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In addition to being an acclaimed poet and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Writer's at Work Prize, as well as a finalist for The Colorado Prize and The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, Gabrielle Glancy is also an independent college counselor and college process guru who, for nearly thirty years, has helped guide thousands of students through the arduous process of applying and getting accepted at the college of their dreams. A former Admissions Director, Glancy founded New Vision Learning and, in 2014, published The Art of the College Essay and edited The Best College Essays of 2014. Meanwhile, her poetry has been published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and other prestigious magazines and anthologies.
Glancy's new book, I'm Already Disturbed Please Come In: Parasites, Social Media and Other Planetary Disturbances was released today by Oneiric Press. Equal parts memoir, medical mystery and meditation on the strange world of social media, the book is a harrowing account of Glancy's experience fighting a frightening undiagnosed illness. Finding grace and levity in her struggle, Glancy provides a strikingly original look at the American health care system.
To learn more about Glancy and her work, visit www.gabrielleglancy.com.
What was your childhood like, and how did it shape who you are today?
I had a varied, not always stable, but always interesting childhood. What it lacked in money, it made up for in love and freedom. My parents split before I could remember. A single mom herself, my mother taught high school English and went to graduate school when I was young. She was the first and only one in her family to go to college. An artist at heart. My biological father taught French (hence the name, Gabrielle!) and was a fairly well-known photographer who lived out the last thirty years of his life in Paris. Influenced by Lisette Model and Diane Arbus (with whom he studied), he was known for his photographs of people on the beach in Coney Island.
We lived with my maternal grandmother and grandfather who had emigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. Yiddish, Russian, German and English were spoken in the house. I thought it was all one language. We lived in Sea Gate, a tiny, gated community on the tip of Coney Island at the base of the Verrazano Bridge. Completely surrounded by water, Sea Gate was recently decimated by Hurricane Sandy. Whenever an ocean liner passed through the narrows of New York Harbor, we would have to clear the beach because there would be "tidal waves."
As a young child, even four years old, I was sent out in the morning to play and did not really return until dinner time. Because Sea Gate was gated, even though there was a ghetto on the other side of the fence, there was a freedom there that was quite unusual. Sea Gate was the home of many artists and intellectuals in the early 1900's and a resort for the wealthy. There were some really big houses near where we lived. My grandfather built the house we lived in and the two tiny houses next door, as well as the synagogue down the street. We lived in the smallest, least appealing house in the whole community, had very little money, and our kitchen window looked out onto a chain link fence and the slums on the other side of it.
My grandmother was a radical. She refused to pay the three dollars they were charging for the private beach. "The ocean is free," she said. And consequently, we walked for miles, outside the fence, to the public beach, which was "for the people." My grandmother's best friend, Sarah King, was the maid of people who lived down the street, whose daughter was my first and is my oldest friend. Sarah King's son was the first black man accepted at Harvard. Coney Island beach was made famous by the photographer Weegee whose photograph shows so many people, you can't even see the sand. I went to the beach every day of my life, rain or shine, winter or summer. I basically lived on the beach. Like Woody Allen, our house was, for all practical purposes, under the Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster. As a child, I would stand under it and catch the change that had fallen out of people's pockets. There was often a cyclone inside the house as well, as my grandmother and grandfather did not get along at all.
My grandfather had a wild imagination, was very creative, fun, interesting – sometimes violent – and I see now, pretty crazy. He was also very affectionate, sometimes inappropriately so. From him, I got my love of the whimsical, my sense of humor and probably a distrust of men I carry with me today.
I was always very verbal and inquisitive, had more energy than anyone knew had to deal with, coupled with a great sensitivity which would eventually lead me to a lifelong love affair with music, reading and writing. I also have always had a rich inner life and a kind of homespun spirituality, from a very young age.
Who are your biggest creative influences?
I have been influenced by different people at different times. I do not seem to be capable of reading without picking up a pen (or a keyboard) and writing myself. For me, there's a very fine line between reading and writing. Over the years, I have read and emulated: Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, Grace Paley (with whom I studied), Donald Barthelme, Nabokov, Walt Whitman, Marguerite Duras, Andre Breton, the French surrealist poets, the work of friends and peers, Wayne Koestenbaum, Alison Bechtel, Clifford Chase, Michael Pollan. I also read a lot of non-fiction – architecture, cosmology, quantum and particle theory, memoir. Chang in a Void Moon, an episodic play by John Jesuran, also influenced me a lot.
From your perspective, what distinguishes great poetry from average or mediocre poetry?
Great poetry seamlessly marries music and message so that you don't even know why or how it moves you or why you want to read or say it over and over again, you just do!
What is the most rewarding aspect of helping students with the college application process?
The college application process is one of the most significant and most overlooked rites of passage in our world today. Here are seventeen year olds, looking over the precipice, at the crossroads of their future. It's such an amazing and important moment. I love helping students find themselves and find their own voices in the process of finding their path.
What inspired you to create New Vision Learning?
After twenty-five years of teaching high school English, and college and graduate school Creative Writing, as well as working in Admissions, I was looking for a way to work with students, in a deep and meaningful way, at what I do best, outside the box. Founding New Vision Learning is one of the best things I've ever done.
When did you first experience the medical symptoms you discuss in I'm Already Disturbed Please Come In, and what did you initially think might be the cause?
About five years ago, I had very very bad bronchitis that, because I also have asthma (which only kicks up when I have bronchitis), landed me in the ER. In addition to putting me on an Albuterol nebulizer, they started me on a course of prednisone. A few weeks after I got out of the hospital, I started feeling "strange." I began having the symptoms described in the book – my stomach would blow up and get hard so I couldn't breathe and I would start to lose consciousness. I had palpitations, feelings of near-fainting a lot of the time. Because these symptoms seemed to be neurological and cardiological – and because the brain and the heart are so central – my doctor(s) sent me to neurologists and cardiologists first. I kept saying that I felt like something was eating me up, but no one listened because my stomach symptoms seemed so much less dangerous than my other symptoms.
What effect did your ordeal have on your opinion of the medical industry?
Is that a rhetorical question? ;-) I have a deep love and respect for doctors, nurses and paramedics. I almost became a doctor myself. I was a premed English major. But because of the way doctors are trained and the way the medical industry is run, it's not only ineffective, it's dangerous. Even if you're articulate, attractive and intelligent, it is such a struggle to get anyone to listen to you, which is the very first, and most important step, in treating anyone. Over and over, I said, "I feel possessed, like something's eating me from the inside," and no one listened. They looked at me as if I were crazy. "Uh, huh," they said. "Right, Ms. Glancy. Okay, well, let's get you tested for epilepsy." The first question doctors should ask is, "What do YOU think is wrong with you?" because patients, if they look deeply enough inside, will probably have the answer, or a clue that will lead to the answer. It's very sad and very upsetting. I wrote this book, in part, to expose what goes on behind closed doors. I also realized that what was happening to me was universal. Human unconsciousness is destroying not only our bodies, but the planet – and what I saw is that they are intimately connected. What we have done to the environment is showing up in our bodies.
In your book, you discuss escaping into the world of Facebook during your illness. What aspects of social media were you most fascinated by at the time?
I wouldn't say that I was fascinated by Facebook. I would say I was addicted. And that's the point. Like a virus, or a drug, the effects of social media are more than you realize. It's happening under the surface of consciousness. It doesn't always make you feel good, but you keep doing it. Suddenly, you feel depressed. You are connected and disconnected all at the same time. Here you are part of such a big and interesting community! Except you don't know half of your "friends" and you don't ever see them. Everyone else seems to be happy, having holidays with their families in beautiful places, getting engaged, living it up. And here you are, flipping through posts, unable to do much more than move your mouse. There were times that's all I could do because I was too weak to do anything else. It's like packaged, frozen dinners. I was too tired to cook and there it was, easily accessible. It's how I got my news, of people and the world, skewed as it is. It's like moving in and out of a dream world — in this case, a collective consciousness or unconsciousness — which I was kind of doing anyway, as I was moving in and out of consciousness. Here is one friend, in hip boots, fishing in the Colorado river. Cut to an image of an elephant in utero. Cut to news that one of your oldest friends, with whom you had lost touch, has died. It's like Dadaism. It's downright surreal! As I started collecting screenshots of whatever caught my fancy, I saw that what I was collecting said more about me than about whatever was in the post. My file of screenshots was a mirror of my inner life, just as the erosion of my intestinal lining was a mirror of the erosion of the ozone. And I saw that what we are doing to our planet, out there, we are doing to ourselves, in here, and vice versa — on macro and micro levels. I saw that Facebook was like a virus or parasite (you know the expression, it went viral!) and that it is having an effect on the social fabric of our world. I began to see all these parallels. Something about moving in and out of consciousness myself somehow made me more conscious.
