so distinctive. Of the seven books that comprise Saddler's adventures, however, four are little more than straight re-writes of Carmody novels; A Dirty Way to Die (Tough Bullet), Wildcat Woman (Screaming on the Wire, with Jessie James' daughter replacing Billy the Kid's brother), Colorado Crossing (Hangtown) and Hot as a Pistol (The Killers). Of the rest, Yukon Ride is particularly notable, in that Saddler has to transport the body of a dead judge from the Yukon border to San Franscisco, with surprising results.
McCurtin produced one of his all-time best books in 1982 -- the powerful western Rockwell, which is a fictional retelling of the life of Orrin Porter Rockwell, the so-called "Mormon Triggerite" who upheld the law in Salt Lake City. Tough, vivid and compelling, the author's strengths as a storyteller are shown here to their best effect.
Among his final writing projects, he returned to his earlier Soldier of Fortune series, which recounts the exploits of a tough mercenary Jim Rainey. These books are also told in the first-person and have a strong ring of authenticity to them. One of them at least, however, was not the work of Peter McCurtin. Operation Hong Kong was actually written by Ralph Hayes.
"He churned out a lot of those short westerns and crime stories," remembers another acquaintance. "I also know that he used the pen-name 'Clarence Farmer' once. He took Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver and turned it into Soul on Fire by Clarence Farmer.
"I almost think it would be safe to say that if you find a book published by Tower or Leisure in the 1970s, that is a blatant knock-off of something else, and the two author's names are similar (with respect to style or syllables used) that might be one of Peter's.
"When he wrote most of his books, he lived in a studio in Murray Hill, on 39th Street, only a few blocks from the New York offices of Tower Books, which at the time were located at 2 Park Avenue. His building was called the Tuscany Towers back then. It's now a W Hotel. He had a Murphy bed, a kitchenette, and a desk with manual typewriter. There was no phone except for the payphone in the building basement. He liked eating at Automats, he went to the movies several times a week and spent a lot of time reading."
Peter McCurtin died in New York on 27 January 1997. His westerns in particular are distinguished by unusual plots with neatly resolved conclusions, well-drawn secondary characters, regular bursts of action and tight, smooth writing. if you haven't already checked him out, you have quite a treat in store.


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Telltale Games has released a new trailer for Batman- The Telltale Series – Episode 2: Children of Arkham.
With Gotham City's first family mired in corruption, and an old friend now a dangerous adversary, the life of the Dark Knight is turned upside down. What was Thomas Wayne entangled in, and why was he killed? Determined to learn the truth about his father, Bruce sets out to question those involved in Gotham's criminal past. But which mask will he wear – The billionaire, or the bat? Huge decisions will forever change the Batman and the lives of those around him, as he meets the Children of Arkham.
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The flyer said, "The applicant must be able to teach various subjects, including the preparation for the SAT. Payment is most generous." I answered the ad in the morning and was told to come to be interviewed that very evening. The woman on the phone, Eileen Min, sounded quite eager, saying her daughter needed a tutor right away. At the same time, she admitted she had seen seven or eight applicants, but none of them was suitable. She would pay forty dollars an hour, which was remarkable given my other prospects.
I was to be doing research for the professor directing my master's thesis, yet I needed another job for the summer to make enough for my tuition and living expenses in the fall. Without my parents' support, my life had been tough; however, I had managed to complete one year's graduate study. There was still another year to go. I had started working at my thesis on Jacob Riis, specifically on his effort to eradicate urban slums. My mother had called a week before and said it was not too late for me to go to a professional school, for which my parents would happily pay; I had again rejected the offer, saying I intended to apply to a PhD program in American history. My father, a successful plastic surgeon in Seattle, had always opposed my study of the humanities. He urged me to go into medicine or law or even politics—clerking for a congressman—because history wasn't a real profession. "Anyone can be a historian if he has read enough books," he'd say. "What do you want to be, a professor? Anyone can make more than a professor." I'd remain silent, understanding that as long as I indulged myself in the humanities, I'd be on my own. In my heart I despised my father as a typical philistine. He was ashamed of me; his friends talked about me as a loser. I knew he might cut me out of his will. That didn't bother me; I wouldn't mind becoming a poor scholar.
Around 6:30 P.M. I set out for the interview. Eileen Min lived at 48 Folk Avenue, not far from my place, about fifteen minutes' walk. There were more pedestrians in downtown Flushing since the summer started, many of them foreign tourists or visitors from the suburban towns who came to shop or to dine in the small restaurants offering the foods of their left-behind homes. The store signs, most bearing Chinese characters, simulated a bustling shopping district in Wenzhou. So many immigrants live and work here that you needn't speak English to get around. I stopped at the newsstand manned by a Pakistani, picked up that day's World Journal, and then turned onto Forty-first Avenue. A scrawny adolescent girl strode toward me, dragged by a Doberman. The dog stopped at a maple sapling and urinated fitfully on the box encasing the base of the tree. The girl stood by waiting for her dog to finish. Along the sidewalk every young tree was protected by the same tall red box.
Folk Avenue was easy to find, just a few blocks from College Point Boulevard. Number 48 was a two-story brick bungalow with a glassed porch. Beside a two-car garage grew a large oak tree, and behind a small tool shed in the backyard stretched a high fence of wooden boards. Despite the close vicinity of downtown and the houses crowded together in the neighborhood, this property stood out idyllically. I rang the doorbell, and a slender woman of medium height in a shirtwaist dress answered. I was amazed when she introduced herself as Mrs. Min and said we had spoken that morning; to my mind, it was unlikely that such a young-looking woman could have a daughter attending high school.
She led me into her house. I was impressed by the furniture in the spacious living roomall redwood, elegant and delicate in design, like antique. A vase of Stargazer lilies sat on a credenza on the far side. On the wall above it hung a photo of a lean-faced man, middle-aged with fierce eyes and a jutting forehead, his hairline withdrawn to his crown. I sat on a leather sofa, and Eileen Min told me, "That's my late husband. He died three months ago."
