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Alvin Petty will pick up garage sale-types of items, with proceeds going to the Ideal Village Chapel Scholarship Fund. Call 806-759-0735.
"Things I Have Saw and Did - 50 Years of Thinking Out Loud," a 442-page book of 250 stories and about 1,100 names by former Herald Editor Danny Andrews, is available by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 291-3603 or 729-7154. The price is $25, which includes postage, with proceeds benefiting the Wayland general scholarship fund. Checks may be made to Danny Andrews and sent to 1305 Itasca, Plainview, TX 79072. All purchasers are eligible for a drawing for a large Wayland blanket.
For Kids Sake classes for adults and Sandcastles for children ages 5-17 will be held from 8:15 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 11, Aug. 8, Sept. 19, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, Dec. 12, Jan. 9 and Feb. 13 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 710 Joliet. Cost is $40 (cash only) For Kids Sake and $10 cash per child ($20 for three or more children) for Sandcastles. There is no need to register. Call 995-2756 and ask for Vickie.
Free GED classes are available for adults from 8:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday at 1407 W. Fifth in the South Plains Community Action building. Everyone is welcome. Call the Plainview Adult Learning Center, 296-5459, for more information.
Covenant Health Plainview hosts the cancer survivors prayer support group "We Fight To Live" from 7-8 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month in Room B. The sessions will consist of a monthly topic and presenter, and a structured segment, allowing time for group sharing. The support group is open to those with a cancer diagnosis and anyone affected by their diagnosis. The group is led by Andrea Ingram, a cancer survivor, as well as Sherry Wall, hospital mission services. There is no charge for the group. For more information contact Andrea Ingram at 806-293-7614 or Sherry Wall at 806-291-3364.
The next meeting of the Literary Lunch Bunch will be at noon Tuesday, Aug. 4, in Van Howeling, Room 104 on the Wayland Baptist University campus. A light lunch will be provided. The books to be discussed in "The Road to Character" by David Brooks; "The Invention of Wings," Sue Monk Kidd; "Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness," Alexandra Fuller; "Far from the Madding Crowd," Thomas Hardy and "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," Ben Fountain.
Hosting a foreign exchange student with American Cultural Exchange Service could be a fun way to learn about other countries and cultures. Students speak English and have health insurance and personal spending money, and host families must provide a separate bed and in-house meals. Those interested should contact ACES local coordinator Kevin Foster in Amarillo at 806-352-4214, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.exploretheworld.org.
The July Readers' Page will be published July 1. Readers are invited to submit original poetry, essays, features and photos to: Readers' Page, 820 Broadway, Plainview, TX 79072; bring them to the Herald at 820 Broadway; or email to email@example.com. All submissions should include a name, town and daytime phone number.
Paws Pet Adoption has a small fund available to provide partial financial assistance to lower-income Plainview residents to spay/neuter a family pet. Applications are available from 4-6 p.m. Monday through Friday at the animal shelter, 500 S.W. Third.
The deadline for registration and securing your rooms for the Booker T. Washington All-School Reunion will be July 10.
The Women's Conference 2015, titled "How Can It Be," will be hold at United Assembly, 301 S.E. Ninth, on Saturday, June 27. Registration and breakfast is from 9-9:45 a.m., followed by the service from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Praise and worship will be led by Aarone and Gary McLendon, with special songs by Caral Lambright and Robbie Cross, Guest speakers are Braindi Pritchard and Stephanie McFadden. For more information contact Debra Lambright, 806-282-9339.
A Waller Family Love Fund has been established at Prosperity Bank in Plainview.
College Heights Baptist Church will host Vacation Bible School for children from 4 years old through sixth grade from 5:30-8:30 p.m. June 22-26. The theme is "Journey off the Map." For more information call 806-293-3644 or visit the website CollegeHeightsSBC.org.
The Texas Reading Club will run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through June 26 with programs from 10-11 a.m. for kids who are going into 3rd grade and up. A concurrent program, the Read-to-Me Club, with reading and activities for those 4-7 years olds will be held in the basement at Unger Memorial Library, Ninth and Austin. Bernadette Birkenfeld will bring the mobile dairy on Wednesday.
The Plainview/Hale County Health Department will be offering free back-to-school immunizations for Pre-K through 12th grade children on June 24. For those who qualify, bring the child's shot record, which is required to receive an immunization. The shots will be administered between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at 111 E. 10th St. in Plainview.
The Plainview Chamber of Commerce needs donations to fund this year's community fireworks show, which will cost $12,000 and begin about 9:45 p.m. Friday, July 3, in Regional Park. Bring or mail your tax-deductible donations to the Chamber at 1906 W. Fifth St., Plainview, TX 79072.
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President Museveni has made reshuffles in the top military establishment including the Chief of Defence Forces Gen Katumba Wamala.
Wamala has been appointed Minister of State for Works.
The reshuffle is contained in a radio message sent by the commander in Chief President Yoweri Museveni.
Maj Gen David Muhoozi who has been commanding the Land Forces is now the CDF.
Maj Gen Mbadi who has been serving as Chief of Staff is now the Deputy Chief of Defence Forces.
Special Forces Commander Maj Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been appointed Special Presidential Advisor.
Deputy CDF Lt Gen Charles Angina takes over as Deputy commander Operation Wealth Creation, in what is seen as a demotion.
Brigadier Peter Elweru shifts from Mbarara where he has been serving as 2nd Division commander to take charge of Land Forces.
Elweru commanded the operation that saw UPDF Commandos raid Rwenzururu palace and capture King Wesley Mumbere.
Brig Okiding who has been commanding UPDF in Somalia has been promoted to Major General and Commander Field Artillery.
Chief of Military Intelligence Brigadier Charles Bakahumura has been transfered and appointed Chief of Logistics and Engineering.
Brig Mugyenyi was equally promoted to Maj General and appointed Commander Air Defence.
Lt Col Abel Kandiho has since been elevated to Colonel and appointed CMI boss.
Breaking:President Museveni reshuffles top Army officers
President Museveni has made reshuffles in the top military establishment including the Chief of Defence Forces Gen Katumba Wamala.

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Tactical planning is done for setting short term goals and action plan in order to achieve the long term goals set by the strategic planning in a company. The horizon is hence shorter than the strategic plans and this type of planning is generally executed by independent departments or company functions. Thus the tactical planning is the prerogative of Middle/departmental level managers in an organization.
Tactics are generally flexible in nature according to the strategy of the company and less risk is associated with the failures of the tactical plans. Unlike the strategic plans which when fail, do great harm to the company, the tactical plans are changeable from time to time and thus do less harm to the company if gone wrong. If the strategic plan of a company is for 5 years then the tactical plan may be for one year or may be for a few months, depending on the type of business and the required pace of change. They are also different from the operational plans which are made by front line managers to show the direction to small teams to contribute towards strategic and tactical objectives of the company.
Flexibility is the main characteristic of the tactical plans. They should be adaptable to the changing needs and emergencies or contingencies faced by a company. Also the market conditions like change in prices, economic slowdowns, changes in interest rates and inflation are common things. Tactics need to be flexible enough to bear these changes.
Example: If a company is a manufacturer of automobiles and company makes a strategy of increasing its production level in the coming year, then it will make tactical plans for each of the manufacturing plants. Now those tactical plans should be able to accommodate the uncertainties like failure of machinery, strike by employees, cut in supplies, electricity failures etc.
Hence, this concludes the definition of Tactical Planning along with its overview.
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Date: 2011
Title: A contribution to the evidence base for evaluating health interventions in natural environment settings
Authors: Aileen Marshall Brown and Lucy Johnston with Margaret Currie and Sarah-Anne Munoz
Full Report: PDF
Executive Summary: PDF
This report reviews the research methods and approaches used to evaluate UK–based health interventions and programmes that are in, use, or seek to change the natural environment. It develops work established through the Outdoors and Health Network (OHN).
Date: 2010
Title: Social diversity in the forestry profession
Authors: Bianca Ambrose-Oji
Full Report: PDF
Research report into employing a social marketing approach to investigating and planning interventions designed to change the behaviour of people looking for work. Specifically, the application behaviour of Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in future Forestry Commission recruitments, to see increasing numbers of applications from them.
