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Recently an earthquake hit the town of L'Aquila in Italy, collapsing a number of buildings, killing more than a hundred people and leaving several thousands stranded. Last year Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, leaving many parts of the coastal community submerged. In the news of late have been the "one-time write-offs" that banks are taking because of the extraordinary credit crisis.
The one thing that all three of these things have in common is that they appear to be "Black Swans", a term that economist and mathematician Nassim Taleb used to describe events that seem wildly improbable, yet nonetheless do occasionally happen. The term derives from the saying that, as all swans are white, the term "as rare as a black swan" means something that is so improbable that there is no way that it could happen.. Of course, eventually a species of black swan was eventually discovered in Australia, which was Taleb's point - beware of assuming that simply because events are rare, they will never happen - and when they do happen, they tend to cluster.
To understand why black swans are not as rare as one may think (and to anticipate their appearance), it's worth going back to the abstraction model proposed a couple of posts ago. Almost all complex systems exist at multiple levels of abstraction. One way of thinking about this is to envision the human body as being made up of subsystems - organs - each of which in turn are made up of tissues. which are in turn made up cells. A person in peak health has all of her subsystems (organs) operating more or less optimally.
However, one day a carcinogenic agent enters the body - tobacco smoke, asbestos, environmental steroids, the list is rather depressingly long. A cell in her breast mutates in the presence of the carcinogen, losing the ability to "shut off and die", which most cells do after they've reached a point where their internal mechanisms are no longer sufficient to do the job efficiently. The cancer spreads, every time the cell would undergo normal meiosis. If the woman is lucky, a routine examination would find this cancer when it is fairly small, at which point the best solution is to remove the cancerous tissue.
If the woman is unlucky, the cancer would grow until it found a conduit (typically a lymph node or a blood vessel). Cancer cells that broke free from the mass would be transported by the conduit until it ends up somewhere else in the body, at this point it would attach itself to other tissue and continue spreading. The cancer cells crowd out other cells, choking off access to blood vessels or waste channels, and other cells either become cancerous in turn or they become necrotic - dying but not being removed by the body's defenses. The woman becomes tired more easily as energy that would normally be going to maintenance of the body is increasingly co-opted by the cancer cells. Tissue becomes tender and inflamed, and pain caused by cancer cells crowding in on nerve endings becomes more endemic.
If the cancer spreads to the lungs, then breathing becomes more difficult and becomes an emphysema. If it spreads into the lymph system then the woman has more trouble fighting off infections, and becomes sicker more often. If it spreads into the bone then normal stresses may cause the bone to snap.
The broken bone is a black swan event - it seems unlikely that a bone would normally break under typical stress actions, but in point of fact, this isn't a typical stress action. The system has been compromised, and the cancer has spread out in a spider-web like fashion through much of the body. An aggressive fight against the cancer by irradiating it or using poisons (chemotheraphy) may be able to remove the tissue, but typically it does so by further weakening the ability of the body to function.
The body does not die because of the cancer. Instead, the cancer causes each system in turn to become less efficient, and ultimately to fail because it can't get the energy necessary to continue. Once one organ fails, it increases the likelihood that other systems that are dependent upon that organ will also fail. The unfortunate woman dies of system failure.
This rather detailed and morbid description still serves as a metaphor for other systems. Complex systems are made up of simpler ones, which are made up of simpler ones still. Corruption usually occurs fairly far down in a given system, but most complex systems are generally fairly effective at catching and eliminating the obvious points of corruption (or worst case scenario, sequestering them off in isolation) . Corruption here simply means a subversion of the normal functions of that particular abstraction - an bridge inspector signing off an inspection report with only a peremptory check of the bridge, an employee stealing supplies from the supply cabinets, a student cheating on an exam or a businessman cheating on his taxes, a radical publishing seditious tracts, to name a few of the many, many examples.
Physical system analogs would be areas of snowfall on a mountain that gets more sun than normal but is also supporting other areas of snowfall, a particularly warm, dry, dust-laden wind coming off the Sahara into the Atlantic Ocean, the gradual creep of increasing temperatures in an area that hasn't faced them pushing flowering and bee pollenation behaviors slowly out of synch.
The point about most such corruption (i.e., regions of potential instability) is that, for systems in quasi-equilibrium, the corruption usually has comparatively little impact over the short term. Most systems have regulating mechanisms that tend to correct for such instabilities - the office manager notices that one department is using more supplies than the other, and a bit of surveillance reveals that one employee is using dramatically more than he should be. At that point, the employee is summarily fired, and a new employee hired to replace him, and the message is made clear - you steal, you're gone. This tends to move the system back into equilibrium.
The regulation and action is not a normal event - it is only undertaken when corruption is noticed. It's a small "collapse", one that may result in some disruption of activities and hence impact the efficiency of the abstraction - and for the employee it results in a significant disruption from the way things were. However, such feedback cycles normally keep the system relatively stable.
However, over time, the corruption can become more endemic, and at a higher level of abstraction. The managing bridge inspector is lax in checking on reports, and the inspectors under him avoid looking at those places on the bridge that are awkward to get to or would require getting especially dirty, the comptroller in a company works with one or two accounts to falsify the books, the teacher at a university starts accepting bribes and sexual favors for grades, a company provides campaign donations to a politician in order to give them a tax break or special legislative consideration.
