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|Jamie King- Rock Your Body|
Actor: Jamie King
Director: Milton Lage
Genres: Sports, Exercise & Fitness
"Rock Your Body" is a non-stop, high-energy cardio routine filled with the latest dance moves. Jamie King has devised a workout that tones all parts of the body, increased flexibility and strength, and promotes weight loss.
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nws2002 | Tulsa, OK | 06/04/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Another review broke down the sections of the DVD very well, so I won't dwell on that.
The workout is hard at first, you will stumble through the moves, and you won't be able to keep up. This is a good thing! It makes the workout more of a challenge and something that I will keep coming back to. Just don't feel down or frustrated if you don't get it at first.
You can tell Jamie's background is dance and not aerobics or fitness, but that's not a bad thing either. It is really helpful if you know how to pickup on the 8 counts.
There is also a Rock Your Body book available that has the same routine that's on the DVD in picutres. This was really helpful the first few times. The book has lots of other great info too, and I would suggest you pick it up"
A Lot of Fun
shimi subramaniam | San Antonio, TX United States | 06/08/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Finally a Jamie King dance workout I don't have to try and follow along on the Nike website! I liked this workout a lot, and I usually find most cardio hip-hop DVDs lame. It's "organised" like a dance class, with phrases learned at half-time then tempo, a dress rehearsal where you put it all together and then a performance where you run the whole thing through a few times. The choreography is cool, and once you know it you can put a lot more energy into it and have a fun workout. Sometimes they counted off the beat, but it's easy to ignore that if you can count. This isn't high-intensity like a Les Mills dance class, but for a day where you want a steady-state burn, this is a fun workout to try. I hope there'll be more of these down the line, maybe getting progressively harder."
It's like a real dance class
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"After reading some of the 1 and 2-star reviews I needed to respond. See. . . when you go to a dance class for the first time, no one expects you to pick up on the routine right away. You have to go a bunch of times before the "lightbulb" goes off and you suddenly catch onto the moves. That's how this video is. Sometimes you have to repeat the chapter a few times (isn't that the amazing thing about using a DVD????) in order to get the steps right. It's not like a typical work out DVD where you can go straight through (unless you are a trained dancer) and it's also not as BORING!!!" | <urn:uuid:085945ba-0a75-44c9-9ed7-6407fd7cca91> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.swapadvd.com/Jamie-King-Rock-Body/dvd/158939/ | 2017-06-26T19:49:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320863.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626184725-20170626204725-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.955388 | 687 | [
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Press release is dead
It passed away. Suddenly. It couldn’t stand such conditions. I regret. But you cannot change a river direction, can you?
Honor press release memory
It used to be like that: a PR specialist wrote a press released and pictures attached. He wrote it to a journalist. A journalist published it or not. Because of good communication between a PR specialist and a journalist you could read news in a paper.
Long live the news!
Today you don’t need to write a press release. You do not need a contact to a journalist to publish. You write news. You publish. They read. Done!
New news: you cannot tell a book by its cover
And media is open to receive a piece of info from you as never before. And a journalist is not needed any more. True or false? Yes, you can kick a ball and the ball flies, but can you say that you are a footballer? And does the ball goes into the goal?! What can you do?
You can publish a lot, but who will read it?
Writing to the net (inc. copywriting) needs knowledge and experience, so the probability that you will write good news is quite low. Of course, there are a lot of information, so even if your info is not so good, nobody will point it out. But it’s not your goal, is it? The crucial is to have news which you share. And finally people read it.
You can try, but why not to trust people who do it professionally?
Yes, you can learn how to write good news. Consult your text with PR specialist and talk about your information politics (because remember: one swallow doesn`t make a summer, so one news is not enough taking into account PR).
Yes, you can live without a journalist, but with him/her life is easier. At present media relation brings a new dimension: really counts true relation and not just sending a text. A journalist is still you permit to print media. He is a great source of info, but first of all is your ally – you share with him good news which he needs to earn his living. You have a customer. He has got a reader. So both of you work for the same person.
You can write: me, my company, we manufacture, but who cares?!
The most often mistake in reading news is writing about a company – so news which is not news, in fact. Who cares that a new factory was open? Who cares that anyone won a prize? Who care that a billion package of sweets was manufactures? This is the unforgettable mistake – writing about yourself. It is against the nature of news – news is a piece of info for somebody. So it should answer some the questions which ask a reader: what it brings to me? what does it change in my life?
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The past week or so of work has been interesting and challenging. As I expected, a lot of time is spent trying to communicate with co-workers in a broken mixture of Khmer and English; I am constantly flipping through my Khmer-English dictionary. Luckily I haven’t been totally ineffective. The office is small, with only me and three others (one lawyer, the lawyer’s assistant, and an accountant), and they definitely make my presence feel valued. I edit documents, help organize programs, write stories on clients, and research various issues on Cambodian law for IBJ’s programs. In a typical workday, clients trickle in and out of the office while the lawyer, lawyer assistant and I make periodic trips to the court and prison for meetings or trials. I could try to explain everything I have learned about the Cambodian court system, the extensive land issues throughout Ratanikiri Province, or many of the individual cases that my boss is working on, but instead I’d like to document my experience in first visiting the Rattanikiri prison. The experience was important and moving for me, and I hope that I can share some of that with you.
On the drive to the prison, my boss explains to me why he wants me to see this. From what I gather, he wants me to see the horrible condition of the place and gain an understanding that his clients are good people who usually just make one small mistake. We pull up to a skinny white gate blocking off a dirt driveway. My boss shouts out the car window to a man sitting in a restaurant with a bunch of other Khmer men about 50 meters away. The man runs over and easily lifts the gate. We are then led into a room in the Administration Building, a white cement structure coated in a thick layer of orange Rattanikiri dirt. Dusty stacks of papers and binders line the walls, their filing system. A man shuffles around some case files, yells at some people through a window, and we are ushered through a wide opening in a fence; there is no gate and children are playing outside. The prison is essentially an outdoor dirt courtyard with a volleyball net surrounded by three small, long, buildings. Men wearing navy pajamas with white trim walk across the courtyard from one building to the next, carrying water buckets or kitchen utensils. I don’t see any guards, and when I ask my co-worker about this and the general lack of security, he tells me that no one ever tries to escape because the prison chief is “klung klung,” “very strong.”
After being led through the gate, we sit down on a bench to face two men wearing the navy pajamas, vertical wooden bars separating us from them. The first defendant is a very small boy, barely 18 years old. He’s shaking a lot. My boss introduces himself and asks for his story. The kid looks down when he talks, a wrinkle of concern between his brows. I think he might start to cry at several points in the story. He stole a moto. In the little Khmer I know, I can pick up that he keeps saying, “bai jung ding, jung ding,” “wanted to buy food, to buy food.” He stole the moto because he was hungry. My boss tells me this a lot (at least, I think this is what he is telling me): most of his clients do not have criminal minds, “tchet o-kret.” Rather, they steal things because they want money to eat, to feed their families, or to buy some clothes.
The second defendant is more confident. He looks at my boss directly to tell his story, but still his hands shake. He is in prison because he got in a motorcycle accident; he made a small error while driving and injured someone. He seems angry. He’s been in prison for a couple of months now.
My boss gives them both his card and says, “muhn luey,” “free of charge.” They say, “baat, baat, bong, awkoon juhrahn,” “yes, brother, thank you very much,” and they each hold the card with both hands, staring intently at their lawyer’s name and number, wondering when their trial will take place.
People always ask me how I could want to defend a criminal. Some people, it’s true, have “tchet o-kret,” but even they deserve representation. And then there are “criminals” like this, prevalent in America as well as here in Cambodia: young kids, scared, confused, or angry, sitting in jail for months upon years for making one small mistake. | <urn:uuid:d7fff39c-70d8-4ca0-bd85-118704e045cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://law.wm.edu/academics/intellectuallife/researchcenters/postconflictjustice/studentsummerblogs/2011%20blogs/alisonrabe/prison-visit.php | 2017-06-27T14:07:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321426.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627134151-20170627154151-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.978064 | 1,014 | [
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Dear Mets Fans:
We are pleased to announce we have hired Terry Collins as our new Manager.
Terry’s a lifelong baseball man who comes with the entire package – leadership, preparation, emotional commitment, and the drive to win. We believe Terry’s knowledge of our players, energy, intelligence, intensity, and direct approach will make an immediate, positive impact both in the clubhouse and on the field.
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We will introduce Terry to the media this morning during a press conference at 11:00 a.m. at Citi Field. SNY and Mets.com will carry it live.
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The Access to Social Science Higher Education Diploma is a one year course which is a nationally recognised qualification that provides students with the entry requirements for most Higher Education degrees.
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There are no specific entry requirements, but you will need to have enthusiasm, commitment and a desire to further your education.
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I’ve always been fascinated by this photo, of the Sorenson side of the family. Now, I’ve come across the daily diary entry that goes with it. Neat.
Saturday, July 4:
Up at 7:30. Washed & ironed some clothes. Made spud salad. Baked beans. Left at 12:30. Louise’s for picnic. Delma’s, Leos. Folks there too. Norma H. with them. Took pictures. Played croquet. Rode ponies. Home at 6:00. Chored. All here to supper. Rasmuses came afterwards. Went to Dance. Claire, Ferne, Pete & me. Leo Daeges. Home at 1:30. Leo, Ida here all nite. Billy slept on floor. Us on studio couch.
Claire and Ferne were nieces of my Grandma Kinnick… first cousins to Mom. Mom always considered them the most musically talented of the whole musical family. They lived in Sioux City area, then moved to California… where the girls and their husbands actually performed semi-professionally all their lives.
I always wondered why Mom had her hair pinned up. Now I know… she was getting ready to go the dance, in the evening… that was her first priority. Now that I know it was a holiday is also useful information. The porch is at Rasmus Nielsen’s (Louise’s husband, she was Grandma Kinnick’s sister, of course). Their farm was along the Raccoon River, south of Bayard, What fun!! ;-)
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Oladipo says God led him to IU
Luckily for IU men’s basketball coach Tom Crean and his staff, he got several.
“After we finished playing with the guys, we went out to dinner,” Oladipo said of the moment he knew IU was the place for him.
“Coach Crean was just breaking down my game and going over my weaknesses and my strengths and how I can fit in.
Definitely another thing was waking up the next day and seeing my face in the paper. That set it off, too. I felt like that was the place for me.”
Oladipo, the No. 133 recruit in the nation according to Rivals.com, committed Monday to playing college basketball at IU. His commitment came after a night of prayer and time with his family.
“God had pointed me toward Indiana,” he said. “He was giving me signs. I felt like that was where He wants me to go.”
Oladipo said another factor in his decision was his friendship with freshman Maurice Creek.
“There was definitely chemistry with me and Maurice because of us growing up together,” Oladipo said. “He knows a lot of things I can do, and I know a lot of things he can do.
“He’s like my big brother. I grew up watching him because he was always a grade older than me. He just showed me the ropes.”
That chemistry also extended to the court with other players during scrimmages this weekend.
“After the first couple games, I started learning how people play and seeing what people could do,” Oladipo said. “The second day, when we started playing, there was a lot of chemistry there.”
Oladipo said he will make an impact on campus not just as a player, but as a man. His community efforts can attest to that, as he went to a soup kitchen near his high school, DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md., to get some of his required service hours.
“It was a great experience,” Oladipo said. “I had never done it before. It makes you appreciate what you have.”
Oladipo said he cannot wait to see what will happen a year from now when he is on campus as a freshman.
“I really didn’t ever want to leave,” he said. “I just want to go back down there, and I can’t wait to be down there.”
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The fictional character Jason Bourne is a covert intelligence operative who survives an intense mind control “reprogramming” process to become a government assassin. After being shot while on an assassination mission, he forgets his identity and tries to rediscover his true past. That’s the storyline of the Bourne series of motion pictures.
Last week, a possible real-life Jason Bourne awoke in a motel room. While his I.D. revealed he was a U.S. Navy veteran named Michael Boatwright, he awoke without any memory of being able to speak English whatsoever. He now speaks Swedish and insists his name is Johan Ek.
When he looks in the mirror, he doesn’t recognize his own face, and he has no memory of his past.
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I used to think that to “stand up for myself,” I had to do something. Say something. Make a declaration.
But here’s the thing–my fierce factor is lightning fast. I grew up in an environment where it was imperative to stand up to a bully immediately, showing them you weren’t taking any shit, so that they’d leave you alone.
Then somewhere towards the end of my twenties, long past the days when I regularly encountered bullies, it dawned on me that even when someone was being a bitch (or, as my more evolved self might phrase it, “someone lacking integrity”), I didn’t feel so good when I thought or said words like “Stop being such a bitch.”
Sure, I could “stand up for myself,” but I didn’t like who I was, when I spoke that way. Also, I was coming to a greater realization that whatever I thought was going on “out there” with other people, was also something that was going on “within me,” too.
In other words, we’re all just doing this human thing together, and unkind words were like pollution of a shared common space.
Some people fantasize about how great life would be if they could offer that perfect comeback to all the jerks in their lives. Movies abound where someone shy and afraid finds her voice and delivers such a verbal tongue lashing that she is never bothered, again.
I’m here to tell you, it might look good to stand up for yourself in that way, but it doesn’t feel good.
How to Stand Up For Yourself
- Before you confront anyone, know what it is that you want from the situation.
Do you want them to stop speaking to you disrespectfully?
Do you want to stop being in relationship with them?
What’s the specific behavior?
Knowing what you want from the situation, your intention, will help to keep the energy of the conversation clean.
- Before you confront anyone, get clear on your reasons why the behavior needs to change. Note that your reasons come from your experience, your filter, and the other person has a right to disagree. If you take the time for this step, you might come to understand that actually, they don’t “need” anyone else to change, and this might be enough to free you up from feeling intimidated by someone else’s behavior. Nonetheless, it isn’t about whether the other person agrees. It’s about you being clear on what your values and your integrity is grounded in.
- Before you confront anyone, release attachment. In the last step, you examined why you wanted something to change and gave that desire some validity. In this step, you understand that you can’t make anyone change, and that setting up your happiness to depend on them changing is futile. Wanting an unhealthy situation to shift is a normal human desire. Feeling like your happiness depends on whether or not they change, is dysfunctional.
- Write it out before you talk. Simple. Direct. Clear. You can be angry, sure, but make sure that your anger isn’t giving way to an attack. “The truth doesn’t attack.” –Danielle LaPorte
- Set up a time to talk. In movies, the hero realizes something and immediately tells the bully off, putting him in his place. In real life? That’s not a helpful strategy. If you actually desire seeing a shift in your relationship with someone, make it a conversation, not a verbal take-down. You’ll feel prouder when you look in the mirror.
- As long as it’s not avoidance–because avoidance solves nothing–consider completely disconnecting all communication. Sometimes, the most courageous thing you can do in a relationship is not to lay out your position, but instead to just stop…all of it. Stop trying to convince, change, or otherwise alter the situation. My friend Rachael once described this to me as, “just push away from the table, and walk.” Unless a serious moral code is being violated that requires you saying “No, I will not allow this to continue,” then sometimes it’s the sanest choice to just…disengage. Let people be miserable if that’s what they’re hell-bent on being. Remove yourself from their space. Let someone who shit-talks about everyone go shit talk about everyone to her other friends. Let the person who makes jokes at your expense make them when you’re not around.
The thing is, we aren’t in high-school, anymore. The Mean Girls of the world can stay there, emotionally, if they wish. You don’t have to join them there.
When You Stop Talking
Not talking–really, not engaging–is seen as the way of the weak. I’m championing it as the way of the strong, the way of the person who is so grounded in who she is and what she knows to be true that she doesn’t need to convince anyone else that they’ve done wrong.
To just stop engaging with the people who aren’t invested in change is, in many ways, the greatest stand that you can take for yourself. It’s a ninja move that can only be born when you’re grounded in who you are, knowing what’s important to you, and knowing how you want to spend your time.
You want to spend your time only in those places and spaces where all of who you are can be honored. Anything and anyone else who isn’t invested in the same agenda, is too small for you.
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The hares had stepped in at the last minute and so we were expecting a hot potch of a trail but no, these two experienced hashers did us proud. After greeting newcomer Zowie and then having a few words from the JMs we were told by the hares that it was flat and dry. This made us look northward towards the hills around the Trundle and upward at the clouds above. Who could blame us? When was the last time a hare told the truth? However it was mostly true. We set off up the road and through an alleyway and then across a muddy but flat field to bring us out near Lavant House School.
There were a couple of falsies but the trail led us along the roadway encountering our first horse. This should have been called the Equine Hash as we did encounter a few of these fine creatures during the run. We had been warned not to shout and alarm them so hands signals and whispers were the order of the day. This suited Francis very well as she said that her hangover could not stand a lot of shouting.
This made me pose a couple of questions to myself - Should a lady ever have a hangover? Was it an admission of failure that a hasher had a hangover? However she did still do the run so hash tradition was upheld (and she managed to get down the pub afterwards).
We had another couple of checks and then after passing through a field where Beaker insisted on waking up a snoozing donkey, we came to a road opposite an open field.
The pack checked out and the trail went back towards the chariots which made even the laziest hasher perk up a bit. Again though the wily hares had us all going down the wrong road towards Lavant Village Hall but a couple of sceptical souls found the true trail leading back to Centurian Way.
By now the pack had decided that this was the way home and at the last check all but one (yours truly and stupidly) chose the correct trail and found the On In.
It would have been found a bit quicker had Dr. Blood sang out instead of keeping it to himself. A few minutes more and the pack were back at the chariots.
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I have written and re-written this blog post more times than I can count.
There’s even a finished version of this post sat in my drafts that’s been edited so much it’s changed tone and topics multiple times.
No matter what I wrote, it looked wrong, it sounded wrong. Then I realised, I was doing it again: I wasn’t being honest. I was writing what I thought you folks would want to read and not what I needed to say for myself.
But I’m sure you’d all rather I be honest than simply try to entertain you, right? Some of you have been with me now for well over a year, from back on my old blog, which was a lot more painfully honest and emotionally raw than this tamer one.
So I’m trying this again. I have no plan, I’m just going to write. This is an update about my life and how I’m doing, from the gut, no holding back.
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Media Contact: Ashby Brame
One of Johnston County’s premiere attractions, the Ava Gardner Museum, is being swept up in a British wave this Fall as Ava Gardner is being honored at a variety of events in the United Kingdom. In collaboration with English Heritage, the Ava Gardner Trust (one of the benefactors of the museum) will be dedicating a London Blue Plaque to Ava Gardner at her last home, 34 Ennismore Garden, London on November 4th, 2016 at 10am.
This new prestigious honor coincides with the Blue Plaque’s 150th anniversary, making it the oldest historical marker program in the world. The unveiling will be open to the public and guest speakers will include Professor Ronald Hutton, Chairman of the Blue Plaques Panel; Deanna Brandenberger, Trustee of the Ava Gardner Trust and Executive Director of the Ava Gardner Museum; Carmen Vargas, Ava’s closest companion; Cecilia Peck Voll, filmmaker, family friend, and daughter of Gregory & Veronique Peck; and Ava Carol Thompson, niece of Ava Gardner. The unveiling will be followed by a private reception in Ava’s building where invited guests will also be treated to a small tour in the private garden to visit Ava’s memorial.
“This is an incredible honor and accolade for Ava and her Trust to be immortalized with a Blue Plaque during such an important event in English Heritage’s history. I am thrilled that Ava is still remembered with such affection by the British people and that she is being recognized as one of its most famous residents,” said Deanna Brandenberger. “People also come from all over the world to visit London and follow the trail of Blue Plaques. It might encourage anyone who passes by to learn or remember her and the incredible work she did not only as an actress, but as a humanitarian.”
Along with the Ava Gardner Museum, the Trust actively supports the Animal Health Trust and the Queen Victoria Hospital Foundation, both UK nonprofit charities. It is through the generosity of the Ava Gardner Trust that the museum is able to attend this international event, as well as the other beneficiaries. Although the reception guest list is exclusive, the Ava Gardner Museum is giving one Ava Advocate and their guest a chance to win an invitation to the private event through a random drawing (travel & accommodations not included). Ava Advocate memberships can be purchased for $36 at the museum website. All advocate donations go to support the Ava Gardner Museum, a non-profit charity.
The month prior to the event, the British Film Institute is honoring Ava Gardner at the famous London Film Festival on October 4th, 2016 at 6pm during a screening of Seven Days in May in which she co-starred with Kirk Douglas, the BFI’s classical artist of the year. In addition, the renowned Victoria and Albert Museum’s Clothworkers’ Centre houses twelve of Ava’s couture fashions that were donated by Ava and her family. Some of the pieces are slated to become part of the Balenciaga exhibit that will be put on display for the public next Spring.
In December, Ava’s birth month, the Ava Gardner Museum, located in Smithfield, NC, will celebrate by unveiling a new exhibit called “Living in London”. The exhibit will focus on Ava’s life abroad, and most particularly in London with a tie in to the other events. “This is an important occasion for us to highlight the relations that Smithfield and Johnston County have with London and Europe because of North Carolina’s favorite daughter. We are so proud of Ava Gardner and all she accomplished throughout her life. Owing to the international attention we are getting, and thanks to English Heritage, we now have a chance to share her and her roots with the rest of the world like we haven’t before. We get to bring the best of Southern charm to the United Kingdom,” Brandenberger said.
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- AP testing will be by subject and scheduled May 1-12. schedule
- MAP testing for K-8 will take place April 24 – May 12.
We encourage parents to have their students take any state or district assessments. Each student/parent who chooses to opt out of an assessment, not only negatively impacts our school ranking but also deprives us of an important piece of data that we can use to improve student achievement. Consequently, we are asking all families to take our testing very seriously and to commit to our school improvement process by participating in each assessment that we administer.The opt out process can be found on our school website, skyviewacademy.org under the State Mandated Testing tab at the bottom of the page. If you have any questions concerning testing or opting out, please contact Paula Harrison [email protected].
Here is a link to the CDE parent resource page. There is helpful information for parents concerning the PARCC and CMAS testing. http://www.cde.state.co.us/communications/resourcesforparents | <urn:uuid:698313f1-cbe6-4a70-879a-a84af97ce159> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://skyviewacademy.org/events/assessment-testing-assessment-update/ | 2017-06-23T17:07:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320077.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623170148-20170623190148-00031.warc.gz | en | 0.925896 | 220 | [
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The last few months of the year are here, and that usually means holiday travel! Kennels book up fast at this time, so you may be left with no other option than to bring Fido along with you for your holiday festivities. If that sounds stressful to you… keep reading! With proper planning, every member of the family, including the four-legged ones, can enjoy a trip.
Vehicles aren’t designed with dogs in mind, and neither are planes and hotels! But there are some ways to make things easier for your family and your beloved canine.
- Just like us, dogs can become easily stressed out about traveling, so it’s best to keep a happy, positive attitude around him/her. Be sure to let your dog take a break when you stop to refuel or grab a snack. He’ll appreciate the opportunity to stretch his legs and empty his bladder! And if your pet is hungry, offer a snack high in protein, and when you arrive at your destination, let him have his regular meal.
