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Beijing says it will return seized drone in 'appropriate manner', while US president-elect Donald Trump accuses China of theft
US says survey vessel taken unlawfully, while analysts in China see the move as within Beijing's rights
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China said it would return a US navy drone seized in international waters in the South China Sea "in an appropriate manner" as both countries accused the other of ratcheting up tensions in the region.
In a statement issued on Saturday night, the Chinese defence ministry said it had taken the drone for verification and accused the United States of "making a fuss" over the incident.
According to the Pentagon, the US lodged a formal diplomatic protest and demanded the return of the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), which it said was "unlawfully" taken by a Chinese warship on Thursday near Subic Bay off the Philippines.
Trump waded into the debate on Saturday night, Beijing time, with an initially misspelled tweet saying China had stolen the drone in international waters in an "unpresidented" act, before he corrected his wording almost an hour later.
China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 17, 2016
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the incident took place when the US oceanographic survey ship Bowditch was about to retrieve the drone, an unclassified "ocean glider" used around the world to gather data on salinity and water temperature.
The seizure took place outside the "nine-dash line" on maps that shows Beijing's claims to most of the contested waters.
Defence ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun dismissed the US allegations, insisting China had been "professional and responsible" to take the drone. "We had to examine and verify the device in a bid to avoid any harm it might cause to the safety of navigation and personnel," he said in a statement issued late on Saturday night, adding that the drone would be returned "in an appropriate manner".
He said China was strongly opposed to such reconnaissance activities and it was highly inappropriate for the US to make a fuss over the incident.
Satellite images 'show Beijing has built weapons on all its artificial islands in South China Sea'
A Chinese Foreign ministry statement said: "According to [our] understanding, the US and Chinese sides are working on appropriately handling this matter through channels between the two militaries."
A war of words erupted as Chinese analysts insisted the seizure was within Beijing's right to defend itself against military intelligence gathering.
"What was [the US military underwater drone] doing in the region? We'll have to examine and decide by ourselves if it was indeed some sort of scientific experiment or military reconnaissance in such a pretext," said Rear Admiral Yang Yi, the former head of the Institute for Strategic Studies at the PLA National Defence University.
Wu Shicun, president of the Chinese government-affiliated National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said the incident showed that the two militaries had entered into a phase of underwater competition.
"China wants to send out a signal that if you spy on us underwater and threaten our national security, we have measures to deal with it. On the South China Sea issue, we took in humiliations with a humble view in past years. I think this era has finished."
China seizes US underwater drone in South China Sea
Analysts noted it was the first time tensions over regional maritime disputes had flared since the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in July, which rejected Beijing's claims to much of the South China Sea.
Bonnie Glaser, an analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Beijing's move was likely sending a signal to US president-elect Donald Trump before he was sworn in that "the US couldn't challenge China's core interests with impunity".
"My guess is this is not the act of a rogue commander on a Chinese navy ship. We have seen tight control by (President) Xi Jinping over the military. I'm more inclined to see it as a deliberate act and as a signal," she said.
South China Sea air strips' main role is 'to defend Hainan nuclear submarine base'A series of swaggering steps by Trump, including his groundbreaking telephone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and hawkish remarks on China, have already strained the largely smooth bilateral ties under President Barack Obama.
Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, a top Trump adviser, described China's move as a deliberate act to humiliate the US.
"This was in international waters. The American naval research vessel was in the process of recovering the drone. The Chinese vessel came up and put a smaller boat in the water and just took the thing away," he told Fox News. "It's the culmination of eight years of the Obama administration's weakness all around the world."
Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo, an analyst at the Academy of Military Science, a PLA think-tank, said both sides would probably resolve the issue via negotiation.
"China would say, at least, you can't behave in this way any more. ... Then the two sides will enter negotiations. It will only be returned when some form of agreement is reached."
China and US in silent fight for supremacy beneath waves of South China Sea
Analysts said the incident would further strain the China-US relations.
Ashley Townshend, a research fellow at the University of Sydney, said: "Against the background of rising tensions in the South China Sea and Trump's increasingly hawkish comments on China policy, this incident will be serious test for US-China relations."
Zhao also said its impact on the bilateral ties would largely depend on how negotiations were going to be conducted between the two sides as well as national sentiments and media response in China.
Additional reporting by Associated Press
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My base is MUD (Make Up Design) Tease Me, and I used China Glaze Techno to do a glitter gradient and full glitter accent nail.
I love this combo. Admittedly, it looks different in the lighting, as you can see in my pictures, but in reality it's closer to the second picture. As a nude, it's a bit too dark for my skin tone. But I quite like it. Still searching for that perfect nude though!
Until Next Time,
<3 Bec

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An Australian man won a jackpot with his $49 (£36) raffle ticket after being chosen the new owner of a 16-bedroom beach resort on a picturesque Pacific island. The current owners, Doug and Sally Beitz – also from Australia, who nurtured their dream home for more than two decades, are said to have made roughty £2m from the raffle.
The Australian couple announced the winner, identified only as Joshua from New South Wales, on Tuesday (26 July) on Facebook. More than 50,000 people — including the couple's friends, customers, family members and other unknown people across the world had reportedly tried their luck, of whom Joshua emerged as the luckiest.
In addition to the Kosrae Nautilus Resort in Micronesia, Joshua has also won a scuba-diving business, a four-bedroom house, five rental cars, two-ten seater vans, a pick-up truck, a 32ft swimming pool, a private beach and the resort restaurant. The Beitz couple decided to hold the raffle in place of selling their dream business because they wanted someone passionate about island life to become the new owner. The idea of holding a raffle was reportedly floated by their son Adam.
Back in the mid-1990s, Doug, a former firefighter on Australia's Gold Coast, and Sally, a homemaker taking care of their three sons, dreamed of building a resort in Micronesia after watching a TV documentary on the region. They also read an article in a magazine about the business opportunities on the several islands in Micronesia. They opened the resort in October 1994, moved back to Australia for a while for their children's education, and then came back to the island again in 2004.
With their three boys all grown up and leading family lives back in Australia, the couple now want to wind up their island life and be with their children and grandchildren. "It's now time for us to begin a new chapter in our lives closer to family in Australia," the couple said on the resort website.
The website also mentioned that the resort business is debt free, profitable and fully staffed.


text: Greetings. A few months back I had the pleasure of speaking with an old friend about Yoga as well as my experience as a student and teacher. That conversation has been transformed into a nice podcast. I am honoured to be the first in a series of podcasts entitled Rebirth. Thank you Rene.