"I'm sorry," I said.
"Sami, pour some tea for Mr. Hong." She said this to a teenage girl, who was in a corner playing something on a computer.
"No need to trouble yourself," I said to Sami, who rose without looking our way.
The girl headed for the kitchen. She was wearing orange slippers, and her calf-length skirt showed her thin ankles. Like her mother, she was slim, but one or two inches shorter, and had a fine figure, too. She quickly returned with a cup of tea and put it beside me. "Thanks a lot," I said.
She didn't say a word but looked me in the face, her eyebrows tilting a little toward her temples as if she were being naughty. Then she turned and entered a bedroom off the hall, her slippers squeaking on the glossy wood floor. She left the door ajar, apparently to listen in on our conversation. I produced my student ID card and my GRE scores. "These are my credentials," I told Eileen.
She observed the card. "So you're a graduate student at Queens College. What's this?"
"The results of the test for graduate studies; every applicant must take it. See, I got 720 in English and 780 in math."
"What's the perfect score?"
"Eight hundred in each subject."
"That's impressive. Forgive me for asking: if you're so strong in math, why didn't you study science?"
"Actually I was torn between history and biology during my freshman year at NYU." I told her the truth. "Then I decided on history because I wouldn't want to depend on a lab for my work. If you do history, all you need is time and a good library."
"Also brains. Is history what you're studying at Queens now?"
"Yes, American urban history." I lifted the tea and took a sip. Then I caught Sami observing us from her room, through the gap at the door. She saw me noticing her and withdrew immediately.
Eileen beamed, her face shiny with a pinkish sheen and her almond-shaped eyes glowing. She said, "I promised Sami's father that I'd help her get into a good college. Tell me, can you help my daughter score high on the SAT?"
"Sure, I tutored my cousin two years ago. He's a freshman at Caltech now."
"That's marvelous."
So she decided to hire me. I would start the next day. Since I was still taking summer courses, I could come only in the evenings. Before I left, Eileen called Sami out to greet me as her teacher. The girl came over and said with a nod of her head, "Thank you for helping me, Mr. Hong."
"Just call me 'Dave,'" I told her.
"OK, see you tomorrow, Dave," she said pleasantly and grinned. Her button nose crinkled.
Coming out of the Mins', I felt relieved. I would teach Sami five times a week, including Saturday evenings. I needn't worry about my summer anymore.


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Sassafras officinale. N.O. Lauraceae.
Synonym ► Kuntze.
Habitat ► West Indies—imported from U.S.A
Features ► Rootbark is a bright, rusty brown, soft and brittle. Short, corky, layered fracture, with many oil cells. Chips of the woody root are commonly used—they are brownish-white in colour, showing concentric rings and slender medullary rays.
Part used ► Root, bark of root.
Action ► Stimulant, diaphoretic (according to Coffin mildly antiseptic and detergent also).
Combined with alteratives for the treatment of skin eruptions and uric and other acid complaints. A decoction of 1 ounce to 1 pint (reduced) is taken in frequent wineglass doses. The decoction is sometimes used externally for ophthalmia.
Powdered Sassafras root was formerly (and in some places still is) sold as a substitute for tea or coffee, under the name of salap or saloop.


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More Bathers (Badende) in print (2/3)
Following Emil Ganso's "Bathers" (L, posting march-24) and my stream of consciousness here are some more examples and variations on a theme. In a similar arrangement John Buckland-Wright's (1897-1954) composition (R).
|Stephen J. Laurent (cont.)
"Badende" has in German a both singular and plural meaning. Limiting the vast number of works showing a bathing woman and bathing women depicted in art-in-general this posting is limited showing examples of multiple bathing females shown by printmakers. Starting with examples by German printmakers.
German expressionist printmakers Erich Heckel (1883-1970), Otto Müller (1874-1930), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) and Max Pechstein (1881-1955) dedicated much of their lives and work to "Badende" prints both in color as in black and white. Others more incidentally turned to this theme like Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) and Emil Nolde.
Erich Heckel
Otto Müller
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
This particular theme, "bathers", a mix of mythical Three Graces: Aglaya, Euphrosyne and Thalya devoted to Charm, Virtue, Beauty and Creativity, and Nymphs: the divine spirits. Added to the idealised by men (how many of them actually have ever whitnessed such a gathering of women?) aesthetic beauty of female nudity in an arcadial setting and multiplied by 3.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (L.), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (R.)
One of the very few exceptions is made by Max Liebermann (1847-1935) who earlier (in the last years of 19th century) created his controversial and thought homo erotical etchings and paintings of bathing boys. An opinion we now consider phobic and pathetic of course. They are what they are. And great works of art.
Alfredo Müller (1869-1939) who besides women must have had a great admiration for Rembrandt.
Hans Juchser (1894-1977)The list of examples is sheer endless of course, these examples a personal choice.
ADDED: 16 April 2012
German reader Michael Kriegeskorte send me this unsigned and not monogrammed expressionist "Badende" print. Please help with identification (possibly Walther Klemm ?)


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Crate Diggers Golden Age of Wireless Words and Phrases Vol.2 ACID WAV
Second instalment of this best-selling series featuring 520+ sepia-soaked phrases, questions, exclamations and statements taken from the heyday of radio broadcasting.
Spanning poetic readings to police radios and everything in between, this genre-defying selection of dusty dialogues will suit house, chillout and hip hop producers searching for truly authentic vocal inspiration.
538 clips are offered in total, broken down into 14 sub-folders of Discriptions Exclamations, Female Words, Male Words, On The Radio, On The Telephone, Poetry Reading, Police Radio Talk, Questions, Science Fiction, Statements, Sultry Women, Tasks and Voices In Your Head.
The demo showcases a small selection of clips.
Download contains: 538 x 24-bit Wav files across 14 named folders. Download size: 305MB (unzipped), 152MB (zipped).