How did your medical issues change your outlook or approach to life?
I have become extremely conscious of what I put in my mouth, how I live, what I do, what effect my actions have on the environment, and I have become an advocate for reform in medicine as well as for healing of the planet.
If you could change one thing about the world or modern society, what would it be?
You know, there are so many things that need remedying in our world. Probably first and foremost, I would eradicate hate; I would distribute wealth; I would turn back the clock on climate change; I would clean up the oceans; I would break down the walls that divide people; I would re-educate doctors and revamp the health care system and make it affordable and effective for every single person. . . But short of that ;-), I guess I would try to raise consciousness, starting with my own — and hope that helps.
What are you working on next?
I have five books of poetry that I wrote in the years when I was Rip Van Winkle which I'd like to bring out into the light of day. They're already written; they just need a publisher. No fault of the books themselves. For almost twenty-five years, right after I had a poem in The New Yorker, I went underground. I kept writing, but I no longer sent work out. Some of the poems in these books have won great awards, but I just didn't have the stomach for the marketplace, so they sat in a pile under my desk. Recently, I've woken up from a very long sleep and am ready to take my place in the world of letters, so to speak. My next book is called You Can't Make This Stuff Up and it's about my long, long journey to motherhood, gun violence and corruption in America and the crazy things in life we take for granted.


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Former Borussia Dortmund playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan is reportedly set to play for Manchester United when they face Feyenoord in the Europa League on Thursday.
The player has had an underwhelming time at Old Trafford since his £26 million move this summer. Since the Armenia international featured in the game against Man City on September 10, he had not played in the Premier League. The very talented player has now been relegated to a substitute in the Europa League.
Coach Jose Mourinho played him last week in the 1-1 draw against Arsenal but he is set to get a starting shirt when United play Feyenoord.
"I told him that he is going to be involved in the game against Feyenoord. I said to him 'Arsenal was not the game for you.' I don't think he needs 10 or 20 minutes from the bench. I said 'you need a good game and you need to either start or if not to come for the second half," Mourinho said.
The Portuguese tactician, like his players, is under pressure to perform in their first season together. Mourinho admits that Mkhitaryan has been under pressure at Old Trafford and that it has affected his performance.
"He needs less pressure and better conditions for him to express his qualities. He is trying. Obviously, he is not happy. But he is transforming his frustration in a good way which is to close the mouth [of his critics] and work hard and try to adapt," he added.
Mkhitaryan was pictured training with Bastian Schweinsteiger at their Carrington base. Schweinsteiger recently returned to training with the senior team after he was exiled. Top German football figures in Manuel Neuer, Michael Ballack, Ilkay Gundogan and Lucas Podolski supported that Man United treat the player with more respect even if they were not playing him. Since Schweinsteiger is not included in the Europa League squad, he would not appear when the Red Devils play the Giovanni van Bronckhorst side.


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And Just in case you want more.....
Monday, 3 November 2014
Because I can, I did, and I dare you to do it too!!
And Just in case you want more.....
12 comments:
- Sue W @ Living the Good Life said...
Like that :D Now I know what yer posh voice sounds like hahhahahah! :D Nah really it's great, Sisters are doing for themselves....sing it sister! xx
- 3 November 2014 at 20:15
- Poppy Q said...
Hahaha good on you Sue.
- 3 November 2014 at 21:44
- Vix said...
Lovely to see and hear you in action! xxx
PS I did an interview with a US blogger on a You Tube channel ages ago, I still can't bring myself to watch it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM0tVzkWpEs
- 4 November 2014 at 08:34
- Helga said...
Hahhaa, fabularsehole!
I have done a few, but ages ago...hmmm, might take you up on that...
Did I tell you I scored that navy handbag off Trade Me?! I also scored that square dance frock, but suspect it will go to Sarah. Will know when it arrives.Bless you, Personal Shopper! XXX
- 4 November 2014 at 10:58
- Fiona said...
How fab to hear you, slightly disappointed you didn't mention Jandals tho.(a very NZ word) Maybe you could throw it in next time along with some others? haha. I'd love to do one meself (NOT!) but I haven't got a webcam.
- 4 November 2014 at 11:01
- Goody said...
So nice to be able to put a voice to a friend's face.
- 4 November 2014 at 11:17
- Leeanne said...
Well done chickie! You will not want me doing the same! But hey no need to pop on a plane to visit me as I am just up the road!
- 4 November 2014 at 14:09
- peaches mcginty said...
SUE, SUE, SUE!! how flaming cool are you!! and yes, what a sisterhood it is! it really is good to hear your voice - I may think about this though, I love the Scouse accent to bits, but mine ain't pretty haha! x x x
- 5 November 2014 at 02:06
- Curtise said...
You know, I thought you would sound like that, and be a natural chatter! How lovely to hear you, and see the doggies in action too, that was hilarious!
Gawd, don't know if I can do a video, it might be beyond my technical ability, and my courage! xxx
- 5 November 2014 at 05:50
- Shawna McComber said...
I love you too but I am not going to lick you. That was fun! You sound like my relatives but then they do actually live in NZ so that kinds of makes sense. You are gorgeous and fun and I really do want you to show up to visit but you have to bring all of the animals.
- 5 November 2014 at 14:40
- Raewyn said...
What fun!! So glad you're in the sisterhood :-) I've met 2 of my bloggy friends (USA) and skype with 3 more - it really is a fun thing!!!
- 6 November 2014 at 11:21
- Angels have Red Hair said...
LOVE IT … I don't think I could do it though … the sound of my voice recorded makes me cringe ;0P
- 6 November 2014 at 14:41


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The Society has launched a social media video campaign to promote the benefits to physiotherapy and physical activity. The video shows Mojo, the border-collie teaching his family who suffer with physical challenges how to get their mojo back through physiotherapy and exercise.
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By Christopher Wright, originally published September 27, 2011, with edits by Heritage Toronto staff, November 11, 2016
From serving up double-features to double-doubles
In 1935, a service station stood on the south-east corner of Greenwood and Danforth and next door was a vacant lot. In February of 1936, Charles Wagman and Hyman Starkman received building permits from the City of Toronto to build a movie theatre, at an estimated cost of $10,500. On May 22 of that same year an ad appeared in the Toronto Daily Star under the heading Help Wanted – "Young, experienced girl as cashier; must be of good appearance. Apply Allenby Theatre Danforth-Greenwood. Saturday, 10:30 a.m." – and with that, the Allenby Theatre was open for business.
The interwar period was the heyday for film. Poor and working-class people flocked to theatres. 95 million people per week were going to the movies in North America, looking for escape. The architectural firm of Kaplan & Sprachman designed between 70 and 80 percent of all movie theatres built in Canada between 1921 and 1950, including the Allenby Theatre. Neighbourhood theatres entertained with film, but they often also served as community meeting spaces.
Area residents would gather at the Allenby Theatre to watch newsreels during World War II, and even attend bible lectures on Sundays. Unfortunately, during the 1950s and 1960s neighborhood theatres met their match with television. People wanted to spend time at home with their families and TV was a cheap alternative to going out to the movies. The sharp decline in movie-goers and the preference to stay at home with family marked the end for many neighbourhood theatres; however, the Allenby started to carve out a new niche.
In 1970 the Allenby was briefly renamed the "Apollo", screening Greek films, but by 1971 ads had started to appear in the Toronto Daily Star under yet another name. The "Films of Japan Festival", featuring the Canadian premiere of Chushingura, was being proudly presented by the "Roxy."
From 1972 to 1976, under the management of Gary Topp, the theatre was called "The Original 99 Cent Roxy" and featured foreign and art films such as Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys or Frank Zappa's 200 Motels.