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'la rentrée'
first day at primary school today and
i thought she'd cry rivers
but she gritted her little teeth instead
drew a couple of pictures, did some maths
borrowed a book on dolphins from the library, and made a new friend.
and mummy is so relieved,
maybe even a little proud :)
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- la casita said...
ah great! so happy to hear she's settling well in her new school.
- September 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM
- shipbuilding said...
oh phew!
I hope you are also proud of yourself
may there be many happy days
of drawing etc ahead : )
k x
- September 5, 2013 at 2:55 PM
- Demetris said...
Great start to a different life of adventures!
- September 8, 2013 at 5:34 PM
a good new school year for little a.!
may you always be proud of her!
- September 9, 2013 at 9:54 PM
- j said...
Dolphins and pencil shavings.
Well done mom!
You should be very, very proud.
Hope all is still going well.
much love
xo, j
- September 10, 2013 at 3:50 PM
- Amélie said...
Such an important moment! Yes pride and relief I also felt on Elsa's first day at primary school. It's been two years ago ... and just seems like yesterday.
- September 13, 2013 at 7:21 AM
- v said...
oh i am so happy for you both my dear x!!: )
here it is autumn now. beautiful colors in nature and such a lovely crisp air. days are turning shorter, the daylight is decreasing.....i could have managed very nice without the increasing of daylight but that is just how it is to be living in this country. just need to be extra generous with bying myself flowers and yarn in colors that uplifts in this coming dark season : ))
much love
- September 15, 2013 at 12:15 PM


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The OCTOBER HOP...will be a MONSTER MASH theme!!! Designers and PMS fans will be able to participate together...in the mash...the monster mash...it was a grave yard smash... (Oops...I started singing there. Did you??) When you are doing your PMS shopping, be sure to put a couple of your favorite monsters into your cart! We can't wait to see some whimsy and creepiness from you next month. I wonder if we can get Katie to give a prize for the most creative monster creation!! If you want to participate, sign up through Mr. Linky:
Adrienne Dial was the winner of a new Baby Boris stamp for coming and bringing a friend to last night's Release Party! Congrats! Please email Katie so she can mail out your sweet new rubber addition. haha (katie at paper makeup dot com)
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It's official...school is in session. Your homework assignment this week...create a card with the theme "Back To School." Wheather it's "glad you're my new teacher" card or "you are going to be great this year," there are plenthy of reasons to use a back to school card. Here are more designs from the team!
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The contenders included Corona, an English bulldog known for her extreme snoring, and Chulis, a prissy poodle from Guadalajara who loves to watch King Kong movies.
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Dr. David Cameron (or simply Dr. David, as he is commonly referred to by the other characters) is a fictional character on the Showtime series Queer as Folk. He is Michael Novotny's main love interest for all of Season 1.
He was previously married but was later divorced, and he also has a son, Hank. David meets Michael after he injures his back working at the Q Mart. David is the chiropractor Michael is referred to, and later, when he sees Michael back at the Q Mart, asks him out, and the two begin to date.
However, they are almost constantly at odds with each other. For example, at one point, Dr. David was jealous of the relationship Michael has with Brian, and at one point forbade him from seeing him again. Michael, on the other hand, is put off by David's willingness to do everything, such as pay for dinner at restaurants, and at one point, Michael found out that David was not cashing the checks he was giving him for rent.
Michael often finds himself intimidated by the lavish lifestyle that Dr. David leads.
At the end of Season One, Dr. David decides to move back to Portland, Oregon to be with his son, and invites Michael to come with him. Michael was originally going to leave with him, but stayed behind after Justin was assaulted. In the Second Season, Michael comes back to Pittsburgh, and after Emmett catches him having sex with another man, confesses that he and Dr. David are no longer together. Dr. David is neither seen nor heard from again for the rest of the series. Although at one point in season 3, Emmett, after sleeping on Michael's couch all night, stated that he needed a chiropractor. He then looked at Michael and apologized. There is another reference to Dr. David in Episode 15 of Season 2 (Rage Against This Machine) when Michael and Justin discuss possible story lines for their comic book. Michael calls Brian at four in the morning to get in contact with Justin. The words 'Maybe we could have a chiropractor as a villan' are audibe before Brian ends the call.


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Published in 'The French Paper' December 2009--- The Christmas Edition.Holly …. Houx (French) …. Ilex aquifolium (Latin).
'The Holly and the Ivy – when they are both full grown- of all the trees that are in the wood the Holly bears the Crown.' Where began this traditional link between Holly and Christmas?
A long while ago I led a party of Germans from the Munich area through the Forest of Dean. One stopped and asked me 'Vot is dat tree?' Although surprised at what seemed to me to be a display of extraordinary ignorance, I replied 'A holly tree'. 'Vee have not this plant where vee live.'
Wow! I thought; Can this be true? As soon as possible I checked out the European distribution. He was right. The tree does not grow everywhere. Even in England, the county of Lincolnshire is not known to have hollies not originally planted by someone at some time. In France it is not recorded from the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy (an oversight perhaps – can you confirm?). In the deep south it is fairly rare. In my area of the département of the Lot (46) I would not know where to find a genuine wild specimen. The home range of this plant is in Western Europe extending to Northern Germany and also to Austria – though not Munich! It is also here and there in the Mediterranean region and along the Northern coastlands of Spain.
With spiny thick skinned shiny leaves, you would suppose that it is adapted either to dry locations or cold conditions. Any evergreen leaf is capable of being a chemical factory for food production if conditions are favourable during the winter and they therefore have a head start in Spring over the deciduous leaves of other trees. It does not live in the coldest countries though it is reasonably resistant to frosts, so perhaps Spain is its real home of origin, back in the time when the Ice-Age glaciers first retreated northwards. The holly extended its range, following the warming conditions.
The custom of bringing berried holly into the house is said to go back to the Roman festival of Saturnalia, which became transformed into Christmas. The primeval and non-Christian reverence for this tree has been displayed in the Forest of Dean (my previous home area) to very recent times. At the Court of Verderers, still in existence, any oath was sworn over a spray of Holly.
The Christian association with holly started somewhere in Western Europe. Wherever it began, it is easy to see the symbolism to the Christian story. The red berries represent blood and the spiny leaves, the crown of thorns. But not all the leaves are spiny. The most strongly spiny leaves are those within reach of the hungry mouths of browsing animals. At the top of the tree their edges are smooth. An interesting adaptation, but how does the tree know how to grow the leaves in this manner? The most probable answer is that the tree would normally tend to grow fairly smooth leaves, but that when the branches are damaged, the new growth has smaller and more spiny leaves. So if you cut or chew the branches, then you get more spiny leaves.
The younger leaves are quite palatable to livestock. Farmers used to chop down the upper branches to feed their animals in the winter. The inner bark is rather mucilaginous. It was a country practice to strip this bark, boil it and let it ferment. It then became exceedingly sticky. This was used to trap birds – it was 'birdlime'. The trapped birds could then be killed and eaten! You may recall the absurd words in Alice through the Looking Glass –
"I sometimes dig for buttered rolls
Or set limed twigs for crabs."
The verse is meant to be ridiculous – but the lime was almost surely birdlime made from Holly bark. Its production was once a serious industry in the Lake District.
The red berries do not grow on all holly trees, because the vast majority of trees have either only male or female flowers! The small white flowers, which have just four petals, bloom in May. The bees love them. If you eat the berries, you can expect to have stomach cramps, diarrhoea or worse. Yet birds in winter appear to enjoy them. Where the thrush-like redwings migrate south and west in severe winters, they regale themselves on these. It is possible that the poisonous and bitter element of the berries becomes reduced as they age. You may notice that the berries of Holly or Ivy are hardly touched by the birds until mid winter. It would not be surprising that this is an adaptation which aids the dispersal of the pips inside.
There has evolved with the holly, as with so many native plants, its own particular range of fellow travellers, its parasites. The holly blue butterfly is such a species. This beautiful blue butterfly has a pale underside to the wings with scattered small dark spots. It lays its eggs amongst the flower buds of holly (and a few other woody plants) which the caterpillars then eat. But when the adults of these emerge in summer they then lay eggs on ivy – an unusual occurrence.
The dried leaves, used in an infusion are supposed to give relief from flu; it is perhaps as good as quinine in reducing a fever. I do not advocate this use, get a vaccination instead or go to bed!