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Crate Diggers Drama Kings and Queens ACID WAV-MAGNETRiXX
Crate Diggers make their long-awaited return with one of their finest collections to date: 420MB vault of poetic phrases, Shakespearean monologues, story- telling narrations and descriptions, plus assorted words, questions, letters and exclamations.A whimsical traverse through fairytales and historic kingdoms the forever foraging Crate Diggers have burrowed deeper and for longer than ever before in the quest of the best vocal gems to add a regal and fantastical feel to your productions.Whatever your style, from chillout and downtempo to ambient electronica IDM through to soundtrack production, these 100% royalty-free vocal samples are primed for us as is or ready to be chopped, resequenced and processed to produce hundreds of new vocal ideas.
Totalling 309 24-bit Wav files, the collection is divided into folders of Action, Descriptions & Narration, Exclamations, Letters of the Alphabet (sub-divided into American and Arabic), Misc, Music References, Poetic Phrases, Questions, Shakespeare Monologues, Single Words - Female, Single Words - Male, Statements.Please note: the audio demos contain musical element s which are NOT included in t he pack. This pack contains vocal samples only. All samples are provided without any audio effects.
Crate Diggers Golden Age of Wireless Words And Phrases Vol.3 ACID WAV-DISCOVER
The ceaseless Crate Diggers dust off more forgotten radio reels to uncover 500+ words, statements, questions and phrases infused with vintage vitality and yesteryear crackle in this royalty-free spoken word goldmine.
Bursting with authentic vocal foley from the original bygone era of radio broadcast, this varied third volume spans science fiction to radio noir, musical references to talk radio, sinister doctors to menial tasks - and everything in between.
This genre-defying collection will find favour amongst hip hop, house and downtempo producers seeking authentic, emotive and quirky vocal inspiration.
Totalling 512 samples, the collection is sub-divided into 12 folders of Descriptions, Exclamations, Female Words, Male Words, Musical References, Questions, Radio Noir, Radio Talk, Science Fiction, Sinster Doctor, Statements and Tasks.
The main demo showcases a small selection of clips from all folders. Other demos showcase a selection of clips from specific folders.
PLEASE NOTE: The audio demos contain music and drum loops that are NOT contained in the pack. This pack contains vocal samples only.
The ceaseless Crate Diggers dust off more forgotten radio reels to uncover words, statements, questions and phrases infused with vintage vitality and yesteryear crackle in this royalty-free spoken word goldmine.
Crate Diggers Golden Age of Wireless Words and Phrases Vol.1 ACID WAV
430+ extended phrases, statements, exclamations and questions captured directly from the golden era of radio broadcasting in this original, royalty-free spoken word treasure trove bristling vinyl-infused character.
Spanning female swoons to sci-fi statements and everything inbetween, this ultra-useable selection of dusty dialogues will suit house, chillout and hip hop producers searching for truly vintage vocal inspiration.
433 clips are offered in total, broken down into 12 sub-folders of Exclamations, Female Words, Love, Male Words, Musical References, On The Radio, On The Telephone, Questions, Science Fiction, Statements, Sultry Women and Tasks.
The demo showcases a small selection of clips.
Download contains: 433 x 24-bit Wav files in 12 named folders. Download size: 249MB (unzipped), 121MB (zipped).
Push Button Bang EDM Drop Vocals 2 WAV
Soft / Samples, Presets, Banks Of Sounds 4-03-2016
Push Button Bang - EDM Drop Vocals 2 WAVAnother absolutely HUGE collection of DROP PHRASES , BIG SCREAMS AND SHOUTS, PLUS ALL MANNER OF EDM VOCAL EXCLAMATIONS. If you got the first collection you know exactly what to expect, an absolutely dazzling array of 700 EXPLOSIVE VOCAL PHRASES AND SHOUTS, all designed to give your track a unique identity.
The overall feel of the content is high octane, in your face and guaranteed add vocal excitement to your tracks time and time again. Everything is jam packed full of character, relevant, rampant and very different from normal vocal packs. Push Button Bang invites you to download, enjoy and give your tracks EVEN MORE TO SHOUT ABOUT.
Please note, this demo song contains other sounds not included in the pack and are for demonstration purposes only.
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25 Female Words
127 Male Phrases
40 Male Shouts
52 Woo Group Shouts
35 Woo Impact Snares
120 Female Phrases
44 Female Shouts
18 Group Shouts
66 Male Screams
52 Male Words
54 Woo Individual Shouts
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Sounds In HD Scattered RnB Vocal Pack
Soft / Samples, Presets, Banks Of Sounds 5-10-2015
Scattered R&B is a vocal sample pack geared for R&B inspired and urban producers to bring a live vocal touch to their music productions. This kit contains 30+ folders of vocal sample phrases featuring dry, delayed, chords and long throat vocals popular in modern music production.
Adding reverb and/or delay and other effects to add mood to tracks
Chopping, Stretching and Re-sampling
Inspiration for lyrics to your own songs and beats
Every folder contains dry vocal variations to build with. Add effects, stretch, cut and chop to get precise results to your tracks.
Some folders in the sample pack contain the vocals in the form of a chord. These were created with Antares Harmony Engine to showcase fast results and inspire your own chord structures. *You will need the Antares Harmony Engine or another VST capable of forming chords or vocoding. Add these into your production with a quick pitch shift or build around them.
Most folders include Long Throat versions of the vocal samples. This style is popular in modern and electronic music and gives the singer the effect of a deep bellowing voice without actually pitching them down. There are many ways to achieve this effect (FL Studio Pitcher can accomplish this). Antares Harmony Engine was used to achieve the ones in this vocal pack. These are perfect for adding that modern feel to your productions.
These were included sparsely to give you inspiration on what is possible with the vocal pack. We chopped individual words or cut-off phrases and added delay to draw attention to the last or only word in the phrase. This can help add a certain mood and rhythm to your tracks by using the vocals. We hope you experiment with your own to add new depth to your own tracks.
Among all the phrases and variations this vocal pack contains vocal laughs, hums, and other vocal sounds to play with. Build your own melody lines with boops and oohs.
Future Music Talkies WAV
Soft / Samples, Presets, Banks Of Sounds 29-08-2015
Vocoder and processed vocal samples. Pitched and processed words and phrases to give your tracks a unique voice.