Note in this case that there are two levels of abstraction involved in all of these scenarios. Generally the role of a manager is to act as a governor or regulator on the actions of others, to provide negative (damping) feedback to minimize corruption in a system. When that feedback is subverted, it amplifies the corruption rather than reducing it, and it makes it increasingly likely that the feedback will start to compromise the stability of the abstraction layer.
One of the more interesting phenomena that takes place in systems of abstraction is the paradox that the longer a system remains in equilibrium, the more likely that it will become unstable. In order to understand why, consider that most corrective feedback occurs only after a problem has reached a crisis point - the office manager finds that supplies she just ordered are gone, and she can't think of any legitimate reason why they would be. As she is responsible for her budget, she knows that she has less lattitude if excess pilferage is reducing her budget (and that she could face "corrective action" if such thefts continue to be unexplained.
However, as the organization gets larger, the office manager has more responsibilities, and tracking down pilferage drops down the list. The attitude begins to form that office supplies are fair game, and people begin more inclined to take supplies whether they need them or not - and those office supplies begin to move towards bigger ticket ideas like computers and projectors. Expense accounts start to become padded, and pretty soon begin to become a significant part of a person's income. Eventually the amounts begin to become high enough that it impacts the bottom of the line of the company, particularly if the comptroller and his friends in accounting are in on it (getting kickbacks for equipment that's disappearing).
What makes this worse is that it has gone from being an isolated instance to becoming pervasive and endemic. You can't fire everyone without bringing the company to its knees. Eventually you are forced to fire the comptroller, establish a new-tight accounting system for all internal goods and services, alienate a number of your employees who had come to see the office supplies as a right, and then spend several months searching for a new accounting team.
Stability breeds complacency, which breeds instability. Hyman Minsky, an economist in the 1960s, laid out this hypothesis for financial systems, but it holds in most complex multi-layered abstraction systems. Deregulation of the banking industry, low interest rates on the part of the Federal Reserve and a push towards home-ownership in the early 2000s meant that bankers could make higher risk mortgage loans to increasingly unqualified buyers then sell these loans to other financial institutions. These financial companies would combine these mortgages in novel (and dangerous) ways and sell them as financial vehicles to investors. The investors would then use these securities as collateral to build increasingly unsustainable leverages, while insurance companies sold "black swan" insurance that they never expected to pay off in order to make these securities palatable to accountants. Meanwhile, the real estate agents worked with the appraisal firms and builders in order to get the largest payback in fees, and homeowners in turn found themselves forced to take out ever larger loans for the same properties.
Low initial rates on loans were reset after a specific period to a much higher rate, and people began to fall behind on their payments, in time, the cascade of defaults and jungle mail cascaded through the system. The rapidly receding value of these assets caused a Minsky Moment in September 2009, as a key investment bank, Lehman Brothers, was allowed to go bankrupt. Because of the unwinding of the positions that Lehman had held, this created the financial equivalent of a heart attack as credit disappeared from the market overnight.
Starved for credit, companies could no longer sustain regular payroll, watched their energy supply (cash inflow) dry up as consumers pulled back abruptly in spending and soon were forced into rapid liquidation. Abstractions were unwound as energy (in the form of credit) disappeared from the system. Unemployment shot up as millions of people were forced out of work, accelerating the crisis, while attempts to recapitalize the banks have so far fallen short of solving the systemic problems.
Instabilities - turbulence - disrupted each layer of abstraction. This process is still ongoing, and will likely take one to two more years in order for the turbulence to dissipate to a level that new structures can start to form again, at a lower energy level.
The lesson for futurists - first, disruptions do not happen without reason. Most disruptions occur when a stable (complacent) abstraction becomes corrupt and brittle. In a recently stable scenario, external stimulae impinge upon the system all the time, but the system is resilient enough to ward them off. As systems become more mature they become more fragile, and their ability to adapt becomes increasingly compromised. Eventually, a stimulus occurs that causes a breakdown of a particular part of the system, and the system has become so interdependent that this shock then gets passed on, destructively, to other subsystems. The subsequent loss of system integrity can prove fatal, and the system will unwind to a less energy intensive state as energy bleeds into turbulence.
In general, you cannot predict what the shock will be that will ultimately send a system over the edge, and its futile to try. What's important is to examine whether, given a shock, a system is resilient enough to absorb it, or whether the shock will prove devastating. The role of both analysts (who are futurists) and regulators is to do the research to determine what organizations are too fragile, and then to examine the consequences that a shock to the system will have.
One final note here: a good place to look are organizations that are deemed "to big to fail". Most likely once a company (or a government) reaches that point, it is definitely overdue for an earthquake.


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The Girl and the City
Top, c/o BodyRock Sport. Vest, Tinley Road. Jeans, Topshop. Loafers, Sam Edelman. Necklace, handmade.
You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl. Last time I wore this nearly identical outfit, I was lounging underground with Kristina in the 8th Street subway station. This time around, I made a few quick changes – pumps to loafers, sheer blouse to cotton v-neck with studded cuffs, red lip to natural makeup – and shot these photos back in my hometown. I've been home a few times since I started college in late August, but I'm continually struck by how quiet my little suburb is and by how nostalgic it makes me feel.