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Last year Big Sean was signed to Kanye's Record Label G.O.O.D. Music. (alongside with Mr. Hudson & Kid Cudi) This song leaked last week but Big Sean has said that this is a older version of the song, that now has a different beat. Personally I think this song is already #1 Hit Status & Mr Hudson's Vocal are top noch as usually (He was also on Jay-Z's Album Last Year, The Blueprint 3 "Forever Young"). Song talks about how hard breakups can be.


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I have to get to the South African capital Johannesburg and then on to Tasmania and it seems to me that I will have to go in disguise. What is more, I don't think I can use my sari disguise because I am sure I had witnesses at the seaport in Mahbourg who might remember me. So I have been considering my options.
I'm quite practised at disguise. Mrs Desai used to give me and my parents birthday parties. We tried to tell her that it was not necessary but, to be honest, we enjoyed them and always arranged something for her on her birthday (March 12th). Mrs Desai and I continued to make the effort in later years, but this year I didn't celebrate at all.
Anyway, at the parties we sometimes dressed up in outlandish, home-made costumes. I can still recall my mother as the Statue of Liberty and there was one year when all four of us were punk rockers. I wish I had a photo, but as I have already said, Mrs Desai did not take pictures of us. I have pictures of Mrs Desai that I have found on her laptop, but none of my parents. I sometimes worry that I will forget what they looked like.
So, I have some experience of disguise and drawing on my experience I have considered three possibilities:
Disguises suitable for your average dodo wishing to escape attention:
1. The sunglasses
This is the most basic of all disguises and is useful for protecting the eyes in bright sunshine. On reflection, it may not be the most effective disguise, unless the desired effect is to make elderly ladies laugh merrily (as it has done on many occasions).
2. The Ostrich
Ostriches are magnificent, long-legged birds that live in Africa. They have long necks and beautiful black, white and grey feathers. Despite what the children in Mahbourg thought, this makes ostriches rather unlike the dodo (who is no less beautiful in his own way), but the challenge of disguising a dodo as an ostrich is easily met with the use of feathers from a mattress company such as Heavenly Rest (warehouse located on industrial estate close to sea port in Cape Town), with strong sticks (easily located in rubbish piles or in the countryside) as stilts, and with glue.
3. The turkey
The turkey has an advantage over an ostrich in that it is nearer in size to a dodo and a turkey disguise does not require stilts. However, it does require more feathers, some of which have to be arranged in a fan and attached to the dodo's bottom. This can be challenging in the absence of a mirror but can be convincing.
I have decided on the ostrich look. I am holed up in an industrial estate near the port where I have found a supply of tinned peaches (rather pleasant though the sugary juice is potentially beak-rotting). It has taken me quite a while to create my disguise, what with the need to whittle away at the sticks with my beak and claws, but at last I have something roughly resembling ostrich legs and have fashioned a cheeky little ostrich face. I have practised walking on my new legs in the hope that I will not fall over too much.
I am pleased with the results and delighted that the extra feathers hide my camera and laptop. I sometimes fear for their safety.
Hark!. Someone is making his or her way through the estate. I wish that my real neck is as long as an ostrich's so that I can look more easily (as it I am forced to peer out from the bottom of my 'ostrich neck' – see diagram 2.
What? How can Dr Candlewick have followed me here? I last saw him at the port in Mauritius. Is it possible that he has worked out which boat I had taken? Even so, I was careful to leave no tracks. Or was I? Ah. Oh dear. There are my real footprints for all to see, each one clearly defined by the sun cream I sat in while on the boat. O, you fool, Ferdinand, you fool. I must step out now. I hope I won't wobble too much.


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Ugh is it already March 2016? Keeping up with this blog has been SUPER HARD, but I'm not going to give up! I've been focusing more on Zooey's blog recently so this one kind of went on a break. Sorry guys. My struggle is still the same regarding what type of topic or content I want to share here..do I write about motherhood? There's already 100001 websites/blogs out there about motherhood..is my experience THAT different? Ok, it might be. You can thank Instagram for my laziness to update this blog! SERIOUSLY. And then there's snapchat what? Sorry, too many social media platforms to handle but I might start one for Zooey this year, maybe. ha! Ok, since it's already like 3 months into the new year, I'll save you from my last year's recap which you can see sort of see through the best 9 above but let me reflect a little bit, share what my goals are and what I'm looking forward to this year..... I'll break them into the 4 topics that fortune tellers ask you to list in terms of importance.
Having supportive friends is SO important. Having supportive MOMMY friends is even MORE important. I might have went through rounds of friendships that came and went but the ones that are still here and strong, I'm so grateful for. I started a hashtag with fellow mama friend Julia called #zooeyandlala where we document our daughters hanging out.. their relationship is seriously #friendshipgoals. I can't even tell you where all my 'childhood' friends are today and really hope that Zooey will be able to when she grows up.
In addition,I finally joined Fashion Mamas LA and it is such a blessing to be in a group with some amazing Rock Star mamas. Sharing our experiences of motherhood while balancing life in the Industry has helped me find my place here in the states. I was missing Tokyo life so much recently but now it's really not so bad here! I found my #momsquad. hehe
Health hasn't been something that I cared much about at all because I just thought, I'll always be ok (so bad I know), but recently some health problems finally came to light. For as long as I can remember, doctors have always said something about my thyroid..that my neck looked kind of big, but I never noticed anything.. I never felt any symptoms, no problem swallowing, didn't feel tired.. moody maybe, but what mama isn't? So finally after my latest health check, I went in to get a biopsy for my thryoid but they all came back 'inconclusive'. I had some more biopsies done..'inconclusive'..so what gives? But my Endocrinologist suggested that I remove my thyoid. WHY WOULD I JUST DECIDE TO REMOVE MY THYROID IF THE TESTS ARE INCONCLUSIVE!??? So..he sent me to take another test..a genetic one called Afirma. They can test the DNA of my thyroid which would help with my decision to either 1.) Keep getting biopsies every 3 months 2.) remove my thyroid.
The result: 40% suspicious.
A few days before my birthday, I was supposed to go into surgery to remove my thyroid, but I came down with the flu + nasty sinus infection so it was postponed until March 17th. It's now the end of March, I had my surgery and I'm currently living without a thyroid! It's been a little over a week since my surgery and I'm feeling fine..while on my meds of course. My scar is actually healing well and I've been wearing a bandana around my neck to cover it all up... I have to really thank my parents for being there for me. I know it's been really tough on them because I'm kind of complacent about everything lately... HOPEFULLY, I will be better soon and learn how to treat those around me better with and show more appreciation.
But in regards to health, make sure to get your physical check ups EVERY year..listen to your doctor, listen to your body. Your kids need you so your health needs to come first.
We'll be approaching our 5th year anniversary this year! Marriage is such a funny thing...there's this companionship if we need it, but other times we're off doing our own stuff, me- going out to shoot photos with Zooey, Disneyland, hanging out with my friends and their kids, while hubby hangs out in his man cave and plays guitar. I think this has to do with the language barrier still..because if you remember, he moved to America with us from Tokyo, without speaking a lick of English...he did this for us because he loves us. So I need to give him time to adjust. Love is patience. Hubby actually recently started working for Barton Perreira and we are discovering more things (like vintage shops) that he likes. Things are going pretty well I think! Everyone asks us if we will have a second baby. I always say, it will happen when it happens. But for now, we're happy to be just 3 (tho hubby did mention that he kind of wishes for a son one day.....)
By now, I would have hoped that I had my career figured out. I'm a semi SAHM but want to keep working. I'm still pretty interactive in the fashion industry but not as much as I was in Tokyo.. I've been freelancing in social media since I came back from Tokyo...It allows me to have a flexible schedule but I'm kind of on my phone or computer ALL the time!! This is bad..but, my work lets me be mobile and I can work on the go..I can spend as much time with Zooey as I can until she goes to school full time, and I have the freedom to work on projects that I'm passionate about. But is it time to settle with something more stable? Can you see me in an OFFICE job? Everyone has been advising me to just start my own company, but for those that know me, I dislike being the CEO of anything, and would rather be the VP. But let me just say, I'm really close to finding my partner. A few things are coming together and I'm really excited about it!
Right now I'm focusing on Zooey and trying to do everything that I can for her. Motherhood is tough, but we don't have to do it alone. I'm so grateful for my family, friends and our fans. These kids grow so fast!! I really respect all of you crafty moms! If you have any mommy hacks or some ideas on how to make great memories with your kids, I'd love to hear them in the comments!!!! My mommy hack is, get a Disneyland Annual Pass. It's the best investment everrrrrr!!!! We've made the best memories here this year, and it's good cardio too! lol!
P.S. One of my favorites of Zooey this year...you can follow her on Instagram @zooeyinthecity