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Colin Farrell found it very "liberating" starring in 'The Lobster'.
Farrel stars as David in the movie, which is set in a dystopian universe, who is searching for love at the city's special hotel and agrees to be turned into a lobster if he doesn't find love within the allowed 45 days, and admits it was very challenging.
He said: "You rely on your fellow actors and all that stuff, but more than ever before, this movie felt just like being present, literally just listening and observing and responding without any agenda. The objectives here were inherent in the script and they were so much bigger than any one character's journey.
"For a lot of us, beneath our behaviours and the tools we use to find some level of comfort in our society and our communities, there's quite a bit of awkwardness. What this script did is it rendered unimportant those behaviours and just allowed the awkwardness that actually exists. It was really liberating."
And Colin also believe he did "very little" acting in the movie because the story was more about the journey of the characters and the bizarre world they live in.
He added to Vulture.com: "I found it really interesting to try and imagine how this world could be not just presented physically, but represented by the actors, and how it could be inhabited as if it was completely normal. But it's so well drawn that you just do very little."
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Fall, 2012 issue of MONROE magazine marks five years
Welcome to Year 5 of MONROE magazine. I can?t believe I?m even writing that!
We now have 16 issues behind us and this one you?re holding is 17. It doesn?t seem so long ago that we were trying to imagine what a glossy publication about Monroe County would look like, what would be in it and who might want to read it.
Whether you have collected each issue from the beginning or are a new reader, we love having you on board.
For some readers our distribution might have been confusing over these years. You might have received a copy in the mail now and then, but not all of them. That?s because for our first four years we have sent some complimentary copies of each issue to a random number of homes as an introduction to the magazine. We hope that most of you agree that it?s now time to subscribe ? if you don?t already ? so that every issue arrives in your mailbox on time.
Our subscribers and advertisers are precious to us, helping us to cover the costs of producing and delivering a quality product. This issue is especially packed with a variety of Monroe County topics. See why nature lovers and hunters flock to Pointe Mouillee State Game Area every September. Learn about the art tiles that were rescued from Lincoln Elementary School. Find out where to try a new wine that is locally produced or to visit a corn maze with an educational twist. See where thousands of county residents can be found on any given fall Friday night at hometown football fields. And that?s just the beginning.
If you?ve missed any of our back issues, they are available at our customer service counter at our office in downtown Monroe. You also are welcome to drop off or e-mail any suggestions you have for future stories in the magazine.
And if you haven?t yet subscribed, or wish to extend your subscription, you can do so online at www.monroezine.com. It?s been a wonderful four years working on this labor of love and we appreciate your interest and support. Enjoy!
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[e·piph·a·ny - n. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.]
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Carb conscious
What I did find is that following this programme made my eating very strict. I was hard on myself. I remember joining at friend at university on a lunch break. He persuaded me to have a cup of hot chocolate adding, "Stop being so hard on yourself". He was right. I don't think that I'd had a cup of hot choc for a few years by then. There's a limit.
For the most part, I've always kept the principles from this programme in mind - closer or further depending on my dietary inclinations, which have been predominantly vegetarian.
In recent years Paleo and Tim Noakes' Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) recommendations have been in the limelight. I've seen friends transformed - not only in mass but with substantial improvements in their running too.
As a vegetarian/pescatarian I love things like lentils, quinoa and Indian dishes of dhal and black beans. Hit me with some hummus and I'm in heaven. I favour many of my vegetables in their raw form and I devour salads almost daily. I've never liked butter on sandwiches, my skin crawls at the thought of dunking ciabatta in olive oil and it is only in recent years that I've added any dressings to my salads - usually just olive oil and balsamic vinegar. If the balance is off and there's too much oil, I can't eat it. I don't eat meat or chicken (the more I run the less it agrees with my stomach - go figure) although I do eat fish here and there. Not regularly and not often. Even during omnivore stages I've never been a big meat eater. As far as the starches go, in recent years I don't often eat either rice, potatoes or pasta (rice and quinoa are my favourites) more than twice a week. Sometimes not at all. But I do love fruit! My natural dietary inclinations are very not Paleo nor LCHF.
Following a two-week long gastric illness a few years ago (I thought it was a 24hr bug following a restaurant meal, but it obviously wasn't), I developed a sensitivity to bread. Well, that was what I pinned it down to. As much as I love a slice of toast or a cheese and tomato sandwich, it suits me better to keep my bread intake minimised. I also noticed a sensitivity to sweets. Fortunately I've never been a big sweetie eater but pop a bowl of jelly tots or a packet of White Rabbit sweets in front of me and I'll definitely enjoy them. But, my stomach won't. Within 15 minutes my belly expands. Bloating is so not nice.
Anyway, it has been a process and I figure that everything in moderation and avoiding foods that make me feel awful is the best way.
A good friend has been following Noakes' guidelines for a good number of months now and she's doing fabulously. Interestingly, her natural dietary inclinations are completely opposite mine. She enjoys her meat (with fat), can merrily slather Italian bread in olive oil and every morning she now drinks a 'coffee bomb' - coffee with a tablespoon of coconut oil. My stomach heaves.
When I'm stressed, I take everything into my belly. And since I returned from Argentina I've been super stressed. Multiple projects on the go, FEAT and the biggest stressor, a time-dominating part-time English course from which I'm learning much but not exactly 'enjoying' (for various reasons). While I'm not overtly stressed, my digestive system is and just a sniff of bread creates chaos. I've been looking at stuff on sugar, which I know we eat far too much of. It's nice to eat sweet stuff and sugar-loaded foods are readily available.
My friend recommended the Livin' La Vida Low Carb podcasts by Jimmy Moore and a South African food diary website and mobile app - Fat Secret, especially as it has South African foods pre-loaded (and you can add your own too).
So, I signed up (free) because I really do need to take a closer look at what I'm eating. Over the winter months I can easily eat three oranges a day (or more! yum-yum) without blinking. Throw in a banana too. How about some papaya and strawberries? Sugar. Sugar. Sugar.