Date: 2010
Title: Urban health and health inequalities and the role of urban forestry in Britain: A review
Authors: Liz O'Brien, Kathryn Williams (University of Melbourne) and Amy Stewart.
Full Report: PDF
This literature review (2010) explores urban health issues and health inequalities and identifies the links between trees, woods and forests and health in urban populations. It outlines current gaps in research and identifies potential opportunities for the Forestry Commission in England, Scotland and Wales to focus on health and well-being in urban areas.
Date: 2009
Title: Social benefits from the Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England: review of current
Authors: Anna Lawrence, Claudia Carter, Liz O'Brien and Rebecca Lovell.
Full Report: PDF
A review of the Forestry Commission's estate in England as part of a study to show how the estate contributes to society today and how it might sustainably serve society's long-term needs.
Date: 2009
Title: Social research and the Forestry Commission: Perceptions and applications
Authors: Mariella Marzano, Anna Lawrence and Bianca Ambrose-Oji
Full Report: PDF
Report from study that addressed how the knowledge and understanding of social research affects policy, planning, practice and outcomes within the Forestry Commission.
Date: 2009
Title: The Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England: Social use, value and expectations
Authors: Claudia Carter, Anna Lawrence, Rebecca Lovell and Liz O'Brien
Full Report: PDF
Summary Report: PDF
This study was undertaken to provide evidence of the public value of the Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England and establish whether people have different perceptions and expectations of publicly owned forests compared to those in other forms of ownership.
Date: 2009
Title: Active England evaluation reports
Authors: Liz O'Brien and Jake Morris
Full Report: PDF
Summary Report: PDF
Individual Site Reports:
Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest
Great Western Community Forest
Greenwood Community Forest
Haldon Forest Park
Rosliston Forestry Centre
The Active England programme aimed to increase community participation in sport and physical activity across England. Forest Research contributed to the monitoring and evaluation of five projects that focused on increasing activity levels in woodlands and greenspace.
There is a report for each individual project, a short summary report that brings together the key findings from each project and a full report that provides an overview and analysis of the research across the five Active England projects.
Date: 2008
Title: Offenders and Nature - Policy into Practice. Employment of ex-offenders: an innovative
Authors: Claudia Carter
Full Report: PDF
Date: 2008
Title: TreeGeneration: A review of the urban forestry pilot project for North East Wales
Authors: Social and Economic Research Group, Forest Research
Full Report: PDF
Review of pilot project promoting a substantial increase in the planting of new trees and woodlands in urban environments in counties of Wrexham and Flintshire to determine the potential for a national urban forestry initiative for Wales.
Date: 2008
Title: Environmental volunteering: motivations, barriers and benefits
Authors: Liz O'Brien (Forest Research) and Mardie Townsend and Matthew Ebden (Deakin
University Australia).
Full Report: PDF
Date: 2008
Title: Payments for ecosystems services
Authors: Gregory Valatin (Forst Research) and Jenna Coull (Forestry Commission)
Full Report: PDF
Summary Report: PDF
Ecosystem services have traditionally been regarded as 'free goods' and there is a lack of incentives to protect them. Payments for Ecosystem Services attempt to rectify this, often through market mechanisms. The use of these schemes has become more widespread particularly in the USA and some developing countries.
Date: 2007
Title: New Pathways to health and Well-being: Summary of research to understand and overcome
barriers to accessing woodland
Authors: Sue Weldon and Cathy Bailey in collaboration with Liz O'Brien
Full Report: PDF
Date: 2007
Title: New Pathways to health and Well-being in Scotland: Research to understand and overcome
barriers to accessing woodland
Authors: Sue Weldon and Cathy Bailey in collaboration with Liz O'Brien
Full Report: PDF
Date: 2007
Title: Offenders and Nature - Helping People, Helping Nature
Authors: Claudia Carter, with contributions from Judith Hanna (Natural England).
Full Report: PDF
Summary Report on 'Offenders and Nature' Schemes. These involve those serving a sentence in custody or in the community working as volunteers on nature conservation and woodland sites.
Date: 2006
Title: "Strengthening Heart and Mind": Using Woodlands to Improve Mental and Physical Well-being
Authors: Liz O'Brien
Full Report: PDF
Article from Unasylva - Forests and human health. Issue 224 (Volume 57, 2006/2), a publication of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
Date: 2004
Title: Involving people in forestry: a toolbox for public involvement in forest and woodland planning
Authors: Paul Tabbush, Liz O'Brien, Max Hislop and Suzanne Martin
Full Report: Product information and downloads
This aims to assist forest and woodland managers when planning for public involvement, and when considering which tools they could use to include people in forest or woodland planning.
Comprises an introductory booklet, a toolsheets contents page and 50 individual toolsheets. These components are available to download as PDF files.
Date: 2003
Title: Social science in forestry
Authors: Paul Tabbush, Liz O'Brien, Max Hislop and Suzanne Martin
Full Report: PDF
An introductory paper to the concept of 'Social Forestry'.
Date: 2001
Title: Social Forestry: questions and issues
Authors: Compiled by Elizabeth O'Brien
Full Report: PDF
This publication contains the presentations given by Forest Enterprise, Forest Research and Forestry Commission speakers and the contributions made by all delegates in workshop discussion groups which focused on quality of life issues, stakeholders and their importance and social sustainability.


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Momentum at KOBELCO U.S. Manufacturing Facility Continues to Build
KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA continues its commitment to provide customers with quality products from its North American excavator production facility in Spartanburg, SC. Increases in manufacturing capacity and several new hires are on the horizon as the facility ramps up to produce 1,800 units/year. Since opening in June 2016, the KOBELCO USA production facility has […]Read more


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Part IV Winter-Spring 1963 "Vicksburg"
In this document, Ed King recalls returning from New England to attend his father's funeral in Vicksburg, Mississippi in the spring of 1963. King describes the hateful reactions of family friends to his civil rights work when they see him at the funeral service. King's ancestry was a group of hard-working WASPs from the South whose racism was palpable.
Document Description: six-page photocopy of typewritten document; located in PLT Archive folder "Ed King 'Vicksburg win-sp 1963' IV".


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Events Calendar
Mayor's Fundraising Evening
Saturday 29 September 2012
Mayor's Appeal 2012/13.
Tickets: £25.00 each (£200 for a full table of 10)
(includes Asian Buffet and Entertainment)
Arrive at 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Carriages 10:30pm
Sponsored by:
Choudhary Khalid Hussain - K1 Tyres Ltd
RDC Ilford
Nirala Sweets
Mehboob Travel
To book, contact the Mayor's Appeal on the details provided.
Venue: Town Hall, Ilford, Essex IG1 1DD
Contact: Mayor's Appeal
Tel: 0208 708 2807
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As a senior pursuing a career in graphic design and front-end web development, I can't help but feel the pressure of the fast approaching "real world."
Throughout my entire life, I have had a passion for visual arts and creative expression but have struggled to imagine how I might apply these skills to a corporate job or to conclude that I even want to work in a corporate environment. The idea of starting my own business has remained in the back of my mind, but I realized that I didn't know the first thing about how a business works – let alone how I might launch my own business.
Earning an online certificate through UNC Business Essentials gave me a solid foundation in understanding the basics of business. The knowledge I gained from these courses helped me understand where my skills might fit in to the elements of a successful company. It sparked my interest in the numerous corporate opportunities and paths that are available to people with my academic background.
Since taking UNC Business Essentials, I feel that I will be able to make a more significant contribution to a company that hires me. Alternatively, the courses furthered my interest in starting my own business someday and have enhanced my confidence should I choose to do so.
While we all have different passions and career goals, knowing how a business works is essential to understanding where your skills fit in and how you can add value in a business environment.
To learn more about UNC Business Essentials, click here.