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When even that most tribal Conservative Party loyalist Lord Tebbit criticised Miller as "arrogant and greedy", joining voices that included the former Speaker Baroness Boothroyd, there was little doubt that it was time for her to go, whether she liked it or not.
The legacy of Miller, a former executive at Grey, is difficult to determine. Although the IPA's Paul Bainsfair says that she understood the contribution of the creative industries to the British economy, she will probably be best-remembered for the expenses scandal that led to her being crowbarred out of a job she wasn't very good at.
While her successor, Sajid Javid, may not have the experience of working in the creative industries that Miller has (for what good it did us), the backstory of this second-generation immigrant who rose from a humble background through hard graft at least contrasts with the complacency, avarice and sense of entitlement of his predecessor. With threats to the industry showing no sign of going away, we must hope that his appreciation of the value of advertising to the economy is rather more acute.
In the same week that changes were made at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, a brand that had developed attributes similar to the ones ascribed to Miller was seeking to throw off these shackles with its first agency-originated advertising campaign. The work for Ryanair – so long associated with a hateful booking system, appalling customer service and a self-publicist chief executive who seemed to delight in "pissing people off" – was apparently designed to engage the consumer rather than test how effective the self-regulation of advertising works.
If Ryanair sheds its old image, it would make an interesting case study on the power of advertising for lapsed clients
The TV and print campaign, created by Dare, is actually pretty good given the tough brief and rightly, if tacitly, acknowledges Ryanair's previous brand failings.
For Dare, the project is a welcome one after a rocky couple of years and gives the agency something to get its teeth into following the loss of Gocompare.com, for which the advertising through Fold7 now plumbs depths previously thought unimaginable.
The public response to the Ryanair campaign has anecdotally been positive. If the airline manages to shed its old image (which also depends on Michael O'Leary keeping his mouth firmly shut), then it would make an interesting and timely case study on the power of advertising for lapsed clients or those with similar perception issues. It might also make interesting reading for Miller as she reflects on her failings and perhaps considers rehabilitation.


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No one, to my knowledge, has yet written a history of artists and the people who commission and pay for their art. But when such a study does get put together one day, the relationship between the Nabis and their wealthy Parisian benefactors—usually rich Jews of German or Russian descent—will make an especially vivid chapter.
The Nabis, the subject of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's wonderful exhibition "Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel }," were a group of painters active in Paris from about 1890 to 1930. They included two world-class painters—Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard—and two minor ones—Maurice Denis and Ker Xavier Roussel. On the surface, their work was, well, all surface. Denis summed up their aesthetic in one renowned sentence: "A picture—before being a war horse, a female nude, or some anecdote—is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a particular order." The Nabis aimed primarily to make art that would neither provoke the intellect nor vex the emotions. At least these were their publicly stated intentions. On closer examination, they seemed to be up to something more.
For one thing, the Nabis may have concerned themselves with surface, but their work wasn't superficial. Though they abandoned the easel in favor of painting on Japanese screens and on ceramics, and though they often applied themselves directly to living-room walls, they animated their work with dreamy, sometimes haunting layers of symbolism. They also worked in opposition to the Impressionists, banning the portrayal of natural light from their work and exaggerating the insignificance of the Impressionists' human figures to the point where, in the Nabis' pictures, the figures sometimes blend into the wallpaper. "Nabi" means "prophet" in Hebrew, and besides using the allusion to appeal to their Jewish patrons, the four painters thought of themselves as being in the vanguard of their time.
Not everybody agreed. Degas couldn't stand them. The label "decorative" brought out fear and contempt among hard-core modernists: Since simplicity can be misconstrued as superficiality, to call modernist art decorative is like flinging its worst fear into its face. In the eyes of their critics, what the Nabis considered painterly refinements were acts of esthetic grossness. The fact that their works adorned the apartments, mansions, and villas of Paris' haute-bourgeoisie didn't add to the Nabis' popularity among the modernists, either.
A preoccupation with the Nabis' patrons' wealth also shapes the Met's presentation of the show, as well as some prominent critical reactions to it. The New York Times' Holland Cotter wrote: "Concocted for well-heeled homes," the Nabis' creations were "promotional statements about social stability, collective prosperity, collective prosperity … inert, closed-in, exhausted." It was decorative art that was merely "soothing," not "shocking." The Met's wall texts also stressed the art's decorativeness to the exclusion of its deeper qualities, though in a spirit of admiration, not hostility, going on at length about the lavish existence of the Nabis' patrons. Perhaps Cotter was crankily responding less to the show than to some of the more complacent aspects of prosperity. Perhaps the Met's commentary was, in its good-natured way, reflecting one of those complacent aspects, describing the opulence of the Nabis' work in lush shelter-magazine terms.
But the Nabis' art could be read, to a great extent, as a sly commentary on their patrons' taste. If you look closely at some of these paintings, you'll notice a wry, ingenious playfulness. One of the first paintings that greet you as you enter the exhibition is Bonnard's Woman in a Garden: Woman in a Checked Dress. Painted on a narrow, vertical panel, the picture represents a woman against a background of leaves and general greenery, with two other female figures in the near distance. But this is not any kind of recognizable garden. Several of the leaves, unattached to branches, appear superimposed over the dress's checkered pattern. The lower part of the dress seems to grow out of a fork in the tree at the bottom of the painting; leaves and tree are in the process of becoming fabric. To top it all off, the white hat, partly laid over with leaves—one of them heart-shaped—is so abstract that it looks more like a jagged patch of sky shaped into a hat. And the two women in the distance are rendered against a green expanse so oddly speckled with yellow that it seems embroidered rather than painted. Indeed, the entire garden is one-dimensional, stuck onto the background the way the dress is stuck onto the woman's figure. The painting transforms nature into a thing. This is a garden you might find on a rack in Saks.
As you walk through the show you notice how the Nabis have frozen nature into a commodity. In Denis'The Muses, which portrays a group of women in a forest, some sitting and some standing, the ground is literally rendered as an oriental rug. Vuillard's Under the Trees is even more defiantly playful. The painting is divided horizontally by a mass of foliage, whose bisecting border Vuillard represents as the fringe of a dress. Artificial, acquirable things, Vuillard seems to be saying, have replaced the Romantics' and the Impressionists' trees and valleys, rivers and seas.
Vuillard's Vanity Table is a portrait of a woman at her vanity table, but in this, as in several other works, he has titled his painting not after her but after her physical possession. The solitary figure on the right side of the painting is barely distinguishable from the dense subdued brilliance of the wallpaper, the flowers, the tablecloth underneath the flowers, the vanity table itself. The feeling such works evoke is, first, one of serenity, even comfort; and then a sensation of emptiness, loss, and nostalgia. It is as if you are watching a room become a memory of the people who once inhabited it at the same time as the people themselves slowly disappear from the room.
By the end of the show, by the time you have seen Bonnard depicting his human figures in hues of purple and green and pink, just like his bottles and vases, you get the feeling that the Nabis had a high time at the end of the day, sitting in a cafe and laughing over their guileful last word. It is as if they were saying to their benefactors: Do you want to escape the outside world to your haute-bourgeois apartment-castles? We will give you a world in which nothing exists but your interiors. Do you want to accumulate things, and more things? We will show you a world of only things. Do you want an art that might offer you a portal back to all that is natural in life, which you have lost? We will give you an art that is entirely artificial, so that you may long for what you have lost. The biblical prophets, after all, were great chastisers of convention and of material excess.
You could say that the Nabis not only pulled the rug out from underneath the rival artistic styles of late Romanticism and Impressionism. They also, for all their gratitude to their patrons, pulled their benefactors' pretensions out from underneath their rugs. In this way, the Nabis snatched artistic triumph from the jaws of their material success.