Where I don't have four spoons of sugar in my tea nor packets of sweeties nor fizzy drinks, fruit is my sugary dietary downfall. If you're following Noakes' guideline of around 40g of carbs a day, then one orange zaps almost half of your allocation and three most definitely blows your quota.
And when I'm a bit stressed and strained, I suffer the effects of this sugary intake.
So, I'm being more aware. I'm using the food log to see where I have deficits and where I'm getting too much. Just like keeping a training log, it is only by putting down what you're doing that you can see where you need to shake a leg (Fat Secret has an exercise log component too).
Never mind a leg, I'm shaking a monkey out of a tree.What I've been doing hasn't been working. I haven't felt great for a number of weeks now and clearly I need to do something differently.
Now, I am.
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- adventurelisa said...
In response to this post my friend emailed to say, "I have just completed the Whole30 eating plan which is basically a Paleo diet with a few additional limitations. Stuck to the food part very well, but still had the occasional glass of wine which was supposed to be a no no.
My gut and nose are definitely much happier without dairy and starch/grains. But I agree with you 100% - we are all different and we each need to find what works for us. You can't prescribe a single fix for everyone. But I do think everyone can benefit from cutting down on the processed sugars.
I'm going to continue with my occasional glass of wine, but think I will stick to my eggs, meat, fish, chicken, fruit and veg only."
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Children's Illustrated CookbookReviewing: Good Housekeeping Children's Cookbook | Rating:
Cooking in our household has always been a fun time. My son is a good cook, and my grand daughter wants to carry this family tradition. As a gift she was given the Good Housekeeping Illustrated Children's Cookbook as a gift. The book has a wire binding, with colorful pages and step by step directions, on 165 pages. The book starts with safety tips, how to cook, preparation, servings, ratings, an a glossary in the back of the book. You will find a section on pans and which ones to use, as well as a section on pictures of utensils and what they are called. Other sections include breakfast, lunches, dinners, snacks, salads, drinks, and desserts. Each section explains how hard the recipes are, how long to cook and prepare, as well as the utensils needed to make the selected menu. Everything is explained for the child in their language, which makes for easy reading. Step by step description of the food to prepare in this book is so simple, that I have even taken a few recipes out of this book for myself. Most of the recipes are of foods that children enjoy eating, plus some dinner meals that they could cook for their family. Remember this book isn't only for girls, because there are many boys who enjoy cooking also. Believe the cost of this book is around $13.00.
Update On Mar 24, 2010: Today we took out this cookbook, and read up on possible different selections for the Easter Holiday. The grand daughter wants to cook something special for that day-something she can do herself..


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A house without proper plumbing system cannot be tagged as a perfect one. The defective plumbing system is something that brings down the value of your home. Also, it opens up avenues for various other problems to pop up. This is what makes it essential to keep a regular check on your house's plumbing system and fix any issues arising at the earliest. Evolution Plumbing services have come up into form with the mission of offering you on time and budget worthy service. We at Evolution Plumber cover almost every corner of Australia with Strathfield being one of them. Our Professional plumbing Strathfield team reach out to you with their service every during the peak hours.
Why hire professionals?
At times it has been encountered that people have a tendency of restoring to DIY method whenever they find any problem breaking out with their home plumbing system. DIY technique can be useful at times but not always, especially when serious issues take place. For restoring back the normalcy of the plumbing system, it is essential to go with expert plumber Strathfield. If you are still wary of the reasons for hiring plumbing professional, here is a brief about the services that our plumbing Strathfield team offers:
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MacBook Pro 'Every Dimension' 2012 Commercial – What's the Song?
Consumer electronics icon Apple has been featuring memorable indie songs in their commercials for years. Feist, Chairlift and the Fratellis are just some of the bands who gained a wider audience by having one of their tracks in an Apple ad. The latest commercial for the company's MacBook Pro with Retina Display features music from Canadian outfit Kidstreet.
The newest MacBook Pro is at the center of attention, showing off the multiple tasks it can do on a beautiful screen. The device is editing photos, videos and a few other tasks while the beginning of the Kidstreet track, 'Song,' is playing in the background. The simple strings are a perfect companion to the abbreviated show of strength for the new MacBook Pro. See for yourself below.
'Song' is off of Kidstreet's most recent album, 2011's 'Fuh Yeah.' The album version of 'Song' features piano keys instead of strings. Kidstreet are a family affair, comprised of brothers Karl Snyder on drums and Cliff Snyder on synth and guitar, and younger sister Edna Snyder on piano and vocals. The trio signed with Vancouver, Canada-based record label Nettwerk in 2010.
While 'Song' sounds very melodic, the early work of Kidstreet sounded even slower, according to Karl Snyder. "We were playing this really depressing-sounding music and no one was dancing," he says in their biography. "Then, one day we wrote a dance song by accident, and people loved it, so we were like, 'Oh, this what we need to do!'"
Hear Kidstreet's 'Song' in the Apple's MacBook Pro 2012 Commercial


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It is pretty apparent that I have not been on Blogger in a looooong time.
Hello February 10th was my last post! Life is hectic right now.
For now I'm just trying to simplify things.
I'm working on being a good student, friend, daughter, and fiance.
So, I'm taking a little break from Blogger... BUT I will be back soon. There is SO much I'm looking forward to and SO much I want to record.... Stay tuned for updates on making our new apartment a home, married life, a new PUPPY [insert squeal here], learning to transition from being a full-time student to a full-time working woman, and soo much more!
27 March, 2011
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The approaching holidays are a perfect excuse to put together imaginary wish lists. This is a gift guide fit for every budget - starting at just 5 euros - as a suggestion for your holiday shopping sprees. What are you secretly dreaming of, and what are you getting your loved ones for Christmas?