By Cori Dymond


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The WSI Internet Franchise community just welcomed 6 new Digital Marketing Consultants! Last week we had six more entrepreneurs join the WSI network of franchisees! Congrats to them all for an outstanding week. Take a look at a class shot here: This diverse group of entrepreneurs joined us at WS
Category: Business Opportunity, Franchise Development
Tags: Digital Marketing, Digital marketing consultant, digital realm, digital revolution, entrepreneurs, franchising, WSI Consultant, WSI Corporate, WSI franchise, WSI Franchisee, WSI Internet Franchise, WSI Network,
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text: Good news for Xbox fans: It looks like booting up the next-generation console won't take nearly as long as booting up the Xbox 360. A video posted on YouTube purportedly shows the Xbox One's home screen getting booted up in less than five seconds, a significant improvement from the boot time of the current Xbox. It shouldn't be surprising that the Xbox One fires up so quickly since Microsoft has made shortening boot times a key focus of its work with Windows 8 and since the next-generation console features a big boost in hardware with an eight-core 1.6GHz processor and 8GB of RAM. The video purportedly showing the Xbox One's boot screen follows below.


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Sunday, March 8, 2015
In Memoriam of my "Abuelito Juan"
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I am so, so sorry for your loss, Bibiana. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time.ReplyDelete
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The card is a gorgeous tribute to your grandfather Bibiana. Your love for him truly shines through. My heart is with you and my prayers are with you and all of your loved ones. Love, Hugs and Blessings, JimReplyDelete
So sorry to hear of your sad loss BibianaReplyDelete
Morning Bibiana,ReplyDelete
So, so sorry for your loss, you have made a very beautiful card for a beautiful Man. May you take refuge in all your happy memories.
Love & Hugs
Jacquie J xxx
Oh sweet friend, I´m sooo sorry for your loss. I can see from the pictures, that he was a wonderful warm and kind man, and I hope, your memories can help you through your sorrow. That and knowing, that he´ll be in a better place now, where he´ll be rejoined with those, he´s been missing too. I´ll keep you in my heart and thoughts these hard days sweet friend.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear of your loss Bibianna. What a lovely card you have made in tribute to his memory. I'm sure over time that the pain will ease and you will be left with happy memories.ReplyDelete
Ho ma douce Bibiana, toutes mes condoléances t'accompagnent....tu as réalisé une bien jolie carte pour honorer sa mémoire...ReplyDelete
So sorry for your loss. What an awesome card you made in his memory. He would be proud.ReplyDelete
Oh, Bibiana, I am sorry for the loss of your grandfather. Thank you for sharing the photos. He had a very kind face. You must miss him terribly. You've made a lovely tribute to him here. Please accept my deepest sympathies, to you and your family. Sending hugs and prayers.ReplyDelete
Bibiana, so sorry to hear of this sad loss of your dear Grandfather. What a lovely tribute your card is. Take care and remember the beautiful times. Hugs, UrsulaReplyDelete
My deepest Sympathy and what a beautiful card for him. It really kinda shook me up when I saw the dates posted. I too was born in 1922 ! Blessings to all of you and your family!ReplyDelete
A beautiful card the tulips are just wonderful .....So sorry for the loss..............LisReplyDelete
My Sympathy and prayers Bibiana, sorry for the loss of your Grandfather.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card you made to honour him.
Hugs Pam x
So sorry for yours and your family's loss, Bibiana! You're all in my prayers xxxReplyDelete
une bien belle carte A+ bisousReplyDelete
A lovely tribute card to your Grandfather! Hugs and prayers for you and yours as you focus on sweet memories!ReplyDelete
- PitchouneMarch 9, 2015 at 2:27 PM
te envio mi pesame para tu abuelito, bonita carta, un besinReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2015 at 3:40 PM
My deepest sympathy to you and your family. May God's love bring you peace and sustain you during this difficult time. My prayers are with you and your family. Your grandfather would be honored with the beautiful card you made for him.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry for your loss; you are so right to know that he is in a better place, free of pain and suffering. As a tribute to your grandfather, your card is most beautiful; he would be honored to know that it inspires many people around the world. Hugs.ReplyDelete
Mes plus sincères condoléances pour toi et ta famille, la perte d'un être cher nous marque toujours un peu plus que l'on pensait, alors prens soin de toi. Je prierai pour lui ce soir. Bises xxReplyDelete
Je te présente toutes mes sincères condoléancesReplyDelete
Such a beautiful card to remember him by, I am so sorry for your loss, even though we are so happy they are finally free of pain, that ache in our hearts is very strong, that they are no longer on this earth. May God grant you peace and when memories come may they be met with smiles instead of tears.ReplyDelete
Très désolée pour cette perte de cœur. Ton grand-père ne souffrira plus, il est "délivré". de tout cœur avec toi, bon courage à toi et tes proches. La carte est magnifique, c'est fait avec un die et en relief ? bisousReplyDelete
Es una dicha tener y haber tenido el placer de estar junto a nuestros amados aun cuando su partida implica tristeza y dolor. Un gran abrazo para ti y tu familia en estos tiempos y que Dios traiga mucha paz!! Tu tarjetita muy dulce y apropiada!!ReplyDelete
- Babygirl97240March 10, 2015 at 1:01 PM
Sincères condoléances! Ta carte est sublime! BisesReplyDelete
Looks as though you will have beautiful memories of him...so sorry for your loss!! A beautiful card you have made! I wanted to thank you for my wonderful package that arrived yesterday, it was a very thoughtful and beautiful surprise..thank you so much my friend!!! I hope today finds you some peace!!ReplyDelete
My Deepest Sympathy on your very sad loss of your Grandfather. He is happy now and free from pain. How lovely to think of him surrounded by the loved ones who have gone before him. Beautiful card. Really superb.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear, glad he is not suffering.ReplyDelete
You must of put the whole heart of you into this card because it is absolutely stunning! I love the flowers and the background colors.
Hi Bibiana,ReplyDelete
Oh I am so sorry to hear of your sad loss of your Grandfather.
I lost both mine when I was in my teens, so sadly never got to spend such a plentiful of years to keep in my memories, but I do have fond memories of them though.
It must be even harder when you have shared their lives for a good many years.
I know when I lost my Dad 2 years ago, there is a big hole left in your heart, but it's filling slowly as the years go by, and new family members are being born.
So hopefully time will heal your grief.
Biggest hugs hoping to give you some comfort.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
So sorry to hear of this sad time of loss Bibiana. May loving memories comfort you and the knowledge that he is no longer suffering bring you peace. lots of love,Deena xoReplyDelete
Love this card but I am sad for you dealing with grief, loss and yet relief knowing your grandfather is out of pain. Take care and keep creating beautiful things.ReplyDelete
I am so sorry to be so late visiting this week Bibiana and so sorry to read your news, your memories will comfort you for sure; your card is beautiful, sending hugs Carole Z XReplyDelete
Bibiana - I am so sorry to read of the passing of your grandfather - my heart cries for your loss and this time of grieving you are going through - I lost my grandparents when I was a teenager - Happy to know that one day you will meet grandfather again - may you find comfort from God during this most difficult time - blessings GailReplyDelete
Thanks so much for visiting my blog!...AND Thank you for taking the time to comment on my post today...It keeps me motivated!
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me, I will be more than happy to answer them.
THANKS again, Bibiana


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"Lyric's task is to mediate between particularity and totality in the representation of persons." It is less important to me to decide whether this is Adorno's or Stewart's or Mlinko's axiom than it is to connect it to my own axiomatic.
The first task for the pangrammarian is to construct a provisional transposition of this insight in philosophical terms. I think we can keep "task" and "mediate" and "representation", which are grammatically equivalent for poetry and philosophy.
We automatically replace "person" with "thing" and carry out a simple dialectical inversion of "particularity" into "universality" (the particular is to poetry what the universal is to philosophy and vice versa). The same reasoning can be applied to the replacement of "totality" with "elementarity".
I take it "lyric" just means "poetry", which would allow us to substitute "philosophy", but I would prefer to find a word for philosophy that is to it what "lyric" is to "poetry". Perhaps I'll come up with something later (logic is taken). In any case,
Philosophy's task is to mediate between universality and elementarity in the representation of things.
This is a perfectly respectable suggestion, its means of construction notwithstanding.
Notice that we can here replace "lyric" with "emotional notation" salva veritate.
The task of emotional notation is to mediate between particularity and totality in the representation of persons.