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Solution of Flow under Sluice Gateby Yong K. Chung, Res. Engr.; Oceanics, Inc., Plainview, NY,
Serial Information: Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, 1972, Vol. 98, Issue 1, Pg. 121-140
Document Type: Journal Paper
The problem is considered for an analytic perturbation solution with a realistic mathematical model such that the gate opening is relatively small and the upstream free surface is horizontal. Solutions for the discharge and contraction coefficients are obtained in terms of a small parameter. Conformal mapping, analytic continuation and perturbation methods combined to obtain the solution correctly up to the second order. The discharge and contraction coefficients which are obtained from the solutions are compared with those obtained by others. Flow under a sluice gate of variable angle is separately dealt with by similar procedures. Due to complexity resulting from the variable angle, solutions for the coefficients of discharge and contraction have been obtained only up to the first order. From the Bernoulli equation on free surfaces, the boundary equations and conditions are obtained for the Ω-function. From solutions for the Ω-function, the second order perturbation solutions are obtained for a vertical sluice gate.
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The Unarchiver: Stuffit Alternative
Now I am a big fan of Stuffit Expander, it always does what it has to and the free version does not harass me the way Winzip does and it's pretty feature rich as well. But if you are going to want some more advanced features, you'll love The Unarchiver, it's open source so that means guilt free use and pretty quick feature turnaround.
How to Save Newspapers
For the past 6 or 7 years I have pretty much abandoned traditional Print Press for the simple fact that I rarely ever read the full article, didn't care mush for all the advertising, don't enjoy the ink on my fingers and would rather put newspaper money into an few extra channels on the dish than recycle a tree a month. But this blog article form Doc Searls and Dave Winer is actually a really good read and made me think that anybody even has to tell this guys how to do the obvious things us webbies have known since day one:
…1) Stop giving away the news and charging for the olds. Okay, give away the news, if you have to, on your website. There's advertising money there. But please, open up the archives. Stop putting tomorrow's fishwrap behind paywalls…
…3) Link outside the paper…
…4) Start following, and linking to, local bloggers and even competing papers (such as the local arts weeklies)…
…8) Uncomplicate your webistes. I can't find a single newspaper that doesn't have a slow-loading, hard-to-navigate, crapped-up home page…
Read on, it's well worth it.
All Nike running shoes to be iPod compatible by year's end
Just a HINT that this would be a great Father' day present this year. Maybe it's time to finally retire the old Addidas Torsions… Size 12.
The Seven Essential "Stations" Every Home Should Have
I like to think that I am a pretty organised kind of guy. In my mind, there is a rule that says that everything must have a structure, I guess this is all part of being a Database Administrator. The area where all this structure probably fails is at the house, most likely becuase there is no way for me to control how the "little people" respect the general order of things. But seriously this is a great idea of how to organise things and probably easy enough for the kids to understand and play along. maybe we'll implement this in the new house. Of course you need a house big enough for 7 separate stations or you'll need to spend some serious time at Ikea measuring things up.
Apple TV, I Want One For All The Wrong Reasons
This has to be the sexiest appliance to get hacked to pieces in the shortest amount of time on record. And to be quite honest, I want to try all these hacks:
The list goes on and on and on just search for "Apple TV" on Digg for the full list.
Google Suggests You Swim Across The Atlantic Ocean
This is just plain old amusing:
19. Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi
20. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
29 days 0 hours
21. Slight right at E05 0.5 mi
Google Maps
In the map view the actually take the user to the end of a pier in Boston and then…water..
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A lot of time and hard work goes into great homebrew, but all too often the presentation just doesn't do it justice when your first pour comes out as froth!
Professional venues address this problem with glycol chilled font towers that cool the beer all the way to their fonts to ensure a consistent pour. You'll see these fonts dripping with cold condensation at your local pub but they're just far too expensive for most home brewers. This means after any significant time of inactivity, the beer in your lines warms up to room temperature and your next beer then pours with far too much head, even if your carbonation and beer line lengths are spot-on.
Lucky for home brewers, there is an affordable solution that works great for kegerators and keezers and we call it the Font Snake. The Font Snake works by circulating the cool air from inside your refrigerator up through a flexible hose into your font to keep your taps and beer lines cool. This achieves almost the same result as the professional glycol systems, allowing you to pour a great beer every time.
We designed the Font Snake with three main goals:
It had to be the best font cooler on the market in both appearance and performance.
It had to be the easiest and most convenient to install into common kegerators and keezers.
It had to be quiet, efficient and engineered with quality parts that will last.
We set out with these goals because unless we're making your life easier and giving you something of the utmost design and build quality, you might as well save some money and build a font cooler yourself!
In fact, nowadays there are a number of font coolers on the market that amount to nothing more than a cheap fan in a box that you could probably build yourself. They boast about the size of their fan but overlook most of the important (and less obvious) design considerations that make up a great font cooler like the Font Snake.
For example...
Font coolers need power to operate their fan and this means you're going to have to route a low voltage power cord inside your fridge somehow. Many keg fridges include a small opening for your CO2 gas line and it's convenient to re-use this existing hole if your power cord can fit through it. The trouble is that in many cases, the barrel connectors that come with plug packs are too cumbersome to fit through the hole alongside an existing gas line. This is especially common with kegerators and it means you have to:
This is why we designed the Font Snake with an extra connector half way along the power cord. The small connector is much slimmer than the "barrel" connector at the end of the power lead and it easily fits through the "gas line" hole in the back of your kegerator so that installation is a breeze.
Remember that your font cooler lives "inside" your fridge, so you need a cable that not only reaches "to" the fridge, but also has enough length to reach inside where the cooler is mounted. We found that standard power adaptors are usually a little lacking in the length department and wouldn't be sufficient for most of our customers which is why the Font Snake includes an extra 1 meter extension lead that can extend your power cable up to 2.1 meters total, and if you don't need it, you can just leave it out to reduce unnecessary cable clutter.
This is an important consideration because noise may be your single deciding factor in whether you leave your font cooler on 24/7, or only turn it on when you have guests over (and you'll have to wait a few minutes for it to cool the beer lines). Most font coolers use a blower instead of a fan because it is cheaper to drill an enclosure with a single round air inlet hole than milling the complex "arch" shapes required for a fan grille, but the downside of blowers is that they "howl" and they are much louder than their axial/fan counterparts, sometimes as much as four times as loud for the same air flow rating!
The Font Snake is built with a carefully selected fan that offers great real world performance (we tested many!) while running relatively quietly. If you live in a small or quiet house you'll really appreciate the Font Snake's quiet design and the extra cost that goes into it.
This is the most common question that we get asked about the Font Snake, but it's a little misguided as I will explain. For a font cooler to function correctly it needs to circulate air from the fridge up into the cavity inside the font and keep replacing that volume of air frequently enough that it stays cool. So for example, if we have a font with an internal volume of 0.1 Cubic Feet (2.83 litres), and say we want to replace that air every minute to keep it cool, we would need a CFM rating of 0.1CFM which is about 100 times LESS than the output of the weakest 60mm fan. Now you can see why it's crazy that some manufacturers boast about the CFM ratings of their fans! For argument's sake we could offer a 1,000 CFM fan and all it would do is make more noise, waste more power and your font wouldn't be any cooler!
With that said, the fan in the Font Snake is rated at 25CFM and we consider this to be complete overkill for the task, which is why the Font Snake also includes a variable speed controller so you can run it at a much lower power setting.
So we've mentioned how a font cooler's noise can be a serious concern and that using a powerful fan to generate excess airflow is also frivolous. Another thing to consider is that the bigger your fan and the harder it works, the more heat that gets generated inside your fridge. This extra heat makes your fridge work harder to keep your beer cool, yet again, using even more power! Just a few watts wasted inside your kegerator will cause it to consume many more watts to keep it cool and that's why it really pays to run your font cooler as efficiently as possible.
With a built in speed controller, the Font Snake allows you to set the exact amount of air flow that you want. We already have a fan that's more than powerful enough to cool your font, but with the integrated speed controller, you now have the ability to scale it back to reduce the noise and power usage to an optimal level for your individual setup.
This is a feature that you may have to live with to appreciate. At Digital Homebrew, we originally owned a font cooler with an inline switch (on the power cord) and we found we were always leaning over the fridge and fumbling around to find the power switch. That's why we designed our Font Snakes with a built in switch so that if you want to toggle the power on or off, you can conveniently open the fridge door and find the switch in a consistent location. Eventually it becomes second nature.
With all of the kegs, beer and gas lines it can already get very cluttered inside a keg fridge. Adding a font cooler can make things even worse if the conduit and power wires can get snagged on your kegs when you swap them in and out. A lot of the font coolers on the market come in a generic box with no mounting flanges or accessories, leaving you to find a way to deal with the mess, and you may even find that it's more trouble than it's worth!
That's why the Font Snake was designed for a tidy installation that is quick and easy. It can be immediately installed using the included adhesive velcro pads, and the enclosure also includes mounting flanges (and screws) so that you can screw it in place more permanently (but please take careful consideration before drilling into your fridge). Because the Font Snake can be affixed to the top of your fridge, the conduit doesn't need to be excessively long which may otherwise result in lost air flow and cooling.
Due to condensation, temperature swings and the occasional spill, the inside of a fridge is a fairly harsh environment and that's why it's important to use a quality fan that is built to last. Sunon, Orion, Qualtek and Delta are all reputable fan manufacturers that stand by their products. Contrast this with the "no-name" fans used in competing font coolers and you can easily see why they cost less. If the fan's manufacturer isn't confident enough to print their own brand name on their product then it doesn't build much confidence in the quality of the font cooler they're in!
Our Font Snakes are built with quality Orion fans and they have passed the test of time without a single reported failure from our customers in over two years. Our enclosures are professionally CNC machined in USA and screen printed with a coating that will never flake off. Our circuitry is mounted on a custom professionally designed printed circuit board and all assembly and testing is carried out in-house in Australia. You will not find this level of engineering detail or quality in any competing Font Cooler.
In fact, we are so confident in the design and build quality our Font Snakes that we offer DigitalHomebrew's "NO BS" lifetime warranty. We really want this Font Snake to serve you for a lifetime, and if there's anything inferior about it, we WANT to know! So if anything goes wrong, just send it back with proof of purchase and we will gladly refund your money, repair your Font Snake, or replace it with a new one!
Our Font Snake may not be the cheapest but it does represent amazing value, you simply won't find another font cooler with the same level of engineering and build quality.
1 x Font Snake
2 x Short mounting screws sized to fit the flanges on the font snake
1 x Velco square for instant or temporary mounting
1 x Australian or US 12v Power Adapter, dependent on your delivery address that has been entered (if you'd prefer the other, just let us know and we'll make sure we ship you the adapter style of your preference).
1 x 1 metre power cord extension with connectors for easy installation (length with power pack is 2.1 metres)
Here's a video of the Font Snake's installation process into a kegerator (Note the design has changed since we made this video but the installation is the same)


