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The Gay Rights Movement | The campaign for sexual equality
FIRST BROADCAST | 21 July 1999
DURATION | 29 minutes 06 seconds
In 1994, immigration officer Mark Watson was sentenced to six months in prison after he stamped a passport to allow his Brazilian boyfriend to remain in the UK illegally. His case was supported by the lobbying group Stonewall and led to a change in Home Office policy that would become the first act of legislation to recognise homosexual relationships as equal to heterosexual ones. In this documentary, Watson talks about the day he was arrested and how it changed his life.
Sir John Wolfenden is questioned about the recently published report on homosexuality.
Has the Church lost its moral authority in accepting the 'Wolfenden Report'?
Interviews with homosexual men who risk arrest and social stigma.
Wendy Jones interviews lesbians about life in 1965.
Why should homosexuality be decriminalised?
Will a change in the law save homosexuals from blackmail and fear?
A panel debates a recent documentary on homosexuality.
Can a lesbian ever find true happiness?
Advice and support for gay men and lesbians in Scotland.
Peter France reports on the Gay Christian Movement.
Preparing for the 1979 London Gay Pride week.
Ian McKellen challenges a government bill.
Joan Bakewell investigates homosexuality in the British armed forces.
What does the future hold for gay people in the UK?
How has 'coming out' affected the career of Justin Fashanu?
The campaign for equal ages of consent in the UK.
Michael Gove reports on the 1993 London Gay Pride March.
How will changes in the law affect education and the arts?
Should the age of consent for gay men be lowered?
The High Court upholds a ban on gays in the military.
Is it better to 'come out' before you're 'outed'?
The government proposes a vote on the age of consent.
Does society accept the right to equality for gay people?
Jenni Murray speaks to Angela Mason, chief executive of Stonewall.
The gay immigration officer who went to prison and changed the law.
The European Court of Human Rights delivers its verdict.
Should the gay community integrate with the mainstream?
Gay partners are to get the same rights as married couples.
The first UK civil partnership takes place in Belfast.
The book that led to a ban on promoting homosexuality in schools.
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This week the stars aligned when I stepped on the scale on Wednesday...thank you, Oya goddess of transformation, and Lord Ganesha, remover of obstacles, I am down 5.7 pounds this week. Always amazing to lose a good chunk of weight, but this one in particular made me jump up and down. I have lost a total of 101 pounds...okay, technically 100.8 pounds, but 101 sounds much better. That little daruma whose eye I filled in in 2008 may get the other one filled in with a Sharpie sometime in 2013...it's been a long 5 years since I asked for his help with my weight loss journey...and this achievement makes me feel like I can go all the way to my final goal of 150 pounds down! What's a measly 50 pounds, eh?
Starting weight: 292.1
|Ninja Jonathan and moi.
1st weigh-in: 286.8
2nd weigh-in: 280.1
3rd weigh-in: 276.4
4th weigh-in: 274.1
5th weigh-in: 270.6
6th weigh-in: 266.2
7th weigh-in: 262
8th weigh-in: 261.4
9th weigh-in: 257.7
10th weigh-in 251.4
11th weigh-in 247.3
12th weigh-in 243.6
13th weigh-in 241.7
14th weigh-in 235.4
15th weigh-in 235.4
16th weigh-in 227.7
17th weigh-in 223.5
18th weigh-in 223.5
19th weigh-in 221.6
20th weigh-in 221.6
21st weigh-in 215.6
22nd weigh-in 213.2
23rd weigh-in 207.9
24th weigh-in 206.6
25th weigh-in 200.1
26th weigh-in 199.7
27th weigh-in 197
28th weigh-in 191.3
And that, my friends, is all she wrote! For now anyway.
And that, my friends, is all she wrote! For now anyway.