This suggests that it is the noted emotion that carries out the requisite mediation. It must, of course, be accomplished immediately (or we would ask what mediates the mediation), and while the concept is available immediately in intuition for philosophy, the emotion is available to poetry only in institution. (Indeed, concepts and emotions are what make things and people respectively available to knowledge and power respectively in, respectively, intuition and institution.)
So everything works out very nicely. Poetry presents the institutional ground of the representation of persons, and the institution is nothing other than the immediacy of the mediation of a particular person ("I") and its totality (history). Homologously, philosophy presents the intuitive ground of the representation of things, and the intuition is nothing other than the immediacy of the mediation of a universal thing (the world) and its elmentarity ("it").
I wonder if that helps.


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S: Jayden Ramall Murphy
FC: Our Baby
1: Once upon a time, there was a beautiful baby who was welcomed into the world by two loving parents and their family and friends...
2: day 1..
3: Today is my first day with my new baby Jayden.i am so excited to get to know him and watch him grow up.He is a very well behaved baby .He only cries when he needs something.He is also growing very slowly so he is a tiny baby.I know it is going to be difficult but i am ready to take responsibility for him and put his needs before mine.
4: Our Baby 6bs. 8oz. 14 inches | Day 2
5: This morning i woke up late and i didn't have any of Jaydens bottles packed or clothes set out so i dropped him off to daycare late and i arrived at school late also i felt like a irresponsible mother and student.To prepare to spend time with Jayden better i have to cancel with my friends sometimes and also have to be there for him when he is crying to comfort him and create good memories.Also i have to make sure i make a schedule so i can stay organized and prepared for the days ahead.
6: Auntie and me.
7: Day 3 Today Jayden kept misbehaving and it made me sit down and think about how i influence his behavior and what type of parent i want to be.I can influence my child by being an authoritative parent and this style will encourage him to be independent but still limits and controls his actions.This will cause Jayden to be socially competent,self-reliant,and socially responsible.Also i influence his behavior by being a good example and not doing anything i wouldn't like him to do.
8: Day 4 | The Cutest Baby in the World
9: Jayden is a very happy child and he always has a smile on his face.He only cries when he needs something and most of the time I can tell from his cry what he wants.Even though he is very small he moves very quickly,he love when i give him freedom to explore.Since he has so much energy he hates being contained in his playpen.His mood definitely effects mine because when hes happy i feel proud and like a good mother but when hes sad
10: I think my best skill with children is recognizing their needs.I think this because whenever Jayden cries i usually know what he needs.Even though i am very good with handling Jayden and meeting his needs i still need alot of help and tonight my parents and family left me alone and i didnt know what to do.Even though i dont like the situation i think it is fair that my family left me alone because Jayden is my responsibility and to make it through the night i will need alot of caffeine and have tons of patience.
11: Sweet Cheeks | Day 6
12: My heart melts when you smile | This weekend was FUN packed for jayden and I.On friday we went to the park and Jayden loved going down the slide with me.We did it over and over again.Saturday we had a play date with Jaydens cousin Jalia they got along well and the two of them together are double trouble.Sunday after all the fun we had this weekend Jayden and I just stayed in and watched mosters inc. his favorite movie
13: Peek A Boo! | The weekend!
14: Extras
15: After spending a week with Jayden I learned a few things that i think all new parent should know.First of prepare as much ahead as possible,always have another set of clothes for baby,and always put your child into consideration when making even the smallest descisions.From this project I learned that babys are very hard ork.


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Wire is a usually flexible metal rod or thread of uniform diameter. It has many uses, particularly in electrical wire and cable applications; in medical, farming, and industrial tools; and needles, and in hardware such as bolts, nails, nuts, screws, rivets, and needles. In construction, steel-wire cables are used to reinforce suspension bridges. Wire is also used in more delicate apparatuses, such as stringed instruments and watch springs.
Wire is made by drawing out metals such as copper, iron, brass, aluminum, gold, silver, and platinum. In wire drawing, the metal is first heated and then run through a series of rollers that press it into thin rods. The rods are then coiled by machine, allowed to cool, cleaned with sulfuric acid or other chemicals, neutralized, and lubricated, followed by reheating to alleviate brittleness. They reach their final form by being drawn through a series or progressively smaller holes, known as dies, which reduce their diameters and increase their lengths. The finished wire is then wound around a rotating drum.
Wire was used as an ornament by the Egyptians as early as 3000 ac. Although the Romans used perforated places of iron as drawing dies, until the Middle Ages wire drawing was largely done by hand; the resulting threads has to be hammered and joined to each other to produce wire of a desired length. The first mechanical wire drawing equipment was developed (c. 1350) by Rudolf of Nuremberg.
Because of the industrial Revolution, the demand for cable suspension bridges, the telegraph, the telephone, and the electric light, as the growing demand for fencing and barbed wire, spurred production of greater lengths and strengths of wiring. In this century, carbide drawing dies were developed that could withstand high speed and long wear and provide increased accuracy. With a die capable of standing up to the drawing of greater quantities of wire at the desired gauge through a single hole, machines that drew continuously came to the fore. Advance welding techniques now long, continuous coils rod and wire to be drawn.
A cable is a cord or rope made from strands of fiber or wire, of great tensile strength, used to support a bridge or cable car, to secure a ship at anchor; for towing, hauling, and construction work, or for similar purposes. Transmission cables carry electric power or communications signals.
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We put together this list of some of the iconic Wedding Venue Ideas in Manhattan.
These iconic wedding venue ideas include the Rainbow Room, The Plaza New York, The St. Regis New York and The Pierre.
From the Rainbow Room :
Romance and glamour envelop once-in-a-lifetime memories at the iconic Rainbow Room. Soaring 65 stories above Midtown Manhattan, magical moments are captured against a sparkling backdrop of city lights and expertly tailored event design. Rainbow Room chefs and hospitality professionals are among the most sought-after talent in their industries, promising to deliver on the venue's immaculate reputation as an international event destination and guaranteeing unforgettable milestones.
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From The Plaza Hotel website:
The Plaza is an iconic link to the history and elegance of New York City. Located at the storied intersection of Central Park and Fifth Avenue, The Plaza is at the center of world-class events and prestige. From small gatherings to extravagant weddings, The Plaza is a most spectacular location for events of all kinds.
The Plaza's fabled Grand Ballroom has long been home to landmark events and lavish galas, including the renowned "Black & White Ball" which Truman Capote threw for 540 of his closest friends. The 4,800 square foot beaux-arts style ballroom will transform your gathering and create unforgettable memories.
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From the St. Regis Hotel website:
The St. Regis New York is a luxury New York City wedding venue ideally located in the heart of midtown Manhattan, this original 1904 classic Beaux Art landmark is Manhattan's foremost address. As the first St. Regis hotel, The St. Regis New York premiered the legendary Astor family's timeless legacy.
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From The Pierre website:
The Pierre is a landmark on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Built in the 1920s, New York's ever-changing culture has left a unique imprint on the history of this luxurious five-star hotel. The iconic US flagship of the Taj reopened its doors after an impressive $100 million renovation in 2007.
This New York hotel occupies a pride of place on the corner of Central Park and the Upper East Side, an area where upscale shopping seamlessly blends with residential elegance. LaGuardia Airport is a mere 20 minutes away. The Pierre has six spectacular hotel conference rooms are the ideal corporate venues for meetings and events. The Rotunda is the signature room of The Pierre, with famous Renaissance-style trompe l'oeil murals created in 1967 by American artist Edward Melcarth.
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The SandBox Files was my way for my friends and family to know what is going on with me while i was in Iraq in '06. The name comes from a cartoon panel I did the first time i was in Iraq in '03,if your familiar with Gary Larson's Farside single panels it was something like that... It has grown into a semi-regular glimpse into a former soldiers life.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Hey DJ!!!! (and parenthesis overkill)
I feel like when ever I find the time to write a post here that I need to start said post with an apology, but as it has been less than two weeks since my previous post I am going to forgo the formality. A lot has been happening in my life in the previous two months, I moved to another country! (England for those of you playing the home game) I heard about a volunteer position at a local radio station (I am unable to have a paying job on my visitors VISA, RED TAPE FAIL!) The position started as a News Reader in the mornings and has transformed into an afternoon drive time show during the week.