What I wouldn't mind finding under my Christmas tree:
1) Acne burgundy jumper
2) Fashionology stone bracelet
3) Invotis coffee mug
4) Fab reptile iPhone cover
5) Cos leather mittens
6) Topshop owl notebook
7) Narseyeshadow palette
8) Isabel Marant leopard ankle boots
9) Michael Kors rose gold watch
10) Topshop sequin clutch
11) Olympus Pen camera
12) Topshop pom pom slippers
13) Lula magazine
14) Acne belted skirt
15) Aamaya by Priyanka cord bracelet


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In this paper Nico Voigtländer & Hans‐Joachim Both examine if building infrastructure projects decreases government opposition before elections and they use the case of the Hitler regime. They find that actually localities where a major highway was built (or close to it) show a reduction in opposition (higher support) to the Nazi Regime.
. . . Our findings show that infrastructure spending can effectively enhance the political entrenchment of a dictatorship – and the Nazi Regime's early rise in popularity matters because it effectively laid the foundations for the later war and genocide.
When we examine changes in opposition in the sample as a whole, and in areas of motorway construction, we find a striking pattern: in areas that saw highway‐building in 1933/34, opposition to the Nazi Party was higher to start (Nov. 33); but by August 1934, opposition had fallen substantially. In the sample as a whole, average opposition declined by 1.6%; where the roads were built, it fell by 2.4%.They perform a variety of robustness cheeks, and I am only worried about the seemingly low power of the regressions in some cases.


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Kristin Kontrol
June 22, 2016 | Baby's All Right – Brooklyn, NY
Photos by Anthony Bodiglio
Show Me
White Street
(Don't) Wannabe
Going Thru the Motions
What is Love
Face 2 Face
Coming Down
On the Regular
Smoke Rings
Baby Are You In
When You Were Mine (Prince)
Skin Shed
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Margulies Perruzzi Architects Providing Services to Two National Law Firms
Firm assisting Robinson & Cole and Gunderson Dettmer with respective Boston office design work
BOSTON – April 2, 2014 – Margulies Perruzzi Architects (MPA), one of Boston's most innovative architectural and interior design firms, announced today that it is providing design and construction administration services to two national law firms, Robinson & Cole LLP and Gunderson Dettmer, both with locations in Boston.
Robinson & Cole LLP
MPA is currently working with Robinson & Cole LLP, a law firm with nine offices in the Northeast, Florida, and California. MPA is conducting space programming and analysis of future real estate options for the firm's Boston office at One Boston Place. MPA has also been retained to design the interior fit-up for Robinson & Cole, for either a new location or renovations to the existing location.
Gunderson Dettmer
MPA is collaborating with California-based Rapt Studio on the design of Gunderson Dettmer's new Boston office at One Marina Park Drive. The space will be modeled after the firm's award winning offices in San Francisco's Bay Area. Rapt Studio will provide primary design for the project, with MPA serving as the architect of record. With its Boston expertise, MPA will collaborate with Rapt to ensure the Boston project exceeds the team's expectations. This is the second time in less than six months that Rapt Studio has chosen to work with MPA for one of its Boston projects.
Gunderson Dettmer, with six offices in the United States and one in China, has become the nation's leading business law firm for entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies, and venture capitalists. With its relocation from Waltham to One Marina Park Drive in Boston, the firm will soon be in proximity to many of its clients in Boston's Innovation District.
Construction completion is expected in June of 2014. MEP services will be provided by RDK Engineers. T3 Advisors is serving as project manager, and was also the broker for Gunderson Dettmer.
About Margulies Perruzzi Architects
Consistently ranked as one of Boston's top architectural and interior design firms, Margulies Perruzzi Architects creates buildings and interiors for clients who value design. The firm services the corporate, professional services, healthcare, research/lab, and real estate communities with a focus on sustainable design. Clients include Manulife/John Hancock, Nuvera Fuel Cells, Reliant Medical Group, Sapient, Hobbs Brook Management and Forrester Research. For more information, please visit http://www.mp-architects.com.
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Top of the evening all...
Pesach is over. I thought you should all know.
As you are all aware, I have been undergoing physical therapy for my injured shoulder. It is progressing well. For all daily intents and purposes, I am 100% functional. There is some residual pain from time to time, but it is truly minor.
This has allowed me to resume playing ping pong with the kids. I have to consider very carefully as to whether or not a forehand slam is worth the price. Even if it gets the point, it is still a painful endeavour.
I would like to state for the record though that I defeated Jesse twice today. It will not continue. He is clearly the better player. Still, it was a matter of personal redemption.
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
Star Trek - 50Th Anniversary - Action Figure Papercraft Collection
by Professor Plastik
Professor Plastik just let me know that to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, he added some new paper toys your collection. Pay a visit to his site and download the models. You will find, in addition to Dr. Spock and Captain Kirk, the characters of Dr. McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, an engineer and a guard.
O Professor Plastik acabou de me avisar que para celebrar os 50 anos de Star Trek, ele adicionou novos paper toys á sua coleção. Faça uma visita a seu site e baixe os modelos. Você encontrará, além do Dr. Spock e Capitão Kirk, os personagens do Doutor McCoy, Uhura, do Scotty, de um engenheiro e de um guarda.
Link: Star.Trek.50Th.Anniversary.Action.Figure.Papercraft.Collection.by.Professor.Plastik
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By Bahman Aghai Diba, PhD International Law of the Sea
On the occasion of the 4th Caspian Summit Conference
Caspian Sea
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Russia has been increasingly successful in convincing littoral states to accept its plan to divide the Caspian Sea based on a formula of Modified Median Line (MML). Agreements using the Russian proposal as the basis of defining a legal regime for the Caspian Sea have been reached between Russia and Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, leaving Iran and partly Turkmenistan as the lone holdouts. Turkmenistan has recently showed an inclination to accept the MML. Iran has so far declined to accept any of the above-mentioned agreements.
Under the MML approach the seabed of the Caspian would be divided among the five littoral states by extending into the Caspian a set of median lines drawn according to their relative share of the coastlines. The superjacent waters, i.e. , the waters over the seabed, would be left for the "common use" of the littoral states, which would--among other things-- mean the Russian navy would retain full access to all parts of the Caspian Sea.