In the mid 1970s John Lidolt was hired to run the theater, which reverted to the name the "Roxy." The Roxy is likely the name most area residents will best remember. The theatre began attracting people in numbers it had not seen since before World War II. The resurgence of the theatre's popularity was in large part due to Lidolt's promotion of two specific movies: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Song Remains the Same
The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in Los Angeles in late 1975, to little commercial success. According to the movie's official fan site, a small but faithful group of fans at the Waverly Theatre in New York City introduced "counterpoint dialogue" on Labour Day weekend in 1976. They would yell back at the movie characters, creating an interactive audience experience. That Halloween people came dressed as the movie's characters, and soon people were dressing up for every screening. The trend spread quickly and here in Toronto Lidolt noticed patrons at the Roxy showing up dressed in costumes. He was quick to encourage both patrons and staff to embrace this new movie going experience and the Roxy rode the wave of The Rocky Horror Picture Show's cult status explosion.
The concert film featuring Led Zeppelin, The Song That Remains the Same, was a whole different kind of movie-going experience at the Roxy. Audiences would lean back and draw in both the movie's live concert footage and the strange "out-of-concert" fantasy sequences through dense clouds of marijuana smoke. It was the only official live visual document Led Zeppelin fans were able to access, practically guaranteeing the movie's popularity.
Eventually, the audiences dwindled and the Roxy was forced to close its doors. The theatre was boarded up and seemingly faced demolition, the same fate as so many other Canadian neighbourhood theatres. But Toronto Preservation Services had listed the theatre on its Inventory of Heritage Properties in 1985, a clear statement from the City that they wanted the heritage of the building to be preserved.
On February 6, 2007 City Council enacted a by-law under the Ontario Heritage Act, further protecting the building's architectural and historical heritage. In November of that same year the new owner of the theatre, Imperial Oil, made an application to restore the historic façade as part of a redevelopment project. The project was approved and ERA Architects, a firm specializing in heritage architecture, was hired to oversee the restoration. ERA is a firm that has worked on a number of other heritage buildings in Toronto, such as the Flatiron Building, St. Lawrence Hall and Union Station.
The construction of the Allenby Theatre straddled two design periods. Its Art Modern design also incorporates elements of Art Deco, which was just gaining recognition in Canada during the mid-1930s. Kirsty Bruce, of ERA, notes that the vertical lines of the Allenby's upper façade are characteristic of Art Moderne, while the horizontal and curved lines at street-level hint at an Art Deco influence. The scale and architectural details of the Allenby Theatre distinguishes it from other properties on the Danforth, making it a local landmark.
With the completion of the redevelopment project, the corner of Greenwood and Danforth is moving forward while maintaining ties to its past. There is once again a service station on the corner and the Allenby Theatre is now home to a modern community meeting space – a coffee shop, and you can't get much more "Canadian" than Tim Hortons!
On October 2, 2011 Imperial Oil, Tim Hortons and City Councilor Paula Fletcher will host an unveiling ceremony of a bronze Heritage Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties plaque. The plaque will recognize the Allenby Theatre's architectural and cultural significance within the context of both the neighbourhood and the City of Toronto.


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Reverting is the process of resetting a password without the knowledge of the actual user ! So this is basically a low level of hacking but it does the job for you !
|1.Go to this link:
That is the form that you will be using in order to hack your user.
2.Then in "Your E-mail Address" type your E-mail address.
3.Then apply the following options as in the image below.
4.Once you have done that,You will have a question asking "Email associated with the compromised account." - In that just type "No" and nothing else other than that !
5.In "Your contact email address." - Type your own email for you to receive the Password Reset Link.
6.In the "Full Name of the Account." - Type the Name of your victim if you know.If you don't then:
a.Try finding the Name of the victim by just searching his/her e-mail on Facebook.
b.If that doesn't work then google the E-mail address of your Victim,that might give you some details.
c.If that also doesn't work then use the following sites to get them
So if you follow one of the above methods you should be getting the Full Name of your victim.Now lets move on to the next step
7. Date Of Birth" - In this column you have to enter the Birthday of your Victim.If you know him personally then you should be knowing it.If not you can just social engineer him and somehow make him tell it.Once you get it you have to enter it in that.
8. URL (web address) of your compromised profile." - This is just the profile URL of your Victim which can be got easily(Usually of the form: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=99999)
9. Now your all set ! Before you submit the form just make sure you recheck the whole form if you have done the right thing.Once you do so just click on "Submit"
10.Thats it ! You have done it.


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To see a list of each author's blog posts, click their name under the picture.
I am a philosopher who works on various issues concerning distributive justice. I am particularly interested in the relevance of personal relationships to justice. I published papers about gender justice, parental rights and duties, the nature and value of childhood, the goods of work and the ideal-non-ideal theory debate.
Andrew Walton is Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Politics Department at Newcastle University. His research centres on questions of fairness in trade and justice in public policy.
Aveek Bhattacharya is a PhD student in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He has an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. His research interests include cosmopolitanism, migration and political economy. He blogs at https://socialproblemsarelikemaths.wordpress.com/
Beth Kahn is a moral and political philosopher working at the University of Durham. Her research centres around questions of social injustice and political action. Previously she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe University as part of the 'Justitia Amplificata' research group.
Bruno Leipold is a political theorist and historian of political thought doing his PhD at the University of Oxford. His research interests are in anarchism, Marxism and republicanism.
I am working as a philosopher at the Faculty of Philosophy (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics. I am particularly interested in human agency and the potential and limitations of markets to promote human well-being (broadly construed).
David is a research fellow in the Government Department at The London School of Economics and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. He sometimes arrives late at the airport (twice this year, so far), misses his plane and then gets very angry with himself.
Elisa is Research Fellow in Political Philosophy at Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies (Pisa). Previously she has worked as a Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant in History of Political Thought at the Department of Social and Political Science of Bologna University. Her research interests include contemporary theories of justice, theories of global order, international ethics, foreign policy analysis.
Erin is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society/Department of Philosophy at Durham University in the UK. She also hold a BSc (Hons) and a MSc (Philosophy and Public Policy). Her research interests lie at the interface of the philosophy of science and political-moral philosophy. Prior to re-entering academia she worked for government in Australia and not-for-profits in SE Asia and the UK.
Fay is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Most broadly, Fay's research examines the implications of recent developments in the cognitive sciences for normative theory and (the moral bases of) public policy. You can find her published work at: https://stanford.academia.edu/FayNiker.
Florian Ostmann is a PhD candidate in political philosophy at University College London. His research focuses on issues of fairness in international trade and theories of exploitation. Florian's wider interests include moral theory, bioethics and public health, business ethics, and questions at the intersection between philosophy and economics.
Jan teaches moral philosophy at the University of Munich. His current interests are in cosmopolitan ethics, equality, responsibility for justice, and the like. He also works about the ethics of biotechnological enhancement interventions in healthy humans.
Jesper recently completed his PhD in Political Theory at the School of Government & International Affairs, Durham University. He works on global justice, specifically responsibilities of the developed world towards developing countries. He's also the webmaster for this blog.
I am an Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Previously I worked as teaching fellow at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, as lecturer in social philosophy at Maastricht University, and as postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. I hold a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. My husband and I live in Baarn, a village in the province of Utrecht, together with our two daughters Philine and Romy.
I am a PhD student in Political Theory and junior assistant in Political Sciences at Ghent University. My main research interest is the study of liberal and libertarian theories of justice and equality. Among other things, I wonder what, if anything, liberals can learn from libertarians.
I consider myself a political philosopher. I write about sufficientarianism, health and health care ethics, and virtue ethics. I forgot why. I am also considered among the three best flaghelmet players in Scandinavia.
I work on various questions at the intersection of economics and philosophy, currently focussing on ethics and organizations and ethics in finance. Methodologically, I sit between many chairs and I have come to like the variety. I think of my work as critical, empirically informed social philosophy.
I am a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Sheffield. My major area of research is global justice and the environment; with a focus on the problem of climate change and rights over land and natural resources.
Miriam is a Reader in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. She mainly works on global socio-economic justice, republicanism and non-domination beyond borders (at the EU as well as global level), problems of justification and method in theorizing about justice, and feminism.
Mirjam is a postdoctoral fellow at Justitia Amplificata at the Free University Berlin. Her research focuses on questions concerning the normative issues related to global relations of production, structural injustice and feminist theory.
I hold a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Louvain (Belgium). My main research interests are theories of justice, democratic theory, education, social rights and socialism.
I am a post-doc researcher in the philosophy department at the university of Munich. My post-doc project is on the concept of resilience, capabilities and sustainabilty in social ethics.