I have also started a show with Helen (the girl I moved to England to be closer to.) Wednesday nights and Friday nights Listen Here! we have our show where we talk about Films and theatre productions with music from these through out. (this week we are having a two hour Disney Film special Wednesday night from 8-10pm (GMT) you should check it out. The show is called He said, She said and it has become a lot of fun for the both of us. Helen and I have started a film review site with the same name (He said, she said) where we review the films we have seen together. It is a lot of fun as it helps start a discussion after the film, and occasionally one of us will have picked on something the other might have missed. After each film we take notes on points of the film that stuck out to us and write our review for the site. A fairly easy and fun way to do something together no matter where we are.
Helen and I are going to see the West End (England's equivalent to Broadway) production of Chicago the weekend after next in London we are both really excited as our first real date was another West End Production by the name of Wicked. and we had a fantastic time. We both really enjoy theatre and rarely walk away with a lack luster feeling.
As odd as it may seem I am planning a trip to Los Angeles in July for a convention. It will be Helen's first trip to L.A and the first time I have been to my home town in over 7 years. I am really excited. It will be a large gathering of a lot of people I know and respect as well as hundreds of people who have some sort of clout on youtube. (I am not one of those) The evenings will be reminiscent of last years NWYT Gathering, with too many people in too few hotel rooms making memories and jokes that will continue to be referenced for the entire next year.
That is the view from my perspective at the moment. A lot going on and a lot still to come.
Random silly joke:
What is black and white and red all over???
An embarrassed penguin!
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Bruno F. Caruso -- a grandson of family patriarch Bruno Roti Sr., identified by the FBI as an associate of Al Capone's -- ran Laborers' International Union Local 1001, which represented 3,500 city workers while Caruso was in power, mostly in two city departments -- Streets and Sanitation, and Transportation. They empty garbage cans, pave streets, fix potholes.When Caruso left the union leadership, his cousin Nicholas Gironda took over.Caruso's brother Frank "Toots" Caruso headed another Laborers' local that represented city workers. When he left, his cousin Leo Caruso took over.Together, the four Roti family members controlled thousands of unionized city jobs, as well as pension funds and other union assets that once topped a billion dollars. Often, they decided who got unskilled laborers' jobs with the city and who got promoted into supervisory positions in those areas, sources said.They had that power until they were forced out of or resigned their leadership posts over allegations of corruption and mob ties that had been pursued for years by the international union's in-house prosecutor. As part of that effort, the international union filed a complaint in 2003 that accused Gironda of taking bribes from city job-seekers "on behalf of" his cousins Bruno Caruso and "Toots" Caruso. By 2004, all were gone from the union.
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Muffins that made 18 staff members at a Dallas-area high school ill contained the active ingredient found in marijuana, Dallas County health department officials said Thursday.
Two suspects have been nabbed.
The Dallas FBI filed assault cases on Wednesday against two 18-year-olds in connection with drug-laced muffins that sickened 18 staff members at Lake Highlands High School in northeast Dallas.Robert Tellini and Ian McConnell Walker, both of Dallas, have each been charged with five counts of assault on a public servant, a third-degree felony, authorities said. The case will now be prosecuted by the Dallas County District Attorney's office, according to a news release from the FBI
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Though Israel regained the territory it had lost, Kissinger pressured the Israelis to cede land to the Arabs, contributing to the first phases of a lasting Israeli-Egyptian peace. The move saw a warming in U.S.–Egyptian relations, bitter since the '50s, as the country moved away from its former pro-Soviet stance and into a close partnership with the United States. The peace was finalized in 1978 when U.S. president Jimmy Carter mediated the Camp David Accords, during which Israel returned the Sinai in exchange for an Egyptian agreement to recognize Israeli statehood and end hostility.
This appears to be a net benefit - Egypt switched sides in the Cold War, and our ally Israel got peace and official recognition from the Egyptian government. But I do have some questions. Was there a better alternative to Kissinger's plan? Did Egypt's defection make a significant difference in the Cold War, or in Mideast tensions?Kissinger did foster favorable relations between the US and Chile after the Pinochet coup, but Jimmy Carter put an end to that for the duration of his presidency. At least Carter's alienation of Chile didn't foster totalitarian revolution as his alienation of Iran and Nicaragua did.
Now, as he sits in jail, Kevorkian may have had a change of heart — not about his dedication to the "death with dignity" movement, but on how he went about promoting it...While Kevorkian stands firmly by the cause of physician-assisted suicide, his lawyer said he would promote the movement by speaking out or writing, not by helping out in any more suicides."At this point, he would never perform it again," Morganroth said. "But he certainly would work towards getting it legalized wherever possible."
I am gross and pervertedI'm obsessed 'n derangedI have existed for yearsBut very little had changedI am the tool of the GovernmentAnd industry tooFor I am destined to ruleAnd regulate youI may be vile and perniciousBut you can't look awayI make you think I'm deliciousWith the stuff that I sayI am the best you can getHave you guessed me yet?I am the slime oozin' outFrom your TV setYou will obey me while I lead youAnd eat the garbage that I feed youUntil the day that we don't need youDon't got for help...no one will heed youYour mind is totally controlledIt has been stuffed into my moldAnd you will do as you are toldUntil the rights to you are soldThat's right, folks..Don't touch that dialWell, I am the slime from your videoOozin' along on your livin'room floorI am the slime from your videoCan't stop the slime, people, lookit me go
The Texas Transportation Commission agreed Thursday to increase the speed limit to 80 mph on more than 521 miles of Interstate 10 and Interstate 20 in rural West Texas, through the Davis Mountains and toward the southern tip of the Rockies.New signs could be posted as early as Saturday, Texas Department of Transportation officials say.The 5 mph increase could theoretically reduce travel by 90 minutes between Kerrville, northwest of San Antonio, and Fabens, east of El Paso.State officials say it's safe for drivers to travel up to 80 mph in the sparse, 10-county region where Texas plains turn to Chihuahuan desert.
This wil also speed up travel to Big Bend National Park, home to beautiful desert, mountain, and canyon scenery, and one of the best spots in North America for amateur astronomy.
The brief Spanish-American War ended more than a century ago, but not the federal tax assessed to fund the victory.Until now. On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury said it would stop collecting the 3% federal excise tax on long-distance calls, a fee originally assessed in 1898. The government also said it will issue refunds requested by consumers and businesses that paid the fee over the past three years. Taxpayers will be able to request refunds when they file 2006 tax returns in early 2007.
Republicans and Democrats alike railed Tuesday at a Justice Department weekend raid of a lawmaker's Washington office, saying the move threatens the independence of the legislative branch."This is a serious concern," said House Majority Leader Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. "Congress will clearly speak to the issue of the Justice Department invasion."
Independence from what? The same law enforcement measures to which all other Americans are subject?Listen here, you elitist jerks. The FBI was investigating Jefferson for a crime. A judge signed a warrant to authorize a search of his Congressional office. Everything by the book.On his show today, Rush Limbaugh pointed out a possible consequence of setting Congressional offices off-limits to such searches: any lawmakers who commit crimes will keep the incriminating evidence in their offices where no cop or Federal agent can ever search under any circumstances.
Very basic logic here means that utilitarians will not support people who say they are promoting happiness, while in fact they are doing the opposite. Communist elites who, as you aptly put it, "consume a nation's population for their own enrichment", are not promoting happiness. They know this and we know this.People may claim that the state should be the cornerstone of culture in the name of utilitarianism, but since we know that their policies will not promote general happiness, we know their arguments are wrong. Totalitarian states are not just oppressive to the individuals who are sacrificed for the supposed common good, they are bad for the common good as well.
Robert Scruton's article pointed at Communism (and other isms) in this passage:
Mill's rebellion against utilitarianism did not prevent him from writing a qualified defense of it, and his "Utilitarianism" is acknowledged today as one of the few readable accounts of a moral disorder that would have died out two centuries ago, had people not discovered that the utilitarian can excuse every crime. Lenin and Hitler were pious utilitarians, as were Stalin and Mao, as are most members of the Mafia.