The MML approach would give Kazakhstan approximately 29.5% of the Caspian; Azerbaijan 21%: Russia 20% and Turkmenistan 17%. Iran would receive the remaining 12.5% or so, parts of which are the deepest portions of the Caspian, in some places reaching a depth of over 900 meters. As a result, Iranian efforts to exploit resources in its sector would generally be more difficult and expensive than in any of the other sectors.
Iran has argued since 2004 that the Caspian should be divided equally among the littoral states, with each state receiving a 20% portion. More to the point, under the Iranian proposal, each state's sovereignty would extend over both the seabed and the superjacent waters. More recently Iran talks about division of the entire Caspian Sea (not only the seabed) according to equity and Iran has made it clear that equity means at least 20 percent for Iran.
What are those positions?
Although the USSR is dead and the Russian Federation is not a super power as it was once, the Russian leaders are always dreaming of restoring the Russian hegemony in the area that once used to be the Russian domain. As far as the Caspian Sea is concerned, they want to use the whole Caspian Sea for their military and civilian fleet. They are following these policies:
The Republic of Azerbaijan is happy to get twenty percent of the Caspian Sea by the MML. However their policies are:
Kazakhstan is trying to make use of the opportunity created by the access of the country to most of the Caspian Sea. The MML leaves this country with 30% of the Caspian Sea-bed. The Kazakhstan's fields are actively developed by the Western companies, especially the Americans, interested in non-OPEC, non-Arab, Non-Iranian oil. Kazakhstan has already concluded treaties with the Russians and the Azerbaijan Republic for using the MML as the division criteria of the Caspian Seabed. Iran has proclaimed such treaties as null and void because the littoral states have originally agreed to make decision on the legal regime of the Caspian Sea unanimously.
The government of Turkmenistan is not satisfied with the MML, not because its share according to the MML formula is 17 percent, but due to the fact that the important oil fields claimed by Turkmenistan are given to Azerbaijan by the MML. Turkmenistan once went to the brink of war with Azerbaijan over these oil fields (Kapaz or Sardar oil fields). It was interested to be in the side of Iran against the MML, but it was not ready to tie its destiny to the Islamic regime of Iran. Turkmenistan has already showed that it agrees with the MML and there are only some problems (such as the Kapaz oil fields) that should be hammered out. Also Turkmenistan is waiting for the destiny of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline. What is the position of Iran?
The position of Iran is to divide the Caspian Sea according to equity (20% for each). The Russian Federation is imposing its formula of MML for the division of the Caspian Sea-bed and leaving the superjacent waters for the common use. Iranian position about the possible division of the Caspian Sea is not limited to the "seabed" (unlike MML). Iran is asking for a complete division of the whole sea. This kind of division will lead to:
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23 Aug I Sing of MAARS and a Robot
Defense One points to a news story in the Baghdad Post that the Iraqi Security Forces may be preparing to deploy a ground-combat robot:
Loosely dubbed Alrobot — Arabic for robot — it has four cameras, an automatic machine gun, and a launcher for Russian-made Katyusha rockets, and can be operated by laptop and radio link from a kilometer away, the [Baghdad Post] story says.
One point is important to emphasize, the Alrobot is a remotely-controlled four-wheeled drone, it is not an autonomous weapon. By contrast, an autonomous weapon would be, in the words of a recent article from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "capable of selecting and engaging targets without human intervention."
However, while the Alrobot would not be autonomous, Defense One also notes that it will also not be the first remotely-controlled battlefield weapon deployed in Iraq:
Back in 2007, the U.S. Army deployed three armed ground robots called the Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System, or SWORDS, from weapons maker Foster-Miller (now owned by Qinetiq). SWORDS basically consisted of a Foster-Miller TALON robot armed with a machine gun.
However, the SWORDS unmanned ground vehicles (UGV's) were never used on patrol. A 2008 Wired article (to which Defense One linked) explained in an addendum:
Senior Army leadership, however, was not comfortable with sending them out to do combat missions due to safety reasons, and they are now placed in fixed positions, said Robert Quinn, vice president of Talon operations at Foster-Miller…
It seems to be a "chicken or the egg" situation for the Army, he said. The tactics, techniques and procedures for using armed ground robots have not been addressed.
But until there is an adequate number of SWORDS to train with, these issues can't be worked out, he said.
.A successor weapons system, the Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (MAARS) is currently being developed by QinetiQ. Like its predecessor, MAARS would not be an autonomous weapon, but a remotely-controlled battlefield robot with humans making the tactical decisions. Consequently, the legal issues here would be less like the many concerns stemming from using artificial intelligence to make targeting and live-fire decisions, but rather would be similar to the legal issues arising from the use of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's). Possible questions would include whether the use of the cameras and other sensors on the UGV would allow its operator to adequately discriminate between combatants and noncombatants. Does inserting an remotely-controlled armed robot make one more likely to use force? Under what situations would using such a system be disproportionate?
This may depend, in part, on how such systems are deployed. There could be different legal implications in using a UGV to, for example, "stand post" to guard the perimeter of a platoon that is out on patrol in a remote mountainous region as opposed to using a UGV in an urban combat situation where there are many civilians in close-quarters. The U.S. Marine Corps, for example, is considering when and how the use of weapons like MAARS would be appropriate.
For another recent post on robots and regulations, see my post from earlier this summer.


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December 4, 3135. Kendall, Independent World between the Former Free Worlds League and the Marian Hegemony.
Principes Cora Salud Katsaros eased her Icarus II up to the edge of the abandoned urban center in which she was soon to engage with the Marik Militia. The Caesar had been looking to Kendall since the League lost control of it, but both forces had been rebuilding since the Word of Blake Jihad. Upon learning that the League was attempting to reassert itself, Quinta Cohort, I Legio, was dispatched to snatch Kendall from the League's hands before they could fully reassert their control. Katsaros' Maniple was assigned scouting and harassment duties while the Legio attempted to assess the size of the Marik forces.