I am an associate lecturer in political philosophy at the University of York. My research interests are in global ethics, just war theory and global justice, but I also like to read, and intend someday to write, about international (humanitarian) law, international relations theory, security, and other such topics. I'd probably have more time to do the latter if I didn't spend a lot of time watching videos online featuring inter-species animal friendships.
I am a PHD fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. I am working on questions of distributive justice and in particular on principles of justice that are relevant to the European Union.
Tim is assistant professor at Leiden University (Philosophy) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethics Institute in Utrecht University. He is interested in justice between generations, global justice, agency of justice, justice and the family, procreative ethics, and transitional justice.
Tom is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Essex. He is interested in all areas of value theory, as well as playing darts and drinking Carling.
Tomer Perry is a research associate at the Edmond J. Safra center for Ethics at Harvard. He work on political theory and is particularly interested in democracy theory, global justice and everything in between.
I am a Lecturer in Global Ethics at the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (University of Birmingham). I obtained my PhD in Philosophy and Moral Sciences in December 2014 from Vrije Universiteit Brussels with a dissertation on the challenges climate change (and other problems of environmental sustainability) pose to our conceptions of individual freedom and responsibility. Building on this, my current research focuses on the ethics of climate change, and the perspective of duty-bearers on issues of global justice. My broader research interests include global justice, human rights, climate ethics, cosmopolitanism and recognition theory.


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This one from Covergirl caught my eye because of its a felt-tip applicator (A must! I abhor brush-tips) and very compact "pocket-sized" packaging. I happened to have a $4 off coupon which made this about three whole 3 bucks out of pocket. What can I say, I'm a big spender!
LineExact comes in 2 colors - Very Black and Black Brown. It's supposed to be fast-drying and smudge-free. But most importantly, the "ExactTip" applicator tips allows you to apply thin or bold lines both with high precision.
Here's a comparison of its sized against a regular size lipstick - in this case, from Revlon. You can see it's much slimmer but about the same size. (Wonder if they'll start making tampon holders that look like this. Lol!)
The packaging of this liner is quite nice. The plastic is sturdy and best of all, it is a screw top. I'm always pleased when companies ensure that their product packaging is travel-friendly. I've definitely had eyeliner caps come off in my purse and it's quite annoying and creates a mess.
The applicator is like a slimmer Sharpie pen. In fact, it very much resembles those pocket-sized ones on a key-chain you can purchase at Staples. The nip is felt-tipped which I find easier to control than thin brushes but it's also very solid which provides great control and creates very sharp lines, much better than say, the L'Oreal Lineur Intense. That one is also a felt-tipped applicator but very thing and bendable.
Here's an example of a single line versus a bolder line built up from three swipes of the liner. You can see that it is extremely precise. A lot of my other liners have very miniscule bleeding into the natural lines/pores on my skin but any curves or zigzags in the applicator here is purely due to unsteady hands.
As you can see, Very Black really is very black. There is no gray, green, blue, red, etc. tinge to it that I can tell.
After wearing it for a few full days, I can attest to its smudge-free and fast-drying qualities. I can blink seconds after applying unlike other liquid eyeliners where I have to look up when blinking for the first minute or two. I can also go over with eyeshadow or a softer pencil liner without removing or smudging it.
The liquid dries to a slightly glossy finish. It's not noticeable unless you're creating cat eyes like the late Amy Winehouse but something to consider. When a rub test on the back of my hands, the liner does not smudge off. Rather, it comes off in tiny flakes.
If you've ever tried Stila's waterproof and waterproof sparkle liquid eyeliners, it has about the same consistency. The flakes are smaller from the LineExact which I like, as sometimes a heavy hand with Stila's can cause a noticeable flake or two to come off before you're ready to remove it!).
There does seem to be a lot of negative reviews for this product, though. Mostly that the product dries out quickly. I've had it for about a week and so far, it's still going very strong but it's probably too soon to tell.
However, this liner retails approx. $7CDN (currently selling for $5 on Well.ca), is easily accessible at the local drugstore or discount department store, and the Covergirl brand often goes on sale at Shoppers Drug Mart, Wal-Mart, Rexall, etc. in Canada so really? If it lasts even a quarter as long as a premium brand liner, it's still a pretty good deal at a quarter of the price! It's a great product and the unique compact packaging definitely wins me over.


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Mobile in your pocket, business in the cloud
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In late June of 2014, the US Supreme Court decided a case related to information on cell phones. While the decision is important, it's this quote from the Chief Justice that also caught our attention. He said that cell phones are "such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy."
With quotes like that in Supreme Court decisions, the pervasive use of smart phones and tablets is undeniable. Both B2C and B2B companies of all sizes can't deny the importance of optimizing their businesses on mobile devices.
ForwardView magazine spoke to Marci Troutman, the CEO of SiteMinis, whose company is the leading mobile web technology and services provider, to get her perspective on mobility and business today. Here's an edited version of our conversation with Marci.
Coming off that quote from the Chief Justice about cell phones, is your smart phone an extension of your body?
Marci Troutman:
It is. I'll tell you a little story. I actually had to run over to the DMV and ended up leaving my phone in the house. One of my sons came home and frantically tried to get a hold of me because I had left my phone at the house and I wasn't anywhere to be found. He thought something was amiss. That's how much of an extension it is on me. They're in shock and worried about something going wrong if the phone's not with me.
When you google SiteMinis, your company motto appears next to the search results. It says, "We make your site work on the mobile web." In fact, not every website does work on the mobile web.
What are some of the typical obstacles and challenges a business faces when it wants their site to be mobile enabled? Do we call that being "mobilized"?
Marci Troutman:
Yes, I guess you could call it being mobilized. However, "mobile-enabled" can have different meanings.
If a company has a web site, they can most certainly scrape - or they can pull the content to responsive design in order to get what you get on mobile. But that is not the best solution for working across every phone because responsive design does not work well across all platforms.
So SiteMinis actually developed CliqLaunch to combat that issue where MobileFirst would come into play. Companies can pull content they need through HTML5 containers, and then lay out the rest of the site, making sure that it is going to work on MobileFirst and cross platform extensions. In that way, when most companies actually go mobile—or mobilize—they can say, "Yes, I'm reaching the bulk of my customers." And yes, they can actually make the most of what mobile is good for.
We define mobile-enabled as the bare minimum to get by for your smart phone users using responsive design or scraping. So MobileFirst is the mindset where you're designing a mobile experience that will work for all of your customers. There's a big difference between the two in our opinion.
Mobile does need to be thought through, as an option, because it's not going away. It's a pillar that has to align with all the other verticals in your company. And it will stay there. So you need to think about it, not just play with it and expect your customers to have a wonderful mobile experience.
What do you tell the business—perhaps it's a small or medium-sized business, with tight resources or higher priorities—that hasn't shored up its mobile presence?
Marci Troutman:
I would share some statistics with them. An Erickson report from this year estimates there are 1.9 billion smart phones in the world and 5 billion feature phones.
Since mobile is new and growing at a rapid rate, companies still need to accommodate all of their consumers, right? And if they aren't actually where their consumers are, they're going to lose business.
When the people who have feature phones actually upgrade they're all going to want…well, they're all going to demand a full experience on their new devices. And if you can't deliver that, they may move on to someone who can.
I would say to those companies, that if you wish to continue to grow your business, you might want to consider actually taking a look at your social media, your texting, your emails and anything and everything your customers click on and determine how they will play out on the mobile web.
Why would SiteMinis be the right place for them to start?
Marci Troutman:
Because we have one platform that is backward facing and forward facing. A lot of companies now only accommodate newer phones, like smart phones. But they won't pay any attention to what is backward facing.
If you're a company that is growing, you may have attracted someone in another country, not using the latest mobile device. With our platform, we automatically recognize the device that is trying to access your mobile content. You want your site to work on any phone trying to access it. So no matter what you're building in the platform, it will come out and work the proper way on the handset that your customer is actually holding.
Given that SiteMinis provides a mobile web site and platform across pretty much every web-enabled cell phone and smart phone OS out there, you're probably handling a massive volume of traffic on behalf of your clients. How do you do that?
Marci Troutman:
With the help of IBM SoftLayer—they've actually been a tremendous help to us. Obviously we are not a hardware company, we're a software company. Who we partner with on the hardware side is going to make or break us. That's just the name of the game.
We did our research and in choosing SoftLayer, it's tremendous—it's a seamless piece to our clients—much easier on us to make sure that it's seamless for the client.