In reflection, Mafiosi may not be the best example: they seek to maximize the welfare of the Mafia, not society as a whole; the Mafiosi are simply pragmatists.Utilitarianism comes in two forms: national (the most common) and universal. Nazism is an example of the former; it sought to maximize the common good for "Aryan" Germans. To Hitler, WWII was all about getting revenge for the aftermath of WWI, all about making the German people great again. Fascism in general targets the supposed tyranny of unregulated commerce, by nationalizing not industry itself, as the Communists do, but the power to decide what gets produced. It also micromanages society in order to maximize "good" culture. A much more benign example of national Utilitarianism is trade protectionism, which through faulty economics seeks to contribute to maximizing domestic employment with little thought about foreign firms.Communism is the prime example of universal Utilitarianism. Its vision is global, seeking to end the purported tyranny of capitalism and religion. Lenin, Stalin and Mao really believed that they were maximizing the happiness of humanity. They believed that they were fighting a war against oppressors; the concentration camps and purges were to them the moral equivalent to defending against an aggressor nation. They believed that Marxism could bring prosperity to their respective nations. Mao instituted the Great Leap Forward because he believed that Chinese agriculture would boom. Human nature being what it is, near-absolute power corrupts; the Maximum Leaders do their share of looting (the Ceaucescus being notorious examples), but they really do believe that in the long run they are bringing about Utopia.These leaders really believed that the people would eventually be happy with the world they were building. That's what all the totalitarian indoctrination was for - to get the people to recognize and accept the Marxist view of happiness. They believed that the masses would be unhappy as long as they held to "wrongful" notions that contradict Marxism; the masses must be instructed on the meaning of life. Now for the first part of Catquas' comment:
It is important to recognize that utilitarianism is a moral philosophy, and therefore is a moral guide for an individual. Utilitarians do not suggest that the Constitution read, "Make whatever law creates the most happiness", and then let the government decide what that is. The utilitarian wants a constitution with checks and balances constrains the government enough so it doesn't make laws which lower aggregate happiness. A utilitarian voter will vote for the person whose policies he believes will create the most happiness.
Many Utilitarians believe that government accountability is unnecessary or even harmful to utilitarian aims. A belief shared by Voltaire and several other Enlightenment thinkers was enlightened absolutism. Essentially Utilitarian in nature, it proposes an enlightened monarch as the means for maximizing citizen welfare. Modern socialism, the predominant form of Utilitarian thought in the Western world, seeks to remove large segments of the checks and balances offered by free markets.Utilitarianism in and of itself does not define "happiness" and "common good." Utilitarian Peter Singer proposes that infanticide for newborns with certain severe disabilities maximizes happiness by minimizing "needless" suffering. Is he right? Utilitarianism is neutral on the subject.There is a problem in valuing "happiness" as an ultimate end goal: people often find happiness in things that are harmful to the greater good. Stuff like drinking to excess, watching movies that lie about history (it's a wonder that Dan Brown didn't sell the Da Vinci Code film rights to experienced revisionist Oliver Stone), cheating on one's spouse, etc. Utilitarianism does not offer a method for prioritizing happiness.A political philosophy should maximize one thing: justice. Protect individual rights, and punish those who infringe upon them. That sort of thing makes a lot of people unhappy.
Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the "Amero," a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.
Aside from sovereignty issues, the chief concern over such a harebrained scheme is its workability. Canada, the US and Mexico have vastly dissimilar economies; crafting a single monetary policy that suits all three is impossible. The article concludes thus:
If President Bush had run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the "Amero," we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of Representative where every seat is up for grabs.
Fortunately, Pastor's pipe dream is not an issue in Washington. But illegal immigration is, and if the GOP sides with the illegals, their future won't be worth a wooden Amero.
Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as "other", different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers.
The first thing to come to mind is a passage on pages 9-10 in Dinesh D'Souza's 1991 book Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, which is also referenced in a 1997 Cato Institute article (emphasis added):
That whole mindset obviously is hostile not just to reason but to individualism. At the University of Pennsylvania several years ago a student was censured for turning in a paper in which she talked about her "deep regard for the individual and my desire to protect the freedom of all members of society." An administrator sent the paper back to her with the word "individual" underlined and with a note in the margin: "This is a red-flag phrase today. Arguments that champion the individual over the group ultimately privilege the individuals belonging to the largest or dominant group."
You will be assimilated. Our uniqueness will be added to your own.Heh, even the Borg believed that the individual could contribute something toward improving the collective, albeit without maintaining that individuality.
Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims."This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis."Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical "standard Islamic garments."The law, which must still be approved by Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect, also establishes special insignia to be worn by non-Muslims.
Update: Eugene Volokh reports that the Iranian government is denying the story. Those charges pale in comparison to Iran's documented atrocities, though.Update: "Ahmadinejad" is now spelled correctly.
New research concludes that humans and chimpanzees interbred after the two species first separated – meaning they are much more recently related than was previously thought.
As Mill recognized, the "greatest happiness principle" must be qualified by some guarantee of individual rights, if it is not to excuse the tyrant. In response to his own wavering discipleship, therefore, he wrote "On Liberty," perhaps his most influential, though by no means his best, production.
Scruton cites Marxism and socialism as two examples of utilitarianism run amok. Nothing summarizes Marxist utilitarianism better than Mao's famous statement, "To make an omelet, you must break a few eggs." The analogy is perhaps more illustrative than Mao would have recognized; as one consumes one's breakfast for personal nourishment, Communist elites (literally and figuratively) consume a nation's population for their own enrichment.Scruton mentions another example of unbridled utilitarianism, that promoted by his contemporary Jeremy Bentham which formed the essence of Victorian-era law:
At the time, Benthamite ways of thinking were influencing jurisprudence, and arguments based on the "general good" and the "good of society" appealed to the conservative imagination of the Victorian middle classes. It seemed right to control the forms of public worship, to forbid the expression of heretical opinions, or to criminalize adultery, for the sake of a "public morality" which exists for the general good. If individual freedom suffers, then that, according to the utilitarians, is the price we must pay.
The Benthamite argument is essentially the same as that of Marxism, socialism, the Jim Crow South, and academic political correctness, although the specific policies vary widely: government must be the cornerstone of culture. Recall the conversation between Josh Lyman and his Donna Moss on The West Wing. The utilitarian state doesn't trust us.Mill failed to correct one serious philosophical flaw (emphasis added):
Mill's hostility to privilege, to landed property, and to inheritance of property had implications which he seemed unwilling or unable to work out. His argument that all property should be confiscated by the state on death, and redistributed according to its own greater wisdom, has the implication that the state, rather than the family, is to be treated as the basic unit of society--the true arbiter of our destiny, and the thing to which everything is owed. The argument makes all property a temporary lease from the state, and also ensures that the state is the greatest spender, and the one least bound by the sense of responsibility to heirs and neighbors. It is, in short, a recipe for the disaster that we have seen in the communist and socialist systems, and it is a sign of Mill's failure of imagination that, unlike Smith, he did not foresee the likely results of his favored policies.
Update: I have posted a follow-up.
"Data mining" for terrorism -- the idea that searching through masses of data can find terrorist patterns or suspicious anomalies -- is provably flawed. Probability theory shows that searching for extremely rare events or conditions using even slightly flawed formulae will return mostly false positives. In other words, investigators searching through data about millions of Americans for the very few terrorists will send themselves on wild goose chases after innocent law-abiding citizens, with only the slimmest chance of stumbling onto terrorists or terrorism planning.
The NSA has to round up terror suspects by other means. And when it does so, it has probable cause to go to the phone companies and request phone records to and from locations associated with those suspects. That will square with the Constitution, and it will save the NSA the time that would be wasted plowing through reams of useless data.
"Indonesia Welcomes Iran's Leader"--headline, Los Angeles Times, May 11"Thousands of people fled the fertile slopes of Indonesia's most dangerous volcano Saturday as glowing lava oozed down the side and ash and rock spewed from the mountaintop."--Associated Press, May 13
"The problem you have right now is the conservative movement -- which is still very healthy in the country at large -- feels very abandoned in Washington," he told the Trib. "Conservatives actually believe in a balanced budget as a moral issue. Conservatives actually believe you ought to control the border as a matter of national security. Conservatives are the people who pay the taxes. They're not the people who get the pork."
Update: Bill Hobbs spotted a little sample bias in the poll numbers. But the Prez still has huge problems with his political base.