She turned her 'Mech's comms to the full Maniple "Securtda Centuria! Start moving North. Sensors show their heading bringing them into weapons range in the North-East. Centurion Suero, you come with me heading straight at them. The rest of Prima Centuria, move East. Everyone keep your visibility low, and move fast. When they get close, we pick one target at a time and concentrate fire from all sides. Vaditote!" Katsaros fired her jump jets on her own final command, with Suero's Jenner following. In unison derived of long practice, the Maniple all turned on their exterior loud speakers and began the barritus.
The Icarus hit the roof with a boom, Katsaros cycled her LB-10X to cluster rounds and opened fire on the lighter of the two targets she had in her sights, but the evasive maneuvers of the FWL Vedette carried it clear of the shot, the pavement behind it erupting into dust. She cursed, realizing she had made the call too soon, and Suero's Jenner wasn't even in effective weapons range. They fired their jets again to rejoin the Centuria, with little to show for their efforts.
While the tanks rumbled away northward, the BattleMechs skirted East. Katsaros jumped her Icarus in view of the enemy, while the rest of her Centuria came out from behind buildings to open fire from the side. They had already lost their Locust to catastrophic engine failure, but the Centuria formed a semi-circle around the enemy units that had advanced the most. Katsaros used her Icarus' mobility to minimize her own exposure while drawing the enemy into range of the deadly plasma rifle and suite of lasers on Roger Lewerentz' Eisenfaust. Meanwhile, Suero and Themistoklis Torres used their mobility to keep their Jenner and Wolfhound behind the enemy.
For a brief moment, the two forces seemed locked in a stalemate. The tide turned when Torres suddenly rushed into close range, declaring "I see an opening! Wish me luck!" He weaved between the walls of a block of crumbling buildings which the Militia's Juliano had taken cover in, and was able to aim all his main weaponry right into the Juliano's back. Seeing a Regulator swoop in behind him on his sensors, Torres fired everything, allowing heat to flood into his cockpit. Ignoring the warnings from his Wolfhound's computer, he continued to give everything he had, but the Juliano's heavy armor was able to weather it all, and the Wolfhound soon succumbed to both heat and enemy fire, collapsing into the twisted rebar of the abandoned buildings and shutting down.
The battle raged on, and Katsaros saw victory slipping further away. The Marik Militia's armor lance included two wicked fast Regulators, which had effectively tied up her own tanks, slowing her pincer attack. Her 'Mechs were still fast enough to flank the enemy, but with half her firepower unable to concentrate fire, the heavier Marik forces were successfully drawing the combat out longer, a situation favourable to their durability.
Katsaros was starting to despair as she looked at her Centuria's 'Mechs, barely any of their I Legio colours were still visible with their armor bearing so many ragged holes baring vulnerable internal structures. Just then, Centurion Eudora Abd al-Rahman Wolter's voice came over the Maniple comms "Sorry for the delay, Principes, I hope you left some for us." Relief washed over Katsaros as Wolter's Myrmidon charged into view, and its PPC released a stream of particles that ripped through the air and slammed into the side of the Leaguers' Juliano, finally felling the giant.
It was too little, too late, though. The combined firepower of the remainder of the Maniple was enough to destroy the FWL BattleMech lance, but not before Prima Centuria reached the same fate. Katsaros crawled out of the smoking cockpit of her Icarus in time to see fire erupt from numerous holes in the Myrmidon's armor. She retreated from the battlefield on foot, darting through cover positions and doing her best to remain undetected. The fighting at the end was fast paced and fierce. Victory seemed always just barely out of their grasp as Securtda Centuria's tanks traded fire with the Milita's, claiming kills, but always one step behind. As the sounds of autocannon and gauss rifle fire slowed, Katsaros' suit comms crackled, and she heard Miles Probatus Yuhanna Fiero's voice; "Permission to surrender, Principes? Only my Vedette is still moving, and they just took out my autocannon." Katsaros stopped in her retreat, sagging against the nearest wall. "Sic, Miles Probatus. I will petition the Legatus to negotiate for your release."


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...part 2.
Q: What is better than crafting?
A: Crafting with chocolate, durrr.
You may recall my post about SU's super Many Merry Stars kit recently. I ran a class using this brilliant kit with my lovely Monday ladies yesterday. Each one got 5 stars, one of each size and colour, to make up as she wished, either as boxes, 3-d decorations or to keep as stars to stick on cards etc. They loved the huge selection of embellishments and the stars they made look fab! There were loads of bits and pieces left over that they took with them, and we were all very sparkly as we left... We split the cost of the kit between them, and I resolved the dilemma of what to do with the biggest star by filling it with choccies and doing a free raffle between those taking part.
I reinforced the base and the lid by cutting 2 large stars out of the packaging that protected the kit, and used some gorgeous washi tape to keep it neat round the edges (thank you lovely Vicky for sending me yours when I ran out xxx)
Would you like to do a Many Merry Stars workshop with me (chocolate included of course)? Get in touch on 01737 762078
PS There are some good tutorials on youtube such as this one and this one on how to make opening boxes out of this kit, and I have also had success with these simple methods:
1: A flap in the top (or bottom) of the box. Before you assemble the box, take the top star and select a round or square framelit to fit. Position it in the middle of the star and run them through your Big Shot, but position the top cutting pad only two thirds across the framelit. This way one third of the shape is still in tact. You will need to add something on the flap to lift it up with as it is such a good fit; a little split pin (brad) works well! This would be great for an advent calendar project.
2: Just leave the two flaps of the top point of the star open. Remove the adhesive strips from both sides and punch holes in the top of the box. Thread thin ribbon through the holes and tie a bow or parcel loop to close.
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Many Merry Stars...
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Thanks so much for showing some ideas for how to create openings in the boxes Helen! My kit arrived yesterday and I am currently sat in my living room playing with it! :)ReplyDelete
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I hope you had fun with your kit this evening - I'd love it if you put a link here to what you did with your stars...
LOVING this kit Helen! Thank you for sharing your useful tips too. Vicky xReplyDelete
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. Please feel free to link to your own related projects, Helen x.
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