- If you do not have multiple family members traveling with you, you could allow your dog to ride in the back seat on a 4Knines seat cover. The unique design allows you to create a hammock to keep pooch in his place instead of in the floor board with quick stops. The padded and quilted construction is durable and water resistant, and protects car seats while providing luxurious comfort for pets. All 4Knines seat covers feature a nonslip backing with seat anchors to keep the covers in place, and have convenient openings for seat belts.
- When traveling long distances by car, it’s best to crate your dog. While this might seem “mean” to you, your dog will find comfort in being in his/her familiar space. It’s also safer for your dog, and you. You’ll be less distracted, and he/she will not be jolted around in the back seat with sudden stops, or feel the need to curl up under your feet! Be sure to use a crate big enough for your dog to stand up in and turn around in, and that the dog cannot break out of. You may be tempted to put food and water in your pet’s crate, but avoid this in order to help prevent your dog from vomiting or having a bathroom accident in the case of motion sickness.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Daily Dose of the Damn Happy - The Beauty of Pixar
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Napoles to name 3 more senators, several congressmen
MANILA - Alleged pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles is willing to undergo a lie-detector test to prove that she is telling the truth, her lawyer said Tuesday.
Atty. Bruce Rivera believes that his client is telling the truth, particularly in identifying the lawmakers and government officials who allegedly benefited from the multibillion-peso scandal.
He told late night newscast "Bandila" that 3 more senators and an undetermined number of congressmen will be on an updated list of those who allegedly earned from the scam.
"Senators...at least 3 more," Rivera said.
Rivera said the list will be handed over to the Department of Justice (DOJ) either Wednesday or Thursday.
"Noong time kasing ginagawa ni Mrs. Napoles iyung list niya, wala siyang access sa mga records niya. Itinago po iyon nung nagsimula iyung raids sa Benhur Luy case," he said. "When she had the opportunity to check the records for herself, doon po nakita niya, may isolated na transactions sa mga congressman and senators."
He said Napoles only made one list.
"Isa lang po talaga. The first list was an incomplete list dahil ginawa ni Mrs. Napoles iyan, noong nasa [Fort] Sto. Domingo pa siya. Hindi clear iyon. Hindi kumpleto iyon. Iyon ang binigay nila kay Sen. Lacson. Sen. Lacson knew it was incomplete. The family was very clear about it, hindi po iyan kumpleto," Rivera said.
He said Napoles' records were brought to the hospital for her to see the transactions.
"Naging almost complete lang iyan when Mrs. Napoles was in the Ospital ng Makati. Iyung records kasi niya, kailangang isa-isahin."
When asked why Napoles clammed up when she faced the Senate Blue Ribbon committee and did not tell all that she knows about the scam, Rivera said the businesswoman was afraid for her life.
NO JOURNALISTS, JV, DRILON IN NAPOLES LIST
Rivera firmly said "no" when asked if journalists were among those who had transactions with Napoles.
"No, no, no," he repeatedly said. "Talagang no. Nakakahiya. No."
The lawyer also reiterated that neither Senator JV Ejercito nor Franklin Drilon is part of the scam.
He said an encoding error resulted in Ejercito's name inadvertently being included in the initial list that Napoles submitted to the DOJ.
Rivera also denied that the list was purged and Napoles is standing by its truthfulness.
He said Luy, Napoles' former finance officer who has become the primary whistleblower in the case, did not record all transactions that the businesswoman had.
He also replied "yes" when asked if Napoles wants to be a state witness.
Rivera said he and his client have yet to discuss the possibility of Napoles returning money to the government.
"Hindi ko pa siya nakakausap doon. Hindi pa namin pinapag-usapan," he said.
Napoles, who is set to be returned to Fort Sto. Domingo in Laguna this week, was billed around P105,000 for her operation and stay at the Ospital ng Makati.
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Arctic research team discusses unique education initiative with WDBJ7
Members of the 18-person Arctic research team from Radford University are hard at work in Barrow, Alaska, measuring ice depth and temperature and sending information home to inspire the next generation of scientists.
WDBJ7 in Roanoke aired a feature on the team on March 7, highlighting the unique educational aspect of the research mission.
The Barrow team is attempting to use measurements of ice thickness and surface temperature to find out just how much ice is left in the Arctic. Education majors joined physic and geology students to build a classroom at the top of the world.
Erica Martin, a senior education major and student teacher from Afton, Va., has used Skype to visit classrooms across the United States.
“We begin by introducing who we are and what we're doing," Martin told WDBJ7 in a video interview from Barrow. "And we ask them what the time is there. What the temperature is there. And then we tell them what it is here and then their minds are blown."
Temperatures in the ice-covered Barrow landscape have dropped as low as 40 below zero. In a special WDBJ7 web feature, Physics Professor and Team Leader Rhett Herman showed viewers what that felt like.
“Since I don’t have a coat on I won’t be able to say outside for more than a minute or so,” Herman said, standing in the cold and dark, just a few hundard yards from the frozen ocean. “There are people about a thousand years ago who settled here permanently on purpose. This is their life. It’s an endangered way of life. Maybe [our reseach] will lead to being able to preserve some of that.”
The Barrow team is continuing an eleven-year project to find a correlation between polar sea ice surface temperature and ice depth. If successful, the team will then be closer to answering a key question about the ice cap covering the North Pole: "How big, in terms of volume, is it?"
The team will continue their work in Alaska through March 15. A shift change takes place midway through the trip, bringing a fresh group of student researchers north.
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Overall, fishing slowed down a bit over the past week. Everything is still being caught but just not as good as during the previous few weeks. Flounder fishing slowed up around the wrecks and at the CBBT. The great catch of Spanish mackerel along the oceanfront took a breather. The exception is cobia which continues to be great and there was an uptick in the bigeye tuna catches this week. The NE blow this weekend may fire things back up once it settles down. Decent numbers of spot were already being caught so we may see that fishery take off. Offshore, in addition to the bigeye bite, billfish action remains good and should just continue to get better. More wahoo will start joining the catches and dolphin fishing should be pretty good. Amberjack are at the towers and over some of the wrecks. Big jack crevalle have been encountered by anglers looking for cobia inside the bay. Big red drum are also being found. There were actually a few speckled trout caught on Poquoson Flats this week so maybe there will be a little fall fishery for them. It will probably take several years of mild winters to see that fishery really rebound. The Spanish mackerel bite should pick back up when things settle down and the water clears a bit and there should be more big kings caught along the oceanfront over the next month and a half. Sheepshead fishing should get even better at the CBBT during this same period and spadefish continue to be available.
The White Marlin Open was held this week. It was hampered by rough weather for most of the week. With over 300 boats fishing, fish were caught. The big winner was the Backlash with Capt. Steve Richardson out of Rudee Inlet. They weighed in a 94-pound white marlin that won them $1,180,237. The second place white marlin was a 79-pound fish caught on the Lights Out. They won $1,005,872. The top blue marlin was a 551 pound fish caught on the Goin In Deep winning $778,352. The top tuna was a 220.5-pound bigeye caught on the Miss Annie, winning $398,834. The top dolphin weighed 46.5 pounds. It was caught on the Streaker earning them $24,847. A 45-pound wahoo won $33,271 for the Warden Pass.
Roger Burnley has a new world record. His 4 pound 6 ounce Spinycheek Scorpionfish has been approved as the All-Tackle World Record by The International Game Fish Association. Roger was fishing at the Norfolk Canyon onboard the Healthy Grin. This is the second IGFA All-Tackle World Record caught on the Healthy Grin this year. Johnny Boyd established the All-Tackle World Record for Carolina Hake earlier this year with a 5 pound 10 ounce fish. A total of twelve IGFA All-Tackle World Records have been set on the Healthy Grin. Roger has caught three of the Healthy Grin world-record fish. In addition to his Spinycheek Scorpionfish, Roger has set the world record for snowy grouper twice and he holds the current Snowy Grouper IGFA All-Tackle World Record at 70 pounds 7 ounces.
Beth Synowiec will be the speaker at the August 18 PSWSFA meeting. She will be talking about catching big sheepshead at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. www.pswsfa.com/meetings.htm
The PSWSFA club Don Forman Cobia Tournament runs the entire month of August. Register with Rick Wineman prior to catching that big fish.
Aug 5, Wes Blow chummed for cobia catching 3. They then ran out to a wreck where they caught flounder and sea bass.
Aug 5, Hunter Southall went looking for cobia and came in after they caught a nice fish. It weighed 55 pounds at the scales.
Aug 2, we ran out to the Norfolk Canyon to give live-baiting marlin another try. Last week, we caught a blue marlin and some big sharks while watching the Rebel catch a dozen or so white marlin. We managed to not catch any of the white marlin that visited our boat. This trip was much the same. We watched Rebel catch a bunch. Ric Burnley was on that boat and got a shot of us not catching white marlin. Ric has an article in the current Salt Water Sportsman on this fishery. I think he needs to write another one to tell us how to really do it. We did have some action. We caught another big hammerhead and we had a much larger shark in the spread. A huge whale shark came in and really liked our dredges, nosing right up to them. Worried that it was going to get tangled up in our fishing gear, I turned the boat away and it just followed us like a puppy dog…a very large puppy. Eventually, it had enough of playing with our teasers and swam away. We jumped off a white marlin and missed a couple. We had one bait destroyed by a wahoo and we got a double hook-up of bigeye tuna. That was an impressive bite with a lot of white water. We had them on TLD 30s on little white marlin circle hooks. We broke one off but after a fight of a couple of hours, we slid the second one through the tuna door. Back at the dock, Capt. Randy Butler of the Rebel came over to congratulate us on our bigeye. I told him that I was getting tired of watching marlin jumping behind his boat. He's a super nice guy. He said it is not as easy as everyone thinks. He gave us some pointers and said to stick with it and we would get the live-baiting thing down. The Rebel certainly has it down.
Aug 1, Stan Simmerman fished the Chesapeake Light Tower area and trolled up a nice catch of dolphin and he caught some flounder around a wreck.
July 29, NFL Hall of Fame running back John Riggins fished with Capt. Jorj Head (757) 262-9004. They saw a good number of cobia and managed to catch 5. "The Diesel" tagged and released fish, collected DNA samples, and earned a trophy-fish citation.
July 26, the Peninsula Salt Water Sport Fisherman's Association's annual Youth and Ladies Tournament finished up. Here are the winners. Youth Flounder:1st - Spencer Elford 2.7lb, 2nd - Lexie Sava 2.4lb, 3rd - Caleb Sava 1.9lb. Youth Croaker: 1st - Caleb Sava .875lb, 2nd - Joel White .73lb, 3rd - Taylor Simmerman .687lb. Ladies Flounder: 1st - Ruth McCormick 2.75lb, 2nd - Amy Blow 2.25lb, 3rd - Cindy Martin 2.24lb.
July 26, Wes Blow got in a short cobia trip and managed to catch 3.
July 25, we went to try live-baiting for white marlin. While catching chub mackerel, we caught an orange fish…another one. We have been through the blackbelly rosefish and Darwin's Slimehead (set All-Tackle World Records for both, since retired) and have a pending IGFA record for Spineycheek Scorpionfish. This was none of those. We caught plenty of chub mackerel to bridle up for bait and managed to not catch any white marlin. We had a couple hooked up but lost them and managed to not hook others. We did catch a blue marlin and 2 of 4 big hammerheads that ate our marlin baits. Jason Schratwieser, Conservation Director of the IGFA and Virginia Beach native came up with our fish's id: Deepbody Boarfish. The fish has been donated to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science for their fish collection.
July 25, Charles Southall fished out of Hatteras. They caught some dolphin and a couple blackfin tuna.
July 23, Barclay Shepard fished out of Hatteras. They caught 10 blackfin tuna.
July 22, Wes Blow fished for cobia. They caught 4 to 49 inches long.
July 21, Hunter Southall fished the Norfolk Canyon. They caught a blue marlin and one of two white marlin that bit. They also caught some big sharks.
July 19, I trolled for a king and looked for cobia. I did not catch a king but I did catch 3 cobia.
July 19, Wes Blow and Congressman Rob Wittman chummed for cobia. They caught 15 and called it a day.
July 19, Capt. Rick Wineman fished from the Norfolk Canyon to the Washington Canyon. They caught some dolphin and a big shark. They lost the two tuna that they hooked.
July 18, Brent Meadors fished the Cigar area. They came upon a large group of feeding rays and dolphin. They caught dolphin until they filled up the fish box.
July 18, Danny Forehand fished for cobia. They caught a 50-inch fish and then came in to play golf.
July 18, Stan Simmerman fished the Chesapeake Light Tower area. They caught flounder and dolphin.
July 17, I went over to do a bit of work on the boat. Afterwards, I did a little trolling along the beach. I caught a really fat red drum and a ribbon fish.
July 16, Wes Blow fished for cobia catching 4.
July 13, Ruth and Mac McCormick were running to the CBBT for flounder. They decided that it was too rough and stopped on Bluefish Rock. They caught croaker, spot, bluefish, porgy, sharks and 5 nice flounder.
July 13, Danny Forehand went chumming for cobia. They caught 1 before they had to come in to play golf.
July 12, I went fishing with Charles Southall. Cobia fishing was very good. We caught and released 10 cobia up to 53 inches long. We tagged and collected DNA from 9 of them.
July 12, Wes Blow and Congressman Rob Wittman went cobia fishing. They caught and released 10 cobia, tagging them and collecting a DNA sample. One of their cobia already had a tag in it that turned out to have been tagged by Capt. Jorj Head last summer.
July 10, I drove over to Rudee after lunch, put two baits out right outside the inlet and immediately both rods went down. I landed 2 large jack crevalle. Those were my only bites. There were some cobia caught and a king caught near me.
July 8, Wes Blow chummed for cobia. He caught 4 but lost the largest cobia he has had hooked up over the past 2 years. (Wes has caught them over 100 pounds so he knows what a big one is).
July 8, Capt. Jorj Head, (757) 262-9004, fished for cobia in less than favorable sight-fishing conditions. They still managed to catch 4 cobia.
July 5, we went out to the Norfolk Canyon to try, new-to-us, live-baiting for marlin. We started out trying to catch tinker mackerel. We caught the heck out of the sea bass and blueline tilefish. We struggled with the mackerel. We managed to catch a few, bridled them up, and started trolling them. It was the first time we had used the trolling valves on the boat, those things work really well. It was not long before we had our first hook-up that dumped all of the line on the TLD 30 but really, it was down to the knot before any of us even noticed that something was going on. Some quick backing down allowed Charles Southall to keep the line from breaking. They saw the fish in the distance and said marlin but they were not sure what kind. When it got close to the boat, a very large and agitated hammerhead moved in and we were sure it was going to eat the marlin. When we finally got the "marlin" up enough to see it, it was another big hammerhead. While leadering that fish, the other shark grabbed a mackerel dangling from the long rigger. With a 2nd shark hooked up, we quickly cut the leader on the 1st. Then, the second shark broke off while a 3rd big hammerhead came in and at our last mackerel dangling off of the other rigger. That did not last long. Out of mackerel, we went back to catching sea bass and tilefish and a single mackerel. Back on the troll for 2 minutes and that one was taken by another shark also. So back to the bait catching. Some of the tilefish and sea bass were too small to keep. We "released" a few that floated. The water erupted with multiple hammerheads attacking the fish. We managed one more mackerel, it was getting late, so back on the troll with it and some silver perch I had left over as bait for the Flounder Bowl. A hammerhead came in on the mackerel and we cranked it away from it. Stan Simmerman had a shark rig ready and fed it out but the shark went and ate one of the little silver perch. I fought that fish and somehow the little circle hook and light leader held and I got that shark to the boat. So we ended up going 2 for 5 on hammerheads. We never had a chance at a billfish. We ended up with a nice catch of sea bass and blueline tilefish to 10.5 pounds.
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The European Space Agency'sspacecraft wiped the deep space equivalent of eye gunk from its startrackers on Monday and awakened from a 31-month slumber to prepare for the coolest part of its long mission -- meeting up with and then attaching a probe to the surface of a comet as it cruises through our solar system.
Yes, it's basically the plot of that terrible movie "Armageddon," but on a harmless comet rather than an apocalyptic asteroid and with a charming robotic probe named Philae instead of Ben Affleck.
Originally launched in 2004, Rosetta spent years building up enough speed to reach its ultimate target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and checking out a few asteroids along the way. In 2011 it went into a hibernation mode with an alarm clock of sorts in its computer set to go off on January 20, 2014. It became apparent hours after that wake up process that it had been a success when the first signals from Rosetta in two and a half years were confirmed by both ESA and NASA on Monday.
"All other comet missions have been flybys, capturing fleeting moments in the life of these icy treasure chests," Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist, said in a release. "With Rosetta, we will track the evolution of a comet on a daily basis and for over a year, giving us a unique insight into a comet's behaviour and ultimately helping us to decipher their role in the formation of the Solar System."
It's widely thought that comets can play an important part in the development of planets and may even have been the delivery source for getting water onto the surface of Earth.
Rosetta still has more than 5 million miles to travel before it reaches the comet in August, when it will begin mapping and measuring its new travel companion. This will also help to inform the ideal landing site for the Philae probe, which is currently scheduled to land and drill itself into the icy surface of the comet on November 11. Rosetta will then escort Philae and its new ride on its trip around the sun until at least the end of 2015.
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Pink Florals & High Waisted1
I’ll be completely honest, I am drawing a blank on even what to talk about. I am feeling a little overwhelmed with life tonight. I am staying with Matt (you can read his story here) until Monday night and then I have Tuesday to get ready for NY and leave first thing Wednesday morning! I have so much to do and so little time. I am so excited to go to New York for A Positively Baby shower. It is the biggest feel good day and needed so much right now in my life. I love spoiling those mamas and watching them light up during this special time in their lives.
As I am packing for NY I am loving packing all the pink tops whether it have pink detailing like this top here or it be a gingham ruffle top. I am obsessing over pink this year and it isn’t something that I normally gravitate to. The blush pinks, bright pinks, and even some neons really seem to be calling my name this year. I am obsessing over the details of all the tops this year. The ruffles, embroidery, etc. This look is simple, but I love that the top speaks for itself so easily. It doesn’t need any accessorizing, nothing, just to be worn alone and that is my kind of top!
Anyways I am going to go and pack! I hope you all have the most amazing Thursday!
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My Nonprofit Reviews
Review for NICOYA & FRIENDS CHRISTIAN MISSION, Houston, TX, USA
Nicoya & Friends Christian Mission is making great efforts to end human trafficking. This mission collaborates with Free For Life Ministries in the fight against human trafficking. Nicoya & Friends raises funds in Houston, Texas to support their center in Managua, Nicaragua for victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking.
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
meeting the victims needs in education, psychological and medical needs. These victims have aspirations and goals that they have expressed they want to meet. They are doing very well in school.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
save thousands and thousands of innocent victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking. More orphanages would be built and the sychological, medical, personal, educational needs would be met. Love and care would be given to these victims.
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota has suspended men's basketball play-by-play radio announcer Paul Ralston for two games after he used the phrase "choke job" following an overtime loss to Northern Arizona.
The Grand Forks Herald reports (http://bit.ly/W25f3d) that Ralston used the words during his interview with coach Brian Jones after the team's 74-72 home loss Saturday. North Dakota led in the final minute of regulation, but Northern Arizona rallied to force overtime and win.
Athletic director Brian Faison says Ralston will not call the game at Northern Colorado on Wednesday or Saturday's game at Nebraska-Omaha. Associate athletic director Kyle Doperalski will handle the play-by-play duties for those games. | <urn:uuid:51ef840a-f1c9-46cc-a7f1-4de6697c607f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.kolotv.com/sports/headlines/ND-Announcer-Suspended-After-Saying-Choke-Job-192076171.html?site=full | 2017-06-26T02:04:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.931587 | 172 | [
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"A Humble Prayer"
by Leslie Ann Rummel
(Newnan, GA, USA)
Heavenly Father, God above;
You are to me Agape love!
In Your gentle, loving care,
You listen to my every prayer.
My needs today are but a few;
And I bow my head to ask of You.
Bless the path my feet shall trod;
Counsel me in Thy ways, Oh God.
Guide me through each life endeavor;
I praise Your holy name, forever!
Make strong, my mind, body and soul;
Protect me from the Evil Foe!
Forgive me of iniquity;
Make me what I ought to be.
When at times, I lose my way;
Draw me near, Lord when I stray.
Let my faith, the gift from You;
Grow stronger in Your Word, so true.
Grant me wisdom above all measure;
And knowledge from Your hidden treasure.
Enable me to do Your Will,
So that, in You, my life's fulfilled!
Delight in me when I stop to pray;
Keep me safe by night and day.
Be my voice, my hands, my feet;
Make Your work in me complete.
Stir me up to seek Your face;
I bask in Your amazing grace.
My voice is raised – To You I sing
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Horse people form extraordinary, loyal, and sometimes contentious communities. The same is true for readers (and writers!) of science fiction and fantasy. (And for martial artists, and musicians, and . . .) When two or more of these interests coincide, the results can be magical.
The second volume of The Seven-Petaled Shield, titled Shannivar, touches many of the areas of passion in my life. A strong woman hero, a martial artist, a horsewoman, her wonderful horses, a love story (me being a romantic at heart), a quest . . . One of the people I’ve shared a love of horses and adventure with is my friend Bonnie, about whom I’ve written in the last few posts.
Bonnie and I became fast friends over folk dancing and wild adventures during our college student days in the 1960s. Later, when she fulfilled her dream of owning horses, she carried me back to my own high school years, when I rode my own horse over the golden hills. When I’d visit, we’d ride together, clean stalls together, talk endlessly about horse temperaments and training, and swap tall tales “in the saddle.”
Much to my delight, Bonnie began studying tai chi chuan, which I had practiced for 4 or 5 years before being seduced by kung fu (30 years total). During those years, I’d delved into the women sf/f writers martial arts cabal. One of those adventures took place at a women’s martial arts camp, where I took a seminar in tai chi sword. I’d kept the sword even after I switched to kung fu, and earlier this year I brought it up for Bonnie to use in her sword form class.
It was therefore luminously clear to me that the Dedication to Shannivar belonged to Bonnie. Who else would understand the references to gaited horses (Bonnie rode Tennessee Walkers), the strategies of a long distance horse race, or the enchantment of a dance when all elements come together as a glorious whole? The only question was whether she would still be here to see its publication.
For the several years while I worked on revising the trilogy as a whole, all 3 books at once and scheduled for release 6 months apart, her health declined slowly and I was hopeful. And close-mouthed. Then everything changed with her hospitalization and greatly shortened prognosis. Shannivar was due to be released in December, and I feared she wouldn’t make it that long.
I sent off an email to Joshua Starr at DAW, my publisher, and explained my concerns. The book was well into production. I’d proofread the pages and seen both the preliminary cover sketches and the final painting. But the ARCs would not come along for a little while. Josh printed up and bound a copy with a mock up cover (the painting, but not the final design) and mailed it to me out here.
I presented it to my friend. Thank you from both of us to Josh, and Kate and Betsy and everyone at DAW.