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Realise your Resourcefulness
How resourceful are you? If you don't have all the information or skills you need to complete a task do you give up and give in, or do you go looking for the informations, leaving no stone unturned until you get it, or get the training required, then continue with your
task? Or do you look in one or two places for said information and if you don't find it fairly, quickly give up altogether? How resourceful are you when you really, really want something? I was watching my six-year-old yesterday, after I'd told her she couldn't have something and put it out of reach. She walked past the place where the item was and would glance up and keep going. Now normally she wouldn't even be in the room where this item was, but she found reasons to go in. After a while she stopped and I also left the room and about twenty minutes later she came running up to me with the item and a triumphant expression on her face. So I got her to show me how she got it – another hiding place gone!! She kept at it looking at possible ways to get herself up to a height beyond her reach in a safe manner, and eventually she succeeded. And it reminded me of how resourceful we can be.
I had a friend ask for advice a few months ago. They needed to raise over two thousand euro and didn't think in the current economic climate that the banks or credit union would lend them the money. Nor would they be able to borrow it from family, none of them would have two thousand euros to spare. So I suggested that they write a list of twenty ways they might raise the money and it didn't
matter how hare-brained it might seem, if an idea came into their head it was to be put onto the page. Now if they could go over twenty ways, even better. Most people get stuck somewhere around fourteen or so and this friend was no different. Some of the ideas were to do with getting an extra job. None of them were to do with breaking down the amount required into smaller manageable loans. When we had exhausted the possibilities on the list I suggested breaking the amount into smaller sums and seeing where those smaller amounts could be found. They were amazed, all they saw was a huge sum of money to them and no way of getting it. I did the very same thing earlier this year when I was upskilling. I had some of the money required but not all of it, but I was determined to get to the course, so I looked at all the ways I could earn the money and all the ways I could raise it by other means. I did my course!
Another example of realising your resourcefulness was the son of a friend of mine who had left school before sitting any exams, who now in his early twenties and in temporary employment wanted to go college to upskill. He was in a lowish paid job but because he had no formal qualifications he was being overlooked for every permanent position that was being advertised. He enquired as to what would be needed to secure a place and discovered that he was too young to qualify as a
mature student, but that he could get a place if he did a certain pre-qualifer course to determine his knowledge base and learning ability. The fees for the tutor who facilitated that particular course were also outside his financial capabilities. So rather than let all that stop him, he enquired whether he could do the pre-qualifying course with other tutors and discovered that he could and then went looking for "experts" who would teach him within his budget. He kept applying for all the relevant jobs within the company he worked in and always let the interviewer know of his plans to study at night if not that year, then the following year. He eventually got offered a permanent position, finished the pre-qualifying course and applied to the college of his choice and been accepted. The really nice upshot of it all was his employer agreed to reimburse his college and exam fees if he passed, which gave him an extra incentive to do well.
So, just how resourceful are you? Can you turn a problem into an opportunity, or do you let it stop you in your tracks? How do you deal with your problems? Do you let them build up until you are at exploding point or do you face them head on, tackling each issue until it is no longer an issue? A famous quote says: "if you have a problem, deal with it, if you can't deal with it, change your attitude to it" and that is very true. All it takes it looking outside the boundaries of the problems to see the solutions that are facing us if we only pay attention to it.
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by Kirk Woodward
[Like George Bernard Shaw and the Beatles (did you ever figure those two names would appear together in the same sentence?), filmmaker Woody Allen is a subject of some interest to Kirk Woodward, my friend of many years who's been a prolific contributor to ROT. Kirk's last two posts on this blog have been about the great Irish writer ("Re-Reading Shaw," 3 and 18 July, 8 and 23 August, and 2 September) and the Fab Four ("Now, Live, The Non-Beatles," 27 September), and now Kirk returns with an article about reviewers (another favorite topic—he wrote a whole book about reviewing) and Allen's latest films. (Kirk also wrote about Allen before on ROT: he posted an article about "Bullets Over Bullets Over Broadway" on 29 August 2014.) As in both "Re-Reading Shaw" and "Now, Live," Kirk writes about his own take on things, based on his experience and observation. And as with the recent past posts, you may disagree with some of what Kirk says in "Woody Allen's Recent Movies," but once again, I maintain that his thoughtfulness and perspicacity make his opinions and conclusions worth considering—even if you're not a particular fan of Allen's filmmaking.]
Woody Allen (b. 1935) famously does not believe in God or an afterlife. I hope he's wrong, if only because I want him to be able to enjoy the critical praise his films are due, and I'm afraid he's going have to wait until he joins the choir invisible for that to happen.
Many people, in the arts and in other fields, are taken for granted until they've passed on, at which point they are idolized. That's likely to be the case with Allen. All his work – all 1100 or so hours of it – will (I'm guessing) then be issued in one collection, probably on some digital device the size of a toenail clipping, and films that are now essentially disregarded will be considered important for their imagination and creativity.
By my count, Woody Allen has been involved in some seventy-three films to date. He has written around fifty of them, directed forty-nine, and acted in some fifty-five. Obviously there is a lot of overlap here – I count thirty-eight films for which he was the (or in a few cases "a") writer, director, and actor. (As best I can tell, I've seen about half of the total seventy-three.)
I'm not saying that Allen has been ignored, because obviously that's not the case. He is the subject of a shelf of analytical books, mostly admiring. He is enormously respected in the film-making community, and actors say they consider it a career highlight to be in a Woody Allen film.
But the reviewers . . . ah, that's a different story. Reviewers often write, so to speak, with their eyes on the rear-view mirror. In Allen's case, they frequently don't really review his current film, they review his past career.
A. O. Scott's review in The New York Times (14 July 2016) of Allen's most recent film, Café Society (2016), is a typical example. Even the headline for the review – likely not written by Scott, of course – reads, "'Café Society Isn't Woody Allen's Worst Movie" – a reference to Allen's career right there – and Scott goes on to describe the film as "neither an example of bad, late Woody Allen nor much in the way of return to form."
Wendy Ide in The Guardian (4 September 2016) writes, "It's not in the same league as Allen's finest work, but neither is it a honking misfire like Magic in the Moonlight." Adam Graham in the Detroit News (29 July 2016) says ". . . it doesn't reach the heights of Woody's best . . . ." Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post (21 July 2016) says, "With each succeeding year, Allen's insular version of the past feels more eccentric." Examples can be multiplied.
To my mind this is both this strikes me as both a lazy and an offensive approach for a reviewer to take. I say "offensive" because it patronizes an artist who has made significant contributions to film, to comedy, and for that matter to culture. I say "lazy" because what I would describe as a ho-hum attitude of superiority is an easy one for a reviewer to assume – unearned, but easy.
I maintain that a reviewer's responsibility is to confront the work at hand. I want to know, as if I had never seen another movie, what this one has to offer. Only by approaching a piece of art that way, it seems to me, is a reviewer able to see and describe what might be new, significant, or even revelatory about a particular film.
The career-evaluation approach to reviewing strikes me as one step removed from the gossip columnists' – "Old Woody isn't the filmmaker he used to be." What does that have to do with the movie at hand? But comparing past and present movies is an easy game. It's also a bad habit.
No one's art is the same today as it was yesterday. To take another example, Bob Dylan isn't writing "Blowing In the Wind" any more. Why should he? He wrote it years ago. What's he writing now? What does it have to offer? Is it valuable or not? Talk about what someone has done, and you won't have to talk about what they're doing.
As a result, a great deal of worthwhile work is overlooked. I would argue for the merits of a number of films by Woody Allen that are generally ignored – for example, from his middle period, Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Small Town Crooks (2000), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), and Hollywood Ending (2002).
None of these are remembered as "Woody Allen classics," and some were panned and/or did badly at the box office. All of them, I submit, would have been considered delightful work if they were not looked at as "Woody Allen films." Under that burden they could not be "seen" for themselves.
Obviously I am expressing my own highly debatable opinions, but another point can be objectively demonstrated. There is no such thing as a "typical Woody Allen film" because his films are significantly different from each other. They are structured differently, they use different narrative devices, they have widely different kinds of characters.
Certainly elements recur. It would be remarkable if they did not, since one person, Allen, is their prime creator. (Recurring elements appear in Shakespeare's plays too.) But Allen works hard to differentiate his films. He finds inspiration in numerous sources, and he uses a variety of narrative structures.
I would like to demonstrate this point by looking at five recent films that Allen has written and directed, and in some cases appeared in.
SPOILER ALERT: In order to discuss the various twists of these movies, I have to at least hint at some important – sometimes crucial – plot elements. If you haven't seen Magic in the Moonlight and Irrational Man in particular, stay away from the following.
This delightful film was both a critical and a popular success; it won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and earned the most money among Woody Allen's recent films. The narrative hook in this film is . . .
. . . time travel. Owen Wilson plays a writer in modern-day Paris whose favorite time period is the 1920's. Having problems both with his fiancée and with the novel he's trying to write, he finds himself traveling, each midnight, into the Paris of that era, where Hemingway challenges him to box, Gertrude Stein reads and evaluates his novel, and Surrealistic painter Salvador Dali visualizes him as a rhinoceros. From a narrative point of view, perhaps the most interesting twist is that a detective, hired to shadow the writer, gets himself stuck in an even earlier time period, and can't get out.
I enjoyed this film almost as much as I enjoyed Midnight in Paris, which is saying something, but the two are radically different. The mood of Midnight is romantic and serene; the mood of Rome is boisterous. A narrator introduces and closes the film (there is no narrator in Midnight). The film intertwines four separate stories told in differing comic styles; it crosscuts between the stories, but presents them in different time frames: for example, one may take a day, another one a number of days.
· A not terribly successful opera director (played by Woody Allen) discovers a "natural talent," a tenor who, unfortunately, can only sing when he's in the shower.
· An American woman and her husband, inadvertently separated, each become involved in potentially compromising farce situations..
· Leopoldo, a staggeringly average Italian man, finds that for no apparent reason he has become a celebrity, with his every move, including what he had for breakfast, captured by the army of reporters following him.
· Jack, an architecture student, meets John, a successful older architect, who accompanies Jack – visibly or invisibly, in fact or in imagination – as he tries to sort out his love life.
Together these four storylines form a sort of seminar on the possibilities of light comedy. The story of Leopoldo is particularly brilliant, in our age, when people frequently become celebrities for odd reasons ("reality" TV shows) or even for no reasons at all.
In this film, and the next, Woody Allen plays with familiar metaphysical themes – God, death, a meaningful universe. The center of this plot is literally magic: two magicians try to determine whether or not a medium really has supernatural gifts or not. More than that: the plot is literally an elaborate magic trick. I can't say any more, in order not to spoil the fun for anyone who wants to see the movie, and I hope you will, but I don't know any other plot that works like this, and it's a brilliant idea. Some reviewers said the dialogue was uninspired. I suppose they mean that it doesn't have a lot of gags in it – not that those would be appropriate for the movie, which is deliberately a period piece. A. O. Scott, in his review (24 July 2014), wrote, "Mr. Allen has had his ups and downs over the years." Need I say more on that subject?
Irrational Man is a suspense film with a sort of Hitchcock construction to it, as a woman (Emma Stone) becomes increasingly aware that her philosophy professor, testing the idea that a universe without God is meaningless and therefore that every action is equally absurd, has committed a murder, and is likely to have to commit another one – hers. The climax of the action is brilliantly staged – it happens in the blink of an eye, and calls into question much that has previously happened in the film. Reviewers tended to say that the film was dull, which I don't understand.
Unlike the movies discussed above, Café Society is a thoroughly, almost novelistically narrated film, which allows Allen to skip a great deal of exposition for the large number of characters, and move quickly to their central dilemmas. The love triangle between young Bobby, eager to get out of Brooklyn; his uncle Phil, a major movie agent in Los Angeles; and Vonnie, Phil's secretary, is a strong story in itself – and the way the characters find out what's happening is skillfully presented – but the story also allows Allen to demonstrate without preaching that "café society" – the life of the comfortably rich – is not life's ultimate satisfaction. The bittersweet ending embodies this theme: just because a person has everything, doesn't mean they have everything.
Even a cursory survey of the five movies shows how different they are from each other. There simply is no sense – even if it were good practice – to view these films as basically one long movie directed by Woody Allen. I can't think of any equally prolific artist who has produced so many works of such variety. Certainly Allen's films contain themes, motifs, and even plot elements that can be tracked from one movie to another – as is likely to be the case with any artist over a long career. (I cited Shakespeare as an example; I could also cite Eugene O'Neill.) It seems pointless to stop there, and not look at the way Allen handles his material this time.
A review, I maintain, should consider and reflect the work being looked at – not at something else. Criticism, as opposed to reviewing, can take a broader view, and a critical look at an artist's entire career may be legitimate for a critic. Reviewing has a different focus. It reports on the work at hand.
I could be belligerent and ask what the reviewers' outstanding contributions to art that allow them to patronize, say, Woody Allen might be. They might properly reply that their contributions are in the field of reviewing, and that a reviewer is an artist too. I agree, and I have no right to look down my nose at their accomplishments. I see much to applaud in various reviews, looked at one at a time. I just want reviewers to review Allen's movies according to the nature of each one – not as mere signposts in a career. That, I submit, is the heart of the artistry of a reviewer.
[Kirk's book about reviewing I mentioned in my introduction, for the curious ROTter, is The Art of Writing Reviews (Merry Press/Lulu, 2009), available to order or download at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-art-of-writing-reviews/6785272; potential readers can also access this site through Spiceplays, Kirk's own webpage, http://spiceplays.com/id7.html. I also wrote a four-part commentary on Kirk's book which I posted on ROT: "The Art of Writing Reviews by Kirk Woodward," 4, 8, 11, and 14 November 2009.
[When the reviews of Café Society came out last July, I thought I spotted a similarity between the film's plot and the plot of a Woody Allen play I'd seen Off-Broadway back in 2004, A Second Hand Memory. I mentioned this to Kirk and he did a search to see if anyone else found the same connection. Turned out, someone did: Don Steinberg in the Wall Street Journal of 8 July commented on the plot similarity and the blog The Woody Allen Pages remarked on the WSJ's mention in "New Café Society Interviews Discuss Production And New York" on 7 July. On 1 September 2014, I posted my 2004 report on Second Hand Memory on ROT.]