How did SiteMinis come together with IBM and the SoftLayer solution?
Marci Troutman:
Well, we didn't really think about IBM until a couple of years ago. I was at an executive breakfast meeting with huge companies; I don't know how I got invited, I mean, we were still a relatively small company. At our table, we decided each of us could ask one thing of anyone else sitting at the table. I was the last one to go, after all the others had asked some pretty deep stuff. I thought this might be my best chance to ask for the moon, and I turned to the IBM executive at the table and said, "I want to partner with IBM. How do we make that happen?" She simply replied, "Done," which surprised me a bit.
She then actually walked me through all the ranks and introduced me to everybody; and at that point I'm in love with IBM. Every partner that I have come across within IBM has just bent over backwards to make sure that we, as a mid-size company is going to succeed.
That's a terrific story. What guidance or advice would you give to other medium sized companies who might be considering IBM, but think IBM is too large for them?
Marci Troutman:
I would say we've been around the block; we started our software development in 2004. We have talked with and worked with quite a lot of companies. Based on that experience, I would just say, anybody that is hesitating needs to make sure they put IBM into their research…and not make a decision until you actually do the research with IBM included in that group, because you may be surprised. I was pleasantly surprised. Now I'm grateful, and I love the relationship.
SiteMinis has actually saved more than 50% on server costs working with IBM, along with the incredible customer service and real time access to the dashboard.
SiteMinis has actually saved more than 50% on server costs working with IBM, along with the incredible customer service and real time access to the dashboard.
How specifically is SiteMinis using IBM's cloud and SoftLayer solution?
Marci Troutman:
First off, we needed a cloud based server environment that would be easy to use, easy to scale, and would meet the requirements of security that our clients needed for a world class experience.
Secondly, we needed to significantly reduce our overall cost to the company, before we just kept scaling. Where we are now is logical, makes sense and as we add what we need, we understand what the costs are involved, it's very helpful to us.
Being able to scale like that, being able to actually offer a world class experience, being able to utilize the name IBM and leverage IBM customer service when we need it is absolutely fabulous.
These things just make SoftLayer tremendous for us. And I think our clients feel the same way because it's a single solution back to them. And for them not to feel any bumps is paramount. IBM has eased our hard work to offer superior service to our clients.
I understand the customer service that SiteMinis offers its clients is stellar.
Marci Troutman:
Yes. A lot of our team came out of big box retail and so we've got that embedded in our heads—the customer is always first, the customer is always right.
The time for SiteMinis to manage outage resolution has also been reduced because of the IBM SoftLayer solution, right?
Marci Troutman:
Absolutely. There's a dashboard. And anytime there's a spike in traffic that we're aware of—if there's a campaign, for example—our team can actually sit on that dashboard and watch real time what's going on, being able to monitor activity. If there are changes in the hardware and something needs to get done, we're able to respond very quickly.
Given that, are there any client stories or client success stores that you're particularly proud of?
Marci Troutman:
We have always strived to make sure that it's a seamless experience for our clients. I would say that our work with IBM and SoftLayer has helped us to keep it humming for our clients.
Your premier product is called CliqLaunch. What would you say is something that a company would be surprised to know about CliqLaunch?
Marci Troutman:
I would say one of the most interesting uses of CliqLaunch is when companies use it to mobilize their marketing campaigns. Often IT has to be involved, especially if you're using responsive design or you're utilizing something that is pulling from a PC site. CliqLaunch reduces the time to do that. You don't need to involve IT to build it for you and you don't have to have something scraped. It doesn't have to be on a PC.
If one of your brands is putting together a huge campaign and spending a ton of dollars on it, you could actually do a MobileFirst campaign. Your digital creative teams can easily build it with the SiteMinis platform without any coding—or users can also add JSP or HTML5, and a lot more. Users can also make MobileFirst websites just as robust, probably quite a bit more robust than a lot of the mobile web sites out there today, but absolutely comparable to what an app would be without a download needed by the customer.
I think that is something that when our clients, both existing and new, look at CliqLaunch, they're blown away. They want to be able to hand this platform over to the digital teams and say go crazy - lets mobilize our campaign, lets mobilize our social, lets mobilize our text.
The other thing that I think surprises people is that you can be up and live on the platform in a matter of minutes; that you can actually have the campaigns deployed in a matter of hours. With it being in the cloud you end up with a session right away.
We started our chat this afternoon with a quote from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I think I'd like to bring us to a close with a quote from you. You said, "The cloud's impact on mobile commerce is unrivaled." Given your place in the industry as an expert, why do you believe that's true?
Marci Troutman:
I think I was referring to the ability to access data from anywhere. It's extremely important as the world gets smaller, based on how fast technology is moving and how everybody can access anything and everything, that people be able to do that without being locked out. In the cloud, it's always available. It can just be brought down and you can just sign it and you can just open it up and pull out data - I think is extremely important especially for mobile commerce and the fact that that's growing.
I think that as companies start to go global, especially retailers, they need the cloud for mobility. It's extremely important for their mobile experience to be something that is always reachable.
Looking ahead, what do you think is the next big thing in mobile?
Marci Troutman:
Well, I actually believe we're still in the midst of mobile as the next big thing; I think brands are moving slower than the industry anticipated. I think the consumers are moving faster than businesses. We're not that far removed—maybe 7 years or so, from the major cell phone companies being concerned about privacy policies on texts because everyone had a flip phone. And then, just right around the corner from that, is when network smart phones came out. So it's not that long ago that this all started.
I would say the next big thing while we're still adapting to this ever-growing phase of "everybody looking at a piece of equipment" is probably the wearables, like Google Glass and the watches or fitness monitors. I think that's the new wave of things. I don't think it's going to bypass what's going on with mobile, but I think it will just be an extension. But I'm curious to see which of those wearables stick and become the big thing.
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Helping Catholic universities be more Catholic. That, in a nutshell, is the mission of the Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education.
Founded in 2008 as a division of the Cardinal Newman Society, the center recently announced that it would be relocating to Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md. Under a three-year agreement, the university will manage and staff the center, with Msgr. Stuart Swetland, the university's vice president for Catholic identity, serving as the center's executive director.
Recently, Our Sunday Visitor spoke with Msgr. Swetland, an Oxford-educated Catholic convert who holds the Most Rev. Harry J. Flynn Endowed Chair for Christian Ethics at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, about the center and its vision for Catholic higher education.
Our Sunday Visitor: Let's start with Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the 1990 apostolic constitution from which the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education takes it mission. How would you sum up the vision of Catholic higher education at the heart of that document?
John H. Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America, speaks with OSV about his vision for U.S. Catholic intellectual culture.
Msgr. Stuart Swetland: At one point in Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Pope John Paul II talks about being wholly consecrated to the truth. That idea really is central. It helps us see that the purpose of education, all education, not just Catholic, should be the pursuit of truth. Unfortunately, in the world today, the very concept of truth is questioned. People question if truth is knowable, if it's livable, if it even exists. As Catholics, however, we know those answers. We believe truth exists. We believe we can know it, and we believe we can live it. Accordingly, Catholic universities need to model for other institutions what it means to be dedicated to discovering and handing on truth.
OSV: To what extent has that vision taken root in the two decades since Ex Corde Ecclesiae was released?
Msgr. Swetland: It's something of a mixed bag. Many Catholic universities have fully embraced that pursuit of truth. Others have embraced a more secular model of education. I think, however, that the thing Ex Corde Ecclesiae really did was cause every Catholic institution to revisit the question of Catholic identity — to ask what being Catholic means for their institution on a practical level. And because of that, I think we've seen an increased focus, at least in the United States, on faithfully living out Catholic identity. Many institutions still have a long way to go, of course, but regardless, the one thing we've seen across the board is increased focus, discussion and engagement on what Catholic identity means.
OSV: Could you give a couple of practical examples of the fruit that particular discussion has born?
Msgr. Swetland: Many institutions, including my own, have appointed senior administrators at the VP level whose main focus is to look at the institutional mission and keep the university faithful to it. We've also seen the advent of programs of formation for university professors. Many of the people who teach and work at Catholic universities are experts in their field, but they haven't been formed in such a way that they can integrate the Catholic faith and their university's mission into the classroom. So these programs, most of which are held over the summer, are giving them that formation. Some, like the one we have at Mount St. Mary's, are sponsored by universities for their own faculty. Others are more national in scope.
OSV: So, where does the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education fit in all this? How does it envision its role in the ongoing discussion about the identity and mission of Catholic universities?
Msgr. Swetland: We're not around to do much in the way of critiquing or criticizing. Rather, we want to help Catholic universities that are seeking to live out their vocation as Catholic institutions of higher learning find better ways of doing that.
OSV: Will the focus be primarily academic or will it encompass aspects such as student life and campus culture?
Msgr. Swetland: A great deal of a student's educational experience hinges on what happens in the classroom, but the reality is that a great deal of education also happens outside of class. Mission-centered student life programs are part, or should be part, of what makes a Catholic university education different. So yes, we'll be focusing both on academics and on questions of campus culture. Our desire is to help universities cultivate and build on certain assumptions about Catholic education. One of those assumptions needs to be that we're dedicated to excellence in all things, and that includes a campus culture of sobriety, chastity and other virtues. We need excellence in those virtues in order to better pursue excellence in other areas of education.
OSV: When it comes to what's happening in the classrooms at Catholic universities, with what in particular does the center hope to help?
Msgr. Swetland: One of the areas we're looking at is research on the importance of a core curriculum. Even secular universities are starting to recognize that moving away from strong core curricula has contributed to the problem of universities graduating people who don't have the reading, writing and critical-thinking skills you would expect of college graduates. Most Catholic universities have done a slightly better job at keeping solid core curricula, so we're examining which ones are working best, then we want to help disseminate that research.
We're also interested in orientation and formation programs for faculty. We want to emphasize the ones that work well and work with other institutions and groups to start new ones that focus on integrating faith and reason into particular disciplines. Catholic universities can and should be centers of academic excellence dedicated to helping students and the culture think more deeply about the world and the problems of our day. To do that, however, science professors need to be engaging ethical questions with their students, journalism professors need to teach their students how to report on the Faith, economists need to be cultivating in their students an understanding of the human person that runs counter to the dominant utilitarian mode, etc.
Additionally, we're looking to partner with other groups to help Catholic universities remain committed to a Christian view of sex and sexuality and address the threats to Catholic identity and liberty coming at universities from the government.
OSV: How hopeful are you for the future of Catholic higher education in America?
Msgr. Swetland: Two people who are smarter and more in touch with trends in Catholic education than I'll ever be — Melanie Morey and Father John Piderat — published a book several years back saying that the culture of Catholic higher education is a culture in crisis. That may well be true. But I like to point out that if you look at the term "crisis" in Chinese, you'll see that the way they form the character for that word is to take the character for danger and combine it with the character for opportunity. So, yes, we are at a critical moment, a dangerous time. Catholic education is under attack in many ways. There are economic concerns, demographic concerns and concerns with finding well-formed educators who can carry on the mission. There's also a crisis in cost. The list could go on.
This is a pivotal moment, but it's also a moment where there's great opportunity. At most secular universities there's been a loss of confidence in truth, in ethical values and norms, in our country's ability to achieve great things. But Catholic universities, almost across the board, recognize that there is truth, and it is knowable. We believe there are ethical standards that we can and must live by. And we believe we can do great things with the help of God. Higher education needs that Catholic witness now more than ever, so it's vitally important we do all we can to reinvigorate and strengthen that witness.
With enough hard work and prayer, I believe we can be successful at that.
Emily Stimpson is an OSV contributing editor.
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Welcome to Bumples - the interactive E-magazine founded in 2009.
We offer 2 magazines: Bumples magazine ages 6-10 and Bumple Buds ages 3-6.
The publisher, Jennifer Sheehan created Miss Bumples and the other Bumple characters over 40 years ago as craft kits. An animal craft kit was inside a crepe paper ball and was bumpy, so we named them Bumples. Miss Bumples arrived on earth from Mars to help animals. I have written four books about the Bumple family: "Miss Bumples Lands on Earth," "Miss Bumples Moves to Bumpleville," "Griffy Giraffe's Accident" and "Chicky Dicky's Pancakes."
In 2009 the publisher was checking out children's magazines and realized that there was a niche for an internet magazine that was interactive and fun to read. After talking it over with family and friends, the Bumples Interactive Children's Magazine came to life.
Both magazines are for children who enjoy reading or like to be read too. At the end of each story or poem are facts and interactive games.
Our goal is to have a place where children can go and let their imaginations soar. Helping a child to develop is very important and gratifying.
In the fall of 2017, we started a new magazine called Bumple Buds for children 3-6.
We feel very blessed that we have published writers from all over the world
If you have any questions or ideas, please contact us at email@example.com.
Thank you for your interest and we hope that children have fun with Bumples.


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Say hello to the L.K. Bennett Anna slingback.
If the name, L.K. Bennett sounds familiar, that's probably because England's own, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is a huge fan of the brand. She has been photographed wearing the Sledge platform pumps and the Agata bow sandals.
The Anna slingback is hands-down one of my favorite L.K.Bennett shoe designs. I always love a peep-toe, the blush nude color is stunning, and the patent finish and modern sculptural bow are every inch chic.
Image Via Elizabeth Anne Designs // Photography: Emme Wynn Photography


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The Beatrician experience may be defined as the recovery (in respect to one human being) of that vision of reality which would have been common to all men in respect to all things if Man had never fallen. The lover sees the Lady as the Adam saw all things before they foolishly chose to experience good as evil … The great danger is lest he should mistake the vision which is really a starting point for a goal; lest he should mistake the vision of Paradise for arrival there. He must follow this road till it leads him to the Byzantine precision. … The Beatrician experience does not usually last … The glory is temporary; in that sense Beatrice nearly always dies. But a transitory vision is not necessarily a vision of the transitory. … The phenomenal Beatrice—Beatrice as she is in this fallen world—has for an instant been identical with the real Beatrice—Beatrice as she (and all things) will be seen to be, and always to have been, when we reach the throne-room at Byzantium. The precise moment at which the phenomenal Beatrice loses her identity with the real one is a repetition of the Fall …
—C. S. Lewis, Arthurian Torso, "Williams and the Arthuriad," pp. 116-117
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I've written a little already about Williams' Arthurian cycle, contained in the two volumes Taliessin Through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars. I'd like to continue my analysis, turning now to his doctrine of romantic love as expressed there.
Doctrine is not too strong a word. Williams was a thoroughgoing Neoplatonist, and considered every earthly good a 'preparatory form' of the universal Good, i.e. God. The two ways of communion with God—renouncing earthly goods, like the hermit, or embracing them, like the husband—must both acknowledge their reality and objective good-ness. The hermit may renounce them in his preference for the final reality, but he must not condemn or despise them; the husband may embrace them in legitimate delight, but must not content himself with them as though they could finally deserve his whole worship or satisfaction. And, as many works have been written on ascetic theology, so Williams wrote on romantic theology: the way of the affirmation of images, as asceticism is the way of the renunciation of images.
The Romantic Way experiences its object in a certain mode. This can be a person (like Beatrice for Dante, or in a quite different way, Frodo Baggins for Samwise Gamgee), or a thing (like nature of Wordsworth, a favorite reference point of Williams); its key quality is that all goodness is understood through it and in relation to it. It is a kind of temporary theophany.
Tristan and Isolde [or Iseult], Herbert Draper, 1900
Williams describes Sir Palomides, a Saracen knight who joined the Round Table, meeting Queen Iseult of Cornwall between her husband, King Mark, and her lover, Sir Tristram, and falling in love himself:
I saw the hand of the queen Iseult;
down her arm a ruddy bolt
fired the tinder of my brain
to measure the shape of man again;
I heard the king say: 'Little we know
of verses here; let the stranger show
a trick of the Persian music-craft.'
Iseult smiled and Tristram laughed.
Her arm exposed on the board, between
Mark and Tristram sat the queen,
but neither Mark nor Tristram sought
the passion of substantial thought,
neither Mark nor Tristram heard
the accent of the antique word.
… Blessed (I sang) the Cornish queen;
for till to-day no eyes have seen
how curves of golden life define
the straightness of a perfect line,
till the queen's blessed arm became
a rigid bar of golden flame
where well might Archimedes prove
the doctrine of Euclidean love,
and draw his demonstrations right
against the unmathematic night …1
In Iseult's body, Palomides sees the logic of the universe. Her arm exhibits the Logos to him, the Word of the Father, and to that extent he is momentarily converted: God-made-flesh is a beheld and believed reality.
But neither vision nor belief lasts. The former passes, and the latter is forsaken with it. We experience the fall, the loss of the glory, with a renewal of terror:
In the summer house of the Cornish king
suddenly I ceased to sing.
Down the arm of the queen Iseult
quivered and darkened an angry bolt;
and, as it passed, away and through
and above her hand the sign withdrew.
Fiery, small, and far aloof,
a tangled star in the cedar roof,
it hung; division stretched between
the queen's identity and the queen.
It's too familiar. How many couples have we known who've broken up, even by the violent, organic schism of divorce, because one or the other is no longer in love? How many times have we ourselves met someone who used to be enchanting, and found them suddenly vacant of that radiance? The contrast is a shock, sometimes to the point of being actively disgusting.2 And Palomides, lacking either habitual grace or the theology of romantic love to guide him through the occlusion of the glory, pursues what little he still perceives:
Relation vanished, though beauty stayed;
too long my dangerous eyes delayed
at the shape on the board, but the voice was mute;
the queen's arm lay there destitute,
empty of glory …
Cœlius Vibenna over the dead
cast the foul Chthonian spells,
on ghost and bone and what lingers else;
… the Pope in white, like the ghost of man,
stood in the porch of Lateran;
and aloof in the roof, beyond the feast,
I heard the squeak of the questing beast,
where it scratched itself in the blank between
the queen's substance and the queen.3
None of the knights of the Round Table have been able to capture the Questing Beast. Palomides, who being still unbaptized is not yet eligible for the Table, decides to do so—he becomes obsessed with it.
I determined, after I saw Iseult's arm,
to be someone, to trap the questing beast
that slid into Logres out of Broceliande
through the blank between the queen's meaning and the queen.
Having that honour I would consent to be christened,
I would come then to the Table on my own terms …
But things went wrong; Tristram knocked me sprawling
under the tender smile of Iseult; my manhood,
chivalry, and scimitar-play learned from the Prophet,
could not gain me the accurate flash of her eyes.
Once I overthrew Lancelot by cheating at a tourney,
whence, enraged, fleeing, I was taken by pirates;
Lancelot freed me—he rode on to Carbonek;
did I smile when I heard that he my saviour was mad?
For bees buzzed down Iseult's arm in my brain;
black gnats, whirring mosquitoes …
and I thought if I caught the beast they would cease certainly.
… There would be nothing but to admire the man
who had done what neither Tristram nor Lancelot did.4
Smarting under the loss of Iseult before he has even gained her, and unable to conceive the Dantean road of love as intellectual adoration without carnal consummation, Palomides has attempted the egoïst's compensation of proving his worth before conceding that worth to others; and, though baptism is oriented to God, in Christendom it is inevitably a concession to one's fellow Christians as well.
So the Questing Beast is met in the blank between / the queen's substance and the queen—i.e., in the moment when the meaning of the beloved and her person are perceived as horribly separate—because it is a symbol of 'the conversion of the Godhead into flesh,' the theory of the Incarnation which the Athanasian Creed specifically disclaims. It is an attempt to reclaim the Beatrician vision by force: an attempt to make love operate entirely in terms of appetite.
He tries to defeat Tristram and so win Iseult's love, but is beaten himself; he tries to triumph over Sir Lancelot, the finest of Arthur's knights, so salvaging his ego, yet he can do so only by cheating, and is then rescued by him—the secret and the public humiliations coïnhere. Neither erotic consummation nor knightly glory is available to him any more. And in pursuing the Questing Beast at all, Palomides rejected the possibility of erotic love as a way of the soul: renouncing carnal enjoyment of the beloved, but remembering the vision of her identity and simply rejoicing in that beauty, maintaining faith in the queen's substance even when it is obscured by the queen.
This may sound like a fantasy, but minds like Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Dorothy Sayers all accepted it. The idea that sex is, for a lover, kind of beside the point (however licit and fun it might be) goes right back to the troubadours. They didn't all agree, but there were those among them for whom the simple contemplation of glory in the beloved was the essential end of courtly love, and everything else was icing. A culture like ours, in which egalitarianism and sexual satisfaction are the basic standards of happiness, is almost unable to believe that somebody could feel that way.5 But the poets and their commentators tell us that it was a real phenomenon—the Divine Comedy is about that very thing—and facts don't have to be likely or even comprehensible.
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1The Coming of Palomides ll. 35-48, 55-64.
2The disgust may be reasonable: romantic love is no respecter of persons, and can be felt for someone who is, in their phenomenal identity (i.e. the person we meet), ghastly. The next poem in Taliessin, 'Lamorack and the Queen Morgause of Orkney,' deals with just such a love—even in the throes of his devotion, Sir Lamorak doesn't consider Morgause beautiful or good, but he is overpowered by the experience of her nonetheless. But this disgust may also be a mundane result of suddenly seeing the flaws we had formerly missed or deliberately ignored in the excitement of eros; or, it may be an expression of the horror of suddenly lacking the vision of glory that had inhered in the beloved, perhaps mere moments ago.
3The Coming of Palomides ll. 65-69, 76-78, 81-86. Cœlius Vibenna was an Etruscan noble and a friend of Romulus; the Etruscans were notorious sorcerers, and introduced divination by entrails to Rome. Chthonian is a reference to Vibenna's magic (from the Greek χθών chthōn, 'deep earth, under-soil')—gods such as Hades, Persephone, Hecate, and the Furies were chthonic.
The Questing Beast, also called the Blatant Beast or Beast Glatisant in some Arthurian sources, is an interesting, difficult symbol. It is usually depicted similarly to the ancient Egyptian serpopard. The names blatant and glatisant come from archaic words meaning 'yelping' or 'barking' (glapissant in Old French, while blatant is related to the word bleat). I think the interpretation I've provided here is accurate, but I'm sure others are possible.
4Palomides Before his Christening ll. 9-14, 17-26, 28, 31-32.
5'How are these gulfs between the ages to be dealt with by the student of poetry? A method often recommended may be called the method of The Unchanging Human Heart. … Just as, if we stripped the armor off of a mediæval knight or the lace off of a Caroline courtier, we should find beneath them an anatomy identical to our own, so, it is held, if we strip off from Virgil his Roman imperialism, from Sidney his code of honor, from Lucretius his Epicurean philosophy, and from all who have it their religion, we shall find the Unchanging Human Heart, and on this we are to concentrate. … But how if these ["lowest common multiples"] are not really the most important elements in the actual balance of the poem we are reading? Our whole study of the poem will then become a battle between us and the author in which we are trying to twist his work into a shape he never gave it …
'Fortunately there is a better way. Instead of stripping the knight of his armor you can try to put his armor on yourself; instead of seeing how the courtier would look without his lace, you can try to see how you would feel with his lace; that is, with his honor, his wit, his royalism, and his gallantries out of the Grand Cyrus. I had much rather know what I should feel like if I adopted the beliefs of Lucretius than how Lucretius would have felt if he had never entertained them. … To enjoy our full humanity we ought, so far as is possible, to contain within us potentially at all times, and on occasion to actualize, all the modes of feeling and thinking through which man has passed. … For the truth is that when you have stripped off what the human heart actually was in this or that culture, you are left with a miserable abstraction totally unlike the life really lived by any human being.' From C. S. Lewis' Preface to 'Paradise Lost,' pp. 62-64.


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I'm seriously feeling a decline of my English skills. The blog entrees I've posted a year ago seems much more intelligent and smooth. Maybe it was a mistake for me to choose a once-a-week class for English this year...languages are hard to obtain and maintain. The more you do, the better you get. The debating class I took this year is a lot of fun indeed, but...I would like to interfere more with English.
So...I promise I will begin posting blogs again in English. Blogger's posting systems have improved, with an easier method for me to upload pictures. Unfortunately, I have spring term exams coming up. This will be my declaration.
"I, Tatsuya will try my best to post blog entrees everyday, after I return from my trip to Europe."
Now, instead of sitting face-to-face with my laptop, I must study for my dreadful spring term exams...according to my plan, I am supposed to be studying civil law today. This may seem unnatural to all of you Brits and Americans, but here in Japan, Civil Law is recognized as one of six most important laws. Rumors say that the test itself is hilariously easy, but I'll do my best.
Just like this blog.


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Kaustubh Pawar the quintessential Mumbai batsman, says coach
Kaustubh Pawar came out to bat at No. 3 yesterday and saw Mumbai lose half their side with 60 runs on the board. A day later, he calmly got forward to ease the final delivery of day two to the long-off boundary to take Mumbai to 346 for 7. It was Pawar's 322nd delivery, many of which had beaten him. Some of them had him falling to the ground as he looked to avoid them. One of them even hit him on the helmet. But he battled through it all for almost eight hours to end unbeaten on 160 and put his side on top.
Pawar, 21, defied a testing Madhya Pradesh attack in the pressure situation of a knockout game in his debut first-class season. More importantly, he did it despite struggling to find rhythm in his batting till he reached three figures. It was the kind of single-minded devotion to the cause that Mumbai needed, and coach Sulakshan Kulkarni hailed Pawar as the quintessential Mumbai batsman. "What is a Mumbai batsman? Someone who can play with that khadoos [defiant] attitude," Kulkarni said. "Someone who can stand all day and make a hundred in 250 deliveries. Pawar is that kind of batsman."
Kulkarni said that Pawar's presence was vital in a line-up that contains stroke-makers like Suryakumar Yadav and Wasim Jaffer. "The phase that the Mumbai team is currently in, we needed someone like him. We need someone who can hold one end up. There are a lot of stroke-makers in this team. But you also need a player in the Rahul Dravid mould. Kaustubh fits that role.
"He has been given that role. Surya [Yadav] is the free bird of the side. He has the mandate to go out and play strokes. Kaustubh cannot do what Surya does, and vice versa."
Kulkarni also said that with the advent of the IPL, batsmen had started to play a lot of shots in the air. Having a batsman like Pawar who was able and willing to bat in the conventional way was a huge positive for Mumbai, he said. "If you observe, he hardly played a shot in the air. In these times, it is extremely difficult to find a batsman who plays shots along the ground. I can recall only one more name among the current lot who does that: Cheteshwar Pujara. It is extremely valuable to have such a player."
Pawar had had a discussion with his coach before the start of play today with Mumbai 122 runs behind and had assured him that he would not throw his wicket away. "I had told him to hang in there, and he had promised me that he will remain unbeaten at stumps today, which he did," Kulkarni said.
Pawar said his mandate was to tire the MP bowlers out which he was able to do successfully. "There was a little nervousness given the situation we were in. We knew that the first 30-45 minutes would be crucial. I and Hiken [Shah] were able to get through that period. They were bowling well initially but later got tired."
There was no weariness in Pawar's demeanour though. As soon as he hit the last ball of the day for four, he walked back eagerly with a broad smile towards a grateful Mumbai dressing-room. A maiden double-hundred, which Pawar said he has never made in a "big match", beckons.
Abhishek Purohit is an editorial assistant at ESPNcricinfo


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Barry M is known as the most colourful name in cosmetics and the UK's number 1 fashion cosmetic company. With over 400 different colours and a wide range of products Barry M has become a household name in the field of Fashion Cosmetics. We've been trying out a selection of their fabulous Nail Paint colours so keep reading to learn more!
Barry M currently have some fantastic bold, bright and cheerful colours that never fail to lift my mood. Featured in the piccy to the left are Aqua Blue, Aqua Green and Black Red.
The Black Red needs another coat as it's still a bit patchy after 2 coats but I'm loving the sparking iridescence of the other two.
I've also tried out the Aqua Green colour using x3 coats and a top/base coat (click the image for a slightly larger version). What you get is a lovely, fresh almost metallic green colour that is long lasting and really eye catching. Perfect for the spring months!
Another of my faves that I've been trying out this evening is Blue Glitter by Barry M which you can see in the pictures below. Now you'll have to excuse me if the finish isn't quite perfect, I seemed to develop shakey hand syndrome half way through (the pressure of knowing I was going to blog about them perhaps?!) but I love how it catches the light and it really reminds me of the new OPI Alice in Wonderland nail polish 'Absolutely Alice' that they've released. This one by Barry M is a bargain though at just £2.95!


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Privacy-Class-Action-Plaintiffs' Emerging Litigation Strategy Avoids Arbitration
On September 5, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's decision granting Turn Inc.'s motion to compel arbitration of a putative, privacy class action related to targeted adverting efforts on mobile devices.
In Re Anthony Henson and William Cintron v. Turn, Inc. was filed in the Northern District of California by two Verizon cellular and data subscribers against Turn. The case reflects a notable pivot in strategy in data privacy litigation. Data privacy cases have, previously, been directed at the webpage/content-providers or telecommunication providers that shared or processed users' online activities. The plaintiffs in Henson did not sue Verizon or the webpages; instead, they sued the technology companies that enable the targeting.
The Circuit describes Turn as a "middle-man" for internet-based advertisements. Turn is alleged to contract with Verizon to deliver targeted advertisements to subscribers based on usage data collected from users' mobile devices. Plaintiffs' charging allegations focus on Turn's creation of "zombie" cookies that track and collect users' data without their permission or knowledge, which can bypass users' attempts to shield their identity and online activity from companies' tracking, scraping and collecting their data and privacy.
Plaintiffs alleged that Turn created unique identifiers and developed profiles for each user, based on their online activity. Turn would then auction off the users' collected data so that advertisers could place targeted advertisements on users' mobile phones. Verizon received a portion of the advertisement proceeds.
Turn moved to stay the action and compel arbitration based on the user agreements with Verizon under the theory of equitable estoppel. The district court granted Turn's motion. The Ninth Circuit granted a writ and vacated the order.
The choice-of-law question and posture of the case brings back memories of a law school examine. Although the case was pending in the Northern District of California, the two plaintiffs were New York residents asserting violations of New York law. The presiding district court judge was sitting by designation from Arizona. (Warning, students, this is a red herring!) The district court applied New York procedural law in compelling arbitration. The Ninth Circuit held this was clear error, holding the forum state, California, governed. The Circuit found that Turn could not compel arbitration as to the plaintiffs, given it did not have a direct arbitration agreement with them.
The Circuit found Turn's attempt to piggyback off Verizon's arbitration agreement with its subscribers was unpersuasive in light of Turn's contract with Verizon, which expressly stated that "neither party shall have the authority to bind the other in any way." Turn filed its agreement with Verizon under seal, which the Circuit went out of its way to deny, implying that the motion to seal was an attempt to hide the contract terms because they contradicted the representations that Turn made to the Court about its relationship with Verizon. Regardless, the Circuit held that the complained-of-conduct by Turn had little to do with the customer agreement with Verizon, undermining a key element of the equitable estoppel doctrine.
For more information regarding data privacy litigation, please contact the author of this blog or Polsinelli's Privacy and Data Security team.


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I freely admit I am not the best at back linking, but there are people who know even less than I do, so this post is for them.
Here are 5 back links you can take advantage of today.
1.Propeller. Last year when I used them, the site was too glitchy to use, but that seems to have improved.
2. Blogger. Start a topic blog. Make the topic broad enough to cover future articles. For example, 'Product Reviews' has a lot more flexibility than 'How to Buy a Kitchen Sink' which limits your ability to use the blog for anything else.
3.Tipsbase. is all about links. Post a blurb and a back link.
4.She Told Me is a social bookmarking site. I like it because links can be added quickly. Note, however, that the site will pull your account for inactivity so you're going to need to post something every couple of months.
5. Forums. Google forums for your topic by combining your keyword with forum (i.e. Kitchen Sink forums). Ideally, you want to find forums that cover broad areas in your topic so you can establish a long term presence for back links.
So in our example, search for 'kitchen forums' or 'remodeling forums.' Once you find a forum, add a link to your article in your signature and look for threads on your topic to participate in. In some forums, you may have to pay a small fee to be able to list links in your signature.
Note, none of these links are affiliate links.
P.S. I think I feel a Suite101 rant coming on...
Saturday, August 21, 2010
5 Back Links You Can Build Today
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text: Here are my issues: I have the exchange email setup and it works when I am onsite using the company server, but I can only receive email. I create and send email and nothing happens. I have the account setup just like my outlook on my desktop machine. Like I said within the company network. I get my email and calendar, but can't send email. The other issue is I can't setup email for outside of the network. We have blackberry service (not an enterprise server) and I use the same http://54.xxx.xx.xxx/exchange and I get the error that it can't identify the account. I am very confused. I really need to be able to get my email and calendar on my ipad2. My blackberry works great, just confused and I might be switching an iPhone soon for work. I really want to get these issues resolved. I put a post over a month ago on the apple support discussions. Total waste of time. Thanks for the time.