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You know what the one of the best moments in life is? The moment that no one bats an eyelid. The moment when you realise that no one gives a damn about the thing you’ve been agonising over for the past week.
We all have ideals about life, partners, education and ourselves. And of course this can be good, striving towards your ideals is a great motivation for doing well and making the most out of life. But how are we supposed to know if these ideals and expectations are reachable? We all have that one ideal version of ourselves right? Mine is a little bit like this:
This Lauren gets up early every day, make up perfectly done, ready to start the day with a coffee in hand and plans for the day. She also never has writers block, loves to jog and spends her weekends going on forest walks and discovering new things. She reads old novels and speaks intelligently about Hemingway and Fitzgerald with ease. She dresses in a sort of rocker/indie/Sarah Manning from Orphan Black type fashion, yet still appears to be completely on trend. She doesn’t spend her money on stupid things, yet still manages to have all the latest make up and clothes.
The key thing here, is that I’m referring to her as ‘she’. I’m doing that because she is not me, and as much as I want her to be me, she isn’t. My problem is that as much as I try to be like her, reading the novels and trying to write, I feel like a phoney. It’s because my expectation is so high that I’ll never feel worthy of my own creation. And that’s just completely stupid because I’ve created this out of my own head. To be that person, it takes hard work and effort, that of which should be spent on more important things. As much as I want to strive for better, this version of me is just a character. The stereotype of the perfect girl, but not the archetype. Unrealistic. Not being perfect is what makes us, well, us. And I wanted to write about this because it’s always something that bothers me, trying to seem like I’m more intelligent/mysterious/interesting than I actually am. I don’t need to do that, yet I still try. We all do. And I just wanted to tell you that you can be that better version of yourself if you reeeeeeally want to, but if you stay as you are, that’s okay too.
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Why the Ramon Magsasay Award was conferred on the Dalai Lama in 1959
Bhuchung K. Tsering
September 4, 2012
Last week, the Ramon Magsasay Awards were announced in the Phillipines. Among the winners is a philanthropic Taiwanese vegetable vendor, Chen Shu-chu , who reportedly donated her prize money to a hospital in Taipei. Good for her!
Way back in 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, which seems to have been accepted by Kasur Gyalo Thondup on his behalf. I am reprinting below the citation that the Award committee made. Interesting, huh?
The 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership
CITATION for The Dalai Lama
Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies
The Board of Trustees welcomes Gyalo Thondup, the brother of the DALAI LAMA whom His Holiness has deputed to receive this Award on his behalf.
With his proclamation at the age of five as the Fourteenth Incarnation of the Patron God of Tibet, the DALAI LAMA was destined to become the spiritual and temporal leader of his people. Since then, his life has been singularly devoted to study and training for that responsibility.
The society of his land was feudal, dominated by conservative monastic orders and hereditary nobles. Sometimes known as the Forbidden Kingdom, it firmly stayed aloof on its “roof of the world” and sought to remain utterly free from foreign influence.
Despite this restrictive tradition, the DALAI LAMA showed a keen curiosity about the outside world. It was his hope to introduce better methods of farming and irrigation, to build systems of education and public health and bring other benefits of modern science to his people. He also desired radical changes in land tenure, but said such reforms “must conform with the dignity, needs and peculiar conditions of my own people.”
Buddhism, one of the world’s great religions, has been at the heart of the Tibetan way of life. The monasteries were the conservers of learning and fully 100,000 Tibetans were monks. Now this isolated land’s Reformed Lamaism and the distinctive social system it has infused are threatened with destruction. The Tibetan people have shown their protest by a general uprising.
Striving to retain his people’s right to live and worship in their own way, the DALAI LAMA has brought his appeal to men of conscience everywhere. Like the late Ramon Magsaysay, he chose to stand where others have faltered in the protection of fundamental human rights.
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Let your craft skills shine in a stunning shawl or pair of wristies made of this delightful Silk and wool blend.
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You can now visit a .tattoo domain name.
Frank Schilling’s .tattoo is alive with nic.tattoo.
Yes, that’s a domain name. And it’s now on the internet.
It’s the first second level domain of Schilling’s TLD bids that you can actually visit from your browser.
Included on the site, which is a pitch “artists, studios, and individuals” about the future availability of .tattoo domain names, is a video of Frank Schilling philosophizing about tattoos. If he does a video for his .sexy domain name, I hope he takes a slightly different tact. I can imagine a great parody video.
[Update: nic.sexy is now up too, and thankfully there’s no Schilling video about sexiness on the site.]
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On a lighter note from the last post ... One of the funniest quotes I've heard from Brett this trip was uttered Sunday evening in Saigon. "It was so good I can't even talk about it." It wasn't just what he said but how he said it: dreamily. Brett was describing his experience at Beauty Spa Ngoc Anh, otherwise known to us as the Saigon Spa of Amazing Acrobatic Feats and Tightrope-Walking Massage Therapists! So started our four-day addiction to the Acrobatic Spa, my addiction to tightrope walker Phuong and Brett's to Mi.
If you are wondering how to say Mi, so are we. After four days at the Acrobatic Spa and calling her phonetically "May," we learned it instead rhymed with Me. There was much confusion over this pronunciation, though, so all we really know for sure is her name is spelled "Mi." The following exchange happened the first day and every day after:
Brett: "So how do you say her name?" (when trying to make a reservation with his masseuse for the following day)
Front Desk Lady: "What?"
Brett: "Her name?"
Lady: "May" (phonetic)
Brett: "May?" (saying it exactly the same way)
Lady: "No, May."
Brett: "Yes, May."
Lady: "No, May."
This banter went on and we continued to call and ask for her by the name May, until we learned days later it was pronounced Me. It turned out Brett never did get to see Mi again. She was off the following day and called in sick the next. Maybe Brett exhausted her over the pronunciation of her name.
As Brett mentioned in an earlier post, these masseuses are trained in the art of full-contact, body-wobbling Thai massage. But the experience isn't just about the one-hour, $8 massage, it also is about the before and after, or tea time and nap time. When entering the spa, you are greeted with hot tea and ginger--refreshing after wandering around in Saigon's 90-degree heat. Then they call you in for your massage or, if you're Brett, theyjust forget about you and leave you in the waiting room for a half hour. At some point, the men go to the second floor and the women to the sixth--then follows the acrobatic, tightrope walking and pulverizing massage.
The first night, my spa lasted a bit longer than Brett's. As I entered the lobby, I found Brett sound asleep on the couch in the lobby. The next night Brett thought I was lost as he waited for me 30 minutes after he was done. No, I wasn't lost but fast asleep on the 6th floor, snoring away on top of a bed a of hot rocks. I was delirious after my spa/nap, and almost fell asleep at dinner, jet-lag fully sinking in. But as it was our last night in Saigon, we needed to fit in one fore massage so off we were to introduce Brett to his first foot massage.
The foot massage, for the super low price of $7 with tip, started off with a near electrocution when the cord to my foot bath of water was plugged into the wall. Sparks flew killing my foot bath! All this while sitting on large recliners watching Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in The Birdcage with Vietnamese subtitles. I think we both fell asleep in the recliners--at least I know I did as my thigh still hurts. I guess foot massages in Vietnam include the entire leg, arms, head and neck. It is amazing how strong the masseuse's hands are--the amount of pressure these tiny, slender women can apply with their fingertips is amazing and often can be excruciating.
Sad to be leaving our Acrobatic Spa but used to our daily $12 routine of being massaged, poked, prodded, stretched, and cracked one of our first adventures in Hoi An was to find a worthy spa. We thought we would be in luck - upon arrival at the airport in Hoi An, we were met by our taxi driver. He introduced himself as “Me.” We asked how he spelled it. “M-i.”
It was miraculous that Mi the cab driver met us at all. Even the simplest things are a test of fortitude here. Something as simple as placing a telephone call takes a lot of time and patience—hoping against hope that an English speaker will answer on the other end; figuring out how to even dial the number is it's own kind of confusing puzzle, what with dropped or undropped zeroes and area codes; relying on cheap pay-per-use phone service that drops more calls than it connects.
But Brett forged ahead and attempted to call our hotel in Hoi An to inform them our flight would be arriving ahead of schedule. After dialing at least 10 times before the call connected, he lucked out and was able to hold a decent conversation. It was the spelling of his last name--M-c-N-e-i-l--that really threw the hotel clerk. He spelled it 10 times but just as he was confirming the spelling for a final time the call was dropped. Another five or so attempted calls later, Brett got through and spent six more minutes spelling his name into the phone. The clerk claimed she'd lost his name and its spelling during the few minutes since the earlier call was dropped. I often have to go through this pain in the U.S. with my tricky last name so I enjoyed listening to this call with a beer and French baguette and cheese in hand (the only safe foods at the airport). We arrived at the Danang airport to find Mi holding a sign for Brett M-c-M-e-i-l. So I have been calling him this ever since: Mr. McMeil. Thank goodness I wasn't spelling my entire last name or we would still be on the phone with the hotel clerk.
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Time for our latest installment of DIY courtesy of those clever folks at Anna Lee Company…
It’s not often that you find a unique idea, one that you’ve never come across before in wedding blog land. But these DIY button cupcake toppers are just that. What a sweet idea and such a simple DIY too ~ just how I like ’em!
DIY Button Cupcake Toppers
We LOVE cupcakes, brides who serve them, and being guests at weddings with cupcakes the most! But we hate the idea of not being able to have a topper or decor for your cake just because it’s a smaller portion and/or the cost would be too great to top them all. Well enter buttons to the rescue!
We took basic wood skewer sticks and glued a button to the top and cut them to different heights to add some interest and whimsy.
I love that ~ mini cakes deserve cake toppers too!
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Durban - A convicted murderer has testified that he was paid by the former deputy mayor of uMzinyathi District Municipality to drive two hitmen hired to kill a fellow National Freedom Party (NFP) member.
Felamandla Mkhize, 56, is charged with Mkonzeni Ntuli, 37, also an NFP member, who served as a party representative at Msinga Municipality.
The two are on trial in the Pietermaritzburg High Court for the murder of Thulebona Nhlebela on July 6, 2012.
Nhlebela, 48, was shot dead on the road between Nquthu and Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. He was the chairman of the Nquthu constituency in uMzinyathi district.
The accused have both pleaded not guilty to murder.
The State alleges that some time before the murder, a dispute arose between Nhlebela, Mkhize and Ntuli over positions within the NFP hierarchy in the uMzinyathi district.
The indictment states Mkhize and Ntuli decided to resolve the dispute by killing Nhlebela. To this end, they allegedly procured the services of Khawulani Mkhize, 28, to execute Nhlebela.
On the morning of July 6, 2012, Khawulani and two others carrying firearms, drove to Nhlebela’s home.
They encountered him on the road travelling in his bakkie and followed him to Hazeldene Farm, where he stopped outside the gate.
It is alleged the two gunmen approached Nhlebela and opened fire on him as he sat in his vehicle. He died at the scene.
Khawulani, who is serving 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder in September 2012, on Tuesday told the court that he was hired by Mkhize to transport the killers.
He said he had approached the deputy mayor in June 2012 for work because his family was starving.
On July 5, Mkhize told Khawulani he needed him to drive to Nquthu the following day with two other people to “deal” with a person who had been threatening his (Mkhize’s) life.
He confirmed he drove two men to Nquthu on July 6, 2012.
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BurnT Conduct Committee
Memorandum of Understanding
As a BurnT Conduct Committee member, I agree to the following participation expectations and terms:
Committee Communication and Requirements
- I will respond within 48 hours to all communications which explicitly ask for a reply. This includes Doodle scheduling links.
- I will communicate to the Co-Chairs any changes in my circumstances that affect my participation or availability (for prolonged absences).
- I understand that at any time during my committee tenure, if I do not meet the terms of the committee expectations, the Co-Chairs reserve the right to request my resignation as a committee member.
Advisory Meetings and Participation
- I will attend and participate in all relevant conference calls and meetings;
If unable to attend, you must show you are agreeable with the consensus made through email/slack and through discussions with active members . Continued participation is required to be an active committee member.
- Calls regarding investigative interviews, and scheduling meetings to make a recommendation after hearing a case should be taken seriously;
- I understand that if I miss one conference call without 48 hours notice; I should be prepared to offer an explanation to the Lead(s).
- If I miss a second conference call meeting without 48 hours notice, within 6 months, I should be prepared to offer an explanation to the entire Committee.
- If I miss more than two conference call meetings without offering any notice, over the course of a year, I may be asked by the Leads to submit my resignation.
- In addition, I will be prepared for all meetings, including prior review of relevant documents.
- I will communicate to the Secretary of an inability to attend a meeting at least 48 hours in advance.
- It is acceptable to use the ‘life’ clause to take a leave of absence from the advisors group for a specified or unspecified period of time. However, if you are one of the two investigators on an active case the utmost effort should be made to conclude the investigation process. (understand that an extended leave may require a re-vetting process)
- I understand that topics that will be covered are confidential and are not to be discussed outside of Conduct Committee Meetings;
- This includes; spouses, dependants, inactive Committee members, witnesses (unless specified), emergency workers (unless specified).
- Acceptable discussions can be held in private spaces with other Conduct Committee members. Any discussion of information with people not directly investigating the case is strongly discouraged. We may have to deal with upsetting or triggering incidents, emotional support should come from each other).
- If you have decided to become an inactive member, the confidentiality of the reports you have taken must still be kept confidential. Any disclosure will be a violation of this MOU, and seen as a betrayal of the communities trust.
- If part of an investigative team:
- No names are to be used when discussing with other Conduct Committee members.
- Once a determination has been made regarding a case with action recommended the name can and should be given to Ranger lead and BurnT BOD for the BOD to decide on recommendation put forth.
- The Conduct Committee shall not disclose any personally identifying information or individual information collected in connection with Conduct Committee investigations or reveal any individual participant information without the informed, written, reasonably time-limited consent of the person about whom information is sought.
- All information is confidential.
- Information about the report will only be shared between active conduct members involved in that particular case.
- In the event of emergencies, basic information can be released if the situation desires it.
- No identifying information should be kept in a place where incidental access might occur. Strict protocol must be followed.
Biases and Recusing
- If any Conduct member feels they cannot remain unbiased in an investigation or in making a decision (e.g. previous incident, prior history with the ‘reported’ or ‘reportee’) said board member should recuse themselves from the investigation.
- all reportees have the right to refuse an investigator and this should be given the utmost respect.
- Conduct members will not attempt to sway a decision of the board based on personal opinion.
- Conduct members will not use information outside of that reported to shade in details of the ‘reported’.
- My attitude and behavior while participating in Conduct activities shall be driven by the Ten Principles of Burning Man plus Consent, as described in the appended document, the BurnT Conduct Board Code of Principles. Conduct members should recuse themselves in situations where conflict of interest arises.
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BurnT Conduct Committee Code of Principles
Conductors respect everyone’s personal boundaries and require consent wherever those boundaries may be crossed. No means no and should be met with respect and thanks to that person for expressing their boundaries.
Conductors see each other and community members as equals and teammates and will work together to create an environment that is welcoming, collaborative, efficient and effective.
Conductors believe in giving back to the community through the gift of their time and effort. Conduct members are always mindful that each other’s time is a gift.
Working on the Conduct Committee is volunteerism. Conductors do not expect salary or other material compensation for their time.
Conductors who take on responsibilities rely on their inner resources to accomplish those obligations in a timely and professional manner without requiring immediate or ongoing supervision.
The Conduct Committee believes in sharing new ideas and standing up for what they believe in. In turn, they respect, listen to, and learn from the self-expression of other board members. During meetings advisors defer to the Secretary’s efforts to ensure everyone is heard. we support all the community’s rights to self expression unless it’s harmful to other members. (See Conduct Committee Code of Conduct).
The Conduct Committee values creative cooperation and collaboration. Conductors strive to produce, promote and protect methods of communication that support such interaction. Advisors are respectful of each other’s time and service.
The Conduct Committee values civil society. Conductors will strive to act professionally and respectfully in order to efficiently and effectively achieve the goals of the entity and the community it serves.
Leaving No Trace
Not all garbage is physical. Conductors will be mindful to treat each other and community members supportively and respectfully and to leave each other in a better state than when we found each other.
The Conduct Committee is committed to a radically participatory ethic and believes that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. Conductors achieve being through doing.
Conductors seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and our goals efficiently and effectively. Conductors will work together to help build a vibrant participatory community that is better than it was the day before.
These principles must be read together as a single code of conduct.
No one principle outweighs the others.
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“You'd think they'd be nicer to me on my birthday.”
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
It was his birthday and Obama was grouchy.
“It’s my birthday and I’m going to be blunt,” Obama told the Jewish leaders meeting with him. When they complained that, “Words have consequences, and when they come from official sources, they can be even more dangerous,” he was unapologetic.
“If you guys would back down, I would back down from some of the things I’m doing,” he warned.
By that he meant that if they stopped objecting to the Iran deal, he would stop accusing critics of his nuclear sellout to Iran of being money-grubbing warmongers.
Obama complained, “It's been a really busy day. You'd think they'd be nicer to me on my birthday.”
His busy day had consisted of a meeting with the ineffectual UN Secretary General, lunch with Biden and a photo op in the East Room. But he also had reservations at Rose’s Luxury, an expensive Capitol Hill restaurant where ordinary people wait for hours to get in.
Rose’s doesn’t take reservations, but Obama was an exception.
Shortly after his meeting with Jewish leaders, he and his close Iranian-born adviser Valerie Jarrett skipped the line at Rose’s and got the party started. On the next day, Obama blasted Republican opponents as treasonous allies of those who chant “Death to America,” even though he was the one who had actually made common cause with Iran’s regime.
The day after that, Senator Schumer called Obama to tell him he would oppose the deal and asked him to let him announce it on Friday. The White House instead leaked it to the Huffington Post. The first response to Schumer’s announcement came from MoveOn, which blew the dog whistle loudly enough to be heard in the next state over, “Our country doesn’t need another Joe Lieberman in the Senate.”
The only obvious thing that both politicians had in common was that they were Jewish.
Obama had lost the argument on the facts. The majority of Americans opposed the deal by 52 to 28 percent. Even among Democrats, support stood at only 52 percent.
His game plan for winning the debate was to get as ugly and dirty as possible.
Despite having just gotten back into Iraq, after contemplating an attack on Syria and coming off an illegal assault on Libya, any Democrat opposing him risked being accused of wanting another Iraq War. Or as White House press secretary Josh Earnest coyly put it, "This difference of opinion that emerged overnight is one that has existed between Senator Schumer and President Obama for over a decade."
Obama allies emphasized that Schumer had voted for the Iraq War. Obama was once again rerunning his old campaign against Biden and Hillary, even though one was his VP and the other his successor.
Barack Obama had already rolled out the “lonely little guy in the White House” playbook complaining about lobbies and money. He had been irked at his representatives not getting full access to the AIPAC activists who were visiting members of Congress and was reading from Bush I’s old script. But now he began to sound more like Pat Buchanan ranting about Israel’s “amen corner” beating the drums for war.
Having forgotten the time he sent his campaign consultants to defeat Netanyahu in the Israeli election, he complained that Netanyahu was inappropriately interfering. During his speech, he rediscovered a love for the Constitution which he claimed obligated him to sideline Israel. Sadly he lacked the same love for the Constitution’s Treaty Clause which requires two-thirds of the Senate to ratify a treaty.
The complaints about lobbies and money sounded strange coming from a guy who had his own SuperPAC with tens of millions of dollars to spend. Behind him was a network of organizations with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash on hand and billionaire donors to donate on demand.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund had invested a fortune into the project. Some of the money went into the Ploughshares Fund, which did its own promotion for the deal, and funneled cash to Global Zero, which released a video promoting the deal featuring Jack Black and Morgan Freeman. His position was backed by George Soros’ J Street, an astroturfed anti-Israel group that was bringing serious money to the party.
Once Schumer came out on the deal, he was targeted by Credo Mobile and MoveOn, among other powerful left-wing groups, determined that nothing would be allowed to interfere with Iran’s nukes.
There was no shortage of lobbies and money in Obama’s corner. The citizen activists opposed to the deal might have the support of the American people, but they were outmatched by the massive wealth and infrastructure of the Democracy Alliance and Obama’s mainstream media allies.
The teachers, mothers, engineers and small businessmen could travel to Washington D.C. and complain to their Congressman. Obama could go on the Daily Show and complain about them to Jon Stewart.
There was no comparing their respective power.
And all that was without mentioning the Iran Lobby which boasted close relationships with Joe Biden and John Kerry.
Obama continued to escalate tensions with the Jewish community, even though he faced no real risk that enough Democrats would come together to override his veto. Even Schumer’s rejection had bent over backward to praise and flatter him. The American people might disapprove of the deal, but they had also disapproved of ObamaCare and his illegal war in Libya. And he had just rolled over them.
The administration wasn’t in this fight because it worried that it might lose. Between the GOP establishment and Obama, the game had already been rigged. Everyone, including Schumer, would play their parts, get their applause and the agreement would move forward. Hundreds of AIPAC members lobbying a few members of Congress wouldn’t stop that. Neither would a few ads.
Even in the extremely unlikely circumstance that enough Democrats would come together to veto the deal, Obama had already told the agreement’s leading Democratic opponent in the House, “If Congress overrides my veto, you do not get a U.S. foreign policy that reflects that vote. What you get is you pass this law and I, as president, will do everything possible to go in the other direction.”
Obama would implement the deal no matter what Congress did. Iran would get its nukes.
But for Obama, scowling and impatiently tapping his fingers while waiting to go for his birthday dinner, musing that he could have already been there if it wasn’t for these old white men whining to him, looking forward to his round of golf and a trip to Camp David, it had become petulantly personal.
For the left, the political is often indistinguishable from the personal, and for Obama it has always been that way. Obama’s view of government is Louis XIV’s “I am the State”. All opposition is personal. All dissent is treason. Enemies have to be punished on the principle of the thing.
It didn’t matter that the Jewish leaders had zero chance of actually stopping his agreement with Iran. Most of them didn’t even want to be there. What mattered was that they had opposed him and they had to be punished for it.
Obama had compared Americans uneasy about Iran’s “Death to America” slogan to schoolyard bullies who wanted to “smack around” the “little guy” who dared to “mouth off.” But he was the one playing the bully, going out of his way to sow tension, using rhetoric condemned even by Jewish supporters of the deal, not because he needed it to win, but because he was angry and resentful.
Millions of Jews around the world saw the specter of an atomic cloud rising into the sky, but Obama had a birthday meal at Rose’s Luxury to go to, a round of golf to play and his feelings were being hurt and his birthday was being ruined by these annoying Jews who wouldn’t take “No” for an answer.
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Armed siege at Kenya shopping mall enters second day; 59 dead
Gunmen stormed a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in a brazen midday attack .
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Skip to comments.Cabinet maker Merillat closing 2 Virginia plants (279 employees)
Posted on 11/20/2012 8:07:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ATKINS, Va. - Cabinet maker Merillat is laying off 280 employees at two manufacturing plants in southwest Virginia.