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Are you one of those people who can take a random selection of beads and findings, apparently unrelated by way of material, colour, size, shape or whatever characteristic; and then defy natural laws to turn them into pieces of seemingly disordered but beautifully balanced art? If so I admire and envy you because I it appears, cannot.
A quick flick through my portfolio will show work that is ordered, balanced, even, symmetrical, matching - need I go on...? There's nothing wrong with this of course and I'm very proud of the work I do but, I do long to break the shackles sometimes and be a little adventurous. If I try and do asymmetrical designs my brain says no no no - messy girl! and yet I love this type of work from other designers. Maybe it stems from a long career managing marketing campaigns where order and control where the watchwords.
Anyway, having finished my Bead Soup projects yesterday my bead table was clean and tidy this morning (there you go again, more order...) so I decided to have a go at making something a little out of character. Rather than pour over my bead stash for ages deciding what to use, I just deposited some random things on the work table and set to without really thinking about what I was doing.
Well that's what I thought anyway....
Yes the beads are all mismatched... but I still managed to put them together in as symmetrical a pattern as could be achieved! Link ring in the centre, larger beads directly opposite each other, colours balanced and of course, it won't have escaped your notice that I picked all round beads! My brain is obviously not going to give up this order and control thing easily.
Fortunately it's not a problem because I really like the bracelet and would wear it myself and that is one of the key criteria I use as to whether I put something up for sale or not. In them meantime I will just have to work a bit harder trying to coax a little chaos out of the order of my design.
Bead Soup Blog Party 17 September
I just want to add a quick note about the Bead Soup Blog Hop if you're not taking part yourself. It starts this coming Saturday September 17th, and I say it starts because with 362 blogs to visit, this is no 'one day only' event! I've made sure I have as few commitments as possible over the weekend and will be stocking up on lots of goodies to help see me through. I have no idea what will be on show, other than my own recipes of course...but there's sure to be be some great eye-candy so don't forget to pop along - you can start here or at any participating blog.
Now I'm going to get back to nurturing my random designs and pray that the supremely random weather will provide me with an opportunity to photograph my Bead Soup pieces before the big day - otherwise chaos won't come close to it!!!


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R. Michelson Galleries is currently seeking applicants to fill an Art Business internship in our Northampton gallery for Spring, Summer, and Fall internships.
For over 25 years the R. Michelson Galleries has represented many of world's great artists. R. Michelson Galleries has built on the reputation its artists and is proud to be part of the greatest small art town in America. Our main gallery has one of the nation's largest selections of Leonard Baskin's sculptures, watercolors, prints, and fine art books, as well as an extensive collection of works by other outstanding contemporary artists. R. Michelson Galleries exhibits watercolors by Deborah Rubin, along with oils by Randall Deihl and Lewis Bryden, egg temperas by Mark Meunier, and Fred Wessel, and bronze sculptures by Greg Stone and Ernesto Montenegro. Our sculptors have created some of our nation's major memorials, from the FDR Memorial in Washington D.C. to the National Anne Frank Memorial in Boise, Idaho. Our illustration gallery showcases many of the country's most prominent children's book illustrators, such as Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, Dr. Seuss, Barry Moser, Jane Dyer, Eric Carle, E.B. Lewis, Mordicai Gerstein, Trina Schart Hyman, and Tony DiTerlizzi.
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It is pleasant to turn from contemplating the strife and turmoil of political existence, to the peaceful repose of private life. Although in reality no great partisan of either side, Mr. Pickwick was sufficiently fired with Mr. Pott's enthusiasm, to apply his whole time and attention to the proceedings, of which the last chapter affords a description compiled from his own memoranda. Nor while he was thus occupied was Mr. Winkle idle, his whole time being devoted to pleasant walks and short country excursions with Mrs. Pott, who never failed, when such an opportunity presented itself, to seek some relief from the tedious monotony she so constantly complained of. The two gentlemen being thus completely domesticated in the editor's house, Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass were in a great measure cast upon their own resources. Taking but little interest in public affairs, they beguiled their time chiefly with such amusements as the Peacock afforded, which were limited to a bagatelle-board in the first floor, and a sequestered skittle-ground in the back yard. In the science and nicety of both these recreations, which are far more abstruse than ordinary men suppose, they were gradually initiated by Mr. Weller, who possessed a perfect knowledge of such pastimes. Thus, notwithstanding that they were in a great measure deprived of the comfort and advantage of Mr. Pickwick's society, they were still enabled to beguile the time, and to prevent its hanging heavily on their hands.
It was in the evening, however, that the Peacock presented attractions which enabled the two friends to resist even the invitations of the gifted, though prosy, Pott. It was in the evening that the 'commercial room' was filled with a social circle, whose characters and manners it was the delight of Mr. Tupman to observe; whose sayings and doings it was the habit of Mr. Snodgrass to note down.
Most people know what sort of places commercial rooms usually are. That of the Peacock differed in no material respect from the generality of such apartments; that is to say, it was a large, bare-looking room, the furniture of which had no doubt been better when it was newer, with a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners; an extensive assortment of variously shaped chairs, and an old Turkey carpet, bearing about the same relative proportion to the size of the room, as a lady's pocket-handkerchief might to the floor of a watch-box. The walls were garnished with one or two large maps; and several weather-beaten rough greatcoats, with complicated capes, dangled from a long row of pegs in one corner. The mantel-shelf was ornamented with a wooden inkstand, containing one stump of a pen and half a wafer; a road-book and directory; a county history minus the cover; and the mortal remains of a trout in a glass coffin. The atmosphere was redolent of tobacco-smoke, the fumes of which had communicated a rather dingy hue to the whole room, and more especially to the dusty red curtains which shaded the windows. On the sideboard a variety of miscellaneous articles were huddled together, the most conspicuous of which were some very cloudy fish-sauce cruets, a couple of driving-boxes, two or three whips, and as many travelling shawls, a tray of knives and forks, and the mustard.
Here it was that Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass were seated on the evening after the conclusion of the election, with several other temporary inmates of the house, smoking and drinking.
'Well, gents,' said a stout, hale personage of about forty, with only one eye — a very bright black eye, which twinkled with a roguish expression of fun and good-humour, 'our noble selves, gents. I always propose that toast to the company, and drink Mary to myself. Eh, Mary!'
'Get along with you, you wretch,' said the hand-maiden, obviously not ill-pleased with the compliment, however.
'Don't go away, Mary,' said the black-eyed man.
'Let me alone, imperence,' said the young lady.
'Never mind,' said the one-eyed man, calling after the girl as she left the room. 'I'll step out by and by, Mary. Keep your spirits up, dear.' Here he went through the not very difficult process of winking upon the company with his solitary eye, to the enthusiastic delight of an elderly personage with a dirty face and a clay pipe.
'Rum creeters is women,' said the dirty-faced man, after a pause.
'Ah! no mistake about that,' said a very red-faced man, behind a cigar.
After this little bit of philosophy there was another pause.
'There's rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,' said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.
'Are you married?' inquired the dirty-faced man.
'Can't say I am.'
'I thought not.' Here the dirty-faced man fell into ecstasies of mirth at his own retort, in which he was joined by a man of bland voice and placid countenance, who always made it a point to agree with everybody.
'Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existence.'
'So they are,' said the placid gentleman.
'When they're in a good humour,' interposed the dirty-faced man.
'And that's very true,' said the placid one.
'I repudiate that qualification,' said Mr. Snodgrass, whose thoughts were fast reverting to Emily Wardle. 'I repudiate it with disdain — with indignation. Show me the man who says anything against women, as women, and I boldly declare he is not a man.' And Mr. Snodgrass took his cigar from his mouth, and struck the table violently with his clenched fist.
'That's good sound argument,' said the placid man.
'Containing a position which I deny,' interrupted he of the dirty countenance.
'And there's certainly a very great deal of truth in what you observe too, Sir,' said the placid gentleman.
'Your health, Sir,' said the bagman with the lonely eye, bestowing an approving nod on Mr. Snodgrass.
Mr. Snodgrass acknowledged the compliment.
'I always like to hear a good argument,'continued the bagman, 'a sharp one, like this: it's very improving; but this little argument about women brought to my mind a story I have heard an old uncle of mine tell, the recollection of which, just now, made me say there were rummer things than women to be met with, sometimes.'
'I should like to hear that same story,' said the red-faced man with the cigar.
'Should you?' was the only reply of the bagman, who continued to smoke with great vehemence.
'So should I,' said Mr. Tupman, speaking for the first time. He was always anxious to increase his stock of experience.
'Should YOU? Well then, I'll tell it. No, I won't. I know you won't believe it,' said the man with the roguish eye, making that organ look more roguish than ever. 'If you say it's true, of course I shall,' said Mr. Tupman.
'Well, upon that understanding I'll tell you,' replied the traveller. 'Did you ever hear of the great commercial house of Bilson & Slum? But it doesn't matter though, whether you did or not, because they retired from business long since. It's eighty years ago, since the circumstance happened to a traveller for that house, but he was a particular friend of my uncle's; and my uncle told the story to me. It's a queer name; but he used to call it
and he used to tell it, something in this way.
'One winter's evening, about five o'clock, just as it began to grow dusk, a man in a gig might have been seen urging his tired horse along the road which leads across Marlborough Downs, in the direction of Bristol. I say he might have been seen, and I have no doubt he would have been, if anybody but a blind man had happened to pass that way; but the weather was so bad, and the night so cold and wet, that nothing was out but the water, and so the traveller jogged along in the middle of the road, lonesome and dreary enough. If any bagman of that day could have caught sight of the little neck-or-nothing sort of gig, with a clay-coloured body and red wheels, and the vixenish, ill tempered, fast-going bay mare, that looked like a cross between a butcher's horse and a twopenny post-office pony, he would have known at once, that this traveller could have been no other than Tom Smart, of the great house of Bilson and Slum, Cateaton Street, City. However, as there was no bagman to look on, nobody knew anything at all about the matter; and so Tom Smart and his clay-coloured gig with the red wheels, and the vixenish mare with the fast pace, went on together, keeping the secret among them, and nobody was a bit the wiser.
'There are many pleasanter places even in this dreary world, than Marlborough Downs when it blows hard; and if you throw in beside, a gloomy winter's evening, a miry and sloppy road, and a pelting fall of heavy rain, and try the effect, by way of experiment, in your own proper person, you will experience the full force of this observation.
'The wind blew — not up the road or down it, though that's bad enough, but sheer across it, sending the rain slanting down like the lines they used to rule in the copy-books at school, to make the boys slope well. For a moment it would die away, and the traveller would begin to delude himself into the belief that, exhausted with its previous fury, it had quietly laid itself down to rest, when, whoo! he could hear it growling and whistling in the distance, and on it would come rushing over the hill-tops, and sweeping along the plain, gathering sound and strength as it drew nearer, until it dashed with a heavy gust against horse and man, driving the sharp rain into their ears, and its cold damp breath into their very bones; and past them it would scour, far, far away, with a stunning roar, as if in ridicule of their weakness, and triumphant in the consciousness of its own strength and power.
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Stupid things to do with triggers: Pt.42 in a series of 94
SQL> create or replace trigger t1
2 before insert on t1
3 for each row
4 when ((old.col2 is null) or (new.col3 is null))
5 begin
6 if :old.col2 is null then
7 :new.col3 := 'COL2 is null';
8 elsif :new.col3 is null then
9 :new.col3 := 'COL3 is null';
10 end if;
11 end;
12 /
Trigger created.
This means we can use the trigger to corrupt our own data without really trying...
SQL> insert into t1 (col1) values (1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into t1 (col1,col2) values (99,56)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> select * from t1
2 /
---------- ---------- --------------------------------
1 COL2 is null
99 56 COL2 is null
Obviously it is unlikely that anybody would deliberately set out to do this. But it is the sort of mistake we might make by confusing the scope of variables between the INSERT and UPDATE events. Another good reason for having separate triggers for each event. Or indeed, if you are of the anti-trigger persuasion, another good reason why triggers should never have been invented in the first place.