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Never one for mixing his words, Greg Savage told a delegation that unless recruitment agency's get on board with content, social and digital marketing they will not only lose ground to their competition, they'll end up on the losing side in the escalating war for talent.
Speaking at an event organised by talent marketing platform idibu, Savage made the prediction that 50% of the recruitment industry as we know it will no longer exist in 25 years. He said that the proliferation of technology and recruitment apps will "decimate" the sector.
Short of sounding like a Daily Mail'esque the end of world is nigh rhetoric, Savage was keen to point out that those recruiters who "prove their worth" to clients and candidates will be the eventual winners.
He said that while LinkedIn and job boards will continue to play an important role in the searching of candidates for some time yet, recruiters must also be mindful that users of such platforms are less engaged than those of Facebook.
He also added that Google is fast-becoming a job search tool and savvy recruiters are those who will have a well-developed digital strategy to enable them to be seen and heard above the increasingly audible online noise.
But how can this be achieved?
"Every recruitment agency needs to operate as a digital marketing agency," he said. "If you've got six people in your company – your seventh hire needs to be a digital marketing expert.
"If you don't have those people in-house, you're making a massive mistake.
"When I say digital marketing – I mean a sophisticated social strategy and a sophisticated SEO. I mean content marketing. This is how you will attract candidates – it's clients too… But candidates we want to place in jobs will engage with us through a sophisticated marketing strategy."
If you need support with your content marketing, social media and PR, speak to ClearlyPR – the specialist PR and Content Marketing agency for the Recruitment sector.
Check out Greg's article for Recruiter imprint here: 7 things every recruiter must do to thrive now!


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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that SCI FI's Battlestar Galactica and NBC's Bionic Woman have shut down production due to no more available scripts to shoot.
Both shows are shot in Vancouver, Canada.
Bionic Woman shut down production on November 9th, well ahead of its scheduled December 12th closing.
Battlestar Galactica, which was scheduled to film through mid-March, appears to be headed to a stop in production this coming Friday because it also has no more available scripts.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter


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US mediator Burns postpones trip seeking cease firepostponed his trip indefinitely.
Burns was supposed to arrive in Egypt on Monday to attend negotiations with hopes of ending the current violence in Gaza.
Representatives of Palestinian factions arrived in Cairo on Sunday and started talks with Egyptian officials to reach common ground about an Egytpian truce initiative proposed two weeks ago.
No Israeli official has arrived to participate in the negations, which Tel Aviv have called pointless on the grounds that it will not negotiate with Hamas.
American and Egyptian officials mediating the negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza are pressing Israel to take part in diplomatic talks to end hostilities in Gaza, sources said earlier on Monday, adding that Egypt still hopes that Israel will eventually take part in the talks currently held in Cairo.Given that Egypt has now had the Qatar-Turkey-Kerry initiative foisted on them, is anyone really surprised Israel isn't showing up?
Labels: cease fire, Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, IDF, John Kerry, Operation Protective Edge, Qatar, Turkey, William J. Burns