Donna, played by Janel Moloney, as she and Josh walk down a hallway: "We have a $32 billion budget surplus for the first time in three decades. The Republicans in Congress want to use this money for tax relief, right?"Josh: "Yes"Donna: "Essentially what they're saying is we want to give back the money. Why don't we want to give back the money?"Josh: "Because we're Democrats."Donna: "But it's not the government's money."Josh: "Sure it is. It's right there in our bank accounts."Donna: "That's only because we collected more money than we ended up needing."Josh: "Isn't it great?"Donna: "I want my money back."Josh: "Sorry."Later, they pick up the argument:Donna: "What's wrong with me getting my money back?"Josh: "You won't spend it right."Donna: "What do you mean?"Josh: "Let's say your cut of the surplus is $700. I want to take your money, combine it with everybody else's money, and use it to pay down the debt and further endow Social Security. What do you want to do with it?"Donna: "Buy a DVD player."Josh: "See."Donna: "But my $700 is helping employ the people who manufacture and sell DVD players, not to mention the people who manufacture and sell DVDs. It's the natural evolution of the market economy."Josh: "The problem is the DVD player you buy might be manufactured in Japan."Donna: "I'll buy an American one."Josh: "We don't trust you."Donna: "Why not?"Josh: "We're Democrats."Donna, exasperated: "I want my money back."Josh, snickering: "You shouldn't have voted for us."
The Republicans should play that video clip at the 2008 convention.
I just want to know who thought it was a good idea...to put a guy named Dusty Foggo in a power position at the CIA. The manager of a singles bar, yes. A waterbed store owner, yes. A porn director, yes. CIA executive director — no.
When I see his name I think of dust and fog. Stuff that obscures one's view when floating around in the air. Seems like a perfectly good name for a CIA director to me.
Scots infected with HIV protested Bill Clinton's appearance in Glasgow yesterday, highlighting the former president's connection to a scandal in which tainted blood from high-risk Arkansas prisoners was used to treat thousands of people in Europe who later came down with AIDS and hepatitis. Clinton was in Scotland to address a business conference but was met with protesters outside the event who say he is culpable for their illnesses. In the early 1980s, while Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas, his administration awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to provide medical care to the state's prisoners. The president of the company was a long-time friend and political ally of Clinton and was later appointed by him to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Later, he was among the senior members of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial re-election team.As part of the deal HMA struck with Arkansas, in addition to treating the prisoners, the company collected their blood and sold it. Because of the exploding AIDS crisis, U.S. regulations didn't permit the sale of prisoners' blood within the country. But HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught, a Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn't know the source of the supplies. The blood plasma was distributed throughout Canada by the Red Cross. Sales continued until 1983, when HMA revealed that some of the plasma might be contaminated with the AIDS virus and hepatitis. The blood was also peddled overseas. Thousands of unwitting hemophiliacs who received transfusions of a product called "Factor 8" made from this blood died as a result.
One protester speaks out:
"I needed Factor 8 because I was in pain, but in being given that treatment I was given a death sentence," a protester in Glasgow told BBC. As a result of the tainted blood product, the man, who did not want to be named, was infected with both HIV and hepatitis C at age 14.
"He is the perfect Democratic candidate," Coulter said. "The environmental crazies are really leading the pack in the Democratic Party. It used to be the abortion ladies, but the enviros are about to heave them off the boat because they haven't helped them win elections."Coulter feels heartened by Gore's constant chatter about "global warming," which she predicted in an earlier book, would be the defining issue for Democrats in the upcoming election.
She's nuts. Gore was relevant when he was an incumbent veep. But now? He's nothing. He makes an occasional speech, but he's not a prominent political force. Besides, the Dems have never run a candidate who lost a previous national presidential election. At least not in my lifetime.
The U.S. economy will continue to grow in the second half of 2006, the nation's purchasing and supply management executives concluded in a semi-annual economic survey released on Tuesday.Manufacturing revenue is expected to grow 6.6 percent in 2006, while non-manufacturing revenue is expected to be up 6.0 percent during that period, the Institute for Supply Management said.The ISM survey released in December 2005 had anticipated manufacturing revenue to be up 5.4 percent for 2006 and non-manufacturing revenue to be up 6.6 percent for 2006.
Castro reportedly makes his fortune by heading a number of state-run companies, but also through alleged kickbacks from missiles, cigars and rum that run through the Communist island nation.
Click the link to see some other names on the list. One that stands out is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, worth $600 million. Wikipedia says of him:
Most domestic and international observers consider his regime to be one of the most corrupt, ethnocentric, oppressive and anti-democratic states in the world.
It's good to be king.Update: Volokh Conspiracy has the story, too. The original story in Forbes is here (registration required).
Of the top 14 oil exporters, only one is a well-established liberal democracy — Norway. Two others have recently made a transition to democracy — Mexico and Nigeria. Iraq is trying to follow in their footsteps. That's it. Every other major oil exporter is a dictatorship — and the run-up in oil prices has been a tremendous boon to them.My associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, Ian Cornwall, calculates that if oil averages $71 a barrel this year, 10 autocracies stand to make about $500 billion more than in 2003, when oil was at $27. This windfall helps to squelch liberal forces and entrench noxious dictators in such oil producers as Russia (which stands to make $115 billion more this year than in 2003) and Venezuela ($36 billion). Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez can buy off their publics with generous subsidies and ignore Western pressure while sabotaging democratic developments from Central America to Central Asia. The "dictatorship dividend" also subsidizes Sudan's ethnic cleansing (it stands to earn $4.7 billion more this year than in 2003), Iran's development of nuclear weapons ($45 billion) and Saudi Arabia's proselytization for Wahhabi fundamentalism ($149 billion). Even in such close American allies as Kuwait ($35 billion) and the United Arab Emirates ($36 billion), odds are that some of the extra lucre will find its way into the pockets of terrorists.
We don't need higher energy taxes. We need more liberty in a whole bunch of countries. Including that corrupt banana republic on our southern border.
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Two errors stand out:
The "Mom paycheck" salary wizard eventually leads to a page which lists the typical hours per week in which each of the job functions are performed. This page reveals a third problem with methodology. The hours worked in the Computer Operator I position is 7.2 hours for a working mom and 9.1 hours for a stay-at-home mom. How much of this computer time is work? Most computer use at home is recreational. I have a hard time believing that moms - or most people - do actual work functions on a home computer for over an hour a day.


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There is a long history of illustrators working closely with scientists, and scientists who have been skilled illustrators. Natural Science illustration often aims to balance functionality and beauty and reflects a sense of drawing as an aesthetic activity and an observational one, of drawing as science and drawing as art (Course Guide p58).
"The main goal of botanical illustration is not art, but scientific accuracy. It must portray a plant with the precision and level of detail for it to be recognized and distinguished from another species.
The need for exactness differentiates natural science illustration from for example more general flower painting. Many great artists, from the seventeenth-century Dutch masters to the French Impressionists, such as Monet and Renoir, to modernists like Georgia O'Keeffe, portrayed flowers, animals and still life; but since their goal was aesthetic, accuracy was not always necessary or intended. In the hands of a talented natural science artist, however, the illustration goes beyond its scientific requirements.
Although photography and perhaps particularly microscopic photography, may help inform natural science work, there is certainly still a need for illustration because simplification through line and shape based on detailed observation can represent clearly what may not easily be seen in the continuous tones of a photograph. The composition of the image can be manipulated and features displayed together to highlight similarities and contrast in ways that may not occur in nature.
This project focuses on Botanical Illustration. I used work from a series of courses in botanical illustration at the Cambridge Botanic Gardens.
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Asian botanical illustration
The earliest botanical illustrations are from Asia. See:
Natural History Museum Archives
Western botanical illustration
See history in Wikipedia
In Western cultures interaction between science and arts goes back to early herbalist manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and flourished from the Renaissance onwards across all the various natural sciences. Media have traditionally used drawing, and other portable media like crayon, ink, watercolour and gouache. Many illustrations were later reproduced in etchings and engravings to reach a wider public.
- Herbalist manuscripts
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Albrecht Durer
- Robert Hooke
- Victorian hand-coloured engravings.