I apologize for my blogging drought these past few weeks. It's been quite a busy month! Here's a little slice of what I've been up to these past few weeks:
- Studying for finals and writing papers like a mad man in the library with a few friends and several thousand cups of mint tea to keep me company. (As of 3:30 PM on Monday, I'm officially done with finals!)
- Sampling New York's culinary treats with my boyfriend Mike. We've recently tried Dos Toros Taqueria, Rosa Mexicano, Souen, Magnolia's Bakery, Bare Burger, and S'Mac, all in and around Greenwich Village. Any other NYC suggestions to add to our list?
- Spending weekends at the Met to research art history papers for my friends and me.
- Bundling up in as many of warm sweaters, earmuffs, and gloves as possible. It's getting cold!
Leaving the city was sad, but I have a busy month ahead of me in Needham before returning for spring semester. Happy holidays!
xoxo Hannah
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I used the recipe kindly shared by Celia and my inclusions were: 1 cup macadamias and 1 cup of choc-chips for the first batch.....
|Chocolate version with macadamias and white chocolate pieces
.....and for the chocolate variation/second batch, 1 cup of macadamias and 1 cup of white chocolate chips. Yummy!
Packaged up with a nice ribbon, they made sweet gifts for our daughters' teachers. With some positive feedback today, I'm relieved to say that they weren't mistaken for stale cookies, thank goodness!! (I was a bit worried, ok!). And for an entertaining account on figuring out the complexities of eating biscotti for the first time, hop on over to Brydie's and have a read of her biscotti post.


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Keri: Top 10 Muses
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So I decided to list my top 10 hotties of all time. These are the gorgeous muses—actors, musicians
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Still working on the new inventory interface. I have freed up two lines at the bottom to make more room for the description box. This leaves me with only one line for the key reference, but I think that will do.
I have hit a snag with item pickup and dropping. These actions are supposed to cost one turn per item, but this menu locks up the game logic flow. I can't easily drop a single item, go back to the main loop to run a game turn and then resume the dialog. I have a few options, none of which is really good:
- Create some kind of delayed event queue that drops items one by one. This is way out of scope. I never planned for it and there are just too many things that can go wrong. For example, items can be destroyed between turns so at the very least I would need a safe GUID handle for every item in the game (now I just have pointers).
- Make a slightly hacky variant of the above with the "multiaction" facility. This is my current way of extending actions over several turns, but I think only resting and "Aimed Shot" make use of it so far. This for a reason – it's a real mess to work with. I could possibly supply it with a list of item letters to pick up from the current location. If an item is not there (it has been removed or destroyed) it can simply be skipped, so there's less risk of crashing.
From a gameplay point of view, my main complaint about these two is that they will lock the player up for several turns. If I try to pick up five items and an enemy wanders on screen, I want to interrupt and deal with that first. They also open up gray areas like what would happen if the player is teleported away during the extended action (should probably just abort the action, but I would need to track down every case where it can happen).
- Pick up item, set a flag, return to the main loop, at the next turn (if the flag is set) return to the dialog. I think this would work but probably cause UI bugs (and I have enough of those already).
- Make drop and pickup cost only one turn regardless of how many items are transferred.
- Make drop and pickup free actions. This is how (un)equip works now: you can completely replace your equipment without even spending a turn.
The last two would keep drop and pickup as atomic actions, but would require me to change the ruleset. I do not want to make the actions entirely free since I wish to keep their tactical purpose – "should I stop to pick up and use that potion of healing or just keep fighting for two turns?"
Free dropping could throw the encumberance penalties off balance. I'm not happy with them anyway so this could be a good thing. If I decide to keep encumberance I could change it to some kind of delayed effect if necessary.
Allowing multiple item transfer in a single action would create some odd discrepancies in the UI. For example, the "do what I mean" Enter key only picks up one item at a time, while the ',' key would let you pick up several. I could change Enter to pick up everything on the floor.
A compromise would be to only let the player transfer a limited number of items, say three per turn.
I'm probably overthinking this. You usually pick up only two or three items at a time and letting that consume only a single turn would not change much, and this issue will definitely not govern how fun the game is. I'm all for removing micromanagement and if anyone wishes to grind and scum that isn't really my problem.
Oh, and another thing: I made so the default pickup key ',' works within the pickup menu as well. You can now hit it once to bring the menu up, then keep tapping the same key (rather than Enter) to pick up the selected item. It feels much more natural, much more… dwim-y.


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Tall trees, year-round warmth, friendly faces…and bonobos as far as the eye can see. This could be the front cover of a flyer pitching a world-class holiday destination. Behind the large, stylishly designed text in Times New Roman or Verdana sits a unique photograph: an upward camera shot of a clear, blue sky beyond a dense canopy, with streams of sunlight reaching through the thickness.
It is even easy to imagine the rest of the setting down below, towards the underbrush where occasionally a cool breeze cuts through the detectably high humidity of the forest air and birdsongs seemingly echo for miles much to one's delight. Make your reservations quickly because places are limited. All this could be.
But, for now, Iyondji Community Bonobo Reserve (ICBR), approximately 1,100 km² of protected tropical moist forest in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, is a slightly different scenario because threats to forests and its wildlife are still present.
So, let's try again…
Tall trees, year-round warmth, a wooden canoe moored by a young broadleaf tree…and Romain Kyandoghere, head conservationist, with a handful of new ecoguards embark along the winding Luo (Maringa) River to enter ICBR from the north. The purpose of their patrol, as usual, is to look out for poachers, illegal occupants, and intentional destruction of habitats.
Without ado, following a day's progress into the reserve, the first signs of poaching are visible in the form of handcrafted wicker traps that are light, yet sturdy. Small mammals, such as the bush pig, are the poacher's victims.
Romain wonders aloud, "Will we have to increase patrols and cover a larger area to learn more?"
He knows that sometimes a poacher places over 20 traps in an area and no longer knows how to control them and the 'game' rots in the trap. "Even in his terms," Romain explains, referring to poachers, "it's a waste!"
The trap is dismantled, and the sleeve of a cartridge found on the ground is packaged as evidence. It will be taken back to the storeroom at the ICBR office. Also, geographic coordinates of the current location are marked down on paper and will be projected on to the ICBR map back at the office, too.
ICBR is on the trail to ecotourism. But, one should bear in mind that trails are not like meticulously engineered roads adorning a city or town and serving the sole interest of a human population. They are paths that are low-impact and naturally blend into the surrounding.
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When you work on a jigsaw puzzle... you have a lot of time to think. In the weeks it took me to complete the puzzle, I relived that trip; the amazing colors of the sky, the iciness of the water, the dry hot dustiness of rock and sand, offset by the tang of the river, the summer storm that blew up, sprinkled on us a little, and quickly passed.
So, I'm remembering the trip, and I'm meditating on gratitude, grateful that I got to enjoy that wonderful experience. It was one of those brilliant, perfect days you treasure for the rest of your life.
I'm also thinking about life lessons. Viewed from the vantage point of the cliff, Horseshoe Bend is extremely unusual. But when you're going through it, it doesn't appear especially striking. Just another winding twist of the river, of which there are plenty.
To appreciate it fully, you have to experience it both up close, and get some distance from it and look back.
Or, almost finished.
One piece is missing.
I turn the room upside down, gingerly stick my hands into the deepest crevices of my living room furniture. (anyone need a Kleenex? I've got extra). I even sorted through the cat hair and best-left-unidentified dirt in my vacuum (now that was gross), without finding that very last puzzle piece.
So at first I'm thinking, well, that sucks. I was planning to hang and admire my puzzle, and now it's ruined.
And then I paused. Maybe the Universe is sending me another life lesson.
Maybe I'm not supposed to have all the pieces. Maybe (this is where I get all philosophical) the lesson is to accept this imperfection as part of the package of life, that sometimes the pieces are missing, or don't fit together neatly the way I think they should.
And that's okay.
I actually like the puzzle better this way.
So I've come with five potential memes. Will you help me choose one (or, suggest a better tagline?), to post on Pinterest?
So, which meme do you like best?
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Earwigs are a long, thin insect that have a distinctive pincher-like pair of appendages or "cerci" at the base of their abdomen. The appendages are where they get their nickname "pincher bug" from. Adults range in size from 5-25mm in length, depending on the species. Common earwig adults are about 5/8th of an inch in length. They are a brownish-red color and can be either winged or wingless. Their diet consists of both plants and other insects. You may recognize the earwig from the common myth that they are associated with. The myth states that they enter into human ears, burrow into the brain, and then lay their eggs- luckily that is just a myth and completely false.
Are they considered a nuisance pest or destructive?
Earwigs are considered to be a nuisance pest. They are categorized as an occasional invader and are not destructive to people or property.
How do earwigs get inside?
Earwigs can get into homes on outdoors items like packages, newspapers, boxes, and furniture that are brought indoors. However, earwigs most often wander into homes and other buildings accidentally through cracks in foundations, and gaps around exterior windows and doors. They are attracted to light and will sometimes flock to deck and porch areas in the evenings.
Why do earwigs infest homes and businesses?
Earwigs infest homes and businesses when the weather becomes too hot or dry for them. They will move indoors to find dark, moist places to hide in. When infesting homes they can be found in basements, bathrooms, kitchens, under stacks of newspapers or magazines, and under potted plants. They may also move indoors to search for food.
How do I get rid of earwigs?
Getting rid of earwigs from your home can be a frustrating task. Reducing the moisture levels in your home can help, but professional pest control is the best solution. Professionals can find all the areas of your home that the earwigs are hiding in and eliminate them. Pest experts will then be able to help you find the areas of your home that are allowing them inside and fix them.
At Allgood, we can treat and control earwigs year-round with our residential pest control plans. For more information about which plan is right for you and how we can help control earwigs on your property, contact us today!


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Landscape Spotlights
What a fabulous collection of diverse landscapes we had this week. To cut down on the number of possible spotlights I had chosen I ruled out a couple of favourites because they lacked the "extensive" aspect of the scenery which I feel should be part of a landscape shot. That's me with my nitpicky hat on.
I'm always aware of my personal bias when I'm doing the spotlights. Water attracts me, I can't resist it, any image of water is bound to grab my attention. I hadn't realized the river in Dawn Treader's home town was quite such a prominent feature. It gives me a wonderful feeling of tranquility.
Christa's stream rushes, happily it seems to me, through her landscape.
But despite my attraction to water, my top favourite this week is Barb's shot of her arid landscape. I like how the trail entices me to explore further, the colours of the sign stand out just enough to catch my eye, and I can feel the welcome shade of that tree. It's not a landscape I'd like to lose myself in but its beauty is undeniable.
Our next weekly theme is Bridges
What gets the people and vehicles across the divides in your town? Old, new or in between, as well as in disrepair, reclaimed by nature or sparkling new. Show us the bridges of your town - literal and metaphorical.
Our weekly spotlighter is Mersad
Friday My Town Shoot Out is a group blog kept going by wonderful volunteers who love the idea of sharing our home towns and visiting other places through images. We welcome you to participate in our weekly link-ups and/or get more involved as one of our volunteers.
See you on Friday.
(Thanks to Monica, Stewart and Peggy for letting me know the photos weren't showing. I had the same problem last week. Please leave a message if they still aren't there.)


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"When I first began to experiment with sea life photography, I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with my own old camera and without any professional lights or lenses. I collected the invertebrates underwater and then I shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure, I ended up with a few good pictures, which inspired me to buy a semi-professional camera complete with underwater housing and strobes. I've spent the following field season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their environment. It was much more difficult, and I spent another two months without any significant results. But when you're working at something every day, you inevitably get a lot of experience. Now after four years of practice, I get a few good shots almost every time I dive. And the most important thing: I love the Sea." explained Alexander.
Alexander's Website: http://clione.ru/
Alexander on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/
|Alexander Semenov - The man behind the lens.
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The Meople.Connector social media app is a new Ford app that allows drivers to stay connected to their social media accounts when driving, without being distracted. This particular app allows drivers to listen to, answer and if they so choose, ignore updates all by voice command. The app uses Ford's SYNC AppLink system, which is designed to allow users to access and control apps right on their smartphone.
The social media app also alerts drivers to new messages. They can then use voice commands to instruct the app to either read, answer or skip the message. They can also respond to messages using pre-programmed responses that can be customized. Their location can also be shared with friends, family and others.
Ultimately, the Meople.Connector is making the inevitable possible, by bringing social media into people's vehicles.
Automobile Social Media Apps
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Auto Upgrade Apps
On-Demand Car Wash Apps
On-Demand Parking Apps
Predictive Traffic Apps
Gas-Finding Apps
The Meople.Connector App Brings Social Media Into Ford Drivers' Cars
- By: Rahul KalvapalleOct 27, 2015
References: meople.net & gizmag
References: meople.net & gizmag


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Jonathan Yardley picked an Anita Brookner title for me for IABD. Well, not personally, but the process of choosing just one proved too daunting so I turned to searching through the opinions of others to find a title that was a bit more than just the piercingly perceptive depictions of loneliness for which Brookner is so well known. And then I found a piece from the Washington Post in 2005, one of those Yardley contributions I enjoy so much where he reconsiders a "notable and/or neglected book(s) from the past." Where he looks beyond the psychic isolation of Look at Me protagonist, Frances Hinton, to the thoughtless treatment she receives at the hands of careless people, people Yardley compares to Daisy and Tom from The Great Gatsby. "It was all very careless and confused," Fitzgerald writes. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Frances leads a quiet life contained within an inherited flat with inherited possessions with a housekeeper that she also did not choose, and ventures out for few things other than her work in a small medical research library. When her life is touched by the beautiful and fun-loving Alix and her equally appealing husband Nick who works as as a doctor at the same institute as Frances, she comes alive with the possibilities of life and permits this couple to treat her as an object of entertainment and an occasional funder of their merriment. They pair her with James, another doctor from work, with whom her sensibilities mesh, and her contentment elevates her out of loneliness. Until the bright and beautiful cease to find her amusing anymore.
Even as Frances recognizes the casual disdain with which she is treated, she still seeks to preserve her inclusion in the social circle of her new friends.
I could have been different, I think. Once I had great confidence, great cheerfulness; I did not question my purpose or the purpose of others. All that had gone, and I had done my best to replace it. I had become diligent instead of spontaneous; I had become an observer when I saw that I was not to be allowed to participate. I had refused to be pitiable. I had never once said, Look at me. Now, it seemed, I must make one more effort, one more attempt to make myself viable. And If I succeeded, I might be granted one more opportunity to do it all over again. I did not dare to think what would happen if I failed.
So what she requires from this relationship with the careless is not to possess them, to become them but to regain possession of herself. In an odd way, she uses them as much as they use her especially in her frequent relegation of the cast of characters around her to mere subject material for her writing. But she does this only from desperation in an attempt to claim a voice in a life that has not readily afforded her one.
I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an attempt to reach others and to make them love you. It is your instinctive protest, when you find you have no voice at the world's tribunals, and that no one will speak for you. I would give my entire output of words, past, present, and to come, in exchange for easier access to the world, for permission to state 'I hurt' or 'I hate' or 'I want.' Or, indeed, 'Look at me.' And I do not go back on this. For once a thing is known it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. And writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, of thoughtlessness. For the writer there is no oblivion. Only endless memory.
The observations of self and others flow in an exhaustive flow of pent-up release. An observant mind that finds no occasion to share her thoughts freely except on paper. Juxtaposed against the excesses of speech and action in the careless, this is a jarring reminder to allow oneself to hear the unsaid, to see the unseen certainly not out of misplaced pity but in order to connect to a broader consciousness. A stunning and elegant book.


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4 Benefits of Eating at the Table
I love the idea of eating at the table as a family every night, but then schedules happen, someone's commute takes longer than expected, and a hungry child wins out. But there are so many benefits to sitting at the table for a meal together. Make the time for a few adjustments, and you'll start seeing family dinnertime success.
1. There's less mess. Really.
Gathering around the dinner table makes serving dinner family-style easy, leaving fewer dishes and less mess for cleanup later. When you grab and go, turning the living room sofa into the dinner table, stains and food bits can get left behind. And when everyone eats the same meal, it's also less dinner prep, which means fewer dishes in the sink at the end of the night. It doesn't matter if you're eating outside at the picnic table or in your formal dinning room, gathering around a table makes dinner cleanup a family affair.
2. It's a big opportunity for mastering manners.
Sitting down as a family lets you emulate good manners, giving your kids a chance to work on their please and thank yous too. Use the time to think about your own table manners, chewing with your mouth closed, tucking a napkin in your lap, and eating with your elbows off the table. Even without saying anything, children will pick up on your good manners.
3. Everyone shares a daily win.
When you eat together at the table, it's a chance for sharing info about your day — especially wins. Turn it into a nightly routine, just like having dinner together, and everyone gets a chance to shine for a few minutes. Along with building healthy self-esteem, you're boosting budding verbal skills, too. Remember to ask lots of questions about what your family members are sharing so you get the whole story.
4. You focus on your food.
Leave your phone on mute, turn off the TV, and focus on spending some delicious quality time together. Eating dinner together lets you concentrate on your family while savoring a good meal. And it's a tasty opportunity to introduce new flavors and foods to your kids, encouraging healthy eating later in life. Think about adding something new to your child's plate once a week to entice them to take a little bite of a different dish. Switch up days you introduce new items, and palates will start expanding, causing less drama over what's for dinner.
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I'm trying to keep my resolutions simple and straightforward this time.
Maurice / 6mm SYW: completing the French/Glambrian army and starting a 5th (either Ottoman Turk or GNW Russian). More games, of course. Larger size and better quality translated action cards.
1/72 tricorne: already a huge amount of purchases from the end of December: AWI Continentals and militia, British light dragoons, and the Strelets big GNW Russian box with more than 100 figures. I'm going to have plentiful painting material for a while.
I would like to finish the GNW Saxon army, for which I'm going to need two more infantry units, three or four cavalry and some field cannon, and paint up some WSS Bavarians using the Strelets and remaining Zvezda figures.
1/2000 pre-dreadnoughts: extensive playtesting of my new rules, completing the Japanese and Russian fleets for Tsushima.
Terrain. More fences and buildings for both 6mm and 1/72. Hills with steeper/rocky profiles. A visit to pet shops for aquarium equipment is due.
A table extension to fight bigger battles: I would like to double the width from 4'x4'. I have a 90x180cm whiteboard but it is difficult to carry arround and does not have the required depth.
Of these I am certain, but twelve months is a long time to see through. Distractions may arise.
On the sidelines:
15mm WW2: complete the British and Hungarian infantry, add more vehicles.
1/72 medieval: paint the stripped figures.
Nova Hungaria: even more jungle terrain.
Age of Sail: larger (than 1/4800 that is) ships for Fighting Sail.
I'm thinking about purchasing C&C Napoleonics later in the year for a quicker setup game and less painty preparations.


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Types of Speech
Colloquial speech often passes into standard speech. Some slang also passes into standard speech, but other slang expressions enjoy momentary popularity followed by obscurity. In some cases, the majority never accepts certain slang phrases but nevertheless retains them in their collective memories. Every generation seems to require its own set of words to describe familiar objects and events. It has been pointed out by a number of linguists that three cultural conditions are necessary for the creation of a large body of slang expressions. First, the introduction and acceptance of new objects and situations in the society; second, a diverse population with a large number of subgroups; third, association among the subgroups and the majority population.
Finally, it is worth noting that the terms "standard" "colloquial" and "slang" exist only as abstract labels for scholars who study language. Only a tiny number of the speakers of any language will be aware that they are using colloquial or slang expressions. Most speakers of English will, during appropriate situations, select and use all three ty
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The following is a very basic guideline on accessibility and creating accessible events and spaces. The CSD has many resources and would always love to chat about making accessibility happen!
Braille– the CSD has access to a Braille printer if you wanted to create signage, handouts and pamphlets for a student run event or service. More often though, for something like a longer document or for something that people do not need access to on the spot electronic copies to go with assistive technology. The Braille printer works in English and French.
Portable Ramps– the CSD owns two portable ramps that can be borrowed for events. The ramps are 3 ft and 6 ft long. A $ 20.00 deposit will be required.
Wheelchairs, crutches and canes– can be temporarily borrowed for free.
What to look for when booking an accessible space
Always book physically accessible locations for events. Venues change frequently in terms of physical layout. When hosting an event we recommend that you call your potential venue with these questions to ensure that the venue is accessible.
Depending on what your event is you might want to adjust the questions, i.e. accessible sports. On campus ensure that the venue is located in a location that can be reached through doors that have opener buttons and without any stairs. Ensure that there is an accessible washroom reasonably close by and that there is enough space to move around without obstructions and that doors are wide enough for items like wheelchairs, lacking tight turns.
Please also consider that there are accessible routes to get to the venue (i.e. construction blocking a sidewalk).
Individuals should know that additional accommodations can be made at an event upon request. This is important, since it can be difficult to predict what will make an event accessible for everyone. Therefore, on every piece of information advertising the event it should be written, "Accommodations available upon request where possible."
If food is being served you should write "Accommodations (including dietary accommodations) available upon request." In French, "D'autres accommodations sont disponibles sur demande dans la mesure du possible." When there is food being served.
Appropriate contact info should also be provided. If possible please try to have as many mediums for communication available as possible i.e. a phone number and an email address. However, if there is no office phone available event organizers are not expected to release a personal phone number.
The Principles of Universal Design– the principles of Universal Design were established to create spaces that are more accessible and are a very common reference material in conversations about accessibility.
ASL/LSQ Bookings in Ottawa- In Ottawa there are two companies which you can contact for American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation the Canadian Hearing Society's (CHS) Ottawa office and Connecting Community Interpretation Services (CCIS). For Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) you can contact the Canadian Hearing Society's Ottawa office.
Please note that ASL interpreters cannot translate from French to ASL and QSL interpreters cannot translate from English to QSL. You should contact the interpretation services approximately 5 weeks in advance of the date to ensure a booking.
Interpretation for long periods of time can be difficult for the interpreters and can cause damage to their hands. If you are having an event and there is no one present who requires interpretation please do not request that the interpreters sign everything anyways. They will probably recognize anyone who requires interpretation (because we have a rather small deaf community in Ottawa) or you can have them ask participants (depending on the room size).
You can contact the Canadian Hearing Society's Interpretation service for LSQ at email@example.com the ASL service at the Canadian Hearing Society firstname.lastname@example.com.
You can contact the Connecting Community Interpretation Services at firstname.lastname@example.com. When you email please provide the following information: name of event, date, time, location, organizer, presenter(s), Deaf participants (if known), the on-site contact person with a cell number, the billing name, a mailing address and an email address.
If preferred you can reach the CCIS by phone at 613-482-0660 and the CHS by phone at 613 521 0509/TTY (888) 697 3650.
Please always feel free to contact the CSD about accessibility questions!


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Solution-focused therapy (SFT) is an outcome-focused approach developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and others. SFT is usually brief, always goal directed, and concerned with the future. SFT discards analyzing problems and their origins, instead turning all attention to what can be done. Toward this end, SFT has a handful of signature interventions. The most well-known of these (and most likely to show up on the LCSW exam) is the Miracle Question, which asks, "If you woke up and found your problem (e.g., anxiety, depression, other symptom) was gone, what would be different? How could you tell?" The question elicits specifics from the client that can suggest solutions and/or become goals for therapy. Other SFT interventions include scaling questions, exception-seeking questions, and coping questions. When is a problem worst/best? When is a problem absent? How is it that a client is able to function well in some areas despite the problem? Since solution-focused therapy shares the problem-solving orientation seen in much of social work, it is not unheard of to see SFT questions on the licensing exam.
For further review: Solution-focused brief therapy at Wikipedia, and assorted SFT books via Amazon.
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Marvel has just released an image introducing a character named Tanarus, who the publisher is billing as "the new god of thunder." Eagle-eyed fans will recall that the character has actually already debuted in a group shot promoting its upcoming "Battle Scars" universe-wide storyline. In light of today's previous teaser for "Fear Itself" #6, Tanarus' title may come at a cost for the current god of thunder, Thor.
Tanarus makes his Marvel Universe debut as the god of thunder in November's "The Mighty Thor" #8 by Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry.
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Exciting News....
Thursday, July 5, 2012
I am so excited to share such great news with you... three of my cards were accepted for publication in Scrap n Art online magazine. They produce a great online publication filled with tutorials, information and inspiration. They also have a Facebook page, if you are interested in joining. Last, Scrap n Art has a brand new blog- click on this link to go to it and learn about upcoming issues and submission calls that YOU may want to enter!
My cards were published in the August 2012 issue that will go live on August 1st. As a result, those cards must be removed from my blog for the next two months. I know that every accomplishment, however big or small, is largely due to the encouragement, support and talent you all share with me from all over the world through your art, your blogs and, most importantly, your friendship. While the awards and contests are fun, it is this incredible community of mutual support in art and the ups and downs of life that mean the most to me! For that, I am indeed blessed. Have a great day!
- Caroline said...
Fantastic news yout card's are always stunning. Congratulations. Caroline xxx
- July 6, 2012 at 1:27 AM
- Alyce said...
Woohooo! A huge congrats to you Ann Marie! That is amazing! :)
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Last week was a busy week in the Collections Gallery. We were working on large objects and plan chests.
We now have large objects installed on the plinth at the temporary exhibition end of the gallery. This will enable us to plan what graphics will go behind these objects. We also moved plan chests around the gallery and the World War One one up from the farm. They are heavy and awkward. Many thanks to Barry, Dave Savage, Josh and Dave Harvey who all helped.
We have now re-installed the World War One case in the Collections Gallery and we have objects in the top of the unions case (this contains a range of items relating to George Edwards the famous Norfolk agricultural labourer – turned MP and trade unionist) and the health case (which includes a range of objects that were commonly found in a doctor's bag – how many do you recognise in the picture – some of them might make you shudder!).
We are now moving on to updating their locations so in the future we (or someone else) can find all the objects in the cases. This had never been completed during the last re-display and took us over 3 years working with volunteers to audit the gallery before we de-installed. We are not making that mistake again!
We also measured and Dave made a large number of new wooden plinths for objects so they look their best in the cases. We hope to install these before the summer holidays. Next week we will be hanging objects and fixing them to the sides and backs of the cases.


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The world is changing day by day, with the Internet and inter-connectedness sweeping over the world to form a connected society. This flows through everyday life, but also the behavior of individuals and larger societies. I would like to use a pragmatic approach in this post, as theory often only creates value when applied to practice and I would like to draw a brief picture of the future.
A larger fragment of the markets are passing from offline to online in today's world, boosting competition and knowledge in a valuable symbiosis-like state. One could argue that this evolution will inevitably address all segments of all industries at some point. We are all part of a new phenomenon of people working and collaborating in different parts of the world on common projects, both in the non-profit and for-profit segments, for example with the creation of Wikipedia, Grow VC and so on. The value of such collaborations is evident.
At the time of writing this post, I'm in my country house, in a little Italian village near the border of France. And no longer do I have to move to work in the markets I am passionate about. Further, I don't have to stay in hotspots like Silicon Valley to follow my projects and be part of the change in these markets. What I need is to be connected with the best partners of the world, both in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. And what's remarkable in today's world is, that not only can I achieve this connectedness, but it can truly become productive for larger organizations and masses.
Think of the industrial era and imagine it in reverse. During the industrial period, people had to move from rural areas to the cities, where the big corporations and jobs were located. Nowadays people have the possibility to live where they prefer and where they are the most productive. Who says this means it's in the big cities, not for everyone at least. Will we assist to a decongestion of big cities?
It's fascinating to see this in practice and to watch it evolve over time. It's also natural that it is not going to change behavior overnight and it will manifest in different ways for different people, regions and industries. However, the possibilities with attracting and connecting talented individuals from all over the world with a single click of a mouse button.
Many people are still skeptical and that's fine, change is hardly ever without resistance. However we can see that most of today's most innovative companies have global teams and their offline interaction is only a fragment of the entire communication that they share. Who can argue the value with the numbers of modern, successful and truly global companies?
How will the future look look then? It's naturally always ahead of us, yet it's most likely that we will have our say in where we park our bodies for work and where we reside in the mental and digital space. There is no reason those two cannot be separate.
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Self Expression Lesson Plan with Napoleon Maddox's I Offer Me Still
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Wednesday, 26 September, 2001, 14:50 GMT 15:50 UK
When will military action begin?
By defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus
More than two weeks after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the waiting goes on. Nobody knows exactly where or when the US will strike back, but some form of military action is inevitable.
Its not necessarily going to be what people expect and it may last for a lot longer than some are predicting.
Many are already asking what "victory" means in this new kind of struggle - it clearly isn't a well-defined end-state like the eviction of Iraqi forces from Kuwait or the forced withdrawal of Serbian security forces from Kosovo.
But wherever this campaign may lead it has to begin somewhere.
All the attention at the moment is on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime and the shadowy forces that may lurk in the wild Afghan uplands.
So when is it all going to start? What are the preconditions for President Bush to give the Pentagon the green light? Indeed how relevant are such questions to what is going on?
The answer can be summarised in three words; diplomacy, readiness and information.
Huge efforts have been invested in building as broad an international coalition as possible to back US military action.
At the moment this is focused very much on the immediate response to those either responsible for the US attacks or the people who harbour them.
The coalition is less concerned with the wider long-term US aims; though here too - once they are defined - coalition-building will be a key element of success.
Central to welding the coalition together is the need to provide evidence linking Osama Bin Laden's organisation to the US attacks.
Secretary of State Colin Powell has made it clear that evidence will be forthcoming. And its on the basis of this evidence that the US will mount its attacks.
Military in place
Readiness in military terms is obvious. Key pieces of equipment, supplies and command facilities must be put into place.
The US has been moving around forces to cover a variety of military options both in the short and medium-term. By the end of this week much of the critical hardware will be in place.
The actual order to begin military operations may depend upon local factors like the weather or the state of the moon. But clearly information is key.
The Pentagon will act only when it believes that it as built up a sufficient intelligence picture of potential targets and the forces ranged against it.
The work of special forces is shrouded in secrecy; ongoing operations are simply not discussed.
Much of the comment in newspapers and the media about gunbattles in Afghanistan between elite Western units and local fighters may be speculation at best and fiction at worst.
But they could contain a grain of truth. Part of building an intelligence picture would be the infiltration of elite units to stake out targets and prepare the way for what may follow.
And in this important sense the operation may already have begun.
See also:
24 Sep 01 | South Asia
US military threats dismissed
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