Officials for parent company Masco Cabinetry confirmed on Tuesday that it plans to close two facilities that make doors and panels for cabinets in Atkins in mid-January...
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HOORAY Merillat! Prepare. Persevere.
Thanks Barry!!! You’re getting done what Osama couldn’t do! Good job! Every commie ‘RAT gets a trophy when you’re done!
Not if “they” have their way. “They” want us begging them for food and roofs over our head. Never have understood to what end such people want to rule. Is money the main goal? Why ruin so many lives?
They make good cabinets.
I guess that work will be farmed out to China now.
Wow..... I have installed so many of their cabinets. Most likely these jobs will go off shore too or Mexico.
I’m sure they would be welcomed here in Texas.
I miss that place, it was my dream house. Planned it for ten years. Only had it two years before everything blew up.
Oh well, at least I still made money on it. Bought the land before speculators drove everything through the roof. Things could be worse, I could’ve easily lost my @ss on it.
A case of he who panics first panics best, I guess.
I am amazed that Howard Miller is still in business in Michigan.
I may cheer when I see “EPA closes 2 regional offices,” “DOJ lays off 1500 lawyers,” or “White House staff reduced by 400.” THAT would be something to celebrate.
With a spokesperson like Ty Pennington, how could they lose?
Don’t you think it’s a question of the market either disappearing or being greatly reduced? In this economy, no one is building and not many are remodeling. So who’d be buying new cabinets?
They’re “better” cabinets, but not absolute top of the line. I’d imagine they’ve been taking a sales hit on cost compared to more mass-produced, less well made products, particularly imports.
I suppose any company that manufactures well-made proeducts domestically is in deep kimchi. What horrible times we’re living in.
I wonder how Shiloh, another Virginia cabinetmaker, is doing? Marsh too, for that matter, they’re mor local. I considered both of them before settling on Merillat. Similar.
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Main Street small business owners say Trump struck out with his new economic plan, citing deficit growth, a disproportionate shift of the shared tax responsibility onto consumers, and loopholes for large corporations as their biggest concerns.
After the campaign's initial tax proposals raised the eyebrows of tax policy experts on both sides of the aisle, Trump revised his plan in a long-awaited economic policy speech. The updated proposal contains major tax breaks for large corporations, and policy that starves communities of resources and leaves small business owners and middle-income earners picking up the tab.
Surprisingly, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) called Trump’s plan a “home run,” but for whom? It is not our nation’s small and independent businesses that stand to gain the most from this policy, but rather, the largest and most profitable multinational corporations and their executives.
A cornerstone of the Trump tax plan is a repeal of the estate tax, a platform that was met by cheers from his supporters but stands to benefit only the wealthiest few. The estate tax only kicks in for estates valued at $5.45 million for individuals and $10.9 million for couples, a value realized by just 0.2 %of Americans, or the top 1/5 of the top 1%. The average benefit to these estates, were the tax repealed, is $3 million.
“Trump's tax plan and the support it's received from the NFIB is just one more instance in which the cover of small businesses is being used to rig the system for the wealthy. Nationally, only 20 small businesses and small family farms paid any estate taxes in 2013, a typical year,” says Deborah Field, the owner of Paperjam Press in Portland, Oregon, and former corporate tax accountant. “Don’t be fooled into believing that wealthy people want to repeal the estate tax to help out ordinary folks; they are campaigning to preserve their extreme wealth for their heirs.”
Another contentious element in the Trump tax plan is lowering the tax rate for “pass-through” income (business income claimed on individual tax returns) to just 15%. Despite claims that the reduced pass-through rate would benefit the average small business owners, more than two-thirds of all pass-through business income would flow to the top 1% of tax filers. Wealthy individuals who claim pass-through income would receive tax cuts regardless of their wealth, the size or type of their business, or their role in its operation.
"These tax breaks would deprive the government of badly needed funds for investments in infrastructure, transportation, education, and social services. The types of investments that drive local economies and put small businesses in a better position to succeed,” says Amanda Ballantyne, National Director of the Main Street Alliance. “A tax policy that works for the shops and restaurants on Main Street is one that supports our customer base and our communities. In that regard, Trump's policy fall flat."
“The vast majority of small business owners don’t support tax policy that augments their piece of the pie by cheating their fellow citizens out of theirs. When we contribute our fair share of taxes, those dollars get reinvested in our local communities,” says David Borris, the owner of Hel’s Kitchen Catering in Chicago and Main Street Alliance Executive Committee member. “Local communities that support tens of millions of small businesses from coast to coast.” | <urn:uuid:381a32c6-043f-4d47-a3f3-55eb23395033> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.mainstreetalliance.org/trump_strikes_out_with_revised_tax_plan | 2017-06-24T13:47:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320263.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624133941-20170624153941-00391.warc.gz | en | 0.967724 | 709 | [
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“Adventure” for the Atari 2600: The Skyrim of its Day
What’s this you say? An Atari 2600 game? Featured as a Completist column? Strange to be sure… However, since the chances of me writing an article on an Atari 2600 game are close to zero, I found it appropriate to bring in my friend Rizzard Core (his real name is Rich, shhhhhhhh) to do the job for me. I’m just feeling a bit lazy this week, what can I say?
All joking aside though, the game he has chosen to write about is one of the most influential of all time. I had very little knowledge of “Adventure” coming into this partnership so it was a joy to read his work and put together his article for 1 More Castle. I guess you could consider this the first true collaborative Completist piece (but let’s use that term loosely, all I really did was the graphics work). The words you will read however, are all his. So with that being said, let’s give Rizzard Core his guest spot and check out his “Completist” take on one of the most important games of all time:
Adventure was created by Warren Robinett and was released for the Atari 2600 during the Christmas season of 1979. Many modern gamers will probably recognize it as being the first (or at least the first popular) video game to include an Easter Egg, and as a matter of fact, the phrase “Easter Egg” originates from its inclusion in this game (see the above reference for details).
Adventure is an early example of a Zelda-style game, where you fight monsters, find keys to unlock new areas, traverse mazes, discover secrets, and search for new weapons and items to aid you in your ultimate goal of returning the stolen Enchanted Chalice to the Golden Castle.
Adventure was inspired by the classic text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure (another favorite of mine), and was no doubt the inspiration for many games to follow it such as The Legend of Zelda et al.
Now, being that I was only a few months old when the game was released, I didn’t play it until years later…many years later as a matter of fact. I was a Nintendo kid from the beginning, and absolutely fell in love with The Legend of Zelda. Unfortunately, my best friend Mike didn’t have Nintendo, he had the Atari 2600, so I gained exposure to its games while playing them at his house.
I vaguely recall asking Mike if he had any games like Zelda on the Atari, and he introduced me to games like Haunted House, Secret Quest, and Adventure. Although those other two games are great, Adventure is the one that I enjoyed most and always stuck in my mind as being an excellent example of a really good game for a system with limited graphical capabilities (even though when I first saw Adventure played, I made fun of the fact that your hero is a mere rectangle… a fact that is still hilarious to this day and is often made fun of by the likes of Homestar Runner and Robot Chicken). However, I still really enjoyed playing the game despite the poor graphics. Although Zelda games are wonderful in their own right, there’s something so magical and special about Adventure that no action/adventure games that followed it ever managed to capture until Doom was released (yes, Doom, I will explain later).
A few years back, I attempted to play as many games as I could think of or find that were a possible inspiration for The Legend of Zelda, and games that were blatant clones such as Golden Axe Warrior and Spiritual Warfare, or not-so-blatant clones like Neutopia and Secret Quest.
As I began making a list of games to play, Adventure was one of the first that came to mind due to my experience with it as a kid. After playing through it a few times as an adult, I came to the conclusion that The Legend of Zelda was absolutely influenced, if not directly inspired, by Adventure.
I refuse to believe that Zelda was inspired solely by Shigeru Miyamoto’s childhood memories of playing in caves. It is my opinion that Miyamoto drew his inspiration not only from his memories and from Tolkien-esque fantasies, but from board games like Dungeons and Dragons, video games like Adventure, Dragon Slayer, Ultima, and to a lesser extent, from games like Rogue, Tower of Druaga, Hydlide, Guantlet, and probably also from many text adventure games such as Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork. George Lucas will be the first to admit that Star Wars was paying homage to, or borrowing from, other great films that came before it. I consider The Legend of Zelda to be a masterpiece akin to Star Wars, which is why I think it was inspired by a mixture of many great things that preceded it.
I believe that any fan of the original Zelda (or Zelda games in general) will really enjoy Adventure if they give it a try. So if you haven’t played it, you should add it to your backlog of games, or just play it right now! Visit Warren Robinett’s page to find out more. Game programmers and designers should also check out the map there to see some really clever memory-saving tricks!
It is my hope that others will discover or rediscover some of the magic of Adventure that I’ve always found in this simple but excellent classic video game.
Adventure has three Skill Levels of gameplay. Skill Level 1 has limited areas, monsters, and items, and can be beaten relatively quickly and easily (most people familiar with Level 2 can beat Level 1 in under 1 minute). I like to think of Level 1 as an early version or demo of Adventure, and I don’t really recommend it for anyone other than speed runners or very young players that may find the other modes too hard or confusing.
Skill Level 2 is the true game of Adventure, and it is the level that most gamers will want to play and go back to again and again. Level 3 is exactly the same as the second level, except the items, keys, and monsters are randomly dispersed, which can make the difficulty range from easy to literally impossible.
As the hero of Adventure, also known as the “mighty block warrior,” you begin the game in front of the Golden Castle, which only has one room, and is ultimately your destination once you retrieve the Enchanted Chalice (think of the Golden Castle as home plate). Throughout the Kingdom, there is also a White Castle (in case you get hungry…sorry, I couldn’t resist) and a Black Castle with areas for you to explore and items to find. All the castles are locked at the start of the game, so it’s up to you to find the corresponding keys that will unlock each castle. Castles can be locked again by simply passing out of the castle gate with its corresponding key facing upward.
There are also various mazes throughout the Kingdom, including the Catacombs, the Blue Labyrinth, and the Red and Grey Dungeons (although the Grey Dungeon and Catacombs look the same, they are in different locations). The mazes are not too difficult to traverse once memorized, and although your vision is limited in the Catacombs and Grey Dungeon, you aren’t completely blind. It’s similar to casting a small torch spell in Dragon Warrior, or when Link enters a darkened room with a lantern in Zelda. Even these darkened mazes are pretty easy to navigate through and also fairly easy to memorize after playing through the game a few times.
The only way to die in Adventure is to be eaten by one of the infamous dragons lurking throughout the Kingdom. I say “infamous” because it is well known that the dragons resemble ducks, chickens, or basically any kind of bird you can think of. They don’t appear to resemble actual dragons at all (because we know what “actual” dragons really look like). Oh well, at least they weren’t giant rectangles.
Don’t fret if you are killed, however, because you can be “reincarnated.” The act of reincarnation is achieved by a simple press of the reset button. You are restored to life, castle gates and items will remain in their current positions, but unfortunately, all slain dragons will also be reincarnated.
There are 3 dragons to watch out for in Adventure: a mean yellow dragon named Yorgle, a mean AND ferocious green dragon named Grundle, a red dragon named Rhindle (the most ferocious of them all), and a blue dragon named Blargle (I just made that last one up, but it fits, doesn’t it?).
According to the manual, Yorgle is afraid of the Gold Key and runs from it, whether it’s in your possession or not. He also roams around the Kingdom assisting Grundle in the guarding of the Black Key and other items. Rhindle guards the White Key and is the fastest of all the dragons (he can run at the same speed as you, so he can be a real pest to lose, especially when he’s following you through mazes).
If the left difficulty switch is on b, the dragons hesitate before eating you, which was an excellent decision on Mr. Robinett’s part, because if the dragons killed you via simple contact, the game would be nearly unplayable. If the right difficulty switch is in position a, all dragons will run from the Sword. Thus, think of Left b, Right a as Novice, Left a, Right b as Hard, and the other two combinations as somewhere in between (please feel free to correct me if you disagree on this).
Luckily, there are items scattered throughout the Kingdom that will aid you in your quest. In addition to the Gold, White, and Black Keys, there is a Sword, a Magnet, a Bridge, and the Enchanted Chalice. Since you are only a rectangle and don’t have a magical sack like Link does, you can only carry one of these items at a time, which actually adds to the challenge of the game.
The Sword basically looks like an arrow, and it can be used to slay the dragons. I’ve always found it kind of amusing that many players will hold the Sword in such a way that makes it look more like a spear, even though it doesn’t matter which way it is held, as the dragons will die either way when they come into contact with it. Even if you are not in possession of the Sword, a dragon will die from touching it (for example, if the Magnet pulls the Sword through a dragon, or if the Black Bat is holding the Sword and you are holding the Black Bat and strike a dragon, he will die).
The Bridge allows you to pass vertically through thin solid walls so that you can reach new areas (I like to think of the Bridge as a ladder that will bring you safely over the castle walls and parapets). On skill level 1, you don’t need the bridge at all. On Level 2, you need the bridge in the White Castle to access the Black Key, and in the Black Castle to obtain the “pixel” to find the Easter Egg (more below).
The Magnet attracts any nearby metal objects (basically all the other items, including the Enchanted Chalice) via some kind of “Good Magic.” Both the bridge and the magnet are useful in retrieving other items dropped by the Black Bat in hard-to-reach places (honestly, this is really the only time I care about the Magnet at all: when an item is “stuck” behind a barrier).
However, to achieve victory in Adventure (and restore peace to the Kingdom? I don’t know, but it seems to fit), you must return the Enchanted Chalice to the Golden Castle, its rightful home. The Enchanted Chalice is obviously the most precious item in the game, as it cycles through the Atari 2600 color palette!
Adventure may sound like a pretty simple game so far, but the biggest problem is that in addition to the dragons, there is also a monster called the Black Bat (yes, a bat…the bane of every gamer’s existence) that flies around the Kingdom picking up items and replacing new items with old ones, and even stealing items right out of your hands! Thus, remembering where you left your previously dropped items adds a dimension of complexity to the challenge and fun of Adventure.
Although the Black Bat cannot be killed, there are a few “bat tricks” you can use to your advantage:
1) The Black Bat can be locked inside the Golden Castle. This is the best technique for neutralizing the Black Bat and improving your chances of success, because once he’s locked in, he can’t get out.
2) The Black Bat can be picked up and carried while he’s carrying an item. This is also a way to neutralize the Black Bat, especially if he’s carrying an item you are currently in need of like a key or the Sword.
3) The Black Bat can carry a living dragon. Although this is a relatively rare occurrence, it can be a killer or a life-saver. Theoretically, you should be able to use this trick in conjunction with the previous tricks to eliminate all of the monsters from the Kingdom! (muahahaha!)
4) The Black Bat can pick up a dragon that has eaten you and you’ll see how the bat travels throughout the Kingdom. Although it’s not really a useful trick, it’s kind of cool. Many of the neat things that happen in Adventure are transcendent properties of a game with a well-programmed set of rules.
Also worth mentioning is an unseen enemy, the Evil Magician. He (or she?) is the one that has stolen the Enchanted Chalice from the Golden Castle and created all the monsters. You never see the Evil Magician, even in the manual, so it is unknown what he/she looks like.
Many gamers are aware of the fact that Adventure is one of the first video games (if not the first) to contain an Easter Egg, or a special treat for the gamer after he/she completes a series of unusual tasks. Adventure’s Easter Egg can be found by locating an item the size of a pixel that is the same color as the floor (think of it as a speckle of fairy dust or a bread crumb) and carrying it to the room with the barrier southeast of the Golden Castle. If there is at least one object in the room, the player can pass through the barrier and reach a screen with a flashing message that simply says, “Created by Warren Robinett.” Pretty lame Egg by today’s standards. But considering that Atari didn’t credit their game creators at the time in any way, and paid them a relatively lousy salary with no royalties, I think it was a pretty cool way for Robinett to send a message. Or at the very least, get his name in the history books.
Since Warren Robinett quit Atari right after he finished programming Adventure, an official sequel was never really released (although Robinett claims he is willing to program an official sequel if tens of thousands of fans are willing to buy it…).
The games in the Swordquest series (a game series with quite an interesting history), started out as an Adventure sequel, but quickly took on a life of their own. To be honest, I’ve only played the first game in the Swordquest series, Earthworld, and I never really liked it. Earthworld is nothing like Adventure; it’s more like a cross between an inventory puzzle and a maze, and it really hasn’t aged well in my opinion. So you’re not missing out on anything by skipping the Swordquest games (but you should read about its history).
Warren Robinett programmed what he calls a “spiritual sequel” to Adventure in Rocky’s Boots, which is an educational game that teaches kids about digital logic circuits. It’s similar to Adventure in that you control a rectangle that can pick up and interact with objects, but that’s pretty much where the connection ends. Every gamer knows the only good educational games are Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego… so stay away from Rocky’s Boots as well.
In 2005, the Atari Flashback 2 was released which included Adventure II, an unofficial sequel to Adventure that used the original assembly code. The game was programmed by a group called “Curt Vendel and the Square Trio,” (according to that game’s Easter Egg). Since the game uses the same code as the original Adventure, the graphics, enemies, and items all look the same, though the Kingdom is much more complex.
I personally found Adventure II to be fairly difficult, and I never got very far with it (I also hated a lot of the new colors). It’s akin to Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, in that it is exceedingly more difficult with no significant improvement in graphics or the overall game engine. It’s not as bad as this scathing review suggests [*Editors Note* Rich man, it’s Gamespot, they hate everything Retro!], but it’s not worth going out of your way to play.
In 2007, the same small team of programmers, the Square Trio, released a different Adventure II, but for the Atari 5200 in physical cartridge form (you can buy it here for 35 USD as of the date of this publication). Since this Adventure II was programmed for a more advanced system, the graphics are significantly improved (although you’re still a rectangle), the Kingdom is much larger, and there are more enemies. Although I haven’t played this Adventure II yet (it’s in the backlog, sigh), I think it looks great, and I think it’s our best bet until a true sequel is developed (which will likely never happen anyway).
Of course, there are many other Adventure clones and unofficial sequels available through AtariAge, but I haven’t played any of them (though it would be a fun project to play and review them all).
Although Zelda games are similar to Adventure in many ways, they are in a class by themselves, and thus they don’t quite capture the same exact magic and fun as Adventure does. In my opinion, the next game to do that was, ironically enough, Doom. Think about what you’re doing when you’re playing through Doom: you’re running quickly through mazes, fighting monsters, finding keys to unlock new areas, and finding new items. It’s basically Adventure in 3D with guns. In fact, if you study this Doom clone in the Game Maker SDK, you will notice that you can design levels in a 2D overhead view, and it looks just like any given maze in Adventure (complete with primitive polygons representing your character and the enemies).
Many modern games have kept the spirit of the original Adventure alive without being a direct clone of Zelda. Some that I’ve played include Beyond Good and Evil, StarFox Adventures, the God of War series, Okami, Darksiders, Portal, and I’m sure you can probably think of a lot more games that carry on in the spirit of Adventure without necessarily being a Zelda clone.
What more can I say about Adventure that hasn’t already been said either here or elsewhere? It is an excellent game for the Atari 2600; among the best. It’s a great example for game designers and programmers of how to make a really fun game with limited hardware and graphics. Adventure is, in my opinion, a major inspiration for The Legend of Zelda, and encompasses at its core, many of the things that make the action/adventure game genre wonderful. Adventure conjures up many fond memories for me when I think of it, and I hope that others will feel the same after playing this wonderful game.
Since Adventure is essentially a fantasy game with no music and limited sound effects, you’re going to want something to complement the experience. When I think about fantasy, I think progressive metal and power metal. For a game like Adventure, the cheesier, the better. Here is a list to get started:
Songs About Enchantments:
Rhapsody – Symphony of the Enchanted Lands (from the album of the same name) 4:00 – 6:22, 9:30 – 11:00, 12:05 – end Great music, great vocals, totally cheesy spoken word
Wizard – Witch of the Enchanted Forest (from the album Gouchan)
Enchant – Enchanted (from the album A Blueprint of the World)
Gutter Sirens – The Enchanted Place (from the album Horror Makers)
Manticora – Enchanted Mind
Songs About Chalices:
Avantasia – Chalice of Agony (from the album The Metal Opera Pt. II)
Paragon – Chalice of Steel (from the album of the same name)
Ashes of Ares – Chalice of Man (from their self-titled album)
Eldritch – Chalice of Insanity (from the album Seeds of Rage)
ReinXeed – Chalice of Time (from the album A New World)
NEED TO KEEP LOOKING…SOOOO MANY SONGS ABOUT DRAGONS!
[*Editors Note* Ronnie James Dio – Killing the Dragon (from the album of the same name)]
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WALTER BRUEGGEMANN wrote of the Bible:
I believe that this is how the church must live in response to the text; the church, in its deepest moments of trusting faith, is addressed by the revelatory text – not in predictable ways but in ways that surprise and subvert and enliven. But, then, that is what one must expect from a text that bears witness to the God who judges and restores Israel, who shows up as Friday absence and as Sunday newness.
The church, when it answers to this text, is indeed called to an alternative life in the world. The world around us – with its immense power and knowledge – intends none of the vulnerability of Friday. With its capacity for control and prediction, it intends none of the surprise of Sunday. But the church, when it responds in alternative imagination, is exactly a practice of vulnerability and surprise that keeps our common life human. That is the passion that propels my exposition.
And this is just in his Introduction to Redescribing Reality – What we do when we read the Bible, (pxxiii). This is good material for the coming Advent. Who came, who’s come, who’s coming? And who, if any, is intended by God to “control”?
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It finally went on the living room wall, watching over the larger part of the house. When Peter went back down the basement to pack in his hammer and nails, Jane stared at the face. She wasn’t sure, but when she finally took her eyes off it she felt that a kind of communication had passed between them.
Not that she could repeat any of it.
The next morning came, bright and sunny and golden. Jane woke up and looked at the alarm clock – was that the time? She was getting lazy, she thought, and flung the covers off.
She didn’t really notice it coming down the stairs, hurrying as she was to get everything ready before Peter came, the black coffee and the ritual. She was going to check the alarm clock, make sure it rings tomorrow –
It was Friday. Tomorrow would start the weekend. As the kettle hissed and bubbled, she placed her hands firmly on the counter, leaned on it, shut her eyes and breathed out.
That’s when she heard it.
Laughter. Muffled, coming from the living room, loud and crackling, and Jane spun around, her heart beating like crazy.
She stood there for a while, waiting from her heart to slow down. When it did, all she could hear was a buzzing fly in the heavy quiet of the house.
She walked to the living room wide-eyed, the only sound the shuffling of her slippers on the wooden floor. She looked around, half-expecting someone to leap out of the corners.
But she heard it, didn’t she? She was sure if it, as sure as she was that there was someone coming up on her from behind –
When she turned, two things happened: first, she was blinded by a sudden flash. Second, she realised that she was holding the carving knife in her right hand, its sharp blade reflecting the morning sunrays pouring into the house.
She lowered the knife slowly, and for the first time that day, she remembered the painting. It was right there on the wall, staring at her with those eyes, its mouth twisted in a peculiar way, a strange crook that seemed like a smile, but a mocking one.
“Good morning”, she mumbled, and ran to get the hissing kettle off the stove.
Another week passed, rituals and all, even though Jane attached another one to the larger play: Every morning, just as she came down the stairs to the kitchen, she looked at the painting. It was more of a quick, mechanical glance, first unconscious and then a habit: Down the last three steps, thud on the floorboards with her bunny slippers, turning around to the kitchen, and she would see it, a fast click like a snapshot.
It was later, much later, that Jane realised that she was slowly building an album of the face in her mind. Had she known, she would perhaps have taken the time to look at her gallery in a row, to compare images. By the time she finally did it, the result was hardly surprising anymore.
And so the autumn carried on, with its everyday rituals and routines, and the face became part of them. It blended in with everything else like a chameleon, not as dominating as it was at first, but in a way friendly, benign. It fitted in. It became part of Peter and Jane’s daily life, smiling at their joys or frowning for their troubles. But always slightly, ever so slightly, its veneer seemed permanently imbued with an imperceptible mockery.
“You’re overreacting”. Peter opened his beer can and took a long, satisfying swig. “Aaah”, he said and stretched his legs across the floor. Then he looked at Jane, who sat huddled on the other end of the sofa with her knees under her chin.
“I mean, come on, it’s just a painting”, he went on. “Look at it!” He pointed at the face on the wall.
Jane shook her head. “I’m telling you, that thing is weird. I have this strange feeling every morning, like it’s watching me.”
“‘Watching’ you?” Peter’s brow arched.
“Yeah. Me, us, the house… I don’t know, it’s crazy –”
He grinned. “Hey. Is this some kind of wheedling trick? Y’ know, trying to make me get rid of the painting? Don’t you think it’s a little late for that?”
She sighed, angry. “You’re not taking me seriously.”
“Sure I am.” He was still grinning, but it was an alien, sarcastic grin she’d never seen before. “In fact, I’ve heard legends tell that this face is actually alive. Yeah. Like a Stephen King book, huh?” He got up and walked to the painting. “Hey, Mr Face. Whassup? Wanna pull some faces for us tonight?”
The Face just stared back, unaffected. Jane noticed that she’d been holding her breath.
Peter put up his can. “Maybe you want a cold one first?”
“How ’bout it?” He was shouting to it now. “Hell-ooo?” He knocked on the wooden frame, and the noise made Jane jump. “Anyone home?” He turned around and looked at his wife. “Guess not.”
She glared at him. “That’s not funny.”
“Oh, come on, hon.” Another swig. “It really bothers you, doesn’t it?” He glanced at the face over his shoulder. “You know how important it is though,” he added thoughtfully. “To me.”
“Yeah, Piper Jack.” She honestly never meant it to say it like that.
Too late. Peter’s eyes flashed. “Yeah, Piper Jack. What about him, huh? What’s so wrong with keeping an old man’s memory alive? But everyone’s like that – everyone’s forgot how good he was once – he was a pilot at the Korean war! He was even wounded; decorated twice! Did you know that? Did you? Of course not. Why? Because you’re just like everyone else – you don’t care. Man, this world is a jungle: A good man falls and everyone kicks him while he’s down. Everyone’s just out for their selves. Well, I was Piper Jack’s friend – his only friend – and that’s why he left me that painting, and it’s staying right where it is. Goodnight!”
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Recently reports began pouring into social media, gossip pages, and general news sites about a new rating system from the federal government for universities. The initiative, which has not been written yet, has created controversy in higher education circles as they fear it will impact funding. In the modern information society, however, ratings like this exist for everything from films and makeup to bottled water and podcasts. In order to stay relevant with the changing focus of how Americans evaluate a product (i.e. peer reviews) it is of paramount importance to provide this information to the general public by a nonpartisan organization at a national scale. | <urn:uuid:1da5a16c-2214-4247-8bda-4910f71b607f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://droverdata.wordpress.com/tag/haley-edwards/ | 2017-06-26T03:38:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00551.warc.gz | en | 0.957445 | 121 | [
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A LONG HISTORY OF CHAOS AND VIOLENCE
The Democratic Republic of Congo, equal in size to the United States east of the Mississippi, is home to vast expanses of pristine rain forest, rare animal species and a large potential for wealth in the form of highly valuable minerals and natural resources. Yet, DR Congo is also one of the poorest, most chaotic nations on the planet, ruined by unrest that is estimated to have claimed millions of lives in the past 10 years, the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II. In many corners of the country, law, order, electricity and medicine are virtually nonexistent.
ELI began work in Bukavu, Congo in 2001 with focus on establishing micro enterprises projects and a village demonstration farm. In 2004 ELI teamed up with community members in the Keredi slum, once an internally displaced camp, to establish a Christian School now known as ELI Christian Academy. Here over 500 children attend from kindergarten through high school. Along with an education, ELI runs a feeding program for the students.
Following a landmark peace agreement and a tumultuous political transition backed by the world’s largest UN peacekeeping operation, the DRC held largely successful elections in 2006. However, elections were not a panacea to Congo’s ills; 45,000 people die each month, mostly from the crippling effects of widespread displacement in the country’s eastern provinces. Worse still, armed groups routinely commit acts of rape and sexual violence against Congolese women and girls. A recent but increasingly fragile ceasefire is the first step towards a lasting peace, but the threat of renewed conflict remains as an ongoing reality. | <urn:uuid:c029ad81-9a8e-4dc3-b3fc-f6e876ae56d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://empoweringlives.org/where-we-work/dr-congo/ | 2017-06-26T22:33:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00631.warc.gz | en | 0.940703 | 339 | [
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Anyone can use Technovation’s free online curriculum, but participation in Technovation’s official competition is limited to girls.
Women are highly underrepresented in the technology fields. Research shows that women are more enthusiastic and engaged in STEM courses when they are in an all-girls environment because they feel comfortable participating and asking questions. We aim to provide that safe environment and provide the girls with role models so they can see themselves in technology careers.
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This weekend I am heading up to Saratoga Springs for Hats Off Weekend. Which I guess is a horse race event that you don't have to wear a hat to. Which is good for me, since I really don't like hats. I mean, I look good in them, great in fact, but I hate that they hide your face and make your head sweat. Nothing worse that a pretty gal with a sweaty punnum.
The reason I am heading upstate to uncharted territory is a birthday party for a college friend, (who I'll call Best Dressed since I have NEVER seen her wear the same thing twice). Due to our busy lives, I don't get to see her that often--it's been over a year. I will also get to see Angel (who I haven't seen since January's college reunion event) and her new beau. She's pretty serious about this one, so I'm pretty psyched to get to see what he looks like.
Hat's = a bad idea.
Also in attendence will be Little, who I haven't seen since February and one of my many Mrs. Robinson affairs. Beachhead (named so since she looks like she should always be on a beach) will also be there.
It's like the perfect storm of old college gals getting together. And since it's my frist summer weekend post-wedding, I assure you that I will Get rediculously drunk and make an ass of myself. Hell, I'm short enough, maybe I'll end up riding one of the horses over the finish line. I may not know what my first trip back down drunk single girl ally will hold, but I can tell you this:
I will not have a sweaty head.
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General Practice, Solo & Small Firm DivisionMagazine
technology.law / J. Michael Jimmerson
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J. Michael Jimmerson is a lawyer, author, and technology consultant. He is the co-author of A Survival Guide for Road Warriors , a best-selling book on mobile computing for lawyers, published by the ABA. His next book, Windows for Lawyers , is scheduled to be released in Fall 1998. He can be reached by phone (414/427-5400), e-mail ( [email protected] ) or the Web ( www.legalcounsel.com ).
Browsing the Internet is like strolling through a big city. Lots of interesting things to see and learn. Most are good, even educational, but the seamy underside can rear its ugly head at any moment.
Parents can protect their children by using software tools such as NetNanny (www.netnanny.com) or CyberSitter (www.cybersitter.com) to filter out what sites the kids can explore. Especially for younger children, these tools really make sense.
Filtering software employs a couple of different techniques. Some (NetNanny, for example) check against lists of known sites that are not suitable for children (such as pornographic sites). This type of filtering software depends upon current lists of "bad sites." The software developer constantly scans the Internet to find inappropriate sites and also depends upon individuals to submit "bad sites." Like virus signatures, these must be updated regularly to be effective. The other technique of filtering software (CyberSitter, for example) checks for words or phrases that indicate unsuitable content (such as words describing sexual organs
or contact). Although either type of filtering program works reasonably well, they are far from perfect.
Sites that work from lists of bad sites depend upon a subjective judgment of what constitutes a "bad site." Interestingly enough, a significant number of adult Web site owners support these filtering efforts by adhering to various standards that indicate the adult nature of their sites. Still, these lists are criticized for supporting the agenda of a particular group. Advocates of free speech generally support voluntary compliance but cringe at the thought of censorship by any group—either government or private.
The phrase filtering technique is not without problems either. These programs often eliminate too many sites, including some that might have genuine educational value. For example, if your child is doing a research project on Italian painters, it might block access to any sites with nude paintings. This is very similar to banning books in the library just because they have some objectionable language (think The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye). There are really no easy fixes for these problems. Parents must balance their desire to protect their children against these defects in the filtering software.
Beyond protecting children, these filtering programs are making their way into the business world. Don’t want your employees checking out Playboy’s website when they should be working? Add it to the list of prohibited sites. But why stop there? You probably don’t want them checking out sports scores either, so let’s put ESPN’s SportsZone on the list too. And don’t forget sites where they can check stock prices. Let’s get rid of CNN Financial News ( www.cnnfn.com). Where does it stop?
Management and IS staff might be in favor of such harsh tactics but it sends a bad message to employees: "We think so little of you and distrust you so much that we are not going to take any chances on your web browsing." Some firms are even more extreme and justify withholding Internet access at the desktop on the ground that employees will just waste time surfing the Web. Well, yeah, that is the idea. Don’t we want to encourage people to be creative? Why deny access to the greatest source of information since the Gutenberg press?
Protecting children is important and filtering software may be appropriate. However, should we really treat our employees like children? Not if we want them to be happy and productive. CL | <urn:uuid:50451332-e1e9-4a68-8b00-39bd83e527eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/gp_solo_magazine_home/gp_solo_magazine_index/nov98jimmerson.html | 2017-06-29T08:59:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323895.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629084615-20170629104615-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.92556 | 855 | [
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Mooney Farms and the Bella Sun Luci brand hit a home run this year with their new line of Bella Sun Luci Cucina Italiano Risottos launched in May. The line consists of three new and unique flavors that have been a great success in trials and at early 2016 trade shows – Sun Dried Tomato, Sun Dried Tomato and Wild Mushroom, and Cranberry Almond. Each risotto offers it’s own distinct flavors that have been created by Mooney Farms’ corporate chef, Richard Hirshen, and Mooney Farms President, Mary Mooney.
“Customers want new, innovative, and healthy dishes to bring to their table”, says President, Mary Mooney. “We create products that promote healthy eating with a gourmet touch. These risottos not only contain healthful ingredients, such as whole grains, sun dried tomatoes, wild mushrooms, almonds, etc, but also allow consumers to serve gourmet Italian dishes in the comfort of their own kitchen.”
Each of the three flavors is premixed with premium ingredients and herbs, ready to be prepared directly from the container. “It takes the pressure off the consumer and allows them to serve a traditionally difficult dish without the hassle of following a complex recipe or having to prepare the additional ingredients,” says Chef Richard. “We combined all the essential flavors to you will need to serve a great Italian meal to family and friends in just 20 minutes.”
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Discussion in 'Shoes and Apparel' started by stevo, Mar 18, 2004.
Will TW have the new Red versions of Roddick's trucker hats?
I especially like the blue and red (U.S.A.) version that he wore earlier in the week against Gambill. Will TW get this hat?
We are getting some new colors in for the Trucker style hat. I've seen one which has a really cool design on the front, rather than a solid color. I'll check with our buyer and get back to you Monday with more details on when and what to expect.
Till then, have a great weekend.
long wait for current trucker
:cry: Why such a long wait for Roddick trucker hat in the current colors?
Dates for new Trucker hats and designs are as follows.
5/1- Green/White, Green/Black, All white
7/15- Navy/Red, Red/White this is the hat that he is wearing right now, it will designed for the Olympics.
8/1- special camo hat for the US Open, it will be grey, black & white camo
That camo sounds junkie, but the green, ALRIGHT!!! Green is my favorite color, too bad I already have a green & white trucker. I hate those reebok ones though, but still, nice to see some green out there.
The Green/Black one is one of the cooler ones I've seen him wear. He had it on at the Australian Open during his practice session before the start of the tournament. Here are some pics of him wearing it. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/so...dick+practice+session+australian+open&p=2
Sorry for such a long address. But there it is. Later
I might actually have to get that green and black one. Looks sweet.
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KioskCom in Las Vegas last week offered a mix of exhibitors, some showing new products some offering improvements to or new uses for their existing products, and some simply showing up to remind the attendants that they’re out there and ready to help.
As a first time visitor to the show, I would have liked to visit more of the 134 booths than I had opportunity to do so, but here are a few of the things I noticed, in addition to those mentioned in earlier articles:
- Samsung’s digital distribution platform that delivers entertainment in retail sectors. Users can see and listen to trailers before choosing a movie, or buy music, videos and books. The company is also working with consumer packaged goods firms, testing new technology with units in association with Coca-Cola in 150 Simon Malls and soon for Kraft in the northeastern U.S. market.
- The wayfinder screens from Healthy Advice Networks which works closely with NCR. While being used for hospitals, the same technology can be used for airports, college campus buildings, etc.
- H&M Networks move into point-of-sale, backing digital signage deployments. The 87-year-old electrical construction company, which has done major work worldwide with such projects as the laying of fibre optics for the Internet along railway tracks, is now working both directly and with integrators to handle the electrical and low voltage work behind POS with home development stores, General Dynamics and others.
- Elo TouchSystems (a Tyco Electronics company) which claims to be the originator of touch and has been working on touch technology for 40 years. It works with system integrators, value added retailers and independent software vendors worldwide. One of its clients is OEM.
- Red Dot on-shelf and end-cap screens for retail environments. The company, which was showing off its new 15” screens, is in expansion mode in the U.S. and Europe and is moving into Canada.
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To accomplish this, the City's Transit Services Division, located in room 3200 in City Hall, coordinates Metrobus and Metrorail service, the Alexandria DASH bus service, DOT paratransit for the mobility impaired, ridesharing to promote the formation of car and vanpools, the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail, bus stop amenities, and other programs designed to increase the use of alternatives to the single occupant vehicle and to protect the environment. The Transit Services Division also coordinates with the Department of Transportation and Environmental Services' Transportation Planning Division to improve mobility throughout the City.
The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) requires that any transit agency or municipality providing transit service develop a six-year Transit Development Plan (TDP) as a prerequisite for receiving capital and operating assistance from the Commonwealth.
The TDP serves as a policy document intended to inform and prioritize capital and operating funding decisions for all transit services that operate in the City of Alexandria, including DASH, Metrobus, Metrorail, MetroAccess, DOT Paratransit, Fairfax Connector, Virginia Railway Express (VRE), and Amtrak.
The TDP consolidates the many recommendations for transit services across the City, including projects such as: the West End Transitway, station area projects at King Street and Eisenhower Avenue metro stations, DASH service enhancements, and the pedestrian tunnel connecting King Street metro station to Alexandria Union Station. Regardless of project sources, each project included in the TDP were developed within the framework of the City’s Transportation Master Plan and other City endorsed planning efforts.
The TDP is a six-year plan for all transit within the City and should not be confused with DASH’s one-year Transit Development program. However, DASH’s annual transit development program fits within the overall policy guidance of the TDP.
City Provides Testimony to Commonwealth Transportation Board for the 2016-2021 Six-Year Improvement Plan
The City of Alexandria’s Department of Transportation & Environmental Services is working towards creating a transportation network that encourages the use of alternative modes of transportation and reduces dependency on single occupancy vehicles. Due to the schedule conflict with the City Council meeting on April 28, Nathan Macek, Chair of the City’s Transportation Commission, provided testimony on the draft FY 2016 to FY 2021 Six-Year Improvement Program on behalf of the City of Alexandria to members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). The testimony focused on improvements of mobility options with legislation such as House Bill (HB) 2313 and HB 1887 that provide addition funding to the City. The testimony elaborated on the partnership that extended the City a $50 million loan through the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank for the Potomac Yard Metrorail Station, funding for construction of the I-395 South Widening Project, and continued support for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
The City of Alexandria’s GO Alex program promotes and encourages public transit, ridesharing, bicycling, and walking as money and time saving alternatives that discourage driving alone, reduce automobile dependence, increase mobility and improve air quality.
Facilities are provided at transit stops to help make transit more comfortable and convenient to customers, thereby encouraging usage. Bus stop improvements include: Installing Concrete Loading Pads / Accessible Bus Stops, Installing Bus Stop Benches and Installing Bus Shelters.
DOT is the City of Alexandria's specialized transportation service for residents of the City of Alexandria and visitors who cannot use regular transit buses or rail due to their disability.Trips are provided by taxicabs and wheelchair accessible vans.
The Free King Street Trolley transports riders between the King Street Metro Station and the Potomac River waterfront. The trolley runs daily from 11:30 a.m. to 10:15 p.m. every 15 minutes.
The purpose of the King Street Station Access Improvement Study is to find way to improve safety and access for pedestrians, transit vehicles and others at the King Street Metro Station.
Transit Information for safe, convenient and reliable commuter services that can be used throughout the region: Bus Services, Rail Services and Commuter Resources.
The Transitway Corridor Feasibility Study, now complete, was conducted by the City of Alexandria for the purpose of investigating the feasibility of implementing dedicated corridor transit service in the city in three corridors-North-South, Duke Street, and Van Dorn/Beauregard. The Transitway Corridor Feasibility Study builds on the 2008 City Council adopted Transportation Master Plan.
The Old Town Transit Shop is your connection for Passes, Tokens, SmarTrip cards, schedule and transit information for all bus, rail, and train service to the Washington Metro area.
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News Farewell to Weapons Trailer for Otomo's Short Peace English-Subtitled
posted on 2014-02-19 15:25 EST
The European branch of Namco Bandai Games began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for A Farewell to Weapons short in Katsuhiro Otomo's Short Peace project.
Short Peace is a compilation of four short films: Otomo's Combustible, Shuhei Morita's Tsukumo (Possessions), Hiroaki Ando's Gambo, and Hajime Katoki's Buki yo Saraba (A Farewell to Weapons) with an opening by Koji Morimoto. Katoki (mechanical designs in Gundam franchise, Super Robot Wars) wrote and directed A Farewell to Weapons based on a short story of the same name by Otomo. Tomohisa Ishikawa (Appleseed: Ex Machina, Kurokami The Animation) scored the music, and Katoki and Kimitoshi Yamane (Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop) collaborated on the mechanical designs.
Namco Bandai Games will release all four anime shorts, as well as the fifth part, the Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day 2D-scrolling action game, on the PlayStation 3 in the West this spring. The compilation will be exclusive to the PlayStation Network in North America and Europe.
Gōichi Suda or "Suda 51" (No More Heroes, Lollipop Chainsaw, Liberation Maiden, Killer is Dead) and Yōhei Kataoka (Tokyo Jungle) oversaw the development of the game. Suda 51 handled the game's scenario, and Kataoka directing the game and handling the game design and artwork. Daisuke Uchiyama is serving as chief producer, and Makoto Asanuma is serving as executive producer.
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The following calls were among those handled by the Antioch police June 30-July 6, according to information provided by the Police Department.
Assault: At 12:34 p.m. a female in the 4000 block of Galenez Way suffered a burn to the arm after the husband threw hot food at her.
Burglary: At 2:07 p.m. a residence in the 3300 block of Oakley Road was reported burglarized resulting in the theft of guns, a Wii game console and a computer.
Burglary: At 7:55 p.m. a residence in the 1200 block of Almondwood Drive was burglarized by a three to four individuals. The resident hid upstairs during the burglary.
Shots fired: At 1:10 p.m. several gunshots were heard in the vicinity of Peppertree Way and Sycamore Drive.
Robbery: At 4:54 p.m. a male was robbed by three males near a bus stop in the 100 block of East 18th Street.
Assault: At 8:41 p.m. a female at a residence on Ranch Hollow Way reported she was assaulted by a male. Victim suffered multiple bruises.
Burglary: At 12:10 p.m. a residence in the 4800 block of Lefebvre Way was reported burglarized. Entry was made by breaking a window.
Burglary: At 12:51 p.m. a residence in the 1000 block of Minaker Drive was burglarized.
Burglary: At 5:24 p.m. a residence in the 3000 block of Kodiak Street was reported burglarized. Entry was made through a rear window.
Robbery: At 2:56 a.m. someone was robbed by two males in the 900 block of West 10th Street. Take was cash.
Assault: At 5:32 a.m. someone was assaulted by a male in the 5000 block of Canada Hills Way. Victim suffered a head injury.
Robbery: At 5:04 p.m. Sutter Delta Medical Center reported a male was in the emergency room for treatment of injuries suffered during a robbery.
Domestic dispute: At 12:91 a.m. officers responded to the 2700 block of Hillcrest Avenue of the report of a domestic dispute.
Burglary: At 8:15 a.m. a residence in the 2800 block of Bellflower Drive was reported burglarized.
Robbery: At 2:35 p.m. someone was robbed in the 2000 block of Verne Roberts Circle.
Robbery: At 3:35 p.m. three males robbed someone at the McDonalds on Mahogany Way.
Burglary: At 6:02 p.m. a residence in the 3700 block of Garrow Drive was reported burglarized. Entry was made through a window.
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devotional post # 1,983
Luk 12:35 “Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning;
Luk 12:36 be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
When I was growing up in rural Florida, my parents and siblings would tell me to get my working britches on. That meant it was time for work, so be ready. That is essentially what Jesus is telling his followers here. Instead of fussing about what flashy clothing you could wear, get dressed for service because your master could return at any moment. When he comes, be ready.
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Ok, I actually listed most of them in my http://www.librarything.com , a gift my husband gave me that is supposed to last my lifetime. I have yet to catalog all my books, but I have
As I figure out where these will go in our schooling year, I might let you know. OR, I might think it is too boring, or irrelevant to your life, and never let you know. HE HE HE HO HO HO HA HA HA
HI HI HI HU HU HU HY HY HY (I think I already said that!)
thanks for reading,
ps. I WILL let you know how The Prisoner of Zenda is, I am REALLY curious.
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(Cricinfo) Zimbabwe opted to bat in a must-win game against West Indies in Bulawayo. Though overhead conditions were overcast, the pitch was expected to be another good one for batting, with just a light covering of dry grass.
Both teams made changes from their previous matches – Hamilton Masakadza came in for Elton Chigumbura for Zimbabwe, while West Indies replaced the injured Shannon Gabriel and Sulieman Benn with Miguel Cummins and Devendra Bishoo.
West Indies sat four points ahead of Zimbabwe on the points table, meaning that the hosts required nothing less than a win to progress to the final with Sri Lanka. The sides’ earlier clash in this tri-series ended in a pulsating tie.
Zimbabwe: 1 Chamu Chibhabha, 2 Brian Chari, 3 Hamilton Masakadza, 4 Craig Ervine, 5 Sikandar Raza, 6 Sean Williams, 7 Peter Moor (wk), 8 Graeme Cremer (capt), 9 Donald Tiripano, 10 Tendai Chisoro, 11 Chris Mpofu.
West Indies: 1 Johnson Charles, 2 Evin Lewis, 3 Kraigg Brathwaite, 4 Shai Hope (wk), 5 Jonathan Carter, 6 Rovman Powell, 7 Jason Holder (capt), 8 Carlos Brathwaite, 9 Ashley Nurse, 10 Devendra Bishoo, 11 Miguel Cummins | <urn:uuid:626892b2-4263-478a-b2cf-88d6c4828533> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://newssourcegy.com/sports/cricket-zimbabwe-bat-masakadza-replaces-chigumbura/ | 2017-06-26T07:04:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320685.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626064746-20170626084746-00111.warc.gz | en | 0.86716 | 293 | [
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Reggina have already claimed a fee had been agreed of £8.8million to bring the 24-year-old to Eastlands.
Foti told www.gazzetta.it: "The negotiations are going forward and there is a willingness for an agreement. There are no problems at the moment and I think it will be shortly concluded."
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"Yeah, the doctors had pronounced me dead," recalls Ronnie Moore matter-of-fact, pondering the moment when his great career was ended by a crash in Australia 27 years ago.
Yet as he gazed wistfully round the Wimbledon Stadium where he was once so celebrated that he might have been David Beckham in leathers, none of the awe-struck old fans and stadium staff who'd flocked to welcome him back were the least bit surprised to witness the resurrection. After all, to them, Moore was always 'Mirac', the worker of miracles.
Now he was back to help fashion another one. Speedway died here and in the rest of London 11 years ago when Wimbledon Dons, perhaps Britain's greatest club, folded through apathy and financial woes which seemed to symbolise the ailing domestic fortunes of the one-time boom sport.
Down Plough Lane, though, they say speedway's coming home. On Thursday, the reformed Dons meet Belle Vue in a special meeting to launch the sport's comeback to the capital. Forget the dogs and the stock cars; the old stadium, which for 63 years housed the country's most venerable dirt track, will vroom up again for the return of a spectacle which once had them queuing round the block for hours here on race night.
That was the fifties and early sixties when riders were feted as heroes and no hero was more heroic than Moore, the handsome little Tasmanian-born, Kiwi-moulded wonder boy. At 17, he was the youngest world championship finalist; at 21, the youngest world champion, even when riding with a broken leg encased in a metal brace; at 26, winner again, this time with a mere broken ankle.
Yet Wimbledon revered him, not just for his courage and riding mastery, but for a modest selflessness which made him the perfect team rider and, alongside his fellow New Zealand great Barry Briggs, saw him transform the club into the best Britain had ever seen, lifting the national league title seven times in eight years.
From 1950, in three separate reigns over the next 22 years, he was the prince of Plough Lane, but never too lordly not to share a fag and a beer with his adoring fans after a meeting. He never thought of himself. Only Wimbledon.
So for the relaunch, they just had to get the king back. "You know, emotionally, this really hits you in the guts. You're bringing back too many bloody memories," he grins, glancing at a splendid new mural here which captures him blazing away with trademark facescarf billowing behind him.
See that stretch of dog track? It's where he ended up on his first practice run in 1950 after careering into the safety fence. And that first corner over there? In 1963, he'd had a crash where both he and his bike had soared up to the lights.
"Unfortunately, though, I beat the bloody bike down and it smashed on top of my leg." So before the pain got too unbearable, he straightened up the broken bone which had ripped through his leathers.
"Oh, an occupational hazard," he shrugs with the nonchalance of someone who'd grown up with the sensation of danger ever since he was a 13-year-old partnering his dad in a "Wall of Death" routine in New Zealand. For a couple of years, he once gave up speedway to race Coopers, but his wife Jill persuaded him to pack in because five of his pals had died in car racing. Ultimately, though, speedway's constant lure almost proved fatal.
In January 1975, by now only an occasional rider and having been persuaded by Briggs and Ivan Mauger to take part in one of their special challenge meetings in Australia, Moore clipped the back of an opponent's wheel and was hurled head first to the track. He can remember nothing but Mauger, who'd been in the race, told him how he ripped off his helmet to find he'd swallowed his tongue and had his eye hanging from its socket.
He had suffered massive internal injuries and a broken skull. At first, the doctors were sure he had died but somehow he clung on after they'd drilled holes in the skull to ease the pressure. For months afterwards, he was on the critical list; for two years, he had a complete memory black-out, unable even to put a name to his wife and four daughters. To this day, his hearing and balance is impaired.
The medics said he'd be on drugs for the rest of his life, but he refused to take them and suffered untold pain. They told him he'd have to use two walking sticks, but he told them to "shove 'em up your a***". They ordered him not to drink, but caught him having a beer. They demanded he stay in hospital, but he discharged himself to watch the FA Cup Final at home on telly.
He sounds as if he was the patient from hell but it must have been this sheer bloody-mindedness which enabled him to recover sufficiently to run a successful foundry business and set up his own track in New Zealand. The memory's returned too.
"Bloody fantastic nights here, I remember. Huge queues, packed houses, you could hear their din beneath your helmet," he sighs.
"It's why I never wanted to leave. Everyone in that crowd was a part of me. I got offered a fortune by other promoters to go to their clubs but my life was here at Wimbledon for 20 years. I couldn't desert it."
When he eventually retired, he heard of Wimbledon's - and British speedway's - subsequent decline from afar with sadness, but not too much surprise. The slicker tracks and improved bike motors had started producing races which were effectively all over after the first bend. Instead of being a test of rider, he felt it increasingly resembled a test of machine.
It dawned on him just how much the sport's profile had evaporated when he was last here and the stadium gateman wouldn't let him in to look around, which is a bit like Pele being told to shove off at the Maracana. Yet, like everyone else who's kept faith with a sport which never died but just became invisible, he's confident that the new Wimbledon "can't fail".
On Thursday, the new Dons will introduce one of the new characters they hope will draw a new generation of fans to Plough Lane. He's Mark Phillips, the self-styled "Undertaker" who zooms round wearing a black top hat and has "RIP" scrawled on the back of his race jacket.
Yet when a grandad of eight opens the meeting with a couple of smooth demonstration laps, just like the ones he still churns out back in Christchurch while training a new breed of teenage riders, even the Undertaker will have to doff his hat to the man who came back from the dead. There won't be a dry eye in the house.
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People’s Remixing Competition 209 benefitted from a rebound of attendance following the holiday season. This was perhaps due to the dual source selections; entrants could choose to remix either Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Bahamut Lagoon for the round. sggod89 went for the latter game, infusing the material with hard rock sounds and flourishes of orchestral toward the end. DjMokram also trudged along the Desert Land Daphira displaying his arrangement skill with a rare electronic take on the tune. The only Sonic 2 remix came from evktalo, who mostly worked with the MIDI file to create his entry. The Soundevotion Competition had a smaller-than-usual turnout of two entries; Shadowbane put together his industrial track between Christmas festivities and his own birthday, while chunter composed a light affair with guitar treatment.
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When Canice Ejoh, 17, of Brampton, Ontario, asked his parents if he could invite some friends to their mansion on Friday night, they said yes.
It was supposed to be a party of about 60 – a small group, considering that, well, it’s a mansion.
Or, rather, it was a mansion, still under years-long construction.
Now it looks like it’s a set for a sequel to Project X, the 2012 film about a house party gone terribly, social-media-ishly wrong.
An estimated 1,500 to 2,000 gatecrashers showed up, some arriving in cars, some in a tour bus.
The damage to the house reportedly included about 8 broken windows.
People were climbing ladders to get in, according to The Record.
The Daily Mail shows photos of the aftermath, including what once must have been a lovely wrought iron banister but now looks like it was attacked by metal-eating moths.
The new décor comes courtesy of taking one mansion, adding some teenagers, and stirring in the hashtag #MansionParty.
According to the Daily Mail, 60 police cars showed up to break up the party, with police having been called in from every district in Ontario.
A neighbor who lives across the street from the mansion said that the mansion owners’ son had informed them about the party on Friday morning.
He told (us) that they were just going to have a small party.
The neighbor said there was a lineup of cars on the street at one point, and “packs” of teens in groups of 10 to 20 were walking up to try to get into the already-stuffed house:
From my window, I could see there was literally no room to walk in the house.
Police first heard of the party when it started trending on Twitter. Several calls were also placed to police to complain about the noise.
When they showed up, they found about 200 cars parked on the street.
Damage is estimated at $70,000 (over £41,000). Police reportedly made several arrests for intoxication and for assaulting police officers, as partygoers gleefully posed in front of police cruisers for photo opps.
It’s probably not much of a consolation to the Ejoh family, but for what it’s worth, at least the house wasn’t furnished.
That means they won’t have to deal with vomit-saturated rugs, as the Seale family did when their son threw a party that was publicly (oops!) posted on Facebook and wound up trashing their £1 million London home.
Of course, none of this is necessarily Canice Ejoh’s fault. When we invite people into our homes, nowadays we should all ponder the possibility of our guests bringing ticking time bombs stashed in their purses and pockets.
I’m talking about mobile phones, of course, which enable partygoers to spread the invitation to any yahoo on the planet via photos and updates on Twitter and on public Facebook posts.
Naked Security has tips to keep kids and teens safe online.
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This week we have seen evidence that rising CO2 levels may affect the nutrition in common crops, the Labour party is sounding like they may enforce health, and the difference in fruits and vegetables for cardiovascular health.
In the first study of its kind to resolve whether rising carbon dioxide concentrations are a threat to human nutrition, researchers have discovered that if levels reach those expected by 2050, crops yielding a large portion of the global population’s dietary zinc and iron will have reduced concentrations of those nutrients… Read more here.
A recent study, claiming to be the first of its kind, has linked the rising carbon dioxide levels with a threat to human nutrition. In this study, wheat and rice (two very commonly consumed crops globally) were grown in an environment which contains the same carbon dioxide concentrations as expected by the year 2050. The study found that these crops had significantly lower levels of iron and zinc, two elements which many people are already deficient in, especially in poorer parts of the world.
With nutrients in crops steadily decreasing due to poor quality soil and over farming, it is getting increasingly harder to get all the nutrients we require just from diet alone. This, now coupled with the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels makes the future of nutrition even more concerning.
Ed Miliband is facing a Labour revolt over secret plans for a ‘nanny state’ crackdown on drinking, smoking and junk food… Read more here.
This week the Labour party leader Ed Miliband has announced plans to try and improve the health of the country, which, some people would see as ‘nanny state’ plans. These plans include:
- Banning sport sponsorship by drinks companies, which could include both high sugar drinks and alcoholic drinks.
- Enforcing a minimum alcohol price to prevent excessive drinking.
- Banning supermarkets from selling drinks and sweets near tills.
- New laws to reduce the amount of foods high in salt, sugar and fat aimed at children.
- Getting half the population to regularly exercise within 10 years.
- A target to have this next generation of children to be the first smoke-free generation.
Granted, some of these plans do seem like they are on the verge of forcing people to be healthier, in particular, having half the population exercising in 10 years (although how this will be achieved isn’t explained). However, I would say that many of these aren’t actually a bad idea and are not as extreme or outrageous as the Daily Mail suggest. For example, the displays near the till seem are designed to promote impulse purchases of sugary foods. If people want to buy a chocolate bar, sure, no problem, but supermarkets know that they can make more sales of sweets chocolate if they are placed by the till because people impulse buy. I think it would be interesting to see how fruit sales would change in instead of these sugary foods being sold by the till, single bananas or apples were sold instead. I can imagine people would impulse buy these foods as they do chocolate now.
I’d be interested to know how Ed Miliband plans to get half the population exercising, and how he plans to eliminate smoking, but I do think more political focus needs to be on health and will be following how these plans develop.
Every 200 grams of fruit cuts the chances of a stroke by 32 per cent while the same amount of vegetables reduces the risk by 11 per cent, a study found… Read more here.
A study, published in the journal Stroke, has shown that fruit and vegetable consumption can dramatically reduce the risk of stroke, even when consumed in quantities lower than government guidelines (which are already quite low). Although this isn’t really new, and certainly isn’t a “secret” (as the Express reported), it does further solidify the evidence that fruit/ vegetables are beneficial for the cardiovascular system. Most people know that fruit and vegetables are beneficial for the cardiovascular system, it is well documented and thoroughly researched. However, what is interesting is that the study distinguishes between the relative benefit of fruit and vegetables.
The study has claimed that vegetables are much more beneficial for the cardiovascular system compared to fruits, which seems to slightly go against the government guidelines of having 5 fruit OR vegetables a day. This study suggests that consuming 5 vegetables a day will be much more beneficial than consuming 5 fruits, particularly with regards to cardiovascular health. For me, this isn’t very surprising, and if you look at the micro-nutrient content of vegetables, they are contain much more vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals than the majority of fruit. Although many people may have already made the assumption that vegetables are healthier than fruit, I think this is the first time it has been shown in a study. Perhaps the government guidelines should be eat 5 vegetables/ fruit, instead of 5 fruit/ vegetables. | <urn:uuid:9d9299da-dc0d-4326-b619-9718ee9bfe3e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.thehealthcloud.co.uk/nutrition-threatened-by-co2/ | 2017-06-27T01:48:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320887.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627013832-20170627033832-00191.warc.gz | en | 0.964713 | 985 | [
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conclusion “The Final Quest” is a series of deceptive visions,
dreams, trances and supposed visitations to “heaven” that
have been sent to lead Joyner and his followers astray. These call for
believers to focus on engaging in harmful spiritual warfare against
other Christians in the end times. Joyner’s side attempt to convert
all other Christians to their strange new beliefs, by sending their
new “revelations” upon them against their will. This is
highly controlling and parallels the casting of spells within witchcraft.
Joyner refers to this as the great Christian Civil War. Controlling
the church is revealed as Joyner’s main quest.
This book also encourages people to seek prophetic messages from the deceased
instead of trusting in God’s Holy Spirit for these. One deceptive
spirit imitates the Apostle Paul and tells Joyner that the first Apostles
were all failures and that we cannot trust two thirds of the New Testament
for teaching. Joyner is then encouraged to seek after new revelations to
add to and replace the doctrines in scripture. Joyner calls upon other spirits
of the dead/deceased to return to earth as great white eagles to assist
his side in gaining control of the body of Christ. His side are also given
prophetic vision by these white eagles in much the same way as New Agers
are assisted by spirit guides. This reliance on the spirits of the dead
is occult spiritualism not biblical Christianity.
Joyner discovers new revelations and gifting as he climbs up a spiritual
mountain, none of which bear any resemblance to anything described in the
bible. Joyner also believes that Jesus has told him to return to the lost
messages of a deceased minister who, from the lengthy description, can be
none other than William Branham. As most people today realise Branham was
influenced by deception and claimed that the pyramids and signs of the zodiac
carried as much spiritual authority as the bible. Branham ‘s followers
expect him to return to earth in spirit form in the end times in much the
same way as Joyner predicts the great white eagles will do. Joyner appears
to be attempting to prepare parts of the church for this already by holding
meetings each year to honour the past healing revivalists of the last century,
including Branham. Joyner claims that this will enable us to acquire the
anointing that was once upon them instead of seeking God for His Spirit.
This is the way Joyner and his associates intend to birth a healing revival
in the end times but this is all based on spiritualism and idolising the
Joyner believes that with the help of the white eagles/the spirits of deceased
saints, his side will gain control of the church and that all Christians
who disagree with him will then be cast out of the body of Christ. He predicts
that he and some of his followers will then emerge as judges over the church.
He predicts that he and these judges will then bind up Satan themselves
and go on to govern the entire world with all men flock into the kingdom,
including all unbelievers. However according to the bible it will be the
antichrist and his beast empire who will rule the world in the very end
times not the Christian church. There is no mention of the return of Christ
anywhere in this book, instead Joyner believers that he and the dreaded
warriors will accomplish Gods purposes without the Second Coming taking
place. This reveals the deceptive path that Joyner’s vision and dreams
can lead people down.
Today Joyner is emerging as a prominent figure within the Catholic Order
of the Knights of Malta and as such has sworn to promote the aims of the
Pope and Catholic Church. I believe the Lord has shown me, in the following
article, that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church will promote the antichrists
beast empire in the end times, “The
Coming One World Religion". The
deceptive New Age spirituality and false teaching contained within “The
Final Quest” will line people up with Satan’s plans in the end
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For the last few days we’ve headed off on walks rather than planning to visit a specific attraction. On one day we wandered down the South Bank and the Embankment past some of the most recognisable parts of the city. I needed somewhere to sit and wait for a phone call from my GP about sorting medication. Couldn’t have found anywhere better than right opposite the Houses of Parliament with Big Ben donging away in the background.
After Paddington we moved on to Islington where we were extremely lucky to find a free spot to moor – someone was just pulling out as we arrived. It’s provided us with a great base for exploring the East End – and it’s right beside a good pub – the Rosemary Branch.
Last Sunday we headed out to walk to Brick Lane for another treat from Beigel Bakes. While we were strolling through Bethnal Green we came across this colourful and joyful celebration of the Bangladeshi New Year with its performances, parades and food stalls.
Just up from where we’re moored we spotted this flowery boat which my mate Nige christened ‘the boat-anical gardens’…..
…and in a park near Angel, this artwork in a tree.
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Sri Lanka’s registration of motor vehicles has increased substantially during 2015 by 55.7 per cent to 668,907, compared to an increase of 31.5 per cent recorded in the previous year, the Central Bank said. Accordingly, sharp growth rates of 172.4 per cent and 89.7 per cent were reported in relation to motor car and dual-purpose vehicle registrations, respectively. Further, both three wheeler and motor cycle registrations increased significantly by 63.9 per cent and 35.9 percent respectively, during the same period.
“The increase in motor vehicle registrations in 2015, was driven by the increase in disposable income, low interest rates for vehicle leasing and relatively low taxes on hybrid and electrical vehicles and on motor cars with an engine capacity of less than 1,000cc. However, with the upward tax revision on motor vehicle imports, discontinuation of the concessionary tax permits for public servants as proposed by the Budget 2016, restrictions imposed by the Central Bank on financing of motor vehicle purchases, depreciation of the rupee and the gradual increase in interest rates, motor vehicle registrations continued to decline sharply from January 2016,” the Central Bank’s 2015 Annual Report stated. | <urn:uuid:e2492c1b-b8a5-4127-a677-865684dd47f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://nation.lk/online/2016/04/30/vehicle-registrations-accelerate-in-2015-sri-lankas-registration-of-motor-vehicles-has-increased-substantially-during-2015-by-55-7-per-cent-to-668907-compared-to-an-increase-of-31-5-per-ce.html | 2017-06-28T15:50:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.962692 | 244 | [
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
I am a smoker who has for the last 4 years occationally coughed spots of blood, usually when I have bronchitis or a sinus infection. I have had a chest x-ray and there were no masses on my lungs. They did find some scars. I usually feel like something is draining into my throat and tickling which makes me cough. That is when I can sometimes see a small spot of blood. I also sometimes see blood when I blow my nose. I work in a very dusty environment. I am worried and would like some input as to what this could be.
Thank you for your question. There are several potential causes for coughing up blood from chronic bronchitis, sinus infections to more serious causes such as malignancies. It is important to realize that cigarette smoke exposure can injure the lining from the sinus passages down to the airways of the lungs. This can result in inflammation and inability to clear both particulates and infectious organisms that we are all exposed to on a daily basis. Smokers are at higher risk of such problems as chronic bronchitis.
I would suggest that you discuss further with your primary care provider and work towards quitting smoking if you have not already done so.
Patrick Nana-Sinkam, MD
Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep
College of Medicine
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'HAPPINESS IS WHEN WHAT YOU THINK, WHAT YOU SAY AND WHAT YOU DO ARE IN HARMONY." GANDHI.
I came across this quote a few weeks ago and it stuck with me. I tried to think of situations where this wouldn't be true and couldn't think of any.
Initially all I could think of was "What you see is what you get", the more direct (and do I dare say 'European') approach to communicating and interacting. This has gotten me in some trouble before, being labeled an "aggressive communicator" at work when I felt I was just objectively stating my thoughts and beliefs and acting on them.
I guess there's a more profound layer to it too, especially when it comes to personal things. When your words and deeds reflect your inside private thoughts, it puts your true nature out there for everybody to see and know. Therefore it makes you more vulnerable.
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Featuring a library, a rooftop terrace and a seasonal outdoor pool, Porto Fira Suites lies in a metropolitan area of Santorini Island close to Akrotiri Archaeological site, Mnemossyne Artists House and Santorini Waterpark. Built in 1989, the hotel is a combination of Cycladic architecture and contemporary facilities.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
We're now taking pre-orders for the upcoming 7" EP from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's GET RAD, entitled Choose Your Own Adventure. This new 7" follows up last year's I Can Always Live LP (Gilead Media/Hyperrealist) with five amazingly catchy new tracks of fast, energetic and abrasive hardcore from members of Herds, High on Crime, Seven Days of Samsara, Since By Man, etc. This is being released in collaboration with Get Rad and Halo of Flies Records.
The 7" is limited to 500 copies, with 376 on a black/dark grey vinyl and 124 on various colors of vinyl. It will come packaged in a silkscreened chipboard cover (preview mockup above) and an 8 page Choose Your Own Adventure-styled booklet with illustrations by Matt Gauck.
The vinyl is already pressed so we're just waiting on the packaging which should be finished shortly. Pre-orders get first dibs on the limited colored vinyl. We're hoping to start shipping these in early March.
Pre-order now at:
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Continuing on the success of the SP Tools Junior Sprockets programs, the upcoming event on the Gold Coast in Queensland has reached capacity.
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2010 Supercars Champion James Courtney will be among the group of instructors at the Norwell Motorplex on the Gold Coast to share his knowledge with the participants.
“To see another Junior Sprockets day reach capacity is very pleasing and highlights the great work by everyone involved,” said Karting Australia CEO Kelvin O’Reilly.
“Having such a high level of interest in the program certainly shows that it’s hitting the mark for the new karter.
“Over the past two years we’ve seen a great take up rate of participants into licence holders and we look forward to this trend continuing as the program expands into the future.”
Limited places are still available for the other SP Tools Junior Sprockets programs to be held in Gladstone, Townsville, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and Canberra throughout the remainder of 2017.
To secure a place for your child please click HERE.
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If a country is governed wisely,
its inhabitants will be content.
They enjoy the labor of their hands
and don’t waste time inventing
Since they dearly love their homes,
they aren’t interested in travel.
There may be a few wagons and boats,
but these don’t go anywhere.
There may be an arsenal of weapons,
but nobody ever uses them.
People enjoy their food,
take pleasure in being with their families,
spend weekends working in their gardens,
delight in the doings of the neighborhood.
And even though the next country is so close
that people can hear its roosters crowing and its dogs barking,
they are content to die of old age
without ever having gone to see it.
(Tao Te Ching, chapter 80, translation by Stephen Mitchell)
This is chapter 80 of 81 chapters in the “Tao Te Ching.” I have been cycling through Lao Tzu’s book on the art of living, taking a chapter each day, for about three years now. I didn’t have any idea that I would still be doing this now, when I first got started with it. I also had no idea how much I would gain in the process. It has been a daily meditation for me, thinking through each chapter and adding my own commentary each day. When I first started reading through the Tao Te Ching, what stood out to me was how much I agreed with Lao Tzu on everything he had to say about the art of governing. But that wasn’t any life-changing revelation. He was only saying things with which I had long been in 100% agreement. Much like what Henry David Thoreau had to say, “That government is best which governs least,” Lao Tzu tells would be leaders to trust people and leave them alone. But what has been life-changing for me, is all that Lao Tzu had to say about being content with a simple and ordinary life. This is what he wanted leaders to demonstrate for people. This is the purpose of leaders: to be an example. Show people how to be content with their simple and ordinary lives. It is the exact opposite of what our so-called leaders do. But Lao Tzu didn’t hold out a lot of hope that powerful men and women would ever humble themselves to the point of being true leaders. Ultimately, we need to learn the lessons for ourselves. As I have been taking a chapter each day, my own life has been transformed. Thoreau said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Somehow, my own journey was not quite as “deliberate” and the only journal I have to show for myself has been my daily postings from the Tao Te Ching. I am not living out in the woods by a pond. And, I continue to avail myself of all sorts of modern conveniences. But I have learned one very profound lesson. And that is how to be content with my simple and ordinary life. I had my simple life somewhat thrust on me a little over three years ago. I took a few weeks to come to terms with it. And then I embraced it. It hasn’t always been easy. But my regrets are not about the last three years. My regrets all stem from the many years before, when I was so far away from true contentment.
Why was I not content? Why are you not content? Because I am a libertarian and an anarchist, to boot, it is easy for me to point the finger of blame at our so-called leaders. After all, Lao Tzu does say, right here, in today’s chapter, “If a country is governed wisely, its inhabitants will be content.” But let’s not forget what he said in yesterday’s chapter. “If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame.” My failure, a little over three years ago, was an opportunity. Sure, there were others at which I could point the finger of blame. But I knew in my own heart, that wasn’t going to get me anywhere. I needed to see it for the opportunity it was. And, go for it. I have never been more happy, more content than where I am with my life, today.
In today’s chapter, Lao Tzu paints an idyllic picture of contentment with a simple and ordinary life. Reading these lines always conjures up images of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Shire. I figure most of my readers are already quite familiar with what life in the Shire was like, so I won’t go into the details. I just know that I would be very content to be a hobbit, living in the Shire. I love my little garden. I love smoking my pipe. And, I love my beer dark. You can even get it in pints rather than half-pints if you are one of the big people.
But I am not a hobbit. And I don’t live in the Shire. Yet, I have found a way to be content with my own simple and ordinary life. And some of you might not conjure up images of the Shire when you are thinking of what it would take for you to be content. I just imagine some of you, when reading through Lao Tzu’s lines, on enjoying the labor of their hands and not wasting time inventing labor-saving machines, and loving their homes so much they aren’t interested in travel, are coming up with all kinds of objections. What is wrong with labor-saving machines? And, what is so wrong about loving to travel? But let’s not miss the forest for the trees, my friends. The question isn’t what is wrong with these things; the question is, why aren’t you content?
Do you enjoy your food? Do you take pleasure in being with your family? If not, why not? I am not making light of your dilemma. Believe me. It is horrible to live a life of discontent. I know. I lived one.
Too many, I am afraid, are going to read through these lines and think the people that Lao Tzu is describing cannot really be content; because they cannot imagine themselves being content living that way. But hold on there. You are projecting. The reality is that these people are very content, and you can be too. That doesn’t mean that you have to live like this. That isn’t the point. Lao Tzu isn’t telling us how we all need to live; and, we better be content to live this way, too. He is telling us to be content with a simple and ordinary life; and, you are free to choose for yourself what a simple and ordinary life is for you.
For me, that meant determining just how little I needed. I have discovered through trial and error, that I already have everything I need. That is also something Lao Tzu has been telling us, all along. I don’t want to leave anyone with a false impression; by world standards, I am far from impoverished. I have plenty to eat. I have a roof over my head. I have clothing. I did learn how to let go of desires. Because I don’t have everything I might want to have. But I do have everything I need. Actually more. And I am content. That is the thing that Lao Tzu has taught me. How to be content, not with some others’ simple and ordinary life, but with my own. | <urn:uuid:52105b22-1f2c-461a-904c-3bf114927ecd> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.libertariantaoist.com/?p=1356 | 2017-06-23T04:58:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320003.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623045423-20170623065423-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.976017 | 1,661 | [
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Thursday Terrain Corner
So, not tabletop gaming related, but as a Chicago native, waking up this morning to hear the Cubs won the World Series was pretty awesome, even though I’ve not followed baseball for quite a long time.
Too bad we don’t have MLB Showdown or that MLB Clix game around anymore.
Anyway, that aside, let’s talk about making sure your gaming tabletop looks as good as possible.
Today in the Terrain Corner we have: 15% Off All Sarissa Single Terrain Pieces At Warlord Games, New Releases From ESLO: 3D Game Elements for Boardgames, Dicey Ventures Running Earth Brewery Kickstarter, New Snowfields Dropfleet Commander Game Mat from Deep-Cut Studio, and Tabletop World Posts Watermill Sneak Peek.
Roll up, roll up and get you battlefields ready for tournament season!
Here at Warlord we’ve been working closely with our great friends at Sarissa Precision to develop our now huge range of scenics, catering for every historical and sci-fi battlefield. To celebrate we are giving you the chance to build your battlefields and army displays with a huge 15% discount on ALL Sarissa Precision single items (whilst stocks last).
Hello to All!
We have a new online store! (Note: reseller and customer data could not be moved over, so please re-register. There is a €10.00 EUR new registration coupon… but only for a short time!
And we have same new releases:
We have added some new 30 x 30cm boards in different designs: Fantasy Vault, sci-fi, and outdoor.
This is perfect for some boardgames, if you like things a little bit more 3D. The boards have also a grid.
The next releases are some sets for boardgames. We have the first for fantasy and sci-fi games.
015096 – German house for 15mm or 20mm wargames
0292 – Sci-fi outpost for 28mm (we can do this also for 20mm or 15mm… please contact us)
And Roman roads for 28mm.
In Mid-2016, Dicey Ventures launched a new line of stylized gaming terrain, the Elemental Village. After the launch of our webstore, we held a poll to see what the community wanted to see next, and the Earth Brewery won! Kicking off Wave 2 of the Elemental Village models which will be released throughout 2017, the Brewery fits in well on both chibi boards and wargaming battlegrounds at our new 28mm scale. Instead of resin, the Brewery will be sold as 3D prints, allowing for drastic price reductions from the original Elemental Village Kickstarter campaign, as well as more affordable shipping. Have a 3D printer? Pledge for the STL file and print the Brewery however you’d like. No printer? No problem! Our goal has always been to make the village accessible to every gamer, which has led to the development of our “We’ll Print It For You!” service. This campaign will act as a pilot program for that service, launching in Quarter One of 2017.
New game mat release! Third release in a row is a dedication to Dropfleet Commander game. The latest design represents cold, rocky and hostile planet surface. The mat comes in 4×4 size, pvc, cloth or mousepad material options. Needless to say, it follows our way to deliver you the most striking gaming experience. Check it out at our gallery and pick your favorite from the trio!
Here is a sneak peek of our latest project. For this Christmas we decided to make a Watermill. The model will be highly detailed and full of character. It will be released around November 15.
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MSTRKRFT and Jay Ferguson make the Hart beat for Vice Magazine’s TIFF party
Even the most devout hipsters can’t avoid the TIFF craze—hordes of them attended Vice Magazine’s annual Festival Ball at Hart House on Thursday. Though the celebs sighted are locals—we spotted MSTRKRFT, singer Gentleman Reg and Sloan’s Jay Ferguson with Eye Weekly critic Stuart Berman (a.k.a. anyone you might see at Wrongbar on a Friday night)—these folks might be a lot more popular among this crowd than, say, Jennifer Aniston or Patrick Dempsey.
Crystal Castles was the not-so-secret guest star, finishing the night off under the watchful eye of portraits of old men in suits in the Great Hall.
Why is Hart House hosting such a boozefest, with free drinks, CK One and Vitaminwater samples? Should they act their age and stick to hosting luncheons and Remembrance Day ceremonies?
Nah, because until the beer ran out, this was likely one of the most fun parties in the city.—Melita Kuburas
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Sorry about the silence. Life, kids, birthdays and loads of fun has been getting in the way of blogging. A little bit of sewing too, although not as much as I’d like. My spare time is quite precious these days and I’ve been spending it all at my sewing machine.
Anyway. I had so much fun making the Monkey Tee for the Little Dude that I made more. 5 more to be precise. They’re really so easy to make, I couldn’t resist.
They were all made from old tee-shirts, some were mine, some were Mr A’s.
The neck bands and cuffs were also cut out of old tee-shirts for some and small pieces of ribbing (the black and the cream ones) for the others. It doesn’t require much of it so the overall cost is still very low.
The short-sleeved tees are in the size 0-3 months, the long-sleeved ones are 3-6 months.
With all that, I’m thinking of making still more for winter. I have plenty of tee-shirts left to recycle and plenty of applique templates to try, hehe.
As you can see, I’m using this blogpost as an excuse to bombard you with photos. Hope you don’t mind.
Isn’t he totally cute?
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BUCKHANNON – West Virginia Wesleyan College recently inducted five new members and one team into its 2017 athletic hall of fame.
West Virginia Wesleyan director of athletics Randy Tenney and vice president of advancement Robert Skinner welcomed Jack Fraser ‘59 (track and field, cross country), Susan Graham-Gray ‘91 (cross country), Allison Griffith ‘04 (swimming), Chris Harrison ‘85 (basketball), Caroline Hornor Ramsey (coach) and the 1995 volleyball team.
Fraser was a standout middle distance runner for the Bobcats during a Golden Age of the Wesleyan track program. He was an integral part of the title teams that rolled to four consecutive WVIAC Championships from 1955-58. Since graduation, Fraser has been a major contributor and supporter of the Bobcat track, cross country and tennis programs.
Gray was the first Lady Bobcat to win a league individual title in cross country, racing to the league MVP honors in 1987. She was a primary piece to Wesleyan’s first two WVIAC titles in 1989 and 1990. After college she became a national class marathoner and qualified for the 2008 Olympic Trials.
Griffith was a big star during a strong stretch of teams for Wesleyan swimming. She was a five-time All-American and broke five school records. Three of these still stand today; the 100-breastroke, 200-breastroke, and the 400-medley relay. She won 18 titles in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference and helped lead the Lady Bobcats to four league titles from 2001-04.
Harrison was part of some of the most successful men’s basketball teams in school history. He was the starting center on the 1982-83 team that was NAIA National Runner-up that went 32-3. In 1983-84, the team was 32-6, and made the National Quarterfinals. He was picked in the sixth round by the Utah Jazz in the NBA Draft. He was a two-time All-Conference performer in the WVIAC and was an NAIA All-American. He scored over 1,000 career points and averaged 9.4 rebounds for his career.
Ramsey was one of the true pioneers of women’s athletics at Wesleyan. She was the school’s first women’s basketball coach and also coached field hockey during her time here in the 1970s. She is also one of the top golfers in state history, winning a total of 13 state titles in either the State Amateur or the State Senior Open.
In Wesleyan’s first year of NCAA membership, the volleyball team the made the NCAA Division II National Quarterfinals. After winning their seventh consecutive WVIAC title that fall, they rolled through the region. Wesleyan closed the season with a 33-2 mark. Becca Fleshman, Sonya Seifert and Susan Wren all made First Team All-Conference, Kelly Sabol Second Team, with Julie Kasprzak and Carly Pariseau making Honorable Mention. They were coached by Tia Brandel, who posted the top winning percentage in Lady Bobcat history. | <urn:uuid:b8365b8d-0dd4-4d4b-9d93-2714ada009d3> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://therecorddelta.com/article/wesleyan-inducts-five-individuals-one-team-into-athletic-hall-of-fame | 2017-06-24T00:08:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320206.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623235306-20170624015306-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.97725 | 653 | [
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Bingo Players - Yost Theater - 5/22/12
Last night the Yost Theater in the downtown Santa Ana Art District teamed up with EDM promoters Giant and LED to bring Dutch House duo Bingo Players to Orange County for what was one of the wildest parties we've seen at the Yost in a while. By 10pm the line of Bingo fans was out of control to this sold-out show, with hundreds of people unable to purchase tickets. This special event kicked off what has become "Memorial Day Week" in OC with the plethora of dance music gigs going on from now until Monday evening. For those lucky to attend the festivities this was the perfect way to kick off a week of prime, pulsating electronic dance music.
Giant resident DJs Minaya & Vikus blew us away with their unexpected blend of house and tech house tracks. They took the stage with a newfound confidence after winning the Size Matters contest that shined through with their carefully articulated blend of hits and non-mainstream dance gems. When the melodies of the progressive house track "Damaged" by Antillas smoothly resonated over the speakers, crowds on the dance floor, VIP tables and upstairs balcony were singing along and dancing to a perfect mid-opener warm up. It was definitely a pretty tough act to follow.
The lasers and projections on the ridiculously huge LED wall behind the DJ booth intensified as Paul Bäumer and Maarten Hoogstraten, otherwise known as Bingo Players, took the stage. The crowd, armed with fluorescent glow sticks, seethed with excitement as the Dutch duo controlled the dance floor during their 90-minute set stuffed with nightclub anthems. With songs like "When I Dip" and "Mode" it's hard not to want to channel your inner go-go dancer or shuffling pro on the dance floor.
Though they played a lot of the same recycled tracks any EDM DJ would play, Bingo spliced their own seamlessly-blended style. Lil Jon's "Put Your F*cking Hands Up" and Alesso & Sebastian Ingrosso's "Calling" wove itself into Denis Koyu's "Tung" and the Bingo Players' "Rattle."
As the body heat rose and bottles of Grey Goose were polished off, girls started piling on shirtless guys' shoulders like it was spring break on MTV. The second half was all about the epic mash-ups and remixes. Everything from Bingo Players "L'Amour," Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction," Sandro Silva & Quntino's "Epic" to Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400" made the crowd go wild and rage harder. The fact that a party like this exploded on a Tuesday makes us all the more anxious to see what the Yost and it's new partner LED Presents have up their sleeves for future weekly EDM shows in OC.
Personal Bias: When they dropped the Swedish House Mafia & Laidback Luke vs. Afrojack & Steve Aoki "Beef The World Behind" mash-up I almost got "Girls Gone Wild" on top of a table to dance my booty off, so epic.
The Crowd: A good mix of club rats, ravers, lots of Asian EDM fans and industry people.
Overheard in the Crowd: "It feels like a goddamn sauna in here!"
Random Notebook Dump: We still have the "Whoah oh oh oh oh, oh. Whoah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh" ringing in our ears.
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I stayed at Red Roofs for in the week for 8 weeks while working in Helmsley. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and would highly recommend this B&B. The rooms were spotless and had a lovely well stocked selection of tea, coffee and hot chocolate. Jane's cooked breakfast was really delicious, with local bacon, portabello mushrooms, free range eggs and toast made from fresh homemade bread.
Jane and Marco were excellent hosts, they were knowledgable about the local area and were more than happy to help with anything I needed. Helmsley is a beautiful village to visit for a relaxing short break, and I felt that staying here was great value for money.
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Daws & Jen roasting mallos by the fire!
Dad chopping wood for zee-fire!
Freezing our booties off as we watched a movie on the side of the house with the projector! It was a very memorable New Years Eve!
That's Dawson, Jenny & Dad all cuddling on the blown up mattress watching a movie! It was SO cold, but SO fun!
Friday, December 28, 2007
These are all of Abbies cousins on the Omer side, from left to right, Adam, Jacob, Allison, Isaac, Bria & Abigail! She has so much fun with them! You can tell Abby has already started the "I can't sit still....I can crawl!" phase! :D
These 3 were all born within 6 months! They are cute together!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
We went up to Utah for our Christmas break! It was a wonderful time being with our family and friends up there! Abigail had snowflakes fall on her head for the first time! In fact, at a pit stop on our drive up, I came out of the gas station and saw Dave with Abby in the snow and Abby had a handful and was eating it! Dave just shrugged and said, "Ah, gotta let her be a kid, right?!"
As you can see how Abby is in almost every picture here, she is simply the highlight of our lives! She is our little bundle of joy! She is such a sweet and happy kiddo! Lately she has taken several steps several times, but has not let it click that she can walk just yet. The time will be soon and then we'll never rest i'm sure! :) We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas full of the spirit and joy of our Savior!
Dave opening his big present! I surprised him real good! The wrapped box looked like it was going to be a Red Ryder BB gun! But I kept telling him he would just shoot his eye out! In the end....it was an RC airplane! He was excited!
Ooo, Abby bit into the orange! What a face! :-S
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Dave had some nice friends come and help set all the stones in cement!
Abby was the supervisor! :) She'd also stop and dance a little jig every once in a while! It was adorable (except for the part where she kept trying to eat rocks! I've told her so many times that she's not a rock biter!) :D
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"I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun.” - Will Durant
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
As our society has grown in complexity we have become increasingly dependent upon experts. The problem with these “experts” is, just how reliable is their advice. Australian economist G. Barker wrote, “The trouble with economics . . . is essentially that its practitioners and their theories have been elevated to a status which they cannot justify.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
In May 2012 a Dallas man “randomly” stabbed a shopper inside a Target store. Antowann Davis took a butcher knife out of its packaging and stabbed Martha Jones in the back. “He stabbed me in the back and kept walking,” Jones reported. Jones claims he never spoke to her, or even tried to grab her purse and she had never seen him before. In January 2013 Kerri Dalton was shopping with her child at Bed Bath and Beyond in Middletown, New Jersey. She was stabbed more than a dozen times by Tyrik S. Haynes, a complete stranger. This was described as another “random” attack where robbery was not the motive. In July 2011 Nkosi Thandiwe shot three young females in Atlanta, Georgia, killing one and paralyzing another. Dick Reed, a media analyst in Berkeley, wondered about, “the randomness of it.”
Sunday, October 6, 2013
A favorite tool of progressives to defend government spending is the "Firemen First Principle." This term was coined by Charles Peters in 1976. It states, "the public will support [the Clever Bureaucrat's] valiant fight against the budget reduction only if essential services are endangered. Thus, C.B. always picks on teachers, policemen, firemen first." President Obama said Republicans have a choice: "Do you want to see a bunch of first responders lose their jobs because you want to protect some special interest tax loophole?" The President complained, “Over the past four years, another 700,000 workers at the federal, state and local levels of government lost their jobs. These are cops and firefighters. About half of them are people that work in our schools." Millions more are concerned about possibly losing their jobs.
The progressive media is more than happy to support this fraud. An AP story dealing with Minnesota's budget battle is fairly typical. It reads: "The blind are losing reading services. A help line for the elderly has gone silent. And poor families are scrambling after the state stopped child-care subsidies." The city of Ann Arbor laid off firefighters because of a serious budget deficit. Due to an unwillingness to tax the "wealthy" the blind, the poor and the elderly must suffer. Essential services must be curtailed. Convicted murderers and rapists must be freed from prisons.
The strategy must inconvenience the public as much as possible. The cuts must impact the "most vulnerable" in a visibly dramatic fashion. Yet there are obvious problems with the progressive portrayal of heartless Republicans. The AP story gives as an example of hardship Sonya Mills, a 39-year-old mother of eight who is facing the loss of about $3,600 a month in state child-care subsidies. That is more than $43,000 a year. The city of Ann Arbor spent $850,000 on a piece of art while laying off its firefighters. The water project was ultimately plagued by malfunctions after its completion.
Clearly progressives in government have a curious view of other people's money. Former Congressman David Obey once referred to the cost of an item of pork as, "a lousy $8 million." Senator Chuck Schumer told the Senate, “And let me say this, to all of the chattering class, that so much focuses on those little, tiny ‘ yes, porky’ amendments: The American people really don’t care.” It appears that progressives have the same outlook as their French brethren. The French philosopher Jean-François Revel asserted, "For French socialists, the main requirement for sound social policy is expenditure, not wise implementation. Results are of secondary importance."
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
David Horowitz for some reason has abandoned the extremely successful progressive tactic for dealing with uncomfortable facts: ignore them. He and Radosh compounded their mistake by personally attacking Diana West using adolescent name calling. This has brought added publicity to West's work. Would Vladimir Bukovsky have written a defense of the book if Radosh had been silent? The correct way to discredit a work is to site statements and then give irrefutable evidence that they are incorrect. Horowitz has not done this although he probably believes he has.
In Horowitz's response to Vladimir Bukovsky's endorsement of West he talks about West's supporters', "zeal in demonizing intellectual opponents," and says West attacked his and Radosh's character. He is grieved that Bukovsky has joined the "character assassins." Bukovsky has defended West's "preposterous claims," her "absurd conclusions," and "ludicrous statements." Does Horowitz see any inconsistencies here? Is it possible that Bukovsky is also a "loopy right winger?" Horowitz may not demonize his intellectual opponents but he certainly accuses them of having obtuse minds.
Horowitz counters one of West's "preposterous claims" with an even more preposterous claim: "Everyone knows" the division of Europe at Yalta was not a Soviet plot but was drawn by Winston Churchill. I did not know that. The division of Europe, even according to the court historians, was settled long before Yalta. Certainly Churchill played a role. However, his awareness of the realities and his desire to please Stalin was a large factor in his recommendations. Churchill demonstrated the westward movement of the Polish frontier (with the help of three matches) at the Teheran Conference in 1943. At the Moscow Conference in 1944 Churchill made his recommendations on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.
Horowitz is not an expert on this period. He cannot be blamed for that. However, he has a responsibility to do some research before he condemns someone's conclusions. If he relies on the court historians he will make absurd accusations. Horowitz finds fault with West's claim, “Unopposed, unchecked, these Red Army troops would ride their Lend-Lease fleets of Jeeps and Dodges deep into a Europe that was being ethnically cleansed of millions of anti-Bolsheviks by U.S. and British troops.” I suggest he read Julius Epstein's Operation Keelhaul and Nicholas Bethell's The Last Secret. These books will give him an idea about the ethnic cleansing of American and British areas. Bethell claims this was done in compliance with a "solemn treaty." Yalta was not solemn and it was not a treaty. Had Roosevelt tried to have it passed by the Senate as a treaty he would have been impeached.
I am not an expert on the arguments about the D-Day invasion but I do have some knowledge of the Western Allies role in the modern slave trade. One of my sources is Steven Ambrose. Ambrose did not willingly investigate this issue, but used it as a defense against James Bacque's claim that the Western Allies murdered one million POWs. We did not starve these POWs to death according to Ambrose. We sent them into slavery. In order for a coverup to be successful everyone involved must play the same sheet of music. In Ambrose's book Brian Villa hits a sour note stating: "the EAC terms became convenient for the British and any other nation that wanted German POW slave labor." The consensus term is "enforced labor."