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Knust makes use of more than five different Riso and Ricoh Priport digital duplicators, a UV-seriprinter and more than 50 different colour drums to choose from.
Additionally Knust also has old Roneo, Rex Rotary and Gestetner stencil machines and stencil cutters. These are really rough and more time consuming machines, and only used for very special projects and workshops. And there are 3 Print Gocco's (A6 size) and a smaller than A6 size handstamp from the fifties for stencils.
Click here for an online view of Knust's colourselector.
Next to the print workspace Knust also provides all the facilities needed in binding and finishing of your printed matter. The bookbinding workspace includes a cold and warm glueing machine, several folding and collating machines, staplingmachines, a creasing machine, tools needed for bookbinding by hand, a perforating machine, a sealing machine and different cutting machine (such as a roundcorner).


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Based on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. ...
Release: 01/01/1967
Subtitles: 3
Time: 90 min
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Chen, a young kid, is battling a cultural conflict between his Russian born mother and Israeli father. She is cultured and used to the finer things in life, including theater and fine ...
Release: 10/05/2006
Subtitles: 5
Time: 95 min
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Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.
Release: 06/10/1999
Subtitles: 11
Time: 110 min
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A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Release: 09/10/2014
Subtitles: 8
Time: 119 min
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After 17 years in captivity, Israeli soldiers Nimrode Klein, Uri Zach, and Amiel Ben Horin return home to the country that made them national icons. They work to overcome the trauma of ...
Release: 09/03/2013
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Auschwitz prisoners, both Jewish and non-Jewish, were tattooed with serial numbers, first on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated 400,000 numbers were tattooed in Auschwitz ...
Release: 01/01/2012
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Subtitles: 1
Time: 55 min
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Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a ...
Release: 10/10/2009
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Time: 57 min
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Tamar, 35, a beautiful young woman, lives alone with her two daughters. She can't restrain her sexual appetite and gives herself to several men of the village. Shai, a young veterinary, ...
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Time: 87 min
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Amitz Dolniker, an Israeli politician who speaks way to much has a heart attack in the middle of his speech. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital the doctor orders him to "go ...
Release: 01/01/1978
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Time: 90 min
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The story is about two twin brothers, Azriel and Gavriel (both played by Yehuda Barkan). Azriel is a shy and religious Jew who works in a fruit shop in Jaffa. Gavriel, is a hoodlum and a ...
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With the year coming to an end, I've decided to revisit my predictions and make a few last minute corrections before my time is up. If you think this is cheating, then fine. I'd like to think of the May post as a rough draft and the posts today (and yesterday) as the final product. Below is a list of the boy names that I predicted would find popularity in 2011. Like yesterday, I'm going to add some to the list and cross some off.
Boy Names
August and Henry. Before I even discuss the names on the list, I'm adding these two. I hear them everywhere. Every baby boy I meet or hear about seems to be named one or the other, though I've yet to meet an August Henry or Henry August. They are the choices of celebrities, coworkers, friends and strangers. Both are classic and strong choices (think: August Anheuser Busch, Sr. and Henry Kissinger).
Everett. I still like it. A lot. It's classic and strong like August and Henry, and has the added bonus of sounding like a first name or last name. This type ambiguity seems to be a lasting trend.
Frederick. I'm not sure about this one. People are certainly into the long (read: many letters in length) classics. Nathaniel, Christopher and Alexander are Top 100 standards. But, Frederick might be too
Kyron is an odd name, in my humble opinion. It makes me think of Enron or a software company. On the other hand, it's a mash up - a mash up of Kyle and Aaron - and folks love mash ups (on Glee and with baby names). I'm going to stick with Kyron, but I find it about as baby name friendly as Katniss (more on that here). Before I end the discussion on mash ups, I'm adding Brayden to the list. It's technically not a mash up, but it sounds like one. It fits somewhere between Brandon, Raymond and Grayson...which is also getting added. Gray is a hot color and Grayson is a hot name.
Lathan is out. It's even stranger than Kyron. If it's trying to mimic Nathan, then there's a major issue: Nate is a great nickname for Nathan, but Late does not work as a nickname for anything, ever.
Paige is staying on the list with a slight adjustment - I'm dropping the "i". The "i" makes it too feminine to be used as a boy name. So, Page will stay on the list. It's gender neutral and neatly falls into the popular category of boy names that are also job titles: Mason, Hunter, Tanner, Sawyer...and Jasper.
Skye is a big YES thanks to fashionista Rachel Zoe.
Wallace may seem like a bad gamble (if I were actually betting on these guesses). The first Wallace that comes to mind is Wallace from Wallace and Gromit, which doesn't conjure intellect and success. But, it's also masculine (think William Wallace), vintage and...the kicker...British. If we learned one thing in 2011, we learned that Americans are obsessed with British Royalty. Who isn't? Who didn't wake up at the crack to watch Wills and Kate get hitched? You at least recorded it on your Tivo or DVR, right? So, I'm keeping Wallace and I'm adding Harry. Adding William would be officially cheating given that William has been in the Top 20 list since 1901, and is usually in the Top 10.
The new and improved boy name list:
Boy Names
If you have no clue who Wallace and Gromit are, watch the clip below.
It's claymation British humor at its finest.


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Anything uncredited (non-linking images) were found floating on Tumblr.
I am tempted to mimic the last photo with some kool aid dyeing.
Might try to shoot a video of my thrifting haul from Wednesday. Yeah, a video -- because I know you all are dying to see me awkwardly monologue about clothes. ♥


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Music of love v. terrorists and torpedos.
The weather was cool and breezy, and the Gretna community, devoid of the usual strollers and visitors after Labor Day, was unusually empty, calm, and quiet. It occurs to us that the early weeks of September would be a good time for future special events in the Playhouse, say a conference on Music and the Brain, or an in-depth exploration of the life and works of Brahms, or of Spanish composers. A true "Festival."
|Ombra mai fù
It may not be an oversimplification to answer that our success -- like our 41-year sustainability -- results from the fact that for a growing number of people, our music has value far above the price of the tickets. We don't speak often of the "audience," nor think of ourselves as "providers." Music at Gretna is all of "us" whether on the stage, in the seats, on the staff, on the board, on a committee, on the volunteer staff or on the mailing list. Everyone talks of "we," all truly the owners of an organization who value and promote our mission to keep on making good music. Our concerts send us home with warm feelings of pride and ownership. And that inspires amazing generosity.
That's not to minimize the efforts and talents of our President, Gil Feinberg, our staff, Suzanne Stewart and Carl Kane, and all the fine musicians who graced our stage, porches and living rooms this summer.
If maximizing "butts in the seats" were our mission, there would be no "we."
Our current financial solidity will allow us to reset the delicate balance between risk --necessary for excellence of any art -- and fiscal responsibility, necessary for the survival of any artistic organization. Since we nearly fell off the fiscal cliff five years ago, we have been operating closer to the responsibility end of the spectrum. Now, after careful stewardship of growing resources and a mountain of good will of a growing "us," we can reach farther in the same and different directions toward artistic creativity and excellence. Although that won't necessarily be toward more 'celebrated' performers, we are pleased that one direction will be to the Ware Center in Lancaster, in March 2017, where, in continuing collaboration with Millersville University, we will present violinist Hillary Hahn. Next Summer we will return to our longstanding tradition of chamber music on Sunday evenings: eight Sunday evenings in July through Labor Day, and perhaps more after that.
We hope we added some love to your life this summer. You have certainly added it to ours. We resume our schedule at Elizabethtown College on Saturday October 22, with pianist, Robert McDonald, Curtis and Juilliard faculty member, in loving memory of Nancy Hatz who cherished her role in his career.
* Ombra mai fú
Never was the shade
of a tree
more delightful
and cherished.


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Bouchercon 2012 recordings now available!
|An oft-photographed scene in Tower CIty, Cleveland,
photo by your humble blogkeeper
Here's the Bouchercon 2012 schedule for you to use as a shopping guide. Recordings from Bouchercon 2011 are still available, and I've got a couple of panels on that list, too.
© Peter Rozovsky 2012
Labels: Bouchercon 2011, Bouchercon 2012, conference recordings


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In 1980s record shops, mingled among costly conceptual covers from heavy rock pioneers like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, would be the cover art that heralded the new wave of British heavy metal bands. This included Derek Riggs's Eddie the Head art for Iron Maiden, the leather-and-chrome styling of Saxon, Judas Priest and Motörhead, the airbrushed sci-fi of Def Leppard, and the sketchy black magic iconography of Venom.
Later on, for those of whom the tempo was just not high enough, there was thrash and speed metal, with suitably electrifying covers, such as those for Metallica, with their blocky logo typography that seemed heavily influenced by the Star Wars font.
More extreme sub-genres, such as death metal and black metal, would often feature crudely hewn scenes of the fantastic or supernatural.
Dead Nouveau is a 18 x 24-inch screen print by Brian Ewing
"Back when metal started, only stoner guys with army jackets listened to the music," says renowned gig-poster and cover artist Brian Ewing.
"These same guys read comic books and HP Lovecraft [horror and sci-fi author] and loved porn. So, it didn't take much to get their attention. It [metal] was geared towards teenage guys. Nobody else cared for it."
"If an album got banned for sex or violence, it sold more copies. Take Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction – Robert Williams painted the original cover and it caused a big controversy. That didn't hurt the artist or the band when it became national news and highly sought after," says Brian.


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I returned from an adventure to Hells Gate in NY. We had climbed to the top of the bridge tower for some photos, when a train came on our walk back. It was dark, and the blinding train light made it impossible to tell which side of the tracks the train was on. So, 13th and I had to hang off the side of the bridge, over the water below, as the train passed. It was crazy. I was talking to my mom the next day, having sent her some of the photographs, when she responded "you wonderful idiot, are you two filming your adventures?"
So it was.
Seeking adventures and experiences, WXW investigates cultures and foreign lands. Delving into events and locations that seem dangerous, unexplored, fascinating or simply amazing to look at. Initially as a brotherly competition WXW has evolved into a photographic series on film. Half wander lusting, half investigative journalism. We aim to expose an earth seeking balance, modern urban decay, and the human reactions and condition because of it.
From trips to Detroit and Death Valley, to brand work for Jordan and Heineken, the mantra remains the same, "Explore Everything." We seek out and revel in brazen acts of photography and mischievous adventures in art and commerce. We chase light, and hold our experiences close. Come along dudebro, lets get some.
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Wayne Anderson (born July 16, 1968 in Lakeland, Florida) is a racecar driver. He ran the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series tour part-time in 2005.
Career before NASCAREdit
Anderson began his career by winning the Rookie of the Year honors at both Bronson and Lakeland Speedways in 1987. He finished second for the 1996 Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR All-Pro series. He won the 1999 and 2001 NASCAR Slim Jim All-Pro championship. He was the 2001 Snowball Derby winner.
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Career Edit
Anderson made his series debut in 1997, driving the #97 Porter-Cable Ford for Liberty Racing at Nashville. He started 23rd, but finished 31st, after crashing midway through the race. Anderson made another start later in the year at Las Vegas. He managed to best his Nashville run with a 29th-place finish, despite not finishing the race with engine failure.
Anderson took over the #98 Porter-Cable Ford for the full 1998 season, starting off the season with a 15th place effort. Anderson earned two top-10s in 21 starts: a 9th at I-70 Speedway and a 10th at Memphis. However, Anderson had 6 DNFs at that point in the season, and despite the timing, Anderson was released after the tenth after Memphis. He did not make another start that year and finished 25th in points.
Nationwide Series CareerEdit
In 2003, Anderson attempted to qualify for some races late in the season in the #35 Flagship RV Chevy. However, he did not make any of the races he attempted and has not run in the series since.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Career Edit
When Mike Garvey went to drive for Peak Fitness Racing, Anderson took over for him in the #75 car. Anderson attempted a number of races, but only made one, the July race at Loudon. He started the race in 35th and was running in the back when his engine expired early in the going, and finished 43rd. Anderson has not made a start in that series since.
External linksEdit
|Anderson Family
|Dick Anderson | Wayne Anderson


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I also wanted to reduce food waste. I used the Live LAGOM way and also had a hand from Jamie Oliver's Save With Jamie recipe book. I got a blackboard for the kitchen to plan the meals for the week ahead and then I knew exactly what to buy from the shop and not just pick up random things then need to keep nipping out for more items. I have started to freeze more food if I'm not going to use it and if there are left overs, I take them to work the next day for lunch or put them in my ikea freezer bags and keep them handy for when I'm on a late shift. Again, I've made small lifestyle changes and these have saved me £60 a month on my shopping. I'm eating healthier and over a year that would save me £720.
So overall it would save me about £1030 over a year. Which just under an average monthly wage. So you could technically save a whole month of money. It's really easy to adopt the lifestyle and can save you real money and make you live a more sustainable life while not really even trying. A few simple changes.
Do you live a more sustainable life? What do you do? Let me know in the comments below.


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Still trying to wrap my head around sightings and now I am experiencing things I REALLY don't understand.
For instance there is a ceiling fan that has large petal like paddles with a light over my bed. There is a large picture frame on the wall behind the bed.
When I look at the fan it starts to shake - just enough to make me think "delusional". Yesterday I went into the bedroom to get my tablet off the bed. I looked at the ceiling fan and it looked like it had a ton of dust on all the paddles but there wasn't. Then I saw what looked like a loose gathering of random dust about the size of a beach ball jump from the fan to the wall and disappear. Ok, blink, blink, that did not just happen.
I reached for my tablet and it seemed like there was very thin black netting extending from it. I moved it vicariously around but it stayed attached to the bed and would stretch until I tried to touch it.
The picture incident happened a few days before but I shook it off. I was in bed and when I looked behind me there appeared to be the same type of random dust collection pushing the picture away from the wall. I was afraid it meant it was gonna fall.
I know this is a lot of information but I couldn't shorten it and have it be understandable.
FYI. I Have had Vitreous and it's not like that. I pondered mini stroke but been there done that - Simular but way differnt.
So my question is: Is this kind of stuff even a thing.?
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LPI to show At COATech Mexico 2016
Posted: July 19, 2016
COATech Mexico 2016 now in its ninth edition is presented as the only exhibition and business forum nationwide specialized in paint & powder, coatings and corrosion control. The exhibitors represent the most important companies in the industry, including paint application systems, industrial coatings, cabinets for applying powdered paint, recovery equipment, curing ovens, dust collectors, technology for the handling of finishes, corrosion control and prevention, among others.
The LPI staff will be on-hand to discuss all of your personnel lifting, moving, and material handling applications specific to the painting and coating industry.
BOOTH #: 212 Located in the COATech Pavilion.
Coatech Mexico 2016
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Avenida del Conscripto No. 311
México, D.F. CP 11200
May 4th - May 6th, 2016


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I decided to give it a go because a close friend of mine urged me to translate my novels to Spanish and given the XMAS season is coming I decided to release a translation of the first novel before getting the official copyright certificate which should be arriving shortly anyways.
It seems like I have at least some curious onlookers to say the least.
And why not? While more native English speakers grow up in countries that emphasize reading books from a young age or to say the least English is a language that is spoken all over the world it's still a double edged sword because most other writers like to write in this language. English language fantasy novels indeed abound.
However even though there are hundreds of millions of Spanish speakers out there very few of them like to write fiction novels even though Spanish translations of popular fantasy books like The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Divergent sell well.
I do have however one small qualm with a lot of Spanish translations. For starters a lot of them are translated in the Spain Spanish way. Don't get me wrong, the overtly polite proverbs in a Tolkien novel are most suitable but overdoing vosotréis in novel written with a more colloquial English wants me to smash my head against a wall.
There is a reason why I gave up on reading the only copy of The Portrait of Dorian Grey in my university because I couldn't stand the awful translation.
However I can understand the conundrum of many monolingual authors that don't dip into the ocean of translating their novels. Not only would I have to fork a small fortune to find someone to translate my 100,000 page novel that will actually do a decent job and not steal the translation for him/herself but then you have the issue of what to do with royalties.
Would you hire a ghostwriter translator?
Even if you find someone willing to lose the glory and does an honest job of translating your work without stealing your ideas would you really publish it without crediting anyone? What if you are in the radio and a caller starts blabbering you in that translated tongue? Reading a foreign language is the easy part, it's expressing yourself that can be a pain in the butt and they will catch you in a jiff.
In the possible scenario you decide to translate your novel and find someone reliable that either demands a hefty translation fee and/or a huge royalty for a certain amount of years will they preserve the jokes of your novel? The feeling?
I disliked the translations of the first 3 Harry Potter novels, I just feel like something was missing. Later books had a better translation but even if someone hits the grammatical aspect of the text well it's far harder to grasp the slang. In a way I feel glad I took the huge annoyance of spending 3 weeks translating 99,000 words of my first novel and trying to retain my way of speaking in the process. The book feels like it was written by me even if it's in a different language.
I didn't retain word by word at 100% because some of the text would look silly and/or redundant but I still made an effort to keep both versions as close to each other as I could.
Will non Mexican Spanish speakers like it that I used Mexican slang?
In the least I hope they don't detest it. At any given case I'd rather write something I know well than trying to write English like a British speaker without having ever been to England and making a fool out of myself.
Is there even a Spanish speaking market out there?
With over 30% of the US population self-identifying as Hispanic and millions of Spanish speakers I hope some of them enjoy fantasy novels. Even though Mexicans don't seem to show any interest in reading books which is a shame I was surprised that in Santiago de Chile there are book lending stands in the subway. I was left utterly speechless.
Given I had some curious onlookers borrowing my 1st Spanish translated novel just a few hours after making it live means there's at least a certain degree of curiosity. I wasn't planning on translating more novels because it's really tedious work but I've decided to give it a chance and I'm translating Separation right now. I hope I'll have the draft ready in 10 days tops.


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secure container
A secure container, in a mobile security context, is an authenticated and encrypted area of an employee's device that separates sensitive corporate information from the owner's personal data and apps.
The purpose of containerization (also known as sandboxing) is to prevent malware, intruders, system resources or other applications from interacting with the secured application and associated corporate data.
Secure data containers are third-party mobile apps.The container acts as a storage area that is authenticated and encrypted by software and governed by corporate IT security policies. Some containers are designed for a single mobile OS, but many vendors offer variations of the same data container application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Such apps let IT enforce security policies on the same sensitive business data across different devices, which is especially useful because native device security capabilities vary.
As BYOD (bring your own device) and consumerization trends have grown, the challenges involved in protecting both corporate data and user privacy have also increased. Containerization is one means of providing administrators with full control over corporate applications and data without affecting those of the user.


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ACTION ALERT! Access to Healthcare - We Need You!
There is so much going on with access to healthcare both nationally and locally. We want you to get involved in the Advocacy Committee so that we can take action to stay informed and have a voice in the decisions being made. Here is some of what is happening:
Repeal and Replace 'ObamaCare'– What Does This Mean For All of Us?
Here is What We Know:
On March 6th the Republicans released a plan on how they will repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The key measures include:
It replaces federal insurance subsidies with a new form of individual tax credits and grants to states.
Under new legislation, Americans would no longer be penalized for not having health insurance. But insurers would be allowed to impose a surcharge of 30% for those who have a gap between health plans`
It will keep two of the most popular features of the Affordable Care Act:
Forbids insurers to deny coverage or charge more to people with preexisting medical conditions
People can stay on their parent's policy until age 26
Planned Parenthood will be ineligible for Medicaid reimbursements or federal family planning grants
The PSI Government Relations Alert regarding pending Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal legislation has been posted on the PSI website at:
The debate, starting in House committees this week, is a remarkable moment in government health-care policy making. The Affordable Care Act, former president Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement passed in 2010 with only Democratic support, ushered in the most significant expansion of insurance coverage since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs of the mid-1960s.
There is no precedent for Congress to reverse a major program of social benefits once it has taken effect and reached millions of Americans.
Regardless of whether you are Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, there are provisions in the Affordable Care Act that helped many people with bleeding disorders gain health insurance coverage. This has a significant impact on the lapsed time in getting treatment that can reduce long-term damage and disability.
Medicaid would be converted from its current form of entitlement to anyone eligible into a per capita cap on funding to states, depending on how many people they had enrolled. In states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA, which includes Arizona, the government for now would continue paying for virtually the entire cost of the expansion. Starting in 2020, however, the GOP plan would restrict the government's generous Medicaid payment — 90 percent of the cost of covering people in the expansion group — only to people who were in the program as of then. States would keep getting that amount of federal help for each of those people as long as they remained eligible, with the idea that most people on Medicaid drop off after a few years. States would receive a set amount of money from the federal government every year, regardless of the number signed up, which could force Arizona to make difficult choices on what they will cover on Medicaid. It will essentially shift the burden to the state in terms of managing the risk.
This is particularly concerning in Arizona because the Medicaid Expansion was passed by the Arizona legislature with the caveat that if at any time the federal government gives less than 80% to fund the expansion, Arizona will back out.
Our community should care about Medicaid Expansion because it extended AHCCCS coverage to allow those up to 138% of the federal poverty level to be eligible for AHCCCS. It also extended eligibility to include adults. Many of those who have bleeding disorders are on AHCCCS and this could directly impact many of our members.
Concerns for those with Bleeding Disorders:
Lifetime Caps are not fully addressed and could be impacted
Continuous Care – there is a provision that that the insurers can charge a 30% surcharge if there is a gap in coverage. This could make healthcare unaffordable for our members
If Arizona is only given a set amount for AHCCCS, it could negatively impact how much coverage our members can receive.
If the federal government covers less than 80% of the Medicaid Expansion, Arizona will back out. This could jeopardize coverage for many adult members currently on AHCCCS as well as those earning between 133% and 138% federal poverty level.
Market Stabilization Rule
Additionally there are changes to the Affordable Care Act that will take effect THIS YEAR! Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services has proposed the market stabilization rule that is designed to help stabilize the individual and small group markets on the Healthcare Exchange. This proposed rule would amend standards relating to special enrollment periods, guaranteed availability, and the timing of the annual open enrollment period in the individual market for the 2018 plan year; standards related to network adequacy and essential community providers for qualified health plans; and the rules around actuarial value requirements.
Proposed changes will…
• Shorten enrollment period- from 3 months to 6 weeks
• Change Special Enrollment- will cause 1-2 month delay in enrollment and may not lower costs to insurance companies.
• Require patients to pay debt from previous unpaid premium BEFORE same insurer will cover them. Currently, patients can back-pay while maintaining coverage.
• Create continuous coverage requirements (in place of individual mandate). If insurance gap is longer than 60 days, penalizes people who are uninsured when they try to get insurance. Penalties can include 90 day waiting period or increased premiums.
• Lower the number of Essential Community Providers- this will reduce access to health care for low-income, medically underserved communities.
• Summary from Health Affairs Summary from CMS (Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services)
What Is AHA Doing?
AHA responded to the proposed Market Stabilization Rule with a public comment.
AHA is meeting locally with the governor's office and AHCCCS representatives to advise of our concerns with the proposed changes
AHA is a member of Cover AZ, a coalition to influence public policy on access to healthcare
AHA is hosting it annual Legislative Day where we will discuss the changes with our Arizona legislators
AHA has started the Action Alerts to keep you informed as we get the changes.
AHA sent 10 teens to NHF Washington Days this week to talk with our federal legislators and raise awareness!!
What Can You Do?
Read about the proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare).
Make a Public Comment: Go to
The government is
about how these changes will affect people like us in the bleeding disorders community.
- Be specific about what changes would impact your life or your family. Describe hardships or how you may be disproportionately affected because of a chronic health issue like a bleeding disorder.
Below is an example letter. Please do not copy it directly, use it as a guide
Join the Advocacy Committee at AHA
– Meeting on March 27th at 6pm. Please email
to RSVP
Attend Legislative Day
– April 2nd training, April 3 Lunch on the Lawn/Legislative Day. Sign up by email
Look for our Action Alerts
coming out as the healthcare changes unfold and help us create a voice for all of us!
Email and call our Senators and Representatives
Senators: John McCain and Jeff Flake
Representatives: Tom O'Halleran, Martha McSally, Raul Grijalva, Paul Gosar,
David Schweikert, Ruben Gallego, Trent Franks, Krysten Sinema
Share Your Story
Stay Informed
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Commonwealth Fund, Georgetown Health Policy Institute, Urban Institute
Sample Letter:
Since my first son was born 14 years ago, I've been a member of the bleeding disorders community. Two of my sons have severe hemophilia and require expensive life-saving medication several times a week to maintain their health. Because I have children with expensive chronic health conditions, I know how important it is to have high-quality, affordable health care.
I also volunteer in the bleeding disorders community and have seen that a bleeding disorder like hemophilia can affect a person's entire life. One bleed can cause permanent damage, chronic pain, disability, and even death.
Therefore, I want to make my voice heard regarding the proposed Marketplace Stabilization rules.
1. By shortening the open enrollment time, people who need coverage may not be able to get it. The process for enrollment can be lengthy and for many who are working multiple jobs having a shorter window, especially around the holidays will make application overly cumbersome.
2. A change in the special enrollment rules will create unnecessary waiting for patients and not necessarily lower the cost for insurance companies. Data shows that the extra step of verification for special enrollment is more likely to be done by older people. People with bleeding disorders cannot wait 1-2 months for pre-verification. They need blood-clotting factor several times a week and this wait could cause them significant hardship in the form of bleeding episodes, missed work, and visits to the ER, or even disability or death.
3. Patients should be able to pay their debt to an insurance company while being covered. In AZ there is only one choice for insurance on the marketplace. For example, if someone on this plan with a bleeding disorder lost their job and couldn't pay premiums then enrolled again and couldn't pay the debt all at once, they would be denied coverage. This would be a significant hardship: bleeding, ER visits, loss of work, inability to pay premiums, etc. This negative cycle does not help the patient or the health care system. It would disproportionately hurt people like my children with expensive chronic health conditions.
4. Essential Community Providers are important for the bleeding disorder community to access health care. Many of our community are low-income and medically underserved. Insurers are currently able to explain when they can't meet the number of ECPs in an area. Reducing a small administrative burden for insurance companies would be a huge medical, emotional, and financial burden for rural families with bleeding disorders.
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Thursday, 26 January 2017
more Fissidens incurvus
Barry's record of the 'tall form' of Fissidens incurvus made me remember how utterly distinctive the Pembrokeshire colonies of this plant were. The (not very good) photo above shows their very long, red setae and narrow, short-leaved shoots. My Pembs Flora says:
"Five sites in Pembrokeshire support a strikingly different form of Fissidens incurvus to the one that frequents lane banks in the south of the county. It has remarkably long red setae, and each patch includes sterile shoots with 9 to 15 pairs of short leaves. All five colonies are on damp clay tracks or flushed areas in turf on clay, with associates that include Archidium alternifolium and Weissia spp.; a situation in which similar plants have been found by SDSB in Co. Clare (V.-c. H9). The taxonomic status of these plants is unclear, and they may be just habitat modifications, but their appearance is certainly distinctive. It is possible that they represent F. incurvus var. tamarindifolius, which is differentiated by Frey et al. (2006) by virtue of its short, wide, distant leaves and is described as a Mediterranean taxon; it is listed as having 10–12 pairs of leaves by Cortini Pedroti (2001). Var. tamarindifolius is no longer recognised as a valid taxon in Britain (Smith, 2004a), indeed Hill et al. (2006) reduce F. incurvus to a variety of F. viridulus and Hallingbäck et al. (2006) even include both F. incurvus and F. viridulus as synonyms of F. bryoides. This may not be the final word on this complicated group."
The Flora Briofitica Iberica treatment of Fissidens was published in 2013 and has incurvus as a variety of F. viridulus, although the illustrations look like our classic incurvus and viridulus and nothing like the 'tall form'. The most similar illustrated species is the non-British F. ovatifolius, but I don't think the leaf shape of that species matches our plants. Maybe a friendly DNA Barcoder might take the 'tall form' on!
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Leaning House: Dynamic Diagonal Focuses Views on Horizon
What if you could lift up your house and position it like a telescope so that it focuses on the distant horizon? That's essentially what PRAUD did with this two-story private residence near Chungpyong Lake in South Korea, lifting a rectangular architectural volume and propping it up on a smaller one to make it seem like it's leaning.
The cantilevered front portion of the home faces the south for optimal sunlight exposure during the day, creating a shaded terrace below. The angle enables a small balcony off the master bedroom upstairs, while the glazed box holding up the main volume pulls in even more light.
The rectangular form is wrapped in zinc panels, enhancing the dynamic diagonal visual effect. The overall scheme increases square footage without altering the building's small footprint, and stays within a relatively low budget of $185,000.


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I was on vacation last week and received the great news that Veeam had delivered the patch for Veeam Backup and Replication version 7 that will extend support for VMware vSphere 5.5, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 8.1. At least those are the ones that I am looking forward to. I want to give a big SHOUT OUT and THANK YOU to the Veeam Support Team for working tirelessly to deliver support for the latest platforms. I have to say that every time I call Veeam for support I get very informative and knowledgable support technicians who handle my incidents with great attention to detail and solutions. I love the follow-up emails to ensure that I am good to go. I always sell the support with Veeam Backup and Replication for my clients because they release patches like this one to keep my clients as up-to-date as they want to be and whenever I run into an issue I know I will have a good experience getting it resolved. So, thank you Veeam!
So, if you are running Veeam I highly recommend staying up-to-date to be ready for your clients infrastructure when it is time to update them to VMware vSphere 5.5, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Windows 8.1. First ensure you are on version 220.127.116.110 or 22.214.171.1245 and then install the patch linked below to be on version 22.214.171.1244.


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Whether you want to experience the binary options trading for the first time, or you are an expert who wants to increase his earning, a Millionaire Blueprint is one of the best trading software you will find on the market. This trading platform offers you great possibilities and an excellent way to make some money. It is fully automated, so you don't have to worry about the mistakes because the program will place the trades instead of you. We tested Millionaire Blueprint and discovered some interesting facts, which will make this software even more appealing.
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You can use this platform to trade more than 100 assets; it all depends on your preferences. While the software works the job instead of you, you still need to decide which asset you are going to trade and which option you are going to use. If you want to place a deposit, the minimum investment is $250, and you can use a bank wire, Visa, Maestro, Master, PayPal, Discover, and Skrill. Based on your deposit, you can use various accounts, Basic, Standard, and Platinum and they all have their advantages.
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Once you open a regular account, you will be offered an option to use a demo account. It's a great way to get familiar with the platform and its features, especially if you are a beginner. But, can use a demo account if you don't place a deposit and make at least several trades. In case you don't like the platform, you can withdraw money within seven business days. New traders also have an opportunity to use a welcome bonus in the amount of $1,000.
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text: Pitfall! last edited by SaturdayNightSpecials on 10/30/18 02:16AM View full history GameplayA shortcut!Pitfall! is a 2D platforming adventure where the player has to find 32 treasures within a time limit of 20 minutes. Players control the character Pitfall Harry and have to guide him through a dense forest filled with deadly obstacles such as snakes, scorpions, rolling logs, alligator infested swamps, and bottomless pits.The game had many basic gameplay elements that are now common in all platformers. Harry had the ability to jump, swing, climb ladders and run left or right on the screen. The game places Harry on the left side of the screen by default, but a player could choose to tackle the jungle by going right on the screen. The game also had many secret passages which could be used as shortcuts.Release HistoryPitfall! was created in 1982 by Activision employee David Crane. The game was a technical achievement in that it had multiple animated sprites of varying colors with no flickering. Pitfall! introduced the basic concept of having a character jump around to avoid obstacles and collect items, which is now the basis for all platformers. The game was a massive success on the Atari 2600 and had ports for numerous game systems afterwards.The character in the game is lovingly referred to as Pitfall Harry.Fun FactsPitfall! was used in an episode of South Park in which Father Maxy had to traverse a series of levels (with himself being the main character) to retrieve a lost scroll hidden in the catacombs of The Vatican.In 1982, then-unknown actor Jack Black was in a Pitfall! commercial.Actor Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame would eventually play the voice of Pitfall Harry in the Playstation version of the game.When Pitfall! was originally sold, anyone who scored above 20,000 points could send Activision a picture of his or her television screen to receive a Pitfall Harry's Explorers' Club patch.In Marvel Ultimate Alliance, the player must complete a game of Pitfall! using their own character in order to proceed in a mission.In Call Of Duty: Black Ops II: this game is playable through a secret in the Nuketown 2025 map.


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As April draws to a close...and spring along with it, I'm sorry to see it go. I love the cooler morning temps and the lower humidity but summer is impatient and seems determined to arrive early this year.
Hopefully, the heat and humidty will get the thunderstorms fired up soon as April was our driest month so far this year with a stingy .69 inches of rain...bringing us to 9.8 inches for the year.
The Flowering Maple planted last fall has been a most pleasant surprise.
A cold-hardy member of the hibiscus family...I planted her in full sun in the center of the island bed. She sailed through the winter with no problem. Even the frost didn't faze her.
If she passes the summer heat test, I'll be adding more of these plants to my garden. Don't you just love her delicate lantern-like flowers?
As in life we must take the bad with the good...and, the garden is no different. These innocent looking (at least for now) little black creatures...the Eastern lubber grasshopper looks harmless enough, but they are wreaking havoc on the amaryllis, and soon many other plants will bear witness to their existence in the garden.
I give them a good foot-stomping when I see them, and I'll even go as far as squeezing them between my gloveless fingers, if need be. I know it sounds disgusting...but if I don't dispatch them now, I'll have to deal with them when they're BIG and GROSS!
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It's doesn't get any sweeter than winning a major championship on your home turf. The Langley Thunder are BCLA U18 tier one field lacrosse champs after edging the Coquitlam Adanacs 11-9 in the gold medal game, played Monday afternoon at Willoughby Community Park. Advance reporter Troy Landreville was there to take a team picture following the victory.
Courtesy of the Langley Advance Facebook Page.
Games in order played. We won all exempt for the tie:
Friday vs Coquitlam 12-8 MVP Ryan Martel
Saturday vs New West 7-4 MVP Quinn McKitrick
Saturday vs RidgeMeadows 9-2 MVP Caleb Pearson
Sunday vs Delta 7-7 MVP Levi Gallant
Gold Medal: 11-9 MVP Connor McNeill
Players: Ryan Alcos, Quinn Beavis, Josh Brunsch, Matthew Brunsch, McKenzie Day, Brandan Goff, Colin Gormley, Trevor Hawley, Dylan Kaminsky, Everett Kellner, Nathaniel Kozevnikov, Jordan Lewis, Ryan Martel, Nathan McKeigan, Quinn McKitrick, Connor McNeill, Chase Moore, Kyle Olsen, Caleb Pearson, Cole Radke, Cal Slade, Brenden Symons, Torin VanRheenan, Connor Watson, Craig Whitton, Levi Gallant
Coaches: Bryan Poole, Ian Poole Trainer: John Pearson


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As beading with seed beads is my favourite technique I have amassed quite a collection of books on the subject. But I have to say, this is one of, if not the best book I have on my shelf at the moment! With Artistic Seed Bead Jewelery, Maggie Roschyk takes you on a journey through the creation of the pieces in her book while teaching you how to translate the things you see around you into beautiful beadwork.
The first section, entitled Welcome to My World, talks about The author's creative process, where her inspiration comes from and how she chooses just the right beads for her projects. After a comprehensive look into what she keeps in her beading toolkit (and why), it's on to the projects!
The 13 projects are varied and include many of the stitches we know and love – herringbone, peyote, brick stitch, right-angle weave and bead embroidery to name a few – but turned into wonderfully exotic and rich bracelets, cuffs, necklaces , pendants, earrings and a pin.
As you can see from the cover this isn't a book for beginners, but I think that someone with some beading experience and knowledge of the the basics could complete some of the projects with no problem. Far from being overwhelming, many of the projects are made by creating smaller components and joining them together.
The instructions for each project are comprehensive, including not only the usual supply list, clear instructions and diagrams but they also explain the inspiration behind the piece and why she chose those particular colours, beads or stitch. Among the collection of beautiful projects, my favourites include:
- Helena Elements - a beautiful necklace made from square beaded components which would not look out of place around the neck of a Greek Goddess.
- Blue Flame Pin - a bead embroidered brooch that employs a very interesting way of getting the design onto the beading foundation.
- Poppy Pods Beaded Beads - a collection of five peyote beaded beads made with seeds and drop beads.
- And of course the amazing Intergalactic Love Song necklace which features on the front cover.
Almost at the end of the book is the Techniques Review section, a handy guide to the techniques used in the projects. I particularly like the information about adding and ending thread as I find this is sometimes missing from most beading books.
The only negative I have about this book is that the author's gallery at the end is way too small, I would have loved to have seen more of Maggie's amazing work!
In a nutshell I think this is a fabulous book that's full of encouragement and inspiration, glorious projects and page after page of beautiful photography.
I really wanted to complete one of the projects in the book to accompany this review, but as beading time was in short supply this month I only managed a small component! This is one of the beads from the Banded Carnelians Necklace which I really enjoyed making, even if my choice of colours leaves much to be desired ;)


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Do you know that over 183 million Americans have the problem of snoring? Do you happen to be one of them or is you life seriously impacted by a snorer in the house? It's a bit embarrassing to admit, but my husband is a pretty heavy snorer, especially when the allergy season hits. I suffer from sleeping problems because of that. That's why I jumped on the opportunity to review Brez, a brand new snoring solution backed by patented technology and ground-breaking research.
As shown in the picture, Brez is a neat, simple-to-use anti-snoring device. Its unique design targets snoring where it starts: the nasal passage. It has been clinically proven to significantly reduce primary snoring, which often results from congestion (narrowing of the nasal passage) or relaxation of the nasal passage that causes the nasal tissue to vibrate during sleep. Made of soft and pliable medical-grade material, Brez gently props open the interior walls of the nasal passage and thus reducing vibration during breathing, the onset of snoring.
We have been wary of the unknown side effects of drugs and surgical procedures. Luckily,Brez provides a safe, all natural, non-surgical solution to snoring. It's free from drugs, adhesives and latex. Its single-use feature also prevents the device from harboring germs and bacteria harmful to the respiratory system. Brez also comes in different sizes to ensure comfort and fit. After a 10-day sample trial, not only did hubby snore less frequently while wearing Brez, but he also snores somewhat less when sleeping without the treatment! It far exceeds out expectations.
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