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Monday, November 9, 2009
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
This is For You Sis P-Chan~!!!! hahahahx~!!!!
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out of boredom...
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sum random quiz p-chan gave me.. hahaxh~!!
here's a random quiz p-chan suddenly gave me to do... based on the anime, naruto... hahahx~!!!! here goes~!!
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
as u all knw, i am so totaly free.. lolx~!! and because of that, i have done sumthing reli stupid~! hahahx~!! let me jz show u yea? XD hahax~!! erm.. it's a video of me taking a video of joe den while i teach him hw to smile.. note that he has NO idea whatsoever that im taking this video.. lolx~!!
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Freedom at last~!!! lolx~!!
Finally, the fears, the anxiety, the torture... it's all over... for now.. lolx~!!! ok.. im being a little too subtle...
That's abt all the shows im watching or am about to watch.. lolx~!! all of it are awesome... hahahx~!!! these are my recommendations... and those of u hu are, like me, so bloody free, check out these tv shows~!! hahahx~!! happy watching~!! ^^
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Monday, November 2, 2009
one more subject!!!!
i have sat for 5 papers so far in two n a half weeks... let me recount on all the papers ive sat for and my assumption on how i have done... erhem..
not as tough as i thought it would be, bt stil tough... wasted my time memorizing unwanted quotes that i never had to use again... =.=
overall: kinda ok i guess....
omggg... this one sucked like crazy~!!!! i practically din knw hw to do most of the questions~!!!!
overall: ughhh... dun ask... =.=
ughhhhhhh.... this one.... first 4 questions were quite ok... bt the last 3... oh goddd.... i was starting to wonder y i continued ith extension 1 in the first place.. hahahx~!!!
overall: sucky, sucky and sucky...
hmm.. it can't say its easy and i can't say its tough.. it's a bit of both.. the easy questions were easy and the hard questions were freaking tough... lolx~!! so i cant conclude much about this 1... hopefully i'll score...^^
overall: cant say much but.. HOPING FOR THE BEST~!!
omg~!!!! i feel so bloody stupid when i did this paper~!!! i did so badly in this one~!!!!!! omg~!!!! i hope i can pull through... but then again.. thinking bak on all the mistakes i have done... i dunno hw i did... ughhh... dammit~!!!! i knew the answer but my mind seemed to backfire in the exam hall~!!!!!!!!
overall: i have to refrain from suicide... wun do me any good.. bt... ughhhhh.. this is so frustrating!!!!
yet to be revealed....
well... i guess my overall performance excluding physics practically sucked... especially my chemistry.. omg~!!! i hope i can pull through~!!!! but.. its no use nw feeling bad over it n all... n i have no idea y im typing this dwn... IM SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING PHYSICS~!!!!
in another 2 days... i'll be home bound... free~!!!!!!!!! the few mnths of freedom i missed after my spm.. lolx~!! man do i have plans... hahahax~!!!
but for now... a little bit more head cracking for physics and then.... i'll be free..~~~~
i'll let future joe vynne deal with the results and the uni applications...^^
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Monday, July 13, 2009
long time no blogggg
lolx! this blog has been dead for a very long time... nw.. its time for this blog to rise from the dead... many things have happened in the pass few mnths... some were stupid.. some were funny.. and some.. memorable... im gonna skip the past few chapters of my life in college... and in this blog... im gonna say sumthign about my little bro.. joe den... he reli impressed me a lot this year.. first his english writing competition(happened a few mnths back.. God was it awesome) and nw.. his piano skills... he played this duet thingy with this guy from SP... and i simply loved it... it was filled with the awesome-ness... lolx~! especially the last part... woahhhh.. it was to die for... lolx~!! well.. here it is..
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
My gracie gt shaved~!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!!!!!!
look hw she looked like before.....
lolx~!!! this one is a funny pic of her b4.... bt i preferred her furry little self... lolx~!!!!
Nero has become a big boy nw~!!! hahahahx~!!!
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Z Guides to the Movies Luther TOS Review
Z Guides to the Movies are written to help students become more informed movie viewers. They give guidelines to help become a more critical watcher. As our society becomes more digital it is necessary to learn how to critical evaluate what is delivered to us by various forms of electronic media. Besides, isn't is fun to add a movie to our regular studies for a different type of activity? The Z Guides to the Movies helps a parent/teacher make the movie into a learning experience as well.
I was given the opportunity to use and review my choice of the Z Guides study guide.I choose to review the study guide for the movie Luther from 2003. This guide has a grade level of High School.
Z guides to the Movies are designed to be used over the course of a week. All the guides contain ten activities covering a wide variety of topics related to the movie. Many of these activities use research and writing skills, while others use research and are more artistic in their culminating activity. Each activity has a scoring rubric for student and teacher guidance.
These are the activities you will find in the Luther Z Guides to the Movies:
Day 1
Activity 1: Movie Review Questions
Activity 2: A Deeper Look at the Reformers
Day 2
Activity 3: Life of Martin Luther
Activity 4: Luther Word Search
Day 3
Activity 5: The Tongue and the Pen
Activity 6: Catholic Counter-Revolution
Day 4
Activity 7: Luther's 95 Theses and the Gutenberg Press
Activity 8: Relics and Symbols of Frederick the Wise
Day 5
Activity 9: Worldview Activity
Activity 10: The Filmmaker's Art
In addition to these activities, the Z Guide to the Movies also contains a topic overview, movie synopsis, several questions for family discussion and an answer key.
This Z Guide to the Movies Luther is scheduled to be released by the publisher, Zeezok, in February. Due to this fact I do not have a price available. Other Z guides to the Movies are currently available. Their price is $12.99. Check Zeezok's website for available titles. They also sell movies for some of their other guides as well.
Zeezok also publishes many other education resources covering history, government, music, and literature. They also have eBook publications available as well.
My Thoughts
My 10-year-old daughter and I watched the Luther movie and worked through portions of the guide together. The first day's questions are basic comprehension questions. Application questions come later in the activities.
Even though my children are not high school age, I was interested in this guide as we have watched the movie several times and was looking forward to a more in-depth study. I believe the activities are on a level that my daughter could handle even though she is below the target age.
However, I do have to say I was disappointed in this movie guide. The movie clearly chronicles Luthers' struggle with Roman Catholic doctrine and his searching Scripture for answers to his questions. His answers are presented in the movie, but they are not addressed or studied in this guide at all.
The movie closes with the meeting in Augsburg in 1530. Presented at this meeting was a document which is known as the Augsburg Confession, which contained the princes' declarations of beliefs. The movie guide also does not address this historically significant and still important confession of the Lutheran Church. It only refers to the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, which was the incorporation of the Augsburg Confession into the public policy of the Holy Roman Empire. The guide immediately takes issue with that document as being intolerant and then introduces Zwinglianism and Calvinism, neither of which play a substantive role in the Luther movie. After all, the guide is about that movie, right?
The movie review questions are very basic, factual questions to check the students viewing and basic understanding of what was presented in the movie. While the guide suggests answering them during the movie, I selected to use them for review when we were done.The problem with the questions is that they do not follow the clear progression of the movie plot. The plot starts with Luther and an angry, thunderbolt-hurling God. It moves through Luther's search for a merciful, loving God. It turns at the point where Luther puts that search into practice with the 95 Theses: Why doesn't the Pope just let everyone out of Purgatory if he can? Why would a loving God commit a shake-down?
That public conflict, together with the overreaction of the Peasants' War and the Roman Catholic zeal to burn heretics, carries the film to the resolution at Augsburg, the Bible in the hands of the people, and a new world order, of which Luther is the preeminent reformer. Five hundred years of church reform were attempted before Luther, but he was the first to be successful and not die for his beliefs (e.g., Zwingli). The movie is clear on Luther's position, while the guide and its questions appear more interested in minutiae and taking issue with the movie.
The activities studying other reformers takes quite a while to be done properly, yet this topic does not have much relevance to the actual movie. Personally I would have rather seen an activity having to do with the Augsburg Confession and what it contains. Free versions of the document exist online. That would be more relevant to the topic of the movie, rather than learning about reformers who lived both long before Luther (Hus) and whose activity did not flourish until after Luther (Calvin, Knox). Wasn't the movie about . . . Luther?
The third activity, Life of Martin Luther, is a great idea to help the student learn more about the man and his work outside of the relatively short time presented in the movie. This is to be accomplished with outside (Internet and print) resources. We did not do this as such now as we had done something similar several months ago while we talked about Luther in conjunction with his birthday. We have also been reading recently the book Luther: Biography of a Reformer that is a companion to this movie.
Activity 5 involves designing a cartoon or woodcut like those used in Luther's time and writing a commentary about one of Luther's hymns.The student is directed to use print and Internet sources. The first part of this assignment is a concern especially since several of the items I found when doing an Internet search lead to images which, while quite common in Luther's day, would be considered vulgar today. Many of these images some parents may not wish their students to view let alone draw their own version.
Activity 6 focuses on the Catholic or Counter Reformation. On this topic, as with a number of topics in the guide, there are wordings that either suggest or actually make substantive errors. One sees with regard to the year 1580 that "the lines of Catholic and Protestant lands in Europe were drawn." That neither takes into account the adoption of the Christian Book of Concord in that year—something the guide fails to mention, even though it is the official adoption of the Lutheran doctrinal position (http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/concordia.html)—and the fact of the Thirty Years War (1618–48). It does not take the religious wars in France, the revolution in The Netherlands, and the unsettled state of Bohemia into account. The guide also does not distinguish clearly between the political fact of territorial churches and the doctrinal beliefs of different Protestant groups when it speaks of Catholics stopping the spread of Protestantism.
I also found activity 8 to be disturbing. It directs the student to design some type of relic or symbol for the collection of Frederick the Wise. This is something which Frederick spoke out against in the movie after he was presented with the Golden Rose. Designing something which was spoken against in the movie seems to be against one of the messages the movie was trying to get across.
This same activity also suggests designing a stained glass window to illustrate a bible story. Stained glass windows have no connection to the relics. They were used to teach the illiterate about the Bible, not to provide an object for veneration or devotion.They were also criticized by Protestants like Carlstadt and Zwingli who opposed Luther. This and other aspects of the guide raise my suspicion that the author of the guide was not sympathetic to the subject matter.
The Worldview activity (9) dealing with Reformation martyrs also does not necessarily fit with the movie either as several of the people suggested were quite out of order. Robert Barnes and Patrick Hamilton, along with William Tyndale, have considerable Luther provenance. Thomas More and Thomas Cranmer were both executed by Henry VIII, yet More was a Catholic foe of Luther's while Cranmer was sympathetic of Luther. All this shows was that Henry VIII would start a church and kill many people in order to further his dynasty. What does that really say to the Luther movie or about Protestantism? How would the guide handle John Calvin's burning of Servetus? What about the fact that Luther was against this sort of activity?
Henry opposed Luther until around 1534–36, so he would not have figured into the movie. One sees no mention of martyrs like Heinrich Voes and Johann Esch (portrayed by the fictional martyred "Ulrich" in the film—likely merged with aspects of Luther's supporter Ulrich von Hutten—and misspelled "Ulrick" in the guide). One can find free online sources about Lutheran martyrs and many people portrayed in the movie at http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/. It appears that the author of the guide looked no further than Foxe's Book of Martyrs. That seems a bit culturally dissonant from the movie, as if the integrity of the movie did not count.
To me it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend all the time (2 hours) watching the movie and then not fully study what the movie is about. There is nothing in the study guide relating to Luther's search for a merciful God, how he grew to understand the Gospel, how he considered translating the New Testament, and his attempts to help the leaders of the Catholic Church see what Scripture says. Thus the whole theme of the movie is missed in this study guide.
An additional resource I would have liked to seen in this guide was a bibliography of selected titles and websites which would be helpful for the outside research required to complete the activities. Due to the size of the web and the many resources it contains it is often difficult for a student to determine authenticity of information found on the web. Some Wikipedia articles are good, while others are not so good. Having a list of possible starting points would have be helpful. The Pitts Theology Library (http://www.pitts.emory.edu/dia/woodcuts.htm) can be a place to find woodcuts, for example, but it can also have mature images.
If an educator is using Luther the movie and movie guide during a general study of the reformation and reformers to teach about the time period and events, this guide may be a helpful choice. If the goal is to learn about Luther and his work using the movie guide then I feel people will be disappointed and mislead by a guide which seems ignorant of or slightly hostile to the movie and its message.
I also don't believe that the differences in the age of my children and the suggested age for the guide made these differences. I believe these issues stem more from incomplete and inaccurate statements in the guide.
Zeezok also published "Z Guides to the Movies" for many other movies, time periods, and ages. Other TOS Crew members had the opportunity to review movie guides of the choice. To learn which movie guides others reviewed please visit the Crew Blog.
Disclosure: I received a free download copy of the product in order to write this review. I have not been compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed here are solely my own.
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