Perhaps more outrageous than the slave trade is the government engineered famine in Central Europe. This is a subject that is so alarming that it must be covered up. Yet the cover up has not been 100% successful. As an example James Tent, a professor of history and a specialist on postwar German occupation writes: "By the spring of 1947, and thereafter to the end of the military occupation, the number and variety of supplemental programs expanded to the point that some observers asked with only slight irony if there were any normal consumers - that is, those consuming 1,550 calories a day - left in the British and American zones." This is a lie. It is a contemptible lie. 1947 was the worst year of this famine. One needs only to turn 12 pages in the same book to see a photo of seven infants in various stages of malnutrition dated October 1947. To murder one infant by starvation is a monstrous crime. To kill thousands in indescribable. To conceal this fact makes one an accomplice. Excuses must be found, not matter how implausible. Tent suggests that General Clay would not allow relief agencies to operate in his zone because he had a "distaste for carpetbaggers." The famine is attributed to a worldwide food shortage. Yet Tent includes a quote from the secretary of agriculture stating that American farmers "produced a record crop" in 1946. But what do I know. I am not a professor or a certified specialist.
Bukovsky points out that we condemn the German population of the police state from looking the other way from and doing nothing about the Jewish annihilation under way in Nazi concentration camps. There were serious consequences for people who protested government policies. What is the excuse for Western media and academics. Their careers may suffer and they may not be invited to certain cocktail parties. They will also be denied access. There is enormous pressure to conform. But what is the outcome of their conformity? Bukovsky asks, "How great is a moral difference between an executioner and a mere conformist?"
I have only one criticism of Bukovsky's defense of West. He falls into the same progressive trap that West fell into. Bukovsky states, "We have been accomplices to mass murders." "We" have not been accomplices. The people who committed mass murder and their collaborators have names. They were specific individuals. They and their crimes must be exposed. They need to be exposed not only to correct the historical record, but to reveal their offspring. Horowitz described Averill Harriman as "a stalwart anti-Communist." He probably would describe Secretary of State Dean Acheson as an anti-Communist. Acheson was famous for saying, "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss.” Bukovsky states, "That treacherous Establishment is still there." There are thousands of descendants of the Harrimans and Achesons in the federal government. To mention only one, Anita Dunn, who considers Mao Zedong one of her favorite political philosophers.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
After U.S. government officials were able to investigate the compound in Benghazi sensitive information remained scattered on the floor and reporters have recovered some of this information. Sensitive information was lost after the attack, but the government officials responsible for protecting this information do not appear to have been concerned about this situation. The efforts to secure the compound seemed halfhearted.
On 13 September a reporter for the Guardian found a letter in the Benghazi compound from Ambassador Stevens which read, "For security reasons, we'll need to be careful about limiting moves off compound and scheduling as many meetings as possible in the villa." On 14 September 2012 a CNN reporter found the Ambassador's journal on the floor of the compound where the Ambassador was “fatally wounded.” On October 3, 2012 a Washington Post reporter gathered a sampling of documents scattered on the floor of the facility. "The documents detail weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’ trip to the city and the personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission."
Finally the FBI arrived in Libya to conduct its investigation on October 3. They spent approximately 12 hours in Benghazi. One witness claimed the spent only three hours at the compound. How thorough was their investigation? Attorney General Holder announced, "I'm satisfied with the progress." On October 26th a Foreign Policy Magazine reporter visited the compound for a story for Dubai based Al Aan TV. He found several ash-strewn documents beneath the rubble of the compound. One letter dated 9 September addressed to the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs dealt with a concern about a Libyan policeman photographing the inside of the compound and the lack of police protection.
Well after the FBI conducted its investigation the compound still contained sensitive information. Obviously the first people to have access to this information were the attackers. What did they learn about our “weapons collection efforts?” Could our “emergency evacuation protocols” give them vital information for future attacks? The exposure of personnel records of Libyans cooperating with the U.S. could be fatal. Would this give people willing to cooperate with the U.S. second thoughts. What other documents were available to the attackers?
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
I hope you have sent Ron Radosh and Conrad Black letters of appreciation for their critiques of you book. They could not have done more to discredit your opponents if they had intentionally set out to make them look foolish. A total cynic would suspect that you paid them. Rather than dealing with detailed criticism of your work they relied on vitriol. Black calls your book a "farrago of lies." He calls you and your supporters, "idiots: pernicious, destructive, fatuous idiots," who suffer from "myth-making and jejune dementedness." I disagree with Black. If I call him the "afterbirth of a flatulent pig," would this make my arguments more convincing?
Both Ronald Radosh and Conrad Black refer to you as a "right-wing loopy." Radosh condemns your, "yellow journalism conspiracy theories," your "truculent recklessness that gives anti-communism a bad name" and your "unhinged theories." Your judgment is "bizarre on its face, but also unwarranted by the evidence." Your’s is a, "shallow and erroneous interpretation." He claims your, "counterfactual speculations are not regarded as realistic possibilities by any reputable historian of the era," and your "book perpetuates the dangerous one dimensional thinking of the Wisconsin Senator." You are "McCarthy on steroids." This is all very convincing. Radosh neglected to make the most devastating charge: "West is a poopoo head." Pardon the sarcasm, but Radosh's accusations are not worthy of an intelligent discussion of complex issues.
This criticism of you sounds eerily familiar. Similar things were said of Senator McCarthy, Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. You are condemned for believing in conspiracy theories. What was the Communist infiltration of the U.S. government if not a conspiracy? Radosh admits that he has no disagreement with you over whether the Roosevelt administration was infiltrated or whether Soviet dupes were influential in affecting administration policy. The disagreement lies in your opinion of the extent of this influence. Your critics claim that you exaggerate the extent of Communist influence on U.S. policy. However, your critics attempt to minimize this influence.
Progressives have come to the defense of the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and numerous others. Radosh claims your allegation that, "Hopkins was an actual Soviet agent . . . is, in fact, not true." Black called this an "unfounded new flourish." How do they know this? Loopy right-wingers have accused many administration officials of being Communists. Many "experts" disagreed and questioned the sanity of such claims. When the evidence becomes overwhelming progressives quietly let the matter drop and go to the defense of the next "progressive." Leftists are experts at deception. Even obvious Soviet atrocities like the Ukrainian famine and the Katyn Massacre were denied for years by "progressives." Someone approaching this subject without bias must conclude that the "loopy right-wingers" have more credibility than the "experts."
I have read extensively on the subjects dealt with in your book, yet several items you deal with were entirely new to me. I had previously accepted the progressive myth that the policy of "unconditional surrender" had spontaneously popped out of FDR's head during the Casablanca Conference. As you point out this policy was the product of a committee which included several influential Soviet agents. One might be tempted to ask, "What difference at this point does it make?" Well, although most Communists were removed from government in the early 50's their progressive comrades remained. Their offspring have captured the commanding heights of our society. They have almost total control of the media, academia and the government bureaucracy. From these commanding heights they are transforming our society. In order to do this they must conceal the part played by progressives in the massive crimes they were a party to.
People come to the subject of Communist infiltration of the Roosevelt administration with a bias. I come to the subject with an inclination to be suspicious of the Roosevelt administration. After reading your book I realized that I had not been suspicious enough. I knew American Communists had a decisive influence on American policy from the research I had done on my own book, The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy. I have not examined Lend-Lease and the second front issues to any great extent, but I am thoroughly familiar with the policy devised for postwar Europe. Here there is little doubt the Joseph Stalin was the "puppetmaster of American war policy." Your claim that, “World War II could have been ended years earlier had Communists working for Moscow not dominated Washington," is certainly plausible. This would not have required an entente with Hitler’s army against Stalin, only a sincere message that the U.S. government did not intend to turn Germany into a potato patch.
Radosh cites S. M. Plokhy to show that the Soviets treated American POWs fairly well. How familiar is Radosh with this subject? One of the first acts of the Red Army upon entering Germany was to butcher 50 French and Belgian POWs at Nemmersdorf. The Soviets believed that all POWs were traitors. Stalin's own son, a prisoner of the Germans, may have committed suicide as a result of this Soviet policy. Soviet treatment of U.S, POWs is more complex than can be dismissed with the statement, "the Soviets treated American POWs fairly well." I suggest he read Nigel Cawthorne's Iron Cage.
One subject you did not cover was the progressives involvement in the modern slave trade. Perhaps you avoided this subject because it is obviously an absurd accusation that would have only increased the intensity of the progressive attack on your work. Absurd or not, according to Secretary of State, James Byrnes in his inappropriately entitled Frankly Speaking, "Forced labor camps are a symbol of Hitler's regime that we should eliminate as rapidly as possible." This would be fertile ground for an aspiring historian wanting to make a name for himself by exposing how evil "we" were.
I have only one criticism of your book, one that I believe you would totally agree with: your use of the word "we." The current genre of historiography places a good deal of emphasis on "our" crimes. Amerika is responsible for all kinds of crimes, real and imagined. You say that "we" were accomplices in Soviet crimes. When discussing U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union during the Ukrainian famine you claim "we" became "a passive accomplice to Stalin in the Ukraine." When discussing the forced repatriation of Soviet citizens towards the end of the war, you state, "We became accessories to a Soviet atrocity." You claim that in our dealings with the Soviets, "We had things to hide, too." Well "we" had and have nothing to hide. Once this is made clear the conundrum is solved. You point out that, "officialdom was enraged not by the danger posed by Hiss, but by Chambers for testifying to the danger." Progressives are more outraged by Joseph McCarthy than by Joseph Stalin. You quote Vladimir Bukovsky who explains "we now understand why the West was so against putting the communist system on trial. There was ideological collaboration between left-wing parties in the West and Soviet Union." As you have written, "The forces of concealment, East and West, had a common enemy in the forces of exposure, East and West." You are a member of the "forces of exposure" and as such not a "we."
My book could be considered an anti-American book because of its criticism of American policy. It is not. The crimes detailed in the book are not America's crimes. They are the crimes of a group of "progressives" who did not have America's interests at heart. Finally, I would like to thank you for referencing my book and describing it as "devastating." I will send you a copy of the second edition when it appears in the fall.
Monday, August 19, 2013
People come to the subject of Communist infiltration of the Roosevelt administration with a bias and preconceived ideas. I come to the subject with an inclination to be suspicious of the Roosevelt administration. After reading Diana West's book I realized that I had not been suspicious enough. I knew American Communists had a decisive influence on American policy from the research I had done on my own book, The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy. I have not examined Lend-Lease and the second front issues to any great extent, but I am thoroughly familiar with the policy devised for postwar Europe. Here there is little doubt the Joseph Stalin was the "puppetmaster of American war policy." West's claim that, “World War II could have been ended years earlier had Communists working for Moscow not dominated Washington," is certainly plausible. This would not have required an entente with Hitler’s army against Stalin.
Ronald Radosh refers to Diana West as a "right-wing loopy." He condemns her, "yellow journalism conspiracy theories," her "truculent recklessness that gives anti-communism a bad name" and her "unhinged theories." Her judgment is "bizarre on its face, but also unwarranted by the evidence." West’s is a, "shallow and erroneous interpretation." He claims, "her counterfactual speculations are not regarded as realistic possibilities by any reputable historian of the era," and "her book perpetuates the dangerous one dimensional thinking of the Wisconsin Senator." She is "McCarthy on steroids." This is all very convincing. Radosh neglected to make the most devastating charge: "West is a poopoo head." Pardon the sarcasm, but Radosh's accusations are not worthy of an intelligent discussion of a complex issue. A 400 page book dealing with such a complex subject is certain to have issues that can be legitimately criticized without recourse to name calling.
The criticism of West sounds eerily familiar. Similar things were said of Senator McCarthy, Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. West is condemned for believing in conspiracy theories. What was the Communist infiltration of the U.S. government if not a conspiracy? Radosh admits that he has no disagreement with West over whether the Roosevelt administration was infiltrated or whether Soviet dupes were influential in affecting administration policy. The disagreement lies in their opinion of the extent of this influence. Her critics claim that she exaggerates the extent of Communist influence on U.S. policy. However, her critics attempt to minimize this influence.
Progressives have come to the defense of the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and numerous others. Radosh claims West's allegation that, "Hopkins was an actual Soviet agent . . . is, in fact, not true." How does Radosh know this? Loopy right-wingers have accused many administration officials of being Communists. Many "experts" disagreed and questioned the sanity of such claims. Leftists are experts at deception. Even obvious Soviet atrocities like the Ukrainian famine and the Katyn Massacre was denied for years by "progressives." Someone approaching this subject without bias must conclude that the "loopy right-wingers" have more credibility than the "experts."
Radosh cites S. M. Plokhy to show that the Soviets treated American POWs fairly well. How familiar is Radosh with this subject? One of the first acts of the Red Army upon entering Germany was to butcher 50 French and Belgian POWs at Nemmersdorf. The Soviets believed that POWs were traitors. Stalin's own son, a prisoner of the Germans, may have committed suicide as a result of this Soviet policy. Soviet treatment of U.S, POWs is more complex than can be dismissed with the statement, "the Soviets treated American POWs fairly well." I suggest he read Nigel Cawthorne''s Iron Cage.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
I have attempted to locate this "Kleifoth Memo" on the web but have been unsuccessful. Fortunately I had made a copy of it several years ago.
We make decision based upon the information we gather. Much of this information is gleaned from the media. Therefore it is important that this information be accurate. The Kliefoth memo demonstrated an inherent defect in the way information is reported. In it Walter Duranty states that "in agreement with the New York Times and the Soviet authorities,' his official dispatches always reflected the official opinion of the Soviet regime and not his own." In order to maintain his access to Soviet officials he had to distort the news. He did this with the knowledge and agreement of the editors of the New York Times.
In 1939 famed journalist Walter Winchell told Franklin Roosevelt that Alger HIss was spying for the Soviets. Winchell reported that Roosevelt, "Leaning closer and pointing a finger in my face, angrily said, 'I don't want to hear another thing about it! It isn't true.'" Winchell was not invited back to the White House for several months. He had lost access. It was a lesson he probably did not forget. Loss of access can be fatal to a journalist's career.
Duranty's behavior was similar to former CNN Head Eason Jordan who admitted in 2003 that he deliberately covered up Saddam Hussein's atrocities in order to maintain his access within Iraq. A former CNN reporter, Amber Lyon, claimed that she was ordered to send false news and exclude other news that the administration wanted suppressed in order to create support for an invasion of Iran. How reliable is the news we are receiving about current crises?
Monday, July 8, 2013
In Arthur Koester's novel Darkness at Noon the character N.S. Rubashov expressed his misgivings about the party he had dedicated his life to. He declared, "all our principles were right, but our results were wrong." He asserted, "this is a diseased century," and, "we diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but wherever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared." He continued, "Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people. But they hate us." He asked himself, "Why are we so odious and detested?" He concluded, "We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees whither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked. . .”
This was the lament of a compassionate man who believed in an elite's ability to regulate every aspect of human existence for the betterment of mankind. It is also the lament of the current administration. They have only the best interests of the American people at heart. Why are they not loved? Apparently the people do not understand their beneficent proposals. Yet the more they explain their plans the greater the opposition becomes. Perhaps this opposition is the result of the failure of their fundamental beliefs: the failure of Modernism. Rule by expert; this is the essence of modernism. Modernism was defined by Vaclav Havel, the former President of Czechoslovakia, as the belief that the world is "a wholly knowable system governed by a finite number of universal laws that man can grasp and rationally direct for his own benefit." It asserted that, “Man . . . was capable of objectively describing, explaining and controlling everything that exists."
In his speech before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Havel dated the end of the modern age at the fall of the Soviet Empire. Architect Charles Jencks placed it much earlier: at exactly 3:32 P.M. on July 15, 1972. This was the moment that the Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, was demolished. Like the East Falls Housing Project is Philadelphia, demolished in 2000, and the Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, the Pruitt-Igoe housing development was an example of the thousands of housing projects constructed throughout the industrial world. Their functional design made them perfect "machines for living in." Unfortunately they shortly became uninhabitable. These housing projects were representative of the failure of the modernist concept that experts could design a system to improve human existence on a massive scale. The physical wreckage of these well intention schemes is easy to observe. The psychological wreckage is more difficult to discern.
These housing projects were inspired by the work of architects like Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier worked for years to promote a plan to demolish a large part of Paris and replace it with a logically designed layout. He was the man with a plan. He wrote that, "The despot is not a man. It is the . . . correct, realistic, exact plan . . . that will provide your solution once the problem has been posed clearly. . . . This plan has been drawn up well away from . . . the cries of the electorate or the laments of society's victims. It has been drawn up by serene and lucid minds." These "serene and lucid minds" are the same people described by Edmund Burke: "Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician ... It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil."
Modernist plans always entail sacrifice. "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs." The novelist Upton Sinclair defended Soviet collectivization by saying, "They drove rich peasants off the land - and sent them wholesale to work in lumber camps and on railroads. Maybe it cost a million lives - maybe it cost five million - but you cannot think intelligently about it unless you ask yourself how many millions it might have cost if the changes had not been made." But as the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin pointed out, "The eggs are broken, and the habit of breaking them grows, but the omelette remains invisible." In the 1980s sociologist Eva Etzione-Halevy pointed out what is becoming increasingly obvious: “the years in which the influence of the social scientists on policy has been growing have also been the years in which policy failures have been rife and in which a variety of formidable social problems have been multiplying." Malcolm Muggeridge sarcastically remarked, “As more and more money is spent on education, illiteracy is increasing. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it didn’t end up with virtually the whole revenue of the western countries being spend on education, and a condition of almost total illiteracy resulting therefrom.”
What is the alternative to rule by “serene and lucid minds?” It is a system that has proved successful for over two hundred years. It is government by practical people untainted by the theories of the metaphysicians. Irving Kristol has pointed out that, “The common people . . .are not uncommonly wise, but their experience tends to make them uncommonly sensible. They learn their economics by taking out a mortgage, they learn their politics by watching the local school board in action, and they learn the impossibility of ‘social engineering’ by trying to raise their children to be decent human beings.” They are busy taking care of their small section of the world. And for the most part, they do it responsibly. As Thomas Hobbes wrote, “A plain husband-man is more Prudent in the affaires of his own house, than a Privy Counselor in the affaires of other men.”
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There were no details about which group was involved in the kidnapping attempts and who were the targets, though the U.S. embassy said a U.S. citizen was among those targeted.
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By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Brazil closed 2016 with a retraction of 3.6 percent, making this current recession (2015-2016) the biggest the country has faced since 1947 when the government started to keep track of the GDP, according to the Brazilian Statistics Bureau (IBGE). In 2015 the Brazilian economy had already retreated by 3.8 percent.
Analysts however say that although it was the eighth consecutive quarter of contractions, the Q4 2016 should be the last on in the cycle. According to economists this quarter (Q1 2017) the GDP should rebound and end in positive territory.
“We suspect that Q4 should also mark the end of the recession,” said Neil Shearing, Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Capital Economics on Tuesday morning. “Not only do we expect the economy to return to growth this year, but our forecasts for 2017 and 2018 are above consensus.”
According to the IBGE during the fourth quarter of 2016, the GDP decreased by 0.9 percent in relation to the previous quarter and fell by 2.5 percent in comparison with the same period of the previous year.
Services registered the largest contraction in the Q4/Q3 comparison, by falling by 0.8 percent , followed by industry, down by 0.7 percent. Agriculture, which for the year registered the highest decline (6.6 percent) registered a growth of one percent in the fourth quarter of last year.
Brazil’s Finance Minister, Henrique Meirelles also sounded positive as he met with President Temer and other cabinet members on Tuesday morning to discuss measures to increase economic development. “GDP released today [Tuesday] refers to last year. It’s (like) looking in the rearview mirror,” Meirelles was quoted by Globo as saying.
Overall Brazil’s GDP 2016 totaled R$6,266.9 trillion. The country’s investment rate for the year was 16.4 percent of GDP, down by 18.1 percent from 2015 while the rate of savings was 13.9 percent in 2016, down from the 14.4 percent registered in 2015. | <urn:uuid:a1c07886-f897-4a1f-b8c0-feac294510ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-business/brazils-gdp-for-2015-2016-worst-since-1947/ | 2017-06-27T22:30:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321938.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627221726-20170628001726-00551.warc.gz | en | 0.961796 | 468 | [
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Castanets are pair of shell shaped wooden plates that are held together in one hand, and provide rhythmic accompaniment during a dance. The name is probably derived fron the word CASTANA (chestnut) due their chestnut shell shape. Valencians call them POSTIZOS; Aragoneses call them PULGARETES; Castillians call them CASTANUELAS . Andalucians call them PALILLOS. Palillos means little sticks. This name lends itself to the theory that castanets evolved from the ancient practice of holding two sticks in one hand and rhythmically striking them together during a dance. The origin is variously attributed to the aincient Greeks, Egyptians and Phonecians.
Contrary to general belief, castanets are neither indigenous nor unique to Spain. The exact origin of castanets is not known. We do know that the Moors have used chinchines for many centuries. One of the stylized designs of ancient China is a pair of castanets, called "pans". Today in India, dancers use a long narrow pair of wooden clappers called "bhajinnas", or "chittakas". From at least the sixth century BC, Greek icons and friezes show dancing women wielding krotala, long wooden clacks. The Romans called them crotala. Instruments similar to these are seen in the hands of dancers in ancient Egyptian paintings. The Egyptian version is said to have evolved from a throwing stick similar to a boomerang. (from "Dance Trivia" website)
There are two major styles for playing Spanish castanets, classic and folkloric. Castanets held in the right hand (hembra, female) are of higher pitch than those held in the left (macho, male).
In the classic style, castanets are tied to the thumbs, thereby allowing the fingers of the right hand to strum successively on the outer shell to produce carretillas (rolls and trills) as the left-hand pair marks the rhythm with golpes (single strokes). Manuscripts of the Baroque era (c.1600-1750) give specific directions and diagrams for rolling both castanets simultaneously.
In folkloric dances, castanets are usually larger, have a lower pitch, and are strung on one or more fingers. With a flicking action of the wrist the two halves are thrown against the palm, producing a loud staccato sound that is quite different from the sound produced when castanets are played in the classical manner. (Oxford international encyclopedia of dance)
The use of the flamenco castanets is common with the festive styles of flamenco dance such as Sevillanas, Garrotín and Fandangos. I am not aware of any 'rules' to dicatate which dance forms castanets may or may not be used with. Even if such traditional rules existed, it would only be a matter of time before it became popular to break them. Generally speaking, castanets don't seem all that appropriate in the more serious forms such as Soleares, Siguiriyas and Tientos. Orchestral castanets are attached to handles and shaken or fastened to a block of wood and played with the fingers or drumsticks.
Orchestral castanets or ‘clappers’, mounted on a handle, were employed by silent-film effects musicians to imitate the sound of a galloping horse, hence the phrase ‘to run like the clappers’.
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