Women artists feature prominently, especially during the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries when science was basically an entrenched male preserve. Botany was deemed a respectable pastime for young ladies, and their botanical drawing was analytical enough to feed into science.
- Marianne North (1830–90), an English naturalist and botanical
artist, and the
- Mary E Eaton (1873–1961) American artist
- Mary McFadden
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Sarah Simblett
I am also interested in very stylised designs in Art Nouveau and Still Life painters.
Contemporary Approaches
The contribution of botanical illustrators continues to be praised and sought, very fine examples of drawing and watercolour continue to be produced. See Google images for contemporary botanical illustration.
Photography and other lens-based media like fibre-optic cameras, x-rays, remote cameras and video and new methods like magnetic resonance imaging have extended the ways in which we are able to see the world – for example freezing motion, capturing at distance and/or microscopically, giving views of 'reality' beyond out senses. Some illustrators are beginning to build on these new technologies in their illustration.
Some illustrators use stylised forms and flat colours:
- Angie Lewin, printmaker : www.angielewin.co.uk
- Hannah McVicar, illustrator : www.hannahmcvicar.co.uk
Other sources to explore:
Wellcome Trust: a global charity that supports biomedical research into human and animal health. The Wellcome Collection – a London-based gallery and online resource explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future.
Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens
Society of Botanical Artists : on-line gallery www.soc-botanical-artists.org
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Botanical Art and Artists Historical Overview
Botanical Art and Artists Contemporary
List from Wikipedia to be further investigated:
- Alois Auer
- Atanasio Echeverria y Godoy
- Barbara Everard
- Barbara Jeppe
- Carl Axel Magnus Lindman
- Celia Rosser
- Claude Aubriet
- Cythna Letty
- Dioscorides
- Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Twining
- Ellis Rowan
- Françoise Basseporte
- Ferdinand Bauer
- Franz Bauer
- Georg Dionysius Ehret
- George French Angas
- Gerard van Spaendonck
- Gillian Condy
- Harry Bolus
- James Andrews
- James Henry Emerton
- James Sowerby
- Léon Camille Marius Croizat
- Lewis Roberts
- Lilian Snelling
- Margaret Mee
- Marianne North
- Mark Catesby
- Martha King
- Matilda Smith
- Olivia Marie Braida-Chiusano
- Philippa Nikulinsky
- Pierre Jean François Turpin
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Priscilla Susan Bury
- Sydenham Edwards
- Sydney Parkinson
- Vera Scarth-Johnson
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Upon consideration of the recommendation of the Hawai'i Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (First Report to the Hawai'i Supreme Court, dated March 10, 2006) that the "Order Approving Referral Agencies," filed by this court on January 26, 1996, be amended,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the following agencies or types of agencies are approved for referrals pursuant to Rule 2.7(b)(3) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai'i:
1. Hawai'i State Bar Association (HSBA),
including any agencies, entities, programs, or individuals, with which
or whom the HSBA has arranged for the
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2. Attorneys and Judges Assistance
Program (AAP), including any agencies, entities, programs, or
individuals (whether located in Hawai'i or elsewhere), with
which or whom the AAP has arranged for the provision of services or
3. Hawai'i licensed physicians
(including, but not limited to, psychiatrists) and/or psychologists;
4. Certified Public Accountants and/or
other allied accounting professionals;
5. Continuing legal education or
professionalism courses and/or programs;
6. Mediation, arbitration, or other forms
of alternative dispute resolution; and
7. Any other agencies, entities,
programs, or individuals, not otherwise enumerated above, that are
deemed appropriate under the circumstances.
This order supercedes this court's Order Approving Referral
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DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 11, 2006.
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Last week while I was in Cuba, Red Letter Christians ran a column I wrote about one of the oddest religious-political moments of this presidential campaign (which is actually saying something!). The piece, An Eye For An Eye Makes the Bible Blind, looks at Donald Trump's answer when asked to name his favorite Bible verse.
Although Trump's answer remains highly problematic, I suggest it also tells us something important about various ways of reading and interpreting the Bible. And I argue in piece that many of us make a similar mistake as Trump - even if we pick more appropriate texts to name as our favorites. I hope the piece leads people to carefully think about how we read Scripture and the importance of those 'red letter' texts.


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Channeling for the Sedona Journal of Emergence January 2015 transcribed by Kimberly Powers.
Beloved Beings intent is such a key this year. We know each January you celebrate by setting intentions of weight loss, being healthy in what you eat but think beyond the limited view of your own focus. Set the intent for that which you wish to see happen on the planet. Set your personal intent in alignment with that which you would like to see. If you would like to see more love for Gaia then set the intention also for loving your self more. If you would like to see truth than will truth as your intent. Your thoughts are ever so more powerful in January because the global consciousness is also setting the intentions as you are and as it resonates together great shifts can happen. Don't be surprised as great shifts are felt by the end of January as you each and you (specific) all are calling out for that which you desire and as one complete consciousness we're also are intending the same thought as you are. With such strong movement of desire also comes the balance of making room for the new so don't be surprised as the earth Gina also shifts. You are in the core of this belt (Photon belt) and within this belt you are more fully supported thus the movements are much greater in speed and intensity. Don't let the speed and intensity seem harsh but rather feel it as what it is and that is a rapid response to you focus – your intent.
In many places around the world there will be called for quiet days. These will appear as distress to some but those who realize these days are from our intentions to balance you will realize the gifts in them rather then participate in the worry of loosing "normalcy" for the day. A new normalcy is emerging and one that we the angels, and you light holders are recognized as you have planted the seeds thought your desires. Step fully into this new normally don't look back to compare or wonder of the future. Embrace and hold each moment of difference as an accomplishment of moving fully into the new focus you have created. Stand tall you are beyond your thinking, beyond your limitations you once believed. Your intentions are materializing all around you. Take the time to look back at how quickly so much has happened over the lst year (the first year was received as the last year 2014) and know that three times as much will happen this year. We are of one consciousness. Celebrate.
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Draft News and Notes: NY Mets scout Ojimi drops by rookie mini camp to watch Kikuchi
by Gen on Jan.28, 2010 @ 12:38 pm, under NPB
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...5th rounds draft pick Shunsuke Fujikawa and 4th round draft pick Takumi Akiyama spent their day off on Wednesday working out at the Naruohama training facilities.
They ran some sprints and played some catch. Fujikawa also spent some time in the cages.
...Masanori Fujihara refrained from throwing on Wednesday but said that he would hold a bullpen session on Thursday. He's apparently trying to pace himself for Spring camp.
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...2nd round draft pick Motoki Higa tossed a 45-pitch bullpen session on Wednesday (with the catcher squatting).
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...Never too early? New York Mets Pacific Rim Scout Isao Ojimi dropped by rookie mini camp on Wednesday to check out Yusei Kikuchi.
Said Ojimi, "It might be a few years. It might be 10 years from now. Regardless, he's someone I want to keep my eye on. And I really hope he doesn't get hurt."
...The Kikuchi effect? Seibu Railways is adding four direct express trains from Seibu Kyujo-mae to Ikebukuro to their schedules, effective March 6th. The express trains will cut travel times between the two locations down to about 33 minutes.
The four express trains will run within an hour after the game ends.
It seems Seibu will also be adding a few semi-express trains between Ikebukuro and Seibu Kyujo-mae.
...Kikuchi ended up tossing 9 bullpen session during rookie mini camp. And in his last bullpen session, he actually threw a total 58 pitches: 34 with the catcher standings and 24 with the catcher squatting.


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I feel bad. I have neglected posting in here for a while, but in all fairness, I have been
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My application was done late February or early March (i can't even remember because it was that long ago for me), and after a month of applying to it, I figured I didn't have a shot. When I finally got an email invitation for an interview, I was certainly surprised that I heard back from them two months after I applied. (And then I realized with all the interviews I previously got, the average waiting time for me from application to interview invitation was 2 months.)
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Year in Review: Cars that wowed India in 2017
Year 2017 saw many a new car being launched in the Indian market. The automobile market was abuzz with new trends, old market favourites donning new avatars and a lot of exciting new launches.
As the year comes to a close, here's a look at the cars that entered the Indian market in 2017: